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The Fifth Sign

Who: Anyone who wants to participate
What: The zapapple harvest!
Where: Ponyville, Sweet Apple Acres, the orchard where the Zapapple trees are growing
When: Afternoon
Warnings: None yet.

A lightning storm crackles over the orchard, lighting the sky with electricity for minutes on end. Only when it fades does a rainbow arch across the sky. As if by magic - and it may well be - the gray apples on the trees suddenly grow to three times their size and gain rainbow stripes. It looks like the zapapples are ripe and ready for picking. There's buckets and barrels in the barn - best get started before the sun goes down and they disappear.

As for that howling in the distance...well, surely it's nothing.

[Anyone can join; this plot is friendly for combatants and non-combatants alike; no tag order; further instructions as events warrant. Have fun!]

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The first thing Edge did was go for his swords. That was why he fell flat on his face, since the forelegs that had no actual way to grab his swords also couldn't support him when he was attempting to use them for that purpose. Quickly, he took to the air, pleased with his own reflexes as a pony.

How was he going to deal with this? He couldn't fight them -- well, he supposed he could attack them hand to hand, or hoof to... branch, whatever, but the idea really didn't sell itself. He couldn't use ninjutsu without finger motions, either, so that was out. How was he supposed to fight as a pegasus!?

...As a pegasus.

Edge shot up to the low-lying clouds, grabbed one, then hauled it back down into the paths of the oncoming timber wolves. As soon as they were in range, he nodded to himself, mentally reviewed Luna's instructions... then kicked the cloud right in the sweet spot, sending lightning forking down at their attackers.

Another timberwolf came running up from the side, although this one looked slightly different from the rest, with more white-colored bark in its sides and blue markings painted on its face. Ammy was ready to fight off anything that came in trying to hurt people, especially Nightmares. She was attracted by the sudden bursts of lightning, though...that could prove either troublesome, or very useful.

She already knew that it was pointless to try talking to Nightmares, but maybe these wolves native to this land could be reasoned with. She skidded to a halt before the trees, with her Cyber Yog close behind and eager to get fighting. She barked at the fellow timberwolves: Stop! These things aren't yours! Why are you attacking people?

And if that didn't work...well, she had her own tricks up her sleeve.

Wait, was that wolf on their side? (Edge didn't recognize Ammy in this form...) "Hey! Look out, they're gonna attack! They're clearly corrupted or -- or something!"

Luckily for Edge, she was. But unluckily for Ammy, it didn't look like these Timberwolves heard her...or else they didn't care. Maybe they were corrupted by something. Either way, that meant they had to do things the hard way.

Ammy barked that Chu could go ahead, and the Cyber Yog immediately leapt into battle, charging through the oncoming timberwolves and knocking them to pieces with his horns. Ammy decided to keep her distance...she knew that one wrong hit could send her to pieces, and that'd leave her Spirits and Edge vulnerable. She did ready her tundra beads should anything get close enough to her range, and set up her brush once she was certain she could get a line of them at once...

Yep, definitely on their side. "Go for it!" he shouted -- not to Ammy, but to the nearest tree, where his Hebby Repp had been wrestling some apples out of the branches. The Spirit hopped down, then aggressively charged into the fray as well.

Edge, for his part, dropped onto the cloud long enough to draw Masamune with his teeth. "This is not right," he muttered around the hilt as he lifted the blade up, tapping into its hidden power. Deep magic emerged from the blade to coalesce around Ammy in a Haste spell.

While Chu was doing his best to ram into any and every Timberwolf that came his way, there were still some that managed to get through him. Ammy remained where she was, already ready to fight, when she felt some degree of strange magic envelop her. She wasn't sure what it was at first, but it definitely made her feel quicker!

She stopped time for herself, painted a power slash across a line of three approaching Timberwolves, and then resumed time with her ink practically back to full. The power slash cut the wolves in half, and they collapsed into broken piles of sticks and bark. That would take some time to put back together!

