The sands of Equestria

“What!?” An angry shout resonated through underground ruins Israphel and Chrysalis were using as a base. “They just blew up all our troops. We couldn’t do anything!” Creeper Boss said explaining what happened during the attack. “Urg… we almost… got Antioch master… but they were helped… by a strange creature.” Completed Zombie Boss. Israphel started becoming curious. “What kind of creature?” He said slowly turning around. “It looked like that one that is helping us. What’s her name? Oh right Chrysalis. But it was smaller, had no wings, and was purple.” Israphel looked at the ground remembering something. “If I’m correct that’s one of the elements of harmony. We need a way to get through them!” Suddenly a disembodied voice resonated through the ruins. “I know what we can do. We could release the wither.” Israphel and the bosses looked chocked at the statement. “The wither!? Are you insane Master Herobrine!?” The voice chuckled. “Just leave it to me.”

Meanwhile in Ponyville…

Bowtastic had just woken up and got some bread from his inventory. ‘I got to do something soon to gain the heroes’ trust. Something…’ He thought. He then looked to the Sun’s position. “Holy shit! I overslept!” With that said he jumped of the tree and started running as fast as possible to the library bursting through the door at arrival.

“You’re late.” Twilight said annoyed. “I know, I’m sorry, I overslept a little. What did I miss?” Bowtastic said very quickly and panting. “We just explained the Israphel situation.” Xephos said. “Oh you have no idea . With your current information all you think you know about Israphel is a lie.” Honeydew looked intrigued at Bowtastic. “And what do you know lava man?” He said. “You listen here and you listen good. Israphel is a human that has been corrupted by Herobrine. Verigan managed to seal him in the Sands but Herobrine managed to reach Israphel, a true scientifical prodigy, telepathically and corrupt him. Israphel was a nuclear physicist he also was a friend of Fumblemore, the radioactivity gave him his look and the ability to talk to creepers. A few weeks later Israphel found a baby creeper who had mistaken him for his father. Tainted by his foster father’s corruption he became Creeper Boss. Eventually the Israphel Cult was born and well… you know the rest. Most of Israphel’s mind got blocked by Herobrine making it so he doesn’t realize the evil he’s doing. All this time he just wanted his body healed from radiation.” All in the room dropped their jaws at the new information. “Luckily I am able to do something. As a lava creeper I can cast something called the purifying fire, able to at least take the evil away from any soul. I never got close enough to Israphel to use it.” Xephos stuttered at how powerful their new ally actually was. “T-That’s amazing but how did you get all that information?” Bowtastic looked unamused. “I was created by Herobrine, of course he would tell me his plans. Luckily the purifying fire, got to thank Notch for that someday, also applies to me making me able to easily get rid of corruption and mind control spells.” After a few seconds of awkward silence and leaving everyone speechless with his words Bowtastic said. “So… will you explain us where are we, how do things work around here, and so on.”

When the ponies finally woke back to reality and started explaining they got interrupted by Bowtastic. “… And pegasy (I may have failed horribly spelling the word --‘) can control weather.” Twilight said. “Weather? Does that include lightning?” RD said excited answering Bowtastic. “Heck yeah we can! Pretty awesome right?” Bowtastic got a grin on his face. “I have a feeling things will get interesting.” KP jumped right in. “You are not getting supercharged unless needed!” Bowtastic got disappointed at the statement. “But I won’t explode anything! I mean there might be the occasional fire since I’m made of lava but come on, the peak of my fun is when I’m supercharged!” As they continued arguing Twilight asked. “Supercharged?” Honeydew answered. “I’m the explosives expert so I understand creepers. Basically creepers have sulphur going through their veins, making them good explosion catalysts, taking a look at Bow the safest bet would be that the sulphur got replaced by fire. Creepers create inner heat in order to explode, Bow should have a higher limit than the rest. Anyways when a creeper gets supercharged by lightning the level of heat in its body rises, but that’s not enough to set off an explosion, this heat adds to the heat a creeper naturally creates causing an overload and a very big explosion!” Xephos could only stare at Honeydew. “Your knowledge of creepers amazes me.” Bowtastic got in the conversation. “I may be a creeper but I only explode if I can’t do anything else. When my power is on the limit I do as a normal creeper, rush the foe and explode, as you can see that wasn’t necessary… yet.”

