For the sake of coolness, todays theme song is...
As you and the guards surrounding the stadium face off against each other, the head unicorn on the scene suddenly says,
"What are you waiting for? It's Hearth's Warming Eve. Take him to church!"
On cue, the Royal Guard charges in at you and as you draw the staff from the Inventory you think,
Why didn't I think of that line?
You and the guards (which looks like at least a small battalion) stand there in front of the stadium facing each other down; your eyes glowing orange, the newsponies jotting things down in their notepads, taking pictures, and muttering things (you swore you heard one mutter something about "the mayor declaring a state of emergency"), and a few of the Royal Guard start to look around nervously due to the lack of any movement.
The tense silence is broken when a pegasus Guard (probably an officer) declares,
"What are you waiting for? It's Hearth's Warming Eve. Take him to church!"
Their morale emboldened by this declaration, the Royal Guards all charge at you. As you draw the staff from the Inventory, all you can think is,
That line was awesome! Why didn't I think of it?
And with that you slam your staff into the ground, sending a shockwave away from you that sends the guards in front (and a few parked carriages) flying and the remaining guards stop in their tracks in charge. You twirl your staff around a bit as you yell,
"WELL DON'T JUST STAND THERE YOU COWARDS! BRING IT ON!"
This starts to play in the background as you charge at the nearest guard and...
"PSYCHO CRUSHER!"
Due to the recently consumed, Armored Shell tonic, you plow through several guards and you don't feel a headache this time. You notice this and think,
I wonder how much stronger my shell is compared to a pony's body, Armored Shell effects aside. I really should have paid more attention in Changeling Anatomy clas-
Seriously?! Thy art thinking about this now? How about you dodge the spell heading towards our flank?
"Buck!" you yell as you quickly dodge a spell which hits a guard pony and knocks her into a lightpost.
You smack a pair of Pegasus guards flying at you in the face with your staff before using the momentum to twirl your staff in the air as you proclaim,
"Check me out, I'm the ghost of Hearth's Warming KICK YOUR FLANK!"
Before slamming the staff into the ground again and releasing another shockwave that sends more guards flying back and forcing the others to back off (a few smart ones (probably the few honest ones) tend to keeping the press back).
"Raaauugh!" you roar as your eyes glowed a more intense orange and (if observant enough) a faint glow can be seen surrounding you mystifyingly before you charged at the remaining guards.
As all of this is going on, two Royal Guard earth ponies guarding the newsponies start to chat,
"Are we sure he's the fake?" the stallion asks,
"W-well, yeah!" the mare of the duo replies indigently but with a hint of uncertain fear, "I mean, it's only a 1k bounty so how hard could it be? He only has a hard head!"
"FALCON PUNCH!"
A 200-pound earth pony stallion sailed over their heads, screaming like a filly until he smashes against the ground.
"...and super strength." the mare guard adds (her voice starting to waver) as more guards charge at you from the front, but you send them flying with another shockwave from your staff.
"...and a power staff..."
The mare's voice is now clearly scared. The stallion guard comments,
"Yeah... We're not getting paid enough for this. Hey, I know this place that makes great Vanhoover-style Japadogs."
"SHORYUKEN!"
A unicorn royal guard is sent crashing into an above pegasus royal guard by your uppercut as the stallion continues making his move,
"Want to go on a date and call it a break?"
"I... I'd love to." the mare says before she and the stallion take off their armor and trot off. One of the newsponies yell after them,
"WAIT! YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE PROTECTING US!! Buck... IF SOMEPONY DOESN'T CALL FOR REINFORCEMENTS, I'M DOING AN EXPOSE ON YOU!!"
Back in the brawl, the parking lot was now literally, decked with bodies and stained in soldier sweat and grime and blood.
Well, not really blood, just some dude's hayburger with extra extra extra ketch-
Focus!
"Wuh-Woah!" you say as a spell narrowly misses your head.
"Oh..., big mistake!" you yell as Killing intent intensifies and you turn around to see who shot that spell at you only for the big unicorn to grab you in a headlock.
As the guard starts giving you a noogie, you don't notice a small squad of shadowy hooded cloaked figures appearing atop the upper levels of the Hoofball stadium. They start setting up a tube with a stand as one of them smirks while loading a canister of a white glowing liquid into the tube.
"Equestria will burn..." he mutters as he drops the canister into the tube before yelling, "FOR THE HORDE!"
The tube roars and the canister flies high into the air before falling back down and exploding on the ground, sending white flakes like burning snow everywhere. The guards around you scream in anguish as the burning flakes coat their bodies and get inside their lungs and eyes and the guards not close to the blast radius were either unconscious or desperately trying to aid their suffering comrades. The guard who was previously noogieing you lets go of you to start flailing and screaming in agony at the stuff in his eyes,
"IT BURRRRN-*POW*!!!"
"SHORYUKEN!"
You smash him in the jaw with a Shoryuken that launches him into the air and cause him to land groin-first (Ow...) onto a fence before looking around you in confusion and asking,
"What the buck are you all-"
It's those flakes! Selena says, Your cloak must be protecting you, but these fools aren't so lucky.
Looking around at the suffering ponies around you, you forego your own safety to stay behind and save them,
"Would you all kindly STOP BURNING AND CHLL!" you yell as you turn in every direction and blast everypony in sightwith your freeze power. Each second passes like hours as you watch them burn, desperately trying to save as many as you can. After a few moments, most of the ponies around you are frozen solid, but that's better than horribly burning to death. You angrily turn to the upper hoofball stadium level to see that the hooded figures are loading another cannister into the tube,
"OH NO YOU DON'T YOU JERKS! Would you all kindly BURN MOTHERBUCKERS!!!"
Suddenly, the tube catches fire causing it to explode, knocking the hooded ponies out of your view. Fortunately you that the way to the stadium entrance is now clear so you start to head in-
"HOLD IT RIGHT THERE!"
When more squads of Royal Guards show up and medics awaken and heal quite a few of the unconcious guards. You sigh in annoyance as you reach into the Inventory and think,
On second thought, maybe it wasn't the smartest idea to challenge EVERY SINGLE GUARD IN THE CITY TO A HOOF FIGHT. Also I can't tell who's stained and who's straight and the time I'm wasting on these idiots could have been used beating Flag to a bloody pulp.
“Alright, enough of this, everyling GO THE BUCK TO SLEEP!” you yell as you raise the Luna Plushie.
The nearest guard just looks at you in confusion.
“What are you doing?” he asks.
“Huh?” you say confused.
“We’re in the middle of arresting you! Now’s not the time for dolls!”
“Bu…” you look around and no one is sleepy looking.
“Yeah,” chimes in another guard, “Besides, most of us don’t have our plushies with us at the moment, so you’ll just have to wait. I’ll bring my Andrea plushie from My Little Human.”
You and the other guards look at this stallion strangely as he chuckles nervously and shrinks under their gaze,
“Freaking Humanies... they're everywhere.”
"HEY! It's not just some stupid filly's serial! The writing blends self-aware humor with strong characterization!"
This sparks an argument between the Royal Guard ponies as you look at your plushie in confusion as you say,
“I don’t understand! Why isn't this working! It always works.”
Perhaps thou have broken it with overuse. Selena guesses.
“NO that can’t be it, hold on.” You say as you start turning the Luna Plushie around until you read the tag sticking out of her foot.
"A tag on a plushie? Who ever reads those?" you say as you read the fine print on the tag,
Bugze, use this adorable Plushie to peacefully knock out your foes, but use it sparingly as it only works a limited number of times before needing to recharge.
Allons-y, The Doctor
“Oh, Buck!” you shout as you remember you just used it on Coco a little while ago.
What you don’t realize is that the guards have finished arguing and all jump on you in a dogpile.
“Double Buck!” you shout.
Even with the Damage reduction, this hurts you and you can’t breathe with that many bodies covering you and compressing your lungs
“Must... get... to... Flag...” you mutter as you start to lose consciousness, when all of a sudden a few of the guards are blasted off of you, giving you the chance to toss the rest off with a,
"SHORYUKEN!"
You take a moment to catch your breath and as you do another stallion charges right at you with a sword from behind as Selena starts to shout a warning, but a blast of green magic throws him away from you.
“What in the...” you say as you look to the source and see a pink pony mare with two stallions who are looking at you intently.
“Who...” you begin to ask before you hear something very familiar.
You gasp in surprise at the familiar sound as you see their eyes turn completely blue,
"Stop the Madstallion, 9001," you gasp at the usage of your old drone number, "we will contact you when it's safe."
They then decloak, revealing their true Changeling bodies.
"Changelings!" shouts many guards.
"Get them!"
"Kill them!"
The changelings then dash off down the streets as most of the guards chase after them.
“Ch-ch-changelings! Here? Now? But…where have they been?”
Ask questions later! You now have an opening! shouts your friend upstairs.
