HOME | DD
NCMares — Hop In the Ring, They Said...
#fim #mlp #ring #ropes #wrestling #scootaloo #diamondtiara #ncmares #mylittlepony #friendshipismagic
Published: 2015-07-15 04:24:49 +0000 UTC; Views: 38498; Favourites: 1350; Downloads: 730
Redirect to original
Description
It's a lot of fun, they said...--
Settling differences via wrestling! Isn't that cute?
The MLP sub reddit's hosting a bunch of fellows from the wrestling reddit, so I thought this'd be a fun one. 
Oh, and Scoot's wrestling name is totally El Pollo Loco. Props to Egoswickz for that one.
Patreon || Tumblr
Related content
Comments: 236
This...this is BEAUTIFUL! Absolutely perfectly done to show a startlingly perfect tableau of action captured in situ...I just don't have enough words to describe how gorgeous a piece of art this is!
👍: 1 ⏩: 0
Hello! I would like to use this as a cover image for my round-robin fanfic, with reference to you as its creator.
If you don't want me to use it, feel free to give me a call.
👍: 1 ⏩: 0
I bet you regret this after Diamond's song, don't ya?
👍: 1 ⏩: 0
Any chance of a 16:9 version for Wallpaper use?
👍: 1 ⏩: 0
I guess Scootaloo is Sans and Diamond tiara is Chara
👍: 2 ⏩: 1
And then she jumps out of the way! No contest!
By the way, the name "El Pollo Loco" was already copyrighted to South Park.
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
Before "Crusaders of the Lost Mark" ->
After "Crusaders of the Lost Mark" ->
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
Diamond Tiara, "I GIVE UP! I GIVE UP! I GIVE UP! I GIVE UP!"
👍: 1 ⏩: 1
Sorry, it's a no-submission, first blood match!
"For fillies??"
"Hey, griffons do this with their hatchlings all the time, ya pony dweeb."
👍: 2 ⏩: 0
There was the sound of a bell, and an earth-pony announcer with a microphone for a cutie mark stepped onto the ring, the surface of the shades he wore with a nice tuxedo glimmering under the outdoor stadium lights.
"Good afternoon, mares and gentlecolts! And welcome to Equestria's fifth annual junior-wrestling competition! Here in Ponyville!" He announced with an impressionable voice, which, even amplified by his headphone and speakers in the arena, is still drowned out by the roaring cheers of an enthusiastic audience nearly thousands strong, "Over the course of the next few weeks, hundreds of prospective fillies and colts from around the land will participate in many, many matches, all to prove themselves the better junior wrestler! Winner takes all, all for the final grand prize of 100,000 bits! All for the glory of holding the grand golden trophy in Manehatten stadium at the end of the final round! All for the chance to be Equestria's National Junior Wrestling Champion!"
"For our first match today, we have two contestants ready to slug it out, both of them from Ponyville." He continued as two fillies stepped into the ring. The headlights lit up on the one to his left, to whom he whirls to point his hoof towards, "Here in one corner; she is young, but she is full of energy! A lightweight, but she seek to prove she has the strength to succeed! She hasn't flew yet, but she aims to soar! Let's hear it for the orange crusader of Ponyville: Scootaloo!"
Scootaloo waved as the crowds cheered. Her eyes narrowed as she tried to pick out a familiar face from the masses, but as she expected, she could only see Babs Seed, with her parents, holding up a banner with her face along with her Manehattan Cutie Mark Crusaders third row from the top. Applebloom and Sweetie Belle would had been cheering too, but they were doing last minute training and preparations for their own matches, against Snips and Snails respectively.
A real pity, considering who she would be facing this match, they would had forfeited, if only so they could see her pummel the sneer off that filly's face. She'll have to remember to ask Applebloom's Uncle Orange for a copy of the photos he's taking to give to her friends.
