Living Ink

by MangaKamen

King

The Castle of the Royal Pony Sisters, a relic of the past tucked away within the groves of the Everfree Forest – Once it housed two of the most powerful ponies in all of Equestria, now it was nothing more than a ruined hunk of stone with some dusty books, rusty suits of armor, and a bunch of weathered furniture.

And in the main throne room, were the two banners that were in front of the large, gaping hole behind the thrones with the moonlight pouring in – A blue banner displaying a crescent moon and a bright yellow one with a warm sun on it, both of which had an alicorn mare etched into them.

“Humph, so in this world even the sun and moon yield to hooves?”

Heavy footsteps echoed through the throne room as the large winged figure walked before the thrones, a large flame engulfed in his right claws. The dragonic figure made his way to the thrones, and clenched his claws, choking the flames until they went out. “This world is in more of a crisis than I thought…”

When the dragonic figure stood in front of the two thrones, he stood there silently for a few moments. Then with his long arms, the large dragonic figure pulled the two thrones together before he sat down on them, breaking the rests between them. “Humph, barely even enough room for me to sleep in. It will do for now though.”

With his tail curled around to give him a slight prop for his head, the large dragonic being closed his blue eyes. ‘Last I remember, I was in Detrot – Facing off against that traitor. After that, there’s only darkness then the forest. This makes no sense…

‘This world is clearly different from what I’m used to, even though there is meddling by the equines, the damage doesn’t seem as severe. Even then, should I interfere with this world? I know not of what has been done in this world’s history, and my presence could possibly damage this world further.’

The dragonic being signed as he locked his claws, his eyes closed in deep thought. ‘Should I search for a path back to my own world? Or should I spread my influence here as well? There has to be a reason why I was brought to this world…

‘I’ll have to get some more information about this world, before I find my next path…’

CLANK!

The dragonic being’s eyes widened when that sound echoed through the castle’s halls, and with a few sniffs of the air, his face curled up into a diabolic smile.

Deeper in the halls of the ruined castle, two unicorn stallions dressed in bright yellow armor staggered about in one of the hallways that had many suits of armor lined up, with one of the suits of armor knocked over. Both of their horns were lit up and over their heads were a number of books that were levitated with their magic.

“Dang it, Block,” one of the unicorn guards growled under his breath. “Did you really have to do that? Pay attention!”

“Sorry, Silver,” the guard muttered with his head lowered. “But it’s late – And we’re nothing more than glorified dogs getting these books.”

“Don’t complain,” Silver sighed loudly. “This is an order from the Princess, not exactly something we can say no to. Gotta get the bits somehow, you know.”

“Yeah, but getting a bunch of old books?” Block moaned as he sat down on the ground with his ears drooping. “Especially in this old place – Where there are bats all around us. By the way, you mind turning up the light? There might be some more bats above us right now!”

“Then why would you want more light?” Silver asked with a roll of his eyes. “The lights would aggravate the bats and they’d attack.”

“You’d turn the lights up if there were snakes around,” Block sputtered under his breath.

“You ass, why would you mention snakes?!” Silver gasped, focusing on having the light around his horn glow brighter.

“I don’t see any donkeys around here,” Block snickered.

Silver was about to berate his fellow royal guard, but froze when he felt something brush past one of his hind legs – something that had scales and coiled around it slightly. When he turned around, his eyes widened at the sight of a long, reptilian tail that slithered about his leg. “GAGH!”

As fast as he could, Silver pulled his leg free and staggered about, “B-BLOCK! Did you see the size of that thing!?! We… We gotta get out of here!”

However, when Silver turned back to his fellow guard, he was only met with darkness. “Block? Block?!! Where are you!?! This… This isn’t funny!”

Furiously, the stallion drew forth more magic into his horn to look for his friend, but when he spun around, he wasn’t met with the face of a fellow stallion – Rather, he was face to face with a dragon that had black, armor-like scales and three horns that jutted out from the back of its head. The dragon smiled with, oddly enough, bright white teeth at the stallion, “Hello.”

And just as quickly as he appeared, the dragon took in a deep breath and blew on the unicorn’s horn, blowing away the magic and casting the two into darkness.

“Let’s have a little chat, shall we?”

