private Shadows of Equestria

[nx9100 1,013]

Ravage watched as the stag-pony teleported into the cheese shop they were approaching.  Looking through the windows, he suddenly realized that something was very wrong.  "Sir," he looked to the ocean-blue pony standing next to him, "I think we better leave.  The guards-"

 

"Do not concern me," was the reply, his voice still calm.  "But you should move to a distance, as it would not be good for you to be spotted by them right now."  He grinned at his bodyguard.  "Do not worry, I am above suspicion.  Please stay nearby in case I require you."  Ravage nodded, and as the blue pony moved towards the shop, the black guard seemed to melt into the shadows.  His boss approached a  Royal Guard that had stepped out of the shop to block the door.  "Excuse me," he said, "can you tell me what has happened here?"  From seemingly out of nowhere, a half-dozen bits fell to the ground at his hoofs.

 

The guard glanced down at the coins.  "Uh, sure," he replied.  "The store clerk has been murdered."

 

The blue pony's eyebrows lifted behind his glasses.  "Really? May I ask how?"

 

"Umm, we're really not sure," the guard said softly.  "All we know is that somehow, his whole body has been turned gray."

 

It took all the self control he had to keep the surprise off his face.  "I see, well good luck with your investigation."  Turning away from the store, he returned to where he had left Hooligan standing in the street.  "It seems that we need to find a new place for a meal," he said.  "And apparently, our horned companion has vanished.  Care to join me for a moment?"

 

So, the cyborg is back, he thought, doing his best to keep his calm outward appearance.  This could complicate things....

Edited September 18, 2015 by nx9100

[P-Jay 1,987]

@@nx9100, (sorry for just now posting. ;-; )

 

caliber nodded, and walked up to the doors to the warehouse.

 

he opened the door, slowly, and started walking in as if he belonged there. a pony took one look at him, and smirked. "you lost there?" he asked, trotting over to him. 

 

caliber took note of the crowbar he grabbed on the way. "yes, a little. i am called a wanderer, after all." he replied coolly. 

 

"well, your in the worst place to get lost buddy."

 

"no...that would be your mother's unmentionables." 

 

there was a silence, in which the pony's co-workers broke by bursting out laughing. the pony who was insulted however, took it a little less sports-man-like, and went for a savage swing with the crowbar.

 

caliber grinned, and ducked. the weapon sailed over his head, and before the pony could go for another swing, cailber's sword found itself impaled in his side. the now-stabbed pony coughed up some blood, and fell to the floor, his life fading in mere seconds.

 

his friends all got up, wide-eyed. they all tried to attack, each grabbing some weapon, a bat, a plank of wood, another crowbar, anything to help them get an edge.

 

caliber leaped back, his sword in his hoof, and dodged the first few swings. the darted forward, raking his sword over two of the ponies.

 

they fell, one dead and the other bleeding out fast.

 

caliber stared at the last one, who stared back wide-eyed. caliber closed his eyes, and gestured for him to run away, which he did.

 

"sayuka? its done." he called out, hearing the pony run away in the distance.

Edited September 18, 2015 by P-Jay

[Dapper Charmer 591]

Enzo turned a corner into the street where the cheese shop was supposed to be located, to see a Medium sized mob crowding around a certain yellow-themed store. His eyes widened.

 

"Oh hell no"

 

Calling upon his newly acquired spell, the stag blinked into the cheese store, startling several guards inside. Observing his new surroundings, Enzo was greeted by rows upon rows of cheese stored in glass refridgerators built into the walls of the shop. His eyes shone and he broke into a triumphant smile.

 

"Hell yes."

 

Enzo used his telekinesis to retrieve a wheel of camembert from it's place. Before he could turn around to look for the cashier, he was interrupted by a gray guardspony.

 

"Sir, i will have to ask you to kindly leave the crime scene, refusa-"

 

A certain word caught the stag's attention.

 

"wait wait, hold up." The stag blurted, interrupting the guardspony. "Crime scene?"

 

Maintaining his stoic expression, the guardspony stepped aside, giving the stag a full view of the gruesome scene.

 

"Oh, FUCK no."

