Uprising

"Who are you" Flaming replied. He turned around, and looked for the source of the voice. He clenched his hooves tightly.

"Coward, come out so we can fight, Stallion to Stallion!". Flaming said with a taunting tone in his voice.

"Now now, have some patience, why don't you? I'm sure you will have your chance to take a swing at me some day". the voice replied.

After pondering it, Flaming realized the voice belonged to Final Ascension. "How are you here!?" Flaming said. "I'm not, but the intercom and cameras in these tunnels still operate" Final replied. Flaming turned back to the panel, seeing that Final had locked him out of the controls.  "Damnit!" Flaming said, bashing the panel.

"What's the matter, getting agitated?" The voice replied.

"You won't get away with this!" Flaming said.

"I got away with disposing of your family, didn't I? Oh and don't think you can defeat me, you even get close to me and I'll light your collar up until you can't breathe. "

At that moment, all the pain, and memory rushed back to flaming. He remembered what had happened. The night Final took his lovely wife away from him. Suddenly anger burned inside of his mind. And he got a glistening look to him. He opened one of the side doors in the room and walked out.

When he did, he noticed he was in a forest, it appeared mostly desolate, except for one cabin. The cabin had a dim light coming out from it. Flaming walked up to the door and knocked, any inhabitants outside the cities were considered traitors and thus would most likely be willing to help Flaming's cause.

When the door opened, he saw an elderly Stallion, with a red skin. "Are you...Big Macintosh" said Flaming. "Eeeyup" replied the older voice. "Come on in" he said. At the invitation Flaming stepped inside. "I see you've got the collar still..." Big mac said. "That I do. Wait...what do you mean..still?" said Flaming as he stared at Big mac in confusion. "Wait here" Big mac said, and he walked off to a side room, when he came back, he had what looked like a staff with some kind of stone at the end, it shot out a bolt of light. And Flaming closed his eyes.

When Flaming opened his eyes again, he looked at his neck, the collar was gone. It was on the floor, to be precise. Big mac smiled at him, and nodded. Big mac, went off into the room again, and came back with what looked like an old Halberd, infact, the very same type the Royal Guard used to use. He handed it to flaming, and nodded to confirm what he was to do with it. Flaming headed off towards Canterlot Castle.

He galloped closer, and saw the crystals, they encased the city like a defensive wall, protecting against intrusion. He galloped even closer, and then saw retaliation. Flying variants of Securi-Droids came out, they were familiar to Halberd, they were called Archer-Bots. He looked at them, and when they got close, he gave it his all. His Halberd sliced through their mechanisms with ease. It's been a long time since he had last been in combat.

He trotted towards a watch tower, it was in disrepair, part of it's wall was caved in, he jumped in. Some Securi-droids on the street noticed him and headed towards the watch tower. He looked and saw a bow and some arrows on the ground in the tower. He picked it up and opened fire on the Securi-Droids, he aimed for their optical-sockets. Destroying their lense rended them blind and useless.

They fell, one by one, at the hands of Flaming. He hadn't felt this alive in a long time. He kept on firing, until they all lie on the ground, broken and destroyed. He headed onward, towards the castle. As he headed on the road, he enountered resistance but it was nothing he could not handle. He made it to the road to the castle, there was a roadblock clearly set up to impede his progress.

He found a garage, and opened it, inside was some oil, usually used for slicking spokes. He put it up to the barricade, and lit it. The fire burned down the barricade, and spread somewhat to the castle. This would make for an excellent distraction, Flaming thought to himself. He ran towards the castle gate, and pushed it open.

"You should not have come here" Final Ascension's voice echoed through the main hall. "You will only find death here, if that is what you seek, continue onward" he said to Flaming in a taunting manner. Flaming headed up the flight of stairs, and into a dining room. A noticable hole was in the wall, leading to what looked like a cargo-elevator. He stepped onto it and pressed the controls, the elevator descended below the castle.

When the elevator stopped, Flaming stepped off, and looked around. It appeared to be a lab. It had test tubes, and all kinds of machinery.  He looked around, and saw all of what appeared to be Final's work. He found a notebook titled "Immortality". He opened it. It read like this:

"I have finally done it. Those ponies said I was insane, that I was just a crazy old stallion who could never accomplish anything. Well they were wrong! I've done it, finally, I can become with my work, and live forever! Now to start I-"

The rest of the page is ripped out. However the context is distrubing enough that he didn't want to read the rest anyways. On a table, he saw some kind of electrical saw. He picked it up. He thought it might be useful. Flaming saw a large blastdoor with a control panel next to it. Flaming put his hoof on the control panel, and the door Opened.