And we’re here, the last battle of the first round.
After well... over a year, 11 other battles, 4 disqualifications, and a change of authors we’re finally here.
In this battle we have Aoi Myoujin, the Lunar Legend...
...and Shadow Blitz, the self-proclaimed Alicorn of Awesome.
He’s Yah-Shee and I’m Arrell!
And it’s our job to analyze their weapons, armor, and skills to find out who would win an Equestrian Death Battle.
Species: Bipedal wolf (Formerly Human)
Occupation: Alpha of the Nanashi Clan
Name is Japanese for Blue Stranger
Also known as the Lunar Legend
Has a fear of rats and mice
Has studied kendo and various styles of wushu
Is Female at the moment, but won’t be here
Aoi Myoujin was a simple japanese boy, living a happy life with his parents, until they were murdered right in front of him.
So like most children unfortunate enough to have that happen to them, Aoi swore vengeance, and after 20 years of training, working as a US government spy sometimes, and a hitman at other times, he eventually found his family’s killer got his revenge. Just like Inigo Montoya.
The next day however, word of Aoi’s story got out to the news. Some saw it as justice while others saw it as murder. Either way, SWAT units were surrounding his apartment by the next night.
As the SWAT team was ready to burst in and storm his apartment, Aoi was confronted by Nora, a dog spirit that gained the power of a god, who confronted Aoi in the form of well... he made himself look exactly like Aoi.
Nora offered Aoi a chance at a new life in a new world. After accepting her offer, he then arrived in Equestria as a bipedal wolf, which apparently were a species in Equestria, but they went extinct. This also probably makes him one of the few chess pieces that isn’t a brony.
Wait, another one! Seriously! How many does that make now!? I mean first we had Knightmare and Arrell, then we had Jack and Ace, then there was that psychopath Ivan, possibly Ritz, and now Aoi! Seriously! How many-
Aoi is the last one.
Oh…… All right then.
ANYWAY… Aoi then traveled around Equestria, running into many who would join him on his journey. Keith, his friend from earth, whom he thought was dead, but was actually living in Equestria in pony form, Eol, a diamond dog who lost his father at a young age, and Ubi, a diamond dog/dragon hybrid looking for his missing mother. Together they try to liberate the country of Gem Fido from their dragon and alpha diamond dog overlords.
But enough backstory lets talk about his weaponry. Aoi wields a katana named Kokuryū no saishū-bin, which means “The Last Flight of the Black Dragon” in Japanese, thats made from the scale of a black dragon that he defeated himself, much like another certain chessverse character. Because his katana is made from said black dragon scale, it’s sharp enough to the point that it pretty much makes a vacuum, removing all air resistance. Because a regular katana wasn’t awesome enough.
Along with this, he has a virus that basically increases his reaction time to the point that he basically has bullet time powers.
I’m guessing he took the red pill.
Though he needs to eat at least 10,000 calories a day in order to have enough energy to do this. Once he burned 500,000 calories at once and it put him into a coma for several months.
So he’s like an anti-Snorlax. Oh, and did we forget to mention that he’s friggin eight feet tall!
He also carries a CZ75 pistol, made by his friend Keith, which holds fifteen 50. caliber rounds and uses two types of bullets, regular and explosive.
Because being a master assassin and a samurai with bullet time isn’t enough, he also has to have a gun.
With these skills Aoi has fought against dragons, alphas, the canterlot zoo during the gala, a crazy anti-diamond dog cult, and Griffin the Griffin impersonators among other things. Though despite his obvious skill, he takes failure very hard, especially if one of his allies dies because of him making a mistake.
Good thing the only life he has to worry about here is his own.
Also, he’s in also in a relationship with…
Don’t say it! Don’t you bucking say it!
Rainbow Dash.
Celestia bucking damn it! Why do fanfic writers keep shipping their OC’s with her? I mean seriously! At this point she’s been shipped with everything but the kitchen sink!
I hate you… so much right now…
I know.
