My Little Pony: War is Chaos – Part 1 "Opposites Attract"

Chapter Six

Cel walks over to Pinkie Pie, "Excuse me miss." and starts rummaging through her bag and pulls out his sidepack. He pulls an elixir from his pack, drinks it and instantly heals.

Applejack hugs Cel, “ 'Ah sure am glad ta have ya back pardner, but what we gonna do 'bout Greenpool?” he welcomes her affection with an embrace of his own, “I'm so glad to be back with my friends. As for finding Greenpool, this Bluebilliards seems to be similar to him...” as he was about to finish, Rarity interrupts, “If this is an evil version of Greenpool, we'd probably find them in a bar.” Cels ears perked up, “That's the ticket, I'm all for it!” Rainbow Dash perches on a cloud, “Fine, I feel like getting drunk anyway...” Cel looks around for a moment, “Umm...so does anypony know where the nearest cantina may be located...Dash?” Fluttershy steps up, “Just go up that way, take a left, then a right and it's the first building on the right.” she has it all memorized. All freeze in utter shock, “What, just because I'm quiet doesn't mean I don't like to have fun.” she blushed. Cel throws his arm around her, “I do believe I've found my new drinking buddy! What do you say to a bottle of single malt scotch on me, Miss Fluttershy?” She becomes excited, “Oh yes, please!” she began resembling Pinkie bouncing around. Cel belly laughs, “Ha ha ha. Let us follow the young ladies directions, throw back some drinks and break some heads!" the one answer to follow was all together, “Huzzah!”

With Fluttershy leading the way, they get to the bar and loud music blares form it.

Screwball stands at the door, “Well, looks like somepony started the party without us.”

Pinkie starts shaking Screwball, “Who's gets to crash the party?!” she restrains Pinkie, “We should let Surprise do it.” Pinkie has an almost hurt look on her face.

“Pinkie...hand me the...um...cake tank please?” Surprise asks sleepily.

“Okey dokey lokey!" she dives halfway into her bag, pulls a cake the size and shape of a real, full sized tank with twenty lit candles sitting on top.

Derpy ganders at the wonder sitting in front of her, “Can I please blow out the candles?”

Surprise unemotionally says, “Yeah...why not.” and jumps into the tank cake. Derpy blows the candles out at the same time that Surprise fires, blowing a rather large hole through the wall. Pinkie bounds happily past the huge gap, “Hey, you guys look tanked!” Screwball skips in behind her and rests leaning on the bar, “Mares and gentlec...oh there's only two of you...well, we're looking a pony whom may well be my next ex-husband...he's a kind of sickly blue and green color...have you seen him?...TELL ME NOW OR DIE!!!...Ahem...excuse me.”

The two mares turn to each other giggling, “And why should we help the Princess of Chaos?” they speak at the same time.

Screwball gets snout to snout with them, “You should because...sniff, you smell like taffy...my favorite!” her mouth parts in the fashion of a mad dog, with teeth of a closed bear trap and releases a hiss like a broken steam pipe. The two mares, who are actually Changlings, shriek in terror. But the others don't even lift there heads, they know better and Fluttershy is otherwise occupied.

Cel Shade, Fluttershy, Applejack and Rainbow Dash nurse an one hundred bit bottle of Scotch, slamming the glasses down after every shot. After six Dashie, passes out and slumps over. Pinkie and Surprise dance on the bar, blaring Vinyls latest album while Rarity runs to the restroom to fix her mane...again and Twilight sits at a table by herself. Fluttershy smashes yet another glass onto the table and calls out to Pinkie and her sister, “Dance, you sexy bitches! Ha ha ha, woo! Umm...how many was that?” Applejack laughs and slaps Fluttershys back, “That'd make it yer eighth one sugarcube!” as they sit having a good time, Rarity comes tearing out of the restroom, “My goodness, nopony go in there! It-is-DISGUSTING!” The break is short lived however, when Screwball again joins the group with saliva covering her face. She picks up the large, half empty bottle,  finishes it and throws it at the bar under Pinkie, causing it to shatter.

Screwball wipes her mouth, “Come, we're leaving now.”

As they pass the Changlings, who were mangled and torn to pieces, Cel scolds Screwball, “You know Screwy, you really need to learn to control yourself, if you want anyone to love you, you have to  get them to trust you and this is far from the way to doing it!” she stands silently kicking her hoof.

