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Doom Slayer Reborn: Fall of Equestria
Prologue: A Wish and a Slayer is Born [Edited]
Doom Slayer Reborn: Fall of Equestria
Prologue: A Wish and A Slayer is Born
Far from the prying eyes of the dreadful Caribou, a lone princess from Equestria, Princess Twilight Sparkle and the faithful captain of her Dusk Guard and friend, Tempest Shadow, stood over a set of seven orbs of unknown origin. But the only one of the two mares who knew of the orbs' real purpose and what they could do was Twilight. Long ago, shortly after she became a princess but before the Caribou came, she had saved the life of a young human male on a world completely different from the one she had been to three times. This world was riddled with war and strife amongst the human population, but she saved the life of the young man once before, then met him again, though she was invisible to him and everyone else around him. But he always knew she was right there, and he would talk with her. And whenever he was upset, she would comfort him with her mind, and it was as if he could hear what she was saying. But shortly after she had to return, and because of this she was sad of leaving a friend behind. But he swore a promise that one day he would come to Equestria under his own power someday to see her in person. But to this day, he has not arrived, and she was becoming desperate, not because she wanted to see him again, but because of the war against the Caribou and their sick and twisted views on the dominion of their race. They have been using the females of the kingdoms they have subjugated as breeding stock, the males raping the females, whether they were family, spouses, or random strangers.
“Are you sure this is gonna work, Princess?” Tempest asked, unsure that these orbs would work, which had from one star in one orb numbering in numerical order to seven stars in the last orb. “We don't even know what these orbs can do, let alone where they came from. How can you be sure about what they'll do once you've activated them?”
“Because I know what they are and what they can do, Tempest.” Twilight said, replying to her faithful captain and friend since after the invasion of the Storm King. Tempest became captain after Flash Sentry died in the defense of Ponyville after he was transferred from Canterlot, and she had helped immensely with organizing the refugees to the safezone where the Castle of the Two Sisters still stands in the ruins. “As hard as it is to do so, just trust me on this. It's no coincidence that they appeared out of nowhere in the refugee safezone as if they were meant to be found by us, and a voice told me to use them away from prying eyes. But from what I can sense of their magic, there is only enough power for one use, after which they will be gone forever. Like whatever is inside them knows what the Caribou have done, and doesn't want the power of these orbs to fall into their hands. Please, Tempest, if you've ever trusted me before, trust me now.” Twilight looked into Tempest's eyes, a pleading look in them. Tempest had that same look before, when she saved Twilight and her friends from the final ditch attack of the Storm King which resulted in his ultimate demise. Tempest looked determined before nodding.
“Alright, Princess, I trust you.” Tempest said, placing a hand on her friend's shoulder. “Let's get this over with before they disappear without using them.”
“Right. Here goes nothing.” Twilight said, with a smile, turning back to the orbs, which began to glow brighter and pulse with light faster as if in anticipation of the words that Twilight spoke next. “Eternal Dragon. By your name I summon you forth to grant my wish. SHENRON!”
As if the chant Twilight said were the magic words, the orbs began to glow brighter and brighter until there was an explosion of light and a massive roar that Twilight and Tempest needed to close their eyes and cover their ears. When the roaring was gone and the light had died down save for what still emitted from the orbs, Twilight and Tempest stood there in complete awe and slack-jawed in shock.
Right above them and looking down right at the two of them, rising out of the orbs themselves, and coiling about in the sky, was a massive green dragon, with green scales, a yellow underbelly, and two brown horns coming out of it's head. But the feature that was drawing the mares' attention were it's glowing red eyes. But Twilight felt no evil, no malice coming from the dragon, just a no-nonsense type of feeling from this dragon.
“I AM THE ETERNAL DRAGON SHENRON! I WILL GRANT ONLY ONE WISH TO THIS WORLD AS I WAS TOLD TO DO WHEN SUMMONED BY A PRINCESS OF EQUESTRIA! SPEAK YOUR WISH NOW SO I MAY DEPART THIS WORLD FOR MY OWN AWAY FROM THE EVIL THAT PERMEATES HERE!”
Clearing her throat and standing in a regal manner like her former mentor and fellow Princess, Celestia, would, despite the fear she felt, Twilight stood in front of Shenron and looked him in the eyes, saying, “Almighty Shenron, please help us. Our world has been ravaged by the Caribou, the evil you mentioned that permeates my home.” Twilight said, her emotions started to break free and tears falling. “They have taken everything from us, subjugated every kingdom that they have conquered and have enslaved and killed countless innocents.” Twilight stopped and stood silent for a few moments, crying from the bottled up emotions she had held back since the beginning of the war. When she calmed down enough, she looked back at Shenron and said, “So I make this wish. Give us a strong ally, somepony with the kind of power to help us defeat the Caribou and help us defend Equestria and our allies who have been subjugated. This wish I ask of you, Almighty Shenron!”
Shenron just looked at Twilight with an unchanging look as he ‘hmmmm’d’ while he thought about the wish she had just asked. Twilight and Tempest stood there, anxious at what Shenron would do as to what Twilight asked for the wish. Then, to their relief, he finally spoke.
“THERE IS NO ONE FROM YOUR WORLD, PAST OR PRESENT, WHO IS STRONG ENOUGH TO FACE OFF AGAINST THESE CARIBOU OF WHICH YOU SPEAK,” Shenron said, causing both Twilight and Tempest to look down in sadness, thinking that this was all for nothing. “BUT I KNOW OF SOMEONE FROM A DIFFERENT VERSION OF MY WORLD WHO WOULD BE MORE THAN WILLING TO HELP. AND I BELIEVE YOU KNOW THIS YOUNG WARRIOR, PRINCESS.” When Twilight heard that last sentence from Shenron, she had a hopeful look in her eyes, knowing full well whom Shenron Spoke of. “HOWEVER, TO BE ABLE TO HELP YOUR WORLD COMBAT THE CARIBOU, HE WILL HAVE TO BE DIFFERENT, CHANGED, IN A WAY THAT MIRRORS SOMEONE FROM AN ALTERNATE VERSION OF HIS WORLD THAT HE HAS ALWAYS ADMIRED FROM A VIDEO GAME, DUE TO WHAT I SENSE OF HIM BEING REINCARNATED FROM A POWERFUL WARRIOR. BUT WHO HE IS AND HIS MEMORIES, INCLUDING HIS PROMISE HE MADE TO YOU, WILL REMAIN INTACT. ARE YOU CERTAIN OF YOUR WISH STILL?”
“Yes, Shenron, please. Anything that would help him to help us defeat the Caribou, as long as he remembers everything, like you said.” Twilight said, becoming anxious, but also hopeful for the first time since the war.
“VERY WELL, YOUR WISH IS GRANTED!” Shenron bellowed as his red eyes began to glow even more red.
While Shenron was granting the wish made by Twilight, both Twilight and Tempest were both grabbed from behind by Caribou slavers. They both tried to scream until rags were placed over their mouths, after which they passed out. The Caribou slavers used chloroform to knock them out, after which they placed inhibitor rings on both Twilight’s and Tempest’s horns. After they were both tied up and gagged, the leader of the slavers walked up and looked at the orbs with glee, chuckling with a maniacal chuckle that would make anyone get chills.
“Great work boys,” The leader said. “Our spy in the safezone did good for us, especially with the info on these wish orbs.” The leader then outright laughed maniacally and said, “With these, we can ensure the dominion of our race for eternity all in the name of King Dainn and the Crystal Cock.”
But before the slaver leader could utter a single word for the wish he mentioned, a bright white light on the ground blinds them…
When they uncovered their eyes, nothing was there. But what happened next shocked them to their core, as they were too late.
“YOU HAVE MADE YOUR WISH! I SHALL NOW LEAVE BACK FOR MY WORLD. FAREWELL AND GOOD LUCK TO YOU, PLANET EQUIS!” Shenron said as he retreated back into the Dragon Balls, after which they just shot into the sky and disappeared, never to be seen again.
The leader of the slavers was seething in anger until he stormed up to the bound Twilight and grabbed her by the hair on her head, yanking her up to her feet. The forceful action jolted her back to consciousness and she looked around, scared out of her mind. The slaver leader was in her face right at that moment.
“What did you wish for, slut?” The leader asked, barely holding his anger in check. When Twilight just looked at the slaver leader in defiance, he screamed, shaking her violently, “ANSWER ME!”
Despite her fear, Twilight still held her defiant look. When the slaver saw he was getting nowhere, he pulled a knife out and held it to her neck, this time causing Twilight’s look to falter dramatically, knowing what was about to happen. Yet she still held firm, not saying a word, despite her fear now evident on her muzzle.
“Fine then,” the slaver said, “if you won’t tell me, then I’ll kill you after I’m done toying with you for ruining our plans for those orbs.”
Before the slaver could begin doing anything, he was stopped by a voice filled with such rage, it made him nearly mess himself right there in fear.
“I wouldn’t do that if I were you.”
When the entire squad of Caribou looked out to the source of the voice, they saw a green armored biped, with a helmet on. On the helmet was a blue visor that was barely see-through, spikes on the forearms of the armor, what looked like a retractable blade on the right wrist, and a tubular device on the left shoulder. The entire squad of Caribou stood shaking in fear at the predatory feeling coming off this unknown person and the air of dread that was radiating off of him.
“Wh-who are you?” the leader of the slavers asked, definitely messing himself in fear right then and there.
The unknown creature, whose face they couldn’t see, just cracked his neck to the left and right. Then he cracked his left knuckles and then his right. The next seven words he said made all the Caribou in the squad soil themselves as they knew that what happened next, they brought upon themselves.
“Rip and tear, until it is done!”
Author's Note
I know Shenron appears, but his reason for appearing will be explained, as I plan this as a Doom/MLP crossover. I hope you all enjoy.
Doom Slayer Reborn: Fall of Equestria
Chapter 1: Rip and tear, until it is done
Author's Note
Sorry for the long wait, collab is a drag, but it is worth it. Thanks to KukriRyuTsukino for helping me with the battle and clop stuff while I do the in-between and regular stuff. If you haven't yet, check out his page, he has some good stuff written. Also, I don't own the images of the pistols, credits go to the original owners. And Credits for the songs go to Miracle of Sound for Hell To Pay, a Doom tribute song, and Stan Bush for The Touch from The Transformers: The Movie.
Also, bonus points, first private messaged first served, to anyone who can identify the pop culture reference made to a certain cartoon on Cartoon Network Adult Swim. And more bonus points to those who can identify the movie pop culture reference in the first battle of this chapter that was done by my co-author.
Chapter 1: Rip and tear, until it is done
Chapter I: Rip and tear, until it is done
“Wh-who are you?” the leader of the slavers asked, definitely messing himself in fear right then and there.
The unknown creature, whose face they couldn’t see, just cracked his neck to the left and right. Then he cracked his left knuckles and then his right. The next seven words he said made all the Caribou in the squad soil themselves as they knew that what happened next, they brought upon themselves.
“Rip and tear, until it is done!” The creature said, his voice dripping with such controlled rage that the Caribou raised their weapons in fear. And then they all heard a song begin to play around them, as if it was the battle song for this creature, which then got into a stance. He was ready to fight.
*Cue Battle Music 8 Seconds after start of video*
He charged at the Caribou on his immediate right, driving such a powerful lunging punch into the slaver that the leather and iron armor that roughly half of them wore shattered before the second, as an eerie orange aura flickered for a matter of seconds, caused his head to explode in a shower of blood, bone, and gray matter. The hardened iron weapons that tended to be highly effective against the weak, cowardly ponies didn't even seem to faze this…. monster.
He twisted as, with a metallic rasp, a blade extended from the bracer on his forearm, cleaving the arm of one of the slavers off at mid-bicep before a brutal kick caved in his chest with a loud, sickening cacophony of shattering bone. If one listened closely, wet sounds of something pulpy was audible as the Caribou struggled for breath of which he no longer had lungs to draw in air as he hit the ground.
One slaver managed to land a cleaving blow, though all the cold hardened iron did was kick sparks off the giant's armor before a large hand gripped the Caribou's head and, as easily as one tossing a soda can, hurled him into a tree before a nasty wet crunch sounded as the Caribou blanched in fear as a three inch diameter branch had impaled their comrade, whose shocked countenance faded into slackness as his life force faded away. The heavy, razor sharp blade on the giant's forearm cleaved one slaver from throat to pelvis before, with a hammering blow, he not only shattered one slaver's arm, but dislocated his shoulder before he shoved the visibly fractured bone and limb hard enough into the slaver's mouth for the bone to pierce the back of his skull.
A backhanded blow snapped another slaver's neck with a sickening series of cracks and snaps. He snapped off the deceased slaver's horns, turning them into makeshift weapons. Despite being blunt weapons, the Slayer's inhuman strength left them as quite lethal regardless. He pushed off suddenly, his large frame coming down on two slavers before, with sickening spats, their heads were pulped as one hand slapped away a cold iron spear before his hand was locked around the spear weilder's throat as he was lifted before his head was driven into the Slayer's knee once, bloodying it before he was released… moments before a boot crushed his skull. He hefted the cold iron spear, finding it ridiculously light before he launched it at two of the fleeing slavers turned victims… impaling them both to a tree.
He shifted his weight, hurling both horns with inhuman ease. Meaty cracks sounded as both horns found their targets…. squarely at the base of the two slavers' skulls in horizontal gashes. One single slaver had managed to flee, but in all likelihood, his superiors would eliminate him for both being a coward and returning empty-handed.
*Twilight’s POV 3rd Person *
Twilight couldn’t believe her eyes. After Shenron had disappeared to wherever he came from and the slaver leader had threatened to kill her, this armored savior had appeared out of nowhere and was tearing through the Caribou slavers like they were tissue paper. Even the cleaving blow against him that she witnessed didn’t seem to faze him, instead causing sparks to fly off of his armor. But what surprised her the most wasn’t the fact that he was taking care of the Caribou. No, it was his voice when he announced his presence after the Caribou leader had threatened to kill her. His voice was playing over and over in her head from what he had initially said.
“I wouldn’t do that if I were you. ”
His voice... it was hauntingly familiar. She knew that voice from a world and time long passed, but she recognized it. She then remembered what Shenron had said, that he would be different, changed, to mirror someone he admired, the reincarnation of a great warrior. Shenron had also mentioned that his memories, including his promise, would be intact. It was then that her eyes had widened in shocked realization. Her friend from Earth, the friend she left behind but did not want to leave, was the savior the Shenron had brought forth.
You finally came, Twilight thought, tears of happiness falling that she couldn’t help but let out. You finally kept your promise.
As brutal as he was in the fight before her eyes, all she could do was smile, knowing that Equestria’s, and the other subjugated kingdoms’, salvation had finally come.
And for the first time since the war began, she felt hope.
*Slayer’s POV 3rd Person *
The Slayer was pissed that one managed to get away, but he knew that whoever his superiors were would finish the job for him, seeing as they were there for the Dragon Balls, and they ended up arriving too late. And he would arrive back to their base empty-handed. Grinning at that train of thought that his job would be finished by the slaver’s superiors, he cracked his knuckles in satisfaction before turning to the two mares that he had just saved and began walking towards them.
