Chapter 22: Shane Gang vs Tempest Crew
Hey everyone I'm back with a new chapter. I'm sorry about the wait and I know many of you are excited for Legend of Everfree and I am almost there. After one more event I'll be able to do that movie. In the meantime, I think I can keep you all entertained. I hope you like what I have planned. Please Review and Enjoy.
It was the night before the boat show, and both the Shane Gang and Tempest's Crew were eager to accomplish their goal.
At the warehouses, Tempest was walking along a line as her men were firing slugs at the targets using both blasters and slingshots.
"Come on guys! It's do or die time tomorrow! We pull off this heist and we will be set for life." Tempest said.
"You heard her! Faster! Destroy them!" Astral calls out as Tempest looks to see Adagio and Aria loading slugs into their belts.
"You two seem to be in a good mood." Tempest points out.
"Let's just say we have some steam to let out." Adagio said.
"You'd be happy too if you were in our shoes." Aria said.
"You really think someone would be foolish enough to try and get in our way?" Tempest asks.
"Trust us, they'll show, but when they do I am gonna enjoy making them suffer like they made me." Adagio said aiming a blaster at a dummy with drawing of Sunset Shimmer for the face. Firing it, a Hop Rock blew the dummy to pieces.
At Sweet Apple Acres, things were a little different as the Shane gang were scattered around making their own preparations.
"Uh maybe I should take this slug with me or wait maybe this one, no this one." Rainbow said looking at all the slugs they had available.
"Rainbow leave some slugs for us to use." Applejack said.
"Yeah we need ammo too." Pinkie said.
"But what if I run out and those thieves get me?" Rainbow asks.
"Uh we pony up use that?" Applejack suggests.
"Okay that could probably work." Rainbow nods in agreement.
"Easy for you to say. Luke doesn't have a Pony Up form and I lost mine after the Battle of the Bands." Sonata said when Rarity walked in.
"Anyone seen Luke? I wanted to ask him some questions." Rarity asks.
"He's trying to think of a strategy in his room." Sonata said.
"I gave him an idea but he says we can't lug 30 party cannons to the boat show by tomorrow." Pinkie said.
"I don't think that's possible." Fluttershy said.
"By my calculations, these Rouge Slingers have us greatly outnumbered and outslugged. We need a strategy that can give us a complete and total victory." Twilight said.
"Yes, thank you for summing that up Twilight." Rainbow narrows her eyes.
"It's not." Sunset shook her head before standing up. "I'm gonna go check on him."
In the next room, Luke and Will were trying to figure out a good plan.
"I could step in and help you guys." Will suggests.
"No Grandpa, I need you here in case they come back and try to steal more of our stuff." Luke said.
"Probably for the best." Will sighs standing up. "I'll be right back. I need some air." Will said walking out when he saw Sunset walking by.
"Hey Mr. Shane." Sunset said.
"Hey Sunset. How's everyone doing?" Will asks.
"Rainbow's hoarding slugs, Sonata and Fluttershy are nervous wrecks, Rarity's trying to find good outfits for us, Twilight's not liking our odds, Pinkie Pie is well Pinkie Pie and Applejack's just trying to keep us all calm. This is a lot different from us dealing with enemies from Equestria." Sunset sighs.
"Welcome to my world." Will said before pointing behind him. "Luke's in there."
Nodding Sunset walks in to see Luke planning things out.
"You okay?" Sunset asks.
"I'm not sure." Luke sighs as he turns away blushing remembering the kiss they shared causing Sunset to giggle.
"Look we're kinda nervous for our first big Slugterra mission. The others could really use some advice." Sunset said hugging him from behind.
"But what if I let you guys down?" Luke asks.
"You haven't let us down yet, why start now?" Sunset asks pecking him on the cheek.
Smiling softly Luke stood up and walked down to see the girls. "Uh girls. Girls?" Putting his fingers to his lips he whistled loudly getting their attention.