 

All thoughts about the cheese was forgotten, as the stag pushed away guards to get a closer look at the gray, unmoving form dead cashier.

 

Lighting his horn, he scanned the cashier for ambient magic. Nothing.

 

"No nonono no no   no NO"

 

The guardspony attempted to push and subdue the stag.

 

"SIR, you are tampering with the crime scene. for that you are under arres-"

 

Getting absolutely no justice, the guardspony was flung backwards by a magical force, strong winds suddenly whipping around the stag.  Turning around to face the rest of the guards and the crowd gathered outside the stall, he roared:

 

"WHO DID THIS?!"

 

Somepony  in the crowd replied: "I saw him. He was some sort of cyborg-pony, brown coat, striped red mane, he left in the alleyway over there"

 

"Enzo, calm down, you're going to get someone hurt!"

 

Reigniting his magic, the stag blinked out of the cheese store and into the alley aforementioned. A dark expression crossed his face.

 

"Oh, i am perfectly calm. In fact, i've never been more tranquil in my entire life"

 

Enzo's expression softened just a little, a small smile gracing his features. 

 

"You know, i'm a really laid back pony.Rob a store? i don't care. Kill a pony? Not my business."

 

The stag's eyes flashed in anger, small gusts of wind circling the duo.

 

"But take away someone's magic? That's just crossing the line."

 

Enzo turned to khris.

 

"Partner, our holiday is over."

 

The stag looked down the alleyway, his eyes narrowing in determination.

 

"The hunt begins here."

 

Hooligan waited for a while for the stag to return, "I don't think he's coming back." said the voice in his head.

"Well then," said Hooligan, "let's find out why." Hooligan teleported around the area of the cheese shop until he found the stag. "Hey man you didn't come back. Did something happen in there?"

[Darkly SteamGear 110]

Darkly proceeds down the alleyway, conversing with himself, as if somepony else was there with him

 

 "That sure was FUN! I can't wait to meet another "friend". Who knows, maybe the next pony I meet will ACTUALLY TALK TO ME. That was preeety rude of that cashier pony. I mean he seemed like such a nice guy to just freeze up like that. He kind of reminded me of ..." 

 

He begins to shiver, as if something disturbed him. He continues walking down the alleyway, then pauses, almost as if a disturbing vision entered his mind. His whole body began to shake. then he said: 

 

"AHHWERAG! no, NOO, ANYTHING BUT THE I..."

 

His robotic eye starts to glow brighter, Then he begins to twitch incessantly. sounds of an unusually robotic monotone voice could be heard coming from the pegasus:

 

"RECOVERY MODE ENABLED.... COMMENCING WORD PHRASING... Let's not derail this any further then it already has." 

 

his voice begins to sound as if it is glitching, as well as decreasing in pitch:

 

 "I AM DETECTING 5 5 50 500 5000 fiiiiiiivvvvvvvee five fi fiiii..."

 

He stands motionless in the alleyway,as he stares out into the darkness. After a few moments of this, his head started to shake, and he began to recover from whatever just happened. He continues onward through the alleyway, talking to himself as if this was just a normal occurrence:

 

"silly AEM, always trying to do things. It isn't very nice to flash those memories through my head you know? I mean were in the big city, why can't you just loosen up?... oh, whats that? your'e not going to, well TOO BAD." 

 

He hits the right side of his head, as if trying to knock something back into place.Then he goes back to talking to himself, like a complete maniac:

 

"Well, Isn't this quite the fun day out in the big city. I got to meet a new "friend", well I mean he didn't really talk to me. He kinda just stood there, as I took all of his colors. because I got the rumblies for spectra... what? Oh yeah, and I got to see some of this great big ol city."

 

He began to break out in song, in a voice that sounded just like Frank Sinatra:

 

"I'M GONNA MAKE A BRAND NEW START OF IT IN OLD NEW YORK! NEW YORK!"

 

After he did that, a confused look fell upon his face. 

 

"That was quite unusual. Welp, back to finding this quite clever pony, so I can "politely" ask him for my stuff back. hehe"

 

He holds onto the right side of his head, as if he is using a cellphone. He mumbles to himself:

 

"Now, where's that G.lobal P.unning S.ystem, or location thingamabob I had on here?"

