Brand New Powers

Twilight spoke up, “Princess, why is this Samael such a menace to ponykind?”

Princess Celestia sighed. “I guess it is time to tell about the beginning of everything. My little ponies, my sister and I were not always on the mortal plane-we were, and still are, members of the eternal herd.”

“Our mother, Queen Eterna, ruled over a large empire stretching from one end of Elysium to the other. All the alicorns that she ruled were created by her to embody everything in the universe. Her five strongest though were us: Luna, me, Dark Star, Morning Star, and Samael.”

“Once she created Samael, she was told by Forethought, her Royal Seer, that he would bring destruction to the land. Such a prediction by her seer meant it would come true at some point, because he had never been wrong before. So, she banished her new son to the Barren Wastes.”

“Mother, always regretted her decision to banish Samael. She only did it to protect the rest of her subjects. She worried that if he stayed, her creations would be plagued by death. But, she still loved him like her son- a walking skeleton, true- but a son nonetheless. We all thought that by banishing him the problem would be lessened, but we were wrong.”

“He returned after ten years with the now forbidden magics and an army of abominations. Creatures of the darkest rings of existence that he created to spite the beauty of my mother’s creation. The sheer sight of the creatures can bring many ponies madness. Their writhing, hulking masses and unnatural screams brought many of the Elysian Guard death and disorder.”

“When Queen Eterna heard about the loss of half of her creations through such methods, she decided to stop Samael and return the world back to normal. They fought for days and days but our brother was too strong. With the last of her still immense powers, she sealed my brother and his creations into Tartarus and, using Elysium as building materials, created the dimension of Equestria. And that is why Samael is called the doom bringer. He slaughtered all of Elysium and will do the same to Equestria.”

Meanwhile

Samael grinned evilly as he scanned the things the Queen had created. All of these pastel dolts would see true destruction and suffering.

“I feel that letting out my creations would be useful enough; I just need some sacrifices.”

“Samael, you did not tell me that your plans would involve destroying all that I hold dear.”

“Why Scoot, you never asked what I would do once I granted you power. If Cloudsdale suffers; just blame your Princesses and new Princes.”

The doombringer flew on to Cloudsdale.

Cloudsdale went  on with its business as usual. Most of the pegasi were either at the rainbow factory or the flight academy. Most of them were there because their jobs and livelihoods depended on working. Cloudsdale’s rainbow factory, while housing the weatherponies and being the main hub of weather for all of Equestria, also had another purpose. It stabilized the entire city in order to let the city stay in the air. Without it the sky would be falling. And most horrifying of all- the weather would be like the Everfree Forest: wild, uncontrollable, and unnatural.

But other than that...

“Hey Scootaloo, sorry for deceiving you.”

“Oh really! The Skeleton wants to apologize for taking over my body? I didn’t think you had a conscience.” the orange mare said with sarcasm dripping off her voice like honey.

“I don’t. I was just distracting you so I could find out where the best place was to unleash my friends. I just needed to dive in to your memories to do it.”

“Those are not yours!”

“Yeah, they are sacred like your family. Wait, you don’t have one. So that’s why you idolise your Dashie so much. You want her as a sister. That is just so precious!” Samael began laughing uncontrollably.

“Ok... I guess. Just leave me alone.” Scootaloo began to cry.

“We’re here. Now using the memories from my host I can teleport in the factory basement where that machine is. Here goes”

Samael’s horn glowed white for a moment.

BOOM!

“Oops too much power. At least I’m now in the basement. Now where’s the self destruct button?”

On his left he noticed a button that said “Never ever press this button” and Samael pressed it.

“Countdown to failure of main reactor in thirty seconds...twenty-nine-”

“Well, time to wake up my friends...Time is at hand, wake up. Let’s destroy the order of this world!”

Far away, the doors of Tartarus exploded. Abominations crawled out and headed towards Ponyville.

“Three..two..one...Goodbye.”

With that the town of Cloudsdale exploded and began falling towards the earth.

Rainbow Dash stared at the sight in the sky. Her mind began racing. Cloudsdale could only fall if that happened- very bad. All the pegasi knew that the machine, once destroyed, could not be put back together since the knowledge had been lost. Now clouds were just clouds. Cloudsdale was the beacon of pegasi magic and without that pegasi lost some of their abilities.

What that meant...no Sonic Rainboom...pegasi resilience against crashes had been lost.

Celestia stared up at the sky.

“So that’s the first strike. Such a move will leave many of my subjects in poverty or at least a change in their lifestyle. I know where you are going now- straight to Tartarus. Everypony we will follow him to the jail of Tartarus.”

Everyone grudgingly began heading west.

Samael headed to his army.

Remorse, guilt, sadness...he felt none. Yet somehow he was crying.

“Why am I crying? I am the embodiment of death I shouldn’t feel bad for these mortals.” he said angrily.

Fluttershy felt sick. Truthfully, she had felt sick all day. Before going to the meeting to stop Dark Star’s group she had felt something akin to morning sickness.

“I can’t be pregnant. Dash and I are both mares, that makes it impossible for that to happen.”

Right then she ran to the bushes and threw up.

Dash ran straight to her. “Fluttershy, you ok?”

“No, she is not,” Morning Star looked worried, “Fluttershy have you had any...intimate moments with anypony?”

“Maybe...a couple, ok...everyday since this happened.” the yellow pegasi said weakly.

“The alicorn magic we cast on you has some consequences. For one, it makes any intercouse certain to create a foal. Everypony who has done that at some point in the last two days raise your hand.”

AJ, Rarity, Dash, Fluttershy, Twilight Pinkie Pie, Cadence, Shining Armor, Vinyl, Octavia, Applebloom, and Sweetie Belle all raised their hands.

“Ok, we have a problem.” Morning Star groaned.

Rarity and AJ were stunned. “ ‘Bloom, Sweetie...you're eight years old! You don’t know how to care for a baby” AJ yelled at the Crusaders. Rarity outright fainted.

“Sis, we jus’ wanted to try it...really.” Applebloom blushed heavily.

Morning Star walked in between the two mares. “AJ you will just have to deal with it and the whole aging thing is permanent, so...I guess your sister is an adult in the sense of the word.”

Applejack walked away fuming.

“That’s mah sister you idiot.. I wanted to keep her little fer now...now I have to deal with this. Why did all this happen?”

Twelve hours later

Everypony walked towards the army of released monsters. ready for battle.

A few would not make it out in one piece.