Plans Are Not Magic

Evan walked with the diamond dogs to their leader whoever or whatever that may be. He was a bit nerves but kept it hidden well under the glare he sent to any diamond dog looking his way. Luckily the dogs hadn’t pursued his friends. After he told them that they were his and he would take action to those that followed, they took his threat as it was and didn’t continue their pursuit. He guessed that they might have been a more honor bound society and they wouldn’t chase his friends because they were “his”. That or stories had spread about how badly he had beaten them already. He figured it was the later.

The walk was long and full of awkward silence that the human begged would soon end. Thankfully his prayers where answered as they finally came to stop in front of a large door imbedded into the rock. The door was made of stone from what Evan could tell from the torches and it was actually carved from stone. There where crude scribbles of artwork looking more like caveman drawings but they had their own kind of charm that made the door look somewhat nice. There were two diamond dogs guarding the door with no expressions other then the distant stare their well-trained eyes gave.

The leader of the diamond dogs with him that looked more like a golden retriever walked up to the guards, “We have got human and it want to talk to king Alpha. Open door.” The two guards did as they where told.

Evan noticed that the door was carved out of the wall itself rather then being carved separately and silently continued to marvel at the ingenuity of the whole thing. It opened inward showing him what lay beyond.

Inside was a large room that extended out ahead. To his left was a throne where sat a rather smug looking diamond dog with more guards to its sides. The seat looked to be carved from a stalagmite that was naturally made in this cavern of a room. And as he looked to his right he found how true that statement really was. He saw a cliff edge that opened up to an even larger cavern. In fact it could be thought that they where only on a precipice of the enormous cavern that spread out to his right.

Some chuckling caught Evan’s attention as he returned to his sights to the cave throne. “So, you come to surrender do you? I thought that you might human.” The Alpha King kept its smug look at Evan. He resembled the look of a small beagle that made the human struggle to suppress a smile due to its cuteness.

Evan gave a disappointed sigh “No. I came to make sure that there would be no more stealing of my ponies.”

The diamond dogs smile grew to a scowl “I see. You don’t understand then the position your in. I suppose my name hasn’t made it to the surface yet to get known.” Its smile grew on his face once more.

“I am the Alpha King. I have conquered all of the lower caves.” The beagle said smugly.

“And what would you want with me and my ponies? I am sure you have heard that I am very capable of taking care of myself.”

The king narrowed his eyes at the human “I have heard of your great strength in knocking unconscious many of my warriors, but we need your ponies for mining ore and precious stones for our weapons and armor.”

All of the dog’s ears perked up in the room as if they heard something that Evan’s human ears weren’t able enough to hear.

“General, take care of that.”

The golden retriever bowed and left out the door with his solders. Evan’s stomach dropped and turned as he thought of what it was that caused a such a commotion “no. It can’t be them. I told twilight two hours and it hasn’t been a half hour yet.” He pushed the thoughts aside as the Alpha King continued his thought.

“You see my little human, I plan on taking over the surface world as my own. Once my horde has been sufficiently been armored and trained, then we will invade.”

Evan visibly twitched at this news he didn’t expect that a whole hoard of these things were going to invade on the open world of ponies and knew that if that did happen that they would be in for one nasty war. “Well I am from the surface. How do you think I feel of this plan and why would you tell me of it? Haven’t stories of my people reached your ears as it has the ponies?”

The diamond dog then looked confused as he said, “we do not believe in Celetias lies at all. I thought that you would be sympathetic to our cause. But I suppose that does not matter.” His grin returned once again. “I am giving you a chance human. You can serve under me and help train my people and lead the invasion against the equines, or you can remain here locked up like the ponies that you ‘own’. You can not hope to fight all of us and I am sure you could never make it back to the surface without our help.”

The scientist had enough of this and decided that he would use his trump card. With all the information given him he might be able to stop this invasion before it got started if it was given to the right hands… or hooves.

The product of science expanded his mind and focused on the Alpha King. He went through the beagle’s mind and took over his motor functions. Evan had learned this little trick while practicing with Dr. Cooper before his fallout. The downside of it is that it took all of his concentration to keep it up. If only Evan could see the doctor’s face again without being overwhelmed with rage Evan would have slit the Dr. Cooper’s throat with the previous mentors own hands long ago.

“Do you think that strength is all I possess in my arsenal?”

