Harmony and Heavy Metal

"What! How many!?"

"A shit ton of them!"

"Alright! Everyone! To your posts!"

"Eddie, whats going on?" Twilight asked between all the commotion. Several members of Eddies road crew started to get into position.

"The tainted coil are attacking again, happens every one in a while. Get ready for this Twilight, you sure you can handle this?" Twilight only gave a heavy sigh with a nod. "Alright then, Rarity and Fluttershy, get to backstage and stay there until I come back, got it?" They both quickly ran toward the backstage in a panic.

"What are 'the tainted coil' exactly?" Twilight asked, trying to sound as calm as possible.

"Them" Eddie pointed over the horizon, several leather, clad metal wielding demons running up from the horizon. Twilight was already afraid, if it wasn't for the giant beast behind the red pack that terrified her even more, it carried a large chain that had a wrecking ball on the end. Several other terrifying beasts came from the horizon, shocking the four mares that stood beside Eddie. "Alright girls, you can stay here and fight, or you can join Rarity and Fluttershy backstage. Quick! We can't just sit here with our head in our ass for so long!"

The four mares gulped, they were not sure if they could fight the beasts that approached quickly and angrily, already fuming with rage. They all turned to Eddie, who was now a differing shade of... red? "Eddie, what happened to your skin?"

Eddie looked at himself and grinned "Hell yeah! It's been to long damn it!" Eddie said as wings popped from his back, surprising the mares.

"Eddie! How long have you had wings?!" Twilight yelled in surprise.

"I will explain later, for now just go and kick some ass!" Eddie said as he started to fly away.

Rainbow quickly made her way up to Eddies level "Oh no you don't! However kills the most of these things gets the winner a beer!" Rainbow said in a challenging tone.

"Oh your on." Eddie said as they both then flew into a sea of leather and metal.

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That left Twilight, Applejack, and Pinkie to look on at the chaos that now ravaged the nearby land. Quickly they heard a loud energizing music play from the stage as a torrent of violent thoughts ran through their minds. Pinkies mane quickly deflated as her pupils went to the size of pin pricks as she pulled a knife from nowhere. "Pinkie! Where did you get that!"

"Oh... You know Twi... You don't question Pinkie...Right?" Her tone was very seductive and slightly unnerving as she also ran into the chaos, already slashing away at the enemies before her.

"I guess I should stick with you Twi, you know how to kill these things right?" Applejack said as she quivered over to Twilight.

"I think I know some offensive spells, let me try this out." A purple aura now engulfed her horn as a large thunderbolt shot out, instantly hitting several tainted coil as it savagely shocked them into submission. "Alright then, now we try to survive this!" Twilight and Applejack were slow to enter the mess, looking hesitantly at the bloodshed and slaughter that happened all around them.

Eddie and Rainbow were already at the heart of the chaos, Eddie quickly slashing away at the coil large and small. Rainbow tried her best to kick several of them to death, but most of the time, Eddie had to bail her out. Rainbow quickly learned why Eddie was the best general this side of the universe, he lead his soldiers by bending the very power of light itself to direct them to several targets, like the towers that now appeared over the green aura geysers that littered the battlefield.

Eddie started to hack and slash his way toward another enemy, the large and dreaded Skull Raker that killed most of Eddies forces. Eddie quickly turned to Rainbow "Hey Rainbow! Get over here quick, I wanna try something!" Rainbow was quick to comply. Eddie was quick to pick her up as he started a sprint toward the Skull Raker "Alright, I want you to start flapping your wings as fast as you can, then when I throw you, just keep going forward. Got it?" Eddie said as Rainbow started to flap her wings as fast as she could. Even Eddie started to flap his wings to get an even higher speed than before, they were both now very close to going above even one hundred miles per hour.

"Eddie, what are you going to do?!" Rainbow yelled as they got closer and closer to the target.

"THIS!" Eddie called as he threw Rainbow with all his might toward the Skull Raker. A sudden lash of noise blasted around him as he fell on his ass, a rainbow now trailed before him.

Rainbow had felt her hoofs penetrating something very leathery and hard, but she slammed into it anyway, quickly exiting whatever she had penetrated. The distinct smell of blood lingered on her coat, she was still going at the speed that broke the sound barrier. She still hit several other things as she kept up the speed.

Eddie looked on at the rainbow that trailed behind Rainbow Dash, some blood now spilling from it, giving it a more edgy look to it, making Eddie nod his head at his and Rainbows work. Rainbow was quick to turn up, causing the rainbow trail to spike up with her. Eddie quickly flew up to meet her and stop her incredible speed before she got lost somewhere in the land of heavy metal. Eddie had a hard time trying to catch up to the speeding mare that trickled blood from the apex of the bright rainbow trail, but soon he did end up catching her as she turned around. Eddie felt the impact of the quick speed, his ribs taking the blow with a force. Rainbow Dash started to dip in height as she now had to carry Eddies weight.

