Episode 32: Bluffing For The Win! (Applewood Arc Part 4)
Opening Theme:
As the timberwolf's eyes widen in shock you feel your breath hitch in your throat and you do the only thing you know how to do in these kind's of situations...
Kichi's Comment
You begin to panic like there's no tomorrow.
Oh buck me! I'm backed into a corner and there's no way of me getting out of here without getting caught! I mean I could punch my way out of here but then not only will my cover be blown, but I'm out numbered two to one. That usually wouldn't be a problem, but the fact that they're Knight leaders means they have to have some skill when it comes to fighting, plus the advantages to being a dragon and timberwolf don't help me either! Not to mention I'm still healing from my injuries due to those bucking stunts. So in other words...
You take a deep, calming breath as you finish your thought,
I'M BUCKED!
Bugze calm down! You panicking isn't going to make this situation any better. You need to calm down and think straight so we can come up with a plan!
You feel your eye twitch in annoyance as you think,
Oh I'm sorry, but you're not the one who'll be getting the snot kicked out of you now are ya! Now unless you can come up with a plan in the next ten seconds then I'm gonna-
Your annoyed rant is cut off when you hear someling say,
Daddy, what if you try to let them think that Kichi changeling sent you or something like that?
Why would he send me? I'm the one who put him away!
MEANWHILE, IN A HIGH-SECURTIY CELL
A certain changeling sneezed and looked around
"Grah, I'm hungry... Not even I treated my lackeys this bad... Damn ponies and their pony food, how many times do I need to tell them that I need some love?" groans Kichi.
"Oh, quit your whining, I'm also hungry and you don't hear me complaining" Silver's voice comes from the other side of the wall.
BACK WITH YOU
But then again, maybe if they think I'm on their side then I can get closer and...no then they'd ask me questions about Kichi and... you debate with yourself until realization hits you.
Gah! Nightshade, when did you get back into my head!?
Your head goes quiet for a few seconds before Nightshade says,
Well, I did...but then waiting in this waiting room was boring and...
Before you can hear any more of what she has to say, or process it, you notice that the two Knight Leaders are heading right your way! Your eyes widen in panic again as you think,
BrownDog's Comment
Crud, Crud, Crud! What do I do?
Either make a run and blow your cover, follow our daughter's plan, or capture them now!
Your mind starts to scramble as you try to think of what Nightshade's plan was, but the panic is making you forget everything! You start to sweat as you desperately try to think of something. It's almost as stressful as that time in Las Pegasus when Grandbuggy almost got caught cheating at cards...
*Ding*
Or…I can Bluff'em!
You can hear Selena facehoof as she says,
What do you…
You ignore Selena and immediately lay in the closet and pretend to sleep.
Bugze! Now’s not the time for-
Yes it is. Would you rather they found a sneaking bounty hunter, or some scrub actor who decided to take a nap?
But what if…
“GOTCHA!!! Huh?”
The door opens and both the dragon and timberwolf are standing in the doorway, but you have your eyes shut, hidden under your hood, and you let out some snores. From what you can hear, they sound confused.
“Hey, you there! What are you doing here?”
“zzzzzz,” you snore.
“Um, hello?” says the dragon, but you continue to snore.
“Huh, he’s asleep,” says the Timberwolf.
“What’s he doing in here?”
“Well if I wanted a nap in the middle of this busy studio, I’d choose my office.”
“Huh, so he’s a tough changeling actor who’s also pretty crafty…neato,” says the Wyvrn.
“ZZZZZZZ” you snore again.
“Well let’s hurry up and put our cloaks back on, he hasn’t seen us yet,” the Timberwolf commands.
“Good idea,” the dragon agrees.
You hear them put on their cloaks and hear them whisper.
“Woo, dodged an arrow there,”
“I know right? And while he’s hear we can talk to him about the upcoming scenes.”
“Right. Changelings like ribs right?” asks the dragon.
“I think they only feed on love, but they do have sharp teeth. Let’s ask him,” the Timberwolf director muses.
You hear them walk back over to you.
“Now remember, act like we’re upset and that we might fire him and turn him in, we don’t want him to know how much we want him in the next scenes,” you hear the wooden wolf whisper.
“Gotcha.”
You then feel a claw on your shoulder starting to shake you awake.
“Hey! Hey Changeling! WAKE UP!” they yell in your ear.
You suddenly sit bolt upright “waking up” and look around in a “confused daze”
“What?! Huh?! Who?!”
“What do you think you’re doing in my office?” comes the intimidating voice of the wolf.
You then stare down the two cloaked figures and chuckle nervously.
“Eh hehehe, Sorry, I was just taking a nap and…”
“This is my office you worthless actor! I don’t pay you to nap in MY closet!”
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry! It’s just that, it’s been a rough day, and I was so tired and-“ you lie.
“I don’t want to hear it! You know, I should just turn you into the guards you worthless bug!”
“But I-Wait! I’m not a bug!”
“The heck you aren’t, I can smell it on you…Changeling,” says the cloaked dragon as he leans ominously over you.
You force a gulp, and put on a voice of mock horror, “Noooo, how could I have been found out so easily! I just wanted money. Please don’t turn me in!”
“Why shouldn’t we? Give us one good reason?” says the timberwolf.
“I’ll do anything!”
The two figures look at each other then back at you.
“Anything huh? Alright, it just might be your lucky day bug. We do have some upcoming scenes that are a bit more dangerous and…well, we really could use a changeling on camera.”
“Alright fine, yes, please don’t turn me in!” you “plead.”
“Well alright then…by the way, do changelings eat deer ribs?” asks the Rutherford.
“I’m a veg…I mean, I only feed on love, I don’t need physical food,” you lie, even as you feel your stomach growl. You can even imagine anime tears running down your face as you say this.
“Told you so,” Solarkness chimes.
Rutherford nod's his head before he says,
"Good, now head on to set 5, your needed there for more...work."
You feel a sweat drop form on the back of your head as you think,
Why are they smiling so menacingly!
You snap out of it and salute before saying,
"Yes sir!"
With that you run out of there as fast as you can.
MEANWHILE, BACK WITH THE KNIGHTS
TheRutherford's Comment
The cloaked Dragon looks to the Timberwolf and says, "Hey, let's make these next stunts with the Changeling more painful Solar."
"Wha? Why?" Solarkness says with a mouthful of ribs.
"I think maybe he was faking sleep."
"How can you tell?"
"I don't know. His snoring just seemed...off. And I don't remember hearing snores before we checked the closet."
"And?" asks Solarkness.
"I feel like he could be hiding something, although I am not sure what," muses Rutherford.
"Yeah, he's a changeling in hiding," points out Solarkness.
"No I mean, like, something else."
"What would a changeling have to gain by snooping around the office?"
"I don't know...Either way, we should make the stunts more dangerous just to be sure."
"What if you are wrong?" asks the wolf.
"Then I will personally apologize for the distrust, actually give him triple the standard pay, and offer him a position in the Knights," Rutherford replies.
"You think he will go for that?"
"Who knows. stranger things have happened."
In the distance,both of them hear an angry roar "WHAT DO YOU MEAN SHIA AND MEIGHAN QUIT THE PROJECT?! AAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!" followed by a distant explosion. Both Knights just shrug this off as not important as Solarkness says with a chuckle,
"That said, I do think we could always use more mayhem on set,"
A FEW MOMENTS LATER
Grey Rebl's Comment
After successfully escaping from the office of the two Crimson Knight leaders, you briskly trot down the hall, feeling the adrenaline from the close-call gradually leaving your system. Oh Luna! Your hooves are still shaking, though! It's a wonder you've left unscathed. Well, physically, at least. While you played the part of a scared changing pretty well, you kinda actually were scared.
"I know I said that the directors in Applewood are kinda crazy, but I never thought it'd go that far..." You say aloud, sighing the last of the anxiety out.
Still, I'm surprised you decided to go through with this route...
