The bright sun slowly rose over Ponyville, signalling the end of the night and the start of a new day. It slowly pushed the moon out of the sky, giving the sky a purple-pink tinge to it. A stallion sat on his haunches, rubbing his temples with his hoof.
“Oh sweet Celestia, I can't believe I didn't manage to catch even one of them.”
He remembered the past week and three days, trying to capture one, two, three... eleven ponies, and every attempt failing.
He remembered back to the very first fight, attacking those three little fillies, and the elder Apples came to the rescue. Oh man, my neck hurts just thinking about what could have happened with that rope the orange one had.
And the fight with the Rarity, smiling and blushing as he remembered every stunning detail of her Boutique, and her. The sweet smell of perfume, the amazing dresses and suits, even the fabric was so gorgeous. And her, she was the perfect embodiment of beauty. He smiled even wider. Her eyes. Her deep blue eyes. Her mane. Her luscious purple mane. Her laugh. Her sweet laugh. Her hoof print on his cheek, that killed like a witch, he'd get her back, even if he did love the simply stunning mare.
He then thought back to the fight with the purple unicorn and the orange pegasus.
Fluttershy slept at the table, the stallion peering in through the window in the early morning watched the cute butter yellow pegasus, her snores more quiet than a butterfly flying. Even she was cute, not Rarity cute, but I-wanna-hug-you-and-talk-to-you-and-you-are-super-adorable-like-a-puppy cute. The stallion slowly crept in through the front door, looking around at all the sleeping animals, and pressed his hoof against Fluttershy's neck.
The pressure made the more jolt from her sleep, shocked and scared.
“T-Tw-Twi-TWILIGHT!” The pegasus cried out.
“Fluttershy! Don-”
A lavender unicorn, a purple dragon, and an orange pegasus pony all rushed into the kitchen, to see the stallion with his hoof against Fluttershy's neck, ordering them not to move.
“Finally, two Elements of Harmony... in one fell swoop!” The stallion smirked, obviously pleased.
Twilight and Scootaloo lunged at the stallion, and he heard the sweet pegasus mare crying. Even he had a soft spot for such a cute creature. Not knowing what to do, he ducked, taking Fluttershy with him. Fluttershy began to cry much more. Not knowing what to do, he stayed under the table, and realized that he had the device on his waist, again.
“A... A... Angel! Gr... Grab the thingy on his waist! If that's okay with you...” She ordered.
The small bunny obliged, grabbing the device, and biting his owner's captor. Fluttershy jumped away, still scared and shaken, and rounded up her animals. The stallion then felt a large hoof swipe across his face. Twilight smiled and began to cast telekinesis magic, grabbing the... spatula in Fluttershy's kitchen.
“Fluttershy! Where are the utensils?”
“Well, since I don't really entertain company, I don't need the utensils, the animals don't use them, and neither do I, please don't be mad at me!”
The purple unicorn sighed, and began swatting the stallion like a fly. The stallion, ignoring the actual slaps to the face, grabbed his device. He was going to prey on somepony, no matter the animal. He pointed the device at the animal horde, which took extra long to be drawn in, being of thirty, or more, animals.
“Finally, a victory!” The stallion happily sang.
“A hollow one, at that.” Twilight responded. A cry of pain rang out through the cottage, and Fluttershy began to shriek.
“Fluttershy, what's wrong?”
“My animals...” The pegasus mare sobbed. “My friends...” She continued.
“Fluttershy, you'll be okay.”
“No... I won't.” She paused. “It's my fault they were taken, and I'm going to get them back!”
“Fluttershy, that stallion is long gone, you'll have to wait for the next time he comes.”
Fluttershy began to openly cry in front of Scootaloo and Twilight. Twilight went to comfort her, something Angel would normally do. Fluttershy pulled away from Twilight, refusing to let anypony pity her.
The stallion, leaving the cottage on the edge of the Everfree Forest, looked back. I won't be able to get them, yet. Magic seems as formidable as Honesty and Generosity. But when Kindness is alone...
The stallion snapped back to reality, still upset that he hadn't captured anypony. But relieved that not a single pony, out of the eleven he had fought had turned him into the pony police. Just those ponies, the Elements of Harmony, the walleyed one, the trio of fillies, and that brown-maned stallion. If I can get them, the rest of Ponyville will be “easier than buckin' that thar Apple orchard.” As a farmpony would say.
“Ugh, speaking of farmponies,” He grunted. He began to think of something, obviously bringing him pain just thinking about it.
An orange pony with a Stetson hat planted her front hooves in the ground, using them as a pivot, and launching her back legs into a tree. The tree shook, and the apples came loose from the branches. They plummeted to the ground, and landed in bushels on either side of the tree. The farmpony smirked.
