Mama Ursa
Garble, Mumble, and Thrash had never seen a pony looking quite so angry. Ponies ran from them, they didn't stand their ground and fight, so it was a bit disorienting.
Spike, still sore and weak, looked at the unicorn slowly, trying to see her through his blurred vision. "...Twilight?"
Garble, regaining his bravado, stood back up. "Aww, how cute. What are you, his mommy?" he mocked.
"You better believe I'm his mother," she said bluntly. Spike's eyes went wide, his heart tightened. Was he just delirious? Was she really saying...
"And if you take one more step toward him, I'm going to..."
“What?" Garble said mockingly. He took a step forward, extra mockingly stomping it down. "There, I took a step. What are you going to do about it?"
"...What are you waiting for? Grab him!"
Suddenly remembering her job, Fluttershy made a dive for Spike. Seeing this, Garble lunged forward. This was exactly what Twilight was counting on, it left him wide open for another strike from the tree, sending him back. His friends, caught him keeping him upright.
Fluttershy reached the injured child, collecting him up gently in her forelegs. The dragon moaned, keeping Peewee in a protective hug. The bird was visibly shaking, nuzzling into his master. "It's going to be okay," Fluttershy soothed, lifting Spike up. With great speed, she started back to Ponyville.
"Get her!" Garble yelled, starting forward again. Twilight swung the tree again, but the crimson dragon let loose a blast of fire that lit the tree ablaze. Then, with one swipe of his claws, he split the tree apart, turning it into several burning splinters.
Now free of their obstacle, Mumble and Thrash flew up and after Fluttershy. Twilight tried to block them, but was interrupted by Garble flying forward and swinging his fist down on her. She put up a shield quickly, causing his punch to bounce off. He continued his barrage, banging on her shield relentlessly. Under other circumstances she might have flinched, but now she was a mother protecting her child.
Mumble and Thrash flew over the ponies, chasing after the pegasus that had taken their target. Seeing this, Applejack, Pinkie, and Rainbow Dash chased after them, shouting protests.
Garble kept pounding away, but was stopped by Rarity, who leapt over Twilight's shield and bucked him in the face. The crimson dragon was caught off guard, both by the attack itself and just how painful it was. Rarity was much tougher than she looked. He staggered back, allowing Twilight to strike him in the ribs with a full blast of her magic.
It would have killed a pony, or at least broken its bones. It knocked Garble back, not doing any noticeable damage but clearly hurting him.
"If you know what's good for you, you'll stay down," Twilight said coldly.
The threat didn't take. Garble rolled to the side and stood up, having just enough time to fly away from the following blast. Twilight kept firing, every blast dodged, while Rarity stood at her side, wishing she knew more combat magic.
Fluttershy could be quite fast when she needed to, even fast enough to keep up with Rainbow Dash. But this depended on it being in certain situations: her friends being in trouble, an animal being in trouble, or her being in trouble. Right now, all three were happening. She doubled her speed when she realized she was being followed, much to the amusement of the two dragons.
"Aw, come on, we just want to play!" Mumble jeered, speeding up as well.
"Heh, heh, yeah," Thrash needlessly added. "Just slow down and..."
At that point, Rainbow Dash rammed into his side. Thrash let out a yell, more surprised than hurt. He turned and swung at her, but like a particularly bothersome fly she flew around him. Thrash turned his head, trying to follow her, and was rewarded by a mocking bop on the nose. Enraged, he swung again, only for the cyan mare to fly around him, wrapping her hind legs around his head and rapping his head with her forehooves as if she was playing a set of drums.
Enraged, Thrash began living up to his name, which Rainbow Dash took as a sign to get off of him. As he turned to face her, she blew a raspberry, then turned and darted off. In a rage, the brown dragon forgot his original target and chased after her.
Applejack and Pinkie, who were right behind them, saw the scene. Applejack began to change directions, but the cyan pegasus motioned for her not to. Thrash, being too focused on catching her, didn't notice.
The cowpony quickly understood why. Rainbow Dash and the dragon were both flying so fast that neither earth pony would be able to keep up. Hopefully the brash pegasus had some plan of action other than a direct conflict.
Instead, Applejack turned back to Mumble and redoubled her speed. She found herself gaining slowly, but surely on the dragon. Finally, when he was close enough, she gave a mighty leap and landed straight on the dragon's back.
This sent him crashing to the ground. Unfortunately, by this time Mumble had reached Fluttershy and had managed to get a grip on one of her hind legs, sending her to the ground as well. She gave off a whimper as she landed, and Spike left her arms, rolling along the ground a bit before stopping.