"Girls I know you're all nervous because I'm nervous, but that's no reason to let it get to you." Luke said.
"But Like the odds aren't exactly in our favor." Twilight said.
"I don't care about the odds. When I first came to Canterlot high, I knew my world was gonna get a whole lot bigger. Well I found out I was right and I found all of you, but now that bigger world is under attack by those who use, take, steal and hurt others to carve out the world make it theirs alone. It doesn't I for one am not gonna let them hurt anyone else. Our neighborhood and city is under attack by a group of maniacs who won't hesitate at hurting anyone who gets in their way. There are a lot of good people out there that can't fight back but we can. This isn't about just saving Slugterra or Equestria, this is about us not letting people who think the world belongs to them walk all over us. Tomorrow night, we make our stand. So what do you say? Are you with me?" Luke asks holding out his hand.
"I'm in." Sunset said stepping forward putting her hand on top of his.
"Me too." Applejack said putting her hand on.
"Me three." Pinkie Pie smiles.
"I'm still a little scared but I'll be brave for you guys." Fluttershy said.
"Absolutely." Rarity said.
"I got your back." Rainbow smiles.
"All the way." Sonata joins.
"Well as inspiring as it was how can you be so—"
"Oh just put your hand in Twilight." Sonata said as Twilight smiles putting it in as all the slugs did it too.
"On three Shane Gang. One, two, three!" Luke said.
"Shane Gang!" They all declared as al the slugs jumped in agreement.
In the kitchen, April and Will were looking at them with smiles on their faces.
"I think they'll be fine." April smiles.
"Oh definitely." Will nods.
"Alright girls I got a plan but we're all gonna need to be ready for whatever those Rogue Slingers are gonna throw at us." Luke said as they all leaned in so they could hear the plan.
The next day, at the Canterlot Boat Show, the sun was setting as rich fancy yacht owners were gathered at the lake to basically show off their wealth.
As the viewers walked around admiring them Tempest, Astral, Aria and Adagio were scoping out the scene.
"Wow talk about a waste of money. Who needs a boat this big?" Aria asks.
"Parties and to show off how rich they are." Astral said.
"Have everyone in position, we'll wait until the sun sets and they lower their guard." Tempest orders.
Taking out a speaker, Astral gave the slingers around the Boat show the signal to wait. Unfortunately for them, the Shane Gang was looking down at them.
"Man I wish I had a better view." Luke said when Pinkie reaches into her hair and pulls out a pair of binoculars. "What else do you have in there?"
"Not sure. Been a while since I did inventory in there." Pinkie shrugs.
Looking through them he managed to see their van filled with blasters and the ones walking around had slingshots and slugs.
"Well most of them are either by the lake or near the country club so we'll have to split up. Fluttershy, you got our secret weapon ready just in case?" Luke asks.
"He's all set." Fluttershy said.
"But what are we gonna do about Aria and Adagio? From what you said they wanna take us down more than anything." Twilight said.
"I'll handle them." Sonata said.
"Me too." Sunset said.
"You two sure you can handle them?" Applejack asks.
"You know it." Sunset nods.
"Payback time." Sonata said.
"Everyone get in position." Luke said as they all made their way down to the show.
Down below, Tempest tapped her hips giving Astral the signal as he tosses her a blaster and she fires a Phosphoro into the air causing the bright lights to distract everyone as the Rogue Slingers came out of hiding and aimed their blasters and slingshots at all the guests.
"Attention everyone, all donations and profits will be given to a new benefactor…me. So hand over all your valuables and cash or else." Tempest threatens as security tried to stop her when Tempest aims her Tormato slug at them and fires causing them to be thrown into the lake by a tornado.
"Anyone else wanna be the hero?" Astral asks aiming a blaster at them as all the people dropped to their knees in fear, all except one old man.
"Well what do we have here? Are you not afraid?" Tempest asks.
"Of people like you? Never." He said.
