Chapter 5:
[Eternal Conflict]
Part-1

Chrysalis hissed as one of her subjects dressed a wound on her right fronthoof with green, changling webs while she sat on her throne.

After the battle in Springvill village, she and her surviving changeling drones managed to escape the male alicorn’s wrath and made their way towards their hive in the Badlands. She didn’t fight that much, but amidst all that mayhem, one of the alicorn’s projectiles made contact with her hoof, causing a severe burn mark.

She yelped as the drone accidentally bit her wound with its fangs. She growled and slapped the drone across the face, causing him to drop to the ground with a gasp. “I SAID BE CAREFUL!” the queen yelled at the poor changeling as he slowly stood up on shaky hooves and returned to do his job while silently crying. The other drones all looked at the queen from their hiding spots all around the cave, not daring to get close to her.

After minutes of silence, the changeling finished his task. The queen scoffed as she got off her throne and stood on all four hooves. She then made her way towards the stairs and went down to the lower floors of her hive, where some drones were talking to each other while others were helping those who were wounded. As she descended the stairs, she looked around and felt a bit sad as she saw some of the female drones crying while others were comforting them; she had lost many of her subjects last night.

She shook her head and trotted towards the captain of her army. The changeling male was mumbling curse words as he sat on a big rock. The captain had purple and blue wings, with red changeling mane and tail, and pure purple eyes. “Pharynx, to my room, NOW,” Chrysalis ordered as she went back to her throne room.

Pharynx grumbled as he got off the rock and trotted his way up to the queen’s throne room. The throne room was simple but frightening. It was round-shaped, with the queen’s throne which was made with stone, covered in changeling goo, was positioned at the center, and there were countless changeling pods attached to the ceiling, each containing a pony they had kidnapped from many villages they had invaded.

Pharynx sighed as he stood in front of the throne on which Chrysalis was sitting. “What is it you wanted to speak to me about?... Your majesty?” Pharynx said, although he said the last word a bit angrily. The queen stayed silent, which caused Pharynx to grunt in annoyance. “Queen, with all due respect, can you explain to me what exactly happened in that village?” the captain asked. He had been ordered to stay at the hive and help the drones who brought the pods that contained ponies in them. Also to keep an eye on the pregnant females of the hive and the unhatched eggs of changelings.

After minutes of silence, the queen answered Pharynx’s question. “What do you think happened? Isn’t it obvious? We lost the battle against one pony... ONE PONY!” she yelled the last word as she slammed her right hoof on the hoofrest of her throne. “I don’t give a damn about Equestrian law, but it seems like they don’t either,” she said in frustration as she stood up and started trotting around the room.

“Princess Sunbutt goes and yaps about their rules and red lines that they would never cross—” she said, and proceeded to mimic Celestia. “—Oh, yes, we are ponies; we will never take lives even if it’s during war—” Chrysalis mocked and mimicked Celestia as she shape-shifted into her for a few seconds. “—And then, she sends one of her secret family members to come and kill me and my SUBJECTS?” she yelled, changing back to her real form.

“I need more ponies to steal love from, but I lost half of my fighters to that monster. What do you think, Pharynx? I can’t think straight anymore. WHAT SHOULD I DO?” Chrysalis yelled as she began to gasp for air.

Pharynx, on the other hoof, was looking at the queen with a blank face. Then, an idea hit him, making him smile. “You know? If you wish your drones back, there is a way, but it’s risky,” Pharynx said with a grin. Chrysalis looked at him with a raised eyebrow. The drone continued, “There is an ancient dark magic that King Sombra used after he lost many of his guards to a large hord of Ursa majors, ages ago. I read about it in the Equestrian history book I stole when we attacked the capital. I learned that magic; I can teach you if you want me to, but as i said, it comes with a high risk” Pharynx said. Chrysalis looked at him with hesitation, but then nodded in agreement.

“Huh, this place is too hot,” Rainbow Dash gasped as she sat beside Fluttershy, fanning herself with a piece of paper aboard their carriage. The Elements of Harmony and Spike were all in their carriage, while the three princesses were in their own. Two more carriages followed them, containing some guards. They were all flying in the sky of the Badlands, with Celestia’s sun bright and hot, shining down on them.

“Its badlands were talking about, rainbow! This place is always hot,” Twilight said as she kept her head in the same history book she and Cadance had been reading an hour ago. “Ugh, I keep reading this book, but I can’t figure out who this ‘Alicorn’ can be,” Twilight said in frustration as she rested her head on her hooves.

“Why bother, darling? It won’t change the fact that he’s a murderous brute,” Rarity said in disgust as she looked at her reflection in her small mirror, held by her magic.

Applejack stepped into the conversation. “Ah think Rares is right, Twilight. Knowin’ who he was in the past won’t make him a good pony for us,” AJ said as she tipped her hat.

Pinkie Pie joined in with excitement. “Well, maybe we can change his attitude if we throw him a ‘Welcome to Equestria, Maralicorn Party!’” she said excitedly as she jumped up on her seat. The others decided to just let Pinkie be Pinkie.

“Um, Twilight, w-what do you th-think will happen when we f-find him?” said Fluttershy as she shivered a bit in fear, not liking the fact that they were looking for a pony responsible for the changelings’ massacre.

Twilight looked at her shy friend and was about to answer when she was interrupted by one of the guards who was carrying the princess’s carriage. “Your Majesties, we found something!” the guard shouted.

Princess Celestia stood up from her seat and said loudly so that everypony could hear her, “Stop the carriage; we should investigate it.” She said this as she could also see the mining camp not too far from them.

All four carriages came to a halt as the pegasi guards who were dragging them slowly landed on the ground along with the wagons. Once again, the group got out of their vehicles and began their walk towards the nearby mining camp, looking for somepony or someone to ask if they had seen the mysterious alicorn.

