Spitefic: Of Temples and Dragons

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In New Canterlot, Mike Stevens is practicing his blade.

"Engarde!"

The instructor is Shadow Coat. "Old but gold. Also good for distracting anyone who used to be close to a certain sociopath."

"Still hard to believe we were decieved by him all this time, Shadow." Mike dashes with his Sword of Pure Soul, but Shadow Coat dodges. Then the old stallion keeps dodging blows, and even when Mike feigns a horizontal slash and attacks with his shield, Shadow Coat performs a backflip and dodges the bash.

"You are stronger than me, Stevens. But strength is nothing without skill!" Shadow Coat tells him and with a jab prods Stevens in the shoulder.

Stevens has something to say. "Like when Bray had to outsmart you?"

This makes Shadow Coat overswing recklessly, and he barely parries the next attack.

"Not bad, kid. But as you said... it took an enemy of that level to stop me!" And he disarms his foe with a circular motion of his sword.

"How?" Mike Stevens asks. "I almost had you..."

Shadow Coat shakes his head. "It's my concentration, boy. As long as I am fully focused, it will take a power level way above mine to defeat me."

"And how do I break your concentration?" Mike Stevens asks.

"I am not a Demonite, nor am I a Shi. I will not tell you, figure it out yourself!" Shadow Coat tells him.

"I will!" And Stevens rushes for the next round.

---

The feast is over in Tiamo, and a few more hours pass.

Trixie gives a magic show similar to Abra's, where she makes illusory, bright red flames surround the stage and then makes balls of them jump all around her, which are about to gather beneath her feet, but she dodges with a backflip.

Then she turns into five Trixies, who all perform cartwheels, as behind them the flames intensify.

Fake Stingars charge at them, only for the Trixies to defeat them all with acrobatics.

Then all five Trixies bow at the same time.

This catches Abra's eye, who realizes there must be only one magician with that level of magic outside of himself...

And his suspicions are proven correct.

He teleports close to her and slowly claps his hands.

"Pretty good, Trixie. You are learning from the best."

"No, you are learning from the best" Trixie replies. "From the Great and Powerful Trixie!"

"Madame, you have forgotten who the assistant is" Abra tells her. "I am your teacher, after all."

"So? I am pretty sure I can easily surpass you, Abra." Trixie points her left thumb at herself and looks up.

"Have you forgotten what Grand Ruler said? Most Equestrians can't surpass the weakest Space Pony" Abra points at her, while staring straight into her eyes.

Trixie puts her left hand on her chest, where the heart is. "The Great and Powerful Trixie... is no ordinary Equestrian."

Suddenly, both Trixie and Abra create clones that fill most of the stage.

"It's time for a duel!"

A few kilometers away, Spike can see illusory purple bats and blue birds duking it out. "What's happening?"

Twilight facepalms. "The Great and Powerful Trixie just blew her cover."

Back to the stage, Trixie makes the floor under Abra and his clones lava and Abra does the same but with acid, hoping to reveal the real one. Only for everyone, clones included, to shout at the same time:

"I know this trick very well, fool!"

A Trixie clone headbutts an Abra clone in the jaw, while an Abra clone kicks a Trixie clone in the face.

The crowd is cheering as the two forces fight.

The two great magicians know how to find the real rival, so they both made illusory shadows in every single clone.

Eventually, Trixie makes a massive magical mirror behind Abra, showing only the real him... but also only the real her. And she rams him with a shoulderbash. However, he stays up and with a hard right hook he knocks her down.

As Trixie struggles to get up, a few spikes from Abra's bed impale her.

"Didn't you know? My bed is very real. And so are these spikes."

As she screams in pain, she summons the rest of the spikes of the bed and sleeps comfortably.

"They are. But..." a clone whispers to his ear "... when they are as dense as you, they are harmless."

Then Trixie teleports and draws some cards. So do her clones.

And they all fire cards at the real Abra, who teleports away, predicting accurately that the real Trixie shoots real cards. The cards, sharp as arrows, are stuck in Trixie's mirror, which Abra sees now.

"Oh. You are clever. For an inferior Equestrian. Unfortunately, you are still just my ass..."

And a card cuts his right cheek a little, drawing a drop of blood.

"A superior race should know not to talk too much!" Trixie taunts him.

Both glare at each other, as they prepare to cast more powerful spells.

They know what each other is capable of.

And then the alarms Starfleet wisely instilled go off.

"Is it us?" Rey asks.

"I will scout the area" Spike tells her. "I will be back."

---

In Herboss, Maya has channeled Leia and Leia is telling stories to the Herbolites about how she fought Titan's Trio.

"And then, Prince Isolder, the man who lied my late husband used a mind control beam to be with be, sought to fight Rep-Stallion, the being you probably know as Razor. All to win my heart and for no other reason."

"Yeah, he is not so bright, but his strength is fearsome."

"Actually" Leia replies "Rep sometimes had the brightest ideas. But he was nearly always dismissed when that happened. Anyway, Rep accepted the challenge and beat him with one slash of his scythe. It was electric, but still one slash.

Though one of his dumbest ideas was to basically send a rock golem at me and expect I had no lightsaber to just cut it down. Plus, the Force helped at deflecting the rocks it threw at me.

Let's say that afterwards, they did not just send one monster at a time against me.

I am sure I heard Dementia say 'At least with Starfleet it took many of them to take down a single monster' once." Leia tries to resist giggling.

"So, are they planning a counterattack soon?" Cherry Blossom the Herbolite asks.

"I don't think so" Poe replies. "We should completely recover first. The reason I don't think they will is that they are too weakened, and they won't abandon a place that gives them a tremendous advantage so easily. If they attack first, they have reinforcements.

We should attack surrounding the mountain. I will personally take on that lousy Diababa. We were in a stalemate and so there is no winner decided yet."

"Is it just your pride, Poe?" Virago asks.

"No. It's that I want to protect all of you. You see, a ground attack is not easy and the monster needs explosives to go down" Poe explains. "Plus, since I am a pilot, I am the best against giant, nearly mindless monsters. The werewolves and Jedi are better for duelists, and I am sure there will be a duelist here" Poe tells them.

Q and Rose are repairing the smashed X-Wings. "We will attack once all ships are repaired" Q says. "We have time for once."

