Airship Mauled

by Darkonshadows

Chapter Seventy One, GODLESS GODDESS: Ctrl.

Author's Note:

Music- Final Fantasy 8 Man with the machine gun - remix

Take note, Stochastic can do something that Pinkie Pie does and it isn't a good thing that she can.

-Rooftops, 9:13 PM, Jacky-

Looking at my red stained sabre, I sighed, putting the sword away I held Gene’s spear close.

My eyes snapped opened when a wave of magic continually pulsed outwards from within the city.

Right, I temporarily blinded Stochastic. Apparently, despite all the damage I did, she was already on the move again.

I was proven correct a second later when I saw the alicorn leap by my position. From what little I saw in the moonlight, the stump I created wasn’t growing back as quickly as the rest of her.

I’ll be there to help as soon as I can Jade…

The section of roof I was sitting then decided to be a complete butt and collapse me into the middle of a shark tank full of rabid looking sharks, said shark tank was also inside a room that was currently on fire. The alicorn blood on Gene’s spear also wasn’t helping this situation in the slightest.

The aforementioned fire spread to the top of the water as soon as I splashed into the tank, so the fire was likely an oil fire. So breaking the tank might cause the whole building to catch on fire faster.

Oh joy… I probably should have taken mom up on the water breathing. If only I wasn’t so proud of my ability to hold my breath underwater for ten minutes.

Holding Gene’s spear protectively, I silently dared the sharks to come and get me with my gaze.

-Inside Manehatten Coliseum, stands, Jade-

I sat in one of the seats in the stands, I took a gulp of water from my canteen and was currently taking a breather.

Only I wasn’t going to be able to rest much when I heard a noise and flinched.

“Jade, thank goodness we’ve found you in good health friend!” Flamberge, I had never been so happy to get something close to tinnitus from the obnoxiously loud dragon than right now. He, Fortitude and Skelly came up to me, I could also see Sweetcakes skulking around too.

“I am Fortitude, the fantastically fragrant.” Fortitude stated conversationally.

“Define good health Flamberge, I’ve just skated across the entire city and I’m about to be attacked by a murderous alicorn again.” Some would even say I deserved this. I’d agree wholeheartedly, I’m the one that caused this. Learned my lesson, no more ironic punishments that makes a nemesis stupidly powerful. “I need some time to catch my breath and I seriously doubt that...”

The ‘Alicorn of Murder’ came flying through the wall of the stadium, she smashed through quite a few seats before coming to a stop on her hooves. She looked to have been completely messed up by both Jacky, likely working in tandem with her husband Gene.

She had drying blood all over her turquoise colored fur and her head no longer had any hair on it and said hairless skin was an angry red color. I hoped none of that blood was from my sister or any of her family.

“She’d let me rest.” I finished flatly.

Ms. Red Skull sent out another series of magical pulses and she turned her head in my direction.

-Flamberge-

Fortitude took position in front of us as I gripped my sword’s handle, Skelly readied her axe and we faced down the injured and healing alicorn.

We might be able to do enough damage to capture her, though her left wing seemed to be slowly coming back from being cut off entirely.

“Keep her from sending out any more of those pulses, or at the very least keep her attention off of me for a minute so I can get away!” I nodded to Jade as that didn’t sound too difficult to do.

It would prove only easy in thought when the alicorn lunged forward and sent Fortitude flipping backwards over all of us with a blow from her hoof slamming into his readied shield.

Fortitude surprisingly managed to stick the landing and then got in front of Jade. I didn’t think my brother was particularly acrobatic because of his size, but sometimes life surprises you. It certainly surprised our group plenty of times.

Jade immediately scrambled to her feet and started to skate away, when the alicorn leapt for her.

“Will do Jade!” I lunged forward to intercept the alicorn, I pulled my sword out at an incredible speed only to have it deflected by her horn after her ears twitched slightly. I landed and took a few steps back to avoid being skewered when she tried to stab me with it. She had adapted fairly quickly to being blinded. “All those eldritch abominations we’ve fought have prepared us for stuff like this!”

I stepped forward slash from right to left, stopped halfway into my swing and then pulled back and swung upwards through her chest and neck. She was obviously not a combat specialist as she didn’t see my feint coming.

The cauterized scar I left on her started healing over instantly. Fire wouldn’t stop her from healing, though I noticed her left wing’s healing had slowed down immensely.

