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Chapter 113

Apple Bloom

Apple Bloom slid backwards down the street as she fired the twin pistols. Painwheel jumped around on all fours as she dodged around the bullets. She originally tried to deflect the bullets with her tail but the fact it was now only a three pronged blade taught her that wasn’t the best idea.

“GET BACK HERE!” The berserker of the cast roared. Apple Bloom was going to make Perl transform back so she could shoot Micro’s nuts off when this was over.

“I don’t think-” her comment was cut off as she accidentally backed up over a barrier. “GAAAH!” She yelled as she tumbled down a hill and hit muddy ground. She opened her eyes to see two things. One, she was under a bridge. Two…

“RAAAAAAAWWRRRRRRR!”

Painwheel extended a multitude of long spikes from her body as she fell toward the red head.

“BOB!” Apple Bloom shouted as she switched her pistols for Scout’s scattergun from TF2. At the same time she shot and used the recoil to fling herself out of the way, she called out the robo butler. The spikes dug a bit into the metal as he grabbed the young girl and held her with both hands. The red head took out her anti Freak pistols again and fired a pair of shots.

She thought she had Painwheel, right before blades sprouted from the girl’s joints and tore through BOB’s hands, ripping the connectors and causing him to drop her. The bullets pierced BOB’s torso and the robot fell to the ground.

“Shit!” Bloom exclaimed. Painwheel looked up from her crouch position, glaring behind her mask.

AB began shaking in fear. She felt her breath hitching. Painwheel got down low, ready to pounce.

‘I have to run!’ Bloom thought. Then, she remembered something. Chara had given her more than just an arsenal of weapons. That skill book…

“You need something if people get close,” Chara said. “Or if they are too fast for your guns.”

She looked inside her and found the knowledge of the skill. Taking a deep breath, she felt herself drain of fear. Calmly, she held the guns with the handles together and the barrels pointing in opposite directions. Her head snapped up and locked eyes with Painwheel.

Equilibrium’s Gun Kata don’t fail her now.

Painwheel roared and charged. This time though, Apple Bloom charged as well. As Painwheel swung a claw, a gun barrel rose and blocked it. The other gun twisted and a bullet ripped through the elbow joint. A scream of agony ripped from her opponent as the tail shot around and tried to decapitate her.

Bloom leaned back and aimed a pistol up. Her timing was dead on and the blade skittered to the ground as the tail whipped around angrily. Taking advantage of the pain, Apple Bloom fires two shots to the kneecaps and Painwheel fell in a heap.

Apple Bloom breathed heavily for a few moments before leaned on her knees. Sure, she had fought robots and Sugar’s uncles, but this had been her first solo fight. That was when she heard the whimpering.

Looking up, she saw Painwheel on the ground, crying sounds coming from her. She stood up and cautiously went over to the downed girl.

“Please…” Painwheel muttered. “Just end it. I’ve been in constant pain since the lab tore into me.”

Apple Bloom was shocked by the pain in the voice. With a shuddering breath, she raised her gun.

“I wish you peace Painwheel…” Apple Bloom said.

“Carol,” the masked girl said. “My name is Carol…” Apple Bloom let a smile cross her face.

“Go in peace Carol.”

Bang!

As the body faded, Apple Bloom allowed tears to run down her face. Damn this dungeon for making things so realistic.

Sweetie

Eliza crashed through the glass ceiling of her bath house and would’ve fallen to the ground if not for the blood magic wings that slowed her descent. Sweetie had wind swirling beneath her as she floated to the ground.

“You are well versed in magic,” Eliza said.

“I had a good teacher,” Sweetie said, her whip sword returning to blade mode. She glanced at the water. Eliza saw this and her eyes went wide, realizing that Sweetie must plan on using it. She crouched behind her staff and ribbon and her blood formed a crocodile that shot toward Sweetie at blazing speed. Sweetie cast an Enhance Self and Zephyr to dodge out of the way.

