Cranium Tyranus

I'm flattered that you guys liked my little tangent there, however my finishing it didn't really rely on you guys encouraging me to do so, I just ran out of things to in my head to piece the story together. Same is true for my lack of posts on the RP thread, I'm kinda stuck in writer's block of where a good place to put the Death Egg in order to move the Robotnik/Chrysalis story along. However, I now have more of this story ready to go, I hope you enjoy, and sorry for the inactivity in the RP. ________________________________ Ghosts... Of Chirstmas past..." Said Cranium in a, 'oh, you don't say' sort of tone. Summer_Breeze then stepped forward and began her part, "Yes, and I'm afraid we won't be the last, but that's for later, right now we're going to show you what Christmas was like for little Cranium... To make you feel bad for how your treating people around the holidays now." Cranium was rather annoyed to hear this, "No. No I shall not take your jont down memory lane, I am going to stay right here in my be-" Cranium was promptly lifted out of his bed by Pinkie, and thrown into what appeared to be a river raft, the other ghosts sat inside of the raft as well, and began to paddle... BACK IN TIME! As they paddled forward, the raft went backward, and was also upside down, as it traveled through the time tube. "What?! What is this?!" Exclaimed Cranium, "What is this?!" The ghosts were just as shocked as Cranium, "We don't know!" Shouted a distraught Villan, "We accepted this gig on a whim! This was just for college credit!" Pinkie was too busy laughing at all the funny faces everypony(one) was making to form a response to Cranium's question. "I just accepted because Pinkie Pie said that she knew of something fun we could all do together that didn't involve dirt, I wasn't ready for thi-he-hisss" bawled Rarity, tears making her mascara run down her face. "Ahhhhhhhh! Why is it going backwards, AND upside down?!" Cried a shaken Summer, clinging onto the raft for dear afterlife. After 3 agonizing minutes (funniest minutes of Pinkie Pie's life) the raft slowed to a stop, just in front of an apartment complex, the occupants of the raft all tumbled out, Villan barfed off-screen, Rarity was in the fettle position, Summer was kissing the ground, Pinkie was jumping up and down, wanting to do it again. After about 20 minutes, the group collected themselves enough to proceed with the lesson of the past, Villan began, "Okay... Mr. Tyranus this is your childhood- WHERE IS HE?!" Villan exclaimed as she noticed that they were short, one cranky Cranium. "Oh, he fell off sometime before we ended up here." Said Pinkie Pie, playing a game of hopscotch in the playground in the middle of the complex. "And you're only telling us this now?!" Said Villan to the pink party mare, "Ooh, ooh! I'll go back and get him!" Said Pinkie Pie excitedly, "Um, Pinkie, are you sure you should go... By yourself?" Said a concerned Rarity, though she was in no hurry to volunteer. "No worries Rarity, I'll be back before you can say..." She started before paddling forward and going through the portal backward, but before she could even disappear completely through the portal, she came back through another portal, five feet behind the original, with Pinkie Pie exclaiming, "Poof! See? Told ya!" Just as this Pinkie came the rest of the way through the portal with Cranium in tow, clutching a broken string of perals, the one that was leaving had just gone the rest of the way through her portal, narrowly avoiding a time paradox. "Do you have any idea what I've been through?!" Exclaimed an absolutely livid Cranium. "What do you mean? You've been gone 20... 