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Terraria: Friendship Is Magic - Pomp-Neigh



The Mane Six, Starlight Glimmer, and Zecora are dragged into a land of beauty, magic, wonder, and chaos: Terraria.

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Chapter 23 - Boss Fight: Desert Scourge.

-TERRARIA, DESERT BIOME-

“Hey Rainbow.”

“Yeah?.”

“If we make it out of this, I’m buying you the first round of cupcake’s from Candy Cane Corner.”

[BZZZZZZ] [BZZZZZZZZ] [BZZZZZZZZ]

Rainbow Dash and Twilight Sparkle are currently flying for their lives as a swarm of large insects chases them through the desert.

However, this wasn’t a random occurrence as this was all part of a much larger plan.

“There!, I see the trap ahead!”, Twilight exclaims as she points a hoof to a nearby trench. The pair flies through the trench with the large flying insects closing in until a new voice calls out:

“Now!”, Sai Sahan orders as a large net catches all of the insects within the trench thanks to the aid of the many adventurer’s. Celestia flies down from her hiding spot as she and a few other adventurer’s secure the net thus officially capturing the swarm.

“I love it when a plan comes together!, great call Rainbow Dash.”, Celestia says as she turns her head to the stunt pegasus.

“What can I say?, told you I was awesome. Now we’ve got the bait we need to attract that, what was it again, Desert Scourge?”, Rainbow asks.

“That’s right Rainbow, Sai Sahan confirmed that this desert is its hunting grounds.”, Starlight Glimmer says as she lowers herself to the ground with her rocket boots. “Did I ever mention how much I love these boots?, Twilight, we need to get Gorglock to hand us some schematics for pony production.”

“Celebrate about those boots later egghead’s, it’s time for the next part of the plan remember.”, Rainbow Dash says as she lands on the ground and walks over to Sai Sahan.

All of the other adventurer’s are currently celebrating the plan’s success as the swarm of insects tries their best to chew their way through the net. Fortunately, Sai and the others foresaw this and used incredibly durable material to create the net. Sai chuckles to himself as he walks over to the ponies and says:

“Well done ponies, nothing makes a better bait than two ponies who look absolutely defenseless, not to mention delicious, to a swarm of large Antlion Flyers.”, Sai then turns to Rainbow Dash and says: “Especially you my rainbow maned friend, this was your idea after all.”, Sai’s words causes Rainbow to blush however what surprises her was what happens next, all of the adventurer’s cheering her name:

“Rainbow Dash!”

“Rainbow Dash!”

“Rainbow Dash!”

Rainbow simply smiled and sucked in all of the glory, Twilight stares on with a deadpan expression as she says:

“You know I was the bait too right?...”, Celestia and Starlight chuckles as Starlight walks up to her teacher and says:

“Let Rainbow have this one Twilight.”, Starlight then leans in closer and whispers to her teacher. “Besides, her plans don’t often work.”

“Hey!, I heard that Starlight!”, Rainbow exclaims, everyone then shrugs and bursts out into laughter. Sai Sahan recovers from his laughter and makes his next announcement:

“Ok everyone, we’ve got the bait now lets wait for that bastard. Get to your positions!”, Upon hearing those words all of the adventurers immediately hide in various spots around the trench. Sai, Celestia, and the ponies hide at the very top of the trench as Twilight turns to everyone present and asks:

“Everypony remember the plan?, better to be safe then sorry I always say.”

“Of course Twilight, as soon as the beast takes the bait we’ll use the dynamite you and your friends have planted around the trench and bury that beast in its new tomb. Sure, It’s a burrower, but that won’t save anything from having multiple tons of rocks and boulders fall on them.”, Sai Sahan says which causes everyone present to nod as they wait for The Desert Scourge to take the bait.

