Strike 7- Taco Tuesday
When Lightning Strikes- Taco Tuesday
Location: Power Ponies HQ
“You know, you guys look really stupid in superhero costumes,” Buu commented, crossing his arms as he looked the ponies over. “Like really stupid.”
“Hey, I thought we were suppose to be clearing things up. Not insulting them.” Lance facepalmed himself. “Girls, this is Majin Buu. He’s a Displaced like me, but from another Equestria.”
“OOOOOH!!! What kind of Equestria!? Do I still throw Parties!!?!” Filli-second fired an onslaught of questions at the big Marshmallow like guest. She even tried to tackle him, but Buu disappeared and reappeared in the same place using Instant Transmission.
“Yes, you still throw parties Pinkie.” Buu said with a smile, “Though things have been kinda slow since... you know never mind.”
“Aww… is somepony bored?” Filli-second asked. “I KNOW JUST HOW TO FIX THAT!!” In a flash, the Earth Pony zipped through that hallway and turned the room into the location of a party in a matter of seconds. Including a banner that says “Welcome to Maretropolis, Majin Buu!!”
“You sure she has super powers? This is about on par with my Pinkie,” Buu said, looking around, stroking his chin.
“Filli-second has speed based powers. She can run across the world in a matter of seconds.” Lance explained to Buu, recalling his first encounter with the earth pony. “Trust me, sometimes, I don’t even know how she does it.”
“Ok, lets get one thing clear, have any of you heard of the Elements of Harmony?” Buu asked, searching the ponies faces.
“We have,” Came the Masked Matterhorn’s reply. “But we only use those in emergency cases. Despite everypony on our team being a power pony, the Six of us are referred to as the Heroes of Harmony.”
“You seriously just decided to be superheroes?” Buu asked with a sigh, shaking his head, “Thats just ridiculous. And one more thing, I am not a MARSHMALLOW, I am gum. Magic gum with the power to destroy planets.”
“Hey, watch it buddy!” Zapp snapped at Buu. “We didn’t decide to have these powers. Some of us got them through… different cases. I’m the only survivor of a meltdown at a power plant and then woke up with my Lightning Abilities.”
“You guys never got the rainbow power did you...?” He asked looking at them, “Weird.”
“If you’re referring to the Aurora, then yes we did. It’s how we defeated Tirek.”
Now, even Lance was confused. “Aurora?”
“It’s a secret power within the Elements of Harmony that could be unlocked through obtaining the key that represents that attribute. A few villains from the League of Super Evil; Not my first choice for a super villain club, had stolen them from us when they took the Elements of Harmony from our Headquarters. Took us a few weeks to get everything back by the time they broke Tirek free from his prison.”
“Does that answer your question, Buu?” Lance asked.
“Still not understanding the superhero thing but whatevs. My worlds weirder,” he conjured up a soda, starting to drink it. “I mean I fought the Ginyu force at a wedding with someone who was just as weird as them.”
Lance himself was trying to picture the scene in his head. Which seemed disturbing because he thought that Recoome would body slam the wedding cake. More likely the Ginyu Wedding Crashers if you asked him. “Okay girls, to put it simply, Buu didn’t mean to hurt you guys. He was acting in self defense and I brought him here so he could apologize… only after Zapp apologizes first.”
“Hey, why me!?!”
“Because you were the one to attack him first.”
“Meh, it’s cool, Dash doesn’t have to apologize and yes, I’m going to call you all by your real names because it’s far easier for me,” he crashed his arms, transmuting the empty can of soda into a slice of cake, shoving the whole thing into his mouth. Pinkie herself was looking at Buu with sparkles in her eyes when she saw Buu make the cake, only leading to both Lance and Zapp facepalm(hoof)ing themselves.
“You guys curious at all about how I do all this weird stuff? I know most worlds I go to are but you all don’t see to be batting an eye at me.”