Eliza spun up and swung her staff around to catch Sweetie and fling her away from the water. The magic using girl flipped over the staff and thrust the blade toward Eliza. The weapon split into its chain form and snaked toward the woman who caught the blade on her staff. As it locked in place, Eliza smirked.

“Nice try girl. But without your weapon…”

She stopped as she saw Sweetie smirk. Then, she heard crackling. Electricity ran through the whip sword and zapped Eliza, making her drop the staff. Sweetie flung it away into the bath which she now stood in front of.

“Nice try bitch,” Sweetie smirked. “But without your weapon.”

Eliza growled at being mocked. She grabbed at her face and with a roar she tore her skin. The blood rushed out and formed a red sarcophagus. A skeleton with a catlike skull stood glaring at Sweetie who was stunned. She didn’t know it, but this was the parasite Sekmet.

The creature began bounding toward Sweetie who recovered just in time. She stabbed her sword into the ground right as Sekmet leapt at her. The ground beneath her shot up and caught her torso, launching her over Sweetie and into the water.

“You little brat!” Sekmet shrieked as she stood. “You think you have me beat!”

Suddenly the water around her rose up in a sphere. She tried moving, but found it impossible. Sweetie grinned and stood on the edge of the bath with her one arm outstretched, fingers moving to keep up the spell. Her other hand was extended toward the sky, two fingers up.

“YES!” she exclaimed and brought the hand down, pointing at the Parasite. Lightening shot down, crashing through the ceiling and colliding with the sphere of water.

“AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!”

Cracks formed on the bones before eventually they split apart. A scream erupted from the sarcophagus as it collapsed into blood. Sweetie leaned against a nearby statue and panted from the use of magic. She looked over at the bath again, seeing steam rise from it. Checking her party chat screen to see if anyone needed help, she smiled.

“Who knows how long we will be in this dungeon raid,” she said as she dismissed her clothes and sank into the water. “Might as well rest while I can.”

Scootaloo

“MEEOOOOOW!!!”

Ms Fortune meowed in joy as she jetted after the swirl of rose petals via the blood jetting from her legs. As they reached a wooden walkway over water surrounded by tall buildings, the swirl suddenly u-turned and Scootaloo brought her kama down. Fortune dropped to all fours as her tail extended into a katana like blade, catching the sickles.

“Nice try,” Fortune purred. “My defense is purrfect.”

Scootaloo growled and flipped back away from Fortune. She threw one of her kama toward the cat girl. Fortune casually leaned out of the way as the sickle zoomed past.

“Like that would work on me,” she said. Before she could continue, she saw Scoots other kama glow in her hand. “What are you-”

She was cut off...as was her head when the blade came flying back. Scootaloo grinned as she caught the kama in the same hand as her other while grabbed Fortune’s head by her hair.

“Looks like you’re all bark and no bite,” Scoots chuckled.

“That’s dogs. Not cats.”

Scootaloo stopped and stared at the smirking head of Fortune talking in her hand.

“The hell?!”

“And this kitty ain’t declawed yet!” The head swung up and bit Scoots wrist. She screamed and dropped her kama before bitch slapping the decapitated head off. The headless body charged and attempted to scratch Scoots in the face. Quickly activating Enhance Self, she batted the offending hand away and punched her/it in the stomach. She was shocked when she felt something hard. Not muscle...more like...a rock?

She roared in pain as the headless body raked its claws across her back. She spun into a tornado of petals and swept up her kama, droplets of blood flicking out onto the ground as she spun away.

“You can’t run away!” Fortune’s head said. Then she saw the petals begin to burn as the tornado turned back toward the body. It dissipated and Scoots was holding two flaming kama. She tossed the sickles on either side of the body forming walls of fire. “What!”

“You should know,” Scootaloo said as fire formed in her hands. “I’m bi.”

“What does that have to do with-?” Scoots began running toward the body.

“I like a smoking hot pussy!” She roared as she formed the flaming tornado again. The body wanted to dodge, but was surrounded by flames. Before she could decide anything, the tornado slammed into her stomach, burning through. When Scootaloo came out of the tornado on the other side, she was holding a crystal.

