Havoc, still disguised as the unicorn Golden Shower, rose a table with his magic to cover himself from the archers that were aiming at him. He was sure that their arrows wouldn’t kill him, unlike some of the things that had been shot at him a few minutes before, but the damage would turn him back to his true form. In that case, he would be forced to leave the town and start again with a new disguise, or leave no witnesses alive. “I can’t believe I got involved in this,” he muttered to himself. “I just wanted to find a home for Diane and me, and then this happens…” Havoc trotted back to the inside of the castle as he reminisced the events that led to his current predicament over the previous three months.

Time had flown by for Havoc and Diane as they got used to their new life in Trottingham. Havoc had soon learned that ponies were awful at managing their own money, and that Equestria’s economy was much simpler than Earth’s one. Some of the ponies who had asked him for help had only needed a scold and being told that, if taxes rose and their income didn’t, they had to spend less money so they could pay the new taxes. Others were in need of real help, such as Butterball. His restaurant was making a profit again, but it had required all of Havoc’s and Diane’s efforts to make it happen. Butterball had been extremely grateful to them, and he had brought many of his friends to Golden Shower so he could help them, too. From that point, more and more ponies had started to ask for his advising, and soon he was making enough to pay his own debts and taxes. Many of them were on the verge of losing their home due to the abusive taxes that Bruce Mayne had established, so Golden Shower was their last resort.

“This system is unsustainable,” Havoc had explained to Diane one day, after meeting with half a dozen of ponies who had no way to keep up with the insane taxes. “The money taken by the city is hoarded instead of invested on what’s needed. The insane taxes and duties make ponies tend to save money and only spend it when they need to, as these taxes make everything more expensive. Money must move, a city with millions of bits stored in safes will have a economy as bad as one without those bits, as many business will fail in both because nopony wants to pay so much money for things that used to be way cheaper. The worst part is that, according to the city’s laws, everypony must pay the same base amount, no matter how poor or rich they are.The poorest ponies have already lost their houses, while the rich ones are only slightly annoyed by the raise of the cost of living. Before long, this Robin Hood fellow will have a lot of ponies willing to follow him, and shit will happen.”

On the second week since their arrival, Havoc decided to try to convince Bruce Mayne to make some changes. The batpony had received him, patiently listened to what he had to say, and proceeded to ignore all of his suggestions.

Diane ended up working for Butterball in his restaurant’s kitchen, which had become too demanding for a single pony with the increase in customers. As a result, she spent the evenings working in The Happy Gourmet, while Havoc worked at home, where he had set up an office. This routine was only broken by Diane’s parties, which she organised at least twice a week. Havoc was surprised to find that he enjoyed being Golden Shower and living in Trottingham. Sure, life was a bit more monotone here than in Granite Back, and Equestria didn’t have Internet, but Diane was funnier than Derpibooru, and more huggable than any computer in the world.

A month after they moved to Trottingham, Diane and Golden Shower were invited to a party that, surprisingly, hadn’t been prepared by Diane herself. The gathering had been set up by the town’s cider suppliers, who were distant relatives of Ponyville’s Apple family, and it took place in one of their barns in the town’s outskirts. Havoc found that none of the ponies he had helped were there. In fact, most ponies were members of the town’s high class.

“Well, this isn’t the kind of party I expected to take place in a barn,” Diane whispered to Havoc’s ear.

“Eeyup,” Havoc replied. “At least we aren’t naked,” he added, as she was wearing Turmoil’s necklace and he was wearing a red tie he had bought a few days before.

Hours passed with both Havoc Diane having fun and meeting new ponies. Everypony was having a good time, but then the Merry Mares attacked. Without warning, four pegasi flew through the barn’s windows and ten more barged in through the door. All of them were armed, the ones on the windows with bows and the ones on the door with swords and knives, and they were all mares. One of them, a green coated pegasus, with a blue mane and two crossed arrows for a cutie mark walked towards the ponies who were now crowded in the center of the barn. She was wearing a green hat with a red feather, a sword, a bow and a quiver full of arrows.

“I am Robin Hoof, and these are the Merry Mares,” she announced. “Give us your money and jewelry and nopony will be harmed.”

“What is the meaning of this?!” asked Bramley, the owner of the farm. “You have gone too far this time. Don’t you steal enough from the travellers that cross the forest?”

“Silence,” Robin Hoof barked back. “You can leave this barn without money or you can leave it without money and without a couple of teeths, your choice.”