With everyling running after them your path is mostly clear, so you decide to put your old brethren to the back of your mind as you charge through the downed guards and into the stadium. Running through the hallways towards the field, a few Horde fanatics are in your way,
"PSYCHO CRUSHER!"
"NO SHADOW KICK!"
"Would you kindly MOVE B****! GET OUT THE WAY!!!"
But they're not much of an obstacle.
As you get near the opening to the field, you see... a buff-looking guard who's surrounded by various empty liquor bottles. He looks at you and shouts drunkenly,
''Do you even lift brah!' This is jus grat! First panies in hoods start acting like granches, then the guards show up, and now 12 keggers of beer later I'm seeing black cloaks with orange eyes- hic!"
Deciding that you didn't want to hurt this drunk, you try to insult him to make him go away,
''Yo mama is a cow!''
Why art thou insulting his mom?
I panicked, OK?
The guard looks confused,
''Dude my mom is a cow how did you know? Now I think about it, I think that was an insult, so Taste my hoof..."
He lazily lashes a drunken hoof at you that tasted like pain and in reflex you slapped the guard back.
''Bro! Not cool bro not cool.'' the massive stallion says before walking away.
"FALCON PUNCH!"
And you smash him into the tunnel wall with a falcon punch after deciding to knock this drunk out before he does something stupid. You rush out onto the field to see Flag Burner and his lackeys along with many scared ponies in the stands. Flag Burner seems to notice you as he smiles (you think, you know cause of his hood) evilly at you and says,
“Offender! I knew I heard a ruckus outside. Should've guessed that was your doing. Guess Coco needs a talking to...”
“She wasn't that hard to go through.” you growl at him.
“Guess you were too much stallion for the lady to handle. Next time I'll leave you with more mares to provide you with horizontal refreshment. Still, she does need to be punished for her weakness-”
“Don’t you dare,” you threaten.
“What? Is a Neighponese fishing hat too much?”
“I…huh?” you sputter.
"I don’t hurt my own, in case you've forgotten... unlike some.” he says with a sneer towards the corpse of Iron Shield before continuing "Although I was highly wishing to speak to Captain Armor, this is a nice surprise. Have you changed your mind?”.
“No Flag, no one else is going to die tonight...” your eyes glow a more intense orange as you growl, “Except maybe for you...”
You can just tell he's smirking as he says,
“You’re welcome to try sir... but just so you know, you strike us now, you make yourself our enemy.”
"You don't scare me, I just mopped the floor with a battalion of guards, what are you gonna do?" you reply.
"Oh I don't know, unleash my trap maybe?"
"Horseapples! You've only got four... goons... left?"
You look around and many of the "Scared" ponies start put on cloaks as they start walking towards the field and gather around Flag Burner.
"Oh... " you start when all of a sudden the entrance behind you blows apart and the Royal Guards rush in as more start to fly in from above. A quite a few of them are scorched, bruised, or still shivering, but it seems they've forgotten the changelings.
"ALL OF YOU GET ON THE GROUND AND PUT YOUR FRONT LIMBS BEHIND YOUR HEADS OR WE WILL USE FORCE!" A Royal Guard officer on a bullhorn declares, but is met by shouts of "For the Horde!", "Die Imperial Puppets!", and "Buck the Police!" from the Horde fanatics as Flag just looks at you (you just know he's smirking beneath that faceless hood) before he turns around and starts walking away, his fanatics parting for him like water before a waterbender.
"Where are you going?" you question
"Got places to be, ponies to meet. I still need to have my chat with Shining Armor after all. Boys, on my mark..."
He and his four Elite members (marked by their black coats having shades of Red, Dark Blue, Brown, and Light Blue) then continue walking away and you growl and shout,
"GET BACK HERE YOU-"
Your threat is interrupted when Flag Burner merely waves a hoof dismissively and the Horde Fanatics take their cue to charge forth at you and the Royal Guards as the Royal Guards charge in as well. As you realize your in the middle of these two you say,
"Buck you lady luck."
Use Forcefield and dodge to navigate the stadium brawl.
*wham wham wham*
Fortunately, you remembered your forcefield spell and with the Armored Tonic and enhanced Phase 1 strength, quite a few Guards and Fanatics bounce off your shield and attack each other.
You quickly lower your shield and use your dodge training and parkour to navigate the massive stadium free-for-all towards Flag Burner (you can tell it's him because he's the only one not fighting and he's the only one walking with his lackeys as everypony else runs and brawls around you). As you're about to reach Flag, you see out of the corner of your eye...
[quoteAs the melee in the hoofball stadium rages around you, you spot the bomb. You rush towards it only to get dogpiled by alot of Guards and Horde. In your rage, you blast away the ponies in a yell of energy leaving you there with the Nightmare Cloak formed around you and one Nightmare Tail waving around.The Bomb!
You growl in annoyance as you know the bomb is your main priority, so you ignore Flag and charge towards it, but before you do-
"THE FALSE OFFENDER!!!"
"ARREST HIM!!!"
"DIBS ON THE BOUNTY!"
"I LIKE TRAINS!"
You suddenly find yourself buried under a large dog pile of fanatics and guards. As more ponies start to pile you, you can't help but think,
NO! It can't end like this! I won't let it end like this! I need to save those ponies! I need to save the holidays! I need... I need... MORE POWER!
With that thought you roar in anger and release and explosion of energy that send everypony in a few yard/meter radius around you flying.
Everypony stops what they're doing in fear and confusion as they look at where the Offender was dogpiled, but instead they see a monster covered in a midnight misty cloak with one midnight fox tail swishing behind it. You look over to Flag, and you just know he's glaring at you in both anger and little bit of fear. You grin evilly as you roar,
"Alrighty then... WARMUP'S OVER!!!"
Spike a pony (either Royal Guard or Horde) headfirst into the ground with a cry of "TOUCHDOWN!"
Remembering your priority, you lash out with the tail and grab the bomb with it before wildly whipping it around you with increasing speed to knock away Fanatics and Guards dumb enough to get too close before jumping into the air and whirling the bomb around yourself to gain even more momentum.
"TOUCHDOWN!" you yell as you spike the bomb into the ground with enough force to send it crashing alot of meters underground through layers of concrete and earth before whipping out the Power Glove and declaring,
"Would you kindly FREEZE!"
Which freezes the hole in the ground shut, but now the ice crystals are much larger and are a dark blue color. The bomb then explodes, but the ground harmlessly muffles the explosion and the ice is instantly evaporated into water that explodes upwards before coming back down in a psuedo-rainfall.
You smirk in the rain in satisfaction at disarming the bomb as everypony continues to look at you stunned when...
"THE TRUE OFFENDER HAS JOINED US! LET US CELEBRATE HIS ARRIVAL BY SACRIFICING THESE IMPERIAL PUPPETS" a hooded Horde fanatic yells before tearing out a chair from the stadium seating and charging at the nearest Guard. With that the brawl continues, but in the rain.
As you look at the massive muddy melee around you, you can't help but think,
You know, this would be ALOT more interesting if instead of armored guards and hooded crazies, they were all Vanner's Secret models and Playcolt playma-NO! BAD BUG!!!
IMBECILE! Even now you continue these thoughts?!
Snapping out of your thoughts, you roar in the Royal Canterlot Voice,
"ENOUGH OF THIS!"
Use a massive Nightmare Cloak-fueled FUS RO DAH to blast everypony (Guard and Horde) out of the stadium and into the city. Use Nightmare Tail to launch yourself like a rocket and land in the Center City area where everypony as recovered from the "Fus ro dah" and is now continuing fighting in the streets.
Knowing that everyone wants to hurt you and seeing how this is probably going to be the best way to end the melee, you don't feel that guilty for what you are about to do.
Selena?
Yes?
This is gonna hurt...
You then take in the biggest gulp of air you've ever had, as you unleash your mightiest roar at your hooves,
FUS ROH DAH!!!
This combined with the hoofball stadium's shape causes a massive wave of energy that lifts everyone up and out of the stadium and flying into the sky towards downtown Fillydelphia. Luckily, most of Guards and Fanatics either used their unicorn magic or Pegasus flying abilities to make sure no one died-
*smash*
Although you did end up smashing into a building wall...
*crash* "MY CABBAGES!!!"
Before falling off that 5th-story wall and smashing onto a cabbage cart.
"Ow..." you mutter as you get up from the wreckage. You feel completely drained from that. Not easy lifting up hundreds of ponies with only your voice, so your Nightmare Cloak wavers as you groggily walk forward-
*WHAM*
And are then tackled by a few Pegasus guards who start beating on you, (*zap wham pow*), but they get blasted, tackled, and beaten off you.
You look up and see your saviors... and see they're the Horde.
"The false offender! Take him out as well!" they shout,
"Oh COME ON!" you shout as you lash out with your tail to a nearby lamppost and slingshot yourself away. You suddenly grab the edges of your coat and start to float and as you glide through downtown, you see that the entire area has erupted into a full blown battlefield with rioting and brawling. Among the highlights:
-Pegasus fight in the skies and tackle/lightning each other through billboards and windows. By some miracle, they barely manage to miss you
-Looters run into store and carry away toys, furniture, and dirty magazines.
