pan2000 | Spitefic: Battle against a dark cult

Rarity is still fighting Mainstream, and shoots her from above with Ruby Rain. Mainstream simply steals all the rubies using the Element of Selfishness.

However, Rarity breathes fire once more and brittles the metal shield. "I might have become my old self thanks to Twilight's magic, but due to my magic, I still can do what I could do as a kirin!"

"Hold on, I thought it was called a Dragony" Mainstream tells her. "Or at least that's the stupid name Starfleet gave you."

"Mainstream, why do you want to steal everything?" Rarity asks.

"Because I once was a poor mare, and my parents were both sick. I asked Celestia to give us money, but she refused, and both of them died. Then I had to steal to live, but Celestia caught me and imprisoned me under a mountain for five hundred years!"

"And I thought Talon had a nonsensical motive!" Rarity tells her. "Ok, the truth please."

"The truth is, I just want to be the richest mare in Equestria. Especially if it means everyone else will be poor and depend on me. I want to bathe in gold and gems, and everything valuable.

I did start poor, and did envy the rich. Why must others be happy while I am miserable? It should be the other way round... I must be rich and powerful, while the others experience my old reality."

"Ah, I see why you are called Mainstream. Not just because you started a commoner, but because you are the average greedy criminal."

"AVERAGE?"

Enraged, Mainstream attacks Rarity ferociously, at full speed and strength, slashing her hard across the torso and left arm with her sword.

She jumps backwards and draws a Noble Rapier, which she uses to parry the next strikes.

Mainstream bashes her hard with her shield in the jaw, drawing blood, then slashes her a bit above the belly button.

"You talk about selflessness and generocity because you have been in luxury! You have never really suffered in your life!" she taunts.

"Even counting Kudos and my forced tranformation?" Rarity asks.

"Kudos is too soft. He just scorched your face a tiny bit. And the tranformation made you get closer to your husband!"

Rarity glares at her and parries the next blow before breathing fire straight at Mainstream's face.

"You are right. My husband helped me a lot since the transformation. Sadly, this was just a small scorch."

"AIEEEEE! Put it out, put it out!" Mainstream yells.

And then Rarity stabs her with her rapier.

"I might be generous, but even I have my limits."

Mainstream falls unconscious and Rarity, after dousing her with water, checks her pulse.

"Phew, she is alive. But she definitely is going to prison."

Applejack, despite being focused on physical strength and durability, is not a brute.

She knows using her lasso or trying to use her Earth Pony strength will end with her screaming in pain, while Ragamuffin, who doesn't care she is on fire, would burn her to death.

"Ah have a warning for you, Ragamuffin. Granny Smith always told me this.

Only a fool plays too much with fire."

"That's your weakness" Ragamuffin says, charging at her and throwing a punch, which Applejack dodges while running away. "Being set on fire makes you suffer and scream!

While I? I can ensure you can't touch me without feeling a thing!"

Applejack keeps running away.

"Get back here, cowardly mare!" Ragamuffin taunts. "Are you afraid of a little flame?"

"Ah know there is a difference between bravery and stupidity!"

As Ragamuffin chases Applejack, Striker faces a mighty troll.

"You are weak. And in this world, power is everything!" the troll taunts.

"Yes. History was always written by the strong. But I will use strength not to get authority..." Striker punches the troll in the gut "but to protect the weak..." he uppercuts the troll's jaw "crush evil..." with a double flying kick he sends the troll flying "...and serve justice! STRIKING FORCEWAVE!"

And that finally takes the troll down.

In the Crystal Empire, Fratello uses his jetpack and flies above a Plasma Eel Baidu throws, then he uses his flamethrower that operates on rocket fuel and burns the area Baidu was standing a second ago. Baidu performs a backflip and throws five Razor Bugs at once, but Fratello shoots them all down with his bullets.

