Episode 87: The Nightmare's End! Shadow and Bugze Vs The Nightmare! (Season Finale Part Final)
As you and your Shadow stare at the deranged Nightmare in front of you, you can't help but think,
I don't want to...after everything I've seen and done here. All these ponies' lives lost because of the Nightmare's power!I never want to feel it ever again! But...
You glare at the Nightmare before you in anger as your own Nightmare Cloak begins to form. As it slowly begins to creep up your body you see the delighted look in the Nightmare's eyes. But you also notice the pure fear in Cadence's. Your glare doesn't waver however as you think,
If it's power is the only thing that can stop this monster. To finally end this Nightmare once and for all! So that no more ponies or griffins or even changelings will have to suffer! Then...
Your eyes begin to glow a dangerous orange as your Nightmare Cloak fully surrounds you. One tail grows from you as you yell out,
"THEN I'LL USE IT'S POWER! THIS IS THE FINAL BATTLE! YOUR REIGN OF HORROR ENDS HERE NIGHTMARE!"
With that you and Shadow charge at the Nightmare. The Nightmare just chuckles at this as it yells out,
"YES! NOW LET'S HAVE SOME REAL FUN! BRING IT ON AND DON'T STOP TILL YOUR DEAD! AHAHAHAHAHAHAH!"
With that the Nightmare, you, and Shadow...
Collide in the middle of the hallway. You try to hit him with your tail, but the Nightmare just grabs it and flings you away. Shadow then lands a few kicks on it before he's shoved back by a tail. It goes on like this for awhile, and while this is going on Cadence has a horrified look at seeing two Nightmares fighting each other. Soon her eyes snap shut in fear before she opens them. She begins to run around the area in a panic as she says,
"Come on, come on , COME OM! This is a bucking alien ship, there must be some ultra powerful weapon somewhere around here to take care of them!"
The Doctor looks at Cadence with worry as he asks,
"Uuuh are you okay Cadence? Never mind, how do you know that?"
Cadence stops her panicked assault of random buttons as she looks to the Doctor with strands of hair in her eyes. The Doctor gulps slightly at this as Cadence says,
"Shining used to see alien and zombies movies all the time after the changeling invasion. He wanted to be ready for anything...but he wasn't when it came! So now I'm gonna find something on this ship to end it!"
With that she goes back to her insane pressing, leaving a confused and slightly scared Doctor and Derpy to stare at her.
Meanwhile you, Shadow, and the Nightmare continue to fight until the Nightmare grabs you and hits you into a console and the console explodes! The Nightmare flings you to the other side of the room and you crash into the wall. You get up weakly as you say,
"Ugh... I hope that console wasn't important."
As soon as you say that, an alarm starts to go off as red lights start to flash everywhere. Soon a feminine voice yells over the alarm,
"BECAUSE OF SIGNIFICANT DAMAGES TO THE MAIN CONSOLE, THE SELF DESTRUCTION HAS BEEN ACTIVATED. THIS SEQUENCE CANNOT BE ABORTED. ALL DALEKS GO TO THE EMERGENCY TELEPORT PLATFORMS!"
Everyling's eyes widen (besides the Nightmare's, as he is currently being punched by Shadow) as the Doctor says,
"Ummm... Tha's new."
"What is new, the self destruction sequence?" asks Derpy
"OOOhh, no, that happen too many times. The strange thing is that they put in an alarm and a female voice to tell everypony," says The Doctor.
"Gaaaahhh!!! The ship is gonna self destruct!!!" You shout in worry, ignoring the Nightmare as it grabs Shadow and slams him into you like a bat.
"How much time we have?" asks Cadence as she is still randomly clicking buttons.
"Who knows, maybe an hour, maybe a day, I don't know too much about Dalek Self-Destruct Technology."
"T-minus two minutes till self-destruction."
The Doctor blinks at this as he says,
"Oh. We have two minutes till the ship self-destructs...."
As you go flying by the Doctor, who is now in a thinking pose, you can't help but ask as you run back towards the Nightmare,
"DOC! WE'LL HANDLE THIS CREEP FOR AS LONG AS WE CAN! GRAB CADENCE AND FIND THAT BUCKING COUPLING!"
The Doctor stares at you in shock before he nods his head, grabs Cadence and Derpy, and then proceeds to run away. The Nightmare notices this as he yells,
"AND WHERE DO YOU THINK YOUR'RE GOING!?"
The Nightmare flings one of it's tails at them, but you intercept it with a Falcon Punch. The Nightmare glares at you as you say,
"Hey creep, your fight isn't with them..."
The Nightmare gets punched in the face and is sent flying as Shadow joins your side. As the Nightmare gets back up from where it crashed Shadow finishes your sentence,
"It's with us!"
With that both you and Shadow stick your hooves out towards the Nightmare while making a 'come at me' gesture as you both shout,
"SO COME GET SOME!"
The Nightmare roars in rage at it comes charging at the both of you. The both of you meet it head on with the intent to punch him, but...
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.
The Nightmare manages to grab both of you and hurl you both through the wall behind you. The both of you crash through multiple walls before the both of you crash into a really huge room that looks like it was some sort of training field. The two of you crash through a couple of pony dummies before you both stop in the middle of the room. As the both of you begin to weakly get up, you both hear a roar of anger as you turn to see the Nightmare charging at the both of you through the hole. Both of you manage to dodge just in time as the Nightmare passes you. The Nightmare soon stops itself as it turns around and yells,
"STAND STILL ME! WE WANNA SHOW YOU THE JOY OF A PAINFUL DEATH!"