After a few minutes of waiting, not to mention sweating in the heat of the desert, Rainbow Dash was bothered by something and just had to voice her concern:

“Hey so, uh, I don’t mean to sound like I doubt the plan and all but how do we know this thing will show up at all?”, Celestia takes the initiative and answers:

“This desert we’re in?, that wasn’t always the case. According to the legends, many years ago this used to be a large ocean but a certain event had transpired which caused the ocean to disappear. Unfortunately, this is where The Desert Scourge lived before the ocean’s disappearance. The beast we see today is nothing compared to what it used to be as it shrunk considerably due to the loss of its old environment.”, Celestia finishes her story with a sigh. The ponies all look on in awe at the story that was just told, before any of them could say another word the earth begins to shake and the sands part from the commotion. Suddenly, a large moving sandhill appears in the distance and was making its way towards the trench with amazing speed.

“Here it comes!, get ready everyone!”, Sai Sahan exclaims. The trapped insects seem to be able to sense the oncoming threat as they double their efforts in trying to escape the net which they sadly still can’t damage. Then, just before reaching the trench, the sandhill suddenly stops.

“Wait, what’s going on? Why did it stop?”, Twilight question’s however Sai Sahan suddenly gets nervous as he says:

“No, it couldn’t have...”

“Sai, what’s wrong?”, Celestia inquires.

“The beast... It knows this is a trap.”, Sai replies however before anyone could press the issue further the large entity emerges but not from the sands of the desert, from the rock formation itself that formed the trench.

[VVVVVVRRRRROOOOOOOOOLLLLLLL]

“Dodge!”, Celestia shouts as she, Sai, and the ponies barely manages to escape The Scourge’s attack as it burrows back into the trench. Unfortunately, The Scourge killed many adventurer’s who were positioned nearby in one fell swoop, consuming them instantly before it returned to the earth. Twilight, Rainbow, and Celestia take to the skies each of them materializing their weapons all the while Starlight and Sai Sahan hops off of the trench using their rocket boots to stay aloft. To Twilight’s surprise, Celestia had a sapphire staff just like her own however the Terrarian’s staff seemed to be more... Refined. Rainbow Dash smirks as she brings out what she’s been dying to try ever since she received it from Ceeman The Arms Dealer: The Minishark.

Fortunately for the group, The Scourge did indeed go for the bait after it failed to eat the ponies, Sai, and Celestia in its first attack which unfortunately resulted in the death of some other adventurers. The Scourge erupts from the trench’s stone wall and, in one swift motion, consumes the insect filled net whole. As The Scourge begins to burrow again a large portion of its body was still exposed as Sai Sahan sees this and shouts: “Now!”

[BOOM] [BOOM] [BOOM]

“Aww yeah, we got it!”, Rainbow Dash exclaims as she looks down to the large rubble that used to be the Trench. The sticks of dynamite’s had successfully gone off causing the entire trench to crumble onto The Desert Scourge and the beast is now dead, right?. At least, that’s what everyone thought as a loud roar sends a chilling senation down everyone’s spines:

[VVVVVVRRRRROOOOOOOOOLLLLLLL]

That was the last thing everyone heard before The Scourge resurfaces, but sadly, it yet again consumes a group of adventurer’s in an effort to satiate its legendary hunger. This angers not only Sai Sahan but every pony and Terrarian present as Sai exclaims:

“We need to draw it out again, it’s using guerilla warfare and it’ll keep retreating underground and try to pick us off.”, Upon hearing this, Twilight thinks back to what Celestia said earlier:

-Unfortunately, this is where The Desert Scourge lived before the ocean’s disappearance...-

“No way... Could that really work?”, Twilight ponders. As she’s lost in her thoughts high in the air various scenarios plays out below the Alicorn:

Rainbow Dash tries to shoot the desert scourge with her Minishark however she misses her chance as the beast continued to use guerilla warfare tactics, burrow into the earth then re-emerge for just a moment to try and pick off some of the adventurer’s. Rainbow screams in frustration:

“Damnit!, if that thing could just stay still for a moment I can unload this puppy. How can something so big be so difficult to truly be hit?. And even when we do land a few blows on it we can’t hit a vital spot, it doesn’t even flinch!”

