Opening Theme:
Solarkness's Comment
As soon as the metal monster appeared, this has been playing throughout the room
"Kichi," you mutter, "What have you done?"
You take a fighting stance, looking over your opponent, getting more frightened with every detail you see...
Until you can't bear it anymore. You shout as you psycho-crusher yourself at Mangleoid, "FALCON PUNCH!"
You fly through Mangleoid, because Kichi is confused for a moment. "What, but that's not... Hey!" Mangleoid turns back to you, "That's not a falcon punch!"
You smirk, before shouting: "Psycho-Crusher!"
This time, you use Shoryuken instead.
Kichi gets mad, and you just keep going: "No Shadow Kick!" and falcon-punch in truth, and just call out all the wrong names until your opponent can't take it anymore.
"STOP! The names you use for them are all WRONG! What you did just now is called 'Shoryuken, not falcon-punch! What you did before was the falcon-punch and...," while Kichi is distracted, you examine Mangleoid.
"How," you wonder, "How does it rebuild itself again and again? And where does it get the energy to do so from?"
You muse. If you could find the generator and destroy it, you could just take your opponent out without truly taking him out.
Gameplan in mind, you realize something: You have no idea where to search.
"Hooooo-," you begin, reminding Kichi that you are in a fight, "-orseapples," you finish as he charges at you.
Thinking quickly, you jump out of the way just as it hits the wall behind you. You smirk at this...till you see sparks flying off the Mangloid as it begins to turn towards you. You can see a hole in it's arm, which shows a bunch of machinery working together to repair the injury. You begin to growl in rage as you realize a machine is trying to stop you. A evil, no good, dirty machine! Your eyes widen at this realization, and you feel the last of your buttons get pushed as you begin to rant in anger,
BrownDog's Comment
“OK, I could deal with roaming mascot animals, I could deal with the robozombies, and I could deal with all this other bucking machinery because, as much as I hate it, it was all pony controlled. What I cannot handle is the fact that that bucking fox actually took my advice! That it thought on it’s own. That it’s choosing to side against me! This is how Skynet starts! This is how Judgment Day happens!!! MACHINES!!!” you yell as your sanity slips a little.
Completely forgoing the plan you just made, you rush forth trying to stop the artificial intelligence monster with everything you have.
“Would you kindly burn machine?! BURN!!!” you yell, sending out an inferno…but it seems the Terminators have given it upgrades!
“EEEEEEVVVVVIIIILLLL!!!!” you shout as you begin to whack at the legs wildly.
“Red, look out!” Samus screams, but you don’t hear her as you madly keep whacking at the limbs, you even do some damage to one of the leg joints. Unfortunately, there are 3 more, and two of those are used to kick you.
“MMMMMAAAAACCCCCHHHHIIII-*KLUNK* EEEEEeeeee!!!”
“I got you-Oomph!” Samus yells as she catches you.
“You’re gonna have to come up with a better plan than that!” Kichi taunts.
“EEEEEVVVVIIIILLLL!!!” is all you can reply.
“Snap out of it!” the griffin screeches as she grips you harder and dodges out of the way of the robots stomp.
“I can’t, Machines! Evil!”
“Oh for,” she yelps before she bonks you on the head.
“OW! The buck?!”
“Concentrate, she yells as she throws you back as she dodges forward striking at the bot with her talons.
“Alright fine, take the fun out of robot induced mental breakdown why don’t you?” you huff.
You stay back for a bit and watch the robot, trying to figure out a way to do some damage to it. As you watch you notice something out of the corner of your eyes. As you turn to look at it, you realizes its a...
Kersey's Comment
Your eyes widen in pure joy as you quickly grab it with a crazed smile before you turn towards the Mangloid and yell,
"OI BUCKER!"
Kichi and the Mangloid towards you...and Kichi immediately gains a look of horror at the sight of the BFG before he says,
"You..you wouldn't dare! You'd take the whole building with us if you use that thing!"
Samus also has a look of worry on her face, but you don't care as your eyes only gain a look of insanity and you begin to laugh in insane joy as you say,
"MAYBE SO! BUT I HONESTLY DON'T GIVE A BUCK! HASTA LA VISTA BUCKER!"
With that you pull the trigger and begin to laugh even more insanely as it charges up it's green orb of death... only to pathetically stick out a small flag that reads Ka-Boom!
Your insanity leaves your eyes almost immediately and is replaced with disappointment as you say,
"Oh come on! You make a bunch of real video game weapons, but the one badflank one is fake?!"
"What? Can't get it on big boy?" Kichi taunts, "No wonder you can't get a date-*poink* MY EYE!!!" Kichi screams as you managed to shoot off the flag from the fake weapon which pokes Kichi in the eye.
You just get a smug look at this, which disappears at the site of the now enraged Kichi charging the Mangloid right at you.
"Oh buck m-*whack*"
You couldn't finish that sentence as the Mangloid smacks you and sends you flying into the wall on the other side of the room. You groan in pain as you think,
Ohhhh...anyling get the license of the robot that hit me?
I believe the numbers were 101001001011100-
You tone Selena's ranting out as you get out of the wall and see the Mangloid heading towards you once again, with Samus desperately trying to attack it from behind. You begin to run away from the Mangeloid as it nears you as you think,
There's no way to hurt this thing with all the plastic and fur it has guarding the inside. So there's two things I can do. The easy thing to do would be to find whatever's powering it, destroy that and have it shut down. The hard thing I can do is melt off it's armor with glorious flame, expose it's inner evil machinery long enough to do internal damage and hope to destroy it into enough pieces that it can't be reformed. But which one should I go for...?
The answer was obvious...
Fireheart 1945's Comment
Love the Changeling's Comment
You smirk insanely as you turn around to face the Mangloid, aim the Power Glove at it, and say,
"WOULD YOU KINDLY TASTE FIRE AND LIGHTING?!"
