Chapter 5: Slugterra Meets Equestria
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Rushing through the streets Angel was running as fast as his little legs could take him. Walking down the street Rainbow Dash was minding her own business when Angel jumps at her knocking Rainbow to the ground.
"Whoa! What the? Angel what's wrong?" Rainbow asks as Angel started jumping up and down frantically. "Whoa whoa whoa calm down what is going on?"
Angel jumps down and asks Rainbow to follow him. Leading her to the movie theater Rainbow sees the giant web blocking the exits.
"What the?" Rainbow takes a picture of it.
The next day at school Rainbow showed Applejack, Rarity and Sunset the photo she took.
"So, Angel is saying that whatever made this web took Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy?" Applejack asks.
"What could have possibly made a web that big?" Rarity asks.
Sunset looks at the image and narrows her eyes.
Applejack looks over and sees the suspicious look in Sunset's eyes.
As Sunset turned around and walks out of the room Applejack follows her.
"Hey Sunset, something on your mind?" Applejack asks.
"Applejack I'm not sure if it's what kidnapped Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie, but if I'm right we'll find them." Sunset said.
"Then count me in." Applejack nods.
Sunset looks down the hall to see Luke at his locker.
'Whatever you're hiding Luke I'm gonna find out what it is.' Sunset thought.
At his locker Luke was showing Burpy the image from the movie theater.
"It's gotta be the Dark Clan Burpy it must've used a Ghoul to trap them, but why it took Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie I have no idea." Luke said as Burpy chirps. "Don't worry Burpy we'll find them."
Burpy hops in Luke's backpack as he closes his locker and makes his way out of the school with Sunset and Applejack following him from a distance.
At the soccer field Rainbow was kicking multiple balls into the goal.
"Grr when I find whatever it was that took them…I'm gonna!" Rainbow roars in anger as she kicks the ball right through the goal.
As Rainbow Dash was breathing heavily trying to calm down she heard a muttering near the bleachers.
"Who's there?" Rainbow calls out as the muttering got louder.
Rainbow rolled a soccer ball close to her as she heard it getting closer.
Rainbow kicks the soccer ball with all her might, but her eyes widen in shock to see the Dark Clan walking out of the shadows with the soccer ball in its hand.
"Wh-What are you?" Rainbow asks stepping back in fear.
The Dark Clan hisses at her as Rainbow's scream echoes from the field.
As Luke made his way into the school machine shop he started looking through the scrap metal when Applejack and Sunset peaked in from the door.
"Sunset are you really sure Luke is behind all this?" Applejack whispers.
"I don't know if it's him, but he's definitely involved in this somehow. Think about it, he comes out of nowhere, those weird gadgets on his arms, not to mention those weird creatures he has." Sunset said looking at him.
"Geez the tech up here stinks, I'd be lucky to make anything from this junk." Luke said as he pulls out some sheet metal. "Guess I'm stuck with what I got until I get word to Uncle Kord. Better get my mecha ready."
He walks towards the door and quickly Applejack and Sunset move out of the way.
Meanwhile down the hall Rarity was in the Home Ec room working on a design for her new outfit.
As she was focused on her work the Dark Clan member appeared out of the shadows and was slowly sneaking up behind her.
"Ah perfect." Rarity said when she reached over to her pocket mirror, but when she opened it her eyes widen to see the Dark Clan was right behind her. Turning around she saw it's snarling face inches from her.
In the halls Sunset and Applejack were following Luke when they heard screaming.
"That was Rarity!" Applejack said.
Looking down the hall they saw Rarity running for her life before bumping into Applejack.
"Rarity what's going on?" Sunset asks as she picked herself up.
"Monster!" Rarity yells as the Dark Clan appears out of the shadows in front of them surprising them.
"What on earth is that?!" Applejack asks.
Sunset's eyes widen in shock as she sees the same creature from the night of the Fall Formal.
Down the hall Luke sprints towards them. "Burpy! I need you!" Luke said as Burpy jumped out of his backpack.
Activating his wrist blasters Burpy jumps in and he shoots it making Burpy transform smashing into the Dark Clan surprising the girls as they look over to see Luke.
"It was him." Sunset realizes.
"Get moving!" Luke yells as he fires a Rammstone which flies towards the Dark Clan.
Reacting quickly, it fires an Attacknet Ghoul which spins a web trapping the Rammstone sending it smashing into the wall.
Applejack grabbed Rarity's hand as they tried to make a run for it, but the Dark Clan throws a Bubbalash which swallows them both up trapping them in it's dark bubble-like body.
"Applejack! Rarity!" Sunset gasps.
The Dark Clan makes his way towards them and was about to disappear when Luke throws a small device on it's tail just before it escaped into the shadows.
