“Don’t ask! Just run!” a mare screamed to her foal that looked to her mother with fear looking back at the street that a few hours earlier had been so peaceful. Ponies screaming as they fled from the onslaught, unlike other cities throughout Equestria, Vanhoover was lightly defended and worse for it the nearest solider ponies were a long way from being able to help. Some unicorns were trying a valiant defence but the sheer force of the enemy’s attack was such that they were falling back.
A group of Unicorns approached the monster, Brat Boy “Monster we demand you seize and desist, immediately!” the head unicorn ordered charging his spell but whatever he was planning to do was cut off by Brat boy stomping his feet.
“Yeah well I demand you too!” Brat boy yelled as he ran towards the nearest unicorn and grabbed the helpless unicorn as he said “Let’s play a game! I tell you what to do and you do it! You got it!” he then threw the unicorn into a wall and the poor unicorn crumpled to the floor.
Carnage laughed at the delicious pain being inflicted as he slashed another group of defenders and said “You’re so demanding Brat Boy!” he cackled as he licked the blood from his claws “Ah the sound of fear, brings a tear to my eye!”
Hydro Hog finished draining the water from the body of another pony and said “Yeah there’s so much water, waiting for me to drink!” he then blasted a building with his sword “Hahaha no pony can stand up to us!”
Carnage laughed “As if some sissy little ponies were ever going to try!” he said as the group split up into three “Now who should I kill next!”
Meanwhile two unicorns had fallen back to the city square to the pony who’d asked to help fight earlier but was denied on reasons of her reputation “You have fought hard! Allow the great and powerful Trixie a chance to fight?!” Trixie said not asking but demanding because she remembered she’d been in Vanhoover for a fireworks show and had decided to follow Twilight’s example “Get every other pony out of the city!”
“Yes mam!” the two stallions said in unison deciding arguing wasn't a good idea.
Brat Boy was getting bored of chucking ponies around “You pony losers are no match for Brat Boy!” he yelled when a fire ball hit him in the back of the head “Who dare?!”
“You dare to yell at me!” a tall man engulfed by shadows said as he walked closer “I’m Father! Brats like you are going to be send to bed without any supper! So be quiet and behave!” he yelled out the last word as he was engulfed by fire “Oooo too much!” he added in a calmer tone.
“You dare order Brat Boy around!” Brat Boy yelled stamping his feet enraged by the mere human giving him orders “We play this game, my way or no way!” he stamped his foot again causing the ground to shake.
Father looked at him with a raised eyebrow “You’ll obey my instructions or else!” he yelled back and again the fire engulfed him “I am Father and father knows best!”
Carnage was making his way through the deserted streets when there was a loud pop above him, looking up Carnage could see Discord and an old man “Oooo more victims to devour!” he cackled as the two jumped down in front of him “Who wants to be first? Or maybe I should pick!”
Discord floated forward saying “Iroh stand back! Leave this creep to me!” he was eager to get revenge on Zedd’s forces for what they had done to Fluttershy “Your boss took my friend from me prepare to pay the piper!” he transformed into a Pied piper causing mice from the surrounding area to attack Carnage “Now you pay!”
“Hehehe that tickles!” Carnage giggled as he shook the mice off and charged forward “Here keep the change!” he struck Discord with his extended claws “Oooo I wonder what a chaos spirit’s blood tastes like!”
Iroh frowned but he couldn’t disrespect Discord’s request “Discord allow me to assist you” he said in a calm tone.
Discord rose from the ground with a growl “NO! He’s mine!”
Hydro Hog was attacking a group of ponies as they fled and smirked at the destruction he was causing “Ah soon all the water in Equestria will be mine to drink!” he laughed before he was struck from above by a powerful lighting spell “What the?!”
Trixie smirked firing off another spell “You came here and interrupted the Great and Powerful Trixie’s show!” she said trying to sound strong “Trixie will give you one chance to surrender!”
Hydro Hog laughed and fired off a blast of energy “Like I would ever do that!” he said as Trixie dodged the attack and landed in front of him “I’ll drain you of all your water and crush you!”
Trixie fired off another spell aiming for the monster’s eye but with a swing of his sword the attack was blocked, Trixie ran around using her superior speed to keep out of reach of the monster’s attacks but it was quickly becoming clear with every exchange her time was running out. She needed some edge that would defeat the monster and it needed to arrive quickly. It was at that moment she was careless and was hit, she fell to the ground injured and unable to escape.
