Fireheart1945’s Comment
Falx_of_Lume’s Comment
In spite of the pain of your new wound you engage Mongo as you both land some distance away from the rest.
He headbutts you off of him, and that really cleans your clock.
“Wh-Whoah…” you groan dizzily as he gets up.
“Mongo, I’ve never liked you but I won’t let you die here!” you say shaking your head and regaining your composure.
To this the big changeling grits his teeth as his eyes blaze with anger as he points at his throat, which has a jagged scar running across it.
“I…” you sputter before gaining your resolve. “I’ve made mistakes, but I’m gonna make up for them. It may sound strange, but I’m going to beat your flank down to save you!” you yell.
'Despite their new power, I now have to beat all of them faster than ever. You think to yourself. I can’t hold back!
You use the boost from the Cloak to power jump and cover the distance between you and Mongo. He takes a swing at you with his right hoof and you bring up one tail to block.
But his punch has much more force behind it than you thought and it sends you crashing into a building off to the side.
'Ghah... that was a lot stronger than I thought.
"Bugze!!!" Selena warns in alarm.
You open your eyes and see Mongo descending on you with green fire engulfing his right foreleg and a black, chitin-like heavy lance forming from the flames.
You push yourself up and move out of the way of the lance slamming down into the ground, causing an explosion of dirt. Mongo continues the assault and repeatedly stabs and swings at you while you evade and block with the tails, but only just barely.
While your enemy is stronger, there is more to battle than strength alone.
You dodge one of his swings and slam your Boom Stick right into his lance, causing him to falter.
You then merge your four tails into a concentrated mass and slam downward onto Mongo, who blocks the massive impact and counters with another thrust. You block and back flip away from a follow-up swing, four tails uppercutting at the same time, takes them to the chin with a snarl. You follow up with rapid, single tail strikes from a distance but Mongo's defense with his lance deflects the blows.
Mongo moves in and slashes at you. You push back off the ground away from him with your tails, but his strike manages to not only cut through your cloak, but also cut into your already inured chest, causing a quick spurt of your blue blood.
“GYAGH!” You grunt in pain but continue fighting. Deciding to return the favor, your two tails swing from the right which he blocks, two more from the left, which he also blocks, but you manage to stab all four downwards on him from above, and you manage to cut past his chitin, causing him to falter a moment in pain. You’ve hit nothing vital, but still, that should have taken him down to the ground. You lift your tails up and Mongo takes a moment to take a breath before glaring at you in anger.
"HAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!" He roars a battle cry as he charges with his lance aimed right for you.
"RAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!" You roar right back as all four tails lash straight out towards him.
Lance and tails meet between you both, with the tips of your tails wrapping around the lance's tip. You both struggle to overpower the other, Mongo with his lance, and you with the combined might of your four tails. But it soon becomes apparent who has more strength.
Whipping you around, he forcefully slams you into the ground, flat on your back.
“Oomph!” you groan before he then tries to slam the lance downward, causing you to block it with your tails. He doesn’t relent, and the tip of it comes dangerously close to your body.
“WOULD YOU KINDLY FREEZE?!!!” you shout, as you freeze the lance and shatter it with your tails, causing Mongo to shout in pain and annoyance.
In retaliation, he grabs you by your tails and throws you into an Apple Tree which splinters.
Wincing from the pain, you stand back up as you pant from the quick but intense bout, blood leaking from your wounds, but not enough to be too worried at this point. Mongo glares at you as he cracks his hooves together and his eyes glow brighter.
'Damn it! He's just drawing more power, and I haven’t even put a dent into him!
"Bugze, please, you won’t be able to do this alone! You're hurt and I don't like how this is going. He managed to cut through the cloak!"
NO! Selena, I can't. I can't let anyone else die. I have to finish this before it's too late.
But... *sigh* a-alright.
Mongo snarls and steps forward.
Here he comes!
I see it.
Mongo takes a flying leap towards you and you do the same, both of you crying out as you wind up your punches, meeting each other in the middle.
But he is still stronger as his tackle knocks you back and to the ground. Using his momentum, he flips over you and throws you down the road, and your face grinds into the dirt.
“I didn’t see it…” you groan as you look up from the dirt and see the Grandbuggy, Aqua, Jack and the other Knights engaging with Sin, the Twins, and Vicky. Or rather desperately dodging and taking pot shots at them.
You look to where the blasts are disrupting everything, and you see somelings that have been overlooked.
PuzzlingFrost’s Comment
"Knights, if you aren’t actively fighting, get those grunts to safety before they get caught in the crossfire!” you order as you stand up.
"Are you CRAZY?!" Grey yells as he ducks under a blast of fire, "We just beat these idiots into submission and now you want us to save them?"
"As much as I hate to say it CV these guys are a liability!” Aqua shouts as she shoots a blast of ice at Vicky, who catches it in her telekenisis . If they wake up they will just attack everyone!" ,cried Aqua
"I AM NOT LETTING ANYLING DIE TODAY NO MATTER WHOSE SIDE THEIR ON!" you shout as your eyes glow for good measure, "Just get them out of the line of fire befo-HRK!” you gasp as an arm wraps around your chest from behind. With you in a tight embrace, Mongo then delivers a Germane Suplex to you, burying your head into the dirt once more.
"Right! Yo runners, we’re weak, let’s do it before we get suplexed!” Snap Drake announces.
And with that, Candy, Snap Drake and Kichi go about moving the unconscious enemy from harm’s way.
As you get punted by Mongo and your fight resumes, Grandbuggy just shakes his head and says.
“Gotta keep yer eyes open at all time boy!” as he goes help the runners move the drones.
“Why are you helping us 117? Aren’t you supposed to be the greatest specialist ever?” asks Candy.
“Yeah, and while I got a few tricks up my sleeve I’m also old and fat, so I’ll help where I can.” His statement is punctuated as Jack is struck by lightning and Solarkness is momentarily set on fire, causing Aqua to put him out.
“Because I sure as heck ain’t suicidal chosen!” he declares as he uses his magic to pick up a large number of drones and toss them off into the apple orchard.
While Snap Drake and Candy follow suit, Kichi grumbles.
BrownDog’s Comment
Kichi’s Comment
“*Sigh* I always said the queen was crazy and noling believed me. What I didn’t realize was that there were others just as nuts as she,” he exposits as he watches Changer deflect a fire attack, only to be hit with an ice blast.
“She’s not even in here and she’s deciding everyling’s dead and that they all need to be sacrificed, and they agree with her!”
He then looks from the fight to Grandbuggy and the runners and back.
“Maybe I’ll just slink off and hide, those five will be dead soon from that power up anyway.”
They aren’t just gonna let you hide idiot! Erised’s voice chimes in his head. The Queen’s lost her damn mind, and noling’s gonna escape this unless they fight.
“Oh please, it’s not like saving these drones is gonna matter, the Offender doesn’t get tha-HRK!” Kichi is suddenly lifted by his throat by Vicky who has decided to attack the Runners.
“Going somewhere unbound?!” she seethes.
“I, uh…” he chokes until.
*SLAP*
“HGH!” Vicky gasps out in surprise, anger, and embarrassment, letting Kichi fall to the ground.
She quickly whips around and glares at Grandbuggy who has just slapped her flanks.
“Nah, the question is are YOU going somewhere sweetheart? I could take you somewhere where you can learn from a mature gent,” he says wiggling his eyebrows.
“YOU OLD PERVERT!!!” Vicky yells as she blasts Grandbuggy in the stomach, sending him off flying as she chases after him.
“Wh-What just happened?” asks Kichi.
“The old fart saved your life, not quit putsing around loli-con!” Candy chides, helping Kichi to his hooves.
“I’m not a-GGGRRRR!!!!” he growls.
While Kichi is dragged kicking and screaming to help the others, Erised surveys the battle with weary eyes.
“They’re working too much in sync, and the Offender is barely holding his own. We gotta step up our game…” he mutters, which is heard by the rest of the Knights.
GreyRebl’s Comment
“Erised,” Grey calls as a bell sound effect chimes in his head.
Hearing this, Erised echoes in irritation,
What is it?
“If you can see what we see, can it also go the other way around?”
Yes…in theory, Erised confirms cautiously. But what is your plan?
Grey sighs as Rutherford is struck on both sides by Lightning and Ice.
“Let’s...give this ‘trust’ a shot.”
Trust? The word leaves a sense of distaste in Erised’s mouth, even though he doesn’t physically say it. You know this isn’t how we operate.
“Not like we have a choice anymore. Besides, it works for Nightmare Moon and the Hooded Offender,” Grey points out as he tosses a container of Orange Cleaner into Tannen’s flames, causing the noxious chemical to spill over him.
Hmmph. Fine. But whatever mess you make, you’ll clean it up, janitor, Erised actually snarks.
The grey-brown pony just grins sadistically.
“Naturally.” He brings up a box of detergent, the biggest one yet, and calls out to Rutherford,
“Hey, water lizard! You and the blue chick need to make a mist with this special ingredient! We’re gonna make this filthy bugs blind.”
"What?” Rutherford frowns as he catches the box. “But how can we see?”
“Erised’s got us covered,” he answers with a smirk.
BrownDog’s Comment
Away from the battle, while the Janitor and Wyvern begin to put their plan in motion, the giant Kersey still won’t let Brown Dog up.
“Kersey for the love of Dogs, get off me, we got a lot more important crap to deal with, and my ribs are shot enough as it is.”
“No! This is better! We’ll all go out together, Don’t you just love a happy ending?!” Kersey pants stubborn in his own ways.
“Do you really hate me that much? Dude, they were pranks! It was all in good fun! I mean, I know you had an ant problem after putting mustard in your sheets but,”
“It’s not about that!” Kersey interrupts, grinding his hoof a little more. “How?! How could you be named the leader?! I was always meant to lead. I followed the ideals of Flag Burner, I handled the budget, but no, they put all of you on my level who couldn’t be forced to stay on track. And YOU. You somehow became their leader?!”
“Oh for Cripes Sakes man!” Brown Dog laments slamming is fists to the ground. “This whole thing is just spur of the moment, I just stood up and everyone followed suit, I didn’t plan it. And get your head out of your flanks dude, none of us were actually leaders!”
“OH Bullspit!” the giant growls. “Just because you ran around drinking with that stupid horn head doesn’t mean that I wasn’t a true leader in-”
“OH SHUT THE BUCK UP!!!” Brown Dog yells as he bites the soft frog of Kersey’s hoof, causing him to yelp and bring it off him.
“Oh Motherbucker!” Kersey shakes his hoof. “You filthy disgusting mongrel! I’ll turn you into a real Crimson Knight by splattering the earth with your blood and then burning the rem-“
“There are no Crimson Knights you idiot!” Brown Dog calls out as he scrambles out of the way of the hoof. “We were all set up! All of us, even your fat ass, were put in charge by the Changelings!”
“What?!” Kersey roars in surprise, before shaking his head. “That’s not true you lying sack of crap. Just accept your death already so that I can-“
“We were the lowest of the low, none of us had any business being leaders, and that’s why put us in charge!” Brown Dog growls as he throws a brick into Kersey’s eye, causing him to cry out and bring his hoof to it. “We were their front while they gathered power. They played us all like a two bit fiddle! We’re in this mess because they planned it so!”
“I’m Not Lowest of the Low! I am the smartest in this organization of-“
“WE’RE NOT AN ORGANIZATION! We never were!” he shouts. “We were just a bunch of idiots stuck together by fate.” He then starts walking towards the rest of the Knights who are engaged with the Officers. “Listen, you may be the biggest jackass I’ve ever had the displeasure of knowing. You’re an annoying, hateful, speciestic, sad excuse of a living being…But like it or not, we’re all in this together. If we just stand together, we might make it out of this. So help if you want, but if not, then SHUT YER BUCKING PIE HOLE!”
He then jogs off to the rest of the knights, leaving behind the growling Kersey.
“You can’t talk to me like that you stupid drunk! You can’t!!!”
“Brown Dog!” Snap Drake, who secures one of the drones, calls out as he sees the beaten up dog come his way. “Are you up for another fight good buddy?”
“I’ll be honest Snap, I’ve been better. Never thought the day would come where I had to get serious and tell that jerk off,” he says holding his ribs lamenting the remains of his awesome shades. Looking at the officers and You in the distance fighting Mongo he asks his buddy “Let me guess, last stand type situation?”
“Eyup. We’re trying everything now, but now that we’ve gotten the drones out of the way the runners can help somewhat. Luckily, I brought the party favors,” Snap smiles and brings out his molotovs.
“Oh sweet!” Brown Dog calls out, takes the rag out of one and starts gulping the alcohol.
“Dude!” Snap calls in alarm.
“I’m injured, I need medicine!” the diamond dog exposits. “Plus, I drunk better when I'm fight!”
“Ehhh, good point,” Snap relents and starts drinking his own supply.
Cut it out you drunks and get ready! Erised chides.
“How do we know when we’re ready?” asks Snap Drake.
Watch the Bloodbender!
The two of them then watch as Aqua engages with Sin.
GreyRebl’s Comment
“So, you know Bugze too huh?.” Aqua approaches Sin from the side. Battered and matted with tufts of tangled fur, the water bender has seen better days. However, nothing has yet to dim the brimming resolve in her eyes. “Honestly, my partner seems to have it with all the ladies.”
Sin narrows her eyes in recognition.
“You’re that mercenary during Crimson Hearth's Warming.”
“Oh, so you do know me. Not my best moment, but yeah…” Aqua briefly chuckles before turning serious, her horn glowing slightly. Sin widens her stance in turn. “But enough of the chit chat. My friend is hurt, leaking blood, and I’m pissed. Sorry sweetie, but I won’t be holding back anymore.”
“I don’t intend to either. But no worries.” Sin’s eyes go cold. No anger and hesitation: A drone soldier to the end. “It’ll be quick.”
A spark of Sin’s jagged horn is the only warning Aqua gets before she erects a water barrier as electricity rushes to meet her.
Sin closes her eyes.
“It’s no good.”
Booom!
The electricity enters the barrier and pierces right through, leaving an explosion of hot sparks in its wake!
“Oh, I forgot to mention: I’m the worst match up for you.”
Sin’s eyes snap open in shock. Surrounded by water sparking from the left over electricity, Aqua is still fine, untouched with a smug grin on her face. And a demolished building continues to collapse behind her, the wood burnt from the immense impact of Sin's attack. But that’s not where Sin aimed.
Chrysalis’s Chosen tenses.
“How?”