...what just happened?

Edge paused with a hoof raised mid-stomp, trying to puzzle out the sequence of events. Three of them had just practically exploded for some reason! He squinted down at the friendly one, still confused.

Oh well. Foes down were foes down. Edge leaped off the cloud, flying low over the piles of former timber wolf to swiftly kick them in different directions, the better to keep them from reforming.

Ammy was trying to work out her next target when she saw Edge stalling. She barked at him: hey, this was no time to keep still, they had to keep on their toes! Or...hooves, in his case. Chu also charged in to kick and stomp the pieces of wood away, but then bleated back a warning to Ammy. There were Nightmares coming this way, too!

Still feeling extra-fast, Ammy decided she'd deal with those before they got any closer. Seeing some Juggle Pups and Kyroos approaching them first, she paused time once again and painted a line of ice from her tundra beads to the enemies. Once time resumed, several of them froze into blocks of ice...it wouldn't last forever, but it was enough time for others to take them out while they were incapacitated.

"Somewhere along the line, I really lost track of what's going on," Edge muttered as he shoved Masamune back in its sheath. He wasn't about to try fighting with his sword, that HAD to be rough on the gums. Instead, he launched himself at the frozen Nightmares rear-legs first, smashing into them with powerful kicks aided by his wings.

Ammy didn't blame Edge for not wanting to fight with a sword in his mouth...there was a reason she wore her swords on her back. It seemed like it'd get real cumbersome and difficult to breathe.

That, and Chu's continued kicks should help take care of those Nightmares! There were a couple of quick ones that managed to get through, though. For these, Ammy flipped her string of tundra beads like a whip, catching the Nightmares across their fronts. A few were knocked off their feet by the attacks, while a couple suffered freezer burns, slowing them down further.

...he's getting outshone by a magic, bead-flipping timber wolf. This was not the proudest day of his life.

Time to whip out some big guns! Edge flipped up into the air, and from his cape flipped out a pair of shuriken with a dramatic toss of his foreleg. With pinpoint accuracy, the shuriken punched through the bodies of a pair of the downed Nightmares, dissipating them. From his superior aerial position, he continued to flick out the surprisingly-vicious throwing weapons into their opponents, confident and determined all at once.

Ammy didn't much care about any competition between magic (or in this case divine intervention) and fighting. As long as they were getting the job done, she was happy! And Edge definitely was with those moves. At least the shuriken were a weapon she recognized.

She continued to throw out her Tundra Beads where necessary, but one Juggle Pup managed to get through and toss its enormous dice her direction. She tried to strike it with her bead whip and knock it away, but little seemed to be stopping it.

Ammy knew that she wouldn't be able to stop that thing in time...and if it hit her, she'd go completely to pieces! So she had one more answer to that: she pulled up her canvas again, and painted Veil of Mist. Once she put away her canvas, a circle of strange purple mist spread out from her point of contact, causing all of the enemies -Nightmares, Timberwolves, die and all- to suddenly be in extreme slow-motion.

Edge didn't care about being the best either, so long as he wasn't being handily defeated by a magic pile of sticks for the title. Especially since this timber wolf seemed to have an insanely diverse bag of tricks!

But even with the mist, he could see the danger in that charging die, so he did what any pony would do -- he dropped to the ground between it at her, planted his forelegs, and bucked it with all the strength he had in his haunches. The result wasn't spectacular, because it was still moving in slow-motion, but it reversed course nonetheless, languidly bouncing back towards its thrower.

Ammy scurried out of the way, only to find Edge intercept and kick the die backwards while time was still slowed. She barked back her thanks. That one was close!

The slow-motion didn't last more than five seconds, and time soon resumed to its normal speed. Once it did, the die hit the Juggle Pup head-on, completely flattening it.

How many more of these things were left? No matter, they had to keep going! She again swung her tundra beads at an Iceguin that came too close. The ice properties wouldn't do too much against it, but those beads would still hurt.