“Trust me when ah tell ya this, partna.” Mistress Marevelous told him. “Weird stuff happens daily. Heck, there’s a villain that could turn anything into an explosive with his magic and just recently, a dear friend of ours got eaten alive by a ghoul that Lance is trying to hunt down.”
“Yeah, you might want to make the ghoul counter two.” The Adept told her. “I looked at a hotel room that she was staying at and it seems like she has two companions. One who is part of some Vigilante league.”
“You guys do realize I’m like the most powerful being in this universe at this moment right?” Buu asked, looking at them all, “I could demonstrate if you all want.”
Those words caught everypony’s attention as Filli-second asked for a “Show and tell” of what Buu was capable of.
“Ok give me a moment while I try to find the nearest uninhabited planet...” Buu said closing his eyes, a faint pink aura surrounding his body. “Found one!” he suddenly shouted, stretching his arm around them all and teleporting them to said planet. “Everyone alright?” he asked, looking at them.
Lance nodded his head. “Yeah, but I think you broke Twilight.” As you look at her, the alicorn was looking dizzy and muttering “Error 404. Does not compute.”
“Ok, you guys see that planet over there?” Buu asked, pointing up into the sky.
“I guess that’s Equestria?”
“Yup and now I’m going to blow a planet up,” Buu said shifting down into a child sized version of himself. He held his hand up, a huge ball of pink energy starting to form in his open palm. He cackled madly before chucking the ball at a nearby planet. A moment later it exploded, filling the sky with violent light. “Me Buu make Boom!” he laughed, sounding a little insane.
“That was…”
“AWESOME!!!” Zapp shouted
“AWFUL!!!” came Saddle Rager’s reply.
“That planet wasn’t inhabited now, was it?” Lance asked, just for clarification.
Buu shook his head, reverting to his super form, “Of course not, I don’t kill, at most I absorb people.”
During this moment, Filli-Second was going into her costume to get some candy when she notices a orb on the ground with an M on it. To her though, she thought it was something else. “*GASP!!* JAWBREAKER!!!”
“For the love of all that is holy, don’t eat that!” Buu shouted, stopping her, “I’d rather not absorb you thank you very much.”
“Aww…” Filli-second pouted a little, upset at being denied the chance to have some sweets. Lance though, found a candy bar in his pocket and gave it to the earth pony to cheer her up.
“Well, that must be your summoning token then.” Lance said, now actually seeing it for the first time.
“Yup thats it,” Buu said nodding, “So, you said you were having trouble with some ghouls?”
“I was going to go hunting for them later. I have a lead, but I was thinking some ki based abilities can help me find them. You know, sense and what not. You did say you could teach me after I help you settle things with the girls.”
“Oh yeah,” Buu said, putting his hand on Lance’s head, “There ya go,” he said, pulling his hand back, “I just passed some knowledge to you.”
Lance felt the knowledge play back in his head like they have been coded into his mind. This contained…… everything. Buu must’ve been learning a lot of techniques over the years and now, he knew them too. “T-thanks!”
“Yup,” Buu said with a nod, “So... now what?” he asked, tilting his head, absentmindedly, floating around the grab, hands behind his head.
“I think we first return the girls back to where we were and then split ways. You got my token and I got yours, so call upon me when you need me.”
“You got...” Buu paused, “I have to go now,” he grabbed them up, returning them to their previous location, “See ya,” he said, opening up a portal. On the other side appeared to be Ponyville, being terrorized by Cooler and King Cold. Buu burst through it, catching Cooler in the face as the portal closed up.
“Alright… well, that was an experience.” Lance told himself as everypony was back in the command center. When Twilight got back to her senses, she looked at Lance with a look of confusion.
“W-where did Buu go?”
“He left,” Lance simply told her. “But he gave me his summoning token for if we need to call upon him again.”
“Seriously? How did he leave?”
…… Crap. He did not prepare for that part.
