Dan and Zaniphar vs My Little Pony

Chapter 4: The End of Equestria

Present Day

Dan had recalled all of those training exercises Zaniphar put him through. The hours of meditation, gathering magic powder, and creating his own spells with it. It was grueling, and sometimes boring to him. But he strove forward, for he knew it was a means to an end. A way for him to get more power, and be able to challenge the Princesses. Now he had that power and he was going to use it. But first, to initiate their plan.

"You all took something very special from me that day, my car. And now I have returned, and I bring you the destruction of Equestria!" Dan exclaimed to the nine mares in front of him. The mares however weren't so much as looking at him, but the man standing next to him. They had no idea who this man was so they needed to find out.

And Pinky Pie was happy to oblige," Hi I'm Pinkie-HELLUH!" Suddenly Pinkie Pie was shoved back, hitting Fluttershy on her way back, causing them both to slide backwards across the ground.

"WHAAAT!" they all said at the same time, no one was immune to Pinkie's weird way of greeting.

"I'm sorry, but I don't very much like it when I get bowled over by some party monster gone wrong," the man said nonchalantly.

"Who art thou, why do thou darest help Dan of all people?" Luna asked the cloaked stranger.

"Oh, my name is Zaniphar," he said with a some what bored tone," and as to why I'm helping Dan, well, shouldn't a father help his own adopted son?"

"SON! Oh my darlings! This just keeps getting crazier!" this outburst came from Rarity, who was trying very hard not to faint.

"Well it's about to get even crazier! Hit it dad!" this came from Dan, the signal to start the ritual. Zaniphar once again created two clones of himself and they all stood near one of the circles. Zaniphar stood at Applebloom's, a clone at Sweetie Bell's. and a clone at Scootalo's. Dan himself was near Spike's circle.

"Any last words you all?" Zaniphar asked each of the four captives.

They all looked to their mentors and older siblings, tears in their eyes, and said four words that would haunt them to the grave," It's not your fault." Then the blood dropped. The show began.

The middle of each circle erupted in black pillars of magic. The pillars completely consumed the occupants of the circles. The darkness was so great that when it hit the sky, the Pegasi cities, could feel the corruption radiating off of them. It was at this moment that the Wonderbolts and Shining Armor showed up. Rather then ask questions, Shining instantly lead the Wonderbolts toward the black pillars. As soon as they touched them, darkness consumed them. The darkness seemed to have a life of its own, throwing Shining Armor and the Wonderbolts back, while at the same time wrapping them in an black tendrils. They quickly covered the Wonderbolts, going into their eyes, mouths, and ears, snuffing out any remains of light in them, until they lied still, unmoving, dead. Shining had it worse. They not online covered him, and infested him, but they constricted him, stopping up his airways to keep him from breathing. Then they would let him have some air, only to wrench it from him again. They seemed to enjoy torturing this unicorn. Shining tried to fire off a spell, but the darkness had already taken his horn and his magic from him. With one last ear splitting scream, Shining Armor collapsed on the ground, a cold, unfeeling corpse.

The four alicorns gasped, Pinkie's hair went straight, Rarity and Fluttershy fainted, Applejack threw up, and, for once in her life, Rainbow Dash was speechless. Twilight was the first to move, she went straight to her brother's body, casting a healing spell, evident by the purple glow of her horn. "Shining! Come on wake up! Please, wake up!" she pleaded and pleaded to the corpse, but she got no answer. Everypony's eyes grew wide as they realized the one thing, they were hoping beyond hope wasn't true. But it was. Shining Armor was dead.

"Such a shame, I had expected more of a challenge from him," came Zaniphar's voice as he seemed to teleport to Shining's body. Twilight jumped back in horror, looking up at the black figure in front of her. 'How did he do?' she thought as the figure bent down to her brother's head. Then he did the unthinkable, least unthinkable to the ponies. He grabbed Shining Armor's neck, and wrenched his head off, as if it were as easy as plucking a daisy from a field of flowers. He looked the disembodied head in the eyes and said," Wow, the strongest stallion in all of Equestria, and I killed you in two seconds. Oh well, at least you'll make a good edition to my collection." By this time, the darkness had slid off of Shining's head, so you could see, his dead eyes, white coat stained black and read from the mixture of darkness and blood, and his dark blue mane with a light blue stripe in it, as it hung limply to one side. Zaniphar then placed the head into a pocket seemingly out of nowhere, and it was gone.