I can't always afford to start a fight. I burned an entire pizzeria the last time for crying out loud! This time, though, I have civilians to think about now. They're still in the building, after all.
Hmmm. Nice forethought. There is no sarcasm in her voice this time, so it must be a genuine compliment!
Oh, geez thanks! Still, I'll have to fight both a dragon and a timber wolf. Just my luck. Yet again, you sigh.
The former of which you have yet to be capable of defeating on your own. Selena just HAD to point that out!
H-hey! I almost did one time!
...and we know how THAT turned out.
You wince, vividly recalling how you almost killed a dragon, and a father at that. The thought of orphaning Garble like that... And he's out guarding the door outside as a part-time job, too!
Aside from the difficulty that comes with differing species, I'm somewhat amazed that you've fooled them completely.
You chuckle humorlessly, a half-hearted attempt to lighten the mood.
Well what can I say? Out of all of the things that I've practiced over the years, lying through my teeth has been second to my fighting experience.
That, or we should be glad there are still more gullible people we'll get to work through.
...I'm not sure if I should be relieved or insulted anymore. Can't you at least acknowledge my merit on that point?
Before Selena can respond to your question you open a nearby door to see if it'll lead to the set your supposed to go to, but instead you see..
Kichi's Comment
A pink pegasus as she puts on a plastic horn.
"Nope, wrong door," you say as you close it, the actress covering herself for some reason and screeching.
You then open another door and you see a black stallion with a cape and a red false horn.
The black stallion laughs in front of a mirror like a maniac and begins to shout something about crystals in a bunch of different tones and inflections.
You hear the former tyrant groan in your head at the site as he says,
Gah! Is that supposed to be me? How dare they tarnish my glorious image? The great master of planning and illusions. I who turned many ponies into puty with my magic!
You roll your eyes at the tyrant's rant as you say,
Are you sure that isn't you? Cause that's pretty much how you acted when we first fought back at the empire. I think you may have a crystal fetish
You can hear Sombra growl in your head as he threatens,
Why you puny little piece of-
Before Sombra can finish you cut him off as you think,
Hold that thought Sombrozo, I think I see my daughter...WAIT WHAT!?!?
Your eyes widen in surprise as you see a very happy looking Nightshade, wearing a dark blue wig, and prosthetic wings and a horn jumping up and down as a tired looking Aqua sits next to her. You can feel your eye twitch in annoyance as you begin to walk over to them. You don't even get halfway there before Nightshade notices you and runs over to you with big stars in her eyes as she says,
"Watashi wa sutāpapa ni nari-sōdesu (I'm going to be a star daddy)!"
You give a confused look to Aqua as she smiles sheepishly before saying,
"Yeah...the kid said that you needed help inside...but when we got in here, some talent scout kind of..."
"Kind of what?" you growl. She chuckles nervously again and says,
"They want Nightshade for the movie..."
"WHAT?!"
"Well, it seems the previous filly that they had lined up never appeared. From what we were told, the actress was going to come in from Bastion today, but they didn't. I bet you can imagine the reason," she explains.
You then think back to all the little foals Kichi was using like batteries and grit your teeth in anger.
"Yeah... Guess that's another fate we saved those kids from. Child actors never grow up right. But seriously, why did you allow Nightshade to be chosen? I wanted you guys outside where it was safer."
"It wasn't by choice dude! I can't control her," Aqua huffs.
Worst. Babysitter. Ever! Selena growls.
You turn to Nightshade and lift up an eyebrow to which she smiles sheepishly.
"Well...they offered me a family golden ticket to Winnyland and a great quantity of bits if I accepted the job and well... I could not say no, or let Ms. Aqua take that away from me..." Nightshade explains.
You look back to Aqua with an inquisitive look and she blathers,
"Her eyes turned freaking white man! Pure white! I wasn't about to argue with that!"
You sigh and nod your head at this.
"OK...I understand. There's no reason being mad about it now, it's already happened. Honey, just don't go around calling me Daddy right now, or use your real name got it?"
"Gotcha, and don't worry, they know me as Evening Shadow," she smiles.
"And what's with the wig?"
"They said my mane wasn't the right color for this part and made me wear it. Don't I look more like mommy now?" she says happily.
"Umm...sure, but don't go saying that aloud either alright?"
"Gotcha daddy. Oh I can't wait for this scene to start!"
You then give an urgent look to Aqua as you say,
"We need to talk. I've found some information that your gonna want to see."
Aqua nods her head at this and is about to comment, but you don't hear her as you feel a sudden feeling of fatherly dread. Looking over to Nightshade you see...
Nightshade, and a bunch of other children made to look like her, standing around the giant animatronic Nightmare You, and a very realistic looking Discord. In the scene Discord has created multiple illusions of the "Nightmare Child" as she is called and each on of the fillies begin taunting the animatronic while the Discord actor fights it.
What happens next though is terrifying, the Nightmare thing swings for the children.
"NOOOOO!!!" you yell.
"And Cut!" comes Solarkness' voice as the puppet stops. "Alright, bring in the doubles."
All the kids, including Nightshade are then ushered off stage and short mares and stallions made to look like the kids are brought out.
"Annnnddddd, ACTION!" the puppet then hits the doubles violently, before it looks to "Discord" and begins attacking.
Nightshade then comes walking back over to you down cast.
"That's it? That's all they needed me for? I thought I was going to be a star," she harumphs.
"Well honey, child labor laws don't allow child endangerment, and I'm pretty sure even Crimson Knights wouldn't want to go through that legal hell," you say as you happily hug her.
"What kind of movie is this anyway? That Discord actor kind of freaked me out, and that monster thing is kind of scary too?" she asks.
You look back up at the scene as Discord is struck down by the Nightmare and you briefly flash back.
"You don't want to know honey..." you say feeling downcast.
Bugze, you need not watch this, Selena says sounding uncomfortable as well.
You nod, but you can't look away.
Even if it is fake, it still seems real. And even through it, you even feel some smug satisfaction watching even a fake Discord getting hurt.
"And cut... Good work everyone! Now let's move on to the fun scene. Set 5 in 15 people" says the disguised Timberwolf.
As all the actors disperse, you look to Aqua and say, "I'll catch up with you guys, after these scenes on my next break go on ahead and be safe OK?," you say as you breathe heavily.
They both nod and walk on, a bit confused about your demeanor.
That...that was...
I know Bugze. I know.
Seriously, how do they know about scenes like this?
Mayhaps they have visions of it from their dopplegangers?
Maybe...It's all so surreal... you say as you rub your faded scar on your chest.
As you sit and muse, the Discord actor walking your way with a check in his lion paw.
"And just like that I'm an Applewood star and I am set for when I get out of...Oh hi there Tennant, how'd you get here?" he says stopping in front of you.
You sigh and wave to him, "I'm doing alright, I just..." your eyes widen as what he says hits you.
"WHAT?! How do you know that name? Who are you?!" you say as you glare at him, you voice modulator kicking in.
"Me? Oh BST don't you recognize your old uncle Dizzy? I know the makeup is new, but that's what's needed for the cameras and-"
WHAT?!?
"HOW THE BUCK ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR PRISON?!" your growl as your eyes begin to glow a combo of orange and green.
"What? Bugze it's me, past me is...Oh wait, you're not from...Ohhhhhhh..." he says with realization. "You're past you. I didn't think...well this is awkward..." he says looking sheepish.
"What do you even-?"
Before you can even react, he says, "Like your Doc buddy always says, Spoilers...and Hey, just know I'm sorry about a lot of the stuff you'll be going through the next 2 years."
Suddenly he snaps his fingers, there is a blinding light, and suddenly your head feels scrambled as this chimes throughout.
As your mind boots back up, you see a confused pony actor in a Discord suit giving you a weird look before shrugging and walking away.
"I, but...What the...?" but no matter how much you stammer, you are now alone on the set with no one to answer you.
Selena...you saw that too right? Please tell me you saw that!?
