Conflict in the making (Day 2)
“I think I got her,” Lightning heard Lia say. “She’s waking up now.”
Lightning Dust groaned as her body so aggressively came back to the realm of consciousness. She wasn’t a stranger to smacking headfirst into things. Comes with being a Pegasus with such a need for speed. She had ended up in a hospital more times than she could count, but that didn’t stop her. Of course, none of those things she had smacked into were a metal behemoth.
Lightning rubbed her sore forehead. ‘This is going to hurt for a while.’
Looking around, she saw Lia and Rio standing over her, plus a couple zebra doctors. “How’re you feeling?” Lia asked.
“Like I rammed into a wall of metal,” Lightning groaned.
Rio chuckled. “Ah know the feelin’. Little miss Ag’s thrown me about once or twice back in the days.” He shook his paw as if remembering a phantom pain. “Her skin makes for a mighty fine challenge to bruise, ah tell ya.”
Lightning chuckled a little herself. She could imagine how painful it would be to strike Ag. She was a literal monster made up of metal. No doubt she was strong enough to withstand even cannon fire. “How long was I out?”
Rio pulled her to her hooves. She nodded a ‘thanks’ to him and he just tipped his hat in response.
“Less than half an hour,” Lia answered. “I wanted to know if you were okay, so I woke you up.”
“Well thanks,” Lightning rubbed her sore head. “Where are the others?”
“Outside,” Rio answered. “Some blasted tree fell before the train. Dog garn stopped us dead, it did.”
“A tree?” Lightning raised an incredulous eyebrow. “Stopped this train?”
Rio nodded and threw his arms out wide to emphasis. “These trees are huge, miss Dust. Ah’ve never seen anythin’ like it ‘fore now.”
Lightning snorted. ‘Just my luck.’
“Don’t worry though,” Lia smiled. “My big brother will think of something. He always does.” She frowned. “Well hopefully it’s not one of his more…extreme ideas.”
Rio shivered. “Ah’d follow that snake anywhere, but sometimes ah wonder if that darn psychic did more damage than we thought.”
“Damage?” Lightning asked, not liking the sound of it.
“Commander Sev may be a slippery varmint,” Rio sighed. “But he’s still a loudmouth. Team Rocket got their grubby hands on him during a raid once. Tried to get information on us through him. He refused.”
“So they brought in an Alakazam,” Lia growled, bawling up her fists. “That…Fiend broke into my brother’s mind. My brother resisted. No matter what the Alakazam did, my brother fought him every step of the way.” Lia sniffed. “We finally freed him a few days later. He’s been a little…loopy since then.”
“Well, loopier than normal,” Rio admitted with a chuckle.
Lia giggled. “Yeah,” her laughter died quickly. “I’ve been trying to help him and he’s getting better. I’ve fixed most of what that…fiend did, so my big brother is back to normal.”
“You call that normal?” Lightning couldn’t help but ask.
“Normal is subjective,” Lia’s grin was wicked. “Normal for us is insane for everyone else. I think we like it that way.”
Rio nodded, but then frowned. “Did ya just call me insane?”
“….No,” Lia’s eyes darted this way and that.
Rio rolled his eyes and walked off. “Ah’m gonna go check up on those mercs. Can’t tell if there…” Whatever he was going to say was cut off by a big Goodra running him over.
Without a second to spare, Felicia snatched up Lightning and pulled her into a slimy hug. “Oooh, I was so worried. I thought you were never going to wake up and then I’d be sad and Weiss isn’t here to cheer me up, so I don’t know how long I’d be sad.”
Lightning struggled in vain to get out of the slimy hold of hers. ‘Geez, what is she? A slug dragon or something?’
“Felicia,” Lia asked in a sweet voice. “Could you please let her go?”
“Okay,” Felicia gently set the now drenched mare down on the ground. She offered an apologetic smile. “Sorry, I get carried away sometimes.”
“I noticed,” Lightning pulled a face as she looked at herself. She quickly shook herself free of most of the slime, like a dog would after a bath.
Lia used her psychic powers to keep herself clean. “Be careful where you spray it.”
Rio groaned and stood up. “And be careful where ya walk, ya darned merc. If ah wasn’t so sturdy, that coulda hurt.”
“Sorry,” Felicia said and trapped Rio in a hug.
Lightning chuckled to herself. These were definitely interesting times for her. Still, she left the others to their own devices and opened one of the train doors leading outside. Finally stepping outside, she let out a relieved breath. Pegasi were beings of the air. Having a ceiling overhead and being in small confined areas didn’t sit right with them and Lightning was no exception.
She unfurled her wings and flapped them a bit, helping her take a little ways off the ground. She was merely floating a couple of feet, but that felt just heavenly. ‘Seriously, it’s been too long since I’ve last flown.’