You gulp in fear at the Nightmare's threat before you shake it off and charge at him. However the Nightmare proves to be faster then you even in it's weakened state. He grabs both you and Shadow in it's tails before he proceeds to slam the both of you into the hard metal ground over and over again. But Shadow manages to escape from the Nightmares attack via a teleport. You attempt to try the same thing, but the Nightmare notices this and goes double time on you, making you lose concentration of the spell due to all the pain. This goes on for awhile while Shadow tries to help you until you hear a female voice say,
Solarknes's Comment
"5"
You and Shadow's eyes widen in terror as you think,
Oh buck the ships about to blow and were still on it! We're doomed!
Before you can delve more into that depressing thought you see Shadow ram a full body shot 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.
You look at the Dalek strangely as you think,
Dalek's go to the bathroom?
"3"
The Dalek begins to wildly fire at Shadow and Nightmare, and the Nightmare destroys it without looking. Shadow shouts, "God Ra Mu!" and frees himself from the Nightmare.
"2"
"Are you ignoring me?", you wonder looking at them as you free yourself from the Nightmares tails. They don't respond, but both use their moves Dark No Shadow Kick and Lightning Legs. The attacks collide and send them both flying backwards.
"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-mechanism doesn't appear to be working."
You shrug and you start to re-enter the battlefield. However before you can enter the fight...
BrownDog's Comment
You hear the heavenly sound of the TARDIS landing behind you. You turn around to see the Doctor, Derpy, and a...twitching Cadence? You shake it off as the Doctor says,
"Oh thank the Maker we found you! We managed to find the coupling!"
You look at the Doctor in happiness as you say,
"Oh thank Luna! Where'd you find it?"
The Doctor and Derpy look away sheepishly at your question. You give them a confused look before the Doctor mumbles something. You look at him even more confused as you ask,
"What?"
The Doctor mumbles something a little bit louder, but you still can't make out what he's saying. You hold your hoof to your ear as you ask again,
"What?"
The Doctor once again just mumbles slightly louder. You give an annoyed sigh as you ask for the third time,
"What?"
The Doctor gives a annoyed sigh before he shouts,
"IT WAS RIGHT NEXT TO THE TARDIS, OKAY!?"
You wince slightly at his tone, but you also have to hold back a chuckle from how funny that is. But you stop laughing as you realize that you all could've gone back in time a long time ago by now! You give the Doctor an angry glare and are about to yell at him when 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.
You are about to charge at the mad man when you are grabbed from behind by the Nightmare. You struggle to let go before you see the Doctor's fallen form.
“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! That was our favorite hoof!” 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 because of you!” 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 him.
“You’re one ugly motherbucker,” he says to Davros laughing, before he begins coughing.
“Daleks are superior in every way…” 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. You feel a second tail beginning to form, but you don't care as you continue to beat him senseless.
“Well good, now you have no distractions,” the Nightmare says before it slashes you across the belly with one of his claws and throws you backwards.
You look up from your fallen position as......
Solarknes's Comment
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, and say,
"I am your conscience!"
The Nightmare snorts, and replies,
"We don't have a conscience. We are 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 release your Nightmare Screech at him, and while Shadow and Cadence cover their ears in pain, the Nightmare seems unaffected by it. When you Screech ends you don't stay still for long as you shout with you...
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.
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.
You and Shadow gasp in shock at this as the Nightmare simply chuckles as it says,
"That the best you got?"
You growl in rage as you charge at him while calling out in a voice that' a mix of yours and Selena's,
"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?We were always able to instantly copy..."
You laugh, and shout,
"No. YOU never were able to instantly copy something. I, this world's version of me, was able to. YOU are neither me, nor are you Selena. You tried to surpass us by becoming one, and made yourself much lesser because of it."
Nightmare glares at you in hatred, 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 us...also, who in the buck is Selena?"
"She's ten times the god that you'll ever be," you taunt.
"Why thank you," she says with your mouth, "Although I believe it is more than 10 times..."
"Not the point! Just take the compliment" you say as you take back your mouth.
Your changing voice throws the Nightmare off momentarily.
"Sh-she sounds like the DFV...before she stopped talking..." it says.
Taking advantage of the distraction, youou use No Shadow Barrage, but suddenly one of his tails flings you to the ground.
"ENOUGH! We are a GOD, and you're nothing but a voice! We 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! Changelings 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 have been able to take care of Nightshade after all this... I really did."
You know... the time we spent together... it was the best time of my life... she says with what you know is a smile. At least we won't turn into... THAT.
"Ditto..." You agree with her as the pressure reaches it's highest point. You try to tell her goodbye, and she tries to say something as well
Bugze...I...
Before the pressure suddenly stops.
"Huh?", you mutter to yourself, opening your eyes. All around you is a sphere of pure darkness, evil energy lashing out at everything close to it. And you're right in the middle of it all. "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 tap 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. Suddenly a barrage of emotions and feelings start to hit you,
Power...
Darkness...
Hate...
Fear...
Need...
Joy?
"You can do this!", you hear Shadows 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 the Nightmare's silhouette about to finish off others who you presume to be the Shadow's and Cadence'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 flung backwards and starts to disintegration while you can hear his voice cry out in anger,
"...that was it?", Shadow coughs.
