We were over in a rural meadow on the edge of Ponyville and we saw a bunch of awesome daredevil flying pegasi doing all kinds of amazing stunts. The name of the group was called The Washouts and they are a bunch of former Wonderbolt Cadets that were kicked out of the Wonderbolt Academy for doing all kinds of reckless and dangerous stunts that put their comrades at risk. With us was Hunter's friend from the Netherlands, Gertjan Spijker. He is a 17 year old Dutch American with a passion for Goths, he has black pompadour hair, slight pale skin, black eyelids, black curved eyebrows, broad lobe ears, and turn-up nose. And he is 5.10 feet tall, 200 lbs, wears a black and orange shirt, a black Gothic style jacket and hoodie, a black Gothic jeans, black Gothic boots, has the Netherlands flag armband on his right shoulder, and he has powers of Darkness, Dark, Nightmare, Forest, Earth, and Spiritual Release.

Me: It's an honor to have you with us Gertjan.

Gertjan: (Dutch Accent) (Monotone voice) Ja, and I love being with you guys. Hunter told me so much about you all and it's a pleasure to be with you all.

Lucy Loud: And it's nice to have a fellow Goth with us.

Brittney: You will make a great addition to the Goths of Darkness.

Gertjan: Thank you Brittney.

Laney: So what are the Washouts exactly?

Rainbow Dash: They are a group of daredevil performers that were former Wonderbolts that got kicked out of the Academy for doing all kinds of reckless and dangerous things.

Me: Wow.

Nico: That's rough.

Hunter: (German Accent) Ja. Und ever I wouldn't go that far.

Lincoln: Yeah.

Lori: Me, Lynn and Lola may be known as the Trinity of Violence but we would never do the stuff they did.

Me: Good.

Rainbow Dash: So why are we looking for the Washouts?

Me: We're going to recruit a Pegasus named Lightning Dust.

Rainbow Dash gasped when she heard that name.

Me: Was it something I said?

Rainbow Dash: Oh that's right you don't know about this J.D. But Lightning Dust and I have a really bad history with each other. We went to the Wonderbolts Academy together and she is a rival of mine.

Rainbow Dash went over her history.


Lightning Dust is a female Pegasus pony who first appears in the episode Wonderbolts Academy and makes subsequent appearances in later episodes, IDW comics, and magazines. Her cutie mark usually consists of a lightning bolt and three stars. She leaves a blue and yellow thunderbolt streak behind her when she flies, similar to Rainbow Dash's rainbow streak and the Wonderbolts' trail of lightning clouds. She is called Lighting Dust in The Elements of Harmony Vol. II guidebook.

In Wonderbolts Academy, Lightning Dust appears as a cadet at the Wonderbolt Academy who quickly forms a friendship with Rainbow Dash. However, she ignores Rainbow Dash's injury during an academy team exercise and brushes off the fact that her tornado put Rainbow Dash's friends in danger. Her recklessness and utter disregard for the safety of others eventually lead to her being kicked out of the academy and her team leader status being given to Rainbow Dash.

Lightning Dust is mentioned by Scootaloo in Parental Glideance. She also appears in the same episode as a filly in flashback.

In the season eight episode The Washouts, Lightning Dust reappears as the leader and founder of the Washouts, a professional stunt team comprised of fellow ex-Wonderbolts. She and her team members do away with many of the Wonderbolts' safety regulations and perform far more death-defying stunts. Lightning Dust briefly recruits Scootaloo into the Washouts, intending to have her perform an extremely dangerous stunt (in spite of her growing protests) but Rainbow Dash intervenes before she gets seriously hurt during her debut. When Lightning Dust's hoof gets caught on a rope attached to Scootaloo's stunt rocket as it takes off into the sky, she is dragged along with it. As she is pulled into the sky, she declares that she and Rainbow Dash are "rivals for life".

Other depictions IDW comics

In My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #8, Lightning Dust appears on cover A and page 16, in both appearances behind Princess Luna and multiple other characters in Ponyville. On My Little Pony Micro-Series Issue #7 page 19, Lightning Dust appears at the Ponyville Flea Market. She also appears in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #34 being recruited by Radiant Hope to attack the Crystal Empire. During the attack, she antagonizes Rainbow Dash and Rarity with water balloons, but she is eventually captured. King Sombra frees her in Issue #35, and she and the other recruited villains defeat the Mane Six, but she harbors second thoughts about her actions by Issue #36.

In My Little Pony: Deviations, Lightning Dust appears on pages 13-15 fighting against Nightmare Moon in an alternate timeline. She appears in Princess Eris' casino on My Little Pony: Nightmare Knights Issue #1 page 12, Issue #2 page 20, Issue #3 pages 2-3, and Issue #4 page 14.

Storybooks

Lightning Dust is mentioned in the chapter books Applejack and the Honest-to-Goodness Switcheroo and Fluttershy and the Fine Furry Friends Fair.

Magazines

In the Signature My Little Pony magazine issue 69 comic Daring friends and the missing story!, Lightning Dust appears at the Canterlot Magic Fair. In the comic Just the ticket!, she gets Songbird Serenade tickets from Ponyville and refuses Rainbow Dash's flying-race challenge at the Crystal Empire. In the [ specify ] comic Super Sub!, set between Rainbow Dash's promotion to full Wonderbolt and Thunderlane's promotion to full Wonderbolt, she is one of the "new recruits at Wonderbolts Academy" whom Rainbow Dash helps train.

Software

Lightning Dust and Washout Captain are available characters in Gameloft's mobile game. She was added to the iOS version of the game on December 9, 2013 and on the Android version on December 17, 2013. Lightning Dust's in-game description states, "Lightning Dust is a Pegasus pony whose cutie mark is a lightning bolt and three stars. She is very competitive, but reckless!" Washout Captain's in-game description states, "Who could that reckless mystery pony POSSIBLY be-Oh wait, it's clearly just Lightning Dust. She may be a jerk, but she DOES look good in black!" The two versions of Lightning Dust serve as an enemy minion and boss during the "Wonderbolt for a Day" event, which involves Lightning Dust attempting to persuade Wind Sprint to join the Washouts.

Merchandise

A mini-figure toy of Lightning Dust has been displayed at the 2014 American International Toy Fair.

In Enterplay's trading cards, Lightning Dust is featured on series 2 #30 and appears on series 3 #E59. In the Enterplay collectible card game's expansion sets, Lightning Dust is featured on Canterlot Nights #160 C, Absolute Discord #10 U, Equestrian Odysseys #13 C, and Friends Forever #10 R.

On pages 20-21 of the book Winning Style, "Rainbow Dash and Lightning Dust can't wait for the flying competition at the Equestria Games. They work on their speed and agility while flying through the clouds."

Lightning Dust is shown on Acidfree's first art print.

In a Signature My Little Pony magazine issue's [ specify ] Guess who's coming for dinner?, Lightning Dust—stated to have a Cutie Mark of "a thunderbot and stars"—is joining Rainbow, Gilda and Tank as "[a]nother flying friend" guest for spaghetti.

The Elements of Harmony Vol. II guidebook

LIGHTNING DUST is a highly competitive flyer and Rainbow Dash's good friend. She flies recklessly, and doesn't always see how her actions will affect other ponies. She might have an even bigger ego about her flying than Rainbow Dash, and was actually removed from her leadership role in the Wonderbolts because of it.

Personality

Lightning Dust is shown to be a vigorous and highly competitive flyer who loves to test her limits. She has strong attitude, speed, and love for flying. However, because of her competitive spirit, she is also very reckless and shows little concern for anyone who becomes a victim of her actions. She also appears to have a bigger ego than Rainbow Dash.

During the comics storyline Siege of the Crystal Empire, Lightning Dust is shown to be deeply resentful of Rainbow Dash, blaming Rainbow for her getting kicked out of the Academy. She joins Radiant Hope after being offered the chance to prove once and for all that she's better than Rainbow Dash. However, she starts having second thoughts after King Sombra takes over the Crystal Empire, and leaves soon after, unwilling to continue playing a part in the proceedings.

