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         Cutie Mark Crusaders Stop The Apocalypse          
                     -by demolish238-                      
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                     Who is this guy?                      
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Who is this guy?
(The first half is half of the last chapter in the orignal story(READ THE ORIGNAL FIRST!))
"No," said Applejack angrily.
"No?" asked Apple Bloom. "You can't ignore a direct order from the future ruler of Equestria!"
"You ain't gonna be the future rulers of Equestria!" said Applejack.
"Sure we are," said Sweetie Belle. "The voices told us so."
"Don't listen to them!" said Rainbow Dash. "They're lying to you!"
"They haven't led us astray yet!" said Scootaloo. "Everything they've promised us has happened, every power they've said we'd get, we've gotten. Why would they start lying now?"
"Because they're evil!" said Rarity hysterically. "What wouldn't they have to gain from lying to you!?"
"Face it, you three are just their patsies," said Applejack bitterly. Apple Bloom sighed.
"Deny this all you want sis, but this is happenin' whether you want it to or not."
"You'll get used to it, we promise," said Sweetie Belle.
"I don't want to get used to it, I want things to go back to the way they were!" said Rainbow Dash angrily.
"Okay let's see, Luna is back on the moon, Celestia is stone, and half of the wielders of the Elements of Harmony are encased in stone as well. Yeah, I don't see things ever going back to normal, even if we do destroy the book."
"But they will!" said Applejack desperately.
"But we don't want them to," said Scootaloo simply. The three remaining wielders glared at the Crusaders. Sweetie Belle sighed.
"Okay, normally this is the moment when we say 'join us or be destroyed' but why would we say that when we'll just make you join us anyway?" she said.
"Don't you dare-" began Applejack but it was too late. The Crusaders fired up their horns and the six ponies were instantly teleported to the outside of the ancient castle where they had found the Elements.
"We're heeeere!" said Apple Bloom excitedly.
"AB, don't!" pleaded Applejack.
"You know, we're going to save ourselves a lot of time if you just eliminate that word from your vocabulary," said Apple Bloom irritatedly as the Crusaders walked up to an empty spot and opened the book.
"You don't need to do this!" said Rarity.
"Same goes for that, sis," said Sweetie Belle.
"We ready?" asked Scootaloo.
"Ready," said Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle excitedly.
The Crusaders took a deep breath and together, they spoke the last phrase of the ritual.
"Transform the room until we are alone in the dark!"
Instantly the whole forest began to shake as if the very Earth was coming apart at the seams. The trees around them began to splinter and one by one, they fell to the ground with a mighty crash.
"This is it!" said Apple Bloom excitedly.
The very stones of the castle of the ancient pony sisters began to dissolve in front of them and a mighty gust of wind blew forth and the ashes of the castle blew away, making it seem as if there was never a castle there to begin with. In its place, a bright light began appearing. The Crusaders looked eagerly into it as it grew brighter and bigger. The three wielders could do nothing other than sit and stare at the light, each wanting to tear their eyes away but not being able to.
After a few minutes, the light expanded to the point where it was in their entire field of vision and three figures began coming out of the light.
"Ooooh!" said the Crusaders in awe. The three wielders wanted nothing more than to run, to chance being in a place where the imminent end of the world would not affect them. Maybe they could find a new place to start their lives anew...
However, it was clearly too late for that and the three figures each stepped out of the light.
The first thing that struck the Crusaders was how odd they looked. They looked like ponies, but they were much taller than even Celestia. They were each jet black and had matching manes and tails. The one on the far left had an explosion cutie mark, the one in the middle had a football cutie mark and the one on the right had a video game controller cutie mark.
"Greetings," said the one on the far left. "I am Yaeblamich, the Demon of Destruction."
"I am Yuamesmiwot," said the one in the middle. "The Demon of Confusion"
"I am Lowubel, Demon of Pride," said the one on the right.
"Together we have come to bring destruction upon these lands!" said the three of them together.
"Woo hoo!" said Apple Bloom. "We did it!"
"You are the ones who summoned us?" said Yuamesmiwot.
"We sure are," said Scootaloo. "And we're here to help you conquer the world!"
"That won't be necessary," said Lowubel with a wave of his hoof. The Crusaders looked at each other confusedly.
"But you said that--"
"We lied," said Yuamesmiwot with an evil grin. "You have brought this upon yourselves and you shall suffer the same fate as the rest of these." The eyes of the Crusaders widened.
"But you said we would be rewarded beyond our wildest dreams!" said Sweetie Belle. "We chose who to save and everything!"
"Did we not already give you rewards beyond your wildest dreams?" asked Yaeblamich. "Have you not already experienced power unlike anything that anyone has ever experienced?"
"Well yeah but--"
"We never told you that you would get to keep it," said Yuamesmiwot. "You were rewarded and now you shall receive your eternal reward!" Scootaloo's eyes narrowed and she fired up her horn.
"No, I won't let you do this!" She fired a beam of energy directly at the book. However, Lowubel fired up his horn and teleported the book out of the way before Scootaloo's attack could damage it. The Crusaders took up aggressive stances but the three demons merely laughed at them.
"Foals, do you really think that you can stop us?" said Yaeblamich.
"As powerful as you are, our leader can take it all away in an instant," said Lowubel.
"As he has always been able to do," said Yuamesmiwot. Apple Bloom fired up her horn and began to attack, but she could only watch in horror as her horn's power stuttered out and faded away.