As Mumble tried to buck Applejack off, Fluttershy called "Spike! Run!"
Spike didn't listen, at least not immediately. He checked on Peewee first, who was still shaking but otherwise seemed uninjured. Spike turned and began running.
Mumble rolled over, causing Applejack to fall off. He rolled back on his stomach and turned to his side, striking the cowpony with a mighty blow, sending her to the ground. With a satisfied smile, he began rising...
"Hey, Mr. Meanie Pants!"
...and found himself looking down the barrel of a cannon.
"It's party time!" Pinkie fired.
Mumble was hit with a fifteen pound ball of confetti and glitter. He was on his back moaning in pain, looking more like an overdone craft project than an injured dragon.
"Ooh... where did you get that from?" he demanded.
"I made it myself! I took several months of fine tuning, and building, and the Cakes saying 'Pinkie, stop that racket, it's two in the morning!', but all my hard work paid off! I used it at Twilight's birthday, and it decorated the whole ballroom in seconds, and they were all impressed, and we had cake, and..."
As it turned out, dragons had a quick recovery time. Mumble was back on his feet in moments. He grabbed Pinkie by the tail and swung her around like he was competing in a hammer throw. After a few rotations he let go, sending the pink earth pony flying.
For a moment, Mumble looked at the horizon, smiling at his accomplishment. He turned around.
"That wasn't very nice. I mean, that could have really hurt! Not as much as it did for Mrs. Cake when the twins were born! I mean, ouch, seven hours in labor was hard, and she kept saying these funny words to Mr. Cake that I'm not allowed to repeat, and when she somehow got a hold of that scalpel... fortunately, Mr. Cake's scars have healed, and Nurse Redheart sees almost perfectly out of that eye now..."
Throughout the entire tirade, Mumble had been looking from Pinkie to where he had thrown her seconds earlier, complete disbelief on his features. "Wha... how... look, how'd you do that anyway?"
"...Now let's not get nosy," the earth pony scolded.
Mumble was bucked by Applejack seconds later. It was preferable to the headache he was currently getting.
Rainbow Dash blew out her cheeks and stuck out her tongue, agitating Thrash. Even flying backwards, she was more than fast enough to outfly the dragon.
By now the two had flown over Ghastly Gorge, and the cyan mare led her opponent into the canyon, continuing the merry chase.
Thrash flew forward at full speeds, only to get a nasty surprise when Rainbow Dash did a full ninety-degree turn upward, causing him to go flying forward after nothing. After managing to stop, he turned and saw her lowering back to his level. She wiggled her rump in his directions, slapping her flanks in a mocking manner.
Thrash roared in frustration, lunging after her. She flew up again, once again causing him to chase after nothing.
"Too slow!" she laughed.
This time, the brown dragon flew after her at top speed. It didn't matter, Rainbow Dash flew faster. She led him on a merry chase, hundreds of feet, before Rainbow Dash suddenly made another ninety-degree turn.
Once again, Thrash kept going, right into the side of the Gorge.
Rainbow Dash put her forelegs over her stomach and laughed uproariously, but she was cut off by a boulder falling, just barely missing her. She looked up to the rim of the Gorge, and immediately became terrified. She flew out of the way just in time to avoid the avalanche of rocks.
Thrash, however, wasn't as lucky. The boulders struck him, sending the already dazed dragon falling to the ground, pinned underneath a mountain of debris.
For a moment, the cyan mare held her breath, torn with how to feel. Half of her hoped the avalanche had done the dragon in, half hoped he would be okay.
When the dust cleared, Thrash was among the rocks, pinned underneath the stone. Carefully, Rainbow Dash moved in. He was still breathing, she could tell. She saw his chest move up and down.
She briefly pondered helping him, but decided against it. Spike was more worthy of her time, and if Thrash died as a result of his injuries, it was on him. Without another thought, she turned a flew back to her friends.
Applejack moved in to try and stomp down on Mumble, and immediately regretted it when his tail whipped out and hit her. The purple dragon rose to his feet in time to be greeted with a view of the party cannon. This time, however, he was quick enough to dodge, and the projectile flew off until it decorated a tree for its five hundredth birthday. He quickly moved past the cannon and to Pinkie, giving her a swipe with his claws.
Forgotten in all the chaos was Fluttershy, who silently crept to the bushes that Spike had run to and began rifling through them, hoping to find the child in her care.
After a few minutes of combing the foliage, she found him, gently stroking Peewee in an effort to calm him down. He looked up and saw her.
