Twilight's First Foals -- Episode III -- The Three-Sixty-Fifth Parallel

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Chapter Four - A Paine-ful Reunion

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Contact emerged out of their portal in a room with congealed blood all over the walls, floor, and ceiling. They ventured around for about thirty seconds before they heard a noise coming from a nearby room. It sounded like a mare getting hurt by somepony.

They walked about five meters before Paine came out of the room the noises came from. She was not wearing her cloak, mask, or her under armour, thus revealing a scarred and stitched up body.

“I’ve been waiting for you, brood-herm,” she said before jumping and trying to grab them. However, she failed because the passed through one of their rings and appeared about three meters in front of where she landed. “You don’t want to get me mad, Sol,” she commented before she arose and tried again failing this time as well.

“Brother, I’m starting to feel warm,” Lulu thought.

[.i]“I think it’s in our best interest to avoid hurting her and prevent her from hurting herself,” Sol replied.

“I’m not going to give up until I get what I’m after,” Paine said before charging at them and managing to pin them to the floor under her right forehoof.

“Paine, if you know what's best for you, you won’t dare harm us,” they said.

“I’ve said it so many times before, ‘Not until I get what I want’,” Paine replied before letting them up. “Now, give me some fun and run,” she stated with a dark smile.

“We won’t give you that pleasure, Paine,” they replied as they stood there in front of her.

“Good, I didn’t want you to run,” she said. “Now, what shall I do to you to make you do what I want you to do?” she pondered aloud. “Oh, I know. I’ll clip your wings off,” she said with a demented grin.

She then teleported beside Contact and hit them in the back of the neck knocking them to the ground unconscious. After that, she picked up their saddlebags and threw them into a shadow vortex she created. Next she put contact on her back and carried them into the room she first came out of.

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Contact awoke in a room covered in darkness with the exception of a light shining down on them. They heard hoof steps being made every now and again. When they were fully conscious they felt hooks in their wings and metal shackles around their hooves preventing them from moving even a half of a decimeter.

“Show yourself, Brood-mare!” they called aloud.

“Why? Are you afraid of the dark or what’s in it?” she asked before stepping into the light near them.

“You don’t scare us,” they replied.

“Enough talk, are you going to do as I want you to, or am I going to have to rip your wings off?” she said with a dark smile.

“We will not submit to this!” they said in an agitated manner before their Gray orb started to glow.

Before Paine could get to them, they were encased in a crystal-like orb that broke all the hooks in their wings and dematerialized the shackles. After about ten seconds, the crystal orb shattered leaving an anthropomorphic creature behind.

It was two meters tall, covered in a Half-Black-Half-White hide, and it’s tail was like that of a Draconic Alicorn, however, the tuft was made of Red Ice covered in Blue Fire. It’s mane was comprised of Green Lightning and it’s eyes were Pure White on it’s Black side and Absolute Black on it’s White side. It’s wings were made of green electricity and had alternating Red Ice and Blue Fire primaries. Instead of having fingers it had claws and it had long pointed ears. Lastly it wore a Half-Red-Half-Blue Hide-Tight suit, two solid Gold rings around each wrist and near the end of it’s tail, one solid Gold ring around it’s neck and a solid Gold ring with a Cobalt Crescent Moon gem around it’s neck as well.

“We know we’re going to regret this,” the creature said before dashing at Paine. Before Paine realized what happened, she was being held up against a wall by her neck. “If you wish to live, you had best keep you muzzle shut, your ears and eyes open, and stay far away from us,” they said before letting her fall to the floor barely conscious.

“I will get what I want from you,” she said weakly as she slowly got off the floor.

“The only way you will get what you want from us is to kill us,” they started. “However, that’s impossible while we follow our parents’ will,” they finished.

“I will have what I want, and I will have it now!” she yelled as she began to charge at them.

“Pitiful mare,” they said before lifting her in the air with their magic.

“How are you doing this?!? You have no magic,” Paine struggled to say as they began choking her.

“This form is our original form,” they started. “This was our form before we became the Djinns’ weapons.”

“Then let’s try this!” she said before launching a ball of shadow magic at them causing them to drop her. “Now it’s my turn to attack, you worthless collection of magic energy!” she said as she stabbed them in the left leg with her horn, burying it in their leg and breaking it off of her in the process.

Contact then pulled her horn out of them and threw it across the room far from Paine. Doing so caused them to bleed heavily. Their blood was not like that of Humans, Anthros, or Ponies. It was a Gray liquid that was very thin.

“That does it!” they yelled before they began to glow in many different colours. After ten seconds of charging energy, they released it as a massive explosion that completely destroyed the ruined city above them. The shock wave could be heard from just over a five hundred kilometer radius and caused large wind gusts within a two hundred and fifty kilometer radius.

When the winds died down Bloodrush went to check the crater and found Paine and Contact unconscious and in the center of the crater. Paine’s body was bleeding out, the mist around her eyes was no more, and she was barely breathing. Contact was back in their Draconic Alicorn form with their saddlebags near them.

“Medic, get over here now, on the double!” she called over her communicator.