You smile and stand up shakily, the Nightmare Cloak still around you and in Phase 3 as you ask,
"What, did you expect something more?" you say smiling at both Shadow and Cadance.
Cadance just looks at you in a weird way and doesn't answer.
"Usually monsters like him get epic deaths... not just some disintegration with lame final words...", he explains, before trying to stand up and failing.
You start to walk over to Shadow and Cadance to help them up, but Cadance scoots away from you.
"Get away from me!" she cries as her horn lights up.
"Cadance, I..." you start before she teleports away. You look around and are about to call out for her when...
A Nightmare tail springs out of the smoke and slams into the ground. You and Shadow and Cadance (who's om the other side of the room) look at it in surprise as you say,
"No...that's impossible! There's no way he's still alive!"
You soon hear dark chuckling as the smoke clears to reveal...
A very damaged Nightmare. It's now missing both of it's horns and tusks, as well as another tail and eye.
"But we heard you die!" you shout.
"Nah, we were just bucking with ya..." and it begins cackling again, but they sound labored and wet as blood comes out his mouth.
The Nightmare stops chuckling as it says,
"We're the Unkillable Nightmare, The Master of Darkness, The Bucking God of Death and Rage! We've survived Solar Beams that were hotter then that. So if you think you can take us down with just that..."
Soon the Nightmare charges at you as he screams,
"THEN YOU HAVE ANOTHER THING COMING!"
With that he reaches you, Shadow and Cadance and the fight continues...
Grey Rebl's Comment
And needless to say, you are being pummeled.
You rapidly shoot out fire balls, but the Nightmare dodges them all with meaningless ease. You continue to spam fire in hopes of keeping distance at the very least just so you could come up 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 claws digging into the very chitin 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 reaming 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 Bending 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 nowhere to go in a narrow hallway, you bring out a forcefield, and feel the brunt of the darkness. However, you became easy pickings as the forcefield begins to crack, and then the Nightmare 'Shadow Falcon Punches' 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 of 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 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 shoot 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 eye 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 remaining 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 we can't get you to go full power by yourself, then we'll just have to force you!" With that, his last eye turns green. "Gahahahaha! We 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.
WITHIN YOUR DREAMS
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. Noling would love you...
"Shut up!" you yell!
You can't help anyling. You can't save anyling. You're better off dead where you stand.
"I said 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 adds to the noise. That terrifying crowd of accusing whispers. That expanse of judgmental laughter, laughter from your larvahood. "No! Just stop! Stop it! Please!" Even your pleas don't make it cease, and only makes it louder. And louder. And louder.
You crawl into a fetal position, sobbing as you lose yourself. "Someling...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 says,
"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 goes white.
*Snap*
"Wha-huh?!" you cry out. "What happen?"
Thank Faust I've finally got you out of that terrible spell!Selena says. Now hurry! Befo-!
You yelp to the side as a certain Shadow lands 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 have, 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? We got you worked up, now didn't We?" The Nightmare frowns. "But we only got you to get out one more tail though..."
You growl at him as a new fourth tail swishes behind you angrily.
The Nightmare shrugs it off.
"Oh well, better than nothing," he says before making a megaton under swing 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 be a massive hanger for the ship as hundreds upon hundreds of Daleks go 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 vacuum 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 begins to rant,
"All our 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. Flag Burner, in the split second it took you to 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 before it says,
"The filth below us are nothing more then lost 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 can only reach that level of power 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 wasn't for your Nobody Cloak, you would've severely burnt yourself in spite of not touching it.
"'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 yourself as your fire attack burns much of the floor black. Even the Nightmare seems to be slightly burnt despite its fire-resistant cloak.
"Oh? That terrorist guy? Heh, ironic how he somehow suddenly became a thorn in our side."
You don'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 bring 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. However the Nightmare just smirks as it yells,
"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 separates 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 grabs Shadow with Shadow Chains and then flings him along towards you, the two of you slamming and adding to the momentum as you both start to become lost in space. Suddenly, be it by sheer insanity or extreme confidence, the Nightmare launches itself out and bulldozes you both, thus making it worse for everyling involved!
You try to bring out air and fire, but nothing happens as you hold your Power Glove out. Stupified, confusion overtakes you for a split second before you force yourself into blocking claws 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 eye 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 Nightmare's charge and roar would've intimidated any normal being, but you are no normal changeling. 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 changeling 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 lightning 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 claws! Shadow tries to help, but the Nightmare knocks him to the side with a 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 sheer will and insanity.
Fortunately for you, you know how to play dirty. The Power Glove, in front of both your faces, lights up in flame. You deeply inhale. The Nightmare's eye widens. 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 air 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 didn't prepare for the ensuing midair combat, but nonetheless it proceeds to try and pummel you without a second thought.
That's fine. You have an anti-air attack. As the Nightmare comes at you, you stretch both your front hooves out and began to spin in midair and one of your arms catches the Nightmare's face in in your Power Glove and you begin to spin in place at increasing speed. When you;ve think you've gone fast enough, you tucked the Nightmare's into a headlock and used your nightmare tails to launch yourself straight up.