Your duel attack sends out a beautiful wave of electrified flame...which shouldn't even be physically possible. The electric flame strikes right in the maw of heads and begins to work it's magic. The fire strips away at the fur and plastic, and the lightning gets into the nooks and crannies, making it seize up momentarily.
"What the buck is-BBBZZZZZZTTTTPPP!!!" Kichi yells as the charge strikes him through the endoskeleton head, sending him upwards off the robot before the flames could get him. Once he's over the initial shock (pun intended) he hovers above the storm.
Now that he's off the Mangleoid, you let loose with your favorite thing in the world.
"Would you kindly, fire, Fire, FIRE?!!!" and keep spamming the heat till a melted hole opens up on it's chest. Inside you see a glowing white capsule in the shape of a heart.
"Power source Identified!" you yell as you rush forth to the stunned and smoking Gundam. "Falcon Pu-*ZAP*" OUCHIE!" you yell as you are suddenly hit by a green streak of magic. You look up and see the hovering Kichi.
"That was a cheap shot and you know it!" you rant.
"What, I'm not just gonna let you break my last toy that easily, so cut it out!"
"Oh yeah? Well guess what? I'm gonna-"
"Too late!" he calls.
You look back and see the chest wound get covered in new metal and wire as the now exposed animatronic heads clamp down together over it in a snarl.
"Son of a...well at least I know where to attack now!" you grumble as you glare at Kichi and are about to attack when you notice Samus standing next to you looking freaked out. Sighing you say,
"Look, I like fire. I can understand if you have a problem with that, but for now can we please focus on destroying the evil robot and capturing your ex-boss?"
Samus sighs before she says,
"Fine, but when this is over no more fire!"
You roll your eyes as you nod your head. With that both of you charge at the Mangloid. As you both do Samus shouts out to Kichi,
Kichi's Comment
"Why did you treat me so badly? I was nothing but loyal, and then you stick me with the crazy guy that captured me in the first place in a death pit? I was one of your top contributers!" she angrily yells.
"Hey I'm not crazy...on most days, but yeah, she did help give you awesome video games and stuff, so why the backstabbing?" you add as you both shoot under the legs of the Mangleoid.
"Hmmm, well I guess I could show you..." he murmurs as you and Samus evade a hit.
"With a Graph Chart!" he yells as he has Mangleoid jump to the ceiling.
From his horn he produces a hologram showing a pyramid graph.
"Wait, what now?" you ask confused.
"You wanted an explanation, and so here it is, My Pyramid of Respect" he says as he hovers near the chart.
"At the top of the Pyramid of Respect is our crazy Queen who during the invasion seemed to forget how to disguise herself properly. And even if she went a little cooky, I still respect her."
The top pyramid shows a picture of your former Queen, and upon seeing it it makes you both angry and...saddened?
"After her are the other changelings, brothers, sisters, cousins, uncles, etc." The second part of the pyramid glows revealing the images of many changelings. "The majority of which I have not actually seen in a long time, save for a few stragglers like Silver Strange, or Erised...wherever the heck he went to... But they're like me. Lost and unbound."
"Have, you ever run into any other?" you ask.
"No, not really, but there were rumors of some appearing in Ponyville a few months ago, but sadly all leads were lost in a forest fire, so who knows?" he shrugs.
You nod at this and look down, while Samus still looks very confused.
"Next is the Hooded Offender himself. Very powerful, sticking it to the authority, and because of him, a new organization opened up that I could thrive in. I really do respect him, heck, really all the Knights do in some way," he says as he flourishes his cloak.
You then look up at him again. "So did you join the Knights out of respect or necessity.
"Both really. Kind of hard being a lone changeling in a world that wants to kill or imprison you." He then slumps his shoulders.
"Still, I wonder sometimes about what is going to happen to us changelings in general... With all the different factions, even if the Queen reappeared, it's going to be hard to unite again. Some might not be happy" he sighs.
"Wait... Factions?" you ask confused.
"Meh, nothing important. Before the invasion there were some of us that thought that the Queen needed to change a couple of things in the Hive. She kind of proved our point since we've all been unbound, captured or killed over the last 3 years. If we ever reunite, things have got to change or things like the invasion are going to happen again," he rants. Before shaking his head.
"I mean, just look what I've got here. Without too much effort I managed to rise in the ranks of the Crimson Knights, fund a mafia, and bring in children that could very well feed many us with their love. "We are under the nose of Celestia but thanks to Kersey's paperwork and the absence of proof, she can't take us away. But I'm getting ahead of myself. In short, some will no doubt religously wait for the Queen and follow her once more, some will want things to change, and some may even want to be the next king or Queen themselves...and maybe some want to remain...unbound..." he says with a shiver.
"Freedom isn't anything to shiver at," you counter at his response.
He gives you a weird look before he says,
"Let's continue, in the next level on the pyramid is Celestia, her lackeys the Elements of harmony and Luna..."
"Wait, really? The ponies that hunt changelings the most?"
"Just because they're the enemy, doesn't mean they aren't powerful. I can respect that. Plus, one of them started up the Original Horde which in turn gave birth the the Crimson Knights...Come to think of it I still haven't heard any word back from those Knights I sent to her," he ponders.
"Sent to...You sent goons after Fluttershy?" you huff as you realize what he was implying. "If you or your messenger hurt her I will-"
"Whoa, whoah, calm down... I only sent her some noobie teen Knights as messengers to invite her here since she used to be a president of a club. You know how hard is to manage a mafia, pizza parolor, and lead a bunch of Knights? It's pretty taxing. Her organizational experience could work wonders. But yeah, I'm sure nothing bad happened, they probably got lost..." he mutters.
You calm down too as you realize he only sent messengers, and that they probably failed in even asking since Kichi hadn't heard back from them. Kichi returns his attention back to the hologram.
"Anyway, The next step are the foals I have here. Yeah yeah, some are brainwashed just a little bit, but most of them are here because they want to. They don't have a good home or home at all, here they have games, food and friends, but of course you don't care about that right?" he accuses.