She quickly picked up on the sound of someone shouting.
“We can’t move the tree,” she heard someone shout. “It’s too big.”
Which Lightning did have to admit, to her somewhat shock, the trees here were massive. Well, some of them anyways. They made the forests in Equestria look tiny in comparison. ‘Let’s just hope it’s not another Everfree Forest.’
“Nothing is too big,” She heard Sev shout back. “You only think it’s too big. Expand your mind, like I do.”
Lightning sighed and shook her head at his antics. Trotting up to the front of the train, she saw what appeared to be one of the massive trees blocking said train. Commander Sev, Ag, the conductor, the king, and a couple guards were all standing around talking. Actually, it was more like Sev talking and them reacting.
“So what’s the damage?” Lightning asked as she walked up to them.
“Nothing major,” the conductor answered. “The train’s armor is too thick and sturdy for there to have been any real damage. We’re just not going anywhere while this tree is in front of us.”
“Then we shall remove it,” Sev scoffed and glanced at the tree. “Know this tree. You face the might of Commander Sev. None can stand in my way and I’ll be cursed for a thousand years before I let a tree stop me.” He turned to his Aggron general. “Ag, destroy it.”
“You may be a creature of metal,” the conductor started. “But this tree is too thick…”
Ag punched straight into the tree, going up to her elbow in the bark. It didn’t look like she put a lot of force into it, but instantly the tree splinted. A crack ran around the midsection , splitting the tree neatly in half. Ag smiled, pulling her fist back out from the bark.
“…For you to do anything.” The conductor mumbled, unable to believe what he just saw.
Sev smirked upon seeing his face. “You were saying?”
“Show off,” Lightning scoffed.
“I’d like to see you do it, pipsqueak.” Ag grinned. She turned to the king. “Now, go grab those guards of yours. We need to move these pieces out of the way.”
“Right,” King Trotankhamun nodded. The young king turned his head to address his soldiers, but went silent when a spear landed right in front of him. “Oh dear…” The king frowned, knowing full well where this spear came from.
“King Panzy!” A large booming voice called out. Everyone turned to look at a large, armored Hyena Dog stand at the edge of the forest. Dozens of smaller, more regular sized dogs stood around him. A wooden club as thick as his beefy arm was held tightly in his claws. “I’z com ta krump ya’z gud an’ propa.”
King Trotankhamun glared at the Alpha dog. “Alpha Kickstompa, what are you doing? We agreed on a non-aggression pact between our two people. Do you not have a shred of honor as to keep to it?”
Kickstompa laughed. “You’z tink I’d keep dat silly pact? Ya aren’t that bright, panzy king.” He pounded his broad chest. “Alphas are strong. I’z kill you an’ den tha others see me as strongest.”
“Can anyone honestly understand half of what he says?” Ag pointed out. “It sounds like he’s slurring his words on purpose.”
‘That’s because they’re idiots,’ Lightning thought to herself.
“Hyena Dogs aren’t the…most intelligent creatures,” King Trotankhamun said reluctantly. “I’ve been trying to set up schools and such to help but….”
“We’z don’t need help,” Kickstompa roared. “We’z gud on our own. Now shut up an’ die.”
Lightning snorted as she took a look at all the dogs with the Alpha. They wore better armor than her previous captors, who seemed to just not care what their armor looked like. It was still crude, but it covered quite a bit of their upper torso. Various weapons gave Lightning pause, since most of them could slice through her spine with ease.
‘We’re in for one heck of a fight.’ Lightning flared her wings, ready to give better than what she got.
“No,” Sev hissed as he slithered out before everyone else. “It shall be you who dies. Your small meatworm brain is probably incapable of knowing who you’re dealing with. I doubt you’d dare attack one in the company of the great and powerful Commander Sev, without his wishes if you did.”
“My brain iz bigga den yer head, snakey thing,” the hyena Alpha growled.
“I may be a lot of things,” Sev chuckled. “But a fool is not one of them. You will not pull the wool over my eyes with such a blatant lie.”
Kickstompa took an aggressive step forward. “Stop yappin’, snakey thing. Ya want me to krump you’z to?”
“No,” Sev shook his head. “I want you to shut up. I, Commander Sev, decree not a word should utter once more from your mouth. Do you understand, mutt?”
“I understand ya want me to krump ya,” Kickstompa growled.
“Then do it,” Sev scoffed. “I don’t have all day. My new base of operations is but an hour away. If you would be so kind as to actually listen to me and leave, I would be partially thankful. Know that that is a great gift from the chosen warrior of Arceus himself.”
Kickstompa just walked over to him in silence. Looking at him, he easily towered over Sev, being only a hairs breath bigger than Ag.
