The Masked Matterhorn #10-Rise of The Kraken Part 3

Few days following Crawford decided to become a teacher at Simon Academy. Twilight was in her Matterhorn costume in Canterlot City sitting atop a building thinking of what had happened so far.

"From fighting Gold Crusher, Lizard, and Crawford working for Caleb who is clearly out to get me. I hope that Monica can see that her dad is up to something. And seeing that hates me as Matterhorn," Matterhorn said as she took the tie off her hair which made her hair go to her waste, and then grabbed her phone. "Good thing she wants to meet me as Twilight for breakfast. A request I need to make is better off coming from her best friend."

The next day...

"Hey, Monica can I ask you a question?"

"Sure, ask away."

"If I had a secret, but I know it upset you, would, you still want to hear it?"

"Of course, were best friends. There should be no secrets between us."

"Well, what if I told you, your dad couldn't be trusted?"

"I mean sure, my dad has done some questionable things, but he has always been trustworthy. What makes say something like that?"

"That he could be destroying Matterhorn?"

"Oh...that's debatable" Monica had a surprised look on her face.

"You can't really mean it."

"Twi, I know your a big fan of her. But I'm not, all she done has got kick out of Nexus High, hunderds of dollars of damage in Simon Tech property and just last night, destory my newset secruity drones after I caught her treassping around tower. In my book she's a meance."

"But say if your dad is involed something diaboical, then who knows what's he capble of."

"Where are getting at?"

"Monica, this not sound pretty, but I think your dad framed you and got you kicked out of Nexus High?"

"Twilight, please tell me your joking right. My dad would never do something like that. Besides you don't have any proof that he did?"

"You're right, I don't. Not yet. But the anwsers lie somewhere in Simon Tech and I need you help to find them."

"And by helping you mean spy? No. And trust when I say there's nothing shady going on."

"People aren't always who they seem to be, Monica."

"Well, my dad is, and I'll prove it to you."

"How?"

"You got a week from school whiile they fix the damage the Lizard caused to Nexus, right? Spend a day with me at Simon Academy."

"A day at Simon Academy, huh?"

Much later at Simon Academy...

Maybe this was a bad idea. Twilight thoughted as she walked the halls of the academy with Twilight seeing familer faces. Gunther Anderson, Melivn Rhodes, and Caleb Simon. Talk about a Mattehorn nightmare.

"Is something on your mind?" Monica asked her which made lose her thought.

"Nope, I just need a drink of water."

"Okay, but hurry up. We don't want to be late for mechaincal engineering class," She went on ahead as Twilight drank some water from a foutaitn.

"Sparkle!"

Twilight turns around and sees Crawford.

"You're late... and will not... wait, you don't go to this school."

" ! No. No. I'm visting for the day. And technically speaking, the bell hasn't rung so I'm not late," Twilight said just as the bell rung.

"Now you are late. Go and take your seat," Crawford chuckled.

Much later, Twilight sat in the middle next to Monica and another student.

"Twi, this is Clayton Dagger. Clayton, Twilight Sparkle. She's sitting in for the day."

"Nice to meet you, Clayton," Twilight said then looked at his custom made laptop. "Nice laptop."

"Thanks. My expertise is in the manipulation of metal alloys, with a focus of steel. I crafted this bad boy along these," Clayton shows some discs. "Steel hover discs. It was these that got me into this school. And now I'm lucky enough to study under the great David Crawford. He's my hero."

"That's great. He was my hero for a while too," Twilight while looking at her phone as Crawford adress the class.

"All right, class. Enough chitchat. Open yours books to chapter 11..."

"David, a word," Caleb requested as he came in.

"Read up to first six paragraph and write a short response."

"Uh, I need to use the restroom."

"You just sat down."

"But the proper level of hrydration is 8 eight-ounce glasses of water a day which plenty of trip to the bathroom," Twilight headed out while tailing both David and Caleb as they were talking.

"David, did you happen to have a failsafe frequency for mechainal arms? In case when one of them wasn't in sync with the others."

"Normally, it was 47 gigahertz. But since they have merged with me, there's no such thing. Why?"

"Oh, I was just looking for areas to improve. Thought an Osborn contribution might raise the bar."

"The bar has been raised as high it can go, Caleb. And besides, now that the arms are a part of me, I couldn't think of sharing them for corporate gain."

