“Sweet Cheeks really has a great singing voice on par with Angels.” It choked Bonnie up slightly to hear her sing another variation of that song.
“Yeah, that voice is beautiful.” Fu didn’t think hitting on the four legged creature now would be a good idea on his part.
Shush was looking between Bonnie and Fluttershy curiously, she had let the seagull go so that it could go on its way; instead it had landed on her head making her happy that the bird decided to stick around for a while. She no longer felt any mystical compulsion telling her what to do, so was more interested in her cousin big sister was doing than just blindly wandering off at the moment. Her attention span was still not that great, but at the moment she could focus it somewhat.
“There now, feeling better?” Fluttershy nuzzled Jack’s face and had managed to calm him down.
“Yeah, I guess.” Jack grumbled while crossing his arms and moving into a more comfortable sitting position.
“So what do these Shen Gong Wu do? I’m not even sure what I had that counts as a Shen Gong Wu, all I know is that they are magical in nature.” Out of the things that have happened with the hour they exited the Head Hunter, this was one of the things Fluttershy was most curious about.
“Monkey Staff, primarily instantly gives you agility of a monkey and slowly grants you the attributes of one to go along with it the longer you wield and use its power. As a side effect it also apparently grants you an instinctive mastery of Tai Shing Pek Kwar otherwise known as Monkey Kung Fu and the ability to speak to and understand monkeys. It’s my favorite Sheng Gong Wu.” It was curious to Jack as to why the strange mystical creature before him wasn’t slowly turning into a monkey, but he wrote it off as her not actively using the Monkey Staff. “As for the Lunar Locket, it allows you to control the phases of the moon and move it around some. You can’t really do much with it without destroying the planet and I rather like living here. Probably could have used it to hold the world hostage or something.”
Fluttershy’s ears went straight down at hearing that she now was wearing something that gave her the ability to do the approximation of Luna’s job back home. This planet didn’t even need something like the Lunar Locket as the moon was in a natural orbit. Bonnie had gone over some things with her about the planet she would be visiting.
After a moment Fluttershy’s suit retreated into backpack form and she held it off to the side in her right hoof. The translation device around her neck under the Lunar Locket was now clearly visible, but Jack didn’t really say anything about it. She was looking at Jack because she had a sneaking suspicion as to what the Shen Gong Wu she had was.
“You can detect Shen Gong Wu right? Can you please tell me what your scanner says about this?” Asking nicely if what she thought to be true wasn’t hard, what was hard for Fluttershy was accepting the gift she got back on Rhizome might have drawn undue attention.
“Oh sure, hold on a second.” Looking at the watch on his wrist, Jack slowly scanned the third object that Fluttershy was holding out. “Yep, that has a signal similar to a real Shen Gong Wu, it’s not one but it is really pretty darn close. What does that suit do anyway?”
“Oh it wraps the user in a protective skin which can regenerate if damaged; it can fly and allow you to breathe underwater and in outer space. It slowly produces pods that create disabling vines that don’t do any permanent harm anyone; the pods can also be eaten. It’s really made around helping the wearer survive just about anything.” Having said that Fluttershy quickly put the suit back on and it wrapped around her body, but the helmet portion didn’t go up as she preferred some fresh air to the recycled clean air the suit provided. “I got it from Rhizome.”
“It may not be a Shen Gong Wu, but its close enough to count as one to start a showdown. You said it was from a place called Rhizome huh? Like the term for horizontal growing roots? Let’s call it ‘Rhizome Wrappings’ then if anyone asks what Wu it is, because of the multiple vines that wrap around the user of the suit.” Jack had been pretty proud of himself for coming up with a name for something that could pass as a Shen Gong Wu. He stood tall with his eyes closed with his arms crossed until he felt something pressing up against him, opening his eyes and looking down he saw that Fluttershy was poking him with the Monkey Staff. After getting his attention she held the Monkey Staff out to him and looking up at him innocently. “Huh? You’re just going to give this back to me?”
“Yes I would have given it back anyway, but if you don’t mind I would like to ask that you give me a ten second head start and to leave my friends alone.” It didn’t take Fluttershy long to notice a pattern in her life of space travel. After all she and her friends were still surrounded by an army of robots, ones obviously being used as tools by Jack in the usual violent manner that the pony has come to associate with the presence of robots. Fluttershy continued on shyly pawing at the wooden boards beneath her once more plant covered hooves. “Well if that is alright with you that I ask that small favor. I just wanted to give back what belongs with you as I don’t need it, it’s obviously very important to you.”