“All I have to do is conduct the electricity into going towards the easiest path. Water just happens to be the best path to go.” The waterbender’s sudden glare takes Sin aback. “I don’t know much about your history with Bugze, but if you’re going to find redemption, you’ll have to pay in pain. Just like how I did.”
“Redemption?” Sin’s eyes break her cold visage and cast down, conflicted, before returning to the proud soldier she is. “No. I’ve gone too far to stop now.”
"So you acknowledge you're doing something wrong but refuse to make amends." Aqua shrugs and says, “Your choice,” before sighing sadly. “If only you weren't so loyal. We might've been on the same side. Well, let’s do this.”
“Yes. Let’s.”
And so, an aura of their respective elements emerges, Sin with her coat of lightning and Aqua with her swirling rose of water. They both dive forward.
“NOW!!!” Aqua yells as a jet of soapy water slams between the two courtesy of Rutherford.
She bends the water into a wall, and with her momentum already in overdrive, Sin reflexively lashes out with her lightning, creating a thick, noxious mist which overtakes The Twins who are engaged with Changer and Silver, and Vicky who has been trying like tartarus to pound Grandbuggy into the ground.
“What the-*CRACK*" Sin is sucker punched by Aqua and goes flying.
“Shell Marshall! What’s going- *WHACK* *ZAP*” Biff and Tannen are struck by Silver and Changer.
“What is going on here?!” Vicky yells. “I-“
“HEYAA!!!” Grandbuggy dropkicks her in the face, sending her to the ground.
“Ouch, you son of a-“ she looks up only to be blinded by the smoke.
“Don’t hate me for our bad romance sweetheart,” comes his trolling tones.
As Sin sits up, her blazing eyes blind, a blast of water comes from above, striking her to the ground.
“I told you you’d pay in pain lady,” Aqua’s voice comes from the mist.
“V-Vicky! Biff, Tannen! Try to link up!”
“We are trying-*CRASH*!” calls out Biff before he is struck by a bottle.
“We are tr-*CRASH*!” calls out Tannen before he suffers the same fate.
“WOOHOO!” cry out two inebriated voices.
“We can’t see, but they can!”
“How?! How can they?” asks Sin, before Candy uppercuts and Solarkness slashes her to the ground, before both dart back into the mist.
“Third Person Viewing Rocks!” shouts out Brown Dog.
“It’s more nauseating than anything!” comes Kichi’s voice.
“The Ink Moth!” Vicky screams, before she is struck by Jack and tail whipped by Rutherford.
“He’s giving them his sight!” she declares as she sees that they are not covered from above.
“Then Fix that!” Sin calls out.
Vicky then uses her Telekenisis to spread the mist so that it blankets everything.
Rebl! Your stupid plan just got it’s flank kicked. I can’t see them anymore! Comes Erised’s voice in the knight’s heads.
“Well that was over quite quick-*BZZT*” Candy is cut off as she is struck by Electricity.
“Crap, now none of us can see!” Grey Rebl grinds his teeth, before he is suddenly hit by ice.
“No, but we can still hear Knight!” Biff taunts.
And the clusterbuck in the mist continues, with Knights and Officers trading blind blows without rhyme or reason.
ThePonySpartan’s Comment
Eventually, Silver, Candy, and Kichi run across Sin in the mist and are all chain lightninged together, causing them each to spasm and fall.
“Oh…I hate my bucking life,” Kichi groans.
Sin then stands over them in the detergent mist as her eyes flash.
"I shall give you one last chance you three. Give to the Hive, and avenge us our deaths,” comes the voice of Chrysallis.
Changer hears this exchange through the mist and grits his teeth. Erised who is still linked picks up on this.
Her words are striking close to home, aren’t they Spartan?
Changer doesn’t answer as he dives through the mist, only to be struck by lightning himself.
Groaning, he falls to the floor, still out of sight from the others.
She can still take from you, even if you’re only a halfbreed dummy!
“What?!” Changer growls in shock, his eyes flashing an all too familiar green quickly.
Our blood is linked, I can see your secret. And we share in the same hatred, but play smart!
Ahead of them, Kichi squares up and declares,
“How about NO? You Crazy Sack of Crazy!”
“Yeah!” Silver agrees, “We aren’t gonna be apart of your suicide pact!”
“You screwed up with the invasion and YOU brought this upon us, but we’re not going to die for you!” Candy snarls.
Chrysalis growls. " Very well. Enough of your nonsense! Traitors and murderer’s of your own kind, you will be-“
She is cut off as Changer sends a blast of wind at her which knocks her into the mist, right into Rutherford who gets a nasty zap.
The others turn to him and he says,
"She is not fit to be a leader…at all..."
“Been saying that for years!” Kichi throws his arms in the air in exasperation.
“I think it’s time we got out of this smoke,” Silver declares as the group runs out, leaving the rest inside duking it out.
GreyRebl’s Comment
Having flown away after his shocking encounter, Rutherford flies through the mist, looking for the rest and sees Biff and Tannen outpouring a chaotic amount of fire and ice, which starts to eat away at the smoke.
And in their immense outpour, one of the knights gets caught.
“Aaargh!” A direct hit of ice leaves Solarkness immobile, his joints freezing in place and turning him into a sitting duck.
“Solar! Noooo!” Rutherford yells at the sight of his vulnerable best friend.
“H-hehe!” the timberwolf grins morbidly as the Twins approach with killing intent. “N-no prob. Not as cold as a windigo…!”
The twins fires as one, Fire and ice, supercharged by the link given by the Queen. Their magical energy has been been condensed in union into this killing blow. Little is capable of stopping their magic before, and now, boosted, nothing can stop it. Nothing can block it. Nothing can stop the timberwolf’s untimely fate. Without a doubt, Solarkness is going to die---
But someone else takes the blow in his stead.
The flame and ice disperses.
And then silence.
The Twins, Rutherford and Solarkness stare at the sight before them.
In front of Solarkness the smoking body of Captain Jack falls to the ground.
“Holy Crap,” Solarkness says in sympathy for the fallen pony who saved his life.
Before the Twins can recuperate, Rutherford dives down, shatters the ice, and then flies his friend to safety.
“I-I can’t believe it. I didn’t even know the guy and he sacrificed himself for me,” Solarkness says in wonder.
“Well don’t let it go to waste. Go towards Vicky, she won’t be able to-“
“GGGGUUUUHHHH!!!” comes the loud gasp of Jack as his body spasms and he sits up, causing those around him to stare slackjawed.
“What in the actual buck?” asks Rutherford.
“Now boys, I’m all for being double teamed by twins, but at least take me to dinner first,” the resurrected stallion smirks at Biff and Tannen.
“W-Wasn’t he just dead brother?” asks Biff
“I thought he was brother,” answers Tannen.
“That isn’t possible…”
“Bring it on, freaks! Let’s get dangerous!” Jack declares as he dives onto Biff who starts struggling.
Jack gets killed a few times, but since he can’t die he keeps getting back up, much to the confusion of everyone.
“That’aboy Jacky! Get mad at them bugs!” Grandbuggy cat calls.
Rutherford looks to the still confused Solarkness.
“Well…”
“Yeah…”
They then enter the fray with the other knights and fight to the best of their dwindling abilities.
In the distance, they all hear the roar as the Hooded Offender growls to the heavens in pain, and they more often than not follow suit.
BrownDog’s Comment
With things not looking too hot, Brown Dog looks to Changer. “Buddy, do you still have that spooky scary last option ready?”
Changer looks to him and says,
“Yes, but at this point it will only slow them do-“
“Good enough!”
“What are you doing?” Changer flails as the Diamond Dog picks him up in one arm and picks up Snap Drake in the other. Aqua, Grandbuggy, Jack and the changelings are just as confused by what they are doing.
“Everyone bring it in for a group hug! Now!
Looking at eachother and shrugging all of the knights heed his words, everyone out of ideas as they all group together.
“So how exactly are we gonna beat them? The power of kumbaya?” snarks Kichi.
“Nope, the power of stupidity and videogames, our calling cards,” Brown Dog answers before yelling.
“Erised, give us your eyes. Bone Guys! Make us real bucking Nito!”
Having played videogames together, they know exactly what this means.
And while Changer activates his ultimate move, and the shadowy skeleton arms fade in, Silver builds a body of bone armor around all of them, with Candy, Kichi, and Snap Drake adding to the magic.
Like some strange boney voltron, the Knights transform. One arm has a dragon head at the end, the other has a wolf’s. Spikes shaped like changeling horns jut out the back, Even Grey Rebl’s mop become’s encased in bone magic, making a third limb.
When it’s all said and done, they become a terrifying looking abomination.
Deciding that they’ve seen enough, the Five rush forth, just in time for all of the nights to declare in unison.
And start to fight the four as one.
The Changeling’s elemental powers aren’t as effective when everyone shares the same hide. They strike and lash out at the Five who start taking the fight seriously as they dodge and attempt to coordinate their attacks. With Erised’s third person vision, they know where the Five stand.
Striking out with skeletal hands and bone projections, they are able to strike Sin into the twins and grab Vicky out of the air and slam her into the ground.
While this happens, Grandbuggy, Jack, and Aqua all stare in amazement.
“OK…I’ve seen some pretty incredible things in my short life…but this is bucking ridiculous,” Aqua deadpans.
Eventually, the fun comes to an end though, when Vicky levitates Kersey’s flailing body,
“OI! Let me go you little-“
And tosses him like a bowling ball into the Skeleton Warrior, scattering all the knights.
“DAMNIT KERSEY!!!” all the Knights yell.
“Oh Buck Off!” he groans as his head wobbles…and he begins to shrink as smoke comes off his body. "Noooo, my fledgling power!" he flails on his back.
“Oh great, now we’re all gonna get our butts handed to us!” Solarkness grunts.
At The TARDIS
POV Change: Nightshade
You watch the battle unfold on the monitor with bated breath.
Daddy…Mommy…Even with the cloak you’re not winning. Please don’t lose yourself
You then see all the other knights attempting to hold off the others, but they aren’t winning either.
“Oh…Mia! Mia can’t you do something? I can stay behind and put up the barrier while you can-“
“N-NO!” Mia stammers, causing you to look to her. Her eyes are frightened as she shakes slightly as she watches your dad battling the big guy.
“Mia?” you ask.
“S-Sorry. I just…I just don’t want to go out there,” she admits looking away from the screen.
You look from her to the monitor and back.
Oh right…the Nightmare… You remember what Daddy told you. She may not have any memory of the other world, but fear is universal.
“I do want to help Nightshade but…I’d heard of your father’s powers before, but even just seeing them on screen they…they frighten me. They frighten me so much, and I can’t explain why,” she shakes as she goes pale.
You walk over to her and place a hoof on her leg in comfort.
“It’s Okay. I’m afraid of his cloak too,” you admit as you see your dad go into Phase 3.
“I’ve seen it at its absolute worst…I hope that he and mom can keep it in control,” you admit, dreading an appearance by Phase 4.
“Please don’t come to that…”
Then over the intercom comes the Doctor’s panting voice.
“Quick Fix! I’ve almost finished! I only have one more to go! Hold on for just a bit longer!”
Master of Shadows’ Comment
GreyRebl’s Comment
POV Change: Bugze (You)
Phase 3 whips around you, your tusks jut as do your claws. You’ve been giving it your all, but Mongo is a juggernaut. For every blow you give, he gives back twice as much. And as he does so, you see the glow around him growing more and more. Pushing him closer and closer to his demise.
Gritting your teeth you yell,
“Determined, the winds of change in my left!” Your bare hoof bursts into immense, cycling winds. It is airbending, reaching new heights by your sixth tail. “And would you kindly, fires of destruction in my right?!” Your Power Glove lights up as hot as the desert sun. Your blood curdles with life, brimming with warmth.
You slam both together, and a roar of unrelenting flame emerge as it gluttonously eats the air fed to it. The unnatural heat can be felt by even the Knights and others in the distance. To change is to burn down the old you to reforge a new one, tempered and guided by the flow of the wind. And this...
“This is my answer!” you roar, and a catalyst of air tunnels between your hooves and a flame thrower erupts out, massive and undaunting.
The Crimson Knights and the other Changeling Chosen shy away as it spans a great portion of the wide Appaloosan street. Mongo, however, doesn’t run. He charges straightforward, the flames themselves not at all flinching him and instead splitting from his bulk and leaving a wide open space untouched by flame behind him. Swiftly, his entire mass reaches the hose of the attack and stomps where you are.
But you’re already gone.
Mongo only feels a shadow hovering over him before you slam all six tails over his head.
He grunts as his legs buckle, but he pushes off the tails as though it's no big deal. With little remorse, he lunges to your airborne self.
“Tch!” You hold fast with your tails, and swing around to avoid it with a fit of airbending.
When you hop to keep away, suddenly, a tug is felt by the tails as Mongo jerks them and you back to the ground. As Mongo lifts an enormous hoof to squash you for the bug you are, you instantly whip out your Power Glove. And point it at the ground beneath him.
“Would you kindly burn?!” A pillar of flame erupts out, throwing Mongo off balance and his hoof lands right beside you, and sinks into the ground before exploding in dust. You follow it up by lifting with a flaming hoof of your own. “Falcon!” And throwing it. “Punch!” At this moment, Mongo flinches and his face tilts under the force. Without hesitation you plow right on through! “Flaming Psycho Crusher!”
“Graaah!” Finally, you hear a cry of pain from his voiceless mouth. If you don’t finish him, he’ll be voiceless forever.
You bounce out of your Psycho Crusher right before you get bear-hugged out of rage, only to leap back in with a sling launch of your tails once you hit ground, wrapping your hooves in them. Mongo gladly meets your charge. You swing left, he swings right. Contact.
A shock waves so immense that dust flies in all directions!
“GGGRRRAAAGGGHHH!!!” you cry out in immense pain, as blood gushes forth from your chest. Mongo knew exactly where to punch. Even upon your cloak, the wound is visible, not too far from the red jagged scar that stands against the blackness of the cloak.
Stay with me Bugze, don’t black out! Selena cries out as your vision swims.
You land with a thud between the other four officers and the Knights.
TheRutherford’s Comment
“Bugze! “ Aqua calls out as she wraps a whip around you and pulls you towards her and the Knights.
Seeing you on your back, Grandbuggy, Jack, and the rest of them all gather around you in a defensive manner.
"Well. This could be going better. How are you holding up?" you ask everyone.
"Not too good. We kind of failed on the whole, ‘Bringing Down The Other Four’ plan,” Snap Drake points out. “How about you?”
“Ugh,” you groan, “Even with the cloak, I'm not sure how long I can keep going. That said, I doubt the Chosen are going to last much longer either. *Grunts* The piece I cut out of me isn't really helping matters either."
