Chapters When worlds collide
Chapter 1: Introduction
There is a man in worker overalls stood in a long, grey, metal corridor, looking at a holographic screen.
A male, computer voice can be heard saying, “Earth – 2147. This was the year that the HLV Malevolence fled the Earth with SKULL’s best soldiers, scientists, people and equipment due to a losing war that has been waging for 47 years.” The man is stood staring at an image of Earth on the screen; he moves over to a window and looks out into the vast darkness of space with part of Jupiter in view.
The computer voice continues, “SKULL is an organised military company with the intent of controlling the Earth and any other planet that are habitable. SKULL laid in secret within Mt Everest for years using political and commercial companies to cover itself up, the main one being Global Dynamics.”
The worker still staring out into space when he gets a large jump as a scientist runs past with a light lavender Pegasus, sky blue mane and tail with candy-pink stripes running down them, chasing after him.
“Come here. I just want to ‘play’ with you” the mare calls out as she looks up the frightened worker as she passes by, soon out of sight. The now confused worker thinks hard, trying to process what just happened whilst getting a sense of fear from the creature.
“What was that Mathis?” he curiously asks the computer.
"That THING was a recently created monstrosity. She was bio-engineered from the Overseer’s personality but during the initial designs some of his DNA found a way to her and now......she lives. The perverted thing she is.” He explains. Just as the worker was going to ask a question, Mathis interrupts with a more serious tone in his voice, echoing through the whole ship.
“Warning, the Grand Master has just requested an emergency Quantum warp jump. Two enemy vessels inbound. Please proceed to the nearest shielded room.” He informs the ship crew. He then disappears as the worker sharply turns to the window and searches every bit of space for the enemy ships, a large electrical surge can be heard coming from the far end of the ship. He continues to search but just as he gives up, two bright flashes of light appear in the distance revealing two large ships but not as big as the Malevolence, his eyes grow large as he realises a fight might come under way soon and sprints for the nearest shield room.
A comms technician grabs at his headset ripping them off, “Sir, they’re hailing us!” he shouts out.
A tall, thin, dark-blonde haired man wearing an officer’s uniform and hat is stood beside the captain’s chair in the centre of the circular room, “Put them through.” He requests. The technician presses a few buttons and a large video image of the other ship’s bridge.
“This is the captain of the UEFDC vessel ‘Righteous Path’, surrender now and nobody gets hurt” he orders to the Overseer.
“Ah, Captain Flanagan. I thought you might have arrived soon. You have caught us off guard. I surrender” he claims as he sits in the large captain’s chair, then looks at the man next to him, “Overseer, commence jump” he order quietly, the Overseer walks up to a console, presses a button and returns to the chair.
Flanagan then claims rather victoriously, “We have won. You are to prepare for docking. Don’t try anything.” The screen goes black revealing the open space in-front. The two UEFDC ships approach the Malevolence only to see a large energy wave start to work its way from the front to the back of the ship.
The ships continue to approach thinking that it is the shield dropping....they were wrong.
A radar technician onboard the ‘Righteous Path’ calls to the captain, “SIR! It’s not the shields. They’re going to jump, right next to us.” The captain jumps up out of his chair and stares at the radar screen, soon realising what is about to happen.
“Evasive manoeuvres. NOW!” he barks out orders as the ships start to turn around. The energy wave on the Malevolence reaches the back, disappearing then a large energy blast erupts as the ship is propelled into light travel. A shockwave of energy hits the two ships blowing them up in large fires, causing the reactor on the ‘Righteous Path’ to overload and erupt into a massive explosion of that of a mini supernova.
<7 years later>
The Malevolence exits light travel just a few thousand miles away from a planet that closely resembles the Earth....and a moon. The ship slowly drifts towards it. The Overseer walks up to a console, sits in a chair and starts to survey the planet, “It look very similar to Earth, sir, but it ISN’T Earth.....Mathis, scan for a local population and species” he orders.
“Yes sir. Commencing scan......some interference detected, strange but not important....Sir, I can’t get a scan of the planet due to the interference but I can make out that it coming from the surface, I suggest you find out, sir” Mathis informs. The Overseer then prepares for departure whilst getting some Talons to follow him.
A crane holding a dropship moves towards the Overseer and five Talons (the Elite soldiers of SKULL) and then lowers down, releasing the dropship and moves away. He then orders the Talons onboard before entering himself. Once inside, the door close and the engines ignite suddenly making the dropship come to a hovering state, the main hanger doors slide open to reveal a blue energy field that keeps the air from rushing out. The dropship’s engines tilt forward and a large burst from them quickly propels it forwards out the hanger.
Inside the dropship the Overseer is putting his armour on , whilst doing so he tells the Talons, “Right, our mission, scout the planet’s surface for a local species. We’ll be dropping in from eight-thousand metres, the air has been said to be ever so slightly less dense than that on Earth so the landing speed is 180MPH.” He puts his helmet on, twists it to lock it in place and claims, “Now, let’s discover a new planet.”
Chapter 2: A brand new world
Last chapter: “They’re going to jump, right next to us.”
The dropship approaches the planet at an increasing speed, as it enters the atmosphere the engines retract into the hull to prevent damage, a flame forms round the front of the dropship as it starts to burn up. Inside, the Talons and the Overseer are not even phased by the rough ride. The dropship then approaches an altitude of 8500m, the engines fold back out and the dropship levels out.
The pilot informs the Overseer that there is a village and a castle in view, the Overseer then commands that three Talons are to drop on the edge of the village and that he and the others will drop in the centre of the village.
Celestia is sat in her study reading a book on ‘Creatures of the Everfree forest’. She uses her magic to lift a cup to her mouth to take a sip but as she does a guard bursts into her room causing her to drop her cup and stand to his attention. The guard then informs her, “Apologies princess but we have something you need to see. It is a rather urgent matter”.
As the dropship got closer and closer ‘Tia studied it more and more, soon the ship started to burn in the atmosphere. Dr Atom was looking at a screen showing what the telescope could see, he then perked up, “it looks as though as it’s heading for Ponyville, Princess” ‘Tia lifted her head up and turns to the guard and tells him to meet them there, the guard then rushes out. ‘Tia then makes her way back to her sister’s room. Dr Atom staring at the screen, trying to figure out what it could be.
“We’re over the first drop-zone, sir” the pilot calls out to the Overseer, the three Talons sat in their chairs and are tipped back, a door covers the hole and they are launched out of the dropship. The dropship makes its way to the next drop-off point whilst the three Talons dive towards the ground at over 500 MPH, as they approach the ground (about 1000m) an alarm beeps indicating that they need to slow down. They then deploy flaps on their back, raise their arms and bend their legs, this flips them from head first to feet first, they then activate boosters in their boots slowing them down to a stop just as they reach the ground. By the time they had landed the Overseer and the other Talons are already diving down to the surface, the Talons taking the lead with the Overseer not far behind.
Soon they reach the diving limit where they need to slow down, the Talons immediately deploy flaps and slow down, the Overseer rushes past, now coming to a speed of 700MPH, his alarm blaring louder and more rapidly as he nears the ground, “FASTER!” he shouts.
100m left......he deploys his flaps and flips over only to hit the ground at the same speed as before, creating a large crater and dust ploom, the noise alone must have woken all of Ponyville instead some ponies that were in the club ‘Melody’s Midnight Mares’ came charging out to see what the racket was.
The three ponies were Colgate, Carrot Top and Berry Punch, when they exited the club they were greeted by a cloud of dust. As they searched around Colgate trips over the edge of the crater almost falling into it. The dust soon disappeared revealing a figure stood at the bottom with glowing red eyes. They all duck down hoping that it didn’t see them. Carrot Top peeks over and watches as the figure runs up the side of the crater and jumps out landing on the other side where the Talons were stood. They salute, one looks over in the pony’s direction and points, the Talons and Overseer walk over to the trio, “Stay where you are!” one of them shouts.
They reach the ponies; the Talons keep guard whilst the Overseer approaches them, “Can you understand me?” he questions slowly. ‘I am talking to a horse’ he thinks to himself. The trio just stare at him in fear. He realises he must look scary to them, reaches over his shoulder and presses a button on the side of his neck, his armour quickly folds up into a small backpack causing the three to jump, “I’ll ask again. Can you understand me?” he repeats in a more clear voice, Colgate knods slowly, then the others. He kneels down and offers a hand out to help them up, “Please. Don’t be scared.” He reassures them as they stand up, coming to a height roughly up to his chest.
After a few minutes of conversation some royal guards approach, “Hay, you there!” one shouts out as the Talons turn and aim their guns and the Overseer’s armour automatically deploying round him.
He pulls out a pistol and aims it at Colgate, “Stop there! Or else there will be one less pony on this planet.” He orders, the guards stop as he raises the gun to them.
He then questions, “Now.....what to do with you lot?”
Author's comments: Sorry about these being rather short. I did while revising for exams and got bored so I wrote them down first not realising how short they would be. Apart from that I hope you enjoy.
Chapter 3: the leaders meet
Last chapter: The dropship approaches the planet at an increasing speed, as it enters the atmosphere the engines retract into the hull to prevent damage The pilot informs the Overseer that there is a village and a castle in view As the dropship got closer and closer ‘Tia studied it more and more The Overseer rushes past now coming to a speed of 700MPH, He then questions, “Now.....what to do with you lot?”
The Overseer stood tall over the once again cowering trio of ponies, lowers his pistol, orders the Talons to holster and then raises his hand to his ear, “Talon squad 2. You are to proceed to the castle, I have the feeling we might need you later” he orders at the soldiers on the other end. He then lowers his hand to point at the leading guard, “You. Take us to your leader... I've always wanted to say that.” He requests as the trio of ponies slide out from view. He raises his hand to his ear again and orders the dropship to watch them three. The guards turn flank and the humans follow them to Canterlot.
In the library, Twilight was having another sleepover with Rarity and Applejack. The three were watching from a window when it happened, “What do you think they were? And what they want? Do you think they came for Princess Celestia?” Twi spoke up.
“I don’t know darling but their clothing is simply hideous” Rarity claims.
Applejack replies, “I dunno, I don’t think that were clothin’. More like armour.”
Twilight rubs her chin as she tries to think of an answer, she then walks to her desk and uses her magic to write a note to Celestia. Once written she trots over to Spike who is happily sleeping, she nudges him disturbing his sleep, he groggily raises his head, “What is it Twi?” he questions in a grumpy tone. Twilight stood looking at him with a cute, innocent look, eyes wide, pupils large and horn glowing as she levitates the scroll in-front of him.
“Be a darling and send this for Twi, would you Spike.” Rarity comments as she enters the bedroom. He suddenly stands to attention, putting a claw to his head.
“Yes ma’am” he replies grabbing the scroll, takes a deep breath and blows at the scroll with a green flame.
Once done Twilight walks out with Rarity behind her, “Thank you Spike. You are such a good, little helper.” She praises before leaving.
Spike settles back down into bed, covering himself over with his blanket and mumbles, “Anything for you Rarity, my love.” Before closing his eyes and falling back to sleep.
As the Overseer, Talons and royal guards are walking towards Canterlot, Rainbow Dash swiftly approaches them, in amazement she blabbers on about how fast these ‘aliens’ flew through the sky. The Overseer’s helmet retracts revealing a little smirk on his face. “You’ve seen nothing, speed wise until you see my ‘Havoc mechs’. You’re Rainbow Dash aren’t you? Colgate told me you’re a very fast flier. We’ll see about that.” He adds as he talks into his earpiece to tell the dropship to race Rainbow over to Canterlot and back.
The dropship arrives, hovering directly above them, Dash’s mouth wide open, her eyes narrow as she lines up next to it. The Overseer walks ahead a little and raises a hand in the air holding three fingers up, then two, one, suddenly lowering his arm quickly as the two race forward towards Canterlot at amazing speed, soon out of sight, lost in the darkness.
As they all continue the journey to Canterlot one of the guards perks up, “What is this ‘Havoc mech’ that you spoke of?” as he looked back at the Overseer who replied with a large grin, raising a hand and points to the sky where the Malevolence is and calls for one through his earpiece. A dim flash is seen as the object plummets directly towards them, the guards walking back slowly as the unknown object aims right for them, the Overseer and Talons refusing to move, moments later it slows down and lands softly next to them.
In-front of them stands a ten metre tall robot with two Gatling guns on the shoulders and energy blades on the arms, the Overseer walks up to it, its centre opens as he comments, “THIS is a Havoc mech.” Climbing into the open section before it closes and they continue to walk to Canterlot.
When they are almost at the castle another flame appears in the sky with a sonic boom, it crashes down close to them, as the flames extinguish the object raises up, it was another Havoc mech, the guards become wary, unsure of the situation, the Overseer immediately questions, “What is the meaning of this? Who is piloting that mech?” just then a screen inside his cockpit reveals the pilot, “MOONSHINE?!” he shouts out in confusion.
“Get your sorry, pony ass back on that ship, NOW!” he orders as one of the guards hears his last comment. Moonshine refuses and he tries to restrain her as she dodges. The two mechs then have a small battle before he gives up allowing her to come with them. They then have a talk about who Moonshine was and how she came about to the Overseer as they walk on.
The guards continue to escort them into Canterlot, just in-front of the main doors the central area of the mech opens and the Overseer climbs out, he orders for the Talons to stay outside and then tells Moonshine to do the same, surprisingly she does.
He then enters with the guards, whistling in amazement as they enter, “Please wait here while we retrieve the Princesses” one guard asks him, they them walk off towards Celestia’s bedroom, ‘Princesses? Now there’s more than one?’ he asks himself whilst looking around the large room.
Not long afterward ‘Tia and Luna appear at the top of the stairs, the Overseer having his back to them as he studies a picture, ‘Tia clears her throat getting his attention, he turns to see a large pony stood with a normal sized pony. They both walk down the stairs as he meets them at the bottom. Just before anyone of them can start a conversation his earpiece beeps, he puts a finger up to excuse himself and starts talking to his leader, Luna not impressed, ‘Tia being patient.
Soon after he finishes and salutes by lowering onto one knee with his arm against his chest in a diagonal direction. They assume he is saluting to them but just then a light flashes beside him as a mysterious figure is teleported next to him, “May I present the leader of the SKULL Empire, the Grand Master.” He informs whilst standing up and walking outside to let them talk.
<30 minutes later>
A guard opens the main door to inform the Overseer that he is to return inside only to see him and the two Talons engaging in CQC (close quarters combat), the guard interrupts them and informs the Overseer, they then enter the castle. Once inside the Grand Master tells him that he and the Princesses have come to an agreement. He is to stay on Equestria whilst the GM finishes business on Earth, he would be given a room in Canterlot and any tech needed for the future, including a small Havoc mech facility. The GM then teleports back to the ship and ‘Tia gives him a hug whilst greeting him with a formal welcome.
The Talons, dropship and Havoc mechs return to the Malevolence which then leaves orbit and a large flash is seen as it enters light travel.
At the Overseer’s room, Luna flies down landing outside his door, sorts herself out and knocks on the door, it creaks open slightly and she peeks her head inside to see him stood looking in a mirror finishing putting on what looks like a mechanic’s jumpsuit, he looks over to her and welcomes her in. She walks in; looking around at the tech then sees a pony in his bed, immediately she rears her head and a shock expression assuming that he had been to bed with a pony.
Luna looks around at the various pieces of tech and despite his warning she approaches the bed, looks down at Moonshine. Her eyes open suddenly startling Luna, grabbing at her and saying, “Hay there sexy.”
Chapter 4: A New Life
last chapter: He looks over to Luna then sharply at the bed then back at Luna, “It’s ok Luna. Have you met Moonshine? She’s my daughter. Yes you may ask how. Well she was created from my personality and DNA so she’s practically my daughter. I would warn you to stay away from her; she can be very ‘naughty’. She’s already ‘played’ with 14 soldiers, three scientists and almost me. Now, excuse me but I have some work to do.” He warns her, before she could reply the teleporter at the other side of the room powers up and he walks through.
Luna looks around at the various pieces of tech and despite his warning she approaches the bed, looks down at Moonshine. Her eyes open suddenly startling Luna, grabbing at her and saying, “Hay there sexy.”
At the small mech facility that was quickly deployed last night, sitting on the edge of the Everfree forest, it is a tall, blocky building that’s just smaller in overall size than the observatory; it has a large garage door on one side with a small airfield launch strip facing towards Ponyville.
Inside the main room of the facility there is a teleporter, similar to the one in the Overseer’s room, propped up against a blank wall, opposite is a large console with him pressing several buttons as coding, mech parts and statistics fly across the large screen. The floor is covered in multiple, small lights that project an image anywhere in the room; a hologram that he can interact with can be projected from them.
As he presses away at more buttons a male holographic figure lights up behind him, “Morning Mathis” he calls out to the figure.
“And the same to you, sir. I don’t know if you’re expecting anyone but we have got four ponies incoming at about 200 yards off the main door, shall I let them in?” he questions the Overseer.
“Yeah, let them in. They must be here to have a look round, since they won’t have seen one of these facilities before.” He replies as Mathis knods and vanishes. A hologram of a mech replacing it as he begins to fiddle with the image, he raises his head and calls out, “...And play track 4!” Immediately some heavy metal starts to play.
Out the front there are four ponies approaching the building, all stallions, as they get closer the path changes from the gravel type to the same flooring as that as inside the facility. They soon get to the door, all of them not sure what to do but just as one goes to walk forward and knock Mathis appears, “Why hello there. My name is Mathis; it’s not an acronym for anything. He isn’t expecting anyone......anypony but I have been told to let you in to see him anyway.” He explains before suddenly vanishing, startling three of the ponies.
The one that wasn’t scared rolls his eyes then proceeds inside as the doors swing open and music blasts out from inside, he continues in as the others follow.
As they soon reach the main room the leading pony opens the doors to see the Overseer bopping away and singing in an unknown language to them, it seem he was singing in rhythm to the music as it too was singing in the weird language. They then enter and he looks over to see them, turns off the music and walks over to them, “Ah, guten Morgen, meine Herren. Also, wie kannich Ihnen helfen?” He asks them as they all stand in confusion. He then realises he was talking in German and repeats himself in English, “Apologies. Good morning, gentlemen. So, how can I help you?”
The leading pony then grabs a scroll from his bag and gives it to the Overseer. He unravels it cautiously and begins to read it out aloud, “Dear Overseer, why doesn’t she call me Kieron?” he asks himself, “I am most interested in the technology you have brought to Equestria. I know, its great stuff...” he chatters to himself, “...and I wish that you would teach the four fine gentlecolts I have sent to you about how your technology works. Um...what?! No...I....fine” he rants on finally allowing it.
Before he could continue to ask questions a grey coloured creature drops down from a balcony above them, the creature is that of a werewolf with claws that can retract or extend for combat purposes. It raises up to stand next to Kieron coming to a height of eight feet, dwarfing him, “It looks like lunch came early, how kind of you Kieron.” It thanks in a deep, growling voice with an evil grin upon its face.
“Hey, no! They aren’t food. In fact they are my new recruits.” He responds
“I’m messing with you. Besides I probably won’t like the taste of them.” He exclaims jokingly.
“You little tease. You get me every time with your jokes. Anyway, Zeldax these are the new recruits ‘Tia has just sent down. Recruits this is Zeldax, my personal Anthro, friend and student. I’m teaching him everything I know which would mean he would become the first Anthro Talon. Now where should we start?” he introduces them to each other.
Zeldax observes the ponies as they stares at the holographic image of a mech that Kieron brought up, “How about we start with some armour for them.” He suggests as he picks up a holographic scanner and aims it at one pony, the scanner rapidly flashes whilst it scans, soon it finishes and an image of the pony appears on the screen, the ponies stand in amazement. The image begins to have pieces of armour being attached to it as Mathis calculates the best armour protection for the lightest weight and ease of compacting. The render is soon complete and a holographic image of just the armour appears next to one of the ponies who at first isn’t sure of it but then steps into it and stands just right so that the armour covers him.
“A perfect fit. Mathis, begin the production, four suits in the next half-hour.” Kieron orders Mathis.
“Sir, you want me to create four suits of the most advanced armour we have for creatures I’ve never created armour for in one half of an hour?” he asks as his holographic figure spawns in front of Kieron, “Done” he comments as he puts on a smug face, accepting the challenge.
“This way, whilst Mathis sorts out your armour, I believe I will show you some of our weapons, large and small.” He claims. As they all make their way to the weapons armoury one of the ponies looks down a corridor with a door at the end labelled ‘Mech hanger’.
“Hay, I heard last night from some of the guards about something called a ‘Mech’. Could we take a look?” he asks politely, pointing down the corridor. Kieron knods with a small smirk and leads them towards the hanger instead. When they are inside there is a large glass panel, a console and a door to the side. No-one could see through the glass as it was pitch-black on the other side. The ponies were right up against the window, eyes squinting; desperately trying to see something, Kieron then pulls a small lever that activates the start-up of a mech, whose head has multiple dot lights that are in a three high and two wide arrangements, lighting up.
Kieron then walks over to the door which opens; he walks through and makes his way over to the mech, the central, core part opens as he climbs into it. On the glass panel a screen appears showing his P.O.V and then one showing what the he sees through the head of the mech. The centre closes and he powers it up. As he moves it forwards the three by two dots of lights shift from the front to the side, looking at the ponies as if it was an eye watching them before shifting forward again.
The mech has quad legs that are at right-angle to each other; the core comes to a point at the front and has a large rear section that comes up diagonally behind the arms which are thin with shoulder guards, noises begin to erupt from it as the boosters fire up, they suddenly light up with a burst of energy thrusting it up in the air coming to a hover by about two metres off the ground. Half of the wing-like core parts at the rear then extend diagonally and lots of triangle-shaped flaps slowly open exposing multiple boosters. Once fully extended the mech looks as though it’s readying for something, seconds later a large light and noise builds up as the boosters build up power and a burst of energy pushes back launching the mech forward from a stand-still to about 1250MPH in almost an instant, it soon reaches Ponyville in a couple of seconds. The boosters deactivate and the mech falls to the floor landing next to the library.
Inside the library, Twilight is rudely woken by the loud crash outside; she quickly opens her balcony doors, walks out and searches round. As she turns to her right she freezes in place with fear as the ‘eye’ dots on the mech stare straight at her.
“Prove it.” She calls out before letting herself fall off the balcony. The mech jolts in shock as it drops one of its hand weapons and drops its hand below her just above the ground and catches her; it raises her up to the head.
“Why did you do that?” he asks in a panicked tone, looking at the pony that looks as though she knows what she’s doing.
“I tripped.” She sternly replies. The ‘eyes’ on the mech narrow from being three dots tall down to being one dot tall.
“Fair enough, citizens of Ponyville, if you wish to see a true demonstration of this mech’s power to protect you then please meet me at the park green in 20 minutes. Don’t worry about getting hurt by the fight that I will have with another mech as I will deploy a shield that will protect you.” He reassures and informs everypony.
The mech picks up the weapon after putting her back on the balcony and then makes its way back to the facility, “Mathis, create a randomised Havoc mech, level four. I want a couple of recon drones created for surveillance like cameras on a TV show and I want a new configuration for Ambush. I want a Gatling gun on each arm, on the right-rear I’ll have the 061ANSC sniper cannon and on the left-rear, the Musselshell missile launcher.” He orders as he reaches the hanger, once entered he can see the recruits still staring at the screen showing what he sees.
He walks through the door after docking and the weapons change over. He then walks down the corridor back towards the main room but along the way he stumbles up against a wall, clutching at his stomach, groaning. Zeldax immediately knew what was happening and raced to the main room. When he got there he dove into the teleporter entering Kieron’s room only to see Moonshine laid on top of the sleeping, sweaty Princess. He walks over to a desk, grabs a small medicine box then grabs her by the mane and shoves her through the teleporter, landing on the floor. He walks through, orders the ponies that brought Kieron to the main room to restrain her whilst he administers the medicine, while he injects it Kieron roars out in pain as his lower jaw splits into four segments and the roar turns onto a more savage, animalistic type of roar. After a few seconds his jaw returns to normal and he wobbles as he regains his balance on his feet, Moonshine and Zeldax aren’t phased by what happened but the four ponies are all stood in fear and confusion about the recent ‘episode’, they could tell that it didn't seem natural even though they know nothing about humans.
He finally finds his footing, “I’ll tell you later...” He claims to them, “But for now I want to know why she’s here Zeldax.” Zeldax approaches him, bends down to his height and whispers into his ear what he saw. His face drops as he hears about it, soon changing to disappointment as he shakes his head at her. She gives of a huge grin but he doesn’t fall for it, the other ponies not sure about what is going on. Zeldax comes out with a blunt explanation by pointing at the teleporter; one pony walks over to it cautiously, peers his head through and then jumps back in shock.
“The princess is in his room. He’s ponyknapped her.” He shouts out angrily. Kieron shakes his head in disagreement, then pointing at Moonshine.
“It would seem the princess ignored my advice...” he replies as the pony becomes confused, “I told her to stay away from Moonshine, now she has been ra...molested by Moonshine.” He looks over to her, “Now if you don’t want the same treatment and you don’t keep an eye on her, she’ll have you too.” He advises as the ponies holding her briefly let go in shock, soon grabbing hold again to stop her from doing anything they will regret.
The big screen flashes to inform Kieron that the mechs are completed; he then sets off for the hanger. Zeldax orders them to put her in a cell then make their way to the park green before making his way to the simulation room for a hunt.
Not long after Ambush and the drone Havoc mech exit the hanger and head for the park green. When they reach there, there is a large, transparent shield deployed and two large TV screens and a lot more ponies than what he expected, even the mane 6 were there bar one, Fluttershy. The mechs took position and got ready but waited for everypony to get comfy and ready.
Once everypony was settled the TV screens lit up as the camera drone took position over the two mechs but just before anything could happen there was a sudden squeal from a pony in the front row who was bouncing with joy and excitement, “I want to commentate!” the pony shouted out. The mech Kieron was piloting looked over to the pony, it was Pinkie Pie, and he thought and stared for a bit but then the mech knodded to allow her to do it. The camera drone then went down to her, she got on and a microphone popped up which she grabbed hold of.
When she and the camera drone were in position a klaxon blared and the mechs began to battle against each other. Almost instantly the battle ‘arena’ was lit up like a firework display thanks to the booster, missiles and stray bullets that were flying off in all directions, the shield rippling as projectiles hit it. After a few minutes Kieron’s mech, Ambush, fell to the ground with sparks flying off it, it looks as though he’s been beaten. The drone mech lands in front of him and points a gun at the core ready to fire and confirm the kill. Ambush’s head slowly looks up at the mech, then suddenly the core ‘wings’ extend and open whilst a bulkhead plating covers the ‘eyes’, the other mech raises the gun and just as it slowly backs away a dim glow emits around Ambush whilst some blue particles can be seen floating round it. A female computer voice can be heard saying, “Assault Armour activated” just then the particles rush to the core as the glow suddenly brightens, disappears then a large, bright, blue explosion emits from the mech blinding everypony temporarily and engulfing the drone mech.
The light soon dies down, everypony desperately searching the battle area for them, the glow disappears and reveals Ambush stood over the other mech which is laid on the ground covered in flames, sparks everywhere, the head and an arm missing. Everypony cheers as Ambush puts his guns against his shoulder, grabs the drone and makes his way back to the facility.
“Thank you for watching this fine mech battle. As you return to your daily activities you will notice multiple, miniature versions of these mechs around Ponyville. Do not fear, they are there to protect you.” A computer voice calls out to all of the ponies.
Celestia is sat in her bed reading a newspaper, just sat, quietly. A quiet knock comes from her door, “Come in.” She answers, a royal guard enters with a worried look.
“Princess, it would seem our new inhabitant, erm....what’s his name?” the guard asks
“Kieron” she replies to him.
“Yes ma’am. It would seem he has put on a show without permission. Not only that but has shown great violence and destruction in the presence of many ponies, and on top of all that he has illegally set up his own ‘security’ system in the village of Ponyville. I can’t say what the true purpose of this is but...” he is interrupted.
“I’m sure he’s doing it for the safety of all the ponies besides he’s not...” she herself is interrupted as Luna burst into the room still covered in sweat and out of breath.
“Tia, did you see it? The brilliant battle?” she asked her rather excitedly.
“What battle? No...No I haven’t. Lu....Luna? Are you alright? You’re covered in sweat.” She asks curiously.
Luna stood in shock forgetting about the previous event in Kieron’s room, she then looks down thinking ‘Tia will be disappointed in her and begins to tell her what happened. Once she finished the guard was stood shocked whilst ‘Tia was in deep thought, “I must meet this Moonshine at some point, only to have a little talk of course.” She claims, Luna doubting it as she remembers the great sensations that filled her earlier.
The hanger doors slide open and Ambush walks in dragging a pile of scrap metal behind him, “Here you go Mathis. Some major repairs needed on this one. I bet you didn’t see that coming.” He smugly claims to Mathis who responds by grabbing the mech with a crane and dropping it into a repair bay.
Ambush docks, the core opens and Kieron climbs out onto a gangway, walking through a door to see Zeldax stood, anxious with a distressed look on his face, “Are you alright Zeldax?” he asks. He shakes his head and starts to panic as Moonshine dashes past as he sees her in the corner of his eye chasing the recruits.
Kieron puts his hand on his shoulder, “Hey, chill, its ok. The show went well. No-one was hurt.” He reassures him.
“Oh god! Mathis, where is she and where is she headed?” he questions
“She is currently in your room. She went through the teleporter. It looks as though she is heading for the castle, sir. Looking at the video logs of earlier, I would say she is going to find the Princess again” Mathis replies.
Kieron puts a hand to his face, shaking his head. His power armour unfolds around him and he runs to the teleporter with Zeldax right behind him.
Two royal guards are stood either side of the doors. Moonshine approaches the door, the guards extend their wings blocking her path, “Who goes there?” one of them asks.
“I have disturbing news about the Overseer that the Princess must know about.” She replies in a serious tone.
She fully entered the room, closing the door. She then replies in an almost excited tone, “Are you the Princess? Sorry, my name is Moonshine. I can’t quite remember you name from earlier but was it Luna?”
The bed sheets fly up across the room revealing a very tall alicorn stood next to the bed, “No, that would be my sister. My name is Princess Celestia. Don’t worry; I have planned to meet you, so please come in. I have also heard about you previous engagement with her.” She explains
Moonshine’s heart skipped a beat as she blushed with embarrassment to an unbelievable colour. She soon gets over it as she eyes up the large mare, her eyes then lured to the long, hard, slender horn atop of Celestia’s head, “Oh my gosh. It’s so big...I mean, you’re so big.” She corrects herself. ‘Tia already clicked on that the little filly is attracted to her.
It didn’t take long for Moonshine’s excitement to get out of hand; she launched herself directly for Celestia who turned to her to see a pink filly flying towards her. ‘Tia’s room doors fly open and Zeldax enters running for Moonshine, grabbing at her tail and pulling her back just as her lips touch ‘Tia’s. HE slams her down to the floor with a hand round her neck keeping her pinned down. The Overseer then enters with his armour on.
“Thank god. We made it just in time.” He claims out of breath, walks over to Moonshine, “When are you going to stop with this? Raping everybody you see.” He asks impatiently, he then looks over to ‘Tia who is surprised by what is happening, licking her lips at the soft kiss she received.
“Kieron, release her at once! She hasn’t done any wrong, we were simply talking about who I am and what I do here in Equestria.” She orders to him.
He didn’t believe her as he looks at Moonshine who wasn’t struggling but was threatening Zeldax with comments of getting him next, “Is that so? If you may, could you cast a truth spell on her, if it is possible, please?” He asks politely and she does so as even she wasn’t sure of Moonshine’s true intentions. Her horn glows brightly as magic starts to make an aura around the pinned filly and penetrate her mind, soon the aura and glow stop as the spell begins to take effect.
“Just talking, eh?” he asks ‘Tia who blushes unnaturally bright after hearing the truth herself.
“No, well yes. She is always in a horny mood, wanting to screw people or ponies in this case but I’ve never seen her this bad. It would seem you are large attractive to her, you and Luna both. I’m sorry to say but Moonshine has already got to your sister.” He explains.
‘Tia knods her head in confirmation as she already knew about this. Just then Luna walks in from the balcony, “And it was the greatest sensation one can feel. Let ’Tia find out what it is like for herself.” She comments whilst walking over to the pinned pony, giving her a small kiss, Zeldax shoving her away so she doesn’t set Moonshine off again.
Moonshine slowly stands up with her head low. ‘Tia steps forward to comforts her but she raises her head, “Eany, meany, miny, mo.” She sings as she looks between the two princesses who look at each other then back at where she was stood.
Kieron and Zeldax stop running to catch their breath, “God only....knows what’s going on....in her room....” he wonders, just then a loud moan can be heard from the open window to Celestia’s room, “I would love to be a fly on her wall right now but at the same time, I don’t want to know.” He comments. The two of them then continue back to Ponyville discussing what to do for the foreseeable future.
Chapter 5: A Disturbing Secret
Chapter 5: A Disturbing Secret
Chapter 5: A Disturbing Secret
Last chapter: Kieron and Zeldax stop running to catch their breath, “God only....knows what’s going on....in her room....” he wonders, just then a loud moan can be heard from the open window to Celestia’s room, “I would love to be a fly on her wall right now but at the same time, I don’t want to know.” He comments. The two of them then continue back to Ponyville discussing what to do for the foreseeable future.
<7:00AM>
Nine months have passed and nothing big or dramatic has changed since the Overseer’s arrival apart from his own security system he implemented in Ponyville. They consist of eight miniature, automated Havoc mechs that keep guard of the village. Two stand outside the doors of the village hall, two outside of the library because not only is it home to Twilight Sparkle but is home to his very own pony, Moonshine, who Twilight agreed to keep in check and give a home for her. One mech stands at Rarity’s home, one at Fluttershy’s cottage, one at Sugarcube corner and one patrolling Sweet Apple acres.
The Overseer himself continues to work in the mech hanger, always trying to make new designs and new parts for them, he does however do some errand jobs for Dr Atom Discharge who lives in the neighbouring observatory. He sometimes goes up into space using a mech and collects moon samples for him. Zeldax left the facility a few weeks ago with the challenge of surviving in the Everfree forest for a year.
