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The heroes blinked as Twilight emerged with a paddle. And then noticed other ponies approaching them from all over town.
"Uh oh..." said Sweetie Belle.
Thankfully Button's mother was either too devoted to her son and still having the memory of being an embodiment of maternal instinct, or simply completely exhausted by the effort and wasn't involved.
"Other me sent the entire town after us!" Sweetie Belle exclaimed.
Applebloom jumped back as Twilight tried to grab her. "We need tah get out of here!"
Button thought. "Wait! I have an idea!" he said, taking out his game.
"Button, this is no time for games!" Sweetie exclaimed, Sunny Days having to save her from being grabbed by Twilight.
"It's not a game! Okay it is, but watch!"
Pixels flew out of the game and assembled into a large stallion wearing full body blue plate armor with white horns that concealed him completely and carrying blue shovel.
Isthmia grabbed his friends in his pixelated telekinesis and put them and himself on the strange knight's back.
"Get us out of here, Shovel Guard!" ordered the little Alicorn.
"Yes my liege!" was the reply, and the video game character brought to life smashed through the wall with his shovel and galloped off, dodging ponies.
"You can summon video game characters?!" Diamond asked, eyes wide.
"Well he IS the embodiment of Gaming," said Sunny Days. "The Goddess of Imagination can summon any character ever imagined at will."
"I am going to love this kid!" Discord exclaimed.
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Diamond Tiara asked. "But haven't there been like... a million parodies that show video game heroes would be completely psychos if they acted the way they did in real life? As I recall... didn't Shovel Guard act that way when played from the bad guy POV?"
"You play video games?" Button Mash asked.
"Daddy buys me everything ... and then I had Silver Spoon play through it because I couldn't get past the tutorial stage for the second campaign."
Shovel Guard meanwhile, began shoveling up random piles of dirt, looking for jewels, and struck June Bug, turning her into a pile of jewels that he then picked up.
"Uh-oh." said the Prince.
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"What do I do? What do I do?!" Button Mash asked, panicking.
"You're the Alicorn!" Diamond replied.
"I just got my powers!"
"Button!" Sunny Days exclaimed. "You're the Alicorn of Gaming, he's YOUR Guard. He has to LISTEN to you. He'll act only as he's programmed if left to his own devices, he needs to be commanded to act outside it."
"Right...uh...Shovel Guard!"
"Yes, my Liege?" Shovel Guard replied, preparing to smash through a window.
"That pony was innocent!" Button replied. "Ponies aren't you enemy...unless they're evil, and she wasn't!"
Shovel Guard paused...then a pixelated down beat played and he bowed. "My apologizes, my liege. I am new to this strange three dimensional realm. Who art thy enemies?"
"Evil robots!" Button replied. "Promise me you won't hurt ponies!"
Shovel Guard bowed. "I swear on your name and my honor, my Liege that no innocent pony will suffer by my shovel."
"And please be careful when it comes to property damage, okay?"
"...I will try."
"Uncle...can you do something about...you know..."
Discord sighed. "She's technically transformed, not dead..." Discord snapped his fingers and June Bug gasped, jumping out of the bag.
She screamed and ran away.
Shovel Guard blinked. "I...am not certain how to react to that..."
Discord however, fell on his back laughing.
"Button, remember, any game characters you summon need YOU to guide them outside of their context," Sunny Days explained. "You're STILL the player, just in a different way. They don't know any better and NEED you, okay?"
"Okay...So if I summon Celesti?"
"She should be fine given helping ponies IS how you get anything in her game, but you'll still need to help her with brush techniques..."
"Cool!"
"Girls! Incoming!" Applebloom said, pointing to the incoming swarm of brainwashed ponies.
"Shovel Guard! Dig a pit!...But only deep enough to trap them, okay?" Button ordered.
"At once, my liege!" Shovel Guard announced, doing just that and sending the brainwashed ponies into a trap just deep enough they couldn't escape in their current state.
"Like that, Mrs. Sunny Day?" Button Mash asked.
"Yes, just like that, young Princes."
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"I thought new Alicorns were supposed to spend a zillion years learning about their powers," said Sweetie Belle, holding onto their galloping ride for dear life.
Button Mash grinned bashfully. "I... kinda asked for the quick version. I want to spend that zillion years together with you."
Sweetie blushed. "Aw, that's so sweet!"
Scootaloo flew overhead, overtaking the Shovel Guard, then landed to trot alongside them. "Wait! They have wooden paddles! Why are we running?"
"Does *everything* have to have a reason?" grumbled Discord. "I suppose you'd prefer it if they were electrified. Or on fire, perhaps?"
The ponies in the ditch all turned their heads like marionettes, and started climbing out. "Stop the brats," boomed Big Mac and Red Gala.
"Stop the brats!" chanted Lotus and Aloe.
"Stop the brats! Stop the brats! Stop the brats!"
Diamond Tiara sighed. "Uncle, can't I Chaos Bomb them, just a little?"
A great burst of fireworks and smoke blocked their escape route. Trixie and Gilda leapt out, then flung aside a curtain to reveal... Applejack.
Apple Bloom cringed, wings hanging limp. "Sis, no..."
Sunny hugged the small griffon tight. "Stay strong. You *know* that's not really your sister talking."
Applejack scowled and, sure enough, began to sing...
= Tune: Bats =
"Those Cutie Mark Crusaders will give you a fright!
Questing for their marks both day and night
They'll rest for a minute, maybe four
And then they're off to terrorize our town some more!
There's no cockamamie stunt they won't try, not a thing.
They'll be our town's undoing."
Sweetie Belle floated into the air, singing right back at her.
"Now wait just a minute, there's another side, you see?
You don't know all the good we've done as a team."
Scootaloo jumped in, singing in a growling bass...
"We've got fillies their marks, and now our first colt too.
We beat up all the monsters and hung out with Daring Do!"
Applejack rolled her eyes and pointed an accusing hoof.
"Oh, give me a break, you've clearly jumped the fence!
If tree sap was the worst, Ah might come to your defense.
But Scootaloo's a dragon, Sweetie Belle is just bizarre
Some kind monster fish thing, don't know what the heck you are!
Apple Bloom's a wolf, a dog, and now a griffon too!
Button thinks he's an Alicorn, it's totally a zoo!"
Apple Bloom quickly turned back into an earth pony, not wanting to find out what a singing griffon sounded like.
"But it's true, Button is an Alicorn!
He beat his Nightmare and he's been reborn
Those Nightmares are the ones that you should fight."
The crowd of hypnotized townsponies drew closer, Applejack marching in front of them.
"Then how bout you explain why *Discord's* on your side!
They'll drown us all in chaos and our town will fall.
They're even friends with Diamond, the worst brat of them all!
"Hey!" shouted Diamond Tiara. "I can't believe this, it's so lame."
"You've only got yourselves to blame!" retorted AJ.
Mayor Mare cleared her throat...
"Those fillies simply are the worst
They won't get us, we'll get them first!"
And Twilight teleported in front of the crowd and sang,
"Those naughty girls will change their tone
When Discord's sealed back up in stone!"
All of the townsponies started chanting, marching in circles around the Crusaders...
"Stop the brats! Stop the brats!
Make them go and not come back!
Stop the brats! Stop the brats!
Make them go and not come back!
Stop the brats! Stop the brats!
Make them go and not come back!"
And then Nightmare Cantana dove out of the clouds like a falling star and slammed to a stop in midair, blowing all their manes back.
"Yes, it comes down to just one simple fact..."
She used her black magic to engulf herself in a sphere of water, and from this an inky black and sickly green Nightmare Siren emerged.
