To Hell and Back

by Vasto Lorde

Bonus Chapter: Au of a Au

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Author's Note

So I lied. I said I was going to work on my other one, but this story has been on my brain so have a new Chapter.

This was a PM battle between my and Redsponie characters. It was just supposed to be a battle, but bit turned into a good chapter so I decided I would make a bonus.

If anyone else wants to do a PM battle with me you are more than welcome to, I had fun and look forward to trying it again.

So see you all next time, and enjoy the story. Emperor Sombra signing out!


Bonus Chapter: Au of a Au

Suddenly the doors to the throne room are blown open as a red stallion with blue and green hair matching colour glasses wearing a sandy brown travelling cloak and a black scarf just visible around he's neck carrying twin swords one molded to look like flames with deep and light reds yellow's and oranges to match the colours of flames and the other one molded to look like ice with deep blues and greens to look like ice walks in over the guard he threw into the door "Hey Sunbutt, Moonbutt I see I'm still banned from the castle. " He notices Twilight and Blueblood . "Oh so the fool actually tried to kidnap sparky here even after I told him it was a bad idea and refused to go after a unspecified and potentially hostile force strong enough to warrant me to avoid so who did he hire?" The pony asked.

"Who the fuck is this guy?" Dying asked.

"I don't know." Twilight replied.

"Redsopine, what are you doing here?" Celestia asked as Luna summoned her scythe and glared daggers at the pony.

"Oh me I'm here to tell you guys he was planning to kill Twilight and wanted to hire my team for it but it seams someone beat me to it and put your scythe away Moonbutt if I was here to attack you two why would I use the front door and to answer your question Sparky my name's Redsopine recon scout and co-leader of the mercenary squad wolf pack we deal with certain threats to Equestria that most ponies don't want to go near and a few that even the princesses cannot fight without risk of full scale death and destruction but mostly the creatures that break out from Tarturas and no I don't mean like Tirek or the bug bear I mean the horrors that make them seem nice.

"Are you trying to insult me or something. If you are your going to have to try better than that." Twilight said rolling her eyes.

"You see her as a monster to? See auntie I told you didn't I?" Blueblood said as he walked over and threw an arm around the pony and whispered in his ear. "If you get rid of her and her beast I'll quadruple whatever your original buyer did."

(Redsopine changes POV to first person. I still used third.)

I sigh loudly and calmly punches a hoof into Blueblood's gut and withdraws it before grabbing he's throat and removing my glasses so my eyes are visable my normal golden orange eye and my other multi-hued red blue green golden orange an black surrounding the iris eye look at him as I carefully click a small button on the side of them my hooves now draconic claws as he's words are repeated for all to hear before I slam him into the wall and growl now with razor sharp teeth as I stand on two legs."How many times must I tell you no you fool if it was not for the fact ladies are present I would have forcibly made you eat your own guts after I ripped them free from you but I think breaking you would be more fun." I draw my red blade Diablo as it bursts into hellfire I plunge it into he's legs fast but when the blade is removed both times there's not any blood just a cauterised wound that glows angrily."Now unless you start to change and I mean this those wounds will grow and corrupt your body until your nothing more than a charred corpse that is barred from dear you wont eat or drink or sleep from now on got it does your thick skull understand your now cursed?"

Dying clapped her hooves in Twilight's head."I love this guy. Bravo, bravo! Encore!"

"Damn that's worse than what I was planning to do." Twilight said a little shocked."Blueblood get the fuck out of here." Twilight said as she looked at the crying Prince. He got up a limped away."Now that he's gone, what do you want?"

"Oh nothing much just to calmly arrest and take you back to some people who say you stole a ship of theirs and next time you break out of a highly secure facility and steal from them make sure to EMP the wreckage next time it was just by pure luck my team intercepted the team they sent after you and no there not paying me. Those bastards have my sisters though and they quite frankly said if I don't bring you in there gonna make what they did to you seem nice and quite frankly while Treble has seen and been through a lot worse our little sister Crimson has not. So Sparky do you want to come quite or do I have to break my own rules and hit a mare?"

Twilight's left eye twitched and her voice became emotionless."Those bastards again. And they have your sisters."

"Oh hell no. No way are we going back just after one day of being home!" Dying said. Twilight and Dying switched places."There is no way in this entire damn universe are we going back there.

