The Escape of The Darkness

Big Macintosh was, for all intents and purposes, scared out of his fucking mind. Before they had come, the local guard detachment was dealing with a small scouting party of changelings that had flown down from Canterlot during the invasion, attempting to take the town (unsuccessfully).

After they were either dead or repulsed with a wave of bright magic (which scared the crap out of him) the townsponies had shared a cheer and gone back to the routine of their lives, thinking the worst was over. However, this was an extremely short-lived moment of peace.

Just after the sun had gone down, a commotion had been noticed outside the town and some had gone to investigate, thinking it to be more changelings. But what they DIDN'T expect was a horde of diamond dogs (about a hundred or more strong) come rampaging into the town with reckless abandon.

The meager guard forces were quickly killed and the town left defenseless. Fires were burning and buildings had suffered damage in the sudden and brutal raid. A lot of the residents not hiding had taken up arms against the invaders, trying to protect their livelihoods, homes, and families, however most were severely outmatched.

Big Macintosh was in the thick of it with several others, the dogs were aiming to wound or stun instead of kill in order to take slaves for their mines. Big Mac was definitely not going down without taking a few of the mutts with him.

         Years of farm work and an above average physique made him into a very capable brawler if the situation arose (like now). He bucked a dog's face into a hundred pieces, before turning and cracking a few ribs in one that was sneaking up behind him. His luck ran out when a burly dog clubbed him upside the head, stunning him and making his balance nonexistent.

The dog cracked a malicious grin and laughed at his new captive. He turned the still-dazed Mac over before saying "Pony not so tough now are you?, Pony will make good mule for-" he nearly finished before his head exploded in a shower of bone and gray matter, the body falling over. Big Mac just stared at the bleeding stump unmoving, his mind finally restarting and assessing his surroundings. He looked behind him and saw the most terrifying sight he had ever seen.

A large, bipedal creature was bringing swift death to the gaggle of dogs near the town hall. His body was covered in a dark chitinous armor that covered everything below mouth level. From it's back came two demon snakes that were ripping into dogs left and right.

         In his hands (which he had learned about from Iron Will) were two L-shaped objects that were exploding with eerie light, blowing chunks out of dogs. Near it, a small imp was also tearing into fur and flesh, it appeared in a flash and taunted a dog who immediately came after it, then teleported onto its back and snapped its head upward and severed the dog's spine. The dogs  fled soon afterward, although the town was still not clear (he soon noticed he was the only one left not captured).

The creature looked at the dogs fleeing and said with a scowl,

"Time to put these mutts down" and started off.

10 Minutes Earlier.....

The girls, Jackie, and several royal guardsponies were being flown in a large transport bus towards Ponyville. Celestia had quickly explained that a severely wounded pegasus guard from the Ponyville garrison had arrived and informed the guard of a diamond dog raid.

           The princess quickly assembled an 80 count force of guards (the rest were either wounded or rooting out changelings that were underground at the time of the pulse.) and sent them along with the elements and Jackie to save the town, as she would be busy with restoring order.

"I-I just, our homes and our friends are, are being-!" Twilight stuttered in shock, turning to her friends.

The girls had very similar sentiments in the matter. Rainbow and AJ were both respectively looking angry, and scared (RD at the dogs and AJ for the safety of her family). The rest all looked hopelessly worried and/or sad, for example, Pinkie's mane had all but gone vertical to her head out of her despair. Twilight then noticed a kneeling Jackie come down to her level before giving her a reassuring smile.

"Hey kid, don't worry, I ain't gonna let anything happen to your friends", he said "By the way?, what are 'diamond dogs' anyway".

Twilight collected herself before answering "They are canines as you can guess, and they are bipedal and are about your chest in height, some bigger", She said "They are very greedy and hoard gems as much as possible, they even partake in raids such as this one for plunder and slaves to work in their horrible mines" Twilight finished.

Jackie looked slightly shocked, then pissed "Slavery" he said with a hiss.

