Breaking The God Particle
Trillions of bits spent, with a massive research team from Canterlot, Storm and Horror stood in the test chamber, white lab coats on, goggles protecting their eyes, nostrils and mouths. "You ready?" Storm asked Horror, who nodded and slammed the button in front of him with a single hoof. the button was on a pedastal, which had wires going from it to a mechanism, much like a reactor.
They were performing an experiment to gauge the energy potential of the God Particle, commonly known as Celestia's Particle.
The machine utterly destroyed the white orb in the chamber, they had collected thousands and bunched them together, and within a few seconds Celestia's Particle orb was now gone.
But the resulting particle destruction caused a massive shockwave to ripple out of the machine, knocking everypony over, including the research team that was behind "unbreakable" glass, the shockwave then acted with malicious force and broke the glass utterly, reducing it to fine sand. The research team were all knocked out, and had received major bruising that day.
But it was not over... Far from it.
The machine was suddenly enveloped in a gravity field that sucked it up into oblivion and spewed forth a large orb of purple smoke. "Finally... I Have Awoken!" A voice similar to Horror's spoke, but it spoke of infinitely more hate and evil, it made Storm shiver slightly.
A massive tentacle stretched from the smoke orb and grabbed Horror as he started to glow with darkness, he grabbed it, and gave a yank and threw a large being out from the smoke orb and it hit the wall with a loud thud.
The being got up slowly and brushed himself off, a male Alicorn swarming with tentacles, it spoke with the same voice as the smoke orb faded away "Thank you... For your assistance, you receive your reward." he spoke calmly as a tentacle grabbed Horror, binding his arms to his body, and yet another reached down his throat, and reached for something. With it firmly in it's grasp, it tore it out of Horror, causing him to scream in sheer agony, blood heavily trailing the tentacle which held a small orb of light which ha swirling, shifting red and green inside as it left his body.
The tentacle holding horror's arms let him go and he slumped to the cold floor with a sickening thud, his body completely still.
The gray Alicorn without eyes and blood trailing from them down his cheeks looked at Storm and spoke simply "Finished" AS he ate the orb and a tentacle shot at Storm, before it could make contact, it was blocked by a green forcefield which it bounced off of, the air crackling with energy.
"Don't You Dare Touch Him!!" A familiar mare shouted in anger from a doorway, it was Firefly and the green, translucent mare charged at him quickly, he heard more than one set of hooves, as each of the Elements of Harmony ran out behind her.
There was no time for words however, as the Weilders all charged up their magic, and created the tradmark twirling rainbow, which struck the Alicorn physically, instead of surrounding him like with Nightmare Moon.
The Alicorn litterally didn't react, darkness flowed off him like sweat from a workhorse, and absorbed the rainbow as it hit him. He looked agitated it anything, and ran at Firefly.
What happened, broke a fraction of Storm's heart... the mare was utterly destroyed as the Alicorn grabbed Firefly's head and crushed it between both hooves, causing her whole body to explode in a cloud of white smoke. Storm shouted" No! Firefly!"
All was not lost however as he heard her voice in his mind "Don't worry, he can't kill me permanently, in a few days, meet me at Canterlot with the Princesses..."
Horror stood up, his eyes were unchanged, and he released a primal howl which broke his goggles and knocked the Alicorn back. He then shouted "Just... Ju... Just who the hell are you?!"
The Alicorn looked at him with a smug expression "I am Zalgo, pathetic little pony, i am the bringer of death, destruction and soon nothing will exist" he said it as if he were un-phased by anything. the Alicorn noticed the fact that Horror's physical appearance was unchanged, and raised an eyebrow, thinking 'Hmmm... he's immune to my easiest method... i think i'm going to keep him once i rule over everything, but first... a true test"
The Alicorn was instantly in front of Horror and grabbed his with all his tentacles, all six of them, wrapping his body completely, save for his head. They felt wrong but that sort of thing soothed Horror's rage by only a bit. Darkness started to seep out of Horror's body, much less than like the Alicorn's but it burned the tentacles like a dull acid, it only annoyed him as he squeezed him with the tentacles, causing Horror to groan in slight pain.