I...I did. I'm...not sure as to what to make of it but I saw it.
Was that not Discord the Usurper? Sombra growls in...anger?
You shake your head, as well as smack your head as you think,
You know what? No. I'm not gonna deal with this. For all I know someling spiked the punch and I'm seeing things. It's not my problem, it's future Bugze's problem. I'm just gonna pretend that never happened! I swear to Luna if anyling so much as says his name in the next couple of hours I'm dropping stealth and wiping out a fresh can of kickass!
With that thought you ignore Selena and Sombra and get back to work...you find set 5 and participate in some very dangerous action scenes, nothing with dialogue as the main actor gets to sit and watch. But this time, with whatever confusing thing just happened, you cause more damage to the set and props than you receive. If only because you tend to "accidentally" smash anything they throw at you since everything you see is Discords smug face.
Ah free therapy, does wonders for the mind...And Solarkness and Rutherford are eating it up and loving it too.
A FEW MORE RELAXING SCENES LATER
Grey Rebl's Comment
After you have finally gotten your next break, you sigh tiredly. Who knew being an actor would be this hard? And so unhealthy? Not only have you been forced through so much physical pain, of which you haven't felt ever since...the alternative universe adventure you've also been broken down mentally. For some reason, today decided to take the time to remind you of yourself at your worst, from screw up to screw up.
The cold depression has not been left unnoticed however, and so, Selena and Nightshade comfort you for the rest of the break. Awkwardly, Aqua just feels left out of the loop.
It is during this time that Aqua trails her eyes somewhere else. Your partner stiffens at the sight of something. And it is shocking enough to her that she audibly gasps, a hoof hovering over her open mouth as she openly gapes. Just by her expression, you can tell it has to be a big deal.
"S-sensei?!" Aqua suddenly shouts.
Your eyes widen, and you turn your head towards wherever she is looking at, Nightshade doing the same as she shares a similar interest.
You see one pony mare who directly reacts to the call...who's also wearing a boulder costume? The buck?
"Ah. Aqua," the pony says in...recognition? You can't tell through the sheer monotone, of which you thought no one can possibly be capable to process.
Aqua rushes up to her, smiling in a way that you've never seen on her before, coming from her at least.
"Sensei Maud! What are you doing here?" she asks excitedly, as if reuniting with an old, best friend.
"Getting the extra bits," Maid says simply. Which most certainly didn't elaborate on anything at all!
"Oh! Why? Is the rock farming business going bad?" You look between the two bewildered. Rock farming?! You can even hear Selena face hoof audibly in your mindscape, non-verbally agreeing with your thoughts.
"One of our employers prematurely took her pay, and more, and left. I'm here to work it off real quickly." For a serious crime, she says it as though it doesn't actually matter. You can't help but feel nervous around that sort of attitude. It's like...the opposite of the Pink Menace. Pretty foreboding.
"And you're acting as...?"
"I'm a boulder. Just like Boulder."
Now it's your turn to be left out of the loop as you watch the two go off in a seemingly one-sided conversation.
"Sooo... They're master and student, huh?" Nightshade comments. "That's kinda cool."
"I guess that's about right," you dumbly agree, maybe a moment too late. But just how does the dynamic even work?!
Suddenly you get a idea and, seeing as how you're still on break, you decide to put it into action. You gesture for Nightshade to follow you and you begin to walk towards Aqua and her old teacher.
However as you walk towards them, you start to get a familiar vibe from Maud. This vibe you get from her is dangerous, so dangerous you actually get put on guard just from being near her. You swear you hear laughing in the background as you finally reach the duo, but as Maud look at you you can see her eyes. Your eyes widen in fear as if her eyes can destroy you if she blinked. You snap out of it before she notices as you think,
The buck was that?!
As this Maud continues to stare at you saying nothing, Aqua chimes in.
"Oh, CV, how rude of me. This is my Earth Bending Sensei Maud. Sensei this is my partner C.V. and his daughter Ni-Evening Shadow," she introduces.
You stick out your hoof nervously and she looks at your shadowed masked face.
"N-nice to meet you," you stammer.
"Ah, hello. I am Maud. I am glad my student has finally found a lover," she bluntly says as she shakes your hoof.
"WHAT?!" both of you yell, to which Maud does not seem to react at all.
"We're not-"
"He's not-"
"That's-" you both stammer embarrassingly as Maud speaks up again.
"Sorry, I guess I misunderstood. What do you mean by partner then Aqua?" she says with a lift of an eyebrow.
"I'm...Well you see Sensei..." Aqua sweats under the emotionless face.
"I thought you weren't going to be a Mercenary anymore Aqua," she says in her monotone.
"I'm not Sensei! Not anymore. I promised. I'm a bounty hunter now. Only taking down jerks that deserve it."
"Ah, I see," Maud says with a blink, before staring back at you again, making you nervous.
"Has my student done well?" she asks you.
"Y-yeah, so far so good...and back up, You know Earth Bending?" you say to Aqua.
"Actually no. But I have learned the fighting styles of the Earth Benders and incorporated them with my Water Techniques," she explains.
"Huh, well maybe I could learn some of those, you see my Earth Bending comes and go-MMPH!" Nightshade begins before you cover her mouth and chuckle.
Maud still just stares at you creepily so you cough and say.
"Well, as interesting as this has been, I kind of have to talk to your student. We're on a job right now you see."
"Wait, CV, she can help. Maud is very powerful," Aqua says.
You look back to the blank pony and say,
"Um, do you have any problems with engaging in a fight between a pair of Crimson Knights who just so happen to be a Timberwolf and Dragon?"
"Wait, What?" Aqua says flabbergasted.
Maud just blinks and says, "No. I have no problem. I'll help you."
You see Aqua shudder back, "Dang, she really must hate the Crimson Knights," she says to you.
"How can you even...you know what, never mind. Alright, here's what I've found out..."
You then proceed to tell them all you've found out about Solarkness and Rutherford, whispering to Aqua that they know you're a changeling so Maud doesn't hear.
Aqua then chimes in, "The dragon sounds like it may be a water dragon...I'd be the better opponent for him."
You nod and say, "Yes, and I figured I'd take the wolf. Only problem is, I can't burn him up completely since we kind of need to take him alive, and I don't kill...anymore...
"What should I do Daddy?" Nightshade asks.
You open your saddle bags and give her a look to which she sighs.
"Hey, you wouldn't have had to do this if you had stuck to the plan," you chide her.
"Yeah, Yeah, whatever..." she says as she hops in the bag.
Maud does not even seem surprised at Nigthshade disappearing into your saddle bags, instead she says.
"I say we hit them now."
"What? But there's so many innocents in the way and..."
"I'll evacuate the innocents once the fighting has started, you worry about the Knights. You can't let them escape," she says completely in monotone.
"Well, I guess, but..." you start.
"She's right, if they know you're a...you know what, we can't trust them to go back on their word, and then guards will get involved, and that means no money."
"Alright. You're right. We should strike soon before I get even more exhausted. The next scene is supposed to be the fight between the Offender and the Nightmare, and will be the most dangerous. Maybe we make it look like a stunt go wrong when we attack before they realize what's going on. Will certainly give us an edge," you muse.
The two of them agree, and Aqua asks you.
"So, do you have a plan?"
"Kind of...alright, when Solarkness yells action, I'm gonna..." you then tell them your plan.
Moments Later
You stand on call as the actor playing you yells up to the Nightmare puppet with zoom ins on his face. It's weird seeing a pony wearing makeup to look like a changeling. Solarkness then yells cut and orders in the double (you) in. You stare up at the monstrosity, the moviefied version of the monster you fought and shiver slightly before looking to the two cloaked figures just behind the cameras.
You see Aqua and Maud standing ready out of the corner of your eye and you take in a breath.
"Annndddd, ACTION!!!" yells Solarkness.
You then look up and mutter to yourself, "Showtime..."
WHAT DO YOU DO?
