Chapter 10 #

Lucy opened her eyes to see Simmons and Spitfire nealing above her and the sound of battle in the back ground.

"Maria? That you?" Simmons asked as he helped her sit upright.

Groaning sheshook her head "Uhhh... No its still me "she said as she rubbed her neck "whats going on?"

Simmons frowned but told her "Rhe princesses and Celestia's student are trying to beat the Hellspider over there" he jerked a thumb toward the battle, Celestia were firing bolts of magic while Flare was cast torrents of fire. Nothing seemed to phase the monster as it moved towards them.

Looked both Simmons and Spitfire in the eyes she asked "Help me up"

"Red don't be stupid" Spitfire barated her "your in no condition to fight"

"And if I don't we're all dead" Lucy warned "Now help me up"

Spitfire and Simmons shared a reluctant look hut did as she asked, helping her get to her feet. She was unsteady at first but got her balance. Taking a deep breath she began to walk towards the battle "no matter what happens. Don't interfere"

Celestia saw Lucy coming towards them "No Red. We can deal with this monster"

Lucy shook her head "No you can't" she said as she drew closer "But I can"

"Red be resonable" Celestia exclaimed "you in no state to-"

*Celestia... don't* Maria warned the princess *This is personal* she said with a growl.

The Hellspider saw her and began to Laugh "Come for another beating Witch 9945 Hmmmm?"

Lucy gritted her teeth "you three had better move... this is about to get messy" the Hellspider luaghed again "And my name isnt Witch"

"And what is it hmmm Witch 9945?" The monster asked "Red?"

Lucy clenched her fists slightly as she felt her shadow begin to move "I told you" she growled as she felt her shadow started to fill the large gap between her fingers "My name is not Witch-" the shadows began to take shape and she gripped onto it tightly as they began to solidify "Nore is it Red-" The shadows finished taking shape and she felt her wounds and broken bones heal, the blood that her coverd began to dissaper. Taking the shadowy shape with both hands Lucy raied it above her head "my name... Is... LUCY SANTIAGO!"

Crying her name she brought the object down sending the shadows that coverd it towards the Hellspider, the shadows took the shape of a curvd blade that took the monster by surprise as they tore through one of its arms and sliced it clean off.

Standing before it was Lucy wealding a large black and grey scythe. The scythe had a solid smooth black wooden staff that ended with a massive curved black and blackish grey blade. The staff of the scythe was coverd with glowing Orange runes of Eqestrian nature and a few anchaint symbols too and the other end of the Staff ended with a spear tip like blade. Lucy spun and twerled the blade untill it was held in one hand behind her with the blade ready to strike.

The Hellspider was stund for a moment but the turned to tue infected behind it "kill her!"

The hoard roard as they charged at her, eager to please their master. Lucy mearly sighed and waited for the lead one to reach her.

*It looks scared now* Maria said making Lucy smile "It should be"

As the first infested arrived Lucy held the sythe behind her with the center of her arms and spun with such speed and force that she sliced the infected and the two behing it in half. Three more took their place and Lucy kicked the first and took the scythe with both hands and sliced the other two 's heads and arm off before choping the first straight down the middle.

16 infected surrounded her and was about to pounce hefore Lucy reached out for their shadows and brought them up like spikes squering them and throwing them at their on coming comrades. "Whats the matter Hellspawn?" She taunted with a grin as she brought another two infected to their untimly end with her scythe and squering another tgree "Scared?"

The Hellspider clicked its mantibles angrely as it watched Lucy massicur its hord

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Luna watched in shear awe of Red as she slew infected after infected.

"Sister?"

"Yes Luna?"

"You are seeing what I am seeing right?"

Celestia nodded without looking away from Red "Red has become the barer of the Shadow Scythe" Luna thought back to what she knew of the mysterios weapon, forged long before Her and her sister and even Discord's rule, the Shadow scythe had been wealed by hero and vilian alike. It had once be controled by Sombra when he killed its original master. While it usualy choises its master, Sombra used dark now forgoten magic to contrl the scythe and turn himself into a being of shadow and evil. After Twilight and her friends along with the help of Spike had defeated the dark king Celestia and Luna had destroyed the weapon fearing what would happen if its power was ever used for evil, or so they thought.

Silently they watched Red make short work of the Hoard.

Red was losing track of how many she had killed now and the bodies were pileing up before the Hellspider decided to take matters into it's own blades.

