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Fighting is Magic Tournament 01-7!

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Princess Celestia vs Queen Chrysalis

Zipzee and Seabreeze looked positively bored. It was like time was stretching further and further between moments, like time's gears had become rusted.

Ponies and changelings alike were in the stadium, crowded and eager to watch this clash of the titans. Princess against Queen. Wisdom against cunning. Kindness verses cruelty. The sun verses a locust.

Princess Celestia arrived, looking as she always did, not decked out in armor, nor looking all that worried. She had on her Warrior Smile, that she reserved for going into battle. While Luna went into battle grim-faced, in this instance, Celestia felt for an ego driven opponent like Chrysalis, few things would rile her up and make her act foolishly than the slightest hint that Celestia -might- not take her seriously.

Princess Celestia knew that Chrysalis wasn't going to back out, or back off, she'd never live down the chance to face Celestia again or might be thought a coward. The fact that first time they Celestia had obliterated her, and the second time only won because Chrysalis had been gorged on Shining Armor's true love, (and they were in a room full of civilians) meant nothing.

Celestia knew her detractors considered Celestia incompetent or lazy at best, or downright sadistic and sociopathic, the Princess accepted this as par the course, and at least Twilight and her friends could solve problems without accidentally setting the world on fire.

That was when Nightmare Moon flew into the arena, a green glow to her eyes.

"BWAHAHAHAH! THE TIME HAS COME! ETERNAL NIGHT SHALL BEGIN, AND I SHALL DESTROY YOU DEAR SISTER!"

Many ponies gasped, some panicked, a few fainted. Most of the G3 ponies were crying for their mothers, their world was a paradise, what did they know of evil? Compared to the mad men the Paradise Ponies and Equestria had faced?

Princess Luna in the stands glared at her dark self.

Celestia frowned, rolled her eyes, and gave an indignant snort. "That's your best move Chrysalis? What's your real game? Don't tell that's the worst low blow you can think of."

"Who is this Chrysalis?! I am Nightmare Moon!" The nightmare roared.

"I hope that's just you staying in character and not having lost yourself," Celestia said with icy calm.

Seabreeze looked around, and saw Zipzee cowering behind the rule book.

Seabreeze sighed. "Alright then, considering both contenders it seems are in the ring, begin!"

Nightmare Moon laughed insanely and fired a beam right at Celestia.

"You've let your last win go to your head Chrysalis!" Celestia scolded as her own beat collided, and began to overwhelm Nightmare Moon's. "If you thought reminding me of my greatest failure was going to shock me into losing, you don't understand me at all."

Celestia's beam blasted Nightmare Moon clear to the edge of the ring... The Nightmare screamed, and in the flash of Celestia's attack... Princess Luna was in her place, the green light in her eyes flickered away. "Sis-sister? W-where are we? What happened? What's going on? Why am I hurting?"

'Princess Luna' in the stands was surrounded in an aura of green flames, and revealed Queen Chrysalis, who laughed and clapped. "Well done 'sister'! Well done!"

There were cries and boos from the audience, more than a few wanting Chrysalis' blood.

Seabreeze was horrified and bewildered, unsure of what to call.

Celestia rushed to her sister's side. "Lulu! Lulu I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to-! I'm sorry! I'd never hurt you again!"

Princess Luna smiled and nuzzled her at her sister's love. "I know." Then at the speed of a scorpion, and like her limbs were all triple jointed, wrapped her rear legs around Celestia, and in one snap motion, slapped her onto the grass outside the ring.

In a flash, the Luna in the stands turned into the real Queen Chrysalis.

While the 'Queen Chrysalis' in the stands transformed into Locust, the same changeling who had impersonated her during the swarm's jail break.

The REAL Princess Luna meanwhile, came rushing into the stands, a gigantic cake behind dragged behind her. "Sister! We are here! Twas a struggle, but we have arrived with thy victory cake thou requested and... oh dear."

Queen Chrysalis turned into Celestia for a moment and snickered at Luna. "Ooooh THANK YOU Lulu! You're such a LOVING sister!" The fake Celestia burst out laughing.

Luna's eyes turned red.

The one true princess of the sun rose up, her entire body not covered in flame, her body was MADE of flame, the sun itself shining hot in the arena, the magical barrier of the stands protecting the audience, but just barely.

"Queen Chrysalis Avalon! You will know fire!"

"WAIT! WAIT! WAIT!" Seabreeze said, not wanting a smoking hole where the arena used to be. "RING OUT! RING OUT! You have lost! Bug-ugly-face is the winner! Sorry!"

"I win! I win! NYA NYA! I win! And all you fools have no one to blame but yourselves!" Chrysalis sneered at all those assembled! "I win!" The changeling queen did a little dance.

With a demeanor colder than the north, Celestia floated down and extinguished herself. "Your treachery steals you a win yet again Chrysalis, enjoy it while it lasts." Celestia said in a breath that made King Sombra himself shuddered.

"Can I come out now?" Zipzee asked.

"Yes." Seabreeze sighed. "Up next we have... a teenage girl with a love of practical jokes against the demon king who in his reality has conquered half of Equestria... "

Patch sweated and with an awkward smile on her face looked at King Sombra. "Hey, how about a handicap?"

"Is that another word for coffin?"

A Umbrum floated over, and began taking measurements for Patch's coffin as funeral procession music played from nowhere. "Stop that." Patch said matter of fact swatting the Umbrum away.

"Don't worry dear," Radiant Hope said from her royal seat next to her husband. "Honey will just likely make you face your inner worst terror to make you run out of the ring like he did the spirit of chaos."

"Now now dear, I may or may not do that. After all, one shouldn't rely on a single technique to win every fight. Maybe. Might be fun."

"Who are your next of kin?" The Umbrum, Ira, Sombra's sister, asked floating over again with a note pad. "So we know who to send your pieces to, or inform them which mental hospital you've been sent to."

"I sincerely hope you have a strategy little one," Wind Whistler said in earnest.

Rabia said meanwhile, "It's a pity Chrysalis' kind feed off of love, then again, never employ or alley with somepony more treacherous than yourself."

"Uh, my queen, can you stop dancing now?" Locust asked.

"In a minute."

"So... what shall we do with the cake sister?" Luna asked awkwardly.

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Back in the stands, Princess Celestia was breaking one of her time-tested rules of princessing by sulking in public. "Oh, what use am I, Lulu? Pass me another sun cake." She'd eaten the entire 'victory' cake already, and a changeling with a dessert cart stood nearby, happy to supply Celestia with all the cake she could stuff herself with.

Luna shoo'd the dessert vendor away. "Cheer up, dear sister! Did you not defeat my Nightmare self and Discord?"

Celestia lit her horn, trying to drag the dessert cart back to her. "Of course I did, the *first* time..."

Luna used her own magic to push the cart away again. "You soundly thrashed a griffon army once, if the history books are to be believed."

Gilda, who had been watching Applejack like a hawk and thinking, glanced over. "Maybe us griffons should ask for a rematch too!" Sudden heat blazed, wilting her crest. "Kidding! I'm just kidding, jeez! Hey Sparkle, help me out here! I don't want to be a roast turkey!"

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Patch vs King Sombra

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Patch gave a deep breath. "Alright...time to get my supplies..."

The teenager went backstage where she'd stored the stuff she'd be preparing for the entire day...

Sombra flew into the ring in his smoke form and reformed as a pony. "Stop hiding from me, worm! Come and face your doom!" 

"I'm coming! Hang on!" Patch called, pushing a wagon identical to the one her dad used back home. She was dressed in knight attire...or rather theater costume imitations of them. She pulled several large home made...things. They were face down so no point could see. She then picked up and pushed a large crate of various things onto the ring. The final thing she pushed up was a simple wooden pillar with a pulley at the top, a rope running up through it. Though from the effort it took, it certainly weighed a lot.  "Thank you Mrs. Hackney for teaching us how those work."