But Horror was not done, far from it as he smiled with dark and twisted intent, darkenss suddenly causing his face to darken for added effect.
Horror stretched his arm and broke the tentacles away, cutting them twice each in the process, and using his wings shot a powerful gust of air that threw Zalgo to the wall, and afterwards, Zalgo only saw a streak of red and blue as Horror threw himself into Zalgo with a force powerful enough to break the steel-reinforced wall, and sent them both flying through it.
"Idiot... Even if you are The Zalgo... Noone reaches into my throat... and grabs a part of me... only to eat it... and... WITHOUT MY PERMISSION!!!" The Mane 6 and Storm could only watch from the gigantic hole in the wall as Horror's rage fed his darkness, amplyfying it.
But Zalgo had had enough of this distraction, and smacked Horror in the head, knocking him out cold. He took the unconscious pony and many smal tentacles shot out of his mouth and reached into the young pony's stomach.
Closing his eyes as if he were kissing the colt, the tentacles seemed to fill into him, tears of blood seeped from Horror's now, wide and conscious eyes and muffled cries escaped his nostils. the ordeal lasted for several minutes, but afterwards, Zalgo dropped him, suddenly forgetting the pony and turning his attention to the place the Main six and Storm used to be.
Zalgo proceeded to turn all of Equestria into a paradise of nothing, death and destruction, transforming and killing many ponies.
And even though technology had greatly improved in the last thousand years, it was no match for Zalgo, obviously.
The Era known as the Desolate Times had begun...
In the over-vegetated ruins of Ponyville, Horror woke up, covered in vines and grass, he broke them easily.
His vision was changed, instead of seeing things in a slight reddish tint, he saw it all in a heavy red and black tint.
"Glad you've Awoken... My Son" Zalgo's voice rained down from the cloudless heavens. Horror was taken aback by this "S... Son? DAFUQ?"
Zalgo appeared behind him out of nowhere, and Horror jumped forward, spun around and went into a defensive position. Zalgo nodded "Right... you don't believe me, know it to be true, i have many of your powers and can do many of the same things, i can release my powers which creates a dark aura around me, it swirls around myself as it will do with you, i can become even stronger, even my tentacles have come back, and you will get them as well... You. Are. My. Son."
Zalgo made the last words solid and emphasized them, each word he stepped forward.
Horror didn't want to admit it, but something in him, actually liked Zalgo... he felt like the Alicorn was right, he couldn't help but to utter "F... F... Father?" He said it slowly, but for some reason tears welled in his eyes, e was annoyed and wiped them away, showing his annoyance.
Zalgo stared at his son for what seemed like an entire day, he didn't get it, Horror's eyes were the same, the white of his eyes were only a very dark colored grey, and he saw they were slowly fading to white again.
Their family reunion was interrupted as a bolt of pure light struck Zalgo and knocked him out, it sent him to the ground, seemingly dead.
Horror looked at the origin with rage and anger, and felt the need to avenge his somehow dead father. He saw three ponies. They all looked different than from the last he saw them, save for the one he shared his body with at a time. Storm Chaser.
Celestia and Firefly stood proud, magical energies flowing off of both of them, the sun was extremely bright behind Celestia, so bright it would have scorched his eyes out, but Horror's transformation doe by his Father shielded him from such cheap tricks.
Behind Firefly, miles of jungle, forest, and all kinds of vegetation stood, tinting his vision with an extremely obnoxious green, as his vision amplified all that he hated.
With the stage set, his father's body now gone, vanishing with a voice "Finish what i started, my son... Convert them and use their powers... my power now passes to you... Good luck" Horror clenched his teeth in unstoppable rage and bitter hate, staring at the three as if trying to blow them up with his mind.
