Nuchadus Anomaly

The last word said with power as the blade morphed into a bear wolf hybrid. The blade emanated so much bloodlust that the two ponies took a step back as it growled, looking on the verge of ripping something apart. Aether wasn't fazed at all as she levitated both onto her back.
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"Sadly I rather not used it again as it currently draining and too stressful on my vocal cords. But I should get us their was." With that she flew up as the hound beast dashed through the trees with Aether following suit.

Bigpip with his lover ride on her back. They can see the scenary change from ashland meadows to that of rocky grasslands. Aproaching their destination, they can make up wooden and stone shacks. With gibbeting cages hanging from them, with skeletons inside. Parts of the ground are covered in dark spiked metal formations. Landing, the unstable soil shakes a bit. There are many cultists equiped with crossbows made of Horax's metal, daggers machine pistols. There was clear distiction of rank between them. The lowest ranking ones were naked humans with mutated body parts. The middle ranking having robes and mask with guns. With their leader having a hood over their mask, with a crossbow, loaded with red toxic bolts.
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The moment they got there, the cultists opened fire, with the naked mutants making a charge for them.

The bolts and bullets bounced off Aether adamantium scales as she took a deep breath. 'you might want to close your ears Ya two' she telepathically said to the dou on her back. After a few moments she let out a thundering roar that shook the entire area and made every single cultists and mutant freeze in place by fear. The hound that was leading them soon started to tear the mutants and humans apart with berserker like fervor it weaved between them like a wind each bite another kill.

Aether then summoned the golems again as they engaged the cultists, impaling and slashing them. She circled around the battlefield looking around to see if there were any more.

The two of them fall off as the area shook. They took cover behind building's walls, allowing Aether Forge to handle it. Since she has proven that she much powerful then whatever this world has to throw at her. Harmonious Percussion held to his charge rifle as Bigpip took his time to cast a shield bubble spell on both of them. Without anymore cultists running around, they looked around the place and found that there was infact a second monolith was ready to be activated. With gross decorations and human sacrifices surrounding it. With a red occult circle drawn close to it.

Aether landed as her hound and golems gathered around. She looked at the monolith and saw the spirits and souls trapped here, ready to become fuel for the abomination. Her jaw clenched at this. She dearly wanted to break this monolith. Her cross was extended before to it before she took a deep breath to calm herself.

"Your Majesty how do we proceed. Because I dearly want to destroy this monolith if nothing more then to save the souls and spirit caught within it'a grasp" she said with a hint of aggravation.

"The monolith is an anchor of sorts, acting as a portal to a seperate dimension. Which contains a node leading to Horax's void. Where Horax is sealed. I shall active this monument and we will have to fight a horde of Horax's creations. However with you on our side, i have no doupt in our ability to prevail until the monolith twists and allows us entrance for you to go meet Horax. Are you mentaly prepared to meet him? I would imagine a being like it, would try to mind fuck you the moment it realizes that it can't hurt you physicaly. The monolith will summon weird structures. Which we need active too." Bigpip told her.

Aether sighned before she looked inside her soul to seem if she returned some of her powers and hopefully when she will be inside that void realm. All restrictions will be unsealed. At least she got her divine powers back, thanks to Bigpip. She also felt a lot of necromantic energy around. She debated if she should summon her shadow undead or not. "Your Majesty how many monster's can we expect to face when this starts?" She asked trepidly

"I don't know, like fifty or some. Could be more, if Horax can actualy understand what we are trying to do." Bigpip answered, activating the monolith, Which caused red stripes to appear on it. Soon they could see two of Horax's structures fall from the sky, one crashed next to a nearby hill while the second landed in a tiny pool of water. A horde of undead could be seen, slowly shambling their was towards them. While angry barks could be heard from another direction where they didn't have much visibility.

"You could have at least give me time to prepare a defensive position....." Aether deadpaned at the Emperor. "Arise my knight, arise servant of the elements." With that all the monster bodies and surrounding necromantic energy collide into one large ball, the bodies turned to glowing dust as a undead creature like no other seem to rise from the shadows.
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It looked like a disfigured mix of a Hippogriff and a wyvern. In it's hand a wicked blade that was definitely cursed in some way. It roared as nearby undead focus oo it.
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At the same time the Colossus from before rose up and smashed the ground impaling the undead. but this time the water nearby turned in a serpent as it froze the undead in ice. The clouds above turned to a bird like creature that rained down lightning and wind that cut the monsters apart.
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All the undead turned to the same glowing dust as the shadow undead devoured it and itself summoned soldiers made in similar fashion to itself. Aether meanwhile took a deep rhythmic breath before dashing forward faster then the two could even see, she gracefully danced as petals of blue lilies followed her blade covered in shadow with glowing runes.

