Twilight Sparkle - Ranma's Bento Tree
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Hmmmm... everyone seemed to be introducing their skills as well. It made Twilight wonder if she should do the same......... It, really wasn't something she liked to do, It tended to make her feel like she was rudely bragging or something...... Perhaps she spent too long thinking about it, long enough to be suddenly interrupted by the offer of a cookie that completely derailed her thought train as she stopped to stare at it...
"Ooh! I'd love one!" She quite happily floated one of the offered cookies her way in that sparkly lavender aura to pull it over to start adorkably nibbling on it... she got about half way through the cookie then paused, swallowed, and smiled broadly
"Hrm, sorry. It's a pleasure to meet you all, Er, Jax, Chun-li, Kino, Hermes, Tachibana, and Ranma? those are fascinating names, and this is a tasty cookie... It reminds me of home, there's always somepony cooking something sweet, heehee."She'd been imagining such blissful delights from home that were inspired by the cookie, that she wasn't even paying enough attention to her surroundings to see someone in broad day-light gliding over them in an out-fit that vastly contrasted the colors of the sky... Of course, she 'did' hear the sudden rustling of someone dropping into the tree, possibly loosing a few of the 'fruits' of said tree, The looked up before jumping back with a quiet girlish yelp... she spent a bare moment listening to this new comer before thinking to herself
'this one's more paranoid than 'me'... At least I didn't throw accusations as a form of greeting.'She was tempted to have something to say about his behavior, but any of those thoughts were interrupted by the sudden appearance of the... Giant. insect. monsters?
Even with half a cookie still in her muzzle she stared wide-eyed at the distant swarm that seemed to be quickly spreading out across the city, ears folded back, with her wings and tail twitching anxiously.
"I suppose... I expected something like this to be possible, but It seems ridiculous to actually see it... A little overwhelming... Last time I fought an army of bugs they were a little smaller than me." Suddenly a memory of Pinkie pie somehow picking her up and using her like a magic powered minigun sent both a shiver and giggle through her, funny as it was, it was unnerving to remember that she 'still' had no idea how that had been possible!
Perhaps more importantly though, she suddenly stared in horror as the creatures were countered by some... strange devices firing many beams of some kind at them, leaving countless holes in the creatures... killing them in droves it seemed... Killing... It was something she'd literally never done, every problem she'd been faced with in the past had a solution other than killing, it was such a drastically far removed concept for her that she froze there, trying to rationalize what was before...
She knew that this and many other obstacles were standing between her and getting home... between her and 'survival' even... These people had experienced things like 'this' so much that they actually had dedicated defenses for these monsters, weapons and shields to strike back at them... This was a COMMON thing here! Perhaps it was here that it really clicked for her
'I might die here if I don't fight... but... I can't...' She just wasn't someone who could dive straight into killing things, fighting, yes, but not killing... maybe if she were in a moment of desperation, but she didn't want to even think about it.
So instead she waited, watching what the others would be doing first... then another thing clicked that she heard
"... purge?" 'something' changed, there was a twitch... then another... This 'viewer' is responsible for this too... like everything else here, he is behind it, he's making this happen... He's sending in legions of monsters to 'kill' people who are already his victims. This was truly an enemy of kind she had not faced before. Magic eating tyrants, Jealous Royalty, Mad kings obsessed with slavery, emotivorous shape shifters, she'd even had a go with someone else who twisted reality with a snap of his claws...
None of them quite compared to someone who had 'this' kind of power, tampered with the lives of others for personal amusement, and then sets monsters upon his trapped victims like some sick foal with a magnifying glass... It was taking every ounce of control not to properly 'snap' as she started to fathom just how twisted this situation really was, one might even be able to see a bit of steam seep out of her fur, and the suddenly present snarl that accompanied this as she began to mumble quietly to herself
"I can't possibly accept just finding somewhere safe to wait this out... I 'have' to help those people... but I might have to... to... Gah!" the very concept was disturbing her considerably, she just couldn't settle it in her head that she'd need to kill.