-You see a group of Horde fanatics Royal Guardponies taking a snack break from the fighting to eat some Filly cheeseshroom hoagies and discuss the Rocky movies... then continue fighting when the bill arrives.
Your luck runs out when a Horde unicorn zaps a Pegasus guard out of the air and his unconcious body crashes into yours and sends you both smashing into the ground. As you get up, you hear...
You hear music and someling say; "Fire up loud, Another round of shots..."
You look up to see a particularly crazed/stupid pony on a roof about to perform a... groindrop (?) in slowmotion as he yells out
"TURN DOWN FOR WHAT!!!"
Before smashing through the floors of the building causing everypony fighting in the floors of that building to all collapse in a pile on the ground floor
"Fire up loud, Another round of shots...!"
Before smashing through the roof and half the floors of the building causing everypony fighting in the floors of that building to all collapse in a pile on the ground floor. The turnip-stallion then starts going around and hip-thrusting fanatics and guards alike into and through walls and furniture to the beat.
After that display, all you can think is...
"What the buck was that all a-*wham*"
In the middle of your shocked thinking, you get run over by a carriage with one Horde stallion pulling and the other in the carriage throwing Molotov cocktails everywhere screaming/singing,
"DECK THE STREETS WITH FIERY DEATH!!! FA LA LA LA LA*fling smash crash ka-boom* AHHHHHHHHH!!!"
You grabbed a manhole cover with your tail and flung it at the pyromaniacs, shattering the wheel and causing it to crash into a carrot-dog stand where it exploded and flung the (miraculously still alive but on fire) ponies into a fountain.
"You got your second wind back?" you ask Selena.
I have no choice but to have it back! she shouts.
You growl in anger as your eyes glow orange, your nightmare tail swishes, and you begin to release more Killer Intent...
A group of Pegasi guards come in at you from behind, thinking that a decisive sneak attack couldn't possible fail...
*klang*
But they were quickly and painfully proven wrong when your Nightmare Tail lashes out, grabs a lamppost, and smashes the lead pegasus into a nearby Horde fanatic, sending them both through a storefront window. As the Pegasus start to scatter and circle you, you slam your tail into the ground to launch yourself into the air and cry out,
"NO SHADOW KICK!"
As an unlucky pegasus ate a flurry of kicks to the face before the you use the last kick to launch yourself off his face and at another pegasus,
"FALCON PUNCH!"
And fire-punch him into a billboard which collapses and flattens a group of Horde ponies who were throwing bombs. The third, particularly fast, pegasus slams into you, but you slap the sides of his ears disorienting him so you can turn him in midair and use him as a shield as you both smash through the thin damaged fourth floor wall of a building. You get up from the unconscious Pegasus and look out the broken wall to see Guards and fanatics viciously fighting in the streets below...
-You start machine-gun-casting Stun Spells
From your higher vantage point, your horn glows and you start making it rain stun spells on the combatants, knocking out many fighters and forcing the others to flee.
*BOOM*
Suddenly, your rapid-fire spelling stops when the building collapses and you barely manage to jump out in time-
*zap*
Only to be zapped in midair up a spell and knocked through a storefront window. You groggily get back up-
Dodge!
You rolled across the ground in time to just barely dodge a fireball spell. You silently thanked the Apples and Selena as you glanced at the smoke and cinders before glaring at a trio of cloaked and armored Unicorns whose horns were at the ready as a squad of Royal Guard stand behind them.
"This is far as you'll go! Surrender now, and we won't use lethal force!" a mare ordered.
"The mages are here! They'll definitely turn this around!" you overhear someling say.
Mages? The SWAT of the Royal Guards, huh? Well, let's see if these hotshots could handle this!
"Oh? Well, would you kindly CHILL OUT!" you cry as you slam the power glove into the ground, but to everypony's surprise instead of a floor of ice, a focused SHOCKWAVE of midnight-blue ice shot straight at the mages.
Quickly, the mages started lobbing fireballs at the ice which explosively expelled dense steam across the area, blinding everypony in a fog.
"Make a circle! He could be anywhere now," the mare said and the Guards follow suit, standing flank to flank in a circle waiting for an attack from every direction...
Except up.
The last thing one stallion saw was your deadly orange eyes in the fog as you came in from above and lashed out your nightmare tail into his face. The lead mage teleported her comrades slightly dazed away from danger, who briefly thanked him for the save and went in formation with the rest of the guard, although thoroughly demoralized.
Not caring for fancy tactics, you charged at the group with intent to smash through them like a bowling ball,
"PSYCHO CRUSH-*thud*"
Only for the mages to throw up a shield that stops your attack dead in its tracks. As you shake off that headache, *wham* one of the mages ran up and bucked you in the face, knocking you into a wall. As you get back up, another mage casted an ice spell and freezes your hooves to the floor. A few guards come in charging with spears only to get soundly smacked away by a swish of your nightmare tail as you grab one and throw him at the mages causing them to scatter to dodge it.
You worked to get off the ice as the guards pulled away, only for the mages to reinforce the ice.
Seriously?! Well two can play at that game...
"Would you kindly CHILL OUT!" you roar, your own ice erupting from your Power Glove... and trapping you in a cocoon of cold ice.
Amazingly enough, there was a pause in the intense fight as they notice this.
"Did-did he just freeze himself?" one of them comments
"Well that's just stupid!"
"Seriously, are we sure he's the real deal?!"
Fortunately, there was enough room around your mouth to speak,
"Would you kindly BURN!"
With that, the ice explodes, the shards violently forcing the mages to scatter and take cover as you stand there on fire.
Thank you fire-proof coat. you think before charging at the mages...
*splash*
Only to suddenly be splashed with a bucket of water. You could only turn to the mare with a compromising trail of water leading towards her and say in annoyed disbelief,
"Seriously?! The ice bucket challenged ended months ago! You're kidding, right?"
Next to the mare, another unicorn mage (the one that bucked you in the face) lit up his horn, electric sparks sparking.
"No," he says smugly.
"Oh buck me..."
The unicorn sent a lightning spell to the trail of water and electrocutes you as a barrage of magical lasers and fireballs slams into you before it culminates in an explosion.
"And... That 1k bounty is ours!" the unicorn said cheekily.
"Oh that's definitely MORE than 1k. Around 8 million more, although he's still more trouble than he's actually worth..." the mare adds.
The mages smirked, but when smoke cleared, they gasped to see the Offender still standing! With TWO TAILS this time. And devil horns begin to spurt from your head
"...Lady of Ouch."
Eyes nearly popped out as some of the guard said in unison "You've got to be kidding me!"
The fireball unicorn cried, "I don't understand, we gave everything we've got!"
Huffing and Puffing, you growled,
"I'll be honest, that really, really hurt, and probably more if I weren't fire resistant. And all of that for a measly 1K bounty? I'd give you an A-minus for the excessive amount of effort you've put into it, but that's besides the point..."
You then roar in the RCV,
"Are you honestly so daft you would go after me instead of stopping all these fanatics running around and destroying this city?! Get out of my way AND DO YOUR BUCKING JOBS!!!"
With that, you lash out and grab two of the mages with your nightmare tails. Noticing more incoming fanatics and yell,
"LET ME SHOW YOU HOW IT'S DONE!"
Before using the mages as clubs and flailing them around to smack away Fanatics before slamming tho two mages together and finally slamming them both onto a overturned carraige, smashing it. You notice the other mage running away as you yell,
Violently grab the face of the unicorn that electrocuted you and fry his brain with a point-blank face-grabbing "Would you kindly EAT LIGHTNING!" (nonlethal of course, but that mage is gonna be half-brain-dead for a few weeks...)
"WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU'RE GOING!"
With that, you use your tails to slingshot into the fleeing mage and you grab his face with your Power Glove before using your flight momentum to slam his head into a wall.
"Let's see how you like it..." you growl evily and the mage starts to flail and muffled scream with his face still in the grasp of your Power Glove before you declare,
"Now would you kindly EAT LIGHTNING!!"
And electrocute the mage with a point-blank Elctro-Bolt to the face. Dropping the unconscious (though probably half-braindead) stallion, you turn and hear more fighting in the distance. You launch yourself with your tails and land in the Prench Quarter where you see Royal Guards and Horde fanatics continuing to fight (you even see a trio of Royal Guards and a whole bunch of Horde fanatics dueling with stale baguettes). You shout,
“It’s the holidays you morons! If anyling’s gonna do any smashing, it’s gonna be ME!”
And with that, you grab tear a lamppost out of the ground with one tail, grab a taxi carriage with the other, and just start smashing every motherbucker in sight. You might have gotten a little carried away-
“TAXI!” *smash* “HOW BOUT YOU LET ME SHINE A LIGHT ON THE PROBLEM!” *klang* "VIVA LA ME!!!" *crush* “Uhhh… ONE LINER!!!” *BOOM*
Okay, maybe you went all captain crazy-go-nuts there as Guards and Fanatics alike are now fleeing from your rampage. However, your activity was stopped when magic shielding surrounds you.