"You took my Pixel.... I'll destroy you for that!"
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Sunny Days looked up in shock.
"What do you want me to do, my liege?" Shovel Guard asked, preparing his shovel.
Button looked at the situation. Then remembered what happened earlier. "They're innocents! build us a trench!" Shovel Guard nodded and did so. He pulled out his game and summoned a blocky pony that looked based off him. "Manecraft me! Night's about to fall!"
The blocky pony rapidly built a wall around them out of blocks of dirt and stone that were surprisingly durable right inside the trench Shovel Guard had dug and kept doing so. Thankfully he'd had iron in his inventory for an iron door.
"Do we have to worry about him attacking pony?" Applebloom asked.
"Nah, he's me. And I never attack the villagers, right?" asked Button, Manecraft Button nodding.
Nightmare Cantana snarled and smashed into the structure, breaking several blocks that Manecraft Button quickly tried to patch up.
"What do we do?! We can't fight a Nightmare head on!" Scootaloo exclaimed as Manecraft Button was trying to repair the damage Cantana and the brainwashed ponies were doing.
Sunny Days looked at Sweetie Belle. The little Siren. "...Sweetie, you need to eat all the negative energy that the Nightmares are giving off."
Sweetie Belle's eyes widened. "But what if I can't control it?!"
"You're one of the only ponies I've ever seen who can control dark magic," Sunny Days explained. "You CAN."
Sweetie Belle still looked hesitant. "But...even if I do, SHE'S a siren to!"
"Yes, and what did you learn from the Changelings about emotivoirs?"
The little siren gasped. "They can't feed off their own emotions..."
"You've got THREE Nightmares to feed on, plus everypony else. She's only got two. Given the three sirens that appeared in legend, that should even the odds. She's a Nightmare Siren, but you've got one extra fuel source than her."
Discord sighed. "And she STILL has that chaos blocker thing, so you're kinda the only one who can do it."
Button Mash hugged Sweetie. "Sweetie Belle...if anypony can do it, it's you."
Sweetie blinked...then hugged him back. "...Okay..."
Manecraft Button blinked, finding he'd run out of building blocks, allowing Cantana to blast the roof off and then tail whip him, causing him to turn red and disappear in a puff of smoke. 'Button_Mash was killed by Nightmare Cantana' somehow appeared at the side of the camera.
"Oh no!" Applebloom said.
"Don't worry! He wasn't on Hardcore!" said Button, pressing Respawn, then blinked. "...But he doesn't have a bed..."
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Manecraft Button blinked, finding himself respawning on a deserted island in the middle of nowhere. He simply shrugged and began punching trees to get wood.
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Shovel Guard put Button behind him and prepared to defend him.
"Sweetie Belle! Do it now!" Sunny Days said.
Sweetie Belle nodded and focused. She let out a single long octave.
She felt everypony in town. All their negative emotions (particularly because of Cantana's spell). The Nightmare Trio's dark magic making her mouth water.
'Remember, Sweetie Belle...Chryssy always said to control the dark magic, don't let it control you...you're the beast tamer it's the beast...' she thought.
The town was practically fogbound by a green miasma only she could see. She inhaled. It flew into her, like a moth to the flame. Even the energy from Nightmare Cantana.
The dark energy swirled around her to the point of becoming visible.
Cantana blinked. "What?"
A long note sent a red sonic wave, blasting the Nightmare Siren back.
Sweetie Belle emerged from the shattered shelter, now considerably larger. "Give me my sister back!"
"Give me my Pixel back!" Cantana yelled.
=Battle of the Bands=
The two began to sing, sonic waves colliding fairly evenly.
The slaves began to be confused, like puppets with two puppeteers each trying to control them.
Discord smirked. "Siren vs Nightmare, place your bets. Oh I've always wanted to say something like that!"
Several brainwashed ponies pulled out instruments.
Button replied by summoning the instruments from his rock band game and giving them to his friends. "Don't worry! Video game controls!"
Both groups began to play.
"We were oh so happy together," sang Cantana.
"Can't you see you're being a fool?" Sweetie sang back.
"You think that for him you are better?" Cantana sang.
"No, I just can't help you keep your rule!" the siren sang back, the two's sonic waves colliding.
Cantana snarled. "Fine then, enough of these games!"
"Let's see who's voice is louder!" Sweetie countered.
The two cloaked each other in dark magic and charged, slamming into each other.
"Why'd he want someone so lame?" Cantana sang, slamming Sweetie back and smashing a giant board of Applebloom's.
"Because it's the heart that matters!" Sweetie Belle sang back, blasting Cantana back and sending her crashing through a flying camera drone.
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Nightmare Instrumentum sighed as her video feed went dead. "Not again..."
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"Me and you, you and me,
Why don't we see who is better?
Music is our blood, so let's just do our thing," the two both sang, another pair of sonic blasts colliding.
"Can't you see this magic is an addiction?" Sweetie Belle sang, headbutting her Nightmare and driving her back.
"No it isn't, it's a loss of limitation!" Cantana sang back, tail-whipping her back.
"That's not true and you know it!" Sweetie Belle sang, flying up and biting down on Cantana's tail before swinging her around and tossing her into a building.
"You're just jealous I'm the best!" Cantana sang back, swinging her tail up and nailing Sweetie in the gut before flipping forwards and driving her into a building with her tail.
"Sweetie! Take it the other way!" Applebloom yelled, playing the drums (video game style of course).
Sweetie nodded, getting up. "Can't you see ponies will be hurt?" she sang, 'swimming' sideways and wrapping her hooves around Cantana's tail, swinging her around and throwing her to the clearing just outside of Ponyville.
"No, they're all singing with the rest!" Cantana sang, blasting Sweetie into a tree when she charged her.
The two both rose up and began swinging a long note, the sound waves clashing.
"Battle, I'm gonna win it!
Let's have a battle! Battle of the Bands!
Let's have a battle! Let's go all in it!
Let's have a battle! Battle! Battle! Battle of the Bands!" both of them sang, the Crusaders and Diamond finding themselves singing with Sweetie while the brainwashed crowd were split.
"How did this turn into a battle of the bands?!" Diamond Tiara asked, not caring how she was playing a guitar with hooves.
"I am likewise extremely confused," said Shovel Guard, playing his shovel like a guitar and it somehow working.
"Because we're watching two magical divas fighting! It tends to be how it works!" Discord said, somehow playing rock music on the bagpipes.
"Me and you, you and me,
Why don't we see who is better?
Music is our blood, so let's just do our thing," the two both sang, flying at each other and blasting each other flying with a point blank blast of sound.
"Can't you see this magic is an addiction?" Sweetie Belle sang
"No it isn't, it's a loss of limitation!" Cantana sang back.
"Battle, I'm gonna win it!
Let's have a battle! Battle of the Bands!
Let's have a battle! Let's go all in it!
Let's have a battle! Battle! Battle! Battle of the Bands!"
The two inhaled and let loose another sonic attack, this time colliding with enough force to shatter windows around them.
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Nightmare Cantata shoved her way out of a wrecked cottage. "I won't lose to some cheap imitation of myself..." She eyed Scootaloo, then grinned cruelly and teleported. The orange and purple dragoness yelped, suddenly finding the dark siren clinging to her back. "Your greed is MINE!"
Scootaloo roared, shrinking rapidly. She flopped to the ground unconscious, just a baby dragon no bigger than Spike.
"No!" shouted Sweetie Belle, singing a dissonant note, but Cantata dodged away in plenty of time, laughing. Now Sweetie was weaker for not having Scootaloo's greed, and Cantata crackled with renewed power. "This isn't working..." She wove the power of rock from her friends into a shield against Cantata's next attack, but the shield fractured and flickered from just one blow. "How can I make her listen, when we don't have the Elements? How can I reach her heart?"