Cel picks the two up and sets them in the middle of the room. He sits and concentrates, a glimmer of light appears above the bodies and reforms them into their original shape. Cel grasps the Changlings by the scruff of their neck and sets the sisters in their seats, he taps their faces and the eyes open, “Wha...what happened?” the ponies left them with their confusion. “You're very lucky, I can't do that with anypony, Changlings have a simpler build.”

Pinkie exclaims, "Whoa, how'd you do that?" Cel tells her, "Like I said before, I'm very old, I know many things.”

-scene fades into a flashback, a narrator tells the story-

Eight thousand years ago as an infant, Cel Shade lost both his birth parents as well as is entire village to a deadly virus. He was nearly starved to death when a regal unicorn, Lord Astralis the first King of Equestria found him, took pity so he and the second Queen, Solstice adopted the colt as their own son. Lord Astralis also took Cel as his pupil, the young colt learned quickly and was always eager to move to the next lesson. This pleased the Lord of the ponies, for he yearned for another son after his own betrayed him long before Cel was born.

The years pass and Cel had learned to read and write in many different languages, he was proficient in carpentry, hunting and tracking. His master also insisted he dabble in all the arts, whether it be painting, drawing, sculpting or acting. Cel Shades favorite pastime was invention though, so Astralis thought him Alchemy. Cel Shade became so masterful at the skill, he could create most anything within moments.

With so many years of lessons and training, Cel wondered if there were more to learn. Astralis knew magic being a unicorn, but Cel was an earthpony, what could he do even if he learned magic? It took years to control but Cel learned to morph his own body into any kind of pony by focusing his innermost energy.

After so long of living within the family. Astralis wanted Cel to be closer than before, to be able to truly call him his son. Cel Shade and Princess Luna had always been close, she'd always followed him like a lost puppy and he never shunned her for her awkwardness like Princess Celestia sometimes did. Lord Astralis could see how much they loved each other. So the next day he announces to them that, when they're ready, they are to be married. Luna turned red and ran to her room. Her reaction hurt Cel, he thought that it meant she hated him. That night he tried talking to her but she would not say a word. The next morning Cel Shade told his adopted parents that he was leaving, that the world would be better served by him if he traveled it.

The real truth is that he couldn't bear the thought of seeing Luna, the mare he'd always loved and will always love, hating him everyday...

-scene fades back to present-

Cel Shade focuses all his energy, a pure white aura encircles him and a golden unicorn's horn begins to grow, wings start to sprout from his sides but all at once when Cel become completely encased within an aura bubble. A very low boom like an echo from far off, reverberates throughout the bar. The light brings temporary, total blindness to everypony. When the light leaves, standing before them was an extremely large, angelic, Clydesdale Alicorn, "This, young friends, is the real me." Cel stares over at the to Changling sisters and in a deep, smooth tone he asks, "Now, have a nice day mares.”

Screwball had enough and smashes through the floor and speeds off. Applejack tries shaking off her drunken stupor, “Down the basement we go 'ah reckon.”

After entering the basement, they look down the way, it looked like a mucus filled throat and could make out screams and howls of terror, all followed by manic laughing and the words "Where is he?" Suddenly the group of ponies hear Screwball scream, "Sonofabitch!" They walk towards her and she flies past them in the opposite direction. Cel looks over at Applejack and Fluttershy, "That doesn't bode well...you alright Screwball?" she gets up and pats herself off, “Yeah, never better.”

Fluttershy stares at Cel with an adoring yet curious look, “So, umm...you're a Alicorn, how?”

"Fluttershy, I'm the first Alicorn...I created it. I am an inventor. Why do you think the Princesses are Alicorns, I thought them. They were just Unicorns." he chuckled.

“But why...?” she continues.

“Well, Lord Astralis was the most powerful Unicorn and wanted me to rule, to do that I had to make known that wars no longer had to be fought. Even if I had to show it by my strength. So I mixed all the types of ponies into one form and that's what's know as the Alicorn. But after I left I changed my form to travel inconspicuously.” he answers.

“Wow, that's so amaz...” Fluttershy is so enthralled that she walks right into a wall.

