Rise of the Elementals

Alex slowly opened his eyes and looked around. He laid in a large white and light grey room, filled with strange machines.

He tried to move slightly, but felt his body convulse and he began to cough up blood.

He heard the sound of hooves outside the room before a small pony entered and saw him as he laid on the side on his bed with the floor and his mouth covered in blood.

"Oh dear, doctor!" The pony shouted as she hurried to Alex's side.

The small pony looked around before somehow levitating a bucket to Alex's side.

"Don't worry. The doctor will be here in a few moments." The pony said.

"I don't need a doctor. I hate doctors." Alex said and sat up slowly, trying his best to ignore the pain surging through his body.

A few seconds later a pony with, what Alex assumed to be a doctor's outfit came in along with two ponies from yesterday. The yellow one he had talked to, and a lavender/purple-ish.

"Oh my, what happened?" The yellow pony asked.

"I don't know. I came here less than a minute ago myself." The first pony said, who Alex now assumed was a nurse.

"But uhh, is it alright?" The lavender pony asked.

"It's he, not it. And yes, I'm perfectly fine." Alex said and decided it was a good time to get out off the bed, which proved to be a bad idea as his entire body made a loud creak.

"... ouch" He said and fell back onto the bed.

The ponies looked at him with many different expressions.

He returned their stares with an irritated expression.

"Don't look at me!" He said angrily.

"Sorry, it's just. We've never seen anypony like you before." The small yellow pony said.

Alex sat up carefully again, and looked at the four ponies in the room around him.

Throughout his entire life he had been hallucinating and he had been hearing voices, but this was on a scale he never thought possible.

"Who are you? Where am I?" He asked and focused his vision on the yellow pony.

"Oh, my name's Fluttershy. And this is Princess Twilight." The pony said and pointed her hoof towards the lavender pony.

"And I'm Doctor Star Light, and this is Powder Snow, your nurse." The doctor pony said.

Alex sat in silence for a few seconds, before looking around at the ponies again.

"And what is your name? If you don't mind." Fluttershy asked.

Alex didn't respond, he look with suspicion in his eyes. But he eventually figured that if it was all in his mind, he had no reason to work against it.

"I'm Alex." He stated.

Kill them. They are not your friends. In their eyes you are nothing but a freak, a monster. He heard the voice echo in his head.

Alex felt tempted to do as the voice said, but so far these ponies had done nothing but helped, so he decided to let them be; In case he'd need help in the future.

I am your only ally here. The voice said.

"Oh would you shut up?" Alex said out loud in annoyance.

"Oh, I'm sorry." Fluttershy said apologetically.

"Not you." Alex said and rolled his eyes.

Alex was lost deep in his thoughts as a sudden feeling of dread washed over him.

"What the hell?" He asked as chills ran down his spine. He noticed that Twilight was feeling the same thigh as he did, and her horn gave off a faint glow.

"What's going on?" He asked and looked around. The remaining three ponies stood in confusion and looked at Alex and Twilight's strange behavior.

"What's wrong?" The doctor asked, and just moments later the ground began to shake.

"Oh my, and earthquake." Fluttershy said as the machines in the room began to fall over and the ponies began to had trouble standing up.

Now, Alex. This is your chance. Kill them, and join me. I will become the strongest entity in the universe, and you will rule this world under me. He heard the voice in his head.

Hearing that made Alex more pissed than he had ever felt before, or at least in a week.

"Oh fuck that, I'm not taking orders from you." Alex snarled in his mind.

He got up from his bed and had a surprisingly easy time standing up.

He walked past the ponies and kicked the door open. He slowly walked through the hallway and made his way down some stairs until he came to what resembled a lobby with two large glass doors which lead out.

He walked outside and saw that he was in the same town as before, yet something was different.

He walked further out and noticed strange black smoke coming from the ground.

"What the hell?" He asked himself and got onto a knee to brush some dirt away. And as he did the ground opened up beneath him and a large rock pillar shot up and hit him in the stomach.

The pillar became almost thirty meters high before it finally came to a halt, but Alex kept flying up for a few moments before he landed back down on it.

He had the air blown out of him and was struggling to regain his breath.

He gathered his strength and pulled himself up so he stood on the pillar.

He looked down and saw that he was far too high up to survive jumping down.

He was completely lost for words over what had just happened, and he had no idea of how to get down.

Seconds later another pillar shot up beside him, and on it stood a muscular man with a grin on his face.

"Haha, so he wasn't lying. There really are more of us here." The man said as he looked at Alex.

"What? Who the fuck are you?" Alex asked.

"My name's Daniel Summers. I was brought here by the same guy as you." The man said.

"Okay... look, I'd love to hear more about this, I really would. But do you think we could take it on the ground?" Alex asked.

Daniel laughed and smirked at him.

"As you wish." He said, and the pillar immediately dissolved beneath Alex.

"Bloody fuck!" Alex screamed as he fell towards the ground. He quickly came closer to the ground, and spun around so his feet were first down, and he managed to shoot a quick burst of fire from his hands to slow his fall, but this time it left him completely drained of power.

"Huh? I didn't think you had it in ya already." Daniel said.

"What? Were you trying to kill me?" Alex asked angrily.

"No no, it'll take a lot more than that to kill one of us." Daniel said.

"One of us?" Alex asked in confusion.

"Yeah, E-oh shit! Hurry, their soldiers are coming." Daniel said as he looked behind Alex.

"What? No way, I'm staying here." Alex said.

"Are you insane? They'll kill you!" Daniel said.

"Yeah, most people would say I am." Alex said nonchalantly and turned around, and saw the soldiers running towards them.

"For god's sake man, let's leave!" Daniel said.

"Yeah, you do that." Alex said. He heard Daniel grunt behind him.

"You'll regret this, Alex. I'll make sure you do." Daniel said.

"Whatever you say, bud."