The Purifier

Chapter 7: Storming the Stronghold

I could hardly comprehend the gravity of the situation I was in.

I, a washed up magician with a horrid past, was attempting to take on the princesses of Equestria and Elements of Sex, whom have only been truly challenged by the most powerful beings on the entire plant, to try to rid the world of the corruption that has been building up for millennia, all by myself.

It’s... rather overwhelming, to say the least.

However, there was too much at stake for me to get caught up in all of that, so I instead focused on my past, specifically the good parts. The parts where I was the Great and Powerful Trixie, and truly felt like it. The parts where my life wasn’t crumbling down around me. The parts where I felt happy, experiencing a lull in the madness of this world.

That happiness was only now returning, having finally had the chance to meet my mother after these long, painful years, and reconcile the previous actions that subtly tore at my soul. The cape and hat I also received there helped empower me, giving me the strength to stand strong when everything seems to be crashing down around me. This is far from the first time my outfit has done that, as the wide-brimmed hat shaded my face, making me seem mysterious and impassive, and the long, flowing cape billowed behind me as I moved, giving me a sense of flow and control.

Those facets were brought to an extreme as I flew through the streets of Canterlot amidst the indigo skies of dusk, the cool air whipping by my body at incredible speeds. Such speed was not at a maximum however, as I kept my perception of the world around me higher than usual, the pair of ponies I passed on my right and a trio later on my left whose movements were so sluggish and imprecise, they made me feel in control of my surroundings.

Such peace was not to last though, as the castle I was sprinting towards took up much of my focus, the anger I felt for those abominations that own it that was only hardly stayed by my resolve to give them mercy. I did a quick hop from my run to land on both of my feet when I was only a short ways in front of the castle, then made a big jump to go flipping through the air, shooting my legs out at just the right time to kick the massive doors in, though I kept enough momentum to continue barreling into the entry room.

I deftly landed in the middle of the room with marginal skidding, gasps and shouts echoed the banging of the doors opening as I turned my gaze up to find the Elements standing further down the room, looking back at me in surprise with their outfits no more modest than they’ve ever been.

“Halt!” I heard a guard shout from behind me. “You are under arrest by the order of Princess Celestia! Come quietly or we will have to use force!”

I scoffed and rolled my eyes at that. “‘Force’,” I muttered sarcastically, “I seriously thought they would’ve learned by now...” I did a quick dash behind me and trailed around the walls of the room, charging the attacks I made against the guards with a minimal amount of electricity, yet it still was enough to knock them out.

I then stopped back in the center of the room, the Elements moving back into the positions I saw them in our previous encounter, their expressions turning angry and fearful with only a touch more calm than last time.

“Well then,” I started with a sigh, “Time to settle this once and for all.”

The emotions playing on all of our faces held for several seconds as we stared at each other, just daring the other to make the first move, the tension building until I saw Sparkle’s horn begin to light up, a bright flash of light and a pop of displaced air surrounding her a moment later. I heard another pop behind me after an instant, making me quickly turn and dash to where Sparkle reappeared.

However, I was stopped a few meters from her face by a purple barrier, slamming into it with a pain that felt for only a moment, letting me glance quickly around to see the shield act as a wall that went the entire width and height of the room. “Coward!” I shouted as I punched the barrier with a tinge of lightning in a minimal attempt to break it, but I hardly had time to look at the emotions playing on her face before I heard a whistling of wind behind me that forced me to turn back around.

Even with my speed, I didn’t turn quick enough to stop myself getting slammed in the chest with a lasting pressure as I was pressed back into the arcane wall behind me. Another blast of pressure hit me with the burden being released right after, allowing me to look up to see a rainbow trail fleeing from and seeming to come back around. “Okay,” I muttered hoarsely as I started to slow everything around me, taking a few steps to my left to avoid the pegasus dashing at me.

When I looked back to see the rest of my adversaries, I couldn’t see them due to the large wall of malachite flames barreling towards me, only a few meters from my face. I took off further to my left, the fear of being captured by the flames made my attention focus on them... too focused.

I suddenly got tripped up, falling to the floor and rolling across it for a few moments, seeing my tail and some ribbons curled around me before my front stopped on the floor. I quickly let a pulse of electricity flow through my body and into the ribbons, burning them while I got to my feet, yet once again not quick enough to avoid the rainbow pegasus slamming into me.

