Episode 80: A Battle of Self-Proclaimed Gods! The Nightmare Vs Tirek and Discord!!! (Season Finale Part 7)
As the Doctor drags you and Derpy away from the Nightmare and it's newest play things, you can't help but turn around to see...
The Nightmare comments on Tirek's "Wrist Jewelry" (a hint that this Tirek is obviously not as powerful as the Tirek that fought Twilight)
"Nice wrist jewelry." the Nightmare comments pointing a tail at the metal gauntlets, "But we thought the Princesses would let their pet goat off the leash."
"I will admit that I could've gained more power had the Princesses struck a deal with me sooner, but the power I have right now is more than enough to squash a roach like you" Tirek responds and he pounds a fist into his palm.
The Nightmare merely smirks as he responds,
"Prove it grandpa goat."
This enrages Tirek as he starts...
Tirek releases and enormous magic laser, but Nightmare You wraps himself in his Nightmare Tails, which provide a protective shield, deflecting the energy.
Charging up what looked like a death beam between his horns. The Nightmare you just stares at it before he says,
"Oooooo shiny light! Are you doing some sort of light show or something? Cause the last time a pony tried to do this it-
The Nightmare couldn't finish his sentence as Tirek gives a roar before he fires the death beam from his horns. The magical death beam hits it's target dead on as the area the Nightmare was in gets covered in a fiery explosion. A few seconds go by before Tirek let's out a huff of annoyance before he says,
"Looks like those foolish Princesses were afraid of nothing. That bug was no match for my po-WHAT!"
Tirek's eyes widen in shock as the smoke clears to show the Nightmare surrounded in it's Nightmare tails like they were a protective shield. But what's truly horrifying is the fact that Tirek's death laser is now just a sphere pushing at the tails. The Nightmare gives a hollow chuckle before he says,
"Now that wasn't very nice. If you wanted to show us your death beam then all you had to do was ask. Through we're gonna have to give it back to you now!"
With that the Nightmare pushes the sphere of death back at Tirek with it's tails. Tirek barely manages to dodge the ball of death as Discord teleports away as well. The sphere of death flies by until it hits a random building. It destroys it as soon as it makes contact, taking the building and a few blocks of the city with it. Tirek and Discord (who teleported next to the minotaur) look at the destruction in shock before they look at the Nightmare as he says,
"Now thy little lambs, time to show you over to the slaughter!"
With that the Nightmare charges at the two self-proclaimed gods.
Meanwhile you, Derpy, and the Doctor just gulp in fear as the Doctor says,
"And that is one of the many reasons why we need to get to the Palace!"
You and Derpy nod your heads in agreement as the three of you rush towards the Palace in a even greater pace. However your way gets block as the three of you see...
The streets blocked with a legion of ponies dressed in dark hoods. You recognize the hooded style and the symbols on said hoods immediately as you mutter in shock,
"Horde cultists."
The ponies are going out of control, breaking windows, tearing up the street, and assaulting any ponies they see. You grab the Doctor and Derpy, tug them into an alleyway, before you stick your head back out and observe the Horde going berserk.
"If we're going to stop this, we need information," you mutter. Turning to a lone Horde member who's swinging a baseball bat at an abandoned carriage, you whisper, "Would you kindly get over here?!" You grab him with your telekinesis plasmid and drag him into your alley. Before he can say anything, you pin him against a wall. "Start talking," you say, leering threateningly. "Now."
"Err- we're the horde and we're here to help the Nightmare destroy Canterlot," the Horde cultist quickly explains,
"After Horde headquarters in Fillydelphia were destroyed, we elected some new commanders who lead us here. I can point them out to you." You nod, before allowing the cultist to move. He ducks out of the alley, and you follow close along. The Doctor and Derpy look at each other in confusion before following you as well.
The cultist leads you over to what looked like a market space. Or what's left of one at least. The sales carts are tipped over or are shattered completely. Windows have been broken in nearby shops and you see ponies grabbing jewels and the like from said stores. You wish you could do something to stop all this, as flashes of the Fillydelphia Riot appear in your mind, but you shake it off as the cultist points to a group of nine hooded figures in the center of the destroyed market, who seem to be leading the charge.
You give him a quick glare before you ask threateningly,
"So those are your leaders huh? Give me their names and I might not pound you into the ground."
The cultist gulps in fear before he quickly explains,
"On the left are Erised the Ink-Moth and Minds Eye. They joined early on, and are some of the best ones we have. There's also Solarkness and Kichi. They're also quite good. Gray Rebl and The Rutherford are there, and though they don't do too much, when they do show up they're amazing at what they do. Near the front is Kersey. He's the most spiritually in tune with the Nightmare, and thus a good leader. And at the front is Brown Dog. He's the best of all of us, the hardest worker with the most skill. We'd be nothing without him. Of course," he coughs, "Every member does their own part, and the Horde wouldn't exist without all of them."
"Wait, wait," You interrupt. "You just gave me eight names, but there's nine ponies up there. Who's the last guy?"
"Oh, that's SnapDrakeGames. He's just... kind of a jerk. All the time."
"I see," you mutter. "Well, that's way too much stuff for me to remember. WOULD YOU KINDLY FREEZE?!" you freeze the Horde Cultist where he stands, and turn to leave.
The Doctor gives you a confused look as he asks,
"Why did you bother asking this cultist in the first place if you aren't going to do anything?"
You give the Doctor a sly smile as you say,
"Simple my dear Doctor, I just got the names of all the ponies who I need to take down."
The Doctor and Derpy both have confused looks as the Doctor says,
"As much as I would love to see you pound them now, we need to get to the Palace now!"
You just give the Doctor a blank look as you say,
"Come on Doc I know that, I'm not gonna beat up those ponies."
Derpy looks at you in confusion as she asks,
"But didn't you just say you we-"
"I did, but not those ponies. I'm talking about the ones in our universe."
The Doctor gains a look of realization as he starts to say,
"Wait, you don't mea-"
You give another sly smile as you say,
"Yep! I figured if these guys are the leaders of the cultist here, then they must be the leaders of the Crimson Knights back home. So now that I know there names, it'll be easier to track them down and bring them in!"
The Doctor and Derpy gives you looks of bewilderment as the Doctor says,
"That...is actually a pretty good idea Bugze! We'll have to talk more about it later, right now we need to-"
"HEY DISCORD! STAND STILL SO WE CAN USE YOU AS A JUMP ROPE!"
The three of you gulp at the Nightmare's sentence as the Doctor says,
"Get my bucking TARDIS back before the Nightmare finds us and turns us and the whole world into a jump rope!"
You nod your head as the three of you head off back towards the Palace, but as you do your hoof hits something. Getting curious you look down and see...
As you walk away from the frozen Cultist, one of your hooves hits against something. Looking down, you see a golden pen lying on the ground. Your greed and curiosity compel you to pick it up with your forehoof, and you slowly examine the pen. Near the bottom in silver letters is written Chekov’s Pen.
“Interesting name.” You think to yourself. You decide to add the pen to your Inventory. It might be useful later on
Chekov’s Pen added to Inventory
A golden pen lying on the ground. Your greed and curiosity compel you to pick it up with your forehoof, and you slowly examine the pen. Near the bottom in silver letters is written Chekov’s Pen.
“Interesting name.” You think to yourself. You decide to add the pen to your Inventory. It might be useful later on, never know when you might need to write something after all.
Chekov’s Pen added to Inventory
"Bugze come on! My TARDIS is at the Palace and a murderous you is still fighting Discord and Tirek!"
"Oh right! Wait up!"
MEANWHILE....WITH THE NIGHTMARE
After multiple failed attempts to turn Discord into a jump rope, the Nightmare just stares at the chaos maker, who is also staring him down with a goofy grin. Tirek is on the side lines trying to recover from the Nightmare's frenzy attack that almost tore his arm off. Tirek can only glare at the Nightmare in anger while Discord and the Nightmare continue their stare down. Suddenly the Nightmare begins to chuckles as he says,
"You know Discord, out of everyling we know, you're probably the one who had the most fault in this. You are the reason we were found out. With your chaos running rampant, making Buffalo dance and flipping gravity and all that jazz, we thought that using our power for heroics would be good...turns out it only compromises the town you're hiding in..." He trails off, but returns to his upbeat attitude all the same. "But who cares now? It's the ponies' fault for fighting when they still know what I could do at the Gala anyways. That's all in the past now."
Discord smiles in humor. "Now, that wouldn't be nice, would it? No distractions, no moral dilemmas, just good ol' chaos pals getting to know each other with a heartful reunion!" Then, at an instant as it appears, the smile turns into a frown. "Too bad I'm here to kill you."
The Nightmare then... chuckles. As though he hears a very funny joke, which may as well as be a sick punchline that could make even Pinkemena go green, but then it turns into full blown laughter. The tone of the cackles forces even Discord to shiver. The Nightmare continues to laugh as he says,
"Ahahaha Oh! Oh! Oh, we're sorry, how very rude of us. Ahaha. It's just that that's so UNLIKE you! You're suddenly being all so orderly and just and stuff!"
Discord gives a glare. "I'm afraid that's not quite the case."
"What? Really now?" it jeers, "Because, like, we don't remember you ever showing up ever since our enthusiastic walk all across Equis! What were you doing then? Sitting here all day, everyday, laying low because the Princesses told you to?" By the wince that he receives, the Nightmare snaps a mad grin as he says,
"Oh, you did! Ahahaha!" His laugh lasts long and hard, until, finally, he began to stop, wheezing a but. "And you wanna know the funny part? This chaos was what you wanted in the first place! And now you're trying to stop it!"
"Enough!" Tirek yells, finally having recovered enough to start fighting again. Discord gives him a look that says 'about time' to which Tirek ignores as he continues his rant,
"This has gone on long enough! It ends today, and then I shall finally rule all the land for my own!"
The grin on the Nightmare's face only widens. "Bring it on, old fart!"
However, before the two parties can charge at each other, the earth begins to shake violently. The Nightmare, Discord, and Tirek look around in confusion when suddenly...
Kersey's Comment
A Tatlzwurm bursts out of the ground heading straight for Nightmare Bugze. At this, the Nightmare eyes glint in insanity as he suddenly charges at the giant worm and says,
"What does a moron say before he dies?"
He then launches himself into the Tatlzwurm's mouth who proceeds to have a series of explosions before the Nightmare bursts out the other side yelling,
"YODO!!!"*
Before using his Nightmare Tails to grab the body of the giant worm and use it as a giant club as Nightmare Bugze says,
After "bonking" Discord and Tirek with the worm's body, the Nightmare smirks in satisfaction before Tirek gets up from the "bonking" in a daze...
*SMASH* "Twelve!"
