Ancient Maze Zone Act 1
Mysterious Underground Labyrinth
Dr. Eggheart has begun his latest research in the remains of this ancient stone labyrinth. Mysterious traps are lined everywhere that deter curious explorers, but Rainbow Dash is determined to stop the mad doctor. Equip with her two wings and an unwise amount of courage, Dash starts her way through the ancient ruins only to come across burrobot badniks, mole-like robots that hide under the ground and pop up without warning. Dashy's reflexes where more than a match for them, but as she glimpsed below her she saw one of her most feared hazards; water… "Oh great, not again.." she said as she recalled an unfortunate experience she had before. She glanced upward to see if there was another way around where, thankfully there were more structures above, "I'm taking the upper route," she flew to the upper pathway and soon came across her first real trap, falling boulders over bottomless pits. As threatening as it sounded, all it toke was a little carful timing and before Dash knew it she was on the other side, charging down a slope and almost flying into some bubbles taking them out with the homing attack, but then there was a new type of enemy; a red bubble with spikes but it didn't prove to be much of a threat either just a little careful timing is all it took.
Then Rainbow came to her next enemy, another annoyingly familiar face, the orbinaut, a red sphere that had four spike balls orbiting it, it then flung on of its spiked orbs at Rainbow Dash, with her having little time to react, fortunately, it now left itself open, DONK! The badnik was toast. Flying down the next route, Dashy came across more boulders, with one that started rolling after her, but it wasn't hard to get away from, thanks to her natural speed. Soon she came to a room that had more orbinauts, these ones where green, and they wouldn't shoot there spikes, the drawback for them was that they spread their spike balls out, giving Dash an opening. Through the next room, Dash found a boulder resting on some kind of rail, like a pinball or something. I guess the point is to try to push it and balance on top of it once it starts rolling. I could just fly over this, but hey, it sounds like fun. She did as she thought and balanced, it was tricky at first on all fours, so she tried on her two hind legs, making it somewhat easier.
After Dash got to the other side, she came to a corridor loaded with springs, but something else was eye catching. Rainbow Dash spotted another monitor, this time it had some sort of flower icon on it. Curious, Dash avoided the springs and smashed open the box, suddenly she was surrounded by sparkles. Dash had experienced this before, the monitor had granted her temporary invincibility. "Aw yeah! Who wants a piece of this!" Although her power up wasn't put to very good use as she only managed to take out a red orbinaut and six blue bubbles, but upon reaching the next room she found a shield power up, all was not lost. The corridor up ahead contained more falling boulders, Dash got a little too cocky and ran into one of them full force, but that's what the shield was for, she lost it but it had saved her from a worse fate. "Okay, gotta be steady here," after passing several more, one of the boulders started rolling after her on a downward slope. The hallway was narrow, Dash had to outfly it, and she then found a little hole that she hopped in to let the boulder pass by. The boulder then fell into a pit as she traveled onward and upward into more boulders to ride. After smashing some badniks and more balance games, Dashy found another gold ring. "Fourth gem, here I come!"
Rainbow Dash Made It Through Act 1
The fourth special stage was green and packed with bumpers all over the place. The previous stages had bumpers too, but these were obnoxious, it was near impossible to progress. Followed by a really tight hallway, and finally in the main chamber was the green gem surrounded by multicolored diamonds. With little struggle, Rainbow Dash got ahold of the fourth gem.
Special Stage 4 Cleared
Rainbow Dash Acquired An Element Of Harmony
Ancient Maze Zone Act 2
Path Of Darkness
The next area was covered in darkness, Rainbow Dash had to light a torch in order to move on. "Better keep low on the flying, can't be too sure what lies ahead." She began through the cave on hoof, coming across some more burrobots and a patch that could light up the room somewhat, but Dash still needed the torch. She finally came across a patch of light in the cave only to zoom into another dark area and after being launched up by a spring and the torch lit a fuse on the way up and blew up a block that was in the way. She spin dashed her way down another dark corridor where she stumbled in the darkness some more, finding a few torches that caused platform to protrude from the wall. She then came across another open area, and in it she found a mine cart that nearly lead her into pitfalls, if she hadn't managed to make the cart jump over them, only to be launched back into another dark hallway. Dash lit another fuse by accident that blew up some blocks that lead to a pit, without realizing it, she fell down the pit into a room loaded with burrobots and blocked off with a door. After stumbling around, Dash found a torch that opened the door. After destroying some more blocks in another dark room, she came to another puzzle one with doors and torches. She had to use carful timing to light the torches in a specific way in order to get out of the room, and after speeding through some more rooms, blowing up more blocks and riding another mine cart, Dash finally made it out of the darkness and onto the next area.
