Nova kept his grip on 'Applejack' as tight as he could possibly hold her. But then... something unexpected happen. 'Applejack' seemed to be an illusion. That wasn't a surprise though. What was a surprise is who 'Applejack' turned into. It was the fox from before. Nova recognized him from when he first showed up with all of the other ponies when this 'mission' first started. "How did he get here? Why is he here?" and many other questions formed in Nova's mind. But then... a terrible thought replaced all of Nova's questions. If he's here... then that means... This was NOT good. AT ALL. Things were going from bad to worse. There was only one choice left. Nova smacked Tyro right on his face. HARD. Then... "Don't you get it?! THIS IS AN ILLUSION. NONE OF WHAT WE ARE SEEING IS REAL. We have to find a way out of this, and we have to do it NOW!!" shouted Nova at Tyro. He was trying to snap Tyro out of... whatever it was that was going on with him.
(I am so sorry about my frequency with this thing. I'm trying to do a number of things without going nuts and I keep dropping things. Thanks for being patient.) Nightmare Tyro breathes in, belching forth one more plume of fire in some vain attempt at warding Darkness off. While, this might have been highly uncomfortable for the pony, Darkness had caught the Nightmare Kitsune off guard. They clatter and roll through the mists of illusion, eventually falling onto...something. The way back was foggy, the rest of the world was muggy and grey. There wasn't likely to be much that could be found in terms of getting back the way they came. Underneath him, Tyro's face was grimacing with fatigue of some kind. Something was causing him something which looked like a migraine that could be on the richter scale as a small catastrophe. The creature whines, baring his teeth as he mutters to himself. "No! Aaah! Bloody little! I own you! You don't own me! Just, ah!" He seemed entirely uninterested in Darkness for the moment, preoccupied in something else. He was beginning to falter, the shape growing a little less rigid like this. Darkness could feel it in his chest. This was growing toxic to him. Just being near this panicking Tyro was spiking something from him. There were buzzes of half-formed, spiteful remarks coming in from just outside of his vision. Being loved and adored for doing something, ANYTHING, worth worshiping me for. Time wasted on what they never see. The place was growing more claustrophobic. Tyro was growing louder and the credit for this world would always go to "YOU OWN IT!" Tyro shrieks, sitting bolt upright like a possession. His voice was...flat and otherworldly. He stares right through Darkness' eyes. "EMOTIONAL MAGIC HAS TO BE TAMED! LUNA COULDN'T EVER DEAL WITH HER OWN BAGGAGE! ALICORN MAGIC IF UNCHECKED IS WILD AND POWERFUL!" He places a paw on Darkness' chest. Everything clamps up around him, his chest on fire. His body now chilled to the bone with something hideous. The paw sinks into his chest, he can feel it fall over him. "THE FIRST STEP IS TO BELIEVE YOU CAN DEAL WITH THE PROBLEM." Tyro adds. "LUNA COULDN'T. SHE SUCCAME! JUST AS WE DID! YOU MUST TAKE HER DARKNESS FOR YOUR OWN." The manic cackle Tyro gave came with another few centimetres of his paw sinking into Darkness' chest. Frost shocks his system. "IT'S NOW OR NEVER! USE YOUR LOVE! USE YOUR HEART!" (Yeeeeap! Let's make this a little weirder...) Nightmare Nova clatters to the floor relatively easily. This would make sense; the bat pony had a pretty bad beat down from Darkness. Jackpot moves to stand over Nova, focused on making sure of a final victory here was assured. Afterall, they did outnumber him. She charges a spell. Nightmare Azure was stunned to be struck in such a place. Her body seemed to fade a little as she hobbles back, now wounded heavily and directly. She's panting, trying to fathom how it happened or why. Then it clicked. It doesn't matter how. He stabbed her! He shouldn't be able to do that! She was a Nightmare made real, how could that butterknife possibly harm her?! Her fury bubbled away inside her, her form regrouping to appear solid once more but, she seemed to be growing bigger. More muscular and taller. It was slow, sure but noticeable. Azure's gaze never left Blade as she seemed to swell further and further. "It seems you ticked her off..." Jackpot remarks, lowering her head for a nice, clean shot. Just as Nova pipped up: "HELP!" "Be quiet! Can't you see I-" Jackpot moves to the side, her charged