The impact on the ground was heavy and painful, Rainbow bounced of Eddie, and Eddie stayed in the crater that was created when they hit the Earth. Eddie coughed up a small amount of blood, feeling his broken ribs and damaged organs slowly slowing in pace as he took in slower and weaker breaths.

"Eddie! Are you okay?!" Rainbow said in a panic as she stumbled over to the damaged roadie.

"Yeah... I'll be okay..." Eddie eyes flustered shut with his final breath.

"NOOO! Eddie! Don't die yet!" Rainbow said as she felt tears sting her eyes. She then quickly turned to the sound of roaring that come from close by, her sudden feeling of melancholy was replaced with anger. She quickly flew toward it in a rage and started to attack it, she was to weak to cause any significant damage, but she was quick enough to dodge every attack. Her only hope was to make the thing tired before she was.

Eddie quickly reappeared back close to the stage, confused as usual when that happened, but still not caring, he quickly unwrapped his wings and flew toward where he thought he could find Rainbow. Then a thought struck him 'This might be a good time to get her back for that prank she pulled on me back at the castle'. A quick and devious smile appeared on his face as he looked for another one of is colorful friends, quickly spotting a pink mare happily slashing away at the coil. Eddie raised an eyebrow at how much Pinkie seemed to be enjoying herself, doing twirls with her blade sticking out of her mouth. She pranced over to the next of the unsuspecting coil member, quickly getting its throat slashed and head cut off.

Eddie cringed, he never thought of Pinkie as a psychopath... Well, he did, but do you really blame him! Anyway... After witnessing the party mare murder spree, he decided to find Applejack and Twilight. But to his surprise, he could not spot the colorful mares anywhere. It was really easy to spot the ponies in the middle of all the dark colors. Eddie quickly landed just about anywhere as he noticed the lack of his soldiers. He quickly went back into the air in search of one of the geysers that spewed a green aura, two on the battlefield already were controlled by him, all he needed was the last on and he could be comfortable summoning troops. He quickly made his way toward the geyser with Clementine already drawn. He quickly made the solo to make a tower appear as quick as he landed. Eddie, now satisfied, thought of what sort of troops he wanted to appear next, he didn't know how that worked, but it did and he wasn't going to question it now.

"How did you do that?" A familiar voice called from the nothingness. Eddie looked around the vicinity, trying to look for the voice that he knew belonged to Twilight. As he looked to his right, Twilight and Applejack quickly appeared from thin air.

Eddie raised a brow "Were you hiding from all this fun?"

Twilight gulped as she worriedly looked around "Yes! This is madness! How do you manage!?"

"Easy" Eddie said as he swung his axe to his left, cutting off a coil's head "Like that... Or..." Eddie then pulled out Clementine, a large thunder shooting toward the enemies that were about to ravage the mares that stood at the foot of the geyser "Like that."

Twilight's jaw hinged "I know that! But don't you go mad from so much bloodshed?!"

Eddie shook his head "No, you get used to it." Eddie then proceeded to kick the coil that tried to attack him from behind. He quickly pulled the axe from his back and hopped into the air, quickly slicing away at the coil that fell to the floor with his kick.

"Please Eddie! How long does this last?!" Applejack yelled as she had to buck another one of the coil away from her. Little did she know that her bucks shattered the very skeletons of the unfortunate coil.

"Usually until we destroy their stage." Eddie then pointed at the rival stage that was built moments after the commotion started.

Twilight was quick to burst in anger "Why didn't you say so!?"

Eddie was also quick to shrug "You didn't ask."

Twilight started to grit her teeth as she shot out a torrent of flame from her horn, burning a group of coil that ran toward Eddie. "Really Eddie!"

"Hey, you finally killed something." Eddie then started for the enemy stage with full intent of destroying everything on that stage. Twilight and Applejack were quick to follow behind the manic metal head in his quest of destruction. Eddie was quick to hack and slash away at any enemies that dared to come into his path, the enemy count was now waning as they had no control over any of the fans at this point. Eddies troop were quickly outnumbering the coil at faster and faster paces than before. As Eddie jumped up on stage, some more high ranking members of the coil desperately trying to get Eddie to back off. But to no avail, they were quickly decapitated and thrown away with thundering flames. Eddie quickly hopped onto the dark scarlet stage as he sent a kick toward the closest amp, tossing it onto the ground and dismantling it instantly.

And to Twilight's surprise, a beautiful ray of light shot from the very heavens toward the stage. All of Eddie's troops stopped in place, a quick command registering in their heads before they all charged at the stage. Twilight and Applejack were quick to move out of the way as the road crew all jumped onto and around the stage, beating and smashing everything in sight from amps to instruments, even the floorboards were not spared. The coil that fruitlessly tried to defend what little they had left, they were all completely and utterly slaughtered by all the forces Eddie had summoned onto the battlefield.

Soon the stage fell, leaving nothing but a pile of ruble in its place. The small amount of coil ran, some being killed, but most managed to get away. "Yeah, you better run you ugly leathery fucks!" Eddie yelled as he hopped from the stage with a smile "And another one bites the dust." Eddie proclaimed with glee as his skin went back to its original tone.

