Equestria Girls: The Contest of Champions

by Time Agent pony

Chapter 2

Twilight rematerialised in a cell.

"What the heck?" she cried.

She went to the cell door, "Hey! Let me out of here!" she shouted.

Then she remembered that she had her lantern ring and her geode, she could just break out and find the others.

It was then, that Twilight noticed that at both her ring and her geode were gone.

She began rattling the door, trying to make some noise to draw attention.

"Ah," said a voice, "one of our newest combatants have arrived."

"Who's there?" Twilight asked.

From out of the darkness, stepped a woman wearing a bodysuit, helmet and belt.

What really caught Twilight off guard was that she had six arms.

"Who are you," Twilight asked, "what is this place, where are my friends, where is my ring and..."

The six armed woman simply stopped Twilight and smiled, "all will be revealed soon," she smirked, "the contest is about to begin."

---

"Hello and welcome to the Contest of Champions!"

"I'm your host Ambush Bug and here with the colour commentary my partner, Arcade."

"Hey, good to be here."

"Anyway, I think we should get to the point of why we're here."

"I couldn't agree more, bug."

"Indeed, the Contest of Champions, a tournament where warriors from all across the multiverse battle it out to see who is the best of the best."

"That's right, and all this was possible thanks to some mysterious backers, Mojo Media and our gracious organisers the Grandmaster and the Collector."

"So how does the contest work?"

"I'm glad you asked Arcade, you see its a good old fashioned 'last man standing,' the losers and their earths are erased and whoever wins takes home the prize."

"Sounds simple, enough,"

"Well, enough of that, let's go down to the VIP box to join the Grandmaster for the pre contest opening ceremony."

---

Back in the holding cells.

Rainbow Dash had finally recovered from being teleported.

"Arrr," she groaned, "my head."

Like Twilight, she had had her ring and geode taken from her and she had been placed in cell.

All across the area, Sunset and the rest of the Champions were all slowly recovering from being teleported, each in a different cell to each other.

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En Dwi Gast a.k.a. The Grandmaster along with his brother Taneleer Tivan a.k.a. The Collector watched from their position in the VIP lounge area.

The stands were packed to the rafters, the crowd were on the edge of their seats waiting for the contest to start.

"Our guest will be arriving shortly," The Collector said, "Shall we get things underway?"

"We shall, brother," The Grandmaster nodded, "but first, I'd like to make an announcement to contestants."

He produced a microphone, his voice was broadcast throughout the holding cells.

"Combatants," he said, his voice had a menacing tone to in,"in the coming days each of you will fight, some are here of their own volition, others were brought here by chance. If you defeat all your opponents you will face one final challenge and the outcome of this tournament will determine your Earth's fate."

The Grandmaster smiled as a giant hologram of himself was projected into the arena.

"Hello, everyone!" he declared, his voice was now upbeat and jovial, "who's ready to get this show on the road?"

The crowd erupted into screams in reply, the suspense was killing them.

"Very well," The Grandmaster said, "let the games begin."

Fireworks erupted, signalling the start of the contest.

The two brothers' attention was interrupted by the arrival of Topaz, The Grandmaster's personal bodyguard and head of security.

"Your esteemed guests have arrived," he stated.

"Excellent," The Grandmaster replied, "show them in, Topaz."

Topaz nodded and stepped aside, allowing the aforementioned guests entered the room.

They were gods, deities and various other beings from across the multiverse.

"Welcome," The Collector proclaimed, "welcome, friends."

"We're so pleased you came," The Grandmaster added, "I hope you're all ready for show."

"Please," The Collector said, "help yourselves to some refreshments."

"The show will begin, momentarily," The Grandmaster smiled.

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Back with Twilight.

The six armed woman had refused to answer any of her questions, simply smiling and walking away while saying, "try to get along with your cellmates."

Twilight was confused by the statement, she thought that she was the only one in the cell.

It was then she realised she wasn't alone.

Someone was sitting on the opposite side of the cell.

"So," the figure said, "they got you too, huh?"

"Who are you?" Twilight asked.

The figure stepped forward, revealing himself.

"Name's Tommy Oliver," he said, "I'm guessing you and your friends got an invite too?"

"Twilight Sparkle," Twilight replied, "and yes, we did, how did you...?"

"Me and my friends got one too and then we found ourselves here," Tommy answered.

"The invite said something about a contest," Twilight said, "and that announcement said we have to fight and that our Earth's fate hangs in the balance."

"Seems that way," Tommy replied.

"How do we escape?" Twilight asked, "do you have a plan?"

"We play along for now," Tommy replied.

"What?" Twilight exclaimed, "are you serious?!"

"Well, like you said," Tommy retorted, "our homes are on the line, besides I already tried to escape."

"What happened?" Twilight asked.

Her attention was drawn to a small device attached to Tommy's neck.

"What is that?" she asked.

"They call it an Obedience Disk," Tommy explained, "they put them on all of us, even you."

