My Seven Little Sins

MLP: My Seven Little Sins
Chapter 1: Army of SIN

The sound of construction and panic fill the air as up and down the wall surrounding Canterlot, several folk do everything in their power to finish the great wall in an effort to offer their homes a little protection. Many of those working on the wall were refugees from Ponyville, which had been lost to the army of SIN; a being of pure evil that was foretold to of awakened and had come for their lives. All those in his path were struck down, and transformed into shikibane, beings who died in vain and misery and were transformed into creatures of evil and malice. SIN seemed to be after one thing alone, the destruction of all life as he marched to assault princess Celestia and Luna. Where he came from and his motives were a mystery, but everypony had escaped Ponyville in time to avoid joining his armies ranks, but Canterlot could only remain their sanctuary for so long before SIN came, because it was there that his true target lied.

Apple Bloom wipes her brow, working up a sweat as she's doing the most work on the wall. She wears a yellow T-shirt under her blue overalls, the picture of red toolbox with an apple shaped lock on the front, this being her cutie mark. She plucks a nail from her mouth, and begins hammering it into a pillar on the wall. Sweetie Belle comes running as fast as she can with a look of terror on her face, just in time for the cities alarms to go off. She skids to a stop, hands on her knees panting, and she brushes the dirt off her white T-shirt with purple sleeves and the picture of a winged bell with musical notes around it, this being her own cutie mark. Apple Bloom lets the nails fall from her mouth as her eyes go wide. "Don't tell me he's already here!"

Sweetie Belle nods and says, "He is! SIN and his entire shikibane army are here! The Heroes of Harmony need time to get here. They need the Cutie Crusaders to hold off the army!"

Apple Bloom scowls and waggles her hammer at her friend. "Now I know your lying! Our big sisters would tan our hides if we tried to take on that army by ourselves! Cutie Crusaders or not, my work is here making sure this wall is strong enough to keep those creatures out!"

Sweetie Belle bites her lower lip and flails her arms a bit. "There's no time for that now! The shikibane are almost here, and you won't finish the wall in time! We can buy everypony more time if we go out there and slow them down! We've been waiting for this moment, preparing, and now it's our time to shine! But we can't do it unless all three of us work together! Please Apple Bloom, we need you!" Sweetie Belle falls to her knees, her hands together pleadingly, puppy eyes at the ready.

Apple Bloom cringes under the gaze and groans, tempted to smack herself in the head with her hammer. She drops her hammer behind her, kicking it away with one of her hooves. "Okay fine, I'll help, but I need to change first!"

Sweetie Belle smiles widely and takes her friends hand, dragging her off at top speed. "Your karate outfit is by the car! Scootaloo is waiting for us! Come on, hurry!"

She rushes her friend into a nearby building with a set of huge barn like doors. Hidden inside is an oversized race car covered in turrets and cannons, three separate glass domes for three people to sit in a V-shape on the vehicle. Scootaloo is applying some finishing touches with a welder when she notices her friends walk in, turning her tool off and throwing her apron and mask to the side. She stands before them with an orange hoodie with a pair of checkered race flags crossed in an X shape on the front. Under her skirt, which is a familiar shade of purple to her hair, is a pair of black shorts, and on her feet are some steel toed boots she'd been borrowing from the maintenance area she was working. Scootaloo strokes a hand across the vehicle and says, "Impressive isn't it? I've combined explosive powders and modern machinery, attaching them to this car I made for a vehicular assault weapon for the army of SIN. By the sounds of the alarms, I'd say maintenance is over, and it's time to take this baby for a spin." She walks over to a table covered in tools where Apple Bloom's karate kimono lies, tossing it to her friend. "Get dressed kung-fu country girl. The Cutie Crusaders are heading to battle!"

Apple Bloom unbuttons her overalls and lets them drop, slipping into the karate uniform. Scootaloo crawls on top of the car and open the driver hatch, jumping in and activating the opening of the other two glass domes. Sweetie Belle hops in the right side and Apple Bloom in the left, each of their seats having their cutie marks on them. Scootaloo turns on a DJ PON 3 CD and starts up the car. Apple Bloom blinks and says, "Wait, don't we need to open the-". Scootaloo accelerates and bursts through the wooden doors to the garage, shattering them with the mass of her car. "Doors… Um, never mind. At least we got some epic music to go into battle with." They drove through the streets, which were mostly cleared, due to everypony hiding for their lives. As they approached the wall's gate, Apple Bloom interjects again, "Wait, we can't crash through that! We'd give the shikibane a big welcome mat!"