"Where'd she get THOSE?" Sea Breeze asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Looks like she built them..." Zipzee looked over several files. "Oh! Turns out whenever one of them do anything construction related its always her to do it and her father is shown to be in construction work! I forgot about that! Yay hidden depths!"

Patch finally climbed into the ring, legs shaking a little bit. 'It'll be okay, Patch, all you have to do is last fifty seconds...And think about it this way: you're the only teenaged pony from your world in the tournament. That technically makes you the Final Girl by default.'

The bell rung, and Sombra instantly prepared a spell to end it...when Patch pulled something from the box of things she brought with her that looked like a blaster of some sort.

"Stop or I'll shoot!" Patch warned in the most convincing way she could, hooves trembling as she pointed it at him.

Everyone just stared wide eyed. Bright Eyes whispered something to the hosts just to make sure.

Sombra stopped and blinked, staring at what he was uncertain what it was. "A weapon?"

"Uh...yeah! That's right! What's wrong? Didn't know our world has technology like this, did you?" the teenager said in as convincing a tone she could manage. 'Please don't know how our world works!'

Sombra rolled his eyes and merely put up a force field with his magic as Patch 'pulled the trigger'...and then the tyrant of Crystal Empire screamed, staggering back as a simple flashlight beam shot out of the home made, fairly convincing paper mache shell she'd made around it and directly into his eyes, his shield having been intended to stop some form of weapon, not a simple blinding beam of light. "GAH! MY EYES!"

And the King was still an UMBRUM, who's race were vulnerable to light to begin with.

"Well, Solar Flare always works in Dragon Eggs Z*..." Patch muttered, then wasted little time and grabbed the rope going through the pulley and pulled hard, lifting her constructions up until they were steady and standing.

She noticed Sombra blinking the spots out of his eyes and quickly gave him another blast of the flashlight into his eyes before he could get his barrings back to allow her to finish her surprise. She grabbed a bag of marbles and threw them across the ring at the king's hooves and ducked into the newly brought up cover. 

"DON'T LET HER MAKE A FOOL OF YOU, SOMBRA!" roared Rabia in annoyance. 

Sombra snarled, finally regaining his sight...to find himself surrounded by what looked like buildings from a town around him in a semicircle, but were actually simply theater backdrops (not that badly done all things considered, given they were a rush job by one pony), the same sort that Patch had made during the play the group had done (and she'd spent all day constructing in preparation)...but also something Sombra had little experience with. "What's this?"

20 seconds had passed.

The King took a step forwards...and yelled as his hooves slipped on the marbles Patch had cast at his hooves, sending him tumbling and falling to the mat. This repeated again as he tried to stand again.

Patch practically held her breath, pushing up additional cardboard sheets she'd pushed into the ring with the others to form 'walls' between the 'buildings'. Hoping to give Sombra SOME confusion as to where she was if he actually entered them, even if they were just unpainted cardboard.

Sombra snarled in fury and simply hovered in his smoke form. "YOU DARE?!" he roared...then blinked, looking around the 'town' he's was in, uncertain. What was happening? This was new to him.

25 seconds. 

He trotted up to one of the doors and smashed it open, stepping in to find himself in a room with simple walls, though no ceiling. 

Instead of simply walking around, he blew a hole into the next one. And upon realizing they were just cardboard, just plowed right through the next one horn first. Wasting as little of his valuable time as possible and continuing it into the next one...Until he ripped through one right next to Patch, who was now wearing her roller skates.

"I know you're around here, welp. You can't hide from me forever," the tyrant of the Crystal Empire growled.

The young mare bit her tongue to avoid screaming. She held her breath and hugged the wall as Sombra moved into the room and looked around. Her eyes widened as he turned his head towards her...and she turned her flashlight on at point blank right into his face, staggering him backwards and blinding him again. However, before Patch could run away, Sombra managed a blind blast that destroyed the flashlight from her hooves. Patch said a word that'd get her mouth washed out with soap back home, then skated out the 'door' and into another one.

Sombra roared in fury and chased her, slamming through the wooden and canvas wall instead of the door...and Patch resorted to something she ONLY did because she knew Sombra could take it. She swung a simple carpenter's hammer as hard as she could into his horn.

While it SURPRISED him and caused him a minor headache, Patch internally lamented that it didn't do NEARLY as much damage as she'd hoped. And snapped the hammer in half on impact. "Oh come on! That'd have at least knocked Jason out for a few seconds!" she muttered, skating off into another 'building', breathing so heavily she was practically hyperventilating.

35 seconds.

Sombra snarled in complete rage. "ENOUGH!" he roared, and let off a massive shockwave of magic that leveled the entire 'town', causing Patch's friends to gasp in shock.

Patch groaned, throwing some of the rubble off of her, feeling like she'd just gotten hit by a truck. She was bruised and scraped up from the impact, but at least she didn't seem to be aiming to blast her out of the ring (though that might not have been very lucky come to think about it given the tyrant's intentions). "Not what I was hoping would happen..." she muttered, then looked around and saw something laying on the ground nearby from the crate she'd pushed into the ring. She rushed over...and gasped as Sombra blasted her rear half and left her stone from the waist down, sending her falling to the ground directly in front of the object she sought. Now she wasn't practically' hyperventilating. She was literally hyperventilating.

Sombra snarled in absolute fury, eyes glowing. "I HAVE BEEN MADE A FOOL OF FOR THE LAST TIME!"

Patch struggled not to wet herself as the king approached her, black tentacles of smoke and shadow reaching out and wrapping around her now useless hind legs...

"I will make you drown in your worst fears for this humiliation!" Sombra bellowed, becoming a ring engulfing shadow that towered over the pony as he pulled her into the air, Patch barely managing to grab what she'd been going for and hanging onto it for dear life.

Patch's friends gasped in horror as she was brought up in front of the tyrant of the north's face.

40 seconds.

"Any last words?!" Sombra asked, seeming to relish her fear.

"Uh...yeah, ever seen how Night Mare on Elm Street 4: Dream Master ends?" Patch asked, trembling in fright and fairly certain the fact her lower body was stone was the only thing keeping her from wetting herself at this point.

Sombra snarled and let loose his fear spell, leaving the point a trembling wreck he threw out of the ring...

The crystal tyrant returned to pony form...and noticed the thing that Patch had grabbed was a bathroom mirror, the kind you'd find in any teenager's room. 

He looked down at himself inside it...and gasped...

Staring back was himself...but with lighter fur and dressed as a proper and regal king, not a tyrant. Not evil. A person, not a monster.

Sombra stepped back as the other him emerged from the mirror. "Do you know who I am, Sombra?" his double asked.

"N-No...it can't be..." Sombra muttered, falling back from his mirror image. 

"I'm you, Sombra. You as you COULD have been! As you SHOULD have been!" the other Sombra yelled.

"N-No! YOU CAN'T EXIST! THIS IS MY FATE! THIS IS ALL I CAN BE!" Sombra roared, blasting his copy. His power merely phased through him harmlessly. "I'M KING OF THE MONSTERS AND THAT'S ALL I AM!"

"If that was so, why don't I exist, Sombra?"

Sombra gasped as Radiant Hope likewise emerged from the mirror...only Radiant Hope as an Alicorn. As the Heart showed HER. "N-No..."

"This was MY destiny...so why aren't I your queen?" Princess Hope asked, trotting up next to the good Sombra and standing next to him. "Why is YOUR Hope still a unicorn?"

"Maybe it's because 'it's my destiny' is just our excuse?" the good Sombra asked. "Maybe it's because, the thing WE fear most...is that we had a CHOICE."

"WE DIDN'T! IF WE DID I WOULD HAVE...I WOULD HAVE...." Sombra screamed, falling back further, eyes wide and now he the one experiencing pure terror.

"You would have CHOSE!" Radiant and the good Sombra both yelled.


