Macharius

It had not been a good day for Trixie. Chased out of Fillydelphia for no reason whatsoever into the stinking marsh and forced to leave her wagon behind. How could the Great and Powerful Trixie be a great wizard when she had no place to call home? She continued walking along the causeway, silently moaning about her losses.

She hated this place. The mosquitos, the humidity, the simple depressive mess of the whole marsh. There was nothing for her this side of the causeway. Maybe she would have better luck in Dracostan. Or, at least, she hoped she would.

Few walked this road anymore. After the opening of the Equis Pass, none saw the need to travel for days through the bogs and marshes when they could just take the pass and shorten the journey by days.

It had not earned the nickname of 'The Lonesome Road' for nothing.

That was why Trixie almost leaped straight off the causeway when the pale yellow-green alicorn strode out of the fog.

"Trixie Lunamoon?" the alicorn asked.

Trixie could only nod her head in bewilderment while wondering why an alicorn was walking the Lonesome Road.

"I have come to make you an offer on behalf of my... Commander."

Voss couldn't really call Tzeentch his boss or leader, so he settled on commander.

"Trixie is intrigued by this offer. What is it?" Trixie wondered what could command a alicorn. Most were royalty, after all.

"The usual. Revenge on a certain Twilight Sparkle," Trixie hissed at the name. She simply couldn't accept that Twilight was better than her. "in exchange for your... Services in our cause."

"And why should Trixie listen to your offer? Trixie has tried to get revenge many times against the hated Twilight Sparkle, and as much as Trixie is loath to admit it, Twilight is more powerful than Trixie."

"Because my leader can teach you proper magic. Not any of this fancy unicorn manipulation of things, but magic in its pure, unrefined, raw power. Sorcery."

"Can you prove this sorcery to Trixie?"

"No..." Voss admitted reluctantly. "Just follow me and I will show you somepony who can."

"The Great and Powerful Trixie accepts your most generous offer."

"Follow me." Voss led Trixie off the causeway into the marsh.

"Trixie wishes to know who you are"

"I am Voss. You may have heard of the carnage wrecked in Ponyville and Canterlot. That was me and my crew."

Trixie smiled. So this alicorn had already damaged Ponyville? Good. "Trixie thinks you and her will get along fine."

The mouldy-looking alicorn continued leading Trixie through the bog until they found themselves standing on a rock platform dominated by a massive statue of a three-horned unicorn.

"And now we wait."

"For what?"

"For Tzeentch to open the portal."

Byrzan was enjoying being able to fly. Seeing the world from how the flyboys saw it. He could understand their rivalry now. Ground-pounders looked so insignificant from up here.

He smiled as he noticed the first of the green blobs finish eating their ways through the apples.

And, sure enough, there was the rainbow Pegasus that they had chained to their tank. She began to talk to the orange pony before she flew straight in his direction.

"Well, welcome to Round two of the torture races..." He flew off in the direction of the forest, the rainbow Pegasus following close behind.

Rainbow Dash had to admit, the black Pegasus was good. Not as good as herself, of course, but still good.

Currently they were flying through a mass of clouds, the black Pegasus taking ever more risky moves to try to lose her. She dodged left after he kicked a cloud at her face before he suddenly dived out of the pile of clouds straight towards Ponyville.

Byrzan was panicking. "Schult, any Thunderbolts? Manticores? Hydras? Mauruders? Hell flying things? Any help?" he yelled into the micro-bead.

"Just get back here you fool! The Thousand Sons will deal with her." Liutz replied over the vox.

"Since when did we have Thousand Sons?"

"Since now."

"Fine"

Byrzan turned from his orginal destination towards the castle.

The black Pegasus suddenly changed course towards the Everfree. Rainbow Dash, caught unawares, went speeding past before correcting herself.

She continued to persue the other pegasus, eventually gaining all the ground she had lost before she caught sight of a castle.

At appeared to be in the same place as the castle that they had defeated Nightmare Moon in, yet it was fully rebuilt. She only wondered for a few seconds though, because a flaming bullet sliced through her wing. She screamed as she began to try to glide down. Byrzan turned and grabbed her between his legs. Can't let the captive die, can I? He thought to himself as he flew into their fortress.