Starlight Glimmer holds two weapons in both of her hooves: Starfury and The Sapphire Staff. She attacks The Scourge with an energy blast from her staff hoping to hit it before it goes back underground, the blast does indeed make its mark as it hits The Scourge and leaves behind a small wound. Green blood leaks out of the wound however this doesn’t seem to bother The Scourge at all as it still disappears and burrows into the earth while taking more lives in the process. The other adventurer’s also try to do the same however The Scourge doesn’t stay surfaced long enough to allow anyone to hit a vital spot. Starlight grits her teeth in frustration and looks to the blade she held in her right hoof, Starfury, as she says:

“If we could just get it to stay still I could rain down the stars and really bring the pain. All we need is to get it to stay on the surface long enough for us all to bombard it with our attacks.”

Sai, Celestia, and a few other adventurers try their best to predict the scourges attacks as it continues to strike at the large group of adventurer’s then burrows back into hiding. Suddenly, Twilight lands next to Sai and says:

“I have a plan everypo- uh, I mean everyone!”, Before she could go any further her attention was stolen by The Scourge as it once again resurfaces and attacks some of the adventurers. Twilight decides to teleport taking Sai and Celestia with her while the other adventurers continues to wage war against The Scourge. The trio reappears nearby as Twilight continues: “Ok Princ- I mean, Celestia... You said that thing used to live in this desert when it was still an ocean right?”

“Yes that’s correct, but why do you ask?”, Celestia replies.

“Well, this might sound like a bad plan but what if it... How can I say this, feels homesick?”, Twilight replies as she smiles sheepishly. Celestia raises an eyebrow but before she could say anything Sai comes to a realization and says:

“That, that might just work Twilight!. It’s a risk but it may very well work to our favor.”, Celestia couldn’t help but to feel left out as her two companions caught onto the plan before she could, this causes her to say:

“Can I please be invited to the, ‘We think it’s homesick from the loss of an ocean so we now have a plan clu-”, Celestia’s eyes widen as she realizes exactly what they want to do. “Club’, oh... I get it now. Let’s do it!.”

“We have a plan but how are we going to relay it to everyone else?, we’re all scattered amongst the battlefield trying to get that thing to hold still for just a moment.”, Sai Sahan says as he looks on to the battle taking place nearby. Twilight clears her throat and says:

“I know a way, back home we call it: The Canterlot Voice.”

The battle continues to wage on as Starlight, Rainbow, and the rest of the adventurers continue to strike at the scourge before it burrows into the earth and disappears. The Scourge, in turn, sadly claims more lives as it swallows adventurers whole. Suddenly, a loud voice echoes throughout the area which catches everyone’s attention:

”EVERYONE LISTEN UP, CAST ANY AND ALL WATER BASED SPELLS YOU HAVE IN YOUR POSSESSION. IT DOESN’T MATTER HOW LARGE OR HOW SMALL IT IS JUST DO IT, PLEASE TRUST ME. AIM IT TOWARDS THE GENERAL AREA, IF MY THEORY IS CORRECT THE SCOURGE WILL EMERGE AND IT WILL BE VULNERABLE FOR AN ATTACK FROM ALL OF US COMBINED. IF WE SUCCEED WE CAN DEFEAT IT!”

Starlight and Rainbow smirks and says in unison:

“We hear you Twilight!”, Starlight ignites her horn and casts a water spell, aiming it to the dry desert ground beneath her as she stays in the air thanks to her rocket boots. Rainbow Dash flew down to the other adventurer’s and exclaims:

“Well?!, you heard the egghead start casting those spells. Those of you without the ability to use water attacks, we’re gonna protect everyone else and get ready to strike when that thing is vulnerable!”, The adventurer’s nod as every Terrarian who could cast water spells and prepare their water based weapons start to channel their abilities as they scream out:

“Waterbolt!”

“Rainshower!”

“Typhoon!”

“Aqua Scepter!”

“Aquamarine Staff!”

Twilight, Celestia, and Sai join in as they also use their water based attacks and aims it towards the earth:

“Hydro Blast!”, Celestia shouts as blue energy surrounds her hands, she puts both of her hands together which causes a large stream of water to come pouring out.

“Keep at it everyone!”, Sai Sahan exclaims as he braces his weapon, a legendary tiered silver broadsword, for battle.

