The Crimson Avenger
Chapter 12: Chapter 11: Family Reunion in a nutshell
Previous ChapterEverything was originally all calm on the streets of Canterlot. The citizens of the city were just minding their own business and doing their own thing… Until something just had to rain on their parade… Literally. Amy and her colleagues had just touched down on what was the streets of Canterlot. But now, it just looked like the scene of an apocalypse movie.
“Wow… look at this place.” Amy said as she and Rainbow land. “How many of you think that Celestia’s gonna blame me for this?”
“About time you arrived.” The Alicorn that Amy was referring to said. When Amy turned to face her, she looked like she was completely wrecked. Chips of her armor were beginning to come off and her shoulderplates were already cracked. “Where were you two for the past half an hour? I tried sending our fastest courier to you as quickly as possible.”
“We would’ve been here sooner, but it’s kinda hard to break through a magical barrier that keeps regenerating itself.”
“And yet, that same barrier was smashed without any effort when that behemoth of a creature came running in. Most of the military was defeated, your mother, sister and Yuri are knocked out cold and one onepony is actually trying to hold her own against the beast.” Celestia coughed as Amy now noticed what looked like a Butcher knife was stabbed into her chest, breaking through her armor. But as she took it out, something felt off about it as a rhyme began to play in her head.
Solomon Grundy, born on a monday, christened on tuesday, married on wednesday, took ill on thursday, worse on friday, died on a saturday, buried on a sunday. This is the end of Solomon Grundy.
“...... Why is this place the hot spot for evil displaced to come in and try to take over or wrecked the place?”
“My question is why the buck is Scootaloo taking on something that’s twice her size?” Rainbow asked from her position in the air. “Dear Celestia, it looks like a rotting corpse!!”
“I have to say, Scootaloo’s doing a hell of a job holding her own against him. I wonder if Applebloom, Sweetie Belle, and Babs are with her?”
“No, just herself. You better get over there now though, she’s expended all of her stamina!” Rainbow snapped. “I’ll tend to Celestia here and any other injured I come across.”
“Fair point.” Amy pulled out three bottle potions “Give these to Molly and the others. I’ll take care of the big guy.” Rainbow nodded her head, grabbing the potions as she first tried to airlift Celestia off of the street before reaching the other three.
“Selena, you there?”
“I hear you. Scoot’s a few blocks down, but you better pick it up thunder thighs unless you want the zombie here to break her wings.”
“This coming from the one that watched tv in my head all day.” Amy reached into her saddlebag as she pulled out the dark el shard belonging to Amelia.
“For the record, I don’t have a body. You do.” She deadpanned as Amy turned around to see the man known as Solomon Grundy holding Scootaloo by her neck as she struggled to break free. “Now forget about me and fight already!!”
“Yeah hold that thought for a second Selena.” Amy pointed a finger at the zombie, as a blast of crimson energy erupted out and hit Solomon in the face. Causing him to drop Scootaloo. “Now, now Daddy. You know you shouldn’t pick on anypony small then you. That just-.” Her comment was interrupted as the body of Scootaloo soon collided into her face. “Okay… Rude!” she said as she looked at Scootaloo. “You’re okay kid?”
“Y-yeah I guess… I was lucky to last this long… S-something didn’t make sense though… The Second he crashed in, he shouted “DADDY’S HOME!!!” like he was some sort of crazed sociopath… How are you related to this guy?”
“You obviously can’t tell now, can you squirt.” The hulking behemoth spoke. “She gets her personality from me… All I wanted was just a good old happy reunion… without… ANY… PESTS!!!!!!” His roar and slamming two fists into the ground caused buildings to shake as he then chucked a tombstone at Amy’s head.
“Oh but daddy...” Amy summoned her claymore and sliced the tombstone in half. “You were always the one that ruined all our reunions.”
“... Okay, how are you stronger than your sister or mother?” He asked, angrily.
“Oh unlike my mother and Molly. I been training for the past few months. Also I’m pretty sure they have been slacking on their training so that might explain it.”
“Are you trying to be CUTE with me!?!” He snarled, slamming his foot down and causing a city wide tremor.
“Bitch, I’m adorable.” Amy said as she tossed the dark el shard into her mouth and swallowing it. “And you’re about to get you ass handed to you by your own daughter.”
“Oh we’ll see about that…” He growled. “But first… Knife.”
“Knife?” It was then that she felt a series of stabs near her ribcage as a few butchers knives from her father’s back stabbed her. “Oh god, Knife!!”
“And I’m just only getting started.”
“Oh this won’t end well for you if you think that can stop me.” Amy said as she removed the knives from out of her ribcage.
“Keep talking… That will only get you so far.”
“It gotten me this far hasn’t it? Also you might want to look behind you.” He did, and the first thing that greeted him was a lightning charged kick to the face.
“Taste the rainbow motherbucker!” Rainbow Dash said as she sent Solomon Grundy into a nearby building.
“Eat it daddy!” Amy yelled as she looked over at Rainbow Dash. “Nice thunder kick babe.”
“Nice distracting him, guess you being a smartass has it’s benefits huh?” However, both of them were shocked to see that Solomon was unharmed as he twisted his head back into place.
“You done goof, kiddo.”
“Well shit, was hoping that would keep you down for a little while.”
“How the hell did he do that?” Rainbow asked.
“Fuck you Skittles, that’s how.”
“Hey! Don’t you talk to my marefriend like that you reject asshole!”
“She asked an honest question, I give an honest answer.” He grinned, soon using a stone to knock Rainbow out of the sky. “Now that we don’t have any more… interruptions… It’s time that you finally get serious.”
“Oh so you weren’t being serious when you got smacked into a building?”
“Says the one who is overlooking something.”
