Power
Sorcerers of death's construction
Previous ChapterThe inside of the throne room was massive, stretching up a good forty feet. The ceiling was decorated with colored tiles that depicted small black creatures flying away as a large pink blob surrounded a castle on a mountain. There was red velvet carpeting down the middle of the room. Guards all shook at the sight of Tyler.
"It's the alien!" some of them whispered to one another.
"So, uh, what were you saying about me being really powerful or something?" Tyler seemed curious.
"Ah yes, I believe you're going to put Canterlot at risk and so we'll have to hide you."
Tyler was silent, thinking what that would entail.
"Um, why would I put this castle at risk? I just got into this world, how did I gather so much interest already?"
"Wherever you're from, your life must have been dictated by neutrality, not picking a decisive good or bad."
"Well I was a mercenary, did everything for money..."
She nodded,"That must be it." she reached her throne chair and took a seat facing Tyler," You see, every creature is either good or evil. They will stick to one side of a fight because either they believe in the morals of their side or they fight for the same cause. Since you never picked good or evil and did both equally as much, the energy that every creature devotes to either following morals or rules of a particular faction is still in you, only leaving in small amounts when you would do the bidding of somepony. Almost any magical being can tap into your aura, and they don't have to ask nicely . Every magical being who has the ability to amass great amounts of power will be drawn to you until you either leave or something is done to dissipate the aura coming off you."
"Sounds reasonable enough." Tyler sarcastically noted, not understanding a word she just said,"But what do you have in mind?"
She thought for a moment,"If I could gather my sister, my niece, and my student, I bet we could combine out magic to try and hide your magical aura."
Tyler snickered,"I still can't believe magic is real."
Celestia nodded,"Plenty of things are magic here. Friendship is magi-" the doors to the throne room burst open, interrupting the solar princess. At the door stood a very angry looking blue alicorn.
"Sister! How dare thou talk to this alien whilst I was away!"
The guards at the doors were quick to close the door, making sure there was no other pony coming in from the outside.
"Ah yes, my apologies my dear sister."
"Who pissed in your cheerios?" Tyler looked at Luna, steam coming from her ears.
"She doesn't like to miss new things." Celestia gently giggled. Luna walked over, taking a seat next to her sister's throne.
"Right, so what do we do now?" Tyler asked, putting is hand on his hip and his gun by his side.
"We call for Twilight Sparkle and Princess Cadence to meet us here at Canterlot." Celestia said with conviction.
"Shall I send guards to escort the princesses, dear sister?" Luna chimed in.
"At once." Celestia said, conjuring up a piece of parchment in thin air that made Tyler gasp.
Celestia chuckled,"You'll get used to it once you spend a little time in Equestria."
Luna quickly ran throughout the castle and into the guard barracks. The night guards were sleeping peacefully, every stallion and mare bat-pony in their own bunk. At least they were until somepony's royal voice broke through the sleep and made all of them jump to attention.
"I require four guards to come hither!" she demanded, four bat-pony guards ended up flying to the princess, one a mare and the other three were stallions.
"Two of you must go escort Princess Twilight Sparkle and the other two must Escort Princess Cadence from the Crystal Empire!"
All four nodded as they gathered their armor and were soon out of the barracks, the mare and a stallion went to retrieve Twilight and the other two stallions to go and get Cadence.
Luna smiled, going to her sister's side in the throne room after letting the rest of the guards sleep. However, on her way she thought,"What if I could use his energy to bring eternal night?" She stopped, her face holding a shocked expression. Oh no, it seemed Luna's dark ego, Nightmare moon, had heard about the feast, but wanted the main dish first.
Chrysalis and her hive of little over eighty flew at the edge of the Everfree, looking into Ponyville. They knew Chrysalis would have to become Twilight in order for them to penetrate into the great city and open some kind of back door. That was when they saw her leaving Sugarcube Corner, a basket in her magical grasp as Pinkie Pie bounced around her in a circle. The two were talking, but none of them could hear. Just as Chrysalis predicted, they went into the library. Their next mission was trapping Twilight and finding a reason to go to Canterlot.
Right when the reasons for why came in to mind, the bat ponies arrived and entered library. They were out of place and obviously were from Canterlot. She had to act now or else she never find out what the princesses of the land were hiding She grabbed three of her changelings and gently flew over head, careful not to attract any attention. to many, it looked like it was just a cloud up above since her wings were transparent and just her black body had a clear shadow.
