Author's Note

Alright third chapter here. Also, the regneration ends at 0:29 for the Youtube video i provided. Enjoy and Please read and review.

Return of a Lord

The mist raced through the earth at blinding speeds; who would’ve thought that a passageway back to his tower was nearby? Well, it’d have to have it sealed as to prevent those two princesses from getting to the tower. As the mist exited the shaft, it entered a massive underground cavern but as an alternative to water, there was lava flowing in rivers, pooling in lakes, and sprinkling down in droplets from stalagmites.

In the center of the massive cavern was a tower. However, it was hanging from the ceiling of the cavern as if to mock what a tower normally was described as…

The mist sighed as he looked at the tower; it was crumbling, rotting, and decaying. Without the beings that served him caring for the tower, it would only go for at least two hundred years before the entire thing collapsed into the lake below.

Entering through the throne room windows, the being floated by various tapestries turned into dust, paintings that had faded with time or destroyed by the frenzy, statues that had eroded from the hot winds and moisture, and small rivers of where lava once flowed for illumination and intimidation was now cooled. He snarled; those ponies had taken everything from him and now, he would take everything dear away from them!

He hurried down to a lower chamber and saw it. A black onyx marble coffin with a sun and moon engraved on the surface. He had to give Celestia and Luna credit where credit was due; they sure picked out a fine looking coffin for his sleeping body to lay.

He started to rise up when he felt a sliver of his power return to him and with it, memories. He listened to the conversation and chuckled darkly. This tidbit would be most…useful once these beings came to him. But now he had to get back into his body.

He rose up above the coffin. Once he was at the right height, he dove down and enveloped the coffin, slipping through the lid and inside.

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Twilight Sparkle paced feverously in the train car, her nerves racked with worry; what did her teacher need of her and her friends? Why was Discord so…serious instead of his usual self? Was it something she did? She hadn’t missed another appointment had she?! Oh no, would she get busted down from princess to…magic kindergarten student?!

“TWI! SNAP OUT OF IT!” A voice said as a wing smacked her upside the head snapping her out of her thoughts and she turned to the owner of the wing.

She stood at five foot seven, had a cyan fur, amethyst eyes, and a lean figure showing that she was an athlete. The most surprising feature was her hair and tail; they were the vibrant colors of the rainbow. She wore a blue tracksuit with a cloud and golden lightning bolt on it. Right now, she was glaring at the princess of friendship.

“Sorry Rainbow…I just…” Twilight began to babble.

“Was ‘bout to have a breakdown again, sugar-cube.” A voice with a southern drawl said making the two look at the owner.

She was sitting down, but at her full height she stood at five foot nine, five foot eleven with her high heeled boots on, had orange fur, green eyes that in a certain light shone like emeralds, wore a Stetson hat on top of her blonde hair that ended in a ponytail for both her head and hind tail, wore a cow-girl outfit, and had a tightly muscled figure indicating that she worked hard.

“Ah know, ah know ya thought it was something ya did wrong, Twi,” She said coolly. “But for something that has even that varmint Discord serious, it quite possibly is not you.”

She was interrupted by an elegant voice speaking to her right.

“Dear Applejack, whatever could you mean?” The voice asked making the mare in question look at her.
She too was sitting, but when standing she was at a petite five four. Her coat was a gleaming pure white with her hair and tail set up in royal purple curls that was offset by her spiral horn. The hair bounced a little as she looked at the three friends, had sapphire blue eyes, and wore a black vest with a white t-shirt underneath along with black snug jeans.

“Simple Rarity, somethin’ has decided to threaten Equestria again,” Applejack stated making Rarity gasp.

“Oh dear! I am simply not dressed for another adventure dear! I must change clothes at once when we get to Canterlot!” Rarity said before two pink hands reach up and grabbed the screen away from the prim mare.

The screen shifted over to a face that lit up the room with her smile and bouncing form would make anyone feel the happy energy coming off of her in waves.

“Hi! I’m Pinkie Pie, I’m mostly pink, I stand at five foot eight, wear a pink striped shirt, have dark blue eyes, hair is poofy like cotton candy, and I have a D-cup chest!” Pinkie said happily.

WHOA! Time out, Pinkie! Time out! Pinks, I was hoping to reveal that tidbit at a later time!

“So? You’re going to add in the Sex tag later on so why not start now!” Pinkie replied with a mad giggle.