The main room is empty apart from a mech hologram in the centre of the room. Loud animalistic roaring can be heard coming from down a corridor. In the small medical bay there is a surgical table upright vertically facing away from the door, it shakes violently as the thing attached to it struggles, a loud roar emits from it as a pair of dragon-like wing burst open from its back spraying the walls with blood.
A robotic arm with a needle on the end lowers from the ceiling down to its neck; it suddenly shoves the needle in and administers the serum contained in it. After a few minutes the table stops shaking and the wings fold back in.
Moonshine enters the med-bay not even phased by it all. As she makes her way round the table she sees the wings morph back into the creature’s skin.
When she reaches the front she can see it isn’t a creature after all but instead is the Overseer whose body has gone limp, head hanging down with his lower jaw split into four segments also hanging down, “You have to tell them at some point, Kieron. This secret won’t stay hidden for much longer.” She tells him.
“Yeah, I...argh....Ouch. Yes I know. But for mow nopony does know but you, Mathis, me and Zeldax.” He replies as his lower jaw fuses back to one piece and the restraints release him.
“True but not anymore, Twilight knows about it now.” She disagrees with him as she looks past him towards the door where a frightened, little filly is stood looking around frantically at the blood all over the place whilst shaking as he approaches her.
“So be it. I will do it. Say next week? NO! Tomorrow at 3PM. Twilight, would you mind helping me organise it? It would be a great help. By the way, I can see your influence on Moonshine is working, she’s awfully calm.” He replies to Moonshine’s offer.
He then tells Mathis to send a note to Celestia about what he plans to do tomorrow. The three of them then walk out discussing on what to do today, “Hay, would you like to come watch the race? It’s me against the one and only Rainbow Dash, it’ll be great, I have something up my sleeve for her. Oh wait, there’ll be other racers too, just some ponies that want to prove themselves.” He excitedly claims as he remembers about it.
Twi and Moonshine then rush off to the start line of where the autumn run is held whilst Kieron heads for the mech hanger.
All the contestants that are in the race are either warming up or posing in front of some of the audience. Moonshine and Twilight arrive at the line to see pretty much the whole village here to watch, as they make their way over to Rarity, Applejack and Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash suddenly lands down at the line from no-where and immediately strikes a pose to show off her awesomeness.
After a few minutes of posing, warm-ups and showing off the contestants line up as Pinkie Pie in her balloon call out that Kieron is almost here. As Ambush is walking closer to the line an electrical effect flashes around it, once the effect disappears the mech can no longer be seen, this dumbfounded Pinkie as she searches for the mech.
The contestants all wait patiently for Kieron to arrive but no-one turns up, “Aw c’mon. Where is he?” Rainbow asks herself, “It’s almost 11:30 and we start soon.” As she looks over towards the village hall clock it looks distorted as if a lens was put in front of her, she moves her head around a bit to see if the same effect persists, it did. As she looks she sees a dim 3 by 2 set of red lights looking down at her.
“Rainbow Dash, you’re a fast-flier, huh? We’ll see about that.” A voice echoes from in front of her as a mech suddenly appears in front of her as if it were invisible a second ago. The mech stood tall next to Rainbow as they all prepared for the start, wings flapped, boosters blared and breaths heavy. A trumpet sounds as Princess Celestia is stood in her chariot above and in front of the start line.
“May you all race well. Good luck, all of you. Ready...set...GO!” she shouts out starting them off as multiple pegasi wiz past and a large mech slowly following them but as she watches the rear-end boosters light up suddenly propelling it forwards at an alarming speed.
Kieron soon catches up to the crowd of pegasi that was led by Rainbow, he comes along side them then next to Rainbow herself as she flies along not even breaking a sweat. The ‘wings’ on the core of the mech extend diagonally and unfold revealing the boosters, they quickly charge up and thrust it forward away into the lead, Rainbow being the pony she is didn’t like the fact someone can fly faster than her and races after him.
Halfway into the race everypony is dodging trees as they close in on the finishing line, Rainbow and Kieron way ahead of the rest but Rainbow tries to be sneaky as she rises up above the tree line allowing her a straight, clean path. She started to gain on Kieron for a brief moment before Celestia witnessed this and did not approve as this was seen as cheating, she then uses her magic to animate a tree that pulls Rainbow back down and then creates an invisible barrier that prevents anyone and anypony from trying the same trick.
As the race goes on Rainbow and Kieron fight for first place as he tries to swing for her and she sometimes hitching a ride. The finish line came into view, Kieron took one last swing at her and just misses but the gust of wind that followed causes her to spin out allowing him to take the lead. She soon gets her bearing and chases him down.
Just as he is about 100 metres off the finish line an alarm beeps indicating that the mech has been overboosting for far too long and has run out of energy. The mech then falls to the ground as the boosters flicker then go off completely; he quickly takes action by pulling the ejector cord which causes the top part of the core to split open sideways and launching his pilot chair and him up in the air towards the line, Rainbow sees this and seizes the opportunity, rushing to the line as fast as she possibly can even coming to the edge of causing a sonic rain-boom.
Kieron lands just short, he quickly unties himself and dives for the line just as Rainbow herself dives for the line, they both cross the line at the same time, and the crowd goes crazy even Luna is bouncing with excitement by the amazing performance given off by the two of them.
The two of them stand up as they’re swarmed by the crowds, as the cheering continues they begin to argue with each other about who really won. As the argument heated up, Twilight, Moonshine, Luna and the others manage to squeeze their way through the crowd to the argumentative couple. Luna approaches Kieron and gives him a kiss to congratulate his victory.
“Congratulating him of course, he did win, didn’t he?” she replies as she becomes worried that she may have just kissed him by mistake.
“No, they finished at exactly the same time.” She explains to Luna.
“That’s good enough for me.” Kieron interrupts, perking his lips for another kiss.
The crowds of ponies then begin to chant, “Kiss, kiss, kiss” repeating themselves, Luna looks round frantically as she is nervous realising so many ponies are watching, as the chanting continues it starts to become annoying to her as she rolls her eyes and wraps her front legs round Kieron, giving him a big kiss. The crowds roar as they continue to kiss.
“I’ll give you a snog, I mean kiss.” Calls out a pony from behind her, she turns to where the voice came from to be knocked to the ground by a pink Pegasus who straight away locks their lips together.
‘Tia approaches to congratulate the winners only to witness Luna kissing Kieron and Moonshine on top of Rainbow Dash kissing her as everypony else stands and watches, cheering. She walks over to Twilight and starts up a completely random conversation whilst watching, “So, my faithful student, has anything happened lately that you wish to tell me?” she asks her.
“Oh, is that so.” Celestia responds wondering what it could be.
Kieron pushes Luna off of him as she almost suffocates him by the kiss, “Christ, how long can you kiss for? Anyway, I must go.” He walks off through towards the mech facility to be engulfed by the crowd leaving the mech laid in the park.
“Do you think he likes me?” she replies as she begins to work her way out of the crowd.
“Whatever do you mean?” ‘Tia asks.
“Well, I get the feeling that he likes me but I’m not sure.” She comments.
“But I thought it was Moonshine you liked.” Celestia says to her as they reach the edge of the crowd.
“Not anymore, she’s got Twilight.” She replies, “Anyway, let’s go home.” They then fly off to Canterlot as the guards follow them.
Kieron is walking along a lonely path toward the facility, “Why do I feel this way? I am human, well sort of and she is a pony, this is not right. Why? Why do I love her? I DO NOT LOVE HER! Yes you do. NO! Trust your feelings, you know you do, just succumb to your true feelings, Kieron, let me in. I want to control you. NO, I WON’T YOU!” he shouts to himself as he argues with himself.
The mane 6 and Moonshine catch up to Kieron to see him on all fours grunting, “Kieron?” Moonshine calls out as she rushes over to him, when she gets to him he raises his head and his pupils and irises are all black, this creeps her out as she has never seen this before. As the others get to them he grabs her and roars in her face as his jaw splits into four, the roar increases in volume, echoing past the crowds still as the finish line, even the Princesses hear the noise and stop to look to where it came from to see them as tiny figures. As Kieron continues to roar a loud alarm blares from the facility, “WARNING, KIERON HAS APPROACHED THE THRESHOLD! All ponies get to your homes, NOW!” Mathis shouts out through a loud speaker.
The crowds here this and murmuring starts as the roaring continues, ‘Tia and Luna watch as the figure holding Moonshine morphs, wings rip out of its back, spraying blood onto Rarity and Fluttershy, his face stretches to that like Zeldax’s, his leg bones crack as they turn to that of a dog’s hind legs, his teeth become sharp and pointed, his hand have claws growing from them. He finishes roaring, throws Moonshine down and in a demonic voice shouts out, “LUNA!!”
Luna immediately gets a shiver run through her body with fear; the guards then advise them to get to Canterlot.
Fluttershy cowers behind Applejack as the creature in front of them stares at them as if they were lunch for it, “WHERE IS LUNA?!” he shouts at then causing Fluttershy to dash off to her cottage. Twilight steps forward and points over into the Everfree forest. He looks over at where she is pointing then looks back at her, “YOU’RE LYING!” he looks up over her to see a small white figure and an even smaller deep purple figure flying towards Canterlot, “See, you are lying. There is Luna.” He proves to her as he gives off a loud roar, spreads his wings and takes flight after her.
One guard looks behind to see the creature racing after them, “PRINCESSES, YOU NEED TO HURRY!” he shouts out to them as they look back to see nothing.
“What are you talking about? He’s not there.” Luna replies to him. Just then the creature dives down from above and tackles Celestia down towards the ground.
“CELESTIA, YOU WILL DIE FIRST! I shall have Luna last to savour the taste.” He shouts at her before roaring in her face. She thinks quickly, whilst he was roaring she hits him in the face making him release her, she then teleports back to Luna and teleports them to Canterlot, the guards then pursue the creature.
Kieron gets his bearing, lands down in the middle of Ponyville where there are many ponies rushing to their homes, “I’m hungry. Who shall be first?” he asks himself as he sees one pony that goes stray from the rest, he runs after it, grabs the pony, pins it to the floor and immediately starts to rip away at the pony’s sides with his claws, blood spurts everywhere as the pony screams in agony, other ponies run past not even attempting to help as the screaming dies down as the pony loses the will to live, he then rips out its guts, throwing them all over and begins to feast on the pony.
The mane 6 excluding Fluttershy make their way to Fluttershy’s cottage as Twilight quickly decides that they have only one option, the Elements of Harmony, they soon reach the cottage, “Fluttershy, we need you, we’re going to use the Elements of Harmony.” Moonshine calls out to her, head against the door.
Fluttershy opens the door slightly, “Are you sure? Will it stop him?” she questions.
“Yes it will for sure.” She answers.
“I don’t know, ok, I’ll do it.” She accepts to help.
They all them race towards the mech facility as Moonshine claims that they can use the teleporter to get to his room in Canterlot and then run the rest of the way avoiding him completely, on the way they hear distant screams as Kieron feasts of more ponies.
When they reach the facility three ponies in armour and mounted weapons on their backs run out towards Ponyville, at the same time the garage doors open and a bipedal Havoc mech exits walking towards Canterlot it then activates the boosters and flies to Canterlot.
As they go to enter the facility a hydra’s head falls down just next to them, a little bit of blood splashes up onto them, “NO, my cat, my beautiful coat. How much more blood is going to get on it?” Rarity complains as Zeldax jumps down from the roof.
“Yes, he had taken it early this morning.” Moonshine sharply replies.
“Then how is this possible? Never mind, I presume you have a plan?” he asks
“Yes, we’re going to get the Elements of Harmony to use them against him.” She explains.
“Right, well I know that you, Moonshine, are not required for that and we need a distraction to buy the rest of you some time, we have that distraction.” He claims as he looks at her, “Moonshine you come with me, the rest of you hurry as fast as you can.” Zeldax grabs at one of Moonshine’s ears and pulls her along as the others make their way inside.
Once inside Twilight leads them to the main room where the holographic figure of Mathis is stood looking at a holographic projection of Kieron indulging himself on yet another pony. He activates the teleporter and Twilight urges them through one by one before entering it herself.
Kieron is still eating away at his third meal when one of the guard mechs from the village hall approaches to investigate the screams and commotion.
He notices the incoming mech and slides into a nearby alleyway, unaware of the trail of blood dripping from his mouth. The mech reaches the dead pony laid on the floor, half of its face gone and its guts spilled across the nearby flooring. As it searches the area it notices the trail of blood and follows it, as it gets closer to him he hides behind a large bin waiting for it to pass.
The mech cautiously continues to follow the trail, soon on the other side of the bin, it slowly walks round it as Kieron readies himself to pounce. The mech walks in front of him and he jumps up at it ripping the laser blade off its arm then onto its back pulling at the head as it struggles in an attempt to grab him. As he pulls on the head the ‘eye’ dots begin to flicker as the connection begins to fail.
Another mech detects the engagement and makes its way over to the alleyway. Once it reaches there it takes aim of Kieron with its shoulder-mounted railgun, it can’t get a steady shot as the other mech continues to struggle and move about. The second mech steadies itself as it aims at the mech’s core, it shoots instantly hitting it and penetrating straight through, the generator overloads and the mech explodes knocking Kieron back into the nearest wall.
The mech reloads, approaches him as his leg is almost completely detached, after a few seconds the flesh and skin begin to fuse back together as it rapidly regenerates the wound. He then suddenly jumps up over the mech and flees with the mech in quick pursuit. As he runs through Ponyville he spots the library and realises that it is the home to a Twilight Sparkle.
As he slowly searches the bedroom he doesn’t find anypony, he begins to search more frantically before hearing a noise from downstairs, it sounded like a book falling. He opens the bedroom door and peeks down to see nothing; he creeps down with his wings folded in, “AHH!! Who are you?” Spike shouts out in surprise, he scans the creature that makes its way down the stairs and stands tall in front of him. His heart begins to race as he gets the feeling that this creature isn’t friendly as he sees the creature staring straight into his eyes and blood on its teeth.
“You...where is Twilight?” the creature asks him whilst saliva dribbles from its mouth.
“I...I don’t know.” He replies, scared. Just as he finishes his sentence the creature grabs him, lifts him to its height, roars at him, and licks its lips as if it were about to eat him but then it suddenly drops him whilst clutching at its head, squirming around the room.
“ARGH!! What...what’s going on? Is that you Spike? Where are Twilight and Moonshine and the others? Why am I in the library?” he questions Spike as his voice turns to normal and his pupils returning normal. As Spike stands in fear and confusion, Zeldax and Moonshine burst through the door to see the creature stood calmly with no ounce of anger in it.
“Kieron?” Moonshine tries to talk to it.
“What’s happening Moonshine?” he replies, as Moonshine’s eyes grow large realising that Kieron is still in there somewhere, Zeldax doesn’t believe it is him but thinks that the creature is trying to fool them so that it can easily get them and dives at him dropping them both to the ground and Moonshine grabs Spike by the tail in her mouth and runs off with him to safety.
The mane 6 reaches Celestia’s study as two guards chase them as they had forced themselves in. Twilight barges the door open and they enter to see nopony in, they search the room desperately for the Princesses, “Do you think it got them?” Fluttershy asks quietly.
“No, no I don’t think it did. I saw them get away.” Applejack replies as she hugs Fluttershy to reassure her.
“Well then where are they?” Pinkie questions as she pops up out of the clothing drawers.
“They are right behind you all.” Celestia calls out from the door. The others rush over and begin to talk all at once as ‘Tia tries to make sense of the gibberish.
“One at a time please.” She tells them as she uses her magic to zip their mouths shut, “Right, Twilight, what is going on here?” she unzips their mouths as Twilight takes a breath.
“We were looking for you. We need you to unlock the doors to the Elements of Harmony. We are going to use them on Kieron.” She explains.
Celestia is unsure of it as she doesn’t know what it could do to him but then decides that it is the only option they have and leads them to the hall of the Elements of Harmony. They don’t take long to get there, as they walk down the hallway, a shadow whizzes past a window, Luna sees the shadow and notices it’s the creature as no other thing has that figure, she panics knowing its after her and pushes at ‘Tia to try and make them hurry.
“What are you doing Luna?” she asks her. Luna points at the shadow that flies across more windows, “IT’S HIM! Everypony hurry.” She calls out as they all rush towards the end the hall. As they get close to the end a window shatters as the creature busts its way in, it rises up covered in blood and shards of glass, ‘Tia looks back to see it dripping with blood as it slowly walks towards them.
Celestia rushes over to the door, places her horn on it as the door begins to unlock. The creature stops still and tilts its head to realise what is going on.
The door opens as Celestia jumps in front of the mane 6 protective over them. They walk over to the box and start to put on the jewellery as the creature begins to pull out the shards and throw them at ‘Tia as she blocks them with her magic.
Celestia runs over to try and help Zeldax as he pins down the creature and they both exchange blows, tears begin to well in her eyes, “STOP IT, BOTH OF YOU!!” she shouts at them as a tear runs down her cheek.
“Princess watch out!” Twilight shouts as they take aim, “Get Zeldax off him!” ‘Tia uses her magic to pull him off the creature and dives out the way as the jewels glow with magic and a large rainbow emits from them and works its way over to the creature who attempts to fly away but is too late as the rainbow engulfs him.
Roaring and whooshing can be heard as the magic takes effect on him. Soon the roaring dies down into human screams of pain. The rainbow soon disappears revealing Kieron weak on the floor, they all rush over to help him, “Wha...what happened?” he weakly asks.
“Shh, quiet for now. We’ll talk later.” Rarity comforts him whilst trying to rub off the blood on her coat.
Kieron is in the hospital laid on a bed, vitals normal as Moonshine enters a nurse stops her, “I’m sorry but for now you will have to wait.” She informs her.
“Moonshine?” Kieron calls out slowly. Moonshine then is let over to him as they both approach him, “What happened?”
“I don’t know, really...” She replies, “But at least everything is back to normal now. So for now just rest.”
Chapter 6: A Forgotten 'Package'
Last chapter: Kieron is in the hospital laid on a bed, vitals normal as Moonshine enters a nurse stops her, “I’m sorry but for now you will have to wait.” She informs her.
“Moonshine?” Kieron calls out slowly. Moonshine then is let over to him as they both approach him, “What happened?”
“I don’t know, really...” She replies, “But at least everything is back to normal now. So for now just rest.”
<11:30 PM>
Kieron laid still in the bed as he looked round he could see nurses rush about trying to help wounded ponies that he hurt, even trying to revive a pony that he ripped open slightly. The screams pierced his ears as tear began to fill his eyes knowing what he has done to the ponies he loves dearly and vowed he would protect, not murder.
Twilight walks up to the still upset Celestia who is sat her desk trying to understand how Kieron could morph like this into such a disgusting and violent creature, “How, Twilight, how can he do that? I know I don’t know much about humans but I don’t think that was a natural thing. Did you know that he could do this?” she asks Twilight in a sore tone.
“Yes, I did but I didn’t really see much when I first saw it. I also didn’t know he would become like this. I must say though if it wasn’t for Zeldax, we might have been dead, me and my friends that is.” She replies, admitting she knew about it. Celestia looks up sharply at her, get up and puts her hoof on her shoulders.
“And you didn’t think we needed to know in case this kind of thing happened?” she asked her.
“No because it stopped when Mathis stabbed this needle with a liquid in it into Kieron.” She explains as ‘Tia takes her hoofs of her and sits back down to think of what the effect the Elements of Harmony will have on him.
“I hope he will be alright. Even I don’t know what will happen to him now that the Elements of Harmony have been used on a human.” ‘Tia says worrying herself.
“Don’t worry Princess; I’m sure he’ll be fine.” Twilight reassures her as a knock emits from the study door. Twilight walks over and opens it; one of the recruit ponies is stood at the door out of breath.
“Is Kieron here, Princess?” he asks quickly.
“No, he’s in the hospital. Why?” she questions.
“I can’t say but Mathis has a message for him.” The pony explains.
“Oh really, in that case we shall come with you.” She replies as she stands up and they both follow the pony to the hospital.
Mathis’ holographic projection is stood in the middle of the room, tapping his foot impatiently. As a pony passes him he asks it, “What’s taken him so long? Where is Kieron? Why can’t I get his signal?” The pony stops and turns to him and shrugs his shoulders.
“I don’t know where he is but we did find his earpiece out in the Ponyville park, in pieces.” He replies whilst showing Mathis the parts of the earpiece they could find.
Mathis instantly yells and goes to hit the pony’s hoof but due to him being a hologram his hand passes straight through, after calming down he dismisses the pony, he then turns to the large screen and continues to search for Kieron, “Where are you? I need to get this syrem to him before he kills more ponies...and before his package arrives.” He says to himself.
Dr Atom is half inside a piece of machinery that isn’t of his usual type but instead was one of Kieron’s that he was borrowing that could help him detect movement in space, it was a radar system. As he continues to fiddle with it to meet his specification it suddenly begins to whir as it powers up. He pulls himself out to watch as is lights up and a small screen shows not dots for the moving objects but shows the observatory and then moves towards the moving object in space that it is picking up. As he watched it showed an object in space travelling towards Equestria at an alarming speed, it must be travelling at the speed of light or at least just slower than. He continues to watch to see what it is, it was a pod of some kind, and he right away knew it could only be something from SKULL.
He left the machine to run as he rushed over to the telescope, put his eye to the eyepiece and searched the night sky at where the object was, he didn’t see anything. As he continued to search a flash of light blinded him temporarily as he lifted his head from the eyepiece, rubbing his eye.
A small shockwave emitted from the object as at suddenly slowed from light travel, the shockwave propelled all the way to the planet surface but by then was too weak to knock anything over but was strong enough to be noticeable.
Kieron felt the shockwave hit him as the nurses looked round to see what this was, only he knew what it could have been caused by, thoughts rushed through his mind, “Oh god, SKULL’s back, they’re going to take this planet forcefully.” He says to himself as he forcefully pulls himself up to sit on the side of the bed, he then tries to stand as his legs wobble from being very weak. Nurse RedHeart spots him trying to get up, rushes over to him and tries to get him back into bed saying that he’s too weak to walk at the present moments. He pushes her aside as desperately tries to make his way to the door as she watches him, surprised by his ability to walk when so weak and so soon after being hit by the Elements.
“Please get back into bed Kieron. You can’t go out yet.” She says to him as she walks over to him and puts a hoof on his side to redirect him. He then turns to her, grabs at her head and puts his head close to hers and shouts.
“DON’T YOU UNDERSTAND?! THEY’RE GOING TO KILL YOU ALL AND THEY’RE OUT THERE NOW!” as he pushes off her and makes for the door, stumbling and tripping over his own feet, RedHeart puts a hoof to her mouth as she hate to see someone put themselves through something like this. He reaches the door, opens it quickly but is pushed back away from the door by a magical force, Celestia, Twilight and the other pony enter, Celestia’s horn glowing as she pushes him back to the bed.
“You are supposed to be in bed mister.” She says as she lifts him into the bed and covers him over. They all walk over to the bed and the recruit hoofs him a brand new earpiece, he grabs hold of it and puts it to his ear.
“Hello, who...what is it?” he asks unsure of what to say.
“SIR! Finally I’ve found you. You sound as though you have been taken out of the threshold. That isn’t important right now though...” Mathis replies as Kieron’s eyes widen hearing what he is saying waiting to hear the news about SKULL returning, “I have a message from the Grand Master.” Kieron shuts his eyes tight hoping that he was wrong but knowing that that might not be the case, an alarm on the end of the earpiece beeps, he takes it off and places it in the centre of the bed, a holographic projection of the GM’s head appears, RedHeart stares, amazed by the technology, the other stand and watch as the message begins, it was pre-recorded as a normal message could not be sent to him from this distance apart.
“Kieron, I know it must be about five months since you have been left on that fine planet but by the time you get this message it will have been about ten months, a year at the max. Along with this message there is something that will be coming into orbit and heading to the surface, I know what you will be thinking, and it isn’t that. It is a package for you, Kieron...” he explains as Kieron sighs with relief that it wasn’t a SKULL ship after all, but then what was it?
Kieron lift his head as he thinks hard about what it could be, the others watch, “Careful, try not to hurt yourself, I can’t fix mental damage.” RedHeart comments just as he lowers his head to look at them and his eyes widen to large saucers as he remembers the one thing he forgot.
The message continues, amazingly just as he remembers, “Yes, that’s right, Kieron. You left it on the ship and I have sent it down to you. HOW DARE YOU LEAVE HER HERE!” he shouts at Kieron before the message shuts off.
“I guess that makes two things I need to explain, I’ll start with the first one, being me because it’s more important. Please get a chair, all of you.” he replies as he gets comfortable for the little storytelling to come.
Celestia uses her magic to pull up four chairs for them all, they sat on them and get comfortable, “Right, I am not a real human, I am human but I’m not if that makes sense. I am a human but I was biologically engineered by the Grand Master himself, that man you just saw, he created me to be the ultimate soldier, completely loyal to him, too tough to kill with normal weapons, and quick thinking. But there was a side effect, that morphing, he kept me solitary confinement whilst he got his scientists to create a syrem to stop the morphing...” he stops to breath as he finds it hard to breath a bit.
“But there was a side effect with the syrem too, I’m sure it’s a good thing though. It stopped the morphing but it makes me invincible, seriously, I can’t die. I can prove it.” He explains as he pulls out a concealed gun from under the pillow and points it at his chests, ‘Tia uses her magic to pull at the gun trying to stop him but he stares at her with a look of trust causing her to stop, he then put the gun against his chest, directly above his heart, RedHeart biting at her lip hard. He pulls the trigger and a loud bang erupts from it as the bullet strikes him and blood splatters everywhere, RedHeart screams, Twilight looks at ‘Tia as if to say ‘why did you let him?’, ‘Tia herself watching intentionally as after a few seconds he groans with pain, RedHeart stops screaming to see him still alive, she gasps with relief.
“So what was the other thing that you needed to explain?” ‘Tia asks him, wanting to know more.
“Well, it has something to do with Moonshine. You see I think I told you about her being bio-engineered from me. Well, during the design phase we detected a by-product within the creation, we thought that Moonshine was the main thing and the other to be the by-product so we tried to dispose of it but it escaped...” he tells them as the recruit gets up and walks out to go do a job that Mathis had assigned him to do.
“Later, two years later, I found reports of something in the maintenance shafts and food missing from the kitchens. I went investigate it only to find a pony in the shafts with hoards of food and things that had gone missing. I brought her out and immediately wanted to look into it, I took her into personal care, it was hard but the trust between us grew, she hated Moonshine though. About a year later we found out that she wasn’t the by-product but instead Moonshine was.” He explains
“Wow, Moonshine has a sister? And you have two ‘daughters’.” Celestia says to him.
“Yes and her name is Treacle Tart. I must say she is a very solitary pony, is very dedicated to work, listens to everything you say, learns quickly, likes to make friends but where she is Moonshine isn’t for and she drives then away from Treacle causing her to be quite lonely. She does, however, make the best tarts, flans and pies I have ever tasted, and she’s almost about to land here on Equestria, that’s what the shockwave was from.” He continues to explain.
They all get up, RedHeart then thanks him for the story and goes off to help other ponies that are hurt, and ‘Tia helps him up, he puts an arm round her neck for support as they make their way to the door with Twilight following them. When they get to the door, he opens it, they look up into the sky to see an object falling down towards the ground, on fire from the heat of entering the atmosphere, “There she is.” He says as they make their way down to the courtyard where Celestia’s chariot is kept.
They soon reach it, get in and ‘Tia uses her magic to lift it into the air and drive it forwards towards the mech facility where the pod was heading to.
Moonshine was woken by the shockwave that hit everypony, she is looking out the window to see what it was only to see the pod falling down towards the mech facility, she looks over towards Canterlot to see Celestia’s chariot heading for it. She then leaves the library after giving Spike a little, comforting kiss on the forehead. It doesn’t take long for her to reach the facility. The pod is almost at the surface, the roof of the facility opens as a large docking station lifts up out of the roof, the pod all of a sudden slows down to a snail’s pace as it docks with the station. It then lowers back into the roof and the door close.
Celestia’s chariot arrives at the main door. Moonshine walks over to them and explains what happened to the pod, Kieron then tells her to shut up and follow then inside, and ‘Tia helps him as they walk into the facility.
When they get into the pod in stood in the middle of the main room, Kieron takes his arm from round ‘Tia and approaches the pod, he types in a code into the pad on the door, air hisses from the door as it decompresses, the door opens to reveal a thick fog that floats down past everypony’s hoofs, a figure inside the pod weakly flops out landing against Kieron but due to himself being weak they both falls to the ground, Kieron puts his arms round the pony stroking at its mane, comforting it, “There, there Treacle. Your with me now.” He says to comfort her.
“Sir, she’s still in cryo-stasis, I must tell you to take her to the med-lab to rest, and you need to rest as well.” Mathis tells him, ‘Tia then walks over to them, uses her magic to lift Treacle onto her back and lifts Kieron so that he can put his arm round her again as they make their way for the med-lab.
When they reach there, there is not the one surgical table but this time two tables, ‘Tia lifts Treacle off her back and places her onto one of the tables as Kieron lays himself on the other, he closes his eyes as ‘Tia leaves them be to rest, pushing the others out too, “They need to rest for now. We’ll see them tomorrow.” She says to Twilight and Moonshine as they leave the facility, she then heads back to Canterlot for some sleep as the other head to the library to do the same.
Chapter 7: The puppet
Last chapter: When they reach there, there is not the one surgical table but this time two tables, ‘Tia lifts Treacle off her back and places her onto one of the tables as Kieron lays himself on the other, he closes his eyes as ‘Tia leaves them be to rest, pushing the others out too, “They need to rest for now. We’ll see them tomorrow.” She says to Twilight and Moonshine as they leave the facility, she then heads back to Canterlot for some sleep as the other head to the library to do the same.
Kieron slowly wakes up on the surgical table, he looks about to get his bearings, as he looks none of it seems familiar as he can’t remember anything about who he is, where he is or who he knows, he seems to have temporary amnesia!
At the main door miss Cheerilee approaches as Mathis had requested that she was to take the two of them to school after monitoring their brain activity and finding that they need to ‘start over’ for a bit while they regain their memories.
When she reaches the main room she sees Treacle and Kieron both sat staring at the screen, she enters and they both look over to her, Kieron at first had no reaction, Mathis introduces her to them and immediately Kieron starts to babble on in a monotone as memories rush to him about her, “Miss, Cheerilee, teacher of primary school foals, goes to the night-club ‘Melody’s Midnight Mares’, caring, kind and sweet.”
She is unsure of what to make of what happened but she still decides to take them to school, they both willingly follow her as she leads them out and towards the school.
It doesn’t take them long to reach the school. Cheerilee enters and all the foals sit down as a silence falls upon them, “Morning children, I’m sorry I’m late but we have two new students for a bit.”
When she finishes, she points to the door and Treacle Tart walks in, “This is Treacle Tart. She is just with us until she regains her memory, so please be nice to her. Okay Treacle, please take a seat.” She says as she points to a spare desk at the back of the classroom next to Scootaloo.
Cheerilee stands in silence as she waits for Kieron to walk in but he never does, “Kieron, be a gentleman and get in here, Please?” she asks him, his eyes open wide and without any resistance he walks in, when he gets next to her he shakes his head, looks around in confusion and then stares at the class.
“Hay, that’s the bad man that turned into the creature and killed those ponies.” Applebloom commented
Kieron’s eyes half0shut as if was bored or tired, he starts to spurt out information about her after hearing her name as he remembers about her, “Applebloom, sister of Applejack, lives at Sweet Apple acres. A little filly trying to get her cutiemark by any means along with two others, they call themselves the ‘Cutiemark Crusaders’.”
He finishes and then walks over to a desk next to Sweetie Belle and sits down, “Why do I have to sit next to him? Why can’t he sit next to Diamond Tiara?” Sweetie Belle asks scared of the person next to her.
Cheerilee just glares at her, Sweetie Belle then puts her head down knowing to just be quiet, “Right class, today we are going to learn... who could that be?” she is interrupted by a knock on the door, she walks over to it, pokes her head out only to see Celestia stood on the other side, “PRINC...” she goes to shout but ‘Tia puts a hoof against her mouth.
“Who was it Miss Cheerilee?” Diamond Tiara asks her.
“It would seem we have a surprise guest today children. Princess Celestia is here!” she introduces her as ‘Tia unlocks the door with her magic and walks in gracefully. The class gasps and cheers as she walks in, even Treacle cheers but only to go along with it not really knowing who she is. Kieron sat and started mumbling word to himself that nopony could here over the cheering except Sweetie Belle who stops cheering, gets out of her chair and rushes over to Cheerilee for comfort, “What’s wrong Sweetie Belle?” she asks her.
“He’s mumbling something and its scaring me.” She replies pointing to Kieron, they look over to him to see him talking away to himself among the cheering foals whilst staring at Celestia. Cheerilee then gets the class to be quiet, as they calm down Kieron can be heard.
“...ruler of Equestria, the most powerful pony that lives, seen as a goddess. She lives in Canterlot castle with her sister. She has a small magic class of her own with one pony being the top of the class, can’t remember the name. Princess Celestia, the greatest creature to live, only one creature can rival her, and he is going to return one day, THEY will return...” he continues as it turns into more of a warning and demoralising battle talk, “SKULL will return one day, and when they do they will destroy everything in their path, kill everybody and every creature that crosses their path. The Grand Master will return and take this planet for his own and there is nothing you can do to stop him...” he continues to rant as he stands up, a fire in his eyes, he rises his arms as he looks up as if praising something, “..And I will lead them to glory and I will personally destroy this world one house at a time as I am the Overseer of SKULL...” He stops ranting as all of his memories rush to him as he remembers everything about himself and everything he knew before.
He begins to shake violently as his memories continue to rush to him, he grabs at his head, and ‘Tia immediately calls all of the foals to hide behind her thinking he is about to morph into the creature again. He begins to scream as he digs his nails into his head, his eyes changing colour from a hazel-grey to a deep red, “I...I am false, I am not real, I am a weapon. I was created to kill and destroy but...but something inside says to rebel against this, but I can’t I am loyal to him, I must be LOYAL!” he shouts out as he begins to throw up chairs and desks all over the place, he roars out as he throws them away, Treacle begins to try and stops him by pushing as him to make him fall over but he pushes he back a little, she comes back to try again, his power armour unfolds around him as he stops and slowly turns to her, “Oh, crap. Sorry.” She says to him as she dashes over to Celestia who is stood staring at him hoping he doesn’t go for them.