"SSSSSTAAAALIOOOOOOONGRAAAAD!" you began as you continue to spin upward. When you reach the height of your assent, you begin to spin in place as you tossed the Nightmare spinning above your head before grabbing him with one of your Nightmare Tails and pulling him in front of you. You then use your Nightmare Tails to help tuck his leg's under your front limbs and place your back hooves on the monster's arms so that your foe was looking straight down before you begin to spin towards the ground at incredible speeds while you yelled out,
"BBBBBBBLLLLLLIIIIIIIZZZZZAAAAAAARRRDDDD!"
Unfortunately, the Nightmare was able to shoot out one of his tails which disrupted your move. While you still smashed down with enough force to break through to the levels below, you shattered your leg due to landing at an off angle.
BrownDog's Comment
You struggle to stand up, but the broken bones of your leg keep you from doing so. You look to the Nightmare and see him coughing up blood and wheezing and his eye twitches, when you hear Davros cackling,
“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 with rage blazing in his remaining two eyes. but his wounds don't appear to be healing anymore. You attempt to charge at him with a Psycho Crusher, but your broken leg causes you to stumble allowing him to smack you away with a Nightmare Tail.
You lie on the ground, face down, gasping for breath, as you hear Davros monologue.
“Daleks will be superior this day…” Davros cackles.
The Nightmare still looks squarely at you however.
“All right… Guess it's time to end this game...” it growls as it 's Nightmare Tails retract and start to wrap themselves around his right front limb as you struggle to get back up.
“Daleks are superior…” Davros says as the tails start to cause the Nightmare's arm to vibrate intensely as he declares,
"INFINITE!!!"
“Daleks, will prevail…” Davros wheezes.
Bugze! Healing Potion!
"MASS!!!"
As you shoot a hoof into your potion sash to grab the Healing Potion, the Nightmare's clawed hoof becomes nothing but an incorporeal blur, radiating power so intense even Davros feels it causing him to suddenly say in muted shock,
“Daleks… Will be exterminated…”
“PUNCH!!!” the Nightmare roars as his claw shoots towards your downed formed, but before it connects, you manage to grab a potion as Shadow Bugze dives in front of you. The punch smashes through Shadow you and shatters the healing potion bottle causing its contents to splatter on you, but you still feel as though your chest has shattered and imploded along with everything inside of it.
Even as your vision begins to go black, you can feel time slow down and you suddenly feel like you are out of your body. You can practically see Shadow Bugze disintegrating from the Nightmare's blow as your sent smashing through the Dalek Mothership towards Equestria, the force of the blow causing a chain reaction which causes the nearby Dalek ships to start exploding one-by-one in slow-motion. You feel Selena desperately trying to keep you intact even though she herself seems on the verge of passing out. In this moment of frozen time you manage to ask,
"Shadow? Why?"
"Because... That filly needs her parents."
With that the Shadow returns to the darkness from which he came as everything goes black...
Grey Rebl's Comment
IN YOUR MIND
"Grandbuggy?"
"Yes, kid?"
"Do Changelings 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. 'Changelings 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 time in forever 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 changelings 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, we dying changelings just don't have a choice.
"In short, it's not like Changelings couldn't 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 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 of 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 pupils eyes of a changeling. 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." He then gave you a sly smirk.
"And, if Luck is actually a Lady, then just treat her nice," The perverted coot said as he waggled 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 of white, she is gone.
BACK IN THE REAL WORLD
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!
Your eyes shoot open, and you find yourself still freefalling. Your body has mostly healed (at least 90%) and you look up to what looks like a light show, but upon using "Zoom" to get a better look, you see it is the sky burning with the explosion of Dalek Ships and everything seem to rain down like a meteor shower. In the middle you see the Nightmare descending back down to the planet with an insane grin on its face.
Has the world really ended? Is this how the world ends? A sad soundscape of the crying misery of ponies, griffons, donkeys, changelings and dragons alike? Are you supposed to be okay with that?
As you fall back to Equis, you can't help but 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 see your flash back just now?
You're about to respond when you hear a familiar sound. You turn to see the TARDIS appearing before you and the Doctor rushes out, grabs your hoof and pulls you inside.
"Bugze! There you are! We have to get out of here!"
"What?"
"The TARDIS is fixed so we can leave."
"But what about this world!' you protest.
"Forget it Bugze, this world is dead." the Doctor says. "We have to look to the past. With any luck, he only has a short amount of time left to..."
"ONLY A SMALL AMOUNT OF TIME?!" you roar, "DID YOU EVEN SEE WHAT IT DID WITH ONE BUCKING NIGHT!!! AFTER ALL HE'S DONE, HE NEEDS TO PAY IN THE PRESENT! WE NEED TO STOP HIM NOW!"
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.
The Doctor is about to protest when his eyes land on your Power Glove and you see a lightbulb going off in his head,
"Wait a moment... Considering the TARDIS can travel in at least 4 dimensions, the time dimension could produce a 'chrono boom' if we're at a high enough velocity and the iconic storms we pass through could hyper-ionize the polar charges of-"
"Equestrian, Doc. Can you stop the Nightmare?
"I believe I can," the Doctor smirks, "If you're willing to help."
With a smirk you reply,
*snap* "Would I kindly?..."
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A barrier of black surrounds the Nightmare as it free falls back into total destruction. He grins as he looks at the burning Dalek ship debries around him. When his eyes land on the planet, he smirks insanely,
"There you are our big blue ball of future-death? Now where were we..."
It's body vibrates, thrumming with power, every last ounce 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.