Patch curled up so her still flesh and blood body took the fall, not wanting to risk her hind legs shattering, as Sombra dropped her, screaming and panicking. She landed with an oof as the mirror she'd been holding out in front of her landed nearby and shattered to pieces. She'd JUST managed to swing the mirror, like the one in her bathroom and any of the other girls', straight between her. Sombra had been looking into his own eyes when he'd used his signature spell. "Yeah...it's a good ending..." she panted, watching Sombra shrink down to his normal self and scream, firing beam after beam at invisible demons only he can see, but only hitting the shield protecting the audience.

Squire smirked, floating in the stands. "A dragon is at his most vulnerable when he breathes in to unleash his flame. Sometimes that flame inside him can even be his undoing..."

"SOMBRA!" Radiant yelled, having to be stopped by the forcefield to keep her out.

Finally the Crystal King staggered so far back he fell out of the ring.

"And the winner by ring out! Patch!" Doctor Hooves announced.

Patch gave a sigh of relief. "...I won...Wait, I won!" she yelled, looking as surprised as anyone now that it caught up to her. "I WON! HAHAHA! I WON!"

"WAY TO GO PATCH!" called the other ponies from her world, especially Rosey and Bright Glow, clapping and cheering.

Patch tried to get back to her hooves and celebrate...then falling back down with an oof. "Oh...right...my legs are stone...AHH! HELP! MY LEGS ARE STONE!"

As Philomena flew over to help Patch with her petrification problem now that the match was over. Sombra curled up on the ring floor, eyes the same color as his victims. "I didn't have a choice...I didn't have a choice...I didn't have a choice..." he begged over and over again as Radiant and Rabia rushed over.

* This is time period accurate, that show really WAS on TV in 1992 when Tales is set, though she has no idea how the Android Saga ends.

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Seabreeze tapped his microphone. “Moving right along…”

“I demand a rematch!” howled Rabia. “You will pay for this! Your souls will languish in darkness eter…” That was as far as she got before Shining Armor dropped an invisible soundproof bubble over the Umbrum family drama.

“Moving right along,” repeated Seabreeze, his voice even squeakier, until he cleared his throat. “You’ve already seen a wife battle her husband. Now it’s a princess versus a royal guard! Princess Twilight Sparkle and Flash Sentry, step forward!”

“Couldn’t somepony else go first?” protested Twilight.

“Cease thy complaining,” said Princess Luna. She was practically having to drag the younger Alicorn down to the arena floor, because *both* of them were anthropomorphic Alicorns now.

“I can’t believe I let Sunset and Starlight talk me into trying this.” Twilight waved her free hand frantically. “It was supposed to be for just a few minutes. I didn’t think I’d get stuck this way!”

“It’s because of the nature of this fused pocket reality, brought together from all the galaxies,” Discord was explaining, as he shared cinnamon and basalt flavored popcorn with Maud Pie. No one else around them seemed particularly interested in his exposition. “That delightfully bizarre blending of pony and human would actually be the dominant intelligent life here, if there was any. Naturally, less omnipotent beings than myself would find it easier to switch *to* that form than *away* from it in this place.”

“You don’t say,” deadpanned Maud.

Luna stamped a hoof. “You should be considering how you might turn this form to your advantage in the coming battle. Behold, at least one of your friends heartily approves of your new look!”

Lyra reared up and grabbed Twilight’s other hand with her hoof, eyes sparkling. “Change me, change me! Bon Bon will make you free chocolates for a week if you do!”

“Leave me out of this!” yelled Bon Bon from the stands.

Twilight twitched, her mane going all askew. “You know what? Fine. Whatever!” She blasted Lyra, and Lyra went skipping away on two legs, squealing gleefully.

Flash Sentry glided down and landed in front of them. “Princess.”

Twilight felt her heart skip a beat. “Flash…”

Flash grinned handsomely. “I suppose I should remove this form shift disguise. I mean, there’s no point, if you’re going to look like that anyway.”

Twilight blinked. “Wait a moment… so you really were…” A flare of light made her shade her eyes.

The light faded, revealing a Flash Sentry standing upright, with pony features and hooves and hands. “The fusion of the human world’s Flash and Equestria’s Flash? Of course, I’d look like this.” He wore blue jeans, a guard helmet, and a light harness that didn’t interfere with his wings. He hefted a practice spear with a blunted tip. “Your highness, do I have permission to spar with you?”

“Something, something, Gordon’s alive joke,” said Discord, talking with his mouth full.

“Too soon,” said Maud, taking another hoof-full of popcorn.

"Can I ask, are you a fusion right now of this world's and the human world's Twilight Sparkle?"

"No," Twilight said.

"That's a relief."

Seabreeze asked, "Is this against the rules? They're supposed to be only able to use forms and abilities that they've used before official."

Zipzee said, "It's stretching it, but Princess Twilight has assumed a half-human form before when she ponies-up in the human world, so maybe it can slide. And since this guy is a fusion of both Flash Sentries."

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Seabreeze blinked, as a he was handed a note. "...Really?" The stagehand nodded. "Fine...This instant replay is brought to you by..." He looked closer at the note. "'Busy Beaver's Hard Ware'..."

As the replay of the previous match played, Zipzee blinked. "What was that about?"

"Since she didn't break any of the rules, Patch put all that stuff she got on the Tournement tab since it qualifies as 'things she's used before'! The owner agreed to wave the cost if we advertise his shop!" the G4 Breezie replied.

"Oh..."




"Well done Dame Patch," Squire said as Philomena finished using her tears to heal Sombra's petrification Spell.

"Thanks, but your advice really helped..." said Patch said, stretching her hind legs now that she could FEEL them again. "And thanks...Philomena was it?" she asked, getting a nod from the Phoenix.

"I still can't believe mythological phoenixes are real in their world," Bright Eyes admitted, looking over the bird, who seemed to enjoy the attention.

Bright Glow put a hoof on Patch's shoulder. "I knew you could do it, Patch."

"Thanks...I'm honestly just glad that I made it THIS far and we weren't the first universe to get eliminated," she admitted.




"Sombra, are you okay?" Radiant asked as Sombra's spell on himself was finally broken.

The Crystal Tyrant held his head, looking up at Radiant...and seeing the Alicorn Radiant from his nightmare superimposed over his Radiant. "..."

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Sunset Shimmer whistled softly, watching from the stands. “If Flash had looked like that, back then? Heh, I’d never have dumped him. I can’t figure what he hopes to gain by doing this, though.”

Shining Armor glanced over at the anthropomorphic Alicorn, shuddering slightly. “What do you mean?”

Sunset shrugged. “He’s definitely got some issues with Princess Twilight, but Flash has always been, well, kind of a loser. He picked an interesting way to finally start standing up for himself.”

Shining frowned. “Are we talking about the same pony? The Flash Sentry I know is a decorated Royal Guard and a combat specialist. When the changelings invaded, he and his squad came this close to breaking out of the barracks and rushing the throne room.” His frown deepened. “Twilight has a lot of clever tricks, but no hoof to hoof fighting experience to speak of. He’d better not hurt her!”

Sunset smirked. “You could wring your hands, if you had some. Sure you don’t want to join the club?”

On Shining’s other side, Cadence moved closer, taking Shining’s hoof in hers. “No, we’re good. Mmm, maybe later, though…”



“You have my permission,” said Twilight brightly, on the arena floor.

Flash bowed, then lunged at her with the practice spear, flapping his wings to accelerate his charge.

“Hey!” yelped Twilight, barely twisting out of the way. She caught a second spear thrust on a hastily formed shield. “Isn’t that kind of rough for a tournament?”

Flash stalked to one side, circling around her. “Heh. You tell me… Princess.”