“Thanks, you have no idea how much that means to me… okay, get going! One Shen Gong Wu, Two Shen Gong Wu…” Jack was going to attack Fluttershy and her friends with his Jack Bots, even after she helped him with his emotional breakdown as he was supposed to be evil. After getting his favorite Shen Gong Wu back he hugged it to his chest happily as he counted down. This prompted Fluttershy to sprout wings from her suit and shoot off towards New York City where she would look for a place to hide, she did not want to be stuck out in the open in case they had energy weapons. “Ten Shen Gong Wu, Jack Bots attack her! Just don’t do her any permanent harm though okay?”
Jack had leapt into the air and went into a hover with his helicopter backpack while pointing at the green, yellow and pink streak in the distance. All his Jack Bots shot off after Fluttershy and he followed behind them about as fast as he could go.
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“Aren’t you guys going to help her?” Fu asked to the three who just watched as Jack took to the skies after his speedier machines.
“Yeah, I think Fluttershy has a running gag going on with robots. She can take care of herself until help arrives. Cobra watch Shush until I get back with a friend of ours, pairing them together might help keep them from being ditzy or it might destroy the big apple. I hardly care at this point.” Bonnie went back down the pier and climbed down the ladder, she was going to let Roller out of the Head Hunter.
“Ih, cousin has Boojiboo!” Shush said childishly to Cobra while giggling, the seagull on her head had taken off to look for food as he was hungry. Shush frowned after the bird, but then smiled as she didn’t own the seagull so she shouldn’t try to keep it with her if he didn’t want to be with her. After a moment of actually thinking, Shush realized that something was wrong as Bonnie was never seen without a certain someone. “Where’s other cousin?”
Cobra didn’t have the heart to tell Shush about what was going on with Clyde; it was apparently a very depressing thing for experiments and Jumba had warned him not to say anything about it. He liked his partner despite her general problem of wandering off or being really silly. He didn’t want to depress Shush with the news unless she could handle it and he knew she certainly couldn’t. With her destructive powers, he decided it was best to stay silent on the matter.
“Yeah I can tell New York is already in for it, I’m calling my boy in to deal with this as my gut feeling is only getting worse.” Pulling out his Cell phone once more, Fu Dog decided that things were getting too out of paw and that it was time for Jake to get the lead out of his pants.
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Fluttershy shot high into the air towards city on her fake wings and the help of biological jetpack pushing her through the skies of New York City. Looking behind her she could already see the robots giving chase and she flew lower towards the city when it was known that they too had energy weapons. Blue beams shot past Fluttershy as she rolled into a dive towards the late morning streets of the city, once again dealing with killer robots. At this point it shouldn’t surprise anyone that Fluttershy was highly frustrated with being attacked by robots again.
Shooting straight towards the streets, with a twirl she leveled out and started to juke between the commuting cars with blast of energy chasing her tail and striking the streets around her. The pony swerved into an alleyway and rolled so that her head and hooves were facing the narrow walls. She came out the other side of the alleyway hearing explosions behind her as three Jack Bots had crumpled themselves trying to chase her into the narrow passageway.
It was rather apparent that Fluttershy had a speed advantage as the jetpack she wore was made with the express purpose of keeping up with Star Commands finest. She was able to outmaneuver a pack of five Jack Bots by flying around the corner where she stopped, then threw a pod grenade where the five Jack Bots were going to be. It destroyed them in a tangle of destructive glowing vines. She hadn’t liked that they were hitting her surroundings where they might have hurt someone. She had to find a quieter place to run to or else someone was bound to get hurt.
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On a rooftop a woman in black and green jumpsuit was tossing a computer chip up in the air, she still had it in her even after all this time. She still wasn’t sure what those guys were going to use it for, but she didn’t like the idea of it falling into their hands. It had been so easy too; there hadn’t a single complication at all.
Of course the minute she thought that a pink, green and yellow blob shot by taking the chip with it after she tossed it up in the air. The woman just stood there with a surprised look on her face. After her perfect daylight robbery went off without a hitch the chip just gets stolen from her, her of all people!