From above the Nightmare and coming down from--no, rocketing towards 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 it. In actuality, you are riding the TARDIS as you warm up your one big attack.
"Well well WELL!", the Nightmare grins with an insane spark in its eyes, "LOOK WHO'S BACK FOR SECONDS!!!"
The Tardis door is open as two of your Nightmare Tails latch on to them in sling shot mode, before you jump down stretching far back into the ship. The Nightmare follows the tails and sees the familiar orange-maned changeling in a black hooded long cloak with one Nightmare tail on the ground holding the tension with the rest wrapped around his Power Glove in "Mix-Up Smash" mode, the dials on "Winter Blast!" and "Electro Bolt!".
"Bugze! When I give the signal, give it all you got!" the Doctor yells towards you from the controls as the TARDIS zooms through space towards the Nightmare.
Back to the Nightmare, it insanely says,
"Well it would be rude to keep them waiting after they've gone through all this trouble! You ready?" with that he changes course and uses its Nightmare Tails to rocket towards the TARDIS while yelling,
"HERE COME THE PAIN!!!"
As the Nightmare rockets towards you, the Doctor sees this on the monitor and yells,
"GERONIMO!"
"ALLONS-Y BUGZE!" Derpy repeats.
"Would you kindly END THIS!" you declare as you slingshot yourself forward. As you are pulled through the halls of the TARDIS, the ice on your Power Glove starts to get intensely dense, the lightning beneath it shines an intense purple, and you shoot out of the TARDIS at extreme speeds as it phases out behind you.
As the two forces rocket towards their final impact, time seems to slow down. The Nightmare keeps the insane anticipating smile on it's face as your eyes are burrowed in determination. You draw your Power Glove hoof back as it crackles with intense super-ionized lightning under a shell of ice so dense and tough that it makes diamonds seem like wet paper.
"Pierce the Heavens..." Black flame. It appears as such as it plumes out of your hooves in massive quantities, 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 plasters itself into the Nightmare's face. Everything has gone so crazy, and the monster feels the exhilaration of it all! The Nightmare draws his hoof back in kind with a roar as you declare,
"ULTIMATE FALCON MISSILE!!!"
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 hoof and everything goes black.
The blackest of swords, cuts away the blackest of heavens...
Your hoof smashes through and obliterates the Nightmare's limb before slamming into his face. The sheer force of the attack shatters the diamond-like ice in a sonic boom as your hoof embeds itself into the Nightmare's imploding face and the momentum causes you both to zoom towards Equestria at intense speed. The velocity of your strike is so great that you both smash through and obliterate large pieces of burning Dalek warships as the hyper-ionized lightning violently electrocutes the Nightmare throughout your flight.
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If anypony would 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 says. "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 shadow barrier of his begins to crack and fall apart, and what's more, the changeling's eyes turns into a softer hue of red. This changeling is the same changeling that you saw on screen in the Doctor's TARDIS before Tartarus happen. But now it's body is nothing but scarred flesh. You can see cuts, gashes, bruises, and stab wounds all over him. He looks like his life force was sucked out of him too, as he is nothing but wrinkles with pruning skin covering his body.
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 she was still alive.
"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 to 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 don'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 yourself!" 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 changeling sighs. "It's too late for that."
You cringe, but you cease you needless ranting anyways, deciding to take in the scenery 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 nod. The surge of determination at the mention of Nightshade makes you stand up straight and resolutely. "Okay."
"Good." The changeling 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 declaration, 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 changeling loses 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 standing the grass is Nightshade. Your other you enters the same dreamscape and hugs her tightly. Nothing is said between them as they smile.
You give a sad smile at the changelings prone body as you say,
"May you finally have peace. No more running or killing, now it's just you and your daughter....forever"
As you turn away from the Changeling you can't help but think,
This is it...the Nightmare has passed.
You look around the landscape the sun shines upon, and see that it is still destroyed. The Dalek ships rain from the sky, as do their bodies, and everything is either rubble or fire.
"If only it had been sooner..." you sigh.
You look off in the distance and see signs of life, and it's coming closer to you. You focus on the figure and see that it's Cadance. You give a sigh of relief that she made it out okay. When she starts to get closer you call out,
"Hey Cadence...looks like it's finally ov-urk!"
You stop mid sentence as blood flies out of your mouth as you feel a hot burning pain run through your body. You look down at your chest, the source of your burning, to see a hilt of a sword sticking out of it. You turn your head around slightly to see an Orichalcum blade sticking out of your back with fresh changeling blood dripping from it. You look at Cadence, who you now see has strands of hair in her eyes and she looks insane. You start to lose your vision as you collapse to your side. You look at Cadence with tears in your eyes as you ask,
"Ca...Cadence? Why?"
Cadence just stares at you as she says,
"Now...now it's finally over. The Nightmare is over."
As you feel your own blood pooling out of you, you can't help but say,
"Buck....you...lady...luck."
And with that you fall into darkness, with the last words you hear being,
BUGZE! NOOOOOOO!
TO BE CONTINUED IN THE SEASON TWO EPILOGUE!
A cliff hanger season ending! Have I no shame! Hehehehe
Hey Hive Mind, DWC here!
WE DID IT HIVE MIND. That's the last episode of The Life of a Wanted Changeling Season 2: Debt to a Doctor (besides the epilogue of course). And while season 2 may not be as epic as season 1, it'll still be one of the darkest out there huh! 
