Chapters The Beginning
His eyes shot open as he felt another shell enter his chest. He looked up to see no more than 50 or so Blackwatch Marines shooting at him with all they got. Not a problem at all... He thought. He charged the marines, easily tearing through them one by one. He had a millisecond of peace before he heard the sound that always made him hate being the Prototype.
He slowly turned his head to be looking down the barrel of four tanks. Not one. FOUR tanks. He swore lightly under his breath before be jumped as high as he could attempting to avoid the hail of fire and shells the tanks were pouring out towards him with 75mm shells and .50 caliber turret rounds. He concentrated on landing in the midst of the four tanks, concentrating all his energy to his fists. He heard the satisfying sound of wind rushing past him, and the rumble of tanks approaching quickly.
BAM!
He impacted the ground with a force that was capable of flattening a small house. He kept his fists in the ground, preparing for the hell that was about to ensue. But it never came. His cloudy, mysterious, grey eyes shot open in a snap that was close to being audible. Where was the boom? Why is there no screaming? He slowly stood up to reveal chaos in every direction. It just wasn't unfolding. Alex curiously looked around to reveal everything was frozen in place. He was unsure how to undo this, or what to do in general.
Son of a bitch, I broke the world.
He woke up from the bed he had decided to take refuge in. He looked out the window to reveal everything was still in place as it was yesterday. He stood up, pondering what to do next. He slowly stood up in the room, and threw himself out the window. He smacked the ground with an audible thud, standing up straight without a scratch. He curiously looked around the city for what seemed like weeks. Leaping buildings, robbing convenience stores, sleeping on the blades of helicopters, and other things only a man with this opportunity could dream. His boredom brought him back to the original site of the stop freezing. He looked in between the half-flipped tanks into the large crater he had created. He could see a faint glow in the very crest of the crater. He pondered it's existence for a moment, before proceeding to try and dig it out. He summoned his claws, and carefully cut away at the cement around the glowing object. After around a half hour of digging, Alex noticed something. He had dug about one foot down into the crest of the crater, and the object seem to go down along with it. Well if I can't have it... He looked at the building next to him. If he couldn't take it, nobody could.
He decided he would pound it to dust, for shits and giggles. He bounded up the wall of the building, reaching the top before he slowed himself, planted one careful foot in the wall, and back-flipped off. Again, he turned all possible energy to his fists, and hurtled towards the ground. He saw the glint, and aimed directly for it. His body flew at an incredible pace, reaching the ground now with a force that would most certainly turn any rock, mineral, metal, or particle, to the equivalence of non-existence. The noise it made was deafening. It was actually almost too much for Alex. A ringing began to become audible in his ears, growing in volume quite quickly. Oh god, did I break me?! Son of a- Alex didn't even get to finish the thought as the very ground below him opened up like a large mouth, opening up and closing again quickly, seemingly swallowing him whole. Alex was suspended in nothingness as he head began to hurt, greatly. He could hear a faint screeching, and his body heat up quickly. His eyes slowly fluttered closed as he got a last glimpse of a clear, jet-black midnight sky, dotted with stars, immediately before passing out, heading straight for the ground.
Twilight was reading a book in her library late a night, as usual. Se was enthralled with her new spell book, Advanced Teleportation: Lessons in Objects, Large Groups, and Long Distance. She was just finishing reading on how to teleport a group, knowing how to teleport herself already. She pondered the thought of finally being able to teleport her friends place to place. Her thoughts her interrupted by a loud screeching, and a bright ball of red appear out of her bedroom window. Surprised, she nearly jumped clean through her roof. She rushed to balcony, only to watch as the fireball was quickly approaching the town. No, not the town, her house.
"Oh buck!" Twilight was never one for profanity, but this case was a clear exception. She immediately ran back inside, grabbed Spike with her magic, and rushed down her stairs. She heard Spike mumble something she could not understand due to the screeching being too loud at this point. She had just reached the outside of her house as soon as the ball of fire struck the ground beside her house. She screamed louder than she had ever before as the fireball slid deeper into the dirt in front of her house, narrowly missing it by a ponies length. She slowly approached what she had thought to be a meteor. The fire within it had died down, and curiosity had gotten the best of her. She walked slowly toward the edge of the crater, what she found nearly made her scream in terror. Again. She had come upon a biped creature resting in what should be a meteor's crater. The beings she was looking at had some sort of blue clothing around what she assumed to be it's walking appendages. The rest of it was covered in black, with some red design on it's back. Is that it's cutie mark? How odd... It shifted in it's grave. She let out another loud yelp and spike proceeded to fall to the floor with a thump.
"Ugh Twilight... Why are we out so early.. why does it smell light something is on fire?"
No reply, he looked at the crater in front of him, not able to see within it due to his height.
"Twilight, wha-" He was interrupted by a very drastic sounding Twilight. "Spike, go to Rarity's. Tell her it's an emergency and you need to stay there tonight."
Still groggy, he looked up at her, then back at the crater. He shrugged it off, not wanting to walk anywhere. He mumbled something quietly to himself.
"Now, Spike." He obeyed quite hastily, slowly jogging in the direction of Rarity's. She looked back at the creature in the crater. It groaned and rolled over, revealing it's tan face. She gasped, and almost took off back inside running. Right before she did, she noticed it was writhing in pain. As much as she wanted to run, she couldn't leave an injured creature in need. Especially before a cold winter night.
She decided she was going to bring it inside and examine it tomorrow. She was tired. Her horn glowed lightly as it wrapped around the weird looking creature. Her horn glowed to it's brightest as she had to put effort into picking up the rather heavy...thing. She backed through her door slowly, pulling it in with her. She set it on the couch. Examining it closely, it looked rather intimidating. She decided to put a magic seal on it that Celestia had taught her in case of an emergency. She saw the purple wraps begin to glow around his limbs as she satisfyingly led herself to her room and put herself to bed.
Alex's eyes slowly opened revealing him to be in a large... Library? He had to assume. But it also looked round... Like the inside of a large tree. He had never seen this place before. He let out a soft groan as his head began to hurt, trying to remember last night. His hands were locked. His head shot up to reveal his arms were tired, and so were his legs. He wiggled around a bit before deciding to himself. Screw it. His hands morphed to claws, and, with all his might, tried to tear the rope. For the life of him, he could not get it to break. He was infuriated. Not even Blackwatch had material this strong. Where was he? He struggled a little more before realizing he had gone too far and rolled off his resting place. He hit the wood floor with a loud thump. He looked back at what he was sleeping on. A couch? Why am I not being mercilessly attacked? WHERE AM I? The thoughts raced through his head as he let out a rather loud growl.
"RRRRRRRRRRRAGH"
Twilight was woken up by a soft thud. She slowly sat up in her lavender bed, matching her mane and fur color. She rubbed her eye with her hoof and she began to lazily get up, dismissing the soft noise. The sun was about to rise and she decided to sit on her balcony and watch it rise. The sun was about to crest over distant mountains when her thoughts were rudely intterupted by something she had not expected.
"RRRRRRRRRRRAGH"
She heard a growl that matched that of an angry bear. She nearly jumped clean out of her skin. She regained her composure as she realized it had come from the creature she brought in last night. The restraints! It could not be happy now. She turned and ran down the stairs to the main room of the library, to the biped creature.
Alex smacked his face to the floor as he realized he was restrained. He heard something walking down stairs. He couldn't looked up to see what it was, but he was hoping it was nicer than the things he was facing originally back in Manhattan. he smacked his face to the floor again. He head the steps nearing him quickly, he realized it was not in twosteps, but four. Two people? Oh god. Well, Alex, this is it... He turned his head up to where the footsteps were coming from to see a lavender pony looking at him. His eyes shot wide. "What the fu-" He couldn't ever finish the sentence before the pony yelled something rather loudly.
"OH MY CELESTIA, YOU CAN TALK?!"
Alex was stunned. He looked at the pony wide eyed, mouth making an "O" Shape, not able to finish the "uck" in his sentence. He was stunned. For one of the first times in his life, he was at a loss for words. He blurted out the first thing that came to his mind.
"OH MY GOD, YOU CAN TALK?!"
Their eyes remained locked. a look of horror crept around on the both of them.
"AAAAAAAAAGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!"
They screamed in unison for what seemed like eternity. Their eyes remained locked to each other, neither wanting to break eye contact. Twilight was the first to break. Her eyes scanned his body. Face, ok... broad shoulders.. are those... CLAWS?! Her face turned to horror as she scanned the claws. They were about a foot long each in length, and 3 inches wide in width. Sharp as can be. Alex noticed this, and immediately returned his hands back to normal form.
Twilights eyes went wide as she witnessed the claw turn into a fist. She looked back at him.
"Magic?" She muttered, almost silently. Alex's keen senses pick up on the silent speech.
"You could say that. Are you the one who put..." He ruffled his hands in the restraints. "...these on me?"
She looked at him with eyes that could have cut into his soul, if he had one.
"Are you going to hurt me?" She asked, her gaze not leaving his intimidating body.
"No, unless you try to kill me first."
Twilight processed this for a moment, before shrugging it off. Her horn glowed as his restraints seemingly disappeared. His eyes went wide. Magic... He push all questioning thoughts aside before standing to full height in the main room of the library. He was about twice the size of the small unicorn in front of him, towering over her like a mammoth to a puppy. He looked at her horrified, and terrified face. Might as well be nice... He crouched down to eye level with the unicorn.
"Hi, I'm Alex. And you are..?"
She was hesitant. This thing was huge. It was even taller than Celestia herself. He had claws. Claws. She was unsure of the being before her, coming to rational thought that if it wanted to do damage, it would have by now.
"Twilight. Twilight Sparkle. Mind if I ask you a few questions?"
"As long as you answer a few of my own." He replied, looking into the unicorn's violet eyes. She reluctantly agreed as they sat down onto her couch. She gave the first obvious questions, who he was, where he was from, what he was, what his appendages were, and what were they called.
Alex was growing tired of this. Twilight could ask a million questions a minute, it seems as if he had to explain the whole human race to the unicorn. Reserved, though, he continued answering.