30 minutes, tops." Summer stated inquisitively, "Oh! Oh! Didn't realize I was dealing with someone who does this sorta thing all the time!" Snapped an angry Cranium, Summer took cover behind Villan. "Where did you find him Pinkie?" Asked Villan, slightly disturbed by the turn of events. "Well, there was this big tower that had 'Gotham Federal' written on it, but other then that, I don't know." Said Pinkie, Rarity ran up to hug her friend, glad that she made it back, but Villan and Summer looked at Cranium in sheer terror, "What?" Asked Cranium shrugging, in one hand, the string of perals, in the other, his six-shooter, still smoking. Later, inside of Cranium's childhood home, Little Cranium was sitting at the table, his mother was making lunch at the time, while he was playing with his Christmas present, a to scale toy Buzz Lightyear. As the group looked in from a window Summer started up, "See this was you on Christmas Day, 1998, remember how your mother cared for you and you felt all that holiday cheer... Wait, where'd he go now?" Asked a perplexed Summer, the rest of the group shrugged before Rarity's face turned to sheer fright, "Um... Girls, I do believe I found him." She said pointing back at the window, the scene was one of true horror. Cranium was in the house, brandishing his gun and eating the Mac and cheese with chopped-up hotdogs strait out of the pot. He then walked toward little Cranium, took his Buzz Lightyear toy, though the audio was muffled to the point of being mute, Cranium clearly mouthed the words, "Get a job" to his younger self before throwing the toy on the ground, three gun shots ringing out through the complex, the toy was completely destroyed, the four ghosts quickly converged on Cranium as he exited, "DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MEAN YOU WERE JUST NOW!" Pinkie yelled at Cranium, whom was completely unfazzed. Then Rarity trotted toward Cranium and posed a question, "Say, Cranium, how was your Christmas say... Circa 1998?" Cranium thought for a while before frowning. "Well everything was going swell before some homeless psychotic lunatic came rampaging through my apartment, ate lunch and, Ohhhhhh...." Cranium said before they shoved him into the raft again. A little while later, in Cranium's downstairs living room, everything was still and quiet, at peace, then the time raft ported in, landing on the coffe table, shattering it, it then bounced around the room, wrecking many things in it wake before finally jetting Cranium from the raft, the four ghosts then stuck thier heads out of the raft, all with angry expressions, "Hey, Merry freakin' Christmas, jerk! Hope you die in a fire!" Said a heated Villan, "This was supposed to be a fun experience for everypony, and you had to go and ruin it!" Said a steamed Pinkie Pie, "I have no idea why anyone would want to even give you the chance to redeem yourself, creep!" Said an enraged Summer, "I've met quite a few insufferable ponies in my day, but you sir, have been by far the worst thing to have ever lived, adieu!" Said a livid Rarity. They then sailed off, somewhere in the past, or to the spirt world, or their respective planes of existence or something. Cranium stood in the middle of his floor for a while before scratching his rear. He then climbed the stairs, back to his oversized bedroom, "Well, at least that's done with." He said to himself as he turned the knob, upon entering however he knew it had only just begun. "Hey there," said one of the new set of ghosts, once again, two ponies, two humans, though this time the humans were male. "Okay, we're the ghosts of Christmas present, so sit down, shut up, and enjoy the ride." Said the other human ghost. "Daw crap..." Said Cranium, noticing that it was 2:43 a.m.

