Hi, Hyena King here! This is the big moment. The final boss fight before we reach the final couple of chapters. I hope you,ve enjoyed this, the best part's coming up! So, without further ado, here's chapter 32!
Maria and Yukie stood outside the van, looking for all the world like prison guards, except for the fact that they were dressed like a flamingo dancer and a shrine maiden. Their "Prisoners" were the main six. When Sasha gave orders that they be kept here, The younger goddesses took the order to heart, locking the mares in the van and quite literally throwing away the key.
They didn't take kindly to this treatment, mind you. Applejack tried kicking their way out. Sadly, the steel in the door was a lot stronger then it looked. Twilight tried to use magic, but the goddesses had secretly rubbed poison joke on her and her horn was back to being a useless blob. Rainbow then tried to break down the door several times, but again to no avail.
At length, they gave up. Rainbow was still yelling at one time or another, but that was it. As for the dragons, they were goofing off somewhere in the Yukon. Fiona and Spike had really hit it off, both being dragons and all, and decided to go exploring.
The problem was, they didn't come back when they said they were. In fact, they were an hour late. Maria and Yukie didn't worry about this a lot. They thought that the two dragons were getting to "Know" each other better. (This was accompanied by several giggles.)
So it came to no surprise that, as they were discussing how old Spike actually was, they didn't notice the strange figure coming right up to them. Smiling, the figure drew a green glowing stone, (You guessed it, a God Stone.) And pointed it in the direction of the still chatting goddesses.
An instant later, the goddesses collapsed on the ground powerless, as Lord malice cackled and signaled the goons behind him to drag away the van, saying.* "Thank you, you have made this so much easier. Now, where are the rest of your friends?"
Meanwhile, Bentley,Thunder and Lightning awoke in a cell in what was undoubtedly Jean's main base. The bonk on the head they all received was starting to recede, but it was still hurting all of them. Sasha and Karen where nowhere to be seen.
"Oh, my aching head." Bentley groaned.
"I,m right there with you." Lightning agreed, holding his head in his hands.
"Those talons really pack a punch." Bentley continued, not acknowledging Lightning's statement. " Bentley turned to Sly and Murray beside them, who were still unconscious. "Sly! Murray! Wake up!"
"Yeah, I,m awake, but not so loud." Responded Sly. "I have a splitting headache."
"Whuh...Who...?" Murray said, standing and clearing his head. "Where are we? What's going on?"
"This looks like the saw-mill control room." Bentley explained. "Bison must have thrown us in for interrogation later. I for one, would like to escape before he returns."
"Yeah, especially if he finds out I,m not a chambermaid." Lightning seconded. Or male."
Sly took a quick look around. "It looks like we're pretty well sealed in here. Unless..." He was looking at Bentley with a smile.
"Unless what?" Bentley asked, a little suspicious.
"Unless you can fit through that hole." He indicated what looked like a sort of ventilation shaft.
Bentley hesitated for a moment. "I...I think I could squeeze through there. I'll drop down and try to free you guys from the outside. If there's any trouble, I'll call with this walkie talkie," He held up the walkie talkie for emphasis. "You might be able to help me with these Sawmill controls."
"While you guys do that," Murray broke in. "I'll try prying open that steel door. Given enough time, I might be able to make some progress."
Thunder came up To Murray. "I'll see if I can help with my thunder Blasts. That could at least weaken the support."
"Sounds like a plan." Sly said with a smile. "Good luck Bentley, and remember to shout if we can help from up here."
As Thunder helped Murray try to lift the door, and Lightning and Sly came up to the controls, Bentley quickly jumped into the shaft and went down into it. He eventually came into a large room, with several wood cutting instruments.
"Bentley you OK?" Sly asked on the walkie talkie. "I can't see you from in here, but I heard the fall."
"I,ll be fine, just give me a moment to catch my...breath."
There, in front of the turtle mastermind, was Jean Bison himself.
"Well now, candy britches." He said meanly. "I shoulda figured a puny turtle like you would find a rat-hole to squirm through."
"Well...uh...I just dropped my glasses and I had to pick'em up." Bentley explained, the lamest excuse he could think of.
