Rainbow Dash vs. Harlequin Grey
“You’ve gotta be kidding me… I guess this is another optical illusion? Or me remembering wrong? You were always an Alicorn?” Rainbow Dash mockingly teased him.
“This is most certainly no simple illusion. But the time for talking is over,” Harlequin Grey said and extended his wide and powerful wings, jumping from the spikes and swooping down at Rainbow Dash.
She shot up from the snow to meet him and the two flew directly at each other. Rainbow Dash pulled back a hoof and Harlequin Grey mirrored her. Their hooves collided with enough force to create a thunderclap. One light blue hoof and the other navy blue.
That’s definitely earth pony strength… Rainbow Dash frowned as their hooves shook from the collision.
The horn atop his head then lit up red, a powerful sparkling growing brighter and brighter right at the tip of it. Rainbow Dash’s eyebrows shot up and she flew away just as a red laser flashed right through where she had been. Harlequin Grey turned his head to follow her and shot small laser blast after laser blast at her that Rainbow Dash had to constantly evade, flying through the sky like the trained stunt flier she was.
Rainbow dove low towards the snow and scooped up a snowball along the way, tossing it at him immediately after dodging the next volley of laser blasts.
He scowled and blew it up before it hit him but it created a cloud of vapor in front of him to block his view. He immediately fired another laser blast through the cloud—suspecting Rainbow Dash was trying to surprise him. Only to end up surprised when she indeed came from underneath the cloud instead of right through it.
Her hoof came up towards his jaw but a powerful flap of his wings temporarily carried him up and out of her reach. Rainbow Dash followed close behind, not letting him charge up and aim his horn again. She consistently got in his face and pressured him, throwing quick punches and flitting about so much she was leaving after-images behind. Harlequin Grey surprisingly kept up with her, not throwing pointless attacks, and just dodging her punches while trying to fly away and get some distance. His wings were large and gave him a lot of propulsion but not quite as much maneuverability as Rainbow Dash had. Every time he tried to make a grand escape she would move first to get in his way and keep him boxed him.
She continued to throw a punch at either his face or anywhere else she could hit—only to grow increasingly annoyed at how he slipped away from every punch like water. The way he moved wasn’t right. It was almost like his body really was liquid sometimes. Meanwhile she could see the annoyance plain in his own face despite his professed hatred of emotions.
They were at an impasse.
Until at the next punch Rainbow Dash sent towards Harlequin Grey’s face he simply scowled and vanished in a burst of red light.
Rainbow immediately realized what had happened and growled. “Oh of course you can teleport too.”
She heard something to her right and turned to see Harlequin Grey hovering in the air while a far more powerful and concentrated surge of magic was gathering at the tip of his horn. The light this time a much darker, maroon red. A deep frown settled on his face as he narrowed his eyes and aimed his horn at her.
“This is payback for all the trouble you’ve caused me!” He roared and unleashed the accumulated magic at her.
It came out as a long, continuous, beam from his horn, slicing across the sky at her. Rainbow Dash flew under it, feeling the intense heat, greater than lava, as it went right by her. Taking a quick glance at where the beam of magic went she saw it shoot for miles past her all the way to the southwest mountains. It decapitated the peaks of the two closest ones, carving right through them with pure heat and force and leaving red molten rock and melted ice behind while the peaks exploded in a fiery blast. Even the sky briefly flashed a shade of red after he unleashed the magic beam.
Note to self, don’t get hit by that. Rainbow Dash gulped.
She flew low to the snow and then towards him while he worked to build up more energy in his horn. Rainbow Dash didn’t intend to give him the time to do that. As soon as she was moderately close she flapped her wings at the ground and kicked up a cloud and whirlwind of snow at him. Not only did it buffet him and force him to close his eyes and focus on his flight more than his magic, it also allowed her to escape his vision.
He unleashed the energy built up in his horn anyways to blow away the mini-snowstorm and flew up a little bit to get a better view of the battleground.
Only for a series of snowballs to come flying at him from above.
Harlequin Grey scowled and created a red shield around his body to block them—the snowballs splattering against it. He looked up and had to squint his eyes, she was coming down directly from the sun, using its light to hide herself. He dropped the shield and prepared to fire another beam at her as she swiftly shot towards him.
Seeing that, Rainbow Dash grinned and threw a final snowball she had been keeping with her as fast as she could.
It hit the tip of his horn and disrupted his spell. And surprised him enough where she was able to fly down and kick him square in the chest. A satisfying impact and a grunt of pain and Rainbow Dash carried him down to the snow where the two landed with enough force to kick up a huge blast of snow and create a crater in the hard ice below.
As the snowfall cleared Rainbow Dash looked down at where she was standing—and found he had disappeared from under her hooves.
“What the-” She felt a shadow behind her and jumped up as a beam of magic nearly hit her. Rainbow Dash flew higher to avoid more coming at her and looked down to see Harlequin Grey standing there, looking no worse for wear, and aiming his horn at her. “How’d he get behind me? And I know I heard him get hurt but there’s not even a bruise or scuff where I hit him...”
A beam of red magic was shot up at her, but with it was also purple lightning crawling around it. Rainbow Dash dodged the beam but the lightning arced out at her as soon as it reached the sky. It spread in every direction—covering the sky above the south pole and sending flashes of light through the clouds and creating a dazzling display. For a brief moment the horizon turned purple to match the lightning, the colors of the world slightly changing in hue as the strange magical energy erupted.
