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@@Literally Snails, Sederia thought long and hard about what she should do with him. On the one hand, she didn't know if she could trust him entirely, but then there was the fact that she barely knew him. ​"Hm...you could prove very useful for my plans. You see, my plan is to make an impact hard enough to make sure these city ponies understand that nature is the pinnacle of life."

@@Literally Snails, The mare sighed. In reality she wanted to test him to make sure he was worth her time, but she had found that he was not who she was looking for. However....maybe he was useful in other ways. ​"Well...I was going to see if you could aid me in.,...certain aspects if you were capable."

@@Literally Snails, ​"Interesting...with all the stuff that's happened I mean. With me however--long story short: I'm the Heiress of the Botanica Clan, and my family betrayed me on a false promise. So now I act for myself and seek to make sure Equestria maintains at least some of its naturality if no one else cares."

@@Literally Snails, The voice would pause once more for a good five minutes. All was quiet during that time until the same green mare from the bar literally rose up from the grassy ground to face him. ​"So it seems like we have something in common, hm? What's your story? Where are you from?"

@@Literally Snails, A small gasp was heard when the Pegasus showed off his black eyes that were darker than night. This was interesting to say the least. Nothing like anything she had seen before. ​"You are...a strange one. And my quarrel with ponies is all this stupid disrespect for nature."

@@Literally Snails, The voice seemed to halt for a long moment. This wasn't a pony at all? Strange considering ponies were what mostly came into Bangcolt on a daily basis. Out of curiosity, the voice asked a question. ​"Really now....then what are you? What quarrels do you have with ponies?"

@@Fractured, Ice felt the wave of healing rush over him, and realized it was over. He had lost. Even after he had given it his all AND she could keep going? As he mentally kicked himself, he could only think of one word: Idiot. Rule number 1 of facing anyone new: Never let your guard down, and that's exactly what he had done throughout the entire match. I-di-ot. He gave himself a facehoof, realizing the mistake he made. Assumptions were the mother of all f*ck ups, and this case was no exception. However, he couldn't help but accept the loss. For a moment, he breathed out, closing his eyes. Now wasn't exactly the best time to think about how hard he fell when he first needed to get back up. Literally and figuratively. Ice sighed once, and walked up to Ivory with a soft smile, uttering a simple sentence, "GG, Fílabein....gg. That's uh, Ivory in Icelan--...ya know....good fight, and stuff.....ow." ​He finished with a grin before turning around, and holding his head with his hoof in order to ease the massive headache he had acquired. Admittedly he was happy to have found a challenge and unlocked new potential within himself, but he knew he still had a long way to go, and felt a shred of disappointment. To just think that she could easily have gone on longer than that, and still have tricks up her sleeve while he was on his last puff...naturally, it wasn't that easy to take in, and only proved to him more that there's always someone better and that he needed to just keep doing what he already does: Train. ​​"...Push beyond the limits...and never stop..." ​he muttered to himself as he looked at the Mini-Clochette Rarity gave him, and walked towards the exit. He couldn't help but crack a small smile as he hoped Ivory was proud to have beaten the half champ...for what it was worth. ​This match belonged to Ivory.

@@Fractured, Scuffling was heard through the earth beneath Ivory's hooves. Something was digging under her...and then, out of nowhere, her blue adversary popped his head out of the ground like a mole, coughing, wheezing, and gasping for air. ​"Uhhhhh! Oh dear ultimate goddess of unbridled kinetic inception." ​​After some struggle, the earth pony lifted himself out of the hole, and leaned against a nearby rock that had somehow survived all of it. Apparently, both of his legs were shattered entirely from the falling debris.... ​"Couldn't get away in time...stuff starts to take its toll..." ​he forced a chuckle, realizing this battle couldn't go on forever. Jokingly, he commented on this to Ivory ​"...Good fight....but who won?"