The End of the world was here, Horror, being in such a massive rage was going to tear the life from it with his own hooves, and finish his father's work. But first...
The Three he hated most... he ran at them, thinking of all the things he would do after his victory, and yelling loudly, with Celestia and Firefly returning the favor, running with many sharp weapons floating beside them.
The Final Battle Had Begun.
Corrections to Past Mistakes
Horror woke up on a red, cold, dusty, floor. He coughed up small amounts of blood as he slowly came to.
He looked around and the only things he saw was not in greyscale was the bits of blood he spat up. his stomach churned and fought against him as he slowly sat up.
He looked around and saw an endless expanse of black space, some strange tablets hung in midair. They each had a single grey rune that glowed and radiated. He looked around to see he was on a path that only went forward, the part behind him was simply not there, looking like it was wearing away very slowly.
Horror got up onto his hooves, panting as he felt weary, strained and even slightly violated. He managed to muster strength to stand up, he shook lightly as he kept his balance, feeling a slimy liquid on his flank, he turned around and was surprised as he knew it all too well, and it wasn't blood.
He stumbled forward, one step at a time, each step allowed his body a chance to betray him as his whole body shook violently with each step. He eventually made it to a set of stairs and tried to get up them, but he at this point couldn't raise his hoof any higher than a single inch and ended up collapsing on the steps, huffing and panting, his heart beating rapidly, a hot warmth spread through his body, and he fell unconscious for a few minutes of the first two steps.
He woke up to a foul smell in the air, if there was air, and he felt like he was being watched, slightly more energy in his body, he got up and ran up the small stairs that were there. He still saw nothing but gray, minus the liquid on him which was an eerie white which softly glowed, standing out from the greyscale world.
He ignored that for now and saw something up ahead, two massive white eyes which glowed exactly like fluid on his flank, it laughed at him and he suddenly felt extremely weak again.
Caught off-guard, Horror collapsed on the spot, but managed to get up after a minute of struggling once again and stepped painfully towards the eyes.
He eventually got to be in front of it, the eyes staring lasers at him, metaphorically.
A strange force started to pour into his highly tired and strained body, causing massive pain everywhere, screaming out in utter pain, black tears easily flowing from his eyes in seconds, he black out from pain of an unknown process that went on for many more minutes...
Back in Equestria, since the world's restoration and Horror's abduction, he'd not rested even one hour, it had been three days and he was looking like the most tired pony ever known. He was going on coffee, sweets like cupcakes and muffins and cookies, and also adrenaline.
he'd looked through around a hundred or so books, but now was in the canterlot archives room, with two royal guards to look over him of course. he looked through scroll after scroll, looking for some way to extract a pony from another dimension or world.
But it was all for naught as practically every single scroll in the chamber didn't have anything, and before that, he learned how to read magical runes. He placed the last scroll down in time to collapse on the ground and sob softly, smacking the floor in frustration.
he felt a hoof on his shoulder, Luna's hoof, it calmed him, but he still sobbed softly "We... We're Never going to see him again... are we?"
Luna couldn't answer, but she just simply extended a wing over the actually freezing pegasus and picked him up, she took him to a guest suite in the castle and tucked him into bed, she wished him goodnight and reassured him "We promise to you Storm, we Will find your friend, and bring him back..." and closed the door behind herself.
Her sister asked her to check up on him every now and then, and he'd been searching for a way for three solid daysand nights, today, bordering on the 4th night, she felt sorry for him in a way, losing one you cared for, whether they're a friend, loved one or just somepony they met.
It's never easy to lose somepony you care for.
Storm woke up in a dreary realm atop a column of stone that stood many yards high. He could see the entire kingdom, the entire world devoid of all clouds, fog or any sign on air, yet he could still breathe. Everything was desolate, the entire ground, was barren, save for dark red and dark brown roots that covered it everywhere. He could see the roots pulse and very slowly move as if alive. His hearing came and he heard only a small slithering noise coming from the noise.