spell dissipating. "Uh...Nova, what did you just sa-" "I'M TRAPPED! HELP!" He said again. He said this like something new had gotten hold of the controls for his mouth and didn't have much time to figure out details like pitch or tone of voice. "I FOUND TYRO BUT HE'S GONE CRAZY! I WAS ON THE MOON THEN I WAS IN A WEIRD EQUESTRIA! THEY TRIED TO TRICK ME! I'M STILL HERE! ANYONE HEAR ME?! THE UNICORN WITH THE CARD CUTIE MARK? THAT SCARY LOOKING GRUMPY PONY? ANY-" Jackpot places a hoof over the stricken Nova's mouth: "Ugh! One will crushed and bent in the way I like it? Easy. Why is 6 times as many that much harder?!" Tyro clatters to the side, the fox clearly not up to taking a pony's force so lightly. But he turns back towards Nova, angry. "Do you have any idea who I am?!" He snarls, pointing an accusing paw at Nova. "I'm litterally a space alien to this world! I am the most ridiculous creature in all the universe because time and time and time and time again, whatever world I'm on proceeds to crap on me, the higher up the better!" He turns, his paws wildly shaking in pent up frustration: "Let's ignore the fact that I was thrown from a losing battle to ensure a tyrant doesn't just keep adding planets to his collection or that millions of people could have been killed or worse only to end up in Pretty Pony land, where everything is just peachy because there's friendship and friendship here let's you fire bloody rainbow lasers around at anything you don't like! Let's forget that I! Me! I tried to do my usual by clearing up a mess, free of charge and I ended up fighting Celestia and burning her half to a crisp in a bloody mistake I've not been allowed to live down!" He pauses, sitting back onto his hunches, collecting himself. The air around them felt clear, the mist leaving both Tyro and Nova. They were alone in a black, blank void. "I stand out a bloody mile here! I get given stuff to do, kept here because I want to make things right but I can't shake the idea I'm here just because Luna wants to use me to show she can create useful subjects just like her sister. Celestia doesn't trust me with anything other than the table scraps! Changeling Attack? Crystal Empire's Siege? Alternate Universe Travel? Tirek?! All of these things, I could have sorted out but I always get what they reckon would get Twilight and her friends killed. I'm disposable. For the longest time, I've been OK with that." Tyro's tails curl around him, sighing. "I'm a freak of nature here. Anything even resembling my kind up and left Equestria centuries ago. Ponies are OK but I haven't found many I feel like I could be comfortable with fully. I talk with Applejack on occasion but I know where her priorities lie. My colleagues are fine in a jam but they've got their own roots. I-I used to travel everywhere. Didn't matter were because I knew I could find my own version of terra firma wherever. Here, in Equestria, I'm isolated. Here, in Happy Pony Kingdom, where it's always sunny and...and bright and..." He turns his head from Nova: "They showed me my Daughter finally finding me. I was going to do one more job, a big one, then leave to see my family. Make sure they're safe. Feel like me again. I haven't had a home in centuries, so, just a gathering is enough to make me feel like I belong." He smirks sheepishly: "Sorry...The stupid old fox is rambling again. Shouldn't be so sentimental while we're in mortal danger..." The mist was slowly returning... ~ [MENTION=10475]AzureBlitz[/MENTION] & [MENTION=1202]Crimson Lionheart[/MENTION] ~ (Couldn't forget about the girls, could I?) Sombra strikes. Playfully, the huge brute picks up Azure and tosses her straight into the air. Right up through into the bright sunshine and flowers. This was fillyplay. This was truly comical. The odd little creature intended to fight him?! Why? Why, oh why? As he rose up into the air with a harsh speed to meet up with the somersaulting Azure, he watches the pony for a moment before swatting her back down towards the rolling hills of grass and grazing cows. This was to be treated as fun. Like how one might attempt to pretend they're punching bag is a worthy opponent. The plummeting Azure would likely survive the fall but it's debatable how well. She also would leave a decent crater and gash in the field where she crash lands, a few bewildered cows trying to fathom where that might have come from. All right within sight and earshot of Jackpot, the rampaging king apparently now fighting through her land.
