Chapters Savior was always a little... different. He never had any REAL parents, but he did some foster families. And by some, I mean approximately 22.2. And now you're probably thinking, 'what's with the .2?' Well, that's how close Savior is to making the next family crack. Let me put it this way, Savior has a Photographic Memory, which means an ability to remember information or visual images in great detail. Savior was a light blue Pegasus at the age of 15, with a blue and yellow streak running through his messy mane. Savior now stood with bags across his back with everything he would need for his permanent trip. He looked at the old house that had no lights on, everyone was asleep. If you have't figured it out yet, he was running away. Savior was tired of all the troubles and worries the foster homes placed on his back.
As Savior turned away from the house, the whistling of the wind blew through his wings and hair. As if the very wind was coaxing him forward, away from the hurtful memories. Savior pulled out a notepad from inside his bag and wrote down a note with the dull pencil. 23.0 Savior wrote down, quickly remembering the number. The dark trees also swayed in the wind along with the occasional hoot or howl of an animal. Despite the eerie setting, Savior was not afraid. He had seen much worst anyway. Soon the gravel beneath Savior's feet moved as he went on his way, he saw two ponies, one unicorn and one pegasus, looking at a small mechanical thing enveloped in the unicorn's magic. Savior stood and watched as the unicorn female remarked, "I swear, that strong Anglis reading was around here somewhere!" She said, lifting the machine upwards, as if trying to get a better reading. "Maybe you just read it wrong Glimmer.'' The Gray and black pegasus said. The unicorn stared at him with intense, purple eyes and just walked on, putting on violet glasses while she worked.
"Excuse me," Savior tried to say politely as the ponies looked up, "But what exactly are you doing?'' They looked at him and studied his movements before moving on and completely ignoring Savior. Savior was used to being ignored, as it happened most of his life, but his time was different. He asked them a question and they should be able to answer something as simple as that.
"Hey!" Savior frustratedly said, walking up to them. "I asked you a question!" When Savior came close, a beeping noise came from the box that grew louder every step he took. Soon the beeping was very loud, and the two ponies seemed to know what was going on. They looked at Savior for a moment and their eyes widened. The gray pegasus pulled out a watch of some sort and aimed it at Savior.
Savior stopped and laughed a little, taking in the view of a tiny wrist-watch being aimed at him like a gun. "Are you kidding me?!" Savior laughed. "You think a little watch can be used like a gun?'' The pegasus just gritted his unusually-sharp teeth and fired.
When Savior found out what was going on, it was too late. A tranquilizer dart shot out and hit him square in the chest. The environment seemed a little blurry, and soon, Savior fell on the ground, the world soon turning black.
"But I swear! The machine was blitzing out of control!"
''I will not believe that that boy is bearing the Anglis!"
"I truly believe that he is the one, our machines have never lied before!''
''I will need to talk to father about this, but until then, do you think he is dangerous?"
''About as dangerous as a fly, I can't tell if he's faking it, but it seemed like he wasn't trying to cause us harm."
Savior woke up in a dark cell with no windows, and only a candle or two to light the room. He rubbed his eyes and looked up blubbering, "What- what happened...?'' But soon, Savior's photographic memory kicked in and he saw the deadly wrist-watch and the two companions. "He's awake!" Some-pony exclaimed the obvious. When Savior finally got on his feet, he looked at the surrounding ponies outside his cell.
The ponies looked at him with big, curious eyes. The one on the right was a female unicorn with purple eyes and a light purple flank. She had a mane color of purple and pink, with it all curled up in a braid. The other next to her was a male Pegasus with gray eyes, unnaturally sharp teeth, and a gray flank. His black and gray mane was everywhere and his cutie mark was a white skull, a little creepy next to the pink and purple sparkles of the unicorn. Savior recognized these two as the ponies right before he slept. And the third pony, well, maybe I shouldn't say pony, the third horse was a tall, thin colt with a light brown flank and a yellow and brown mane. His cutiemark was covered by a king's robe, without the robe, but it still had a piece of fabric hanging onto it.
Evreypony gasped, even the tall earthpony who looked like he couldn't be impressed said, "It's true... Impressive that he's still alive!'' They were looking straight into his eyes. "What are you looking at?'' Savior asked. ''If it's about my cutiemark, you can just shut up.'' Then the unicorn snapped out of her trance and focused her eyes on his light-blue flank. ''Grim, Prince!'' She said. "He has no cutiemark!''