He was high up enough to see the sky thinning out into outer space, yet he felt no wind, and saw literally no clouds, looking up he could see the black, starry expanse most ponies looked up to in wonderment.
"What happened... Was i asleep that long?" he stood up and looked around, he only saw a single massive building to the south, it looked like a terrifying gothic castle only an evil villain would even bother owning.
He heard a light voice, it sounded like his friend Firefly, but it came from all directions, and no source could be seen, plus the fact she spoke to him baffled him, she'd been missing ever since Zalgo/Cthulhu entered the realm. "This... is the real reality, if you do not save your friend, for within him lies... the one thing all equestrians have... The way home, Cthulhu will find it, and the world will be altered to this lifeless world."
Storm woke up in the real world in a cold sweat in his bed, screaming horrifically. A gentle and supportive voice asked him from his left "Are you alright Storm?"
He looked to the source, seeing the voice belonged to none other than Princess Celestia herself, Storm jumped his mane standing on end, out of the bed in sheer surprise "Ahh!"
He hit the floor with a thud, landing on his back, he groaned in pain, lying there. Celestia quickly walked over, concern in her tone "Are you Alright Storm?"
Storm got up slowly, rubbing his back, nodding "Yeah, i'm okay... okay, okay, yeah i'm okay..." He said the part after the pause in a low, nervous tone, as if to himself. He was completely shaken from his dream as he remembered only the first part of it, the dark red and dark brown tentacle covered landscape, the lack of any signs of any atmosphere, no fog, clouds or air, just only gravity and unanswered questions.
Celestia didn't look all that convinced but didn't press it as she turned for the door "I found something you should see... a portal spell, unlike any i've seen... I'll just show it to you... I hope i've memorized it"
Celestia turned around and levitated Storm onto the bed, her horn glowing.
Her horn started to glow brightly and she began to concentrate, groaning from the effort.
Eventually, her efforts were rewarded as a purple orb shot out of her horn, pushing her back and hitting the floor in the center of the room. She fell over, the orb pushing her with great force. She looked towards the portal and spoke "This portal, will take you to Cthulhu's realm, where Horror is trapped, it'll stay for days until it is used twice, then it will close...
Storm closed his eyes and thought deeply 'I may have to fight Cthulhu... I'll need my weapons and Armor' He thought, He spoke, calm and determined once again "I need my Harmony Daggers and my Power Armor"
Celestia nodded and summoned them, appearing out of thin air and placed them beside the bed.
Storm got off the bed and stood up on both hind legs, He placed his hooves in two holes on the shoulders and closed his eyes.
The suit did it's work as each and every part moved along his body, eventually forming the same piece of armor.
Storm grabbed his Harmony Daggers, Two daggers attached to eachother in a rope made of light, emitted from the bottoms of each. The Daggers themselves were golden and had two orb-like gems each, the left, had small red and green gems, and the right had blue and yellow gems of equal size.
He saluted to Celestia "I'll be back very soon Celestia, but close it if anything tries to get through, other than me or Horror" And jumped into the portal, Daggers in both hooves.
The entire world vanished in an eerie flash of darkness as he sunk into the portal.
And was violently spit out onto a cold stone surface, the entire thing drenched in blood.
He got up quickly, though shaking and fighting to not slip on the red liquid.
he saw only five feet in front of his face, the suit's shoulder lamps did literally nothing, in fact it increased the darkness of the dimension. He walked on the path, hoping he would see any gaps before he tried to step into one, but found none.
He heard pained groans and sick gushing sounds, suddenly a display popped up on the suit's Heads Up Display, it flashed red and yellow alternating in color. "Massive Energy spike detected" it read, but another beside it came up "Warning, Spacial Rift detected" it was a solid purple this time, not blinking, but he knew that purple was the suit's most dangerous classification of any threat, so he tread carefully, looking all around him.
