//------------------------------// // Wub Blasted // Story: Wub me or Hate me // by Vesperia //------------------------------// The second the wheels hit the hard cement floor of the warehouse they buckled under the combined weight of me, Choc, and the rest of the wagon. The wheels shattered into splinters like a balloon popping and the wheel axles snapped like a twix bar. The carriage box slid a good ten feet across the floor with an ungodly screeching sound. How we didn’t flip over and snap our necks I did not know. After shaking ourselves off Choc positioned himself by the carriage door, hind legs first. “Tell me when a good number are by the door.” He quietly whispered to me. Instead of replying with a smart ass remark on how he was actually being quiet this time, I instead pulled the tiny curtain covering the window aside by a small margin to peek outside. Daft ponies were gathering outside the carriage, looking sharp and ready. I counted about ten, maybe a little more if there are others hiding outside my field of vision. “Ten just outside the door, seem to be all earth ponies and pegasi. Weird that I don’t see any unicorns though.” I whispered back. “Aye,” Choc mumbled. “That is strange. But we don’t have time to worry about that just yet. Let’s deal with the immediate problem first.” I gripped my wubboard in my left hand and took a few wubnades out my pack’s side pockets. Before I left for this city I didn’t have time to make them more powerful, but thanks to having better access to materials and living with someone who has a liking to science led me to be able to make them smaller. About an inch and a half in diameter with a small button on top, so around the size of a marble. Because of the smaller size, and the threat of accidentally activating, Twilight and I made sure to require a small influx of magic into them alongside pushing to button in order for it to go off. Just as I finished preparing myself Choc bucked the door off its hinges, it spiraled out and knocked two ponies down and out for the count. Choc rushed out with a mighty warcry that I couldn’t help but roll my eyes at, even as I charged in right behind him. Choc shot a beam of magic at a dive bombing pegasus, blowing him out of the air. I jumped over a charging earth pony while he did that, using his head like a springboard with the satisfaction of making him face plant hard into the floor. I saw movement in the corner of my eye and I activated and threw one of my wubnades at the small group of three that tried to circle around the carriage at us. Apparently the daft ponies circled the entire carriage. So the total numbers of opponents was thirteen. The nade bounced once on the floor before rising up into the face of the lead charger and releasing a loud and constant stream of bass. The charging ponies collapsed into a heap of bodies, likely to be soon passing out. I looked back at Choc to see him slug an earth pony in the face with his hoof with simultaneously dodging two pegasi that were harassing him. He was holding his own but I decided to help him anyway. Just as I started my run I grunted as I felt myself forcefully pushed to the ground. Me and my new adversary slid a few feet with him practically wrapping himself around me with his front legs. I was so surprised that I accidentally dropped the other two wubnades, they rolled away from us, just out of reach. “Get off me!” I grunted at the offending pony. I punched him in the face, but that only hurt my hand since he had a helmet. The pony raised a hoof and threw it down at me, I rolled my head to the side and watched as the hoof missed me by a scant few inches. Realizing that I could probably get really hurt I tried kneeing my opponent. He grunted, a bit out of breathe, when my knee slammed into his stomach. I pushed him off as he gasped for air, quickly getting to my feet I took my wubboard in both hands and swung it down on his head. It was at this moment that I was glad Twilight helped me enchant the stuff on this thing. If it was any other piece of technology then I would be extremely apprehensive about using it as a melee weapon. But this thing won’t break that easily, or get it’s internal parts ruined or jumbled around, even if I was using it to hammer at a rock. I turned around and yelped as another hoof aimed itself at my face, courtesy of one of the enemy pegasus ponies here. I just barely ducked under it, I swung my board up into the pony’s chin with a righteous wrath and yelled, “Stop aiming for my face! It’s too beautiful to waste!” The body of the pony dropped to the ground, and it was then that I saw another pony appear from behind him. The earth pony charged me, stopping short to use the momentum to swing his hind legs at me. I realized what he was trying to do, I was not wanting to get a feel of what it was like to get bucked. I made a hasty retreat backwards, the hooves just grazing my