"Alright don't move,” Rutherford says as he leans over your chest.
What?"
The wyvern then takes a deep breath before covering you in a purple flame. Where you were expecting intense heat, you realize it feels warm and a bit relaxing. When the flames die down, you feel revitalized, like you are full of energy. Your chest, while tender, is no longer bleeding and shows a slight scar.
“Whoah seriously? Since when could you do that?” you ask.
“Since always,” the Wyvern pants.
“What the buck dude! I got broken ribs here!” Brown Dog growls.
“It’s not as easy as it looks! *huff huff* Man. You were seriously hurt weren't you? *huff huff* he pants looking like he’s about to pass out.
"Are you going to be ok?" you ask in alarm.
"I'll be fine. I just need a few minutes to *huff* catch my breath. By the way,” he says looking to the others, “I don't think I'll be able to do another heal and recharge like that any time soon.”
“Well that’s just freaking inconvenient!” Kichi grumbles.
“Agreed, because here they come!” Changer points.
Mongo and the rest have grouped back up and the five of them advance together in a line towards your group.
Grunting, you get up and stand in front of your group, your tails spread out.
“This isn’t going to last much longer, so just give up already!” you command them as your eyes flash a fierce orange.
To this, each one of them stops as their voices come in unison.
Puzzling Frost’s Comment
"YOU CANNOT STOP US TRAITOR. WE ARE THE STRONGEST. WE ARE THE SMARTEST. WE ARE THE QUEEN'S CHOSEN. WE ARE-"
"A pain in our rumps!!!",yells Brown Dog with a huff.
“A bunch of nutjobs!” Kichi cat calls.
“A gaggle of dumbasses,” Solarkness adds.
“A bunch of OP hacks!” Changer growls.
To these cat calls, the glow around their bodies grows much brighter.
You then plead with them,
"Yes, Yes, you're the chosen" ,this gets The Five to tilt their heads in confusion, "The QUEEN's chosen not the hive’s. You follow her orders even if it goes against the Hive!”
"THE QUEEN KNOWS WHAT'S BEST FOR THE HIVE!!! They roar, only for you too rebuttal in the RCV with greater force,
"NO SHE DOESN'T!! IF SHE DID NONE OF THIS WOULD HAVE EVER HAPPENED!!!” you rant as you get some long overdue grievances off your chest,
“The Wedding was a disaster! She tried to replace an ALICORN! An Alicorn! Plus she acted nothing like the pony she replaced and got found out! Even when she had all of Canterlot in her grasp, she allowed the PRINCESS OF LOVE to get close to her husband and recharge him with enough love magic to blast us all away! AND LOOK WHAT HAPPENED!!! WE WERE ALL SCATTERED ACROSS EQUESTRIA MOST NOT EVEN ABLE TO CONTACT ONE ANOTHER IN INJURED STATES!!!”
Tears come to your eyes, the anger and hurt overwhelming as you yell at them.
“And even when the majority of the force regrouped, WHAT DID SHE DO??!! HUH?! SHE MADE AN EVEN LESS WELL THOUGHT OUT PLAN TO JUST GET REVENGE ON THE ELEMENTS OF HARMONY! When she should have been looking for the remaining stragglers and give them time to heal our wounds! BUT NOPE she couldn't let it go could she! COULD SHE?!!”
Kichi, Silver, and Candy all give you approving looks for your assessment, while the Five continue to grit their teeth.
“And now, she’s asking you to die for nothing. NOTHING!!! All BECAUSE SHE COULDN’T ADMIT THAT WE NEEDED HELP!!! I KNOW YOU CAN HEAR ME CHRYSALIS! IS YOUR BUCKING PRIDE MORE IMPORTANT THAN THEIR LIVES?!!!
The look of doubt crosses their faces again.
“I’ve made mistakes, we’ve all made mistakes, but we can do better! We can stop this senseless fighting and think of a better way to free you! Please don't let this be the end,” you cry out tears falling down your face, not noticing the surprised looks on the knights’ faces.
You wait for an answer. You wait...and wait...and wait. You're about to snap again when you hear laughing. Not a funny haha laugh, not child laughing, nor a fake laugh, but the sound of someling who has lost their mind. The kind of laugh that sends shivers down even the most evil of monsters and strongest of heroes. The laugh of someone who didn't care who died nor who got in their way. The laugh of a mad mare,
"Heheheheh...HAHAHHAHAHAHAHA HA HA!!!!" You look up to see only Sin laughing. Even her other cohorts are looking at her in terror. From her mouth comes Chrysallis’s voice again.
"You think I don't care? Heheh... THEN YOU TRULY KNOW NOTHING OF THE CHANGELINGS OR OF WHAT IT TAKES TO BE THEIR QUEEN!!!” she roars.
“Ponies and other creatures alike have hated our kind for centuries!! They have locked us away in this prison to die! Deep down inside, this is what they’ve always wanted. Ponies care for one thing, and one thing only. THEMSELVES! There is no love, not anymore. You made sure of that! You are no better you HYBRID!!! Now each and every one you cherish shall suffer as we do!”
You grit your teeth as she won’t listen to reason. You look back at the knights. Each and every one of them looks like they’ve been through Tartarus and back. Each one of them has fought for their lives against insurmountable odds. And they are all at their last limits.
And then something glorious happens. There is a shimmer within the air and all across the town, the dome turns a shade of blue.
“Wh-What is this?” asks Chrysallis in surprise.
“It’s about Dang Time!” you yell, before turning to the rest and ordering,
BrownDog’s Comment
DWC’s Comment
“All of you get out of here, there’s nothing more you can do. GO! Get to the TARDIS!!!”
“What about you?!” asks Grandbuggy.
“I’ll buy you some time, just go!” you yell as the Five charge forth.
“Would You Kindly Bucking Bronco?!” you yell, levitating them as the others decide to run, with Rutherford flying up to pick up Erised, and Brown Dog, still going back and carrying off Kersey.
"Come on Bugze. Come with u-"
"No. Leave now!" you interrupt Aqua.
"B-Bugze?"
"If I can't save these guys, then I'm sure as Tartarus saving you all. Go, I'll keep them distracted,” you declare as you bring out your Boomstick and Second Law.
"No, dammit!” Grandbuggy interjects. “I just got you back boy, I'm not going to let you kill yourself just to-“
"Grandbuggy…please…” you plead causing your Grandfather and Aqua to take pause. Jack then places a hoof on both their shoulders.
“I love you old bug… if I don’t come back, take care of Nightshade for me…"
You then look to the knights running for their lives.
"Tell those chucklebucks...tell them change is always an option, even for them."
“You better come back to us boyo!” Grandbuggy says reluctantly as he and the other two start following the Knights as Vicky releases herself and the others from the Bucking Bronco.
You then say to the air, where you know the TARDIS can hear you.
“Nightshade…” you say, and inside the TARDIS, she jumps. “Your mommy and daddy are proud of you. You’re the greatest little ball of joy we’ve ever had. Don’t make the same mistakes we did. We love you honey…
"Bugze...please,” Aqua tries one last time to get you to go.
"Go...and see ya on the other side Aqua," you smile as you rush forth striking your weapons against your former Hive Mates, trying desperately to knock them out. Aqua stiffens, before shaking her head and running with the rest.
Bugze? Asks Selena in concern.
Even if I fail, at least those lot will survive…But I can’t give up on these guys!
“Vicky! Mongo! Biff! Tannen! Sin! Please, you have to cut the connection to the Hive! You’ll die if you don’t!” you plead as you shove the Air Shotgun into Vicky’s face and pull the trigger.
“We will die anyway, thanks to you,” the twins accuse as both of your weapons are made too cold or too hot to hold.
“Don’t pretend like you care otherwise,” Vicky accuses as she encases you in a bubble and launches you at Mongo who strikes you in the chest again. “This is what you wanted!” Vicky roars.
“All of us dead…all of us broken…” Sin says sadly as she shocks you in the chest.
“NO! I’m sorry! Please! I don’t want you to die! I know you can never forgive me for leaving you in that cave, but please believe me!” you cry out as you sweep your tails across them, tripping them up.
“How can we?! We know you hate us!” Vicky growls.
“After all we did to you, your vengeance has come,” Sin punctuates.
“I…I FORGIVE YOU!!!” you yell as you slam yourself to your knees making them take a step back. Even your tails have gone limp to the ground.
“I forgive the bullying, the teasing, even the fights. I forgive you all,” you shout. “I forgive you…please, please forgive me and live!”
As you look upon them, you see their resolve weaken again.
“Y-You forgive us?” asks Sin.
“How?” asks Vicky as Mongo tilts his head.
“Why?” asks the twins.
Their looks of confliction suddenly become immobile as Sin stands up straighter.
“Please…Chrysalis. Please let them go…” you beg before the five.
“It’s too late for that #$%@&. You’ve sealed all of our fates. The least we changelings can do is die together as a species!” she growls.
“Why?! Why do they have to die?! You never wanted deaths!” you yell. “You went out of your way to change things from the way your mother did them! You told me when you were little that no one would have to die!”
“AND I WAS A FOOL TO THINK SO!” she yells as Sin shoots out an arc of lightening directly into your injured chest.
“Mother was right. This is a cruel cruel world, and weaker emotions make you soft. My mercy upon you has killed the hive. Our last hope for freedom has been exterminated. We will starve to death thanks to the hypocritical ponies. As Queen, I will at least avenge our race before I perish!”
ThePonySpartan’s Comment
Looking down, you come to a horrifying realization.
“We have no choice then…”
Selena, release everything…Go to Phase 4…
Bugze, you cannot! Even with me here, the strain to your body-
Will be just like the strain they’re suffering. It’s the only way I can be strong enough.
But without control you might… she trails off.
Yeah…but if I do nothing, they’re dead anyway. Please, Selena…
…Don’t lose who you are…
*EXPLOSION*
In the last place you were seen, all the debris and rocks around you are knocked far away from an explosion the color of midnight, which knocks even the changelings back. And in the middle of it, you levitate.
“GGGRRRRRAAAAAGGGGGHHHHH!!!!” you roar as you and the mare in your head fight to stay in control.
You feel your fangs grow as they jut out into massive tusks.
Your body contorts and you increase in mass and height.
Your claws become sharper and deadlier.
The bat wings breaking through the chitin on your back unfurl, ready for flight.
You feel the horns forming on the top of your head painfully, as the Five begin to bombard you mid-transformation.
BBBBUUUUGGGZZZEEE!!! Selena cries out in strain, and you hear her from a great distance. Control was never an option you realize.
Phase 4 Has Returned…
AT THE TARDIS
“NOOOOOO!!!!” you scream as you see Daddy transforming into the monster from the Crystal Empire.
As Grandbuggy and the rest all make it into the TARDIS, all you can do is stare in horror at what Daddy is becoming.
“No, NO! This can’t be happening! It can’t!”
“There’s nothing we can do Nightshade,” Mia tries to console you.
“He can’t become that again! He’ll never forgive himself!” you plead.
“It’s all he can do. Even two souls like your parents aren’t enough to bring such power under control…” Jack laments.
“But…but there’s got to be someone…anyone…” you look around to all the beat up Knights, the frightened towns folk, and everyone in between.
“There’s no one left Nightshade…” the Doctor’s voice comes over the intercom.
They’ve all given up…Mommy…Daddy…
But then Grandbuggy places both hooves on your shoulder and declares.
“You and I both know that ain’t true kid. There is someone left. Someone only you can get through to,” he says with forcefulness.
For a moment you have no clue what he means, but then…
“Mia!” you turn to the Alicorn. “KNOCK ME OUT!”
“Wh-What?!” she asks in alarm.
“JUST DO IT!!!” you yell. She looks to Grandbuggy who nods and she reluctantly lights her horn up, causing all to go to black.
IN THE DREAMSCAPE
You open your spectral eyes in darkest of dark places. A distance roar of strained voices vibrates your surroundings. You ignore it as you light up your horn, and illuminate the one person who can help your parents.
“Sombra! Sombra Wake Up!” you yell to the fallen king as he sits within his jail cell, shackled.
“Sombra! Please Wake Up!”
“I am awake, I have not slept for some time…” comes his melancholic voice.
You rush up to the bars.
“OK, good. Sombra, Mom and Dad are about to lose control!”
“I can hear that. Even the dead could hear that,” he says as he looks to the shaking mindscape around him.
“You’ve got to help them!” you declare in desperation. To that, the dictator smirks, yet he still doesn’t look at you.
“And why would I do that?”
“Because if you don’t, more people will die!”
“And what do I care if he takes more lives? I care nothing for him or that shadow.”
“But, they…”
“They will do as they do, it matters not to me. It won’t change the outcome of all our oblivion,” he says in a defeated manner.
Gritting your teeth you call out,
“Sombra, Look At Me!”
When he doesn’t meet your gaze, you shout more forcefully.
“LOOK AT ME!!!”
Finally, he looks up with dead, half hearted eyes. In the distance, you hear Daddy roar out that terrible inenquine scream.
“I know that you don’t like Mommy and Daddy. I know that you hate what you’ve been put through, and I know that you’re not a good guy by a long shot!” you declare with tears in your eyes to which he just stares.
“And…And I know that somewhere in that black icy heart of yours, you care about Me!”
He seems taken aback by your response.
“Child, I don’t-“
“Don’t Bullspit me! After Trixie, you holed yourself up in here and you pouted. You stayed quiet and didn’t bother my parents for a long time. And it was because you felt guilty! Not for your motives, but because how they turned out. You felt guilty that you hurt me!”
“I…” he tries to start, but you don’t let him.
“You can make up excuses all you want, but you even admitted it to me! I know how you truly feel!” you yell as you use your magic to pry open the cage bars and walk inside.
“I know that there’s good deep inside you. It didn’t die with Hope Sombra, you’re not completely gone!” you declare as you break the chains surrounding him, but still he will not get out of the chair.
His mouth is agape at what you’ve said and done, as if he can’t truly understand you.
“How?...How could you trust me with something like this after what I did to you?”
“BECAUSE THAT’S WHAT FRIENDS DO! THEY FORGIVE EACH OTHER!!!” you yell in his face as the tears flow down your cheeks. He blinks in awe at your words as the ground around you shakes and cracks. He looks from your face up to the crumbling room, and back to you. Apprehension upon his face.
“If there’s any part of you that called me friend, then you will help them…please…”
Your Dad’s roar echoes across the room and you can feel your Dad and Mom’s control crumbling.
He looks up once more, before a stoic look comes across his face as he stands up he looks into your eyes.