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Alright, time to put the old Bugze Endurance to a little workout. If these visions from the directors have any semblance of accuracy to the other dimensional events, the tails should be the main attack devices on the animatronic. Using the momentum gained from the tail swipe, you can Psycho Crusher into them and rip off their cloaks as well. Exposing them to everyone with stunning brilliance. As you land away from them, declare "Crimson Knight Leaders Rutherford and Solarkness, you are hereby under arrest. Come peacefully, or come my way."
The saying is a little outdated, but hopefully this will allow Maud to evacuate those immediately around you while Aqua also joins you. With the two leaders exposed, you can also expect Flash Sentry to join the fight in assistance. If the fighting gets too intense, Flash may recognize you as the actual Offender, so try to keep your moves basic. Cause if Flash finds you out, he will fight against you as well to try and take you in. Should he strike against you, you must overcome your bromance and knock him out. Selena's magic is based on shadow magic, so a quick memory alteration spell should keep him from remembering your identity details. It may be similar to what Discord did, but it is only one person, and you need to keep your CV persona. You can't afford to lose this disguise as well.
Well I don't know any Buddy-Cop movies, but I do know that Zootopia is the best Bunny-Cop movie.
While you and Aqua are doing your business, Maud is "evacuating" the other innocent ponies.
What she was really doing was using her earth bending to push the ponies out of the studio, making a wall so that they couldn't come in. Even the pegasi couldn't go from the top since every time they tried they looked at Maud straight in the eyes and was taken aback.
When Maud fights... It reminds you of something... Something terrifying.
It reminds you of Pinkamena.
For a second you stop fighting and look at Maud who hopped into one of the barrel props and appearing behind the green screen, making a rock with her earth bending and sending towards one of the knights.
You shake your head and focus back on facing your oponent.
Why aren't you using my poweeeers? Sombra... whines?
Wh-... Huh?
Use my powers you imbred!
You blink in confusion before taking out a shadow whip and grabbing the timberwolf. Tossing him around the room.
"This isn't apart of the movie!!!" He yells.
The timberwolf pins you down and sniffs. "I knew I shouldn't have trusted you bug." He growls. "Once we take you back to headquarters, we are going to have a fun time, and then I'll be sending you straight to Celestia."
"Oh shut the buck up." You say in annoyance before falcon kicking him off of you.
He hits the ceiling and gets stuck up there for a second, soon after falling down and grunting while getting back up.
"You really have to teach me that." Aqua tells you.
Episode 29
Subordinates were mentioned. Sure, I can't find a quote for Tantabus right now, but hey. Who talks about a Dream-demon anyways?
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Solarkness visibly fumes, steam coming out of every single piece of wood he is made of, "FLOUR! TANTA!" he shouts, "Get over here!" He crouches down while forming a wooden sword, right afterwards leaping high into the air. As he closes the distance, you can't help but feel that attack is familar. In the last second, you snap out of it and roll to the side.
The ground shatters on impact, and so do his forelegs. He grunts, and his shattered forelimbs move back into position, as if they always were made out of many more small pieces.
"Oh, great, you have regeneration," you grin. He just grins back at you, before somersaulting into the air, slamming his sword down vertically. You step to the side, narrowly avoiding it, "Hey! Not fair!" To which he just repeats his maneuver, and you sidestep it once again, "Seriously, no need to-" Once more, he repeats this maneuver, shattering his sword. "Ha!" you shout out, "Your sword is-"
He pummels you, interrupting you the second time. You gurned at that, "Okay. Now you're just asking for it," you punch him, while he's still shoving you back, and as that does not help, you punch again, and again, and again...
Until you can't feel your hindlegs suddenly. Or, to be more accurate, you can still feel them, and they feel cold, "You've got to be kidding me," you mumble.
"We're not," a voice susurrates behind you, "We're doing pretty much the opposite." You discreetly activate your fire to melt your hindlegs, while still grasping for a hoofhold against Solarkness.
"Oh, great. Two against one, just the way I like it," you reply, trying to figure out who's behind you, "So, would you kindly-," you're interrupted as your throat starts freezing. You cough, gasping for air.
"I wouldn't talk," the voice whispers, "It wouldn't end well."
Your forelegs start freezing too, and as you look down, you see just what has come to the fight: A windigo.
"You're kidding," you breath out, before shutting up, seeing the maniacal grin the windigo bore.
"Flour," Solarkness growls, "Once you're done freezing his forelegs, go help Rutherford. I'll make sure this guy doesn't melt your ice."
"Sure," 'Flour' responds, "But he's already trying. I am replenishing frost on his hindlegs."
Solarkness, now free since your forelegs are also frozen, making you unable to move, starts scratching your face, "He won't for much lon-," he is interrupted by a stonepillar blasting him skywards, right before stoneknives form that rapidly cut the ice off of you perfectly.
"GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR," you hear Solar from behind, and as you turn around he charges you with an actual sword in his paws. 'Flour' freezes your hooves again, but the stoneknives make it so his work is useless.
Almost at you, Solarkness slams his sword overhead and at you, a roll being the only thing saving you from being hit by it. "Flour," Solarkness mutters while literally vibrating, unable to move, "Go destroy that waterbender, and let Tanta distract the earthbender."
You bodyslam into Solarkness, just as he stops vibrating, and scream, "GERONIMO!" you don't let up on your attack, kicking, punching and screaming him towards the Nightmare-you animatron, that is still throwing its tails everywhere, smashing anything too close to it.
"RUTHERFORD," Solar screeches right before he enters the field the animatron is devastating, "TARGET SWAP!" He takes the last step on its own, causing you to stumble as your attacks suddenly miss, and enter the area yourself. You see Solar grin, as he sidesteps and is flung across the hall, directly at Aqua. Your eyes widen in shock, before a tail slams down on you, reminding you you're in the dangerzone.
Jumping out of it, once the tail flung elsewhere, you see the windigo freezing all water Aqua bends, stopping her attacks midway. You can see she's visibly frustrated, right before Solarkness slams into her. Right after, he's clawing at her, biting her and, strangely enough, headbutting her.
"Maud!" you shout, "I need a lift!" As you look around, you see her... passed out on the floor? 'Weird,' you think to yourself, 'She didn't seem the type to... No. He said something about letting Tanta distract the earthbender. That's probably magically induced...'
Don't be ridiculous. If it was, then why only her? And do you see someone that could have cast the spell?
You do, in fact, not see a spellcaster. 'But still,' you think, 'Isn't it-'
Selena interrupts you, audibly stressed, I wasn't finished. Since the Crimson Knights seem to be taking in creatures of all kinds, it could be they took in a creature of dreams of one kind or another. But there is only one... They didn't.
You run towards the battle, asking, 'What? What did they not do?' but you're interrupted by Rutherford's water-jet. As you slowly get back up, you can't help but feel annoyed. They don't seem to want to let you do anything.
This is worse than I thought, Selena tells you.
'Why?' you wonder, 'Sure, we're not winning at the moment, Maud is out already it seems, but...'
They have the Tantabus.
After that relevation, you could only think of one thing, 'What is the Tantabus?'
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Well, the Tantabus is basically anti-Luna. There has always been a Tantabus, even though it's incarnation changed over time, Selena explains as you dodge another water jet, It's the concentration of every nightmare. Sometimes the Tantabus was a single individual, sometimes multiple, but it always existed. If it's part of the Crimson Knights, then it would explain why Maud is asleep, since it is able to induce sleep, although that sleep would be haunted by nightmares.
You jump back, shouting, "Come on! Can't you just let me pass? I really want to help Aqua," speaking of which, you can see her manipulating the ice back into water to keep dodging, but since it almost instantly freezes again because Flour flies through it, she can't really go on the offensive.
"And I'm keeping you from hindering my ally," Rutherford quietly replies, not missing a beat to attack again. As you sidestep it once again, you realise too late that he shot two at once, meaning you still get hit.