The Nightmare smiles at his hoofy work before he cracks his neck and looks over to Discord, who had gotten up from his 'bonking', with insane eyes before saying,
"Oh Dissy...time for your medical examination! AHAHAHAHAHAHA!
However, before the Nightmare can do anything....
A strange pony with a green robe and a cutie mark of three golden triangles appears making a great scene as a great wind billows around him. The Nightmare and Discord look at him in confusion, before the Nightmare gives an annoyed sigh before asking,
"Come on! Another one that wants to be killed? Can't you see we're in the middle of something here?"
Just then from under the hat of the strange pony appears a Breezie.
"Hey! Listen!" shouts the Breezie.
Everyling is looking at the breezie and the pony as he takes out a sword and tries to fight the Nightmare.
"Ha! Hya! Yia!!!" shouts the strange pony as he slashes with the sword.
The Nightmare, meanwhile, is looking at the strange pony just in front of him, not even landing a hit on him.
After about three minutes of this, the Nightmare just punches the pony in green clothes sending the poor pony flying off into the distance. The Nightmare nods his head at this before he turns back to Discord and says,
"Okay, let's continue the fight...!"
As the Nightmare prepares to continue his attack on Discord, another pony appears, this time it is a red pony with a red hat and a big moustache and a mushroom as a Cutie Mark
"It'sa Me!! Mario!!" Says the red pony.
After that the red pony tries to jump above the Nightmare, but he just throws him into the sky and watches him vanish like the pony from before. The Nightmare nods his head again before he says,
"Okay, now that we've taken care of him, let's get to pounding yo-
"We are going to stop you Nightmare!" Says another voice
"Okay... Now, what?" Asks an annoyed Nightmare
The Nightmare looks and sees a strange pony with a red hat and a yellow filly with him
"Go Pikafilly!" Shouts the pony
"Pika Pika Pika" Says the filly as she tries to just tackle the Nightmare.
The Nightmare just gives a bored stare before he grabs her and throws her into the sky and then looks to the pony wearing the strange hat as he asks,
"Is that all?"
"Uhhh.... Errr... Go Poke-Ball!!" shouts the pony as he throws a plastic ball
The ball hits the Nightmare doing nothing as he looks to the pony
"Okay... Anyling else?" Asks the Nightmare looking around
The Nightmare looks around and sees a strange pony with a gorilla suit, another that seems to be an astronaut, a pink pony with a big mouth, a yellow pony also with a big mouth and a pony with a strange big key. The Nightmare gives an annoyed sigh before he shouts,
"FUS ROH DAH!"
The strange ponies are all sent flying away and off into the distance. The Nightmare gives a satisfied grunt before looking over to Discord and saying,
"Now that the distractions are outta the way, lets say we and you have a heart to stab!"
Discord just gulps slightly before he notices something on the ground. Thinking quickly he...
Picks up one of the Pokeballs and declares,
"Smooze, I choose you!"
As he throws it and summons a green blob that stands there for a few moments before suddenly changing size, turning purple, and aggressively tries to assimilate Nightmare Bugze, but then it starts... shrinking?
Soon the Smooze realizes that it is being eaten alive and turns back green as it tries to flee, but the Nightmare uses his tails to keep the blob heading towards its mouth before he devours it all and proclaims.
"Mmmm... Grape-Lemon-limey fusion!"
Discord can only blink as he comments,
"Wow... I guess something can stop the Smooze."
The Nightmare chuckles before saying,
"Right then...where were we..."
With that he charges Discord once again.
Meanwhile in Canterlot Castle
Luna sees the battle of Nightmare Bugzee and how all those strange ponies have been defeated by him. After that she begins to scream,
"Noooo!! My super army! How could they lose?"
Celestia and Cadence, who witnessed the battle through the window, look to her in confusion as Cadence asks,
"That was your plan?"
Luna gets a annoyed look on her face as she says,
"Of course, what better heroes to defeat him than video game heroes? I even gave the breezie pony a magically enchanted ocarina!"
Cadence and Celestia groan in annoyance at Luna's actions before Celestia says,
"If we survive to this, remind me to cut your video game playing time. How did you even accomplish this?"
“I merely gathered a group of ponies and Discord gave them all powers and accompanying costumes,” explains Luna. She then looks back out the window and smirks before saying,
“And if the clasics won’t work, perhaps more modern methods shall prevail!”
As if on cue, a squad of commandos with guns run out in a disciplined formation with the lead one in a Boonie Hat ordering,
"TF-141, spread out in Foxtrot-Uniform-Charlie-Kilo formation stat!"
With that the squad spreads out... and starts swearing and cursing like a bunch of immature frat-ponies as they just spray-and-pray while insulting each other’s weapons and "skillz".
“Oh come on! Leet Gamerz?” the Nightmare Complains.
The Nightmare picks up one of the assault rifles and throws it so hard that the gun impales the lead pony in the face and somehow keeps firing until it kills the other squad members as they run past him.
For the last surviving commando, time seems to slow down as he slowly draws a pistol, puts the Nightmare in his sights, and...
"Hey dudebro, this is your dramatic slow-mo. Not ours."
With that, the Nightmare crushes the commando with a huge rock.
Back at the Castle
"I knew I shouldn't have recruited those frat-colts!" Luna curses.
"Enough with that sister, we have to figure out how this Time Machine works" chides Celestia.
"Right, sorry sister...videogames why you fail me..." she whimpers.
MEANWHILE WITH BUGZE AND COMPANY.
"So, are we almost there yet?"
"GAAAAAAAAHHHH"
You, the Doctor and Derpy look around, to see a pony dressed with green robes, flying above them. At the same time an instrument falls from one of the pockets of the pony and hits you in the head. You rub your head in pain as you ask,
"Ouch, what is this?"
"It seems to be an ocarina, but I don't know how to use it." Derpy comments.
"Let's save it for later, now we need to get moving." the Doctor says.
"Alright, sounds good," you say as you puts the Ocarina in the inventory.
Ocarina added to Inventory
Derpy looks back down at the pony.
"Too bad we couldn't help him" she says.
"There's nothing we could have done," says the Doctor.
"Duh, but still...
"Yeah..." you and the Doctor agree looking down
BACK AT THE FIGHT
"Alright, distractions are over for now, shall we?" the Nightmare asks Discord.
"We shall," says Discord rushing towards the Nightmare as he...
Close Lines the Nightmare with his right arm. Discord then dons a luchador mask then picks up the Nightmare and gives him a Piledriver!
He then proceeds to do a few more wrestling moves, calling them out as he does so.
"Double Dragon Destroyer! Celstia Slam! Germane Suplex!" The Nightmare endures the attacks before knocking Discord away, yelling
"C-C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER!" he then glares at Discord and says.
"We see you're a fan of fighting...then try this on for size! Crouch, crouch forwards, forwards! Hadouken!" Nightmare You releases a blast of blue energy, which Discord knocks away with a frying pan. "Crouch, crouch backwards, backwards! Tatsumaki Senpukyaku!" Nightmare You spins forward in a whirlwind of kicks and tail slaps, which Discord barely manages to block the attack by conjuring a sandbag to take the hits. Nightmare You leaps over the sand bag, landing at Discord's feet. "Forwards, crouch, crouch forwards! Shoryuken!" Nightmare You's uppercut catches Discord in the jaw, knocking him into the air.
The Nightmare stops as he notices Tirek getting back up. This causes him to smile as he says,
"Oh, back for more? GREAT!
And with that he charges at Tirek with the intent to slaughter!
POV Change: Bugze (You)
The three of you finally made it back to the Palace in one piece. You had to freeze a few more cultist, but besides that and dodging incoming rubble you all had no problem.
As you all are enter the Palace, The Doctor walks right through the unguarded doors. The Princesses all look up in surprise, each of them standing around the TARDIS.
“Doctor? You’re still alive?” asks Cadance.
The Doctor doesn’t answer as his scowl deepens and he keeps walking forward.
“When we lost contact with Pinkamena, we feared the worst, pray tell, where is she?” asks Luna.
The Doctor still doesn’t answer and just stares them down.
“We thought that if we could figure out the secrets to your machine we could…” starts Celestia before being interrupted by the Doctor.
“Shut up!” the Doctor says to her shocking everyone.
“W-what did you just…” she begins.
“Shut up!” the Doctor says pointing at her, to which you can’t help but smile.
“You do not speak to my sister that way you…” Luna begins.
“Shut up!” the Doctor yells at Luna.
“Please Doctor we were desperate, there’s no need for…”
“Shut up!” he yells at Cadance, to which you take offence.
“Hey, it’s funny when it’s Moony and Sunny, but you don’t say that to,”
He whirls around and glares at you, “Shut up!”
Everypony (aside from Derpy) and you starts arguing, but are all overruled by the Time Lord.
“Shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up shutitty up up up!” he shouts to the room and everyling listens.
“There, that wasn’t so hard now was it? Feels good when ponies follow orders,” he says giving the stare down to the Princesses. “I told you to let us fix this without harassment or hindrance, and thanks to your bumbling, we’ve lost precious time!” he chides the Princesses.
“But we…” Celestia starts, but stops when the Doctor raises his eyebrow at her. Even in another universe, the Doctor takes charge.
“Now you’re learning. Now, get away from my bloody TARDIS, she doesn’t like being shipped around without me!”
He gestures for them to move and they do.
“Now that I’ve gotten my ship back, I’ll answer your questions, Yes we’re still alive, You were foolish in thinking you could ever understand Time Lord technology, and Pinkamena was knocked unconscious saving our lives and is currently in Bugzzzzzz…” he almost slips to which Cdance notes, “…zzzz -Tennant’s saddle bag. Now the Old Girl isn’t ready for flight yet without a power coupling, so in the meantime I am going to whip up something brilliant with these,” he holds up the Dog Collar and the Diamond, “So shut up!”
And with that, he walks into the TARDIS and slams the door.
The Princesses look to you and Derpy.
“Well don’t blame us, you took his toy,” says Derpy.
“Yeah, if anything, you’re lucky he didn’t throw you into the epicenter of a black hole or something,” you add.
The Princesses look at each other in confusion before turning back to you.
“He said you have Pinkamena in your bag?” asks a confused Cadance.
“Oh, right!” you say as you facehooved, you kind of forgot about her in all the excitement.
You reach into the bag to grab her, and you feel something soft and jiggly which you think is her, when all of a sudden you feel a very sharp pain in your arm.
“Aaaaahhhh!!!” you yell as you pull your hoof out and it has a knife in it. Following your hoof, Pinkamena jumps out. She has a bruise on her head, and is glaring at you.
“Wwwwhhhhyyyy?!!!” you whine to her.
