When Lightning Strikes- To Canterlot… and Nightmareland
Next Morning
The air was cool as Lance opened his eyes again. He found himself inside the same place where he fell asleep. But for some reason, he felt like something happened. Rising quickly from the bed without making any noise, Lance paced himself slowly towards the door and drew out his pistol. Looking through the window though, he had a glimpse of what was going on.
“What the hell?”
There were cracks throughout the sky. In each seemed to be a different place. Some looked destroyed, with a dark, horrid nature to them. Others, seemed to be peaceful and quaint like this one, or less mid evil like Lance’s.
“Oh, you’re awake!” Toxin/Pinkie said at the doorway. “Venom wanted to see you when you woke up. Something’s got them spooked.”
“I think I know why. Look…” Lance told the earth pony, pointing to what was going on outside.
They looked, but their face didn’t seem to change. “See what? I see some weird red stuff in the sky, but other than that, everything’s fine.”
“Was that there before?” Lance asked, putting on his coat and getting his equipment.
“The red? It was there since… midnight last night. Venom seemed extremely freaked, and started pulling books and went outside. They’re in the backyard.”
“You guys have a backyard?”
“I know, I didn’t know library’s had backyards either! You learn things everyday. We asked Venom since when, and they said Spike and Twilight built it after we beat Nightmare Moon.”
Lance thanked Toxin and then stepped outside, surprised to see Lee and Twilight. They were sat in front of another one of those cracks, this one right on the ground, facing up. They were mumbling something incoherent.
“Um… You needed to see me?” Lance said, trying to sound simple, but get to the point.
Venom jumped, “Ah! Oh, it’s you Lance… Sorry, we were up all night studying this phenomenon. Can you see it?”
“Yeah… Something tells me that this is bad. What do you see?” He asked. “Pinkie only saw them as red cracks.”
“We see worlds… Worlds like Equestria, but not the same Equestria. They exist, but it seems only you and I can see it. Toxin can see red, but when he leaves Pinkie, Pinkie can’t see anything. Ponyville doesn’t seem to notice it either.” Venom stood up, and shot a web at the portal. It didn’t go through. “They seem to be some kind of… looking glass to other Equestria’s. I’ve even seen some Displaced, though it seems one way.”
Lance had a look at them again, then he recognized a few. Freddy’s world. Maretropolis. Max’s world. There were a bunch of them in the mix. However, he then felt something. Like a cold chill went down his spine. “Somethings not right about this.”
“Wow, great deduction Sherlock. This could either mean nothing, and pass by as a natural phenomenon, or stay, and conti-.”
“No, I don’t mean that… Did I tell you that I can sense the energy radiating inside each being in the world, including Displaced?”
“Being part Lee, we would have ignored whatever you said about your powers. It doesn't suit us about knowing every detail about every Displaced we come across… But no, you didn’t tell us.”
“Well, I can. Last night, I only felt you, Solaria, Lumen, Pinkie and Myself. Now…… There’s five times the amount of Displaced then last night.”
“What!? Five time!? How is that even possible!? There can’t be that many, or that few if you’re sensing all across the multiverse! Can you sense who they are?”
“No… Only a couple I’m familiar with. But right now, I can’t tell how many. And I’m talking about right here in this present moment on this world… Um… Guys…” Lance said, looking up at a cloud above them. “Remember last night when Sunset could feel Pinkie and Toxin?”
“Yes? We remember… Why?” Venom asked.
“Well… Besides her and you… There’s one above us.” Lance retorted, gun and blade at the ready.
Venom summoned two pistols from their storage space, and pointed up, only to be rammed by a red and black pegasus.
The two pony symbiotes slammed into the fence, sending them into a house not too far from the library. Lance was quick to react as he saw the one he thought to be Carnage try to pin down Twilight and used his left hand to fire a Ki blast at the Symbiotes face. Which exploded on contact and gave the Unicorn a change to move.
