When I opened my eyes once again I found myself in a small living room, it had a table, chair, a TV, and a couch. Sunset was already rummaging through stacks of papers on the table trying to finding some kind of document. “What are you searching for?” I asked curious.

“I’m trying to find any documents that may help Celestia with the spell. I swear I had stashed them here somewhere.” She said continuing to search. I just looked around and waited for the moment, that is until an immense explosion of light blinded us all. When I regained my vision I immediately went to a window to check what was happening and in the sky over the mountain there was Celestia.

She was casting an immense and bright light over the whole city, with my enhanced vision I scrutinized her and saw that her fur was much more whiter than before almost blindingly so she had a majestic crown of pure light on her head and her eyes were aflame with fury, her hair angrly whipped the air and struck the mount melting it whenever they touched it.

“HUNTER!” She shouted with pure fury and hatred almost breaking the glass of the window.

“Sunset it may be better to just go away.” I said to her.

“Yes, yes we better do that, I don’t know if she can track me or not but she knows where I live and she probably already knows that I exited the facility.” She said with hurry and worry.

“Did you get everything that may help you?” I asked.

“There isn’t much to begin with.” She said a bit sad.

“Very well then, get out.” I ordered.

“Why?” She asked getting to the door.

“You’ll see.” I answered. When she closed the door behind her I started to erupt into a multitude of tendrils, I started to eat and destroy all the papers in the room, then the furniture then I started to break the walls. When I completely destroyed the walls I started to coat everything with my biomass eating whatever I could and completely destroying everything else. When I was finished only a smouldering pile of broken walls and glass remained. Around us there wasn’t any other house apparently Sunset managed to get her hands on a very isolated house.

“Well, bye bye to my hard earned house.” Sunny said flatly.

“We cannot let them have anything useful, now where to?” I asked.

“We could go to the Everfree, but it is dangerous. Otherwise we can go to Manehattan, it is a very big place and they will be hard pressed to find us there.” she proposed.

“How about-” I suddenly stopped when I saw a mighty column of energy coming from the Everfree, it was rainbow coloured and pierced the sky illuminating the whole scenery. “What is that?” i asked her.

“What?” She replied.

“That column of light.” I said pointing towards it.

“I-I don’t see anything.” She said.

“We must go.” The beam was for me in that moment like a flame to a moth, I had to go there.

“How do we exactly go there? We are a thousands meters in the air you know?” She asked to me.

“I have my ways.” I said as I grabbed her by her midsection and tossed her on my shoulders, then I created two tendril that held her in place.

“H-Hey what are you doing?” She shouted in surprise.

“Now, we go.” I said and jumped away from the house running towards the ledge of the island, there was a very tall wall to keep ponies away from the ledge, I jumped over it and started to fall.

“ARE YOU CRAZY!?” She shouted at the top of her lungs. I ignored her and opened my arms wide and tried to do the glide from the game, fortunately the body had some instinct and without even knowing I could feel myself decelerating and we started to glide. I looked around my body to find what was causing this and found out that I was using extremely pressurized air to propel myself.

My body mass was too excessive and I didn’t want to experiment with Celestia hot on my trail so I kept the standard glide, I did though create a membrane that connected my arms to my torso increasing my glide capacity.

Sunset in the meantime was starting to sweat and breathing hard. “You are safe.” I explained. “There is no need for you to be scared.”

“Easy for you to say!” She shouted over the wind. “If I was meant to fly I would have been born Pegasus!”

I decided to finish the discussion there and focus on the task ahead, the ground was nearing quite quickly, at some altitude I started to correct my position to a vertical one further decelerating and finally halting my momentum, then I landed. It was rather smooth all things considered and we were rather close to the forest.

“Never… never again…” Sunset muttered, she weakly climbed down from my shoulders after my tendrils released her and sat down on the grass. “You are crazy…”

“Possible.” I replied. “We need to go, we are almost there.” I said.

“Can we just stay and recover? Night is almost there, I barely slept and after all of this I need to sleep!” She shouted with determination.

“Fine, you can sleep.” I said. “I’ll keep an eye out for everything else out here.” I told her.

“Don’t you sleep?” She asked.

“No.” Was my curt response.

“I see…” Sunset said as she summoned a bed in the middle of nowhere, climbed upon it and without ceremonies she fell on the pillow.

