Dragon's Peak -- Darkshadow's Cave -- Day 6
"Hrm.. Can you see me?", Darkshadow called out. Laughing lowly.
Wario was listening intently to where his voice was coming from. He tried his hardest to pinpoint it, but the echoes made it very hard.
"It's annoying to not be able to see, isn't it?", Darkshadow laughed lowly.
"It must b--", Before Darkshadow finished, he hit something.
His mistake. Wario knew where he was in the cave now.
"Turn to the east, Waluigi.", Wario turned east in the cave. Waluigi did the same.
"What's this?!", Darkshadow was now visible.
Darkshadow's outline was almost as bright as the sun. His wings were emitting a large light that filled the entire cave. The torches lit up brightly.
"No! Nopony ever figured it out!", He yelled as he darted towards the brothers.
With that, Shadowflash picked himself up and tackled Darkshadow. Darkshadow hit the cave floor with a thud as he held him down.
"Ha! Your mistake! Only Wario and Waluigi may play!", The room filled with darkness again. And Shadowflash hit the floor.
"Blitzy!", Rainbow Dash yelled.
"Sorry..", He returned to the group.
"Dang it. We had him too. All right.. Let's try again.", Wario started to listen intently once more.
"Oh, woe is you. Making a mistake like that. This time, I won't hit anything for you to find me.", Darkshadow laughed.
Uhg.. How did we do it before? Wario thought
We usually just turned away from the Boo's. But we can't see him without the moonlight that shines in a mansion. Wario's eyes went wide. His brain alarms went off for this idea. Moonlight.
"Waluigi, do you still have our moonstone?", Wario asked.
"I don't even know if we brought it here! But I'll check.", Waluigi flipped open Wario's saddle bag, in hopes of finding the moonstone.
"Moonstone? Ha. What will that do?", Darkshadow laughed.
"Ah-ha!", Waluigi pulled out an illuminating rock. The rock started to light up brightly in the darkness.
"What's this..?", Darkshadow started to illuminate once more, and the entire room filled with light.
"Haha! Found you!", Wario ran full speed at Darkshadow, who was standing just three metres from the group.
Darkshadow ran full speed towards Wario. They clashed their hooves, pushing each other.
"You're weak, short-round!", Darkshadow yelled.
"You're a loser, shadow-face!", Wario yelled.
"Time to fly!", Darkshadow picked Wario up and flew up to the ceiling.
"Have a nice fall this year.", Darkshadow dropped Wario as he fell.
"AAAAAaaaaaH!", Wario yelled. Waluigi quickly dove and caught Wario on his back.
"Whew..", Waluigi expressed.
"Hrm.. Tall one.", Darkshadow darted downward at Waluigi.
Waluigi was annoyed by everything going on. So he chucked the moonstone right at Darkshadow's face.
"OW!", Darkshadow immediately started to skid across the cave floor.
"Owwwww! Ow, ow, ow, owwwie!", Darkshadow started to rub his face with his hooves.
"Why would you do that?! That hurt! Owww! Mommy! Daddy!", Darkshadow started to cry. The room's entrance and exit opened up now.
"C'mon, everypony!", Twilight exclaimed as they darted for the exit.
"Owww!", Darkshadow cried harder as the group left the cave.
Dragon's Peak -- Cliffside path -- Day 6
"Who knew throwing a rock in somepony's face was enough to defeat them.", Wario laughed.
"Meh. I was annoyed.", Waluigi cackled.
"Well, that got us out of yet another jam. Let's hope we can get to the Princess in time. C'mon!", Twilight started to run, as well as everypony else.
They ran up the spiralling path, avoiding some jutting obstacles, and narrowing paths. They slowed when they saw paths narrow, and took their time to cross. Although time is of the essence, safety is a growing concern. As the ascended higher, they started to near the second cave. There was a large device jutting out of the peak of the second cave's peak. This must be where she is.
"This is it, everypony. In here, Princess Celestia is inside. We must save her! Let's go!", Twilight gave a rally as they all gave a high-hoof in encouragement. They charged directly into the cave.
Dragon's Peak -- ??????????'s Cave -- Day 6
"Good. It's not darker than a fiddlers throat in here.", Applejack said as they proceeded into the gloomy cave.
It was the same as Darkshadow's cave. But the floor was furnished with metal grates instead. Seemed intriguing to everypony.
"Why is it floored like this? Is Clairvoyance working on some sort of pet project?", Shadowflash asked.