“Run along Nightshade. It’s time to wake up…” and with that smoke billows around his body and shoots up into the air as an intense look comes to his eyes.
“Thank you…” you say with a smile as you will yourself back into the world of sleep.
In The TARDIS
As you sit up, you see Grandbuggy’s expectant face, and a few worried looks.
“Well? How’d it go?”
“Holy Mother of…” Mia says in awe and exasperation as she and the rest of the civilians and knights look to the monitor with slack jaws.
You and Grandbuggy turn to look yourselves, and when you do, you smile at what you see.
POV Change: Bugze (You)
PuzzlingFrost’s Comment
Phase 4 Has Come…But it hasn’t…
Bugze! Bugze can you hear me?! Selena calls out.
I…I can. We’re lucid?
Yes! I don't know how, but we are. Control just easily came back to us she says in relief.
You look upon the Five in front of you, each one giving you confused and weary looks. You look down at yourself.
Huh? You and Selena think in unison.
Your Nightmare Cloak is no longer Midnight Black, but a Dark Grey. The claws upon your hooves are coated in Red Crystal, as are the horns upon your head and the ends of your tails. And the wings upon your back are no longer bat wings, they are now metallic and segmented looking, with a crystalline sheen of Red, Black, Green, and Dark Blue. Along your chest scars, smooth blue crystals cover them.
Your eyes are different looking as well. The Scarred one is still Red, and the other is still orange, but you now have serpentine pupils, one of light blue, and the other of Midnight blue, and purple smoke wisps around the edges.
Interesting, comes a dark voice as you take in the changes. To think that you would change so much…
Sombra?! You ask.
What are you doing? Selena accuses.
I give you my power of my own volition rather than have you steal it, he relays.
But… Why are you-?
I’m not doing this for you! Now vanquish thy foes before I rescind my gift! He growls.
You look to The Five and their looks of apprehension.
We are lucid, and we are in control, I suppose we can worry about him later, Selena theorizes.
You nod as you float to the ground with a heavy thud.
As you flex your new form, Mongo breaks from his stupor and rushes you, throwing a punch, which your 6 tails catch easily. He looks from his caught hoof to you in confusion as you thrust your hoof up into his chin, knocking him back into the twins. As he gets up and shakes his head, you see green blood leaking from his nose.
Hurt them…I can finally hurt them…
The twins then blast you with a concentrated blast of Fire and Ice.
"RRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!"
You roar to the heavens as your tails take the blasts before batting them away as chanting and music comes out of nowhere. As Vicky throws a large chunk of debris at you, you rush forth and punch through it easily. You then look to the Five and give dark chuckle.
“Control…I finally have control…” You set hoof on the ground and begin to slowly walk toward the Five. Each step causing cracks in the ground.
Sin sends out her electricity, and you block it with one of your new wings which seems to absorb it.
“Now…Now I can save you. I will beat you all down to save your lives!” you declare as you bring up your clawed hooves and crack them as your tails whip about freely.
In the prison, in her physical body, Chrysallis can only stare in horror at what stands before her through the eyes of Sin.
"What has happened to you my bug? How far have you come in power as this demon? How are you this strong! I can feel your power from here! What are you!?" She screams aloud.
“I…I Am…Awakened.”
WHAT DO YOU DO?
I would suggest the brave and the bold, never wrong by disturbed or hail to the king by avenged sevenfold
Question does the song need to have words. If not I recommend one of these three songs they radiate power.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyxad--7dDE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnC7auYH9pg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clwWejY1Y6U
Anyway on with the show!
You begin the battle by getting some distance. You shove your crystal claw into the ground and send forth a wave of sharp crystals through the ground towards the Hive Five as you shout,
"CRYSTAL WAVE!!!" ,resulting in them being sent sky ward before Vicky catches them. You use this too your advantage and use you're new found metallic wings and fly up to them and grab each of them with a tail and swing them down to the ground at very fast speeds.
"SHADOW SLAM!" The resulting blow smashes them into the ground, Mongo luckily grabbed them and used his body as a cushion for the fall. You glide down to them only to be kinetically thrown into a building. You catch yourself using your tails and begin to grab debris and fling them towards the Hive Five. They dodge and blast their way through your onslaught. Mongo grabbing your attention tries to charge through you only to be swatted a way by a tail. Biff and Tannen begin blasting you with balls of fire and ice from both sides only for you to block them with your metallic wings. Sin blast a bolt of lightning at you only for you to catch it in your claw and redirect back towards her. She is blasted back through another building. Vicky uses this to her advantage as she lifts the debris you were standing on to fling you towards the shield. Only for you to use your tails as a spring to bounce you back towards them. Mongo then appears below you and sucker punches you in the stomach causing you to feel winded. You then land on Mongo seeing as how he was under you. Using your increased size to pin him down you then begin to slap him with your claw.
"STOP BEING EVIL! *smack* QUIT TRYING TO KILL ME! *slap* YOU'VE ALREADY LOST! *bonk* I HATE MONDAYS! * smash* I SMELL TACOS! WHERE ARE THE TACOS! *smack numero cinco* i LIKE CAKE! DO YOU HAVE CAKE! THE CAKE IS NOT A LIE! *slap times 3* THIS IS BECAUSE I HATE YOU! *boink* THIS IS BECAUSE I LOVE YOU! *bang* STOP MOCKING ME! *sla..oh you get it at this point* WHY AREN'T YOU TALKIN... oh righ"*blast* Your knocked off Mongo (who is seeing stars at the momment) by Sin.
"GET OFF HIM!" , Meanwhile in Mongo's head..."Pretty lights hehehe"
Thats all I got for now
Holy f***, this is awesome
Maybe chrysalis after a long battle gives up because of the power of awaken bugze? This is gonna be epic
As you continue to fight the Hive Five, you are about to punch Mongo for what feels like the fiftieth time only for him and the others to suddenly jerk back to Sin's side. You rise your eyebrow in confusion of this, but you don't risk it as you get on the defensive. That is until you hear the familiar crazed laughter of Chrysalis. You glare at her image as she says
"Oh this power...this power is WONDERFUL!"
Your slightly taken aback by her random shout, but she continues.
"With your power #%#@, we could rule this entire puny world together!"
Your eyes widen at this as you think,
She isn't....
"You want me to relinquish these puppets? Fine! But only if you led me your power, your body, and fully accept to do my bidding at my side to rule this world!"
I do believe she is...
"Just think of the possibilities! You and me, side by side, ruling the world with a iron hoof! All the love we could ever image, with thousands a of slaves contributing to our supply for years!"
All sense of sanity vanishes from the mad queens eyes as she exclaims,
"Join me #%@#! Join me and we can rule this world as lo-*Smash*"
The mad queens rant is ended with a flamed encased hoof slamming into Sin, and your tails grabbing and throwing the others. As Sin and the others roll and tumble on the ground you can't help but say,
"What is with you crazies asking me to join your side? Seriously this is like the fifth time it's happened!"
Maybe you just have the aura of a bad guy?
Maybe, but I honestly preferred when she was trying to kill me
And so the fight continues, only with nonstop badgering form Chrysalis now involved.
Or in other words, my poor attempt at trying to make Chrysalis so insane she's gone Yandere. Also I really like the sound of 'Mad Queen Chrysalis.' Anyone else think that sound like something a historian would write down? I vote that be her official title in this series! Anyone else?
As the knights and other member in the TARDIS look with fascination, horror and surprise, Kichi is meanwhile eating some popcorn, until he is hit by Grandbuggy in the back.
"That is my grandson fighting, a little respect for him, he is sacrificing to help us, and we may never see him again... Why are you eating popcorn?" Ask Grandbuggy
The others look at Kichi as he look at them.
"Because I believe he will return, and no, I don't mean hope or some pushy things..." Comment Kichi as he look at the other knights
"Surely you all should remember, it's obvious that he will return. Just remember the dreams, he fighted a evil pinkie and a evil clone that fighted the Princesses and the god of chaos and that previously killed the crazy queen, and was more crazy that her, if that is possible. Compared to that, this will be a walk in the park for the offender" Say Kichi as he continue eating popcorn.
"Wait, what dreams and from where did you get the popcorn?" Ask Grandbuggy surprised.
"Well... The popcorn I get from one of those Pinkies and about the dreams..." Begin to say Kichi before he is interrupted.
"If you want to know about it, wait for the release of 'The Hooded Offender: The Movie'" Say Browndog suddenly interrupting Kichi
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A little short and silly but I could not think of too much for the moment, if there is any problem tell me and I edit
About the songs... I also have three songs to suggest
Number 1
Number 2
Number 3
I suggest Exorcist theme from Ao no Exorcist. Particularly around 2:10 of the song.
ATTENTION HIVE MIND
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Due to the site re-design there's currently an issue with Private Messaging so here's some more details about Awakened/Enlightened Bugze that DWC, BrownDog77, and I hammered out beforehoof;
1. It's the same power level as Phase 4, but with more control due to Sombra chipping in
1A. Yes, this does mean Sombra's abilities (crystal-bending) are now available. Have fun.
2. Much like the Season 1 finale, Awakened/Enlightened Bugze's voice is now a legion-esque hybrid of Bugze, Selena, and Sombra due to all three of them working together. It's bold when they all talk together, but to make speech easier, thoughts/dialogue by each one individually is ORANGE for Bugze, Blue for Selena, and GREEN for Sombra
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Mad Queen Chrysalis...... I love it!
The flight-capable super-changelings try to attack you from the air knowing that you can't fly, but you have a new anti-air move in store...
You brings both your wings in front of you like a shield before spinning and declaring,
"EMERALD STORM BARRAGE!" as your wings expand out unleashing a barrage of green crystal feathers that shatter on impact with the super-changelings releasing small bursts of midnight smoke that obstruct their vision and send them into coughing fits.
I didn't know I could do that!
You didn't. Your arsenal is woefully lacking in anti-air techniques so I contributed a theory I was working on.
I don't think I'll ever get used to your aid.
And nor should you. I'm only doing this for the sake of the young overlord.
Unfortunately, even with this new attack, the flying super-changelings continue to give you trouble,
Gah! If only I could bucking fly! you think in exasperation.
Actually I have an idea; Spread your wings out.
Okay, but what is that supposed to- WOAH!
Suddenly dark smoke forcibly bursts out of your hooves shakily hovering you into the air.
Bugze! You're flying! Selena exclaims.
"BUCK YEA- WOAH!" you declare only to accidentally send yourself crashing through another building.
Note to self; Limit SMOKE THRUSTERS to short bursts until the fool learns better control.
"Enough of this one-at-a-time nonsense! Rush him all at once!" Sin declares causing all the super-changelings to nod and form up.
A nice night for a game of Skittles. Sombra smirks.
Not a good time for a candy break.
I believe he's referring to the ancestor of what ponies these days call "bowling".
"OOOOOOHH..." you smirk in realization as you spread your wings out while all 5 super-changelings rush at you. Suddenly smoke bursts out of your rear hooves as you jet forward and clothesline all 5 of the evil bugs with your wings.
"STRIKE!"
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ON THE TARDIS
Among the crowd of creatures on the TARDIS, we see a pair of Royal Guard Ponies in a corner nursing their bruises while drinking out of some flasks they snuck in under their armor.
"Celestia, this has been one crazy day." the unicorn guard says.
"You're telling me." the pegasus guard replies taking a sip out of his flask.
"I mean this was supposed to be some easy transport assignment; Just babysit the prisoners til we get to the prison, but suddenly we have town-sized forcefields, Changelings attacking us out of the blue, Blue Booths that are bigger on the inside, and the fate of the town resting on a bunch of terrorists being led by the most wanted fugitive in Equestria. And I only brought vodka instead of whiskey, none of this makes any dang sense!" he rants before taking a long pull out of his flask.
"Don't forget that the Hooded Offender was apparently some lowly orange-maned bug the whole time like the ones who attacked us."
"Wait, what was that?" Sheriff Silverstar
"Uh oh... Uhhhh HEY how's the wea-" Nightshade nervously tries to steer the conversation but,
"Didn't you guys hear the news?" the pegasus guard asks.
"Sir, we're Appleloosans. The early edition paper is always a week late at the earliest."
"Well it turn out the Offending Hood is actually some orange-maned changelong- change- bugpony." the unicorn guard slurs as the alcohol takes effect.
"HEY LET'S ALL GET SOME JELLY BABIES!" Nightshade desperately yells, but is drowned out.
"Hey, we know an orange-haired changeling too!" Braeburn chimes in, "His name is Bugze. He's a bit on the clumsy side but a nice guy when not losing his temper, or cursing Lady Luck..."
Suddenly the realization dawns on all the Appleloosans in the TARDIS.
"Oh buck..." Nightshade curses.
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Given how we used Skillet frequently, there are 3 options (or just use one of them for next chapter fight music);
Feel Invincible
I Want to Live
The Resistance
The new cloaks theme should be.... really any song from the doom 2016 sound track
Finishing Move Ideas for this Fight;
MONGO
As Mongo comes at you, you ready a Shadow Shoryuken by crouching and delivering a disorienting blow to Mongo's gut with one hoof but as your right hoof rears back your right wing suddenly folds itself around your hoof and a nightmare tail wraps it in place. Time seems to slow down as you think,
What the-
It seems we can crystal-bend our own wings into various shapes, such as a gauntlet in this case.
Focus you fools! Our attack is about to land.
Yeah, but I can't call this "Shadow Shoryuken" now! It needs a new name! Uh- Um-
"BARGAIN DAY AT THE SUPERMARKET!!!" you roar as your crystal-wing-covered hoof violently smashes into Mongo's jaw in a vicious rising uppercut with enough force to cause a shockwave followed by midnight-colored afterimages that launches the changeling into the sky at high speed.
...Really Sombra and Selena both mentally say bemused.
What? It worked for One Buck Mare!
NOTE: Mongo is going to be in the air for quite a while so we can come back to him. His finish is at the bottom of this comment. In fact here's another part of this gag (insert somewhere in the middle after this comment);
POV: MONGO
We see the giant super-changeling continue his forceful ascension into the air when he smashes face first into a rocket. The momentum of the impact causes the rocket to change course as Mongo is redirected downwards back to Equestria.
*NOTE: Yes, that is Grandbuggy's rocket still orbiting Equestria.
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BIFF & TANNEN
Biff and Tannen continue pelting you with fire and ice attacks only for you to block them with your wings.
They're weaker when they're apart! Selena points out.
Then let's make some distance then.