She gently touched down on the library's balcony, looking in. The door below opened and Pinkie bounced happily out. the two night guards were talking to Twilight as she nodded, a scroll held in her grasp as she read the words written on it.
They suddenly burst through the window, tackling all the ponies in the room and incapacitating them as quick as they could. Their goo helping by making them hard to land solid punches on. The guards put up a little bit of a hassle at first, but a quick smash into the ground shut them up. They were quickly stacked up on the side, covered in goop. Chrysalis let out an evil laugh as she turned into Princess Twilight. Two of the changelings turned into royal guard ponies while staring at their queen, their bright gold armor sparkling. They were ready.
Sombra's mist slowly approached, disguised as a cloud among others. Soon he was over Canterlot and he drifted down. No pony really noticed, too distracted by the weird metallic device slowly rolling through the streets and towards the castle, pushed by servants as a trail of mud got left behind. Tyler walked around the streets of Canterlot. Two guards walked beside him, one a pegasus and the other an earthpony. The guards were tasked with showing him around the city real quick before the other princesses arrived.
"This blows." Tyler groaned.
"Don't be so down, friend!" The pegasus said,"Life isn't something to dread!"
"Well when you are your only kind on a planet full of colorful maniacs..."
"Hmmf..." the earthpony groaned, the most down of the three,"Try living with them for thirty years..."
"Looks like I might have to." Tyler sighed. The pegasus looked at the other two
"What Debbie-Downers..." he chuckled, staying optimistic.
Sombra looked around, trying to find someplace to hide and wait to strike. He could sense the aura in Tyler, as he grins evilly from within his mist cloud. The things he could do if he controlled Tyler. All the corruption he could bring to this pathetic land. He slowly transformed to his pony form, waiting. Suddenly a large heaping pile of trash fell down. The dumpster it was supposed to go into was only a few feet away. The stallion who dumped the trash must not have been paying attention. The three turned around and began to walk down the same alley Sombra was in. There was a stone hedge at the end of the alley with a view of the land below the mountain.
The two buildings were made of red brick. There was one dumpster int he alley off to the side, pressed up against the wall to the diner. The other building was a bakery. The alley was dark, not much light getting between the nine foot gap between the two buildings because of the sun's angle relative to the alley.
Tyler was too busy to appreciate the view to notice a black snake slowly wrapping around his leg.
"Wow, this view is incredible!" he gasped. One of the guards was covering his snout.
"Kinda wish it wasn't in a dark smelly alley..." said the usually optimistic pony. The earth pony refused to step one hoof into the alley, simply sitting by the entrance. The pegasus looked around,"Am I the only pony here who feels that something is.... off?"
Tyler turned around, done with the view,"Yeah, pretty much."
The snake of mist was almost half way up his leg.
"I think it's time to go back to the castle..." The pegasus shivered.
"yeah, alright..." Tyler looked down at his leg, seeing the mist. He reached to touch is. It ran through his fingers,"What the..." whispered the human. He traced it to the large pile of trash, investigating it. The pegasus was already out of the alley, waiting for Tyler.
The mist grew larger and darker. He began to dig through the trash that was delivered from above. Right when he reached a large air gap, a wind pushed him down. Sombra rose before him, surrounding him. Tyler was petrified, covering his face.
"Let's go, dude!" the earthpony yelled out. Sombra smiled, getting his face close to Tyler's. He pulled the arms of the human apart and straight out. Tyler raised up into the air.
Tyler was about to yell for help, but as soon as he opened his mouth, the mist rushed in, disappearing from the environment and into his body. Sombra laughed maniacally.
Soon it was just Tyler on his hands and knees, coughing harshly at the ground.
"Are you alright in there?" the pegasus asked, looking in to check on him.
Mist began to escape from Tyler's eye ducts. His eyes turning from white to green, blue to red, and his pupil momentarily going into an oval shape before returning. His canine teeth grew slightly larger,"I fell..." he yelled back, not being able to control his own voice. His eyes slowly returned to white and the mist cleared up, but the Red stayed the same. an evil smile crossed his face.
Author's Note
Take that, Mary Sue claimers! Who's perfect now? Not Tyler! Actually, I don't give a shit whatcha think.
