Machinery and Magic
Guardian
Previous ChapterNext ChapterClick "I'm going to ask you some simple questions and you're going to answer, easy right?"
"Yes, simple."
"Good, now let's begin. Do you remember anything before arriving here?"
"No."
"Are there any kind of urges that you have? Violent... maybe...?"
"Yes."
"Are you planning on acting any of those urges out?"
"Yes."
"Do you mind telling me what you're going to do?"
"..."
"..."
"I'm going to break free." Click
"What? What did you see?" Twilight asked as she approached John who was standing at the door.
"Nothing. Why?" John said in an oh-so convincing tone.
"Let me through. I want to see for myself."
"Okay, go ahead." John raised both of his hands up and backed away from the door.
Twilight trotted to the door and opened it with her magic. She peeked her head outside and a loud crash was heard a moment later. Her head came back inside and only thing was said. "Nope."
"See?"
"All I saw was a giant timberwolf attacking Ponyville!"
"Yeah, you guys have any plans to get it out of here?"
"What do you mean 'you'? You fought off one of those things before, what's so bad about this one?" Rainbow Dash asked with an eyebrow raised.
"Try like ten times bigger!" John exaggerated. "If I tried to fight that thing, I would probably last like three minutes."
Celestia stepped forward and asked. "What if all of us stood our ground against him?"
"We might have a chance, you two with your freaky magic, skittles up in the sky doing what she does and... Fluttershy?"
The pegasus 'meeped' at the attention. She didn't want to fight, let alone something that was bigger than buildings.
"You can stay out of this if you want, I wouldn't hold it against you. Just look after Spike."
John turned towards the door and opened it, as he stepped out the sound of crashing and screaming was clearly heard. In the distance the timberwolf was seen rampaging.
"This is gonna hurt." John muttered to himself as he began to sprint to the large beast.
"Hey! Kindling!" John yelled as he walked towards the timberwolf.
The wolf reared its head up and looked around.
"Right here!" John yelled again.
The wolf finally spotted John and his gang of four. It bared its teeth as it let out a snarl.
"Yeah! How about you pick on someone your own size? And by that I mean leave peacefully and don't hurt anybody."
The wolf just snarled even more.
"Yeah, I thought so. So, Twilight, Celestia, you take out both of its front legs and I smash its skull in. Yeah, sounds like a plan."
"We shouldn't try to kill it, harm it and let it limp back with its tail between its legs." Celestia suggested.
But it was to late, John was already charging towards the wolf. Celestia let out a sigh and charged her magic. "Come Twilight, help me with this."
Both of the unicorns released bolts of magic. John sped towards the wolf but stopped as two bright lights passed him up and pounded into the legs of the wolf. The wolf let out a yelp and fell forward as the two legs were swept from underneath it. John chuckled and leapt onto the wolf's head and proceeded to slam his fists into the wooden head below him. Punch after punch, crack after crack. The wolf struggled to get back onto its paws. So instead, it lifted its head rapidly and tossed John into the air. The wolf quickly climbed back onto its paws and looked up towards John.
"John!" Twilight yelled out.
John was soaring through the air before he reached the highest point he could go. And soon after, began traveling back towards the ground, and towards the wolf's gaping maw.
"I can't do shit! I don't know what lockdown would do at this height, this thing is going to eat me!" John thought as the wolf got closer and closer. The jaws of the wolf lined with wooden teeth, the hole that had been the throat was pitch black.
John fell into the wolf's mouth and the wolf quickly swallowed. Time seemed to stand still as everypony stared at the wolf. It licked its muzzle and looked towards the two princesses. It leapt towards the and tried to scoop them up in its large jaws. Twilight threw up a bubble shield wither her magic and protected both her and Celestia.
"Hey! Stay away from them you over-sized pile of firewood!" Rainbow Dash shouted as she pushed a cloud above the wolf's head and began to strike it with her two back hooves. Lightning struck from the cloud and slammed into the wolf's head. The wolf raised from his position on the ground and snapped at Rainbow Dash and her cloud. The cloud burst and floated away with the breeze and Dash had flew out of harms way.
The wolf looked back towards the two shielded alicorns. Just as he was about to leap a second time, the wolf gave a pained yelp and fell to the ground. Everypony stared at the wolf with wide eyes. their gaze shifting to the midsection of the wolf where a bright light was shining through the now burning gaps. The wolf began to whimper in pain as his midsection was burning away. A moment later a large glowing figure fell from the stomach of the wolf.
"John's okay!" Twilight yelled from inside the bubble shield. Celestia looked to where Twilight had been looking and she saw John, on his hands and knees heaving.
John got up from his position on the ground and looked to the wolf with half of its midsection missing.
"You thought you could kill me?!" John shouted as he walked towards the wolf, each step burning the ground around him, the grass sizzling away.
The wolf looked towards John and let out a pained cry.
"Yeah! Guess who's top dog now?!" John grabbed one of the wolf's hind legs and swung a fist at it, cracking it and burning some away.
"Me!"
John proceeded to punch away at the leg until it broke under his fists. The hole leg shattering into hunks of wood which lit on fire as they shot away from the scene.
"John! Stop this insanity at once!" Celestia demanded. "Twilight, deactivate the shield, we're safe."
The shield was dropped and Celestia took flight towards John and the timberwolf. John moved to the other leg and smashed it to pieces just like he had done with the other one.
"Tried to fucking kill me! I'll piss on your god damned ashes you waste!" John said as he moved to the head of the wolf. The wolf looked up to him with a pained expression. John raised his fist and was met with a yellow bolt of magic. He recoiled and lowered it back down.
"That is enough John! There is no need to kill it." Celestia said as she stepped beside the wolf. She recoiled at the smell. It was something she hadn't smelt in a while.
"This fucker tried to kill me! The shit in his stomach almost did!"
"You mean to say that—"
"What you're smelling is my fucking melting flesh!"
John raised a fist up and brought it back down onto the wolf's skull. The sound of metal meeting wood sounded with a loud crack as the head of the wolf cracked slightly.
"Tried to kill me and you're defending it."
He raised hist fist again. Noise assualted everypony's ears. Celestia stared he eyes wide with fear.
"Tried to destroy a town and you're defending it."
The action was repeated.
"Tried to kill ponies and you're defending it!"
The wolf's head caved and in a green liquid squirted out onto John. As the liquid oozed down suit it pulsed with energy and John fell to his knees. Celestia wretched as what looked like blood shot out of his mask.
John collapsed onto the ground and darkness swam in his vision before blacking out completely.
Author's Note
John lost a bit of his skin and if you know what I'm talking about, you'll know what he'll get back.
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