He noticed that the maroon unicorn mare with the scar over her eye and the Mohawk-like mane was just starting to wake up from the chloroform. But he noticed that the alicorn princess next to the maroon mare, who he thought he recognized from another time and place in his life, was staring at him. After he got to the two mares, the maroon one was staring at him in fear. He ignored the staring and looked at the princess. He knelt down, having noticed that they were both tied up and gagged so they couldn’t scream.
“Tell your friend via telepathy that I’m going to use my wrist blade to cut both of you free, that I mean no harm,” The Slayer said to Twilight. Twilight nodded and looked over to Tempest. Tempest, who had apparently not heard what the Slayer had said, suddenly snapped her head to Twilight. The two were having a conversation that the Slayer couldn’t hear, but knew that they were having. Twilight then looked back to the Slayer and nodded, giving the go-ahead that they were ready. The Slayer brought forth his right arm, extended the wrist blade, and cut the binds on Twilight’s legs, then arms, and then carefully cut the cloth gag around her mouth. He then reached up and pulled the inhibitor ring off of her horn. He then did the same for Tempest, carefully cutting the binds of her arms, legs, and then the cloth gag around her mouth. After he removed the inhibitor ring from her horn as well, he held out his hands to help them up.
“Thank you.” Twilight said, smiling as he carefully pulled her up, minding his strength. Tempest still wasn’t sure, seeing the bodies of the slavers around them. But Twilight convinced her in the telepathic message, and his actions towards the two of them had convinced her further that he meant no harm to either of them. Tempest took his hand, of which the Slayer waited patiently, and was helped up by their savior.
“Thanks.” Tempest said, nodding to the Slayer. The Slayer nodded in response before he turned to Twilight. He looked as if he was about to say something, but then his head snapped up and looked left and right, as if he sensed or noticed something that the two mares could not yet detect.
“What is it?” Twilight asked. The Slayer lightly pushed past her and looked around ahead of him, slowly looking left and right as if attuning his ears to some sound. Twilight and Tempest then heard him growling.
“I should’ve killed that fucker when I had the chance.” The Slayer said in anger. Then he looked to Twilight and Tempest, pointed up to the tallest tree near them, and said, “Princess, if you know any spells to make yourself invisible and drown out sound coming from you, go up that tree and stay there in the branches until I give you the signal.” He growled again and said, “A Caribou must’ve gotten away and is coming back with reinforcements. Do as I ask Princess. Cast an invisibility and sound-proofing field around you and your friend, then when I do this,” the Slayer put up both of his middle fingers, “and I say ‘peace among worlds’, that’s the signal the coast is clear. And don’t drop the invisibility or sound-proof spells until you hear that. Understood?” Twilight nodded her head, as did Tempest. “Then go. This shouldn’t take too long.” Twilight took Tempest’s hand and prepped a teleportation spell to the branches of the tree that the Slayer pointed to.
Before she and Tempest teleported to the tree’s branches, Twilight looked to the Slayer and said, “I’m glad you’re here, Aaron.”
The Slayer snapped his head in surprise to look at Twilight, who then teleported with Tempest after the Slayer looked at them. The Slayer then looked ahead again and continued to wait for the Caribou reinforcements. But inside his helmet, he was smiling.
So... she figured it out. The Slayer thought while smiling. She always was very smart. It’s why she was my favorite character in the series.
Just then, the Caribou reinforcements came through the brush ahead of him, numbering 20 this time. And when they saw him, they stopped. One of them pointed at the Slayer and was frantic about it. The anger the Slayer felt boiling within him was beginning to rise to a breaking point.
“That’s him, Major.” The stag said in a panic. “That’s the one who took out my entire unit assigned to retrieve the wish orbs. He tore through us like we were nothing. Even our heaviest member of the unit tried to cleave him, but the stag’s sword did nothing but cause sparks from his armor.
“It sounded like a bunch of hogwash still, if you ask me.” The lead stag, the Major, said. “But there’s no denying your report from the bodies of our brothers about him.” The Major looked to the Slayer and said, “Tell us why you did this before we gut you like a pig!”
“Rip and tear... ” The Slayer said in an inaudible whisper
“What was that, ya miserable git?” The Major said, prompting the Slayer to speak louder.
“Rip and tear... ” The Slayer said again, this time a little louder.
“What did he say? I still couldn't hear him.” Another stag said, looking around to his squadmates.
“It sounded like he said…” The second stag said before they were all interrupted by a loud yell sounding off like a boom from a clap of thunder.
“Rip... and... TEAR!” The Slayer yelled. Then, getting into another stance, he readied himself for another fight.
Round 2 had begun.
The Slayer pushed off, spearing the informant in a brutal tackle before twisting and tossing his new captive by one leg into six others, sending them to the ground in a heap before he plowed a restrained kick that threw the Major backwards, hacking for air. He leaned aside from the pinkie thick arrows from crossbows that shattered upon colliding in the air, the cold iron arrowheads falling into the undergrowth before he pushed off, his boots driving two Caribou to the ground hard before he stomped both skulls, sending a spray of gore over the grass in a gruesome double Glory Kill before he extended his blade, driving it deep into the throat of another Caribou before punting him away carelessly as he knew his stab severed the carotid artery.
He kicked another into a large, thorny bush, ignoring the cries of pain before he ducked as he let a spear slide over his shoulder, impaling another Caribou as he dropped the spear wielder with a agonizing shot to the groin, ignoring the way how the nearest Caribou cringed from the muffled twin pops as the spear wielder dropped with a strangled cry that was abruptly cut off with a loud crack as his neck was snapped before his helmeted head turned slightly as he heard a low rattling as he noticed something that immediately caught his attention as the Major, snarling, had pulled out something unexpected...
His eyes narrowed at the loud crack before the musket ball shattered against his shoulder plate. His teeth were bared as the Caribou's eyes widened slightly before two brutal punches plowed into his abdomen, then ribs with a loud crackling crunch as ribs broke as the, to the Caribou forces, highly advanced weapon which were rather difficult to create and use, flintlock pistol dropped from nearly nerveless fingers as a third punch crushed his trachea. His eyes bulged as, in a gust of dark orange flames, the flintlock was engulfed in what he assumed was hellish magic.
The Slayer tilted the revolver, the golden topaz inlays upon the obsidian lacquered metal gleaming in the shafts of moonlight overhead. His arm swung out before flame barked out from the muzzle in twin roaring booms before no less than five heads detonated in showers of gore and gray matter before a chest exploded with another barking boom. He pushed off, his wrist blade cleaving an arm off and burying deep into the chest of one Caribou before he ducked, a spear ricocheting off his armor before being impaled high in a tree… feet from Tempest Shadow.
He jerked the blade free, decapitating the spear wielder before he tilted his head, the Flame Belch attachment igniting as it released a blast of flames that engulfed no less than seven of the Caribou, including the informant. He forced himself to ignore the screams of the Caribou, letting the Slayer's rage carry his attention before he drove a brutal punch into another Caribou's chest with a sickening pulpy crunch. He lifted the corpse, blocking four crossbow shots before he tossed the corpse at its remaining comrades before he pushed off, slamming a knee into the head of one Caribou, the loud wet crunch as the victim's muzzle and neck were crushed and snapped respectively. He fired two shots from the revolver, its barking roar loud as three heads exploded, leaving no survivors.
The Slayer lowered his hand with his new revolver in it, after which it was encompassed in a mass of reddish-orange electrical sparks. And after the sound of the crack of a whip, the revolver disappeared from his hand. He figured that wherever the original Slayer’s weapons disappeared to until he summoned them was what happened to the revolver. When he looked in the upper right corner of his visor, it was indicating no more enemies nearby. It was finally safe to call Twilight and Tempest down.
As he said he would, he put out both his middle fingers and said, “Peace among worlds. The coast is clear, Princess.”
After the short sound of a shimmer, like the sound of magic being used, a bright flash happened and both Twilight and Tempest were standing in front of him while he still surveyed the area, just as a precautionary measure.
“I think we should get the two of you back to your camp, before more of those assholes show up.” The Slayer said, grunting in annoyance. “Which way is it to your refugee camp, Princess?”
“It’s a mile and a half to the west.” Twilight said, pointing in the mentioned direction. “It’ll take us an hour at most to get there if we hurry. We don’t want to be out in the forest by ourselves in the night with the creatures that roam the Everfree Forest.”
“Have you noticed why no creatures have come anywhere close to the two of you yet?” The Slayer asked. Twilight and Tempest shook their heads. The Slayer smirked inside his helmet and said, “Because of me. They know an alpha predator when they sense or see one. They know no harm will come to them if they don’t harm you. So let’s head west and don’t worry, I’ll make sure you both get back, since it seems I’ll be here for the foreseeable future. Not that I mind. Besides...” The Slayer said as he summoned his revolver back in his hand, “what kind of knight would I be if I let the Princess, whom I swore myself to as her knight and friend, get hurt as well as her guard captain? Stick close. I have a flash light and camping gear just in case.” With that, the Slayer began walking forward, while holding his revolver in a ready position in his hands just in case some creature decided to grow a pair.
“Twilight?” Tempest called to her friend, whose mind wandered at the last thing the Slayer said right after he summoned his revolver. Twilight looked to Tempest. “It really is him, isn’t it? Your friend you mentioned before?”
Twilight continued to look at Tempest, then she focused her eyes on the Slayer. She nodded as she smiled.
“Yes, Tempest, he is.” Twilight said, smiling a genuine smile for the first time since the war began. “Tempest, meet my knight and friend from Earth, Aaron Evans, the Doom Slayer reborn.”
Doom Slayer Reborn: Fall of Equestria
Chapter 2: Trek to the Camp [Edited]
Chapter 2: Trek to the Camp
The Slayer was walking ahead, with Twilight and Tempest right behind him, while holding his new revolver at the ready, just in case one of the monsters of the forest decided to grow a pair and attack them. But so far, fifteen minutes of walking turned out to be uneventful, as though they heard the creatures, cockatrices, timberwolves, even hydras, yet nothing dared to attack them. They were afraid of the Slayer, and they had every right to be.
“Aaron?” Twilight said, getting the Slayer’s attention. He stopped and looked to Twilight for her to continue. “What happened to you? You were always so friendly, or at least tried to be. So what happened that made you become this way?”
The Slayer, now known as Aaron, lowered his head as if thinking about his answer for a few moments. After what seemed like an eternity, he dispatched the revolver back to the aether and lifted his hands to the sides of his helmet. After a slight twist to the side and the resulting hiss of the broken seal, he pulled his helmet off and looked Twilight in the eyes. Twilight lightly gasped as she saw his face for the first time tonight.
His hair was the same curling brown that she remembered, while his eyes were the same hazel, with light inflections of ice blue that were new. The blue inflections were different than when she last saw him on Earth. But she knew this was the human she came to know as a friend.
But what mystified her was the fact that he had a scar going down across his right eye, similar to Tempest’s. But it was more pronounced, like it was barely healed, gnarled, though it was completely healed. But the look in Aaron’s eyes told of a great sadness and weariness that even he did not have before.
“They were murdered. All of them.” Aaron said the sadness showing deeply in his voice now. “He killed my entire family... all for his petty revenge against me for something... that he did in the first place.”
Twilight looked shocked that Aaron’s family had been all killed. Tempest, despite having a calculating, deadpan exterior to those she doesn’t know, couldn’t help but look concerned. Twilight stepped forward cautiously, placing a hand on his shoulder.
“What happened?” Twilight asked a concerned tone in her voice.
Aaron looked into Twilight’s eyes. The genuine concern he saw was something he hadn’t seen for a long time, not since... he shook his head and looked back at Twilight.
“Alright, I’ll explain, but no interruptions.” Aaron said, his voice serious. “And this stays between the three of us, Celestia and Luna included when we get back to the camp. Understand?”
“Cross our hearts, hope to fly,” Twilight began to say, doing the motions of her party-loving friend’s signature unbreakable promise. Tempest did the same, but remained silent. “Stick a cupcake in our eyes. You have our word, this will remain our secret.”
“Okay.” Aaron replied, smiling as he knew the value of a Pinkie Promise. Then he looked up at the sky, seeing that it was getting too dark to keep moving. “We’ll set up camp for the night, it’s too dark now. I’ll explain once we make camp. And just in case any of those fuckers are around, I’ll ask some guards from the local wildlife. So don’t fear if they come, they fear me more than anything else, like I said earlier, since they know they would die if they even attempt to harm you.”
Before they started on making their campsite for the night, Aaron turned towards the denser part of the forest and took a big breath of air. Then, to Twilight and Tempest’s surprise, they had to cover their ears as he used a form of the Royal Canterlot Voice. But the language he spoke was not anything that either of them heard before.
“Waiwaketidiuwansu, tiutouvundibairununsu, emudou ayadoudiesu ifu tian nnundifudinn.” Aaron spoke loudly in his version of the Royal Canterlot Voice. “Waitoun tii toun emudou pudiitinwati tiansun tibai fudiitou tian waediubio baaurun ban waetoupu hidi tian muugati. Yaio baururu vun dinbaedidoundou hidi yaiodi anrupu.”
For a moment, Twilight and Tempest thought nothing would happen. But then they heard the multiple pattering of timberwolf claws, the slithering of cockatrices, and the earth-quaking pound of what felt like three or four hydras. The sounds got closer and closer until Twilight and Tempest, to their shock, saw all of the Everfree animals standing before Aaron. He stepped up to the hydra right in front of him, the biggest one of the four that they saw had shown up. None of the animals before them dared to attack them, instead, they bowed, yes, bowed to Aaron. Aaron shook his head.
“I am no king. I am just a warrior.” Aaron said, smiling. “I protect, nothing more, nothing less. I just need to get these two back to the old castle ruins, but we were attacked earlier by the Caribou.” At the mere mention of the Caribou, the animals before him roared. “I take it you all have had loved ones taken by them too, huh? Well then, show us that you aren’t as ruthless and mindless as the ponies believe by first proving it to Princess Twilight and her friend there.” Aaron pointed to Twilight and Tempest. “Prove it by protecting this campsite for the night, and your help will not go unrewarded. We will make sure to be peaceful if you all are as well. Now, who speaks for the lot of you in the forest?”
The biggest hydra of the four stepped forward and leaned its’ middle head toward Aaron. Aaron calmly put a hand on its’ head, giving it a friendly pat.
“I know I wouldn’t be able to understand the name you were given, since your native tongue is different, so I’ll give you a new one.” Aaron said, smiling a coy smile. “Your new name is King Ghidorrah. It was the name of a villain where I’m from, but I know you are not the same as the original Ghidorrah. So bring honor to your new name. Have the others establish a perimeter around the campsite, and if any Caribou come for us, you know what to do.”