Everypony stops when they hear a muffled sound coming from Pinkies bag. Pinkie opens her bag and Trixie pops out like a snake in a can! “OH MY GOODNESS, Do you KNOW how long it took for Trixie to find the opening?! Please clean out that nasty thing!"

Pinkie scoffs, “I'm not cleaning nothin', I can find anything this way, that's fifteen years of stuff in there!"

Trixies looks around,"Where are we...and why is there goop everywhere?..."

Screwball laughs, "Oh, that's my bad." still limping.

Fluttershy stares her down, “Thinking about killing us wouldn't be very nice, now would it?” Trixie lets out a weak sigh, “...no...” Rarity steps in, “Why are you so calm now?” Applejack speaks up right after her, “Yeah, how da' we know ya ain't lyin'?” Trixie begins shivering, “Please, just... don't put Trixie back in that damn bag...” she trembles at the thought. Pinkie springs to Trixie, “We won't, just as long as you behave!” she giggles as she bounces away.

“Let's see what or who is waiting ahead for us.” Cel walks ahead. Fluttershy tries to warn, “Umm, guys, the wall....guys?”  Cel hits the wall "Oof...the hell?" Fluttershy facehoofs.

"Give me a break, a wall? I mean really?....Hold on..." Cel flings a vile of acid onto it. A ominous voice calls out, “Has no effect...” Pinkie examines the wall, “Hmm, you might need to roll a thirteen or higher, I have some twenty sided dice right here!” the ominous voice once again speaks, “Ha ha ha, Pinkie Pie you are crazy! My name is Cameilo.” a head pops out of the wall laughing. Twilight squeals, slaps the disembodied head and hides under Applejack. It continues laughing, “Ouch, Twilight, that hurt!” covering her head Twilight screams,”Dude, the floating head is TALKING TO ME!!!” Cel turns to the purple unicorn, “Settle down Twilight...anyhow, what can we do for you mister Cameilo?” Cameilo jumps of wall, “I'm a spirit created by your friend Greenpool. As you ponies might already know, I'm a chameleon, and I show you guys what you want to hide from the world. I choose you Cel, as I think you have the most interesting story.” he touches Cel and a black clone pops up next to him, “You must face your true self and find the key to pass.” Cel Shade blacks out.

-the scene changes to seven thousand years ago-

“Astralis is sick...He's not been himself lately but we've made a medicine to help. Sombra has returned, as he'd heard news of fathers sickness, he's in the hallway, brooding because father won't let him take over while he's sick. Sombra storms off and father is showing me new Alchemy books to read. He's fallen asleep now, I'll leave him be. I've left Canterlot Castle and head down to the cemetery where my birth parents were buried. Sombra is there, waiting for me. He says, 'You're nothing but a pathetic peasant, you don't even deserve to walk the same path as I!' I spiral into a rage, 'You bastard, how dare you speak to me in such I manner! I have been more of a son to Astralis than you have for years. The only reason you came back is that you heard he was sick!' He charge at me and we clashed. We tumbled over each other, blood flying everywhere. He stomped on my chest and crushed my ribs. I pass out for what seemed to be hours, I open my eyes and see my birth mothers gravestone. There's a key embedded in the middle. I grab the key...”

-scene switches back to the now-

Cameilo explains, “The key can lock the bad form the good or unlocks the truth, your choice.”

Feeling very confident, Cel decides, “Unlock the bad from good, I can find the truth myself I think.” Cameilo laughs, “The truth of that, may not be what it seems.” Cameilo and the wall both disappear.

Applejack puts her hoof on Cels shoulder, “What the heck happened? Ya zoned out for a good minute thar.”

Cels shakes his head, “Nothing my friend, I'm okay.” Rarity comes up to his other side, “Okay  dahing, we were just worried.”

Cel and the rest walk through the tunnel until the end where it opens up into a large room.

Another voice speaks, “Welcome to the next challenge! My name is Crave and I represent something you want.”

Cel questions, “Can you give us Greenpool?” Crave gives an evil grin, “Here you go...” a dark looking Greenpool appears. “Hi guys...”

-the scene switches to a dark misty place where Crave, Dark Greenpool and Cel are the only ones there-

“Oh my goodness, Gree- ohhh, why do I feel so heavy? Feels like somethings weighing me down." Cels body slams to the ground.

“Awe, poor old Cel...what's the matter, can't take it?” Dark Greenpool teased.

