Humani Victoria

Chapter 20- Forever with your Soul

"The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire."

                                                                                                   -Ferdinand Foch

Travelling At Several Hundred Kilometres An Hour, Although Still Within the Borders Of Equestria, Thursday, 2nd of October, 9:25am, 2205 AC

Light and colours sped by in a blur, moving too fast for Jason's eyes to lock onto anything. The only sensations Jason could feel was the wind whipping at his face and hair, and the disturbingly comfortable pressure of Discord wrapped around him. Despite his efforts Jason couldn't break free, he tried to slip out, draw his sword, or his knife, anything but he was held still by Discord's snake-like body.

As quickly as it came, the blurriness and wind stopped, Discord released Jason from his boa-like hold. Jason found himself in some sort of clearing, thick white fog obscured his vision about a kilometre in every direction making a sort of dome around the area. Jason turned to see The Lord of Chaos himself lounging on a plush red couch, looking at Jason with half lidded eyes and a lazy pose.

"Like what you see?" He said, Jason just looked at him with angry disgust and Discord cane back with an offended look.

"You only hate me because I'm multicoloured!" He exclaimed, snapping his fingers and making the couch disappear.

"What do you want with me?" Jason demanded, crossing his arms and taking a defiant pose, reserved to wait this situation out.

Discord chuckled darkly and started circling Jason like a hungry lion "Why so serious?" He asked "Come on, there must be other questions on your mind."

Jason frowned "...How did you get me here? Magic doesn't work on me, so how did we teleport?"

"Excellent question!" Discord exclaimed, popping up from the ground, he snapped his fingers and with two separate flashes, a blackboard appeared behind him and both thick glasses and a bushy white moustache appeared on his face.

"Now," Discord said, in a comically bad German accent "vhat really happened is zat ve actually did not teleport, or, in other words, destructive, exclusive, relocation and plantation or D.E.R.P for short. Rather, I utilized ze awesome power of semi-necrons to shift the crust, mantle, and core of ze planet under us as to not needing to directly use semi-necrotic energy to relocate both mine and your own atomic mass." As he spoke the blackboard filled itself with complicated diagrams and equations that supposedly explained what the spirit had just said.

"In simpler terms?" Jason said.

"Mmm," Discord mused, getting rid of his accessories and the blackboard with a snap of his fingers "for a Human you have a strange lack of an understanding of Magiphysics." Discord shook his head as if disappointed.

"For those who are not versed on the subject, I didn't move Jason, I simply moved everything else." Discord said, as if to a crowd.

"What? You... Moved everything else? That's.... Actually physically impossible." Jason said.

Discord teleported inches from Jason's face and booped him on the nose.

"It's impossible for something to be impossible!" He exclaimed, pressing his lion finger into the cartilage of Jason's nose.

"...Right," Jason said, swiping the finger from his nose "so, next question-"

"Ah-ah-ah-ah!" Discord said, waggling his finger "You already asked your question! It's my turn!"

Jason sighed, he considered simply taking on Discord with sword in hand but seeing the amount of power he possessed, not to mention intelligence, that would probably end badly for him. The only chance he had was to play along and hope Twilight and the rest could find the Elements and use them on Discord.

"Alright," Jason conceded "ask away."

"Well then, I have a very simple question," Discord leaned in close to Jason again, the Human could feel his hot breath on his face "how is a Human alive and well in this day and age, I do believe that your all suppose to be dead."

Jason almost answered but a thought occurred to him "Why so serious?" He said slowly "Surely there must be other questions on your mind."

Discord frowned and squinted at Jason, an angry gleam in his eye.

Yeah... I just sealed my death warrant.

"Well played" Discord admitted, leaning back from Jason. "Here is my question then, why are you so chummy with Tia and Lulu? Eh? You some sort of peace mover? Because last time I checked Humans and Alicorns couldn't sit in a room together without trying to forcibly remove each other's spleens."

It took Jason an embarrassing amount of time to figure out who 'Tia' and 'Lulu' were and an amazing amount of self-control not to laugh at the hilariously adorable nicknames, he would have to use those at some point.