It is at this point that Samus gets impatient and blurts out, "Look, as interesting as this school lesson is, How does this answer my original question you turd?"
"Oh yeah, true." Kichi then points to the last layer in the pyramid and it glows showing the words Crimson Knights/Mafia Crew. "And here is the last layer of my respect. You featherbrain, are not on it."
"What?!"
"Yeah, I don't really like tattle tales, plus you and your crew are nothing but menial labor, which are nothing but dirt and garbage under the Pyramid of Respect. In essence, you were always Expendable," he explains matter of factly.
You look over and see her eye twitch as he says this.
"Oh yeah? Well Buck your Changelings, Buck your Knights, and BUCK YOU!!!" she yells as she beats her wings hard and launches herself straight at Kichi, rolling into a spinning ball, and striking him hard with her tail. Kichi's hologram flickers out as he is launched back toward the ceiling perched Mangleoid, clanking into it hard.
"Ow! Hey, I'm only stating the fa-"
"RRRRRAAAAAAGGGGHHHH!!!" she screeches as she lands on top of him and starts slashing at his cloak, putting holes and slashes into it.
"Dang, that is one pissed off Griffon," you mutter as you watch the spectacle.
"Oi! Watch the cloak lady!" he screams as he tries to scramble back. Mangleoid, tries to dislodge her, but in the process, it loses it's grip and falls to the ground. Kichi is able to hang on, but Samus gets launched backward. Luckily, the machine is disorientated, and Kichi himself is dizzied, so you decide to use this to your advantage as you start to formulate a plan to damage the Mangeloid for good.
MEANWHILE, OUTSIDE
The Pony Spartan's Comment
The blue pony known as Changer stood by a tree right in front of the Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria.
He looked at the building for a second before walking towards it while thinking,
If you're in there Kichi, I'm coming for you. You ungrateful Changeling.
He took out a magma-colored book. "This one's fully charged." He took out two more. A light blue one, and a yellow one. He nodded when he saw that books were "fully charged" and kept walking towards the restaurant. As he got closer to it though a scent hit his nostrils.
"*Sniff* *Sniff* Is that smoke?"
BACK AT THE FIGHT
BrownDog's Comment
After staring at the monstrosity, you realize that perhaps the solution itself is like a videogame (as most of this bucking adventure has been). And when presented with a large creature, you immediately realize what you must do. You gain a smirk as you begin to charge towards the Mangloid while taking out the chainsaw. As you pass by Samus you say,
“Samus, cover me, I’m about to Shadow this Colossus!”
“That…doesn’t make any sense, but I know what you mean,” she declares, apparently calmer then she was a few moments before, as she rolls herself into a ball and starts spam hitting the robot monster in it’s limbs.
“Hey! Pay attention to the red guy. The red guy!” Kichi yells to Mangleoid, but it’s too late. Channeling your inner Wanderer, you rush right up to the things back and hold on as it shakes. When it pauses you start ramming the chainsaw into it’s joints and wires, and anything else that looks important that's already exposed or hasn't completely healed yet from your last attack.
“Hey! Stop that right now!” Kichi orders.
“Why don’t you make me?” you taunt.
“Alright. Fine!” he says as he pulls the heads back and makes the machine fall on its back, luckily you are able to dodge and roll…Kichi…not so much.
“Oooooohhhh” he moans as his head spins and he dizzily gets up and walks around.
“That was not a good plan on my part.”
“No, no it wasn’t” Samus says from right behind him. He gulps and turns around only to be met by an uppercut, which sends him flying backward.
“Consider that my resignation. The Extra Lives are out!”
Kichi sits up, rubbing his jaw before he suddenly flees into the foal room.
“Hey get back he-“ she calls out before being interrupted by Mangleoid as it sits up and shoves her in his mouth of heads.
“SAMUS!!!” you cry out as you rush forth with your Boomstick and shove it into the maw before they close down fully, causing the jaw to spring open, and the terrified griffin to roll out.
“Holy Balls! I was almost a chicken dinner!” she yelps.
“Your words, not mine, now help me!” you yell as the monster keeps trying to chomp on you.
You again attach yourself to its back and are able to take out two of it’s arms by cutting them off at the joints and burning them to ash on the ground for good measure. The beast roars in pain before it's eight eyes start to glow red, and it's attacks begin to get even faster and stronger. You are thrown of eventually and Samus gets slapped into you. As the both of you get up, you both have to dodge as the Mangloid bull charges you. The both of you have to continually dodge as the attacks are starting to become less of a pattern and more of random flurry.
Through all of that though, you hear from inside the foal room.
“Hey kids, guess what, I’m taking you all to Whinny Land tomorrow!”
Followed by the cheers of many, many children.
“The buck?” you say aloud.
The door then opens and Kichi comes out looking pumped up.
“Alright, got my second wind. WOOO!”
“Are you seriously using those kids as a bucking battery you sick buck?!”
“What, it’s not like that’s any different from what you were doing with that little filly today. We Changelings need love as you know.”
“That is not what she is for!!!" you declare angrily before realizing what you've just admitted. Your eyes sharpen quickly though as you ask him, "And wait, What? How’d you figure that out? I-Whoah!” you yell as you are picked up and thrown by Mangleoid in your distraction.
“Wait, for real? You actually are a changeling?" Kichi says surprised.
"I...What? I thought you knew!" you declare.
"Well not really, I knew it was a 50/50 shot with your blue eyes and all, but dang did I call it or what?!” Kichi says happily.
“Wait seriously? You’re a changeling too?” Samus says flabbergasted as she lands on top of Mangleoid.
“Well…” you say as you nervously rub the back of your neck.
“Really? 3 Changelings in one night? I thought all you guys got imprisoned or killed after the invasion like his slide show said!”
“Well clearly not all of us! And no, that Filly is not a bucking power source!” you growl indignantly.
