Rainbow stared around at her surroundings as she glided through the portal, fanning her wings to maintain height as it closed behind her. Far below her, a sea of molten rock sprayed spouts of lava into the air on occasion, with strange creatures swimming within it. Spike towers dotted the sea, rising out of the lava as though desperately seeking to pierce the roiling clouds and escape to the crimson sky. Lightning flashed repeatedly in the distance, the thunderous booms left in their wake echoing off the towers in fell howls, mingled with the cries of the creatures desperately struggling to survive.
...on the plus side, the updrafts were seriously choice!
Rainbow glided through the landscape, spilling air every so often to keep from getting too high, while doing her best to stay high enough she didn't end up roasted. As she flew, she eventually caught sight of something different in the landscape. In the far distance, a crimson four-armed giant towered over the landscape, staring straight at her. Frowning, Rainbow made her way towards the figure, assuming this was the one she was supposed to be meeting.
As she got closer, the creature began to chuckle, an awful sound that echoed across the dead lands around them and made the very lava shiver. "So, you are the one he sent here," he stated, his voice seething with barely suppressed fury. "I am Mehrunes Dagon, and I reign here supreme!"
"Says the one doing Discord's dirty work!" Rainbow taunted, refusing to allow herself to show the fear she was feeling.
Dagon snarled angrily. "Oaths or no, the day will come when I take back that which was stolen from and denied to me," he growled, the intensity of his voice causing a nearby spike tower to crumble.
"Blah, blah, blah!" Rainbow teased, pushing every button she could to hide her own terror. "Are we gonna fight or what?"
Dagon blinked at her, then burst into wicked laughter that sent a shiver up her spine. "You, fight me? I could crush you like an insect without even trying. No, your trial here will be quite simple." He held up his two lower hands, closed tight. "In my right hand, I hold the artifact you are here for. In my left, I hold...something else. When I open my hands, you will have to choose which you seek to retrieve, for even as fast as you are you will only have time to retrieve one before my fists descend, crushing that which I hold so it can never be retrieved."
Rainbow snorted, amused. "You really think you can have anything that would make me betray my friends?" she barked out in defiance, idly gliding towards his right hand. "It was in Discord's rules. We all gotta win here, or we all lose!"
"Indeed," Dagon confirmed. "In that case, this should be a very simple choice for you." Slowly, he opened his hands.
In his right hand, something glittered in the colors of metal. But in his left, a small form in dark orange and purple cried out, "Rainbow Dash! Help!"
Rainbow went pale. She knew that voice. "Scootaloo!" she screamed out in terror. Without even thinking about it, she blurred for the left hand.
Dagon smirked as his fists came down. Before Rainbow could correct the distance she'd shifted away, both hands had come down. Scootaloo's last scream echoed in her ears. "Scoot, no!" she cried out, banging on Dagon's fist with her forelegs.
Dagon burst into laughter. "Well, well, well...betrayed your friends for the little one, and in your eagerness you betrayed her by not waiting to understand the stakes. Truly, you belong here-"
"Shut up!" Rainbow roared, shooting straight up and uppercutting Dagon on the point of his chin hard enough to snap his head back. "Give her back!" Sweeping around, she slammed hard into his eye.
With a roar of pain, Dagon brought his hand up to clutch his eye as the pressure of the blow caused it to pop like a balloon.
"Give her back!" Rainbow wailed, diving straight down and ripping through Dagon's loin armor to slam into his crotch as she passed, going dangerously close to the lava.
Dagon bent over to clutch at the fork of his legs, beginning to wonder if he'd made a mistake.
"Give her back!" Rainbow screamed shrilly, using the heat of the lava to shoot straight up, flipping Dagon end over end as she shot into the sky.
Dagon clutched at his head as he landed on his back in the magma. He paused, realizing the artifact - which hadn't been destroyed - had somehow gone missing. A thunderous boom that wasn't thunder caught his attention, dragging his eyes upward to a rainbow that was endlessly arcing outwards and tearing his sky apart. "What the-"
"GIVE! HER! BACK!" The scream cut the air like a banshee's wail, defying physics as it reached his ears long before the rainbow streak that blazed towards his skull at hypersonic speeds. With all the force of the Sonic Rainboom, Rainbow slammed Mehrunus' Razor into his own skull.
The power of the Rainboom supercharged the artifact...and Mehrunes Dagon, the Prince of Destruction, lay dead in the lava of his own domain as his own dagger claimed his soul. The shockwave of his death echoed across his realm, and the molten rock slowed, cooled, and went still.
Jerking the small dagger back out, Rainbow flapped over to Dagon's still left hands...and found nothing. "Scoot..." she whimpered softly, tears in her eyes. "Give...give her back..." She slumped down onto the now cold stone.
"So do you think Rainbow and the others will be here soon?"
Rainbow's head jerked up as she heard that voice. "S-Scoot?" Spinning towards the source, she saw a shimmering disc of light.
"Oh, I'm sure they will," Discord's voice echoed through the portal. "Don't tell the Daedra this, but I've stacked things against them in who went where. It's just so much more fun that way." Three familiar giggles followed that statement.
In desperate hope, Rainbow flapped her way into the disc of light...
And this kids, is why you don't play with other people's emotions. It never ends well.
Yes, yes he did make a major mistake.
Methinks Scootaloo will find herself with a hovering Dashie for long enough that she'll get sick of the attention, especially if Rainbow stops her from doing any stunts on her scooter because they might be dangerous.
And is it wrong I now want a mod that makes the Razor rainbow colored and with Dash's Cutie Mark instead of the Daedric O????
