You are a fool if you believe in that thing.
You have made your choice. I have made mine.
Scout started casually strolling into the center of the room. "Yes, yes, please, hold your applause. I know its tempting." Scout tugged at his Letterman jacket. "I'm sure most of you haven't seen perfection like me before."
"Thoust dare- Nightmare Moon started.
"Shut it. Scout's talking right now, sweetheart." Scout pointed a hoof at the mare that interrupted him. "Listen, I'm a little lost right now. I don't give a crap about you or anything you have to say unless it's where I am now." Scout put down his hoof to address the crowd behind him. "I mean, I got the whole Ponyville thing, which I must applaud your amazing naming sense. That's something even I might not be able to come up with. But either way, where the hell am I?"
Taken off by how quickly the strange stallion had cut him off, Nightmare Moon refused to show weakness to this foalish intruder. "Either leave-"
"Are you still flapping your gums?!" Scout interrupted Nightmare Moon again. "You deaf or somethin'? I was just talking."
"THOU-" Nightmare Moon started.
"Dare intrude. Blah blah blah. On this righteous ceremony which isn't for me. Blah blah blah. Why are you shooting me? Blah blah blah. Please don't kill me oh almighty Scout!" Scout feigned fear by putting his hooves up. Putting down his hooves, he continued, "Can we just skip to the part where you're laying on the ground, bloodied and beaten and finally willing to give me my location?!"
A weak voice came from Scout's side. "You're...in Equestria." Scout turned to see a bloody white winged horse in golden armor.
"Keep going."
Confused by what the newcomer meant, the guard stammered out, "Planet...Gaia?"
"See, was that so damn hard?!" Scout stared at Nightmare Moon, gesturing to the injured guard. "Funny thing is, I still got it from someone that's beaten up on the ground! At least I didn't do it, would've been a waste of my, oh so, precious time."
"Thanks, by the way, hard helmet. You're dismissed. If those injuries are real, ya might want some of these." He threw a small bottle with a red plus labeled on the side. "It helps with the pain, trust me on that."
Turning around, Scout started walking away. "Now you may continue with whatever useless thing you were doing before something actually important came up." Scout walked through the doors he had earlier unhinged.
Only to run into a very angry-looking Nightmare Moon that had teleported in front of him. "Die." She immediately charged a beam and fired at the spot Scout was standing in. After a small flash of light from the spell, Scout was no longer there. "Hmph." The ponies inside had drawn their attention to the stallion and covered their mouths in horror.
"Oh! I get it, this is one of those really stupid interactive plays, isn't it?" Everypony turned to see Scout was simply standing behind Nightmare Moon, and none of them had seen him move there. "I mean, I wouldn't mind sharing my mad skills with the audience, but you really should ask. I call being the bad guy. Good guys suck."
Nightmare turned immediately to fire another beam at Scout. He simply tilted his head and let it whizz by. "I mean, I know good guys are supposed to be the damn heroes, protecting the innocent, getting the girl, but that's just dumb. Life don't work like that." Scout continued, completely unaffected by the second attempt on his life.
After taking a small sidestep to dodge another deadly blow of magic, which Scout assumed was just special effects, "But bad guys in stories always suck, too. Always the dumb classic 'I'm gonna kill all of you' or 'I'll rule the world'. But me?! I want to be rich, famous, actually scratch that one, I already have that."
Scout jumped a ridiculously small height but it had been enough for another dodge. "A lot of hot chicks to bang, and to have anything I want! Like a train, or a jet! I mean, I'm definitely faster than a train. Oh, and also to do this!" Scout stood as straight as he could and let out a hearty maniacal laugh. "Muahahahaha! Cue lightning!" Scout held up a hoof next to his head.
Lightning then struck behind him, startling everypony, including Scout. "Holy shit! That actually worked?! Oh man! I am frikin' AWESOME!" Scout immediately turned his expression of surprise to one of delight. "Hah. I need to learn how to actually do that on cue."
