I totally did not rip the chapter title off from an old booster pack from a certain, children's card game. Sarcastically speaking
Ch.11: The Metal Raiders
Three unicorns are arguing to a stalemate on a dirt road far from Ponyville.
One side is a pair of male unicorn twins, the Flim Flam Brothers. The siblings are dressed with their usual attires in yellow, tap dancer hats with a blue stripe wrapped around, have black bow-ties, and blue-and-white stripes for clothing. If one were to distinguish them apart, Flim has no mustache and has ¼ of an apple for Cutie Mark; Flam has a red mustache and has ¾ of an apple on his. Their opposing side is a blue, female unicorn who has a wand and a slightly misshapen, crescent moon for a Cutie Mark, indicating her talents in magical stage performance. She has wears a pointy, purple hat featuring a moon and stars. Both of their vehicles, a locomotive machine powered by the Flim Flam brothers' magic called the Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000 and Trixie's carriage also powered by her magic, were stuck together with each of the riders arguing.
"How dare you?! The Great and Powerful T-T-T-Trixie has had enough from last night's commotion and I will not stand for this trivia," the third-person speaking unicorn yelled at the affront locomotive.
"Well well well, we seemed to be at an impasse, brother of mine." sang Flim of the Flim Flam brothers.
"Indeed, we have none other than one of a kind." Flam sung in a rhyme.
"Now 'Great and Powerful Trixie,' if you don't mind." Both spoke. "But we asked that you kindly step aside." They concluded their speech patterns to Trixie Lulamoon, but not without receiving an outburst response.
"Pardon me?!" The egotistical magician cried out. "The Great and Powerful Trixie does not simply 'move aside' to anypony, especially not to a pair of cheapskate con-artists." She had known of their exploits from rumors in her travels.
"I dare say, brother of mine," one of the Flim Flam brothers sang to each other. "But did she slander us?"
"Indeed, but we must say," the other continued. "That we, a corporation of brothers, are a legitimate, family business."
"Well, I assure you two," Trixie retorted but the agonizing siblings continue.
"Oh missy," one of the brothers intervene. "News of your recent little coup of Ponyville spreads like wildfire."
"'Oooh I shall rule of all Equestria,'" the other brought up a cheap doll imitation of Trixie, mimicking and mocking her of her past misdeeds. "'Gasp in awe in the presence for all to admire." They both ended with a laugh. Trixie's mind is now filled with nothing but wrath from their teasing. A faint green spark and stomping sounds were made from a distance, but neither unicorns heed it much as they are both occupied with their situations.
"That is it!" The magician shouted. "The great and powerful Trixie will not stand for this debacle." The mysterious stomping became noticeable to the brothers that they turned away from Trixie to the direction where it's coming from. "Prepare thyself as you are about to witness: the full power of…" She stopped to see what the brothers were seeing, a tall bipedal figure in strange spiky, blue armor. "Excuse me!" She halted her magic to exclaim at the unknown stranger in passing.
"Is there a problem?" asked the mechanical being speaking with a metallic voice. The unicorns could see that this being in blue armor had no mouth to speak, but a metal-plated muzzle. It has only one eye that is somehow lined up with an orange glare.
"Why yes kind sir!" said one of the Flim Flam brothers, assuming that this stranger is an armored mercenary whom they're willing to pay to solve their problems.
"We have an issue, mister!" Trixie shouted first instead of the other sibling, hoping to take this opportunity for the stranger to take her side.
"Hey that's my line!" the other brother complained
"Our vehicles are stuck together," continued Trixie. "And these cretins aren't bothering to move an inch," pointing to the Flim and Flam Brothers.
"Let us assure you," the brothers said to what seems to be a hired muscle. "We are willing to pay double the amount if you move her cart out of our way.
"I'll pay you triple!" cried the performer despite her meagerly-paid income since her fairly recent stunt in Ponyville.
"Oh it's a goer then," the brothers responded to compete. "We will pay quadruple the amount!
"I'll pay quintuple!"
"Sextuple!"
"Septuple!" and the numbers go up between the two sides of fraudulent unicorns until...
"Enough!" The blue metallic being said unfazed by their shouting of money count. "You three will all owe me a favor. Does that sound complacent?"
"Fine, whatever." Trixie said from hearing an uncommon vocabulary before ordering. "Just get on with it!
The armored mercenary went up between the two vehicles. The unicorns were hoping that his strength beneath his armor exterior would suffice in helping out. Instead, the being curved into a ball, spin dashing through their transports, and return swiftly back to the equines.
"What in Equestria have you done?!" cried out Trixie.
"That wasn't our agreement!" shouted the brothers.
"Problem solved…" It stepped a stomp towards them before bending one knee. "…and now it's time to fulfill your end of the bargain." It rockets towards both of the Flim Flam brothers with its arms stretched, knocking them out. "You will all pay…with your lives!"