"And in the other corner: she's rich, she's notorious; her name is known in all of Ponyville! She's a heavy-weight who aims to steal the show! She demands respect, and when this match is over, she wants all Equestria to know she's the best junior wrestler there is!" The announcer point his hoof towards the the corner opposite Scootaloo, to the sound of a rolling drum, "Please welcome, the crown jewel of the Rich family, Diamond Tiara!"
Diamond Tiara threw off the fabulous gem cloak as the stadium lights shone onto her, tossing it and her namesake crown to her butler as she swaggered into the center of the ring, still holding that superior pose, still wearing that smug expression she always wore, looking as if she has already won. There was still cheering, but not as much as there was for Scootaloo; the audience were already starting to see Scootaloo as the underdog and root for her. The only pony who's truly cheering for Diamond with enthusiasm was her father (Who's in a front row premium seat) and a small group of ponies behind him (Who are all his employees), waving a few flags and banners with wooden smiles on their faces.
And then there was a group of fillies from Ponyville, who know Diamond Tiara for the spoiled, arrogant, cruel little brat she truly is, and doing what comes natural to them, which is jeering with everything they got.
"Boo!" "You stink!" "Get out of the ring, daddy's girl!" "Don't ya usually let your butler do all the dirty work?"
"Ah, can it, you pathetic low-life losers!" Diamond Tiara screeched back at them like a harpy, which doesn't endear her to the other ponies, whether from Ponyville or other places. She turned to face Scootaloo, the two fillies circling each other, sizing each other up. Her expression turning from merely smug to utter contempt, "Ready to have your blank flank pummeled flat?" She sneered.
"You should be more concerned about me running rings around YOUR precious over-sized flank!" Scootaloo taunted back.
Diamond Tiara's face morphed to a visage of pure rage, showing a glimpse of the hateful, rotten and twisted creature she truly is inside. "Oh, you're going to regret saying that!" She said through gritted teeth.
Neither the crowd nor the announcer noticed the banter between the two. "Well then, mares and gentlecolts! Are you ready?!" the announcer asked aloud, to which responded a chorus of cheering.
"Are You Ready?!" He asked again, louder, and the cheering climb to a thundering crescendo from the stomp of over a thousand eager hooves, the neighs, screams and shouts of over a thousand mouths, all as one clamoring for the match to begin.
"THEN LET'S GET READY TO RUMBLE!"
The bell was rung, and with each a battle-cry, the two fillies, opposing wrestlers, mortal enemies, leaped towards one another.
= = =
The announcer continued narrating from the table outside the ring with a heated, gripping voice, watching as the match unfolded.
"It seems Diamond Tiara has Scootaloo in a headlock! Will the 'Orange Crusader' be able to break out, or will the 'Crown Jewel''s diamond-hard grip be her undoing?"
Then his question was answered, and the audience burst into applause.
"Scootaloo elbowed Diamond Tiara in the stomach to loosen her grip, before she twisted her body and squeezed her way out! What a fantastic save!"
= = =
"Pile-driver! PILE-DRIVER!" The audience chanted, with Babs and her friends practically jumping with glee, as Scootaloo heaved Diamond Tiara up with her forehooves, then dumped her on her head to the ground with an audible 'Hi-yah!'
"Oooh! That's gotta hurt! Has 'Crown Jewel' been tarnished by Scootaloo's powerful strike?"
Diamond Tiara took less time to recover than the orange pegasus anticipated, and got back on her hooves, snarling at Scootaloo.
"She's gone back up! Looks like that only just pissed her off! What's this? She's running forward - OH! Hip-check in the face!"
= = =
"Round 5, and both fillies look worse for wear, but far from planning to go down!" The announcer commented at the spectacle, "Scootaloo is using her superior speed to dodge Diamond Tiara's attempts to grapple with her up close and personal, while looking for an opening to knock Diamond off-balance. But will she avoid having Diamond bring her superior strength to bare in time to deliver the blows?"
Scootaloo got unlucky, tripped and nearly stumbled. Diamond Tiara saw an opening and took it. She surged forward, catching the orange pegasus in a hug. As Scootaloo struggle and squirmed, Diamond spun around, and with all her strength, tossed her opponent and sent her flying. Diamond's father was whopping at the sight.