Leaping off the roof the pale skinned woman with the long black hair used her clawed gloves on the walls to slide down to her motorcycle, whoever that was wasn’t going to get away with stealing what she just stole!
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“So you are who he is after, Wings of Tinabi!” The deep sounding voice was the only warning Fluttershy got after she finished stashing away the strange piece of metal she had found in her mouth after flying too close to a roof with more Jack Bots on her tail.
There was a sharp pain in Fluttershy’s left shoulder that sent her spiraling towards the streets and she saw her suits left fake wing falling through the air away from her. She hit the top of an eighteen wheeler and bounced once with a grunt, before coming to a stop when her suit clung to the truck the next time she landed sending a shock throughout her body as it attempted to bounce again. Rolling onto her hooves she gave of a yelp of pain while bringing up her right hoof up to her left shoulder, she saw a lot of blood when she pulled it back. She looked to her left shoulder and there was a huge gash in it.
Looking up from her shoulder and damaged suit Fluttershy saw a colorful rainbow swinging around and back towards her, for a second she thought it might have been Rainbow Dash. Hanging from this strange thing spewing rainbows was a large round human in dark ninja gear and he was wielding a sharp sword that was covered slightly in her blood.
Fluttershy felt the heat of a blast of energy striking just behind her and she looked over her shoulder at the Jack Bots and then back to what looked to the human being using a strange object to fly. She prepared herself for the incoming human who had a flying rainbow streak held in his left hand while he was wielding a sword in his right.
Once the flying human got close enough Fluttershy rolled to her left despite the agony it put on her shoulder, during her roll she kicked out a pod grenade from her right hind hoof as the trailers roof was being gouged out by the absurdly sharp weapon. Seconds after his passing the man was close enough to three Jack Bots that were currently shooting up the truck when the pod grenade that went into the folds between his belly and clothes finally went off entangling him and the Jack Bots.
The flying tubby masked ninja let out a howl of pain when the vines engulfing him erupted in a flash of red energy and caused the robots to explode hitting him with shrapnel. After a moment of faltering in the air he then started fly up after having narrowly avoided smashing directly into the ground.
Frowning as he was swerving around for another go at her having not been stopped by the pod grenade, Fluttershy willed the left wing of her suit to grow back faster. After a moment the end of her cut off fake wing started bubbling and out popped a newly grown wing, she immediately took to the air barely avoided getting slashed up again by the rather heavyset looking human. Looking back at him, she saw he was able to keep up with her unlike the Jack Bots, she also saw the large smear of red on the top of the vehicle she left behind.
The pony was looking around for a place to take cover, looking off to the side of a street she saw a forest and blinked. Why was there a forest in the middle of the city? Shooting higher into the air she saw a rectangle of woodlands and several bodies of water in the middle of the city, it reminded her of Manehattans Central Park. She swerved out of the way of getting cut in half by the tubby man and something went wrong as she heard a sputtering noised.
Looking over her left shoulder, which the suit grew over to staunch the bleeding, Fluttershy’s heart leapt into her throat as she saw a slash through the exhaust plant sprouting out of the back of her suit. She also noticed she was losing speed and altitude; she was stuck gliding for now until her suit could repair the damage. She performed sharp roll to the right putting her on a course straight towards the tree filled park, with the tubby man nicking both her back legs at the hock.
Fluttershy dove under another sword swing that might have taken off her head and straight for the tree’s, she lifted up and started flapping the fake wings to keep her height as she started flicking through the tree’s with the screaming bulgy ninja guy still on her tail. After a moment avoiding more of his swift sword attacks, the pudgy man got stuck between two trees and Fluttershy smiled as she dropped to the ground and started galloping along the pathway despite the stress it put on her three injured legs.
Several Jack Bots appeared and tried to grapple her with their arms that popped out of the nubs at the sides of their bodies, she rolled between two of them and kept running as fast as she could. She looked for tree’s to hide in as she galloped, only to find herself surrounded by twenty Jack Bots before she could find a good place to hide in. She had been cornered into a copse of trees with no way out.
“Hah got you now, be prepared to hoof over the Lunar Locket to me!” Jack said as he took a pose as he hovered in the air.
“Monkey ninjas attack!” A man in a tree was pointed a finger at Jack Spicer and he was caught flatfooted when a ton of masked monkeys swarmed out of the tree’s attacking his Jack Bots. He leapt out of the tree and started charging straight for Jack. “Hand over that staff boy!”
