private Vampires run in the family.

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Summer hugged back and cried like a new born, she was sacred thoughts rushing through her mind. Would she hurt some she cared about, someone she loved? She was so scared anyone could tell it you needed not be a vampire to tell it was as plain as day that she was terrified. 

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-In the maze

Dark heart jumped on the last tile smilling seeing the door open to another hall way. He couldn't help but marvel at his luck of succession through the trail so far. Meanwhile with cresent and other Wane.

 

The other Wane had made a 3rd duck from the pendulum as he was in mid air while cresent tried to reason with him "its not a dance wane its a penalty seriously get down from there" he said ducking a near by blade

 

"oh come on cres don't be such a chiken" wane said doging between the incoming pendulums "you cant say this maze hasn't been fun"

 

"this whole week needs to end listen we have the answer in front of us" cresent said dogging a pendulum blade giving him a hair cut. Cresent pounced on the stool by the piano and pressed his hoofs on some notes pausing the pendulums

 

-in dark lights room
Loyal also hugged summer after what seemed like a good while the three separated with loyal holding out two loly pops conferingly to summer and dark light

 

Dark light grind "thanks loyal, but I got summer coverd worry about em" she said giving the loly pop to summer

Wane looked down and glided by cresent "wait, do that again" he said looking over his shoulder   
 

Edited February 16, 2016 by cwhip9

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Summer tool the lollipop and shoved in her mouth. She tried to wipe away her tears it was not easy she soaked her hoof so much she needed to use one of her wings and even then it became wet aswell with all the tears. "Thanks LIght, other pony." IT dawned on her..."Oh my...Wane was your brother...Dark Light..." She looked at her.

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Dark light smiled "no my brother died a while ago you just saved cresent. Wane was the one who sent that assassin after you guys" dark light said "he was the one who sent another assassin after the frist one, I assume he made it out ok. The wane we see on here" dark light pointed at the mirror "is a changeling...."

[DarkHaert 277]

"Actually, it doesn't, because if I don't know what you're saying, how can I know you're guilty?" Façade was lying, he had mastered several languages and had mastered lying, but he didn't care to tell anypony. Or Dark Beak. "As for the competition, I don't care. It's all meaningless in the end. We all eventually meet the same end." Façade picked out his canisters, and put all of them in, feeling the genetic material changing him. Glowing orange appeared on his wings, tail, mane, eyes, and made geometric lines on his skin. Façade just sat there watching the crowd, while the pain went through him and then it was gone. "Hope the choo-choo train of death shows up."

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"If she can recover this quick I want what ever she has" dark beak said looking around at the crowd. The mare in question the two were talking about was indeed near by in a tower the two of them didn't bother to look at. She zoomed in on the gryphon then on façade then zoomed out after doing the math of an airborn strike it was in her favor. The collateral didn't mater as long as the failed assassin diapered no matter what. And she would fufil her contract no matter what. Spreding her wings she began to glide over the two, being two miles awy from them also gave her time for the bomb attack....  

[DarkHaert 277]

Façade heard something, he tried to focus on it. "Dark Beak, something is not right." Façade felt a way of pain through his head, and then clarity. He heard something.... Just he didn't know what he turned around, and pulled out his telescope, and extended it at a black dot he saw in the sky. The mechanical mare. Façade readied his bow, and shouted, "Everypony! Take Cover!" at the top of his lungs.

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"A Changeling, poor thing probably forced into it those things almost have no will of their own from what Emerald has told me anyway she knows them a little better than I do she fought them during the invasion in Canterlot what three or four years ago now, what if the Changeling wins?"

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everypony around the two gave them a puzzling look some looked up and laughed others thought he was mad and pulled out there cells to see what else funny stuff would happen. Seeing Façade shout out at the crowd the mare smiled as she let her wings extend opening the pits inside as small canisters began to rain on the crowd.

 

Some thought it was confetti and threw it joyfully, until there was little hiss's herd every where and smoke starting to flow out of them, the smoke was really knock out gas generally used on dragons while the effect on pony's was instant. 