“Kinda how you overlooked the time I stole money from your bank account?” Amy asked with a smug innocent look on her face.
“... Just watch.” He said, grabbing one of the knives on his back and putting it dangerously close to his neck. Once he slit his throat though, the flesh that was torn began to heal itself though like nothing ever hurt him in the first place. “Anytime you try to kill me, I just come back. Buried on a Sunday, Born on a Monday.”
“...So all I have to do is just either freeze your ass in ice, stone, or crystal right?”
“That would be hard to do though in your situation.” He said as Amy felt something pulling her down, looking at the ground to see a series of bone like hands grabbing at her legs and pulling at her violently. Causing her to lose balance in the process.
“Seriously, the old drag your enemy into the ground move? Isn’t that kinda bland even for you daddy?” Her question was answered when a Tombstone slammed into her face and forced her to land on the ground. “....Okay then….I was hoping to save this for Nicko to see how he would react to this, but I guess I could give this new power a test drive.”
“Heh… HIT ME WITH YOUR BEST SHOT THEN AMY!!” Her father dared, taking on a position that looked like someone was saying “Come at me Bro!”.
“......Selena, Diabolic Avenger mode.”
“Diabolic Avenger mode?”
“The button on the left, next to the mini frig.”
“I KNOW WHAT IT IS!! I was asking if you were sure on activating it. It’ll drain all of your mana when it’s power runs out.”
“Right now I’m not in the mood to deal with him at the moment. Plus something tells me to take him down quickly.” Amy motioned her eyes to where Twilight was hiding. “Because a certain lavender princess is waiting for the right moment to strike.”
Selena sighed, pressing the button as Amy’s power was beginning overflow. “Alright, but make it quick. We only got one shot at this or else you’re fucked.”
“Well I could use my life force… but I’ll save that for when I’m out of time.” A purplish aura appeared around Amy as her hair color change to white, and her clothing became a mix between purple and black.
“What’s my time in this form Selena?”
“Ninety seconds, tops.” Selena said as she got a stopwatch ready. “Starting… Now!”
“Shatter through Time and Space! Diablo Blade!” Amy punched the air beside her as a tear in space appeared next to her. The Avenger jumped into it and appeared behind Solomon, cutting his left arm clean off. As it was regenerating, Amy took that as her cue to hack away at her opponent. Attacking with Slash after slash from her blade and the mixture of power that was flowing through her veins.
As the seconds went by, Amy continued to take more risks with her next few attacks. “Deathstar!” she yelled as she fired a beam of highly concentrated dark matter into Solomon chest. Leaving a hole in his chest as it slowly begun to heal itself. “Looks like I found a move that slows down his healing factor.”
“Yes, but you still need to weaken him some more.”
“I know that.”
“You got sixty seconds.” Selena reminded her, just as Solomon was beginning to retaliate against her as he smashed the side of her face with his fist. Only for Amy to stop him and countered with a powerful punch to the ribcage, scattering his organs to the street.
“Come on daddy, is that all you got?”
“Oh I have more more. But unlike me, I’m not the one with the knife in their leg.” He said as Amy looked down again. However, this time it was a trick as he grabbed Amy’s head and began to smash her body all over the place like how Hulk took out his anger on Loki in the Avengers.
“Selena, how much time do I have left? Because I have a move that might weaken him for Twilight to do something to him, but it might destroy half of Canterlot.”
“Barely a lot. Thirty at most. Your gauge is used up faster if you take damage like right now.” Selena said. “For the love of Faust, I hope you know what you are doing…”
“You should know me by now Selena.” Amy said as she broke free from Soloman’s grip by cutting his hand off. “I never know what I’m doing.” As Amy landed a few inches away from him, the Diabolic Avenger pointed her sword at the zombie as the atmosphere around him started to become dense. “Crush under the power of time, space, and darkness. Paranoia Fate!!!”
In an instant, half of Canterlot was engulfed in crimson color dome. As the immense combination of gravity, temporal, and darkness pressed down upon Solomon Grundy and half the city of Canterlot. “I hope that worked.”
Amy’s body began to feel drained as she collapsed onto the floor. The Crimson Avenger was barely able to see her father rise from the ashes of the remains in front of her. Until he was soon encased in a crystalline tomb that glowed violet in cover. Amy could hear hooves walking over to her and see a hand stretched out to her, along with a voice. “I’m going to assume you need a hand? You look beat.”
“N-No d-duh.” Amy said as she tried to reach for Rainbow Dash’s hand, but face planted onto the ground next to whoever was going to help her. She assumed that it was Rainbow who was helping her, but, as it turns out, it was Twilight who actually took it upon herself to pick up Amy and carry her to the nearby field hospital. Even though the two of them had their differences, it still didn’t mean that the Alicorn couldn’t ignore Amy when she needed help.
“Okay… Let’s get you to a doctor so they can get you fixed up.”
“I don’t need a doctor, j-just take me home and I’ll be fine afterwards.”
“Are you sure about that? It looks like you could be suffering from-.”
“Just take me home, plus I prefer to not get nagged at by Celestia for destroying half of Canterlot.” Amy said as she pointed behind Twilight.
“Oh….Yeah I’ll take you home and get Rainbow Dash to help you recover.” Twilight said as she teleported Amy back home, just before Celestia appeared behind the lavender princess with her mouth open in shock. “N-Now Celestia, I know this my look bad. But look at the bright side, at least Amy took down the displaced that was causing trouble for us, right?”
“...........”
“Celestia?”
“When Amy wakes up or something, tell her she’s band from Canterlot.”
“For how long?”
“Until I die of old age.”
“Which means?”
“I’ll say this. If she comes here to Canterlot and it’s not an emergency, then I’ll cut her bucking head off like last time.” Celestia said as she begun to walk away. “Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going back to the hospital to check on my brother.”