Ball!
The small pony strapped to his back between his shoulder blades, Dante stepped into the cavernous base of the tower, ready to begin ascending. As he entered, he saw a massive figure of ice, resembling a three headed dog, chained to the wall. As he approached, it - and the room - shuddered, the ice breaking off in chunks to reveal an actual three headed dog, coated in ice and chained to two walls like a guard dog. It stalked towards him as he backed away, lunging against its chains before letting off a roar that sent a large chunk of ice towards him. Dante quickly shattered the ice with his sword, momentarily distracted by the happy squealing of his passenger and her rustling with something.
"Leave now, mortal!" the beast commanded. "The likes of you are forbidden in this land! You who are powerless are not worthy to set foot here!"
Dante stepped back. "Wow, I've never seen a talking mutt before. You know in a dog show, you'd definitely take first place." He wasn't sure if it was a good idea to taunt the creature, but it was certainly fun, so he decided to go all out. "And did you mean me or Applejack?"
"You, a mere human, make a mockery of me?" the beast demanded, spitting out a blast of freezing cold, which Dante barely dodged. "If I meant the pony, I would have said hoof!"
Dante smirked as Applejack giggled, apparently having found what she was looking for. "Easy, Fido!" Dante teasingly cautioned. "How about I take you out for a walk?" He clapped his hands teasingly. "Come on puppy, let's go!"
"You'll regret this you-" the beast began, before something small and spherical flew by one of its heads. "Ball!"
The beast promptly lunged after the object, slamming into the wall under one of its chains, causing that wall to collapse on top of it. The ball in question bounced out, heading towards another wall. "Ball!" the beast proclaimed, one of its heads lolling unconsciously as it lunged after the bouncing ball.
Applejack giggled as the beast chased the ball, causing wall after wall to collapse on top of it. Before long, only one head was still conscious, the chamber was wrecked, and the ball bounced back to Applejack, who caught it in her Stetson.
Dante blinked. "Where'd the ball come from?" Applejack pointed into the hat. "Where'd the hat come from?" AJ shrugged.
The beast fell over, landing at Dante's feet and dissolving, leaving a three pronged nunchuck behind, each mystic metal bar having a stylized dog's head at the end. "Ball?" the weapon voiced pathetically as Dante picked it up.
Dante grinned as he started to wield the weapon, only to stare in shock as it spun out of his hands to wrap around Applejack. The filly, for her part, giggled and pet the weapon like it was a puppy. Shrugging, Dante continued onward towards the tower entrance.
Before he'd gone more than a few steps, however, a woman on a motorcycle burst through the wall of ice behind him, nearly landing on him as she came down from a jump. He managed to avoid it by back-flipping over her...not noticing at the time that Applejack fell out of her carry straps to land on the back of the motorcycle.
"Are you going to the party?" Dante asked as he landed. "What's the hurry? Didn't you get an invitation?" He winced slightly as he saw Applejack on the back of the motorcycle. He made a mental note to add shoulder straps to keep her in the carry straps when he flipped.
Without even turning around to face him, the woman lifted her massive firearm and fired a rocket at him, which he proceeded to surf around the room. His cries of excitement were joined with Applejack's giggling and clapping. Kicking off the rocket, Dante landed to see the woman turning to examine Applejack. At the same time, Dante got a good look at the woman.
She had very pale skin, dark brown hair, one blue eye, one brown eye, and was dressed in a tight fitting shirt and shorts. As she looked down at Applejack, the pony smiled up at her, reached up with one hoof, and booped her nose. For a brief moment, a soft smile suffused the woman's face, making her heart stoppingly beautiful.
The moment ended, however, as she turned back to Dante, revved her motorcycle, and shot forward, leaping over him to deposit AJ back in her carry straps, nearly grazing Dante's nose with the wheels as she went by. She launched up into the hole in the roof that Dante's ride had led her rocket into opening.
Dante looked up after her. "This just keeps getting better and better." He then went through the door the Cerberus had been guarding and began his ascent of the tower...after a brief pause to strap AJ in more securely.
As he began the next stage of the climb, Dante found that AJ was rather advantageously placed. Strapped to his back, she was in an ideal position to spot any demon creatures attempting to assault him from behind. While he'd have been fine with her just calling his attention to them, she took it a step further. Leveling the dog heads of the Cerberus Nunchuck, she fired blasts of ice at the demon creatures, freezing them solid long enough for Dante to spin and shatter them with his sword. Normally, this would have been a great advantage...except for the frequency of her firing those blasts of ice, and the fact that the weapon shouted "Ball!" every time it fired a blast of ice, and from more than one head if she fired multiple blasts at once.
"That's going to get real old, real fast," he grumbled to himself as he continued.
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THE DESU WILL RISE!
Not sure why, but that scene with the ball reminded me of Up.
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I was this close to throwing in a squirrel.
Ahh yes... the ever classic 'Distract dog with ball' scene... much more funnier when they can talk. But yes, I can imagine it would get old real fast for Dante since he's constantly exposed to it. And on possible stereo sound.
5620530 I can imagine the chaos that would happen if the Cerberus nunchucks could start hopping around on its own. That would be a really cold day and the trail would be frozen beyond belief.
I know that it's a running theme in your works that everyone is overcome by cuteness, but that ought to make it all the more jarring when Vergil winds up being completely immune.
...At least, I'd imagine he'd be completely immune. Or at the very least not let it get in the way of kicking Dante's butt.
5620920 Bruce wasn't really effected.
5620561 Oh dear god... Agni and Rudra.
Hehe, cute
And Applejack handled Cerberus rather well 
Makes me think of the Chimera in the fiery swamp.
5621236 That'll be even more excellent. Imagine if both instantaneously yield to AJ's cuteness
5621664 The win is strong with this one.
yay an update for this story!
(same as with the other story, just not as much)
5620518 YEAH, ME TOO. I UNINTENTIONALLY READ IT IN THE DOG'S VOICE. I CAN NOT REMEMBER THE NAME OF THE DOG.
This is by far the weirdest of the bunch.
5622825 His name is Dug.
BALL!
Thankfully is not the new Dante.
Being hit in the head with falling debris must have damaged his upper mental capacity to only be able to say one word: BALL!
So... Applejack is the new Pinkie Pie?
5742198 there is not a new dante we have normal 1-3 nero 4 with an older dante in it then the semi worthless pre-quel with dante before actually having access to the what i shall consider childish aspects of " demonhood " where in 1-3 he has more then enough control to know what he can and can't do until about half way through 3 where he can turn into a demonic form
Oh it appears it is old Dante.
How typical of you, Tatsu
I like this already and I don't even know anything about DMC.
BALL!
Well. I can't read this. Dante is OOC. Demons appear to be OOC. Applejack is just.... I can't. The pacing is also excruciatingly fast. This is basically DMC3 rewritten with a foal AJ, and OOC Dante.
6089431 How is he OOC? Did you ever play DMC3?
Isn't that a Pinkie TM ability?
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hater
6383161 Or a reference to "large hat" jokes.
"Its so big, I can hide a cake in it!"
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I can see it now... a newly returned to Equestria Applejack tries throwing a ball for Wiona, only to have the nunchucks jump out and chase it instead.
6383161 I thought that was a HM?
Ball! Ball! Ball!
I can see how that would get annoying fast.
6961224 Could be worse. Squirrel. Squirrel. Squirrel.
6961224 Want even worse? Look up 'The Bane Borderlands 2'
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I thought it was agreed to NEVER speak of that gun
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ipe!
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Just the mention of word makes me shudder
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Damn those noisy guns
Eeyup
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RELOADING!
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How could you!? That demon had a family!