Absolute Overhaul

It was only a matter of time before Celestia and her supporting armies showed up to attack Ponyville. So instead of sitting around waiting for them, Chisaki decided to do a preemptive strike on canterlot planned three days from now. Normally such a plan wouldn’t even be considered because of the sheer difference in population between Canterlot and the “new” Ponyville, but with the changelings by his side, the gap in numbers has decreased significantly.

“Are you ready?” Silver asked Chisaki, “everyone's waiting on you.”

With a nod of his head he made his way onto a stage where he stood above everyone who was present while crimson and silver stood by his side. Ponies and changelings alike stood in front of him, totally up to just shy of 4000, waiting for him to speak. Everyone in front of him had some sort of armor on, whether that be the professional armor forged by the changelings or the hastily crafted pieces made by the volunteer soldiers in ponyville.

“My friends, listen to what I am about to say.” Overhaul said, “this war will not come without loss, many of you will not be able to see my dream come true. But this infection has spread far enough, if we don’t fight it now we will all die regardless of how strong we will become. This infection has many parts, the carnal lust that has allowed rape to be commonplace, the sheer amount of murder and cannibalism, it all disgusts me. I have had many people in my life who I have considered my enemies, yet I wouldn’t wish on them what you have had to endure. But also heed this, the world I will create will be far better than this one. I acknowledge that it will be impossible for me to make our new world perfect, because there will always be good and evil in life, but in the new world you will find such peace, such love, such kindness, and such trust that you’ll forget all of this. This pain, this death, this Old world corrupted to the core. My friends, today will mark the day we will put an end to this infection. Now Equestria beware, because you will face an Absolute Overhaul!”

After finishing his speech, the crowd began to cheer and applaud. Chisaki smiled under his mask, because he knew that he now had everyone’s full support. But the smile quickly faded when the sun reflected off of something on top of a building direct into his eyes. Once Chisaki knew what it was, it was too late to do anything, the assassin already had a clear shot at him.

Ka-chunk

The sound of a heavy crossbow being fired split the air silencing the crowd. Faster than lightning, Crimson drew his sword and spit the metal crossbow bolt in two, stopping it mid flight.

“Capture him! I want him alive!” Chisaki demanded, wanting to interrogate his would be assassin

Silver understood immediately as he summoned four dark purple ethereal wings which sprouted behind his cloak and flew after the assassin. Once the assassin knew that he’d been discovered, he tried to run but was tackled by Silver who had by flying at top speed to catch him. Toppling off the building, Silver drove the front side of the assassin into the ground, breaking a few bones in the process.

“Listen,” Silver said, ”I’m not gonna kill you, stop struggling.”

Just like he had said, the assassin stopped struggling, but another cracking sound happened. “Long live the princesses.”

After saying that, the assassin stopped breathing entirely. Whatever information he may have had, he clearly didn’t want Overhaul to have. It wasn’t long after that Silver made his return trip to inform Chisaki of the situation.

“A cyanide tooth,” Chisaki said, “I am surprised that they even use such things.”

“I agree,” Crimson replied, “my brother and I have lived for over a thousand years and we’ve nearly forgotten such things existed.”

Following this incident, Chisaki changed his plans of attacking three days from now to attack three hours from now. He told everyone if they had family, they should go ahead and tell them goodbye because there was a good chance they wouldn’t survive.

“Princess Cadence, please settle down!” One of Celestia’s mages said, “your magical prosthetics haven’t fully connected with your body. If you push yourself, your prosthetics could kill you.”

“We don’t have time for me to recover!” Cadance bellowed out, “If what I’ve heard from the spies are true, then it is no longer a matter of if Overhaul attacks us, but when! If I’m not there to stop him, then we won’t stand a chance.”

Metal prosthetics enchanted with magic were attached where Cadence's arm and leg used to be. Her wing prosthetics hadn’t been completely assembled yet, so she remained flightless for the time being.

Meanwhile Shining Armor had recovered from his injuries with the magic of some of the mages. He was kneeling in front of Celestia, Luna, and Damian as he was asked to tell what he had learned from his encounter with Overhaul.

