To revive their friends lost during the battle with the Saiyans, the Z fighters must go to Namarek to use their dragon balls. but their plans may be put on hold when the galactic tyrant Tirek is also on the planet looking for them
Lightning Dust fled Equis after her defeat at the hooves of Rainbow Dash and the Z-Fighters. All though their victory was not without a cost. Flare Sentry(Not that anyone cares) Sweetie Belle, Rarity Belle, and Nightmare Moon are dead, and with Nightmare's death, Lauren is dead too, and the Dragon Balls are useless. But with the help of Mr. Terry and Ms. Fluttershy, Scootaloo, Gilda and Thunderlane head to Nightmare and Lauren's homeworld, Namarek, in hopes of using their Dragon Balls to revive the others.
But when they get there, they find that Lightning Dust, healed and stronger then ever, has also gone there in hopes to once again get her wish for immortality. But both parties find out that they're not the only ones in search of them, as Tirek, the reason for the destruction of Planet Lightning and the almost complete extermination of the Saiyans, the Galactic Tyrant is also searching for them in hopes of getting the same wish as Lightning Dust's.
With Rainbow Dash on her way to Namarek to help, will she get there in time to avenge her people and revive her friends? Will Lightning Dust be forced to team up with her enemies to defeat Tirek? Or will the universe be doomed as Tirek claims his wish for Immortality?
Rated teen for gore and swearing.
Additional tags: Nightmare Moon, OC, Gilda
A Chance to revive the Others! The Chance of Return is the Birth of the Nightmare
On Equis in North City, there was a hospital room where a few ponies resided. One was a griffon, her forehead was bandaged, and her arm was in a cast, but she was walking fine. Another was an orange pegasus filly with purple hair and matching eyes, with only a bandaged forehead looking at her mother. She looked way worse as she was in a large cast with only her cyan face visible along with a bit of her rainbow mane. The griffon was Gilda, the filly Scootaloo, and her mother was Rainbow Dash, recently finding out that she was a Saiyan sent to Equis to kill everyone but an accident made her the loyal and kind mare she is today. And not too long ago she had just defeated the Saiyan Princess Lightning Dust, who had barely escaped with her life saving the earth but costing them the lives of their friends, Flare Sentry, Sweetie Belle, her older sister Rarity, and Nightmare Moon, who gave her life to save Scootaloo, but also cost them the Dragon Balls, their only way of bringing the others back. With them was Rainbow's lifelong friend Thunderlane who she meat as a filly, Bonbon, a talking cat that lived on BonBon Tower that usually supplied the Z-Fighters with wound healing Senzu Beans, Rainbow's husband Soarin, Scootaloo's overbearing godmother Harshwhinny, her father in law Snowflake, and the pink unicorn Cadenza, creator of the Kamehameha technique, trainer of Rainbow Dash, Gilda and the Turtle School, and well known pervert.
"So Dash, How long you gonna be in here?" Cadenza asked.
"Hard to say. Doctor Stable said it was gonna be a while what with my basically broken body. But I don't mind, gives me time to relax from training for once."
"Well, it's gonna be a good Senzu Season so don't plan to stay here long." Bonbon responded.
"I always forget that you can talk." Cadenza said looking at the feline. Just then, Doctor Stable walked in the room with a clipboard.
"Excuse me, Miss Rainbow Dash? There's someone here to see you."
"Someone else? But all my friends are here." Rainbow Dash responded.
"Not all of them." A creepy voice said. Everyone looked to the window, seeing a wirewolf standing out there with a creepy smile on his face. Rainbow Dash's pupils contracted as memories came in of when she was expecting to meet Lauren when he first saw him. A yellow coated pink maned pegasus walked behind him with a kind smile on her face. "Hello everyone, Mr. Terry and I are really happy to see you again." Those terrifying memories of Mr Terry in Rainbow's mind were replaced by ones of her, Ms Fluttershy, helping Rainbow and calming her down, causing her monitor to flatline, prompting a couple more doctors to run in. Ms. Fluttershy saw this and blushed embarrassed. "Oh."
The doctors finally walked out of the room leaving only Doctor Stable. "Well it took 4 defibrillator units, but we finally got her beating again, I'll leave you to your business while I run more tests."
"Bye..." Mr Terry responded.
"Oh yeah you're here. Who are you again?" Cadenza asked.
"Mr. Terry and Ms. Fluttershy. They watch the Lookout with Lauren. Or did before she bit the dust with Nightmare." Bonbon replied.
"All right everyone. Listen up if you wanna get the other useless maggots and Nightmare back." He said addressing everyone.