He looks over to the scared children and Miss Cheerilee to see them all shivering with fear, he then looks at Celestia and lowers his arms, his helmet folds back to reveal him looking at her with a sorrowful face, “I’m so sorry, I...I’m a monster, I a monster meant to only kill and destroy. I don’t want to hurt any of you but something is making be like this, I don’t know what.” He cries out to them.
Just then a bleep emits from his armour, he grabs a holographic projector and places it on the floor, Mathis appears, “Sir, I found...are you okay? Never mind. I have found an embedded message from the Grand Master inside the message he sent you about Treacle Tart. I will play it now.” He then disappears. I masked figure appears, pulls the mask off to reveal the Grand Master’s face and begins to talk in an ordering voice.
“Kieron, I want you to listen carefully. I want you to kill the princess known as Celestia...” Kieron and everypony stand in shock at the image; they look at Kieron who shakes his head in disapproval.
“I will do no such thing, I would never kill her” he replies to the image even though it can’t hear him.
“...But I thought about this and knew you might refuse so I have no choice but to take forceful action. Kieron, be a gentleman and kill Princess Celestia, thank you.” The images disappears, everypony looks back at Kieron who is wide-eyed as if he is trying to battle himself.
“No, no, I mustn’t. I can’t kill her...but he ordered me to kill her, I must follow his orders...but I vowed to protect the ponies of Equestria, I VOWED!!.....death, the one thing I am best at, death to the Princess.” He argues with himself before his eyes turn to a deep red again, his helmet unfolds round his head and he begins to walk towards Celestia.
“Kieron, no, don’t do it. Don’t listen to him, fight it, you said you vowed to protect them not kill them.” Treacle Tart shouts at him but it makes no difference. He continues to walk towards ‘Tia, who uses her magic to push him back with one big magical force push, this does nothing as he begins to walk towards her from the back of the classroom. She then walks slightly to him right and he turns to walk direct at her as if following her, she then realises and to protect the foals she walks out the school with him following her, she then takes flight to hover in the sky, he stops, looks up at her and points at her.
She stares at him as he puts his arms down by his side, he then suddenly jumps up and the boosters in the bottom of his boots activate but they weren’t meant for flight so he only launches up into the sky towards her, they deactivate and he slows down as he closes in on her, her horn glows as she readies for him to get close to her.
He then suddenly activates them again, launching him straight into her, she gasps as her breath is knocked out of her, “Your life will be mine, and I will have your head as a trophy for my wall.” He threatens her as he pulls out a knife from a sheath in the armour. Her horn glows brightly as she teleports them to Canterlot, the knife being thrown away from his grasp in the process.
"The ponies of Equestria may have Kieron's heart, but his mind still belongs to me" an evil voice calls from the large chair in the middle of the room. All of the officers and him in the room then begin to laugh evilly, “Now, send a frigate to the planet to knock on their door for a bit.” He orders.
“Yes, sir.” An officer says as he goes out the room and talks over an earpiece to a SKULL captain, “Kill them all.”
‘Tia and Kieron suddenly appear inside of the main hall of Canterlot castle, he looks at his hand to see the knife gone, he growls at her as she looks about to think of where to go and what to do to stop him, he then puts his arm over his shoulder and pulls out a sniper rifle, not the best choice for close quarters combat and points it at her. They both stand at a stalemate.
Fortunately Mathis detected where they were and Moonshine rushed through the teleporter in the mech facility to his room and flew to the castle, she arrives at the castle doors to see him pointing the gun at her, she did even look scared by the situation, Moonshine sneakily creeps up behind him and pulls at one of his legs causing him to fall over, he pulls the trigger as an automatic reflex but the gun points to the ground and shoots, the bullet strikes the ground, deflects of it and whizzes past Celestia’s head, she gasps as this happens seeing her life flash before her eyes.
“No, but you will be soon.” Kieron replies as he whacks Moonshine with the butt of his rifle and gets up onto his feet, Celestia then uses her magic to pull his guns off him and hit him with the butt of it, this does nothing, and she then uses her power to pull it to pieces.
“Why Kieron? Why can’t you just be a gentleman for once?” Moonshine calls out, Kieron then suddenly stops still with his arms out to his sides, he stands as if waiting for something.
“Awaiting you order.” He replies as the armour folds up revealing him staring straight ahead. His eyes were back to normal, no ounce of violence was in his body.
“What did you do to him?” Celestia asks interested.
“I didn’t do anything, I just asked him if could just be a gentleman for once.” She replies, Kieron’s eyes shut tight then open.
“Wha...what happened?” he asks them, “Why am I in Canterlot? Why aren’t I in the school? What happened?” he says as he begins to panic.
“Oh, I am going to have so much fun with you now, Kieron...” she responds with an evil look on her face, “Be a gentleman, and...Kiss Celestia!” she shouts out.
“What? Moonshine no.” ‘Tia calls out as Kieron dives at her knocking them to the ground. He then locks their lips together as ‘Tia tries her best to resist. After a few minutes of kissing Moonshine sat down and began to rub herself as she got excited from watching the two of them.
Finally Celestia manages to push Kieron away enough for her to get some words out, “Kieron, be a gentleman and stop what you are doing...” He suddenly stops trying to kiss at her and starts straight at her, no into her, “And just be yourself.” His eyes shut tight before opening slowly, he looks down at her not realising where he is, it doesn’t take long as his eyes open wide, his face shocked and he jumps up off her onto his back on the floor.
“What just happened? What did she make me do?” he asks as he looks over to Moonshine who is enjoying herself, rubbing furiously, “MOONSHINE! Stop that. Now, what did you make me do?” he demands.
She stops, dripping as she gets up and walks over to him, puts her head next to his and whispers, “I made you snog the princess. He he he” His eyes open as wide as they could, his cheeks blush red, “I’ll see you later then, I’m going to find somepony to be with.” She says as she trots off as if nothing happened. Kieron slowly turns to looks at ‘Tia and smiles lightly trying to hide what he heard, she gets up and sits next to him, uses her magic to sit him up, and watches Moonshine leave.
“Don’t worry about it too much Kieron. As long as you didn’t hurt any of the foals...”
“What?! Hurt the foals, what exactly happened to me?” he asks.
“You had a burst of memories come to you after hearing my name at the school, you then went a bit insane after realising who you were and what you were meant for, you then got a message from the Grand Master telling you to kill me by using a phrase that makes you do anything. Either that or you really wanted to kiss me...” She explains as he blushes more, looking at her sitting tall beside her, she looks down at him with her eyes; he then rests his head against her side.
“At least I didn’t kill you, I don’t know if you remember but I vowed to protect you and the ponies of Equestria.” He says to her.
“Yes I know. You had a little argument with yourself about it before your eyes changed colour to a deep red and set out to kill me, thankfully after I teleported us here Moonshine came to the rescue and knew the phrase or she said it by accident and stopped you from trying to kill me but at least the foals aren’t hurt and new everything is fine now.” She comforts him as she puts a hoof round him to give him a hug.
Not long afterwards a couple of guards rush in, “Princess, something is wrong with Princess Luna, she is having some sort of fit.” He comments in a panicked voice, Celestia quickly stands up, Kieron then gets up and they both follow the guard to Luna’ room.
Luna is laid on her bed screaming as she sees images of Equestria in ruins, flames everywhere, she is stood in the middle of Ponyville in the dark, buildings are burning around her and in the shadows in front of her is a pair of red, glowing eyes that suddenly lunge towards her.
Kieron and Celestia burst through the doors, running up to her as she screams even louder and then begins to spurt out random things, “They are coming. They’re going to kill us, all of us, all the foals, all the ponies. We can’t stop them, we can’t stop them.” She then looks up to see Celestia sat next to her comforting her, she looks round the room to see a couple of guards stood worried, she then looks over to see Kieron stood, she stares at him as his image begins to change into that of the mysterious figure in the shadows, “IT’S HIM, HE WILL KILL US!” she shouts as she cowers behind ‘Tia.
Celestia looks at him as he lowers his head is realisation, “What is she talking about Kieron? She sounds like you from earlier.” She asks him.
“I was having memories and having an evil rant, I remember what happened now but she isn’t having that, she’s having a premonition. I’ve seen them happen before to Treacle Tart, they seem to only come to unicorns...” he explains. He then sits down on the bed, puts a hand on Luna’s hoof to reassure her that he won’t hurt her, “They are normally true, what she is talking about is...She’s talking about SKULL coming back. If this is true then I am afraid that many ponies will die, but I won’t allow that, I will protect you all, for now I can only start to set up defences and begin to make...” he suddenly stops as his eyes widen after he gets a notice from Mathis that a relay network has been detected, “Oh god, no please, NO!” he shout as he rushes out the room.
Kieron pushes open the doors and stares into the sky; Celestia appears behind him as she chased after him, “Kieron, what’s wrong? Why is everypony acting weird lately?” she questions.
“Luna had a premonition, I had memory flashbacks. Luna’s premonition...is about to come true, look.” He replies as he points to the sky where a bright flash is seen despite being midday, “They’re here, SKULL has returned, and I have no defences ready.”
A SKULL frigate slowly approaches the planet after coming out of light travel, as it approaches the planet it releases a small satellite-like pod, it was a relay node that allows for instant communications over very large distances.
Not long afterwards a bay door on the bottom of the ship opens, three mechs are held up above the gap by a crane, one by one the crane releases them, they slowly fall towards the planet by gravity but as they fall they turn and the backs glow bright as the boosters charge up. The boosters activate and the three mechs propel towards the surface with amazing speed.
Kieron sees the flashes of light and notice that they are moving, “NO, Havoc mechs, this isn’t usual, frigates never have mechs onboard, not Havoc mechs at least. Celestia get inside and get everyone to a safe place, no wait, they’re heading for Ponyville. I must get to the mech hanger now, but there’s no way of getting there quick enough, I can’t protect them, the ponies, they’re going to be killed, how can I protect them?” he asks himself frustrated. She walks up behind him and puts hoof on his shoulder, she then looks down at the mech facility, closes her eyes, puts her head down, and they both quickly teleport.
The mechs enter the atmosphere as they begin to burn up. It doesn’t take long for them to get to the surface; they slam straight into the ground, one mech lands right in the village hall, the others around it. Dust quickly covers the area, as many ponies are thrown about by the impacts; other ponies go to help them as confusion sets in.
Kieron and Celestia suddenly appear in the main room; he quickly gets his bearings and runs off to the mech hanger, “Get the recruits to get to the hanger, now!” he shouts as he is soon out of earshot. She looks around in panic to see nopony about.
He soon reaches the mech hanger where Ambush in already waiting for him, he runs along the gang way and leaps into the core, straps himself in, the hanger doors begin to open, the core shuts, he then walks over to the doors and forcefully opens them. He then boosts over to Ponyville where the three mechs rise up out of the craters and begins to look round.
He quickly reaches Ponyville and lands in front of the three mechs who all look at him and ready for battle, “It’s the Overseer, he’s come to help.” One of the pilots calls out.
“No, he isn’t. Look he’s targeting us, be careful, this is the Overseer we’re talking about, he’s the one with the most combat experience in these mechs.” Another pilot replies.
“So what now, do we kill him” the third pilot asks.
“No, I kill you.” Kieron responds as his face appears on their screens.
Chapter 8: The Beginning of the End
Last chapter: He quickly reaches Ponyville and lands in front of the three mechs who all look at him and ready for battle, “It’s the Overseer, he’s come to help.” One of the pilots calls out.
“No, he isn’t. Look he’s targeting us, be careful, this is the Overseer we’re talking about, he’s the one with the most combat experience in these mechs.” Another pilot replies.
“So what now, do we kill him” the third pilot asks.
“No, I kill you.” Kieron responds as his face appears on their screens.
The mechs stood looking at each other, Ambush’s ‘eyes’ moving side to side as it scans the SKULL mechs, “Scan complete, sir. Their configurations are...” Mathis goes to say but is interrupted by Kieron.
“I know their setups; I did after all create them. Let’s see, we have a quad legged heavy design, bulky, slow. An all-rounder, relatively quick, average amount of armour, but I know a weakness. Then we have, oh, very clever, we’ve got someone wants to be clever, he has a pure blader...” he says to himself, “But as I have created and started the Havoc mech program, I know a weakness for all of them.” He smirks, an image of the three pilots appear on his screen, “So gentleman, who shall go first. Rules are simple, we fight one on one, like waves of enemies, and the loser die but the winner survives to see the next day. We won’t fight here, we will fight over there...” he says as Ambush points to a patch of land that is clear of all obstacles, it was the park green, “If you try to refuse then, well, I guess I will have to force you. Now let the games begin, and yes, this is fun.” He comments as the pilots listen to his orders and begins to move towards the park green.
As they made their way to the green one of the pilots piped up, “Do you really think we can take him on?”
“Of course, he may have created these mechs but we outnumber him, three to one. We can take him.” The second pilot replies.
“So, who do I have the honour of fighting today?” Kieron questions them.
“Surely you remember us Overseer. No? Well then, I am Flight-Lieutenant Stevens.” He replies.
“I am Corporal Johnson. I still think you could have taught us a bit more than you did.” He adds.
“And I am Sergeant Winters. Let’s see if the great mech pilot, the Overseer can take on his three best students.” He asks himself.
“Oh, you three, Winters you know that you were learning everything I knew faster than I could teach it. I still don’t think you can beat me.” He responds.
The mechs reach the park green, the three SKULL mechs stand next to each other as Ambush stands about 20 metre opposite them, the quad legged mech then steps forward, he and Ambush then ready themselves for battle, “Quad legged design, slow walking, can’t booster for too long, arm weapons are dual Gatling guns, shoulder attachments are flares, missiles are useless then, and the back weapons, ah, a Kojima missile launcher and a sniper cannon...” Kieron says to himself as he analyses the opponent’s mech.
Ambush readies himself as the other mechs power down to stop any interruptions, “On the count of three, we draw.” He says to Winters to knods in agreement, “One......two......”
Ambush then suddenly raises his arms up towards Winters and begins to spray the mech with machinegun fire and missiles, Winters deploys flares causing some of the missiles to fly off towards them but some ignore the flares and head straight for the mech and explode against its primal armour shielding, the bullets penetrate through it from the constant fire and cause some damage to the core.
Winters begins to boost to the side to avoid any more fire and begins to return fire with the dual Gatling guns, Ambush doesn’t even move as he sponges the shots, the round hit off Ambush’s primal armour but something is different, there constant fire should penetrate through it but yet, nothing.
“You didn’t think I had thought about constant fire, did you?” Kieron asks him, “In my time here, I created a new, highly advanced primal armour system that has higher density, but not just that, it has two layers, get through one and there is another one there to take the punishment.” He continues as he chuckles slightly, enjoying the fun.
Winters stops moving as he watches the shield ripple round Ambush before becoming invisible to show just the mech, the sniper cannon then unfolds and takes aim, steadies itself and fires, Ambush dodges at just the right time by quick boosting that the round whizzes just past the head, as he glides to the side he turns slightly to correct his course and then boosts towards Winters who begins to spray rounds with one of the Gatling guns as the cannon reloads.
It takes aim again and fires but just as it does Ambush activates his laser blade on his left arm and slices off the sniper cannon causing it to fall to the ground as the shot flies off into the sky. The mech slowly looks round to Ambush who is facing the other way behind it. It deploys the Kojima missile launcher, locks onto Ambush and fires; the missile immediately begins to head for Ambush who turns to see the incoming missile.
He begins to boost in different direction in an attempt to shake it off but the missile follows his no matter where he goes, the missile is slow but highly agile. Kieron quickly thinks of what to do as the missile follows him and Winters shoots at him, he boosts towards Winters, dodging most of the shots, and then quick boosting round the mech to behind it, he drops his arm weapons and grabs hold of the mech, it struggles as Winters realises that he hold of him.
He pulls the blade out and sparks fly out from the hole, he lets go of it and it slumps down on its legs, core hanging down over to the side, “NEXT! You’re done for Winters.” Kieron calls out.
The Corporal steps forwards to go next, “Hello Corporal, ready to die? All-rounder mech design, weapons, dual shotguns, rear weapons are a chain gun and a Sirius Hi-laser cannon, shoulder mounts? There is none, this will be easy.” He smugly says to himself as he readies for the next battle.
Ambush dashes forwards towards Johnson, who aims at him with his shotguns and fires, the slugs impact against the shields getting through slightly, the impact causes Ambush to stagger slightly but he corrects this by boosting to the side instead to flank the mech, he gets to the side, activate the laser blade and goes to swing for it but he dodges out of the way, deploys the Sirius cannon and shoots Ambush in the back, causing minimal damage to the back-left leg, “YES, energy weapons seen to penetrate the shield more easily!” Johnson shouts out to himself.
Kieron turns round to face him, and deploys his left-rear weapon a railgun and takes aim, he shoots a few machinegun rounds to make him dodge about, and when he stops to take a shot Kieron shoots the railgun and hits the left arm ripping it off completely. He looks at the missing arm, drops the shotgun and a small laser blade replaces it, he dashes forwards to slash at Kieron who activates his own blade to block it.
As they push against each other, Kieron deactivates his blade and quickly punches the mech in the lower-core area pushing it up over him and slamming it into the ground behind him. He flies up into the air and deploys his other back weapon, a Kojima cannon. He charges it up as he sprays a burst of shot at the mech. Johnson desperately tries to get up but one of the legs is damaged from the impact against the ground.
“Yes, of course, they had less experience than me, plus I have a faster mech.” He replies as he steps forwards slightly to get ready for the ‘last bout’.
“True but remember that every mech has a weakness, even mine, you just need to find it.” Kieron admits.
The two mechs begins to walk to the sides in a circle motion as if in a ring, Stevens make the first move and charges at Kieron, slicing with both laser blades, one of them misses completely as Ambush dodges to the side, the other blade slices against the core leaving a scorch mark. The blade easily piercing the shields, he quick boosts to turn him round quickly and take another lunge at Ambush, before Kieron could react the blades hit against Ambush, one blade ripping off the sniper cannon, the other slicing down the back of Ambush. Kieron sharply turned round and swung at Stevens hitting him on the back causing him to stumble.
“You can’t beat me Stevens. You won’t beat me.” Kieron says to him over the intercom.
Stevens reacts by turning round to look towards Kieron but he wasn’t there, “What? Where did he go?” he asks himself. He looks around to see if he was trying to flank him but not one mech could be seen apart from the ones laid on the floor.
He continues to look around to find Kieron but still nothing, as he looks about a shimmer appears behind him, an electrical surge runs downwards to reveal Ambush, a red dot suddenly appears behind Stevens on the radar, but before he could do anything Ambush’s laser blade slices upwards diagonally to the left ripping off the left leg of the mech, before the mech could fall, move or do anything, Ambush grabs the back of the mech, lifts it up and throws in down on the ground.
Stevens uses the mechs boosters flip its leg over the head so that it does a front flip and lands on the one leg, the booster still going to keep it up right, he then locks on to Kieron and dashes forward at speeds of that of three times as fast as normally possible, it was a special move only possible for blading mechs. Kieron saw this coming and at just the right time he steps to the side and punches the mech in the side causing it to become highly unstable as he damages one of the rear boosters, the mech topples and falls to the ground heavily.
Ambush walks up to the mech laid on the floor, points a gun at it ready to finish it but all of a sudden some bulkhead armour covers the ‘eyes’ and Kojima, blue particles rush to the core, it was going to use Assault armour. Kieron responded to this by ripping off one of the shoulder attachments which was an Assault armour amplifier, this causes the FCS (fighting computer system) to make an emergency shut down to the Assault armour, “No! You can’t stop that, how did you do that?” Stevens angrily question Kieron.
Kieron says nothing but responds by pulling the laser blades off the mech then grabs the mech by the lower-core area, lifting it up to him so that they are face to face, “I told you, I know everything about these mechs, now this is how you do a proper kill with Assault armour.” He says to him as the bulkhead armour covers Ambush’s ‘eyes’ and Kojima particles rush to Ambush’s core, a light emits from the core as a large blast erupts from him ripping the arms off the mech and the other leg to leave the core and head.
The light soon dies down and the mech is still firmly in Ambush’s grasp, somehow the core protected Stevens from the blast but only just, “How...how do you do it? How...Why? What are you? You...truly are the bane of death...You truly are the ultimate soldier of death and war...now please, finish this. I have failed and must die.” Stevens says as he coughs and splutters.
Ambush lifts the mech up higher, “I shouldn’t really kill you, I should let you be prisoner to the ponies of Ponyville as a reminder of what happened her but that would only make them depressed, so now my student...you must die.” He replies as Ambush suddenly slams the mech against the ground and stamps onto it crushing the core like a tin can.
“Ha ha ha, nice timing Mathis but now isn’t a good time to be having fun.” Kieron replies.
He lifts his leg and then turns to look up at the frigate in the sky, “How to stop you...I know just the thing.” He says to himself, “Mathis, get the recruits to get into their mechs and go up to that ship and rip it out from the inside out.” He orders.
“Already on their way, I thought it might have been the only way to take it down without having to use Emergency Protocol 2” he replies.
Kieron looks over towards the mech facility to see three Havoc mechs flying up towards the ship, he then heads for the observatory with amazing speed.
Moonshine it on Luna’s balcony and was watching the whole fight, “Princess, he did it! He’s won!” she shouts inside to Celestia, she rushes out onto the balcony to look down towards Ponyville but sees no mechs, Moonshine turns Celestia’s head towards the park green where there is various parts of mechs scattered all over and Kieron heading towards the observatory.
“Why is he heading for the observatory?” she asks to herself.
“I know why. I overheard him talking to Mathis one day, he has some shield generators there, and Dr Atom was working on them to get them to work better than what Kieron could do.” She replies.
“Oh, I see. He must be putting up some shields somewhere, possibly here, to protect us, but from what? That ship doesn’t look nearly as big as the one that was there when he first came here.” She wonders to herself.
“It isn’t, but I get the feeling that he knows something, SKULL never sends a single, light ship to do a job like this, they send a few, heavy ships to do the job. I get the feeling too that more will be coming.” Moonshine replies as she pats Celestia on the shoulder.
A radar operator is looking at a screen that shows the three Havoc mechs approaching the ship, “Sir, we’ve got incoming, it looks like some Havoc mechs, maybe it’s the ones we sent coming back to give us a report about their defences.” He says to the captain who swings round on his chair to looks at him.
“So be it. Let them into the hanger.” He replies.
The mechs continue to travel towards the ship only to get a blind message to board in the hanger. They proceed to the hanger under the cover of pretending to be SKULL forces, “Kieron, we have managed to approach the ship without suspicion, we will proceed inside and then rip apart anything that moves.” One of the ponies says over a secure communication channel to him.
“Roger that. Kill all of them, leave nothing standing.” He replies before cutting the channel.
They then begin the boarding procedures with the ship, firstly they approach the hanger at a slow speed, in a wing formation, the hanger doors open and a blue energy shield can be seen, they continue to approach and enter the hanger, passing straight through the shield, it would seem that it’s to stop any air from rushing out. They then slowly land onto the floor of the hanger; one mech walks over towards a docking station.
The other two mechs suddenly stop as the other docks, but refuses to open the core. A few engineers begins to become frustrated and shout at the pilot inside the docked mech, the others looks over to the engineers and the core of the mech docked burst open and the pony jumps out in full power armour, shooting at many humans as he lands on the gangway taking shots at any humans that come into sight.
The other mechs that aim at the pony who stands still, “Intruder, stay where you are, how did you get into our formation undetected?” one of the pilots asks, the soldiers around their feet lowers their weapons knowing that the situation is under control, but then the mechs suddenly turns and begins to fire on the many humans about, standing on them, shooting at the fuel tanks, and launching missiles at any exits to cut off any escape.
“HOLD ON TO SOMETHING!” one of the ponies calls out as the one of the gangway jumps back into the mech and shuts the core, and punches the ground to hold on, one of the other mechs then punches a wall to do the same. The third mech then blades the generator for the energy shield, air and objects begin to rush out into the vacuum of space as the mech uses its boosters to correct the pull and cause it to stand still in the hanger.
The hanger’s bulkhead doors then shut closing off the hanger from space and the hanger decompresses as the air stops rushing out, the boosting mech uses this opportunity and boosts straight into the wall ahead and behinds to blade its way through the walls in front of it, easily ripping through, the others then behind to pull at the holes they created, pulling out any wiring, pipes and anything else they find.
On the bridge alarms are blaring as the mech continue on their rampage, the captain orders for bombardment of the planet’s surface, the main gun doors open as the gun slides down out of the ship to point to the planet.
“Warning, the ship is preparing to fire of Equestria.” Mathis warns the ponies.
One of the mechs then turns to the bulkhead door, rips its way through and flies to the front of the ship, air begins to rush out again through the hole, humans and objects fly towards the hole until a build up of objects block the hole stopping anything else from rushing out although there is still a hiss from the gaps where the air is getting through.
“KIERON, two shots have been shot, repeat two shots inbound.” The pony shouts through the channel to him.
The mech then continues to slice away at the gun, soon reaching the base of it and disconnecting it from the ship altogether. As soon as the gun disconnects the ship’s security system activates and a bulkhead covers the gap, multiple quantum torpedo launchers deploy on the side of the ship and target the mech, they then fire as he flies off to lead them away.
They mech in the engine room finally begins to stab and slice at the engine generators which after a couple of hit begin to overload, “ALL PONIES, GET OUT, IT’S GOING TO BLOW!” he calls out, the two mechs inside then runs for the hanger door they came in through, they reach the door just as the generators cause the warp drives to overload and explode furiously destroying everything as the explosions expand outwards.
The mech being pursued by the torpedoes then head towards the ship and stop in front of the bridge, the captain staring into the ‘eyes’ of it, as the torpedoes get closer the mech suddenly dodges out of the way, before they could correct course they slam straight into the bridge and blow it to pieces, the mech sees the others heading for the planet and joins up with them.
Moonshine and Celestia stand and watch as they see small flashes of light coming from the ship in the day sky; all of a sudden the whole of the ship explodes in one large, blue explosion, ripping it in half, the explosion’s shockwave reaching the surface almost instantly and causing ponies to tumble and stagger, even the remains of Ponyville’s hall falls to the ground into a pile of rubble and it shatters a few of the weaker windows.
All the ponies then look up into the sky to see the remains of the explosion and cheer out in relief as the mechs fly out from the edge of the explosion towards the surface, they soon get through the atmosphere but they should be slowing down, something is wrong.
They continue to plummet towards the ground at speeds way too fast for even a Havoc mech; Celestia watches as they fall, she knows something is wrong and begins to concentrate her magic on her horn as she begins to use her magic to try and slow them down, but it doesn’t nothing as even for her they are moving too fast for her to make any effect.
“How the hay did you know all that?” she asks herself as Celestia’s magic begins to take effect and the computer systems start the reboot sequence. She then opens her eyes as she stops and watches hoping the reboot with start-up quick enough to make a difference.
Suddenly one of the mech’s front boosters flash as the mech begins to slow down, but the other continue to plummet. Out of no-where Ambush tackles one of the other mechs, lays so that his back is facing the ground with the mech held tightly against his front and activates his overboost dramatically reducing the speed but it isn’t enough as he tries to slow two mechs down at once, his own and the other mech.
The last mech still falls as the computer system develops an error within the reboot system, the mech is travelling way too fast, it will hit the ground of that of a railgun round hitting someone, the impact would certainly kill the pilot. The mech continues to fall with no difference in speed, 10,000m...8000m...6000m...3000m.
Then suddenly the boosters kick in as the computer system overrides the reboot and brings the mech to life, the boosters blaring as powerful as they possibly can, Mathis hacks into the mech and overrides the computer coding causing the boosters to go into overload, producing much more thrust but it isn’t enough as the mech is still travelling too fast and hits the ground just outside of Ponyville.
“NO! The pony inside couldn’t have survived that.” Moonshine calls out as Celestia’s eyes well up with tears and places her head on Moonshine’s shoulder crying knowing that SKULL have claimed their first victim and that she has now lost yet another pony in her land of Equestria.
“There there sis, I’m sure he died with pride or justice or both.” Luna tries to reassure her as she sits down on the other side of Moonshine and places her head on top of Celestia’s.
“NO!” she shouts lifting her head quickly knocking Luna’s off hers, “He ISN’T dead. He can’t be.” She corrects Luna with a broken voice. Just then another thud is heard, they all look over to Ponyville to see Ambush and the other mech slam into the ground but at a much slower speed, they don’t see much afterward because of the dust created by the first mech’s landing.
Soon the last mech lands safely in fact perfectly as if nothing happened; it then rushes into the dust towards where the first mech landed. Celestia focuses on the library in Ponyville and teleports the three of them to it.
Ambush slowly pushes the mech off him as he gets up and rushes over to the crashed mech. When he gets there, Celestia, Luna and Moonshine are already trying to open it but they can’t is it is jammed shut.
“Move aside, I’ll open it.” Kieron calls out to them. He then grabs as the core of the mech with both hands and begins to pull, the mech is in lockdown and so is sealed shut but it begins to creak as it starts to give way, the core opens slightly and cries of pain can be heard from within.
“He’s alive!” ‘Tia shouts out with joy. She jumps up onto the core between the hands of Ambush which continue to slowly open the core, a gap just big enough for her to squeeze through appears and she pushes her head and upper body into the core, grabs the pony by the mane with her mouth and pulls, he mostly comes out but he gets stuck in the gap as it isn’t wide enough yet, “OPEN IT MORE!” she shouts to Kieron.
“I’M TRYING! I WANT TO SAVE JUST AS MUCH AS YOU DO!” he replies. Ambush does one big pull and for a split second the core opens just wide enough for the pony to be pulled out before slamming shut behind him.
“YES, he’s alive. Quick, we need to get him to the hospital.” She cries out.
“You take him ’Tia, I’ll get the other.” Kieron replies as she teleports the both of them to the hospital in Canterlot, Kieron rushes over to the other that crashed with him. As he reaches it he get a communication from the Malevolence.
“I hope you are destroying that world, Kieron.” A voice asks from the other end, “If you aren’t well, I guess I’ll have to do it myself. Earth is no more and I need a new planet, I am on my way, Kieron.”
The communication cuts off before he could reply, he stands in shock as he now knows what is about to come, “no, not yet. We have no defence. LUNA GET THIS PILOT TO THE HOSPITAL!” he shouts out before rushing off to the mech facility for the shield generators from before.
The Malevolence and two other ships turn from the now gone planet and a surge of energy goes from the front to the back of each of them, in the bridge of the HLV Malevolence the GM is sat in his large wingback chair in the middle of the room.
“Now, take us to our new planet.” He calls out to the drivers.
“Yes, sir” they all reply. As the energy gets to the back and launches the ship into light travel towards Equestria, then the other two follow.
Chapter 9: Ragnarok part 1
Last chapter: The Malevolence and two other ships turn from the now gone planet and a surge of energy goes from the front to the back of each of them, in the bridge of the HLV Malevolence the GM is sat in his large wingback chair in the middle of the room. “Now, take us to our new planet.” He calls out to the drivers. “Yes, sir” they all reply. As the energy gets to the back and launches the ship into light travel towards Equestria, then the other two follow.
<3 months later>
Treacle Tart is in her house baking some delicious lemon flans. She peeks out the kitchen towards the front door as a knock is heard coming from it, through the window on the door she sees an outline of a pony. She walks over to the door, wipes her hooves on her apron and opens it, “Oh, hello Twilight. What can I help you for?” she asks her.
“Not much, oh that smells nice...” she comments as a waft of the baked flans passes her nose, “Sorry, have you seen Moonshine anywhere lately? I haven’t seen her for a few days now.” Treacle just shook her head.
“You should know by now Twi, I don’t like my sister for what she does. I could care less where she is.” She replies, “Was there anything else?”
“Umm....yes, can I buy one of those flans, please?” she asks as she uses her magic to open her satchel.
“You can have one, yes but you don’t need to pay for one, you’re my friend.” Treacle refuses the bits.
Twilight forces her to take them as she doesn’t take no for an answer, “Take my bits, I don’t want to running low on bits. I don’t mind paying.” Treacle sighs as she gives up trying to refuse, takes the bits, places them on a table, walks into the kitchen and starts to prepare the flan for her.
“Come on in. I’ll just be a few seconds with your flan.” She shouts through to Twilight who enters the house, closes the door and takes a seat at treacle’s very fine looking dining table. As Treacle almost finishes preparing the flan the house shakes slightly as a loud, low bass sound emits from outside...no, from underground.
“What was that?” Twilight asks as she rushes over to a shelf to grab a vase that was about to fall.
“I have no idea. Do you think it could be them?” She asks out to her, “Damn it.”
“No, that came from below us...” she replies as she puts the vase straight on the shelf, “What’s wrong?”
“I’m sorry Twilight...” she says to her in frustration, “I’ve dropped your flan, thanks to that rumble, I’ll get you a new one.”
“Oh, no, that’s terrible. Here I’ll help clean up.” She offers as she walks in, puts on an apron that was hung up and begins to help clean up.
Moonshine is walking down a lonely path that has been recently built, she soon comes to a patch of land where the grass has been cut away and metallic door is in the ground. She steps up to it at a small platform raises up out the ground, she steps on it and it begins to scan her, “Identification granted. Welcome Moonshine.” A computer voice says to her, the metallic doors open and she proceeds down into the darkness below.
As she reaches the bottom of the staircase she comes to a well lit, very large room, “KIERON, WHERE ARE YOU?!” she shouts out. A metallic clang comes from the far end of the room as he pops his head out and aims a rifle at her.
“Oh, it IS you. I’m over here.” He replies as her waves his rifle above his head, “Did you get some?” he asks her as she runs over to him.
“Yes, I also checked on the shield generators, Dr Atom has done a good job on them, they’re running smoothly.
“Why don’t you go and make yourself useful and do some welding, the L.R.M.S needs the tracking system to be put into it.” He calls out from into the gap. She looks to her left to see a door at the end of the room; she walks over to it and opens it to reveal a long corridor. She trots down it to come to another door, a retina scanner in on the wall, she places her head in front of it and it scans her eye.
“Access granted.” A computer voice says to her, the door unlocks and she opens it to reveal a huge missile battery in the centre of the large room, she walks over to a workbench, grabs a welding mask, welding kit and a safety suit. She puts on the suit and mask, she then walks over to the side of the missile battery and says, “So THIS is the L.R.M.S. Mathis what does it mean again?”