During this particular portion of his annoying talking, Nightmare Moon had been channeling a series of spells meant to eradicate the entire area that Scout was standing in. Turning away from the mark the lightning left on the ground, Scout was almost nailed by the oncoming barrage of magic. Or rather, his almighty body was nowhere near to being nailed. Scout easily dodge every single spell, even if the spells had came two or three at a time. The various positions he held made everypony else, at least the ones who couldn't see how fast he was moving, think he was teleporting himself in place.
"Hey, bozo, take five for a sec. If ya haven't noticed, you're supposed to be the hero." Scout walked toward the towering mare, with absolutely no indication of fear or subtlety. "You're supposed to be giving your 'I will bring you to justice' speech before using that poor excuse of a finisher. Or do you want me to do my intimidation scene? I mean, I think that part's optional."
"Knave, thou will cease thoust constant pestering. Or thou shalt face judgement." Nightmare Moon slowly turned her head to acknowledge the stallion that had flawlessly made her seem like a fool.
"Hey, that's what the bad guy's supposed to say, dumbass." Scout stepped back to stare into the large mare's eyes. "Wait, you aren't actually serious are you?"
After a slight moment of silence, Scout turned to the crowd of ponies that were now spectating their 'fight'. "Is she serious?" When most of the ponies nodded, Scout seemed to have a pained expression and lowered his head.
Only to bring it up again, and engage in one of the most genuine laughs he had ever had, "Bahahhahahahaah! I *snicker* thought you were missing on purpose! PFFT-Bahahahahahha! Oh jeez, I have never met anyone that could actually be this much of a complete tool! Bahahahahah!" To further emphasize his point, even if accidentally, Scout was dodging more spells with his erratic movements while he was laughing.
"Oh wow. I really needed that. This is just to prove how much peace and shit like that does to the guys that can actually try and fight!" Scout gestured towards Nightmare Moon. "We get ponies like fatso here! Did I just say ponies? Oh god, what the heck?"
"Um, that's normal..." Rarity spoke up.
Scout immediately turned to her, completely disregarding Nightmare Moon as a threat, to great insult to her. "If ya haven't noticed, I am far from normal." He hovered a hoof close to the ground. "This is normal. And..." Scout placed a hoof above his head. "This is me, and..." Scout started digging a small hole. "That's fat cakes over there." Scout tilted his head towards Nightmare Moon.
She had never been this thoroughly ridiculed, even by her sister, and yet this...this pegasus would dare to insult her. Everypony noticed how her rage had been growing and how the air seemed much more tense than ever before.
Scout instead decided to further aggravate her. "Y'know, I might not be as great at dodging your poor display of accuracy in the air." Scout started flying. "I'll just fly around. I won't even shoot. I mean I needed flight practice anyway, and you seem like an easy place to start. I mean, it's not like you can do anything else. Actually this too." The crowd could only watch with their jaws agape, as the stallion constantly taunted the mare that taken the place of their godlike ruler, causing some to even fear 'Scout' in a similar manner.
"Does thou even understand the situation thoust have decided to be involved in?" Nightmare Moon raised her head, with mist covering the area around her, and radiating an uneasy aura.
"Ooh, you got smoke now. Dat's real intimidating. But to answer your stupid question, no, I don't. But I don't care. I mean, I don't even know where to start with you. Because do you even know who you're talking to?" Scout opened his hooves for emphasis.
"We have deemed-"
"That's a no. I mean honestly, do you any idea? Any idea who I am?" Scout interrupted Nightmare once more.
"Thou ist of no matter-"
"You're such a fat, thick-headed idiot, y'know that, ye olde bastard?!" Scout's accusation left everypony quiet. "Let me just give you a quick crash course. Since basically, I'm kinda of a big deal." Scout spun in the air while exclaiming, "This is my world now."
