//------------------------------// // S.P.D // Story: The Red Cyclone // by Onomonopia //------------------------------// "HOOORIIIAAAAHHH!" Zangief roared as he flung one of the wilderbeasts over his head, slamming the monster into the ceiling. The creature let out a scream as it collided with the rocks on the ceiling before crashing back down onto the mighty muscles of Zangief, breaking it once again. Zangief tore the monster off of his shoulders and threw it into another one of the wilderbeast, knocking it over. "I will take all of you on! Give me your best-!" The wilderbeast never let him finish his words as three of them jumped him all at once, one tackling his massive legs while another dug it's teeth into his arms. The final one slammed it's skull into Zangief's face, but Zangief's skull was far too thick for the wilderbeast to injure. Zangief retaliated with a headbutt if his own and sent the monster sprawling, giving him a moment to breath before three more wilderbeasts tackled him again. Zangief nearly collapsed beneath the sheer weight of the multiple monsters, but his body refused to fall without a fight. "LARIAT!" The wilderbeasts were blown off of Zangeif's body as his spun around with both of his arms outstretched, catching the ones that had been hurled into the air with his bulging biceps, nearly taking their heads off as his arms crushed their puny skulls. "You are all too puny to try and crush me! You will need more numbers to even stand a chance!" Zangief regretted his words instantly as even more wilderbeasts began to crawl out from the tunnels above him, now numbering the wilderbeasts in the thirties. Zangief cursed his own mouth before letting out a defiant growl as he stretched his muscles in preparation. "Send as many as you want. You will not get past me." All of the wilderbeasts let out a roar as they all lunged towards him at once, but Zangief roared in return as he charged fearlessly into the hoard. He punched one in the jaw and drove it to the ground, but two more wilderbeasts took it's place and drove their nails into his chest. "Not today!" Zangief roared as he slapped his hands on the backs of two wilderbeasts, doubling them over and allowing him to wrap hands that could overpower bears around their midsections. And despite all of the wilderbeasts clawing and hanging onto him, Zangief still channeled the power through his Russian trained legs to leap into the air, allowing him to powerbomb the two wilderbeast unfortunate enough to be his victims. But the moment he put them down for the count he was rushed and overwhelmed again. Using their numbers, the wilderbeasts did the unthinkable when they lifted the Russian champion into the air. "Put me down and face me!" Zangief yelled before he was hurled through the air and into the walls of the cave, slightly dazing him as he rose back up to his feet. But when he could see through his blurry eyes again he was greeted the sight of the monsters climbing into the tunnels where the children had escaped. "No! You will never harm another one of them again!" Zangief declared as he took to the skies, outstretching his arms and legs as he splashed onto the hoard of wilderbeasts, crushing three of them with his girth. 'I am too late,' he worried as he saw one more wilderbeast slip past him and into the tunnel while the others blocked his path, telling him that he would have to fight through all of them to get to the others. 'I am weakened by the multiple blows and cuts and I feel my blood leaving me every second. But that will not stop me! For I have not even tried yet!' And despite the fact that twenty five wilderbeasts rushed towards him with fang glistening and claws gleaming, only a smile crossed Zangief's face as he threw his arms to the side and yelled, "For mother Russia! Ultimate-!" His words were cut off as a massive explosion of fire erupted from the tunnel that led back up to the surface, hurling the burning bodies of the three wilderbeasts that had managed to sneak past him onto the cave floor. All eyes turned towards the tunnel as the queen of the changelings burst into the cave, her eyes immediately locking onto the massive Russian with rage deep in her pupils. "You are beyond stupid!" she screamed as she flew down and stuck her face right in his, allowing him to see the wrath that burned in her eyes. "What were you thinking just strolling into the den of the monsters that kill changelings for fun?! Don't answer that, because I know the answer! You weren't!" "I was thinking that they had kidnapped children and that they needed to be taught a lesson!" Zangief roared in his defense before his eyes caught a flash of movement behind Chrysalis. He grabbed her and swung her out of the way of the attack, before bring her back around and using her to bat the wilderbeast back into it's brethren. "That does not matter now! We must stop them here and now!" "Ugh...I'll...kill you for that," Chyrsalis wheezed as she staggered back up to her hooves, putting her war face on as she and Zangief prepared to fight the entire hoard. "This is a pointless fight, they'll quickly overwhelm us. I'm going to distract them and then we'll both run for the exit." "Not happening! I do not run!" Zangief protested. Instead of listening to his protest Chrysalis cast her magic into the ground to create a wave of fire that caused the wilderbeasts to leap back in surprise and horror, giving her and Zangief a chance to escape. "Then enjoy your own medicine!" she yelled as she picked him up with her magic and hurled all three hundred and fifty pounds of him threw the air and towards the tunnel exit. Her aim as a little off so instead of flying into the tunnel Zangief instead introduced his face to the wall with a loud crunch. "Oops, seems I missed. Now let's get out of here!" she yelled as she flew into the tunnel, grabbing Zangief with her magic as she passed by him and dragging him along. The fire died down as she flew and the infuriated wilderbeasts shrieked in rage as they lunged into the tunnels after the two. Chrysalis reached the exit first and flew out into the wastelands burning sun, dropping Zangief onto his face as she turned towards the entrance, a smirk on her face as she heard the wilderbeast chasing her. "Okay you monsters, you want something to eat?" she asked as she levitated five barrels that were all marked "explosive" on them. "Then I hope you choke on these!" She hurled the barrels into the tunnel entrance before following them up with a fireball spell, throwing up a shield around herself as the barrels detonated. Zangief had to cover his ears to avoid the deafening explosion from destroying his eardrums, but the explosions did their job and collapsed the tunnel on top of the wilderbeasts. "That was far too loud! How