Aaron’s new hydra friend, Ghidorrah, huffed in understanding and then the left and right heads barked to the rest of the assembled animals. They either hissed or howled in understanding and ran to their assigned posts. Aaron nodded and turned around, only to be surprised at what he saw. Twilight and Tempest had already gone ahead and set up the camp, piling the wood for the campfire. He walked back towards them.
“You two didn’t need to do any of the work. You’ve been through enough.” Aaron said. They looked up at him in surprise. Twilight smiled as she finished piling the main firewood on while Tempest set up the kindling. "Alright ladies, step back, let’s light this fire.”
Twilight and Tempest stepped back and, once they stepped back a sufficient distance, they were surprised when Aaron leaned towards the unlit campfire and used his Flame Belch to light the campfire. Once the fire was going enough, Aaron held out his hands and, out of the aether, he produced two sleeping bags.
“Get some sleep.” He said, handing one sleeping bag to Twilight and the other to Tempest. “We’ll head out after I catch us some fish and forage wild berries for breakfast.”
“Don’t you need to sleep?” Twilight asked Aaron. Aaron smiled sadly and shook his head.
“Ever since I became what I am now, I don’t sleep anymore.” Aaron said, shrugging his shoulders. “I’ll admit it’s a comfort I miss, but I’ll gladly give it up again, if given the choice, if it means I can stand watch all night without the adverse health effects. Now sleep. I’ll wake you up once breakfast is ready.”
Twilight and Tempest nodded, setting up their respective sleeping bags and crawling into them. Tempest was already fast asleep the minute she laid down, but Twilight looked to Aaron one last time.
“I know I said it already, Aaron, but I’m glad you’re here.” Twilight said with a tired smile. “I’ve missed you all these years. I hope this isn’t a dream when I wake up.”
Aaron couldn’t help but smile, remembering she didn’t want to leave him all those years ago back on Earth. Even though he could never find a way like he promised, it seems fate saw fit to bring him to Equestria to help restore the once harmonious world back to its’ former self from the vicious Caribou. Aaron knelt next to Twilight and patted her shoulder.
“I’ve missed you too, old friend.” Aaron said with a smile. “I promise you this is no dream. As I’ve said before, I have been and always shall be your knight, and friend. Now, get some sleep.” He patted her shoulder once more.
Twilight, despite the day, was convinced Aaron was no figment of hers and Tempest’s imagination, closed her eyes. In less than 10 minutes, a slight snore could be heard from Twilight, signaling that she was completely asleep. Aaron smiled, standing up and walking over to the edge of the campsite and began his guard duty.
—3hours later—
*Tempest’s POV 3rd Person *
Tempest woke up with a start, sweating heavily. She had not only had the nightmare of when her horn was broken when she was young, but of what happened earlier. When she moved her head around, she saw that she was still in the camp that they had set up with Twilight’s friend, Aaron Evans, aka the Doom Slayer. She saw Aaron with his back to the camp, inspecting his revolver, doing some maintenance, and overall admiring the weapon.
“I already know what happened.” Aaron said, surprising Tempest. “Two nightmares in one. One was about something from your childhood, the other was about today.”
“How did you—?” Tempest started to ask, only to be cut off by a gesture from Aaron.
“Because I used to have double nightmares all the time after that bastard murdered my family.” Aaron said, after which he spat on the ground. “After I took him out for what he did, I was empty, hollow. I was nothing but a shell of who I used to be. That’s when he appeared to me when the nightmares almost drove me to insanity.”
“Who’s ‘he’?” Tempest asked, curious as to where this was getting to.
“My previous incarnation, the original Doom Slayer,” Aaron said, smiling at the fond memory. “Though he didn’t speak ever to me, he didn’t need to. I knew what he wanted to say without him needing to. He helped me become what I am now. And though I never had to fight against the demons or the forces of Hell as he once did, I just wanted to right the wrongs of my own mistakes. I wanted to protect those who could not protect themselves. He trained me in everything I know, from the weapons to everything in the melee area of combat as you had seen today.”
“Why are you telling me this?” Tempest asked, unsure of the point.
“Isn’t it obvious?” Aaron asked, huffing in slight annoyance. “Having similar nightmares as each other? Becoming a hollow shell of who we once were? I’m offering to help in the same way my predecessor helped me.” He then smiled when he sees the shocked look on Tempest’s face as realization hit her like a ton of bricks.
“You’re saying that—?” Tempest began, after which Aaron nodded in confirmation.
“When I get a set of Praetor Armor like mine tailored to your measurements, then yes,” Aaron said, smiling, “I’m making you my apprentice.” Aaron sat down on the log near her. “I’ve dealt with what you’re beginning to go through, Tempest, the nightmares are just the start. But with my guidance, and my training, that won’t happen. My training will help you channel that and use that anger and rage on the Caribou. The Caribou are rage, brutal, without mercy. But you and I... you and I will be worse. We will rip and tear, until it is done. Besides, it would be kind of boring if I did this all by myself. So what do ya say? Want to learn the way of the Doom Slayer and truly help this world back to the way it was before the war?” Aaron held his hand out as if to invite her in a handshake.
Tempest was shocked that he knew exactly what she was going through. But that he had it worse, as it was just the start for her, like he said, Aaron said he was almost driven to the point of insanity if not for the intervention of his predecessor. And he sees the same makings of a Doom Slayer in her? Tempest didn’t need to second guess this offer, as the mistakes from her past spurred her decision. She lightly took his hand and shook it.
“I won’t let you down.” Tempest said with complete sincerity. Aaron nodded.
“I know.” Aaron smiled. “Now get back to sleep, I’ll wake you two up when breakfast is ready. And Tempest?” Tempest rolled back over to look at Aaron, “For the first part of your training, repeat this as you go back to sleep. It helped me with the nightmares when I began my training. Say, ‘Rip and tear, until it is done’. Repeat it over and over until you fall asleep. That’s your first step.”
Tempest nodded and rolled back over. Aaron stood back up and walked back to where he was standing before Tempest originally woke up. Ghidorrah stood there, keeping watch alongside him.
“Having an apprentice Doom Slayer is going to be interesting, Ghidorrah. But I think she’ll make a great one.” After he said that, Ghidorrah playfully nudged him, as if to say he agreed.
EXTRA:Cockatrices, Timberwolves, and Hydras of the Everfree. Come to me and protect these two from the Caribou while we camp for the night. You will be rewarded for your help.
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Chapter 3: Gearing up for Ponyville [Written By: Tempest_Flare]
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Doom Slayer Reborn: Fall of Equestria
Chapter 5: Finding the Fortress of Doom and Returning Allies [Co-written by: Tempest_Flare]
Chapter 5: Finding the Fortress of Doom and Returning Allies [Co-written by: Tempest_Flare]
Doom Slayer Reborn: Fall of Equestria
Chapter 5: Finding the Fortress of Doom and Returning Allies.
Aaron looked around the large battleground that the Town square had become, luckily the final attack had been directed in the path of the main road so no buildings had been destroyed, other than that most of the bodies still on the ground quickly began to dissolve into hellish embers.
"We were really really lucky that the Cyberdemon decided to open his portal on the main Street. Our final attack that nearly vaporized him only carved out a path on that street." He commented. "While the bodies dissipate we should check the rest of Ponyville and you all should explain how the hell you got here!" He demanded of the humane 8. "Especially you Rarity Belle you have an argent weapon, something that shouldn't be possible on our side."
"That would be because of our benefactor darling." Rarity said, spinning the weapon rapidly, showing just how skilled she had become in using the spear in its staff and bladed form. "They contacted us after detecting the first signs of demonic corruption in this world. They brought us into their ship and used their dimensional drives to bring us to this world without the need of the mirror. Although it could not prevent our transformation into our pony forms. In truth it has become beneficial to learn how to use all of our powers as ponies instead of just the ones bestowed upon us by our geodes. I also love how luxurious my coat is, and the tail! Don't get me started on my tail!"
"Believe me darling I understand just how beautiful we can be in our base form, but ever since realizing just how strong I became with the power nightmare left within me, I myself have come to appreciate the looks she also bestowed upon me during her brief inhabitance in my body." Nightmarity said revealing to the unaware that it was her using the power of nightmare that gave her this somewhat familiar form. "Becoming an Alicorn was just a bonus, one that I am glad for with all of my heart."
"After meeting you in that other world I tried to aim my leap this time." Ayumi said as she looked over each of the fighters. "Don't ask about it, time works weird between worlds. I met you when this group was trained and wearing armor."
"Well then I guess I won't ask." Aaron said recognizing the idea of temporal distortion through the multiverse. "Besides I think we have so much more to talk about just concerning the two of us."
"White fire healing!" Ayumi shouted as a white burning aura engulfed her and everyone else, even Aaron. He felt the imperceptible ache within him lessened as those flames burned through him. "That should help, my white fire burns through corruption, whether that be physical ailments or any other kind of corruption. My black flame is not purely destruction based but its most useful trait is the fact that it burns through anything and burns forever as a literal godfire."
That did help something in my own body, it probably removed stress aches built up over the millenia. Maybe I should, if we can find Aloe and Lotus in sound enough mind, see if they and both can help with what is probably hundreds of thousands of knotted muscles if not my whole body knotted to the point it's near about to tear itself apart if not for my regeneration and immortality. Aaron thought as the fire dissipated
"Ayumi…" Aaron said, said dimensional Alicorn turning to him. "When you said you met me in the other world, it didn't happen to be Artie, did it?"
"Two words: Harmonic Elysium." Ayumi said in confirmation. "Don't think too hard about the multiverse mechanics like I said earlier. It's pretty much trying to make sense of Pinkie Sense, seriously bad for your health and can kill you if you're not careful."
"Heh, yeah, while I was training with my former life, William, we both stopped training when you unleashed that attack. Felt it all the way to Taras Nabad, the Night Sentinel homeworld." Aaron said, chuckling. "Even though he was a ghost who could interact with me physically for training, even Will shivered as did I when we felt that all the way over there."
"Whoa." the young Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo said inadvertently quoting a certain digital hacker and Chosen One.
This caused Ayumi to burst out laughing. "T-that was perfect!" She said in between outbursts. "You two don't even know what you just did but trust me it was perfect!" After regaining control of her breathing Ayumi continued and explained, "That wasn't even my strongest variation of that attack, you probably saw my pure energy form. I can perform that attack in that form as well in viewing it with multiversal levels of power to the point where I could destroy an entire galaxy as easily as breathing and a whole universe with barely a modicum of effort. I call that my Godly Ascended Harmonic Elysium. Never had to use that power though I'm glad because fighting on that scale can cause me to forget about the little guy. That's why I rarely ever use my pure energy form to its fullest."
"Yeesh, that's beyond OP!" Aaron said, chuckling. "Though I'm one to talk. I bet Artemis told you the attack I taught him when you unleashed that attack on Unicron, didn't he?"
"Heh, I can perform that attack as well." Ayumi said, chuckling again. "Before you ask no I can't use that kind of power willy-nilly for one I don't like basically hijacking another's story for two you've seen what collateral damage me and Aaron can cause with just one shared attack now imagine that attack but with the whole power of the planet behind it there would be no planet left even my basic punches can do that thanks to learning the fighting style of a certain 'abominable fist that turned against God'." She did heavy air quotes to emphasize that she was making a direct quote. "I hate my power because outside my universe or a ONE based crossover universe I can solo it for the most part."
"Damn. That's… okay I got nothing." Aaron said, shrugging his shoulders and weakly chuckling. All of a sudden, Aaron's pony ears perked up as he heard crying from nearby. He slammed his helmet back on and looked at his mini-map. Two life signatures were in the Town Hall, with a third fading fast. He kicked off the ground and flew as fast as he could toward Town Hall. After he busted through the doors, his eyes widened in shock.
Aloe and Lotus were crying next to a body that was lying in a pool of blood, like the mare was stabbed. Aaron was shocked as he recognized the third mare as Vera, Aloe and Lotus's identical sister.
"AYUMI, WE HAVE WOUNDED! GET OVER HERE NOW!" Aaron screamed in the Royal Canterlot Voice.
"TRUE FLAME REJUVENATION!!" Was her response startling him that it came from his shadow. A near imperceptible flame surrounded Vera quickly and rapidly healing her, literally making it look like time was reversing as all the blood flowed back into her as her wounds stitched themselves together.
"Don't forget I can see a lot through shadow and become unnoticeable when still I literally held on to you allowing the conditions to be met while still moving. Your own nightmarish abilities also have connected with the shadows just to let you know." She mentioned through his shadow and from his back at the same time.
"Next time, warn me before you do that." Aaron said before he turned towards the triplets. "Are you two okay?"
"That bastard got away when he saw the big demon get defeated by you and your friend." Aloe said in a distinct Prench accent.
"He was about to have his way with Vera until you showed up and took down the… Cyberdemon, was it?" Lotus said, finishing her sister's comment.
"Who?" Aaron asked as his eyes narrowed dangerously, having a huge gut feeling as to who they were referring to. He was going to rip the traitorous prick's junk off and shove it down his throat for his next meal if it was who he thought it was.
"Prince Blueblood." Came Vera's weak response, cementing Aaron's gut feeling.
The group was rushing to the Town Hall when they felt more than heard the BOOM from Ayumi's rage-filled roar.
"BLUEBALLS!!!!!!!!!" Was heard before a sonic blast wave knocked the group on their ass.
"Oh-" Tempest started.
After which Twilight finished, "Crapbaskets."
Uh mom, Mary signed to Twily smiling. I heard that! I actually heard that!
"Ah don't think the wounded are with us anymore. That shout had to have destroyed the town hall, if not the people inside it." AJ said sadly right before the group of four including Aaron appeared next to Mary and Twily perfectly fine thanks to that same near imperceptible fire covering all of them in a protective sphere which disappeared with a "POP!".
"You were saying, AJ?" Aaron said with a smile as he held Vera in his arms. She passed out from the blood loss after Ayumi healed her. "AJ, is your farmhouse still intact? If so, we need somewhere where Vera here can recuperate. Can you manage that?"
"Mah farmhouse is still there." AJ said, nodding her head. "Ah'll take you there. Follow me."
"Twilight, Tempest, oversee the search for survivors." Aaron said, looking at Tempest especially. "I want updates every hour on the hour. Understood?"
"Of course, Aaron." Twilight said, walking up to Aaron and kissing him on the cheek and hugging him around his neck. "Be careful." Twilight whispered in his ear before she let go of the hug and turned to walk with the others.
"I won't let you down, boss." Tempest said with a salute.
"I know you won't, you're my apprentice after all. Dismissed, soldier." Aaron said after returning the salute and turning to follow AJ to her farmhouse with Vera in his arms, Aloe and Lotus right behind him.
Aaron laid Vera in the bed of the guestroom of AJ's house, covering her up to her neck with the blanket. His ears twitched as he heard Aloe and Lotus crying. He smiled gently as he hugged them both in a friendly manner.
"She'll be okay." Aaron told them. "She just needs to rest."
"Thank you." Aloe said between sobs.
"Ouí, mercí beaucoup." Lotus responded in Prench.