jacket. But there was one thing bad about this bucking attack, if the pony missed then they could be counter attacked. Like how the space between the legs was just wide enough for my leg. Though I did inwardly cringe as my delicate looking foot swung upwards into the daft pony’s crotch. I heard the pony scream as his entire family’s lineage just disappeared forever from the world. I looked back at Choc as the pony fell to the ground, writhing in pain. He seemed to have taken care of himself, he happily trotted over to me with a wide grin on his face. “That was fun! I should do this more often! What’s with him?” He asked, looking at the still writhing pony. “I may have scored a field goal on his balls.” I replied, completely agreeing with Choc’s wince. “Well,” Choc said, gathering magic in his horn and zapping the pony with it. The pony stopped moving and I heard snores vibrating out of the helmet. “We should at least put him out of his misery.” Thunder boomed outside, the sound of heavy rain hitting the metallic roof of the warehouse echoed across the building. I clicked my tongue, “Was it suppose to rain tonight? An odd time of the night for the weather ponies to do it don’t ya think?” Choc looked up after dealing with the pony, “Aye. But maybe it’s a scheduling error? It’s been known to happen here from time to time. Big city and all.” I shrugged at him as I looked around the room once more, seeing it with a better eye now that I wasn’t falling to my potential death. The whole place seemed really ominous now that I thought about it. The setup of stereos and amplifiers aimed directly at the two of us did not settle right with me. Suddenly the lights of the warehouse went out, Choc and I went into a guarded position almost instantly. Then a spotlight shined down on us. Another boom of thunder shook the building as another spotlight shined on the room overseeing the ground floor of the warehouse. It revealed a pony shaped figure standing at the window, the brightness of the light took away any detail, diabolically laughing, as if everything was timed for that… “Oh, you have got to be kidding me.” I thought to myself. “We’re dealing with a hammy supervillain aren’t we?” I muttered. Choc didn’t seem to hear me, he was glaring at the entrance of the new pony. Despite being a herbivore, he seemed to be caught mindlessly chewing the ham to the tune of the new arrival. “Well, well, well. It seems you finally arrived here Cloudsdale destroyer, you even took out a few of my minions. And here I was simply thinking that you’d never show up.” The light at the top died down a little and I could see the face of the now revealed leader, or rather the mask of the now revealed leader. The other pony was obviously a mare, I could tell by her muzzle shape and body type. But she had a mask on, the eyes of the masks had stylized musical eighth notes, the bottom bulbs were much larger than normal, and where the eyes saw through. They had a yellow material filling the inside of the bulb while the rest of the note remained black. The necks of the symbols crossed between her eyes, just under her horn, like it was some sort of sword insignia. The main coloring of her mask and full body supervillain spandex suit was green, while the trimming was a deep blue. It had various musical symbols etched onto it across it’s length. She even had a deep blue cape. From what little snout I could see, and mane, I determined her coat was a burgundy color and her mane was black. “You could say that I was fashionably late.” I replied. The now revealed supervillain, though I still didn’t know her name, laughed quite evilly. Choc leaned over to me and whispered, “You know this mare?” “Not a clue.” I whispered back. The mare stopped her laughing and said, almost mockingly, “Oh, and where are my manners? I haven’t even introduced myself!” She smirked down at us, “You may call me, DJ Green Bass!” “What a horrid name…” I thought. “Makes me not want to take her seriously.” “It's too bad you can't stop my plans, Vinyl.” I narrowed my eyes at her, she just chuckled. “Oh yes, I know all about you. You made many waves after you destroyed that cloud city. And I am its result!” She stopped her brief monologue to fiddle with something under the large rectangular window she faced out of. She made a particularly dramatic push of a button and blue electricity of some kind sparked down the wires leading out of the upper room. It traveled out to the technology surrounding Choc and I, causing the amps and other things to take on a blueish glow to them. “Oh, this ain't good.” I said to Choc. DJ Green Bass laughed as Choc and I looked all around us at the things that glowed blue. “And that's not all!” A small circle around my height in diameter crumbled in the middle of the floor where Choc and I stood. A platform rose into the air, on top of it was a cylinder that would've hurt my eyes looking at it, it