With a teleport you quickly appear in front of Tannen and hit him in the throat with your wing to disorient him. As he coughs for breath, you whip out a trio of Nightmare Tails at Biff. He tries to dodge them, but eventually he gets caught.
"GET OVER HERE!" you roar as you yank Biff towards you and catch his throat in your hoof.
Sombra! Flight!
You presume to command m- Sombra indignantly scoffs before being interrupted.
JUST DO IT PEST!
With that you fly forward and roughly drag Biff's head along the ground creating a tiny trench in your wake. After a few moments of flight you get hit in the wing with a ball of fire causing you to drop Biff as you veer off course and crash into another building,
At this rate, Appleloosa will have to be rebuilt from scratch. you think as you stumble out of the building and see Biff and Tannen flying back to each other.
"OH NO YOU DON'T!" you declare as you teleport between the two brothers and declare,
"EMERALD STORM BARRAGE!" as you flail your wings out pelting both brothers in a barrage of green crystal feathers that shatter on impact engulfing them in clouds of midnight smoke.
You teleport into the smoke cloud where Biff is and claw him across the face before teleporting into Biff's cloud and sweeping him in the gut with your wing. You continue this pattern of teleporting between the two brothers, keeping them apart as you spam physical blows between the two until it culminates in you teleporting behind Tannen and lining him up with Biff then declaring "PSYCHO BREAK CRUSHER" causing you launch yourself spinning forward while covered in the Nightmare Cloak in a large streak of midnight flames.
Biff instinctively conjures of a wall of solid dense ice, but you effortlessly smash Tannen through it without slowing down as you continue spinning forward now taking Biff along for the ride as well, smashing through buildings until your attack stops and you throw the twins ahead of you to the edge of town.
As the two twins groggily struggle to get up, you teleport a bit distantly behind the twins, rear back, and smash your Nightmare Tails firmly into the ground as you rear a hoof back your and fold your wing around it, wrap it in a pair of nightmare tails before you activate Smoke Thrusters to rocket smoke out of your 3 non-punching hooves as the nightmare tails anchor you in place.
Tannen gets closest to consciousness first, notices you charging up your attack, and tries to drag Biff away, only to his horror realize that both of their hooves all all anchored to the ground by orange crystals with their heads lined up.
When you have built up enough force, you un-anchor your Nightmare Tails from the ground and rocket towards the twins at high speed. Biff then regains consciousnesses just long enough for he and his twin to exclaim,
"Oh."
"Buck.
"FALCON ROCKET!" you declare right before sending your flaming, crystal-wing-covered hoof smashing into Biff and Tannen's faces with enough force to generate a sonic boom and send both twins dragging and bouncing along the ground across the town until they crash into the schoolhouse that collapses on them.
When you reach where the twins are, you see them both unconscious in the rubble covered in injuries, most notably cracks in their horns.
Those injuries look like something that will prevent them from utilizing magic, but minor enough that sufficient medical attention will be able to fix.
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VICKY
Vicky uses her telekinesis to levitate you in the air. You anchor yourself to the ground using your nightmare tails and slam a hoof into the ground causing a crystal rock to just out of the ground and smash into Vicky's groin causing her to fall back in pain.
Wait, how did that even work? She doesn't hav-
Idiot. Groin attacks can still hurt mares. It just needs more force.
"Alright, you like to send things flying?" you say as you teleport in front of Vicky. "Then let's go for a ride."
With that you swing your wing upwards and hit Vicky with it sending her into the air.
You quickly raise your nightmare tails in the air before smashing them to the ground with earth-shaking force launching yourself high into the air with your head hitting Vicky in the stomach and taking her along for the ride.
"Wait, Private 9001!" Vicky pleads, "Remember how you liked me! If you let me go, I'll let you do ANYTHING you want with my bod-"
"SILENCE STRUMPET!" Selena's voice roars from your mouth as you reach the height of your ascent, grab Vicky's mane, and throw her downwards as she flails in the air trying to reorient herself.
"Consider this a sorta-kinda breakup!"
You fold your wings in front of you and cast a midnight forcefield around yourself as you launch yourself at the changeling, tackling her at high speeds as you both descend to the ground crying out,
"METEOR IMPACT!!!"
Before both of you smash into the ruined house in an explosive shockwave that blows out windows and knocks down heavily damaged buildings still standing. When the dust clears, you find yourself in a crater in the floor standing over the unconscious changeling.
And to think I used to have a crush on her.
Indeed. She looks much different without tart makeup. Or consciousness for that matter.
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You notice that Mongo is still high in the air
Wait, was he still up there the whole time?
Even I didn't think our punch would be that powerful.
I can not tell if he's plummeting or ascending.
Well, let's send him a welcoming committee.
With that, you turn yourself into a nightmare-colored mist and swirls up and around the airborne Mongo before you start rapidly teleporting out of the smoke around Mongo and striking at him with your hooves, tails, and wings increasing speed and frequency with each teleport.
After a frenzied barrage of hits from every direction, you use 4 tails to hold Mongo in place before raising the 5th and 6th tails and slamming them into his face to launch yourself away from him. When the 4 tails are at maximum stretch, you wraps the remaining two around your rear limbs and slingshots into Mongo declaring,
“LUNATIC FRENZY!!!
Before smashing into Mongo's back with a massively powerful double-stomp that causes blood to spurt out of his mouth as the Jugger-changeling is sent smashing down into the ground.
Having been on the receiving end of that attack, I almost pity him... Not really.
When you reach the ground, you see your attack has caused large cracks to appear in Mongo's shell, but he still won't stay down. Instead he slowly makes his way back up and prepares to charge you.
"OH, JUST STAY DOWN!" you yell in frustration.
Perhaps we should take a page out of the comic book of that bat-themed vigilante.
*ding* And I got just the idea.
Mongo charges at you with a feral roar, but you crystal-bend a layer of sapphire around your hoof as you say,
"Fine. Then we." you hit Mongo in the head with an overhead blow with enough force to shatter the sapphire and smash his face into the ground causing it to crack.
"Will!" you pick up Mongo with two hooves and lift him over your head as you stand on your hind hooves and wrapping one limb in crystals and a nightmare tail and start vibrating it for extra power.
"BREAK YOU!!!" you roar as you bring down Mongo and bring your vibrating crystal limb up in a backbreaker that shatters Mongo's back shell and causes the giant changeling to howl in pain.
Before you start freaking out, I gave us just enough restraint that we merely cracked his spine. NOT shattered it.
The doctors should be able to fix him, but he won't be harming anyone for a while.
I guess that works. you think as you toss Mongo away.
this is just a random song i ran across on YouTube but i think it fits pretty well
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJte_eP66kI
I picked a fine time to resume reading this series.
With bugze's newfound control of this cloak state, would he have a way of force-calming/pacifying lesser foes? I doubt it would be very effective against any of the major combatants here, but it might put some of the remaining drones out of the fight (if he even has such a power).
Two more songs I thought of that would fit
https://youtu.be/CG-_yG-n8Yg
https://youtu.be/B7Hikaj8ub0
Also this song for when/if bugze uses dark magic/Sombra's magic only. Imagine what form bugze takes when he uses Sombra's magic instead of Selena, would it get it be like the nightmare cloak? Or would it be like a crystal Susanoo? I can imagine a situation where Selena is tired and bugze must use Sombra's magic.
https://youtu.be/clwWejY1Y6U
Idea for the conclusion of the fight:
You pant from all the exertions of fighting all five of the changeling generals by yourself, but you're in much better shape than they are by the end of it.
Then you realize something.
"Wait a tic... we're actually winning?!" You think in surprise.
"Are you truly that surprised?"
"Well I mean, I knew we're stronger now that we've got control of phase 4, I just didn't expect this fight to be this.... easy from just that. I'm barely winded and they look like they're almost down for the count." You comment, pointing out the roughed-up and bedraggled changelings across from you.
"He's right, this is too easy. Usually by now Lady Luck would have reared her ugly hea-."
The glowing from the other five changelings suddenly grows brighter and more intense, and they all collapse finally from the strain of their magic boost.
"BUCK!!!"
"Perfect timing." Sombra deadpans
"Oh, no. Bugze, I'm sorry.... we're out of time."
"Nonononononononono NO!!! We-we have to do something. How do I save them?!" You internally panic.
"Relax. Now that they're down I can easily do something to help them."
"Why didn't you say so! Do it!"
"As you wish."
Bugze feels some of his own control over phase 4 shift, and then five of his six tails shoot out and stab into each general.
"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!! WHAT THE BUCK!!!!"
"SOMBRA! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!"
Rebound Reversal!" Sombra growls out, his voice echoing a bit inside your head.
A glowing red energy pulses out through your five tails, and suddenly the five generals bodies stop glowing, and they go still.
"WHAT DID YOU DO?!" You and Selena scream out in unison.
"Relax. They're still alive. You can even see them breathing from here." Sombra tells them.
He's right, though they're roughed up from your fight, you can see the steady rise and fall of their bodies as they breath.
"Oh thank Luna." You say aloud in relief. You managed to save them. No one died.
"That still doesn't answer my question Sombra. What. Did. You. Do?"
A groan from one of the generals grabs your attention.
"Oh Celestia damn it. What does it take for them to just stay down!"
"9001?" She weakly groans out.
"Just stay down Sin. Your power boost is over, and you're the only one awake. You've lost." You tell her from where you're standing, still in phase 4.
"No, you said you wouldn't help us. I thought you had killed us all from interfering here. But..." She seems to sag a bit from fatigue. But she sits back up and looks at you with a crazed grin. "The power went back to the Queen, and she's managed to use it to get out of the pony prison. I can hear her now, leading our brothers and sisters out behind her. She's free." Sin informs you.
Then she collapses into unconsciousness.
It takes a few moments for what she said to sink in.
"Oh-." Selena starts
"-Buck." You finish.
On with the sho-wah! *flash* MPH!!!
"I'll take those thank you!" *flash*
"As the battle neared its final turn, where the best action happens and minds are blown from the epicness.....Let's cut to Queen Cheese Legs shall we?", said Discord as he watched the battle from afar with binoculars, "Ain't I a stinker? Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk!" ,and with a snap of his claw we the audience find ourselves at...
*Changeling Prison*
Chrysalis, in the throne room of her former castle, has been angrily pacing around a magic orb. It has allowed her to view the battle of Appleloosa. She seems to unconsciously been creating a trench around the orb with her pacing.
"I just don't get it he never had this much power before! And now this new form! It can't be that nightmare spirit she could never create something of this magnitude...could she? No it must be something more." Chrysalis muttered to herself.
"My queen!" ,Shouts general Stinger. "The inspection is happening earlier than we thought!"
"What?!" ,ever since the changelings had been imprisoned, the guard have had inspections by Shining Armor or the Princesses every three months, as a security measure. However this was a month early. "How can this be?! If they were discover what we have done they will capture the remaining free changelings!" ,Chrysalis yelled.
"That's just it my queen. This inspection is being done by the Elements of Harmony!", Stinger reported.
"Why would Celestia send *growl* THEM here?! It's enough that they trapped us here but now they can come and mock us while we are starving in here!" Chrysalis loathed.
"My queen I believe the reason why they are inspecting us is because of Twilig.." ,he didn't dare finish that sentence with the death glare the queen gave him,"Er I mean the Element of Magic has recieved a promotion if you will." Stinger gulped.
"WHAT do you mean by a promotion General?" Chrysalis ordered with some curiosity.
"Well you see my queen, there have been talk among the pony guard, saying that the Element of Magic has... she... she" , Stinger began to stumble over his words in fear.
"Oh for the love of.. WOULD YOU SPIT IT OUT YOU BUFFOON!!!" ,Chrysalis roared.
"SHE HAS ASCENDED!!!!" Stinger cried out in fear. He had fallen onto the floor and covered his face with his hooves in preparation for Chrysalis's wrath.....But none came. No blast, no punch, no nothing. He peeked out from behind his forelegs to see not an angry queen, but Chrysalis's face toward the ground. Her hair obscuring most of her face. Stinger then heard a sound. Not a loud sound like a roar or yell. No a quiet sound, quieter than a mouse. At first he thought it was a sneer, or a shiver of fear, but not something this queer. As he got up he noticed, the sound was beginning to grow. At first he had to strain his ear to listen, but soon the noise became clear. It was laughter... an unsettling laughter.
"Hehehehe... Hahahaha haha. HAHA!!" ,Stinger jumped back in suprize as his queen started laughing like a maniac.
"Guess those laughing lessons from Mark Camel (HA!) did pay off. She sounds much scarier than before." Stinger thought. "Um my queen not to interupt but the Elements will be here any minute now." Chrysalis stopped laughing, but still kept an insane grin on her face.
"OH I have an idea of handling them hehe."
*CUT*
"You know what happens next lets get back to fight shall we?" ,Discord said with a smirk.
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*Back with cheese legs*
Chrysalis has Twilight captured inside the prison after cleverly fooling her into going inside.
"You see Princess, our species were born of...unnatural circumstances. And ever since our hive has been hunted by you and every other sentient creature in this world. I was taught by mother that in this cruel world only the strongest and smartest survive. And means survive by any means NECESSARY! And if you think we're the bad guys then your wrong we are only trying to survive. The real villians of this world well..."Chrysalis leans into Twilight's ear, "Just look in a mirror " Twilight in anger prepares to blast Chrysalis but she is shoved through the door as the changelings burst through the door with Chrysalis leading the way singing not caring if the ponies heard.
"This day has been just PERFECT! The kind of day I have dreamed since the fall! All the ponies running around in terror. The Offender will soon fall. None of them have seen what's really going on at all!" As the changelings fly off Chrysalis lets out one last terrifying laugh
"AHA HA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!"
Before casting a magic frequency spell forcing all loyal changelings to return to hive in a flash of light (including the unconscious grunts at Appleloosa not the Hive Five I leave the decision to someone else*cough* brown dog *cough*). All the while Twilight is in shock of what's she's done.
"How can it possibly get worse?" Twilight said staring off at where the changelings were.
*burp, letter opening noises* "APPLELOOSA WAS ATTACKED BY AN AMBUSH OF THREE HUNDRED CHANGELINGS! FREEING THE CRIMSION KNIGHTS WHO WERE PASSING BY IN THE PROCESS! REPORTS OF THE HOODED OFFENDER WAS INVOLVED IN THE BATTLE!!!!" , shouted Spike as he read the letter from the Princess. Applejack faints, Rarity gasps, Pinkie and Fluttershy perk up, Rainbow gets angry.
"OH BUCK YOU LADY LUCK!!" ,Twilight shouted to the sky.
P.S. Discord hogtied me and took my phone and binoculars halp!