One of the Merry Mares walked towards the victims with a bag, in which everypony was forced to put all their valuable belongings. At first, Havoc felt annoyed, as he didn’t carry anything that could be stolen. and his main concern was that the party would probably be cancelled. Then, he remembered that Diane was wearing her magic necklace.

“The only thing I have is this tie,” Havoc told the mare with the bag when she stopped in front of him, and she grunted in annoyance.

“I can’t give you this,” Diane exclaimed when the mare stopped in front of her. “It’s a present from a friend.”

“Too bad! Put it in the bag or I’ll do it myself,” the pegasus mare replied, frowning.

“No.”

The mare raised a hoof to punch Diane in the face, but Diane’s necklace shot a magic beam that turned the mare into a frog. As soon as this happened, Havoc hugged Diane with both hooves and they both teleported out of the barn.

“Run you crazy mare!” he told Diane as he galloped towards the city.

Two minutes after they started running, they were grabbed by two pegasi each, who quickly gained height.

“Don’t squirm or you will fall to your death!” one of the pegasi shouted. Havoc considered breaking his transformation and killing the pesky mares, but then he remembered Luna’s warning and that Robin Hood is the good guy in all the stories, so he allowed one of the mares to blindfold him and take him deeper into the forest.

Twenty minutes later they landed and the blindfolds were taken away from them. Havoc and Diane found themselves in an improvised encampment crowded by mares. Twenty or so were staring at them, some of them armed. Another fifty mares were minding their own business, most of them sitting around small fireplaces.

“Well, well, well, if it isn’t miss Magic-Necklace and mister Teleport,” Robin Hoof said as she landed in front of Havoc and Diane. “I don’t know if what you did back there was prompted by bravery or stupidity. In any case, I know who you are. You are Golden Shower, the stallion who’s been telling ponies what to do with their money so they won’t lose it. If only you weren’t making so much money from that I would say your efforts are admirable.”

“What choice do we have? We don’t live in the forest, so we have to pay those insane taxes like everypony,” Havoc said. “Stealing from the rich and giving to the poor is a temporary solution at best.”

“So what would you do?”

“It’s simple, we get rid of the batpony.”

“If it’s so easy why haven’t you done it already?” asked Robin Hoof.

“Because I don’t have the power to do such a thing, I’m just a unicorn and he has a castle and the town’s guard under his command.”

“Yes, only a unicorn who can teleport better than many students from Celestia’s school for gifted unicorns, and who lives with a mare with a enchanted necklace powerful enough to cast polymorphing spells. I wonder… What should we do with the two of you?” Robin Hoof said, changing the subject. “Hm… We need more safe houses in Trottingham. The slums are becoming dangerous, there are too many guards patrolling them since last week. Let’s make a deal: I let you return to Trottingham instead of taking you as hostages, and you let my mares hide in your house whenever they need to.”

Back in the present, Havoc had managed to find Diane in the dinner hall of the castle. She was using her necklace to turn anypony that tried to harm her into a random critter. “Diane, there’s a new plan! Bruce Mayne is chasing us one by one with his magic weapon, we have to stay together and defeat him!”

“Bitch I’m BATMAN! I’m going to kick your ass back to English folklore with balefire!” the voice of Bruce Mayne boomed, and then a wall of the hall where Havoc and Diane were standing was cut in two by a beam of white fire.

“Run! I have seen what that thing can do to a pony! I don’t know how could he find a weapon that fires balefire but we can’t let it touch us! It comes from a book series where it’s almost unstoppable and being touched by it means instant death!” Havoc told Diane as they ran away. ‘Batman?! English folklore?! So that’s why he can use balefire, he must be another human! … What a jerk! He must know that the sheriff of Nottingham was the bad guy in Robin Hood’s story and now he’s being as evil as he was!’

Diane and Havoc continued running until they found Little Jane, Robin Hoof’s second-in-command, and three more mares.

“Little Jane, I have the key for Comet’s horn!” Diane exclaimed. “We have to find her!”

“Alright, we are going to look for her!” Little Jane replied. “We can’t risk facing Bruce Mayne while he still has his weapon, so move in silence and keep your ears open!”

As they darted through the corridors, Havoc’s mind went back to that morning.