He lunged again, and this time Twilight grabbed his spear in her magic and tossed it away. “I could throw you out of bounds just as easily, you know. I didn’t want to embarrass…”

“You don’t want to embarrass the human version of me more than you have already?” said Flash, interrupting her. He threw his arms out to his sides, and swirling blasts of air formed wingblades… not as sharp as he could have made them, but still dangerous looking. “You’re not the only one with magic here!”

Flash slashed… cutting right through Twilight’s barrier and forcing her to leap backwards, taking to the air. “Flash, what’s gotten into you?”

The fused human teenager and Royal Guard sighed. “You did, Twilight. You just stopped showing up, like you forgot all about me!” He flew into the air, chasing after her.

“I’m a princess,” countered Twilight. “I wanted to… I have a lot of responsibilities now, okay?”

“Sunset told me that I should just get over you! Why aren’t *we* talking about *our* relationship, Twilight?” He pumped his wings and charged straight at her…

Twilight’s eyes narrowed. “We’re talking now, aren’t we?!” Twin blasts of violet wind surrounded Twilight’s forearms, forming into identical wingblades just in time for them to intercept Flash’s blades when they clashed.

Twilight and Flash growled at each other and struggled in midair, blades locked together and pumping their wings hard. “Okay, fine!” shouted Twilight. “I could have handled all this a little better!”

“A little?!” bellowed Flash. He drew back, and they clashed together again, neither able to get past the other’s blades and score a hit.

“In case you didn’t notice, I’m a little new at this! Cadence is the princess of relationships. You got me! The Princess of Friendship! Why can’t you just...”

Flash and Twilight floated there, both of them panting with exhaustion, glaring furiously into each other’s eyes… and then they wrapped their arms around each other and started kissing, wingblades fizzling away.

Shining Armor twitched, grinding his teeth.

“Oh.. oh my!” meeped Zipzee, covering her eyes. “Sorry folks, I’m not sure we have any rules to cover this! Will the combatants… um, continue the battle? Sometime? Maybe?”

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Meanwhile in the audience...

"Well this is unexpected. Honey why are hugging me?" Shining Armor said while his wife gave him a tight embrace.

"Just shut up and kiss me."

Back in the stadium....

Twilight and Flash finally unlocked themselves from each other.

"Sorry about that. I don't know what came other me." Blushed Twilight. Covering herself with her wings.

"Yeah. Guess we missed each other a little too much." Flash said sheepishly.

"Can you two just continue already? Yelled Seabreeze.

The two humanoid ponies snapped back into combat stances and charged each other.

"Get ready princes. I have a strategy that will defeat you." Flash took to the air to avoid Twilight's magic blasts. Fortunately Twilight was still adjusting to her new form and it seem to be affecting her aim.

Before Twilight could readjust her aim, Flash tackled her to the ground. And started to tickle her?

"Whahhhhhhh! Not there! NO FAIR!!!! Hahaha hahaha! STOP IT! Hahaha! I GIVE. I GIVE!"

"Flash Sentry is declared the winner."

"Huh!? What! No I didn't mean that."

"Sorry Princess but you said you forfeited."

"BUT I-OHHH FLASSHHHHH!" Yelled Twilight as she chased after a fleeing Flash.

Spectators's reactions were mix. Some applauded while other simply shook their head.

"DON'T UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF HANDS!" screamed Lyra, still in her humanoid form.

"Lyra please stop embrassing me."

"Heheh. Oh Bon-Bon."

Bon-Bon paled when she saw Lyra grew a sinister smile on her face. Wiggling her new fingers in front of her.

"No Lyra wait. Don't you dare! If you so- AHAhahahah!"


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“Coming up next,” said Seabreeze over the loudspeakers. “Ponyville’s own Bearer of Honesty, Applejack! Versus... Gilda from Griffonstone! Will an Apple fall, or will Gilda have to admit that she can’t handle the truth?!”

Zipzee grinned insufferably. “You’ve been saving that one for a while, haven’t you?”

Seabreeze blushed. “S… So what if I have?”

Gilda trotted into the arena with an extra spring in her step, and started doing warmup leg and wing stretches.

Applejack raised an eyebrow, watching. “Y’all seem pretty excited, there.”

Gilda smirked. “Duh, of course I’m excited. I finally get a straight up fight with one of you guys.” She gestured idly with her claws. “Don’t get me wrong. That music mare was tough, but she was more like a videogame than a real battle. C’mon, doesn’t this get your blood pumping? Don’t think I’m gonna be a pushover, here!”

Applejack smiled. “Ah mostly fight when Ah gotta, not for fun. Hope Ah don’t disappoint.”

They took their places, and Zipzee called out, “Begin!”

Gilda crouched, eyes narrowing. Applejack pawed the dirt with a forehoof.

“Two plus two is five!” shouted Gilda, charging and rearing back with claws clenched into fists, jabbing at the mare.

Applejack winced. “No it ain’t… hey!” She ducked one punch but the other caught her on the cheek, snapping her back a bit. “What happened to wanting a straight up fight?”

“Just seeing what I’ve got to work with,” crowed Gilda, and then she immediately had to jump back from AJ’s swinging hoof. She blocked AJ’s kicks with her claws, one, two, and then Applejack spun, turning. “Running away already!?” she shouted. She sprang, then squawked, realizing too late that Applejack was bringing her powerful hind hooves to bear. One missed, but the other connected with Gilda’s side, knocking her halfway across the arena, where the griffon tumbled to a stop.

Applejack gasped. “You alright, hon? Ah didn’t break anything already, did I?”

Gilda chuckled, springing back up with a wince. “Worry about yourself.” She rose up on her paws and brought her claws together. “Heh, heh, let’s see how much of that old flight camp mojo I remember.” She growled, and the wind around her started churning and gusting, starting to glow green and gather around her claws. “Fun fact, apple horse… griffons can use wind magic too! Not like pegasi, but we get by. By the way, thanks for standing around watching while I power this attack up!”

Applejack tensed. “Horseapples…” She ran towards Gilda, kicking out again, but when her hooves met Gilda’s glowing claws, a burst of wind forcefully knocked her back.

Gilda whooped. “Yeah, that’s right!” She slashed again, knocking Applejack end over end. AJ’s Stetson was actually left hovering in the air, and Gilda plucked it up and put it on her own head. “Hmph, almost too easy.” The wind magic on her claws promptly dispersed, used up. “Me and my big beak.”

Applejack sprang to her hooves and advanced, spitting to one side. “Ah'll have that back now, if you please. And don’t think Ah’m just gonna let you use that magic again.”

“And how are you going to stop me when I’m thirty feet in the air, genius?” Gilda made a show of yawning, then grinned darkly. “Now. Stop playing around and do your rainbow power whatever.”

Applejack froze in midstep. “Are you crazy, Gilda? Yer winning! You *want* me to get stronger and kick your tail eight ways from Sunday?”

Gilda took to the air for the first time in the battle, flapping over to glare at AJ, right in her face. “What, I’m not big and bad enough for you? You think I want to win when you weren't even trying?! Don’t insult me, Applejack! Fight me at your best!”

Applejack reached a hoof out slowly, then snatched her hat back, putting it firmly on her own head. “Some griffon’s been reading too much of that Dragon Egg Z hooey. Ah can tell that you honestly want this, though. Don’t go crying about it later.”

Applejack planted her hooves and began to focus. Gilda wisely backed up, watching the farm mare explode with orange light, cutie marks multiplying over her hooves and red and pink stripes appearing in her mane. AJ floated into the air confidently.

Gilda laughed. “Now we’re talking…” She flapped her wings, circling around and charging up her ‘wind fists’ at the same time, and then she dove out of the sun at AJ, screeching.

Applejack met her charge head on, knocking *Gilda* back with her own wind blast. “Don’t say Ah didn’t warn ya.” She flew at Gilda, throwing a flurry of midair kicks that Gilda scrambled to dodge or block. Gilda tried to counterpunch, then duck from side to side unexpectedly, but AJ countered again and again, like she was reading Gilda’s mind. “Eenope, don’t think that yer gonna feint or dodge neither, not when Ah’m like this. Ah can see the truth of every move you make.”

