Gossamer wings spread majestically wide, Queen Chrysalis flew northeast, skimming the shorter and shorter buildings of Val Roa's warehousing district. She took one glance back at the High Council Building and the distant air battle beyond. Hissing, she looked forward again, narrowing her pale eyes.
“This is far from over.” The mutated alicorn's jagged horn glowed from top to bottom with emerald fury. Her eyes pulsed with a matching aura. “I'll rip this city apart like shredded meat.”
With that said, she fired a pulse of energy into the sky. The green beam exploded, splitting apart in a thousand different directions before descending on the Capital like a translucent umbrella.
“Prowse, look!” Basso exclaimed.
The pilot in question was doing his best to avoid cannon blasts from two hulking battleships. “A little busy to be doing anything but pissin' right now, boyo!”
“No, he's right!” Booster Spice said, pointing past Zetta. “Something's happening to the city!”
Prowse flung a sweaty glance beyond the windshield, catching a haze of green light cascading over the urbanscape like a blanket. “Well, now that's just brilliant,” he grumbled.
Citizens of Val Roa stirred nervously across the Sandstone District. They watched as the emerald aura descended, finally collapsing over them and through them. Though several bucks and does gasped, they appeared completely unaffected.
The Soul Sentries, however...
Fl-Flash! Their antlers brimmed with a conjoined pulse. With identical movements, they stood up straight, spun about, and faced the helpless crowd in a solid line.
“M'beraat rekkhar threatta Xon-Nagu'n!” one of the Xonan warriors proclaimed, pointing.
“Sabbatical's over, kindergarteners!” Seclorum shouted to the other heroes gathered nearby the High Council Building. “Queen Arachnobitch has reattached the strings!”
“Everypony remain calm!” Crimson hollered. “We're prepared for this! And Rainbow Dash has got our backs!” He pointed at Tweak and Lucky Strike. “Now! Launch it now!”
The Soul Sentries clenched their jaws and aimed their fiery antlers at the crowd.
“You heard the stallion, bro!” Tweak shouted.
“Launching—!” Lucky Strike catapulted the first of several black crystals into thea ir.
Tweak cocked his rifle, aimed, and fired at the glittering projectiles while they were over the heads of the Soul Sentries.
P-Pow! They exploded with bursts of mana, shooting energy outward in all directions.
Within a blink, a third of the Soul Sentries that the group had gathered before the steps of the High Council Building had collapsed with groaning breaths. The crystalline discharge had shorted out their leylines, leaving them partially disconnected from their nefarious source of control.
“Did that do it?!” Phoenix stammered.
“Partially!” Seclorum said. “A good chunk of them are still able to give us the zap!”
“Tweak?!” Crimson exclaimed.
“Workin' on it!” Tweak shouted, giving Lucky Strike a nudge. “Ready when you are!”
“And it's away!” Lucky catapulted a second volley into the air.
Tweak aimed and fired, causing the crystals to explode and short-out another cluster of Soul Sentries. The remaining reindeer with glowing eyes marched forward, firing blasts of mana at will. Flash! Fl-Flash!
Bursts of concrete and bronze caught aflame. Citizens shrieked, galloping away for their lives.
“This is it!” Crimson levitated his hammer out, brow furrowed. “We've gotta hold them off!” He craned his neck to look at the rest. “Remember! The goal is to maintain them! No killing Val Roans on our watch!”
“You think they're gonna respect us the same?!” Phoenix's squeaked.
“I didn't give you permission to bitch, soldier.”
“R-right...” Phoenix cracked the joints in his neck and charged forward, clamping his teeth around his mace. “Rrrrrgh!”
“Ohhh I feel the gray hairs multiplying.” Seclorum's horn glowed as he rushed the Council Building's front steps. “Move your tattoos, big guy!”
“Dreit!” Archsod thundered forward, flanked by his likewise burly companions. “Hala'gennar Xon-Nagu'n!”
“Raaaaaaaaugh!”
With swinging weapons and bursts of telekinesis,the warriors met the Soul Sentries head on, knocking reindeer aside while deflecting blasts of emerald energy. The entire Sandstone District erupted with noise while pained bodies fell left and right, their connections with Chrysalis strained by the second.
“Duchess! Duchess!” Nilla bounded up through the hallways of the High Council Building, flanked by Mamunia and Jet. The gazelle skidded to a stop in the doorway to Arcanista's balcony, gazing at her with wide-eyes. “The Soul Sentries! They... th-they're attacking Val Roans!”
Queen Azira gasped, holding Eine close. King Lunarius gazed firmly in the Duchess' direction. “It is as you predicted...”
Taking a deep breath, Arcanista trotted towards Nilla and the two ponies. “Are the ones in the Sandstone District being contained?”
“Yes!” Jet exclaimed with a little hop. “The Tarkington's ponies are holding them back!”
“But they can't for long.” Mamunia shook her head. “What about all the reindeer under her control throughout the rest of the city?”
“The stabby stabs will likely be drawn to Tarkington boomers,” Floydien grumbled. “They'll choke them with shimmer glimmer.”
“Then what do we do?!” Kera's voice cracked. “The Jury and the Tarkington are busy trying to take on those crummy goblins!”
“And someone has to take down that foul monster who just escaped,” Lunarius grumbled.
“We all must have faith in the plan,” Arcanista said calmly. She turned to gaze at the hole through which Chrysalis had exited. “It's all in one pony's hooves now...”
Queen Chrysalis glided lower and lower, her dark flank to the chaotic city southward. Despite her easy escape flight, she was panting nervously, fangs showing as she sweated and strained like a frenzied addict.