Button Mash gasped. "Reach her heart?" The little Alicorn prince drew himself up and spread his wings, focusing his magic. "I knew there was something special about those Keyblades, the moment I first saw one. There has to be a place... some world out there... where they're part of a video game!" The glow from his horn grew sharp and bright. "There!" Light fountained out of the ground. He thrust a hoof in, and drew out a long, ornate weapon with a pommel shaped like Sweetie's cutie mark, and bits like a princess's crown.
"Sweetie, I'm giving you Heart Song!" shouted Prince Isthmia, hurling it towards her.
Sweetie caught it in her magic, confused. "Button, this isn't a Heart Song. It's a sword... I think..."
Isthmia shook his head. "It's a Keyblade! You can use it to unlock the Nightmare's heart!"
But Cantata had seen the Keyblade too, and she looked furious. "How dare you? I'm the true, perfected Sweetie Belle! It should obey me!" She blasted Sweetie with a grinding dirge, grabbing the weapon away, and it just flashed and vanished, appearing next to Sweetie Belle again. "It... chose her instead of me?!!"
Sweetie didn't waste another moment... she gripped the Keyblade in her magic and flew, driving it into the Nightmare's chest... somehow, it sank in without seeming to hurt her. She gave it a twist... there was a breathless silence, and then a thunderous CLICK.
Everything went white... and Nightmare Cantata found herself an ordinary filly again, wearing strange clothes. She was sitting on a high ledge above a clock tower, she and her friends... Button Mash, Scootaloo, and Apple Bloom, and they were eating ice cream together, talking and laughing.
Button Mash turned to her, smiling warmly. "You know, Sweetie... summer's almost over."
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"But, that's not fair!" cried Cantata. "I don't want summer to be over. Why can't everything just stay like this... back when we were friends?"
A cold wind blew, and Cantata sat on the ledge alone, wearing a black robe with dangling silver chimes. Her eyes were the slit pupils of a Nightmare. "Why did they all have to go away? Mom and dad just did their own thing... they didn't care. Bigger big sister went away too. Rarity always had her work, and adventures with her friends. Chryssy..."
Cantata turned her head again, and she was in the throne room of Canterlot Palace, with Queen Chrysalis by her side, her every word law to the changeling swarm. "You cared about me more than mom and dad did," said Cantata bitterly. "And now you're gone too. Wait... you *can't* be here!"
"You are correct," said Chrysalis sternly. "I failed, and so I no longer deserve to exist. I'm only a creation of your memories. There is not a single thing I can tell you that you do not know already! If Chrysalis was truly here, she would tell you to stop weeping over past failures and lay plans for your future!"
"And that's just what I did," whispered Cantata. She turned the other way, and she was looking through that rift, watching the Crusaders of the Mirror World go off to become heroes with Captain Goodguy. "My friends and me were evil all along?" She smiled grimly. "Fine. I made my family stay. I made every pony in Ponyville happy. Because I said so. Why not? Nopony could stop me. But... But..."
She hung her head, the world around her going dark, all except for the mirror hanging in front of her. "Now *I'm* the reason why things can't be like they used to be. I'm the biggest hypocrite in Equestria. There's no cleaning up the mess I made, no point in apologizing, no use hoping I'll wake up and it'll all have been just a bad dream, because... I made a monster of myself, and this is how I'm going to be... forever."
The filly in the mirror came to life and rose up out of the glass, her fur turning white and her eyes normal, and she sat beside Cantata on the clock tower ledge. "It's true," said Sweetie Belle. "We can't go back... but we can't stay here either. The only way..." She pointed a hoof at the horizon. "... is forward. Together."
Cantata nudged a loose stone with her hoof, watching it fall off the side of the building. "That won't change what we did. What's sung is sung."
Sweetie Belle embraced her. "Then we'll sing a new song! We'll add a new verse to the song that never ends!"
Cantata shoved Sweetie back, smiling just a little bit, though she tried not to. "I swear, if you start singing that stupid song..."
"Not that song!" said the voice of Prince Isthmia.
"This song," said Sunny's voice warmly... and suddenly the world was falling away behind them as they flew into the stars... upwards and onwards into a brilliant light, and the light was Joy and Warmth, and it Sang....
Cantata trembled. "I... I can hear it..."
Sweetie Belle shivered, nodding too! "It sounds like..."
"Music... Sweet Music..."
In the real world, the two sirens fell into each other, and a cocoon of light sprang into being around both of them. The Keyblade clattered to the ground and vanished in a flash of swirling pixels.
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"Sweetie Belle is gone," said Nightmare Instrumentum asked in mild annoyance. "I just finished her gift."
A mechanical version of Chrysalis stood with unblinking optics. "Hello, Sweetie Belle. You are the one being I actually care about..." it said in emotionless robotic monotone. "Who is not me."
"That is bucking creepy," said Velocitas.
"Response: Thank you," replied Mecha Chrysalis.
"Eh, Applejack and Big Mac didn't mind the ones Ah gave them of our parents," the tinkering Alicorn said.
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"AHH!" Big Mac screamed, holding a door closed now that Sweetie Belle's siren song was broken, Granny Smith helping him.
"Open up, sweet heart," said the monotone, unfeeling robotic voice of the android modeled after Big Mac's deceased mother trying to get the door open.
"We only want to be family," said the cold, emotionless machine built in the likeness of his father.
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"Eh, whatever," said Velocitas. "I've still got Rainbow Dash!"
"Ah'm still impressed she beat the mecha Rainbow Dash I made," Instrumentum said.
"I know! She's so awesome!"
Ispita tapped her chin. "So you don't mind if I deal with them?"
Both Nightmares shrugged as Instrumentum went back to building another robot.
"...Then, Apple Bloom, I have a little project...a deadly one."
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The group sat, watching Sweetie Belle now being cocooned. "Well, that's two down," Diamond said. "Two to go."
They then noticed a gigantic statue of Rainbow Dash being assembled by robots. "...We should probably hurry."
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Button Mash flew over and smiled, running a hoof along the edge of Sweetie's cocoon. "Well... time to keep a promise! /brb, everypony!" The little Alicorn lit his horn and wove a matching cocoon for himself, leaving his game console behind.
Apple Bloom tilted her head. "'Bee arr' what now?"
Scootaloo stumbled over to them, still a baby dragon and walking upright like Spike. "Ugh... what did I miss?"
"Popcorn?" offered Discord, passing around several paper bags.
"Caramel flavored!" exclaimed Sunny. "You shouldn't have." She got a guilty look, before smiling and snacking on a hoof-full.
Both of the cocoons flashed, then burst simultaneously. =Sweetie Belle has evolved to Princess Euterpe!= read the gaming console, and an elegant victory fanfare played.
Scootaloo, Apple Bloom, and Diamond Tiara gasped... Apple Bloom forgot her popcorn and the bag fell over, spilling. Sunny set her bag down before clapping her hooves, and Discord gave them a claws up, watching through stylish shades.
After what seemed like days and days of her being a siren, Sweetie was finally equine again. Princess Euterpe's white coat gleamed in the sun, and her purple and pink mane had grown longer, floating and bobbing in the astral wind. Her new wings were iridescent, like Cadence's after she took control of the changeling swarm.
More surprising, both Euterpe and Isthmia looked older, though not yet full grown ponies. The two Alicorns nuzzled each other and shared a brief but warm kiss that made the fillies and baby dragon freeze in place, minds blown.