"Flutter-" he began, but the pegasus shushed him so Mumble wouldn't overhear. She picked him up gently and gave him a reassuring nuzzle. She turned to continue flying to Ponyville.
She found Mumble blocking her path, grinning.
"Well, well," he laughed. And then he punched Fluttershy.
She fell to the ground with a painful cry, tears in her eyes. Spike tried to scramble out of reach, but the older dragon grabbed him by the back of the neck. Raising him up, he slammed him roughly into the ground.
Spike's body went limp. Peewee warbled in panic.
"Aww, you broke too easy," Mumble whined. "That's no..."
"How dare you!"
Mumble jumped at the sudden forceful words. Fluttershy had gotten up, apparently not in pain anymore, and was staring at the purple dragon with a look that sucked all the bravado.
"Just who do you think you are? You think just because you're big and strong, that gives you the right to hurt innocent ponies and dragons?"
"I... I..."
Fluttershy grabbed his ear in her teeth and pulled him along, the teenage dragon moaning from the pain the whole way. They came to a large rock, and the pegasus let go.
"Now sit on this rock! You're in a time-out!"
"But..." he began, but a reaffirmed stare got him to obey.
"Now you sit here until the sun goes down, young drake, and think about what you did! Then fly home and don't harass Spike or Twilight again! You hear me?"
"Y-yes, ma'am!" Mumble said in tears, looking very much like a scolded filly.
Fluttershy nodded curtly, then flew back to Spike. He was awake, it turned out, and crying heavily, the days events finally gotten to him. A recovered Pinkie and Applejack were heading to him, but the yellow pegasus reached him first.
“Shh, it’s okay,” she soothed, gathering up the dragon in her forelegs. “It’s okay, it’s all over now.”
The dragon just wept. He was awfully mature for his age, yes, but underneath it all he was still a kid, and the pain, shame, and distress of the last few days was finally getting to him. Even as Fluttershy nuzzled him and Peewee nibbled his ear, he couldn’t calm down.
Garble dodged blast after blast of Twilight’s magic, blowing raspberries at the enraged unicorn. “Aw, what’s wrong? Is the prissy pony getting tired?”
That question was answered when an aura of lavender magic encased him, stopping him. The crimson dragon struggled, but he was pulled down to the ground, his feet actually sinking into the soil a bit.
"I can lift an Ursa Minor," Twilight noted with strained words. "I can hold you."
Unimpressed, Garble kept thrashing, but he was still helpless when Rarity charged him and bucked him in the stomach as hard as she could. The wind knocked out of him, he stopped moving, and Twilight took advantage of this by releasing him and shooting him with a well-aimed blast of magic. It struck him in the chest, sending him tumbling on his back.
Rarity confidently strode up to the fallen dragon, though she was sure to keep enough distance away to remain out of his reach. "Now then, are you going to leave Spikey alone?"
As it turned out, Rarity hadn't been as careful as she had thought. Garble's tail lashed out, wrapping itself around Rarity's neck. Twilight readied a blast, but the dragon's words stopped her. "Shoot me and I'll snap her neck."
The threat worked, but only for a moment. The aura circled his tail, prying it open and allowing the white unicorn to fall to the ground.
As it turns out, Garble was smarter than either unicorn gave him credit for, as that was exactly what he was counting on. Distracted by freeing her friend, Twilight didn't react fast enough when he darted forward. She began to summon a shield, but his strike caught her on the side of the head. Thankfully, he went so quick he didn't uncurl his hand, so she wasn't cut to ribbons, but simply knocked back. She skidded along the grass, coming to a stop just short of the still burning tree splinters.
"How dare you!" Rarity shrieked, attempting to buck him, but her kick was caught, and she was lifted up in a most undignified manner.
"Put me down right now, you hoodlum! I might be a lady, but for everything you've done to Spikey-Wikey, I'm going to..."
Garble turned and swung Rarity in an arc, slamming her into the ground, effectively ending her demands. He lifted her up again by her hind leg as she moaned in pain. She was now looking in his eyes, weakly.
"You know what I'm going to do to Spikey-Wikey? I'm going to kill him. But first, I'm going to skin you all alive and make him see. And I'm going to keep stomping that bird until it runs out of lives. Then, I'm going to break both of his arms, and his legs. Then, I'm going to kick him around a bit. Then...”
Garble was more intelligent than the ponies gave him credit for... but he was still pretty stupid. He went on a long tirade about what he was going to do to Spike while his mother was in earshot. She didn't take it well.
In pure rage, she rose to her hooves and levitated one of the burning splinters into the air. Charging forward, she leapt onto the dragon's back.
"What the-"
And then the red hot stick came down.
