Bronycon
The six skylanders were settled lazily around the living room and kitchen as they always were. But of course, in this specific household, nothing was quiet for long.
"OH MY EON!" Chompy Mage screamed, charging into the living room with Spy Rise just behind him. "IT'S FINALLY HERE!"
"IT'S FINALLY COME TO SKYLANDS!" Spy Rise whooped.
"What has come to Skylands?" Knight Light questioned them from the kitchen.
"Don't ask," Krankcase muttered.
"BRONYCON!" the two skylanders chorused.
"And what is Bronycon?" Wash Buckler asked.
"It's where My Little Pony fans come together to geek out about My Little Pony and roleplay!" Chompy Mage explained excitedly.
"Oh… Uhh, good for you…" the mermasquid murmured.
"We thought you guys would be more excited," Spy Rise said.
"We just aren't as fond of My Little Pony as you are, that's all," Knight Light told them.
"Yeah, that show's for babies," Rattle Shake mocked, earning a dead-serious glare from Chompy Puppet.
"THAT SHOW IS WHAT GIVES US A REASON TO LIVE!" Puppet yelled at him.
"There, there Puppet," Chompy Mage soothed it. "Not everyone understands."
"Anyway, CAN WE GO?!" Spy Rise begged Wash Buckler. "PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEEEEEASE?"
"I don't know…" Wash Buckler tossed the thought around in his head for some moments. But Spy Rise, Chompy Mage and Puppet just stared at him, desperately pleading with their eyes. "Oh, alright."
"Yay!" the three cheered.
"How long does this thing go for?" Freeze Blade asked them.
"All day Saturday and Sunday," Spy Rise told them.
"WHAT?!" Rattle Shake hissed. "YOU WANT US TO WASTE OUR WHOLE WEEKEND AT A BRONY GATHERING?!"
"Well, I'm down," Freeze Blade said unexpectedly.
"Wait, what?!" the serpent turned to him.
He shrugged, "There's probably going to be food there."
"Hm, true. Alright, I'll tag along."
"I'll come too," Wash Buckler announced. "Someone has to look after Freeze Blade after all."
The skylanders nodded their understanding, but Freeze Blade just hissed under his breath.
"AND I NEED A SNAKE TO SIT ON!" King Pen squawked, making Rattle Shake flinch.
"Krankcase are you coming?" Chompy Mage asked hopefully. "PRETTY, PRETTY PLEEASE?"
"Alright, fine," the doctor accepted hesitantly. "I'll go with you."
"YAY!"
"Well, if you're all going, I might as well go too," Knight Light told them. "It could be fun! Even for us non-bronies."
"We can only hope," Rattle Shake said.
"Also, we have to spend a couple hundred dollars on cosplay outfits," Spy Rise added all of a sudden.
"WHAT?!" Wash Buckler erupted. "COSPLAY?!"
"Of course we need to cosplay!" Chompy Mage looked offended. "That's one of the biggest points of Bronycon!"
His puppet added, "DUH!"
"Ugh! Fine," Wash Buckler groaned. "But you three are paying."
"Anything for a Fluttershy costume," the mage said.
"Alright, who's gonna be who?" Spy Rise asked the others.
"Wait, don't tell me we have to dress up to…?" Freeze Blade asked them, silently hoping for a 'no'.
"YUP! YOU ALL DO!" Spy Rise assured them in the happiest voice he had had in months. "DIBS ON APPLEJACK!"
"I guess I'll just go with Twilight…?" Wash Buckler suggested.
"NO, I WANT TWILIGHT SPARKLE!" Knight Light suddenly snapped at him.
"Okay, okay! She's all yours! I'll just be…"
"How about Princess Celestia?" Chompy Mage asked.
"Who's that?"
"You guys really don't know anything, do you?"
The mermasquid sighed, "Whatever, I'll just be whoever that is."
"Are there any male characters in this show?" Freeze Blade asked them.
"Yup! You can be Spike," Spy Rise said.
The ice cat narrowed his eyes at them, "Wait, isn't that the short, baby dragon?"
"Well, to be fair, you are a short child," Wash Buckler noted.
"FOR THE LOVE OF EON AND FOR THE LAST TIME I AM NOT A-"
"Then it's decided!" Chompy Mage said cheerily. "You can be Spike."
The cat's fur bristled furiously.
"I WANT TO BE THAT PRETTY ONE!" King Pen erupted suddenly.