Twilight and Applejack were just now feeling the blood that was splattered on their coats and of their previous actions, the adrenalin that filled their systems beforehand had caused them to completely disregard any violent thing they had done up to that point. They both looked at each other with shocked expressions, realizing that this was the first time they had ever killed anything. Both just stood there, speechless and stiff. Eddie shook his head, he knew the first signs of shell shock when it happened to someone, he quickly picked them up over both of his shoulders as he walk back toward Bladehenge, quick to move into a crowd of head bangers to elude the rainbow mare that sullenly flew above the crowd.

Eddie quickly ran into backstage as he tried to dodge any contact with Rainbow. He was quick to plop Twilight and Applejack next to Rarity and Fluttershy. The two mares that avoided any fighting looked at their friends in shock, what had they witnessed that caused them to be in such a comatose state?

Rainbow was quick to enter backstage, her head hung low as tears fell from her soaked cheeks. She looked up at her friends, trying to gasp out the words in her throat. Rarity and Fluttershy were now even more confused as they saw her friend wheeze and sniffle out some incoherent sentences.

"What is it dear? What happened out there?" Rarity said as she moved over to comfort Rainbow.

"E-E... E-Eddie is... dead!" Rainbow finally yelped as she buried her face in her hoofs, sobbing even louder than before.

Rarity raised an eyebrow as she was about to talk some sense into her friend, before a voice from the other room said in an eerie tone "Oh is he now?"

Rainbows head shot up, looking for the source of the voice that undoubtedly belonged to Eddie "E-E-Eddie? Is that you?"

"No, who the hell is Eddie? I've never meet him before." Eddie said, a chuckle interrupting every word.

Rainbow was quick to grit her teeth in anger as she turned the corner to see Eddie rolling on the floor laughing his ass off. Rainbow walked up to him with her teeth bared. Eddie took one glance at Rainbows enraged expression and started to laugh even harder. Rainbow then slapped Eddie across the face, somehow making Eddie roar with an even more extreme laughter than before. Rainbow was about to yell at the roadie, but Eddie was quick to throw in his own response. "This was for the firecracker under my pillow!" Eddie yelped between laughs. Rainbow now was more remorseful than angry, Eddie was not kidding when he said he would get her back. Rainbow just sat on the couch, her forelegs crossed realizing defeat.

'Note to self, never prank Eddie again. EVER!' Rainbow thought to herself as she gritted her teeth.

After his torrent of laughter, Eddie jumped back on his feet with full intent of explaining himself. "Alright, I guess you all want to know about my whole 'demon' phase right?"

Twilight quickly jumped from her comatose state, ready and eager to listen to Eddies explanation. Eddie went into full detail about how he was able to become a demon due to his linage, and how he could become a demon whenever he wanted, but stayed in his human form to keep the rest of his troops from becoming jealous and wanting wings like he had. They listened carefully to every detail of his fathers journey and his mothers connection to demon blood. Even Eddie started to show off his now darker red skin, his eyes would become a haunting golden color, and his wing span was larger than anything they have seen.

"Wow! So because you have demon blood, you can convert into one?" Twilight said as she wrote down Eddies response.

"Yeah, always helps when I need to get somewhere quick to tell my troops where to go." Eddie said as his skin went back to its lighter shade. Twilight and her friends were in awe of what they had just heard.

"Its like an earth pony turning into a pegasis whenever they wanted too, that is so cool!" Twilight said as she reviled in the new knowledge that was bestowed upon her.

"I guess he could also be considered a unicorn with the magic he can use with his guitar." Rarity chimed as she completed her observation.

"Wow Eddie, your just as powerful as Celestia herself! Could you figure that?" Applejack said in astonishment at his physical power.

"Yeah, I know, but that doesn't mean much. I'm just a roadie you know." Eddie said, trying to stifle the praise. Eddie was trying his hardest to not let it get to his ego. Ever since he was with the six, he could always pinpoint a moment when they showered something with praise, even when it was something small.

"Even then, imagine what else you can do!" Twilight said to the now quiet roadie.

Eddie was getting sick of all the talk, after every fight he would find himself in, he would like to rest up for the next day, sleeping in Deuce with Ophelia. He quickly rubbed his temples, trying to find something to take attention from him. A light bulb went off in Eddie's head. "Hey, have any of you seen Pinkie anywhere?"

The five mares in the room all shared curious glances "No, none of us have, maybe we should go look for her." Twilight said as she and the others in the room made their way outside. They were suddenly discouraged by the sight of Pinkie, happily stabbing away at a random dead coil, a grin blatant on her face. All of them raised an eyebrow at the scene.

"Should I say anything?" Eddie asked, still unsure of what was happening. All six mares shook their head in disagreement. Eddie just shrugged, not wanting to make things more complicated than necessary as they departed to where they would stay for the night.

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Authors note: I know this fight seems short, but think of how little coil remain, and how they are under coordinated due to lack of leader. Just some fruit for thought before you go and bash this chapter.

P.S: You guys seem to enjoy the more violent stories. Well, lets just say my next story will have several 'splatter' kills.