With the sirens going off everywhere, you, the Doctor, and Derpy quickly rush inside the TARDIS. After the Doctor secures the Dog Collar Diffuser, he turns to you.
“Alright, we’re going to have to find that Diamond.”
“ Does it really have to be the size of a polo ball?” you ask.
“Well, technically it could be a little larger or smaller, but just so long as it can reflect the…” he then starts talking in techno-babble that you don’t understand. Having enough of the mumbo-jumbo that you'll never understand you interrupt him as you say,
“Alright, and where are we going to find that?”
The Doctor look annoyed at you interrupting him as he says,
“Well we have a few options, there are vast caverns within this mountain that have many kinds of gems, but bunkers and shelters have been made within them” he explains.
“Aren’t those the caverns Cadance was thrown in?” you ask.
“The very same, another option is we can try and take one from a celebrity or noble.”
“I say we go rob Blue(No)Balls, surely he can part with some,” you guess.
“Unfortunately, he fled Equestria weeks ago, taking his fortune with him,” the Doctor says in disgust.
“Greedy B&$%@#*, still I say we rob his house” you swear.
The Doctor shakes his head before he says,
“But fortunately there are still enough rich folks here, like Fancy Pants, Sapphire Shores, and others, surely they might have some.”
“Alright, so rob the rich first, if that fails, we go mining?”
“Pretty much,” the Doctor cheerfully says.
You sigh at this before you say,
"Well I guess we can rob Fancy Pants first. I heard Rarity talking about him, said he was the nicest noble shes ever meant. Hopefully he's as nice in this dimension as he is in ours."
The Doctor nods his head at this and is about to follow you out of the TARDIS, when Derpy suddenly asks,
"Did you meant it back there?"
The Doctor stops to look at her, brow raising. "Huh?"
"You know, being able to stop the Nightmare in this world?"
He pauses to consider the question, then says,
"Well, it's not like we are the only ponies to stop him. They have Pinkamena here! I'm sure she could take care of this world's Bugze."
"Yeah," you pipe in. "No kidding. Did you see how she just kept getting back up no matter what I hit her with? It's like she's a terminating cyborg from the future or something!"
Derpy seems to stare, a frown forming and a lazy eye straightening, as if she isn't satisfied with his answer. "Then why are we stalling?"
Now THAT makes you stop in shock, but the momentum forces you to trip over yourself and fall, slamming into a wall. "Wait, what?!" you shout, getting back up.
The Doctor is speechless, stuttering when he tries to say, "I, uh, D-Derpy! What are you talking about?"
"You know we've crashed before, Doctor, and we never had to run around finding this many things."
"But this is different!" The Doctor excuses.
"But we've crashed from worse! Even I made bigger dents into the TARDIS than Bugze, and we never do this!" Derpy sternly says.
Surprisingly, you discover that whenever her eyes are straight, she's like a mother sternly talking to a foal. Or maybe it is the other way around... Anyways, by that exchange, you see the Doctor just looks away, not denying it. After a moment, Derpy's expression softens as she says,
"I know you. You never turn away from ponies in need, even if they're from an entirely different universe. So, Doctor, what in Celestia's name are we building?"
What you see next stuns you. There it is, the spark in The Doctors eyes, something heroic... and perhaps an unyielding force of will behind it all.
"...Something to stop the Nightmare. To prevent it from truly coming to complete its destruction, stopping it in its tracks."
Still, even despite his short and sudden charismatic display of attitude, you still want to wring his neck for lying!
"Wait, you mean the TARDIS isn't really broken and we could've gone home THIS WHOLE TIME?!" you indignantly ask.
"No, no, no, no, no!" the Doctor quickly says, "The TARDIS IS damaged and at the very least, the power coupling is absolutely necessary for allowing the TARDIS to go back to our time, but the Diamond is still our top priority right now!"
However, something stops you. In his words, something... Stuck out to you. And it makes you feel like an idiot, more so than the last few times.
"Oh! OH, Buck!" you suddenly shout.
"I almost bucking forgot!"
"What?" The Doctor incredulously looks at you. "Bugze, what are you talking about?"
"I meant to ask you about it, but I never really got the chance until now!"
"Spit it out, Bugze, we are still on the run!"
"Look, throughout my time in Ponyville, I've been getting these... Images of a message. Noling could see it but me. Even Selena couldn't see them. Every message is the same: 'The Nightmare Comes'."
Just saying that phrase makes you shiver, but hopefully the Doctor will be able to explain it to you kn-
"...I'm afraid I don't quite understand the issue."
Your eyes widen in shock as you shout,
"WHAT!? Look Doc I'm not crazy! Flag Burner heard the message, too!"
"Wait, what?!"
"Yeah, and he said someling told him about it, told him to make the Fillydelphia Incident back at Harthswarming happen!" Finally, you've finally got tell him that! Even though you were still stuck in a universe were your a psychopathic monster, it's still good to get it off of your chest.
"Besides, if our universe is already saved from the Nightmare, then why is the 'Nightmare' still coming?"
The Doctor is yet again in shock, but this time it is in fear. Visible, unadulterated fear. "Our problem, I realize, is a whole lot worse than I thought."
"Why is it, Doctor?" Derpy asks.
"Well, really, it's just that the stakes are a whole lot higher now. It's only a theory, but I hope it is wrong," he begins. "This universe's Bugze is full of hatred so strong, that it can leak into another universe—our universe! That must be why we are here, the walls between realities have been thinned by his Rage. If we let it continue, and if the Nightmare succeeds into taking over this world, then the Nightmare would surely come into ours." Then he muttered darkly, still loud enough for you to hear, "And many lives will inevitably be lost in our world in the aftermath."
"In other words, we have two bucking worlds on our hooves, and the big baddy is my other self?" you ask.
The Doctor grimly nods.
"Buck you, Lady Luck!"
You shake off your anger for that bucking goddess as you say,
"Okay, so now we have even more of a reason to nab that Diamond! We fix the TARDIS and we stop the Nightmare. Cause now we got two worlds on the line if we don't."
The Doctor and Derpy nod their heads at your deceleration before the Doctor says,
"Okay, so the plan is-"
You interrupt him as you say,
"Wait Doc, Shouldn't we find out what those sirens are for? I mean it could be something really important!"
As you move to leave the TARDIS, you hear the Doctor shout,
"Bugze! Wait!"
"But we need to find out why the sirens are ringing." you respond as you turn around.
The Doctor looks at you, before laughing and then saying,
"And you seriously doubt that we can find that out WITHOUT going outside?"
"Well, there is no waaaa- You know something I don't, don't you?"
The Doctor give a smug smile before he says,
"Let me present to you: The interstellar and -chronic broadcast-messenger! Fully functional Television at any point in the galaxy for any show, movie, or serial at any time. Also useful for finding out what is causing others to panic WITHOUT running into the fray."
"Wait, didn't you use this to show me my... His rampage?"
"Yes..." The Doctor says sympathetically, "But it can also pick up radio and sound waves as well. Listen."
With that, the Doctor turns a few dials as you go back into the Main Control Room, you see said TV. Currently, it flickers before it shows you a blank screen before the speakers blast out,
"CITIZENS OF CANTERLOT! THIS IS NOT A DRILL! PLEASE CALMLY MAKE YOUR WAY TO YOUR NEAREST FALLOUT SHELTERS NOW!"
As Luna's RCV volume echoes through the TARDIS making all your ears hurt, the Doctor mercifully lowers the volume,
"DO NOT PANIC AND PLEASE DO NOT ROB AND/OR LOOT YOUR FELLOW PONIES. I REPEAT THIS IS NOT A DR-"
Suddenly the announcement gets distorted and cut off by static as the screen suddenly flashes on and you see what seems to be a crimson-shelled changeling, transparent and surrounded by a pitch-black light-blocking substance. You can't help but notice that this crimson changeling seems wounded and tired,
"To whoever finds this... You have to stop us! I have fallen to what is widely known as the 'Nightmare', but that is not important! We are heading towards a large city..."