In Just the ticket!, Lightning Dust openly doubts that she would win a flying race against Rainbow Dash.

Across Super Sub! and The Washouts, Lightning Dust decides to give up training to be a Wonderbolt and founds the Washouts.

In The Washouts, Lightning Dust claims to have acknowledged that she went too far during Wonderbolts training, but quickly proves that she has learned nothing from her dismissal, having no qualms over endangering Scootaloo's life during a performance. She also enjoys mocking Rainbow Dash by claiming Scootaloo "used to" respect her.


We gasped!

Lynn: Whoa!

Naruto: That's nuts!

Lola: No kidding.

Me: We didn't know you had a really bad history with Lightning Dust.

Rainbow Dash: I know.

Twilight Sparkle: Yeah but Rainbow Dash saved us that day.

Sunset Shimmer: Wow! That's amazing.

Nico: It sure is.

We saw the Washouts flying and doing all kinds of awesome stunts and more.

Laney: Wow!

Scootaloo: Those stunts are so cool!

Me: They sure are.

We saw the Washouts and we met Rolling Thunder and Short Fuse.

Rolling Thunder: (Australian Accent) Whoa! Team Loud Phoenix Storm! It's an honor to meet you all.

Me: Same here.

Varie: It's an honor to meet you too.

Rolling Thunder: Same here. Name's Rolling Thunder. I got kicked out of the Wonderbolts for Flagrant Disregard for Hazardous Weather. If doing barrel rolls through 900 million volts of electricity is wrong, Then I know I'm right.

Me: Wow! That's really impressive.

Nico: No kidding.

Paula: I got struck by lightning and lived to tell the tell and it gave me incredible lightning powers as a result.

Lincoln: It's true.

Rolling Thunder: Nice! This is Short Fuse.

Short Fuse: Oh nice to meet you.

Me: Same here. How come you were kicked out of the Wonderbolts?

Short Fuse: (ANGRILY YELLING AT MY FACE) ANGER ISSUES! GET OFF MY BACK!

Me: WHOA! HOLY SHIT That's an explosive temper. You need serious anger management therapy.

Nico: No kidding.

Short Fuse: Sorry I can't help it.

Lincoln: Oh.

Then the leader of the Washouts came and it was LIGHTNING DUST!

Rainbow Dash: LIGHTNING DUST!

Lightning Dust: RAINBOW DASH!

They growled and glared at each other.

Lightning Dust then saw us.

Lightning Dust: Whoa! Team Loud Phoenix Storm! It's such an honor to meet you all.

Me: Same here.

Maria: Hi, are you Lightning Dust?

Lightning Dust: None other. Why?

May: Can we talk to you?

Lightning Dust: About what?

Charmcaster: Rainbow Dash sounds horrified and upset about something you apparently did. And while I doubt what you did in the past was truly traumatizing to her, we want to hear your side of the story.

Lightning Dash: Sure but I didn't know that Rainbow Dash is now working with you all.

Me: Yeah she just joined us a little over a month ago and something went down between you two and we didn't even know that you two had a really bad history with each other, other than the fact that you and Rainbow Dash were once part of the Wonderbolts.

Lightning Dust: Yeah. Well it went like this.

Lightning Dust portrayed Rainbow Dash as the most reckless Wonderbolt ever known to man and that she did terribly dangerous things the likes of which would make Hell seem like Child's Play.

Nico: All right, Rainbow Dash. Why don't we hear your side of the story now?

Rainbow Dash: (afraid) Well, when I first met Lightning Dust, she looked pretty awesome. To me, she became one of my role models for becoming a Wonderbolt. I trusted her. And then, she kept giving me a strange look. And then, I just felt like something was wrong. (starts to cry) I tried asking why she was acting that way, but she kept saying, "Relax, Rainbow Dash. I know what I'm doing!

Lightning Dust: (in disbelief) This is ridiculous, that never happened!

Grim: (Jamaican Accent) Be quiet, you serial killer! (calms down) Oh, I'm sorry. We should wait until we've heard everything

Me: Grim, Lightning Dust is not a serial killer.

Lucy Loud: J.D. is right. I would've smelled blood on her.

Me: Lucy is a vampire and she knows these things.

Lightning Dust: I can't believe you guys are even listening to this! For God's sake, you guys are reckless too! Isn't that how you win your battles?

Octane: Believe me, we don't think Rainbow Dash's exaggerated story is true at all. We're just finding it funny to listen to.

Me: Yeah. We may be reckless from time to time but we don't get people seriously hurt.

Sandstorm: You know what? Maybe J.D. and the Loud Kids can help you use your recklessness in positive ways.

Lightning Dust: Really?

Nico: (to me and the Loud Kids) For once, your recklessness could actually be a good thing in this case.

Me and the Loud Kids agreed.

Me: Yeah.

Lynn: And Lightning Dust, I completely sympathize with you.

Lightning Dust: Really?

Lynn: Yeah. I am an athlete myself and I was really reckless like you are. I played sports recklessly all the time and I wanted to become the best in all sports.

Naruto: Me and Sasuke were in the same boat as you Lightning Dust. When we were younger, me and Sasuke were bitter rivals and we hated each other's guts to the core.

Sasuke: Yeah but over time as we went on missions we grew closer like brothers.

Mr. Krabs: And I know how you feel too lass. Me and Plankton were bitter enemies and rivals. This was before he was banished into space.

Lightning Dust: Wow! I didn't know about any of that.

Me: Yeah it's a strange life we all have.

We told Lightning Dust about all the deeds we did and all the things that many villains accused us of being reckless for and more and it was intense.

Lightning Dust: WHOA! That's incredible!

Me: And don't worry, Nico here can make sure you follow our codes and control your recklessness. He's not only one of my 2nd In Command but he's also our chief enforcer.

Nico: Yep.

Lightning Dust: Wow! You guys can count on me.

Me: Awesome!

Rainbow Dash: I'm gonna be on guard though.

Stewie: You know Rainbow Dash there is something I should mention to you.

Rainbow Dash: What's that Stewie?

Stewie: (to Rainbow Dash) Your exaggeration of your side of the story is similar to how the fat man accused Dr. Hartman of raping him during his prostate exam.

Rainbow Dash: Really? Never knew about that.

Stewie: Yeah it really happened.

Maria: Peter had the nerve to accuse Dr Hartman of raping him when it was a standard medical exam?!

Me: What an idiot!

Later we had a nice talk and more. Short Fuse is undergoing the same meditation therapy I am doing and it's working well for him.

Rolling Thunder is putting his training and recklessness to good use in our new flying simulator.


Later we were watching TV in our gym and we were exercising. Lightning Dust and Rainbow Dash were running on treadmills at maximum speed and Rainbow Dash was emitting a rainbow trail as she ran and Lightning Dust was emitting a lightning trail behind her.

I was lifting 9,000 ton weights.

Me: (GRUNTS) Man nothing like a good workout.

Nico was punching a punching bag.

Nico: (GRUNTS) You said it J.D.

We were dripping sweat like there was no tomorrow. Buckets of sweat were pouring out of us as we were lifting weights, punching and kicking the Punching Bags and more.

Laney and some of us were meditating and more.

Laney: Oooooooommmm...

Lynn was smashing concrete blocks with a sledgehammer and it was amazing for her.

Lana was wrestling with a wrestling dummy and Lola was doing karate and jiu-jitsu and Lisa Loud was doing Tai Chi.

Eli was training with Naruto and the shinobi and he was really going at it!

Ariel: Way to go Eli!

We were really working out.

Then we later took a break and Kate Lloyd came in and she was really tired and had bags under her eyes and she was shaking.

Me: Kate are you alright?

