The Power Ponies: The Power Inside

by Matthew Stone


The REALLY Big Boom

Matter Horn struggles to free her binds as her companions watch in terror, with Bakura having some pendulum moving blade swing over her with his clutched hand. Matter Horn becomes fatigued by her struggling after a while, and has her eyes shrink when the blade nears her eyes. Mote is now enraged at Bakura’s attempt to make the kill. He thrusts and has the veins rush in his tensioning hooves.

SNAP!
SNAP!

The kill fails, as Bakura turns to see that Mote breaks free, jumping in front of the blade and slicing it n half with his hit power. His move slices Matter Horn’s top hooves free, having him now in the way of Bakura. He has no choice but to fight the villain now.

“SO, YOU ESCAPED!” Bakura hisses, “WELL, MAYBE I SHOULD KILL YOU INSTEAD!”

As Bakura and Mote start to fight, the filly power pony nods his head at Matter Horn to free her friends. She then uses her horn to burn the binds, having the rest of the gang free and running towards her. Pouter is even let out of his cage, and scuttles towards Bellcord to cling onto his back. Bakura shrieks and has his demons start to follow the group when fighting. Matter Horn then has a magic circle surround her friends as Mote continues his brawl.

“We have to find the citizens and rescue them!” she tells the others.

“Be careful!” Mote calls out to her as he makes a punch to Bakura.

Matter Horn nods at him, and before the demons charge closer to them, a huge spark flashes around the hero friends to send them out of the sewer. The spark pushes the demons back, as Bakura roars in displeasure when noticing. Mote then makes another swing at Bakura’s stomach, having him fly his back against the wall. As Mote charges to make a kick, Bakura picks up a sudden stone slab and slams it across the edge of Mote’s skull.

The deadly move nearly made Mote unconscious, and Bakura sends another beating towards his chin. The villain then makes a bucking kick to one of his ribs, having his cough out a yell. As Mote is forced upward by another kick, he then tumbles backward while rolling to the other wall side of the sewer.

“So weak!” Bakura taunts.

Mote knew this isn’t his end as Bakura approaches closer to him. The young filly slowly looks down at his uniform belt pocket. Slowly, he drags his left hoof down to reach out a piece of wood from his staff weapon before. He then chants something softly, as the little sliver starts to glow like gold.

Bakura then extends his hand, having it glow and aim at Mote’s back.

“Little wimp!” Bakura continues to insult.

He then makes his deathly fire blow with his palm, as it aims towards Mote.

BLAM!

Bakura gasps again, as he discovers to see that Mote created some sort of shield to protect him from the blow. But that’s not all. As the filly slowly gets up, his appearance is bigger and adult. He even wears a silver vest, and his wings are huge as an angel. He then stands on his two lower hind hooves, turning around to face his enemy.

“I introduce you… to my guardian form!” Mote smirks at Bakura.



Fili-Second and Sava are close together when running back towards the sewer they last remembered going by. Then, the two of them suddenly see Matter Horn and the others running together, as they try to find the citizens that are kidnapped. The fox can hear the demons’ screeches coming in the distance, as he rushes over to embrace with his cousin.

“What happened?” Sava asks JT, “Shouldn’t you guys…”

“Bakura gave us a surprise attack.” JT snarls, “Now he has the citizens hostage!”

“WHAT?” Fili-Second screams.

“Mote is holding him off as long as we can.” Matter Horn tells them, “Right now, we need to find where the citizens are taken away to.”

Bellcord suddenly sniffs, and gets a rotten stench creeping up his nose.

“Don’t get me wrong, but I think I have an idea where those imps are holding our innocent friends.” he says.

“How do you know?” Zapp asks.

“I have the ability to catch a demonic scent, when it belongs to a being that doesn’t belong in this universe.” he explains, “Zombie, vampire, maybe… demon… so…”

Bellcord wriggles his snot.

“I envision they’ll be at the bay.” he says.

“Wow. You might be right.” Pouter grins, impressed.

“But they’ll keep full guard of anyone, even us!” Fili-Second informs, “The rescue may be impossible. We can’t even jump, or swim over. Both ways might gain their attention and have them outnumber us quickly. I also remember that the bombs are on their way after Firestorm told us about them.”

“Bombs?” Radiance whimpers.

Matter Horn taps her hoof to her chin, thinking.

“Here’s what I think we should do…” Matter Horn considers.

She then turns to Bellcord and Radiance.

“Guys, this may be the first time, but you got to collaborate with both chaos and gems.” Matter Horn said.

“Okay,” Bellcord beams.

“Right… very well…” Radiance agrees, still uncertain of that idea.

Matter Horn then looks at Gladiator.

“Do you think you can find the virus controlled planes holding the bombs?” she asks him, “Maybe you can see if you’ll hack into their program and stop their target.”

“I’ll see what I can do.” the robotic griffon nods, “I’ll head up now. I’ll also join you after I have any chance stopping those suckers.”

“Right.” Matter Horn grins.

With his robot speed, Gladiator rockets up into the sky to search for the droning planes. Matter Horn then turns to her friends, also seeing that Firestorm is on his hooves and ready to fight. All are banded together, as the foxes also hold onto their weapons.

“Right after Bellcord and Radiance’s combined move, we’ll arrange our powers to lead out the citizens from this destruction.” she said, “Here’s how…”



Gladiator is in the air, having his flames carry on his acceleration. His wings stiffen as soon as he finds the black planes holding the nuclear bombs. He makes a big gulp, and has one of his scouter glasses scan the transporting planes, to make sure there will be no surprises.