Twilight felt around her neck, sure enough, an Obedience Disk had been placed on her neck.

"If you try and escape," Tommy explained, "you get zapped."

Before the two could continue, some guards came marching down the hallway.

They stopped at one of the cells, opened it, entered and exited dragging a prisoner with them.

Suddenly, The sound of cheering was heard, signalling that the first match of the Contest of Champions was about to start.

A screen in a corner of the cell blinked on, showing the arena above.

The voices of the commentators was heard over the intercom.

"And we're off with our first bout, we have Spark the Electric Jester vs Lilac the Dragon Girl."

"Both these fighters are quick on their feet, so don't blink or you might miss them."

"Anyway, let the battle begin!"

Twilight and Tommy watched as the two combatants began to duked it out with each other.

Spark seemed to have the edge on Lilac in terms of abilities with his more wider range of powers.

But Lilac was able to close the gap with her speed, moving so fast that Spark couldn't get a proper lock on her.

After a while, Spark had started to get tired and sloppy.

Lilac charged at him, ready to deliver the finishing blow.

But at the last second, Spark was teleported away before the blow could be struck.

"Wait," Twilight said, "what was that?"

As if in answer, the commentators started talking again.

"I bet you're wondering what just happened?"

"I sure am, Bug."

"Well, that was the Anti Fatality field."

"Anti Fatality field, whats that?"

"It's very simple, the loser is teleported away before the finishing blow can be struck, can't have our combatants dying on us can we? I mean what do think we are monsters?"

"Hmmm, kinda seems like cheating when you put it like that."

Twilight breathed a sighed of relief.

"Well," she said, "at least, we don't have to worry about our lives being on the line."

The commentators continued talking.

"Anyways, on with the show."

"I couldn't agree more, our next combatants are: Vi vs Yang Xiao Long."

"These two deadly dames aren't just pretty faces, they pack one hell of punch, literally."

"Well, get ready because fists are about to fly."

The two combatants appeared in the arena, one with long yellow hair with complex looking bracelets and the other, a pink haired girl, welding giant gauntlets, almost as big as her entire body.

When the signal was given the two girls charged at each other.

The yellow haired girl firing blasts from her bracelets, while the other girl blocked with her giant gauntlets.

The pink haired threw punch after punch, which yellow haired girl dodged and counterattacked.

The fight kept going back and fourth, neither one showing any signs of backing down.

The tie was finally broken with almighty punch from the pink haired girl that sent the yellow haired girl flying into a wall.

"Ooo, that's gotta hurt."

"I won't be so sure, Arcade."

Miraculously, the yellow haired girl got back on her feet, seemingly unfazed by the previous attack.

Her eyes turned red and her hair glowed bright yellow, like it was on fire, she charged at the pink hair girl and hit her with punch that had the same amount, if not more, power than the punch she had thrown at her.

The pink haired girl, didn't have time to react or defend, the punch knocked all the wind out of her.

"Um, what just happened?"

"Well, it seems Miss Xiao Long has just activated her Semblance, quite a powerful one at that."

"And a Semblance is?"

"A unique power those from Miss Xiao Long's Earth possess, all of them different and varying."

"Oh, so like mutants on our Earth?"

"Exactly, and Miss Xiao Long's Semblance is to absorb damage from hits she takes, adding them to her own physical power."

"Okay, well this fight just got a whole lot more interesting."

By this time, the pink haired girl had mostly recovered from the attack and was back on her feet.

Now empowered by her Semblance, the yellow haired threw punch after almighty punch.

The pink haired tried to block, but eventually she began to weaken and with one final almighty punch the yellow hair girl completely shattered the pink haired girl's gauntlets.

The pink haired girl fell to the floor defeated and was teleported away.

"Wow," Twilight remarked, "that girl could give Applejack a run for her money in terms of strength."

"Alright, folks, are you ready for the next BATTLE?!"

The commentators listened as the crowd roared in response.

"Yeaahhh, good."

"Are next round is between Max Steel and Generator Rex!"

"Both these fighters are crazy strong, so look out those in the splash zones!"

The two combatants appeared in the arena.

Once the signal to fight was given, the two unveiled their powers, Max with his Turbo modes and Rex with his nanite builds.

---

"Ah," The Grandmaster breathed, as he, his brother and the rest of the assembled gods and deities watched the battle unfold, "people hitting people, is there anything more beautiful?"

"Indeed, brother," The Collector replied, "they fight with such courage and determination, truly a spectacle to behold."

The two brothers clinked their glasses together and continued to watch the fight.

Comments

[Comickook]

Again, you did a really good job on the dialogues, characterizations and future chapter set-up. So, the Grandmaster and the Collector set up this competition with Ambush Bug and Arcade doing color commentary. REALLY liked the chat between Twilight and Tommy concerning the reasons for going along with this until they can come up with a better plan as well as the good selection of heroes both familiar and more obscure. Hopefully, they're all going to find a way to save ALL of their worlds. But in the meantime -

Anyway, on to the next chapter.