"How did you get here?" That's when it hit him. He had not idea. He explained to her how he had simply been sucked through the ground (leaving out the destruction and killing) and thrust into this world.
"Last question..." he braced himself. "What other magic can you do?"
His eye twitched. How could he explain this? Oh I could say something along the lines of 'oh, I can randomly grow and alter my appearance and appendages to what I please and know.' His eye twitched again.
"Uh Alex..."
"Sorry, sorry. Lost in thought. I... I can do a lot. There really is an unlimited arrangement of things I can do."
"That's fine happens to me all the time... and CATCH THIS WITHOUT YOUR HANDS!"
Alex was barely prepared for the book to fly at his face. Instinctively his hand morphed into his whip, and it shot out and stopped the book mid-air. Almost by second nature. He looked at her with questioning eyes.
"Does that count?"
Twilight just nodded slightly, staring with plate-sized eyes at the black and red tentacle in front of her. It was truly grotesque. With what seemed like veins popping out, unsure of what is sitting in front of her. Realizing her horror, Alex retracted his whip, turning it back into a hand. Her terrified eyes looked at him.
"It's more to keep me alive and safe... Too much?" She shook her head.
"No." At this point, he was happy about leaving out the part about being able to crush a being and absorb it's memories and powers and such.
"So...Where in the hell am I?"
She looked at him with eyes that clearly told him she was terrified.
"P-..ponyville. In Equestria."
Where have I head that before... Was it a TV show? I don't know... He looked at her.
"Thanks. So what now?"
She finally broke her intensive stare.
"Let's go meet my friends, I think they'd want to meet you. But first I need to do something." She ran to a desk, picked up a quill and quickly wrote something down on a piece of paper. He heard her mutter something along the lines of 'time to try this out.' But he thought nothing of it. He watched as she rolled up the parchment of paper, and concentrated on it. Her eyes closed, and her horn glowed intently. It grew brighter and brighter as the paper became enveloped. It quickly disappeared as she looked up happily.
The note read...
Princess Celestia,
With utmost importance, I need you to gather the other Elements of Harmony and meet me at Applejack's farm. There is not much time to explain what's wrong, but it's the safest area for this... thing. Please hurry. I'll be leaving as soon as I send this letter.
Your frantic student,
Twilight Sparkle
She looked up to Alex, with a gaze in her eye he knew all too well. Eyes that are scared, plotting something. He raised an eyebrow.
"Come on, let's go meet my friend Applejack first, she'd be up this early."
Alex reluctantly followed Twilight as she led him to a less populated part of town. The sun was yet to fully rise, so no ponies were out just yet. Alex let out a slightly louder than expected sigh of relief. Twilight's ears perked up to the soft noise, and she turned to him without slowing her pace, and asked him:
"Something bothering you?" Alex turned to look down at her, with what could only be said as a sad attempt at a fake smile, and said.
"No, just still a little curious on how I got here. And a little thankful nobody has seen me yet. I'm not ready to be treated as a monster again." He meant his words. He had become a monster of legend back in Manhattan. A little change in treatment couldn't hurt at all.
Twilight's head turned slightly. Nobody? He must mean Nopony. As they continued down the path, the growing smell of apples breached the edges of their noses. Alex actually began smelling it a few hundred yards ago, with his incredibly keen senses, nearly nothing could escape him. He caught sight of trees beginning to grow in density around them. They were...apples? Something human like, at least. He thought. He could could hear a faint thump in the distance ahead of him every half minute or so. The thumping really got on his nerves as they followed the path in complete silence in the direction of it's source. Twilight first broke the silence.
"We're going to meet my friend Applejack. She's one of my closest friends, and she isn't likely to trust you. So let me go up to her first, while you wait behind a tree or something."
Hiding. Something Alex knew all too well of. His head came back to reality as he realized Twilight was still expecting an answer from him. He looked down to the lavender mare and nodded slightly. He really wanted to exerciser his powers right about now. The urge was nearly overbearing on him. His eyes twitched slightly as he was just about ready to bust and rip down every single tree within a mile radius. He crouched down, about to fire tentacles in all possible directions when Twilight broke his train of thought with a sentence that cooled his fiery soul. It wasn't meaningful to him, but the sentence broke the hatred in his brain with a shattering blow. Obviously being too focused on the thud growing ever so louder had just set his mind ablaze. But he had calmed down by the time Twilight repeated herself.
"Hey? Did you hear me? I said wait here. Applejack is just up ahead. Come out when I look over to you, ok?"
Alex snapped back to reality. He nodded slightly as the small, slim, lavender mare trotted off toward a... orange pony? God, either I have lost it, or something really really bad happened when I pulverized that crystal. He was lost in thought when he heard Twilight's voice call out rather loudly.
"Alex! Get out here!"
He realized he had missed his queue. He slowly walked ahead into view of the two small ponies, the orange one now looking at him in what seemed like a very shocked face. What was that ones name? Applesmack? Something like that. He tried to be nonchalant with his greeting, trying to at least to somewhat not be a threat here. He waved a hand at Applejack.
"Hey. I'm Alex."
Her noticeably large eyes did one of the few things Alex had expected, they got bigger. His crooked his head a little to the side.
"You alright?"
She brought herself together, closing her eyes and shaking her head.
"Yea. Name's Applejack." She sized him up. He was twice her size, larger than Big Mac himself. She was more than impressed with his height, but his muscles seemed to show no love. She smirked, and looked up to him.
Alex became very skeptical. He knew he was walking into something along the lines of a trap. Or something like it. His eyes slowly squinted, analyzing the hornless pony, before landing on the thought that these two could do no harm against him. He agreed with a slight nod.
He watched Applejack walk over to a apple tree, and turn her back to it. He saw her grin get wider.
"Do this." Alexed watched as the mare stood on her front two legs, and bucked the tree with all her might. The tree shook after a loud Crack! He watched skeptically as apples began to fall.
"You want me to kick a tree?" Applejack nodded. "Hahaha! Alright. As hard as I can?" Again, she nodded. "You might want to stand back." Alex walked up to a nearby tree, and turned to face it. A hearty smile grew across his face as he was readying himself to release a ton of built up energy. He turned his left shoulder to the tree, and crouched slightly. A black and red swirl began to swing around his legs. It grew quicker and quicker as a small shockwave came out of him as he twisted his whole body into the kick. The space between his foot and ankle struck the tree with the force equal to that of a flying 747 at full speed. The following CRACK! was, to say the least, deafening. The noise and kick was soon followed by apples and leaves falling to the ground as they watched the tree sail into the sky, slowly disappearing. He turned back to Twilight and Applejack.
"That strong enough for you?"
Celestia was just beginning to raise her sun. She turned to see it barely cresting over the mountains. She smiled happily to herself before turning back into the castle to enjoy some of her morning tea. She had just finished making the tea when Luna came running up to her.
"'Tia! Last night... Something came out of the sky! I-...I don't know what it really was, but it looked as if it had headed for Ponyville!"
Celestia looked at her sister and chuckled lightly to herself.
"Luna, these things happen all the time. They're called meteors. They come down all the ti-" Her sentence was interrupted as a small parchment appeared in front of her with a purple-colored *poof* Luna and Celestia looked at each other quizzically before looking back at the small rolled up paper. Celestia opened it up and read aloud:
"Princess Celestia,
With utmost importance, I need you to gather the other Elements of Harmony and meet me at Applejack's farm. There is not much time to explain what's wrong, but it's the safest area for this... thing. Please hurry. I'll be leaving as soon as I send this letter.
Your frantic student,
Twilight Sparkle "
The sisters locked eyes again. Luna nodded and said lightly under her breath
"I'd hate to say 'I told you so,' but you have more important matters to attend to."
Celestia looked at her sister.
"Think you can handle all the royal duties? I might not be back till late into your night."
Luna simply nodded, and Celestia sat up and concentrated as an aura began surrounding her, and with that she was gone in a bright flash.
Luna sat down, and looked out the window to the balcony Celestia was just on, and said to herself: "What have I unleased..."
Celestia appeared in front of the Carousel Boutique, and hastily walked over and knocked on the door. Hearing no response, she decided to knock again. Louder and more forcefully, she pounded her hooves on the door. She heard a faint voice come from inside.
"I'm coming, I'm coming!" Celestia then saw a very sleepy looking Rarity open the door, clearly unhappy about loosing 'beauty sleep.'
"Oh my, Celestia! What brings on this very... unusual appearance?" Rarity looked at her, her face instantly lighting up, forgetting about being woken up early in the morning.
"It's Twilight. Something happened last night, and there isn't much to explain. I need you to go get Pinkie Pie and meet me at Fluttershy's cottage. I'll go get Rainbow Dash."
Rarity's face twisted in confusion. It was a lot to take in immediately after waking up. Groggily, she agreed and set off in the direction of SugarCube Corner. Celestia Spread her wings, and immeately shot off in the direction of Rainbow Dash's home.
She had arrived in nearly no time at all before quickly going up to the cloud door, and slamming on it loudly. Again, she heard a faint voice inside, except this time it was followed by various things crashing and breaking.
"Wha- Who's there? Comi- Agh! Stupid bottles..." Celestia opened Rainbow Dash's door and looked upon a very disheveled Pegasus. Lying in a pile of trash, dishes, and bottles after knocking over a coffee table, Rainbow Dash looked up and said as coolly as she could:
"Hey Princess, what's up?" Blowing a bit of hair out of her face with a slip Puff .
"I need you to come with me. Don't ask questions, because I won't be able to answer them."
Rainbow Dash raised an eyebrow.
"Oookay." Rainbow sat up, rubbing a hoof to her forehead. "Ow..."
The princess rolled her eyes, before nearly smacking a hoof to her own head. Teleporation! Why had she not thought of it before? She groaned at her own foalishness, as her horn began to glow. She focused on the energies of the Elements of Harmony, minus Twilight and Applejack. And in a flash of light, all 5 of them were on a path looking towards Sweet Apple Acres. She looked at the four stunned mares before her before saying:
"No time to explain, follow me."