Rainbow Dash charged Zaniphar, anger taking over all of her thoughts, as she sought to avenge her favorite team of pegasi and Twilight's brother. A split second before Rainbow Dash made contact with Zaniphar's shield, she was stopped mid flight by another Pegasus. It was at this point that the nine mares noticed three things. One: Rainbow Dash was fucked. Two: the blackness coming from the circles were gone. And three: Spike, Scootalo, who was holding Rainbow Dash in the air, Applebloom, and Sweetie Bell had all gotten out of the circles, and they all looked different. Then, in a voice that sounded like it belonged to a demon, and sent chills down everyone's spine said,"YOU LEAVE OUR MASTERS ALONE!"[/b

Rainbow Dash was, like Pinky pushed back violently, but this time Celestia caught her mid air with her magic. As Rainbow Dash settled back into hovering position, they looked upon their former friends and family. Spike, was no longer a boy dragon, he was big, bigger than an adult dragon. And gone were his purple scales with green spikes sticking out, now replaced by pitch black scales. and blood red spikes. His wings and claws were bigger than before, almost completely covering Ponyville with their shadow. The most unsettling part of Spike's new form, were his eyes. They were blood red, piercing eyes, and when Twilight looked into them, she didn't see a single trace of her former assistant, only anger, hunger, and a need to serve. The Cutie Mark Crusaders fared no better, their coats and manes taking on the same style as Spike's scales and spikes, black coats with blood read manes. They all looked so similar, you could almost call them triplets, but each of them had a trick up their sleeve. Applebloom, as the earth pony, had sharp, jagged, blades sticking out of her hooves. She pulled them up to her face, so she could examine them, and smiled at all the ways she imagined she could murder her sister with them. Scootalo's wings were sharp as knifes, easily being able to slice through bone. She proved this, by using one of them to cut down a mare trying to flee the carnage. Rainbow Dash's jaw hung agape, she couldn't believe that her former biggest fan could be capable of such violence. However, all of her doubts were dashed when she looked into Scootalo's face, and saw a primal need for blood, specifically her blood. Finally, Sweetie bell, the only unicorn of the group, felt her horn and smiled. Her horn was now as sharp as a blade, and red lighting kept sparking out from the pent up magically energy inside of it. It could be used for two things, one to impale, and two, to disintegrate.

They all went over to Dan and Zaniphar, bowing to give them the respect they deserve.

Then, they all heard a voice shout," THAT IS ENOUGH!" Zaniphar sighed and looked towards the source of the voice, which he knew was Fluttershy. He knew that at this moment, Fluttershy would get so angry, that she would use her STARE power on them hoping to break them. He knew it was coming, he just hoped they could've avoided it.

Fluttershy flew right into Zaniphar's face, thinking to take him down first and foremost, "IT'S ABOUT TIME YOU STOP THIS TROUBLE MAKING AND TURN EVERYTHING BACK TO NORMAL NOW! JUST WHAT WOULD YOUR MOTHER SAY ABOUT THIS!?"

"Actually, my mother is dead, thank you very much," Zaniphar said, keeping his voice calm, then escalating it as he continued," She was eaten alive by a hydra, which is now dead, thanks to me. But if there is one thing she taught me for the entirety of 9 years, it's this, DONT. TAKE. SHIT. FROM. ANYONE! NOW, HOW ABOUT YOU GO BACK OVER TO YOUR 'FRIENDS' AND GO AND HIDE IN THE BUSHES AND CRY LIKE THE LITTLE BABY YOU ARE, YOU MOTHERFUCKING BITCH!" Zaniphar said getting all up in Fluttershy's face at this point. All of the mares were shocked, no one had ever stood up to Fluttershy's infamous STARE before, not even Discord, the god of chaos. Fluttershy, unable to take the fact that someone had said something so mean to her, and withstood her STARE, she did the only thing she could do.

She ran behind Twilight, and began to cry.

"Yeah, that's what I thought, little bitch," Zaniphar said aloud so that everyone heard him. Bitch was apparently the trigger phrase, because everyone snapped at that point.

"That is it, no one talks to Fluttershy like that, come on girls, let's do this!" Twilight Sparkle shouted, trying to sound brave. (Cue TV show power up sequence). Once the Elements of Harmony, Luna, Celestia, and Candance were all powered up, they turned towards The five in front of them, their intent to turn Spike, and the Cutie Mark Crusaders back to normal, and send Dan and Zaniphar to the moon. All at once, they fired their magic spells, which fuse together, creating a beam of light so bright, it blinded Spike, and the Crusaders.

