[IC] Equestrian Radio Show's Adventure Variety Hour: Explorers of STOMP

CoffeeHorse

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"Are you okay Mr. Wanderlust? we could use your help with these Hooligans." Maple asks. looking him over a little more closely


Wanderlust groans, and mutters something about guardian angels. A little more coherent for Maple's help, he responds, "Just...gimme a minute. I'm looking for the tag-out option..."


Maple gives him a hoof bump and Jumps back into the fight... taking up a back row position to keep herself between Wander and the enemy


Static grins back at Maple. "What took you so long?" he asks in an obviously not serious, playful manner.


"I don't have to cheat by using counterfeit unicorn magic" Maple huffs back, equally playful and non-seriously

 

CoffeeHorse

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Misty lifts Symphony onto the roof of the boxcar. "Alright! C'mon, we gotta help the others! Let's go!"

[Note: this post was edited to have Misty carry Night Cap as well.]
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Using his momentum to swing himself around, Scarlet saw the gangs if fillies attacking Wanderlust and... Static?

How did...?

Shaking off thoughts for later, Scarlet launched himself into the fray! Cannoning into one of the fillies fighting Static, Scarlet snagged with his lasso and yanked the unfortunate pony of her feet. Sending her slamming into one of the fillies who seemed intent on pummelling Wanderlust into the floor. Then he lept forward to dish out a few choice strikes of his own to the (hopefully) disoriented ponys.

"You think i'll wait my turn while you pummell my friends? You will deal with me now!"


One of the fillies ran up to to Maplejack but then stopped. "D'aww, how adorable! Like...like a foal! Or...like a puppy! Oh, I know, like a..." "Cut the chatter and prioritize! One of them is down and another is adorable, so we can wait for heavy reinforcements on them since they'll be less of an issue. So now it comes down to the simple determination of which of the other two you think we can deal with the easiest." "Don't you think we should maybe deal with the easy targets first? And how will the reinforcements know who to deal with?" "Quit asking so many...alright, anypony got a marker?" A filly drew a big 'X' on Scarlet Spectrum's face. The others then focused on pummeling him. Then, a few more rushed in to the train car and joined the attack!

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Finally done feeling sorry for himself, Wanderlust accepts that there is no tag-out option. This is the life he's stuck in. At least there were violent young children for him to vent at. As the fillies rushed away from him to attack Scarlet, he snags one of their legs with one of his own. "You know, I never actually took the Hippocratic oath." he comments to Maple. "There just never seemed like the time. One minute you're treating dragon pox, the next you're delivering a clutch of eggs, and then you're carted off across Celestia only know how many miles, and the next thing you know, you're on a train getting beaten up by teenagers. In this particular instance I'm a little glad that I didn't, honestly." As he talks, he levers himself up on his hind legs, using the other two to flip the filly into two of her comrades like a table. "No matter how far you travel, vows have a tendency of catching up to you."

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Static turns his glare to the one who's giving out the orders. "You sure give a lot of orders, don't you? Guess that means you're the leader of this little gang then? Hello, new target! Static would almost feel bad about beating up on a juvenile. But let's face it, they are delinquents and they aren't exactly giving them much of a choice. So he dives in at the leader with reckless abandon.

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Scarlet jumped back as one of the fillies lunged at him with a marker.

"What the...!"

Before he could say--or do--anything else, Scarlet was swarmed by the workers, much as Wanderlust has been seconds before. Taking the pounding with growls and gritted teeth, Scarlet decided to play up their attacks and attempt to lull them. Building his strength for a high speed countersttack!

But as the hits kept coming, Scarlets act became, well, less of an act.

Welp. Better me than anypony else.