Since the day Diane and Havoc met Robin Hoof, Havoc’s bedroom became the only place where he could return to his natural form without being discovered by the Merry Mares, as at least four of them hid in his house every week, sometimes for several days. It wasn’t long before Bruce Mayne’s guards noticed that the Merry Mares they were chasing managed to lose them around Golden Shower’s house, so it started to raise suspicion. And so, Havoc had always guests in his house, either Merry Mares that were hiding or guards that were trying to find signs of their activities. The latter also forced him to get rid of the chaos domain in his bedroom so they wouldn’t discover it if they ever decided to register the room. It was very stressing, and to make it even worse Diane decided to join the Merry Mares because she "wanted to meet mares of her age". Everything would have spiralled out of control way sooner if the guards and thieves hadn't feed Havoc enough chaos to keep him stable with their hiding and seeking.

The morning of the day in which Havoc ended up hiding from a batpony that could use balefire was pretty normal. Havoc and Diane had breakfast, he opened his office and she went to Butterball’s restaurant. It was around noon when a pegasus mare crashed through the office’s window, startling Havoc and his customer.

“... How may I help you?” Havoc asked.

“The guards caught Diane and three more mares when they were trying to sneak into the castle and Bruce Mayne has decided to punish them for their crimes by pulling their teeth out so they won’t be able to steal things anymore!” she cried.

“When?” Havoc asked with no hint of emotion in his voice

“As soon as the sun sets!”

“Pokey Hill,” Havoc called his client. “I think you won’t need to worry about taxes anymore. The sheriff is going to die today. Leave.” The pony nodded and ran out of the house. Havoc then turned to face the Merry Mare. “You, where is Robin Hoof now?”

“In the camp.”

Havoc continued talking with no emotion behind his voice. “This place isn’t safe anymore, we must leave before the guards arrive to take me for being an accomplice of Diane. Tell Robin that I’m going to enter the castle, release the prisoners and kill Bruce Mayne. I could use some help.”

“Are you sure…?”

“JUST GO AND TELL HER!” he shouted. “I WON’T LET THAT SON OF A BITCH LAY A FINGER ON DIANE! I’m going to make him regret the day his father first looked at his mother!”

The mare quickly nodded and flew away, too startled to point out that ponies didn’t have fingers, while Havoc took heavy breaths, trying to keep his anger under control to maintain his pony transformation. A few hours later, a roughed up pegasus showed up in Trottingham’s castle, stating that he had been robbed by the Merry Mares and that he wanted to see the ones they had caught be punished. The pegasus also said that he wanted to take a look around the castle, as he had always lived in Cloudsdale and wanted to see a stone castle from the inside, so they allowed him to do so. Most of the guards who saw him thought that he wasn’t the brightest tool in the shed, as he spent the day staring at the walls and zoning out from time to time. As you all probably know already, this pegasus was Havoc. When the guards stopped paying attention to him, he made his first move.

Havoc walked towards Diane’s location, which he guessed thanks to the chaos she created just by being Diane. He soon found himself approaching the dungeons, and when the guard who made sure nopony entered them without permission tried to stop him Havoc knocked him out with a magic-enhanced headbutt. The impact made his head turn back to its draconequus form, so he allowed the transformation to fully revert itself and, using his superior size and strength, pulled the door off its hinges. Then he turned back to Golden Shower, took the keys from the unconscious guard, realized he could have used them to open the door instead of breaking it, and walked into the dungeons while berating himself for making such a mistake.

Diane and the other three Merry Mares were all in the same cell. Havoc recognised them from the time they had spent hiding in his home, and was glad to see that none of them had been harmed. Mary was a red coated pegasus with a short blond mane, whose cutie mark was a dark cloud raining. Her dangerous combination of desire of protagonism and clumsiness had forced her to hide in Havoc and Diane’s house more than any of the others. Havoc knew little about Comet Tail, but the dark blue unicorn with a comet as a cutie mark and a long silvery mane was rumored to be Trottingham's most powerful unicorn. She had a ring around her horn which was blocking her magic. The last mare was the leader of the group. Snowy Peak was a pegasus that always seemed to be unfazed by the events around her. Havoc was certain that she hadn't even flinched when the guards caught her. Her cutie mark of a snowflake, her gray coat and a black mane were as cold and pale as her emotions.

"See? I told you somepony would rescue us!" Diane smugly told the others.

"Where are the others?" Snowy Peak asked.

"Oh, wow! It’s Golden Shower, he’s come to save us!” Havoc replied with his best imitation of a damsel in distress' voice. It was an awful imitation. “Let’s just ask him about the others instead of, I don’t know, thanking him!” He coughed and went back to his normal voice. “Anyways, how did you get caught in the first place?”