You lose your balance, not getting up in time to dodge the next waterjet, and are hit rapidly, again and again and again. Just as you start to think you won't get out of this predicament, you hear a shout of, "IN THE NAME OF THE MOON, I WILL PUNISH YOU!" and the blasts stop.
"Ugh," you mumble, "Way to go, me," you look over to where the Rutherford was, and you see Flash Sentry flying at you, "STOP!" you shout, stumbling over yourself to dodge him. Needless to say, you failed.
"Oh, heyo CV," Flash tells you, once he got back on his feet, "Want to help me take them down?"
You shrug, and reply, "I was working at that before you came in and got your ass handed to you," also having gotten back up, and circling the Rutherford.
"Hey, how should I have known he's a dragon?" Flash defends himself, "It's not my fault the grey mare threw me before I even knew you guys are behind the wall! Or even that she threw me!"
"Oh, so Maud brought you here, that makes sense...," you say, as your head starts to feel heavy, your eyelids droopy, "Excuse me, I think I'll go off to sleep," you mumble.
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You can't move. It's the first thing you realise. The second is that there is only one thing here besides you, a transparent, midnight blue with purple outlines, equine-shaped blur.
The Tantabus, you hear Selena's voice resound in the void, Althought the void is unusual. Normally there would be nightmares.
"Um, hello dear Tantabus," you dare to say, "Lovely weather, right?"
Objective: Distract Enemy Changeling
"Uuh, okay?" you wonder, "Is that all?"
Objective: Distract Enemy Changeling
"...this is boring," you mutter, "I hope this blows over soon."
I could put an end to this, Selena explains, But... the Tantabus is actually being nice only showing a void. The Crimson Knights actually are good for it, and I don't really want this to stop...
"Oh, really?" you deadpan, "Well, this isn't good for me."
Ugh, fine, I'll wake you up.
Prepare yourself. Reveal the Knight for who they are in front of everyone, then utilize physical attacks against the timberwolf (since fire and lightning are likely to set him ablaze and kill him) while Aqua deal with the dragon.
In the middle of the battle, Bugzee can see how the security begin to appear, between the many ponies, Bugzee can see the minotaur that was talking with Garble and Garble itself.
"Great... I was getting bored, what better that take care of this pony? It will help me to get the revenge of that namby pony that appeared in the migration" Smile Garble
"If only he knew it was you" Comment Selena inside of your head
Just as Bugzee look at the security, one figure appear giving a series of kicks to the minotaur, putting him down.
"Wait... Was that the bycicle kick?" Asked Bugzee and shocked the head to try to concentrate in the battle when he look to the one that helped to him
"Master? What are you doing here?" Asked Aqua
"Boulder told me you were in danger" Comment Maud as if it was nothing
Bugzee leave the talk to Aqua and her master and looked around to the security even if he wanted to later learn to do that move.
"Don't fight me, fight with me! They are part of the Knights, they are the enemy and have a bounty in their head!" Shout Bugzee as he show the proof, making a couple of security ponies look between each other, when one voice commented.
"And what? Our job is to work as security of Applewood, you make problems, you are the enemy, they pay us to take care of the problem. And we don't want to be jobless" Argument one voice between them, and the other members of security begin to agree
"Crap..." Groan Bugzee as he look around
"Discord, I'm not sure if you are real or not but could you help me!?" Asked Bugzee hoping that maybe the draconequs could snap the fingers and do something but a voice talked in his head
"Sorry Tennant, you know how it is, fixed point in time, and now if you don't need anything from me, I'm going to Sigma-6, their pools of plutonium are the best at this time of the year" Say the voice of Discord
Bugzee begin to mutter and groan some words in low voice as he begin to take care of the security ponies.
Time Skip to later in the battle
"At this rate I'm going to lose... I need more power..." Mutter Bugzee as he begin to feel his energy leaving him, after too many battles with the security of Applewood
"I'm sorry Bugzee, If only I was not that weak" Comment Selena inside of your head
"So... You want power? You only need to accept it... Say it, and it will be yours" Say the voice of Sombra in Bugzee
Bugzee was surprised to the offer of Sombra, as he was not sure if he could trust him.
"No, I can't trust you" Say Bugzee inside of his head just as he give a uppercut to another security guard.
Then, do you want to lose? Do you want to leave your daughter to them? Asked Sombra as images of Nightshade being forced to act in movies and be humilliated, and then later strange scenes of bad futures for her daughter appeared in his head
"I... I need help... Whatever... As long as she is safe" Groan Bugzee
"Bugzee, no!" Shout Selena
Meanwhile inside his head
Sombra smirk as the jail around him begin to crack and break until it explode making him free
"Good choice" Smiled Sombra as he transformed in smoke and begin to grow
Outside of the head
Bugzee begin to feel it, the energy feeling him, but that was not all, he feel powerfull, not only powerfull, he feel himself invincible as his eyes became green as a dark aura begin to go around him, but this was different to when he used the power of Selena, this was more dark and creepy as a tail begin to appear, but this was not a simple tail, as it seemed alive, moving like a strange tentacle or a snake.
"HAHAHA, Yes... This is power!!!" Smiled Bugzee
"Yess.... Let's go..." Say the voice of Sombra inside his head
Meanwhile the reactions around as they see him were different, some of the security guards seemed scared, and they were not the only as Aqua looked worried.
"Is that not like the Hooded Offender?" Asked one of the guards
"Are you sure?" Asked another
"No... This is more creepy, I was in the gala when the offender appeared, he was not that creepy, this is a different scale" Comment a third guard
Meanwhile Bugzee looked around smiling, and with great speed his tail begin to move and enlarge chocking one of the security guards, until he decided to throw him to one of the knights, after that Bugzee jumped laughing in the middle of the guards hitting them as his tail changed and became a little more styled and as it moved it begin to cut the guards around.
"Yessss!!! Let me see how you suffer!" Laughed Bugzee
"Daddy, no!" Shouted Nightshade as she appeared from the inventory and tried to stop Bugzee
"Gah, don't disturb me" Groaned Bugzee
Bugzee throw Nightshade away, but when she was going to fall, Garble catched her.
"Well, well... If it's not the mamby pony, and the perfect size for a snack" Smiled Garble
"Nooo!!! Daddy!!! Save me!!!" Shouted Nightshade
It was then that something begin to happen as the eyes of Bugzee begin to turn to normal
"Honey?" Asked confused Bugzee
"No! Focus on the enemies! Kill them! Hurt them! Make them fear you! Say the creepy voice of Sombra inside of his head
"Yessss... no!" Bugzee eyes glowed green for a moment and then turned to normal
"She is not important, leave her!" Say the voice of Sombra
Bugzee eyes flicked green for a instant but returned to normal
"No... I will maintain the control" Say Bugzee as he jumped and did a flying kick saving his daughter from Garble
"Daddy? Are you back?" Asked Nightshade
"Yes, Honey, I'm back" As they give a hug, that made everyone looking awww, except Garble that gagged
"Gah! This was not supossed to happen!" Groan Sombra
Meanwhile a voice shout in his head
"Neigh! It was you who understimated him! Now we have the control again" Shout Selena inside the head
It was then that Bugzee noticed he still have the strange tail, that was moving around like a enchanted snake, as if waiting orders.
"'Don't worry Bugzee, I'll take care of that and of Sombra, as now I have the control" Assured the voice of Selena
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I was thinking a little in Hollow Ichigo and the game "The Darkness" with this, I decided to stop because I was not sure of the limit, as I was thinking of Bugzee killing many and fighting the knights but I decided to leave the fight to other. If there is a problem I edit.
Also, was not sure about the song, between that or This one
During the fight, start smack talking them just a bit. Also, drop in this little tidbit.
"You fools are going down, just like your buddy Kichi!"
"What? You're the ones who took that self absorbed bug down?" asks Solarkness.
"No spit Sherlock. That's what you smelled on my cloak. And your stupid dragon friend thought that changeling scent was me, how bucking stupid are you? Why would a changeling need this awesome of an outfit?" you lie.
