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Chapter 16: Part 2: Tough Love

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CHAPTER SIXTEEN


The score still stood…

SCORE:

Cadance: 4000 & Shining: Armor 4000

VS

Mandy: 1200 & Tami: 4000


Shining Armor’s holster was empty, and the others each had only one card, but Mandy was still completely frustrated and shaken that her dragons failed her, and the two ponies stood by themselves with glee.

“So, are you going to surrender or what?” asked Shining Armor.

“We promise we’ll be less merciless on you.” said Cadance “After all, it’s your chancellor who started all this.”

I clenched my fists, and Sabrina held my hand helping me maintain my cool. “Ladies, listen to me.” I called out “You can’t let them get to you like this. I realize you may have differences in working together, but if you actually trust in one another you’ll find a way to win. Do you hear me, Mandy?”

Mandy growled, but didn’t bother respond to me. “I’ll place my last card facedown and end my turn.”

Tami gazed at her tutor with concern, while the two ponies snickered. “Very well, it’s not our position to force you to make a fool of yourself.” Shining Armor said, and he drew his next card.

“I play POT OF GREED. So now I get two more cards.” He drew his cards and really liked what they were. Cadance even gave him a nod telling him to “Do it.”

Shining Armor snickered “I play the spell MIND CONTROL!” It let him seize control of the Dyson Sphere once again, but it couldn’t attack or be tributed.

Tami felt worried “Please don’t tell me…!”

“I won’t…” hissed Shining Armor “I’ll show you instead. I play RANK-UP-MAGIC ASTRAL FORCE!”

Both his and Cadance’s marks began to glow brightly as they combined their light forces with their monster. “I rebuild the overlay network!” shouted Shining Armor “I summon forth NUMBER C9: CHAOS DYSON SPHERE!”

(Atk: 3600)


The girls, Sabrina, even I was astonished and freaked out by the huge monster. It was even larger than the previous one.

“Oh, great… as if the other one wasn’t bad enough.” mumbled Tami.

Mandy was actually sweating, much to the ponies delight. “I’m afraid it gets much worse for you. My new monster has a few tricks.”

“Just move!” snarled Mandy.

“With pleasure.” hissed Shining Armor, and he gazed at Tami’s Madolche, and ordered the Sphere it to attack.

(Atk: 3600) VS (Atk: 2700)

SCORE:

Cadance: 4000 & Shining Armor 4000

VS

Mandy: 1200 & Tami: 3100


Tami was outraged, but as the smoke from the attack cleared, she could see her monster was still standing. “Hey, what’s going on?” she asked, and she suddenly got her answer as the monster changed into a glowing orb and flew over to the Sphere.

“Your monster had turned into an overlay unit, and joined up with my Dyson Sphere.” said Shining Armor “And what’s more, now I can deal you 300 points of damage for each unit it has.”

“What?!” snapped Tami, and she counted all the units, seeing four in total. She counted up on her fingers “That means I lose… four… carry this… add that-- Twelve-Hundred points?!”

SCORE:

Cadance: 4000 & Shining: Armor 4000

VS

Mandy: 1200 & Tami: 1900


“Well, you know what they say; love hurts.” mocked Shining Armor, and then he gazed over at Mandy “And speaking of hurting, it’s time for you to go down!”

“What are you babbling about?” snarled Mandy “You already attacked this turn.”

“True…” said Cadance “But did you know that our Sphere has another special ability?”

Mandy gasped, and Shining Armor nodded, and shared a snicker with his wife. “You see, since Chaos Dyson Sphere has the original Dyson Sphere as an overlay unit, I can now detach two other overlay units, and now… you’ll lose 800 life points for each.”

Mandy gasped, that was a total of 1600 points, but she only had 1200, and she knew her facedown card wouldn’t help her.

“Mandy!” cried Tami.

“She’ll lose the duel.” cried Sabrina.

“No, it can’t be!” I cried.

Suddenly, the monster stopped glowing and never fired its effect, much to the ponies, and Mandy’s confusion.

“What happened?” snapped Cadance.

Her husband was furious and he shouted up at his monster to strike Mandy down, but nothing happened. “This is wrong!” he growled.

