My Little Madness: Has Nothing To Do With Spartans

Well, here's the climax for the Battle of Ponyville.  To sum up what's not going to be in this,  Applejack and her family are holding off the Auditor's men at Sweet Apple Acres, and after playing 2 hours of Project Nexus I've come up with a nice surprise for Act 2...  and this will probably be the last update for about a week, because I have finals and will have no chance to write anything.  Also, I have realized that I got the naming wrong on some of the factions.  The grunts are actually called the AAHW, 1337s are still 1337s, and AAHWs are actually ATPs.  ATPs are the guys with yellow blood.  AAHWs are the plain guys.  1337s are the Smiths.  Sorry.  The Madness Combat canon is, well, Madness.

The shuffling of the armies was quickly droned out by the screams of ponies trapped outside in the rain.  The legions of AAHWs, 1337s, and a brigade of ATPs were rounding the first hill, the caustic rain sliding off of their specialized suits.  They entered the outskirts of Ponyville, methodically slaughtering all ponies in sight.  Their goal was simple.  Recapture Celestia.

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Deimos was luckily in the orchard when the acid began to fall, the thick canopies blocking the rain.  But he was stuck there until he could get some kind of shield.  He noticed a small patrol of ATPs in peculiar armor, standing in the open, the acid having no effect.  Deimos got an idea.  He whistled, and ducked into a bush.  One of the three ATPs approached and leaned into the bush, looking for the source of the disturbance.  Deimos pistol-whipped him in the side of the head, careful not to damage the armor, and stripped him down.

Now disguised as an ATP, Deimos butchered and maimed his victim until he was unrecognizable and assuredly dead.  He hung him over his shoulder, and came out of the bush.

"Took you long enough."  One of the ATPs said.

"Yeah, uh, here's the guy.  It was one hell of a chase."  Deimos said.

"Hey, you sound familiar..."  The other ATP said as Deimos drew his combat knife and dug it into a patch of combat webbing on the underside of the armor.  Deimos dislocated the arm, and rotated it, exposing the open vein to the acid.  The ATP screamed in pain and collapsed, clutching his arm as his circulatory system carried the toxin through his system, cooking him alive as he convulsed in pain and confusion.  The other ATP tackled Deimos to the ground, knocking Deimos's knife out of his hand.  Deimos drew his pistol, and fired, but the ATP slapped it out of his hand.  The ATP drew his own blade, and lunged at Deimos.  Deimos ducked out of its path and dove for the incapacitated ATP, taking his SMG.  Deimos rolled over onto his back and emptied the rest of the SMG's ammo into the ATP.  Deimos got up, retrieved his pistol and knife, holstered his new SMG, and departed towards a large bulk of the Auditor's men, heading away from Sweet Apple Acres.

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Celestia knew what was happening to the residents of Ponyville as long as she was in hiding.  She gathered up her unicorn guards, and had them coordinate to form a large barrier over Ponyville, blocking out the rain.  Celestia trotted towards the library's exit.

"Princess!  Don't go!  You know what they'll do to you if they capture you!"  Twilight Sparkle pleaded as her mentor opened the door to the library.

"And that's why they aren't capturing me.  And Twilight, remember.  I will always care for you.  And tell Luna that she can't have my cake if I don't come back."  Celestia said in her most reassuring voice, smiled at Twilight, and left the ancient treehouse.

She strolled down the path at a leisurely pace, giving herself time to contemplate her plan.  She realized she had none, other than to protect her subjects.  She teleported to the outskirts of the village, and found herself surrounded by the things.  She charged into the center of the army, batting aside numerous troops with her magic, and impaling a few with her horn.  She reached the center of the army, and found a group of massive, hulking beasts, large spikes driven through their heads, surrounding her, dozens strong.  She had no chance of escape.  She had used up all of her excess magic on the way to the center.  And when an Alicorn taps into their pure, natural reserve of divine energy that grants them their immortality, it had to all be released at once.  And Celestia knew that.