I felt the wind rushing by me on all sides for a couple seconds before I felt a constricting feeling around my chest, pulled heavily on my front, making me feel like I was being spun through the air. My eyes began to grow wet and my sense blurry from the pain as I felt for the rough thing around my body, eventually grasping onto a rope that I promptly pulsed more lightning through.

The rope was quickly weakened by the flames and soon snapped, letting me fly free through the air again for a few more moments until I slammed into another wall, then dropped down to the floor and let my back rest against the wall. I starting coughing from the lingering pressure with the pain feel like a blaze in my chest, aching it with flames that paralyzed me, leaving me open to the wet, spongey object I soon found smacked into my face.

“Gaaahh!!” I yelled through the pain as my eyes began to sting, adding another element of searing pain and making me press my hands to my face and try to wipe off the spongy material for yet a couple more seconds before I felt hands pushing me into the wall behind me, my eyes seeming to be torn open as I tried to look at who was holding me down, yet all I saw was a yellow blur for hardly a moment as I was soon flooded with yet more pain, this time with spikes seeming to be shoved into my neck.

I felt my body begin to slow with my consciousness starting to wane, pain searing through every fiber of body, thoroughly testing my resolve. ‘No!’ I shouted in my mind, working through the agony to try to get a hold on the world around me. ‘I don’t care how much Tartarus I’m put through, I will defat them!’ I reaffirmed my will, taking back control of my arms and pushed them onto a pony that I felt latching onto my side.

Thunder began to burn through my body as I flooded it through my hands and into the pony before me, making her scream and fall off me, allowing me to push down on her to stand up. I felt a wind gust to my side, making me speed up my time as I looked up to see a rainbow blur in the aching mess that was my vision. A bolt of electric magic was thrust through my horn as I pointed it towards the blur, causing it to scream as well while it careened to my right, seeming to smash into a wall moments later.

I quickly got to my feet while wiping off more of the stuff splattered across my face, a malachite wall closing in on me as I looked back in front of me. While my instinct was to dodge it to the side, I promptly dismissed that as the others were likely going to try that coordinated attack again if I did. My attention turned upward, seeing that to be the only escape, and I forced my thunderous magic into my back, flowing out of two points on it and beginning to crackle with power.

The orchid lightning quickly took shape, its blazing arcs forming a translucent pair of wings that looked to come from my body. The flames before me were still rushing forward, hardly a meter from my face when I took a hop into the air as flapped the arcane wings, propelling me skywards.

I took a moment in the air to calm myself, adjusting to the pain with the warm air whipping across my body as I flew upwards for a few moments, eventually pulling the wings back slightly to slow my movement, leaving me at a halt as I looked back down from most of the way up the massive room. My adversaries were in a line near where I was previously, starting to look upwards, though their eyes trailed far behind me due to my speed.

I turned about in the air to be upside-down before I flapped my arcane wings, making me dart downwards as I pulled magic into my lower arms and legs, making them light up with an orchid trail as they themselves trailed behind me. I targeted between the four standing enemies, their eyes seeming to not notice my descent as I continued to charge my extremities, their glow going from merely light crackling to thunderous bolts arcing around me. My motion began to change as I twisted my wings, making me spin on all axes with my orchid magic twirling around my body, seeming to make my entire tumbling form glow with thunder.

The blaze grew ever brighter as the floor grew ever closer, the former peaking as I finally slammed into the latter with my feet, a white burst encompassing my vision with a loud explosion drowning my hearing. I quickly looked up to see the lightning I slammed into the ground with blasting out from me and into my adversaries, seeming to course through their bodies as it launched them away from me.

I looked to my right to see the two earth ponies tumbling quickly away through the air, though slow enough for me to run over to run over to them with ease. I soon landed after a short hop near Applejack, who was twirling across the axis along her backbone with her body parallel to the floor, and made a jump out of a crouch to punch her in the face, heavily increasing her upward momentum.

I then turned to Pinkie, who was tumbling end-over-end while her mane and tail made an unrealistic arcing trail through the air. Her back was facing me when I arrived at her, allowing me to reach up and grab her tail with both hands, yanking it backwards after I landed back on the floor.