Gilda got some distance from AJ, winded and wings pumping. “Okay… you’re pretty… tough… but what do you really know about flying?” She dove and flew low, circling the arena. “Can you keep up with this?”

“Ah don’t have to,” said Applejack. She pointed both forehooves, and an orange beam of light arced downward, following Gilda and scorching the ground just behind her. “You oughta think about giving up now, Gilda. Even if yer reformed and apologized and all, Ah don’t think you’ll enjoy taking the honest truth right in the face.”

“Give up?” squawked Gilda. “Not while I’ve got one more Junior Speedster's trick to use!” She flew to the center of the arena, banking into a tight spiral. “You made it pretty toasty in here, throwing around all that magic! Heat plus rotation… makes for some pretty rough weather!” She spun the swirling air into a cyclone, which quickly turned dark, sucking up dust from the arena floor, and then Gilda twisted her talons, aiming the whole thing at Applejack.

Applejack just floated there and took it, head on.

Gilda settled to the arena floor, exhausted. “How do you like… those apples?”

The dust cleared, revealing Applejack… unharmed and winding up her hind hooves to buck.

Gilda had just enough time to mutter, “Why am I even surprised?” before the buck connected, sending the griffon tumbling clear out of the ring, where she lay in a heap. She sat up and coughed, watching Applejack fly over and power down. “Tell me the truth,” she croaked. “Were you still holding back?”

Applejack glanced left and right bashfully. “Eeyup.”

Gilda laughed, breaking into another coughing fit, and then she held her claws out. “Good fight.”

AJ grinned and shook Gilda’s claws with her hoof. “Good fight.”

The crowd started cheering, Rainbow Dash louder than anypony else. “And the winner is Applejack, by ring out!” announced Zipzee.

Alex Warlorn, Trixie Lulamoon vs Zecora

"Nice fight Applejack." Twilight gave Applejack a thumbs up, happy at least ONE of the mane six had made it to the quarter-finals.

"Don't worry," Applejack smiled. "I won't beat up your coltfriend that bad."

"That's..." Twilight Sparkle blushed. "Just do your best."

"So you want me to use the Rainbow Power's full tilt on 'em?"

"No no no! I just mean... that is... " Twilight pushed her two pointer fingers together.

"First things first," Celestia said, still burned at Chrysalis' game that had cost her the match (and still eating the giant cake). Celestia used the failsafe spell, reverting Twilight, Flash Sentry, and Lyra to their pony forms.

"Ahhhhh!" Lyra lamented. Bon Bon was happy, she loved Lyra with all her heart, but that was getting creepy!

Rainbow Dash meanwhile gave Gilda a hug when nopony could see and ruin her 'tough girl' reputation, and giving similar remarks.

"So Dash, you think I'm dumb for telling AJ not to hold back?"

"Naw. I'd have done the same. I wouldn't take a win that done because somepony felt sorry for me or something. ... Oh and Gilda, you were awesome out there."

"Thanks Dash." Gilda said before Redheart and Snowheart picked her up on a stretcher and carted her away.


-

"And up next!" Zipzee called. "We have Trixie Lulamoon vs Zecora! Both these equines were outsiders, though one took a lot longer to be accepted by the community according to this."

"Maybe if she hadn't used an evil magic pedant to enslave everybreezie," Seabreeze said.

"Since when are magic object evil? They either just do stuff or are nice," Zipzee said.

"Well, it's like ponies. Some are good, some are bad."

"But all ponies ARE nice."

"... I'm surprised you know what the word 'evil' even means."

-

Zecora was still stripped green... from her encounter with Minty the previous day... apparently Minty's had used wash resistant paint. Some ponies giggled, other checked their TV sets at home. Others still wondered if something was wrong with their eyesight.

Zecora kept a formal stiff upper lip and made no reaction to any of their reactions. She entered the arena.

This was followed by Trixie, with smoke and fireworks and sparkles to make a grandiose entrance, naturally. She was on cloud nine after defeating Rarity, one of Equestria's chosen heroes, that she hadn't used that strange Rainbow Power thing didn't bother Trixie, it wouldn't have likely worked on a pony like Trixie anyway, it wasn't like she was an evil overlord after all. (Anymore.).

Trixie made several poses for the crowd, Zecora stayed calm and cool.

"Ready?" Trixie smirked.

"I have no desire to see you bleed,
For I will accept that you concede."

"What?! Why would I give up?!" Trixie's jaw dropped.


"There's no need for intrigue,
I am simply out of your league."

"I am a student of Celestia's School for Gift Unicorns!"

"And many I have seen been magical artes,
While you are for foals' birthday parties."

"I defeated Rarity, one of the Elements of Harmony in one on one combat!"

"Her Rainow's light could've blown you away,
But her greater with you magic she did stay."

"Are you saying she LET ME WIN?!"

"You'd have to ask her if she was being kind,
I do not know the inner workings of her mind."

Trixie glared at Rarity... who blushed.

"Don't listen to her Trixie!" Starlight Glimmer called. "You're here because you earned it! She's just trying to rattle you!"

"You have a friend great in ruth,
But I merely speak the truth.

So smoke out or whatever a magician uses,
I have no desire to deliver on you bruises."


"The Great and Powerful Trixie will not kowtow to those who claim to be her betters!"

"Zecora does not 'claim'
Spare yourself shame."

"Not happening!"

"Do not give me scorn,
Remember I did warn."

Twilight remembers how Zecora had said she'd be ashamed or embarrassed if she was outshone or bested by 'the likes of Trixie' when Trixie had been enslaved by the Alicorn Amulet.

"Begin!" The Doctor said before things could get more of hand.

= Victory Must Be Grasped - .hack/GU =

Trixie fired a firework spell right at Zecora, who merely side stepped it.

"How!"

"It's a laugh,
You telegraph."

"Yeeeah!" Trixie charged, then threw her smoke bomb before getting close to Zecora.

Zecora took her staff and swing behind her, hitting Trixie in the face.

"You are indictable,
And predictable."

"A magician is never predictable." Trixie threw another smoke bomb. When it cleared, there was a line of four Trixie. All their horns glowed together, and the glow grasped Zecora's staff that was pulled away from her, Zecora used the momentum to launch herself towards the Trixie, and went over them, and threw a bag of green illusion powder. That took the form of an Ursa Minor.

The real Trixie screamed and the three illusions fizzled out. Trixie's eyes became pink pricks, and her heart tried to smash a hole through her rib cage.

The illusionary Ursa Minor roared, Trixie blink practically went blank, fear taking over everything. She scurried away backwards.

"My words you won't hear,
Maybe instead primal fear."

What Trixie in her fear addled state heard instead was, 'You don't belong here.'

And she remembered, Trixie the filly... too proud to be a toady, not powerful enough to be a bully... Surrounded by the Arch Mages and Court Mages of tomorrow, without having the raw power to compare... not even having the overwhelming brain power to get straight A's ... instead having average grades on everything.

Trixie wasn't ... not anything.

A pinging tone was heard. Trixie found herself in darkness.

Looking around suddenly confused, she saw glowing red eyes in the dark.

"I have found you."

It streaked through the dark, and came up behind her, engulfing her in its wings.

Back in reality, Trixie stopped looking scared, or scrambling away.

Zecora worried that she had traumatized the poor mare into catatonia.

"It's here..." Trixie said to the confusion of everypony. "It's here it's here it's here IT'S HEEEERE!"

= .Hack//GU ost - I'm Right Here =

There was a flash of red light... and the Alicorn Amulet came into being around Trixie's neck. Glowing transparent red wings appeared behind her looking at abstract art, barding made of the same material including sabatons around her hooves form around her. Trixie's eyes glowed crimson.

Trixie let out a long breath, and looked herself, and chuckled.