 

The alleyway begins to open into a secluded sidewalk, somewhere in the city, as he searches for the device in his AEM's massive database.

Edited September 18, 2015 by Darkly SteamGear

[Guest]

@@Darkly SteamGear, 

 

"Don't chase him, not when you're this weak"

 

The stag Turned a corner, skidding slightly to change direction.

 

"LISTEN TO ME. YOU CAN'T ENGAGE AN ENEMY IN YOUR WEAKENED STATE"

 

Whipping out Kris, the stag threw him onto a roof, tassel extending and impaling him into the concrete. He expected Khris's tassel to retract, allowing him to swing from building to building.

 

Unexpectedly, khris's tassel extended slightly and completely stopped moving, stopping the stag in his tracks.

 

"YOU'RE YOING TO GET YOURSELF KILLED"

 

Fire in his eyes, the stag yelled back, his anger causing him to shout out loud

 

"THAT'S MY PROBLEM"

 

As he shouted, the area around him glowed faintly green, the moss on the walls growing ever so slightly. Meanwhile, high in the skies, dark clouds started circling, as if voicing the stag's anger, the hybrid's innate connection to nature resonating strongly.

 

Meanwhile, in the city, the weather team scrambled about, alarms going off within the building, yelling on about the clouds coming alive, moving by themselves.

 

 

Angrily pulling Khris out of his place, the stag continued his pursuit, his footsteps leaving behind a small patch of moss each step.

[cwhip9 1,078]

@@Darkly SteamGear, 

 

"Don't chase him, not when you're this weak"

 

The stag Turned a corner, skidding slightly to change direction.

 

"LISTEN TO ME. YOU CAN'T ENGAGE AN ENEMY IN YOUR WEAKENED STATE"

 

Whipping out Kris, the stag threw him onto a roof, tassel extending and impaling him into the concrete. He expected Khris's tassel to retract, allowing him to swing from building to building.

 

Unexpectedly, khris's tassel extended slightly and completely stopped moving, stopping the stag in his tracks.

 

"YOU'RE YOING TO GET YOURSELF KILLED"

 

Fire in his eyes, the stag yelled back, his anger causing him to shout out loud

 

"THAT'S MY PROBLEM"

 

As he shouted, the area around him glowed faintly green, the moss on the walls growing ever so slightly. Meanwhile, high in the skies, dark clouds started circling, as if voicing the stag's anger, the hybrid's innate connection to nature resonating strongly.

 

Meanwhile, in the city, the weather team scrambled about, alarms going off within the building, yelling on about the clouds coming alive, moving by themselves.

 

 

Angrily pulling Khris out of his place, the stag continued his pursuit, his footsteps leaving behind a small patch of moss each step.

Cresent saw the sky began to change. He hadn't seen the sky change like this in years, the only time he was the rapidiness of it was an freak tornado that cut through the everfree forreset one night but "Hey device, am I the only pony who thinks, this is...um....odd?"asked cresent looking at the night sky

[Dapper Charmer 591]

@,

 

Hooligan saw the stag ignore him and run off into the distance, "Something must've happened if he's bolting like that." said Hooligan.

"Maybe we should check inside the shop." said the voice in his head.

"I agree." Hooligan teleported inside the store. He saw a lot of guards, but that was to be expected. What really caught his eye was the dead body. "No, it can't be."

"What? It's just a dead body. You love dead bodies."

Hooligan teleported back to the alley. "This isn't just a dead body, she's had her magic drained."

"That's impossible."

"No, it happens a lot more than you think. I dealt with a lot of them when I was a psychiatrist."

"When you were a Psychiatrist?"

Hooligan began to follow the direction the stag had gone. "Yeah, when you take away a ponies magic. They either die or go crazy. and I had to deal with the crazy ones."

"What could do something likes this?"

"I don't know, but there were rumors. And if those rumors are true then that stag is in big trouble." As Hooligan ran he noticed a moss trail. "Don't worry stag man," Hooligan said to himself, "I'm coming to help." Hooligan continued to follow after the stag..

[Darkly SteamGear 110]

Darkly hears something going on in the alleyway after he finally finds the advanced mapping system he was scouring the depths of his  AEM's database for.