My next move was to turn around, still holding onto the pink pony’s tail, and see the dragon and unicorn on the other side just barely starting to attack where I was now. My gaze was then drawn to the left, and I saw the purple arcane wall that blocked me some time ago a ways across the room, the similarly purple pony behind it looking at my actions with displeasure.

I realized the wall Sparkle was powering needed to be destroyed for me to get at her, and while she may powerful enough to keep up that wall for some time and under some abuse, everypony has their limits.

My attention was drawn back to the pony whose tail I was holding, and I saw some potential use for her in this situation. I pulled her further back and up while turning around, continuing to spin as I pulled on the mare, accelerating her to a speed that was relatively swift even to my fast perspective when I let go, sending her flying towards the arcane wall.

I turned to the pony that was slowly moving upwards near me, her height above the floor making me have to reach above my head to grab her tail. I pulled her down to my level before spinning to my left, getting nearly two full rotations in before I let her fly towards that abominable alicorn across the room.

Looking to my other two standing adversaries, I saw the dragon starting to breath flames, though they weren’t even a meter from her face due to how slow they crawled towards me. I walked over towards her, going around her left side to stand behind her and grab her tail, letting out a short a exhale before yanking it to the right.

Barb’s weight was a lot more to get use to, having to strain my muscles to accelerate her as I started to spin her, though after the first loop, most of the strain was to keep her in orbit. That strain only built a twice and third time before I finally let go, sending her flying in the same direction I sent the others, though my momentum pulled me forward as I released her, nearly making me fall over for a moment.

After I get back to my footing, I looked over at the one adversary that I had yet to attack, seeing her flare her horn and weave some ribbons through the air. I slowly started towards her, looking at her horn and noticing its sharpness, which made me gaze back at the arcane wall I was attempting to break as I got an idea.

“Maybe...” I muttered as I worked some of the details in my mind, glancing between the wall and unicorn for several seconds. “It’s worth a shot,” I said after shaking my head to clear it, then hastened my pace towards the pony. When I arrived at her, I looped my left arm around her back and my right around the front of her legs, keeping her relatively straight as I pulled her up.

I then started to spin, quickly accelerating as I twirled on the spot, keeping the pony in my arms as straight as I could in the two revolutions I spun, then hurling her forward like a spear towards the purple wall, all in a likely futile attempt to have her pierce the wall as though she were a spear.

I left those four creatures hurdle to wards the wall for a moment, then turned back around to the two pegasi that were laying against the wall behind me. I walked over to Dash and grabbed her tail, then slowed down to think as I reached over to grab Fluttershy’s as well, dragging both of them back a short ways from the wall before stopped completely to ponder my next action.

Throwing these two ponies likely wouldn’t do too much to the arcane wall that the other creatures didn’t, I presumed, making me know that I needed something more here, something stronger, more powerful, more destructive...

I felt a devilish grin creep up onto my face an idea, one that would inflict untold amounts of pain onto the ponies in my grip as they helped shatter the barrier.

I took a deep breath as I crouched down somewhat, twisting my body to the left to charge up my momentum, then released it with a pressure that made me quickly start spinning in the other direction. The pegasi I held in my hands got taken along for the ride, making us all spin like a large top that upheld the momentum intensely.

I slowly tilted to the side, the entire top doing so as well, which made it start to move over to the wall on the other side of the room, which the creatures I threw before were closing in on. I accelerated towards the wall, the fast speeds making me start to feel dizzy, so I focused on one point in the distance, specifically the pony behind the arcane wall whose expression was in the process of transforming from distaste to terror.

Some slamming sounds started to slowly echo through the room, and through my narrowed field of vision, I saw they were caused by the three ponies and one dragon starting to hit the wall. I kept moving forward through all of their impacts, and after the bright flashed they made on the wall from their collisions all faded, I was only a few meters from it and the pony beyond that was starting to wince at the sharp pain from her shield being attacked.

I kept whipping around as I continued to approach her, air blazing across my face that started to make my eyes sting on top of the strain on my arms to keep a grip on the ponies I was holding, all which I tried to ignore by focusing on pushing myself further across the room, getting closer and closer until...

WHAM!

A loud bang echoed through the room, accompanied by a a harsh jerk back on one of my arms. It was quickly followed by another on my other arm, becoming a rhythmic pounding on the wall as I kept shoving a foot across the floor to continue spinning. The force I felt through my arms became quickly and wildly variable, the spikes made the tails start to slowly slip through my hands, even with my death grip on them.

