Of Myrs, Fire And Mind

It was late into the night and Malik paced nervously around Twilight’s basement. He was deep in thought as he walked to each side of the room. He finally stopped and sighed. “I can’t believe I’m even considering this because of a pony I’ve met four days ago! But… there’s something special about her. She’s everything I ever wanted from a girl back on Earth, she’s the girl of my dreams. Oh for God’s sake I don’t even know her that well!” He said in frustration.

“Maybe there is a future for us. Maybe… she’s worth it. I know enough to cast this spell but I can’t reverse it. I’ll give it a shot and if it doesn’t work… well I can ask Jace for help, hopefully he’ll understand.” Malik said as the gem on his gauntlet began to glow.

<…>

In the morning Twilight woke up to a smell she enjoyed very much. “Pancakes… He really didn’t have to.” She muttered with a smile as she got out of bed.

As she reached the kitchen of her house she expected to see Malik, but instead only saw an unicorn. A grey stallion with short brown mane and green eyes, his cutie mark were two gears clashing, completed by a spark in the place where they connected. “Who are you?” She asked taking a defensive stance.

“Calm down Twilight, it’s me, Malik!” The stallion said.

“Prove it!” Twilight glared at the intruder, who showed a gauntlet with a grey gem, adapted to fit a hoof.

“This is my gauntlet, one of a kind and made by me. If this doesn’t prove I’m Malik then I don’t know what will.” He said.

“W-What happened to you?” Twilight asked in disbelief as she saw the gauntlet.

“I’ve spent a lot of time in Jace’s library. I’ve learned a lot of spells, including shapeshifting. I couldn’t handle the interspecies barrier between us. I turned into a pony because of you. And to be honest… you’re worth it.” Malik said as he approached Twilight.

“You did this… for me?” Twilight asked, again in disbelief and on the edge of tears.

“Is everything alright Twilight?” Malik asked back. He was caught by surprise as a pair of hooves wrapped around his neck and pulled him in a tight embrace.

“You didn’t have to do this, but yet you did. Why?” She slowly asked.

“I only know you for four days, it doesn’t matter though. Because, either way, I would do anything for you.” He answered returning the hug. After a few seconds Twilight backed away and looked into his eyes just before both leaning in for a kiss.

The kiss lasted for a few seconds before they both backed away. They stood in silence until Malik spoke. “Well… I’ve done breakfast and if we don’t eat soon it’ll get cold.” He said, pointing with his head to two plates with pancakes.

“Well, let’s see how well you cook.” Twilight said with a giggle before heading towards the table.

<…>

In the previous night…

Rythian found himself in the middle of a floating piece of Ponyville. “This place… Why am I in the void?” He asked himself.

“Life is an interesting thing, isn’t it? Your world is destroyed but it opens a door to an infinity of them. And now, here you are, on a world populated by ponies on a quest to avenge your world with the survivors by your side. Tell me Rythian, in your wildest dreams, have you ever thought of this?” The voice of The Outsider was something familiar to Rythian and so was his appearance.

“You know the answer is no. Is there anything you need from me Outsider, or will you keep stalling?” Rythian asked.

“Straight to the point are we? Very well, I ask of you to give me a show. There will be a large onslaught against Ponyville tomorrow. All I ask is for you to entertain me. After all, you were very good back in Dunwall.” The Outsider said.

“That’s it? All you want me to do is to put up a show? I’ll warn the others and consider it done.” Rythian replied.

“I see you have still got my gift. I expect you to make the most of it. The truth is, you impress me more than Corvo and I have very high expectations. Try not to disappoint me.” The Outsider said before disappearing.

<…>

In the morning…

Rythian sat down on a chair with the other humans in front of him. “I have information that there will be a great onslaught against Ponyville soon. It is of the greatest importance that we start setting up our defenses!” He told them.

“Why should we trust in this piece of information you were given?” Jace asked.

“Because it was The Outsider who warned me.” Rythian answered.

“The Outsider?” Katarina asked.