"Oh .. I totally forgot about his pets!", Twilight clued in.
"Wait, you mean those minions weren't the pets you were talking about?!", Rarity gasped.
"No, he has bigger pets in here!", With what Twilight said, a loud roar was heard.
"Oh dear...", Fluttershy coward behind Rainbow Dash.
The roar grew closer as a large, beast-like, creature slid into the room. It had massive fangs that jutted out of its slimy mouth. The creature had large tentacles that were armed with spikes that helped it move... And seemed to act like a weapon. It roared insanely at the group.
"I... AM... INADEQUACY!", The creature yelled.
"FEAR... YOUR... DOOM..", Inadequacy opened its mouth as little spouts of slime shot towards the group.
The group dispersed and hid behind some nearby rocks.
"EWWW! Slime!", Rarity yelled.
"It looks like chocolate!", Pinkie Pie giggled.
"Wario, Waluigi, have you ever faced something like this?", Twilight stared at Wario and Waluigi. They shook their heads.
"Then it looks like we're all taking part in this fight. Not just them this time. Let's do this!", Shadowflash encouraged the group.
"You have a plan, Blitz?", Applejack asked.
"I do. Rainbow Dash and I will fly around it to distract the tentacles. Pinkie, Rarity and you will run forward, avoiding the slime and start attacking his lower cavities. Twilight, Wario and Waluigi will use the slime he's launching against him. We need to ball the slime and launch it right back into his ugly mouth.", Shadowflash smiled.
"YOU... WILL.. DIEEEEEEE.", slime slapped against the wall next to them.
"Ready?", Shadowflash asked.
"Ready!", Everpony launched themselves. First; Shadowflash and Rainbow Dash.
The two pegasi flew towards Inadequacy, flying around him. His tentacles lashed out at the two, and they started to avoid them, flying in circles around his... 'Head'.
Rarity, Pinkie Pie and Applejack started to run forward for Inadequacy's base. He started to launch slime at the trio. The group started to avoid it as Twilight, Wario and Waluigi started to catch it. Waluigi had his butterfly net -- for an unknown reason... -- and was using it to catch large balls of slime.
As Rarity, Pinkie Pie and Applejack finally reached the base, they started to buck wildly. Inadequacy roared in rage.
Twilight used her magic to ball the slime, and as Inadequacy opened his mouth, she launched it. The ball of slime hurled directly into the behemoth's mouth. It started to twitch.
"NO... IT... CANNOT... BEEEEEEE...", Inadequacy started to grow smaller, and eventually turned into a weird slime-ball, with large jutting arms.
"YOU... HAVE DEFEATED.. INADEQUACY.... BUT I... AM... THE UNTOUCHABLE.", With that, Applejack, Rarity and Pinkie Pie were forced back to Twilight, Wario and Waluigi by an unknown force.
"I... WILL.. WIN...", The Untouchable yelled.
"How do we defeat something we can't touch?", Shadowflash and Rainbow Dash rejoined the group.
"Maybe not so much us needs to defeat it.. But it needs to defeat itself!", Wario suggest.
"Smartest thing you've said all week, Wario.", Waluigi laughed, but was hit by Wario's hoof.
"How do we get this darn thing to hit itself?", Applejack questioned.
"Rarity and Twilight can manipulate its arms to punch itself!", Wario laughed lowly.
"Wait... That's not a bad idea. Our magic combined would be enough to control one of its arms!", Twilight turned to Rarity.
"You ready?", she asked.
"More than ever, darling!", with that, Rarity and Twilight launched themselves to The Untouchable.
As they neared, Untouchable smashed his large hands onto the ground. Thankfully, our unicorn friends avoided it. Their horns started to glow as a white outline of magic formed around The Untouchable's left arm.
"WHAT... SORCERY... IS... THIS...?", The Untouchable questioned.
Twilight and Rarity were sweating as they started to move The Untouchable's arm and finally laid one strong punch into his face.
"NOOOOOOOOOO!", The Untouchable yelled as he grew smaller.
He turned into a large, shell like, structural being. He had a large, pincer-like, tail and only two legs. He hissed violently at them.
"THIS TIME... YOU WILL NOT DEFEAT... THE EVERLASTING..." The Everlasting swooshed his tail and whipped Rarity and Twilight back towards the group.
"Uhg.. This is just horrible..", Twilight stood up with Rarity, groaning.