I focused all of my attention to keep spinning, working through the searing pain all across my body, from the wind singeing my eyes and the painfully tight grasp of my hands to the crackling of my magic all over my body, its orchid power seeming to arc from everywhere on my skin, making it feel like I was on a bed of flaming needles. My body was becoming numb to everything else, making it it feel like hours before I barely noticed the slamming pressure on my arms starting to waver.

The immense drop in pressure a few moments after that which was echoed by a cacophony of shattering sounds was something I couldn’t ignore though, making me gasp in relief and surprise as I shot my eyes open, the dizzying speeds I was spinning at once again blurring the world around me. When I managed to focus back on what was in front of me, I saw that the arcane wall previously summoned was indeed shattered, flakes of it exploding outward as the pony on the other side was attempting to cover her face with an arm, the hand on the other arm holding her head to help curb the pain.

I didn’t allow any reprieve from the pain however, as I quickly released the pony in my left hand when she was in the right direction, hardly paying attention to the consequences as I gripped the remaining tail with both of my hands, and spun a couple more times before releasing her as well.

Only after all of that did I end my super-speed, my momentum throwing me forward until I stopped in a one-sided kneel, my senses barely being clear enough to hear the crashes a ways down the room after the few instants I was facing downwards. I looked up to see the three winged ponies in a heap right next to the wall in front of me, not even moving, and when I turned my head to see the ponies and dragon to my sides, they were all in a similar state.

I put both of my hands on my knee and forced myself up, groaning with the effort until I stood, looking around at the carnage as I panted heavily, the exhaustion and pain only now coming to the forefront of my mind. The pain in my eyes from the stinging winds that made it difficult to keep them open, the pain on my hands that I could see left a slight redness across their palms, and the pain across my entire body from the lightning that relentlessly blasted through it.

I could only wallow in the pain for so long though; the other princesses were likely here and waiting for me, though they wouldn’t do so for long. I’m not sure what I could possibly do to defeat them, but I had to at least try, for else the world the world would be forever within their crushing grip.

I closed my eyes and took several deep breaths, trying to push all of the pain to the back of my mind so that I could fight my next and final opponents without distraction. I slowly opened my eyes and examined the room around me: in front of me was the two pegasi and one alicorn I slammed into each other, resting right next to a wall and to the right of the massive entrance door. On my right, the wall was still a ways away, and it quickly reminded me of the excessive wealth and superficiality of the ponies who own this building.

In my more immediate surroundings though, the two earth ponies, one unicorn, and one dragon still lay there, unmoving from the pain I wrought upon them. I felt a level of satisfaction from wreaking such pain, but I knew that the situations is far too complex to accept that at face value, what with their minds possibly being corrupted by others and lost potential of even more true corruption. I always find it disheartening that so many ponies waste their talents on such frivolous things, foregoing actually benefiting the world just so they can experience more immediate pleasure.

I shook my head; there’s too much at stake for me to just stand around, ruminating on my actions. I turned around and saw a large door on the far wall that led to the throne room, and, gathering my courage with another deep breath, I sped off towards it, short hopping to land close enough before taking a big jump and spinning in the air, crashing both of my feet into the door to blast it open.

I quickly landed in the middle of the room and skidded to a stop, looking ahead to see a large machine in the center of the room with the four remaining princesses standing around it in their usual lingerie-esque attire, all sharply turning to me from what looked to be a conversation.

“Trixie Lulamoon,” Celestia said, quickly recovering from my explosive entrance. “Back so soon, I see,” She noted with a smirk as she stepped to the left of her sister and further away from the machine, with Cadance and Shield on the right of it.

“I’m not going to let you continue to trap ponies within their own mind for your own sexual gratification,” I stated sternly, my posture and expression following suit.

She scoffed and replied, “How could it be for my own sake? I don’t do anything with them besides give them a little push in the right direction.”

“It’s hardly a ‘little push’,” I said with distaste. “You physiologically torture them for an untold duration for no other reason than you like doing it. Most of the ponies you corrupt don’t even have the capacity to fight back, and even with those that do, forcing them to watch their own body defile itself is far too much a punishment just to keep yourself safe from them.”

“I’m just making sure they learn their lesson,” She said dismissively with a wave of a hand, but soon added, “Also, I wish to show them what their missing out on.”