"Dying what-"

"Shut it Twilight I am in charge right now. No back seat driving." Dying said."Now like I said to you no way are we coming with you." Dying said.

I grinned and started chuckling like a madman."So you finally showed yourself missy. I must say dark magic suits you well but your barely a foal in what's down in the depth's." I keep chuckling as my voice becomes younger and more childlike my body turning midnight black as my cloak falls off revealing my wings while the swords vanish in a burst if flame and ice as I keep changing till all that stood before you was a panther that looked no more then ten years old giggling insanely as he looks at you "Poor poor child it's not everyday I'm let out to play he must really want you. Now let me see awww I cant kill you but I can hurt you now lets see he also wants to test what you can do so this place is a no no so we need to go go." The panther leaps at Dying and grabs onto her hoof with strength that he shouldn't have as the world turns dark before it returns but now the place is a dark woods near a cliff top as claw steps out of a trees shadow he sits and smiles "Now that we are alone my names claw what's yours?"

"Dying Phoenix." She replied.

"Pleasure to meet you miss and sorry but while I can see in your eyes we might be the same I still have to hurt you and test you " Claw says and steps back into the shadow's with a grim smile as he travels almost unseen in the shadows before slashing he's claws out behind dying's back legs aiming to cripple her from behind only a faint breeze as any indication of he's attack.

Dying heard Claw talk and then there was silence. For some odd reason she couldn't even feel his pre-"Owww!" Dying said as she fell to the ground clutching her bleeding leg."Why you little fuck." She got back up her back leg already healed.

Claw giggles from the shadows "Oooo this should be fun not every day I meet a regenerator."Claw says from your back as he runs a claw through your tail "But it also means my job is moot since I cannot kill you and my only non lethal move was to incapacitate your legs."Claw kicks off your head gently as the air temperature drops rapidly the ground becoming coated in frost as wing beats are heard before a deep blue and feathered Dragoness's lands before Dying holding a double edged sword made of pure ice "Hello dear my names Gelu and since Claw is unable to fight you I have been chosen to capture you so I hope this won't be to cold for you." She charges at Dying and sweeps her blade along the ground in a ark as ice crystals go flying towards Dying.

Dying summoned her sword and leaps towards the dragoness over the ice spikes and clashed swords with Gelu. She had to admit it was getting a little cold so she lit her wings on fire.

Gelu hisses and jumps back."Put those flames away now if you was cold you could have asked."

"Aww what's wrong little dragon can't take the heat? I'm just getting started!" Dying yelled as she burst into flames and when the wall of flames disappeared there stood"Helios Phoenix. Hello little ice drake, I'm Helios Phoenix." Said the tall alicorn with a mane of fire, a body of many oranges, reds, and yellows, along with a fiery blue tail that waved in nonexistent winds, a cutie mark of a Phoenix in front of a blue sun.

Grins."My my your full of tricks but so am I." The air drops as your mane and tail freeze to solid ice as I move closer grinning."Go ahead try to melt it and see how bad you fail."

"Hmm, well I wasn't planning to attack you using my mane, but i'll gladly blast you." Helios said as she shot a beam of pure concentrated beam of sun light that was even hotter than the sun in the sky.

Grins as I fly towards the beam my form changing as I do so."You want heat I will give you heat." A more masculine voice roars out as Gelu turns into a red scaled dragon was the swords turns to living flames before I enter the beam and vanish from sight chuckling madly I dive at you through the beam using it to mask myself as I get closer I grab Dying's horn and slice my blade through the base severing it and cauterizing the wound as I spit out a ancient arcane word and around your now severed horn base symbols appear creating a fire barrier so you cannot heal the wound."Now lets see how you fight with no magic. I thrust my blade into the ground and stare at you ready.

"Huh so no using magic?" Dying said as she stood on her hind hooves. She summoned her own sword Slicshia. "Now let's fight, please you first."

Grins."No magic remember and my blades are pure magic so if you please it's hand to hand?" I say as I get in a fighting stance.

"Slicshia isn't magic actually, but if hand to hand is what you want fine." Dying replied.

Smiles "Thank you now ladies first." I said with a slightly cocky grin on my face as I stare at you.