Kate Lloyd: Yeah just tired.

Natilee came in with her.

Natilee: She has been having recurring nightmares.

Me: Uh oh. Let me guess. The Thing?

Kate Lloyd: Yeah.

Nico: Kate, I thought you were over that after we went to Outpost 31.

Me: Probably some lingering demons still haunting her.

Natilee: It might be the past in Thule Station.

Kate Lloyd: Yeah that's it.

Papillon: Guys, I wasn't here for this situation. Who's this Thing monster?

Me: Oh that's right you don't know about this. It's a horrible nightmare from space. The Thing is a shapeshifting alien monster that has the ability to imitate lifeforms perfectly. It's a horrible abomination that is composed of over 10,000,000 aliens all rolled together into one.

I went over the history of The Thing and how massive of a nightmare it was and more.


The Thing is the titular main antagonist and the alias given to the hostile alien creature featured in the 1938 short story Who Goes There? by the late John W. Campbell, that (compared to the deviated story of the 1951 film The Thing from Another World) was made into a 1982 live-action film by John Carpenter, followed by a prequel released in 2011.

Initially appearing as a single being, every cell in The Thing's body is autonomous and independent, capable of creating more of said monsters through assimilation, parasitism, and infection. In addition, every spawned monster looks radically different and none of them have a definite shape that can be called a "true form". Ultimately, the Thing's true body and form are a mystery as it most appears as whomever it impersonates.

In the 1951 film, it was played by the late James Arness. In the 1982 film, it was played by the late wolfdog actor Jed and its vocal sound effects were provided by Alan Howarth.

In nature, the Thing is basically an ambush predator, isolating a potential victim or threat to consume and assume its form. In certain cases, usually when exposed or the person it assimilated is fatally inflicted, the Thing will discard all caution and defend itself by manifesting features that may be of its natural form, including tendrils, claws, and mouths. However, the Thing's most dangerous aspect is its cells, each a functional life form that can become independent from the main body when severed by force or separate to facilitate assimilation and self-preservation. For this reason, it is necessary to destroy the body down to the cellular level, with incineration being an effective method.

Behavior and Intelligence

The Thing has only assimilation and self-preservation in mind, as it will selfishly save itself or even attack other forms of its manifestation/progeny in order to avert attention and suspicion. When The Thing is left alone with a suitable target, it will begin to split open and fire out tendrils, which grab the target and begin to assimilate it. In certain cases after discovery or high chance of discovery, The Thing will sometimes perform "divide and conquer" tactics, as in the case of the assimilated Edward which split up into three separate forms: One on his hand quickly detached and animated itself before engaging and assimilating Jonas, another limb scuttled away soon after detaching for potential assimilation in a safer location, and the main body of the Edvard thing killed Derek and successfully assimilated Adam Finch, resulting in a form of The Thing named Split-Face. This is also performed, albeit much less successfully, by the Norris-Thing. When exposed, Things will react depending on how big they are compared to the threat. Smaller Things will generally attempt to escape and ambush prey when the individual is more vulnerable. However, a larger Thing will usually attack prey head-on and attempt to overwhelm any hostiles instead of escaping, although if it has not completely lost its cover, it will attempt to flee.

The Thing's intelligence depends on the size of their manifestations: Smaller ones are quite stupid, dimwitted, nonsensical, and reckless while the larger ones (especially those that imitate a human) are quite cunning, manipulative, and formidably calculating. For example, Norris's mutated head foolishly let itself seen by MacReady and his friends while scuttering away from them, resulting in its incineration. Because The Thing can acquire the memories and knowledge of those who it previously assimilated, they can use said memories and knowledge for their advantage, though only larger manifestations of The Thing are more capable of doing so: the Thing Beast who had assimilated Sander was capable of taking control of the UFO which brought it to Earth while the assimilated Blair, on the other hand, built a makeshift UFO and was aware of how dynamite works as when ambushing Macready; it disposed of the detonator before revealing itself to confront him. However, this does not always apply to all larger manifestations of Thing Beasts: Rapture-type Thing Beasts (see below) have no intention of hiding themselves from view, as well as not manifesting useful appendages that supposedly give them advantage in battle like legs, and their chosen forms act primarily with little intelligence. A plausible explanation of this is likely that Rapture-type Thing Beasts' own overconfidence against their foes is so great that they believe mobility to evade their foes' attacks is unnecessary due to their formidable but stationary form.

When exposed, The Thing would attack anyone on sight to save itself. This somewhat serves as their psychological weakness due to their aggressive mood blinding them from serious threats that their foes unexpectedly posed on them: The Thing who manifested from assimilated Juliette recklessly attempted to kill Kate and the others as soon as it unveiled its true form which ironically led to its incineration. Should it survive the ordeal from its foes/preys and manage to hide, The Thing would regain its composure in order to use their original intelligence once again: When Split-Face Thing confronted Sam, it hesitated upon noticing his flamethrower.

The Thing's ability to interact with plant-based life-forms is largely unknown. Its only interaction with plant-based life was in the form of wood/clothing fibers. It cannot absorb these as noted by MacReady, which could suggest an inability to absorb plant cells or dead cells. The Things themselves are also remarkable Master Manipulators to a certain degree, not only because they incite paranoia among their foes and victims alike but are also not shown eating or drinking beyond living humans or dogs, and it also leaves the bodies of killed humans or dogs untouched even though there is usable biomass, implies that it understands that potential hosts will react strangely to the presence of someone they know to be deceased. Possible other reasons why it is never seen assimilating fresh corpses are either that it is only able to assimilate living victims or is aware that missing dead bodies would arouse suspicion.

In another feat of reasoning, a Thing destroyed a test that would have lead to its exposure, demonstrating awareness of biology and medical practices that would have exposed it. Interestingly, the second time this same method was proposed as a test, the Thing had seemingly preempted the idea, despite the fact that the Thing that had arrived at the second base was spawned long before the first test was thought of and was in a non-human form. This led to the theory of shared consciousness between Things, especially as the second sabotage was far harder to pull off covertly while sowing seeds of misdirection that exposed its presence.

Biography The Thing (1982) and The Thing (2011) " Get the hell away! That's not a dog, it's some sort of thing! It's imitating a dog, it isn't real! GET AWAY YOU IDIOTS! „ ~ Lars frantically warning in the Norweigian language to R.J. MacReady's crew before his death.

The depiction of The Thing from these two modern movies is a lot more faithful to the original novella description than the 1951 counterpart.

Its origin is a mystery, the Thing itself crash-landed in a spacecraft within the icy fields of Antarctica 100,000 years ago and was frozen attempting to escape. However, in 1982, the spacecraft and the Thing were found by a team of American and Norwegian explorers/researchers under Dr. Sander Halvorson from Thules station, who hired Columbia University paleontologist Kate Lloyd to take a sample of the creature's blood as it was brought to the base in a block of ice. But later that evening, the Thing bursts from the ice and kills Lars' Alaskan Malamute, Jed while ingesting Henrik before it was burned alive. However, an autopsy of the scorched alien corpse reveals that its cells are still alive and in the process of assimilating Henrik.

When Kate realizes the Thing already might have had assimilated others, she places the base on quarantine to weed out the Thing based on those who still have metal fillings in their teeth and such, after her initial plan of weeding out the monster through blood sample tests had been sabotaged by The Thing. Due to The Thing's ability to imitate, emulate, mimic and appear exactly like any of the research members, paranoia began to set in. Eventually, the majority of the research team were infected and incinerated before Sander, having been infected, made a run for the spaceship. Kate and Sam Carter, the only two surviving crew members, chased Sanders to the alien UFO where Kate and Carter got separated. Kate eventually managed to pursue and kill the monster and heavily damage the ship beyond any repair. After reuniting with Carter, Kate resolved herself to catch him off guard and incinerated him when she discovered that the earring he previously wore was missing and pointed to the wrong ear when confronted. When Carter was set aflame he emitted an inhuman scream, another evidence that Carter was The Thing. After this, Kate was left all alone, leaving her fate unknown.