However, it did not blind the two humans. "You want to take this one, son?" Zaniphar asked turning towards Dan. Dan nodded and stepped right in front of the beam of magic. Then, he held up his hand, and stopped the beam in its place.

"Pfffft, weak," he said. And with a wave of his hand, the magic was gone.

The nine mare's jaws, dropped onto the ground.

Dan then dusted his hands, and said with a wide smile on his face," Now it's our turn." Dan then turned to his minions," Sweetie bell, you fight your sister, Applebloom, fight Applejack and Pinkie Pie, Scootalo, you fight Rainbow Dash, and Fluttershy, Spike you fight, Twilight Sparkle. Me and Zan will handle the princesses, however, don't kill your targets, I want the princesses to see their best friends die. Now go!" Dan shouted as the battle began. Spike and the Crusaders forced the mane six down a street to the right of Dan and the rest of them. Celestia tried to give chase, but an invisible wall kept her from getting passed the two buildings that lined the entrance to the street.

"No princess, your fight is with us," Zaniphar said, a chuckle creeping into his voice.

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The mane six had just recovered from being pushed down the street, and were standing in defensive stances straight across from their adversaries. Twilight, Applejack, Rarity, and Rainbow Dash tried to appeal to Spike and the Crusaders, but nothing seemed to get through to them.

"Spike, this isn't you, snap out of it! What happened to my number one assistant?"

"Applebloom, stop this! Don't ya'll see ya'll's bein' used!"

"Sweetie, darling, I don't want to get cross with you, but you stop all of this right now!"

"Scootalo, come on! Don't you remember me, your number one idol?"

But all of their pleas fell on deaf ears," [bI always hated working for you Twilight! All you ever did was read and use me for your 'experiments'! Now I have a chance to get my revenge!" ]Spike said in his new dark voice, similar to the Crusaders, but deeper in tone.

"[bApplejack, I thought ya'll would be proud, after all, mah friends and I 'ave figured out what we were meant ta do."

] "Yeah, Rarity, we gained our Cutie Marks as soon as we achieved ascension."

"Yeah! Go ahead and look Dash, because after today, I'll have a new idol, ME!" All of the Crusaders turned so the six could get a good look at their flanks. Saying they were shocked would be an understatement.

The Cutie Marks, were of Applejack, Rarity, and Rainbow Dash. More specifically of their disembodied heads, with blood and entrails dripping from them, and arrows, through all of their eyes.

Twilight, almost threw up at the sight, Pinkie's mane and tail completely deflated, Rainbow Dash was so stunned she stopped hovering, Applejack fell on her haunches, Rarity was close to tears, and Fluttershy was throwing up. After their initial reactions were over, they steeled themselves, they knew what had to be done, and while they did not like it, they had to do it. They had to subdue their former friends and family by any means necessary. Twilight and Rarity started it off, both of their horns glowing, Twilight purple, Rarity's blue. They were hoping to pull off a telekinesis spell, to pick up and, hopefully, stop their...adversaries...from moving.

Now they've had their fair bit of shocks on this day, but apparently, they were about to get more. Spike and the Crusaders, charged forward, unaffected by Twilight and Rarity's magic. While Twilight and Rarity, once again, recoiled from the shock, Applejack jumped in front of them, ready to buck the approaching forms back to the stone age. Rainbow Dash had flown up high, and was speeding down, planning to use her signature move, the Sonic Rainboom. Pinkie Pie had her cannon out and ready to fire, while Fluttershy... she hid behind some of the burning buildings. However, as soon as Spike and the Crusaders came into striking distance and Rainbow Dash was almost upon them, the battle was over.

Applejack bucked into Applebloom, Rainbow Dash hit Scootalo, who was flying at that time, Pinkie fired her cannon at Sweetie Bell, and everything happened at once. Applejacks hind legs broke from the impact with Applebloom, Scootalo stopped Dash's Sonic Rainboom with one raised hoof, once again stopping her in mid air, Pinkie's cannon jammed and blew up in her face, spraying her with confetti and other party decorations. Applebloom took Applejack's and Pinkie's heads and put them into headlocks prepared to snap their necks at a moments notice. Sweetie Bell had Rarity in a telekinetic bubble, magical spears ready to pierce it and kill her. Scootalo had Rainbow Dash, and Fluttershy, after tracking her down, in similar holds as Pinkie and Applejack. Lastly, Spike had captured Twilight Sparkle, the most third most powerful alicorn in Equestia, in his jaws ready to chomp her in half.