Oh? See! That's what you are. Weak, pathetic, needing to hope others do your work. You could be so much more... .
You ignore the annoyance that is your shadow as Selena says,
I just got an idea... That crimson changeling, could he be you? Or, well, this universe's you? Reaching out with the last of his sanity?
At this point a tentacle of the pitch black drills into the changeling's back,
"You don't have much time...", he coughs blood at this, "I was able to slow us down... Wrestle enugh control to get this message out to anyling that can here it... but I will vanish soon. Heh, I knew I was going to die a long time ago... So much rage and pain..."
The tentacle pumps darkness into him, dark vines are visible and pulsing around him. You can somehow sense your Shadow wincing and rubbing at something in pain as it says,
I feel glad that's not me. Very glad. But of course I'm not that and you would never be able to do that, you wouldn't have the guts to do th-
You ignore your shadow's ramblings as this universe's "Real Bugze" starts to dissipate,
"Help... Even after all they've done, they don't deserve what's coming to them..."
With that the monitor abruptly turns off,
You, the Doctor, and Derpy all gulp when the image cuts as the Doctor says,
"Well...looks like we have a time limit now. Let's get this Diamond before it's too late."
You look at him in confusion (while shoving off the fact that that could have been you on the screen) as you ask,
"Wait, how do we know it's coming to this city?"
The Doctor gives you a blank look as he says,
"Cause this is the last city standing in the whole world."
You blink a few times before you chuckle nervously and says,
"Oh...right."
With that the Doctor sighs before he starts to give you and Derpy a plan to steal from Fancy Pants....
Among the defenses you see Luna coordinating troops and temporary cause gaps in the shield surrounding Canterlot so airships can take off and take position around the city, a squad of Minotaurs helping to push the Flim Flam brother's weapon into position, Diamond Dogs digging trenches... with the help of a giant worm, and... BonBon (must be this universe's BonBon instead of that agent who was helping you) riding a giant Bugbear?
Around Sunset
Diamond Heist
Difficulty: This Is Impossible +145
You once more looked into the skylight and double checked to make sure your mask is on tight. You look off to the left and you can see far down the street and see on the city wall Luna coordinating troops and temporarily causing gaps in the shield surrounding Canterlot so airships can take off and take position around the city.
"That is so strange...yet for some reason it makes sense that she's doing it."
You look over a little bit more to the left and see a squad of Minotaurs helping to push the Flim Flam brother's weapon into position. You gulp at the size of the weapon before you say,
"I really hope they don't aim that thing at me…well Me me, not the other me."
You look over to your right to see Diamond Dogs digging trenches... with the help of a giant worm, and... BonBon (must be this universe's BonBon instead of that agent who was helping you) riding a giant Bugbear?
You shake your head as you say,
"This dimension is soooo weird."
You shake it off as you hear the Doctors voice say through your headset.
"OK Bug- um sorry, what was your completely unnecessary codename again?"
"Cains" you reply, after sighing heavily.
At that a chuckle came through your head set to your mild annoyance. The chuckling ends as you hear the Doctor say,
"Okay 'Cains' are you sure you want to rob Fancy Pants, the only pony with security and a vault matched only by the one they use to store the Elements of Harmony, wearing nothing but a suit, tie, and a clown mask?"
Oh not this again....
"I mean seriously I have like tons of different outfits and stuff to wear that's better suited for this!"
You give a blank face as you ask,
"Like what?"
You hear some shuffling in your headset before the Doctor says
"Let's see, uh, there's a cardboard box, a lamp shade, the Nanosuit 2.0 and the ring of fog. Lotsa stuff, better than a suit and a clown mask. "
You roll your eyes as you prepared to once more explain your odd choice of apparel.
"Look Doc, how many times do I have to tell you? If you’re trying to pull off a heist of any kind, you HAVE to look good while doing it, or, at least that's what Pinkie would say if she was still her usual pink self."
There's some awkward silence before the Doctor says,
"Um...okay then, if you get in a tight spot and can't hide in the safe and comforting walls, that only a cardboard box could provide, don't blame me.”
Yeah, cause the cardboard box worked so well in the past, you think to yourself.
"So, I'm guessing you at least know the plan?" the Doctor asks.
"Uhh...."
You hear an annoyed sigh before the Doctor says,
"We spent two hours going over-never mind, use the glass cutter to cut a hole in the glass, and get comfy because it's going to take about 4 minutes."
Pulling the circular and somewhat large metal glasscutter the Doc gave you earlier out of the Inventory, you place it on the glass. You smile at the magic enchantment on it assuring it wouldn't move in any way or form once placed, and flick the switch to 'ON.' You see a screen on the cutter displaying 'Estimated Time: 240 Seconds' with a progress bar on the bottom, and in that moment your headset once more comes to life as the Doctor says,
"One more thing 'Cains' - look I'm sorry I just can't say it anymore, It's just too ridiculous... and it sounds stupid."
"Fine...killjoy."
"Anyway, as I was saying, the glass cutter might jam occasionally at inconvenient times for no apparent reason. So, uh, if it does, just turn it off for five seconds, then turn it on and off really fast until you hear two beeps."
"Doc! I thought you said this was state of the art! "
"It's state of the art for 5 bits."
You stare at the cutter as you just now notice that there are dents, duck tape, and loose screws all over it. You sigh as you mumble,
"That explains a lot..."
You sighed as the cutter's display changed from Blue to red and gave out a high pitched beep as it jammed.
“This is gonna be a long 4 minutes,” you sigh.
*4 minutes and 15 resets later*
"About bucking time!” you cry out as the cutter’s display changes to 'complete.'
Grabbing the device in your mouth and dropping it in the newly created hole, you then carelessly jumped into the perfect hole in the skylight.
*THUD*
Keyword there being skylight.
At least you didn't break your neck when your face collided with floor below. You get back on your hooves while rubbing your sore nose, hoping noling heard or saw you break-in as the Doctor begins to give you your next objective.
"Alright Doc, I'm in."
"Okay, now you got the codes correct?"
"It's the key card right? "
"Yeah, you see the vault?"
Turning around, you see the vault along with multiple lasers. You gulp slightly at the intimidating sight as you say,
"Y-yeah. I see it. It’s got a bunch of lasers covering it."
You hear the Doctor sigh before he says,
"Great now don't try to do any Ninja stuff with those lasers, they’re spaced way to closely together, you'd look extremely awkward.”
You stop in your tracks as that was exactly what you were about to do, “I-I wasn’t Doc, I’m not that stupid, heh heh…” you stammer nervously.
“Clearly,” says the Doctor unbelieving, “Besides the vault door itself would trip them if you open it anyway. Trust me when I say this, you don't want to get caught, I hear Fancy Pants has an elite squad of guards on standby."
"So no Ninja stuff, got it. Then what do I do? "
"There's an alarm box on the 2nd floor in the closet of the guest room, you gotta hook it up with that tablet I gave you. And watch out for Sapphire Shores, she seems to be staying in that room. "
"Oh okay-wait Sapphire Shores is here?! "
"Yeah, I heard she was staying here for some reason"
*insert squee here*
The walk to the second floor was mostly uneventful since the guards patrolling seemed to be deaf and nearsighted, the only time you nearly got caught was when you turned a corner and almost came face first with a guard, but you quickly pulled back and he never seemed to notice... weird.
You opened the door to the guest room, and see fancy outfits everywhere. You kind of want to take one, because they belong to Sapphire Flippin Shores!
Ignoring your inner Celebrity Crush/Obsession (for the time being), you enter the closet and find the alarm box, you open it up and plant the tablet. It's like the cutter, displaying 'Time remaining 240 Seconds.’
"Hey Doc what's up with these guards they seem, sorta out of it…"
You hear the Doc humming before he says,
"From what I heard there running on nothing but coffee and an anti sleep spell, I think they work 3 days a week straight, no breaks."