She pulls the blade out of your arm to which you yell again.
“It may be the end of the world out there, but that doesn’t mean you can rub a mare’s flanks while she’s sleeping” she says glaring at you.
You eyes widen in surprise before you start to stutter in fear,
“Wh-what? I-I didn’t mea-"
You stop however when Pinkie get's right into your face and says,
“Quit your blubbering, I could have taken your whole arm off you wimp, this is just a love tap”
You nod your head fearfully as Pinkie turns around and walks over to the Princess.
That mare…was in the same place… as our daughter…The buck were you thinking?
Yeah…I’m just now realizing that…I'm not a smart bug
Clearly. Sometimes I wonder how you’ve survived without me.
That…is a very good question.
During your mental exchange you notice that Pinkie is talking to Celestia.
“Princess, the Nightmare is here, let me kill him.”
“Pinkamena, Tirek and Discord are engaging him, there won’t be a need to…” Celestia begins.
“HE’S MINE TO KILL!” she shouts at them and they all wince. “I’m not going to have some two bit gods take what is mine! Give me the blade!”
The Princesses wince at this.
“The Blade?” you ask aloud but are ignored.
“These daggers, the chainsaw and this arm have the weave, but the blade is pure. I NEED IT!”
“Pinkie…” Cadance starts but she glares at her old name being said.
“You promised me the pure Orichalcum sword!”
At the mention of Orichalcum, you rub the scar over your eye, remembering the pain. You also can't help but gulp in fear at what a pure blade of the stuff could do to you if a bracelet of it caused a scar across your eye. What you don't notice is Cadence looking at you in confusion at your panicked state. You shake off your panic as you hear Pinkie say with malice,
“Or are you trying to break a promise to me…”
“N-No!” they all say in fear.
“Then Give. Me. The Blade…”
Celestia sighs and teleports a dark green sword into the room. But before she can give it to Pinkie, the Doctor comes out of the TARDIS with a bunch of tools.
“Put that away! Now’s not the time for it!” shouts the Doctor.
An explosion in the city rocks the castle
“Now’s the perfect time for it!” Pinkamena shouts.
The Doctor, with a bit of fear, looks into her eyes.
“If you go out there without my little doohickey I’m about to make, then you will die even with that blade…” he says. Pinkamena glares at him as another explosion rocks the foundation.
“Just like those so called gods out there.”
“You don’t think Tirek and Discord can handle him?” asks Celestia.
The Doctor looks to her gravely, “I know they can’t. Discord’s chaos is random, yet fair, Tirek’s conquest is ruthless, yet ambitious. The Nightmare is the pure hatred and insanity of two poor souls. All it cares about is death. So no, they will not stop it…” they looked horrified at this revelation,
“But maybe I can, with these.”
He holds up the collar and diamond and an assortment of other pieces.
“What is this thing going to do Doctor?” you ask.
He walks to a table and starts fitting pieces together.
“This doohickey is going to be a dampener of sorts. To drain his magic completely would be all but impossible at this point. But this will give us a fighting chance.”
“We have tried dampeners on him, they don’t last for long,” says Luna.
“Well that’s because you don’t have my level of tech, but also you were being broad. This dampener is power specific. If you take away his most important power, you’ll have a shot,” he says before turning to you, “Which is what again Tennant?”
“I…Uhh…” you stutter trying to think what your greatest power is. You eventually realize it can only be the one that you’ve used, practically your whole life.
“His healing factor!” you say.
“Bingo! Orichalcum is the only thing that can hurt him at this point, but with this doohickey, he won’t be op invincible.”
Pinkamena’s eyes light up at this.
“Now give me some space,” he says as he starts working while the rest of you watch the fight.
You give a sigh as the ponies around the TARDIS begin to walk away to do there own thing. But they stay in eye shot of the TARDIS, and you can't blame them. The sooner the Doctor finishes this thing, the better. You give another sigh before you...
Look out of what's left of the window in the castle and wonder...
So this is our future if we never left Appaloosa you think watching the carnage below as buildings collapse and the wounded being carried to safe zones.
I believe so my friend, seeing the world burn all around us. This isn't how I picture Equestria under my rule.
Why? How you would you picture Equestria? you ask.
I don't know maybe less needles death and more darkness with the sun being a forgotten memory. You know, a paradise.
If you say so. Quick Question, how’s Nightshade doing? Is she still asleep?
You hear Selena sigh before she says,
Yes, she is doing well and yes she is still asleep.
Good I don't want her to see this any of this. you then sigh for the thousandth time that day.
"You okay Tennant?" a voice asks
You turn around to see that the voice belongs to Derpy, who walks towards you.
"A little. I'm starting to think going back to Appaloosa would be bad idea. I mean the reason you two made me go to Ponyville in the first place was to prevent any of this from happening."
"Yeah. We are sorry about it, but it was the only way we could think of that didn’t involve telling you what would happen in the future. You know how the Doctor is with the whole time travel thing," she answers with a look of guilt.
"Yeah I do. If I never went to Ponyvile all of this would have happened,” you acknowledge before sighing. “But I really don’t want to stay in Ponyville anymore…”
"Now why would you say that?" asks Derpy.
“Because I live in constant fear that ponies will realize that good old BST is actually a changeling and the Hooded Offender” you tell her. “I mean, I’m no good at shapeshifting, I always attract trouble, and I’m constantly stalked by love sick mares.”
You sigh once more. “If it weren’t for that perception filter, Zecora’s potions, Fluttershy’s trust, or easily bribed surgeons, I’d have been found out long ago. Pretty soon, Applejack, Dash or one of the others will find out, and we’ll all be fighting again. I just want to go home and never see Ponyville again.”
"Your just thinking about the negative things that would happen if you are spotted by the Elements of Harmony and never the good side of life there. I mean look you have a wonderful, albeit potty mouth, daughter, you have several friends and even family there, and you actually have been praised as a hero there.” she explains.
"Yeah but that is when I'm BST, not Bugze or the Hood Offender."
“But you are BST Bugze, you are also The Hooded Offender. They are just names for the same wonderful changeling. Hay, even Bugze isn’t really your real name. The true you is who you’ve always been, a good, loving, misunderstood soul who always tries to do the right thing. It doesn’t matter what name they know you by, because they all have seen the real you under each one,” she says as she gives you a hug.
“Fluttershy, Zecora and Cadance know you as Bugze and Hoody, you’ve saved the CMC, Rainbow Dash and the whole Apple Family as Tennant, and as the Offender, you’ve saved countless lives. They are all you Bugze, remember that, because they all will.”
As Derpy's words sink all the pain and fear washes away, if only for a moment.
"Thank you Derpy. When we get back to Ponyville I will stay there for good. In fact I have been having a good life there. I got a job, made friends, went on adventures, got new powers to help others with. All I need is a mare, or mares, that is right for me and then my whole life will be complete." you said with a smile on your face.
"There you go, stay positive. If you ever need a place to stay other than that shack, my house is always open." Derpy says.
"Thanks Derpy I will keep that offer in mind. You know after everything I have been through, all the pain, the fear and trouble, I always got back up and kept on going. No matter how hard lady luck ruined my day I kept on going to the end. No matter how hard my enemy's tried to kill me I kept on fighting using my powers for good. So I’ll keep on saving lives, and never taking them. I’ll make sure I never become that monster," you said as the sun starts to shine on you.
That sun turns out to be a flaming rubble striking the gardens in front of you, but you ignore it and just bask in the moment. Derpy smiles at you and walks away. As soon as she does your smile vanishes and is replaced with a deep frown as you think,
Who am I kidding. I can't go back to Ponyville or Appleoosa. Maybe...maybe it'll be best to vanish when we get back. Go into hiding and stay out of civilization for awhile. The longer I'm gone, the longer this world won't happen. Sorry Derpy…
Shaking off those dark thoughts, you decide to ask Selena a question that's been bugging you since this whole mess started,
Hey Selena, how are we so powerful?
I believe we already had this conversation.
Yeah, but based on what I remember about Nightmare Moon, she- I mean you never showed this much power when in the body of an alicorn. How is it I- he can have so much raw power in spite of being in the body of a changeling?
Selena is about to respond when the Doctor interrupts,
"I believe I have a theory. Imagine 2 balloons: One small and one big. Now imagine that they both are filled with a large amount of water. Even though the larger balloon can contain the water more stable-y, the smaller balloon will have more pressure and thus will expel the water more forcibly when released."
"That makes sense." you respond, "But shouldn't that mean I should eventually burst like... Well a balloon filled with too much water?"
But the Doctor doesn't answer you as he goes back into the TRADIS to work on the Nightmare stopper, so Selena takes over for him as she says,
If you recall our conversation back at the spa, I did say your 'Nightmare Tails' as you dubbed them, serve as outlets for excess power. Not to mention that your Earth pony blood provides your body with a higher degree of durability than mere ordinary changelings.
You nod your head at her explanation, but before you can say anything you see...
Cadance walking towards you, and she looks like she wants to talk. You steel your nerve as you prepare for a awkward conversation as she says,
“I don’t think I had a chance to apologize for shooting you earlier,” she says.
“Oh, don’t worry, it’s not the first time I’ve been blasted.”
“Still, I’m sorry.”
“Hey it’s good, after all you’ve done for me I can’t complain.”
“Huh? What I’ve done for you?”
Your eyes snap open as you realize your slip.
“What have I done for you?” she asks again.
“Well, back in our universe, our Cadance is one of my best friends. She’s always believed in me and had my back…even if I didn’t deserve it.”
“Sounds like me…for better or worse” she says holding her left side. You look down the whole left side and notice that up close, she has been severely burnt, with the claw mark on her cutie mark being the worst.
She sees you staring.
“He did this to me…that monster,” she huffs angrily.
“Sorry, didn’t mean to stare” you say.
“No go ahead, there’s no hiding it. That psycho did this to me after he murdered my husband” she says with a wince. “When Shining died, I just gave up. I tried and tried to bring him back…but it was too late,” she says with a sniffle, and your own eyes water. “That thing tried to drag me away from Shiny…but I wouldn’t let go…so he scorched me right down the middle, laughing the whole time…”
You look away from her to the battle below and wipe away your tears.
“Everypony has wounds from him I suppose, all the hurt he’s brought… but mine hurt the most.”
“Why?” you ask.
“Because he used to be a friend…someone I trusted and cared for…” another boom echoes, “And this is what came of it…” she says crying.
“Cadance…I’m sorry…I’m so so sorry…” you mumble.
“There’s nothing for you to feel sorry for, this all started with me and him…and I can never take that back…” she sniffles and wipes her tears away.
“Anyway, sorry for venting, it’s been awhile.”
“No, it’s alright,” you reassure her.