“Must... m-must find the crystals,” she hissed, shaking her head as she made for a warehouse located along the fringes of the Grand Choke. “Must g-get a recharge...” She gulped dryly. “I can still salvage this...” Her fangs glistened. “I can still sow enough misery to make this all work!”
She descended swiftly, approaching the side door to the warehouse. With a heavy grunt, she fired a beam of magic that blasted the door open.
Then, just as soon as she entered the concrete structure's spacious room, Queen Chrysalis skidded to a stop, gasping.
Rainbow Dash stood in the very corner, her legs crossed casually. Every shelf inside the warehouse was empty, leaving the spacious storage room dull and barren. She made eye contact with the mutated alicorn, and her glinting eyes matched the sheen of her pendant.
“Hey there. It's about time.”
“... ... ...” Queen Chrysalis stood in place, shivering.
Silence.
The door behind her swung gradually shut, forcing the metamorph to flinch.
Rainbow gestured towards the center of the room. “Have a seat.”
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Dude.
Rainbow.
Baller.
Skeet-shooting to disrupt leylines? I heartily approve.
Thirty pushups and thirty situps, ):(. Knock 'em out!
Eh, arachnid monarchs are more of a Searo thing.
I'm just waiting for the Naga to pop up.
5533929 Also, damn you and your stupid sexy Sunset avatars.
Oooooh boy.
Where's my 'dis gun be good' gif.
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Dat coat doe
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5533965 There is something about trench coats.
So... this is where Chrysalis joins Rainbow's team?
WHY CAN'T WE BE IN YOUR FIRM, GENTLE CLOVEN HOOVES, DUCHESS? ARCANISTA TAKE THE WHEEL
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Ah sell .gifs and .gif accessories
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Interesting, Rainbow is not kicking her ass. They are going to talk. I bet that if Chrysalis is agreeable to what she has in mind, she can have whatever it was she was keeping in that warehouse.
I assume Ebon told everyone about that warehouse off-camera. It's a bad habit of his.
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I didn't even have to view the image to know that was Chris Hansen.
Oh dear, I really messed up with my targeting.. hmm, hadnt realised family moving was that stressfull.
Nice trick with the ECM skeets. When you realy, truely need your enemies communications to crash, use Window's.
Crystals... neeeeed Cryyyysstalllss...
DOH.
Well, Dash is going to something next.
From turning Chrysy into her personal slave.
To taking off the necklace, and having Chrysy for lunch.
What? Im beat up. Im just here for the ride for a while.
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GODDAMN CLIFFHANGER!
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Truly, the Internet is strong with you.
Oh yes.
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5533929 was going to make a Dateline NBC joke. Saw your comment, didn't even need to open it before going "God damn it, someone beat me."
5533949 I really need to stop catching up on this story just after I come back from the gym.
This. This is awesome. I wasn't expecting Rainbow to want to talk but hey this just makes it more interesting.
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5533929 Beat me to it!
>tfw Chrysalis is caught attempting to have sexual intercourse with one of her own children
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Let's hope that "regain control" spell didn't hit Ebon...
Well...then...
I get the feeling Dash is gonna have to issue a beat down to get her to sit down and listen.
A mafia style sit-down with Chrysalis? Why is that such an appealing concept? Hopefully some useful knowledge will come of this.
SPLOSIONS! MOAR SPLOSIONS!
Something like this
And this.
5533929 Fuck! You beat me to it!
Oh, what the heck...
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Is Rainbow about to go all out Batmare on Chrysalis?
Time for an interview, a very tense interview that will likely end in a fight of some kind. Oh boy this is going to be so much fun.
Well this looks like its going to be exciting, wonder what Rainbow has in mind.
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"I have something to tell you."
"My name is Rainbow Daaaash..."
"And we're doing a shoooooww..."
"About changeling queens... who infiltrate kingdoms... and devastate them to sew misery and despair in order to feed their broods."
"Now, if you have anything else to say, we'd like to hear it. Otherwise, you're free to walk right back out that door, the same way you came in"
As she stands up to leave the warehouse, little does she know that our ponies have already moved into position and are waiting for her just outside, primed to obliterate her into a bubbling puddle of viscous green goo and charred chitin.
Wow, it's really coming together...
Time to spread some peace and harmony!
And by that I mean pain and blood. All over the room. Seriously, go hog wild. Bitch gotta go.
Xonan warriors versus Soul Sentries. It's like Marvel vs. Capcom. It's awesome.
It also begs the question why they didn't just round up the Soul Sentries and had them incapacitated before shit went down.
Ah, it all seems to be working. But we still need something to go wrong, so Roarke the Lizard Queen can come and save the day.
Shit just got real.
Rainbow Dash uses Social Fu!
It's effect is yet to be determined...
5535327 we still need roarke even if NOTHING goes wrong
we still have a goblin problem, and the tarkington/jury aren't enough to take out both battleships
I'm infinitely more satisfied then if there was the aerial chase and combat I expected. Just a nice Suave RD and a Chrysalis with Shit all up in her face.
I don't get why they didn't make sharpquill and fishberry merge together and keep saikano intact, until they could reform chryssi when goblins WEREn'T shitting on them and the soul sentries WEREN'T all brainwashed.
Still, that ending with Dash was amazing. I'm glad there's another chapter for me to catch up on.
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Lol Rainbow just turned into Chris Hanson
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Chrysalis is done for. ;pinkiehappy: But the Soul Sentries... This is not good. How many times do I have to call the Lounge?
-Spirit
There's no way RD's face isn't being covered by a shadow and isn't wearing a hat of some sort.
Just a simply chat, that's all. Nothing more, nothing less. Very interesting.
Checkmate
Now the only question is, will Chrysee be a sore loser or not?
Rainbow Dash be all like
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Now let's see how it goes.
Trust me. If this turns into a fight, which I bet it will, you WANT to play this!