You struggle against the wall of the TARDIS, but Cadence's magical grip and icy glare ruin any chance of escape. She ordered you to talk, so that's exactly what you start doing, belting out everything that comes to mind, the second it comes to mind.
"Okay I admit it, I always thought you were hot even though you're already married!"
Cadence blinks once. "What?"
"One time I found a volleyball in the trash and we became best friends! I named him Wilson and cried for a week when the other changelings
popped him!"
"What?" Cadence says, even more confused.
"I tried taking the cinnamon challenge last week, only I accidentally used a tablespoon instead of a teaspoon and it felt like I ate burning sand so I rushed to the fridge and drowned myself in whatever I managed to grab first and Rainbow Dash got really mad at me because I drank all her cider!"
You can feel Selena face-hoof in your mind as you're about to keep revealing your most embarrassing secrets out of fear, but Cadence shoves a hoof in your mouth to stop you. She leans in and whispers in your ear through clenched teeth,
"Now I'm going to let go of you're muzzle, and when I do, I want you to calmly and rationally tell me who you are, why you're here, and why. The. Buck. you look like Bugzy before he became that monster that just killed everypony I ever loved. Got it?"
You nod fearfully and she pulls her hoof out of your mouth with an audible *pop*.
"I'm Bugze! But not you're Bugze, the other Bugze! I'm here from another world with the Doctor because I accidentally broke his TARDIS while I was trying to smack him for ruining my life. But it turns out he was just trying to protect everyone like he always does, by making sure I never become that thing out there! But now we're here and trying to stop Nightmare me before his rage can tear a hole through time and space. If we don't the Nightmare will be able to break through to my world and get the achievement for killing everyone twice!"
"Everypony got that?" Asks a Dalek in a giant black helmet who snuck up on you during your interrogation,
"Also EXTERMINATE!"
Cadence is too fast for it though and blasts it into a nearby wall.
"Can we walk and talk at the same time?" you ask her.
Cadence sighs and reluctantly lets you down. "Fine, but you're going to explain everything to me while we look for this coupling your Doctor friend needs."
*Meanwhile with Derpy and the Doctor*
"Umm, Doctor? Aren't we supposed to be looking for the coupling so we can all go home?" Derpy asks as she flaps her wings faster, trying to match the Doctor's quick and determined pace.
"We shall in a moment Derpy. But first, we have an old acquaintance to say hello to." The Doctor tells her and continues his march down the halls of the ship.
After a few moments they come to a large and important-looking door. The Doctor slams his hoof onto the opener panel and the door *Whooshes* open dramatically, revealing a decrepit creature sitting in the lower half of a dalek suit, hooked up to multiple wires and life-support systems. Yet all the while, he stares out at the monitors showing him the death and chaos on the planet below as his Daleks exterminate anything that survived the Nightmare's rampage.
"DAVROS!" the Doctor yells, gaining the Dalek leader's attention.
"Impossible..." Davros mutters as he swivels around to face his ancient adversary.
"I thought you'd have learned to expect the impossible from me." The Doctor says with a smirk as he calmly walks forward, "This ends here and now. I've never let you destroy a world without a fight, and I won't let you this time."
“Ahhh, Doctor…It’s so great to see you again, it’s been so long” he wheezes out.
“It still hasn’t been long enough for me Davros,” the Doctor spits out.
“But of course, you are not MY Doctor…that fool died at the end of the great time war, by my hand…but you…you are from another universe” he says.
Derpy gasps, but the Doctor just stares him down.
“My Doctor unleashed the Time Lord’s greatest weapon, and Dalek and Time Lord alike were erased, but I was able to end him for his transgression…”
At this, the Doctor looks surprised.
“If I…he activated the weapon, then how are you still here?” he asks.
“The same way you are here Doctor, I fell through. Because in that final moment, I found a way out. The walls of reality, time and space have grown thin, and I was able to lead what was left of my armada through the rift. My Doctor failed.”
“Well I won’t make his mistake then.”
“Oh but you already have Doctor. Why do you think we came?” he asks.
“I…”
“We have long sought the source of the thinned reality, and it so happens to be on your precious Equis you so desperately love.”
The Doctor’s eyes widen as he figures something out.
“A powerful creature with enough rage and magic to damage reality, to open a path to another universe…”
The Doctor pales at this news.
“No…” he mutters
“Yes Doctor, thanks to one of your precious Equins, the Daleks will have a whole new universe to conquer and Exterminate.”
Davros laughs as much as his failing lungs can bear at the Doctors shocked expression before he says,
"Don't you see Doctor, this is something I could have only dreamed of. Do you see? A whole world dies below us as we speak." he says as he turns back to look at the screens, on nearly all of them, Daleks can be seen killing dozens of ponies, griffons and minotaurs who are barely able to fight back. "It is beautiful. And from the ashes of this world, the Daleks shall rise. It shall be only the first of many to become ours."
The Doctor growls and is about to say something incredibly witty and heroic, but a changeling in a horde cloak and top hat enters through another door with a plate of nachos.
"Well I'm back... finally. Did I miss anything while I was gone?" he asks.
"Hang on a tic, aren't you one of those horde leader fanatics?" The Doctor asks, "How the blazes did you even get up here!?"
Erised shrugs as he takes a seat in front of the monitors. "I dunno, I mainly just hop in wherever I want, and then do whatever feels right. Don't ask me how it works. The main reason I joined the horde in the first place was because it was fun and interesting and looked like they needed some help. Nowadays though I fell kind of useless, especially with all the other generals out there. I'm busy anyway, so I mostly just kick back and watch." he says through a mouthful of nachos.
The Doctor looks confused for a moment, but quickly returns to the matter at hoof. "Rrrriight... anyway. You're a fool to think you could get away with this Davros, and I won't even have to do anything to thwart your plans this time."
"What are you babbling about? This is going better than I could have ever imagined. This world is weak, its inhabitants no match for the superiority of the Daleks!" Davros says as he looks into the monitors with glee as the genocide continues.
"All but one." the Doctor tells him and walks up to the control panel. From there he zooms in on the Nightmare doing battle with Shadow, both still at a stalemate, but the Nightmare is slowly starting to gain the upper hoof. "That giant dark one with the tales, I'd reckon your entire Dalek army is no match for it. Even if you were to take over this world, it would destroy all of you in turn."
Davros is about to tell the Doctor that nothing could best the Daleks, especially not a lone beast, but suddenly a squad of Daleks converge on the Nightmare from behind only for the Nightmare's tails to lash out and smash the Daleks to pieces all while the Nightmare keeps his focus on the Shadow. Davros stares in shock and considers this for a moment before he smiles evilly and says,
“Ahhh...that creature. Poor Doctor don't you see...that creature will open the passage we need to move on to the next dimension regardless of how many Daleks it kills. My Daleks may not be able to stop him, but his destruction and rage will continue as long as he is engaged in battle.”
“No you can’t!” shouts the Doctor.
“We can and we will Doctor. Once again, you have failed.”
He then presses a button.
“Daleks, attack the creature en masse!” he orders.
“We Obey,” comes the response.
Dravos begins to crackle madly, which gives the Doctor a chance to quickly slip out the door with Derpy while Erised just sits there on his butt eating more nachos.
"What was that all about Doctor?" Derpy asks.
The Doctor grunts slightly before he says,
"That was Davros mouthing off all of his plans like he usually does, but now that we know what's he's planning we'll have a easier time stopping him."
The Doctor then smiles before he says,
"Besides, this is two birds with one stone my dear. Two birds with one stone. Now let's go find that coupling."
With that said the Doctor and Derpy continue to sneak away from the control center looking for the coupling. Preparing to start running at a moments notice now that Davros knows that their here.
Meanwhile, back with You and Cadence
You and Cadence continue to walk awkwardly next to each other as Cadence waits for you to start talking. This goes one for a few more minutes before you sigh in sadness before saying,
“Look, Cadance…”
Cadence suddenly stops walking as she stares at the ground. You can see tears falling down her cheek as she starts to sob,
“I tried everything in my power to make sure He was not harmed. The others wanted to harm him, but I convinced them all to take you alive. I never wanted you harmed…but you just kept fighting back, and your daughter…"
Her voice hitches slightly at the mention of your daughter before she continues sadly,
"Your daughter died and this is what you became!”
You can't help but look at her sadly as you try to say,
“But...”
“You saved my life…and then you took everything from me…” she sobs.
“But I’m not him!” you shout back.
“Oh yeah? What’s so different about you huh? How do I know you just won’t snap like HE did? That you won’t murder everyone I love again in another world?” she snarls at you as she looks at you with a glare of pure hatred.