"Sorry old man but there's no one else like us here." Tempest smirks.
"There are always people like you." He said.
"Look to your elder, we're about to make an example of him." Tempest said holding a Hop Rock and fires when suddenly from above Bubbles flew in and sends the Hop Rock bouncing back towards them.
"Hey! Why don't you pick on someone who can fight back?!" Looking up they saw Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie atop one boat.
"The Rainbooms!" Adagio gasps.
"Yeah you can't start the party without us!" Pinkie Pie said revealing a Party cannon and fires it spraying confetti everywhere confusing them allowing all the civilians to run for their lives.
"What the?" Aria asks when suddenly Torch flew in and breathed fire at them causing her and Adagio to jump down a dock for cover.
"Hey girls." Both Aria and Adagio look up to see Sonata glaring at them.
"Sonata?" Aria said standing up.
"Long time no see. To what do we owe the pleasure?" Adagio narrows her eyes as Sonata took out her blaster and aimed it at her.
"What do you think?" Sonata asks.
"She's with us." Sunset said as she and Torch appeared behind them.
"You teamed up with the Rainbooms?" Adagio asks.
"They took me in after you two threw me out, they're more my friends than you ever were." Sonata said.
"Don't worry. This time you all can get thrown out with garbage." Adagio said as she and Aria drew their blasters and aimed it at them.
"Let's see, angle of the shot minus the blowback and adding the speed." Twilight said to herself before firing a Speedstinger that bounced off each boat hitting Astral towards Tempest.
Both of them groan when they saw Burpy fly in and breathe a fireball knocking them both into the lodge.
Getting up they saw Dazzle fly in and create gems blocking their escape.
"Nowhere to run now." Rarity said as she, Twilight and Luke faced them.
Outside, Fluttershy was running along the dock as she, Applejack, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie were being chased by the rest of the slingers until they reached the end of the docks.
"Nowhere to run now." One said.
"Give up we have you outnumbered." Another said aiming the slingshot.
"You may have a gang but we have something better." Pinkie said.
"Now Fluttershy." Rainbow said as Fluttershy whistles loudly causing Jumbo to roar as he burst out of the lake causing the Rogue Slingers to scream in shock and horror as Fluttershy climbed onto his back.
"Let's go Jumbo." Fluttershy said as the Shane Gang went on the attack and Slug Duels erupted all over the lake.
Sonata jumps off the dock and onto a yacht with Adagio right behind her.
Turning around Sonata fires a Jellyish causing Adagio to slip on it and land down into the water.
"Not so fun when it's you being pushed around is it, Adagio?" Sonata asks.
"I liked you better when I thought I was done with you." Adagio said firing a Vinedrill making vines shoot out allowing Adagio to run up them and kick Sonata knocking her onto the lower deck. "Luckily I can fix that error."
Sonata rolls to the side and loads Pieper in as Adagio fires a Rammstone. "Stop her Pieper!" Sonata said firing her as Pieper transforms and releases soundwaves taking control of Adagio's Rammstone.
"What?!" Adagio gasps as her Rammstone flew back and rammed into her.
Sonata picks herself up and catches Pieper as she lands. "Good girl." Sonata smiles.
Along the docks, Aria fires an Arachnet which spun a web trapping Sunset's foot to the dock.
"Why is it that whenever we do something you always seem to get in our way?" Aria asks.
"What can I say? I'm just kinda person." Sunset said firing a Frostcrawler which breathed a wall of ice around Aria allowing Torch to jump down and burn the webs off of Sunset.
Narrowing her eyes Aria grabs a Lavalynx and loads it. "Show them some real fire power." Firing it, the Lavalynx burned the entire dock forcing Sunset to run as fast as she could jumping onto a motorboat.
Torch pops up and chirps. "Yeah time for the big guns." Sunset nods as she took out a dual shot.
Aria loads an Armashelt and fires when Torch and a Makobreaker into her blaster before firing them both.