“Yes, Ma’am,” Medic replied.

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Contact awoke in a hospital bed to a beeping sound from a vital monitor. Its readings were not like that of a normal pony or Draconic Alicorn. They tried to get off the bed to figure out exactly where they were, however, upon trying to move they felt a sharp pain in their left hind leg. They looked back at the source of pain causing them to remember what went on in the aquaduct ruins. Another detail they realizes was that their rings had been covered up by Anti-Magic shackles.

“Brother, do you think-”

“No, I’m sure she survived,” Sol interrupted as they noticed they were in their default forme. “But one thing is for certain: She will no longer be able to cast magic ever again.”

The door then opened and a doctor walked in. His name-tag read: Dr. Blue Heart. The irony in this is the fact that his coat, mane, tail, and Talent Mark were all different shades of Blue. The only things about his forme that were not Blue were his eyes, they were Blood Shot Red.

“Oh, so you’re awake,” he said as he came near to them. “The Prince told me to make sure you felt ‘at home’ around our little Fortress.”

“Where are we?” they asked in their double voice.

“You are a V.I.P.O.W. in the Chaos Faction P.O.W. camp: Destination: ‘XIII’,” he stated. “Prince Sentry and the other Elements Of Chaos found you in a crater about one hundred kilometers north of the Arcane Faction Front. They’ve claimed you as a ‘Shared Trophy’.”

“What did they do with Paine?” they continued.

“They brought Agent Paine back to work on restoring her horn,” he replied.

Agent Paine?” they asked a little confused.

“That is none of your concern,” he started, “what is your concern is what your future job will be.

“You’ve been recognized as a pony with immense power rivalling and surpassing that of the Diarch leaders of the Arcane Faction. Magic has no effect on you and you can open rifts in time and space. Needless to say, you would be a great addition to the Chaos League army.

“This leaves you with two options:” he began to end, “Join our army, or serve our Prince and the E.O.D.”

“What if I told you I have the Black Rose Signet Case?” they replied causing him to pause and think for a second.

“…What are your terms?” he asked.

“Release Paine into our custody, first off,” they started. “Second, release us and send us to the Arcane Faction Canterlot Fortress. And finally, don’t ever try to capture us again.”

“… … …They agree to the first two but not the third,” he answered.

“Then tough luck, they’re not getting it,” they stated before a male Alicorn burst through a painting on the wall.

His coat was Lime Green, his mane and tail had a style much like that of “Twilight ‘Solid’ Sparkle” only, the colours were two variants of Lime Green. He had an eye patch over his left eye and a Golden crown with a Lime Green six-pointed star on his head. And Lastly his eyes were Lime Green.

“We have ways to make you give it to us,” he said angrily.

“Flash, do not make us mad, even the princes of-” they said before being back-hooved across their face by him.

“Silence, you brood-foal,” he started. “You will give us that artifact or I swear to the goddess I will beat you until all you know is pain.”

“Flash,” Lunair’s voice mumbled from their body as a tear rolled down their right cheek.

“I said SILENCE!” he yelled before he back-hooved them so hard they were sent flying into the wall leaving a small dent in the metal.

Suddenly their body began changing form. Their body became an amorphous mass of magic energy causing the shackles to fall off. About ten seconds passed before they began to take a defined form again.

The form they chose was that of an anthropomorphic fox about two decimeters tall. It wore a Bright White vest and Blind Black shoes and gloves. Its fur was Solid Gray and its eyes were Brilliant Green.

“You just fucked up,” they said before he began firing bolts of magic in their direction only to have them be absorbed by Contact.

“Impossible, she didn’t warn us of this,” he stated before teleporting away.

“Please don’t hurt me,” Blue Heart said as he backed out of the room.

“So, You decided to use the second most powerful form we would let you use only to scare them off?” Chia asked as she passed through the shattered painting.

“We’ve had enough of this challenge, we demand a fight,” they said angrily.

“We are the ones pulling the strings, puppet, we’ll decide whether or not we fight, and we don’t want to fight so deal with it,” she replied.

“Than at least lessen the challenge by three supercycles,” they asked.

“Fine, because we know time here is pretty much crawling we’ll lessen it,” she replied. “However, we add a stipulation: You join the Chaos League. What role you take is up to you so long as you join them.”

“Fine,” they responded, “we will join them, but only as a servant, not a breeding partner. Now, if you’ll excuse us our form’s power is weakening and we wish to frighten Flash a bit more before it fades completely,” the finished before teleporting away.

*********

“What is your first command, Master?” Contact asked as they looked at Flash.

“You can go clean Amber’s room,” he started, “It’s quite the mess and somepony has to clean it because she won’t.”

“Yes, Master,” they replied before they turned around and left for Amber’s room.

“On your way back, ensure she gets her rations of Sapphire gems,” Flash called prompting Contact to turn around and reply before continuing their task list.

“Brother, why don’t the Djinns just fight us?” Lulu thought.

“We’ve pondered that question for over a hypercycle and we have found no answer,” Sol replied. “We’ll just have to deal with it.”