"So you mean you two can help us-" Gilda began to ask before Ms. Fluttershy stopped her.
"Gilda. Listen to what he has to say first before jumping to conclusions." She said kindly.
"Oh. Sorry Ms. Fluttershy."
Mr. Terry looked at Gilda. "You better be sorry ma-"
"Pecking Order Terry!" She shouted to Mr. Terry, her eyes turning red.
"Yes Ma'm!" He said terrified, a great achievement considering what Mr. Terry could do.
Her eyes changed back to blue as she turned to the others. "Now as we we're saying. We know where there's another set of Dragon Balls to use to bring the others back, but they reside on Lauren's home planet, Namarek."
"That doesn't sound a planet I've heard of." Thunderlane responded.
"It's okay. Not many on this planet know of it. We also know of a ship that'll be able to take you there in a matter of a month or so. Of course I don't trust Mister Terry so one of you must come."
"Well fate of the one that'll go resides on a simple democratic vote-"
"Thunder." Gilda interrupted.
"Thunder." Scootaloo agreed
"Thunder." Cadenza added in.
"THUNDERLANE! YEAAAAAH!" Snowflake yelled.
"*snore* Thunderlane." Rainbow snored out.
Thunderlane looked nervous upon looking at Ms. Fluttershy but then pulled out a remote. "Ha! Jokes one you. We don't need that ship, we still have the remote of that Derpy chick Lightning Dust landed with. Just press a few buttons and-" He was interrupted as on TV which coincidentally had the space pod on it, exploded causing it to turn to static. Thunderlane felt the colors fade from him in shock.
"Well look who's out of options." Mr. Terry joked.
"Damn it Thunder quit being a Bonbon and get on the carpet with the nice genie." Cadenza complained.
"Ugh fine, but if anything happens to me, I'm kicking Gilda's ass." He responded, prompting Gilda to look at him surprised.
"You and I would get along just fine." Mr. Terry commented.
Thunderlane walked out the window nervously, seeing Fluttershy was standing on a carpet while Terry was the one floating. The moment he got on, they both disappeared and Thunderlane found himself with Fluttershy in a wasteland with hoodoo's all around them. "Here it is. Yakzabin Heights."
"Wait a minute. If this can get here so fast, then why didn't you let Rainbow use it during the fight with the Saiyans?" He asked.
"I wasn't there at the time and unfortunately I left Mr. Terry in charge of it. The ships just above these hills." Fluttershy threw over the hoodoo's followed by Thunderlane who was hesitant to follow but then went. He made it to the top and found Fluttershy there with a large alien looking spaceship behind her covered in moss. "This is it? A lot smaller then I thought it would be. But how do you open it?"
"You need to speak in Lauren's language. Think something like what Nightmare said at the World Martial Arts Tournament."
"That would make sense Fluttershy." The door to the ship suddenly descended surprising Thunderlane to which he stepped on followed by Ms. Fluttershy. "Interesting. Was the way to open it by saying Fluttershy?" The door raised up bringing them inside and the ships lights turning on.
"No. I think it just knows better." Ms. Fluttershy responded.
Thunderlane examined the controls not seeing any buttons or controls. "This things voice controlled? Well how are we supposed to fly it?"
"That depends, where do you want to go?"
"Well we need to test the speed. So how about Pluto?" Thunderlane asked. Fluttershy then spoke in an entirely different language and the ship roared to life flying off surprising both of them. It came to a complete stop in space and both were shocked seeing Pluto right there. "But... Pluto's so far away and we were here in a matter of seconds! This is wonderful Ms. Fluttershy! We can go to Namarek and revive the others."
Fluttershy smiled hugely at this. "And we can get Lauren back!" They both began to dance around happily as their problem was solved.
Thunderlane had finished telling the other about Lauren's ship they found and its speed. "And we can have Ms. Fluttershy as our pilot." Thunderlane added.
"Sweet." Gilda added.
"I'm sorry but I can't." Ms. Fluttershy objected.
"Wait what?" Thunderlane asked.
"I need to stay on the Lookout incase there's trouble. And I don't trust Mr. Terry going with you. I can teach you Namarkian so you won't have trouble with the controls." Ms. Fluttershy walked back onto the carpet with Mr. Terry and turned to face the others. "Good luck on your mission, especially Gilda."
"You're gonna need it maggots." Mr. Terry added. "We'll see ya when it's done. Except...this chapter...you." He said looking at Gilda before they vanished.
"Huh. What'd you think he means by that?" Gilda asked.
"Well I know that my little Scooty isn't going anywhere." Ms. Harshwhinny pointed out.
"Actually, godmom, I’m going to Namarek." Scootaloo objected.