“L.R.M.S stands for Luna.Rift.Missile System, Kieron decided to call it that in commemoration to Princess Luna. He also created that other weapon you saw he is working on, the C.O.C” he comments as Moonshine sniggers to herself.
“K” she quickly says as he finishes talking.
“No, Moonshine. It isn’t called a C.O.C.K that isn’t the name, it’s called C.O.C or Celestia.Overlord.Cannon, and you really are immature some times.” He adds as she grabs a joystick that controls a crane on the roof, the crane moves over to the corner of the room where a large piece of equipment in kept, it was the tracking system that Kieron was talking about, it then moves over the L.R.M.S slowly and places against it. She puts the joystick down on a desk and climbs up to the tracking system, lowers the mask and begins to weld it to the missile battery.
She wakes up in her bed suddenly as she hears a rapid, mechanical noise come from outside her room; the noise gets louder as it gets closer to her room. She lifts herself out of her bed and cautiously creeps over to her balcony where the doors are open, she peeks out and looks about to see nothing odd, the rapid noise gets really loud, she pops her head over the edge to look down only to see a Havoc mech walking past below her room.
It was on bulky, quad legs which would explain the rapid noises, its core was large, bulky and had a spherical ball on the back behind the head, the head was done shaped with two large, ‘eye’ dots one above the other, it didn’t have any arms like a normal mech but instead had weapons for its arms, they were like large boxes attached to the sides of the core with two large, long barrels extending from each box, at the end of each of the barrels was a muzzle baffle. The back of the mech has two thin, long missile launchers.
“Commencing Havoc mech test.” Mathis calls out from a television in her room that Kieron ordered to have in both of the Princesses rooms to allow for instant communication. A drone havoc mech approaches Canterlot from the mech facility, instantly the mech’s torso turns to face the mech whilst continuing walking, it takes aim and shoots the quad barrels, they instantly hit against the mech causing it to topple, it gets back up at some more shots come from above her, she jumps with surprise as the rounds hit the mech ripping off one of the arms.
She looks up above room to see another identical mech stood on a platform at the highest point of Canterlot, the mech then fires again in quick alternate fire just as the one below fires, both the mech’s rounds hit the drone mech knocking it back and onto the floor. All of a sudden some screaming is heard from the main gates to Canterlot, she over to see two more identical mech stood guarding the gates as the missile launchers launch 16 missiles in quick succession, the missiles screaming as they fly high into the sky then travel forwards towards the downed mech before diving down to it and impacting against it destroying it as it explodes in a large blast.
The mechs guarding the gate then fold up their missile launchers and begin to continue with surveying the area for hostiles, the mech below continues to walk past as the torso faces the front, and the mech above continues to scan the distant areas at it was the look out like a sniper.
“Mathis, when did these mechs get here?” she asks him as she walks over to the television rubbing her ear. The TV suddenly turns on as he appears on it.
“They were set up late last night. The Overseer ordered for them to be put in place to help protect Canterlot along with the shields, do you wish to have a specification of them?” he asks.
“Umm...yes, we would like to hear.” She replies as data about the mechs appear on the screen.
“Arbiter class sniper mech. This mech is slow, bulky with high armour. It is placed on quad legs to be able to carry the weight and to create large amounts of stability; they have a built in flare system and a cloaking device to allow for surprise attacks. Their main weapons are the cannons on sides of the core; it is a dual auto-railgcannon design that can fire a high rate of fire of hyper velocity rounds into an opponent. The rounds are of a new design; they have Tungsten casings, and have N.S.D cores, Neutron.Star.Density cores. They greatly improve the impact force against an enemy ripping through almost anything, if they don’t then they will cause it to be temporarily unstable and most possibly fall over, if it’s a mech that is. Then there are the missile launchers, Wheeling03 class, they launch missiles vertically to come up and fly down on top of the enemy like an orbital barrage, they’re vertical missile launchers. ” He explains the full specification to her as she takes it all in.
“I see, does sis know about them?” she asks as Celestia barges in through her bedroom doors.
“Yes your sister does know. I talked to Kieron about them to give him confirmation to put them in place.” She replies as she walks up to Luna, “Hello Mathis. How are we today?” she asks.
“I am fine, your majesty. I have just tested the mech’s capabilities; they are running to full capacity.” He responds.
“Yes, I do know but I’m afraid I am not allowed to tell you right now.” He replies in a stern voice.
“Mathis...I am in charge of this land. Even Kieron can’t keep secrets from me, so tell me where he is.” She replies sharply.
“What are these weapons and why didn’t he get permission off me first.” She questions.
Mathis chuckles slightly before he answers, “I believe he did ‘Tia. Do you not remember? About five weeks ago he came to a dinner party held here at Canterlot and after everypony left and the party was finished he stayed and got you drunk so that you would say yes...” he claims as she stands wide mouthed looking the screen, stunned by what Mathis said, Luna laughed her heart out as she fell on the floor giggling away to herself.
“Oh wow, ‘Tia drunk? Ha ha ha ha ha, I wish I was there to see that.” She comments as she gasps for air in between laughing.
“Oh but you were Luna, it just so happens that you were drunk too. Moonshine was there at the party.” He replies. Celestia still rather angry at Kieron begins to laugh lightly to herself as she watches Luna lay on the floor wide eyed in shock that she was drunk AND with Moonshine.
“Who knows what happened...” he comments, “Now, the weapons. There is two weapons being constructed, the C.O.C and the L.R.M.S, they are very large and very powerful...” he adds as a design image appears on the TV, “The C.O.C or Celestia.Overlord.Cannon is a large quad barrelled, hyper-velocity, rapid-firing cannon that uses rounds that have Neutron.Star.Density casing and has Supernova.Expansion.Detonation cores...” he says as he is interrupted.
“He used my name, for a weapon?” ‘Tia asks furiously.
“Not just yours but Luna’s too. He used them in commemoration and honour of you both.” He replies as she calms down after hearing this and looks softly at the screen thinking that that was lovely of Kieron to do such a thing, “The other weapon the L.R.M.S or Luna.Rift.Missile.System is a large missile battery that houses multiple Rift Missiles which upon impact cause a small rip in space that sucks in anything even ripping them apart off things if it doesn’t get sucked it, the rip only lasts for about 25 seconds before closing. Personally it isn’t the best weapon, especially if friendlies are nearby.” He explains to the both of them.
“Wow, he did that all in less than one month?” Luna asks.
“Yes, but with the help of a little filly known as Moonshine. She finally put herself to good use and is helping him build them, in fact they are still building as we speak and they are almost......” he is cut off as the TV goes fussy. Moments later Kieron appears on the screen.
“Mathis, I thought I told you to not tell anypony.......never mind. Princesses, the weapons are complete, sorry that I had to get you drunk to get permission to build them but it is for the safety of Equestria.” He explains as he salutes to them, “I will and am putting everything into making sure that this planet does not fall into the hands of the SKULL empire or worse...” he stops as ‘Tia a tear in her eye, proud to know that a creature from another planet that arrived not a year and a half ago wants to help protect them from his own kind.
“Are you crying sis?” Luna asks her as she looks at ‘Tia who looks at her with a smile upon her face.
“Yes, I’m just so happy to know that he wants to protect us from his own kind. I’m honoured by him, he must really love Equestria.” She replies in a broken voice and with happiness.
“Well, I certainly love you two.” Kieron comments to himself. ‘Tia sharply turns to the TV.
“What did you say?” she quickly asks him.
“Nothing, I just said that I DO love this planet.” He replies as he looks away and pretends to tell Moonshine off about something, “If you wish to come inspect the weapons you may but for now I will try to enhance them.” He adds as the screen goes black.
“Right that’s the princesses sorted. MOONSHINE, WANT A HOT CHOCOLATE?!” he shouts to her.
A quite voice can be heard from down the corridor, “Yes please.” She replies. As he goes to turns and make a hot chocolate a voice from behind his replies, “Can I have one too, please?” He quickly picks up his rifle, swiftly turns and aims it right in between the eyes of a pony.
“How did you get in!” he shouts only to be shocked at who it was, “Rainbow Dash?” he asks as the pony walks out of a shadow in front of him...it wasn’t Rainbow Dash but was instead Fluttershy.
“Hello Kieron...I’m sorry I came in without asking, I shouldn’t have intruded. I’ll leave now.” She says softly as she turns to leave.
“NO! It’s ok. I was just startled by you. How did you get?” He asks.
“I followed Moonshine because I wanted to see you. Me and the girls haven’t seen you for some time and I thought that Moonshine was coming to see you so I followed her.” She replies.
“Oh ok. I see. Would you err...like a hot chocolate?” he asks her, she knods as they both walk over to the hot chocolate machine, he begins to pour one as all of a sudden Moonshine bursts through the door at the far end of the room startling Fluttershy, she dives behind Kieron who shoots a rifle shot at Moonshine, it just misses her and hits off the wall behind her.
“Hay, you could have killed me!” She shouts out to him.
“Is that an option?” he asks.
“No it bloody isn’t. How could you want such a thing? I can’t believe you just said.....” she stops as they all feel a large, sudden shockwave hit them, “Kieron, did you feel that......Do you think?” she asks in a panicked voice.
As they continue to watch two flashes of light appear in the sky, “Oh god three ships!” Kieron shouts out as the shockwaves hit them, Fluttershy stumbles as Kieron immediately heads for the mech facility with Moonshine following, Fluttershy head for Ponyville to warn the others.
“KIERON SLOW DOWN!!” Moonshine shouts at him. He suddenly stops and turns to see her following him.
“NO! We can tell them when we get to the facility; I’m going to help you. I can pilot Havoc mechs too remember.” She replies as she refuses. He lets her as they both continue their way to the facility.
The Malevolence is in orbit with two other SKULL ships, the HLV Deathwish, a destroyer class ship and the HLV Rathgahr Fury, a MAC (Mech Assault Carrier) class ship.
They take position in orbit of Equestria. On the bridge of the Malevolence the Grand Master is sat in his chair looking out the window at the planet, “That truly is a fine planet. I want an invasion force ready in the next two hours...” he orders as an officer walks over to a desk and activates the alarms.
“Everyone prepare for invasion, repeat, prepare for invasion, you have two hours.” He calls out as many engineers, soldiers and officers rush about.
“I wonder if the Overseer has thought about what he has done, defying me, the Grand Master, no-one defies me.” He comments, “Mathis, tell me, are they defenceless?” he asks.
“Yes sir. The Overseer has set up Kojima shielding to protect that castle...Canterlot, I believe. But no other defences are seen.” He replies.
Kieron and Moonshine rush into the main room, “Mathis, activate the shielding around Canterlot, set off the alarms and get everypony to Canterlot. Oh and activate the big guns.” He order as Mathis appears on the screen and knods. Closes his eyes as alarms can be heard starting up in the distance.
“Ponyville alerted, sir. The big guns are powering up now.” Mathis replies.
Kieron then head for the mech hanger with Moonshine close behind. Zeldax rushes past them as he runs out of the facility with the recruits following in power armour, “We’ll escort the ponies to Canterlot, Kieron.” He shouts back to Kieron who puts his thumb up to acknowledge him.
Celestia and Luna are both stood on Luna’s balcony and staring into the sky after feeling the shockwaves, they both can hear the alarms blaring as guards in Canterlot begin to make their way to the gate of Canterlot ready to start helping ponies in. In the distance over by the mech facility two very large metallic doors open to the sides as a siren blares and a large weapon rises up from underground. Moments later two more doors open as another siren blares and a second large weapon rises from the dark underground room.
They stare as the weapons finally reach the surface, one was a huge, quad barrelled cannon, the other was a large missile battery, “So they’re what he’s been working on.” Luna pipes up. The TV in her room lights up as Mathis appears.
“Emergency Protocol 1 & 2 engaged...” he says as the roof of the mech facility opens up and a smaller version of the C.O.C rises from inside. He really was preparing for war. The hanger door to the mech facility open as two mechs walk out, it was Ambush and another mech, soon another mech walks out, they all walk out towards Ponyville.
“Emergency Protocol 2, this is where the mech facility goes into production overload and begins to produce Havoc mechs at a rate of 50 mech in two hours. Emergency Protocol 1 is a large weapon on the top of the mech facility but has higher velocity rounds that travel at near-light speeds.” Mathis explains.
Another mech walks out from the facility and heads for Ponyville. When they reach Ponyville they ready themselves for war as a few scout planes from the Malevolence fly down and begins to survey the area.
“Ah, it would seem that he has more defences than I first thought, there he is.” The GM says as the screen in front of him shows ambush and the other three mechs stood in Ponyville with many ponies rushing towards the castle.
Chapter 9: Ragnarok part 2
Last chapter: “Ah, it would seem that he has more defences than I first thought, there he is.” The GM says as the screen in front of him shows ambush and the other three mechs stood in Ponyville with many ponies rushing towards the castle. “Now this will be fun. I will take this planet and he can’t stop me. My soldier, loyal to me and SKULL has finally defied me. Time to kill what I created.” He adds as he stares at the mech which is staring at the camera of the scout plane as if staring at the GM.
<30 minutes later>
On Equestria the mech are still pouring out of the mech facility, 16 Havoc mechs have now been created and are waiting for battle in Ponyville. The evacuation procedures were much organised and now all of the residents of Ponyville have been escorted to Canterlot. The guard mechs that protect Ponyville have stayed behind to fight off any SKULL soldiers that invade.
In the sky the sun is almost at the horizon as it gets darker, three dots in the sky begin to descend towards the surface, after a few seconds it can be seen that they are fighter jets, they fly down at amazing speed and begin to open fire on the mechs with chain gun fire, this has no effect as the rounds are absorbed by the Primal armour of each mech. The jets fly overhead of the preparing mechs in Ponyville and head for Canterlot. All of a sudden one by one the jets explode in mid-air as the guarding mechs at Canterlot open fire on them.
Mechs continue to exit the facility, as one mech walks out another walks out at the same time, could there be a manufacturing malfunction?
“Mathis, what’s going on at the facility, why are there two mechs coming out at once?” Kieron questions him.
“Ah, no, the manufacturing is running perfectly, that would be Dr Atom Discharge. He didn’t evacuate, he wants to help you.” Mathis replies as the mech very quickly nears him.
Ambush turns to the approaching mech, knods to him and gets a knod back as the mech stands next him, “Dr Atom. Can I just say, you are very foolish not heading for Canterlot, I can’t guarantee that you will survive. And when did you learn to pilot a Havoc mech?” he asks as Ambush turns to looks at him.
“I didn’t, I’m learning now. Seems pretty straight forward, oh and what do you think of my design?” he replies.
“Looks good, quickly design but...where’s your weapons?” he asks, “You have none except for the devices on the shoulders which I think will be very helpful.” Atom’s mechs the puts its arms up as the lower part of the arms, which are more bulky than the upper arm, fold round, down over the hands to create what looks like a cannon on the arms, the mech then swings the arms down to its sides as two large laser blades emit from the holes.
“Very nice, you certainly have created a good design, but you have no ranged weapons...” he comments.
“My mech is called Hades by the way, and yes it does have ranged weapons...” he replies as Hades lifts his right arm up, deactivates the laser blade and points the arm at another set of jets passing overhead, a glow emits from the hole as an energy burst shoots out and hit against the jet causing it to spiral down into the ground, “It has pulse cannons, great for pushing things about.” He adds as Hades lowers the arm, the weapons fold up round the arms to reveal the hand and give Ambush a high-five.
“Sir, two groups of fighters has been downed. We have made no difference to their defences. And we have detected a large city on the opposite side of the planet that is inhabited by different creatures, griffons, sir.” An officer says as he stands next to the Grand Master’s chair.
“Good, take us round, we shall destroy it ourselves. As for here, begin invasion, send down three squads of Deathtroopers, a squad of Talons and a tank, plus send down a group of Havoc mechs.” He replies as the drivers begin to adjust course and the ship starts to move towards the other side on the planet.
Kieron looks up into the night sky as they can all see the outlines of the ships and the many lights coming from them, one of the ships can be seen moving. It was the Malevolence; it was heading away from Canterlot and Ponyville but instead was circling the planet, following it round.
“What is he up to?” Kieron asks himself as he looks over to the other ships only to see multiple lights heading down away from the ships, “No, they’re too early for invasion, there’s still another hour to go before SKULL invasion procedures are at full capacity. He must be sending a light attack force to weaken our defences for the full force.
The dropships soon reach the surface over by the edge of the Everfree forest but away from the mech facility, three squads of Deathtroopers the depart as a squad of Talons also depart with a tank and they all head for Ponyville where Zeldax, the four recruits and the guard mechs are waiting.
As they approach the tank begins to open fire on them destroying buildings as it misses them, one round then hits a drone mech, as it goes to return fire Kieron stops it, telling it to conserve ammo. The squads and tank soon reach the edge of Ponyville and cautiously pass between the mech that stand and watch them, some foolish Deathtroopers don’t keep lookout as they look up at the mechs and are tackled by Zeldax and shot at by the recruits, the other troopers then take cover behind walls, buildings, and rubble from destroyed house and return fire as the guard mechs begin to close in on them.
The Talons garrison a building as they fire down on the recruits from the top floor of a house, Treacle Tart’s house to be exact, the recruits stay stood in open area as two of them turn and return fire at the Talons, the others firing on the Deathtroopers. They stand in a group in their power armour sponging all the shots, their eyes glowing red, the tank then passes over a pile of rubble and take aim at the group. Before it could fire a guard mech blocks its sight as it lands on the front it and begins to blade at the armour and shots into the interior.
One of the garrisoned talons pulls out portable laser cannon, aims at the mech, fires, and destroys it as it falls off the tank into a hunk of metal on the ground; the tank then takes aim once more at the ponies, ready to fire. As it steadies aim as another mech lands on it and begins to finish off the tank, another mech the rushes over to the house and enters it to take care of the Talons, the recruits help it and dash into the house too.
As the battle under them continues, Kieron, Moonshine, Atom and the drone mechs watch as eight Havoc mechs crash-land not for in front of them. They ready themselves as the mechs rise up in the darkness, their ‘eyes’ look daunting in the darkness. They then begin to walk towards them as some of the drone mechs begins to charge to cut them off.
Some of the mechs then slam into each other as they engage in melee combat, others strafe as they provide covering fire, and mechs begins to fall as the SKULL mechs destroy them, the drone mechs being replaced almost instantly as more pour out of the facility. Kieron and the other stay stood as they watch the drone mechs battle, all of a sudden, unexpectedly more SKULL mechs crash into the ground, Kieron looks up to see at least 25 fires in the sky as the mechs descend to the surface, “What is this? He can’t...He’s gone against SKULL procedures, they’re sending half the mechs down now. Moonshine, Atom, prepare yourselves, the war’s coming early.” He calls out as more and more mechs crash into the ground, rise up and stand as the others land behind them, building up a force before attacking.
Soon there is so many SKULL mechs that they out number Kieron, Moonshine and Atom 5-1, but luckily they have the drone mech supporting them which are putting up a great fight as they destroy multiple mechs but at a loss as they lose more than they destroy.
Suddenly there is a loud noise from behind Ponyville as some lights pass over them very quickly and hit against some SKULL mechs, Kieron looks back to see the sniper mechs at Canterlot opening fire on the SKULL forces, “Yes, we have back-up. I didn’t know they could fire that far.” He comments as they rapidly fire more rounds into more of the SKULL mechs which fall to the ground. One of the SKULL mechs behind the others is on quad legs and Kieron sees that this mechs is a sniper since it has dual heavy sniper cannons on its back, it deploys them, steadies itself, aims at the mechs at Canterlot, it fires only for the rounds to hit off the Kojima shields which ripple from the impact.
Ponies in Canterlot jump in fright as the mech continues to fires more rounds into the shield, as it barrages the shield, the shield can be seen flexing inwards as the rounds begin to push through the shields. Just then one round manages to push through and hits against the wall below Celestia’s room causing a cave in inside the castle, the shield has a hole ripped in it as it begins to ‘heal the wound’ and the hole starts to close up, more rounds impacts against Canterlot castle causing bits of the wall to fall down onto the streets below crushing many ponies.
“Get that sniper mech, stop it now!” Kieron calls out as two of the drone mechs finish off a SKULL mech and head for the sniper. As they near it a SKULL mech lands right in front of them blocking their path. One of the drones then tackles the mech and engages in battle as the other head for the sniper which turns to face it and fires two Hi-laser shots at it causing it to topple, it gets back up as the sniper takes aim and fire both cannons at it destroying it completely.
Kieron growls to himself as he finally does something, Ambush then suddenly glides forwards towards the sniper, firing some railgun rounds at it and some missiles; this causes the sniper to stumble despite being on quad legs, the mech turns to face Ambush but instead of seeing him at doesn’t see him as he has disappeared, the sniper then activates thermal imaging and spots Ambush strafing to the side before charging at the sniper. Just before he goes to blade the sniper it fires a laser round at him, it deflects off his shields.
As he charges at the mech, it suddenly topples as a couple of rounds blast straight through it, the mechs at Canterlot were still firing upon the battle field. Moonshine and Atom dash over to Kieron who looks down at the mech, they all then stop and look about to see that they are surrounded by SKULL mechs, all of the drone mechs have been destroyed, they didn’t stand a chance. The SKULL mechs that remain encircle them as more crash down to complete the circle, there must be about 15 mechs in total.
“What now?” Atom asks, “I guess the only way to learn would be to go straight into a battle, no?”
“Yes, you’re right. You want to learn? Learn quickly.” Kieron replies as they all look around at the multiple mechs around them. Ambush and Hades then walk to each other so that they are back to back, Moonshine’s mech, Reaper, jumps up and hover above them with both guns facing in opposite directions at the mechs.
In Luna’s room, Luna, Celestia, Treacle Tart and the mane 6 are all stood panicking apart from Treacle who is used to it.
“I don’t...know. Are we going to die, princess?” Twilight asks as she walks over to Celestia who is sat on the balcony watching the battle.
“No, we are not, Twilight. Please don’t be so negative, all of you. We are not going to die, I won’t let you, and neither will Kieron.” She replies sharply. They both look down towards Ponyville as bright flashes of light and loud noises erupt from above and below them as the sniper mechs keep firing.
Twilight looks over to where the rounds are hitting to get brief glimpses of the mechs that encircle Kieron and the other as the rounds hit off the mechs and the ground, “Look, princess. Kieron’s losing; all of his mechs are gone.” She comments.
As soon as the rounds start to hit against the ground the gun atop of the mech facility begins to open fire on the ships, at the same time the C.O.C and L.R.M.S fire on it. The ships light up as the shells and missiles hit against them. Some of the shots from the HLV Deathwish head for Canterlot as it begin to shell the castle; Mathis overloads the shields as a blue effect makes its way across the shield. The shells hit against the shield but make no effect.
“Yes, the overload works, they’re safe.” Kieron says to himself as he watches the shells hit against the shield but does nothing. The three of them wait as they watch the SKULL mechs stood watching them, Reaper floating above them with guns aimed at two mechs, Ambush aiming at two other mechs and Hades aiming one of his Pulse cannons at a mech with the other arm down by his side with the blade extended. They all watch each other as they’re at a stalemate, then one of the SKULL mechs takes a stop forward cautiously, Reaper turns to see the mech and takes aim of it, Ambush then moves his arm to aim at the mech that Reaper was aiming at before, the mech take another step before launching itself at the trio, Reaper quick boost forwards at it and lands in front of it, ducking down as it trips over it and flips over, Reaper lifts up, turns to the mech in mid-air and kicks it towards Hades as another mech charges Reaper who turns and kicks that mech in the core before shooting a shotgun round straight into causing it to fall back onto the floor.
The mech that Reaper kicked to Hades travels towards him, he turns to it, does a front roll so that he ends up below it on his back, takes a slash at it with his blade and shots it with the pulse cannon launching it into the air, he then digs his heel into the ground causing him to flip over and land on his feet. Another mech goes to take a swipe at him but as he rights himself he tackle the mech into the ground pushing off it to be pushing the air and shoots both pulse cannons at it digging it deep into the ground, he then lands down on it with both blades out piercing them into the core.
A mech runs forwards at Ambush who quickly turns and hits it with his weapon the stabs it with a laser blade, the mech stumbles to the side of Ambush who then kicks it with one of his legs towards Hades who jumps up, lands on it and immediately fires the pulse cannons causing him to be thrown into the air as the mech in slammed into the ground on its back with great force, Ambush then pulls the head off and stabs it with a blade.
In the air, Hades meets the mech that was pushed into the air, he grabs it, puts it in front of him, stabs a blade into it and then pushes away with a pulse cannon launching it into another mech. Reaper then launches a few missiles in Ambush’s direction only for him to dodge them and they impact against a mech that was charging him. One mech come up behind Ambush and grabs hold of him, putting its arms round him, he can’t move, Reaper then boosts over and slide tackles the mech causing the two of them to fly sideways the mech still holding Ambush but Ambush manages to get an arm free and reaches over his shoulder and rips the head off, Reaper then grabs at the leg of the mech just as Ambush pulls the arms off him, Reaper them pulls at the leg and pulls the mech off Ambush, throws it into another mech then boosts forwards pushing him into the air so that he lands against another mech causing the mech to fall back onto the ground and Reaper to be stood on top of it.
Hades turns to face a large, bulky mech in front of him which swings for him but he dodges the attack, stabs a blade into it, pulls out then slices an arm off, grabs the dismembered arm and whacks the mech with it knocking it over, he then stabs both blades into the core, he then jumps up just as another mech tries to slice at him. He lands next to it, it swings for him only to miss and he then punches it in the core and fires the pulse cannon launching it towards Ambush who turns and plants a foot into its core, pushing it down against the ground crushing the core.
The three of them then regroup as the remaining SKULL mechs fall back a little to bring their remaining mechs back into one group.
The fighting in Ponyville is still going on, all of the Deathtroopers are dead, a few splattered all up the walls, guts everywhere as Zeldax and one of the guard mechs had ripped them apart, literally. The tank was in flames but the Talons that were in Treacle’s home had fled, tactically, towards the library and took garrison of it; the recruits follow them there and begins to fire at the ‘dug in’ soldiers. One of the guard mechs pushes a recruit aside as it pulls the front door off its hinges and walks in only to be greeted by a Talon who tries to fend it off by hitting his gun off it, the mech swings for him but he ducks down and rolls between its legs and shoots up to hit a joint causing it to go down on one knee, he then jumps on its back and pulls out the wiring from the slightly loose head. The recruits then storm into the building and capture the Talon. They head upstairs only to surprise the remaining Talons who try to put up a fight but surrender as a guard mech bursts in through the balcony doors.
The shielding at Canterlot still holding up as it continues to be hammered by the fire from the HLV Deathwish. The C.O.C and L.R.M.S still firing at it, suddenly the constant fire penetrates the ship’s shields and armour causing it to erupt in flames and the missiles pull it apart and the shells destroy the destroyer. As the bombardment against the ship continues one round finds its way into the engines and damages it causing it to overload and blow up in a huge, blue explosion. The shockwave hits the HLV Rathgahr Fury with great force causing the engines to become damaged, it the starts to descend towards the planet’s surface as it is forced to go planet side.
It soon reaches the surface but it doesn’t hover above the ground or land softly, instead it crash straight into the ground causing large amount of earth to be thrown up into the sky as it embeds itself into the ground. The ground shakes furiously as it slams into the surface of the planet.
Ambush turns to face the ship as it crashes into the ground, he then sharply turns to hit a mech in the core knocking it over as it tries to sneak up on him.
The trio then finish off the last mech as Reaper and Hades both stab it with all the blades they have before letting it drop to the ground in a heap of metal. They then walk up beside Ambush who is stood facing the crashed ship, “Yes, we have finally brought down their ships, one completely destroyed, and the other downed. We shall go and finish off any survivors. For now we have won...that is until he returns.” Kieron comments to the other two. They then begin to make their way over to the downed ship.
Ragnarok: part 3
Last chapter: The trio then finish off the last mech as Reaper and Hades both stab it with all the blades they have before letting it drop to the ground in a heap of metal. They then walk up beside Ambush who is stood facing the crashed ship, “Yes, we have finally brought down their ships, one completely destroyed, and the other downed. We shall go and finish off any survivors. For now we have won...that is until he returns.” Kieron comments to the other two. They then begin to make their way over to the downed ship.
As the trio make their way over towards the downed ship some panels can be seen moving as an engineer mech stumbles out with a few soldiers. Kieron takes aim of them with his railgun, just as he goes to fire a soldier spots them and puts up his hands to surrender, the other soldiers then follow with the mech stood behind them doing the same.
The soldiers look at each other to think about it before one walks forward, looks up at Ambush and kneels down to salute to him, the others then do the same, the mech raising a hand to its head to salute, “We follow you now Overseer. He will fight to the death for you.” One soldier comments as they all rise up.
“Good, now have any of you got mech training?” he questions them. The mechs raises a hand as one of the soldiers puts his hand up, “In that case, you two head for the facility and go the mech hanger and get into a mech. The rest of you go the facility and get Mathis to create some power armour for you, I can’t have my forces dying easily.” He replies to their answers. They then all make their way over to the mech facility as the trio continue towards the ship.
They soon reach it; the ship is in ruins, flames burning everywhere and still small explosions going on in places. Some soldiers and workers can be seen at the far end of the ship running out of it screaming whilst on fire before stopping and falling to the ground, Kieron stares as he gets a sudden sad feeling that this was all caused by him, he killed all of these people, “I...I really am the bane of death. Everyone around me just dies. I’ve killed all of these people...” he says as tears begin to well up in his eyes. Reaper puts a hand on Ambush’s shoulder.
“There, there Kieron. You may have been made for death and destruction but deep down I know that you are great guy. Really, you are a nice person, it just so happens that when it comes to war you are very good at killing people.”
“That isn’t helping Moonshine. How about we just go inside and see who we can find.” The core to Ambush opens as Kieron jumps out and lands on the floor with his power armour folded round him.
“No, you two stay here and keep guard, I’ll go in alone.” Kieron replies not allowing them to go in with him.
“No you won’t, sir. We’ll go with you!” a voice from behind Hades calls out, he turns to see two of the recruits running up to him. When they reach him they stop to get their breath before saluting and ready themselves to go in. Kieron knods in approval as Reaper grabs a panel on the ship and lifts it allowing them to enter the ship.
Once inside Reaper drops the panel causing them to be left in darkness, they activate their lights only to see corpses laid everywhere, some just dead bodies, others with limbs ripped off and others completely done for as their body parts lay all over the places, blood covering the walls with guts splattered everywhere. It looks as though a pack of feral Anthros had been through here, Kieron looks away as he can’t cope with what he has done to so many of his own kind. One of the recruits puts a hoof on his shoulder, “You chose your path Kieron. And I’m sorry that you have to go through this. But this is what war brings...” he tries to help him as Kieron looks at him, and then looks back down at the corpses. He then takes a deep breath, and sighs before finally heading deeper into the ship.
The three of them looking around for any survivors, as one of the recruits looks down a collapsed corridor a shadow swiftly jumps out of his light, he jumps to face towards the corridor, “SIR!, something was over there.” He calls out whilst pointing down the corridor. Kieron walks over to him and look to see nothing, just then another recruit calls out as a shadow darts past, Kieron sharply turns to see a glimpse of the shadow. He instantly recognised the shape of the figure of the shadow.
“Oh, god, he’s savage, he’s really lost the plot. The Grand Master, he’s kept a pack of Anthros on the ship. Those corpses, they WERE ripped apart by them. Keep a look out; Anthros are quick and stealthy, keep close to me. We need to go in further, see if we can get to the engine room and blow the ship up.” He warns them as they back up closer to him, Kieron then looks at a sign to see where to go, the sign points towards the engine room. They all then head in the direction given whilst cautiously looking out for the Anthros.
Outside Moonshine and Atom stay stood guarding the entrance where Kieron entered, “Do you think we should go in?” Moonshine asks Atom who looks over to her and shakes his head.
“No, he told us to stay here. So we stay here.” Atom replies.
The five soldiers enter with the mech pilot only to be stopped by Mathis who activates some turrets and orders them to tell him why they’re here, “It’s ok Mathis, we’re on your side. The Overseer told us to get those two to the mech hanger and to tell you to make three suits of power armour for us three.” The soldier explains to him as he lowers the defences and lets them proceed. One soldier stops as the others rush to their allocated places and stares at the screen. He watches to see the Malevolence above a large city; he calls the other back over. When they walk back to him they see a missile launch from the ship.
The missile hits the city and explodes in a small, blue blast that after a short time sucks in on itself, disappears and then explodes outwards largely creating a huge blue blast causing a massive shockwave to erupt from it, pushing the clouds and any other objects away from it as it decimates the city, the explosion begins to spread across the whole city and then outwards across the land. The Malevolence isn’t even bothered by the explosion and shockwave as it launches another missile which hits and does the same thing.
The shockwave from the second missile spreads outwards and catches up to the first shockwave; it then amplifies the first shockwave causing the two to merge and form a superwave that suddenly speeds up and spread across the planet’s surface with incredible speed. It engulfs half of the planet as it makes its way round to Canterlot. The wave then slows down as ‘Tia, Luna and the Mane 6 look towards where the shockwave is coming from as they see the effects of it approaching, trees fly up, rocks shatters and even a train gets caught in it as it flies into the air at high speed before slamming into the ground. They all watch is it gets closer and closer before a blue sheen appears on it and it begins to move backwards as if it were to implode. It speeds up greatly, quickly coming back to the griffon city and sucks in it itself again but this time disappearing for good as it takes the city with it. The city is nowhere to be seen afterwards as the Malevolence starts to move and heads for Canterlot.
“Did you see that?” Twilight calls out as she stares at where the shockwave was.
“Yes, I did, what was it?” Celestia asks unsure of it but gets a sense of fear from it, “Whatever it was, I don’t think it left much behind.”
“What do we do sis? What if it happens again...but....here?” Luna asks scared as she hugs ‘Tia.
“I don’t know but we really need to tell Kieron about it.” She replies. Just then Mathis appears on the TV.
“Princesses are you ok. Did the shockwave reach Canterlot?” he asks quickly.
“Yes, we’re fine, but what was it.” She questions.