"You get that? I'm sure that you at least get that. Listen, buddy." Scout tilted his head forward menacingly. "Grass grows, birds fly, sun frikin' shines, and me?! I hurt people." Scout flew into Nightmare Moon's face. "I am a force of nature itself."
Scout gestured the ponies that gained a newly found fear of the cyan stallion, and continued, "If anyone, and I mean anyone else, came from where I have come from, they would've died a very long time ago." For a small moment, Scout's eyes generated a chilling sense of fear in the air.
Scout then just flew back, with the same arrogant smile he had on earlier, "I mean honestly, who else could be this handsome?" Scout circled his hoof over his face. "Not to mention, this damn beautiful." Scout proceeded to flex his left forehoof, although the actual muscle wasn't too impressive.
Nightmare Moon felt some sort of recognition. Although telling the stallion that she had seem to know him would give him satisfaction, Nightmare felt that Princess Luna had met him lifetimes before, but it was likely that it was only coincidence. Nightmare just stood still, seething with anger.
Twilight Sparkle could only watch in absolute confusion. Not only had this stallion been able to change how he was so easily, but he was making Nightmare Moon, the mare that was going to bring the eternal night to her world, seem as if she had little actual combat experience.
Enraged beyond comprehension, Nightmare took flight herself, surrounding herself with a dark mist, "I suppose I am not as fully recovered as I believed. I am Nightmare Moon, the ruler of the night-"
Scout snored. Loudly. With another audible voice crack. "Yeah I already stopped giving a crap." Scout took out an apple and munched on it. "I will admit though, that peaceful places make the best stuff though, all the apples I get are filled with bullet holes and covered in gunpowder. Make for better targets than food."
"Wait a darn minute!" Applejack charged out between the ponies in the crowd. "Y'all were the one in that tree! Dash said she wasn't there! And you stole nine of mah apples!"
"Why the hell do you remember the number?! There were thousands of them!" Scout yelled back at Applejack, finally placing a face to the voice from earlier.
"It's mah job to grow apples! 'Course I'm gonna know the number of apples missin'! We need every apple, for the pies, the cider, the tarts-"
"the alcohol, the throwing materials, the apple-based sex toys-" Scout noticed the massive gush of red across the ponies' faces. "Oops too far?"
Scout flew backwards quickly to have another spell whizzing by. "Is thou done with the foalishness?" Nightmare had rage plastered all across her face.
"Not even close. And this whole flying thing by the way? It's so obvious I'm going to win that I'm gonna give you maybe two minutes flat, before your face hits dirt." Scout spun to effortlessly dodge another magic beam. "And seriously? Beams? You are the most uncreative loser I've met."
As the air battle raged on, with Scout being able to make ridiculously sharp turns and seem to spawn clouds during these immediate changes in momentum, the ponies down below could only watch as every spell that Nightmare Moon casted was dodged in a ridiculing manner. Scout even managed to make faces to further humiliate the all-powerful allicorn.
Twilight Sparkle hadn't exactly planned for Nightmare Moon's return, and didn't have a plan ready, hoping to believe that Princess Celestia was correct in her judgement. But her request to make friends, which it seemed like the ponies she met automatically befriended her, wasn't helping as this 'Scout' is now fighting a force that he probably won't be able to best. He hadn't even tried to harm her in any real way. Scout was resorting to simply taunting her inability to hit him.
However, during his conversation with Nightmare Moon, she did make a connection. Scout said, 'Two minutes flat' and Twilight couldn't help but look towards Dash after those words. She found she wasn't the only one making the connection.
"Dashie! We found your evil twin brother!" Pinkie hugged Rainbow.
Shrugging her off, to little avail, as she just reattached herself, Rainbow sighed. "I don't have a brother, and what do you even...he is nothing like me!"
At Dash's response, nearly everypony was looking at her, most with a look that seem to just say, 'Really?'
Applejack spoke up first, "So there just happens to be another arrogant blue pegasus with a claim to be the best and a reliance on speed more than normal ponies?"