She hastily began running towards where she knew Twilight was, down the path. Her morning jog was stopped short as she watched a very tall, dark figure catapult a tree over their heads and into the distance. She watched as it turned back to a very stunned looking Twilight and Applejack before saying something she could not hear. It took one step towards them. Oh no. Not today. She charged the large being with all her might, about to knock it to the moon.
Alex looked back to Applejack and Twilight. "That strong enough for you?" He muttered. He let out a small chuckle as the two stunned mares simply looked at him and gawked. He took one step towards the two before being a very heavy pair of hooves approaching him from behind. He turned his head ever so slightly to see a large alicorn charging at him at full speed. He only had a few moments to react. He instantly brought up his armor, quadrupling his weight. He braced for impact as the white boulder came ever so closer. The moment of impact was ground shattering. Celestia had hit Alex with all the force she could muster, fearing he was attacking or threatening her star pupil. Alex and seen the hate in her eyes, and braced for quite the beating. Thankfully, the beating never came. Celestia's spell hit Alex light a feather against a brick wall. She rebounded a few feet, sliding all the way back to Rarity and the others. Alex immediately de-morphed, and rushed to her side, the others were too stunned at what they had just witnessed to react. He picked up Celestia's head fearing she had hurt herself. He looked her in the eyes as they slowly fluttered open. He looked deep into the light magenta eyes and asked her blatantly:
"Are you ok? That was a nasty blow you did to yourself, there."
He didn't have a moment to react before the alicorns' eye's shot open, and her horn glowed brightly, and the last thing he remembers seeing is the hatred-filled eyes that stared deep into his soul, and a very painful snap to the head.
Alex woke up to a very loud commotion in the room he was in. He slowly looked around the rather warm room, and looked up to see what looked like a throne room. He looked out a window directly across from him, to reveal it was night. He continued looking around and his eyes fell upon some very obvious ponies. The white one that had attacked him, Twilight, Applejack, a bright pink one, a white unicorn that looked like Twilight...Sorta, and two Pegasi, one being cyan colored, with a rainbow mane, and the other being yellow-ish with a pink mane. He moved his hands, expecting to be tied down again. To his surprise, his hands were free. He sat up on another... couch. Damnit, these ponies and their comfortable-ass couches... His head began to ring as a headache quickly rolled in, and rolled out of his brain. He groaned quietly, trying not to let the group be aware of his presence yet. He rubbed his head where the pain had originated to reveal a deep cut in the side of his face. The virus immediately sealed up the cut, and reset his brain. It left a very faint scar on his face, as did every wound the virus healed. He turned his head and looked at the group of unsuspecting ponies. He listened in on what conversation he could hear. He noticed the white one was talking directly to Twilight.
"-But he could be dangerous! You saw how my charge didn't even phase him! He has to stay here to be examined for total net powers, and danger assessment!"
"But Celestia he-" He noticed the white one, presumably 'Celestia' had cut her off.
"No, he stays here. At least for now. If he proves nonlethal, and is able to live comfortably among you, then he may go back to Ponyville. Until then, he stays here."
He watched as Twilight's head hung lowly. She muttered something even he couldn't hear. A shame, he came at the end of the conversation. The pink earth pony's tail twitched, and she quickly spun around and looked directly at Alex.
"Oh my gosh! He's awake!"
His own eyes grew wide as the pink one instantly became a blur, and was stopped mere inches from his face as a white aura was enveloping her. He heard Celestia say.
"Not now, Pinkie Pie. Go back to Ponyville with the others. I have... Business with him."
He saw 'Pinkie Pie’s' face droop, as she floated back over to the whole group, and they all disappeared in a quick flash, only Twilight waving goodbye ever so slightly. His gaze turned back to the white alicorn, as she approached him slowly, her eyes beginning to narrow as she got closer. Growing skeptical, Alex stood up to his full height. A full head above her. Celestia nearly took a step back as he rose.
Alex watched as Celestia’s expression slowly turn from curious and soft, to a bit more grim. Her voice was soft spoken, with a lace of hate.
“So. The humans have returned? What do you people want this time?” He was taken aback. Returned? He had no idea what to think of it. He had never even heard of this place before. How could they have “returned” if humans never resided here before? Of all the people’s memories he now holds, not one has any information on this place. He was dumbstruck.
“I have no idea what you’re talking about. Humans have ever only lived on the planet Earth, never anywhere else.”
“Well, when you came here two thousand years ago, you nearly wiped out our race as we knew it, luckily my sister and I removed the humans in question before total annihilation could come.”
Well, He thought. This is going to suck.
Celestia took a large step towards him, her horn glowing violently bright. He morphed into his armor as her horn grew closer and closer to his face. The horn touched his forehead, and his vision went black. What he knew as a memory began to appear in front of him, unable to move or speak, he watched as the terrifying memory unfolded.
Celestia took a step forward, horn glowing at the man laying on the ground. Bodies of both humans and ponies scattered the landscape, gunfire rattling in the distance. Alex merely watched as the man in front of him he recognized as no other than Peter Randall, one of the main people behind Alex's infection. But... two thousand years? With Peter there, it couldn't have been more than around forty years ago! He continued to watch, eager to see what occurred here. Celestia approached the man, who was fully clothed in black, groaning and rolling slightly on the ground. "Why would you do this, human? Come to MY realm, and attempt to murder all who live here? You deserve a fate no better than that which you have given my people! Alex noticed her voice was much...younger sounding than he remembers. He kept watching, unable to avert his gaze from Celestia's point of view.
"We.... we need your... Need... Test subjects..."
"TEST SUBJECTS?!" Celestia yelled at maximum volume. "You shall have nothing of the sort. While you deserve a fate worse than which you have given my pepole, I will let you roam free. Lest you come back here again, my judgement with be that of a much more grim outcome. I will send you back to which you came, all of you. Never return here again, lest you have your sights set of dying." Peter nodded. Celestia stomped a hoof with the might enough to cause the ground itself to rumble. " THEN RETURN!" Alex watched as Peter began to glow in a bright white light. All the gunfire ceased. And as soon as he was there, he was gone. There was nobody in sight anymore but miles of dead bodies. Alex could feel to sorrow in Celestia's heart, as the memory slowly faded away.
"Celestia, I..." Alex tried to express his feelings on the memory. Although he had consumed Randall, he had no memory of this. He had to assume something happened to Randall that blocked this memory. then came the second problem. She said this was two thousand years ago. Two thousand. Alex was forced to believe that this existing realm had a much faster time development than Earth. Just as he was about to finish his sentence, another black pony, identical to the white one, but a darker blue. She immediately said upon entering:
"'Tia, I know you're in the middle of you interrogation," She trailed off. Interrogation? She had only shown him a memory. Alex shifted uncomfortable in his stance, demorphing from his armored state back to his human form. Her voice was soothing. She finished her sentence. "But I need to talk to you. It is rather grave, and it does involve this one here." She motioned a hoof in Alex's direction, pointing directly at him. Celestia shot her a confused look, before agreeing. On her way out, Alex heard her yell:
"Captain! Take the training dummy into the throne room! No, ten dummies! Examine what our 'friend' can do!"
He head a faint call, before another large Pegasus walked into the room, dragging several large dummies behind him. Alex smirked as he knew the fear that he would strike even into the bravest of souls. This Pegasus was no exception. Alex watched as he dragged ten the rather large dummies into the room with little to no effort, a stern look on his face. Alex's smile grew wider. This was going to be great. The stallion pulled the dummies to the middle of the room, before his deep voice let out a short sentence, as if he didn't even want to be there.
"Alright buddy, let's see what you can do."
Oh man, this is going to be great.
Celestia walked out of the room accompanied by Luna. She shut the large throne door behind her, and turned to her sister.
"What do you need, Luna? It better be dire." Luna simply nodded, and a dark aura shrouded her horn. Walls immediately shot up around them, before becoming transparent.
"Nopony must know of this. I only came to tell you before you decided to slay him or banish him back to his realm."
Celestia nodded. If her sister needed a sound barrier in even the royal palace, then it must be of utmost importance. She turned to Luna, with a concerned look in her eye.
"Luna, what did you do?"
"As you know, the negotiations with the neighboring dragon nation is not going well. They find us weak, and are preparing to send one of their strongest to come and 'test' us." Luna's face turned dire, as a loud thud was heard from the opposing room, followed by a great shake that rattle the whole castle.
"Not... not even you and I can not stand fully against a general dragon. We might slow it down, or injure it, but kill one? That is far out of the question...." Celestia turned to her sister. "Luna, you didn't." Their thoughts were interrupted as another small shake came out of the room. Celestia swore lightly under her breath. He must really be going hard on those dummies. Or he just killed my captain. She looked to Luna again. "Sis, you did not."
Luna's face dropped. she whispered
Another crash rang out, before the sisters finally came to a conclusion. Celestia looked at her sister.
"Fine. But we need to make sure he actually likes us before we try to convince him of saving our flanks. This is most likely not going to be easy."
Luna nodded, before dropping the soundproof borders, and opening the door to walk back in.
"Alright buddy, let's see what you can do." Alex gave a sneer grin, as he immediately turned his fist into a whip, and grabbed one of the targets, pulling it towards him. He held it in his hand, it was rather heavy by normal standards, but it was light for him. He decided it would be best to show his strength first. His whipfist disappeared, before both his arms turned into a mass of black-looking arms. He wound up leaning backwards, and hurled the dummy at another pair of dummies. All three exploded on impact into a cloud of sand. Three down... He immediately shifted his musclearms to his blade. He looked at the captain, only to see the surprise slapped across his face like a mask. Alex smiled again as he jumped into the air, soaring high enough to flip and plant his feet into the ceiling. His gaze turned to another pair of targets and he launched himself down towards them. He landed flat on one, with a deafening CRACK! Resulting in a pulverized target, and one floating slightly to his left. He turned his blade and cut through it vertically like butter. He turned and spun, cutting it in half again, horizontally this time. Five down...