And with this explanation, also in accordance with the Doctor's Perception filter still being attached to you, they buy it.
"Ah! I knew that scent was familiar!" yells Rutherford.
"It doesn't matter if you're not a changeling! You're still going down for ruining my movie on the LAST BUCKING SCENE!!!" yells the Timberwolf in anger.
"Enemy of the Knights, you will be purged!" yells Solarkness melodramatically.
"Nice line Solar," compliments Rutherford.
"Thanks, I thought it would sound cool," barks the Timberwolf.
Elsewhere
An angry Michael Beigh, currently on fire, explodes a studio door in front of him.
"SHAMALAMADINGDONG!!!" he yells at the top of his lungs.
"Ah, nice of you to drop by Michael. I have been expecting you," comes the muffled mask voiced of the other bad director who sits in a chair in a darkened room.
Beigh looks him over and see that he is wearing, some sort of white mask with a red circle on the forehead and writing all over it, and a large black overcoat.
Next to him are a dazed looking Shia Lahoof and Meighan Fox.
"Give me back my actors! My fans are screaming for their return!"
In the distance someone heckles.
"NO WE'RE NOT!!!"
"SHUT UP!" Beigh yells and sends a fireball out the hole made, launching the heckler into the sky.
"Ah, I would Beigh, but unfortunately, they have already signed a contract to appear in my new show Wayward Birch," says M. Night as he gestures to the two actors.
"Yes...we will act..." says the dazed Lahoof.
"Acting...good..." says the equally dazed Fox.
"Oh Sweet Explosivey Goodness, they're actually more coherent than usual! What have you done to them?"
"I Shamalized them," says the masked director as he holds up his glowing hoof. "Normally it takes a bit of energy to suck out talent and emotions from someone...but these two were surprisingly easy."
"You son of a b!%$#! I need them for my new Transformare Trilogy! The muse of explosions has spoken!" he roars as his fire becomes more brighter.
Shamalamadingdong sits up angrily.
"Never! You called my perfect beautiful hair stupid! I will never concede! Never surrender!" he says as he places his glowing hoof over Beigh's forehead.
"Now be Shamalized!" he says. After a moment of nothing happening, Beigh just laughs and says,
"You idiot, you can't take talent that was never there!"
He then explodes M. Night off of him, who recovers with his air bending.
"WHAT A TWIST! Very well then. Let us engage in Mortal Kombat!"
"Bring it on!"
They then both rush forth, flying at each other as they yell.
"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!"
"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!"
As they strike, a powerful shockwave radiates out, destroying most of the studio and making a sound so loud, it busts the windows of ever building in a 5 mile radius.
And epic battle of Horrible Directors then begins, that is so much more chaotic and powerful than your battle, that your incident is completely ignored by guards and civilians alike who witness the battle of Beigh vs Shamalamadingdong.
Thanks to two of your most despised Applewood personalities, you don't have to worry about the Cops.
Back With You in a 5 Mile Radius.
All the windows and glass near you suddenly explode in shards, causing your enemies to become distracted. Taking the opportunity, you cheap shot The Timberwolf and burn his last stockpile of replacement wood.
"NO!" shouts Solarkness.
Maud also uses the broken glass to her advantage...in a creative way.
"Glass is just superheated sand. Thousands of tiny little rocks," she says before bending the glass shards in fine sharp dust towards the Wendigo, who's storm magic brings it into it's body, causing it pain. She then solidifies it within it's body, And Aqua uses her bending to form mud from the shards in it's body, encasing it in a sharp clay prison, trapping it.
"Holy Tartarus!" Rutherford shouts at seeing this, before noticing that Maud still has glass dust swirling around her, before unleashing it at him.
Closing his eyes and Mouth, the dust only scrapes off his scales harmlessly, but not so much his wing Membranes. Hurting them enough to keep him grounded for the fight.
"AH! Well buck you then too!" he shouts as he tackles Maud and the two end up rolling across the set fighting for dominance.
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My Favorite Buddy Cop Movie is Lethal Weapons 2, Because of sheer awesomeness.
"Diplomatic Immunity."
BLAM
"Has just been revoked..."
Love that line
Frustrated with the constant flailing of the Nightmare, you smash through its head only to find out that it isn't a robot. You stare down at... Well, you're not sure what it is, but it is staring back.
"HEY, YOU AREN'T SUPPOSED TO ACTUALLY BREAK THE SUIT!"
'Wait, what?' "This isn't an act we'r-"
"WHAT WAS THAT? YOU'LL HAVE TO SPEAK UP!"
"I SAID- YOWCH!" You jump back and rub your just-bitten nose as the weird creature runs off shouting "WOPWOPWOPWOP!"
'Why do I get the feeling he's going to cause problems?
You are about to respond when a new flurry of sparks bursts up in your face and you look down to see Mangle reaching out of the Inventory and grabbing random wires. It quickly attaches them to its voice box just as you hear a howl behind you. You get pounced on by Solarkness, but Mangle jumps onto your head.
"DROP THE BASS!" It shouts, blasting ear-shattering music through its suped -up speakers. The timbrwolf literally shakes appart from the vibrations; too bad you can't hear anything else that's going on.
What's the current power list for Bugze?
(Aqua vs Rutherford)
“Hehehe...Having a hard time? Ready to give up?”
Aqua growls in response as she dodges a casual swipe from Rutherford’s claw. It is so wide of a motion that it catches the frozen results of her attempts to waterbend, and crushes it like glass.
It turns into a frustrating dance of chase as Aqua is left with hardly any way to counterattack. Rutherford would swipe, Aqua would dodge, and then she would execute a seemingly perfect counter, but then it’ll only get frozen over by Flour’s influence. Rinse, and repeat. Even worse, it’s getting inexplicitly cold. Her legs are getting stiff. She’ll tire out eventually! And she’s not the type to contest a wyvern of all things with endurance.
Aqua gives a cocky smirk in an attempt hide how tired she’s getting. “Hard time? I’m just warming up!” She dodges another swing.
Rutherford raises a brow, smiling with his sharp teeth showing. “Oh?” He swings, ice shatters, and Aqua remains out of reach. “Warming up? Well why don’t we just ramp up the pace?” He suddenly rushes forward, his wings thrusting him on.
The waterbender ducks out of instinct to avoid the claw overhead, but she has no time to think nor the time to attempt to waterbend as the claws came rapidly one after another. It turns into a barrage of claw attacks, violent and unrelentless. He is unpredictable. Even if it seems the attack is imbalanced, the wings keeps him stable. Soon enough, Aqua is pushed back towards a wall.
“Now I have you!” Rutherford yells and rears back a claw.
At the last possible moment, she weaves around through an a crushing downward palm strike and beneath the underbelly of the wyvern. Smirking tauntingly, she says, “Too fast?” and consecutively snaps several whips of water in an instant. She has to roll away from under away, because that too freezes, and then shatters as Rutherford thrashes around out of surprise. In his stumble, he accidently causes cracks to form on the wall.
This causes Aqua a few precious seconds to catch her breath as the battle went to a pause. When Rutherford stands back up straight, he chuckles. Aqua tenses.
“Clever girl. Was I really that predictable?”
“Hmph. You’re attacks?” Aqua began. “Naw, it’s just you’re wing beats. They seem to follow a certain rhythm. I just followed the beat.”
“All that on your first try? Impressive.” He nods respectfully. “Not even scared by the claws, too,” he notes.
“...I’ve seen scarier,” Aqua says darkly. After all, nothing can hold a candle to CV in his Nightmare form.
“I’ll keep that in mind. But I guess this means I won’t be needing to hold back against such an interesting opponent.”
She tries her best not gulp at that statement. “Aw. All for little ol’ me? You cheater, it’s already two against one,” she teases.
“Hydro Pump!” Rutherford roars.
Eyes wide, Aqua dives to the side right when a jet of water slices across the floor and towards where she once stood. The attack cuts it clean, a small trench formed. Turning back towards the wyvern, with even more caution than before, she takes a ready stance.