“I’m afraid that that was our greatest nightmare. I wasn’t planning on SKULL bringing it with them. That...was a liquid Element X bomb. It’s like an antimatter bomb but if any liquid or solid Element X is on the surface it could have been worse. It detonates all Element X it comes in contact with. He fired two, the shockwaves then interfered with each other to create a larger shockwave which has just engulfed half of the planet. The griffons...I’m afraid are all dead.” He explains as Celestia lowers her head in sorrow. Twilight stood shocked as Fluttershy cowered under the bed, the others sat unsure of what to do next but wait.
Kieron and the recruits arrive at the engine room, but something is wrong, as they walk in there is huge amounts of blood and guts spilled all up the walls and floor. They enter the room only to hear a low growl coming from atop of the generator. An Anthro is crouched down with a human still alive in its grasp; it bites at the torso as the human screams in pain and it tears a large chunk of flesh out of him as blood drips from the chunk and spurting out of the hole in his torso. He screams at the top of his voice as the pain is unbearable. The Anthro spots Kieron and the recruit, drops the human who continues to scream and begins to try and pull himself away from the creature only to fall off the side of the generator into some rotating coils and is ripped apart, his body begin thrown all over the room, even against Kieron and the recruits.
Kieron takes aim of the Anthro as it jumps down, some other Anthros then come in through the ventilation shafts to land next to them, encircling them, “Fresh meat...” one calls out. The ponies shaking slightly as all they hear is growling, Kieron though understands them due to part of him being the feral creature from earlier.
“I understand you...do not attack us, we can help you. I am here to destroy this ship, if you do not allow me to do this then I’m afraid that I can’t help you.” Kieron replies to what seems the leader of the pack stood on top of the generator. He drops his gun as, unfolds the power armour so that he is stood in just his clothing, the recruits unsure of what he is planning and one tells him to put his armour back on.
The leader of the pack then jumps down and walks over to him, “What are you, creature. You aren’t the same as these beings that live on this cage.” It asks him.
“Me? I am one of you...and one of those beings.” He replies. The Anthro growls at him, he then growls back as he feels himself starting to change, but this time it feels different, like he’s in control. The Anthro shows his teeth to intimidate Kieron and growls at him loudly, Kieron then stops growling but only to start changing into the creature from before. The Anthro steps back slightly as it watches him change. After the transformation, Kieron lifts his head and roars at the Anthro loudly, the rest of the pack cower in submission as the leader lowers his head but keep looking at Kieron with his eyes.
“You ARE one of us. You are strong, I like that. You’re stronger than all of us. I am at you command...leader of the pack.” It replies as is kneels down, Kieron then stops growling to looks at it and puts a hand in its shoulder.
“Now, we destroy your cage. Come with us; join us to stop your masters.” Kieron says in a slightly animalistic voice. The Anthro then stands up, the others walk over to the door and allow the recruits to shoot at the generator, this starts the overload and the generator begins to fall apart as they all run towards the entrance where they came in.
They soon reach the entrance as explosions begin to start erupting from the engine room, Reaper turns to face the ship, grabs the panel and they all rush out, Moonshine is surprised to see at least 7 Anthros exit with the recruits but then spots Kieron in his creature state, “Atom, he’s changed, quickly grab him.” She calls out, as Hades goes to grab Kieron he puts up a hand and shakes his head before changing back to normal, this stuns Moonshine and Atom both as they watch him change back with no problems and climb into Ambush. They all then run as fast as they can towards Ponyville to meet up with Zeldax and the others. Mechs still continue to pour out of the mech facility; a total of 43 mechs must be stood waiting for the end to come as they approach them.
The two SKULL pilots stood in front of the rest of the mechs, the three soldiers stood with Zeldax and the guard mechs, the recruits walking towards them with the captured Talons that decided to turn side and help them. Kieron, Moonshine and Atom soon reach them as the Anthros and recruits regroup with the other below. They stand in front of the group of mechs, facing towards where the shockwave came from.
As they stand in wait more mechs join them from the facility.
They are all sat in her room worrying about what will happen to them apart from ‘Tia who walks over to the balcony to see the crash ship blow up in a huge explosion, throwing earth up into the air and showering Ponyville with pieces of metal and dirt.
As she sits herself down and watches mechs walk over to Ponyville, Luna walks out and sit with her. All of a sudden a low, droning noise can be heard, as the noise intensifies the floor begins to vibrate, it gets closer as the noise grows louder and the floor vibrate violently. They look around in confusion as the others rush out onto the balcony to see what’s going on.
As they look about they see a shadow flow down over Canterlot below them, they then look up to see a massive ship slowly flying overhead towards Ponyville, it must be two kilometres above but is still larger than Canterlot, Ponyville and the Everfree forest put together. The vibrating is so big that some loose bricks on the houses below begin to fall out of the walls, tiles fall off the roofs and ponies stand covering their ears from the low pitched noise as the ship passes over them.
The shadow then soon covers Ponyville, Kieron turns slowly to look up and see the ship passing overhead, it wasn’t heading for Ponyville as it continues past them. It soon reaches the Everfree forest. Kieron and the others watch as it passes them and comes to a stop over the forest. It stops but afterwards does nothing.
Kieron watches waiting for the ship to make a move but instead it does nothing, suddenly a transmission comes through to him, “Look to you left, Kieron.” A voice says to him, he does as it says and looks over to where the shockwave was before to see a few soldiers walking towards them in the darkness with a couple of tanks. As they continue to approach them more soldiers can be seen coming out of the dust that the shockwave created, more and more soldiers come out of the dust as some more tanks emerge from it. The force soon reaching that of a large attack force for attacking bases, as Kieron watches, a mech exits the dust, walking beside more tank and soldiers, soon more mechs leave the dust, 2...3...5....7...12...19...they quickly count up as more and more leave the dust.
He knows this isn’t good as more soldier, mechs and tanks emerge from the dust and approach Ponyville. As more leave the dust, the dust begins to thin as a light can be seen in it, it then is pushed aside as a frigate flies out of the dust and multiple jets fly past it towards Ponyville, soon the dust thins in another spot as another frigate emerges, then again when but above them as a huge gap in the dust is formed and a cruiser class ship slowly flies out.
Kieron’s face sinks as he watches the massive invasion force near them, he though deeply as he knew that he destroyed a frigate and MAC class ship, but yet two frigates and a cruiser was approaching them. The transmission then comes again but with visuals of the Grand Master and was shown on the TV in Luna’s room as well.
“Kieron, princesses and other ponies, you have seen my ships in orbit, you have seen by forces attack you, you have seen my power from the Element X bomb but now...now you see the true power of SKULL in front of you. We WILL take this planet. That city was a great help, thank you...” he comments as ‘Tia looks at the screen confused, “Cloudsdale, is it? I used that city to create my forces, those ships you see, they were created in Cloudsdale. Now, surrender or we will kill you all.” He order as the screen goes black and the transmission ends.
Kieron, Atom, Moonshine and the others watch as the invasion force approaches them and more still emerging from the dust, he then comments, “This is it...the end of the world.”
Chapter 10: It isn’t over yet
last chapter: “In that case heed this, Overseer. They will be watching, kill me and they will soon come and take vengeance. Kill me and you WILL die.” He replies just before Kieron grabs at the GM’s head and adds.
“No they won’t, I don’t care for IRIS.” He replies as he pulls the trigger and kills the GM who falls to the ground in a heap. Kieron then flops to the ground as he feels weak, “We win, we win.” He says to himself before blacking out.
Kieron wakes up, stiff and weak in the hospital, he slowly looks round to see many other ponies in beds, some were injured with pieces of glass and bricks in them, they must have been hit by the pieces of wall that fell when the mech shot at Canterlot. Another pony was laid on the bed, screaming in pain as a large piece of metal was sticking out of it, it was one of the recruits. More ponies are rushed out as nurses rush them in on beds, he watches as some of them are guards, and some are civilians.
He then faintly manages to speak up to the nurse next to him, “What...What’s going on?” The nurse turns to him, it was Nurse Redheart.
“Shh, rest now. Don’t speak, you are very weak. So much for not being able to die...” she comments as he looks at her confused, “You died, Kieron. Over the night, we rushed you in here, and you died for a whole two hours, Moonshine and Treacle Tart was distraught about it. But yet you miraculously came back to life...” she adds as he can’t process what she is saying, “Afterwards something happened to them, Celestia found that you have a connection to them and they were weakened by you dying.”
He looks at her, taking a little to think about what she said before understanding the part about his daughters, he forces himself out of the bed, rolling over only to fall to the floor, Redheart tries to pick him up but he pushes her away as he looks over to see Moonshine in a bed with Treacle in the bed next to her. He begins to pull himself along whilst pushing Redheart away every time she gets near him.
He gets to the middle of the room only to be stopped by some nurses rushing in front of him with yet another bed, the hospital was almost full, ponies were injured left, right and centre. He rolled onto his back and looked over to the doors; he could here muffled explosions, gunshots and screams.
He then rolls over onto his stomach and begins to try and push himself onto his feet, Redheart watches in awe as she had never seen anypony or anyone manage to put so much will into not dying and fighting to keep their strength. She walks over to help him, he then tells her to not touch him as he puts his hand onto one of his knees to push himself up, and he soon gets onto his feet, stands up slowly and comes to a full stand. Blood was still dripping from his head and stomach from last night, he then slowly begins to stumble over to the doors, and Redheart follows him to make sure nothing happens to him.
He pushes the doors open only to see his worst nightmare, SKULL forces had infiltrated Canterlot and were killing every pony that they came across, his forces and the UEFDC were putting up a good fight but most of Kieron’s mechs had been destroyed with only Atom and two other piloted mechs standing. All of the UEFDC mechs had been demolished apart from the Corporal’s which was stood fighting in a circle helping Atom. Most of their tanks were in rubble; their forces begin pinned down by SKULL troops.
He then presses a button on the back of his neck, his power armour unfolds around him but his helmet is missing and parts of his left arm is missing. He then stubbles out of the hospital, almost falling over as another bed is rushed inside.
He then begins to walk down to the streets where some SKULL troops are firing at the remaining recruits.
When he gets down there, a SKULL trooper sees him and begins to shoots at him, the rounds deflecting off his armour, one then hits his head and he falls to the ground, a recruit quickly runs over to him and stand over his body, he then grabs at his head and pulls the bullet out. He gets up, pulls out a rifle and begins to open fire on the troops who stand no chance against him.
He soon finishes them off; the recruits then group up with him and begin to sweep the streets, killing all SKULL troops they come across as SKULL mechs rampage over them, killing many innocent ponies, Atom and the two others doing their best to fight them off.
As they fight through the streets he feels much stronger than before, the adrenaline kicking in, they easily crush any of the SKULL troops that face them. As they continue to roam the streets they come to a square with a fountain in the middle, it didn’t have water in it but was filled with blood and SKULL troops ripped open, he then turns sharply to see the feral Anthros from before, “WE SERVE YOU, SKULL WILL DIE!” one of them shouts out before giving out a loud roar and jumping down to join Kieron and the others fight off any SKULL forces that oppose them.
As they come round to the main entrance to the castle a voice calls from the steps, “Kieron...You killed me, but yet I still stand, did you think I would honestly go down that easily?” He turns to see the Grand Master stood with two of the armoured Anthros from before, “I won’t die if this isn’t broken.” He adds as he pulls out the top half of his cane from behind him.
Kieron’s face drops as he stares at the cane, the eyes of the cobra glowing. The GM the lifts a hand and the Anthros charge towards the group stood in front of him, the Anthros with Kieron then charge forwards then over some houses as they lure them away.
The recruits take aim of the GM, he gracefully swings his can to the right as their guns are torn from their armour and thrown away. One of the recruits then charges at the GM, Kieron tries to stop him but the GM uses his cane to grab the pony, lift it into the air and then rip it apart, piece by piece, blood and guts spurting everywhere with pieces of metal, then drops the meat bag onto the floor in front of the others.
The main doors open slowly as ‘Tia sneaks out, she walks up behind the GM, lifts up onto her rear legs ready to kick him but he spins round to kick her in the side causing her to hit off the wall and fall onto the floor, she quickly get back up only for him to be behind her with his cane round her neck. Kieron charges at him as the GM begins to tighten the cane round her neck, choking her. Kieron jumps up over them without the GM noticing and pulls at his hair causing him to let go of one side of the cane and swing for Kieron, stabbing the teeth into his arm. ‘Tia coughs a little before the recruits runs over to her and helps her inside.
She then heads inside with them only to see Kieron on the floor with the GM stood over him, Kieron kicks hi in the leg causing him to falls down, they both quickly get up, Kieron pulls out a knife as the GM wipes the back of his hand across his mouth to wipe the blood off.
“Now would be a good time to try again...” the GM says to himself, “Delta, Echo, Alpha, Tango, Halo” he says as Kieron grabs at his head, struggling and squirming about.
“KIERON!” ‘Tia shouts out, “Fight it. You can fight him, he isn’t your master, and you are a free person.” She says to try and help him. He stops moving, looks up at the GM who looks unsure; he then turns to face ‘Tia, his eyes red, “No, it’s worked. Kieron, fight him. You vowed to protect us.” She says trying to stop it.
“Help yourself, stupid, insolent race. Your race is inferior, SKULL is superior, we will rise, I may have destroyed most of his forces but we can still win. SKULL will rise again, I have a motto...” Kieron says to her as he becomes angry and evil fills him, the GM stood victoriously next to him, “SKULL is the future, we are SKULL, those who are not, will perish. You are not SKULL, so you will die.” He says as he pulls out his rifle and aims at Celestia.
The noises outside stop, one recruit open the door and look, “Their mechs are gone, Atom and the other did it, and all of the SKULL forces are dead. Apart from a few soldiers.” He says before closing the door and facing ‘Tia.
“YOU VOWED DAMN IT, KIERON. YOU VOWED TO PROTECT ALL OF THE PONIES OF EQUESTRIA!!” she shouts with anger at him. He stares at her, his memories creeping in through the control that the GM has over him. His eyes slowly shift back to normal, he keep the same posture to fool the GM who fails to notice.
“You fail to notice Celestia...what was I originally created for?” he asks her.
“To serve SKULL, to be the most loyal soldier to the Grand Master.” She replies as she lowers her head.
“Correct...but sooner or later that person will get sick and turn on him.” He says just as he turns and shoots at the GM who dives down to dodge it, gets up and swings for Kieron with his cane, Kieron grabs the cane, pulls it out of his grasp and throws it over to Celestia who uses her magic to grab it.
Kieron then give a series of punches to the GM’s stomach before uppercutting him, he falls to the ground. Kieron stands over him as he tries to scurry backwards.
“How...How can this be possible? You are meant to be under my control, the genetic coding should have you as mine right now.” The GM questions him whilst still moving back, soon up against a wall.
“As I said before, I am now a free man; I can decide for myself, you control no-one. And now you will have to wait to see who dies. Celestia, it is your choice now. What will you do with him?” he asks as he looks over to her.
She returns a gaze as she thinks about it, she at first really wants to kill him but that isn’t like her, she wants to take his power from him and make him a slave for her. She looks at the cane in her magical grasp, “You shall live, human. But you will work as a slave for us; you have caused us misery and pain. Now it is our turn to return the favour.” She says as she crushes the cane with her magic.
“NO!!” the GM shouts as he goes to run over to the pile of ash on the floor, Kieron stops him by grabbing him round the throat and lifts him up, “Put me down, Kieron” he orders.
“No, I don’t take orders from you anymore, but you will be taking orders from her.” He replies as he points to Celestia who walks over and comments.
“Your first job will be to start cleaning the streets of Canterlot. And don’t think of doing anything, I will have a guard watching you all the time, and the punishment will be you worst nightmare.”
“Moonshine” Kieron finishes her sentence. The GM sharply looks at him with pity.
“No, please, anything but that. I’ll do it; I’ll clean the streets...” He says as Kieron drops him and he stands, “Right over my dead body” he adds as he grabs Kieron’s knife and stabs it into his own neck, killing him before slumping onto the floor.
Kieron and Celestia stand over his body, “Is it finally over?” she asks him, he looks at her and shrugs his shoulders.
“We are victorious! SKULL has lost, we have won!” he claims in a really happy tone. He walks over to the two of them and looks at the corpse of the GM, “I would never have thought that he would take his own life. But I guess...” he stops as him communicator bleeps, he excuses himself and walks over to the other side of the room where he is inaudible.
Kieron and ‘Tia looks back down at the corpse, “I think I know what is going to happen next, princess. They now have no planet, SKULL destroyed it. They need a planet, and we have that planet. The UEFDC can’t be trusted for too long, I get the feeling they are about to turn on us.” He explains to her quietly.
The corporal finishes speaking, he and Kieron then both turn and aim their weapons at each other at the same time, “It would seem we need a new planet, Overseer. SKULL has destroyed Earth, you have a planet similar to Earth and we would like to have this planet. Or share the planet, would that be possible?” he asks.
“No!”
“Yes” ‘Tia says at exactly the same time as Kieron who denied them the offer, they both look at each other, “Kieron, they want to share Equestria.” She claims.
“Yes, but they can’t be trusted, no offence...” he replies as he looks over to the Corporal who knods, “This is your planet, they can make a ship at Cloudsdale then go out into space and find another planet they can habitat.” He adds. He then faces the Corporal who shakes his head in disagreement.
“I’m sorry, Overseer but the captain does not want that, he thinks that your idea would take too long. Why search for planet when there is one right here?” he replies.
Kieron then raises his rifle to aim at the Corporal and shoots just past his head, “You have no forces; you have nothing, so just make a ship and leave.” He orders.
“We don’t need to do that, we have a ship and it’s coming back here right now. The ‘Spear of Freedom’ will take this land.” He replies.
Kieron gets really angry and shoots the Corporal in the head, he then runs over to the doors, opens them to see the UEFDC ship in the distance approaching Canterlot.
‘Tia then walks up to him and asks, “We can’t take anymore, and will you be able to fight them off?”
He looks back at her and replies, “I don’t know but I guess I will have to try.”
He then heads out of the castle towards Ponyville, ‘Tia doesn’t even try to stop him. Atom is still in Hades as he walks up next to Kieron. He then lowers a hand; Kieron gets in and orders for him to take him to the mech facility. They then rush off to the facility. The ship slowly advances on Canterlot as ‘Tia heads back inside and Mathis prepares the shields.
Chapter 11: Till death do us part
Last chapter: He then heads out of the castle towards Ponyville, ‘Tia doesn’t even try to stop him. Atom is still in Hades as he walks up next to Kieron. He then lowers a hoof; Kieron gets in and orders for him to take him to the mech facility. They then rush off to the facility. The ship slowly advances on Canterlot as ‘Tia heads back inside and Mathis prepares the shields.
Hades and Kieron both arrive at the mech facility where Mathis’ holographic figure is stood in the hanger watching a mechs being created, “Mathis, get more mechs created, quicker than that. The UEFDC have turned on us” Kieron orders. Mathis looks at him as he is lowered down to the ground and steps off the hand.
“Yes sir. How is it they have not shown up on my radar?” he asks himself as he begins to produce mechs faster, “Weird, Mechs in full production, sir. How many will we need?” he asks.
Kieron looks back at him as he walks over to a console, “I don’t know, but we need a lot, the UEFDC ship ‘Spear of Freedom’ has been fully repaired. We need a lot of forces to take it on.” He replies as he begins to put mech part together on the screen as they join together by cranes behind him.
Celestia runs into Luna’s room where the mane 6 and Luna are sat in relief that the fighting is finally over, “It’s not over, the UEFDC have turned on us, they want Equestria.” She calls out to them. They all jump up in surprise apart from Luna who falls back as she is sick of it.
“Sis, I’m sick of just sitting here doing nothing...” she replies, ‘Tia walks over to her and sits next to her, she looks at ‘Tia,” We need to help and fight, if we are to protect Equestria as the princesses.” She adds as she sits up.
As ‘Tia stares at her trying to think of what they could possibly do, two ponies burst into the room in full power armour, “Princesses, we have your solution...” one of them says to them, the voice sounds familiar, one of them then walks out and pulls in a large crate as the other walks up to them, “Pardon me for being rude but get dressed, now” it orders before turning flank and helping the other pull the crate over to them.
When they get the crate to them, one of them opens it to reveal multiple suits of power armour, “What is this? Is this armour?” ‘Tia asks them as she lifts one up with her magic.
“Yes, you want a way to help; we have your way to help. We fight, stop letting Kieron do it alone and help him.” It replies, the helmet then folds back to reveal a pink mare’s face, it was Moonshine. The other’s helmet then does the same, it was Treacle.
“We will fight, to protect the planet we love. If we are to save this planet, we need the ponies to help fight, not just Kieron.”Treacle adds.
Luna immediately then uses her magic to pull a suit out and begins to put it on, “But if the ponies are to help fight, have is it there is only eight suits here?” ‘Tia questions, Moonshine walks outside onto the balcony and looks back at her, she raises a hoof to point down to the streets below, ‘Tia walks over to her and looks down, she sees the two remaining recruits handing out power armour to some royal guards, the Anthros also handing armour to some ponies that walk up to them, volunteering to fight.
“That is how, princess. The ponies of the world wish to fight, and we will. With you at the lead, the both of you.” She replies looking back Luna who has all of her armour of apart from the helmet which is floating in front of her as she returns glance and knods before putting the helmet on, the eyes glowing dark purple like her hair.
‘Tia looks at Moonshine who walks back inside to help suit up the others, even Fluttershy begins to suit up wishing to fight, “I’ll teach those big meanies.” She says to herself.
“I don’t know Moonshine, it won’t go with my mane, or my tail, or my coat.” Rarity says as she levitates a piece of armour in front of herself.
“It won’t matter, Rarity. Your mane, tail and coat will be hidden inside of it; nopony will know it’s you.” She replies as she grabs the floating piece and pushes it onto her whilst grabbing another piece and puts it on her.
Soon Rarity, Applejack and Twilight are in full armour whilst Pinkie Pie is rolling on the floor struggling to get a leg piece on, Rainbow Dash just putting on the wing plating and Fluttershy taking her time as it is cold against her coat.
‘Tia walks up to the crate which holds one, last suit of armour that is bigger than the others, she then lifts the helmet up to her face to stare into the eyes, it even has horn plating for her to protect her horn, “Let’s do it.” She says as she then uses her magic to lift the entire suit and put them together on her body quickly, pieces snap together as they connect in place. The suit is soon put all together with her helmet slowly sliding over her head, the eyes glowing bright white like her coat.
Twilight’s eyes glowing purple, Applejack’s orange, Rainbow’s blue, Rarity’s white, Pinkie’s bright pink, Fluttershy’s bright yellow, Moonshine’s eyes glowing light pink, Treacle’s dark orange, Luna’s deep purple and Celestia’s bright white. The ten of them look menacing as they walk out of Luna’s room and down the corridor towards the main stairs in the main room.
“Ten new targets detected, recruits go check them out.” Mathis says to the recruits outside who rush into the castle after suiting up a guard. They burst in through the main doors to see nopony, Mathis places a waypoint on their HUD, they then follow it upstairs, and when they reach the top they’re cut off by the ten targets walking down the corridor.
“Mathis, they aren’t human, they’re ponies. Are you sure you have this right?” one of the recruits asks as the ten ponies stop.
“Yes...wait, the IFF is kicking in; no they’re friendly, in fact. It’s the princesses and the others.” He replies, the recruits look at each other before looking back at them to see a taller ponies walk up behind the rest; they instantly know and bow to them.
“No need to bow now, little ones. We have a fight on our hands. No go and build our forces.” She orders to them, they put a hoof to their heads to salute before dashing off back outside. They then slowly follow them outside.
Kieron finishes creating his mech; it drops down from being supported in the air by cranes. It has the same core, arms and head but has bulky reverse joint legs instead of the quad legs Ambush had before, its arm weapons are a large laser rifle in the right arm and a large shotgun in the left arm, the back weapon slots both taken up by a huge grenade launcher called Oigami. The mech then steps forward slightly, the core opens and a ladder lowers down, Kieron climbs up and into the mech, the ladder, the core closes and Ambush walks to the hanger doors as another mech walks up behind Ambush as they both exit.
Hades is stood outside waiting for Kieron, when he gets outside, they both head for Canterlot, as they approach the castle they can see the mech atop of the castle slowly making its way down to head for the main gate as the other make heads there too, with the UEFDC ship getting closer.
Kieron zooms in to look at Canterlot only to see loads of small figures rushing about and a large group of them in military formation. Could the UEFDC already be inside the castle walls? ‘No, they could be, those figures aren’t even moving’ he thought to himself.
‘Tia takes position in front of the assembled forces of ponies, “Today we are going to stop those traitors. Today we are going to stop those who think they can take our planet, take it without asking. We will stop those who think they can come here and take what they want, well we won’t let them, and we will stop them at all costs. This is our planet, not theirs!” She shouts to the ponies stood in front of her as they stamp and roar, the mane 6 stand next ‘Tia and Luna, the recruits are among the forces with Moonshine and Treacle.
Luna looks over the troops to see two mechs stood in Ponyville whilst two more make their way towards them, “He’s coming, Kieron is coming.” She says to ‘Tia who looks over towards Ponyville to see him.
“We will not let him fight alone this time.” She replies. She then raises a hoof, “To the main gates!” she orders, the troops then make their way to the main gates instep with each other, “I hope this will help.” She says to herself.
The princesses and the mane 6 then follow them. As they get close to the gates a large flash comes from the ship, they looks over to see the remains of the flash, then an even larger flash erupts from the C.O.C as something hits it, they look over to it to see part of it fall off. Another flash comes from the ship as it fires at the C.O.C, the rounds pounding the gun as it begins to turn to face the ship. It charges to amplify a shot, the ship then fires again causing the C.O.C to collapse, the charged shot just getting fired in time, hitting the shields of the ship creating a hole in them briefly.
The L.R.M.S then begins to fire at the ship along with the EP cannon. The two guard mechs then turn and begin to walk towards the ship as they open fire on it, the rounds easily penetrating the shields and bombarding the armour, some hanger doors open on the side of the ship and some UEFDC mechs jump out along with multiple jets plying out. They start to make their way towards the two mechs.
The mechs launch huge amounts of missiles at the jets, hitting some causing them to explode in mid-air or fall down and hit some mechs; some missiles miss and pound the ground below hitting mechs. Some more aircraft exit the ship but these are different, they were dropships, they quickly make their way over towards the mech facility.
The dropships soon reach the facility, they land just outside as troops rush out and begin to storm inside, Mathis activates the security system and turrets deploy inside the facility and begin to shoot at the troops, the noise of the gunshots can be heard from the gates Canterlot.
The ship then begins to fire on the L.R.M.S as it fires back, the main gun of the ship fires and hits the supports for the missile launcher, it tilts to the side a little but still continues to fire, Kieron sees this and turns to rush over to it. Atom stops and turns to watch Kieron rushing off.
Kieron reaches the missile system, drops the arm weapons and begins to push at the large structure but it is to no use as the ship fires again, Ambush quickly grabs his weapons and jumps out of the way. The rounds hit the base of the missile launcher and it collapses downwards into the empty space below, Ambush then kneels on one knee, places his weapons on the ground, puts his hands against the floor and the grenade cannon unfolds, he then takes aim of the ship.
The cannon soon unfolds, he waits for the EP cannon to fire again. The ship then targets Canterlot, it fires, just then the EP cannon and Ambush fire, the shots pass through the gap in the shields made by the main ship gun firing and blow a huge hole in the bottom of the ship causing the main gun to fall off. The ship’s rounds travel towards Canterlot but just in time the shields power up and cover the city only for the rounds to hit off it and create a large hole in the shields as an electrical effect shimmers around the gap.
The UEFDC mechs and jets continue towards Canterlot, more dropships exit the ship’s hanger and make their way over towards where the ponies are massing. The guard mechs then fall back as they get too close to the UEFDC mech; they are meant for long range combat and so make their way back towards the castle. They soon reach it and stand on top of it then turn and begin to fire of the advancing mechs to provide cover fire.
The dropships soon reach the front line of the mechs and drop off multiple troops who rush out and immediately begin to fire on the ponies but do no damage, the ponies wait for Celestia’s command. She waits as the troops stop firing noticing it does nothing, they then charge at the ponies, “NOW!” she shouts, all the ponies then rush towards the troops. They soon come together in a clash as some troops are thrown up in the air, slammed against each other or are imploded by the magic of many ponies.
The humans throw themselves at the ponies as they fight in melee combat, the mane 6 then charge into the battle, Twilight and Rarity using their magic to rip armour off some troops and then shoot at them. Rainbow and Fluttershy grab a few troops, fly up and then drop them to their death. The UEFDC mechs then begin to open fire as they come into firing range, the guard mechs continue to fire on them, destroying a couple as they dodge the incoming rounds.
‘Tia drops the now disassembled mechs and looks over at Luna who’s eyes are glowing brighter than normal and light is escaping the crevices of the armour, a light chuckle can be heard coming from inside the armour, “Luna, calm down. LUNA!” she shouts breaking Luna’s concentration causing her to drop the mechs and looks up at ‘Tia sharply.
“What is it sis?” she replies as if nothing was wrong. She just shakes her head and them leads Luna into the battle to help the others.
Kieron meets up with Atom who is fighting several mechs with some other drone Havoc mechs, “There’s only one way we can stop this before they overwhelm us, Atom.” Kieron says to him as they fend off the incoming mechs.
“I must overload the engines causing it to self-destruct. It will then destroy itself and the remaining troops will be easy pickings.” He replies.
“But Kieron, I’ve looked at the schematics of that ship, the engines are at the centre- back, they’re nowhere near the hangers, you won’t have time to get out.” He replies. Kieron then without warning rushes off towards the ship; a couple of drone mechs follow him.
They soon reach the ship, the ship’s missile systems kick in and begin to fire on Kieron and the other mechs, one mech is easily destroyed, Kieron and the other dodge the missiles before jumping up and forcing their way into the hanger. Once inside Kieron opens the core, jumps out, the core closes and Ambush automatically fights the troops inside, he heads straight to the engine room without even being detected.
He runs down several corridors before coming to the doors with the engines behind them, the gunshots in the hanger can just about be heard, he open the doors, no-one is inside, he walks up to a console and begins to override the server, an error occurs stopping from going any further, he then walks over to the manual overload station, punches his arm into it and allows for Mathis to overload it manually. He pulls him arm out as a whir can be heard as the engines begin to overload. He walks up to the wall next to the door and sits against the wall, waiting for his death.
“Princess Celestia, you aren’t going to like this but Kieron is about to die. The ship, he has entered it and overloaded the engines but he won’t get out in time...” he informs her as she stops fighting and looks over to the ship.
Inside the ship the whirring suddenly stops, Kieron looks up and comments, “I love you, Equestria. I love you, Celestia” before the engines suddenly explode in large flames, engulfing him instantly, and the ship then begins to erupt in flames as loads of small explosion come from the bowls of the ship.
“KIERON!!” a voice on the other side of the battle field can be heard, ‘Tia looks over to see Moonshine stood staring at the ship, just then a UEFDC soldier jumps up onto her back from behind, pulls at her armour and stabs a knife into her causing her to shout out in pain and fall to the ground.
‘Tia then rushes over to Moonshine whilst fending off many troops. Atom joins the fight, the troops stand no chance, and they soon are reduced to small amounts. They then stop fighting and surrender as the ponies surround them.
She looks up to look at the ship which then give off one last explosion that completely destroys the ship, it then falls to the ground in flames.
‘Tia, Luna and Atom then rush over towards the ship, “He can’t die. He can’t...” ‘Tia says to herself, “...or can he?”
Chapter 12: A scarred planet
Last chapter: ‘Tia then rushes over to Moonshine whilst fending off many troops. Atom joins the fight, the troops stand no chance, and they soon are reduced to small amounts. They then stop fighting and surrender as the ponies surround them. ‘Tia walks up the remaining troops and stares at them, “You don’t deserve to live, not here.” She says to them before using her magic to rip their head off whilst she looks away, their bodies slump to the ground.
She looks up to look at the ship which then give off one last explosion that completely destroys the ship, it then falls to the ground in flames.
‘Tia, Luna and Atom then rush over towards the ship, “He can’t die. He can’t...” ‘Tia says to herself, “...or can he?”
‘Tia, Luna and Hades reach the scorched ship, the bridge is completely ruined, the hanger is only just intact, the whole of the rear of the ship blown apart, fires still roaring all over the ship. ‘Tia looks back at Atom, “What are you doing here? Moonshine needs help!” she shouts out. Atom stares at he before looking back at the battlefield, he sees Moonshine laid on the floor in the distance, and she lifts her head and begins to pull herself along towards them.
“Oh my god, I’ll go get her. Promise me this Celestia...” he replies before he sets off, “Promise that you’ll find him, alive.” He asks. ‘Tia knods as holds her hoof up to promise, “Pinkie Promise?” he asks.
“Pinkie Promise, What’s a Pinkie Promise?” she questions.
“Never mind, just please find him alive.” He replies before dashing off back over to Moonshine.
‘Tia and Luna then go to head inside but just before they step inside the blazing ship Treacle teleports in front of them, “There is no way I am letting you go inside, princesses...” she says as she stops them from going inside, “...not without me.” She adds as she stands to the side to let them by, they all then head inside as they search for Kieron.
As the troops fight a couple of miniature guard mechs that Mathis created, one soldier manages to get past them and gets into the hanger where a drone mech has just been completed but isn’t being deployed as the ponies have won the battle. The soldier runs across the gangway and jumps onto the mech, the core doesn’t open, he then climbs up to the head and opens a small hatch, plugs in his PDA (Personal Data Assistant) into the wiring, the core then begins to open, he then climbs down and sits in the pilot’s chair, the core closes and he walks out towards the ship.
Rarity and Fluttershy stand as they look at the remains of the soldiers they killed, “Finally, I thought they would never stop dearie. Now I can take off this hideous armour.” She claims to Fluttershy who chuckles slightly. A random pony come up to them and comments.
“Do you always whine on about stuff like this? It’s really annoying.” He asks her, Rarity looks at him sternly.
“Don’t even get me started on that again, darling.” She replies as she pulls off her helmet and flicks her mane back; the pony stands mouth agape as he stares at her.
She then pulls off the rest of her armour and tosses it aside before brushing herself down, she then comments as she turns to face Moonshine, “Please do not make me ever wear that again...Moonshine?...MOONSHINE?!...MOONSHINE!!” she shouts as she sees Moonshine laid on the floor dragging herself slowly across the ground towards the ship with a knife stuck in her side. She rushes over to her with Fluttershy flying alongside her.
