//------------------------------// // Element of Ear-Rape // Story: Phantom War III: Insanity Returns // by Danny Eclipse //------------------------------// The Next day… I have returned to the bridge. Darkbine and Rarifruit were talking about something. Cynder was looking at the screen that showed the front of the Nemesis. I came up to Cynder and decided to talk to her. “What’s wrong?” I asked her, concern. Cynder replied “Oh…Just thinking about how this future war is going to end in.” “Don’t worry; we will live through this war.” Cynder said “Thank you Danny…” I smiled and hugged Cynder to comfort her. Cynder told me “You know…I never did get to tell you. Well, you see…I come from a special group of Equestria Defenders known as the Ponylorians. When I was nothing but a child, I wanted to help them defend Equestria…But going to war…” “I see…Well, I’ll make it within my power to make sure there is NO war.” Cynder asked “You…you mean that?” “Yes. Unicron may not like it, but even I love Equestria and I will defend it from evil. Unicron will have to grow used to it.” I reassured her Unicron mumbled back in disapproval “Which I may never…” Darkbine yelled out “FOUND IT!!!” We looked and Darkbine and went over to him. We see the beam from the emerald pointing at a place known as “Uproar Forest”. “Uh oh…” Darkbine asked “What?” “Uproar Forest is in Zebra Territory. Even though we conquered that area, I fear they may alert the Phantom Consortium of our presence there. We can’t allow that.” Darkbine said “But we have to get there!” “You’re right…” Cynder asked “How about we go in inside a shuttle?” Darkbine asked “What about the Nemesis?” “Trypticon, you are to remain cloaked from the world and stay in hiding. We will take the Rogue Shadow that I ‘borrowed’ from Meta.” Darkbine asked “What does it do?” “Cloaking, masks from detection.” Rarifruit said “Sounds good to me.” “Let’s get going…The sooner we are there, the better.” We all nod and began to head to the Rogue Shadow. Later… We were approaching the Border line of the Zebra Empire. When we passed it, we continued until there were beeping. Rarifruit asked, panicking “What does that mean?” Darkbine asked “Have we been detected?” “Negative. I’m detecting 3…Oh Celestia…” The ship began to tremble and we see 3 giant square ships past us, ignoring us. Rarifruit shouted in shock “Dear Celestia, what is THAT supposed to be!?” “Those are…Borg Cubes.” Darkbine said “Borg?” “Long story short, we used Borg Nanoprobes to infected the Zebras and they became like the Borg. Adjutant, my former left hoof henchman, is the queen of them.” I explained to them Darkbine said “I can see why you were worried…” “Yes. Borg Technology is too advance for even many other species here.” Rarifruit told me “I agree with you Danny, the sooner we get this done, the better.” I nodded and made the ship go faster to the location. We arrived to the entrance of Uproar Forest. “Let’s head inside but be at your guard. There may be wild creatures who were borgified as well.” We all nodded and went inside the forest. However, little did we know that some glowing eyes were already looking at us as we entered. Rarifruit whined “That forest is so dreadful…” “You told us that for the hundredth time…” I said, annoyed. We had gained little ground since we didn’t know anything about this forest. However, we stopped when we heard growling. Cynder said “Tell me I didn’t just hear that.” “Timber Wolves…” I activated my lightsabers, Cynder pulled out her pistol blasters, Darkbine morphed his right hoof into his shotgun, Rarifruit ready her magic, and Shadow readied his blades. “Come on out, you worthless sacks of branches!” We heard howling, they heard my insult. We see a giant pack of Timber Wolves come out, baring their teeth. We were surprise to see that weren’t borgified. They charged at us and we countered them. I cut them down with ease, Cynder blasted their twigs off, Darkbine shot them to a pile of broken wood, and both Rarifruit and Shadow cut them down, Rarifruit using a crystal blade. When we finished, we grinned but it was short lived when the pack leader came and roared at us. “I’ll handle this.” I held my ground and the Pack Leader roared at me again. “What a weak roar! THIS is a REAL ROAR!!!" I screamed out, but it wasn’t screaming at all. It was more like a wailing of a ghost, my traditional attack: The Ghostly Wail. The Wail hit the Pack Leader and began to tear him apart. When I finished, the pack leader was nothing but broken twigs and branches. “I’m the Alpha! No one dares to challenge me!!” I smirked in my victory and we pressed on. Rarifruit whispered to Darkbine “Remind me to never get on his bad side…” Darkbine