“Now I’ll drain you ofahhh!” Hydro Hog was stuck by a powerful blow from above that exploded and left him flat on his back, as he rose he roared out “Who dares!?”
“Opps I guess I didn’t turn the power in my Repulsor beams up high enough!” a man said standing on a roof, who wore black and silver armour. He flew down and fired another attack that packed more of a punch and send the monster through a wall “Sorry I’ve just been trying to get my bearings and I didn’t know who to trust. So I guessed. Are you okay pony? Well I have seen weirder stuff in my line of work” he joked
Trixie nodded “Trixie is fine and she thanks you for your help” she said with a smile but quickly frowned “What exactly are you?”
The man said “My name is James Rhodes but you can call me Warmachine!” he then aimed his weapons at Hydro Hog “What say we combine our efforts into one blast?” he suggested to which Trixie nodded, they both fired their best attacks at the monster destroying the monster for good and thus leaving a Shiny silver Z where he’d been “Well that was fun but I need to find out how to get back to New York, I need to stop that idiot again. Which way do I go?”
Trixie looked at Warmachine with a sad shake of her head “Trixie is afraid she has never heard of such a place but if we get you to her friend Twilight she might know”
“Well then lead the way” Warmachine said with a polite nod.
Father smirked as he finished Brat Boy off with a powerful blast of flame, leaving a shiny silver Z in the spot Brat Boy had been in, he turned and pulled out a small electric handheld fan “This was quite a scorcher of a day” he said with a slight smug tone in his voice “Well where to now?” Looking around Father spotted an Ice Cream stand and sat down with a large cone “Well I deserve a treat for putting that brat in his place”
“Hehehe! You can’t stop me!” Carnage roared out as Discord continued his attacks changing the symbiont’s limbs into various materials but none of which remained permanent “Don’t you get it? I’m carnage only two things can stop me!”
Iroh watched the fight closely and when Carnage revealed he did indeed have limits, Iroh rubbed his chin thinking of a way to stop the monster “One should never reveal they have limits when the enemy thinks they do not have any limits” he said to himself however that information was fine but there wasn’t a lot he could do with it “Discord! We need to fall back and rethink our strategy!” he finally called out.
Discord looked up and huffed “No way!” he snapped as he tried turning Carnage’s left arm to cardboard but it didn’t do anything aside from making the monster laugh even harder as the symbiont shed the affected cells and replaced them with the red symbiont cells “Ah come on!”
It was at that moment a powerful sonic attack struck Carnage “Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but only fire and loud noise affects him!” Warmachine called out followed by Trixie “And fire is defiantly the more effective”
Iroh smiled and said “Ah good new friends with equally good news!” he then kicked up some fire and send it straight at Carnage “Fire bending is something I’m all too familiar with” looking at Warmachine with a polite bow.
After that the battle didn’t last long, Discord, Iroh, Trixie and Warmachine all had fire or sonic attacks they could call upon. Finally Trixie struck the finishing blow and Carnage fell saying with his last words “Hehe you know what’s funny even in defeat…I win…nothing can stop…” he collapsed to the ground as the last of his strength failed him and leaving the shiny silver Z when his body disappeared.
While Warmachine, Trixie and Discord celebrated their victory, Iroh frowned at the Z and turned to the others “What is this thing? It resembles that staff that monster, Zedd carried” it then dawned on him “What if these attacks aren’t the true focus?!”
Discord’s eyes widened in horror “Now that you mention it that Z is giving off a disturbing magical energy!” he said as he then reached out with his lion paw to touch the spot but a surge of energy stopped him from touching it “Oh no! Have you two seen anything like these?” he asked Warmachine and Trixie.
Trixie nodded and Warmachine explained “We were fighting this large toad blue thing and when we destroyed it, there was Z on the ground just like that one but I didn’t think anything about it!”
It was then Father added approaching the group in a calm way “I was fighting this white brat monster and that appeared on the floor!” he didn’t seem too concerned about the assembled group since none of them were kids “I’m sorry my name is Father”
Discord however was sweating “We need to get back to Canterlot and tell Princess Celestia, so she can tell the others!” he said in a panic but little did they know it was already far too late, as they all rushed for Canterlot and the final battle there, Zedd’s master’s plan was in motion.