I have to be honest. I did not expect Entrapta to have a freaking exoskeleton inside her goggles! I am amazed at how complex Etherian technology is, and how such a massive piece of weaponry can fit inside such a small artifact. Maybe it could be nanotech? I don't know. Regardless, the fact that she is making me use some of my Hybrid power is alarming, given Entrapta doesn't seem to have any nascent superhuman abilities of her own.
"You know, you are actually making me use around 10% of my full power. I am quite impressed, Entrapta!" I say, trying to deflect the extremely powerful attacks Entrapta's exoskeleton is sending at me, ranging from missiles, to rapidfire volleys of punches, powered by some sort of hydraulics.
"Okay, no more funny business. Time to use my ion cannon!" Entrapta says, pushing a button on her exoskeleton, causing a massive cannon to come out of the back of the exoskeleton.
"Ion cannon. Shit! This is getting real." I say, before noticing that the ion cannon is beginning to charge.
"Uhh, Catra," Nathan asks.
"Yeah, Kyle, what is it?" Catra replies, confused.
"Do you think Nathan is gonna make it out of this? I mean, that ion cannon looks painful. Could probably blow up the entire Fright Zone." Kyle asks his friend, who doesn't seem phased at all by Entrapta's secret attack.
"Yeah, he'll make it outta this. I mean, we literally found him in human form in the vacuum of space. That is pretty crazy, so an ion beam seems like nothing for this guy. We are some lucky bastards that we found Nathan before the Rebellion did." Catra says, reassuring Kyle of my presumably successful bout.
"Ion beam firing in 3...2..1…" Entrapta says, flipping a switch on her control panel, sending a massive blast of energy at me, point blank. This blast could probably put a dent in anyone, even me.
I actually wanted to pause time to make this a quick victory, but my body had other plans. Remember that crazy instinct thing I discovered when I was fighting Luna the second time? Well, it came back, with its signature white aura surrounding me, making me dodge the attack with near lightspeed reflexes.
"WHAT! How did you do that? Activating the atomic generator!" Entrapta says, making her exoskeleton glow neon green. This greatly enhanced all of the tech on the suit, as well as drastically augmenting her reflexes.
The rest of my Horde group sat in awe, watching the two of us fight in the air, with lightspeed reflexes and massive shockwaves being sent all over the place.
"Geez, these two could blow up the universe if they keep fighting!" Catra says, a bit worried, realizing that the two of us must be using close to full power (I actually was using around 33% of my power, but don't tell her that).
"Eat this!" I say, beginning to breathe in, with small amounts of smoke coming out of my nostrils. I exhale, sending a massive pillar of blue flame at Entrapta, completely enveloping her in flames.
"Woah, that is so cool!" Catra says, marveling at the massive amount of power that I have.
"Yeah, Catra, that is pretty cool indeed. I wonder if Entrapta will make it out of this." Kyle says, reaching for another morsel of popcorn.
"That should put a dent in you!" I say, before realizing that Entrapta just flew out of the fire, completely unharmed.
"Shit! What kind of metal is this exoskeleton made out of?" I exclaim, a bit surprised at Entrapta's immunity to pretty much everything.
"Tungsten alloy, Nathan! Tungsten normally melts at 3,422 degrees Celsius, but my new Etherian isotope only melts at 10,000 degrees Celsius! Try burning that!" Entrapta says, nerding out a bit regarding her scientific accomplishments.
Okay, that's it! I begin powering up a bit more, sending my energy all across the arena. I am getting quite annoyed that it is taking this long to defeat Entrapta, especially since she isn't using any magic to do it. I send a massive beam of temporal energy at her, which is quickly matched by her ion cannon. The two beams connect, sending off massive amounts of energy all around the End of Time.
"Woah!" Kyle and Catra say, unsure whether to be amazed or terrified. One thing's for sure. Someone is going to lose, and the universe seems likely to be that someone.
