I stepped through the portal not even remotely sure what I would find. Cortez stayed behind to try and find out anything new on the goverments' plan. Jessica just wanted to relax on a couch. She said her hand hurt from slamming it on the table so much. I hit solid ground, landing on some kind of flat metal. I looked around, I was in some futuristic city, flying on... The Great Fox? Even stranger, I couldn't move forward or back, just left, right, down, and up.
How strange. Now, where the fuck is Bentley? Out of nowhere, someone punched me in the back. I flew forward, even though that's impossible, it wasn't that hard of a hit. I rubbed the back of my neck and said,
"Ow! What was that for?! I'm not just going around punching everything that moves!" The person who hit me was Mario. He came running up to me again. I crossed my arms and held a defensive stance. A red bubble formed around me. Mario hit me, but I didn't feel anything. I said, "How do you like it!" As I swiped his legs. He went sent flying a few feet. Which made no sense.
Gravity does seem to be lower, I jump higher, and fly far when I get hit. Mario came running back, I noticed some kind of lightsaber spawned in front of me. I picked it up and threw it at Mario. He dodged and keep running at me. I backed up, attempting to fall out of reach.
Random intermission.
A loud pounding bass was heard. Octavi covered her ears as she sit at the kitchen table with Vinyl. Octavi screamed over the noise,
"We have dishwashers! You can turn down the wub wub!" Vinyl just sat there, all nonchalant. She then said loud enough for Octavi to hear,
"Yeah, but this gets bacteria off at a microscopic level! Plus, it plays music!"
"It's seven A.M.! Someponies are trying to sleep! I still detest when you have to make the ground shake when I'm attempting to sleep."
"Can't hear you over the wub wub!" Octavi slammed her face on the table as Vinyl bobbed her head in sync with the beats.
Random intermission over.
I beat Mario, throwing a bat at him. He went sent flying, quickly disappearing and being turned into a trophy. Then everything faded into something else, it looked like Green Hill Zone from the Sonic games.
To my left was Captain Falcon. The first to my right was Ness, and the last one? Bentley.
Yet another random intermission.
"WHY ARE YOU IN A SANDWICH?!" Bon Bon screamed at Lyra. They stood on a patch of grass, Lyra was lying inside of a giant hamburger, minus the meat. Lyra said,
"I've always just wondered how they felt. Come on, don't tell me you've never wondered."
Even I, the narrator, finds that strange. Anywhore, back to the story. Oh yeah, and play this music in the background.
After I looked at them again, they looked like they had two themes. Captain Falcon and Ness were both green clothed, and Bentley and I had a redder shade of clothes then we had on before. Must be a team battle.
""Bentley! About time your ass showed up." I told Bentley, as we stood on some strange cartoon stage. "Now, let's go home."
"Oh no, not until after this tourney."
"WHAT!? Come on! Let's just get home!" Bentley shook his head.
"No, I gotta win this. There's gotta be some awesome prize at the end!" I knew how competitive Bentley was, and it was clear I couldn't stray him from this path. Well, the faster I get him through this, the faster we can get out of here. Well, here we go again.
Wait, this is a game, or at least very close to the actual game that's based off of this. I wonder if my strategy will work here. I flashed a few hand signs to Bentley, who just scratched the back of his head. I asked,
"Don't you remember?" He said,
"Uh, I never really remember that complex military stuff." I faceplamed, and heard a male announcer start countering down. I quickly said to Bentley,
"Be aggressive, unpredictable, and use as many items as you can." He nodded, and I heard someone yell,
"FALCON KICK!" I jumped, dodging his fiery kick. I glanced over to Bentley. He was punching Ness in the groin. Well, didn't see that coming, I guess. Captain Falcon stood under me, charging up a upwards dash of kicks. Still not use to this strange new environment, his kicks connected and I was sent flying. I managed to stop myself from falling off screen and quickly floated downwards. I'm not good at fist fighting, I need to be clever.
Or better yet, cheat. Rarely, do I ever play by the rules. Captain Falcon came running back towards me. I rolled forward and put a leg in front of him. He tripped, and I kicked him in the back. I saw Bentley and Ness exchanging blows. Ness his Bentley with a bat, and Bentley got sent flying. He crashed into me and we tumbled a few feet.
"HEY! Watch where you're getting launched!" I yelled at Bentley. I heard Ness scream,
"PK THUNDER!" A small blue ball of electricity came out of him. Idea! I grabbed onto Captain Falcon and used the electrical properties of the ball that Ness shot at me. The ball hit me, but all the energy went to the end of the chain, or in this case, Captain Falcon. He grunted in shock as I let go. Then, being the cheating bastard I am, I dragged him to the edge of the screen and kicked him off. The crowd started to chant my name. Oh great, nothing like a crowd screaming for bloodlust. I searched around in my pockets, and found a small smooth orb.