In total, the group was made up of 38 individuals: the Elements of Harmony, Spike, the three princesses, Shining Armor, and 27 royal guards.

As the group got closer to the entrance of the mining camp, the sun princess narrowed her eyes as she could see something inside. It didn’t take her long to realize what it was, as they were all by now at the entrance.

Once again, Rarity passed out. Rainbow Dash couldn’t hold it back any longer, so she vomited on the ground, along with AJ and most of the guards. Fluttershy gagged and started crying. Pinkie Pie and Spike both became motionless like statues, while Twilight, Shining Armor, and the three princesses looked at the scene with horror.

Yet another bloody massacre was right in front of them, but this time, there weren’t any changelings; rather, there were diamond dogs. Numerous diamond dog corpses were scattered all around the small camp, ripped, torn, decapitated, and mutilated in unimaginable ways.

While the group was slowly recovering from the brutality, Princess Celestia looked at the scene with a glare and burning eyes. “Whoever he is, he has gone too far this time. I swear on Faust, I will stop him and his killings, and will not let him hurt anyone else. Whoever he is” Celestia thought to herself as she then took a deep breath and addressed her subjects to calm them down.

Meanwhile...

Please tell me in the comments if the music plays for you without any errors, because I can’t play it for myself when I include it in the fic.

The ground shook beneath the rampaging hydra’s feet as it roared with all of its heads at the top of its lungs. The hydra moved around in pain, crushing a few desert trees as its stomach was being butchered from the inside.

We could see a large bulge moving around violently inside the beast’s tummy. The movement stopped as we could see a sharp and deadly chainsaw blade tear open a medium-sized hole in the hydra’s belly. The wound stretched open, gushing out lots of blood and guts, HUGE GUTS.

From inside the beast’s stomach came the Doomslayer, jumping out and landing on his hindlegs on the sandy floor of the badlands, chainsaw in his front hoovs. The Slayer looked up at the beast with hatred, having a burning glare beneath his helmet.

Codex Entry.
New species identified.
Species: “Hydra”
Weakness: four heads with separate minds, take them all out with destructive weapons such as 'Ballista' or 'The Rocket launcher.'

The hydra was in massive amounts of pain, but its anger clouded its suffering. The beast roared in anger, attacking the Slayer with one of its massive heads, aiming to gobble him up. The Slayer jumped up, dodging the attack and landing on the beast’s head. He then shoved his chainsaw inside the head’s left eye. The head of the beast roared in pain and anger as it retreated back; the Slayer clutched his chainsaw firmly, not letting go.

One of the other heads glared at the Slayer and aimed to bite him, not caring that he was still on the first head. The second head roared as it was about to bite the Primeval Alicorn. Doomguy looked at it and jumped off the first head right after sticking a grenade inside the bloodied eye socket.

The first head screamed as the second one bit it very hard. The grenade glowed red and exploded seconds later, causing both heads to blow up, with lots of blood raining down on the ground below.

The Slayer landed on the ground once again, cracking the ground beneath his hooves, while the remaining two heads of the hydra glared down at him, hissing and roaring. The Slayer thought about his rocket launcher, and seconds later, the large weapon appeared in his hooves as he stood on his hind legs again. He then proceeded to spam the beast, quick-switching between the rocket launcher and ballista, abusing the devastating combo.

I don’t know if you guys are familiar with the quickswitching trick from Doom Eternal, but yeah.

He shot, quick-switched his weapon, jumped, and shot, quick-switched his weapon, and shot again and again and again, not giving the hydra a single second to recover. The beast roared in suffering as it was horribly demolished. The scales and skin were ripped and torn from many parts of its body, exposing the flesh beneath to the Slayer.

The third head groaned in pain as it crashed and died. Surprisingly, the fourth head was still alive and breathing but was bleeding profusely. The remaining head growled as it took a deep breath before opening its maw, revealing its sharp fangs, looking down on the Slayer with hatred. It then attacked, aiming to bite the Slayer just like its three fallen brethren. Doomguy jumped back, causing the hydra to bite a tree log.

The hydra was exhausted and wasted its chance to retreat. The Slayer approached the head slowly. The bloodied head looked up at him with fear as it cried for its life and in regret for attacking this armored Alicorn.

The Slayer was just flying around in the badlands sky when suddenly this hydra ambushed him and gobbled him up in one bite. However, it wasn’t successful, as he then chainsawed his way out of the hydra’s belly, and the fight started, just as you know.

The Slayer brought his BFG-9K out, holding it with his right hoof while he smashed the tree log that the hydra had bitten, turning it into pieces. He then grabbed the hydra’s left side fang with his left armored hoof, forcing the beast’s mouth open. The giant snake groaned as the Primeval forced its mouth wide open.

Doomslayer then put the BFG between the two lips of the Hydra. The hydra’s head shivered in fright as it saw the weapon of mass destruction slowly begin to glow green while it was still inside its maw. A few seconds later, the hydra’s entire body shook as the BFG launched its destructive green ball inside the beast’s mouth, causing it to explode, with lots of blood painting the Slayer.

As the hydra’s lifeless corpse lay there, the Slayer looked at the sky above him. He still had to find the changelings and their queen, and this land kept wasting his time with these stupid creatures it sent after him. The Slayer glared and super jumped up, flying away to continue his search, the force of the jump cleaning his armor from the bloodstains of the fallen hydra.

Author's Note

Here's the next chapter. Sorry for the long wait; my school started its first term exams, so I needed to study. Now that it's all finished, I can continue writing. I hope you all enjoyed the chapter. Don't forget to like and comment. RIP AND TEAR UNTIL IT IS DONE

Question of this chapter: which head of the hydra had the most painful death? (Your opinion)