Inside the temple of Verdant Mountain, Constable Kerd is planning his next move, as Life Spell Punks are healing the injured Moblins, Drow and the Diababa.

"We don't have much time. This stalemate is not good for us. And unfortunately, they are hiding in the jungle. Where can I find reinforcements?" Kerd asks. "Any ideas?"

"Lily Carnation?"

"Again, no, it will kill us all."

"Burning down the jungle?"

"Hmmm... it's just one jungle, and we risk losing the planet. Yes! That's it! I will request reinforcements... some very good reinforcements!

They can run, but they can't hide! They will have to fight us fairly!" Kerd raises his fist in triumph.

---

In Tiamo, Spike has spotted a few hundred Yuuzhan Vong and several more enemies.

One of which is a fearsome, dark red dragon, which wears armor all over its body and is burning everything in its path.

Instead of trying to fight to his certain death, Spike has informed everyone else.

"They are all coming here! They will destroy everything in their path. Especially their dragon!" Spike warns them.

The moment they hear "destroy" and "dragon", every single civilian hides in their homes.

And this leaves the two rivaling defense forces, rebels and empire, to fight against the intruders.

"So... civilians are in danger" Trixie says.

"We have to postpone the fight" Abra tells her.

Trixie offers him her hand. "Until we make sure they don't burn down the city, we will not fight" she tells him.

He shakes her hand. "I agree. Let's go!"

Ten minutes later, a small village is burned to ashes by the Yuuzhan Vong and the Argorok. Some Starfleet troopers from the nearby outpost attack the monsters, while a few werewolves led by Embry lead the civilians to safety.

Padawan Taroh sees a Yuuzhan Vong aiming a few Razor Bugs at fleeing civilians, but uses the Force to throw rocks and block all of them. Then he guts the Yuuzhan Vong and helps evacuate more civilians.

A family is trapped in a burning building, and the firefighters are struggling to put out the fire. Suddenly, one of them drops dead, a Razor Bug hitting the back of the neck and piercing the nerves.

"No! Shui!" a fellow firefighter shouts as he keeps trying to put out the flames. The Yuuzhan Vong that shot the Razor Bug aims at the firefighter's hose and cuts it in half. Then he spares him to make him watch his failure.

A Starfleet sentry, Blazing Heart, defies orders to defend her outpost from the Argorok and fires at the Yuuzhan Vong, killing him. Then she flies towards the windows, where the trapped civilians are, and with her limited control over fire moves the flames away from the family.

She helps everyone get down safely, one by one, but then, as everyone is hugging and thanking their gods they are safe, a woman gets shot by bioplasma, which paralyzes her left arm!

"Quickly!" Blazing Heart orders. "RUN!"

The civilians run, as Blazing fires a hot beam of lava through a Yuuzhan Vong, then guns down several more foes with her blaster.

"Come on! I might not be in Lightning's team, but I still can make a difference! You will touch them over my carcass!" she yells as she shoots another Yuuzhan Vong dead.

She uses her wings and flies over an incoming Plasma Eel, then with her horn she fires another beam and yet another Yuuzhan Vong goes down. However, a Thud Bug hits her in the left leg, and a Razor Bug cuts part of her right wing.

She falls to the ground and keeps firing her blaster until it overheats, and twenty Yuuzhan Vong corpses are already before her. However, one of them fires a beam of bioplasma through her chest, while she fires a beam through his face.

One sentry. Twenty one elite foes.

And afterwards? Starfleet will forget her, for she wasn't part of the main team.

The firefighter, willing to offer the civilians more time and fight his guilt for not saving them earlier, rushes at the blaster, dives, takes it and shoots a Yuuzhan Vong where humans have kidneys. But alas, Yuuzhan Vong have no kidneys and wear good armor, so the warrior survives. However, he is still injured, and a second shot paralyzes his right arm. Another Yuuzhan Vong rushes with his amphistaff and smashes the firefighter's brains out, turning him into a bloody mess.

"We lost too much time!" a Yuuzhan Vong says.

While several civilians escaped, nothing stops the village from being burned to cinders.

The nearby Starfleet outpost is also turned to ash because of the Argorok's breath. No Starfleet soldier was able to even scratch the mighty dragon's armor.

Taroh ensures a group of civilians have escaped, but suddenly he hears a deafening scream and drops on his knees. A Banshee flies past him and is about to attack the civilians.

Taroh fires his blaster seven times and shoots the Banshee in her back. She retaliates with another scream in his direction, but he dodges the attack and with the Force brings her closer, before stabbing her with his yellow saber and killing her.

Then he rushes to the village again, where he sees the bodies of thirty civilians laying around three Yuuzhan Vong.

"You bastards did this?"

"We did, and we are going to do the same to the capital!" one of them declares proudly. "Those civilians were weak. And they paid the price for it."

"Scumbags!" Taroh feels the Force coursing through him, except, unlike most of the time, it feels like a drug. It gives ecstasis, grows with anger, and makes Taroh want more.

The Yuuzhan Vong do not lose time, they charge with their amphistaffs and attempt to surround them. Fat chance. One of them is shot in the foot by Taroh, losing time, and the Padawan slits the throat of the second one. Then he kicks the third one in the face five times before he punches him, drawing blood, and with a gut stab finishes him off. The remaining Yuuzhan Vong charges with his amphistaff and knocks him down, but Taroh throws a rock at a window, breaking it, then makes all the falling glass shards impale the barbarian at once.

"COME AT ME!"

With his wrath eating his soul away, he charges at a few zombies, ripping their limbs apart with the Force and cutting them down with his saber. He even finds the remnants of the century that killed Blazing Heart and ambushes them from behind, cutting several of them down.

He shoves his saber deep inside a Yuuzhan Vong's eye, then decapitates a second one, and finally cuts a third one to four pieces with his lightsaber. He knocks a fourth one down with a sweep kick and then stomps on his head repeatedly.

However, they all attack him at once and violently beat him up until he is unconscious. Only five of the group remain.

Victorious, the enemy forces advance towards the capital.

The Argorok goes first and the remaining Yuuzhan Vong follow. The rest of the army are zombies, Helmasaurs, and of course Lizalfos.

Finally, the commanders are a Dragolfos and an Iron Horn, each on a chariot led by vampiric horses, which have blades in their wheels.

