Episode 84: The Sun Goes Out as the Moon Falls (Season Finale Part 11)
As the Princesses battle him, it’s clear that they are too weakened, but they carry on. Together they are able to break one of his tusks off, to which he screams in pain.
"Why the bucking tooth?! Now we look like some snaggletoothed freak!"
"We did the same to Discord you monster, but we shant stop there!" screams Luna as she charges with a spear.
With their battle armor gleaming, Celestia and Luna charge at the Nightmare, but the Nightmare just smiles insanely as he uses his tails to block both their charges. Eventually he pushes them back with his tails with enough force to disorient them a bit before blasting a ball of darkness at them. They manage to dive out of the way, but the explosion still slams them against the walls. The Nightmare grins at this as he says,
"You see! Even all healed up, you're still no match for us just like back at Ponyville! Why don't you just give up and accept your fates with dignity?!"
The Princess just glare at him silently before they charge at him again. Luna leads the charge, but is quickly knocked to the side by one of the Nightmare's tails. Celestia growls at this and starts to shoot a spells at the monster in hopes of damaging it, but the Nightmare simply chuckles as it uses it's remaining tails as a shield. While he does wince from each blow slightly, Celestia's assault doesn't appear to be hurting him much. The Nightmare chuckles again as he says,
"Give up Celestia! Your little spells can't even scratch us!"
To this Celestia... smiles? The Nightmare gains a confused look as Celestia says,
"You're wrong Nightmare, these spells do hold a purpose..."
The Nightmare quirks a eyebrow as he asks,
"Oh yeah? What?"
The Celestia's smirk gets even bigger as she declares,
"They make for the perfect distraction! LUNA, NOW!"
The Nightmare's eyes widen in surprise at Celestia's declaration as he quickly turns around to where it knocked Luna away...
Only to come face-first with a spear head just inches from his face.
"OH BUCK!" The Nightmare exclaims as he quickly moves his head to dodge the blow, but it cannot fully escape the spear as it severs off one of its tusks! The Nightmare cries out in pain as he grabs what's left of his tuck as he whines,
"Why the bucking tooth?! Now we look like some snaggletoothed freak!"
Luna (who had returned to her sister's side) merely glares as she says,
"We did the same to Discord you monster, but we shant stop there!"
The Nightmare stops holding it's mouth in pain as it glares at the princess with complete rage. It soon growls before it lets out a...
Grey Rebl's Comment
Roar that releases a quick wave of darkness from it's mouth. The two sisters waste no time flying to either side and avoid it as they charge at the Nightmare with horns aglow. The two summon spears of light and dark (each of which belonging to them in their matching respective colors) whose rods hum with power.
Celestia flies forward as she swishes her light blade to literally slice through the darkness making a path for the Princesses to charge through. When they get close, the Nightmare raises a tail and aims it at Celestia only for the sisters to switch as Luna uses her Dark Blade to parry the tail-strikes before bringing out a forcefield to block an onslaught of tail strikes.
As the Nightmare focuses on Luna, Celestia takes advantage of the divide in attention and dives in to deliver a holy blade slice straight across the Nightmare's barrel and flaps away from a retaliating fiery-black clawed hoof only to get stabbed by Luna.
The sisters continue this strategy of "parry, distract, and attack", but the Nightmare lets out a roar of frustration as he flails all his tails out and wildly spins them like a hurricane of darkness. Luna manages to fly above the dark whirlwind just in time, but Celestia is knocked back as she was flying in for another attack.
As the Nightmare slowly advances on Celestia, Luna prepares an attack from above. A night blue ball of magic forms above her horn, increasing in size with every passing moment. With a flick of her head downwards, she flings the ball at the Nightmare and it ignites in a bright explosion of star-like glitter and light as Luna feeds more magic into the eruption to keep the explosion going, using the roars of pain from her target as encouragement.
Celestia quickly gets back into action, building up her magic as well. After her horn begins to thrum with energy, she shoots out a thick ray of sunlight across the floor and towards her target, incinerating everything in its path! When it makes contact with Luna's magic, it becomes a light show of blue and yellow fighting for coherence.
Finally, the magic could not take any longer and explodes in a brilliant shower of light and darkness that rocks Canterlot and leaves nothing left but the dust and debris from the resulting explosion and the Nightmare's screams.
"UUUUUURGHH--Just kidding!"
Luna's eyes widen. "He's toying with us!"
"No duh." the Nightmare says as a blur comes out of the top of smoke. The Nightmare's jump ends in midair as its 7 non-destroyed tails lazily follow it up into the air. The two sisters makes to take flight to meet it...
"FUS RO DAH!"
Only to get knocked back down by Nightmare's attack. Fortunately, they land on their hooves and quickly recover to instead shoot a flurry of magical beams at gatling-like speeds which keep the Nightmare juggled in the air, but the Nightmare wraps all his tails around him in a cocoon of fiery dark magic as he proclaims,
"Nightmare Nova Shockwave!"
Before spin-slamming into the floor, causing a thrum of power to echo across the entire throne room as tsunami-like waves of darkness burst outward, forcibly splashing all the way up to the wall. It pours out of broken windows! It tears through the walls! It bursts out and through the roof!
When it calms, the end result is a roofless and wallless throne room with parts of the floor missing. The Nightmare sees that the sisters have cast dual-barriers around themselves and are relatively okay, but the sisters are clearly a little bit shaken by the Nightmare's almost casual use of such power.
"Give up?" the Nightmare smirks.
The sister shouts in unison, "Never!" and then charges back in.
"That's the spirit!" the Nightmare cheers as he charges too, but before they could meet head on, they are interrupted when...
