Urohringr

by Imploding Colon

Hold On To Your Hooves

"Oh jeebies!" Props squeaked in the darkness. "Oh jeebity jeebity jeebity jeebity jeebity jeebities!"

Seclorum's horn lit up, as did his grimacing face. "They knew it!" He spun to face Rainbow Dash and the others as they all bunched up against the inside of the door. "They knew we'd be in here! They waited for us!"

"Je'klanna semulien rekk'ar threen!"

"Everypony, just calm the buck down!" Josho grunted, then flung Rainbow a glance. "How could they have shut the door?!"

"How else?" Rainbow's voice cracked. "They all turned into me!"

"It's the temple control room all over again!" Aatxe stammered.

"Is all the evil gunk-gunk still after us?!" Props remarked.

Razzar coolly took his position at the rear of the group, aiming down the long hallway where the pit resided. "I do believe you'll have an answer within the next minute or two."

As prophesied, a loud, undulating heartbeat echoed down the chamber, coming to a rumbling peak against the walls that surrounded the nervous cluster of ponies and naga.

"Well..." Seclorum sighed and tossed his forelimbs. "It's been fun..."

"It's not over yet, old friend!" Josho spun towards Rainbow Dash. "The door! Can you reopen the dayum thing?"

"On it!" Rainbow Dash flew over, pendant-glowing, and pressed her hooves against the barricade. A soft lavender glow filled the door, flickered, then faded. "Ah jeez—Come onnn!" She pressed her chest against it, struggling with her whole petite weight. "Nnnnngh!"

"Why isn't it budging?!" Seclorum exclaimed.

"It's... st-staying shut from the other s-side!" Rainbow Dash hissed, concentrating.

"It must be all the 'Dashies' on their end!" Props remarked, sweating. "They're trying to keep us locked in here!"

"Then what do we do?!" Seclorum grunted. "We're running out of time!"

"I don't understand!" Aatxe remarked, staring wide-eyed at everypony. "What's wrong?! What did you find down there?!"

"Hra'mulien threanna!" Arcshod shouted.

"Brace yourselves, brothers!" Razzar shouted as he cocked his manarifle and took aim.

With banshee shrieks, two winged figures flew down the length of the corridor and sailed towards the group. The Lounge's weapons converged on it, melting the beserker pegasus in mid-air and sending its corrosive remains splattering against the walls and floor.

"Mother of mildew!" Aatxe shrieked like a filly. "What are those things?!"

"Our eternal fate, shortly," Razzar droned while taking more pot-shots at the figures flying down the hall. "Now would be a good time to get that door open."

"Dashie?"

"I... c-can't get it to b-budge!" Rainbow Dash squeaked, sweating all over. "They're sealing us in!"

"Then there's gotta be another way!" Aatxe said.

Props gritted her teeth and flashed a look at the obese stallion. "Josho! You got any juice left in your horniness?"

"Nnnngh..." Josho clenched his jaw while his horn flickered a bit. "I think so, yeah..."

"Josho, you'll burn out!" Seclorum said while reloading his crossbow.

"Doesn't look like I have much of a friggin' choice." Josho glanced across the group with shifty-eyes. "Now, who's coming with me?"

The air rang with another shriek. A zombie pegasus took a shot to the head, collided with the floor, and skidded wetly to a stop less than ten feet away. A pile of muck splashed towards the group—causing the ponies to shriek. The Lounge's combined shots beat it back, but then they had to switch their firepower back on the lunging figures from the distant pit.

"No time for delicacy!" Rainbow Dash shouted. "Get on the other side and distract them! I just might be able to get this door open!"

"Right." Josho took a deep, deep breath... and grabbed Seclorum's and Arcshod's shoulders. "You two've been drafted, soldiers."

Arcshod blinked, lopsided. "Buh?" FLASH! The Xonan gasped into hurricane winds, surrounded by blue fuzz and rainbows.

"Hocrap!" Seclorum flinched, his face reflected in two dozen pairs of ruby eyes.

"Hckkkt—Gaugh!" Josho wheezed, stumbled forward, and lay prone with his shotgun cocked at the ready. "Well... this should be interesting." Bl-Blam! Blammmm!

Two Rainbow Dashes dropped to the floor when—suddenly—they no longer had their skulls. Five times as many shape-shifters leapt over the corpses of their two siblings and charged Josho, snarling.

"Hraaaaaaugh!" Arcshod galloped forward, slamming through the first wave with his mighty forelimbs. He swung his crossbow from left to right like a club, knocking even more to the ground before taking aim at the center of the floundering group. He punctured the chest of one changeling, spilling green blood into the heavy winds before spinning to tackle another creature charging from the sides.

Three more creatures pounced on Arcshod's flank. A single crossbolt sailed through the neck of two of them and sent them flying off into the gale force winds. Seclorum reloaded his crossbolt and stood flank-to-flank with Josho while his old friend reloaded the shotgun.

"Brings back old memories, eh, fatso?!" Seclorum managed to snarl.

"Secchy..." Josho cocked his rifle and fired again. Blam! Blammm! "You must have found some really funky mushrooms in this Ledo-forsaken place to think this resembles any of our previous scrapes!"

"Hra'dranna sulien threem'assa!" Arcshod sweatily stammered, struggling to beat back thicker and thicker waves of rainbow doppelgangers. "Ra'varnnum rekkhar thien!"

"We won't last at this rate!" Seclorum sputtered. "We need more muscle!"

"R-right..." Josho wheezed, struggling up to his hooves. "Be right back..." His horn started to sparkle.

"Josho, no! You're weak enough as it is!"