It’s the principal of the matter, Primus slag it! I didn’t do that in the last chapter since I didn’t need to give those fan boys anymore ammo to shoot their load!

Crickets chirped in the night at the hidden joke. That was broken by a snort from the pink mare which quickly turned into full blown laughter. The author rubbed his temples at the forming of the headache before sighing.

You know what? Screw it. As you were, Pinkie.

“Thanks~!” Pinkie said through her laughter. “So as you naughty fanboys know, I’m a D, Rarity is a D much to Spike’s delight, Rainbow is a B but that’ll change soon, AJ is a double D again much to Spike’s delight, Twilght is a C, Celestia is a G, same with Cadence, and Luna!”

A soft, angelic voice spoke up timidly.

“Um…Pinkie, why were you yelling out our…um…chest sizes?” A butterscotch mare asked.

“Silly, I was telling the readers some much vital information that the Author left out last chapter,” Pinkie said with a grin. “This is Fluttershy every reader! A Pegasus, is five one, wears a white t-shirt with short green shorts, has a pink hair that covers her right eye that makes her cuter then the norm, and is an E!”

Fluttershy squeaked and blushed dark red as she tried to make herself small, making many people around the world have heart attacks at the cuteness she was making. The other mares looked at the two but shrugged chalking it up to Pinkie being Pinkie.

Oy vey, this is what I get for working with Pinkie Pie.

The train soon pulled into the station, but before anyone could get off, the ground beneath them lurched violently. The six went flying into one another before the ended up in a tangle mess of limbs.

“WHAT’S HAPPENING?! Rarity screamed over the whine of the brakes.

What was happening was deep below, in the netherworld tower.

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Five minutes earlier

The coffin where the mist entered began to smoke, hiss and smell of…something. The lid rattled fiercely as black smoke billowed out from underneath.

Soon, the coffin did what the diamond did not; it exploded. Violently. Shards of the coffin sailed outward and impacted into the walls, leaving indents.

Floating in the middle was a skeleton, aged to a sickly yellow and the mist flowing over it. Tendons began to regenerate from dust connecting the bones once more. Following the tendons was blood veins, blue and red, linking to the tendons and marrow. Cartridge formed in the legs, elbows and hands. Lungs were remade and the skeleton gasped in pleasure before breathing easily.

Once these regenerations were done, muscles started to grow covering the legs, arms, chest, and skull. The muscles themselves were taut and when flexed become akin to a body builder of twenty-two years. When the muscles fully formed, eyes grew in their sockets and the pupils became sky blue.

Skin washed over the form and male anatomy was re-grown in-between the legs. Silver hair grew out his back and flowed down to the middle of the back.

The male extended an arm and several pieces of armor flew through the air, latching onto him piece by piece covering him from shoulder to toe in black armor. Two gauntlets, one with a yellow jewel attached itself to his left hand and he clenched said fist with a metal clang as the other gauntlet attached to his right.

A massive axe flew through and the being easily grasped it in its right hand once it came in range. A black helmet flew over and hovered before the being. He gathered up his silver hair around his head and grabbed the helmet. He slid the head piece over and latched it on, his face becoming hidden and his eyes now hellish red.

He hovered above the ground before he set down, the landing sending a tremor throughout the tower. He cracked his neck once before he raised his arms.

“I’m BACK!” He roared the helmet demonizing his voice as a spire of magic shot out from him, unleashing a massive earthquake onto the upper world.

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Celestia, Luna, and Cadence, who was visiting, helped out the guards who had fallen over in the massive quake. The princess of love, wife of Twilight’s brother, and princess of the Crystal Empire looked at her aunts in shock.

“Aunties, what in name of Equestria was that?” Cadence demanded.

The two looked at her with serious and terrified expressions.

“That was pure Evil stretching its limbs.” Luna whispered.

Cadence couldn’t explain why, but she felt a prickling of fear in her heart at the answer.

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The Overlord traveled to the northwest part of the tower via a floating rock, taking him to the location he desired. He had checked on the Tower Heart and found that his awakening back in the crystal cavern had kick-started the Heart and allowed the ancient magic to take hold once again providing transportation to the various parts of the tower. His musings were interrupted by the stone he was on stopping. He stepped off and looked around with a feral grin behind his helmet.

He journeyed to the center of what appeared to be a small village of four odd structures that ranged in color from brown to red to blue to green. He raised his gauntleted hand and sent some magic through the jewel.

“Minions…awaken! Your master has returned.” The Overlord said as a pulse of magic came from the gem and encompassed the village.