"As I said, my little Scooty- isn’t going anywhere!" Harshwhinny said menacingly.
"But Nightmare died for me! It’s my responsibility! I could've dodged but I didn't, I need to make it up to her."
"Scootaloo, I am your godmother! And as your godmother, you will listen to me, and you will do as I say!
"That’s not how it-" Soarin interjected but was cut off.
"Did you live with a mare who carried around a baby for nine months, and could've literally destroy continents?"
"But she's-"
"Now you’re going to lay in this hospital bed, recover like a normal filly, and then you’re going right back to your Advanced Trig classes, AND THAT IS THE LAST WE WILL-"
"SHUT YOUR B*CKING FACE!!!!!" Soarin and Scootaloo yelled causing the room to become utter silent until Scootaloo spoke up.
"I’ll be going to Namarek, now."
"You rest sweetie. Love you." Soarin said pushing Harshwhinny's apparently frozen body out of the room.
"Ok...I'm gonna start working on the ship." Thunderlane said awkwardly.
10 days passed and Thunderlane had tinkered with the ships controls so it would be easier to navigate and had it brought to Faust house so the others could see them off. Thunderlane had dressed himself in a space suit while Gilda looked more like a tourist wearing bright colors and a hat with Thunderlane's company logo on it. "Where's Scootaloo?" Gilda asked.
"I don't know. She said she was coming soon." Thunderlane responded.
"Well maybe you could take off that suit, I'm sure you're hot under all that." Cadenza said drooling a little before Thunderlane hit her upside the head leaving her in the sand. A ship flew toward the shore and landed, and the three of them were surprised as stepping out was not only Soarin and Harshwhinny, but also Scootaloo, but it was what she had on that was surprising. She was wearing a school uniform and her hair was made straight and looked like a bowler cut. Gilda did a double take then laughed her ass off. "Where's Scootaloo? This is a young Moe Howard."
"Look who's talking Curly." Scootaloo responded.
Gilda looked offended when Thunderlane stopped them. "Quiet, the faster we do this the faster we can come home and not die in space. Fluttershy." The door of the ship descended and Thunderlane, Gilda and Scootaloo stepped on ready to ship off. Thunderlane said Fluttershy again and they began rise up, looking at the others below them.
"See ya when you get back Thunder!" Cadenza yelled.
"Be safe sweetie." Soarin said. "Oh and by the way Gilda, your Scootaloo's new godmother."
"Wait what?" Harshwhinny said before the door sealed up.
Gilda looked around the room and didn't see any storage space to place her bags.
"So where's the storage space?"
"Buckle up." Thunderlane simply said before sitting in the main seat.
Scootaloo got in her seat and strapped in while Gilda still looked around. "Seriously where's the locker or whatever?"
"...To Namarek." Thunderlane said before the ship flew off at breakneck speeds into space from Equis, the force slamming Gilda into the back followed by the bags.
Unbeknownst to anyone on Equis, on a faraway planet in an alien hospital, there was a healing tank surrounded by some soldiers and doctors. Inside the tank was an aqua green pegasus with a gold and yellow mane, her armor broken and several spots with a breathing mask over her face. Lightning Dust, Princess of All Saiyans remaining.
"Wow, Dust got wrecked." A soldier commented.
"Indeed." The Changeling Doctor agreed. "Landed a few hours ago, you guys were lucky to bring her down here like this."
"What about her partner, didn't see her land today."
"That's the crazy part. A couple of the others are saying she killed her. and her ghost haunts her to this day."
"Really?"
"No! Well not the ghost part that is. Wether or not she killed her is still up for debate."
In the pod, Lightning Dust fumed in the chamber as she was healed, her thoughts weary but strong. 'Need...to heal up. Need...to...get to Namarek. Get the D-Dragon Balls. God...Dammit...Derpy.'
'You were Saiyan?' The Pegasus' voice echoed in her head. Lightning Dust yelled in anger causing her heart rate to skyrocket.
"Damn! Get her out!" The doctor exclaimed surprised. The water drained out from the pod to which Lightning Dust opened her eyes and tore off the mask. She stepped out and shook the remaining water off. "Good to see you're ok Lightning. What happened to Derpy?"
"She died for being weak." Lightning simply said as she flexed her arm with a smile feeling stronger then ever before.
Lightning Dust put her newly made suit on, stretching the main part of the battle jacket over her as The Doctor looked at his chart. "I take it Equis was more then you bargained for?" He asked.
Lightning Dust stopped putting on her suit as she thought of what happened. She growled as she remembered feeling Aurora's hooves crack her ribs and her blood being drawn by such lower class trash. The doctor took a step back as Lightning snorted. "Maybe."