‘Pretty small for an Alpha.’ Lightning thought. Alpha Hyena Dogs were usually incredibly large. The larger the dog, the stronger they were.
“Ya insult me ta mah face,” Kickstompa snorted.
“Commander Sev speaks nothing but the truth,” Sev hissed, rearing to meet the dog face to face.
“Then let’s fight an’ see who’z betta,” Kickstompa grinned savagely.
Sev smirked. “Let’s, but make it a good one. I bore easily.”
“No,” King Trotankhamun nudged Commander Sev to the side so he could talk with the snake himself. “There will be no fighting. We shall resolve this peacefully and…”
“Lookie ‘ere, dogz.” Kickstompa chuckled and rested his club on his shoulder. “Da panzy king talkin’ like that white nag.”
Lightning’s eyes went wide. ‘Oh he did not just diss Celestia. You do not just diss Celestia.’
King Trotankhamun didn’t move for a couple seconds, before he turned around with a seething glare. “What did you just say?”
“White nag,” Kickstompa poked his head. “I don’t tink you’z gud leada fer listen’ to ‘er. She’z too peacey and stupid, unlike a true dog.”
“Commander Sev,” King Trotankhamun turned to the Seviper. “Please do your best in the fight and be sure to leave me the leftovers.”
Sev’s grin grew deadly. “With pleasure, young king.”
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*elsewhere in the forest*
Being a Sentret normally wasn’t such a bad thing. They had it easy, really. The humans found them cute and usually helped them out whenever they could. The Pokémon as well, but there was one downside. They were small and small things usually got picked on by the big.
Like how this one Sentret was running for its life from two adolescent Tyrunts.
“It’s mine,” Terrance tried to seize the little Pokémon in its jaws.
“No, mine.” Matilda tried to bite down as well, but the Sentret was too swift.
Of course, it’s short, stocky body meant that it couldn’t keep this up forever. The two dinosaur Pokémon were built to keep up with prey much faster than the poor Sentret, but the little creature kept at its pace. Its pursuers would get bored quickly. It just had too…
Whatever the Sentret was thinking ended when a spear pierced its hide. The two Tyrunts stopped their chase to get a good look at the new comers. They were some strange looking biped dog pokemon they had never seen before. They were wearing armor and had a ton of weapons at the ready. The one that had speared the Sentret raised his weapon and gave the carcass a good long sniff.
“Err…” Terrance spoke up. The hyena dogs just heard ‘Ty-Tyrunt’. “Mister, could we have that? We’re really hungry.”
“You’re always hungry,” Matilda snarled. “You could go and eat that…thing dad killed earlier. There’s still some of it left.”
“But it tasted funny,” Terrance whined.
The strange dog didn’t say anything. Instead, it just took a bite out of the Sentret. The dog, obviously male, eyed the twins curiously.
“Boss,” another dog piped up. “Dey strange creatures.”
The first dog swallowed his bite, blood drippled down his chin. “Lotz uv strange creatures ‘round ‘ere. Don’t know why, but dere are.”
“You talk funny, mister.” Terrance spoke up.
The dog ignored him. “Dey look like gud eatin’.”
“Nah,” another dog spoke up. “No meat on der bones. Just flimsy muscle.”
“Hey!” Matilda growled and took a step forward. She wasn’t going to let some random creatures make fun of her. She was a Tyrunt. Something that should be feared by all who laid eyes upon her.
“Won’t hurt ta try,” the lead dog stuffed the rest of the Sentret’s remains into its mouth. Raising its now empty, but still bloody spear, he wacked Matilda to the ground. She let out a startled cry of pain as she went down.
Terrance quickly stood over his sister. “Stop it you bullies. We didn’t do anything.”
“Deyz got sum fight,” the dog grinned. “Gud. I thought today would be boring. Nuthin but zebras ta fight.”
“Fight or flee?” Terrance asked his sister.
Matilda got back to her feet, shaking her head to clear the dazed state she was in. “Fight of course. We’re Tyrunts. He should be afraid of us.”
“But we’re just….” Terrance had to jump backwards to avoid the dog’s spear.
The dog laughed. “Ya can dodge. Gud, gud. Keep dat up and I might hav’ sum fun.”
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*back in Bridleton harbor*
Dr. Caballeron gulped as he stood outside the door to Thrist’s room. Two large, imposing griffins stood on each side of the door. They wore thick, spiky, black armor that should have prevented them from flight, but Caballeron had seen far too many times that they could fly without trouble. Large cleavers were held ceremoniously in their hands.
‘Because let’s face it, they don’t need swords to carve anything up.’
