Chapter 19
“Whoa, this place is really sparkly!” Dinky’s voice echoed softly off the crystalline walls as Azure Prism and the three foals walked through Sombra’s dark castle.
“Shhh!” Azure hissed frantically, her head twisting this way and that, mortally afraid of being discovered. “We’re in the King’s castle!”
Pipsqueak looked around. “Uh, where are we going?”
“To find Rainbow Dash.” Alula frowned at him. “Dummy.”
“No, I mean … do we know which way to go so we can find her?” He explained.
Alula snorted. “Of course we do!” Then she paused, looking to Azure. “Uh, you do know, right?”
Azure flinched. “I … I know how to find the main corridor. The throne room should be in the center of the castle.”
“A’kay!” Dinky smiled. “Then you find that core-a-dor and then we’ll find the throne room!”
“Cloudy calls the bathroom the throne room sometimes.” Alula shrugged. “Maybe the king’s taking a bath or something?”
“Maybe he’s onna toilet!” Pip made a face.
“Don’t be dumb, Dummy.” Alula genlty whapped him with her wing. “Evil ponies don’t haveta go to the bathroom!”
“Everypony hasta use the bathroom!”
“Have you ever read a story where everypony stopped so the bad guy could potty?” Alula demanded, rolling her eyes as she turned to Azure Prism. ““Have you ever seen this King Somebody use the bathroom?”
Azure blinked. “Well, no I haven’t…”
“See?” Alula stuck her tongue out at Pipsqueak. “Toldja, Dummy.”
Pip drew himself up and, comporting himself as a true Trottingham gentlepony would, stuck his tongue back out at her. “Don’t call me Dummy, Loo-Loo.”
Alula frowned and stomped her hoof, glaring at Pipsqueak. “Don’t call me Loo-Loo! It sounds like a potty.”
The piebald colt giggled. “Well, you said the throne room was a bathroom, so it makes sense that we should call you Loo-Loo!”
“Quiet or Imma start calling you, um … Squeaky!”
“Hey, I hear something!” Dinky interrupted, tilting her head. “It sounds like … singing?” Everypony fell silent so they could listen. Soon they could all hear a faint melody echoing down the corridors.
“Look for me at dawning, when the earth is asleep.
Til each dewdrop is kissed, by the day”.
“Hey, that sounds like Sweetie Belle!” Pip realized.
Alula’s wings buzzed in excitement. “Then all the other kids must be here too! Let’s go find ‘em!”
Azure opened her mouth to warn them about the guards or whatever else might be in their way and once again the trio raced off, leaving her to trail after them.
Dinky led her friends down a winding series of corridors, flanked on either side by Alula and Pipsqueak as they all kept an ear out for Sweetie’s singing.
“There where ‘neath the rowan and alder, a vigil I’ll keep.
Every moment that you are away.”
Just as the soft song faded away, the three foals turned a corner and found themselves in front of a big heavy door made of black crystal bars. Beyond it was a huge room with over a hundred fillies and colts inside. Most of them they didn’t know, but they spied some familiar faces in the crowd.
“Hey, there’re our friends!” Pip realized as he pointed to some of them. “There’s Apple Bloom and Scootaloo! And there’s Snips and Snails!”
“And Archer and Twist!” Dinky chimed in.
Alula looked too. “Hey isn’t that Diamond Tiara?”
“Yeah!” Dinky confirmed. “And Sweetie Belle!”
Pip waved a hoof. “Hey! Rumble, Chowder, Featherweight! It’s me!”
The locked up kids looked up. “Who’re you?” One colt asked.
A gray pegasus rushed to the door. “It’s Pipsqueak! And Alula and Dinky! They’re our friends!”
“Rumble!” Pip smiled. “We found you!”
Apple Bloom wriggled and pushed her way through to the front. “Oh mah star apples! Yer here! How’d you get away?”
“S’was easy.” Alula said proudly.
“We found Rainbow Dash!” Dinky added.
Scootaloo made her way to the door, almost shoving Rumble out of the way. “She’s here? Where?” She looked around as if expecting her to appear out of nowhere.
“Well she isn’t here right now.” Dinky flattened her ears. “I’m here t’find her! She’s here with her friends so they can stop the bad king!”
Apple Bloom’s face split open in a wide smile. “Applejack’s here?”