Several chimeras run between the cultist's shacks, their messed up hide being partialy red. With their maws sprouting extra sharp teeth, which they intended to penetrate Aether's hide with. They ran in a zig zag pattern as they ambushed Aether Forge.
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Bigpip and Harmonious Percussion meanwhile made a run for the void structure that landed in the tiny lake. Once They arrive there, a metal horror emerges, which they hed to kite. Once the partialy bullet proof monster was downed by Bigpip's spells and Harmonious Percussion's bullets. They were able to active it after fiddling around with it for a while. Behind the chimeras ran slowly, Aether sized blind creatures with huge maws the size of their whole front body.

Aether was calm in the face of the charging chimeras. "Aria of Sorrow!" she whispered as the chimeras slowed down with her bodies covered in thorn like purplish markings. Aether armor coat swayed in the wind as she cut down the chimeras as they were too slow to catch her, her swords segmented into a whip as it glowed with faint magic. A high pitched sound emanating from it. With graceful moves it shredded them.

Meanwhile the elementals finished the undead and moved to engage the chimeras. Earth Colossus petrified and entangled them before impaling or smashing them with it's fist, the water serpent froze solid, blasted them with high pressurized water and icicles, every few minutes also healing others. The storm bird sent tornadoes or chain lightning onto the hord of monsters.

All the while the shadow undead army grew more and more as Aether fiend knight turned all the undead into shadow soldiers and turned them against the chimeras. After the chimeras and undead were defeated. The huge mawed monsters close in, stuffing the whole colossuses into their long bodies, through their big teethed maws.
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Among the chaos, Bigpip with Harmonious Percussion try to avoid the angered monsters as they rush for the second monolith. Defeating the metal horror guarding it with barage of of spells and charged bullets. As they active it, it, the void structure starts glowing softly red. An almost impenetrable darkness starts to descend opon the area. "Uh, that is not good. Did somepony turn off the sun or something?" Harmonious Percussion asked rhetoricaly.
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Bigpip instructed Harmonious to follow him to the monolith. While the battle raged on, more monsters joined the fight. With lightly skined humanoids who possessed long spikes protruding out of their bodies, ideal for stabbing armored ponies. The darkness was gradualy getting worse. Just before it became pitch black everywhere without a a strong light source near it. They could spot three more void structures falling to the ground, that needed to be activated.

Aether gnawed her teeth as the earth spirit were devoured as her martial magic and aura helped her slaughter the monsters. But when this darkness descented onto the battlefield Aether had to rely on her magic sight echo location and other senses to fight. "This is bad, this is turning mored disadvantageous, I can't keep Spamming spells and techniques as I'll be too tired to face Horax" Aether though before she felt a surge of power. "What!? My draconix sorcery? But I haven't attuned yet?" Aether stunned but she felt the world was crying and it wanted the accursed beings gone for good.
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"So it shall be done but first I'll avenge the fallen spirits!" she cried out.
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With that she summoned a twisted javelin. It's main body with long jagget lines and a twisted form. She jumped into the air as a thunderstorm momentarily appeared above, her weapon absorbed a lightning and turned it into a spear with twisting blue purplish lightning coating it.
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"Feel the Nature's wrath abominations!" Aether scouts from the air. With a mighty throw her javelin throw, she hit the maw monsters. In an instant the darkness was banished as a thunderous explosion rang as if God smited the monsters. The battlefield was engulfed by light as many monsters in it were frozen in unbreakable ice and as lightning disintegrated them in moments.
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Aether let out a sigh as she dropped down. The battlefield was silent for the moment but darkness creeped back as she felt the dark gods attention. Well the world rejuvenated her, but there was still work to do. So she did as an artificer would.... Create
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"My servants protect me while I make the instrument of the Dark ones demise!"
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With that multiple portals open as out came shadow, golems, robots and two peculiar beings. One an robot pony in the form of an alicorn the other an undead Argonaut.
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"We shall guard you Monarch" the two and the fiend knight said in unison.
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Aether entered hee Nirik form as she started to creat a weapon which she called a holy star. Mana of all kind she gathered for this creation. Aether was sure the dark ones will feel this and she knows that this could spell trouble for herself.
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The light of the star pierced the darkness and illuminated the battlefield letting Bigpip and Harmonious deal with the remaining void structures. The Darkness then was absorbed by the shadow soldiers fueling them as they attacked anything that came to harm Aether.