"That sounds horrib- "
"But I think there paycheck is about 1,000 bits an hour."
"Where can I sign up?"
"Bug-*sigh*, just watch the tablet Bugze…"
"Fine. At least this thing can't jam like that cutter. "
The Doctor chuckles nervously over the headset as he says,
"Actually I didn't finish writing the code yet, so it might divide by zero and the override could slow down significantly or stop altogether. So if it does just turn it off for about ten seconds and turn it on again. "
"Doc, this closet isn't exactly comfy..."
"Shut up and watch the tablet Bugze."
*1 minute and 14 resets later *
You had to reboot the system a few times, but progress is being made…you hope. When suddenly, you hear the door to the room open. You remain absolutely still as you listen.
“Ms. Shores, I really must ask you to come with me to the crystal cavern shelters,” says a male voice.
“I’ll be there in a minute sugar. I got a bad feeling about tonight, and if I’m going out, I’m going out looking my best,” says the pony of pop.
You mentally squee since you’re in the same room as her. You peek through the crack in the closet and see her checking herself out in the mirror.
She is dressed in tight fitting yoga pants and a sweater, and you begin sweating. She holds up a fancy looking costume you’ve never seen her wear before.
“Never got to show this one off…no time like the present I suppose” she says to herself in the mirror as she starts undressing and putting the new costume on.
Blood shoots out your nose at your peeping and you are mentally slapped by Selena.
Focus on the job you fool. You can ogle later.
I wasn't ogling, I was...observing
Whatever helps you sleep at night, which will be full of nightmares if you don’t stop staring by the way.
Aw man...
“There,” she finishes, “Thos refugees in the shelter will appreciate this. My last show…” she sniffles as she leaves the room.
*2 minutes and 25 more resets later*
The screen on the table now displaying 'complete,' you silently crawl out of the closet and start to head back down to the vault, which is now missing it's hundreds of lasers.
"Alright Doc you can open the doors remotely right?"
"Yeah opening them now."
The vault doors open with a sound that seems eerily similar to that made by scratching a chalk board, only louder.
"Oh dear Luna Doc! I think everyling in the building and their mothers heard that!"
" Relax Bugze they’re probably too out of it to notice. "
" Hey...did...did you hear something?" You hear a guard say to his partner sounding half asleep.
"I.... dunno.... sounded like some pony was scratching a chalk board...." replies an equally sleepy voice.
"Yeah... that, *yawn* would explain it."
Sighing in relief, you walk into the vault and see gems of all shapes and sizes.
"Alright Bugze to your left should be a big metal door, get over there and put the codes in."
"What about all these gems here? I count at least twenty Diamonds that are about the right size."
The Doctor sighs in annoyance before he says,
"Because if you cut, break, or so much as touch the glass on the display cases, the alarm will go off, and they'll be swarmed by guards."
"Fine."
Approaching the metal door you look through the small glass window to see a Diamond the perfect size for the job... behind a glass display.
"Hey Doc the Diamond looks like it's behind a glass display like the others, how am I supposed to.... "
"Once you get past the door use the glass cutter to get past the display."
"Wouldn't that set off the alarm?"
"Nah, whoever was enchanting the display cases forgot to set this one up so the alarm would trip if the glass was cut, don't break it though, it will go off if you break it."
"Umm Okay then...how do you know all this stuff anyway? "
“Well let’s just say that I’ve technically already done this before,” he responds.
“You’ve robbed Fancy pants before?” you ask.
“Well, not so much robbed, as in taking back something that was mine. He was there with me actually, his house security system turned against us, there was an Ood…I’ll tell you all about it later.”
“Alright then,” you say.
Fetching the key card with the codes you slid it on the terminal and then the alarm went off.
"Umm... Doc!? I-I don't think the codes worked! "
"What?! Those codes cost a fortune! You know what I had to do in a back alley to get those?! OK, ugh they must have changed very recently, or Intel was super fresh!"
"Okay so what do I do now?!"
"Um..... hope they don't break every bone in your body? And get back here as soon as you can. Looks like we’re going mining."
In that moment a guard ran in and yelled,
"Thief! Get him! "
You throw your hooves up in defense as you say,
"Wait, wait I can explain!"
Or at least you could of if they hadn't dog piled you.
Thinking quickly you Psycho Crusher out of the pile and make a run for it, completely forgetting the huge diamond. You smash out of a window and fall to the ground. You manage to land on your hooves and you make a run all the way back to the TARDIS. What you don't notice as you run is a familiar pink pony on the rooftops following after you....
BACK IN THE TARDIS
When you get back to the TARDIS you quickly put the Baker Sylvester Tennant suit back on as you see the Doctor and Derpy putting on mining gear.
“Well that was a bucking waste of time,” you lament.
“Quite so, maybe next time we should all stick together,” says Derpy matter of factly.
“Well…you got a point there,” you mumble.
“Anyway, unlike you,” says the Doctor, “I was at least partially successful. Now that the TARDIS has been diffused, I was able to fix her up a bit. We still need a coupling, but now we can use the Collar for defense. So, Let’s go get that Diamond!” he says as he makes his way to the door with Derpy following.
You’re about to follow them when you remember something...
Also I wonder if smaug could be of any help *hint hint* *nudge nudge*. Or more precisely his hoard. Half of it to be exact...
Smaug’s loot! I stuffed half of his hoard in here, there's bound to be a big diamond!
With that thought in mind you open The Inventory and think of the biggest Diamond you could find. After awhile your hoof grabs something. You tug on it and pull out...
A Diamond as big as a Polo Ball.
The Doctor and Derpy stare at it in shock before the Doctor asks you,
"Wha! Bugze were in the multiverse did you get that!"
You give a smug smile as you say,
"From Smaug's loot. This is the biggest one in there, so I hope we can use it. And you wanted me to put it all back."
The Doctor ignores you as he takes looks at the Diamond in your hoof before saying,
"This will more than do Bugze, now let me just try and remember where to put this!"
With that he takes the diamond and begins to look around the TARDIS for something. As he does you ask him,
"So Doc, how DID you find this dimension in the first place?"
The Doctor looks over to you from a pile of rubble as he asks,
"Well... do you still have that note that Derpy gave you?"
"You mean that note she gave me after you saved me from the Princesses after I used my nightmare powers for the first time to protect Nightshade which also constantly reminds me of my debt which has gotten me into countless bad places cause of you?" (See "Episode 33: WHY ME!!!" and "Episode 34: I HATE The Woods!") you say in a deadpan tone that was totally not a rushed attempt at exposition,
"Yes." he responds.
"I do." you say as you take out the Note with your debt to The Doctor and it reads,
Dear Bestest Best Friend Bugze,
Hi! its me Derpy.
So your feeling okay right?
You hit your head pretty hard on the Doctors control panel thingy.
Oh well... sorry I can't talk to you in person.
The Doctor said I can't because of some sort of 'wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey' thing.
I honestly don't know what hes talking about half the time (Don't tell him I said that).
Oh right, The Doctor told me to tell you that we fed uh hold on a second
Okay I'm back.
So I asked The Doctor what this little sweet filly's name is.
Huh...Oh right.
We fed Nightshade but oh muffin did she have a appetite.
I have a list attached to this letter of all the food she ate.
I hope we can meet again soon Bugze.
Love,
Derpy
After skipping the page that lists all the food Nightshade ate (which is alot), you continue,
And Bugze, she said this was all a snack! And they were all extra large servings! Oh, The Doctor told me you owe him this much:
10,000,000,000,000,000 bits.
Hope you have enough to pay!
P.S.
The Doctor tells me that the food is a tiny part of the cost.
The real cost came from having to fix the TARDIS as you kinda broke the control panel thingy with your head.
Because of that, the TARDIS couldn't move and we got hit by Princess Luna's attack making us arrive in this city that's like Cloudsdale, but made of rock and metal instead of clouds and full of these scary monkey creatures that were hurting each other with fire, hooks, bombs, and loud metal sticks.