“And Rarity?” Squeaked Sweetie Belle as she tried hopping up and down to look over Apple Bloom’s head.
Pipsqueak nodded. “Yeah! We’re gonna let you all out so you can go see ‘em!”
Dinky looked around. All the foals--from Ponyville and from other places--were crowding the door, trying to see what was happening. “What happened to you?” She asked.
A chorus of voices answered her until they dissolved into a general babble. Fillies and colts talking about how they went to bed at home and woke up being pulled out of carts by scary monsters who snarled and shouted at them.
“It was plum terrible!” Apple Bloom shivered as she adjusted her off-kilter trademark bow. “They’re a bunch of bullying varmints!”
Sweetie Belle nodded. “Yeah! Look what they did to Silver Spoon just cuz she wanted to go home!” She pointed to the silver filly who sat off to the side.
Dinky and her friends leaned in to look. “Silver Spoon?” She slowly asked. “You ‘kay?”
Silver Spoon, her usually braided mane looking frayed and disheveled, let out a sniff as she looked up. That’s when they saw that her glasses were broken in two, and the lenses were just a collection of cracks held in place by the frame. “T-they broke my glasses.” Silver Spoon hiccupped. “I—I can’t see!” She sobbed.
Dinky frowned. “Stoopid hairy things. That’s not nice!” She poked her snout through the bars. “S’okay! Rainbow Dash is here and she’s gonna rescue all the ponies and save the day cuz that’s what she does. Then we’ll get you some new glasses so you don’t have t’be sad anymore, a‘kay?”
Frowning slightly, Alula nudged Dinky. “We gotta focus on ‘scaping. ‘Sides, she’s a bully.”
“Mommy always says that mean ponies don't always stay mean unless you push 'em away.” Dinky replied, before adding. “But Silver Spoon an' Diamond Tiara need to not stay mean fast.” Twist walked over to Silver Spoon, offering to trade glasses for a while. Silver Spoon hesitated, especially at the rather dorky-looking glasses Twist wore, but eventually accepted them with a murmured thanks. “So, now we can all ‘scape!”
“How’re you gonna do that?” Scootaloo asked.
Alula looked at the door. “Okay, so the first thing we gotta do is make a headcount to make sure everypony is here.” She nodded importantly. “Then we can let them all out.”
Dinky looked confused. “Why’re we only countin' their heads? The rest of 'em are there too.” She gave a tiny gulp. “Right?” She asked weakly.
Alula facehoofed. Azure Prism, huffing and panting, turned the corner to rejoining them. The imprisoned foals shrank away from the bars. “It’s one of the ponies that brought us here!” Apple Bloom yelped.
“Nono it’s okay! Her name is Miss Prism and she’s gonna help us! It was the bad guy that made the crystal-y ponies do bad things!” Dinky explained. “She’s gonna help get you all free and I’m gonna go find Rainbow Dash!”
Pip and Alula frowned at Dinky. “What? But we’re coming too!” Pip protested.
“Yeah!” Alula nodded in a rare moment of complete agreement with him. “Just as soon as we get the dumb door open, we’ll all go find Rainbow Dash!”
“But that could take forever!” Dinky couldn’t keep a hint of whine out of her voice. “You and Pip can stay an' count heads an the resta ponies an' stuff but I gotta find Rainbow Dash! Miss Princess said I hafta do it 'cause... uh... it's rilly, rilly important!”
Alula put on her little soldier face. “Kickers’ dun let their friends go off alone!”
“We’re not leaving you!” Pip agreed.
“... I'll be right back.” Dinky promised weakly.
“What’s all this racket?” A deep, growly voice grunted. Everypony’s ears twitched as they turned around to see a pair of very familiar, menacing bushwoolies.
“Ahh! It’s the hairy things that wanted to eat us!” Dinky yelped.
“Look, it’s our ingredients!” He smiled toothily in a distinctly unpleasant manner the made the kids behind bars scamper away from the door.
The three free kids looked at each other and had the same thought. “Run!” The foals squealed and took off down the hallway.
Azure hesitantly stood in the middle of the hall, between the fleeing children and the bushwoolies. “S-stop--” The bushwoolies wasted no time in shoving Azure aside and chasing after them.
“Get back here! We’re gonna make a stew out of you!” Snarled the first one.
“Or a quiche!” The other piped up.
“Oh shut UP!”