Meanwhile, back at the Thules station, Lars' dog (having been infected and lying low until the time was right) made its way to an American Antarctic research station with Lars attempting to kill it before he was shot by Lt. Garry, the station commander. Helicopter pilot R.J. MacReady and Dr. Copper fly to the Norwegian's camp, finding the charred remains of the various Things included the burnt yet preserved corpse that was the station's commander Edvard Wolner after it assimilated Sander's assistant Adam Finch.

After the two-faced corpse was brought to the base, the Americans realize the Thing's presence too late when Lar's dog was placed in a kennel with the station's sled dogs and attempted to assimilate them all. After Childs incinerated the creature, with the team finding the ruins of the spacecraft; the autopsy done by Blair confirmed the Thing's nature as he later proceeded to trap everyone on the base and kill the remaining dogs so no one could leave until the Thing was truly dead before being locked in a tool shed by the others as they devised a way to weed out the Thing by using its autonomous cells to weed out the assimilated. By the time that McReady and the other normal humans remained, they learned that Blair got assimilated and was building a small escape craft. Realizing that the Thing might also intentionally freeze itself to wait for a rescue team in the spring, MacReady resolved to kill it with dynamite around the complex. After the Blair-Thing was killed, with Garry and Nauls killed off prior, MacReady found Childs with both thinking that the other got assimilated before seeing no point in distrusting each other as they would die of frost within hours.

In Videogames

In the 2002 videogame "The Thing", which serves as a sequel for the 1982 film and set 3 months after the events of the film, it is revealed that The Thing is still alive and waiting for more victims to absorb and kill. This time, there are more numerous manifestations of this alien lifeform at once and worse, everything becomes more complicated as most of them have been captured as a means of being repurposed into bioweapons by Gen Inc. Things went wrong, however, following their escape: Whitley, the mastermind behind the experiment to modify The Thing into bioweapons, has injected himself with Cloud virus, a viral agent based on the Thing's cells with which he plans to infect the whole planet. Fortunately, Blake (the protagonist of the game) foils his plan and destroys him with the help of MacReady, the sole survivor of the 1982 film, before he has a chance to infect the rescue team.

In the videogame, The Thing was regarded more like a viral organism that has the ability to replicate the original biological entity, including their clothing. This is likely due to the fact that in said game, The Thing had further developed its ability which intrigued Gen Inc. enough to begin experimenting on it.

Variants In-Game Scuttlers

A form of Thing that has assimilated and formed from mutilated body parts (often from those whom are already assimilated by the Thing's cells). These autonomous small Things' primary transformation involves manifesting teeth, arachnid-like limbs, and also a pair of strong hind legs that enable them to leap toward the non-assimilated lifeforms. Aside from leaping, they could either attack by biting or spitting digestive fluid as a projectile. They could be crippled easily with a few shots from guns before being finished by a single blast from a flamethrower. They were inspired by a mutated form of Norris's head after he was mutated by the Thing's cells.

Scuttler Pods

A form of Thing that is basically a fleshy, blob-like biomass that is immobile but dangerous due to manifesting Scuttlers as means of defense. Their prime weakness is the inability of moving combined with having no alternate means of defense. They can be destroyed by blasts from flamethrowers and a variety of firearms.

Walkers

Form of Thing that manifests as a humanoid monster with a deformed torso, deformed claw hands, and insectoid legs that were formerly humanoid ones. Their early forms were brutish, muscular monsters with a huge, transparent hole in their torso.

Imitations

Imitations are a form of Thing that was previously introduced in the films. They perfectly assumed their victim's appearance and were able to transform to their mutated form when their potential victims lowered their guard. For the game incarnations, they tend to retain some elements of their hosts' appearance like clothes that are still intact though their limbs are a in mutated state, similar to the mutated Palmer in the 1982 film.

Dog Beasts

Thing beast that is similar to the mutated form of Lar's dog as both formerly had assimilated dogs. Unlike the latter, Dog Beasts still retain their limbs (though said bodyparts also mutated to the point where they could support their weight as well as enable them to run at tremendous speed).

Ruptures

They are a form of huge Thing that takes up an entire room or even be part of the room integrated into the architecture. Typically, they have human forms embedded in them and attack with tentacles, teeth and fluids. They are immobile and confined to the location in which they are met, which made them vulnerable due to the inability of avoiding their enemies' attacks.

Weakness and Countermeasures

Though their deadly capacities in assimilation and other abilities made The Thing a villainous, threatening force to deal with, there are a number of methods that can be done to expose them:

The Thing cannot assimilate non-organic components (for example, tooth fillings or prosthetics) on the victims. So, when one notices one of their friends not wearing any earrings/tooth fillings/prosthetics/other non-organic components that are embedded/put on their body, they likely have been previously assimilated into a manifestation of The Thing. This method is the least effective in exposing a Thing's manifestation. Blood Tests: There are three types of blood test that can be done to differentiate regular lifeforms and the assimilated ones which actually are a Thing in disguise: Blood serum test: A suspected imitation's blood is mixed with uncontaminated blood; which will hypothetically react if the creature is an impostor. This has yet to be proven effective, as The Thing quickly destroyed stored sacks of uncontaminated blood to avoid suspicion. Hot needle test: When a sample of disguised Thing's blood is burned with a hot needle, the blood would jump away from the needle. If the blood sample was taken from an unassimilated person, the blood would simply burn. Blood Test Hypo tool: More advanced version of the previous method, where this device extracted a suspected person's blood and it mixed the said blood with a stored chemical agent. As before, the blood would animate and make an attempt to escape, but failed as the chemical agent killed it.

Aside from the means of exposing a disguised Thing listed above, the methods to killing them are:

Electrocution: Electrocution works against The Thing as the method would fry it's cells as seen in Who Goes There?, as well as implied by a Thing's manifestation from Norris's body which suddenly reacts by chomping on Chopper's hands when the latter tries to electrocute him.

Explosives: Explosives can obliterate a Thing completely, blowing it to pieces and effectively weakening the larger Thing beasts before their remains are incinerated.

Incineration: Incineration can kill a Thing manifestation as fire would destroy it on a cellular level, but this is mostly effective on medium- to smaller-sized Thing manifestations, as larger ones had a chance to survive albeit incapacitated, as proved when part of the Split-Face Thing survived in spite of being heavily injured by Kate's flamethrower.

The last two known weaknesses that The Thing possessed are:

As previously mentioned before, upon being exposed, a Thing manifestation would angrily attack and assimilate anyone on sight which gives their foes an opening. The Thing had a limit in maximum size expansion during the assimilation process; if they grew too large during the assimilation process, it would transform them into a boiling mass of flesh and random body parts. In this state, they were hindered by their immobility, which made them vulnerable.


Everyone that just joined us over the last couple of months gasped in sheer horror!

Ed Cowart: My God! That is horrifying!

Applejack: (Cowboy Accent) No kidding! A creature like that would be an absolute nightmare worse than even Tirek or Queen Chrysalis.

Rainbow Dash: I would not want to meet something like that.

Kevin: I bet that monster can't replicate Ben's alien forms.

Me: No our powers won't let that happen.

Ben: Thank goodness.

Me: You see we're immune to all forms of infection whether here on Earth or in the stars.

Hercules W.: Yeah and it's amazing that we are impervious to all infection.

Lynn: It sure is.

Lola: Yeah.

Nico: Speak for yourselves. That didn't stop me from getting a cold.

Vince: Yeah.

Hunter: Ja, und we have seen The Thing before und it was a nightmare from Hell 100-fold.

Me: It's something I wouldn't even wish would happen to even my worst enemies. The Thing is a nightmare from a hundred Hells. It's something no one should EVER have to encounter in over 250,000 lifetimes.