TTT – TTT

As the night faded away with the rising sun, there was a peaceful air that lofted around Ponyville’s grassy streets, with ponies just going on about their ways, with some of them stopping to look at the large crystal tree that had purple castle embedded amongst its branches – A rather recent addition to the town.

“I still can’t believe that there’s a castle in our town.”

“Why not? A lot of weird stuff happens around here, so why not a castle?”

At one grassy street, both Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo were walking to their club house, the two young fillies were in conversation. The small white unicorn tried changing the subject, “So, any ideas for what we’re doing for our cutie marks?”

“Don’t you remember yesterday?” Scootaloo stated with a flat look in her eyes. “We’re going to try to be superheroes!”

“I was kind of hoping you’d forget,” Sweetie Belle muttered. “So, what do we do to exactly?”

“Well, we’ll need to come up with costumes,” Scootaloo explained with a bright smile. “Super cool names, and… And…”

“Good morning girls.”

The two fillies turned to see a violet mare walk over to them, her purple mane (with pink highlights) swished along with every step she took around the horn adorned on her forehead. At her sides were a pair of wings that matched her violet fur, and on her face was a bright smile, “I hope you two enjoyed Canterlot yesterday.”

“Yes, thank you Twilight,” Sweetie Belle replied with a slight bow of her head towards the alicorn. “We really had a good time.”

“Yeah! It was awesome!” Scootaloo added in, a large smile on her face. “And thanks for letting Spike get us some comics yesterday too!”

Twilight smiled warmly at the two fillies, “Well, I’m glad to hear that. Speaking of books, you two haven’t happened to have seen two royal guards with a large amount of books?”

“Sorry Twilight, I haven’t seen any,” Sweetie Belle answered.

“Ditto,” Scootaloo chimed in. “Why are you looking for them? Is there some big bad guy going around Equestria?! Are you and Rainbow Dash, and everypony else going to go on another big adventure?!”

Twilight reeled back slightly at the small pegasus’ sudden energy, and lifted up her hoof slightly, “Sorry, Scootaloo, but they’re just transferring some books from castle to castle. With all the damage done to the library and the books in it, it was decided that we’d transfer the books from the castle in the Everfree Forest to the one here.”

“Oh, yeah, sorry about your house blowing up,” Sweetie Belle mumbled as she turned to the side, a little ashamed to bring up the memory.

“It’s nothing for you to worry about,” Twilight reassured with a smile. “Buildings and books can be replaced, I’m just glad no pony was hurt.”

“Still, it has to stink that all your stuff got blown up,” Scootaloo pointed out bluntly, much to Sweetie Belle and Twilight’s surprise

Twilight cleared her throat and tried to put on a strong smile. “Well, yes, it is a disappointment, but nopony was hurt in that incident. My home and possessions can’t equate to somepony getting hurt, so, I’m fine with that. But what are you two up to today? Trying to get your cutie marks again?”

“Yeah! We’re trying to be superheroes!” Scootaloo replied jumping bouncing on her hooves.

Twilight sighed slightly, but kept up her smile. In her mind, she was reminded of her own experiences of being sucked into a comic book and transformed into the masked vigilante known as the Masked Matterhorn, and her friends who were also drawn into the inked pages became ‘super heroes’ as well.

Although the experience was one she’d much rather keep locked in her memories, Twilight did have to admit it was rather fun to be in an extravagant costume where she fought against goons and the evil Mane-iac. Then again, over the last couple of years, Twilight and her friends had fought against beings that were pretty much on par with some of the strongest alicorns, and each and every time they’d come out on top.

With a shake of her head, Twilight turned her full attention back on the two fillies, “Well, superheroing is really dangerous, so, I don’t know if it would be the best idea…”

That’s when something caught Twilight’s attention – There was a large shadow that loomed over Ponyville and flew overhead quickly. From the shape of the flying shadow, Twilight’s eyes widened and she turned her attention up towards the sky where she saw a large winged figure soar over the town.

And it was no pegasus, that was for sure.

“What was that?” Sweetie Belle questioned as her eyes followed the flying object that was headed straight for the middle of the town – Where the town hall was.

“Girls, I need you to get somewhere safe,” Twilight stated as her wings unfolded and she started to get a running start. “And hurry!”