"If you insist." Dying said as she took one step forward was already half way in front of him. She jumped in the air and landed a kick to the face and then when she dropped a kick to the gut and then delivered a uppercut the the dragon.

Grins as I take the hits unfazed before I spit a tooth onto the ground and grab your hoof before twisting my body to slam you onto the ground as I put a foot onto your chest and brake your arm and hand before breathing flames and marking it like your horn base."Gotta try harder then that missy."

"Oww. I could tell it wasn't doing much. If I didn't know better I would say your the Incredible Hulk in disguise. I do have one question for you though, do you know about fifth dimensional beings?" Dying asked as she faded out of exsistance and appeared behind the drake.

Smirks and giggles."Do you know anything about demon lore or about that four of there strongest lords were bound to a single mortal one thousand years ago and that the mortal became a immortal as a gift and a curse?" I say as i twist round and punch a hole into your gut not to deep but enough to hurt.

"Ahhhh!" Dying screamed and also coughing up some blood."Da...mmit. I used up all my tr *coughs* icks."

"Well not all of them."Red says walking up from behind."You haven't learnt how to split yet have you give it time and you will now will you care to listen to someone older and has a plan that needs your help. " Lightly holds my hand to your wound as it seals shut in a flash of green flames as I remove my hand showing a strange glowing dust as a golem emerges from the earth.

"I guess I don't really have a choice." Dying said turning back into Twilight.

"I know when I'm beat." Twilight said.

Smiles."So that dust comes from the golem Bloodcleaver and don't sell yourself short not many can fight 3 demon lords and manage to hurt one slightly outside there own kind."

"Thanks." Twilight said slowly standing up."So how are we going to get your sisters back, i'll gladly help now that Dying has been put in her place. Isn't that right?"

"Yes" Dying said as a small tear rolled down her face. Said tear also visible on Twilight's face.

"Stop crying, jeez! She doesn't like losing."

"Hey dying think of it as this way you can now have a rival to beat and sorry about before I had to test you now first things first this will hurt like fucking hell but it's the fastest way I can give you the information on how to split apart were gonna need both of you for this."

"Alright. Oh and Dying will be waiting for that rematch." Twilight replied.

Headbutts twilight hard as a flash of images and information passes between us."Ahhhh fuck that hurt."

"Damn that's one way to pass information." Twilight said shaking her head."Oh by the way can you remove the seals so I can regrow my horn? Believe it or not a couple hours of my horn broken, shattered, or cut off can have some nasty consequences, that I don't think Equestria is ready to see." Twilight said as she pointed to her bare forehead.

"Oh that was a mental illusion." Flicks your horn as it shimmers back into existence."I had claw put a neurotoxin on his claws to make you think I disabled you when I didn't. Your lucky that Dying didn't pass out.

"You guys could give Rainbow Dash a run for her money with those illusions. You just have to make them non-lethal. Now let me try splitting." Twilight said as she went through the the memories. She and Dying split and they looked at each other. It was kinda cool to see what Dying actually looked like."So this is how you look? Nice I always wondered."

"Hmm your a lot smaller than I thought you were." Dying said as she looked at Twilight who was easily much taller than Luna, or Cadence, but still smaller than Celestia.

"Shut up and pay attention so we can help our new friend here get his sisters back from those bastards." Twilight said turning her attention to Redsopine.

"Thanks now here's the plan I take one of you like your my prisoner as soon as my sisters are free or they try to screw me over like they will the other one of you creates a diversion as my team grabs them once there clear and we blow them to pieces and I mean that literally claw likes to eat enemies."

"Also funny you mentioned dashie but she's actually trebles twin but they don't look like it. And before you ask look at the memories and you will see reason why she doesn't remember us."

"I like that plan and it seems that claw and I have something in common. But I absorb not eat." Twilight said."Also i'll look through those memories when this is all over and I will also be the prisoner."

Smiles."Ok lets get going."

"So are just gone sit around or are we going to get this done?" Twilight asked.

"Hey give me a minute rapid changes and splitting leaves me hungry." I pull out a stack of raw ribs out of bag and cooks them in my hand."Want some?"

Sure, Dying mind lighting your hoof?" Twilight asked.

"Sure, just as long as you share." Dying said as she lit her hoof on fire.