 

 Save dark beak and Facade who sensed but didn't see the danger instinctively breathed out of his mouth and pulled up a bandana to wrap around his lower face. handing one to façade he drew his battle staff and took off at the metal mare. The mare smiled locking onto the gryphon  

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Façade wrapped the bandana around his face, and pulled some heat goggles out of his satchel. He pulled the goggles on, and orange and blues filled his vision. The mechanical mare lit up bright red, meaning it basically had a heated engine. He drew his bow, and flicked his wrist, letting off an arrow. It hit the mechanized demon, and Façade drew another arrow, and he half jumped and half flew to on top of the building. He let off another arrow, and drew another.

Edited February 16, 2016 by DarkHaert 2099

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(fell asleep thought I turned it off woops sorry to leave you hanging bro)  The first arrow made its mark on the mare blinding her eyes momentarily, she could sense the gryphon approaching and slammed into dark beak head first surprising the gryphon. Dark beak swung his battle staff the mare caught it in her hoof and responded with a punch to his beak and face making one proud looking black eye on the gryphon.

 

When the 2nd arrow flew she grabbed dark beak who didn't have time to recover using him as a shield took the arrow in the rib blinding him as well.

 

 "wrong target assassin" dark beak half yelled and half growled in pain when he got hit. The metal mare's eye sight recovered seeing façade draw the third bow let go of the struggling gryphon and rocket towards the building, Her eyes glowing red as they warmed up her next shot.....

[DarkHaert 277]

Façade muttered "Apologies" under his breath, and then saw the mechanical demon flying towards him. He then took one of his flashbang grenades, and threw it under him as she drew near. Bright light filled Façade's vision, but his goggles filtered out most of the light, however, they didn't filter pain. Façade was thrown a little by the explosion the flashbang had caused, and then he drew his bow, notched with an arrow, and then he fired it into the mare's glowing eyes.

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As the arrow went into the blue mares left eye an explosion of sparks light and metal was more herd then seen as the light from the flash bang took over the top of the building the two ponys were on.

 

Once Façade got his sight back he saw how the mare was in terms of...ok mare wasn't what she would be called as it seemed her fur on her face and chest was singed off exposing the metal workings of her. The left eye had the arrow through it giving her a hellish look as her right eye was smoking from the shot like a gun would. (ok a gun doesn't smoke in reality but you got the picture) The mare staggered and seemed to spark more then it should be as Facade could see it had summered a lot of damage as she staggered near him.

 

The eye wasn't glowing and her wings were stuck in a fixed potion, seeing the mare struggle to get them off would by him some time as the mare was struggling to stand with the wings locked in place. The it seemed like she got annoyed at them and pressed a button on her arm to have one of the fixed wings pop off.

Feeling a tinge of pain Façade notice a metal blade sticking in his leg similar to the blades the mares wings had on them.....

[DarkHaert 277]

"Damn it." Façade muttered, he threw a flashbang and slid off the building, and pulled the blade out of his leg. He growled as he did it. He then ran inside the forge where he had his blades heated. Façade retrieved the, from a very scared blacksmith, and lift the twin orange blades. The heat coming off them was intense, and should do what Façade needed to.

 

Façade returned outside with the orange hot blades, letting the adrenaline ignore his wound. He lept back onto the building, and then before the mare could react. Plunged one of the heated blades into her neck.

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As the sword went into the mares neck a loud screech of metal on almost liquid metal was herd. It looked like the mare screamed but the sound was so unpony it was unlike anything Façade had ever herd, and definitely one he wont forget. The mare seemed to try to speak but sparks were crackling out of its open mouth. Then an automated voice came from the mare saying,

 

"SYSTEM FAILURE INIMITE 97% DAMIGE THRESHOLD. FFFFFFFFAAAAAIIIIIIILLLLLL SSSSSAFE ATC, ACTI, ACTI, VATED. SELF DESTURCT SEQUENCE. AUTO MATED COUNTDOWN 8....7.....6"

 

As the mare counted down its demise Façade soon noticed something as big as his head was glowing inside the mare (based off the shape of it at least). The bomb was glowing one eye fixed at Façade the red going away turning into a regular eye. One that looked shocked and in terror like one is waking up from a night mare. The mares leg reached for façade the voice changed to her first one he herd back at the bar almost at a whisper

"_{cresent.....save him from.....}" the mares voice changed back into the automated one "4....3...."    

[DarkHaert 277]

Façade felt his adrenaline pumping in the back of his head. He grabbed the bomb, and rocketed off, leaving a yellow-orange streak of light. Façade flew for a second, before throwing the bomb up. It sailed upwards, inertia helping Façade for once. He turned around and began to fly down when the bomb exploded. Flung by the force of the explosion, unconsciousness came over Façade, comforting him again.