Pentakill Apocalypse's Comment
Two unicorns wearing Horde Cultist cloaks come waltzing in. In their magical grasp are two buckets of popcorn and two large sodas. The one on the left (not noticing that the fight has stopped) starts to talk to his comrade,
"I can't believe that those idiots ran and hid when those tin-cans showed up! I mean, sure they're killing us and all, but that doesn't mean we can't watch our god kill the princess! I mean how lucky are we to find them fighting and to actually keep track of where they were going yet still had time to raid the theater for some popcorn and drinks. I mean I swear this fight is even better than Star Wars and Marevengers combined!"
His companion doesn't look so sure about it as she shakes some salt into her popcorn and says,
"I don't know... I liked the original saga better anyway."
The Nightmare (forgetting about the fight he was just in) ignores the confused princesses, walks over to them and says,
"Yeah, the original was and is FAR better than the new movies!"
The Horde Cultist on the left (not noticing that he's talking to the Nightmare) shakes his head as he says,
"I have to disagree, the animations and graphics were a huge improvement to the originals!"
The Nightmare proceeds to stare at the Horde member for a good few seconds before he whips out "George" and zaps tha stallion's head off as two of his Nightmare Tails catches the stallion's popcorn bucket and soda cup. He then proceeds to shove the business end of George against the other Horde member's face as he roars in the Royal Canterlot Voice,
"SAY JAR JAR BINKS IS AN ABOMINATION! SAY IT!"
The poor horde member shakes her head furiously as she shouts out,
"JAR-JARBINKSISANABOMINATION!JARJARBINKSISANABOMINATION!JARJARBINKSISANABOMINATION!"
The Nightmare smiles at this and puts George (the cannon) down before he takes out another plastic looking brick. He nonchalantly toss it over to the Horde member as he says,
"Here, hold this for a second."
The Horde member shakes her head as she takes the plastic brick while saying,
"S-sure my lord."
The Nightmare smiles again before he grabs her with one of his tails and flings her at the still confused princess while saying,
"Thank you, now go Michael Beigh on them!"
The princess shake out of their stutter and dodge the pony, but the plastic brick she's holding goes off and knocks them off their feet. As the princesses reorient themselves, the Nightmare pours the popcorn bucket and soda cup into his mouth before saying,
"So... Where were we?"
MEANWHILE WITH YOU
"Would you kindly BURN!"
As your Power Glove incinerates another Dalek from the inside, you can't help but feel like this battle is becoming tedious. No matter how many Daleks you and Cadance keep repelling from the TARDIS, more just show up!
"Now I know how the Marevengers felt in Marevengers: Age of Ultron." you snark.
"Okay Tennant, here's the plan." Cadance says as she charges her horn, "I'm going to charge up a shield spell that'll hold off these Daleks long enough for us to catch out breathes. But it's going to take awhile to ready it so I need you to distract them-"
You interrupt Cadence however as you say,
"No problem Cade-"
But before you can finish she says,
"For five minutes."
You look at her in surprise as you say,
"Eh?"
She ignores you however as she says,
"But considering they tired us out in under one...Ah, I'm sure you'll be fine."
You just stare at her for a good couple of seconds before you gulp and say,
"Well... If you say so..."
With that Cadence begins to charge up her shield, while you go on to distract them...
"You... Shall not... Pa-*zap* OI! No fair attacking during my references!"
"AH! HOT LASER! HOT LASER! HOT LASER!"
"Would you kindly BUZZ OFF!" *Bzzzz zap* "Oh right... Personal protective force-fields..."
"PLEASE DON'T SUCK MY FACE OFF! I LIKE MY FACE ON MY... Well, face!!"
After smashing some more Daleks, you hear Cadance yell,
"TENNANT, GET BACK NOW!"
Heeding Cadence's advice, you jump over to her as she puts the shield up. As Daleks begin to shoot the shield with no effect, you start to catch your breathe as you shout at the TARDIS,
"Hey Doc! *pant* How much *pant* longer till *pant* we're ready!"
You just hear the Doctor sigh as he says,
"A few more minutes at most. Five tops! Maybe..."
You wince when he says five minutes as you think,
Please let this shield stay up for five minutes!
*crack*
"The shield is starting to break!"
"Buck you lady luck." you mutter as you prepare to slam down your Boomstick again...
BACK TO THE CASTLE
We now see that the battle isn't going too good for the Princesses as they are now fighting in the ballroom ("Oooo...we remember this hall! Good tim-*ZAP*") as the Nightmare is...
Kersey's Comment
Singing?
"Boom crack!
The sound of our hoof
As it tears right through your stupid rib cage,"
He sings as he punches Celestia in the chest and through a wall. Luna charges in from behind with horn spitting offensive spells, only for the Nightmare to buck her in the chest as he continues,
Boom squish!
It make us feel good
As we squish, your bucking organs ou-"
"EXTERMINATE!" a pair of Daleks yell as they fly in only to be grabbed by an enraged Nightmare who yells,
"OI! WE WERE IN THE MIDDLE OF A NUMBER YOU STUPID SALT-SHAKERS!!"
He then proceeds to starting whipping his tails, using the Daleks as clubs to beat down the Princesses while yelling,
"FOR ELI MINUTE!... WHOEVER THE BUCK THAT IS!!!"
He then swings the two Daleks into Celestia like a baseball bat, sending her flying across the room and smashing into a cracked pillar. The force of her crash was enough to break the pillar as it falls on top of her and the back of her body is trapped underneath the rubble. Celestia cries out in pain from the force, and she struggles to free herself.
"FORE!!!"
Luna sees her sister trapped and rushes over to her, only for the Nightmare to smash the two Daleks on her, shattering them and disorienting Luna before the Nightmare runs in and Shoryukens her into the ceiling with enough force to shatter her breastplate armor. The Nightmare smiles at the trapped Celestia as it begins to stalk towards her. As it begins to get closer to her struggling form, she can't help but ask it weakly,
"Why..."
The Nightmare stops it's stalking as it looks at her in confusion and asks,
"What was that?"
"Why... Why do you have to bring so much death and pain on my little ponies... They haven't done anything to you..."
