Dark Shine's eyes widened. "Ack! I...... Dont...... Anger.... Stop... Please.... I'll tell..... Anything!!!!" He gasped, his face turning slightly red.
"Good! Where'd you get the info on the delivery? Who you work for?" He barks at Dark Shine. He backs off, making a long circle around the room. "No pony knows about our operations! How did you manage to find out of our chariots?" He storms to the bed, slamming his hooves onto the mattress. "TELL ME!"
Dark Shine jumps back, the amulet around his neck glowing faintly. "I dont work for anypony. I...Live in the Everfree and I am a weather pony here in ponyville. I know nothing of what you are talking about. Just please. Let me go." He sighs, before trying to calm the amulet down. Deep inside, his anger was growing, and the amulet was using it. Sooner or later, he would go enraged. And so would it.
The Demon turns in time to get impaled by the legendary Keyblade. The Demon flailed wildly and like the horrifying terror it was, a large endless maw began to rip apart the head of the beast until it had something resembled a mouth. And from that mouth a wail that sent shivers and fear through every living thing around it as it screeched it's anger and fury at bring impaled. It's body was now severely weakened, enhancing the effect of the hard ice on it's shoulder so it's tentacles were now terribly immobile. So the Demon charged with all of it's speed towards the Keyblade's owner, the wail still ripping through the air.
"Heh..." The pony smirks, his fedora had fallen back to reveal the strangest set of eyes. His irises were white. As if possessed soulless or just in a bad B-movie, they appeared to lack all pigment completely. They did look odd against the grey coat of his. "Either this guy's unshakeable or he doesn't actually no anything. I guess he just got lucky, huh?" He sighs pacing back towards the rest of the assembled muscle. "Now, I'd like to let ya go. I would, I really would but you kinda know something's up now. I hate all the clear up...Man, I hate that but..." He tips the fedora forwards, covering his eyes once more. "We can't have any loose ends...All right, light him up!" The two, saddle-mounted weapons begin to click and whine as their triggers are pulled down. The clockwork was building speed, ready to unleash death in another second or two.
Dark Shine's amulet suddenly glew brilliantly bright. Before the attackers eyes, his coat had darkened into a deep, dark grey, sparks of energy flying off at all ends. His once pink eyes were now yellow and Draconic. His wings jutted out like knives and his mane and tail wreathed with energy. His voice had become electro in a way. "You have made a horrible mistake." He flew at the one who had been choking him, grabbing him by the throat. "Now tell me what is going on and why or else you will learn the hard way which one of you can go deeper into the ground!" He pushed the pony into the wall, sliding him up, ironically beginning to choke.
The two guns wind down, clicking and ticking over while the mechanism stops. Without much of an idea what just happened, all that can be done is pointing the barrels at the new development. The other two ponies join in, looking to the others to see if they had a better idea of how a pegasus was managing this. The pony with the white eyes looses his hat, floating down to the floor. He struggles in the hold against the wall, failing to shift Dark Shine's hooves from his windpipe. "Ah, ah! All right! All right! This delivery was knocked out of the sky by a black and white pegasus busting up clouds. Camouflaged in a cloud. Lost a few thousand bits. Maybe it was somepony else. How about we get out of your way, leave you to your day, huh?"
Dark Shine let go of the pony. "What was so important about this delivery that required you to use guns huh? Answer me!" He turned to the other ponies, staring at them as they pointed their guns at him.
"I dunno! I ain't paid that much! I just rough up problem ponies! Nothing personal, it's just my job!" He explains, rasping slightly from Dark Shine's grip. "I don't know much! Just leave me alone! I'm not use to you!"
Dark Shine sighed. "One more question." His coat turned lighter. His eyes became less draconic. His wings seemed to go back to normal as did his mane and tail. "Who was the other end of the package? The contractor."
"I don't know! I don't get told anything! Now, how about you let me go and..." He looks Dark Shine up and down, mildly surprised and relieved. "Your normal again. Well, how about that?" He tilts his head, talking directly to the rest of the fedora wearing gang: "Light him up!" The gun's begin to whir back up to full speed once more.
Dark Shine looks at them. "Oh haybales." He dives out the window, before flying off into the Everfree forest, as fast as he could. On the way, he clips his left wing, causing him to plummet into a nearby bush.
"No mistakes!" Comes from the now broken window over the clockwork whirring down once more. "Dump the guns and get after him!" The sound of hooves clatters through Dark Shine's home. The front door swings open as the fedora wearing ponies file outside, looking for the monochrome pegasus.
