-TERRARIA, CAMELOT: THRONE ROOM-

Shock and stunned silence. These words were all that was needed to explain the current atmosphere in the throne room.

Queen Amore’s eyes were widened, a hand over her mouth in horror. Tori was still standing before her, and over the beheaded ‘Princess Cadence.’ The kenku slams a smoke bomb where they stood, causing The Queen to cough, as Tori then appears next to Twilight, and her side of the conflict.

The head of Cadence had landed at the bottom of the flight of stairs, positioned at the base of the throne.

Linn looked on in horror as she stutters:

“Wh-what’s goin on here…? T-that…” The pink-haired terrarian then grits her teeth in anger and aims her lance towards the head, “It’s not leaking any blood! What the hell is this thing?!”

“Where, w-where is my baby girl…?” Queen Amore questions as tears start to form.

All the while, the guards in the room all stopped in place as they still surrounded Twilight, Shadow Thunder, Tori, Zecora, The Mech, and Starlight Glimmer. But Zecora, in particular, glanced towards the guards and narrowed her eyes.

“I saw what she did to you all. Try it, and you will fall,” The zebra says.

Starlight’s eyes widen, “What do you mean, Zecora?”

The zebra glances towards the unicorn mare, “They are no friend to you or me, these guards are controlled by the enemy.”

~Yeah… they’re being mind-controlled. The magic signal is there and everything.~ The Mech said.

The group all stand at the ready; ready to fight off the guards, as Twilight leans into Tori and says:

“Way to go, Tori. But how did you appear inside of her shadow?”

The kenku side glances, “Be extremely subtle even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent’s fate.” Tori said in quick succession; mimicking Twilight’s voice.

Linn runs up the small flight of stairs to shield her aunt, but a sudden red mist leaves both the body and severed head of ‘The Princess.’ The two veils of mist begin to meld together as a new female entity appears before everyone within the throne room. White/silver hair could be seen fluttering by some invisible force as a dark-skinned female with two white horns on her head floats high above.

“I fucking hate kenku,” Calamitas’s clone comments, and lowers herself to the floor. She now stood before both Linn and Queen Amore, next to the throne, as the witch chuckles and looks towards Linn.

“You have no idea how much I wanted to gag myself acting as your cousin,” The witch’s magic-compromised-clone said. It then looked towards Amore, and bows mockingly, “Good morning, your Majesty.”

The Queen growls, “I demand to know what you did with my- Agh!” Amore’s words were cut off as a red energy grips her throat.

“Aunty!” Linn shouts. She then glares at ‘Calamitas’ and readies her lance. The pink-haired terrarian charges towards the witch’s imitation while exclaiming:

“Your fight is with me, witch! Leave my aunt out of this!”

“I don’t think so,” The imitation comments as she snaps her fingers, causing Linn to vanish, before being dropped onto Twilight near the entrance.

Queen Amore tries to struggle against the red energy with her hands to her neck, but to no avail, as she’s lifted aloft. The imitation of Calamitas currently had her right hand extended, aiming it towards Queen Amore, as she glances towards the guards and shouts:

“Kill them all!”

A fight immediately breaks out as Twilight and the group all around her contend with the controlled guardsmen and women. However, The Mech seemed to focus on the witch as it began to walk towards the throne.

Unknowing of The Mech’s approach as she looked away beforehand, ‘Calamitas’ looks back to Amore, who now floated mere inches away from her, as she says:

“You’ll never see your precious widdle dau-”

~You really should have thought this through. Considering Queen Mi Amore qualifies under our primary objective, you are being slated for termination. Prepare for eradication.~

The witch’s imitation raises a brow and says:

“Mech-fucking scu-”

[WHOOM]

A metallic fist sends ‘Calamitas’ flying upwards and crashing through the ceiling of the throne room. This causes Queen Amore to be freed from the invisible grip at her neck as she falls onto the floor but catches herself. She takes in a large breath of air and steadies her breathing. The Mech lowers itself and questions:

~Are you ok, Queen Amore? Do you require medical assistance?~

Amore coughs, “I’m f-fine, my good mech,” The Queen then places a hand onto The Mech’s left leg, and looks up towards its ‘eyes’, “Can you do something for me?”

~Of course.~ The Mech responds.

Queen Amore grits her teeth in anger, “Kill that bitch for taking my baby girl. Do this, and I will ensure that The Mechanic sees to your every need in the future. Including my personal royal engineers.”

