Here's the fourth obstacle. Just so you know, I don't own anything or anyone except my OC Pam. In addition, the little part in the end is suppose to be a bit of a parody/joke I've thought up, so I don't own that either. They all belong to their respective owners. Enjoy.
Outside of the force field protecting Ponyville, Princess Celestia and her troops were fighting off the Duel Monsters the best they could. The Pegasi soldiers took on the flying Monsters. On the ground, the Unicorn soldiers fired spells and wielded swords via levitation spells. And the Earth Pony soldiers backed them up with bows and arrows.
Celestia was also helping out as well. As an Alicorn, she has powerful spells stronger than her Unicorn soldiers combined…although they're possibly not as strong as Discord's.
Either way, Celestia doesn't seem to mind. Fighting these Monsters may have reminded her of the battles she fought in the past—the worst being her battle with Nightmare Moon (alias her baby sister Luna)—but this present battle is reminding her of her sole purpose in fighting along her army: to help her student-turned-fellow-Princess-and-friend who's keeping out the Monsters with the force field. And she needs to buy her new friends more time to find the great power that will stop these Monsters.
As she took down a Bitelon with a blast of her horn, she sighed with relief as the blast reverted it into a card. She was surprised that her Alicorn magic's capable enough to take down these stronger creatures, but she didn't let it get to her due to the dire situation. She just wished she could share this information with Cadence and Twilight if she wasn't occupied at the moment, but they're probably busy trying to keep the force field up. She can only hope that Discord and the new heroes reach the great power before she overworks herself into exhaustion.
Discord, she thought to herself in prayer. Young heroes…Please be careful down there.
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"Oh, you got to be kidding me," Discord groaned.
The fourth (and large) obstacle was divided into five sections to make one deadly obstacle course in which one small slip-up will result in death. The group stood on a platform large enough for them to move about, overlooking the football-stadium-sized room going fifty feet deep and the ceiling fifty feet above their heads. And at the other side of the area is the doorway to the final area.
Each of the five sections looks like something out of a Field Card. The first section looked like the Rising Air Current, larger eagles and falcons zipping through the section from the left and from the right. The second section looked like the Gaia Power, a large tree going from the ceiling to the ground below with vines hanging downward for the others to swing on and keep the swingers from falling to their deaths. The third section looked like the Skyscraper, two rows of skyscraper-like buildings that look as though their windows could open up and fire at whoever flies through them. The fourth section looked like the Molten Destruction, a large volcano with chunks of lava-rocks flying out of its top. And the last section looked like Umiiruka, large waves crashing and wild enough to give surfers too much of a thrill.
"I think I preferred that lava pit back at the first obstacle," Skrawl stated with a sweat-drop.
"Those waves better not be invested with sharks," Chazz concurred. "That's all I gotta say."
"This just isn't our day, is it?" Nos groaned.
"We can't just stop now, guys," Pam stated. "We're almost to the great power."
"But, Pamela," Goth asked, "how are we going to get across? We can't fly. Nos could barely use his magic while Discord couldn't use his powers at all…No offense, amigos."
"None taken," Nos and Discord replied in unison before the bat continued.
"Skrawl's Armorph probably can't go that far…no offense to you either, muchacho."
"Meh, I kinda agree with ya on that one, G," Skrawl answered as he glanced down at his Armorph. Goth then finished pointing out the situation.
"We can't get to the bottom without killing ourselves…And worst of all, we can't summon Monsters. How are we supposed to get across?"
"With those!" the Ojama Trio cheered, pointing at something that Winged Kuriboh flew over to. Just touching the edge of the platform were four large hover-boards, each with a saddlebag of some kind. There's also a scroll before them that Pam then picked up and unrolled.
"These hover-boards will help you across to the other side," she read out loud to the others, "and in each saddlebag is a tool that can help you through one of the sections of the obstacle. But be warned; you can only use said item once. Therefore, use each item wisely."
"Are you kidding me?!" Jaden cried. "There are five obstacles, and we only have four items?! How do we know what to use?!"
"I'm not finished~" Pam sang to indicate her friend's rudeness.
"Sorry," the brunette replied sheepishly. "Just freaked out a little." Pam then continued before turning to what looks to be a tube in the platform. It looks like the kind of tube you would send messages from one office to another with a note in a cylinder. There also seems to be a quill on the cover.
"In addition, the saddlebags will change the contents within them based on your decision. One section as you may have figured out already will not be having an item used in it. Before beginning, write down the number of the section you won't be using an item into the scroll, and slid the scroll into the tube. Once you do, the saddlebags will decide the items for you."
"So we just need to decide on which section we'll be skipping," Nos replied. "But the question is: Which one?"
As the group pondered and talked a bit, Pam took a glance at the hover-boards to mentally insult them for making things difficult for them. But she stopped when she noticed something about them. They look so…smooth…and shiny…almost like…
"Mirrors…" That's when her held jolted up like a shock just shot through her brain.
"Guys," she said, turning to the others. "We should skip the third section."