And here it comes to you that Kichi is using children, children of all things, and nothing more than batteries to feed his love. he may spruce it up with the fancy orphan stories, but it doesn't excuse the fact that they are being used. You picture Nightshade in that situation, and your eyes glow orange as you begin to charge at Kichi in rage. He looks surprised and starts to blast at you, but you manage to dodge his shouts as you yell at him in rage as you get closer,
Kersey's Comment
You can barely hear Samus hold back a laugh and you can see Kichi physically pale as he starts trying to blast you even more. But you just keep dodging and dodging and your about to reach hi-*SMACK*
You go flying backwards as the Mangleoid protects it's master from harm. Kichi laughs at you, and this pushes you to the brink as you yell,
Isn't that the bug calling the slick, slimy... Selena druggedly comments.
QUIET DRUGGY!
With that said you charge towards the Mangleoid while holding out the Power Glove as you charge it up. As you are about to reach it, you jump towards it and...
joyjumper94's Comment
rainbowPOOTIS's Comemnt
"WOULD YOU KINDLY BURN?!"
You begin to blast fire ball after fire ball at the animatronic. This, like before, melts off it's armor and revels it's machinery. Not giving it any time to retaliate you quickly shout,
"WOULD YOU KINDLY FREEZE?!"
You begin, while somehow still in the air, to freeze the Mangleoid's circuits and joints, slowing it's healing to a crawl. The Mangloid tries to swat at you, but with less arms it misses and soon most of it is frozen and it begins to move slowly away from you. Not giving it a chance to get away you rev up your chainsaw and you slice it right in half. Straight from the middle head and through it's power chord and to the floor. But you don't stop there. You begin to use your momentum and begin to jump all round the Mangleoid, slicing and dicing everything you come near. All the while you are shouting,
"DIE ,DIE MY PRETTIES! HAHAHAHHAHAHAHA!"
You soon cut it one last time before jumping behind it with your back towards it. You are now facing Kichi who, after seeing you blast the Mangleoid with fire again, decided to move farther away from it.
The Mangloid begins to spark and crackle all over itself, and some of it's parts begin to fall of it or slide away. You don't look at it as you slam the chain saw into the ground blade first while saying,
You coat flutters from the wind and you smile evilly at this. While on the outside you're calm, on the inside...
So bucking cool! I just pulled off a "Cool stallions don't look at explosions!" and with a kickflank line before hoof! Double points!
Shaking your head to remain calm, you begin to stalk towards Kichi, who is looking at you in pure terror...until he starts to smile at you smugly. You gain a confused look at this and are about to ask why he looks so smug when...*SMACK*
You are sent flying into a wall. You quickly recover as you look over and see...
"OH COME THE BUCK ON!"
The Mangloid. It only has 1 arm left, no legs, it's body is halved down the middle, and two of it's heads are gone. The one head left being Mangle's and that one is missing half it's head as well. There are holes all over it's body and sparks fly from it everywhere. I riggidly uses it's one arm to crawl what's left of it's body towards you. Your anger gets the best of you, as usual, as you yell in rage,
"WHY WON'T YOU STAY DEAD! FOR THE LOVE OF LUNA YOU BLEW UP! JUST DIE AND STAY DEAD WILL YA!"
The Mangloid just growls, and Kichi just smirks as he's about to say something,
"Well you see the reason why this beast keeps living is-"
*BOOM*
The Pony Spartan's Comment
The wall to your right explodes, making rubble and smoke fly everywhere. You, Samus, and Kichi cover your eyes from the smoke.
"Oh COME ON!" Kichi yelled, still covering his eyes a bit. "WHY IS EVERYTHING GETTING DESTROYED?! THESE ARE ALL VERY EXSPENSI-" He gasps.
The smoke finally cleared, and you see a blue pony with a black jacket without sleeves.
"Y-you are..."
The pony looks up at Kichi with no expression, not saying a word.
"Pony... Spartan..." You notice that Kichi sounds surprised.
"Who is that guy?" You ask Samus in a whisper.
"Beats me. Has a weird name though." She whispers back.
Pony Spartan stares at Kichi. "Pony Spartan... it's been a long time since I've been called that."
Kichi's eyes widen. "I can't believe it... you're alive!"
Spartan stood still. "Does that surprise you?"
"Y-yes actually... But still, Spartan, blowing up your friend's wall is not how you greet the-"
"You left me to die! And my name is not Spartan, it never was!" the blue pony shouts.
Kichi laughs at this "You and your silly jokes, of course it was," he chuckles while walking up to him. "So what's your name now then?"
"I am Changer. And I never was Spartan!"
"Well, anyways, glad to have you back buddy. Look I could really use your help righ-" A burst of magic sends Kichi flying back into the wall behind him.
Once Kichi collects himself, he asks in confusion, "What in Tartarus was that for?!"
Changer growled. "One, I didn't come back to join the Crimson Knight's, Two, you AREN'T my Buddy, And three, You better prepare yourself, bastard!"
"He was a Crimson Knight before?!" You say aloud.
"I guess so?" she shrugs.
Changer stepped forward. "First, you, then the others..." he growls.
"Huh...must have some beef with them all like me...still, former Knight means...yep, there's your name," you say as you open up your wanted book and see his name. Pony Spartan. You then look back to the unfolding drama.
"Why are you acting so crazy? And since when could you use magic like this?" Kichi mumbles as he backs away. Changer keeps advancing, until Mangleoid crawls in between them
It screeches and tries to strike him with it's one arm, but he teleports out of the way and appears behind Kichi.
Kichi whirls around and squeaks in surprise. "Okay...clearly you learned something, but come on, stop trying to hurt me or the robot will take you out," he warns.
Changer just rolls his eyes and looks back at the sparking crazy thing. "Hmph. Hiding behind a piece of junk? Pathetic. Fine, I'll play your game just this once, but then you're next!" Changer teleports again...
Right in front of Mangleoid.
Before the animatronic can do anything, Changer takes out a magma-colored book, opens showing the monster the pages, and yells "Fire Ball!"
After that, a fireball flies from the book, striking the robot and sending it flying back.
He then jumps in the air and two more fireballs come out, making the robot dismantle even more then it already was.
