Post by MC Ice on Apr 22, 2012 16:50:56 GMT -5
(Cast:Princess Luna, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Applebloom; AKA Bad Apple AKA Appledoom, Fluttershy, Leather n Lace, WildSumac, Mr Chuckles, Scope, Firefly, Diamond Tiara, Pumpkin Pie, Snowball/Snowfall, BlueFeather, Gummy, Chance, and a very brief appearance by Morgan.)
(The RP did fracture into groups during the scene to assist in speeding things along, if anypony has the logs from the splinter groups please feel free to post them as addendums to this main log. Thank you.)
(OOC note, This log is VAST. Be warned before you begin to read, it will take a while. With a final page count of 17 & 1/4th and a word count of 8,517 it is one you'll want to grab a beverage for. Without further gilding of the lily here you have the final battle between Mr Chuckles and his merry band and the defenders of Canterlot!)
The Royal Palace, late in the evening, it close to the time when Celestia's court would be closing and the Night court run by Princess Luna would be opening. The changing of the guard....the most vulnerable time. Outside, a pair of wicked looking bloodshot eyes watches the Palace, and more specifically the path to the treasury house. It had taken all day, But Mr Chuckles had positioned his laughing gas bombs all around Canterlot. They were set to go off at the press of a button. Once his little protégé had done her part and allowed him to slip the remaining bombs closer to the unsuspecting guards. And if any escaped the explosions he could always handle them with his high voltage joy buzzer and some well-placed Brick n' Berry Pies. Sure to knock the fight...and probably several teeth out of any guard still standing.
One of the guards, a new recruit who just happened to get his armor a week ago is the first to notice something out of the ordinary. Private Snowfall, a pegasus, peers oddly at one of the laughing gas bombs nearby and carefully trots over to it and takes aim with his spear and.. gives it a tiny poke, suspicious.
This is the now or never time for Bad Apple. She's supposed to be picking her fight! She's just looking for the right target to get in a fight with. A very distracting fight, but with *who.* Who who who shall be her victim? She's trotting about Canterlot not too far from the palace.
Firefly walks down the stairs, half awake, yawning, giving her wings a lazy flap. "I gargle pelim mrrbles."
There is a loud rumble in the sky as it seems that a cyan colored pony is firing herself out of one of the bedrooms located near the top turrets. A rainbow colored streak follows in her wake, mane ruffled. With a tilt of her head down towards the castle, giving a quick wing wave to Snowfall. "Yo! Whatcha lookin' at dude?" She calls out as she drops down in altitude, landing near Firefly with a hipbump. "WAKE UP."
Diamond Tiara always delivers! "Come OOOON, Dad, get OOOUT here already! We're in Canterlot, and I don't want to hang around at the PALACE and watch some giant mules with horns and wings sit on their butts. Let's go to Pourquoi Avons-Nous Pas Font It Sous Route alreadyyyyyyy!" she whines at the top of her lungs, right in front of the front doors of the Palace. For that extra touch, she stomps her little hoof in disgusted outrage!
Leather_n_Lace has placed herself not on the ground, but above the main entrance to the Treasury, her slitted feline eyes watching as the guard investigates the bomb. A soft wrathful hiss escaping her when the two new mares appear.
Snowball perks when he hears the sound of another pegasus on the inbound, glancing over his shoulder to see Dash. "Stay back ma'am, I have no idea what this device is." Another quick poke of his spear at the "bomb" accidentally sets it off, gas starting to shoot everywhichwhere. "Oh geez!"
WildSumac is actually not in the palace at all, instead she's out in the garden, slowly tiptoeing her way along, peering here and there as she goes. She hums faintly to herself as she seems to be searching for something. Two ponies follow after her, a pair of earth ponies that do well to stick to the shadows..
Mr_Chuckles snaps his teeth together and snarls as he watches the guard set the bomb off prematurely, "Why that brainless, bombastic, bellowing, boob! He'll spoil everything!" He picks up one of his patented Brick n' Berry Pies (Made with real bricks!) and starts slinking along towards the young guard, who happens to be standing near Firefly and Rainbow Dash. It's time to hedge his bets, things won't blow up until Mr C /decides/ they do!
Oh, *perfect!* Diamond Tiara. She's always been wanting to teach that rich spoiled little filly a lesson! Teach her a lesson big time! The coached grade-school villain clops her way swiftly over to Diamond Tiara, a sadistic and evil grin on her face. "Oh, hi there, Diamond Tiara. Having fun here in Canterlot?" She's already rubbing her hooves together, readying a blow.
Firefly flares her wings slightly as Rainbow lands beside her with her usual greeting, wide eyed at first, then half lidding her eyes, flicking an ear. "Wake up? Let me guess. Palace on fire? Evil moon monsters? The CMC again?" flicking an ear as reality comes into focus. She lifts a wing and rubs an eye. "Ok, what is the threat and our status?" she asks the element of loyalty as she looks around to see for herself what she can, pausing to look at....somepony with a pie. "Ok, who let Pinkie in here?" commenting aside to Dash.
Diamond Tiara's cutie mark sparkles as her immaculate Dufus Sense activates. She gives Apple Bloom a long, pink stare, and makes shooing motions with her hoof. "No! No! Go away, Ap- filly I don't know with the hundred year old makeup job! Don't make me look even less cool than I do standing in front of this cow barn!" Craning her neck up as far as it will go, she whines, "DADDYYYYYYY!"
"Woah!" Rainbow Dash calls out as she gives a hard beat of her wings forward to send the gas away from her and Snowfall. "Get back! Where'd you find that thing? It was just sitting here?" She asks as she leaps up into the air once more with a powerful flap of her wings. "I didn't know there was a threat, at least until now. Hey, who's that?" She calls out as she dives down to give Snowfall a quick shove to the side.
Leather_n_Lace reaches for her bull whip with her magic, a soft pink glow enveloping her horn as she prepares to "lash" out at Rainbow Dash and Firefly. Fully intending to give Mr C the opening he needs to take out the guard. Probably not realizing that of the three ponies about to be assaulted the guard is the least dangerous to their objective. When it's Rainbow Dash that leaps into action first that is what makes the feline-pony choose her as the target and with a loud *swish-crack!* the bullwhip strikes, aiming to entangle RD's legs and pull her down out of the air. "Why don't we just let the stallions play it out my pet?" She purrs, narrowing those slitted eyes through her mask at the two pegasus mares in front of her.
With a swift kick the bomb is sent rolling away, but instead of sounding the general alarm the Private is confused. Seeing as he's basically just a new recruit all he does is stand his guard and glare at the "bomb" before the gas is shoved away, letting out a "OOOF!" when he's shoved aside by the weather mare and spinning around just in time to catch her being ensnared. "What the!?" Regaining his senses he takes aim with his spear, hopping into the air and beginning to hover.. and not seeing the clown-pony taking aim with the pie.
With everything going on inside it seems.. WildSumac continues to make her way through the garden, and more importantly looking at the different statues that she comes across.. It takes a few moments before she does indeed catch sight of the Discord one and with a soft 'ooo' she trots on towards it, glancing one way then another in the process. "Wolfie, Wormer.. over here.." Is said in a soft murmur towards her two earth ponies that soon follow after her.
Mr_Chuckles grins malevolently and launches his pie at the young guard pony, aiming for the head. Even if it doesn't knock the guard out it will certain take the fight out of him. A whip cream topped brick isn't easy to shake off. The helmet might offer some protection. But Mr C walks loud and carried a BIG brick...in a pie. "Hey! Prissy pants! Have some deeeeesert!" Shouts the clown to try and get the guard to turn at the last moment, thus getting it right in the face. Comedic tradition demands a victim gets it in the face...
Well, it's definitely now or never now that Diamond Tiara is calling out for her daddy and swing her hoof for the rich and useless filly as hard as her earth pony hooves let her. Time for a good bucking!
Firefly just....stands there watching, lifting an eyebrow as she watches this....whomever, snare Rainbow. "You know, this may not be a very good night for you or your friends." cocking one ear askew. "And I don't think you realize just what you have a hold of there." indicating Rainbow with an ear. "Or where you are." just watching curiously. "If you survive Rainbow's temper, we'll talk." grinning slightly.
"Hey, what gives!" Rainbow Dash calls out as he finds the whip catch her about the legs and give her a tug to the ground. "Oooof!" With a shake of her head, her eyes widen as they lock with Leather's. With a snort of hot air that blasts out from her nostrils, she powers herself into the air with her wings stretching wide as she arcs her body, the leather whip trailing beneath her. "Don't know who you are, but you're 'bout to have the /worst/ day of your life." Energy crackles about her body as she powers herself forward with a scream of air blistering about her frame. All systems go. Buccaneer blast! As she dive bombs the unicorn, she explodes forward with a crack of wings hard enough to cause the wind about her to split ear drums and knock a pony over.
The hoof swings in slow motion, the focus of the entire world reduced to this cataclysmic confrontation that will decide the fate of Equestria. Well, it OUGHT to be like that. Apple Bloom's blow lands squarely on Diamond Tiara's jaw, knocking her face aside, sending the pink filly toppling onto her back in a heap. But not an unconscious heap. The pink heap immediately sticks its head up, spraying tears as it scrambles to its feet whining, "DADDYYYYY! THAT... THAT APPLE BUMPKIN WHO WEARS MAKEUP LIKE THOSE FRENCH FILLIES YOU HANG AROUND WITH HIT ME! You! Guards! Hold her still! Nnnh! Nnnh!" Those last two grunts are the accompaniment to Diamond Tiara flailing her own hooves furiously at Apple Bloom, with the raw speed and striking power of an undernourished Smarty Pants.
Leather_n_Lace leaps into the air in an attempt to dodge the attack, she doesn't really succeed but the damage is slightly lessened. Allowing her to roll to her hooves. She knocked her head on the ground when she was bowled over but she didn't lose her concentration, her magical grip on her whip still intact. She glowers and then hisses at both Firefly and Rd. Then with a yank of her head she wraps the handle end of her whip around a rather thick marble pillar in an attempt to halt RD's forward momentum extremely abruptly. She sneers hopefully, yeah, she wanted it to hurt.
*SPLU-THUNK*, the pie smacks directly against Snowball's face right in the spot he's unprotected, the brick impacting his face just beneath the nose-protector. That's enough to stun him, but the angle of the brick causes the other end to smack against the gold of his helmet just a second later and DOWN HE GOES. The screams from the rich-b*tch-filly are enough to grab the attention of another pair of guards, this time two unicorns of grey & white come a runnin' with spears at the ready.