"Well... Because it's fun obviously! That and our baby never liked this place anyway, right Nightshade?"
The Nightmare starts to retrieve the Luna Plushie, but suddenly the Nightmare's head begins to twitch and spasm violently for a few moments. When it stops, he speaks in a different distorted voice, but one that feels more chillingly sane,
"Empathy..."
"What?" Celestia says in anger and shock,
"Empathy! We had friends! A home! A family... But you just couldn't leave it alone! You had a first-hoof look at what we could do back at the Gala, we were living our lives not causing any trouble but still YOU JUST WOULDN'T LEAVE US ALONE!!!"
He stomps a furious hoof down as he continues,
"It's because of you and your sister we lost EVERYTHING! You know how that feels? No! You just sit on your throne eating your cakes as you order your 'children' to continue playing with fire as usual. So we decided to dedicate ourselves to returning that feeling a THOUSAND-FOLD!!! So tell me, mother-goddess of Equestria, how does it feel? How does it feel knowing that all your 'children' died in terror because of YOUR mistakes?"
Suddenly the Nightmare's head spasms ahead and his voice goes back to "normal",
"Woah... THAT was weird... But we were on a pretty good roll so we might as well finish whatever that other guy was saying."
With that he clears his throat before continuing,
"Especially that one unicorn... What was her name again? You know... Purple, bookwormish, had her own horn stabbed through her throa-"
With a roar of rage, Celestia engulfs herself in flames that explodes the pillar off her and she rams into the monster with enough force to knock him through several walls through the armory and into the streets of Canterlot.
The Nightmare gets up only to be greeted by dozens of spears raining down on him and impaling him to the ground through several parts of his body.
Celestia then flies up and calls down a concentrated beam of sunlight that incinerates a pair of flying saucers unlucky enough to be in the way before it stops near her horn and charges up into a giant solar-sphere. As the Nightmare struggles to get out from the spears, the sphere gets larger and larger until...
"SISTER! NOW!"
On cue, the princess of the night flies in and blasts the Nightmare high into the air before Celestia hurls the solar-sphere at him with all her might. The sphere collides with the Nightmare in a brilliant flash of light that temporarily turns night into day and erupts into a massive fireball that engulfs and destroys most of the flying saucers in Canterlot's airspace.
The sisters begin to breath heavily as Celestia descends and falls to her knees. Luna goes over to her as she says,
"I...*huff* don't think I could summon such power again sister."
Celestia nods her head weakly before she says,
"Me too sister. That was the last of my energy. With any hope that was enough to end that creature once and for all."
Luna smiles weakly at this and is about to say something when a voice calls out,
"Ahhhh, that's sweet. You actually thought your little light show was enough to kill us?"
Both Celestia and Luna freeze in horror as the smoke disappears to reveal the Nightmare standing and alive. It looks like it's taken a beating and yet another one of it's tails are gone, but it's still breathing, albeit raggedly. And it's smiling...
Luna, finally having enough of this creature, has tears in her eyes as she shouts in rage,
"Why are you still alive! We used up the last of our energy to kill you! You should be dead! Does this mean everything we did to stop you was for nothing! All those innocent ponies we were forced to use as bait! All those soldiers whose lives died by your hoof!"
Luna starts to break down as she looks at the ground, tears streaming down her face as she continues,
"The colts and fillies whose nightmares about you we've seen end with their deaths. All those homes and cities that now burn or rot because of you. The families who will never see their mothers or sisters or husbands or wives again because you took them away! All the pain and misery you've caused that's replaced the love and happiness this land once held. You're the villain and we're the heroes! We're supposed to win, we're supposed to live, and you're supposed to die and just END! So why, why, why , why...."
Luna stops suddenly before she stares at the creature who has finally caused her to break in pure hatred and yells in the RCV,
"WHY WON'T YOU JUST BUCKING DIE! WHY WON'T YOU JUST DISAPPEAR LIKE THE NIGHTMARE YOU ARE SO WE CAN ALL WAKE UP!!!"
...
Silence...
That is all that's left after Luna's sorrowful shout. The Nightmare just staring at her with no emotion. The grief and hatred could be felt in the air as the princesses stare the monster down. Nothing is said or heard, until...
"Bwa..haha...hahaha...AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!"
The Nightmare laughs and laughs until it can laugh no more. The Princess stare at the beast in horror until the laughter dies and when it does the beast merely stares at them as it says,
"You wanna know why we can't die? Why no matter how much you try, what you throw at us, and whatever you do we still live? Well... we'll tell you!"
And with that the Nightmare begins to walk over to the two weakened sisters as it says,
With that said, the Nightmare takes out it's cannon and aims it at them point blank, ready to finish them off. However just before it pushes the trigger...
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Celestia manages to push Luna out of the way of the blast with the last of her strength, but the blast sends her smashing through several walls of the castle. She watches, barely conscious, as the Nightmare pounces on her.
Using all of his remaining tails, the Nightmare picks her up and impales her hooves and wings above the throne with it's tails. Celestia cries out in pain as she feels her life leaving her. She can only look at the Nightmare weakly before growling out,
"I hope the darkness of Tartarus swallows you whole..."
She then spits blood onto the Nightmares face. The Nightmare only wipes the blood off with it's hooves as it reaches into his Inventory and pulls out his Boom Stick and calmly says,
Before he rams the staff into her mouth, exploding her head completely. The Nightmare grins in satisfaction at the former solar monarch's corpse before it takes it's tails out of her body. But before it can turn around it sees a shining bright light shoot out of Celestia's body and towards the air. It has a golden hue to it and seems to emit some sort of emotion. This goes on for a little bit before the light dies and Celestia's body goes still.
The Nightmare only stares at what just happened in confusion before it hears a cry of,
"SISTER! NOOOO!"
The Nightmare smirks at the cry as it turns towards Luna. She is in the throne room, but now she is frozen in fear and hatred. The Nightmare just smiles at this as it begins to walk over to her while taunting her,
“You know, all of this is your fault.”
