What It's Like To Call This Place Home

RED looked around for a minute, then walked towards the Apples' farmhouse. Knocking he opened the door "Anypony home?" He stopped when he saw Big Mac, unconscious. He sprinted to the crimson stallion "Big Mac! What happened?"

He started to wake up, looking around, before jumping to his hooves "Where's Applejack?"

RED raised his eyebrows "Big Mac, what happened?"

"Ah don't know."

"I gotta find her!" RED sprinted our towards the Sweet Apple Acres sign, but was stopped.

"Sugarcube? Ain't y'all gonna give me a kiss, before you leave again?"

RED turned to face Applejack 'Somthin ain't right here...' "Why was Big Mac unconscious?"

"He hit his head." She immediately answered, unblinking.

"That doesn't sound like Big Mac..." He looked at her Stetson (not the original, RED made a new, darker one for a proposal) then into her eyes. "Why aren't you blinking?"

"Ah don' wanna blink, and you be gone." Again an immediate answer.

He scanned her, noticing a very slight shimmer of a fang "Your not AJ!"

She smiled psychotically "Course ah am."

Red boosted into turbo, before the fake could move, he had it two feet off the ground. He was holding it by the throat "Where is AJ?!"

"You will never know!" It started turning into its changeling form, RED removed the Stetson, then through the fake into the air. He snapped his fingers, causing the changeling to go boom. He put the Stetson on his head "Don't worry AJ, RED's comin'."

"Ah, it seems you were right... He can see through the changelings falsetto..."

Applejack was hanging in a cage from the ceiling "Let me go! I wanna go home!"

Anitchka ignored her "Sombre! Send a squad to him, and send her as well... As incentive to fight harder..."

Sombre reluctantly bowed "Y-yes m'lord... Squad one, you have your orders!"

As RED arrived at the edge of the Everfree, a team of Spectors, minus Dimitri, stopped him, with them was AJ in a cage "Ahh... Our target came to us..."

"Release her, or you will not walk away from here!"

"I don't think I will." The copy of Echo stated.

"I'm warning you!"

"Yeah, as if you have the power to stop us."

RED smiled, but not a pleasant smile "You have no clue what you are toying with." RED boosted to turbo, lighting his left hand on fire "Lets just say, if you play with me, you will get burnt."

The false PK dropped the cage containing Applejack "You will not beat our full squad."

"-RED, I will remove her from this place after you initiate combat.-" the voice of Atlus stated in his head.

The impostors left the cage behind them as they moved toward RED. The copy of himself launched blue fire in his direction, RED put his arms in a cross position, blocking the fire, witch froze the bits of his jacket that were touched. As the fire died, RED noticed the feet of the Echo clone, en route to his chest, RED slid to the side, avoiding the assault. When the False Echo passed him, he jumped, avoiding a massive fist. While in the air, RED noticed his copy charging a large ball of blue fire. RED snapped the fingers of his right hand, causing an explosion inside the giant blue flame. The cold fire mixed with the hot explosion, caused a massive boom, incinerating the copy of RED, leaving behind only the right hand. RED noticed the second hand of the PK copy coming towards his chest, RED detonated the air under his right foot, flipping him out of the way. RED landed facing the enemy, running towards them, he prepared an explosive punch in his right hand. When he reached them, the Echo clone tried to tackle him, RED detonated the ground under his feet, launching him just barley above the clone of his friend, he twisted, smashing a punch into the back of the fast clone, just before detonating the prepped explosive punch. The explosion pushed RED's fist through the false Echo, as RED's hand got halfway through, he detonated the skin on his hand, blowing the false Echo in half. 'Two down, one to go' landing, RED looked to the giant angry PK "We can do this only one of two ways, the hard way, or the easy way."

"And tell me, what is the easy way?"

"I don't kill you, and you go back where you came from."

After hearing this the giant started laughing "Only one of us will walk away from here! And it will not be you!" The PK imposter moved toward RED, once he got within distance, he began swinging his fists attempting to smash RED's chest. Each time his fist was close, RED jumped either over it, or back away form it, this angered the giant even more. After several minutes of this, a gem spike impaled RED, allowing the false PK to smash him into the ground. Once his opponent was down, he started smashing his fists down on the bloody body, until it stopped moving. The giant stopped, walking to a barley alive clone of Echo "Thank you, but now I will be the only one to return."

"W-what? They can h-heal m-me."

The copy of PK picked the clone of echo off the ground, by the head. He crushed the head of the legless copy of Echo, killing it immediately "Not anymore."

"You disgust me." The giant turned to see RED standing, his ribs moving back into place, or back together "He just helped you kill me." He layered the 'kill' with sarcasm"So you smash his head? Wtf man?" RED boosted back into turbo, disappearing in a ball of fire. The giant dropped his dead teammate, looking around, before noticing RED standing mere feet from him "Do you want to try and survive my biggest attack?"

Feeling cocky the giant smiled "I bet you could barley damage my hair."

RED smiled psychotically "You asked for it!" His eyes closed as the area began to drop in temperature, several minutes later RED's skin began to look more and more charred, the RED began to laugh psychotically as the wind picked up, swirling around the area, then his eyes opened.

"NO! YOU FOOL!" Anitchka yelled at the portal, as Sombre approached.

"What is the matter, who is the fool?" Sombre looked in confusion at the portal, as a white lite filled the entirety of the screen, Anitchka moved the view to a much higher location, showing a swirling ball of fire "What is that?"

Anitchka sighed "that is why you are charging your magic instead of growing your army, I want you to assist me in making our ultimate weapon."