Glowing bright orange the two slugs combine to create a flaming shark attack which knocks Aria off the docks and to the ground.
"Whoo! Jaws, Torch that was awesome!" Sunset smiles as both slugs cheer in agreement.
"Oh I apologize in advance for this." Fluttershy said as Jumbo whacks several slingers away while Rainbow and Pinkie moved in.
"Let's go Racer!" Rainbow said firing her Speedstinger which bounced around hitting more and more of the Rogue Slingers.
Giggling Pinkie appeared in front of a slinger holding out a gift. "Surprise!" The slinger opens it to reveal the bottom was open and Pinkie aimed her blaster right at him. "Double Surprise!"
Pinkie fires a Rammstone which punches the slinger sending him flying.
Applejack fires Knuckles and took out a slinger only to see 6 slingers with slingshots aimed at her.
"Hands up." One ordered.
Applejack looks around and got an idea. "Rainbow Dash!"
Rainbow fires her Hoverbug which flew towards Applejack scooping her up as they all fired Hop Rocks causing them to take each other out.
"Pretty cool being able to fly isn't it?" Rainbow asks as Applejack lands nearby.
"I think I'll stick with the ground." Applejack shudders not liking the feeling.
Inside the lodge, Luke was facing off against Tempest.
"You're gonna pay for abusing the slug's powers." Luke said.
"Those slugs are my ticket to the good life. I've had a taste of power and I like it. So how about you get lost!" Tempest fires a Thresher which spins like a chainsaw cutting several buffet tables in half as Luke dodges firing Dozer who flew towards Tempest knocking her back.
On the upper floor, Twilight and Rarity were facing Astral.
"You girls got spunk, shame we could've used you on our crew." Astral said firing a Dirt Urchin who fired needles at them.
"Sorry we like our time." Twilight said firing a Slicksliver who pulled all the metal objects in the lodge and blocked the needles with a soda machine. "I really hope this place has insurance." Twilight gulps looking at the mess.
"Worry about the damages later darling." Rarity yelps as she narrowly dodges a Flaringo.
Astral loads to Polero slugs and fires them tying both girls up causing them to fall.
Luke gasps but Tempest uses this opening to fire a Rammstone that punches Luke in the face knocking him into the wall.
"Cute, but it's time you heroes got put in your place." Tempest said.
Outside Adagio fired an Arachnet that spun a web throwing it around Sonata trapping her legs causing her to the fall of the ground and when she her broken piece of her old Siren gem fell out and onto the ground.
"Oh that's cute, you still hold onto that relic. You think if you do your powers will come back?" Adagio asks as she took out the hers and Aria's pieces. "Well this might help snap you out of it."
Sonata gasps as Adagio smashes all three pieces under her foot. "How could you do that? Those meant everything to us." Sonata asks.
"Now you how I felt when your mistake cost us our powers." Adagio said as Sonata reaches out and cups the shards together.
Around her, Sunset, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy were starting to get overwhelmed.
"I guess you're just cursed to turn whatever team you're on into losers." Adagio mocks as a Sonata held the shards close.
"No." Sonata said before looking up and a blue aura surrounded her. "I'm stronger than I ever was with them than I could ever be with you! I learned a power that could never be matched! Friendship and love!" Sonata declares as the shards from the gems surrounded her and a bright glow enveloped her.
"No it can't be!" Adagaio said as Sonata's pony ears appeared, her hair grew and her wings sprouted out of her back as she and the girls ponyed up. "You ponyed up?!"
"Me and all my friends, we are taking you guys down!" Sonata roars as Sunset, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy and Applejack also ponyed up to fight back surprising Tempest, Aria and the rest of the crew.
(Play Warriors (She-Ra Princess of Power) by Aaliyah Rose)
As their Elements of Harmony filled the girls Twilight looked at Rarity's form and thought about joining in, but then she remembered what she did as Midnight Sparkle.
"Oh you're going down now." Luke smirks.