You step back slightly as her stare, never seeing her look at you like that ever before. It pains you to see her act like this, but you know it's not her fault. She's been through alot, and like she said this version of you cost her everything. But, your not just gonna back down and let her think your just like the monster rampaging on the surface below. Gulping you say in a weak tone,
“Because…I won’t,”
She just continue to glare at you as she asks in a quiet voice,
“Where is your daughter?”
You look at her in surprise, before you sigh and grab onto The Inventory protectively before you say,
“She’s safe, in the inventory. She was drugged and is sleeping, and I really don’t want her to see any of this. And as long as I am standing she will never see this, here or in my dimension!”
Cadence looks at The Inventory sadly before she glares at you accusingly before she asks,
“And you’re saying that if she ever died, you wouldn’t kill the world?”
You wince at this before you stutter,
“I…look that'll never happen! It’s not going to come to that! My Nightshade won’t get hurt! I won’t let her.”
Cadence looks at you sadly before she says,
“You can’t guarantee that…just like my Bugze couldn’t…”
“Cadance I won’t,” you start before she glares at you.
“I’m sorry, but I just can’t trust what you say…your voice is his, and I’ve hated it for so long…” she says as she walks down the hallway.
You follow after your friend sadly. However you don't get to walk far as Cadence asks,
"So let me get this straight you are Bugys from another universe you isn't the nightmare destroying the whole of Equestria. And you are looking for some parts so the doctor needs to fix his machine because you broke it and you are stuck here." Cadences asked trying to put all the pieces together.
"Yes it's true but If the doctor told me the first place what was going one all this wouldn't have happened." You said point to what's left of Canterlot.
"And you need these parts so it can send you three home?" Cadences asked
"Yeah that's correct and also maybe taking out that thing out too." you replied
"OK then but what happens to me once you three left?"
That question struck you hard. How are you going to respond to that. A thought rushes to your head,
If we get the parts and fixed the TARIS Equestia would still be a dead world and Cadence would be the last pony left. No ling or pony to be with, to talk to, play around and have fun. She would be ALONE.
What should I tell her? Should I say that everything is going to be OK or give her the bad news. She has seen so much death her friends, her family, her loved ones. All gone because of him. I need to ask the doctor when I see him. I need to ask him what will happen to Cadence's when we are done here?
"Bugze?" Cadence ask getting your attention
"Let me get back to you on that okay." you said your response to the question made Cadence's feel a bit uneasy but you smiled to her trying to give her some hope for her in the future.
She smiled back as she got the message. An hugged you for it wrapping her wings around you.
You can feel the Alicorns heart beet it feels nice and warm too like being wrapped in a warm blanket. Sadly your moment of happiness was short live as in your mind you feel urgent of what the doctor might say. That and Cadence remember who she was hugging and she pushed you away. She glares at you slightly before she begins to walk away. You sigh sadly at this as you think,
I'm so sorry Cadence. I wish there is a way to help you, and I hope I can find it before it's to late.
A FEW MINUTES LATER
As the two of you continue to walk down the hallway in awkward silence. As the two of you past by a lookout center (you know the place on ships where they can look down at the surface), you and Cadence can't help but stare at the burning wasteland that used to be Canterlot in sadness. You could barely make out the Nightmare fighting the Shadow below, as well as a bunch of Daleks attacking them. You look beyond the the dead city towards the vaults, but to your dismay you see that they've been busted open with Daleks streaming into them. Your eyes widen as tears threaten to come out as you think,
NO! They got into the vaults! All those ponies that were in their! Twlight's parents! Sapphire! Oh Luna I sent that Moondancer mare there! Did I...did I send her to her death?! Oh Luna what have I done!
You feel your hooves begin to buckle at all the ponies who are probably now nothing but ash, but you snap out of it when Selena says,
Bugze, I know how you must feel right now. But we need to focus on the mission. Their fates were sealed the moment the Nightmare entered the city, the Daleks just spread up the process. Their was nothing we could have done. Right now the best thing we can do is carry on and remember those who have fallen. Besides...
You suddenly see Shadow violently get smashed through a building and into a vault entrance as the Nightmare soon follows by sling-shot-ing himself after the Shadow. Soon you see broken Dalek pieces flying out of the Vault.
It would appear that their deaths will soon be avenged.
You calm down only slightly as you think,
O...okay. I'll focus on the mission. If we can get the TARDIS to work then we can stop this from happening, right?
I suppose that is true...
Then that's what I'll focus on. If the only hope I have is the TARDIS to save all those ponies, then by Luna I will get that coupling!
Making a determined nod, you about to continue onwards when Cadence says,
"You think anypony's is still out there?"
You gulp slightly at this as you say,
"If there is...then Luna help them. Come on, we need to find that coupling if we wanna stop this from ever happening."
Cadence sniffs slightly before she gives a determined nod and begins to walk ahead. Before you follow her you can't help but look back outside as you think,
I hope that there's still something alive out there....
Meanwhile With Someone Who's Still Alive
Solarkness the Timberwolf just finished forcing the Dalek to 'drink' tea (he found some teacans in nearby ruins, and poured them over the Dalek's eye. He also found two tophats and made the Dalek wear one, and wore the other), and tells him,
"What a great day to have a tea-party, isn't it? Now I just wish we could watch something..."
"EXTERMINATE!"
Solar laughs as the beam hits him, and his body reappears after a while. He looks over the movies, even though he cannot watch any, and finds one very interesting,
"Doctor Whooves the whole first season? Hey, do you know why there is a picture of you on there?"
The Dalek stares at the picture, and says,
"IMPOSSIBLE! THE DOCTOR IS DEAD!"
"...wait, here it says he has that nice thing... TARDIS or something like that. Say, do you know where he died?"
"WHY SHOULD I TELL YOU? EXTERMINATE!"
Solar sighs. "That doesn't matter. I have the whole eternity to search."
In Valhalla
"What is that sound?" a yak asks perplexed.
His partner who he was talking with, stares at something behind the former.
"There is something behind me, isn't it?"
Solar steps out of the... inherited TARDIS of this universe's Doctor Who, and exclaims,
"Finally, after ten thousand nine hundred sixty-seven years of searching the planet, fifty-six months of searching materials for and building a rocket, seventy million years searching the cosmos for the TARDIS, and being stuck in the worst, most disgusting sewers, after three centuries of swimming through those garbage-infested rivers, after fifty years of climbing those nauseating, slimy walls and sixty hours of me teaching myself how to pick a lock so I can get out of there, and falling into the falltraps that brought me there twice again, I have finally found it on a planet that is missing any atmosphere!"
"I HAVE TOLD YOU ALREADY THAT WAS NOT A PLANET, THAT WAS A BIG ASTEROID!"
Solar snickers, and says,
"Yeah, whatever you say Dalekarian!"
"YOUR NAME FOR ME IS STUPID!"
The yaks look at the Timberwolf just entering Valhalla from a blue police-box... carrying one of the Daleks they watched, just with everything they use for destruction dismantled.
"So, did you happen to have seen some people in capes, most likely like this?"
He takes out his horde-leader-cape, and shows it to them.
"I think down that corridor some had one...", one of the yaks mumbles, pointing down one of the many corridors leading out of the round room.
"Thank you!", the Timberwolf says and walks back into the police-box.
Everything is Shiny and Chrome, and food and drinks are everywhere as Brown Dog, Kersey, Snap Drake and Grey Rebl look at a screen displaying the battle while sitting on a couch.
The inherited TARDIS materialises next to the couch of Brown Dog, Kersey, Snap Drake and Grey Rebl.
"Wait, the Tardis is on the screen, it shouldn't be here...", one of them mumbles.
Solar steps out with a Dalek, and asks,
"Hey guys, I came to watch all the destruction with you! It took me only around seventy million years to find this nice shiny thing getting me into the afterlife. Anyone wanna travel around time and space after this all is over? Wait, sweet, is that the scene where I realise I could find a TARDIS?"
"It is..."
Meanwhile with Bugze
"How did you get me to go into the airvents again?", Cadance asks you.
You crawl further, and tell her,
"Well... there were two Daleks who probably would have spotted us if we stayed where we were... and there was this convenient air vent placed... Hey, I think this is the exit!"
You open the air vent, and crawl out of it, landing on Derpy. "Ouch... Sorry, didn't see you there", you apologise to her.
You get off of Derpy as Cadence lands next to you. As you help Derpy up you look over to the Doctor and ask,
"Hey Doc, any luck finding a coupling yet? Me and Cadence checked like half the ship on the side we were on with no luck."
The Doctor shakes his head as he says,
"Sorry old chap, but we've got nothing on our end either. But I think we're getting close. But what I can't understand is way Davros hasn't triggered the alarm yet. You think he would after I talked to him."
