The Dog Days Are Over

by The Prez


Chapter 5

'... what?' Huski said at last, breaking the silence. Spark Lens frowned.
'I said hello, you stupid mutt.'
'No, I heard that, it's just... what? Since when were you a diamond dog?'
'Oh. I collected samples of genetic material from several diamond dogs, both male and female, before I burned your filthly little villages to the ground. I compiled them to make a bisexual compound that, if ingested, transformed the drinker into a male and female diamond dog cross. A sort of genetic storage, if you will.'
'Why would you do that?'
'Well, you can't have a new world without a slave army, can you?' Huski shot forward and pressed a paw against Spark Lens' neck, pinning him to the wall by it.
'You sadistic, self righteous, two timing, griffon sniffing, shit eating, pus licking, motherbucking little hellspawn bastardite!'
'Ooh, foul mouth.' Spark Lens wheezed through his closing windpipe.
'It's not enough that you reduced us to a memory in a matter of days, you were going to bring us back as a slave clone army!? WHY are you alive in the first place? What possible reason could there be for your existence??'

Spark Lens gagged quietly as Huski waited for an answer. He did not relent. Finally Spark Lens grabbed something on a bench nearby and smacked Huski in the eye with it, making him stumble. Spark Lens sucked in air as the other dog glared at him.
'I don't know how I didn't spot you out from the beginning! The very air around you is grey and poisonous!'
'I believe it's because you dogs have brains about the size of an eyeball.'
'Shut up!' Huski charged forward and belted Spark in the face. Spark retaliated with what turned out to be a solid glass bottle, hitting Huski over and over. Eventually it shattered and cut his face open. Spark laughed triumphantly but was interrupted by the broken glass bottle being shoved into his jugular. Huski stepped back as the evil mutant dog dropped to his knees and gurgled. But the broken bottle fell to the floor and the gurgling stopped. Huski stared wide eyed at Spark as he stood back up, the wounds on his neck sealing back over in seconds. He chuckled sinisterly.
'Did I mention from whom I took the samples?'


Brickfist twisted the head of one final Steel Dog and dropped him, looking around. Big metal bodies littered the entire platform. Placing one foot on the body before him, he lifted his head to the sky and howled long and loud, the call of a warrior. The sun being blocked out did not stop him and he continued even as the Hammer Of Dawn 2.0 positioned itself above the Hammer Of Dawn.


Thump. Thump. Thump. That's pretty much the sound Spark's head made every time Huski pushed it against the desk. Spark elbowed Huski in the face and rolled over him, pushing him against the desk and strangling him. The suffocation did not do much so he took a ruler and started jabbing him in the face with it. Huski yelped angrily and blocked the ruler. Realizing that he did not in fact have to breathe forever, he used his other paw to grab a lamp sitting on the desk and shatter it over Spark's head. Spark stumbled away. Huski grabbed a pipe off the wall as the other dog went to charge him again and smacked him with it, sending him reeling. He tried to recover, but was met upside his head by the pipe again. And before he could so much as fully turn back around to challenge Huski again, the pipe went between his legs. His eyes crossed and his mouth shot open without a sound as he curled up on the floor.
'And THAT'S why I'm in charge.' Huski declared, seemingly proud that he literally had no balls while Spark Lens did. A massive heat beam tore through the ship before he could take another shot at Spark and the balance shifted, putting everything on a slight angle. 'What the hell was that!?' Spark Lens just wheezed in response. 'Well... there's no wind and snow filling everything and I didn't meet any endearing lasses on this ship, so it's probably not a reenactment of the Titanic. You just wait there.' he told Spark Lens and moved over to the central moniters and keyboard, picking up the typing sticks. Spark raised a paw to try and stop him feebly but returned to his fetal position.

'Let's see... crap... crap... crap... mega crap...' Huski muttered, sifting through the piles of priceless research data and historical/military records. All of it was being transferred into a large device he had plugged into one of the moniters. Something caught his eye. 'Cornerstone Retrieval Project'. He clicked it. His arms dropped to his sides when the screen changed and a wave of relief washed over him.
'Son of a bitch...' he mumbled incredulously. He plugged another device into the moniter in front of him and diverted that specific data into it, then pocketed it.
'Nnnnoooo...' Spark Lens cried pathetically as he tried to stand. Huski ignored him. The last of the data was stored on the larger device and he pocketed it, and then snapped the keyboard in half. He turned to Spark Lens, who finally managed to stand and recover from the pipe to the groin.
'I never thought you could be so cruel.' he told Spark happily. 'So cruel so as to lead me on that all along we couldn't have not only recovered the Zebranni Cornerstone but that we knew where the Equestria Cornerstone was. So cruel as to keep both of them from me and keep my people imprisoned and have me believe they were gone. So, so cruel.' he continued, shaking his head in a mocking fashion.
'What are you so happy about?' Spark growled. 'Even with the Cornerstones I am your only hope for further breeding! You have to clone MY tissue to make more of your disgusting kind.' Huski put a paw to his chin in mock thought.
'Mm... no, no I don't.' he said, smiling.
'Pardon??'

'Well, my fake, falsified, fraudful, felonious fink of a friend, Canterlot is well known to be the most well supplied hub of air traffic in Equestria. There are only two possible reasons you would come here. One is to refuel and restock in order to track down and finish off my people and the other is to cripple the military of the Royal Sisters. And when one spends enough time talking about you behind your back, one learns that you prefer to kill as many birds with one stone as possible. Ergo, you're here for both.' he explained.
'Speaking of two birds...' Spark mumbled.
'Beg your pardon?' And then the heat beam hit again. 'HOLY SHIT!' Huski shouted as the desk disintegrated. The beam moved towards him and he dove out of the way. The floor behind him was melted and split, and the walls had ignited. Spark Lens laughed from across the divide the beam had made.
'Unlike you...' he called, an elevator opening up behind him. '... I always have a plan!' Huski just roared at him in response, making Spark laugh again as he stepped into the elevator. 'Say "hello" to dear Sheila for me!' he taunted as the door closed and the elevator ascended.
'NOOOOO!!!!' Huski shouted, jumping across the large divide and forcing the door open.