Venom took that chance to buck the murderous creature in the gut. Carnage went flying, but not before another symbiote came through a wall, it’s yellow hair lunging at Venom. Scream held Twilight and Lee in a choking hold.
“Twilight!!” Lance tried to call out, trying to aim his weapons at the hair and fired out three shots from his Orochi clip before using his Flashfield to load watts of electricity into the symbiote.
Scream… Well, screamed. And recoiled from the attack. But Venom turn offensive. The duo summoned their Scythe, and webbed the side of the handle. They slashed Scream, causing her to shriek in anger, but Venom didn’t give it time to recover, as they whipped the Scythe around their head and ramming Scream on the side of her head again and again. Scream grabbed the Scythe, only for Venom to pull back the web, and disconnect it. The web whipped the newest symbiote in the face, and as Scream fell off the building, Venom webbed the Scythe once more and pulled it to them.
Carnage recovered in the air, and shrieked in anger. In Lance’s mind, he remembered when he sent out high pitched sound waves with his fingers to reveal Twilight when she came to Maretropolis. Now, he wondered if the same method could somehow work here. Holding his hands, he prepared his right hand like it was a finger gun and began to charge some energy.
“I got an idea, but I need you to buy me some time!” He told Venom, looking back at her.
Venom nodded, but Scream jumped them, the two tumbling through the house. Carnage looked as if they were about to run off, when a red and black web wrapped around Carnage’s leg, and pulled the mare down.
Lance looked to his side to see Toxin, holding the other end of the web. “I’mma comin ta get’cha!” Toxin then pulled a flailing Carnage with the web into the side of a building. Toxin’s right for leg turned into a sharp, slightly curved blade. They ran at the dazed Symbiote and host, ready to attack. Carnage saw this coming, and created a blade of their own. The four clashed, and Lance swore he heard star wars music.
“Toxin, try holding Carnage down with your webs! I don’t want you to get hit by my next attack!!” He yelled so Toxin could hear him.
Toxin nodded, never looking away from Carnage. They jumped backwards, which ended up backflipping a buck into the red symbiote, and landed on the side of a building. Carnage was too dazed to do much more, and Toxin webbed them up as much as they could. “That won’t hold them for long!”
“Okay, COVER YOUR EARS!” With that, Lance released the wave of high pitched sound from his fingers as it drove towards Carnage and hit them dead on. The Symbiote screamed in pain as it dropped down to it’s hooves.
“D-did that work?” He asked, looking at Toxin.
Toxin looked dizzy, and shook their head to clear up the haze.
Where Carnage once was, now lay Rainbow Dash with her eyes closed. Fresh scratches and bruises scattered her body. Toxin’s mask moved away from the party mares face, “Dashie!”
“Pinkie, wait!” Lance tried to tell her beforehand. He still remembered that they had to deal with Scream.
Pinkie ran as fast as she could to check on her friend, but as she got closer, Scream smashed through a wall, the intent to kill on her face. Pinkie tried to stop, but it was too late as Scream impaled Pinkie with one of her hairs.
Dash seemed to have woken up at that split second, and rage filled her features. The red symbiote went over her again, and she screamed like an animal, taking the yellow symbiote.
Lance’s first instinct was to rush to Toxin. He was worried about Pinkie. The Adept was trying to find something in order to help her and scrambled through his pockets in order to try and find something to stop the bleeding. Then, he remembered something… Something from the first Displaced he met.
From Blood Cleaver.
Going back into his pocket, he took out the Senzu bean that she gave him and held it out to her. “Pinkie, I’m trying to help. Please, eat this.”
Pinkie coughed up blood, “This… Isn’t… Very… Fun…” She tried to eat it, but couldn’t reach it. Lance lowered his hand a little to the ponies mouth, trying to help her chew and swallow the bean so it’s healing effects could take route.
Meanwhile, Carnage was blindly attacking Scream screaming furiously and desperately. Scream just dodged each attack with ease, smirking all the while.
