Madness Overlord
Prologue 1: A ridiculous way to go. (EDITED)
Load Full StoryNext ChapterThere was once a group of six ponies who embodied the Elements of Harmony. The mane six to synthesize. They managed to do the most improbable things that nopony could do. Revert Nightmare Moon to her normal self, reform Discord, defeat Chrysalis, save the Crystal Empire from Sombra and so on and so on. They were friends, so of course they can overcome any difficulty. But then a tragedy struck on their lives, or... minds, if we are considering they current conditions.
One day they were transported into another dimension and find .They were exploring a forsaken graveyard nearby a creepy manor, which was a big mistake. One by one they were possessed by the ghosts of various humanoid abominations, corrupted by them and turned into monsters. Pony freaks if somepony will call that. Twilight Sparkle became the last one to become one of them. These mentally derailed ponies are now the Elements of Insanity, who are now controlled by their inner monsters and spreading chaos wherever they go. Soon they will return to Equestria with the goal to take down Celestia and Luna.
However something was going on, unknown to them. A mysterious entity watched the whole thing from another realm and decided to take care of this story in his own way. Since the six demented ponies were almost unstoppable, this being was considering to put a plan of his in practice. But in order to do so, he need the assistance of a living being. There is no valid pony to take under his cause, so he took a look into another world, and thus he found a valid individual to take as his pawn. Willing or not.
In the human world, were Internet was part of the daily life of the majority of their population, there was a Japanese boy living in a house with very polished garden, situated in Osaka.
That boy was Suzaku Aki, high school student, a expert of videogame, anime, manga and memes; and a very notorious troll on the Internet with the name of Gokudonoken92, whose sole target was Brony Community, thinking that show of theirs is overrated. Nothing much to say about his appearance. Red hair, black eyes, wearing a green T-shirt, jeans and that's pretty much it. He has even a part time job and a good level of intelligence that helped him to sustain himself. His hobby of his is a really satisfying one of his, especially if it worked as a anti stress.
However, ironically, he knows everything about the TV show and the fandom meta in general. He had reluctantly watched every episode and read some fanfics, so of course he knows were and how to strike. He started this whole trolling practice since one of his classmate introduced MLP, much to his disdain. The reason of this hobby was due to the fact that he was having fun pointing out the flaws of the show and it's own characters or even that of the fandom itself, their fan made stories in general, allowing him to enrage them mad through his own type of fierce satire without mercy.
He was just sat at his desk, typing on the keyboard of his laptop as he was about to public his own comment on a Youtube video of a analyzer review featuring one of the popular characters of the show..
"And this is way Celestia is that popular: She is always a gigantic grimdark conspiracy fic magnet." said Suzaku as he clicked his mouse to public the said comment.
Suzaku took a little notebook from his desk and took a look on the recent page . There are some "to do list" style notes written on it as they were meant to be done today.
-Bashing Fluttershy's inconsistent friendship lessons and reset button disease. Check.
-Annoy some enthusiast Luna's fanboy. Check.
-Exploit Applejack's obvious quarks and stereotypes. Check.
-Pretending to praise Triple Rainboom. Check.
-Writing a grimdark troll fic featuring Princess Cadence with a very bad grammar. Check.
-Putting some spoiler for Season 7 finale. Check.
-Going in the mark and buy some potato chips. Check.
-Take out the trash. Check.
-Make a very disproportionate and yet plausible analysis about Celestia.
He took a pen and wrote down the word "Check" in front of the last objective of the list before closing the notebook and putting it away.
"That's all for today. Another waste of time accomplished. Well, at least i won't be bored."
Suzaku putted away his pen, took a potato chip from a sack and consumed it in his mouth with a very arrogant look.
"No one can top the pretentiousness of eating a potato chips like a certain anime character."
At this point, that day was going to be really rough. As he swallowed the chip, the door of his room was abruptly opened by a intruder with the face covered by balaclava, followed by other two persons with the same balaclava. Suzaku turned toward them and tried to react, but he couldn't do anything that the intruder shocked him with a stun-gun. He then grabbed him by his t-shirt and slammed him against the wall. The three guys gathered around the dazed boy as the one who was assaulting him leaned toward him with a very intimidating gaze.
"You better remain still and take it this time." the masked guy said with a enraged voice.
"W-what?" Suzaku asked, being a little scared and mostly confused, trying to remain calm.
"You are that Gokudo guy who made fun of "A Puppet of my Fame" fanfic?"
"Oh, my... now i get it. You are some extreme fan-"
"SHUT UP!.... Before i'm going straight to the point let me tell you one thing. I'm not just a Brony. Six months ago i managed to win the Hooligan Award, so you better not take me so lightly. And be grateful that we will not destroy your laptop. Got it?"
"Strange. I thought that trolls can be easily dealt with tranquil methods instead of the violence."
"Well, you had trolled us for the last time. Your next stop is the hospital!"
His tormentors pulled their arms back, preparing themselves to deliver a real beatdown to him. That day was going to end very badly for him when suddenly... this happens. As they were going to hit him, a unbearably immense light was illuminating the room, blinding all the persons present in the room, Suzaku included.
He shielded his eyes to prevent his retinas from being damaged. He couldn't understand what is going on. Suzaku tried to interpret the situation, but he felt instantly weak and light-headed. The world around him warped itself, and seconds later he found himself falling inside of a endless dark abyss. He tried to scream but he was unable to do so as he passed out during the fall.
Only darkness remained to accompany him.
After a apparent eternity, his consciousness started to reconnect with his brain. A surreal scenario greeted him. He was laying on the soft light green grass. Groggy and still confused by this paranormal thing, Suzaku lifted his head a little and took a look on the landscape in front of him. The sky was totally pitch black, and yet he could see the grass and a huge puddle of water, which colors were lacking of luminosity. There are also some black clouds, but there's not lightning on his sight, for now.