Some time later…
Before the Adept was going to go back into the field, he stopped by Solaria’s room in order to check on Lumen. He wanted to see if she was okay for being able to go back in the field with him now that she had some time for herself to recuperate. But after a visit, he found the Breezie still struggling to sleep. Lance felt sorry for her having to go through that. Maybe more rest was required to get over the fear.
When he left the room, the Adept patched in a com-line to the Masked Matterhorn and gave it a few minutes to sync. Once he was hooked up, the Azure striker sighed. “Mic check. Masked Matterhorn, do you copy?”
“I’m hearing you loud and clear. Are you sure about this, Gunvolt? You’re going to ignore dinner at this rate.”
“I got a possible lead that could lead me to the one responsible for the death of Milano. I need to act now before it goes up in smoke.” Lance said as he used some of his newfound Ki abilities to affect his speed and agility along with using Flashfield to glide in the air since he rather not attract any attention.
“Alright, I need you to look up the address I showed you earlier. 307 Buckingham way.”
“Yeah… about that… that address leads to a taco shop.”
Lance cocked an eyebrow at the response. “Figures. It said happy Taco Tuesday on the card. Should’ve taken that as a clue.”
“Yeah, but I highly doubt you would find what you're looking for inside there. I don’t even think that they would let you in through the front door.”
“Going through the front door wasn’t exactly the plan… Hang on, I think I found myself a way in.”
Lance was right on that one. For being a taco shop, he did not expect the location to have a food carriage to serve everypony during the day at the nearby park. Using his newly learned instant transmission, Lance ended up behind it and snuck in, hiding in a locker that was stuffed into the food van. Possibly for storage purposes. The Adept could soon hear voices coming from the drivers end of the carriage as it began to leave.
“League of Vigilante Justice, this is Sonata reporting. Over”
“Sonata, you don’t have to say over every time you’re trying to talk to us.”
“But that’s how it’s done in the Spy pony movies!! Ugh, you’re no fun Trixie.”
“That’s Mare Do Well to you!!”
Mare Do Well? That’s the name on the card!!
“Besides, why are you calling me anyway?”
“You’re going to need to help me out. Trixie’s got two potential recruits and through a battle with a hooded psycho the other night, Trixie lost her ID card to get in the base.”
“Can’t you just use the entrance above ground?”
“The Power Ponies and the police are looking for one of them for… reasons. I’ll explain later.”
Yeah, if you consider reasons being eating a foal’s mother alive.
“Alright alright, keep your hooves in your suit! I’m coming!!” He heard the one called “Sonata” say as she ended the phone call. “Aria was right. Trixie’s no fun at all.”
After about ten minutes, Sonata pulled up around the back entrance of the shop and parked the carriage. Lance used this moment to get out and act like a good samaritan once the pony came around the back side of the carriage. “Excuse me, ma’am. You seemed to have dropped this.”
Taking the card, Sonata smiled. “Thanks. I was wondering where this left. See you around!”
“Yep… You too…” Lance smiled, walking away. However, what was unknown to Sonata at the time was that the Adept transmitted a bit of his energy to the card. That way, it’ll serve as a tracking and listening device.
“So, what was that all about?”
“That was so we know where she’s going… and here what’s going on inside the Vigilante clubhouse. Ever know what to do when it comes to dealing with a pack of mice?”
“No, what’s that?” The Masked Matterhorn asked as she sounded like she was going to adjust herself.
“Simple, Flush them out.”
Lance put on a pair of headphones over his ears to make himself look like he was listening to a I-pon or an MP3 device. But, in reality, he was listening to the conversation that Sonata and the other members of the “League” were having. Even then so to the point where he was surprised to see a familiar face nearby.
“Oh hi, Lance!”
Turning to his left, the Adept saw the young foal, Button Mash. “Hey Buddy. What’s up?”
“The Sky?”
“No, I mean how are you? It’s just an expression.”
“Oh, I’m doing great. Iggy’s been doing great as well.”
‘Good dog.’ Lance thought to himself mentally.
“So, whatcha doing?” The Foal then proceeded to ask.