Growling in anger, Tempest fires a Grenuke slug at him but Luke jumps out of the way.
"I have come too far to be stopped by you!" Tempest roars as she continues her attacks.
Up above Astral tries to blast Rarity and Twilight but Rarity created a magic barrier blocking them.
"Rarity time for a scientific angle for this. I need Dazzle." Twilight said as Rarity handed her the slug.
Aiming both blasters at Astral, Twilight fires as Volts and Dazzle spun creating a new combination that fired a electric gems around Astral that acted as lightning rods zapping him until he fell to the ground.
"And that's how it's done." Twilight smiles.
Outside, Pinkie fires Bubbles into the air who blows giant bubbles that Pinkie bounces on like a trampoline before firing a Phosphoro into the sky creating a bright light that blinded the crew allowing Fluttershy to fly down on Jumbo's back firing an Arachnet.
Spinning a web, Rainbow Dash catches it and uses her speed to run circles around the slingers while Applejack loaded Knuckles into her blaster and fired knocking all the slingers into one area allowing Rainbow to tie them all up.
"Oh yeah! Pony up and Slug Slinging, that is an awesome combo!" Rainbow smiles.
"I could get used to this." Applejack smiles.
Sonata spread her wings and glared at Adagio who backed up in shock and fear.
"I am done being pushed around by you." Sonata said light blue energy filled her hand and she held it out sending a giant blue musical note that smashed into Adagio knocking her into Aria and knocking them both into a small rowboat.
"Looks your comeback tour is over." Sunset smirks as she and Sonata look down at them.
"It's official I hate you guys." Aria groans.
Finally Luke and Tempest were down to their last few slugs and Tempest was getting angry at how her plan blew up in her face.
"I'm only gonna say this once, give back the slugs." Luke said.
"You want them?" Tempest asks as she activates the dual feature and loads in her Tormato and a Sand Angler firing them to create a giant Sandstorm.
Luke cringed as he realized he had to fight fire with fire. Loading in his Polero and his Thresher slug Luke fires creating a sawbolo that spun through the sandstorm and smashed into Tempest knocking her to the ground.
Groaning Tempest tried reaching for her blaster only to see Luke aiming Burpy at her. "You lose." Luke declares.
(Song End)
Having won the battle, the Shane Gang smiled at that various victories but what they didn't know something saw the whole battle, something evil.
"Don't worry, they usually pick up the garbage in an hour." Rainbow said as everyone in Tempest's crew except Tempest, Astral, Adagio and Aria were being tied up by Applejack and thrown onto rowboats.
Sonata walks by and looks to Aria who looks away.
"I guess I should thank you both, because you pushed me away I ended up being able to find real friends." Sonata said.
"Good for you." Aria mumbles.
"You girls were amazing. You really stepped up." Luke said as Sunset and Twilight gathered up most of the blasters.
"Do you guys always do stuff like this?" Twilight asks.
"Family business." Luke said when he noticed Sonata's pony up form. "Sonata? Whoa what happened?"
"You guys happened. I got my powers back, but this time I'm gonna use them to help people." Sonata smiles.
"Good for you Sonata." Pinkie said.
"Yeah it takes guts to learn from your mistakes." Applejack said.
"Take it from me." Sunset nods.
"You stepped up Sonata, I'm glad you're on my team." Luke smiles.
A soft blush appears on Sonata's face as she realized everything great that has happened to her was because of her meeting Luke. Looking to him Sonata leans in and kisses him on the lips causing everyone's jaws to drop in shock while Sunset started to grind her teeth.
'Oh that siren did not just kiss my boyfriend.' Sunset thought.
Emerging from the shadows, a slug, a dark green slug with one eye and four fangs. This was the Goon Doc.
"That power. I must have it." The Goon said when he noticed Luke in the crowd and gasps seeing the spitting image of Eli and Will. "And there's the perfect host for me to take back Slugterra." He grins.