“Long story short: an unicorn guard felt magic coming from my necklace and when he tried to scan it with his horn it went all floppy. Then they arrested us and some of them recognized Mary and they discovered that we were Merry mares.”

“I’m tired of this shit. This is what I’m going to do: I’m going to teleport you out of the castle and then do what you should have done months ago: kill Bruce Mayne.”

“I thought Diane was the crazy one of the two,” Snowy Peak replied.

“Hey!” Diane exclaimed.

“But I was wrong,” she continued. “You are worse than her. How are you planning to go past Bruce’s guards and then kill him?”

“It’s simple, I’ll wait until they sound the alarm and then I’ll attack him. He won’t expect some thieves that are trying to escape from the castle to attack him instead.”

“Try to recover my necklace while you are at it,” Diane asked. “It was taken by the flaccid unicorn. His cutie mark was a red shield with three arrows stuck to it.”

“I’ll see to it.” Havoc replied, and then his horn glowed as he prepared to teleport everypony out of the castle.

“Wait, you idiot!” Comet Tail shouted. “This dungeon is coated with magic detecting spells! You could trigger one of them and then everypony would know we are trying to escape!”

“Shit!” Havoc cursed as he cancelled his spell. They all waited in silence for about ten seconds. “Well, I think I didn’t trigger any al-”

Think again, faggot.

“Horsefeathers!" Mary shouted. "I'm not going down without fighting!"

"Calm yourselves," Snowy Peak said, raising her voice above the alarm. “We must move fast. I know the shortest way out of the castle, so you will follow me. Golden, your job is to keep a barrier to protect us from arrows and magic. I’m going to take Comet Tail and Mary is going to take Diane and we’ll fly out of here as soon as possible.”

“Can’t we just pull that ring out of Comet’s horn?” Havoc asked.

Comet Tail raised and eyebrow. “You are welcome to try, but I know few unicorns powerful enough to remove one of these without the key, and you will regret it if you touch it.”

Havoc frowned as he focused on the ring, trying to feel the spell that was keeping it glued to the horn. A dog would have more chances of learning to read than Havoc of understanding how the spell worked. He considered simply saturating it with chaos magic and hoping it would destroy the spell, but the chances of it exploding and blowing Comet’s head were just as likely, so he gave up.

“I guess the unicorn who took the necklace is also the one with the key?” he asked instead.

“Probably, there’s only a few unicorn guards in the castle,” Snowy answered. “Now let’s move!”

The following minutes were very confusing for Havoc. His magic wasn’t really meant to create stable barriers, and he had to focus on it while running and taking sharp turns to avoid groups of guards. When they finally reached the castle’s inner courtyard, dozens of guards were fighting against a group of mares that greatly outnumbered them.

“There they are! Squads three and four, surround them and protect them!” Robin Hoof’s voice shouted from the center of the mares’ group.

For the next minutes Havoc used his magic against seemingly endless amounts of guards, each sleeping spell getting him closer to the point when he would be too weak to keep his transformation active. He was receiving lots of chaos energy from the battle, but it wasn’t enough to compensate using the same spell over and over again. He was considering falling to the ground as if he was unconscious when he found that there were no more guards around for him to put to sleep.

“They are trying to retreat to the castle and let us outside!” Robin shouted. “Follow them and don’t let them close the doors!”

The Merry Mares had only so much military training, so they soon scattered all over the castle. Havoc decided to go alone so he could use his real powers without blowing his cover. He changed his appearance to that of a cute and innocent looking earth pony maidservant so he wouldn’t be attacked until he could find and kill Bruce Mayne and galloped towards the tower keep, where he hoped he would find Bruce. After reaching the tower keep Havoc took a sharp turn on a corridor and found himself face to face with Bruce Mayne himself. The bat winged pony was wearing a dark blue armor, and a white metallic armband shaped like a Chinese dragon was coiled around most of his right foreleg, its open maw resting near the front part of his hoof.

"What are you doing here?!" He barked. "You aren't a guard, so why aren't you hiding in the dungeons with the others?"

"I-I-I got l-lost!" Havoc squealed. "I'm scared please protect me!"

Bruce groaned. "Try to find a place to hide and don't leave it unless you are sure it's safe. Now stay out of my sight!"

"O-okay," Havoc whimpered.

Bruce walked past him and Havoc prepared to fire a magic beam strong enough to pierce Bruce’s armor and evaporate his brain. Just as he fired it towards Bruce, the batpony was hit by an arrow that got stuck on the right side of his armor and which made him trip and fall to the ground. The magic beam harmlessly soared right above Bruce’s head and Bruce stared at it with wide eyes for half a second before jumping to the air and flying away.