The shielding suddenly wraps itself around you and whips you high into the air before slamming you down several floors of an abandoned building before it collapses on you. As you use your tails to throw the rubble off you, you noticed that the coloration was a distinctly familiar pink-
"Hooded Offender!" yelled the familiar voice of Shining Armor, "Get your flank back here NOW!"
When you emerge, you find Shining Armor has recovered and taken the field. And he doesn't look like he's in a talking mood anymore...
Some Horde members attempt to hit the obvious guard stallion with Molotov Cocktails, only for it to harmlessly shatter against a shield he erected without even an aside glance. You immediately attempt a Psycho Crusher, only for Shining to pull some surprising competence out of his flank, and swats you down with a shield he whips around you like a fly swatter.
In your head, Selena notes this, and gets almost giddy,
I've been wanting to see what made him worthy of an alicorn's heart...!
Suddenly blood red letters and a deep voice echo above you that read/say,
Shining wastes no time going on the offensive, the shield he's projecting only about as large as he is, but whipping around like a weapon in itself. You're forced to back away as it cleaves through the air, hissing as it clears a path. You retaliate with,
"NO SHADOW KICK!"
Only to hear your flurry of kicks clang uselessly as if you're striking metal. The thunderous impact sounds make your ears ring, but in your irritation turned surprise, you realize that this is the same stallion that put up a city-sized shield, and he's now projecting that power to a cross section the tiniest fraction of the size and you realize something,
I'm not breaking that anytime soon, am I?
You attempt a few more creative moves (and by that we mean you just spam Falcon Punch as you slam on the shield with your tails), but come up short when Shining simply projects his shield forward, intercepting your attacks with explosive force. He then slams his sheild against your head dazing you. While you're stunned, he winds the shield back as you're left open and you're slammed into another building taking out the wall in the process and causing it t collapse on you.
Impressive... Selena comments, I thought making him the Captain of the Guard was just politics...
That's sparkle butt's brother alright, you mentally gasp from your rubble pile, I guess great magical power just runs in the family.
Any further conversation is interrupted when a Horde Fanatic disguised as a guard (or maybe just a corrupt guard) pounces at Shining with his spear and the prince manages to dive and roll in time to avoid getting skewered by a spear, and then throws up his shield to deflect a wild swing.
The fanatic/guard puts up a pretty good impression of looking like he knows what he's doing, long enough to keep Shining from noticing another Fanatic going for an attack from behind.
"PSYCHO CRUSHER!"
You explode out of the rubble and slam into the would-be ambusher with the force of... well, what IS comparable to a psycho crusher?
You grab the fanatic with your tail and start pounding him around the place before hurling him at a flying fanatic dropping bombs (at hitting him).
Dodge!
You duck just in time to have a razor-edged section of shining's shield pass through the spot where your head would had been.
"Hey!" you snap, "That was uncalled for you ungrateful jerk!"
"I was going to deal with him myself!" he snaps back from atop a piece of rubble
Your anger fueling your ability, you smash your tails into the ground to launch yourself at Shining, barely dodging his attempt to swat you with another shield, and bounce off the area just below the rubble before connecting a blow to his nards. The blow sends prince stumbling back in pain, but it turns out that he can take that kind of blow alot better than most stallion as he says,
"If that did any real damage, Cadance would castrate you."
Wait, he can shrug off nutshots! Well... it does make sense. If you're gonna be the husband of an alicorn, you better have lots of lower endurance...
Seriously?
You don't give Selena's mental comment a second thought as you close in on Shining's lowered defenses. The two of you exchange several evenly matched blows and blocks before his horn flashes, and that blasted shield smashes you into a cart of cabbages.
"MY BACKUP CABBAGES! WHY DO THEY KEEP GETTING DESTROYED!"
This causes you (and surprisingly Shining too) to shout,
"WHAT THE BUCK ARE YOU STILL DOING HERE?! GET OUT OF HERE NOW!"
"This is getting annoying!" you growl as you jump out of your fresh landscaping (and grabbing a nearby lighter).
"Time for Prince flambe!" you yell as you ignite the lighter in one hoof and use the other to grab a can of WD-40 from the Inventory and spray it. This results in a stream of fire that Shining easily shields against, but you keep moving around the stream to obscure his vision before you throw the volatile can to his Shining's side.
Shining's reflexes are fast and he shields himself in time as the spray can explodes, but you take advantage of his distraction to launch yourself with your nightmare tails and take out your staff before smashing Shining in the face with it using your momentum. As he reels from the impact, you twirl the staff before slamming it into the ground and hitting the Prince with a point-blank shockwave that sends him smashing through a building.
"HAH!" you shout, "Take that Sir Shines-A-Lot!"
If it's one thing I've learned, it's never gloat in combat-
*WHAM!*
You're suddenly tackled through another wall. You look up in anger and growl as you see it's Flash that did that. Before he can come in again, a pair of Pegasus Horde Fanatics rush him forcing Flash to divert his attention to fighting them off. You get up from the rubble, but you start to breath deeply as you feel like collapsing. You hear Selena say,
Minds Eye's comment
Hooded Offender needs food badly!
Well... *pant*... done... you mentally reply at her picking up references.
Your constant references are contagious. In all seriousness, I need some time to regain some of my strength. Can thou rest for a minute?
You get hit by a stray unicorn zap and get knocked into the shelf in the room.
Yeah, I don't think that's going to be an option.
You then spot a clipboard on the ground.
Unless...
If you say, "Look! A distraction!" I swear-
No, I'm going to BE the distraction!
You pick up the clipboard as you charge up the last of your lung energy (mentally apologizing profusely to your sore throat) and scream in the RCV,
"ROLL CALL!"
All the action stops as you quickly call out,
"Shining Armor!"
He looks around in confusion, holding up a shield as some civilians behind him evacuate.
"Here?"
"Good! Flash Sentry?"
No one answers.
"Flash Sentry!"
"Here," a voice mutters behind you.
You turn to see Flash Sentry standing behind you with a broken parking meter in his hooves,
"You stay where I can see you, Mr. Sentry! Do you understand?" you bark in an authoritative tone,
"Yes, sir," he instinctively salutes before and walking into the mob in front of you.
"Good. Moving on: Random Horde Member 17?"
One of the cloaked figures raises a hoof,
"I think you knocked him out when you dropped a wall on him... after Falcon Punching him in the nards... and whacking him in the face with a stop sign-"
Another one shakes his head and interrupts, "No, I'm 17 this week. That was 42."
You tap a hoof impatiently,
"So?"
"Oh! Here!"
"Thank you- Ah, would you look at this?"
You tap the clipboard and continue,
"Anyone here follow their horoscope? If you're a Gemini, you going to meet a special Leo today!"
One of the Horde, an earth pony lying on his back with a pegasus Royal Guard sitting on him with a menacingly raised hoof, perks up,
"I'm a Gemini!"
"Get out," the guard says, "I'm a Leo!"
"No way!" They hoof bump. "You like comics?"
"You know it!"
As... surprisingly effective as this has been, I am restored and ready for the next round whenever you are.
You grin,
"Then I only have one thing left to say."
You take a breath and screm the one thing you've always wanted to scream as you leap back into the melee.
"FUS RO DAH!!!"
In spite of your pained throat, you smirk as you see you managed to blast everypony away, but there's still alot of fighting and rioting going on around you. You need to stop it, but how...
*ding*
Getting any idea, you use your tails and parkour to get to the roof tops and start spamming Psycho Crushers and Falcon Punches to knock down water towers and flood the brawling streets. With that done you take a deep breath and think,
This is gonna hurt...
Before you jump off the top of the building, raise the Power Glove back, and yell,
"Would you all kindly have a SHOCKING revelation?!" and slam your glove down into the water, sending out a wave of electricity that electrocutes unconscious almost all of the combatants.
Luckily, the only shock you receive is through your glove, which lights you up and sends you smashing into another store. You get back up from the overturned clothing and see that you landed in a Vanner's Secret store,
*SPURT*
Goes your nose as you groggily get up and see most of your foes down, and the others wobbiling about. You then decide to take a minute to rest, but then you spot Flag Burner walking with his four Elites down the street as if nothing's happened.
"OI!" you shout as you run out of the store and point your hoof at him.
Flag Burner stops and looks at you smugly (at least you guess due to his faceless hood) as he says,
"So this is the true power of the Offender. The power of a monster."
You growl in anger, before you smirk evilly and say,
You say to Flag Burner and his followers "I don't know if I want to mop the floor with you separately or all at once, so we're going to do both."
"I don't know if I should mop the floor with you separately or all at once, so we're going to do both!"
Flag Burner just smirks (again, guessing due to his hood) as he says,
"Give it your best shot... master."