With that, Twilight galloped forward and flew off after the shadowed flying being. Sweetie Belle tilted her head slightly but nodded, “Should we go get Applebloom?”

However, Sweetie Belle realized that Scootaloo was galloping after the two fliers, “Scootaloo?! Wait!”

The small, orange pegasus kept her eyes trained on the first flying being, ‘It couldn’t be… But if that’s true then…’

Apparently, Twilight and the two fillies weren’t the only ones who saw the flying being – And with the large flying being now landing atop of the tall town hall, a rather sizable crowd of ponies had gathered . The being turned out to be a seven foot tall dragon with black scales covering his muscular body, with his shoulders, chest and calves covered with crimson armor. His head had silver horns branching out: one on either side of his head and one that was just above his glowing blue eyes.

With one of his claw-like hands wrapped around the flag pole atop of town hall, the dragon watched as more ponies surrounded the tall building. It was almost enough to hurt his eyes with the odd assortment of colors, ‘With how they gather, it’s almost like moths to a flame. Now all that’s missing is a certain moth, and with a display like this, I doubt that this moth shall…’

“HEY!”

The dragon lifted his head up and turned his head to see a flurry of colors floating in front of him – A living rainbow that was attached to a sky blue pegasus’s head and backside. The dragon knew that ponykind was a colorful race of characters (quite literally actually), but this was ridiculous.

The pegasus was floating in mid-air with her front hooves crossed over her chest, “Hey buddy, what do you think you’re doing? This isn’t exactly the best place for dragons to hang out – You’re going to wreck the roof!”

“My apologies,” the dragon replied with a shrug and a cocky grin.

And that’s all he said, turning his head back to the growing group. Rainbow Dash cocked her head slightly with a dulled look before she flew in front of the dragon, “Well? Do you mind moving before you break something?”

The dragon rolled his eyes before he drew in a breath and blew Dash away from his face. “GAH!’

Dash had to take a moment to get her bearings before she narrowed her eyes, “What the!? Hey!”

“Dash, stop!”

The weather pony somehow stopped in mid-air, and turned to see Twilight flying up in front of her. “Twilight, this guy’s a jerk!”

“Yes, but he’s also a dragon,” Twilight pointed out, turning to look at the large dragon. “And our track record with dragons who aren’t Spike isn’t the best. Can you please go get Fluttershy, she might be the only pony who can help…”

Dash huffed but then sighed, “Whatever. Be back in a flash.”

And indeed, Dash flew off as fast as she could into the clear blue yonder. That left Twilight to look at the dragon – Who was in turn trying to start the world’s greatest staring contest with her, his oddly glowing, and yet murky eyes trained on her. While this wasn’t the first time that Twilight had come face to face with a dragon, and while there were some scarier moments in recent events, there was something unsettling about this dragon’s leer.

“Quite the amount of respect you command.”

It took a moment for Twilight to realize that the dragon had spoken, “I don’t really command it, she’s my friend and earned it.”

“Easy to say for somepony with the title of Princess,” the dragon chuckled as he lifted one of his claws up towards the alicorn.

Twilight narrowed her eyes at the dragon, but took a deep breath to steady herself, “May I ask why you are here? It’s not every day that dragon flies over Ponyville and perches on Town Hall.”

The dragon turned his attention down towards the ever growing crowd and smirked, “And me without the traditional ‘Hello Neighbor’ fruit basket… Where are my manners? I should’ve brought something with me, after all, I’m meeting with the Twilight Princess…”

“Actually my name’s Twilight,” The alicorn answered back.

The dragon’s face lit up slightly with a streak of crimson over his scaled face, “Oh, I… I knew that! I was testing you, Princess! And you passed!”

“Okay, but that doesn’t answer my question,” Twilight pointed out to the dragon. “Why exactly are you here?”

Rather than answer immediately, the dragon lifted his claw up towards the sun, “I came to ask you a question or two. And who better to ask than one of ‘royal’ blood?”

“Well, if that’s what you want, that shouldn’t be an issue,” Twilight sighed with relief. “Although, I think you’re a little off – The Great Dragon Migration isn’t for a few other months.”

