Appledashery

by Just Essay

Big Boss Fight - Stage Two

Rainbow Dash flew behind pillar after pillar—only to have them burst into various ornamental kefluffery behind her.

FL-FLASSSH! Aatxe fired wave after wave of chaos energy with his staff. Snarling, he winced as an entire stone balcony of the castle throneroom collapsed without its supports. "Grrrrrrrr!" He clutched the Flame Staff, peering across the settling dust. "Show yourself! I want to turn you into something really crunchy to smash!"

"How about baby carrots to improve your eyesight, hotshot?"

"Huh?" Aatxe spun—only to receive a swinging hoof to the face.

"Fore!"

WHACK!

"Aaaaugh!" Aatxe teetered back, but used the Flame Staff for leverage. "Rrrrr—raaaaaaaaaugh!" He fired a beam of chaos at full force.

Rainbow Dash hovered in midair, holding Lancie forward like a shield. The streams of chaos split across his tail and spread apart, trailing off on either side of the pegasus.

"Well then..." Lancie's stone face muttered, his head and antlers framed by chaotic backlight. "Now that he has you in a glorious stunlock..."

"Look, this isn't as helpless as it seems..."

"Where's a good chaff grenade when you need one?"

"Just keep quiet for a second and let me do the rambling!" Rainbow hissed and sputtered as she fought the waves of dark magiks.

"Heh..." Lancied folded his stone arms. "This I gotta hear!"

Rainbow dared to crane her neck towards the split beams. "You call this a fight?!"

"Shut up and roast, you!" Aatxe squealed, focusing the Flame Staff harder.

"Pffft! Please! I've had scrapes with four times as many 'WHACKS' and 'WHAMS' as you're treating me too!" She smirked devilishly. "I expected a challenge! Right now, the only tough thing to do would be changing your diaper, Mr. Scrawny Scales!"

"Nobody... and I mean nobody calls me 'Scrawny Scales!'" Aatxe hissed.

"Wuh oh! Did I just trigger you?" Rainbow stuck her tongue out, shouting past the shield that was Lancie's body. "Heck, I wasn't even being creative! Did your big brothers really call you that?!"

"Shut up! You don't know me!"

"I bet I know you as far as I can throw you! So—like—forty hoofball fields of knowing? Hah!"

"Grrrr... shut up..."

"'Scrawny Scales! Scrawny Scales! Can't have a hoard 'cuz he's Scrawny Scales!'"

"Rrrrrrrgh—stop that!" Aatxe's grip of the Flame Staff slipped.

The beam of chaotic energy canceled out, and Rainbow flew above him in a circle. "Whew! Looks like you're losing it! What, did Mommy used to always come in and stop your big brothers from stomping a mudhole in your puny hide?" She winked. "Must be super tough now... considering she's dead as nails."

"Ohhhhhhhhhh long johnson..." Lancie cooed, stone eyes wide.

"Grrrrrrrrnnnngh!" Aatxe's eyes flickered with hot embers as he leapt up, bounced off a pillar, and pursued her with the staff. FLASH! FL-FLASH! FLAAAASH! "I'm going to turn you inside out, ya stupid horse!"

Rainbow barely had the breath to escape the bolts of hot energy. Chunks of the ceiling turned into random objects as she darted her way towards the nearest exit. "That's right! Come and get it!"

"I've gotta hoof it to ya, Sparky," Lancie said, clinging to her shoulder now. "You really have a penchant for pissing off crazy dragons."

"And that's the whole point."

"For once, I fail to see it."

"That's because you're not stupid enough." Rainbow juked out of the way of an exploding chunk of stone. Aatxe's burning claw-scrapes came closer. "Go-time! To the surface!" And she flew up, ascending, with the infant whelp hot on her fetlocks.

"Get back here! I mean it!" FL-FLASSSH!

Comments

[destinedjagold]

"That's because you're not stupid enough."

Words to live by, I guess?

[Lone Gazebo]

If Aatxe doesn't actually know about sleeping momma, then it must be Bloodfire who's behind it all... Then why did he give authority to Aatxe? It's a mystery.

[Phoenix Kitten]

Rainbow Dash flew behind pillar after pillar—only to have them burst into various ornamental kefluffery behind her.

ornamental kefluffery

kefluffery

Can we all agree that this word is amazing?

[Leftover of Saikano]

An angry, bad dragon.

[zaponator]

"Ohhhhhhhhhh long johnson..."

There's a reference older than the internet. I like it!

[Sarda]

6553289 even though I first saw that from afv in probably the original broadcast, I was still somehow surprised by this comment. Is this what old feels like?

[Autumn Rush]

Ah, yes. The keep-running-around-and-dodging-attacks-till-the-opponent-runs-out-of-energy/power-juice tactic.

[DrEggnog]

Hmm, the other fight had more going on. Plus, I think I like every single other character in this arc more than Aatxe.