The blood he walked on seemed to get even stickier, as if it were fresh, his stomach and face twisted as it also seemed to actually flow, instead of being an immobile carpet.
Something pushed against him now, very powerful, more of a wall than a force, the darkness was extremely thick here. He took his daggers and cut into the darkness itself, cutting a small hole, large enough for him to fit through, he dove through and landed in a pool of blood that went all the way to the steps three feet away from him.
He got up and saw Horror floating in the air, darkness was flowing from him steadily and several tentacles were sticking into his gut, the sight horrified him as Horror's blood poured slowly down, seemingly endless.
Storm ran out of the blood pool and leaped at the tentacles, slashing them and causing them to utterly vanish, but this was simply an illusion as the same ones grabbed him in mid-air, Horror's body hit the blood-drenched floor with a sick splat.
"Well, Well, Well... A pony working with my old enemies... interesting" Cthulhu itself spoke in a dark voice that came from all directions and seemed to assault his will. A couple questions arose in his mind, but looking at Horror's unmoving body sparked a fire in him, as she suddenly got very angry, Horror was dead as his suit read no vital signs from his other half's body, and he wasn't going to suffer the same fate.
Both his daggers glowed a brilliant white light that blinded Cthulhu and dropped Storm, who never saw a light, just a very faint glow. "You... killed my other half... son of a bitch..." He leaped at Cthulhu and slashed the massive entity across the eye, but he was simply not done, not by a long shot.
His entire body glowed brighter and brighter with each strike he dealt, and after he practically raked it's face, he smiled as his armor seemed to move onto the daggers, making them even longer, until they both were twice as long as he was tall on both hindlegs.
his eyes glowed a pure white as he dealt blinding death to Cthulhu, slashing the massive blades in mid-air, cutting ridiculously deep into it.
he slashed it celestia-knows how many times, before it fell into a thousand pieces, falling into the eternal abyss below.
He floated to the ground and collapsed, the daggers and what was his suit had utterly vanished with the last attack, and he felt weak, Storm crawled over to his dead friend and put himself on him, sobbing quietly.
Horror blinked with completely blackened eyes at Storm and giggled painfully "You're... Such a D-Drama Queen" Storm smile at him, but Horror noticed something, he couldn't see his friends color like usual, save for Storm's purple eyes, which glowed weakly. Horror smiled and nuzzled his friend and put his hooves on Storm, who was surprised "You're... You're alive? good, you... need to get out of here"
"No... we're leaving together" Storm was about to object when a massive burst of light flashed from where Cthulhu had fallen down, it pushed them far, directly at the portal, forcing them through as it closed.
Storm woke up just barely in a white room, tubes feeding into his hooves and he was in a bed of the same color. He was in a hospital, and felt numb all over, he couldn't even move anything, as he was bandaged up tail to mane, head to hoof.
"Ahh You're awake... You should be lucky" a doctor said off from a corner he couldn't see.
"MMmmPh?" he meant to ask "What?" but his mouth was also bandaged and the most numb of everything, he didn't even know if he had one anymore.
"Well you see... When you flew out of that portal, you hit the wall so hard, you broke almost everything, the poor colt with you was fine when we got you both here" the doctor walked into his view and smiled "The part that's lucky is that he activated his darkness aura... yes we know of that... which absorbed most of the blow. You should be dead right now Storm, be grateful that's not any different" Storm giggled in agreement, and watched as the doctor walked out, his brown tail disappearing behind the doorway of the room.
"Alright you can speak with him"
Horror rushed in and hugged Storm, obviously concerned, Storm didn't mind his suddenly out of character behavior, especially after what they just dealt with.
"You've been in here for so long, i started thinking you'd never make it back!" this sentence seemed odd to Storm and he made a questioning groan.