"And thats not the worst part" Twilight said anxiously "They like to take young ponies so they can beat obedience into them so they won't try to escape" she said with abhorrence.

Jackie's eyes burned with righteous anger "So these bastards kidnap little kids, shove them into a hole, and work them to death!?" Jackie raged. He turned to a bumping noise to find they had landed next to the town, fighting and destruction clearly visible. In a street, he saw a large canine grab a screaming colt, before shoving him into a cage.

Jackie then became the angriest he had been since he had come here. In his mafia, kids were off-limits for drugs and any violence, they couldn't fight back, and pedophiles were regularly killed if word got out. He ignited the powers of the Darkness, terrifying the guards, and stormed off. He reached the aforementioned dog, grabbed him, and slammed him down, crushing his torso. Jackie then broke the lock on the cage and the scared colt ran towards the now assembling guard.

"You guys pick off any stragglers and help the ponies, then follow me" he said to the stunned guard "I'm gonna slaughter these animals" Jackie finished darkly.

AJ and the rest were following the trail of carnage that Jackie had blazed through to the town center. Broken corpses of dogs were scattered everywhere, most not in one piece. Several almost made the group, and even the guards, vomit from the sheer amount of carnage. Suddenly, behind an advancing Jackie, an unmistakable red farm pony was rising to his hooves.

"Mac!" Applejack exclaimed, and ran forward to embrace her big brother. "Are yall' right?" she asked quickly.

He looked around at the carnage and said his trademark "Eyyup" with an assuring smile, he then looked towards Jackie "What is that?" he asked.

"He's a friend don't worry, we'll explain later" AJ replied

The rest of the guards began to fan out around the square, putting wounded dogs out of their misery. A burly guard with a slightly more ornate helmet approached Big Mac and looked him over before saying, "What are we facing here?" in a curt tone.

To which he replied, "A whole bunch of dogs".

That is when they heard the screaming .

Jackie was storming towards the area where all of the dogs were retreating to. A rage burned within his heart after finding the body of a female guard from the local garrison raped and half-eaten inside of a destroyed restaurant (along with several now viciously slaughtered mutts). Every dog he met either died horribly or ran so fast they cracked the cobblestone under their feet.

"THIS NIGHT IS...EMPOWERING" the Darkness said

"What do you mean?" Jackie asked inquisitively.

"I FEEL ENERGY COURSING THROUGH ME FROM THIS DARK, LIKE STATIC ELECTRICITY, I FEEL LIKE I COULD SUMMON A MILLION DARKLINGS TO MY SIDE AND NOT BREAK A SWEAT!" He said confidently.

Their conversation was interrupted when they noticed they had left the confines of the town.  Jackie sent Darkling ahead to scout the area, several signs of movement were visible. Drag marks and footprints dotted the ground in a chaotic fashion, all moving out of the town. He could hear close signs of movement and voices from dogs, as well as screams from helpless pony captives.

"Monkey, I found e'm" Darkling said "and there's' a whole lot of the mutts"

Jackie closed his eyes and projected himself into the imp's vision. What looked like a makeshift camp put together quite recently, was sprawled haphazardly across a large field. As Darkling had said, there were over three hundred dogs gathered around, doing whatever their jobs were. What caught Jackie's eyes were the slave pens set up near where he was, and a certain large dog beating a pony mercilessly.

Slave master Rawhide was, if anything, very angry at his current predicament. After those bug things had attacked, he and the other dogs thought the ponies would be to tied up and busy to notice a raid. They only expected a few stubborn ponies and a small number of guards However, what they didn't expect was a huge creature tear through 30 dogs like they were soggy paper, forcing them to withdraw.

He was currently guarding the slave pens, which to his delight held many captives. 'Maybe raid not such waste of time', Rawhide thought hopefully, making his rounds. His thoughts were interrupted by a gray pegasus pony and a smaller unicorn trying to escape after her bindings tying her wings had broken (he left a mental note to teach knot tying later) . He angrily stomped over and grabbed the now terrified ponies before throwing them on the ground. The other ponies looked on in fear, but dared not say a word.