DEPARTMENT OF EQUESTRIAN AFFAIRS HQ: BETHESDA, MARYLAND, USA
Samantha Johnson was a bit worried after her meeting with Veronica Schroeder. This poor woman, who only had basic training in the Hybrid corps, wanted to travel to an alien world to find someone she MIGHT have a crush on? The whole thing seems preposterous. As she was looking at her daily brief, with the recent allegations of China, Iran, and North Korea making their own Hybrids, in blatant violation of both Equestrian and international law, a pager went off. For a moment, she wasn't entirely sure if the pager was her husband Daniel Connors (who you might remember as the pegasus Hybrid during the first war), or if it was the secure line between Canterlot and Washington, but she quickly realized who it was.
"Ah shit. It's the Temporal alert system! Nathan must be doing some weird shit somewhere in spacetime. I have to alert Prime Minister Rarity of this!" Samantha says, quickly running out of her office, trying to get to her car and drive the 15 minutes to the Equestrian checkpoint. Lucky for her, someone was waiting for her in the parking lot.
"I came as fast as I could, darling!" Rarity says, waiting in front of Samantha's Prius.
"Ah, Madam Prime Minister! I was just going to the checkpoint now to fetch you. What in God's name is Nathan Smith doing?" Samantha asks the Prime Minister.
"Uhh, based on preliminary readings, he seems to be in a rather precarious situation. He is at the End of Time, fighting someone, presumably in preparation for his coming conflict with Queen Twilight. His power is at 33%, the highest it has been in months. If someone doesn't contain this, he could end the universe!" Rarity says, extremely alarmed at the prospect.
"Well, I don't think either of us could do anything to stop him. He is the most powerful being in the universe!" Samantha replies, unsure if the two leaders can do anything to prevent a universal cataclysm.
"Well, he might not be the most powerful being in the universe, darling. I have an idea!" Rarity says, using her magic to summon another pager.
"Another pager? What the Faust do we need another pager for?" Samantha asks, confused. Rarity just grins, and points to the balloon symbol on the pager.
"Sometimes, you need a little bit of laughter to save the universe." Rarity says, pushing the button on the pager, sending a signal across time and space.
"No, it can't be! I thought she died during the second war!" Samantha says, amazed that Rarity would go to such lengths to try and stop me from fighting.
"Well, yes and no. She did die during the fight with Tirek, but our key ally is not bound by the normal laws of Creation. We have our ace in the hole. Trust me. Queen Twilight told me never to summon her unless there is no other choice. I pray this works, darling." Rarity says, watching closely as the pager sends its data.
"We now have our Pax Pinkiea!"
After some 90 seconds of awkward waiting and eager anticipation, the pager beeps, showing this message.
"Message sent. Mirrorpool loading."
THE END OF TIME:
The two of us are still struggling with our beams, sending both ion energy and the very fabric of time flying all over the arens.
"Why...won't...you...lose!" I say, extremely annoyed that this mock battle is taking so long to finish.
"Uhh, maybe because I am smarter than you, doofus!" Entrapta says, laughing, increasing the power of her ion cannon tenfold.
"Shit!" I say, quickly trying to counter. I know that if I try and pause time with this strong of an attack, I could end up killing my friends. That is not what I want.
My scales slowly start to turn red, but I am really trying not to use the Destroyer. I don't need it to win.
As the two of us are duking it out, Kyle turns around to refill his popcorn cup, and feels something rumbling across the floor, just outside of the arena.
"Uhh, Catra. Do you feel what I am feeling?" Kyle asks, noticing Catra's ears begin to twitch.
"Uh, yeah, but I don't know what it is. Weird!" Catra replies, before noticing a massive army of pink in the horizon.
"Uhh, Kyle, what the fuck is this?" Catra says, unsure what the thousands of pink blobs are, since they are too far away to be recognized properly. As the army of pink comes closer, I notice what it is.
"Oh...fuck!" I think to myself. Not only is Pinkie Pie somehow alive, but she found the Mirror Pool AND my secret man cave at the End of Time!