“Wow Carnage, you sure do have a soft spot for the loud mouth… Oh, was she your friend? We’re sorry, we should’ve killed her more slowly. We are the Great and Powerful Scream!” Just as Scream said that, Carnage got a hit in. She had cut the side of Scream, and bucked the yellow boast with one hind leg.
Scream yelped, and backed off. Venom came out of the building, and the two Symbiotes circled the Unicorn.
“Did you say great and powerful? Trixie!?” Venom’s eyes widened. “You’re Scream!?”
“Great and Powerful? Look’s more like a great bitch to me!” Carnage growled.
Scream backed up, fear written over her face. She turned, and used webs to try and get away. Both Venom and Carnage glared at Scream, and they both tried going after the web haired psycho show-off. But Scream saw this coming, and shot a beam of magic at a building, causing it to collapse. Carnage was caught, and Venom had to save a little filly inside the house.
Carnage finally got out from under the rubble, and flew off. Venom pulled the filly to safety as Rainbow got away.
“Lance! Is Pinkie ok!?”
Lance gave a nod, setting her down in the backyard on a table. “She’ll be fine. She just needs rest though. What happened though that cause this was beyond me.”
Venom teleported next to Lance, “What? The hair?”
“No, before that. Everything was going fine until the Symbiote from Carnage revealed the host. For a moment, Pinkie lowered her guard down to rush to her and that’s when Scream hit her. After that happened, Carnage woke up and went at Scream. Pinkie looked like she knew who was the host though.” Lance sighed a little. The next part he said rocked Twilight’s world.
“She called her Dashie.”
“Rainbow Dash! Drats! We knew we recognized that voice!”
“I noticed something else too… It seems like your Rainbow has control over Carnage, but it’s greatly affected by her emotional state. Hence, her going after Scream after she hurt Pinkie.”
Venom paused, “Oh… oh, oh, oh! Of course! Symbiote’s don’t take full control of their hosts! They twist the desire into something of the parasite’s desire. I forgot since I changed how my bond works! It should be the same with the other hosts! Rainbow was mad since Pinkie was hurt, Trixie wants revenge because Twilight beat an Ursa Minor- non-violently, we might add.”
“That make me wonder some things… One, Why Venom chose you and Toxin chose Pinkie. And Two… Who else might be possibly hosts depending on this new information… Remember the pony who was killed in ponyville?” Lance asked, recalling last night.
“Well, most Klyntar don’t care much about their hosts other than a few key things. Lee chose Twilight because of three reasons… First, because she used to talk to him during his imprisonment in stone. Second is because he was weak, and had nopony else around. And third, because of her magical talent.” Venom scratched their head. “I guess for Pinkie, it was because of her childlike nature, and she was in the right -or wrong, depending on your perspective- place at the right time… It’s just whatever the Symbiote wants, or can get.”
Lance understood that. But then, something else came into his mind. “Alright… This might sound weird to ask, but the pony who was killed… Bon Bon right? Did she have anyone that she considered as friends or family that lived here in Ponyville?”
“Well, there’s Lyra, her adopted sister. The two were adopted by the same family. But Lyra seems fine.”
“Don’t you think though that if somepony was mourning for the death of a family member that they somehow lower their defenses to let anything in to help the grieving process?” The Adept cleared his throat. “Think about Rainbow and Trixie for a minute. Rainbow was affected by Anger and Trixie wanted revenge above all else because of her pride… Do you think that Lyra could be vulnerable because of the amount of sorrow she might be facing?”
Lance’s theory was that for the other symbiotes, they were triggered based on emotions. Possibly negative. He paused a minute, letting Venom be able to process their train of thought.
Finally, “We think you’re right, but we can’t just barge into her house and demand that she give an addictive monster that gives her the power to absorb weapons. Think of what an angry, grieving pony with your gun could do.”
“I’m not saying that we would do that. Vigilantes are formed when people believe they could take the law into their own hands. Plus, I can only use my gun. Anypony else tries to use it and it won’t work.” He sighed. “Something tells me though that we caused a lot of attention. Would Princess Celestia need an explanation for why all of this happened?”