He then lands and takes out a light blue book with the same design. He opens it and a blue stream comes from the page, striking the animatronic, encasing it in ice.
"There, takes care of that," he says facing Kichi again with a smug expression.
"Oh big deal, I already had it beat," you snark at the former Knight.
He just looks at you and your appearance and raises an eyebrow.
"Then why wasn't it dead?" he monotones.
"Well it would have been had you not gate crashed the party!"
He just rolls his eyes and says, "Whatever," before looking back at Kichi, "You're nex-"
"That was amazing! I don't know how you got so strong, Spartan, but those spells were like that Bounty Hunter's" he says excitedly while pointing at you. "Now come on, quit being so weird, we could use that kind of magic on our side and-".
"AFTER YOU ALL LEFT ME TO DIE YOU THINK I WILL COME BACK TO YOU?!" he growls angrily.
Kichi flinched, "But...we didn't..."
"And my name... ISN'T PONY SPARTAN!" With that he runs up to Kichi and punchess him square in the gut, making him gag.
Samus looks at you questioningly, "Shouldn't we help him?"
You look at the soon-to-be fight between Kichi and Changer before looking back at Samus.
"Nah, I think this Changer guy's got it."
"No, I meant Kichi, he's our target," Samus clarifies.
"Oh...nah to that too," you declare.
"Why not?"
"Think about it. This Spartan guy takes care of him, and we don't have to get dirty. And there's a bounty on his head too so we take him in after he's exhausted himself."
"What if he kills him though?!"
"Well I'm not going to let that happen, I need my paycheck after all."
Samus looked hesitant for a second before sitting down next to you.
You watch the fight go on...well fight is the wrong word. Kichi keeps mumbling and sending out spells to which Changer dodges and just keeps advancing menacingly.
"Why? Why are you like this? Where's the kind, friendly, and goofy Spartan we all knew? You were on my pyramid..." Kichi blubbers in hurt and confusion.
Changer stops at this. "Yes, I can admit that I was anything but smart or strong back then, but that was the past. Focus on the future you stupid foal stealing bug. Oh, and by the way, your future isn't pleasant!" He kicks the Knight in the chest sending him to the floor. You really wish you had a bag of popcorn for this moment as it's been awhile since you've seen a movie. But then your head crowd decide to comment.
BrownDog's Comment
This guy is stealing all our fun…I has a sad face now…
Sadness is fleeting…as is life…
“Oh for, WAIT!!!” you yell out to the combatants. They both turn to you.
“Before go any further, I need to know something from Kichi.”
“What is it?” they both ask.
“Where in the buck is the antidote to the tranqs you gave me?!”
“Over there on your waterbending friend,” he points out.
“Alright thanks, carry on then.”
They then resume and you walk over and search the tied up bounty hunter. Sure enough she’s got a syringe of blue stuff on her. You then untie and start shaking Aqua, who groggily groans and blinks her eyes.
“CV…that you?”
“Yeah, hey good to see you, anyway, no time to really talk, but do you remember where they injected this antidote?”
“My neck…right here…” she woozily says and points to the side of her neck.
“Alright, here goes nothing,” you proclaim as you raise the needle and jam it in your neck.
You pause for a good 3 heartbeats before you suddenly scream at the pain caused by what you just did.
“AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!Why did I do that?!” you scream as you throw the needle away, causing Kichi and Changer to give you a sideglance, before continuing their little drama.
Bugze…what is this new stuff?
“It’s the antidote, drink up, I don’t want you loopy for another 3 days, this will speed things up hopefully.”
Aww…do I have to share? She pouts
“…actually no, take it all, let Smokey Joe be mellow for as long as we can”
Hooray! She cheers.
Karma is a wheel insect…what goes around…comes around… he philosophizes.
Eh, I just believe that Lady Luck has it out for me, but if Lady Karma is who hates ya so be it.
You snap out of your conversation when you here Aqua come to again and say,
"What... happened? CV? Samus?"
"Well look who decided to finally wake up," Samus snarks.
"Yeah but-" She looks over at Changer, who freezes Kichi's limbs together and his mouth and slings him over his back. "Isn't that- Hey!"
Changer turns and looks at Aqua, "What?"
"What do you think you're doing. That's our bounty!"
"Bounty? Hmph, I have no interest in that."
"Huh?"
"I do this for revenge. So I'll kindly walk out of here thank you very much."
Aqua makes a mini wave out of her canteens and moves it to block the doorway. "Oh no, you don't. I want my bounty. You can have your revenge after he goes to jail."
"Yeah, I have to agree with the lady pal. After all the crap we went through tonight, he's ours."
Changer glares at you three and growls.
"You better stay out of my way bounty hunters..."
"Yeah, I don't think so. See, you got a price on your head too buddy. So would you kindly drop the schmuck?"
"I'm not with the Knights anymore, and I'm not here to fight you, but I will if you try anything," he warns.
"Oh we will for sure, not give up, You're not getting out the door," you growl back.
Changer closes his eyes at this "Oh gee, well I guess I'll just go through the hole I made then," he says sarcastically as he turns towards his Kool-Aid Stallion Entrance Hole he made. But stops as he sees something coming from it.
"U-uh..." he mumbles as smoke is pouring through it.
It's then that you realize how warm it's getting in this boss chamber.
"Why is it so hot in here, and where'd that smoke come from?" Aqua asks.
"Yeah, I didn't set fire to anything with that blast..." Changer says in confusion.
Both you and Samus's eyes shrink as you realize you never put out those fires you set in the challenge rooms.
"Uh-oh..."
*Whoosh*
As if those are the magic words, the whole room suddenly fills with smoke and fire.
"We need to get out of her-"
Samus was cut off when she heard a booming voice.
"THIS IS THE BASTION GUARD! IF ANYONE IS IN THE BUILDING, EVACUATE IMMEDIATELY!!!"
You and your two companions gasp at the voice as Changer looks more annoyed.
"Royal Guards, great, but it doesn't change anything, I'm not going to-."