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Rainbow Razor
This Daedric Artifact has been altered by the power of the Sonic Rainboom. Damage is calculated from your combined attack and speed stats, and the percentage of insta-kill hits (base 1%) increases based on how fast you are moving when you attack with it. As such, it works best with speed builds and light armor.
so basically is you're moving at mach 10 you instakill 100% of the time with the rainbow razor?
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No. It's feet per second that increases percent.
So, at five feet per second, it's 6% (5 bonus).
So, 100% is at 67.5 mph, So it's the ultimate drive by weapon.
Even Dagon isn't immune to his own Razor.
The ultimate "BOOM BITCH!" more specifically a Rainboom has taken place.
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Warning profanity
Well, underestimating your enemy can quickly lead to your own demise. Dagon learned the hard way. At least he won't have to experience his embarrassment... if you could count death as a win in this situation.
So that is two relms currently held by best ponies
7931911 One is held by Twi.
Which one's got the other?
Guess Rainbow beat him by a Razor's edge there.
That's a seriously low blow Dagon, good thing Rainbow went lower.
Hopefully by the end of the trials Rainbow would have cooled off.
why can i imaging pinkie pie doing a double spit take along with the other daedras upon news dashie is now a daedric prince
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Thus at Mach 10 it's more like a billionty% and your target gets triple dead their corpse explodes and you steal their soul which ends up in a rainbow soul gem.
7931963 Rainbow Dash, by defeating Dagon in fair combat and destroying him she now has a legitimate claim to the relm
FUCK YOU DAGON! THAT WAS A MAJOR MISTAKE AND SOMETHING ONLY A COWARD WOULD EVEN THINK OF DOING!!!!
Rainbow Dash just killed what amounts to a Demi-God.
Also, that moment you realise that there is an imbalance of forces now.
There's too much Yang. Too much light. Too much good.
At this rate, additional pylons will be, I mean a large force of evil, of yin, of darkness will come to balance the forces.
7932020 Well you had said best pony, didn't say anything about Rainbow.
Luna
Sweetie Belle
Flutters
See, no where is Rainbow listed.
For Non-pony we add
Zecora up with Luna
Gilda
Still not sure about Gabby gryph
7932012 That's just bad punning
If you say so.
Oh shit.
That's gottta hurt.
A big one.
Badass...
Got a bad feeling about this.
Well, if he wasn't already dead... Looking forward to more.
Keep up the great work. Deus tecum.
Why do I think that in the end loosing would have been preferable? I just have the feeling that this is Discord's way of having them under his thumb.
7932073 That's not how you spell Twilight Sparkle.
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You are evil Tats, and unfortunately. I can't help but think that they are all playing right into Discord's limbs...
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7931850 That actually sounds viable and awesome, but you forgot that it would also pair well with the speed shout.
just damn
that was thoroughly unexpected but not unwelcome. keep up the good work
7931850 Add in the Whirlwind Sprint shout... I guess Ramming Always Works doesn't just apply to ships!!! And that's just with squishy humans. If Rainbow Dash learned Whirlwind Sprint... I think she could kill anything with the Rainbow Razor.
7932284 Neither is it how you spell Pinkie Pie.
7931864 ...you mean to tell me Rainbow has a weapon that can magically instakill pretty much anything that exists when she's flying at a casual pace?
Ironmare would flip her shit over that lol
For that matter, so would some of my pathfinder and shadowrun characters that can move that fast in a round.
7931850 SO for Rainbow Dash, it's an Insta-kill if it hits?
...
Combined with Pinkie's dimension breaking.
If they combine and go fast enough to break the dimensional barrier, concievably...
nothing is safe as they can strike anywhere and anytime at the speed of light and possibly past that due to Pinkie's reality altering abilities.
Probably best never to let them fuse.
does RD now have daedric immortality? also 2 ponies now in charge of daedric realms
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And that's why everyone in the PWNY multiverse is afraid to break a Pinkie Promise.
7932770 I wonder if you're going to do a Naruto PWNY one.
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I know nothing of Naruto.
This is why villains need to realize that while the "Goblin's Gambit" leaves no moral victory for the hero; it almost never gives an actual victory for the villain.
Oh dear...Discord is getting along with children
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Naruto is too wide an universe, besides there are otter factors preventing that
1. most of the skills there are finger-dependant
2. Main character is an orphan, bearly able to take care of himself.
3. Sakura
7933107 What about sakura?
7932801 Fair enough.
And One Piece is simply too big, right?
7933196 I'd rather avoid exposing anypony to her
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Yup.
Well, fk!
*insert sans tromBONE here*
An interesting way to go about it, much more sensible than Discord taking her wings then handing them back.
Besides, if you think about the morals here, if I had to choose between letting a child die to save the planet, or saving the child and dooming the planet?.....I have to save the kid.
Well, they lost, or not, I don't know, I don't even know where the Deadra or whatever came from.
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One, pony magic is driven by emotion. The more intense the emotion, the stronger the magic becomes. That's why all the biggest magic events first happen as a result of surges of emotion (like Rainbow Rainbooming to save Rarity). Also, in this case, Dagon basically broke Loyalty inside Rainbow. So...add however many level of rages you think appropriate.
Second, it's focused to the space of her hoof, not her whole body.
Third, she wasn't speeding when she bucked the dragon in the face. That was hovering impact. This is high-speed impact.
7933351 Bleach?
... Nah too messed up.
Looking forward to your Star Trek one.
BTW, are you doing one for Ditzy Doo?
7933224 Her character devlopment was screwed up. A lot. It could've been done a lot better.
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She's slated for "Dirty Pair Flash".
I know i have said similar stuff in the past. But i hope Discord and the Daedra win. I'm not a big fan of Mortals being able to beet the Daedra especially not ponies, Same with Discord being able to be beat by the Ponies. Although i'm still enjoying the story
7933939 That...
Sounds...
AMAZING!