“Your majesties, Overhaul isn’t someone to take lightly.” Shining Armor said, “he already has a pretty big following, and if utilized it he could do some serious damage to Equestria in a rebellion. And that’s not even factoring his own abilities into the equation.”

Celestia and Luna looked at each other in worry, “then what are his abilities? If he is as bad as you say he is, then we ought to start preparing as soon as we can.”

“That’s the problem, his ability allows him to reshape anything he touches,” Shining Armor said, “and I am not even sure if there is a limit to it. I don’t even want to think what he could do if he laid his hand on one of us.”

“This is of no matter to me,” Damian said, “a king such as myself shouldn’t have to waste his time dealing with such insignificant insects like him.”

Luna looked at the giant Caribou, “King Damian, it wouldn’t be wise for you to neglect this matter. After Overhaul has finished with our kingdom, there is no doubt in our mind that he’ll go after the Caribou kingdom next.”

“I believe you missed my point,” Damian said, “I am not one to waste my time waiting on him to get here. Because you and your ‘precious subjects’ have proven just how incompetent you are. So I am going to go deal with him myself.”

The Caribou King stormed out of the room, and down the streets of Canterlot. For a normal pony, a trip to ponyville would’ve taken a few days by train; but for Damian and his royal heritage, he could make it by foot in just over a day. It didn’t matter though, because they’d all meet sooner than expected.

Back at ponyville, Twilight and Crimson were busy constructing runes for large scale teleportation. Despite the runes being designed to increase efficiency of magic use, it would still be hard to teleport such a large army without having to relieve a few soldiers to help use magic. Overhaul watched over the runes’ construction, he was surprised that it only took two hours for both Twilight and Crimson to assemble this entire thing.

“Is everything ready Twilight?” Overhaul asked when everything looked done

“I believe so,” Twilight said, “but I don’t have enough magic leftover after assembling it.”

Crimson turned to Twilight, “My brother and I can lend you our magic, all you need to do is make sure we can get there.”

“That’s right.” Overhaul replied, “Both Crimson and Silver have incredible magic reserves, so if they lend you some you’ll have more than enough.”

Twilight has seen on numerous occasions the two brothers using magic in various ways. But she still found it hard to believe that they both had that much magic, even though she knew it was true. It wasn’t much longer after that Chisaki managed to round up all the soldiers who would be fighting in the battle. Once most of everyone was in the circle, Silver and Crismon put their hands onto Twilight, lending her some of their power.

“Are you ready, Twilight?” Overhaul asked, to which Twilight replied with a slow nod of her head, “Activate the spell when you're ready.”

After Silver and Crimson stepped back into the teleportation zone, Twilight cast the spell; sending Overhaul and his crew to Canterlot with a bright flash. Once the spell had dissipated Twilight fell over backwards, luckily there was some soft dirt to cushion her fall as her friends came to her aid.

“Attack! Destroy everything in your path!” Overhaul demanded, “We will rid this world of the infection!”

With the command given, soldiers went sporadic creating as much chaos as possible. Chrysalis oversaw the chaos, making sure that it could spread as quickly And rampantly as it could. It was mere seconds before screams of terror began rolling throughout the streets. They were about to start their plan when Overhaul heard a familiar voice.

“Um… Chisaki? I’m not supposed to be here” Fluttershy said

Being quick on his feet Chisaki dragged Fluttershy by her sleeve into a dark corner and amidst the chaos. He quickly gestured for Silver to come to them.

“Listen, Fluttershy.” Overhaul said, “There is now way back now. Silver provides her with a weapon to protect herself with.”

Silver quietly uttered a word as a black sword with an ominous purple glow was summoned in front of his hand. He grabbed it by the black allowing Fluttershy to take hold of the handle. The sword was not too heavy nor too light for her, but there was something about it that sent a shiver down her spine.

Silver was the first one to speak, giving her an offer, “Either you can come with us and fight, or you can stay here and try to survive on your own.”

Without even thinking, Fluttershy took the opportunity to join Chisaki and the two brothers, there was safety in numbers after all. Moving along the backroads and alleyways, Chisaki led his allies closer to the castle. Many of Celestia’s guards began charging down the streets, trying to make their way to the chaos to kill it. Once they had taken enough back roads to get away from the chaos, they came to a road way that was empty of any form of soldiers, allowing for a quick dash to the castle.