"You're lucky we got to you while we could. We couldn't save your tail sadly."
"I can live without it, I think this new one'll work better." Lightning responded looking at the stub of hair matching the colors of her mane that was growing slowly.
"If ya can live like that. A tailless freak that fits in nowhere."
Lightning Dust growled again. "You know I could probably kill all of you and Tirek wouldn't give a damn about it."
"Wouldn't help you get your tail back."
Lightning Dust smiled. "Tell me. What's your favorite organ?"
"Uhhh... my liver. Why?" Lightning Dust walked up to him scaring him. She raised her hoof at him causing him to flinch. Lightning smiled as she walked off satisfied. "Wait! What about your new scouter?"
"Keep it. Won't need it." Lightning walked through the hall ready to head for her pod to get started when she saw a yellow earth pony in front of her with large orange frizzy hair and translucent wings. "Hello Lightning."
"Hello Adagio."
"You look happy we're you going off?"
"To plow your father."
"Jokes on you, Sirens reproduce asexually."
"Gross get out of my way."
"C'mon there's no shame in getting mad if you;re happy about going to Namarek."
"What?" Lightning Dust said surprised.
"We heard about the Dragon Balls and know they're on Namarek. Tirek was mad about what you were doing but he's in a forgiving mood considering the circumstances."
"How?!"
"Shouldn't have left your scouter on." Adagio chuckled.
"But mine's was off and the only one's that were on Flash Sentry's channel were me and..." The answer clicked in her head and she growled in anger as she ran down the hall. The doctor had her scouter in his hoof. "Hey Lightning you want your-" he didn't finish as Lightning Dust not only took the Scouter, but penetrated into his chest, ripping out his liver leaving him bleeding on the ground. She ran to her pod putting the scouter on saying only three words and the pod door closed. "GOD DAMMIT DERPYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!" Her pod rocketed into space, anger flooding her mind only dominated by her wish with the Dragon Balls.
Arrival on Namarek! The hunt for the Dragon Balls begins!
The Namarekian ship flew through empty space, Gilda thinking to herself as time passed.
'Gilda's log. Stardate: November 15. Have no idea how long I can stay here anymore without losing my mind from the tension. Especially when Thunderlane is walking around in his underwear. Would try to relieve it, but if only the toilet decides to stop' "Screaming at me!" Gilda finished her thoughts aloud.
"Crap on my face!" The toilet yelled from the other room.
"Gilda are you okay?" Thunderlane asked from the other room.
"Yeah I'm fine. Faust Damn C*cktease." Gilda muttered that last statement under her breath. She looked out the window and saw something that that made her smile. "GUYS! I THINK IT"S NAMAREK!" Gilda yelled in joy causing Thunderlane and Scootaloo to come over and cheer as they saw the planet and the ship flew down, without needing a voice command meaning they made it. The ship descended near a lake, and Thunderlane then putting a smaller suit on as he fiddled with a machine. "Okay girls just wait until I have this fixed up, that way we can know what's in the atomosphere-" Thunderlane stopped as he saw Gilda and Scootaloo simply standing out there looking around causing him to facefault.
Gilda looked across the landscape, taking it in as there wasn't a single city in the distance, it was truly beautiful. The crystal clear water, the lush green fields, the clean pollution free sky- "Wow this place is boring." Gilda spoke. "No wonder Nightmare hung out in wastelands, natural instinct and all that." Thunderlane then jumped from behind them steaming. "ARE YOU TWO OUT OF YOUR MINDS?! JUST WALK ON OUT HERE AND LOOK AROUND?! FOR ALL WE KNEW THE ATMOSPHERE COULD'VE BEEN MADE OUT OF ASBESTOS AND GASOLINE!!"
"Thunderlane, just calm down so we can get this down, and you can go back to your life of being rich with caviar and rotten grapes and all that crap." Gilda responded prompting a huff from Thunderlane as he took out the Dragon Radar and turned it on. "Huh what'd you know we're already picking up 4 bunched together." Thunderlane said with a smile. Gilda was about to say something when stopped dead in her tracks, her blod running cold as she turned around slowly seeing the Saiyan pod flying in the distance.
"Huh, weird, they're on the move now." Thunderlane noted then looked up at Gilda. "What's wrong?" He looked and saw Scootaloo had the same expression on her face as she looked up. "G-Gilda...Is...that...her?" She asked terrified as this power was stronger then ever before. Gilda opened her beak, and only squeaks came out until it turned into a scream of pure terror.
