Tartarus High

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Dusk walked into the room and couldn’t help but wonder why all four of them were in one bed. he shrugged and threw open the curtains of the room, letting the light in. Four simultaneous groans.

“Those sound like hangover groans. Dare i ask what you four did last night?” Dusk said.

“Trust me...you don’t wanna know.” Twilight groaned.

“Fair enough. Chrystarium wanted to make sure you were alright, apparently you all left strangely.” Dusk said.

“Pfft...strangely sure is a nice way to put it...” Chrysalis said.

“Wasted was more like it.” Frostbite said.

“Should I be concerned you’re drinking at such a young age Twilight?” Dusk asked, her still being a teen.

“Dad, really? you seriously just asked me that?” Twilight asked, giving him a look that spelt out ‘really?’ just as well as what she just said.

“What’s that supposed to mean?” Dusk retorted.

“Dude I know she’s your daughter and all, but she could kick your ass if she wanted to...” Frostbite said.

“I still don’t believe you’re that strong.” Dusk said, shaking his head.

“You weren’t watching yesterday?” Twilight asked.

“That’s with Magic dear. I mean physically.” Dusk said.

“...Don’t push it, I’ve got the worst hangover of my life.” Twilight groaned.

“Ooh, sounds like someone’s a bit scared of her old man eh?” Dusk retorted.

“Dude, we know you’re her dad...but seriously...I haven’t seen her in a bad mood before...and she still scares the piss outta me.” Frostbite said.

“Last time she was in a bad mood she nearly ripped a Valkyrie’s wings off.” Celestia said.

“Well I’ve got no wings to rip off.” Dusk challenged. Twilight shot a glare at him.

“There’s a few other things i can rip off rather easily...” Twilight said coldly.

“is that a challenge?” Dusk asked.

“Obviously not, but if you want it to be I’ll be sure not to kill you.” Twilight replied.

“Feisty.” Dusk said.

“Dear what is taking so long?” Dawn’s voice called as she entered.

“He just challenged Twilight to a brawl he’s going to lose.” Celestia said, stepping next to her.

“...Twilight wouldn’t accept that...” Dawn said.

“She is when he pushes her...we got wasted last night on Crystal Water and we’re all in a bad mood.” Frostbite said.

“Last chance.” Twilight said threateningly.

“Oh no, that’s her Schizophrenia kicking in isn’t it?” Dawn asked.

“Yep.” Celestia replied.

“I know. always wanted to spar a woman on my level.” Dusk said. he took one step towards Twilight and found himself embedded into the wall behind him. Twilight still stood, her foot still outstretched from her kick. after a few seconds she blinked and gasped.

“Oh dad I’m so sorry! I was so exhausted and my head hurt so bad i just snapped!” she exclaimed.

“Damn...I haven’t seen him out cold since he fought your mother...” Dawn said to Celestia.

“...was it that fast?” Celestia asked.

“Oh she let him take one more step but yeah.” Dawn replied and peeled her husband off of the wall. “Well now that that’s all done, Chrystarium wants to speak to you.” she continued.

“There you are. I cannot thank you enough for you help. We will maintain the Glyphs you inscribed and we are yours to command when needed.” Chrystarium said.

“Our pleasure, and thank you. We should return to our Den now, the other commanders might get worried or something.” Twilight replied.

“I understand. You are free to leave, not that you were ever forced to stay.” Chrystarium said.

“Wait, sister. I have a request.” Chrysalis said.

“What is it?” Chrystarium asked.

“If it’s alright with you guys, I would like to accompany you. With our primary threat now eliminated we don’t much need a general. I’d be of much more use fighting by your sides.” Chrysalis explained, looking at Twilight and Celestia.

“I don’t think we’d have a problem with that.” Twilight said.

“Hm...do you have an adequate second in command?” Chrystarium asked.

“Yes.” Chrysalis replied.

“Very well. Just be sure you come back in one piece.” Chrystarium said.

“Thanks Sis.” Chrysalis said, running up and hugging her. Then she quickly made her way to where the others were.

“Well let’s get going.” she said. Twilight nodded and she and Celestia took off on the bikes.

“Hop on.” Frostbite said to Chrysalis. Chrysalis grinned and sat down behind Frostbite on the bike, wrapping her arms around her stomach lightly as they sped off after the other two.

“About time. Who’s this?” Vinyl asked when they entered the tower, seeing the awestruck Chrysalis with them.

“Changeling General, old friend of Celestia’s. What’s up?” Twilight asked, seeing Vinyl was dying to show her something.

“Follow me! We managed to finish a few different sets of armor and stuff!” Vinyl exclaimed, quickly leading them to the forge, which was a cavern turned nearly molten.