“Thanks…what did you do for your Cadance to always have her trust?” she asks.
You look back out the window, “All I did was give her some food…” you say realizing you could do more for the Princess of Love. When you look back at her, she has an inquisitive and surprised face on.
“A-are you…” but she is interrupted by the Doctor.
“I’m finished! One collar inhibitor doohickey at your service!”
“Thank the creator!” Celestia exclaims after the events they just witnessed.
“Now we can stop that monster!” says Luna.
“Right, but the only problem is, someone is going to have to get close enough to put this around his neck” he says.
Everyone just gets quiet at that but Pinkie comes forth.
“I’ll do it.”
“Pinkamena, we are more powerful than…” begins Luna, but is stopped when Pinkie whirls on her.
“Exactly! So you’ll have a better shot of taking him down if I…fail.”
“She’s right,” the Doctor adds, “Also, If we are to create a power coupling, I’ll need you three alicorns help.”
They nod at this and Celestia holds out the sword.
Pinkie then grabs the Orichalchum sword and looks at her reflection in it. “But If I don’t fail, that collar is just going to make this all the more sweeter…”
Before anyone can argue, she grabs the collar and dashes to the door. She stops and turns back.
She looks to the princesses, “Thanks for being the last of my friends…” and the Alicorns nod. She looks to the Doctor and Derpy, “Fix this…please...” And they nod.
She then looks to you, “Sorry about stabbing you…and thanks for not leaving me to die…It’s…it’s the nicest thing anypony’s done for me in a long time, and it’s more than a murderer like me deserves…” she says with a genuine smile.
You smile back.
She loses her smile and gets serious.
“This collar is going on that monster…I Pinkie Promise you all!”
She then goes through the motions before taking off into the warzone. But before she can get far you do something really stupid....
"Promise me you'll run, run as fast as you can and to not look back if he becomes too much."
Pinkie stops her run and looks back at you sadly before she says,
"Sorry...that's one promise I can't keep."
With that...she's gone.
POV Change: The Nightmare
The Nightmare sends another punch Tireks way, causing the war lord to go flying into a building. He quickly gets up and looks like he's about to charge at you, when...
The Nightmare is divebombed from above by the Bugbear. The stinger of it lodges in his chest as the Bear flies off into the sky away from Tirek and Discord, who follow.
“Bears…our oldest enemy…” the Nightmare mutters.
The pony riding on top looks down on the Nightmare.
“This is for Ponyville you motherbucker!” Bon Bon shouts as she makes the Bugbear drag the Nightmare through the streets, tearing them up in the process.
“This is for Lyra! For Fluttershy! For Octavia and Vinyl! For everyone!” the bugbear then starts clawing on the Nightmare.
“Okay, we heard several names in that sentence, none of them familiar, who’s Liberia?”
“LYRA!” she yells, having the Bugbear slam him.
"Lyra was the best friend in the whole wide world...I LOVED HER! She believed in you, I believed in you! But you took her away from me! They thought you were a hero! I thought you were a hero! We were the horde, and we were going to help you! But you killed us all! Your own followers! WHY?!”
The Bugbear then starts squeezing the Nightmare into its chest, and some cracking is heard.
“WHY?! WHY?! WHYYYYYYY?!!!” she yells, before suddenly a dark energy blast forces the nightmare and the bugbear apart.
“Why?” the Nightmare answers, “Why you ask?”
“Yes,” she screams.
“Well the answer is easy…Why not?”
“What?”
“Why not? Follower blood flows just as good as other blood, so why not?”
“THEY WERE MY FRIENDS! THEY CARED FOR YOU WHEN NOPONY ELSE WOULD!”
“Well maybe if they had picked a better name we wouldn’t have had to dismantle them…probably not, but still…” it says nonchalantly.
“GGGGRRRRRAAAAAGGGHHHHH!!!!” she screams in rage as she charges the bugbear towards the nightmare.
When they clash, she keeps yelling. "And what about those poor souls in Fillydelphia? You killed them all for fun! Even after those six who won you killed them! And they worshiped you like a god!"
"OK first off, we ARE a god, make no mistake, secondly, that zealot rumble was like uber levels of awesomeness, you should've seen it they were going all 'The Purge' on each other...only this didn't suck because Michael Beigh wasn't a part of it. Thirdly, those six would've died from their injuries anyway, seriously, what good are soldiers if they can barely even walk? We're nothing if not merciful, and lastly, If you miss them so much, GO JOIN THEM!"
“Wha?” Bon Bon asks before she turns around and sees A Horde Cultist standing on a ledge of a building who sprays whipped cream into his mouth before screaming,
He then jumps off the ledge with a pair of exploding spears, knocking Bon Bon off the Bugbear and into a candy shop, suicide bombing her and himself.
The Nightmare looks at the death in pride before he gets clawed into a building, however a nightmare tail shoots out of the rubble holding a score sign reading "8.8."
The Bugbear roars, but the Nightmare shoots out it’s tails and takes control of it’s head.
“Hi, we are the Nightmare,” it says.
With a vicious turn of its tails, it snaps the Bugbear's neck before using the massive corpse's momentum to crush the powerhouses as he says,
"And welcome to Jackass!!!"
The Nightmare is then blasted through another wall by a burst of magic. The Nightmare quickly get's out of the rubble and is about to go looking for Discord when both Discord and Tirek charge at him. The Nightmare smirks insanely as he grabs them in his Nightmare Tails and flings them across the city. The Nightmare chuckles when he sees multiple buildings collapse from the two gods bodies. However before he could go after them...
A lone pony walks in front of you...
The Nightmare and the pony stare at each other, when suddenly the pony begins to laugh,
"So you are the one who's been doing all this great work? Can't say I expected anything less, but... I am a bit disappointed. Jackey the Ripper gets resurrected to kill one bad guy... for a pardon on all his crimes... And well…it turns out it’s just an ugly thing..."
The Nightmare looks around, before asking,
"Oh, really? You know, the ugly things just flew away", at this he imitates Discord's voice, "'like a bird!' And are you important? We mean, We never really cared about history, so We guess you aren't, seeing how you will be, haha, history soon!"
Jack jumps up, showcasing his wings, and dashes at NY. NY sidesteps and laughs,
"Well well, now We remember! Well, Jack, We doubt you can really best Us. We mean, your real name isn't even known!"
The former serial killer stopped, turned around and deadpanned,
"Jacky the Ripper IS my real name."
"Wait, and they still were unable to figure out YOU were the one doing all that? They really are even more incompetent than what they've showcased. Maybe you will be more fun!"
NY starts to climb like a 'Mane-iac' towards Jack. Jack takes out... a staff made out of crystal, with magical electricity running around it?
"I always wanted to try this out... and now I can! This will be the cleanest cutting I've ever done..."
He points the staff at NY, unleashing a stream of magic, purple twisting in with pink and light blue...
When struck by the light, the Nightmare is visibly halted, its tails shimmering.
"You want to play dirty? You can’t play dirty... Playing dirty is our thing! We mean, what should we do if everyone was allowed to do our thing? Nay, you shouldn't have done that!"
Two of his shimmering tails slung around the upper levels of nearby houses, pressing them into balls and throwing these at Jack,
"Oh, we think you lost your BALLS!"
Jack flew up, and laughed,
"Is that all you got? Stupid jokes? After I'm done with you everypony will know of me! BUCK THE FILLYDELPHIA BOMBERS!"
Nightmare rolls his eyes and says,
The Nightmare took a cake Discord jumped out of earlier (he was trying to suckerpunch, it didn't work), and threw it at Jack.
"Bah! You seriously think that would work on me? And that joke 'bout Celestia is old...", before the cake explodes and knocks him through a store window.
"You bloody wanker..." Jack says as he gets back up... only to see the Nightmare right in front of him.
"We don't mind that you're naughty, Jack..."
At that, each of the 9 tails picks up a piece of jagged glass.
"Oh bugger me..."
With that all 9 Nightmare Tails shoot out at once and eviscerate him in the same manner as the serial killer did to his 5 most infamous slayings
"We hate that you're sloppy!"
After smiling at his hoofy work, he turns around and sees Tirek and Discord coming back, "Finally..."
With that the Nightmare gets ready for a attack as Discord gains....
The most serious expression on his face, which is perhaps the first time in history. He levitates the rubble around him, and then he morphs them together to form a massive column of debris. With a snap of his talons, it became...
"Ooooh~! Is that a gigantic, metal fly swatter?" the Nightmare asks in muse.
"Why, yes," Discord replied as Tirek makes to jump away. "Made in China, just for you."
"We're very flattere--"
The gigantic swatter smashes down into the street, broke through the stones, through the earth, and through even the Nightmare's impossible strength. The entire street practically shatters! Dust swept, and even Tirek has to bring an arm to cover his eyes from the dust.
Discord just simply summons a gas mask. When Discord lifts the swatter away, it reveals a crater flatter than a pancake, with the bug of the joke in the middle of it. Indeed, the bug is flatter than flattery.
...And then the Nightmare pops back into his original size. "Oh! I get it! Nice one! Too bad it's a bit cliche by now."
The fly swatter squashes him again.
With a pop, he yells, "Oh, you wanna play it like that, huh?!" So, he promptly grabs a nearby building several lengths bigger than him with all of his shadow tails. "Good thing we've practiced being a good Dirty Dan!"
*Smash*
Discord pops back into shape with a growl, and with all of his might, he swung the fly swatter at him. "You? Dirty Dan? No! I am!"
NY replied with the building. "No, we're Dirty Dan!"
*Smash* "I'm Dirty Dan!"
*Smash* "Shut up! We're Dirty Dan!"
*Smash* "You are no fit! I am!"
*Smash* "Buck you! We're Dirty Dan!"
Then, suddenly, Discord stops. "...Who is Dirty Dan, actually?" Only for Nightmare Bugze to continue on smashing him away.
"We'reDirtyDanwe'reDirtyDanwe'reDirtyDanwe'reDirtyDan!"
The Nightmare ends his attack huffing and puffing as Discord weakly get's up, but Discord soon smiles as he yells out,
"Tirek NOW!"
The Nightmare's eyes widen in surprise as Tirek charged at him, but soon he gets an insane look of glee as he starts too...
Grey Rebel's Comment
Fire magic attacks at Tirek, who only starts to consume the magic. This goes on for awhile as the Nightmare calls out insanely,
"Fight harder! Fight harder!" it shouts with glee as Tirek absorbs its magical attacks.. "We wanna have some fun"
"Fool!" Tirek cackles cockily. "With every bit of magic you use, I get stronger and powerfu--Urgh!"
The centaur was interrupted by a seering pain his chest. The Nightmare just politely, well, as politely as an insane person gets, stops attacking.