The game console chimed repeatedly, scrolling up more messages. =Relationship upgrade! Isthmia and Euterpe are now special someponies! ... Knowledge upgrade! Alicorn magic upgrade! Achievement Unlocked: Making Beautiful Music Together! Battle Songs Unlocked!=
Prince Isthmia grinned, reclaiming his console. "I wish I could say that we're overleveled for this now, but..."
Princess Euterpe's voice was sweet and musical, even though she wasn't singing. "This is going to be tough."
Diamond Tiara nudged Discord. "If I was my old self, I bet I'd be demanding to turn into a draconequus just to one-up them."
Discord tisked. "That's a more exclusive club, dear. Although, the lovely thing with chaos is that you never know what might happen."
"Okay, I'm jealous," murmured Scootaloo. "Ugh, how does Spike stand being so weak all the time? I want to be bigger again! Mmmm, bigger..." The baby dragon hiccuped and grew about the size of Big Mac, falling to all fours and regaining her wings. "Uh oh..."
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Diamond Tiara looked up at Applebloom's machine. "So that's where the last two are..." she said. She then noticed some of Nightmare Applebloom's robots beginning to rip up parts of Equus. "Uh...Button, you DID say that Instrumentum kept trying to use Equus to add onto her weird floating base, right?"
The Prince of Gaming nodded. "Yeah...oh...We need to stop her fast!"
"Let's get beneath it, maybe then we can find a way up!" Diamond yelled.
The group ran and found the Applecron was floating directly above the town lake. And that's not all.
"Why hello hello," said Ispita. "Looks like two of you got an Alicorn makeover, huh?"
"Yeah, which means that we can beat you now!" Euterpe exclaimed.
Ispita feigned fear. "Oh whatever will I do?" she then got a smirk. "Ask the alternate universe version of my hubby what's wrong with this picture?"
Discord groaned. "If she's like me, she wouldn't have shown up if it were THAT easy."
"EXACTLY!" Ispita said, as some beam of light slammed down in the middle of the lake. She teleported over, managing to float over the water. "Instrumentum was nice enough to give me a little gift!"
Suddenly, the water started to ripple outwards from Ispita's position, like it was splitting open.
"This ain't good..." Applebloom said.
=Mechagodzilla's theme- Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla (Showa)=
Suddenly, something rose up out of the water, Ispita's hooves touching down on top of metal.
Whatever it was kept rising out up as the water split to let whatever it was rise up.
The group looked up as a gigantic machine stood before them. While more monstrous in design, it was a giant, robotic rendition of Ispita's true form. The head resembled a more dragon shaped version of the one she had as a pony, the same color (albit of course metallic, being a mecha). It had the paw of a cougar, the claw of a dragon, the leg of a horse, a falcon talon for it's other leg. It had one swan wing and one raven wing. The main body is a deep purple color. Mechanical snake's tail extended from behind it, spines running the length of the segmented metal. The horns were antelope horn and an ibex, both curved back. Even the MANE was represented in metal.
=Super Mario Sunshine - Vs. Mecha Bowser=
"...That is so not fair..." Button Mash said.
Ispita got in the cockpit and her robot gave a roar, fire spraying from it's maul. "What do you think? Not as beautiful as the real deal, but a good approximation of my true beauty!"
The group had to jump out of the way of a stomp from the giant machine.
"I think you've got a freaking huge ego!" Diamond Tiara yelled.
Ispita's horn glowed and Diamond gave an 'oof!' as a pot and kettle fell on the filly's head. "Spirit of Temptation, HEEELLLLOOO! Of course I'm prideful!"
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Meanwhile, Nightmare Instrumentum had just finished a new machine. Once she finished terraforming Equus into her new Dyson Sphere, everypony would be happy and content as they'd have 24 energy instead of most of it going off into space wasted. Couldn't they see she was just helping society along?
Oh well. She too aim from her flying fortress, and fired.
Sunny Day was hit by the laser behind the foals. Her mane turned red. Celestia felt the connection to her avatar be severed.
"Hello Howdy doo! Ah better get to work!" Said Apple Day, now the avatar of Nightmare Instrumentum thanks to her patented 'avatar realignment ray' and teleported away to tell ponies how great the new Dyson Sphere would be.
Then she fired a magnet ray to Shovel Guard... cause him to vanish in a cloud of pixels as he was erased.
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"Lock next target," said Nightmare Instrumentum coldly. The crosshairs on her scanning monitor locked onto Apple Bloom.
Uncharacteristically, Instrumentum hesitated. "My time-folded past self. She is currently vulnerable and poses an extreme threat... but further scanning and analysis could enable me to once again access the shape-shifting forms Ah possessed before."
She tapped a different button, and the crosshairs locked onto Diamond Tiara instead. Her muzzle twitched in an almost-smile as she pulled the trigger.
Most of them were still gasping or turning their heads, reacting to the first two shots, when Euterpe sang a piercing high note, clear as crystal. A faceted barrier burst into existence over the whole group, deflecting an energy bolt just inches from Diamond's head.
Discord's jaw dropped, and then his face hardened into the most serious expression they'd ever seen on him. "Diamond... either go back to my Chaos realm, or saddle up. It's not safe for mere mortals here."
Diamond gulped and nodded, slowly transforming into a dragon hybrid again, larger and more dangerous looking than before.
Apple Bloom blinked. "Ah'm not gonna run and hide! You need me ta stop my Nightmare!"
Isthmia summoned his magic, creating a large pixelated field around them. "Terran command bunker!" They found themselves in the control room of a big round blue and grey mechanical fortress, easily able to see everything happening outside on giant viewscreens. Two identical ponies rolled up to them in bulky mech-suits. "SCV Units, make sure the armor stays in good repair." They saluted and got to work.
Then the Prince of Gaming grinned at Ispita's image on a monitor. "It's time we show her just how much we've improved!" He teleported outside and started performing a much stronger summoning. His horn threw bolts of pixelated lightning, and the clouds began to swirl overhead.
"I told you to stop running off before we talk strategy!" grumbled Euterpe, stamping a hoof. "Oh well..." She teleported out of the fortress too, standing beside Isthmia and conjuring a long silver flute, which she blew into while her magic held the instrument and moved the keys.
The storm clouds parted, and a monstrous feral griffon descended, black-furred and black-feathered, with a wickedly sharp beak and claws, and glowing red eyes. The flapping of its wings alone churned the lake with high waves and bent and splintered trees, before the massive paws and claws even touched the ground. "Go, Griffzilla!!" bellowed Prince Isthmia. "Defeat Mecha-Ispita!"
Diamond Tiara frowned, pointing a claw at the screen. "Why does the giant monster look like a pony in a rubber suit?"
"Movie tie-in game," said Discord. "Hey, you asked..."
Apple Bloom blinked and looked around. "Hey, aren't we missing somepony?"
Back in Ponyville, Scootaloo was bigger than a house and growing fast. The orange and purple dragoness had clawed her way into Pinkie's party cave, and she was feasting on all the emergency cake supplies. "Mooore..." She lifted her head, sniffing, then grinned toothily at Rarity's shop, licking her chops. "I smell gems! I want them all!"
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Isthmia panted a little. "This isn't easy to do..."
He pulled out a video game and threw it to Applebloom. "Play that please!"
"This ain't a time to play games!" Applebloom yelled.
"I'm Gaming! I recharge from ponies playing games around me!" he replied.
Applebloom blinked, then began playing and to her surprise, a 'stamina bar' appeared about Isthmia's head and recharged.
"Thanks!"
"Uh...yer welcome...Yah know, bein' the Alicorn of Gamin' is more impressive than it looks..." Applebloom admitted.