Before you can yell at the Doctor for reveling himself that their on the ship after he told you to not get found, you are all suddenly surrounded by Daleks! You and Cadence get into a attack position as one of the Daleks say (shouts),
"THE DOCTOR AND HIS COMPANIONS WELL COME WITH US OR THEY WILL BE EXTERMINATED!"
As your about to give your response to the Dalek via a staff into it's eye-stalk the Doctor stops you as he says,
"Alright, we'll follow you."
The Dalek nods it's eye-stock as the rest of you start to get led towards somewhere on the ship. As you all do you can't help but wonder out loud,
"I wonder if Shadow is doing any better then us?"
"THE PRISONERS WILL NOT TALK OR THEY WILL BE EXTERMINATED!"
You grumble at this, but your question still stands.
"Warlock Punch!" The Nightmare is launched across the shattered street by his shadow's attack. He bounces a couple times before sliding into a building that's somehow still standing. The Nightmare gives a growl and quickly warps his tails around the building, and hurling it at the shadow. In a flash of green, the shadow teleports out of the way, before charging towards The Nightmare. "Lightning Legs!" The shadow screams as he unleashes a flurry of kicks. The Nightmare holds up one of his Nightmare Tails, absorbing the attacks, before a second tail grabs the shadow and slams him into the ground with a crunch.
Another flash of green and the shadow teleports from The Nightmare's grip. "You're not gonna get rid of me that easily," he growls.
"We wouldn't have it any other way. We're going to cherish this!" The Nightmare answers threateningly. He dashes forwards, wrapping a tail around his front hoof. As he comes upon his shadow, the Nightmare screams out "Dark Falcon Punch!"
"Warlock Punch!" The Shadow replies, answering the Nightmare's attack with his own. The two punches collide, and the resulting blast of wind sends both of the two sliding backwards, away from each other. The Nightmare bounds quickly forwards, his horn lighting up as he fires blasts of dark magic. The Shadow ducks around these attacks, bobbing and weaving around the bursts of magic as he charges forwards. "Beast Cannon!" He cries as he breaks into a spinning tackle. The Nightmare crosses two tails in front of him to block the attack, but the Shadow's sheer power pushes him back through the street, before breaking through his guard and knocking him down. The Nightmare roars in anger, his tail shooting out and grabbing the Shadow from behind, before launching him at a nearby building.
The Shadow crashes into the building with a blast of dust and sound. He begins to pry himself from the wreckage, but notices the Nightmare pouncing at him from above. With a gritty grin, he cries out "Electric Wind God Punch!", before leaping up to hit the villain with an electrical uppercut. The Nightmare crashes into the road, while his Shadow continues on his upwards arc, before turning back towards the fallen Nightmare. "Beast Cannon!" His spinning tackle again blasts towards the Nightmare, but the dark creature grabs his Shadow with his Nightmare Tails, before slamming him into the ground multiple times. The Nightmare tosses his Shadow up again, before leaping up with him and wrapping a Nightmare Tail around his hind leg.
"Dark Falcon Punt!" The Nightmare screams as he punts the Shadow like a hoofball; he soars through the air before slamming into yet another building. The Nightmare lands on his hooves before charging towards his Shadow, who stumbles slowly out of the crater he's created. The Shadow's expression turns grim as he turns to face the charging Nightmare before him.
"Depressive Deluge!" The Shadow screams, summoning a torrent of screaming water that slams the Nightmare to the ground. "Swarm of Responsability!" The Shadow follows up, summoning a frenzy of vaguely insectile shapes. The insects zoom towards the Nightmare, binding themselves around the villain and chaining him to the ground. The Shadow steps slowly towards the astonished Nightmare.
"How are you doing that?" The Nightmare screams.
"I'm not." The Shadow replies. "My powers, my abilities- they're all in your mind. Or at least what's left of it."
"Hmph. What's that supposed to mean?" The Nightmare growls as he struggles against his bonds.
"I'm your Shadow. Your true self," The Shadow says. "Except- not truly. I'm more violent, more volatile, and you're supposed to overcome me. You're supposed to overcome me, but instead you've succumbed to your darkest urges! Look at yourself! You're a blithering wreck, a grub with the power of a god, throwing a diving tantrum and not bothering to care about the consequences. And when you need your Shadow to tell you what's going on, you know that you need to stop. You've gotta think- which one of us is truly the shadow?"
The Nightmare's eyes dart around frantically, before they freeze, and he breaks into a smile. "Huh. Who knew? Even Shadows have shadows."
Suddenly, from the Shadow's shadow great chains of darkness wrap themselves around the Nightmare's double, ensnaring him in their grip. With a cry of rage, the Nightmare rips through his bonds, before dashing towards his Shadow. "Shadow Shoryuken!" He screams, catching the Shadow in the chin with a great dark uppercut and tossing him into the air. The Shadow flies through the air, and lands across the road, on his hooves. The two combatants glare at each other for several moments- then they dash towards each other, screaming cries of war.
The meet in the middle and the Nightmare grabs Shadow in it's tails. It's about to smash him into the ground when...
Down Below, The Nightmare gets the upper hand on Shadow, by pinning him under what’s left of a bakery. Before he can finish him off, he is hit by multiple lasers from behind.
“AAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!” the Nightmare shouts in pain. His right hoof has a few more holes in it, along with his flank.
He grits his teeth in anger and focuses his attention on the Daleks, leaving Shadow to dig his way out.
“AAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!” the Nightmare shouts in pain as he is hit by dozens of Dalek lasers (he was able to ignore them before, but now the Daleks all seem to be aiming at an exact spot). He grits his teeth in anger and focuses his attention on the Daleks as he starts wildly flailing Shadow like a club to smash the Daleks as he pounces on one Dalek after another, destroying them effortlessly with his clawed hooves and his Nightmare Tails shoot out to grab, crush, throw, and smash Daleks resulting in the Nightmare becoming a one-bug frenzy as he violently and effortlessly tears through dozens of Daleks a second. As the Shadow moans in pain, the Nightmare turns it's attention towards the Dalek mothership as it growls out,
"Enough is enough! We've had it with these motherbucking salt shakers on our motherbucking playground! It's time we take the party to them! And..."
It glares down at Shadow before it says,
"You'd make for a perfect party gift!"
With that, the Nightmare starts to spin Shadow around himself, increasing velocity with every lap before he hurls Shadow up at the Mothership with enough force to make Shadow reach exit velocity. The Nightmare is about to follow when stops and suddenly he says,
"Wait... How the buck do we get up there..."
Shrugging, he then turns his attention to the last damaged Dalek and starts to slowly approach it while sadistically saying,
"We're sure we'll think of something will taking our time with this trash can..."
With so much Killer Intent radiating from the Nightmare, even this lone Dalek begins to feel fear as it exclaims,
"HAVE... PITY!!!"
"Yeah... You're asking that of the WRONG God..."
In a panic the Dalek screams,
And starts to phase away when,
"Oh no you don't!" the Nightmare exclaims as he pounces on the Dalek and they both phase away...
BACK ON THE SHIP
As the four of you continue to be 'escorted' towards some unknown location, the wall behind you all suddenly explodes, killing the two Daleks behind you. The four of you, and the two Daleks in front of you, turn around in surprise to see...
Shadow?
You gain a look of confusion as you ask,
"Shadow? What are you doing here? Wait a second...if your here then where's the Ni-"
"WEEEEEEEEE!!!"
Suddenly the Nightmare surrounded by pieces of a shattered Dalek suddenly phase into the room and drops to the ground. Without missing a beat, the Nightmare then grabs the remaining Daleks in the room with his Nightmare Tails and starts banging them together as he says,
"DAAAAALEEEEKS! COME OUT TO PLAAAAAY!!!!"
The four of you back up in fear as the Nightmare notices you and cheerfully says,
"Oooooh! The most annoying ponies left alive too! This is just our lucky day!"
You can't help but gulp in fear and are about to suggest a tactical retreat, when you see Shadow weakly get up and coughs roughly. When his coughing fit ends he looks over to you weakly as he says,
"Bugze...I hate that I have to say this, in fact me saying might just kill me, but it needs to be said. We need to fight the Nightmare... with a nightmare."
You stare at him in confusion as the Nightmare Cloak starts to slowly appear on Shadow before your eyes widen as you think,
He's not serious is he! After all this version of me has done, he wants me to use your power!
Bugze he's right! We have no choice but to use my power! If you don't were all doomed!
