Conversion Bureau: Unlucky Day

A massive blast rocked through the air as bolts of magic went flying in every direction. Pegasi scrambled to get out of the way as Harmony magic and the powers the Human threw out began to scatter like shrapnel from an explosion. Bolts of Harmony magic were tainted, the flying teams soon found out, as several pegasi were hit and turned to statues that plummeted to the ground below, shattering on impact. Thousands of lights from the blast had simply dissipated in the air or collided with the ground, but hundreds of those bits of power had found new targets.

Entire teams of scouts were ripped from the sky, brought down in a way similar to Human Anti-Air fire. Some pegasi were desperate enough to try and save a comrade or two, only to watch with horror as their friends slipped from their grasp and broke like glass far below. Almost a dozen of the smaller airships were hit by the beams of Harmony magic, and had entire sections turned to stone. Their parts would darken to a dull grey before the weight either became too much for the balloons to handle, or the balloons themselves were hit and broke the seals that kept the ships in the air.

Those were the results of the Harmony magic.

The magic that the Human unleashed seemed to seek out the ponies like magical missiles. Each one had a different effect. A few had simply set some ponies of fire, burning away their flesh and bones while melding their nerves with molten armor, causing them to scream in agony until their hearts and brains were all that was left. Some had turned to bolts of ice, freezing up muscle and fur into a single block before breaking itself off, throwing off the balance of several dozen fliers before the ice-cold sensations reached their nerve centers, locking up their limbs so they would fall to the ground or wait for another bolt of magic to strike them. A great number of the bolts were black, and simply caused the ponies they hit to collapse to the ground. After a few seconds, however, their skin would burst open and fill the air with a foul cloud of death and rotting flesh, revealing black and green innards to the world.

Chaos overcame the camp as hundreds of ponies screamed in agony and fear, the wrath of the damned finally seeing justice delivered to a truly unholy army.

Billions watched from beyond the grave as their justice would be served by a true demon.

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Captain Moore watched with wide eyes, along with the remaining leaders of the Human Resistance, as bolts of magic slammed into everything they could, airships being ripped from the sky as ponies began to fall to their deaths. Beside him, the leaders of the PHL were also shocked.

"The Elements of Harmony," Representative Coco gasped.

"They failed," Representative Spitfire finished the thought.

Moore felt the urge to smile and cheer rising, but waited with his breath caught in his throat as the slaughter continued.

"Sir," the Lieutenant spoke, "permission to play this across the base?"

The Captain felt like he should say yes, to let everyone in the base- no, the whole world- see that they had finally struck a huge blow against Equestria's military. However, what they would see here could get far too graphic for the shelters that the civilians were occupying, and the noise would likely draw unwanted attention to the base. Not to mention the possibility of Jason not being able to kill the Bearers could damage whatever little morale they had left.

"Permission denied," Moore replied. "Let's just wait and see how this goes."

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Jason began to recover from the blast of magic, and shook his head to clear his senses. Around him, a majority of the town was blown apart, buildings reduced to their foundations and paved streets blown off the ground. He got to his feet and examined the six intruders that had tried to kill him. They were all stirring awake, trying to recover from their failure to do what few others could. Jason shifted his grip on the machete as he began to walk straight towards them, intent on ending their lives.

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Twilight began to stir awake, blinking away her tiredness and rubble from her eyes. Every fiber of her being felt sore and burning. Every muscle she moved screamed in pain at her, while every organ inside her felt like relocating somewhere far away. She turned onto her hooves and heard something metallic clink to the ground as a weight left her head. Twilight opened her eyes and gasped in shock at what she saw.

The Element of Magic, broken and dead.

The once ultimately powerful weapon was now in pieces at her hooves, a mere shadow at best of what it once was. The gold that had made up its majority was now brown and crumpled up, the power having turned it to rust and breaking what little stability the crown once had. The gem, the Cutie Mark of Twilight Sparkle, the once unfathomably beautiful light that shone hope in any corner, was now grey, dull, and broken into shards, forgetting that it had ever held any kind of shape.

Twilight looked to her friends to see them grieving their losses as well. Each and every Element was broken, rusted, reduced to dust, dulled, and broken apart. Rarity was having a panic attack as she tried to hold the dust that made up her necklace together in a vain attempt to repair the Element. Applejack was slamming a hoof into the ground in rage, angry at the Human world for destroying one of the most precious things in her life, yet again. Rainbow was stunned beyond any actions, simply staring at the pile of rust and dust like it was her own casket at a funeral. Fluttershy was crying as she looked around and saw the bodies scattered and broken around them. Pinkie Pie had lost the poofiness of her mane, and her fur darkened, leaving only a shell of sadness as she stared beyond Twilight, looking terrified. Twilight looked into the eyes of the party mare, and saw the form of the Human, Jason.