THE EPILOGUE WILL BE POSTED ON SATURDAY THIS WEEK, SO LOOK OUT FOR IT! THERE WILL ALSO BE A BLOG POSTED AT THE SAME TIME OF THE EPILOGUE THAT WILL BE EXPLAINING SOME NEW THINGS, TELLING WHEN SEASON 3 WILL COME OUT, AND STUFF LIKE THAT! SEE YOU ALL THEN!
This is also a sad time as our long running editor, Kersey, will be retiring as head editor today. He was the best editor I had and also the best ideas men around. I give thanks to him for his help and I hope he can join us again in the future. To Kersey! One of the best editors this story has ever had!
Last chapters question answer is...
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.
Thank you Kichi for suggesting this! He was the first to suggest it as many of you have said that the debt to the doctor note was the lest useful item in The Inventory!
Now today we have two questions!
Question 1:
What was your reaction to the ending of the season?
What was your guys and girls reaction to the shocking turnabout of the finale? TELL ME IF YA WANT!
Question 2:
What was your overall best thing about this season?
What do you think was the best thing about season two? The comedy? The characters? The story-line? Go ahead and say in the comments below!
SEE YOU ALL IN THE EPILOGUE ON SATURDAY! BYE!
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Question 1:
What was your reaction to the ending of the season?
I liked it, it was a big surprise. Comedy, Drama, suspense, fight... What more could we want?
Question 2:
What was your overall best thing about this season?
Can't decide... In my opinnion everything was good. But the comedy was the best, the horde, the Grandbuggy scenes, Bugzee and Nightshade... Everything was good.
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Cadence POV
"At last, it's over" Mutter Cadence looking to Bugze that begin to die
Just then she is surprised, Bugzee eyes open and magic begin to come out
"What?" Ask Cadence
"I will not let you die, Never!" Say Bugzee with a strange voice
After that Bugzee tails come out, Cadence get ready to fight but the tails begin to wrap Bugzee in a strange black and scary Cocoon. Cadence could feel magic, very powerfull magic in the Cocoon.
"Gahh! I will not let you survive!" Shout Cadence as she try to destroy the Cocoon but the Orichalcum sword is shatered when she try to hit the cocoon
"I... Impossible... This is a Orichalchum sword, it cannot be destroyed..." Mutter Cadence surprised.
Meanwhile the Cocoon begin to beat, like a heart as the magic coming from the cocoon begin to increase, very soon Cadence could feel the energy coming from the cocoon was going to be even more powerfull that her magic, even when she was Alicorn.
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Any problem, tell me.
Salute to Kersey! The one and only who dealt with a our grammatical bullshit and helped organize our unrestrained babbling. You've survived us commentators for a long time, and you shall deserve your rest.
Godspeed, Kersey, and hopefully we meet again in the fields of comments.
Anyways, to the Questions.
Number one: It hurts. We all knew she was Bugze's friend, but after everything that she'd been through, it's sad that it's how it would turn out. Even the last moments of hugging and bonding in the previous chapters didn't mean much anymore to her. When she saw Nightmare Bugze, she saw the Nightmare in her universe.
After everything Bugze had to do to make things right, it makes me kinda wish for a better ending.
On another note, her situation may explain the part where the Doc didn't particularly come back...
Number Two: The best thing has to be Grandbuggy. Just mentioning him just...gives a bit character for Bugze (Or maybe it's because I 'comment' about him into the story more often than not).
His influence and presence as a Grandfather to Bugze effectively makes him one of the most primary sources of history we've got about the Hero that we ourselves direct. It helps us give depth, even if flashbacks has become repetitive.
Now, I have to wonder about the future. I wonder what new commentators will come and join us in the comment section in season three? Who knows, maybe we'll get a guy who'll actually, and legitimately, "comment" about the story itself without the use of questions.
My reaction; Oh s---!
Best thing... some of the comedy. Not the sensual parts, though.
1. I... I loved the Finale. Why, you might ask? It's... it shows The Life of a Wanted Changeling is not just about funny jokes, it's not about some poor guy getting the short stick of the life.
It is about something greater than that: It is about people trying to live peacefully, to help others live peacefully, but failing at it. He survives, but when he starts to live peacefully it's taken away. This story is about the cruelty, unfairness of life. It is funny, but the mainreason it is so funny is because it actually has a purpose. It is about having the courage to keep trying, even if you always fail. The Nightmare... the Nightmare stopped trying. It failed, and didn't get back up. That purpose is for you to interpretate, but you have heard mine now.
Oh, and Cadence lost it. Even worse than the Nightmare.
How is Bugze going to survive? Well, there is only one creature who could heal him:
Presenting... DOCTORRRRR QUACKSALVER! Or Chekohv's Pen actually has magical healing ink / is a crystal healing its owner when he's close to death.
2.
The underlaying meaning. Maybe it was accidental, but even so... The way the story is even in general makes it that way, so it would still count.
Also:
I still wanna see a scene like this:
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As you stand back in the TARDIS, you sigh. "I should just look into his inventory and get over with this...", you mutter to yourself.
Just as you are about to look into Nightmare's inventory, you hear a yawn. Nightshade awoke!
You start to cry as you see her unharmed, and hug her before she can see your bandaged wound(s).
"Um, daddy? Why are you hugging me so tight?", she asks you confused, causing you to sob and mutter to her:
"No reason. I am just glad you are alright..."