 

CoffeeHorse

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Zam, Sunbeam, GSO

with another of her friends taking a group beating, maple sneaks into the pack of tiny stompers and starts applying items from her medkit... the worker next to her drops a hoof on him, Maple puts a medicated bandage down on it... During this time Maple jabs one with a wild knee to the solar plexus before the mob breaks up and she has a chance to run back over to Wanderlust and give him another little bit of aid


Misty Monsoon, Symphony, and Night Cap managed to reach the train car with their friends just as they all heard a thunderous sound approaching. Throwing open the train car door was a pink earth pony mare with a pale pink mane with a turquoise streak. She had a tulip tucked behind each ear and with her cutie mark being a tulip surrounded by dizzy stars--the same Rhapsody once found on several business cards--it was immediately apparent that this was none other than Tipsy Tulip! However, there was something else immediately apparent. The train cars were so tall and wide because Tipsy Tulip herself stood at a height eve! n taller than Princess Celestia. Wasting no time, she charged in and body checked Static Signal. She blocked his attack and only his own steely bracing prevented him from being bowled over. Looming over him, she down upon him and said while grinning, "Now now, dearie. It would behoove you to pick on somepony your own size." One of the workers tried to rush in and assist but she disapprovingly said, "What are you doing? Do you not see this beautiful machinery he's carrying? I'll handle this. You, remember that X marks the spot." So the rest continued to focus on Scarlet Spectrum, save for the one struggling to barely escape Wanderlust's grasp.

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Static takes a couple steps back as Tipsy Tulip joins the fray...right between Worker 13 and Scarlet. [color=DFDF00]"Oww!"[/colorHe takes a deep breath as he squares off against Tipsy. [color=DFDF00]So, you're Tipsy Tulip: caused a bunch of Cuckarockas to riot on a town presentation in Caballuston, tried to bust into a bank in Petrichor Falls where a very dear friend of mine was thrown off a helicopter..."[/color A wide toothy menacing grin spreads across his face. [color=DFDF00]"Reckon I'm gonna enjoy this!"[/color

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Zam, Caldwin

"From what I'd heard, I didn't think she'd be such a shrimp." Maple Laughs


Wanderlust tsks at the pony that nearly slithers away. "You're not going anywhere." He informs them gravely.

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CoffeeHorse

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Scarlet weathered another round of beatings. However, just as he was about to counterattack, he saw the tall form of Tipsy Tulip enter the carriage and focus on Static. That changed his mind.

"So... You're the boss of these ne'er-do-wells, are you? Back off my friends!

Bursting free of the group of Worker ponies, Scarlet at the mare with the flowers in her mane and enveloped her a whirl red and blue spiral of hooves and wings and kicks and pain!


After arriving in the midst of the scuffle, Misty nearly goes crosseyed trying to figure out where to jump in and join the fray.

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Symphony looks around at the battle around her as she tries to figure out what to do. She takes a breath and starts to concentrate her magical aura around her, as her power grows lightning strikes out against her foes.

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As the workers continued to assault Scarlet Spectrum, Tipsy Tulip almost charmingly replied to Static Signal with, "You seem to be mistaking things ponies have done with my inventions with things I have done. If anything, stealing money sounds utterly uninteresting. I do wonder just what the results were with the cucarockas, though. Or perhaps what the machine on your back does. I mean, I've figured out the hull structure already but..." She was then interrupted by the attacks of Scarlet Spectrum and Symphony. Frowning, she said, "Hold that thought." She then strongly backhoofed Scarlet Spectrum across the room.

Maplejack realized that she hadn't been to this area before and she thought that she saw a bridge up ahead going across a large ravine and perhaps something approaching from the sky. However, this was interrupted by Scarlet Spectrum colliding into her and the inertia causing her to crash into Night Cap. Tipsy Tulip then charged Symphony, stopping just in front of her. Calmly placing a hoof over the tip of Symphony's horn, she scoldingly said,
"Watch where you point that thing. You just might hurt somepony."

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Symphony blinks and glares slightly as she feels a slight numbness in her horn. "Heh... Y-You really think you're so big and bad?" She asks with a slight giggle. "You're nothing..." She giggles again. "L-Last time I faced... faced a mare made of lava. Now that... that was scary... You? You're just a pompous jerk that needs to be knocked down a peg or two. And if there's one thing that... that my family is good at... its knocking!" She says with another giggle and a soft grin. It was rare that she felt confident, but after her power up she certainly felt empowered and already knew what she was going to do this ego trip on four legs.

