Robotic Busts: Chapter 9


When standing up against Tirek, Lunar looked as determined as can be in his eyes. Tirek, on the other hand, was laughing at Lunar, claiming that it was no use to try to defeat him.

"You're a puny pony," He sniggered, "What good can you do against me?"

"You're about to find out!" Lunar yelled, blasting off into the sky.

Tirek rolled his eyes, then grabbed Lunar on his ascent upward. Lunar was scared, but he insisted that the fight was not over quite just yet.

"Have you seen where you are right now?" Tirek tormented. "You have nowhere to run."

"Not on my watch!" snapped Lunar. He then began using his increased strength to pry himself free from Tirek's grasp.

Tirek was alarmed. "A valiant effort, pony, but allow me to finish you off." He attempted to grab Lunar again.

Lunar, smart and inquisitive, determined the trajectory of Tirek's hand and flew safely around it, punching him in his jaw. Tirek felt the pain, but didn't make it seem that obvious. He angrily looked at Lunar and swatted him away like a fly.

Lunar was dizzy, being sent away in a tumbling sort of way. He straightened himself out, then flew at lightning speed back at Tirek, piercing his skin with his metal gliders. Unfortunately for Lunar, that damaged his wing and forced him to fly with more power from his right side.

Tirek yelled out, smacking and slamming Lunar into the ground while he wasn't looking. Lunar's systems started malfunctioning and started resetting and locking themselves, much like how a spring lock locks. He stared at Tirek, whom was towering over himself, and tried fighting back some more.

Tirek laughed. "Pitiful pony...that's the best you can do?" Tirek bent down and picked Lunar up. "Now let me show you what it feels like to die."

"Lunar!" cried out Twilight. The fight had roamed away from her and she only just now managed to catch up.

Tirek laughed even more. "Watch, Princess, as he slowly succumbs to death!"

"Don't you dare!" Twilight cried, flying up as fast as she could.

Tirek smirked, allowing Twilight to ascend to him. When the time came, Tirek took both of his hands and literally ripped Lunar's body into two halves. Lunar couldn't react to it in time; his systems had forced them to go into an offline mode. Twilight saw Lunar's body get ripped in half and stopped sharp in her tracks. As Tirek dropped Lunar's body, part of the ripped and shredded wires and chips cascaded around and hit Twilight on the way down. She fell silent and then stared at Tirek, heartbroken and all. To Twilight, it was almost as if Tirek took her heart and also ripped it in half.

Tirek smirked. "Oops."

Twilight was appalled. She watched Lunar's body hit the ground hard and then stared at it. At that moment, something inside Twilight had snapped. She couldn't really explain it, but she was going to make sure that Tirek paid for all the damage he was responsible for over the years. She angrily flew up to this face and blasted him with some of her dark magic; magic she has never used before to fight.

Tirek was shocked at the fact that Twilight attacked with dark Magic and tried swatting swatting her away, but but to no avail. Twilight maneuvered around Tirek and blasted him again with an even stronger beam of dark magic. In an odd way, the dark magic was working, helping reduce Tirek's size and strength. After another direct hit from Twilight's dark magic, he was now half the size he once was.

Discord, as well as Princess Luna, all looked onward as they saw Twilight unleash her bent-up anger. The two of them were feeling mixed emotions right now. For one, they were both happy that Tirek was being dealt with in some sort of manner. For another, they also felt that, even though Tirek might be defeated, they may have a new problem in Twilight.

Twilight continued pounding Tirek with her dark magic and eventually managed to get Tirek down to a size smaller than he originally was. She towered over him and pointed at Lunar's ripped body. Finishing off with one final punch to the face, Twilight slammed Tirek to the ground.

"That's for everything you've done!" She yelled at him, eyes flaring red with anger.

Tirek looked back, smirking happily, even as he knew he lost. However, he knew that he had won considering the fact that one pony's casualty came as well. He knew this would send Twilight off the deep end and laughed at her. Twilight ran over and was just about ready to annihilate Tirek even more, but was soon stopped by Princess Luna and Discord.

"Princess Twilight!" Luna called.

"Stop, Twilight!" Discord added, holding Twilight back with Luna.

Twilight turned to Discord and tried to attack him. "YOU! This is all your fault!" She tried to hit him with her magic, but learned that she was deemed powerless under Luna's grasp.

Discord was shocked. "ME!? What did I do?"

"You let him out!" snapped Twilight, referring to freeing Tirek.

"Come along, Princess Twilight," Luna said, trying to pull Twilight away, "Come on..."

Twilight managed to break free from Luna's grasp and tackled Discord to the ground hard. She threatened that he fix Lunar, or else.

"Or else what?" A snide Discord responded.

"Or I'll have your head!" Twilight shouted.

"Princess Twilight," Luna angrily called, "That's enough!"

She started dragging Twilight away, trying to find a place to calm her down. Twilight kept on resisting and insisting that she'll stay true to her words unless Lunar is fixed.

"I'll have your head if he dies!" Twilight yelled.

Discord gulped, then looked at Lunar's body. He wondered if Lunar could even be saved at this point. Most of his body was ripped up and a lot of parts, chips, boards, and wires were missing. Discord slouched down in the air and started to pay his dues.

"I'm sorry..." He said.