The pod door opened, and Lightning Dust trotted out of the hole, a scream in the distance catching her ears as she tuned her scouter picking up several high power levels a mile or so away. "All right, I just need to find out how many of them Tirek has and lie low from there." Lightning Dust looked up and saw another pod dropping down and smiled. "Should've stayed home Adagio." She said as she trotted towards the pod.
Gilda finally stopped screaming but when she turned around she saw two aliens wielding blasters as well as the too familiar scouters. "In the name of Tirek we demand you stay where you are and we'll shoot you." One of them called out.
"Crap baskets." Gilda said before ducking from a shot from the blasters as they penetrated the ship, destroying the controls. "And that was when we were stranded on Namarek."
"Damn man you couldn't hit the broad side of a space barn. Didn't you go to space shooting school?" The alien asked his partner.
"No because I was too busy hitting the broad side of YOUR MOM!" The other one replied only for Gilda and Scootaloo to kick them both in the face sending them slamming into each other then into the water below. "Well that's done." Gilda noted not seeing them float up. She then looked over and saw Thunderlane was shocked and on the verge of tears as smoked fumed out the ship. She then felt something and quickly went to the ground with Scootaloo and Thunderlane as several more soldiers flew past them terrifying her at their power. Gilda felt a little moist between her legs then quickly ran to a bush and let out a sigh of relief. Scootaloo rolled her eyes as she spotted a cave. "Thunderlane, go hide in that cave, I'm gonna go follow those guys and see what they want here. Tell Gilda what I'm doing when she's done."
"Fine. Who knows, maybe I'll meet a real mare here."
Adagio landed a few miles from her pod and looked around, startled by the whistle coming from right behind her. She turned around and saw Lightning Dust there, and sitting on a rock. "Hey Lightning, wondering what I'm doing here?"
"To stop me from thwarting Tirek's plans and you would've been here earlier but you needed to plow my father first. Jokes on you cause my father's dead.Speaking of dead, what was your power level again?"
"Ha. Like you would remember, 18,000, same as you. Why, wanna fight me and lose?"
"Funny you should say that, because I've been brushing up on my history and Saiyans power grows stronger every time they suffer near death injuries and recover." Adagio blinked for a second.
"W-What?"
"And let me tell you, I got destroyed. I was beaten, broken, lost my tail, and all to a lower class loser, her half breed daughter, a griffon, and a pudgy mint unicorn on her hindhooves."
"Why would you tell me this? No way you'd tell anyone this." Adagio asked confused.
"Easy, because I know you'll never be able to tell anyone after."
"But of course I'd tell someone, why wouldn't I-" Adagio's eyes widened as Lightning Dust took a step towards her. "You know one of my favorites things is therapy, this'll be one great step." Adagio was panicking until she looked behind Lightning. "Thank goodness it's you Lord Tirek." Lightning Dust turned around but then found nothing there as Adagio then unleashed a barrage of Ki Blasts on her leaving only a crater in front of her. Adagio chuckled a little. "Stronger every injury my flank."
"Oh it's not's just strength." A voice said causing Adagio to turn around and see Lightning Dust behind her unscathed. "It's also speed. So tell me, you think you'll be able to tell anyone what happened in Hell?" She asked with a grin, making Adagio trip in fear before flying off only for Lightning to fly immediately after her and punched her in the stomach, causing some blood to spew out before she was sent flying. Lightning Dust simply smiled as she watched Adagio fly off, bringing her hoof back "Goodb-" She said thrusting her hoof forward letting herself be cut off by Adagio's scream of pain as her remains fell to the ground.
A cream colored earth pony with a black mane, blue eyes, in red spandex in high heels and holding 2 large Dragon Balls gasped as he scouter exploded suddenly. The Metal and spiky beetle with a single red visor with one Dragon Ball in his claw looked over to her. "Heck just happened High Heels?" He asked.
"Something set me off prematurely Hardshell, someone worth 15 Flash Sentry's just got snuffed."
"Must've been Adagio, poor batwinged bitch." Hardshell responded.
"Who was she again?' High Heels asked.
"Yellow Pony, big hair, hated Lightning Dust." High Heels was silent. "Reproduced asexually."
"Oh now I remember her, I just wish she wasn't all up in my face about that, I can only swallow so much."
"Hush up you two. We're about to have an important conversation." A voice said from the hovering chair in front of them. Sitting in it was a small lanky unicorn with a red coat and black eyes, with yellow pupils, his horn grey in contrast to his coat.
"Yes Lord Tirek." They both replied without hesitation.
They looked over at the Purple Alicorn with a dark blue mane and a single violet and purple streak in it, hiding behind her was small light purple pony with a grey mane, and a small black Alicorn with slit eyes and looked much like a younger Nightmare Moon.