The magic easily tore through the bindings that had kept the beings inside asleep for a thousand years. Once the magic wave had passed, the four odd things had started to glow.

From the brown misshapen place that looked like spilled intestines, a tiny figure emerged and gave a loud yawn. In its left claw was a tiny club and for clothes, it had nothing but a small loincloth. Opening its eyes, revealing them to be yellow, it looked around scratching itself before it spotted the armored being. Eyes widened in surprise, the tiny being rushed over and placed a claw against the smooth armor.

“Mastah? Mastah?! MASTAH!” The tiny being said first in question, then in shock, before finally proclaiming in sheer joy.

Three other beings, a tiny being of red that looked like the devil itself, a being of green with longer claws then the brown one, and a blue being with webbed feet and hands with gills, looked over and went wide before they stuck their heads back into the place of their origin.

Soon all four of the origins of the beings were shaking like they were alive and in hindsight, they were. Tiny beings of reds, blues, greens, and browns raced out and clambered around him, chanting in their tongue.

All that chatter was silenced by a wheezy voice that came from the inside of the brown origin.

“HELLO?! IS ANY MINION OUT THERE?! GET ME OUT OF HERE!” The voice said in irritation.

The Overlord shook his head. Gnarl, his old friend was trapped in his own home. This proved a delicious opportunity for him.

“Warts, Gubbin, and Giblet, go and get Gnarl out of the brown hive…by any means necessary.” The overlord whispered to the three browns who giggled madly before nodding so fast that their heads would likely fly off.

The three entered the brown hive and they all heard Gnarl.

“About damn time! I’m stuck in the entrance to the top of the hive!” Gnarl explained before the hive bucked hard making many of the minions to look over. “OW! Warts, quit yanking on my ears! I worked so hard to pillage these earrings!”

The exclamation met some giggles from the gathered minions and a chuckle from the Overlord. The hive bucked once more.

“YEOW! Gubbin, stop biting my face! That is not a chew toy!”

More crazed laughter escaped the minions as the hive bucked a third time.

“ARGH! GIBLET! DON’T CHEW THAT! I ONLY HAVE ONE!”

Dead silence reigned. The minions all looked at the hive shocked at what they heard. They all jumped in surprise as their dark master bellowed out in laughter. As the three walked out, they saw several of their brothers joining in the master’s laughter.
Warts strolled up and saluted before he reported.

“Warts, Gubbin, and Giblet unable git gnarl out! He too fat!”

This made the brown hive shake.

“I’M NOT FAT, WARTS! I’M WELL-ROUNDED!”

Giblet smirked.

“He saying he fat.”

The Overlord eased out of his laughter before he turned to Warts. Leaning down, he whispered in the brown’s ear who gained a very evil grin.

“Can do, Mastah!” Warts proclaimed loudly.

That made the hive perk up at the last word of Warts proclamation.

“Mastah? D’oh, I mean Master? Are you out there? Thank the pits! I thought you were done for against those prissy ponies,” Gnarl said in glee, unaware of Warts sneaking back in with a massive pike in his claws. “I don’t need to tell you that good has been ruling for far too long. It’s time to loot, pillage, and bring ba-ACK!”

The top of the brown hive was sucked inward before it shot right back up, expelling a gray being that looked more walnut then minion indicating his age. His two arms were holding his behind and he was cussing in Minionese as he crashed onto several minions starting a brawl.

Warts poked his head out of the top of the hive and grinned stupidly at The Overlord.

“Mission succeeded Mastah!”

The Overlord nodded once and settled back to watch the brawl. He could hear poor Gnarl’s cries as the greens, browns and reds fought. This was comedy at its purest!

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Twilight Sparkle and her friends walked into the massive hall of the Princesses. They all gazed in horror at the sight of the hall; pillars were cracked and some had toppled, the stain glass windows honoring the princesses and their achievements had been shattered into tiny fragments, and the thrones were spilt down the middle.

The sight of three princesses made Twilight gasp in surprise.

“Cadence!” Twilight called out to her old foal-sitter.

Said princess looked up and gave a weak smile to the latest Princess as she ran up.

“Twily, oh thank the maker for keeping you and your friends safe!” Cadence said giving her sister in law a hug.

“I am as well. What happened? Earthquakes don’t EVER happen!” Twilight asked as she let go of her sister in law.

Celestia and Luna looked at one another and then at the six.

“We have something to explain.” The duo said as one.