“Asleep in a second…” I said quite amazed at that. And so I waited, I didn’t have anything to do other than keeping my eyes open, I didn’t feel concern or anything else for Sunset but she could have been useful so I wanted to keep her alive. ‘I could just consume her.’ I thought. ‘But I won’t, she is not a danger anymore, she doesn’t deserve to die like that.’

???

I was minding my own business in my cell when the ground started to tremble and shaking. I got up from my bed, scared and went to the cell door, I looked around from the bars and saw that all the guards were absent. Then the tremors ended, I returned to my bed and waited for guards to come, they had to. ‘Right?’

What I didn’t expect was to see a little red and blackish blob, it had a sickly oily texture and was moving towards me. I looked at it curiously to see what it was doing, it started to move again and always towards me, it passed the bars going through the gap between them and arrived at the feet of my bed.

“Hi?” I asked insecure. The blob didn’t do anything, so I tried to pet it. It seemed lonely all by itself. “Don’t worry little Blobby.” I said affectionately putting it in my hands, it was very warm to the touch. “Windy Breeze will take care of you!” I said with vigor.

The blob immediately started to shake and went down from my hands on my arms and on my shoulders, I then felt a lot of pain from my neck. “AAAAH What? How!” I cried in pain. “NO! NO! Let me go!” I screamed and kicked trying to pry the blob off from me, I felt it enter my body and then darkness.

PHILIP

It was dawn, the sun was up and the night ended. No animal tried to go near us and so Sunset slept without a problem. I then woke her up. “Wake up.” I said flatly shaking her.

“Five minutes…” She said slepply.

“No.”

“Yes.”

“No. Wake up, or I’ll bring you along with force.” I said.

“Fine!” She said quite angrily. She then looked around, “It’s dawn!” She said shocked.

“Of course, we have to move quickly, you slept enough.” I flatly stated. “Now let’s go.”

She started to talk again but she suddenly blushed and took off to the forest. “What are you doing.” I asked keeping pace with her effortlessly.

“I have to go to the bathroom.” She said blushing hard.

“Oh, I will wait here then.” I said stopping midway towards the edge of the forest.

“Oh thank you.” She said quite taken aback. “I thought you were going to come with me to keep an eye on me.” She said.

“I’m emotionless not stupid, I know when something is awkward and when I have to keep away from someone. Just be quick.” She nodded and scurried off.

After the problem was taken care of we took off into the forest canopy, I slashed through the vegetation and kept away snakes and the like. While I did that I also consumed a variety of plants and animals, I then started to concoct a venom in my own body for combat purpose, we kept quiet through the whole journey strangely enough, I thought Sunset was more than eager to ask me questions.

We finally reached an uncrossable chasm, across it the castle of the Two sister remained in its fallen and decayed glory. The bridge that once connected the two ledges is completely broken and cannot be used, not like I could have used it anyway I would have been to heavy. “Can you teleport there?” I asked.

“Yes, I think I can.” She said nodding.

“Do it, I’ll come immediately after, no need for you to take me with you.” I said, she nodded once again and disappeared in a flash of yellow, I jumped and reached the other side of the chasm. She was already there waiting for me, we didn’t exchange any words and just entered the castle.

“I never believed I would explore this castle.” Sunset said with awe when she entered. “Look at this, these halls are full of history and magic from ancient times!” She said. “Not that I’m not happy but why are we here?” She asked.

“The beacon took me here. We must find something here, something powerful or peculiar.” I said, I had my theory that the Elements of Harmony were in play right there but I wasn’t fully sure. For one I didn’t have any of the requirements to wield them and even if I had there weren’t six of me.

“Uh, uh.” She said unconvinced.

We walked through the decayed and old halls of the ancient castle, which was mostly empty aside from some kind of spider. Which is strange, the local fauna should have inhabited this place after it was abandoned, it offers coverage and everything else so why not use it? But I wasn’t an expert by any means so maybe I was wrong. In any case we encountered a long staircase that lead up in the easter tower, we carefully started to climb up, when we reached the top I started to look around trying to find a familiar device.

Inside an ancient room, where the confrontation between Twilight and Nightmare Moon happened I found the Elements, they were in their stone form and obviously the sixth was missing. I walked towards the elements but right before I could take them they disappeared in a flash of light.

“What?” Sunset asked surprised by the sudden light. “What happened? What did you do?”

“Nothing, there were some stones here but before I could take them they disappeared in a flash of light.” I explained flatly.

“Why did you want them?” She asked looking around.

“Not sure myself, I found them interesting.” I lied.