The Keeper flinched, inhaling sharply. "Ooooh," she moaned as she read the dragon's book. "Well, look on the bright side, Garble, girl dragons think eyepatches are cool."
Garble's pained, primal howl filed the ears of the two unicorns. Rarity flinched in horror, even feeling some pity as he dropped her, clutching his face in agony. Twilight, however, gave no quarter. As he stumbled blindly, turning around, Twilight struck him in the chest, sending him to the ground.
Before he could sit up, Garble felt something jump onto him, pinning him to the ground. Slowly, nervously, he moved one of his hands, allowing his right eye... his only eye, now... to see.
Twilight had turned white, her eyes red, her mane and tail now flames so intense that even Garble felt them.
"Listen to me," she said through gritted teeth, "I love Spike. He is my son. And I will do anything... anything... to protect him. I've defeated NightMare Moon and Discord, I've fought armies of changelings, I've been taught by Princess Celestia herself. You, you're nothing. You're a pathetic punk who traveled a continent because some baby dragon stood up to you. How petty. You have no chance against me.
"So leave. Go home. Don't come back. Because if you do, I'll take more than an eye. Do you understand?"
Garble was silent, shaking in sheer terror.
"Do you understand?"
"Y-yes," the dragon whimpered.
"Good," she spat. She turned around, whipping him in the face with her tail. She jumped off of him, planting her feet back on the grass. She lit her horn and doused the burning tree remains, no need for them to spread.
"Come on, Rarity, we better see if Spike is okay." Twilight reverted back to her true form. She was calmer now, a bit more neutral.
Rarity stood in silence, a bit afraid. She looked and saw Garble's form, still shaken and disturbed. She turned to Twilight, still walking off, heedless of the fact that her fellow unicorn hadn't followed her.
Finally, she sighed and followed, stopping only to pick up the bindle Spike dropped. She would talk with her friend about it later.
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And here we are.
I was nervous about this chapter. I worried that what happens to Garble would be pushing the rating. Then I figured: if Invader Zim could get away with ripping out a kid's eyes on Nickelodeon, and the Animorphs with far worse, I figured I'm good. I threw in the shot of the Keeper to keep the act itself off screen. Still, in the name of caution I'm upping the rating to teen, at least for right now. Tell me if you think it can be changed back.
Also, I originally planned to kill Thrash, but I decided against it. Something like that would affect Rainbow Dash, even though it's entirely Thrash's fault, and I wanted to keep things simple.
This is why you never piss off an element of harmony
So yeah...don't piss off the most powerful unicorn of the time.
I'm one of those types that feels bad for the bad guys in shows + fics like this.
Still a good chapter though.
Thrash should have died, he's an asshat, honestly.
I wear an eyepatch now.
Eyepatches are cool.
I'm sorry, I know I posted this last chapter, but.... It needs to be here again.
Never mess with Twilight's kid. She is a very good mother.
Well damn. Love to see the ponies showing their fighting abilites again!
Mother of god...
Now this was WORTH THE WAIT!
Holy shit, that was awesome!
This chapter made me smile. Twirage is not something to be taken lightly. He was lucky he just lost an eye.
The only part that felt kinda weak was the Fluttershy bit, but it was a cannon response (like pinkies) so I wont gripe.
Well, I asked for action, and I got it.
Glad to see that the dragons were not complete pushovers. And a little violence always brightens up my day.
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.....Please explain how you such a good writer! I could use some help....
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I was referring to all of them, every pony showed how dangerous they can be when pushed over the edge, but the elemnt of magic is a really dangerous enemy to have, I myself thought she was going to darwin him.
now he will have recurrent nightmares of ponies cutting him limb bi limb
i really thought she would impale him when i readied the hot stick came down
Well it works for Spike in Fallout Equstria so it should work for him to...
Great fun chapter man
Wow, that was violent. Hope those dragons realize how lucky they are to get away alive. Dragon who got bested by Flutter got off the easiest.
Oh yeah isn't there supposed to be a Scoots subplot? What happened to that?
That was totally wicked!! That was easily my favorite chapter so far! As your reward, I shall promote you from "human" to "super saiyan." You've earned it.
Once again a fantastic story. However there is one thing that irks me.
The 2 really throws me off.
'two'
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The last two parts seem to bring out the Doctor quotes. Have another:
"You've hurt someone I care about, that is not a safe place to stand! I'm Twilight Sparkle and you are in the largest library in Ponyville. Look me up."
Eh, they got out of that too easy. I was expecting more pain to be inflicted upon them.
SWEET CELESTIA!
This chapter was well done. I truly enjoyed it.