The Elements of Harmony found themselves staring down an oncoming horde of hairy, smelly, clawed beasts called bushwoolies as they charged at them. Knowing that to stand still would end up with them being bowled over or simply being trampled, the six mares met the enemy charge with one of their own.
In the years to follow, historians and writers would laude this epic charge in song and story. The most famous of which was a poem that ended thusly:
When can their glory fade?
O the wild charge they made!
All the world wonder'd.
Honor the charge they made!
Honor the Harmony Brigade,
Noble six heroes!
The reality was somewhat different.
“Once more onto the britches!” Pinkie shouted as she bounced at the enemy, literally hopping on the heads of the bushwoolies as they tried in vain to catch her.
Fluttershy let out a tiny ‘grr’ and bared her teeth ever so slightly before gasping, having managed to scare herself with her fearfulness. “Ohmygoodness!” She covered her face with her hooves.
“Hiiii-yaaa!” Rarity judo-chopped one bushwoolie in the gut. As it doubled over, she grabbed him by the arm and hip-tossed him over her.
“Where’d you learn to do that?” Twilight asked, impressed.
“A lady must learn certain skills in order to keep one’s poise in balance.” Rarity pronounced. “And I find that tai-chi slows the aging process and keeps one nice and poised.”
“With your skill, you’d easily be a black belt.” Twilight noted.
Rarity sniffed. “A black belt? How tacky! I stopped once I got my blue belt. It goes much better with my eyes, don’t you think?”
“Quit fussing over yer accessories and fight!” Applejack barked as her hoof met a bushwoolie’s face. It fell over backwards, landing on and splattering an unlucky snow leopard.
Rainbow Dash flew over the heads of the hairy beasts, taunting them. “Yeah, come on you ugly furballs! Your mothers were a bunch of dust bunnies and your fathers smell like carpet cleaner!”
With an angry growl, one enterprising bushwoolie picked up a snow leopard and compacted it into a large ball. With a mighty heave, he hurled it upwards. Rainbow barely had time to gawk at the sight of a giant snowball with a snarling face and row of sharp ice fangs before it knocked her out of the sky.
Dash grunted as hit the ground, trying to hold the growling snow boulder away from her face. “Oh that is it!” She sat up. “Time for some contact sports!” Rainbow threw the compressed snow leopard up in the air. As the snow ball came back down, Rainbow dealt it a swift kick with her back hooves, sending it flying across the room, right into a pack of bushwoolies about to pounce on Rarity. They went down like a bunch of ninepins. “Striiike!” Rainbow pumped her hoof triumphantly as she got back up.
Twilight looked around seeing her friends all in the midst of battle--well, Rainbow Dash, Applejack and Rarity were anyway. Pinkie Pie was more bouncing here and there and everywhere, leading the pursuing bushwoolies and snow leopards to crash into one another in a vain attempt to get her. And Fluttershy mostly squeaked and covered her eyes … which ironically is what the monsters were doing as well, clearly terrified of the petite pegasus’ stare from their last encounter.
That just left her not contributing anything. Twilight took a deep breath and concentrated. Her horn lit up with magic as she attempted to cast a spell, any kind of spell. But the dark crystals that seemed to make up the palace prevented her from casting even the slightest cantrip.
While she couldn’t perform any spells or use any magic, that’s not the same as being unable to see and sense magic. The black crystals gave off an aura of their own as they drained the magic away from Twilight’s spells before she could even finish casting them. But beyond that, she could see something beyond them. The crystals here didn’t just absorb magic. If they did, they could eventually be overloaded and explode. But these ones diverted all the magic to someplace else. Someplace just beyond the far wall, something dark lurked.
That had to be King Sombra! Twilight’s shot open. “Rainbow Dash!” She called out. “I know where Sombra is!”
Rainbow looked up after kicking a bushwoolie in the face. “Really?! Where?” She looked around as if expecting him to be hiding behind a curtain somewhere--not that there were any).
“I think he’s in another room, behind the wall!” Twilight called out over the sound of the battle. “We need to get to the far wall!”
The others started to converge on her position. AJ looked, her hair band long gone and her mane in her face. “Which one? The one behind us? The one guarded by snow leopards or the one guarded by windigos?”
Twilight pointed to the back wall, directly behind the main body of bushwoolies. “The fourth wall!”