Lana: It's really scary.

Kate Lloyd: Yeah.

Pinkie Pie: That's nut.

Rainbow Dash: Man, first we faced Zombies, Evil Spirits here on Earth and on Mars, Demons and now we're going up against Shapeshifting Alien Monsters from Your Worst nightmares!? What next?

Me: It's been one helluva crazy October. Now we can erase The Thing forever. Lets get ready.

Nico: I smell an adventure coming on.

Kate Lloyd: Where are we going?

Me: To Thule Station in Antarctica, 3 Days before the events of Outpost 31. We're going to destroy that fuckup abomination of nature once and for all.

Kate Lloyd: Count me in. It's time for me to put my demons to rest.

Magnet Man: Where do we find the Thing this time?

Me: In Thule Station in Antarctica.

We went to the Simulator.


We were in the Simulator and we were bundling up in our fur parkas and we had to be ready for the extreme cold of Antarctica.

Nico: It's funny. We faced The Thing last year and now we're going to face it again.

Me: But this time it's three days before the events of Outpost 31.

Lincoln: Yeah.

We went into the Simulator and it activated and we found ourselves in the blistering bone-chilling cold Antarctica wastelands and it was sunset. the temperature was -75Ëš Fahrenheit and it was brutal.

Rainbow Dash: Man this is cold!

Lana: I like the cold.

Lola: It sure is cold down here.

Kate Lloyd: Thule Station is over here.

We went over a hill and we saw the Norwegian Antarctica Research Facility of Thule Station!

Me: There it is and this is what it looked like before it as torched and burned.

Lincoln: Yeah that was awful.

Kate Lloyd: This is where the Thing wakes up. If we hurry we can save the huskies and burn the Thing before it gets Henrik.

Me: Lets go.

We went down the hill and we went into the facility through the back door and went in and up to the kennels and Lana beamed the dogs to the estate as they were trying to get out by chewing through the gates.

Then we got out and suddenly we heard a loud crash and then we all went outside and we met the crew of Thule Station. We met Helicopter Pilot and Vietname War veteran Sam Carter, Dr. Sander Halvorson, Adam Finch, Derek Jameson, Griggs, Station Commander Edvard Wolner, French Geologist, Juliette, Lars the Dog Keeper, Peder, Edvard's right hand man, Jonas the Polar Ice Researcher, Karl the Geologist, Colin the British Radio operator and Matias the Helicopter Pilot.

Me: Wait!

They saw us.

Edvard: (Norwegian Accent) Kate? Who are all of you?

Me: We'll explain later. But right now we got to stop that ugly creature. It's right there.

Henrik saw it and he turned around and then a tentacle from the creature popped out and skewered Henrik through his chest and pulled him in and began eating him all over.

Me: There.

I fired a bunch of bullets and they weren't causing any effect.

Me: Bullets don't stop it. Let me try my method.

I fired a blast of fire from my hand and burned the creature.

Later we extinguished the creature.

Me: What the fuck is that?

Kate Lloyd: This is the Thing.

Edvard: You've dealt with this creature before?

Kate Lloyd: You could say that.

Me: We have a long story to tell you after everything we show you.

We later got the burned carcass of the creature to the lab for an autopsy.

Lincoln: This is disgusting.

Dive Man: The Thing looks different from the last time we fought it.

Me: That's because this is the original creature it came from.

Kate Lloyd: That's right. This is the creature that came out of the ice block it came from.

Adam Finch: I didn't know that you knew what this creature was.

Me: It's a long story Adam.

We cut open the burned carcass and it was really disgusting and more.

Me: Yuck! I think I'm gonna be fucking sick.

Nico: Jesus Christ.

We spread the organs and more and found what looked like an amniotic sack.

Peder: His face is encased in some kind of amniotic sack.

Lola: Yuck.

We cut it open and we saw Henrik dead. Juliette and Lori and most of us hurled our guts out.

Kate Lloyd: And the tissue looks almost new.

Lincoln: Disgusting.

Adam Finch: What the fuck was it doing to him?

Peder: It appears it was absorbing him.

Linka: Disgusting.

Peder: Some type of digestion. It's fascinating.

Nico: Fascinating for you but not for us.

Edvard: Who are all of you?

Me: We are Team Loud Phoenix Storm.

We revealed everything.

Peder: So you are all from the future and you know what this creature is?

Me: You could say that. We've dealt with this creature before.

We later went to the lab and Kate was analyzing Henrik's tissue.

Kate Lloyd: You should see this guys.

I looked in the microscope and saw a lot of cellular activity. I saw the virus of The Thing attacking the cells.

Me: Even with a massive blast of fire like that it still has life. The Thing virus is attacking his cells and turning into them.

Kate Lloyd: It's imitating his cells.

Adam Finch: Imitating?

Me: Yeah. That's what it does. This is a creature that invades any creature, copies it perfectly and hides.

Laney: Looks like Blair was right.

Nico: Yeah.

Me: Lets gather everyone together and explain what we know.

Nico: Right.

We gathered everyone in the briefing room and explained our findings and everyone but us were shocked.

Edvard: So it's still among us?

Me: It is.

Venom: We sense the Thing is close. VERY close!

Me: But it has a dangerous tendency to hide real well and strike when you least expect it.

Kate Lloyd: It could be any of us.

Me: Not all of us. Me and everyone on Team Loud Phoenix Storm are immune to it completely. But I'm afraid you all aren't so lucky.

Lars: (Speaking Norwegian) Hvor er hundene? (Where are the dogs?)

Me: (Speaking Norwegian) Hundene dine er trygge på vårt gods Lars. (Your dogs are safe at our estate Lars.)

He sighed in relief.

Me: I know you're all scared but that's what The Thing wants. It causes fear, paranoia, dissension and panic among everyone it comes into contact with. Because it's a perfect imitation, no one can tell who's human and who's not. But I've come up with a test to find out who is who.

I pressed my watch and it turned into my Omnitrix.

Me: My Omnitrix can find out who is human and who is not. It will scan for alien DNA inside you. When it flashes green that means you're clear. When it flashes red that means you're infected.

Edvard: I see.

Rainbow Dash: That's a brilliant plan.

Applejack: It sure is.

Pepperdance: I like it.

Me: Bullets don't do squat on this creature so our only best bet is total incineration.

Nico: We have to use fire on it. As you have seen.

Peder: I understand.

Breach: I could use my portals to send the Thing into the sun.

Me: That works perfectly Breach.

Nico: Good idea.

Me: But it's gonna be dangerous.

We later went outside in the blistering cold and we were bundled up.

Me: Okay. Kate discovered that she can tell who is human and who isn't because of people wearing jewelry or have metal fillings in their teeth. I discovered that my Omnitrix can flush out the creature by scanning for its DNA.

Adam Finch: That's genius.

Linka: It sure is.

Luan: Yeah it is.

Me: Okay. Peder you are first.

He went up to the front of us from 10 feet away and I scanned him as a green beam fired from my Omnitrix and it looked for anything. It vanished and flashed green.

Me: Nothing. You're clear. Stand with us Peder.

He did so.

Me: Adam you're next.

Adam went up and I scanned him and it flashed green.

Me: Negative.

Adam went with us.

Me: Jonas.

Jonas went up next and I scanned him and it flashed green.

Me: Nothing. Clear.

Jonas went to us.

We scanned each of them minus Juliette, Griggs and Edvard.

Me: Okay so far you're all clear. Now for Juliette.

Juliette went up next and I scanned her and then the Omnitrix flashed red.

Omnitrix: Alien DNA detected. Subject contaminated.

Me: She's infected!

Concrete Man: (to Juliette) Anything you want to share with the rest of the class?

Me: Before we burn your fucking ass into dust!

She started changing!

She grew a huge claw out of her underarm and her shirt ripped off and then a mouth with razor sharp teeth and tentacles in her chest formed!