YOU die! -inserts Superman-

You get Jak and Daxter. -inserts Ke$ha-

"The most wonderful time of the year... Bah humbug... Whenever December rolls around it only means one thing to me... That I should put a sweater on with my coat. Children laughing and playing outside, when there's work to be done. Bah humbug, and lazy employee's who try to weasel out of work with the excuse that, 'it's Christmas Eve. Can I spend it with my family Mr. Tyranus?' The only thing I have to say to them is, Bah. Hum. Bug." Later that Christmas Eve night, Mr. Tyranus was getting ready for bed, the day's events still fresh in his mind, he brush passed a kid and knocked his hot coco out of his tiny little hands, although he didn't do it on purpose, he offered no money to make amends to the child, not even an apology, he merely uttered as he walked off, "Watch where your going next time, brat!" As Mr. Tyranus put on his night shirt and lit his candle so that he had something to read his book by, the events of the mailing company he owned played back in his head. "You want to WHAT?!" Shouted an angry Cranium, the employee meekly replied, "Well sir, you see... It's Christmas Eve... And my boy is quite ill, I don't want to miss anytime I may have left with him, the doctor said he may not make it past the holidays..." The employee finished, through defeated eyes. "Your child's last holiday? Bah humbug, I know laziness when I smell it! You wan to spend time with your boy? Go ahead and spend all the time you want with him, your FIRED!" A pleased smile crossed Mr. Tyranus' face as he remembered how he delt with the lazy employee, "To anyone fool enough to try to pull the wool over my eyes I have only this to say, Bah. Hum. Bug. Mr. Tyranus' candle dimmed, as did he, he folded his glasses and finished his drink before sinking into the comfort of his quilt, he had drifted off to sleep, when he began to hear the rattle of chains. "Huh, who's that?! Answer me!" A terrified Cranium shouted at the dark expanse of his room. He then leaned to the side of his bed, and grabbed a box made of a finely crafted oak. He produced a key and opened the box to reveal a six-shooter, a very elegant looking piece, a silver barrel and revolving chamber with an ebony handle, but Mr. Tyranus didn't stop to admire it's finish, he greedily grabbed for the weapon and held it to his door on the other side of the room. "Come out now you blow hard thief! Or I'll shoot ya, I got you dead to rights!" Mr. Tyranus exclaimed at the dark. "Alright, come on guys, let's go greet Mr. Tyranus..." Said a voice from behind the door. Cranium's eyes shrunk to pupils, there was more then one intruder, would he be able to dispatch them all? If not he would take as many of those thieving fools with that he could. Cranium pulled the hammer back on his six-shooter, ready for whatever opened the door. "Oh my, this place is simply dreadful, know wonder this man is so cranky, when is the last time this place saw a proper dusting?" Said a rather dignified female voice. "Rattle, Rattle! Arn't these chains fun you guys!?" Said another female voice, though this was rather hyper, with chain rattling accompanying it at an alarming rate. "Pinkie! Focus! Not too much rattling! Just enough that it's unsettling!" Said yet another voice, eventually the squabbling ended. Then a pale hand appeared from behind the door, chain rattles, and a the sounds of irregular footstep patterns, as if in a limp, accompanied it. The pale hand soon had an arm to go with it, as more of the entity entered the room, Cranium shivering in terror from the sight and sound. Tension building up in the air as the pale face, with empty eye-sockets entered the room with a bone chilling moan. "Hey Villian! How come your walking like that?" Said the hyper voice the other voices identified as 'Pinkie'. The apparition tripped and fell on it's face the rest of the way into the room. Cranium was still quivering, yet was also very confused. The ghost that entered the room previously then sat up, eyes back in their sockets with a rather annoyed expression on them, "Alright guys, just... just get in here." Said the ghost that Pinkie identified as 'Villain' with a hand firmly clasped over her face. One by one more ghosts came in, until the number in the room was four. Though two ghosts were human, the other two were... Ponies? One of the ponies was making faces and noises in-between bouts of giggling. "Uh... Does... Anyone mind telling me what's going on?" Said Cranium, now as annoyed with the situation as Villain. Villain sighed, "my name is Villain, *points to the other human ghost* That's Summer," Summer meekly waved to Cranium, "That's Rarity,"*points to the more groomed looking pony, to witch the pony nodded and said, "A pleasure to meet you, I'm sure." Then Villain turned toward the more hyper pony and said, "and this... Is Pinkie Pie..." In a low growl. "Boo! Were ya scared? Huh? Huh? Huh? Teeheeheeheehee, I don't blame ya, we're spooky ghosts this time around! Talk about major fun!" Said the bubbley pony. Cranium simply sat up, a more puzzled expression then before on his face. The ghosts then all stood by each other and stated at the same time, with different pitches and enthusiasm. "And we're the ghosts of Christmas past!" To be continued maybe.

Receives nuggets -inserts poetry, read from the soul. -

That was a fine post Alex, I was just hoping that some of the things I had planned for Robotnik in the first RP would've been referenced, it's okay that they wern't, it's just when N-Harmonia asked that I pass whatever I had planned for Eggman over to him, I gave him quite a bit to work with. At any rate, total five star post!

Every time Shadow smiles, a puppy dies. Whenever he laughs, a bag of kittens get thrown into a lake.

You get: a piece of bubble gum, upon opening the wrapper, you find that someone already took it, oh no! Your pants are gone too! -inserts toner-

Hey guys, glad to see that catastrophe hasn't befallen you. Anyways, I was just wondering if anyone had a post almost wrapped up, I'm slightly anxious to keep the wheel turning, So to speak.

