Title: Battle at the Gasket de Glue
Premise: MLP: FIM. At the Gasket de Glue, Princess Celestia and Luna are about to be killed and turned into glue, until Twilight Sparkle and all her friends come to their rescue, and a major battle ensues. Based on the final battle from Robots.
Personal Comments: Ever since my previous drabble, Thunder Strike Gasket de Glue, my latest MLP OC, Slice n' Dice, has developed in my mind. I came up with a few possible stories I could do with him. They're mainly MLP horror or gorefics. This also popped into my mind.
So overview: Slice n' Dice is the owner of an infamous glue factory in Manehatten. He himself is described by Applejack as the nastiest pony to ever taint the face of Equestria. At the glue factory, as you might guess, ponies are slaughtered and used to make glue, leather, and the works. The factory workers are imps that Slicey has sqawned using dark magic (even though he himself is an earth pony). He has a few physical similarities to Freddy Krueger, including knife fingers that let him hold things in one hoof, and has a scalpel for his cutie mark. He's largely based on Madame Gasket from Robots, and he's the perfect antagonist for any gorefic, any grimdark story. Has all those kinda traits you would expect.
This sprung up in my mind earlier as I was listening to "He's a Pirate" from the Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack. It's good battle music. I recommend listening to it while reading this.
I also like this idea here of every pony Twilight's ever met in her adventures, everyone she's helped, coming together in a dark hour to help her. I imagine that will happen towards the end of the series. It actually happens in my story The Adventures of Thunder Strike and Ink Blot.
I really should be studying for my bio exam tomorrow, but this idea keeps jabbing at my brain.
Also, I don't really like Applejack. She's my least favorite of the mane six. Same goes for many of my OCs, who refer to her as a dumb, dirty hillfilly - a derogative term for earth ponies, particularly farmers. I wonder if any other writers have come up with that term. Probably. I'm probably not the first. Also, in terms of Twilight being shipped with another one of the mane six, sadly, I'd say Twilight and AJ share the most on-screen chemistry.
I used "Tik Tok" by Ke$ha for this. I do not own the song, and do not profit from this.
Just a few more days before Magic Duel airs! Man, people are more hyped for this episode than they were for The Crystal Empire. To be fair though, I can see why.
In the dark factory, Celestia and Luna were still tied down by the chains that bound them, chains that their magic was powerless against for some reason.
They struggled, but they could not break free of the binds. They were truly scared. They may be about to actually die. They were trapped in a large bucket carrying them towards a large chute with sparks flying out the mouth. They knew this chute would chop them up and kill them, then they would be made into glue.
Slice n' Dice stood on the ground level, watching with a wicked smile on his face. His plans were all working out perfectly. This was a proud day for his factory.
"Slice N' Dice," Celestia called down to her captor, "You're a sick, twisted, evil pony!"
"Aw, shucks!" He replied, blushing.
"You won't get away with this!" Luna shouted down to him.
"Says who?" the wicked pony chuckled.
"Says us!" A wise-cracking voice replied as some gears were heard stopping and the bucket halted.
Confused, Slicey looked up at the lever to see Twilight Sparkle jamming a metal pipe into the gears, Rainbow Dash at her side.
Slicey then turned to see the rest of the mane six. Applejack was there, dressed in makeshift armor, Fluttershy with some of her animal friends armed to the teeth, and Rarity, levitating weapons with her magic. Spike carried a flame thrower that ran on his own fire breath.
But where was Pinkie Pie? Oh, yeah. She fell behind.
In a flash, Twilight appeared at the lead of the gang, and Rainbow appeared beside her.
"Ah, Twilight Sparkle," Slicey said musingly, "So nice of you to come to watch your mentor be... disassembled." He then looked at the four others and gave them a disgusted look. "And who are these losers?"
"Who you callin' losers, lead-head?" Rainbow hissed.
"They're my friends!" Twilight answered. "And we're here to rescue the princesses!"