“The Outsider is a being of untold power. He can control everything, everywhere and at any time. He is much more powerful than we can ever hope to achieve, even more powerful than the elder dragon Nicol Bolas.” Rythian showed a strange mark on the back of his hand. “This is the mark of The Outsider. It has helped me greatly before and it serves to prove that He finds me interesting. He will give me certain information for as long as I can ‘entertain’ him, through my prowess in battle.”

“Seems legit. I’m in!” Dion exclaimed.

“I guess all information is useful.” Jace pondered.

“As long as I get to burn stuff, you can count on me!” Chandra said.

“Well, I got into this mess with Dion, so I’m gonna help him.” Kat sighed.

“Very well. We need to get to the library and warn Malik.” Rythian said as he walked towards the door.

<…>

Malik and Twilight had just finished breakfast when there was a knock on the door. “I got it.” Malik said as he opened the door, revealing the planeswalkers and champion.

“I don’t know who you are, but we’re looking for Malik. He there?” Chandra asked.

“That’s me.” Malik answered showing the gauntlet. This resulted in a variety of expressions. Confusion from Kat, disbelief from Dion, surprise from Jace, shock from Ryhtian, as for Chandra… It was outright laughter. “Hey Malik, why the long face?” She continued her laughing fit.

“Do you mind?” Malik asked. Chandra’s laughter was slowly dying down until it was gone.

“I’m sorry but that’s too damn funny!” She answered.

“Malik… when did you learn shape shifting magic?” Jace asked. “And why are you a pony?”

“For the first question, I answer with another one: How many times have I been in your library? As for the second one, I did it for Twilight.” Malik said.

“This is not the right time! Flynt’s troops will attack soon and how do you expect to fight as a pony?” Rythian asked.

“Calm down Rythian! Look, Malik I can do something that will come in useful. I can turn you back into a human when the moment requires it, but you can be a pony through the remainder of the time. What do you think?” Jace said.

“I guess you already know that I still haven’t learned how to turn back into a human. I’ll take the deal.” Malik said with a smile.

So, now that you are a wittle horsy, you should have a wittle horsy name. How about Fluffy Hooves, no wait, Moon Pie, or, or even Mr. Cuddly Poof. Nah, that doesn't sound good either. How about…  ‘Spark Light’?" Chandra rolled on the ground from all the laughing.

“Anyway, what do you need me to do?” Malik asked.

“Wards. They’ll be useful so we have something to fall back on.” Rythian explained.

“How will wards help us?” Dion asked.

“You do know that there are more than just Sight and Vision wards, right?” Kat asked, making Dion blush with embarrassment.

“You heard nothing champs and champettes!” He scolded them. A bunch of comments appeared immediately, making Dion smile.

“So what do you want? I can make unsummoning, incineration, lava pools, aetherizer, you name it.” Malik said.

“We need unsummoning and incineration wards the most. We can have some aetherizer too and maybe some of those Tesla wards you invented.” Jace said.

“I’ll get to work right now! See you on the battlefield.” Malik said closing the door.

“Is everything alright?” Twilight asked as Malik opened the door to the basement. He turned around and walked towards Twilight.

“There will be a large assault on Ponyville today according to Ryhtian. Listen to me closely. I don’t want you to follow me, you almost died in the previous battle. Just stay here in the library during the attack. I, the planeswalkers and Kat have got this, alright?” He said.

“You know I can’t stay here and let you fight! What if something happens to you?” Twilight replied.

“Promise me Twilight… Promise me that you won’t go to battle. I would never forgive myself if you got hurt and I could’ve stopped it.” Malik slowly said.

“Is there any other way I can help you?” Twilight asked. Malik pondered for a moment.

“Well… You can help me make wards.” He said pointing at the basement. Twilight approached him and gave him a quick peck on the lips.

“Very well then. Shall we?” She said descending the stairs.

<…>

“You did a good job with these Malik.” Jace said, examining the wards.

“Did you doubt my skills?” Malik asked with a smirk.

“When you’re a pony, yes. And speaking of such I should transform you back shouldn’t I?” Jace asked before casting a shapeshifting spell. With a blue flash Malik was back to human.

