Something to change everything
Prologue: A battle lost...
Load Full StoryNext ChapterA man in a suit with a green tie, was kneeling down, his green hair, unkempt, his eye patch about to fall off. He looked up, he saw the blade made by a god held by just a dude with light blue hair. "Say your last words, Bad Guy, your days are numbered," the man in blue hair said, a kid with brown hair stepped forward and grabbed the sword while keeping it in the blue-haired one's grip. Then a kid in a green shirt with a single yellow stripe grabbed it as well. Then two animatronic foxes did the same... at the end...
Bad Guy's head got stabbed by the sword, his body turning to stone, Bad Guy's eye patch fell off, carrying his soul.
"Hey, Dan, should we leave his eye patch?" A kid with blond hair said, before Dan, the one with blue hair, nodded his head.
Bad Guy's eye patch arrived on a moon-like area, his soul given a temporary form that matched his living human self. "Now where the hell am I? It could be the moon but it isn't my moon due to the lack of ambient data," Bad Guy said as he walked around, looking up to see a planet that looks like his home, but he knows isn't due to the lack of a grassy "Lava land" type area. Shame he couldn't get closer to that planet.
He kept going until he found a tall pony, almost as tall as him, actually. It had a horn and a pair of wings, a pure black coat, a flowing mane that looked like a starry mist. It turned its head and showed Bad Guy its cat-like eyes. "You are a new face, what brings you to my banishment?" The thing asked, a voice that was cold and calculating.
"I am not sure, last thing I knew was me being turned to stone by a godly relic," Bad Guy said, confused at how a pony can show sentience.
The pony sat in thought. She looked up for a moment, "Would that relic have happened to have been six rocks of sorts?" The pony asked but Bad Guy shook his head.
"A sword made by the one true god himself, Brendan. It was designed as a weapon to kill me so why I'm not dead is curious," Bad Guy explained before realizing something critical, "I never introduced myself, what kind of self-respecting villain am I? The name's Bad Guy, and you are?" Bad Guy asked the pony.
"I am Nightmare Moon, might I inquire about your weird name?" Nightmare Moon said, with a hint of maliciousness.
"Bad Guy's my name because that is what I am. The bad guy," Bad Guy smirked, "The villain behind the destruction. Now my turn to inquire about something. What in Brendan's name are you?" Bad Guy finished, causing Nightmare Moon to tilt her head.
"You dare not know what an alicorn is?! But... it makes sense, you must not be an Equestrian and thus know not what is on-coming," Nightmare Moon said, before coming up with something, "You wish to be a villain, and I have a goal to execute myself as a villain, we could work together. I use what little magic I can to take you to Equestria, give you a body to blend in, and you prevent me from losing when I attack this coming Summer Sun Celebration."
Bad Guy took a moment to think, "Alright me and my monsters-"
"You are not to bring any monsterousities to Equestria, you are to do it with what you are offered and can find," Nightmare Moon added.
Bad Guy huffed at being interrupted, "Alright alright, I'll see what I can do. I'm not entirely worthless, you know," he said as Nightmare Moon's horn started glowing and soon all went white...
When Bad Guy came to, he was laying in a forest, he looked at his hooves, a foresty green like his hair was. He found a lake nearby and looked in it. His hair was now a lighter forest green, his eye patch carried over and was covering his right eye. He had a horn on his head, making him a unicorn since he lacked the wings alicorns had. As he looked at his tail, he saw a mark on his flank, a snake coiling a slime and eating a hornet. His tail was nothing special, just very neat and tidy while keeping a pretty spiky appearence.
Everything just looked calculated... as it should. He heard noises and approached where he heard them, finding a village full of ponies. Unicorns, pegasi, and normal ones roamed the streets happily. Young foals running about, happy as can be.
It wasn't long before an "Ahem" caught his attention. A white mare, elegent purple mane, wonderful blue eyes. Bad Guy shook his head, "Did you need something?" Bad Guy asked the mare.
"Did I need something? You look fabulous despite coming from the Everfree forest, how did you do it, darling?" The mare asked causing Bad Guy to tilt his head.
"The Everfree forest? That's what this forest was? And... what's with calling me darling?" Bad Guy asked now causing the mare to tilt her head.