"Don't underestimate any new deity. There's a universe where Derpy is the Goddess of Mailmares," Discord said. "It's actually rather terrifying."
"Why?"
"Because NOTHING stops the mail...nothing..." Discord said in an ominous voice.
The camera glitched.
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An alternate Discord was sitting in his house floating in the domain of Chaos when he heard several loud crashes, then a knock on his door.
He teleported over and opened the door upwards so it rested against the ceiling...to find an Alicorn version of Derpy in front of him.
"Mail!" she said, holding his mail in her mouth.
"How did you..." he said, looking behind her to find an Alicorn Derpy-shaped hole in the dimensional wall, several unconscious chaos abominations laying along a straight path, and another Derpy-shaped hole in a black hole.
"...I'm both impressed...and somewhat frightened..." Discord said, taking his mail and handing her a muffin.
"Muffin!" Derpy exclaimed, eating the muffin then flying off, leaving ANOTHER Alicorn Derpy-shaped hole in the dimensional wall.
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Applebloom blinked as the camera returned. "...Okay..."
Euterpe had to save Griffzilla from another beam with a barrier. "We need to do something about those lasers!"
Diamond Tiara gave it thought. She looked up, seeing the laser emitters. "Applebloom! throw me!"
"What?!"
"Turn into an Earth Dragon and throw me at those laser emitters!"
"Uh...okay..."
Applebloom did so and hurled the Yokai at the Applecron.
Diamond punched into one laser emitter with as much strength as she could manage, then charged up chaos energy into her body and let out a shockwave, frying the laser array.
Discord teleported her back. "Good job, Princess, but we really need to GET in there."
"Alright, we need to all..." Applebloom blinked, then looked around. "Where's Scootaloo?!"
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Rarity screamed as Dragon Scootaloo tried to steal her gems, now much larger. "Get away!"
"Mine!"
"Hey! Leave my friend alone!"
"...Rainbow Dash?"
Scootaloo turned to see her Nightmare self, now next to Rainbow Dash, who was wearing a Wonderbolts outfit.
"Leave Rarity alone you stupid dragon!" Rainbow Dash said, seeming to be a flanderized, over the top version of herself.
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Princess Euterpe frowned with sudden worry. "If Scootaloo gave in to her greed, she won't be hard to find."
The video game fell from Apple Bloom's hooves. "Ah... Ah can't sit around playing games! She might need our help!"
Euterpe laid a hoof on Apple Bloom's shoulder, and offered a smile. "We have to stay here to power Griffzilla, but you can help Scootaloo. I trust you. You have what you need within you."
"Just be careful!" added Isthmia.
Apple Bloom nodded, then turned into a pegasus and flew away.
The giant monster battle wasn't going well. "Griffzilla..." muttered Prince Isthmia. "They should have called it Dogzilla."
Just like in the video game, the 'king of monsters' was powerful and nigh invulnerable, but terribly sluggish... fine for stomping on tanks and wrestling other giant behemoths, but the mechanical draconequus hovered on rocket jets, fluidly snaking to and fro and counterattacking with dozens of lasers and missile launchers. Griffzilla had dealt some heavy blows and raked deep gashes in the shiny metal scales, but now it seemed helpless, with the machine wrapped around it and tirelessly constricting the beast.
Diamond Tiara glanced back at the Terran Command Bunker. Those two 'SCV Units' had finished making repairs, and now they were just standing outside, idle. "Hmmm... If gaming helps him out..." She snapped her claws and appeared inside the fortress in a flash of white light. "Interesting," she mused, poking at a tactical map with large icons. The SCV Units moved where she tapped the screen.
Discord appeared beside her, wearing headphones with a built-in microphone. "Touch-sensitive controls. My, how thoughtful. One could even use those with hooves."
Diamond grinned and wiggled her claws. "Then these should be even better!" One touch sent an SCV off to mine gems from a nearby field. Another tap sent the second SCV to collect gas from Froggy Bottom Bog. More and more menus opened at her clawtips... solider training buildings, machine shops, science labs for upgrades... The little yokai became so engrossed in gleefully assembling her own small army that she didn't even notice her cutie mark sparkling. "Heh, wait 'til those Nightmares get a load of this!"
"Griffzilla has fallen," said a mechanical voice with a sad fanfare. The giant beast flashed several times and vanished, while Mecha-Ispita thrashed and roared.
"How about Narucolt?" suggested Euterpe, before Isthmia could mope too much.
The Prince of Gaming made a face. "He'd send a thousand easily-popped clones at her with no strategy."
"So order him to use Shaman Mode, or the Nine-Tailed Timberwolf!"
"Nerds!!" yelled Ispita. Her giant robot still had nine and half health bars left.
"Ooh! How about..." Isthmia whispered in Euterpe's ear.
Euterpe reared up and pranced. "I like it!"
Prince Isthmia grinned and pointed a hoof dramatically. "Night Guard Fighter: Eternal! Launch!"
A flat-shaded space fighter jet big enough to carry a single pilot pony materialized. "Loyal members of our Night Guard," declared a pixelated image of Space Empress Luna, "go thou forth and defeat the evil aliens would who enslave all ponykind!"
The space fighter flew up and hovered in the air, blasting away at Mecha-Ispita with a single laser... pretty pathetic, until a few metal scales were blasted loose and turned into powerups, giving the fighter two lasers, then four.
"Stop that!" yelled Ispita, glancing up at her robot's health bar and scowling. All of the robot's guns and missiles started blasting away in elaborate patterns.
"Can I make a bad music pun here?" asked Euterpe.
Isthmia nuzzled her. "Please don't."
"Well, that's no fun!" Instead, she materialized two synthesizer keyboards and a pair of speakers bigger than a house, and started playing pulse-pounding space battle music.
=Super Stardust HD Taranis Theme=
Free powerups started raining from the sky, giving the space fighter jet eight lasers, then sixteen, then armor, shields, extra missile pods on the wings, and a halo of orbiting satellites continuously firing even more weapons. The whole mass of space combat hardware glided back and forth, effortlessly dodging through tiny gaps in the oncoming fire, and Mecha-Ispita's health bars started *melting* away.
Ispita almost flew into a rage, and then one of her ears twitched. "What's *this* I sense? Hmmmmm! Perhaps my efforts are better spent elsewhere!" She teleported away, abandoning the exploding mecha...
...and appeared on Scootaloo's shoulder, quickly transforming into a hatchling-sized 'shoulder angel.' "Doesn't Rainbow Dash look so *small*, now?" she purred. "And that Nightmare you..." She laughed. "Even filly you had better wings than that. Imagine how it will be when you're even bigger... The hoard you'll gather... the *power* you'll have..."
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Without Sweetie Belle the Siren to provide balance... with Ispita egging her on... with Apple Bloom still searching and the rest of her friends caught up in the chaotic battle, unable to help her... Scootaloo roared in Rainbow Dash's face, her greed growth continuing unopposed.
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"Oh, my head..." groaned Twilight Sparkle, looking around her library. "How did I get back here?"
"Heck if I know," said Spike. "You stumbled in here like some kind of zombie and fell asleep on the couch. That was after the rock concert."
"Rock concert!?" Twilight sprang off the couch and nearly fell over, stumbling and yawning. "Did all of that really happen? Me going video game crazy? Marching around Ponyville, singing about the Cutie Mark Crusaders being bad fillies? Button Mash and his mother, Alicorns!?" She raced over to the guest bedroom and found Maternity, still sleeping it off.
Twilight sighed. "Remember when everypony used to think that I'd become an Alicorn first, if any of us did?"