would I dance the Cossack if I could not hear the music?" he yelled at her, barely able to hear his own voice. "WHAT?" Chrysalis yelled in return, not having heard a word he said...or anything else. The two began to yell at each other in such loud voices that neither of them were aware of the rocks that were slightly shifting. In a burst of speed and power a wilderbeast broke out from under his stony prison and lunged towards Chyrsalis, aiming right for her throat. "Oh no you don't!" Zangief yelled as he kicked his leg past Chrysalis stunned face, knocking the creature out of the air. Zangief then dashed towards it before it could recover and wrapped his arms around his midsection. Then, against all the laws of physics, he used all the power in his legs to propel both him and the monster into the air. Chrysalis watched with disbelieving eyes as Zangief began to spin rapidly through the air while keeping a death grip on the wilderbeasts midsection, almost as if he had been caught in a tornado or a cyclone. Then he began to descend with the creatures head tucked firmly between his might thighs, telling it there was no escape from it's doom. She continued to gaze on at the spectacle with amazement until she realized where they were going to land, giving her barely enough time to back away right before Zangief slammed the creature into the ground head first in a pile driver position. The ground cracked beneath the force of the mighty impact and air was blasted away from the sheer power, ending the fight then and there. "HAHAHA! Now you know the true might of Zangief!" Zangief laughed with his hands on his hips as the creature lay motionless at his feet. "You and your friends were lucky that I was going so easy on you or you all would be taken for a spin! But I am a nice guy like that." He let out another hearty laugh while Chrysalis tried to process what she had just seen. She shook her head and decided that it was just a Zangief thing before she used her magic to grab him by the ear and yank him towards her. "OW! Why are you attacking my ears again?" "We are going to go back to the hive and you are going to come quietly. Or father help me I will THROW you into the depths of hell myself!" she yelled at him before releasing his ear and spinning around back towards the hive. "Are the children alright?" he asked once he regained feeling in his ear. Chrysalis stopped at his words and looked down for a moment, before looking back at Zangief with a hint of gratitude in her eyes. "Yes, they are all safe...thank you." Her face then hardened like stone once again and she walked off, while Zangief continued to grumble about his ear. ←↙↓↘→↗+H "I still do not see why I was punished for throwing the wilderbeasts into the ground," Zangief grumbled to Insectum once Chrysalis had dismissed the two of them from her throne room, having given Zangief the third degree for going out on his own and waging a one man war against all of the wilderbeasts. "Things like this never happened back in the motherland! In fact, I was cheered on by children whenever I wrestled bears or men who threw fireballs or whatever Blanka is supposed to be. But it seems here my talents go wasted. "You really did a good thing, even if my mom's too mad at you to say it," Insectum replied with a small smile. "It's too bad that you didn't get to see the parents faces, they were so happy to see their children again. I think it's the first time we've had that much love in the hive since I was born. Although a lot of those changeling children now idolize you completely." "Then I will have to work even harder so I do not let them down!" Zangief laughed, all of his anger towards Chrysalis vanishing in an instant. Insectum rolled her eyes at how quick he got over his rage, but she did let out a small giggle when he accidently knocked over a suit of armor when he was flexing. "And don't be too hard on mom, she's been working under a lot of stress lately with the bandits attacking all of our potion supplies and the wilderbeasts taking children and killing changelings. But maybe she'll lighten up more now that the wilderbeast are out of the way for now." "Why are there changelings attacking changelings?" Zangief asked as he remembered the bandits who he had crushed with his muscles. "Shouldn't you all be working together to survive since you must fight against such beast without vodka or mother Russia to aid you?" "General Tenna," Insectum muttered with hatred in her voice, the tone getting Zangief to raise both his eyebrows in surprise as he had never heard her talk like that before. "He's the one who started this war between the changelings. He believes that my mother has grown weak in her older age and that a younger, more powerful leader is needed to pull the changelings out of the mess we find ourselves in. But in reality he is a power hungry lunatic who would sooner gut you then he would make friends with you!" "So he wants the throne and control over all changelings?" Zangief asked slowly, Insectum rolling her eyes again. "Yes, but he won't stop there. He wants absolute control over the world. Before he disbanded from the hive he was the one who urged the idea to attack the ponies capitol, to steal their love by force," Insectum explained, shaking her head in disgust while Zangief wondered how ponies could build a capitol. "After that failed he demanded to attack again while the ponies were weak, but mom didn't want to risk any more lives, especially since I was still an infant at the time. So he left believing her to be weak while my mom has tried to hold our home together as best she could." "I see...I will throw this changeling when I meet him," Zangief decided with a shake of his head. "Is throwing things your answer to every foe you fight?" "Of course not. Some times I crush them, other times I make them submit. And then sometimes I sit down with them and enjoy a meal and dance. It depends on how they feel after they lose." "Well, here is your room," Insectum said as she pushed open a door for him in the private wing of the castle. "She might be mad at you, but mom still knows the good you've done for us. You can rest here until we figure out what we're going to do with you. There's a robe in there if you feel like wearing anything besides that...article of clothing. Call if you need anything." Insectum turned and took a few steps away as she thought, wondering what they were going to do about Tenna and his inevitable attack. "Insectum?" Zangief asked. Insectum turned, wondering for a moment if he was going to volunteer to fight Tenna. Instead she found that he was trapped in the now cracked doorway with both of his mighty arms pinned the to side, causing her to sigh as he struggled to escape his predicament. "I am stuck."