Nightshade just shrugs it off, being used to the weirdness already (like father like daughter), and takes a picture you have drawn recently out of the Inventory: "Why have you drawn a shadowy Changeling with orange hair and yellow eyes, a Cadance who seems to be... insane, and a Pinkie that is giving me the chills? There is also you with your Nightmare-tails standing above Celestia, Luna and Discord... And some other faces I don't remember, with the words: 'Do not forget' written across it."
"Don't worry about it, it's just a picture", you tell her still crying, "...just a picture, nothing important."
Shadow, I will never forget you... Pinkamena, you were one of the bravest, and most badass, ponies I have ever met. Cadance, you couldn't stand to see all the pain, and became blinded because of it... you deserved better than that... Celestia, Luna... Thank you for what you did, what you had to do. It..., at this point of your thinking your tears started to multiply even more, It was an honor meeting all you, and taking down the monster I had become... for making me see what I should never become.
As you cry even more, you decide something: You will make a wall for them, or write them all down in a book or on a stone, but whatever you do... You will never forget them.
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EDIT:
Oh, and a track that might come in handy to describe the newfound realisations and responsibilities, in relation to the Father-daughter-relationship.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x6CotdelIk
Question 1:
Well, that's a twist. Though, considering that she got to watch the world she loves die with her friend spearheading it, her reaction isn't something outside the realm of possibility.
Question 2:
Best thing about this season. I'd have to say just watching Bugze live a semi-normal life in Ponyville. While the fight scenes are awesome, seeing the interactions play out between Selena, Nightshade and Bugze gives us, the readers, a better look into his personality, thoughts and actions. Plus, this is the part of the story we first get to see Selena getting some personality other than being a homicidal maniac.
Question1: Holy Bucking Celestia! I did not see that coming.
Question 2: My favorite part was definitely the final arc. I felt more emotions in it than I have anywhere else in the story (or the prequel) combined.
At some random point in the Epilogue
TheRutherford is standing on an broken piece of a building, the teenage Wyvren looks over the wreckage of Canterlot unmoving, a blank expression on his face as the tattered tail of his Horde cloak waves in the breeze.
*A sudden blue flame travels over and appears next to the still reptile* A black Wyvern in a white uniform appears next to him.
TheRutherford: Hey dummy anything interesting happen while I was on Deployment?
The Dummy starts to deflate and turns into a scroll. TheRutherford dons the cloak on and reads.
TR:Are you kidding me?! I go on one Deployment overseas and I miss the entire battle, destruction of Canterlot, AND The Nightmare's death!
*Sigh* is there anyone else still alive?
*Crunch*
TR: What? Oh, Erised. Glad you are still alive. Nachos, seriously? No come with me you have not lived until you have tried a Gyro or Sharwama.
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And just like that they got in an argument about which food is better. Happy ending.
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Well Let us go to the Minotaur Capital and try a Gyro and to Saddle Arabia to get Sharwama and we will settle this...and eat All the foods!
*Jumps into the Tardis*
1. SANITY IS FOR THE WEAK!
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2. While I love the comedy and storyline, My favorite thing about this season was the character development. We've come along way since Bugze was just a nobody changeling who had a mysterious daughter and Dark voice in his head. We now know some more of his backstory and heritage. He is a hybrid, he's related to the Apples, he knows the reasons why Luna acted the way she did, and so on. What hasn't changed though, is his drive to be good, which is a good thing.
Also, Nightshade, through the power of friendship with the CMC, is shown to be more than just a heavy eater and sleeper. She is a little filly who loves pranks, playing with her friends, and she can actually fight, and doesn't want her daddy to keep hurting others because of her. While still mysterious, we now know she was rapidly aged with magic and can dream walk, and she may have the potential to be even more powerful than her father.
The DFV was finally revealed to be Nightmare Moon, even though we've known since last season, and with this revelation, she was able to grow into her own character, with her own identity. She's no longer just the voice that says "kill" in the back of Bugze's mind, she is Nightshade's mother and because of this, she has let her other emotions come forth. She's still rough around the edges, but they've been smoothed a bit, especially in relation to Bugze. Also, where as Bugze is a Papa Wolf when it comes to Nightshade, she is a Mama Bear, and will not hesitate to mess you up.
Overall, character development marches onward, and I can't wait to see how else they'll grow.
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One of the generals of the horde that until now was silent and only looking, walked and take out the hood revealing the face of a changeling.
"I vote for Prance, Let's try the typical croissant" Commented Kichi with a smile
He was still not sure how he appeared in here as he was waxing the horn of her queen a moment ago but it did not matter for him.
“Well, that’s interesting.”
Cadence looks behind her to see a pony wearing a ragged leader Horde cloak. “Who are you?” She demanded, her horn glowing.
“Nopony important,” the pony answered, “Seeing as Lord Nightmare is dead, there’s no point to the Horde ain’t it?” The pony removes the cloak, revealing a grey unicorn with brown hair. “Now if you excuse me, that changeling has something of mine.” His horn glows and he grabs Cadence with his TK and tosses her into a nearby building. He made his way over to the Cocoon and grabbed the Inventory lying next to it. He reached in and pulled out Chekov’s Pen, the pen giving off a soft glow.
Cadence bursts out of the building, wielding a pipe with her magic. “Get away from him!” The unicorn flings a knife at her, the knife embedding in her leg. Letting out a cry of pain, Cadence falls to the ground.