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@, @@Mentis Soliloquy, By the time Dark beak recovered he pretty much missed everything, seeing faced falling knocked out he flew over catching the pony setting him down on another building he looked him over. Disappointed he sighed looking at the  wire mess the blue mare was, an idea, no two ideas crossed his mind on the two pony.

 

"why do I have to play doctor, cresent's owing me a drink after this" he said propping Façade on his back walking towards the mesh of the mare and picking it up. Then flew, or tried to fly with all the weight back to his apartment

 

-the maze

Cresent annoyed at his cousin tackled him down to earth when he didn't come down, "cresent what they hey?!" wane cried out.

 

Cresent glared at his cousin and moved back to the piano "your no good to me dead, mostly as I'm not getting the crown the least you could do is survive. now back to-" cresent was caught off when a hoof forced his head onto the piano keys making a bunch of notes sound.  

 

Wane leaned in "stop it with the cover I'm not buying it, now let the real prince play" he said shoving cresent off the stool.

 

Cresent moved back up shaking his head not noticing the nose bleed, "ok then twilight how do you know which notes to play?" he asked  

 

Wane ignoring cresent started pressing the keys differently using his hoofs instead of his wings like most batponys do. Wane looked around after a few notes were pressed not seeing much happen..."I think you broke it" he said

 

"how do you break a piano?!" cresent said. It was then the floor began to move on them again as two trap doors opened to have two stone Monitors slowly walk towards the two with battle axe's. The blades bigger then the pony's them self's. Cresent turned around seeing the stone Monitors

 

"Wane, you do know what your doing right?" he said activating his battle gauntlet.....

 

-Dark lights room
"If he dose win he wont live long without being killed only a batpony can become king, the only reason no pony has picked up on it is because the must have switched places as the maze trail started" Darklight said answering Summer's question.  

 

"you notice how every different being sounds off to you summer in terms of blood beats, the moment he steps out the family reaction will not go well. The main plan was this changeling would do the work with wane taking the credit for it all. a good idea if he wasn't an idiot" dark light continued then looked at the mirror.

Seeing the events play out on the mirror made dark light face hoof "cmon cress you know how his blood should sound why haven't you" she looked back up "wait, when did we get those monitors?!" she said

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Emerald turned her head to reface the mirror. Summer sat and watched, "I don't want the changeling killed I mean what did it do? It's a creature of intelligence like us we can't just kill it." She was actually worried about a changeling of all things she wanted no more death because of Wane.

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-In the maze
"course I do" said the changeling faking wane, the stone monitors were slow but still having cresent peddle back

 

"well then anything about these could be helpful! Cresent dodged a axe slash making him peddled back more

 

The 2nd wane cracked his neck placing his hoofs on the piano keys and tried playing a simple 3 note tune, in which the stone monitors only increased there speed slightly both of them glaring down on cresent.

 

"hm...if that dose that then" wane played the 3 note tune a bit faster as he did he looked up at the monitors gaining speed on cresent a small grin was seen on wanes face seeing cresent being chased by the monitors "yes my pretty's the bat needs a play mate"

 

"wane what the" he dogged another slash attack growling and diving in between the legs of one of the monitors then jumped on Wane pinning him.

 

"for the last time I'm not aiming for that damn crown, I want you to win it but if you want it as much as I don't then we got to work together to work this" cresent was interrupted by wane head butting cresent and kicking him off.

 

"so that you could assassinate me, how about this you jump off the ledge and let me deal with the rest and save us all the trouble of killing you" said Wane.

 

Cresent got back up blinking a bit, "say that one more time" he said.  

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"There not going to kill the changeling I don't want it!" Summer got up and walked towards the door.

 

"Where are you going?"

 

"I will tell the guards about Wane I don't want to see the changeling die because he, it was manipulated into competing in this for him, NO i wont see it!"

[DarkHaert 277]

Façade woke up. Pain wracked his system, he ejected his canisters, the pain began to fade. He didn't know where he was, and he groaned. "Damn it! Ugh!" Façade stood up out of e bed. He was back in the apartment. He shuffled to the kitchen and brewed some coffee. He then looked and saw his bow completely intact. He smiled and winced as the pain finally left his system.