She flapped her new wings, her horn glowed. Zecora found herself in a setting skyscape with no ground and red stars that only Zecora could see.

"Something terrible is stewing,
Trixie what are you doing?"

An abstract of a traditional Unicornia style sword made of the same red materialized next to Trixie. She floated above and behind the illusioned Zecora.

"No, it's not right Trixie, do not do this," Rarity begged.

"STOP RIGHT NOW! TRIXIE!" Rainbow Dash roared slamming her hoof down.

"Say goodbye." Trixie said with a slasher smile and zoomed at Zecora.

"NO DOOON'T!!!" Starlight Glimmer's scream pierced through the red haze. Trixie started, the glowing red wings, sabatons, and weapon all vanished, and the Alicorn Amulet with them.

Zecora meanwhile, fainted. The Doctor began to count to ten, but she wouldn't be getting up in time.

Ponies who did not recognize the Alicorn Amulet, or hadn't spotted it were rambling.

"That was incredible!"

"What was that magic?!"

"She's the second coming, of Majesty!"

A dark grin was on Trixie's face.

"And... and... the win goes to Trixie Lulamoon!" Seabreeze announced. "... Zipzee stop hiding behind me."

"Sorry."

Yoshiegg64 (In a slightly Alternate Universe)


"Such POWER! I don't know where it came from. BUT WITH THIS TRIXIE WIN SURELY WIN! MUAHAHAHAHA" Trixie laughed manically in her triumph while her opponent Zecora was taken off the stage to the medical tent.

Meanwhile in the audience...

"You know what Shining. I am no match for you. I give up. Have fun battling against Trixie." Said a terrified dragon.

"WHAT!? OH NO NO! I can't possibly battle Twilight's little assistant. I surrender." Said an equally brave Unicorn.

"You can't surrender. You are the Captain of the Royal Guard. Think of the bad example you will be setting. Besides I can't complete against Trixie er-I mean YOU."

"Don't sell yourself short Spike. Remember you did fairly well against the Wonderbolts when *ahem* terrorized ponyville a while back. So don't- OWW! Shining Armor said while Cadence magically pulled his ear.

"Don't even THINK about forfeiting after beating me." Said Cadence as she dragged her husband to the area.

"OW! Dear I was joking! Ow! Easy on the ear! Whined Shining Armor

Spike breathed a sigh of relief. "Close call"

He didn't get two steps away before he bumped into a familiar dragon Lord.

"Where do YOU think you are going Spike?" Demanded Dragon Lord Ember.

"Um....well you see."

"Hope you aren't thinking of quitting because a dragon never quits." Ember gave Spike a glare that turned his blood cold.

"Me!? No no no! I was um...going to the bathroom. Yeah!"

"Well good. Just remember all the dragons from back home are watching you. With me out of the competition and Garble, it falls to you to represent the dragons."

"A-all dragons?" Spike said suddenly getting nervous at the thought. Funny how he never realized that until now.

"Relax Spike. You beat Twilight's apprentice in the last round and more importantly proved to everyone that you still have a chance to win this."

"I guess you are right."

"Of course I am right. NOW WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO?"

"Um...go to the bathroom?"

"NO SPIKE!"

"I mean FIGHT TO REPRESENT ALL DRAGONS!"

"EXACTLY! NOW SHOW THEM YOUR DRAGON PRIDE!" shouted Dragon Lord Ember as Spike confidently ran to the area.

"Meh, I bet 10 rubies he doesn't last 10 seconds." deadpanned Garble. Still a colt, though now with a cutiemark now.

"You know you could really learn something from him."

"Like how to run away?"

"Huh what do you- SPIKE WHERE ARE YOU GOING! I thought you weren't giving up."

"I am not." Spike said as he sprinted passed her.

"Then why are running in the opposite direction!?"

"BECAUSE IT TURNS OUT. I REALLY DO NEED TO GO THE BATHROOM!" Shouted Spike before ducking into the nearest bathroom.

Ember simply groaned.

"So when I can be a dragon already?" Moaned Garble.

"MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" cackled Trixie still on the area.

"Attention. Would a miss Lunamoon please stop manically laughing and remove herself from the area. We have more many more fights to get too." Announced Seabreeze while Zipzee hid behind him.

And Back in the prime universe

Kendell2, Spike vs Shining Armor Part 1


Spike gulped. "...I'll let Starlight handle that one..."

Shining Armor gave a look to Twilight. "Twilight, if I end up fighting her, I won't hold back."

Twilight could only nod. "...I was hoping this wouldn't happen...We DIDN'T hold off the Rainbow Powers to 'go easy on them'! We did it because world saving sacred powers being used on ordinary ponies just to win a contest felt WRONG."

"I know, Twilight...but from the looks of it Zecora either didn't know it or was trying to get under her skin..." Shining said before getting up.

"Alright, next up we have the Hero of the Crystal Empire vs the Prince of the Crystal Empire!" called Zipzee. "Spike vs Prince Shining Armor!"

The two walked onto the ring, Spike with a Power Ponies comic in his claws.

The two walked up to one another and shook hoof and claw. "Good luck, Spike. I won't go easy on you."

Spike smirked back. "Same here, Shining. I won't go easy on you either."

The two trotted to opposite sides and then the bell ring. The crystal pony audience was largely cheering for Spike, but there were a few for Shining.

Shining took a defensive stance. 'He's probably going to greed growth again with that comic...' he said as Spike opened it. "Better handle this quickly..." he whispered, knowing a full grown dragon was something he'd have trouble facing. He charged up an shield spell and fired it.

Spike, however, gave a smirk. "Take a closer look to join the adventure in this book!" he read, holding the book out in front of him and letting the magic tornado emerge, sucking Shining's gravity spell (IE, a super condensed shield sphere) into it.

"What the-" the Prince of the Crystal Empire said in surprise...before it started sucking HIM into it! "AHHH! WHAT'S GOING ON?!"

"Enchanted Comics!" Spike replied as he dropped the book, allowing himself to be pulled in too.

The two hosts blinked in confusion. "...So...are they still in?" Seabreeze asked.

Zipzee flipped through the rules. "Well, the book is still in the ring, so technically yes..."

"But how do we see what's going on?!" asked Seabreeze in confusion.

Pinkie Pie rose up next to them with the sound of a slide whistle and pressed a button on their announcer table labeled 'in case of pocket dimension', then slowly retreated with the same sound effect.

A projection of the Power Ponies world suddenly formed over the ring.




"Ugh...where am I?" asked Shining Armor, getting to his hooves...and finding himself dressed as the Masked Matterhorn.

"Welcome to my world," Spike said, standing nearby on a ledge dramatically, in his Humdrum outfit.

"What is this?" Shining Armor asked. "We're in Maretropolis..."

"Yep! I figured that greed growth MIGHT be helpful, but you're a trained guard," the little drake replied. "So what better way to even the odds?" 'That and I found out the 'override' code to get us out of here without having to beat the villain.'

The Prince looked a little self conscious, given he was in a mare's outfit right now. But then smirked. "I'm a comic book geek too, Spike, don't forget that."

"Yeah, but here's the big difference..." Spike said, backing up to the edge and falling back over it.

"Spike?!" Shining yelled, rushing over...in time to see Spike use his cape to glide down to another building. Shining tried to teleport or create some stairs with his magic...but couldn't.

"I've done this before, you haven't!" Spike yelled back. "And now I don't have to deal with Shining Armor, master of shield spells! I have to deal with a Masked Matterhorn who has never used those powers before!"

He also mentally noted that this essentially made the entire town their battlefield and thus ring outs were off the table.

Shining couldn't help but chuckle. "You got me there..." He looked around and saw a cable running between the buildings and used it as a zipline to follow Spike, who did a backflip to dodge Shining Armor's punch.

"And I realized Humdrum might be the 'normal', but he's still trained in martial arts..." Spike said, dodging and giving a kick in return, managing to hit Shining in the jaw with it.