As Wolfie and Wormer move over to WildSumac, they pause to apply small wrapped presents to certain statues. Once the two are with Sumac in front of the Discord statue she hums and nods to herself. The two earth ponies pull out two small boxes and when a button is pushed one turns into a thick pad that is laid on the ground and the other is a thick green blanket that is pulled free. Her horn glows green for a moment and the vines across her legs unwrap and soon move to curl around the Discord statue and then slowly work at lowering it down onto the thick buffer pad upon the ground. An ear twitches as she wonders how her friends are doing inside.
Pinkie_Pie trots in with a cheerful smile. "Hey, everypony, is this where the wedding rehearsal-" a weaponized pie flies by her head. "Ohhh, that must be NEXT week. Kay. See you then!" She turns on her hoof and trots back out, just as cheerfully.
Mr_Chuckles cackles wildly as the upstart guard goes down and goes down hard, and then he notices the fight between the fillies has begun. He grimaces as he realizes he was late in pushing the button...so he pushes the button. Throughout Canterlot, the palace, and the suburbs thereof multiple explosions occur, from each a noxious orange mist rises and begins to spread. At first panicked screams erupt, but gradually they are replaced by mad laughter not unlike the cackling of the clown prince of pony crime. He just hopes Sumac notices and remembers that this is the signal for her plants to attack the palace directly... "Oh Joy...more interlopers to play with..." He snickers as he observes Leather N Lace holding off the energetic Rainbow Dash and her cohort.
The bombs go off. In the distance, ponies scream and begin to laugh. This is all momentarily covered up by the blasting crash of Luna flying out through the front wall of the Palace, taking large portions of it with her. Her dramatically spread hooves hit the flagstones out front with a flash of lightning and a crack of thunder. "OUR PONIES ARE IN DANGER!" her bellow rings through the night. Extending a wing, she commands, "FIREFLY! TORNADOS, NOW! WE MUST DISPERSE THAT POISON!" The royal horn flashes blue, and Scope appears very suddenly next to her, to be yelled at, "CRUSH THE CHURL AND HIS VARLETS, WARRIOR. SHOW THEM WHAT HAPPENS TO THOSE WHO HARM OUR SUBJECTS." And with that she leaps off again, bolting into the night sky like she was blue lightning herself.
Bad Apple jumps back as the prissy little spoiled piece of [BUY SOME TINFOIL] starts swinging at her. Well, game on! The filly jumps around to give Diamond Tiara a full apple bucking as if she were some apple tree ready for harvest. She sees the guards coming for her, so she knows her part is working! And when she hears things loudly happening, first the laughing gas, then Luna's Royal Canterlot Voice, she decides it's time to get away before she's caught by anypony who knows her who can *really* do something about her!
Firefly watches Rainbow being tied off, and then sees the other Elements assembling. She flares her wings and in a blast of wind literally jets across the room to roll a ninety, using her inboard wing to slash the rope restraining Rainbow, then swings around to land before the throne itself, standing there, wings half closed, ready for anything she may need to do within her operating limits. Plus she has a very good vantage point now. After the Diamond fiasco and being removed from it, she had some serious aggravation to work out..and Leather and Lace was about to learn what that means. Firefly narrows her eyes and flicks a wing, a deafening roar heard as part of the palace entrance is literally ripped outwards as a rope tornado snakes downwards, descending on Leather and Lace. Since she was using it to start drafting and sucking the gas away, why not adjust it to suck up some dirt too. Seeing Luna and hearing the commands, she snaps her wings wide open and closes her eyes, the skies boiling in black clouds in moments, several smaller tornadoes forming, pulling the gas up and away all over town.
Snap! Soon as Rainbow Dash is free, she leaps into the air again and shuffles her hooves to let the pieces of whip fall off her legs. With a spiral of her body in the air, her wings unfurl at the side. With Luna now barreling through, her attention turns upon Mr Chuckles as he starts bullying the guards. With a whip of her body around, she pours on the speed in a quick zig zag motion as she looks to pile drive him from behind with a patented Rainbow Dash football tackle. With her forehooves outstretched, she aims hip high.
Diamond Tiara doesn't notice the guards or the princess or the screaming or the fighting. Partly that's because she's crying so hard that every sense organ is congested or dripping something. Partly it's because in her mind clearly anyone making a fuss or rushing to the scene is coming to help her teach Apple Bloom a lesson, like they're SUPPOSED to. So it makes sense to her that Apple Bloom isn't fighting back, and Tiara flails her hooves in weak, badly aimed roundhouses at Apple, squawling, "That's right! Run away, you dirty beggar blank flank freak! I'll teach you! You can't mess with Diamond Tiara!"
Leather_n_Lace is swept up into the rope tornado, shrieking in blind fury. However she manages to hook her hooves into the broken piece of a wall. In a last ditch effort to free herself from the grip she begins using her own magic to fling large chunks of brick at the Storm Pegasus. Villains like bricks it seems. At least when they are handy, "When I get down! I'm going to use you as a scratching post!"
*POOF*, Scope is teleported against his will for probably the first time in his life and he's rather disoriented because of it, then all of a sudden he's got the voice of the Night Princess bellowing in his ear. "Well then..", the unicorn coughs, horn flashing to completely secure his armor before running into the fray and seeing.. HIM, the CLOWN.. "DASH, NO!" The stallion bellows out, snapping a glare to the incoming pegasus as he rolls his shoulders. "He's MINE."
Someone who can -really- do something about Apple Doom. Like, her big sister, maybe? However she may have caught wind of the happenings here in canterlot, or perhaps she was just lucky to be in the vicinity when all this craziness started happening, Applejack is here now, and readily steps into the filly's path as she tries to flee the scene of Diamond Tiara's assault -- which she just happened to catch the tail-end of. "APPLE BLOOM!" It's hard to tell if AJ has ever been more relieved or angry, but she's sure she's never been so much of both at once. The conflicting expressions battle it out on her face for a moment before a third expression creeps in. Slowly, and -very- involuntarily, the corners of her mouth creak into a very unnatural-looking smile. She fights it off with a violent shake of her head. "What in TARNATION is goin' on?!" The smile creeps back onto her face despite her resistance, and soon after a laugh escapes her. AJ slaps a hoof to her mouth, eyes growing wide, but another guffaw escapes from behind it, then another. Before long, she's doubled over on the ground, laughing uncontrollably. Well, someone sure got a healthy whiff of that funny orange stuff before it got dispersed.
WildSumac uses her vines to slowly lower the Discord statue down and then it is wrapped up rather tightly with the pad and blanket. "Now my pretties.. take him on home and be careful about it." This is said to Wolfie and Wormer who are slowly moving off, half carrying half dragging the well wrapped up statue of Discord. At the sudden explosion from the castle she bounces around and looks towards it. Her horn glows green along with her eyes as all the plants in the garden come to 'life' to some degree. She puts most of her attention on the plants near the castle itself an soon enough branches are crashing into through windows, vines snaking in through the broken windows going to curl and wrap around anything they possibly can. As she does this she moves closer to the castle which will give her better control of the 'attacking' plants.
Suddenly, a terrible cackling fills the air, and a great gout of grey smoke. From the darkness soars a horrible sight, dressed all in purple, with a giant top hat on its head. Its forearms seem to be made of some sort of writhing, bulbous lengths of metal with eyes on them; one of them is clutching a rope as the nightmare swings onto the scene, the other holds a very, very large mallet, as the figure descends toward Chuckles. "GUMMY!" It squeals, and a very small alligator pops from the hat resting atop the fiend's huge pink coiffure. "Let's PAINT THE TOWN PINK!"
Morgan was just coming in. It's been a very long time since he's been in Canterlooooooooohmygodwhatisthathorriblething?! He grabs a rolling pin from his saddle bags, placing a cooking pot on his head. "What in the name of the Holy Spatula are you?" he asks, brandishing the rolling pin.
Mr_Chuckles is tackled from behind by the annoying chromatic pegasus, even as Scope comes charging into the fray from the side, which a horrifying loud and crisp *CRACK* Mr C folds at the waist...backwards, his body contorted at a hideous angle. Then Scope hits him from the side and he leans heavily to the left, just then the small alligator clamps onto his face and he begins to scream and laugh wildly at the same time. It's then that he happens to see the plants come to life and begin ripping into the castle and chasing any foolish bystanders around and he grins, lifting the same control he used to release the laughing gas. He smirks; oh my...there is a second button there! He pushes it, and even more chaos and pandemonium erupts as every statue that Sumac had planted a package on explodes in a bright orange ball of flame. These rising in a series of loud pops. Its then he gets hit by the mystery pony with the mallet and his entire body folds in half and collapses backwards, his torso landing on top of Rainbow Dash. Strangely...there is no blood. And after a second of silence Mr C begins to laugh wickedly again, "Gotcha...."
Bad Apple very nearly feels her stomach jump when her sister confronts her and stands tall before her. Only to fall victim to the laughing gas. "Sorry, Applesack, I've got to--" .... Diamond Tiara just *had* to challenge her! And this gets the evil filly to turn around and charge like a mad bull for the overly-wealthy filly. "Oh, you asked for it, you upper-class trash!" She dive-tackles Diamond Tiara to shove her hoof into her face some more, time for a good clopping!
Firefly's ears perk as she snaps her eyes open, a shift of her wing tips and the bricks slow into a headwind and clatter to the floor. Firefly looks at the Unicorn gripping the stone, just....grinning. This small tornado she holds in place now, also helping to reinforce the ones out in Canterlot. She decides this one might actually get annoying so should be dealt with quickly. And this she does. Suddenly, with a blinding flash and a crack of heat and static electricity and a roll of ground shaking thunder, the storm pegasus sends a lightning bolt towards Leather and Lace blasting not the Unicorn, but the very stone she was holding onto, shattering it and letting the updraft do the rest. After all, Luna was out there and could readily see and deal with the unicorn now. At least she hopes so. Once up and out of the top of the mesocyclone it gets icy cold and it is a very long drop through the storm clouds.
"Oh yuck!" Rainbow Dash calls out once she tackles the clown pony to the ground and he folds in half. When Scope hits him once more and knocks him off of her, she squints her eyes and looks down at his prone body. "Woah, nice save there ba-..err.. Scope." She coughs out, then widens her eyes as Pinkie Pie goes Master Blaster on the body. ".. it's still laughing." As explosions erupt across Canterlot, she finds her blood running cold and her stomach drop. "Ohmygosh." She calls out, lifting a wing up to her eyes to squint through the swirling debris. "Pinkie, this is insane. It's like all heck has broke out." The cackling of Apple Jack catches her attention as she swivels her gaze over to her orange best friend. "This is just.. insane.. what do we do?" She turns to her Pink best friend and gator companion.