In that moment of transition, though, Scootaloo saw where she was going, and saw a golden opportunity.
"The 'Crown Jewel' has whipped the 'Orange Crusader' towards the edge of the ring! Will she be thrown out?" Many of the ponies, Babs Seed included, held their collective breaths for the moment. Then, "Wait, she has hit the ropes! No, she's using her momentum and her wings to pull the ropes back as much as she could! She's going for a rebound!"
Scootaloo was smirking, tongue stuck out as she fluttered her wings with all her might to stretch the ropes to the limit. Diamond Tiara stared incredulously; that throw was supposed to launch that blank-flank out of the ring! Shocked, she was too stumped to even move, standing still like a hedgehog caught in the headlights of a train, even as her father shouted for her to get out of the way of what's coming.
Then, Scootaloo stopped pulling back, and let the ropes do their work.
"Scootaloo's rocketing forward! And - Sweet Celestia's golden regalia! Drop-kick to the chest!" Then he saw it wasn't finished, "Diamond Tiara's been launched towards the ropes herself, and she's rebounding back! But, what is Scootaloo doing? She's galloping forward - !" There was an audible smack, " - She's caught Diamond Tiara mid air with a lariat and slammed her into the mat!" Then, "Scootaloo's climbing the turnbuckle! Does this means - !" Then, there was a very loud 'WHAM!'. The announcer stared in gobsmacked silence for a second, and then, "A PHOENIX SPLASH! What a finisher!"
Babs leaped up from her seat and cheered, followed by nearly everypony in the audience.
👍: 2 ⏩: 4
And Princess Twilight is in horror as she watches Equestrian civilization plunge headfirst into the fiery pit. XD
"Are we ponies or Diamond Dogs?"
👍: 1 ⏩: 2
And that comment gets Twilight painted as a racist (speciesist?) in the tabloids.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
"We dunno about you, Princess Prissy, but WE'RE on the side of the Diamond Dogs!" Several ponies yelled as their heroine, female Diamond Dog Ruby the Wrecker, powerbombed she-minotaur Cowgirl Jenny Valentine right off the ring apron and through a table.
👍: 1 ⏩: 1
And cue audience fight!
👍: 1 ⏩: 1
(OOC: Which I have seen happen at a few live house events. You do not want to be anywhere near the ring when that happens!)
"Rotten Diamond Dog broad!" Minotaurs in the audience rose up, snorting and tossing their horned heads in bovine rage. Bellows filled the air and some ponies began hurrying off to find a better spot to watch from. "Rotten ponies! Jenny was cheated!"
Twilight hoped to say something to calm them down, but before she could even open her mouth a pack of Diamond Dogs wearing KICK SOME COW TAIL RUBY shirts stood up and yelled back.
"Stupid horn-heads go back to dairy! Fight Diamond Dogs, we make you into hamburger!"
And with those words Minotaurs and Diamond Dogs alike began to brawl along ringside.
👍: 1 ⏩: 0
"Oh relax, Twilight, it's just wrestling." Rainbow Dash reassured as an unconscious and utterly battered Diamond Tiara, faced down in a stretcher, is removed by medics with a concerned Filthy Rich behind her, "It's not like we're restarting gladiator fights of the Classical Era or anything."
👍: 2 ⏩: 1
(Hey, the only thing missing is the soundtrack from that Star Trek episode where Spock battles Kirk, huh?)
"I know," a midnight blue-coated, suspiciously familiar unicorn said nearby. The disguised (at her sisters request, to save the dignity of the Throne) Princess Luna added, "We've yet to start fights with the wrestlers versus Everfree monsters. Though I understand that the gentle Fluttershy knows some of them."
Twilight winced. "Gah! This is brutal and inequine? Whatever happened to ponies settling their problems with love, and kindness, and..."
And a chair hurled by a rowdy mark* on the opposite side of the ring knocked poor Twi for a loop.