I was about to respond to the effect of forcing them into it permanently, but I realized the frivolousness of the entire conversation, making my eye twitch slightly in restrained anger. “You’re stalling.”

Celestia was about to reply, but Luna quickly cut her off. “Yes, you are,” She said, looking sidelong at her sister. “We all know these conversations go nowhere, Trixie included,” She continued while looking back at me.

My frown deepened for a moment at the thinly veiled insult, but I reigned in my anger to reply, “Then get on with it.”

The ivory and phthalo sisters shot me a scathing and wry glance respectively, with the verbal response coming from Cadance. “It’s this!” She exclaimed as she gestured to the large machine, adding with satire, “Obviously.”

The princesses looked at each other while I stared up at the machine, and it was up, for the machine was rather large; about a quarter taller than the elder princesses next to it. It had a massive metal coil around some sort of cylindrical crystal, all sitting on a short base with a small stand extending out of it to about waist height, a panel sitting atop it with several lights and switches upon it.

“This was made by my sister,” Shield noted, getting my attention as she gestured to the device, the other princesses also looking to her. “And it will allow us to finally get rid of you once and for all,” She said with the chutzpah-replete grin I’ve come to know and hate cropping up on her face.

“Oh, really?” I asked with faint mockery, and watched with light mirth the faces of the princesses transform into expressions of disbelief, as if to ask, ‘Do you seriously think you have a chance here?’ I said nothing more before dashing forward, looking to grab the panel and tear it off to prevent the device’s activation, and with none of the princesses even coming close to accurately tracking my position, it seemed there was nothing in my way.

At least, that was until I was but a few before it, when a white shield began to form around the stand, getting brighter as I moved closer, and I hardly had to time to try and raise my arms to brace myself before an explosion of magic emanated from the device, quickly throwing me backwards as a loud booming echoed through my ears.

I soon felt the floor slam into my back and I tumbled for a couple seconds, eventually coming to stop face-down, but I quickly turned my head right to the machine untouched, the princesses showing mirth around it.

“We’ve taken some precautions this time, Trixie,” Celestia sneered, crossing her arms pridefully, the others adopting similar postures.

“You’re not going to win this time,” Shield said as she stepped over to the panel, flipping some switches while continuing, “As this TESLA, the Total Expansive and Lightning Suppression Apparatus, will give us enough magical power to wipe the floor with you.”

“Hath thou no honour?” I asked, grunting as I got slowly got to my feet.

Luna scoffed and replied scornfully, “Oh, come off the Old Equestrian. You’re a disgrace against the legacy of everypony who used it.”

“No,” I said steadfastly as I stood tall, “I’m the only thing holding it together.”

They all released disgusted sounds, as Shield dismissed, “Whatever; life is clearly more important than any honour.”

“You are the true disgrace,” I muttered quietly, knowing them hearing that would have no benefit.

The unicorn soon turned to me, a large smile on her face as she hovered her hand over a large button in the center of the panel. “So now,” She started, pausing shortly for dramatic effect, “It it time,” She paused again while waving her hand around wildly, “For the coming,” Another pause, “Of youuuuuur-”

“Your panache sucks,” I blurted flatly as she shot her hand downward, making her spin as she moved, which made her trip over her feet and land on her hindquarters. The other princesses laughed at her while she pouted in anger, Celestia soon breaking hers to look at me.

“I didn’t take you for a jester,” She said with an expression of light disbelief.

“No, that was just a disgrace against the panache I have known my entire life before I got into all this madness,” I responded emotionlessly, gesturing all around to signify the situation at hand.

The room silenced and the white alicorn shook her head. “Of course; you’d never think that altruistically.”

“There’s no such thing as true altruism in this world. Not anymore.”

We stared at each other, attempting to read each other’s motionless, stoic expressions for several seconds, during which the other alabaster princess stood up.

Celestia exhaled sharply, then said, “And here I thought you were the happy one, always instilling wonder into the world.”

“I used to be,” I replied, “But you and your student took that away from me.”

“Hm,” The ivory pony responded, then looked downward and nodded slowly. “That may have been a mistake,” She said quietly. The rest of our expressions turned somewhat confused, but she looked up before we could respond, and had a sly smile on her face as she added, “Because now you’re a pain in our flanks.”

