What It's Like To Call This Place Home

Dimitri appeared in the throne room, only to see PK, RED, and Echo, evenly matched by a black version of themselves. And a young female half-dragon beating a scared King Sombre, to a pulp. "What in the name of Tartarus is going on here?" Dimitri's outburst got the attention of Emma, who warped to him, leaving King Sombre too beaten to stand.

"You seem familiar..." Emma said as she looked Dimitri up and down, then she took a pice of paper out, looking from it to Dimitri, her eyes went wide "D-dad?" She looked over to Fluttershy, who simply nodded. "DAD! You... Your back!" She caught him off guard, by attacking him with a hug.

Dimitri felt a couple wet spots on his shirt, looking he saw she was crying, not sobbing just a lot of tears. "What's the matter?" He asked in a gentle tone.

"We thought something happened to you five years ago, when you stopped answering our calls." She closed her eyes.

"Earth's governments gave me a warning that made me make a choice; if you leave that base for more than 5 minutes, we are going to turn it into a crater. The choice being; either I stay there, only being to talk to a couple of you, or not converse with any of you long enough to complete the portal and live the rest of my life being surrounded by loved ones. I think it's obvious what I chose."

"Thanks for the distraction! Now I can do this!" King Sombre levitated Emma, then slammed her agains a wall, knocking her unconscious. "Ha! Now let's see what the legendary Dimitri can do in real life!"

Dimitri's torso went limp, his arms swaying side to side, then his head looked up. His irises went blood red, pupil went to a needlepoint, and the whites of his eyes went pitch black. "That was the biggest mistake of your soon to be over life." There was a thick reptilian tone overlaying his voice.

The alternate Specters stopped thief fights, and moved to protect their king. Wile the originals moved to the prison containing the girls, picked the lock and shut themselves, and Emma, inside. "Why didn't you free us?"

"AJ, you have seen all three of our turbo modes, and its extremely rare that he uses his. Trust me, this is the only safe place." Echo secured the lock.

"It won't matter if you pit alternate versions of my comrades against me, I will end you in the most painfully way possible." Dimitri started to slowly walk towards the four non-friendlies, arms swaying to each step.

"Kill him! Kill him now!" King Sombre was not as cocky as before. The alternates went pseudo turbo, copying the exact abilities as the originals. Alternate PK was the first, sprinting to, and punching Dimitri, who just caught the giant metal fist with a single hand, swinging the evil PK around. Once he got to a god speed, he grabbed the metal forearm with his other arm, ripping it out, he tossed the evil giant into a wall. Dimitri disappeared, reappearing behind an angry evil giant, he grabbed its head, slamming it on the ground and walls, until it stopped moving. He through the dead giant out the window. Then turned to the others in time to receive a ice blue, cold, fireball to the chest.

"Ah... you use freezing fire, instead of superheated fire. This should be fun." He started to walk towards the groups, as the evil RED used a rapid fire attack. It had no effect on Dimitri, who was only getting closer. "Is that all you have? Oh well, I was hoping for explosions, but I guess Sombre didn't know much about RED's abilities." He then disappeared, reappearing behind the fake RED. Grabbing him by the throat, he started to squeeze, forcing the fake to grab at Dimitri's hand "What's the matter? Can't use explosions? Well then you will die here." He slowly squeezed harder and harder, until there was an audible crack, then crunching sound, as his entire neck was crushed.

Dimitri turned to King Sombre, as he started walking in his direction the dark Echo attempted to drop kick Dimitri. He succeeded in hitting Dimitri square in the face, knocking the enraged juggernaut to the ground. Dimitri flared his wings, launching himself onto his feet. Dark Echo sprinted at him, Dimitri disappeared, reappearing behind the evil clone, as he grabbed him by the throat, a black gem spike rose from the ground, impaling him. "H-ha! Haha! HAHAHA! You don't realize I'm unstoppable!" He chucked dark Echo at a wall, disappeared then reappeared in between the flying copy and the wall. Dimitri caught the copy by the back of the shirt, flew up, smashing a large hole in the ceiling, going up and up, until the palace looked like a child's play thing. "Tell me this, do you want to try and survive this fall, or, do you want me to take you back down?"

The copy looked down, then back to Dimitri. "I think, I want to live, so you can take me down there."

Dimitri gave him a psychotic smile "Wrong choice!" Dimitri then dive bombed aimed down holding Dark Echo, with his head ahead of him, at the hole in the roof. He started laughing psychotically, as a cone of energy formed around them, Dimitri forced them down faster, then the caused a sonic boom, moving faster through the hole, directly into the ground, the impact was loud enough to wake the princesses, and Emma, who all looked to the cloud of dust. As it settled, reviled Dimitri, holding an unmoving dark Echo. Dimitri spotted Sombre, then tossed the corpse over his shoulder. "Your fighters are dead, and you have angered the wrong parent. For this, you must pay the ultimate price, I hope it was worth it." As he finished, a half dead looking, white halfdragon, and Trixie, appeared behind him, grabed him, and disappeared.

Dimitri released a loud guttural roar "......... How? How did he escape? How did I lose?" He fell to his knees.