* -- Mark, a wrestling fan. 'Smart Mark' or 'smark' is a wrestling fan who follows the shows (and argues about them) the way some baseball or soccer fans follow their home teams and players.
👍: 1 ⏩: 0
Silver Spoon finished looking over the story. "Wait, am I not cheering for Diamond Tiara in this?"
👍: 2 ⏩: 2
You might want to take a look at some of the recent horrors I mean additions.
👍: 1 ⏩: 0
If I were to write a continuation, she would be one of the contestants from Ponyville in the junior wrestling competition, going by the wrestling name 'Silver Knight'. Her first match would be facing off say... Twist or Sweetie Belle, where it would be shown that she's actually VERY good at wrestling, lasting till the finals where she faces off against one of the CMCs for the golden trophy.
... You know, this just gives me an idea, for something like your "Ponies and Dragons" chain-stories, where MLP characters participate in combat sports, or at least just sports. 'MLP Combat Sports'. The only constant characters would be the Announcer, perhaps an additional Referee, while the sports and participant in question can change for each entry.
We missed out the Equestrian Games itself due to that event being replaced by a Spike episode, so why not...?
👍: 3 ⏩: 1
If Silver's dad is still ex-Royal Guard, maybe he trained her in hoof-boxing and catch wrestling.
👍: 1 ⏩: 1
"Scootaloo!"
Scootaloo jerked awake to see Cheerilee looming over her, her mouth a thin line. "Are you done with your nap?"
"Um, yes?" The class snickered. Scootaloo felt her face turn red.
"See me after class, Scootaloo," said Cheerilee, turning back to the chalkboard. "We'll discuss this then."
Scootaloo sank into her chair. Across the room, she could see a smirking Diamond Tiara whispering something to Silver Spoon while glancing over in Scootaloo's direction.
Scootaloo sighed and thought of her dream. If only...
👍: 1 ⏩: 2
Sorry Scootaloo, but you're too young to play wrestler yet (And knowing DT, she'll simply hire the burliest, meanest filly in Equestria to wrestle in her stead).
Then again, if she wants to learn wrestling so bad, Scootaloo could ask Cheerilee and/or her sister to help her out...
👍: 1 ⏩: 1
"Soooooo, Miss Cheerilee, do you know anything about wrestling?"
"Get back to washing the chalkboard, Scootaloo."
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
"Hii sister!"
" . . . Shouldn't you be getting drunk with Berry Punch?"
👍: 1 ⏩: 1
"I am not a drunk! I just like to be a little aggressive! By the way, how's it going with that big stallion you've been seeing?"
"Let me out of this hoof-lock!"
"Not until you tell-lll!"
👍: 1 ⏩: 0
She could still learn wrestling from Cheerilee and her sister, assuming the IDW comic is canon.
👍: 1 ⏩: 1
I'd pay good money to see that..
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
Thanks!
It would be better the fillies in the pic are in costume and masked.
Wonder how the other matches would go...
👍: 1 ⏩: 2
Yeah, I love this one!
By the way, did you ever read a story of mine, 'Night at the Fights', where Princess Twilight discovers a little secret Fluttershy has?
👍: 1 ⏩: 1
Thanks. Feel free to write a continuation or something.
Now I do. Sounds interesting...
👍: 1 ⏩: 0
I'm guessing Snips and/or Snails either get curb-stomped, or at least one puts up a surprisingly good fight (much to the surprise of, well, EVERYPONY.) Say, Snails turns out to be oddly limber--kid's skinny as a rail and his legs are like noodles--and squirms out of every hold; dodges Applebloom's strikes?
Surprised Diamond didn't throw out some call-back to Scoots calling her flank fat after throwing the hip-check, though.
👍: 0 ⏩: 2
comments.deviantart.com/1/5464…
👍: 1 ⏩: 0
Well, I was intending to portray the fight primarily from the perspective of the crowd and the announcer.