We managed to escape after getting hit alot more, but the Doctor had to quickly drop you in the some forest a few minutes after we picked you up at the castle so he could fix the TARDIS.
"Well..." the Doctor says, "The TARDIS did go straight from the Castle to the Everfree and the note was originally just the first part and the list, but after I dropped you and Nightshade off, the TARDIS was more damaged than I thought and we landed in... here. When Derpy and I escaped, I was determined not to let this future happen so I went back to where I dropped you, only to find you already awake and reading the note. So I had Derpy create a startling distraction to make you drop the note while I quickly zipped in and attached the third sheet with a made-up story about this debt you owe me and some fantastic story about apes destroying each other with hooks and spells in a flying city.
"Wait, you were that ghost sound?" you ask in surprise.
"Actually, that was Derpy."
"Thank Celestia for frogs" Derpy comments.
"Anyway, then Derpy and I got back into the TARDIS to meet you at a later time-"
"Then why didn't you bail me out at the Gala when everypony wanted to beat the stuffing out of me and I almost destroyed them all in turn when Selena took over?!" you interrupt.
Technically you let me take over, Selena adds.
Potato, Potahto, you mentally snark.
"Wait... What gala?"
"You know, the Bland Boring Ball where the Deadly 6 were and I performed a rock concert and Blueballs got his hooves on my daughter so I gave him the Nutshot to end all Nutshots." you explain, "You showed up when all the groups were arguing over who got to fight me first when you showed up in the TARDIS, but just grabbed a plate of food instead of helping me!" (See "Episode 68: Brawl At The Gala! Wrath Of The Hooded Offender! (Season Finale Part 5)")
"Oh... that must be where I go in the future."
"What?" you ask in confusion.
"Yes, and now that you've TOLD me that, I can't help you at the Gala since you've now made that a Fixed Point in Time since now I know the exact date in time when I don't help you which shaped this moment that we're having now which means after this, I now need to go back specifically to not help you. That explains why the TARDIS zipped me to a Canterlot who's ballroom was still being rebuilt..."
"Wait- Did I even bucking meet you yet? I mean what about when I got lost in that castle with the Weeping Pegasus hiding from Applejack and Rarity? Was that our 'first meeting'? And if you never existed in this universe, then shouldn't that mean you never saved me from Princess Luna which means I should be dead so the Nightmare never happened and thus you never needed to put me in the debt even though you should've cause of everything that's happened and- Oh no, I've gone cross-eyed!"
"That's my thing!" Derpy exclaims.
"Look," the Doctor interrupts, "if I start going into any more detail about time travel, then we'll be here all day drawing interlocking diagrams on multiple chalkboards. And that is time we do not have. Let’s just assume this version of you got away from Luna somehow, probably a bit more scorched than usual."
"Wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey." Derpy adds.
"So I just need to 'suspend my disbelief' and ignore all the inconsistencies like I'm watching an Applewood blockbuster?" you ask.
"Pretty much," Derpy answers for the Doctor.
"Fine... As long as I don't need to go back in time to pass a history test while protecting my future mother from a dozen monkeys with butterflies or anything crazy like that."
The Doctor nods his head before he sighs and says,
"Ugh, where did I put that bloody thing! Bugze, Derpy help me find it! It's that sphere thing Bon Bon gave us at the castle!"
You and Derpy nod your heads before you all...
Separate around the TARDIS and begin to search when suddenly you all hear a loud banging against the TARDIS door.
"Gah! Doctor, what was that?" you ask in surprise.
The sound begins to repeat, as something hits the door every couple of seconds.
The Doctor presses a button on the console and a screen appears. Outside the TARDIS, Pinkamena is shown charging at the door with her shoulder, smashing into it repeatedly.
You gulp in fright at Pinkie's angry slamming as you ask in fear,
“How the Buck did she find us?”
The Doctor looks to you, “She may have a few more screws loose and be a bit blood thirsty now, but she’s still Pinkie, so your guess is as good as mine,” he says.
You look back to the screen and see she is looking straight at it, as if she can see you.
"How is it going with finding that sphere thing!?" you ask in fear, not taking your eyes off the screen.
"We are still searching!" the Doctor shouts out,
You take your eyes off the console as you take out the future comic, thinking that maybe the answer is in there.
Instead, all you see is The Doctor and Derpy with shocked expressions on their face. You look up to the console and see Pinkie walking around the TARDIS, inspecting it, so you walk back to help in the search.
“Oh blast it, how can one little orb slip my mind,” laments the Doctor.
A voice suddenly calls from behind you.
"Try searching under the kitchen table"
"Of course! I put in there because the table was moving a little too much, thank you Pinkie,"
The Doctor says as he goes over and picks up the sphere from under the table. You all feel relieved that the Orb is found before you all realize something. You all turn around in fright and shout,
"PINKIE?!"
Pinkie is standing in the kitchen doorway, and she is frowning.
“Not…Pink…Ie…” she snarls.
“Oh right, sorry, Pinkamena,” you correct.
"That’s better!" she says.
Derpy gulps in fear before asking,
"How did she get in?"
The Doctor just whimpers before saying,
"Uhhh... Maybe the Anti-Pinkie shield was damaged when we came into this universe.”
You give the Doctor a confused look as you ask,
"You made an Anti-Pinkie shield?"
The Doctor gives you a deadpanned look before he says,
"You'd be surprised how many times that mare has snuck in here.”
You nod your head at this before refocusing at the Psycho at hand.
“Anyway..."
Kersey475 comment
You whip out the Power Glove and declare,
"WOULD YOU KINDLY BUZZ OFF!"
At the "Insect Swarm" plasmid, a small cloud of bees comes out of your arm holes and attacks Pinkamena...
*slice slice slice*
Only for her to quickly and nonchalantly slice all the bees in half with a few swishes of twin knives.
“Bees…are not my god…” she says creepily. She then looks at the readers.
“Don’t forget that commenters, or I’ll just have to give you more ‘smiles’ than what you’re already going to get,” she says threateningly.
A roar is heard only by her, and she loses that creepy smile.
“Okay, okay, I’ll focus on the story…,” she says as she turns back to you.
“Sorry about that, one of the commenters had Godzilla with them…bucking cheaters.”
It’s official, this Mare has gone over the deep end, come back for air, and go down again.
You're then about to try to use the last "Mix-Up Smash" (which would render the Glove useless for this arc as it would shut down to recharge), when the Doctor grabs you and says,
"Wait Bugze! If she wanted us dead, you would be splattered all over this room."
He then turns to Pinkie and asks...
"Pink…amena what are you doing here?"
"I’ve come to help you of course, I’m on your side now."
"Why is that?" you ask
"Because the princesses ordered me to take good care of you" She replied with a cheerless grin on her face.
“But you just tried to kill us the last time we met.”
“Well yeah, because I thought you were cultists. You should’ve told me the truth from the beginning,” she chides.
“Would you have believed us?” you ask.
“Probably not, but I wouldn’t have tried to kill you…maybe cut you all a little, but not kill you,” she says. “But I’m your ally now, so let’s do this…”
You barely hold back a doubtful look as you think,
I don't like the sound of that.
I think we can use this to our advantage
How?! She is going to stab us in the back as soon as we fix the TARDIS!
True but surely she can't harm us if we make a...Pinkie promise
Are you crazy! I already broke plenty of those in the past what makes you think I won't break this one?
Because she never breaks a Pinkie Promise.
"It’s true I never break a promise, not even after all that’s happened," Pinkamena said interrupting your thoughts?
... Did she just ...
Make the promise you idiot! Selena shouts
"Pinkamema, do you Pinkie Promise not to harm me, Derpy and the Doctor while we fix this, and in return, we promise to stop Nightmare?" you ask the pink mare as you make the promise movements. You watched her do the actions of the Pinkie Promise. As you say the usual way of it, Pinkie says,
I imagine a Pinkamena promise is "Cross my heart, hope to die, stick a Needle in my eye."