Diamond Tiara sniffles and snorts loudly, and bleats, "Come and get some, farm mule!" She swings wildly over Apple Bloom's head, and gets slammed over onto her back again. The contest of titans is ON! Diamond starts jabbing back with what might actually be okay double-hooved punches if she had a physique less reminiscent of butter. "Take that! And that! And stop hitting me so hard! You're not allowed to hit me that hard, you mud-covered seed-grubbing plough mule! Daddy, tell her to lose!" she wails.
Leather_n_Lace actually growls as she loses her grip on the wall, but as she spirals higher and higher around the room just before being flung into the stratosphere she is thankfully snatched from the jaws of defeat by a set of three vines that shoot through a hole in the wall and drag her back outside. He does however glare at Firefly and hiss just before disappearing, "This isn't over!" She spits cattishly.
"You get OUT OF HERE, that's what you do!", snaps the guardpony as debris from the exploding statues bounces across his withers and over his armor, hooves ushering Rainbow and the masked pony away so he can look at this.. well, what he swore was left of the evil clown that's been the bane of his existence for the past few weeks. "..And here I wanted to finish you off myself.", grumbles the armored unicorn as a greenish pulse of energy fires from the tip of his horn and blasts the hoof-held control panel into little itty-bitty pieces. Then his attention shifts elsewhere, pulling his eyes away from Mister C. and glancing around at the scene unfolding before him: The plants attacking the castle, the random statues exploding into flame and debris.. and he's the only "Guard" of any sort available due to the rest being taken out by the laughing gas. "Oh boy."
Somewhere far below where Pinkie made her drop, another pony is pressing her back against a wall, holding a poultice over her eyes and mouth. The yellow mare's day is anything *but* sunny now; as soon as she heard the pops, she dove indoors and covered her face, and she's been there ever since. It could have been ten minutes, maybe more, and Fluttershy's note sure where her friends are. She opens one eye and then another, taking a tentative peek outside. It looks like the gas is gone...but so is everypony else. Keeping the poultice pressed tightly over her muzzle with her wings, Fluttershy opens the door and creeps outside...
WildSumac is struggling at the moment; her power over the plants won't last /that/ much longer seeing how she is controlling multiple plants. The vines snap through the windows grabbing at anything they can, ponies, stone you nap it if they wrap around something the vines yank and flick the item or pony around. That is until she feels that she has Lace and goes about dragging her out of the castle! She tenses up at the sudden explosions behind her but keeps her mind at what she is doing. Once Lace is outside the vines move to set her back to the ground in some area. Well one of friends is at least safe for the moment. As for what is going on with Chuckles she has no idea at all!
"Apple-- ahahahaha! Bloom! Git yer britches ba--ahahahahahAHAHAHA! BACK HERE!" Applejack's eyes gush with tears of uninvited glee as she drags herself after her sister by her front hooves, her hind limbs flailing from the convulsive laughter. She came all this way, waited so long, only to be hopelessly crippled as soon as AB is in sight? Cruel fate! AJ peers around desperately for anyone who might be able to help--- and spots Mr. Chuckles, just as RD and Pinkie crash into him. She tries to fight to all fours so she can confront him. "Why you--- you dirty--ahahaha!-low-down-ahahaha-pie throwin', kin' snatchin'--ahahahahaHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Well, so much for lassoin' clowns. AJ is soon on her back, limbs in the air, laughing herself useless.
The mysterious, bizarre pink pony pokes at the accordion-like body of Mr. Chuckles. "Oh my gosh, he's DEAD! Huh. Well, that wraps that up quick!" she says cheerfully. "Great! It's time for my stories. Just look at the time!" She peers at her watch, which blinks TIME FOR PONIES in large digital numbers. "Oh my hoof, I'm gonna be late! GUMMY! WE'RE OUTTIES!" She fires off one of her arms, extending it to unseemly lengths, and swings back off into the night.
Firefly takes to the air, shooting outside to get a stronger grip on the multiple tornadoes in Canterlot. Single events she could handle easily, a multi event took a lot of concentration to not catch an innocent or a building by accident.
Pumpkin_Pie Pokes his head around a corner, having followed Applejack along but got held up by some ticket booths. (Curse not having correct change!) But here he is- the infamous BUCK HOOFINGTON in all his glory and the little foal peers at the situation unfolding before him. Or, folding, refolding, folding again and turning into an odd sort of swan. How messed up is this. But This is what he's been looking forwards too! The heist! The big heist Chuckles was planning and his ultimate chance to get revenge for being kidnapped! Also, there's Apple Bloom. She's important too!
"No, Pinkie wait! Don't..don't leave me here." Rainbow Dash calls out amidst the calamity and chaos that explodes around her. Looking back down at Chuckle's prone body, she gives it a glare before Scope starts to push her forward. "Hey, I can still help!" She says with a loud huff to the armored pony, glancing left and right as she stands at his side, then says almost helplessly. "..though I don't know what we can do." She says softly as she reaches out with a hoof to touch his shoulder. With a blur of speed, she zips off to pluck Snowfall from the ground, dragging him into the palace and out of harm's way.
Luna meets Firefly outside, drifting slowly towards the palace, towing a house-sized ball of blue-lit winds spinning around an opaque orange mass of thickly condensed gas. "CONCERN THYSELF NOT, SQUIRE," she booms at her approaching assistant, "WE SHALL MAINTAIN THE VENTILATION, BUT THIS ASSAULT WAS HARDLY MORE THAN A PRACTICAL JOKE. WE ARE ALMOST AMUSED." The princess sticks her head into the ball of gas and inhales, sucking the orange into her lungs until the blue winds collapse around the emptiness. Blue lightning crawls over Luna's body as the poison is burned off.
BlueFeather makes her own slow way towards the castle, well, shes floating on a little cloud, and getting around by flapping her one unsplinted wing, so shes slow to get around. She either does not notice the ponies around her, giggling their heads off, or does not care, nor does she give any notice to the ponies that are passed out in the street, after all, its canterlot, as far as she knows, this is normal. For today, she has but one goal, find Funny and make sure he knows about that evil horn pony that attacked her when she was sitting on Diamond
Firefly nods to her Princess and circles, one by one making sure her own tornadoes dissipate properly. She's never tried running so many before. Wasn't as easy as the large single storm cells. So many factors. She felt...strange. She circles around and alights on a building's peak, slow flapping her wings.
Bad Apple is still occupied with giving Diamond Tiara a lesson in cutie marks, not really giving the poor rich filly a chance. Really, it's just brutal and wrong now. Much as Diamond Tiara is a jerk.
Oddly, Diamond Tiara is showing an unusually diamondlike ability to take it. Oh, she's bawling and snorting mucus like a foal with the flu, and the words "You... dirty... poor... farmer!" are all she manages to get out between sobs, but she hasn't given up. She's relentlessly punching right back. Although 'punching' is a bad word to describe the flimsy, flailing blows, she's still fighting back with no sign of stopping.
Mr_Chuckles begins to rise when Scope turns his back, he watches Rainbow Dash pull the younger unconscious guard to safety before he stands, the false rear legs dropping away with a rubbery jiggle. The broken chunk of wood that was placed in the trick lower half to create the illusion of a snapping spine clattering against the ground as the mad clown shook himself, a wicked glint in his bloodshot eyes, "Oh me, oh My....look at this, The very same guard that foiled my last scheme, and destroyed my funhouse." The humor suddenly leaves his face and he starts to advance on Scope, "I'm going to take my time with you...and when I've run out of jokes to play. I'll think up some once special for you. We are going to be friends for a long, long time."
Leather_n_Lace frowns when she is set down by WildSumac's vines, but she does move over to nuzzle her friend in thanks, "Thank you, That almost ended badly." She curls her lip in distaste, "I'll get that pegasus mare...one way or another. She ruined my whip."
"Ohhh I've been waiting for this," the guard murmurs before he turns around to see Mr. Chuckles approaching. Scope actually grins a little and gives his thick body a quick flex, stomping a hoof and assuming a defensive posture as his horn begins to glow with its signature greenish aura.
Fluttershy stares up at the sky, trying to adjust to the gloom as she steps out into the open street. The storms have suddenly cleared up; Fluttershy isn't sure, but she thinks she can make out a dark blue shape among the stars. For a moment, Fluttershy considers trying to get up and report to the Princess directly - but she has no idea whether that's who it really *is*, and more importantly, she heard *explosions* - what if whoever did this is shooting down pegasi? Although, maybe they're blowing things up on the ground and the safest place to be would be the sky...? Regardless, Fluttershy looks up and up and up - apparently, when she dove for shelter, she ended up in Lower Canterlot, so if she doesn't fly, she has quite a climb ahead to get to the palace. Still, she presses forward through the streets. At first, the guardposts seem abandoned, but when Flutters gets close, she finds a number of ponies slumped over against the walls, some of them still caught up in some kind of seizure. Fluttershy shakes the nearest guard, trying to wake him up, but when she feels a steady pulse, she takes a step back. On closer inspection, they all seem...fine. There's no way she could drag anypony else to safety, so the vet just does what she does best and leaves them with some poultices and smelling salts before she moves on.
WildSumac swallows as she is struggling here to keep her magic going. "Where is /he/?" Is questioned after a moment to Lace as she pants out faintly before her head starts to lower, the green color across her horn and eyes starting to lessen. "I'm not going to be able to keep this up much longer." She offers with a faint murmur to Lace, the vines are starting to go limp that are in the castle and slide their way back outside.
Chance heads in from town after things start getting.. weird. He looks around, seeing the ponies lying around, and makes a beeline toward the castle. As he wanders closer he notices a familiar yellow pegasus. "Fluttershy! Wait for me!" he calls out, and heads into a gallop toward his friend. When he gets into conversation distance, he asks "What in the world is going on around here?"
Once she dragged a few guards to safety that were knocked out, Rainbow Dash steps out of the doorway once more behind Chuckles, looking past him to see him square off with Scope. There is a loud snort from her throat, eyes narrowing. "You're all alone out here now, Dr Smiles, or Captain Creepy, or .. Lieutenant Ludicrous. Whatever your plan was, it sucked, and it failed, and now you're stuck between me and Scope. You should have just laid in bed and slept in." Her wings flare out to her sides beautifully as she puts herself into an offensive stance, much like a bird of prey.