The alicorn turned around to see the Human completely unharmed by the blast and strolling casually over to them. The same blade was still in his grip, unchanged by the magical power he had thrown at them. She looked up into his eyes, and screamed in fear.

"Protect the Bearers!" a gruff voice called out from above.

Suddenly, Jason was attacked by three pegasi Guards, all slamming into his midsection at incredible speeds, trying to slow him down. Their impacts did little more than make Jason stumble a bit, taking a single step back as he reacted. The machete was raised high before slashing downwards. The action resulted in one Guard having his head chopped cleanly in two, falling to the ground in two directions as another one screamed in pain as his wing fell from his side. Jason raised a knee to the falling Guard, snapping his head backwards to the point where his neck almost ripped open. As the second one fell, Jason brought his blade back through the third Guard's neck, decapitating him.

More pegasi Guards came down from above, having survived the burst of magic only to fall to the Human's wrath. Left and right, Guards were falling in pieces, having been either shredded by the machete or broken by Jason's inhuman strength. Two Guards tried to rush him from the right, only to cry in agony as Jason ducked down, grabbed the closest wings, and ripped them off. He took the severed appendages and jammed the bones into the neck of another Guard that tried to attack him from behind. He kept the momentum going by lifting the impaled Guard up and slamming their skull into another two Guards that were flying right at him, crushing their heads in a shower of grey-matter and blood. Jason's machete flew out and slammed into the forehead of another attacker, their body flipping in the air from the sudden introduction of an outside force. As their body flew by, Jason gripped the machete and used it to cleanly decapitate another Guard before stomping down on one more Guard, embedding them into the ground as their innards exploded from both ends.

More and more Guards fell prey to the monster as the Bearers of Harmony began to recover.

"What in the hay was that!?" Applejack demanded. "The Elements are supposed ta be unbeatable!"

"Well, I don't bucking know, AJ!" Rainbow replied angrily. "What I do know, is that this ASS needs to DIE!"

Without waiting for her friends, Rainbow Took off into the sky.

"Twilight, stop her!" Rarity stated.

"I can't," Twilight responded. "Not without breaking something in her, or more likely, snapping her neck!"

"Rainbow, get back down 'ere right now!" Applejack shouted above.

When Rainbow was at a high enough altitude, she stopped and took in the sight. In the distance, she could see the dim lights of whatever ape-built city was waiting to be conquered, and refocused her attention on the Human below. He was currently fighting seven Guards, two of which were hanging off his back, trying and failing to slow him down as three more attacked from the distance, being the only unicorn survivors of the blast. She watched as Jason swatted one Guard aside with a backhand, collapsing his skull and sending him to the ground before he slashed the eyes of another charging one. The Guard screamed in pain before Jason slammed a fist into his head, crushing his brain and leaving a large hole. Finally irritated by the extra baggage, Jason grabbed the hooves of the Guard hanging off of his left side, and held them in front of him. He sliced their midsection, and shook them about, forcing the intestines and organs out of the Guard before dropping him to the ground. Jason grabbed the second one and spun around, throwing them at one of the unicorn Guards. They collided harshly, the unicorn having his head snapped back by the collision while the thrown Guard broke his spine on impact, both dying from the impressive show of strength. Distracted by the death of his fellow Guards, the second unicorn failed to notice a blade flying right at him until it spun by his head. Slowly, the front of his face slid off from the rest of his head as the machete slammed into a piece of wall behind him. Both halves of the Guard's brain flopped onto the ground when he collapsed. The final unicorn Guard began to fire off random Kinetic spells, trying to push back the monster, but every shot didn't even exist to Jason. He simply grabbed the Guard by the neck before tightening his grip, the Guard's eyes almost popping out of his head as his neck became more narrow than a drinking straw. Jason let the Guard fall to the ground as he plucked the bloodied weapon from the dusty brick of the ruined building.

"HEY, UGLY!" Rainbow Dash called below.

Jason looked up to see the prismatic mare prepare herself for a dive-bomb.

"Eat dirt, you Nightmare Night stand-in!"

Rainbow Dash soared downwards, her hooves out before her as she plummeted straight to the ground, intent on ending this battle herself. When she got close enough to the ground, she spread her wings and shot forward, heading straight for the Human. In the blink of an eye, Rainbow collided with Jason, hooves-to-chest, with enough force to cause a small explosion.