"Hey, it's what I do." Aaron said, chuckling. "Go get some rest. I'll stay with her until she wakes up. I'll let you know when she is awake. I give you my word."
Aloe and Lotus nodded as AJ led the two of them to a couple of more guest rooms where they could sleep. Aaron closed the door, pulled up a chair, and sat down next to Vera's bed to keep vigil over her as she recovered.
Ayumi hovered in the sky raging at the audacity of Blueblood. But instead of flying off to track down the bastard immediately she remembered that he was almost definitely affected by the Crystal Cock and its twisted magics. Meaning that no matter how bad he was normally he was made far worse after the Caribou took over. Until she learned enough about this version of Blueblood she wouldn't pursue him for what he did in Ponyville. At least not in anger, not unless she learned that he was this bad normally and the magics only made it easier for him to act. That way she would track him down after being calm and knock him out, possibly feminize him to reduce the effects of the cock and also remove the traumatic association Vera surely had with the male image of Blueblood. Even though she healed the physical ailments, her magic, even the true flame can't truly wipe the trauma away.
"Damn she roared so loud that Mary was able to actually hear it?!" Aaron said in surprise to Twily. She, Mary, Sunset, and Sci had decided to keep Aaron company while they waited for Vera to wake up. Aaron turned to Mary with a smile and said, "I hope my fortress is still around. Maybe we can make some actual cybernetic hearing implants for you Mary. Considering we now know that you have at least some function of hearing we can maybe make it sensitive to normal sounds again."
"Wait your fortress?!" Sci and Sunset said at the same time.
"Your the Unchained Predator?! The one who walks the dimensions?! The Hell's Bane, that's you?!" Sci said excitedly. Aaron nodded in response. "Vega told us you would find us!" Aaron was suddenly hugged by a mare with similar proportions to Twily considering she was just a slightly younger alternate version of said princess, except she wore glasses and her hair was done up in a bun. "Thank you!"
"So Vega is your benefactor?" Aaron asked, earning a nod from SciTwi. "Why doesn't that surprise me? I knew he was somewhere. But when I arrived, all I had was a dumb AI in my Praetor Suit."
There was a crackle as Aaron's exterior speakers went active. "That is because I am no longer merely an AI nor am I just an observer, a role you relegated me to though I do agree with what you did back then. I have returned to my old position as an overlooker of every world and regained some agency by building a body similar to the way Hayden did. We will meet soon but like Hayden my body is bigger than normal meaning I cannot visit you directly as I currently am."
"If it's what I think it is based on by what you say about its size, I think I can take a wild guess on what kind of body you have now, Vega." Aaron said with a sly smile. "Transform and roll out much, Vega?"
"I have no idea what that means." Vega said in a deadpan.
"It was an expression from an old cartoon of my youth, Vega." Aaron said, laughing. "The leader of the Autobots would say 'Transform and roll out' when he and the other Autobots went out on missions against the Decepticons."
"We have no time to reminisce about either of your childhood memories. Demonic corruption is still growing. It is far slower than it was on Earth thanks to there not being any hell priests to anchor the spread but something is still causing the portals to open. I can open a portal to the fortress but be prepared. I did move some of your stuff to make room for the girls when I transported them to this world and to manufacture the few argent weapons I've been able to produce without all the files in your Praetor Suit."
"We'll see about that after Vera is fully recovered, Vega." Aaron said, looking down at Vera with his helmet on. "Can you track her vitals for me through my helmet?"
"I can." Came the reply. "I'm surprised you are taking time to help civilians. Typically you just march forward, no word said, destroying all the demons in your path, civilians never really being of concern to you." Vega paused before continuing with audible sorrow in his voice. "For the longest time I thought that you were heartless. Not caring for anything except for the destruction of your enemies. That was until you installed me in the fortress of Doom and I saw your heart for lack of a better term and saw what drove you to those depths of inhuman rage."
"Losing the last of your family does that to a person. That and it was for my only friend in ARC who wasn't afraid of me as I went against Davoth." Aaron commented, smiling at the memory of the ARC intern who was in control of the slipstream portal on the ARC ship. "It was never just about my rabbit. But just like a certain puppy avenger, it was about the last shred of my innocence left, now I have a new family. New people to protect and I swear on my pride as a warrior, on my reputation as a Blazkowicz, on my role as the destroyer of hell that they will not be lost as my old family was this time. I won't just train myself to fight as my forefathers did, no, everyone here will be just as strong as the Night Sentinels in fact they will be the Neo Night Sentinels as stated by the once and forever King of the Night Sentinels, ME! May Novak rest in peace, we shall carry on the legacy of the Night Sentinel race and bring them to Glory once more!"
With those words spoken something changed. Those that were sensitive to it could feel it, a new law of reality being written, a new fundamental truth being formed as Aaron unknowingly used the power of the creator to cement this into the very fabric of the universe, making it so immutable as to be a pillar of creation itself. Celestia, Luna, Cadence and even the bastard King of the Caribou Danin all felt this change. The mares became slightly more clear of mind with this declaration and Danin knew for certain that a great power had emerged… someone to challenge him.
The change even resonated into the dreamscape where a single person was continuing to fight against the demons on their own, somehow their power being increased by this as a familiar set of armor transformed into something far more intimidating. Covering them completely instead of only being partially decorative. "Interesting. Whoever has emerged on the other side of the realm of dreams has given all of us new hope and new strength. This armor I'm now wearing, it feels safe, as if someone I love is constantly holding me and protecting me no matter what. I hope to meet this mysterious newcomer once they finally rest." The individual said as they drew their blade once more it was now glowing a hellish blue, having transformed from a pure metal blade into a familiar shape of argent plasma. "Have at thee! You will never harm my ponies no matter if they hate me or not. I will protect them because the dream realm is MINE!!" The individual shouted as they jumped into the fray once more.
Aaron's words were felt elsewhere, in a dimension similar to where he was born before he trained as the Doom Slayer Reborn. This individual was watching as someone was projecting the event in real-time and showed it to the individual, who was wearing Ancient Egyptian-like clothing unlike the usual clothing he was best known for.
"It seems you were right to help that world out by infusing his old keepsake replicas of the Earth Dragon Balls with a portion of Shenron's power, my lord."
"I owed it to him, Whis." The one called Whis's Master said with a carefree smile. "He looked up to me for all those years, and yet I was oblivious. So when I felt the plight of those ponies and the other inhabitants of that world asking for help in their prayers, I knew who would be up for the job. He always wanted to redeem himself for his past mistakes, I just gave him the opportunity." Whis's master looked up to the sky, saying, "Let's see how this plays out. Just because this is his fight now doesn't mean I will not help him. He will have a difficult battle ahead, and I know some old friends who would be more than willing to help him when the time comes, even though they are long gone now. King Yemma still owes me a couple of favors for saving Universe 7 from Cell and Kid Buu. When the time comes to help Aaron out, I plan to collect on those favors."
Ayumi felt reality shift as she flew on following the trail of Blueblood. "So he used his power. Good. " She thought as she continued onward. "Sorry that I can't help during this time but there are a few things that I need to make sure of before I return. And no one wants to see me when I'm this mad, even calmed down, my anger is on a simmer." She said the evidence of this in her fiery aura which still covered her making her look like a burning black meteorite in the sky.
"Take your time, Ayumi. " Aaron said, chuckling. "If what I'm feeling is correct from this gut feeling, he did it of his own volition in exchange for power. So definitely take him out… for Vera. And remember, Rip… " Aaron trailed off, hoping Ayumi would get where he was going with that.
"That's what I'm hoping to find out about." Ayumi said before roaring out. "AND TEAR!"
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Chapter 6: Gathering the Allies [Co-written by: Tempest_Flare]
Chapter 6: Gathering the Allies [Co-written by: Tempest_Flare]
Doom Slayer Reborn: Fall of Equestria
Chapter 6: Gathering the Allies
As she soared through the Sky Ayumi noticed she wasn't alone. A massive reptilian beast that looks like an overly large mosasaurus seemed to be soaring by her. "Looks like Danin is taking advantage of the multiversal nature of the Doom hell Aaron! The DMC 3 Leviathan is following me!" She sent through her link.
"You're fucking kidding me!" Aaron said aloud in response. "It took both me and Dante a few minutes to kill one from the outside! I know you can handle it but take care to not cause collateral damage!"
Twily and the others jumped at his exclamation, they weren't privy to the mental connection that a ki user could establish to another's mind. "Aaron what's going on? You suddenly jumped up and started ranting!" The purple Alicorn said. "You're scaring us a little."
Aaron looks as if he had only just realized where he was. "Sorry girls, Ayumi gave me a heads up on a new bunch of enemies we are going to have to fight at some point. Dannin has made use of the unique property of the hell the Cyberdramon comes from. Trust me when I say him realizing this is not good, not good at all."
"That is quite true but it seems that he only has limited access to other versions of hell at this point and seems to be mainly pulling from Imora at this point." Vega commented through Aaron's helmet. "Those are the only two versions so far if it gets any more widespread he may become such a threat that even Davoth would be eclipsed."
"Yeah, even he didn't realize the full extent of his realm, thankfully. Otherwise I'd have had an even more unending fight back then" Aaron said, a grimace visible even through his nearly opaque visor.
At this point Ayumi had drawn her twin gunblades, throwing them out as they both manifested into their Zanpakuto spirit forms. The three of them wielding their power equally.
"Triple strike girls!" Ayumi ordered her weapon spirits. "Slice and dice. We need to end this fast. We don't want to get caught in the gluttonous realm if we can help it!" The other two nodded as all three of them black purple and gold respectively the three practically becoming comets of Aura as they turned around and attacked the Leviathan smashing into it and through it multiple times in rapid succession the beast quickly dissolved from the catastrophic damage the three experienced demon slayers/gods and much more besides cause to the creature making sure that none of it hit the ground before it was destroyed.
"It's dead and gone with no collateral damage thankfully, but expect the seven hells to show up. With their prison gone Gluttony will most likely show up soon." Ayumi sent as her gunblades disappeared making the physical forms of her Zanpakuto spirits vanish as well.
“Good.” Aaron said, yawning out of the blue. “Despite fighting the demons earlier, I guess my earlier theory about my body is not the way it is.” Everyone looked at Aaron, confused. “Since I’m reincarnated from the original Doom Slayer, my body is not accustomed to running indefinitely with Argent Energy yet like he was. He had millennia of experience, whereas I only have one battle’s worth of it. I think I’ll take a nap for the night. Tempest?” Said unicorn looked at him. “I want a report on any and all survivors found, as well as an assessment of the damage to the town in general, by the morning. Can you do that, soldier?”
“You got it, boss!” Tempest said, saluting Aaron, who returned the salute.
“But before I forget…” Aaron said, firing an purplish energy ball from his hand into the sky above the town. The energy ball then expanded to form an impenetrable barrier encompassing the entire town. “This is God of Destruction energy, otherwise called the Hakai. It’s keyed to the energy of the demons and Caribou, so the town will be safe. Let’s get some rest while we are able to, everypony.”
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*3 hours later, Aaron’s POV 3rd Person, Dreamscape…
Sounds of steel clashing with flesh and humming energy brought Aaron to a lucid state. "So you're the great warrior who entered our world, the one who rewrote reality itself." A husky female voice said. "I'm not impressed."
“Huh?” Aaron said, confused at what the voice said. When he looked down at his body, he saw it looked like how he did long before he began training with William: dark-blue and black shorts, his old Army National Guard shirt even though he wasn’t able to serve in the military due to his autism, and black shoes with black magnetic clip laces. The only difference is that he also looked like how he did when he was severely overweight, like 300 pounds pre-diabetic overweight.
“Ah, son of a bitch!” Aaron said, the curse slipping out unintentionally. “I guess I haven’t gotten my mental training down yet. I swear this isn’t what I look like anymore.” Then he realized the sounds he was hearing, his Slayer’s rage growing which, fortunately, turned his dream body into his real form. “Sounds like you could use a hand… Nightmare Moon. But I can feel something different about you. No need to tell me. I can tell the change had a positive impact on you.”
"It wasn't exactly positive but the beasties here have made me determined to defend my domain." Nightmare said her blade burning as she quickly turned around and sliced through a purple imp like creature. "As you can see, your influence on the world has given me armor like yours and a blade I find curious yet extremely powerful." Another of the beasts appeared rapidly Nightmare sheathing her crucible in favor of pulling out another argent weapon. "Now though I wish I still had Starfall, this weapon is very satisfying as well." Suddenly the sound and feel of a meteor crashing to the ground hit the both of them making Nightmare smile behind her visor. "Let us go Starfall has returned to me!"
"You lead, I'll follow." Aaron said, smiling. "I don't know my way around the dreamscape, so I'll follow you."
"Look around you this is your dream the beasts have shredded all dream bubbles and made the dreamscape one shared space. So now it has similar laws to reality and the time that Luna brought all of Ponyville together into one shared dream meaning a mental image can and does affect this world. But there is still gravity, air and other such physical laws that can be mostly immutable." Nightmare said her left arm extended to show that the area had no borders yet it looked similar to a place Aaron would recognize.
"I want to see how bad Canterlot is right now." Aaron said, his voice taking a grim tone while scowling. "According to Twilight, it was bad before she summoned me here with the Dragon Balls. It's not that I don't believe her, but I want to see the damage for myself."
All of a sudden, both he and Nightmare Moon appeared in what used to be Restaurant Row in Canterlot, specifically, in front of where the Tasty Treat was, which was a complete ruin. Aaron looked around at the complete and utter destruction of the city, Caribou and demons working together while the Caribou and corrupted stallions were raping the mares like it was nobody's business. If Aaron didn't have the strength of will that he had now, he would've been puking at the sight.
"Okay, this isn't as bad as I thought." Aaron said with anger and rage in his voice. "It's far worse."
"This is a nightmare, remember that." Nightmare said. "It is probably just as bad all things considered as this world has slowly started reflecting the world of the waking but it is still more exaggerated whoever the dreamer is that is centered here in Canterlot–" a familiar scream caused Nightmare to stiffen. "LUNA!!!"
"Wake me up!" Aaron said, his anger rising.
"No this is something that's going on in this world!" Nightmare shouted. "Anything that happens to her in this world can affect her physically in the waking world, only I do not have a waking body currently!"
"Technically you do have a connection to the waking world when I summoned the Everfree creatures to guard Twilight and Tempest…" Aaron said, looking at Nightmare Moon. "...Me."
"Hey boyo, do you mind if I get in on this!" Another voice said as multiple of those purple imps appeared racing towards the source of the screaming in the surprisingly still intact Canterlot Castle, before being slashed into pieces a streak of four red lights appearing to do the slashing. "These bastards tried to make me join them. What kind of dream demon tries to destroy the entire dreamscape!" The entity said "That's literally destroying your home!"
"Huh, your voice sounds hauntingly familiar…" Aaron said before his eyes widened and summoned his Super Shotgun with the burning Meat Hook on instinct. "Freddie Fucking Krueger! How the hell are you here?!"