P.P.S This happens after the battle the elements can't do anything plus Discord doesn't care nor want to get involved.
On with the show!
As Bugze continues his one on four battle (8284438 Mongo is still soaring into the atmopshere), when he is confronted by the twins
"PHANTOM FOG!!!" ,Biff and Tannen shout as they combine an ice and fire blast to create a smokescreen for them to flee.
"Grr where'd they go!?" Bugze yells in annoyance.
"I don't know this fog was created with plasimids. It's blocking my senses" Selena clarified.
"Really? Huh, guess they be used for more than attacks." Bugze muttered.
"You FOOLS they went around the miniature prison!" Sombra barked.
"Don't you mean jail?" Bugze questioned.
"MOVE!!!!" Selena and Sombra yelled. Bugze then ran towards the jail house and jumped over it. Only to see Vicky, Biff, Tannen, and Sin powering up a combined blast.
"Oh Buck me"
"ELEMENTALPULSE!!" yelled all four them at
once. As a ball of fire, ice, and lighting is telekineticly launched towards you.
"BUGZE THE CLOAK WON'T STOP THIS HIT!!" Selena yelled in worry. It's too late to dodge. You brace for impact when you're mouth says on its own,
"SUSANNO!!!!" suddenly A GIANT BUCKING DOUBLE FACED, FOUR ARMED PONY SKELETON made of blue shadow and dark crystal appears around your body.
"SOMBRA WHAT DID YOU JUST DO?!" ,You and Selena shout out in shock.
"Something I thought not possible... at least in my own body." ,Sombra says surprisingly.
"You mean you didn't know if it would work?!" Selena yells out in anger.
"Let us quarrel later for now let us focus at the task at hoof.", Sombra said seriously.
"Wait a minuite." You look down and notice your cloak is gone, minus the claws, horns, fangs, and wings.
"Where's the cloak?!" ,you shout in alarm.
"Hmm it appears when I activated the Susanno the cloak simply transformed into it like a defensive shell. Intriguing." Sombra hypothesized.
"Well change it back!" yelled Selena. Once she said that it returned to its normal six tailed self.
"Huh power upgrade I guess" Bugze said looking at his claws.
"I wouldn't use that too much it takes a lot out of me." ,Sombra huffed. With that you turn towards the four Plasmid users and charged.
*Susanno acquired*
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Nice comment, but seeing how this is the Season 3 finale, Twilight's ascension is going on at the exact same time (thus why the Doctor said it was a "Fixed Point in Time" and thus the Elements are unavailable for this melee)
For anyone who wants clarification on who's speaking in my past two comments
Biff is Light blue
Tannen is red
Vicky is gray (couldn't think of a color to match telekinesis)
Sin is yellow
Discord is dark orange
Chrysalis is Turquoise
General Stinger is lime green
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If anyone sees anymore spelling errors (yes i noticed a few im sleepy😴) pls tell me thank you
Twilight is twilight
spike is only purple
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I was thinking the celebration lasted for a few days before the Battle of Appleloosa (That's what I think we should call these events) and due to the comics she had her first royal assignment to check on Chrysalis she probably spent the whole day with the princesses to see what has been routine and status of her imprisonment and how to improve it. Or as discord would say (who I gave bonk on the head for taking my stuff *I said I was sorry!*) because plot!
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The "Battle of Appleloosa" (which is indeed the title of the brawl) basically lasts less then 1 day (evening to night) and is at the exact same time as the evens of the Season 3 show finale not only for narrative symmetry, but Twilight's ascension releases a wave of magic that is the catalyst that helps fully make Awakened Bugze form.
Also, the Doctor said the Elements were involved in a "Fixed Point in Time" explaining why Bugze doesn't just retrieve them with the TARDIS
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Ahhh ok I see your point maybe this can happen in a much later chapter
"You know... *ñam* *ñam* Now that I can see this clearly... Chrysalis had time to do anything she could wanted... She could had contact us, with changelings in the knights, even if we are the only left, surely it could had been easy. *ñam* *ñam* Yet, she use the same thing, just like in the wedding. The same moves, the same style, trying to overpower with numbers and closing everyone under a dome so that they can't escape" Commented Kichi as he was eating the popcorn and watching the offender throw many crystal projectiles.
"Wow, that is good, was that around 10 crystals per second? Or maybe more? Too bad we don't have a slow re-play but I have to say he has power and I could not want to fight him if he is like that" Say Kichi
"So, what? Are you just going to surrender and be a good guy? Or come at adventures with The Doctor? Maybe join Torchwood?" Ask someone (I leave it to whoever want)
"He have too much raw power, yet it seems he lack intelligence... I just wonder, if this power up could be enough to defeat the sisters... Anyone want to bet that he could defeat Celestia and Luna? And no... If I notice he is near, I will drop everything and leave as if I selled my soul to Discord and he was after me. Not sure if any of you guys could want to fight him..." Kichi continue eating popcorn and looking at the screen to the Offender that decided to just stop throwing the crystals and instead conjured a very big crystal mountain.
P.O.W Bugzee
"This.... This is power... I can feel it in my veins, the great power that I have... With this power I can do everything... No one could say no to me... I could even take over the Princesses, any enemy could be destroyed under my hooves... Laughed the offender as he was making a very big crystal mountain making some changelings fear to be turned into pure
"Bugzee, calm yourself... Control the power, don't let the power control you! Say Selena
"But why? Can't you see it? With this power I could do anything I want, Chrysalis could not be a rival... I could take those stupid elements, I could defeat the princesses... I.. Began to say when he was interrupted
"Wake up! Remember the important things! The Bugzee I know could not want to take over anything not even Celestia...." Say Selena as she mutter in low voice "Or at last not too much"
"But why? Surely with this power..." Begin to ask confused
"Can't you see it? You are begining to transform in what you fighted... If you let your power control you, you will be just the same as that other you in that dimension... The one that killed the elements,
the one that killed Discord, because of who there was no life in the planet. Is that what you want? Is that in who you want to transform? Ask Selena to Bugzee as the Crystal mountain began to dissapear
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"Ñam Ñam" Is Kichi eating Popcorn
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Looks like the comments are dealing with the Mini-Boss Squad (Mongo, BIff, Tannen, and Vicky), but what's a season finale without a nice big boss battle?
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CLIFFHANGER IDEA;
Chrysalis continues to rant in Yandere-mode through Sin, becoming more unhinged with ever super-changeling Awakened Bugze takes down.
After the 4 super-changelings are all down for the count, Chrysalis again tries to come on to/offer the whole "we can rule together spiel" (perhaps directly incoroporating DWC's comment). In her Yandere-induced insanity she even threatens/offers to destroy Nightshade.
This whorse needs to die. Sombra adds in to Bugze and Selena's Papa Wolf/Mama Bear reactions.
Chrysalis takes the rejection as well as any megalomaniacal yandere tyrant,
"Fine!" Chrysalis growls through Sin, "I believe the pony saying goes, if you want something done right." Sin starts to become engulfed in green flames, "You have to do it yourself!"
"My Queen!" Sin yells in pain, "My body can't handle this level of GRAAAAAAH!"
What is- Selena and Sombra both question before you quickly realize in horror,
No no no! She's overloading Sin's magic so she can fight me herself!
You rush forward at Sin only for her to let off a scream of pain that unleashes a shockwave of green fire knocking you back before it engulfs Sin completely. You hear sickening cracks as in the silhouette of the flames you see Sin's legs, horn, and wings grow larger as a long teal mane bursts out of her skull.
When the flames start to die down you see "Chrysalis" (actually Chrysalis "piloting" Sin after forcibly transforming her) standing where Sin is.
"The Queen. Has. RETURNED!" Chrysalis declares triumphantly.
*My dialogue skills still need work. Feel free to tweak and add.
A theme song huh? I have a bunch... listen to them (about 3 minutes long average) and maybe we can have a big vote with DWC and Browndog's favorites of everyone's choices?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHakl2bMQYI&index=5&list=PL12EDED4B07A3C550
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC4dlbU55aA&index=12&list=PL12EDED4B07A3C550
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4Um6okMHcE&index=18&list=PL12EDED4B07A3C550
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfAbX-Fg9N0&index=47&list=PL12EDED4B07A3C550
(More of a cliffhanger song) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cott-MKdHWA&index=65&list=PL12EDED4B07A3C550
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKmlDX92IeQ
Nightshade stares at the monitor with wide sparkling eyes. "Sombra did it!" She thought in happiness.
"Now then..." You crack your neck a couple of times by tilting it side to side. "Shall we get started?"
No one answers your question as Mongo rushes you and tries to punch your face.
*Swosh!*
It goes right by you as you simply tilt your head to the left to dodge.
Mongo flies past you while Biff and Tannen try to hit you with their respective elements. But as you did with Mongo, you lean your head back to dodge it.
"Damn! We're so much faster now!"
And those fools are just aiming for our head.
Vicky tries to catch you off guard and throws more debris at you, but you duck and dodge easily.
You're not any faster, unfortunately. In fact, you may be slower than before to compensate the massive amount of magic. But, you're able to evade easier thanks to your senses being elevated!
Then Sin tries to shoot lightning at you. You know you can't move faster than light, so you predict her shot and jump to your left to evade it.
Our senses have been increased in strength! I can't believe I'm saying this, but this feels amazing! Sombra laughs. Even more so when I... took the crystal heart.
What was that? You ask, not paying much attention to him. Even Selena was curious.
Nothing! Don't worry about it.
You chuckle out loud. "Come on! Weren't we going out together Chrysalis?" You taunt before making your dark aura expand threateningly, before turning you're smirking smile into an angry glare. "I swear to Luna Chrysalis, the next time we meet, it won't be pretty. For what you did to me!" You get into a fighting stance making Sin, or rather Chrysalis, take a step back. "And what you did to them! Hah!" You jump out towards Mongo, your claws extending a tad with a screeching sound.
The big boosted Changeling tries to kick you, but you quickly dodge and lash out with a crystal tail.
"This is going to be fun!"
jfc, sat down for 13 hours and caught up with the three hundred thousand words I was behind on since my absence -- HEK yeah do the do, every heking excite
You stop chrysalis's plans, save your frenemies, and eventually have a good ol chit chat with sombra about what's going to become of their shared conscience.
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Yeah, even Deadpool would point out the obvious similarities between Selena and Sombra if he goes good (go to 1:19 and replace "psychopath" with "reformed dark lord")
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Hahaha pretty much. While I do like the idea of Sombra as a "constant threat who's always trying to escape", it's gone on for a little long, and it's about time he's gotta make a choice whether or not he's either going to work things out peacefully or not.
So, I was gone for a long time, having left shortly after all the Crimson Knights were beaten. Stopped commenting a bit before that, I think. But now I'm back, and I've had a lot to catch up with, and with some scenes I just couldn't resist typing down my response :P So, yay, here they are! Also, nice job with the Timberwolf.
This... this is so me. "Aww, damnit, this is going to look bad on my resume."
"Oh, yep, I've been taking Greek-lessons for the last three years and will have to continue for another. Why? 'cause it'll look good on my resume."
It was a setup, I swear! I'm not one of the leaders of the Crimson Knights!
Seriously though, damn. My Timberwolf got played.
Did they just insult me?
AWW DAMNIT! If I had only come back for episode 80 already :/
Oooooh, I was involved in a secret project? Do tell~
Welp, thanks to those changeling's monologue Solarkness probably adopted the rest as his pack truly.
Got a point there, Timber-me :p
I MISSED GRANDBUGGY'S DEBUT IN PERSON? ARGH! I missed all the good stuff :/ Chrysalis' first talk with Bugze, Grandbuggy's debut...
And in episode 82 we're back to the Crimson Knights xD
Damnit, and I know a while ago I'd have had exactly that attitude in that situation, and depending on when it happens, I still might! How do you nail my personality so well???
Oh my god, I love how everyone's like "Yep, we were only generals because there was noone else and some people knew they could pull our strings."
Okay, perhaps Timber-me snarks more. It's still pretty close! And I did snark a lot for a while...
Timber-me is an asshole xD
On the author-note of episode 82... THERE WAS AN ART-CONTEST??? Sorry to hear there were no entries at that point in time :/
Oh come on! With a name like that, it sounds like something you'd actually want
I just... I love Episode 84. Brown Dog, let me thank you for taking one for the team there xD
Holy crap, Timberwolves get vine-control? And here I was, the reason I originally brought in the Windigo-underling being to have them mix their energies as temporary power-up. Neat.
And they didn't even use Erised's strategy of switching!
I honestly can't disagree with that sentence. I mean, heck, remember what they did in the Otherworld! They're all insane!
The scars Bugze receives never do...
Correction: It wasn't how you operated!
Noooo! Not the expendable Knight who isn't there to write! Heh, sure would be useful to have more wood so he could ditch his legs for new ones.
And with that, he has
earned his everdying loyalty.Probably depends on whether his pack comes with.Okay, I'm caught up. Quick question Brown Dog, is Flourite (the Windigo) still alive? I mean, the Tantabus seems beaten for good, but Flourite might not be.
To be honest, I thought about the time of my return, and I couldn't come up with any poetic comparisons. I mean, it's kinda cool that I came back during the Finale, but there's nothing really reminding of traditional returns besides that, so I guess that one's a bust. And I'd have loved to put down a poetic one-liner...
Well, that done, I think my actual contribution will fall out disappointingly small, pretty much negligible compared to all the useless stuff I put into my comment, but I guess that's just to be expected of a Timberwolf using a typewriter. Should have used a monkey.
Anyway, it's good to be back. I promise I won't fill the comment-section with trash like this comment again^^
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"How serious of a fight, and how much wood do I get?" asked Solarkness, cocking his head in response to Kichi's question. He was clawing at his left paw, causing a few splinters to break off. He quickly added, "And is fire allowed?"
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“Again...” Erised mutters. He scowls. “It’s happening again!”
Grey frowns in kind, nodding. “I see it. This time, up to eleven.”
“What are you two talking about?” Changer asks. “What’s happening again?”
The grey-brown pony tightens his grip on a broom, treated as a walking stick, glaring at the epic battle occurring before him. “The same fight we were beaten in. Puppet versus puppet…”
“Master versus master,” Erised finishs grimly.
Processing this, Changer blinks in understanding. “Nightmare Moon and the Hooded Offender, and Chrysalis and her Chosen.” He snaps back to the scene. “Talk about a fitting scenario.”
“I still doubt they’ll be saved though. It’s just too unlikely.” The blooded changeling sneers. “Save them by beating them to submission? Even that’s far fetched.”