"I ain't like you boy," Jean Bison stated, starting to get angry. "I ain't Stew-pid. When y'all where unconscious, Me and my boys paid a visit to your hideout and found all them clockwerk parts. Lucky thing, too; Arpeggio was willing to plunk down a king's ransom for the whole lot! Even threw in the talons."
"You sold all the Clockwerk parts!?" Bentley asked shocked. "Arpeggio has them all!?
"I wouldn't expect one of your kind to understand the finer points of commerce." Jean said disdainfully. "You turtles are too stupid to know a wood cutter from a wood chuck."
"Alright, that's it! Time to show you how 'Stew-pid.' we turtles really are!" Bentley cried in anger. He held up the walkie talkie and said.* 'On my command, Sly!"
"I hear ya." S ly confirmed.
"Prepare yourself, Bison." Bentley said, getting a determined look on his face. "En garde!"
"OK, walnut." Jean replied, lowering his head. "Get ready for a smushing."
Before they clashed, Bentlety had a thought. "What happened to the girls?"
"Oh, you mean your little lady friends? They were captured too. Sold them to that wierd horse fella. He paid nearly as much as Arpeggio for them! It was kinda a shame, I,d wanted too have more chambermaids around here-"
A loud bang, and a "Lightning, wait!" from the walkie talkie was the only warning as Lightning suddenly shot out from the vent and rammed into Jean at full speed, wailing his fists into him.
"You jerk!" Lightning howled as he pounded. Before Bentley could recover from that, Karen suddenly appeared beside the turtle and said. "We have a probl-" Karen stared as Lightning continued to attack. "I guess you guys already know."
"Yeah." The turtle said frantically. "Arpeggio has all the clockwerk parts! And that malice guy as our friends."
"My sisters too." Karen said grimely. Just then Lightning was sent flying back to them. Karen came up and grabbed him before he crashed into the wall, then turned to see Jean charging right at them.
"Alright, it's party time!" Karne dropped Lightning then slugged Jean right as he was nearly on them. Contrary to what you might think, the punch sent him across the room. Bentley and Lightning stared in disbelieve, then said.* 'You guys wouldn't mind helping with him, would you?"
"Sure." Karen pulled a sword out, while Lightning cracked his knuckles. "Let's go!"
The battle went like this. Bentley ran around the room, getting Bison to chase him. He lured him onto fire pads and automatic sawblades, then told Sly to activate them when necessary, either burning or cutting the bison. Karen and Lightning took no further physical action against Jean, knowing the turtle's determination to beat him himself. They mostly just beat the tar out of Bison's minions when they came to try to help their boss in the middle of the fight, and dodged the dynamite the bison occasionally threw out.
Eventually, it was too much for Bison, and he crashed to the floor, battered and bruised.
"Tarnation! I,ve been dun in by some four-eyed turtle?" Jean asked in shock. "Times have changed..." Jean then passed out, defeated.
"Once again, Brains triumph over Brawns." Bentley said, proud of himself.
"That's usually the other way around, right?" Karen asked, to the blank stares of Lightning and Bentley. Just then, the door holding the others were blown off their hinges, accompanied by a sound of thunder, then Thunder, Sly and Murray dashed out to meet the friends.
"Good job little buddy, that was some fast thinking." Sly congratulated Bentley.
"Don't forget about me!" Murray demanded.
"You...did a great job opening that door, Murray."
"Thanks."
"I helped." Thunder growled.
"So did we." Karen and Lightning echoed.
Suddenly a voice on the intercom said. "Attention, Jean Bison. Arpeggio's Carrier Blimp will arrive to pick up the northern light battery in exactly one minute."
"OK, enough patting each other on the back." Bentley declared. "If we're going to get the clockwerk parts and our friends back, we need to get onto that blimp."
"The silo battery isn't far. If we run, we can make it!" Sly declared.
"Or we can just teleport." *Karen said with smirk. Before they could respond, Sasha appeared and grabbed Murray and Sly's shoulders, while Karen grabbed Bentley, and disappeared in a puff of smoke, leaving Thunder and lightning by themselves.
"Alright, let's go." Thunder turned to fly out of there, but Lightning was up to Jean's unconcious form, saying in a girlie voice. "Oh, Jean? I quit!" HE kicked him in the stomach, then flew off with Thunder. Jean, awake for a few minutes, groaned and said.
"You're a man? ...Well that explains a lot..."
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