"If that's the case, T-T-Trixie won't hold back-." She was stopped firsthand with a hard fist to the face. This sends to her flying across the plain. Getting up from her knockback, she could see that the blue armored figure has already approached her within a few meters away. Assuming he uses magic by teleportation, Trixie pulls a trick under sleeve. "Eat this!" She bluffed her exasperated shout with a smoke spell to escape. But unknowingly, her opponent is a non-organic along with having built-in sensor scans. The blue metallic being was unaffected. Already he had caught to her as shown by flying above her. Trixie had one glimpsed to look from behind until she is fist slammed to the ground. The magician slowly recovered, but the armored being is right in front of her. "Stay back!" she cried using her full potential to hold the being in an aura of magic. The unknown brute was a taken back at first, sensing the energy surrounding him to be illogically possible without Chaos Energy as his originator experimented. But then he started to resist the aura, slowly breaking free of magic barrier. Trixie senses this, and she asserts more power to her magic. By then, the blue armored biped had rolled into a ball. Spinning and breaking through the magick while charging towards the unicorn mare, knocking her out. Trixie had used up all her strength in her fight. She fainted from the beatings and in fatigue.
"Targets heavily damaged." Mecha Sonic had stated in defeating the unicorn. He lifts her unconscious body and returns to pick the other two. "Initiating. Scanning area." Mecha Sonic stated. His objective was to capture the unicorns spotted by Eggman's camera spy in the middle of the road. He also must ensure there are no witnesses in the vicinity. Two lifeforms are detected in the sky miles away.
"Hold Mecha." Eggman ordered through a comlink installed inside Mecha. "Your rockets makes too much noise. It may catch more unwanted attention if you fly up." Earlier before apprehending the unicorns, Mecha was made to teleport by Chaos Control with a Chaos Gem and walked towards them. Further rocket boosts in the previous ground fight would've cause more disturbance in the sky. "I already have someone taking care of it."
Unlucky pegasi mares in the clouds are Helia and Blossomforth. Helia is coated in greenish opal with golden mane and has a raining cloud for a Cutie Mark; Blossomforth is coated in white with green and pink mane and has a couple of flowers matching her mane color for a Cutie Mark. Things have been rough since last night's strange event. They were taking a break from their cloudy works to look at unicorns quibbling over their carts. It seems enjoyable at first, seeing the infamous unicorns verbally fighting. That is until they spotted a similar green spark from last night and came a blue armored being. They were all together shocked by his appearances and skills in combat. They plan to gossip this with their friends in Cloudsdale, but then their senses blacked out before their unconsciousness.
"Target confirmed." E-101 Beta Mkii stated after knocking out two pegasi mares. His super speed and teleportation further enhanced by a synergized gem of power made his operation go silently. When the pegasi mares were knocked out, they fell and landed on a cloud without falling through it. The black automaton grabbed hold of a cloud and found it tangible. "Does not compute. Illogical." Noting how clouds normally can't be grasped back on Earth, but he's on Equestria; not Earth.
"Interesting…" Eggman said from reading E-101's sensors. "The clouds are a lot like the ones on Angel Island." He plans on updating his advanced combat robots with Equestrian information after he had finished his studies of the new world. "Return to base," he orders his robots.
"As you wish." E-101 Beta mkii said after lifting two pegasi from a cloud before disappearing. His teleportation was silent and unflinching before being powered by Chaos Energy; it still is even after given a synthetic copy of a Chaos Emerald. Mecha Sonic followed along with his teleportation in a flash, knowing full well from his scans that they are no more witnesses.
If you need a reminder, the story of the Eggman Empire of Equestria takes place around Season 3 on the MLP side. Somewhere after the Magic Duel with Trixie getting her revenge on Twilight.
It's been almost a year since the last chapter. I ended up with 1500+ words in the next. Why did I take that long for such a short chapter? Well, I did struggle along with the fight scene with Mecha Sonic and Trixie, which I'm not really used to in writing stuff with lots of action. Sometimes I feel they should be longer like DBZ, but this should suffice. The biggest challenge was the dialogues between her and the Flim Flam Brothers, which is my usual struggle. Plus there's always my personal life: suffering from Major Depressive Disorder and unemployed. If you want to know more, talk to me on my deviantart page where I'm more active on. Maybe it would be motivate me to post chapters sooner than months. Just google: FerrumFlos1st
Helia and Blossomforth are pegasi with one-time lines in the show. Blossomforth appeared in Hurricane Fluttershy while Helia appeared in Rainbow Falls. They both were training with Thunderlane in those episodes and strangely share the same mane with Twilight. There is a bit confusion between the two in the Rainbow Falls episode. Helia was the one talking, but apparently the credits labeled her as Blossomforth. And some stuff more confusing that I lost interest in making sense of minor background ponies with one-time lines.
Eggman now has four unicorns (with Lyra in the previous chapter) and two pegasi in possession. What does he plan with their capture? Tune in next time, and hopefully it doesn't have to be almost a year. Wait, I just said that in the previous chapter. Instead, I should be saying, "Please be patient within one year."
Long Live the Eggman Empire
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