With Snips and Snails, we could do both a curb-stomp and a surprisingly good fight; Snips ends up on the receiving end of a hilarious slapstick charade, while Snails put up a surprisingly good fight.
Of course, given her (now bruised) ego, Diamond Tiara isn't going to take her defeat in the first round face down. No, she is a filly who just HAS to win, even by proxy, so she does everything with her power to make sure Silver Spoon, the 'Silver Knight' of Ponyville Junior Wrestlers, wins all the way to the finals, assuming that Silver Spoon didn't prove surprisingly adept herself and winning every match on her own.
Even better, in turns out that, by some obscure loophole in the rules, she could join Silver Spoon as a partner for a double-team game even though she lost, and so allows them to face two of the Cutie Mark Crusaders together for the final match at Manehatten!
Think of all the ideas...
👍: 2 ⏩: 1
Or Diamond brings in a ringer for the final three-pony tag team bout -- fought Mexicolt rules, best two out of three falls and starting with Silver and Diamond versus Scootaloo; then Sweetie Belle comes in as well as DT and Spoony's team-mate; and lastly a full six-pony bout with Apple Bloom's entrance, at which point the falls and submissions actually start getting counted.
Oh, and did I mention that DT and Spoony's team-mate is not a pony, but a young she-dragon? (Or maybe just a midget wrestler she-dragon that's actually 30 years old.)
"Thet cain't be legal!"
"Hey, blank flank, no rule says that only ponies can fight in a match!"
Of course the Cutie Mark Crushers win, and then for the final bout -- a three-way dance with them fighting each other for the 100,000 bit prize purse!
"Mah family needs thet money for th' farm -- Scoot, Sweetie, sorry, but Ah just gotta win!"
"Big sis could do so much with those bits, he could make her business a success, I haveta do this for her!"
"Hey, I could buy Dash that original Wonderbolts uniform signed by every member of the team, current and retired, that's on E-bray! And I might even have something left over to buy Bloom and Sweetie some ice cream or something to apologize."
👍: 1 ⏩: 2
Wonder how the CMC would pull off a win against DT's hired muscle....
👍: 1 ⏩: 1
"Oh! And Savage Scales just tossed Bruiser Bloom into the ropes..."
Bloom winced but still managed to cling to the ropes. Savage Scales hissed as her attempted clothesline failed.
Why did we ever take those dumb names? Bloom looked up and saw DT's ringer coming at her as she clung to the ropes. She looked at the audience in despair. No sign of her big sis or anypony she knew, just the announcer table right below and...
One of them, a griffon, putting something that smelled almost painfully harsh on their hot dog.
Bloom dropped and let Scales, twice Spike's size and weight, grab her by the legs and start twisting one of her cannons* (rear leg of the horse).
"How do ya like that, ya brat?" Scales twisted harder and Bloom yelled as she reached for the bottle beside the griffon.
"Hah!" The griff shrieked in her face. "Look at her eyes! I love seeing ponies get torn limb from limb... Hey!" He grabbed at what she held. "Gimme back my bottle of Colt Cola!"
"Okay." Bloom shrugged and smashed the bottle over his head. It shattered. The griffon's eyes rolled up and he dropped with a groan, soda staining his feathers. "Wrong bottle anyhow. This's what I want."
She pulled the bottle of Sudden Death Hot Sauce (Not to be consumed by dragons, highly allergic!) close and sprayed it right into Savage Scale's nose.
The she-dragon's eyes shot wide as her pupils shrank to pinpoints. With a wild shriek she jumped up and away from Apple Bloom and began racing around the ring, clawing at her nose and screaming. "Helb! Helb! My mowf is on fire!"
Apple Bloom scrambled up the ropes and dove on her, sending Scales crashing to the mat. She somehow held the thrashing dragon down and waited for the ref to give the three-count.
And waited, and waited...
"Diamond, darn ya, stop distractin' the ref!"
👍: 1 ⏩: 1
(The jerk in the audience deserved getting a bottle to the head, though.)
👍: 1 ⏩: 1
| Next =>