"Oi Buckface, think fast!" you yell as you take advantage of the distraction to rush up and falcon punch him in the jaw, sending him flying through the hole he made, disappearing into the smoke and causing Kichi to fall off his back at your feet.
"We'll deal with you later!" you yell to the smoke as you look down at the dropped icebound Changeling and pick him up. "Alright, let's get out of here before he comes back or the building falls down.
"What about the children?" Samus coughs.
"Yeah, We need to get them out of here!" Aqua agrees, coughing as well.
"Both of you! Take this saddle bag and get them in there, I'll look for any straggles or kids who are still in the building! I'll meet you both outside!"
They both nod and take the Prison Saddle before heading off to the children's room. You on the other hoof head out of the boss room door with the bound Kichi on your back to look for anyling in the building.
Entering the Night Guard station, you find it clear from smoke at the moment, so you use your glove to melt the ice off his face as you ask.
"Is there anyling else left in the building? Anyling at all?"
"No, just me and two traitors to my pyramid..." he growls.
"Say what now?"
"I can't believe it, why would Spartan do this? He always had that stupid little grin on his face. Why did he betray me?" he then glares right at you. "And YOU!" he punctuates with a point blank blast of magic to your face, sending you scrambling into the wall behind you.
"OW! You son of a-" you look back at him as his ice restraints melt from the heat. He's breathing heavily and looks to be on his last legs. You are about to attack him, when he asks,
"Why?"
You gain a confused look as he continues,
"I had it made. I had a steady supply of love and games to last me a life time. I was finally able to live life in luxury. I even had some friends who didn't care that I was a changeling. I had everything. Then you had to come along! You ruined everything! If you had just minded your own business I could have made it big! And to make matters worse, you're a changeling like me! Why would you betray our kind! Why? Tell me bucking why you had to ruin it all?!"
You gain a cold, almost robotic look as you say,
"I've got plenty of names, and I've heard some of them tonight. Tell me a location...now..." you growl. You then loosen up on your choking. He gasps in a breath full of smoke, and begins choking as his eyes water.
-Try to get information out of the defeated Kichi and Silver Strange and they refuse to talk... until you lock them in a room with nothing but various copies of T.E. and Supermare 64 and force them to play it until they talk.
"I can't! I can give you names, but they'll revoke my video game money if I rat one of them out!"
"Would you rather end up smoked ham?" you threaten using the voice-deepening part of your mask.
"I don't care what you do! You'll never make me talk."
You're about to respond when you spot a small open door to a low room with some familiar looking cartridges.
"Is that so..." you smirk under your mask.
A FEW MINUTES LATER
We now find you leaning against a door to a small compartment that's low to the ground and away from the smoke so you shoved Kichi in there. It sounds like you were doing him a favor-
"AAAAAAAAHH!!! LET ME OUT!!!"
...But that compartment was filled with a console and multiple cartiridges of T.E. and Supermare 64.
"What? I thought you liked video games?" you snark.
"THESE CONTROLS BUCKING SUCK!!!" he wails, "I'D RATHER TAKE MY CHANCES WITH THE BUCKING FIRE!!!"
"Oh don't be like that." you snark.
"YOU'LL BURN OR SUFFOCATE OUT THERE IN THE FLAMES AND SMOKE TOO YOU DUMBFLANK!!!"
"Eh, I got a mask on and my coat is fire-resistant so this smoke and fire might as well be fresh air on the lakeside." you nonchalantly say as your eyes look around the room for snacks.
You think as a gamer, he'd have some snacks lying aroun-
"FOR THE LOVE OF CHRYSALIS LET ME OUT!!!"
"So you ready to talk now or do you want 9001 more attempts to fly through those ring-?"
"FINE FINE! I'LL BUCKING TALK!!!"
With that, you get off the door, open it, and drag out Kichi.
He coughs, looks you in the eye and gives you one of the names you heard this night, and where to find them.
"You better not be lying," you warn.
"Oh I'm not...Have...fun..." he says before the smoke causes him to pass out.
You cuff him just as Aqua and Samus come running past you with the saddlebag.
"We got'em all, anyone else?!" Aqua asks as she hands you the bags, to which you put the Crimson Knight into.
"No, just him. Let's go!" you yell as you all make your way down the burning corridors of Freddy Fazbear's.
Aqua runs ahead, clearing a path with her waterbending towards the exit.
"Before you continue further, Samus stops you with a claw to the shoulder.
"What?"
She sighs before she says,
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“Red...after everything tonight…can you please just let me go? I swear I won’t go back to my old ways.”
“I…well you are wanted…I really should…” you tell her.
“Oh come on...Look, I don’t want to be mean or anything, but I will say this. I won’t tell anyone about you being a Changeling if you let me go alright?”
Your eyes widen a bit.
“But…isn’t that like blackmail?”
“It doesn’t have to be…come on Red…please just let me go? Please?”
“CV! What are you doing? Get out of there!” Aqua yells.
The place is still on fire, smoke is no doubt causing her to see double, but you see the desperation in her eyes. She did help you, her crimes are nowhere near as severe as the Knights, and you're already getting a lot of reward money for tonight. Plus, she's an attractive female giving you puppy dog eyes...
“Alright alright, hop in the prison bag and I’ll get you past the cops alright?”
She smiles and hops in as you run out.
When you catch back up to Aqua she asks.
“Yo, where’d she chicken go?”
“She’s gone,” you say.
“What do you mean she’s gone?” Aqua asks confused.
“She’s not here, and if the cops ask, we don’t know where she went, OK?”
“I-Alright then…” Aqua says assuredly.
You two then broke through the entrance way and were greeted by the sight of several fire brigades and Royal Guard members who were keeping the crowd back.
"We got two victims!" a voice cries out. You flip your mask lid over your teeth as they get closer and take you to the medic cart.
While you two recuperate, you watch as the fire ponies fail to stop the inferno and watch Freddy Fazbear's go up, which brings a smile to your face.
