The Rise of Lord Naturus, aka the Tree of Harmony
Chapter 13: Tapes of Old
Previous ChapterNext Chapter"Why do we deserve this!?" Twilight said out loud. Ever since Naturus showed up, Equestria went downhill, the Everfree once again stated to invade, the sun and moon were going by themselves, it was chaos not even Discord will dare to do.
Heck, they were literally forced underground by his massive spider army. At least they are doing a pretty good job underground with the help of other sentient races. Ever since the invasion, Celestia and Luna have lost their stronger forms, reverting to their weaker state. She has been talking with her friends when she heard the door open.
"Princess Twilight, we found something!" a unicorn said, carrying a strange machine in her magic and laid it gently. It was a flatscreen television like the ones from the human world and a set of DVDs. She then left her chambers, leaving her and her five friends alone.
"How did that get there? Maybe from the portal, no no no, it seems all rusted up and millions of years old, but it looks like it is able to function well." Twilight thought as she picked up one of the discs and inserted it into the disc player. The TV turned on and showed a human, which didn't look like the humans she seen from Canterlot High. It, or rather he had a light brown skin, brown hair and blue eyes.
The 'human' was wearing a red shirt, jeans, tap shoes and a lab coat.
"Day 1: Greetings, if you are hearing this, then congratulations for finding it after millions of years of being buried! The year I am recording this is 2035 A.D, we have mastered space travel" the human said.
"Unfortunately, it means I've passed away by the time you are reading this. Me and my team are planning to create an ultimate force of protection to Earth. Right now, our first subject Ugon, is going to be incubated."
"Day 2: Ugon's incubation is going along nicely. We've also began to create seed packets in case of a nuclear war, genetically modified to resist radiation poisoning, storing it in this bunker until further notice.
"Day 4: A malfunction in the machine has caused Ugon to vaporize. Our team is working on another being."
"Day 16: After six failed attempts, my team is creating a newer being, using ground-up dust from a strange statue as a stabilizer unit. We've dubbed our creation N.A.T.U.R.U.S., who is called by the common world as an Artificial God."
"Wait that's how he was created!?" Twilight said.
"Day 30: Hackers from other governments have copied OUR information and started creating Artificial Gods themselves. On another unrelated note, we are pumping all human knowledge, ranging from the most widely-known things to the most guarded top secret information into our creation, making sure no lies pass through. We hope there aren't any side effects..."
"Day 100: The year is now 2036, and a worldwide nuclear war has begun, an still more Artificial Gods are being made, some have already activated. Fortunately, they are not interested in the war and left for the cosmos. For myself, I volunteered for the U.S. Army. I'm not entirely specialized for anyone who doesn't know, oh, who am I kidding, if it's millions of years into the future, no one would know! Ha, ha!"
"Day 723..." the man was there again, but he looked badly bruised, he sounded slightly older. "I have made a grave mistake. My body has been badly mutilated, I have a chronic pain. Most people who survived on the surface either died later on or mutated into zombies, my outcome is much, much worse than that. There were a few survivors underground, the rest however, ditched the planet. You see, I've been scavanging for parts from the deceased, one of which, carried a serum which let me live on. I have to repair my body before I slip away."
The next clip however, showed that parts have been stitched to him and his lower half was ripped off of him, he also seemed hairier than usual. "Day 1210, the radiation is starting to do me in, I've been gathering animal parts to repair myself, however, I've been slowed down by zombies, who sometimes managed to steal my parts. Naturus is still incubating, as with most Artificial Gods."
"Well, now the days turn into years, so the year is now 2145..." the man's left arm has been replaced with a bird's talon, his body was still mutilated, but more snake-like, an his face was disfigured. His surroundings suggested he was in a cave. "I still haven't been able to repair myself completely due to those zombies, but aliens have invaded, killing Earth's remaining humans. Only I remain, but so many years of cycles of repairing myself and being torn apart, I may not be able to be called human anymore."
"The year is 2200. Ever since the invasion, I was forced to hide in these caves. I should have died a long time ago, was it the serum that was keeping me alive all these years? Probably." the man's body was different, his face was pushed out into a camel-like snout, but he was still mutilated. "You see, my body repairing was slowed down even more because of the reduced number of corpses to repair me and the fact that zombies roam the night with ooze creatures. I've now taken up residence in the bunker. What signs of humanity after the war either rotted away or were destroyed by aliens."
What was next was the man's body now had a dragon-like tail and was holding iguana's right foot. He was starting to look more like Discord with every clip. "I don't know what year it is, but it's safe to assume it is around 3000." the man said as he was stitching the foot to himself with spider silk and nerves. "I have lost track of myself, and only my audition tapes are helping me remember who I was." He then attached a deer's left foot to him. His arm was what remained of himself, and the fact that he lacked wings. "There, now if I can remember how to walk."
"I saw a person awake from his capsule." the man said, his appearance stated that he has completed his transition to Discord, only with the stitches still being visible, a gruff, injured sounding voice and a lack of powers. He also seemed to be in a cave. "At the time he awoke, it said January 1, 8400. I've been feeding of gems infused with high levels of good radiation to keep me alive."
"You see, Naturus awoke thousands of years ago and scattered the seeds I've talked about in the first clip." The man, oh sorry, Discord said as he positioned the camera to the cave mouth, showing a lush forest before turning it back to himself. "Here, let's see what I found." he said as he walked to what looked like a chest. "Hmm, a prototype serum, still, it's better than nothing." the moment he took the potion, his scars instantly healed, but something else was wrong. "GYAHAHAHAHA! GYAHAHAHAHA!" the man laughed, now fully becoming Discord before a vortex enveloped him. As soon as it happened, the audition stopped.
Twilight was shocked to see this, Pinkie Pie curled up into a ball, shivering, Rainbow Dash still looked on as if she's seen a ghost, Fluttershy sat down crying with Applejack trying to calm down. Twilight shook her head and said "Wow, this will give us nightmares for years." That series of tapes can even scar Nightmare Moon for hundreds of years.
"I... I never thought such a terrible origin could be Discord's origin." Fluttershy sobbed.
"Huh? How the *@#% did you even find that?" Discord said as he teleported in. He looked around and said "So you found my story, I wanted to hide it." Discord merely sat down when the Mane 6 hugged him. Discord only smiled as they let go. He then teleported away.
Author's Note
Note: A storm hit me, causing me to lose my electricity. It was so severe that it took a day to fix it.
By the way, Generations 2-3.5 are creepy, so I'll kill them off.
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