"Go ahead and shoot, you know how durable I really am!" The man said revealing himself to be Robert Englund in the Freddy Krueger costume without the burnt makeup. "But I'm not Krueger, call me Terry."
"Wait, Terry… as in Scary Terry?" Aaron wore a shit-eating grin. "You can run…" Aaron said, leaving off and hoping Terry would get it.
"...but you can't hide, bitch!" Terry said, laughing. "Gods it's been years since I've said that. Not since the missus was killed with our son." Terry let out a lone tear.
"So it seems the forces of Hell aren't just localized to Equis then?" Aaron asked Terry. Terry shook his head. "Damn. I hope Jerry, Beth A and B, Summer, and Morty are at least okay."
"I made sure they were, considering your connection to Summer and Morty. Morty was still training with Lord Beerus on his planet where you sent him years ago. Summer, welllll… let’s just say she is here, but she seems immune to the effects of the Crystal Cock. She’s currently in the Dragonlands as you call it. But she’s been worried sick about you, boyo, considering she never got to tell you the news." Terry said before they were interrupted by Luna's screaming again.
"Split Form!" Aaron screamed before he split into two, his duplicate looking like his colors was the opposite of the Black Doomicorn Praetor Suit that he wore due to the Poison Joke. Aaron turned to his white armored duplicate.
"Think you can take care of that and get Luna out of the dreamscape?" Aaron asked his white armored duplicate. His duplicate wordlessly nodded and disappeared in a flash.
"Don't worry, Nightmare, my duplicate will be close, if not just as powerful as me." Aaron said, putting a hand on the worried Alicorn's shoulder. "She'll be okay, I give you my word. He'll get her to Ponyville."
"It's not that I doubt your word, it is that even if you free her here she'll still be in Canterlot. There is a limit to the physical effects of the dreamscape even with a dream demon such as Terry here helping to increase the effects in the waking world." Nightmare said sadly. "But now that I have enough energy I can leave the dreamscape the way the Tantabus attempted to. First things first though we will have to train Terry to use everything in his arsenal to keep them safe here. No offense, dream demon but you're rather weak in comparison to others I fought and destroyed such as that triangle I once encountered."
“No offense taken, Nightmare.” Terry said, shrugging. “This is technically not my dimension, so I can understand why you would think that. The dreamscape here feels foreign compared to back home. Like being in a foreign country.”
"If that is the case then all you need is a direct injection of dream energy and you should be as powerful as you can ever be in this world just below me and my sister Luna." Nightmare said before plunging a hand into her chest and pulling out an orb of swirling dark blue energy. "This should do the trick, but the moment you betray us I will revoke this power and destroy you. Remember that."
“I don’t intend to.” Terry said, a grim look on his face. “These fuckers killed my wife and son, my little Brandon. I only intend to protect those who are meant to come here when they sleep and kill those fuckers the moment I see them.”
All of a sudden, Aaron’s white armored duplicate reappeared, looking straight at Aaron.
“Is it done?” Aaron asked his duplicate, who wordlessly nodded before he fused back into Aaron himself. As Aaron was processing the new memories, he smiled and turned to Nightmare, saying, “From what I see of the memories of my duplicate, he not only got her out of the dreamscape, but the psychic backlash from doing so caused most of the demons and Caribou nearby to go into a catatonic state allowing him to basically kill them in their sleep the problem is that even with the barrier thinner than ever we cannot move people via dreamscape."
"That's where I come in isn't it?" Terry said. "My natural ability is to take control of sleeping bodies and make them sleepwalk. It’s incredibly powerful especially since they can have waking nightmares in that state still I'm surprised that Luna could even cause that much psychic backlash considering she's been drained of all of her magic and has not been able to regrow her horn and wings even here in the dreamscape from what I can tell."
"Correct." Aaron said his fists clenched. "Concerning the backlash, Nightmares' connection to her that's probably where the extra energy came from after all you just called her your sister."
"I did, didn't I?" Nightmare said surprised.
"Aye that you did." Terry said "I don't know about you but I'm going to go and see if I can do what Freddy did to those kids to some of those fuckers that deserve it in the castle. Who knows maybe I'll even catch the Big King sleeping and be able to take him out but I highly doubt it considering…"
"Go on Terry my duplicate figured you'd want some fun so he left a few for you to go after at the very least just be careful with any stallions you find here. Know that they're almost definitely mind controlled." Aaron said confidently. "If you can try to break them out of their mind control. I know it can be done, other universes have done it without destroying the crystal cock but don't damage their mind in the process if you can't break them out just incapacitate them."
"Gotcha!" The dream demon said as he disappeared in a burst of fire.
"Now that we have Terry covering our bases here I'm going to wake up and you said that you can traverse the barrier now since we have a defender on this side that can deal with those purple imps?" Aaron said as he sat down as Nightmare Moon nodded. "I swear that we will get you out of there Celestia, Luna! I will not forget about you, my little Sunbeam and Moonbeam!" He thought as he watched Nightmare swing her crucible blade through the air. The sound of fabric tearing accompanying the motion as a white tear in the barrier between the waking world and dreamscape opened. As his body faded from the dreamscape Nightmare stepped through the now open barrier his last sight was that of the hole closing behind Nightmare with her carrying her version of the Doomhammer and Starfall on her back while wielding her crucible blade in her right hand.
Aaron woke with a jolt to Twilight screaming in terror as he instinctively summoned his Super Shotgun with the flaming Meat Hook into his hands.
“Twily, what’s wrong?!” Aaron screamed in the Royal Canterlot Voice as he ran to where she was in her room at her castle, not realizing he had just called Twilight by her nickname.
"NIGHTMARE STOP HUGGING ME!!!!" Twilight exclaimed as Aaron burst into the room.
The absurd sight of the darkest mare in the series hugging the one that supposedly had destroyed her while giggling caused Aaron to deadpan. "Really?! Here I thought I was going to have to kick Caribou pervert ass, yet I find you scaring the crap out of Twily here."
"I didn’t say I disliked it, Aaron. But why are you calling me by the nickname my brother gave me?" Twilight asked as she struggled in Nightmare's grip.
"That's easy to explain. We have multiple versions of everyone in the Elements of Harmony currently so I decided to start using your nicknames to tell you apart." Aaron said calmly. “However Nightmare, since you’re on our side now, and you don’t seem as evil as you were on that night Twilight met the other Elements, I’m giving you a new name as well. Similar to Luna’s, considering that your new name and Luna are different names for the Moon back on Earth.”
“And what would my new moniker be?” Nightmare asked as she set Twilight down and let her go, placing her hands on her child-bearing hips in a somewhat defiant way, like she was expecting a challenge.
“Selene.” Aaron said simply. “It was the name of the Ancient Greek mythological Goddess of the Moon.”
“Selene…” Nightmare, now called Selene, gasped, her eyes sparkling. “I LOVE IT!” Selene screamed in joy as she ran up to Aaron and gave him what would’ve been a bone-crushing hug to a normal pony, but thanks to the Poison Joke, his new Alicorn strength prevented him from being crushed like a chicken egg.
“Glad you like it.” Aaron said, smiling. “However, if you’re gonna be on our side, we do need to have a long talk about your old ‘Eternal Night’ plan. Because I don’t think you fully realize the ramifications of what would have happened if you had gone through with it.”
"You do know my power comes from a solar eclipse?" Selene commented. "Such an event brings night even during the day. That was my plan to maintain my full power at the solar eclipse during the daytime and to allow the moon to show up during the night time. The planet would still get the energy of the Sun during the solar eclipse but the light would be dimmed. This would make the planet somewhat colder I know, but it's better than not having the Sun at all."
“But plants and animals still need full sunlight to thrive though.” Aaron said, “so would’ve the crops of the ponies who farm for their livelihoods. That’s the only difference besides the colder temperatures. The crops wouldn’t be able to grow without the full sunlight. That’s another point as to why your plan was flawed.”
"Uh, I hate to correct you and give attribution to her plan but Earth ponies can grow anything in minimal sunlight conditions that's why we can still have growing plants during the winter." Twilight said. "It's not as efficient as full sunlight but it can work."
“Okay I’ll admit I didn’t think about that,” Aaron said, crossing his arms. “But on Earth, things would’ve been much more drastic in that way.”
"You know that I understand the 'normal' orientation of a world's celestial bodies." Selene said. "Our world for some reason does not work that way, and also I would not use a full solar eclipse all the time. There are forms of the solar eclipse that allow more sunlight than a true solar eclipse or a full one as it's more often called. But enough of that we still have things to discuss other than the circumstances of my plan and how it could or could not have failed, we need to find your actual fortress. I know we met in the version of it from the dreamscape but considering the others have hinted that they've actually been in the building it should be beneficial to go there. I know for one that it has weapon production facilities."
"How do you know all that?" Twilight asked a little creeped out. "Were you monitoring their dreams or something?"
"Yes and no regrettably the dreamscape's landscape has completely changed with the introduction of dream demons from another realm." Selene said with melancholy. "All the dream bubbles you experienced during Luna's interaction with the Tantabus have popped, for better or worse, and dreams now live in one big cluster. A single continuous land the benefit is that there is a more consistent reality to those dreams but the downside is that dreamers can be harmed far more easily."
“It’s true, Twily.” Aaron said, looking grim. “I saw it myself when I met Selene in the dreamscape as I was sleeping. But we do have a dream demon on our side, protecting the dreamscape. He’s actually an old friend. The demons invading the dreamscape killed his wife and son, Brandon. So he wants revenge but will help us protect the dreamscape at the same time.”
"Well then as long as we're protected it's of no concern to me what happens in the dreamscape." Twilight said as she left the room the others following her. "I haven't mastered dreamwalking magic yet. The whole situation put a hold on my Royal training, both for taking care of the dream realm and day-to-day politics." Aaron’s eyes narrowed at Twilight’s rather harsh response.
“Girls, leave, that means you too, Selene and Tempest.” Aaron said, a concerned tone in his voice. “Twilight, you stay. You and I need to talk.”
"What's wrong Aaron?" Twilight asked as the others obeyed and headed out of the castle.
“I know something’s bothering you. What is it?” Aaron said bluntly. When Twilight was about to say something to the contrary, Aaron stopped her with a gesture, saying, “That reaction you gave was a little too cold and harsh, so don’t think I didn’t notice it. Seriously Twily, what is bothering you? You can tell me. And that means you leave as well, Pinkamena Diane Pie.” Aaron turned to look behind him, seeing an unnatural bush shaking before Pinkie popped out.
“Awww, poopie. Okay!” Pinkie said, running after the others.
“Now that that’s out of the way,” Aaron said before he clicked his armored gloved fingers and a barely perceptible shimmering dome over him and Twilight, a soundproofing and privacy spell combo dome. “Now, what’s troubling you? It’s not good to keep whatever’s bothering you bottled up like this. You know you can tell me anything.” Twilight began crying as she rushed to Aaron and hugged him tightly, crying into his chest. Aaron hugged her back, rubbing her back gently while being mindful of her wings. “Take your time. I’m all ears.”
"It's the pressure of all this war, finding my friends, the girls from the other world!" She said through sobbing. “I can barely take it normally. With everything that just happened, I'm almost… I feel like I'm going to break!"
“War is never easy Twilight,” Aaron said, whispering in her ear softly. “But while the Caribou are not that much better than the demons that are allies with them, this world is worth saving, because there are ponies and others who I know must be fighting in resistance cells across the planet who want this war to end just as much as you do. I know it’s hard, but you need to be that pillar of strength for the ponies we free until we can rescue Celestia, Luna, and Cadance. But you're not alone. Your friends from the mirror world, including Sunset and her human counterpart, are here to help. As am I. And we’ll do everything we can to help end this war and bring things back to the way they once were. I give you my word as the Doom Slayer.”
“Pinkie… Promise?” Twilight said through sobs.
“Cross my heart, hope to fly,” Aaron began to say, going through the motions, “stick a cupcake in my eye. I promise.”
“I just want to sleep now.” Twilight said, crying while yawning. “You don’t know how nerve-wracking this has been. But can I… ask you a favor, Aaron?”
“Anything.” Aaron whispered.
“Would you mind… keeping me… company?” Twilight asked shyly. “I don’t want to sleep by myself tonight. After feeling all of this since the war began.”
“If it helps you sleep better, I won’t mind.” Aaron said before Twilight teleported both herself and Aaron to her room, both of them getting under the covers with Twilight hugging Aaron tightly and draping a wing over him. Aaron was wearing his armor, but Twilight got under the covers naked due to the removal on the law against public nudity.
“Good night Aaron.” Twilight whispers, kissing him on the lips before nuzzling into his chestplate and beginning to snore lightly.
“Good night, Twily.” Aaron said, smiling. “Sweet dreams.” Aaron closed his eyes while he held Twilight in a protective hug, letting the darkness of sleep take them.
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Chapter 7: Entering the Fortress and Confronting Blueblood
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Chapter 4: Aaron's reveal and the assault on Ponyville [Co-written By: Tempest_Flare]
Chapter 4: Aaron's reveal and the assault on Ponyville [Co-written By: Tempest_Flare]
Aaron and the mares approached the Everfree border with trepidation. They had passed both the abandoned castle and Zecora's hut, finding many bodies of Male Caribou in both areas. Some of the intact corpses looked like they were sacrifices and others seemed to be nothing more than gore bags. As the group moved through the trees he flashed back "How long were we in the Everfree?" Tempest asked Twilight when the group had finally got past the horrid carnage. "The Caribou didn't show this kind of cruelty to their troops when we escaped." The mare gripped her new shotgun tighter as the group moved, glad their friend had given the two means of defense besides their bodies and magic.
"No more than 6 weeks," Twilight replied, finding herself just as grateful as she swept her pistol in an arc around herself practicing her training from her brother in loaded firearms. "We did have to find the Dragon Balls by sensing their otherworldly energies; it's not like I could have built a radar to find them." She replied, trying to put some levity into her voice.
Aaron smiled at Twilight’s mentioning of a Dragon Radar as he thought, 'If only you knew, Twilight .'
"You’re right though, Tempest, this is not their normal behavior even with them looking for me as their primary target. This is worrying but not a major problem yet, so the fewer of them against us the better, in my opinion."
The whole time Aaron felt a familiar sensation from seeing the mutilated corpses, something was off in the way that they looked like they were sacrifices to something. His other lifetime memories almost hit him upside the head with flashbacks. The very possibility that the demons from his life as the Doom Slayer had followed him kept him quiet until they reached the edge of the Everfree.
Ghidorah and a few of the more brave Everfree creatures had been following them, making sure to guard them against anything Everfree might throw at them in its impotent rage against the Caribou. Now that they were on the edge of the Everfree near Fluttershy's cottage a manticore with a familiar scar on its left paw stepped forward, nuzzling into Aaron's side as to get his attention.