Luna merely continues to stare at her now-deceased sister. The Nightmare merely shakes it's head at this as it continues,
“We remember a part of us being a part of you. Without your jealousy and anger, we never would have been born. So thank you, it’s been a real blast… Mother,”
It then reaches over to Luna who snaps out of it and charges a spell only for the Nightmare to wrap all of its remaining tails around her throat and suspends her in the air, hanging her.
"Ah, poetic isn't it? You wanted to hang Nightshade, and now here we are hanging you..."
"That's right you stupid ugly b!%$#, choke on the irony!" shouts "Nightshade"
Tears start to stream down Luna's face, but then she gets a look of determination as she chokes out,
"I'm....*cough* glad she's dead!" Luna gasps out causing the Nightmare to stop smiling and growl,
"What..."
"I'm glad she didn't live long enough to see the monster her father became... To know that he was the one who killed her..."
At this, the Nightmare becomes enraged and snaps Luna's neck as he roars,
"YOU'RE LYING!!! OUR DAUGHTER IS ALIVE AND WELL!!!"
As the light fades from Luna's eyes, she stares down the Nightmare, judgement still in her dead eyes. The Nightmare drops her to the floor and then takes the Luna Plushie out of the Inventory,
"It's okay baby. Daddy took care of her. You're not dead... You're not!" it says unstably as it pets the doll.
"I know Daddy, she was a liar till the end. You'd never let me get hurt, never!"
"Th-that's right baby... Daddy would never let you go... Daddy Loves You..." it says as it continues rocking back and forth petting the doll.
"I love you too, but you have to keep going daddy...there's still others out there who want to hurt me."
The Nightmare stops rocking and looks up.
"That's right... Auntie Cadance and her friends. Thanks for reminding us baby," it says as it kisses the doll on the head before putting her back in the saddlebags.
"No mercy Daddy. No Mercy.." "Nightshade" says from within the bag but suddenly the Nightmare starts coughing up a fit and coughs out some midnight-colored blood. Ignoring this, the Nightmare smiles once more, but then notices Luna's body and mutters,
"B!%$#..."
Suddenly, just as her sister's did, another beam of light shoots out of her body and towards the sky. This one a midnight blue color, and it's emitting another emotion that the Nightmare can't grasp. Soon the light ends as Luna's body lays still once again. The Nightmare merely shrugs it's shoulders at this as it says,
“Right then, where’s the weirdo in the clothes?”
With that the Nightmare turns around and starts to hunt down it's prey. But before it can even move the castle suddenly begins to...
The battle between the Princesses (not gods) and the nightmare heats up as both sides throw pillars and chunks of masonry at each other. The roof falls in at some point, when they've ripped up too much of the building's support for it to remain up, and at the end of it all, the castle falls off the mountain and breaks apart on the ground below.
Shake like crazy. The Nightmare quickly jumps out of the castle and onto the ground below just in time as the Castle begins to cave in on itself. Eventually the whole castle begins to fall off the mountain it once resided on.
The Castle of Canterlot, a pillar of hope to all ponies in dark times. The symbol of harmony and peace in Equestria. A landmark that showers all with a feeling of happiness when they see it...
Now falls into the darkness of the mountain below. The Castle has fallen, and to those watching it from afar or in the city, know now only one thing...
The Nightmare has won, all hope is lost.
POV Change: Bugze (You)
You were starting to lose hope on the princesses winning when you saw that really bright light shoot out of the castle and into the sky and Cadence started crying. You lost even more hope when that midnight blue one shot into the sky and Cadence start to cry even more.
But you'd have to say you lost all of your hope when you saw the bucking castle fall into the abyss.
...
Buck you lady luck.
After a minute of calming down, and another three getting Cadence to stop crying, you remembered something that can really help you defend the TARDIS. And that is...
BrownDog77's Comment
That a tool your plasmids/vigors can do that you haven't really utilized. Traps.
You place Shock Jockey traps all around you and the TARDIS in a web, while also leaving Bucking Bronco and Ice Traps around.
When the Daleks fly into them, they are either outright destroyed, or are inconvenienced to where you can finish them off with the Boom Stick or even a few falcon punches.
Cadance gets surrounded by four and blasted all at once, and she falls down in pain, but you leap in the middle of them and send a shock wave out, tossing the Daleks into your traps.
"Cadance, are you Okay?" you say lifting her up.
Cadence, with blood shot eyes from all her crying, coughs then says,
"I've had worse. Look out!" she pushes you out of the way of a Dalek laser and blows it up by encasing it in crystal.
Unfortunately she pushed you into a bucking bronco trap and you are suspended in the air for a few moments trying to shoot Daleks with your power glove.
After you get down, you get an awesome idea. You break a fire hydrant and tell Cadance to crystallize the water. She does so, so you lift the chunk up in your Telekinesis and smash a group of Daleks with it.
After having stopped Daleks for some time, you get hit by a beam of dark magic and slam into several houses, away from the TARDIS.
“Bugze!” shout Derpy and the Doctor
“Wait, Bugze?” Cadance asks in surprise. The Doctor and Derpy realize what they said and look at her guiltily.
"No... it couldn't be..." Cadance mumbles as she flies after you.
With You
Bugze Get Up! Now! Selena starts yelling to your dizzy form.
“Ow…what hit me?’ you groggily ask.
Get up! The Nightmare is coming! She screams.
“Wrong!” cries a voice behind you.
You turn around and look into your other you’s face. Wish is now sporting a bleeding eye and one less tusk. You would have laughed at this if you weren't so afraid of dying right now. The Nightmare leers right into your face before it says,
“The Nightmare Is Here…The Question Is, who in the Buck are you?”
You gulp in pure fear as you think,
I swear if I survive this I am going to hold Lady Luck’s face down in a pool of water until the bubbles stop…
Focus! Worry about that Whorse later! Selena screams.