Venom growled, “Princess Celestia doesn’t care what happens. All we have to do is write to her that it’s taken care of. Reason four of why Lee chose Twilight as a host is that Twilight is trusted by the Princess. Hiding in plain sight, and being able to tell her that ‘everything’s fine’ comes in handy… The towns ponies should be arriving to see what’s going on. I’ll take care of them, while you get Solaria and Pinkie to the train station.”
“Where do we go from there?” Lance asked, Pinkie up Pinkie just as Solaria came trotting out.
“What the buck happened-!?!”
“No time to explain now, we’ll talk later.”
“I’ll distract them, and you’ll buy a ticket to Canterlot. I’ll meet you there.” Venom turned, and slingshot themselves in the opposite direction from the train station. Lance nodded as the two of them hurried and made it over to the train station. They were able to get a ticket to Canterlot and get onboard the train in a first class room before the train left the station. Moments after they were off, Pinkie was beginning to wake up.
“L-lancie…”
“Easy there Pinkie… You’ve been through a lot.” The Adept calmed the mare as she sat next to him. “How do you feel?”
“Like I just ate... Tartarus. My chest hurts…” Pinkie said through pants. “I thought I’d never breath again…”
“Easy there. Just relax… I gave you a Senzu bean. Let it sit in a couple of minutes and you should feel better soon.” He told her. “How’s Toxin?”
“He’s in my bloodstream… He was freaking out because he thought I was going to die... and now he’s resting…”
Everyone in the cabin sighed with relief as Solaria spoke. “Well, it’s good to see that you are okay. On the off chance though, should we take you to a hospital?”
Pinkie giggled softly, “No silly… I’m fine, and if I did go, they’d take Toxin out of me… and I don’t think he wants to leave…”
“Good point.” Solaria replied. “Sorry about not realizing that sooner.”
“S’okay… I’m new to this too… I’d say the same thing… in your position Sunny…”
“Well, now that still leaves us with a lot of things to deal with at this rate.” Lance said. “First, there’s Scream and whatever other symbiote that might try and attack us. Second is the cracks in the sky. Pinkie, you can’t tell what they are, but Twilight tells me that it’s because you haven’t traveled to other worlds with Toxin yet.”
“Worlds?” Sunset questioned, only to realize something. “Oh boy…”
“Solaria? What’s wrong?”
“There was this colt I ran into last night after you fell asleep. His name was Killjoy and… well, he said something about wanting to make this world whole…”
Pinkie was about to ask, when everyone heard a knock. Outside, Twilight was glaring inside at Lance.
“Hey, Pinkie just woke up.” Lance briefly told her. “Come on in.”
Twilight face-hoofed, and responded muffled, “I don’t have any bits, and I need a ticket…”
“Oh, I already got myself an extra one for you. Lumen is in my coat pocket, so she counts as luggage.” That’s when Lumen emerged from the coat and glared at him while he slipped it through the window after opening it, and gave Twilight the extra ticket.
“I am NOT a piece of Luggage!!”
“Not with that attitude you aren’t.”
After a minute, Twilight sat down next to Sunset with blood covering her face that wasn’t there before she entered the train.
“What happened?” Lance asked. “Hit your face against a door?”
“For your information,” Twilight snapped, “The conductor was checking me out, then tried coming onto me… I bit his ear off.”
“Ouch… Teaches him not to mess with you again.” Lance said, getting a cloth out of his jacket for Twilight’s face. “Now, Sunset was saying something that might relate to what’s going on with the cracks we’ve seen.”
“A colt I ran into last night named Killjoy was saying about how he personally wanted the worlds to be whole. As in no Multiverse… Something tells me that the cracks have happened because of something he did and now… a bunch of other worlds might be combined into one.”
“Well, that must be why you guys are here. I’ll try and locate this… Killjoy, so we can kick his butt to fix these cracks-” Twilight was cut off by Pinkie though as soon as she heard the Unicorn try to place a heavy load of responsibility on herself. Laughing.