That’s when Tami grinned and said “No, it’s totally legit.” She then felt every eye gazing at her, even Mandy. “Remember the card you sent to my graveyard?” she spat at Cadance “It was a trap called BREAKTHROUGH SKILL! I didn’t activate it before because the timing didn’t seem right, but that didn’t matter much. All I had to do now was banish it from my graveyard, and your overgrown Sphere’s effects were canceled for this turn!”

The ponies gawked in shock and anger, but Mandy was totally speechless. “I would’ve lost the duel.” she thought to herself “She saved me, just like that.”

Tami then turned to gaze at Mandy.

“Humph! Well, I guess that was sort of cool.” She said with a hint of sarcasm in her voice, but Tami took it as the nicest thing she would get, and smiled.

Sabrina sighed in relief, and I closed my eyes, feeling very thankful the girls were alright. “Thank goodness Tami did that. Mandy may not have been very courteous, but Tami knew right to protect her. Now this duel should start to turn around.”

Shining Amor had no choice but to end his turn.

“My move now…” Tami said as she drew her card and liked it. “Now I’m going to totally keep that monster on the fritz, thanks to this card; FORCED RELEASE! Now that overgrown ball of yours loses all its overlay units.”

The ponies gazed up in shock as the remaining units on their monster vanished, and one of them went to Tami’s graveyard.

Mandy was really impressed deep down, but she did her best not to let it show.

“Now that that’s settled, I’ll play MONSTER REBORN, to get that monster back; MADOLCHE QUEEN TIARAMISU!”

“But I’m not through just, because I have one other monster to play, and I can play it by overlaying just my Queen.”

The ponies couldn’t understand it.

“What is she doing?” Cadance muttered.

“With my Madolche Queen, I build the overlay network. I summon MADOLCHE PUDDINGESS CHOCO A LA MODE!”

(Atk: 2500) ---> (Atk: 3000)


The ponies had forgotten the Chateau card powered up Tami’s monster, and it suddenly became obvious to them that Tami wasn’t going to go after the Dyson Sphere; especially when she glared furiously at Cadance.

She shuddered nervously, and Tami snapped her finger and shouted “Go get her!”

“Cadance!” cried Shining Armor, as the monster dove straight at his wife, striking her hard and knocking her off her feet.

SCORE:

Cadance: 1000 & Shining Armor: 4000

VS

Mandy: 1200 & Tami: 1900


“No!” cried Shining Armor “Cadance… are you alright!”

His wife slowly got back onto her feet and retook her post. “I’m alright, darling. Love makes us strong remember.” She angrily glared at Tami promising to pay her back for that last attack.

Tami just scoffed and said “And like what can you do about it?”

“Just watch me!” Cadance snarled as she drew her next card, and then she laughed “Excellent!” then she gazed up at the girls. Remember this card; CHANGE OF HEART!”

Mandy and Tami were really growing annoyed; the way the ponies just kept passing their one monster back and forth with one another.

Now that Cadance had control of the sphere again, she was ready to put her plan into action. “Prepare yourselves ladies, and witness the full power of our love!” as she shouted she and her husband seemed to glow brightly before everyone, not by the astral marks, but by a force virtually indescribable by many.

“What’s going on?” snapped Mandy.

Sabrina and I gazed forth in awe

“Mykan, do you see…?”

“I see it, but I don’t think I believe it.” I said, it was possible the magic force we were seeing was a result of the deep love that Shining Armor and Cadance felt for one another, but still, I couldn’t let myself believe this was real… not the way these two troublemakers were behaving.

Mandy then suddenly went straight into disbelief. “All right, I’ve like totally had just about enough with these lamo light shows, and all this preach about lovey dovey mush. If you have a move to make, make it already!”

The ponies angrily sneered at her for that outburst.

“Let them have it.” Shining Armor said.

His wife agreed and slammed her card down hard “I now use the spell OVERLAY CAPTURE! Now my monster can take your monster’s overlay unit as its own, as well as have this card equip to it as well as an additional unit.”

Tami growled angrily, and then Cadance ordered the Sphere to attack, and her Madolche. Neither of the girls were able to stop it, and Tami’s monster was struck hard.