Rainbow Dash had to twist her body to avoid the violent and dangerous sparks of lightning, flying and juking to the sides to avoid the storm.
Another beam of magic was shot at her with green lightning climbing with it to start the chaos all over again. The world flashed green when the lightning crackled and tried to claim its prey in the sky. All the clouds that still remained over the south pole and the southern ocean were soon blow away. Rainbow Dash had to squeeze her eyes shut as the colors and flashes of lightning were too powerful, dots blossomed behind her eyelids as she relied on her ears to dodge now.
Black lightning now came with the latest beam of magic and Rainbow forced her eyes back open despite the disorienting colors. She just barely shot to the side to avoid the beam and the black lightning while the sky flashed red as far as she could see.
She grit her teeth and looked down at Harlequin Grey. Magic of all colors swirled about his horn—she could feel from here how wrong it was. With that horn, those wings, it was an insult. Any fear that she might have was squashed down and Rainbow Dash glared at him, diving down directly at him with the full force of her wings behind her. “I don’t know what you are—but you’re not an Alicorn!”
His eye twitched and his form wavered for just a second, so fast that Rainbow Dash herself didn’t even notice, before her hoof collided with his face.
What was a normal day in Ponyville turned slightly panicky as the sky started flashing a strange array of colors. Purple, green, red, they came one after the other and as the ponies of Ponyville are normally wont to do—they started running around screaming about the end of the world. So yes, just slightly panicky by Ponyville standards.
One of the mares that did keep her head about her was no less confused and worried though.
Princess Twilight Sparkle looked out one of the windows of the Castle of Friendship and frowned as she saw the sky flashing colors aside from its normal blue.
“What’s going on?” It gave her an unsettling feeling deep in her stomach. She didn’t know why that was happening but she instinctively knew it was something very wrong.
A hum of magic came from elsewhere in her castle and Twilight turned around. She ran through the corridors of the castle, hearing something calling out to her, before emerging into the Cutie Map room. Twilight’s jaw dropped as she stared at the map—seeing something going on with it that she never had before.
The usual display was up but it was fuzzy and blinking and around its southern edge a black question mark floated with a familiar rainbow lightning bolt and cloud circling around it.
“Rainbow Dash...” Twilight whispered.
As soon as the words left her mouth the door to the room was thrown back open and Pinkie Pie came running in—nearly out of breath—and shoved her face right up into Twilight’s.
“TWILIGHT!” Pinkie Pie shouted loudly enough to nearly shatter Twilight’s eardrums.
Twilight grimaced and pushed her back just a bit so her vision wasn’t entirely taken up by the pink pony. “I know, Pinkie! We need to-”
“YOU NEED TO HELP ME BAKE A CAKE!”
Twilight Sparkle blinked. “What?”
“My pinkie sense is going craaazy, Twilight! It’s telling me I need to bake the biggest, greatest, cake that’s ever been baked in aaaalllll of Equestria!” Pinkie Pie threw her hooves out (somehow stretching from wall to wall) as she spoke. “I need your help to find all the ingredients and we need to use your kitchen cause it’s bigger!” She smiled ecstatically as she finished.
“Pinkie Pie, don’t you see what’s going on outside right now?” Twilight said in exasperation. “And the map-”
“That’s when my pinkie sense started going off!” Pinkie interrupted again and roped a hoof around Twilight’s neck, starting to drag her out of the room. “Now come on, Twilight! We’ve got rare ingredients to find and a cake to bake! Who knows how long this is going to take?”
“PINKIIIIEEEEE!”
In the realm of chaos, Discord sat inside his chaotic home and smelled an upside-down book listened in braille while outside his window a disco ball flew by.
That part was normal.
What wasn’t normal (for his home) was when the ceiling light flickered a few times. An electrical buzzing came from it as if the light-bulb truly was going on the fritz. Which needless to say shouldn’t be possible considering where any of this was happening.
Discord raised an eyebrow up off his head and looked up at it. A faint look of surprise and amusement came to his face. “A Harlequin? I thought all of those were dead.” He glanced down at his wrist where a mini-sundial appeared showing a tiny porcelain Celestia revolving above it. “Hm… almost teatime with Fluttershy.”
The lord of chaos shrugged. “Eh, sorry Rainbow Dash, you’ll have to take care of it yourself.”
Discord went back to his book.
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In the last chapter of the previous Rainbow Dash story, there was a section that took place in the Stormlands, is that going to happen in this story or is it for a different story?
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That will happen this story.
Grey's powered-up presence seems to be having an effect on the world at large.
Of course a Pinkie moment has to happen while a massive world-level threat is going on.
I get the feeling this special cake will come into play later.
I wonder about the implications of this.
Apparently the Harelquins, whatever they are, may have all supposed to have been dead. There are four right now but that seems to imply that there were more at one point.🤔
They (or maybe at least Grey) also don't seem to be on the same side as Discord (for whatever that's worth/means), as apparently he was considering helping Rainbow Dash against one until deciding that tea time with Fluttershy took priority.🤔
Harlequin Grey is a difficult opponent but I'm sure Rainbow will win probably with the help from Pinkie's cake. I wonder if we're going to learn of the connection between Discord and the Harlequins.