As they are running over to her Hades slides up beside Moonshine blocking their path, picks her up, the core opens and he climbs out, walk over to the hands and shouts out to her, “MOONSHINE, ARE YOU OK? PLEASE SAY SOMETHING!” he then kneels down and puts her head on his lap.
“Obviously not.” She quietly replies as she lifts her head and looks back at the knife in her side, “There kind of is a knife stick in me, and it isn’t pleasant.” She adds as Atom hugs her with relief.
“EXCUSE ME, BUT AREN’T YOU BEING A BIT RUDE?” Rarity shouts up to him after walking round the mech, “YOU SHOULD NEVER CUT OFF A LADY LIKE THAT!” she adds as Fluttershy hovers over and goes to pick her up, “No, Fluttershy, your hooves are filthy, please don’t touch me with them. He will have to come down here.” She claims as Fluttershy lands down next to her.
“Oh, I’m sorry; I didn’t mean to upset you. I’ll wash my hooves when I can.” she replies as she sits down a little bit away from Rarity to make sure she doesn’t dirty her coat with the filth.
Atom peers over the edge to see Fluttershy sat looking up and Rarity impatiently waiting whilst tapping her hoof, “I’m so sorry, my lady. But Moonshine was in trouble and wanted to get to her as quick as possible, just ONE second please.” He says to her before disappearing over the edge, he uses his magic to slowly pull out the knife, Moonshine screams slightly.
“That HURTS! If you’re going to do it, do it quickly.” She replies before taking a deep breath, waiting for the pain. He the ‘grabs’ the knife with his magic and suddenly pulls the knife with one, big pull, Moonshine screams with pain and even jumps up writhing about fro the pain, she then clumsily falls off the edge of the hands and falls to the ground.
She lands in a large mud puddle which splashes loads of mud up over Rarity and Fluttershy, the mud lands on Fluttershy’s armour and just runs off it, the mud also covers Rarity, “mud, mud!, MUD, MUD! MUUUUD!! ARGGHHHHHH!!!” she shouts out in disgust.
Fluttershy then begins to help wipe off the mud as Rarity jumps about screaming, the arms of Hades then lower down to the floor with Atom stood on them. When they reach the ground Atom can see Moonshine laid on the floor with Rarity jumping about and Fluttershy desperately trying to help with the mud.
He jumps off the arms and watches them, he then uses his magic to slide all of the mud off, Rarity then stops jumping about as she looks at her coat to see every single drop of mud removed from her coat.
“Oh, why thank you, darling. I can’t believe that happened. Moonshine is such a clumsy....MOONSHINE!” she interrupts herself as she remembers that Moonshine is still wounded. She dashes over towards Moonshine but stops as she sees the mud puddle, she then quickly thinks and uses her magic to drag Moonshine out of the mud.
Atom uses his magic to wrap some bandages round Moonshine and over the wound, he then soaks them in antiseptic lotion, he the both of them then use their magic to lift her as they walk towards Kieron’s room in Canterlot.
Treacle, Luna and Celestia walk slowly as they search every inch of the wreck, “KIERON! KIERON!!” Treacle shouts as she desperately tries to find him, “Wait, why are we looking here? This isn’t the engine room...” she says to herself before looking up at some signs, they are scorched and battered, she looks hard to see one pointing to towards a dark corridor with a light flickering at the end, it was marked ‘Engine room’, she then ran off. ‘Tia glimpses treacle running off and chases after her with Luna right behind her.
Treacle soon reaches the room, she opens the doors with her magic, and she rushes inside as the doors slam shut behind her. She looks about quickly, she runs about to look for him. ‘Tia then opens the door, she pushes them open enough for Luna to squeeze past and the she jumps into the room.
The three of them look around the room but something is wrong, there are no engines, “This isn’t right, where are the engines?” Treacle asks herself. The other two still searching the room unaware of the fact it is the wrong room, there was however some generators that power the emergency lighting, “Where is the engine room?!” Treacle shouts out, the others jump as she shouts. Suddenly she stops still as she passes a door to hear something from inside, it sounded like a voice, and she puts her ear against the door and listens.
“I am the clown with the tear away face, here in a flash and gone without a trace. I am the who when you call, who’s there. I am the wind blowing throw your hair. I am the shadow on the moon at night, filling your dreams to the brim with fright.” The voice sings. She takes her head away from the door then runs over to ‘Tia and tells her that she hears something coming from the room. They run over to the room, ‘Tia listens carefully as the singing continues, “Tender lumplings everywhere, life’s no fun without a good scare. That’s our job but we’re not mean...” she pulls her head back and looks at Treacle.
“Do you think it could be him, singing?” she asks her, Treacle shrugs her shoulders, ‘Tia then uses her magic to push the doors open, they slowly creak open slightly but then suddenly burst open. They step inside to hear the music still playing, Treacle immediately runs off in search of the source of the music. ‘Tia and Luna wait at the door. Moments later a scream can be heard from the far side of the room.
“He’s DEAD!” she shouts, she then begins to drags his body towards the others, his body limp and heavy, the armour in full lock-down, “Some help please...” she asks as Luna walks forwards to see her pulling him by the foot with her mouth, his armour still around him, and blood covering him.
“Oh my...wait, he might not be dead, how can you assume that?” she asks as she walks over to him and begins to pull on the other foot. They soon manage to pull him over to the door where ‘Tia is stood looking menacing in her armour.
Dr Atom and Rarity manage to finally get Moonshine to Kieron’s room, “Can I ask why we have brought her here and not to the hospital?” Rarity asks Atom who looks at her before placing Moonshine of the bed and begins to pull of the armour.
“Because the hospital is almost full and I can do it here and now...” he replies as he looks round in Kieron’s medical equipment for something to pull out the remaining shards of knife that had got snapped off and are stuck inside her, “Nothing here, Rarity, could you please go to the hospital and get a pair of surgical scissors and some more antiseptic.” He asks, she knods and runs off out the room towards the hospital.
She soon reaches the street that leads to it but there are a couple of guards stood and a sign saying ‘Diversion’ as the street behind them is blocked with rubble, “Blast it. I guess I’ll have to go the long way.” She says to herself before dashing off to the castle. She soon comes to the main door, opens it and runs inside, runs into the middle of the room before sliding to a stop almost falling over, she stops and looks at the corpse of the Grand Master slumped against the wall, the two pieces of the cane near him sparking with the eyes glowing faintly.
She slowly walk past him as she walks down the corridor next to him towards the hospital, when she gets half way down the corridor a quiet click can be heard and all of a sudden the lights burst, she stops in the darkness, her heart starting to race, she looks back to see a light red glow, she walks back slowly towards the door at the end of the corridor, adrenaline pumping round her body as she takes deep breaths, fear kicking in. A gasp emits from the main room, she then turns and sprints for the hospital not wanting to know what just happened.
She reaches the door, opens it, rushes in and slams it shut behind her as she rests against it, “Can I help you?” Nurse Redheart asks her as she suddenly turns after being frightened by Rarity.
“Yes...yes you can, darling....I just wanted a pair of...sur...Surgical scissors and some antiseptic.” She asks as she catches her breath.
“Indeed, I have a spare right here...” Redheart replies as she picks up the items and hoofs them to her, “What exactly do you need these for?” she asks but doesn’t get a reply as Rarity dashes off through the door she entered in.
She closes the door and stood once again in the darkness, “Must I really go past his god awful body again?” she asks herself. She then walks forward one step at a time towards the main room which for some reason the glow has stopped. She picks up the pace as she remembers that Moonshine is in need of medical attention. She soon comes to the main room but all of the lights are out.
She peeks round the corner to where he was slumped, he was gone. She gulps as she gets the feeling this isn’t going to be good, she walks into the big, dark room. A figure stands at the top of the stairs, half-slumped as it keep itself up right with a stick of some sort, the top of it glowing through the fingers of the figure.
“Do you know what it is like to die, pony?” it asks her, “It isn’t pleasant, would you like to know how it feels, pony?” it asks again.
“I wouldn’t mind if stopped calling me ‘pony’, I have a name, Rarity.” She replies, annoyed at its rude comments.
The figure then slowly walks down the stairs as some of the lights begin to come back on, the light soon illuminates the figure, she looks carefully to see that it has a gash in its neck with blood dripping from it, “So, ‘Rarity’ do you or do you not want to know how it feels to die?” it questions her, soon reaching the bottom of the stairs in full light so she can see it clearly.
“Wait, you’re the Grand Master, didn’t you die?” she asks him.
“I didn’t ask you that. I asked if you wish to die?” he impatiently asks her again.
“I’m sorry but I’m on a tight schedule, you see a friend of mine is in need of help.” She answers whilst holding up the items she just retrieved. The GM then lifts his cane and swipes it to the side causing the items to fly across the room; Rarity uses her magic to ‘catch’ them and places them on the floor, out the way.
“You won’t be saving your friend, it will be you that will need saving.” He comments before lifting his cane to point it at her, the eyes glow on the cane as a surge of energy blast from them towards her; she dives out of the way and then uses her magic to push him back, he puts his can up in time stopping the full effect of the push, causing him to slide backwards slightly, she does it again causing his to slide back into the wall.
“I may be a lady but I know how to hold my own.” She comments as she then uses her magic to disconnect one of the chains of the large chandelier above, it then swings down towards the GM who looks up to see it fall towards him, he lifts his cane just as it slams into the wall, the dust settles and she sees that the chandelier was bent to that of a sphere round the GM, he pushes it back with his cane causing it to fly back towards her, she uses her magic to push it to the side, it slides past her side as she stands, heart pounding.
They both stand in stalemate as they stare at each other, Fluttershy suddenly bursts in through the main doors, “Sorry I’m late Rarity, and Atom just noticed a power source activate and told me to get here as fast as possible” she says as she lands next to Rarity with a bag, she drops the bag and a piece of armour falls out, “Put it on, now. I’ll hold him off” she adds as she steps in front of her.
The GM then swings his cane as he pulls the chandelier past Rarity and towards Fluttershy who flies up and over to the GM, he then lifts it up quickly pulling a piece of flooring up hitting her causing her to fly into the ceiling. The piece of floor falls down and she quickly flies down towards him and dives into the ground as he steps to the side.
She then jumps up and kicks him causing him to fly back into the wall behind him. Rarity soon gets into her armour and puts her helmet on, the GM looks down at her and swipes has cane to the side, Rarity then flies to the side into a wall. Fluttershy flies up into him as she punches him deeper into the wall, the dust rushes out as it fills the room.
‘Tia, Luna and Treacle reach the hospital; Treacle opens the door as they rush Kieron inside and place him on a bed, “Oh my gosh, princesses. What are you...Is that...Kieron?” Redheart asks Celestia who turns to look at her.
“Yes it is, do you have a problem with that?” she questions.
“Well, no but we are a bit full at the moment. But never mind, what seem to be the problem?” she asks, Celestia’s helmet folds up behinds her head, and she looks at Redheart.
“What do you think...” she replies as she points at Kieron’s body, “I’m sorry, I’m just a little stressed at the moment, could you help us get his...” she stops as a loud thud is heard coming from the castle next to them.
“What was that?” Luna asks. ‘Tia walks over to the door and opens it only for dust to flow past her hooves, the corridor dark and a figure stood at the end that looks over to her.
“PRINCESS, STAY BACK!” it calls out as the eyes on the helmet light up to a bright white colour. Celestia pops her head back round to look at Luna and the others.
“Something’s wrong, Rarity is in her armour and dust is laying the floor. You lot help him, try to get him armour off, I’ll check this out.” She claims as she runs off down the dark corridor towards Rarity, who flies back as a magical force pushes her back, a large table then flies past as Rarity takes cover behind it and an energy beam fires at it with Fluttershy being launched back past Rarity.
‘Tia jumps out from the corridor and looks up to see the GM stood at the top of the stair with his cane in hand pointed at Rarity, he stops firing as he sees Celestia, he then comments, “Ah, Princess, you have...wait, that is you right?” he looks at the pony in armour.
“Rarity, you and Fluttershy get out of here now, I’ll hold him off.” She says and Rarity knods then drops the table and then runs off out of the castle with the items in her magical grasp and Fluttershy closely following.
“Ah, that voice, that sweet voice. Never would I have thought such a sweet voice would be in armour like that. Wait, why ARE you in armour, Kieron never made more than four suits.” He asks as he raises his hand to his chin.
“You still aren’t dead, you cut your own throat, and how are you still alive?” she asks.
“Silly little Celestia, I didn’t kill myself, I pretended to kill myself. You foolishly dropped the parts of the cane down by my body, so it then fixed itself and now, here I stand.” He replies.
“You can’t stop all of us by yourself.” She comments.
“I know, so I intend to at least kill you.” He replies as he raises his cane lifting her up into the air, she uses her magic which amplified by the armour to push him back temporarily stopping his heart. He stops using the cane and grabs at his chest, “What was that? Such power...you would be such a great ally...shame I have to kill you.” He adds before jumping forwards over the stairs and lands in front of her and turns to swipe her with his cane but she stops him still with her magic.
She tilts her head slightly as he struggles to get out of her grasp, the helmet folds up, her eyes narrowed, “Try me...” she comments before punching him in the face knocking him back, he lands on his feet, stands up and takes off his cloak.
“Now, you are trying my patience.” He replies and dashes forwards to stab the cane into her, she steps to the side, her helmet unfolding round her head as she kicks at his back pushing down into the ground, he stabs the cane into her chest causing her to be lifted off the ground and he slams her into the ground beside him.
They both get up as Celestia then steadies herself, she harnesses all of her magic as the eyes and horn glow bright, and he looks about as the castle starts to shake violently, an aura beginning to form around the princess. He looks at her and tries to stop her by swiping his cane at her but to no use as it deflects of her, “Leave our planet; you don’t deserve to be here.” She comments in a demonic voice, the glowing getting brighter.
He panics as a magical force begins to engulf him; it feels as though something was inside him, eating away at him as well as ripping his inside apart, his skin felt hot like that of being burnt by the sun. He stares into her eyes to see the anger in her even through the armour. He then stabs the cane into the ground as the magical force rips him apart just as he implodes to a point.
The aura and glowing stop as she notices his disappearance, “Finally, he left us.” She says to herself.
“Holy shit.” A voice calls out from the corridor as all the lights start to come back on. ‘Tia looks over to see a pony peeking round, it was Treacle.
“Why aren’t you helping Luna and the nurse?” ‘Tia asks her.
“His suit won’t budge, it’s in full lockdown but I know for certain that he isn’t dead, he’s just in a coma.” She replies and the two of them then slowly walk back down to the hospital whilst ‘Tia explains what just happened.
Kieron lies in the hospital bed, his armour now folded up revealing him with several wound as other ponies from the fights are being released from the hospital and others with more serious wounds are being treated. Nurse Redheart stops still with a trolley as she looks over to him, she then continues with her tasks.
Moonshine and Twilight walk in as nurse Redheart stops them, “I’m sorry but we’re way too busy right now, you will have to come back later. She then gets them to leave before getting on with helping other ponies.
Kieron still lay in his bed, other ponies all fast asleep. Suddenly a faint glow comes from the far corner of the room as a figure is teleported there, the GM walks out of the glow and walks over to the bed that Kieron is laid in, and he pulls up a chair and sits next to him.
“It is such a shame, really. I created you to help take Earth so that we could control it, yet here we are on another planet, you almost dead and I...well, I dead once, I won’t again. I’m sorry but I will put you out of your misery now.” He claims as he stands and places the cane’s head against Kieron’s chest.
The eyes begin to glow as Kieron’s unconscious body reacts by making him gasp as his life is being literally sucked out of him.
Celestia bursts into the room without her armour as she could sense his arrival; she rushes over to the concentrating figure stood over Kieron and stabs him with her horn before pushing him back with her magic.
“What is this? You think you can kill me? You can’t kill a god, Celestia.” He claims as he stands tall at the other side of the room, ‘Tia stands in front of Kieron’s bed protecting him.
“I won’t let you kill him, or anypony else for that matter.” She replies. He chuckles as he looks down at his cane.
“Strange, How I came to getting this marvellous cane, it has made me unable to be killed, unnatural power and above all a living god...” he comments as he looks up at her.
“WHY YOU LITTL...” she stops as she feels something grab her back leg. She looks back to see Kieron’s hand holding her.
“Leave us...Leave this planet...please?” he asks faintly to the GM, his body not even moving as if her were still unconscious. The GM then sighs and places his cane against the ground and a glow appears behind him.
“I will, I don’t think fight you will do much anymore...I created you for one purpose and you truly have shown me what you can do. Your loyalty is unparalleled too, look at the state of you. I will leave this planet be...for now.” He replies before disappearing into the glow.
Kieron’s arm then releases Celestia’s leg and flops down, she turns to look at his once more unconscious body, she lifts him arm back onto the bed and places it by his side.
“Thank you, Kieron. If you can hear me, thank you.” She says quietly before giving him a kiss on the forehead and walks out the room.
A plague of madness: part 1
Chapter 13: A plague of madness
Last chapter: “I will, I don’t think fight you will do much anymore...I created you for one purpose and you truly have shown me what you can do. Your loyalty is unparalleled too, look at the state of you. I will leave this planet be...for now.” He replies before disappearing into the glow.
Kieron’s arm then releases Celestia’s leg and flops down, she turns to look at his once more unconscious body, she lifts him arm back onto the bed and places it by his side.
“Thank you, Kieron. If you can hear me, thank you.” She says quietly before giving him a kiss on the forehead and walks out the room.
Kieron remains laid in his bed, a nurse checking up on the patients. Outside the ponies and guards are moving rubble and pieces of fallen walls as they clear the streets, some mechs helping as they pull along large carts filled with huge amounts of rubble. The town of Ponyville being repaired, what’s left of it and the rest being of it being rebuilt. The nurse walks over to his bed to check on him, she stands and watching him as he lays there, still and dead like, she then walks off as she goes to check on other patients.
The nurse from before walks over to the door as a knock can be heard coming from it, she opens the door and questions the pony stood on the other side, “What do you want?”
The pony stands shocked at the nurse’s comment, “Don’t you know who I am? I am the Great and Powerful Trixie, and you ask me, and I quote ‘what do you want?’ I’ll have you know that the princess wanted me to come and see the human for a special matter that only Trixie can do.” She replies as she walks in past the nurse who stands and watches as she walks by.
“Fine, but keep quiet, the other patients need to rest. Kieron is over in that bed...” she says as she points to his bed, “I’ll stand supervise...hospital rules.” She adds as Trixie looks back before sharply turning her head away from the nurse to face towards Kieron’s bed.
She walks up beside his bed where there are many hospital instruments keeping check of him vitals, his heart rate really slow and faint, everything else normal. Trixie takes position beside him and the nurse pulls up a seat and sits at the bottom of the bed.
“So why did the princess tell you to come here exactly” the nurse asks.
“Only the Great and Powerful Trixie can do complicated magic that involves the mind...” she replies as she looks back at the nurse, “You wouldn’t understand, you aren’t a unicorn. Unicorns have magic but Trixie is the only pony with great experience with mind magic.” She adds as she turns back to face Kieron.
The nurse then makes herself comfortable and shuts up. Trixie then lowers her head down to Kieron’s, puts a hoof against his face, her horn beginning to glow as she feeds her magic into his mind to find out if he is still alive in his mind and to find out his past.
As she feeds her magic deeper into his mind she starts to be drawn towards something in his mind, something dark and evil...she tries to divert from it but it draws her closer as if it had hold of her. Her body unconscious as she searches his mind, her body reacts to the unexpected attraction by making her scrunch her eyes up and groan slightly.
As she draws closer to the darkness she begins to go into some of Kieron’s memories, the first one is where Kieron is in the test tube he was created in, she is stood in the room looking at him as if she was there but yet no-one notices her as if she were a ghost. The Grand Master stood behind a few scientist who are making sure the process runs smoothly, “Make sure he is unharmed, I want my creation to be perfect.” The GM says to them. Kieron then suddenly puts a hand against the tube window causing her to jump a little.
The room goes dark as she is transferred to another memory, this time she is stood inside an office next to a man who looks as though he is the manager of a leading company, she stands and watches the man as he sorts out his papers and signs other papers. Suddenly Kieron bursts through the doors at the far end of the room with some soldiers in pursuit; he dives forwards, turns and shoots them causing Trixie to jump again. Kieron then stands up tall, walks over to the man who puts his hands up and mumbles that he surrenders. Kieron stands next to the man before whispering, “Your time for us has now expired.” Then twists the man’s neck, breaking it and killing him, he then unexpectedly turns to look over in Trixie’s direction as if he know she were there.
The room goes dark as she is moved to yet another memory, this time through Kieron’s eyes rather than her being stood in it, looking through his eyes she sees that he is sat in some sort of vehicle as there is electronic equipment all over with a large glass panel in front with holographic dials on it, outside in front of him is a large force of Havoc mechs, there must be at least 200 minimum, explosions erupting around them as water splashes up from the explosions.
The mech Kieron is in as his hands grab hold of some joysticks, when it stops turning she can see a city in the distance with small flashes emitting from it as missiles and artillery shells fly towards them, suddenly he looks up as the mech’s arm raises and all the mechs behind him start to fly overhead as they begin their invasion of the city.
The scenery then fades as she exits the memory as Kieron closes his eyes. She is then transported to a dark room with fires around her, buildings on fire and in ruins, similar to that of Luna’s premonition. As she looks about to see the fires roaring and some ponies in the fires being burnt to crisp, she then looks forward to see the red eyes from Luna’s premonition, she looks harder to see a figure form around the eyes, it is thin and tall, she immediately thinks it is Kieron but it can’t be, it’s too thin and not as tall.
As she watches, the smoke around it flows away to reveal that it isn’t Kieron’s but is a cane instead, she looks at the head of it just above the glowing eyes to see a hand holding it, she follows the hand up, then the arm to see a dark figure holding it, see stares back at the eyes of the cane only for it to launch at her causing her to be knocked out of Kieron’s mind. Back in the hospital she quickly walks backwards whilst sweating slightly, she moves backwards too quickly for her legs to keep up and ends up tripping over them.
She stay laid on the floor, covering her face with her hooves as the nurse jumps up out of her chairs and rushes over to Trixie, she reassures her that she is alright and for her to lift her hooves off her face. Trixie doesn’t move but instead mutters, “Can’t you hear it? The voices...the voices that constantly talk?”
The nurse lies down in front of her as she still tries to reassure Trixie, ignoring the last comment she made, Trixie then slowly stands up with her head held low, the nurse stands up quickly to see how she is. Trixie then slowly lifts her head to face the nurse, her eyes closed. She then suddenly opens them revealing a piercing stare, her eyes large and pupils like pinpricks, a smirk then develops on her face which soon turns into a rather creepy, large grin.
The nurse backs up slightly as this creeps her out a lot, this wasn’t normal, not even for Trixie. The nurse backs up even more but not being able to break the stare from Trixie’s piercing eyes, “You look juicy, join us, join the madness, it won’t hurt.” She comments before walking towards the nurse slowly. The nurse slowly backing away to get some distance between the two of them, she soon bumps into the wall and slides down it as Trixie walks up to her.
“Please, don’t hurt me, whoever you are” the nurse calls out. Trixie lowers her head down to the nurse and plants her lips against the nurse’s, she then pushes herself against the nurse causing them both to fall onto the floor as Trixie kisses away at the nurse, she then soon takes it further and reaches down with a hoof and begins to rub between the nurse’s haunches. The nurse trying her best to struggle and get free but Trixie keeps her pinned; soon the pleasure fills the nurse causing her to stop struggling as she moans a little whilst still kissing Trixie.
The nurse’s mind soon in a scramble by the pleasure, Trixie seizes the moment, takes her lips off the nurse’s, puts both hooves against the nurse’s face and places her horn against the nurse’s forehead, “You will be one of us.” She whispers before feeding her magic into the nurse’s mind, the madness in Trixie’s mind then begins to transmit into the pinned mare’s mind, she soon stops moving and not an ounce of noise came from her as the madness began to take hold of the mare.
Trixie gets up off the mare and watches as she squirms about a little as the madness take effect and begins to control her, “That’s you sorted, now, Trixie thinks we should awaken the source of this madness, OH KIERON!” she shouts out as she turns to walk towards Kieron’s bed, a couple of patients waking up suddenly from her shouting. She looks at one of the awake ponies with her creepy stare; the pony grabs the covers and puts it over his eyes so that she can’t look into his eyes.
She gets to his bed, climbs onto it and stands over him, “Hay, what are you doing, you shouldn’t be on there.” Another patient calls out. The nurse then walks up beside the pony and stares at her with the same look that Trixie has. She then climbs onto the bed and begins to kiss at the patient. Trixie the closes her eyes, lowers her head just enough for her horn to be pointing straight at Kieron, she then feeds her magic into his mind once more to awaken him.
She soon completes this task as the heart rate monitor begins to beep as his heart rate starts to increase, his breathing beginning to intensify, Trixie lifts her head slightly to look at him, and his eyes suddenly open to return the same, creepy glare to Trixie. They both stare at each other, Kieron then comments, “Thank you for releasing me, now we can spread the madness together.” He then grabs at the sides of her face and pulls her down as he lock their lips together, Trixie doesn’t even resist and kisses back at him.
The nurse gets off the patient as the madness spreads to him, he soon converts as his pupils shrink to pinpricks, they both talk at the same time as if the madness were talking through them, “Now, if we are to get more to convert we will need us to be acting normal, yes, normal, you will still be under my influence but you are to act normal...right...now” the nurse and patient then close their eyes, reopen them only for them to have returned to normal, they look at each other then over to Kieron and Trixie, not even disturbed by it, they then continue with their normal lives.
Kieron pushes Trixie away slightly so he can talk, “The madness in me can’t go away like the other, it is permanent, and the same for you as have looked directly deep into my mind at it. We shall go to the mech facility and hide there, come Trixie.” He explains as he gets up and walks out the door with Trixie following closely behind him.
The Grand Master is walking along a long walkway that is suspended above the ground a few kilometres, large buildings at both ends of the walkway, the buildings and walkways seem to form a large circle as they can be seen curling round in the distance, in the centre of the circle is a huge structure with a white glow coming from below it as if it were holy in some way. The GM walks into the next building only to be greeted by a few officers that stands with their arms folded, they mumble to each other about his failure on Equestria. He then heads through a door which opens up to show the empty space between the building and the centre structure, he steps out only to float on mid-air rather than fall to his death. He stands with both feet on the air as he is suddenly shot forwards by a gravity-like force towards the centre structure.
He soon arrives at it and stops just off a platform which he steps onto and walks in through the mains doors of the building as if he had just walked there normally, when he enters the building he is greeted by a large, empty room that has a single corridor-like walkway to the centre where a large chair is placed with a man sat on it, along the walkway is loads of small soldier boxes with black guards stood in them, the GM begins to walk down the long walkway. He gets sinister looks by some of the guards as he passes them.
He soon reaches the centre of the room, lowers onto one knee with his cane in the ground to his side, he stands up and looks to the man sat in the chair, “Why have you failed us Grand Master 02?” the man asks, the GM looks down but then back up.
“I have not failed you yet, Grand Inquisitor. I may have failed with attacking them by force but I have one, last way that might work...” he replies, “My creation, the Overseer, during his early life he touched my cane, he tried to see if he could handle it, the cane rejected him but during the process it planted a part of its power inside of him mind, deep inside. It laid there dormant for all of his life; it is only till now has it been activated, by a pony. Now the madness and power surges through his entire body and all those he spreads it to as well...” he explains as he lifts the cane up to his front, “So you see, Grand Inquisitor, I have not yet failed.” He adds, the Grand Inquisitor then gets up, his body frail and weak, he is about 200 odd years old, he jumps forwards at the GM instantly appearing in front of the GM and kicks him in the head causing him to fly to the side and land on the floor.
“You mean you have wasted our forces when you could have done this?” he asks the GM in a weak voice.
“No, Grand Inquisitor, as I said, it was only till now could I do this as the pony has unlocked the madness in his mind, he is now mine, as I control the cane and the cane controls him.” He replies as he gets his footing, he turns to face the Grand Inquisitor with an evil grin on his face, “Now we CAN take that planet...but in time.”
A plague of madness: part 2
A plague of madness: part 2
Last chapter: “No, Grand Inquisitor, as I said, it was only till now could I do this as the pony has unlocked the madness in his mind, he is now mine, as I control the cane and the cane controls him.” He replies as he gets his footing, he turns to face the Grand Inquisitor with an evil grin on his face, “Now we CAN take that planet...but in time.”
Ponyville has been rebuilt to its original state from before the war thanks to Mathis’ help with the mechs, Canterlot’s streets have been cleared and the C.O.C and L.R.M.S have been taken down, the doors that they emerged from left alone with grass and plants growing over them. The entrance to the underground rooms below the weapons gone but a long corridor replacing the entrance that leads towards the mech facility, a teleporter used to connect the two corridors together. The only remnants of the war is the ships that lay in the ground, grass covering them slightly, and the mechs, tanks and jets that are scattered around Equestria.
Twilight wakes up suddenly as she is woken up by a rapid knocking on the front door; she quickly gets out of bed and trots downstairs to get to the door, she opens the door to see Treacle stood, she looked panicked and scared of something, “Oh thank god you’re okay. Listen, Twilight, you have to get out now...ARGH!” she says before clutching at her head, “You...You need to get out, not out of your...your house, out...out of erm...out of Ponyville, yes Ponyville...” she adds as she becomes confused, having trouble getting the right words, “...Moonshine, she and I have a connection to Kieron, his madness has been released, and now it’s affecting us, I can feel it, soon it will get to her, I am mentally stronger than her so I can hold it off, as for her...I don’t know.” She adds, well timed as a loud, rapid banging comes from upstairs.
“Twiiiilighhhht!” a voice calls out, “Let me out of this room, I want to see you, please?” it asks in a normal voice as if nothing was wrong. Twilight looks at Treacle who shakes her head, she then walks in and closes the door.
“This madness, I’ve seen it before on humans, it causes them to become sex crazed, but Moonshine is ALWAYS sex crazy, so it will have a different effect on her, maybe causing her to be normal like you and me.” She explains as the knocking continues, “I could be wrong though, listening to it, it sounds as though she has already changed, she sounds...normal for her but creepily evil and seductive.” She adds as she listens to the pony upstairs ramble on.
“NO! No, don’t her out; she could spread the madness to you, then others. You get out of here; I’ll go and sort her out, since the madness will consume me too, sooner or later.” She then opens the door with her magic, pushes Twilight out the library, closes the door, takes a deep breath and slowly makes her way upstairs.
From outside, Twilight listens as the knocking suddenly stops, a click can be heard, that must be Moonshine’s door, and then a thud can be heard. ‘What could be going on? Why is Treacle acting so scared? What is this madness she was on about?’ Twilight questions herself in her head; she then walks off towards Sugarcube Corner to get Pinkie. As she walks towards the candy store she hears a small scream come from within the library, she looks back to see Treacle jump out the balcony door with Moonshine right behind her, she goes to jump off the edge but Moonshine grabs her hind legs and pulls her back so that they meet face against face. Treacle trying her best to get away from Moonshine but can’t get out of her grasp.
They both stare at each other as Moonshine’s glare begins to turn into that of the type that Trixie and Kieron had, the grin on her face growing, Twilight can just about hear them talking, “Join us Treacle, my sister. Join us and we can convert many more, help us spread the madness...” she says, a pony behind Twilight walks up beside her and begins to talk at exactly the same time as Moonshine, “We are one, but yet we are many. I control you all but yet we work as one. We are many but work as one. We are the madness and the madness is you...even you Twilight.” They both say as Twilight looks at the pony beside her in shock then looking back at Moonshine who’s gaze has shift to look directly at her, the eyes piercing her head, the glare stunning her still as if it had turned her to stone.
Treacle then calls out to her, “GO, TWILIGHT! Get out before they get you!” Moonshine then slams her against the balcony to silence whilst still glaring at Twilight. The pony that was next to Twilight then begins to walk towards her, at first she couldn’t make out who it was but she could tell it was female by the voice. As the pony got closer she could make out more about the figure as she backed away from it, the pony had a horn, medium length mane that was a very light blue...
It took her a while to try and think who this pony could be but she finally realised who it was just as the pony came face to face with her, it was Trixie, “Twilight, Trixie used to hate you, for what you did to her but now Trixie will have her turn to shame you. Join us, join the madness...” she says to her as she uses her magic to push Twilight onto the ground and lays herself on top of her, “You are mentally strong, so we will have to weaken that...there is only one way Trixie can do that......pleasure.” she adds just before locking her lips against Twilight’s. Twi tries her best to shake Trixie off but she can’t do anything as she has her pinned.
Trixie lowers a hoof to between Twilight’s haunches and begins to rub hard and fast, a shiver of pleasure rushes through Twilight’s body, her mind starting to scramble as the pleasure works its way through her, she can’t believe this is happening to her, the pleasure starting to overwhelm her as she loses herself and begins to kiss back, Moonshine giving off a larger grin as it is working, Treacle watching in vein as she can’t move from her sister’s grasp.
Kieron is walking through the main room with a large trolley following him, it is covered with a cloth so that whatever is underneath cannot be seen, and it was following him without him even touching it or holding it. He walks down the corridor that leads to the med-lab but instead of turning right to get to it he turns left to face a large cargo lift, his puts both hands in front of himself and then moves them to the side causing the doors to open, he steps to the side and wave a hand past him as the trolley rolls past him into the lift, he then steps into it, a hologram of Mathis appears, “Sir, I don’t know how but there have been reports of ponies going missing, lots of them, about 20 in total, do you know anything about them?” he questions as Kieron stares at him with a serious, evil stare, “Also, you have been spending a lot of time in that underground facility, what is going on, sir? What is in the trolley? I would like it if you were to go to the med-lab immediately for a check-up.” He adds.
Kieron continues to stare at him before putting his arms out to his side and bringing them together in front causing the lift door to shut. Mathis puts hand to his chin and thinks hard about what is going on, ‘Something is wrong, he isn’t himself. He seems...different like when he......OH GOD NO!” he adds as he releases something and disappears.