Cel grimaces, “Your not the real Greenpool, you're not my friend!”

“Oh I am, what, you didn't think I had a dark side?” Dark Greenpool circles him.

Cel gets to his hooves, “We all have a dark side, but I'll not be showing mine here!”\

Crave mocks Cel, “What can you do here? You can't kill us, this is not your domain!”

“I don't want to kill anypony, I just need to hurt you so much that you'll be throwing me through the exit!” he then charges Crave and Dark Greenpool. Cel leaps into Crave and Dark Greenpool with a flurry attack tangling himself within them like an octopus eating its prey. Crave rams Cels legs as Dark Greenpool slices at his body. Cels cries of pain echo throughout the dark abyss. In a last ditch effort the Clydesdale Alicorn throws Crave onto Dark Greenpool and pounds them into each other.

Cel locks eyes with Crave, “Careful what you wish for...” the Alicorn gargles through the blood pouring out of his mouth, “All I know, is that Greenpool went out of his way to save me, now I got to do the same, even if it means dragging myself there with my teeth!" he falls back against a wall, breathing heavily and laughs laboriously. "Ha...ha ha, I suppose the pain one sustains in these visions, stay with you.”

Dark Greenpool vanishes, Crave fiendishly grins, “Okay then, well done you pass!” he disappears as well.

-Cel is brought back to consciousness-

Cel stumbles to his hooves,"Is everypony okay?” Pinkie gives Cel a bucket, "You look like you need this." Cel looks in the bucket and throws up..."See, I told ya." she takes it and throws it away.

Applejack holds his head up to hers, “Hey sugarcube, what's goin' on with ya?”

Cel winces in pain, “"Believe it or not Applejack, I keep getting my flank handed to me...I'm not quite sure how long I can last, but I'll keep going."

Applejack and Rarity hold Cel up and Lost is still dragging Greedyblood along, as they slowly trot into a huge chamber full of diamonds and rocks. Applejack looks around amazed, “ 'Ah don't know 'bout y'all but 'ah sure am glad Rarity is normal again or she'd gone an' had an aneurism." Rarity, transfixed by the wonders sitting in front of her, “Oh dear me, diamonds!” just then, Greedyblood leaps into the room, “NO! It's mine!”

Pinkie focuses on Greedyblood, “...Anypony else forget Greedy was with us?” Lost Cause shakes his head, “Pinkie Pie, she's been with us since the Rainbow Factory blew up!” Pinkie giggles, “Oh yeah!”

Greedyblood gathers all the diamonds into a pile in front of her, “Touch anything, and you die a thousand painful deaths!”

Twilight assures her, “Greedy, we don't want these jewels. If you just let us pass by without killing us that'd be great.” Lost blocks the path, “Oh she might let you pass but I won't.” Cel stops, “Oh...is that so, If you want to stop us, then why wait until now?” Lost makes an upturned grin, “Yeah,we knew the other idiots of Chaos couldn't stop you guys, all we needed was to slow you down.”

Screwball hops up on Cels back, ”You dumbass, get out of the way before I make you!” she snarls and froths at the mouth like a rabid animal.

Rainbow Dash swoops in, cutting in between them. Her friends notice that her color has returned. “No you guys have been dragging me around all day and this is my opposite, I should fight him. I'm sick and tired of being dragged around, but now I get to do the dragging.” She flies to Greedy, grabs a diamond and throws it to Pinkie, “Pinkie bag her, now!”

Pinkie Pie opens her bag, “Ha ha ha! Come get me Greedy, I gots your diamond!” and throws it in the bag. “Now it's mine, you can't have it!” Greedyblood screams, “NO!” Greedy jumps into the bag, Pinkie shuts it tight and looks all around. "Hmm...." goes to Applejack, lifts her hat, "Ah ha! That's where that was!" takes the duct tape from under Applejack's hat and rapidly tapes her bag shut.

Lost shrugs, “She's not important...” Derpy singles him out, “You're not a good friend!” Lost rubs his forehead, “I have no, nor do I need friends.”

Rainbow Dash looks back at her friends, “Go on ahead you guys, I'll handle this lost cause...”

Cel gathers the others, “You the pony Rainbow Dash, but be careful...come my little ponies, this way.”

Everypony leaves and the two stare each other down.