"Oh boy! You guys have Nightmare powers too! AWESOME!!! These salt shakers are starting to get so tedious! My advice; DO IT!!! The evening is still so young. Come on, hurry, hurry, hurry! Pull yourself together - the fun has just begun! Come on! Hit me! Fight me! GIVE ME A HUG! HURRY!!!" the Nightmare says in excited glee as a huge crazed smile appears on his face.
You gulp in fear as you can't help but think,
What the buck do you do?
Nightmare Bugzee and Bugzee are fighting in the Dalek ship, meanwhile Cadence that was looking to the battle begin to search around.
"Come on, this is a alien ship, there must be some ultra powerfull weapon somewhere" Groan Cadence searching and pressing buttons
"Uuuh... How do you know that?" Ask The Doctor
"Shiny begin to see alien and zombies movies after the changeling invasion, he wanted to be ready for anything..." Commented Cadence
Meanwhile the Nightmare and Bugzee fight continue until they hit a console and the console explode
"Ups... I hope it was not important..." Comment Bugzee
After Bugzee say that, a big alarm begin to sound around and all eyes look to Bugzee
"BY DAMAGES TO THE CONSOLE, THE SELF DESTRUCTION HAS BEEN ACTIVATED. THIS SEQUENCE CANNOT BE ABORTED. ALL DALEKS GO TO THE EMERGENCY TELEPORT PLATAFORMS" Say a femenine voice
"Uhh... That is new" Comment The Doctor
"What is new, the self destruction sequence?" Ask Derpy
"OOOhh, no, that happen too much times, the strange is that they put a alarm and a female voice to tell everyone" Say The Doctor
"Gaaaahhh!!! This is going to self destruct!!!" Shout Bugzee worried ignoring Nightmare Bugzee that seems to not be worried and just punch Bugzee
"How much time we have?" Ask Cadence
"Who knows, maybe a hour, maybe a day, I don't know too much about Dalek Technology" Comment The Doctor
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About the question, I think the lest usefull item in inventory is the note with the debt to the Doctor, after all the books can be used to throw them to a enemy, but the note don't have any use.
A little presure for Bugzee in a self-destruct ship...
That is all.
Probablyyyyyy the note from the doctor...
Least useeeeeeful...
Least useful item? Either what Kichi said (Note with (made up) debt to the Doctor), or the Mysterious Mare Do Well hat.
I mean, come on! It is not even a hat you used.
Then again, even more useless, but much more stylish, is your fake beard...
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The Nightmare has beaten you down, the alarm of self-destruction is nearing its end...
"5", the feminine voice tells you.
Shadow rams fullbody into the Nightmare and unleashes the fury of a thousand warlock punches upon him.
"4"
The Nightmare counters by Dark Psycho-crushing right through him, and the wall.
"HEY!", a now exposed Dalek on a toilet shouts.
"3"
The Dalek begins to wildly fire at Shadow and Nightmare, and the Nightmare destroyed it without looking. Shadow shouts: "God Ra Mu!" and frees himself from the Nightmare.
"2"
"Are you ignoring me?", you wonder looking at them. They didn't response, but both used their moves Dark No Shadow Kick and Lightning Legs.
"1"
"Um, I don't know about you, but this really seems like a bad time to just ignore the ship blowing up or sitting around and doing nothing... Oh shoot!", you cry out as you realise YOU are sitting around doing nothing on a self-destructing ship.
"Please, do try to be quiet. I have a job to do here", the voice tells you.
You look around shocked, and then mumble: "Okay..."
"What did you say? I couldn't understand you."
"Okay!", you shout.
"Good. Have a nice day, destroyer of the world!"
"Have a nice day!", you, Shadow and Nightmare reply at the same time.
"Hang on, there seems to be a problem here... the self-destruction-mechanismus doesn't work."
You shrug and re-enter the battlefield.
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I once, much too early, posted a comment for this fight. Now I will repost a changed version of it!
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Nightmare Bugze stands over you, and laughs. As his tails crawl closer to you, you don't know why he let them rest at the floor,
You chuckle as you remember an old game, Unwritten Tales or something like that was its title, you don't remember it, and say:
"I am your conscience!"
The Nightmare snorts, and replies: "I don't have a conscience. I am a monster without conscience."
You laugh at that, and tell him: "I loved that game.
As you suddenly enter the third phase of your Nightmare-powers, growing your horns, sharpening your fangs and letting your Nightmare Cloak become unstable.
You shout: "SHADOW SHORYUKEN!", and your Shoryuken reach him just as Shadow gives him an Electric Wind God Fist, turning it into a true Shadow Shoryuken.
The Nightmare gets flung through a wall, landing on and crushing several Daleks who had ignored the evacuation-warning.
You see him trying to replicate your improved move, and failing: "Why is it not working? I always was able to instantly copy..."
You laugh, and shout: "No. YOU wnever were able to instantly copy something. I, this worlds version of me, was able to. YOU are neither a me, nor are you a Selena. You tried to surpass us by becoming one, and made yourself much lesser with that."
Nightmare glares at you hateful, before shouting: "WE'LL SEE ABOUT THAT!"
He slices straight through Shadow's wings with one of his tails, and throws Shadow to the side.
"Just you and me..."
You use No Shadow Barrage, but suddenly one of his tails flings you to the ground.
"ENOUGH! I am a GOD! I shall not be beaten by you!", he shouts while his tails begin to form his dark aura into a huge energy-ball.
You smile, before wondering: "Wait, didn't that happen already once? Eh, never can have enough references! Even if they're used twice..."
You try to grab him with your two nightmare-tails, as he finishes his ball and SMACKS IT DOWN ON YOU!
"Now really, you shouldn't interrupt references! People who interrupt them should be punished", Nightmare tells you.
You feel immense pressure against your body, your mind, and your soul...
"Heh, guess this is the end...", you hear Shadow Bugze's voice from outside, "You know,", at this he coughed followed by a splat, "I never imagined going out like this... being beaten to death by someone who is even worse than his own shadow."
As the pressure on you rises higher, you think to yourself and Selena: 'Heh, can't say I didn't lead an interesting life...', the next part you spoke out loud: "Aww, getting sentimental Shadow Bugze? Didn't think you were that kind of person... Selena, I really wished you would be able to take care of Nightshade after this... I really do."
"You know... the time we spent together... it was the best time of my life. Atleast we won't be able to turn into... THAT."
As the pressure reaches its highest point so far...
It suddenly stops. "Huh?", you mutter to yourself, opening your eyes. Around you there was a sphere of pure darkness, evil energy, lashing out at everything close to it. In the middle of it all, you. "Wha... how...", you wonder, not understanding anything at all.
"It seems like this attack has something resembling the Eye of the Storm..."
You looked around in wonder, as you get an idea...
"Hey, Selena, could we tip into that whirlwind of energy to attack him?", you ask her.
"Hmm... it might be difficult to find an anchor capable of withstanding it... but we should be able to do it!"
You get an idea, and take out the Boom-stick. You form a small, weak nightmare-tail with Selena, and let it reach into the sphere of evil.
Power...
Darkness...
Hate...
Fear...
Need...
Joy?
Need...
Power...
Fear...
Darkness...
Hate...
Joy?
"You can do this!", you hear Shadow Bugzes voice come to you, his body laying half broken somewhere outside the sphere.
You and Selena both ignore him, as you re-direct the flow of the energy... while struggling to keep in control.
"Nrgh... just a little bit to the right... DONE!"
The whirlwind of energy flows into you, and then into the Boom Stick.
You see Nightmare Bugze's sillhouette about to finish off others who you presume to be the Doctor's and Derpy's, you take aim: "Boom, baby...", you mutter to yourself as you unleash the power.
A whirling beam of pure darkness shoots out of the boomstick, black and purple swirling around eachother, making it seem like faces, agonised faces...
As it hits Nightmare Bugze, he gets disintegrated while you can hear his voice:
"No! You cursed other me! Look what you've done! I'm flushing, I'm flushing! Oh, what a world, what a world... Who'd have thought a small little changeling could destroy my graceful evilness? I'm going! Ah, no!"
"...that was it?", Shadow coughs.
You smile and stand up shakily: "What, did you expect something?"
"Usually guys like him get the epic deaths... not the disintegration with lame words...", he explains, before trying to stand up and failing.
He looks down, and mutters: "Let me sleep for now..."
Use Chekhov's pen. It is way past the third act... or... chapter as it were.
(Otherwise it shouldn't be there as per Chekhov's guidelines!)
6226839 Meh... I think if Bugzee go with the beard and the hat, he could very well have another disguise as a back-up
Daleks, Xenocidal, supremacists, and stopped by stairs.
The Ultimate Pebble of Pig Slaying!His wings.