You growl in anger as you yell,
“Would you Kindly Burn!” You shout as you send a flame right at him, which is stopped when a wall of water comes right in front of him.
“Wha? But, magic can’t stop these…”
“Magic isn’t the answer to everything sir, there are other powers out there…”
You then see his four elites walk forth. One is manipulating water, one is causing rock columns to appear, and the others are manipulating fire and air.
“And Element Bending is quite the powerful field.”
You remember the last time you were up against an element bender, your own daughter no less.
“…Oh Buck…”
“Would you kindly GO TO TARTARUS!!!” as you send fire right at him from the Power Glove, but it's stopped when a wall of water comes right in front of him. You stare in disbelief and say,
“Wha? But, magic can’t stop these...”
“Unicorn spells aren't the only type of magic, sir, there are other powers out there...”
You then see his four hooded and cloaked elites walk forth. The Dark Blue-cloaked unicorn fashions a water whip, the Brown-cloaked earth pony stomps to start raising columns of concrete around him, the Red-cloaked other unicorn shoots out flames from his hooves, and the Light Blue-cloaked Pegasus one makes an air sphere form around him as he hovers.
“And Element Manipulation is quite the powerful field.”
You remember the last time you were up against an element bender (your own daughter no less) and mutter,
“Buck you lady luck...”
Outro:
What do you do?
Sing/Use this somehow,
Get smashed around by the Benders as your attacks, power Glove moves, and even throwing city objects (lamps, carriages, mimes, etc.) are dodged, deflected, or negated.
Nightmare Scream to make everypony grab their ears in audio pain before unleashing three tails. The Benders all hit you with their most powerful attacks in a barrage that leaves a big cloud of dusty smoke where you were. When the smoke clears, you're still standing there with 3 tails waving unstably. You take a step forward and notice that your front leg is dislocated, but with a shrug you wrap one tail around it and nonchalantly pop it back into place while saying something badass/threatening.
"Would you kindly FEEL HEAVEN'S WRATH!!!" as you extneded the Power Glove at the sky and shoot off nightmareish-blue lightning into the sky before bringing your hoof down, causing lightning bolts to come out of the sky and hit the benders.
"Would you kindly GO BOOM!" before destroying a building with a cluster of explosions from your Power Glove.
Hit somepony with No Shadow Barrage.
End the Fillydelphia fighting once and for all with a Meteor Impact which levels several buildings (which were conveniently evacuated and already damaged by the riots) in the area you smash into and grab EVERYPONY'S attention and makes them stop fighting to pay attention to the destruction in your wake.
FINISHERS
-Waterbender: Your Nightmare Cloak energy deflects her weakened waterbending back at her and freezes her horn. You rush in and shatter her frozen horn with a Falcon Punch causing her to collapse and cry out in massive pain.
-Earthbender: Psycho-crusher through his earth barrier and slam him into a steel wall. Then whip him into the air, grab two boulders, and smash them together on him, crushing his limbs.
-Firebender: Let your (fireproof) coat catch on fire before grabbing him in a crushing burning bear hug setting him on fire before smashing his face into a pillar of ice to put him out and knock him out.
-Airbender: Use tail to whip him into a space in a ceiling where his wings get him wedged in, then hit him with a Shadow Shoryuken to the gut which not only greatly hurts his internal organs, but snaps his wings, when the force of the impact forces him through the gap and sends his now-wingless form smashing into a building.
Rip Flag Burner's coat off and expose him, but he smugly smiles and reveals his true plan...
In a rage, you beat down Flag Burner (even viciously knocking away Flash/Shining when they try to intervene) before smash two of your tails into the ground in front of you to your left and to your right before third tail to smash Flag Burner into the wall i front of you with enough force to launch yourself backwards. When your tails reach their maximum stretch, you slingshot yourself towards Flag Burner and charge up a Falcon Punch (which is now midnight-colored instead of fiery color) with a scream of,
"YIPPIE-KI-YAY MOTHERBUCKER!!!"
Time seems to slow down as your midnight-flame covered hoof slams into the side of Flag Burner's face, seemingly imploding it before the pure force violently smashes him through the wall and another building before he smashes into a building which collapses on him.
Newsponies snap pictures and everypony looks at you in horror as you realize that you just killed somepony...
Drink the "Murder of Crows" vigor and use it to escape.
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I'm cool with once a week.
Posted on my birthday, nice.
You grab some rocks from the ground on the ground and throw them in the air, twisting around and kicking them with your back legs at him, only for the earthbended to redirect them into someling's eyes, blinding them.
I'd rather have it slow to one chapter a week.
Question 2: SERIOUSLY?
That was never a question to begin with, 1 chapter once a week!
Why? Because I'm addicted
Question 1:
Why? Because I love people who are talking while in the background there is an epic fight, they are the best! Here, have a rainbowlick as proof
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After saying those very true words ('Buck you Lady Luck...' just as a reminder) you decide that the best offense is defense:
You psycho-crusher into the enemies, just to land face-first into a rock that came out of the ground.
Looking at the brown-cloak you confirm that he has done that.
Seeing as how Psycho-Crusher is useless against them, you decide to use No-Shadow-Kick...
But it's kind of useless aslong as you are staying in one place, because the white-cloak is using his air-superiority... (see what I did there?)
You growl in anger, before jumping to blue-cloak to falcon-punch him... but water seems to be doing quite a good job at softing the hit... a too good job...
"Now it's my turn" red-cloak says while coming towards you "let's get over with this, ok?"
He then jumps at you while performing some crazy moves, letting him not only look hilarious, but also doing a flop that ends with him igniting himself. "AH!" red-cloak shouts "I BURN!" he then runs off in the direction of the townwell.
Brown-cloak then turns to Flag Burner and asks: "Why do we have him in our team again?"
Flag Burner sighs, before saying: "Unfortunately, he was the only one who even created a spark with fire-bending."
"Ah, right." brown-cloak says, before summoning a rock to throw against you.
You barely dodged it by jumping to the side... or would have, if the air there wouldn't have been as solid as a diamond.
As you are stuck beneath the rock, you get trouble to breath, because someling is creating a bubble of water around you.
~This is troubling. If we don't do something fast, we may end up dying!~ Selena says, causing you to respond sarcastically: -Oh, really? I wouldn't have known that if you wouldn't have told me so.-
~Well, that's why I told you.~ Selena tells you. You then want to facehoof, but fail miserably because of a certain rock on top of you, and tell her: -Just... just ignore what I said. Can you help me to fix this?-
Selena giggles, and says: ~Of course I can.~
Rythm (who also has the name Night Shade AKA WTD (Wants To Die)) finally came back after dousing the flame she ignited herself with, only to see the Hooded Offender being beaten under a rock, a sphere of solid air and a bubble filled with water.
"Couldn't you wait until I came back?" Rythm asks "I mean, its not like I wanted much more than to do my part at beating him, so you could have given me that satisfaction."
Sea Spray would have facehoofed if she wouldn't have to keep the water bubble constant, and told Rythm: "You have never done anything useful, but fine. Go ahead and *help*."
Rythm then went through the air-sphere, just to get catapulted out of it the next second because the rock was thrown away, unleashing a shock wave that is hard enough to send Rythm flying over a few blocks.
You laugh evilly as you see the shocked expressions of the Elite... 3? You could swear you had seen the 4th just before you went into level 3, but seems like it was just your imagination. You then start to sing: "I wanna be the very best, like no one ever was..." just to get interrupted by sudden tornado flying into your side, but the music continues...
After getting thrown out of the tornado by a rock you shout: "I'm going to beat all of the Elite Four and be Pokemon-master!" to confuse them, only to see it is not working.
You then get thrown into the air by water coming from the ground with speed that would put Sonic to shame.
As you land, your Nightmare-Cloak gets destroyed, you can hear Selena fainting from all the strain the Nightmare-Cloak had to account, and you would swear your left leg was dislocated.
By trying to stand you realise that your left leg isn't dislocated, but that the Elite 4 are all around us. You would swear you hear a voice shouting: "Now I will have helped defeat the Hooded Offender!" before a fireball flies over your head, not only flying into the brown-cloak, but also proofing that he is not like his element since he was unconscious after one fireball.
You then try to crawl out of the crater you landed in, seeing as you want to be unnoticed, and as you stand up out of the crater, you tripped over a piece of rubber causing you to fall, and to avoid being hit by an airwave.
As you stand back up, you make a mad dash for the next window, just to hit the wall next to it, causing the water coming out of the ground to hit instead the white-cloak who tried to attack you in hoof-to-hoof-combat.
Needless to say he wasn't a punching bag like you and wasn't resilient to water-beams, bringing the Elite Four down to Two: Water and Fire.
Blue-cloak walked to you, after you fell again, smiling evilly and saying: "Not so great after all, huh? Well, that's what you get for not cooperating."
As you struggle to escape, you dislocate one of the makeshift-supports causing half the ceiling to fall down, somehow managing to miss you and only hitting blue-cloak.
Since red-cloak was the only one left, you turned to face him...her? (Whatever,I'll go with it.)