glowed a bright blue and green nearly as bright as the sun. There was an amp on top of the cylinder, pointed straight up, and a timer that read five minutes connected to it. “Oh my god, there's even a timer connected to a doomsday device.” “I call this the Bass Accelerator! Of course you might know what this is, I based it off what I believe your original design was.” DJ Green Bass pointed a hoof at me, “But I perfected it! It's hundreds of times stronger than yours! You see, you missed one crucial detail-” “As hammy as I might think this is, I gotta admit that thing is a problem.” I whispered to Choc as I ignored her continued rambling. “What do you mean? Let's just buck it, tech nowadays breaks pretty easy right?” He whispered back. Green Bass was on a roll now, something about being inspired to do this after idolizing my past boo boo. I shook my head at him, “No, with something like this doing something that rash could just make things worse. Like making it go off prematurely and screwing everyone involved if there isn't any sort of protective measure used.” “Like a colt's first time…” Choc breathed. “Exactly! So, I have a plan-” “Excuse me!” I was interrupted by Green Bass. “Are you even paying attention?! I'm talking over here!” “Ah, sorry lady. Please go on.” I replied, hoping she'd at least be done soon. She harrumphed, “You're lucky I'm practically done. I should make you relisten to everything, but for the sake of time I'll continue.” She cleared her throat before continuing, “Anyway, and so here I stand! After years of agonizing work and suffering, the fruits of my labors have almost come to fruition! And you are but one of the final pieces.” She pointed her hoof at me again at that, smirking at me. I narrowed my eyes at her behind my glasses, “And we will stop you you know. The bad guys don't usually win.” “We’ll see about that.” She looked down and did something, I figured there was a control panel there. The timer beeped and the minutes ticked down. “Have fun, I have other plans to finish.” And with that Green Bass turned around and dashed somewhere in the back of the room she was in. I looked at Choc and said, “I need you to get up there,” I pointed at the room Green Bass was just in, “and try and power this thing down from there. I'll see if I can do the same from here.” Choc looked at me worried, “But you'll be right next to this things blast zone if it goes off!” “Then we’ll just have to make sure it doesn't go off then.” I smirked at him. He seemed to hesitate for a few seconds before nodding his head at me. He made a dash to a door on the same wall the upper room was on and bucked it down before galloping off. I turned back to the bright machine in the middle of the warehouse, pushed my glasses back up my nose, took my backpack off and grabbed my tools I brought along with me. I looked at the timer and the amp that it was connected to. I was no bomb defusing expert, so turning the timer off was a no go. Instead I tried to see if the glowing part of the machine had any access points. Luckily there was a tiny hatch next to the amp on top of the cylinder, I used my screwdriver to remove it and looked inside. The inside of the machine was a mess of wires, circuit boards, and blue and green wub circuit chips. I will give it to the supervillain, this thing was a good example of wubtech. I looked back up at the timer, my analyzing took a good two minutes off the clock. There was barely two minutes and thirty seconds left. “Oi, you hear me?” Choc's voice spoke through the speakers of the warehouse. “Yeah! I hear ya!” I loudly replied. “Looks like the boss lady of this place took some important looking wires from the console up here. I don't think this thing’ll be of much use to us.” I cursed, looks like I'll have to do this the hard way. I looked up at the window and yelled, “Alright, stay up there and try and find something useful!” “Something useful? I don't think there's a manual up here.” He snarked back. “Just look!” I was annoyed now. “Fine fine, don't get your panties in a twist.” I grumbled to myself about never wanting to wear panties in the first place as I stuck my hand inside the deeper parts of the doomsday device. After rifling through the inside I looked up and saw that we only had a minute and a half left, I was starting to sweat now. Trying to understand and take apart a machine mostly foreign to me in under five minutes is really difficult. Green Bass said she based this off the sound system I was trying to make a thousand years ago, but I didn't see the resemblance at all. It really sucked. “Hey, uh. I think I found something.” Choc's voice spoke up. “What is it?” “A manual…” I slammed my head on the machine in aggravation. “Does it say how to turn this thing off? And hurry, we barely have over a minute.” He was silent for a few seconds before saying, “Yeah, there should be some sort of core inside the