"Oh man Burpy this just got harder." Luke said as Burpy hopped into his hands.
Burpy chirps in agreement when suddenly Sunset grabs Luke and slams him against lockers.
"Alright you start talking right now!" Sunset orders. "What the heck was that thing, why did it take my friends and how are you and these things involved?!"
"Whoa, whoa, whoa I'd like to explain, but we don't have much time. If you want to save your friends, you better come with me." Luke said.
"And give me one reason why I should trust you." Sunset glares.
"Because I'm your only chance." Luke said.
Sunset lets go of him realizing he was right. "What can I do to help?"
At Luke's house Luke pulls back a tarp to reveal his Mecha beast surprising Sunset.
"Whoa. That's pretty cool." Sunset said impressed
"Here you're gonna need this." Luke said holding out an orange Shane blaster.
"You want me to carry a gun?" Sunset asks surprised.
"It's a blaster. Here you'll also need some ammo." Luke holds out a Flaringo Slug. "This is Torch." Luke said as Torch waves at her.
"How is he gonna help?" Sunset asks.
"Before I got Burpy he was my main slug for fire power. He's very reliable, you just put him the blaster, aim and then shoot." Luke said as Torch hopped onto Sunset's shoulder.
"Just what kind of place makes you shoot slugs at people?" Sunset asks.
"My home." Luke said tossing Sunset a helmet which she catches. "Hop on." Luke climbs onto his mecha and puts on his helmet.
Sunset looks at Torch who urges her to get on. "For my friends." Sunset whispers putting on her helmet and climbing up. "How are we gonna find them?"
"I put a tracker on it just before it disappeared with Rarity and Applejack." Luke said clicking a button on his mecha to show a map of the city. "Bingo it's only a few miles away."
"Then what are we waiting for lets g—Aaaah!" Sunset let out a scream as Luke's mecha took off making her cling to him for dear life.
Luke blushes slightly from under his helmet as they sped off to rescue the others.
At an old warehouse Applejack groans as she opens her eyes to see she was laying on the floor with Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy nearby.
"Ugh what happened?" Applejack groans.
"Shh it'll hear you." Fluttershy said gesturing to the upper levels.
Applejack looks up to see the Dark Clan member up on the walking deck looking at something.
"What do you that thing is up to?" Pinkie Pie asks.
"You think it's another monster from Equestria?" Rarity asks.
"I really wish we could pony up right now." Rainbow said when the Dark Clan turns to them making the girls cringe in fear.
The Dark Clan jumps down and lands in front of them making its hissing noise.
"Um any chance you just want to talk?" Fluttershy asks but it hisses at her making Fluttershy yelp in fear.
The Dark Clan opens its hands and 5 Vamparo ghouls hopped towards the girls.
"Those bare quite a resemblance to those things Luke has." Rarity gulps.
"Except Luke's looked nicer." Fluttershy said when a dark green light emits from the Vamparos as the girls suddenly started to glow. The girls hair grew longer as pony ears appeared on their heads and in the case of Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash they grew wings on their backs.
As the girls panic they suddenly heard an engine noise getting closer. Looking up they saw Luke's mecha beast crashes through the front door. "Let them go!" Luke said as Burpy jumps out and attacks the Vamparos knocking them off the girls making them return to normal.
"Luke?" Pinkie said surprised.
"Whoa what is that?" Rainbow said looking with stars in her eyes at his mecha beast.
Sunset and Luke climb off and run to their friends.
"Sunset what is going on?" Applejack asks.
"Long story that's not good and Luke is the only one who knows how to deal with it." Sunset said.
"So you're a good guy?" Rainbow asks.
"I guess you can say that." Luke said when the Vamparo ghouls jumped onto the Dark Clan member.
As the energy they took from the girls entered it the Dark Clan let out a loud scream as it started to glow.
"Uh Luke do they normally do that?" Sunset asks as they all started backing away.
"Not that I know of." Luke said when large black wings shot out of its back and a large black horn came out of its head. "Okay they definitely don't do that!"
"I think our monster just got a dose of Equestrian magic." Applejack said.
"Wait what?" Luke asks looking at them surprised when the Equestrain Dark Clan roars at them. "Oh floppers." Luke said as it launched blast of dark lightning at them.
Jumping to the ground the attack destroys a few boxes. "Alright team let's do this." Luke said activating his wrist blasters and strapping on his slug belt.
The girls moved behind some boxes to stay out of Luke's way as the battle was about to start.
Luke loads Frost into his blaster and fires him. Transforming Frost breathes an ice blast but, the Equestrian Dark Clan spread its wings and took off into the sky dodging it.
Throwing a Grimmstone Luke rolls out of the way as it smashes into the ground.