“Damn it!” Havoc cursed, turning back to Golden Shower. “Who was the genius that fired that arrow?!”

Robin Hoof and another mare flew towards Golden Shower, both of them carrying bows. “Damn! I couldn’t see you from my position! Follow me! We can’t let him escape!”

“Who said I was trying to escape?!” Bruce shouted from the end of the hall. He was pointing at them with his right hoof, and the eyes of the white dragon were shining. “Die!”

A straight beam of blinding white magic was shot by the dragon’s mouth. The three ponies jumped to dodge it, and it made a circle-shaped hole in the floor as if it was made of hot butter. Bruce fired the weapon again, this time making an horizontal move with his leg so the beam would sweep the corridor. Havoc tried to block the beam with a barrier, but when his magic was touched by Bruce’s the spell simply disappeared, as if he had never created a barrier. He barely managed to duck so the beam wouldn’t hit him, but the mare that accompanied Robin wasn’t so lucky. As soon as the white magic touched her, her colors seemed to reverse for an instant and then she was gone. She didn’t even become ashes or smoke, she simply stopped existing.

“Run?” Havoc asked.

“Run,” Robin Hoof answered, and she crashed through a window as Havoc teleported out of the tower. He found that he had teleported to the castle’s barracks, where the guards lived and rested when they were on duty. Luckily for him, they were rather empty since most guards were in the castle fighting the Merry Mares. He ran towards the exit, resolved to find Diane so he could protect her from Bruce’s weapon, and the guards, and anything else that could harm her. Havoc finally left the barracks and returned to the castle’s courtyard, and as soon as he did he rose a table with his magic to cover himself from the archers that were aiming at him. He was sure that their arrows wouldn’t kill him, unlike Bruce’s weapon, but the damage would turn him back to his true form in the open where anypony could see him. “I can’t believe I got involved in this,” he muttered to himself. “I just wanted to find a home for Diane and me, and then this happens…” Havoc trotted back to the inside of the castle as he reminisced the events that led to his current predicament over the previous three months.

He didn’t find any guard until he reached the castle’s dinner hall and found Diane. She had recovered her necklace and was using it to turn anypony that tried to harm her into a random critter. “Diane, there’s a new plan! Bruce Mayne is chasing us one by one with his magic weapon, we have to stay together and defeat him!”

“Bitch I’m BATMAN! I’m going to kick your ass back to English folklore with balefire!” the voice of Bruce Mayne boomed, and then a wall of the hall where Havoc and Diane were standing was cut in two by a beam of white fire.

“Run! I have seen what that thing can do to a pony! I don’t know how could he find a weapon that fires balefire but we can’t let it touch us! It comes from a book series where it’s almost unstoppable and being touched by it means instant death!” Havoc told Diane as they ran away. ‘Batman?! English folklore?! So that’s why he can use balefire, he must be another human! … What a jerk! He must know that the sheriff of Nottingham was the bad guy in Robin Hood’s story and now he’s being as evil as he was!’

Diane and Havoc continued running until they found Little Jane, Robin Hoof’s second-in-command, and three more mares.

“Little Jane, I have the key for Comet’s horn!” Diane exclaimed. “We have to find her!”

“Alright, we are going to look for her!” Little Jane replied. “We can’t risk facing Bruce Mayne while he still has his weapon, so move in silence and keep your ears open!”

As they darted through the corridors, Havoc’s mind went back to that morning. He was about to remember when he remembered what happened to him three months earlier when he was brought back to the present by Diane.

“Golden! This key must be activated with magic and you are the only unicorn around!” she told him, giving it to him with one hoof and pointing at Comet Tail with the other while balancing herself on two legs.

Havoc immediately felt the key’s magic, and somehow knew that it would open the ring as soon as he applied a bit of magic to both at the same time. The ring opened itself and fell to the floor and Comet sighed with relief as her horn was enveloped by a purple aura.

“You don’t miss magic until you can’t use it,” she commented. “Now, does anypony know anything about that magic weapon that the sheriff Mayne is using?”

“It fires these white fire beams that are unstoppable,” Havoc explained. “He called them ‘balefire’. I tried to stop one with my magic and it wasn’t affected by it. It flies through matter and magic alike as if they weren’t there, and being hit by it is lethal even if it only grazes you.”