“I don’t shnow about thash~” A voice interjects across them.
Grey gives sidelong glance in a poor practice of acknowledgement before looking back at the fight. “Browndog.” Even Erised frowns at the new company.
Unfortunately for the two, Browndog pulls the two together in a tight group hug, of which the sociopaths wince from their aggravated injuries. The accursed dog is too drunk to care. The alcohol and blood loss is getting to him. “Y’knowsh~ If it weren’t him beaaating sha puppiesh out of shya, we’d all be bug foo foosh~! But whash are we noows!?”
“Wesh are a big happfshy Shamaly!” Snap Drake bellows, and everyone winces.
“Shut up, you two! You’re not making any sense anymore,” Solarkness growls, of which Browndog responds with a playful squeeze of his captives.
“Urf! And I’m wounded!” Grey snarls at him, but too weak to resist.
Erised scoffs. “We’re wounded.”
“Bish Sappy Famine Leaves!” Squeeze.
“AAaaargh!”
“I art thou, and thou art I.”
Deja vu. After numerous battles to reach up to this point, there is a serenity to this dance, as though you’ve done it before. Even as the Chosens surrounds you. Even as they glow with magic. Even as they shot you with a torrent of elements...you smile, and your body blurs to the sky.
The streets erupt in a salad of ash, lightning, and ice. It bubbles, twists, and expands right before your eyes as you seemingly float along its explosive wind, wings and tails outward like an archangel enchanted by the sun.
“Raaaaaaugh!” A chilling roar, and the tip of the bubble pops as Mongo catapults towards you aglow by Vicky’s telekinesis as his wings roars like a chainsaw.
Air bends around you, tails strokes forward and then behind, and your floating turns into a piledrive! Your magical barrier up—and Mongo collapses as you impact his belly.
“Would you kindly buuuuuuurn!” The rushing wind feeds the flaming shield as you glow hot, tails grabbing Mongo by all four hooves. You both had nowhere but down as you plummeted into your ascended Meteor Impact. “High Noon Meteorite!”
Chitin met sand—which turned to ash, and a tidal wave of flame swarms Appaloosa in a fiery earthquake. The buildings trembles, the skies screams, and the Chosen flies—like bugs shaken in their cage as they swam in fire.
The groan in the pool of ash is all the warning you have before Mongo bursts out from it with a head butt across your chest!
Ash flies everywhere, but you latch on fast with you wings and swing out...and then back in with a buck to the giant’s face and let go at the last minute! The shock wave scatters the ashe even further, and Mongo flew, joining his comrades in the burning woods of Appaloosa's remains.
A brief buzz licks your ears, and instinct has you flipping backwards, just in time for a glowing bolt of ice to phase by. It finishes off a broken house with a rupture of ice of the same size. You whip a crystal-inforced tail to catch a fire bolt to the side. They get lucky. A mound of ash collapses beneath your hooves, and you miss.
“Aaargh!”
“Thou who bears the wrath of the Wheel of Fortune…”
The intense heat bombs your side, and you find yourself careening about, bouncing, but then hopping, and then skipping until you stride into a run as your tails foxily flutter behind. You arc around where the magic came from, and screech.
A horrific sound resonates across the charred landscape as a wave of eldritch darkness shoots towards what at first seems to be an empty field. But Biff and Tannen’s clever Heat Mirage, taking advantage of the heat you caused, disperses.
They’re forced to erect walls of ice and fire, which crumbles and flickers upon contact. They ran off just before their defense collapses, and buzz into the air as your Nightmare Screech chases after. They respond with shots of their own as they fly over you. But then they stop, and glow in the fading daylight, like early stars.
Your eyes widen. A scene flickers in your mind: You and a shadow. A Nightmare. A Ship in Space. A rain of fire.
Familiar.
You immediately dive through a wall and into a taller building compared to the rest. Erecting a barrier, you wrap yourself in tails and crystal wings, and with a smooth swish, morph into a crystalline ball—An Absolute Defense. But despite all the preparation, the heat and cold bit your chitin as everything around you is completely and utterly annihilated.
There is a flash of light. And, like drilling a ceramic jar, your crystal tails gives way to an unstoppable force.
“Bugze!”
“Impossible!”
“Aaaarrgg—haaa!” Beyond the agonizing torrent of pain and the smell of burning flesh, there’s an inane chirping of birds in sync with both. “Hak—grr….!”
For the split second when you peer past your tail, cold steel meets burning iron. Sin’s eyes of a loyal soldier and a dying queen, and yours of two darknesses seething with resolve. Her battered hoof supports the other, which is bright with light, chirping with electrical energy intensely and insanely confined into a single point—a Chidori.
And with it, before crystal bending stops her short, she barely scratches your chest. At the exact place where you rip off the piece of the Changeling Throne and barely missing...
“...whose heart is anchored by darkness of mind and matter, dream and reality...”
...your heart. The very one that Chrysalis saved you with, that Canterlot Wedding over a year ago.
Healing and burning, healing and burning, healing and burning—you clap your tails forward, but Sin wretches her Chidori out, and your tails falter as she leaps out, electricity trailing her hooves as she shot out a roaring cannon of yellow. Heaving a breath, you retaliate...
By pointing your Nightmare Power Glove to the ground! “Would you kindly freeze?!”
A massive rose of pure ice curls up and ruthlessly spikes just in time for Mongo to crash into it like a bellowing hornet. You grapple him, and the electric cannon ball hits your new meat shield.
Throwing him away, your tail whips out the Second Law and Staff and you jump up before an entire house is thrown your way courtesy of Vicky. Landing, you hop yet again to the sound of great balls of fire and ice from above.
Sin doesn’t play, though. She strikes like lightning itself. Coated in a thick miasma of electricity, as if in one step, actually multiple in an instant, she appears right above your head, her Chidori poised high to slice through your neck.
“...have fought ruthlessly against a tampered game.”
Your green eye shines, and shadow crystals explosively expand from beneath your hoove and springs you toward her. Your crystal wings slam into her belly, interrupting her deadly blow. A whack of you darkness infused staff sends her rocketing to the ground, digging an ashy trench. The shockwave cracks the crystal beneath your hooves.
It doesn’t stop there.
From your crystal tower. You point Second Law towards her struggling form. Shadows seep from the tail, along the barrel, and then into the tip. When the gun is fully encased in darkness, you pull the trigger. A sickly ball of pressurized force shoots out. Your aim isn’t true. It doesn't need to. Instead, it pulses and then explodes, decimating the nearby buildings.
Mongo flies at you. Now he’s falls withering towards the ground. Vicky is next, and she barely pulls up an amazingly thick barrier or broken wood before violently tumbling back from the shock. At the Twins—you stop.
In one of their hooves, a ball of swirling ice lights up like a dim star, making a mad dive towards you. You can sense the immense energy welled up inside, using similar principles as Sin’s Chidori. Without a doubt, it’s a ice variant of a Rasengan. Shooting and interrupting isn’t a good idea if it’ll hurt them.
No choice: You leap off your makeshift platform.
You wince as they brazenly give chance, so you speed up with a burst of air bending—but you are about to when a shot of thunder unexpectedly strikes you from below. The sudden force has you flailing about uselessly in the air, which is enough for the ice Twin to meet you dead on.
The air goes absolute zero and your entire body stop moving suddenly.
Cold, bitter, hollow, and lonesome is the most eloquent you can describe it after feeling a sense of weightlessness and then a thud. You hit the ground, frozen solid. You wreath and struggle, your hooves, wings and tails jerking to and fro as their immense strength causes fissures along the glacier art you’ve become.
The Chosen is having none of it. The fire twin casts fire along the cracks, melting the ice only for the water to refreeze itself from its own coldness and heal the cracks as the other twin continues to reinforce the glacier’s shell with more ice. The ice glows. You understand why the moment you feel an unbearable pressure against your entire body as Vicky makes the ball thinner yet immensely denser.
Sin steps up, yet, she’s not herself at the same time.
“You should’ve taken account of Sin’s speed.” The Changeling Queen’s voice somehow reaches you through the ice as she speaks through Sin’s body.. “While the other Chosen are well bred for their abilities, Sin is a special project of mine. Out of them all, she’s the fastest and bears the greatest instakill potential. Sudden like lightning—a true changeling assassin! She is perfect.”
The most you can do is wiggle around the ice, but with a few more seconds, you can easily break free!
“From Master to Puppet...fester thy rebellion.”
Unfortunately, you don’t have seconds.
She brings something out.
In Sin’s hoof, is a bright metal piece that you can’t help but feel the chills from. That familiar killing intent...the scar in your chest itch. You can sense it: there’s Orichalcum tempered inside the alloy. “I never thought I needed to use my trump card so soon,” Chrysalis says. “Be honored, for you are the first to test a power that can kill an alicorn!”
For a moment, you can see Sin’s eyes flicker in hesitation. But that’s all you see as Chrysalis assumes absolute control, replacing them with maniacal determination. That, too, is familiar. Nightmare Bugze shares those same eyes.
Daintily, she lines up the metal piece to her eye. She crackles with energy for a moment, a second, a third...and surged.“Goodbye.”
A flash and the crack of thunder. Like a shooting star across a hazy evening, the bullet parts away the ash and closes the distance instantly, piercing through the ice as if it is paper. That’s it. The inside of the glacier where you are blurs from the sudden intake of heat, and your struggling ceases.
Silence.
Just like a true assassination Sin is engineered for.
“From Puppet to Master…choose thy destiny”
“GOD RA MU!”
A Shout borrowed from a frightful past...and possible future.
And the gods responds to your call as a crack of thunder. The Chosen tenses. The air went still. And everyone goes blind from immense light as a thunderbolt cracks the skies!
Booooom!
The bulge of hyper-condensed ice...pops like a bubble. The Chosen cover their eyes with their hooves from the resulting explosion of water vapor.
The cracking of ice along your hide as you stand up, the twirling vapors from your beastly maw as you exhale—something drops out and lands on your hooves, and the fierce glow of blue and green of each of your eyes as you glare…You can feel their emotions right now, as a symbol on your chest glows—that isn’t what phases them.
Not a sign of damage, after putting their very all against you—that’s not what phases them either.
You extend out a hoof, face it down, and drop what you’ve been holding. Sin’s trump card pathetically hits the ash.
“I-impossible...Impossible!” Chrysalis’s voice pierces through the battlefield. “He actually bit the bullet?!”
It’s only when she say those words that they know they can’t win.
“For you truly are a Fool.”
“No more,” you say. “I’m done running away. It ends now.”
“...end it? Don’t make me laugh!” Chrysalis snarls. “After how far we’ve gotten, I won’t let it! Don’t dare make the decisions when you just betray yourself and your own kind!”
“Yeah? And I’m done being the subservient puppet. And so are they.” You nod your head at the Chosen, worn and battered, yet their eyes are glazed all over as though they’re not standing of their own free will. “Don’t you get it? It’s just you throwing the punches now. You’re the only one who’s willing to fight anymore. Get off your high horse. It’s over.”
As one, the Chosen sneers, a reflection of Chrysalis’s feelings. “Do try to take the thrown from me. You’re just one changeling.”
You sigh and shake your head. “You’re wrong. I’m not alone. And I don’t need to take it away from you, either.” Suddenly, you disappear by a flash of your horn. Chrysalis can only gasp as you teleport right in front of her. “You’ve already given me a piece of it.” You rear back a hoof, and you swear, in the reflection of Sin’s eyes, there’s a King and Queen right behind you. “Grit those teeth. Shadow Falcon Punch!”
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This is freaking AWESOME! Seriously I thought we'd never be able to do a persona 5 reference since we did a Shadow in season 2, but this is just awesome!
We need a awaking scene now! I would write but, I uh suck at it hehehehehe. I will, however leave this music to help inspire someone to write it.
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Besides the fact that Persona 5 (especially its music and memes) have ruled my life right now, the reference to the Season 2 finale was the idea.
Also, find help. I've spent several hours straight writing this while listening to a playlist of Persona 5's OSTs. I keep hearing them in my head now.
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YOU NEVER SEE IT COOMMING~
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DAMN IT! DOES THIS MEAN MY HEART WAS STOLEN THIS ENTIRE TIME?!
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Yes! Your treasure was...a golden mop. Strange but hey, what can you do. Now feel the change of heart happen in about...eh 5 to 4 days. Was kinda cutting it with the deadline
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>.>
May as well work on those personality stats along the way.
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Ugh *shivers* don't even remind me of those. Freaking knowledge took forever to level up. Even on rainy days, which is the most opportune time to work on that one!
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BY FAUST... YOU'RE A GENIUS!! You integrated the two most used moves in the Naruto series into the story and used them perfectly against bugze. (who also uses a Naruto ability which has been obvious from the start) The dialogue was great, the build up AMAZING , the pay off beautiful, and the references towards season 2 SENSATIONAL OW!!. 10\10!! . Also the part where he drops the Orichalcum bullet (that's a thing now) " You extend out a hoof, face it down, and drop what you’ve been holding. Sin’s trump card pathetically hits the ash. " was the best part. IT'S LITERALLY THIS MOMENT FROM AN AWESOME DISNEY SHOW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIl8WDUA4Jc&t=22s You have made my #1 favorite comment in this season. P.s perhaps bugze could crush it in his claw?
"Bugze!" Selena says from inside your head while you fend off another round of blows and prepare to counterattack.
"Little busy here Selly!" you yell before punching into the ground, causing massive onyx spikes to erupt in a gaint AoE. "Geode Graveyard!"
Each of the Chosen get slammed in the gut by the blunt edges of the onyx columns and sent flying. But they recover just as quickly, and begin zigzaging through the newly formed pillars to reach you.
"I can see that, but I don't think simply pummeling them senseless will be enough to break that strumpet queen's hold on them. If I may, I'd like to try something. Get me close to the blonde one!"
"Um, alright!" you spot Vicky about to reach you first, hovering over the network of columns in her telekinetic sphere. "Get over here!" you yell as all four of your tails stretch out to grab her. You drag her close to you as liquid gemstones start dripping from your chest wound and begin to coat her."Crystal Crypt!"
Now that the telemancer is encased in solid Crystal up to her muzzle, you tell Selena, "Okay, whatever you're going to do, do it fast." Meanwhile you erect a barrier to keep the other four out for a few moments.
"Time for a classic." Selena says, "Assuming direct control!"
You wait for a second as you start to hear the rest chipping away your defenses outside your little diamond dome.
"Well?"
"... GUAAAAA-AHHHH!!!"
"Selena!"
"I can't get in." Selena gasps, and your vision gets fuzzy for a moment. "Chrysalis' hold on them is too tight. I felt like I was going to die in there."