“There you are, Vinyl you just left in the middle of the inscribing process for the last one!” Octavia scolded.

“Sorry, They’re back.” Vinyl said, quickly picking up where she left off inscribing glyphs on to one of three sets of armor, two obviously made for a female and one obviously made for a male.

“Oh! perfect! I just finished making Pauldrons and the Helmet too.” Octavia said, lugging out a few pieces with extremely well made half-Wyrm-skulls on them. She then pulled out what looked like a metal Wyrm skull with it’s mouth open and a helmet made from it, which was exactly what it was.
(Pauldrons)
(Helmet)

“These are all amazing, but a lot of us like to fight in our Nightstalker form.” Twilight said.

“That’s what the glyphs are for.” Vinyl said. “Try this one on. We made it specifically for you.” She continued, placing the final piece of the glyph inscribed armor. For the next few minutes they helped her don the armor and finally the helmet. Her only peeve with it was that it left her abdomen exposed, but it was explained to her that she would lose a great deal of agility if it was all covered.
(Twilight's)
(The other set[imagine both male and female versions])

“It fits great, I didn’t know you knew how to create Glyphs Vinyl, I’ve never seen this one before.” Twilight said, examining one on her gauntlets.

“Activate them and transform into your Nightstalker form.” Octavia said. Twilight did so. She felt the Glyphs working and as she transformed the armor changed with her. It also took on the same texture and genetic makeup as the Reaver Gauntlets did.

“Whoa, it’s like the Metallic Bone everything turns into...” Frostbite said.

“That’s exactly what it is. We did some experiments and found the composition of how the Nightstalker magic works and turns things into manipulable material. When you’re human it’s as strong as ever, but when you’re in your Nightstalker form it binds to your body. You won’t be able to necessarily absorb it like we did our weapons, but it can be manipulated to meld with the weapons. We tried to make firearms that could be absorbed, but it would leave gunpowder in your system and it’d either make you sick or blow a hole in your arm.” Vinyl explained.

“...Who got their arm blown open?” Twilight asked.

“I did, but Fluttershy cleaned it up and some of the medics sped it along.” Vinyl said, showing a scar down her arm.

“You gotta be more careful. You did a really great job with this, but what about those other two?” Twilight asked.

“Those are for everyone else. They’re much more simple and not quite as intricate, but they work the same way as yours. We don’t have the time nor the materials to make everyone armor and just giving important people armor isn’t fair, so we made these bases for duplication.” Vinyl said.

“I get it, you made them simpler so that it won’t take so much out of the one duplicating.” Celestia said.

“Right.” Octavia replied.

“Well we can get all the Mages gathered up sometime soon and start the duplication. As for the Pauldrons and the helmet, I think that any of us that have taken down a Wyrm should get The helmet and a pauldron. the Commanders get Two Pauldrons. Hm, that means Fluttershy and her assassins will definitely be rather intimidating.” Twilight thought.

“We’ll also have to formulate a spell that any troop can use with their basic Nightstalker magic to quickly don or remove the armor, that took too long.” She continued.

“We’ll get right on that.” They said.

“Thank you. Now, I think I need to make Chrysalis a room and introduce her to everyone.” Twilight said.

“Oh Frostbite, The armor should work for your Wendigo form, Ice armor is nice but you need something solid for where we’re going.” Octavia called. Frostbite waved her acknowledgement and they left.

“Whoa damn, that looks awesome!” Dash exclaimed when they entered the main room. Twilight hadn’t removed the new armor.

“They’re still working out a few kinks but pretty soon I’ll need every mage to do a power siphon to duplicate armor for the forces. I’ll also need some of our Tunnelers to scout out some of the caverns the tunnels are connected to and see which one would make the best armory and connect it to the Forge.” Twilight said.

“On it.” A few people said and dashed down into the Tunnels.

“The Timberwolves are making battle preparations.” Luna reported.

“They have good perception of when they’ll be needed. Send messages to all of our allies and tell them we’ll be meeting soon. Is there a city closer to Tartarus than the Changeling Hive?” Twilight asked her.

“I know of one, it’s in ruins now and it’s name was lost to time. Everyone knows it as the Graveyard though.” Celestia said.

“Oh I’ve heard of it. Tell them that’s where we’ll all meet. We will wait until all of our allies are ready to move out and we’ll send word we’re moving so we all get there at relatively the same time. Those bikes were useful for individual, but I think we’ll have to fly and run for this one.” Twilight went on.

“I’ll start sending right away.” Spike said.

“And lastly I need some fruit and some sweet apple cider.” Twilight said.

“Gotcha!” Applejack said.