chuckles at Rarifruit’s whisper. We began to press on, going deeper into the forest. Darkbine told us “I can sense the Element is close by…” We had made it to a rocky terrain, we were climbing. We eventually made it to the top and we see a giant cave. But we didn’t expect to see was that we saw a Ursa Major and a Ursa Minor. “Oh great, please tell me it isn’t in there.” Darkbine told me “Our bad luck because it is.” “Damn it! How are we going to deal with THAT!?!” I shouted. Cynder told me “Hey, we faced worse. Remember the Gorog?” “We could chain it! This is entirely different!” Cynder teased “Are you chickening out, Danny?” “Me…chicken?” Cynder replied “Why yes. You are so great and powerful, this makes it puny against you.” My eyes began to glow purple as my medallion began to spark with power. Cynder teased again “Why, I bet even Charming Thunder could beat it.” Darkbine agreed “I agree!” Rarifruit agreed too, not getting though “I third that!” “No…pony…calls…me…WEAK!!!" A purple beam shoots to the sky. The Ursa Major noticed it and began to growl. Then it sees me in my Dark Super form and could sense the evil radiating me. I growled back at it. “Bring it Pup!” I shouted in my demonic voice. I charged at it. The Major tried to claw at me but missed. I managed to appear in front of its face and I kicked it away, deeper into the cave. I growled and went after it, preparing to show it that I am the true alpha here. Darkbine and Rarifruit gulped. Darkbine said to them “Yeah, I’ll take up to that reminder.” Rarifruit reassured them “At least I’m not his enemy…” Cynder said “Come on, while Danny distracts it!” They nodded and they went to get to the element. I was now arm wrestling the Major now, for some odd reason. Even though it was bigger than me, I was holding my own. “Tell me again: why we are arm wrestling?” I asked curiously. The Major shrugged and I won the arm wrestling. “That was fun. Best two out of three?” I asked. The Major snarled and went to attack again. We went to attacking again. I managed to block the attacks that the Major made. I kicked it in the face, making the nose of the beast broken a bit. The Major went to strike me again but missed. I began to dance and the beast tried to hit me but it was missing. “Now this is just getting ridiculous.” I said, chuckling while break dancing. My dancing and dodging made the Major extremely angry and it kept trying it hit me. I stopped and made 8 clones and we drilled holes into the ground. I dismissed them and I began to stick my head out of 1 hole and the Major tried to hit me, but missed. I did it again and the Major missed. Again, again, and again and the Major kept missing. “Welcome to Whac-A-Mole, Fillies and Gentlecolts.” I shouted for no reason. I kept laughing like a maniac, enjoying this greatly while the Major was hitting where my head appeared, always missing. Darkbine had made the ritual circle. Rarifruit and Cynder came back with the Element of Ear-Rape. Darkbine performed the chanting and when he finished, the same results happened and a figure came to form. The figure looked a lot like Fluttershy but a bit different. She had the same coat as Fluttershy, but her mane was blood red, her tail was white. Her left eye was blue, right eye was blood red with some red marking around the eye. She wore the same Hat from Cat and the hat. Her Element was a butterfly that was Black with the jewel being half blue-green and the other half blood red. Also, her CM was Butterflies that was white that some loud speakers on them and some blood splats on it. She blinked and looked at Rarifruit. The Mare asked “Rarifruit?” Rarifruit said “Hello Fluttershout, glad to see you back in the land of the living.” Fluttershout said, angry “Where’s Discord? I want to scream so loud so that he will grow deaf and never hear music again!” Darkbine told her “Discord is later, but right now we have to help Danny! He could be in so much trouble!” “Go fish.” I said to the Major, holding my deck of cards. The Major draw a card from the deck. “Uh, do you have a tiger?” I asked. The Major gave me the card it had. It had 1 more card left. “Do you have…a…shark?” I guessed. The Major groaned in defeat and hand me the card. I cried out in victory. We then heard hoof steps and we see the others come along and were awe shock to see me play a game of “Go Fish” with the Ursa Major. “Aw, are we already finished with busy? Sorry Major, but we have to get going. Hopefully, I’ll be able to come back and we can continue to play “Go Fish” or we could play poker.” I told the Ursa Major We left the cave and the Major waved us goodbye. I couldn’t help but smile and laugh as we left, leaving the others in awe shock.