“Hey Big Mac! That's the fourth parfect buck in a row!” She declared.
“Oh is it, dear?” A stallion hissed.
She whipped around, but it was too late. Lines of magic data encircled her, and she gasped.
“You again! How dare ya'll show yor face 'round here again!”
“Quite easily, there's very few ponies left that can stop me.”
“Who're ya? What's yor name?”
“Since you won't remember anything soon, I suppose it's a fine courtesy. I prefer the name, the Master of Games.”
“Ha! Ya fool! Didja get that Big Mac?”
“Eeyup.” A husky voice triumphantly cried.
The stallion gasped. He had forgotten about that one. He whipped around, realizing his device had a weakness, if they were in two different places, he was only catching one.
Applejack strained to get up, but none of her limbs responded.
“Big Mac! Help!”
The deep red stallion ran up to the circle that entrapped his sister, but it was more than too late, it was solidified.
“AJ!” He began to cry.
“Cutie Mark Crusaders Heroes! Go!”
Three fillies grabbed the device out of his hand, pressing cancel before Applejack was drawn in, the shell was disconnected from the device, but it remained, not weakening at all, which made the stallion smirk.
“It's been to long for her in that shell, she won't be able to move for at least a week, with magic.”
Apple Bloom gasped. She dashed towards her sister, pawing at the shell. Sweetie Belle somehow forced magic, making the shell softly lighten.
“Apple Bloom, it's no good.” Sweetie Belle strained. “We'd need Twilight and Rarity's combined efforts to get rid of it.”
“Really?” Apple Bloom lamented.
“Don't... worry girls,” Applejack winced, flinching with every breath, “get rid o' that thar stallion first! One more second and I'll be more simpleminded than Ditzy Doo!” The paralysed pony managed to force out.
“Yes, ma'am!” But before the girls could do anything, they turned around, and the stallion was gone again. Winona, Applejack's pet dog, ran to her owner. The canine began to bark and bare her fangs, pawing at the shell. Big Mac grabbed the poor dog, and brought her back to the barn.
Sweetie Belle strained with all her might, and stepped back, her body falling limply to the ground.
“Sweetie Belle!” Scootaloo cried.
Apple Bloom picked up their friend while Scootaloo worked on pushing the shell of magic data. They brought the two ponies back to the Apple family farm.
The stallion snapped out of his thoughts once again, and looked around. That stupid mare deserved it, messing with me like that. If she somehow does recover before the camping trip, she'll be the first one to go.
Who else did I go after this week? Oh right, that pink one... and the rainbow pegasus, the walleyed pegasus... and that brown-maned stallion with the hourglass cutie mark...
On the outskirts of Ponyville, a stallion with a grayish-amber coat and dark amber mane stared intently at the hooded stallion that had appeared so much in the past week.
“So... you're the famed Doctor Whooves then...” The Master of Games began.
“Maybe, but your funeral is the next time someone will hear your name.” He retorted.
The hooded stallion reached for his device, but Doctor Whooves was much faster, delivering a swift kick to the assailant's side and regaining his composure before the stallion hit the ground.
“I suppose you can't have been very weak to capture half of Ponyville, but I know I can handle you with a blindfold.”
“Well, the others never avoided me long enough for me to get serious.”
Doctor Whooves didn't bother giving the stallion a chance. He stomped on the stallion's ribs, causing him to cough up blood and then disappear into green script of ones and zeros.
“What the...”
“Surprised? I suppose it's not everyday a stallion disappears.” The Master of Games began.
The lines of data wrapped around Doctor Whooves, effectively hogtying him.
“But, I suppose someone as strong to you must be quite dimwitted.” He finished.
“Nope, just waiting for a good moment.”
The Master of Games whipped around, and was met by a hoof across his cheek. Doctor Whooves was obviously at the advantage.
“I suppose it would be easier to turn you over to the authorities if you weren't conscious...”
The Doctor wound up for another attack, but was blasted by a wave of heat. A tall unicorn mare with a silver mane and a brilliant golden coat looked at Doctor Whooves. Her cutie mark was a number one.
“Nobody can escape the grasp of Pride.” The mare claimed.
Doctor Whooves gasped. “Pride? The Pride?” I can't let her hit me again while I'm this cocky, think of humiliating thoughts... The Doctor began to hang his head in shame, whatever he was thinking of was working.
The Doctor began to stand up, recovering from the blast, but another blast hit him. It was cold, it made him feel like he wanted to kill things... Many things. A crimson stallion sat in front of the doctor, his face twisted in a frown. His mane was spiky, and a pale blue, his cutie mark was a face mimicking the one he made just then.