The Mech ‘nods’ in response before saying:

~We never told you about our secondary objective: To kill all Brimstone Witches. She’ll be gone soon enough.~

The Mech looks up towards the hole in the ceiling as the thrusters on its back activate, blue waves of energy taking it aloft. As it rises to the air, The Mech lifts its right hand upward into a closed fist and soon exits the throne room via the hole.

Queen Amore watched The Mech take its leave, then looked towards the fighting before her very eyes. She clasps her hands together as an all too familiar transformation takes place. What was once a terrarian, was now a beautiful unicorn equine who says:

“I will not allow that witch to corrupt the minds of these beloved guards of mine,” Amore fires up her horn as a pink aura surrounds the appendage.

……….

Twilight was currently teleporting around a mind-controlled female guard, who was swinging her blade at the alicorn, as the lavender mare says:

“Remember, everyone! We don’t want to hurt them too badly! It’s not their fault!”

In the background, Twilight’s allies were locked in battle against the other guards. Shadow Thunder held some of these guards with a shadowy appendage he summoned, as Tori could be seen throwing rotten eggs into the faces of others before ‘chopping’ the back of their necks; causing them to fall limply to the floor.

Starlight casts a sleeping spell on other guards, Zecora performed various strikes similar to Tori’s, and Linn grabbed two guardsmen by the back of their heads, with each of her hands, and slams them together.

Suddenly, a pink aura surrounds each and every one of the guards before it floats them towards Queen Amore. This causes the group of combatants to cease their struggle as they turn their gaze towards the unicorn, who stood before the throne.

“By the cleansing light of Excalibur, I hereby remove the filth that robs you of your love.” Queen Amore said.

The sounds of struggling from both men and women amongst the guards start to echo outward.

The Queen then closes her eyes and begins to chant with an echoing tone:

“For hearts long lost and full of freight, for those alone in blackest night, accept Excalibur's cleansing might, love conquers all--with violet light!”

A powerful wave of violet energy leaves Amore’s form as it consumes everyone in the throne room. A warm feeling seemingly grows in each and every one of their bodies as they reacted in various ways:

Tori exhales in a smooth manner with closed eyes, and sits on the floor in a crossed-legged fashion; now assuming a meditative posture.

Starlight Glimmer and Shadow Thunder embraced one another and began to kiss for the rest of this event.

Twilight, Zecora, and Linn all let loose a content sigh as they surrender to the warmth within their forms.

The wave of energy seems to dissipate, and Queen Amore opens her eyes. All of the guards before her begin to take on confused expressions, and a series of voices start to comment:

“What just happened?”

“I feel like someone hit my head…”

“Eugh! Why do I smell like rotten eggs?”

“The back of my neck is killing me.”

The Queen smiles brightly upon seeing her dutiful guards returning to normal. She then looks up towards the ceiling and says:

“The rest is up to you now, my good mech.”

-TERRARIA, CAMELOT-

The magic-comprised-clone of Calamitas catches herself high in the skies above Camelot. Thanks to The Mech’s strike, the witch’s imitation was spinning in rapid succession before stopping herself with a sudden force of power. She shakes her head in an effort to recover her composure and says:

“So that’s the mech she was talking about. I couldn’t even sense its approach, like that damned kenku,” She grunts in annoyance, “You’d think I’d see a near twenty-foot-tall machine.”

Suddenly, a loud sound screams out from below the imitation as the form of The Mech was rapidly flying towards her.

“You wanna play?! Alright then, I’ll play with you!” The magical clone shouts as she unleashes a powerful beam of red energy. The blast caused the clouds to part as the heat of the attack warmed the local radius of the projectile.

Seeing the energy blast approaching, The Mech opens its closed fist it currently has raised above it. It looked as if the entity was going to block the coming blast, but the open palm of The Mech starts to let loose a sound similar to a vacuum.

~You really aren’t too intelligent. Then again, you are just a clone.~ The Mech comments.

In a shocking display, the witch’s attack was now being drawn into The Mech, and where it was being sucked in, the red energy beam was seemingly being turned into blue energy. Almost as if it was being filtered while also being absorbed.

……….

As the battle took place, the citizens of Camelot were drawn to the battle high above. Everyone who was currently outside would gaze upon the event. In other cases, even those who were indoors would be brought out by the sounds of the conflict or dragged out by those who ran in to fetch them.