"Oh. Yes. I understand. But please, keep the option open. You, uh, better get back to class," Caleb walked away as Crawford walk back to his class.

None of them knew that Twilight was on the celling.

"Monica thinks I'm preoccpied for a while," She said. "So might as well see what Caleb's up to."

She sees Caleb, puting a code to lab.

"A coded lab in an already super secure building, huh?"

Caleb walks and Twilight follows right behind not giving her prescence away.

"Just to be safe, time to test drive my suit newset feature. Chamelon Mode," Twilight quielty said as she became in invisble and walked then noticed the place. "Looks like the perfect place to upload senstive footage. What other goodies can I find?"

She look into another part of the lab to see a group of workers studying her as Caleb walked over to somewhat of a dector.

"How is the Matterhorn dector going?" Caleb asked.

"Mattehorn Dector? Ah, shit!"

"Very well, sir!"

"Really? If that's the case, then it saying that Mattehorn is in the lab! Do you see her in this lab?"

"Uh, no. It must be another glitch."

"There is no room for failure here, people. Stargazer Shadow is creating a mutant army. Evidenced by four mutant soliders he's already created. Matterhorn, Radiance, Zapp, and Fill-Second. Your job is to find a way to neutralize their powers or if need be, neutralize them," Caleb reminded them.

"Oh, that part we've got down sir," the scicenceist said. "We called it the Mutant Hunter 3000."

"A robot that is designed to destroy me? I think better beat it before I become a crash test dummy," Twilight said as left the lab and so did Caleb.

Meanwhile, the door opened up to show a somewhat dazed Bronx walking as he got approcehd by a secuity guard.

"Hey, you, where's the hall pass?"

"My name is Bronx, and I misplaces my hall pass," Bronx said as he placed something on the guard's shoulder without him knowing.

"Well then get back to class."

Bronx passed by through a crowd doing something which raise some concerns as Moninca met with Twilight.

"Everything okay, Twi? You took a long time."

"Uh, yeah. But I've gotta show you something," Twilight said just Bronx came by.

"Hello, Sparkle."

"What the," Twilight pulled something from her shirt. "A needle with a mirco-transiter. Why would put that on me?"

"A better question is, why is Bronx as Simon Academy?" Monica asked then Bronx suddenly transfomed into Tusk and puched somebody throught the wall and roared.

"Great, no chance to get away and change. Unless."

"Twilight, what the hell are you doing?"

Twilight charge straight to Tusk who caught and threw into another room where she landed on her feet. "Perfect."

As Twilight change to her alter-ego, Bronx rammed some doors with the students running for their lives.

"What's going on here?" Caleb asked.

"We need to get you safe, sir," A guard told him.

"I am safe, you fool. Release the Krakenbots!"

4 large Krakenbots surrrounded Tusk.

"Krakenbots! You took my tech! Without my permission!" Crawford exclaimed.

"Be happy I did. Who else could stop Tusk?"

"Somebody call a Tusk tamer?" Matterhorn asked as she dropped in.

Then Tusk easily destoyed two Krakenbots as third one zapped.

"He like a bull in... Ugh, there no Tusk sayings, are there? But if I can zap him maybe I can introduce the phrase 'Dumb as a Tusk'. Hey, big guy, remember me." As a Krakenbot was right behind her.

Then Tusk charged right at her who leaped over him as Tusk crahsed into as his head was stuck.

"Hey, Tusky, you got a Krakenbot on top of your head."

Matterhorn fired an ice beam to get his attenion and just as he charged at her again, Mattehorn did a uppper cut at the skull which she wince from the pain.

"Ow! Thicker skull than I thought," Matterhorn said then did eletric blast at Tusk who skidded back into a exposed power line which througly shocked then fainted. "Dumb as a Tusk. Copyright, me."

"What have you done?" Caleb asked her.

"He did exactly what I sent Tusk to do, take down your entrie defense grid, which allow me to enter," Varags annouced as walked in. "My army is coming, Caleb. I know you're working on something to stop it, and I intend to take it from you."

"This is a poorly strategic maneuery, Vargas. Using Matterhorn blindness to get to me is dumb," Caleb said. "And not to mention your also outnumbered."

"Am I?" Vargas impled as mutiple people started to transform into Tusks.

"Okay, he clearly planned this out," Matterhorn said as she created an ice wall. "Everyone that's not a Tusk. Stay behind the ice walled.