“Whatever you say, so we can you know, go away now?” She asked pointing out. “Not that I don’t like the possibility of exploring and studying such ancient ruins and all that but we are too close to Celestia.” She explained.

“There is still one place I need to check. Follow me.” I said and motioned her to do so.

“Where to?” She asked catching up with me.

“At the base of the castle, from there we go inside the chasm we saw before.” I explained.

“What do you think there will be there? And how can you know this if you were just created in a lab?” She asked with suspicion.

“What I know and how I know that is not of your concern.” I answered swiftly and sharply. “For now I just know where to go, trust me on this.” I said a bit more softly.

“Fine.” She huffed, “But I will get my answers out of you.”

“Whatever you say.”

CELESTIA

“What do you mean he is gone!” I shrieked in anger.

“M-my queen we couldn’t follow him in any way, the camera were all destroyed and our soldiers were mostly dead.” The guard, this sorry excuse of an unicorn said.

“Utter failures the lot of you!” I shouted from my perfect throne, made out of pure marble and chiseled and modelled by my hands. “Find him. I don’t care how, DO IT!” I ordered. The guard snapped a salute and exited the room immediately. ‘Failures all around me!’ I angrily thought, the armrests of my throne were starting to light up from the heat, I had to calm down a bit.

Suddenly the door opened once again and yet another guard scurried inside. “Your highness! We’ve got a situation!” The guard shouted with worry.

“What is it.” I replied calmly.

“Other specimens escaped the facility.” He said although I could feel that wasn’t everything.

“That’s hardly as grave as Hunter’s escape.” I said icely.

“That’s not the worst…” The guard muttered looking down.

“Out with it!” I ordered standing up. “What happened?” I demanded.

“The-” He gulped. “The element of Kindness disappeared.”

There I stood, completely staggered and taken aback by a simple phrase. The element of Kindness, one of the five I collected all those years prior and the only thing that can help me further my goals. Gone.

Years of study, research, billions of bits to build an unbreachable fortress around them… AND ONE OF THEM IS GONE!

“WHAT!” I shouted in the canterlot voice, breaking all the windows of the throne room and killing both guards that were at my side from pressure alone, their eyes bulged out popping off from their skulls while their body slowly lost all blood inside of them. The guard who brought me the news was shaking like a leaf under my glare. The throne cracked and then melted down in a puddle, the armor of the guards melted as well, their dead insides bubbled from heat and in a burst of blood and brain tissue their skull exploded with force. But I didn't care.

An immense aura of pure light encompassed me and I shouted to the lone guard. “HEADS WILL ROLL FOR THIS! I WILL OBLITERATE THE WHOLE SQUAD THAT SHOULD HAVE GUARDED THEM!” I pushed the guard against the golden doors of the throne room.

I grabbed him with my magic and melted his body from inside out, his screams will be a warning to all of the others who would dare to fail me. I let go of the charred body, now more bones than anything else, I opened the doors revealing the rest of my guards terrified against the wall so to be as far away from me as possible. “TRIPLE THE GUARDS FOR THE ELEMENTS FIND ME WHO LET THIS HAPPEN AND BRING THEM TO ME!”

‘ I can feel that this is Hunter’s fault, I can just feel it in my soul! Damn you!’ I angrily thought cooling down the temperature of the room.

‘First he manages to resist my compulsion spell and now this!? How did he even do that in the first place, he shouldn’t have been able to I used my own Ambrosia to bypass any magical immunity so how… No… no He couldn’t it can’t be. There has to be another explanation He can’t have it too… he can’t! He can’t be a God!’

PHILIP

After ten minutes of walking we exited the castle and reached the deep chasm, I warned her that it would have been a long fall and that I could carry her if she wanted to. She refused trusting her spells more than me, that was fine. I jumped down and landed with a thunderous echo all around the chasm leaving a giant crater under my feet. I then waited for Sunset.

Sunset apparently had the same idea as I and she arrived at bullet speed against the ground. I immediately took action and went under her with my arms raised ready to catch her. ‘Why am I doing this?’ I couldn’t help but ask. Sure she was important but not this much, I shouldn’t have cared for her wellbeing.

I caught her in my arms and slowly dropped her on her hooves on the ground. “Are you crazy?” I asked.

“I had several failsafes you know?” She replied back.

“You could have died!” I shouted, a pang of… something… struck me in the heart, or where it should have been anyway. I recognized it immediately.

“Worry.” I whispered.

“What?” She asked looking at me.