The dragon laughed under his breath, “Oh, how hilarious – No, no, I’m not interested in migration: In fact, I don’t see a reason to do so. I’m more interested in your opinion on dragons…”

Back on the ground most of the ponies were a little confused as to why Twilight was talking to the dragon, while some were just amazed that a dragon would actually appear in their town. However, amongst the crowd, one little orange pegasus stared at the dragon intently. “No way…”

“Huh? What’s wrong Scootaloo?” Sweetie Belle inquired, taking note of her friend’s reaction.

Scootaloo didn’t answer, rather she turned and began galloping off through the crowds, the small unicorn quickly gave chase, and was barely able to keep up with her winged companion. “Scootaloo! What’s wrong!”

“Just follow me!” Scootaloo called back, keeping her attention before her. ‘That dragon – He’s just like the one in…’

Back atop of the roof…

“WHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!” The dragon laughed loudly as he brought his free claw to his face and covered most of it within his digits. “Hardly anything?! You hardly know anything about us dragons?”

Twilight reeled back at the sudden outburst from the black dragon, “That’s not it at all, we’ve learned a great deal about dragons, especially with Spike!”

The black dragon stopped cackling for a little bit and moved his claws slightly so that one of his eyes could look towards Twilight. “… I could ask so many more questions, but let me tell you something about dragons so you can learn something: Us dragons have an affinity to caves and volcanoes, but not because we want to… But rather we were forced to!”

It was then that the dragon pointed his claws towards Twilight, “Forced there by you Equines!”

Twilight reeled back slightly by the accusation, “Wait… What? There’s no way that we did that to dragons!”

“That’s easy enough for you to say,” the dragon stated as he crossed his arms. “But it’s the truth. You ponies stole the land that rightfully belongs to us – You manipulate this world’s nature for your own gains, all for the sake of ‘survival’.”

“We don’t manipulate anything!” Twilight countered back. “We’re keeping harmony and balance to this world! Without it, then nopony would…”

“Griffons, minotaurs, buffalo,” The dragon interrupted. “Only you Equines possess the ability to manipulate weather – Making it rain, snow, or even provide a pleasant breeze. Any other race who don’t possess these magical traits is practically forced to abide by your rules, however, it wasn’t the case with us dragons. We don’t need to live off the lay of the land in the same way as other species: The occasional jewel here or there is enough, and thanks to this world, there’s an abundance of jewels.

“But, it was because we ‘desecrated’ the land that it was decided that we would be forced to more… Desolate locations so that you ponies could thrive!”

Twilight was a little taken back from the dragon’s words. There was a little bit of logic in his words, but there was no way it was true: There wouldn’t be any reason for…

“So tell me, Princess,” the dragon interrupted her thoughts once again, this time from his mouth flames began to slip out between his teeth. “Are you just going to fly there and say nothing?”

After a few moments, Twilight took a deep breath and then calmly spoke out. “A slumbering, adult dragon anywhere near any group of creatures, almost regardless of what the creatures are, snore enough smog to choke a town. We have no choice but to ask dragons to move from pony settlements, otherwise we wouldn’t be able to survive.

“If what you say is true, then I’m sorry… But surely you can see our…”

Twilight’s eyes widened and her horn lit up just before a powerful burst of reddish yellow engulfed her. Many ponies on the ground screamed out and galloped away as they watched the newest princess in Equestria get roasted like a purple marshmallow.

Thankfully, when the flames died down, it was revealed that there was an orb of purple magical energy over the alicorn’s body and Twilight sighed in relief at being able to put up the barrier at the last second.

“I don’t accept it!”

Twilight’s eyes widened when she realized that the dragon leapt from the town hall’s roof with one of his claws held over his head. “Your words! This world!”

The dragon brought his claws down on the barrier, and shattered it into a million pieces. The force of the dragon’s attack had flung Twilight through the air before he roared loudly. “I am the Red Demon Dragon – King! And I shall shatter this falsehood with my own claws!

“THAT IS THE ROLE OF A KING!”

After she managed to regain her composure in the air, Twilight focused her magic once more and unleashed a beam of purple energy right at King’s chest and forced the dragon back through the air slightly. When the energy faded slightly, a large amount of smoke billowed from King’s chest.

The dragon looked down at his chest and scratched where the magic had struck him a few times. “… Impressive – But it lacks something.”