"HI OMYGOSH NATHAN IT'S BEEN SO LONG. STOP FIGHTING!" The pink army of chaos all said in unison. The first row of them began turning their manes like a helicopter, and began floating up in the air, trying to intervene in our fight.
"Uh, Nathan, do you know these pink ponies?" Entrapta asks me, not lowering her ion beam. I don't lower mine either, but the Pinkie Pies that were still on the ground all pulled out their party cannons, and began loading them with cake batter. I could count around 25,000 Pinkie Pies, and there are probably more than I initially counted.
"Fuck. Entrapta, we need to stop fighting, like now! These eldritch beings are the only entities in all of spacetime that are more powerful than me. If they are here, I must've done something stupid!"
"PINKIE BATTALION #4, PREPARE TO FIRE!" The lead Pinkie Pie says.
"YES, MA'AM!" The army replied in unison.
"FIRE AT WILL!" The lead Pinkie Pie says, and the tens of thousands of Pinkie Pies begin to fire their cake batter at the both of us, completely encasing us in the batter, like cement. I assume Pinkie must've put some sort of anti-time magic on it, since I tried erasing time to escape, and it didn't work.
We both got fully engulfed by this cement like cake batter, and began to fall to the floor. Entrapta's exoskeleton began shrinking, and turning back into her usual laboratory goggles, while I reverted to my human form, drained from fighting.
"MERGE!" The lead Pinkie Pie says to her legion, and all the Pinkie Pies merged into the lead Pinkie Pie, leaving the one real Pinkamena Diane Pie standing in front of us.
"Okay, how was THAT for an entrance! Frankly, if it wasn't for the incessant nagging that BoredNerd2003's sister had about retconning me back in with the Mirror Pool, you would've ended the universe again. How silly!" Pinkie Pie says, laughing.
"What did I tell you about the fourth wall!" I say, really annoyed.
"Right, right, stay in character. Okay!" Pinkie Pie says, allowing me to rewind time for 10 seconds, so I don't make other characters aware of the metagame.
"Anyways, Prime Minister Rarity sent me to tell you to stop fighting, or you two would've ending the universe. Pinkie Pie then presses a button on her cannon, melting all of the cake batter, letting the two of us escape.
"Ah, where are my manners. Pinkamena Diane Pie, at your service!" Pinkie Pie says, reaching out her forehoof to "shake hands" with Entrapta.
"Uhh, Princess Entrapta, resident technician and scientist of the Horde." She replies, shaking hands.
"Hold on, did you say Prime Minister Rarity? Since when was Equestria a democracy?" I ask Pinkie Pie. I thought I was gone for only a while.
"Oh boy, for a time god, you are slow! Etheria orbits a black hole, so there is time dilation due to relativity. On Earth and Equestria, 5 years have passed. Twilight became Queen Regent after you two both killed Celestia and Luna. She didn't want the power, and made Equestria a democracy, and Rarity became Prime Minister.
Fuck! 5 years have passed? I quickly pause time, and try to recant all of the events that could have happened in 5 years. The first Equestrian UN conference was 3.5 years ago, and I was out for basically a week and a half in Space. By the time I woke up in the Fright Zone, it was 14 days, but also 5 years.
"Shit! I have so many questions now." I exclaim, worried about what happened.
"Wait, your two week joyride in space was 5 years back on your homeworld? That shit is tough!" Catra says, wondering if any of my loved ones are still alive.
"Speaking of Queen Twilight, she is MAD, and is coming with the Rebellion to try and capture you and defeat the Horde at the same time. She already made it to the Fright Zone, and probably knows you are hiding out in the End of Time. I would recommend growing a pair and facing her for real. My time here is up. Pinkie OUT!" And with that, the annoying Pink Demon vanishes, seemingly by magic.
"Umm. Shit. Do we go back?" I ask, sort of preparing to open a portal.
"Probably. Besides, Hordak might want to know where we are." Catra says.
This is getting really bad. I hope Twilight still cares about me after 5 years...