Luna floats down out of the sky onto the pavement in front of the palace. She steps right past Scope and Chuckles, instructing the guard tersely, "We thought this was an actual attack. Thrash him soundly, but try not to slay, would thee? Let Celestia judge him in the morning. She was the Element of Laughter, not ourself." Stepping OVER Apple Bloom and Tiara, she suggests, "Blows to the top of the head or the belly right under the ribs. If she cannot breathe or think, she cannot fight." Sighing, she wanders back into the main hall towards the throne through the big hole in the front of the Palace, and calls back, "ERE A TRUE THREAT IS DISCOVERED FROM THESE KNAVES, SUMMON US."
Another large explosion rocks Canterlot as a two story building is splintered into flying debris, the one that was beneath Firefly to be exact, windows for blocks imploding as the storm pegasus races straight up in a spiral pattern.
Mr_Chuckles glances back and forth between RD and Scope, pausing a moment when the princess walks right between them before he resumes glaring at his enemies. "Oh ho ho ho...You think I've failed? That’s so funny, how droll! How very entertaining! You two really tickle my funny bone." He smirks as The Storm Pegasus erupts from a distant tower, "I've already won...you just had your eyes focused on the wrong prize."
As the crazy earth pony begins to speak a bright orb begins to appear on the tip of the guardpony's horn, growing in brightness and beginning to emit random spikes of energy and starting to spin. "Then enlighten us, SIR. What's the RIGHT prize?"
Mr_Chuckles Smiles and begins to laugh, first lowly, then louder and louder, Rising to a wild insane pitch, then with a snap of his teeth he shouts out at Firefly, "Mare! Entertain this pegasus behind me! Beat her to a pulp with your hooves! I'll deal with this one..." He narrows his gaze at Scope and grins with malicious intent as he intones, "Discord...and Revenge. And I have both. My partners have already collected Discord's statue, and now I have you...this has been a good day..."
"Uh, congratulations? You..stole a statue? Psh." Rainbow Dash rolls her eyes upwards. As he shouts to Firefly, she tilts her head upwards, then back down to him. "What are you talking about? Firefly is my friend, and last I remember she was on 'our' side. You -are- crazy."
Firefly's twisted climb inverts as she arches over and makes a sloppy left wing roll, power diving towards the group, veering more and more ripping through the air towards Rainbow, eyes narrowed on the cyan pegasus as her wings start to crackle.
That angry expression slowly changes to one of shock, tilting his eyes upward to see the inbound Storm Pegasus coming down on an attack run. "You didn't.." Scope steps back and takes aim at the incoming Firefly with his horn but notices she's.. a little off, her flight pattern is far too erratic and she would've unleashed Hell by now. "Dash!", he snaps out to the pegasus, staring across the way. "She's not herself! You HAVE to take her out!"
Mr_Chuckles snickers as he watches realization dawn across the muzzle of his nemesis. In the moment of distraction he leaps forward and tosses a ring he grabs from behind his ear, hidden in his mane. Angling it to land on Scope's horn like some sort of ridiculous game of ring toss. Should it land it will shrink to the perfect fit around the base of his horn, and unable to be pulled off it will choke his magic off. "Oh my....maybe you should let the girls worry about their own fight. and keep your attention on me!" He suddenly lunges forward, swinging well timed hooves at the other stallion, Chuckles may have mostly used gadgets and tricks up till now, but it would be a mistake to think he was -ever- harmless. He could actually fight pretty skillfully when he chose to show it.
Scrambling backwards, Rainbow Dash's eyes widen and soon she takes to the sky. "Take her out?!" Pouring on the speed as her wings kiss the currents, she soars upwards in a quick jerk of her body, trying to gain as much altitude as she can and in quite a hurry. "Gonnadiegonnadiegonnadie!" With a twist of her body, she turns around to face off with her pink friend, putting up her 'dukes' as she takes in a deep breath. "Today sucks." With that, she zips in for combat.
Firefly's flight angles as she lazily inverts, then shifts into high speed pursuit, racing upwards in a hissing air splitting way, trailing black clouds behind her with little flecks of lightning in them, pulling her head low and ears back, forelegs moving into a Griffon's Stroke position for a flyby.
The toss is successful and the glowing orb at the tip of his horn goes out like somepony shutting off a light bulb. "What the?!" *POW* goes the hoof across his cheek and it sends the big stallion backpedaling as it just adds to the disorientation of his magic going OFFLINE. Before the other pony has a chance to capitalize the unicorn gets his bearings straight, giving his neck a quick snap before galloping forward and going for a changeup of his own, faking with the left hoof while bringing his right hoof around at the earth stallion's cheek.
Mr_Chuckles is used to getting hit, his past a violent one. But the guard is a big boy, and the hoof hits home, For a moment the world goes all funny. The Mr C grits his teeth and ducks low, rushing forward aiming for an uppercut with his hoof, should that land he would pivot letting his momentum carry him into a double back hoofed buck. "You stupid royal guards, no sense of humor!"
As Dash continues pouring on the speed in her descent, her hooves are outstretched before her, lips peeled back by the velocity of her rate. Firefly is a A-lister, and she needs an A-list attack if she is to take out her brainwashed friend, however that may have happened. "Alright, here goes nothing!" With a loud, guttural cry, she zigs to one side just before they hit, color exploding around her body as the wind around her vibrates. Ka-Boom! Filling the dark sky with an explosion of light, a rainbow pours out behind her as she sends ripples through the sky.
Firefly was also accelerating, stretching her contrail tight and thin as she screamed upwards, then suddenly, colors, and WHAM! The effects of being hit by a building, the storm pegasus blasting out of the other side of the rainboom in a smoking spiral, both wings folded at strange angles, peeling into a spinning dive....completely out cold as pink feathers scatter in the wind.
Not only is he a big boy but Scope was also a member of the "stupid" royal guard, so not only was he trained in the art of magic but also in extensive hoof to hoof combat. He dodges the uppercut with a quick jump to the side, twisting his hindquarters around while taking aim with his own hindhooves and letting them fly at the crazypony's shoulder.
With a twist of her body in the air, Rainbow Dash cuts quickly and soars back upwards, catching Firefly in her arms with a loud grunt. "Unf, you need to lose some weight." She grunts as she lands on the palace rooftop, gently putting her down. Blinking her eyes a bit, she starts to look her over, tears forming at the back of her eyes.
Mr_Chuckles is knocked down and sent into a roll, but he didn't try to employ force against the buck he receives in return, instead he went with it, letting the bulk of the blow -push- him rather than simply impact him. However during his roll his eyes flick to the aerial battle between the mares and he snorts laughter as he stands again, "Well now...looks like it's just you and me permanently now. We won't be seeing those lovely girls again. They just blew each other out of the sky. A shame to see such pretty mares killing one another." It was a ploy, a lie, but the way Mr C's eyes danced merrily might plant doubt in Scope's heart about the fate of the fighting mares above them.
Firefly's eyes snap open as she is surrounded by blue black light, she inhales sharply and tries to breath, gasping hard, seeing Scope and that....clown. To move. The blue light flares strongly, and she stands on the rooftop on three legs, holding one foreleg up a bit, wings still hanging at her sides. "I HATE CLOWNS!!!" her eyes narrowing as they shift into draconic looking ones, almost like Nightmare moon, and a lightning bolt blasts out of the clouds towards the ground....and towards Mr Chuckles.
Those words ring true in Scope's head, eyes snapping upwards to see the aftermath of the sonic rainboom and the brief glance of the rather broken looking Firefly before Dash sets her down. "No.. NO MORE!" The guardpony squares his shoulders and takes aim with his horn, eyes shutting tightly and teeth clenching as he concentrates.. What "Mr. Chuckles" failed to realize that this was one of the more "unique" unicorns around, one of the reasons why the emblem of Celestia adorns his chest. His power continues to build within; horn beginning to spark just a little before that ring suddenly explodes off of him, a massive beam of his greenish energy blasting out at the earth pony, reaching him at the same time as Firefly's lightning. .. Oh dear.
Mr_Chuckles had planned for many things, he had even planned for the princess should they get involved. But this he had no plan for. The lightning strikes him first and it yanks him erect, standing on his hind hooves with his forehooves raised to the sky, he screams, and screams, it seems like an eternity. His mane rippling as it too lifts from the intense discharge. His screams rising higher and higher, speaking of unimaginable agony the smell of charred skin begins to fill the air as he is literally cooked alive. Then the pent up magical blasts hits him full in the chest, and for a split second there is a vile sounding *pop pop pop pop pop pop* softly filling the locale as each of his ribs visibly pop free of his sternum. then the combine magic and lightening begin to consume him, his pain twisted face begins to dissolve into the light, and just before his features vanish a small smile curled his crumpled, tortured face and he whispers, "I get it...I finally get it...heh heh heh..." Then there is nothing left except a smoldering charred place where he had stood little more than a second ago.
Firefly's stance is unchanging; she was snarling a black mist, that steady lightning bolt continues to burn into the ground with a vengeance, a giant flickering searing stream. "AND THOUST TO KNOW OUR ANGER!" streams the canterlot voice as black clouds begin to build and spiral overhead as the winds begin to pick up.
He saw it.. he heard it.. his eyes took in the entirety of the pony's last few moments on this mortal plane and it causes the armored stallion to backpedal in shock before falling back onto his rump, even scooting away a bit more as his amber orbs stare with mouth agape, tears beginning to form.. "Wha.. bu.. " He doesn't seem to be too affected by the lightning that continues on well after the incident. "What have I done?", he whispers out, eyes closing shut as he just collapses to the ground in a sobbing fit.
With a resounding powerful >SNAP< the lightning ceases to char the ground, flickers race around among the clouds above as the blue light surrounding Firefly wavers, then fades, her eyes shifting back to normal as they roll up into her head, the storm pegasus leaning to the left and collapsing forward, off of the roof.
The snap was enough to snag the distressed unicorn's attention and pull him out of his spell, reddened eyes tilting upwards to see.. oh no. He's quick to his hooves with a horn flash, Scope vanishing from sight and reappearing beneath where Firefly will land. But instead of catching her with his body his horn aura, alights once more and surrounds the unconscious storm pegasus to slow her descent until he gently sets her down atop of him and parallel to his spine. "I gotcha..", he sniffles to the mare, pausing to look up to try to find the cyan pegasus but.. he saw her carry Firefly down so he's sure she's alright.. and with that knowledge he carries on, stepping into the throne room of the palace with the storm pegasus in tow.