“Wrath will also be joining you, Doctor.” The Master of Games stood up, obviously gaining ground.
Pride... Wrath... I suppose that today is the day I lose.
Wrath blasted him again, sending the same frosty sensation surging through his insides. He began to stand up, this was even more humiliating, being destroyed by one pony. Pride joined in on the assault, kicking him ruthlessly. Pride then conjured a mirror with her magic. She looked at the mirror, admiring herself.
“You're so vain Pride, show a little restraint at least.”
“How can you when you're as gorgeous as I am?”
The Doctor scoffed. She really hadn't changed since the last time he'd seen her. Wrath cackled like a madman, and ice began to charge from his body, and now I die.... but he slipped on Pride's tail.
“Pride? WHAT THE HECK IS WRONG WITH YOU!?!? YOU DID THAT ON PURPOSE!!!”
Unless...
“Wrath.”
“What, ugly?! I wanna kill you, so hurry.”
“That man,” He gestured to the stallion in the hood. “That man thinks you're useless, in fact, after this, he'll probably toss you aside.”
Pride began to smirk. She would survive no matter what, she was untouchable. Wrath would kill the Doctor, and the Master of Games, and she wouldn't have to lift a hoof.
Wrath's eyes slit like daggers. He looked towards the stallion in the hood, and gathered ice around his hoof. Wrath rushed at the stallion, and knocked him out with a single hoof. Wrath turned towards the Doctor.
“Going easy on him, I see.” The Doctor taunted.
“My wrath will reach everyone. I'm saving him for later.”
Well, I'm dead. Just then, a bluish grey streak of light collided with Wrath, knocking him over and forcing the angry stallion to swear. The grey blob stood up, and revealed a blonde mane, and gradient amber eyes. The eyes focused for a short time, and then became walleyed, giving her a cute, goofy expression upon her face.
She bounded over to the Doctor, making sure he was okay, and turned around, realizing she accidentally knocked out the stallion she crashed into.
She gasped. “Doctor! I didn't mean to hurt him! What do we do!?”
“It's okay Derpy, he isn't very good anyways.”
Derpy smiled, and looked at Pride, who stood shocked. Derpy flew away, and the Doctor limped towards Ponyville Hospital, leaving the stallion and those two behind.
The Doctor... Quite the formidable foe... The stallion's gaze fixated on a rainbow, and then remembered the last of his many fights in the past week.
A hooded stallion walked into Sugar Cube Corner. It was early, so nopony was around. He trotted up to the counter, confident in his stride, and placed his hoof over the bell, signalling Mrs. Cake or Pinkie Pie to assist the customer. Like he had hoped, it was the latter.
A frizzy maned pink mare landed on the floor at the bottom of the stairs, but not before doing a triple backflip. She trotted over to the customer, looked up, and gasped.
“YOU! The author told me about you! The author told me a lot of things! A LOT!”
The stallion stood in disbelief at what she was saying. He thought about it for a moment, letting his brain process the information, but before he came even close to his goal, icing splattered all over his face.
“That's right, the author told me you didn't like cake!”
Whoever this author person was, he certainly knew a lot about the Master of Games. The author? If he finds out anymore, I'll track him down even if he's in Fillydelphia! The stallion began to move again, clearing up his clouded thoughts, and lunged at Pinkie with death in his eyes. Pinkie flipped out of the way, and grabbed her party cannon.
The stallion lunged at her again, this time missing and hitting a shelf of cake, which Pinkie's extendo-tongue ate all of. Pinkie smiled and leaned back, her belly swollen slightly from eating such large amounts of food.
The stallion ran at Pinkie one more time, and slipped on a banana peel. Oh how he wanted to get out of that crazy place, but if he did the pink mare would spread the information that the author had told her. He had to stop her! But by the time he had snapped out of his thoughts, he was loaded into the party cannon and ready for fire.
“HEY RAINBOW DASH! RAINBOWDASHRAINBOWDASHRAINBOWDASHRAINBOWDASH!”
“WHAT PINKIE!?”
“FIGHT INCOMING! PREPARING FOR FIRE!”
“GOT IT! LEMME STRETCH!”
The stallion struggled, trying to get out of the cannon, but it was too late, the fuse had burned out, and he was fired through the clouds, and caught by a rainbow-maned pegasus mare. The mare threw him up even further, meeting his peak height before he did. And with a swift hoof-spin, she had hoof chopped him, definitely strong enough to hurt, but he was somehow still in mid-air.