I narrowed my eyes as she launched her right wing forward and I blocked the spear of wind with my sword’s edge, my scales handled of the rest of the attack as it split off evenly to both sides of me.

A dragon of my caliber wouldn’t be hurt by such attacks.

“Skelly, we need to damage the other wing! Sweetcakes, stay well away from her and assist us where you can! Fortitude, hit her as hard as you can whenever you can!” I stated as I darted forward and she deflected my next three rapid swings, her horn shot forward and scraped across my right shoulder making me bleed slightly. “She’s tough enough to survive the use of excessive force!”

Her left hoof quickly slammed into my chest knocking me out of the stands and into the field. I curled up and rolled until I came to a stop in a crouch, my left claw planted in the grass, my right holding onto my burning sword tightly.

I spread my wings to fly back up, but then paused.

A second later the alicorn herself was hit by Fortitude ramming into her left side with his shield, the alicorn looked to be in a lot of pain from having her wing stump smashed. She bounced several times and eventually came to a stop near me whinnying in pain.

My brother could be stealthy when he wanted to be, in spite of his smell and size being detrimental to that sort of thing.

I lunged forward and brought my sword down in a two handed swing, she flicked her horn upward and deflected it. I struck out two more times from the left and right, my sword wasn’t doing too much damage or getting by her horn.

She followed up the last deflection by trying to push forward and spear me, only she got an axe slashing her across the right hind leg slowing her down and making her stumble.

The alicorn lifted that leg and bucked outwards. Skelly was knocked backward, her axe taking a majority of the blow.

I charged forward and tried to slash at the alicorn and with a short pulse of her horn, she deflected my next blow and slashed me across the chest lightly cutting into my scales.

She went to pulse her horn again, but it seems she was preparing a much larger one. She lost her concentration when Fortitude hit her from behind sending her flying over my head.

I lashed my sword upwards and scored a nasty hit along her spine before she hit the ground with her back burning slightly, Fortitude and Skelly formed up with me.

The alicorn grunted and slowly stood up, her eyes had been shut the entire time and now she was tightening them for something.

I don’t think she was going to be blind for much… she finally blinked and opened her eyes. They were now glowing silver and she could see again, which wasn’t good news.

I held my sword steady and inhaled slowly. I was a bit tired from using my flames so much today, but in this case we absolutely needed the fire power.

We all moved at once.

I swept forward and swung my sword upwards, she blocked it with her horn and I stepped back as she fired a point blank blast that was deflected by Fortitude’s shield that knocked us both backwards.

Skelly managed to scratch the alicorn’s left shoulder and jam her axe halfway into the inside of the alicorn’s right leg, then her entire form became wrapped up in magic.

The axe was ripped out as Skelly was forcefully levitated away and we watched as several of Skelly’s bones become cracked as if she were under a significant amount of pressure.

I moved forward to attack while the alicorn with a blast of flames, I then lashed out with my sword. In response, the alicorn reflexively launched Skelly into a wall while in what looked to be immense amounts of unheard pain.

Skelly wasn’t moving and I had managed to damage the alicorn’s right wing. While I didn’t manage to get it close to the base I did basically almost cut it in half, as the wing was now hanging limply.

The alicorn started to thrust her bleeding right leg at me only to be smashed by an angry Fortitude ramming into her shield first, she went flying across the stadium and was embedded into a wall.

“Our friend is quite hurt, I will mend her injuries, focus on that mare!” Sweetcakes was already pulling Skelly from the wall, half of Skelly’s skull was broken and there was no light in her eyes.

Skelly looked… if Sweetcakes thought she could help Skelly… I’d believe in my kitsune’s ability to help her.

I took my eyes off of our skeletal friend and the beautiful fox, then turned to the alicorn prying herself out of the distant wall.

I looked to Fortitude and he nodded, we charged forward. Fortitude was leading the charge with his shield.

Several blasts of magic hit the shield and bounced off of it, then Fortitude was lifted into the air by her magic. I surged forward and smacked the alicorn’s horn making her drop him, I saw a tiny crack in her horn and went to strike again and she seemed to speed up all of the sudden.

After Stochastic avoided my sword entirely, she became a blur. I felt the blow of her hooves ramming into my face several times and then she hit me in the belly sending me sprawling.

She leapt for me and was met by Fortitude where she was rammed into the wall with brutal force, Fortitude kept pushing her against the wall and was pinning her there with all of his strength.