Alex then turned his hands into hammerfists, and looked at a group of three. He heaved his hands backwards and thrust them forwards with all his might. He sailed through the air temporarily, before crashing into the ground in the group of three with a loud crash. Eight down... He looked on both sides of the room. There were two left, and he turned his hands to claws before charing the one directly to his right. His hands sliced it to bits, before he turned to the one across the room. He dashed over quickly, picked it up and hurled it at a neighboring wall. It again turned into a cloud of sand with a loud smack, before he turned and looked at the very terrified captain. He smirked as he looked back to the two alicorns entering the room. Celestia spoke first.
"Judging by your reaction, he is very powerful?" Celestia awaited a reply. None came. "You are dismissed captain. I want a full written report on his powers. Clear?"
The captain nodded slightly before he turned and quickly ran out of the room. Alex turned his gaze to Celestia and the other alicorn.
"I know your name, Celestia, but may I ask who the pretty one is?" Motioning a hand towards Luna.
Celestia's face instantly brightened up a little, before taking a light shade of red. "Oh my, where are my manners. This is my sister, Luna."
Luna waved a hoof at him, with a quiet tone she said
"Hello."
Celestia turned back to Alex, with a very apologetic look.
"I wanted to... apologize for charging you. I have grown to not trust humans after the last incident, but I did not realize you were so powerful." Celestia bowed her head. "Please, accept my most royal apologies."
In any right mind, and back on Earth, Alex would have charged and turned her to chopped bits in a heartbeat. But he decided otherwise, seeing as the memory he was shown gave a decent enough excuse. This time. He looked back up at her.
"Accepted. Just don't try to kill me again. Bad things will happen."
Celestia raised her head and nodded slowly. "Agreed." She was about to ask Alex about being willing to undergo some tests, when he said louder than he had anticipated.
"You... You don't happen to have any ponies on death row, or with the death sentence, would you? I have one power that requires..." He trailed off. What was he so afraid of? He couldn't get the words 'it requires a life' out of his mouth. But thankfully Celestia caught on.
"We have a few. Rare, though. Crime rarely happens here. But yes, a few pegasi and a few unicorns." Celestia reluctantly admitted.
Alex looked down at his hands, and looked back up to her. A tang of fear in his eyes.
"Please, bring one of each here. Let me show you the full.... extent of my powers." He looked dully at Celestia, the fear overtaking his eyes. He had never before tried to absorb an animal, only taking in humans in the past. How will the virus react? Alex had no idea what he was in for, as Celestia looked at her sister.
"Fill him in on why he is here. And...how." Celestia quickly disappeared in a white poof! Luna looked at him with grim eyes. As if she had just witnessed a brutal murder. Alex braced for the worst, as they both sat down on the couch, Luna ready to tell Alex he is going to have to kill the unkillable in due time.
A/N This chapter get's a tad gruesome. It's also relatively short, due to the actions that occur. Have fun!
Alex looked up to Luna. He groaned loudly before planting his hands to his face, before dropping his elbows onto his knees.
"Seriously? A fucking dragon?! Who's head alone is as big as a HOUSE?! " Alex was nearly furious. They expected THAT out of him?! He had barely much of a problem killing Greene, but she was barely as big as a house. The dragon described to him had armor as thick as he was tall, and head as big as a house. I am so fucking fucked now...
Luna gave a sheepish smile.
Alex opened his mouth to reply, but a bright flash stopped him. Celestia appeared again in front of him, accompanied by one black pegasus and a green unicorn. The unicorn had a white lock on her horn, and the black pegasus had the same locks on his wings. Both were muzzled.
Alex looked up from his hands to see a very stern-looking Celestia. He asked with a soft tone.
"Are these them?"
"Yes." Celestia looked at him, proceeding to walk up to him and whisper, "They have done such evil deeds, if your next process requires life, I suggest taking the green one first. She is younger."
Alex nodded, but a little surprised at her. Thought it was true, younger made better, why would she suggest such a thing? He dismissed it, before walking over the green unicorn. Finally... He thought. He will finally be able to satisfy a hunger growing deep within. He grabbed the mare by her neck.
"This is going to hurt." He said. He got an evil gin slapped across his face. "A lot." A looked of fear overtook the green mare as Alex hoisted her into the air. You could hear her muffles screams as Alex simply held her in the air, still a bit unsure about what this was going to do.
He took a shot into the dark, Alex tensed his arm as he began to squeeze the neck of the pony in front of him. He could feel her pulse under his fingers. His face took on a very hateful look as he turned to Celestia and said with a very firm tone.
"You might want to get back, this is going to get very messy."
Celestia looked and him and nodded, very grim on what she was about to witness. She accompanied Luna on the couch he had woken up on across the room, both with fear in their eyes.
Alex let a breath out. Well, here goes nothing. He let out a primal yell as he turn his whole body into the 'slamming' movement, and he quickly brought the green mare down face first into the floor. Alex smiled as he heard the all to familiar sound of bones breaking, and blood beginning to pour out. The virus quickly took act, scanning the very brains he had just smashed to bloody bits. He felts his limbs become shorter, and he looked up to the roof as sharp pains overtook each end of his body. He began to shake violently as all of the unicorns memories came flooding in at once, filling his mind. How to use magic, what spells I can use, I've learned everything.. This is...new... He tried to take a step forward as he noticed he wasn't on his normal two legs anymore. He had become the unicorn.
Celestia took a seat next to Luna, after being told to do so. She turned her head to watch Alex. He had the unicorn in the air above him, slowly squirming. She heard Alex let out a primal yell before turning and bringing the unicorns head swiftly to the ground. She looked away as she heard the mare's skull snap and crunch against the floor with a odd crunch. Celestia and Luna both felt a little blood land near and on them. They turned further away in horror. When they turned back, they just caught sight of Alex slowly changing to look exactly as the unicorn he had smashed.
He put a hoof to his head and groaned.
"Ow... that really hurt. Now time to try this." He turned his green body towards the black pegasus, and leaned in a bit to point his horn directly at the stallion. A green flash came out, shocking the stallion with a loud Pop! He grinned. He again felt the all too familiar sensation of switching back to a human as his limbs got longer, and his clothes came back to view.
He looked back to see a horrified and blood-covered pair of alicorns. He gave an evil grin. He channeled the unicorn's magic powers through his body. A black and red horn began to slide out of the front of his head. He smiled to himself. Perfect. It works. His gaze averted from the horrified pair, back to the black pegasus.
"Your turn, buddy." The look of fear overcame the stallion, he instantly began retreating backwards, only to be halted by a black aura surrounding his legs. Alex walked up to the poor pony, and gripped him by the neck. About to preform the same action. When he thought to himself, Why not put on a show? This will be fun, and the pegasus will get to.... fly... one last time. Alex chuckled, as the hand on the stallions neck slowly turned into his whipfist. Alex extended the fist to a great length, before proceeding to throw the poor thing into the air, and swing it down with all the force he could. He heard the sound of the pegasus bones breaking on the floor, showering the room with blood and bits of pony. Again absorbing the pony, and taking on his form, Alex switched to his human form.
He turned back to a now clean pair of alicorns, with a blood-coated white barrier surrounding them. He smirked and watched as their expressions grew grim and afraid again as he channeled the pegasus power through him, extending a ten foot black and red bat-like wing in each direction, laugh maniacally.
"This is great! I have never felt so alive! Such power... This is amazing!" He turned to Celestia, and walked over to her.
Celestia only nodded. She was going to say something, but it had escaped her.
"So, two questions. Can I go back to Ponyville, and when is this dragon coming?"
Celstia was still at a loss, so Luna had answered for her.
"The dragon will come in three days time. For now, go back and converse with the Elements of Harmony. They will be assisting you in killing the dragon."
Alex search the two ponies' memories he had consumed. Twilight, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Fluttershy, and Rainbow Dash.... Damn it's good being me. He grinned and agreed. He shot a look towards the pair again, with an evil look lurking deep within, he said.
"Thanks." He extended his wings, and immediately flew out the window, heading straight for Ponyville with blinding speed.
A/N) This fight scene was one of the most fun things to write. It was definitely longer than expected. Have fun!
Alex, along with the other six ponies immediately ran outside, expecting to see a dragon right outside of the door. No. The dragon was a bit off to the distance towards the east, a tower of purple, red, and black scales were visible from even the distance they were at. Alex knew the coming fight was going to be a pain in the ass, but he was mentally ready. By the speed the dragon was going, he was quickly getting larger, he only had a few minutes before it was directly above him. He decided to take the dragon by surprise, and he extended his wings to full size, surprising those behind him. He turned to them.
"Wait for me to give a signal, then blast him." He wanted no reply, he wanted nothing but for this fight to start already. He took off, flying as fast as he could and as high as he could. Thankfully the night sky was as clear as could be. He rocketed towards the moon with all of his might. He reached the peak of his flight, and looked towards the incoming dragon. He still had a minute or two of time left. This dragon was coming fast, but what Alex planned to do would hopefully cripple, if not kill, the dragon on impact. He planned to activate his armor, tripling his weight, then rocket himself towards the dragon's back with his hammerfists. Alex steeled his mind as the dragon drew close enough for him to start dropping.
His armor took form over his body, and he demorphed his wings. He took aim at where him and the dragon should meet, and brought his hammerfists out. He hurled himself toward the dragon with a blinding downward speed. If all went right, this dragon was his for the killing.
Drog'Faas was one of the most feared dragons in his kingdom. He was honored when his king had asked him to test these weak ponies for power. His blood-red eyes looked up to his king.
"Geh, Jun'Kein." Yes, King War. His eyes locked onto his kings.
"Please, Drog. Save the dragon language formalities for the public. We are alone here, among friends, and brethren." A snicker appeared on Drog's face.
"Very well, my king. But three days? Isn't that a little much time for them to prepare?"
"Exactly, my prized killer. I told them three days. You will attack tonight."
Surprise flooded into Drog'Faas' eyes, before morphing into eagerness, before his voice bellowed:
"Tonight, pain and suffering will ensue!"