Spike patted her on the back. "Cheer up, Twilight! At least we've got leftover pancakes in the fridge, if that'll help."
"No time for that now, Spike!" said Twilight, determined. "Something is seriously wrong in Ponyville. We need to round up the girls and..."
From across town, they heard the rumble of a building collapsing, and a piercing shriek. "That sounded like Rarity!" exclaimed Spike.
They scrambled out the front door and nearly crashed right into Pinkie Pie. "Thank goodness!" exclaimed Twilight. "Have you seen... wait... *Pinkie*?" She stared in disbelief. "Pinkie, why are you an earth pony?"
Pinkie sat back and folded her forelegs, deep in thought. "Weeellll, I was going to be a pegasus, but somebody changed their minds and I had to swap with Fluttershy at the last minute, but shouldn't we be saving Rarity from the dragon now?"
"What? That's not what I meant! Why aren't you Thalia!?" Twilight bounced from hoof to hoof. "I'm not embarrassed to admit, we really could use some Alicorn help about now! I don't understand. Is this some kind of test?"
"That... that's a really good point, actually." Pinkie grew disturbingly calm, even though her hair stayed curly and her smile didn't waver. "Something's really not right." She lifted a hoof, then thumped it against her own chest. It made a muffled metallic clank.
In the heart of the Applecron, Princess Veritas and Princess Thalia floated inside a sphere bursting with maddeningly not-quite-regular lights and sounds... a prison of chaos. Thalia squirmed with her eyes closed, as if she was caught in a bad dream. "Twilight..." she murmured. "I don't think we're where we're supposed to be..."
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Rainbow Dash flew back, watching the orange and purple dragon demolish more of the Carousel Boutique just by standing there growing, not even lifting a paw. The dragon's tail lashed, raking buildings clear across the street, and the earth fissured beneath her weight.
"Out, out you horrid creature!" bellowed Rarity. "Oh, why must dragons always be drawn to my beauty?"
Dash narrowed her eyes, hovering and shadowboxing with her front hooves. "That's a mighty big dragon... but it's not too big for Rainbow Danger Dash to handle! You stay back, Scootaloo! I'll drop this big ugly lizard in ten. seconds. flat."
The dragoness snorted flames. "Scootaloo? Scootaloo!? That's my name! MINE!"
A sparkling fanfare played when Mecha-Ispita finally finished exploding and awarding bonus points. Prince Isthmia grinned and directed the Night Guard: Eternal space fighter to rise to the level of the Applecron. "Heh, maybe this won't be so tough after all."
A whole squadron of drones flew out of the Applecron to meet it... and then they unexpectedly transformed and combined into a solid oncoming wall of metal, hundreds of yards across. Unable to dodge or change direction, and with not enough time to shoot a hole in the wall, the side-scrolling fighter ran smack into the wall and exploded.
Princess Euterpe hugged her prince. "There, there..."
"I wasn't going to cry about it," insisted Isthmia. He didn't object to the hug, though.
Nightmare Instrumentum watched her monitors with satisfaction. "The way to win is not to play his games." Repaired and fully operational gun turrets opened fire, blasting away Diamond Tiara's crystal mine and the gas refinery.
A vast hologram appeared, projecting Instrumentum's face, looming godlike over the outskirts of Ponyville. Her hair ribbon was traced with computer circuitry now, and her dragon eyes narrowed at them. "Is that all? Or are ya gonna throw more *toys* at me? Can't ya even fight for yourself?"
Isthmia grinned defiantly. "Oh, you do not want to see that. At this rate, though..."
"Yer actions are illogical," said Instrumentum coldly. "You fight me because you fear change. Ya see a Nightmare and assume Ah must be evil. Perhaps... allying with Ispita was an error. All Ah want to do is make a better world for everypony and creature.
"Alicorns ain't needed in mah new world. Ah can do better. Ah'll create perfect robot bodies for everyone. Under *mah* rule... fear, ignorance, want... they'll simply cease ta be."
"And if mortals don't want what you're offering?" asked Euterpe.
Instrumentum frowned, ever so slightly. "Ah don't expect ignorant foals to know what's best for 'em. Ah have the right of it *and* superior force, so Ah'll do what Ah gotta do."
=Heroes of the Storm - Rock Opera=
There was sudden whistle of flying shells, and explosions rocked the bottom half of the Applecron. "What?" Instrumentum glanced away, then cut her transmission.
Dozens of siege tanks were rolling up to the lake, escorted by ground troops and aircraft, shooting down every apple drone that got close. Further back, science vessels and gigantic battlecruisers were massing too. "You didn't think that was my *only* crystal mine and gas refinery, did you?" said Diamond Tiara's gloating voice, coming from loudspeakers on the command bunker.
Isthmia struck a pose. "Exactly as planned! Well, okay... exactly as backup planned!"
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"AAAAAHHHHH!" Said Pinkie Pie's robot avatar as she ran around the library room. She pulled out a gauge out of nowhere, and looked at it horrified, it was red lining. "CHARACTER OVERLOAD! CHARACTER OVERLOAD! All these armies and video game characters that Princess Button Mash keeps summoning and all the fights happening everything... I don't know where any pony is anymore! Or anywhere! The worldline! It's gonna crash!
"And now we have good Scootaloo destroying all of Ponyville with bad Scootaloo and Rainbow Dash fighting her! Ponyville's gonna be so wrecked that it'll make the Parasprites and Spikezilla look like spilled over blocks! Oh the equinity!"
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"Uncle!" called Diamond from her tank. "You can't fight them, but can't you DO SOMETHING about damage to Ponyville?! We don't want this to be Stallion of Steel!"
Discord blinked, then facehooved. "Sorry, I was so used to my powers not working directly on the enemy..." he said, then snapped his fingers.
Suddenly all of Ponyville was plaid colored. "There."
"What's that supposed to do?!" Diamond asked...right as an attack from one of the Nightmare's drones hit a building...which flexed like rubber but didn't break and instead bounced the attack right back at it.
"...Oh..."
Discord smirked, posing. "See? I know what I'm doing."
---
Dragon Scootaloo eeped as her foot suddenly rebounded off of a building and bounced off. "What the..."
Applebloom panted, arriving on the scene. "Ah hope Ah ain't too late..."
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Scootaloo tried raking the Carousel Boutique with her claws, but the building just sprang back into shape. "Ugh, I want those gems!"
Apple Bloom, still a pegasus, tried to land on a plaid roof and bounced right off before she got her shaking hooves to settle on it. "Scootaloo, ya have to snap out of it! Those gems ain't yours!"
The huge orange and purple dragoness froze, then slowly turned with thunderous footsteps, giving Bloom the sort of look that Opalescence might give a mouse. "And if I say that I want them and I'm going to have them... what are you going to do about it?"
Apple Bloom gulped. What indeed? 'You have what you need within you,' Princess Euterpe had said... could she have actually given her some cool power, like the ability to turn into a siren!? That would sure make this easier! Apple Bloom squinted her eyes shut, checking the other Apple Blooms in the back of her head... but nothing seemed any different.
Rainbow Dash rose into view with the sun silhouetted dramatically behind her wings... which made no sense, since it wasn't dawn or dusk right now. "Unhoof that... Apple Bloom?!"
"That's not Apple Bloom!" shouted Velocitas. "That's, um... a changeling! Yeah, that dumb old changeling couldn't even bother remembering that Apple Bloom doesn't have wings!"
Rainbow Dash grinned, adjusting a pair of flight goggles from nowhere. "Well, in that case..." She dove straight at Apple Bloom in a rainbow streak.
Apple Bloom gulped and thought that she really ought to turn into something tougher but there just wasn't time and...
