//------------------------------// // ACT 4 King Sombra PART 3 // Story: The Great Fandom Man! // by Jake Witt //------------------------------// I watched in awe as this "Prime Timeline" me floated around as Gravattack, tossing untouched land mines at oncoming enemy soldiers. The army had great skill in avoiding traps and laser fire, but they were not ready for this. When they did adapt, Fandom Man locked onto them before switching to his normal form with speed attribute, sliding past a group of Crystal Knights while swinging his keyblade. It resembled the barrel of a tank with two hunting knives lodged asymmetrically near the end of the barrel. Those he didn't cut down, he fired a rocket from the described weapon. Not only did that take out another group of foes, but tripped some mines that blew up another group. His ultimatrix glowed and a free hand touched his helmet for a message. He nods before realizing he was surrounded, but nobody had a chance to save him as he replaced speed for fire and his blade for the Sword of the Storm and Eye of Dashi shen gong wu. He leaped into the air with a flame spin attack, sending a wave of flame to ground and air forces before he changed again. He took the form of Echo Echo, but before landing he took out a wooden blue mask that then stuck and molded his to face. He rapidly spun, creating a tornado before stopping as a blue faced Echo in a white and green suit. He touched down, giving a grin he metallic voice sounded a little lively as he said, "Well, this joint is poppin'!" O. Conner's eyes grew wide, "Everyone get down!" The Mask Echo spun as he cloned himself, each with their own costume. A few Mask Echos dressed like Celestia's guards with stern look and gold armor as they expanded their hands, slapping ponies around as they were helpless to grab their weapons. Those unicorns that could grab their weapon had their helmets yanked off by a TF2 Soldier-looking Mask Echo. "You call this a bucket, maggot? You can't carry teleported bread in this garbage!" The Crystal Knights that lost their helmets began to glow as they hugged the Echo, running off to join the rebellion. A Mask Echo resembling Morgan Freeman with a robotic sounding Morgan voice began to narrate, "Freedom. It's a way of life we all seek-" Too bad his life was ended too quickly. Mommy Mask Echo screamed, "Kevin!" Every Echo watched as their brother slowly died with horror and rage on their faces. All the Echos took off the Crystal Knight's helmet before becoming one Mask Echo. "All better now! Now for revenge!" The Knight's pupils shrunk as she shook in her boots. "Mind controlling beautiful crystal ponies?! Uncalled for!" He turned over to the scared Knight. "You are not a murderer and you are not a slave. You are an experience- No. A relic! You belong to a museum so run! Be free!" O. Conner was expecting Fandom Man to finish the quote from Garnet, but then he transition to Indiana Jones or something. The Mask Echo spun and glowed green as he became The Flash Echo Echo. Red and yellow Echos rapidly cloned themselves as they liberated Crystal Knights and tossed wounded Stormtroopers back at the retreating army. A few Echos grabbed wounded Crystal Knights, took off their helmets, and put them in one spot. As medical personnel ran to retrieve the bodies, one Echo stopped them. When everything was said and done, the one Flash Echo returned to being Fandom Man, who equipped the power attribute. After a minute of supercharging himself, he switched to his magic attribute as Curaga and Skyrim fast healing magic washed over the group of ponies. Double Diamond bit the stopwatch with a smile on his face as General Elmo frowned, glaring. After a glance at his leader, his expression softened. "You have our attention, kid." Fandom Man passed O. Conner, "Dude, you're me. Try to keep up and be the hero here." Double frowned as Fandom Man finished his explanation. "So our world inspired a show for little human fillies and creepy human stallions? To be honest, unless your world likes a story about a war coming from slavery and child slaughter then I could belive, but it seems... too left field." "Not if it's the Season 5 finale involving time travel." He then turned to me. "O. Conner? The Hunger Games are a three book series with four movies." "That's important... why?" "I'm just here to relay information and fight Sombra." Despite the visor covering his eyes, Fandom Man gave me a stern look. "You can't be their Mocking Jay so for now, you can be their Fandom the Random." "You're aware I hate that name." "Me too, but it's historic." Elmo had his face in his furry hands, "Great... Now all we need is a One Punch Man with arms..." Fandom Man asked about the armless hero while sneaking some forms from O. Conner's ultimatrix through Rouge's hacking. The war-broken hero was none the wiser, but to make it up to him, O. Conner gained the ability to use cross-fusion. "What's it to you?" Fandom Man shrugged, "Give him magic robot arms and give him metal balls and you have One Kick Man!" "But the funding- Hold it." Double Diamond caught himself. "So, you said we need six specific mares to use these... uh... Elements of Harmony?" For some reason, it was hard for anybody to think of six mares and rainbows or a crystal heart filled with love and smiles could defeat or even destroy King Sombra. "Or a magic love heart?" "Yes, sir. I can currently locate four of them, but it's convincing them that will be a problem." General Popeye slammed his fist into the table, "If spinach could make me like that One Punch guy ya mentioned then a few sissy hippy crap can do anything!" "Actually, the hippy stuff only work on the Smooze." Fandom responded, gaining shocked and two skeptical expressions. "A pony named Tree Hugger had weird horsey hippy vibes that saved a Grand Galloping Gala. Discord learned a friendship lesson." "And died?" Elmo asked. "Heck no! He was reformed long before then so he had a scolding before he was slowly forgiven. Turned out Celestia invited him." Fandom smiled as the board room fell silent. Popeye gave a toot before yelling, "What're we waitin' for?! I say we lend some of our stallions and Displaced to him and we find them gals!" Double Diamond nodded, "All in favor 'aye' and those not whinny." The aye overshadowed the neigh. And a voice from the doorway spoke, "In that case, we're coming." O. Conner turned his head to see his rival. Leggo Craft and his pony Box. Fandom Man smirked, "Glad to have you on board. My version of you was supposed to join my team, but he was busy." The boy with the block legs wore the usual Minecraft Steve? outfit with a tattered cloak and stetson. He let out a sigh, "Don't be too happy. It hurts." "Agreed," I said, nodding. Double Diamond rolled his eyes, "By the power granted to me by our long-dead founder Starlight Glimmer- You dudes do whatever you want. I'm not going to judge, but before you go, we need new defenses-" "Got it covered," Lega said. "Creeper hole land mines with dispensers that will fill the holes after the explosions."