Drog'Faas could barely wait, he had only a few hours left before darkness would start to overcome. As soon as the sun set, he set out towards Canterlot, to attack the ponies at their direct source of power and leadership.
As soon as he passed over the mountains, and his target came into sight on the other end of the horizon, he let out a bellowing roar that shook the foundations of Equestria itself.
"DIR, KEYS! DIR!" Die horses! Die! And with that, he let out a steam of, not red and orange, but black fire escape his snout and into the air above him. This was going to be fun. He doubled his speed as he set course directly for the royal town. Just as he was passing over a small town, he heard a faint whistling. He looked up to see a black object quickly coming directly for him. He dove quickly to his right as the black object sailed and landed directly on the bone connecting his left wing to his spine. He let out a billowing roar as he began to plummet towards the ground.
SNAP! Alex's killer smile grew wide, he had nearly missed his mark, but he landed on something just as important, the wing bone. Alex soon morphed his hammerfists to his claws, and sank them into the dragon's back as he roared and dove toward's the ground. The dragon hit the ground running. He was fearing the dragon rolling over and crushing him, before dismissing the thought, remembering he was invincible. The dragon smacked the ground with a loud CRACK! Alex's face recoiled, and bounced face first into and off of the dragon's back. The dragon's head turned around and looked directly at Alex, before taking a deep breath. Knowing what was coming next, Alex quickly laid flat against the dragon, feeling the heat sear his back, burning his body deeply. After the rain of fire, Alex stood up, and charged the dragon's face. Unfortunately for Alex, the dragon was much smarter than to just sit there. With a swing of it's body, it turned it's head around to the other side and smacked Alex directly out of the air and into the ground, with the force large enough to create a small crater around him.
Alex sat up in a daze, as much as that hurt, he couldn't let this beast get the best of him. He quickly recovered and stood up. Baring his teeth, he yelled and charged the dragon once more, switching to his blade instead of claws. The dragon turned it's head again, and blew fire at him. Alex saw this action coming, and prepared his legs to propel him directly into the dragon's face. As soon as the fire came over him. Alex pushed his legs as hard as he could, sending him soaring towards the source of the fire.
His body broke the end of the fire, and he locked eyes with the dragon before him. He could see the surprise in it's eyes, as he quickly did a mid-air turn and sunk his blade deep into the top of the dragon's snout, gripping one of it's nostrils as a hand hold. The dragon roared and flicked it's head, attempting to get rid of Alex.
In one moment, the dragon quit bucking it's head. Alex took advantage of this, and quickly shifted to his claws, drawing his blade out of it's snout. He charged for the eyes. The dragon saw this coming, and quickly drew it's head backwards quickly. Sending Alex off balance, then into the air. The dragon's neck arched back, placing it's head beneath him. It opened it's mouth and closed it quickly, the dragon's jaw clenched tightly around his stomach.
Alex let out a blood curling scream as the jaw crushed his midsection. He turned his head towards Twilight's house, where he saw six terrified looking ponies. He yelled as loud as he could muster.
"Now! Shoot him now!" Twilight nodded quickly all the ponies closing their eyes, and Twilight pointing her horn at the dragon.
The dragon took no note of what the pathetic being in it's jaws was doing. It pointed it's snout straight up into the night sky, and drew a deep breath. A steady stream of pitch black fire then enveloped Alex, as he screamed with pain. Alex was in agonizing, burning pain. He slowly felt each layer of what he could call "skin" burn away as the dragon continued his onslaught of fire. Where the fucking hell is Twilight's 'all powerful' spell? His question was soon answered as the fire consuming him stopped, and the dragon's jaw opened up. He turned his head to see a rainbow colored beam shooting right through the air, and into the dragon's chest. He took advantage of the situation, and slid himself into the dragon's mouth.
Alex looked down at his midsection to asses the damage. A normal human would have been split in half, but there were just gaping teeth holes in him. He watched as the virus soon melded the holes closed, but the pain remained. Alex dismissed his armor, knowing he would no longer need it in here. He needed to be light for this. He drew his claws, and looked directly above him. The roof of the mouth was a distance away, but he knew he could get to it. He leaped with all of his might, and sank both claws into the roof of the mouth.
The dragon swung his head with all of his might, attempting to get the stinging pain out of his mouth. Quickly realizing this was futile, he turned his attention to the ponies a distance off to his right, the ones who shot him with the beam that burnt a deep scar into his chest. Alex continued his onslaught in the dragon's mouth, tearing the roof to shreds, then aiming for anything else that looked somewhat vital. He was getting nowhere. He needed to get to the brain or spine. Knowing a cut up mouth had only pissed it off, he spotted something glinting on the bottom of the mouth. He quickly remembered how dragon's fire came to be. He aimed for the shining spot in the mouth, and ripped it to shreds. He could tell it was vital, because the dragon then did the same motion of flicking it's head wildly. Alex then knew what he had to do to win this.
He stuck his claws into the base of the mouth, and headed towards the open teeth. He shouted out:
"Twilight! Hit him again! I need to get on top of his head!"
He barely heard her agree, as a flash of light quickly came from outside the mouth. He knew it was his moment. He grabbed one of the teeth, and jumped onto the outside of the dragon's snout. He sank his claws into the side of it's face, as he quickly made it toward's the dragon's head, it's eyes were closed, clearly in pain from the Elements of Harmony.
He switched his armor back on, fearing he might need it. He drew his body long blade out of his right arm, dismissing his claws. He was about to strike into the dragon's head, when he felt it shift under his feet. He was nearly thrown off when he saw a gigantic claw making it's way towards him. He laid flat against the dragon's head, feeling the claw narrowly miss his back. He quickly jumped as high as he could force his legs to, and dove directly toward's the dragon's cranium with his razor-sharp blade. He felt a feeling of satisfactory, soon followed by dread. His blade sank into the dragon's head, but it did not even phasing the large being. He could feel the familiar movement of a claw being drawn at him as he redrew his claws, dismissing his blade. He sank his claws into it's head and laid down, just as the claw passed over. It took a piece of his back with it.
Alex yelled in pain, as he sat up with a blood-driven fury. He relentlessly took chunks of armor out of the dragon's skull with his claws, until he had reached bone a few feet under. He ducked as another claw passed the head he was sitting on, now taking more of his back with him. he knew what he had to do. he took one last swipe as his claw met the familiar feeling of claw-on-bone. His claws had dug though a ton of armor, more than he had anticipated. He quickly redrew his blade, and sank it deep into the dragon's skull, penetrating the bone, and sinking into it's brain.
The dragon roared, as the virus went to work. He had slain the dragon, but something was wrong. His blade was stuck. The dragon's body went limp, as it smacked the ground, causing the ground to shake. Something still was not right.
He yanked and yanked, even attempting to dismiss his blade, but the virus would no longer obey his mind's commands. He soon felt the dragon's memories flood his mind. A millennium's worth of memories, appearing in an instant. He was absorbing something that has been immortal for thousands of years, until it met him. His mind was not prepared. Nor was the virus.
The virus quickly attempted to absorb the dragon, attempting to recreate it's form and read it's memories. The virus soon overexerted it's cells, slowly killing them one by one. A dragon's soul, mind, and body were too much for the virus. Alex could feel this. An unbearable pain like no other soon took control of his whole body. Screaming bloody murder, Alex finally ripped his blade from the dragon's skull, now being absorbed by Alex.
Alex could feel his body and the virus slowly shutting down as it continued to absorb the insanely large dragon. The worse pain was in his chest. Alex quickly brought his hands to his chest as the virus fully absorbed the dragon. A look that was an equivalent to someone who had suffered ten thousand years of anguish took over his face. The grim look would be the last thing anyone would ever see him do again. Alex fell to his back, finally absorbing the last of the dragon, his body hitting the ground with a dull thud. A look of peace soon overtook his face, his body no longer obeying him to sit up. He felt his whole body relax, as a warm feeling began to overtake him. His vision blurred, he was fighting to hold onto what life was left within him. His breathing was labored as he saw Twilight, and all the others soon look over him with a look of horror. His mind and facial expression soon met peace, his face relaxing into a indifferent look, not that of pain, nor of happiness, but of pure neutrality. He saw tears appear in Fluttershy and Twilight's eyes as his breathing became more and more labored. The virus was done. The dragon had been too much for the virus to comprehend. Absorbing an immortal was something it was not made for. His vision blurred, and his eyes began to close. Twilight was saying something, but his hearing was deafened. He managed one last sentence before falling into complete darkness.
"You're welcome.. "
With that strained sentence, Alex's head fell back and became best friends forever with the ground. A wave of warmth overcame his senses, and his mind removed of all guilt, pleasure, hate and any other emotion. Alex's brain fell into a bliss as it told all his senses he was dead.
(A/N This is not the end. hope you enjoyed it thus far.)
Alternate Ending I: The Funeral
(A/N This ending has NOTHING to do with Ending II, got it? Good. I fought writer's block hard for this one, so have fun!)
Luna and Celesita arrived on scene shortly after receiving a frantic letter from Twilight. Luna arrived first, and landed a few feet away from the group of mares. She walked up behind them, to see a sobbing Twilight and Fluttershy. Pinkie's mane was deflated, Rainbow was looking down on the figure with a pained look on her face, and Rarity was completely silent, simply sitting there with a bit of a sad look. Luna walked up behind them.
"He is... Dead?" She asked, as tenderly as she could. she looked over to Twilight, who's horn then glowed, enveloping Alex's form with a similar purple aura. Twilight's teary eyes looked up to her, and she nodded. Luna's face dropped, and a single tear ran down her face, as she turned to her landing sister. Celestia instantly picked up on what happened, and she turned to the group.
"He did all he could. He saved us all. Come now it'll be okay. Where is the dragon?"
Twilight walked over to Celestia and looked up at her with teary eyes. Celestia's question was answered as soon as she looked up past the group, and saw blood, which she assumed that belonged to the dragon, everywhere. Twilight buried her head in Celestia's chest, letting her tears pour out. Why is she so distressed? Has she really taken that much of a liking to this...thing? She shuddered at the thought, before returning her attention to the peaceful looking human.