“Can you waterbend high-pressured water, I wonder. Then again, all you’ve got is ice anyways.” To prove his point, Flour the Windigo floats by him. “What’ll you do now?”
Aqua is silent for a moment. But then she chuckles. This confuses the wyvern and winter spirit as the pony apparently saw something funny that they didn’t.
“What’s so funny?” Rutherford asks wearily.
Aqua elaborates, still in a fit of giggles. “Oh, nothing. It’s just that I’ve never thought that I’ll be doing this again.”
“‘Again?’” This sets off warnings in Rutherford's head.
“Normally, I don’t. Never had enough ice to work with. It’s also just not my style. But then again, I was trained by an Earthbender, one of the best in fact...”
At this, Rutherford’s eyes widen, looking around the icy battlefield that’s been caused by the Flour’s influence. Icy spikes begins to extend from the icy floor around him. It isn’t by Flour.
“You…! It was a set up the entire time!”
Aqua smirks. “Let’s do this.”
(Bugze vs Solarkness)
One hoof, and it crashes through wood. One paw, and it bites through the cloth. You and Solarkness trade strike after strike, not looking to back down. You both make this exchange for a few seconds before you end it with a swift hook to the Timberwolf’s snout, causing him to flinch.
Taking a chance, you shout, “No Shadow Kick!” and proceed to chip away the wood of the his bare chest. You hop away when he tries to retaliate with a swing of his blade. Unfortunately, every bit of damage that you did only regenerated. With the distance between the both of you, you both begin to circle around each other, testing who’ll blink first.
“You’re tough. I didn’t think you’ll shrug off a blow from my blade,” Solarkness comments.
“Meh, not even that sharp,” you reply coolly. Ow ow ow! Oh Luna, I think I cracked my chitin!
“Hehehe,” Solarkness chuckles. Coming from a Timberwolf, it sounds awfully hollow. “Don’t think you can outlast me. I’m not like the rest of my kind, who can follow apart just by the whip of a branch or by a thrown rock.”
“Well, you are made of wood…”
“Then can wood do this?!” He pounces.
You dodge deftly to the side, preparing to make a swing at him. Suddenly, hardened wooden spikes protrudes out from the wolf’s hide and digs into your clothes!
“Argh!”
You flinch away, but Solarkness’s maw came down on you. You try to block it off with your Power Glove, preventing the deceptively weak, stick teeth from cutting through your clothes yet again. However, he holds firm and lifts you off the ground by your hoof and--
“Oh, Buc--!”
Smack!
--slams you to the ground. Lifts you up again. And slams you to the ground. Again.
“--ing, MOTHER OF--!”
Smack!
“--LUNA, PLEASE JUST--”
Smack!
Solarkness does this several more times as you repeatedly curse obscenely before you finally shout, “WOULD YOU KINDLY EAT SOME BEES?!”
The insides of the Timberwolf’s mouth buzz with life and his eyes widen. He lets you fall and tumble to the ground as he got to much more important matters: Getting the bees out.
“Aaarghh! Not the bees! Not the bees!” he shouts as he scratches his face to get rid the buzzing horrors. “You’ll pay for this. You’re going to pay!”
You chuckle at the scene and say, “Never gets old with that reference,” but then you cough as the beating takes its toll on the body.
Bugze, focus!
“Huh--? Oof!” was the only thing that came out of your mouth before you get tackled across the studio by a snarling mass of wood and tumble violently away.
“Now you’ve done it! No more Mister Nice Guy! It’s time for the big bad wolf to join the party!” Solarkness shouts.
You unsteadily stand back up and give a roar of your own. “Bring it on then!”
Solarkness lunges with a maw wide open. Deciding not to keep too close, you slide right underneath him. You rear up for a kick right when he is going to turn around, but wooden spikes suddenly struck out from the blindspot of the wolf’s body, forcing you to clumsily roll away. You hop away with a yelp when he seizes the moment to stomp at you. The place from where you were before is dented from the stomp.
“Okay...he’s really mad,” you say nervously.
Solarkness comes in with another lunge. You try to sidestep it, but the wolf does something surprising. His front limbs detach, separating from each joint and turning into massive paws as an eerie, green glow surrounds it, effectively increasing its range. It contracts after it swallows you up into a dangerous hug. Sticks stings you everywhere.
You are forced into a wrestling match as the both of your struggle to obtain dominance. You both tumble around all over the place, crashing through the props, the sets and even a chair. Finally, Solarkness get you pinned. Wooden stakes extends from his underbelly as it pins you to the floor. His paw keeps your front hooves away, preventing you from aiming Power Hoof from anywhere that you want. He stares down at you with a cocky grin.
“Well, well, well. You broke my director’s chair. It was my new favorite, too. I’ll feel better once I break you.”
You grunt. “Would you kindly get the buck off?!”
Incidentally, during your wrestling match, your Bucking Bronco switched in. It fired off into a box at a side that says “Warning: Volatile Explosives.” Your plasmid causes it to float crookedly several feet into the air.
You stare at the box. Solarkness stares at the box. You then both stare at each other. You both looked around. All around you, there are other boxes with the same exact labels. This is apparently where they keep ALL of the explosives, particularly for the purpose of letting the final scene go off with a bang. Then, you both look back at the floating box again. The plasmid runs out of time on the Bucking Bronco, and releases it from its hold, letting gravity take over.
“Uh, whoops--?”
“Oh, bucking gre--!”
It landed with a crash and whatever pin that has been pulled caused a great chain reaction of explosions that blew you both away.
(Meanwhile, Outside)
Meanwhile, from the outside, the evacuated ponies looked on the studio building as an epic battle appears to be taking place from the inside. Roars and crashes resounded, causing the people outside to flinch in anticipation. They could all listen in antsy silence.
“Man, it sounds like a good fight is going on in there,” says a random pony.
Another pony, next to the speaker. “Yeah. It’s a shame we can’t go in and watch. Not even pegasi seems to be willing go watch from above. They got scared from something.”
“Scared? Dude, it sounds awesome inside there! How can they plan on missing out on the show?!”
“I’m not sure about your sort of thinking, but it sounds serious in there…”
“Okay, yeah, but you gotta admit, aren’t you curious about what’s going? Instead of, you know, just listening with just your imagination.”
“...yeah. It does sound awesome in there…” the other pony admits.
Suddenly, more random ponies are seen running across the street and then out of view. This caught the attention of the evacuated ponies.
“Hey! Yo! What’s going on?” This pony, one with a cloak on, shouted to one of the running ponies.
“Didn’t you hear? The two worst directors in Applewood are duking it out! It’s going to be the fight of the century!”
“Are you serious?!”
“Yeah, I’m serious. Come quick, or else there wouldn’t be any more room to get a good view of the match!”
Out of the excitement of something else to do, the crowd of the original staff of the new Hooded Offender movies rushed off to partake in spectating the ultimate showdown. Soon enough, all is empty. Just in time, too. Because the entire studio exploded.
(Maud Interrupts)
Dust. Dust of battle everywhere. But then came down a figure. It came like lightning. It lands right between the two parties, effectively shattering the floor into shards and leaving a crater as a result.
“Sorry about that. I got caught up by something.” When the dust clears, Maud is seen standing in the middle.
“Sensei!”
“Maud?!”
“What the--What in Tartarus?!” Solarkness sputters. “You were supposed to be taken care off by Tanta!”
“Oh, the shadowy figure in my dream? She ran away.”
“‘Ran away’? You can’t be serious! There’s no way you can out scare her, the embodiment of nightmares, in the Dreamscape!”
“Well, she did,” Maud says, unbothered. “Can we please get this over with? I have a score to settle. My sister had a lot of things to say about you guys for a while now....”
Suddenly, Rutherford pauses, looking at the grey mare with some deep consideration. “Wait, that bored sounding voice...now I remember!”
“What is it, Rutherford?”
