Equestria: Final Wars
Applejack.
Previous ChapterNext Chapter"A'hright here we are. I'll get Mac, Granny and Applebloom. Yall just wait here and not kill anypony." Applejack said going past the gate to Sweetapple Acres.
"We thought that weakling would never leave us." Destroyah said standing upon Biollante’s back.
"How long have you been awake?" Biollante asked tilting her side so he would fall.
He slid off and fell onto his snout with a small crunch. He got up with a small stream of green blood coming from his snout.
He shook his head to fling off the blood before glaring at her.
"Do that again and we shall have your head." He hissed.
"Yall won’t be havin' anyponies heads while yall are stayin' here."
Destroyah glared at the orange pony before noticing the other three standing behind her.
One was a large red one with a short blonde mane and what looked like a collar on him. A small yellow one, with a large red mane and a large bow. The third was a light green one with white hair tied in a bun and was leaning on a stick with one hoof while throwing a knife with the other.
He realized she threw the weapon and cut it in half through the air with his horn with a twist of his head. She looked shocked by what he just did and started to walk off.
"Granny! What is wrong with you!?" Applejack yelled.
"Those are the things I told yall bout'! But yall thought I'd finally went off my rocker!" She yelled back.
"We shall keep watch over that one. She has gained our interest." Destroyah said.
"Wow... I've never seen anything like yall before. What are yall?" Applebloom asked walking up to Biollante with wide eyes and mouth open.
"We are kaiju. The strongest things to exist before, during and even after our war with humanity." Destroyah answered before walking up to her. "Why is it you ask?"
"I've never seen anything like yall before." She shrugged. "What's your cutie mark mean anyway?"
He looked back at the picture on his flank in disgust, slowly snapping his smaller mouth. "It is the weapon humanity used to create us."
"Humani-what?" She tilted her head.
"Applebloom, could ya quit pestering our guests for a second?" Big Macintosh siad before walking up. "Howdy. Name’s Big Macintosh, yall can just call me Mac if it suits ya." He stuck out a hoof.
"Where will we be staying?" Destroyah asked eyeing his hoof with hatred.
"Beg yer pardon?" He replied raising an eyebrow.
"Where shall we be staying?"
"Over in the barn for now. Mah' sister didn't tell me much bout' yall so, who are ya?" He asked more sternly switching his wheat stalk to the other side of his mouth.
"Biollante." She said reaching down with a tendril.
He gave a warm smile and nod before shaking it slowly.
"And you?" He asked Destroyah.
"Destroyah." He snorted before starting to walk away.
"Where do ya think yer goin'?" Applejack asked getting in his way.
"Food." He answered going around her.
"We have plenty to eat at the house. Why not join us for supper?"
"You do not have what we require." He said turning to face her.
"And what is that? I'm sure-"
"Meat."
A lump formed in her throat as her blood ran cold.
"Ah'm sorry, could ya repeat that one more time? Ah didn't quite catch that." She said grinning uneasily while wiping her hoof on her ear.
He walked up to her with a hideous smile that made Applebloom run behind her brother.
"Meat. The flesh of another, the very parts of the living. It is what we live for, to feel the crunch of bone within our maw, the screams of our victims as we dissolve every part from their being and watching as we eliminate every. Last. Breathe from them." He gave a maniacal laugh at the three ponies’ faces. "And you, so foolishly led the predator to the nest. We will keep a careful eye on all of you." He snapped his smaller mouth at her making her yelp and fall back.
"Destroyah! That is enough!" Biollante yelled. "They are not food."
"What is wrong with you!? Have you learned nothing!? We feed off of life; we bring death wherever we go. We. Are. Destroyah!" He rose up on his hind legs and let out a stream of micro-oxygen.
Before he knew what had happened, something hit him in the side making him go through a tree and landing on another. He gave a hiss to see Biollante between the ponies and him.
"Please, we do not want to feed on those lower life forms. We will go and hunt for much larger prey. Prey that can fight." He brushed off the splinters and got up. "We know you too, are hungry Biollante. You cannot help but feed, just the same as us. Come, accompany us so we may... talk."
She looked back at the farmers. Applebloom had passed out, Applejack had anger and fear written across her face and Big Mac was angrier than he had ever been.
