Dungeons 2: A Game of Windigoes

As The Drained Evil recovered and began to build up his dungeons to defend against the inevitable Equestrian counter-attacks, he began sending Bloodsuckers across the Overworld to find the next phase of his big plan.

Meanwhile, The Elements of Harmony were heading to Canterlot Palace in response to Celestia’s message.

“Princess Celestia.” Twilight Sparkle, the Princess of Friendship, spoke up as she and her friends arrive. “We came as soon as we could, but… what is this about not pursuing the necromancer?”

“Yeah! We need to get back at him for taking Cloudsdale!” Rainbow Dash, Element of Loyalty, exclaimed at the mention of The Corrupting Evil’s message. “Not only did that guy hurt countless ponies, the weather teams are being forced to resort to manually forming clouds from lakes!”

“My cousin in Appleoosa sent me a letter that he’s been forced to swear allegiance to that varmint!” Applejack, Element of Honesty, was the next to throw her hat in the ring. “And from what he also mentioned, the monster turned Chief Thunderhooves’ daughter into some raging pervert!”

“His… message, scared all of my animal friends into hiding, not even Angel Bunny wants to come out of his burrow.” Fluttershy, Kindness, meakly commented. “I’m scared that… if this keeps up they might not be able to come out for food…”

“It’s not a stretch that from what Starlight has told us that they’ve taken the Crystal Empire!” Rarity spoke, the Element of Generosity showing concern. “Cadence, Shining and Flurry, and all that beauty of such a shining land may very well be lost!”

“Yeah! And ever since he woke up this annoying Narrator keeps saying what we’re doing!”
Pinkie, the- “see! He’s doing it again!” -now hold on I’m just doing my job- “well cut it out!” what? No! “stop it!” make me! “oh you wanna go, minimum wage?” anytime anyplace, Sugar High! “Face For Radio!” Party Prick! “Audio Book!” Pudgy Hedonist! “Discount Richard Ridings!”

*GAAAAAASP* TAKE THAT BACK!

“Never!”

Hmmph! Alright then! Pinkie was about to continue her contribution to the conversation, when suddenly she was ball-gagged and sent to Luna’s sex dungeon, which while it seems to make no sense, all fits within the framework of the story.

“Wait wha-MMMPH?! MM! MM-MM!!” the muffled cries of Pinkie Pie had unfortunately fell on deaf ears as the Lunar Guard took her away, as her friends were just too far away to hear her and had nothing to do with the Narrator’s bruised ego.

*ahem* anyways, back to the group, Celestia was about to respond to the comments of the elements. “I’m afraid even with such crimes, it would be better to ignore him for now… but it will take some explanation.”

The group Sans Pinkie sat down before the Throne, prepared for a story from their Solar Diarch.

“As you know, long ago Luna and I faced Discord with The Elements of Harmony we had taken from the tree, turning him to stone. We knew that the evils of the world would come to Equestria, wishing to fill the power vacuum but also to snuff out such a powerful weapon of good. Yet we did not expect a literal evil to be the first only one year after Discord was defeated.”

“Literal Evil?”

“Yes, Twilight, there was old myths of a great power known as The Absolute Evil, who had conquered both an empire of good and the kingdoms to its east, not even the goddess was capable of overpowering The Absolute Evil or his armies of minions and heroes corrupted to the darkness. When The Absolute Evil had taken over the lands, the Goddess in Question retaliated, using what power she had left to banish The Evil and his minions from the lands, then she possessed his Dark Elf General Thalya, using her as an Avatar of light to cleanse the realm. No-one knew where The Absolute Evil was sent until that day, when he and his forces appeared from a rift and charged upon the Everfree Kingdom, Undead, Demons and beasts of the Horde stormed the city and laid waste to our home, until Luna and Myself confronted The Absolute Evil with the Elements and sent him into a slumber we had hoped was eternal.”

“So why didn’t it stick?” Dash asked, causing Celestia to frown at the memories it brought back.

“...my sister, when we banished The Absolute Evil he placed a curse on my sister, implanting his seed of darkness deep into her to create a child born of Luna’s own doubts and negative emotions. This would come to be known as Nightmare Moon, using Luna’s desires against Equestria, she set about creating eternal night so she could harness enough Darkness to awaken her creator. She would have almost succeeded the first time if I had not had the courage to banish my own sister… but my best guess is that with her second attack, as well as the other villains you have faced these past few years, he has gathered enough power to awaken, but what I have learn has surprised even me.”

Celestia’s horn became alight as she proceeded to visually display an image of The Absolute Evil alongside three symbols, referring to the Horde, the Demons, and the Undead, splitting The Diagram Evil into three pieces, each one accompanied by a respective symbol. “It seems when the Elements banished The Absolute Evil, he was split into three pieces, each one taking an aspect and their own name, the one we have seen so far is The Corrupting Evil, who seems to have taken the mind of The Absolute Evil as well as the Undead, meaning the other two, The Ultimate and Chaotic Evils, will be running on their baser instincts.”

“So, if you’re saying that he’s smarter than the other two, then why aren’t we going after him first??” Twilight asked the question the others were thinking.

“It’s true, with him not only stating his intent to take over the land in an undead tide as well was making my sister his queen, most likely against her will, only adding onto the fact he spoke in truth and promised he would not be moving on us until after we attack that we should strike first.” she paused, almost biting her lip. “But it’s an ultimatum we can’t afford to accept, if we go for the enemy we see, we risk losing to the two-pronged assault the enemies we can’t are beginning to send against us, and with The Ultimate and Chaotic Evils having no care for the intentions of their minions, we would subject our ponies to two of the most horrible fates if we moved against the obvious bait now… and he knows it.”

“So if we go after him, we’ll be easy prey for the other two, but if we move to stop the other two, we won’t be able to touch him.” Rarity concludes.

“Exactly, there is no winning this outcome, the only option we have is… the lesser of three evils, so we must prepare for a defense and subsequent counter-attack on the Ultimate and Chaotic Evils, leaving the Corrupting to prepare when we turn our attention to him.”

The ponies were distraught at the news, and even though they did not like leaving The Fortifying Evil to remain at large, they understood leaving Equestria undefended from two equally dangerous foes would be far worse.

Meanwhile the Bloodsucker sent to spy on the group was happily relaying this information to The Corrupting Evil who had begun establishing a perimeter around the major point of his master plan, he grinned to himself.

“Soon, the two Evils will have been driven back, and when that happens, they’ll come crawling to me, ready to put me in charge, with this.” he said as he began to prepare the site for the great ritual.

Thanks to the state of the ancient grounds, it was easy to determine now exactly when The Show-Savvy Evil was in the MLP timeline.

And so he set about rebuilding… Pone Henge.