You do as she says, but you don’t know what to do. If this is anything like Time Guard, if you even touch him you’ll end up as some gelatinous blob.
“Same matter cannot occupy the same space…” you mutter to yourself.
“The Princesses wouldn’t tell us who you are, so you must be special. So, WHO ARE YOU?” it growls.
You clench your teeth, pick up your Boom Stick and throw it at him.
“There, that should hurt him and I didn’t tou…” you start before witnessing the Nightmare twirling the Boom Stick around.
“Hey, this looks just like ours. What are you, some kind of poser?” it asks before launching the Boom Stick back at you. It strikes you dead center, knocking the wind out of you and launching you into a brick wall. You gasp for breath, but it’s hard.
Cadance bursts in and shoots a beam at the Nightmare.
“Get away from him!” she shouts.
The Nightmare grunts, before turning around, grabbing her with his tails and slamming her into the same wall as you. She crawls over to you and holds your head up, helping you breathe better.
“Oh Cadance, how pathetic, the both of you…” it says as it advances.
It rears up on it’s back legs and casts a shadow over you two as you look up in fear.
"The Elements are Dead, Your False-Gods are dead, and this world is dead, is that really the best you got?" asks the Nightmare Smugly.
The Nightmare turns around in confusion-
Only to be sent sprawling against the wall by an uppercut straight to the jaw courtesy of a Shadowy Changeling with Orange Hair and Yellow Eyes.
Your Shadow smirks before he follows it up with "lightning Legs" on the blindsided Nightmare, causing it to grunt in pain from the barrage of kicks before blasting into him with "Beast Cannon" and knocking him through the wall and down to the streets of Canterlot.
After your brain, and the mare in your brain, comprehends what you've just seen, your Shadow turns to you and Cadance and says,
"Right now, I'm thinking that Akuma has to be regretting that "witty" line of his. Now are you gonna laze around all day or are we going to end this maniac?"
You stare at the... shadow you, you, Cadance, and Selena all vocalize the same thought.
"What the Buck?"
What do you do?
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“Y-You…” you mumble.
Shadow rolls his eyes and says, “Yes, I’m me, now are you going to get up?” he deadpans.
You do get up and walk towards him.
“But how? You’re a Shadow. My Shadow…how are you here?” you ask.
“The walls of reality have weakened, and the blood of gods and monsters have made magic sporadic, giving me a physical form. And I’m not your shadow…” he says turning to the hole in the wall.
“I’m his…” he says before jumping through the hole he kicked the Nightmare through.
You and Cadance look at each other before you decide to follow.
As you get up, Cadance stops you for a moment and pulls down your mask and gasps.
“B-Bugze…it is you…” she says tearfully.
You sigh, pulling the mask back up. “How did you figure it out?” you ask.
“The Doctor and Derpy yelled it when you were hit…” she says looking at you strangely.
“Dang it…look, I am Bugze, but I’m not like that monster out there OK?”
She still continues to stare at you.
“But you have already been possessed by Nightmare Moon…” she says.
“Yeaahhh…but she’s different! She’s mellowed out a lot,” you say.
“I do not like that description…mellow,” Selena says in disgust.
“But…” Cadance says before you interrupt.
“Look, yes she’s in my head, yes I’m pretty powerful, but I won’t become that monster!” you shout as you run out the hole in the wall, leaving behind a conflicted Cadance.
When you catch up you witness your shadow fighting your Nightmare.
Your head swoons at that.
“Now this is a psychologist’s dream scenario right here,” you say aloud.
“Who are you changeling?!” shouts the Nightmare as he attempts to grab him with the tales, but shadow teleports closer to the Nigtmare and sticks his horn into one of the eye wounds Pinkie gave him, causing him to roar in pain.
“Oh motherbucker. You’re going to wish the Pink Psycho got you!”
Shadow then blasts the Nightmare with a Fus Ro Dah, sending him crashing into a building.
Shadow turns to you.
“Any day now useless!” he shouts and runs off, you following behind.
“But I can’t touch him, matter can’t occupy the same-whoah!” you cry out as your Shadow picks you up and swings you like a baseball bat into the Nightmare, making him falter.
He sets you down, and your head spins a bit.
“That good enough for you?” he smirks.
“B-but…”
“The Doctor lies, remember?” Selena says.
You shake your head clear. “Oh yeah…” before you start punching your Nightmare self with your Shadow.
“Yup, definitely going to go to therapy for this one,” you say.
Both of you use your standard fighting moves on the Nightmare who says
“These are all our moves…what is going…” before you Johnny Cage him in the nads.
“eeeeeeee” he whines, and somehow both you and Shadow you feel an echo of that pain in your own nethers.
You two then both punch him at the same time
“Falcon Punch!”
“Warlock Punch!”
Sending him flying up the hill and into the food district.
“I heard a few ribs snap. Thanks to Pinkie, those are going to be a pain for him,” he says smirking.
You look to your shadow and shake your head in confusion.
“Why are you doing this?!” you ask your shadow.
“To stop the Nightmare, I thought that was obvious!” he shouts back as he tries to run after the Nightmare.
You stop him by holding onto his shoulder.
“No! I mean why are you helping me? After all you tried to do?” you ask angrily.
“All I’ve ever done is try to stop him!” he shouts as he points to where the Nightmare was hit.
You angrily shove him, “You tried to take my body! You tried to kill me! And you had Flag try to become me! So excuse me if I’m confused,” you growl.
At that moment, Daleks appear.
“Exterminate the Insectoid Creatures!” they shout.
You and Shadow fight back to back taking on the aliens, conversing as you destroy them.
“Your little whining is annoying, but I’ll answer you,” he says as he cracks open a Dalek.
“Good!” you shout as you slam your Boom Stick into one.
“Yes I tried to kill you, and yes I tried to take your body, because those are the only ways to stop the Nightmare from coming!” he explains after tearing the head off a Dalek.