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Hank finished his trek up the mountain overlooking the forest.  He had found he had some sort of viral hunting ability, but it seemed to work better from higher up.  He had to find his target.  But the path spiraling up the mountain ended in some sort of cave, a pyramid of gems inside it.  Hank cautiously approached it, and picked up one of the gems.

"You dare disturb MY hoard?"  A booming voice shouted.  "You shall pay!"  It continued, and revealed itself.  A massive green dragon crawled from the shadows, smoke curling from its nostrils.  It approached Hank until it was almost touching him, and opened its toothy maw.  A jet of white-hot fire flew from the dragon's mouth, completely engulfing Hank.

The dragon ceased its attack after a minute of continued incineration of the intruder.  All that remained was a pile of ashes.  A red tendril of energy shot from the pile and arced back into itself.   And again.  And again, until the area around the ashes was entirely pure energy, forming in the shape of the intruder.  Hank cracked his neck, and leaped into the air, forming his claws and latching onto the dragon's snout.  The dragon shot jets of flame from its nostrils, doing little to harm Hank, as he tore apart the armored scales on the dragon's snout, eventually revealing white bone.  The dragon roared in pain, and threw Hank from its head.

Hank grabbed onto a stalactite hanging from the ceiling, and used his momentum to swing around it, shooting himself at the dragon.  Hank formed a blade from his right arm, and a claw on his left.  He latched his claw onto the dragon's upper left eyebrow, and dug his blade deep into the dragon's pupil, shredding the eyeball.  The dragon bellowed in pain, despair, and submission, and Hank swung himself into the dragon's eye socket, slashing everything that looked to be of vague importance.

He found himself at the dragon's brain.  He formed both of his arms into razor-whips, and drove them into it.  He shot more whips from his torso, impaling into the dragon's skull.  Hank began absorbing the dragon, from the inside out.  He tore the dragon to shreds, absorbing the smaller pieces into himself.  After a good ten minutes of work, only a few ribbons of dragon remained.  Hank felt himself grow substantially more powerful.  He needed to release some of it.  He exited the cave, and began.  He convulsed, a pair of bones shooting from his back, and growing into skeletal wings, covered in black and red sinew.  Hank flapped them, and shot up to the peak of the mountain, a good mile further up, in nearly an instant.

Hank absorbed the wings back into himself, the only sign they were ever there a pair of faintly pulsing red veins on his back.  He looked at the sky, and felt a force inside himself begin to break out.  He steadied himself, and shouted.  A massive jet of crimson plasma shot from his open mouth, almost like blood in appearance.  Hank formed his wings, and took to the air, a shadowy trail following him.

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Twilight Sparkle galloped as fast as she could, already winded, as she was not exactly athletic.  She caught sight of Celestia flinging aside the creatures like they were flightless Parasprites.  Twilight knew Celestia would be okay.  Her mentor was immortal, anyways.

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"You shall never hurt the citizens of this town ever again.  On my life, I swear that."  Celestia declared as the MAG Agents closed in on her.  She reared, and bucked it in the face, dislodging its mask.  She fired a lance of energy into the head of the creature, and it burst into flame.  She had little energy left.  There were dozens more approaching.  She had no other choice.  She hoped Luna was ready for the burden of ruling Equestria alone.  She released her divine magic, her immortal shell cracking, pure solar rays bursting forth from her, tearing her apart.  The rays incinerated everything they touched, leaving rows and rows of maimed, smoking corpses in the streets of Ponyville.

Her broken body slowly dissolved into the air, the last of her energy still devoted to her people, and joining into the sun, causing a massive solar flare to jettison from it.  The whole of Equestria was scattered in confusion as their sun exploded.  But one laveneder unicorn, and a dark blue alicorn both knew what had happened.

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The Auditor knew what the massive golden explosion meant.  The uncoiling of his plans.  But not the cessation of them.  For this was a simple setback.

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"Wakey-Wakey."  Shining Armor heard as he slowly opened his eyes.  A figure like that of the enemies' hovered over him, a single glowing piss-yellow lens protruding from the darkness.  It lifted an intricately engraved blade, and stabbed it down at him.

And that concludes Act 1 of My Little Madness: Nothing to do With Spartans.  Finale Body Count: 6,034