“Nothing.” I said recollecting myself, ‘It is so strange to feel something else after all this time, it wasn’t much but I honestly can’t recall what the other emotions feels like. But why with her? The other mare in the lab was in much more danger but I felt nothing there so why…’

“Come, it is here somewhere.” I said and started to walk off trying to find the entrance to the tree of harmony cave, we continued to explore around the chasm without success, for some reason I couldn’t find the entrance anywhere.

“This place is empty.” Sunset stated. “Are you sure there is something here?”

“Positive. I just have to find it.” I answered back, suddenly though I felt another presence. I ran towards Sunset and took her away just in time for a Manticore to come down where she was standing moments ago.

“A manticore!” Sunset shouted in worry.

I put her down and faced the manticore, I created my claws and jumped. The manticore jumped too towards me and our claws encountered midair, upon contact I swiftly kicked it in the gut propelling it towards the sky. I landed and waited, the manticore recovered and returned down to attack us, I dodged its claws and slashed mine in its side causing it to roar in pain, it suddenly hit me with its tail using it like a whip. The venom in the barbed appendage tried to flow into my body but I immediately destroyed the toxin and refocused on the battle. I sprinted towards the beast and when it tried to slash at me I slid under it exiting from behind, I then jumped on it and grabbed its wings. I then slashed them at the base basking the creature in its own blood.

Again the tail hit me from behind but this time I managed to latch onto it, I started to pull but the creature’s tail was stronger than I thought and threw me against the opposite wall of the chasm. I created a crater upon contact with the wall and was immediately buried under the stones. I pushed the stones away and ran again to the manticore, I took a rock from the ground and threw it at it right in its right eye. The creature now half blind tried to attack me again, but it was sloppy and slow. The blood loss was starting to have effect.

I viciously slashed at its sides while it was unable to hit me because of its injuries, I impaled its right paw in the ground with a claw and embedded it into the ground, then I did the same for the other. Now pinned I jumped in the air to end it when I noticed the creature tail rising, thinking it an attack towards me I raised my arms trying to block. What I wasn’t expecting was Sunset scream which made me look towards her, in her arm there was a long thin needle.

I changed from claws to hammerfists and bashed the head of the manticore with as much force as possible completely destroying its skull rendering the body immobile. I consumed the entire body and swiftly ran towards Sunset who was on the ground white as a ghost.

“Sunset?” I asked worry in my voice. “Do you have some kind of antivenom?” I asked her.

She weakly shook her head and started to cry, she mouthed a silent “I don’t want to die” and closed her eyes. I tightened my fists and started to tinker, I didn’t have much time. ‘Its venom will give me the antivenom, I just need to start some tests… ‘ I looked at Sunset once again. ‘Quickly.’

From the outside not more than thirty seconds passed, from my prospective it passed an eternity, I created more and more venom and more and more enzymes to break it down. Whenever I had a breakthrough I created a sane pony cell and tried it on it. When I failed I threw the whole thing away and restarted. After a lot of experiment I had it, an antivenom.

I quickly created a modified version of the claw, one that could also inject liquids into somebody. I didn’t have the time to do more tests and I wasn’t sure of what would happen but I had to hope that she would have been alright.

I injected the antivenom in her carotid and hoped for the best. At first nothing happened, then I noticed that her heart wasn’t beating anymore, I immediately ripped away her clothes and did an incision on her chest, I put a tendril in it and went for her heart. Once I found it I started to manually pump it, I did this for a couple of minutes, I was starting to give up when I felt her heart beating again on its own. She drew in a heavy breath and coughed a bit but nothing more, she remained unconscious.

I recalled the tendril and closed the incision with my own cells, I obviously converted them into functioning cells, I then sat down and put her head on my lap to let her rest a bit more comfortably.

‘Why did I do that? There was no reason to. I could have just killed her, took her memory and be on my way… instead I’m here doing the pillow. Why did I save her?’

‘Because she didn’t want to die.’ I suddenly thought, ‘She didn’t want to die, she wanted to live. I-I cared for her and her plea actually worked. I saved her. ‘ I realized.

“I saved her.” That was what counted in that moment, I couldn’t think of anything else other than the fact that I actually saved her. And I felt content, I felt content of this. Suddenly across from where we were resting the wall sparkled and vanished, from where I was I could see the Tree of Harmony. It was magnificent, it shined with a majestic rainbow colour, around it there were several small lakes and it was right at the center. On its branches there were hundreds of different creatures I never saw before in my life, the entire cave it called home was filled with beautiful crystals which pulsed in rhythm with the tree itself.

