My Little Enigman: The Silver Hope
Chapter 5: Episode 5: Duel! Gemocide Versus Spikezilla!
Previous ChapterEpisode 5: Duel! Gemocide Versus Spikezilla!
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"An attack at your house? Alien robots? A mysterious ally?!" Rainbow Dash asked. She, Applejack, Rocket Blaze, and Pinkie Pie were talking outside the research laboratory, where Twilight was studying the robots along with other scientists. "Sounds like something in a sci-fi drama!"
"You try experiencing that!" Applejack replied, "Those...creeps scared the soul out of me!"
"But who is this "mystery pony"?! Pinkie Pie asked, jumping more and more, "WHATDOESHELOOKLIKE?!HOWLONGISHISMANE?!ISTHIS"MYSTERYPONY"EVENASTALLION?!TELLME!TELLME!TELLME!!!"
"Whoah...Pinkie..." Rocket said, "Easy there...I guess you drank too much coffee this morning, eh?"
"She doesn't drink coffee..." Applejack said with a smirk.
"Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?" Rocket asked, his jaw dropped. Pinkie Pie locked it back into place, then pranced into the laboratory.
Twilight asked Rocket and Applejack to come inside. They saw glass cylindrical tubes where the robots were suspended in liquid and wires placed into them. Twilight led them to one specific tube with a whole robot. "We have analyzed these machines and found out something startling..." she said. She pointed at the hole in the robot's chest. To everyone's surprise, the hole seemed to be getting smaller very slowly. "These machines seem capable of regeneration, and, we assume, take on a liquid form...which is why we placed cooling agents into these tubes as long as we can study these robots. Also..."
A few scientists brought to Twilight a laser blaster. The weapon, Applejack noticed, looked like that of the aliens. "We have also noted the robots' transforming ability, specifically in their weapons. We have been able to duplicate this material, and..." Twilight fired the gun at a target board. Nothing was left of it. "...it has proven to be quite effective for its size. We are now trying to make it smaller and more portable for us.
"Anyway, Wild Card has improved his serum, and it now lasts only for three minutes, but the control issue remains..." Twilight was going to say more when the alarm rang. They ran to the main room, where a large monitor showed a bird's eye view on the school house.
"ALERT ALERT" the speakers rang, "KAIJU ACTIVITY DETECTED. CONTAINMENT UNITS, PROCEED TO PONYVILLE SCHOOLYARD, IMMEDIATELY..."
"The schoolyard?!" Rocket thought, "Oh no....Overdrive!"
Cheerilee shielded as much students as she could from the debris. Several minutes ago, a green frog-like monster with crystals and coins sticking out of its body showed up and started trashing the place with its claws and....its tongue. The walls have holes from the creature's battering, and the monster wouldn't back down.
"Stay behind me, class." Cheerilee said in an assuring voice, "Hopefully it'll end soon..."
The monster broke the door down and leaped inside. The fillies screamed as it pounced at them, only for the monster to be shot in the head. It crashed through the wall and rolled on t he ground. The ponies turned and saw a cloaked pony pointing a gun at the direction of the beast.
"Get out of here!" the figure said.It had a feminine voice.
Cheerilee led the class outside and saw a great mechanical bird lower from the sky. When it landed, a pegasus in an orange suit and a gray helmet leaped out of the machine's head and ran towards them. "Is everypony alright?" he asked.
"Yeah..." Cheerilee replied, stretching the truth a little.
Overdrive looked up. The pegasus's voice was familiar. "Rocket?" he asked.
The pegasus looked down and removed his helmet. It was Rocket. "Overdrive?!" Rocket hugged the colt, "Oh my gosh! It is a good thing that you're safe!"
Rocket looked back and saw a cloaked pony fighting the monster, "Alright...make that almost safe. Get to the evacuation vehicles that are rolling with the battle machines; they should be here right..."
A flaming boulder arced through the air and smacked the ground near the green monster. Four battle machines rolled near the school yard, where two similar vehicles without the weapons dashed to the schoolyard. The fillies and colts rolled into the vehicles with Cheerilee while Rocket provided cover fire. The monster charged at Rocket, who fired ten shots at it, causing it to drop. The beast shook its head and shot its tongue at three fillies: Apple Bloom, Scootaloo, and Sweetie Belle.
"Oh no!" Overdrive said. The monster held them in its tongue and leaped towards Ponyville. "You've gotta save them!" he told Rocket.
"Get the civilians out of here," Rocket told the drivers, "I'll take down frogger!" He stopped Overdrive for a while, "I will do my best, bro. Stay safe."
Rocket was going to Cosmo Beak when he saw the cloaked pony leap inside and tried to pilot it. Cosmo Beak acted wildly, trying to shake the intruder out of its cockpit. Rocket flew inside and took over the controls. Rocket inputted Ponyville's coordinates into Cosmo Beak, and the machine flew there on auto-pilot. Rocket and the cloaked pony wrestled each other, and Rocket knocked the pony to the wall.