 

"DID YOU HEAR THAT?!?!?! OH MY GOSH! CITYFOLKS!!!!! and it sounds like they want to play! YAAAY FRIENDS!!!! HAHAHAHAEHEHAHAHAAAA!!"

 

as he skips exuberantly back into the dark alleyway, he notices some dark clouds forming overhead. He begins talking to himself again, as he transforms his left hoof into some tubular metallic device. 

 

"Something seems to be upsetting our new "friend". Oh, I know what might cheer him up... A nice  fluffy marshmallow! that always cheers ME up when I'm sad! OH I'M JUST SO EXCITED!!!"

 

His journey back through the alleyway is halted by @EnzoAquila , a flustered stag, with eyes that appeared to be glowing red in pure anger, along with a magical talking sword named Khris that looked frantic. Darkly's face began to light up, as he saw the two standing there in the alleyway.

 

"Its nice to meet you. oh my gosh, is that a talking sword? CAN I PET IT?!?!? OHMYGOSHIHAVESOMANYQUESTIONS!!! It's so nice of you to come looking for me! Would you like a marshmallow?"

 

Before Enzo and Khris had any time to respond, Darkly sporadically flew up, and shot them both with the marshmallow dispenser he had deployed from his hoof. While harmless, Enzo and Khris found themselves standing, ankle deep, in a sea of marshmallows. Darkly flew down right next to them, and began to speak again, interrupting whatever they were about to say:

 

"you both seemed "upset", so I thought that you might enjoy this "fun" "treat" so we can be "friends". heheahaha, I love "quotes", they are just soo much "FUN". I mean what kind of monster doesn't like marshmallows? THEY ARE MY ABSOLUTE FAVORITE!!!" 

  

Darkly then plops one of the marshmallows in his mouth, and flies up, as the other ones begin to soften into a sticky residue...

Edited September 20, 2015 by Darkly SteamGear

[Unicorncob 5,681]

Meanwhile, high in the skies, dark clouds started circling, as if voicing the stag's anger, the hybrid's innate connection to nature resonating strongly.

 

Ghost looked up at the sky, seeing the dark clouds circling around that stag-pony.

 

This is a new one, he mulled, blinking and glancing down at the pony in question, Are you the one doing this...?

 

Upon catching a glimpse of the boss pony, however, he shrugged and returned his focus on him. He was the real target, and they all seemed to be connected anyway.

[Guest]

For the second time that day, Enzo found himself frozen in place, both figuratively and literally.

 

"Tha-that pegasus- What the hell?"

 

"If that other pegasus from before was any indication, we don't stand a chance against this one. No, not in our weakened state"

 

The stag's mind raced at light's speed as he scanned Darkly for magic and electronics.

 

"This.. Abomination" , Enzo barely said the last word out loud.

 

"Go, run, live to fight another day!"

 

Almost nothing natural was left of the pegasus, @@Darkly SteamGear 's body almost completely replaced with cybernetics.

 

The stag's expression softened, turning into one almost of sympathy...

 

"Who could have done this to you?"

 

"This monster did this to himself"

 

...Until he found the stolen spectra stored in his foreleg. Enzo's eyes flashed.

 

"It doesn't matter anymore"

 

"There is no changing your mind, is there?"

 

The wind whipping around the stag frew in intensity, forming a barrier around him which pushed the monstrocity back.

 

"By my right of birth as child of nature."

 

"By my honor, i am sworn to fight by your side, in life and in death."

 

The runes on his antlers flowed brilliantly in the dark atmosphere of the corridoor, as if fighting back the darkness.The stag's voice grew in volume and intensity

 

"For your crimes against magic and basic sentient rights, you will die this day"

 

"For the unbreakable bond we share, let us vanquish this evil, together"

 

The stag swiftly blinked out of his trap and reappeared above the alleyway, a ball of mana forming between his antlers, the very wind suspending the stag in the air.

 

"Nature will rise against you!"

 

"En garde!"

 

With that, the Stag hurled the swirling bomb of mana into the cyborg below him.