"Wow those slugs back quite a punch." Pinkie said.
"I thought those things were just harmless little pets like Angel." Rarity said.
Sunset looks to Torch on her shoulder wondering what he would look like transformed.
Firing a Harmashelt at Luke he counters with a Rammstone.
The Harmashelt readies its claws, but the Rammstone throws multiple rocks from his fist making the ghoul fall backwards allowing the Rammstone to punch the Equestrian Dark Clan in the face.
"Nice one." Applejack whistles.
Luke loads a Polero slug which shoots out and wraps around the Equestrian Dark Clan and tying up its wings making it fall to the ground.
Hissing in anger dark energy surrounds it as the Equestrian Dark Clan blasts the Polero off turning it back into slug form.
Releasing a blast from it's horn Luke is sent smashing into some crates near the girls.
"Luke get up!" Rainbow said.
"I don't suppose any of you can tell me why it turned into that?" Luke groans picking himself up.
"It had some of those scary slugs take energy from us, it must have got some of our leftover Equestria magic." Fluttershy said.
"Magic?" Luke said surprised when the Equestrian Dark Clan fires a blast at him making Luke run out of the way.
Firing multiple blasts Luke runs around the warehouse dodging all the attacks.
Loading a Speedstinger Luke fires it making it bounce around the warehouse before smashing into the Equestrain Dark Clan making it stagger back when a Grenuke slug landed just below it. Eyes widening the Grenuke explodes sending the Equestrian Dark Clan smashing into the ground.
"Whoo that was awesome." Rainbow smiles.
"I'm starting to like these slugs." Pinkie said.
Luke was about to load his next slug when the Equestrian Dark Clan blasts him sending him crashing to the ground.
"Luke!" Sunset yells.
Looking over she saw the Equestrian Dark Clan making its way towards him.
'What do I do? I gotta help? I really wish I had some magic right now.' Sunset through when she looks to see the blaster Luke gave her was on the floor. Looking towards Torch he gave her a nod telling her to do it.
The Equestrian Dark Clan was charging up energy in its horn about to attack Luke.
"Hey you!" Sunset calls out getting its attention. "Get away from him!" Sunset aims the blaster and fires as Torch transforms and surrounds himself with flames before smashing into the Equestrian Dark Clan chipping its horn slightly.
"Whoa…I could get used to this." Sunset smiles as Torch lands next to Luke.
Luke looks over to Sunset and smiles. "Thanks a lot." He said as Sunset gives him the thumbs up.
Luke stands up and inserts a double shooter with Burpy and Joltz his Tazerling into his blaster.
"The Equestrian Dark Clan turns to Luke and charges magic into its horn.
Luke fires his two slugs who spins side by side creating an explosive firey path with electricity flowing through it. The Equestrian Dark Clan was about to fire when the chip on its horn makes the magic backfire and zap it allowing Luke's Fusion shot to smash into it causing it to scream as its horn was destroyed and a bright light to engulf the warehouse.
When the light died down the magic that was taken from Rarity, Applejack, Fluttershy, Rainbow and Pinkie Pie went back into them. Looking on the ground they saw it had turned back into a Shadow Clan member.
"Whoa." All the girls said when the Shadow Clan member picked itself up making the girls jump back in fear.
"Hey it's okay girls I got this." Luke said as he made his way towards the Shadow Clan. "It's okay it's okay I'm here to help."
The Shadow clan looks to Luke and starts talking demanding an explanation.
"I'm Luke Shane, son of Eli Shane and you need to go back to Slugterra. Your clan is in serious trouble." Luke said.
"Shane." It hisses before nodding and disappearing into the shadows.
Luke sighs in relief when he sees the girls looking at him. "Uh hey." He said nervously when suddenly Pinkie Pie rushes over.
"Wow that was incredible! We were here watching when that thing went roaaar and then you were like phew phew phew take that. How'd you do that?" Pinkie asks excited.
Sunset looks to see Torch hopping over to her happy. Bending down Sunset picks him up.
Walking over Sunset holds out the blaster. "Thanks for lending me this."
"It's a good thing I did, you know you actually did pretty good for a first time firing a slug." Luke said.
"What was all that about?" Rarity asks.
"Long story, what was with all that magic and stuff?" Luke asks.
"That's also a long story." Applejack said.
"Well I've got time." Luke looks outside to see the sun was setting. "I assume you all have so many questions, but so do I so how about you girls come with me to my grandparents and we figure this out."
"That probably sounds like the best thing to do." Sunset said.
"I gotta say Luke between those slugs of yours and this thing I really want to learn about this." Rainbow said looking at his mecha beast.
"Thanks Rainbow." Luke smiles as the 7 teens left the warehouse unaware that this was just the beginning of something bigger.