Various guardsmen took up defensive positions, some even preparing ranged projectiles.

Among the large audience, and currently positioned on a rooftop at a fairly safe distance, a certain Ancient was currently drinking a glass of ice-cold lemonade as he laid on a reclinable piece of furniture. He was donned in casual attire, a black shirt, black shoes, and blue pants.

“Ah, so this is where that bloody mech ran off to,” Lucifer Pit Lord comments. “So it was designed to not only watch over The Murasama, but to also counter brimstone magic, eh?” He takes a sip of his lemonade, “Draedon’s been up to his old cheeky habits, it seems,” The Ancient was now spinning his drink in place, holding it with his fingertips, “Welp, might as well enjoy the show. It’s a nice prelude for what’s to come.”

……….

The witch’s imitation stops her attack, gritting her teeth in anger, “Obviously this isn’t working...”

All the while, The Mech seized the opportunity to continue its approach, feeling a new sense of ‘reinvigoration’ from absorbing the attack. However, the entity suddenly stops as it takes notice of what the witch before it was doing.

The magic-comprised-clone clasps her hands together, a vibrant red aura surrounding her form, as a shocking event takes place. She parts her hands and aims her right arm towards the capital below, pointing her index finger downwards.

A large rumbling ensues and various buildings begin to twitch violently. They are then torn from their foundation, and with a gesture from the witch, four of these buildings begin to float up into the air. Horrifically, various screams could be heard from the buildings as innocent bystanders were trapped within.

“Let’s try something else, shall we?” The witch’s imitation questions with a devilish grin. However, her eyes are drawn towards various individuals behind The Mech.

~They are not our primary objective. Whether they die or not, you will fall. Despite that, it’s quite cowardly to hide behind innocents.~ The Mech says, charging at the witch.

..........

A sudden flapping of wings and pulsations from Rocket Boots could be heard approaching as Twilight, Shadow Thunder, Linn, Starlight, Tori, and Zecora approach the airborne conflict, but take notice of the buildings.

“All of those people!” Twilight exclaims as she hears those trapped within the buildings. “We have to save them!”

“Wait, is she going to throw them?!” Starlight questions in exclamation.

The witch’s clone roars out as she points a finger towards the approaching for of The Mech, hurling the buildings in its direction. The Mech dodges these hurled projectiles and continues onward towards the witch.

“Me and my big mouth!” Starlight exclaims.

“I’m pretty sure she was going to do that anyway!” Linn shouts.

“I could summon various shadows, but there’s no way I could stop all four of those buildings! And save those trapped within!” Shadow thunder exclaims.

Tori places a claw to their chin in thought. However, the kenku lets loose a bird-like sound as they take notice of a large number of individuals floating up towards them.

Seeing this, and while the thrown buildings approached like four meteors, the rest of the group gazes upon the forms of hundreds of adventurers. Most of them were mages and summoners as various voices call out:

“We shall help you!”

“Go! Rock Elemental!”

“Wind Sprite, away!”

“Mages, use telekinesis to stop those buildings!”

“I’ll use my teleportation to escort those within the buildings to safety.”

As the newly arrived force begins to halt the approach of the buildings with their magical aptitude, and summoned allies, a familiar voice calls out from behind Twilight and says:

“Sai and I arrived just in time, it would seem! And that witch made one grand mistake!” The voice is revealed to be none other than Terralestia, flapping her angelic wings to stay aloft, “The capital is a place that many adventurers call home!”

……….

The four buildings are now caught in the large multitude of telekinetic auras from not only the adventurers but Starlight Glimmer as well. Shadow Thunder transforms into a series of shadows and phases into the buildings before being observed reappearing outside with innocent bystanders.

Tori rapidly raced through the lifted buildings and zoomed past its many innocent bystanders. In doing so, the kenku throws them a Recall Potion, to which they drink hurriedly, as it takes them away to a safe location of their choosing.

Linn holds her lance with both of her hands at its base, aiming it upwards, as she then thrusts it forth and lets loose a barrage in the form of balls of lights. These lights would enter the four structures and wisp away those trapped within in a sort of teleportation spell upon contact.

As all of this goes on, Twilight flies after The Mech and positions herself alongside it, shouting:

“Hey! Um, Mech Guardian!” This garners the entity’s attention.

~Make it quick...~ The Mech questions as the duo approaches ‘Calamitas.’