Some of the giggling stops as he enters, some shadows can be seen as figures dash about, one shadow closes in on him as he turns to face the trolley, it sneaks up behind him as he reaches for the covers, it jumps up and launches at Kieron who turns quickly and raises a hand to grab the pony by the neck and straight away puts him arms around it whilst kissing at it, it returns the kiss as a couple of other ponies emerge from the shadows and walk up to the trolley to see what’s inside.
Kieron puts the pony down and turns to the trolley, pulls the cover off and throws it across the room, the ponies stare as one giggles with excitement, Kieron climbs on top of the trolley and looks over the edge to look inside the bars. Inside was yet another pony, he reaches down to unlock the door and opens it; the pony remained in the corner scared. The pony that was giggling with excitement dives for the door and grabs at the pony’s legs, drags it out and begins to sexually harass it, the pony that was in the trolley was Colgate and on top was BerryPunch but she had gone crazy with the madness, it looks as though all of the ponies in here have got the madness.
Kieron then begins to shake as he starts to morph into the creature that rampaged through Ponyville a while ago. He then walks over to BerryPunch and Colgate, lowers down beside them, pushes Berry off as Colgate is moaning with pleasure, gets on top of her, opens his jaw fully and then jolts forwards covering her face with his split jaw as he puts his hands against the sides of her head, the madness starting to spread to her as she starts to squirm and panic. The transmission soon is over and he lets go, taking his hands off her and lifting his head up, he watches as she shakes violently as the madness starts to take control.
All of the ponies then begin to take at the same time, “Join us Colgate, let the madness take over you. Succumb to the feeling, let yourself be a puppet to the power. Join us and you will be rewarded.” She stops shaking as the madness takes full control, she then opens her eyes to have the ‘glare’ and looks around at the other ponies, of which a couple are rubbing themselves, others having a good time together.
Celestia is in her study reading a book that she found in Kieron’s room, it was about his past, a diary about all of the things he has done in his life. She continues to read only to be interrupted by a knock on her door, “Sorry but I’m busy at the moment.” She says only for the knocking to come again but louder.
“Princess Celestia, I know you aren’t busy, I have checked your timetable. This is an urgent matter concerning the ponyknappings.” The voice calls out to her. She gets up, puts the diary on the table and walks over to the door, opens it to see Dr Atom stood at the door, he then adds, “I have a lead on the ponyknappings.”
A plague of madness: part 3
A plague of madness: part 3
Last chapter: “Princess Celestia, I know you aren’t busy, I have checked your timetable. This is an urgent matter concerning the ponyknappings.” The voice calls out to her. She gets up, puts the diary on the table and walks over to the door, opens it to see Dr Atom stood at the door, he then adds, “I have a lead on the ponyknappings.”
Celestia and Atom are talking in her study about what Atom had found out about the ponyknappings, “I know who was been taking the ponies, Princess. I’ve been watching around Ponyville and found that it was....” he stops as he is interrupted by Mathis appearing on the TV screen.
“It’s Kieron; he’s been taking the ponies. He came in not five minutes ago with a trolley covered over; I assume that a pony was inside it. He’s been acting weirdly like before, when he touched the GM’s cane and it transferred some power to him causing him to go mad for a brief time...” he explains, “You see, he was young and still learning, he touched the cane, it rejected him and transferred some of its power to him and made him go mad for a small amount of time, then it became dormant in his mind...” he adds as Atom stares intrigued by what he is saying.
“So, if the madness has been dormant, how has it come back out?” Atom asks. Mathis shrugs his shoulders.
“Strange...I have seen the power of the cane, it can lift things like using magic, so can Kieron use ‘magic’ so to speak?” he questions. Mathis thinks about it for a bit.
“Sounds about right, it is possible...yes he can, I saw him get into a lift and swung his arms together to close the doors, he can use ‘magic’ so to speak.” Mathis replies confirming Atom’s question. Celestia sat thinking hard about what they are saying.
“So Mathis, if he is taking these ponies, what is he doing with them?” she asks, again Mathis shrugs his shoulders, “Surely you must know, you see everything in his facility...” she continues.
Mathis shakes his head before replying, “No, he has an underground facility, under where the C.O.C and L.R.M.S were, he has cut me off from those facilities so I can’t see, hear or know anything that is going on in there...sorry.”
She looks up at Atom then over to Mathis, “Do it, I want to know what is happening to my ponies...” she orders. Mathis knods before the TV goes black, “I hope they’re alright...”
“I hope so too, Princess...for now we can only watch and wait.” He replies as he gets up and walks out, ‘Tia then continues to read the diary only to get to the part about where Kieron led an entire army to invade a country, absolutely demolishing all resistance and fighting a long, hard battle to victory, it described all the gruesome things he’s done to people and what he does to then when chasing them down.
Kieron finishes changing back to his human form before turning to leave the room, all the ponies ‘playing’ with each other, he begins to walk out, looking back for the last time before the bulkhead door closes, he makes his way towards the teleporter. The doors of the lift open, he stops as hears a noise, he looks down the corridor to the teleporter but then slowly continues onwards, suddenly a metallic arm comes out of the teleporter, grabs the side and a guard mech climbs out of the green glow, then another mech climbs out.
He stares at them as then stand next to each other and take aim at him, one of them then talks, questioning him in a robotic type voice, “Overseer, what are you doing down here? What is that trolley for? What is in the room behind you?”
He looks at them without answering, he lifts a hand and points at one of the mechs, he then turns his hand over and opens it to make a shape as if he were holding a ball on top of his fingers, he then suddenly closes his hand as the mechs behind crumples into a small ball of metal like a tin can. The other mech looks back at the ball of scrap metal, it turns to face Kieron and aims with its arm weapon and shoulder weapons, “I will give you one more chance to answer, Overseer. If you do not comply, I will have to open fire.” It says to him.
Kieron lowers his head before slowly lifting upwards to look at the mech with the manic stare, he then lifts his hand again, swiftly moves it to the right causing the left arm of the mech to fly off, he giggles slightly, “Isn’t this fun, getting to play with you, ripping you apart whilst you witness it without dying. This is what it is like for me.” He says as he raises a hand again to do something, the mech then dashes forward whilst shooting a few rounds at him.
Kieron jumps up to grab hold of the ceiling as the mech passes underneath; he then drops down, lifts both arms and then drops then down causing then mech to push downwards into the ground, crumpling slightly. The mech gets back up and turns to face Kieron only for him to lift his arms, move them apart causing the bulkhead door to open and ponies rush out starting to rip the mech apart piece by piece.
Kieron then turns and walk towards the teleporter with the trolley following like nothing happened. The ponies quickly manage to pull the mech apart before going back into the dark room and the bulkhead door closes.
Twilight starts to shake at the madness begins the transfer into her mind, Trixie still concentrating on the transfer, suddenly she flies off Twilight as a magical force pushes her off. The madness then fades from Twilight’s mind as it hadn’t fully transferred; she quickly forces herself to her hooves and looks around in confusion, her mind scrambled slightly. She looks over to the balcony only for Moonshine and Treacle to be gone, she then looks around to see a figure down the street, the figure was dark, normal size for a pony, and it had a horn and is that wings?
She automatically runs over to the figure knowing that if it wanted to hurt her it would have already, she reaches the pony, “Celestia?” she asks as she slows down getting closer.
“We are not our sister; it is I, Twilight Sparkle, Princess Luna. We saw you pinned to the ground by that pony and decided to help you. What is wrong with that pony?” she asks Twilight who stands in front of her and thinks.
“I don’t know, that was Trixie, we hate each other but yet she was....well....I don’t want to say but it felt like something was trying to control me, something that she was trying to give to me but I don’t know what.” She explains as Luna looks over to Trixie who gets up, looks over to them with the creepy stare and begins to walk over to them slowly.
She then begins to speak at exactly same time as another pony that suddenly appears behind them, “A princess, brilliant, I could use your power to help us spread the madness to more. Join us....Luna, joins us and help us spread this madness to all others.” Luna watches Trixie as Twilight looks back to see the pony behind.
“Princess, we need to get out of here, NOW!” she calls out to her, panicking as the pony start to close in on them.
“That other pony is Moonshine; it won’t be easy to hold them off.” She adds before concentrating her magic on her horn, she then manages to teleport the two of them inside the library. Twilight quickly rushes downstairs to lock the front door as Luna dashes to the balcony, looks out to see the two ponies stood next to each other looking at each other, she then closes the doors quietly then locks them.
“We should be safe now, princess.” Twilight calls up to her, she turns to face the bedroom door only to see Treacle laid down by the cupboard. Twilight walks up the stairs and into the room to see Luna staring at something, she peeks round the door to see Treacle, she then backs up to Luna, “We need to get out, she has the madness inside her, she told me that she does, if we don’t get out of Ponyville, we might most likely end up like them too.” She explains as Luna looks at her then over to Treacle who seems to be sleeping.
Celestia continues to read the diary, as she flips over the page a scroll magically appears in front of her, she unravels it and begins to read aloud, “Dear princess Celestia, I have a large problem, your sister and I are locked the Ponyville library with two ponies outside that were attacking us, there is also a pony in the house, Treacle Tart, who also has gone mad and will soon probably attack us. Could you please help us? Your faithful student, Twilight Sparkle. P.S. Please hurry, we might not have long.” She then drops the scroll, rushes over to her balcony and looks down at Ponyville; she then closes her eyes and teleports to Ponyville.
She appears outside of the library directly in front of the front door, she looks around to see the two ponies stood kissing at each other; she looks away in disgust before turning and going to knock on the door, she stops herself thinking it could attract the pony’s attention; she then flies up to the balcony silently. She knocks quietly in the doors after looking in and seeing them stood watching Treacle, Twilight turns and then walks over to open the door.
‘Tia walks inside and immediately goes over to Treacle, “There are only two ponies that I know that can do mind magic...me and that other one outside, Trixie. She is more experienced than me though, if I could true to stop the ‘madness’, as you call it’ from controlling Treacle I might be able to find a way to help others that have it.
She lays down next to Treacle on puts the tip of her horn against Treacle’s head, she concentrates as she feeds her magic into Treacle’s mind, Twilight ad Luna watch as she takes her time to find the madness within Treacle’s mind. Soon after she opens her eyes and lifts her head as Treacle slowly opens her eye and looks up at the three of them, ‘Tia and her then get up. Celestia then focuses her magic on her horn.
“It isn’t safe here anymore until we find out what is going on.” She says to them all before teleporting all of them to Canterlot.
The lift doors open and Kieron walks out with the trolley following him, he then waves a hand forwards causing the trolley to move into a small cupboard, “MATHIS!” he shouts out down the corridor, and Mathis then appears in front of Kieron.
“Yes sir, what is it?” he asks innocently.
“You know ‘what’ Mathis; those mechs are controlled by you. Why did you attack me?” he asks in an ordering voice.
“You have gone mad, sir. I was just wanting to get some answers for the princess, so that we can stop it and bring you back to normal.” He answers honestly.
“Me, mad?” he says, “I have not gone mad, I simply am being controlled by it, the cane, it has some of its power inside my mind and now it has been brought to life.” He explains.
“Yes, I know but you are turning ponies mad too, you need to stop, if you don’t then we will have to stop you by any means possible.” Mathis replies before disappearing. Kieron then walks towards the main room of the facility, when he reaches there he sits in a chair and stares at the big screen in front of him.
A pony walks up behind him and gives him a light kiss on the cheek, “Hello, darling. How are you?” the pony asks him, he continues to stare at the screen, he then grabs at his head.
“Get out of my head, this madness, it....it drives me to hurt the ones I love. Why must I have to endure such an emotional pain such as this?” he asks. The pony walks in front of him, he looks ahead to see the pony, “Tell me, Rarity. Why must I have to have the madness inside me, I didn’t want to hurt any of you, yet it makes me do it.” He adds as Rarity puts her hooves against Kieron’s hands to pin them to the chair.
“You cannot escape the madness, Kieron. Just let it control you, and only then can we all be happy, let me help.” She replies as she looks down to between his legs.
“No Rarity, don’t do it. I cannot allow it to control me any...” he is interrupted as she silences him by locking their lips together; she then begins to rub between his legs. He tries his best to resist by thinking about all the good things he did for the ponies, but it doesn’t work as he begins to lose himself again to the madness as pleasure starts to kick in. He looks at her with his piercing glare at her kissing away at him.
Trixie and Moonshine then walk in through the main door, Mathis appears in front of them, “Moonshine....and Trixie, don’t enter the main room, Kieron is very busy, he wishes not to be disturbed, so go away.” He orders.
Trixie completely ignores him and continues to walk towards the main room, Moonshine stands and looks at Mathis, “He’s right, we shouldn’t. Maybe we should come back later, so we aren’t rudely interrupting.” She replies.
“I’m sorry but WHAT?!” Mathis asks, caught off guard by Moonshine’s politeness. She then turns and walks out towards Ponyville, “What just happened, was she just polite to me, Holy crap.” He says to himself, Trixie runs out after her.
“Moonshine wait, the madness has corrupted you, let me help you.” Trixie shouts out to her as she runs after her. Mathis stands in confusion as he watches.
“Wow, I never saw that coming, anyway, I need to sort out Kieron now.” He says to himself before vanishing.
The TV in Celestia’s study lights up as Mathis appears, “CELESTIA......hello?” he says as he looks around the room, they all then suddenly appear as they teleport into the room, “Ah, princess....princesses in fact. Kieron isn’t cooperating, the madness has completely overtaken his mind, although he did have some resistance to it a couple of minutes ago...” he explains as they sit down and listen.
“We really need to stop this before it gets out of control. It’s like a plague; soon they’ll be roaming the streets.” ‘Tia replies.
“Yes, it would. I do have a suggestion though, if we can get you, Celestia, close enough to him, you could use your power to wipe the madness from his mind, you would have to be quick though or else the madness COULD take you too.” He explains.
“I don’t know, I’m not very experienced right now. We should all just rest for now and hope we can control the spread for now.” She replies as she makes her bed and the others go and lay on it, “We’ll stay here for the night; I’ll stay up and think of a solution.”
A plague of madness: part 4
A plague of madness: part 4
Last chapter: “Yes, it would. I do have a suggestion though, if we can get you, Celestia, close enough to him, you could use your power to wipe the madness from his mind, you would have to be quick though or else the madness COULD take you too.” He explains.
“I don’t know, I’m not very experienced right now. We should all just rest for now and hope we can control the spread for now.” She replies as she makes her bed and the others go and lay on it, “We’ll stay here for the night; I’ll stay up and think of a solution.”
Everything is back to normal, the ponies that were missing before have returned to the streets of Ponyville and seem to be normal with no problems, only now and then does a pony go missing, only to appear the next day fine and normal. Kieron still resides within his facility never coming out; the only pony that hasn’t returned home is here with him, Trixie. She stays there with him; nopony knows why and never questions it as they can’t go anywhere near it.
Ponyville has been put in full lockdown, as a precaution that the madness is still about in Ponyville. The residents of Ponyville are not allowed to leave or to go anywhere without a check by Celestia herself or by Mathis.
During the calm period Mathis has been working for Celestia to help try to stop the madness, in the process Kieron became very cautious and suspicious of him and so Mathis has moved his core from the mech facility without Kieron knowing to the room where the Elements of Harmony are held, he has also created himself a mechanical humanoid so that he can walk around and help out and so he can scan the minds of any ponies wishing to leave Ponyville.
Ponyville is guarded by many royal guards that cut off any exits from the village, guard mechs patrol the streets and the train station, each train that leaves and enters the village is escorted by a Havoc mech and anypony that now is said to have gone mad and show signs of it are shot on sight.
Celestia is pacing her room as she waits for Mathis’ arrival about the death count of the ponies that HAVE shown signs of madness, she now and then walks over to the balcony and peers over the edge to look down to the streets below hoping that the madness hasn’t spread to here without her knowing.
A sound comes from her door but it wasn’t a knock, it sounded more like a muffled gunshot. Celestia rushes over to the door and swings them open quickly to see Mathis stood with a royal guard in his grasp and his arm turned into a shotgun, the head of the pony half missing and blood all up the corridor wall and floor.
“MATHIS, what have you done?” she shouts at him wanting answers, “You’ve killed a guard, are you mad?” she asks as he drops the guard and looks over to her with a slightly sinister look. She backs up a little and starts to concentrate her magic on her horn as she readies for a possible fight with him.
He then walks towards her slowly before raising his gun up to aim at her, she then readies herself as she has no doubt he has become corrupted, his gun then folds up around his hand quickly to fold up into a small pod-like holster on the side of his arm, he then puts the hand to his head, “Sorry about that Princess...” he lowers his arm, walks up to her and puts a hand on her shoulder, “You look stressed, you should go lay down.” He adds, Celestia staring at the guards speechless, he looks back to the guard, “He was mad, and to think the madness has got this close to you, let’s hope that is the only one...” he then leads her back into her room before turning to close the doors.
Celestia goes and lays on her bed, Mathis then stands at the side, sits on a chair and watches the doors in case somepony comes through, “He really was mad, the madness has got to Canterlot?” she asks, “How is that possible, we’ve cut off any way of ponies getting to other places without scans for the madness.” She questions more.
Mathis just shakes his head in confusion, “I don’t know just as much as you don’t...” he replies, looking over to her as she lays panting from the previous shock, he reaches over, grabs the covers and puts them over her, “You should stay here and get some rest, I will go and clean up the mess outside...oh, before I forget, now adding that one, the death count is now 31 ponies dead.” He adds before getting up and walking over to the door and leaving the room. Celestia putting a hoof to her face as she can’t believe that so many ponies have died.
Twilight is in Treacle’s home with her, she is staying there as Treacle knows that nothing has changed, the ponies may be back and acting normal but she can still feel the madness in Moonshine, ready to attack anypony that isn’t infected.
She soon arrives to the kitchen where Treacle is cooking breakfast for the both of them, she walks in to be given a warm welcome by Treacle who trots over and gives her a nice hug before rushing back over to the cooker to check the eggs.
As Twilight watches Treacle multitask the cooking she hears a voice from outside, it sounded robotic, she peeks her head round the kitchen door to see two large shadow against the door window, “Don’t worry about it Twilight, the guard mechs from the library have been sent to guard my home since we are both here and not at the library.” She says giggling to herself about what she just said before mumbling to herself about it.
Twilight watches the shadows as a third pony shaped shadow approaches them, she listens carefully as one of the mechs asks the pony, “Halt, state your business here.”
The pony then replies in a very familiar voice, “I just want to see Twilight, she is here right, I was told she was here and not in the library any more, I really hope she is here because then that means that I came here without her really being here and I will have wasted my time coming here to see her when she isn’t even to here for me to speak to.” The mechs look at each other before looking back at the pony; one mech then raises an arm to point at the pony, the mech then scans the pony for any sign of the madness hiding its mind.
The mech steps to the side to allow the pony to come into the house after having no madness inside it. The door swings open and Twilight watches as the pony walks in, “Pinkie?” she asks as Pinkie bounces over to Twilight before giving her a huge hug, “Pinkie, what are you doing here?”
Pinkie stops hugging and sniff as she smells the lovely smell coming from the kitchen before answering, “Here to see you silly. I wanted to come by to see how you were doing.” She replies before heading to the kitchen to see Treacle working away, zooming about without even a sweat.
Twilight then whilst they were busy talking decided to head outside, when she got out one of the mechs told her to head back inside, she refuses and the mech then decides to follow her where ever she goes, the other staying here.
She heads towards Rarity’s to see how she is doing after finally coming back after she was ponyknapped, Twilight doesn’t even think about any of the dangers that could be around, she looks about to see some mechs patrolling the streets and a Havoc mech walking over in the distance next to a train.
She quickly arrives at Rarity’s home, knocks on the door, “Hold on, I’ll be with you in a minute.” A voice from inside calls out as Twilight sighs in relief that she sounds ok. The door unlocks and then swings open as Rarity pops her head round to look round the door at Twilight, “Yes, what do you want, darling?” she asks as if she didn’t know Twilight.
“Rarity, it’s me Twilight. I just wanted to see how you are.” She replies starting to worry about her after hearing her reaction.
“Oh Twilight, come on in dear, I’m just working on something.” She says opening the door further to allow Twilight to enter, she then slams it shut as Twilight gets in stopping the mech from getting in, she then locks the door, “I have you now......You foolish, little pony. You silly, silly pony, you though I wasn’t infected; now you will find out what it is like to have the madness.” Rarity says as she slowly walks towards her. Twilight backs up slowly as she suddenly feels insecure that her friend has turned on her.
Rarity pounces for Twilight causing the two of them to conveniently to land on a sofa; she then begins to rub away as Twilight tries her best to knock her off.
Celestia continues to lay in her bed worrying about the plague reaching Canterlot, her bedroom door then suddenly shoots open as Mathis dashes inside, “Celestia, we have a problem. I have just realised something, the premonition that Luna had before SKULL attacked, it is exactly like the visions that the mad ponies are having. It sounds crazy but I believe she has the madness, that’s how that guard was mad. It’s her, she’s spreading the madness in Canterlot.” He explains as ‘Tia jumps out of bed.
“There is one more thing; one of the guard mechs in Ponyville is showing reports of a conversion currently in progress...” he adds, Celestia looking at him as if to say ‘So, we have better problems’, “It’s Twilight Sparkle, she is being molested, one of her friends has turned mad and is currently trying to spread the madness to her.” He explains, Celestia suddenly takes attention as her faithful student is in trouble.
“What, Twilight? That is it; I have had enough of these problems we are getting.” She replies before using her magic to teleport to Ponyville. Once the teleport flash had disappeared Mathis went to leave only for a voice to call from Celestia’s balcony.
“Mathis, you should really help us, there is no way you can stop the madness. You just killed a guards just because he wanted to help the other guard.” He turns to see the figure walk into the room.
“You know I won’t help you or anyone spread this awful plague, I have to stop it or else many more will die, this is a world of peace and harmony, what is happening? Destruction, rape and death, that isn’t peace to me, so I must stop it, I WILL stop it, and you can’t stop me Luna.” He replies as she grins at him with a really creepy smile on her face.
He raises a hand to point at her, the pod on his arm then opens as a submachine gun quickly is created and placed in his hand, he then aims it at her as she opens her wings ready to pounce at him, the pod on his other arm then opens and a laser blade comes out and attaches onto the side of his arm, “Bring it Luna, if you want to fight I will give you a fight, I don’t feel fear, I am a computer, your attempts to scare me are feeble. I don’t want to fight you but if you persist then I have no choice but to fight and hurt you.” He says as he taunts her.
They both circle each other as they ready to fight, “Mathis, you would be a great asset to our team but yet you fight us. We thought you were under Kieron’s control, but yet you have turned on him.” She replies, still circling. Mathis doesn’t reply as he waits for her to make the first move.
She soon does and launches herself at him, whilst in mid-air he raises his arm to ready a swipe with the laser blade only for some armour for fold round her, he then jumps back as she lands right where he was. He studies her, now in full power armour; she stands up and looks at him, “Ha ha, I may be a computer but that looks very sexy, you in full armour. But you are evil and mad and so must be stopped.” He says before she rushes over to him, instantly appearing in front of him, she uses her magic to slam him into the wall behind.
She walks up to him as he is pinned to the wall, her helmet folds back and she licks his face, he stops struggling as he becomes limp as if he had died, a guard mech then suddenly bursts into the room and begins to fire on Luna with machinegun fire as she jumps about to dodge them, Mathis’ body falls to the ground, it then gets back up as he reanimates the body, “You forget Luna, I am a computer, I can leave this body. I also can control that mech. Two on one, let’s see you stop me now.” He says as he gets into stance as if he was enjoying this.
Kieron is sat in his chair looking at the big screen which shows everything that Luna can see, “And so the madness takes its toll on the ponies as they can’t trust anypony or anything. Mathis vs. Luna, very interesting, he seems to love it, the destruction rushing through him. As for war, war never changes.
A plague of madness: part 5
A plague of madness: part 5
Last chapter:
Kieron is sat in his chair looking at the big screen which shows everything that Luna can see, “And so the madness takes its toll on the ponies as they can’t trust anypony or anything. Mathis vs. Luna, very interesting, he seems to love it, the destruction rushing through him. As for war, war never changes.
Celestia appears in Ponyville, by the library, ponies are walking about and don’t even give her one glance when normally they would be swarming her in awe by now. She makes her way over to the library door, not knowing about Twilight being moved from the library for some reason. She opens the door with her magic, the door creaks open, she steps inside and looks around, as soon as she walks in a noise comes from upstairs, it sounds like hoof-steps, “Twilight, is that you up there?” she asks cautiously.
The creaking stops just a she finished talking, she looks up at the door at the top of the stairs immediately knowing that it wasn’t Twilight, but who was it? She makes her way over to the bottom of the stairs and just as she goes to walk up them a male voice starts talking to her, “Hello there princess. Fancy meeting you here, how are you?” she sharply looks round to see the GM sat on a small wooden chair; she turns herself to face him.
“What are you doing here? You said you would leave this planet be...” she replies as she starts to feed magic into her horn, “Leave now or I will have to rip you apart...again.” she orders him. He chuckles slightly before standing up and putting his arms up by his sides.
“You can try you best but nothing will happen, Celestia. You see, I am not really here...” he explains, she looks at him with a confused look, “What’s wrong, you look confused. I am not really here; this is all in your mind. This image of me is just a projection from your mind; no-one else knows I’m here.” He adds whilst giving off an evil grin.
After knowing that he isn’t really there, she decides to ignore him and makes her way up the stairs towards the door, she then opens it with her magic only to be greeted by a pink thing flying towards her, she ducks down and it passes over her into the wall behind before falling to the ground, she turns round to see that it’s Moonshine and not Twilight.
“Moonshine, do you know where Twilight is?” she asks, not even bothered by the fact that Moonshine wants to ‘play’ with her, “Twilight is in trouble and I need to help her, do you know where she is?” she asks again.
“You do know that she is infected, right?” the GM asks her. ‘Tia looks over to him and shakes her head lightly, “Yeah, she’s infected and I’m in control.” She adds before raising his cane causing Moonshine to stop in her tracks. He then puts the cane down and thinks, “If I’m not mistaken, Twilight is close to being infected, she is currently at the house of certain pony known as Rarity....My, they are having fun.” He tells her whilst laughing to himself. Celestia immediately knew where that was and made her way for the door only to be blocked off by Moonshine and some other ponies that ran up to the door.
“You aren’t going anywhere princess, you’re power could be a great weapon for me, so I need you to be converted for me to control you. Don’t struggle now, that will only make things worse.” He says with the same evil smile from before.
She looks over to the ponies closing in on her then back to where the GM is only for him to be gone; she looks back at the ponies only for them to be right up close to her, she takes a step back before using her magic to toss the ponies to the side to allow her a path out of the library, as she tries to get out more ponies that are infected block her exit. She then backs up slight before using her magic again to through the ponies to the sides, she tries once more to make her way to Rarity’ house only for some pegasi to dive bomb her, she dodges some of them and uses her magic on the other to slam them into the ground knowing that they can’t feel any of the pain.
The ponies she tossed to the side in the library quickly come back together and all of the ponies begin to encircle her, she looks all around her to see that this must be half the village around her trying to make her become one of them, she begins to charge up magic in her horn. Some of the ponies dash towards her, she uses her magic to ‘grab’ them and then throw them back into some of the others. More ponies them start to arrive, this must be at least the whole village now.
Some pegasi then fly towards her, she uses her magic to knock a few back whilst ripping the wings off the others causing them to fall to the floor without any screams of pain but instead lay there silently before getting up and staring at her. She pushes them back with her magic to keep them all at bay by c=keeping them in the circle, her eyes then begin to glow slightly as her magic builds up. The ground starting to shake slightly as her magic builds up more and more, her eyes starting to have solar flares coming from them and from the tip of her horn, soon the ground starts to shake violently as she starts to use her magic to heat up the small circle with the power of the sun.
Soon the heat is so hot that the ponies are sweating, some of them not taking any notice whilst a couple are starting to become effected by it and looking up at the sun before starting to scream in pain, the madness being diverted from their minds as their instincts begin to take over making them run out of the circle and away from Celestia, as they leave the circle the heat dies down and they stop screaming out in pain. The others still in the circle still being affected by the heat as ‘Tia raises the temperature to that of an oven causing steam to burn off their coats, some try to walk towards her only for it to hurt really bad causing them to snap out of the madness and shriek out in agony.
Soon most of the ponies are gone from the circle and ‘Tia starts to fade the magic as the flares from her eyes and horn dissipate, soon the heat dies down back to normal, some of the ponies somehow managed to cope with the suffering, Celestia stumbles slightly under her own weight as she suddenly feels a little weak as she hasn’t used that much magic for quite some time, a few ponies seize the moment and run for her, they almost reach her only for them to be thrown off in many direction by a magical force, ‘Tia watches them fly off as she knew she didn’t do that.
“Ok, anypony else want to try and rape the princess? You’ll have to go through me first; nopony rapes her unless you rape me first.” Treacle Tart shouts out at the many ponies that still encircle Celestia, they turn to face her.
One then says to the others, “She is infected, yet she fights us. She is corrupted; she should be destroyed, all corrupted need to be ridden of.” The others look at the talking pony before knodding in agreement, they then begin to walk towards her slowly as some unicorns use their magic to hold her in place, she uses her magic to break free and then teleport next to ‘Tia who gets her strength back and gets back onto her feet.
“Princess, why are you here, it’s too dangerous for you to be here. As you can see.” Treacle tells her as she uses her magic to fend off multiple ponies.
“Mathis told me that Twilight was in trouble, that she was being converted.” She replies, Treacle looks back at her.
“I’m looking for her; she WAS at my house but then disappeared when I was cooking breakfast. Do you know where she is?” she asks as she dodges a pony that dives for her before pushing it back with her magic.
“Yes, she’s at Rarity’s house. We need to hurry but then these ponies showed up.” She replies. Just as Treacle went to speak a gunshot flew past her and hit a pony that was about to grab her from behind, they both look over where the gunshot came from to see a guard mech walking towards them with an arm pointing towards their area, a few more shots are fired causing the remaining ponies to scatter.
The mech then approaches them and stands guard in front of them, “Go, Twilight Sparkle is in trouble, I will stay here and make sure they don’t follow you.” It says to them, they then run off towards Rarity’s house.
Mathis and Luna are still fighting, Luna jumps at Mathis, he dodges to the side causing her to land behind him, he then turns quickly to grabs her and pulls her up against his body so that she can’t move, “Now what Luna?” he asks as she tries to get free of his grasp. He then walks out the room with her dragging behind him. He stops and ties her up so that she can’t do anything, he then continues to drag her as he makes his way to his core where he can attach her to the core and erase the madness from her mind.
They soon reach the hall of the Elements of Harmony, he throws her into the room as he closes the door, he then kicks her before grabbing at her horn and pulling her towards the doors at the other end, “You’re going to be turned back to normal whether you like it or not, besides your sister wouldn’t like to see you like this.” He says to her as they reach the doors, he then puts her down, the doors open as he walks up to the large machine inside, connects with it and then a large claw grabs Luna and pulls her towards it, she tries to struggle her best as she gets closer to the machine, a small needle lowers down and stabs into her head after the helmet is folded round behind her head.
Mathis begins to search round her mind, only keeping to the areas that the madness would loom in, not going in the private areas of her mind, he soon finds the madness and begins to ‘delete’ it from her mind like it was a virus on a computer, he soon completes the task and her body goes limp for a brief moment, the claw then let’s go of her and Mathis detaches from the machine and then unties her.
Luna wakes up her normal self and looks up at Mathis who looks over to the far side of the corridor where a couple of royal guards enter; he immediately knew they were infected as they would never enter this room. The pod on his right arm opens and a railgun comes out and attaches to the side of his arm, he grabs his arm with his other hand to steady his arm, he takes aim and fires, the round instantly hits one of the guards in the leg causing him to fly back and his leg to almost fly off. The other watch before charging at Mathis, his railgun reloads and he takes aim of another guard, the guards start to run to the sides whilst running towards him to make it harder for him to aim, a pod on his left shoulder then opens and a missile launcher unfolds out of it, he locks onto them and fires, six missiles fly towards the guards, they kill one of the guards splattering him all over the walls, guts and blood strewn everywhere. The other guard dodges the missiles by diving to the side, before it could get back up Mathis took aim with the railgun and fires killing the guard as the metal slug blows the guard’s head into tiny pieces causing the head to explode, pieces of brain and blood shoot out all over the place and onto Mathis and Luna causing Luna to jump up and scream in surprise.
“How are you feeling Luna?” he asks as he keeps his aim down the corridor just in case more guards come.
“Good, we need to get out of here, now you are not infected any more they will want to try and get you back. Let’s go.” He says before he raises his arm and slowly walks down the corridor in front of Luna who is still trying to get her bearings and screaming every time a piece of brain or gut falls down onto her.
“By the way Luna, you have something on your face.” He adds jokingly before escorting her out the corridor to her room.
Celestia and Treacle manage to finally get to Rarity’s house without being seen by any of the infected ponies. They reach the house only to see the front door completely missing and a huge hole taken out of the front of the house, “What happened here?” Treacle asks.
“I have no idea but I get the feeling it was trying to help US.” ‘Tia replies as she steps into the house looking around as the ruined house, desks and chairs thrown all over the place, clothes making materials littering the house. Treacle follows her into the house, as they both look around they hear a gunshot from outside, but round the back of the house, Celestia orders Treacle to search the house for Twilight whilst she finds out what that was.
Treacle starts to lift up the chairs and desks to tidy the place up a bit to make it more easy for her to find Twilight, as she is cleaning the place up she hears a few more gunshots and a single explosion, she jolts up to looks over to where it came from, when she goes to return to cleaning she sees a puddle of liquid over by the pile of materials in the corner of the room, she makes her way over to it and uses her magic to start and pull the materials out of the pile.
She soon comes to the bottom of the pile to see Twilight laid all sweaty and worn out, almost asleep. She lowers herself down to Twilight and tries to see if she is alright, Twilight’s eyes suddenly open to look at her causing her to jump back, she then back up slightly as Twilight get up with her head hanging low, “Treacle, is that you my friend?” she asks in a quite but piercing voice.
Treacle doesn’t reply but instead backs up more and readies herself for the worst, Twilight then raises her head and looks up at Treacle, she begins to walk towards her slowly causing Treacle to stand dead still as she fears the worst for herself, Twilight soon reaches Treacle, puts her head next to Treacle’s and whispers in her ear, “Gotya.” Treacle then rears her head back and pushes Twilight back as Twi starts bursting out laughing, “THE LOOK ON YOUR FACE!!.....priceless” she says as she grabs at her side.