While you and Shadow battle the Nightmare, the Doctor finally finds the coupling needed. Apparently the TARDIS had appeared right beside it.
The Doctor and Derpy facehoof at this mistake.
After awhile, the Doctor runs to let you know about the TARDIS being fixed and ready, but all of a sudden, he is shot from behind by a beam of energy causing him to spasm and fall.
“Doctor!” cries out Derpy as she cradles him.
You turn around and see Davros, behind the Doctor and Derpy, cackling with an energy weapon.
“Doctor NO!” you cry out as you bite one of the Nightmare’s hooves in half, causing him to let you go.
“Ah Mother Bucker!” he screams, before Cadance shoots him in the face.
You rush over to the still body of the Doctor as Derpy holds him and cries.
“Aw no! Doctor, don’t be dead! Wake up, or Regenerate…just don’t be dead,” she pleads.
“Heh heh heh…Once again Doctor You are dead before me…it was all worth it once more, just for this…” Davros wheezes as he starts pointing his weapon at Derpy.
You angrily jump towards the Dalek creator and break his weapon.
“You stupid Mother Bucker! We’re all going to die!” you yell as you punch Davros in the face.
“Yes…death for you, but the Daleks shall remain victorious!” he chuckles.
Having enough, you throw the monster towards the Nightmare.
The Nightmare catches the Dalek creator and looks at you.
“You’re one ugly motherbucker,” he says to Davros laughing, before he begins coughing.
“Daleks are superior in everyway…” he says.
The Nightmare spits out some blood onto Davros’ face.
“Now that’s an improvement,” he says before tossing Davros at Cadance and Shadow.
The creator is thrown violently to the side where he still cackles, even as he lies prone.
You look down at the Doctor and realize that without him, the TARDIS is all but useless.
“Oh we’re bucked, we’re bucked, we are so bucking bucked!” you start panicking.
“Come on Doc, Wake Up! WAKE UP!” you yell as you slap the Doctor’s face. Surprisingly, this works.
He sits up and gasps and starts coughing as Derpy screams, “You’re alive,” before hugging him hard.
“D-ditzy…can’t breathe…” he wheezes.
“Oops, sorry,” she says as she relents.
“How are you still alive?” you ask.
The Doctor pulls out the orb Bon Bon gave you earlier.
“Well I guess Jack wanted to make sure I didn’t die, and if I did, at least I would keep this face,” he says.
“It matters not Doctor, you cannot win…” Davros wheezes.
“Well neither can you!” he shouts back.
Behind you Cadance is knocked backwards into a wall and Shadow is trapped in his tails as Nightmare gouges one of his eyes out.
“Doc, please tell me you’ve fixed the dang thing!” you shriek.
“Yes, the Old Girl is all set, now hurry, get in before…”
“OH NO YOU DON’T!!!” the Nightmare screams as he hits the Doctor and Derpy into the TARDIS, and it fazes out of time.
“NOOOOOO!!!!” you yell as you round on the Nightmare and begin pummeling him.
“THAT WAS OUR LAST CHANCE!!!!” you begin shouting, and more blood leaks from his mouth.
“Well good, now you have no distractions,” the Nightmare says before slashes you across the belly with one of his claws and throws you backwards.
Later, after the Self Destruct goes off on half the ship after you and Shadow disarm your side. What’s left of the ship section you’re in begins to fall towards the planet while on fire.
You and Shadow and Cadance are able to start dealing massive damage to the Nightmare as he starts to lose pieces of himself.
Yet through clenched teeth, he stands against your barrage and gives you all a Fus Ro Dah.
You lose sight of Cadance, and Shadow slumps to the ground, and you feel as though one of your legs is broken, but still you stand up.
You look to the Nightmare and see him coughing up blood and wheezing and his eye twitches.
You hear Davros cackiling.
“Even now, the monster falls under the weight of his own power, destroying what’s left of it’s body…”
You look and see your Nightmare growing angrier, but his wounds don’t even appear to be healing anymore.
Thinking quickly, you rush forth and try to attack, but he clotheslines you in the throat, Hard.
You lie on the ground, face down, gasping for breath, as you hear Davros.
“Daleks will be superior this day…” Davros cackles.
The Nightmare still looks squarely at you however.
“If we go…you’re going with us…” it says as it wraps its remaining tails around his hoof, causing it to vibrate at intense speeds.
You try to get back up, but cannot
“Daleks are superior…”
The Hoof appears incorporeal,
“Daleks, will prevail…” Davros wheezes.
The hoof becomes nothing but a blur and radiates power, even Davros feels it.
“Daleks…will be exterminated…” says a shocked Davros.
“INFINITE MASS PUNCH!!!” the Nightmare yells in anger, as he rushes forth and strikes you with the vibrating hoof.
You feel as though your chest has broken and everything inside of it as you are launched out of the falling debris and towards the ground at an accelerated rate. Above you, the rest of the ship is destroyed.
Your vision begins to go black and blood leaks out of your mouth.
Selena desperately keeps you awake long enough though, even though she herself seems on the verge of passing out.
“Bugze! You have to get a healing potion out! It’s the only way we’ll...” she gasps as she fades away.
With your lungs collapsed, you can’t answer her, so you do as she says.
You pull out and hold your healing potion close to you. You lose consciousness before you hit the ground.
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Robot #24: He died before he hit the floor.
6226964 His legholes etc. would still be visible. And he could write something important on the backside of the note.
6229386 That's true, unless he go with some suit... And why write something in the note when he could write in the notebook
6229434 Wasn't the notebook always bringing everything instantly to the doctor? And therefore NOT good for personal things?
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HIVE MIND! THIS FIGHT IS GOING TO BE A ONE-PARTER (this arc is dragging on long enough as it is) SO COMMENT SOME NIGHTMARE CLOAK STUFF!!!
Here is the thread detailing Bugze's Nightmare Cloak abilities. USE IT!!!
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Dude! Show some restraint! That comment is HUGE!
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The fight eventually takes the three of you into a huge room (it would turn out this is a room where Daleks practice large-scale combat.
Getting an idea, use "Mix-Up Smash" of "Inicinerate!" and "Insect Swarm" to send a swarm of Kamika-Bees that distract the Nightmare with a series of explosions as he yells,
You then perform Meteor Impact as Shadow performs Chidori which results in a devastating combo move on the Nightmare that obliterates that part of the ship (fortunately the Dalek countermeasures activate in time to keep you from being sucked out into the vacuum of space) and knocks the Nightmare into the vaccum of space... Only for him to use his nightmare tails to come back.
Will Expand Later...
Stalemate
Boss Battle
Infiltration
There are your three tracks of the day. Have fun.
6229978 Hm, I would love to do so, but Bugze (our Bugze) hasn't felt the power of Nightmare Ro Dah. Wink, wink.
6229978 Um, dude? I did...
I used Phase 3 moves. Not my fault the powerglove just isn't the thing to go for while discharging huge magical bubbles.
Needless to say, you are being pummeled.
You rapidly shoot out fire balls, but the Nightmare dodges them all with seemingless ease. You continue to spam fire in hopes of keeping distance at the very least just so you could come with a better tactic. However, your thoughts of a new plan breaks as the Nightmare suddenly takes a shot of fire head on and tackles you, its tusks digging into the very chit of your hide!
You both tumble across the ground with a grunt, a flurry of Nightmare Tails swinging at each other to gain dominance over the other. With quick thinking, you distract the monster with a summon of Nightmare Bees and hop away from reach of its ten tails.
The Nightmare disintegrates those bees with a shriek of darkness, and the darkness aims right at you! You jump away, steppy-stone over a flying, passing Dalek, and glide with Air Bendin towards an exit, only for the Nightmare to tackle you yet again and into a long hallway.
This time, you kick the monster off with you tails and shout, "Kindly eat lightning!", effectively shooting Nightmare a few extra meters before scurrying back up and going in for a Falcon Punch. However, your attack is blocked from a tail, and it pushes you away before the Nightmare sends out another wave of darkness.
With no where to go in a narrow hallway, you bring out a forcefield, and feel the brunt of the darkness. However, you became easy picking as the forcefield begins to crack, and then the Nightmare 'Shadow Falcon Punch'es your barrier into breaking into many itty bitty pieces.
Out of reflex, you back away and point your power glove at its face and shout, "Kindly burn!". The flare didn't even stop him! So you panic and use a sloppy 'Shuryken' to it's jaw. The Nightmare didn't even budge. It smirks.
The monster slams you to the side with its tails, smashing you through several walls as you cry in pain! You stop when one wall didn't break. Fighting the aches, you try to stand back up but only for the Nightmare to blast out another shot seething darkness and send you through more walls! Eventually, you end up in some kind of Dalek Cyro storage.