"Aww, what's wrong? Weren't you going to say something?" It cocks its head to the side, as though it is a child talking to a pet. "Aren't you going to say your Villain's Speech of Exposition? It's boring if an epic fight doesn't have one, and unsatifying if We don't get toprove you wrong."
Tirek rubs his chest. "H-how? I'm suppose to be able to digest all forms of magic!"
The Nightmare makes a mock gesture of shock. "Pah! Really?! All forms of magic?" Then, he laughs uproariously. "What bucking idiot eats tangible Killing Intent? Ahahahaha. Your killing us, goatface, your killing us!"" Suddenly, he stops. He gives an eye glance, and Tirek could feel all the malice teeming--no, pouring out of it, bearing down into his very soul. "Nah. You're just killing yourself."
And, as if on cue, Tirek felt his chest burst. A feeling. The feeling of a sharp blade plunging out of his chest, and he could do nothing but scream. He brought a hand to his chest in reflex, hoping to somehow get rid of the blade. But when his hands touched the spot, he blinked.
There is nothing there.
"Ghahaahaha!" the Nightmare laughed. "You should've seen the look on your face! Ahahahaha!"
However the Nightmare soon gains a dark look as he says,
The Nightmare grabbed him with his tails, and started to stretch him in all directions, while pouring magic out of him and inhaling it like Tirek would normally do...
"AAAAAAAAAAAARGH! AAAAAAAAAAA... Good acting, right?", Tirek asked, as he broke out of it and opened his mouth:
"What..."
"You can't steal my powers without dropping your own barriers! I bet you never thought your godly powers could be taken away! But you were wrong, they will be mine now!"
At this he started to absorb the Nightmare's magic. The Nightmare just grinned, before the magicflow stopped, and reversed.
Discord stared at this for a second, before he summoned up a massive amount of spikes and threw them between the two. This disrupted the absorbtion, but Tirek was left much weaker... and the Nightmare gained a new tail.
The Nightmare stares at it's tenth tail in awe, while Discord and Tirek stare at it in horror. The Nightmare starts to laugh insanely as he says,
"AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! Thanks for the upgrade boys, but you're all starting to bore us. And when our toys start to bore us..."
The Nightmare launches himself onto Tireks back as he also smacks Discord away from the tyrant . He soon grins madly as he stabs 6 Nightmare Tails through the back of his torso. Tirek yells in pain as the Nightmare whispers to him,
"We break them!"
With that said he starts tearing him open with his Nightmare tails and declares,
"HERE'S JOHNNY!"
But then Nightmare Bugze goes, "Wait... IDEA!" and quickly uses his Nightmare Tails to seal Tirek back up before then violently bursting through the front of his chest. NB then turns to the Luna Plushie and says,
"Did ya see that honey! Daddy was a Xenomorph!"
Discord can only stare at him in horror as he stutters,
"You killed him...you actually killed Tirek!"
The Nightmare grins happily before he says,
"Yep...and your next!"
The Nightmare then charges at Discord, but thinking quickly Discord...
Moves his body like a cartoon, avoiding all the tails.
"Is that all?" Ask Discord
"Never! Hold still so we can break you!" the Nightmare says.
"Yeah, come one daddy, you can do it!" Says the Nightmare with the plushie Nightshade voice.
"Ohhh... How cute, you think she’s still alive" Say Discord laughing
The Nightmare groans but Discord snap his fingers, after that a copy of Nightshade appears in front of them
"I hate you daddy! It was because of you that I was killed!"Say the Nightshade clone
"B-But You’re not dead, you’re right here." says Nightmare Bugzee as he holds up the plushie.
"Don't let her fool you, I'm your Nightshade, and I will love you forever Daddy!" says 'Nightshade'
Discord snaps his fingers and another Nightshade appears
"No! Your not my daddy! I like Discord more, he is going to be my new daddy, I hate you ex-Daddy, And you know what? Maybe Celestia could be my mommy!" says the second clone of Nightshade as both of them hug Discord.
“That’s not funny…”the Nightmare groans in anger.
"We love you Daddy Discord!" Say the two Nightshade clones at the same time as they hug him
"Stop it you overgrown weasel or your death won’t be quick!” The Nightmare shouts, causing his shadows to flare more.
"Oh, come on! Really?" deadpans Discord
"We are going to protect Daddy Discord from ex-Daddy!" says clone A
"Yes! Ex-Daddy is going to die! And we are going to be happy forever!" says Clone B
After that both clones put themselves between Discord and Nightmare Bugzee
"Come On! Nightmare! Attack me! I won't not move!" Discord put a bullseye on his neck
"GAAAAAAHHHH!" shouts Nightmare Bugzee
A great wave of darkness is launched in front of Nightmare Bugzee and hits both clones of Nightshade. As the wave swallows them, they grow and and go to Discord
"Gulp... Maybe I need to think this through a little better" says Discord as he tries to escape but chains appear from his own shadow and make him immobile.
"Come on, Nightmare, my friend, it was a little joke! What is a joke between friends?" asks Discord as a look of terror appears in his face.
"You got them Daddy, I'm better that those fakes!" says ‘Nightshade’
NEW SKILL! Nightmare Bugzee: Wave of Darkness Learned
NEW SKILL Nightmare Bugzee: Shadow chains, Learned
The Nightmare growls at Discord in pure rage as he...
Starts brutalizing Discord; rapidly popping out of the mist to smash the Chaos Spirit in the face before popping back into the mist before he can be struck. Using shadow chains to keep him in place as he pulls another building on top of him, etc.
After silently going berserk on Discord, Nightmare Bugze grabs Discord's hands with two Nightmare Tails so he can't realty-warp snap as he squeeze's the God of Chaos' head in his clawed hooves. As Discord cries out in agony, the Nightmare growls,
"You... Should have stayed asleep!" *CRACK/SQUISH*
After doing...that the Nightmare takes a few breaths before he lets out a howl of laughter as he lands on top of a nearby roof. When he does land on the roof he sees...
A patrol of griffins below, he leaps off the building and lands in front of them. “Hello, lovely day it’s been hasn’t it?”
“Attack!” The lead griffin shouts. The soldiers charge at Nightmare only to be knocked aside by his tails. One grabs the griffin leader and drags him over to Nightmare. “Let me go!”
“Just a second,” he says, “We feel a song coming on.” Music starts playing softly and he takes a breath, before crushing the lead griffin with his tail.
All of this death, it’s just so great.
He grins savagely at the recovering griffins
Don’t bother to run, it’s far too late,
You see we really like to kill things, especially stuff that snaps in half
He grabs the rest of the griffins with his tails and starts walking down the street, looking around at the destruction.
We see this city, what does it hold? Wondering if we should butcher them or watch the slaughter unfold?
Fighting us now sure you’d think
All of his tails squeeze and all of the griffins explode in a shower of blood.
‘He’s a pathological, bloodthirsty, homicidal, maniac!’
The Nightmare grabs his Inventory and starts pulling out random items including skulls, a glowing fork, a black cloak with a red trim, and a T-shirt that has a bipedal creature with the words ‘FOR PONY!’ on it.
We’ve killed griffins and ponies and bronies,
We’ve maimed pegasisters and gods and then more
Finally, he pulls out a belt of grenades and tosses it into the nearest building.
You see a house? We see a crater.
He blasts the grenades with a magic bolt and the build disappears in a massive explosion. When the smoke clears, there’s only a smoldering crater.
But what then?
He pulls out several more belts and throws them around randomly.
Can’t you see? we’ll make moooooooooore!
Several blast of magic soon follow and everything around Nightmare becomes a mass of burning flames. When they die down, he runs to the next section to find more victims.
We love to incinerate and decapitate,
we want to melt
Spotting a group of ponies trying to flee the battle, NIghtmare rummages around in the Inventory and pulls out a jar of acid and chucks it at them. The jar breaks on the lead pony’s head and he starts screaming as the acid eats away at him.
Want to melt some ponies
Mocking the princesses while they-
What do they call it? Ahh, Grieve!
Another blast of magic kills the rest of the ponies and he moves on.
We suppose that being insane there’s no point to love,
Doesn’t matter since we have my daughter Nightshade
He take the Luna Plushie from his back and hugs it before putting it back.
Since we have her we're free to
Turning a corner, he sees another group of soldiers. At the same time they spot him and charge, letting out a war cry.
Arrgh what that word again?
A massive ball of energy gathers at the tip of his tails and his eyes turn red.
HATE!!
He fires it at the soldiers, cutting a massive swath of destruction that takes them out and a good section of Canterlot as well.
You’ve nowhere to hide, nowhere to run,
This city will burn like the heart of the sun!
With infinite glee, it’s gonna be us,
That slaughters the world!
Nightmare Bugze hisses in pain as several spears stab into his back. Looking up, he sees several griffins flying above him, grabbing some more spears to throw at him.
How can we not glare at these guards and then not smash them?
How could we stare at their deaths and then not laugh?
He grabs them spears from his back and throws them back at the griffins, killing all of them except for one, which gets hit in the wing and crashes to the ground.
we'll tear them in half
Then we’ll snap all of the bones in their bodies,
Or after we crush them, we’ll take what’s left of them and feed the graaaaaaaassss!
We are a bug who just wants a hug,
Have some urges and need to fulfill them,
After this chaos we simply don’t
What’s the word?
CAAAAAARE!!
Seeing where the griffin fell, Nightmare slowly stalks over, two orbs appearing above his head, crackling with energy. The griffin tries to desperately reach for a spear that’s just out of reach as he gets closer.
The stench in the air! The smell of the gore! The carnage far greater than any waaaaaaaaar!
Suddenly, Nightmare stops and the orbs disappear, a sad expression on his face.
Why can’t they see?
He sits down and looks forlornly at the sky.
We're just being… us
We'll slaughter the woooooor-*shink*
The Nightmare looks down to see that the griffin had stabbed him in the face with a spear, “You stabbed us in the face!”
“You destroyed Equestria!” the griffin shouted back.
“You stabbed us in the face!”
“You destroyed Equestria!”
“You stabbed us in the bucking face!” the Nightmare roars as he grabs the spear with a tail and puls it out. “But you know what? We're not upset about that. Hay, we get stabbed SO many times we barely even notice it anymore" he says gesturing to a pair of spears still in his back, "You know what we can’t forgive?” He glared at the now trembling griffin, “Interrupting OUR SONG!!!! So tell me, what’s your favorite organ?”
“W-w-what?”
“Kidney it is!” Three tails stab into the unfortunate griffin and rip him apart before grabbing a kidney (that for some reason has a feather on it.) and placing it on Nightmare’s head.
Item Get: Richard’s hat
The Nightmare sighs in happiness at the carnage that he just caused as he says,
“Well those playthings were quite a handful, but we think we should go back to our old toys.”