“There you are, Contact,” asked a rather young looking female dragon after walking around a corner.

The dragon had a reverse colour scheme of Spike: Purple stomach and chest plates and bright green standard scales with purple spinal scales.

“Yes, Mistress Amber?” they replied.

“Flash sent you to get my rations, am I correct?” she asked.

“The order of the command he gave us-”

“I don’t care about the order of the command, just get my damn rations I’m starving!” she burst out in anger.

“Yes, Mistress,” they replied before turning around to head toward the food storage.

“Wait, I was told you had the ability to change certain aspects of your body to better please those you work for. Is this true?” she asked.

“To an extent, Mistress,” they replied.

“What do you mean: ‘To an extent’?”

“We can only alter our body provided we have drank a bit of our Spirit Dew from our Crystal Flask and still the alterations wouldn’t be very different from our current form.”

“Can you change your body to suit my likings?”

“What are they?”

“A Light Blue nine tailed ice fox or wolf. I’ve been mad about that description since I read about it in the fiction section in Prince Flash’s library.”

“We will try our best Mistress,” they said before pulling their flask out of their saddlebags and taking a sip of the gray liquid. Their form then began to slowly change to that of a nine-tailed Draconic-Fox covered with ‘Blue-Fire’ fur. “Is this good enough, Mistress?” they asked.

“Not exactly what I had in mind,” she replied before her stomach rumbled. “Oh, that’s right…”

“No need to speak, Mistress, we are on it,” they said as they returned to their base form and resumed their path to the storage room.

“I now realize why we should have picked fighting for our role.”

“Why, Brother?”

“With eight owners our minds won’t stand up to the inevitable stress and we’ll crack under the pressure of having to please eight others.”

“It was at this moment we realized: ‘We fucked up’.”

“Can the memes. Let’s just get these next three supercycles over as fast as possible.”

“You, Servant, get me a bottle of ‘97 Chateau De La Cloud, ON THE DOUBLE!!!” A unicorn stallion barked. His features included Slightly Bright Green Tinted White eyes, near Black coat, and Slightly Bright Green Tinted White Mohawk Style mane.

“Yes, Master Fil-”

“You will refer to me as Master Rich,” He replied as he hit them with a book.

“Yes, Master Rich,” they replied as they picked themself off the ground and continued their trek.

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“Limenera, where do you think we should strike next?” Flash asked as he looked an ‘EarthBound’ stallion.

The EarthBound’s entire body was covered in variants of Lime Green. The only exceptions were his Dark Red eyes.

“I say we bring a hearty end to the rogue bandits between us and Appleoosa by setting up a dummy shipment of ammo and end them,” he replied slamming his hoof on the table.

Contact then walked into the room with three silver platters of food balanced on their wings and back.

“Master Flash, I have the meals you requested,” they said.

“Good, bring them to the table,” he responded. “And I would like your opinion on where we are to strike next,” he finished.

“Our opinion, Master?” they asked in a very confused manner as they set Flash’s food in front of him.

“Yes, your opinion. Paine says you are the eighth oldest being in this dimension therefore one would believe you to me among the best of tacticians,” he continued as they placed Limenera’s food before him.

“We have some experience, however, it is not enough to say we are amongst the most poor of tacticians let alone amongst the best.”

“Who cares about a servant’s battle experiences?” A pegasus stallion asked before being served his meal. This specific stallion had a Dark Blue coat and Lime Green mane and tail.

“I care,” Flash said angrily as he slammed his hoof on the table. “Now, shut up and let them speak,” he said before he gave a motion for Contact to speak freely.

“Appleoosa is one of the League’s greatest supplier of food. If they can’t get the ingredients to make their food, they won’t be able to supply the soldiers at the battle fronts,” the said before looking around the room. “And we all know an army marches on on its stomach,” they finished.

“If we wanted to hear that phrase we would have asked for it,” the aforementioned stallion said.

“Master Gale, I believe you should at least take this into account,” they replied.

“Yes, Appleoosa is a major producer of food,” Flash stated. “I have a feeling there’s something we’re overlooking.

“If you set up a dummy shipment you’ll only lose it,” Contact continued. “However, if you send a real shipment but cloak some fighters with a temporary invisibility spell you may be able to capture some of the bandits,” they concluded.

“We just might do that,” Flash said as he rubbed his hoof along his chin.

“That is not all I see that you can be doing,” they continued.

“Then, by all means, continue,” Limenera stated.

“The Arcane Faction is on their way to attack the Tech Faction headquarters. Now would be a good time for an aerial attack,” they stated.

“Which would you send your troops to?” Flash asked.


Author's Note

Fair Warning:

The upload on [ October !st, 2017, 1200 hrs. ] will be the final upload for this account. However, Old Chapters of this series will have any errors i can find repaired. Errors such as: Time-Skips, Character Colour Pallet, and Character Misplacement will be fixed. Errors such as incorrect terminology will be studied and fixed upon necessity. And lastly, any "Ships" I didn't launch will be sunk.

After all corrections have been made, this user profile will only post on holidays of importance.

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