"Who said we're going through it?!" Scootaloo responds with a smirk, pulling a pair of levers down synchronized. A pair of jets on the bottom of the car propel it into the air, slowly, but gaining enough altitude just in time to make it over the wall before they came slamming back down into the ground. The car bounces a few times making the hydraulics sound off loudly, and Scootaloo gives a cheer. "That was awesome! Activate targeting parameters Sweetie Belle!"

Sweetie Belle nods and says, "Activating the target para-thingy ma-whatzits!" Sweetie Belle blinks and brings up a targeting screen, yelping as several targets appear across the visible spectrum. An army of mutilated and demonically morphed pony folk rushed, flew, and swarmed their way in a huge angry mass, hissing and howling as they approached the city. "Holy smokes! There's too many to count Scootaloo! What do we do?!"

Scootaloo scowls and says, "I'm driving! Activate the heavy artillery! Fire!"

Sweetie Belle blinks and looks over the buttons, pressing any of the one's that have pictures of weapons. The car unleashes a payload of missiles and turret fire into the creatures, destroying several of them and leaving others with obvious scars and chunks missing. "Wow, how often can I do that?!"

Scootaloo shakes her head and says, "Not too often. I didn't make a lot of ammo for these things! We just need to stall these things till back up can arrive. Shoot, we're too close! Hang on girls; I'm making an emergency one-eighty!" She twists the steering wheel, drifting the car to steer clear of the oncoming wall of undead demon folk, but not in time as several slam into the side of the car, one of which clings to it and comes along for a ride. Its hair is a mangled set of green and its eyes gone from its head. The creature's jaw unhinged as it howled at them, stabbing a pair of mantis like claws into the hood. "Shoot! I can't shake that thing! Apple Bloom it's your turn, see if you can shake this thing! Your blades are behind your seat!"

Apple Bloom blinks, feeling around behind her chair and taking out a pair of large scimitars with little silk apples hanging from tassels coming out of the bottom of the hilt. She smirks and says, "This is more like it!" She stomps on the open hatch button and walks out on the hood, the wind flying at her as the car continued to propel forward. She twirls the blades in her hands, stepping carefully to keep her balance and taking a stance to continue this while she fought the creature. It glares and roars at her, leaving her with a smile and a furrowed brow. "Two words shikibane: Breath mints!" It reaches a bladed arm out of the car's hood and slices at her, but she blocks it with one blade and cuts off the arm with the other. She then swing a blade upward down the middle of the beast, cleanly slicing it in half from the neck up. "Well that was e-wait! What in the hay is going on here? " The creature sprouts teeth along the cuts and both halves try to clamp down on her from both sides. She holds up her swords and its teeth clang and scrape against the metal. "What are these things made of?" she asked worriedly, doing the splits to get under its attack. Then she sliced its head off with her scimitars like a pair of scissors, and the body fell limp off the car. "That's what it takes to kill just one of these things huh?"

Scootaloo nods at her work and says over the speaker, "Right then, let's turn around and resume fire!" Apple Bloom went pale and stabbed her blades into the hood. "Hey! Watch the car!"

Apple Bloom bangs on the glass dome and says, "Are you completely bonkers? Just one of those things nearly got me killed! We need to turn around right now!"

Scootaloo blows a raspberry at her and hits the accelerator. "Oh come on Apple Bloom, what's the worst that can possibly-"

Both Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom cry no at the top of their lungs, but as soon as they do, a large round metallic figure flies out of the sky and crashes down on the hood of the car. It begins to open, and as it does it tears what's left of the car to shreds in one blow. The Cutie Crusaders fly forward screaming, and Scootaloo tries to keep her friends off the ground, but they all came tumbling down and roll on the ground. When their worlds' stop spinning, they realize the crash landing from the peculiar device left a narrow crater over much of the landscape, dust kicked up like a fog surrounding it. Apple Bloom coughs and growls at Scootaloo. "What's the worst that can happen, right? Well, that can happen!" She points to the figure in the dust cloud as loud metallic footsteps fill the air.