“Well great job with that, looks like you totally stopped him,” you snark as you send shock jockey into a group.
“In YOUR universe he hasn’t come, and I wanted to ensure that at all costs!”
“You’re from here?”
“Yes you idiot! I am the shadow of the Nightmare, his exact opposite. His hatred and brutality opened up a way to your world, and I took it. I never want what happened here to happen anywhere else!” he yells giving a warlock punch through a Dalek.
“So you just thought you’d kill me?” you ask angrily as you Falcon punch through a Dalek.
“Yes, but only as a last resort!” he yells.
“Oh, nice! You’re merciful and a good guy huh?! Then what about Flag Burner?!” you yell back.
You both take care of the rest of the Daleks, then you but heads with your Shadow.
“I was trying to push you!” he growls, “To traumatize you and make you show restraint! But a fat lot of good that did!”
“Show restraint?! You told that nutjob to become me!” you accuse.
“Exactly! Why wouldn’t I? I saw a reflection of him in you. A soul who never had luck, who lost his daughter to injustice, and who wanted to fight back. I pushed him down his path to show what you could become, that there was another path. If you had died in Fillydelphia then I still would’ve accomplished my goals, but I hoped that you would succeed. And you did.”
“What do you mean I succeeded? I killed a stallion! Everyone hated me again! And I’ll never get over it!”
“And you shouldn’t it. Wouldn’t you say you’re more restrained when it comes to taking lives? That you pull your punches, even on Dragons?” it smugly asks.
“I…” you stutter.
“Your guilt scarred your mind, and it will never heal. The Nightmare has no qualms about killing. You do. The both of you.”
“So you sought to Break Bugze’s mind? To prey on his guilt?” Selena asks angrily.
“It worked didn’t it? It got you to stop and think over his well being. Heck, it even got him to abandon his suicide pact with you! That’s progress in my book,” he explains.
“Then why were you trying to take over my body? Why did you keep telling me to join the dark side?” you ask.
“Because you were trying to forget about your ordeal, what you’d done. Trying to let your wounds heal…and I couldn’t have that.”
“Huh?” you ask.
“I went into your mind where you were trying to have a little family get together, and I sought to show you that reality bites. To open up those wounds. To remind you what was under your skin.”
“And we beat you down you insect!” Selena chides.
“Yes you did!” he says, “But still, your wounds aren’t enough. You still nearly killed that dragon, and you left your own kind to die! You still haven’t learned your lesson enough!” he growls.
“Oh for the love of Pete, just kiss already!” shouts the Nightmare.
You both turn to him.
“Who the heck is Pete, and how long have you been standing there?” you shout.
“We’re not too sure who he is, but everyling always seem concerned about his love and sake. Oh, and we’ve been here for awhile now. So, you are us from another universe eh?” asks the Nightmare. “And you’re our persona…fascinating.”
He then hits both of you with his tails, sending you flying backwards.
“We’ve always hated how weak we were in the past…now we get to double that hurt!”
Shadow Bugzee and The Nightmare continue the battle.
"MMM... They make me remember when I visited that strange Equestria, Goku was a very good friend" Comment The Doctor
After The Doctor say that, both Nightmare Bugzee and Shadow Bugzee stop fighting, as they look to the Doctor
"You meet goku?" They ask at the same time, with Bugzee also looking surprised
"Is that a problem?" Ask The Doctor
They facehoof before they continue the battle, fighting and destroying some houses as they exchange hits, when just then, a strange goat appear.
"I Grogar appeared, Celestia! Luna! I Grogar listened to your invitation to fight that big Nightmare... But I Grogar was stopped by the traffic, Tambelon was far far away and..." Grogar begin to talk as the Bugzees ignore him
"Hello? I Grogar I'm here! Lord of Tambelon and great sorcerer, warlock and necromancer" Say the goat
Meanwhile from inside the house that seemed to be most undamaged, a window open and hit Grogar in the head, from there Kichi look out.
"Gahh! what is all this noise? I managed to get a little rest but with all of this no one can!" Shout Kichi
"Shinny?" Ask Cadence surprised
Cadence look at Kichi, in front of her, the image of Shining Armor that she was thinking was dead, having tears in her eyes for her old love.
"Uhhh... Nope?" Say Kichi as he begin to curse himself for looking out
"Shining! It's me, Cadence!" Shout Cadence, as her magic begin to gradually full around.
Of course, for Kichi was only a little meal, but Nightmare Bugzee was feeling weakened by all the love in the air as he begin to remember all the good moments with Nightshade and a big headache begin to take him, and his form begin to change between Nightmare Bugzee and normal Bugzee.
"Of course... Nightmare Bugzee is fueled by all the negative emotions of Bugzee... Cadence power can weak him" Comment The Doctor surprised.
But it seems that no one could listen to him, as Nightmare Bugzee begin to lose a little
"Uhh... Nope, wrong guy" Say Kichi
Just then, Grogar begin to move away from the window to the door
"Grogar is Oka..." He was stopped as a colt with a suit of a member of the horde open the door and hit Grogar
"What is happening here?" Ask the colt
Kichi facehoof and go to the door, is then that they see him, with the suit as a general of the horde
"A General?" Ask Bugzee and Cadence at the same time
"Oh yeah... About this..." Begin to comment Kichi
"Kichi, take care of them, I'm having a headache thanks to that stupid bitch" Say Nightmare Bugzee
"Really?" Ask Kichi as his horn begin to glow and a green beam shoot to Nightmare Bugzee
"Aagh, How you dare! You traitor!" Shout Nightmare Bugzee
"Traitor? Traitor?" Kichi begin to make a evil laugh
Meanwhile the fight stop, as they see one general of the horde, a general that is very similar to Shining Armor, shoot to Nightmare Bugzee.