“So I assume you in the bird beak must be Overhaul.” Damian said from behind them,

“He must have heard us.” Overhaul hissed angrily

“I was planning on heading to Ponyville to kill you. But now that you're here, I can save a lot of time if I just do it now.”

For being such a behemoth of a Caribou that Damian was, he could run faster than Chisaki would’ve thought. Whenever Chisaki saw depictions of the Caribou king, he initially pin Damian as a slow but invincible enemy, but his prediction was proven wrong when Damian got close enough to throw a punch capable of killing hundreds of soldiers in a single strike.

Blocking Damian’s attack with his own, Crimson managed to save his allies from the deadliest part of the attack. Damian threw barrages of punches at just below the speed out sound and Crimson managed to block every single one of them with his own.

“GET OUT OF HERE ALREADY!” Crimson yelled, which everyone promptly heeded as they headed for the castle

Once they were all a safe distance away, Crimson delivered a powerful kick to the stomach of the Caribou, knocking the caribou several feet before he regained his footing.

“For being such a pip-squeak sized creature, you certainly are impressive.” Damian commented, “And I mean that whole heartedly.”

“And it has been a while since someone has been able to match my reflexes like that.” Crimson replied, keeping a monotone voice

“I am usually not one to offer my enemies a way to escape my death.” Damian said, “but it would be a shame to waste all that talent you have.”

“What is this offer of yours, Caribou king?”

“Join the caribou-“

“No.”

Crimson drew his sword and lunged at Damian with such a speed that anyone with an untrained eye would have only seen a blood red blur. Damian felt the sword press into his stomach, but his royal hide couldn’t be punctured so easily.

“So you must be the one known as the Crimson Executioner.” Damian commented, “No wonder you were so strong. But I would’ve thought you would’ve been a bit bigger for all the destruction you’ve caused.”

Crimson had nothing more to say to the Caribou king, words couldn’t describe the resentment he had for Equestria’s royalty. Damian grabbed the top of Crimson’s head and threw it into the ground, shattering the asphalt below him. Crimson retaliated by using his upper body strength to throw himself out of the ground and kick the Caribou king in the head making them both airborne. Sprouting a pair of wings made from black miasma, Crimson grabbed Damian by the arm and threw him to the ground.

Crimson dove mid air, aiming his sword straight for Damian’s stomach. The impact caused Damian to cough of blood, before he punched Crimson into some buildings across the road. Crimson knew that if he couldn’t win, all he needed to do was to buy enough time for Chisaki and the Others to kill Celestia and Luna.

Swords clashed against iron flesh. Crimson held up his sword and created a massive bolt of black miasma falling from the sky, crushing Damian under its sheer force. Crimson kept increasing the power of his attack until it had become so big that it had engulfed the entire street. When Crimson released his attack, the only place that hadn’t been reduced to a crater was the small piece of land he was standing on.

Damian rose from the rubble, knocking the dust off his shoulders mockingly, “Is that it?”

Instead of answering that rhetorical question, Crimson decided to direct the conversation in a different way. “Do you know the First Caribou King died?”

“Of course!” Damian said, “Nobody knows what killed him, but he was decapitated in the frozen wasteland upnorth and all his men were mutilated. It is a story practically everyone knows!”

“That’s where you’re wrong.” Crimson said, “I killed him, and I wanted to let the last heir to his bloodline to die knowing that I was the one to kill him. And just as I slain him, I will slaughter you!”

Holding his sword with both hands, he began to slowly rotate the blade from point at the floor to the sky. With his sword now pointing to the sky above, what could only be described as an intense gravitational wave began pulling Damian towards Crimson. Damian managed to drive his feet into the rubble in an attempt to keep himself grounded, but that wasn’t enough. Crimson Slashed with his sword causing the gravitational pull to triple, sending Damian flying towards Crimson.

Damian put his arms up in defense, but his efforts were futile. A blade of pure darkness slashed through his arms and neck, decapitating him like his predecessor all those years ago.

“Harmonia, My mission is done.” Crimson said, “All that is left to do is wait for them to finish their’s.”