ANYWAY!!!!....... Celestia I’m going to need so much brain bleach for that… Aoi does all of this when he’s not being rule 63’d by a possibly insane alternate universe version of himself.
What?
Yeah, this story, and by that I mean Aoi’s story, can get kind of weird at points.
"All it takes is for the world to not care anymore for evil to spread, Heroes are born when everyone else is too afraid to care anymore. Heroes are there to do what others don't even try. Heroes are there to SAVE EVERYONE'S ASSES When NO ONE ELSE WILL! When no one else will lift a finger to help because it doesn't help them. So yeah, I guess that does make me a hero... but what happens when the hero becomes forgotten, when no one cares about the hero anymore… That moment is when the hero sees himself turns into the very person he tries so damn hard, each and everyday to stop. That's why I don't want to be the hero. I don't ask for people to remember what I do, I don't want to be famous, or rich, or marked in history books for people to remember another fact put on a quiz. If I wanted to do all that stuff, I'd have stayed in my other world. I just wanted to finally find others that... that I could call my family again. I'm doing this to prevent others from going through what Eol, Ubi, and I have been through. I'm sure you understand..."
Species: Alicorn (Formerly Human)
Real Name: Luke Pearson
A Prince of Equestria
Has Asthma
Hates Fire
Sometimes calls himself as “The Alicorn of Awesome”
Luke Pearson was out one night with two of his friends, Zack and Lara, to celebrate the three of them finally graduating college.
By doing one of my favorite activities, getting drunk!
After many rounds, they went back to their apartment to relax…
And that’s when Princess Luna teleported into their living room and asked for their help in dealing with a coming force of evil. They decided to do the most rational thing and say yes…. Without really questioning it that much.
They then woke up the next morning in equestria as ponies. Zack as a unicorn, Lara as a pegasus, and Luke finding that he had become an alicorn.
Of course!
So the three of them came up with more pony sounding names, Zack going with Dusk Star, Lara choosing the name Fire Storm, and Luke went with the name Shadow Blitz. They then soon after went into Ponyville where the met the Mane 6 and quickly became friends with them.
Of course!
Also Shadow Blitz was challenged to a race by Rainbow Dash.
Of cour-
Stop that!
Fine.
Anyway… Shadow Blitz was challenged to a race by Rainbow Dash, which was fairly close until Rainbow used her signature Sonic Rainboom.
But then Shadow pulled off the Shadow Blast, a move that’s basically a carbon copy of the Sonic Rainboom. Which made him win by a nose.
Not long afterwards, the three of them were found out to be human thanks to Fluttershy finding Shadow’s Iphone…
And being scared by it because Fluttershy.
The mane 6 of course questioned what it was, but then Celestia and Luna came out of nowhere and explained to them just what was going on.
So then they all went to Canterlot and Shadow was made a Prince because the ponies of Equestria would question it if he wasn’t. Friggin lucky bastard.
About a day or so later, after Shadow spent some time hanging out with Luna, the three of them fought an Ursa Major that was being controlled by the villain they were sent to stop, and who’s this villain?
Spoi- Eh, not really. If you look at the chapter titles of the chapters currently out, it kinda gives it away, plus it was kinda foreshadowed earlier in the story. It’s basically Nightmare Trixie.
Though the heroes don’t know that at this point.
And after they defeat the Ursa Major the three humans fell unconscious, and then some mind stuff that involved an evil clone of Shadow happened. Once they woke up Shadow thought to himself ‘Oh Shit I need to train!’ and so he did.
Other than the Shadow Blast, he can also shoot a concentrated beam of lightning, teleport, make a bubble shield, create a ball of dark magic, and…. that’s basically it.
Other than that he wears the armor of a Lunar Guard, but he doesn’t wear a helmet because it rattles around.
Oh boo fucking hoo! Do you think the drill sergeants gave a crap if my helmet was too big during training?! No! No they didn’t! Not at all! And another thing-
Wait WHAT!?
I’m sorry but… who are you?
Razor…. Mehrunes Dagon Razor.
How did you get in here?