Later, one of the royal guards interview you and Aqua, and you give them your statement and show him your bounty hunter cards.
"Bounty Hunters? Who was the target?"
"Kichi, a Crimson Knight leader, and a changeling."
His eyes widen at this.
"A Crimson Knight leader?"
"Yep, and about 10 of his subordinates," you say as you reach into the bag and pull out all the bound and knocked out Knights.
"Holy Tartarus!" the Guard declares as other guards gather around.
You show them all the Speared Sun symbol on their cloaks and they gasp.
They then all start rounding them up and putting them into paddy wagons.
"Crimson Knights...and two of them were Changelings! What does this mean...?" he questions.
"That the Knights are taking in anyone. Apparently they're equal opportunists...also, you might want to get all these kids to child services."
"Kids, what ki-" he starts before you take out all the foals.
"Where did they all come from?!" he declares.
"Kichi was using them as love batteries, we freed them."
The guards then start rounding up the traumatized kids to get them to help.
"That's a horrifying thought...but still, thank you. Thank you both. Equestria holds a great debt to you two. This is the first Knight Leader that we've captured."
"Well you can pay that debt by giving us the bounty on their heads," you say nonchalantly.
"Oh of course," he says as he starts adding up the total of the 12 Knights.
"Plus, I think there's a bonus for two of them being changelings, and Kichi being a leader," Aqua adds.
"Of course," the guard says as he changes his total, "so you two will be recieving...16,000 bits."
"WOOHOO!!!" you and Aqua shout aloud.
You are given the bond, and as he does he asks, "By the way, what are your names?"
You pose yourself and declare, "I am The Crimson Vengeance, and you can quote me on this, I will be bringing more of the Crimson Knights down. And this is Aqua."
"Oh gee, thanks for the grand title," she snarks at you.
Meanwhile On A Nearby Hill
The soot covered blue stallion glares at the building as it burns down and watches as the guards take Kichi and the rest away.
"So now Kichi is beyond my reach...Damn. I'll get to him somehow one day. Still, there are still others out there." He then glares at you. "And you Bounty Hunter, you better not get in my way again..."
Back with You
After the interview, you both head to the now opening bank and cash out your reward, before splitting it 50/50.
8,000 Bits Added to Inventory
Then, you head to the edge of town near the woods, not noticing a small smoking figure tailing you.
You look around seeing noling, so you take the Griffon out of your bags and set her down.
"Alright, you're free now. Get going before I change my mind..."
Aqua seems surprised by this, but she keeps her mouth closed.
“Thanks Red…and I swear it, I will turn over a new leaf, and I swear I won't tell anyone about...you know what..." Samus responds.
“You better, or I’ll find you again,” you threaten.
“Yeah…I guess you will,” she chuckles nervously. You decide to lighten the mood though.
“So what will you do now?”
“Well my buddies don’t get out of jail for another 3 years, so I guess I could go back to Griffonstone, much as I don’t want to. Full of money grubby jerks and broken dreams... but it is home.”
You nod at this.
“Well good luck to you…say, what is your real name?”
“Well I haven’t gone by it in so long, but I guess I’ll have to while I lay low,” she says as she takes off her Zero Suit, letting her red fur breathe, as her green feather highlighted eyes become softer and she pulls you into a hug.
“It’s Greta…nice to meet ya Crimson Vengeance." She then lets go and giggles at the bit of blood coming out of your nose. "Be careful out there you two...I’ll see you around…” She smiles before walking off into the woods.
You smile slightly as she leaves, and start walking back into town when...
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...you feel a faint tap on one of your hind legs. You turn only to see the smoking doll-sized remains of Mangle fruitlessly pounding against your carapace. Merely a shadow of its former self, it can barely muster the strength of a filly.
"You're still alive?!" you yell in exasperation at the tiny animatronic. "Your boss is in jail, your home is gone, and you're tiny, what do you hope to accomplish?!"
The little fox gives a pathetic metallic whine and keeps whacking at your legs.
You just roll your eyes and lift the tiny wriggling plush in front of your face.
"Well it sure is determined...maybe you should put it out of it's misery?" Aqua suggests.
You start thinking that maybe she's right, until you hear from behind you.
"Alright Daddy, what's the deal? I haven't been able to get in your head all night and everything smells like smoke and-*GASP* Kanojo wa totemo kawaīdesu! Watashi wa kanojo o tamotsu koto ga dekimasu ka? (Translation: She's so cute! Can I keep her?)" Nightshade shouts as she bounds out of the inventory to hug the tiny menace. It freezes up in shock for a moment (and you prepare to pound it into dust if it tries anything), before its expression softens and it returns the hug.
Aww, that is adorable...No wait, this thing tried to eat me!
"Can I keep her daddy? Can I?" Nightshade declares holding onto Plush Mangle for dear life.
We did talk about getting her a pet... Selena suggests, sounding a little coherent.
"That thing is not a-Look Nightshade we can't..."
She then gives you the pouty lips and puppy dog eyes.
"I-But-Gyagh! Fine, you can keep it!" you yell as you throw your arms up in frustration.
"Yay!" she yells as she, and even the tiny mangle give you a hug. "Thank you Daddy, you're the best! I love you!" She then looks to the plush robot and says.
"Come on Mangle, i'll show you my room!" she then hops into the inventory with her new pet.
*Plush Mangle added to inventory*
Rolling your eyes, you turn to the stunned Aqua and say.
"Yeah, weird stuff is always happening, it's best just to roll with it."
She nods at this.
"And anyway, I'm sorry you got caught up in all this. But it was good working with you Aqua. I'll see you around," you say before heading back into town toward the train station. You are stopped however by an indignant voice.
"Wait, What? Just where do you think you're going?"
You gain a confused looks as you turn around to her and say,
"Uh...to find another Knight for capture?"
She continues to glare at you as she says,
"And you were gonna leave without me?"
"Well, yeah. We got our bounty for Kichi and I thought..."