The object has taken a humanoid form, covered in a hazel shade of armor, its arms covered in a pair of tower shields larger than its own body. The being walked over and said in a voice that echoed through the armor, "This is who pilots the impressive device sent to destroy my army? Are they so desperate that they send children to battle SIN itself?" As it gets closer it looms over where they lay on their hand and knees, staring up at the being who had just claimed the same of the evil leader of the army they had just fired upon. "If it is death you young girls seek so quickly, I will be happy to oblige." The right shield collapses in on itself, and gears can be heard grinding as it morphs into an oversized gauntlet for the SIN's arm. It cocks back taking aim at them. "Join your loved ones in the sorrow of my shikibane."

As he pumped his fist forward to strike them, a clear blue barrier blocked his fists path, which sparkled like the night sky. "This barrier... I recognize it. So... you are here?"

"Yes." A purple cloak covered in blue and yellow stars fluttered out of thin air to reveal a familiar hazel maned unicorn girl with blue bell bottom jeans and a lighter shade of blue for her shirt, her cutie mark of a wand with pixie dust trailing from it visible as the symbol on the front of her shirt. She flips her wavy mane to the side and tosses off her magicians cap, her hooves planted firmly in the dirt as a staff appeared in her hand, the large tip resembling a bladed version of her cutie mark. "The great and powerful Trixie has arrived to stop you!" she cried triumphantly.

Apple Bloom blinks and says, "Trixie? What in tarnation are you doing here! We haven't seen hide nor hair of you for five years! What brings you back now all of a sudden?"

"Worry more about yourself young filly. The fact is I'm here and you're safe now." She twirls her staff and arms it at the armored figure, just as several elemental streams seemed to flow from the city walls. "Well, it seems that the Wonderbolts have arrived to hold off your army, and it's only a matter of time before the Heroes of Harmony arrive to further assist them! So what will you do now that you are outmatched SIN?"

The armored figure's fist transforms back into a shield as their voice echoes yet again. "Who says that I am outmatched? This is only stage one of my five part assault. I have struck fear and I will whittle them down to size. It may not look like it, but everything is going according to my plans. Do you truly think your arrival here can stop anything at this point oh great and powerful one? You're too late. The pawns are in motion, and soon this world will be an undead wasteland ruled by me, SIN! And there's nothing you can do to stop me!" The armored figure rears their head back and cackles demonically.

"We'll just see about that!" She lunges at SIN, striking at them with her staff, but SIN blocks it with one of his shields while the other one transforms into a gauntlet. SIN swing at Trixie, but she quickly meets the fist with her staff and pole vaults over it, her cape flowing dramatically behind her. SIN attempts to backhand her, just missing her as she falls under the swift arm. She rolls on the floor and twists around, charging SIN, but the armored demon spin around and catches her off guard with its shield from the side. She lands on her feet and skids back a little, growling annoyed now. "I can't even seem to get close!" She gasps and erects a barrier to block as SIN's other shield becomes a gauntlet, and it punches both forward at the same time. They shatter through the barrier, and SIN slaps his palms on either side of her, pinning her in place, panicking and struggling to get free as SIN lifts her up off the ground. "Unhand me vile demon!"

"As you wish, oh great one." Sin turns around and slams her into the ground. She hits it hard enough to bounce off the solid dirt, a gasp of pain escaping her lips as her staff slides from her hands. His gauntlet comes forth again and lands a direct hit into her in mid air, sending her flying back and dragging across the smooth surface of the dirt, rolling to a stop unconscious as blood trailed from her mouth on the floor. The Cutie Crusaders dashed past SIN and to Trixie's sides. "This one is weak, and stands no chance in stopping my plans, even with knowledge of them."

Apple Bloom tears up and says, "Trixie didn't deserve that, you monster!" Then she realized the wreckage of Scootaloo's race car lied in the crater around them. She scans the area for her blades, and notices them protruding from a chunk of the car's hood. She rushes over and grabs them, striking her battle stance. "I'm going to make you pay for all of this!"