Edited September 21, 2015 by Guest

[Darkly SteamGear 110]

@EnzoAquila

 

The sheer force of this bomb knocks Darkly clear into the pavement. His coat and mane were now blown clear off  of his body, unveiling an unnatural, terrifying robotic shell of a pony as he lay in what appeared to be a state of unconsciousness. Then, this... this unholy contraption began to twitch, as it picked itself back onto its feet. Its skin began to grow back in the places that it had originally been along Darkly's body. He began to speak to Enzo, as if this had just upset him:

 

"Now, that wasn't very nice, now was it? I just wanted to cheer you up. I mean who doesn't like getting sprayed with warm marshmallows? And then I was going to ask you about that BLUE MEAN BULLY MEANIE PONY who stole my stuff. I mean he was pretty nice to me at first, buying my toys, giving me new friends to play with, and he even gave me marshmallows! but then he decided to STEAL MY PLANS, I mean how rude. And now, you're being mean. Bullies like you and Ennex should be... no... NO NOOOO"

 

Then, Darkly started acting as if some overwhelming force was attempting to overtake him. He futilely tries to fight it back, smashing trash cans, bashing his head against the concrete, but it just seemed to be too strong. He eventually gave into it, and stopped trying to fight it back. His robotic eye started glowing an even brighter red as he succumbed to this force.Then, a robotic sounding monotone variant of his voice began to resonate the air:

 

"EXTERMINATION PROTOCOL ENABLED... BEGINNING TERMINATION SEQUENCE.... TERMINATING THREAT... HEALTH AT 65%... SPECTRA LEVELS AT 48%... POWER AT 71%... ENABLING TARGETING SYSTEM WITH 71% POWER REMAINING... ENABLING LASER CANNON WITH 71% POWER REMAINING... INCREASING POWER TO ROBOTIC LIMBS..."

 

In an instant, his insanity, his thoughts, his very being, all became replaced by the emotionless drone of a machine...

 

his hoof began to transform into a laser cannon as he took aim at the stag, charging his cannon at full power. A beam of green energy illuminated the alleyway, and the sky above as he fired his cannon. The magnitude force of the laser had blown him straight off his feet. Then, that same robotic voice began to permeate the air:

 

"POWER AT 25%... STANDING BY... POWER AT 26%... STANDING BY..."

Edited September 21, 2015 by Darkly SteamGear

[Scare Effect 312]

@@cwhip9,

"this is odd." Device said in agreement then she heard the explosion. she turned and looked in the direction it originated and spotted a robotic pony. she then heard a buzzing sound and began hearing Mech.

"Device do you hear me. that thing is a cyberpony it has killed some ponies very recently you need to stop him from hurting others." He said. "but engage with caution."

Device let out groan but then she heard the loud booming voice and a laser blast and the booming voice again. Device approached the metal pony who was on the ground repeating the same message.

[cwhip9 1,078]

@@cwhip9,

"this is odd." Device said in agreement then she heard the explosion. she turned and looked in the direction it originated and spotted a robotic pony. she then heard a buzzing sound and began hearing Mech.

"Device do you hear me. that thing is a cyberpony it has killed some ponies very recently you need to stop him from hurting others." He said. "but engage with caution."

Device let out groan but then she heard the loud booming voice and a laser blast and the booming voice again. Device approached the metal pony who was on the ground repeating the same message.

Cresent turned around to see device over the sputtering metal pony. He approached the metal pony as well looking around to see the thief from before hoof.

 

"man your just mr.popular today aren't you, or is this just a bad day?" he addressed the stag. Half of him wanted to continue from last time but he just wanted some pasta.  

 

"friend of yours?" he asked device looking at the metal pony. It was something Cresent had never seen before he wasn't sure which was machine and which was flesh. He didn't try to listen to the...blood?....oil? of the machine?....pony?....pokemon?

[Darkly SteamGear 110]

"...POWER AT 26.1%... PLEASE STAND BY... POWER AT 26.2%... PLEASE STAND BY... POWER AT 26.21%... NEARBY THREAT DETECTED... DEPLOYING FLAMETHROWER..."

