Don't Dance with the Devil

by Time Agent pony

Chapter 1

"Curse you, Cuphead and Mugman!" the Devil said, shaking his fist as the two brothers burn all his soul contracts.

The two brothers, Cuphead and Mugman, had triumphed over The Devil, Lord of Darkness, along with his right-hand man, King Dice, and had destroyed all of his soul contracts, souls of characters that had sold them to the Devil. They had freed the inhabitants of their home, Inkwell isle, from servitude to the Devil.

Having destroyed all the contracts, both Cuphead and Mugman, turned to face the defeated Devil.

"This is the last time you'll steal someone else's soul," Cuphead declared.

The brothers both gasped, The Devil had vanished.

---

Equestria, Las Pegasus.

"Viva Las Pegasus," sang Discord, strumming on a ukulele.

"Do you have to keep singing that song?" Trixie asked, annoyed.

"You got no music in your sole, sister," Discord replied, snapping his fingers and his ukulele disappearing.

"I liked it," Thorax smiled.

"Guys, guys," Starlight said, "we're here to have fun, not bicker like foals."

"Starlight's right," Thorax nodded, "we should have fun and not fight among ourselves."

The four friends nodded and headed off to enjoy their fun time trip.

None of them noticed that the sign for Las Pegasus had 'under new management' written underneath it.

After a while, the four friends found themselves on a winning streak at the poker table.

"Well, I'll be," remarked a voice, "it seems these four can't lose."

The voice belonged to King Dice, Las Pegasus's new sleazy manager.

He watched as Starlight and her friends won game after game.

"Just look at all this!" Trixie squealed, looking in awe at all the poker chips they'd won.

"Maybe we should cash in and quit while we're ahead," Thorax smiled, nervously.

"Thorax has a point," Starlight agreed, "maybe its a good idea we....."

"Are you two crazy?!" Discord, exclaimed, "we're in the poker game now, it's go big or go home."

"Discord's right," Trixie nodded, "The Great and Powerful Trrrrrixie goes big or not at all!"

"Sounds like you four are a couple risk takers," an unfamiliar voice noted.

The four friends looked up from the poker table to see Las Pegasus's new owner, The Devil.

"Who are you?" Starlight asked.

"Why, I'm the new runner of Las Pegasus, don't you know," The Devil replied, "and I must say I'm impressed," he continued, "you and your friends certainly are on a mighty fine winning streak, so," he carried on, "how about we rise the stakes," he smiled, shuffling the poker cards, "win one more game and all the loot in Las Pegasus is yours," he boomed, as he finished shuffling the cards, "but if you lose I'll have all of your magic, what do ya say, deal?"

Starlight was about to say no, but it was too late.

Trixie had already picked up her cards and she, along with Discord had seated themselves at the poker table.

"Guys!" Thorax cried, "don't do it," he added, for he understood the danger.

"I have a good feeling about this," Trixie grinned, looking at her cards.

"Me too," Discord nodded, his eyes in the shape of poker chips.

Trixie pushed all their winnings into the middle to the table and turned her cards over so The Devil could see them.

"All in," she smiled, "read 'em and weep."

The Devil simply laughed, long and laugh.

"Five kings," he declared, showing his own cards to Trixie and Discord, "you loose."

All four of the friends trembled in fear as The Devil loomed over them.

"Now," The Devil said, "about that magic."

Starlight and the rest of her friends barely had time to react before their magic was drained from them, even Discord was drained of his magic.

"Well," The Devil remarked, "it seems that you four have outlived your usefulness."

With that, The Devil snapped his fingers and the four friends vanished.

"Dice, my friend" he smiled, pulling out a cigar and lighting it, "I think that this place is perfect for us."

The two laugh with each other.

---

Elsewhere.

The four friends found themselves, chained up and in a dungeon-like room,

"Well," Discord commented, "this situation seems formally."

"What do we do now?" Thorax asked.

"What can we do?" Trixie said, "without magic we're powerless."

"Come on, guys," Starlight replied, "I'm sure Twilight and her friends will come and rescue us."

Comments

[jimmity timmity]

about time someone did this

[Inactive Pone]

About time! I have somehow yet to see a Cuphead crossover! Though... Why is it under 1000 words but published to the site???😂

[Comickook]

8725946
Well, to be fair, it IS only the first chapter. I have a feeling the story will get longer as it goes on.

[Comickook]

Hello there. Thanks very much for getting this story started. And yeah, I kind of like the idea of you doing one of (if not THE first) MLP/Cuphead crossover fics.

At any rate, excellent job on the exchanges, action, characterizations and future chapter set-up in all the right places. And one shudders to think the kind of shenanigans the Devil can get up to with the power of three of the most powerful beings in the series (as well as a slightly-above-average unicorn, but why split hairs) at his command.

Of course, considering her experience with alternate universes (at least in the comics), I wouldn't be THAT surprised if Celestia turned out to be an old friend of Elder Kettle (which COULD be how Cuphead and Mugman end up getting alerted to this).

At any rate, I will VERY certainly be looking forward to more of this, but will ALSO be quite willing to respect that you DO have a life outside the computer room and I might need to be patient.

[Time Agent pony]

8726270
thanks for the comment and the ideas

[Time Agent pony]

8725946
Sorry, trade secret

[Comickook]

8727066
You're quite welcome.

[Time Agent pony]

8725746
I know, right

[Ezio1-3]

I hope we get to see the other debtors, starting with Cagney Carnation! I'd like to see everyone's reactions to him fighting the Devil, because he may be a flower, but he's sure not defenseless!

[Time Agent pony]

8733293
thanks for the idea, I'll see what I can do

[Toonwriter]

You, sir, just got my attention with this! I absolutely love it!

[Banana Prince]

8733293
Yeah, I always wondered if the debtors could take him on.

[Banana Prince]

Can't believe that none of the four figured out that any deck has only four kings - especially the magician.