Groaning, you groggrily try to refocus your vision as the Nightmare struts toward you, smirking cockily at you.
"That all you got?"
You force a grin. "That all YOU got? Come at me! I'm feeling ticklish!" you lie.
The Nightmare growls and rushes at you with the intent to ram you across through more walls. Good.
With a grunt, you slam your Power Glove to the floor. "Kindly Freeze!"
The floor became nothing but slipper transparent ice, which causes the Nightmare to slip and slide from its assault. Snarling, it digs its tails into the floor to maintain every last bit of stability, but it's too late.
"Psycho Crusher!" you shout, pushing the Nightmare into a Cyro tube. "Now kindly chill the buck out!"
Combining the coldness and ice of the Cyro Storage Unit, you freeze the Nightmare in place instantly. Even so, however, the ice already begins to crack by the mosnter's struggles. So, as quickly and as powerfully as you could make it, you charge a bolt of fire and shot it point blank. The ensuing explosion of mist and steam blows you out of the storage unit, the Dalek ship blaring warnings of a damaged room. Big mistake it. It only helps the Nightmare along.
"Oh buck--" is as far as you could say before you see the eys of the Nightmare flashing in the steam and a hoof sinks into your chest and launch you through another bucking wall! "Ugggh!"
The Nightmare yells, "Use your Nine-tails already!"
You yelp as you duck from a tail, only for another tail to hit you square in the face and send you flying into a wall, bending the metal with a resounding crank! At least it isn't through it this time...
"What's wrong?!" the Nightmare yells, "Why aren't you going Nine-Tails?! You know that it's your only chance of winning!"
He's right. Why aren't you? You have some of your tails out, but that didn't mean that you're using your full power. So why...?
"Bugze! Watch out!"
Despite Selena's warning, you get a punch to the face while still in a daze. With a struggle with the few tails you have available against the Nightmare's ten tails, you try to fight against the vice grip hold it has. However, even with your effort, you couldn't get away as the monster presses you against the wall.
"If I can't get you to go full power by yourself, then I'll just have to force you! With that, his eyes turns green. "Gahahahaha! I learned this from Sombra!" And then it sends out tendrils of malicious green into your eyes as it holds your head still with its tails. "Nighty nighty~!"
And then nothing.
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What you see is horrific.
"You killed me."
Everything is just sheer black. Nothing else is there but you and your worst fear as you just stood there, staring in numbing shock. You couldn't say anything. You couldn't do anything. This is just...wrong! It can't be true!
"You killed me."
There, laying on the ground is Nightshade. Dying.
"I hate you."
You close your eyes! Trying all you might to deny what is in front of you! All you could hear then is your own deafening heartbeat and the voices that mock your very being. Monster. Killer. Nobody would love you...
"Shut up!" you yell!
You can't help anyone. You can't save anyone. You're better off dead where you stand.
"Shut up!" Your shouts silences the voices. All that's left is your guilty heart. Your guilty, guitly heart. You open your eyes.
Nightshade's dead eyes stares back. "I hate you, daddy."
You look down on your hooves. It's dripping red. "No..."
Yes.
"No. No. No!"
Yes!
The voices came back in full force, assaulting you in the cruelest of manners. "Nooooo!" Your yell only add o the noise. That terrifying crowd of accusing whispers. That expanse of judgemental laughter, laughter from your larvahood. "No! Just stop! Stop it! Please!" Even his pleas didn't make it cease, but it only makes it louder. And louder. And louder.
You crawl into a fetal position, sobbing as you lose yourself. "Somebody...help!"
It stops.
Replacing it is the sound of the TARDIS materializing. When you groggily look, the TARDIS is like a shining beacon in the dark. Gone is everything else, and the blue box is the only visible thing around. You just stare for moment, until the phone feature of the Tardis starts to ring. Slowly, but surely, you stand up and approach it.
You answer the phone. There is no noise from the other end, but you at least know that there is somepony there.
And you know what you need to say.
"Doctor, how do you deal with the guilt?" you rasp.
At first there is nothing, but then, when you think you've lost hope, a voice answers, "...You live with it." The Doctor. "Keep it close. Go everyday with it and never, ever forget. Live your life this way, and along the way, save every life, save every planet, save every universe and every multiverse you can to make up for it. No matter how much you beat your own body in the process." His tone turns somber. "And by then...hopefully, just hopefully, it's enough to make up for even a fraction of what you've done."
"But how?!" you yell desperately to the phone.
"...Stop running away." You flinch. "And start running towards. Bugze, face that monster head on. Like you always do, you bullheaded idiot." Even despite the insult, the Doctor's voice is soothing.
"I-I can't! I just--!"
"But you can!" The phone blares. "I once remembered that you've vowed to become a protector, saving lives without a second thought. You have the power. You have the capability. So, what's keeping you?"
"...I'm scared."
Silence deafens the conversation.
"That's okay. It's okay to be scared." A pause. "Because fear is a superpower."
Everything went white.
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(Round 2)
*Snap*
"Wha-huh?!" you cry out. "What happen?"
"Thank Faust I've finally got you out of that terrible spell!" Selena says. "Now hurry! Before--!"
You yelp to the side as a certain Shadow land cringingly beside you with a resounding splat. Groaning, Shadow struggles to stand back up as he continues to stare at the most pressing problem at the moment: The Nightmare. Judging by the amount of scratches the two has, a bit of time has pass.
"About time you woke up from your--" Shadow's eyes widen as the Nightmare's tail suddenly finds a way to grab his face "--nap!" He is thrown to the side, through some metal walls, and careens into a small squadron of Daleks.
The Nightmare looks gingerly at you, eager to fight.
"Well! Had a nice nap? I got you worked up, now didn't I?" The Nightmare frowns. "But I only got you to get out one more tail though...
You growl at him.
The Nightmare shrugs it off. "Oh well, better than nothing," he says before making a megaton underswing with his tail that sends and speeds you out through a sliding door and crashing into a wide open space.
You grunt each time you bounce across the floor, finally skidding to stop thanks to your tails. However, you still lay prone on the floor.
You appear to land in what seems to a massive hanger for the ship as hundreds upon hundreds of Daleks goes in and out into space. The way out into space is massive, like a missing wall of the Dalek ship. If it weren't for a translucent barrier that separates the hanger and the vaccuum of space, everything would've been sucked out into the void. Strange thing is: Activity didn't cease when you came in. They seem to ignore you.
The Nightmare waltzes in, completely ignoring the Daleks in turn. He began to rant. "All my life we've never gotten a choice for ourself! But ever since we made our very first kill, we realized how much we could really change things..."
You take the chance to stand back up and regain your bearings.
"So we wanted vengeance against the forces that took our life away from us, all by ruining everything that they've worked for!" It grins madly. "And do you have any idea how exhilerating it was to make our own fate for once? Never before had we have felt so in control... You understand, don't you?"
You sigh, downcasted. Flagburner, in the split second you make the deadly execution. "...Yeah."
"Then you also understand that it is what we wanted! To be God with his own Black Heaven!"
"Well, I don't!" you shout back. "I'm not like you! I'll save them instead!"
The Nightmare snorts in dismissal. "The filth below us are nothing more then loss lambs, sheep that'll abandon you for being different. They're too far lost to be saved. There's no future for them, not in this blackest of night."
"Then I'll burn a path so there WILL be a future!" You brought both of your hooves forward. "Woud you kindly burn!"
You let out a torrent of fire straight at the Nightmare. It smirks and just hops to the side. It is about to mock your pitiful flame, but then its eyes widen when it sees you smile. Your smile grows as your fire suddenly, and exponentially, expands, intensely burning brighter and brighter, damaging the Nightmare's cloak.
"Impossible..." the Nightmare mutters. "We should've only be able to use that sort of flame when we achieve our eighth tail!"
"Well," you began as your burst your hooves into wild and intense flames, "I got a shortcut." If it isn't for your Nobody Cloak, you would've severely burn yourself in spite of not touching. "'The Flames of Destruction aren't enough on its own. The Winds of Change are needed to feed the flames.' Flag Burner taught me that."
You've finally gotten a hang of your Air Bending, enough so that your fire could pack an extra punch. Nightmare Air Bending, however, takes the cake. You surprise even youself as your fire attack burnt much of the floor singed black. Even the Nightmare seems to be slightly burnt despite its fire-resistant cloak.
"Oh? That guy? Heh, ironic how he somehow suddenly became a thorn on my side.
You didn't listen. Instead, you decide to power up your flames into one big charge attack and jump into the air. "The lighter on my right! The WMD in my left! Combine them, and what do you get?" Fire swirls around as you brought both hooves together. They twist into the center, forming a massive ball of pure inferno. You throw it down. "Brilliant Flame of the Crimson Sun!"