Dash had a hard time responding to Applejack's blunt stab at her character. "I'm not that bad..."
"Ah know you're not sugarcube, it's just a bit too much of a coincidence to us that there's somepony else that brags almost as much as y'all do."
"Hey, it's not bragging if-" Dash got cut off when Scout crashed into the ground.
"Okay, I had no idea I could actually crash. That actually kinda hurt." Scout recovered quickly.
"Hast thou realized the constant boasting is merely words now?" Nightmare regained her confidence, despite a lack of connecting hits.
"Hey, it ain't bragging if you can back it up!" Scout yelled back, taking flight again before another spell hit the spot he crashed in.
The entire crowd, who had been eavesdropping or listening to Dash' conversation, fell silent. "Okay, I'm going to admit that was creepy." Dash looked back at Applejack, noticing the ponies who stopped their sideways glances when she turned her head.
Dash turned back to the still attached Pinkie, "I still don't have a brother."
"Hmm, what about a soul mate?"
Dash blushed. "No. Just no! Pinkie, you heard him! He doesn't even care when he's talking about hurting ponies!"
Almost on cue, with one minute and fifty seconds since the end of the banter in the air, a crack was heard and Nightmare dropped straight into the ground. "Meh, was a bit early, but hey, I bet Nightmare Moon is seeing a whole lotta stars right about now, not including me, of course." Scout rotated a wooden bat in his hooves.
"Stand still." Nightmare slowly got to her hooves. And fired a pathetic shot that went straight into the ground.
"Wow, that's real intimidating." Scout started clapping with his wings, with his forehooves crossed. "That is-"
"How are you doing that?!"
Scout turned to the purple unicorn and recognized her from the earlier mishap. "Oh, you. I liked your other haircut better. What do you want?"
Twilight lost her train of thought of Nightmare Moon's return, focusing on Scout's wing claps in mid-air. She didn't know why he was talking about her hair, but she stammered out, "You can't clap with your wings like that, there's gravity!"
"Gravity?! Who gives a crap about gravity? I can do whatever the heck I want." Scout landed a fair distance away from the still dazed Nightmare Moon.
"But, but! GRAGH!" Twilight teleported in front of Scout, and started shaking him, "You. Can't. Just. Ignore. Gravity."
Scout noticed the recovered Nightmare in the midst of Twilight's shaking, and pulled her into a tango stance for both of them to dodge. Scout noticed her confusion and spun her behind him and spun himself. He recovered quicker, and managed to change clothing in a time that Rarity suddenly gained utmost attention to. His Letterman was gone and replaced with a blue vest and his hat was replaced by a dark green beret.
"El Jefe is now here! Now grace in his presence!" Scout mimicked a ridiculous Mexican accent. Scout stopped Twilight's spinning and then proceeded to engage in tango. Twilight was dizzy, confused, and also relieved from Scout constantly moving her out of the way of any potential spells that might hit her.
"El Jefe shall dance 'till oblivion comes!" Scout continued with his lack of care to the deadly beams that were being shot by. Scout dipped Twilight forward with his eyes closed, and held a rose in the other hoof, which proceeded to get carried with the beam overhead. Scout spun Twilight back towards the crowd. "Sorry, my dear, but El Jefe must attend his original dance partner."
"Will thou never take this seriously?" Nightmare Moon spoke as Scout put away the beret and pulled out a dusty batter's helmet.
"Oh I missed this thing, I should really wear it more." Scout disregarded Nightmare's question. "Honestly, it's one of the things that's probably worth more than the rest of what I've got."
"How so?" Nightmare Moon, wishing to stall at the moment, asked.
"Because of this." Scout placed the helmet on his head, and it sparked a small fire. However, the fire was constantly burning in the middle of the air and it started circling his head slowly. "Doesn't burn or anything, but I guess that's why the hat is called unusual in the first place."
Everypony watched in awe at the fireball that shouldn't exist was constantly circling a hat, as if attracted to an orbit. Curiosity struck everypony of the mystery bag that Scout slung over his back. Which proceeded to jump up.