"Ohh spirit of the world, lent me your senses. Great mother tree let cycle of life and death be maintained......" Aether chanted in draconic and druidic a double echo as the two languages said at the same time made a symphony. From around the world creatures felt it the call to give their pray to end the Dark god.

With the the void structures taken care off, the monolith begun to twist as a it begun opening a spherical portal to the realm where Horax is sealed. "Aether Forge, it is your time to shine! Jump into the portal the the metal hell of Horax's creation, jump into the void to defeat Horax once and for all!" Bigpip yelled at Ather Forge. While the impenetrable darkness decided to return. Anyone not in the light would be attacked by an invisible force, causing many cuts to those caught in the dark. Bigpip with Harmonious Percussion ran to the monolith for protection, bleeding somewhat as they tried to patch their wounds. "I hope thats not gonna le-ave itchy scars..." Harmonious Percussion commented while in moderate pain with his husband.
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The portal was now fully opened, the monolith now glowing noticably more red.

With a final strike of her sacred hammer, the weapon was finally forged. A beautiful blade of gold, purple and emerald. It's radiant presence scattered the darkness as the remnants of Aether forces morphed onto her body to form armor made of shadows, bones and robotic components.

After that Aether took a deep breath as her form morphed again into her Draconiqquus one.

Her body seem to be made of nebula like substance that existed in all three states of matter at the same time. Her Metalic bones forming a carapace over her with a ghostly skeleton inside. Three pairs of Titanic wings showing up on her back dotted with runic eyes. First were ethereal skeletal wings with membrane made of shadow. With a second pair of crystal feathered wings chilly as the deepest of winters. The third pair of wyvern wings being made of the storm itself.
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Her tail bing a draconic one with a flaming feathers. Her head adorned with a casting bark horn and 2 sets of large draconic horns that form tree branches in with demonic looking eyes. with a cross slited pupil and crimson ringed sclera. Her casting horn adorned with a imperial looking halo. As three sets of Draconic eyes look forward. Her jaw segment with the other one being fully bone.
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Her legs, the fromt claws were made of crystals and metal, while the back hooves made of obsidian. Her fetlocks made of mist. Her mane seemingly being a twisted combination of water and fire as spider lilies grow from it. Inside her chest three hearts being visible, one crystal and large in the center, he left one looks artificial with a talisman attached to it, while the right one seem to mere reminisced of a solid fire/magma core. Above them a strange crystal grows from Wich veins ran all over her body.

Aether simply nodded to Bigpip and Harmonious. "I'll return when the False God is dead." With that declaration her mental barrier and protection blessings engaged as she entered the portal.

When Aether entered, she was temporaly blinded. When her vision returned, she found herself in a circular room. Made of Horax's oily metal, with spike like pattern. In the middle of a room is the void node. An object acting as an intermediary between Horax's void and the surrounding metal room. The void node hed spike like structures stabilizing it. A robotic voice came to Aether's mind. 'Hello, another visitor has made it here? Have you came to make a deal? I can offer you great power if you allow me access to your body and strenghten my influence outside the void... Trust me, it WILL be worth it!'
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Aether was faced with three options. Destroying the spike pillars would destabilize the whole structure, breaking the void node and limiting Horax's influence over Nuchadus as a result. She could take the risk, using lot of her magic to withstand jumping through the void node and fight Horax in the void. Or she could accept Horax's offer...

She could tell that the moment she'll cross the threshold the false god will try to possess her as unlikely as that is because of her oath to the primordial dragon's. She won't agree to any bargain of this being. And breaking the node will just delay the problem. Maybe for a century a millennium? But this abomination will return, well she never let the fear of death sway her before.
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So she did what she done anything before such a move she prayed to her gods. "Lady Asha, Lords Bahamut, lord Tartarus. This knight asks for your blessings to face an evil that shouldn't exist."
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With that prayer Her mind and soul were reinforced with an ancient power. With that she pierced the threshold. As the false God trying to possess her with little success thanks to her wards and the primordials power but she was still weakened.

"So, what is it mortal? Can't decide if my deal is worth it? With the power i can provide, you can realize any desire that your mortal self could want to achive. Make up your mind or i will decide for you!" The robotic voice was no longer in just her head. It was now yelled out loud. Echoing across the circular room with spiky imperfections that seemed to protrude out the floor and wall. The volume made Aether's ears hurt a little.