(Atk: 3600) Vs (Atk: 3000)

SCORE:

Cadance: 1000 & Shining Armor: 4000

VS

Mandy: 1200 & Tami: 1300


“And don’t forget my monster’s ability.” said Cadance “Instead of destroying your monster; it changes it into an overlay unit, giving me three in total. You know what happens then, don’t you…”

Tami shuddered nervously.

“That’s right, for each overlay unit my monster has, I can sap 300 life points.” Then she quickly and sharply gazed at Mandy “…And I choose you!”

“Ah!” Mandy gasped, and before she or anyone else could react, she got struck hard by the Sphere’s massive beam, and lost 900 points instantly.

SCORE:

Cadance: 1000 & Shining Armor: 4000

VS

Mandy: 300 & Tami: 1300



“Excellent shot, Cadance.” exclaimed Shining Armor. Then he spoke severely to Mandy “Perhaps that will teach you to shout at us and berate our love!”

Mandy was absolutely furious “You little pests! You’re going to pay for that!”

Cadance laughed “Oh, please! Look at the both of you; you have neither a strategy nor a power that can save you from the power of our love.”

“That’s right…” hissed Shining Armor “On my next turn, I promise you both this much, you’re both going to get wiped out, for good!”

When Cadance’s turn ended, Shining Armor regained control of the Sphere.

Tami felt nervous. For the first time ever, she was completely out of options and had not a clue of how they could win.

Sabrina and I noticed this, and didn’t want her to lose her confidence, before either of us could say anything; we heard the sound of Mandy laughing, which got louder and more mockingly.

“And just what are you laughing about?” asked Cadance.

Mandy gazed at the two ponies and said “Just how incredibly pathetic you both are.”

The ponies were confused, and felt insulted.

“We’re not!” thundered Shining Armor.

“You are…” protested Mandy “Just look at how you’ve been dueling. I admit it’s only slightly impressive, but all you’ve been doing is passing the same card around multiple times and protecting each other. Well it looks to me like you’ve both used up all your tricks.”

The ponies hated to secretly admit she was right, as neither one of them had a single card left in their holsters, and no set cards either.

“And as much as I hate to admit this; Mykan was right about you; what you’re dueling with isn’t love at all, but rather stupidity, because the real secret to winning a duel isn’t love but rather skill and strategy, as well as playing your cards right… and the first and foremost thing every good duelist knows is: Never rely on a single monster!”

The ponies were growing impatient.

“Enough of your stalling!” snarled Cadance “My husband and I have a duel to win, and then we’re taking you all on a journey into the Light of Harmony.”

“The only journey you’ll be taking is straight into Loservile!” Mandy sneered, and she drew her card “Ah, just what I needed, MONSTER REBORN, and I’ll use it to bring back one of my Blue Eyes!”

Sure enough, Mandy’s Blue Eyes appeared alongside her other one.

“Now, watch closely, because I’m going to overlay both my dragons to build the overlay network!”

Mandy’s two dragons soared up high and vanished in the swirling vortex, and in a flash of bright lightning, a new dragon had appeared “I summon forth THUNDER END DRAGON!”

(Atk: 3000)


The huge electrified dragon stomped its huge foot, spread out its wings and roared angrily, as sparks of lightning and electricity emitted all around it.

“For all the good that did you.” snapped Shining Armor “That dragon may be huge, but it’s no match for my Chaos Dyson Sphere.”

Mandy grinned wickedly “You are like so totally pathetic, I’m surprised you even know which way is up.”

Shining Armor gnashed his teeth and felt like he was going explode in a rage, but it was Cadance who spoke up for him “I’m warning you; insult me or my husband one more time…”

“Save it!” Mandy cut in “Your husband is about to learn a golden saying; “Love is Blind!”

Shining Armor still didn’t understand.

“I activate Thunder End Dragon’s ability!” shouted Mandy “By using an overlay unit, I can destroy every other monster that’s in play.”

The ponies gasped, and the dragon flew up really high, and unleashed a huge wave of electrical energy, incinerating Tami’s Mewfeuille, and destroying the Dyson Sphere in an explosion so massive, everyone, even Mandy covered their eyes.

Sabrina held onto my tight, burying her face in my chest as I held her close.

When all had quieted down, Shining Armor opened his eyes to see not only was his Sphere gone, but Thunder End Dragon was standing right before him in a threatening manner.