“This is not a laughing matter; Princess Celestia is outside trying to find the pony that tried to convert you into a mad-one, if she gets converted because of this, I will commit....a big offence.” She replies before turning flank and walks out of the house to try and find Celestia, Twilight then follows her out.
Celestia jumps about as a guard mech thinks she has been converted and has obviously gone rouge, she dodge some missiles and uses her magic to deflect the bullets, Rarity then jumps on the mech and uses her magic to pull at the head of the mech before reaching under the head with her hoof and rips out the wiring the mech then begins to fire in all directions as its targeting system is ripped out. Celestia seizes the moment and uses her magic to shut down the mech causing it to stop and fall to the ground in an empty hunk of metal, Rarity jumps off and stand to face ‘Tia who turns her attention to the filly.
“Thank you for that, it was getting pretty annoying.” She thanks ‘Tia before walk towards her slowly. ‘Tia starts to concentrate magic on her horn as she begins to feed magic into the mind of Rarity. She stops approaching as she feels the magic going through her mind. Soon ‘Tia finds the madness but something isn’t right, it feels more intense than before in Treacle. She begins to see images of the darkness with the fires around her and the glowing eyes.
A quite voice then calls to her, “Join us.”
A plague of madness: part 6
Last chapter: “Thank you for that, it was getting pretty annoying.” She thanks ‘Tia before walk towards her slowly. ‘Tia starts to concentrate magic on her horn as she begins to feed magic into the mind of Rarity. She stops approaching as she feels the magic going through her mind. Soon ‘Tia finds the madness but something isn’t right, it feels more intense than before in Treacle. She begins to see images of the darkness with the fires around her and the glowing eyes.
A quite voice then calls to her, “Join us.”
Kieron is half-inside a machine in the place where Mathis’ core was once at, he finishes connecting some wire and a whirring noise starts up, he pulls himself out as the noise quickly gets higher pitched before becoming silent, “Boot-up sequence finished. Download sequence finished. All system operating at full capacity. Hello Kieron.” A female computer voice calls out to him. He backs up slightly as he looks at the machine as he gets a sense of achievement building it.
“Hello to you too.” He replies, a holographic image of a woman appears behind him and walks up to him, he turns to see it close to him, “You have all the same capabilities as Mathis?” he asks, it knods as it brings up an image of a table with all the records that Mathis had taken in the past, “Good, so you now are as powerful as him, damn him for leaving. Now, what to call you.......Veronica?” he asks it.
“That is a nice name, yes, I shall accept that name. Veronica.......I like that.” She responds before turning to walk down the corridor whilst fading away. He then closes the bulkhead door to seal her core away in its own separate room, walks off to the main room and sees on the screen that it has gone blank.
“Luna must have dropped her armour somewhere, I have no visuals. Veronica, time to go to work already, where is Luna?” he questions. The screen lights up as scanning codes and tables quickly fly across the screen, they soon stop to show a map of Equestria with a red dot flashing rapidly to show where she is.
“I must tell you, Kieron, that isn’t Luna that I am picking up, she isn’t infected. That dot is Mathis, he has created a humanoid mech for himself, and it looks really advanced...and sexy.” She tells him before appearing behind him, “Do you wish for anything else?”
“No, I will see to this myself. Is there anything you want before I go?” he asks her. She thinks for a nanosecond before knodding.
“Yes, I would really like some strawberries; I seem to have a strange feeling, like a craving for them.” She replies before going and sitting in his chair, he looks at her with a confused look.
“Strawberries.........fair enough.” He responds and then makes is way over towards the med-lab where a small kitchen is, opens the fridge and picks up the strawberries, walks back to the main room, places them on the desk and walks out of the facility.
Celestia and Rarity are at a stalemate, ‘Tia could easily take on this filly but she doesn’t want to hurt her since it is Twilight’s friend, “Please just stop this now, Rarity, I don’t want to have to hurt you.” She says to the filly that starts to walks slowly towards her.
“Oh it won’t hurt, not one bit, but it will be very pleasurable.” She replies with a sinister grin as she gets even closer, just as she goes to leap at ‘Tia she is pushed back by a magical force. ‘Tia looks back to see Treacle and Twilight walking towards her, Treacle’s horn glowing as she pins Rarity to the ground.
“Now princess, get the madness out of her.” Twilight orders, ‘Tia walks up to the pinned pony and uses her magic to find the magic in Rarity’s mind once more, the glowing eyes return, and the fires, she could almost feel the heat of the fires against her coat as if she was there.
“Yes, longer, keep going, you will soon be mine.” A voice says quietly, she stops using her magic as she breaks her concentration to looks around for the voice; she looks over to Twilight to see the GM sat on her back.
“Get off her, now.” She says to him, Twilight looking around in confusion as she looks for whom ‘Tia is talking to.
“That is such a shame, a little more and you would have been mine.” He replies, ‘Tia then walks over to him as he gets off Twilight, she looks back as she could feel a slight ease of weight when he got off.
“Why are you doing this, you can’t win, we will stop everything you try to do, no matter what you try you can’t...” she stops as she is interrupted by a barrage of railgun rounds firing at the GM, she looks around to see flashes and noises coming from Canterlot, it looks like something on Luna’s balcony, the rounds continue to fire at the GM who starts to avoid them, one hits him and an effect shimmers around him.
“Damn it.” He says to himself. Twilight looks about and sees the GM and jumps in surprise.
“CELESTIA, ITS THE GRAND MASTER, AND HE’S BACK!!” she shouts at the tip of her voice before running behind ‘Tia.
“Did he just disappear, what is going on?” Twilight asks, ‘Tia knods to confirm.
“I can’t say really, it was like he was here but yet he wasn’t, he didn’t teleport like he normally would but instead faded away....like a ghost.” She replies before walking over to Rarity, puts a hoof against her chin and kisses her, Twilight shouts in shock, Treacle too.
Soon later she lifts up and licks her lips, Rarity opens her eyes only to look at them all, “I am so sorry, I didn’t mean to kiss you princess.” She apologises.
“You don’t need to apologise, young one. It was only a matter of time that it would have happened.” She explains, they all then start to make their way towards Treacle’s house while railgun rounds shower the streets to make the infected ponies scatter from the streets.
As they get close to her house a mech stands at the door, it drops down to the floor as a figure behind it leaves go of it. The figure was bipedal, and dark, even in the light of day. They stop as the figure looks over to them, it suddenly disappears, they all looks about to see where it went.
“Everypony in the house, now.” Celestia says quietly to them all, they all make their way to the house, get inside and close the door, Celestia stays outside and looks at the mech to see a large hole in its side as if a laser blade had stabbed it. She looks about to look for the mysterious figure, suddenly a noise comes from the side of her as it appears and tries to swipe at her, she uses her magic to push it up in the air before slamming it into the ground.
The figure stands up and she can finally get a good view of it, “Kieron, what are you do.....I see, you’re the source of the madness, we have to stop YOU to kill off the madness. So be it.” She says as Kieron takes a step forward only to be showered by missiles from Mathis up on Luna’s balcony.
Celestia then remembers something, she concentrates her magic and her power armour unfolds around her, Kieron stood in the middle of the smoke from the explosion, not even damaged a little, she looks over to him and stares into his eyes, him doing the same to her.
Kieron dashes forwards to swipe as her, she sidesteps to dodge it, he becomes invisible as his cloaking activates, she uses her magic to shake up the ground and causes a layer of dirt to form on the ground, as she looks about she sees some footsteps getting closer to her, she then runs over to it, quickly turns round and kicks Kieron with her hind legs. He flies into the nearest wall, he peels himself out of the dent in the wall and pulls out a sniper rifle, he takes aim of her and fires, and she deflects it with magic and then teleports above him and lands on him causing him to grunt with pain.
“Snap out of the madness Kieron.” She says as he goes to stab her with a laser blade, she puts her hooves on his hands to pin him down. Mathis suddenly teleports next to her and aims his dual railguns at Kieron in case he tries anything. She uses her magic to start going through his mind to find and eliminate the madness, Mathis stood guard watching Kieron.
As ‘Tia goes through his mind she finds many things that disturb her from his past. Luna teleports next to them, Mathis tries to stop her from getting any closer but she insists, she lays down next to them, closes her eyes and uses her magic to aid ‘Tia in ridding the madness from Kieron’s mind since she herself knew what it was like.
They both open their eyes and stand up; Celestia takes her hooves of Kieron as he lays there, his mind battling the last bits of the madness. He opens his eyes and looks around at them all, “Luna...’Tia...what happened, I feel like I have the biggest headache ever.” He says grabbing at his head. ‘Tia chuckles slightly, Mathis looks about to see ponies shaking their head and grabbing at them as the madness leaves them.
“The plague of madness is gone, you’ve done it princesses.” Mathis claims as they help Kieron to the mech facility.
Above Canterlot a group of clouds move away in a circular pattern as if something was travelling through them. A faint shimmer can only just be noticed, only could be seen if somepony was trying to look for it. The shimmer went on forever, at least three kilometres.
The Grand Master is sat in a chair in the middle of the bridge, “We continue to try and take this planet, why? Why is this planet so special for us to waste our time waiting and fighting rather than finding a new one?” he says to himself, a man in clothing walks up to him and replies.
“Because the GI wants us to just watch them, see how they live so that we can study them, hopefully take over and use them as slaves rather than killing them, as we have found out something’s in life are easy, killing them is hard so he wants us to left them go but study them.” He answers.
“Ah, Grand Master 03, I know that but this is trying my patients, Kieron is now back to his normal self and peace has been restored in their land, killing HIM is hard.” He replies, looking up at the man who looks out of the bridge to look at the scenery in front with Ponyville in the distance.
“True, but you created him. He seem stronger than you first thought, he managed to get out of the power of your cane, which is a hard thing to be able to do. This waiting better pay off.” GM 03 says before turning to face him.
“Yes, I know. But what the Grand Inquisitor says goes. We continue to study them, from up here, where they can’t see us...” he says as GM 03 walks out of the bridge, “Take us to over that forest, we will stay there while we observe them.” He orders to the drivers.
The drivers knod and the ship silently begins to move to over the Everfree forest, pushing clouds out of the way as it moves, invisible to sight and any type of detection systems that Mathis and Veronica have.
Kieron and all of the ponies that were once infected are back to normal, the madness has completely gone. Rarity’s house is fixed; Mathis’ has converted Veronica so that she isn’t evil no more but is now a second AI that the ponies can use to help them. Celestia has held a royal ceremony for Kieron to thank him for all of the things he has done for them.
“I hereby proudly present this badge to Kieron Fox, the Overseer of SKULL our once enemy that tried to take our home world. This badge is for the courage and determination he has shown whilst fighting to help save us from complete extinction. Thank you Kieron, you truly are a good person.” Celestia says in her speech before using her magic to lift up the badge and place it on Kieron’s uniform. He then salutes before turning to face the huge gathering of ponies that are watching.
He steps forward and bows to thank all of them for their gratitude, the crowds then all roar with cheer as he salutes to them, three Havoc mechs fly overhead alongside the Wonderbolts, explosions going on in the sky as other Havoc mechs fire missiles into the sky. Celestia then walks up next to him, looks at him, he looks at her.
“Kieron....” she says, he turns to face her, the crowd quieting down slightly, he backs up a little to give her room, she then adds, “You have my thanks.” She then bows her head, the crowd goes wild with cheer as they had never seen since an honour as the Princess bowing to someone else.
Luna then walks up onto the balcony, walks up next to Celestia, faces Kieron and bows, the crowds become unbearably loud as they cheer loudly, and he looks at the crowd and gets a strange feeling from such an honour as this.
“All my life, I went around killing people for pleasure and fun........but nothing, nothing at all makes me happier than this moment right now.” He says as his eyes well up with tears, he then salutes to the crowds as tears begin to roll down his cheeks.
Mathis watches from behind the crowd with Veronica, now in a humanoid mech like his, and knods his head as he sees that Kieron has finally done something right, he then says to himself, “Well done Kieron, you’ve saved this peaceful world from eternal darkness. Well done.”
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Writer comments – Thank you everyone who reads this story, I have had such great pleasure writing it but I would have had nothing if it wasn’t for by close friend (Bloodshade), I would like to thank him for his support and ideas that I was given by him. I would also like to thank my other friend (Dr Atom Discharge) for the use of his character in my story. Please visit them and have a look at their stories too.
Again I say, thank you to everyone who has been there to read this, I have left the story here so that people can make their own ending to this story. If anybody wants to make their own story to continue it then please tell me about it so I can read it when done.
P.S my friend's (Bloodshade) story, 'War never changes' is a continuation of this and would be well appreciated if you read that too. Thank you.
P.S.S Here is the link to my alternate ending of this story.http://www.fimfiction.net/story/15212/When-Worlds-Collapse
Thank you and your welcome.
Ragnarok: The finale
Last chapter: “Kieron, princesses and other ponies, you have seen my ships in orbit, you have seen by forces attack you, you have seen my power from the Element X bomb but now...now you see the true power of SKULL in front of you. We WILL take this planet. That city was a great help, thank you...” he comments as ‘Tia looks at the screen confused, “Cloudsdale, is it? I used that city to create my forces, those ships you see, they were created in Cloudsdale. Now, surrender or we will kill you all.” He order as the screen goes black and the transmission ends.
Kieron, Atom, Moonshine and the others watch as the invasion force approaches them and more still emerging from the dust, he then comments, “This is it...the end of the world.”
Ambush, Reaper, Hades and the others watch as the force approaches them, Kieron quickly gets Mathis to scan the forces for a count up of them.
“There is a total of 34 Havoc mechs, 1,350 Soldiers, no Talons, 60 odd Fighter jets, over 100 tanks and the three ships...” he comments, just as he continues the scan he notices something odd about the ships, “Sir, those ships, they’ve been rushed, the GM has rushed their production. They are fully built with the same armour as on the Malevolence but they don’t have shields.” Mathis explains, Kieron then looks at the ships thinking quickly of a way that could take them down quickly.
“Mathis, take aim of the cruiser with the big guns and the EP (Emergency Protocol) cannon. I, Atom and Moonshine will take down the frigates.” Kieron replies, Mathis tries to object but he cuts him off. Ambush then turns to look over at the C.O.C and L.R.M.S to see them begin to turn and aim at the cruiser. They don’t shoot until Kieron is to give the call.
Ambush then faces Hades and Reaper, knods and turns back round, raises an arm and begins to speak, “Now, we fight for the survival of all pony kind. We fight for the protection of them; we fight to stop the evil that wishes to take this planet. We fight not for death, not control but for survival. They have come to our land, our world, our territory. This is our land; we will stop them, why?” he them looks over him shoulder back at his forces all pumped, ready to fight for him, “...Because this is our world, not theirs. Now go my brothers, fight for me, fight for the ponies, fight for Equestria!”
All of the forces behind him roar and cheer as their moral is sky high, ready to fight to the death, every last soldier ready to die. Ambush looks forwards, takes a few steps and points at the cruiser.
He lowers his arm, his torso then tilts forwards to 45 degrees, and Reaper then walks up behind him. The Sirius cannons an Reaper’s back deploy and slide together to meet in the middle as he climbs onto the back of Ambush, putting his core against the back of Ambush so that the cannons are aiming forward over the top, Reaper then drops the arm weapons and grabs onto the sides of Ambush’s core. Hades walks behind the two of them and then jumps up onto the top of Ambush’s hind legs, deploys the pulse cannons round his arms and places against the sides of the Sirius cannon only for them to attach to the guns.
A low, whirring noise comes from the cannons as the ‘eyes’ of Reaper glow brighter, Ambush and Hades powering down as the power from their generators is redirected to Reaper. The noise gets faster as a faint glow can be seen down the barrel, all of a sudden the dual cannons then extend upwards and the inner barrels slide outwards together as the cannons then attach to each other to make one big cannon. Moonshine takes control of the combined mechs as she turns them slightly to aim at the left-hand side frigate.
As she takes aim and pulls the trigger the cannon begins to whir violently as it charges, the glow from in the barrel can now be seen from outside as it brightens. Soon the whirring is really loud and the glow very bright. Ambush automatically steadies them by spreading out his legs; Hades’ back boosters activate to ready to absorb the recoil from the shot. The cannon soon reaches full charge, bulkhead armour covers Ambush’s and Hades’ ‘eyes’ as Reaper looks up towards the frigate.
A mechanical type roar can be heard as Reaper’s head moves in a circle is if roaring like an animal before Moonshine pulls the trigger again. The whirring suddenly intensifies and the glow becomes blinding as the cannons begin the final firing sequence, the trio of joined mechs vibrate and shake furiously as the whirring gets louder and higher pitched soon reaching above the hearing range of humans, it shatters some still intact windows in Ponyville.
The SKULL forces are almost at their location, the fighter jet fly ahead and begin to open fire as the guards at Canterlot start to fire at them, multiple SKULL mechs shoot some missiles as Equestrian mechs deploy flares and shoot them causing them to explode with only a couple getting through but do no damage.
The glow from the cannon atop of Reaper suddenly disappears as a violent, large rumble begins to start up as Moonshine pulls the trigger for a third time and the cannon fires a large, blue beam towards the frigate. It soon impacts against it and tears a hole straight through it a the beam melts through the armour and right through the whole ship. The ship immediately begins to explode in multiple places as it loses control and slams into the other frigate causing the two to crash into the ground and taking some of the SKULL forces with them as the hit frigate explodes largely destroy both of them.
Hades detaches and jumps off, Reaper then leaves go of Ambush and fold the cannons back up whilst stepping down, Ambush then stand up straight, “NOW MATHIS!” Kieron shouts out after getting power back to Ambush. The C.O.C and L.R.M.S begin to fire along with the EP cannons at the cruiser which deflects some of the shots but not all as some round smash against it causing slight damage and the missiles ripping some of the armour off it.
Kieron hacks into the aiming system of C.O.C, the screen on his HUD then appears showing what the cannon sees, he then takes control and aims it at the cruiser’s main gun, and right down the barrel at is turns to aim at Kieron. He fires, the rounds luckily travel straight into the barrel and hit against a shell inside the barrel causing it to explodes and destroy the main gun, the front of the ship bows upwards slightly from the explosion before coming back down.
Mechs fall in heaps of scrap metal, tanks erupt into flames, jets burst into flames and crash into the ground, soldiers and Anthros fall down as meat bags as everything and everyone fights. The cruiser stops as a bulkhead shielding covers the gap where the main gun was; it activates all of its weapons systems and takes aim of Kieron, just Kieron. Missiles, shells and lasers fire directly at him as he starts to charge at the ship, darting past Hades and Reaper who turn and join him; they all dodge most of the shots as only a few missiles hit them now and then.
As they get close to the ship a bright explosion flashes from the cruiser as it starts to fall to towards the ground, Kieron stops and starts to see that the explosion wasn’t from inside but was from a gunshot that penetrated through the top of the ship and out the bottom. He looks up to see faint lights in the distance above them. Could it be another ship that had turned on SKULL and is helping them? The lights get closer as an outline begins to form, Kieron’s eyes widen as he recognises the shape, it wasn’t SKULL at all, nor was it Equestrian. The ship reaches the ground at high speed, it looks tattered and beaten as it flies down over Ponyville above Kieron and the others to face the cruiser which recovers from the shot and raises back up. Kieron sees a name on the side of the ship; it says ‘Spear of freedom ’. No SKULL ship had this name; he saw this name about 8 years ago just before they found Equestria.
It was a ship from the UEFDC; they must have finally tracked SKULL here after their last engagement. The ship looked a wreck because of what the Malevolence did to it, the emergency quantum jump that it did had damaged the armour slightly, and the light-jump engines must have been damaged as there wasn’t a flash when they arrived at the planet. The ship stops and some hanger doors open as multiple attack jets fly out and begins to open fire on the huge hoards of SKULL jets flying by, some dropships come down to the surface and drop off huge amounts of troops, some large transports land as multiple UEDFC Leviathan class tanks exit from them. These tanks are 2-3 times bigger than the SKULL tanks attacking and have dual high-velocity cannons that can topple a Havoc mech with low stability; they also have a smaller turret atop of the main turret that has dual Gatling guns on one side and a large missile pod on the other side.
The troops and tanks encircle Kieron’s mech as a corporal from inside a Juggernaut class siege mech walks up to him, others then deploy from the transports, they look as though they fold up and after being dropped off, and they unfold to come to a height just under a Havoc mech. They have reverse joint legs for enhanced stability and for folding up, they have quad autocannons to the side on the front of the body that can rotate right round, the cockpit is just above these cannons with dual chain guns sat next to it. It also has some hidden missile racks that are concealed behind the chain guns, a flap opens to reveal the racks that fire upwards and down on top of the enemy.
The corporal then pipes up, “Stay where you are Overseer, we have you surrounded.” He steps forward as other Juggernauts approach Ambush. He relaxes as they walk towards him, the jets above fighting in the sky, troops being dropped off still as they charge into battle, some taking cover in the remaining streets and houses of Ponyville. Leviathan tanks are driving along at high speeds running over SKULL Deathtroopers and blasting at SKULL tanks that stand no chance, but some mechs charge back at the tanks and return fire.
“You need not to fear me, Corporal Philips. I am not SKULL no more. Can’t you see that?” Kieron replies, the mech that the Corporal is piloting turns to looks at the battle waging on the edge of Ponyville.
“Are these your forces fighting SKULL?” he questions as he looks about then back to Kieron.
“Yes, they are mine, I have turned on the Grand Master, and I will not let him take this planet. I have vowed to protect them, the ponies of Equestria.” Kieron claims as Ambush walks up to the mech and looks into the cockpit.
“Ponies? Why are you protecting ponies?” he asks.
“They are not like the ponies of Earth. They are much different but for now don’t ask any more questions, just help me take down that cruiser so that we can take down the jets to control the skies which will let us control the battle. Then we take on the Malevolence.” He explains as he looks over to the huge ship over the forest.
The ‘Spear of freedom’ wasn’t that much smaller than the Malevolence but everyone knows that the Malevolence was virtually impenetrable. The UEFDC ship then begins to fire its whole arsenal of weapons at the cruiser, the armour puts up a good fight against the shots but eventually they blast through creating a hole as it continues to fire the bridge is blown apart but the ship still stands. It then stats to turn to face Canterlot, it must have an autopilot feature activated, the ship’s engines then flash as it suddenly begins to speed up towards Canterlot.
“STOP THAT SHIP!” Kieron shouts out to some of his Drone mechs who stop fighting and chase down the ship, about 12 mech in all pursue the ship as other mechs take their place in the battle on the ground. The UEFDC ship then turns its guns to the SKULL ships and fires hitting the engines which explode in bright flashes but yet the ship still charges for Canterlot, it’s going to crash into the castle.
‘Tia, Luna and the other watch as the ship gets closer, “Luna! Give me your hoof.” Celestia calls out, Luna and ‘Tia then hold hooves as they both their eyes and concentrated magic on their horns.
Kieron then begins to run after the ship but stops as he hears a voice in his head, “Shot the ship with the C.O.C, Kieron. We will do the rest.” He looks about a little to see who was talking to him then looks over to Canterlot and soon had an idea, he then overrides the C.O.C and controls it himself, takes aim of the cruiser and shoots hitting the ship immediately, the explosion is different as a light can be seen coming from Canterlot castle, Celestia’s and Luna’s magic fed through the gun shot and amplified the power and impact greatly. The ship is pushed to the side by the force; it slams into the ground just on the edge of Canterlot as it explodes furiously from the magic bullets that hit it.
The drone mechs pursuing the ship stop and dash back to the battlefield to help start the turn of battle. Kieron then puts the C.O.C back on auto as he then looks over to the Malevolence which starts to move to turn and face Canterlot. Its main guns deploy and quickly charge, “MOVE YOUR SHIP, NOW!” Kieron shouts to the captain of the ‘Spear of freedom’ as he sees that the Grand Master is going to shoot it.
The main guns soon charges and fires a devastating laser that rips a hole straight through the UEFDC ship, with still enough power in the shot the laser propels towards Canterlot and impacts against the shielding which wasn’t designed to take this much damage, it overloads and the faint, green aura round Canterlot begins to peel away as the shields power down from the hit. The noises from outside were muffled before but now can be fully heard as the shields continue to peel away. Ponies in the streets begin to panic as they hear the loud explosions, gunshots and missiles from outside.
Kieron then dashes towards the Malevolence with some drone mechs, they pass below the UEFDC ship just in time as it slams into the ground and erupts in flames but still continues to fight as gunshots and missiles are shot from it towards the SKULL forces on the battlefield. Kieron and the mechs rush over to the Malevolence which begins firing on them destroying one mech immediately, Kieron then reaches the ship, jumps up at it and begins to tear his way inside, the other mechs of which there is three jump up and do the same.
He pulls and slices as the armour, a hole is made, as he looks inside he sees that it is a jet hanger, he and the mechs then push themselves in through the hole and begin firing on the jets, engineers, pilots and soldiers inside. As they fight Ambush’s core opens and Kieron jumps out in full armour to land on top of a soldier squashing him to the point of exploding, he then darts about as he takes pot-shots at soldiers and runs towards a door that leads out of the hanger.
Once through the doors shut and he punches the console to lock the doors, Ambush back in the hanger closes up and begins fighting as Mathis takes control. Kieron then walks slowly down the corridor towards a control point which would allow him to briefly shutdown Mathis aboard the ship and get it to travel away from the planet so he could destroy it.
He continues to walk down the corridor only for the lights to shut off leaving him in the dark, a voice then echoes through, “Overseer, did you think you could just come aboard without asking? Well you can’t, so die.” A noise from down the corridor then echoes as he looks over with his night vision activated, the noise came from some metallic footsteps. It was something now that the Grand Master was trying, they were Anthros but different, they had some mechanical parts attached to them.
They stand at the far end of the corridor as he stands and looks at them, “What has he done to you?” he says to them. One looks at him with a sorrowful face.
“Help us Overseer. He’s gone crazy, he’s torturing us, and this...it hurts. Make it stop.” It says to him just before it grabs at its head, it then roars and stares at Kieron.
“Damn it, he’s put loyalty chips in them.” He says to himself as they begin walking towards him. He then begins to walk to them, as they approach each other a large hand smashes through the wall and grabs an Anthro and pulls it out of the corridor, the others them begin to fire at the mech on the other side of the wall as Kieron slips by them to the other end of the corridor and into the control point room.
He soon comes to the control point, he opens the door and walks in, and the door closes behind him, he walks up to a console and begins to type away as he temporarily shuts Mathis out from the console. He manages to lock Mathis out, he then sets the ship to head for orbit, he jerks as the ship begins to move. He then finishes off by detaching the warp drives from their frames.
He exits the room and heads for the hanger that he came in. When he reaches the hanger he sees that one of the mechs lay against a wall torn open with scratch marks everywhere. He sees another swinging its arms around as the Anthros from earlier rip it apart with ease. Kieron dashes over to Ambush and jumps in, the core closes and he ‘falls’ out of the ship as is enters orbit. He floats away waiting for the warp drives to kick in, but they never do.
He drifts slowly towards the planet watching the ship waiting for something to happen, “You didn’t think that would work did you?” A voice asks him, a missile door opens as he looks at the ship, “Mathis has stopped your little plan, you really are stupid sometimes, Kieron. It is a real shame that I have to waste this missile on you to kill you.” The voice adds before cutting off, a single missile launches and moves towards him, it wasn’t a normal missile, no; it was an Element X missile, the only thing that can virtually kill him.
He dashes about to shake it off but it doesn’t work, he then quickly thinks and darts over to the ship’s engines whilst dodging more shots and missiles, he flies over to the main engine and waits as the missile closes in, as it almost reaches him he quick boosts out of the way and the missile impacts against the ship’s engine and create a large explosion like before but also disconnects the warp drive from the knock, the explosion hits Ambush, engulfing him as he drifts towards the planet. The warp drive then activates as the explosion reaches the warp engine room. It activates but with it begin suspended in the middle of the room and not attached to the ship it causes the ship to be torn in half as the warp drive launches half the ship into a void in space after having no particular designation.
Reaper finishes off a SKULL mech and then stops to look round and cannot see Kieron or the Malevolence anywhere, she then looks over to Hades and asks, “Hay, Atom. Where is Kieron?” Hades stops and looks over to the Everfree forest, then up as a light catches Atom’s eye, he then points up, they both look to see the ship aflame with half of it missing and two flames in the atmosphere coming closer, “Oh my god, KIERON!!!” she shouts out as she begins to fill up with grief. She goes to fly up there but Hades grabs hold of Reaper and hugs her.
“Princess, look.” Twilight calls as she point to the sky where the Malevolence is in flames and in half with the two flames in the sky getting closer, Treacle Tart walk out and looks down towards to Ponyville to see that Ambush isn’t anywhere to be seen, she then quickly looks up to see the ship alight and assumes that the explosion got him.
As the flames in the sky get closer one of them becomes visible, “Wait, Treacle look it’s Ambush, Kieron, he made it.” Twilight says as she squints to see the mech falling, Treacle quickly looks up to see Ambush.
“Something’s wrong, the lights, they aren’t on. He has no power, and the core, it’s open. He’s going to CRASH!” She replies as she runs out of Luna’s room and down towards the main doors to the castle, ‘Tia and Twilight chase after her as Luna looks after the others.
Ambush plummets towards the surface at speeds as fast as that of a space shuttle entering the atmosphere, he is travelling way too fast, not only will the impact be too much, the core is open and could crumple during impact causing piece to maybe stab into him. The mech falls faster and faster as he lies inside unconscious.
The escape pod from the ship lands down just outside of Canterlot whilst begin hit by shots from the Canterlot guard mechs, the front of it opens and a figure exits from it, it was the Grand Master, he walks towards the castle with his cane in his grasp. As he approaches the main gates he swings his cane to the side which causes the two mechs to be thrown to the side into the pile of scrap metal, he then pushes the gates open, many royal guards rush over to try and stop him but he swings him cane causing them to be slammed against a wall, one pony is then stabbed in the head with the teeth of the cobra only to fall to the ground.
As the GM continues to walk towards the castle he stops and turns to see Ambush smash into the ground, “Finally, he is dead. The perfect soldier, who can’t die, is dead.” He says to himself. He then turns to see Treacle running out of the main door of the castle; she skids to a stop and backs up.
“No, not you. Other way Princess, it isn’t good out here.” She says as she pushes at ‘Tia who looks at her confused then looks over to see the GM staring at her, he then slams his cane against the ground causing him to be teleported directly in front of her. She jumps back in surprise as Treacle stands in front of her protective, “Stay away from her you evil bastard.” She calls out to him. He smirks, swings his cane making her be thrown into a wall.
“NO, you evil man, how can you hurt an innocent pony like that?” ‘Tia questions him as her horn glows ready to fight if needed. He smirks again.
“Quite easily, like this.” He replies as he lifts his cane causing Treacle to be lifted into the air, he then turns it horizontally causing it to start and crush Treacle as she chokes and coughs.
“Stop it, stop hurting her!” She shouts at him, just as she goes to use her magic on him, a light pink pony tackles him to the ground. Moonshine had come down and was beginning to fight him; he hates her with all his guts because of the countless amounts of times she had tried to ‘play’ with him. Treacle falls to the ground, almost dead from suffocation, ‘Tia helps her up and takes her to Luna’s room whilst Moonshine fight the GM.
When she gets back the GM has Moonshine pinned against a wall, her belly facing the wall and was ready to stab the cane into her back when a mech slammed the main doors open, it was broken, worn and severely damaged. The figure from inside climbs out of the gap in the core only to fall to the floor covered in blood with his helmet off and a piece of metal poking out of his belly, it had gone straight through him. He coughs and splutters as he slowly gets to his feet, he then grabs at the piece of metal and begins to pull, at first nothing happens but then slowly in gives way and begins to slide.
“How is this possible? The Element X explosion should have killed you.” The GM says to him as he shouts whilst pulling at the metal, “You shouldn’t be alive.”
Kieron stops to get his breath, then musters the strength for one, last pull and pulls with all him remaining energy, the piece of metal then slides out as a load of blood gushes out of the wound, “I...I may not be...dead...but I wasn’t...wasn’t created to die...was I?” he asks, out of breath. He then looks up at the GM; the GM sees that he has half his face covered in blood as part of his helmet had embedded itself into his head.
Kieron begins to walk over to the GM who then begins to throw things at him with his cane; Kieron taking all of the blows as he still manages to walk towards him, Moonshine falls to the floor, still conscious but waits.
The GM looks panicked as Kieron still gets closer and closer, Kieron then swings for him but the GM blocks this with his cane, grabs hold of his arms and then pulls back him cane ready to strike.
Suddenly his cane slips out of his hand as Moonshine takes it from him and then whacks it across the edge of a wall causing it to snap in half. The GM looks back to see what she just did and fear suddenly fills his face. Kieron then grabs him by the throat and throws him back over to the stairs.
“The tide has turned Grand Master. You no longer rule supreme; this planet will be free of your power and pain. We have won.” Kieron comments as he walks over to him, ‘Tia walks down the stairs to come next to Kieron.
“Not yet, I have one, last thing...” he smugly replies, “Remember this? Delta...” he says as Kieron’s head jerks, “Echo...Alpha...Tango, Halo.” He adds as Kieron screams and struggle as he feels something inside take over. He then suddenly grabs at Celestia who is surprised by this. She looks him in the eye and notices that his eyes haven’t turned red like normal, he then winks at her. She notices and plays along with it.
“What do you want me to do with her?” he asks the GM who stands up and brushes himself off.
“Kill her.” He replies.
Kieron then looks at him and smiles, “I vowed, vowed to protect them, this coding was put in me when I was created, and when I was created I was created to serve and help the rise of SKULL...” he replies as he lets go of ‘Tia and pulls out a pistol and points it at ‘Tia, “But SKULL has had its rise and now has fallen, so I now have no purpose, I am a free man.” He adds as he then slowly points the gun at the GM.
“In that case heed this, Overseer. They will be watching, kill me and they will soon come and take vengeance. Kill me and you WILL die.” He replies just before Kieron grabs at the GM’s head and adds.
“No they won’t, I don’t care for IRIS.” He replies as he pulls the trigger and kills the GM who falls to the ground in a heap. Kieron then flops to the ground as he feels weak, “We win, we win.” He says to himself before blacking out.