My expression expression dulled at that while the others gained their irritating grins, only amplifying as Celestia stepped towards the machine and said, “But now, we will rectify that.” She started to reach her hand to the button, but I wouldn’t let her push it as long as I could stop it.

I dashed forward again, preparing to jump to her side and violently shove her away from the machine, but I was quickly stopped, completely unable to move and with my vision tinted cobalt. Celestia stopped and turned to view me with a mocking grin, the other princesses following suit.

“I don’t think so,” Luna said, her horn lightly flaring with magic.

‘Damn it,’ I thought with rage, but no words left my mouth as I stared back at the honourless curs, not moving because I knew conserving my energy for my possible escape would be best.

“You’re not going to say anything?” Cadance asked with interest, seeming to speak for all of them.

“What could I say? You’d never listen to me,” I replied flatly.

“That’s fair,” Celestia said after a few moments, then pressed the button on the machine.

All four princesses gasped as their entire bodies began to glow with their respective aura colours, making them look them at themselves and each other.

“Oh, wow,” Shield breathed, her voice showing her bliss and euphoria. “I didn’t think it would feel this good,” She said, starting to pant lightly with lust.

“Well, what did you think?” Celestia teased, hiding her emotions better. “Pleasure is magic, after all,” She said, that infamous and biased quote once again cropping up.

“This is...” Cadance started, panting, “This is... ohhh...” She moaned out, her body seeming to start growing. I looked across the other princesses to confirm the same thing was happening to them, and their moans signified they were experiencing similar pleasure.

I pulled at my magical bindings, knowing that pleasure tends to make a pony’s magic weaker via lack of focus, though it was in vain. “Oh boy...” I muttered, fear creeping up into me as the princesses creeped upward in size, and I quickly noticed their... assets were growing slightly faster as well.

The room became filled with moans as the princesses grew, nearly half a meter taller and only getting faster while they started to grope their enlarging breasts and hardening appendages to help sate their lust, but it seemed to only make it worse. Cadance eventually pinned her wife to the floor and messily kissed her, the other two princesses watching on semi-casually while masturbating.

I soon realized what would become of all this madness; the entire world in the literal hands of these gods, free to destroy or enslave us merely for their own sexual gratification. It is that which I have feared from the start, and now, it’s all becoming real.

I stared with dread at the lewd spectacle before me, just knowing the ultimate consequences of it and my inability to stop it all from happening. They were more than a meter taller now and not slowing down, their magic power likely similar as they used it to caress each other, their positions and movements so sexual that I slammed my eyes shut to prevent myself from seeing them, but there was no escaping those noises.

Those lewd noises of kissing and slapping, of jumping and rutting, of moaning and shouting, only getting louder with splashing and fizzling introduced into the mix.

Wait, fizzling?

My eyes shot open and I observed the cobalt tint around me, and I saw that it was sputtering. ‘While these ponies’ power may be growing,’ I thought with light relief, ‘Their focus is waning.’ I then jerked my arms forward, the magic around me shattering into myriads of shards that quickly vanished, letting me fall a short distance to the ground before dashing forward to the machine causing all of this.

I stopped right in front of the panel and looked at all of the buttons and switches on it, with labels such as ‘Activate Crystal’ and ‘Coil Safety’, but nothing relating to deactivation or reversal. I heard a sharp whoosh of air to my side, and I quickly backflipped away from the machine, watching as a golden bolt sped towards it and blew it up with a large plume of flame.

“You fool!” Celestia boomed from my left, making me turn to face her, though I had to look up as she was nearly thrice my height now. “That device only created a power we absorbed! It doesn’t affect us anymore!” She shouted, her previous sexual ministrations continuing as she flared her horn to try and capture me, but I wouldn’t let it happen this time.

I darted back through the doors to the throne room, blowing them open and barely noticing the ponies still laying in the anteroom before blasting through the doors to that room as well.

Terror flooded through me as I flew out of the castle, blazing down the streets of Canterlot at a speed that reminded me of the pain inflicted upon me earlier, lightning crackling across my singed skin and wind whipping across my face, making me feel an agonizing inferno across my body. Water was coming up in my eyes as I worked through the pain, clouding the already blurry world around me as it flew by, only basic shapes left to guide me from running into buildings.

The torrential thrashing of wind against my ears flooded them with noise, the ubiquitous sounds of sex around me only barely piercing it. The static soon got more pierced with a faint crashing in the background behind me, prompting me to glance back to the castle, where the four growing princesses burst through the roof, though their size indicated they had to fly upward to do it.