Me: WHAT THE FUCKING HELL!?

Me and Lola fired a massive blast of fire and completely incinerated her into nothing and Breach sent the ashes into the Sun!

Me: That's it for her.

Laney: Shame she was infected.

Lincoln: Yeah.

Me: Edvard you're up.

Edvard went next and I scanned him and it flashed red!

Omnitrix: Alien DNA detected. Subject contaminated.

Me: He's infected!

Edvard then started changing as he plopped onto the ice and was shaking. His arms detached and grew spider legs and I burned those and the creature grew a tentacle out of its stomach and then it grew two more big arms from his sides and his legs turned into those of a spider and then he roared ferociously.

Me: WHAT THE FUCKING HELL!?

Nico: GRUESOME!

Me: TIME TO BURN MOTHERFUCKER!

Me, Lola, Lea and Volcana blasted the creature with incredible blasts of fire and incinerated it completely and Breach sent its ashes into the sun.

I then heard something and fired a powerful energy blast and it hit a mound of ice and exploded!

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10 figures came out and they were Hydro Man, Ghost, Dark Spicer, Molten Man, King Shark, Firefly, Heat Wave, Lord Drakkon, Bane and Dr. Arthur Light!

Me: 10 of you this time?

Dark Spicer: No it's not mine, Molten Man, Firefly or Heat Wave's turn.

Bane: (Spanish Accent) It's our turn.

Eddy had his blaster pointed at them!

Hydro Man: Relax Eddy! It's just us!

Eddy: How can we know that for sure?

Ghost: For one, the Thing can't replicate my powers.

Lord Drakkon: And being around you guys made us immune to it as well.

Me: Wow. I didn't think it would work that way for you guys too.

Peder: You know all them?

Me: These are our frenemies. They are the Masters of Evil.

Nico: We have a long standing history from over the last 4 years ever since we started.

Jonas: I see.

Me: You guys caught us at a really bad time however. And Mark you shouldn't be here in this kind of environment. You're made of pure lava now and you would freeze and turn into solid rock.

Molten Man: Don't worry about that. Vypra used her magic on me and made me immune to environments of extreme cold.

Me: Wow. But what about you Morris? You're made of pure water now and you'll turn to ice down here in this temperature.

Hydro Man: I am now immune to extreme cold now as well thanks to Vypra.

Me: Wow. Vypra sure came through for you both.

Lord Drakkon: So this is the Thing that Kate Lloyd experienced down here?

Me: Yeah and we're here to destroy it and erase the demons she went through.

Kate Lloyd: That's right. This Thing is a danger to everyone on Earth. If it makes it out of here, millions of people could die.

Me: It wouldn't just be millions, it would be the End of The World.

Lord Drakkon: Whoa. That's bad.

Me: Yeah. Griggs you're up.

?: Wait let me help face him.

A figure came out and it was CANNONTOP from episode 35 of Season 2 of Mighty Morphin!


Cannontop is a cannon monster created by Lord Zedd from a miniature cannon model that belonged to Billy's cousin. Cannontop serves as the main antagonist of the episode "Scavenger Hunt".

Cannontop was created by Zedd from miniature cannon model that belonged to Billy's cousin after it was stolen by Putties. Cannontop possessed a dangerous guided launching cannonball system at his disposal, but possessed bad aim. He also possessed ability to send rangers to the Lost Dimension. Aside the main cannon counted to his head, Cannontop also possessed numerous mini-rocket launching pads installed in his chest. Zedd sent monster to attack Angel Grove. Cannontop attacked city and encountered Power Rangers. Rangers strike him with their weapons but it didn't harm it. He gad bad aim so he didn't manage to sent rangers to the Lost Dimension. Then heroes used Power Blaster and struck the villains with it (but he was apparently unharmed by it). Then Zedd made monster huge. Tommy balled monster with Red Dragon Thunderzord, riding on the top of Tigerzord. He also called for the assistance of Tor, whom blasts numerous gunner-type rays. Afterwords Tigerzord goes into warrior mode and formed the Mega Tigerzord. Cannontop tried to take it out with his laser barrage but it was unfazed and brought his bombarding days to an end by using the Firebird Thunderzord's Grid Attack. After his destruction he reverted to the form of toy cannon.


Jason Lee Scott: Cannontop!

Cannontop: Been a while rangers!

Me: I remember you! You were made from a toy model cannon that belonged to Billy's cousin and you were sent to defeat the rangers and send them to the Lost Dimension. But your aim is really lousy.

Cannontop: That's right. But my aim has been corrected now. Good memory though.

Me: Thanks. Let me take care of something here.

Griggs went up and I scanned him and it flashed red.

Omnitrix: Alien DNA detected. Subject contaminated.

Me: He's infected!

Then Griggs had his face split open and he roared and then his chest opened up and it had ugly teeth and more.

Me: WHAT THE FUCKING HELL!?

Cannontop: Let me do this!

Cannontop leaned forwards and fired a massive black and yellow bullet at the Thing, knocking it back.

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Cannontop: I don't know if that killed it or not. But it should weaken it long enough for us to have the usual battles!

When the smoke cleared we saw pieces of the Griggs-Thing splattered all over and they were coming back together.

Me: You were saying?

Cannontop: Oh boy.

Nico: It can regenerate? Weird.

Molten Man: You guys can have the usual battles. Me, Heat Wave, Firefly, and Dark will keep the Thing busy!

Jake Holling: Thanks, Molten Man!

Megaforce Rangers: Legendary Ranger Mode: Alien!

The Megaforce Rangers turned into the Aquitar Rangers.

Me: This is pretty ironic. Using extraterrestrial rangers to face an extraterrestrial monster. No offense to you and your team Delphine.

Delphine: (Alien Voice) None taken.

Dark Spicer, Molten Man, Firefly and Heat Wave had ran and the Griggs-Thing was chasing them.


Battle 1: Lord Drakkon


Me, Twilight Sparkle, Zipporwhill, Breach and Ace were facing Lord Drakkon.

Lord Drakkon: Kate had problems with this monster before?

Me: Yeah and she was permanently scarred because of it. It was a nightmare on steroids.

Twilight Sparkle: Yeah we were told about it and it was horrible that all that happened to her.

Zipporwhill: (Latin-American Accent) This is my first time facing one of you.

Lord Drakkon: It sure is.

Me: We decided to give the kids of Ponyville and Equestria a shot too. They joined our brand new academy we set up at the estate and are learning how to fight and protect others like we do.

Lord Drakkon: That's amazing. It'll be good practice for all of them.

Breach: It sure will.

Ace: Yeah. Lets do it shall we?

Lord Drakkon: Lets do it!

Lord Drakkon called out his Pokemon and we went at him.

Twilight Sparkle: How about this one? SKYLANDS ELEMENTS STYLE NINJA ART: ELEMENTAL BLASTS OF JUSTICE!

Twilight Sparkle formed 10 Disks with the elemental symbols of the Skylanders and they fired blasts of wind, skulls and ghosts, leaves and fruit, fire and fireballs, water, earth and boulders, gears and energy, stars and magic, rainbow light and darkness and the blasts went at Lord Drakkon.

Zipporwhill: How about this one? NATURE STYLE NINJA ART: ANIMAL SPIRIT WAVESTORM!

Zipporwhill fired a massive blast of energy and it formed into the spirits of the animals of the world.

Me, Breach and Ace fired blasts of lightning, portals and psychic energy and the blasts all hit him and exploded!

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The explosion knocked Lord Drakkon and his Pokemon out.

Me: That was epic! Zipporwhill, I'm very proud of you.

Zipporwhill: Thanks Headmaster J.D. This was awesome!

Me: You don't have to call me headmaster when we're on missions. Just J.D. is fine.

Zipporwhill: Sorry.

Me: No worries.

Twilight Sparkle: That was so much awesome!


Battle 2: Bane


Laney, Sunset Shimmer, Apple Bloom, Venom and Rhino were facing Bane.