But, from the city, Twilight Sparkle comes, and with a spell binds several Yuuzhan Vong in chains. Then she casts multiple, rotating beams of ice, which freeze several more of them solid.

Then she makes a few Helmasaurs sleep and uses her mind magic to make a Helmasaur ram the chariot of the Dragolfos. However, he is not injured because he flies before the Helmasaur and the vampiric horses start fighting.

The Argorok attacks with its mighty fiery breath, but Twilight creates a mirror to reflect it. Alas, the mirror melts from the extreme heat, and the dragon sends a fearsome twister from its tail.

Twilight teleports away and fires a purple beam at the savage beast, but fails to penetrate the armor. She keeps firing, and in the end she even fires a stronger beam, but even that only causes a little dent.

She fires a beam of ice to freeze the armor and make it more fragile, but the Dragolfos flies between them and breathes lava, melting the ice fast and forcing Twilight to raise a purple barrier around herself, which blocks the lava.

Then she splits into three clones and they all attack the Dragolfos and the Argorok. While the beams draw blood from the former, the latter turns and uses its fiery breath once more, incinerating the clones and forcing the real one to block. However, it breaks her barrier and stuns her, destroying her gauntlets and scorching her arms.

Then a Zombie Private fires a bullet and shoots her in the left shoulder, knocking her down.

Twilight retreats to the city, making everyone chase her.

When they get there, the Orcs charge at the buildings.

However, a barrage of arrows are fired from there, making the Orcs fall back.

"It's a trap! Argorok!" Iron Horn orders "Burn this city to the ground!"

The Argorok flies there and starts burning down the houses, which immediately disappear one by one, leaving only burning craters behind.

The zombies also charge at the buildings, but as they try to break them, their hands pass through the walls.

A second barrage of arrows comes, but the arrows reach the Argorok and bounce harmlessly, without making a sound at all.

A Yuuzhan Vong sees a zombie accidentally passing through a wall.

"Bastards! The whole city, the arrows... they are all illusions!"

"Let's leave, men!" Iron Horn orders.

"Not so fast! HOCUS POCUS... ALIMAGOCUS!"

And suddenly, the stones gather in one place, making a giant golem, which advances towards the Yuuzhan Vong and the zombies.

It's dismissed as yet another illusion, until it throws the first punch and sends eight zombies flying.

The very real golem slowly walks towards the Yuuzhan Vong, who throw Thud Bugs at it, but do next to no damage. The golem punches a few of them out.

And then the spikes come out and impale the feet of a few zombies.

A Trixie clone appears before them and tips her hat at them. "Welcome to Illusion City, losers! How about a magic show?"

And from the hat, three rabbits appear.

Which turn out to be murderous, and lunge at the zombies, taking several of them out.

The real Abra and Trixie are watching.

"Yes! Take them down!" Trixie cheers.

"Murderous rabbits? How does that work?" Abra asks.

"Well... don't underestimate a so-called harmless, inferior species!" Trixie tells him.

A rabbit bites a Yuuzhan Vong hard and rips his arm off, while another one shoots bioplasma at Trixie's clone, only for Abra to raise a mirror and reflect the beam.

The golem slams its hands on the ground, causing a small quake that knocks everyone off-balance. Then with one punch it sends three Yuuzhan Vong flying before stomping a fourth one like a pancake.

A Blast Bug takes a chunk of the stone golem off, but while it roars in pain, it retaliates by ripping a part from the ground and throwing it at its attacker, who almost dodges it. It traps his leg, and the Yuuzhan Vong feels his stomach knot as the golem approaches him slowly.

"No no no no no! GET AWAY!" He fires a second Blast Bug, damaging the right knee of the golem, but it still reaches and stomps him.

And at the same time, a few Resistance Troopers, wielding blasters, emerge from the walls of the mirage buildings and gun down several zombies, as well as a few Yuuzhan Vong, and they even shoot some Helmasaurs from behind and the sides, taking them out.

Iron Horn has enough. He joins the fight against the golem and leaps at its chest, ramming through its chest with his horn. As the golem is reeling and is about to fall, Iron Horn rams it again and breaks its left foot, toppling it. And before it gets up, he jumps on its chest and smashes it with his mighty fists.

At the same time, a Yuuzhan Vong throws a Plasma Eel and blows up two rabbits at once.

"No! Those poor, innocent babies!" Trixie shouts. "They were only created and trained to fight because I wanted them to defend innocents! Ok, and surpass Twilight, but that's beside the point!"

Abra snorts. "Do you see me complaining about my golem?"

"Abra, if you ever bring your misfortune only to say that the misfortune of others doesn't matter again, I am feeding you to their dragon!" Trixie says as her last rabbit tears the throat off the killer of the other two.

However, a Lizalfos hits it with his tail, and a few zombies lunge with their broken, wooden swords, shovels and pickaxes.

However, three hats appear before them.

This confuses the zombies, which split in three groups and attack all hats as they are shuffling.

And from each and every one, a Trixie appears. Two thirds end up hitting a double and get ambushed by the rabbit, while the real Trixie throws razor sharp cards that take down the undead close to her.

And as the fight in the fake city escalates, Rey and many elite Stormwolf members stay in the real city, and so does Cookie with a few Starfleet forces.

Mac Speed, Finn, Rarity, Spike and Jannah rush to the fake city with the remaining forces they have, going in circles to not betray the location of the real capital.

Finn and Jannah, as well as several Unchained Ones, are riding horses.

Rarity sees them and has a few questions.

"What's their names?"

Finn and Jannah don't hesitate.

"Mine is called the Ivory Beauty" Finn replies.

Jannah nods and then points at her steed. "Mine is called the Steady Copper."

"Nice names!" Rarity tells them.

"Hold on" Finn says. "I can sense a Jedi over there!" he points at the village. "He needs treatment, and fast! Jannah, can you go and at least stabilize him and anyone else who is unconscious there?"

"Yes, General!" And she goes there along with Rick, who also learned some weak healing.

---

Half an hour later, the X-Wings of the Black Squadron are all repaired, and they prepare to resume the siege.

When suddenly the jungle catches fire.

"The dirty bastards!" Jessika says. "I will stop them!"

Suralinda, Wicket, Kallie, all Ewoks and Applejack follow on foot, while Kazuda and Rose follow from the air.

And soon enough they reach the arsonists.