Scootaloo moved like a striking snake, grabbing Dash in her clawed fist. "Nobody hurts my friends but me!"
"You can't do that!" squealed Velocitas. "Rainbow Dash is stronger then any dragon!" And Dash actually started to pry her way out of the dragon's claws with impossible strength.
"Scootaloo, ya can't hurt her!" yelled Apple Bloom. "That might be the real Rainbow Dash! Is this really what ya want? Think about what you're doing!"
Scootaloo snarled, tightening her grip on Dash. "I'm getting really tired of puny little ponies telling me what I can't do." She grinned sharply. "If you spent more time as a dragon, then you'd understand how good it feels to be as greedy as you want! Heh, you'd probably even want to join me."
Something reached out and tapped Scootaloo on the shoulder. She spun around and found herself gawking at an even bigger purple and green behemoth... Spike.
Spike grabbed Scootaloo and hurled her clear across Ponyville, sending her toppling to the ground, slamming into a row of buildings that would have been smashed flat without Discord's spell. "You're the one that doesn't understand what it means to be a dragon," he rumbled.
Apple Bloom twitched, sweating a bit. "Spike can still do that?"
"Spike!" shouted Twilight from the street below. Pinkie Pie was beside her, nervously tossing some kind of meter from hoof to hoof.
"Don't worry, Twilight. It takes more than that to hurt a dragon." Spike snorted wisps of green flame, then stomped towards the dragoness. "Never thought I'd have to do anything like *this* anytime soon, but..."
Spike hauled Scootaloo to her feet, then glared hard at her, muzzle to muzzle. "I don't know where you got that body, but you haven't really *lived* in it, have you... Scootaloo?" He jerked a thumb towards his scaly chest. "I'm Spike of the Generous Green Flame... and you're flaunting power that you've never fought for." He stretched to his full height and flexed, wings spread wide. "Who's really the stronger dragon here? Well?"
Apple Bloom was sure that Scootaloo would pitch another fit and start a giant monster brawl right in the middle of Ponyville.
Instead, Scootaloo hung her head meekly. "You... You are, Spike..."
Spike let the tension build for another long moment, then relaxed, suddenly much more like an overgrown version of his usual self. "Hey, it'll be alright. Sorry I had to... you know. But I'm taking back my home." He grasped Scootaloo's paw and extracted a dazed Rainbow Dash, making the dragoness blush a bit. "And my friends."
"No!" Velocitas appeared in a teleport flash, and the little Nightmare was... crying? "You can't take Dash away from me. You can't!"
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Scootaloo looked down at her Nightmare self. "...I thought you were trying to take her from me..."
Velocitas blinked. "...Really?"
Scootaloo nodded. "Yeah..."
"...I just wanted everypony to love her like I did...that's all..."
Scootaloo looked to Rainbow Dash...and something sparked in her mind. "...Except...you're not making them love Rainbow Dash."
"I AM TOO!" Velocitas yelled back.
"...Then why are you making you love her for all the wrong reasons?"
Velocitas' eyes widened.
"...We never loved Rainbow Dash just because she was awesome...okay, that was ONE reason...but not THE reason..." the dragoness shrunk down, matching her opposite's size. "...She's cool, she's awesome, she's radical...but more important than all of that...is she's there for us...she's...our family...We ADMIRE her for the other things...but we LOVE her for that..."
'Don't listen to-' Ispita started.
Scootaloo suddenly punched out at her mirror...only to punch a tiny miniature Ispita right in the face and send her flying off of Velocitas shoulder. "Stay outta this, ya witch!...This is between me and me..."
Ispita wiped some orange blood from her face...then teleported away, realizing she was outnumbered and out gunned. 'Time for plan B...'
Velocitas began to cry more. "I...I just...I'm so scared that if..."
"I know..."
"And if I made everypony love her, mom and dad...they'd love her too much to..."
"I know...but who says if...if they're still out there, they'll take us away?" Scootaloo asked. "We're the apprentice of one of Equestria's heroes, and a Wonderbolts hopeful...and don't say Wonderbolt...we BOTH know Rainbow Dash never wanted that just HOOFED to her..." Rainbow Dash had said that every time they asked her why not just ask Twilight to get her made a Wonderbolt. "...Besides...I don't think mom and dad...would've done...that...if they didn't expect us to meet more ponies to care about...they'd be crueler than any nightmare we had if they did..."
Velocitas began to smile. "Y-Yeah..."
"...Besides, let's face it, how could we REALLY make Rainbow Dash any more awesome than she already is?"
"...Hehe...I guess you're right..."
Scootaloo held out her hoof and touched Velocitas' and the two were engulfed in white tendrils and became one.
Applebloom gave a sigh of relief. "Three down...meh tah go...wonder how the others are doing...
---
"Ugh, we're getting nowhere!" Diamond Tiara yelled, the group still at a stalemate with Instrumentum. She then realized something. "Of course! We're being idiots!"
Button Mash blinked. "We are?"
"She's TECHNOLOGY! We're fighting her with pixels and technology! Her thing! We need to fight her with something ELSE!" said Diamond, looking thoughtful. She then got a devilish smirk. "And if she thinks emotions are so worthless...You two love birds got anything lovey dovey you can throw at her? She gets tech by itself, but how about with EMOTIONS behind it?"
The two blushed...then looked at each other...
Sweetie accessed Button's inventory, which was also their team inventory. "...I think I've got something..."
She produced the Sapphire and Ruby. "...If it's love we need...then what about something made of love?"
Isthmia blushed...but nodded. "Yeah, let's try it..."
The two nuzzled...and combined the two stones.
Sweetie Belle turned into white energy and Button into brown, the two mixing together into a slightly larger Alicorn.
The energy dispersed and rained down as pixels with an 8-Bit tune playing in the background.
Diamond couldn't tell if the being in front of her was male or female. Their fur was a light brown, their mane likewise could belong on either a boy or a girl and had a darker purple to it than Sweetie Belle's. Their Cutie Mark looked like the heart container from a Legend of Cadence game with pixelated song notes around it.
"...You two can do that?"
"Yep!" the combined being said with an upbeat tone that fit a fusion of the two cheerful foals. But Diamond Tiara STILL couldn't tell if the tone was male or female.
"...Are you boy or a girl?"
The fusion blinked. "...I dunno...Let's just call me Leitmotif, okay?"
Instrumentum rolled her eyes in her control room. "Did yah really think Ah wouldn't see that comin'?
A laser to separate the two flew out...but they only flickered, they didn't BREAK apart like she'd wanted. A pink energy seemed to be HOLDING them together.
"WHAT?! That ain't logical!"
Leitmotif chuckled. "It's love! And I'm made of it!"
The Alicorn flapped their wings, flying up and summoning what looked like a magical version of the same music game equipment Button alone had summoned earlier. Digitized arrows began to move up behind her like in the game.
[=Sailor Moon - the Power of Love=]
Leitmotif began playing, moving fast and playing the entire instrument set up by herself. Pink sound waves began to radiate outwards, hammering away at ONLY the shields of the Nightmare's fortress.
Hearts formed in the optics of her drones and they began to all rush back and swarm her command deck, trying to HUG her.
"WHAT?!" Applebloom's Nightmare asked in shock. "STOP! AH DIDN'T PROGRAM YAH TAH DO THAT!"
"But they now that they've got love, they love you enough to know you need help getting out of the dark!" Leitmotif replied.
"There comes a time
When you face the
Toughest of fights..." they began to sing, hitting every note as the arrows continued to go up.
Instrumentum struggled to regain control of her drones. "STOP IT!"