After the few incidents caused by Bowtastic the conversation went rather normally. Bowtastic had shown an arsenal of weapons and armor he got from his travels: Firehawk, the phoenix bow (A red bow with two spikes coming out of the handles), an Inferno sword (A sword with a flame pattern colored red, orange and yellow) and Hellscale armor (scaly red armor with black edges and an insignia of some sorts on the chest plate that looked like a quarter circle with a flame). “That’s the stuff Herobrine gave me, needless to say I managed to use it for a better purpose than their creator.” Everyone looked at the armor and weapons intrigued. “What’s that signal on the armor?” Pinkie Pie asked. Bowtastic got uncomfortable as she mentioned it. “That’s a part of my past I’d like to keep a secret for now.” Xephos got suspicious at this. “And why?” Bowtastic snapped flames surrounding his body, luckily not setting anything on fire. “BECAUSE YOU CAN’T HANDLE MY PAST! MY PAST IS A VERY PAINFUL ONE! YOU CANNOT AND WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND! MY FRIENDS ARE ALL DEAD BECAUSE I FAILED THEM! THERE! ARE YOU HAPPY NOW?” KP got into a defensive stance at the outburst. And Xephos realizing what he had done apologized. "I’m sorry, I didn’t know.” Bowtastic calmed down. “I’m sorry for the outburst but now I need some time alone.” He walked out the door taking his items as he was leaving. Honeydew was the first to talk. “What in the Nether just happened?”

Back by the home the heroes built there was Bowtastic building a shelter of his own when a strange beam of energy came from his bow to his shoulder. The beam started taking the shape of a phoenix. “Not now Firehawk I’m building.” Bowtastic said. He then heard an all too familiar voice behind him. “Long time no see Phoenix.” Bowtastic looked around in disbelief. “Hurricane? You’re alive?” As he said it a female version of himself appeared out of thin air in front of him, but instead of being red as lava it was grey showing her power over the wind. “Indeed I am. In fact all of the elementals are.” Bowtastic was in shocked. “All this time… I thought you, Geyser and Earthquake were dead because of my failure.” Hurricane chuckled. “Have you forgotten that we do not only control the elements… we ARE the elements. We have been the wind that fed your flames, the ground you stood on, the water you used to survive and many other things. We’ve been with you all along.” Bowtastic hugged Hurricane. “Why have you not shown yourselves earlier?” He was on the brink of crying. Hurricane moving away from the hug said. “Herobrine will launch an attack. He’s sending a wither.” Bowtastic’s eyes filled with horror. “This area is highly populated! I knew he was insane but not that much!” Hurricane started dissipating into the wind but she managed to say. “Tell the heroes, they have to know what to expect.” Bowtastic nodded and rushed to find the heroes.

“Where is that guy? We have looked through the whole town.” Honeydew said bored because of having to search for Bowtastic. “Well look at it this way, we now know the town a little.” Xephos said looking on the bright side. The ponies and KP all agreed. Suddenly the lava creeper showed up in front of them. “We’ve been looking all over for you.” RD said annoyed. Bow looked at them and said. “Herobrine is launching an attack soon.” Honeydew smirked. “Then we’ll use the catapult again!” Bow, this time very worried, said. “He’s sending a wither.” The heroes were shocked. “What!?” They said in unison mixes of horror and shock on their faces. “A wither?” AJ asked. Bowtastic regained a serious composure and said. “You’ll see soon enough. I’m not worried about the wither itself, I can deal with it myself, but I’m worried about what it can do to this town and its inhabitants.” A sound was heard in the horizon. “It’s the wither.” Xephos said. Bowtastic closed his eyes focusing, a few seconds later flaming wings appeared on his back. “Evacuate the town, I’ll  deal with the wither and its army!” Honeydew could not accept this, no friend of his fights alone. “Are you crazy? We’re helping!” The others nodded. Bow changed his voice to one of authority. “No you must stay and evacuate! Me and Firehawk will deal with it!” Twilight interfered. “You’re not going to fight alone.” Bow was getting tired. “ENOUGH! FIrehawk rise and we shall show the wither what a fire elemental can do!” As he said the phoenix appeared from the bow but it was bigger. Bowtastic looked at the others and said. “May the holy fires protect you.” With that he flew off to fight.

One thought was going through everyone’s mind. ‘Fire elemental?’ Then they rushed off to evacuate.