“Hahahahah! Cracks! *Snort* Like butt cracks! Hahahahahah!” Pinkie then turned serious, “Who could be called Killjoy… That isn’t a nice name…”
“Well, whatever it is, we’ll have to find him. But first, we should get some rest. It looks like the two of you have been through a lot after what happened with Scream in Ponyville.” The Adept told them, motioning to both Pinkie and Twilight while she was holding the cloth Lance gave her. “Which reminds me… anything new from Fluttershy?”
Pinkie fell asleep in an instant, but Twilight didn’t seemed fazed, “Yes, she had to sleep in an alleyway last night. She couldn’t afford a place, and the Royal Guard didn’t seem to recognize her as the Element of Kindness… Shows you what the Princess thinks of us…”
“Hey now… You don’t need to be like that. Maybe the guard was a new recruit and didn’t know who she was.” Lance said. “Let’s not point the finger- I mean hoof, at anypony just yet.”
Twilight quietly growled, letting some of her mane flop over her right eye. “Lee was imprisoned because of her… I just don’t know what to think…”
“Maybe it wasn’t Lee, but the host that Lee chose. Anything can make a mistake Twilight.”
Twilight sighed, “Okay… But I’m not sleeping. I’ve got to work on something. Mind helping me?”
“Sure I guess. What do you have in mind?”
“I’ve been thinking about how the Symbiotes seem to be able to sense other Symbiotes. Lee said he sensed Carnage, and Scream, but he was unfamiliar with the feeling since he was the only one of his kind in Equestria until the first Shadow attacked and forced him to… breed… I don’t even want to know how it happened… Anyway, if I can figure out how to use this power better, I could sense them before they attack. But first, I need you to stop that stones power from draining magic. I’ll handle it from there.”
“Hold on a sec… You said that the Shadow forced Lee to…… Breed?” Lance was a little surprised by the statement when she said that.
“Yes, and he’s hating every word out of my mouth about it. It’s a thing Klyntar can do.”
“Well, I think I found out something… You ever had that feeling when you know that someone you know in your family is nearby like a brother, sister or even parents?”
“When I was around my BBBFF, yes… I mean brother… Stop calling me that!” Twilight mumbled the last part.
“And think that, but then think about when Lee sensed Carnage and Scream… Don’t you think that’s familiar?” The Adept had an idea of where this was going. He was a quick and excellent problem solver and can recognize certain connections in minutes.
“Yes, now get to the point… But if you’re going to say he can sense family, you’re even dumber than you look. It’s an ability.”
“No, I’m not. I’m saying that he could sense them because he made them. Carnage and the other Symbiote are his children and he is the father. That’s why he could sense them. Because they are family. He’s a father… Like me…”
Twilight growled, “It’s an ability… All Klyntar can sense their own kind. He wouldn’t be able to sense Anti-Venom because he’s not a Symbiote. They can sense him too.”
“Right… What about the material though? You said Anti-Venom isn’t a Symbiote. Why is that?”
“The Shadow took a genetic… Let me phrase this so you can understand… It took the genetic start-up, and memories from Lee to create the perfect killing machines… Too good… It created perfect replicas of the beings in the comic books back on earth. Carnage, the serial killer, Anti-Venom, the clone, Toxin, the heroic misfit, Scorn, the cyborg Klyntar, Hybrid, the unstable four Symbiotes who merged into one to survive, and Scream, the psychotic killer of Hybrid’s former hosts. From what Lee told me last week, a Displaced named Jeffrey faced off against Hybrid while Lee was weak. Jeffrey won, and took Hybrid as a prize. The others abandoned the Shadow, and Lee got rid of the Shadow by sending it into a world without magic… I’ve had some time with Lee.”
“Wow… that’s quite a story. So… if Jeffrey has Hybrid, Pinkie has Toxin, Rainbow has Carnage, Trixie has Scream… Then-.” Lance lost focus as he dropped a photograph that fell out of his coat towards Twilight and Lee.