You saw it trying to bend fire, but somehow it managed to not only success in bending earth after a few minutes, but also to shoot a rock to its own head.
Seeing as how the Elite Four have been beaten, you turn to face the Pokemon-champion: Flag Burner.
~What? Where are we? is the fight over already?~ Selena asks you in your head.
You and Flag Burner begin to circle eachother, trying to get ahold of eachother. -No, you're just in time for us to re-activate Nightmare-Cloak and kick some butt.-
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Soooo... I'll explain a bit here.
To the no-link-to-song... well, if you don't know it, then shame upon you!
To the name Rythm: I skimmed the list of ponies and saw the other name, Night Shade. I thought about *our* daughter Nightshade, and laughed.
To that Rythm was accidentally helping us: Well, you can't always have perfect soldiers, it makes them look more like normal persons who were just mislead by Flag Burner than psychos who want to see everything petrified, drowned (because of water or a sudden void around your head) and burned. And I wanted to have somebody else who is a punching bag.
To the way the Elite Four were beaten: Re-read the first chapters of "The life of a wanted Changeling", what do you read? We were pretty clumsy and the enemies we've beaten defeated themselves back then, and if your current ways don't work how you want, use your old ways if they worked.
To the Elite Four: I COULDN'T RESIST! I mean, come on! Four elite-guards and the guarded one, that shouts Elite Four and Pokemon-Champion! Oh, and Bugze probably has refreshed his debt to the doctor, since he could have destroyed his Tardis by throwing him into the Tardis again.
To Rythm's 3rd name: Only one may claim the name Nightshade, and that#s your daughter! Just don't implement it, it's not meant serious... or is it?
And if you just reaaaally want to have another ending, you can just make the Elite Four stand up because Flag Burner has a team of medics nearby, and Rythm gets taken over by an evil ancient spirit of a sith-lord.
5455527 What's his true plan?
Oh, and why not be totally un-original and reuse the ultimate nutshot? Na, that would be un-original... and seriously "YIPPIE-KI-YAY MOTHERBUCKER!!!"?
Is that a reference I don't get or is Bugze on drugs?
Wait, Bugze eating Dash and other drugs improving his abilities... that would be a way to defeat the element-benders!
I try again with my previous post with edits...
Mi vote goes also for at least 1 chapter for week... Even so... Why 1 chapter for week? You just returned from exams and 1 chapter every 3 days
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Yippie-Ki-Yay is the catchphrase of the Die Hard movies, which is where this arc got its name.
And I was wondering why it got cut out of my suggestion...
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The four benders unite their powers into one massive attack/combo, which leaves you buried under rubble.
Cue the transformation to three-tail form.
Mock them as you defeat them.
Earth: "I've endured more than your precious stone could. You can bend that, but I can break you!"
Water: "You want to know what drowning feels like? Try living every day knowing you can't show your true self to everyone around you. Try fighting for something, fighting all the time for it, only to see it snatched away! You can't possibly hurt me!"
Air: "They say you can't catch the wind. You're not really the wind, are you? I can catch you. I can ground you! Permanently!"
Fire: "You think you're powerful? Everywhere I go, I leave destruction in my wake. The more bodies that get in my way, the more damage I do. I am fire, boy!"
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"It's happening... it's really happening!"
One of your tails wraps around his throat. "Yes. This is happening. You're going to pay--dearly!"
He laughs. "Do as you will. It doesn't matter. He told me this would happen."
"Who?!"
Flag Burner keeps laughing. "He came to me. He told me how I could help him. How I could help him help this world!"
"HE?! WHO?!"
"You know who he is."
You see two tears slip down his cheeks.
"He says he knows you. You've spoken with him. You rejected him, and so he came to me."
You glare at him and tighten your grip. "You will tell me his name, or you will scream it. Your choice."
"He gave me two names." Flag Burner sneers. "One was yours, Mr. Tennant. It didn't make sense until you showed up, but then I understood what he wanted."
"Being cryptic won't save you."
"He wants your power! And he made sure I could unleash it. Did you tell your daughter good-bye before you left her?"
"What..." *snap* "WHAT DID YOU SAY?!"
He laughs uncontrollably. "The second name! Nightshade! My boys were on the last train to Ponyville before this storm hit!"
5455939 Thank you for showing me true knowledge! And I didn't realise that, never
playedwatched (seriously, how did I overlook movies the first time?) "die hard"... like I never played Bioshock... and other things that were referenced... OH MY GOD, I WASTED MY LIFE!This is used for an edit.
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Happy Birthday!
5456165 Thanks dude. There's a cat sitting on my legs as I type this response.
During the fight against the Element Benders, you get your butt handed to you a bit.
You shoot lightning at the Fire Bender, who redirects it back at you and gives you a good shock.
Your attempts to freeze the Water Bender are disastrous as well since she loops it back at you. You burn your frozen form out and try to burn the Earth Bender, but he just keeps erecting walls of dirt and concrete and sending them at you.
And the Air Bender laughs at your attempts to bend and knocks you back.
After taking one of the worse beatings you’ve ever had, thank Luna for Armored Shell, you realize that physically, these guys have got you…but mentally…
You remember when you fought Discord and how when Selena was in charge, she unleashed a mist that brought out some Nightmarish looking monsters.
“Selly!” you proclaim, “Can you do that scary mist thing that makes monsters appear?”
“The Nightmare Mist, and yes I can.” she replies
“Well do it already!” you shout
“As you wish…”
The Nightmare Cloak dissipates and unleashes a mist that covers the benders. You can see through the mist and see their horrified reactions to the monstrosities they face. Apparently they are their deepest darkest fears.
The Water Bender is attacked by Shark Like monsters, The Fire Bender by charred smiling skeletons, the Earth Bender is attacked by bees apparently, and the Air Bender is…CLOWNS!
With them distracted, you unleash hurt onto them.
You quickly leave the scene as you run to Flag Burner who is talking to Shining who is being held up by two Unicorn guards before him.
“Captain, only you can stop all this madness, join my cause and things will go much smoother.”
“No Flag Burner, you will be brought to trial! And I will never betray the Princesses!” Shining shouts.
Flag sighs, “I thought you’d say that…just know that I don’t hate you, you are a clean soul. I highly respect you, but you are far too dangerous to stay my enemy” he pulls out a knife, “please forgive me.” He is about to stab him, but you telekenisis the knife out his hoof and into the hoof of one of the dirty Unicorn guards. This gives Shining the chance to fight the two off.
Flag whirls around to look at you.
“Flag!” you yell as you charge him.
You see past his cloak and into his eyes, and finally, FINALLY, you see fear.
You hold him up by his throat.
"Say your Prayers..." you growl
He blindly flails one of his hoofs and punches you in the nose...which briefly startles you because it actually hurts. It actually feels like your nose is sizzling.
You drop him and rub your snout in discomfort.
You look to Flag and see he is as surprised as you are. You see a charm bracelet around his ankle, it's a smiley face made of some sort of greenish metal, and it's sizzling.
"You Shouldn't have done that..." you snarl as you break his hoof.
You begin laughing crazily as you enter your final faze and begin to smash him pretty fiercely and your flurry of hits are too fast for him.
You give one final “Falcon Kick!” and kick him right in the face and into a street lamp, bending it in the process.
As he slumps over, bleeding, you start walking over to him and just keep chanting.
"Blood...blood....blood...BLOOD!"
"CEASE!" Selena shouts within your mind causing you to stop "The Battle is won, victory is yours my friend."
You shake your head clear of your dark thoughts as you calm down, and the Nightmare Cloak disappears.
"Thank you..." you whisper to her.
"No Problem my friend, just honoring a promise."
You then freeze him in place and take off his hood as you've realized you've won.
“I learned that kick from my daughter” you taunt him.
He puts his head down and spits out blood, “My daughter taught me things as well…like how this world is broken…that it needs someone to fix it…we learn a lot from our children don’t we?”
You put two and two together and finally realize who it is he lost. And now you feel sympathy for this monster, just a little bit.
Still, he is done and detained. Shining Armor walks over to stand next to you.
“It’s over Flag, you’ve lost. The bomb in the stadium is gone, and Armor here is still alive…bruised, but alive.
Flag then starts laughing at that.
“What?”
“I’ve lost? Oh that’s rich…do you honestly think that I placed a bomb only at the hoofball stadium?”
“Wha…”
“I wanted everyone’s focus there, that’s where my trap was and thanks to you, everyone’s focus was on this fight” he smiles.
“What are you saying?” you ask nervously.
“There were more evil places to clean, like a government building full of corrupt politicians, a mall built from racketeering funds, the penthouses and mansions of said racketeers, and let’s not forget the dirtiest place of all…the guard station”
All of a sudden you hear explosions going off all across the city. You hear screaming and glass breaking and debris falling.
“WHAT DID YOU DO?!” you and Shining scream in anger.
“I won…” he simply says with a smile.
You then pick him up and start choking him.