Aether took a deep breath as her veins glowed cyan while her eyes sclera turned black with teal mist leaving them. "Silence Usurper, your reckoning has come and I'm here to deliver Vengeance for those that suffered by your machination!" Her voice shook the room as the pillars cracked a bit and with that she stepped into the void node as their powers clashed.

She was surrounded by the void for a long moment as Horax tried to possess her. It felt like swimming in the ocean, as the void tried to suck all the magic out of her while assaulting her mind with nightmares. However she continued to swim, until the nightmares were over. Surfacing back on Horax's oily metal as she the harshness of tiny spikes against her legs. It was very dark.

Aether muttered under her breath "Cast light onto the darkness Calibrim" and with that the sword erupted in light as the darkness pushed back. Her armor still on as her reserves replenished slowly. "Come out False God" Aether said in dragon language as the void strained from this action.

"Despite all my efforts, you managed to get to my prison. However... It is MY prison and MY realm!" The robotic voice of Horax answered. Which was followed by Aether being telekineticaly thrown against a wall she didn't notice was there. However close to her was appeared to be Horax's structure. Horax was afterall a giant machine that would cease to function with enough damage.

Aether grunted before giving off a utterly savage and bloodthirsty grin. Her eyes looked demonic as she glared. "Want it rough? well then how about I destroy your so called realm." She roared with fury as her claw glowed with Abyssal energy. It's power even caused Horax to flinch as she brought it onto the ground. The realm seemed to crack from the impact and from those cracks a twisted and primordial chaos entered. Devouring and eroding the realms even if slowly but unstoppably.

Horax let out what would normaly be an ear drum bursting laught. Before the whole area lit up with very harsh red light. As the ground beneath her shook. The oily metal floor transforming into metal horrors, who wasted no time charging against her with their sharp appendages. While part of Horax's giant structure transformed. Forming sharp tentacles that shot out at her, trying to grab and cut her in pieces. As Aether was surrounded, Horax tried to once again possess her.

Scuffing at this as the attacks bounce off her armor with little to no damage. "Trying this again, how quant. Well let me return the favor" Aether growled as she shouted another sentence in dragon language Horax felt his power and vitality be drained out of him. With a circular motion Calibrim let loose a wave of light that disintegrate all the monsters and broke more of the realm. More and more of Borax domain being claimed by the twisted energy.

"Now get out of my head you Metal scrap!" She psychicly roared back at the Horax, returning the pleasure of having another voice in his head.

Horax was going to turn more of his oily metal into metal horrors but since that didn't have the intended effect. Horax instead focused more of his energy into trying to take over Aether's mind. Trying to make her go insane as Horax hatefuly chanted in an unknown language, the extreme volume of which made Aether's armor vibrate severly as the the intense noised echoed throughout the rather open space. Horax was cleary getting desperate, seemingly driving the mad mechanical god, even more mad. Without many monsters around, it was time for Aether to destroy Horax's very structure keeping it working. Before Horax could kill her vibrations strong enough to destroy her body's tissue and organs.

Aether saw how desperate the False God became and those vibrations becoming too uncomfortable for her taste. She may be immortal but even she doesn't want to prolong this anymore. She heaved Calibrim above her head as all her energy gathered on the blade. The storm she caused was breaking the realm further apart as she declared.
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"I am Aetherium Forge Winter-Storm. Spirit of Crafting and Necromancy, Archangel of Vengeance and the Dragon-Knight of Ruin. I sentence you HORAX to the oblivion. Now taste Destined Death".
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Aether shouted in Ancient dragon language as the realm broke fully and with a downward swing she bisected Horax's mechanical body as the rune of death she carried, killed the machine god forever.

The realm collapses as the forces of the leak into the broken mechanical realm. Becoming islands in sea of seeming nothingness. The void node connecting the void to the real world is still intact for now but it won't last for long as everything is slowly drifting apart into the greater void.
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Bigpip with his husband on Nuchadus wait as the remaining Horax's monsters fall to the ground, no longer animate. The monolith's portal closes, before the monolith itself explodes into shards. Seemingly closing access to the void forever. The darkness is lifted. Bigpip with Harmonious Percussion celebrate, before coming to the realization that Aether is not going to be able to return. At least not to Nuchadus but maybe back to her home.

They waited a few hours before taking shards from the destroyed monolith along with the spherical device and headed back to the city south. The world was not ready to accept such a powerful being that was Aether Forge and perhaps Aether not returning again was a blessing for everypony involved. With Horax defeated, many planets would see more peace...