King slammed his claws together, and with a powerful spark, his claws were engulfed in powerful flames that he grasped. Twilight’s eyes widened at the deed, “What? Is that…”

“Equines with horns aren’t the only ones with magic you know,” King chuckled as the flames in his claws grew more intense. “Prepare yourself! King’s duel…

“ACCELERATION!”

TTT – TTT

While there was an epic clash of magic and flames going on in the skies above Ponyville, both Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle were making their way through the large apple orchard towards their clubhouse. Sweetie Belle was trying to keep up with her winged friend, but Scootaloo wasn’t slowing down at all.

Through panted breaths, the small white unicorn called out to her friend, “Sco… Scootaloo! What are… Are you doing?!”

“There’s something about that dragon!” Scootaloo called back, not turning back. “I’ve see him before very recently!”

“You’ve seen a real life dragon that isn’t Spike?” Sweetie Belle questioned as the two were now on a straight path for the clubhouse.

“Well, no, but that’s the point!” Scootaloo answered back. “Just follow me and you’ll…”

“Girls!”

It was then that both Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo just realized that Applebloom was standing in front of the ramp, a rather bewildered look plastered on her face and she kept turning back towards the club house.

When the other two fillies came to a halt, Applebloom turned back to them and Scootaloo stepped forward. “Hey, what’s got you all jumpy?”

“Um, well, it’s been a weird morning,” Applebloom answered back as her eyes trailed back towards the clubhouse.

“Can’t be weirder than a dragon being on top of the Town Hall,” Sweetie Belle admitted with a sigh. “Wait, can you see Town Hall from here?”

“There’s a dragon in town?” Applebloom asked, blinking a few times before she shook her head. “Um, well, that is weird, but Ah’m talkin’ ‘bout the odd pony in our clubhouse.”

“Weird pony?” Scootaloo questioned, thinking for a few moments before something clicked in her head and a bright smile crept on her face. “Wait… Could it be?!”

And like an orange blur, Scootaloo dashed into the clubhouse as fast as her hooves could take her inside. Sweetie Bell and Applebloom looked at each other when they heard their friend’s voice echo from inside. “OH THAT IS AWESOME!”

Both fillies looked at each other before they followed their friend into the clubhouse…

TTT – TTT

This King was no Tirek.

He was no Discord or King Sombra (Tartarus, the only thing he had in common with Sombra was the word ‘King’).

Not Nightmare Moon nor Queen Chrysallis.

But it was because of those little facts that Twilight had to consider – This dragon was just as dangerous as the rogues gallery that Twilight and her friends had faced over the last few years. Now, when one considers that she’s been up against practically two gods, two corrupted rulers, and an immortal minotaur that could steal magic, a dragon doesn’t really seem all that difficult to deal with.

Then again, Twilight never knew that dragons had access to magic.

Diving out of the way of one of the many streams of fire that the King fired from his claws, Twilight flapped her wings as best she could. Over the year or so that she acquired her wings, Twilight had become a much more confident flyer thanks to her training with Rainbow Dash, but she wasn’t the strongest flyer around.

It didn’t help that King seemed to be toying with her, since he seemed to have way more experience flying and had shown that he was fast in the air.

‘I just need to lead him out of Ponyville,’ Twilight thought to herself, making sure that she wouldn’t be blasted out of the sky by the large (yet, compared to other dragons, not that tall) dragon. ‘Once I do so, I know I can counter him without having to worry about anypony getting caught in the crossfire.’

A loud sigh from behind caught Twilight’s attention and she turned back to see that King had stop flinging fireballs and now just looked bored. He had even stopped flying after her and used his large wings to keep him afloat in the air.

King crossed his arms and shook his head, “If you wanted to lead me out of town, all you had to do was ask.”

Confused, Twilight turned about to face King. “Wait, what? How did you know I was doing that?”

“Please, just one counter attack from you and you start flying off?” King answered as he began to lower to the ground, Twilight was at least successful in getting the dragon out of the town. “I’ve seen the tactic used so many times by that worthless scrap heap that it’s just easier and a lot less of a migraine to just get out of the residential districts when fighting.”

The moment that King’s clawed feet touched the ground, Twilight floated down slightly to be face to face to the dragon. “I would’ve pegged you for not really caring if you fought in a town.”