It’s her!” he says, pointing at Maud. “She’s the voice actress of the character from One Punch Mare!”
Silence.
“Wait, really?!” you shout, breaking the mood even further.
Everyone collectively groaned.
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Long ass comment? Check. Lots of details? Check. Summer time boredom? Check check checkity check! Well, I can safely say that I'm back in shape! I think. Anyways, in the question of Buddy-Cop movies... I can only remember Rush Hour. Yeah, and we just mentioned it, too. I guess it's so good that it has become so memorable to me now even to this day. I can still remember the "Me/You" name confusion scene in detail.
7269814 This thread have some of them but the problem is that it's not updated
7271684 Okay, thanks!
As the actor playing you finishes his lines, you can barely contain your unabashed hatred. Not because you're eager to beat the tar out of some Crimson Knights... well okay, that too. But because the actor they got to play you is so cliche!
"I must defeat you! For I am the good guy that everypony thinks is a bad guy. But you are a bad guy that is actually a bad guy!" the actor says at an annoyingly slow pace, enunciating every single word. "Your reign of horror ends here, Nightmare. You are me. But you are also not me, because I am me. There can be only one 'me', so now it is time to finish this... once and for all... ...for the last time... ...finally. Catchphrase!"
"I do not talk like that!" You mutter, grinding your teeth.
"I don't know. It's actually a bit of an improvement; very on topic and to the point."
"Indeed, the perfect example of the stoic yet foolish hero."
"Shush." you tell the voices in your head as you're called on as the stunt double.
You take your place, and stare up at the giant Nightmare puppet. It seems the Knights spared no expense in making it look as terrifying as possible, cranking up the 'terrify' factor on its appearance to a ludicrous degree. Even so... you can remember first-hoof how it felt to be in the presence of the real thing, (heck, you had to fight him) and for all their effort, the puppet doesn't even come close.
"Alright," Solar calls, "you know the drill, it's time for the epic final battle! Make this epic!"
"Oh... I'm gonna." you whisper with a smirk. If they want a badflank fight scene, you're gonna give them a fight they'll never forget.
"ACTION!"
The camera starts rolling and the Nightmare winds up to swing its tails at you. The script says you're supposed to get pummeled, but you've got a last-minute alteration.
(7266549 Hope it's okay if I
) The tails sweep the ground in front of you, and instead of taking the hit, you leap onto the moving mass of fabric and metal skeleton, using the momentum to launch yourself straight at the Knights! Putting on a twist with a Psycho Crusher, you barrel towards them, ready to rip off their cloaks in dramatic fashion.
stealexpand on your ideaThe two directors scream and hug each other in fright as they see your own costume fly off to reveal your Crimson Vengeance persona flying right at them with a mask full of bared teeth.
"I've got you NOWWWWW!" you yell and grasp for their cloaks...
Only to sail harmlessly over them mere inches out of reach, and crash into the wall behind them.
"Ow." you moan as you get to your hooves. You look up to see the two directors looming over you.
"I knew it!" Rutherford jabs an accusing claw at you.
"Looks like you were right." Solar comments, "I can't wait to see what our security has to say about thi-"
*Cloth ripping*
Everyone in the room lets out a collective gasp, and the Knight Leaders pat themselves down to find their cloaks have been torn off. They spin around to see Aqua and Maud holding their cloaks and glaring them down.
"I'm interested in what the security is going to say too." Maud monotones smugly. She then stomps the ground, causing the cement floor to spike up and lock around the Knight leaders' feet.
"Crimson Knight leaders Rutherford and Solarkness, you are hereby under arrest." you tell them like a badflank.
Suddenly Flash jumps in from nowhere to steal your thunder. "Charges include multiple safety violations, conspiring against the crown, unlawful production of propaganda to induce fear into the populace, and worst of all... casting a pegasus to play the part of Psycho Pinkie Pie."
"Uh... that last one's not a crime." Rutherford points out.
"It's a crime against the source material. I know the real Pinkie Pie, and she's an earth pony; having her played by a pegasus just isn't right."
"Speciesist."
"I AM NOT A SPECIESIST!" Flash roars, "I'M JUST AN ADVOCATE FOR POLITICAL CORRECTNESS IN FILM!
"Whatever you speciesist." Solar shrugs, "We're not going anywhere with you anyway." he says as he and Rutherford easily break free of Maud's leg traps and get into a fighting stance. "Well Rutherford, looks like it's time for the critics to get blown away."
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As soon as the fighting breaks out, you tell Maud to start getting ponies to safety. She agrees, shifting the surface of the floor like a conveyor belt to bring them outside, but they're none too happy about it.
"Oh come on, I want to watch the fight!" one stallion manages to complain as he clings stubbornly to Maud's leg.
"Don't worry, it'll be coming to DVD and Redd-ray this summer, available for rental or purchase at your nearest Blocksmasher video store." Maud says as she pulls up a wall of stone and shoves him out with the rest, completely blocking any door leading in or out.
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Later on in the fight, Bugze crashes through a studio wall with Solar, and they find themselves in a room full of assorted movie weapons. And just by chance, a lightsaber happened to roll towards each of them, Solar's a bright green and Bugze's a dark red.
Grabbing the elegant weapons from a more civilized age, the two get ready for the ultimate duel of the fates. Charging at each other, they strike at each other with sparks and laser sounds flying as they struck at each other.
The duel leads onto the rafters above the movie set as Solar's attacks continue relentlessly. And the fighting only gets more intense when beams start falling and giant lights begin to swing loose around them.
Finally though, Bugze gets an opening when the platform under Solar tilts, throwing him off balance. Seeing his chance, Bugze slashes his lightsaber at Solar, severing his right paw and causing his own saber to fall.
"Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father." Bugze says, using his mask's modulator to give his voice an intimidating low pitch.
Solar blinks. "What?"
"I am your father."
Solar just stares at Bugze while his missing paw reforms. "Seriously? We're in the middle of a fight and you choose to quote Mare Wars?"
Bugze chuckles awkwardly. "I couldn't resist."
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Okay! Hope I didn't post this too late for any of it to be used.
As for this episode's question: I don't know if it counts as a buddy-cop movie, but I'm going to say Men in Black. Will Smith's comedy paired with the straight-faced performance of Tommy Lee Jones made for a fun experience with a some surprisingly deed and thought-provoking moments. Still one of my favorite movies out there.
During the fight, you just start chucking stuff from your Inventory and soon this is what your current loadout looks like (NOTE: Can also be saved for next chapter)
Nightshade (Your daughter)
Brown pouch with 0 Bits in it
Hooded Offender Cloak
Your favorite Stetson
Orange Bandanna
"El Hunko" suit (Tattered)
Purple Top Hat
Patching supplies (Vise-Grips, several rolls of duct tape, and several cans of WD-40. Never leave home without them)
List of all your powers and spells
"Boomstick" (Magic black staff with a red crystal on top of it that causes a shockwave when slammed into the ground)
Pink "Lover's Jewel" Necklace
Knock-out Luna Plushie
"Power Glove"
Instant Mail Transfer Container (For direct communication with Cadence)
Mysterious Mare Do Well hat
1 Box of "Orange-Frosted Buffo-Bombs" cereal
"Granny Smith/Grandbuggy" photo
"Baker Sylvester Tennant" clothes (Brown overcoat, Yellow and black striped pants, White Panama hat, and face mask)
Bounty Hunter License
Evidence against Solarkness
Evidence against Rutherford
Free Filly Scout Cookies For Life Card
Plush Mangle (Nightshade's pet)
POTION SASH:
-7 Healing Potions
-4 Transformation/Disguise potions
-3 Stink bombs
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Favorite Buddy Movie... I've seen quite a few of them, but one recent one that's REALLY good is The Nice Guys
It's like if Chinatown was remade by Quentin Tarantino and starred a more foul-mouthed and violent Abbott and Costello.
7275367 There was not also a Ocarina? Or is in Nightshade Inventory?