Jason shot backwards from the impact, sailing through the air until he came upon a building. The murderer blew straight through the walls of the house, bringing the entire place down before flying straight out, covered in dust. While he was still in the air, Rainbow came back down and flew underneath the behemoth. She delivered a straight-upwards buck with all of her might. She heard several things snap as the Human was sent airborne. Now flying above the town of Crystal Lake, Jason waited as Rainbow came around and slammed all fours into Jason's face, sending him down into the ground. Upon contact, Jason kicked up like a stone on a lake and tumbled into the town, blasting through two more buildings before skidding to a halt, six feet under.

Rainbow cheered as she relished her sweet victory, chanting her own name and dancing like somepony with a serious mental disorder. Or a Newfoal.

"Who's the best? I'm the best! Yeah!"

As she continued to cheer and whoop, the dirt that concealed the murderer began to shift upwards. In the middle of a cheer involving the spelling of her own name, Rainbow looked down with wide eyes to see Jason stand up in the end of the ditch, the dirt and dust falling off of his form like some kind of wakening giant. Rainbow cracked her neck as she stretched.

"Still up, huh?" she asked, not caring for a response. "Let's fix that."

Jason simply began to walk out of the ditch, his heavy boots sinking into the dirt before clanking onto the street. Rainbow flapped her wings hard and flew upwards. She could feel a layer of frost growing on her fur as she neared the edge of the atmosphere, her lungs burning as the air became almost too thin to breathe. Rainbow turned around and gazed down at the world, seeing the edges curve a bit as she held her height. With a mighty flap, she rocketed downwards. As she locked onto Jason's form, she began to flap her wings harder and harder as a mach-cone began to form around her. The resistance became almost bone-crushingly intense as Rainbow's barrier began to shimmer with magical power. With one last flap that consumed her entire focus, Rainbow shot forward.

A massive eruption of power and light burst behind the prismatic mare as her speed doubled. The pegasus surged forward while trailing a solid rainbow streak behind her every motion. She aimed perfectly downwards and at the last second, just as every single fracture in the asphalt, turned upwards and prepared a hind leg to strike the Human. As she passed him by as nothing more than a rainbow streak, she delivered a powerful buck to his masked face, causing him to reel back and grasp at his head.

Smirking as she knew of her imminent victory, Rainbow turned sharply before landing three kicks to Jason's back, making him stumble forward as he was attacked by a fighter that was too fast to see. Again, Rainbow turned in a fashion that would kill anything else and used her forelegs to pound the back of Jason's head. This time, however, Jason recovered and tried to introduce her neck to his machete. Being the blur of motion she was, Rainbow simply turned and evaded the strike, the blade not even grazing her fur.

"Gotta do better than that, idiot!" she gloated.

Rainbow decided to play with her opponent, and began to fly around Jason and tapped him occasionally to egg him on. The Human growled in anger as he swiped at the air, trying to butcher the pegasus that annoyed him to no end. Rainbow would bump him on the shoulder or knee, making him stumble, before she backed off and let him slash at the trail she left. After a few more bumps to the noggin, Jason had tossed aside his machete and was trying to swat Rainbow away like a fly.

Deciding that playtime was over, Rainbow increased the distance between her and the Human before turning 180 degrees and charging straight at him. Jason growled and began to thunder his way towards the incoming rainbow, stretching his right arm as he did. The rest of the Bearers watched intently as the fight was drawing to a close.

Everything seemed to slow down as Rainbow Dash was about to end the fight. She put everything she had into the last few flaps, bringing her to a greater speed than she had ever tried before. Jason's massive form shot forward as he pushed his entire weight into a shoulder charge, intent on meeting the mare head-on. The Bearers knew the Human stood no chance against their speedy friend, considering they had seen her ram through Human fighter jets without so much as a scratch.

Rainbow's form finally collided with Jason's shoulder.

CRACK

Time seemed to freeze in utter shock of what had just happened.

Rainbow's head met the Human's shoulder, but instead of ramming it aside, it flew off in the direction of Jason's charge. A shocked look graced Rainbow's dying face as bits of blood and bone exploded from the stump that once connected the two. Behind the corpse that was once Rainbow Dash, the trail of multicolored light shattered like glass, falling apart into dust as the world seemed to lose a bit of color. Rainbow's corpse was thrown into the ground as a cloud of dust and dirt burst from the point of collision, leaving the body looking like a broken toy that a foal had thrown at several walls. The head of the Bearer of Loyalty rolled to the ground and stopped on the right cheek, blood trailing out of her mouth and neck.

The Bearers of Harmony screamed in terror.

"Rainbow Dash!"