Darky got confused after everything nightmare Tyro was saying... and how everything changed out of nowhere. What was he talking about?! When Tyro looked him to his eyes, he knew thing were going to be even more weird and dangerous, that stare, that voice... it looked that Tyro was going insane. He could feel that, what was going on with him. Once Tyro started talking again about that thing of emotional magic, was he talking about love and all that things?! he then noticed his paw on his chest, and then how Tyro set in on fire. "W-what the..!" He was completely surprised bu this. He felt how his body was being burned until he could see his own bones and what was inside him. He didn't knew what to say, he was speechless. He saw Tyro sinking his paw into his chest. What the hell was he doing?! He felt how it went in and how it hurt, the pain, it was so much pain he felt as Tyro did that, but then he heard him... he said something about Luna, not controlling her... emotions? He just couldn't let him talk to about her like that. He heard everything else he said, the pain didn't allowed him to move, but the last part, use his love, his hearth... what was he talking about?! He didn't cared that much. He closed his eyes and let Luna's thoughts get all over his mind, remembering the warmth of her hugs, her voice, everything that he loved from her... that gave him some strength. He moved his hoof and grabbed his sword, then tried to attack him with that small burst of energy he got because of his love for her. (That is what I understood, If it wasn't like that or what you have planned just tell me.)
Backing away some, BladeRunner only had determination within him. He knew not this was going to happen... then again its like the game of Alicorn of War (Yes, God of War) when Kratos had killed some of the Titans. This may not be that different. His blade lit into flames, prepared for this fight.
Azure got up from the crater and gave a light smile. "wow... It's been quite a while since I actually felt this hurt in a battle with...anypony really...but if rough is what you want. Rough is what you get..." she then looked at sombra as her iris' turned blood red and the white in her eyes turned green as she summoned a sword and got into a defensive stance. "En Garde you douchebag!"
Jackpot looked at the beast as she took a deep breath and got herself into a stance, looking the king directly into the eye as she felt a feeling of anger towards the brute. Not rage or anything particularly nasty, just a desire to hurt this menace badly to save her companions. "Alright, you brute" Jackpot said quietly. "Show me what you got!"
This was bad... but... Nova couldn't let it end like this... "Don't take what I'm about to say the wrong way... but... you're a fool." began Nova. After a brief pause, Nova spoke up again. "Is this place mostly sunshine, peace, and friendship? Sure it is. Mostly at least. However, I could be wrong here, but it seems to me you seem to think that Equestria is just peaceful period with no problems whatsoever. You couldn't be further from the truth. Do you know what I am? I'm a Bat Pony. Most bat ponies tend to be a part of Luna's Royal Guard. Until the Nightmare Moon incident that is. What do you think happened to the bat ponies after that? They certainly weren't accepted by all of the other species that's for sure. Everywhere bat ponies went they were shunned. Even in other locations like where the griffons lived. We weren't even accepted there. Because even they had heard what happened. Well that, and griffons don't seem to like any other species besides themselves. But you get my point. We were shunned by everypony. We had to make our own homes. Mostly in the mountains. Bat pony children couldn't even make any friends other than other bat ponies. Whenever they tried, it ended badly. Either the other filly or colt was lectured for what they were doing and prevented from seeing their bat pony friend ever again, or, the filly or colt would turn on them too. Then, only to make things worse, they started making things up about us. It's not even possible to force another pony to become a bat pony. You have to agree to it, and even then, an alicorn is required for the transformation. Just like any other transformation. Everypony then started calling us 'vampires.' You have no idea how bad that was. That made things even worse. We don't even suck blood!! Just juices from fruits and vegetables. Yet somehow, other ponies take that as signs that we would suck them of their blood. It's just ludicrous!!" shouted Nova. This was legitimately starting to anger him now... "But we wouldn't let it stop us. Well... I wouldn't let it stop me. Things got a little better when Luna came back, but, there are still bad rumors about us and ponies still think we're vampires who will make them our 'slaves' or make them a bat pony. It really hasn't gotten much better. My parents were parents who thought all ponies were bad because of how they treated bat ponies. But I