Who are Fire Spell Punks, Baby Dodongos, Fiery Moblins who have fiery swords and shields, undead Grillers whose left hands are flamethrowers, seven Dodongos and a massive, mighty King Dodongo.

"Bastards!" Jessika shouts. "Kallie, put out the fire with your water blades. Everyone else, kill the arsonists!"

Kallie sends a blade of water and a few Ice Eggs and saves a burning tree, but a Fire Spell Punk hits her with a fireball. Wicket draws his bow and hits the Punk.

Suralinda spits acid at three Fiery Moblins, melting them to the bone. Then she does the same to a Dododngo who is busy burning two trees with its breath.

Applejack suplexes a Griller. "Ah like zombies. Ah hate killing any enemy, so ah am glad ah can go all out with no guilt!"

Then she grabs a Baby Dodongo with her lasso and saves two Ewoks from being blown up. A Griller tries to burn her from behind, but she lands a hard back kick and breaks its jaw.

Rose attacks with her blasters and takes down twenty Fire Moblins and two Grillers, but also sets three trees ablaze.

Kazuda makes the same mistake with a single tree, but he does shoot a Dodongo and eight Baby Dodongos dead.

"We are here to save the forest, rookies!" Jessika calls them out. "Not to burn it further!"

"Do you know how many trees the guys we killed would burn?" Kazuda snaps at her.

The King Dodongo notices them and with his fiery breath burns four trees, five Ewoks and one Griller.

Then he prepares a fireball that would bring down a whole row of trees and Logray.

If not for Jessika diving in front of him and feeding him torpedoes.

"The little plane is coming!" And she watches as the beast shallows and gets stunned due to an explosion inside him.

"Now! Attack the King!"

---

As the three pilots shoot at the stunned King Dodongo, Poe leads the others to the Verdant Mountain.

Where he immediately faces the Diababa again, while Rainbow Dash fights off the Drow.

The Diababa fires a barrage of explosive seeds at Poe with its side heada, but Dameron dodges them with a couple of Barrel Rolls and feeds a head torpedoes.

As it blows up, Poe dodges a bite from the other head, while BB-8 sees the Diababa's main head preparing a homing, exploding acorn.

With his turret he shoots the acorn down, but Poe gets hit by an explosive seed in point blank range. Then he feeds the floral beast another couple of Proton Torpedoes as retaliation.

And only the main head remains, which spits powerful poison at the ship. Poe dodges with aileron rolls in circles and sees an opening, firing Proton Torpeodes in the monsters gigantic main mouth. An explosion is heard inside the giant plant and it reels on the ground, a yellow eye that was inside the mouth exposed for Poe to see.

He dives at the monster's eye and hits it with a charged shot. Then he fires his blasters four times for each of his four blasters, destroying the eye.

The massive, unholy plant screeches, the soundwave blowing Poe's X-Wing back a little. And then it slowly starts to wither as the poisonous lake begins to dry as well.

Rainbow is fighting the Drow. They fire a barrage of arrows at her, but only hit her afterimage. Then she attacks with a Four-Sided Strike and four Drow are down.

A Drow Raider swings his cutlass at her, but she grabs his sword and starts vibrating it faster and faster. The shocked Drow watches as the sword starts to wobble until it breaks.

When it does, he stares in horror. "My family's sword... you will regret this!"

He throws a stone at her in point blank range, which would definitely hit her if she had no super speed. It still grazes and hurts her ear a bit. She non-lethally knocks him out with a kick in the face.

Then with a second Four-Sided Strike she knocs four archers out before soaring in the sky and defeating three more foes with a Sonic Rainboom.

Only for a Goliath Drow to appear. He is a mix of dark blue and purple, like the other drow, is three meters tall, nine hundred kilograms of muscle and has a shield attached to each arm.

Rainbow lands a second Sonic Rainboom, but the Drow blocks it. "I am the Constable's right-hand man. Let me show you why."

At the same time, Moss charges at the Flowermen and beats up ten of them with her bare hands. Three Drow Spearmen are also defeated this way, and when five Moblins charge with their spears, she makes spikes out of grass and wounds them all severely, forcing them to run away.

---

The battle in Tiamo escalates!

The Argorok is burning the illusions of the buildings, and thus the hidden Resistance Troopers, forcing them to get out. Where the remaining Yuuzhan Vong await.

But as the Resistance Troopers are being pushed back, Twilight makes holy light rain from the sky and burns all remaining zombies, allowing the soldiers to focus on the stronger enemy units.

Trixie is shot by a Thud Bug and knocked down. The Yuuzhan Vong charge to finish her off with their amphistaves.

Only for an Arrow Storm to knock all of them out from behind.

And Rarity fixes her mane proudly. "Reinforcements have come!"

Spike, as the Dragon Knight, uses his Dragon Flamewheel and takes down three Lizalfos, and his charge is only stopped by a charge of a Helmasaur.

The two charges are equal, and Spike realizes he has to use his head. And not in the same way as his foe. So, he waits until the Helmasaur charges again, dodges and then burns his butt with his dragon breath.

Cookie uses his Healthy Meal on a dying soldier, then blocks a few Razor Bugs with his Salad Shield. He retaliates with his Spaghetti Whips, whipping thirteen Yuuzhan Vong at once. Then he takes down seven more with his Pepper Bullets, aiming at their heads, though a bioplasma beam wounds him. The last Yuuzhan Vong throws a Plasma Eel at him and blows his armored boots up, forcing him to rely on his wings so he doesn't walk barefoot on the surface, which is not smooth at all. His feet are also a bit charred.

He retaliates with Burger Bombs, blowing the remaining foes up.

A trio of Resistance Troopers gun down the final Yuuzhan Vong soldier, but a Helmasaur King charges at them, blocking all their shots and knocking out one of them with a single headbutt.

Then the others scatter, and the Helmasaur looks at the one who went left. But before he charges, he is shot dead thrice by the other Trooper.

A few more Helmasaurs spot them and are about to charge in a line.

Then several blaster bolts strike them from behind. And Finn, leading the Unchained Ones, emerges behind the reptiles.

Then, once the Helmasaurs are down, he senses danger and gallops there.

Abra is fighting the Iron Horn and two Lizalfos. He raises a magical, enhanced mirror, which helps reflect even fire, and so wounds the Iron Horn with the breaths of the Lizalfos.