The author of my story is one of the writers for this series.
…
…
…
Uh….
I’m sorry but would you plea-
GET THE BUCK OUT OF HERE! THIS IS OUR STORY!
Why? Just cau-
THWACK
I’m terribly sorry. Please, continue.
...
Okay…..
So….
Back to Shadow Blitz
YES!
Shadow also has asthma and low stamina, so that plus the lack a helmet could hurt him in this match.
Well, I guess that’s a good thing since overall he does seem like a very typical OC.
“So you’re just going to teleport into our universe and randomly ask a bunch of humans whom you’ve just met 5 seconds ago to help you in Equestria for something? ...Seems Legit"
Alright, the combatants are set. Lets end this debate, and the first round, once and for all.
IT’S TIME FOR AN EQUESTRIAN DEATH BATTLE!
A grey alicorn wearing night guard armor was flying through the skies when he spotted a lone, strange figure down in an open field of grass below.
The Alicorn called Shadow Blitz flew down and landed in front of the strange figure to see that it was a white, bipedal wolf wearing a blue kimono, and it was much taller than he was.
The wolf, Aoi stopped as Shadow landed in front of him and pulled out his katana, the Kokuryū no saishū-bin, spun it around, and took a battle stance.
Shadow Blitz immediately took back to the air and charged his horn with electricity. Aoi just stood his ground and studied his opponent, waiting to see what he would do.
Shadow then shot lightning down at Aoi, who quickly sidestepped to his right to avoid the electrical blast.
Shadow’s eyes went wide in a mixture of surprise and confusion as he saw that. It looked as if Aoi didn’t move at all. One moment he was there, and the next he was just standing a few feet to the left of where he was. As confused as he was, he shook it off and charged up his horn again for a moment before he shot out another blast of lightning, and then another one, and another, and another.
Aoi however, just kept avoiding every single one of Shadow’s blasts no matter how many he shot. It was like he was teleporting, only there wasn’t any magic. While he may have been moving fast to his opponent though, to Aoi, it felt more like time had slowed down for him, and the bolts of lightning were coming at him very slowly.
After one last blast, which Aoi effortlessly avoided, Shadow gave a small grunt of frustration and teleported out of sight.
At that, Aoi quickly looked around and scanned the area, but even with his height, he couldn’t see Shadow anywhere.
After a second, Aoi heard something behind him. He turned around to see Shadow Blitz back in the air and with a large ball of dark energy floating above his horn. Shadow Blitz didn’t even waste a second before he threw it down at Aoi.
The dark energy ball hit the ground and exploded into a large cloud of dust.
Shadow just smirked to himself at that, thinking that his opponent was as good as dead, though his smile quickly dropped right as a bullet whizzed past his head.
Shadow quickly turned to his left in the direction the bullet and saw Aoi, unharmed, with his CZ75 pistol in hand.
Seeing that, Shadow’s eyes widened to the size of dinnerplates. He quickly put up a magic shield on himself right as Aoi fired three shots at him, the bullets bouncing off of his shield.
Seeing this, Aoi unloaded his gun and replaced his regular rounds with his explosive rounds.
Aoi then fired at Shadow’s again, the bullets from his gun exploding on impact as they hit Shadow’s shield. Unfortunately, since it was still a magical shield he was shooting, his explosive rounds left no damage on it whatsoever.
After firing a few more rounds, Aoi stopped firing, but he held his gun on Shadow just in case. Still, Shadow didn’t drop his shield, leaving the two of them at a stalemate. Despite his shield protecting him, Shadow knew that he couldn’t keep this up forever.
Shadow then suddenly teleported high above the clouds and looked down at the ground where Aoi was. Once he had his target in sight, he flew straight down at him, picking up speed as he got closer and closer. A mach cone formed around him as he flew. and soon after the visual light spectrum exploded behind him into what looked like a distorted rainbow.
The moment that sound hit his ears, Aoi looked up and saw the distorted rainbow above him. His eyes went as wide as Shadow’s had earlier. Again, time slowed down for him and he quickly rolled the the side, Shadow Blitz barely missing him.