They all looked at his flank and their Savior swore that he could hear their jaws hitting the floor. "She's right!'' The Pegasus exclaimed. ''First he bears the Anglis, and now we see he has a blank flank!"
Savior snapped.
"WHO YOU CALLIN' A BLANK FLANK YOU EMO?!!?!?!''
.........
The Pegasus pupils grew small and flickers of fear flashed through his grey eyes. What's he afraid of? Savior pondered. Savior's head ached and he sat on the cold ground, only to rub his head in pain. "Grim! Are you okay?!" The unicorn asked protectively. The colt supposedly named Grim just nodded, still in shock. "What's his problem?'' Savior asked. The unicorn trotted to the taller colt with the king's robe and whispered something to him. After a moment, the colt said, "Do you know what the Anglis is?'' He asked Savior. Savior thought for a moment, searching his brain and found only one thing. ''Isn't it an old fairy tale?'' The others nodded, except for Grim, he probably fainted.
''It was about... a power right?" Savior began. "I think, somepony named Serenity Spirit, had this power....but he became corrupted by it's power and became... Chaotic Spirit... and that's all I heard.'' The colt nodded and said, "That did happen, but that was only half of the story, Silvermallow and Voletice both joined together to form one country, this was before the war.'' He took a breath before continuing on with the story.
"The leader of Silvermallow, Justice, defeated Chaotic Spirit, so Silvermallow called this victory theirs. But Vilotice were not content. They knew that they had helped just as much, and they deserved the spotlight too. But when Justice finally agreed to share the spotlight, the damage was already done. False accusations came about, and rumors of Justice spread like wildfire.''
"Soon, Silvermallow and Vilotice were at each others throats, they all acted with great foolishness." He finished up. Savior just sat there, letting the story soak itself in. Then he remembered something. "Just a quick question...." Savior started. "WHY THE HECK AM I STILL TRAPPED HERE?!?!?!" The tall pony stared at him for a moment. Then, he sighed and said, "Let him go."
"WHAT?!'' Grim said, now awake. "But he could be a spy!''
"Or he could not," The colt said "Just think, he didn't try to use the Anglis, and now would be the perfect time.''
"Wait, WHAT?!'' Savior said, trying to process what he just said.
The tall steed looked at him sternly.
"You, bear the mark of an Anglis."
Savior still stood in shock at the colt's words, surprised also by his inability to speak.
"Which reminds me, I never formally introduced myself!'' He said as he let Savior out of the cell. Savior walked out, more of a stumble, and the tall earthpony smiled as if nothing had ever happened. "I am Excalibur, next in line for the throne." He pointed to the other two. "These are Glimmersparkle, our brains and hacker." The light purple unicorn waved. "And this is Grim, our youngest solider to hit the ground running.'' Grim looked up but didn't say anything. "I'm- Savior.."Even through the friendly introductions, Savior still couldn't believe that he had the power of Anglis, he never found anything weird with himself, but it would explain why he never got along with anyone. According to legend, those who possess the power of Anglis weren't allowed to make friends, it would risk his and their lives along with it.
Suddenly, before anything could happen, the cobblestone roof started to shake violently. "Up to the balcony!" Excalibur yelled, and everyone quickly followed. They climbed a steep stairwell to the top and the sun glinted off the kingdom that hung below. The view was amazing, it's villages and building were beautiful, and when Savior looked down at the castle, his eyes grew even bigger. The massive castle held the most beauty in the whole kingdom. It's windows were perfectly clean, the towers looked like brand new, and the sun! The sun was most amazing of all, it's rays glinted off windows, water, and other pretty things. The moment was ruined when a shadow covered half of the sun, letting a shadow fall across the landscape. Savior had to squint to see it but he could've sworn he'd seen the shape of the blimp.
"Alcatraz..." Excalibur whispered. "Why would they bring that here?''
*Give us the Anglis- and nobody gets hurt!* A cruel voice said over the loudspeaker. "But- how did he know about Savior?'' Sparkle cried. Excalibur didn't seem worried by this only angry. "Chainsaw has spies working for him from all over, he was bound to learn about this soon enough...but I wonder if he knows in that twisted mind of his what the Anglis really is."
*Come on! Give me that boy or I'll blow your home to pieces!*
"I'm gonna say yes."