“Who’re those?” Twilight asked more softly as she levitated the photo towards her. Lance sighed to himself, before answering her question.
“The fillies and foal in the photo… are my kids. Light Sweet, Golden Spark, Lucky, and Rainbow Dash. The girl that’s in there next to me… She’s my fiancee. We’re getting married in a few months.”
Black slime jumped off of Twilight, and formed into a black Spiderman. “Dude, I think I saw her last night… I almost had a bloody nose…”
“You saw Max?”
“Through a crack… Jeez she doesn’t mind taking her clothes off… In front of everyone…”
“When did you see her?” Lance then asked.
“I said last night… Girl stripped in front of two guys… outside no less… One of them was pale with a white trench coat. Looked cool...”
“Well, we do have an ‘open’ relationship.” Lance said, the term confusing Twilight.
“Is nothing sacred!? I’ve been in one relationship, and look how that turned out!”
“Basically, open relationships a-”
“I know what it means lover boy… I just don’t see how it could work…”
“Maybe that’s because you get jealous all the time.” A smooth voice spoke. “Message delivered. Oh, and might I say, your future wife is… unique…”
“Tell me about it,” Lance sighed. “She is pregnant with our son after all.” It only took Lance a few moments to realize that Lee wasn’t the one talking during then, but instead a different person.
Time Spinner walked out of his shady little corner. Lee seemed to recoil and jump onto Twilight. “She kept ruining my conversation by punching me, and throwing me around. Then coming onto me. Oh, I do so hate it when you humans over react.”
“Right… You might want to introduce yourself to Lee and Twilight before they start to think you’re the enemy.”
“Right! I’m Time Spinner, your Displacer.” Time said with a mock bow. “I’m also the one who sold Lee that Scythe…”
“So you’re the one who sent Lee here!? You took him away from his home!” Venom snapped.
“Venom, wait-.” Lance tried to say. Before he could though, he was thrown into the back of the cabin.
“We don’t care! He took everything from us!” Venom was about to attack, when Time Spinner flicked his wrists towards the duo. Venom froze, unable to move a muscle.
“I don’t care if I took everything. You weren’t anything when I found you, just a blind, worthless teenage boy who absolutely loved his punk of a sister. If anything, I spared you the trouble that was Amber… But, you’ll be glad to know she was with friends.”
Venom started moving again, “‘Was’? What d-does that mean!?” Lee’s black Scythe appeared and Venom tried slicing Time’s head off, but froze again.
Time walked around Venom’s motionless form, looking closely at the Scythe. “I see you’re using Penance a lot… I was wondering if you’d throw it away after I sold it to you… Meh, I always loved using it!”
The scythe disappeared, and Venom fell to the floor of the train.
“So, are you going to listen to my explanation, or am I going to have to freeze you again…”
Venom growled, but made no move to attack. Lance himself tried to move and when he did, he looked at Time. “Why don’t you tell us instead of leaving us in suspense?”
Time sighed, “Killjoy is a voidborn, like dragonborn, but instead of being born with dragon blood, he’s born in the void. Created is more like it though. Him and about four others were created by none other than my Displacer, Failure, or Fail Mother… Weird name, I know. She created them to help the balance of the multiverses Displaced when the Merchant started- surprise to say, they didn’t like this and tried to kill her. Killjoy is the weakest, but that doesn’t mean he’s easy. In his eyes, he thinks the multiverse is a fluke- a failed attempt at perfection. He’ll stop at nothing to achieve his goals, even killing worlds that get in his way… I’m surprised he hasn't tried destroying more worlds, at most he’s killed ten universes and two halfs.”
Time Spinner gave a yawn, “And he’s killed more than his share of Displaced. So I’m bringing help.”
Lance raised an eyebrow. “What kind of help exactly?”
“The… Well, help is help. They’re names are Chaos Jenny, Cole MacGrath, Darth Folteren, and three others I’d rather not talk about… They’ll be here in a few days.” Time Spinner shrugged. “Anything else?”