"WHY?! Why you Bucking Psychopath, Why?!"
"Because they let my daughter die...and they said Sorry!" he then coughs up some blood and looks at you in anger, "And sorry doesn't cut it!"
"How many others have to die?! Huh?! HOW MANY?!" you shriek in his face.
"As many as it takes to fix this country...THE NIGHTMARE COMES"
You choke him harder, "WHAT DOES THAT MEAN!"
"We'll...find out....soon enough," he struggles to say.
And with that you start to beat his face in, breaking a few of his teeth, before kicking him across the street and into a fire hydrant, breaking it. Shining tries to hold you back.
“Wait! He’s beaten Stand Down!” he implores.
“Not enough he’s not!” you scream as you point the power glove at him and give him a shock.
You then point your glove at Flag who is grogilly getting back to his hooves.
"For...The...HORDE..." he calls out with fading strength.
“WOULD YOU KINDLY FREEZE TO DEATH!” you scream.
The ice goes through the spray of water from the hydrant and forms an ice spike, which imbeds itself into Flags right eye.
He stands there in shock, looking at you with the ice coming from his eye before he collapses on to the ground like a sack of potatoes.
You become shocked by this turn of events
“I…I…” you stutter as you look at his body.
Shining just looks at you in disgust.
“Y-you killed him…” Selena stutters to you.
You notice news ponies taking pictures as both Horde Members and Guards alike look at what you’ve just done in shock.
“No…” you whisper to yourself.
I'd be OK with Once A Week Chapters.
Quality over Quantity and all that jazz
And my favorite part is all of it
5456297 A unicorn with a lab coat that says "Dr. Neuro" walks over and scans Flag Burner
"His Neuronal activity is consistent with somepony that lost consciousness from a concussion." Doctor Neuro says after he finishes scaning Flag Burner.
NO HIATUS. Seriously, you can't do that to us. Leaving us hanging for months? Just... NO.
this was probably the most bad-ass chapter ever
I wish there was dota items like manta style, defusal blade and shadow blade theywould help alot. You should add those
I prefer once a week to no chapter at all
Life has has been unpleasant for you. However, no matter the obstacle you were able to overcome each of them. Today is no different for you, you have to be strong and believe in the you the believes in Bugze!.
"Selena, what is my limit?", you say to yourself regardless of whom may be listening.
Thou would only be able to conjure three tails, anymore and thou would start to damage your body at an alarming rate. ,
"ALRIGHT LETS END THIS ONCE AND FOR ALL!", you feel the power inside begin to raise as you feel the third tail emerge from the Nightmare cloak. A shock wave erupts from your body causing everybody to flinch from the immense power.
"Who want their Hearth Warming present first?!", you say in a demonic voice from your new transformation as your opponent steps forward.
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To answer your question I think one chapter a week would be fine. In the end its up to you if you want to take a hiatus from the story its good to take breaks every once in a while.
Keep up the good work as always!
After you gain a new tail darkly whisper:
"Nyan nyan nyannyan nyan nyan.."
And then dash off, leaving an energy trail behind you.
I think I feel the same as every one else, once a week. As for my favorite part of this chapter, I liked the part where the two guards decided to leave for a date.
I really cannot think of a good way to wrap this fight scene up.
Bugze uses Murder of Crows should be used to get away and perform a long-range teleportation to Ponyville (which actually works for once) and heads strait to Sweet Apple Acres to see his daughter and hold her again. Where he breaks down and releases liquid sorrow and relief over the events that transpired.
I'd rather it gogo once a week till summer than go on hiatus till summer
If you put this fic on hiatus I'm going to rip your balls out shove them on toothpickcs and force feed you them while your children watch
WARNING DEATH THREAT READ AT YOUR OWN RISK
I don't quite have an answer for the first question so I'll answer the second. You are free to take a break up until Summer as you feel like it. From what you've already done, it's definitely more than most writers on this site did for their readers.
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Part 2!
While you have the raw power, they have the numbers and refinement to go horn to horn (Minotaur expression) with you in fight. Brown-Cloak's earth bending made moving around the terrain very hard when he's not pummeling you with boulders. When taking the high ground with your parkour, White-Cloak took that route away by making it near impossible to be a viable option. Seriously, while that wind bender only does peanut damage, his crowd control was nothing to sneeze at. Dark Blue-Cloak just adapted to whatever move you do. Red-Cloak... You're fire proof, and ended up helping you. Looking at yourself, set on fire courtesy to Red-Cloak, you sigh in longing over the memories it resurfaced. You looked at the fire bender and smiled.
"Thanks for the bonus points in fire damage~!" The fire bender could only gape.
If this were a fight with only ONE element, then maybe you could at least pry at the weaknesses and push your advantages. Well, at least you can still teleport. Can't forget about teleport.
Suddenly, you found yourself unable to get a hit in. They seemed to be able to dodge more easily. A few more tries later, it was then explicitly explained.
"You know, you're awfully predictable if you cry out the names of your attacks."
Predictable? As a fellow gamer extraordinaire, one with many, many references at your arsenal to throw off others in a loop, you took offense to that. Still, they do have a point. Not many people had ever lasted very long against you in a fight to analyze your fighting style, neither were anybody calm enough in a heated battle to even bother.
You know, Selena, it would've been good to say 'fight fire with fire', but I haven't read that one book of Elemental Bending quite yet.
And you're saying this now?!
Oh well. Like what the Engineer would say, 'use a gun, and if that don't work, use more gun!'
So, dangerously, you used your moves in rapid succession, so fast, that even they couldn't see what you're doing. That, and you may have 'misspoken' when you called out the names of your attacks.
After pummeling the elite four into unconsciousness, you turned to Facebook— I mean, Flag Burner, who would be considered to be the last one left unscathed in this diabolical scheme. It's about time you fix that. With your hoof. You briefly thought of duck taping the elemental benders but figured that you have wasted enough time already.
"Hey Shining."
"W-what?"
"Are you a good hoofball?"
"Uhm, yeah, I'm a good hoofball player. I'm the best at defense in fact. Why?"
"...Close enough."
"Huh— h-HEY! What the hay are you doing?!"
"Consider this your justice against FB over there."
You threw him. Like a hoof ball.
Fighting Flag Burner, you find yourself realizing how winded and weakened you were, and yet you still were able hold your own against Flag Burner. Even he seemed to notice this, and visibly sweat dropped. The idea of fighting you at full power would've only met with an obvious conclusion. Even then, you were reduced to an intense power-hoof fight.
What a fool, thinking that he can take on the mantle of being the Hooded Offender. Already, he's losing breath.
Well, he didn't have your help, Selena.
"I shouldn't have lost faith," Flag Burner said, gasping for air. "You're as strong as I first thought you were!"
"What? I have Blue eyes and suddenly you take me for a chump?" you snarked. "AFTER plowing through a ton of guards, have everyling in the entire stadium go flying with my voice, fight my way through a flipping riot to get to you, you're telling me this NOW!?" You began to punch faster and wilder. "SOME BIG FAN YOU ARE!" you snarled.
Flag Burner tried his best to block your every attack, but your hits are becoming to hard to even hold back.
"Even so," he began before forcing you back with a literal hoofful of pure energy. "Even so, that doesn't mean I can't beat you in combat," he finished. "I have orchestrated all THIS!" He gestured to all around you, the destruction, the mayhem. "No one would expect it all to be planned by ONE pony!"
"Are you bucking telling me that you literally planned all this chaos? A riot? All these buildings to fall apart?"
"That's besides my point." FB became composed. "If I can cause this much damage, than I can most certainly be able to beat you."
"It's not like you did any of that damage."
"You still don't understand." He shook his head in disappointment. "It takes more than raw fire to burn a flag. It'll take the Winds of Change to feed the flames so that it'll burn much more brightly."
That gave you pause. By that analogy, your mind drifted to the Elemental Bending of Air book inside your inventory. You find yourself realizing how true that was, and how that applies to yourself. But what does that say about you? In your distracting thoughts, he tackled you to the ground, and kept you in a hold despite your struggles. You tried to punch your way out, but he grabbed your hoof, and twisted.
"Argh!" Dislocated. "Why you little— Oof!" He put a haymaker onto your face. And again. And again. Transitioning from one hoof to another, he applied them to your face periodically. Your mind was too wild and disorientated to get out of it properly. Finally, he stopped, heaving air with loud gasps. He stood up and watched you groan.
"Don't you see?" he began. "A world without weakness! A world where the strong will prevail! If everypony was strong, then nopony has to struggle! Those who can do labour can progress with nothing holding them back. The useless would never freeload on what's theirs alone. The distinction between Noble and Peasant would be no more; Only the strong exists. Anypony will be free to be their own pony! The Hoard Nation would make Someponies out of Noponies! None would be lesser than their peer. No monarchy to rule over them with tyranny, but the ponies will rule themselves. No weaknesses that'll keep you from protecting your family! No more of Iron Shield!" He sputtered that name in disgust. "THIS is the world that it must be!"