Firefly is messed up for certain, indeed. Flying full bore into a sonic rainboom without bracing even a bit. Both of her wings are twisted about, certainly shattered or broken, a lot of her feathers torn or ripped out from the concussive blast. Her front left leg looks odd, the shoulder not looking quite right. But she was breathing, a rough jagged way, but breathing.
(The RP did fracture into groups during the scene to assist in speeding things along, if anypony has the logs from the splinter groups please feel free to post them as addendums to this main log. Thank you.)
(OOC note, This log is VAST. Be warned before you begin to read, it will take a while. With a final page count of 17 & 1/4th and a word count of 8,517 it is one you'll want to grab a beverage for. Without further gilding of the lily here you have the final battle between Mr Chuckles and his merry band and the defenders of Canterlot!)
The Royal Palace, late in the evening, it close to the time when Celestia's court would be closing and the Night court run by Princess Luna would be opening. The changing of the guard....the most vulnerable time. Outside, a pair of wicked looking bloodshot eyes watches the Palace, and more specifically the path to the treasury house. It had taken all day, But Mr Chuckles had positioned his laughing gas bombs all around Canterlot. They were set to go off at the press of a button. Once his little protégé had done her part and allowed him to slip the remaining bombs closer to the unsuspecting guards. And if any escaped the explosions he could always handle them with his high voltage joy buzzer and some well-placed Brick n' Berry Pies. Sure to knock the fight...and probably several teeth out of any guard still standing.
One of the guards, a new recruit who just happened to get his armor a week ago is the first to notice something out of the ordinary. Private Snowfall, a pegasus, peers oddly at one of the laughing gas bombs nearby and carefully trots over to it and takes aim with his spear and.. gives it a tiny poke, suspicious.
This is the now or never time for Bad Apple. She's supposed to be picking her fight! She's just looking for the right target to get in a fight with. A very distracting fight, but with *who.* Who who who shall be her victim? She's trotting about Canterlot not too far from the palace.
Firefly walks down the stairs, half awake, yawning, giving her wings a lazy flap. "I gargle pelim mrrbles."
There is a loud rumble in the sky as it seems that a cyan colored pony is firing herself out of one of the bedrooms located near the top turrets. A rainbow colored streak follows in her wake, mane ruffled. With a tilt of her head down towards the castle, giving a quick wing wave to Snowfall. "Yo! Whatcha lookin' at dude?" She calls out as she drops down in altitude, landing near Firefly with a hipbump. "WAKE UP."
Diamond Tiara always delivers! "Come OOOON, Dad, get OOOUT here already! We're in Canterlot, and I don't want to hang around at the PALACE and watch some giant mules with horns and wings sit on their butts. Let's go to Pourquoi Avons-Nous Pas Font It Sous Route alreadyyyyyyy!" she whines at the top of her lungs, right in front of the front doors of the Palace. For that extra touch, she stomps her little hoof in disgusted outrage!
Leather_n_Lace has placed herself not on the ground, but above the main entrance to the Treasury, her slitted feline eyes watching as the guard investigates the bomb. A soft wrathful hiss escaping her when the two new mares appear.
Snowball perks when he hears the sound of another pegasus on the inbound, glancing over his shoulder to see Dash. "Stay back ma'am, I have no idea what this device is." Another quick poke of his spear at the "bomb" accidentally sets it off, gas starting to shoot everywhichwhere. "Oh geez!"
WildSumac is actually not in the palace at all, instead she's out in the garden, slowly tiptoeing her way along, peering here and there as she goes. She hums faintly to herself as she seems to be searching for something. Two ponies follow after her, a pair of earth ponies that do well to stick to the shadows..
Mr_Chuckles snaps his teeth together and snarls as he watches the guard set the bomb off prematurely, "Why that brainless, bombastic, bellowing, boob! He'll spoil everything!" He picks up one of his patented Brick n' Berry Pies (Made with real bricks!) and starts slinking along towards the young guard, who happens to be standing near Firefly and Rainbow Dash. It's time to hedge his bets, things won't blow up until Mr C /decides/ they do!
Oh, *perfect!* Diamond Tiara. She's always been wanting to teach that rich spoiled little filly a lesson! Teach her a lesson big time! The coached grade-school villain clops her way swiftly over to Diamond Tiara, a sadistic and evil grin on her face. "Oh, hi there, Diamond Tiara. Having fun here in Canterlot?" She's already rubbing her hooves together, readying a blow.
Firefly flares her wings slightly as Rainbow lands beside her with her usual greeting, wide eyed at first, then half lidding her eyes, flicking an ear. "Wake up? Let me guess. Palace on fire? Evil moon monsters? The CMC again?" flicking an ear as reality comes into focus. She lifts a wing and rubs an eye. "Ok, what is the threat and our status?" she asks the element of loyalty as she looks around to see for herself what she can, pausing to look at....somepony with a pie. "Ok, who let Pinkie in here?" commenting aside to Dash.
Diamond Tiara's cutie mark sparkles as her immaculate Dufus Sense activates. She gives Apple Bloom a long, pink stare, and makes shooing motions with her hoof. "No! No! Go away, Ap- filly I don't know with the hundred year old makeup job! Don't make me look even less cool than I do standing in front of this cow barn!" Craning her neck up as far as it will go, she whines, "DADDYYYYYYY!"
"Woah!" Rainbow Dash calls out as she gives a hard beat of her wings forward to send the gas away from her and Snowfall. "Get back! Where'd you find that thing? It was just sitting here?" She asks as she leaps up into the air once more with a powerful flap of her wings. "I didn't know there was a threat, at least until now. Hey, who's that?" She calls out as she dives down to give Snowfall a quick shove to the side.
Leather_n_Lace reaches for her bull whip with her magic, a soft pink glow enveloping her horn as she prepares to "lash" out at Rainbow Dash and Firefly. Fully intending to give Mr C the opening he needs to take out the guard. Probably not realizing that of the three ponies about to be assaulted the guard is the least dangerous to their objective. When it's Rainbow Dash that leaps into action first that is what makes the feline-pony choose her as the target and with a loud *swish-crack!* the bullwhip strikes, aiming to entangle RD's legs and pull her down out of the air. "Why don't we just let the stallions play it out my pet?" She purrs, narrowing those slitted eyes through her mask at the two pegasus mares in front of her.
With a swift kick the bomb is sent rolling away, but instead of sounding the general alarm the Private is confused. Seeing as he's basically just a new recruit all he does is stand his guard and glare at the "bomb" before the gas is shoved away, letting out a "OOOF!" when he's shoved aside by the weather mare and spinning around just in time to catch her being ensnared. "What the!?" Regaining his senses he takes aim with his spear, hopping into the air and beginning to hover.. and not seeing the clown-pony taking aim with the pie.
With everything going on inside it seems.. WildSumac continues to make her way through the garden, and more importantly looking at the different statues that she comes across.. It takes a few moments before she does indeed catch sight of the Discord one and with a soft 'ooo' she trots on towards it, glancing one way then another in the process. "Wolfie, Wormer.. over here.." Is said in a soft murmur towards her two earth ponies that soon follow after her.
Mr_Chuckles grins malevolently and launches his pie at the young guard pony, aiming for the head. Even if it doesn't knock the guard out it will certain take the fight out of him. A whip cream topped brick isn't easy to shake off. The helmet might offer some protection. But Mr C walks loud and carried a BIG brick...in a pie. "Hey! Prissy pants! Have some deeeeesert!" Shouts the clown to try and get the guard to turn at the last moment, thus getting it right in the face. Comedic tradition demands a victim gets it in the face...
Well, it's definitely now or never now that Diamond Tiara is calling out for her daddy and swing her hoof for the rich and useless filly as hard as her earth pony hooves let her. Time for a good bucking!
Firefly just....stands there watching, lifting an eyebrow as she watches this....whomever, snare Rainbow. "You know, this may not be a very good night for you or your friends." cocking one ear askew. "And I don't think you realize just what you have a hold of there." indicating Rainbow with an ear. "Or where you are." just watching curiously. "If you survive Rainbow's temper, we'll talk." grinning slightly.
"Hey, what gives!" Rainbow Dash calls out as he finds the whip catch her about the legs and give her a tug to the ground. "Oooof!" With a shake of her head, her eyes widen as they lock with Leather's. With a snort of hot air that blasts out from her nostrils, she powers herself into the air with her wings stretching wide as she arcs her body, the leather whip trailing beneath her. "Don't know who you are, but you're 'bout to have the /worst/ day of your life." Energy crackles about her body as she powers herself forward with a scream of air blistering about her frame. All systems go. Buccaneer blast! As she dive bombs the unicorn, she explodes forward with a crack of wings hard enough to cause the wind about her to split ear drums and knock a pony over.
The hoof swings in slow motion, the focus of the entire world reduced to this cataclysmic confrontation that will decide the fate of Equestria. Well, it OUGHT to be like that. Apple Bloom's blow lands squarely on Diamond Tiara's jaw, knocking her face aside, sending the pink filly toppling onto her back in a heap. But not an unconscious heap. The pink heap immediately sticks its head up, spraying tears as it scrambles to its feet whining, "DADDYYYYY! THAT... THAT APPLE BUMPKIN WHO WEARS MAKEUP LIKE THOSE FRENCH FILLIES YOU HANG AROUND WITH HIT ME! You! Guards! Hold her still! Nnnh! Nnnh!" Those last two grunts are the accompaniment to Diamond Tiara flailing her own hooves furiously at Apple Bloom, with the raw speed and striking power of an undernourished Smarty Pants.
Leather_n_Lace leaps into the air in an attempt to dodge the attack, she doesn't really succeed but the damage is slightly lessened. Allowing her to roll to her hooves. She knocked her head on the ground when she was bowled over but she didn't lose her concentration, her magical grip on her whip still intact. She glowers and then hisses at both Firefly and Rd. Then with a yank of her head she wraps the handle end of her whip around a rather thick marble pillar in an attempt to halt RD's forward momentum extremely abruptly. She sneers hopefully, yeah, she wanted it to hurt.
*SPLU-THUNK*, the pie smacks directly against Snowball's face right in the spot he's unprotected, the brick impacting his face just beneath the nose-protector. That's enough to stun him, but the angle of the brick causes the other end to smack against the gold of his helmet just a second later and DOWN HE GOES. The screams from the rich-b*tch-filly are enough to grab the attention of another pair of guards, this time two unicorns of grey & white come a runnin' with spears at the ready.