"And in case ya'll haven't counted," Applejack added, "These losers got ya'll out-numbered. There's six-o-us, n' one-a-you!"
Slicey simply smiled a menacing grin as his imps suddenly jumped out from behind him. Smiling, devilish, half-goat and half-bat creatures, all armed with knives, hatchets, hammers, drills, crowbars, hacksaws, buzz saws, chainsaws, blow-torches, flails, whips, and other various weapons and tools.
"Okay, let me see," Spike said he started counting over the imps again in his head.
"Make sure you count these guys," Slicey pointed out. And just then, large trucks came out from doors in the wall, each one about the size of a small building. They were the giant sweepers that Slicey had gotten that would 'purge' the streets of Equestria of all ponies deemed "unfit".
Twilight and her friends looked over the scene in horror. There were at least a hundred imps, and these sweepers would grab them in their metallic claws or suck them in with their vacuums. It was clear they could not win this battle.
Slicey's flying wire suddenly lowered down and grabbed him by the belt, and hoisted him up so that he was above his army, and could still observe the carnage that was about to take place.
Twilight and her friends would not go down without a fight. They readied themselves for battle, preparing to charge, when suddenly, they heard a hammer-like knocking. They turned and saw one of the walls be knocked down, and in came Pinkie Pie, holding a frying pan.
She suddenly looked sad.
"Aww," She whined, "did you girls start the party without me?"
After a moment of silence, Twilight replied. "Uh, no. Actually you're right on time, Pinkie. We were just about to start."
"Oh, good!" Pinkie exclaimed happily, "Because I brought some friends!"
Just then, a whole section of the wall was blown off, and in came dozens of more ponies; a massive crowd the likes of which Twilight never would have expected.
Practically everypony she knew was there; from background ponies to major characters. Shining Armor, Cadence, and Prince Blueblood stood side by side, a few guards backing them up. Most of the Apple family was there, with Big Macintosh and Breaburn leading the way. Chief Thunderhooves and his herd of buffalo were there as well. Fancy Pants, armed with a rapier, lead a team of other well-known, classy ponies who were armed likewise. Twilight could also count a few ponies from the Crystal Empire. Several wonderbolts swooped in from the skies, Spitfire and Soarin at the lead.
The Mayor of Ponyville had most of the town at her back; Cheerilee, Zecora, the Cakes, Lyra, Bon Bon, Vinyl Scratch with her boom box and base cannon, Derpy, Octavia, Doctor Whooves, even Trixie!
Each of them were chanting "Twilight, Twilight, Twilight, Twilight!"
It was practically every pony she had ever met in her travels, all come together here to help her and her friends save the princesses. The elements of Harmony may have been smelted, but she knew that together, they could all win this fight. The power of their friendship would last them all through this.
Slicey was just as shocked as Twilight was. He showed a little fear, but it quickly disappeared and was replaced by anger and blood thirst.
"Alright!" Rainbow cheered. "Pinkie, you are amazing!" She turned back to Slicey and his army. "Now lets kick this guy's psychotic flank!"
"Woo, nelly!" AJ cheered in agreement. Many other ponies in the crowd cheered as well, ready for battle.
Pinkie turned to Vinyl Scratch. "Vinyl," She barked, gaining the DJ's attention. "Cue Pirates of the Carribean fight music!"
"Aye-aye, buck-yeah, Captain!" Vinyl replied joking. She hit a button on her boom box, and "He's A Pirate" started playing.
That was their cue. Time to fight.
"CHAAARRGE!" Twilight cried as she charged ahead, her five friends behind her. Pinkie led every pony else down the ramp and into the fray.
Slicey did not even need to speak. His imps just charged at their next victims, weapons poised.
The two massive armies charged and collided at incredible forces and speeds.
The imps swung their weapons, trying to cut and smash the attackers. A few blows landed, some blood was indeed shed.
