War does not decide who is right, only who is left.

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It had been two days since the real war had begun, and now your entire army was here. All of the demons, the atronachs, the klaws, the drones, and the carriers, but something was different now. The demons would not be foot soldiers this time, they would be in siege tanks, and fighter jets, because the mech is finished.

"Good luck brother!" War yells down to you as he climbs into the tungsten and lead monstrosity.

The one thousand sixty foot tall piece of machinery had enough fire power to crack the flimsy shield around that accursed place for sure. War opened the deployment bays, and demons swarmed into the mech, some running to the feet to man a tank, others climbing up its back to pilot a jet. The rest of the army took formation, and War decided he would give a speech.

"Listen to me soldiers!"

The army fell silent.

"These worthless pieces of filth that call themselves angels are just as mortal as you are! You may have thought they were strong before, but that is only because we were caught off guard!"

The soldiers roared in approval.

"The last of these ponies protect themselves with a shield like cowards, and they think we can't shatter it with our might!"

Atronachs started stomping.

"We will destroy every last one of them, and claim this place for ourselves!"

Klaws struck their claws together.

"I have heard that the archangels are there, and yet for them being so powerful, so righteous, and so arrogant, they hide behind the same shield! What do you think of them now!"

Carriers started shaking the earth with massive foot-falls.

"These blazing angels shall die in their own fire, and we will go up in glory!"

War angled one of the arms on the mech.

"So what will we do to them? Let's find out! Now soldiers, forward march!"

War shot off one of the howitzers and the army charged forward.

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"So you are the Elements of Harmony? You are nothing compared to what we created aeons ago." Michael insulted them.

"I am offended!" Rarity gasped.

"You have no right to be!" Michael yelled.

"Please, don't get mad mister i'm sure she didn't mean it." Fluttershy whispered.

"Speak up you pathetic little whelp! I can't hear you!" Michael bellowed.

"Calm down brother, she is scared of you." Gabriel said.

"Fine. I assume you all know what to do."

"Yes, sir." Twilight said.

"Then let's get started."

As they walked out of the building, they found Celestia walking back in. No one asked her any questions though, they all knew why. They started to climb the staircase to the roof of the tower but then they heard a whistling noise.

"Brace yourselves." Was all Michael said.

The explosive artillery round slammed into the shield with an ear shattering bang. It caused a small crack in the shield, which was quickly repaired.

"What was that?" Pinkie asked, flustered.

"The start of a siege. Everyone head to your homes, it will be okay!" Michael yelled.

All of the ponies scattered, and they could feel the ground shaking. Off in the horizon was the shadow of the largest army Equestria had ever seen.

"We must start preparing. Now!"

With that the Elements ran with the archangels to prepare a spell that would hopefully save them all.

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You were flying above your army with Luna, when Celestia teleported behind you.

"Hello Celestia."

Luna flips around in mid air to give her sister an evil glare.

"How did you know I was here?" Celestia asked confused.

"Because your aren't stealthy at all. I take it the angels rejected you."

"Yes, they said I was weak."

"You are weak, I don't know why I called you sister!" Luna yells.

"Why? Why do you hate me now?" Celestia said, tears in her eyes.

"Luna, calm down. Celestia, she has severed her connection with you, and has devoted herself to me."

"What have you done to her? Why did you do it to her?" She asked, grief stricken

"Like I said a few days ago, she chose me."

"I don't believe you, give her back!" The white alicorn yelled angrily.

"I cannot, your nightmare is real. Also, if you keep arguing with me you won't get to discuss letting you live over dinner."

"How did you know that's what I wanted?"

"My own reasons. Now run ahead and set up a meal for about eight, I'll be with you as soon as I start the siege."

Celestia, not wanting to risk her chances at surviving the war, did as you said. When you got close enough you had war release the tanks. Thirty tanks came out of each foot and formed a semi-circle around the shield, dug into the ground, and tripled the amount of barrels it could fire out of from three to nine. All of the tanks fired at once causing cracks in the shield that were not easily repaired, even by the twenty powerful ponies maintaining the spell. Then War started firing his howitzers and a few of the nuclear grenades, which caused massive cracks that were almost impossible to fix, The shield would be down in a matter of hours. You walk to the little tent that Celestia had set up for dinner, and were followed by Conquest, and six demons. As you entered the room Conquest and the demons sat on the sides of the table, and you sat at the head of it. Waiting for Celestia, and food, the demons started pounding their silver knives into the table.