"You've been in here for ten years, there was a parasite on you making your condition worse, but they just took it out now, which is why you're all... numb"
Storm smiled, atleast her eyes did, he didn't care at all, He and horror were completely safe, no longer in threat of the world being destroyed.
With Cthulhu dead, Storm Chaser thought that Firefly would no longer appear to him, signalling things were normal once again.
Yet there she was.
Standing in the corner.
Her face half torn off, and jagged teeth snarled in a growl.
Mission Accomplished, Storm ignored her and laid his head back.
Restoring The Celestia Particle
The Final Battle for all seemed to be almost over as Horror's scratched, wounded and bruised body stood over his defeated foes.
Horror Storm felt even less like he used to, he was no longer angry, upset or in a furious rage, he was simply filled with pity, loathing and his face was plastered with a grin that, coupled with his red and black eyes, it made Celestia, Firefly and Storm chase all cover on the ground, even though the ground had encased them, they struggled with the little energy they had left.
Horror reached to Celestia, licking his lips "I'm going to enjoy, you..." Speaking in an extremely dark voice, it hummed uncomfortably in their ears. but before he could grab Celestia, a tentacle smashed into Horror's body, sending him flying three feet, but the force wasn't enough to pierce his aura of darkness, as by now it had easily grown to be tougher than his father's.
he turned to the new attacker and saw it was his father's dead corpse, he was shocked... His own father was trying to kill him? he went into a battle stance and remembered, he is the best at slow death, so he ran at his father with blinding speed and tackled him. He prepared himself as he horked up a lot of fluid, which easily faded into his father's protesting non-corpse, Horror didn't know what it did, but soon found out as his father's body ceased to exist in a fiery explosion that smacked him into an almost flly petrified Celestia, which shook the rock casing off her easily, he simply smirked at her, but everyone looked at the center of the explosion as the pieces came together in a ball of blood and the little that remained of the gore.
In a flash of light, a voice that made Firefly's eyes tear up came from the ball of gore and blood "Finally... The distraction worked... Now, I the Elder One, shall destroy all of reality!"
Storm looked towards Firefly who was now opennly sobbing, quite unlike her strong nature and asked "What's wrong?"
She simply replied"I... I wish that was Zalgo... C... C... Cause he's act-t-tually Cthulhu!" She said the last part, breaking out into full-on crying and balling, the other saw she was shaking visibly, despite it being solid stone, the stone that cased her body also trembled slightly.
Horror looked at the ball of Gore and flesh and closed his eyes. He could hear Celestia speaking to him "You know what to do Horror, please... for Storm, my sister... For Nightmare Moon, do what needs to be done"
Horror debated with himself, blood seeped from his eyes and he had to kick his Zalgo side in the ass, he even mentally tortured it to submit, and in a mental battle that took him days, but only seconds for reality, he stood up, his eyes no different. And he focused his dark aura into his hooves and head.
He ran at it and grabbed it tightly, knowing there was no way back after this, he bit into the ball, the taste of it made his tongue sing and he released his darkness into the ball using his teeth and tongue.
Doing so had caused the ball and Horror to build up yet another light which enveloped the entire planet in pure light.
When the dust and smoke settled, they each sat in Ponyville, residents all alive and the planet now restored.
They all knew the price that Horror had paid. He sacrificed himself to put everything back to as if they never wanted to destroy the God Particle, and before hell was unleashed upon Equestria and ponykind.
Firefly had now faded to just silent sobbing and sniffles, looking mentally strained, and looked as if in great pain.
Their petrification spells, casted by Horror's darkness vanished, which left Firefly and Storm to fall over from exhaustion.
The World had been saved from Cthulhu, the Ancient One, saved by one who tortured innocent ponies and did many unforgivable acts in his life, who hated almost everything, and loved only Nightmare Moon.
The question is... Would he one day return... or be doomed to a lifetime of misery and suffering? Would anyone be able to save this poor soul?
Only Time will Tell...