The Nightmare grins as he prepares his own ball of destruction. Its tails wraps around each other into a sphere, and suddenly lets loose and expands as an intense void begins to form inside. Eventually, it rapidly expands to meet the size of your ball of flame.
"Nihilstic Void of the Black Hole!" the Nighmare half-shouts and half-laughs! It throws it, and when the two balls meet, everything bursts in a way fit for a Nova.
Neither of you waits for the sparks or dust to clear. Instead, the two of you clash right at the center of the prior explosion. You dance around, using your newly achieved technique and mastery of Air bending and fire to avoid and counterattack with flares at the same time. With fire-enhanced air bending as propulsion, the maneuvering is more than feasible.
"No Shadow Foxfire Kick!" You assualt the Nightmare with a blur of fiery kicks, and take pleasure in the hissing the Nightmare makes. However, it catches one of your legs with a tail and slams you down to the ground.
Shadow Falcon Pu--!
"God Ra Mu!"
Shadow is back, and he catches he Nightmare off guard just by a lesser number of syllables. You take the chance to press against your opponent as you shout, "Flaming Psycho Crusher!" and ram it out of the way. You bounce off of it and land next to Shadow. "About time you got back!"
"Hmph! Say's the day dreamer."
The two of you charge at the Nightmare.
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"Surprise!"
The Nightmare teleports and gets the jump on you, punching you and sending you out of the hanger--out into space! When you exit the barrier that separate from atmosphere and space, one thing catches your mind.
"Since when can I breath in space?!" you yell.
"I've been in exile in the moon for a thousand years," Selena says. What do you think?"
The Nightmare quickly decapitates Shadow with Shadow Chains and then flungs him along towards you, the two of you slamming and adding into the momentum as you both start to become lost into space. Suddenly, be it by sheer insanity or extreme confidence, the Nightmare launches itself along with you both and bulldozes you both and make it worse everyling involved!
You try to bring out air and fire out, but nothing happens as you hold your Power Glove out. Stupified, confusion over takes you for a split second before you force yourself into blocking tusks with the Power Glove.
The Nightmare cackles. "How's the airlessness of Space going for ya?" it said before having to struggle against Shadow, who is now bursting with energy.
Suddenly, you have no choice but to join as its tail drags you along to use you as weapon against Shadow. Growling the Shadow grabs your Power Glove and proceeds to hammer the Nightmare with it.
It became a tumble party of Bugze's as one Bugze beats the other Bugze with...a Bugze.
Finally, a glint could be seen in the Nightmare's remaining eyes as it looks to the side and grins. With its tails, it takes you, and then swings you like a baseball bat into Shadow and flings you along with him into a flying Dalek Ship. Now you aren't so stranded in space!
"Homerun!" the Nightmare shouts with glee.
"Bugze!" the Shadow hastily shouts. "Throw me!"
After a swift nod, you stretch one of your tails out, brace and pivot onto the Dalek ship you are standing on, and pitch him at the monster.
Shadow proclaims, "Foxtail-Launch Beast Cannon!"
"Strike!" you cry back, "And you're out!" After you said that, you catapult yourself toward the two, pulling the same exact maneuver that the Nightmare has done.
Back on the original battle field, the main Dalek ship hanger, the three of you tumble back into battle, neither of you missing a beat as you resume fighting.
The charge and roar of the Nightmare's would've intimidate any normal person, but you are no normal changling. The monster leaps in for the kill.
"Would you kindly chill?!" A slam to the floor, and a shockwave of ice surprises the Nightmare and causes it to bounce violently across the sharp icicles before righting itself through self-injury by the tails and pounce onto you, only for Shadow to bat the monster away with a swipe of 'Chidori'.
You blast the ice with a fireball, turning the field into a world of mist. With little hesitance, the Nightmare swipes its tails in wide arcs to clear the mist in an instant. Neither you or Shadow are in sight. The monster changling feels the sense of danger, and it looks up.
There in the air, after teleporting both you and your partner, you both prepare for an all out attack. You and Shadow rain down fire and lightining on him, considerably damaging even the very floor into smithereens and bringing up smoke.
A roar. The Nightmare jumps out of the fray and up towards you two. You both send him back down as courtesy.
"Fus Ro Da!" "God Ro Ma!"
Then, you both land back down after the Nightmare, ready for more. What you aren't ready for is the fact that the Nightmare is already more ready to begin with. Another tackle. More of the same aching tusks! Shadow tries to help, but the Nightmare knocks him to the side with a tenth tail for his trouble. The two of you, tail against tail and hoof against hoof, lock into a dual of pure strength, with the Nightmare as the obvious victor through a higher number of tails.
Fortunately for you, you know how to play dirty. The Power Glove, in front of each other's faces, lits up in flame. You deeply inhale. The Nightmare's eyes widen. It tries to throw you back, but you had already done the deed.
"Roar of the Flame Dragon!"
Even with the massive flame thrower to the face, the Nightmare responds with a body slam to the ground, canceling your attack as you lose from your lungs.
"Would you kindly get the Buck off?!" Fitting, as you activate the Bucking Bronco plasmid trap. That's right. Trap. The Nightmare couldn't prepare for the ensueing midair combat, but nonethless get into pummeling you without a second thought.
That's fine. You have an anti-air attack. "Stalliongrad Blizzard!" With some extra 'arms', most multiplically so.
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(After BrownDog)
"Grandbuggy?"
"Yes, kid?"
"Do Changlings go to heaven?"
"Heh," the old bug laughed. "That's a deep question. Not sure if even your ol' grandbug could answer that with a straight face."
You pout and grumbled while looking down, "Well, do you think so? Or are we just so 'bad' that we can't?"
That made Grandbuggy drop his cheerful demeanor and frown. "Hey, where did you hear that?"
You just shrugged. "The other larva said that they heard from their parents about what ponies think about us. 'Changlings are monsters and should go to Tartarus', I think was what they said..."
"..." Grandbuggy sighed and stood up, staring distantly away. You blinked. Odd, this was the first ever since he seemed so...gloomy. "I'm not going to sugar coat; would've been bad in the long-run if I did. I admit: We changlings have done a lot of awful things just to survive." He then stared right back at you. "Especially to each other."
You flinched at the comment, but remained silent and listened.
Grandbuggy continued. "While there are those who had done nothing wrong, they never had done anything good either. Maybe some of us feel guilty for doing bad things, but hay, I don't think somelings ever atoned." He paused. "But it's never about species or race--I know. I think it's about circumstances. Where ponies are thriving and doing what they please, us dying changlings just don't have a choice.
"In short, it's not like if Changlings could go to heaven, but that fate wouldn't allow us."
"Then, doesn't that mean we're just being denied from Heaven?" you said. You look down, sad that that your small existence may perhaps be a whole lot more meager than you first thought. "Are we just meant to be 'bad'?"
"No."
Surprised by the touch Grandbuggy's hoof on your chin and lifting you head to face him, you can't help but feel awed by what you saw in Grandbuggy's eyes. You don't know what it was, but you understood the feeling it held.
This...this was your real Grandbuggy.
"No, not ever," Grandbuggy pressed sternly, staring down at you to drive the point home. "Yeah, maybe we can't change fate or our bad luck, but if fate is the wheel and we are the grit, then we can't change its course, but we will sure as hay pray that we would have the strength and resilience to break it."
The old bug stopped to look at the sparkle in your eye, the kind of wonder that's shown only through the pupiless eyes of a changling. He chuckled.
He then said, "Instead of finding your way towards heaven, cut it down and make your own, one where everyling can be happy." However, he gave a sly smirk. "Well, if Luck is actually a Lady, then just treat her nice." The perverted coot wraggled his eyes.
"Grandbuggy!"
Grandbuggy laughed heartfully, long and coarse, until he finally stopped. "But...either way, that there would be the path of a hero." Grandbuggy then stood up straight and smiled down on you. "Do you wanna be a hero?"
You smiled. "I wanna be a hero!"
Needless to say, you never quite knew what he meant when he said 'hero'. That's probably the reason why you dove head first into video games, becoming the 'heroes' of those virtual worlds, lost in concept of the meaning of heroism. It became you own slice of heaven, the World God Only Knows...
In your last moment of unconsciousness, suddenly, you saw a filly. "Mommy and Daddy are my heroes!" she says with a smile. Then, with a flash white, she is gone.
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The sensation of killing intent jerks you back awake. You could hear it. The Nightmare. It's growling, snarling, and yells of glee and insanity. It's still alive and kicking, and it wants more. More! After everything that you've been through, it still wants more!