Well i'm certain that'd be cool for the computer having persuasion, but I don't have a computer 'member? You 'member.

Fighting is Magic is out?! You lucky muffin! I wish I had a computer! But cool, Alex is makin' a post! Always good news to hear! Though not having another Sonic/Rainbow segment is gonna be a bit of a bummer.

Yikes! This is in desperate need of players! I'll try my hand at Nightmare. But the only game I know him from is Kirby's Adventure, so my portrayal of him is based off his design alone.

ROBOTNIK ------------------- Although the creature refused to shake the Doctor's hand, it agreed to a partnership, though she asked if Robotnik wanted her to prove her ability, so to speak. "Heh heh, the only thing from you that I require is that you keep those blasted 'Elements of Harmony' out of the picture, you see, as much as I dislike those... Ponies, I hate something else even more. I made a mistake in trying to let 'others' dispatch him for me, I realize now that the only way to ensure victory against my foe is to deal with him myself." Robotnik began rubbing his right temple again. "Ugh, however... If you managed to kidnap one or two of his little friends, it'd give him more 'drive' to come and find me." Robotnik turned back to the right, "Once I defeat Sonic... Everything will make sense again." The Doctor began shaking, but he managed to keep focused. "Queen Chrysilas, for now all that I require is safe passage to where my Death Egg has been downed, once there I'll give you the resources needed to take one of the surrounding towns for your own, and that will be for starters." Robotnik began to wobble, "Once you've taken a city... I can begin to rebuild, then we can look for the source of that indomitable power I mentioned earlier... ErrrrAGH!" Robotnik had a searing headache from resisting the breakdown for so long. "However... Gah, the Hedgehog cannot know, nuh... That I'm... Still... Breathing, it will give me... Dah! ... The element of surprise... Needed... Needed... Need-" Robotnik collapsed, his body completely exhausted from the strain of simply maintaining his sanity. _______________________________ APPLEJACK & knuckles --------------------- "C'mon Sugarcube, we gotta hurry! No tellin' what could happen if we let 'em run loose!" Applejack shouted back to Fluttershy, whom was bringing up the rear. Applejack began running as fast as she could, eventually reaching Ponyville, upon entering she took note of all the damage already caused; a broken bread stand, a large amount of the road was missing, with Knuckles laying in the end of the tremendous skid mark, knocked out. And the ponies who owned the spa were crying in hysterics about their ruined lobby. Applejack didn't care too much for the last thing, but what she did care about was what it did to the ponies, they were upset, the baker was distraught, and now, no pony with a wagon could travel on that part of the road without the risk of tipping their wagon over. Applejack stood in place for a moment before she noticed Rarity with Manic, Amy, and one more that she didn't recognize. She decided to trot over, "Howdy Rarity, Amy, Manic." She tipped her hat out of courtesy, "Sorry, I don't think I've made yer aquantience, my names Applejack, welcome tah Ponyville!" Cuts to an overhead view to show that much of the town was still being repaired, not to mention the 'accidents' that occurred just a little while ago. "Sorry if it don't seem like much right now... We're... Still tryin' tah fix 'er up from the last time ya'll... visited. I'm sorry, I didn't mean fer it tah come out like that, it's just... Bad timin' is all." Applejack looked to Knuckles, "Does anypony know what in Equestria happened to him?" Knuckles foot occasionally twitched, but other then that he was still out like a light. "I'm no expert, but I think yer friend might need a doctor." Applejack said to Manic's group, while still looking at the twitching Echidna.

I think Manic might've grabbed those. I'll double check, but I'm pretty sure that they didn't make it too far.

You get: a phone call from the Hydra, turns out he wants his teeth back. -inserts Justice-

You get: attacked by the 'Stay-Puft' marshmallow man -inserts vidiot game-

Yes, I was gonna draw it in my iPad but then the app crashed and has refused to open ever since, best $8.99 ever spent in the history of ever. It also has Knuckles, Applejack, and myself in it. It's just ment to represent the characters that I'm portraying.