Laney: I'm always up for an awesome fight.

Sunset Shimmer: This is gonna be so awesome!

Apple Bloom: It sure is. I can't wait to see you can do.

Bane: I won't disappoint you señora.

Venom: We're looking forward to this.

Rhino: Yeah.

Bane called out his Pokemon and they went at them.

Sunset Shimmer: Try this one on! PHOENIX STYLE NINJA ART: FIRESTORM OF ROME!

Sunset Shimmer fired a wave of fire and it formed into the massive armies of Roman Soldiers.

Apple Bloom: I learned this one from a book Shanan let me read on Extraterrestrial Plants. ICE STYLE NINJA ART: CRYO FRUITS OF LHOTWE!

Apple Bloom punched the ground and formed a bunch of trees of the planet Lhotwe and she fired a bunch of snowflake shape fruits.

Laney, Venom and Rhino smashed and punched and slashed Bane all over the place and knocked him and his Pokemon down.

Laney: Awesome battle!

Apple Bloom: That was amazing!

Sunset Shimmer: Yeah!


Battle 3: Dr. Albert Light


Kairi, Applejack, Sweetie Belle, Magnet Man, and Gravity Man were facing Dr. Albert Light.

Kairi: This is gonna be so much fun!

Applejack: YEEHAW! It will be so fun.

Sweetie Belle: I'm always up for an awesome challenge!

Magnet Man: Bring it on!

Gravity Man: Yeah!

Dr. Albert Light: Yeah lets do it!

Dr. Light called out his Pokemon and they went at him.

Applejack: Try this one. APPLE STYLE NINJA ART: GRENADES OF APPLES!

She pulled out 4 apples and pulled their stems off.

Applejack: Fire in the hole!

She threw them.

Sweetie Belle: CRYSTAL STYLE NINJA ART: CRYSTAL FIRE MEGABLAST!

Sweetie Belle fired a massive wave of blue and purple fire.

Kairi, Magnet Man and Gravity Man fired a massive blast of light, magnets and gravity and the blasts hit Dr. Light and his Pokemon and knocked them down.

Kairi: Yeah!

Sweetie Belle: Awesome!

Applejack: YEEHAW! That was so much fun!


Battle 4: Ghost


Ariel, Eli, Rarity, Scootaloo, Randy Boggs and Papillon were facing Ghost.

Ariel: I am so looking forward to this.

Eli: Same here. This is gonna be awesome!

Ghost: I know you all are eager.

Scootaloo: Yeah this is gonna be awesome!

Rarity: Indeed it will be.

Randy Boggs: Yeah.

Papillon: Lets do it.

Ghost called out her Pokemon and they went at her.

Rarity: Try this one on! CRYSTAL STYLE: DIVINE PATHWAY JUTSU!


Rarity places her hand on a surface, creating a long stream of sharp blue crystals to bind and pierce a target.


She touched the ice and a massively long stream of blue crystals went at Ghost.

Scootaloo: How about this one? LIGHT STYLE NINJA ART: RAINBOW LIGHT RAYBURST!

Scootaloo fired a wave of light in all 7 colors of the rainbow!

Eli: WOLF FIRE STYLE NINJA ART: ARCTIC WOLFPACK AMBUSH!

Eli fired a wave of blue fire and it formed into a massive pack of arctic wolves.

Ariel, Randy and Papillon fired waves of water, energy and light and the blasts all hit Ghost and her Pokemon and knocked them out.

Ariel: That was awesome!

Rarity: Scootaloo you were amazing Darling.

Scootaloo: Thanks Rarity.

Eli: You sure are learning a lot really fast.

Scootaloo: Yeah.


Battle 5: Hydro Man


Luna Loud, Rainbow Dash, Lily Longsocks, Bai Tza and Maria Rockell were facing Hydro Man.

Lily Longsocks: This is gonna be so awesome!

Hydro Man: It sure is. What can you do?

Lily Longsocks: I have amazing super strength and I don't know what else I can do.

Rainbow Dash: We'll find out as you help out.

Luna Loud: That's right dude. You ready for this?

Lily Longsocks: I am always ready for anything!

Bai Tza: That's the spirit Lily!

Maria Rockell: Yeah! Lets do it.

Hydro Man called out his Pokemon and they went at him!

Lily Longsocks then punched Hydro Man in the stomach with devastating force and it was so strong that he knocked all the air out of him.

Hydro Man: (Belches up blood and water) (Wheezing) WHOA! You are incredibly strong!

Luna Loud: WHOA! That is some incredible strength!

Rainbow Dash: She is capable of lifting up the whole schoolhouse single handed.

Bai Tza: Wow! That's amazing strength for someone as young as her.

Maria Rockell: No kidding.

Lily backed away.

Lily Longsocks: Try this one. SPIRIT STYLE NINJA ART: PORCUPINE QUILL SHOWER!

She fired a wave of spirit energy and it formed into a massive shower of porcupine quills.

Rainbow Dash: Try this one too! RAINBOW STYLE NINJA ART: LIGHT PRISM BEAM BLAST!

Rainbow Dash fired a wave of rainbow light.

Luna, Bai Tza and Maria fired massive blasts of water and the blasts all hit Hydro Man and his Pokemon and knocked them down.

Luna: Rockin dude!

Rainbow Dash: Yeah! Awesome job Lily. Your super strength is amazing.

Lily Longsocks: Thanks Rainbow and this was so awesome!

Bai Tza: We're glad you had fun. But how did you get super strength like this?

Lily Longsocks: I'm not really sure myself. But I think I was born with it.

Maria Rockell: That's understandable.


Battle 6: King Shark


Peyton, Pinkie Pie, Diamond Tiara, Splash Woman and Dive Man were facing King Shark in their first ever battle!

King Shark: (to Peyton) If Paradigm ever returns, remind me to bite his head off. Sharks like me are born, not made!

Peyton: Noted and done.

Splash Woman: You can be sure of that.

Dive Man: Yep.

Diamond Tiara: This is gonna be so much fun!

Pinkie Pie: It sure will be! This will be the best fight EVER!

Peyton: Lets get it on.

King Shark: First here is my Pokemon.

He called out his Pokemon and he had a Sharpedo, Mega Sharpedo, Starmie and a Kyurem!

Peyton: Wow! A Sharpedo, Mega Sharpedo, Starmie and Kyurem. Great choices for you.

Diamond Tiara: I agree.

King Shark: Thank you all. Lets dance!

They went at him and King Shark bit at Peyton and team and they dodged his strike.

Pinkie Pie: Take this one! CONFETTI STYLE NINJA ART: CONFETTI DRAGON FIRESTORM!

Pinkie Pie fired a massive wave of confetti and it formed into a dragon.

Diamond Tiara: DIAMOND STYLE NINJA ART: CRYSTAL DIAMOND SPEAR!

She formed a spear of diamond and threw it.

Peyton, Splash Woman and Dive Man fired waves of water, laser tridents and torpedoes and the blasts all hit King Shark smashed him all over the place.

Peyton: That was awesome!

Pinkie Pie: Yeah it was!

Diamond Tiara: This was awesome!


Battle 7: Cannontop


Nico, Fluttershy, Silver Spoon, Lightning Dust, Mighty Morphin Rangers, the Megaforce Rangers, Tara and Lincoln were facing Cannontop.

Nico: Now things are gonna get fun!

Megaforce Rangers: Legendary Ranger Mode: Mighty Morphin!

The Megaforce Rangers turned into the Mighty Morphin rangers!

Cannontop: TWO MIGHTY MORPHIN RANGER TEAMS!? HOW!?

Nico: Didn't see that coming didn't you?

Tommy Oliver: Lets do it guys! IT'S MORPHIN TIME!

THUNDERCLAP!

Zack Taylor: MASTODON!

Kimberly Ann Hart: PTERODACTYL!