“Yeah daddy, the Princesses are oldies but goodies. We should take our time with them.”
“Splendid idea Nightshade, got any ideas?”
“Well, we could slowly turn them from Alicorns into all three types by tearing off their wings and horns, and- Wait, aren't you forgetting something Daddy?”
"Really? What?"
"Well we did basically just win a boss battle so..."
"Oh our us! The victory dance!"
With that, Nightmare Bugze tears off Tirek's head and puppets it to say,
Suddenly, a knife wedges itself into “Nightshade” and carries it off of the Nightmare’s back.
“Baby!” it yells, as it runs over and cradles the doll, it starts rocking back and forth, until it hears a sinister noise.
“Heh heh heh heh heh hhhheeeeehhhhh….”
The nightmare slowly turns its head around. It sees a pony who’s supposed to be dead. Someone it already killed, with their own arm no less.
Someone who just stabbed it’s "daughter".
The Nightmare pulls the knife out of the doll and puts it back in the inventory. It doesn’t say anything, but it glares at the Pink Pony in hatred.
“What’s the matter? I interrupt your play time?” she mocks.
The Nightmare merely frowns, all four of it's eyes glowing intensely brighter with it’s hatred, all of it's Killing Intent now purely concentrated and directed at the pink pony. And for a brief moment, an emotion pierced her hatred and insanity and flicked in her eyes. An emotion she hadn't felt for a long time.
Fear...
What do you do?
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During the fight, Pinkie is battered, bruised and cut, but she keeps going. When she slices off one of the Nightmare’s horns, he feels it.
“GGGGGRRRRAAAAAGGHHHH!!!!” it yells in pain.
Pinkie then grabs the broken horn and spears the Nightmare with it.
“Now you know how Twilight felt when you stabbed her with her own horn!” she shouts.
Because it was cut with Orichalcum, it doesn’t grow back.
Unfortunately, every time Pinkie tries to get in close to secure the collar, she either has to dodge or gets knocked back.
Pinkie tries to taunt the Nightmare more, but it doesn’t quite work.
“I’ll wipe you from this world like I did to all the other changelings!” she shouts.
The Nightmare’s eyes widen, “That was you?” it asks.
“Yes! And I enjoyed every last minute ending your brethren!”
The Nightmare shouts and rage and slams her through a building.
“You Pink Psycho…WE WANTED TO DO THAT!”
“Wait wha…?” Pinkie says with a double take.
“We wanted to slaughter and burn the changelings and eat their shells for what they did to us…but no, when we got there, some Pink B!%$# beat us to it!”
Pinkie is then thrown face first into a statue, and she gets groggy.
“Uuuuuggggghhhhh...” she groans.
“We didn’t even get to see the light leave our former Queen’s eyes…and it’s all YOUR FAULT!” it shouts as it’s about to crush Pinkie with its tails. But she is teleported out of the way.
“What the? Since when can stupid mud ponies teleport?”
Pinkie looks up and sees her savior is Fleur with a group of guards and Fancy Pants..
“Ms. Pie, you are injured, you must retreat.”
“N-never…” Pinkie wheezes out.
Fleur looks up to her guards, “Flank him while he’s distracted.”
The guards then run out towards the Nightmare.
“Really? You ran away? Boring!” the Nightmare says in frustration.
“Fancy, get her to the castle…” Fleur says.
Fancy tries to, but Pinkie pushes him away.
“There’s no time to argue now…” he starts.
“You can’t beat him! Only I can! I have to put the collar on!” Pinkie shouts as she runs out towards the battle.
With Fleur’s help, Pinkie is able to cut off two of the 9 Nightmare tails, and when that happens, he flies off the handle.
The rest of the guards are decimated, and Pinkie is flung further away, losing the sword and Fleur is nearly killed by a Fus Ro Dah, but Fancy Pants dives in and takes the brunt for her.
“Fancy! No!” she screams holding his body.
In anger, she takes her spear and rushes the Nightmare, but he stops her and stabs her with it.
He then drops her at his hooves as she lies dying.
Pinkie shows up with her chainsaw and collar out and attempts to get him from behind, but the Nighmare turns around and spears her with his tail.
She drops the collar to the ground and the Nightmare bites the chainsaw in half and spits it out.
“Groovy,” it says.
It then slides her off its tail and she starts crawling away.
It starts singing slowly and creepily as it follows her.
“Come on everypony, smile smile smile, fill my heart up with sunshine, sunshine, all I really need is a smile smile smile, from these happy friends of mine…” it says as it raises it's tails up for one final smash.
Pinkie Pie leans up against some rubble and looks at the Nightmare with tears in her eyes. She holds her hoof up.
“Wait…”
The Nightmare stops.
“Really? That’s going to be your last words? Wait? Really? Out of all the cliché things you could say…wait. We expected better from you Pinkie. Even a ‘See You in Tatarus’ would have been good, but no. Seriously, wait…wait for what? Wait for us to change our mind? Wait while you get your second wind? Wait for some miracle? What? WAIT FOR WHAT?!”
Suddenly, the Nightmare’s throat is enclosed by some sort of circlet.
“That!” Pinkie yells as one of her daggers is launched out of her prosthetic arm and into one of the Nightmare’s eyes.
The Nightmare roars in pain cradling it’s face.
Fleur let’s go of her magic’s hold on the collar as the last of her energy fades.
“For…Fancy…” she says as she breathes her last.
The Nightmare stumbles around in absolute agony as it removes the knife. It tries and fails to get the collar off.
It starts panicking as it’s eye doesn’t heal and the collar won’t come off as Pinkie watches this spectacle and laughs.
“Now that’s…*cough cough* pretty funny…heh heh heh heheheheheh,” she starts slowly laughing as she looks up to the sky.
Back at the Palace
The Doctor's method with the three princesses and Bugze for making a coupling fails and he becomes upset. They have to find some other way to get a coupling.
I think the most awesome moment was the Die Horde Arc as a whole. It felt like a genuine action movie plot.
6175000 The Hooded Offender versus The Elite Four, during Die Hoard.
Source
This scene back from Episode 4. I mean, come on! He psycho-crushers through Discord's show and then fools everyone! That truly was an awesome moment.
After all that, I shiver in fear of what the NY will do when seeing the Nightshade still alive and kicking...
SAVE HER, MY FELLOW COMMENTERS!
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The nightmare slowly walks over to Pinkamena Diane Pie. As it reached her, it threw all its ten nightmare-tails at her, only for her to dodge them all, running sideways at a building. At one point she ran over a window, only for the nightmare-tail to shatter it and grab a poor pony out, squeezing the pony much too hard.
Its intelligent eyes follow her every movement, and after a while it stops trying to hit her.
"What's going on? Tired already, unable to fight?", Pinkamena asks, "Trust me... that won't get you an ending painlesser than you deserve..."
Its tails suddenly rammed into the ground, and shot out of said beneath her. She was thrown back into one of the windows she ran over, landing bloodied in the corner.
The nightmare crawls in through the window, having not said a single word so far.
"How does it feel? How does it feel to be at our mercy, again? How does it feel to realise you are not going to get out of here alive, because we will destroy you for hurting our Nightshade?"
"Tch, feels pretty normal you sick fuck.", she spat at it, "but trust me, this is not going to last like that..."
Shakily she stood up, crawling up a wall while taking knives out of her hair and throwing them at NY.
NY simply walked towards her like you would while going with your dog, and ignored the knives, seeing how he healed everything. As he reached her, he put a hoof at her head.
"Payment", is all she heard before everything exploded. She landed on a balcony of the castle, and jumped back down to go back to NY. All while muttering creepy things she were going to inflict on him.
---POV-Change : Bugze---
As you pretty much waited for Pinkamena to do her job, you saw an explosion and...
A crystal staff flying towards you?
Thinking quickly, you ducked... by which you mean you jumped back in fright, only to hit Derpy causing her to fall over with you falling over her...
As the staff miraculously made it through the window, and landed next to you, you picked it up...
It had 'Property of Jack (T.R)' inscripted on it. "Weird", you wondered, "Who would leave a staff like this around to be flung around?"
At your words Luna takes notice of it, and gasps: "I/We(?) remember that one! It belonged to a serial killer who was targeting a very... special group. It has the ability to store magical energy and release it in a beam... though I/We(?) have/hath(?) to wonder how it could have gotten here..."
At this Celestia coughs, and turns away.
"Sister, thou / you (?) surely didn't..."
"We even asked Tirek for help, and he had greater chances of success. If both were to survive, Tirek would have killed Jack. You cannot rule the dead, after all. I thought that maybe he could give them an opening..."
Luna sighs, before mumbling: "We already knew it were harsh times, but for an infamous serial killer to get a chance... that makes it even clearer to us."
You were never one for history, so you asked: "Um, who are you talking about?"
Luna replied sad- and slowly: "Jack the Ripper, a pony with a heart blacker than Nightmare Moon, Discord and Tirek combined. He c...", at this a voice interrupted her:
"Nu-uh! No going into detail about that part! We have to atleast maintain the illusion of caring about our 'For everyone'-rating! Ups, sorry, the connection is a bit blurry. With you being in another universe and all that..."
You looked around, trying to find the source of 'Old'-Pinkie's voice, only to give up.
Headache.
Oh, and:
'Jack's Magic-absorption and -beam staff added to Inventory'
NB charges straight at Pinkie going for the kill but pinkies quick reflexes gives her the boost she needs. As she is fighting the Nightmare. One of the Hive Mind members has been thinking.
Hey guys should we really be helping her taking down NB she did try to kill us a few chapters ago I think we should let NB kill her?
"I heard that Kropsling" Pinkie said to Kropsling66 "and you commenter's better keep me alive otherwise you all are next on my list.
Remembering that that she can break the forth wall and remembering the story 'cupcakes'.
I talk to the others and said
"I think we should do what she says and help her out. What to you think?"
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I got nothing for the question. sorry.
Until there is one I think is awesome I will edit it and give you your answer.
Can we put other soldiers (more specifically, elite operatives) in the next chapter?
Nightmare Bugzee try to attack to Pinkamena, but everytime he try to hit her, she manage to make him miss. And that make Bugzee even more angry.
"Gaaahhh... Stop moving and die!" Shout Nightmare Bugzee
"Never! You are not going to win this battle! And you know why?" Ask Pinkamena
"Don't tell me that tale about love and friendship, because it's not going to work" Say Nightmare Bugzee
"Well, it's that, but there is also the thing about those that control us... They are my fans, you have many fans, but this is a good vs evil and unlike you, I have more fans and I fight for the good team, the story need a happy ending after all" Say Pinkamena
Nightmare Bugzee look confused to Pinkamena
"Come on fans! Come on Hive Mind! Come on DWC, give me the power, let me finish the nightmare" Shout Pinkamena to the sky
"By the power of Bronies! I have the Power!" Shout Pinkamena as she point the sword to the sky.