 

Then, the unholy mechanical monstrosity picked itself up, and transformed its laser cannon into some sort of flamethrower looking device. It was a different kind of flamethrower though, because it appeared to use a green energy as fuel, instead of the traditional gasoline that most normal flamethrowers use. He turned to Device, and sprayed her with an extremely hot barrage of green flames. Some of these flames had melted a hole in a nearby building, literally turning the concrete into a liquid state, as well as catching the whole building on fire.

 

"POWER AT 10%... WARNING CRITICAL POWER LEVELS... DISABLING TARGETING SYSTEMS..."

[Scare Effect 312]

Device flinched when she was surrounded by hot green flames but she felt nothing from it. Good thing mech made me fireproof, thought Device before she approached the metal pony and brought her hoof to his metal cranium smashing it into the ground making a large crater where the pony landed. as the flames lifted Device's body let off steam from the extreme heat. "I don't appreciate it when ponies destroy my city, and keep me from my pasta do this again and i will tear you limb by limb got it." Device said then grabbed Crescent and took to the sky pulling him with her, "we are gonna need to find another restaurant due to the fact that lunatic burned down our previous one."

Edited September 22, 2015 by Scare Effect

[Darkly SteamGear 110]

With his face now to the pavement, Darkly lay in defeat. He regained control from his AEM after the hard blow he had taken from Device. By the time he realized what had just happened, it was too late for him to contribute any more. Everything around him was a whirling inferno of green, as ponies living in the buildings that caught ablaze were trapped, scared, and dying. He felt nothing but apathy as he watched a couple of them in the pasta shop burn to death.

 

"They could have been better served in one my experiments. Oh hey, is that pasta? I LOVE PASTA!!!" 

 

He thought to himself, as they cried for help.

 

His mission here was simple: get the plans to his latest contraption back from Ennex. But, this was not going to be so simple for him, as he originally thought. It took him a stag and another cyberpony to realize the other potential problems he could run into along the way. Thinking about this just made him grin, and laugh maniacally.

 

"Oh, this is going to be SOO much more fun then I had originally been planning it would be. I just wish I could have seen the start of this amazing bond fire. muhuhahaha... HAHAHHAH.. HUHUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHHHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!" 

 

He stepped into the burning shop, where the skull of the original pasta shopkeeper lay, burnt to a crisp. He held the head of it in his hand, as he watched a whole entire block of manehattan burn to the ground...

 

"Isn't it beautiful Mr.PastaShopkeeper? HEHEHEhEhehehe!!" 

 

He said to the skull of a once living pony, with no regard to life, or anything for that matter...

[Guest]

@@Darkly SteamGear, @@cwhip9, @@Scare Effect, @@Unicorncob,

 

Enzo utilised the force of his bomb to send him hurtling a few meters back landing a small distance away from his target. Hearing a whirr of Energy and seeing a green light, Enzo cast his mana disruption spell, intending to cause the charging magic to implode on itself.

 

Except it didn't

 

"That.. isn't magic"

 

As the laser hurtled towards Enzo, khris brought himself up at an angle at the last second, angling the reflective metal and splitting the beam into 2. One part of it went wayward, on colission course with the invisible pony on the rooftop. Unfortunately, the other one was only redirectedby a small degree, searing part of Enzo's Flank.

 

Gritting his teeth in pain, Enzo blinked behind his combatant. To his surprise, he was greeted by device and Crescent.

 

Not skipping a beat, he gave a weak grin and asked them, "How you holding up?"

 

"Enzo, look out!"

 

Enzo turned his attention back to the battle just in time to notice a wispy green glow, indicative of an oncoming flamethrower. Turning his eyes to the unprotected crescent, he leaped in front of the thestral and spun Khris rapidly in a circle right in front of him like a shield. Doing so, through the tassel, he drained the circle of magic, creating a highly negative vortex. As the flamethrower fired, green wisps of flame washed over the entire alley. However ,the attack left Enzo and Crescent unharmed from the fire. As the Khris whirled around, the fire had been sucked into the vortex, the swirling mass of green flames whipping round and round as Khris continued to spin.

 

Breaking the spin, Enzo Swung khris high above him in an arc and stopped the spin, casting out the vortex's contents into a bright, brilliant green fiery arc which expanded above him, akin to an alien-green rainbow.

 

"H-how did we just do that? That move takes quite the amount of magic to use, and we are in a city, so how- oh."