That granted me a slight relief, but it was quickly shattered as I heard a voice echo through air.

“YOU CAN RUN, BUT YOU CAN’T HIDE, TRIXIE!” The voice boomed, though all the other noise prevented me from discerning who said it. “WE WILL SOON HAVE THE WORLD IN OUR GRASP, AND BRING IT A PLEASURE THAT YOU CANNOT STOP!”

Those words filled me with a further sense of dread; what could I possibly do here? I can’t stop their growth, for its fuel is within them, and I can’t kill them, for they are far too powerful for even my level of skill to stop them. Even with running away, what could I accomplish? These ponies would eventually take over the world, effectively becoming gods with the ability to impart their judgement however they wish upon whomever they wish, rendering any attempts at saving others fruitless.

My mind, running as fast as my body, was soon cut off by a shrill screech, making me glance back to see a rainbow-coloured blur approaching.

‘What?!’ I shouted in my mind, ‘How is she still conscious?!’ I didn’t have time to answer as I repeatedly looked back to see her gaining on me, and I knew it wouldn’t be long before she caught up to me. She has performed a Sonic Rainboom, after all, and I never have, so I would never be able to match her speed...

…unless I siphoned off of it.

I could easily tell this wasn’t going to be easy, as I could see the light bending intensely around her, signifying that she was preparing for the infamous Sonic Rainboom, which would likely kill me if it went off next to me.

She was so close now that I didn’t have any more time to think on it, so I timed when she would reach me. ‘In five... four...’ I started, counting my relative seconds. ‘Three... two...’ She was very close now, only a few meters behind me with her rainbow trail brightening. ‘One... zero.’ I jumped, turning in the air to help position my feet right where she was, though I had to close my eyes because of the nearly blinding light of the Rainboom going off.

BOOM!

A deafening blast echoed through the air as I felt something shove into my feet, and I let them fold for a moment before jumping off, spinning back to land on my feet and sprinting forward with my newfound sonic speed.

Pressure was building around me, pushing harder onto my already singed skin and making me feel like I was pushing through a blazing liquid that ripped into my body. I cracked my watering eyes open to see the world around even blurrier than when I last looked, though there was a noticeable glimmer around my vision, making me look down to see paths across my entire body glowing in all colours of the rainbow.

I had no time to think on that though, as everything soon started to blaze around me, a blinding white filling my vision and making me clamp my eyes shut once again before...

BOOM!

A Sonic Rainboom of my own sounded and I felt magic flood into my body, filling me with an intense power and relief that surprised me enough to force a gasp from my mouth and my eyes to shoot open, revealing...

‘What the fuck?’

A psychedelic tunnel I looked to be running through, a rapidly moving conglomeration of colours all around with a pair of white spots far in front of and behind me, though they didn’t quite feel like I was running towards and away from them. I felt raw magic coursing everywhere and eccentric pulsing echoing around, making this place feel less like a place in the world I know and more like one that transcends it, like some sort of ether realm.

I didn’t feel like I was supposed to be able to be here, and the power around me felt like it was trying to force me out, send me back to the realm of normal creatures, and the feeling was only getting stronger as the white spot in the distance grew. Soon, it began to envelop my entire sight with the sounds becoming a constant static, making me once more attempt to shut it all out as I felt the raw magic thrust me forward, another blast echoing around before all the crazy sensations stopped and when I opened my eyes, the world was normal again.

I skidded to a stop, my heart beating a million miles an hour, blooding blasting through my veins as I looked around and saw the dusk sky surrounding myself within Canterlot, though the castle was in front of me and there wasn’t anything off about it. No ponies bursting through the roof, no crazy light shows or magic blasts, nothing.

A noise sounded behind and to my right, making me sharply turn to merely see a pair of ponies having sex in the street.

‘Strange,’ I thought as I looked at them. ‘They look familiar...’ I shook it off with a shake of my head and looked back ahead of me, only to see a trio a ways forward on my left. ‘Also, very familiar...’ When I looked at the castle, I saw it was the same distance it was when I encountered these ponies before, and the sky was the exact same colour as when I first came here. All of this gave me a thought, one that seemed impossible despite there being no other option...

“Did I just travel through time?”