"H-how did i get there? I swear, i remember to be inside my room with these three fanboy extremist trying to beat the crap out of me. But then that light engulfed the room and... Ok, keep calm. One step at a time. You have to return to home first."
As Suzaku tried to get up, he immediately realized that something was wrong with him. He was feeling a little weird, feeling that his body wasn't the same as before. Not feeling his fingers at all, he immediately glanced at his own hands. He froze in horror upon seeing them being replaced by hooves. He then quickly took a look a his back legs, and then to rest of his body.
"No... NO, DON'T TELL ME!"
Suzaku stood up on his four legs and trotted toward the puddle too see his reflection since there is no mirror around. That wasn't the first time that he was like that, but it only happened in his recurring nightmares were he was ponyfied with the difference that couldn't even see his own reflection. These were really vivid dreams, but what he saw in the reflection of the puddle was surpassing that.
That nightmare was coming true. He was turned into a pony in the style of MLP, and this time was for real. A earth pony to be precise. Obviously Suzaku was in complete shocked surprise to see what he had become. That was really nasty surprise for someone like him.
The color of his mane and tail was the same as his hair, red. His eyes were black. His coat, however is a orange one. Suzaku took a quick look to his hooves again, his back legs again, his chest and his flanks were is situated the cutey mark. He really hated the cutey mark concept with all his passion. However, he was then caught by surprise to see the form of the image. It was a curved cross, which i pretty crude for something that belong to a cherry fantasy world. He then returned his attention to his reflection to.
He caressed his cheek with his own hoof to confirm what he was seeing. He punched himself in the face two times. He moaned for the pain that he was feeling in that moment, and that was the problem. The pain was completely real, not just vivid. His heart was beating a little faster. His eye was twitching and his face was contorting itself, symbolizing his current state of denial.
"No. No... Not going to happen." he said while laughing nervously. "No, nonono."
He then shook his head frantically as his expression became stuck between frustration and fright.
"No. No. No!, No! NONONONONONONONONONONONONO!"
Prey of his panic, Suzaku frantically rolled on the grass, continuing to shout his whole NO Gatling at non stop, unable to cope with his current situation.
After a while, he finally stop rolling and stood on his four legs before giving another shouting rant again.
"I refuse to believe this! This must be some kind of a dream, no matter how vivid it is! And the hooligan intrusion probably never happened. I mean, I AM THE ONE WHO TROLLS THEM, NOT-"
"SILENCE!" suddenly interrupted a very powerful voice coming from above as black lightnings were uproariously falling around Suzaku.
He cowered in fear and closed his eyes, praying that the stormy barrage wasn't hitting him. The storm lasted very shortly. After the silence replaced that previous electric roar, he opened his eyes and stood up. He sighed in relief. He was lucky that none of the lightnings managed to hit him.
Suzaku glanced to the black sky, trying to figure out where the voice came from. The answer came by itself in the form of a huge fissure that was forming upon him and opened itself, revealing a creepy giant eye looking at him. For a moment, he thought his mind was blown away. He cannot even make sense of what is going on at this point.
"I don't remember this thing being in the tv show."
"Well? After the whole scream fest that you were making before, you are not even bothering to introduce yourself?"
Suzaku doesn't know how to answer that. He was intimidated by both the eye's presence and what it can do. He made a quick mental list of names that he can use to justify his presence and appearance until he found out at least a valid one.
"I-i'm Zeal Breaker. Look, you don't have to mind me. I'm just.. Just having a bad day and i'm not in the-"
"Please, that wasn't necessary at all. You may have been turned into a pony but you can't fool me. I know exactly who you really are, Suzaku Aki."
Suzaku glared at the creepy entity above him and pointed his hoof at it, having discovered who has to blame for this situation.
"You! You are the one responsible for my conditions!"
"At least you weren't sent into the hospital by the hands of these brony extremists. Be grateful for that at least."
"Well, you better turn me back to normal and put me back into my room. I-"
"You are not in position to pretend anything, you know! I could always destroy you without reconsideration.
You saw what i can do!"
"You bastard."
"By the way, i know everything about your life, your social background, your strained relationship with your neglectful parents and your very low reputation that you had in your school."
Hearing those words, Suzaku remained silent, as if frozen. He never talked about his private life with anyone. He never felt so unpleasantly touched at the personal level.
"How do you know it?" Suzaku inquired.
"Does that even matter? A besides, is even worth to continue your farce? Staying sat in front of the laptop, trolling a bunch of MLP enthusiasts? Calling that living is just a stupid joke."
"Hey! Now you are the one who hasn't self introduced and yet you were digging in my life without any restrain, you creep!"
"I have a name. Balamos."
"Now that's getting even better. He sounds like some kind of Love Craftian demon."
Suzaku was feeling really uncomfortable. As the fact to be turned into a pony wasn't enough, the idea of being observed by that creature was just disturbing beyond any kind of tolerance.
"I don't know why you teleported me in Equestria, if this is the damn case, but you better have a good reason to kidnap me."
"That doesn't mean that i won't let you go. In fact i will eventually release you and let you return to your wretched life, but only under my conditions."
"Huh?"
"If you want to get out of here, you have to complete a very specific mission. Oh, don't worry. It doesn't have to do with the Power of Friendship if you want to keep this "dignity" very clean. You see? You have to act as my herald for while."
"Just what do you expect me to do?"
Balamos' iris shrunk a little to get a clear image of Suzaku's nervous face. Suzaku wasn't sure about the intention of the entity but one thing was sure: That will not be a good one.
"Take down the Elements of Insanity."
To be continued in Prologue part 2.
Next Chapter