Slicey himself whipped out his nail gun and started firing at the ponies with incredible accuracy, landing a headshot nearly every time.
The ponies were fighting well, desperate to save their princesses.
Twilight used her magic to shield herself and her friends, teleported out of harms way, and blasted imps with pure magic volleys.
Applejack bucked and jabbed at the imps left and right. She also lassoed one and spun him around, hitting a whole circle of imps like a wrecking ball.
Spike's fire was well effective against the beasts.
A cluster of imps surrounded Pinkie, knocking the frying pan from her hooves. There was only one thing she could do now. She started dancing.
Don't stop, make it pop, DJ turn the speakers up!
Tonight, I will fight, 'till we see the sudden light.
The imps, initially confused, decided to dance along with her.
Tik tok, on the clock, but the party don't stop, no...
Ow-woah, oh-oh! Ow-woah, oh-oh!
At the last verse, Pinkie started bucking each up, finally repulsing them with the sheer majesty of her awesome dancing.
Rarity's weapons made short work both at protecting her, hurting the imps, and making them more 'beautiful'.
Rainbow zipped through crowds of imps, knocking them down like dominos. Fluttershy simply stared the imps down to scare them off, while her animals swarmed them.
Shining Armor had plenty of spells he could use to fend off the imps, as did his guards.
Big Mac bucked and stomped on each imp.
"Nope!" He huffed after kicking one back into a cluster of cans.
Cadence actually used one spell to make some imps fall in love with each other so that they forgot the battle and started making out with each other.
"I see you learned from Aunt Tia, Sister," Blueblood remarked before pounding one imp.
"Mm-hmph!" Cadence laughed.
Octavia huffed. She hated having to do this, but she knew it was fore the best. She raised her cello, and swung it like a mighty club, scattering and knocking back several imps in her wake.
"IMMA FIRIN' MAH BASE CANNON!" Vinyl shouted as she slammed a button on her base cannon, literally blasting music through the building, blowing away any imps that were fool enough to be in its wake.
Lyra and Bon-Bon hooked forelegs. Bon-Bon swung Lyra around, making her kick the imps that surrounded them.
Doctor Whooves aimed his Sonic Screwdriver, and hit the button, emitting a hypersonic wavelength that caused all imps around him to fall to their knees, clutching their ears, trying to block out the agonizing sound from their brains.
"Feel the wrath of the Great and Powerful Trixie!" The blue mare exclaimed as cast a magnet spell on a cluster of imps, pushing them together in a ball, and then tossing them into one of the many furnaces.
Soarin and Spitfire kept swooping down and knocking back imps that got in the way. That was... until Spitfire got shot in the chest by a nail gun.
Rainbow looked up and saw more imps sniping at them from the balcony.
Twilight saw this too. She also knew they still had to save the princesses.
"Rainbow!" She called over to her friend, "Let's get up there!"
"On it!" Rainbow shouted. She swooped down and grabbed Twilight's hooves, and the two flew up towards the higher catwalks of the factory.
Slicey tried to shoot them as they flew toward him, but Twilight deflected the shot. He then pulled out his rusty ax, and swung, but Rainbow dodged as the two flew past him.
There were just so many imps. They just kept coming.
Slicey turned back to the crowd below him, looking for somepony else to shoot.
He noticed the orange farm pony was fighting off a large number of imps.
That dumb hill filly! He hissed. He lifted his gun, aimed carefully, and pulled the trigger.
The nail whizzed through the air, and shot right into Applejacks' eye, going right through and popping out the other side of her skull, clanging as it hit the floor.
Applejacks' body wobbled for a moment before it toppled over collapsed onto the cold, hard floor, blood pooling around her head.
Slicey grinned wickedly, then twirled the gun around on his metallic finger as he scanned the room for his next victim.
Up on the catwalk, Rainbow set Twilight down. The imps aimed and shot their nail guns at her, but Twilight was fast and put up a purple force field. The nails bounced off the force field like a paddle ball set.