"What the heck?" Scout unzipped his bag again, and a squirrel flew out and started clawing away at his face. "Ow! OW! Chucklenuts! It's me! Scout! OW!" The squirrel stopped and looked at him in confusion. And then proceeded to start clawing away with even more ferocity. "OW! DAMMIT! My beautiful face!" Scout then managed to barely pull away Chucklenuts.
The squirrel hissed menacingly. Like, actually menacingly scary. "Alright, alright, I forgot you were in there. My bad. But we're in a dumb peaceful place, you can go find some damn nuts, they'll be fresh alright?!" Scout dropped Chucklenuts and the squirrel proceeded to scamper away.
"Tch, I got a scratch." Scout felt bleeding of his right cheek. "Before you say anything, don't you think it's really sad that a squirrel managed to hurt me and yet you still can't touch dis."
"But if you want me to stand still so bad, sure why not?" Scout enacted a stance and started to pretend to swing a bat in a home run stance. "What I gave you five whole seconds there. You ain't very perceptive are ya?"
Scout checked his pulse and started running in place. "Ya know, after all that, I still ain't winded." Scout sidestepped another attack. He held up a hoof as if expecting something. "Let's go! C'mon!"
He consistently dodged every beam and started taunting Nightmare every time. Scout positioned himself so that his wings made a small square, "Perfect." There was also an exaggerated laugh into a miniature guitar concert, complete with a light show that seemed to come from nowhere. He then spun around his bat, casually flipping it with a singular hoof, and proceeded to pull out a bucket of..."Oh what the heck? Why is this filled with flowers now?!"
Moving once again, with flowers showing his previous location, and proceeding to be disintegrated by magic. "Flippin' time. Who wants to flip?" Scout held out his hooves, making a small pocket where a hoof or two could fit. Instead he ran forward, slid under Nightmare and flipped her from behind. Unfortunately, Nightmare went past the 360 degrees and simply landed. Hard.
"See where I flipped ya?" Scout quickly jabbed his forehooves in Nightmare's direction. "Alright rock, paper-" Scout stared at his hooves. "Aw well, that's just depressing."
"Do-si-do time! I gotta dance!" Scout started hopping back and forth. Another dodge here and he held out his hoof sideways. "You know what da do!"
Scout spun alongside the next spell and was standing in front of Nightmare. He pulled her hoof into his and jumped. And Scout headbutted her with enough force that there was blood from both parties. "Boom, dat is a skull fracture! And holy crap dat hurt a lot more den I remember."
Pressuring the wound, Scout relaxed. "I'm starting to feel so very sorry for you. So I'm just gonna sit here." Scout crouched onto where he had been standing earlier. "Please, just try something, anything. Jeez." Scout started pulling out a bright blue can while he was talking.
Nightmare was skeptical, but the stallion had constantly shown his arrogance over the course of the fight, and she assumed that she could likely hit him before whatever he had planned. She begin channeling her classic attack spell so that it would be impossible to dodge from where he had been, as she already judged the limits of his speed and reaction through trial and error.
The massive blast came as Scout crushed the empty can and threw it to his side. The blast engulfed the entire area around him, kicking up the dust and leaving a massive smoke cloud. As seconds past, without any notice of movement, the crowd of ponies just assumed Scout had to be dead...it had to be impossible to dodge that in particular.
"Wanananana." Everypony turned towards the collection of smoke, dispersed by Scout expanding his wings. Nightmare Moon had anticipated such and shot several large bolts in quick succession.
"Psyche! Missed me! De-nied! Weak! Nice aim!" Scout dodged flawlessly, but he started leaving a blurred trail signifying his progression to the various stances he took. When the trail left, Scout smiled, "Can't hit what ain't dere, can ya?!"