After a moment of uneasy silence, a whizzing could be heard from inside the blimp. Before anyone could move, a large mechanical claw shot out and gripped Savior in a tight squeeze. Savior lat out a small and quiet yell before being pulled inside the blimp. The claw did not release him before clipping his wings together onto his side, and setting him down in the large control room in the front of the gray blimp. Two guards came to his side but did nothing but protect his side and back, preventing him to go any farther other than forward. A gray pony walked up with a messy black and gray mane and a cutiemark of a scar... wait, no.. it WAS a scar, this pony had cut his own cutiemark! But his eyes, that was the creepiest part. They were completely yellow with only black circles inside, no pupil, and at every moment, they were watching you.
"So you're the Anglis my spies have told me of!" He said in a small but creepy voice. "You would look great on my wall!" Savior shivered at the thought and the colt just cackled and coughed before becoming serious. "But sadly, the boss-man wants you alive..that man can be Such a party-pooper.'' He leaned his head on Savior's shoulder in a friendly-creepy-sort of way and said, "You understand right?'' He made puppy dog eyes and laughed, sending out a breath of rotten socks.
"Chainsaw!" A guard said, alerting the one now named chainsaw, and he took his head off of Savior's shoulders."What is it? Didn't you see I was playing with our new toy?''
"There's a plane on it's way here!"
"Haha, you almost had me worried there..." Chainsaw strode over to the controls, and slammed his hooves onto them, breaking them instantly. "What?!" Savior asked, wondering why no ponies were surprised. "Why would you do that? You just broke the blimp!" Chainsaw just smiled wickedly.
"Didn't your mom ever tell you not to judge a book by it's cover?" He said as blue glowing wires erupted near his hooves. "Alcatraz! Position Alpha!" The blimp suddenly glowed a bright blue, it's cover turned inside out to reveal a giant laser about half the size of the castle.
"Alcatraz! FIRE!''
The laser fired, letting off an silent scream through the air. Savior stood in awe and fear as the helpless plane was torn to pieces before his eyes. "And that, ladies and gentlecolts..." Chainsaw said, not looking tired at all, "Is the power of Alcatraz. Now, before we go, I say we leave a little... present for Silvermallow." The laser was soon aimed at the castle, storing energy for the next immense blast. Savior felt weak, just standing there, something needed to be done soon. A fiery rage started in his head, growing with power at every move Chainsaw made. When the pressure hit it's peak, Savior let out a yell that turned all eyes on him. A blast of red bursted out of Savior's left eye, burning Chainsaw and other guards standing in his way.
"What- was that?!" Savior asked himself. Then he gasped. The Anglis! He must have used it just now! But now was sadly not the time for this. The few guards that were not in the blast ran towards him, eager to lock him up. Savior could not summon forth the Anglis again, so he ran straight for the exit. Even though the blimp's controls had been destroied, it still stood in the air. But how can that be? Savior thought. The only reason it could remain in the air was if- Savior's thoughts were interrupted when a blast of yellow light erupted over his head, just skinning his mane. "Rule number 16, Never assume your enemy is dead!''
Savior turned to see Chainsaw staring at him with intense yellow eyes. "But how did you-" "Survive? That's what most ponies would ask." He interrupted. A fire had started from inside the blimp, tearing away at the room's interior. Savior coughed and looked closer at Chainsaw and saw that the side of his face was black with burns and his eye.... had the marking of an Anglis. Chainsaw no longer had the black rings inside his eyes, only the eye shape surrounded by strange markings, un mistakingly the sign of an Anglis.
"You're an- Anglis?'' Chainsaw twisted his head in an un-pony sort of way and cracked it, earning a gasp from Savior. "But how?" "I wouldn't think you knew, but sadly, you aren't going to get that out of me.'' Chainsaw's eye glowed an eerie yellow. "In fact, you don't really know how, Anglis's are made, do you?'' Savior spoke out clearly, ignoring Chainsaw's creepy smile. "And what if I don't, you're insane as it is." This comment only made Chainsaw cackle. "Says the pony that was going to jump out of a blimp thousands of miles above ground with his wings clipped together. We knew that you would try this, so we planned ahead." It was Savior's turn to laugh, "Who's this we you speak of? All I see is you.''
"Is that a challenge? Because if I say it was an accident, I can press the boss-man to let me free after Iv'e killed you.''
"Let's go lunatic."
The battle began with Chainsaw giving off a battle cry like no other, and lunging at him. Savior jumped out of the way, but was too slow to notice Chainsaw use his magic to create a rhino out of thin air. "Go get him Jeremy!" The rhino charged unaware of the fire around him. "WaitwaitwaitWAIT, you named a rhino Jeremy?" Before he could say any more, the rhino's horn met his stomach, sending him towards the ground. Savior felt the wind get knocked out of him and tasted blood in his mouth. "Lucky shot." Savior said, trying to get up. Savior was pinned down by Chainsaw's hoof on his side which made Savior hold in a yell."Lucky, or just plain stupid?"