 

Enzo took a moment to look to the sky, the green 'rainbow' illuminating the dark, rumbling clouds above. The stag's expression changed to one of wonder at first, and then shifted into one of peace, the eye of a storm.a gentle smile caressed his features.

 

"Looks like mother hasn't lost her touch."

 

Bracing himself, Enzo thrust his antlers as far as he could towards the sky while remaining on the ground.He started draining the natural magic from the clouds, calming the storm. The clouds' magic heeded his call, spiraling down from the heavens in blue wisps that shone brightly like the stars in the night sky, sailing down into the stag's now blindingly bright antlers, worming their way into the antler's runes.

 

Enzo heaved a sigh of contentment at the feeling.

 

"It's been so long"

 

Reluctantly, Enzo turned his attention back to the situation at hoof.

 

Khris glowed a soft blue and frost gathered in flowery patterns along the blade as his chill enchantment was activated.

 

Between the stag's horns, a small, but surely growing, ball of swirling magic formed.

 

Beside the stag, 2 etheral blades: Larger than a dagger yet smaller than a sword, Materialised into existence, floating vigilantly.

 

Enzo strode into the burning pasta shop, leaving an area of calm in his wake. Gentle winds bellowed around him, whipping khris's tassel along with it's breeze and clearing the area around the stag of smoke. Where his hooves fell, bright, green, glowing saplings broke through the dull concrete, as if reaching for their master.

 

The stag wasn't distracted by the screams of the ponies around him, nor the green flames licking at the building's walls. His mind lay only on one pony.

 

"Darkly steamgear."

 

Enzo pointed Khris at the aforementioned abomination.

 

"Your terror ends... "

 

Enzo and Khris's minds worked together, flourishing the 3 blades ( 2 etheral, one khris ) around the stag in a triple wield.

 

"HERE AND NOW"

 

The duo charged, leaving a trail of magic and nature in their wake.

[Dapper Charmer 591]

It took Hooligan awhile but he finally found the stag. But he wasn't alone. Hooligan watched as the stag battled with the cyborg-pony, "I think he might need our help." said the voice in his head.

"I think you're right," replied Hooligan. he teleported to his storehouse, picked up the biggest sword he could find and returned just in time to hear talking to the cyborg pony.

 

 

"Darkly steamgear."

 

Enzo pointed Khris at the aforementioned abomination.

 

"Your terror ends... "

 

Enzo and Khris's minds worked together, flourishing the 3 blades ( 2 etheral, one khris ) around the stag in a triple wield.

 

"HERE AND NOW"

 

The duo charged, leaving a trail of magic and nature in their wake.

 

 

Hooligan teleported beside the stag and joined him in the charge, "Hey thought I'd find you here," he said to the stag, "what do you say we kick this ugly mother bucker's flank?"

[cwhip9 1,078]

Device flinched when she was surrounded by hot green flames but she felt nothing from it. Good thing mech made me fireproof, thought Device before she approached the metal pony and brought her hoof to his metal cranium smashing it into the ground making a large crater where the pony landed. as the flames lifted Device's body let off steam from the extreme heat. "I don't appreciate it when ponies destroy my city, and keep me from my pasta do this again and i will tear you limb by limb got it." Device said then grabbed Crescent and took to the sky pulling him with her, "we are gonna need to find another restaurant due to the fact that lunatic burned down our previous one."

Cresent looked back annoyed then looking forward flying next to device "something tells me this city dosent have many nice things, or is this a regual tuseday for this place?" he asked as they kept flying. He still felt like they had too do something but he couldn't think up what

[Scare Effect 312]

@@cwhip9,

"No this is unusual for manehatten it usually is kinda peaceful except for a few thugs but for a psychopath like that is rare, but we cannot stop anypony without food."  Device said as she came for a landing in front of an Italian Restaurant."So lets eat now and we can go bad guy hunting tomorrow when we are both well rested and fully recover from our injuries."

[Unicorncob 5,681]

As the laser hurtled towards Enzo, khris brought himself up at an angle at the last second, angling the reflective metal and splitting the beam into 2. One part of it went wayward, on colission course with the invisible pony on the rooftop.