“And which ones do you know are probably ones that are not going to-. Wait… did you say Darth. Like as in Sith lord Darth?” Lance now had a bad feeling about this.
“Personally, I’m a little worried about the time where we’ll need to wait. A few days could be a LOT longer back in our world than here. Plus, who knows what Killjoy would be doing within that timeframe.”
“Fine… You want help? I’ll get one here sooner.” Time said, rolling his eyes.
And with that, he vanished. Venom went back and sat in their seat, and the suit disappeared. Twilight looked very grumpy.
“So he’s the one who brought Lee here?!” She asked.
“Yeah… But there was something about him the other night that just didn’t feel…… Well, right.” Lance replied. “He made a promise to me to deliver a message to my Fiance Max under “Power Ponies Honor”. I’m still a bit confused by that.”
“Don’t focus too much on it. He’s probably trying to psych you out.” Lumen told him as he looked back at her. All Lance did was sigh.
“I’m going to get some fresh air, I’ll be back in a little while.” With that, the Azure Striker walked out of the train car, but instead of walking to the one behind it, he instead just walked on top of the train and sat down. Using the chance to get some air, take in the sights and watch the tears in space above them change like clouds in the sky. He used the chance to cure his boredom by shooting at any targets that seemed like a challenge. Rocks by a lake. Timberwolves trying to hunt a squirrel. That sort of thing.
His alone time was interrupted as another crack opened on the top of the train. Inside, he could see what looked like… Zombie ponies…
Three seemed to see the adept, and sauntered through the crack and onto the top of the train. “Great… Just when I thought I was getting a much needed break from craziness.” The Adept groaned, now getting both of his guns ready.
The zombie-ponies groaned, moaned, and hissed. One looked familiar to Lance… It looked like Rarity. But not the Rarity he knew. After all, she would be complaining about her tattered mane.
One of them leapt towards Lance, only for it to be grabbed by him and have volts of electricity course through the monster, weakening the body before he blasted it’s head off. The other two were already charging towards him, snarling all the way. One lept up, while the other(Rarity) took the hooves on approach. Cracking out his energy blade, he jumped to the right to avoid Zom-Rarity’s incoming attack and kicked her off the train while using his blade to dismember the other undead monster into three pieces, including the head as they also fell off the train. For added measure, he switched to his Mizuchi sniper clip to shoot the Zombie Rarity between the eyes before the Train began to go through a huge tunnel.
Once the train was out, five more zombie’s came out, but one was human! It looked like it was a Displaced, too. From what Lance could guess, he was dressed as the Medic from TF2.
“You have got to be kidding me…” The Adept snorted, looking down at his left gauntlet, showing him that he still had three skill points that he could use. Lance soon began to channel all three of them as electricity began to violently crackle around him.
Electrified chains surged from all directions, acting as spears piercing through their bodies and destroying the medical equipment of the undead medic before it turned them all to ash. The crack seemed to close, and soon, the Azure Striker could see a castle on the mountainside in the distance as they were getting closer to it.
“That must be Canterlot,” He presumed, given what Twilight told him earlier. “I better go back to Lee and the others. They might want to know what exactly happened out here.”
When Lance told Twilight, Sunset and Pinkie what happened, Twilight started to pace. She mumbled theories, possible side effects, how this could be the end of the multiverse! And then sighed.
Sunset took hold of Twilight’s shoulders, “Snap out of it!”
Twilight seemed to be calming down. “S-sorry…”
“It’s okay Twilight, I understand why you’re freaking out.” Lance said.
Twilight smiled appreciatively, then gained a look of determination.
When the train finally stopped, the six heroes, Lance, Lee, Twilight, Sunset, Pinkie and Toxin stood in front of the doors of the train. When the train stopped, the doors opened. To their confusion, music started playing.
What they saw, surprised them.
It was another human, this one wore dark robes, and a red mask hid his face. To his side was a small, orange and purple filly, wearing a black cloak.
The dark figure chuckled, “Okay kiddies, let’s play…”
End Strike 21
