Cleaning Darkness
Chapter 7: Rev It Up

By: Major Frostwing

Another quiet morning in New Ponyville the birds were chirping and the sun was shining on the castle. It looked like it was going to be another beautiful day. It had been a week since Jon left his room and just as quickly as he had appeared he soon enough locked himself in his workshop once again. The cameras once again went black and only music played over the mics.

An explosion shook the castle bringing everyone's attention towards the large structure only to see smoke rising from the front gates. Another explosion hit a tower resulting in a large fire ball. The entire city was thrown into a panic. Some people ran away from the destruction while others pulled out their phones recording the attack. An army was attacking the castle.

Nova was running through her castle trying to organize the guard while also giving orders to gather the elements in the throne room. Nova needed to hurry and repel the attackers so Jon would not get involved. If Jon got involved he would only slaughter them and then he would have to be sealed once again. Nova sprinted the whole way towards Jon's work shop. The door didn't have it's large magical seal over it and seemed to be ajar. When Nova barged into the room she saw a small squad of attackers were on the ground knocked out. Nova looked away from the attackers to see Jon standing next to a table putting large black crystals in a gauntlet.

"Be a dear Nova and have the servants remove this trash from my room." Jon said casually as he looked over his gauntlet carefully.

"You didn't kill them." Nova pointed out as Jon looked over his shoulder at her before shrugging.

"Meh they aren't worth being killed." Jon said with a dismissive wave of his hand before his body was surrounded in a dark purple haze. The gauntlet seemed to shudder before the metal crawled over his body encasing him in his suit of armor. Jon reached up lifting his visor. "Now then." Jon reached down picked up a sword lifting it up to his shoulder. "I'm gonna go beat the fuck out of some dumbasses." Jon walked towards the door as Nova moved to get in his way. "Move Nova... Now." Nova glared down Jon before her eyes flicked to the sword he was carrying. It wasn't even a blade it was just a flat slab of steel not even with an edge. Jon flicked his wrist as Nova was magically moved out of his way. "I'm not gonna kill them. Just hurt them really fucking bad." Jon slowly marched his way out of his room towards the entry way. That's where the fighting was from what he could hear.

I stepped around the corner of a hallway to see a contingent of the castle's guard using whatever they could as cover. I looked away from the guards to see the attackers doing the same strategy as the two groups continued to fire at each other. I was bored of this little display of poor tactics and with a flick of my wrist a large wall of dark purple appeared between both parties. I moved towards the wall flicking my visor down and readying my weapon. I passed the guards as they looked at me with shock before I walked right through my shield standing now before the enemy.

They hesitated as I raised my sword as it crackled with purple lightning. The enemy raised their weapons at me waiting for me to make my first move. I only shook my head as I charged forward to the closest one as they opened fire. I felt the bullets slam into my armor but I did not slow until I was right on my first victim. I raised my blade smashing the man in the side as he screamed out in agony as the lightning coursed through his body. I smiled as I seized the man bringing him up as a shield and I charge into their ranks. I felt shots impact the man's body before I threw him to the side now in the ranks of their main attack force. I could only smile as I flicked my wrist watching as magic arced along my left arm. "I'm going to hurt you fuckers now. Now put up an actual fight and make it fun for me." I said as the enemy all took aim about to fire. I charged the closest one decking the man across the face straight into his friends. I turned around to see one has decided to fight me head on only to get my sword to the front of his knees. The bones shattered under the force exerted on them with a satisfying crack.

Bullets pinged off my armor as I continued to weave through the ranks punching and smashing knees with my sword. I felt a blast hit my helmet bucking it into my face slightly forcing me to stumble back. Another blast hit my chest buckling my chest plate as I felt something rip through my chest. I took another step back using my blade as support as I did a small assessment of the damage to me before reaching up seizing my helmet ripping it off glaring down the one who dared break my armor. It was big guy with a shot gun that he was calmly loading before taking aim at me once again.

"MEN CHARGE THE SHIELD HE CAN'T FIGHT AND MAINTAIN THAT SHIELD AS WELL!" The big guy yelled as the soldiers around us charged the shield. I went to use my magic to stop them when the fucker shot my hand. I looked at my hand seeing the metal that replaced my bones in my hand. My eyes slowly dragged over to him as he pumped another shell into the gun. I clenched my hand into a fist as I pushed my magic as far as I could feeling the burning in my chest become only pain.

"You want to fight me? Then let's fucking fight." I said as sections of my skin turned black as pitch. The pain in my chest only continued to get worse as I charge my magic into my hand repairing it. The man took aim only to see I was suddenly face to face with him. I seized him by the face bringing him down to his knees as I squeezed.

"SARGE!" I heard a few of the enemy yelled before bullets slammed into the back of my armor. I looked over my shoulder and that was a mistake. I felt pain rocket up my leg as my right leg buckled. I looked back to see the man had shot my knee at point blank almost ripping my leg off in the process. I let out a grunt of pain before releasing the Sargent's face trying to heal my leg before another shot impacted my chest knocking me back.