“What? You’re not getting your hands on my Monkey Staff!” Jack shouted and knocked away several monkeys with a swift twirl of his staff. “Jack Bots defend me!”
Fluttershy had no idea what was going on anymore, but she was generally okay with it since Jack and the man with what looked like monkey hands and feet were busy with each other. She tried to slink away from the fighting robots and monkeys, only for her to be grasped around the neck roughly and was promptly slammed bodily back first into a tree. It was as if things weren’t exacerbating her shoulder and leg wounds enough already.
“Okay, I’m only going to say this once and I’m being nice here. Hand over the chip!” Whoever this woman was, she was scary. Her right hand was threateningly glowing green with energy while she was choking Fluttershy with her left.
“Why is it always monkeys?!” A male scream came off from the side. Both Fluttershy and the woman with threatening countenance with looked towards Jack Spicer, the man with monkey attributes and now a blonde guy all fighting a vicious three way hand to hand battle. Only Jack Spicer had a small edge in the battle with his tail wielding the monkey staff.
“Just great, the buffoon is here. If he’s here then…” The woman trailed off before she dropped Fluttershy and rolled out of the way of a flying kick, leaving Fluttershy to catch her breath. “Then my cupcake isn’t too far behind.”
“Do I even want to ask what’s going on here Shego?” The red head that had just liberated Fluttershy took a battle stance. “I have to wonder if you’re the reason everything in New York has recently gone insane. Also there’s something about a stolen computer chip that I’d like to ask you about.”
“Look Pumpkin, I was kind of in the middle of something really important here.” The woman in the black and green jumpsuit held up her hands in a non threatening manner.
“Yes, very important because you were choking… whatever that poor adorable looking thing is! I can only guess that DN Amy is around too.” The so called Pumpkin pointed at Fluttershy and then sent a pointed stare to the one she called Shego while taking an aggressive stance.
“Um… I’ll just be going now… I’m sure everything will work itself out just fine without me around.” Fluttershy slowly started slinking away again until she felt something grab on to her tail.
“Oh no you don’t, you’re not getting away that easily!” The woman called Shego yanked Fluttershy into air and then pulled her into a full bodied hold, she held glowing clawed glove up to Fluttershy’s cheek. “Look as I was saying… wow, I’m not really building a case for myself here by taking a hostage am I. This little… what are you?”
“My name is Fluttershy and I’m a pony.” It was bad enough Fluttershy had to deal with her shoulder and leg wounds with the toxins still in her blood that enhances her sensitivity to pain from any injury. She knew that a normal pony would have been catatonic by this point from the trauma alone. “Please don’t hurt me.”
“It’s okay; I’m not going to hurt you any more than I need to. Just give me back the chip you took!” Shego received a dumb questioning look from the pony. “It’s the small thing made of plastic and metal. You should know what it is; you took it when you flew right by me.”
“Oh… that thing that flew into my mouth, of course I’ll give it to you. Can you please let me down now?” As soon as she was on the ground Fluttershy dug into her right hoof saddlebag and pulled out the chip and held it out to Shego. The green and black clad human grumpily snatched it out of Fluttershy’s hoof causing her to shy away from the frightening woman.
“Thank you. Now run along back whatever kind of sappy cutesy thing it is you…” Shego dove into Fluttershy rolling her out of the way of a sword that flashed by. Her jumpsuit took a small bit of damage and that really cheesed her off. She saw that Kim had also dove out of the way of flying fat guy with the sword and she looked to be surprised to see Shego save Fluttershy. Now the super powered woman hands were lit ablaze as she stood up and she was glaring at the hovering sumo ninja. “You wouldn’t happen to be related to a sumo ninja me old boss Drakken hired a long while ago would you? So who are you and what’s the big deal with trying to kill small, meek and pathetic here?”
“I am Tubbimura and she has Shen Gong Wu, I will slay her and take it as my own.” The large guy side as he dropped to the ground with a loud thud, creating a shockwave from all his blubber shaking as he landed.
“Now that’s where we’re going to have a big disagreement.” Shego growled and got ready to fight Tubbimura the sumo ninja. “Hey princess, make sure this pony gets to safety while I deal with fatso here.”
Seconds ago this Shego was treating her roughly, but now she’s protecting her? Fluttershy was highly confused, as if everything else going on wasn’t confusing enough already.