Well, not sure what it is, but I didn't care. I threw the orb at Ness. It was a black and green mixture of color. The orb collided with Ness, and a small black hole appeared. Oh, how convenient. Ness floated around in the small sphere and then went flying upwards. He floated back down, then Bentley kick him upwards enough for him to hit the glass screen that separates us and the audience. Or the fourth wall. The round ended, and we floated upwards. Below us was a giant tourney chart. Only 3 battles more. The last being some 'surprise'. Just a grey question mark connecting the last battle. I don't have a good feeling about this. We quickly Teleported to the next stage.
Let's check up on the Equestrian civil war.
"Get them!" A yellow unicorn screamed at her squadron. A mixture of all races and colors charged across the Equestrian divide. The Equestrian divide is the name given to the line that separates The New Lunar Republic from The Solar Empire. It wasn't going good, blood painted the ground, deep black smoke engulfed the air, and the screams of pain and death pierced the ponies' souls.
Many have died, but there are still many left to fight. Celestia appeared to be winning. Both her and Luna fought in the battle. The sun hung high overhead. Luna had an idea, to retreat and attack at night.
But the problem was that her and Celestia were both trying to keep their control up. Luna couldn't keep the moon up because Celestia held the sun firm in the sky. It hadn't moved in hours, the real time should make it about sunset. But something happened. During the heat of the battle, three small older model human-made attack jets appears over the skies in Canterlot. The ponies didn't notice with all the screaming and fighting.
The shiny chrome jets each launched two missiles, thirty-two ponies were injured and six dead, most on Celestia's side. Luna saw this, and didn't want to risk it. She called out,
"Brethren! Retreat to the Lunar base!" They all did in one quick motion. Most of the unicorns teleported, and the pegasus flew away. All the others ran for their flanks. Celestia was the apparent winner. It wasn't long until the ponies ran in fear, the alien jets raining down bullet fire. There was something different about these jets though. The humans thought it would be safer to use remote control.
Back to Dylan.
"Oh, fuck you!" I yelled at Kirby. I then smashed my fist into the bag of pink. He, or she, or... whatever the fuck Kirby is, went flying outside of the screen. Kirby disappeared, leaving only Bentley, Ike, and me. I turned to Bentley, he was in an intense fight with Ike. Ike hit Bentley with his sword, Bentley flew towards me on this large zelda-themed stage. He then pulled out a grenade and charged at Ike. Before he got there, the screen turned a shade darker and a smash ball started flying around. Bentley yelled at me,
"Hold Ike, imma get dat ball!" He jumped and hit the ball a few times. I rushed over to Ike, grabbing onto him. Bentley threw a seemingly endless supply of grenades at the smash ball. Ike broke out of my grasp and went for the smash ball. I grabbed onto Ike's feet and swung him away. I yelled at Bentley,
"Hurry up! I can't hold him back forever!" I turned toward Bentley, a smash was heard. Then a colorful aura surrounded him. Seconds later, he started flying around, rapidly spewing grenades with cutiemarks on them. Ike dodged most of them, but got hit with a grenade with Rarity's cutiemark on it. The ground exploded in multiple colored jagged gems and minerals. Ike got sent flying to the right. He turned into a trophy, and the match ended.
The next round will be against Wolf and Sonic. The same transition happened, we appeared on a small iceberg that slid down a mountain. Wolf and Sonic appeared next to me and Bentley showed up on the edge. The countdown finished, and I dashed over to Wolf. My foot went to his chest, but he blocked and swung a claw at me. I got hit and then I ran back up to him and did an uppercut. He staggered backwards and I racked up a string of combos.
He got attacked relentlessly by a flurry of kicks and punches. He was dazed, and I took the chance. I reeled back my fist, seeing a white slashing sparkle on it that meant I was charging it up. Before I could hit him, Bentley came out of nowhere and performed a flying kick that sent Wolf flying. Bentley also fell off screen, but he air-jumped his way back. I yelled,
"That was my kill, Bentley!" He simply shrugged and Sonic came from behind me and attacked me. I got launched off-stage, but managed to save myself just enough to grab the ledge on the stage. Over it I could see Bentley and Sonic exchanging blows. I scrambled to get up, and Bentley got hit and flew toward me. I jumped up, over the ledge, grabbed onto Bentley, spun him around a few times, then let go, causing him to act like a human missile.
Sonic dodged, then smacked Bentley off-stage. He disappeared, and that just left me. Well, fuck. I thought that would've turned out better. Sonic crawled up into a ball and launched himself at me. I jumped, Sonic did also and hit me. He's much faster than me, I can't win the fairly. I remember that I stood on ice, the ground was slippery. I stood still as Sonic dashed back for another round. I just need to time this right. Time slowed down as I calmed my breathing.
The Blue Blur really did look like a blur as it spun rapidly at me. I readied my feet for a jump. My head had already planned it out. Time resumed to normal, I crouched, appearing ready to jump, Sonic jumped in an attempt to counter me, I dived forward, then for my final move, my feet slammed into his back as soon as he had jumped over me.
Sonic got launched to the right, and quickly turned into a trophy. I had won. I scrambled back up, taking note how I'm not even scratched. Not a single physical injury, physics must be isolated per world. The stage faded out to The Final Destination. Bentley flew, err, fell from the sky.