Until Scout got hit directly by a dark bolt of lightning, and crashed into a couple of boxes. "Thou has had their time! We refuse to give you any more!" She hadn't wanted to admit it to herself, but Nightmare was slightly shaken by the stallion's almost casual intent toward his own death or talking to a superior entity. What had her sister let the world become, if such a pony existed. However, it was to be no more as no pony could withstand a direct impact of such magical voltage.
*CHNK* "GAGHH" Nightmare Moon screamed as something plunged into her side. Immediately pulling the offending item, it had been a large kitchen knife with foreign characters, and covered in blood. Her blood.
"That's it. I am so sick of stupid bastards like you that refuse to give up." Scout kicked out the boxes he was covered in and flew up, shrugging away the remaining electricity. "What? You thought you could get rid of me dat damn easily? Have ya already forgotten who's better here? Try and hit me again. I dare you. My lightning reflexes might actually kick in this time. I will say I'm impressed, you got a cheap shot in. I respect dat." Scout smiled at Nightmare Moon.
"How?" Nightmare Moon began.
"Told you already. I'm the force-a-nature that's gonna responsible of clippy-clopping a hoof into your ass!" Scout pulled out a scattergun. Noticing everypony's confused faces towards the gun, Scout held it up, "What? You don't have guns here? Y'know de things dat shoot bullets?" Most nodded, as they had been aware of Dash's constant comparisons to being faster than a bullet. "Well, at least dat's somethin'."
With the onslaught of spells being much more intense, Scout still easily dodged while heading towards Nightmare Moon, "Float like a butterflah." Scout held up the scattergun at her head. "Sting like a bee."
The shot contacted with a magic barrier, which shattered. Scout, rather than being hindered, simply whacked a metal bat into Nightmare's chin, and took out the Force-a-Nature to knock her into the dirt further away. Sliding his hoof across his bat, Scout pointed it towards Nightmare, "Look at dat! No blood, no hair, nuttin'! This is an absolute marvel of batting technology! And if you order now, you'll get a second beating absolutely free!"
Not giving her any time to recover, Scout took out two pistols, one with a wing decal, and the other being a flat grey. Firing both at the same time, Scout reloaded the winged pistol while still firing the remainder of the clip of the other, when they both ran out of ammo at the same time, Scout threw both into the air and pulled out the scattergun again, clicking another shot in and constantly firing into the magical shield Nightmare had put up when she was knocked back.
During this, however, Nightmare Moon had noticed something particular about the weapons he had, as all of them had shared something very...unique. During the pause between Scout's shots, Nightmare pulled hard at the distinct signature.
This caused the pistols dropping in the air and the scattergun in Scout's hand to immediately fly to Nightmare, he managed to barely grab the bag before he got pulled with it, but as it had been unzipped, every single weapon he had started flying at Nightmare.
Including a wooden bat with spikes which scraped alongside the side that Nightmare took the cleaver earlier. Wincing, she still felt confident, as the massive amount of weapons she had accumulated, an impossible amount to fill that backpack he was holding, had to be his entire arsenal.
"Oh well, that's just not fair! I frikin' hate magic!" Scout kicked the dust in front of him.
"We suppose this is end game." Nightmare used his magic to point all the tools she was earlier assaulted with back at the perpetrator.
"Nah." Scout ruffled through his bag, searching desperately. He had been worried, but bantered nonetheless, "Cuz' good ol' Scout can't be beaten by the fatness of the night, only being seen through the corners of eyes, with people too traumatized to directly look otherwise."
Pulling out a magazine, featuring a pony wearing a witch outfit on the cover, Scout quickly flipped through the pages. "I am stronger than you. I am smarter than you." Scout seemed to miss the page and flipped page by page backwards. "I'm definitely faster." Nightmare threw every sharp item she had possession of. "And I know for a damn fact that I'm better." Scout stopped on a page and Nightmare fired all the guns at the same time. "Barpo kabalto!"