Rainbow Dash Made It Through Act 2
Ancient Maze Zone Act 3
Water
Dashy started down the path, nothing special, until she saw it; water. A waterfall pouring down onto the slopes below, making a waterslide, and no doubt that at the bottom was a pool of water waiting. "Oh no, ugh, of all the stupid…" It HAD to be water? Rainbow Dash had never actually learned how to swim, since she grew up living in the sky, it seemed like a pointless skill to learn to her. Nowadays she felt too embarrassed to try and learn since she was practically an adult at this point. After stalling out of nervousness and trying to find another way around for a bit Dash realized she had no choice but to face it. "Here goes something.." She leapt forward onto the waterslide, she was carried down, down, down, until SPLASH! She hit the pool as expected, and had already hit the bottom. She opened her eyes that she closed before the impact and began looking around for a way to get out. Come on Rainbow Dash. You can do this. You have done this before and it wasn't that bad… and… and… She began to find it hard to hold her breath, Oh no! I'm gonna drown! And I can't find a way out! I can't die like this! Not me, Rainbow Dash! The coolest…. Pony... to… Her breathing became more and more struggled, soon she was starting to feel light headed. She began to desperately try to swim up to the surface, but to no avail. Just when she was about to give into her fate, Dash noticed a crack in the floor and through it where coming.. AIR BUBBLES! She made her way over to the crack and a big bubble came out of it, and she inhaled it. Suddenly she felt much more relieved, Okay, now to try to find a way out of here.
It was then Rainbow noticed two peculiar looking tiles on the floor, curious, she applied her wait onto them, and they began to sink down. Alright, making progress. After traveling down another hidden path, grabbing more air bubbles and running into more badniks, this time there was fish type named jaws, she finally found her way out of the waters, only to run into a strange room, a hidden chamber full of water that was inescapable. Oh come on! Not again! I can't even move, what's going on? Is it magic? Suddenly the room started moving, tipping, Dash realized that she was moving it like the special zone, she kept tilting the room until finally a wall broke free under the water pressure and Dash found herself flying into another waterfall, soon she saw a ledge to jump onto and so she did from fear of falling down into a pit. She didn't know what could be down there.
Dashy started further into the ruins and then she heard a low rumbling sound, she immediately turned around to see a giant wall attempting to crush her. She was easily out flying it at first, but suddenly more water came pouring into the corridor and she had to rely on her spin dash and homing attack to get away. She was able to escape the trap and came to another water pit, after jumping down she noticed a secret wall that served as a shortcut and made it out of the water, but just when she thought she was home free, the water suddenly raised. I'm really getting tired of this. But it proved to be a worthless trap. Soon Dash came to another mind controlled water chamber, nothing different except there were a set of spikes, but easy to avoid, she just had to keep her distance. Upon launching out of the room, she came to a fork, two waterslides "Okay, this could be a problem, which way, which way? Eh.. Ini mini miny.. right!" She took a chance down the path, and to her luck she found a path sealed off, "Aw! You've got to be kidding! I'll bet there's a switch or something.. Maybe.." She took another chance and jumped back down the waterslide, and sure enough, she landed back on the ledge at the top of the two water falls. "It loops? Huh." Not too surprising when you live in a world full of magic. Rainbow took this time to find the switches that opened the passage way. "Alright, I've gotta be getting close now. Here I come Eggheart!"
Rainbow Dash Made It Through Act 3
Ancient Maze Zone Boss
Trap-Filled Ruins
And sure enough, there he was "Ah, I was beginning to wonder where you were my dear."
"Well don't worry, I'll end this quickly to make up for lost time."
"We'll see, if you can survive this!" Dr. Eggheart began to fly away leaving Rainbow Dash confused, "What do you mean by… Hey! Where are you going?!" She began to give chase and soon realized what his plan was, upon looking back, water was beginning to flood the cavern. She tried to keep up with Eggheart, but the water soon caught up. Dash still pressed onward, passing through orbinauts and spike traps, until she finally made it to the top above the water. The doctor was waiting for her, "You done running yet Egghead?" She asked.
"I felt like giving you a fair chance. You seemed to be struggling back there." Eggheart taunted
"We'll see who'll be struggling when I'm finished with you," Dash jumped up as she began to fly, except for the part where she actually flew, and fell flat on her stomach. "Oghf! Huh? What?"
"Ho ho ho! How do you like my little trap!" As he spoke, walls rose up from the ground, trapping then in a chamber. "I won't bore you with the chemistry, never mind that a simple mind like yours could understand, but basically this labyrinth contains magic that disables your ability to fly. Now with this, it should be easy to crush you." Pillars came out of the walls in an attempt to crush Rainbow Dash, she was only barley able to avoid them. Eggheart left some open areas obviously so he wouldn't be crushed, which would lead to his downfall. After a few times, Dash began to catch on to some patterns and was able to get a few hits on him.
"Ha! Looks like you're the one who's trapped now eggboy!" One hit more and Eggheart's machine gave in.
"Erg! Retreat!" One of the walls opened up and he made his escape.
"Ha ha! And she remains undefeated!" Dash gloated, and made her way to the capsule. Wonder Who's In this capsule? Aside from the blue birds and penguins was a white coated unicorn pony with a purple mane and blue diamonds for a cutie mark. "Well, it's about time! You should know better than to.. Oh, I'm sorry darling, I thought you were that awful stallion," the unicorn said.
"History! Well, not just yet but I'll show him what for." Dash replied.
"As you should. The nerve of that ruffian, kidnaping somepony like me! The Rarity the unicorn! He should know how to treat a lady properly. Make sure you give him a good one for me darling," said Rarity.
"Uh... yeah sure," With that Dash flew off, Ugh, I can't stand those kinds of ponies, being all 'look at me, I'm so special because I look and dress like it's the 1600s.' Bleh, bragging rights are for those that are awesome enough, like me. And with that comment to herself, failing to see the irony in her statement, she headed deeper into the tunnel of the maze in the same direction as Dr. Eggheart only to find her journey's near end.
Rainbow Dash Defeated The Boss