 

Ghost continued watching this little conflict between the stag and the cyborg.

 

...sounded like a bad internet fanfiction. The Stag and the Cyborg.

 

He watched as this swordfighter cut a laser beam in half, somehow, and barely had time to react when he realised half of it was careening his direction. "Holy--!"

 

He sprinted across the rooftop and laid himself flat down, watching the laser blast by him. But not without taking a chunk of the rooftop with it. A rather large chunk, like an unruly wedding guest helping themselves to the cake and getting slapped by the bride.

 

When he was sure he was clear, he got up and walked to the semi-circle of damage done to the rooftop.

It's getting too hot around here, he decided, and trotted to the right, toward another rooftop, I better get myself to a safer position until I can track that boss pony.

 

He leapt off the side, using his wings to glide safely into the alleyway, and crouched behind a pair of trashcans to watch for the blue stallion to re-emerge.

[cwhip9 1,078]

@@cwhip9,

"No this is unusual for manehatten it usually is kinda peaceful except for a few thugs but for a psychopath like that is rare, but we cannot stop anypony without food."  Device said as she came for a landing in front of an Italian Restaurant."So lets eat now and we can go bad guy hunting tomorrow when we are both well rested and fully recover from our injuries."

cresent noded still looking on "your right iv had enough fighting for tonight" he flew and landed next to Device looking at the sign.

 

"I wonder what type of garlic they have here?" he wondered outloud stepping in the dinner now looking at the specials board. The restaurant seemed busy but not swamped with other ponys. Cresent thanked Luna that it wasn't full so he could think properly

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[nx9100 1,013]

Standing just inside the alley, Ravage kept his eyes on his master.  The blue pony was still standing at his place in the street, watching the battle taking place far above them.  The bodyguard saw the large, wicked grin that crossed the other's face, his eyes narrowing behind the black-rimmed glasses.  "We need to leave," he called out, "and get you to a safer location.

 

But the blue pony didn't move, just continued to watch the chaos above, as if drawing strength from it.  But Ravage knew he was just enjoying the show.  That was his master's style.  Why fight off an enemy, when you could get others to do it for you?  Looking up, the bodyguard studied the mechanical monstrosity.  They new that the cyborg might come for the stolen plans, and he personally wasn't looking forward to having to fight it off.  But once again, events seemed to be under control.  His master's control...

 

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Having watched the lone survivor gallop away, Sakuya entered the warehouse.  Her eyes took in the scene.  "Well done, Caliber," she said to him.  "And leaving one alive to warn the others not to mess with us, good thinking."  She trotted around the building, studying the layout.  "Perfect!  This place will do nicely.  Once I get some others in here to clean up a bit, we can get operations underway."  She wandered over to what appeared to be an office, and pushed open the door.  "Hopefully they left us plenty of contraband to sell off.  I could use the capitol to get things started..."

[Stellar 16]

A white unicorn with a yellow mane glanced down the ally. She saw what was happening and smiled. What a better way to announce her precedes in Manehatten than this. She checked to make sure no pony was watching, before engulfing herself in green flame. When the flames cleared, the unicorn was gone. In her place stood a masked hero. Her outfit was similar to Mare Do Well's but the body was black and her cloak was a dark blue. Instead of a 'M' on her cloak ther was a silver 'N'. She stepped into the ally and announced herself . "Before you ask I am not Mare Do Well. I am Nightmare."

[P-Jay 1,987]

Having watched the lone survivor gallop away, Sakuya entered the warehouse.  Her eyes took in the scene.  "Well done, Caliber," she said to him.  "And leaving one alive to warn the others not to mess with us, good thinking."  She trotted around the building, studying the layout.  "Perfect!  This place will do nicely.  Once I get some others in here to clean up a bit, we can get operations underway."  She wandered over to what appeared to be an office, and pushed open the door.  "Hopefully they left us plenty of contraband to sell off.  I could use the capitol to get things started..."

caliber nodded as if he understood. "and when do i get my fight?" he asked. "you did promise a challenge...and those thugs were hardly a warm up."

 

he was sitting on top of one of the warehouse boxes, cleaning his sword off with a bandanna he presumingly had in his bag.