As Wolfie and Wormer move over to WildSumac, they pause to apply small wrapped presents to certain statues. Once the two are with Sumac in front of the Discord statue she hums and nods to herself. The two earth ponies pull out two small boxes and when a button is pushed one turns into a thick pad that is laid on the ground and the other is a thick green blanket that is pulled free. Her horn glows green for a moment and the vines across her legs unwrap and soon move to curl around the Discord statue and then slowly work at lowering it down onto the thick buffer pad upon the ground. An ear twitches as she wonders how her friends are doing inside.
Pinkie_Pie trots in with a cheerful smile. "Hey, everypony, is this where the wedding rehearsal-" a weaponized pie flies by her head. "Ohhh, that must be NEXT week. Kay. See you then!" She turns on her hoof and trots back out, just as cheerfully.
Mr_Chuckles cackles wildly as the upstart guard goes down and goes down hard, and then he notices the fight between the fillies has begun. He grimaces as he realizes he was late in pushing the button...so he pushes the button. Throughout Canterlot, the palace, and the suburbs thereof multiple explosions occur, from each a noxious orange mist rises and begins to spread. At first panicked screams erupt, but gradually they are replaced by mad laughter not unlike the cackling of the clown prince of pony crime. He just hopes Sumac notices and remembers that this is the signal for her plants to attack the palace directly... "Oh Joy...more interlopers to play with..." He snickers as he observes Leather N Lace holding off the energetic Rainbow Dash and her cohort.
The bombs go off. In the distance, ponies scream and begin to laugh. This is all momentarily covered up by the blasting crash of Luna flying out through the front wall of the Palace, taking large portions of it with her. Her dramatically spread hooves hit the flagstones out front with a flash of lightning and a crack of thunder. "OUR PONIES ARE IN DANGER!" her bellow rings through the night. Extending a wing, she commands, "FIREFLY! TORNADOS, NOW! WE MUST DISPERSE THAT POISON!" The royal horn flashes blue, and Scope appears very suddenly next to her, to be yelled at, "CRUSH THE CHURL AND HIS VARLETS, WARRIOR. SHOW THEM WHAT HAPPENS TO THOSE WHO HARM OUR SUBJECTS." And with that she leaps off again, bolting into the night sky like she was blue lightning herself.
Bad Apple jumps back as the prissy little spoiled piece of [BUY SOME TINFOIL] starts swinging at her. Well, game on! The filly jumps around to give Diamond Tiara a full apple bucking as if she were some apple tree ready for harvest. She sees the guards coming for her, so she knows her part is working! And when she hears things loudly happening, first the laughing gas, then Luna's Royal Canterlot Voice, she decides it's time to get away before she's caught by anypony who knows her who can *really* do something about her!
Firefly watches Rainbow being tied off, and then sees the other Elements assembling. She flares her wings and in a blast of wind literally jets across the room to roll a ninety, using her inboard wing to slash the rope restraining Rainbow, then swings around to land before the throne itself, standing there, wings half closed, ready for anything she may need to do within her operating limits. Plus she has a very good vantage point now. After the Diamond fiasco and being removed from it, she had some serious aggravation to work out..and Leather and Lace was about to learn what that means. Firefly narrows her eyes and flicks a wing, a deafening roar heard as part of the palace entrance is literally ripped outwards as a rope tornado snakes downwards, descending on Leather and Lace. Since she was using it to start drafting and sucking the gas away, why not adjust it to suck up some dirt too. Seeing Luna and hearing the commands, she snaps her wings wide open and closes her eyes, the skies boiling in black clouds in moments, several smaller tornadoes forming, pulling the gas up and away all over town.
Snap! Soon as Rainbow Dash is free, she leaps into the air again and shuffles her hooves to let the pieces of whip fall off her legs. With a spiral of her body in the air, her wings unfurl at the side. With Luna now barreling through, her attention turns upon Mr Chuckles as he starts bullying the guards. With a whip of her body around, she pours on the speed in a quick zig zag motion as she looks to pile drive him from behind with a patented Rainbow Dash football tackle. With her forehooves outstretched, she aims hip high.
Diamond Tiara doesn't notice the guards or the princess or the screaming or the fighting. Partly that's because she's crying so hard that every sense organ is congested or dripping something. Partly it's because in her mind clearly anyone making a fuss or rushing to the scene is coming to help her teach Apple Bloom a lesson, like they're SUPPOSED to. So it makes sense to her that Apple Bloom isn't fighting back, and Tiara flails her hooves in weak, badly aimed roundhouses at Apple, squawling, "That's right! Run away, you dirty beggar blank flank freak! I'll teach you! You can't mess with Diamond Tiara!"
Leather_n_Lace is swept up into the rope tornado, shrieking in blind fury. However she manages to hook her hooves into the broken piece of a wall. In a last ditch effort to free herself from the grip she begins using her own magic to fling large chunks of brick at the Storm Pegasus. Villains like bricks it seems. At least when they are handy, "When I get down! I'm going to use you as a scratching post!"
*POOF*, Scope is teleported against his will for probably the first time in his life and he's rather disoriented because of it, then all of a sudden he's got the voice of the Night Princess bellowing in his ear. "Well then..", the unicorn coughs, horn flashing to completely secure his armor before running into the fray and seeing.. HIM, the CLOWN.. "DASH, NO!" The stallion bellows out, snapping a glare to the incoming pegasus as he rolls his shoulders. "He's MINE."
Someone who can -really- do something about Apple Doom. Like, her big sister, maybe? However she may have caught wind of the happenings here in canterlot, or perhaps she was just lucky to be in the vicinity when all this craziness started happening, Applejack is here now, and readily steps into the filly's path as she tries to flee the scene of Diamond Tiara's assault -- which she just happened to catch the tail-end of. "APPLE BLOOM!" It's hard to tell if AJ has ever been more relieved or angry, but she's sure she's never been so much of both at once. The conflicting expressions battle it out on her face for a moment before a third expression creeps in. Slowly, and -very- involuntarily, the corners of her mouth creak into a very unnatural-looking smile. She fights it off with a violent shake of her head. "What in TARNATION is goin' on?!" The smile creeps back onto her face despite her resistance, and soon after a laugh escapes her. AJ slaps a hoof to her mouth, eyes growing wide, but another guffaw escapes from behind it, then another. Before long, she's doubled over on the ground, laughing uncontrollably. Well, someone sure got a healthy whiff of that funny orange stuff before it got dispersed.
WildSumac uses her vines to slowly lower the Discord statue down and then it is wrapped up rather tightly with the pad and blanket. "Now my pretties.. take him on home and be careful about it." This is said to Wolfie and Wormer who are slowly moving off, half carrying half dragging the well wrapped up statue of Discord. At the sudden explosion from the castle she bounces around and looks towards it. Her horn glows green along with her eyes as all the plants in the garden come to 'life' to some degree. She puts most of her attention on the plants near the castle itself an soon enough branches are crashing into through windows, vines snaking in through the broken windows going to curl and wrap around anything they possibly can. As she does this she moves closer to the castle which will give her better control of the 'attacking' plants.
Suddenly, a terrible cackling fills the air, and a great gout of grey smoke. From the darkness soars a horrible sight, dressed all in purple, with a giant top hat on its head. Its forearms seem to be made of some sort of writhing, bulbous lengths of metal with eyes on them; one of them is clutching a rope as the nightmare swings onto the scene, the other holds a very, very large mallet, as the figure descends toward Chuckles. "GUMMY!" It squeals, and a very small alligator pops from the hat resting atop the fiend's huge pink coiffure. "Let's PAINT THE TOWN PINK!"
Morgan was just coming in. It's been a very long time since he's been in Canterlooooooooohmygodwhatisthathorriblething?! He grabs a rolling pin from his saddle bags, placing a cooking pot on his head. "What in the name of the Holy Spatula are you?" he asks, brandishing the rolling pin.
Mr_Chuckles is tackled from behind by the annoying chromatic pegasus, even as Scope comes charging into the fray from the side, which a horrifying loud and crisp *CRACK* Mr C folds at the waist...backwards, his body contorted at a hideous angle. Then Scope hits him from the side and he leans heavily to the left, just then the small alligator clamps onto his face and he begins to scream and laugh wildly at the same time. It's then that he happens to see the plants come to life and begin ripping into the castle and chasing any foolish bystanders around and he grins, lifting the same control he used to release the laughing gas. He smirks; oh my...there is a second button there! He pushes it, and even more chaos and pandemonium erupts as every statue that Sumac had planted a package on explodes in a bright orange ball of flame. These rising in a series of loud pops. Its then he gets hit by the mystery pony with the mallet and his entire body folds in half and collapses backwards, his torso landing on top of Rainbow Dash. Strangely...there is no blood. And after a second of silence Mr C begins to laugh wickedly again, "Gotcha...."
Bad Apple very nearly feels her stomach jump when her sister confronts her and stands tall before her. Only to fall victim to the laughing gas. "Sorry, Applesack, I've got to--" .... Diamond Tiara just *had* to challenge her! And this gets the evil filly to turn around and charge like a mad bull for the overly-wealthy filly. "Oh, you asked for it, you upper-class trash!" She dive-tackles Diamond Tiara to shove her hoof into her face some more, time for a good clopping!
Firefly's ears perk as she snaps her eyes open, a shift of her wing tips and the bricks slow into a headwind and clatter to the floor. Firefly looks at the Unicorn gripping the stone, just....grinning. This small tornado she holds in place now, also helping to reinforce the ones out in Canterlot. She decides this one might actually get annoying so should be dealt with quickly. And this she does. Suddenly, with a blinding flash and a crack of heat and static electricity and a roll of ground shaking thunder, the storm pegasus sends a lightning bolt towards Leather and Lace blasting not the Unicorn, but the very stone she was holding onto, shattering it and letting the updraft do the rest. After all, Luna was out there and could readily see and deal with the unicorn now. At least she hopes so. Once up and out of the top of the mesocyclone it gets icy cold and it is a very long drop through the storm clouds.
"Oh yuck!" Rainbow Dash calls out once she tackles the clown pony to the ground and he folds in half. When Scope hits him once more and knocks him off of her, she squints her eyes and looks down at his prone body. "Woah, nice save there ba-..err.. Scope." She coughs out, then widens her eyes as Pinkie Pie goes Master Blaster on the body. ".. it's still laughing." As explosions erupt across Canterlot, she finds her blood running cold and her stomach drop. "Ohmygosh." She calls out, lifting a wing up to her eyes to squint through the swirling debris. "Pinkie, this is insane. It's like all heck has broke out." The cackling of Apple Jack catches her attention as she swivels her gaze over to her orange best friend. "This is just.. insane.. what do we do?" She turns to her Pink best friend and gator companion.