Nightmare Bugzee look at Pinkamena, Pinkamena look to the sky, but nothing happen.
"Come on, Fans! It's not time to not do nothing, the evil must be vanquished and oh... I forgot this was a bad comedy... Of course" Groan Pinkamena
Artillery in the distance fires at the nightmare, with minor effect. Every last combatant makes an effort to kill the nightmare, even though so far nothing has worked. Even an orbital strike by something in space is attempted. (Could be Celestia trying to use the sun, or an experimental Equestrian weapon, or something of that nature.)
I don't know about a most awesome moment in the season. I've forgotten a considerable amount since it started. But even so, I liked whenever there was a fight.
Archetype - Helix.
Answer to question: If Fillydelphia riot was in this season, it wins.
Scootaloo pounces on the Nightmare and starts stabbing him, blaming him for killing her friends and idol and now she will never get to fly. The Nightmare responds,
"Why that's not a problem little orange chicken! We'll give you free lessons!"
With that, the Nightmare grabs the orange armored filly, whips her around him at high speed, and throws her high into the air at high speed.
"You're welcome!"
ON THE MOON
We see an older changeling wearing a Bowler hat near a makeshift campsite as he narrates to himself while writing in a journal,
"Day &*%&. Still no sign of the 'Mare on the Moon'. Although I am still curious about that shiver up my spine that felt like all my former co-workers were being brutally slaughtered by a pink pony with a chainsaw arm (weird how specific that was) But mark my words, I will find the Mare on the Moon AND I WILL BANG HER ALL NIGHT LO-"
Suddenly an orange blur slams into him from above. When the dust cloud settles he mutters,
"Why do I feel like a chicken landed on me?"
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Whiel Bugze is running through the city, he trips and the Inventory (except for Nightshade) spills out. He manages to regather a few things, but
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Supplement to Pinkemena's death;
The Nightmare viciously slams Pinkemena into a western-themed restaurant before pouncing on her and proceeding to rapidly smash his clawed hooves and tails into her in a cold furious flurry of strikes.
At this, an obese, glasses-wearing, Earth pony member of the Horde says,
"She's clearly ripping off Bruce Chinbell from the Evil Dead trilogy! You should ironically rip off her ripoff chainsaw arm then impale her with it while quoting Batmare: The Killing Joke!"
Snapping out of his tranquil fury (as he's pretty much finished pounded Pinkemena into a bloody pulp anyway), the Nightmare lights up and says,
"That's a great idea fat glasses-wearing Horde pony! For that, I shall kill you quickly and last."
"Thanks my film buff lord (I guess...)! Also... Can I have some bits for the last Hayburger place standing- my God?"
"Eh... Sure, why not?" The Nightmare nonchalantly responds as he tosses a nearby vault full of Bits at Kersey...
*SMASH*
That lands of the fat Earth pony.
"I'm okay..." Kersey says from under the safe.
With that, the Nightmare says to Pinkemena, "That is one Groovy-looking chainsaw arm. May we have it?"
"You'll have to take it from me..." Pinkemena says defiantly while spitting out some blood.
"Your proposal is acceptable."
With that, Nightmare Bugze violently wraps a Nightmare Tail (or two) around her chainsaw arm before declaring,
"Appleloosa! Scene 1, Take 2, and..."
Nightmare Bugze tears her arm off as he screams,
"ACTION!"
Nightmare Bugze then impales Pinkemena with her own running chainsaw arm before it then holds up the impaled psycho close to it's face and says,
"Ha ha ha ha HA! It's all a joke, ya know! Everything anypony ever valued or struggled for... it's all a monstrous, demented gag! So why can't you see the funny side, Element of Laughter? Why you no laughing?!”
"Because I heard it before..." She weakly says,
With that she flicks her remaining front limb revealing that it was secretly a prosthetic with a ballistic orichalcum knife in it.
"And your delivery stinks!"
Pinkie then launches the knife into Nightmare Bugze's eye and NB throws her off and holds the wound (Now sporting 3 eyes).
most awesome moment? bugze/nightmare taking on smaug and winning
If Pinkamena is going to die as the climax of the upcoming chapter, she needs a badass death line to complement obviously getting the collar on Nightmare Bugze.
I'm going to assume that at some point in all the fight sequence people are writing, Pinkamena is going to end up crushed and pinned while Nightmare Bugze decides to take its sweet time making absolutely sure she's going to be dead and stay dead this time. And such a moment would probably work best as an intimate scene where they share a moment of hateboner for each other. I want to posit this as a contrast to the version browndog posted.
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"How does it feel?"
NB leers with hatred as its claws Crush what's left of Pinkamena's lower half into the ground.
"How does it feel to know our pain? HUH?! How does it feel to see someone, and only wish for their deaths? To smear their carcass for all the world to see, before you kill them too?"
NB lifts it's claw up and stomps on the broken half of Pinkamena, it's enraged ranting going manic.
"Is it not liberating? Is it not THERAPUTIC?! DO YOU NOT FEEL JOY IN JUST LETTING IT ALL GO?!"
"Joy?"
NB halt's at the sound of a word that's almost a ragged cough.
"Joy died the day you murdered my friends... The day you murdered me- no... The day you murdered Pinkie Pie. I may take satisfaction in killing you, and I WILL kill you, but joy is gone."
NB snorts in disgust.
"Kill us? Your hind legs are like a PB-and J sandwich that's been chewed up and spat out, your life fluids draining like the cheap punch you once used to entertain the idiots you called friend. Your heartbeat slows even as we speak. You are BROKEN... and this time you will stay that way."
Pinkamena coughs again.
"Maybe..." she counters, a bloody smirk gracing her features. "Maybe... I will. But not yet. I can't go yet."
"Oh, but I'm afraid you don't have a choice in the matter..." NB raises it's claw once more, this time taking aim to smash her skull like a watermelon.
"No..." Pinkamena coughs. "I do... I made a promise after all..."
The comment causes Nightmare Bugze to hesitate.
'Click, tink!'
In the blink of an eye, the cybernetic party assassin's foreleg lashed out, locking a certain collar onto the Nightmare's neck. The deranged smile once adorning Pinkamena's face was replaced with a dead expression of smouldering determination.
"And nopony breaks a Pinkie Promise..."
There's a gleam of metal as Pinkamena's other hoof flashes forward, lunging with all the might her shattered body can muster. NB reflexively jerks to the side, just barely avoiding what should have been a fatal wound and instead taking it into one of it's shoulders. Still, the searing pain of orichalcum steel causes the demonic changeling hybrid to freeze in mind-shattering physical pain.
"Nopony..." Pinkamena whispers from her new spot next to NB's ear.
For a few moments since the merciless slaughter and wanton destruction began, the Nightmare just stands there, staring with a cold even gaze at the pink pony before him, even its ten tails are moving slower and less violently. The fires alone serve to illuminate the two as they stand on opposite ends of the destroyed street. Pinkamena tenses up, her eyes never leaving the Nightmare's hulking shadowy form, waiting for an attack to come.
"Y-... Y- you... stabbed our baby." the Nightmare speaks in little more than a whisper.
Pinkamena narrows her eyes, when suddenly-
"REEEEEEAHHHHH!"
The Nightmare is in her face in the blink of an eye, screaming a terrifying shriek that shatters what remaining windows are still intact around them. It then tries to snap its jaws down around her head, but she dodges out of the way and drags a knife across its throat, only spilling a few drops of glowing blood before the wound heals.
"Hahaha-hah heh." The nightmare chuckles and turns menacingly towards his prey "Pinkie Pinkie Pinkie, you'll have to do better than-"
*Thock!**Thock!**Thock!**Shink!* But it's interrupted by another round of knives as they embed themselves into its torso.
The Nightmare blinks a few times "Better than that. Allow me to show you how it's done."
An explosion of midnight magic erupts behind Pinkamena, throwing her off balance long enough for him to rush forward and make a few swipes at her. She dodges most of them, but ultimately is snatched by its newest nightmare tail. With her in its grasp, The Nightmare proceeds to pummel her, smashing her into a taco cart, a gift shop, and several street lamps before sprinting down the street while dragging her face across the storefronts.
"You see this?" it stops and holds Pinkamena up to its face while constricting her in its tail "This is how you hurt someling that's hurt you! It has to be effective, you have to smile... and you have to enjoy it!"
It then flings her with all its might down the street where she crashes through a wooden vegetable cart, completely obliterating it.
"MY CABBAGES!"
"Ah, classic." The Nightmare sighs.
*Beep Beep BEEP* "What the bu-" the Nightmare stops and cranes its tale in front of its face just in time to see a timebomb planted on it. *BOOOOO-OOOM!*
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Later in the fight, Pinkamena has taken to the rooftops, hoping the uneven terrain will give her an advantage where she can get the collar on. But The Nightmare isn't making it easy for her, and relentlessly pursues.
Between punches that miss only to go through solid walls, magic blasts that easily dodged or avoided, and constantly getting struck in the face with knives and kicks from the nimble opponent, the Nightmare only gets more and more angry.
"Will *Smash* You *Crash* Stand *Shatter* Still?! Buck this!" it screams and pulls a replica Captain Equestria shield from its Inventory and sings "When Captain Equestria throws his mighty shield, all those who choose to oppose his shield must YIELD!" before throwing it at Pinkamena.
But she stops in her tracks, does a half-turn and catches it with her metal arm. She looks at it and sings "Unless you're a plane, or a bomb, or some ice, or a psycho pony with a robotic leg... Then you don't necessarily have to yield!"
Step one. perform two falcon punches with the nightmare tails.
step two: have them collide.
step three: everything explodes.
or in refrence to this video
Have Discord conjure up a semi, slam it into reverse, and shout this.
"This is it! we're going byond fast! byond rediculus speed! byond ludicrus speed! we're even going byond Plaid! WE"RE GOING BIG RIG SPEED!" Then have him throw it into reverse and back into the Nightmare at 12.3 undecillion miles per hour.
(Yes, plaid is a sspeed. go watch Spaceballs)
TL;DR. Sorry if it's a bit late, but this is on par with the FIllydephia Arc, in which I had about a week to prepare my crud and get my imaginative combustion in order. Hopefully this won't compromise editing and posting schedules. Much.
As for most awesome moment... Fillydephia Arc, Bugze vs the Four Elements. Yeah, that Arc has become a bit of a favorite among the "epic and awesome" department.