"My horn!" she said. "What happened to my horn!?"
"You all should have listened to your friends," said Yuamesmiwot.
"Now you will pay the price for your lack of vision!" said Yaeblamich.
The three demons stomped their hooves on the ground and instantly, the Crusaders were knocked back. The remaining wielders watched in horror as the Crusaders slowly began shrinking down. Their horns and wings either shrunk down or disappeared altogether and their bodies began rapidly shrinking. Soon they were nothing more than the three fillies that they had been before this whole mess had started.
"NO!" said Applejack, reaching a hoof out to Apple Bloom.
"No no, just go ahead and be stereotypical and overly-dramatic, we don't mind," said Yaeblamich. Applejack shot an angry glare at Yaeblamich and rolled her eyes.
"Don't even get me started," she said.
"It matters not how they act," said Yuamesmiwot. "Only our mission to our leader matters now."
"You are right,"' said Lowubel. The three demons nodded to each other and they fired up their horns, but as they fired a black aura engulfed the crusaders and three wielders sending them into the air just in time for the demons beams to miss and fly into the husk of the former forest.
“Don’t be too cocky brothers, you might become stereotypical villains,” a voice echoed around them, making the crusaders and wielders look around in confusion.
The demons merely smiled and Yaeblamich said “we were wondering when you would arrive brother. Come out so we may see you again after all these years!”
Almost in reply, an alicorn with jet black fur, a mane and tail exactly like the three demons, but with no cutie mark appeared in a flash of light. The black aura around the crusaders and wielders vanished and they dropped to the ground with a thud.
“Hay, why’d you drop us?!” Apple Bloom said in protest as she rubbed her head.
“Would you prefer me to have let them send you to whatever pit they had in store for you to die in?” the alicorn asked raising an eyebrow.
“Well no but, you could have dropped us more gently,” she said, her head lowered, a pout on her face.
“So brother, have you come to fight us, or are you here to say you were wrong to betray us and face death with dignity?”
“It will take a lot more than you three to kill me, besides what I did half a million years ago was my own redemption, i saw our masters ways in a new light and realised that he must not be allowed into this world,” the alicorns hoof hit the ground sending out a small shockwave, making the crusaders fall onto their flanks, while it just made for a minor inconvenience for the demons.
“Apart from being their brother, who are you and why don’t you have a cutie mark, if I may be so bold to ask?” Rarity said as she cocked her head towards him.
“When I realised that our master was manipulating us, I vowed never to utter my name again and I tore off my cutie mark,” The two other wielders and crusaders gasped, while rarity dramatically fainted while pulling out a couch with red cushions and a gold rim out of seemingly nowhere.
“Does she do that often?” the alicorn asked with a confused expression.
“Don’t y’all worry ‘bout a thing she’s just being overly dramatic,” Applejack said shacking Rarity who refused to move from the confortable furniture.
“Well if you won’t say your name than what are we meant to call you then?” Rainbow Dash said.
“I will never utter my true name, so you can call me by my title, Death.”
She raised an eye, “a bit cliché don’t you think?”
“We can continue this later, but right now there are more important things to deal with,” Death took a fighting stance, when the demons burst out laughing, “What is it?!” Death said glaring at them.
Yaeblamich took a step forward and smirked, “Being but off from our master for so long has made you weak brother, while we are stronger than ever with our masters full strength flowing into us,” Yaeblamich took another step forward, face taking a serious look “how could you hope to even scratch us?”
Before Death could say the stereotypical hero line where he pulls an ace out of his sleeve, Applejack stepped between them shouting, “WHAT IN TARNATION ARE Y’ALL TALKING ‘BOUT!”
Yaeblamich raised an eye “these ponies are very annoying,” Applejack narrowed her eyes at him, receiving a satisfied smirk back.
“With you two saying all this inside stuff, we have no idea what y’all are yapping on ‘bout,”
Rarity stepped behind Applejack and said “it is very confusing; maybe you could explain it for us?”
“Well I guess you have put up a strong fight, and you don’t have any chance of survival,” Yaeblamich shrugged, “Death can explain our past to you, but after all this you will experience a much worse fate for wasting our time,” he sat back, an evil grin plastered across his face.
“Well we weren’t expecting special treatment anyway,” Rainbow Dash said as she hovered over to Death, “so what’s the story?” she said settling onto Death’s back.
“Well first get off, I’m not a chair,” he said throwing Rainbow off his back, she righted herself and pulled a cloud down next to the group to rest on, while Rarity sat on the couch.
“I don’t need any fancy smancy couch to get comfy,” Applejack said lying on the mud floor; he rolled his eyes as he heard a sound from behind him.
“Have y’all forgotten ‘bout us?” Apple Bloom asked, earning a surprised jump out of Death.
Death turned and glared at the three fillies “no, I just thought this would bore you fillies,” he put on a nervous smile patting her on the head “ok sit down then so I can start.”
Scootaloo jumped onto the cloud smiling next to Rainbow Dash as she wrapped her wing around Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle sat on the couch curled up to Rarity and Apple Bloom jumped onto Applejack and rolled down to her side where Applejack put her hat on her head.
Death smiled as he watched them, the smiles on their faces even when death is quite literally right in front of them, then mud splashed across his face thanks to Apple Bloom rolling into the mud, “this is just a quick run through, Equestria is still in danger.”