Shadow then landed on the ground and kicked up another cloud of dust.
When it cleared, Shadow stood on the ground breathing heavily, and even wheezing a bit.
Seeing this, Aoi gripped his katana tightly, and quickly rushed Shadow. Shadow tried to get off the ground and fly away, but he was too tired.
Within less than a second, Aoi reached Shadow Blitz. With a flick of his wrist at Shadow’s neck, he cleanly severed his body from his head.
Aoi stood still for a few moments as Shadow Blitz’s head landed on the ground and rolled a few inches. His body fell over shortly afterwards. With that done, Aoi stood back up, swung his katana to get the blood off, then spun it around one last time and slid it back into it’s sheath before slowly walking away.
K.O.
Okay, how many decapitations have we had in this tournament? I want to say at least three and this probably won’t be the last one. Not that I’m complaining of course.
This one was very close. Both fighters were extremely fast and were easily able to avoid each other’s attacks, whether it was Aoi dodging Shadow’s attacks or Shadow putting up a shield, neither of them seemed to be able to hit each other.
Though with the shadow blast you could argue that Shadow’s a lot faster than Aoi given that the speed of a sonic rainboom is mach 10, but even still Aoi would have the common sense to get out of the bucking way if he saw that thing coming at him, though even with his super bullet time he was barely able to do that. That combined with Shadow’s asthma and low stamina gave Aoi the opening he needed.
Though it wasn’t speed or reflexes that decided the winner. Even if Shadow is faster than Aoi, and even if his asthma didn’t act up on him, the deciding factor of this fight was experience.
Shadow’s training lasted for like, an afternoon, and Aoi’s been training for pretty much all his life. Also while Shadow was able to take on an Ursa Major, he did that with the help of his two friends and the mane 6. Aoi took on and killed a black dragon by himself.
Which, in the chessverse it’s been well addressed that black dragons are the most powerful kind of dragon.
So even with his speed, Shadow Blitz couldn’t make the cut.
The winner is Aoi Myoujin.
Well here we are, the end of the first round.
We would like to take this moment to say congratulations to all of the OCs who’ve made it to the second round.
Those OCs being Ace, Aoi Myoujin, Arrel Ragnarok, Blue Breeze, Ice, Ivan, Jack Khajiit, Jake Gray…
Jason Parker, Knightmare Demonbane, Lucario, Marr Bell, Plymouth Valiant, Seth Disarmonia, Sigma, and Winterjet.
So get ready cause these are sixteen of the best of the best, and of those sixteen, only eight of them will get the chance to move up to round three.
Who will win? Who will die? Stay tuned to find out.
Next Time on the Equestrian Death Battle Tournament:
Round Two begins with, Knightmare Demonbane vs. Plymouth Valiant!
Who will win? Who will die? Find out next time!
Written by KenSES64 and RazortheAwesome
Edited by RazortheAwesome
(RLYoshi ducked out of this one because he was tired when he published it and just wanted to go to bed)
Perhaps a link to his account would be helpful?
4722703 Added to the author's note.
Since freaking when?
4723432 Calculated in Starscream VS. Rainbow Dash from the original Death Battle.
Okay, duly noted. So does that mean that you are no longer posting the tournament battles here or battles overall (tourney and non-tourney alike)? You probably already explained that somewhere in blog or something, so sorry in advance if I didn't read it. This was a pretty good fight though. However, when I saw Aoi dodge Shadow's Shadow Blast, I figured that Aoi was going to win. Nice fight, and I look forward to the next one.
~ Super-Brony12
4724274 Regular battles will still be posted here.
4723398 Okay, you may have a point there.
4724373
Ah, okay. That makes sense. Thanks!
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4723624
Hmm, and how do they do that? Because I don't believe there's anything in the show that suggests that she's going more than Mach 1. I remember someone doing calculations based on acceleration, but it''s hard to calculate speed using acceleration only, especially in a cartoon.