Mecha-Chrysalis pressed a button, opening the window of the command deck.
"WHY?!" Instrumentum asked.
"Response: I love Sweetie Belle."
The Nightmare struggled as her own drones rushed in, hugging her tightly. "LET ME GO! DON'T YOU SEE EMOTIONS ARE HORSEAPPLES WE'RE BETTER OFF WITHOUT?!"
"WE LOVE YOU MAKER!" the drones yelled back.
She forced her way free and ran deeper into her fortress as her own loving drones continued after her.
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Twilight Sparkle turned in place, slightly shell-shocked as she surveyed Ponyville's main square. The grass-lined streets and walkways were completely torn up by giant claw prints, Rarity's shop and home was half-collapsed, and the other buildings were miraculously intact but *plaid*, which worried her more than the destruction.
"Was that the last of them?" asked Twilight nervously. She put down the chest with the Elements of Harmony that she'd been magically hauling around. "Are we even going to need these?"
Apple Bloom flew down from a roof and *transformed from a pegasus to an earth pony* right in front of her. "Ah'm afraid not, Twilight. There's still one more... *mah* Nightmare. Oh, and that no-good Ispita's back too."
"How did you... Wait, how can you and your Nightmare even exist at the same time?" Twilight looked at the buildings and felt a chill. "This looks like Discord's hoofwork."
"Eeeyup, probably is!" said Apple Bloom, cheering up a bit. "He's on our side now."
Twilight froze. "Oh... kay..." She popped the chest open with her magic and started passing out Elements. "I'll believe Discord's really on our side, oh, maybe half past never. Right, that's Magic, Laughter... Rarity, you're just in time!"
Rarity hardly noticed her choker clicking into place as she raced to Apple Bloom. "Where's Sweetie Belle? Please, tell me my little sister is okay!"
"Oh, she's better than okay!" said Pinkie brightly. "She's Princess Euterpe now!"
Rarity swayed on her hooves. "Pinkie, darling? My drama chaise longue is a little broken to tiny pieces right now. Could I possibly trouble you for..."
"No problem!" Pinkie pulled an inflatable bouncy-couch out from behind a mailbox, blew it up in a few seconds, and let a grateful Rarity faint onto it.
An understandably skittish Fluttershy joined them, flying low and immediately looking for something to hide behind. "I'm here! I'm so sorry, everypony. I had to... Yes... Yes, I know. There's no use making excuses." She hung her head, and meeped when Twilight hoofed her the Element of Kindness. "I was so frightened."
Twilight smiled. "But you're here now."
"Um, Spike?" Rainbow poked her head out of Spike's fist. "You can let go now."
"Heh, sorry about that," said Spike, scratching his head fins, but he kept watching the Applecron on the horizon, not shrinking back down. "You okay, Rainbow?"
Rainbow flew over to Twilight with none of her usual energy, then landed, staring down at her hooves. "I... I'm not sure I *am* okay. I think it nearly happened again." The pegasus cringed. "It was like... my loyalty to Scootaloo was eating me alive. I don't know how much more of that I could have... wha?"
Fluttershy was hugging Rainbow tight. "I know..." She looked at Rainbow with teary eyes then hugged her tight again. "I'm SO glad you didn't have to go through anything worse."
Rainbow squirmed. "Yeah, well... Heh, thanks... I guess." She looked to the cocoon of light that had swallowed both Scootaloos, and smiled. "Is that really you in there, little buddy? You're gonna be an *Alicorn*? Heh... I guess you're not gonna need me taking care of you... or being your mom..." She added the last part really quietly. "Guess I'll be the one cheering *you* on pretty soon."
"Sorry Ah'm late, everypony," said Applejack, unexpectedly, trotting up to them. "And Ah'm sorry Ah can't be any more help than this... Veritas is still hogtied eight ways from Saturday." She looked to Apple Bloom. "And I'm awfully sorry about that rotten song Ah had to sing..."
Apple Bloom tackle-hugged her big sister's robot avatar anyway.
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That's a paddlin'
I now want to be him
Its a Variety Show staring the CMC. Don't bother, reality itself will probably be smashed by the end of this(note to both Appleblooms: THAT WAS NOT A CHALLENGE)
I must limit myself to one d'aaw, or I'll never stop: d'aaw!!!
Quick! Music battle!
Oh heck yeah!
Bwahahaha!!!!
from what ive seen, this was the best story element from kh. also, awww!
Not really. Applebloom discovered an Architectural flaw, the universe stepped in, and then Discord's crazy ex showed up. How exactly do divorces work among deities anyway?
Might as well be the theme for the POVerse. You know what? I should find a good theme song for each book.
I highly doubt that
Figures. Instrumentum, you are now the Void Architect(until i can think of something better), because you can build anything you want, but no matter what it is, it'll only turn out as a soulless machine
Your mecha dash must have had some...Architectural flaws(yes, i know i already said that. I don't care)
Awesome! Now she can learn Blaze Kick blazikenisbestpokemon
About time they made it to Rank 9
Fair went out the window when the Void Architect built the Pony Death Star
I only know the very basics of this, but that's more than enough to be scared. For those who aren't sci-fi nerds, a Dyson Sphere is a machine that utilizes 100 percent of whatever it contains to produce energy. However, it only works on massive things. Like planets.
And you shall be the False Architect(from false prophet, since she'll be spreading the good word of a machine that kills everything
Any Architect, no matter how fallen, can recognize the skill in another. In other words: game recognize game
Good choice, especially considering that the crazy amounts of bots will probably try zerg-rushing
ISTHMIAAAAAAAAA! EQUESTRIAAAAAAA!(stick to the plan man!)
Nothing can stop! The maaaiiiil! All hail the Triple Goddess of Muffins, Mothers, and Mailmares(yeah, yeah, i know, but dangit that sounds cool)
This was the first thing to make me laugh in 2017. And I couldn't have asked for better
There needs to be an Isthmia series where he just summons all kinds of video game characters to fight evil. Maybe I could write one, if ever have time and a non-sucky writing style
Also, you have not enough minerals
Always, milady
Aww!
Indeed. Then Pinkie Pie, Discord, Shining Armor, Discord again, Discord again, and the all-wrecking Cutie Mark Crusaders happened. I'm amazed that your universe is still functional
Unless pancakes are ponies' version of bacon(which the darn well might be), I"m not so sure
Pinkie, this is the only time I will ever say this: that was the most normal, expected thing to be said by anyone in this chapter.
Oh no...
The Void Architect cannot understand emotions, cannot understand magic. And what she can't understand, she studies.
No, we're assuming that because your little Death Apple will kill everyone its trying to give free energy to.
That's nice, but making a better world doesn't usually involve literally destroying the old one. Unless its G3, and that had plenty of exceptions of its own
The fires of greed will burn the weak. So we'll make freedom obsolete
Diamond Tiara I bucking love you!
How hasn't it already?!
Exactly what I would expect...and therefore this caught me completely off guard. Well played
Do you? Do you really?
If there's such a thing as a child badass trope, Spike is insanely qualified.
Wait..... main timeline Scoots is an orphan who wound up living with Dash. This Scootaloo has parents, or did i miss something?
Apparently Diamond Tiara and I think alike. Used to be I'd hate that, but now me likey
Don't. Sing. The song.
I reiterate: this is a multiverse run by Blue Lantern energy. It is literally built on hope.
Heck. Yeah.
She yelled angrily. Oh delicious irony. I wonder if there's a concept of Irony... there should be
Wouldn't be surprised if this was an actual gag on the show
Never mind. Momdash is best Dash
Well, happy 2017 everybrony! Here's to more Equestria Girls and Season 7!