"Be glad our masters want you alive, now everyone lets go back and show them our trophies," Spike said, careful not to kill Twilight, but bring his teeth down enough to draw blood from her right hoof, with was on the tip of his right incisor.

"Spike...please...why are you doing this?" Twilight asked through her tears.

"Why isn't it obvious Twilight? In order to please our masters."

"Thou shalt pay for this Dan!" Luna shouted as she launched blue tendrils of magic at Dan, hoping to constrict him. Dan just yawned and brushed the tendrils away when they impacted against his magical shield.

"Booooring, ya know I thought you would be stronger, you know being Celestia's sister and all, but I guess all of your power went away when you stopped being Nightmare Moon." he said this snide remark while firing burst of black magic from his hands toward Luna.

Luna's shield buckled under the lighting attack, but otherwise held firm," Damn you!" she said her horn glowing blue while she shot Dan with magical arrows. These two, shattered against Dan's shield as if they were paper.

"To tell the truth, I was hoping to fight Celestia, but she seems to be handling Zaniphar nicely, and by that I mean her and Candance are getting their asses kicked," Dan said. As if on que, Celestia and Candance came screeching backwards to stand beside Luna, their hooves leaving a trail of dirt to evidence them being pushed back.

"Don't hold your breath Dan", Zaniphar said while teleporting to stand next to Dan," the so called 'goddesses' of the 'sun, moon, and love' are about as strong as those 'mages' from the Dragon Age universe. I mean I was able to push them back with a simple wind blast, and they could hardly touch me, even using their powers in tandem to try and break through my shield, by the way, just because your bodies become encased in gold and pink auras, doesn't mean you can bowl through anything in your path."

"Hey master, why is it that we don't have to use that elemental powder anymore?" Dan asked. He had begun to notice that he could use his powers without the use of magic powder.

"Because Dan, while the author was focused on the battle between our minions and the mane six, I took the time to have a little chat with him to give us our full power back, now we no longer need that idiotic powder, that was in fact, a mistake on the author's part.

"What the buck, are you two talking about?!" Candance asked, with Celestia and Luna sharing shocked looks as they had never heard Candance use that kind of language before.

"Oh its nothing you need to concern yourself with, after all, you'll be dead pretty soon," Zaniphar answered his voice getting darker as he spoke.

"Damn, this isn't looking good, Luna, Candance, get the Elements and get out of here, I'll hold them off," Celestia said.

"Oh no, that would also be unwise, you see if you were to retreat, we would teleport to the runners and kill them," Dan said.

"Buck! what shall we do?" Luna said.

"I think we can answer that," Zaniphar said as him and Dan began to draw in power, "DIE"! Both of Zaniphar and Dan's hands began to glow black, as they formed tiny balls of energy. Lighting danced around the balls, and the air was distorted as they grew in size. It was as if they were vaporizing the very air. Sensing danger, Luna, Celestia, and Candance all drew in energy. As their horns glowed, blue, gold, and pink, respectfully, massive balls of energy appeared in front of them. The spheres fused into one, that began to glow a bright white. The princesses launched the energy, hoping to end this with this one attack. At the same time, Dan and Zaniphar shot their hands forward as the four balls fused into three balls, connected together by the black light trail from the middle one to the outer two. Zaniphar thought it looked like Cole's tesla missile from Infamous 2, which it why he had named this attack, the Cole Missile. Both spheres brought a trail of destruction in their wake, tearing the stone and dirt roads to pieces, and vaporizing any debris from the fallen buildings. When the attacks connected, the Cole Missile shattered the energy sphere with an audible 'pop'. The princesses, while still in shock were hit, and the battle was over.

The Cole Missile hit all three princesses at the same time, shocking them with black lighting. Some say their screams of pain were so intense, that the changeling queen shed a single tear for the torture of those three. The princesses were in incredible pain, as the lighting tore through them at a subatomic level, burning through them, atom by atom, and molecule by molecule. Once it was over, the three alicorns, fell to the ground defeated. It was at this point that the former Spike, and CMC came onto the scene, prisoners in tow. "What shall we do now masters?" Spike asked Dan and Zaniphar.

"Oh don't worry," Zaniphar said," I think I know just what to do in this situation."