"We'll give him the funeral he deserves. The funeral of a hero."
Twilight looked up to her mentor, before nodding slightly and turning her attention away.
The funeral itself was relatively short. Nopony knew who Alex was, so only the two princess,' and the Elements of Harmony attended. Celestia had a large room under the castle constructed to bury Alex in. His body was quickly put in the vault, and they all quietly watched as his body was moved into the dark room. Celestia sealed the door and nodded to the group. They would all stay in Canterlot with her until they wanted to go home. After watching the whole ordeal, each one of the Elements was a little shaken. Pinkie Pie held a party inside the castle, celebrating Alex's sacrifice for a world he barely knew. This made everypony a little happier, but they were all still shaken from watching someone, who they barely knew, lose their life for them.
One by one, each of them went home. A little sad, but in lifted spirits with the help of a all-too-happy Pinkie Pie. Rarity was the first to go, a bit sad that she never was able to change him 'out of those dreadful clothes.' Fluttershy was the next to go, still sobbing about not being able to help him. Rainbow silently left in the middle of the night, not saying a thing to anyone. Applejack then left, having work for her farm to do. Pinkie Pie then left at the subtle request of Twilight, bouncing happily out the door.
With the rest of them gone, Twilight walked alongside her mentor.
"Celestia... Why did he have to die?"
The question itself caught her off guard. She had no idea what to reply to that. She said one of the only thing that was left to come to mind. Though it probably was not the best answer.
"He did it on his own free will. We don't know why, but he didn't complain...much. He seemed to have a severely disturbed mind, but it did not stray him from doing the right thing. He did it to save us, to save all of my kingdom. And I will never be able to repay him for that."
She looked down to her student, who was getting teary-eyed again. "What troubles you, my faithful student?" She asked, rather blatantly.
Twilight blushed a bit. "H-...He was q-quite interesting. T-their species is something to b-..behold. biped creatures able to do things like that..."
"He was much more than just a regular human being." Luna cut in.
Neither Celestia nor Twilight had noticed Luna enter the room. Out of everypony involved, Luna definitely took it the hardest. She spend all of the days since the funeral in her room, and her sobs could occasionally be heard during the night. The moon was dimmer for the last week, and the stars were not nearly as bright due to this.
"I studied him for two weeks prior to him coming here. He is far from normal, and his mind had been through much. I was surprised to see he did as we asked so easily. It would have seemed he was more intended to kill us rather than assist us."
This sentence cut deep into Celestia's mind. The being her sister had brought here was of no good intentions. He had been evil, though she did think he was bad, she had not expected it to be true after he saved her kingdom. She looked to Luna.
"Sister, what do you mean? Was he not of good intention in the world you pulled him from?"
Luna's face dropped.
"....No."
Celestia's eye's shot wide, along with Twilight's.
"What would you have done had he decided to become hostile against us?!"
Luna smirked.
"Restrain him. He may be strong. He may have slain a dragon, but he would still have been vulnerable to magic restraints."
Celestia sighed, and looked out the window. It was dark, and it was a coming sunrise. The two sisters looked at each other and nodded. They bowed their heads slightly, and their horns began to emit their legendary glow. The sun crested over the ever-so-distant hills.
"...And with that, I bid you a good morning, sister." Luna said, walking towards her room.
Celestia looked down towards her prized student.
"I think it's time you went home, Twilight. Spike is probably missing you, along with all your other friends."
Twilight nodded, and the two went out to her room to pack what few things she had there.
With the day winding down, and all of her daily royal duties done, Celestia decided to visit Alex one last time. Though she said that phrase several 'one last time(s)' ago, she still intended on going. After sending her student on her way earlier in the day, she was spent. Her body landed a few feet from the door to the grave, and she looked at it with curiosity.
"My my... What is this?"
Upon closer inspection, there was a long wall glowing dark-blue text lining his grave door. Celestia read it aloud, in a quiet, peaceful voice.
"Down in these corridors Lies one of many unsung heroes Though his legacy is lost in time His legacy is not lost in our memories Though few knew him Many more were affected.
Even without them knowing Let alone saying thanks He lies here Alone In his final resting place.
If it were not for him This world would have ended And with this message I give my blessing.
May you live graciously in the afterlife, Alex.
-Luna
With a small smile, and a single tear going down her face, Celestia backed away from the door, and flying back up to her royal palace.
After writing her final poem, Luna teleported into the tomb, bypassing Celestia's magic with her own. She sat next to Alex's coffin, and pressed her horn lightly to it, causing the whole tomb to be engulfed in a bright blue light. She smiled, and the tears began to flow.
"I wish I could have saved you sooner, Alex. If I had known you could have died, I would have never brought you here."
She levitated the real pendant off of her chest, and opened the coffin. She place it gingerly between Alex's hand, and closed the coffin. She sighed audibly, then teleported out. The fake pendant on the door will glow until the end of time, and the pendant that Alex has will ensure his soul is safely transferred to whatever afterlife that exists.
Luna found herself in her room. She walked over to her bed, and looked underneath. She slid out a small human shoe box. Opening it, she lifted out a picture of her and Alex. Though he never knew it. Alex was accompanied by Luna the entire time of his infection. She had transformed herself to appear like his sister, and gave him as much help as he could in that world. She preformed a obviously very convincing facade that she had no idea who Alex really was when he arrived.
She set the picture on her night stand, and laid on the bed. Looking out the window, it was time for the sun to rise. her horn glowed slightly, bringing the moon down out of the horizon. She smiled, and rested her head on her pillow, drifting off to a quiet sleep.
Seven years later...
Luna quickly brought up the moon, not wanting to miss her yearly night she spend at Alex's grave. She quickly flew under the castle, and walked right through the grave's door. he came upon the glowing coffin, and she sat next to it. A tear came down her cheek, as it always did on this night. She put her head on the coffin, and sighed lightly. She could spend the rest of this night in silence, hoping to keep Alex's memories alive. She felt herself forgetting what he looked like every year. She decided it was time to refresh her memory. She lifted up the roof of the coffin, and what she saw astounded her.
Alex was still in perfect condition. After 7 whole years, his body had not even slightly decayed. He still had color to his cheeks, and a glow to him. the pendant was still stuck between his hands.
I guess that is the one effect 'Tia never told me about...
She closed the coffin, and laid lightly next to it. Here should would spend the whole night, and most likely most of the next day, in silence. She closed her eyes, and quietly thanked Alex again for everything he did. For the next thousand years, he would be remembered by her, thought not by everyday ponies, but by her. She quietly reached into the coffin, and removed the pendant. She smashed it with her hoof, and it burst into powder, she used her magic to spread it entirely over him. She watched as he began to glow brightly, then it faded. His chest rose and fell once, letting out his final eternal breath, releasing his soul completely. She watched as the color drained from his body, and he went fully limp. She began to cry uncontrollably, and stuck her head into her hooves. In truth, in the time she spend with Alex, she secretly grew a liking to him. He was her one chance left at romance, and she had let him die. She never knew if he would fancy her back at all, but she had high hopes.
"I'm so sorry, my prince... I'm so sorry..."
(A/N I know the whole 'Luna=Sister' thing really doesn't tie into Prototype itself as a game, but I like it like this. Deal with it.)That's all folks! Thanks for coming along this whole ride!
Alternate Ending II: A New Life
Twilight stirred in place, looking at the moderately glowing body.
"You sure he's going to be better?" She said quietly, looking with a hurt look towards Luna.
"Yes, he'll be fine. At this point, I've rid his brain of the cloud the virus was holding over him, and restored his memories. Unfortunately, he still has the virus. Now all we can do is wait..." A tear came to her eye.
"But...How? He was dead... How could you bring him back to life? Or better yet, how did you restore his memories?"
Luna looked at her, and chuckled a little. Luckily, she had gotten a bad feeling about Alex fighting a full-grown dragon on his own, so she and her sister quickly rushed there in time to see him hit the ground, wheezing his last dying breath. Luna quickly touched her horn lightly to his forehead, and they both began to glow. She had caught him just before his body tipped over the edge of death.
"Death owed me one. And..." She trailed off, looking down softly. She then turned her head to Celestia, who raised an eyebrow. "I have a confession to make... I... I traveled to this human's universe." Twilight gasped. Celestia simply eyed her quietly, her eyebrow not dropping. "And... I watched him through his sister's eyes.I was with her originally to survey the human race, but she caught a deadly disease. On her dying bed, I showed her my true form, and her dying wish was for me to watch over her brother in case he came back." She sighed and looked back to Alex. "He really is a nice person. He was simply put through a lot for no reason..."
Celestia took this break to chime in. "I know, Luna. Did you really think i didn't notice you disappearing randomly?" Luna gave a sheepish smile. Before anyone could say anything, Alex groaned and began to sit up. Luna quickly changed forms to look like Dana, and she stood in front of him, waiting for him to fully wake up.
"Alex, are you ok?" She said lightly. Alex's eyes shot open like rockets were strapped to his eyes.
"Dana?!" He sat up, and looked around, and saw Celestia and Twilight. "I'm not dead, but I was dead... and I have my conscience... What..." He looked at what he thought was his sister. "What happened?" He watch Dana stand up, and walk back.
Alex watched in horror as his beloved sister morphed back into the night-colored mare. He sat up quickly, and summoned his claws, armor, and wings all at once. His wings were 3 times the size they used to be. He was about to rush her when he was halted mid-jump.
"YOU KILLED MY SISTER!" He yelled at the top of his lungs. He felt a heat build up in his stomach. He turned his head to her, and a fire built in his eyes. He let out the most primal yell his body could muster.
"YOU KILLED HER!!!!!!!" And with this yell, the fire in his stomach ran up his throat, and out his mouth. Producing a pitch-black fire. That soon engulfed everything he saw. He continued his yell, not even close to running out of breath.