She closes her eyes as her horn glows. "Really... y-you should be the one watching where she points something... B-Because I'm sure this is still gonna hurt you m-more then me..." She says as she shoots off a powerful blast of fire from her horn, while Tipsy is standing right in front of her. Symphony huffs for a moment, looking like that attack drained her but after a moment she focuses her magic once again and looks revitalized. "And I... I can keep knocking for... for as long as it takes!"

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Static intercepted the backhoof intended for Scarlet. "Eyes right here, mule!" Then Symphony lands her attack. "Makes it easier for her to do that," he says with a grin. "You're doing your sister proud, Sym! Keep it up!" He then returned his attention to Tipsy. "What happened with the cuckarockas I'm sure is a matter of public record. I don't think I'll tell you though, just because you want me to. As for my equipment, you can have it over my cold dead body!"

Electricity starts to crawl over Static's body. He's getting more and more pumped the angrier he gets. And Tipsy is making him really angry. Maples taunt to Tipsy helped him focus that energy into one single punch, which he was more than happy to deliver straight to Tipsy's smug little face!

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Zam, GSO, Fnu

Maple groans after the collision, fortunately, the close contact -surprising though it was, allows her the chance to dispense some good feelings back into her teammates. "Ouchy, that's not the most fun way to get back into a fight... I think there's a bridge up ahead of us." Maple adds the last bit shaking a tiny bit of concussed-ness out of her mind.


"Here I coooooome...!"

A blue blur launches itself into the remaining worker fillies, bopping noses, feather-poking eyes, tripping hooves, and generally causing an unruly ruckus. "Ha-hah! That'll teach you to mess with my teammates!"

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Having successfully defeated a single grunt, Wanderlust looks up to see Symphony blasting Tipsy Tulip, and monologuing besides. He feels...strangely proud.

As Night Cap sails past him, he's also highly appreciative of Tipsy's technique. He charges forward, planting his shoulder into on of her goons and launching them into Tipsy like a projectile.

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CoffeeHorse

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As Scarlet fle through the air (and not under his own power), he wondered why he didn't hurt more. Then he collided with someone tiny.

Oh ponyfeathers, it was Maple!

However, before he could say anything, he felt a slight tingling and a burst of fresh energy. Leaping up and readying to charge back at Tipsy Tulip, `scarlet saw he friends laying down some major Damage and changed his plans.

"Time to thin the herd.

Lets get them!"


Shooting into a blue blur himself, Scarlet pinballed between three of the worker fillys and he didn't pull his punches.

They hadn't.


A few attacks bounced off the helmet of one of the workers and they scampered off. All the others were knocked out. However, once Static Signal punched Tipsy Tulip, one of the two tulips behind her ears went flying. Once it hit the ground, it exploded into a massive cloud of suffocating pollen that left the STOMP team staggering and choking. Turning to Maplejack, Tipsy Tulip said, "There IS a bridge up ahead. Are you team lead? You seem to be the only one who is actually observant. I wonder if..."

However, she was interrupted by the sound of something crashing into the roof of the train. Suddenly, a group of burly ponies leaped into the windows, followed by two others. The first was a pale blue pegagus mare with a most fancy hat covered in many flowers and fruits. The other was a grey pegasus stallion with a curly mustache. He wore a silver top hat and a headband with a large pouch on it. However, the apparent weight of the pouch made it sag a bit so that it was like a pouch eyepatch. Static Signal and a few others recognized this as Strolls Choice and Silver Clouds of TAKE! The mare pointed at Tipsy Tulip and shouted in a heavy Mid-Equestrian accent, "Your past few inventions haven't helped us with any robberies. We demand a refund and whatever's in your safe!" Tipsy Tulip laughed as she rapidly scooped up her workers, "First, that sounds like user error. Second, you can't really be dumb enough to try to rob me on my own train. This has all been very entertaining but I have work to do. Just mingle among yourselves." When Tipsy Tulip said 'mingle', Silver Clouds did a double take as he finally spotted the STOMP team. "You! You were the start of our bad luck and now you're going to pay!" The Take ponies then attacked. Most with an assortment of blows, though two teamed up to suplex Maplejack. Strolls Choice briefly clapped her forehooves together, producing a metallic 'clink' from her horseshoes. She then struck Night Cap and Static Signal each in the chest. It didn't hurt, simply tingling a little, but it left a faintly glowing mark. While all this was going on, Tipsy Tulip galloped out of the train car.