"Fuck... I'm burning to much of my magic trying to keep that shield up and trying to be non-lethal. I have to choose one or the other." I told myself as I took a deep breath. "GUARDS!" My voice thundered as the shield dropped. "FOR THE PRINCESSES!" I roared out as a small black stone about the size of a fist appeared in my hand. I crushed it feeling a new well of magic pour into my allowing the pain to subside. My knee repaired it's self along with the damage in my chest.

"FOR EQUESTRIA!" I heard a guard yell out.

"FOR THE PRINCESSES!" I heard another yell out as my face contorted into a twisted smile. The guards yelled out their battlecry as they began to fight off the attackers with righteous fury.

"Come on big guy." I said as I motioned for him to come at me. "Round two." I prepared my blade as it crackled with magic. He went to pump another round as I focused my magic along the edge of the dull sword as I swung right through his shotgun. "Melee only man make this fun for what it's worth." The man dropped the broken gun drawing a combat knife off his belt flicking the blade backwards.

He charged at me as I met his charge electrifying my blade he swung as I did as well I felt his blade right through the right side of my face as my blade slammed into his pelvis shattering the bones the electricity took care of incapacitating him. The large man dropped as I turned my attention to the groups that had shot me in the back while I was in the middle of combat. I snapped my fingers as I appeared before them raising my fist as I knocked the first one out before smashing my sword down on the shoulder of the second enemy shattering the entire bone structure in his shoulder the third one I swept their feet out from under them punching them straight down into the ground with a resounding crack.

It only took a few minutes for the remaining attackers to be put down. I looked deeper into the castle seeing Nova and the girls round the corner to see the destruction. They were in stunned silence as I reached down lifting my broken helmet walking towards the girls looking over the damage to my helmet with a frown.

"Jon you know you were not supposed to kill anyone." Nova said as I cocked an eyebrow at her.

"I didn't. The ones that are either screaming or unconscious are the ones I fought. I didn't kill a single one." I said looking back down at my helmet rolling it about in my hands thinking about how I could repair it. "I don't want to be sealed back up. It's boring after all." I said as I used my magic repairing my helmet before setting it over my head to see how it fit now.

A surge of magic drew my attention as I turned around to see a man in robes standing there with his hand out stretched aiming at us... no he wasn't aiming at me or Nova. That fucker was aiming at the elements. A molten ball of magic was launched out flying right for Lightning Dash as I snapped my fingers.

Seeing all of that destruction made me pause. how could he do all of this without a second thought? He wasn't even killing them only taking them out of the fight and still leaving them alive. I shudder to imagine how he would fight if he was trying to kill all of them.

"Jon you know you were not supposed to kill anyone." Princess Nova said as Jon only looked up for a second to raise an eyebrow.

"I didn't. The ones that are either screaming or unconscious are the ones I fought. I didn't kill a single one." I could still hear a few of the attackers screaming in the distance and it was horrifying to hear their anguished screams. "I don't want to be sealed back up. It's boring after all." Jon said as he fixed his helmet setting it over his head. How could he be so calm after all of this. Even the guards are shocked to a degree but he just looks like this was an everyday occurrence.

"Jon was our protector until he fell from grace." The voice of Princess Celestia ran through my head as I looked at Jon only to see him turned around suddenly. I looked at what had caught his attention to see someone standing there wearing a robe his hand pointed right at me. A bolt of magic flew free and everything seemed to slow down as the bolt got closer.

"Why can't I move?" I asked myself as my feet were routed in place my wings felt as if they were pinned to my sides. The bolt continued to fly closer and closer as I shut my eyes in fear raising my arms to defend myself. A snap echoed in my ears and something hot splashed against me. Slowly I opened my eyes to see Jon standing before me his hand was only a few centimeters from my arms. He was holding a ball of light that slowly turned black. Jon suddenly turned around throwing the ball as it impacted the robed man. in an instant the man exploded into a shower of blood and gore. Jon continued to stand there after his throw when I noticed it. There was a gaping hole through his back running completely through him. I stared in mute horror as he stumbled slightly turning around slightly as if to look at me. I saw his eyes and they seemed to be filled with relief right until blood shot out of his face plate and he crumpled to the ground in a heap.

I ran forward to see if he was alright but was stopped by Nova. "GUARDS!" Nova barked as the guards rushed to her. "Take him to the hospital and have him seen to by the best healers and doctors." She ordered as the guards saluted.

"BY YOUR COMMAND PRINCESS!" The guards said as one moving to get Jon the help he needed.

I continued to stand there when Nova set her hand on my shoulder. "Let's get you cleaned up Dash." She said sweetly as I nodded my head slowly feeling numb for some reason.

"Why did he do that?" I asked myself as Nova led me out of the entry way.

Author's Note

Enjoy. ^,..,^