"...Clever, Spike," Shining replied as the two prepared to fight...only for an explosion to go off.

"Power Ponies! HAHAHA! How knid of you to join us!" cackled the Maneiac, emerging from a building with the Electro Orb in her hooves as she laughed psychotically.

"...Okay, I kinda forgot she'd be here..." Spike replied...right before the Maneiac threw a car at them with her mane, forcing them to take cover. She then climbed up the building.

"Ready for the MANE event?! HAHAHAHA!"




Zipzee and Seabreeze stared in shock as the match devolved into a three way melee between Shining, Spike, and the Maneiac.

"...So...what happens if the Maneiac wins?" Seabreeze asked as Spike wisely kicked away the Maneiac's Hairspray Ray of Doom to prevent her from just winning instantly.

OOC: Will write part 2 latter. Also, I really DO wonder what will happen if Maneiac DID win.

Kendell2 17. Spike vs Shining Armor Part 2

Spike did a backflip dodging the Maneiac's tendrils while Shining had to make due with his combat skills to stay out of the supervillain's grasp.

However, as he did so, Spike took the chance to blindside him with a kick. "Spike?!"

"Still having a match here!" Spike replied, ducking out of the way as Shining was grabbed in the Maneiac's hair and thrown.

"Well, if that's how you want to play it..." Shining replied, kicking the Maneiac back and trying a jumping kick at Spike, knocking the baby dragon back, but he managed to catch a flag pole and jumped back.

The two continued fighting, with the athletic boost helping Spike keep up and Shining also being preoccupied fighting to opponents at once. And given Spike was Humdrum, it seemed the Maneiac's 'AI' was more focused on the 'real' threat of Shining Armor.

The Maneiac jumped up onto a building and began picking up cars with her mane. "This is quite the HAIR raising battle, isn't it, Power Ponies?!" she cackled, launching the cars and forcing the two to dodge.

"Ah, corny Supervillain dialog," Shining Armor admitted with a chuckle.

"I know, right?" Spike asked with one of his own.

The two had to jump back as the Maneiac jumped down, seeming much more aggressive since THEY actually knew what they were doing.

The two both kicked her to drive her back, then traded blows with each other, Shining holding the edge until Maneiac jumped back in and threw both a good distance.

Spike looked nearby where he landed and noticed something while Shining prioritized the insane supervillain to push back over him.

"Hey!"

"Huh?" Shining asked, looking back as Spike held up the thrown away Hairspray Ray of Doom and blasted him with it while Maneiac dodged it. The unicorn gasped as his body froze up. "I...I can't move..."

"HAHA! Thanks for the help, Humdrum!" cackled the Maneiac, her programming seeming to only be able to comprehend this as Hum Drum screwing up and that being her call to retreat with the orb in tow.

"Sorry, Shining, just saw it laying there and well..." Spike said, walking over and tapping the frozen unicorn so he fell to the ground.

"I know...I honestly would've done the same if I could figure out how telekinesis worked with this crazy horn..." Shining said.

"So...after we get past this whole thing, want to do this the RIGHT way?"

"Yeah, totally...you know, you could've just trapped ME in the comic and threw it out of the ring, right?"

"Yeah, but THAT would just be cheap."




"8...9...10!" called Doctor. "The winner is Spike the dragon!"

"Well, that was less terrifying than last time..." Zipzee admitted. "And another upset!"

"Yes...but how do we tell them who won?" Seabreeze asked.

Pinkie Pie hopped over to the comic and pulled out a megaphone. "SPIKE! YOU WON!"

A few seconds later, the comic spat both out, though didn't vanish. After all, it'd not been COMPLETED.

"...That'll do."

Kendell2

(AN: Idea me and Alex came up with.)

Diamond sat in the stands, a black cat with a blue collar on her lap being stroked like a Bond villain as her master schemed. She looked over to Chrysalis, Wind Whistler, and Patch.

"Meow?"

"Yes, Dazzle, you're right. I don't know anything about Wind Whistler..." Diamond thought, then looked to Chrysalis. "...Hmm...But maybe..." she said, getting the rule book and looking through it. "Idea..."




"Hey! Queen Cheese Legs!" Diamond called, looking up at her.

Chrysalis looked down at the runt. "What do you want, grub?"

Patch and Wind Whistler came over.

"She asked us over as well. I do not understand why..." Wind Whistler said.

"I want to propose a little change up," Diamond Tiara said with a smile. "This place's ratings aren't what they expected, so mixing things up might be good for everypony. So how about this? You..." she said, pointing to Chrysalis. "And you..." she said, pointing to Wind Whistler. "Switch places next round?"

"What?!" everyone asked, staring at her.

"You can't do that!" Seabreeze called.

Diamond produced the rule book. "Nothing in the rules about it...and besides, think about it this way, Mr...Miss...I'm sorry, are you a boy or a girl?"

Seabreeze glared.

"Sorry!...But think about it this way: if ratings aren't what you were hoping for, what better way than to shake things up with an unexpected twist?" Diamond Tiara asked. "Think of the dramatic tension! A little filly like sweet little me against a tyrant like her! People will tune in just out of fear of me losing! And the girl who beat King Sombra vs someone who saves the world from monsters and beat Princess Luna? Oh, that sounds SO much more interesting, doesn't it?"

"...Well..."

"Oh, and I can get my daddy to give you a little extra funding and a bit of a word of mouth boost...He DOES own a pretty important store chain after all..."

"...If they agree to it, I suppose we could try..." Seabreeze admitted.

"Why exactly would a grub like YOU want to face ME?" Chrysalis questioned, glaring down at the foal.

"Simple: my other option is fighting a mare who saves the world every Saturday," Diamond replied, pretending with expert acting to be FAR less intimidated by the tyrannical queen than she seemed. "I'd rather take my chances with the mare who RAN AWAY from something Miss Rarity's PARENTS, Derpy Hooves, and the CRUSADERS were willing to fight."

Chrysalis's eyes narrowed and she snarled. "You honestly think you'd have an easier time beating ME than that emotionless excuse for a featherduster?!"

"I take offense to that," Wind Whistler said, not changing tone, but somehow conveying hurt.

"That's EXACTLY what I'm saying, Cheese Legs!"

"I don't know..." Patch said, looking between Chrysalis and Wind Whistler. "Pop quizzes aren't my strong suit..."

"Oh, I would be fair about it," Wind Whistler replied. "But this does seem to be a stretching of the rules..."

Chrysalis growled at Patch. "YOU think she's easier than me too?!"

Patch gulped, backing up. "...K-Kinda...But it'd probably be more fun, so I guess I'm all for it."

"So, what will it be, Miss Vampire," Diamond asked, smirking. "Gonna run away AGAIN from somepony three little fillies were willing to face off with?"

"YOU'RE ON YOU WORTHLESS LITTLE GRUB!" Chrysalis growled, flying into a full narcissistic rage.

Wind Whistler narrowed her eyes ever so slightly as Chrysalis. "...In that case I accept. I am outvoted three to one, and I would like to continue having pleasant, friendly matches. With any luck possibly two..." 'I hope you have a plan, little one.' Normally she'd doubt Diamond's chances to succeed, but something about the confidence the little filly displayed...it was not mindless bravado. Given how she'd dealt with her last two foes, Diamond had to have something up her sleeves.

"Alright then, the next match after the rest will be Diamond Tiara vs Queen Chrysalis," Sea Breeze announced.

"Thank you," Diamond said, handing Seabreeze a pre-signed check for the additional funding she'd promised.

"...You had this the entire time?!" Seabreeze asked.

"I thought I might need it. Daddy agreed when I entered," Diamond said, smiling as the group dispersed. "I can think ahead pretty well when I need to."