"Better a sissy than dead!" Josho grumbled. "Trust me. I've got first-hoof knowledge. Ggrrrrrrrrrrghhh!" His horn pulsed. Flash! He landed upside down within the dark corridor on the other side of the barricade. The sound of manablasts and shrieking pegasi hit his beleaguered ears.

"You're b-back!" Aatxe exclaimed.

"Yeah..." Josho wheezed. "And it's... kaff... k-kaff... a b-bad show out there..."

"Well, whatever you're doing, it's working!" Rainbow Dash wheezed. Howling wind pierced its way into the compartment as she lowered the door slowly—inch by inch—with a lavender glow. "It's starting to b-budge!"

"Maybe it'll work better on the other side, Dashie!" Props exclaimed.

"Sounds good to me..." Josho struggled, ultimately crawling over and grasping her tail. "Ya ready for vomit-town?"

"Josho, h-hold up!" her voice cracked. "Can you even jump again?"

"Seems to be our only t-ticket!"

"At least make it worth it!" Razzar shouted, signaling to one of his comrades. A Lounge member reloaded his manarifle and rushed over while the other two stuck by Razzar's side. "We can hold them off in here, but not for long!"

"Nnnngh..." Rainbow Dash bit her lips, then blurted, "Fine! Anypony else?"

"Can Josho take three with him?!" Props stammered.

"You!" Josho pointed to a random Xonan mare and beckoned her over. "Get your scimitar ready. It's close combat over there!"

Rainbow squinted. "Why her?"

Josho shrugged. "Figured the last ponies I ever hug might as well have someone sexy." Taking a deep breath, he lunged forward and embraced a cluster of scales, tattoos, and blue fuzz. "Zoop!"

Flash!

Comments

[That_one_guy]

Down to the wire... I've got the feeling this will either go really well or a lot of ponies will die.

[Jake The Army Guy]

Hey, if ya gotta die, might as well doing it holding a chick with tattoos and the ponification of smexiness... Well, since AJ's dead.

Fifty crunches, ):(. Knock em' out!

[Lightning Bearer]

At least they're making headway. Though, I doubt they'll get out of this without a named character buying the farm.

[RoboRed]

"You!" Josho pointed to a random Xonan mare and beckoned her over. "Get your scimitar ready. It's close combat over there!"

Rainbow squinted. "Why her?"

Josho shrugged. "Figured the last ponies I ever hug might as well have someone sexy."

[Booster Spice]

At least Josho has enough oomph left to teleport, the surrounding structure doesnt have operational shield spells, and the Smooze hasnt learnt or cant use the teleport abilities of the unicorns its absorbed. Then again, with all teh damage thats been occuring, suprised it hanst just physically broke out. Yet.

[Jonathon Smythe]

As good a reason as any, Josho.

Time to kick some changelings out of Stratopolis.

[Urist Tokmekfamthut]

Oh jeebity jeebity jeebity jeebity jeebity jeebities!

Good thing it's jeebity instead of jeebly, or they'd really be in trouble.

[AppleTank]

Too bad they don't have any crowd control weapons.
Like copious amounts of
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Perfect for igniting SPAHS.

[Ms_Fruit_Bat]

Really?
They just brought rainbow into the only place where she could be mistaken for an enemy?

[SilentBird93]

I laughed so hard at that last part with Josho.

[IceKitsune]

I hope this plan works. Josho is right that would be a good way to go.

[Hap]

Thunder!

[CasualMarshmallow]

Yay more gooey stuff.
Expect changeling confusion next chapter. This group doesn't know that the changelings can create red blood.

[Aatxe360]

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[Cynderfall]

Smooze is eww.

[VNilla]

Okay, maybe sending Josho outside into an army of changelings wasn't the worst idea... but color me surprised if they're out of the woods already.

4365544
Zaid would approve. Speaking of which, how is the Jury doing?

[Nevlamas]

Down in the depths of the dead and the agony,
Scars from a thousand wounds in your memory,
Over and over grind through the butchery,
Once more you'll run this gauntlet of misery!

Mass brawls are definitely a part of the long list of things that I love to read in this series.

[not_a_rainbow]

roarke plz

[iloveportalz0r]

Yay, hugs!

[Vandratha]

"Better a sissy than dead!" Josho grumbled. "Trust me. I've got first-hoof knowledge. Ggrrrrrrrrrrghhh!"

D'awwww... I think?

[Keebroo]

"You!" Josho pointed to a random Xonan mare and beckoned her over. "Get your scimitar ready. It's close combat over there!"

Rainbow squinted. "Why her?"

Josho shrugged. "Figured the last ponies I ever hug might as well have someone sexy."

There goes all the dreams of Joshbow shipping.

[whizzball1]

Really, Josho?
Here we go. Let's try to survive.

-Spirit

[Zecoro]

lucky stallion josho, hmph

[JustAnotherTimeLord]

They're making headway, but it's not over yet. How many magazines do those manarifles have? Because they're gonna need a hell of a lot more to face off this horde.

[Tim the Planes-pony]

Hope this works.

[Hazard]

"Zoop" is best catchphrase.

[Regidar]

That's how I'd like to die: ripped apart by insects after teleporting into the mass of them while hugging a sexy tattooed chick.

Guess I'll just have to settle for eventual overdose.

[arancaytar]

"Maybe it'll work better on the other side, Dashie!" Props exclaimed.

Maybe it would be best to kill the RD changelings before putting the original in the same room.

[FOXTrot2]

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He's omnicidal, devious but still has a code of conduct

[hypervelocity]

Uh guys....maybe taking Dash over while there are still changelings on the other side is a bad idea????