"You... didn't know what the Everfree was? But how did you not?! Everypony in Ponyville knows what the Everfree Forest is!" The mare said causing Bad Guy to come up with an on the spot lie.
"I'm not that big on geography and maps and what not as well as brand new to town," Bad Guy said, not fully thinking his plan through but... he'll do it. Anything to have that Nightmare Moon on his side.
The mare even seemed to buy the blantent lie! That... wasn't entirely a lie but the best lies are the ones with a hint of truth in them. "That's fine, say... you need a place to stay, I'm willing to offer darling, on a condition..." The mare asked, and seeing as Bad Guy had no other choice... he had to accept.
Five hours later...
Bad Guy was through... finally... it took so damn long to try out so many damn outfits. Rarity, the white mare, had tried to remove his eyepatch, despite what he said about it being ATTACHED to him and she failed. Said it made him look "too dark and evil" but like... he's always had it, it isn't something that can come off if he wanted it off. Unless he's dying but... she doesn't need to know that.
Bad Guy had a moment to himself, finding a book to entertain himself with. The first two days are recon. Finding who all has a sort of godly energy similiar to Rarity, the next two are planning how he'll prevent them from wanting to get in the way of Nightmare Moon, for Rarity, threatening to not be a model could work. The last two are execution, the Summer Sun Celebration, as Bad Guy learned, is a celebration of the longest day of the year and the start of summer. There is a similiar event for winter but it hasn't been celebrating because a moon princess has been missing or something.
Bad Guy looked at the small filly who came near him, a unicorn like Rarity, similiar physical attributes, that must be Sweetie Belle, Rarity's sister. "Can I help you?" Bad Guy asked as Sweetie Belle kept looking at him.
"What does your Cutie Mark represent?" Sweetie Belle asked as Bad Guy forgot all about the butt mark, a cutie mark as he guessed. Rarity commented on the strangeness of the mark but either she paid no mind or Bad Guy forgot she did.
"Hmm... I'd say... persistence. The snake is trying fruitlessly to strangle the slime, but it doesn't give up. The snake is also trying to eat a hornet knowing that the stinger will hurt it, but it doesn't give up. I'm a persistent stallion," Bad Guy resisted the urge to say "guy" instead of stallion, "so I hardly give up, that's what my cutie mark means," Bad Guy explained as Sweetie Belle listened as if she was all ears. Bad Guy knew this filly wasn't a problem and yet the last time he left a child(or children) unopposed, he lost one of his most powerful guardian enemies.
Bad Guy hadn't come up with a new name, so he's still Bad Guy. And yet no one, or well, nopony, questioned it. Rarity came into the room to collect him because someone is "throwing a party for him" who would be doing that is a dumbass.
When Bad Guy saw the party was happening at a building that literally looked like it was made out of candy, his hopes of this party being "normal" were dashed. The host of the party was an overly bubbly pink pony named, annoyingly, Pinkie Pie. She managed to capture the life of Ponyville well, he supposed if Rarity's word is anything to go by, while also memorizing locations he attacked. Lava,which was actually just colored chocolate that had been melted, poured from fountains, orange-red leaves covered parts of the ground, wires hung down, occusionally sparking that was really just visual effects. Oh, and crystals. Lots of floating crystals.
How this pink mare is not insane is beyond Bad Guy. Bad Guy hasn't even been in Ponyville one day and he already hates the place but... for now, he'll deal with it. At this party he felt 3 other godly energies, similiar to Rarity and Pinkie Pie, Pinkie having the most out of all of them. The ones she found were a yellow pegasus with a pink mane that seemed like a shut in, a cyan pegasus with a rainbow mane and had a massive ego, and a earth pony, as he learned the basic ones were called, with a orange coat, blond mane, and wears a stetson hat. That last one also had a thick country accent.
All of the mares had something that seemed to make them special. Rarity was generous, Pinkie was amazing at making people laugh, Rainbow Dash, the one with a rainbow mane, was loyal to a T, Fluttershy, the shut in one, was far, far, far too kind for her own good, and Applejack, the one with a stetson hat, was honest, brutally so, she was also basically a living lie detector.
Bad Guy knew these five had something special that would make them hard to turn against the light... here's to hoping a six doesn't come in.
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