"You mean… Rarity?" Spy Rise asked him.
"YEAH THAT ONE!"
"So who do I be?" Rattle Shake wondered out loud.
"How about Rainbow Dash?" Chompy Mage suggested.
"And Krankcase, you can Pinkie Pie," Spy Rise said, a mocking tone to his voice.
"PINKIE PIE?!" the doctor shouted. "ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!"
"Nope," the spyder grinned.
"GAH!"
"I wanna be Discord!" Puppet declared.
"Then you follow your dreams and be Discord, Puppet," Chompy Mage encouraged.
"Guys, the word limit. Remember?" Freeze Blade hissed impatiently, then huffed, "Why do I even bother to put up the posters…?"
"Absolutely right, Freeze Blade," Wash Buckler agreed. "I'll just call up Splat, Flameslinger, Drobot and Sonic Boom to come housesit again while we're gone. We don't want Fisticuffs intruding and getting away with our precious TV."
…
"We're finally here!" Chompy Mage announced. "IN BRONYCON!"
"EEEK!" Spy Rise fan-girled. "LOOK AT ALL THE COSTUMES!"
"A ROLEPLAY ZONE!" Chompy Mage squealed.
The others trailed behind them more slowly, glancing around at their bright surroundings unenthusiastically.
"Let's get this weekend over with," Rattle Shake muttered.
"THERE ARE SO MANY PEOPLE TO SIT ON!" King Pen squawked, exploding away to go and find victims.
"Huh, somehow this costume actually fits perfectly," Freeze Blade remarked in his purple and green cosplay.
"That's because we got it in extra-extra-extra small," Dr Krankcase told him, and the ice cat's ears flattened, unamused.
"GUYS LET'S GO ROLEPLAY AS OUR CHARACTERS!" Spy Rise hollered suddenly.
"Should we…?" Knight Light asked Wash Buckler.
The mermasquid sighed heavily and turned to the trap master, "I guess, as a team, we should respect Chompy and Spy Rises' point of view…"
The others groaned.
"Come on," Wash Buckler said unenthusiastically, following the two bronies. "Let's go."
…
"NEEEIIIIGHHH!" King Pen screeched.
"HORSE-NOISES, HORSE-NOISES!" Rattle Shake yelled back.
"You fools are doing it all wrong!" Chompy Mage hissed. "The characters talk, y'know."
"They do…?" Rattle Shake turned to King Pen, who just shrugged hopelessly.
"What are these people doing…?" Wash Buckler murmured as he and Dr Krankcase stood on the sidelines, watching random people galloping around on the floor as ponies.
"I'm not quite sure…" the doctor said back as a roleplayer hurled themselves into Knight Light.
"MWAHAHAHAHAHA!" the roleplayer shouted loudly into the trap master's face.
"GAH! What was that for?!" Knight Light asked madly.
"I AM KING SOMBRA!" the roleplayer erupted. "BOW DOWN BEFORE ME YOU PATHETIC PONY!"
"GUYS!" Spy Rise hollered to the others. "KING SOMBRA'S PICKING ON TWILIGHT!"
"Why should we care…?" Rattle Shake asked dryly.
"Because we're friends!"
"AND FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC!" Chompy Mage screamed as Fluttershy-like as possible.
"Oh, right," Freeze Blade said, rolling his eyes and skating over to them.
"ON ALL FOURS, THANK YOU VERY MUCH!" Spy Rise spat, and the others instead stumbled over to them awkwardly.
"GET AWAY FROM THE PRINCESS!" Chompy Puppet demanded, lowering his voice.
"NEVER!" the roleplayer laughed. "MWAHAHAHAAA!"
"GET HIM OFF OF ME!" Knight Light yelled desperately.
"I AM A PRETTY PONY!" King Pen hollered randomly, then charged off, crashing through the wall on the way.
"Great, now he's gone again!" Wash Buckler face-palmed.
"I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING!" Krankcase shouted frantically.
Spy Rise signalled over to them, "WE NEED OUR PINKIE PIE TO ACTIVATE THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP!"
"UGH, FINE," he joined them.
"Take this amulet!" the spyder instructed, handing over an invisible amulet.
"Uhh… There's nothing there."
"JUST TAKE THE STUPID AMULET!"
"OKAY, FINE I'LL TAKE THE STUPID AMULET!"
