Irony's Tale

"Discord, you bastard!" I scream as everything goes black when he snaps his fingers. I shake my head and look around, I'm not in that field anymore, where am I? I slowly turn around, I'm in a city. After some time, I realize, this is Canterlot. What's going on here?I stalk down the deserted streets, my mace and shield at the ready. I take a corner and I hear the sound of an insect's wings on its body. Loud enough for me to know the source. So, I'm not surprised when I see hundreds of changelings in front of me. I look over the short drones. There is Chrysalis, then I see what she's holding, my blood turns ice cold.

"Are you going to give up?" The demon queen asks me. Moon Shadow is limp in her grasp.

"I knew you would betray us. So help me, Chrysalis, if you harm her, I will end you."

The queen laughs an evil laugh, "No promises."

I step forward, "Release her."

She lifts the unconscious Moon Shadow, "You mean her? You hand over that bitch alicorn Twilight Sparkle, and I will give you back your precious Moon Shadow."

My ears fall flat, "You know I can't do that."

"Not even for your love? For your heart?"

I shake my head, I can feel the tears falling, "I am charged with her protection, I can not betray her, even for the pony you hold." I stand up straighter, my voice lowers to a growl, "If you do anything to harm her, Chrysalis, I will make sure you suffer before you die."

"Oh, I don't think so." The queen says as she lights her horn. Moon Shadow starts to squirm in the green glow, "I think I will kill this pony." Before I can move, the evil Queen strains for a moment, ripping Moon Shadow in two. Blood sprays all over her carapace. She drops my love to the ground. "Kill her, my children." The hundreds of changelings between the Queen and myself are enveloped in green fire as they change into ponies. Hundreds of different ponies, some I know, some I don't.

I'm done thinking, I raise my mace and cave the first skull in. Green blood spraying from the ruined black head. The changeling reverting back to its natural form in death. I scream as I kill a second. Three try to rush me, their horns charged with magic. Their spells bounce harmlessly off of my armor, the enchantment that Moon Shadow had placed on it working perfectly. I catch the changelings with my shield, I slam the shield into a brick wall, cracking some of the bricks and leaving three greasy green smears on the wall. I step forward, taking on the changelings turned ponies as they rush me, but there are too many of them to effectively attack me. I lay about with my mace, green blood splattering everywhere. I can taste the acrid taste of their blood. I take another step, I can see fear on the face of the queen as she steps back.

"Hold on Irony, I'm coming!" A voice calls, and a turquoise pegasus flashes forward over the changelings. Lightning Dust throws a bolt of lightning at the queen, which she deflects, she then catches the speedster pegasus in her magic.

"Dust!" I scream as I hear her screams as she's dragged away by the changeling Queen.

I only have one choice now, I wade through the changelings attacking me. I can't even begin to think of how many I am killing. My mace throws green blood around with every swing, my armor is coated in blood. I crush another one with my shield. There must be thousands of these damned changelings. I slam one in the torso, green flames enveloping it as it dies. My ears flick behind me, and I lash out in that direction, catching two that were trying to catch me unawares.

I hear the screams of them attacking me, I know I'm adding to the screams with my own voice. I bash a purple pegasus, a yellow unicorn, a white earth pony, it doesn't matter, they are all disguised changelings. I can see, in the distance, a struggling turquoise pegasus being carried in the changeling queen's magic. I wade in that direction, laying about with my mace, defending myself with my shield.

I can feel my muscles turning to water, a pony can only do this for so long before they are exhausted. I close my eyes for a second, I've got reserves that are deep and wide. I feel a second wind start, I bash in another head, white bone shatters, spilling the brain, and gouts of red blood. Another pony leaps at me with a feral scream, I catch it on my shield, slamming it to the ground as I use the shield to vault over another group of my enemy. As I land on my hooves, I slam my mace down on another pony. Breaking it's back and spilling it's entrails, I kick the body out of my way and step forward again, hoof slipping in the red blood. I sheath my mace for a moment as I catch a leaping pegasus, I snarl in his face as I squeeze, crushing his neck. As the look of shock and pain of death hits him, I notice the face. No!

"Soarin!" I scream as I look at the body in my hand. I've killed them all. I look back, there is Mindy, her head half caved in, red blood pooling around her body. There is Gold Dust, Cherry Punch.

"No." I whisper as I fall to my knees. Did I just do that? Did I just kill my friends? I look at the smirking changeling queen. Lightning Dust still struggling in her grip. I look back again, I can see the path of destruction that I wrought. I can see where they changed from changelings to ponies. Green blood and black bodies to multicolored bodies and red blood. I can identify a lot of the ponies, hundreds of them are dead. All by my hand? I draw my mace, there are some parts of it with green gore, but most of it is covered in various colors of hair, and red, all the red blood.

I hear hard insect legs on paving stones, the changeling queen is there. She hovers Lightning Dust in front of me, her head twisted backwards, her wings limp in death. Her face comes next to my ear, "You killed them, Irony. You did this." She breathes into my ear. She drops Dust's body in front of me.

"No, that's impossible." I cry, the tears flow freely.

"Look around, you cannot deny the evidence of your own eyes."

I close my eyes, what have I done?

After several moments, I finally open them, and survey the devastation that I've wrought. Then something catches my eye. Turquoise fur. I shift my head a little to see better, I can see the cutie mark, a lightning bolt with three stars, and I see the two toned blonde tail. I look in front of me, Lightning Dust's body is in front of me, but how is it possible with another Lightning Dust there with obvious wounds from my mace.

I shake my head as the changeling queen leans down to speak again, my hand flashes out and wraps around her throat. I get a pained "urk" as I bring the black face in front of me.

"Nice try Discord."

The face transforms from a pained grimace to an evil smile, "So, you figured it out. Oh well, Not all of you ponies will be able to see through my illusions." the queen says in Discord's voice. I squeeze as hard as I can and I can feel the neck break. I throw her body to the ground and stand up. I look around.

"This isn't real, this is a dream." I remember what Moon Shadow taught me about being in the dream world from the few times she's pulled me into it, and I will myself to wake up. "Nice try, Discord." I say as everything fades from around me.