She wasn't completely oblivious though, she was still paying attention to her would be comrades, and what she was hearing was much more inspiring than her own inner conflict was, for certain... They were all ready to leap into the fray, whether that was for love of a fight, a drive to protect the victims, or a disturbing lust for murder, she didn't really know... What she 'did' know though, was that is infinitely more effective than her, sitting there confusing herself and wasting time being afraid to kill anything, rather than trying to find other ways to help that still suited her!
Regardless of their reasons, they were doing something and she was just whining at herself... This had to change immediately!
'Alright... a fight, people to protect, monsters to beat up...Sounds like Rainbow's thing, what would 'she' do... Probably saying something like 'stop being a wuss and to hit them a lot' but with much more inspiring phrasing... It'd work though, so 'what' can I hit them with? They're way too big for the book spell, they'd just end up swallowing me whole, probably can't paralyze them, last time I tried transmogrification on hungry bug things they started eating the 'houses' instead. I... don't think I can kill them... well, I 'could', but I don't think I can make myself do it, but maybe i can help the others with it... That it!'Something she most certainly 'could' do was draw their attention to lessen the threat on other people, as well as occasional shielding.... She didn't know enough about any of them to attempt 'directing' them, and they surely didn't know 'her' well enough to trust her judgement on it, so for now she'd settle for supporting their own actions.
A few moments of planning and watching the other's pouring into the fray and she had her plan of action!
She quickly trotted a few paces away from the tree, and anyone who was still near it, before she planted her hooves and a bright lavender glow poured over her horn, filtering into a swirling mass of differing shades of the same color range... She felt some memories flash back to when she'd first used the spell, Something she was actually ashamed of, when she'd first struck out at another in rage... The only other times she had practiced the spells she had used that day were for the sole purpose of ensuring she could control it and never let that kind of force slip free by accident. It had been an undeniable example of just how destructive she could be if she focused herself on it, and it truly terrified her to imagine what could have happened if she had just aimed that beam in the wrong direction.
This would be different though, She watched the swarming creatures writhing about in the sky, there were so many that 'not' hitting one would be a challenge in itself... It took several seconds to spot a prime opening, unleash her beam in a deliberate miss. The bright colorful beam of various purples was accompanied by a strange inexplicable droning sound unique to such attacks, and yet, she found herself ironically pleased that it had taken longer to prepare than she remembered, along with a decidedly less excessive amount of launching into the sky and zipping through a lucky opening in the swarm before exploding in a brilliant display of lights in the sky on the other side of it... she might not be able to push herself to kill so suddenly, but she could damn sure draw their attention upon herself!
The moment she saw several of the flying beasts redirecting towards a new 'threat' she crouched a bit, throwing her wings and re-igniting the glow upon her horn, similarly passing over her wings for another moment before she snapped them down, launching herself into the sky with a gust of wing that scattered some of the grass and rocks around where she took off, barreling towards insect-like creatures that 'may' have frightened her if she were a few years earlier in her life... As it was now, she wanted 'them' to fear 'her', the whole plan was to make a spectacle of herself and distract the monsters so that they would be easier targets for people more prepared for this violence, and to draw their attention 'away' from those who couldn't fight them at all.
She glared down a pair of the disturbing flying worm like monsters that had managed to get past the barrier without being blasted down, watching closely as they seemed to blindly bump against eachother while trying to line up to catch their flying meal... She loosed a quick concussive shot between them, far too weak to really harm, but enough to make them part ways a bit further this time, just enough that she could zip between them without getting crushed, before suddenly bursting into flames, earning the shrill screeches of the ones that she was currently passing by as they were licked by the initial flames.
Beyond this, she arched down away from the pair before those wily tails could come anywhere near striking her and soared off in broad arc, looking every bit a sparkly fire-ball that would occasionally flash purple when she'd teleport to avoid and confuse some pursuer... She recalled someone mentioning 'team-work' as they charged off to joint he fray, and she rather hopped that the other's would take advantage of whatever monster's actually got distracted by her, to take out easy targets everytime she led them back around or into the line of fire of those defensive weapons... Also, because if they didn't, she'd probably be in some deep horseapples, considering most of them could probably swallow her whole and put out her little 'light show' easily enough, a fairly likely result once she inevitably tired out from this.
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