Magic and cyclones erupted in the distance surrounding them as the Wonderbolts fought the army of shikibane. Scootaloo sees her friend ready to face off against SIN alone and takes a look around by herself, noticing one of the turrets from her car. She rushes to it, and begins to fidget with the wiring. SIN slowly rears back into its own ready stance and says, "Do you truly think you can take on the embodiment of all forms of evil? Throw your life away if you will little girl, but your death will only fuel my army further. Would you let your death be in vain due to your inability to control your wrath?"

"You're wrong!" SIN lowers their gauntlets slightly and stares at her for a moment tilting its head. "I'm not doing this out of vengeance or anger. I'm doing this to protect everypony that I care about! None of the people in Equestria ever did anything to deserve what you've done, and if I need to stop you myself I will!" She runs directly towards SIN who retakes its stance, punching at her. Their fist enters the earth, but Apple bloom leaps over it landing on their wrist. She takes a swing at the armored entity, but they duck under the swing, using their other gauntlet to punch her off. She hits the floor rolling and drops one of her swords, holding her arm. "I can't get close enough on my own!"

Scootaloo wipes her brow having finally finished working on the turret. She picks it up, holding it like a makeshift mini-gun. "Sweetie Belle, you take care of Trixie! I'm going to back up Apple Bloom!"

Sweetie Belle whines and says, "How am I supposed to defend her if something happens?"

Scootaloo looks around quickly and says, "There's a missile launcher right over there! I'm sure it has at least one missile left in it. Just defend yourself with that!" Scootaloo flaps her wings as hard as she can to lift the gun with her body, and flies to one side of SIN. "Hey SIN! Look over here!" She holds down the trigger, and the gun fires off rapidly at SIN. The demon growls loud and angrily, morphing a gauntlet back into a shield, but not before their armor takes several hits. SIN aims his shield toward her to block her gunfire. "Quick Apple Bloom now's your chance!"

Apple Bloom winds up her arm to get her feeling back in it, and she quickly rushes SIN from the other side. SIN is shocked, but erects their opposing shield to block her swipes with the blade. Sweetie Belle watches her friends making this effort, but then notices that SIN has left themselves open to and attack down the middle. She notices the missile launcher Scootaloo mentioned and picks it up, aiming as best she can with it and firing at SIN. Before SIN can react, the missile hits them directly in the chest, and the explosion is powerful enough to send them flying backwards. Sweetie Belle cheers, "Direct hit!" SIN's shields come in to form a ball around them, rolling back like a marble. Scootaloo and Apple Bloom stare in shock and disbelief. Sweetie Belle runs up and says, "Did you see that guys, I got him completely off guard!"

Scootaloo blinks and finally manages to say, "I got to say, Sweetie Belle that was pretty clever."

Apple Bloom smiles and says, "There's nothing the three of us can't do when we work together guys!" She puts her hand in, and the others quickly put theirs on top of hers before they all cheer, "Go Cutie Crusaders!"

Then they can hear Trixie's laughter, and look back at her in shock. Sweetie Belle says, "Wait a minute, I thought Trixie was unconscious."

Scootaloo squints her eyes looking over to her. "She is. She's completely knocked out."

Apple Bloom joins their confused blinking and says, "But wait, if Trixie is unconscious, then why can we hear her laughing." She listens for where the laughter is coming from and slowly looks back towards the giant metal ball that is SIN. It unfurls to reveal SIN's damaged armor, their helmet falling off to reveal their identity. "No way, but how can that be?!"

SIN smirks, looking exactly like Trixie. She laughs with sharpened teeth, and eyes a dim shade of lifeless grey. She laughs a little longer before she says, "Surprised, Cutie Crusaders? This is the true form of SIN! This is the mistake that she has made, the mistake that will end your world! Your explosive projectile caught me off guard, but it doesn't look like you have any more left. Now that you know who I am, I think it's time to kill you three." She aims her shields at an angle towards the sky, and piece by piece they launch up into the air. The girls back up, looking to the sky. They scream and begin to run as a swarm of large arrows come falling down at them, dodging between them, Scootaloo using her gun as an umbrella, and Apple Bloom using her blades to deflect a few close calls. They make it to Trixie's body, panting as they gather around it, shocked and exhausted. "You can run little filly brigade, but you can only run so far." All the arrows come to her, disintegrating and forming back into her shields. She slams them together, letting them form into a cannon as she continues to laugh. "Now it's time for you three, and that useless vassal, to all die!"