“Oooh I love that wall!” Pinkie beamed. “The fourth wall is the best wall ever! And if you’re on top it, you can burn bad comics.” She nodded seriously.
A twitch started to develop above Twilight’s right eye. She hoped that didn’t turn into a thing. She was about to either ask Pinkie to explain (something she knew was pointless even as she contemplated it) or direct her somewhere else when she got an idea about how to get past the enemy. “Pinkie, we need your help. Be a distraction.”
That won a snort of laughter from the cowpony as she bucked a snow leopard’s head clean off its body. “Shucks, Twi. I was afraid y'were gonna ask her to do somthin' hard.” Applejack quipped.
“Aww—I was just gonna make a lot of noise instead.” Pinkie pouted, sounding put out. “But okay…” She bounced around, waving her limbs in all directions. “Hey look at me! I’m being distracting!” Somehow, that garnished the attention of every bushwoolie, snow leopard and even the three windigos into watching Pinkie’s escapades and pursue her all over the room.
“There are so many reasons why that shouldn't have worked,” Twilight groaned as she and the others raced for the now-abandoned far wall.
Rainbow Dash hovered over her impatiently. “Well? How do we get through?”
“There isn’t a door or anything I can see...” Twilight muttered, half to herself as she examined the crystalline wall.
In the background, Pinkie Pie did a little jig as she kept two hooves ahead of the horde of monsters and evil spirits. “Oh, I had a blind date who couldn’t really rumba! He was kinda dark and ugly—his name was King Sombra! I went right on through it, that date was pretty rough. Sure it was a blind date, but I wasn’t blind enough!”
Applejack knocked her hoof against the wall. “Whooee, sure seems solid t’me.”
Twilight let out a frustrated growl. “Oh, if only we had somepony who knew more about these crystals! An architect, a thaumaturgist or...”
“A pony who grew up on a rock farm?” Pinkie Pie suggested.
“Yes, or--aaah!” Twilight let out a startled shriek and leapt into the air, spinning and falling on her rump. “H-how did, where did--weren’t you being a distraction?!”
Pinkie hmmed, rubbing her face in deep thought as she pondered the question. Then her face lit up. “Oh yeah! I was, but I delegated.”
Rainbow Dash and Twilight shared a look before turning back to the pink pony. “Delegated?” They asked in unison.
By way of answer, Pinkie pointed behind her. Her friends turned to look as they saw Applejack racing across the room, chased by Sombra’s goons … while wearing a Pinkie Pie suit.
A dumbfounded look crossed the faces of Rainbow, Twilight and Rarity (Fluttershy was too nervous to look). “Don’t ask me!” AJ yelled when she noticed them staring. “Ah don’t know how this happened neither!”
Rarity cleared her throat demurely. “ Moving along...” she turned to Pinkie. “You were saying, darling?”
“Oh, I never know what I’m saying.” Pinkie shrugged. “I say so much stuff that sometimes, even I don’t think I make any sense! Except when I do make sense, only I don’t know that I’m making sense until later.”
Twilight sighed. “Yes, well, you were saying that you raised on a rock farm, right? Does that mean you know about crystalline lattice structures? Perhaps weak points?”
Rainbow Dash facehoofed. “Twi? You’re talking to Pinkie Pie. She probably doesn’t know anything about crystal lettuces or whatever--”
“The crystal lattice parameters are in a classic symmetrical hexagonal pattern where all constants are equal,” Pinkie rattled over, examining the wall with a critical eye. “There are a few weak points or, shatterpoints, in the structural integrity that can be aggravated through a continuous application of high-pitch frequency of 1.21 gigahertz.” Her analysis completed, Pinkie Pie turned around to face her friends.
She was a greeted by a chorus of slackened jaws.
Rainbow Dash eloquently summed up what the rest of them were thinking. “Hub buh bwah--bwaaaah?”
Yep, eloquent.
Rarity recovered first and examined the crystal wall herself. “I believe Pinkie is right. These crystals aren’t naturally grown nor are they treated and refined. A high pitched sound might just shatter them like a crystal glass at an opera.”
Twilight beamed at her friends’ knowledge and clever reasoning. “Pinkie, Rarity, that’s brilliant!”
“Sounds good.” Rainbow said, not quite understanding the content of the discussion, but picked up the end result quickly enough: a way through. “So, how do we do it?”