"It's sad really," Chainsaw said in an almost serious tone. "You make the whole race of Anglis look bad.'' Savior spit at Chainsaw, only to miss and get a look that said 'Really?' "What are you getting at?" Savior asked harshly. "What do you think?" Chainsaw replied. "You don't know how to control your powers, you take hits like a little kid and don't get up, and all in all, you're just plain weak.'' Savior wouldn't take much more of this, he couldn't. Savior was slowly loosing blood and the fire only burned brighter.
"Shu-t up..."
"Weak.."
"Shut up.."
"Pathetic.."
"Shut up."
"And completely disposable.."
"SHUT UP!"
Savior thew Chainsaw across the room, his eyes glowing an unnatural red. A circle formed around him, sapping most of his energy, and the flames could not touch the magical surface. The dome grew wider until it formed completely around blimp, burning through most of the surface. When the power reached the fuel tank, it blew it's top, setting the blimp on fire. As Alcatraz toppled towards the ground, Savior's power diminished. The world around him darkened and red spots appeared in his vision, muting his senses.
Fire and smoke filled the room and Savior prepared for his final descent.
As the blimp fell from the air, Grim looked towards all open exits. He readied his wings, but was stopped by Sparkle's voice "What will you do?'' Grim was confused by this comment and just went along. "Well I'm going to fly in and-" "No," She interrupted, "What will you do when this is all over?'' Grim thought this was completely off topic and should just be put aside, but the tone in her voice was urgent and filled with pain. "When the war is over?'' Grim asked, She nodded. "I don't really know... I haven't thought of it, why do you ask?" GlimmerSparkle now was swelling up with tears. "This is just another example of the tears and fear that a war can bring, why do we fight... if it only causes death and depression?" Grim pondered this for a second then said, "Life...has ways of tricking us... Sometimes it covers the light that is the true beauty of the world... We just need to have the strength to see that light."
Grim bunched his muscles and took for the air, looking behind him once to see sparkle looking worriedly towards him. I'll be alright... Grim thought to himself, ignoring the fact that She could not hear him. While Grim was distracted, the blimp was slowly being taken apart. A large hunk of metal flew out to the flames, almost crushing Grim in it's wake. Grim flew out of the way, but the tip skinned him and left a small scar on his cheek. What's that Anglis gotten himself into this time?
The flight was fast and treacherous, pieces of blimp debris rained down upon the ground, damaging the kingdom. When Grim finnaly reached the blimp, the heat was almost unbearable. The red flames licked the blimps outer shell, and the inside was almost as worse. Grim analyzed the opening and the obstacles, and flew in. Smoke and fire filled the room only leaving a little room to see the body in front of him. "Savior?" Grim asked, searching for the young Anglis. The only response was a maniacal and insane laugh. "What a potential-filling name *Cough* for such a little Philly..." The smoke cleared for a moment to show....Chainsaw. "How are you still alive? That blast should've killed you!" The smoke settled for a moment, and Grim saw the horror that lay before him. Chainsaw's legs were useless and crippled, and the side of his face was bruised and black. Scratches and gashes covered his body from head to tail. "What-happened here....?'' Chainsaw laughed and stared at him with intense yellow eyes.
"Ask your friend over... there." He nudged his head towards an unconscious body in the corner of the burning room. "He- did...this?" Chainsaw smiled and said "Well...here we are.." He coughed. "I'm wanted in your little kingdom...right..? Well, now's the time... to take back the lives I've stolen..." The same insane look appeared in his eyes, glazing over the mark of the Anglis. "What are you waiting for- then?" Grim looked at him with stern, gray, eyes, showing no emotion within them. "The boss-man wouldn't be happy though... but I don't think he would care in the end... What are you waiting for....?'' Grim stared at him for another moment and spat, "No." Chainsaw looked surprised. "I will not dirty my hooves with another's blood, as it would only bring more battle and bloodshed. Instead, I will let you die here, without any regret for not finishing you sooner."
Before Chainsaw could protest, Grim walked off, the sound of the fire swallowing up his protests. Grim trotted quickly over to Savior, and carefully draped his body over Grim's shoulders."Up you go."
Grim flew out of the burning blimp in a flash, just escaping when one side of the blimp blew. Chainsaw's side. Another one....lost to the besetting war