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"Woah woah woah! Wait! Let's just all take a chill here for a second. You came here to fight Tipsy. We came here to fight Tipsy. Right now Tipsy is getting away and laughing her flank off at both of us. How about we both take care of her, then if you're still mad at us after that, we'll still be there and we can have it out then?"

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"ouuuuchhhy." Maple groans and sticks her hoof out and trips one of the ponies who had just finished hitting her... it doesn't do much, but it felt good.

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"Oh come on! Things were just looking up and you have to have a villains tiff!"

Focusing fully on the TAKE Pony striking at him. Scarlet retaliated in kind.

 

CoffeeHorse

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"Woah, woah, woah!" Wanderlust doesn't recognize any of their assailants, not that that's much of a change from prior moments. All he can do is snake out of the grip of his attacker and rush over to help Maple.

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Maple wasn't unconscious, but she was as close to it now as she ever had been when locked in a sleeper hold. But then her mind filled with the most foul smelling ....

"By Luna's lustrous whispy whithers... did some pony...?" Maple sputtered and snorted as she stood and opened her eyes, as if there was any hope in tartarous that she could un-smell that smell in this or the next lifetime. When the tears in her eyes cleared, Maple scowled at Mr. Wanderlust.

"Thanks, for the help... remind me to hug you next month when I've forgiven you." She couldn't keep the smirk off her face though, so she gave up and gave him a hug now anyway.

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"Hey you!" Maple yells to the pony she tripped a moment before... before leaving Wanderlust's side to rejoin the fight by tackling the take pony softly to the ground. After all, she'd thought she'd heard somepony trying to negotiate a ceasefire.


"What do you--" Wanderlust looks down at the balm in his hand. "Hey! This is my best recipe! I won a contest for this!"


Misty, caught in a coughing fit from Tipsy Tulip's pollen, is left defenseless against TAKE's assault... almost. She grabs her assailant by the hooves and holds them with a mighty grip. "Don't... *cough* go anywhere... *coughcough* until I can... *cough* breathe again!"

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Zam, GSO, Fnu, Me

Seeing her friends in trouble again by this new enemy Maple calls out. "We clobbered one group of evil no-good baddies today already, we can do it again!" the encouraging words of encouragement fill the most wounded members of the team with ...courage and a little more pep for their step.

 

CoffeeHorse

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Strolls Choice cringed in disgust when Night Cap touched her and shouted over to Silver Clouds, "Ew! Honey, this stallion hugged me!" Racing over, he shouted, "No one is allowed to hug her but me!" However, he stopped right before he punched Night Cap as he heard Static Signal's proposal. After coughing in reaction to the pollen, a smile slithered across his face and he said, "Ah, an attempt at negotiations I see. See, you and your merry band has succintly caused grievous monetary harm to my negotiation's ability to accrue our choice of income. Any sort of collaborative effort would require restitution with interest but I'm sure that ponies such as ourselves can work something out. That contraption you carry seems like it might be quite expensive, we'll take that in exchange for our services."

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"Why is everypony so interested in this contraption all of a sudden?" *sigh* "It's not even mine to sell, unfortunately. So I'm afraid that's completely off the table. We're also on the side of the law. So we're not exactly in the habit of giving restitution for wages lost in an illegal operation.

"What I'm offering is simple. We both want to take down Tipsy. Right now Tipsy is getting away. We can join forces and take her down together. You can take her on when your fresh and ready for a fight with us backing you up.

"We fight together and take down Tipsy, I'll let you decide what happens next. You can either cont! inue your fight with us, or...I'll be honest. I don't know you. If you were the ones behind the bank heist in Petrichor...that's between you and the police and Boss Vine. You haven't done anything illegal today (to my knowledge). I'm inclined to just let you walk.

"Or we can fight each other. Whoever wins our fight will be too bruised and battered to take on Tipsy. She'll get away laughing at the both of us.