"Hey, who’s…" Aaron said as he was bumped out of his thoughts by the action. "Oh, it's just you." This particular manticore, surprisingly the cat was a female, had been one of the animals to answer his call alongside Ghidorah. He knew of the beast's connection with the Mane Six, in particular one pink-haired pegasus. "Worried about Fluttershy huh?" The lioness nodded remembering the kind goddess that had saved her all that time ago. "Don't worry I'll make sure she's safe, you and Ghidorah along with the other creatures of the Everfree should stay back here. We'll need a clear route to get out of here. I suggest you take on whoever runs this way to give us that route." This caused both mighty beings of myth and nature to growl in anticipation of a fight.
"You hear that big guy?" Tempest asked the golden Hydra. "We're trusting you with our exfil that means we're trusting you with our lives. Don't disappoint us."
Twilight walked up to the large lioness who had moved to stand guard next to the reptilian beast. "Thank you for trusting us and I'm sorry for what we did back then," gingerly Twilight hugged the creature around its neck, not sure if it was willing to be touchy-feely considering what had happened that Summer Solstice Night so long ago, but also not wanting to hold back her gratitude. "We'll be back with her, I promise."
Instead of growling in light anger, the lioness purred with pleasure at actually being appreciated before lightly shaking Twilight off of her, reminding the princess what she needed to do with that action.
"You guys have a history with that one, don't you?" Aaron asked, trying to distract himself from his encroaching worries. "I'm surprised she let you touch her, considering what you and your group did on the night of the Summer Sun Celebration." Aaron summoned his Heavy Cannon, activating the precision scope to allow him to scan the surroundings past the river. Not seeing any immediate threats he continued the conversation. "Care to share?"
"Well, it turned out that the thorn stuck in her paw had a mental compulsion woven into it. Every time it jabbed into her paw, it caused her to go berserk and try to attack the first being it saw." Twilight explained as she walked back over to Aaron "Our attacks broke her out of her berserk state, allowing Fluttershy to approach without danger. A few days later Fluttershy checked in on her and found out that she was a mother that had been forced away from her young cubs and was trying to return to them when she was stuck with Nightmare Moon's thorn. Luckily, she hadn't seen her Cubs at that point, and never actually harmed anything as we encountered her almost as soon as the thorn had gotten stuck into her paw." Twilight took point next to Aaron as Tempest checked their backs past the beasts.
"Rear is clear, Sir!" Tempest said as she fell in formation on the other side of Aaron ready to exit the forest. "Anything ahead so far?"
"Front is clear, soldier," Aaron said as he did one last check when he didn't find anything he turned to the two mares beside him, sounding dead serious in his tone. "Now once we exit the forest we look for survivors with the priority being females. Even if they're willing in their servitude, we remove them from the Caribou and save any cow we find, whether that be Caribou or Cattle." Seeing the two about to protest he shut them down. "No ifs, ands, or buts! These females have been put under mind control, even if it's a mild compulsion we know that they are being controlled, remember this if you find any of them struggling against you. In that situation knock them out but don't harm them any further. Of the residents of Ponyville, our main priority is the other elements but anyone we can save is worth their weight in titanium understood?" Both mares nodded. "Remember you're going to have to kill the male Caribou but try to save any ponies that follow them. Again they're under mind control. Everyone that we save now is one that we can free later. Above all, we Rip and Tear until it is done!"
In response, the two mares followed him out of the cover of the canopy, the group of three slowly approaching the area around Fluttershy's cottage. While approaching the haven for animals that was Fluttershy's cottage they heard the roar of a bear and the apparent sounds of a female struggling. This was followed by the laughter of many men.
"Bitch is taking it like she loves it." They could hear one say as they got closer, the sounds of slapping flesh repeatedly occurring. "Holy hell, I want in her next!"
"More Harry!" Fluttershy screamed. "Fill my slutty pussy with your throbbing cock!" The group had finally crested the bridge that lead to Fluttershy's cottage and were able to see Harry the bear fucking Fluttershy's pussy while a group of Caribou males watched. One of the nude males was holding Angel bunny in the air with a knife at his throat.
"Oh wow!" Twilight said as both she and Tempest lowered their weapons. "Fluttershy is still a red collar and she's letting Harry fuck her out in the open." Both mares started playing with themselves at the sight, not realizing their actions. "She would never do that before. We all knew that she was a xenophile, but she never really did it out in the open even though she likes being watched."
"No kidding," Tempest said, tweaking her nipples "That one time you cast a protection spell on her and let her get eaten by that boa that was so hot!"
While he noticed how the two acted in response to the admittedly incredibly hot sight of Fluttershy letting herself get railed by a bear, what Aaron was focused on were the Caribou surrounding the Pegasus, most specifically the one who was holding Angel, it was obvious from Fluttershy's unconcerned actions that Angel had tried to stop Fluttershy from exposing herself like this and the male Caribou had grabbed him without her noticing. Threatening him with a knife to his throat, this sight brought back flashbacks of Daisy, his pet rabbit, her head on a pike in front of his home to the forefront of Aaron's mind, causing Aaron as the Doom Slayer to become enraged to the point where a purple and red aura appeared around the armor informing him "quad damage and berserk power-ups activated."
"Your lives are forfeit! You shall know why I am called the Doom Slayer, the Hell Walker, the one who crosses the dimensions! Time to rip and tear!" He shouted as he dashed forward his new wings pushing him faster than he normally would move in a similar way to his Dash but without needing to be recharged after two movements.
"What-!" Was all the Caribou holding Angel was able to say before a burning crimson blade attached to a metallic handle was shoved through his chest causing him to drop both the knife and Angel who ran away.
All the while Fluttershy was getting railed even harder by Harry who was shielding her from the brutality, keeping her from breaking from seeing her Angel threatened. Or at least that is what the bear had hoped but part of Fluttershy's trembling wasn't pleasure, it had been fear, having noticed what was happening just on the edge of her vision. She had been worried that Angel would have been killed in that time and had continued to let Harry fuck her with abandon hoping to either keep the attention of the Caribou on her or keep Angel from being killed by showing how much she loved being the pet of the Caribou.
Now that her little boy was free, she started to truly enjoy what was happening to her, the magic in the air increasing her figure as she began to accept her place under Harry. All the while her mind remained intact yet her more depraved side was finally reveling in being free, being able to show what she really wanted. "Give me all your cum Harry! Fill me up with that hot bear cum and give me a foal!" The mare began squirting from the pleasure, no longer being forcibly edged by her own worry. "I want it! Oh gods, do I need it"
Aaron quickly summoned his other Crucible as he sliced through the dead caribou with the one stabbed through its chest. Using the second one to block the blade of the only Caribou to wear anything, a set of armored pauldrons and sleeves. "You bastards will die and she will be free!" He said as a song began playing through his suit's intercom. "You ain't outdeviling me!" He growled, the music breaking both Twilight and Tempest out of the semi-trance that they had been in. Both of them lifted their weapons and immediately taking shots at the Caribou about to attack Aaron.
The music spurred Harry on, now pinning Fluttershy's head to the ground with a paw, leaving her in the perfect position to truly plow her. "Yes, harder!" She now helpless mare said as Harry rammed his cock into her hitting her G-spot perfectly with each stroke. "FILL ME!"
The remaining six Caribou, along with their captain the armored buck, focused on Aaron, his two blades of Argent plasma catching their attention with how they glowed a fiery crimson, similar to their benefactors' more vicious weapons. "The bitch is already free, she willingly joined us! As you can see she's enjoying being railed by that bear and after that, we're going to fill her up and make sure that she's pregnant just like the piece of meat she is." The captain said as he began to swing his other blade at Aaron's chest which was blocked by the armored demigod's other sword. "The swords you wield remind me of a particular set of axes from our benefactors. Call themselves Marauders. Do you know them?"
"Know them, I'm their Armageddon, you motherfucker!" Aaron said no longer holding back and using the true potential of the mixture of berserk and quad damage he rapidly spun around and kicked one of the Caribou, literally blowing it apart with how powerful he was at the moment. "And now I'm yours!"
"Fuck this shit, man, I'm not dealing with another one of those assholes!" One of the five remaining soldiers said as he dropped his weapon and ran into the forest. The roar of a lion was heard seconds later along with his scream.
"Oh, crapbaskets." That was all the captain said before Aaron brutally beheaded him turning to the remaining four he unsummoned his blades putting up his fists, which were crackling in the mixture of quad damage, berserk, and a charged blood punch.
Before any of them could react, he dashed forward once again with both of his arms out to his sides as if he had been going to double clothesline them but he already had gone through the men. After a second, Fluttershy screamed in climax as the men completely disintegrated into a mist of blood and the song paused.
"It's okay to come out, Angel. I'm not mad at you, nor your mother." Aaron says the power flowing through his suit burned off all of the blood that was on him. "You done, Harry?" He asked the bear who had climaxed at the exact same moment as Fluttershy.
The bear nodded, removing his paw from her head. He had only pressed down lightly keeping her pinned like that as she had always enjoyed the face-down ass up position for her climaxes.
"Once she recovers, I need to talk to her. It's about those two over there and what happened to them at the beginning of the fight." Aaron sat down, Angel quickly hopping into his lap.
'What is this? Quad damage and berserk shouldn't be active. I touched neither of the orbs that give the power-ups and I can Dash without using up charges. In fact, it feels like I can run at dash speeds forever as if something has-' "the Joke!" He shouted, 'it has to be! It gave me these wings and horn along with my more equine features. Could it be that instead of playing a joke that detriments me it's playing one that gives me a benefit? Like I could use my wings to dash and double jump, maybe even fly, and now I don't even need to touch the orbs to activate power-ups. I mean it would be hilariously funny to make me even more overpowered than I am so that does make some sense.' While Aaron contemplated what the Joke had done to him Fluttershy stood up and walked over to both Twilight and Tempest. He had not noticed it but all three of them seemed to have even fuller figures, each one a little bit bigger. Fluttershy the most obvious had he seen her before everything started even amongst the rest of the main six Fluttershy had been the second biggest in overall figure after Twilight ascended.
Rainbow Dash surprisingly had the largest bust out of all of the elements sans Twilight. Contrary to what most would have thought, having a flat chest was less aerodynamic than having a large bust on humanoid figures that could fly. It turned out large breasts create a small buffer of low pressure that allows the rest of the body behind it to flow through the air much easier making it more aerodynamically efficient to have J cups instead of A cups. Twilight had explained this to both Aaron and Tempest as they walked through the Everfree earlier. Aaron broached the subject when he saw Twilight hovering for a little bit to get over a large section of Gore. Unbeknownst to her, he had also taken a small video while watching her bust bob up and down as she flew, having subconsciously wanted to capture the moment.
'That phenomenon is also a little odd for me. I wasn't really one to want images of things that aroused me before. Maybe the magic is affecting me a little, making me more susceptible to my urges. Though that could just be the joke as well giving me such overpowering abilities but also forcing me to confront more of my baser urges in the process. Basically, I'm even stronger now but in contrast, I'm also hornier than ever.' The thought caused the demigod to chuckle.
"Excuse me?" Aaron heard Fluttershy say, surprised that his second set of ears were even more sensitive than the sound-enhancing equipment of his Praetor suit. "C-can you pass me Angel, i-if you want to that is?"
"Sure Fluttershy," Aaron said as he stopped petting the bunny in his lap, carefully handing the lagomorph over to the caring pegasus who noticed his exposed skin realizing that he wasn't a pony. "I take it you've recovered."
"Eep!" She squeaked as she took her oldest friend. "Y-yes Harry only made it look r-rough." She said more normally even with the glowing red blush shining underneath her butter-yellow coat. "He's always careful whenever we play even though I like it rough sometimes."
"Okay," Aaron said in response to that comment. "Twilight and Tempest get over here, we need to discuss something." He said with authority in his voice causing Fluttershy to jump from how quickly his voice shifted.
"What's up boss?" Tempest asked as the two other mares approached Aaron and Fluttershy.
"When you first saw Fluttershy being played with by Harry you two started playing with yourselves," Aaron said matter of factly. "Honestly I would have done something similar had I not had the strength of will that I have but it seems like you did it without noticing, something I chalk up to the literally charged atmosphere outside of the Everfree." This comment shut down any response forming on Twilight and Tempest's lips.
"I've been able to sense it but with the three of you together the effects have lessened." He continued. "It seems that even if she isn't an Element of Harmony, Tempest is helping with the mitigation of the effects,” ‘Possibly because her broken horn leaks mana counteracting the effects of the Cock’ . “That means as we bring each of you together the effects will dissipate even faster. My song broke you out of whatever trance you were in so it wasn't particularly strong if a conflicting noise could disrupt it."
"The Everfree with its chaotic nature also mitigated the effects to the point where it only made Tempest and I slightly more horny than usual," Twilight said. "I hadn't taken into effect how fast it could affect us and how strong the influence was. Though you are right, your song broke us out of the trance. I think that may be a part of your inherent magic, as it seems that you created something of a heartsong. A song that is woven into the magic around you influencing others whether to sing along or to follow in your actions. Whatever the joke did to you, making you into what you are now is interesting."
"Who is this Twilight? It sounds like you know him personally?" Fluttershy questions. "Not that I'm not thankful for him saving Angel and k-killing the brute that threatened him but the others…"
"Aaron Blazkowicz at your service, king of the Night Sentinels and once known as the Doom Slayer," Aaron said, taking the last name from his previous identity, fusing it with his current first name giving him a new identity that followed the duality of his current life. "Twilight may have mentioned me a few times."
At this revelation, all three of the mares bowed deeply, although Twilight did it with amusement. "I had mentioned you a couple of times but I never mentioned your Royal status, your majesty." She teased. "Also changing your last name? I'm surprised, Aaron."
"More like reclaiming a birthright Twilight. The Blazkowicz line is a line of incredible warriors no matter which universe they come from. Once I put the armor back on I became a Blazkowicz once again. Even if it was in a prior life I might as well embrace it." Aaron explained. "After all, I am the Doom Slayer reborn, which means that I will forever be a Blazkowicz bane of hell."
Aaron looked to Fluttershy. "Do you have some clothes that the girls and yourself can use? Tempest has her armor but Twilight really doesn't have anything."
"No," Fluttershy admitted, shaking her head. "Before the take over Twilight and the rest of us, elements had learned that we would be immortal together thanks to our connection. The fact was that it was the elements that allowed Twilight to ascend. We share a link with each other and our life forces are tied together. At first, we thought that we would age as long as Twilight grew into her full Alicornhood but that was proven wrong. As Twilight grew we did too and we shall." The Pegasus emphasized it by shaking her bust showing that it was bigger. "With how long it's been since then and the fact that we've been under Caribou control no one has had clothing since they removed the law against public nudity burning all clothing throughout Equestria sans armor and other such uniforms just to make sure that no one could cover themselves, especially Mares. Tempest is fine since it seems her armor is elastic in its underlayer but until Rarity is free I don't think we'll have any clothing to fit us."
"Well then-" Aaron said before remembering another possible source of help. "I just remembered, have you gotten any response from Discord?"
"When this began I tried calling out but all that happened was the Caribou laughing," Twilight said sadly. "I think they somehow trapped him in his dimension or something worse happened."