Nothing is inside or driving. He swoops over to the bomb planes, having his claws dig slowly into the exterior metal of the flying object. He then heads down to the first bomb connected at the bottom of the moving plane. Time is ticking, and there’s also a door valve on the bomb. Gladiator opens it slowly, and sees it’s all wires and technology shit. He has his laser from his wristband cut the senses and targeted one, having the bomb deactivate within a minute. He then releases his grip from the bomb, flies upward, and stays on course to then have part of his metal body hit into the motor of the plane. The stabbing hit destroys it, and he pulls back immediately. The explosion is then made, destroying the plane.

Gladiator then swings to the next plane, digging his claws to the exterior metal once again. He then claws himself downward to the bomb. He opens the bomb lid, then seeing there’s… a clock! And… to his horror, it’s unmovable and wireless! He then feels the speeding of the plane, as it’s tilts downward. The nose of the engine then points directly at corvine, and possible collision timing will be about… an hour!

“Shit!” Gladiator gulps.



The human citizens are muttering in fear and zany shudders when the black monsters are pointing their spears around them at the base of the beach. Such ways of crowding them together is as they’re being treated as cattle. Most of the police authorities have already been captured as well, and bound hand to foot by the demons.

A fence surrounds the barrier to imprison them all at the shore, having the first three demons guard the outside of the rusty door. The wall exterior seems weak, but the bastards done fine work creating spikes to keep anyone from getting in or out. Three of the vicious imps continue their close watch.

Just as they go back in, they hear a clinking noise that sounds like a rolling can. They turn to see a pink gem rolling and rolling with its cylinder shaped movements. The demons are joyous by it’s beauty, and rush over to observe it in curiosity.

SNAP!
A sudden shaking as the demons trapped in the gems clutches, as the beautiful rock suddenly turns into a caged lasso catching their arms. More gems then appear, as Radiance throws them up front and fast. Bellcord stays hidden by her, as he has the gems change into giant crystal soldiers, making noise to get the demons’ attention from inside. The little imps then rush out, ready for they fight as they growl and throw their weapons at the giants. Bellcord then winks at Matter Horn and her friends as they sneak into the barrier shaped prison to sneak the human citizens out.

However, Isaac stays outside close to Radiance and Bellcord, just so he can keep removing whatever Bakura put into Fireblaze.

“How long will this last?” Firestorm asks the wolf.

“One hour.” Isaac answers, “Just one more touch up of my stitch…. and the weakening in your body will be gone soon.”

The row is all in when Matter Horn has part of her team meet up with the human hostages once inside the demon made prison. Zapp even has her lighting powers make an escape hole near them, gaining their attention slowly. Saddle Ranger even saves her anger strength, but uses whatever is left to knock out the demons close by to the citizens. Fili-Second then zooms in front of the demons right by her, in time to distract them according to plan. She allows the monsters to rush at her, as he rapidly kicks and dodges their attacks. Matter Horn then arranges Sava and JT to evacuate the people through the escape hole.

It’s all settled then. When the foxes guide the people far away from the danger, Matter Horn, Saddle Ranger, Mistress Marvelous, Hummer, Pouter, and Zapp will take care of the rest of the battle to help the others. They must keep the demons near the water bay, ocean, beach, or whatever it’s called for as long as possible. Until Gladiator has luck deactivating the bombs, the demon soldier population must also be lowered.

With a scream, Matter Horn zaps a light into the sky with her horn to catch the rest of the demons’ attention. They shriek when they see the majority of the human citizens have now escaped, and charge at the first two of the team up front. Matter Horn works with Saddle Ranger, as the shy power pony brings back her rage power to push back the first five demons with one muscular punch. She even acts as a shield for Matter Horn, as the leader power pony leans by her back, walking with her slow walking moves when shooting at the demons coming at her back. Saddle Ranger even punches more demons, and uses her strong arms to block their bite attacks.

Mistress Marvelous and Hummer then use their powers to combine their strength, as they see twenty demons with their black blood spitting out when dashing. The cowboy power pony lends Hummer a lasso, as he then sets it ablaze to turn it into a firing whip. With the flaming rope, he whips and sets the demons ablaze into exploding ink, just when the rope tip touches them. Mistress Marvelous clutches onto Hummer’s arm to keep full protection onto him, buck kicking at any upcoming demon with her right leg. She moves with Hummer’s slow defense walk, hopping on her left foot. She then brings both footed hooves up together to send back six demons all at once.

Zapp has Pouter assist her as she flashes by the demons to shoot her lightening rod attacks. Pouter then acts as her gun, as she grabs him by his flipper points to have him shoot electric spit from his mouth. The yucky electric balls strike the black demons to the ground, having them sizzle in pain.

“I can taste the bad apple in my mouth already…” Pouter belches, tasting the sizzles in his tongue.

Right behind them, Fili-Second is already teasing her enemies of demon fools.

“You really think you can catch me, SLOWPOKES?” she taunts.

The demons snarl, and jump to Fili again. She then zooms around in a speeding circle to spin them around and have them crash into one another until piled up in a pyramid. It was another surprise to her when she notices bigger demons emerging from the ground, holding dark magical swords in their hands. She swipes her movements backward as the swipes of the blades near her chest. She then has her head thrust forward, banging her forehead to knock out the first big demon while biting her lip.

FLAM!
The sound suddenly emerges as Matter Horn looks back to see the plane getting closer to the bay of the beach. She can see Gladiator grunting, struggling so hard to try and keep control of the crazy plane. The bomb also rings, as his claws and laser gear tries to deactivate it.

“Guys… down… GET DOWN!” Matter Horn suddenly yells at her friends.

With that, her friends look, and scream when near her. They then cower down or jump away, hugging each other as the plane nears. Then, while crashing and killing more demons, the possible exploding plane crashes into the beach!

BANG!