"Did you begin to think that maybe not all follow your idea of wanting to destroy everything? I just hope that miss Pink here can take care of the sun..." Comment Kichi looking to Cadence with a evil smile.
"I only serve one thing, and that is our crazy queen, if someone is a traitor is you" Shout Kichi with another green beam
Of course, if it was normal, the beams could only tickle Nightmare Bugzee, but after the battle with the alicorns, Discord, Tirek, destroying part of the moon, the re-entry to the planet and a little of the fight with Shadow Bugzee, not to say the love in the air, he was not all in full power.
Meanwhile Bugzee was a little confused listening to the words of the horde general, looking to the double of Shining, and about what he was saying, and he was not the only as Cadence begin to realize that Kichi was not Shining Armor and her magic begin to weaken, and Nightmare Bugzee return to himself.
Meanwhile as they all look to Kichi, Grogar managed to climp to the roof of the house
"I Grogar will make you all pay for not taking me seriously!" Shout Grogar as he begin to charge magic but of course he was still ignored
"I will make you pay, traitor..." Say Nightmare Bugzee
"Thou who art darker than even darkness,
Thou who art deeper than even the night!
Thou, the Sea of Chaos, who drifts upon it,
Golden Lord of Darkness!
Hereby I call to thee,
Hereby I swear before thee!
Those who would stand against us,
All those who are fools" Begin to recite Grogar as the sky begin to dark and darkness begin to come around.
Meanwhile Nightmare Bugzee use one of his tail and after he impale Kichi, he throw him to Grogar, making him stop the enchantment, because that, the spell failed and a big explosion happened, destroying both Kichi and Grogar and around half of Canterlot, but before something happen to the group of Bugzee, Cadence make a shield (Like in the crystal empire) and they are not affected.
AFTER THAT IN CHANGELING HELL.
Kichi was in front of Chrysalis, queen of changeling. Looking around, he could see that he was holding a pamphlet
Kichi was looking around, when suddenly the voice of Chrysalis surprise him.
"Kichi, welcome back! I was waiting you!" Say Chrysalis with a smile
"Really?" Ask Kichi looking to his queen with hope
"Of course! Please... Come here!" Say the queen pointing to a spot near her
Kichi walk to the spot and just then, he is hit by the hoof of her queen
"This, is for calling your queen crazy!" Say Chrysalis as she continue to punish Kichi
"Auch... How can you know that?" Ask Kichi as he take another hit
Chrysalis point a screen and they can see what is happening in Canterlot
"Oh, great..." Groan Kichi
"And after the punishment, I want you to make me a hooficure" Say Chrysalis
"Yes, My queen" Nod Kichi
"And when you finish that, you can begin to wax my horn" Say Chrysalis
"Yes, My queen" Nod Kichi
"And Kichi?" Ask Chrysalis
"Yes? My queen?" Ask Kichi
"Welcome back" Say Chrysalis with a smile
Meanwhile in Pony heaven
A colt was walking around a little confused, as he didn't know where he was, the last he remember was that he was looking at a strange battle and a strange group, after that there was a blank and now he was in there.
"Oh, great, where am I?" Ask the colt
"Welcome to Pony heaven, my little pony" Say one voice in his back
The colt turn around and see Princess Celestia in all her majesty
"Princess Celestia? What are you doing here? Wait... Pony Heaven? Crap... I'm dead, where is Kichi?" Ask the colt
"I have bad news for you... Your friend Kichi was a changeling disguised, he is now in Changeling hell" Say Celestia
"Crap... Now I can't defeat him in Fire Emblem" Groan the colt
"Don't worry my little pony, you can visit him in visit hours, meanwhile you can play here all what you want" Smile Celestia
Just then another voice is listened
"Huzzah! Take that Ocelot!" Shout the voice that of course was Luna
The colt look to the Princess and to the screen
"Wait, is that Metal colt Solid 3?" Ask the colt
Return to the living world
Bugzee and the others look around, half of Canterlot, around them was now destroyed, and it was now a wasteland.
"Crap... That got some power... Who was that goat?" Ask Bugzee
"It was a stupid goat that tried to take control of ponies, it was when my aunties were very young" Comment Cadence
I don't see any music..
My reaction to the chapter: 2 sad 4 me, Celestia's head explodes
, the Nightmare Bugze meets Bugze i.imgur.com/0R1biKt.gif
reaction to chapter:
YAY! DEATH!
I simply LOVE that ending...
Shadow Bugze is here, noobs! He came here for two reasons, and he is all out of bubblegum...
About the death of the princesses...
Well, you saw I didn't comment really last chapter. It's because, well, the continuation of the fight between the princesses and Nightmare felt...
Hollow. You didn't tell us it would be a two-parter, resulting in the first half being a much more epic fight. We fired off our good-shots before it was time...
And please, I hoped we would see an episode where it focuses back on something else than fighting. This is what, the fourth chapter without break of fighting?
Calm down, slowly it is getting boring...
I read two other long comments, they mostly have dialogue (probably) because of this. Nightmare does not die in the next chapter yet, right? I am going to save what I think is the most epic part of my battle-additions.
This final does not have to be prolonged artificially, if you would have told us before I think it would have been a much more epic princess-fight in its whole, and feel more complete.
This way, the first part was epic, and the second part, what was supposed to be the epic one... felt just like 'Meh. It's not as good as usually, but okay'.
Of course, all of this is just my opinion, allous-y!
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Bugze and the Shadow stare at the Nightmare. Yet again he shrugged off their attacks, but this time they are prepared.
As the Nightmare laughs and shot his tail at them, they dodge each in the opposite direction. You run at the right side of the tail, and Shadow at the left.
"Why try still? WHY? WHY DO YOU NOT SEE THEY'RE AT FAULT FOR ALL THIS? YOU SAW THEM ATTACK NIGHTSHADE TOO, RIGHT?"
Two of his tails shot out of the ground, with Bugze barely avoiding touching them and Shadow being ensnarled.