Billy Cranston: TRICERATOPS!

Trini Kwan: SABER-TOOTH TIGER!

Jason Lee Scott: TYRANNOSAURUS!

Tommy Oliver: WHITE TIGER!

The Mighty Morphin Rangers transformed and they were ready!

Jason Lee Scott: ALL RIGHT! WE'RE READY TO MORPH INTO ACTION!

Tommy Oliver: SIX WORKING TOGETHER TO FIGHT EVIL!

Zack Taylor: AND STOP RITA!

Billy Cranston: AND ALL HER MENACING MONSTERS!

Trini Kwan: FROM DESTROYING OUR PLANET EARTH!

Kimberly Ann Hart: AND RULING THE UNIVERSE WITH EVIL!

Jason Lee Scott: And we're not backing down because we're the...

Mighty Morphin Rangers: POWER RANGERS!

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A massive fiery explosion went off behind them.

Nico: YEAH!

Silver Spoon: That was awesome!

Fluttershy: It sure was.

Lincoln: This is gonna be so cool!

Lightning Dust: This is gonna be really awesome!

Tara: Are you nervous about this L.D.?

Lightning Dust: L.D.?

Tara: It's your initials and my awesome nickname for you.

Lightning Dust: Oh. I like it. I'm not nervous at all Tara. This is gonna be awesome!

Cannontop: Lets see what you got.

He summoned a bunch of Super Putties!

Lightning Dust: This is gonna be awesome! Watch this guys.

Lightning Dust then went at the speed of lightning and smashed the Super Putties all over with powerful kicks and and punches and lightning was coming out of each punch on impact and it was explosively powerful and she electrocuted all the Putties into ash.

Nico: Whoa! Awesome!

Tara: She is really fast!

Nico: No kidding!

Lincoln: That was awesome!

Lincoln and Tara and the Megaforce Rangers fired blasts of energy, lightning and fire and the blasts destroyed the rest of the putties.

Nico: Now for your Cannontop!

Nico fired blasts of energy and fire and they hit Cannontop all over the place.

Jason Lee Scott: Lets bring them together!

Zak Taylor: POWER AXE!

Kimberly Ann Hart: POWER BOW!

Trini Kwan: POWER DAGGERS!

Billy Cranston: POWER LANCE!

Jason Lee Scott: POWER SWORD!

They assembled the Power Blaster!

Jason Lee Scott: Lincoln, Lightning Dust, you two want to do the honors?

Lightning Dust: It would be an honor!

Lincoln: YEAH!

They got ready and it was ready to fire. Lincoln and Lightning Dust channeled lightning into the Power Blaster.

Jason Lee Scott: Lets do it! FIRE!

They fired a massive blast and it slammed into Cannontop and it slammed into him and he fell down and exploded in a massive fiery explosion!

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Nico: Cannontop you have failed this world.

Troy Burrows: Super Mega Rangers that's a super mega win!


Battle 8: Griggs-Thing.


We regrouped and we were ready to face the Griggs-Thing!

Dark Spicer and everyone came back.

Me: Time for us to take down this fucked up abomination!

The Griggs-Thing came back and Kate got an awesome look of courage and determination.

Kaye Lloyd: This is the last time you torment me!

Me: GO TO HELL YOU MOTHERFUCKING SHAPESHIFTING ABOMINATION!

We fired massive waves of fire and the blasts all hit the Griggs-Thing all over.

Maxxor: (to the Thing) By the authority of the Tribal Alliance, we're taking you down by force!

Me: Just be careful! Physical attacks don't work on it.

The Thing: Take it from me. I tried.

Najarin: Noted!

Maxxor, Cyrenox, Najarin, Lystone, Drakness, and Accato blasted the Griggs-Thing all over the place and more. Dark Spicer turned into HotBurn and he, Molten Man, Firefly and Heat Wave fired massive waves of fire.

Lola: Take these! FIRE STYLE NINJA ARTS: RAIN OF FIRE, GREATER FIRE TSUNAMI, METEOR FIRE, WALL OF FIRE, BLAZING FIRE PHOENIX and FIRE NATION!

Lola fired a massive wave of fire and it slammed into the Griggs Thing and completely incinerated it into ash and Breach sent the ashes of the Griggs-Thing into the sun.

Me: That did it! Now we have one more loose end to tie up. Lets go find the ship and destroy it.

Kate Lloyd: Good idea.

We went to the cave it was in and we found the Ship.

Me: First lets expose it to the sun.

We blasted the cave and exposed it to the daylight.

Me: Time to blow this ship apart!

Sandstorm: Lets do it!

Grim Reaper: With pleasure mon!

Sandstorm and Grim used the Earth and Underworld Cyber Planet Keys. They enhanced Sandstorm's Glass Particle Blaster and Grim's powers 100-fold.

Octane and Charmcaster used the Earth and Ledgerdomain Cyber Planet Keys. They enhanced Octane's flamethrower and Charmcaster's powers 100-fold.

Sandstorm and Grim Reaper: INFERNO GLASS MEGABLAST!

Sandstorm fired a massive shower of glass and Grim fired a massive blast of fire.

Octane and Charmcaster: FLAMING MAGIC MEGABLAST!

Octane and Charmcaster fired blasts of fire and magic.

Lola and Pepperdance: SPICY INFERNO MEGACANNON!

Lea and Sunset Shimmer: PHOENIX FIRESTORM BLAST!

Volcana and Jean Grey with the Phoenix Force: VOLCANIC PHOENIX FIRESTORM!

Zuko and me: MEGA FIRESTORM BLAST!

We fired massive waves of fire and the blasts all went at the Ship and they slammed into it and exploded with incredible power!

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Volcana: This monster will burn in the Sun forever!

Kate Lloyd, Volcana and Sunset Shimmer: MASSIVE FIRESTORM KAMEHAMEHA!

They fired a massive wave of fire and it slammed into the ship and obliterated it in a massive fiery explosion and destroyed it forever!

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The entire ship was completely destroyed and gone forever.

Me: Good riddance.

Kate Lloyd: At last. My nightmare is finally over.

Kate then broke down crying and she hugged me crying hard and she was really bawling and wailing. I was comforting her.

Me: It's all right Kate. It's all right. It's all right.

The Masters of Evil came and they were shocked.

Nico: Wow. This was a scary adventure.

Dark Spicer: It sure was.

Drakkon: (to Lightning Dust) I take it you and Rainbow Dash settled your differences?

Lightning Dust: We sure did.

Sunset Shimmer: Now they're best friends.

Bane: Glad to hear it.

Dr. Light: Although I did hear that Rainbow Dash exaggerated her side of the story.

Rainbow Dash: Yeah I was a bit paranoid. Me and Lightning Dust had a bad history from when we were in the Wonderbolts Academy.

Kate Lloyd: (Crying and wailing)

Seeing Kate cry made my heart hurt.

Me: (To the viewers) Kate can't speak to you so I'll speak to you all on her behalf. If you ever go down to Antarctica, be careful with what you run into in these extreme conditions whether it is extreme cold, subzero whiteout conditions, or even aliens from other planets.

Nico: You said it.

Lincoln: Poor Kate.

We later went back home and rested and Kate was still crying. Her nightmare may be over but the scars will never heal.

THE END


Part 13 done.

2011's The Thing was a scary badass movie and it scared me just as badly as the original did. It premiered on my birthday that year and it was a scary birthday. Like the original movie it scared me just as bad and I was so scared that I had nasty panic attacks and really bad nightmares. NicoChan11, JediAvatarOfShinobi, Omegahatchiyak12, XP4Universe and ninjakingofhearts all gave me the ideas for this. Thanks guys. Next up is Halloween 2020 and we're going to deal with Lori's ultimate archnemesis that nearly destroyed her mind long ago: THE SCARECROW and we're gonna make sure that monster never terrorizes her life again!

See you all tomorrow.