Scootaloo and Gilda looked on at what was happening from a cliff, scared at how many soldiers surrounded the three of them.
Battle for the Dragon Balls! A deadly truth revealed to Lightning Dust
Gilda and Scootaloo looked on at the soliders that surrounded the Namarekians, two of them holding 4 Dragon Balls.
"THOSE THINGS ARE HUGE!" Gilda yelled upon seeing the Dragon Balls then quickly ducked with Scootaloo as the Insecticon looked at the ridge they were on. "uh...QUACK!" She shouted prompting the Insecticon to look back at the villagers. "Never mind, just a space duck." Hardshell said before he turned back to the Namarekian Elder who took a step forward.
"My name is Twilight Sparkle, I am the elder of this village, why are you here?" She asked.
"I am Lord Tirek, My soldiers around me and I are a traveling improv group. Here's a taste: High Heel is a drunken sailor, and you're all a bunch of baby seals. Begin." High Heel then vanished before killing 3 of them easily before appearing by Tirek's side again.
"And scene. Excellent work High Heel. Why didn't you join him in the fun Hardshell?" Tirek asked him.
"Sorry, just listening to the space duck." Hardshell replied before listening to Gilda's quacks. "What a majestic creature"
"What do you want, why are you attacking our home?" Twilight demanded to know.
"Well I just happened to see your planet and though it would make a delightful base to live in and what the b*ck do you think I'm here for?" Tirek deadpanned.
Twilight simply sighed. "The only thing you could possibly have of value here is our Dragon Balls."
"Excellent, certainly brighter then the last one. You see, your Dragon Balls give me the only thing I wish to possess since I have everything: Immortality, so I can preserve my title as ruler of the universe."
"Well just what makes you think I'll just fetch it and hand it to you on a silver platter like so many things in your cruel life have been."
"You see that's just it, my men outnumber your entire village, so you're in no position to order us around."
Suddenly, 3 Namarekains popped out of nowhere, a bright yellow one with blue hair, a pink one with yellow hair, and one leading them with a dark yellow coat and cruelan hair. "Nor are you to be attacking us." The lead one said.
"Oh look more baby seals." Tirek said nonchalantly.
"We've come here to stop you"
"777" Tirek noted.
"We refuse to stand by as you slaughter our race."
"626"
"I...What're you doing?" The Namarekian asked confused.
"Oh don't mind me continue."
"Anyway, you're going to feel as helpless as those you've killed."
"628."
"Seriosuly, what're you doing?"
"Oh sorry, it's just I've heard so many heroic speeches, I've made a game on which phrases I've heard."
"Y-You insane bastard!"
"1,996."
"Really? Well I'm...gonna...B*CK YOUR FACE!"
Tirek gasped before smirking. "8."
The three Namarekians then charged at them yelling while Tirek simply looked to Hardshell. "Hardshell, if you would."
"Get 'em." Hardshell simply commanded to the soldiers who then charged at the Namarekians, who proved much stronger then them as they easily took out a few of them.
"Gilda, we have to help them." Scootaloo said as she and Gilda watched the battle.
"No we need to stick to the plan. QUACK!" Gilda said shouted the last word over the horizon.
Rainbow Dash approached Thunderlane's house riding on top of Derpus. Thunderlane called Cadenza's house a while ago saying that their ship was destroyed and there are a bunch of guys on the planet as strong as Lightning Dust, lead by a guy who's even stronger then all of them. After Lyra came by with a bag of senzu beans, Rainbow ate one then headed for Thunderlane's house as she told her mother weeks earlier to build a ship for her so she could head to Namarek to help them.
She flew off of Derpus and landed near the backyard, seeing a large spaceship in the back and Thunderlane's mother walking out of it. She had a yellow coat with a mane of yellow and red, and a cutie mark resembling a firey star. "Hey Sunset." Rainbow said as she walked over prompting Sunset to turn around.
"Hey Rainbow, how ya doin?"
"Finished healing, came over to see the progress on the ship."
"Just about finished, I considered installing a cappuccino machine be then I remembered you don't drink them. Plenty of food stored away though."
"Sweet, so it's trainable in there?"
"Yep, and you should get to Namarek within a day or two, especially since I used your pod for this thing."
"Like the one Lightning Dust had? But I never used one."
"The one when your grandma found you as a foal, I went to your old house to search for it after Thunderlane told me to start working on it when he left."
"Perfect, hopefully the girls are doing fine without me." Rainbow noted as she walked in ready to go.
The last of the Tirek Soldiers finally died as the Namarekians stood there panting.