Scout started shining a bright neon blue and his eyes became pure green, and grabbed a sword that had been thrown at him, and letting the rest of the onslaught bounce off of him. "Heck yes! Ten second Uber all the way! Seismela tremoro!" Scout threw the fireball that had manifested in his hand.
Nightmare Moon heard the meteors coming above her and teleported away from the area of effect, unaware of the 'ipsum instantarium' Scout sputtered in the background.
"I!" Scout threw the spell in his hand into the meteor storm. "Love!" Scout teleported into the storm and threw another directly in front of Nightmare. "Magic!" Scout appeared in front of Nightmare, still shining a furious blue, and the rune-carved sword plunged into her left side, still unaffected by his previous attacks.
Nightmare teleported to the other end of the meteor-engulfed area, leaving Scout to slowly blink away his invulnerability. "How hast thou learned spells?! Thou art no unicorn!"
"What does a having a horn have to do with anything?! I've got this damn magazine!" Scout shoved the spellbook magazine in her direction. Nightmare needed very little time before she had access to her trump card, only hindered by her lack of a magic pool.
Her curiosity, however, was an ulterior motive. "No book can give any pegasus direct access to the forces of magic."
"Too bad that I'm more of a force-a-nature than a pegasus, huh?" Scout cockily smiled back. "If I have to be a unicorn to use magic, since ya messed with me, ya get the horn!" Scout held up his forehoof and jabbed upward.
Nightmare Moon was, in fact, about to retort, as now she was once again annoyed, especially considering a few ponies had actually laughed. But she had waited long enough. She could now simply rid herself of this nuisance forever. "Thoust hurt ponies, yes?"
"Huh? Well, more than just ponies, like I meant people. And I usually kill them anyways." Scout said without any second thoughts. "Why? Ya finally gonna give up?"
"No, the opposite. Since I have won." Mist surrounded Scout instantly. "Thou will now experience nightmares which you have never once before imagined. Now live in your fear and regret for all of eternity. In the misery of those whose lives thoust have ruined."
Sighing, Nightmare turned to address the ponies, "He will be of no more consequence, none can outrun their past. Our rule will begin as your knight has fallen."
"I ain't no stupid knight. I already told you that I'm the bad guy, doofus."
"Impossible." Nightmare turned and saw Scout simply walk out of the mist. "How could thou possibly overcome all of thine fears?! And of the horrors of your past?!"
"Hey, big, fat, and ugly, I got over those damn ghosts a long time ago." Scout pulled out a cigarette, and held it up. What happened next freaked everypony out.
Another pony, only clad with a white mask and a yellow helmet, with a red coat, appeared for the smallest of seconds and lit the cigarette in Scout's mouth. However, instead of enforcing the feeling, Scout coughed out the cigarette quickly.
"Shit, those things'll kill ya." He threw the cigarette back into the mist. "Like, honestly, what did you expect from even more smoke and mirrors? I mean a mirror would've been nice, I could've noticed how handsome I was. Well I know how handsome I am, still would've been nice though." A loud sizzle came from behind him.
"Huh?" Scout would've said if he was actually able to. Considering that the mist frikin' exploded! The explosion threw Scout across the entirety of town and crashed into a building.
Nightmare Moon, just as confused as the other ponies, blinked it away, and continued. "Your knight has fallen. We would have made our example to Equestria through you own deaths, but we must recover, so know that your precious sun will never rise again and the night shall last forever!" Smoke erupted from the ground and engulfed Nightmare Moon. The smoke started flying off, and Dash tried to fly after it, but lost it as the mist blended into the night sky.
"Nighttime forever?" Dash worried. Looking back at the panicking ponies, she noticed Twilight running off with Spike on her back. "Now where are you going?"
The crowd my have turned into a panic, and Twilight Sparkle had been curious about Scout, but she needed to find the Elements of Harmony, or else nopony may ever see Princess Celestia or the day ever again. She just hoped that it wasn't already too late, and about the well-beings of the guards and Scout, but at the very least, Nightmare's injuries may have delayed enough time that the fight had caused.