After clearing his throat Jason responded "We've made peace with each other, I understand why they did what they did and I can't just blindly hate them for doing what they had to."

Discord looked at Jason with a confused face, one side all scrunched up, he remained like that for a minute or so before his ear, and the whole head, twitched like he was breaking out of a trance.

"Your weird..." He said, looking creeped out.

"My turn" Jason said quickly, trying to keep this game going as long as possible. "So, why did you choose now to return?"

"A very good question!" Discord exclaimed "And my answer is, I didn't!"

Jason blinked "Wait, what?" He asked.

"My turn!" Discord said "What's your name?"

"Uh, Jason," The Human responded.

"A pleasure to meet you Jason! Now what's your question?"

"What did you mean when you said you didn't?" Jason asked.

Discord looked confused "I didn't say 'you didn't' what are you talking about? I mean I said 'I didn't' but thats not the point we're making here."

Jason rubbed the spot above his eyebrow "Okay, what I meant was-"

"Oh no you don't!" Discord bellowed "Just because you asked a flawed question doesn't make it any less of a question! Now, it's my turn!"

Jason was about to object but Discord was on a roll "Now.... Mmmmm... Actually, I'm bored of this game."

Oh fuck me gently.

"So how about..." Discord snapped his fingers and suddenly he had six more arms on each side, but instead of hands, claws, or even a hoof, the arms each ended with a different weapon. Swords, rifles, chainsaws, rifles with chainsaws on them, flamethrower's, mini-nuke launchers, revolvers, odd glowing sticks, double bladed glowing transparent blades, shotguns, lightsabers, crossbows, and several other weapons that Jason couldn't identify all pointed themselves at him "You tell me how your here right now."

Jason gulped "I...uh... I don't know?"

Discord blinked and his arsenal lowered, only slightly "What?" He asked, a strangely broken tone.

Panicking slightly Jason stammered on "I don't know! I... I woke up in the Everfree a couple months ago! I have no idea how I got here!"

Discord's eye twitched and Jason's blood pressure spiked "That's..." Discord began "That's..." He was breathing heavily now, his eyes bulging hugely and the muzzle of a rifle was pointed directly at Jason's forehead "That's not fair!" Discord sobbed, his weapons fell away and disappeared into smoke.

"That's not fair!" Discord screamed "You were all dead! We killed you! All of you! And then you go around and come back! Celestia should at least of had the decency to kill you on the spot! But no! You get to come back from the dead and remind us all of the worst years of our lives!" Discord's gaze switched back to Jason, the insane anger disturbingly present in his eyes.

A revolver appeared in Discord's claws "And I for one am not the nostalgic type." The revolver pointed at Jason.

"Wait!" Jason yelled in a panic "I didn't come back from the dead! I know that!"

Discord stayed his hand "What?"

Jason ran with it "I wasn't dead before I came here, I was alive, minding my own business, I came from the past, far in the past, before Alicorns."

The pistol disappeared from Discord's claws "But... That's... That's..."

"Not possible?" Jason suggested "You said it yourself, it's impossible for something to be impossible."

Discord huffed and turned around, he began pacing back and forth, upside down "How? Humans didn't have time travel... Did they? There was that one time... Then again I'm not sure that guy was Human, although he always wore really nice suits, but even then they wouldn't of had it before my time... Maybe Kronos was right?" Discord flipped right side up and glared up at the sky with his arms crossed.

"Some answers may be nice! You ungrateful swine!" He yelled to the clouds, incidentally nothing happened, at least from Jason's perspective. Discord on the other has was consumed by... Shivers? More like wiggles actually, his entire body was consumed by wiggles that made him look like he was made of jell-o.

The movement stopped and Discord looked confused again "What? Where..." The Spirits eyes suddenly alighted on something, something being the key word here as Jason followed Discord's gaze and saw nothing but the grass and dirt.

"Mmm, interesting," Discord mused. "Ah yes, of course, I see, I guess that makes sense yes."