"If'n yall want to hunt. The forest is that a'way." Mac Pointed towards the Everfree.
Destroyah shrugged his wings and started to walk down the path leading out from the orchard. Biollante shook her head and followed.
When they were atleast a mile away Destroyah turned to Biollante, rage and disappointment in his yellow eyes.
"What has happened to you?" He hissed.
"What has happened to me!? You threatened their lives! And you ask me that?" She snarled.
"You have changed. This world is changing you all; which will make it easier to kill you all later."
"Why is it you need to kill every living being you see? Why is it you hate them so much, Destroyah? They could have killed you earlier, but they helped all of us. And now their giving us a place to rest until they can return us home. Why do you insist to try and kill them?"
"We must. It is what we were made for. Our only purpose is to spread death." He said starting to walk ahead again.
"That is not a reason. That is a choice. Battra, Gigan, Orga, Spacegodzilla and the Ghidorah’s have not tried to attack the locals. Because they chose not to. Now, I'm asking you to do the same. For the sake of us all, including you."
"What have we to fear? The Pink one? No, we can wait for another eternity to have that one die. Everything dies. Everything but us." He smiled. "For we bare death itself."
"You are arrogant, stupid and blind. You cannot see the error of your ways. We were at war with humanity, but here, here the ponies help us. They have given us homes and have shown nothing but respect towards us. But not out of fear, out of their own hearts."
"Then, we shall see the, joy, in their heart soon." He chuckled darkly.
"I will keep that from happening. You are not going to cause another war." She said stepping in front of him.
"Tell me; for this still confuses us greatly, why is it you and all the other kaiju see these, things as allies and not food? Nearly all of us eat meat, so why are we not gorging ourselves on their entrails?" He asked leaning forward.
"Maybe we are tired of having to constantly fight, fight to survive. To exist! Maybe, maybe we just want peace. Something you will never comprehend in that small skull of yours, O' mighty Destroyah." She spat.
"Is that a challenge?" He hissed.
"I would say it is. If you fail, then you shall be the only one to return back. If you succeed then you shall stay with us."
"We... accept. How should we go through this? How is it that we shall see things in your way, if we could that is?"
"Let more than the thought of death and destruction into your mind. Do not, threaten or kill any of the ponies or their so called, pets. And you shall begin by apologizing to the farmers family."
"What!? Clearly you are the blind one. They loathe us just as we do them." He snapped.
"After you gave them reason to."
He opened his mouth to reply but found none, so he instead, watched the path in front of them grow more and more overgrown with vegetation.
"I think we’re here." Biollante concluded. "Which means there should be food. Let us hurry."
The sounds of animals from crickets to even the hydra in FroggyBottom Bog were heard as the two walked along the dirt path.
Soon, a series of howls and a roar pieced the air, making all other sounds cease. Destroyah looked to Biollante with a deadly glint in his glowing eyes.
More roars were heard and the two sped ahead, first at a trot and then to a full blown gallop. Destroyah cutting through all the vegetation while Biollante went through it as if it was nothing.
They stopped when they both could hear breathing. Slowly Destroyah put his head into a bush and came back grinning.
"There's a large animal surrounded by two others. And the large one is hurt. Very, very badly." He grinned, drool dripping onto the forest floor. “Which is very good for us.”
In seconds they both jumped through the bush and into the clearing.
The large animal was larger than Destroyah but smaller than Biollante.
It had a scorpion’s tail, a lion’s body and a bat's wings. The two other creatures looked like dogs only made of wood.
The two wooden creatures forgot their prey and went after Destroyah, who only grinned wickedly before firing a bolt of micro-oxygen through the first head. The second stopped and looked to its fallen comrade before giving a loud growl and charged again.
It jumped for Destroyah's neck but was stopped when Destroyah's crescent tail pincer was coiled around its neck where he held him in the air.
Biollante watched as he easily took care of the wooden wolves. She turned her gaze towards the manticore, who was unfortunate enough to be wounded in front of her.
She examined it closely. It looked like it was cut across the side, the cut itself wasn't deep. She smiled before running at it.
It gave a roar of its own and ran forward too.
Their heads collided for only a second as the manticore was thrown into the air.