machine. Like a glowing ball of some kind. If you remove the wires connecting it the whole thing should turn off.” “Alright thanks!” I yelled and quickly began looking for the core. I found it buried behind a wall of wires. It looked like a glass tube with the ends capped in metal, the metal caps had wires sticking out of them. Inside the glass was a bright ball of some sort of energy, it didn't look like magic as far as I knew. I reached my right hand inside to pluck the wires connecting the core out, but immediately flinching back. My hand started burning when it got too close. I gritted my teeth and cloaked my hand in a weak amount of magic, it lessened the burning somewhat. I disconnected the wires attached to the core and it landed in a small net of wires, the glow of it dimming somewhat. I grabbed the core and pulled my hand out of the machine, still cloaked in magic since the core still made my hand burn. I breathed a sigh of relief when the timer stopped and showed at least ten seconds left in the clock. The machine itself stopped glowing. I was about to yell out I got it when Choc yelled out, “Wait! There’s a fail safe!” “What?” I softly asked. It was too late, the glow of the machine returned full force as it looked to be expanding. The amps and other various speakers hummed to life. I started to run out but the amps and speakers turned on, the bass slamming into me and throwing me back to the middle. I landed right next to the machine with a grunt. “You alright?!” Choc's voice yelled out, I guessed he turned the speaker volume up so I could hear him. I gave him a thumbs up and shakily stood back up. I'll admit, things didn't look good. “You gotta get out of there!” Easier said than done. The machine in the middle glowed ominously, the blue glow reached the speaker on top and it hummed into life as well. Bright blue electricity of a sort arced around the whole thing. Then without warning the speaker on top of it boomed out sound. The actual speaker part glowed blue, a small bass cannon beam shot out of it that incinerated the ceiling on contact. The beam seemed to stretch in diameter until the entire cylinder machine was covered, then it stopped. The core still in my hand began to glow brighter until it was too painful to want to hold on to. But I couldn't let go. The surrounding amps and speakers let out a particularly powerful bass boom that mocked me forward, closer to the beam of blue light shooting straight upwards into the night sky like some sort of celestial pillar. My head was mere inches away from the glowing, incredibly dangerous, pillar of light. The core still stuck in my hand glowed and burned even more so than before. I was seeing spots now, I barely heard some sort of commotion to my left. I looked over and saw that Choc was trying to get through to me, but the pure force all the bass was making was too much for him. I felt something roll into my left hand, I looked down and saw the two wubnades I dropped earlier. I picked them up as a plan formed in my head, alongside the immense pain and all. I tried the delicate approach already, so I'll take a page out of Choc's book. I barely activated them with magic, pushed the buttons, and rolled them forward. One was enough to disable and eventually knock someone out. Two could do actual physical damage. So I had to aim where I'd get the least exposure to them. My headphones only work when there's one of them. I'd rather not have them break, again, thank you very much. When the nades detonated the force cracked the machine in front of me. Which in turn made it explode outward with its bass force. I was glad this wasn't focused, else I'd have been incinerated. The machine wasn't done, even if the bass pillar was slowly disappearing. I tried getting up but found I was really hurting all over. So I slowly crawled my way to the machine, hoping to chuck one more nade into the machine. It was then that lightning struck the machine, the explosive force behind that sent me flying back the way I came. The machine was destroyed now, a fact I was barely able to take in as I laid down sideways to it. I looked at my right hand, the core that I had held was broken. The glow inside had disappeared and glass was everywhere. Blood slowly pooled around my hand, it didn't take a genius to figure out I was probably badly cut. Something good did come from this though. The machine was a useless wreck of slag, and the surrounding sound system was short circuited by the lightning strike. And there were enough explosions. So this whole thing went reasonably well in my humble opinion. My vision was slowly fading, but I could see Choc running at me with a concerned expression on his face. He was saying something but I couldn't seem to hear him right now. I smiled at him to let him know I was alright, but by the look on his face it probably looked more like a delirious grin. Then I finally blacked out.