“Here’s something I learned from Star Swirl The Bearded, Greater Raincloud!”, Twilight shouts as she aims her horn to the skies above and channels all of her magic into her horn. A large grey cloud begins to magically form above the battlefield, soon after, rain begins to pour down onto the earth below. Twilight grits her teeth and says: “Come on, I know you miss the sea that used to be here... Guardian Of The Former Sea.”, Twilight hated to admit it but she was saddened to have to do this to the creature, she did however understand that this needed to be done. The monster has already claimed too many lives and will continue to do so, suddenly, she gets exactly what she wanted as the scourge takes notice of the water being poured onto the landscape:

[VVVVVVRRRRROOOOOOOOOLLLLLLL]

The Scourge erupts from the earth and begins to do exactly what everyone had hoped it would, the beast made itself vulnerable as it begins to roll around in the moistened sands and landscape like a worm in mud. Sai smirks as he yells:

“Attack, give it hell!”

[SSSSKKKRRREEEEEAAAAAQQQQ]

The Scourge cries out in pain as everyone strikes it simultaneously, different types of ranged magic and weaponry punctures The Scourge’s body creating many wounds of various sizes. Those with melee weapons made quick passes at The Scourge slicing into its flesh then backing away and due to its current onslaught the large entity couldn’t counter the melee based attacks in time before they retreated.

Rainbow Dash unloads her Minishark screaming out: “This thing is awesome!, take it all ugly!”

[TWINKLE-BOOM] [TWINKLE-BOOM] [TWINKLE-BOOM]

The sounds of explosions mixed with stars falling goes off as Starlight Glimmer swings Starfury and blasts The Scourge with her staff. The unicorn shouts: “Thank you again Rainbow!, I love this thing!”

“Haaaa!”, Twilight exclaims as she fires a beam of energy from her horn in addition to using her Sapphire Staff. Celestia flies next to Twilight and, with her own Sapphire Staff in hand, joins Twilight’s attack as she fires a barrage of energy blast from her weapon.

“This day you fall beast, for all the lives you took!. I, Sai Sahan, shall witness and aid in your end!”, The Terrarian shouts as he fires flame arrows from his silver bow from a distance and takes a swing at The Scourge when he and other adventurers run in to attack the large entity.

[SSSSKKKKRRRR........ EEEEEEEE.......... AAWwww...]

The roars of The Scourge cuts itself off and slowly fades, everyone stops their attacks due to fatigue and various other reasons such as ammo or mana shortage. A dusty fog/smoke covers The Scourge’s body however slowly but surely the cloud begins to dissipate and what is revealed to everyone causes them to look on in surprise: The Scourge lies dead.

“We did it!”, Twilight exclaims as she and everyone present starts to cheer victoriously. Rainbow and Starlight rushes over to Twilight as the three come into a group hug, Celestia and Sai look on with content smiles as the rest of the adventurer’s cheer in the background. Suddenly, something appears around the scourges body: Various items. All of the ponies look on in shock however the Terrarians, having seen this many times before, shout in unison:

“Loot!”, As if on cue the items begin to duplicate themselves and scatter to everyone present, including the ponies.

“What’s happening?”, Twilight questions as she, Rainbow, and Starlight stares on in amazement.

“Don’t you know?, the world itself awards those who manage to defeat a powerful monster. These powerful beings come in two types: Boss and Mini-Boss.”, Celestia states as she raises a finger to express her point.

“Don’t worry about not getting your fair share, the world blesses us all so long as you put forward the effort to take the Boss down.”, Sai Sahan assures. Rainbow Dash then walks up to him and asks:

“So these mini-bosses you talked about, I got to know...”, Rainbow hesitates for a moment before she steels herself and takes a deep breath: “Does a Wyvern count as a mini-boss?”, The pegasus’s words instantly catches the attention of the other ponies as Twilight and Starlight’s eyes widen in realization, the Alicorn was about to say something however what stops her was what floated in front of her and her friends: Their loot. (See Author’s Note)

The names of their loot and the item’s capabilities somehow engraved itself within the minds of every pony, this amazes Twilight as she couldn’t fathom how this works. Just one look at their loot was enough to tell them what it was, the type of weapon they possessed, and what the item was capable of. This causes the ponies to react and comment:

“These are amazing, some of these could even go to my friends!. Fluttershy would love this staff that summons a starfish to fight for you. As soon as we get back to Home Town I’m thoroughly studying these items.” - twilight.