"Wh-Who are you?!" Rocket asked, but the stranger did not reply. The two ponies just looked at each other for a few awkward minutes, then Cosmo Beak shook. Rocket looked at the HUD and saw a much larger green creature with larger crystal spikes of all colors and a much monstrous appearance. The creature's claws are much larger and more pointed, the creature developed sharp, pointed crystal fangs and pointed, yellow eyes. At the giant spike at the center of its back, Rocket could see three small shapes that could only be the three fillies. Apart from that, most of the town below it was totally wrecked.
"How are we going to stop this titan?" the mystery pony asked.
"A mare?!" Rocket thought when he heard the stranger talk. He lowered Cosmo Beak and opened the cockpit. "Get down, and get yourself to safety, I'll take this big guy down..." Cosmo Beak soared up and dodged the creature's claws. Rocket set it to auto-pilot and brought out the Enigbrace.
"ENIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGGGGGGGGGGGGGGMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!"
A green glow shone from Cosmo Beak, and something shot from the cockpit. A split-second later, Enigman Storm appeared.
In the space ship...
"You took an infant Jewelmine?!" the giant, multi-headed alien roared.
"My lord..." Kazon replied, "It is better than taking a mature one. Infants are ...hungrier, and destructive in their hungered state. Now that he has took more than enough for his age, he has forcefully matured...and the results are rather devastating..."
"Let me correct myself. You pestered with a Jewelmine egg..."
"But look at him," Kaizon said, "He is no longer an inferior Jewelmine saboteur. He is Gemocide, the Treacherous Destroyer!!!"
"Storm!" The Enigman turned and saw that the sound came from Cosmo Fang. It was Rarity's voice. "You've got to save my sister!" Storm nodded and leaped at the monster's back. He tried to break the crystal bonds at the fillies, but Gemocide shook him off and slashed him with its claws.
"This guy is tough..." Rocket thought. Storm tried launching small slashes of light at Gemocide, but its crystals just reflected them back at him. He tried punching it, but its body is too hard, enough for Storm to clutch his fist in pain. The Monster wrapped the Enigman with its tongue and threw him around like a rag-doll, then it bit his arm, and held him by its hands and feet and stretched him. Storm was obviously in pain, and he couldn't fight back.
Spike watched this all from the live view screen. He saw that the three hostages were also suffering, and the alien hero was practically powerless. The Cosmo Robots' weapons were nothing against the creature, and Cosmo Fang seemed to be holding back.
"There's gotta be something I can do..." he thought to himself, "I've got to save them..."
Then Spike hatched an idea. He ran to the laboratory and ran to a lab-gowned unicorn stallion with wild hair and slightly bent glasses. The unicorn was playing around with a spinning top, but was startled when he saw a purple claw grabbed a test tube.
"Hey!" he said, "Don't use that! It's not yet perfect!"
Spike turned and a determined look was on his face, "This is out only hope to help them, Wild Card!"
"For the last time...MY NAME IS NOT WILD CARD!!!"
Spike hopped onto a small transport vehicle and sped to Ponyville. When he was within the area near the monster, he popped off the test tube's cover. Twilight Sparkle saw this on Cosmo Roar's HUD.
"Spike, don't!" she shouted from Cosmo Roar, but Spike did not heed her. He drank all of the test tube's contents, and threw it aside. He grew in size, in muscular mass, in strength, and monstrous looks. Soon, he looked like a purple Godzilla with small green wings and his green fins.
Gemocide lowered the weakened Storm and charged at Spike. Spike didn't cower away, and neither did he try to block with his claws. Twilight knew that Spike wasn't there.
"Idiot..." she thought out loud, "...hopefully that'll only last for a few minutes..."
Spike grabbed Gemocide's claws and head-butted him and he breathed fire at him. Gemocide covered his face in pain and launched his tongue at Spike. The tongue stiffened into a crystal club and whacked Spike to a nearby building. The purple Godzilla ripped out the building, which, luckily, has no ponies inside, and tossed it at Gemocide, who used his claws to rip it apart. Spike charged at Gemocide and slammed him with his claws, and ripped out the monster's tongue.
Storm managed to stand up and leaped at Gemocide's back. He tapped the crystals with his fingers, and eventually he was able to break the fillies free. However, Spike fired a stream of flames at Gemocide, and the monster turned its back. Storm shielded the fillies from the fire, but Spike seemed to start attacking him. Storm kicked away the Tokyo terror rip-off and handed the fillies to Cosmo Fang. A ramp appeared from the machine's bottom side and the fillies ran to Rarity, who used her magic to keep them from falling. Seeing that the hostages are now safe, Storm proceeded to fight.
Gemocide impaled Spike's right foot with a crystal, and the purple dragon retaliated by swinging its claw at him. As Gemocide retreated, Storm kicked the monster at the jaw, and Gemocide fell down on its back. Spiked jumped onto the monster's chest and slammed the torso as much as he could. Gemocide knocked off Spike, then Storm punched the creature's chest really hard, cracking the crystalline armor. Gemocide whacked its two enemies with its tail. Storm crashed to a building, and Spike fell onto the ground. Storm's crystal started blinking red, and he decided to finish it.