“I never stated that my goals were genocidal,” King countered with his eyes narrowed at the Alicorn. “Chalk that up to you Equines thinking you can understand anything right off the bat – All I desire in this world is liberation, and I only wish to spill as little blood as possible to do so.”

“There’s no need to spill blood,” Twilight pointed out. “If you’re willing to come out of the town and not hurt anypony, then doesn’t that mean that you’re willing to talk things out?”

“Would anypony listen?” King countered back as he lifted his fists again, flames starting to spark around the claws. “In order to change the world, I shall use my very own claws and flames! I learned that you Equines don’t listen to other species – There’s only one thing that every being listens to!

“And that’s absolute power!”

Immediately, King unleashed a powerful burst of fire from his mouth towards Twilight, however the mare used her wings to fly up straight and dodge the powerful surge of flames that flew over the vast plains.

While she was in the air, Twilight’s horn glowed brightly with magical energy and threw her head down towards the large dragon, with a large amount of purple energy surging down towards King. The dragon smirked and threw his palms up into the air, unleashing the flames from his claws up towards the powerful magical energy.

The two forces of magic clashed in midair and sent waves of purple and red energy through the air. When the two spells were done and the remaining flickers billowed over the field, King’s wings spread out and using his powerful legs, propelled himself towards Twilight as fast as he could.

King threw his fist up towards the smaller mare, but Twilight dipped back just in time to dodge the oncoming dragon. However, when King was now over her, he lifted his leg up and brought it down upon her with a powerful axe kick.

CLANK!

But his leg was propelled back by the powerful purple barrier that Twilight erected and knocked King’s leg back.

“NOT GOOD ENOUGH!”

It was then that King’s tail wrapped around the barrier and with a quick tightening squeeze shattered the barrier. Before Twilight could react, King’s tail coiled around her. “AAH!”

The dragon smirked before he spun through the air, turning himself and Twilight into blurs before he unfurled his tail and threw Twilight through the air. When she was a good distance away, King drew his claws together and called forth the flames within his claws once more. “The finisher!”

As King prepared to launch his attack, four sky blue hooves slammed into the back of his head with enough force that propelled him towards the ground. The dragon crashed into the ground with dirt and debris flying from the crash zone.

When Twilight stopped spinning through the air, she realized that a familiar blue and rainbow colored blur flew right towards her. “Rainbow?!”

“Hey Twi, looks like I popped in at the right time,” Dash announced, a large grin on her face. “He looks tough, but looks like he’s got a glass jaw!”

“Dash, that only works if you hit his face,” Twilight pointed out before a large amount of smoke billowed up from the ground where King was getting up, the smoke rising from his mouth and claws. “And apparently he doesn’t have one.”

King rolled his head around his shoulders and turned his head up to the two winged mares that were overhead. He took a deep breath and rubbed the bruise that was now on the back of his head, “Cheap shot.”

“Rainbow, where’s Fluttershy?” Twilight asked, keeping an eye on the dragon done below to see that he was rolling his head about.

“Well, she was behind me,” Dash answered back, throwing her front hooves behind her head. “But she saw you go hoof to claw with that jerk with scales down there, and she dove down to the nearest bush to hide.”

“Right, Fluttershy’s fear of dragons,” Twilight muttered to herself. “Then we’ll have to do something…”

“You two done yapping yet?” King called out from the ground with his claws around his mouth. “I could go get a cup of coffee, maybe bring back some cheese Danishes, check to see if the Manehatten Bucks are any good this season… Anything would be better than hearing Equines ramble on and on.”

Those comments caused Dash to narrow her eyes at the dragon, “Oh, you think you’re all that?”

“You stand before a true king,” the Red Demon Dragon called back with his claws lowered down. “Er, float. Why wouldn’t I have a high opinion of myself?”

“Pretty big talk from a dragon who just ate mulch!” Dash yelled back.

King growled as he clutched his claws, engulfing them in flames. With a loud roar, King threw his claws towards the ground and unleashed the fire, which propelled him quickly through the air towards the two mares.

Both Dash and Twilight flew out of the way at just the last second to dodge the dragon’s rabid charge. When King was higher than them, he spun around and lifted up both of his fiery claws across his chest and then snapped his arms to the side to unleash the flames towards the two ponies.