Alex Warlorn

The eight competitors in the hotel this night were,
Diamond Tiara living in LESS luxury than she was used to.
Wind Whistler.
Queen Chrysalis, with several bus boys,
Patch binging on cable TV,
The fusion of Flash Sentry of both worlds in pegasus form.
Applejack exercising, trying not to go mad thinking of the farming she was missing.
Trixie who didn't SEEM any different after her sudden upset with Zecora.
And then you had Spike bringing up the rear.

Kendell2


Patch flipped through another channel. "So...Bright Eyes...how many other worlds have been eliminated?"

Bright Eyes checked the rankings... "Minty's world was eliminated, technically Sunset Shimmer's from the Fourth Galaxy, but she lives in another universe, and so did Adagio, so their world is out. And King Sombra was an alternate universe version, so his world is out."

Patch laid back on the bed. "Good...It's just...I was scared of being the first one taken out of the tournament, you know? I'm just a teenage girl from the 'normal' world..."

Bright Glow put a hoof on her shoulder. "You've done very well Patch."

The young mare nodded in return. "Thanks, Bright Glow."

"That said," Bright Glow replied, giving a small smile. "I do hope you don't intend to just give up."

The 'Queen of Pranks' chuckled. "No way! Just saying I'm happy we're not going out first. I'll give Wind Whistler all I've got. Just saying I''m happy to make it this far when no pony thought I would."

"I just hope that little filly knows what she's doing..." said Sweetheart.

"I think she does...she doesn't feel like the kinda girl who'd do that if she hadn't," Patch replied. "...Hey, I beat King Sombra, why can't she beat that Queen?"
Fighting is magic. I wanted to do this on Brutality inter-reality jumping group story, but I'd rather not have the other entries chopping through this, or this becoming a plot tumor. 

The outcome of the fight is determined by who writers it. You have to write the WHOLE fight. Start to end. First come, first serve. 

Basic rules:
Win is by 10 second knock out, out of bounds, surrender, or if one of the fighters is 1000 or more years old, they lose automatically if their opponent lasts more than 50 seconds. 


TROPE PAGE:
tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php…

Next fight:
Diamond Tiara verses Chrysalis!?  

Alex Warlorn Princess Celestia vs Queen Chrysalis
Mtangalion 
Kendell2 Patch Vs. King Sombra
Mtangalion and a bit by me
Kendell2
Mtangalion Twilight Sparkle vs Flash Sentry 
Yoshiegg64  Twilight Sparkle vs Flash Sentry 
Mtangalion 17. Gilda vs Applejack  
Alex Warlorn Trixie vs Zecora
Yoshiegg64 (In an Alternate Universe) 
Kendell2 17. Spike vs Shining Armor Part 1 
Kendell2 17. Spike vs Shining Armor Part 2 
Kendell2
Alex Warlorn
Kendell2
Ardashir
 
ROUND 2 

West Block: 

35. Spitfire
39. Diamond Tiara

19. Princess Luna
28. Wind Whistler (G1)


24. Queen Chrysalis 
18. Princess Celesita

22. King Sombra 
29. Patch (MLPTs)


East Block: 

1. Twilight Sparkle
31. Flash Sentry (pegasus or human). 

17. Gilda
4. Applejack

16. Zecora 
9. Trixie

13. Spike
14. Shining Armor




ROUND 1
West Block: 

35. Spitfire
25. Maud Pie 

39. Diamond Tiara
7. Octavia

19. Princess Luna
38. Garble 

28. Wind Whistler (G1)
12. Moon Dancer

32. Daring Do
24. Queen Chrysalis 

30. Philomena
18. Princess Celesita

21. Discord
22. King Sombra 

29. Patch (MLPTs)
6. Rainbow Dash


East Block: 

37. Dragon Lord Ember
1. Twilight Sparkle

36. Lightning Dust
31. Flash Sentry (pegasus or human). 

8. Vinyl Scratch
17. Gilda

34. Adagio Dazzle the Siren (with fully working Pendant)
4. Applejack

26. Minty (G3)
16. Zecora 

9. Trixie
3. Rarity

11. Starlight Glimmer
13. Spike

14. Shining Armor 
?? Parliamentary Round Winner (20. Princess Cadence)


Preliminary Round: 

27. Iron Will
20. Princess Cadence

15. CMC
23. Lord Tirek (starts in weakest form at start of tournament)

5. Fluttershy
2. Pinkie Pie 

10. Sunset Shimmer (human or pony form)
33. Ahuizotl

Preliminary Round 2: 

20. Princess Cadence
15. CMC

2. Pinkie Pie 
10. Sunset Shimmer (human or pony form)

Perlimary Round Final:
20. Princess Cadence
2. Pinkie Pie





THIS IS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE PONY POV SERIES!
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Alone in her room, Trixie was rolling the Alicorn Amulet back and forth between her hooves.

'Mine', she thought, content to adore her treasure. Part of her wondered where it came from, but not enough to question having it. Her smile turned almost feral and her eyes seemed to glow crimson as she whispered, "Mine. My treasure. My power. My Precioussss..."

"Gah!" Trixie yanked the amulet from around her neck and set it on the stand beside her bed. "When the Great and Quite Sane Trixie starts talking to herself like that crazy pony from Lord of the Horseshoes, it is time for bed!"

Trixie turned out the lights and went to sleep. And dreamed of a wonderful Equestria where the Princesses served her, she reigned in Canterlot Castle, and Twilight Sparkle served as her personal jester.

All the while the Alicorn Amulet glowed on the table beside her.


***

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN, 'YOU CAN'T SEND US HOME'?"

The unicorn wizard handling the cross-dimensional travel for the event winced under Sombra's roar. Radiant Hope stood beside him, trying to calm her beloved husband. The magically enslaved Cadence of their world stood beside Hope, smiling blankly in her maid's uniform. Behind him, Rabia and Ira snarled at the poor unicorn. The sight of their fangs did nothing to calm him down.

"As I s-s-said, King Sombra," he gulped as Sombra's eyes blazed, "for some reason the dimensional gate we constructed to your world has been shut down from the other side -- ULP!" He kicked and squirmed as Sombra's magical grip closed on his throat.

"Fool!" Sombra bared his fangs. "I left the other end of the gate in the control of my Crystal slaves and the Umbrum -- hah!" He spun on his mother. "Or are you behind this, seeking to tear my throne from me because I keep Hope as my wife?"

"Never!" Rabia hissed. She waved her hooves. "I have nothing to do with this! Though you could do better than Hope," she sniffed, taking a picture from within her smoky body. "Not even a grandfoal yet! As king and herd stallion you have the right to another mare as wife. What is wrong with Furia?"

Sombra winced and the unicorn gagged at the sight of the Umbrum mare in the photo. She looked like an especially cadaverous specimen, her mouth filled with rotted fangs, and a hideous smile on her face as she snapped a whip over some cringing Crystal ponies before her.

"Mother..." Sombra growled. "I do not wish to marry Furia! I find her unsightly."

"What's wrong with her face?" Rabia said. As she spoke the photo came in line of sight of the grandfather clock against the wall. "How can anypony say she's ugly?"

The clock promptly exploded.

***

Chrysalis burped and transformed back from that bizarre form Luna had worn before. The blank-faced stallion she'd held in her arms dropped to the floor to join the other half a dozen delivery ponies she'd had sent up to her room, a mindless smile on his face.

"Ahhh, I'll be ready for that brat tomorrow," she said, contented. She thought about sleeping on their piled bodies before deciding on the bed. "It seems some of Celestia's precious ponies have odd tastes, heh!" She smiled out the window in the direction of the stadium.

"Maybe when this is all over, I'll find my own way into the world Sunset Shimmer ran away to and see if I can conquer it for myself. They almost lost to those three oversized goldfish Sirens," she smirked as she yawned, "so how tough can they be?"

Chrysalis drifted off into dreams of a world where Changelings ruled a race of hairless Diamond Dogs and she could get her chitin massaged five times a day.