He was forcefully grinding her thrashing form into the stone wall with his shield, the wall eventually became damaged enough that it gave way and she managed to free herself long enough to knock the shield upwards and landed a blow to my brother’s skull that staggered him.

The alicorn would have hit him again, but didn’t get the chance to when a shard of ice jammed itself into her left side.

Velvet came flying in, quite literally. The reindeer was kicking off of the air at several odd angles while avoiding the several blasts of magic that the alicorn suddenly directed her way. Said alicorn also kept knocking Fortitude back with her hooves.

Dodging another blast Velvet suddenly delivered a flying buck to the right side of the alicorn’s face and leapt away before the alicorn could retaliate.

While the alicorn was dazed and looking slightly confused, Fortitude and I capitalized on this.

Fortitude grabbed the edge of his shield and swung from his right into the left side of the alicorn’s face, she was even more staggered and dazed from that blow.

I slashed her across the left flank and was met with a world of pain as the left hind leg rammed upwards into my face.

Stumbling backwards groaning, I fell onto my back. I think that blow to my head might have been too much, because I was seeing multiple copies of Velvet.

“Brother, are you okay?!” After Fortitude helped me onto my feet, I could see it was not actually my imagination.

“I think so…” I stared at the spectacle going on nearby.

There were several Velvet’s made of ice their hooves ending in icicle blades. They were following Velvet’s movements seconds after she performed them one after the other.

Velvet was staying in the air and hammering the alicorn from all sides with her clones.

The clones did not seem to act by themselves, except for the odd one that looked like it was being controlled by Tinsel. That was likely what was making it seem like they were all smart.

Either time slowed down or the alicorn sped up again, because in the next second Velvet was gripped by magic and slammed back first into the ground with a painful crunching noise.

All the ice copies seized up immediately, except for one that immediately jumped into the path of the alicorn firing a magical blast at Velvet.

That ice clone shattered and I was proven correct as Tinsel went tumbling right into Velvet’s floof, she clutched onto the little guy and curled around him protectively as the alicorn approached.

“Brother!” I only needed a single word, Fortitude immediately charged forward and slammed his shield into the alicorn’s side, yet they stayed standing this time.

Her hooves were strangely wreathed with dirt.

A pillar rock sent my brother upwards, the alicorn then gripped my brother in her magic and swung him around to send him flying into the stands.

She turned back to Velvet, I spat a fireball at her face and she hit me with a blast of magic.

I’ve never felt so much pain in my life before this, I also think one of my legs was broken now and my scales were burning.

My vision was blurry, it cleared somewhat as something soft lifted me into the air. I watched as Velvet fired two ice shards into the alicorn’s chest before she was upon the reindeer.

Velvet took a nasty stomp to the belly and head, afterwards the alicorn's next three attacks were held back by Tinsel creating a snowflake barrier.

A wad fur wrapped tightly around the attacking alicorn’s head, yanked her into the air, and then slammed her into the ground with enough force to shake the entire stadium.

Paprika ran forward to carefully scoop up both Velvet and Tinsel.

She looked in our direction and then towards the alicorn before leaping away, she narrowly avoiding getting a magical beam to the back of her head.

Oleander appeared in the stands to grab my brother.

I was quickly being carried away by Sweetcakes as another magical pulse went throughout the city.

-Rally Point, minutes later, Fizzle-

“If we’re all here…” I trailed off after Paprika reported in to me with Velvet’s unconscious body. “Then… who is protecting Jade right now?!”

-Jade-

Something hit the streets in front of me and knocked me over, I looked up into pair of malicious eyes.

I scrambled backwards as Stochastic stalked towards me, her left hoof came at me with lethal intent.

"How about..." A large metal hoof to the face stopped the alicorn cold. "No."

Comments

[Booster Spice]

At the rate Stochastic is going, the only thing thats going to take her down, is a Chaos Virus, like Lazarus?

Or is Jade going for the classic, they want All the power? Then they can have ALL the power.

Trouble is, its a nice planet. Shame to lose it.

[jimerjam]

HERES CELLY

[Herald of Opera]

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I read "metal hoof" as the hoof itself being metal, not merely shod. Which means... it's teatime. *puts on sunglasses, "Won't Get Fooled Again" by The Who starts playing*

[TDR]

I'm gonna say it's Fizzle suped up to full power by mamakitty's best tricks.