Finn rides there as fast as he can, but a Helmasaur spots him and is about to charge. The Jedi uses the Force and fires a blaster bolt he curves in mid-air, striking the Helmasaur from his unprotected side and stopping his charge. So, he gets there and, as the Iron Horn is about to charge through the mirror, hits him with a Microwave Beam, knocking him down. A Lizalfos attempts to burn him with his breath, but the Dragon Breath takes priority and the reptilian warrior gets burned.

Abra makes several clones, and forces Iron Horn to charge through them, as the Lizalfos distracts Finn. Iron Horn rams through two doubles at once, but the real one and the other clones disappear in a cloud of purple smoke, confusing him.

After Finn defeats the second Lizalfos with his saber, he prepares to help Abra, but sees another fight that needs his interference more.

Spike, seeing the Argorok doing enough damage, gets enough determination to become the Majestic Dragon, who is just as big as the vicious Argorok.

"I save this for when the Darkness gets out of hand. And you, monster, have done enough damage! Let's rumble!" The Majestic Dragon breathes ferocious flames, but the Argorok's armor stops them. It retaliates with its own fire, burning Spike in the chest.

The Ivory Beauty keeps galloping, gradually closing the distance between herself and the fighting dragons. Finn, seeing the Argorok striking Spike in the face, drawing blood, with its tail, kicks his mare in the ribs to go faster.

As the Argorok headbutts Spike with his mighty horns, Finn finally gets at a good distance and fires his blaster quickly. The blaster bolt bounces off and the Argorok turns. Bored, it sends a twister with its tail, which strikes Finn and his steed before they can turn.

Finn falls off, while White Beauty breaks her hind right leg. The Jedi, knowing this can be lethal, Force Heals her and gestures her to gallop away and somewhere safe. Then he extends his hands, showing the dragon he won't let it get past him.

It's the opening Spike needs to punch the Argorok in the face, making it flinch, and then attack with fire.

The Argorok, while feeling those hits, recovers and breathes a powerful stream of fire, while Finn sees how he can help his ally effectively.

The streams of fire, yellow and red, clash. But their colors mislead, they give the impression that Spike's are stronger. Alas, the Argorok's red fire pushes Spike's back slowly.

As Spike's eyes bulge in fear, and his only choice is to delay the inevitable, Finn notices the evil dragon's tail is glowing a little, which allows the winged menace to breathe stronger flames than an ordinary dragon.

He also sees the tail looks like some ledges he can use the Hookshot on. So he does use his Hookshot on the tail, and suddenly he finds himself being dragged by a very annoyed Argorok, who struggles to stay up. But by using his Force Resolve, he pulls the Argorok closer and brings it down, cracking its armor.

As the Argorok is stunned, Finn doesn't knlw how much time he has, so he doesn't use the Microwave Cannon. Instead, he places five detonators at different parts of the Argorok's body and blows them all up at once.

The qunintuple explosion completely destroys the dragon's armor, allowing Spike to burn his back with his own fiery breath.

"Thanks, Finn! I can handle this foul dragon myself now!" Spike gives the Jedi a thumbs up.

"You know you are a dragon too, right?" Finn tells him.

"Yes, but I am not a foul one!"

Finn calls Twilight. "How are you?"

"Well, currently I am facing no threats, Finn!"

"Ok. Can you please go to the burned village thirty meters northeast? There are people who need to be healed!" Finn asks.

"Lightning never said please! Anyway, thirty meters northeast. I am on it!" And she teleports there.

As Finn sees Spike knocking the Argorok to the ground with his tail, he realizes he has done enough. It's Spike's fight now.

Cookie has healed himself with a Healthy Meal and uses his butcher knife to duel a Lizalfos. The Lizalfos parries the heavy strike with his swords, then wounds him with his fiery breath. Cookie retaliates wkgh his super hot ketchup, which burns the Lizalfos to ash.

Then he hears a voice behind him.

"A ketchup half as hot as lava, huh? Let's pit it against my breath, foolish cook!"

He turns and attacks with his ketchup again, but his opponent is the Dragolfos, who overpowers it with his breath and wounds Cookie.

"Shame that my breath actually is lava."

"Huh. Looks like Stormwolf was right, I can't just overpower any foe."

Cookie wraps the Dragolfos' leg with a Spaghetti Whip, but the monster cuts it with a fiery sword. Then he attacks him with his other fiery sword, but Cookie dodges and wounds him with a Burger Bomb, drawing blood.

The Dragolfos glares at him.

---

In Verdant Mountain, the Goliath Drow swings his right fist, but only hits Rainbow's afterimage. He turns to see her pulling her right fist back before she moves faster than the human eye can see and punches the Drow twenty times.

Then with an uppercut she knocks him down.

The Goliath Drow struggles to get up and gives Rainbow a murderous glare before charging at her, thrusting both of his arms forward, the shields uniting to make an impenetrable defense.

Rainbow charges with a Sonic Rainboom, hoping to power through and test her own capabilities. She gives him pause for a single second, but he overpowers her and sends her tumbling down the mountain.

At the same time, Poe is firing his blasters at the defenses of the temple, and blows up twenty Drow, while his shields can deflect the arrows coming at him.

Cherry blows up several Grassmen with her explosive petals.

"Go, warriors of Herboss! Today it's the blooming of a new age!"

---

Inside the forest, Kazuda is shot down by a fireball from King Dodongo, and barely gers out of the flaming debris.

And he sees Suralinda getting hit by a Fire Spell Punk's fireball.

She is desperately rolling around, trying to extinquish the flames. "Hot hot hot hot!"

Kallie hits her with about five Ice Eggs and the flames extinguish.

"Phew. That was close!" the journalist says and bares her fangs, spitting acid and melting several Grillers.

She dashes extremely fast and dodges the wnxt fireball, while Kaz shoots the Punk dead. Then he takes his only detonator and rushes at the remaining Dodongos.

He shoots a Baby Dodongo close to an adult one, blowing up the former and wounding the latter severely. The Dodongo breathes a Big Fireball, grazing his left shoulder.

So, Kaz waits for the next one, dodges and gets at the beast's side. He fires his blaster once, jumps over the enemy's tail and with a second blaster bolt blows the Dodongo up.

