The Undying Warrior

Act I: Chapter I

Conquerors' Decent

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It was almost time... Soon she would possess the greatest weapon in Equestrian history, and nothing-nothing-would stand in her path of ultimate revenge. She could easily say she was excited, but more so angered-just thinking about her previous defeat enraged her, but now that she would have the power to bend Equestria to it's knees, she can safely say she wasn't so mad anymore.

Queen Chrysalis, leader of the changeling empire, slumped against a large rock that served as her place to rest, for the time being. She only had a half hour at the most before she would need to inform her army of her master plan, plus there new ally.

  "Soon... soon..." She mumbled to herself.

Chrysalis looked up and smiled at the brightening entity of clouds that blocked out the still rising sun, giving it a very menacing look-just the way she wanted it. A column of lightning flashed across the clouds, illuminating the distant mountains and everywhere around the Queen, followed imedeatly by the loud roar of thunder. But then, the cone shaped cloud lurched downward, close enough that Chrysalis could feel the moisture from the clouds surrounding her and the whole land. Only this moisture wasn't warm, or cold, but numbing. The more she sat still, the more she could feel her muscles shutting down, the tingling feeling overcoming her. Chrysalis did not want to get paralyzed, not yet, she had important business to attend to.

She quickly stood up tall and shook a few times to keep from locking up, and proceeded through the large network of caves and paths to the very location she had ordered her followers to meet.

  "Soon..." She said quietly to herself, an evil smile on her face.

She stopped as she remembered one thing she had thought of doing before. She she walked into a small corridor and closed her eyes. Her horn glowed its strong green aura and she opened her eyelids to reveal solid green glowing eyes. She felt a successful hack into the princess of the night's mind, and could see everything Luna could see.

Luna stumbled out of bed and collapsed to the floor, which almost made Chrysalis chuckle, but she didn't want to give herself away-not yet. As Luna wobbled into the restroom, Chrysalis almost burst out laughing at the horrid sight of the miserable Princess, but was able to stuff it down to biting her lips together.

  "What's happening to me...? What could this--" Luna stiffened as realization flooded over her mind.

  "Oh no..."

Chrysalis smiled grimly as Luna's thoughts registered in her own mind.

  "Oh yes!" Chrysalis thought excitedly.

After Luna had taken a hard look at the swarming entity that now covered most of the Changeling empire, Chrysalis waited for when Luna would do what she expected: Find the big sister.

  "Just as I thought..."

  "Luna! My dear, I've been looking for you!" Celestia said as Luna got back up from Luna bolting her over.

Chrysalis decided it was time to make her move and her horn pulsed.

  "Tia, you've got to h-help me... The clouds, me--aahhhh!" Luna shouted at she buckled down in pain.

  "Sister!" Said Celestia as she kneeled down next to Luna. "What's wrong?! Are you okay?"

Chrysalis let her soak in the agony of the pulse for a moment before taking total control.

  "Oh Celestia, I knew you would say that. Heh heh heh, so predictable..." Chrysalis chortled.

She began to laugh as Celestia jumped back in fear.

  "Chrysalis! What have you done with my sister?! Let her go or so help me I will--" Celestia threatened but Chrysalis finished for her.

  "What, you're going to blast your own sister? Now what kind of princess does that?" Questioned Chrysalis.

She was about to continue as she saw Celestia's horn light up, but a powerful surge of energy from Luna broke her connection.

  "So, you are strong..." Chrysalis mused to herself.

She looked up at the clouds and saw what she had been waiting for. A smile grew across her face as a massive dark red sphere descended quickly from the very top of the clouds.

  "Finally!" Shouted the Changeling queen as she stepped into the same area where her weapon would arrive.

Everyone except the queen scurried clear of the dropping orb as it was about to impact. As it collided violently with the rock land and bits of stone flew in every direction, the entire ground shifted, throwing Chrysalis off her hooves. She waited for the smoke to clear before rising and disabling the green shield that kept debris from hitting her, to try and get a glimps of the new being. She briefly looked up and saw the dark clouds were already turning white and moving in random directions, all at a suprizingly fast rate. She looked down just as the last clumps of dust cleared and saw an amazing sight. The inside of the now transparent orb contained a huge, red dragon like figure. Only a few thing made this unlike any other dragon Chrysalis had seen: this one had round arms on its upper torso, and everything on the being was made of... Metal...

        Chrysalis was amazed, this was definatly more than she bargined for. Oh the destruction she could bring with this machine. She slowly walked towards the part of the machine that was what she assumed was the head, and raised up a hoof.

  "Wake up, my great machine..." She purred.

Her hoof was less than three inches from the cold surface.

  "Become my kind's salvation..."

Her hoof grazed the side of the head and the eyes blazed a sharp cyan. This color shot through various grey channels turning them the glowing blue as well. Because the machine was on its back, Chrysalis was able to see a beautiful blue ball of raging blue energy from in its chest and get covered by a large metal plate. The machine then slowly began to sit up, extending its arms to support it, and looming a short shadow over the excited queen. As it turned its head slightly, it looked away from Chrysalis. She was about to call to it, but it snapped its focus on her instantly. Chrysalis noticed that it actually narrowed its eyes, as if studying her, using a mind. After a few motionless seconds between flesh & bone, and gears & steal, flesh & bone broke the silence with the only words this machine would remember.

  "Rise, become the solider I called for you to be. Rise, and become my conqueror..."