 

"Dark Beak? You here!?" Not hearing a reply Façade decided to watch the news. Flipping on the television, he saw a report on the attack of the metal mare of death. Somepony had taken a video on their smartphone of him in his hood taking down the mare. Then the video showed a bandana covered Dark Beak. The report dubbed them as "vigilantes" who should be brought to justice, but were pardoned because of the circumstances. Façade sipped his bitter coffee. He gagged a little. "That's good."

 

Façade sat down in a chair, and watched some more of the news, and he switched the channel to one watching the Crown Maze event. "Why does that one bloody bat look not right?" He wondered. Just something about the way he fought....

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@@Mentis Soliloquy, darklight looked at summer on her way up "theres still nothing they could do, anypony that crosse's that barrer will be killed while this is going on not even the guards could do anything, sorry summer" dark light looked back at the ground

 

"I hate to see it happen but its simple us just watching it" she looked again at the mirror

 

"And I think cresents the one we need to worry about"

 

-In the maze
"why dose everypony think you need to kill for the crown," cresent thought out loud then noticed the stone monitors were looking at both of them like they were dinner. Cresent carfully trotted towards the paino, as did wane.

 

"call them off" cresent said

 

"I don't know how, but I know they are hungry" wane lept for the stool played a set of notes and one of the monitors charged cresent. Cresent doged the charge barley not getting nicked by the stone blade, although it did giv his mane a hair cut. The monitor swung his axe after another set of notes at cresent. Cresent blocked with his blade only centimeters from his neck.  

 

"Wane call it off!" said cresent

 

@, Dark beak walked in his apartment seeing Façade watching the trails on the tv carrying a large box behind him. "ah good your awake, what did I miss on the tube" he grunted setting the box down

 

"also what do you know about robots, I think we can get our answers putting her back together....where's coolwhip when you need him" said the gryphon

[DarkHaert 277]

@@cwhip9,

 

Façade looked back at Dark Beak, he eyed the robot parts. "You got a phone? I could video chat Whirlwind, he's a cousin of mine. He's real good with machinery and tech. He can just about make anything." Façade glanced back at the television, "Cresent is gonna get his ass whooped if that weird fella doesn't play the right notes." Façade sat down and looked at Dark Beak.

[Mentis Soliloquy 3,026]

Summer stopped and looked back the Darklight she was still worried about the changeling and Cresent her and Emerald were now just watching on. "What is even the point to this challenge I mean when would anyone normally be subject to something like this, like ever?"

 

"Agreed, Em."

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@@Mentis Soliloquy,

Darklight sighed "honestly girls I wish I knew the real reason. but it started when the bats didn't like a certain way kings were crowned always having a war happen here and there every 7 decades or so. Then the idea came up instead of bloodline wars being hidden and the civilians pulled in the king was given the choice of total revolt or televised blood trails for the pony's to see. And instead of full wars we have...."

 

Darklight stopped. It was still fresh in her mind about Wane and both emerald and summer could tell as she coughed.

 

"well this, stupid if you ask me but only the elder could stop this, if he isn't dead by now. And cresent better not die today" darklight said glaring at the screen. more so at the changeling playing wane

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Dark beak glanced at the TV "he's been in worse spots before he'll make it out of this one. pay attention to his bracelet, I swear ether luna made that thing or starswirld when he found that, and for the phone let me check" the gryphon went towards the kitchen  

 

"ah good, whets the number you said" asked dark beak.

 

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As the stone axe was getting closer to cresents face and strength running low he made up his mind about his cousin. "so be it" he closed his eyes the blade of cresent gauntlet seemed to have grown in an angry sort of way. The color usually blood red had turned into a brilliantly angry looking green. Then in one fluid motion cresent ducked under his arm having the stone blade move into the green blade.

 

The blade began to cut through the stone letting out a angry yell cresent moved into the stone monitor the blade slicing through the stone like it was butter. The blade cut through the blade of the axe surprising the monitor but didn't expect the bat to have the blade cut through the stone arm in half as cresent moved against the monitor. It back up let out its own surpassed yell giving cresent time to recover and slice into the monitors chest in a punching motion going through the stone monitor and having it explode into debris.

 

Wane turned to see the yelling when one of the many chunks of rock slammed into the changelings face sending him off the piano stool into the ground. Cresent looked at the other stone monitor, it was motionless weather aware of what just happened cresent couldn't tell.  

Edited February 23, 2016 by cwhip9