“Well… I’ve been doing some investigating and I might have a lead on your attacker.” Lance said, giving an earbud to the foal. “Listen. I placed a microphone in there so we could hear them even though we can’t see them.”
The Foal took up Lance on his offer and took the earbud. Around now though was where they began to start hearing the group talking about the individuals that Mare-Do-Well brought in.
“You’re kidding me… She ate a foal’s mother?”
“IT’S NOT LIKE I WANTED TOO!!” They heard the girl scream. “I LOST CONTROL OVER MYSELF AND WHO I WAS!! I COULDN’T THINK STRAIGHT AND WHEN I SAW THEM, I SNAPPED. IF I COULD REDO THAT ENCOUNTER, THEN I WOULD JUST RUN AWAY AND JUST CURL UP IN A CORNER AND DIE BECAUSE I’M NO LONGER THE PERSON THAT I AM!!...... I’ve become a monster…… and I hate myself for it.”
Lance noticed the expression on Button’s face change. He now looked… upset. Like he felt bad for the ghoul after hearing this. Even though this girl was the one that took his caring mother away from him, hearing this made him believe that she didn’t do it on purpose.
“Lance…”
“Yes, Button? Is something wrong?”
“C-can you forgive somepony who did something really horrible if they didn’t mean to do it?” The young earth pony asked. It was a tough question. One that the Adept couldn’t really answer at that point in time.
“I don’t know, buddy.” Lance answered honestly. “Why don’t you go back to your home? Your father is probably worried about you.”
“Oh, okay.” Button sighed. “Just… do one thing for me please.”
“Sure, what is it?”
“If you’re trying to go after my mom’s killer…… Don’t harm her please. She just seems… Lost and needs somepony to help her. Help her instead of hurt her.”
Lance was honestly surprised by the boy’s words. This… showed Maturity in the young foal. He nodded his head in a yes motion and watched as he trotted away. Refocusing himself, he now prepared to flush out the ghoul as he went topside on the top of the building next to the taco shop.
It all started with a snap of a finger. The action had the card that he channeled into and gave Sonata to turn into smoke and flood the chamber.
“W-what the!? Is this a gas leak?!”
“Who cares?! Someone must be coming!! Mare-Do-Well, get Kaoru up on top of the building next to the taco shop. We’ll see if someone decided to mess with us.”
“Got it, Touka.”
The Adept grinned. They fell for the distraction. Still, he stayed low on the building that was next to the restaurant. He waited till he saw the target until he saw both of them.
“Are we in the clear?”
“We should be-.”
When the pony spoke, Lance used a ki based trick that he learned from the knowledge that Buu gave him. In a flash, The Adept trapped the two of them with a ring of light blue energy. His own variation of Galactic Donuts, a classic technique by Gotenks.
“What the-?!”
“Well, you have been hard to track down. At least we can finally be able to have a conversation now… Kaoru.”
The girl looked towards Lance in the restraints that she was in. “H-how do you know my name? Matter of fact, who or what are you?”
“A Displaced like you. Mostly, I’m referred to as Gunvolt or the Azure Striker. But you can call me Lance.” The Adept replied. “As for knowing about you, I hid a listening device that turned to smoke once I heard everything I needed to know. I’ve been on your trail for a while now.”
“T-trail? Mare-Do-Well leaves no trail behind for individuals like you to follow!!”
“Oh really?” The Azure Striker questioned, holding up Mare-Do-Well’s membership card for the Vigilante League. “Then you’re telling me this isn’t yours?”
“Trixie!!!”
“W-where did you find that?”
“Your trashed hideout. Along with some… other evidence.”
“H-how dare you make a fool of me!! When I get my hooves on you, I’ll beat you to a bloody pulp.”
“Oh? Interesting.” Lance said. Soon, the ring that was around the two of them dissipated as Lance adjusted his gloves. “Very well, hit me with your best shot!!”