“Considering you were trying to kill him,” the pony says, grabbing several metal spikes and levitating them over Cadence, “I’m disinclined to acquiesce your request.” He slams the spikes into Cadence’s legs, causing her to shriek in pain. “Anyway, fun fact. Chekov’s Pen is probably one of the most powerful artifacts known to ponykind. Given the proper conditions to power it, anything you wish can become reality. Imagine my surprise when I found it hidden in a deposit box after Lord Nightmare’s rampage on Manehatten.” He walks over to Cadence, taking the cap off the pen, “Of course the problem is said conditions. Now I don’t wanna say pony sacrifice but, pony sacrifice.” He stabs Cadence in the throat with the pen. Immediately, the pen glows red and Cadence dissipates into nothingness.
The Cocoon pulsed, the waves of magic becoming strong and more frequent.
“All that’s left is you.” The pony walks over to the Cocoon. “As fun as it would be to make another Nightmare, I don’t think that world could handle it.” He stabs the pen into the Cocoon, causing it to turn a dark red. “But who says I can’t have a little fun? Shame I won’t see it come to pass. If you happen to meet the me in your universe, smack him for me.” He puts the pen back into the Inventory and walks away.
Question 1
I loved the finale. All of the exciting action and drama, and filled with my favorite references.
Question 2
This entire season has been great, but I've loved that fact that there's been actual character development and plenty of laughs for everypony. I'm grateful that we've had such talented people to help write this story and your patience to put our mess into a decent story.
Holy flipping hell, what a ride.
When I started following this wacky semi-dark/tragic tale, I never thought I'd be seeing it come this far, and to such an epic conclusion as this (I know it's only the end of season 2, but still). That ending, and everything leading up to it for that matter, was completely over the top and heavier than heavy. I loved it!
That being said, I'm still sorry to hear that Kersey is leaving us. So here's to you man, I don't know how you and DWC managed to pull together all our thoughts into such awesomeness week after week, but you've definitely earned a rest. You'll be in our hearts and minds... *goes to Kersey's page and clicks the "follow" button*
Besides that, CADENCE JUST GAVE BUGZY THE BUSINESS END OF A SWORD! Nooooooo!!
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What a bitch.
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NOTE: Go to 0:58 of the video;
Even though BrownDog77 is taking over as Editor, I'm still going to continue to comment on Bugze's misadventures.
I had to drop off because I have some VERY difficult classes coming up. Also, I'm coming up with my own comment-driven story about another changeling lost in the Everfree!
FOR MORE DETAILS:
Thread: The First Spin Off Idea!!! Is It Good?
Blog: Comment-Driven Changeling Story Coming Soon
Should be coming out before the end of July so keep an eye out for it! Hope to see you there!
6234161 Solar looks around, before shouting: "FOOD PARTY, YAY!", and hopping back into the TARDIS with his trashcan.
Bugyz please stay with me your going to make it Selena says as she use her magic to help and keep your blood in.
Your ears perked up upon hearing a familiar sound. It's the same sound as the TARIS.
You hear that. The Doctor is coming. Hang on.
The TARIS door opens and you see the Doctor and Derpy rushed to your aid.
"Quickly Derpy! Help him up. The TARIS might have some equipment to keep him alive." The Doctors said as he lifted you up. Derpy got the other side and wrapped here hooves around you.
"Hang in there..." Derpy said
Your eyes start to close as you blacked.
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You opened them. you see that you are on some sort of table. You spotted a cloth that was wrapped around the wound. You turned your head to see the Doctor as he is rushing round the console pressing buttons. While Derpy was looking at you with tears going down her face. The doctor rushed towards you while speaking to Derpy you started to lose hearing as you missed some of the words he said.
"...Derpy we.....to... get him to...vile hospital."
Please Bugys stay with me just a little longer. Selena said
Your eyes closed again.
When you opened them again. You where welcomed by a bright light and it looks like to be clear sky's. Looked to the side to see multiply shapes and colours. They all are to blurry to make out the faces. judging by the sounds you can hear the shocks and chatter, some asking for questions, others asked for answers. There is one voice that you keep on hearing is the voice in your head.
Come you idiot I used most of magic to keep you alive don't let it go to wasn't by dying. Selena said begging for you to stay alive.
Bugys please say something. Anything.
Say something stupid
Please
Selena you spoke.
Bugys?
I blame lady luck on this.
Selena chucked I know.
Then there was another voice in your head it sounded like
crying
"Don't go daddy"
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My side of the story ever needs editing ask away.
Question 1: My reaction is shocked and horror as it reminds me of call of duty modern warfare when General Shepard betrays you and kills you (Roach) and Ghost.
Question 2: Would be the storyline there is so many plot twists in the story. where we would have to acted and decided which one is the right one.
Unless Cadence goes by the name Lady Luck in secret, I doubt that's the person you should be blaming.
Also...
Holy crab. Had a feeling Cadence would still be angry, but, wow. That left me speechless.
Buck cadence. Worst princess. Ever! ! !
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You should judge a pony by canon, not fanon. ._.
. . . Huh. For the final exchanging blows, I'd assume Bugze would use something from gurren lagaan. Something something gigantic drill breaker? That move is more epic than the shadow ranged slashes that I Ichigo does. Wow, finally reached this chapter. All it took me was, what, reading through nearly a week to catch up? Oh gods, ma eyes!!
Cadence...