Note to self: NEVER PISS OFF TWILIGHT. or any other element for that matter.
Keep up the good work.
Edit. done!
Now that's the Twilight I like seeing, one really unleashing the destructive force inside of her. Fluttershy's speech was obvious in coming and Rainbow Dash is fairly cold hearted for a creature that is a part of a kingdom run by harmony and love. Then again she only left him to die as he tried to kill her in the first place.
The description of Garble's actions after going up against burning Twilight was great, you could really see how he was doing.
Now, onto the problem solving family communication.
Now comes the teary moment:
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I'd originally thought that this chapter would consist of Twilight effortlessly defeating the dragons by herself, but I prefer it your way. Twilight had to actually put some effort into beating Garble even in her enraged state.
Its nice to see each of the six fighting the dragons their own way, I was just waiting for Fluttershy to switch on the stare. I think Applejack got the short stick mostly just getting thrown about alot, maybe, earth pony strength and stamina could have been played up a bit more so that she's just keep bouncing back from each hit? but overall a very enjoyable read.
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Technically he pissed off ALL of the Elements of Harmony. I'm surprised that Garble was left alive after all that.
*Looks at chapter title.* BAUS!
Twilight Sparkle > Chuck Norris
This was awesome. Have I told you you're a great writer? Because you are. Dude, you should like really get into writing some OF stuff, because I think you'd make a best seller if you had a good idea. I mean...I've read a few fics like this one, but it's this one I'm still reading because you can write it.
and I love this chapter! Like...twi and rarity and then Pinkie Pie and...this was great. I would suggest that with RD's part, at least have her think about his friends finding him or something. I can't see her just leaving him though. But yeah, awesome.
Remind me never to get on Twi's bad side. But damn if that wasn't impressive.
Nice lesson within this chapter...if you know what's good for you, then you should never mess with Twilight's son .
You did it. You made me react in a way only the manga "noblesse" has done before. I sqee'd and laughed my maniac laugh because i know that this is going to be badass.
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OF
I think you mean off. Sorry, but it irks me.
1740804 And this is Further, BEYOND!
*Twilight goes to even igher level*(You know the reference :) )
1740778 it probably wasn't big enough. It would have had to have been small to mangle the bugger's eye like that.
Now to worry about Scoots and Pinkie.
This is epic. Twilight is her most powerful form.
Oooh that's gonna smart Garble... I still laughed at your pain though
: I'm glad the rest of the Main Six got a chance to face off against them, just goes to show you mess with one elements family you mess will all of them 
All that's left now is the teary heart to heart Twi and Spike really need... You know I really pity the stallion that manages to pick twilight up on a date
I for one think they got of a bit too easy. But I wont complain since it was still an awesome chapter.
And did anyone else think of Sweetie Belle from the Gabby Gums episode when Fluttershy said "How dare you"?
Not bad. Gotta admit I expected Twilight to kill him after what he explained how he was going to brutally torture them to death. Kinda disappointing.
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Give it time. And look at it this way, the Spike plotline is practically over now, so we can get focus on the other subplots.
READY, SET ACTION!! And action there most certainly was. I'm gonna throw my two bits into the "this chapter was flawlessly done" pile. The action was great, all of the Mane Six were as canon as they could be, and everything was believable. I particularly liked how you dealt with Garble. Give em something to think about (for a loooong time) but this is still MLP, and murder is pretty much unheard of in this universe. Really liked Mumble's action too, considering who he was up against it was inevitable that he would get "the stare." And Pinkie's cannon was hilarious, as well as her dialogue. Jeez, Mrs. Cake must've totally lost it or something, eh?
I laughed my ass off at that.
As for Thrash and RD, yup I totally buy it. Silly Thrash, ain't nopony fast enough to catch RD! As for leaving him there, RD didn't know if her friends were safe at that point, so she hurried off to make sure she wasn't needed anymore. Thrash screwed himself over. There's still time for her to mention it later, but will they act on it? Maybe so, maybe no, I honestly don't care either way. You said you wanted to kill him, but the idea of leaving his fate undetermined is almost more appealing...
Now for the next chapter: BRING ON THE FEELS!!! My body is ready.
Someone is going to have to put the "Gory Discretion Shot" and "Eye Scream" tropes up. And possibly "Cruel Mercy".
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I've been refreshing the page all night, waiting for it.
*makes comment*
Please, tell me more about Mrs. Cake in labor.
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S'truth, my brony!
I. Love. Mama. Twilight!
By the Nine Mama Ursa is an understatement
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AccualLy this is why you don't harm spike.
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