Well, anyways, here's mine. In honor of Pinkemna Diane Pie. Oh, and just so you'd know... I'm sorry for this.
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The Nightmare shot forwards and swung a tail right at her. Pinkemena jumps away, the tail smashing the concrete from where she previously stood into dust, only for the monster to grip the concrete with its outstretched tail and launches itself to meet the psycho pony in midair. Pinkemena meets its initial head butt with twin knives, twisting around the vicious horns and tusks to plunge each of them into an eye each.
The Nightmare merely grunts.
“Graagh!” PInkemena shouts. She uses the forward momentum and the Nightmare’s very horns to hop out of the way of swipes of its tails, abandoning the knives.
She lands on the ground with a roll to the side and grabs a bloody knife from the ground. She ducks away from a blind Dark Falcon Punch. She swung her knife. She stabs it into a lashing tail. With a struggle, she grips hard onto the knife as the tail wildly swings back in, dragging it along with her, and lets go to fling herself into the air.
From the air, she twists around to point her cybernetic hoof at the Nightmare. A glow and hum emits from the end of the hoof as an open end turns red hot for a moment before it shot out a beam of energy and into the Nightmare’s face.
“Gah!” it shouts, “Stop hitting the face! Fos Ro Dah!”
She is blown away from the attack, rights herself haphazardly before pulling something with her metal arm and then jerks to a stop, just in time to keep from splatting into a nearby building and plant a knife to brace her onto its wall.
The Nightmare feels the tug onto his horns as begins to see flickers of straight light. Strings. And they sting.
“Metal strings, lightweight and 10% Orichalcum.” She smirks from the wall, and pulls the string taught. “You like?”
“Raaaugh!” The Nightmare shot out a wave of flame, intending to burn her and the building along with her.
“…Guess not.”
Pinkemena instantly throws a knife, the blade riding onto the path the string gave before she jumps onto the string line and then bounces off of it and onto the rooftop, the edge shielding her from the flares. Judging by the sickly sound of cutting fless and the roar of anger afterwards, she hit home.
Suddenly, the building beneath her shakes and crumbles. Cursing, she runs to leap to another rooftop. It was a distance too far to be fair, but she presses on anyways. With a heave, she throws her weight to gain height and suffers the wait of being on air for two seconds. She lands. She tumbles. She makes it!
She stands back on all fours with a roll to face the decimated building, another knife out, just in time to see the accursed changeling to burst out of the rubble as a blur and lands on the roof to join her. Cracks forms on the concrete by its feet.
“You think you’d get to run?!” It punches with a tail. Pinkemena dodges, this time going inside its guard to stab and pin one front leg to the ground, only for it to break out that one leg free and strike her with it, but she jumps and flips over him to the other, to which the Nightmare slams two tails onto her head and body.
She pays no mind to the pain nor her long pink hair as it blocks her sight, but instead, with her teeth, pulls her the string that she set up around the leg she just stab to make it go taught. She threw a flurry of knives, most of them meeting The Nightmare’s parrying with its tails.
Unknown to the Nightmare Changeling, some of the knives rides on the string and strikes at on the same leg.
“Gah! So annoying! Get over here!” In rage, the Nightmare pulls the string and drags her towards him, to which she responds with a point blank laser beam to the face. It throws three tails at her, making sure that it won’t miss, only for her to swing around with the string she continues to hold onto and deftly cleared over all three legs.
The Nightmare is about to strike with his other tails but Pinkemena surprises him with an explosion of flour to the face.
White dust blocks his visions, so he slams a few of his tails to the ground to crush the roof into nothing, forcing the battle field to be on the inside of a roofless building. Dust, dirt, concrete, and grim is now included into the party of white particles. He sweeps his tails around to clear it all with flair. However, more and more flour replaces it.
“Flour? Seriously? How cute.”
“Hm.” Pinkemena steps a ways away from it, approaching a window. “Ever heard of a ‘Dust Explosion’?” She jumps out, turning back to shoot a spark of her laser beam into the white-dusty room.
The result is spectacular. The building right before her eyes burns bright in a brilliant boom of orange and red and gray. For a moment, the pink pony sees white and feels and hears the inkling of nothingness. Really, it didn’t faze her all that much. She fights through the numbness and lands on something with a thud.
Glancing around, she finds that she crashes into a whole different building. Judging by the glass and the crumbling of a building nearby, it is a building from next door… She hears a deafening, and chilling, roar. She didn’t even turn. She just ran.
Pinkemena grunts. “Tch. Still bucking unkillable, I see.”
She jumps through window to window, building to building, cutting away obstacles when she sees fit, and that is all with the Nightmare chasing her down as it rams and decimates each building she has been in from the outside.
”You can run! But you can’t hide!” It bellows from the outside.
At that, she feels Pinkie Keen.
Instantly, without so much as faltering or stumbling, she makes a sharp turn to jump through a window that led to the open streets, not even minding the glass. Just in time, too, as the building she has been in falls victim to the Nightmare’s merciless destruction, becoming rubble in seconds.
Speaking of whom...
”Get down here!” The Nightmare is onto her, launching into the air to meet her. It wraps all ten of its tails around her, forming an inescapable ball of shadow and squeezes. ”Now, let’s see if you can survive this one!”
It slams the ball to the ground. It slams it to a poor nearby lamppost. It then slams it into a food stall, a game store, a mall, a bridge, and then into an entire block--!
Raaugh!”
…Until, finally, it lets go and throws the contents into the ground. Not even waiting, it follows it up with a devastating torrent of inferno! It stops, chuckling at its handiwork, expecting for there to be the smell of burnt blood and ash. He sniffs the air as though it would a heavenly a smell.
There is none.
Confusion quickly becomes an acute attention to one of his tails. There, cut haphazardly but effectively, is the stub of his tail. Typical, his body hadn't quite adjusted to his tenth tail. Power has become spread out after his excursion with Tirek and Discord. It stares at its now severed tail for a moment… ”Slippery, now arent’cha?” …before quickly regenerating the tail into its original length. Still, he had plenty left.
Meanwhile, Pinkemena is huffing and puffing behind a building. While she did escape with her life, she still sustains some major damage. The bleeding and bruising and aching coming from her head and torso and hindquarters makes it clear for.
She laughs dryly. It is the same. Just like the last time.
Back when she was afraid and helpless. Back when all she could do was cry—she wants to cry! When she’s so susceptible to pain… Weak. She was too weak. Pathetic. That last attack gave her the case of whites and blacks, reaching the point of near death. It didn’t faze. It just didn’t.
A smile breaks through her severe expression. Of course. After all, the same happen to Pinkie Pie when she die. Slowly, but surely, her sight blackens, her eyes closing all the same. She began to slump, taking in the serenity of just…letting go.
No.
She has to finish this! She can’t die yet! Not yet!
She gasps by the sudden ringing of her ears, her aching body and beating heart rapidly forcing her back awake. How long has she been out?!
”You got Us good that time, but did you think you'f actually get away?"
Her eyes widen. She spun and throws a knife, to which the Nightmare casually catches with a tail.
”We’re a god. You think just a few puny knives and laser is going to stop Us?”
She went to throw more knives, but finds that she couldn’t. That's it. That is the last one. “Gods bleed all the same!” Pinkemena shouts, mustering all the strength she has left.
”Oh, please!” It rolls its eyes in dismissal. ”We’ve bleed plenty of times. It had lost its meaning a very, very long time ago.”
“Maybe. But I have something that will. Permamently.”
Pinkemena Diane Pie, pink psycho and ex-party pony to all of Ponyville, Mistress of Death and Grim Joker to all, brings out the Orichalum blade. She extends out the chainsaw from her cybernetic leg, revving the weapon with an intimidating and fearsome roar. The flesh render on one metal hoof, and the regeneration decimeter on the hoof with flesh. She stands on her hind legs.
This is it. Her last stand. She will not run. She will not be afraid!
The Nightmare grins. ”Bring it. Let’s have some fun!”
Round Two. Fight! Then, they dance.
Suddenly, chains wraps around Pinkemena. A glance down, and sees that it came from her own shadow!
”Like my new move?!” the Nightmare shouts as it launches a stream of darkness towards her.
Without hesitating, she brings out her metal hoof, opening a compartment from within—her grenade holder! Out came a flash grenade, and she closes her eyes.
Bang!
By that, her own shadow disappears along with the chains the holds her, and then she leaps away and keeps on running, just in time for the darkness to sweep the area and leave literally nothing behind.
A sharp turn, and then she is charging at the monster with a roar, all four of its eyes widening. And thus, Pinkemena began hacking and slashing without a care.
A tail to the torso. And still…she presses on.
She twists around the force and put more forward momentum, swinging her sawblade along with it.
A Phantom blast of shadow on her way. And still she presses on.
She jumps over it and swung down both blade, going through the slits of the Nightmare’s Shadow Tail Defense.
A roll-slam to the ground . And still she presses on!
She holds the grip of her two blades, twists, and pulls them out, staggering but nonetheless taking satisfaction in the fact that she actually pierces the darn monster!
A Dark Falcon Punch to the face. She pushes through it. And still. She. Presses. On!
And through it all… She thought about her friends. A trio of butterflies. A trio of apples. A rain cloud and rainbow lightning bolt. A triplet of diamonds.
And a six-let-point starbust.
“Starburst Stream!”
And with the light of her Laughter, she cuts. She slices. She dices! Left and Right! She unrelentlessly presses on even as the Nightmare hits her again and again! They became blurs, and the only thing that can be seen at that point is the streams of blue and pink and red colliding with the perversion of black and red and purple
It is a long and hard-fought battle. Pinkemena with her deadly dual wielding…and the Nightmare with his malicious arsenal of tails and shadow... But neither stops for the other, even despite injury after injury after injury and after injury. Until, finally. Finally! Everything falls silent.
The Pink Death soon meets her end…
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Hey guys, you ALL have parts in this arc:
Feel free to give yourselves traits (like what species you are and exaggerations of your normal personality traits) and stuff to do
Also, don;t forget that Fleur is here to and this will be her backstory
So give her stuff to do as well
6180173 Yup to the first question or the second question?
6180335 Then I will begin to think about a character to represent me and put it in the next chapter. Maybe a Changeling or if I can't, maybe a unicorn or other race.
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Yup. You're also all members of the Horde/Crimson Knights so I'd recommend humorous exaggerations of your flaws (like how I put that my "Kersey" is an obese, paranoid, gluttonous, glasses-wearing, cinema-obsessed Earth Pony)
6180173 Yup to the first question or the second question?
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Yes it can be any species (except OP ones like Centaurs, Draconequs, Ursas, etc).
And instead of replying to this message, just go back to one of your old comments and modify it so our conversation does NOT take up the comments list of the chapter.