The demons come flooding out of fortress. There were about fifty in total, but being in their real forms weakened them greatly.

I had the two snipers firing gold-tipped arrows from a good distance away from the fortress ruins, the two stealthy ones firing more gold arrows at the demons from hidden locations, runes spread across the battleground triggering explosives that launched shards of even more gold as well as flecks of gold water upwards, the asshole Bug generating a magical shield around the Minotaur barbarian who was wearing way too much armour and wielding a ridiculously huge golden battleaxe as he began the slaughtering of the demons. Things seemed to be going well.

"You two!" I barked at Badda Boom and Diggin Dadurt. "Get over there and help out more!"

"I'm on it!" Boom yelled happily as he pulled out a portable catapult loaded with even more explosives as well as rigged with explosives. In fact, it was even made from explosives. Boom charged towards the battlefield, causing many explosions.

"There's not much I can do," said Dig. "Should I just stick with you? You might need the backup." I smirked.

"I already have it," I replied, chuckling and patting my saddlebags. "Plus I have this armour," I gestured to the experimental fabric-y armour I was wearing, "so I'll be fine."

"Any idea what I should do to help then?"

"Look around for any spare crossbows and gold arrows, you can add some extra fire support." Dig nodded.

"Done and done."

"Try to aim at fleshy areas, they're mostly to stop their magic rather than do damage." He saluted before diving into the ground and digging away.

I stretched out before chugging a bottle of cider. Time to neuter the buckin'... Or... Bah, buck one liners. I summoned a Support Circle and flew towards the fortress.

Bucking Tartarus... I cast a painkilling spell on myself to stop ears from aching. Thanks a lot, Dad, that plan didn't backfire at all.

As it turned out, a giant explosion wasn't a great signal. Especially when you were caught in it. Well, at least I know the armour works... I climbed out of the rubble and onto my hooves. Okay, time to kick a bitch's ass! I began running down the remains of the hallway to- W-What?! I skidded to a stop.

In the middle of the hallway stood an Equine figure clad in crystal armour.

I frowned.

"What happened to me not seeing you until I had my answer?" I asked.

"Yeah, I got bored," they replied, their voice as distorted as usual. "Nice armour."

"Piss off!" I teleported past them and continued sprinting down the hallway.

"It's rude to tell that to people, Ovary," they said as they flew next to me with jets in their armour. "You'll never get somepony special in your life with that language."

"The only thing I wanna get is you... Bent?"

"Oh my."

"Shut up! You know what I meant!"

"Oh, fine, but I'll be watching." The Amethyst Stranger seemed to melt into the wall. What. I shook my head to clear my thoughts. I need to stay focused!

I fired an awakening beam at the Pegasus, tearing him out of the dream realm. As the world around me collapsed, I summoned a door to my own personal dream-space and flew through it. It was still locked as the north tower of my old castle as Cloud needed to go over our fight once more. Bah! Enough monolouging! I need to focus!

As I had expected, the Devil Dog followed me through the doorway.

"I will give you one chance, Canine!" I shouted. "Surrender now and I will take you quietly, else you shall face my wrath!"

"You think I'd surrender to a Horsey bitch like you?!" She screamed in reply. "Fuck you! I'm going to kill you and become the true goddess of nightmares!" I growled.

"So be it!"

Why are there so many hallways in this damn fortress?!

I was running through the fortress with a magic detection spell active looking for Vesper. After meeting up with her, we'd be able to put our metaphorical dicks up the butt of all the demons and Dogs on Magi, but if we failed to meet up... Then it'll be time to unleash experiment Two D E. Realta have mercy on my soul...

Suddenly, I started to pick up a huge magical signature from a nearby room! Yes! That must be her! I deactivated the spell, crashed through the door and-

"Wait, what?" I asked. Vesper was nowhere to be seen. I was in a fairly large room, thought it looked the same as everywhere else in the fortress; red, rocky and boring. In the middle of the boring room stood a lone Devil Dog wearing a dressing gown.

"Cl... Ou... D... Cal... Cula... Tion..." He very slowly said. "You h... Ave fal... Len for... My t... R... Ap...! H... A h... A ha...!"

"Are... Are you feeling okay? Do you need a glass of water?" The Dog roared awkwardly and slowly.

"Y... Ou da... Re ma... Ke... Fu... N of me...?! I'll... Sh... O... W... You the meaning of pain!" Wow, he was on a roll there. I grinned, tossed my bags to the side of the room and readied my stance for battle.

"That's just fine with me!"

I'd been running for at least five minutes- Agh!

I was suddenly flung against a nearby wall and held up in the air. I heard the sound of tutting and, after looking towards where the sound came from, saw Prick holding one of his paws flat against the air, as if pushing something.

"We had such high hopes for you Ms. Overcast," he said in a mocking voice before laughing. "Did you really think I didn't see this coming?! Why do you think I gave you that armour?! With your natural fire magic being constantly boosted, I can control you like a puppet! Who needs partners when you have slaves?!"

"That's bucking weird and stupid!" I struggled to yell, my neck being slightly crushed. I cast Force Barrier practically on top of him, throwing him into the throne room and breaking his concentration. I fell to my hooves and ran into the room after him. He quickly jumped to his feet and grinned as a small trickle of blood leaked down his face.

"Very clever, but I-!"

"Shut the buck up!" I cracked my neck, anger tearing through my veins. "This has been a long time comin', mother bucker!"

Author's Notes:

WE'RE FINALLY CONTINUING AT SOME SORT OF PACE!
LET'S FINISH THIS MOTHA' BUCKIN' ARC!

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In the middle of the hallway stood an Equine figure clad in crystal armour.

Needed this encounter because I didn't make it super clear that the AS is only Humanoid in the Human world. Normally they are Equine, though none of the characters know what race they are yet.