He then felt a rush. An extremely strong rush. Hooves planted into his stomach, and wind forcing it's way through his mane. Was he falling? No. Too fast for that. Maybe... That crazy mare was trying to pull that off!
He could feel a wind funnel forming around them. The tunnel was getting thinner as his body was contorted like an ironing board, almost folding in half. He heard a boom, felt a rush, and blacked out.
The pegasus mare however, landed in a different spot than he had. Luckily for him. Well, not so luckily. Six broken ribs, one broken hind leg, and he couldn't get the taste of cake out of his mouth. At least he was still on his lucky streak of avoiding arrest.
The stallion shivered. He remembered each detail of that fight vividly. He would never forget the pain in his ribs, and he was going to get those Elements if he had to kill them.
The sun began to set over Ponyville, giving a stunning pink tint to the sky. It was amazing.
“Twilight darling, how much longer do we have to concentrate?” Rarity whined. “We've got to go pack for the camping trip tomorrow!”
“Just a little longer Rarity, we can't touch the shell directly with our magic, otherwise paralysis could afflict us, too.”
“Uh, sugar cubes, I don't mean to be rude or anythin', but you've been at this magic for two days straight, and the shell hasn't wavered in the slightest!”
“Oh... Um... I'm not very good at standing watch... Maybe.... Pinkie Pie and Rainbow are fine?”
“Okay Fluttershy, just don't make any noise.”
“O... Oh... Okay, I'll try not to...” She whispered, barely audibly.
“Rarity, start forming a shell with your magic, make sure it covers Applejack completely, but don't touch the data spell.”
“Yes, dear.”
Brilliant blue light slowly began to encircle Applejack, gently lifting her slightly off of the ground.
“Applejack, this may be putting slight strain on your body since you just healed, bu when Rainbow and Pinkie stretch the shell, you need to buck it as hard as you can.”
“Er... Won't ah get paralysed again?”
“Oh.”
“Twilight, dear, maybe we could try poking holes in it with our magic?”
“But Rarity, we'd get paralysed.”
“No, darling. The outside of the shell is rough, and judging by the data running through it, it's a weak lightning link that has a chance to induce paralysis.”
“Yes, Rarity, we could get paralysed.”
“The middle of the shell however, is made of a plasma-like substance, which our magic will not be affected by at all, we could gently push it open through a magic drill, if you will.”
“We can try.”
The two unicorns began to strain their magic, as a small drill made of blue-and-pink glow began to spin rapidly. It slowly moved towards the shell, and with the precision of a surgeon, Rarity quickly swerved the drill, causing Twilight to panic, but Rarity had found a new angle. It was a small crack around the side of the shell, but Rarity noticed the plasma layer.
The drill lunged forward, and slammed right through the shell. As soon as the plasma began to drip out, the shell became soft, and it's energy had faded.
Applejack stood up, and stretched. She looked around, and began trotting again, as if making sure everything was okay.
She began to trot home. She couldn't wait for the camping trip tomorrow.
Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo made their way into the schoolyard, Apple Bloom and Scootaloo carrying a sleeping bag, while Sweetie Belle seemingly carried Carousel Boutique on her back. The trio walked into the classroom, and took their seats at their desk. Miss Cheerilee counted off the fillies.
“Apple Bloom?”
“Here, Miss Cheerilee!”
“Diamond Tiara?”
“Ugh, over here.”
“Dinky Hooves and Dizzy Hooves?”
“Here!”
“Over...” crash “Here!”
After counting off all fourteen fillies, seven mares walked into the room. Applejack was the first to walk in, followed by Derpy Hooves, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Twilight and Spike, Pinkie Pie, and Rarity.
“Applejack, you'll be watching Diamond Tiara, and... Peachy Pie!”
“Yes, ma'am!”
“Derpy Hooves, you'll be watching Twisty Doo, and Fighter Fly!”
“Okay Miss Cheerilee!”
“Rainbow Dash, you're in charge of Scootaloo and Dizzy Hooves!”
“Yes! I got the Squirt!”
“Fluttershy, you don't mind watching Mango Dash and Sunny Daze, right?”
“Oh... Um... Yes Miss Cheerilee.”
“Twilight and Spike, Dinky Hooves and Sweetie Belle.”
“I see....”
“Pinkie, you get Pinkie Fly and-”
“YESYESYESYESYES!!!”
“Twist...”
“NicetomeetyouTwist,mynameisPinkiePie,andIlovetomakepeoplesmileandlaugh,Ihopewehavefuncamping!”
“And finally, Rarity, you get Silver Spoon, and Apple Bloom.”
“Thank you for inviting me, dear.”
The fillies each went off to their councillors, all unaware of the eyes watching them.
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