"I will never become like you, Nightmare! I won't, and you will fail.", you shout towards him while dodging several tails being fired at you in rapid succession.
The Nightmare's maniacal laughter climbs several octaves, before he asks: "Why? You see me. You are destined to become me. There is no way to stop it! FACE IT! The moment when Nightshade almost died..."
You shake your head, while running into a house and running up the stairs.
Window.
"No, YOU have to..."
Stairs.
Window.
"Face reality! Your Night-"
Stairs.
Window.
"-shade died and it's your"
You run up the last stairs and reached the roof.
"Own fault! YOU killed her!"
The Nightmare's face becomes even crazier, and he mumbles: "That's not true... we wouldn't do that... you are lying."
He turns back to you: "YOU ARE LYING! JUST LIKE LUNA, YOU LIE TO TRY TO SAVE YOUR SKIN! I offered you a chance to rule with me, but YOU refused. YOU may have killed your Nightshade, but I didn't."
He takes out the Luna-plushie: "That's right, he may be you, but he is just like the princesses... lying to even himself. You would never let harm come to me, and he should pay for saying so!"
The shadow, still ensnared by a Nightmare-tail, spats at the Nightmare: "You are the weak one. You couldn't hold your own mind together when she died, your body is strong..."
At this he teleports in front of the Nightmare (Why is Nightmare's Shadow able to control it when you aren't?), and screams: "SOUL SLASHER OF THOUSAND VOLT!"
A blade made out of pure lightning appears in front of him, and slashes at the Nightmare faster than the eye can see.
Lightning cracks all around the Nightmare, until the blade suddenly stops:
The Nightmare's tails have wrapped themselves around it, and apply pressure.
The Nightmare chuckles as the blade breaks, and smashes the Shadow.
"You cannot even hope to harm me.. us... them... with that little lightshow!"
"That's right fa... daddy! They are no match for you!"
There is a flash, and the Shadow is next to you.
"What is going on?", you ask the Shadow.
He stares at the Nightmare in shock, before replying: "You know how I was in your mind? I know of ways to attack the mind, the spirit of someone instead of the body. I think... his broken psyche is even more broken now. It's a wonder he can still move after all of that..."
Now you realise the Nightmare is moving with more momentum than before, more like a drunken warrior.
You remember something, and shout in fear: "DRUNKEN STYLE!
You watch the Nightmare get back up, and attack you with two of his Nightmare-tails, hitting random spots and being even more dangerous than all seven at once before.
"How are we supposed to beat THAT?"
The Nightmare turns away from you, and screams: "That can't be! I killed you!"
He throws several attacks, including his 'Psycho Crusher' at a building, only to stop: "You- you won't die that easily again, you say? I'LL SHOW YOU HOW EASILY YOU DIE!"
You stare at him destroying a building, as you realise his 'Nightshade', his luna-plushie fell to the ground. You wonder if it works like yours, and walk towards it. As you are just next to it, the Nightmare turns around and you are only saved by the Shadow teleporting you.
"I know Nightshade, I know... Daddy won't let the liar take you. You are save now..."
"He doesn't even imitate 'her' voice anymore... he has lost it."
"Complete and utterly", you agree.
The Nightmare slowly turns towards you: "For trying to touch my daughter, I WILL KILL YOURS!"
"...Scratch that. Complete and utterly is not enough to describe it."
Good chapter, I thought the character Eli Minute from EXTERMINA- NO! BAD DALEK allusion was good.
all I can think of is the Nightmare getting caught between shadow bugzes warlcok punch, and the real bugzes falcon punch... and then this happening (Skip to about fifty seconds in)
Two princess deaths, NOT one bit at all. It just pisses me off.
As for the return of Shadow Bugze, about time he got here.
My reaction was mainly horror at the death of the princesses, and fear for what the nightmare is going to do, or try to do, to Bugze, as if he can kill the thing where everyone else has failed.
Get up and into the fight. Hold off the nightmare until the doctor fixes the TARDIS. Pound the nightmare while he's still in shock and surprise at the reveal of your identity, and make it last.
Back with Discord
The amount of chaos has caused Discord to literally pull himself together.
Sometime later he reappears with Luna's horn in place of his goat horn, Celestia's left wing in place of his pegasus wing. Discord says "Hello, everyone. Did I miss anything?"
As you are thrown through a window into a music store a song begins to play...
You tell Cadance to continue protecting the TARDIS and she does so. Getting an idea, she throws up a prism and zaps it with her magic causing her offensive spell to separate into multiple ones that destroy multiple Daleks at once.
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The Doctor manages to get the TARDIS patched up,
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After Shadow Bugze gets done explaining things...
"Now that we're on the same page, we good now?"
"Throat or nards?"
"What?"
You then punch the stunned shadow you in the throat causing him to gag and catch his breath before you comment.
"Now we're good."
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Shadow Bugze throws a Dalek flying saucer at the two of you which you destroy, but then Nightmare Bugze jumps/dives/falls out of the fireball and hits both of you.
A squad of Daleks fly in to exterminate you.
How many Daleks are there? I should keep score. you thought
Then an idea came to your head.
"Would you kindly freeze!" you said as the Daleks began to freeze.
When the Daleks are frozen you picked it up with the Gloves and looked at the nightmare.
"Hey ugly" the nightmare looks at you "Catch!" you shouted as you throw balls of Dalekciles at the nightmare.
That was your Idea? ask Selena
What? it was the only idea that came to may head. you replied
I will admit it was a good idea. Using our enemies against him. Also look out! Selena said as you douge attack from the nightmare. for a little of fun you decide to taunt him
"Miss me Miss me know you got to kiss me."
"Eww... What are you? one of them stallion lovers?" the nightmare said
"What! no I'm straight. I said that cause I was taunting you." you replied then got hit by the nightmares tails
Ouch. I really got to stop taunting. you thought
NO really. Selena replied
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