Jason looked back at Discord, who was still in his little world. He stayed like that for another moment before looking at Jason and giving him a knowing smile, this one somehow both genuine and menacing.

"You are an interesting one," Discord said, snaking closer to Jason and peering at him as if he were an artifact "and I wonder, how in the world will you, if at all, be victorious?" Discord laughed, loudly and psychotically. Jason felt a knot of fear settle in his stomach as he came to a stumbling reality that he was at the complete mercy of a cosmically powerful madman.

"Tell me, Old One," Discord said silkily, floating upside down again "Why do you forgive Celestia for her crimes?"

Jason hesitated, the question pulled forth a different one: Do I forgive Celestia?, he asked himself, and in response a bubbling force of anger, spite, and even hate came to surface in his gut, all of which mixed in with a disturbing desire to enact revenge. Jason felt dirtied, disgusting, he was no better then the blood-thirsty Humans that Celestia had been taught to believe in, pathetic, weak, but it wasn't his fault, no, it was hers, Celestia, she was to blame, that blasted Alicorn scum...

Wait, what?

Jason stumbled, his vision blurred in and out of focus, his head felt like it was made out of lead. The sensation felt disturbingly familiar, and the image of a dark, dimly lit, cave and a cackling canine torturer readying his whip for another lash.

Jason shook his head, he clutched his stomach and doubled over as his breakfast bubbled up in this throat. The vomit came dribbling out of his mouth in a steady stream, Jason gasped for breath before he hurled again, fully this time, his stomach being emptied of every but of its contents.

Jason managed to raise his head and focus on Discord who stood there with a joyously superior grin on his face.

"What have you done to me?" Jason moaned, Discord laughed heartily at the Human before him.

"It seems many a theory are being proven today," Discord sighed longingly "if only I could do some experiments on you, I bet they would all love that, especially Hecate, oh the fun we had..."

Jason growled as he lurched again, only bile coming this time that scalded his throat raw. Discord came close again, smiling in Jason's face.

"You know not the pain you will suffer, but, I can help relive it... If you wish," Discord said. "You will face much hardship, loose so much, but that can be avoided if you just step aside, allow me to take Equestria for my own and you and I can live happily ever after in Chaosville! We can even invite all your little Pony friends!"

Jason glared up at the demon before him, he felt anger flare again. But this anger felt natural, it felt good, and was against Discord. Quicker than the demon could move Jason drew his combat knife and swiped it across Discord's forehead, opening a shallow cut. Discord jerked back with a roar of pain and stumbled onto the ground, he held a claw up to his forehead but blood was already leaking from the cut, golden blood.

Jason looked at his knife and saw the same golden blood splattered upon it "Ichor..." He heard Discord mumble.

"...The blood of the gods," Jason finished, his eyes widening slightly "the blood of Alicorns." He concluded, looking at Discord who looked back and began flickering, as if he was an image on film, the flickering quickened until Discord's mismatched body was replaced by that of an Alicorn.

Dispono was silver coloured, his mane more grey and his chin clean-shaven, his horn was long and blunt, and his eyes were the same scarlet irises as Discord's had been. Jason stared at the Alicorn for a moment, trying to think of a plan, he did, he didn't like it, but it was the only plan he had.

"You know..." Jason began "You said it yourself." Jason sheathed his knife "Humans and Alicorns can't sit in a room together without trying to forcibly remove each other's spleens." Jason slowly drew his sword and pointed it at Dispono "and I'm not one for breaking tradition."

Dispono glared at him and got to his hooves, his horn glowed with silver energy and the ground to his right split open, a large rock slowly rose out of the ground, embedded with the rock was a glowing blue longsword. Dispono grabbed the sword handle with his magic and pulled it out of the rock with a metallic Shhiiinnng!.

Dispono pointed the blade at Jason, it was at least a meter and a half long, glowing a bright blue with intricate runes encrusted on the sides. The hilt and crosspiece were golden and encrusted with rubies, the entire sword gleamed with both magical and natural light, Jason felt very inferior with his small pigsticker of an iron sword.