The flames flew through the air, and thankfully, the two were able to dodge the massive fires that surged just under their tails. Twilight turned to see where King was coming from…

But he wasn’t in the air where he was before, in fact, Twilight didn’t even see the large dragon. ‘That doesn’t make any sense! Even though he’s fast, he shouldn’t be…’

“Twi! Behind you!”

Twilight turned around when she heard Dash call out to her, and saw that King flew out of the flames he launched out. He had immediately flown into the flames just so he could gain a quick advantage, And thanks to that, King was in spitting distance from Twilight, with his hand extended right towards Twilight, the claws just about around her neck…

But that’s when a blue blur quickly slammed into Twilight’s side and forced her just out of the way of King’s claws.

However, the blur wasn’t so lucky.

“Dash!” Twilight gasped.

King narrowed his eyes at the struggling blue mare with a rainbow colored mane and tail, her hind hooves kicking about. The large dragon sighed loudly, but never loosened his grip. “Quite the brave and loyal Equine you are.”

The large dragon’s eyes turned towards Twilight who was charging her horn with magical energy, “You’re quite lucky to have someone so willing to lay down their life for you. I’m rather envious.”

“I’ll give you one chance to release her,” Twilight warned, the light on her horn glowing brighter. “Otherwise…”

Dash’s struggling began to slow down and her eyes began to close, yet King just kept his attention on Twilight. “You must believe that you’re a good shot with your magic. One wrong move and your loyal Equine would take the hit.

“And even if you do hit me, we’ve seen what your magic can do to me – Just leave a scratch on my hide!”

Twilight knew he was right – She could try teleporting Dash away, but there were issues with that, she’d be wide open for King to attack and there was no telling if Dash would be okay after the teleportation and with King still there, he wouldn’t give Twilight a chance to check on her.

“Scrap…”

Both Twilight and King turned to the side, just in time for a brass knuckle covered hoof to slam into King’s face. It seemed time froze when the armored hoof connected into the large dragon’s jaw. “HOOF!”

Time never stopped, the amount of power behind the hoof propelled King directly towards the ground, his claws released around Dash’s neck and she began to fall towards the ground at a much slower rate than King.

But she didn’t fall too far when a pair of armored hooves wrapped around her, “… She’s still breathing, that’s good…”

Twilight blinked at the owner of those hooves that not only smacked King down towards the ground, but also saved her friend. He was covered with blue armor that gleamed in the sun, with two wing-like protrusions from his sides like a pegasus, but were streamline with blue energy from them. His muzzle was covered with a white mask and red goggles and his head was topped with a matching blue helmet, while around his neck was a long, white muffler that billowed in the wind.

His right front hoof was a lot bigger than his left one, and had a knuckle attachment to it that had slid up from the bottom of his hoof to the side so that he could support Rainbow Dash without any discomfort.

There were so many things running through Twilight’s head: Where had this stallion come from? Why was he dressed so weird? How did he manage to knock King down so easily with one hoof? And so many other questions, but only one seemed to echo out of Twilight’s mouth.

“Who… Who are you?” Twilight questioned as she flew towards the stallion.

The armored stallion lifted his head up towards the princess and spoke clearly, “Junk Maverick.”

TBC

Comments

[DragonNamedDB]

AWESOME ART TO KICK OFF THE STORY!
Also...One for a dramatic entrance, ain't ya Junk?

[xeno gundian]

4505314
~yay~

[Arch22]

what is this a crossover of

[MangaKamen]

4865357
Technically Yugioh 5D's or the Trading card game
Since Junk stallion is based off of the Card - Junk Warrior and a few other yugioh cards.

[Arch22]

4865429 ok i just coudnt tell from the art

[MangaKamen]

4865577 Yeah well, translating a picture from a trading card into a pony does tend to be odd...

[Arch22]

4865584 yeah

[DragonNamedDB]

Hmm...With the rise of ARC-V into its second season and Jack Atlas is coming back with his card...This needs an update :3

[GoldenHeartofMorioh]

Ok, i gotta ask. You gonna keep working on this or leave it unfinished.

[AstralFlare42]

Update please

[GoldenHeartofMorioh]

Hey, does anyone know whats going on with the author? Yugioh 5ds (season 1) is one of my all time favorite animes so i was stoked when i found this fic. So i gotta ask, when this story continue or not?