Pinkie grinned. “I know!” She reached out with her hoof and dragged Fluttershy over. Next, Pinkie pulled out a tuning fork from her mane and tapped it against the wall. “Hmmm...” She tapped her chin thoughtfully for a second, then her eyes lit up. “A ha! Got it!” She proceeded to lick both of her forehooves and traced them up the necks of Fluttershy and Rarity.
The two mares let out a startled high-pitched shriek that prompted Twilight and Rainbow Dash to clasp their hooves over their ears.
The shrieks seemed to echo and reverberate off the walls and ceiling, amplified by the crystals. The shout themselves were of a most impressive pitch and duration, lasting roughly half a minute. Rainbow made a mental note of their impressive lung capacities and spared a moment to think of a way to get the two of them into a burping contest. Such thoughts were cut short when a large crack appeared in the wall.
“All right!” Rainbow flew up. “Here we go: first we crack the shell, then we crack the nut inside!” She pounded on the crack in the wall, slamming her hindlegs against it again and again.
The wall groaned and strained, bites and pieces falling away under her hammer blows. Rainbow Dash flew back, giving herself some flying room as she prepared to charge it. “Okay everypony, as soon as I take the wall down, follow me inside!”
Twilight tried to warn her. “Rainbow Dash, wait!”
Forelegs outstretched, Rainbow Dash circled around the room a few times to build up momentum and then headed for the cracked wall at top ramming speed. Her hooves impacted the wall and it shattered. A pony-sized hole smashed through as Rainbow found herself on the other side of the wall. She turned her head to see if her friends were following, but saw that most of the wall was still intact. Still, not a major problem since she could always swing around again and keep at it until the rest of the wall fell. No worries.
That’s when things started to go downhill. Rainbow absently careened into another wall and bounced off, falling to the ground and skidding across the floor. Rubbing her already much abused rump, Dash shakily got to her hooves and looked to where she had gotten through.
The fractured wall was thin, and on the other side she could she pony-shapes either fighting other, larger shadows or beating on the wall with their hooves. The wall shuddered. Through the hole she made, Dash heard a faint shout of ‘Rainbow!’ from Twilight, Applejack and the others.
She took a breath, about to answer back to let them know she okay, when the next worrying thing happened. A new wall of crystal grew out of the floor and ceiling, completely re-sealing it. “No!” Rainbow Dash ran over and pounded a hoof on the reinforced wall, but it was no use. It was much thicker and stronger now than it had been before. She couldn’t hear or see a thing on the other side.
Rainbow groaned and rested her forehead against the wall. She was all alone now. A cold chill ran up her spine as she started to turn around, somehow getting the feeling that she wasn’t as alone as she had thought...
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Typo alert!
Missing word is missing.
Okay, this chapter seems shorter then usual, but it's still good! Stand by for my thoughts on it!
Perhaps you mean 'thaumaturgist'?
Okay, first off:
Damn! Hey, Sombra, do you want some ointment? Because you just got BURNED!
And Alula? Evil ponies are still ponies, and believing that they don't have the same biological functions as regular ponies, not wanting to attempt to befriend bullies, and the way you keep insulting Pipsqueak has you dangerously close to becoming The Scrappy, and we all know what happens to them!
So Dinky, Alula, and Pipsqueak found the other foals, and while Pipsqueak and Alula were trying to make sure they were all there and figure out a way to free them, Dinky tried to pull a Let's Split Up, Gang, but was outvoted, even though the logic of her idea was sound, and the commotion was enough to attract the attention of the bushwoolies.
Meanwhile, the Elements of Harmony are fighting and due to Conservation of Ninjutsu, they're actually winning. But then, after Pinkie showed off her Hidden Depths by being able to distract every enemy in the room after Twilight said she needed a distraction so she could find Sombra's location, and delegating that duty to Applejack after Twilight mentioned needing someone who knew about crystals, once Pinkie had managed to weaken the crystals, Rainbow Dash, in her typical manner, decided to rush ahead, and is now cut off from the others, with the crystal repairing itself. And I'm calling it: Pinkie Pie is totally Obfuscating Stupidity, because let's face it, she's much smarter then she seems.
One more thing.
Yeah, that's totally nothing like the line Rumble used in Transformers The Movie.
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Badge time! *teleports badges directly to Trinary* And just to make sure someone doesn't try to steal them... *uses The Stare on Web of Hope*
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And Sombra, you're not going to get away with your plan to drain those foals of their life force! LISTEN TO MY SONG!!!