"Don't do that, you'll blunt them!" Celestia complains as she walks in the room with lots of greens, and for the demons, chicken.

"Did you hear that lads, she says we'll blunt the knives." The largest demon said sarcastically.

The rest of the started pounding the silverware into the table rhythmically. You saw where this was going and you made a fiddle, which you then handed to Conquest, who also knew where this was going and proceeded to play some light hearted music.

"Blunt the knives and bend the forks." One demon sang out.

"Smash the bottles and burn the corks." Another continued.

"Chip the glasses and crack the plates!' One more demon sang.

"Cause thats what our dear princess hates!" They all yelled in unison.

The music picked up and they all started singing in unison.

"Cut the cloth and tread the fat! Leave the bones on her bedroom mat!"

"Enough all of you! Clean up your mess and apologize, we are guests here and we will not act in such a foolish manner!" You yell.

As soon as they all leave the room you laugh.

"Aren't they the funniest things sometimes" You say, half to Celestia and half to yourself, "Now If you want to be spared from this war I can do that for you. If I lose I would much rather you be in charge than Michael."

"That is exactly what I want."

"Then walk out the back door tonight, you will walk into an untouched section of the void, and will be protected from everything. You will be released into the real world when I have either been defeated, or have won the battle. Sorry about the demons by the way, they are always that chaotic, incase you were wondering." You say as you walk out the front door.

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It was really hard to prepare a spell when you were distracted by a fracturing shield, massive explosions, and getting yelled at by an archangel for being distracted by those things. The nine pointed star was finally finished though, and you took your places just as the shield shattered. Shells and bombs poured into the city, and killed many of the inhabitants.

"It's no or never Elements, wipe him out." Raphael roared above the panic.

It was the first time that he had spoken and he seemed to be the mediator between his gentle brother, and aggressive brother.

"Is everyone ready." Raphael called out.

Eight yeses were heard.

"Then channel your magic."

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The shield had broken an hour ago, and the armies would have been evenly matched, if not for War sitting in his mech, and destroying everything with small nuclear weapons. You saw light rising slowly from the tallest tower and decide to take a look. You fly overhead and see that the strongest destruction spell ever made was almost complete. You start to fly down and stop it when a giant wave of light rips through the air, devouring you mighty cloud of shadow, burning your army to a crisp, and knocking you into the ground of the field in front of the city. You get up and see that your army is gone. You see that Conquest was burned just like everyone else, and War is sitting, ripped up and bleeding everywhere, in the failing mech suit as tanks blew up around him, and planes fell from the sky.

"Goodbye brother!" War yells.

You watch as your brother hits the self-destruct button. The suit fires all of the remaining weapons into the army in front of it, and sends the nuclear generator powering it into meltdown. It only takes a few seconds and the entire royal guard is gone.

"You will not defeat me!" You yell in a voice filled with malice.

Shadows explode from your body and separate into the shapes of various creatures. You open a fissure in the ground, and shadow surges forth, covering every square inch of the valley in it. The shadow starts to take shape and then fade as the skeletons appear. The skeletons of your army, skeletons of innocents, skeletons of natural war machines, skeletons of great generals, skeletons of master mages, skeletons of trained swordsmen, and the skeletons of your brothers. The manifest of all the souls you have ever kept were in this army, and you planned to squash these insignificant bugs with it.

"Go forth souls, and do my bidding!"

The skeletal army charged forward into the assembled armies of gods and warriors, and killed them all. In a few minutes, only the archangels and the Elements remained. Seeing your opportunity, you run into the fray and pull a sword from a skeleton. You hold it to your side in a close enough time that the pink element didn't see it coming. The armor she was wearing protected her though.

"Clever Celestia, as always using the most powerful armor. Run from this element of laughter, I will laugh at your funeral!"