"Cross my heart, hope to die, stick a Needle in my eye."
You shudder at the new words.
Pinkamena added to your party
"Remember never break a promise to me " Pinkamena says
"What happens if I do?" you ask
Pinkie giggles before she says with a creepy smile,
"Then Pinkie Break YOU."
You gulp in fear as you think,
...Mommy...
The Doctor nods his head at this as he says,
"Good. Now that that's out of the way we can- Oh darn it!"
"What is it?" you ask.
only for the Doctor to tell you that you've:
-Gotten the wrong gemstone
-Accidentally chipped it in the melee rendering it useless.
“Bugze this isn’t a Diamond! It’s Rock Candy!” the Doctor exclaims.
“What?” you yell out in confusion. “That can’t be true!”
Pinkie walks over and picks up the stone and takes a bite out of it.
“It’s rock candy alright, made from diamond extract,” she says before swallowing. Her eyes take on a distant sad look as she says,
“Just like me and Maud used to make…”
You would question what she meant, but at the moment, you are pretty steamed,
"Why in the seven layers of Tartarus was their a giant piece of rock candy in Smaug's loot?!"
"Well everypony has a sweet tooth Bugze-er I mean Tennant, surely Dragons do too."
"I better check over all my other loot later, to make sure they aren't chocolate or something."
"You can do that later, right now we better be off to that mine." the Doctor says as he puts a hard hat on with a head lamp in it.
"So after all that we STILL need to get a bucking diamond?!" you exclaim in exasperation, "What's nex-"
"SWEET CELESTIA, WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!"
Your party looks out the TARDIS door in shock as you yell,
"What the buck was that!"
The Doctor gulps before he says,
"I don't know, but we're probably about to find out..."
With that you all run outside the TARDIS...
You, the Doctor, Derpy, and Pinkemena all run out of the TARDIS, down the alley, and towards the nearest group of ponies before you all look up at the sky in horror as you all see a large meteor heading towards Canterlot!
WITH CELESTIA AT THE CASTLE, A FEW MOMENTS AGO
Celestia quickly casts a spell and her horn starts glowing as she says,
"Captain Gray Wing, you need to-"
"Call us back to Canterlot because the Nightmare is on its way from the east?" the Griffin responds in a voice in Celestia's ear.
"What? How did you know?" Celestia says stunned.
"Lieutenant Gilda spotted it with her superior Griffin eyesight. We are moving to intercept and engage."
"What?! NO, fall back to Canterlot now!" Celestia orders.
"We are Griffins! We are the greatest warriors in the world and never fall back from anything!" Gray Wing boasts.
"You don't have the proper backu- I mean equipment! You're no match for it!" Celestia says with panic in her voice.
"There's only one of him and we're a WHOLE BATTALION! Just one squad can crush him like a roach! Speaking of which, Rumi Squad, engage!"
"NO! I ORDER YOU TO FALL BACK TO CANTERLOT NOW!!!" Celestia roars in the Royal Canterlot Voice with a hint of panic, but what she hears next...
*thud* "Squack!" *splort* "No, nononono-" *foosh* "AHHHHHHHHHH!!" *slice* "THAT'S NO BUG! IT'S A PLUCKING MONSTER! RUUUUU-" *SMASH*
"All Griffins, ATTACK!!! We got the numbers so we- What the pluck is that?"
He is interrupted when there's the sound of a large explosion and a distorted voice yells,
Suddenly the room Celestia is in shakes briefly. Her eyes widen as she thinks,
No... that means he's close!
"No... that's not possible." she hears Grey Wing say with terror in his voice, "W-WH-WHAT THE PLUCK ARE YOU?!"
She then hears footsteps and distorted laughter coming closer and closer,
"No, NO! Stay back!"
There's the sound of wings flapping in a panic followed by a sickening crunch and a howl of pain from the Griffin,
"GRAAAAH!!! LET ME GO!!! PLEASE!!! BY THE LOST IDOL OF BOREAS! I ORDER YOU TO LET-*TEAR*"
Then there's only silence before the Monarch of the Sun turns off the spell...
She turns around and looks out the window towards the sky and she feels a dark force heading her way. Celestia sighs sadly before she says,
"This is it... the beginning of the end."
BACK WITH YOUR GROUP NOW
You and your group, along with nearby ponies, all look at the sky in horror as you all see a large meteor heading towards Canterlot! Everypony starts panicking, but suddenly a midnight-colored blur shoots into the sky and explodes the Meteor.
Ponies cheer at this, but the relief is short-lived however as suddenly pieces of the shattered meteor start streaming in towards Canterlot. Many of the fragments tear through the airships causing them to explode in massive fireballs that plummet down onto the shield. Soon there is a rain of meteor fragments, burning airships, and even the bodies of guards raining on the shield. If you looked closely, you swore you could've seen something rapidly whipping the pieces at the city.
Soon the Tartarus-ish rain ends with the shield around Canterlot still holding strong, but then you all see a furious midnight blur screaming towards Canterlot and a distorted voice that sounds like a higher, more deranged combination of your's and Selena's declares,
"METEOR STORM!"
The midnight blur smashes through the shield as the whole thing shatters and dissipates. The thing then smashes into the street in a large explosion that levels the two buildings on either side of it as it kicks up a large cloud of dust and debris. A large piece of the bakery comes screaming towards you and your group. Before it hits, and before you can even think about moving, you hear Pinkie shout.
“Move you idiots!” as she pushes you, the Doctor and Derpy out of the way. In doing so, the large pillar slams into Pinkie and smashes her into the building behind you.You get up and pull the pillar off her in concern, but she's still breathing, only unconscious. You then look back to where the debris came from.
WHAT THE BUCK DO YOU DO?
As the dust cloud starts to settle, nopony dares to make a move as beneath the cloud lies the most dangerous deadly creature in all of Equestria. The thing that has destroyed a city in a day, a countryside in a week, and the entire world in only a few months. Thousands (if not millions) have perished to this... thing's madness, nopony was safe. It didn't care who or what you were, if you could bleed it hunted you. This is the thing that caused to princess to give up their thrones to their greatest enemies just to defeat it? What horrible demented roar will this... abomination give?
Suddenly a Nightmare Tail shoots out of the dust cloud... and it's holding Captain Gray Wing's head like a puppet before a distorted voice says,
"Ponies are a disease..."
More nightmare tails then whip the dust away leaving the monster standing there before he- No, it, says,
"Meet the cure."
...
"Okay, maybe 'cure' in the same way a guillotine cures a head cold but our point (and this chicken's head) still stand, Hi T-*Gets hit/blasted by something*"
Yup, even as a psycho monster, Bugze is still Bugze
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When the Doctor explains why you shouldn't attack Nightmare Bugze
"Ohh... You mean we're going by Timeguard rules!"
"Exac- Wait, what?"
"Yeah, 'same matter can not occupy same space' so if I punch him, we both get sucked into a horrific blob!"
The Doctor is about to correct you when Depry nudges him and says, "Yeah, sure."
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A regiment of armored Yaks ready for battle come charging towards Canterlot.
"YAKS HELP PONIES! IF NIGHTMARE DESTROY PONIES, NIGHTMARE DESTROY YAKS NEXT! YAKS DESTROY NIGHTMARE!!!"
"OI! WAIT YOUR TURN!!!" Nightmare Bugze roars in the Royal Canterlot Voice before he uses his Nightmare Tails to lift himself into the air as he charges up a big orange-and-midnight colored attack ball of power in his hooves raised above his head. When the ball has reached the size of a 5 Buffalo, he roars,
"NIGHTMARE GRAVITY IMPLOSION!"
As he hurls the death ball at the Yak reinforcements still charging in over the horizon. The ball hits the center of the regiment and begins to violently suck all the Yaks into the center of the ball as it rotates in a sphere of screaming death before it explodes in a massive orange-and-midnight mushroom cloud, leaving nothing behind but a crater.