And Dinky, just because something went wrong is no reason to quit! After you ditch those bushwoolie guards, there's only one thing to do!
Well, that's all I have to say! See you later!
thaumaturge or thaumaturgist
Lord Tennyson poetry and a Redwall song in the same chapter? I knew there were more reasons why I have this story favorited beyond the talented writing, tense action, and exceptional characterizations.
Great chapter! I love how you write the kids' parts, they always seem like how kids would really react.
Cliffhanger, WHYYYY
Well you're keeping me around and that's a good thing! I shall be keeping a watch for updates, a very close watch
Great!
2677243
*kicks it into a nearby river*
*blindfolded* *trips on badges box* stupid rock
2677930 Silly Web! You can't trip on the badge box, because there is no badge box! I teleported them directly to Trinary!
Nice job! I see how your walking on very thin ice and yet managed to make it a brilliant adorable hilarious adventurous dark and overall amazing story in so short time. I know I can't do that! Dinky's as adinkable as ever. Somber as screwed in the long run. Rainbow didn't think ahead and pretty much got herself killed
(as usual) and story is better than the Hobbit! Job well done man, job well done.
you even have the legendary trinary as your username making me assume your a believer! 
pinkie made me snort so much during this
buuut we might get a awesome fight scene with rainbow and sombra 
2677243 why don't I get a badge?
2677945
in what? individually? then what did I trip on...TOM!!! *dives into the river, still blindfolded*
*Misses, landing head-first on a streambed turtle*
*is unconscious, being nommed by an unhurt turtle*
2677978 They're for the author, silly!
2677982 Yep, looks like Tom just screwed you over before Rarity even found him!
2678001
:(
2678016 Fine, here's the badges for the rulers of Equestria, just to make you happy. Don't say I never did anything for you.
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2678030 but I wanted a rainbow dash and Derpy badge!
2678041 Fine, here you go.
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Thank you! Oh crud I just realized web might try to steal them! Nah he's fine sleeping with the fishes
Great chapter as always. The squirt patrol was as cute as always, and the action is really picking up. Looking forward to seeing where this goes next.
2678003>>2678067
. Get out of that poor turtle's shell, he's gonna need that for tonight's blizzard!
Gummy! there you are, you silly goose...gater. Goosegator!
...Oh no, poor Webby's down for the count...well c'mon, we better get him back to his computer. This silly's got writing to do!
2678067 Yeah, and I always teleport them straight to whoever I want to get them, so you really have nothing to worry about anyway!
2677243 I'm thinking Pinkie's more of a Genius Ditz. It's not like she's intentionally hiding her smarts to trick others. (Or IS she?
) She's just naturally goofy, and the fact that it hides her brilliance is an unintended side-effect. 
And holy shtako, Rainbow Dash is alone with Sombra. If he isn't a smoke monster in this continuity, what'll he be like? Badass sorcerer-warrior king? A Mr. House-like cripple clinging to life by keeping himself hooked up to the Crystal Empire? A time-traveling mariachi who wants to wish Rainbow Dash a happy birthday?!?!?
THE SUSPENSE IS PALPABLE!
2678155 Dude, Genius Ditz is a subtrope of Hidden Depths. Your argument is invalid.
I see what you did there.
2677243
And don't forget that if Sombra did the wall thing on purpose to separate Dash from the others, then he shows signs to be Dangerously Genre Savvy, thanks to him taking advantage of Dash Leeroy Jenkins nature, now it's time for him to show and present his Badass credentials.
And nice music, but when you are going to fight the final boss you need the most-hot blooded songs for the battle, and those are...
And taking into acount that in SRW Alpha 3 Basara sung one of their song to depower the final boss, this is much canon that their music is a)Awesome and b)capable of defeat the SRW version of SATAN.
However I'm interested in what will be Dash worst fear...
Fear of being alone? Fear to fail and one of her friends dying for it? Or maybe something even more dark?
2678195 Please, the songs I provided? The main singer is Nekki Basara, who is so Hot Blooded that in Super Robot Wars Alpha 3, he was the only ordinary human who didn't fall under the mind control of the Paras Particles.
And his singing was able to free the rest of the Alpha Numbers afterwarts. THAT'S how Hot Blooded he is!