"Feh, never take a yandere so lightly." Sombra mutters.
Just then Vicky breaks free from your prison with a giant telekinetic pulse that showers you with your own crystals, before releasing another, even bigger one that ruptures your defensive bubble and send you flying, just as the rest of the Chosen descend.
"Whelp, I guess it's back to punching!"
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As your nightmare enshrouded hoof makes contact with Sin's skull, a sickening *CRACK!* rings out through the ruins of what was once Appleoosa.
The rest of the hive Chosen attempt to pounce you. But with your speed, and their bodies finally breaking under the strain of the power inside them, they can't avoid your strikes either.
Four more skull-splitting cracks echo out.
"Enough... is... enough." you pant as your Nightmare cloak reduces down to three tails. The friends inside your head won't be around to maintain your lucidity with the job you have in mind, and with the state the Chosen are in, you don't have much time.
Now that they're unconscious, you can see how much pain they're in. Their breathing in coarse, glowing green cracks are spreading throughout their chitin, and even knocked out their bodies are wracked with painfilled convulsions.
"Selena, Sombra. I need your help to wrestle control of these five away from Chrysalis."
"Bugzy, are you certain this will work?" Selena asks hesitantly. "Their bodies might be weakened, but their fanatic devotion is still intact."
"We have to try." You tell them both. "We have to."
"I have a bad feeling about this." Sombra mutters.
"Assuming direct control!"
As soon as she says this, you feel sleep overtake you, and you fall to the ground before the unconscious bodies of the Chosen.
~Within the Dreamscape~
You find yourself in a network of caves, not unlike the cave systems you grew up in at the Hive. But this is definitely the dream realm, you can feel it. You're no longer in your Nightmare form. You aren't even in your Nobody cloak. You're just Bugze.
"Selena?! Hello? Sombra? Anyling?!" you call out as you start galloping down the tunnels.
Soon enough you spill out into a nearly shot for shot remake of the Queen's chamber from your old Hive, only now it's a giant floating platform suspended above a yawning void of pure darkness, accessible only by a narrow walkway of floating stones. At the center of the chamber you spot the figures of the Chosen, each adorned in full ceremonial battle gear, kneeling before their queen. And the Queen...
Chrysalis sits above them on her throne, casually slouched over, eyeing them each like a child would look over their favorite set of toys.
"Bugze!" you hear Selena call back, though she seems far away. "The conviction of these Chosen is too strong. We can't even get close! Try to push through on your side; we will keep trying on ours!"
Normally you'd stutter, trying to think of what to do. But Sin and the others don't have much time left. You need to do something, and fast.
"Who dares to approach the Queen?!" Sin shouts as you march towards the throne, she and the other chosen taking combat stances.
"At ease." Chrysalis says, waving her hoof slowly before turning to you. "Well well, @#$%&... have you finally decided to stop playing traitor and join me, as you always should have? As I always wanted."
"No." you say blankly, "I'm not here to follow you and I never will. And neither should any of you!" you turn to your former hivemates. "Sin, Biff, Tannen, Vicky, Mongo, you don't have to follow her! I've tried beating this fact into your heads every which way I can think of. For Buck's sake, why do you still listen to her?! After everything she's done?!"
"Because they understand they are a part of something greater than themselves," Chrysalis says as she floats toward you, "and because of this they are loyal to me."
"You are not greater than them." you snarl.
"The Queen does all in her power to ensure the survival of our race." Sin says like she's reading it off a well-learned script. "The Queen is our only salvation; there is nothing else."
"Stop it!" you yell, grabbing Sin by the straps of her armor. "If that were true then she would have tried diplomacy over invasion at Canterlot. If that were true she wouldn't have risked everything to get revenge on Twilight and her friends! If that were true she wouldn't be sacrificing you to get revenge on me! She doesn't care about you- She doesn't even care about the Hive! We're just tools and toys to her. Buck me, I feel like a broken record right now. I've said this over and over and some part of you must realize it's true!"
For a moment you see Sin's expression falter. "I..."
"Bugze..." Selena's voice reaches you. "I'm starting to see some cracks in their link, keep doing whatever it is you're doing!"
"All of you." you say, looking at your former hivemates, "Maybe you can't imagine a life without Chrysalis leading you. But all I'm asking is that you try! It has to be better than what she's asking of you now! Anything has to be better than dying in vain!" you shout, emotion gripping you like you're holding onto each of them now.
The chosen finally break their monotonous stares and actually look pensive for a moment. In the background you can see Selena and Sombra breaking through. It's working! It's-
Suddenly a wave of sickly green magic washes over them, filling their eyes with it's glow and causing cracks to from on their mental selves.
"NO!" you cry as your efforts are overwritten.
"What could be better than dying to serve your Queen?" Chrysalis asks, syrupy venom dripping from every word.
"Let. Them. Go." you seethe back as she approaches.
Chrysalis just smiles wider, apparently not having heard you. "I always admired you @#$%&. I could see that you weren't like the other nymphs... you were special. I wanted you more than anything." she stands up and begins walking toward you. "You were so timid around me when I first approached you. But now, after all that I've done to reclaim you, why will you not come back to me... to serve your Queen, @#$%&? To be with your lover?"
You feel your shell crawl at that word. But you know the answer. "Because I'm not that changeling anymore. You killed him at Canterlot because he showed mercy to a poor captive mare who'd just had everything taken from her on her wedding day."
"I brought you back to life." Chrysalis grits her teeth.
"No. You brought ME to life. But the changeling drone that saw any kind of goodness in you is gone forever, and you only have yourself to blame!" You jab a hoof into Chrysalis' chest, feeling the whole dreamscape ripple as you do. "You're evil, manipulative, cruel, petty, ruthless, selfish, and a terrible ruler!"
With each scathing insult you jab your hoof more firmly into her chest, making the dreamscape shake and crumble. "But most of all... I fell sorry for you."
Chrysalis stops shaking in rage and just stares for a moment. "Excuse you?"
"I feel sorry for you." you repeat, "Because when you look at someling else, all you see is something to exploit for your own gain.
"I hate you for everything you've done. And yet... I feel sorry for you, because you'll never know love, or friendship.
"But as bad as I feel for you. I feel worse for anyling that has to be your slave. Goodbye, Chrysalis."
Chrysalis screams at you as you begin to walk away. but you don't turn to listen. The Chosen are all gone, having winked out one by one as you ranted at Chrysalis. The dreamscape is literally fizzling out of existence around you. Ahead of you, you see Selena waiting for you with an outstretched hoof, and even Sombra isn't scowling at you for once. You take her hoof and close your eyes, and everything fades to white.
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(Oh damn. This went way out of left field there. Sorry. Uhh... If this conflicts too much with the ending, go ahead and disregard.) (See you next chapter!)
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Nice, but remember that as part of Awakened Bugze, Sombra is fighting ALONGSIDE you and Selena. Don't forget to give him lines to say.
Although doesn't it seem a bit late to be posting such long comments? At this rate the next chapter will be out in 2018
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I was late for the Season 2 finale and I am for the third. I'm always late.
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Alright. I need to step up my commenting. That was some good writing.
During the Fight
Shove your hoof into the ground, causing a pillar of crystal to rush out of the ground and launch Mongo into the air. You then use one of your tails, wrap it around him midair, then slam him to the ground behind you then over and in front of you.
Our power is more fluid, more attainable.
That is because I don’t resist you worthless whorse Sombra chides.
Oi! Cut it with the name calling! If you’re helping, you’ll treat her with respect.
Just because I lend you my aid, doesn’t mean I respect either of you, you filthy insect. If I did, I wouldn’t have overwhelmed your psyche last week.
You miserable little- Selena begins to growl.
Yes, I know. And we’ll all talk about this later. But this is my body, and MY Rules. You will be Civil to Selena.
Whatever, finish these cretins so that my little overlord won’t cry anymore…
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When speaking to the Hive Five In the Mindscape.
To Biff and Tannen.
“Biff, Tannen. I was an only child. I have no idea what it means to have a brother. But I do know this. Family is everything. Your bonds are much closer than some, and because of that, that need for protection and unity is even higher. After what I did, you both hated what I had done to the other. I know you two don’t want to condemn the other to die. They say brothers are to the end, but this doesn’t have to be your end.”
To Vicky
“Vicky. We all know that looks aren’t everything, it’s what inside that counts. You’ve been told you were rotten for so long, that you’ve believed it yourself. But I know you care about Mongo and the rest more than you let on. All of your anger you’ve directed, it’s been about how much I’ve hurt them, and your own pain…your own handicaps are secondary. You aren’t rotten to the core Vicky, there’s still love and care inside you, and you don’t want that to die.”
To Mongo.
“Mongo. You’ve used your size for so long, you don’t know any other way. You are strong, so you’ve been strong. But strength doesn’t just mean putting down those weaker than you. True strength comes from knowing when to call it quits, when to run, and when to call for help. I know that thanks to me you can no longer speak, but your actions speak louder than words ever could. I know you’re scared, I know that you want to survive, so that you can protect what you care for. Show true strength Mongo, and live.”
To Sin
“Sin. You were always the lackey, always the one trying to prove herself with Chrysalis, even before she became queen. You wore the mask for so long, you became the mask. When it was all taken away, you sought out anything or anyling that could bring you comfort. You found me. You shadowed me, and yet you never came out, because you were afraid. Because you knew you had done wrong in the past. You felt your sins crawling on your back, and you faced them, despite what everyling else said. You still want to make amends Sin. To cast aside the stabbing heat of the cinnamon, and be the sweet sugar in your name. You don’t have to end it here Sin. We know your true face, and you don’t have to prove anything. So please, let the mask go…”
To All of them.
“The past was terrible for me. It wasn’t just you, it was others. The pain and torment I faced, I can never forget, but I can forgive it. Hatred breeds more hatred. One event, begets the next. I know this better than anyling. Because of my hatred, I led you to this river desperation. But someling’s gotta stop the flow…” 0
After a large magic use/ Huge Attack. These can be in any order, choose what you think is the best order Brown Dog.
A fork was dropped at the dinner table. It was silent.
Someone else also sat at the dinner table with the one who dropped the fork. She too was silent as she sat.
Celestia looked down at her fork. Some of the cake she was about to put in her mouth was still on it, now messy. "What was that?" She asked herself.
Luna felt the same thing her sister did, but for her, it was almost tripled. She shivered.
They didn't know what happened, but they had a small feeling something big was happening.
They looked at each other with confused looks.
"Did you feel something?" Luna asked.
Celestia nodded.
Once again, they felt it again.
Luna shivered.
"Oh!" Celestia got up from her seat and walked up to a nearby window, it's curtains flowing because of the harsh winds entering. "I didn't know it was supposed to be a windy day today."
"Neither did I," Luna said. "But sister, I have an important question."
The Sun Princess turned her head to her little sister. "Is it about Twilight?"
Luna nodded. "Do you really think she's ready? I'm not one to doubt her skills but... it is a hard role to play."
"Then it will be another challenge she will overcome. There's no need to worry my dear sister." Celestia replied. "Now I'm thinking of getting some nice warm tea. That cold wind really stopped my hunger for ice cream cake."
"Then let us drink tea," Luna said before standing up herself.
Zecora stepped out of her hut. She looked up to the skies and wondered to herself. "This is not normal. Something must be happening. I am more mentally trained to ignore what I just felt." (Put this into rhyming. I'm so bad at rhyming.)
Sweetie Belle was practicing with her magic in front of the CMC clubhouse, the other two members of the CMC and Spike relaxing under their clubhouse.
Spike was currently making spitting fire that looked like animals and other things for Scootaloo and Apple Bloom to enjoy when suddenly he started to choke on air. Sweetie Belle's horn sparked with magic and she dropped a rock she was levitating because of the loss of control and stood silent.
The atmosphere was different.
And they couldn't tell what it was.
"You all doing alright?" A depressed voice said.
They all snapped their heads at the pink pony with a flat mane. They didn't respond.
"That's great." Pinkie said, continuing with some... wooden planks? Before Twilight comes, tells all of them 'hi' quickly and immediately leaves.
At the Twin's Spa, the two twins were working together. But Lotus Blossom couldn't help but stare at Aloe, who was staring at one of the bath tubs.
"Something the matter?" She asked.
"I... don't know. Doesn't the water seem off to you?"
At Vinyl and Octavia's studio they were just playing well with Bon Bon Lyra and Crackle relaxing and listening—in reality, they were doing Horde stuff—but now the two music players couldn't get in tune causing everyone to stay silent.
Even the rest of the people he put in prison after claiming or failing to claim their bounty felt something... off. But before they questioned it they either shrugged it off or something distracted them.
In the Crystal Empire, Shining and Cadence stared wide-eyed at the Crystal Heart. It was spinning rapidly and shining brightly.
"What does this mean?" Shining asked, Cadence having the same question.
All the while, Flash Sentry was standing next to them quietly, thinking deeply about something.
(This of course is optional.)
In a deep alley, a... creature with four legs and two red arms in a cloak was resting.
He suddenly looked up and smiled deviously. He didn't speak, nor make a sound. But he recognized what he felt. Unlike ponies, he is different. Instead of getting a sense of magic, this being can actually feel it. And it was only a matter of time until he started to enact his plans.
In a hotel at Applewood, Garble was hiding under the hotel bed like a foal hiding from the monster in a closet. And the worst part is, he didn't even know why!
He was just using the bathroom and when he walked out, he felt an odd sensation flow over him suddenly.
Sapphire shores was just going on with the last few moments of her day, and something was wrong. Really wrong.
No matter what she did, she couldn't bring herself to sing a line. Something just... stopped her from doing so. She couldn't even hum a tune. "Maybe I should stop planning revenge on The Offender over nights. Yeah, the lack of sleep is killing me."
Trixie, who was still unconscious, whispered one name. "...Hoody." No one was there to hear it.
Cheerilee was simply trying to grade the latest tests, she was currently on Diamond Tiara's. But when she moved on to the next question to see if it was correct she just stared at it. After staring at it for a while she sighed and got up. "I need a coffee."
(If there's anything else I can come up with before the chapter gets uploaded I'll add it.)
"I think it's time..."
You bring your hoof up.
"To finally end this." Your left eye glows red as dark flames appear on your hoof. You launch yourself upwards with your tails and go high in the sky. You reel your hoof back...
And then punch.
"Fearful Nightmare Punch!"
It wasn't a regular punch. This punch was launched as a shadow projectile in the form of your hoof with a combination of Selena's midnight magic and Sombra's dark flames right towards the Hive Five.