“Huh…” Fortune said. “Not a bad pun…”

Scootaloo smirked at her and crushed the crystal. Fortune’s eyes closed one last time as she vanished from existence. Taking a health lollipop, Scoots went to retrieve her kama.

Chara

Peacock and Valentine skidded across the roof before coming to a stop. They pulled themselves up to their knees when they saw light coming down from the sky. Looking up they saw Chara riding a large Gaster Blaster, trident in hand as stars rained down.

“Peacock!” Valentine said and the younger girl nodded. From her hat popped the head of...well… a peacock as the eyes on the arms stretched up as if they formed tail feathers. Valentine ducked behind them as lasers fired, clearing a section in the stars. Chara thrust the trident forward and the Blaster opened its mouth. Peacock looked up and snapped.

Chara was confused at why they weren’t dodging when she heard something falling. Looking up she saw it. Jumping off the Blaster, she just barely managed to dodge the falling piano. As she landed on the roof she saw Valentine run out from behind her partner. She motioned with her hand and spikes of bones shot up between her and her attackers. She wasn’t expecting Valentine to instantly cut through her defense with her bone saw.

The nurse drew one of her syringes and jabbed toward Chara, intent on injecting poison. The girl split apart into red and blue halves. Valentine’s eyes widened as the two halves wielded their trident halves as they turned blue. They brought the halves together, the metal phasing into Valentine as she tried to back away. Since she moved in the blue, she screamed in pain. As she fell to the ground writhing, Chara stabbed the trident into the roof behind her. As long as she squirmed, the damage would continue.

Just as Chara’s halves came back together, a pie slammed into her face.

“Gah!” she gasped as she wiped the cream from her eyes. She opened them just in time to see the spiked bat smack her across the face.

“You like that you bitch!” Peacock grinned wickedly. Chara growled as she summoned a quartet of small Gaster Blasters around her. Peacock did the typical cartoon surprise reaction (leaning forward partially frozen in air, screaming in shock) as her legs spun in figure eights. She ran around the rooftop as the lasers fired, sending dust up. “Valentine! Get your skanky ass up!”

The nurse growled at hearing that as she was laying still, having realized the secret of Chara’s attack.

“I can’t move you brat!” she said. Peacock rolled her non existent eyes and put her fingers to her mouth. A sharp whistle went out and Valentine saw one of Peacock’s “friends”, a living anvil with boxing gloves, come over and rip the trident out. Before it could be used against her, Chara dismissed the trident and pulled out Hikage’s knife from Senran Kagura. Valentine drew a scalpel and shot forward.

Peacock hid behind another of friends, a living ton weight, as the blasters fired on her. She growl and from out of nowhere pulled a shotgun.

“Take this!” she roared as she ran out and began firing. The floating heads shattered, and Peacock grinned. She was lighting a cigar in celebration when she realized something. “One...two….three….”

She heard something behind her and turned. A gaster blaster was staring her down, a beam charging. Peacock looked at the skull sheepishly and held up a white flag. The only thing left of both were ash.

Metal clashed as Chara and Valentine tried to carve into one another. The nurse could feel her heart racing, even imagining the beeping of a heart monitor in her head. Chara grinned as she made a pulling motion with her hand. Valentine was confused until she felt a sharp pain in her back. A spear of bone stabbed through her back and out her chest. Her gaze grew dark as the heart monitor in her head flatlined.

Chara sighed as she watched the body vanish.

“I hope the others are doing well.”

Perl

“Hmmmm,” Perl said as she tried on a character costume. She smiled as the Blue Mary (King of Fighters XIV) costume fit perfectly. “A fighting game character for fighting fighting game characters. Perfect! And cute to boot!”

“Um...That’s great…” Fillia said as she heard Samson growl impatiently. They were standing on a road in Maplecrest. “But are we going to fight now?”

Squigly couldn’t help but giggle a bit at the girl’s antics. Though she knew they had to fight (though she couldn’t place why) she found their opponent enjoyable.