"And that's what's on the table. Who do you reeeeeeally want to take down today, Tipsy or us?

"And if your answer's really us, like I said, we'll still be there after we take down Tipsy. So is it really that hard of a decision?"



Maple focuses her eyes onto the Take stallion who spoke last. "Would it make a difference to you if we withhold payment until after both parties fulfill their end of this contract?" As she speaks Maple watches for any and all unspoken reactions. "This equipment is currently necessary for us to complete our business here, but I see no reason why -in good faith, that we couldn't give it to you as payment when we are done with it." Maple Smiles, taking a cue from her visits to the Marketing department. "After all, you wouldn't want to acquire this device without seeing it function... or that it even does, we were just in 1 and a half fights it could be damaged. I'm sure you would rather we incur the cost of repairs while it is still in our possession. I personally would feel horrible if I were to give you fine ponies faulty equipment and cause the deal to go sour and only discover later that you were unsatisfied."

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Static gives Maple a sharp look. "This is Keep property and above both our paygrades!" He looks back to Strolls Choice. "What I may be able to do, in an effort to foster cooperation, is offer to talk my chief into letting one of your ponies see a copy of the blueprints?"


Wanderlust has no idea what's going on, but he's made his peace with that, and trusts the team leads to sort this out. More importantly, if Maple's well enough to wheel and deal, then she doesn't need Wanderlust's attention anymore. He turns his attention to Scarlet, who seems in similar state to him, and awkwardly sets a jar of bruise balm next to the pony Scarlet was grappling with.

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CoffeeHorse

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Silver Clouds pondered for a moment and then said, "You say she's running away but we are on her train. But indeed, we shall most certainly step aside and let you fine folks fight Tipsy. Please, be my guest."

Just then, Tipsy Tulip burst back into the room pushing a large cart of mechanical parts of different metallic colors and followed by two workers. Coming to a stop with parts spilling all over the place, she exuberantly announced, "Sorry to leave you waiting but I had to get a few things!" She began putting pieces together. "Inventing is such fun, even if I don't always know what the end result will be. But that's just how science goes. On that note..." She looked over to her workers and said,

"Quack."

The two workers reflexively ducked and covered as Tipsy Tulip pressed a button on the strange contraption. It began to spin like a top as gears and pulleys whirred to life. She then shoved it towards the STOMP team and it collided with Symphony. All the while, the TAKE ponies took up comfortable positions and enjoyed watching everything unfold.

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Static moans, "oh...bleep!" Oddly enough, that's not the radio show being censored. That's actually what he said, folks!

[spoilerCalamitous Pollen - 1 is heads 2 is tails.

Roll(1d2)+0:
2,+0
Total:2

Lose 1d6 Energy
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2,+0
Total:2

Take 1d6 Damage
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Total:1-5 armor Static takes no damage this turn

Save for Pollen

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Total:1
hug!

[0] Inventing! Standard Action (Conjuration)
Roll 1d4 and gain a corresponding effect...

Roll(1d4)+0:
1,+0
Total:1
What did I win, boss?

Energy=5-2=3
Life=88
Adrenaline=10
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Zam, Patch

Having been heeled some more by her Medical mentor and all around super handsomest Stallion buddy Night Cap, Maple's own internal changeling metabolism boosts the power of the doctoring and she feels a lot better. That is until Tipsy returns and spills some junk at her hooves... and also sends out that awful stuff again.

Sputtering Maple throws some of the parts together haphazardly hoping that with some sort of blind luck something good comes of it as she has no idea what any of these things are.

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As her previous target has slipped away in the confusion, Misty focuses her attention on the new threat posed by the chaotic contraption. But when she sees Maple fidgeting the widgets, she gets an idea. "How about adding a little hydraulic power?"

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"there are very few situations I can think of where I wouldn't love your help Misty... and this is not one of those times." Maple smiles from ear to ear and moves her contraption toward Misty... if there's going to be something made from whatever this thing she put together, Misty would know what to do with it.


Wanderlust was ready to write the cart off as a bomb and send it careening back at Tipsy, but the rest of the team seemed to have other plans, so he instead focuses on patching up Scarlet.

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