Dispono charged, his sword swinging back for a strike. Jason barely had time to raise his own blade to block the blow, the two swords met and Jason's knees buckled under the weight of the blow, almost loosing his footing entirely. He saw Dispono grit his teeth and shove Jason's sword to the side with his own, leaving his chest exposed, Dispono quickly spun and bucked Jason hard in the stomach.

The blow sent Jason flying, he landed three meters away. He felt like hurling again but there was nothing left in his stomach, only the pain from Dispono's blow. Through his blurry vision Jason saw the Alicorn charging towards him, sword raised again, Jason threw himself to the side just and the blade chopped down at him. Jason regained his footing, albeit uneasily, and swung his blade in a weak blow at the Alicorn who blocked it easily, pushing Jason's blade to the ground and then slashing his blade across the Human's chest.

Jason stumbled back, hot blood seeped from the wound and through his shirt, his vision swam more than a school of fish and his head filled with helium. Jason struggled to stay upright, and failed, he fell to his knees pathetically and looked up at his Alicorn for.

Dispono looked down at him with a sick, satisfied look "So much for the strength of Humanity," he said "I think it is time the world forgot about the past, the New Gods are doing just fine without our old enemies still drawing breath."

The point of Dispono's blade came down, Jason moved his sword onto his chest and blocked the blow. Dispono growled and continued to rain blows down on Jason, who continued to block them with his sword. Fleetingly, Jason considered just letting one of those blows take him, but he couldn't let this madman harm his friends.

Apparently, Jason wouldn't have a choice in that matter, as Dispono threw a vicious blow down on Jason sword that snapped the blade in half.

Makers Fire, I'm going to fucking kill you.

Dispono raised his sword again and Jason quickly pushed the broken sword pieces off of him, as the Alicorn's blade came slicing down Jason twisted to the side but not far enough, the blade cut deep into his upper arm. Blood squirted from the wound like a fountain but Jason barely felt it, adrenaline and dopamine were pumping through his veins like prime gasoline. As Dispono raised his blade again Jason reached behind his back and drew his combat knife once again, quickly he drew a sloppy slash across Dispono's cheek and into his ear.

The Alicorn screamed in pain and stumbled back, more Ichor flowed from the fresh wound.

Dispono looked at Jason in pure hatred "Enough of this," he growled, his horn glowing bright.

The ground around Jason shook violently and a hole opened up under Jason, swallowing him. The ground pressed in around Jason's arms and he felt a bone crack, he screamed in pain as the earth slowly crushed him. Through blurry and red vision Jason could see Dispono approaching his slowly, his sword was discarded and he was slowly beginning to flicker, faster and faster until the Alicorn faded away leaving the mad form of Discord in its place.

Discord approached Jason casually and plucked him out of the ground by the scruff of his neck, like a lost kitten and raised him up to examine. Jason was loosing blood and consciousness quickly but he still just managed to focus in on the demon.

Discord didn't say anything, he just snapped his fingers and Jason felt wind whipping at his hair, only for a moment, before the scenery revealed them to be in Ponyville.

Sort of.

Many of the houses now floated in the air and slowly rotated, the sky had taken on a soft pink colour, strange otherworldly creatures ran or floated in different directions and chocolate-raining cotton candy clouds dominated the lower air.

"Oooh, what do we have here?" Discord mused.

Jason forced his eyelids open, Twilight was there, as were the rest. They looked healthy, bright, and aware.

"Discord!" He heard Twilight call "release Jason and surrender, or we will be forced to use the Elements on you!"

Jason saw them now, the Elements, they sparkled and glowed with pure energy, Discord didn't seem impressed.

"Oooooh, it's funny how you think your going to win, go ahead, take your best shot." With a swipe of his arm a circle target appeared on his body.

"Come on girls let's do this," Twilight said and the six of them made a half-circle, the Elements began glowing brightly, the six mares raised of the ground and suddenly a giant rainbow shot forth towards Discord and Jason.

Time seemed to slow, Jason saw Discord look at him, a hint if fear in his mad eyes. Then he smiled.

Discord held Jason in front of him.

And the Elements struck.