The sky burns with the explosion of Dalek Ships and everything seem to rain down like a meteor shower. Has the world really end? Is this how the world end as? A sad soundscape of the crying misery of ponies, griffons, donkeys, changlings and dragons alike? Are you suppose to be okay with that?
As you fall back to Equis, you can't help but reconcilate and suddenly say, "Nightshade would've been sad if she saw this world, huh, Selena...?"
"She would." Selena is awfully subdued. Why?
"I wanna make her happy. I wanna build a place for her. Where she, you and I could just..."
She finishes for you, "Be happy. Yes, yes you do! Is she...sobbing? Did she saw your flash back just now?
"But first things first..."
*Snap!*
"...I'll tear this wretched place apart and burn it all anew!"
Shadow is right. Roles do change. It's that, this time, you're done being the hero-turned-villain. It's about time that you're going to be something else.
You draw both of your hooves back, a flaming Power Glove on one hoof and the feeding Winds of Change on your other hoof. You stare up to the sky. The winds whips your face, and it howls in your ears as you fall. Your Nightmare Cloak flaps harmlessly in the winds.
What's more, you could hear a certain, soothing sound, like music to your ears. The cavallry has finally arrive! You close your eyes, smiling. "Thanks, Doc." Then, you open them back up. "Mix it up."
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A barrier of black surrounds the Nightmare as it freefalls back into total destruction. It's body vibrates, thrumming with power, every last once of it in fact! It won't die. Not until it gets to kill the very last thing worth killing. From the height and speed it is at, and power of its "Infinite Mass" technique, Equis may as well shatter before its might.
But first... Wait. No. No way! It saw the impossible.
Up ahead, down below the Nightmare and coming from up from--no, rocketing up from Equis is the very bug the monster is after. Intense fire roars from behind you, like a rocket pushing you at world-exiting speeds.
You are flying.
In truth, you aren't really flying. It simply looks like. In actuality, you are riding the Tardis as you warm up your one big attack.
"Pierce the Heavens..." Black flame. It appears as such as it plumes out of your hooves in massive quanitites, but the lightning element takes effect and, instead of a flowing river of fire, it became a jag of vibrant energy. And when you pour in Nightmare-enhanced air bending to it... "Getsuga--" It violently erupts and tears the air behind you into nothing! "Tensho!"
A mad grin plasteres itself into the Nightmare's face. Everything has gone so crazy, and the monster feels the exhileration of it all! "Nightmare Infinity Meter Impact!"
Like a sword, you swing at the sky. Like lightning going up, a seething pressure of energy soars up into the sky, into the heavens, into space! It kisses the very tip of the Nightmare's barrier, and everything went flashes black.
The blackest of swords, cuts away the blackest of heavens...
The Nightmare's barrier is gone, and the final climax is finally about end. The exposure and proness to each other isn't lost to one another. They openly take advantage of it, to the death!
Dark...
"Falcon..."
"PUNCH!"
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If anyone look at the sky, the would see two shooting stars, as black as the night, falling along with a meteor shower's worth of others. If anyone listens, they would hear the tremble of the those two particular stars landing. If they are the Doctor, Cadence, or Derpy, then they would understand what this means.
"Doctor?"
"Huh?"
"Is it over?"
"...Yes," he said. "It is. It's finally over."
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You wake back up. Honestly, you should start checking for head damage at this point, considering the number of times you've been unconscious.
By the sound of movement, battle instincts flares, so in spite of your serious injuries, you jump and turn to the noise. What you see makes you gasp.
The Nightmare is a wreck. It's cloak, no, his cloak is falling out. The seemingly indomitable tusks and horns of his begins to crack and falls apart, and what's more, the changling's eyes turns into a softer hue of red. This changling is the same changling that you saw on screen in the Doctor's Tardis before Tartarus happen.
He tugs at the collar that Pinkemena gave to him. "Of course, the collar..." He almost look...normal.
But that's not the biggest part...
"Y-your starving...!" you blurt out.
The other you shakes his head. "Of course I'm starving. Am I really that daft? In a world with no more love, I was destined to die from the start."
The saneness in the changling's voice is a major relief to you, but you have to ask, "So...what now?"
"...Now?" The changling repeats, but then it falls over, collapsing on his left hoof, the very hoof that Pinkie severely damage, back when still lives. "Ugh!" He then coughs violently.
You can't help but feel pity for him, but after fighting to the death with the death-torn psychopath, you aren't too inclined to help.
"I-I," the changling tries, "I want to confess."
"Confess what?" you ask.
"...I" he hesitates. "I--!"
Out of irritation, which is rapidly depleting by the minute, and albeit hoarsely, you growl "Spit it out!"
"I killed Nightshade..." he declares, softly bursting into sobs. "I killed everyone. Noling deserved it..." Every word is devoid of life, but the weight is still there. "I knew that Nightshade didn't want me turn out like this, but what did I do? What did I do in memory of her?" You look down. The answer is obvious. The worst of his sobs begins to pass, but then he whimpers, "How can I ever face Nightshade like this?"
You didn't answer. After all, even you can't know the answer. He's you, so if he can't, then you can't either, right? The two of you look away from each other.
You turn back to face him. "I'll never be okay with this. Neither should you." That outburst causes the other your to look back in confusion. "Face your demons head on. Stop running away."
"Easier said then done..."
"Then stop whining about Lady Luck for once and start doing something about it!" you cry out. "And start with youself!" When you stare at him in the eyes as you say that, you can't help but feel as though you meant that for yourself. "I'm tired of whining! I'm tired of running away!
"I wanna be happy with what I do!"
The other changling sighs. "It's too late for that."
You cringe, but you cease you needless ranting anyways, deciding to take in the scenary and wait. You still don't know what came over you when you rant it out like that, but you feel that it is something that needs to be said. Anyways, where is the Doc?
You notice something. For some reason, the world seems to be becoming a whole lot brighter. You turn to look at the horizon, and gasp as you see one of the most beautiful things, all things considering. There, the beginning of dawn! The rays of sunlight reaches the landscape,
The sun is rising. Without Luna or Celestia to rise it!
"Hey."
You look back at your other self, confused. Suddenly, you hastily catch something the dying changling throws without warning. When you look, you realized it is the inventory! This universe's!
"W-wha?" you sputter.
"Give this to Nightshade." The other you smiles sadly. "She deserves her own adventure, too."
You stare at him for a moment, but finally nods. The surge of determination at the mention of Nightshade makes you stand up straight and resolutely. "Okay."
"Good." The changling shudders and gives out a long, suffering sigh. He's reaching the very last of his life reserves. "Good," he repeats, and then lays down, submitting to death. At first, he is going to close his eyes, but then he sharply inhales. "Do you think I should be forgiven?" he asks suddenly.
You jump at the sudden declaratioin, but you sigh and stare sadly at him. "I don't know." You look away. "I don't think I'll ever know."
And that is it. Slowly, the dying changling lost its glow, its shell becoming greyer and greyer. The sun finally lifts to shine on the very lands you reside.
"But I know someling who would do so regardless." You lift out a Luna Plushie. Your Luna Plushie. "Sleep."
In dreamland, there stands the grass as Nightshade and your other you enters the same dreamscape.
(--End of Contribution--)
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Perhaps there are some who wondered where I had been since the last two or three chapters or something. If not, oh well, I just wanted to feel remembered (down, ego, down).
I have been planning this part of the end since the arc started. Well, sans space battle, but what the heck! The scene(s) has been just waiting for to be written and do you have any idea how happy I am to finally be over with this idea, which had been plauging me since the beginning of the Arc?
Well, here's that. Makes me wonder if I should've been an author or something. I don't know. But nonetheless, I don't give a damn. I am full of happiness right now! Ferally Euphoric. Fucking satisfied. Fairly merry! Insert another few phrases that are synonymous of 'being happy' and starts with the letter "F".
Hopefully it isn't posted too late, though.
Tally ho, folks, onwards to the epilogue! Now let question my life choices as I realize how long this fucking thing is.
Last Edit.
Least useful item would be... hmm... I might get back to you on that...
Edit; its the note from the doctor about the "debt".
The battle continues to rage as daleks fight the remains of the army Celestia and Luna had gathered to fight the nightmare.
The fight onboard the ship ultimately results in the ship being destroyed, with Davros killed (or at least defeated or driven away or whatever) and the daleks thrown into confusing by the sudden lack of leadership, which means they get taken out easily.
Out comes all of Bugze's weapons and tactics, some of which have remained dormant for this arc so far. every last method. Every last ounce of effort is poured into obliterating the nightmare before it can destroy another world.