Tosses you a few ribs each as there cooked."Hotsauce anyone? " I start eating messily.

"I'll take some." Twilight said.

Passes you the sauce when I finish with a loud burp as my words reappear along with my scarf and a crystalline pendent I sigh."Come,eat as we walk Sparky we got less then a hour before they think I failed "Starts walking to the east near to the castle of the two pony sisters as a solider approached him with a rifle raised.

" Hold it right there." Red glares at him and swipes the rifle and holds it to the grunts head

"Go call your superiors I have her. I hope she can forgive me for the knockout drug in her food."
(We stopped here so I'm adding more to it.)
A couple seconds later the Soldier returned with his superior.

"Where is she?" The older Soldier said.

"Just let me go get her." Red replied as he went back into the forest. To bad the soldiers didn't notice the figure using the shadows to slip past them into their camp.

Dying used the shadows to slip past the two guards that were posted at the tent used for the two prisoners they had.

"Baka." She said as she traveled further into the tent. Once she got towards the end she saw the two mares chained to the ground."Treble, Crimson." She whispered.

The older siblings lifted her head to see Dying."Who the buck are you?" She said as she tried to move a little closer to Crimson to protect her from this strange looking pony.

"I'm a friend of your brothers, I'm here to get you out while Twilight and Redsopine distract the soldiers." She said as she moved closer and broke their chains.

"Thanks" Treble said.

"No problem. Hold into me." Dying replied as both siblings grabbed onto one of her forelegs. She turned all three of them into shadows and they slipped past the soldiers all the way back to Red and Twilight. She reformed them and they all met up.

"Treble, Crimson, are you both alright?" Red asked them.

"We're fine, just a little malnourished." Treble replied."Crimson is just a little traumatized, so that's why she's not talking."

"Red we should get going if we're going to finish this plan." Twilight said.

"I know, but I don't want to leave them without protection." Red responded.

"Let me take care of that." Dying said as her horn glows black and shot a beam towards the ground. At first nothing seemed to be happening. Then the ground where the beam hit slit apart and a black hand shot through and a body made its way out of the ground. Its eyes were a smoky yellow, and its body was black, with black and gold armor covering its body. It pulled its sword from the ground and looked towards its masters.

"Hi Dr. Frank. You job is to protect these two ponies with your life if anything tries to attack them. You are to be unmoving like a boulder. Am I clear?" Twilight said.

Frank put a fist to his chest a hit it three times, and made a series of groans and moans.

"Good boy." Dying said.

"Alright Red lets get these bastards." Twilight said and part two of the plan was put in motion.

The soldiers at the camp were getting just a little suspicious of this Redsponie character, until he walked out the woods with their prize.

"Here she is." Red said as he dropped her on the ground and backed away."Now return my sisters."

"I'm afraid you contract has expired and you are now returning to earth with us. We have to say your control over those Demon Lords intrigued us." The Superior said and more soldiers step out of their hiding places and surrounded Red.

"You know I was expecting something like this to happen. That's why I'm grateful that you guys never looked up." Red said as he and Twilight moved out of the way. The soldiers looked up in enough time to see Dying smash down on the ground creating a shockwave that knocked a few soldiers in the air. They all heard a whistle and saw a large crystal dagger moving at impossible speeds cut through the few soldiers that were in the air. The dagger returned to Twilight's side.

"Just so you guys know, you fucked up." Dying said with an almost maniac smile. She formed a diamond sword and her own version of Slicshia which was darker than Twilight's was, but still followed the same color scheme. Twilight summoned the exact same weapons, and Red turned into Claw. And then the bloodshed began.

That day there was much screaming, death, eating, absorption, gunfire, and smiles.

After the very unbalanced battle Twilight and Redsponie returned to Treble and Crimson. The found a few bodies, which meant that Frank did his job. Twilight returned him to sleep and the four ponies became good friends. Twilight made herself available for any time they needed help, and Dying and Red made a date for their rematch.

The ponies said goodbye and went their separate ways. When Twilight returned to Canterlot she was told to meet the other Princesses in the Throne Room.

Once she entered she saw Luna, Celestia, and herself in dark green armor.

"Oh, well looks like the Commander is visiting our universe too." Twilight said as she walked in and the doors closed behind her.

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