The cannon charges up and wastes no time in firing. SIN's face becomes one of shock and anger as Spitfire flies into the way, using a barrier made of flames. "The Wonderbolts are the only Pegasus who can use magic! The Wonderbolts can and will protect this city from the likes of you SIN! Girls, are you okay? How's that girl?"

Apple Bloom was the first to snap out of the shock of what was happening and said, "We're fine for now mam, but Trixie over here has lost a lot of blood and probably broke a few bones! She needs medical attention immediately!"

"Then help has arrived!" The three girls turn around to see Rainbow Dash on her way, carrying Pinkie Pie who was holding a machete. "Hope I'm not too late!" SIN runs out of charge and Spitfire falls to one knee panting. Rainbow Dash throws her friend forward and skids to a halt, letting Pinkie's Blade met SIN's shield. Rainbow Dash runs to Spitfire and helps her up. "You okay?"

Spitfire nods and smiles. "I'm fine Rainbow Dash. Just help me get these children and the civilian back to safety."

Rainbow Dash notices who the stranger is and growls under her breath, picking up Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle in each arm and flying off with them. Spitfire picks up Trixie and flies her back to town, Scootaloo quickly flying alongside the two other Pegasus. Pinkie back flips off SIN's shield, aiming her machete with balloon patterns along the blade at her opponent. "So you're the infamous SIN making life one big sad party?" She hops around excitedly, her hooves dancing in the dirt. She wore blue shorts and a yellow shirt with a pink trim and her balloon shaped cutie mark down at the base of her shirt where it would be on her skin at her hip. Her hair is fluffy as ever, and the eye patch she's wearing over her left eye is yellow and says "PARTY!" in pink and blue lettering. She giggles bouncing up and down, twirling the blade around her wrist as if it were a hula hoop. "Life is supposed to be fun and entertaining, not filled with pain and despair! I learned that-"

"After you lost your eye resurrecting your friend Rainbow Dash three years ago?" SIN smirks, her fangs obviously sharper than a regular pony's.

Pinkie stops bouncing and freezes, going pale as she stares at SIN. "How do you know about that?"

SIN cackles and says, "Oh come now Pinkie, who do you think orchestrated the entire thing? After all, I'm the leader of the Seven Deadly Sins."

Pinkie blinks, thinking back to her past and remembering that name. "You mean the evil side to my personality. The one I have sealed away in my subconscious. Before we locked her away I remember her mentioning something like that, and it's been eating at me for years. Explain this SIN. I can see this was no coincidence now."

"Indeed it wasn't Pinkie Pie. You and your friends may hold the elements of harmony and friendship, but they also carry the exact opposite of the spectrum. The elements of sin lie deep in their souls, but your sin is a powerful one and was able to make her way to the surface due to its sheer force of will." SIN began walking a circle around Pinkie Pie who stood there staring into space.

Pinkie stared at her blade and simply muttered the word, "Wrath."

SIN nods and says, "That's right Pinkie Poo, the element of wrath lives within you just as the other six members live within your friends. And that's where stage two of my plan comes in. I need my generals back now." SIN aims her hand at Pinkie, and a pair of ghostly tendrils emerges from her palm, zipping into Pinkie's chest. She screams in pain as she feels herself being torn apart inside, until a second her flies out of her front. She falls to her knees and stares up in disbelief. "No, it can't be! You're supposed to be gone for good!"

Weakly fumbling to her feet is a naked Pinkie Pie, her hair straightened and long, hanging over one of her blood red cat like eyes and dangling around her neck. Her cutie mark isn't that of balloons, now visible to be a set of blue and yellow spiked balls and chains. She stares at her hands in disbelief, her eyes quivering and her grin widening. "I'm alive? I'm alive!" She cackles like a mad devil to the sky, and her head tilts sideways as she glares at Pinkie Pie. "Did you miss me Pinkie? Because I sure as hell missed you, being locked inside your head for three years in all! And master SIN, it's been so very long now hasn't it?"

She tilts her head the opposite direction, a crack being heard in her neck as she stares at SIN. She cackles at the demonic girl's behavior and says, "Indeed it has. Pinkie Pie, why not say hello to your new twin sister, Pinkie Wrath?"

-End Chapter 1-
Continued in Chapter 2: Dub Step Wrath