“Who is that? Why can’t I move?”

“Why its me, the human. I am going to walk out of here now if you don’t mind.”

“My guards would never let you do that.”

“Guards, allow the human to think on my offer.” The guards looked at each other in confusion at the unexpected statement from their king then shrugged and opened the doors to the chamber as asked.

“Oh I think they might. Next time you wish to force something on someone, make sure you know who your dealing with.”

The scientist felt smug at his victory as he walked toward the door to his freedom. He would be able to keep his control on the king until he got at least halfway to the entrance to which he could just fly his way out.

That was the plan anyway until two familiar minds joined his, which filled him with fear causing the effects of his telepathy to stop working. His mind returned to himself and the king was free again.

“Stop him!”

The guards did as they were told and stopped Evan from progressing any further gripping his arms with deadly force as Evan struggled against the brutes. The humans mind raced as he struggled.

“What are they doing here!? I told Twilight to get out of here!”

His arms felt like they were being crushed under the grip of the diamond dog guards, as he was drug back to be at an audience to the Alpha King. But this time, as a prisoner rather then a guest. He strained at the grip of the guards but it was no use. He felt no anger for what was about to happen, only fear.

The Alpha King wore a sneer that only Big Macintosh could beat. The human’s heart was beating faster by the minute.

“How did you do it?” The king kept his unwavering glare on the scientist as he asked the question.

Evan tried to do what he thought was a sad futile effort but was, as he saw it, his only option. -“Do what?”- Play dumb.

“You know perfectly well what! Now answer the question or I’ll sentence you to the stick of thunder!”

“What the hell is the stick of thunder?” Evan had no time to probe further to find out as the golden-retriever-general entered with his retinue and two ponies to which Evan visibly winced at the sight of.

The ponies where tied up in chains once again only this time muzzled and kept from speaking. Evan could deal with being in danger himself but when his friends where involved he never could keep his cool. This is why he couldn’t help but show sorrow for the pony friends. Sorrow that the Alpha King noticed.

“Ah, so these ponies mean something to you?” The king calmed to a cold menacing smile. “Very well. Tell me, or your ponies drop to their deaths.”

With a nod from his general the retinue of warriors herded Twilight and Rainbow Dash to the cliff edge. Their eyes grew wide with pleading at Evan.

“Please, no! It won’t benefit you! I have always been able to do it!” He lied.

The Alpha King looked at him with a cold smile. “I see you aren’t getting the message.” He gave a nod to one of his warriors.

The world seemed to slow down at that vary instant for Evan. He turned and watched as the warrior’s spear was slowly brought up high for terrible purpose.

“What can I do? I could fly in and save them but how would we get out and how would I explain that to them?”

“Use strength to save them?”

“And how would I keep them safe at the same time? Also no anger just fear!”

“Try and calm down and control the King again?”

The spear started its swing downward against Twilight making her only options being skewered or falling off the edge of the cliff. Her eyes looked to Evan for help. Fear palpable from her visage as her doom whistled toward her.

“No time to think. Time to act!”

The scientist driven by fear pushed off of the ground and flew with great speed shattering his arms that were in the grip of the guard dogs. He slammed into the one who’s spear threatened Twilight’s life, hearing another painful snap as the diamond dog collided against his collarbone. It flew over the edge with a yipping that sounded downright sad as it plummeted to its death at the bottom of the great chasm. Evan smiled at his friend he hovered above and saw a shock in her eyes as tears started to form.

Evan would have thought nothing of what she was expressing but something was off. Yes she should have been surprised to see him literally fly to her rescue. Yes she should be crying happy tears to see him due to her traumatic experience but it wasn’t her features that struck him as odd. Its was where they where directed at. He followed her gaze, which was directed at his chest. And there plane as day protruded a bloody spear from his ribcage piercing a lung by the look of it.

“Well this didn’t go according to plan” where his last thoughts before his mind faded into darkness.

Author's Note

Sorry on the short chapter but I ran out of things to really make the chapter longer without making a huge pointless and cliche monologue or continuing the story past the cliff hanger. and this was too good a cliff hanger to pass up. I'm sorry that it takes a while for me to spew these out but I do edit them multiple times trying to get the story straight, make sure it doesn't clash with the future, and make sure it is 100% believable. However, my grammar is s*%^ so you'll have to excuse that or comment/e-mail me about it.