“We need to take him down before he kills more ponies,” Little Jane said. “Comet, Golden Shower, you two must attack him with all you’ve got. I will distract him so you can focus on your spells.”

Havoc and Comet Tail nodded, and just as they were about to run in search of Bruce Mayne the corridor was sliced by a vertical slash of balefire and Robin Hoof jumped through the newly created opening.

“Get away from here! He’s after me!” she warned them as she fired an arrow towards the cut from which she came from.

A loud metallic noise came from behind the sliced wall, and a few seconds later Bruce Mayne jumped through it, breathing raggedly. Despite being bleeding from a couple of minor wounds, and having an arrow stuck to his left wing, Bruce seemed to be angrier and more dangerous than ever.

“Die!” he growled as he aimed at Robin with his weapon. Comet Tail teleported to his back and tackled him, only to teleport both of them away before he could fire more balefire.

“Damn!” Robin Hoof cursed. “Golden Shower! Please tell me you know how to teleport us to their location!”

“I’ll try,” Havoc replied. He inspected the traces of magic that Comet Tail had left when she teleported, and found that he had no idea where she had gone. Then he noticed that he could also feel the first teleport she had done to tackle Bruce, and after taking a look at the origin, the destination and the magical link between them it made sense to him. Looking back at the second teleport with his new knowledge, he felt that they had moved many kilometers to the North, probably to the forest. He also realized that he didn’t have enough magic to teleport more than two ponies, and even then he would struggle to keep up his disguise afterwards.

“I can follow them,” he said. “But I can only teleport me and another pony.”

“I’ll go,” Robin said, and she stared at the others, daring them to say complain. “As soon as we’re there I want you to protect Comet Tail while I fight Bruce.” Havoc nodded and began focusing on the teleport as Robin got next to him. A flash of golden light enveloped them and in a blink they were surrounded by trees.

A small beam of balefire soared a meter above their heads and, when they turned to face the origin of the attack, they saw Bruce quickly firing his weapon against Comet Tail, who teleported away from the beams while attacking Bruce with fireballs that Bruce destroyed with balefire. Bruce Mayne noticed the newcomers and moved his weapon in an horizontal arc as it shot balefire. Havoc instinctively turned to draconequus to jump above the balefire. This surprised Bruce enough to make him stop attacking and stare at Havoc, so the draconequus minor snapped his fingers and the surrounding trees came to life, firing their now razor-sharp leaves at Bruce, who began to run in a zigzag pattern as soon as he noticed that he was being cut by the seemingly harmless leaves.

“I’ll explain it after we’re done with Bruce!” Havoc shouted to Comet Tail and Robin Hoof, who were as surprised as the batpony.

“THAT’S IT!” Bruce Mayne shouted, foaming at the mouth and his feline eyes contracted. “I’M GOING TO KILL ALL OF YOU, YOU FUCKING CARTOON HORSES!” Bruce rose his right foreleg and balefire came from the mouth of the dragon coiled around it, creating a sphere of balefire around him.

“That can’t be good,” Havoc said to himself.

The sphere faded, revealing something that used to be Bruce Mayne. Many ponies say that batponies, or thestrals, are pegasi with a bit of dragon blood in them. The creature that was Bruce Mayne seemed to be a dragon with a bit of pony blood. The dragon weapon had disappeared, and Bruce was now twice as big as he was before the transformation, and his body was covered by white scales. He still stood on four extremities, but his four hooves had become claws and his tail was no longer made of hair. His red eyes seemed to lack pupils and irises, and his teeth were as sharp as those of a real dragon.

“You have forced me to turn into a baledragon,” it said without a trace of the rage that possessed him moments before. “This transformation is permanent, I can’t change back. I’m going to make all of you regret it.”

“... Bale dragon?” Havoc asked. “You are not a bale dragon. THIS is a bale dragon.” He snapped his fingers and a fake dragon made of bales of hay appeared between him and Bruce.

Bruce Mayne opened his mouth and he breathed balefire, which Havoc managed to dodge by turning into owl. “You won’t be able to joke when I burn your very existence from the universe,” Bruce threatened.

‘Damn, why do they always have to transform into something even more dangerous? It’s almost as if I was a character in a bad story!’ Havoc asked himself as Bruce breathed more balefire.

Author's Notes:

So, yeah, balefire. I think that reading 10 books of the Wheel of Time series between the last chapter and this one has something to do with that.

I'm sorry for not updating in so much time, but I barely wrote during August and this chapter has been really hard to write. I expect to update sooner next time.