With Baidu busy, a Subcommander orders a bunch of Thralls to rush straight at the shield, which repels them. Then he orders the Tank Beasts to charge at the Crystal Empire one by one, with no backup, and turns to a horde of a hundred Thralls and twenty Yuuzhan Vong.

"Let's show them our ferocity! Charge straight ahead at the artillery! Destroy it!"

The Thralls charge as fast as possible towards the ballistas and catapults.

Only to be quickly slaughtered. And due to obeying the Subcommander, the Yuuzhan Vong try to power through the rocks, magical spears and massive arrows coming at them, but fall to the last man.

"What are you doing?" another Subcommander asks. "Stop this madness!"

The one who gave the foolish order simply draws a blade and stabs him in the gut.

However, that gets the attention of a Stalcaptain and several Yuuzhan Vong, Thralls and Stalfos.

The Subcommander smiles sheepishly and turns into a bat before flying away.

"Traitor! Get them!" a Yuuzhan Vong orders.

The Changeling lures their pursuers away from their lines and straight towards a massive ballista made out of diamond, like its arrows. These start whittling down the enemy numbers until four Plasma Eels destroy it. Only for the Changeling to turn into a massive green hippo and charge through the remaining enemies.

"Who is this Changeling?" a Crystal Pony asks while blocking a Moblin arrow with her shield.

When only the Stalcaptain remains, he sends a dark pink razor that cuts the hippo a bit, then slashes him with a Leap Attack. The hippo turns into his real form and becomes a light green insectoid being, who gets mighty emerald armor and an emerald curved blade. He parries against the next attack and pushes the Stalcaptain back before hitting him thrice. Then he turns into an elk and with a hard headbutt sends him straight to the path of a boulder fired by the catapults.

"If this siege is not stopped, my name is not Thorax!"

With Celestia handling thousands of goatmen at once, Luna turns into a shadow and slips past the enemy hordes, which also include a battallion of Stygians and Imps. Until she reappears in front of some very muscular goatmen with huge skythes and sends a massive razor of moonlight, cutting one of them in half instantly.

Then she senses a few normal goatmen coming at her from behind and with a spell puts them to sleep before making a Shadow Bomb that takes out two elite goatmen at once.

An orange donkey with red eyes, dressed in crimson robes, leaves a demonic bray that makes everything living shudder, and summons two Cemetery Shades to deal with Luna.

Then he gives orders.

"Soldiers! You can't take on the princesses, they are too powerful! Try to slip past them and invade New Canterlot"

"Yes, master!" a goatman replies.

"Split in groups, they can't find you all in time!"

Celestia uses her enhanced senses and hears the voice.

"This is bad. I remember that voice. It's none other than the cult leader of Grogar, the fearsome..."

Luna sees him as she slashes one more goatman with her blade.

"You! Grogar's lackey!" she yells.

"That's rude, Luna. You are just shadow, you should be more polite to a follower of Death!"

And with another demonic bray, the Cemetery Shades surround Luna and charge from both sides, which Luna barely dodges.

"I am the ruler of the night. You will need more than just two shadow swordsmen, Bray!" she boasts and draws her Moonblade.

Ragamuffin, with part of her flesh burning, sees one of her ribs is exposed and Applejack is too far away.

So, she rips it off, feeling pressure but nothing more, and smirks as a sickening crack is heard.

Then she narrows her eyes at her target and throws the flaming bone at her knee, making her fall.

Pushing through the pain, Applejack barely gets it out, but the burn is so severe she can't get up.

Ragamuffin charges at her, ready to give her a flaming punch, knowing she can't be punched first.

"You are history, Abigail!"

Applejack is helpless. She can't dodge or counter, she sees a fiery death coming at her, and she can't stop it. Ragamuffin laughs as she knows her victory is assured.

Alas, because her pain sensors are dead, she does not realize that the fire and the messed up insides are harming her. And two seconds before the punch connects, as the flames are licking her target's face, she is burned to ashes, without even feeling it or having any last words.

Applejack grits her teeth. "Ah told ya... don't play with fire."