“Shining Armor!” shouted Cadance. There was nothing she or he could do at all, much to Mandy’s delight.

“So much for your love.” She mocked, and then ordered her dragon to attack, and Shining Armor got blasted so hard he was knocked several feet away from his duel post, as well as losing 3000 points.

SCORE:

Cadance: 1000 & Shining Armor: 1000

VS

Mandy: 300 & Tami: 1300



“My love!!” shrieked Cadance.

Shining Armor struggled slowly back to his post, but he was more angry than hurt, but before he could say anything, Mandy held out her hand, and then pointed down at her facedown card. “Since you two are married, shouldn’t there be a ring…?”

Then her card revealed.

“It’s the RING OF DESTRUCTION!” I cried out.

“But if Mandy uses that…!” Sabrina cried…

Already, the Ring attached itself to Mandy’s dragon.

“What are you doing?” Shining Armor demanded to know.

“I’m going to use this card to destroy my Thunder End Dragon, and then you and I will both take damage equal to his attack power!”

The ponies gasped, and Tami was horrified. “No, don’t do it!” she cried.

Mandy gazed at her “Look kid, it has to be done, and you’ll learn why.” Then she gazed back at the ponies “As for you two, well, being experts on love, you should know it comes in sacrifice.”

She raised her fingers…

The ponies’ eyes widened in fear…

“Now!” shouted Mandy, and the ring exploded, taking her dragon with it, and blasted both her and Shining Amor right to the ground.

SCORE:

Cadance: 1000 & Shining Armor: “0000”

VS

Mandy: “0000” & Tami: 1300


“NO!!” Cadance and Tami both screamed.

Mandy was knocked unconscious by the force of the blast, while Shining Armor lay exhausted on the ground, and very weak from the force of the explosion.

“Shining Armor…!” Cadance cried with tears coming to her eyes.

“I… failed you… my love.” he groaned, and then he passed out, and vanished; back to Equestria.

“No, don’t leave me!” she cried, but he was already gone.

As for Tami, she now could see; Mandy was using tough love to teach her, and it actually did help. Though Mandy was now out of the duel, because she took out Shining Armor, it meant the turn was skipped right to Tami.

Cadance turned back to gaze at her and realized she was completely wide open. All Tami needed was one good monster.

She drew her card, and gazed back at Cadance. “I summon MADOLCHE MARMALMAIDE, and remember, the Chateau gives her 500 extra attack points.”

(Atk: 800) ---> (Atk: 1300)


“No!!” cried Cadance.

“Time to end this… once and for all…! Attack…!”

The monster charged straight at Cadance, and gave her nothing more than a simple smack to her cheek, cutting out the rest of her life points.

FINAL-SCORE:

Cadance: “0000” & Shining Armor: “0000”

VS

Mandy: “0000” & Tami: 1300


“She did it!” cried Sabrina.

I nodded proudly “I knew she could. She and Mandy did it together.”

Unfortunately, Mandy awoke, and because she was still knocked out of the duel, the Astral Force took over her, and the mark appeared on her head.

“Mandy.” cried Tami “Are you okay?”

She still couldn’t understand much about the astral mark, but she didn’t like it when Mandy starting chanting to the light of harmony, and joined Cadance’s vast army of brainwashed victims.

“It looks like you’re friend has finally seen the light…” hissed Cadance “Just like you’re about to.”

“No way…! I won, so get lost!” snapped Tami.

“I agree!” I shouted “You and your husband both lost, and we had a deal.”

“Sorry, but that deal was broken when you sent my husband back to Equestria. Now, I’m going to make you all pay!”

“You… double-crosser!” snarled Sabrina, but Cadance took no notice and prepared to fire her magic from her astral mark…

“No, I won’t allow this!” I sneered angrily, and I began to concentrate hard, and the Millennium Symbol appeared on my head again as my ancient powers came to life.

“You are all mine!” shouted Cadance as she fired her power, but my magic deflected her blast right back at her, knocking her down.

She was far too fatigued form her duel, which gave me the full edge I needed, especially after the stunt she just tried to pull.