It regained its senses and flapped its wings to regain balance. There in the air, it launched forward and landed on her back.
It started to claw and bite; she roared in pain and reached up with her tendrils. Each one eliciting a roar of pain from the creature as she threw it against the rock wall it was again cornered at.
It got up dazed, but had enough sense to try and fly away. She saw its wings start to move and arched her head back.
It suddenly felt pain, pain all over its body and it was spreading. Biollante had covered it in her extremely corrosive acid.
She watched as it ate away at the wings and skin before moving in.
She took one half in her mouth and bit down, cutting it in half. She held the other with her tendrils as she swallowed the first and then put the second piece into her maw.
She looked back to see Destroyah had sunken his smaller mouth into the wolf's underside and the color in its eyes fade.
"That was satisfying." He said pulling out his smaller mouth yellow blood dripping off from his jaws “Very satisfying.” He laughed darkly.
"Then let us go back." She said, blood still dripping off of her lips as she talked.
He slung the corpse over his back and started to walk.
As they walked back through the forest he thought about what she had said earlier.
"Feelings... how do we know what different ones are?" He asked himself.
He looked up to Biollante, already with a lump in where his stomach is, if he had one.
"Biollante, what are feelings?" He asked sourly.
"Feelings? What is it you feel when you kill?" She replied brushing a log away with a tendril.
"We feel... warm inside. Why?"
"Than that is joy. You obviously know anger, fear and disgust. All that leaves is sadness and love." She smiled before talking again. "Although I will never see you finding love."
"Love... what does love feel like?" He looked at the ground in thought.
"Love, feels like joy, only greater. Much greater." She said looking at him. "Who knows, maybe you could fall for me?"
His head snapped up, his cheeks turning crimson and his eyes narrowed.
"Do not speak of such foolishness! We will never fall for anyone! Why should you be any different?"
"You obviously seem lonely. And you have no chance with Mothra, Battra or Rodan, so that leaves me."
He thought about what she said with a wide mouth before a thought struck his mind.
"What if we are able to make... friends? " He shuddered. " With the life giver, Mothra? Surely she and Caesar could help us. " He thought.
Soon they both saw lights ahead and were approaching the acres again.
Biollante nudged Destroyah in the side as they both saw Applejack sitting on the porch.
He gave a sigh and walked up to her.
"W-What do ya want now? Come to scar us some more?" She said defensively.
He reached around with his tail pincer and grabbed the hollow frame of the Timberwolf and set it down in front of her.
"We are giving this as a... gift. For our earlier actions. Consider this an apology for your family."
Her mouth opened and closed like a fish out of water before she started to speak again.
"K-Keep it. We don't have no need for any animal’s body... what did yall hunt out there?" She looked at him.
He only stared in surprise.
"You do not accept our gift? Giving prey to another is how kaiju show good will towards others. Did we do something to offend you?" He asked tilting his head to the side.
"We... we don't give bodies to other ponies to make up. Just-we just apologize, with our words. Please, if'n yall could just take that away. I don't want Applebloom seeing that." She nudged the corpse towards him with a hoof.
He leaned down and bit back in with his smaller mouth before red sparks began to cover the wolf's frame and it dissolved like what was inside it before.
Applejack stared in interest and horror.
"We shall go and rest in for the night." He said before looking around. "Where is this, barn?" He asked.
"Just over there." She pointed over to a large red painted building next to the house.
He nodded and tried to give a smile, but that only made her gulp.
"Applejack, tell the others that we are sorry for earlier."
She nodded and walked back inside.
Both Destroyah and Biollante walked into the worn out barn.
"It seems better than a cave." She said lying down onto her side.
"We would prefer a bed of fire." He said getting down against her.
She raised her head at him doing so and narrowed her eyes.
"Why are you laying against me?" She asked, Tendrils ready to strike.
"The night is cold and without our full power, we are weaker to it. We need warmth. Now let us rest." He said resting his head on one of her claws.
She laid her head down and wrapped him in two tendrils making a blanket for him so he wouldn't be cold.
Soon both former kaiju were asleep.
But not noticing the pink pony wearing a black turtle neck, night vision goggles and a rope around her waist as she took a picture.
"Another one for the scrap book!" She silently whispered to herself before jumping into a barrel.
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