Equestria's Corruption
"There is evil everywhere,"
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Dennis had done a lot of stupid things in his lifetime. He had once tried to drink a Mana Potion when his mana pool was full, (An incident that had left him bouncing of the walls with energy, and afterwards left him crashed out on his bed for a full week.) he had also tried to see what would happen if you mixed Purification Powder with Vile Powder, effectively blowing a good half of his room up and left the Nurse sewing his left leg back on after, (though the Demolitionist and Arms Dealer were quite proud of him at making Terraria's first explosion powder.)
But he admitted this was downright the most stupid thing he had ever done, after attaching a Star Cannon to his arm. He had charged the eye, hoping that he could weaken it enough for the Elements of Harmony to take effect. Thinking over it now there were so many unknown variables, he was actually wondering if he was a bit insane. He let loose a huge roar and charged, and buried his sword in it's side, then twisted. He was covered head to hoof in blood, his, the eyes, and Twilights.
The bright colors of the rainbow blinded him and hurt his eyes, but to be honest he could bear it because of the great sensations running wild throughout his mind and body. He was, for once in a long time, happy. The absolute depressing and evil nature of the Corruption had lasting effects over someone if they stayed too long in the Corruption. Dennis was unfortunate enough to feel firsthand the Corruptions evil power. the Corruption could drive you too insanity with enough time and un-interrupted work. He had heard of certain heroes who had wandered into the Corruption and came out crazy, rambling, horrible grins plastered on their face. Dennis hadn't been exposed for that long, but afterwards... It was like he could never feel happiness. Sure he could feel pride, and victory, but it felt like there was always something keeping him from feeling joy. He had thought that maybe spending time in the Hallow, Corruption's opposite could fix it but he quickly found out that, despite its childish nature with its brilliant rainbow always in the background, the Hallow was only a more visually appealing Corruption, an unnatural infection.
Now with the Element's blast showering him in pure good magic, that feeling was broken. The eye roared again and slowly dissolved into thin air. One last roar and it was gone. He looked at the six levitating mares and saw the gems slowly dim and the rainbow fade. The mares landed softly on the ground and opened their eyes to see only a bloodstained colt with an equally bloodstained sword levitated in front of him. Dennis gave them a smile, not the small grin that usually expressed amusement, but a large teeth showing smile that was probably Pinkie Pie approved. They all smiled back, though tired but showing equal happiness that they had beaten the monster. Dennis looked at the drops that had appeared when the monster was killed. Silver and normal grass seeds. Dennis gaped at them. That made no sense!
Dennis had killed enough of these huge abominations to know they dropped only Demonite ore, and Corrupt seeds. His thoughts were interrupted by a huge booming laughter and a huge voice shouting
"OCRAM HAS AWOKEN!" Dennis suddenly felt sick to his stomach.
"Dennis who is Ocram!?" Twilight shouted.
"Get out of here, NOW!" He yelled at them. They all ran back in the direction of Ponyville. "Where are you, you ugly, no good-" A huge explosion sent him backwards and smashing him into the ground.
"I'm right here," Ocram said, and Dennis had to fight the urge to give up, to beg for mercy and plead for life. Ocram's voice was horrible, a mixture of hundreds of different voices, both male and female, creating a symphony of words, each dripping malice. Dennis got to his hooves and ran at Ocram, or rather his voice, screaming a stream of swears and insults. Ocram quickly materialized and sent a wave of telekinetic power at Dennis, blowing him off course and hitting a tree with a horrible crunch. Ocram was a huge, dark purple head-like thing with three huge claws on each side of it's ugly head. It's eyes were wide and purple, the pupils extremely tiny, giving it an insane type expression. It's mouth was large and filled with uneven teeth, two large ones poking out from the bottom. It had no scalp only a large, pulsating, green brain with a 'forehead' coming from the middle of the face and wrapping around, a small strip on the top holding the brain in like a belt.
Dennis had to keep him distracted, if not to save his hide, then to at least give Twilight time to reach the princess.
"Why are you doing this to this world Ocram?" he asked through gritted teeth. "Its not enough you had to make MY life miserable?" he said trying to at least get up.
"Oh wow, actually trying civil conversation, I'm impressed," he said in his horrible way.
"Shut it Ocram, we both know there is nothing civil about you!" he yelled in rage.
"All right then," he said. "The reason is simply because I don't want to deal with you stupid heroes trying to stop me, you being the most annoying of them all!" he said, slight amusement in his voice.
"Well being annoying is something I take pride in," Dennis said, his slight grin once again adorning his face.
"I can tell, and let me show you what I take pride in!" Ocram yelled and let loose a red beam of energy, that sliced through one of his hind leg. Dennis screamed in horrible pain as he tried desperately to clench the bloody stump that was once his leg. "Now that you cant run away..." He said chuckling. Dennis had felt worse pains in his lifetime, and for better or worse the beam was heated, cauterizing the wound instantly. "There is evil everywhere, even in little Equestria," he said, "Now simply trying to charge in and just take over as some ponies have tried would be suicide, so I decided to let Corruption take it's course and weaken Equestria, THEN charge in," he said, glancing at Dennis with contempt. "Do you not see the brilliance of my plan?" He asked, not expecting to get an answer.
"No but then again I'm not fluent in 'evil asshole' so..." Dennis said.
"I'm letting nature do all the hard work for me!" Ocram said, ignoring Dennis' comment. "But since you cant help poking you nose in where it doesn't belong, I'm afraid ill have to kill you," Ocram said, getting ready to fire a beam that would likely turn Dennis into a pile of charred flesh. "Oh and by the way, I would like to tell you how horrible you are in keeping friends, I mean first you doom one to death by fire in an attempt to summon a monster," Ocram said, laughing. "And now you have doomed the friends you have here to death from either me or the Corruption, whichever comes first," He said. Dennis braced himself for a pain that never came. He opened his eyes, which were shut tight, to see Twilight and her friends and Princess Celestia, who was staring at Dennis. Dennis was staring back and tried to come up with a witty one-liner.
He instead passed out from pain.
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