However, the second Dodongo whips him with his tail from behind. Kaz struggles to get up, already injured by the crash. An Ewok warrior stabs the tail of the beast with his spear, then drops a flaming tree on it. The Dodongo turns and completely incinerates the Ewok and the tree with its fiery breath.

This causes Kaz to shoot the armored dinosaur and make it turn. It does, and opens its mouth, ready to take a deep breath and unleash a stream of fire. Kaz feeds it the detonator, blowing it up instantly.

Wicket is on a still safe tree and snipes Fire Moblins and Baby Dodongos with his bow. But a Fire Moblin swings his fiery axe and cuts the tree in a single swing, forcing him to jump on the Moblin and beat him to death with his fists.

Applejack kicks a flaming tree on a few Moblins and Baby Dodongos, crushing them. Then she punches a Fire Moblin out.

The King Dodongo is remaining, who rolls and brings down four trees and two Ewoks.

Logray uses his healing magic and heals some trees, saving them. Then he traps the Dodongo with his vines, but the Dodongo burns them with his breath.

Then he takes a deep breath and prepares to burn Logray with a giant fireball, but Jessika dives between them and with a couple of Proton Torpedoes interrupts the beast's vicious assault.

This stuns the King Dodongo, allowing Rose to weaken it with her blasters and Jess to fire a charged shot at its face, finally doing the massive dinosaur in.

"We did it! This will stop the attack in the jungle!"

---

Spike is still fighting the mighty Argorok. And even without Finn, he is still gaining the upper hand because he can now harm the dragon.

He bites the Argorok hard in the neck, but the Argorok breaks free, roars loudly enough to make the Majestic Dragon flinch and spins wildly with its wings, knocking him down. Then with a twister it makes him dizzy before breathing an explosive fiery orb and knocking him through a fake building.

The Majestic Dragon spits blood and a tooth. He hopes it will regrow soon and struggles to get up.

As the Argorok dives at him with its claws, Spike creates fiery swords from his hands, which he drives into the now exposed belly of the Argorok.

Roaring in pain, the Twilit Dragon breathes a mighty stream of fire at the Majestic Dragon. However, Spike attacks with his own Dragon Breath.

Spike's POV

I am getting stronger when I am pushed too far. And now the Darkness has done enough. I think I will be a bit more cornered... if I give a day of my lifespan to strengthen my breath.

As I do so, my flames change color. Now they are a mix of bright yellow and white. And unlike our previous clashes, it's pushing the other dragon's flames back! That's it! Let's finish this!

For Tiamo! For Equestria! For my friends!

Third Person POV

The Majestic Dragon overpowers the Argorok, burning its scales and sending it flying on a Helmasaur.

The Twilit Dragon, defeated, flees and Spike chases it.

However, as his last attack used a little of his lifespan, he has to revert to his Dragon Knight form to at least not be drained so fast. And he duels with a Lizalfos instead.

Iron Horn punches Abra so hard he sends him flying, then fires a beam from his horn.

Abra draws a mirror and reflects the beam, wounding him, then sends an explosive card at his face.

However, Iron Horn jumps and lands a flying kick to his face, drawing blood and making him fall on his knees.

Abra turns into five, but Iron Horn throws a chunk of cement through the one in the center. Which, of course, is a clone. Another Abra charges at him, but Iron Horn punches him. Only for that to be a clone as well.

"My, you are getting unlucky!" Abra taunts.

Which gets him impaled by the enemy's horn in the stomach.

"Good thing you are a follower of Celesto! Only you would make such a fatal mistake."

Blood comes out from the very real Abra.

However, he has a weapon to use. And he starts sawing the enemy's back as his gut keeps getting gored.

Due to previous injuries, Iron Horn falls dead first. And Abra frees himself, severely wounded.

"Must... find... Cookie!"

Trixie sees the last rabbit dying in her arms after being rammed by a Helmasaur.

She also sees Finn passing by. And makes a mirage of herself right between the Helmasaur and the Jedi.

The beast falls for it, passes through the mirage and towards a General who uses his Hookshot to remove its helmet and then shoot its face twice.

Then Rarity shoots the rest of the Helmasaurs from behind with her arrows before drawing a rapier to duel with a Lizalfos.

Two Lizalfos come at Trixie, ready to slit her throat.

But she makes an illusory water dragon, ten times the size of the lizardmen. The Lizalfos run away in fear.

The last serious threat remaining is the Dragolfos, who is duelling Cookie.

The fiery swords clash with the meat cleaver and heat it, making Cookie wince in pain. Then the Dragolfos sweeps his tail and sends him flying.

Cookie pierces the wings of the beast with the fast Pepper Bullets, but the Dragolfos blocks several of them and breathes three fireballs at once, spreading them. Cookie blocks with his Salad Shield, and while it blocks the strike, it goes down, allowing the Dragolfos to burn him with lava.

Cookie simply heals himself with a Healthy Meal.

"Hey, that's not fair!" the Dragolfos complains, pointing an accusatory finger at the Starfleet officer.

"Is it fair to kill villagers who can't fight back, bastard?" Cookie asks.

Stunend from the question, the Dragolfos fails to react as the Super Hot Ketchup weakens him. Then Cookie wraps him in spaghetti and decapitates him with his meat cleaver.

"Thought so."

But they can't celebrate just yet.

Argorok found the real city.

And once it does, suddenly reinforcement from a Gate of Souls emerge. Common zombies bring in a Lake Dragon, which while small, only four meters is quite elusive and still carnivorous.

Mac Speed flexes his muscles. "I will deal with those!" And he charges at the zombies faster than the human eye can see.

He only appears when he is about to beat up a zombie, which he easily does before going for the next one. At the same time, Stormwolf soldiers and Starfleet sentries fire blaster bolts and arrows from the walls of the city, decimating the zombies and even hitting the lake dragon.

Renee snaps her fingers and suddenly the zombies slip on banana peels, becoming easy prey for the defense forces.

The Argorok ignores the fight and goes for the buildings, burning one of them to ash.

Renee, being able to control fire and forge things with fairy magic and her blacksmith skills, rushes there, makes the flames move away from the civilians and creates a ladder out of bronze so everyone can go down, then she does her best to put out the fire.

The Lake Dragon smashes through the walls and prepares to spew lethal venom.