“You’ll pay for that whelp!” Trixie said as she throw an explosive mare-a-rang at Lance. Lance however, expected this and used his Flashfield to shield himself as the explosion went off outside the barrier. Next, The Adept switched clips to Mizuchi. This was referred to as the sniper clip since it had a long range, but could only tag one thing at a time. But the point in this was to get an advantage. He saw this Mare-Do-Well as a pony Batman. Take away the toolbelt and her options were limited.
Taking aim, he fired at the next mare-a-rang on her belt, which began to beep.
“Oh pony feathers!” Trixie removed her toolbelt just in time before it exploded. “Great, Mare-Do-Well was hoping she could take you out without using her hooves.”
“Trust me, I’ve dealt with worse. My mentor throws wrenches at my head as a training exercise.” Lance smirked. All he needed to do now was hold out a little while longer. “Am I to assume that this is a duel or a two-against-one fight?”
“More like a three-against-one pal.” Said Touka as she fired a barrage of crystals at the Adept. Lance’s first reaction was to use his Flashfield, which destroyed the crystals before they could even come close.
“And you must be the companion. It makes sense since I found the shards back in the hotel room.”
“Yes and unlike my friend over there, I have no problem eating to survive.” Touka’s kagune formed into a cape surrounding herself. “That also includes you kid.”
“And all I wanted to do was just talk. You can blame Trixie for starting a fight she couldn’t win.”
“Oh I’m not doing it because of what Trixie did, I’m doing it cause you’re in league with the Power Ponies. And something tells me they’re not that understanding towards what Kaoru did.”
“The Victims son is though. He wanted me to not harm your friend and tell her that he wanted me to help you instead of harm you.”
“I’ll believe that when the kid says it to her himself in person-.”
“That can be arranged.” Came a young and familiar voice. A foals voice. Lance turned around to see Button himself standing on his hooves on the back end of the roof. Right next to him was none other than Iggy. The Displaced Dog with the stand of The Fool. He must’ve used the Stands Paraglider mode so the youngling could go up top to where they were.
“Well, I did not see that one coming.”
The next thing though that he did not see coming was an attacker in a white hood coming down from the nearby building. The assailant surprised the Azure Striker as it used it’s shield to slam Mare-Do-Well into Touka and knock them off the edge of the building. Lance’s response was automatically switching to his Dullahan clip and blasting the punk in the face, causing his hood to fall down. But when the smoke cleared, all Lance could do was stare in shock at who he was seeing.
“C-cody?”
“Who the hell is Cody?” The White haired boy replied, drawing his revolver. “I am Copen, and I am here to end your life.”
End Strike 7
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PLOT TWIST! DAMN!
Things are getting crazy, let rock!.
Awesome chapter.
you know what at this point this is like an m night shamylan twist only good if that makes sense if not. let me explain
you have been hinting at copen being more than what he is letting on and given my previous history in reading displaced i have come to realize that having your body altered also comes with having your mind altered much like with what happened in maretropolis ghoul
however Copen is a unique case in most media to come out recently. in fact the only other entities that I belive can match that are caster from fate zero and arturia from the fate series where they are so deluded by thier own ideals that they either refuse any other options or are twisted to become monsters. Copen is a mixture of both and as a result most of the changes would not be physical but mental and thats not factoring in what he saw before this point so while this is a twist seemingly from nowhere it is indeed a good one
well the Raibow Power doesn´t need to be everywhere, but it is not a bad thing either.
Don´t understand it the wrong way, the story is good, but it is somehow not really Powerpony anymore, at least not with Boo there.
I guess i am just used to it, to be something like in a comic, not travel to other planets, and havin all the powers they acually would not have.
I can´t help myself, i thought the story wuld take a different path, he doesn´t train for very long yet right? Maybe he is even a bit to strong yet, i mean if he can already fight against two, or three of the stronger Villains at the same time. I know there are some Displaced, that are OP, and Lance isn´t exactly to strong, but the story is changing a bit much.
Like i said, the story is good, but i really like those Characters, that have to train more, and work for what they can do later, that means i hope he doesn´t got to much Power from Boo.