“Wow, these sand cloaks are gonna be very helpful if we ever need to conceal ourselves or be stealthy.” - Starlight.

“Oh sweet, this Aero Stone gives us a buff!. It Increases movement speed by 10%, jump speed by 20%, and all damage by 3%. Boss loot are awesome!” - Rainbow Dash. The stunt pegasus then narrows her eyes as she thinks to herself internally: -One day I’ll get strong enough to come after you, Wyvern-

Sai and Celestia couldn’t help but to chuckle as they observe the ponies before them, the duo then sends their items to their inventory and approaches the Equestrian’s as Celestia comments: “We’ve won a great battle today friends, well done, my little ponies.”, Celestia’s words causes Twilight to snap her head towards the Terrarian’s direction, Twilight couldn’t hold herself back as she trots over to Celestia, hops into the air, and hugs her with tears going down her face. Celestia catches Twilight who continues to weep in her arms, she looks towards Rainbow Dash and Starlight with a look that screams: ”Did I do something without realizing I did it?”, the two ponies simply sighs sadly and walks up to her. Starlight simply says:

“You remind her... Remind us... Of someone most dear to her. A mother figure even... You even have her name.”, Starlight’s words causes Celestia’s eyes to widen with realization, as this is going on Sai can be overheard in the background speaking to the rest of the adventurer’s. During their conversation Sai respectfully backed away to address everyone else present.

“All right everyone, this is just one of the many victories we shall claim on our journey. Let’s move out!”, Sai exclaims as he motions for the remaining adventurer’s to follow him. Celestia, Rainbow Dash, and Starlight overhears this and start to follow. As for Twilight, the trio were shocked to realize that she had fallen unconscious in Celestia’s arms. The Terrarian didn’t mind one bit as she gently lays Twilight’s chin onto her shoulders and places one of her arms just beneath her flank to support the Alicorn’s weight. Together, the group walk towards the desert horizon and much to their surprise they didn’t realize how much time had passed during their fight with The Desert Scourge. They couldn’t help but to admire the orange silhouette of the lowering sun.

Unknown to them all, a cloaked bystander with a hood covering their features was observing the battle the entire time as the individual says:

“You’re progressing well Twilight Sparkle, but now your true test lies ahead. I have faith that you and your friends will succeed, The Bloodbutcher is nearly at hand.”, The individual then lowers their hood and continues: “I, Celebes, will soon be called to arms. You have truly proven yourselves worthy of my assistance dear ponies.”, Suddenly, flames begins to surround Celebes’s hands which soon takes on the form a greatsword:

“None of us are strong enough to fight The Moon Lord just yet, however, we shall soon face the scourge of the underworld and its armies. You’ve held this world down by the chains of darkness and light for far too long... You abominable Wall Of Flesh.”


-TERRARIA, DUNGEON-

Rarity spent most of the day with Steven as the two continued to chat about various topics over a nice cup of tea. Their latest conversation caused the pair to laugh hysterically, however, they were so caught up in their conversation they foolishly didn’t realize the sun had lowered in the horizon and all that was visible were the beams that shot up into the skies as it lowers itself behind a mountain in the distance. Understandably, Steven panics and shouts:

“Oh no!, we’ve lost track of time Rarity. You must go, now!”, In his mind he couldn’t help but to think: -How is this possible?!, there’s no way we could’ve made such a mistake!- His words shock Rarity at first however she then looks on towards the lowering sun and her eyes shoot wide open.