However, Pierre has already activated his armor and darts right in front of the beast, taking the whole venom himself. It fails to penetrate the Amecite. Then he blinds the dragon with a beam of light and uses Alexandros to stab its face.

Rey is chasing the Argorok, getting closer and closer by landing on a building, using her triple jump.

The dragon attacks with its fiery breath, but Rey dodges it and uses her double hookshots to be able to launch herself from building to building easily.

On the ground, Pierre blocks yet another poisonous strike and slashes the dragon a few more times. However, the beast knocks him down with its tail. While the armor takes no damage, the force still deals damage to the wearer.

As he struggles to get up, the dragon wraps him with its tail and tries to crush him. However, the light armor can take pressure, and Pierre can still get enough composure to hit the beast with a beam of light, blinding it and forcing it to release him. Then he slashes the dragon again, forcing it to run away.

Mac Speed dashes at full speed and gets in front of the creature. "Now I will make sure you will never return!"

He rushes with his sword, but alas, the monster bites him hard, nearly ripping off his left arm. It only doesn't completely cut it so its poison can spread with complete certainity.

Mac Speed curses himself for being reckless, then charges and sinks his sword between the monster's eyes, killing it.

Victorious, he rushes in the city. "I have slain the beast! But alas, I got poisoned. Someone help me!"

Pierre obliges. He has learned a basic healing spell, and is happy to use it.

Once he cures the poison of Mac Speed, he is grateful. "Thank you! Young lad, you saved the mentor of Starla Shine!"

"I know." Pierre removes his helmet. "See, any race can help any race. I might be a human, but I can still help a Space Pony. Even someone as great as you!"

Everyone who isn't beating up zombies gathers around Pierre, and there is murmur around the Starfleet forces.

"Who does he think he is?"

"He thinks other races can save us? They are those who need protection."

"This idiot will give ideas to Equestrians, that they are just as valued as us!"

"We never needed the help of other races!"

"SILENCE!"

The fully healed Mac Speed storms to his men. "This man saved my life. He is correct. Every race matters. From now on, warriors of Tiamo will be joining our ranks, and one of them will co-lead the army we have here. They will be semi-independent. They can help us just like we can help them!"

Meanwhile, the Argorok is breathing fire at Rey, but she uses her double Hookshots and outruns the flames. Alas, the dragon is not stupid. It changes tactics and breathes fire right in front of her, going on the direction she is going and hitting her, sending her crashing on a building. And before she can recover, the dragon grabs her arms and flies as high as it can.

When it reaches a hundred meters, the dragon drops her, aware that could kill even a Jedi.

However, Rey uses the Force to slow down her fall and jumps in mid-air, now controlling it fully. With another jump, she breaks her fall and with a well-timed third one she lands on a building.

The dragon spits a huge, explosive fireball, but Rey reflects it with the Force, hitting the right wing of the beast and forcing it to lose altitude.

Then she uses her Hookshots again to go from building to building, but this time she is aware of her foe's movements, and doesn't fall for the same trick twice. So, she gets behind the dragon, latches on it with a Hookshot and stabs its spine, piercing the nerves.

The Argorok roars in agony and falls on the ground, the fall making its death much faster.

"You are good. But I am a Chosen One."

---

With Tiamo free, only the Verdant Mountain remains.

Kallie is wounded by a fireball, but Logray heals her.

"We have a problem!" Kallie says. "I am out of Ice Eggs and magic energy, and the fire is still not completely out! I can't save a whole jungle from an army of arsonists!"

Wicket hits one of the few remaining Fire Spell Punks with his bow. Then he fires another arrow and kills a Fire Moblin that was gloating over the ashes of two Herbolites.

However, a Fire Moblin aims a Fire Arrow at one of the trees. Even without the Dodongos, the arsonists still put up a fight.

And then a disc of water cuts the Moblin in half. A few more discs reduce the flames to small embers Applejack easily stomps.

And Virago appears, the Sun shining behind her. "Well... I wanted to fight in the mountain, but saw you were in trouble!"

Then she uses the Orca Greatsword and tries to seek any remaining flames to put out. And any Griller that comes at her is cut down swiftly.

On the mountain, the Goliath Drow charges with his shields up, but Rainbow dodges the attack easily and with a Sonic Rainboom from behind knocks the Drow out.

The Flowermen and Moblins are losing badly. Moss and Iris defeat several Flowermen and get outside of the temple.

However, they get caught by a net trap each.

Resistance Troopers charge at the entrance, and while some of them get in nets themselves, the rest succeed at entering the temple.

However, Kunai daggers pierce all of them and kill them. And Kerd, who threw all of them personally, draws his greatsword.

"I shall not fall so easily! The whole planet is at stake!" Kerd declares.

And Rainbow flies through a wall, punching him hard in the face.

"You dishonorable mare! You ruined part of this precious temple!" Kerd spits.

"You did not just call me dishonorable!" Enraged, Rainbow throws another punch at him, but despite his size, Kerd dodges due to his athletic build. Then he throws his kunai at her, but only hits an afterimage.

He sets up a net trap behind him and swings in a wide area with his greatsword. Rainbow rushes behind him, but even with her super speed, because she takes time to punch him, she doesn't escape the trap she triggers.

And Kerd activates a statue, a fearsome Armos Knight.

"Finish her off!"

As he moves out of the temple, the Constable confronts Poe Dameron.

Who is on foot, and let BB-8 protect his ship.

The Constable gives him a fake smile. "Welcome, welcome, Poe Dameron! You are here for the planet, right? How come you didn't attack me from the ship?"

"Even if my men didn't get in, and I didn't fear risking their lives, I could not bring down a historical monument. I heard this temple existed even before you. And I will protect it at all costs" Poe declares.

"So, you will fight me on foot? That's suicide. Stick to flying."

Poe shakes his head. "Nah. This is not suicide, Constable. I have fought foes on foot before. One of them had an entire arsenal of weapons you wish you had."

"Don Krieg? I heard of his humiliation in Sauria. He might talk big and used to have a vast army, but he was a nobody in a world of warriors" Kerd tells him. "I am not."

Poe fires his blaster at him a few times, but Kerd slides under the shots and throws more kunai. One of them hits Poe's armor, doing little damage.

Poe blinds Kerd with a Garlic Bomb and pierces him with a UV Beam. Then he lands a flying kick and sends him back in the temple.