You commanded the shadows and grabbed her by the hind legs. Your scythe appears in your hands but the pink pony doesn't say anything. She expected the armor to stop the blade, it didn't. Pinkie Pie was cut clean in half, and her legs cut away from the halves. You threw the quartered pony into the air, high enough that her friends could see the body, and blood rained from the sky turning everything red. The orange earth pony was the first to take action. She charged forward raising the earth around her in spikes, and impaled you on one.

"I do not die, silly pony. I kill!"

You get off of the spike of rock and grab her by the tail. Using your scythe, you cut it off. You cut off her mane too, and grab her around the chest with shadow.

"Be honest with me, are you scared?"

"No!"

A shadow reaches across the battlefield and into the castle. It brings back Big Macintosh, morphs into a blade that cuts his stomach open, and spills his innards into the dirt for his sister to see.

"Applejack. Help." He says weakly.

"Are you scared now?"

"You monster!" She said, sobbing.

"You are a horrible liar."

The shadows squeeze the farm pony so hard that the armor shatters and is driven into her. She falls to the ground and bleeds to death as a living pin cushion, filled with crystal needles. The war raging around you helps you transport yourself. You jump on to the skeleton of a carrier, and leap on to a skeletal dragon. You see a rainbow go past the dragon, circle around, and land on a wing.

"Loyal to our friends are we?" You say, turning to stare Rainbow Dash in the face.

"You should be kinder to others." A voice squeaked behind you.

"I gave you a pet, did I not?"

As you turn to face Fluttershy, Rainbow pounces on you, and lifts you into the air.

"Two can play that game." You growl.

You unfurl your massive twenty foot wingspan and knock the cyan pegasus out of the air. You notice Fluttershy try to attack you as your back was turned, and you swing your scythe into her bottom jaw as you spin around. The scythe went through her helmet, jaw, throat, brain, skull, and stuck out the top of her head, stained crimson. You hurl the body to the ground, and turn to receive a hoof in you face.

"I will not let you hurt anymore of my friends!" The element of loyalty yells.

"I haven't been hurting your friends. I've been killing them, have fun in my army!"

You spit a shadow into her helmet and watch as her armor turns black. Rainbow is completely blind and you find it funny when she flies straight into the mouth of the skeletal dragon. It was then that you felt something dragging at your cloak, and when you look you see a blue aura around it. You fly down to the Element of generosity and raise your scythe.

"Looking for a new style are we? A shame that such a beautiful pony has to resort to theft." You mock.

Rarity gasps at the insult, but before she can rant her head is severed, her horn is cut off, and, wielding it like a dagger, you shove it into her now exposed windpipe. Twilight saw this and sent a wall of flame towards you. You fly through it and emerge about five feet away from her.

"So the real magic is joining the party now, eh?"

"You killed my brother, enslaved Luna, caused Celestia to attempt suicide, and took away the lives of thousands! What gives you the right to do that?" Twilight yells.

"I do not know, why don't ask those precious archangels of yours, they charged me with this job. Have a nice life Twilight, and feel free to come and get me when I'm done." You growl through the shadows.

You open the void beneath her, and trap her in the same room as Celestia. You at least wanted the ruler to be sane if you lost. Walking up the short stairs that lead to the city square, you call out,

"Raphael, Gabriel, and Michael! Come and let me end you!"

All of them fly down to meet you, and pull out their weapons silently. You manufacture another scythe out of the shadows to wield in your other hand, and dodge the hammer as it comes down shaking the ground around it. You swing at both Gabriel and Raphael as they dart in to hit you and slice the tendons in their legs spraying blood on the brick, but in turn they disable you legs as well. You cry out as the blade that the brothers wield actually cut through your armor of shadow, and enter your skin. You spread your wing and hover a few feet off of the ground and continue to fight. Spinning both scythes and launching them into the shoulders of Michael, who takes the pain with no acknowledgment of it, and you fall to the ground with a thud as the swords from the angels beside you scramble the shadow being used to make your wings. All you can do is watch as Michael's hammer starts its descent.

Author's Note

All constructive criticism and compliments are accepted.