always thought that we could live together peacefully if they just understood how wrong their foolish ideas of us were. If they could just see that... maybe we could finally live together peacefully. So, I rebelled against my parents and left my own home. I had to live on my own for so long. It was quite a struggle let me tell you. There were days I almost died of hunger or thirst. But I wouldn't stop until I changed all of the bad perceived thoughts of bat ponies. I've met a few ponies who didn't run away from me right off the bat. It was a start at least. I've even been able to help others overcome their own negative perceptions of themselves and helped them become a better pony too. I'm not saying I've achieved my goal. Because I haven't. I still have a long ways to go. There are still lots of ponies out there who won't even give bat ponies a look and just assume the worst of them. I refuse to give up until the ill-perceived ideas of bat ponies are gone for good. Do you understand NOW?! Don't you DARE give me a sob story that you're the only one who has gone through problems. There are plenty of other ponies who have gone through similar situations, sometimes even worse situations. It may seem peaceful, but, there are more problems here than it seems at first glance." stated Nova. ((I know that seems like a lecture, but, just trying to get him to realize that others have problems too.))
(I think it is dead, just I think that everyone has other things to do and that gets in the way of this lol.)
(I've been rediculously busy. New job, new site, all that good stuff. Thanks for being so interested still though. Doesn't help about Prince either...) Sombra grins. With only stamp of his hoof, the lush grass is exploded upwards as a jolt of magic cuts a massive swathe through the ground as if firing a freight train at them as a torpedo. The attack didn't really strike them so much as separate them, looking to terrify as he descends on Azure, galloping for him. Tyro's face fell. "So, I'm not allowed to complain because you're worse off? I mean, why are you here?! Don't you have what you wanted where you came from?! Weren't you respected? Wasn't the Bat Pony community free from oppression and so forth? Couldn't you have just settled down? Was anything to your liking? Can you actually accept a good deal when you see it?!" The fox seemed horrifically tired. The eyes bloodshot, the fur in tatters as the mist rolls around him, growing thick. His fur grows greyer, thinning in patches while the gaunt creature breathes heavily. The thinned bones visible as this elderly creature peers out from the enshrouding mist, matted tails stirring it around him. "I want to stay. I need this, pony. It's that or I stagnate. Here, I can do the least damage..." Nightmare Azure snarls and rears upwards, kicking her front legs before slamming both heavily onto Blade. The creature's hooves were able to slam down hideously hard on his body like a titan stepping on him.
This only seemed to anger Nova further. "I didn't say that. I'm just trying to tell you that you're not the only one who's been treated like crap. As for why I'm here, well, that should be obvious shouldn't it? My body got taken over by that horrible Nightmare Mist just like yours did. We have to get out of here and regain control of our bodies somehow." responded Nova. At this point though, he started flat out shouting. "Did you listen to what I said AT ALL?! No I don't have everything that I want because ponies still think me and my kind are some kind of evil menace that shouldn't exist in the first place!! We weren't respected at all either!! It was the exact opposite!! Everypony else looked down on us and just assumed the worst instead of actually trying to get to know us before judging us!! We were discriminated against too!! Even when some of us tried to make a living in towns, we'd be kicked out of restaurants, businesses, and even towns because we tried to just live normal lives there!! We were told we 'didn't belong here' and 'weren't like everypony else' and pretty much forced to leave!! Do you think we live in the mountains by choice?! Because, as far as I'm concerned, we don't!! We live there because we have nowhere else to live. We're kicked out of everywhere else because of the stupid, illogical, false pretenses and fears everypony else has of us and our kind!! We had to settle down in the mountains because no other ponies were around to tell us to leave there and no other ponies lived there!! Nothing was to our liking at all because we could barely do anything without being glared out, ran out of towns, or just looked down on with disgusted faces in general!! Our 'deal' wasn't good at all!! It was a horrible deal based solely on idiotic rumors that aren't true and false pretenses that stemmed from people making stuff up about us and our race!!" shouted Nova. "The only thing you need to do is to get a hold of yourself!! Snap out of it and help me find a way to get our bodies back!!" snapped Nova.