The rage inside of him was building. Who was she to impersonate his sister? The only family he had left. He twisted against his magical restraints, slowly pulling away from them. He saw a light in front of him, and he found the mare's horn directly in front of his forehead. His whole vision went black.
Alex was noticing he was watching another memory. One that the unicorn-pegasus mix must have been putting into his mind. What he saw would change his whole outlook on life. He was watching in third person, watching as the blue mare was talking to his sister, lying on her deathbed.
"Dana, are you sure you want this?" Luna said quietly. All Dana did was nod, and her voice came out weakly.
"I need someone to watch out for my brother. He has lead a painful life, and sometimes needs help with things... All I ask is that you take care of him, Luna."
A single tear ran down Luna's face. "Yes, Dana. I'll watch out for him."
Dana held out a hand, and Luna put out her horn. Dana grasped it with what little strength she had left. A wave of memories came over Luna, and she instantly knew everything Dana knew, friends, family, job, skills, everything. Luna shape-shifted, and she looked just like Dana. The real Dana looked up to her.
"Thank you... So much, Luna... Watch...for...him..." Her monitor flat-lined, and Luna teleported out of the room, and back to Dana's apartment. She was crying quietly.
The world went black again, and the next slideshow of memories was of her and Alex, talking, her helping him, and ultimately, her in her normal form, watching Alex from the sky.
Alex's vision returned, and he was released from his grip. He knelt on the ground, and looked up to Luna.
"It...It was you the whole time?" He squeaked out, a tear welling in his eye. The virus in his mind was now gone, and he could think clear with the mind he had before he became the infected. His human conscious was wracking at him, berating him for everything he did while infected. He de-morphed everything, now noticing he had his...powers out?! He had never used more than one... But, if he had his powers, how was his mind back? He looked up to Luna, who had tears of her own.
"I know, Alex.. I'm sorry. But I had to do what I could. For you. For my kingdom."
Celestia and Twilight simply watched in true curiosity. They didn't even know what to say or how to react, so they simply backed up a few steps, and sat and watched. Celestia pulled a bag of popcorn out of nowhere, and began munching on them rigorously, watching the events unfold. She offered a small amount to Twilight, who equally began eating them, focused on the drama occurring in front of her.
"But... you... You lied to me!" Alex drew upon all his powers again, only to be stopped by Luna's hoof on his shoulder.
"Alex, I'm sorry. But it was for your own good. And the good of my kingdom."
Alex saw as a tear dropped onto his head, and he returned to his normal form again. He had tears of his own, but he refused to let them run. He had to be strong, for his own mentality's sake. Another tear stuck his his head, and that nearly caused him to go overboard, but he looked up to see Luna smiling down to him.
"I-I'll send you back. It'll be like nothing ever happened... I can return you to what you were like before, like nothing eve-" She was stopped by a finger tapping lightly on her muzzle. Her face turned a bright red.
"I understand. But if I have the opportunity to stay here, and not go back to that hellhole, I'll take it." Then it hit Alex. One day ago, he would have been itching to go back, and use his wings to berate and kill every blacklight in sight. But now, that seemed like the most inhumane thing to him.
"B-but... What did you do to my brain? I have a whole new mindset on everything..."
"I returned your mind to the state it was before you were infected. Before everything went wrong. You still have your powers, I could not rid those, but your brain is cleansed."
Alex had a look of surprise plastered across his face. His eyes were wide, and his mouth was slightly agape. he brought his arms back to his sides, and looked at her.
"Then what now?" He asked, shrugging his shoulders.
"You live and do what you want. You could be a guard here. I'm sure nopony would dare question you."
Alex smiled. On the right side of the law? This is going to be a good twist. He noticed he had gone silent, and he looked at her with a stern face.
"I'll consider it..." He coughed, hard. A large puff of smoke erupted from his mouth. Then it crossed his mind. He had absorbed a dragon, and died. He turned and looked to the princess, who had rejoined her sister. A grin crossed his face, and he began to shapeshift.
He felt his neck become very long, and his limbs very big. Soon he found himself towering over the horrified looking ponies. He was not as big as the original dragon, but he was a dragon nontheless. He switched back.
He saw how he had activated multiple powers when he was enraged. He summoned his claws, then his wings, then his horn, then his armor. He then felt a fire grow in his stomach again. He looked at the sisters, and Luna was smiling, crying, and hugging her sister. They looked back at him. He noticed Twilight was gone, but he thought nothing of it. He turned his head to an open window, and let a pillar of fire erupt from his mouth.
Multiple powers, fire, giant wings, turning into a dragon, being on the top of the law... This could be good.
He retracted his powers, and walked calmly over to Luna.
"I'll take that job." Luna smiled at him, then removed her pendant off her chest, and floated it over to Alex. She wrapped it around his neck.
"Then keep that." She said, with a steady, firm tone. She was smiling with a wide smile, and Alex accepted the offer.
"If you say so." Maybe it was having his human mind-set back, but he final was being happy here, regardless of his past.
Seven years later.
Alex sat up groggily in his bed. He put a hand to his head, he had a serious headache, and no recollection of what happened last night. Shit, too much to drink? Only one way to really tell... He clapped his hands rather loudly, and it rang in his ears, wracking his brain. Yup, hungover. He stood up slowly, and walked over to his armor. He had managed to put the virus to his will, and he was able to turn his body back to normal. He could dress up in other clothes, and now he had his armor. In the last seven years, he had reached the top ranks of the palace guards. Today was his day off. He smiled at the armor, impressed with he craftsmanship. Celestia's sun had just crested, and he walked out of his room.
His path to the kitchen was cut off when he accidentally ran into Luna.
"Oh, hello Alex." She said, blushing lightly. "Today is a special day for you. Seven years ago today, you fought off a dragon, keeping this kingdom, your home, safe."
"Oh, I remember." He stuck out his wings. The infection truly did bear to his will. All of his powers were no longer black and red, but any color he wanted. his wings were a graceful black, with brighter feathers. He loved them, they were gigantic. He looked to see Luna smiling, blushing slightly.
Alex raised an eyebrow. "What are you looking at?" He said, rather blatantly.
Luna's reply was quiet, but audible. "you know what they say about big wings..."
Celestia cut in from the other room.
"SISTER! I CAN HEAR YOUR THOUGHTS FROM HERE!"
Luna turned a very unholy shade of red, before she quickly ran out of the room. Alex shrugged the gesture off, as he walked calmly toward the kitchen, going over and over again how this happened.
(A/N That's all, folks! I kinda had to rush the end of this, so there is no editing. Look over those please. Hope you enjoyed!)
1 Year later...
Alex woke up later than he ever had. It was the day he was dreading the last few years of his time here, and the time had come. He was finally going to go back. He sat up and looked around. His armor was there, his closet full of clothes, everything he had ever owned in the last 8 years. All of it wasted.
He shifted his body to look like his original jacket and jeans. He sighed and walked over to the door. It opened silently, and he slipped out quietly. In the last 8 years he had rose to the top of the guard, stopped a few griffon assassination attempts, tore down an entire invading griffin legion on his own, and eventually brought peace to Equestria. He cleared his throat as he walked towards the room he was meant to meet everypony for one last time.
He pushed open the large double doors, and looked at the group of 8 before him. Luna, Twilight, Rarity, Rainbow, Fluttershy, Pinkie, Applejack, and Celestia. He smiled as he prepared his final good-byes. Lucky for him, he would never have to say anything.
"Good to see you off Alex. We'll all surely miss you." Alex only smiled. He steeled his heart for what was coming next. He decided to cut straight to the point.
"I don't need to do this... let's just... Get it all over with. Did you get everything I need?"
"It was hard, but yes." Celestia said. Out from behind Celestia, a young stallion walked out. Alex sighed, and turned his head to the small pony. The small thing had grey fur, with a black mane that had a single white pinstripe down the side, and had two folded wings. For once in a long time, Alex genuinely smiled. He looked with painful eyes to Celestia.
"Are you sure this will work?" He inquired. Nervous about what he was about to do.
"From what I've studied about you, yes this will work." Celestia gave him a nod, signaling him to finish his work in Equestria. He put a hand on the young one's head. The small stallion fully opened his eyes to reveal two bright red eyes, with a hint of grey swirling around inside. Alex closed his eyes, and set his virus to work.
The poor young pony was enveloped by the virus immediately. The eight mares inside watched curiously, unsure on how this would end. Alex removed his hand and looked at the small pony.
The only thing that had changed was his fur color, it had shifted from grey to black, now matching his mane. The small pony hiccuped and sent a small fireball into Alex. Alex simply stood there as the fire singed a small part of his chest. He looked towards the group of mares.
"Looks like it worked..." He turned to Luna. "I guess this means goodbye." Alex didn't have a second thought about it as he was wrapped in the warm embrace of the 8 mares, Luna crying quietly.
"I'll always remember you, even if you don't..." She whispered into his ear. "...forever..." She hugged him tighter. He looked past the quietly crying princess to see a very excited looking Pinkie Pie. He was about to say something when she exploded with energy.
"FOREVERRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" She yelled, and jumped onto Alex. He pulled himself away from the group and looked to Luna.
"I think it's time for me to go." he said, with slightly sad eyes.
"The conditions are that you won't remember anything, and all your newly gained powers will be gone, it will be like you were never here. Are you sure about this?"
Alex simply nodded. He turned to all of them and waved goodbye as Celestia and Luna's magic enveloped him. He took one last breath, and felt his powers being ripped from him, and his body beign restored to default. He managed one last phrase before disappearing completely.
"Goodbye, I'll miss you a-" he disappeared with a flash.
Alex hit the center of the crater with a loud CRACK! What had happened? Had he blacked out mid-air? He turned to the tank on his left and picked it up, throwing it in some random direction, mowing down crowds of people. He simply laughed as he turned to the building next to him, and began running to the top. Once he was out of sight of his captors, he simply looked around. Something was clouding his mind. He looked at his hand, and on the back of it was a faint blue blowing sphere. He swiped at it, and his hand went right through. He watched as it faintly disappeared, leaving a faint dark blue glow on his hand. He dismissed all his thoughts before leaping off the building, aiming to crash down on the poor people below.