"Listen buster, I don't know about you, but I am not through with any of this," she says as she glares at you.
"But I thought you said..."
"I know what I said, but if you recall, I was drugged for most of the night and didn't even get to help with the boss, your Griffon Girlfriend helped more than I did!"
"Well...I figured that would show you how dangerous it was and..."
"Hey, I just made 8,000 bits for one nights work. If you're still going after these cash cows, I'm not going anywhere. Plus, I still owe you one...heck, I owe you two now since you did all the work tonight."
"Sooo...?" you trail off.
"So, I'm still in, whether you want it or not," she declares.
You smirk at this and say, "Alright then, glad that's cleared up. Let's get the train station then, I already got our new target."
She smirks back, "Awesome sauce. Where we heading, and who is it?"
You tell her what Kichi told you and she nods.
"Well let's go then, we got a long train ride and we can catch up on sleep there," she says and starts walking to the train.
Later
You have paid for your tickets and are on your way to your destination for your next target. You think back on the night as Aqua snoozes. You contemplate sleep yourself, but your mind is still going a mile a minute. You've just taken out your first Knight leader, and 11 others, and on your way to another. You're actually making progress. Just 3 months ago, you were wandering the wilderness hiding from everyling. But now you have everything relatively under control, things are going smoothly. You haven't had an episode like in the Crystal Empire and...Your ears flatten when you think of this.
Even if you're making progress as The Crimson Vengeance, The Hooded Offender is still a monster to them. Heck, the whole situation probably would've worked itself out had you not been there. And Cadance...
It's been three months since your first friend has heard from you. You may have still felt uneasy around her considering what her doppelganger did, but you turned into a monster in front of her, you left her with an injured husband, and a broken city...and you have not told her a thing. Hanging your head, you realize that before you sleep, there is something that you have to do that is way overdue.
You take out a piece of paper and a pen and you write the first few words.
Dear Cadance,
I'm Sorry...
I know that it's probably 3 months overdue, but I am. I can't even begin to make up for what I did that day, and I've been a coward for not talking to you sooner. You don't have to respond to this if you don't want to, but I hope this letter at least gets read, for better or for worse. I traumatized all those ponies, and let my inner monster take over. I can't take back what I did, but I just want you to know that I am sorry. I can understand if you never forgive me, and I wouldn't blame you. I just wanted to apologize and let you know that I'm doing my best to make up for my mistakes. I am erasing the legacy of the Hooded Offender and Flag Burner. I will make sure noling else innocent is hurt by me. And if it helps, the whole Sombra thing is quite literally still haunting me. I'm glad Shining is okay, and that you've got your own Empire to rule...and I'm happy for you. I really am. Oh, and one more thing. I know the names of several Crimson Knight Leaders. Be on the lookout for these names and keep your ponies safe.
Brown Dog
Erised Ink Moth
Grey Rebl
Kersey
Kichi
Minds Eye
Rutherford
Snap Drake
Solarkness
There's probably more names out there, but these are the ones I know of. I hope it helps.
I miss you Cadance, and I truly am sorry.
Love,
Bugze.
After writing this, trying to both be vague and comforting at the same time, you send off the note with the tube she gave you.
Hoping that she'll accept your apology, you drift off to sleep. You had a very long night.
POV Change
You are Flash Sentry, right hand stallion to Prince Shining Armor himself. You've recently gotten into hot water over some things you said during a case, and ordered to go to anger management therapy
"I don't have a Celestia Damned anger problem!" you grit your teeth as you walk towards the palace therapist. "And I'm not a speciest. I'M NOT! I don't know why things keep dropping out of my mouth, it's like something is making me blurt them..." you groan and rub your temple.
You are back at your own post in the Crystal Empire. Things have gotten better since 3 months ago. The citizens are happy, the city has been rebuilt, and a new stadium is being built in preparation for the Equestrian Games next year. But still, even as the citizens raise a statue to Spike the Dragon for his bravery, there are still worries that The Hooded Offender will return.
Thinking about the incident, you groan again. Your life is anything but stable, you've been moved around constantly as you increased in rank, and had to deal with case after case involving the one constant thing over the last 3 years.
"The Offender...ugh, why didn't I take you down that first day with the Diamond Dogs? I would have saved the entire kingdom Billions of dollars and I wouldn't be chasing down your insane fans," you rant as your blood begins to boil. "Just when I think I've settled down, somehow you show up and buck things up for me again...Just wait till Shining Armor's new program gets started..." you growl before stopping.
"Huh...maybe I do have SOME anger issues...but they're justifiable, just like Changelings!"
You grit your teeth again as you work yourself up.
"Bucking Changelings...That IS the one species I will willingly hate on. You took my Bro Tennant away..." you sigh again as your anger is replaced with sadness.
"I miss you man. I miss how random and crazy you were. How you somehow had the eyes of several cute mares, how we would hang out and talk nerdy stuff...*Sigh* I wish there was something more I could have done..."
You sniffle and shake your head from these sad thoughts. You're about to see a therapist, you don't want to give them anything that will make you stay there longer.
Staying determine, you walk on ahead down the crystal corridors. But pause as you hear somepony crying in a nearby room.
"Hello?" you say, but the mare on the other side keeps crying. You place your ear to the door and you can tell the mare is speaking as she sobs...and you recognize her voice.
Princess Cadance?
Wondering why your bosses wife is crying, you are about to knock on the door, when you hear her say something that throws you for a loop.
"Oh Bugze...*Sniff* Bugze...I miss you too...*Sob*"
Bugze. That's the name Shining Armor called The Hooded Offender back in Fillydelphia. The name of the Changeling that's caused you so much grief. From what you'd gathered, Princess Cadance had a connection to him. Was she talking to him on the other side of this very door?! Was he here?!
Not thinking for another second, you rear up and kick the door in, before leaping through and taking a battle stance.
Inside the room, you see a startled Princess Cadance with runny mascara looking at you in shock.
"Flash?! What are you doing?" she asks in shock.
WHAT DO YOU DO?
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