He brought his trusty club to bear and started to work the disobedient slave over. She screamed and cried, and finally he thought she had had enough. However, she wasn't the only escapee and he turned towards the small filly. The one he was beating before screamed and cried (probably her mother) for him to stop, but he didn't care.Just as he was about to bring the club down, someone tapped him on the shoulder.

  As he was turning, preparing to yell at the dog for interrupting him, he came face to face with something else. The creature (who had a sadistic grin) was slightly taller than himself, only by a few inches, but this wasn't what surprised Rawhide. What did surprise him were the dozens of small dark imps and two demon snakes snarling at him.

His thoughts were interrupted when his decapitated head rolled from his shoulders, still bearing a surprised expression.

All the dogs turned and went wide eyed at what had just happened, the ponies no exception. He busted the locks off of the pens (the ponies running for their lives) then spoke towards the dogs in a sick tone,

"Goodbye"

Open in new tab to start the soundtrack to the massacre

The dogs charged forward, some nearly trampling the others. The two parties stared off, the dogs with an air of apprehension, Jackie with blood lust. Then it began.

Jackie immediately brought his guns to bear, firing quickly into the mob now charging at him. Large holes were blown into flesh,and limbs from now-exploded stumps went flying overhead, still raining blood from now severed arteries. Again and again he fired, but the shots barely affected some of the larger dogs in armor that were providing cover for the smaller ones. Jackie then cast a stinging swarm at the mob to distract them while he moved in closer. The flies killed some dogs like a swarm of locusts, getting into every cavity and turning insides to mush and leaving them empty sacks of skin.

Then his miniature 'army of darkness' led by Darkling charged forward with him. Slasher darklings cut and clawed at the horde with reckless and hilarious methods of killing. Mini-gunners mowed down several individual squads trying to go forward, turning them into Swiss cheese. And finally, kamikaze darklings blew up random portions of the line, guts and gore flying everywhere. Jackie then joined the battle (slaughter) himself, working his trademark skills, aka murder and dismemberment. The two heads, eager for a fight, put up far more of a fight than last time, showing unimaginable brutality to their victims, the blood coating Jackie's form like red paint.

Suddenly, a hundred more dogs burst from the ground, all in heavy (yet crude) armor of some type. They were still of no aid to the rest, as a carefully placed black hole took out half their numbers in a dark flash of shattered remains. Jackie, however was getting quite bored and was annoyed that every so often, a few more dogs would pop up.... he needed to finish this shit.

"Hey, do you have anything that can take out these assholes quickly?" Jackie asked the Darkness. "YES, I CAN SEND YOU INTO SOMETHING I CREATED CALLED 'BERSERK MODE' I'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO TRY" he said, "YOU WILL BECOME DEATH INCARNATE!" the Darkness exclaimed (while they are talking, they are still horribly murdering dogs by the dozen).

Jackie thought, (quickened by 200 more dogs arriving) agreed and holstered his weapons. At first, he didn't feel any different then he normally did. Then suddenly, he felt a burning sensation that quickly overtook him like a raging inferno. His body was completely covered with dark armor and highlighted with glowing red. All he saw was death, all he was is death, all he wants to do is bring,

"DEATH!", the voice that Jackie uttered sounded like a thousand angry war gods crying for blood and murder, and he delivered to the best of his abilities.

He charged forward and slammed into the dogs, killing some from the sheer force of impact. He ripped and tore with clawed talons, all the while screaming like a crazed lunatic. The very ground turned bright red upon the slaughter. Untold pain and destruction filled the air (not to mention screams), and the powers of the Darkness were unleashed in full. Finally, every single dog was nothing more than pasty giblets strewn around a lake of blood and bone. The rage slowly subsided and the darklings and the Darkness dissipated into the ether.

" NOW THAT WAS A GOOD MEAL" The Darkness chuckled