Luna watched quietly as Alex disappeared. She turned to the young stallion next to her. Though he was not much older than Rarity's sister Sweetie Belle, he was severely neglected by his only parent. He didn't truely know how to fly. He only spoke in short sentences. Though he had just been infused with Alex's power, Luna and Celestia needed to restrain his powers, until he actually needs all of them.
Luna turned to the Elements of Harmony.
"I think it's time we departed. There is much I need to converse with with Celestia...Privately."
"Oh- Oh of course Princess Luna!" Twilight said hastily, moving quietly out of the room.
After the mares had left, Luna turned quickly to Celestia, with teary eyes.
"He's gone, Celestia... What will we do with him?" She pointed to the now scared looking stallion. She turned her head away from him, and whispered quietly to Celestia. "He doesn't even have a name..."
Celestia turned to Luna. "All in due time, sister. But for now..." her horn began to glow, and the young stallion was enveloped with a white glow. "His powers are limited. But only just." She whispered, turning away from the young stallion.
"What should we do with him?"
"I think Twilight could use some light in her life. Or maybe Rainbow Dash, she would make and interesting motherly figure, but she might not be up to it..."
"Let us think about this over time, sister. For now, let us keep him here." Luna said, slowly walking to the young stallion.
"What just happened?" He said, quietly. His voice was lower than normal ponies of his age. Though it startled her, Luna smiled slightly.
"Nothing you need to worry about, my friend. You have a great life ahead of you." She nuzzled him slightly.
Another 2 years later.
Helix woke up quietly, and turned his head to the rising sun. He groaned and rolled over in bed, smacking his now screaming alarm clock. He groaned and rolled over. It was Saturday, and he didn't need to get up. He actually just planned on falling back to sleep. His head was still friendly with his pillows, and his mind was just beginning to drift when there was a swift knock on the door, waking him up completely.
"Helix! Scootaloo is here to see you!"
He groaned. "Alright, Twilight... I'll be out in a sec." He sat up and looked in the mirror. His mane was a lot longer it used to be, and his once single white stripe had multiplied to many. But something was wrong. He sat up quickly and ran to the mirror. His once red eyes were now grey. He began to panic as he soon saw they morphed back to red. His breathing calmed, and he did a once-over on his entire body. His wings were larger than most ponies his age, and he had a double DNA helix for a cutie mark. He smiled at it, though he had no idea what it meant. He calmly walked down the stairs and to the door. He waved to a very happy looking Twilight.
"Bye Twilight!" He waved. She waved back calmly, before turning back to her books. Helix turned to the orange mare in front of him.
"Alright, Scoots. Let's roll." He said, flaring out his wings. "I'll race you to practice!"
"Oh you're on !" Scootaloo said, opening her own wings. They both took off to the sky in the blink of an eye, leaving a small dust cloud in their wake.
(A/N: YES! IT'S HERE! Your sequel!
Sorry I couldn't bring Heller into this, yet. But I need to play the game first. Thanks for all that are following this story! I'll update this story to let you know when I decide to release the full sequel, if you guys still want it. [Let me know]. Thanks to all of you who have come this far! And for anyone who decides they don't like where this is going, you don't have to read it. Yay!)
Alex was soaring at nearly the speed of sound in the direction of Ponyville, the memory of where it is clear in his mind. He closed his eyes and drew a large breath against the wind rushing past him. He expelled the breath as he snapped his wings together as hard as he could, sending him soaring forward even faster. The town quickly came into view, and he spread his wings to slow down. He felt the wind fill his wings as he slowly came to a stop in the middle of town. The sun was just starting to rise, and Alex still felt like a million bucks. He folded his wings, and demorphed them. He took a look around, to reveal nobody had come out just yet. When an idea struck him, he immediately brought back out his wings, and flew towards Twilight's tree.
God, flying is great. He could always glide, but being able to endlessly be in the air was a completely different story. He wracked his brain for any aerial maneuvers he could do, but his brain search came up with nothing. Evidently, the pegasus he absorbed didn't know how to do anything other than fly. He was disappointed. He would either have to absorb another pegasus who was better at flying, or actually learn something. But for now, he did not have to worry about that. He had arrived at Twilight's tree. He landed a few feet from the door, about to knock when it flew open.
"I'll be back by tonight Spike! Try not to-" She walked out and right into Alex. Her expression was priceless. "Oh hello."
"Hey, I need to talk to you."
Twilight agreed, before closing the door behind her. "Talk while we walk. I need to go to Rarity's."
"Alright. But what I came here for is I wanted to learn some new spells. I..." A sickly grin broke his lips. "... Acquired some unicorn powers last night."
And as soon as the words left his mouth, he morphed the horn out, reaching out almost a foot off his head. Twilight looked up and gawked at the horn. She couldn't miss her chance to teach an alien how to use unicorn magic. How did he get that? The words just about left her mouth.
"How did you..."
"Don't ask. I also have wings now. But like I said, I need to learn combat spells, and teleporation would be nice."
She gave him a confused look.
"Why?"
Alex sighed. Before proceeding to explain the imminent dragon problem. Her face grew dark, and her tone grew deathly.
"wow...I..That's incredible. You and us? Against a dragon? This is not going to be good, or fun. Well, we're here."
They came upon a very tall, fancy looking building. It struck him as something a princess would enjoy spending time alone in.
"I want you to meet Rarity. Although I'm warning you, she's going to go nuts over the clothes you're wearing."
Alex turned to her and laughed.
"These don't come off. Sorry. Say, do you know anyone I could learn flying from?"
He morphed his horn away, and brought out the wings. He recalled Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy, but he had no idea where they lived.
"Rainbow Dash is the self-proclaimed 'best flyer in all of Equestria' so you might want to try her. She lives in a cloud home that way." She pointed a hoof off to the right, in the clouds.
"Thanks, oh and Twilight, explain the situation to Rarity, Pinkie, Applejack, and Fluttershy please, then meet me with all of them at your place tonight. I'm most likely going to spend a lot of time with Rainbow Dash."
He stretched his wings, not even saying goodbye as he took off in the direction of Rainbow Dash's. He heard her yell something along the lines of 'what about the new spells? ' He dismissed it, and continued his flight.
Rainbow Dash had woken up earlier than expected that morning. When her eyes opened, Luna's night was still conquering the sky. She got up and walked over to her mirror. Her mane was still the same exact way it was every day. She had an innate ability to never get bedhead. She looked happily at her reflection, before heading off to the shower. She turned the hot water on, and stepped in. The hot water soothed her wings, and wet down her mane when she heard a loud screech scream past her house. Shaken, she immediately ran down stairs, and walked outside to see... Alex? With wings? Flying bucking FAST? She could only believe it because she saw it. Long, black and red wings. They were huge, and they beat quickly as he flew quickly into the distance. At this point, she noticed her wings were at full extension, ready to go. She looked back at them, and laughed quietly to herself. She turned back and closer her door, before going out to fly the water out of her mane real quick.
She immediately took off, and beat her wings as hard as they could go. She could feel the water sliding out of her mane and tail, drop by drop. She took a deep breath, and let it out of her mouth. In the moment her mouth was open, she had managed to cross flight paths with a small fly. The poor little fly ended up in her throat, causing her to go into a coughing fit. Just when she thought she was going to get it free, the fly decided to be a bucking pain, and lodged itself in her neck. Rainbow Dash knew she was fighting a loosing battle, and instantly turned her flight path home.
She reached her home, and immediately bust through the door and headed for the nearest faucet. She dunked her head under, and began chugging. She brought her head out triumphantly just as she heard a deep voice come out from behind her.
"Rainbow Dash?"
Her head whipped around to see Alex standing a few feet behind her, with a look on his face that depicted someone who was about to break down in laughter. She swallowed the water she didn't realize she had in her mouth.
"Gah- *cough* Yeah. What's up?" She said nonchalantly. Alex's face turned serious, wiping off the slight smile he didn't realize he had.
"I want to learn good flying maneuvers."
"Sure, let's go!" Eagerly she ran towards the door, before quickly turning "Wait, why?"
Alex sighed audibly, realizing he would have to explain this whole situation again.
"Perfect! Nice backfip!" Rainbow yelled at Alex, as he finished a fully perfected loop, coming to a sudden halt silently in the air.
"Thanks." He said coolly. "Let's go to Twilight's."
She looked at him quizzically. "What? Egghead's? Why?"
"One, it's finally getting dark. Two, I said we'd be there by night." Alex didn't even wait for a reply as he took off towards Twilight's at a speed that rivaled Rainbow's. He could hear her yell something in the distance but could not hear it over the wind rushing past his ears. He turned his head and saw Rainbow Dash appear next to him, she yelled something, then proceeded to fly a little closer, and yelled again.
"So what's your plan on fighting this dragon thingy?"
Alex chuckled. What was his plan? The same plan as everything else he killed.
"Either rip it's head off, break it's spine, or tear into it's brain." He laughed like a maniac before speeding up once again towards Twilight's, pulling far ahead of Rainbow Dash. He arrived at Twilight's in less than a minute. He landed in front of her door, before turning around to see a blue dot, followed by a rainbow colored trail, approaching him quickly. He leaned against the door as a very tired looking Rainbow Dash landed in front of him.
"You.. you're fast... Nopony has ever beaten me before." She continued panting, as Alex simply turned and opened Twilight's door. He looked into the room to see all the Elements present, save Rainbow, who was behind him. He walked into the room, bearing the stares at his wings by the current occupants. He sat down across from Twilight, next to Rarity and an unusually calm and silent Pinkie Pie. Rainbow took a seat next to Twilight.
"I've explained the situation to them," Twilight said. "And we're ready to back you up when the dragon comes, we just need to know your plan."
Alex chuckled. "Plan? I don't need a pla-"
His sentence was cut off by a deafening roar. The seven occupants of the room looked at each other, knowing exactly what they had just heard. The dragon had come early.