As Nightmare Bugze lowers himself back down, he turns to the gathered Guards and smirks,
"Now... where were we?"
Quite a few guards decide to answer his question by running away in terror (not surprising considering the display of power they just witnesses),
"Oh come on! We're not gonna use that on you guys! Where's the fun if the party's over too quickly?!" Nightmare Bugze whines.
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Nightmare Bugze pounces onto a carriage and uses his Nightmare tails to launch himself down the street whiel singing,
"Making our way downtown. Riding fast. Ponies passing we crush them. Dadadadadadadaaaa-dadada"
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One Minotaur starts showing off some fancy sword moves with a giant Zweihander
Cue Nightmare Bugze nonchalantly blasting him with the cannon.
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Nightmare Bugze comes across a platoon of ponies wielding scimitars.
"Oooo... Saddle Arabians! Any suicide bombers among you?"
"No! That is a species-ist Applewood stereotype!" the lead Saddle Arabian exclaims,
"Must we do EVERYTHING ourselves?!" Nightmare Bugze exclaims in annoyance as he reaches into his Inventory (yes, Nightmare Bugze has an Inventory) as a nightmare tail lashes out and grabs the lead Saddle Arabian warrior before sweeping him from side to side to knock away the others.
"Let's see... Cake... Vanilla Cola... Lucky skulls... Aha!" he exclaims as he pulls out a bomb that reads Property of Michael Beigh before he violently yanks the Saddle Arabian pony with such force that NB punches the bomb into his chest.
Nightmare Bugze then wraps two nightmare tails around the Saddle Arabian's upper and lower jaws and puppets "Hakuna Matata!" before throwing the living bomb at the platoon where he explodes and takes them all out.
"Wait... Us darn it! We said that wrong, REDO!"
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Far away from the rave, you see a large group of mourning ponies. For some reason, the ones that stick out the most to you are a grey unicorn mare and a blue unicorn stallion mourning over two pictures of Twilight Sparkle and Shining Armor.
When you ask, the Doctor reluctantly tells you those are Twilight and Shining's parents.
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Daddy, let's save the cannon for the Royal bitches! Bitches love cannons! Nightmare Bugze "hears" 'Nightshade' tell him,
"Great idea honey!" Nightmare Bugze says before stuffing the Boom Shackalacka Nightmare Knocker Version 2.0 into the Inventory.
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WARNING: SAPPY ATTEMPT AT ROMANTIC DIALOGUE AHEAD
Near the rave in a private room, we see a white unicorn with a blue groomed mane, tail, and mustache cuddling with a white supermodel-looking unicorn with a light pink mane on a fancy rug, but the supermodel pony seems restless about something.
"What's wrong Fleur?" the fancy pony asks.
"Sorry Fancy, it's just that the Nightmare is in Canterlot." Fleur answers.
"Don't worry my dear," Fancy reassures, "In this shelter the Princesses have built and provided for us little ponies, we should be fine..." he says the last parts uncertainly before deciding to change the subject to a lighter tone, "I myself sought out and purchased the highest quality food and beverages still around and donated them to the emergency stocks that they are now using to feed the less fortunate ponies also in the shelter."
"I know, but..." After a few moments in thought, she gets a determined (but reluctant) look on her face as she gets up from Fancy's side.
"Fleur!" Fancy says in worry.
"I'm sorry Fancy, but as a Royal Guard and a covert agent, I swore to protect Equestria at all costs. I love being with you, but I just can't enjoy it knowing that that monster is tearing apart other ponies who have taken the same oaths while I stay safe down here."
Fancy gets up after her, but Fleur says,
"No, Fancy. You aren't going to talk me out of this."
"I'm coming with you."
"Fancy no, I- What?" Fleur says in surprise.
Fancy walks over to her in determination and says,
"Fleur, you're more than just my bodyguard, my mistress, or even my closest friend. You are the love of my life so I'm coming with you and there's nothing you can do to persuade me otherwise. Besides, the more the merrier."
"Fancy..." Fleur says with tears in her eyes before tackling him with a passionate kiss back onto the rug...
BACK TO YOUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED MAYHEM
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Squads of Pegasus Guards attempt to attack the monster from above, but with a swish of his Nightmare Tails, he unleashes lightning bolts that shock them out of the sky. Suddenly he notices and picks up a Diamond Dog (by its leg with a Nightmare Tail as the other tails act on their own to swat, grab, and slam away other incoming Pegasus Guards) and comments,
"Hmmm... A Brown Dog wearing a Kersey jacket under it's armor. Why do we get the feeling our lives revolve around those words..."
After a few moments of pondering, Nightmare Bugze just goes, "NAH!" before using the Diamond Dog to swat away a trio of Pegasus Guards flying at him from behind.
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Nightmare Bugze uses a nearby water tower for an impromptu game of bowling against the Dark Magic-using unicorns.
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Sombra conjures up a crystal scythe before charging at Nightmare Bugze who responds in kind. When Nightmare Bugze's hooves clash against Sombra's scythe, time seems to stand still for a few moments before Sombra hits the monster with a flurry of strikes before he appears with his back to Nightmare Bugze's side as he impales Bugze with his scythe,
"Our spleen!" NB excalims.
Sombra quickly follows it up by shifting his head to over his right shoulder and blasting Nightmare Bugze in the head with a blast of dark magic that knocks him into a damaged building that collapses on him.
"Our leg!" NB says as he knocks the rubble off him with his nightmare tails, "Oh... it's cramping!"
Sombra blasts NB with more dark energy, but he whips out his Nightmare Tails and grabs the shadow tyrant before exclaiming,
"Our turn!"
And sling-shotting itself into Sombra, knocking them down a long flight of stairs which Nightmare Bugze proceeds to start surfing Sombra down (with his head banging against every step along the way) as he exclaims,
"SURF'S UP DUDE!!!"
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Sombra uses crystal bending to knock around Nightmare Bugze before he decides that physical attacks won't be enough and attempts a mental attack using fear.
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Funniest stalker moment is probably the "Hearts and Hooves Day" arc
first things first please let this song be in the next chapter now RUN BTCH RRRRUUUUUUNNNNNN
“Helloooo Canterlot! We're Baaaaacccckkkkk” says the Nightmare.
A wave of guards charge forth, but a maddening cackle rings forth and you hear sickening snapping sounds.
“Snap, Crackle, Pop, Rice Krispies!!!” shouts the voice as you hear screams from the guard.
"That crazy mother bucker!" you scream.
"Bugze, you can't fight him just yet!"
"And why not?" you challenge.
"Because not only will the guards become disorganized with two "Nightmares" and attack you as well, you also will fail spectacularly."
"How spectacularly?" you ask.
"Bugze, you'd essentially be fighting a stronger and more deranged version of yourself, how do you think that will go?"
You come to the conclusion that that would be bad...Time Gaurd Bad.
And you sure as heck aren't doing the splits anytime soon.
You try not to focus on this monstrosity. If you can get the diamond, you can end this.
"Which is kind of hard, when a building near your group collapses from the earlier meteor strike.
“Bugze, we have to go, now!” shouts the Doctor.
“What about Pinkie?” you ask.
“Throw her in your saddlebags or something, just hurry, we can’t stay here!”
You take the unconscious Pinkie and do as the Doctor says.
Pinkamena added to Inventory.
Sure she’s a psycho, and a genocidal lunatic, but it’s because of that monster, and you’re not just going to let her die lying helpless.
The Doctor turns to Derpy.
“Ditzy, I need you to stay in the TARDIS.”
“What? No way, I’m going to help you,” she argues.
“The TARDIS is the safest place right now in this whole city, I need you safe,” he says.
“I’m not helpless Doctor,” she argues.
“Ditzy please! I NEED you to be safe,” he emphasizes as he holds her hoof. “I’m the reason you’re here, I did my best to make sure this never came to be, and yet here we still are. I can’t lose you like I lost the others...” he says in sadness as he looks into her eyes. “You have a daughter to get back to…Please, stay here.”
