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The tides of battle had ebbed and flowed, with Thorax having been removed to the side, dealing with unknown issues of his own. However, another causality for the changelings had turned the tide against them. Even more, Pharynx and his squad had come together to thwart off the windigos who had rendered most of Chrysalis’s forces immobile or gravely injured. With the heroes gaining the advantage, Rainbow offered her assistance, but in a moment of desperation, Thorax wagered to turn the newest causality of his swarm into a fatality if Rainbow Dash and Spitfire did not surrender themselves.

New lines were drawn, and the stakes were raised. Another changeling, Vertex, had broken his elegance to his Queen to join sides with Rainbow Dash for a chance to save his mortally injured brother Malpaghian, who Thorax held as leverage.

That settled things for Rainbow, and she saw fit to lead the charge.

“Take’em down!”

Both sides charged at each other, and despite Rainbow’s sickly state, her superior speed still put her ahead of the trio, where she met with Thorax first.

Tat-Tat-Tat-Tat-Tat-Tat-Tat!

In rapid succession, Rainbow unleashed a series of punches over Thorax’s neck and chest, pushing him back but not taking him down.

Barely a second behind, Spitfire met with Anetenn, who leaped high with his hooves out to tackle her to the ground. Spitfire, faster on her hooves than Anetenn could adjust in the air, fanned her wings out with their pitch to the ground, making her body slump low and out of his reach. Just as quick, as if to loop in flight, she changed the pitch of her wings, crouched, and jumped with her forehooves extended.

Crunch!

Both hooves hit Anetenn in the ribs as he passed overhead, knocking the air out of his lungs and him off his projected path.

“Guh!” He grunted, folding up in the air before tumbling down into the dirty snow.

Spitfire wasted no time, spinning herself back around and darting back toward her opponent. She could see him holding his chest with one hoof, the other trying to push himself up while his wings began to flutter to bring him up to flight.

“Oh, no you don’t!”

Crack!

With no flight-worthy wings of her own, Spitfire delivered a left hook to Anetenn’s jaw, spinning him back down to the ground where she immediately took mount over his tender ribs. Under her right rear leg, she had his left foreleg pinned while Anetenn’s right was up and batting wildly at her face as she groaned, wheezed, and hissed.

“Knock it off!” She screamed, finally catching his free foreleg under hers before dropping hammer blows to his face. “You wanted this fight! Take it!”

At the same time, Vertex and Frons seemed dead even in their traded throwing blows that nearly knocked one another away or dodged one advance or the next.

“Come on!” Vertex shouted, egging on his rival. “All those times I scouted for you! You never learned to fight!”

Behind all six, Chrysalis watched, grinding her teeth at how her underlings were fairing.

“Anetenn! You worthless insect! Get up! Frons! Stop flying around and do something! And Thorax! Rainbow Dash is sick and flightless! Destroy her already!”

Still going hard in the fight, Rainbow continued her pummeling Thorax. Body blows with punches, quick kicks to his sides and shoulders. Every hit landed with precision, the force she’d practiced for years, yet none of them took off his hooves or knocked him away like a normal changeling.

“You’re going down!” Rainbow cried out, throwing powerful punch into a rising blur of blue magic rising up around Thorax.

Shin! Thunk…

“Need some help there, Rainbow Dash?” Thorax asked, now holding Rainbow’s hoof in a large five-fingered-like paw. “Maybe another lift?”

Next>>3355477

So, I found out that there are a lot of issues when trying to get these perspectives. Not just what I needed for Rainbow Dash in this point of view, but the ground itself. Even harder was getting the damn yeti foreleg and paw. I would say hand, but depending on the shot those creatures are in, it’s a cat paw, a gorilla hand, a human hand, clawed… fucking something else. Damn animators couldn’t keep it straight, so I did the best I could to keep it as functional as I needed for what was needed.

Also, I didn’t say it in the previous picture, but editing wings to look damaged is pain in the ass.