@@Fractured, Ice kept his focus on his attack, making sure it left an impact. However, he realized that everything was being taken in towards a portal, and had to think quickly. Disappointed that his attack did nothing, his main focus was to get out of the way of the impact. With a nervous blink, he froze the earth beneath him, and broke the ice, diving underneath the ground. ​With a crash, everything that Ivory had tossed would land on the desired location. By the time the dust settled, everything would just be sitting there in a desolate pile of wreck and waste. Hopefully, Ice wasn't dead from this...

@, @, The ninja pony would keep flying with a blur, until it stopped on top of a nearby building. It knelt down on one knee to keep itself covert while speaking into its watch. ​"Coming upon Priority Nexus Target now. I won't be needing assistance..." With that, it stood, and flew down to the sidewalk, starting to trot casually down the street.

@@Fractured, No matter what the case, and no matter how powerful his opponent was, Ice never gave up--it was arguably his best and worst trait. Still, in the back of his mind, he knew that Ivory was probably hell of a lot more powerful if she could put down that much at once. However, dealing with those leagues above him before like Celestia, and Luna--he knew that he always had a game changer: The cold. He had always used the cold to wear his opponent down from the inside out. That way, even if they were stronger, he could chill them out and slow them down. Ivory was no different. However, he nearly exhausted his mana, but still had an edge: Mini-Clochette. It had given him a tiny extra amount of power in the moment he needed it most: which was right now. He raised both hooves into the air on either side of himself, charging up what might be his last move. Both hooves came slowly crashing down into the ground, causing a seismic wave, with ice forcing the cracks apart to make the quake even larger. Trees started to fall over, and rocks started rolling down the hills as cascading shards of ice started to run along the ground towards Ivory. This totaled as a 7.0 on the Richter, all of which trying to toss Ivory around, into the shards and knock her out cold... The earth shattered.

​"Got it, Raid!" With a nod of confirmation, Ice started following Radiant's orders. He quickly took aim on the robots, and started blasting them with ice ton freeze them. At the same time, he jumped forward, and aimed to grab and throw one into more of them.

Ice had already figured out a solution to all of this. While everyone else was doing their own thing, Ice had made his way around the back of the school, and snuck around, and found a back door towards the janitor's closet that led to an alley near a garbage can. There, he called out to everyone. ​"Eh! Over here, I found a way to the lab."

@@Fractured, Ice, naturally being determined not to give at all, wiped the blood from his muzzle, and stood up on his tattered hooves. ​"Ptoo. I can...do this all day." ​he breathed, not planning to go down anytime soon. ​"C'mon, you should know by now that I don't shy away. Ever." ​A genuine smile would cross his muzzle, ​"But I'm proud of you, ya know? Not everyone witnesses the spirit of ís drekinn, or has pushed me to do so. Only Celestia, Luna, and Caliber have...." ​​He jumped up, and did a small flip in the air, landing on his hind legs and jumping slowly in place. ​"Come on...let's end this in style."

@@Fractured, Nothing would show any signs of the cryomancer for a long while. However, after five more minutes, the blue pony would rise above the water with another fish in his mouth. This time it was a catfish the length of a griffon's tail. He spit it out on the ground, and walked onto the shore, breathing slowly, and slowly coughing up reeds, ​"Whew...that was a...good move. You've made me....go full spectrum."

@@Literally Snails, The voice only grew a bit louder. ​"Just because you live in a damn cave doesn't mean you don't know how trees are treated! Look at this. Every single one of you ponies in the city treat nature like dirt! It irks me how you idiots take everything for granted around here!" ​--- ​Nadelle continued diagnosing her patients. Something very peculiar was going on here, as she had gotten two more patients in the last hour. Blistering and bumps all over these ponies' bodies? Was there some kind of virus going around? Was this an infection? Where did it come from?

@@Fractured, Ice blinked as the energy went right through her. Then was surprised as it suddenly came and struck behind him, launching him forward. A portion of his spine was easily broken in a few places as he flew into the river nearby. However, it wouldn't be safe to celebrate yet, as Ice held his breath under the water, unbeknownst to Ivory...