While the imps were focused on Twilight, Rainbow zoomed around, and zipped across the catwalk several times, each time taking out several more imps.
"It got this, Twi!" Rainbow called down to her friend, "You go save the princesses!"
"Right!" Twilight nodded.
In a flash, she teleported to the bucket holding Celestia and Luna, holding on to one of the chains holding it up.
"I'm so proud of you, Twilight!" Celestia smiled at her apprentice.
"Don't tell me that yet, Princess," Twilight replied, as she focused her magic on unscrewing the screws holding their binds together. She saw that their wings were broken and they could not fly.
And suddenly, the bucket started moving towards the chute again, getting closer every second.
"Look out!" Luna exclaimed.
Twilight shot up another force field around the bucket, just in time to block off a nail shot. Slice N' Dice, who had just pulled the pipe from the gears, was now shooting at them, nails launching rapidly from his gun.
Under this fire, Twilight could not focus on freeing the princesses. They were pinned down.
Slicey grinned wickedly as it looked like Twilight and the princesses were screwed... when he suddenly felt something heavy bang him in the back of the head.
He dropped his gun, and it fell down to the floor several stories below.
He spun around to see Rainbow Dash hovering before him, holding a new pipe in her forelegs.
"I've had it with you, you slime ball!" She snapped.
"The feeling is mutual, my dear," Slicey replied as he pulled out his ax. He swung at Rainbow, who parried him with her pipe. The two started dueling in the air, Rainbow kept a float by flying, Slicey by his wire. They were evenly matched, and could barely get past each other's guard, only occasionally landing a blow on each other.
Now free of fire, Twilight freed Celestia and Luna from their bonds. Then she loosened the screw from one end of the bucket. The other end started to rise, now free of its burden, so Twilight grabbed hold of it with one hoof, grabbed Celestia's foreleg in the other, and Luna held on to her sister's hind legs. All three of them flew up to the rafters together.
Down below, they could see that the sweepers were coming closer to their friends and allies below. Any moment now, they would be upon them and chop them up. They were trying to hold them back as best as they could, but they could only slow the behemoths down.
"I'm sure you have a plan, right Twilight?" Celestia asked.
Twilight looked around frantically, and then saw one saw pendulum hanging from the ceiling, and that's when it hit her.
"Yep!" She charged across the catwalk towards the saw, the two princesses behind her.
After much more dueling, Slicey and Rainbow were now had their hooves planted on another catwalk. Slicey managed to break through Rainbow's guard finally, and brought his ax down on her shoulder.
Rainbow yelped in pain and collapsed as Slicey cackled, seeing that his victory seemed certain.
After a second though, Rainbow looked up at him again, anger and determination in her eyes, and a surprising lack of pain, despite the blade still lodged into her back. She cracked her neck, and jumped to her hooves, grabbing the ax by her end of the handle.
Surprised, Slicey gave a worried look.
Hovering in the air, Rainbow swung and spun around, still holding the ax, spinning Slicey around with her. She kept going faster, blurring the room. Finally, she let go, and Slicey went flying... right into the chute. The jaws crunched down on his hind legs, making him scream in pain. After a minute of agonizing torture, the machine pried him from his wire, and he was pulled down and chewed up inside his own machine.
Up above, Twilight unscrewed the top of the saw blade with her magic, gave it one extra push, and the went swinging down.
The three mares hung on for dear life as the blade slammed into one sweeper, knocking it down. It then hit another sweeper on its way down, which led to another being knocked down like a row of dominos. In a moment, all the sweepers were knocked down.
The saw blade hit the other wall, and the three mares jumped down and safely landed in a pile of bones.
After another minute, the last of the imps were finished off, and most of the ponies had survived, with only a few casualties.
Twilight and the princesses rose from the pile of bones, and as they did so, the entire army all cheered and screamed victoriously. They had won! Celestia and Luna were safe, and the Gasket de Glue had at last been run out of business.