Aaron thought for a moment before he decided to deal with that later. “Right now we could use the help but it isn’t necessary. When we get the chance though we will find out what happened to him.”
The group of four rested for two hours, calm in knowing that they weren't likely to be disturbed since all the nearby Caribou had been dealt with before they could reach their compatriots. During this time Aaron tested some of the powers of his altered suit and form. His earlier suspicions proved true as he was able to activate any powerup from the Doom arsenal at will making him so overpowered it became hilarious. He also discovered that he now had a Revenant's hover ability thanks to his jump boots and wings working in tandem. He also suspected that wasn't the only revenant-related ability he had but he didn't want to frighten the girls by using that particular power too soon.
"Fluttershy I equipped the girls with some of my extra armaments from my arsenal," Aaron said before summoning another of his dimensional backpack units. "Each one of you is going to get something to defend yourself with. Twilight and Tempest got the most because Twilight is their main target and Tempest is my apprentice."
"Ok?" Fluttershy said a little nervous at the thought of fighting but unlike what most would think, Fluttershy wanted revenge on the Caribou. "What do you have for me?"
Aaron pulled out a futuristic sniper rifle. "This is the Vortex rifle, a single shot sniper that can be charged to deal more damage thanks to it being an energy weapon. It has a single modification that can be activated by pressing a small button on the stock allowing the weapon to charge faster and hold more energy while reducing the number of shots you have in total. At most, it has 20 rounds of ammo before it needs to recharge. This is a precision weapon so it's not the only one I'm going to give you."
Aaron pulled out another futuristic weapon, one even more impressive than the sniper rifle from earlier. "This is the Unmayker, a powerful rapid-fire weapon. It's one of my greatest weapons rivaling The BFG and the Hypercannon for power. This version comes from a universe where it was crafted by my own hands. This should be used against stronger enemies, especially those that I fear we may encounter later." Aaron also handed her a necklace with a small orb embossed with the rune of the Slayer. "This is a haste orb, due to its unique power when combined with the Unmayker it has unlimited ammo making it ideal for clearing out groups. It cannot always be active but now that I have my own magic I can extend its time for up to 5 minutes at a time before it needs a 10-second cooldown."
Both Twilight and Tempest were surprised that Aaron had given Fluttershy such a powerful weapon since the weapons he had given both of them were significantly weaker, at least that is what they thought.
"Fluttershy is admittedly weaker than you two." Aaron said knowing what the girls would think about him mentioning and giving Fluttershy one of his strongest weapons "She's more of a supporter. I wanted her to have a basic get out of jail free card in case we end up being overrun."
Aaron pulled out a unique gauntlet with sparking electricity and had a brutal saw that went over the hand causing Fluttershy to grin evilly almost as if Flutterbat was floating to the surface. "This is a last resort weapon or maybe your main seeing that grin. It's called the Pummel gauntlet. It's a close-range weapon. I have many of these as I was able to capture a few from the time I was a Champion in the Grand Arena. I wouldn't suggest using this for assassinations but for close-range combat, what I have for you next should be for assassinations."
Aaron pulled out a group of hatchets each one was small but able to be hung from a belt. "These helped one of my ancestors in his time against the enemies similar to the ones we face now, they're made of derulinium, a titanium aluminum alloy making them light yet strong and able to hold the wicked edge even hundreds of years after they were used. Use them as throwing weapons or as a quick tool for chopping off limbs and heads; they'll help you out."
"Oh I will enjoy these," Fluttershy said as her pupils shifted to slits and two fangs appeared to poke out from her upper lip causing the mirror to chuckle evily before looking to the group her eyes now glowing red. "Flutterbat has returned and this time I don't want apples, I want blood."
This dramatic shift in personality caused Aaron to stare along with the other girls. "Come on, don't scare us like this!" Twilight said as in a flash of pink light Fluttershy transformed. Now far more resembling her former vampire fruit bat hybridization though this time she had both three butterflies and three bats as her cutie mark.
"Why would I scare you?" Fluttershy said. "Yes I'm being far more aggressive than I normally would but they almost killed Angel. I'm out for blood. No one hurts my animals, especially my little demon bunny."
"At least she acknowledges his behavior can be demon-like," Aaron muttered.
"Angel is an actual demon," Fluttershy said, "he's the last descendant of the demonic lagomorph species outside of Tartarus. The race as a whole were secondary guards next to Cerberus. When outside of Tartarus they act as familiars to powerful magic users it turns out that my connection to the elements of kindness drew him to me just as much as he drew me to him."
After that revelation the group decided to move on. As the group reached Ponyville they began to hear screaming and explosions. This caused Aaron to draw his super shotgun from his pocket dimension.
"That shouldn't be possible!" Aaron shouted recognizing the distinct sounds of Imp fireballs. "I was summoned to this world! Davoth is dead no demons should be able to leave Hell!" The warrior while confused by the sound still sped up his new biology helping to move him faster, each step was accompanied by a burst of his jump boost and a powerful flap of his wings pushing him onward. Suddenly he kept and on instinct he took to the air a mach cone forming as he pushed himself to get to the fight faster.
The others were surprised by his speed and how he flew so naturally. Both Twilight and Flutterbat knew how much effort it took to reach mach speeds but they both pushed to match their new friend Flutterbat unknowly activating the Haste rune to keep up while Twilight showed the results of her daily training with her privite Wonderbolt and member of her guard Rainbow Dash.
Tempest meanwhile decided to try a spell only she could cast to keep up. Gathering a heavy charge in her stump the released the electric energy in the form of a teleport literally riding her lightning to the center of town.
Once the group reached the square they saw a group of familiar ponies nearby, Twilight the first in recognizing six of them immediately since she was the one who had met them from her world though seeing two Sunsets and what looked to be her human counterpart with a near clone of herself which she thought could have been the evil her from the morally flipped mirror world made her start what with the black wings the second Twilight had.
This ran through her head as she looked at the things the group where holding off.
Well over 100 of the beasts were hammering a deep violet barrier seemingly cast from the tall black unicorn if the aura covering her hands was any indication. Many more were hurling balls of plasma at that same barrier as the Twilight with the black wings flashed through the barrier before swinging twin swords of a unique design at a beast throwing it into the air before rapidly attacking the airborne foe from multiple directions.
The beast wasn't able to take the punishment as evaporated in embers as the smell of ozone permeated the air before the purple gray mare let loose a gigantic ball of lightning hitting one of the still grounded bound beasts before bouncing to 20 others rapidly before dissipating. This was a distraction though since the mare landed on the ground in ice blue symbol forming beneath her hand before what looks like a flower of ice spread from the symbol freezing another group of them solid.
With a nod she fell back into the barrier just as fast as she jumped out of it as a streak of white and purple passed her and landed in the middle of the frozen beasts revealing itself to be a younger Rarity wielding a staff familiar to Aaron before a blue spear tip of energy emerged from the end as the mare spun it around shattering the beasts Frozen by the attack. Once the others noticed that there was a hole in there rough formation this version of Rarity simply blinked out of existence reappearing within the barrier as if she teleported but without the distinct flash of the equestrian version of the spell.
"Okay I'm not going to lie, something's up." Aaron said after witnessing The exchange of attacks happening within the last 20 seconds. I expected there to be more caribou and not demons. Even with only imps here things are dangerous! I had thought that maybe the Marauders had avoided destruction because they were originally of argent blood and not actually demons only corrupted but this shows that what happened with Davoth was only a Band-Aid measure!"
The group of four all collectively remembered what they had talked about during those two hours before heading towards Ponyville.
"Girls." Aaron said remembering what he mentioned during his brief encounter with the caribou. "While I was hoping that the evidence from before was just circumstantial after what those Caribou said, a theory of mine was confirmed."
"What theory?" Twilight asked nervous when hearing the serious tone Aaron had taken.
"Somehow even before you brought me to this reality demons of my past life have interacted with this world, the Marauders being a hybrid species of demon and argent humans. The Caribou captain mentioned weapons with glowing red argent energy and named these creatures directly. That means that something brought them to this world. I'm hoping that they only kept their weapons because they are powerful and something that can be used for good but I seriously doubt it if them being benefactors of the Caribou is an actual fact. Meaning we'll have to face extremely well trained soldiers at the very least and horrific monsters at the worst." Under his helmet Aaron wore a grim smirk just remembering the previous fights that his other half dredged up. "These beings gave me trouble for a while before I realized how to defeat them. I'm just hoping that no other demons from my time somehow made it to this world."
The group now saw what Aaron had feared a large number of lesser demons from hell there in Ponyville well Tartarus was a portal to hell they had guards the whole time male guards that would have convinced the Caribou to not open the gates as even in their corrupted State they knew having the world to conquer is something they wanted instead of their world being razed and absorbed into the hell dimension if that happened. Only meant that the Caribou had interacted with hell in another way, maybe a hidden gate to Tartarus across the celestial sea?
"We have to help them. whoever that unicorn is that cast the barrier, It's likely that it's taking all of their focus to keep that barrier up." Twilight said before magic lenses formed over her eyes improving her vision even more so than the zoom function on the sunglasses that Aaron had given her could. "I can see at least some injuries in the group. I can only guess that with Sunset here someone from Ponyville was able to get a message to the human realm in time bringing their elements of Harmony here. But seeing another Sunset and that other me, not the one from that world but the one with the black wings, it's confusing."
Suddenly the sound of cracking thunder could be heard as six large portals could be seen opening along with a 7th massive portal behind it out of the six smaller portals a beast of twisted metal and flesh stepped.
"No." Aaron was horrified at seeing the tyrants appear knowing that their master was not far behind. "We have to get down there NOW!" He shouted as a loud thump was heard the ground shaking as the Cyberdemon, bigger than its lesser Brothers, their master in fact stepped out of the portal alive once again.
"W-what is that?" Flutterbat asked her voice wavering from the pure terror flowing through her.
"This beast cursed my family with its first defeat," Aaron said solemnly. "it would forever come back to hunt my family and I've killed it time and time again. At first it looked no different than the smaller ones if only a little taller. But with each death it came back stronger and more mutated until you see it as it is today. The bane of the Blaskowitzs the Cyberdemon."
Suddenly a high-pitched scream was Heard coming from within the group behind the barrier which now had cracks in it from the constant rocket bombardment the tyrants and the Cyberdemon were throwing at it. A plasma ball had been able to slip through one of the small holes and hit someone Aaron had not anticipated even existing in this world.
"The fuck?" Aaron said as he recognized the voice. His next thought drowned out by Twilight screaming at the top of her lungs.
"MARY!!!!!" she cried out in horror the Royal Canterlot voice causing an eardrum bursting shockwave with just her voice disorienting the Imps, Tyrants and the cyberdemon temporarily.
In a burst of fire Twilight took off racing towards the barrier smashing through it and shattering what was left with the impact.
"Mary?" Aaron said not truly recognizing what Twilight had said until moments later seeing the girl in the purple outfit laying on the ground with a burn on her arm near a smoldering crater. "No no not again!" The girl reminded him of his own daughter from his previous life the one who convinced him to get Daisy as a pet, the one who died with the rabbit in her arms, the one that demons defiled to rip the Pet's head off and place it on a spike. "RRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!" He shouted as his body began to Glow a silver and white. "Temporary invincibility activated." A message read on Aaron's HUD as he to race forward creating a Sonic Rainboom into the distinct colors of the power up.
Tempest disoriented but luckily not deaf thanks to having continual exposure to the Royal canterlot voice at levels rarely heard by mere mortals thanks to her training under Luna and Flutterbat who had healed thanks to a Quirk of her transformation and interaction with the haste room healing her while activated looked on as suddenly every alicorn grouped around the girl Twilight at the front SciTwi as she was called by their Twilight the darker mirror that looked almost like their Twilight next to her Aaron landing by her side both Sunsets and the black unicorn which turned out to actually have draconic wings making up the rest of the group. The Three sirens who had been reinforcing the barrier until Twilight crashed through it floating above them protecting the young girl. In a flash of light all of the untransformed ponies in the group quickly powered up Sci turning into Midnight both sunsets accessing their dream state indicating that the Sunset from the human world had the same magic as the one from their world in the process. The most unique transformation was for the dark Twilight she suddenly began going silver as a pattern appeared all over her body black and white flames erupting from her and covering her merging but not mixing her wings which were black earlier were there normal lavender closer to the wing joint with glowing golden feathers on the left wing and glowing midnight purple feathers on the right.
In response the demons started roaring as if cheering themselves on for taking down the barrier. What they didn't know, what they couldn't have known was that you don't hurt someone or something an alicorn loves and there were plenty of alicorn level fighters here a few that while I'm used to their power could devastate an entire countryside with a flick of their overpowering might.
"Good to see you join in little sis I figured I'd have to explain to Mary again that I'm not you." The burning alicorn said. "Dealing with her was cute and all but whatever happened here is fucked up."
"So you're Ayumi." Aaron said as he landed with a loud thud in front of everyone. "I don't know if you remember me, but we talked through a common friend, many years ago."
"Heh." She chuckled before turning serious. "I remember, but now's not the time we've got to finish these assholes before we can talk. Luckily I have no place to stay right now so I think I'll stay with you one god to another."
"Agreed." Aaron said, cracking his neck, shoulders, and knuckles. "Besides you being here, I'm surprised Mary's here. Don't know what happened in her world, but I'll make sure that whoever did this will be paying for it with their lives."
"Enough talking, need to burn something!" Twilight growled ferally. "Get that barrier up now, protect my daughter before you all become the ones I burn!"
"And that's why I don't let myself rage shift anymore." Ayumi said as her swords now revealed to be a unique set of twin gunblades begin humming with a glow centering around the twin barrels in each. "I lose nearly all rationality and just want to burn whatever hurt me or caused me to shift." The humming reached its peak as the crack of a gunshot and the sound barrier breaking at the same time rang out four bullets of condensed kinetic energy surrounded in the twin fire here raced towards two of the Tyrants. "So uncivilized," she quoted, hoping that Aaron would get the joke.
"I know what you're thinking, but with what I've dealt with up until now, my memory's a little fuzzy." Aaron said sheepishly. "But that sounds like something Obi-Wan Kenobi would say."
"Met him and I got to say he isn't what you would expect." Ayumi said as she rushed forward using a distinct form of teleportation she had gained in her multiversal travels the barrier forming behind her this time multi-layered as both Sunsets, Sci and the black draconic alicorn revealed to be Rarity in her nightmare form crafted the stronger defense with their magic. "Hope you can keep up old-timer!" She said before Twilight jumped off her back, somehow keeping enough of her mind intact to use her other self as a springboard to create a flaming meteor as she landed clearing out another group of 20 or so of the imps while also damaging the two tyrants that Ayumi's godly Flaming megashot had hit.
"Oh, I'll show you old-timer, old friend !" Aaron said as he too pushed off to take on the Cyberdemon. He was pissed that it followed him, but he'd be damned if it ruined this world as well like it had ruined so many others.