"Say what now?" Skrawl, Nos, and Discord replied in unison.
"I think Pam's got a point," Jaden replied, looking at the buildings. "It looks the safest."
"Are you kidding me?" Chazz stated. "They could open up and fire at us with guns. We'll be blown out of the sky…literally."
"I think the same thing about those buildings, Chazz," Pam stated before looking down at the hover-boards. "But I've an idea on how we can still get through them."
"I think we should go for three as well," Pythor stated, looking down at the hover-boards also and getting where Pam's going with this. "Pam hasn't led us astray so far."
"Is that supposed to be your attempt to get Pam to kiss you?" Discord asked the Serpentine with a teasing smirk.
"DISCORD!" they all yelled at him to make him jump.
"I'm kidding!"
"Just what exactly are you planning, Pamela?" Nos asked her.
"Once I give the command," she answered, going up to the tube and quill, "we do it." She then picked up the quill, wrote the number three on the scroll, and rolled it up again. Then she removed the cover and dropped the scroll into it, where it vanished. When it did, the saddlebags glowed for a while before stopping.
They then boarded the hover-boards (two per board) and looked into the saddlebags. Chazz and Discord's item is a shuriken shaped like a snowflake and made entirely of ice. Goth and Jaden's item is an orb with a surfboard inside. Nos and Pam's item is a pair of gloves with swords on them. And Pythor and Skrawl's item is a small twister in a bottle.
"I think I have a good idea on what to do with these," Pam said to them. "When I say your names, a pair of you will use that item. Got it?"
"Got it," they replied in unison as the hover-boards clamped onto their feet (or coils, in Pythor's case) to ensure they don't fall off.
"And stay close to each other just in case." With that agreed upon, they fired up their hover-boards and sped off towards the eagle/falcon swarm.
"Skrawl! Pythor! Your bottle!" Skrawl then pulled out the bottle, and Pythor pulled the cork out. The twister flew out of the bottle and grew surprisingly big surprisingly fast. It then spun around the group within its vortex, keeping the carnivorous birds from crashing into them.
Within a minute, they were through the swarm and heading for the giant tree. Pam immediately saw the vines come to life and lashed out towards her and Nos who are in front of the group.
"Nos! The gloves!" Nos immediately got them on and lashed their swords at the vines to fight back. The cut vines then cowered back as if in pain, allowing the others behind armed hover-board to speed past them.
Within a minute, they were through the vines and heading through the space in between the rows of buildings. Just as they predicted, the windows opened to reveal laser guns behind them. And just as the guns started firing…
"Barrel roll!" On Pam's cried, each pair jerked to one side to make a barrel roll move on its hover-board. When they did, the lasers shot at them bounced off the smooth-mirror bottoms of the hover-boards and hit the guns instead to melt them.
"Sweet, Pam!" Jaden called out to her.
"We're not out of the woods yet," Pam called back upon seeing that they're getting close to the volcano now. "Chazz! Discord! Get your shuriken ready!" Discord quickly got out the icy star and handed it to Chazz, who took it quickly. A minute later, the group was right over the volcano.
"Throw it into the lava!" At Pam's order, Chazz flung the shuriken into the lava below. As it flew towards the liquid heat, it started to grow larger, larger than the volcano's molten projectiles. When the now giant star struck the lava, ice began spreading out and across the lava rapidly, freezing the boiling pool over. Before they knew it, the entire top of the volcano was frozen over with white/blue ice.
"Cool," Chazz replied with awe.
"Is that supposed to be a pun?" Discord snorted, trying to hold back a laugh.
"No!" Chazz protested as they got closer to the waves.
"Goth! Jaden! The orb!" Goth and Jaden then got out the orb just as it started to glow and give off a bright light. When it vanished, the hover-boards have changed into surfboards and are now riding the waves.
"Whoa, hold on tight, Nos!" Pam cried out to her hover-board buddy.
"Like I have a choice!" the Energy Vampire replied, clinging to her in fear.
"Surf's up, dudes!" Jaden cried with a grin.
"And me without my swimming trunks!" Discord laughed. They rode the waves the best they could for about a minute or so before they saw themselves getting closer to the platform at the end of the obstacle.
"Get ready!" Pam called out to the others. "And…jump!" They all jumped off the surfboards and landed safely onto the platform, leaving the surfboards to crash down with the waves.
When they landed on the platform safely, a pulse of light from some kind erupted from it and spread out across the entire area. When it vanished, they saw that the area has changed just like the other obstacles. It now looked like a Yu-Gi-Oh version of Disney World made for Monsters. There's a Toon World castle, a haunted mansion like out of the Yami card, a light show like out of the Realm of Light card, etc.
"Looks like the most dangerous place in the subterranean has become the happiest place in the subterranean," Pam stated.
"Nice one," Discord chuckled.
"Either way," Pythor stated, "we've made it through alive." They all then turned to the doorway to their final destination.
"Now all that's left is to enter that doorway and get to the great power," Pam stated. "Let's do this." And as the doors opened before them, the group entered the final obstacle.