“Remember not to hold back my dear,” Leviathan said.

“I know,” she said.

“UGH!” Samson roared as his impatience reached its peak. “I’m sick of this!”

“Samson!” Fillia yelled as she felt the parasite transforming. A beetle like armor formed around her and the wings buzzed, forcing her into a charge.

“Sorry I have to do this!” Perl said as she ran at the girl, delivering a powerful knee to the head. As Fillia was knocked up and over Perl, Samson shot out spikes of “hair”, forcing Perl to flip away.

“LAAAAA!” Perl heard Squigly call out. She turned just in time to see an orb of musical energy slam into her. She flew back and twisted in time to see Samson form his mouth.

“Shit!” Perl hissed. Then she realized that this wasn’t two on one. This was four on one. Time to even the odds. “ARSENE!”

The blue flames enveloped her and the red sleeved arms of Arsene grabbed the teeth and held the mouth open. Though they samed less like suit arms and more like a blouse.

“WHAT!?” The violent parasite garbled out as best he could.

“I am the thief that outsmarted the greatest detective! Adler!” The female form of the Persona was dressed in a red blouse with a black vest over it and black dress pants. She wore a mask like a porcelain doll and a large hat with a huge feather in it.

Perl would’ve been shocked, but considering Persona 3 Portable had the Persona change (at least appearance) based on gender it wasn’t that surprising.

She was immediately brought out of her thoughts as she felt something clamp down on her head. Perl was pulled back and immediately knocked into the air by a powerful kick. Squigly and Leviathan followed it up by hopping into the air and using the parasite’s tail to stab down toward Perl’s chest. The Gamer thought fast and grabbed Leviathan’s tail to pull Squigly into a hard round house. The Zombie was caught off guard and stunned, letting her throw Squigly toward Adler.

The female Persona saw this and flipped the still giant mouth Samson over her head. Fillia saw Squigly coming toward them.

“Samson!” she yelled. The parasite’s eyes swiveled and saw their incoming partners. He quickly shifted and slipped from Adler’s grip. They shot down, curling up like Sonic the Hedgehog. Meanwhile Leviathan grew in size and shot toward Adler, pulling Squigly with him as she started to stir.

Rearing back, Perl soccer kicked the spinning ball of hair, causing Samson to uncurl and stab out with spikes. The Gamer caught two that aimed for her head as she leaned away from the others. Grinning, she saw a chance and summoned electricity into her hands.

“GAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!” Samson and Fillia’s screams echoed each other as Perl raised her foot. A blade of earth formed on the bottom of her shoe.

“Sorry,” Perl said as she brought the foot down.

Adler leaned out of the way of the snake like parasite and thrust out her hand.

“Eiha!”

The shadowy energy shot toward the zombie girl who twisted like a dancer in the air, avoiding the blow.

“Now Leviathan!” she shouted and suddenly leviathan stretched out and formed a huge muscular torso. He roared and charged as Adler raised her hand again.

“Dream Needle!”

With a single tap to the chest, Leviathan froze.

“Levi?” Squigly questioned. That was when she heard her friend snoring. Adler looked at the worried girl and bowed.

“You are a worthy opponent...rest now...Cleave!”

The two halves of the zombie girl fell as Adler vanished in flame. Perl grinned as she saw a pair of purple lace panties appear in her inventory alongside a charm that appeared a lot like it was from Kingdom Hearts.

Squigly’s Panties

Doubles the growth rate of Necromantic skills

Samson Charm

Summon Samson to fight for you

She did a dance of celebration as the world around her faded. They appeared in the hallway again, all the girls panting from their fights. Well...almost all…

“AH!” Sweetie said as she covered up, quickly re equipping her clothes.

“Shiro is a lucky man,” Chara joked. Sweetie glared at her and held her hand up, crackling with electricity.

“Can we not fight each other?” Perl tried to calm them down. “It appears we have another fight to go through.”

They looked toward a door and saw that it had a U with an A inside of it.