The alicorn turns to The Mech, “I saw how you absorbed that witch’s magic. And going off of what Zecora told me in the throne room, it’s a clone made entirely of Brimstone Magic,” Twilight rolls her forehoof hoof with a smirk towards The Mech, “So what would happen if you could grab onto her?”

~We would have done so were it not for the intervention of those friends of yours… You did kind of interrupt us.~

……….

Zecora was currently within one of the four buildings as she ran hurriedly through it, looking for any citizens trapped within. Suddenly, she could hear a woman crying out for help.

“I am here to help! Please, tell me your whereabouts!” The zebra shouts.

“Please, help me, I’m pregnant! I don’t want anything to happen to my baby!” The female voice exclaims.

As Zecora continues to hurriedly approach the voice, she shouts:

“Please continue to speak so that I may aid you and your baby!”

The woman continues to scream out various words to aid the zebra in locating her. Then, Zecora crashes through a door and is met with a horrific sight. The pregnant female terrarian was hanging onto a bed frame that was etched onto a wall, but the floor beneath her was completely gone, a view of Camelot’s streets down below. If she were to fall, the concrete of Camelot awaited the unfortunate terrarian.

“Help me, please!” The pregnant woman shouts.

Acting quickly, Zecora runs into the shattered room, but the pregnant woman shouts:

“Above you!”

As was pointed out, the roof above Zecora began to collapse down upon the zebra, building materials now en route to collide with her form. The world slows down for the zebra, the pregnant terrarian looking on with concern and hope, but something clicks within Zecora. Her eyes flashed white as she shouts:

“FUS RO DAH!”

The powerful force that’s let loose as a result blows against the falling debris, sending them aloft, but the force of the attack, unfortunately, causes the pregnant woman to drop as she loses her grip.

“Nooooo!” She exclaims, falling down to the earth below.

Zecora fires up her Rocket Boots and immediately jumps to the woman’s rescue, despite the hundreds of questions that now run through the zebra’s mind. After descending at a rapid pace, Zecora, fortunately, manages to catch the pregnant terrarian in a gentle manner as the woman wraps her arms around the zebra and rubs her face against Zecora’s chest region.

“Oh sweet Terra, thank you! Thank you so much!”

Zecora chuckles in response, the pregnant woman in her forehooves, “I-It’s no problem, and I hope your child is safe in your womb, now allow me to lower you to a safer abode down below.”

The zebra was now on ground level and gently helped the pregnant woman onto her feet as various guards took notice of them.

“Cecil! Oh, thank Terra, you’re ok!” A male terrarian guard exclaims, three others following close behind him.

“Chris!” The pregnant woman responds as the two come into an embrace. “We’re both fine, my love,” She then turns towards Zecora, “That zebra is the one who saved us.”

Zecora nods with a smile in response and prepares to fly off again via her Rocket Boots. However, the woman, Cecil, calls out:

“Wait! What’s your name?!”

The zebra, now floating a few feet above the ground, turns towards the pregnant woman and responds:

“Zecora, zebra of The Everfree.” She beams the terrarian couple a smile before flying back up towards the four buildings high above. However, a thought came to her mind as she says internally:

-How was I able to perform a spell like Gex?-

Down below, and watching the zebra, Cecil turns to her lover, “Hey, Chris?” She questions.

“Yes?” He responds.

“We know our baby is going to be a girl, and I think I just found a name for her.” She responds, flashing a vibrant smile.

Chris ponders on this for a moment, then chuckles, “Zecora, huh? I like it.”

……….

After firing a barrage of energy-based projectiles towards The Mech, and to no avail, the witch’s eyes shoot wide open as she growls:

“Rgh, that thing is relentless,” She covers her hands in a fiery aura and prepares to unleash another barrage of blasts, but hesitates and comments:

“No… the damned thing will just eat these again. But I'm much faster, I’ll have to teleport away from-”

A ‘popping’ sound is let loose behind the witch as the form of Twilight manifests soon after, and a series of lavender particles.

"I don't think so!" The alicorn shouts, and with gritted teeth, she fires up her horn and blasts the witch who, in turn, whips around her right hand and collides her own blast with Twilight’s.

A beam struggle results as the witch comments:

“You think your magic is better than my own?!”

Twilight pushes against her opponent's beam, grunting in the effort, “I-I’m not h-here to beat you!” The alicorn responds through gritted teeth. "I'm m-making sure you can't es-cape."