Derpy has tears in her eyes, “But…who will watch out for you?” she whimpers.
“I’ve got Bugze, I’ll be alright. He’s so much like his Grandfather in many ways…” he says as he strokes her cheek.
“Wait, what was that?” you ask.
The Doctor doesn’t answer you, “Be safe Ditzy,” he says before he runs off.
"Doctor..." she whispers as he runs.
You look at her.
“We’ll be back, you be careful,” you say to her.
“You too…look after him Bugze, please,” she says to you.
You nod and follow after the Doctor.
You follow the Doctor towards the caves.
You vaguely remember being down here, you and the rest of the scouts held Cadance here in an old abandoned mining tunnel. But you can’t remember where the entrance was.
Luckily, the Doctor is able to find an entrance, boarded up in the basement of Prince Blueball’s house.
“Why would there be an entrance there?” you ask.
“The Prince was funding an illegal dig into the mountainside, paying poor Diamond Dogs minimum wage.
“Yeesh that guy is a jerk,” you say aloud.
The house is pretty much empty, everything that wasn’t nailed down has been taken…except for a little yapping dog.
“Figures, that guy would take everything except the dog,” you say as you look at the collar which says ‘Precious’.”
Meanwhile, on an incoming airship.
“I CAN’T BELIEVE I FORGOT PRECIOUS!!!” screams a very snooty voice.
Back With You
You ignore the dog and continue on down to the basement entrance.
“So where will the right diamond be?” you ask.
“Well, logic dictates it will be towards the end of the tunnel, so let’s go.”
Hearing the booming noises outside, you follow suit.
As you walk through the caves, you speak up.
"So Doctor...earlier when you were talking to Derpy. You said something about my Grandbuggy..."
"Did I now?" the Doctor says.
"Yeah, you did..."
He says nothing.
"What did you mean I'm like him in so many ways?"
He looks at you but doesn't say anything.
"Did you know Grandbuggy?" you ask.
He sighs.
"You knew my Grandmother apparently, but did you know him as well?"
"Bugze...I promise, from the bottom of my hearts that when this is all over, you and I will have a sit down and talk. Stallion to Stallion...but now's not the time for this."
"Grrr...fine, but I will get my answers Doc!"
He sighs, "Yes you will...and you may wish you hadn't."
Inside the cave, you hear music. When you follow it down enough,
You witness a gigantic rave being led by Sapphire Shores.
“It’s the end of the world as we know it, Ladies and Gentlecolts, so let’s go out in style!” she yells and starts singing, while all the civilians and even some of the guards start dancing and…doing other things…
The Doctor blushes and pulls your shocked form away from the spectacle alone.
“What is this, the Maretrix Reloaded?” you cry out loud.
Near Nightmare Bugze.
“Die monster, you don't belong in this world!” shout Flim and Flam.
"Hey, just cause we're all in black and murder countless scores of creatures doesn't make us a vampire that's racist! And we don't steal ponies souls and make them our slaves, or sparkle, or fall in love with a vampire hunter, or whatever the countless types of Vampires out there do" shouts the monster
The twins seem confused by this rationale.
“Be that as it may, you’re no match for our Boom Shackalacka Nightmare Knocker Version 2.0!”
And with that, the minotaurs turn the cannon towards himand fire. A Rainbow Light comes forth and strikes his chest.
He is blasted into a building and it collapses. Flim Flam and the Minotaurs cheer.
It dies down when coughing is heard.
Out of the dust walks the four eyed, nine tailed, sharp horned and tusked monstrosity of shadow.
"Nice shot there chuckle and Buck. It’s been awhile since someone legitimately sucker punched us. Not since that stupid Pink Alicorn’s husband got us in the back, but we made him regret that. "
"I-it's not possible!" says Flim scared.
"This canon can take out a city block!"
The Nightmare doesn't respond to them, but rather starts mumbling.
“Stupid Cadance, squirming and crying over him. Not even when we tried to cheer her up did she let go. She wasn’t even paying attention when we tried to turn her into two face…or rather two body. The Dark Knight was awesome, but she just had to be a critic when the fire came...Ah sweet savory flames…"
"Fire again, maximum power!" shout the brothers as the rainbow blast hits the Nightmare once more, but this time he digs his tails into the ground and it keeps him from going back.
It looks up to the Flim Flam brothers and smirks.
“Nice shot, it kind of tickled, maybe if you’d aimed a little lower we’d have gotten excited…but for a completely different reason, ha ha ha.”
“That was supposed to disintegrate you…” says Flim.
“The success rate was 99%” says Flam.
“Well we have god mode enabled, so now all your base are belong to us! But I’ll let this lovely little lady decide your fate.”
The Nightmare pulls from his saddlebags...what looks like a Luna plushie.
“What do you think baby? What should daddy do?” it asks the doll.
“You should tear their heads off then use that cannon to fry us up some Minotaur BBQ daddy!” the Nightmare says in a high pitched voice, mimicking a child.
“Okie Dokie honey, anything for our princess,” it says back.
“Why is he talking to that Princess Luna Plushie?” Flim says to Flam.
“I don’t care, fire again!” says Flam.
Unfortunately for them, the Nightmare jumps clear over the beam, using a pair of shadow wings to land behind the brothers before proceeding to grab both of them by the throats.
“You know when you shake a bottle of soda real hard and the top comes off? You think the same thing happens to ponies?” it asks before proceeding to shake the brothers until their heads do in fact fly off.
“Wow look at that, and look, they even have cherry soda in them…Bleh, that’s the worst tasting soda ever!”
The minotaurs see this and all decide to run for it.
Seeing this, the Nightmare picks up the cannon with it's tails and points it towards the fleeing minotaurs.
“Don’t run, we just want to be your friend!” it yells as it activates the cannon…And in doing so the minotaurs disappear completely after the light hits them, as well as sections of the street, buildings and wall that were in their path.
A demonic squee fills the air.
“We will hold you and love you and call you George,” The Nightmare coos to the cannon as it cradles it.
“This city always was an eyesore, let’s do some remodeling! I HAVE THE POWER!!!” it shouts holding the Canon above it's head.
A blast of dark magic shoots past it.
The Nightmare turns towards its source and sees a dark unicorn with a curved red horn leading the charge of countless unicorns.
“Kill Him!” he shouts and the others roar.
“OH Boy, more friends! We're just so popular tonight aren’t we?”
“You sure are daddy…” ‘Nightshade’ answers, “But they can’t ever love you like I do…”
“Awww, thanks honey, now let’s go say hello,” it answers as it charges up the Boom Shackalacka.
There have been many funny examples from his stalkers, but I say the funniest is when Rainbow Dash is wheeling him away from the Ninja Nurse.
That right there was hilarious
Well, damn i wanted to contribute at least. Also I agree with brown dog, that moment with the wheelchair was the best.
summing up da chapter: shit meet fan, fan meet shit NOW KISS
"How close are we doctor?" you asked
"We are almost there we just need to" the doctor was about to finish his sentence but in the distance you see Sapphire shore making her way to the front lines when a chunk of rubble was above her and was going to crush her.
"Sapphire LOOK OUT!" you shouted as run at full speed to saver her.
what are you doing? you trying to get us both killed? Selena asked
The doctor said I must not face him but he didn't say I can't save some pony you replied as you give all you got to save her.
Sapphire then looked up
"This is the end of the show for me" she said as she closed her eyes.
This is going to be close as you took a heroic dive as you shut your eyes hopping not to miss Sapphire shore.
...
Am I dead? you opened your eyes to see that you are alive then looked down to see that have save Sapphire and you are on top of her too.
Sapphire began to open here eyes.
"What happen I though it was the end of the show for me" she said as sapphire looked up at you
"Well I run in and save you from being crushed by a rock." you said shifting your head to the group of rubble.