"Let me deal with them Lord Tirek, I'll avenge your men." High Heel said stepping up.
"Do it but not in their name, we have more of them on the ships, it's not like we're losing anything valuable." Tirek noted before the lead Namarekian shot a small Ki blast at Hardshell's scouter.
"Let's see you look for more of use without that!" She yelled.
Tirek looked as though he was about to lose it and yell before simply smiling. "I'm not gonna lose my temper, I have soldiers to do that for me. Hardshell, kill them."
" 'Kay." Hardshell replied before walking up to them. "Bring it on, you're outnumbered 3 to 1." The lead Namarekian taunted.
"Either you can't count or it's me, cause I see 2." Hardshell said before vanishing and reappearing right behind the lead one and shoving his right arm through her throat to the horror of the other two.
Rainbow Dash simply sat in the ship as it rocketed through space, bored out of her mind until she recieved a call on the screen from Sunset. "Hey Rainbow Dash, how ya doing?"
"Bored." Rainbow replied as she munched on a chocolate chip muffin.
"Dash where die you get that muffin?"
"Muffin button."
"But...there's no muffin button on the ship."
"Then where did I get this muffin?" Rainbow said looking at the muffin confused.
"Ok just checking up on you. I also installed controls in there so you can control the gravity in there. but don't go too high, because I'm not gonna have fun explaining to Thunderlane that his backup is a bile of Gi and squished saiyan." sunset then hung up to which Rainbow mischievously smiled. "This is gonna be so much fun."
Hardshell drove the last Namarekian warrior into the wall head first killing her. "Wow. Lord Tirek, I think I'm gonna need some math lessons, because I'm counting dead now."
Tirek then looked back to Twilight. "Excellent, all though now I consider it a shame since I no longer have anything to...persuade you with. Save for..." Tirek then looked behind Twilight and saw the two fillies hiding behind her. she gasped before opening her wings defensively. "You wouldn't."
"But they're just so cute I could reduce them to their skeletal system. All though that choice is yours, I could go either way."
"I could if you like." High Heel added.
Twilight huffed before she used her magic to levitate the ball to them. "Here, take the ball and leave us alone." Twilight then whispered into the alicorn fillies ear. "Nyx, take Limestone and run as fast as you can, and don't look back." Nyx then ran away with Limestone behind her as Twilight turned back around, Hardshell grabbing the Dragon Ball they were given.
"Thank you for your cooperation." Tirek said. "But we lost our scouters, so could you be a dear and point us to the next village?"
"That wasn't part of the deal!" Twilight shouted.
500! Give them their prize Hardshell." Tirek said to which Hard shell then fired a ki blast from his mouth past Twilight, impacting Limestone and killing her upon impact. Twilight looked in shock as did Nyx.
"Gilda, he's killing them!" Scootaloo said in anger.
"Happy place Scootaloo, happy place." Gilda told her.
Twilight looked and Tirek infuriated, her horn glowing again. "You...YOU KILLED THAT INNOCENT CHILD!"
"Let me help you with that." Hardshell said before vanishing. Twilight looked around then turned to Nyx. "GO NYX RU-" Twilight never finished as Hardshell appeared behind her and snapped her neck, killing her instantly and letting her corpse fall to the ground. "There, now you won't miss her." Hardshell noted.
"Excellent. And while you're at it." Tirek said looking at Nyx who had tears in her eyes before running away only for Hardshell to stop right in front of her. "I really do love kids, they don't leave much of a mess."
Scootaloo was tipping over her breaking point to which Gilda tried to stop her. "Scoots, clam down, you're a leaf, a leaf in a calm stream."
"F*CK THE STREAM!" Scootaloo shouted before flying towards Hardshell and kicking him upside the head and into a house. "LEAVE HER ALONE! PICK ON SOMEPONY YOUR OWN SIZE!"
Hardshell pulled himself out of the rubble shaking it off. "Did I just get told off by a chicken?" Hardshell said as he pulled himself out only for Gilda to kick him away again then run over grabbing Nyx. "Quack!" She yelled before flying off, Scootaloo following suit.
"Well Hardshell, it looks like we found your space duck, but if you wouldn't mind, CHASE AFTER THEM YOU FAT IDIOT!" Tirek commanded to Hardshell who flew after them with new vigor.
Gilda and Scootaloo were flying away from the location at top speed not wanting to be caught. "Not gonna lie Scootaloo, you may have just killed us pulling that stunt."
"We're in the clear, were miles away from them and since he's bigger then us, there's no way he'll." Scootaloo was interrupted as Hardshell shot a ki blast at them forcing Gilda to dodge. "Well look who's wrong!" Gilda yelled.