@@Fractured, The pony within the dragon aura smirked. That was simply the tip of the iceberg. Pun indented? Yes. Very much pun intended. The dragon-like mass summoned a giant mallet made of ice. It's circumference rivaled that of an elephant in size, and its weight was surely a force to be reckoned with. Ice himself made a swinging motion, to which the dragon followed. From there, the mallet would swing forth, and attempt to literally bounce the force right back at Ivory.

More info would come through to the agent. Karas would see on his watch that the Priority Nexus Target was already in progress within the city. Something had to be done--and quickly before whatever Nexus Target was intitiated... Without anymore time wasted, Karas made its way back into the city. --- Meanwhile, in the Bangcolt hospital in the upper wings, Nadelle was busy tending to a few patients. By a few, however, there was quite a bit. It seemed that a total of seven ponies had come down with some sort of the same sickness: Copious amounts of bumps and blisters all over their bodies. And these weren't bee stings. Something was definitely wrong, but the nurse couldn't figure out what.

As Karas made its way down to the train station, it slowly began to realize that there were no stops for another good hour or so. How in the heck was he supposed to escort the individual if they didn't arrive? And then it came to him. Literally. On its watch, it looked over, and read the neew communication that had come in. Apparently, Priority Nexus Target or PNT, was not a pony, but a thing. A thing that no business here and could potentially cause a major disturbance. But what exactly was the question...

----- ​The colt made his way into the mall, and sat his duffel bag down. After which, he looked over near the fountain in the middle of the massive shopping center. For once, he somehow made it to a photography session early before the crew did. Well, at least this gave him some time to explore around the shop for a bit. Unless...there was the chance he left and his crew wouldn't see him. Ugh. What to do...

@@Literally Snails, No answer would answer him for about 5 or so minutes. That is, until... ​"Why...why do you have to do this to us....you ponies have to kill and burn us....why?!" ​@@Fractured, Ice roared loudly along with the dragon aura surrounding him. In no time, it had been enough to break him out of the shield. This was his endgame. His last resort tactic. One of many untapped moves within his arsenal. His clan normally did not allow him to go one hundred percent, except to show the full exten​t of his ability. Fortunately, Ivory could tell that he wasn't mindlessly being possessed or anything, because he grinned up at her with the same smirk he always had. Going for what he could, he would shoot a beam of ice at her from his hooves. Interestingly, it would look as if the dragon aura around him was breathing it, but it was simply a normal attack.

​The ninja pony Karas was flying down the streets of Bangcolt above the building line. It had a new objective: Escort a high profile individual from the train station, and into the city with no complications. Who was this high level individual? Well that was yet to be seen, as the ninja had to make its way down to the station to receive the next half of its objective. ------------ ​A pale cream colt was walking down the streets towards the mall carrying a duffel bag. His face was somewhat familiar, as there were many billboards, and newspapers around town with his face on them. There were also several shops and stores around town selling his merchandise. Bats, balls, gloves, shirts, hats, mugs, lunch boxes, cereal, shoes, stickers, cards, energy drinks, you name it. He sells it. Or rather--its his face that sells it. The company he works for takes pictures of him to put on his merch, and he makes a pretty penny. Needless to say, he was quite famous. Who was he? The Batter Boy. ​With no time to waste, he made his way into the mall to prepare for his next photoshoot.

@@Literally Snails, As he went above the treeline, he would be able to see numerous amounts of trees cut down within the woods. This wasn't any normal lumberjack's work either. A very large portion of the trees were gone and just there with stumps. It was as if Snowstorm was brought here...

@@Fractured, Silence...utter silence. Calmness...peace....and everything that was chill. Ice was seemingly in near perfect sync with the world around him, and the energy within him. ​​"My ancestors....it's time." ​​A massive jolt would rattle the entire arena. Something even Ivory would be able to feel as she moved away. All the sudden, she could see him struggling to break out of the cocoon with an animalistic aura surrounding him. If she looked closely...she could see that the aura around his body was...a lizard of some kind...with wings! His ancestors had given him access to 100% of their power, allowing him to go all out with nothing holding him back. Along with this, he had gained an aura to fuel his strength in order to break out--it was of the ice dragon...