Revelations

At last you know the secret weapon of the princesses. The Elements of Harmony are as old as you yourself, and more powerful than your all three of your brothers combined. But Nothing is as powerful as Death, and peace will no longer walk upon this world. The only problem is that the Elements are a legitimate threat to your plans, for if they are trained and used properly, and combined with the armies of the gods, it can take away your brothers, and your military, but not you. No, you out of all must live and to do this the princesses must be crippled at once.

"Bring the bombs!" You yell to a group of lazy demons.

You watch as again the message is relaid to the gates of the Underdeep. Moments later, more monstrosities crawl forth from the gates, each one being exactly the same. Massive pairs of legs attached to a hammock-like body, and all five of them carrying custom built AN602 hydrogen bombs, and although only one was ever built on earth, War had his atronachs reconstruct a few of them, and he saved them for rainy days. They truly were beautiful weapons, each detonation being the equivalent of a fourth of the eruption of Krakatoa. The beasts were mere carriers for these terrors of technology, and the bombs would be carried by drones to their destination.

"Fillydelphia, Hoofington, Cloudsdale, Baltimare, Trottingham!" You yell to the five drones that were sacrificing themselves to ensure your plan was complete.

"Are you sure this is wise brother?" It was Conquest this time. "Dropping these bombs will destroy everything within miles of the explosion."

"It is a display of power, and a strategical crippling of the princesses' empire. Fillydelphia and Baltimare are economic centers, Cloudsdale will throw the control of weather, Trottingham is a fashion capital, thus discouraging support from the rich, and Hoofington is on the opposite side of the everfree forest from Ponyville, just close enough for a warning shot at the Elements."

"As long as you know what you're doing brother."

"Relax Conquest, and I promise you can keep Luna when we're done."

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As it turns out, that warning shot was closer than Death thought. Twilight Sparkle and her friends had arrived in Ponyville yesterday, and already misfortune has struck. They were in the town square when the bomb detonated. They had all seen the drone fly overhead earlier and were wondering what it meant, now they found out.

"Y'all better get down!" Applejack yelled to her friends.

They saw it all go before they heard it. An unbelievably large cloud of ash flew up above the clouds, and they had to avert their eyes to avoid being blinded by the light. Then they saw what the shockwave was doing to the Everfree forest. Trees had been uprooted and were now flying through the sky like oversized spears, and the air was visibly pushed out of the way to make room for the earth-shattering noise of the explosion, but Twilight, smart as she is, put a magical bubble around her friends to protect them. And through all of this, the group of friends could only watch as the ponies around them were thrown into buildings, impaled by trees, and as all of those who were unfortunate enough not to collide with something had their lungs ripped from their body through their mouths as the shockwave threw them into the air. This kind devastation was something that not even Twilight had expected, and she still couldn't get over the way Discord was butchered. She also wasn't sure whether it was the creature that exploded, or the metal thing it was carrying. Although the only thing made of metal she had ever seen that was that large is a plow, so she was just going to assume it was the creature, but if Death had more of those they were doomed.

"Is everypony okay?" Twilight asked her friends

Everypony answered yes in turn, and said nothing else because there was nothing left to say.

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Celestia was in her private quarters when she felt the tremors. Multiple tremors spaced about ten minutes apart, some worse than others and she was wondering what had been done. There was no army at the wall and the nearest city was hundreds of miles away. She knew who was responsible, but she also knew Death didn't use natural disasters as weapons. It was then she saw the shadows seeping between her hooves.

"What have you done now?"

"Why so irritable? All I did was drop five of the largest bombs mankind had ever created." You growl innocently.

"Where did you drop them?" Celestia said rather calmly.

"Fillydelphia, Baltimare, Trottingham, Cloudsdale, and Hoofington."

"Hoofington is ten miles away from Ponyville!" She yelled worriedly

"Well i'm sure Twilight was smart enough to do something. Besides, the Everfree forest probably blocked most of it."

"Why!" Celestia yells as she sends a bolt of light towards you.

"Well, I guess since your supplying the light." You say as all the lamps go out, and the windows become black, visibly dimming the room.

More pulses of light fill the room, as Celestia fought against the monster that could have taken away her favorite student.

"Why do you fight me?" You say as you cut a new groove in her horn.

Celestia screams in pain, and you send shadows to grab her. The shadows wrap around her hind legs and shove her through the window.

"You will not win!"

"That seems to be an opinion at the moment." You say as you appear from the darkness of the room.

Celestia is dangling from her rear hooves, being held by pure shadow, above a several hundred foot drop out of the top of tallest tower in the castle.

"You're a monster!"

"That hurts me princess, I think I'll leave now." You say slowly dissapearing.

The shadow holding Celestia evaporates and the princess plummets. As she reaches about the halfway mark of the fall, the white alicorn finally regains her balance and spreads her wings. As she flies back to her room, she notices the massive clouds of ash slowly drifting towards Canterlot.

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Twilight and her friends had been scouting around for survivors, they had found the rest of the apple family and a few of the woodland creatures Fluttershy so adored. And as they walked away from the small town that had at one point been much more than dead bodies, broken trees, and flattened buildings, they swore they would destroy whoever was responsible.