2678216
And that's the reason of him singing GONG during the final battle, Nekki Basara+JAM Project=Awesomeness.
And for extra irony the main singer of JAM project was the voice of Keisar Ephes, the final boss of the game, so yeah they defeated the voice of JAM project... with one of their own songs.
2678259 I did not know that!
But my point is, someone who is a normal human, but was immune to mind control, something that only cyborgs, robots, half-human characters, and the Virtual On cast were capable of, is the epitome of hot-blooded!
2678172 Yeah, well... your face is invalid!
Seriously, though, how does that invalidate my comment? It isn't a matter of what's a sub-trope of what, but a distinction determined by whether Pinkie's hidden intelligence is a facade used deliberately to make others underestimate her (Obfuscating Stupidity) or it's simply a byproduct of her natural silliness (Genius Ditz). Both are examples of Hidden Depths, and it's a question of intent.
2678435 Look, let's just drop it, okay?
Linkara reference, nice.
Why do I feel like that 1.21 gigahertz thing was a shout-out to "Back to the Future"? Also, I expected at one point for Pinkie to appear next to a bushwoolie, point in a random direction, and go "I'm over there." Which, of course, would make said bushwoolie look in that direction. What? I think it would have worked for her!
2678450 If you say so. And looking back at my post from last night, it seems to come across as more harsh and pedantic, and less jocular than it was intended, so my apologies for that.
2678141 I'm wondering what this battles gonna be like: iron man powning a big bad robot while not even trying:rainbowdetermine2: epic sidestep battle like Jedi vs maul
republic commando style take down 
random explosion? 
or the more reasonable classic used in every story sombra uses rainbows worst fear against her causing her to drop her sheild meanwhile zecorafinds the crystal heart, the kids get out, her friends find a way in, elements vs sombra then doesn't work they get captured for power advantage sacrifice thingy then when all hope is lost, kids storm throne/potty room save the six while cadence weakens him with heart! Crystal fair, jousting match, then they get home in time for supper (hearts warming eve) presents, congrats, medal from major, and the moment we've all been waiting for: 
hugs her daughter! Bravo, bravo! Kuddos to the author! More badges for me and the author! More dash verse to come! And camping finally getting finished! Trinary, just promise me not to rush these upcoming chaps. I want them to be perfect.
I forgot to mention: at one part in this upcoming boss battle pinkies gonna get a chain saw
And another thing atone point in boss battle dash'l get awesome battle armour!
2679640 Yeah, so let's brohoof and make up. /)
If I am not mistaken, this is a reference to the "Charge of the Light Brigade."
I give you super kudos for working that in. 
As well as a well implemented fourth wall joke.
And to top it off, crystallography for the win.
I cannot wait for the next installment. Could you pretty please make it sooner than later?
I know how to get through the fourth wall! Magic coin, make my me grow! ...wait...*bwoop* Okay, now to shatter that crystal! But first, we need to stop a Doctor Insano!
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Doctor Pinksano!
Awesome battle and great use of character.
Also dreading the tension of her friends being stuck on the other side of an opaque wall while Sombra is alone with Dash.
Of course, due to certain idiots in the fandom my imagination conjures things far from show-like.
1.21 GHz is about sixteen octaves higher than the top of the human hearing range. Where an octave is DOUBLE (or half, going the other way) the frequency. That's hearing range, not vocal range (which is lower still). Even bats can't even come close to hearing those kinds of pitches.
References aside, to say that a mammal makes this kind of noise with any sort of power is much like saying a character is so startled that they jump all the way into space, out of the solar system, out of the galaxy, before finally landing on a distant planet in the Lesser Magellanic Cloud. So far beyond absurd that it just leaves you scratching your head.
I mean, yes, Pinkie Pie, but she really sounded like she was being serious for a moment.
I would leave DiamondTiara. After watching S04E05 “Flight To The Finish”, I conclude that DiamondTiara is irredeemable. She clearly has Narcissistic Personality-Disorder. One should save SilverSpoon because she might be redeemable, without the bad influence of DiamondTiara.
1.21 Gigahertz is a reference to 1.21 Gigwatts (which should have been 1.21 GigaJoules), but that is too high-pitched by 6 orders of magnitude.
A Transformers quote and a Gummi Bears reference, somepony remembered my birthday!
They are complete monsters.
Isn't that a Transformer the movie quote?