“I-I’m sorry darling, I didn’t realize how late it was getting!. I shall leave at once-”

[AURGH] [RRRRRAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWLLLLLLL]

Steven lets out a roar that sends an absolute chilling sensation throughout Rarity’s body, the unicorn could only stare in disbelief as she had to watch her friend physically change. A dark energy slowly consumes Steven’s body starting from the lower portion of his back, it spreads out from there and before his face was covered by the black energy he looks towards his friend with tears in his eyes and says:

“R... Run... Rarity.”

[VROOM]

A pillar of black energy shot into the air, the energy then starts to morph into three separate shapes: Two skeletal arms and a large skull. Most disturbingly was the fact that at the end of each arm, where the arm socket would’ve been were they attached to a proper body, a trail of red energy mixed with blood radiated off of the limbs. The Skull was no different as the base of the neck had the exact same energy/blood radiating from it. The all looked as if someone had just amputated them. This new being towers over Rarity who was still frozen in shock along with tears flowing down both of her cheeks, black energy leaks out of the skulls eye socket as it ‘looks’ down to the quaking pony. The being then says:

”Pleasure to finally meet you, worm... Enjoy your stay.”

Author's Note:

Character Newly Acquired Items:

Twilight: Seabound Staff, Barinade, Storm Spray, Aquatic Discharge, Scourge Of The Desert, Dune Hopper, Sand Cloak, Victory Shards x14, Aero Stone

Rainbow Dash: Seabound Staff, Barinade, Storm Spray, Aquatic Discharge, Scourge Of The Desert, Dune Hopper, Sand Cloak, Victory Shards x14, Aero Stone

Starlight Glimmer: Seabound Staff, Barinade, Storm Spray, Aquatic Discharge, Scourge Of The Desert, Dune Hopper, Sand Cloak, Victory Shards x14, Aero Stone

Character inventory/equipment:

Twilight: Staff Of Sapphire, Magic Hat (equipped), Mystic Robe (equipped), Silver pickaxe, Silver axe, 5x Dynamite, 5x Mana Potion, Rocket Boots (equipped), Slime Mount (equipped), Seabound Staff, Barinade, Storm Spray, Aquatic Discharge, Scourge Of The Desert, Dune Hopper, Sand Cloak, Victory Shards x14, Aero Stone (equipped)

Starlight: Staff Of Sapphire, Magic Hat (equipped), Mystic Robe (equipped), Starfury, Silver pickaxe, Silver axe, 5x Dynamite, 5x Mana Potion, 5x Health Potion, Rocket Boots (equipped), Slime Mount (equipped), Seabound Staff, Barinade, Storm Spray, Aquatic Discharge, Scourge Of The Desert, Dune Hopper, Sand Cloak, Victory Shards x14, Aero Stone (equipped)

Rarity: Staff Of Sapphire, Flinx Staff, Magic Hat (equipped), Mystic Robe (equipped), Silver pickaxe, Silver axe, 5x mana potion, Rocket Boots (equipped), Slime Mount (equipped)

Fluttershy: Full set of silver armor (pony, equipped)), silver bow with normal and flame arrows, Slime Staff, Flinx Staff, Finch staff, Silver pickaxe, Silver axe, 5x health potion, Slime Mount (equipped).

Rainbow Dash: Full set of silver armor (pony, equipped), Musket, enchanted balloon, Silver pickaxe, Silver axe, 5x Dynamite, Minishark, 5x Health potion, Slime Mount (equipped), Seabound Staff, Barinade, Storm Spray, Aquatic Discharge, Scourge Of The Desert, Dune Hopper, Sand Cloak, Victory Shards x14, Aero Stone (equipped)

Applejack: Full set of silver armor (pony, equipped), Silver Broadsword, Silver pickaxe, Silver axe, 5x Health potion, Rocket boots (equipped), Rope, Slime Mount (equipped)

Pinkie Pie: Full set of silver armor (pony, equipped), Silver broadsword, 2x Silver shortsword, Silver pickaxe, Silver axe, 5x Health potion, Rocket boots (equipped), Slime Mount (equipped)

Zecora: Full set of silver armor (Zebra, equipped), Flinx Staff, Blowgun, Javelins, Silver Pickaxe, Silver axe, Rocket boots (equipped), various potions.

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