Sapphire looked at the rubble and back at you
"My hero" sapphire said blushing at you
"Listen this many be a bad time to say this but can I get your autograph" as you smiled
"Even better how about back stage passes and dinner at a restaurant when this all over." she said and leaning closer to your head.
Your mind exploded.
OH MY LUNA!MY CELEBRITY CRUSH IS ASKING ME OUT! you hear a slight groan coming from Selena but you ignore it.
"Ok where should we" Sadly your moment was interrupt by the doctor
"Sorry miss Sapphire be he is already seeing someone" as he pushes you to the caves
"Wait be for you go take this backstage pass for my next show if we are still here that is." she hands over the pass to you and you put in your inventory.
Sapphire shore backstage pass added to your inventory
"And this is my thank you." she said placing a kiss on your check which cause your nose to bleed.
I am not washing this check ever again and that must be the forth mare that kissed me. you though happy.
then you and the doctor ran off to the caves.
"Why did you do that doctor I was this close to being with some pony that I liked." you muttered
"Two reasons why 1. You don't belong in this universe and 2. You are seeing some pony else.
"who is the pony I'm seeing?" you asked
"sorry mate but Spoilers." the doctor
you gave the doctor a deadpam look
"Buck you and Buck Lady luck for ruining my one chance of happinesses!"
Off in the distance the nightmare gives out an evil laugh
AHAHAHAH
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Let me know if you what me to change any of it.
Answer to your question I would go for the spa treat when Bugsy was knocked out and when he wakes up to see that Fluttershy, lotus and Aloe well mostly Aloe giving him mouth to mouth.
Probably something involving the spa...
You look up and see Celestia, Discord, and Luna seem to have forgotten about their wings and are arguing.
Pov Shift: Discord
"DISCORD!" Luna yelled "YOU OOMITTED THE ZERO!"
"I thought I didn't need it, since zero means nothing." Discord says
"ZERO IS ALSO A PLACEHOLDER!" Luna Yells "YOU FOOL!"
"Why didn't you teleport us?" Discord asks
"BECAUSE I THOUGHT I COULD TRUST YOU WITH A SIMPLE SPELL"
"I thought the last time you teleported, you sent you front half to the throne room and your back half went to the moon" Discord said
"THAT'S IT" Luna yells as her horn lights up
Pov shift: Baker Sylvester
"THAT'S IT" Luna yells
Celestia snaps open her wings at the last second and gratefully touches down.
Discord and Luna comically make Discord and Luna shaped holes in the ground.
You barely contain your laughter until the devil tosses the two out the hole, you and Celestia then break down laughing.
bugze gets hit my a small meteorite causing him to catch fire
bugze: AAAAAAAAAH PUT IT OUT PUT IT OUT!
derpy takes the nearest bucket full of liquid and throws it on him, causing the fire to grow
doctor: DERPY, THAT WASNT WATER, THAT WAS GASOLINE!
derpy: WHATS GASOLINE!?!?!?!?!
doctor, derpy, bugze: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
pinkie: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Bugzee begin to shock Pinkamena as he try to wake up
"Pinkamena!!! Wake up and help!!" Shout Bugzee scared
But she don't wake up so Bugzee look at the Doctor
"Doctor, what can we do?" Ask Bugzee
"Uhhh... Well..." Begin to say the doctor
Bugzee try to press buttons in the TARDIS to see if maybe he can get to move it but the Doctor stop him
"Bugzee just reaction" Shout the Doctor as he hit him
"okay... Calming down... What can we do?" Ask Bugzee
"What about the Pandorica?" Ask Derpy
"Too far" Say The Doctor
"Put the ponies here and go to the other side of the planet?" Ask Bugzee
"And Nightmare Bugzee can destroy us..." Say The Doctor
"Maybe you could help us search new bearers of the Elements of Harmony?" Say a voice coming from the panel
"It's too late... Wait... Who say that?" Ask The Doctor
The Doctor look to the console, to a screen, in there is Princess Celestia
"How did you manage to enter in the comunication sistem?" Ask The Doctor
"We didn't, somehow, you called us... Discord helped us a little with the signal before leaving" Say Celestia
The Doctor groan and look to Bugzee
"That is what happen if you begin to press buttons!" Shout the Doctor to Bugzee
Just then Bugzee remember the comic and open it, as he see the battle around Canterlot
Meanwhile in some part of Canterlot
The Dark unicorn was looking to the sky, prepared to Nightmare Bugzee, he was followed by a big group of unicorns.
"At my signal!" Shout the unicorn
All unicorn horn begin to glow as purple bubbles appear in their horns also
"Get ready... And fire!" Shout the unicorn and all the unicorns begin to launch beams to Nightmare Offender
I just remembered.
Bugzee got the Power Glove after moving to ponyville, Nightmare Offender doesn't have any availabilities related to the Power Glove
I don't know if this is appropriate, but I thought we could add this:
Meanwhile, above the Canterlot Dome moments before the death of the Griffon Mercs...
Captain Bronze Shield stood upon the bow of his airship. His ship was the only one on duty, the rest had to back down due to the scarceness of wood, as the nightmare had destroyed forests. Alongside him was Corporal Eagle Eye, known around the ranks for his superior eyesight, almost as good as a griffin's.
"See anything?" Bronze asked him.
"Nah, not really. Oh wait! I see something." He replied.
"What is it?"
"I dunno, it has big black tentacles and four orange eyes."
"THAT'S THE NIGHTMARE, AND IF HE SEES US HE CAN SEE YOU!"
"Wait, I think he sees us."
"OBVIOUSLY!"
"Well, calm the buck down! His vision is based on movement, so if we stay still he doesn't see us."
"Are you foaling around? What makes you think Jurassic Park is going to help us?"
"Wait, where's the nightmare?" Eagle Eye asked as he turned around and saw the Nightmare preparing to shoot bees at the ship.
"Great Scott! Eagle, we have to go back!" Shouted Bronze Shield.
"He's got bees! Not the bees! NOT THE BEES!" Eagle Eye shouted as the bees rushed towards the balloon keeping the airship afloat.
"He shot a stinger! We're going down! We're going down!" Bronze Shield screamed as the balloon fell towards the shield and exploded.
Meanwhile, a sentry noticed this and said "That was way too Michael Beigh."
Btw, I think the funniest stalker moment was the one with the horde meeting and the bar. If not, it's the one on hearts and hooves day.
..., ..., ... That's all I really have to say about the scene with Sapphire Shores.
As for your actions in this chapter...
Dodge the meteors and remain out of sight. Go down into the mines and don't come back until you find a crystal big enough to satisfy you. Oh, and don't try to hoard it for yourself, stopping the end of the world is more important.
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Guys, there are NO meteors or meteroites (the Nightmare used it up on destroying the airships and the shield) and the Nightmare does NOT have a Power Glove or control of bees.
However, you DO have:
1. A massively powerful insane berserker with Deadpool's (and hints of the Joker and Hellsing Abridged Alucard) tendency for frequent references and dark jokes
2. An entire city to use as a playground of destruction (except the Palace cause too early in the arc)
3. LOTS of things to fight including guards of multiple races (earth pony, unicorn, pegasus, zebra, and donkey) and Sombra.
Any ideas for using that?
WHERE THE BUCK DID YOU GET THE BUCKING INVENTORY?!
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As it is made quite clear from the above, Nightmare BUGZE is NOT "generic psycho monster". He is still heavy on the references but now with dark/twisted humor, more creative destruction/kills, and speaks in plural.
Please modify to fit above guideline.
I'm still awaiting an answer.
How did the Inventory teleport to Bugze?
This is from the prev chapter, in my part.
I need answers!
Also, I have an idea for Bugze vs NB..
Use Archetype by Helix6 as the theme. It's awesome.
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Bugze ALWAYS had the Inventory on him. The line meant that he was searching for a gun to shoot Pinkemena, but he doesn't have any guns in the Inventory