Azure had noticed what sombra was trying to do so she teleported away from his strike and reappeared on his back and then jabbed her swords through him before yanking them out again and firing a laser from her horn,exploding on contact with him and sending him smashing into the ground.
BladeRunner was kicked, knocking the wind out of him, but as the hooves would collide into him to crush, he swiftly rolled out of the way and would stab his Carnage Blade into the leg, stabbing it deep in the flesh and holding on really tight. Using the flames, he quickly summoned another smaller sword and stabbed that into the leg as well, and began to climbed his way up with he weapons, each stab being deep and accounted for.
Tyro looks to the side. A hazy figure stands there. Tall, shaded. The two legs it stood on were covered in heavy looking boots, jeans bunching up around the knees where the footwear ended. Her face was shrouded, only a mild smile showed. The shadow cast by the pointed hat's brim which sat upon her long, deep dark brown mane. She doesn't move, only beckon from the void. The coat she wore hanging around her calves, making her seem like a witch in a flowing robe. "Your not going to let me just enjoy this, are you?" Tyro said, his gaze falling on Nova. Grieved and melancholy, he takes in a deep breath then sighs heavily. He looks up to the bipedal creature, a smile spreading across her lips. "Equestria is run by emotional magic." Tyro began. "It's usually dangerous, unpredictable and, above all else, a pain the arse to actually utilise but, for whatever reason, this place has managed to not only utilise but base itself entirely upon it. The emotions of this world actively translate into powerful phenomena." Tyro stands, looking Nova right in the eyes. "The Elements of Harmony are an example of 'Positive' Emotional Energies being concentrated to the point where they are then able to perform tasks. We're currently in an example of powerful 'Negative' energies. This was created from Princess Luna. It's all her harshest thoughts and most miserable feelings made incarnate because Alicorn's are just 'super special awesome' in that way. They can be powerful conduits for magic. When that goes wrong, it goes spectacularly wrong!" The fox presses a paw to Nova's chest: "The only way where getting out of here is to own the darkness. Now, this is going to sound sappier than a foal's play about always loving and caring for each other but Equestia is the only place I know of where that can translate into rainbow lasers or horrible nightmare monsters so, bare with me. You have to use your heart. We're both infected with negative emotion and the only way we will ever regain control is to own it. You take charge of the darkness. You tell it with every part of yourself that you aren't ruled by it and that you are in charge! You have to fight it. You have to believe you can do it! You have to find love and peace and all that gooey mushy stuff then beat it over the head with it, understand? Only then can we hope to get back to our bodies." He stares with a fiery intensity at Nova. It was business time. "You have to process the energy yourself to get out of here. Think of friends. Think of family. And only of them! Think of anything and anypony that could possibly warm your soul. You are going to go full-on Hearth's Warming Eve Special on this thing and not an ounce less!" Sombra manages to land in a plume of dust. It fires up into the air, only managing to dissipate a few seconds later. Sombra has already lifted a few chunks of the landscape, tossing them carelessly towards Azure. Agonized, Nightmare Azure attempts to snap at him. The hope is to bite into him, looking to try to cripple the pony now stabbing his way into her leg. A bolt of energy zips past Blade's ear. Nightmare Jackpot had fired and was readying another shot. It's unlikely she'd miss a second time...
BladeRunner saw the bolt zip past him, he would groan as he had to swing his body up, swinging into mid air and leaving the flame blade in her leg to burn and melt away the flesh. BladeRunner landed on the rump, just barely enough for him to stab the cutie mark and trying to climb up. He was out of range of the bolts at this point, and now he had to worry about this giant mare.
Azure simply teleported through the obstacles and teleported right in front Sombra and stabbed both swords through him. Hoping that would end but she kept her guard up. And for extra measure she fired a magic spell at him,exploding on contact and sending him more than just a few feet. "HOME RUN *squee!*!"