Rainbow Dash readies herself, “Let's do this!” Lost does the same, “Let's...”

Lost draws out his knife and dashes at Dashie, but Rainbow Dash dodges and goes for a punch. It hits Lost in the gut. Lost became groggy, he uses his magic to to throw a rock at her at cuts her cheek. Seeing the blood flying off of her cheek, she's thrown into a violent rage. Faster and faster Rainbow Dash spins around Lost making a tornado of jewels and stones.

“You wanna throw rocks? Let's see how you like this!” she ricochets off every side of the inside of the tornado. As she passes Lost a stream of stones would follow and bombard him. Rainbow repeats this several times. She hits him one last time and it flings him into a pile of diamonds. Rainbow Dash digs up the unconscious Lost Cause, drags him and follows the others. Screwball sees Rainbow Dash catching up to them, "Damn...that was fast...well, it is you after all ha ha ha! Whatchya gonna do with him?"

Rainbow Dash goes to Pinkie Pie, “Pinkie, bag please...” Pinkie give her an indignant look, “But...but, I just TAPED it..” Rainbow gets irritated, “Come Pinkie...just one more?” Pinkie Pie untapes the bag and opens it, “Fine, as long you know, that after this...no more miss pack mule!” Rainbow puts Lost Cause in the bag.

Cel notices the cut on Rainbow Dashes face, "If you have anymore than that, seriously Celestia will KILL me..." Dashie looks at him weird, “Why...?”

Cel Shade takes a breath, “I've always been on her shit list, ever since I left the family to travel around Equestria. She still blames me for Luna becoming so distant...they always thought I'd be there with them but I never really wanted the responsibility. In my selfishness I left it on them. Luna always took things harder. I was their fathers adopted son. I was there when they were born, their mother died during Luna's birth. That's probably why she has the problems that she does. Mix in the fact that I was suppose to marry Luna but I did something stupid...I had much more about mares to learn, but anyways, I could've never handled any of the responsibilities of the royal family, I mean it took me two thousand years to earn my cutie mark!”

Rarity couldn't believe her ears, “Wow dahling, that sounds so crazy, but I suppose it would take someone of your...stature to handle being married to Nightmare Moon.” Applejack punches Rarity, “Oh hush Rarity, she's Princess Luna now! But wow, that'll be somethin' ta tell Apple Bloom!”

Fluttershy focuses on Cels cutie mark, “Umm...I've wondered...so, do you play poker since your cutie mark is cards”

"Ha ha ha! Yes I do, but that's not why it's a set of cards. It's because I've grown, and have learned so much that I know how to 'play my cards' right....ah who an I kidding, for a while, when I was two thousand-twenty one years old, I was a card shark, and damn good...I'm just more proud of the other story." Cel blushes in embarrassment.

  Rainbow Dash, already bored with the chatter interrupts, “That's all cool and everything, now lets go save Greenpool!” Screwball hops on her back, "Onward, e'ya!" Dashie bucks her off, “Get off me...”

Cel asks, “Hey Rainbow, do you see what I'm seeing?” She nods her head, “Yeah, a lot of freaking doors!”  Derpy gets closer to the doors, "You guys, I don't know what you're talkin' about, there's only one door.”

Rainbow Dash laughs at her, “Derpy, there's like hundreds of doors!” Derpy points to the 42nd door the right, "But it's right there Rainbow Dash!"

Cel waves Rainbow Dash over, “Isn't she the sight challenged one?” Rainbow nods, “Yeah...” Cel rubs his eyes, “She making me start to think I'm blind.”

"Come on!" she waves for the rest to follow, goes up to the door and opens it. "See you guys, it's right here!"

Screwball facehoofs, "I know she's my cousin and I love her but this isn't natural." Cel gives up on reasoning it, "Well...does anypony have any other ideas?" Applejack's only answer is, “Eenope!”

Cel sighs, “Right behind you Mrs. Whooves." then they stepped through the door.

They all walk through the door and on the other side stands Bluebilliards holding Greenpool sleeping in an orb.

“Welcome everypony, I didn't think you'd have survived an attack from both Greedyblood and Lost Cause, apparently they're not as useful as I'd previously thought...”

As the heroes ready themselves for what may be the biggest battle all Screwball can focus on is the pony trapped in the orb, held hostage.