The army of infected people tried to rush us, but were suddenly sucked up by a huge vacuum…

We all gazed up and could see a WOOHP jet hovering overhead, and Clover, Lee and Marc waving to us. “Sorry we missed the party.” Lee called to us, and we watched as he and the other used the WOOHP suction pump to send all the infected people right back into the stadium, where they’d be locked in again.

Megan and Tony were among them. “You can’t do this to us!” they wailed as they got tossed around in the suction winds.

“Sorry, guys. It’s for your own good.” Marc said.

(Since I hate Cadance so much, I want to picture what happens next like what happens in this vid, between 16:55 to 18:02)



Now, Cadance was all alone, and I was extremely furious with her.

-She and her kind were brainwashing humans
-The world was about to end because of them
-Her and Shining Armor’s treachery on the island and hurting our students.
-She tried to double cross our solemn deal

…She had it coming to her, and I was going to give it to her.

I began to walk over to her threateningly.

“You stay back!” she snarled “I’m Princess Celestia’s favorite niece. If you hurt me, she’ll catch up with you… she’ll punish you! She’ll punish all of you!”

She tried to make a run for it, but she ran right into an alley way near the dumpsters, too tired to fly out, and I was still approaching her.

I raised my hand and fired two magical blasts at her. One knocked off her crown, and the other knocking off her necklace.

Then I lunged straight at her, shoving her hard against the wall.

I punched her hard across the face, and then rammed her twice in her gut.

She tried to ram at me, but I swerved out of the way, grabbing her by the horn, and I gave her a huge shove to the ground. Then jumped on top of her ready to deliver what could have been a huge finisher blow…

“Mykan stop!” Sabrina shouted, having finally caught up to us. I gazed up at my wife as she softly told me “That’s enough. Don’t do it.”

The symbol on my head vanished as I felt a deep shame coursing through me for what I had just done and what I almost could have done! I angrily gazed down at the beaten pony and sneered very deeply at her “I considered myself a rational human-being. No matter how angry I got! No matter how incredibly enraged enemies have made me, I have never taken another life in anger. Even when they deserved it, no matter how much I wanted to… I never… ever would kill.”

I paused deeply and moved in closer sneered at her deeper than ever “You almost made me forget that; Almost!”

Cadance never looked more fearful than ever, and in a bright flash of light, she finally vanished.

“Celestia…!” I hissed softly.

The spies and Tami approached the alley. “Okay, what did we miss?” Clover asked.

Sabrina said nothing and approached me calmly. I was still shaken from what I had just done, practically almost near tears of shame.

My wife held me softly. “It’s okay. She’s gone.”

“I’m so sorry…” I cried softly “Sabrina I’m so sorry, I don’t know what came over me.”

“Shh, you’re only human, dear. Just relax.” She held me close, stroking me softly, and pecked my head, and I felt really upset.

“Okay, I don’t know what to feel right now, but this mondo-bizzaro.” said Tami.

The spies ignored her, and then they told me what Twilight had told me and how the world was being invaded worse than ever.

“We and the remaining people on this island are all that’s left.” said Marc. “I don’t know what to do.”

We all looked up at the sky. The Crystal Heart designed light had already vanished leaving only the shadowy light left. The moon was so incredibly close to the Early, it was gigantic in the sky, and everything was as bright as the day now.

In less than two more hours, it would reach the threshold, and we’d all be doomed.

As much as Tami still didn’t understand much of this. She was really starting to panic, and grabbed onto Lee. “I don’t want the world to end. We haven’t even had one single date yet!”

“Tami… you’re choking me…” cried Lee.

I clenched my fist, feeling my strength returning. I finally realized what we had to do. “We have to go.” I said “…to Equestria.”

The others slowly began to agree. It was time to take the battle right to the heart of where all this started to begin with.

“Princess Celestia is the one behind all this this.” said Marc “If we beat her, it’s all over.”

“Agreed.” said Sabrina “…We go.”

Tami was still confused, but didn’t say a thing. No one did.

Author's Notes:

*Beat up Candance in a fic*

Oh... oh yeah... that felt good! So good!

But don't don't any of you get the wrong idea about me. She's a fictional character who I really hate. In real life, I wouldn't act like this.

-I am not sexist towards real women
-I don't wish them beat up
-And I don't think women are weak.
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trilljacker6534's avatar
Another great chapter and I like how you shown how he feels doing this whole predicament.