With a screech it rushed at her intending to catch her off guard. It had no such luck as Red brought the scythe up to defend herself and was puched back as it brought its single remaining blade down puting all its effort into pushon her back and breaking the scythe's seemingly wooden staff. The staff held fast and the Hellspider's blade didn't even make a dent in it.

With a burst of strength the Hellspider pushed her away making Red skid to a stop just out of its reach, unfazed Red dropped back into her ready stance and sprang at her advisary. Three infected got in the way but instead of focusing on them she tripped up the first with a shadow tenderal and sprang off it's back into the air (The celling was stupidly high alowing her to catch some seriose air) gathering the shadows above the lights to the head of her sythe she pointed it at the Hellspider and fired three streams of shadows like bolts of magic, two hit the infected blowing a hole in their cheasts and the third struck the Hellspiders face ripping off a large portion of it's cheak.

The thing laughed at this "Is that the best you've got?"

*Cuting off a Hellspawn's head dosnt do anything* Luna heard Maria say *its the limbs you got yo go for, cut then right off*

Red landed just infront of the Hellspider who tried to swip at her legs only for the woman to jump and land on the blade and use it to swing behind the Hellspider. With with few quick jabs with the spear end of her sythe into it's back, trying to agravete it enough to make mistakes and make a mistake it did as it had to widen it's stance to strike back at her slopply.

Red ducked and rolled to the side and chopped two of the thing's three left legs making it unbalanced. An Infected tried to sneak up on her but failed as Red spun her Scythe around her and chopped it clean in half and used what as left of it's corpse as a spring board to luanch herself towards the spider who was just getting his balance back just in time to block a strike at it's shoulder.

"Give up worm!" It roard as Red strafed to the left.

"I can't basterd" Red replyed with a quick jab in the side.

"Give up!" The Hellspider clumsly tried to kick her but met only air.

Red who had jumped over the kick used the said leg to jump onto the monster's back "I don't know how" she said as the thing tried to shake her off "Now be a good Hellspawn-" she began as she raised her scythe up high "AND GO TO HELL!" she brought the scythe down onto the cretures last arm and severd it off before leaping off and using the now doomed Hellspider's own shadow to sever its remaining Legs.

"NNNNOOOOOooooooooo" the thing's death cry was so high pitched that it could have shatterd glass if there had been any intact glass left in the room and as it died the Hellspider turned to ash. This was followed by every infected in a miles radius falling dead and turning to ash too.

Un beknown to everyone a puff of green smoke drifted out of Applejack's mouth and nostrials and dissapated as the last of the Infection left the apple farmers body entirely. Her eyes opend heavily "Uhhh... Wha Happend?" She looked around to see the state of th room and the last of the infected turn to ash "Woowee, wha did ah miss?"

Red fell to her knees as exhaustion over took her an as she dropped her scythe it turned back to shadows. Celestia and Luna rushed to her side to see if she was alright but she just wavd them off "I'm ok...just tired"

Celestia looked down seriosly "How did you summon the Shadow Scythe?" She asked "Me and Luna destroyed it a few years ago"

"Is that what its called? I just felt it in me and knew how to use it somehow" she shruged "you have any ideas Maria?"

*Not the fogiest, I say we should be glad that killing that Hellspider killed every infected in the area* Red agreed just as she saw something in the spot that she had dropped her sythe. It was a black smoth crystal, not a non see through kinda black but a kinda see through one. Red carfuly reached for the crystal in an almost trance like state, Red plucked the objet from the ground started to study it jus as Celestia and Luna saw it in her hands "Red..." Celestia began "What is that?" She asked

"I don't know" Red replyed as she turned the crystal in her fingers "but it feels femilure, almost like-" she never got to finish as the crystal suddnly burst into like knocking the two Princesses back and engulfing Red in it's light.

When the light subsided instead of one person, there was two. The first was obvilosly Maria with her hair returned to Red full red and eye brown. The other seemed to be a young girl alittle over 17, the girl had a pair of wolf ears and a wolf tail to match both had black fur and golden eyes, she wore the same SG uniform as Maria with holes cut in the trousers for her tail. Around her neck she wore a neckules, it was a black and red jem the shape of a rose held by a sliver chain. When both opened thier eyes they gasped as they saw each other "You've got your own body!" They exclaimed at the same time then they looked down at themselves "I've got my own body!". They helped each other up with the younger shying behing the older as everyone stared at them with surprise. The young girl Luna guesses was Red but as of why she was a young girl Luna was unsure.