4728338 Here's the battle if you don't believe me.
I owe myself 200 bits for the results of this match-up.
Sincerely,
TundraStanza
4729363
I'm just asking how they calculated that figure, I'd appreciate it if you just told me.
4733644 The mach cone indicates that she is at mach 5 speeds and once she hits the sonic rainboom her speed doubles to mach 10.
That's at least a shorter version at it, the video explains it better, hence why I sent you it.
3069290
So... when can we watch the post-battle interactions?
4733799
A Mach cone indicates she's nearing Mach one, nothing more, I don't see the logic behind that. Also, sorry that you had to explain it, I'm doing this on my phone so I can't watch videos
4739444 I believe the person who did the science mentioned how the mach cone was formed in a particular way, or something like that.
4739966
... Yeah, I don't get it, but I suppose it's a pretty inconsequential detail.
Actually, I paired my OC with Fluttershy, tried to make it reasonable. Although my OC's twin sister has the hots for Rainbow (Blitz, 63'd counterpart of Dash).
Update complete.
Unicorns: Trixie (W-W), Sweetie Belle (L), Twilight Sparkle (L-L), Rarity (L), The Flim-Flam Brothers (W), Vinyl Scratch (L), Brand Fire (L), Seth Disarmonia (W)
Earth Ponies: Applejack (L-L), Apple Bloom (L), Pinkie Pie (W-L), Big Macintosh (W-L), Plymouth Valiant (W), Hunger Pains (L), Big Lugnut (robot, but still) (L), Fluffle Puff (W)
Pegasi: Rainbow Dash (W-L), Scootaloo (W), Hovermic (W), Fluttershy (W), Ditzy Doo (W), Dark Lightning (L), Vinetion Lutin (L), Blue Breeze (W), Quick Fix (L), Azzal Khan (L), Scarlet Lightning (L), The Wonderbolts (L), Ritz Korimere (L)
Alicorns: Ominous (can access this form) (L), Nightmare Moon (W), Tundra Stanza (L), Abstract the Dark (Crystallion) (L), Nyx (L), Shadow Blitz (L)
Griffons: Gilda (L-L), Griffin (W)
Changelings: Queen Chrysalis (L), Knightmare Demonbane (W)
Humans: Rylan Watch (L), Mario Bros. (W), Little Mac (W), Jake Gray (W)
Other: Mobius (Aries Leo Sagittarius) (W), Echo (diamond dog) (L), Iron Will (minotaur) (L), ATLAS and P-Body (machines) (L), Discord (draconequus) (L), Arrell Ragnarok (windigo) (W), Lucario (Pokémon) (W), Marr Bell (gorgon) (W), Jack Khajiit (bast) (W), Ace (satyr) (W), Ivan (zebra) (W), Aoi Myojin (bipedal wolf) (W)
Wow, there haven't been any wins for alicorns since Nightmare Moon.
4729363 This sucker has been proven over and over to be false. A sonic boom is created when you hit the sound barrier at mach one. The same goes for the Equestrian version that Rainbow Dash performs. The cone variant that is used in the calculation is based on a visual method that is being demonstrated using cartoon physics. These are the same kind of physics that brought you these gems:
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Basing your info off of one guy as opposed to lots of experts is a terrible idea.
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4123551
Nope... A chart.
4801523 Well MLP doesn't really follow the same physics as Looney Tunes as you put it, it's slightly grounded in some sort of reality, though overall it doesn't affect the battle in any way, Aoi still wins.
4804118 This is the same place where a pack of butterflies can carry a filly. Unless they're comprised of dark matter that's physically impossible. But I digress, Rainbow Dash's top speed is most likely Mach 1.1, two tops.
Edit: heh, that thing about dark matter was in that video a few posts down.
Suggestion for some extra fighters: Navarone from Diaries of a Madman, Taya from same, TD from Life of a Non-Brony, and Princess Antares from TD the Alicorn Princess. Not necessarily all in one fight, but against whoever. Though Nav and Taya could go against another parent-child team...
When does round two begin?