Dark Shine looked back to where he had come from, then his injured wing. He had to get moving. Fast. But where was he going to go? He couldn't run to a major populace could he? Even if he could, he would need to lay very low. No, he had one option. Keep running. Keep low. Do whatever you need to keep unseen. They clearly meant buisness.
Rushing through the sands at top speeds back towards Ponyville was a slightly larger pain than first thought. A heavy duty truck had to be moved to the train wreck. Normally used for carrying tree trunks, this would be able to handle the several ton machine with very little issue. The box, squat engine that had arrived to tow the giant away chugged while Tyro and Sulphy made sure that no pony had been killed. By a stroke of luck, there were only a few wounded. The driver was struggling to hear anything after the explosion he just survived. Only a few passengers and a conductor walking up the isle at the wrong time was hit with anything. Nothing the arriving medics from Appaloosa couldn't stitch back together again. With no dead, the Dragon, Fox and Giant Death Machine could leave as planned. So, they strapped Titus onto the flat-bed truck, suspension groaning under the load and rust falling off. Lashed in place with as much rope as possible before being dragged towards Ponyville. "Sweetie Belle! Applebloom! Get over here now!" a colossal shriek erupts from across the square. Two fillies had arrived, sat right down and began to watch. They even cheered at Ambience's keyblade slicing through the Poison Joke monster. If they had banners or flags, they'd be waving them. While every other pony around the battle has retreated to a safe distance, these two took a front row seat. Although a white mare with full saddlebags was looking to change that. The fedora ponies fan out from the front door, streets largely empty as ponies either moved to a safe distance to watch the ongoing battle or run to their homes. They scouted up and down the street, keeping a good eye for Dark Shine.
He dragged the end of his hoof spiraling through the dirt as the bones of his skeletal horrors formed together and nose-dove into the maw of the beast. Digging a pathway in for the wielder of the keyblade. The bone claws of the undead twist and flail through the air, slicing at the stretching tendrils. Meanwhile, he looks back and his horn glows with a white fire. Glass stones hover from his inside pocket as white strands of energy flow from the remaining pony corpses and into the three seperate stones. Souls, flesh, bones... to return from such a traumatic experience. He grinned freakishly. "They'll thank me later... maybe. Be careful not to ruin their bones, won't you?"
"Sweetie Belle! Applebloom! Get over here now!" Ambiance turned her head toward the commotion. "Little foals! Listen to your mother! You are not safe here!" Ambiance hadn't been fully introduced to all of Twilight's friends as of yet so it was understandable that she didn't know that Rarity was Sweetie Belle's sister. Returning her attention to the matter at hoof, she dashed toward the creature, who was still flailing about while the Keyblade remained imbedded it its body. Dodging a whipping tentacle, she leap upon the creature and gripped her Keyblade with her mouth and yanked mightily, hoping to rend the creature in two.
Titus looked at the strange machine and tried tilting his head by failed yet again with the whole body tilting, Titus looked at Tyro and noticed that he was pointing at him to get on the truck. Titus moved slowly towards the truck and slowly and a ramp went down and Titus walked up the ramp making the Truck groan after he got on the truck he was being tied by the Fox with primative string. Titus had finally was tied and sudennly the truck started moving with a slow speed but went faster as time progreesed on.
The Demon squealed as Ambiance split it's body in half. With the Skeletons also assaulting it, the Demon had no chance at all. With a last vengeful hiss the Fel Energies bonding the demon dissipated, sending the Demon back to wherever Ruggard had drawn it from. Blizzard felt a surge of energy as the demon vanished, and she carefully made her way to those who had saved the small town. "Thank you, to the both of you," She kneeled before them, bending one knee in respect before rising. "I am Blizzard the Dragon. May I have the names of you two?"
He grunted and first said, "Busy..." He galloped over to where he had borrowed the bones of the guards as his horn and eyes burned with dark purple flames. He reared back and stomped on the ground as his bone horrors disconnected and fell to the ground before him. With the daemon's power gone, he wouldn't have to worry about the ponies awakening as abominations... and so he poured his energy into reconnecting the bones inside of the bodies. "See? Fits like a glove... sorta." He let them lay lifeless as he swirled his body through the dirt and pushed the bones of the wayward villager back into place before dragging the corpse over to the guards. "Just don't break my concentration, okay?"