Simmons walked up to the two with his hands clenched into fists "Is that her then? The Witch that was controling you all this time" he asked glaring daggers at Red who was shying further behind Maria.

Maria put herself between Simmons and Red "Backoff!" She said angrly "You put one finger on my little sister, I will personaly make sure your walk funny for the rest of your life" she warned making the man back up before everyone realised what Maria had just said.

"SISTER!" Everyone exclaimed.

Maria sighed "I guess we've got some explaining to do"

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Once they were seated the sisters began their tale. By the time Lucy and Maria finished everyone was silent as they digested this information.

"So let me get this straight" Spitfire said "She is your sister who died when she was born in this universe but lived in another universe but was then taken over by Witch so the Witch could take someone over in this universe when the Vorsoth invaded and you just happen to that she took over and when you were knocked out Lucy rememberd who she was and defeated the Witch inside both of you and then was able to summon a powerful waepon called the shadow sythe which apparenly the Princesses destroyed a long time ago?" The wonderbolt captain fainaly took a breath "am I right?

"Uhhhh... yea" Maria said confused of how the wonderbolt had managed to say all that without stopping to take a breath

"But why would a Witch need to take over someone just to take over another person?" Simmons asked "seems like allot of effort for something tat just sitts and crys all day"

"They needed more then on person the do what he Vorsoth needed them to do" Lucy said as she twidled with the chain of her neculess "The Vorsoth control the Witchs and through the Witchs... the Hord"

"So the Witchs needed a mental boost that they got from combining you two to contol the Hord" Solar Flare finished "facinating"

Celestia spoke next changing the subject "Lucy if it is no trouble, could you tell us about your wolf traits?" She asked "they are clearly not a normal human trait"

"Before I was born some messed up scientist thought it would be funny to released toxin into the water supply of my town" she explained "My mom and a couple other people drank the water before anyone realized what had happened, since mom was pregnant with me she was the only one affected"

Luna pieced it together "the toxin contained wolf dna?"

Lucy nodded "Among others... when I was born a few months later, I was born like this" she gestured her all of her.

"I guess other people didn't react well to you" Simmons guessed.

"I had to go see a phyciatrist every weekend" Lucy replyed dryly "and ended up intensive care more times then I can count"

Celestia nodded "we should leave. The infected are gone for now but they will be back and we have to get to Feather Weight and the others" she turned to Simmons "your group should acompany us to fort Novus. This base is not safe for you anymore"

The man nodded "Probobly best, we've got nothing here now" he got up "OK EVERYONE YOU HEARD THE PRINCESS, GRAB YOUR GEAR AND GET TOPSIDE TO THE MAKOS" he pointed at one man "Richards take Makensy and Rich and get the spare vehicel parts from storage!"

"Sir!"

Max and Liam head over to data storage and get as much data on the last day as you can. You've got 15 minutes"

The two groups sped off down the corridor to their apointed tasks leaving everyone else to get ready.

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The convoy of Makos and the Bullfrog passed through the sound barrier surounding Fort Novas, they had stopped by to repain the Bullfrog along the way and a surviving medic from the outpost was busy patching up Heartrazor and said he was probably going to have to be confined to a hospital bed for a while.

The ride had been mostly quite with Celestia and Luna talking in hushed tones and Lucy's light breathing as she leaned against Maria sleeping.

There had been a few minor skermishes along the way but the cannons of both the Makos and Bullfrog made quick work of the infected, everyone made a sigh of relife as the open gates of Fort Novas came into view. Finaly after a day of blood, tears and mindfucks they were finaly safe at their goal.

As the convoy pass through the gates and were dire ted towards the moter pool Maria had a rare moment of empathy, She had come here with the goal of curing Earth and finding her daughter and instead she had found a little sister. Now she was at Fort Novas Maria hoped that she could also find her daughter she she could meet her aunt.

As they dismounted a man waited for them, he wore a SGC uniform with the symbol for SG-1 on his shoulder, he wore a pair of glasses that had one of two scratches, man looked like he had seen is fair share of combat, this didn't surprise Maria considering who he was.

"Princesses Luna and Celestia" he greeted "My name is Danial Jackson, Welcome to Fort Novas"

Author's Note

these two chapters are the result of boredom, having too much time on my hands and nothing to spend it on. enjoy!

Also I will fix spelling errors soon, I just needed to get this out before I lose internet again.