"Chompy Mage, pass the amulets around!" Spy Rise told the mage. "WE HAVE TO SAVE TWILIGHT!"
"But Spy Rise!" the life sensei said. "WE NEED RARITY!"
The spyder gasped, "You're right! WASH BUCKLER, GO AND FIND KING PEN!"
"Fine…" Wash Buckler muttered, trudging out through the massive hole in the wall.
"MWAHAHAHAHA!" King Sombra's actor laughed manically. "YOUR PRINCESS POWER WILL SOON BE MINE, TWILIGHT SPARKLE! THEN I WILL GO AFTER CELESTIA, LUNA AND CADENCE!"
"Hey, guys no rush," Knight Light said to the others. "BUT PLEASE HELP ME BEFORE I GET DESTROYED BY THIS RAGING ROLEPLAYER!"
"Rainbow, Fluttershy! Fly over Sombra and surround him from the other side!" Spy Rise instructed.
Rattle Shake shrugged, and launched himself in the air, flapping his arms wildly, then came hurtling down back to the ground. But Chompy Mage seemed to actually hover over the roleplayer.
"YOU'RE SURROUNDED SOMBRA!" Spy Rise yelled to the villain.
"THAT'S KING SOMBRA TO YOU, PONY!" he spat back.
"We'll stop you!" Puppet said dramatically.
"PONY POOOOWWWEEERR!" suddenly, King Pen came hurtling into the room, with Wash Buckler behind him, and launched himself onto the roleplayer squashing him roughly.
"GAH!" the roleplayer screeched.
"I'm finally free!" Knight Light scrambled off of the ground and joined the others.
But suddenly, King Sombra managed to yank himself out from under King Pen and grab a hold of Freeze Blade.
"GIVE ME PRINCES TWILIGHT, OR THE DRAGON IS NO MORE!" he roared.
The others gasped.
"Am I meant to care about Spike?" Knight Light whispered to Spy Rise, who nodded. "Uhh… Put him down you villainous fiend!"
"That's not how Twilight talks!" Chompy Mage muttered to the trap master.
"WELL HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO KNOW HOW SHE TALKS?!" he spat.
"WELL? My patience is running out!" King Sombra interrupted. "DECIDE! The princess or the dragon?"
"Uhh… N-no," Knight Light stepped forward. "I will not be choosing today, for I am Twilight Sparkle, THE PRINCESS OF FRIENDSHIP!"
Spy Rise put a pretend crown on Knight Light's head.
"WITH HONESTY, LOYALTY, GENEROSITY, KINDNESS, LAUGHTER AND MAGIC, I SUMMON THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIIIIP!" he pretended to send a wave of rainbow down at the roleplayer, who stumbled back, seeming to be blinded by the fake light.
"N-NOO! I CAN'T BE DEFEATED!" he shrieked, then collapsed. "NOOOOOOO…."
"Is he dead…?" Freeze Blade whispered to Chompy Mage as he raced over to them.
"It's roleplay! Of course he's not dead!" the mage snapped back at him quietly.
"You've done it again Twilight!" Spy Rise said in his best Applejack-voice, which turned out to be horrible.
"Well I'm just glad that it's over," Krankcase said. "Because that was the most horrendous experience I have ever had to go through."
"Can we stand up now?" Rattle Shake complained.
"NO, WE ARE STILL PONIES!" Spy Rise snapped at them. "KNIGHT LIGHT, END THE EPISODE."
"Oh! Uhh…" Knight Light stammered. "Err… Friendship… truly is… magic…?"
"Annnnnd… end scene," Chompy Puppet said.
"Great roleplay guys," the random King Sombra wannabe said.
"You too," Spy Rise replied, then turned to the skylanders. "But what about this story? What's the word count Freeze Blade?"
"Not including what I'm saying right now," Freeze Blade said. "We're at 1748 words. So we still have some more to go."
"Meh, we can just end it here," Wash Buckler suggested. "I don't want to suffer through more roleplays."
"You didn't even have to do anything!" Krankcase pointed out.
"Well, watching roleplays is just as hard as participating in them," the mermasquid retorted.
"Anyway, cue the 'The End' thing," Rattle Shake said.
"But what about the word limit?!" Freeze Blade hollered. "We still have words to fill up!"
"Who cares?"
"I DO!"
"HURRY, CUE 'THE END'!"
"BUT THE WORD LIMI-"
The End.
Idea by Jayh
Written by Uni.