The two stood up and both charged at Gemocide. Spike gathered fire in his mouth, and Storm prepared his finisher.
"ENIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIG...BUSTER!" Storm shot a stream of light at Gemocide while Spike launched a gigantic stream of fire at the monster. Gemocide exploded, and lots of gems, coins, and other shiny possessions and valuables fell onto the ground. Storm leaped into the sky while 'Spikezilla' fell to its knees and shrunk to his normal size.
A few minutes later...
Rocket watched as Twilight placed Spike onto a stretcher. ESP Medics hauled the dragon to a mobile laboratory/hospital to analyze him. Meanwhile, Princess Celestia and Luna and the rest of the mane 6 looked at a green egg that fell from Gemocide. Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo, and Apple Bloom had their heads lowered in shame as Rarity, Rainbow Dash, and Applejack scolded them about what they did.
"You should have told us about this!" Rainbow Dash shouted.
"But we wanted to see if it was our special talent.." Sweetie Belle replied.
"What do you mean?! Keeping a secret from us?! 'Raising' a dangerous alien creature?! Threatening everypony's lives?!" Rarity roared, "DON'T YOU KNOW HOW MANY BANKS, JEWELRY STORES, PAWN SHOPS, AND BOUTIQUES WERE ROBBED BY THAT THING?!"
"Hey! Settle down, partner!" Applejack said, pulling down the unicorn.
Celestia lifted the egg with her magic and called the nearby ponies to her. "Well, it looks like this monster lays an egg whenever it dies, probably as a reproduction mechanism to assure the survival of its species."
"So what do we do with it?" Rocket asked.
The group became silent for a few minutes until Celestia came to a solution. "We will keep the egg."
"But Your Majesty," Twilight started, "You have seen what that thing is capable of? Are You sure about this?"
"Its mind seemed poisoned by hate and fury," Celestia said, levitating the egg. Luna opened a portal to some strange location and Celestia placed the egg inside. The Princess of the Moon closed the gate and sighed.
"We will raise it in there, a realm where time does not exist," Celestia continued, "Hopefully, it will be more of a help to us when it matures."
"So...Jewelmine will not be...evil?" Scootaloo asked.
"Yes," Luna replied, "hopefully."
The group went to headquarters and eventually, the Cutie Mark Crusaders were employed into the ESP...at desk work. Spike finally went out of the laboratory with a cast on his foot and some crutches. A scientist approached Rocket Blaze and Twilight Sparkle, who were chatting about how chaotic the office could be with the Crusaders in it.
"Well, we've ran some tests..." the scientist began, "...and the results are startling."
"What is it?" Twilight asked.
The scientist sighed. "I...am 78% positive of Minecraft Addiction." He brought out a bow and arrow and a block of dirt and threw it to the trash can. "WHAT AM I DOING WITH MY LIFE?!" he added with a sob.
"Um...not that..." Twilight said.
"Oh, right," the scientist said, "about the dragon...apart from the fact that he drank an early prototype of the Monster Serum and broke his foot, the serum seems to be out of his system now, but a big side-effect would be-"
Spike sneezed so loud and hard that flames went out of his nostrils.
"...that." the scientist continued, "Also, another side-effect would be frequent-"
Spike farted flames and burned the handlebars near him.
"-flatulation..." the scientist said, covering his nose with his clipboard. Rocket and Twilight covered their noses with their wings.
"Sorry." Spike said.
"Apart from that, there aren't any major side-effects. Those should wear off in a few days." the scientist said before he went back into the laboratory.
"They say I'll be like this for two days..." Spike said before he sneezed, "What am I going to do?"
"I don't know," Rocket started, "wear a blanket around you? Sip hot cocoa every five seconds? Watch TV dramas all afternoon?"
Spike frowned and farted. The flames melted some of the supports for the rails, which fell on a scientist's head. "Ha...ha..." he said in a sarcastic voice.
"How about some soup?" Twilight offered.
"Sure." Spike smiled. He wiped his nose with his napkin.
"Looks like you guys have a good plan for the night." Rocket said, "I'm heading home, where a very old jukebox is waiting for a good tune up."
Rocket layed down on his bed. He was thinking about a lot of things. Who is this mystery mare? Who sent this "Jewelmine"? Why are the monsters attacking Equos? And where did these Cosmo robots come from?
"Those are good questions..." Storm telepathically told Rocket, "But some answers are better left in the unknown..."
Author's Notes:
ESP Database
Name: Cosmo Roar
Physical Description: Silver and red sabertooth tiger with wings
The only land-based machine among the surviving Cosmo robots, Cosmo Roar is known for its trademark sonic attacks. Apart from that, Cosmo Roar has limited flight capabilities, and powerful close-range weaponry. It's ruthless, life-like AI based on the prehistoric beast turns it into a machine to reckon with.