One of them manged to crash through it and knocked straight into Caleb knocking him back a bit.

"Dad!" Monica as Mattehorn pushed out of the way then pushed her. "Get off. I should've know you work for Vargas."

"I don't work him. He caught me off guard with his stunt. I'm your friend."

"With firends like you, I'm glad we have Kraken...bots," Monica sees them getting destoyed by the Tusks.

"David, you told me your tech can withstand anything!"

"They can when I'm in control. Now let me show what I can done." Crawford used his Kraken Arms to grab hold of a Tusk they knock him to ground. "You'll rue the day you entered the school! Science may created you, but science will bring you down!"

Both him and Matterhorn pressed on as Clayton looked from afar.

"Dr. Crawford is right. He's protecting the school with his tech. And we should do the same," He said to Gunther and Melvin.

Melivin remote activated his Destoyer suit as it came by and punch a Tusk from behind then Melvin got in.

"All system, go!"

"In the name of Simon Academy, attack!" Clayton shouted as he rode on his discs.

He threw two discs at a Tusk as Black Hawk swopped down and did his sonic scream which made winced.

"The studnets and faclity are fighting back!" Matterhorn said as the circle around each other. "Whoa, what a sinster looking group. When I woke this morning, I did not think of this team up. But I take help when I can get it."

A Tusk charges at Destoryer which Crawford pushed it back.

"Now let's take back the school!" Mattehorn said as she she Destoryer fires a missile at a Tusk. "Destoyer don't!"

She used her magic on the missile to divert away from the Tusk.

"The Tusks are still people, remember?"

With Caleb...

"Impressive," Vargas caught up with him. "To think all of this, to stop me. It didn't have to be like this, Caleb. I came to you first. You've created the mutant army with me instead of trying to stop it."

"We can still work together, Stargazer."

"It Vargas. And you have proven that you can't be trusted."

"Then there's no way you're leaving the premises."

"Who said I'm leaving? I'll making sure that you go in firey grave," Vargas said as he started to glow as Caleb realzed something.

"You're a android clone!" Caleb said as he enterd his private lab as the fake Vargas exploded.

Back with the others...

"Black Hawk I need a sonic blast," Clayton said to him.

Black Hawk did his sonic scream then Clayton threw the discs which exploded at the Tusks. Matterhorn froze a Tusk then noticed the transmitter from before.

"That looks like the transmitter, that Bronx tried to put on me, from earlier," Materhorn knew. "That's how Vargas is controlling the Tusks."

She took it off as Tusk change back into a human.

"Everyone! Vargas's using transmitters to control the Tusks! Let's work as a team to remove the devices," She yanked one off as Crawford picked one of them.

"Huh, Vargas's serum turned into Tusks, but he mind control to get them to do his bidding. Impressive," Crawford rubbed his chin as Destoyer took off the transmitter that was on Bronx as he was back in as human.

"What happen? Where am I?"

"Simon Academy."

"Well done, everyone. I am impressed with this little secruity group. Perhaps we should give it a name. The Simon Comanders?"

"The Simon Comanders?" Crawford asked. "What did you do to contrbite, Caleb?"

"Me? I destotyed Vargas."

"Nice one, dad! Now should we get the police arrest his parnter?" Moinca pointed to Matterhorn.

"No, no, daughter. I think Matterhorn proven herself today. Not only by fighting alongside us but an open spot for the Simon Comanders, perhaps?"

"Thanks but no thanks, Caleb. I've got a team, and you got yours. I'll show myself out," Mattehorn headed to elevator then it went down. "Since you already show your true colors."

Late at night, Twilight was at her house in her room somewhat in her costume with Spike sleeping as she was lying down.

"Monica, what am I doing? Is it possible to be your best friend and keep secrets from you?" She asked. "Caleb lies to you, and I call him a villian but is what I'm doing any differnet. I have to you the truth. I have to tell you I'm the Masked Matterhorn. But I can't, can I?"

"Not when Caleb is set on destroying Matterhorn. If he's willing to frame you and get you kicked out of Nexus High, there's no telling what he'll do you to get your best friend. But that won't mean I won't give up on trying to convice you who's right and who's wrong."

With Crawford, he was on the phone with someone.

"Hello? Is this the right number?" Crawford as he chatter. "I have a proposal that benefit us and the demise of Caleb."

"I'm listening."