Diamond Tiara sniffles and snorts loudly, and bleats, "Come and get some, farm mule!" She swings wildly over Apple Bloom's head, and gets slammed over onto her back again. The contest of titans is ON! Diamond starts jabbing back with what might actually be okay double-hooved punches if she had a physique less reminiscent of butter. "Take that! And that! And stop hitting me so hard! You're not allowed to hit me that hard, you mud-covered seed-grubbing plough mule! Daddy, tell her to lose!" she wails.
Leather_n_Lace actually growls as she loses her grip on the wall, but as she spirals higher and higher around the room just before being flung into the stratosphere she is thankfully snatched from the jaws of defeat by a set of three vines that shoot through a hole in the wall and drag her back outside. He does however glare at Firefly and hiss just before disappearing, "This isn't over!" She spits cattishly.
"You get OUT OF HERE, that's what you do!", snaps the guardpony as debris from the exploding statues bounces across his withers and over his armor, hooves ushering Rainbow and the masked pony away so he can look at this.. well, what he swore was left of the evil clown that's been the bane of his existence for the past few weeks. "..And here I wanted to finish you off myself.", grumbles the armored unicorn as a greenish pulse of energy fires from the tip of his horn and blasts the hoof-held control panel into little itty-bitty pieces. Then his attention shifts elsewhere, pulling his eyes away from Mister C. and glancing around at the scene unfolding before him: The plants attacking the castle, the random statues exploding into flame and debris.. and he's the only "Guard" of any sort available due to the rest being taken out by the laughing gas. "Oh boy."
Somewhere far below where Pinkie made her drop, another pony is pressing her back against a wall, holding a poultice over her eyes and mouth. The yellow mare's day is anything *but* sunny now; as soon as she heard the pops, she dove indoors and covered her face, and she's been there ever since. It could have been ten minutes, maybe more, and Fluttershy's note sure where her friends are. She opens one eye and then another, taking a tentative peek outside. It looks like the gas is gone...but so is everypony else. Keeping the poultice pressed tightly over her muzzle with her wings, Fluttershy opens the door and creeps outside...
WildSumac is struggling at the moment; her power over the plants won't last /that/ much longer seeing how she is controlling multiple plants. The vines snap through the windows grabbing at anything they can, ponies, stone you nap it if they wrap around something the vines yank and flick the item or pony around. That is until she feels that she has Lace and goes about dragging her out of the castle! She tenses up at the sudden explosions behind her but keeps her mind at what she is doing. Once Lace is outside the vines move to set her back to the ground in some area. Well one of friends is at least safe for the moment. As for what is going on with Chuckles she has no idea at all!
"Apple-- ahahahaha! Bloom! Git yer britches ba--ahahahahahAHAHAHA! BACK HERE!" Applejack's eyes gush with tears of uninvited glee as she drags herself after her sister by her front hooves, her hind limbs flailing from the convulsive laughter. She came all this way, waited so long, only to be hopelessly crippled as soon as AB is in sight? Cruel fate! AJ peers around desperately for anyone who might be able to help--- and spots Mr. Chuckles, just as RD and Pinkie crash into him. She tries to fight to all fours so she can confront him. "Why you--- you dirty--ahahaha!-low-down-ahahaha-pie throwin', kin' snatchin'--ahahahahaHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Well, so much for lassoin' clowns. AJ is soon on her back, limbs in the air, laughing herself useless.
The mysterious, bizarre pink pony pokes at the accordion-like body of Mr. Chuckles. "Oh my gosh, he's DEAD! Huh. Well, that wraps that up quick!" she says cheerfully. "Great! It's time for my stories. Just look at the time!" She peers at her watch, which blinks TIME FOR PONIES in large digital numbers. "Oh my hoof, I'm gonna be late! GUMMY! WE'RE OUTTIES!" She fires off one of her arms, extending it to unseemly lengths, and swings back off into the night.
Firefly takes to the air, shooting outside to get a stronger grip on the multiple tornadoes in Canterlot. Single events she could handle easily, a multi event took a lot of concentration to not catch an innocent or a building by accident.
Pumpkin_Pie Pokes his head around a corner, having followed Applejack along but got held up by some ticket booths. (Curse not having correct change!) But here he is- the infamous BUCK HOOFINGTON in all his glory and the little foal peers at the situation unfolding before him. Or, folding, refolding, folding again and turning into an odd sort of swan. How messed up is this. But This is what he's been looking forwards too! The heist! The big heist Chuckles was planning and his ultimate chance to get revenge for being kidnapped! Also, there's Apple Bloom. She's important too!
"No, Pinkie wait! Don't..don't leave me here." Rainbow Dash calls out amidst the calamity and chaos that explodes around her. Looking back down at Chuckle's prone body, she gives it a glare before Scope starts to push her forward. "Hey, I can still help!" She says with a loud huff to the armored pony, glancing left and right as she stands at his side, then says almost helplessly. "..though I don't know what we can do." She says softly as she reaches out with a hoof to touch his shoulder. With a blur of speed, she zips off to pluck Snowfall from the ground, dragging him into the palace and out of harm's way.
Luna meets Firefly outside, drifting slowly towards the palace, towing a house-sized ball of blue-lit winds spinning around an opaque orange mass of thickly condensed gas. "CONCERN THYSELF NOT, SQUIRE," she booms at her approaching assistant, "WE SHALL MAINTAIN THE VENTILATION, BUT THIS ASSAULT WAS HARDLY MORE THAN A PRACTICAL JOKE. WE ARE ALMOST AMUSED." The princess sticks her head into the ball of gas and inhales, sucking the orange into her lungs until the blue winds collapse around the emptiness. Blue lightning crawls over Luna's body as the poison is burned off.
BlueFeather makes her own slow way towards the castle, well, shes floating on a little cloud, and getting around by flapping her one unsplinted wing, so shes slow to get around. She either does not notice the ponies around her, giggling their heads off, or does not care, nor does she give any notice to the ponies that are passed out in the street, after all, its canterlot, as far as she knows, this is normal. For today, she has but one goal, find Funny and make sure he knows about that evil horn pony that attacked her when she was sitting on Diamond
Firefly nods to her Princess and circles, one by one making sure her own tornadoes dissipate properly. She's never tried running so many before. Wasn't as easy as the large single storm cells. So many factors. She felt...strange. She circles around and alights on a building's peak, slow flapping her wings.
Bad Apple is still occupied with giving Diamond Tiara a lesson in cutie marks, not really giving the poor rich filly a chance. Really, it's just brutal and wrong now. Much as Diamond Tiara is a jerk.
Oddly, Diamond Tiara is showing an unusually diamondlike ability to take it. Oh, she's bawling and snorting mucus like a foal with the flu, and the words "You... dirty... poor... farmer!" are all she manages to get out between sobs, but she hasn't given up. She's relentlessly punching right back. Although 'punching' is a bad word to describe the flimsy, flailing blows, she's still fighting back with no sign of stopping.
Mr_Chuckles begins to rise when Scope turns his back, he watches Rainbow Dash pull the younger unconscious guard to safety before he stands, the false rear legs dropping away with a rubbery jiggle. The broken chunk of wood that was placed in the trick lower half to create the illusion of a snapping spine clattering against the ground as the mad clown shook himself, a wicked glint in his bloodshot eyes, "Oh me, oh My....look at this, The very same guard that foiled my last scheme, and destroyed my funhouse." The humor suddenly leaves his face and he starts to advance on Scope, "I'm going to take my time with you...and when I've run out of jokes to play. I'll think up some once special for you. We are going to be friends for a long, long time."
Leather_n_Lace frowns when she is set down by WildSumac's vines, but she does move over to nuzzle her friend in thanks, "Thank you, That almost ended badly." She curls her lip in distaste, "I'll get that pegasus mare...one way or another. She ruined my whip."
"Ohhh I've been waiting for this," the guard murmurs before he turns around to see Mr. Chuckles approaching. Scope actually grins a little and gives his thick body a quick flex, stomping a hoof and assuming a defensive posture as his horn begins to glow with its signature greenish aura.
Fluttershy stares up at the sky, trying to adjust to the gloom as she steps out into the open street. The storms have suddenly cleared up; Fluttershy isn't sure, but she thinks she can make out a dark blue shape among the stars. For a moment, Fluttershy considers trying to get up and report to the Princess directly - but she has no idea whether that's who it really *is*, and more importantly, she heard *explosions* - what if whoever did this is shooting down pegasi? Although, maybe they're blowing things up on the ground and the safest place to be would be the sky...? Regardless, Fluttershy looks up and up and up - apparently, when she dove for shelter, she ended up in Lower Canterlot, so if she doesn't fly, she has quite a climb ahead to get to the palace. Still, she presses forward through the streets. At first, the guardposts seem abandoned, but when Flutters gets close, she finds a number of ponies slumped over against the walls, some of them still caught up in some kind of seizure. Fluttershy shakes the nearest guard, trying to wake him up, but when she feels a steady pulse, she takes a step back. On closer inspection, they all seem...fine. There's no way she could drag anypony else to safety, so the vet just does what she does best and leaves them with some poultices and smelling salts before she moves on.
WildSumac swallows as she is struggling here to keep her magic going. "Where is /he/?" Is questioned after a moment to Lace as she pants out faintly before her head starts to lower, the green color across her horn and eyes starting to lessen. "I'm not going to be able to keep this up much longer." She offers with a faint murmur to Lace, the vines are starting to go limp that are in the castle and slide their way back outside.
Chance heads in from town after things start getting.. weird. He looks around, seeing the ponies lying around, and makes a beeline toward the castle. As he wanders closer he notices a familiar yellow pegasus. "Fluttershy! Wait for me!" he calls out, and heads into a gallop toward his friend. When he gets into conversation distance, he asks "What in the world is going on around here?"
Once she dragged a few guards to safety that were knocked out, Rainbow Dash steps out of the doorway once more behind Chuckles, looking past him to see him square off with Scope. There is a loud snort from her throat, eyes narrowing. "You're all alone out here now, Dr Smiles, or Captain Creepy, or .. Lieutenant Ludicrous. Whatever your plan was, it sucked, and it failed, and now you're stuck between me and Scope. You should have just laid in bed and slept in." Her wings flare out to her sides beautifully as she puts herself into an offensive stance, much like a bird of prey.