Edge leaped back up to his cloud, yanking up one side with his forehooves as he stomped on it. More bolts of lightning flashed out, blasting through the swarming pack of foes, and he made a mental note to thank Luna for the teaching. This wasn't ninjutsu, but it got the job done!

"You holding up down there okay?!"

On Ammy's side, she kept using her tundra beads to knock back anything that came too close. She looked out for Chu, since she'd lost sight of him...and yes, he was still going strong. But once that Spirit got going, it was near impossible to stop him, anyway.

When Edge summoned up lightning bolts from his cloud, Ammy decided she'd 'borrow' some of those. She paused time just as the lightning struck, and painted a lint from the lightning to any enemies that looked like they wouldn't be in its path. Once she put away her canvas, another jolt of lightning branched out from the first one to blast a further group of unlucky Nightmares.

She barked up towards him: yes, she was okay!

What.

"Oh come on, why am I even IN this fight?"

Though growing increasingly disillusioned with his own power as a pony relative to the wolf's, nevertheless he recognized opportunity when he saw it. "Can you do that more?" he called down, pushing the cloud towards the ground with a pump of his wings. "A couple more like that one and I think the victory is ours!"

Ammy barked back once again: yes, she could! He would have to supply the lightning, though. While she could make her own, it was a lot less precise and more unwieldly than grabbing it from a source, and she didn't want to risk something like zapping one of the apple trees or Chu. Even if the Cyber Yog could probably take it.

She waited until he did, and again grabbed an extra stream of lightning to strike where the Nightmares and Timberwolves wouldn't expect it. It at least looked like the Timberwolves weren't reforming quickly, with Chu still scattering the branches.

"All right, I think we've got this!" Edge crowed triumphantly, bashing the cloud with his hooves again to send still more lightning out and racing through the rapidly-dwindling horde. "Whatever lured them here, they're going to regret ever wanting it!"

Ammy barked back with agreement. They'd show these enemies a thing or two...or more like a thing or ten!

Ammy again grabbed and redirected some lightning whenever Edge used his thundercloud. Anything else that somehow managed to get close enough she whipped into submission with her beads. Before long, the dust began to settle from their rapid attacks, and it looks like the hordes of both Nightmares and Timberwolves had either been eradicated or sufficiently scattered.

Edge flopped onto the cloud, limbs splayed as he caught his breath. "Oh, wow. I don't think I've seen a horde like that -- ever, since I've been here!"

Ammy shook out her head, scattering a few leaves, as Chu came running back to her side. He had obviously worked hard, and he deserved a reward for that. Ammy pulled out a rare royal cake that she'd saved up her munny for, and set it down for him. The Cyber Yog happily dug into his treat, knowing he'd earned it.

She let out a sigh of relief, too. She hadn't seen that many at one time in awhile, either! They must really like those apples, or something.

Whoa. That was a big cake. Edge looked at in surprise for a moment before he turned back to Ammy, now convinced that she had just ended up in the timber wolf form by coincidence, but still having failed to put all the pieces together. "Thanks for the help!" he said, despite the fact that she'd done most of the work. "I think we can call this an unqualified victory! Any figments in the pile you've got your eye on?"

Ammy wagged her tail back at Edge. She was just glad that they'd been able to defend the orchards okay! This definitely was a victory for both of them.

Ammy gave a bit of a shrug. If Edge wanted to get certain pieces first, he was welcome to go and look before she did. She fought a lot, and so had a lot of extra figments lying around.

Edge kept busy too, make no mistake, but you always grabbed more in case you needed them -- or at least you could sell them to the Moogles. As he waded in, though, he came to a halt after scooping up just a hoofful.

"Hey, look at this one!" He pointed to a much larger fragment -- was that a Fancy, or maybe even a Fantasy? Edge hadn't seen either before!

The Fifth Sign

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