Then he fires his blaster, but Kerd jumps over him, dodging the shot, and dashes with his mighty greatsword, slashing Poe from behind and making a cut in his orange, Rare armor.

Then he raises his sword to finish him off, only to be shot in the armpit and be stunned. Poe activates his jetpack and dashes at him, punching him while he is flying.

Meanwhile, outside, a group of Moblins prepare to shoot at Poe with their rifles.

However, Moss uses her super strength and rips off Kerd's trap, then she makes spiky grass under the firing squad, making them scatter.

Then she also frees Iris, but three bullets wound her.

Iris uses magic pollen and puts all the armed Moblins to sleep.

Inside, the Armos Knight jumps close to the ceiling, ready to crush Rainbow.

However, she uses vibrations to make the net wobble and soften, and she rips it just as the Knight lands.

Then she lands several fast jabs at the living statue, pushing it back, but it slashes her with its sword, drawing blood.

"That's enough!" Rainbow vanishes and lands a Four-Sided Strike, blowing the Armos Knight up.

At the same time, Kerd is about to stab Poe, but the blast grazes and distracts him, allowing Poe to stab him instead.

Kerd growls and punches him in the face.

As the two keep fighting, Rainbow frees those who fell for Kerd's traps one by one.

---

Virago puts out the last roaring flame with a disc of water, while Applejack and Wicket stomp the last of the tiny embers.

A Fire Moblin, the last remaining enemy, is about to burn yet another tree.

"The flames of our hate will burn eternal!"

BONK! Wicket takes him down with a mighty swing of his club.

The forest is safe.

---

Poe and Kerd are duelling ferociously with their swords, and have completed four rounds.

Their blades lock and Poe, with his enhanced strength, tries his best to repel his huge opponent. His left foot is skidding backwards gradually. Sweating, Poe gets repelled and the Moblin lands a vicious left hook in his face.

"That was for Diababa!" Then he lands a right hook. "And this one as well!" And finally he stabs him in the chest, piercing his left lung. "And this one too! One for each head!"

Poe falls on his knees.

"Come on!" Kerd taunts. "Stand up and fight like a man!"

"You... you could have killed me right now, you know" Poe tells him.

"No. That would be dishonorable. So, get up and fight!" Kerd taunts.

Poe releases Garlic Gas from his armor. As Kerd is coughing, Poe gets up and slashes him four times with his sword before kicking him out of the temple.

Kerd sets a trap in the entrance and waits there as he wipes the blood from his mouth and nose. Then he starts hurling daggers, while a Life Spell Punk soothes his wounds.

Then he prepares to heal him again, only to be taken out by Maya's blaster. Then she takes on the last three Life Spell Punks at once, without channeling any Jedi.

Poe gets shot by a kunai and his titanium armor is weakening. He also spots the trap, meaning he can't rush there. He fires his blaster, but Kerd simply takes cover and so doesn't get hit.

When Poe sees the hole Rainbow came from, he tries to get out, only for a kunai to land right in front of him.

Cherry Blossom sees this and attacks with her toughest ability, in which she trained especially after the defeat of the traitorous Herbolite, Cynthia Poisonthorn. The Cherry Bomb.

The explosive strikes Kerd in the back, sending him crashing through the wall. And with everyone else out thanks to Rainbow, Poe escapes with his jetpack through the hole his friend made, then throws a Gas Bomb in.

Kerd rushes out of the temple, and gets caught in his own trap. Except he is not so stupid. With one slash he cuts it, freeing himself.

Then he finds Poe in front of him, who attacks with his sword.

The two cross blades again, with Kerd this time struggling far more.

"You are not the strongest in your army, Poe. Tell me. What do you have that can beat me?"

"Friends. Rainbow gave me the exit, and Cherry gave me the time. Don't underestimate the Herbolites or the Equestrians. Oh, and how I could forget the high ground!"

And, exploiting his position, Poe pushes Kerd back and sends him tumbling down the hill.

Kerd barely gets up, albeit weakened.

"Poe Dameron... don't think I will surrender the planet so easily. It's my duty to protect it from criminals like you. The Herbolites need our guidance! They need our empire! At least we give them a chance to join our ranks and don't treat them as helpless weaklings who just need to be saved by us!"

"Well... I won't "guide" them. I will help them stand up for themselves. All Herbolites, feel free to beat up the Constable. Everyone else, stay back. This is their time to shine."

Kerd throws a few Kunai to defend himself, but a fence of leaves blocks them. Realizing he is not winning, Kerd plants his sword down.

"Do as you please. There are some things worse than death."

And Moss lands the first punch.

"You burned our jungle!"

Iris goes next. "You killed many of us!"

And Cherry goes last. "You corrupted a former friend of mine and made many of us mindless slaves that couldn't be saved!"

Kerd chuckles. "I didn't corrupt Cynthia. Starfleet did. And I drove them out with her help."

"You know, he has a point" Iris tells Cherry.

"He still committed crimes" Moss replies.

"I have an idea" Cherry tells them as the angry mob keeps beating up the Moblin.

She makes them stop. "Let's imprison him. He does have some honor. But he also needs to live with his failure. And he and Cynthia will look at each other... and realize the planet is free in spite of them."

All Herbolites nod.

"Very good!"

"Make him rot in jail!"

"It's fitting for him!"

"It will reward what little honor he has!"

"It will be cruel enough for him!"

"Well... prison it is!" Cherry declares.

---

The planets are free.

One day later, SkullFace returns to Stormwolf, courtesy of the Nutty Poet's portals.

She narrates the Battle of Eutracia.

"And then Little Finn, the mouse, scared that Aerophant Sword shitless! I wish I was inside the ship to see the look on Kudos' stupid face!"

SkullFace chuckles. "I have nothing against the Legion, but I wish that as well."

Leah gets a call from Poe. "Herboss is completely free! We beat the enemy remnant and Herboss is now our ally, though completely self-ruled."

"Brilliant! Good job!"

Poe closes and Finn calls.

"Hello there!"

"General Finn. You are a bold one!" Leah tells him. "Where are you?"

"In Tiamo. And it's almost free. It will all depend on a magic show. Settler against native. The winner takes the planet" Finn tells her. "It's gonna be the greatest show ever!"

"I hope we win this one! May the Force be with you!"

"And with you, Leah!"