"There's always room for error!" Scootaloo responded.
Hardshell flew closer to Gilda and grabbed her by the leg only for Gilda to smack him in the face with her tail and continued to fly. Gilda panicked but then thought of something then put her claws to her head. "Solar flare!" Gilda let off a brilliant white light that blinded Hardshell with a picture of a human man in the shower, with Tirek's head photoshopped onto the head. Hardshell screamed in disgust as he covered his eyes, blinded by the light. Gilda and Scootaloo continued flying until they came near where they were hiding out. Gilda looked at Scootaloo. "Great. i think we lost him." She then looked at the black filly Scootaloo held near her. "You all right? Can you fly?"
"Y-yeah. We all learn to fly when we're young." Nyx replied hesitant before Scootaloo let her go as she hovered alongside them using her wings to help her.
"I like you. I think I'll call ya Little Wings." Gilda said with a smile.
Hardshell flew across the skies looking for those two runts when he was suddenly kicked sending him flying towards a lake. "GOD DAMMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!" He screamed as he slammed into it. He pulled himself out and found himself facing a smug Lightning Dust. "If it isn't Hardshell, the Fat behind Tirek's army."
"Lightning Dust, I knew it was you that snuffed out Adagio."
"Yeah. Pretty easy when you have these outdated dust collectors." Lightning Dust retorted pointing to her scouter.
"Speaking of which, we just had a little accident with all of ours, how about you just let me borrow it and I can pretend I just found it by a body of a solider."
Lightning smiled as she took it off but placed it on the ground with her hoof above it. "I would but you see the problem with the scouter is..." She crushed it easily as Hardshell looked shocked. "It's broken."
"I still get the last laugh, without that scouter you're just as blind as the rest of us now."
"Funny thing is, I didn't even need it. You see after my defeat on Equis, I learned that the fighters there were able to detect power levels without the use of a scouter. One of which was a lower class saiyan."
"Wait a minute. It makes sense now, those two runts that hit me were from Equis weren't they?" Hardshell asked catching Lightning Dust's attention. "You're probably working with them, that's why they were at the village, reconnaissance so you could see how many guys Tirek brought."
"Interesting, I'll be sure to deal with them later. But for now, I'll settle on killing you." In an instant, Lightning Dust was behind Hardshell holding him by the arms and beginning to pull causing him to scream. "Wait! I could tell you what really happened to Planet Lightning Dust! Just please don't kill me!" Hardshell begged.
"Well that's like something I would want to hear. All though I wish you didn't beg like a woman."
"I am a woman!" Hardshell shouted.
"W-what?" Lightning Dust asked stunned.
"I said, I am a woman!" Hardshell yelled again prompting Lightning Dust to let go. "You have one minute to tell me what I want to know."
"Y-you see, in recent years before it's destruction, Tirek had noticed a slow but subtle increase in saiyan foals being born with high power levels, one such being a foal with a power level of 20,000. Seeing a foal with this much strength at a young age, proved to be hazardous to his empire, especially after Tirek Planet 419 was captured by a small group of lower class saiyans. So when the moment came, Tirek made a choice: either allow the Saiyans to live and see how long it would take until they needed to be tended to like the weeds they were, or take them all out in one fell swoop leaving only a handful of survivors as to monitor them in safer conditions. In the end I'm pretty sure he made to right choice, but to see to that the job went flawlessly, Tirek dealt the blow himself watching the fireworks afterward. Of course your mother had objections to it and confronted him, though Tirek had dealt with her easily, though the leader of the 419 team Spitfire fought to the end, but the blast Tirek made proved too much even for her." Hardshell finished as Lightning Dust stared at the ground. "I could see you're taking it all in, I'll just leave you to it while I let Tirek know you're here."
"That's the thing." Lightning Dust said prompting Hardshell to turn around and see her cruelest smile yet on her face as the ground began to shake. "You're not telling him anything. Not for him using me, but for the fact he cost me my race, my rightful kingdom, and spending my entire life having to deal with Derpy! And to begin I'll repress the disgust of your true gender and replace it with the rage against Tirek. Step 1? Killing you!" Hardshell panicked as she took a step back. "Wait! You and me could team up against Tirek, and rule the Galaxy as same sex couple!"
"Repressing in 3!" Lightning Dust began to count down causing Hardshell to panic then fly away in terror. "LORD TIREK!" She yelled on flow Lightning Dust to thrust her hoove out. "SAY HI TO ADAGIO!" She yelled before firing a ki blast which engulfed Hardshelll vaporizing her. Lightning Dust then stood there alone as she smiled. "And repressed."