"So you face me again, William." The Cyberdemon said surprising everyone including Aaron since it had never talked since first cursing his family. "And I see you have another little one that I can eat. Did you know that's what I did with your family, leaving only that little rabbit head just to spite you. No matter how many times you kill me thanks to the curse I laid on your great-grandfather I shall always come back and always torment you and your kin. Give up, I am the one enemy you will never truly defeat!" The demon chuckled remembering a similar curse from another powerful demon that he borrowed the idea from.
"You think that just because you cursed me in my past life that I'll ever back down?" Aaron screamed, his anger rising to dangerous levels, while at the same time an earthquake-like rumble with Aaron at the center of it began to shake the ground. Pieces of rock and soil were ripped out of the ground and began rising into the air through an invisible force. "You think I haven't forgotten? I knew it was you the moment I stepped out of Hell, remembering my grandfather's stories. But one thing you don't know about us in the Blazkowicz family is we learn… and adapt." As he said that, lightning began to strike around the group protecting Mary, but not hitting them.
"I… won't… let you… get away with this… ANYMORE! RRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!" Aaron screamed as the area was engulfed in a bright green light.
"Ok so your god powers allow you to manifest a Super Saiyan aura." Ayumi said. "Cool."
Twilight then rammed the beast as a flaming meteor, cracking the sternum armor and damaging the machinery holding the Argent Accumulator accumulator in its right pectoral.
"Be careful Twilight." Aaron said, causing Twilight to stop. "If you rip that out of him, it'll become unstable and rip open a portal that will send us to Hell with him, where he'll resurrect. We need to take him down in a different way. But don't worry, you can make the killing blow… for Mary."
Hearing him wrong, Twilight ripped the Argent Accumulator out anyway. But instead of becoming unstable, the accumulator started to glow lavender and the energy within flowed into each version of Twilight, Ayumi included.
"Is pure Argent energy supposed to taste like Cherry cola?" Twilight asked, now seeming to be fully cognizant once more.
Aaron looked shocked at the Argent Accumulator defying his expectations alongside the fact that the Cyberdemon just laughed. "Foolish idiot just like hell this world is permeated with an energy that allows me to sustain myself even without that accumulator and now your new mates will be mutated into hellish beasts like myself."
"Isn't argent energy the most basic form of soul magic?" Ayumi asked, remembering what the seraphim told William back when he first went to the argent conversion furnace in hell. "Considering cutie mark magic is of a similar nature we just absorbed the power and it seems that my sister can now rage shift while being fully aware of herself so instead of mutating us you just gave us power."
"In other words, you megalomaniacal monstrosity…" Aaron said, cupping his hands together in a very familiar stance. "You're fucked! Argent BFG Kaaaa… Meeee… Haaaa… Meeee… " Aaron's chant began to form a bright glowing red ball of reddish orange light in-between his cupped hands.
Realizing what was about to happen Ayumi stood in another familiar stance, arms held out to the sides, the fire surrounding her coalescing into twin balls on her gunblades white on the left and black on the right. "GODFIRE MEGASHOT FINAL…" She shouted as she brought her two gun blades in front of her.
The Cyberdemon looked at the twin Gods standing before it, its eyes widening as it realized just what was about to happen. "Oh CRAPBASKETS!!!!!!!!" It said crossing its arms in front of its face bracing for impact.
"HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! " Aaron screamed as he threw his hands forward, firing the accumulated Argent energy in a Argent energy version of the Kamehameha Wave, the blast at the very least six or seven times the size of the Cyberdemon.
"FLAAAAAAAAAAAASH!!!!!!! "Ayumi shouted, her twin flames merged into Aaron's attack, blooming the blast to the size of the beam Tirek once used to blast Twilight away while she was fighting him with all the current Alicorn-level magic sans Discord. The massive blast engulfed not only the Cyberdemon but the three Tyrants and around 50 of the Imps in front of it vaporizing everything except the Cyberdemon who had survived because the other victims bled most of the power from the blast. The attack still hurt it but it was kneeling nearly dead.
"You will see me again, Blazkowicz…" The Cyberdemon said as it fell through a portal that opened below it. "Count on it."
"And I'll always be waiting and ready." Aaron said, flipping the bird to the Cyberdemon. "Peace among worlds, asshole."
"Well Darling," Nightmarity said from within the barrier. "That was an impressive show but we still have these 'little beasts' to take care of."
"Let me take care of them please please please please please?" An excited voice said from overhead. "I haven't done anything with my new powers in a while."
"Ugh, fine" Ayumi said knowing how bored the Sirens had to be. "just don't match up any Sonic resonance with the building materials here. We don't need to rebuild the whole town and I would really like to keep it that way, Sonata."
This comment surprised Aaron, Tempest, Twilight, and Flutterbat, the other two having arrived as the final attack against the Cyberdemon was launched using the spectacle as a distraction.
"While I can guess that you probably know the Sirens already, how can you be so nonchalant with them?" Tempest asked, watching Sonata go through the barrier and start to sing a note inaudible to everyone besides the Imps, her voice growing loud enough to be felt as the heads of the beasts exploded.
"Who do you think convinced them to join you? I mean you did kind of rob them of their immortality, little sis," Ayumi said, answering the question and the one unsaid with the same answer. "It was kind of hard to convince them to help save this world until I mentioned that Starswirl was freed so they could kick his ass. Plus I'm kinda Sonata's long term interdimensional marefriend.
"That and I can vouch for Nata." Aaron said, whistling at Sonata's handiwork with the Imps. "Even though I only spoke with her through mine and Ayumi's common friend, she's not as bad as she was before, if at all. If you think about it, she seemed too innocent to be evil at all with the way the other two treated her. Too bubbly of a personality."
"They aren't always that bad." Sonata said after landing. "What we eat tends to change our personalities in some way or at least that was how it worked until our gems were reforged and purified. Now we can eat negativity without enforcing us to be evil it's how we became evil in the first place our songs at default naturally make others produce negativity and we've only recently been able to figure out how to influence them to create other emotions the purification of our gems was to make sure that even if we didn't change the focus the energy we ate would not affect our personality."
"Huh, that… actually makes a lot of sense, now that I think about it." Aaron said, sounding like he just had an epiphany.
The other two sirens landed Adagio laughing mostly because without the flames surrounding Ayumi was completely nude. "Uh you do know that you're not wearing anything Yumi?"
"So? Casual nudity is the norm now. I'm surprised that any of you are wearing anything sans Aaron and Tempest here with their armor." Ayumi said grinning before snapping her fingers and everyone except for Mary, Tempest, and Aaron had their clothes burn up in black fire. "Besides, flaunt what you got baby."
"Darling!" Both Rarity's said at the same time thinking that Ayumi had actually destroyed the clothing she burned knowing how the black fire usually worked.
"Oh don't worry I just put your clothes in a pocket dimension. All of you are going to grow now that we're in the same universe with her." Ayumi said, pointing her thumb to the still flaming Twilight. "The outfits won't fit in a few hours anyways.
"Speaking of Mary, I got just the thing for her." Aaron said, pulling a small sack with a drawstring around it. "I noticed it in my storage dimension before I was summoned to this world. Apparently whoever sent the Dragon Balls here also left me with a small supply of Senzu Beans. Give her one, Midnight, it will heal her like new." Aaron tossed the bag of Senzu Beans to Midnight. "I would toss it to you Twi but it has been shown that Senzu Beans burn don't want to take that chance."
The rest of the group had been quiet until their outfits disappeared in the fire. The humane Rainbow Dash, Applejack and Fluttershy had exclaimed in surprise before attempting to cover themselves. Though Rainbow and Applejack had tried to cover each other up hinting at the relationship they had had in the other world.
"Dagnabit! Even if it's the norm here you shouldn't take our clothing Sugarcube!" Applejack said not truly hearing what Ayumi had said about the fact that their clothing wouldn't fit within the next few hours, focused more on her sudden nudity.
"Uh, why would we suddenly grow to the point where our clothes wouldn't fit anymore so fast?" Fluttershy asked nervously looking at her other self not noticing her already expanding figure.
"It's a mixture of the elements of harmony connecting all of us and the corrupted magic of the Crystal Heart now called the crystal Cock the 7th element of a sort representing the love between friends in this case. It can change the mind and body. With the Elements of Harmony keeping us in balance it only changes the body. We already know that the body changing effects are magnified when more of the Elements are together and since there's at least two versions of the elements of empathy, magic, generosity, and kindness here the effect is incredibly potent." Twilight said.
Ayumi suddenly realized something. "In fact there are three versions of magic, empathy, kindness, generosity, and two of loyalty, honesty and laughter since I now wield all of the elements from my world, their power flowing into me as magic disappeared from my world kicking me into the multiverse."
"The other bit is because of the shared immortality between the elements as Flutterbat had mentioned before." Twilight said sheepishly. "Sorry."
"As much as I was into the multiverse theory, Ayumi, that was a little too much overload for me." Aaron said, chuckling nervously.
"Well then if you're still going to be growing let me show you what you probably will look like at your full power…" Ayumi said as the sound of glass shattering rang out and Ayumi rapidly grew.
"Sorry for the mess" she said as the growth finished. "Whenever I undo the seal I tend to well…" she gestured to the rather sizable pool at her feet… "Yeah"
"Dayum!" Was all Aaron could say at the sight.
A light chuckling could be heard and the group turned to the source. Mary while cradling her arm which had been burned by the proximity the plasma was barely holding in laughter at seeing all of this. Mom is going to look like that one day? No offense but if I'm still around and young enough I'm jumping your bones when that happens Mom. She signed.
"Ugh… herd law." Aaron groaned out realizing that a problem that he had dealt with before was rearing its ugly head again. "Is there an Equestria where this doesn't exist?!"
"MARY!" Twilight shouted embarrassed that her daughter had succumbed to the corrupted magic of the Cock, at least she thought so, not realizing Mary was joking knowing that she would be too old by then anyway. "How could you?"
It was just a joke considering the speed of your growth. I would be in my 80s by the time you actually reached that state! Mary rapidly signed. Unless this Ayumi is willing.
After Aaron shook his head of that thought, he turned to Mary after removing his helmet and smiling down at her and signs, saying, It's an honor to finally meet you, Mary. You may not know this, but I've known about you for a long time. I too am a huge fan of Mega Man.
Who? The girl asked truly not knowing the name having called the robot either Mega or Rock. You mean Rock?
That's his original name, yes, before Dr. Light remade him to fight against Dr. Wily and renamed him. Aaron signed, smiling. I even know of the incident where Wily brainwashed your mom and Dr. Light and a bunch of other people with the Cold Steel song. But you were unaffected due to you being deaf. But something's confusing me… how did you end up here? What happened in your world?
"Have you encountered Dante before?" Ayumi asked randomly, causing Aaron to suddenly be hit with a memory of the time after Samuel Hayden had thrown him from the Mars base but before he returned to the Earth of that universe with the Fortress of Doom.
"Actually, yeah, I did, when I was still in Hell after being betrayed by Dr. Hayden." Aaron said, looking down in thought. "He and I got along really well, despite the fact he was a demon's descendant, he was obviously different. I ran into him while trying to find a way back to that universe by ending up in his shop, looking for a job. Since my resume had all three qualities he looked for, he gave me the job after he gave me a stylish coat that matched his, but more in line with my personality. I actually kept the jacket after we parted ways when I found a way back to Mars with the Fortress of Doom. I told him if he was ever in the neighborhood, to look me up."
"Marvel versus Capcom and Smash." Ayumi said. "Multiversal crossover points tend to bring people not intended into other universes. I can only guess that with Dante and you meeting at some point when Marvel versus Capcom happened and Mega Man was pulled in Mary was accidentally brought along as a civilian. Smash is literally a person playing with toys in all honesty. The story is somewhat metatexual but since it was born of human imagination it's quite possible that each story in the series did actually happen in one universe. Since there were Mii costumes of both William and Dante it's quite possible that that's also where Mary was pulled from since all Mega Man generations were represented as well. I still think it would be Marvel versus Capcom since I believe she was in the background of one of the Mega Man based stages in one of the versions of Marvel versus Capcom 3."
"Never played Marvel versus Capcom, but I did play Mega Man X, Zero 1-4, and Mega Man ZX and ZX Advent." Aaron admitted, looking sheepish. "Heck, even Devil May Cry was not one of the games that I played. Wasn't a game that I found myself enjoying, though I did like the badass look Dante always had with his clothes. Wish I would've looked like that before the incident back on my Earth." Aaron's face then looked grim with a faraway look in his eyes as he was remembering a memory from before becoming the new Doom Slayer.
Aaron was suddenly surrounded in a group hug. Twilight somehow not burning anyone with a flaming mane and tail, Pinkie and both Flutters had joined in along with Ayumi and surprisingly both Sunsets. The rest looked on as Aaron's power up finally faded along with his green aura.
"Uh, girls? What's with the group hug?" Aaron asked. "Not that I mind."
"No dark thoughts," Ayumi commandingly. "They can easily manifest into things that you don't want them to with our kind of power."
"It wasn't dark thoughts, Ayumi." Aaron said, sighing sadly. "I wasn't the most… fit person back on Earth before I became the new Doom Slayer. That and I was always harassed by a fucking Neo Nazi prick who always degraded me because of my mental disability. I was autistic." Aaron sighed, not expecting to say the story so soon. He was signing what he was saying aloud so Mary knew what was being said. "He kept calling me the most… degrading names, like 'retard'. Then he did something really fucked up. He was selling methamphetamine to a homeless guy while on the job at the cafe he worked at. I video taped it on my phone, the whole thing. I showed the exchange to his boss, the owner of the cafe, whom I knew. He was fired and ultimately arrested. He swore revenge, but I didn't think it would happen. Until I got a call from the Joplin, Missouri Police that my family, mom, sister, and step-dad were found murdered in their home. Then I heard from Spokane that my Aunt Vanessa was murdered with her family in their homes. Eventually, it was a systematic murder of my entire family. I found out it was Paul, the Neo Nazi prick I got arrested for drugs. I took him out, but with the help of the police in Eugene. He admitted it was to get back at me for ruining him. The cops showed up and drew their weapons on him before I did anything. I revealed I was wearing a wire. He tried to pull a gun on me, but I snapped and rushed him and just beat him in his face until it was smashed in. The cops had to pull me off his lifeless body to calm me down, but it didn't matter. The damage was done. He left me alone." Aaron looked at Twilight. "It's as I said, Twilight. He killed them, all of them. All for his petty revenge against me for something he did in the first place." After he said everything, he just fell to his knees and cried, shedding tears that he had held in for Faust knows how long he had been holding them in for.
A shadow detached itself from Aaron's body. Ayumi noticed it. "Damn it, we're going to have to deal with that later." She thought. "Since we're relatively safe right now we should go through each building checking for damage and making sure that none of those beasts escaped by hiding within them."
Author's Note
Currently unedited, but my co-author will be currently editing the chapter. Once it is edited, I will post the edited text in the chapter. Also, for Ayumi's look when she shows the Mane 6 and Humane 6 what they'll look like in the future, a link will be added in the edit, as the picture is explicit.