I don’t know what it is still. But in that moment, I truly felt as I was still a human, I felt sadness for Sunset, crippling worry for her that I almost lost her. Not because she was an asset but because I cared for her, maybe it’s because I already knew her from the show or something else… and I felt pure happiness in managing to save her life.

I felt hate towards Celestia, pure hot red hate for what she did, for what she wanted to do. I felt disgust for my actions, for what I did. I was a murderer and I killed in cold blood. Did they deserve it? Maybe, I’m no judge they did kill innocent pegasi and Earth ponies but I… I don’t know.

I felt a comforting hum from the Tree, it emanated a warm energy that engulfed me. A form came out from the Tree, it was a girl, she had a pair of beautiful wings that shined in the sun. Her entire body was made out of a sparkling pink mist that almost looked solid.

“Never forget.” she said. I blinked and she was in front of me. “Never forget this Kindness, for it is what makes you, you.” The figure said and crouched down, she hugged me with her arms and wings and held me there. I was too stunned to react but I could feel pure shear kindness from her, but also a deep buried, hidden rage. Red and hot but it dwarfed against her kindness. The figure started to shrink down, she started to become more juvenile by the second.

“You will find us all. I’m the first of six, I will help you. I will be at your side and together we will save this world from stagnation. Will you do it?” She asked now as little as a newborn.

“Yes.” I answered immediately. “I will save this world from stagnation and keep my promise. I will save it, for me, for you…” I looked at the still form of Sunset. “...And for her.”

“Thank you… Free me from my prison… Goodbye.” She said and in a flash of pink she was gone, what remained of her was a single pink gem. The element of Kindness. I reached for it and took it in my hand.

‘Who am I?’ She asked.

“Fluttershy.” I said with a smile.

‘I like it… who are you?’

“My name is Philip Mercer.” I answered.

‘That’s nice… Will you help me?’ She asked sweetly.

“If you want me to, then I will.” I said, I started to feel my emotions crawl away leaving me.

‘You poor man… don’t worry, you will be whole one day, I will help you. We will help you. Farewell…’

???

Agony… pure agony, I don’t know what happened, after the blob touched me I felt as thousands of needles were piercing me, I could feel my bones liquify and my body catch fire. I opened my eyes, my surroundings were destroyed, the walls were full of a strange organic material and my once closed cell was now completely open. I didn’t think twice and started to run away, I fled from the facility. On my way out though I tried to open and free some more test subjects, I couldn’t leave them there after all. Many of them had some kind of collar around their neck, I removed it once they told me that it was causing a lot of pain for them.

When I tried to open a door I wouldn’t have imagined to completely rip it from its hinges, I didn’t have time to truly question it so I just continued, in my mad dash for freedom. Everything was stopped by a single obstacle, the elevator was completely broken and aflame. I couldn’t use my wings to fly up and I knew there weren’t any stairs anywhere. That’s when one of the subjects helped me.

The pony, a blue coated silvery maned earth pony inhaled and then exhaled a powerful jet of water that extinguished the flames in seconds. He silently nodded to me before turning into water himself and starting to make his way up the shaft. Many others passed by me with similar capabilities, who could turn into a flock of raven and who could just climb upon the wall with it’s bare hands.

I decided that I had to go out too so I flapped my wing and took off, too much force though made me connect with the ceiling. I went against it and then fell off to the ground, for some reason I couldn’t trust my wings… That was sad. I went near the shaft and tried to do something, maybe I had some other powers other than just super strength. Imagine my surprise when my hands coated themselves with tendrils that stuck to the shaft. I was so shocked I couldn’t breath for a good minute, when I finally noticed my lack of breath I started to breath once again, manually.

If my hands could do that who could say that my hooves couldn’t do the same? I put a hoof against the wall and once again I remained stuck to it, I put another one and found myself on the wall. I smiled happily and giggled like a filly. I started to run on the vertical wall and didn’t stop until I reached the top.

From there I exited the shaft and walked out of the facility. I can’t believe I finally managed to exit that horrid place, the moon in the sky was there waiting for me, but what was truly important was the feeling of something, someone that made it out with me too.

“Hey, sweetie… we did it. We are out of there… Oh my dear, I would have never thought that this day would have arrived… I-I “ I started to cry tears of happiness. “I’m so happy… “

Author's Note

Well hello there, here you have it the third chapter. Let me know what you think and if you like it leave a thumb up for me, all comments are appreciated as well

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Edited by: Classy Fox