Luna floats down out of the sky onto the pavement in front of the palace. She steps right past Scope and Chuckles, instructing the guard tersely, "We thought this was an actual attack. Thrash him soundly, but try not to slay, would thee? Let Celestia judge him in the morning. She was the Element of Laughter, not ourself." Stepping OVER Apple Bloom and Tiara, she suggests, "Blows to the top of the head or the belly right under the ribs. If she cannot breathe or think, she cannot fight." Sighing, she wanders back into the main hall towards the throne through the big hole in the front of the Palace, and calls back, "ERE A TRUE THREAT IS DISCOVERED FROM THESE KNAVES, SUMMON US."
Another large explosion rocks Canterlot as a two story building is splintered into flying debris, the one that was beneath Firefly to be exact, windows for blocks imploding as the storm pegasus races straight up in a spiral pattern.
Mr_Chuckles glances back and forth between RD and Scope, pausing a moment when the princess walks right between them before he resumes glaring at his enemies. "Oh ho ho ho...You think I've failed? That’s so funny, how droll! How very entertaining! You two really tickle my funny bone." He smirks as The Storm Pegasus erupts from a distant tower, "I've already won...you just had your eyes focused on the wrong prize."
As the crazy earth pony begins to speak a bright orb begins to appear on the tip of the guardpony's horn, growing in brightness and beginning to emit random spikes of energy and starting to spin. "Then enlighten us, SIR. What's the RIGHT prize?"
Mr_Chuckles Smiles and begins to laugh, first lowly, then louder and louder, Rising to a wild insane pitch, then with a snap of his teeth he shouts out at Firefly, "Mare! Entertain this pegasus behind me! Beat her to a pulp with your hooves! I'll deal with this one..." He narrows his gaze at Scope and grins with malicious intent as he intones, "Discord...and Revenge. And I have both. My partners have already collected Discord's statue, and now I have you...this has been a good day..."
"Uh, congratulations? You..stole a statue? Psh." Rainbow Dash rolls her eyes upwards. As he shouts to Firefly, she tilts her head upwards, then back down to him. "What are you talking about? Firefly is my friend, and last I remember she was on 'our' side. You -are- crazy."
Firefly's twisted climb inverts as she arches over and makes a sloppy left wing roll, power diving towards the group, veering more and more ripping through the air towards Rainbow, eyes narrowed on the cyan pegasus as her wings start to crackle.
That angry expression slowly changes to one of shock, tilting his eyes upward to see the inbound Storm Pegasus coming down on an attack run. "You didn't.." Scope steps back and takes aim at the incoming Firefly with his horn but notices she's.. a little off, her flight pattern is far too erratic and she would've unleashed Hell by now. "Dash!", he snaps out to the pegasus, staring across the way. "She's not herself! You HAVE to take her out!"
Mr_Chuckles snickers as he watches realization dawn across the muzzle of his nemesis. In the moment of distraction he leaps forward and tosses a ring he grabs from behind his ear, hidden in his mane. Angling it to land on Scope's horn like some sort of ridiculous game of ring toss. Should it land it will shrink to the perfect fit around the base of his horn, and unable to be pulled off it will choke his magic off. "Oh my....maybe you should let the girls worry about their own fight. and keep your attention on me!" He suddenly lunges forward, swinging well timed hooves at the other stallion, Chuckles may have mostly used gadgets and tricks up till now, but it would be a mistake to think he was -ever- harmless. He could actually fight pretty skillfully when he chose to show it.
Scrambling backwards, Rainbow Dash's eyes widen and soon she takes to the sky. "Take her out?!" Pouring on the speed as her wings kiss the currents, she soars upwards in a quick jerk of her body, trying to gain as much altitude as she can and in quite a hurry. "Gonnadiegonnadiegonnadie!" With a twist of her body, she turns around to face off with her pink friend, putting up her 'dukes' as she takes in a deep breath. "Today sucks." With that, she zips in for combat.
Firefly's flight angles as she lazily inverts, then shifts into high speed pursuit, racing upwards in a hissing air splitting way, trailing black clouds behind her with little flecks of lightning in them, pulling her head low and ears back, forelegs moving into a Griffon's Stroke position for a flyby.
The toss is successful and the glowing orb at the tip of his horn goes out like somepony shutting off a light bulb. "What the?!" *POW* goes the hoof across his cheek and it sends the big stallion backpedaling as it just adds to the disorientation of his magic going OFFLINE. Before the other pony has a chance to capitalize the unicorn gets his bearings straight, giving his neck a quick snap before galloping forward and going for a changeup of his own, faking with the left hoof while bringing his right hoof around at the earth stallion's cheek.
Mr_Chuckles is used to getting hit, his past a violent one. But the guard is a big boy, and the hoof hits home, For a moment the world goes all funny. The Mr C grits his teeth and ducks low, rushing forward aiming for an uppercut with his hoof, should that land he would pivot letting his momentum carry him into a double back hoofed buck. "You stupid royal guards, no sense of humor!"
As Dash continues pouring on the speed in her descent, her hooves are outstretched before her, lips peeled back by the velocity of her rate. Firefly is a A-lister, and she needs an A-list attack if she is to take out her brainwashed friend, however that may have happened. "Alright, here goes nothing!" With a loud, guttural cry, she zigs to one side just before they hit, color exploding around her body as the wind around her vibrates. Ka-Boom! Filling the dark sky with an explosion of light, a rainbow pours out behind her as she sends ripples through the sky.
Firefly was also accelerating, stretching her contrail tight and thin as she screamed upwards, then suddenly, colors, and WHAM! The effects of being hit by a building, the storm pegasus blasting out of the other side of the rainboom in a smoking spiral, both wings folded at strange angles, peeling into a spinning dive....completely out cold as pink feathers scatter in the wind.
Not only is he a big boy but Scope was also a member of the "stupid" royal guard, so not only was he trained in the art of magic but also in extensive hoof to hoof combat. He dodges the uppercut with a quick jump to the side, twisting his hindquarters around while taking aim with his own hindhooves and letting them fly at the crazypony's shoulder.
With a twist of her body in the air, Rainbow Dash cuts quickly and soars back upwards, catching Firefly in her arms with a loud grunt. "Unf, you need to lose some weight." She grunts as she lands on the palace rooftop, gently putting her down. Blinking her eyes a bit, she starts to look her over, tears forming at the back of her eyes.
Mr_Chuckles is knocked down and sent into a roll, but he didn't try to employ force against the buck he receives in return, instead he went with it, letting the bulk of the blow -push- him rather than simply impact him. However during his roll his eyes flick to the aerial battle between the mares and he snorts laughter as he stands again, "Well now...looks like it's just you and me permanently now. We won't be seeing those lovely girls again. They just blew each other out of the sky. A shame to see such pretty mares killing one another." It was a ploy, a lie, but the way Mr C's eyes danced merrily might plant doubt in Scope's heart about the fate of the fighting mares above them.
Firefly's eyes snap open as she is surrounded by blue black light, she inhales sharply and tries to breath, gasping hard, seeing Scope and that....clown. To move. The blue light flares strongly, and she stands on the rooftop on three legs, holding one foreleg up a bit, wings still hanging at her sides. "I HATE CLOWNS!!!" her eyes narrowing as they shift into draconic looking ones, almost like Nightmare moon, and a lightning bolt blasts out of the clouds towards the ground....and towards Mr Chuckles.
Those words ring true in Scope's head, eyes snapping upwards to see the aftermath of the sonic rainboom and the brief glance of the rather broken looking Firefly before Dash sets her down. "No.. NO MORE!" The guardpony squares his shoulders and takes aim with his horn, eyes shutting tightly and teeth clenching as he concentrates.. What "Mr. Chuckles" failed to realize that this was one of the more "unique" unicorns around, one of the reasons why the emblem of Celestia adorns his chest. His power continues to build within; horn beginning to spark just a little before that ring suddenly explodes off of him, a massive beam of his greenish energy blasting out at the earth pony, reaching him at the same time as Firefly's lightning. .. Oh dear.
Mr_Chuckles had planned for many things, he had even planned for the princess should they get involved. But this he had no plan for. The lightning strikes him first and it yanks him erect, standing on his hind hooves with his forehooves raised to the sky, he screams, and screams, it seems like an eternity. His mane rippling as it too lifts from the intense discharge. His screams rising higher and higher, speaking of unimaginable agony the smell of charred skin begins to fill the air as he is literally cooked alive. Then the pent up magical blasts hits him full in the chest, and for a split second there is a vile sounding *pop pop pop pop pop pop* softly filling the locale as each of his ribs visibly pop free of his sternum. then the combine magic and lightening begin to consume him, his pain twisted face begins to dissolve into the light, and just before his features vanish a small smile curled his crumpled, tortured face and he whispers, "I get it...I finally get it...heh heh heh..." Then there is nothing left except a smoldering charred place where he had stood little more than a second ago.
Firefly's stance is unchanging; she was snarling a black mist, that steady lightning bolt continues to burn into the ground with a vengeance, a giant flickering searing stream. "AND THOUST TO KNOW OUR ANGER!" streams the canterlot voice as black clouds begin to build and spiral overhead as the winds begin to pick up.
He saw it.. he heard it.. his eyes took in the entirety of the pony's last few moments on this mortal plane and it causes the armored stallion to backpedal in shock before falling back onto his rump, even scooting away a bit more as his amber orbs stare with mouth agape, tears beginning to form.. "Wha.. bu.. " He doesn't seem to be too affected by the lightning that continues on well after the incident. "What have I done?", he whispers out, eyes closing shut as he just collapses to the ground in a sobbing fit.
With a resounding powerful >SNAP< the lightning ceases to char the ground, flickers race around among the clouds above as the blue light surrounding Firefly wavers, then fades, her eyes shifting back to normal as they roll up into her head, the storm pegasus leaning to the left and collapsing forward, off of the roof.
The snap was enough to snag the distressed unicorn's attention and pull him out of his spell, reddened eyes tilting upwards to see.. oh no. He's quick to his hooves with a horn flash, Scope vanishing from sight and reappearing beneath where Firefly will land. But instead of catching her with his body his horn aura, alights once more and surrounds the unconscious storm pegasus to slow her descent until he gently sets her down atop of him and parallel to his spine. "I gotcha..", he sniffles to the mare, pausing to look up to try to find the cyan pegasus but.. he saw her carry Firefly down so he's sure she's alright.. and with that knowledge he carries on, stepping into the throne room of the palace with the storm pegasus in tow.
Firefly is messed up for certain, indeed. Flying full bore into a sonic rainboom without bracing even a bit. Both of her wings are twisted about, certainly shattered or broken, a lot of her feathers torn or ripped out from the concussive blast. Her front left leg looks odd, the shoulder not looking quite right. But she was breathing, a rough jagged way, but breathing.