His ears twitched as you stood up. Grabbing your hoof, you fixed it back into its proper place with a grunt of pain. You would've gave a better reaction than that, but you met Dr. Quack.
"I misjudged you. You're not crazy,.." you spoke with a quiver. At this, Flag Burner lit up in delight.
"Have I finally gotten through to you?!" Excitedly, he helped you up. When you could stand on your own, he straightened himself and held out a hoof You looked at it for moment before reaching out for the hoof shake. Flag Burner smiled. And so did you as you stared with your blue eyes. Which turned violent orange. Your smile turned into snarl as you pulled him closer to give the punch of his life.
"You're just an idiotic, judgemental bully!" you screamed. He reared back, and felt over his face to see the damage. You interrupted his checking with another hoof to the face. You mind burned of the days after the wedding invasion. "You don't know what it means to be weak! You don't know what it feels to be alone, to cheat, steal and lie just to survive, day and night!"
Flashbacks of the Deadly 5. "To live in fear, helpless to what the future had in store for you!"
Tears are forming on your raging eyes at this point. "You don't know what it feels to see hope, but for it to be taken away by misfortune when you thought you had reached it!"
Memories of the Grandbuggy whom you loved and lost... RCV activated. YOU DONT KNOW HOW IT FEELS TO BE HIT DOWN TO THE GROUND AND HOW MUCH IT HURTS TO LET GO OF THE PAST AND MOVE FORWARD! YOU WANT TO STOP WEAKNESS?! GUESS WHAT: IT'S REALITY! IT'S LIFE! DO YOU THINK YOU ARE SOME KIND OF BUCKING GOD TO CHANGE THAT?! BUCKING DEAL WITH IT!!!"
Flag Burner stood up after that screamo-rant and muttered, "Everpony wants change, but nopony wants to change..."
It was a mentally taxing fight, but during the time the two of you were trading potshots, your Nightmare Cloak had regenerated enough energy to finally end this...
(Re-commenting from a previous chapter, with edits)
There was rain, rain everywhere. Flag Burner stared into the eyes of the approaching Offender, holding a still rage from within. "You won't do it."
You, The Hooded Offender, Nightmare incarnate, stopped. "Huh?"
"You'll be a villain if you do. You'll be the King of the Hoard who murdered one of his own in cold blood! What would Equestria think? What would the rest of the Hoard think?!" he shouted.
You closed you eyes in thought. " ...Ever since my faked death, I was ready to be another blurred face in history, a villain better off forgotten. But when the Hoard appeared, I was so happy! Finally, I wasn't alone, there were people who understood me! You were right, the Hooded Offender does want to be a hero." You're eyes opened, glowing in blood Orange. "But if all this—" you gestured to all the destruction around you "—is what it takes, if this is what I have to sacrifice to be hero, if villainy and all these atrocities must exist for a hero to even be called, then I won't have any part of it."
The revolutionists' eyes turned of that of rage. "Then you're weak either way! There has to be sacrifices for there to be change! If you are not willing, then NOTHING change, and things'll one day go corrupt."
"Then my fan club must've overstayed it's welcome. I guess that makes YOU the corruption," you said coolly, and that only fanned the flame within Flag Burner.
"You fool—!"
"There is, in fact, one sacrifice I'm willing to make..." That interruption made him stop. "Do you know what this hood is? What reference it originally was? This is the hood of a Nobody! By donning it, you were prepared to be nobody, along with many others. You don't know this and yet you call yourself one of my biggest fans."
"I don't understand!" he said, but you can see the realization dawning on him.
"The Hooded Offender was never real. It's just a wishful dream. Who you thought the Hooded Offender was, what you thought the Hoard was all about, is just a dream. Instead, it is your worst nightmare. I'm your worst nightmare."
"N-no! That's a lie! You're a liar!"
You shook your head and stepped forward. "Don't you see? I AM a lie! And that is the last truth you'll ever hear out of me.
"The Hoard is my family now. If one cold-blooded action is what it takes to make them innocent of this mess, then I'm ready to be the villain!" Bugze grabbed him by the collar of his hood and shouted, "Now tell me: Who do the hell do you think I am NOW?!"
Flag Burner, who was once full of convinction, was now nothing but a pathetic, sputtering mess. "N-no! No! The Nightmare has Come. The Nightmare has Come! You can't kill me!" He pushed you off and ran with his back facing the you. "To perserve the Hoards honor! I must live! I HAVE to live! The Hooded Offender will NOT die this way!"
Looking at him now, you can't help but see a bit of you. An idiot who wanted to be the hero. You asked Selena that if the roles were reversed, would things have gone differently? She remained silent. That gave all what you need. You stepped forward one last time. You're sorry for him, at least a little. But you're not sorry for what you're about to do. It had to be this way.
"Goodbye, and I hope you rest in peace," you said somberly. "Because I won't."
...Achvement unlocked : You got a Pie congrats Now all you need is whip cream
Gained by Completing the Pie qeust but you still need the whip cream to eat it
Pie
There is a note on the pie : Do not eat this without whip cream Or you DIE And if you eat it with whip cream you get a 50% health bonus for an day
5455939 The mysterious messenger is Discord, I'm calling it.
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Nope. I've got something else in mind. An old seed I planted might finally bear fruit...
But we'll see how things go. One step at a time.
No help for it. These guys have you outnumbered, and have powers to equal your own. Take them out one at a time, then CRUSH Flag Burner.
After all this we should have an episode where Hoodie gets trapped in a buidling by snow with the Shining, the deadly six, etc. And recap everything that's happened while being forced to have a temporary truce.
Once* and post a chapter once a week because I think many people would be impatient and prefer to have a chapter once a week rather then none at all until summer.
Bugzy notices a wight handle with a green end on it as it takes him a moment to realize it one of Zero's weapons the Z-saber one of what he considers a legendary blade.
Megaman Zero 4 has a very sad ending.
http://mmhp.net/GameHints/MMZ4-Data.html#Weapons
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Nice, but you guys are forgetting these details:
1. Remember what Bugze did at the GGG during the Season 1 finale (which involved curb-stomping the Wonderbolts, Royal Guard, and even Princess Celestia)? That was with THREE TAILS and Bugze is currently at 2.
2. Flag Burner seems to be a rather strong Earth Pony, but him going toe-to-toe with Nightmare Cloak Bugze simply CAN NOT WORK because when you take point 1. into consideration, the difference in power levels between Bugze and Flag Burner would be like an adult vs a kindergartner.
Keep that in mind as you all obviously put alot of effort into your comments and I don't want them to not be used due to it not fitting.
I recommend the comments be more like the Benders beating on 2-tails Bugze before he snaps and kicks into the more dangerous and powerful three tails mode and starts thrashing everything (also remember, YOU'RE FIGHTING IN A CITY, use it!).
For a reminder on what 3-tails Bugze can do, please look at the finale of Season 1 of this fic here.
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You mean the excuse of Bugze being winded after fighting through two factions across the city isn't a good enough? Okay... So, we can't make Bugze Gary stu, or at least any more than he already is, and we can't make Flag Burner stronger/ or Bugze weaker somehow to make the epic fight interesting. Where does that leave us?
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Like I said before, I recommend the benders just beating on two-tail Bugze (who IS winded/tired from all that fighting) as Bugze's attacks fail/counter/blocked, but then Bugze uses the Nightmare scream (which is indication of him going into 3-tails mode) where he then starts devastating the benders, some still-conscious fighters (Guards and Fanatics), and finally Flag Burner himself
This fic is a team effort so I recommend looking at the other comments here for opportunities to link and incorporate.
5477366 So... No Hooded Offender vs FB? Just a boring one-hit K.O.? Wait, I thought he already went 3-tailed mode.
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Bugze is currently only at two-tails mode. Remember, Flag Burner is tough enough to snap a stallion's neck, but his strength is alot lower than the Nightmare Cloak. Plus he's proven himself to be a manipulative strategic leader so it'd definetly fit if he were to have his minions attack Bugze while he watches from the back. If you're so concerned of an anticlimax, then after beating Benders, you could write a chase scene where Flag Burner tries to flee and slow Bugze down with followers, bombs, and even throwing stuff at the enraged 3-tails Bugze.
I recommend tweaking your MASSIVE comment to fit the points previously recommended so that they can be better used in the next chapter (we're filling up the comment page with these back and forths so here's the recommendation again:).
5481686 Flag Burner climbs into the air vent of a Freddy Fazbear Pizzeria as Shining Armor runs over.
"The building is locked and Flag Burner insi-" you are interrupted by an inequinely long, low pitched scream.
Five children and a blue stallion with a Cutie Mark of a phone walk out with Flag Burner's unconscious body and you ask him "what happened?"
"A wanted criminal tried to hide in a place with animatronics that are tied into a criminal database." Phone Pony says
Use Chaos Control to freeze time and get to his back side and then unleash a Chaos Blast to the back of the head with the Help of Selena.