Since this story is with the Power Pony Team, i would like it, if he would need some kind of help, not just him. I am not sure if you wanted Button, and Iggy to help him, but one of the main Heroes would be nice too.
I don´t know what Lance was thinking, as he made it the way, that Button could listen everything, i mean i would think they would not allow an already traumatized foal to be involved more with it. I am sure you can find reasons against this, but it is not the first thing i would do.
I have to wait, and see where this story is going, i don´t hate it, even if i probably sound like i would not like it anymore, but it is changing a bit more than i thought it would, and it doesn´t really feels like Power Ponys for me right now.
Sorry if i can´t explain it better.
5880942
to be honest, I can already see button going down the path to heroism and this is simply one of the steps. it looks like he's already starting to develop the right mindset
and he's also got the heroic timing down right (and possible hero/sidekick pose?)
5881182 I can see what you mean right there, and i think there are storys, where a kid loses on, or both of his parents befor he decide to be a Hero, and tries to catch the Villain himself, but i am not sure how much i like Button.
I like the Button short videos, but i don´t like Button X Sweetiebell, and somehow it is the same with Featherweight, i can´t think of them as Heroes, but maybe the author can write a nice Button Mash. Now that i think about it, as a Sidekick he could maybe do a good job, i mean it looks like he has some kind of combo fighting style, if i remember it right he was riding the Dog, just like that one Enemie from Spiderman. (or Megaman)
Because he has the Dog, he can probably do a little bit more damage, honestly i am not sure what he can do, beside talking i mean, i guess most of the work the Dog is going to do at first.
If Lance isn´t going to be to strong to soon, and is already the strongest fighter ever in a few chapters, then i can probably not happier with the story right now. Like i said, i would like it if he still needs help from other people, he s still in training, and as strong as he may is, there should be someone that can still win against him in a real fight.
This way it would be even more awesome if he would win the second fight.
Okay...thank you for your comment, i managed to get another way to think about it, and it helped me to...well i guess i like most of it now.
5881230 alternate points of view is what I do best
5881258 well thank you for that
It was always easy for me to say what i actually meant, the moment someone said something about what i have said first, i don´t know why.
5880893 Yep
5879506 *Cues fight Music*
5880942 Buu only taught Lance a few abilities needed in order for him to be ready. Not everything can be used immediately since that requires more practice. Like in DB Xenoverse, You use four super skills, two ultimates, and one evasive
*sigh* Well, f**k.
Well... Shit.
5891063 My thoughts exactly
There's something wrong here. All these things said about Majin Buu, how does any of it exist? Buu, The Majin of Harmony only has one chapter!
5930488 he's going to add more, but he's been busy
You have completely lost me...I DONT UNDERSTAND THIS STORY FIRST THE GHOUL REMINDS ME OF AN OLD FIC I READ WITCH WAS REALLY GOOD HELP ME UNDERSTAND PLZ!have a moustache
6292302 the ghoul is from maretropolis ghoul. Both stories are intertwined from different perspectives
Thank you
Holy throne!
Such a shame the buu story got canceled.
The story is well-written and interesting, but I think I might stop reading this over the next few chapter for various personal reasons.
I'm a 28 year old American guy who has been on this site since right before the second season of FIM when I was about 20. I've never felt weird about my age as it relates to the fandom, until recently reading some of the Displaced Stories. Some of the writing choices, like the crazy amount of interconnectedness between the authors, having your own character spending more time crossing over in other worlds than addressing your own world's problems, and casually giving and receiving powers without putting any effort into mastering them, really make it feel like I'm reading something written by a younger generation of people with completely different values to my own.
I'm not saying this is a bad thing, nor am I telling you dang whippersnappers to get off my lawn, it's just jarring to me. To the point where I was genuinely shocked to see that this part of the story was written in 2015, and the Displaced movement only really started in late 2013 with the Malideus story.
TL;DR Am having a very mild existential crisis in the comments section.