The witch became noticeably confused by this, but a shadow begins to tower over her as a metallic hand completely covers her form, shattering the beam struggle between them as a result. The witch struggles within The Mech's grasp as she shouts:

“Release me, machine!”

~Request denied.~ The Mech responds.

The sound of what was similar to a vacuum starts to escape. The witch was confused at first, still struggling to get out of the entity’s grasp. But soon, she begins to cry out in a ‘painful’ fashion. It looked as if she were being drunk alive, her face caving in on itself as red tearing represented her body being torn apart as well.

As this process continues, her screams began to fade away slowly and at the end of the process, all that was left was her clothing within The Mech’s grasp, which it promptly drops.

~Target Eliminated.~

And so we are now much closer to the Wall of Flesh.

Character inventory/equipment:

Fluttershy: Statigel Armor(pony, equipped), Overloaded Blaster, Eviscerator, Crimslime Staff, Corroslime Staff, Slime Staff, Finch Staff, Snow Flinx Staff, Hornet Staff, Blood Clot Staff, Deathbringer Pickaxe, Blood Lust Cluster Axe, Healing Potion, Honey Comb(equipped), Brain Of Confusion(equipped), Mana Polarizer(equipped), Honeyed Goggles, Slime Mount, Staff Of Necrosteocytes, Purified Jam.

Rainbow Dash: Necro Armor(pony, equipped), Star Cannon, Minishark, Eviscerator, Aquatic Discharge, Bloody Rupture, Deathbringer Pickaxe, Blood Lust Cluster Axe, Healing Potion, Aero Stone(equipped), Brain Of Confusion(equipped), Bone Glove(equipped), Mana Polarizer(equipped), Victory Shard, Slime Mount.

Zecora: Crimson Armor(zebra, equipped), Dune Hopper, Sausage Maker, Beenade, Tooth Ball, Aorta, Deathbringer Pickaxe, Blood Lust Cluster Axe, Various Potions, Rocket Boots(equipped), Honey Comb(equipped), Sand Cloak(equipped), Brain Of Confusion(equipped), Bloodstained Gloves(equipped), Bone Glove(equipped), Mana Polarizer(equipped), Honeyed Goggles, Skeletron Hand.

Starlight Glimmer: Meteor Armor(pony, equipped), Space Gun, Starfury, Vein Burster, Purple Phaseblade, Deathbringer Pickaxe, Blood Lust Cluster Axe, Mana Potion, Healing Potion, Victory Shard, Rocket Boots(equipped), Aero Stone(equipped), Brain Of Confusion(equipped), Mana Polarizer(equipped), Bone Glove(equipped), Slime Mount, Book Of Skulls, Skeletron Hand.

Rarity: Meteor Armor(pony, equipped), Space Gun, Hornet Staff, Snow Flinx Staff, Ice Mirror, Blood Clot Staff, Deathbringer Pickaxe, Blood Lust Cluster Axe, Mana Potion, Angel Wings(equipped), Brain Of Confusion(equipped), Mana Polarizer(equipped), Slime Mount, Book Of Skulls, Skeletron Hand, Staff Of Necrosteocytes.

Applejack: Crimson Armor(pony, equipped), Vein Burster, Orange Phaseblade, Deathbringer Pickaxe, Blood Lust Cluster Axe, Rope, Metal Detector, Healing Potion, Angel Wings(equipped), Honey Comb(equipped), Flurry Boots(equipped), Brain Of Confusion(equipped), Mana Polarizer(equipped), Honeyed Goggles, Slime Mount, Bone Glove, Skeletron Hand.

Twilight Sparkle: Meteorite Armor(pony, equipped), Space Gun, Book Of Skulls, Deathbringer Pickaxe, Blood Lust Cluster Axe, Mana Potion, Ichor, Victory Shards, Aero Stone(equipped), Brain Of Confusion(equipped), Mana Polarizer(equipped), Slime Mount.

Pinkie Pie: Crimson Armor(pony, equipped), Vein Burster, Blue Phaseblade, Bloody Rupture x2, Aorta, Deathbringer Pickaxe, Blood Lust Cluster Axe, Metal Detector, Angel Wings(equipped), Honey Comb(equipped), Flurry Boots(equipped), Brain Of Confusion(equipped), Mana Polarizer(equipped), Bone Glove(equipped), Honeyed Goggles, Slime Mount, The Blood Butcherer, Skeletron Hand.