Of course, neither of them scared him that much. He was used to imposing bodyguards and ruthless warriors. It came with the business. What did scare him lied behind the door. He could hear her dark chants, her usage of the dark arts. It was wrong, unnatural, but he needed her to get paid. He just hoped she wouldn’t use him as a blood sacrifice during this venture.
With an ounce of courage, he opened the door. “Thrist, we need to talk.”
The thirst was standing in a dimly lit room with several torture/brewing devices littered around. She was currently channeling dark magic into some sort of…collar. On closer inspection, it appeared to be one of those collars slavers used to control changelings. Changelings were tricky creatures to make slaves, given their shapeshifting and deceitful natures. So, the device was made to make them more…’compliant’. In other words, brain dead as long as they wore the collar.
“Oh yes,” Thrist turned around, cancelling her magic. Blood dripped from the tips of her claws. Her magic required a blood sacrifice, because griffins naturally didn’t have magic of their own. Blood magic gave the Thirst both their name and their powers. “We have a lot to talk about. The new arrivals have brought such…interesting things with them.”
“Interesting and troublesome,” Caballeron grumbled. “They’ve set back everything.”
Thrist cocked her head to the side in question. “Everything? My dear pony, they have set back nothing. In fact, they have brought me such…wonders to play with.” She seemed exceptionally giddy, which didn’t sit well with the pony in the room.
She walked over a small bowl, where a small blue bird with a white chest and red face lay in its own blood. “Tailow, that was its name.”
“Name?”
Thrist nodded. “They can speak. I tested out a translation spell and…” She grinned. “It was so meek and cowardly. I couldn’t help but take it and now…” She looked to her claws with glee. “Such power. Such power in so small of a body. I can see myself getting addicted to the feeling, but that isn’t important.” She turned to the collar. “I have been thinking of our compatriots in Zebrica. How much do you think they would pay for Pokémon slaves?”
“Seeing what they can do,” Caballeron rubbed his chin, before grinning. “I believe we’d make a fortune.”
Thrist gestured to the collar. “With this Tailow’s blood, I have modified this collar. It was originally used to make changelings…compliant, but now. Now it shall be able to conquer giants.”
Caballeron raised an eyebrow. “You are sure of this.”
Thrist’s shoulders slumped. “I haven’t tested it yet, but in due time it will be ready. Perhaps a day, maybe less. I just require a few…more sacrifices to make it work. I have so many ideas running around in my head that I feel like a little chick again.”
“I’ll see what my men can do,” Caballeron said. “For now, keep to the ship. We can’t have the zebras, or anyone else for that matter, finding out you’re here. I’ll be by later for the meeting.”
Thrist grinned and looked over to a cage where another bird, a light blue one with cloud like wings, sat inside, shivering in fear. “I’ll be waiting.”
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Here's hoping these Hyena Dogs and Thirst Griffons get what's coming to them (which is hopefully the unbridled wrath of Arceus).
Excellent, now the world will fear the power of Commander Sev!
Good, Sev now has a reason to be so... "special". But there was one characteristic that I saw in Sev towards the beginning that we haven't really seen much of. It is the largest difference that I've seen between Zim's and Sev's personalities. There is a reason why Sev is in command. I hope that he gives everyone a reminder as to why (instead of telling someone else to take care of it).
Le me reading this chapter: Great! Fight scene incoming!
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Now that was just a tease!
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Anything else to note?
5052847 Ehm... Nope!
Well, maybe that a certain God will be pissed once it finds out about these magic collars. That itself isn't that trilling though.
I can't help but point this out but Hyena are not dogs, Also shouldn't the Alpha be a female?.
5065768 These are a diamond dog subspecies that look kind of like hyenas. And Hyena Dogs don't really care who's in charge as long as they're strong. So there are female Alphas.
5065784 Whit so if there not really hyena's. Then what about the real hyena's then?. Is there like a pack of hyenas we don't know about who just don't like anyone?.
5065820 Hyenas are just animals the same as dogs in Equestria. I mean, Diamond dogs aren't really dogs, they are just sapient creatures that look like dogs so that's what they're called. The same for Hyena Dogs.
5065829 okay sorry I was just trying to get my head around what they were. Thanks
5065833 No problem.
What a sick, sadistic bitch.
Sev seems just fine to me. I'm gonna agree with Ag on the speech of those things, I can only understand what they say half the time, I have to guess the rest. Go on Sev, show that Mutt what Pokemon are made of.
They must be really big idiots if they think Tyrunt look good to eat, they're rocks for crying out loud. They gonna get their asses kicked, Tyrunt may be small, but they are dragon type pokemon and a more predatory species.
5100923 Yeah, they have no idea what they're getting involved in.
Between this and Old Scars, New Chances, what is it with Taillows getting killed in Newverse fanfics?