“Alright let’s do this!” Malik said summoning his elite team and a sword for him.

“Another battle already? Fine then, bring it!” Alpha exclaimed.

“Not yet Alpha, but they’re approaching.” Malik said, before Chandra, Katarina and Dion appeared.

“The wards are set, we’re ready!” Chandra said. Rythian suddenly blinked into view.

“They are almost here. There are three carrier tanks, three elemental myrs of fire, ice and rock. There are also mysterious men in helmets carrying scythes. They are all led by a dragon, which is being mentally manipulated by Flynt.” He said.

“Good job. Get ready everyone! Dion, you have no weapon so have this.” Malik summoned a revolver with the word ‘Reaper’ written on the barrel. “I made it myself. It’s fueled by magic so you can fire any type of projectiles you know how to make from there, and it gets rid of the need to reload.”

“Thanks a lot Malik, I needed a weapon of sorts. But now let’s do this!” Dion exclaimed as the dragon appeared, leading Flynt’s troops.

“Is that… Kalistrat?” Katarina asked.

“What is he doing here?” Dion asked. “He was supposed to be back on Valoran.”

“You know this dragon?” Rythian asked.

“He’s a champion from the League of Legends. Jace, try to get rid of whatever Flynt is doing to Kalistrat. Me and Kat will take out the guys in the helmets, Rythian and Chandra, you deal with the Elemental myrs. As for Malik and the myrs, you deal with whatever is on those carrier tanks.” Dion commanded.

“Got it!” All said as they prepared to take down their respective targets.

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Rythian & Chandra vs. Elemental Myrs

Rythian charged on against the giant rock myr. The elemental myr reached for its back and took out a hammer of stone, swinging it against the ground. Before it hit, however, Rythian blinked out of the way. To Rythian and Chandra’s surprise, the massive hammer opened a rift on the ground, which closed when the hammer was lifted again.

Then the ice behemoth attacked, forming an ice spear from the moisture in the atmosphere. The air around the spear was freezing cold making the water around it almost freeze. The myr swiped and jabbed with the spear, but to no avail as Chandra and Rythian dodged all its attacks.

Rythian noticed an open spot during the myr’s assault on Chandra. Blinking up to its shoulder, Rythian drew his dagger and struck the construct as hard as possible, resulting on no reaction from the myr. Rythian attacked over and over, before he was hit by a flame beam from the fire myr.

Rythian got up with difficulty as searing pain ran across his body. The rock myr was about to strike before Chandra quickly picked Rythian up and got him to relative safety. “Are you okay?” She asked.

“I can still fight! But my attacks seem to do nothing.” Rythian replied, getting to his feet.

“Then I’ll just melt them to the ground!” Chandra bellowed as she let out an Inferno of flames, hitting the three myrs, The rock and fire ones barely winced, but the ice one let out a high-pitched screech of pain as its arm melted into water. “Why can’t they be made of glass? Wouldn’t it be easier if they just shattered with a punch?”

“Shatter… That’s it! Chandra you’re a genius!” Rythian exclaimed.

“Wut did I do?” She asked.

“I used this in Dunwall to break down doors, but with enough mana I can get rid of the rock one!” Rythian explained.

“Well what are you waiting for? Go! I’ll take care of the ice one!” Chandra said, summoning and jumping on top of a phoenix. Rythian nodded and began running, dodging the fire blasts of the fire myr and blinking away from the rifts made by the rock myr.

It struck once again with its mighty hammer, smashing the ground. Rythian, this time, was close enough and jumped on top of the hammer. The myr tried to shake him off as Rythian ascended, aiming for its head. The mark on the back of Rythian’s left hand was glowing brightly as he set it on the myr’s head. A second after, Rythian released the energy he had stored, causing the rocks that made up the myrs body to instantly shatter, destroying it.

He looked to his side to see Chandra send the Phoenix on a dive bomb against the ice myr. “Hey jackass! Time for you to meet your fiery doom!” She jumped away as the phoenix hit the myr, resulting in a massive explosion, and instantly melting the myr. “Hells yeah!”

“Now for this guy.” Rythian said as the mark started glowing again. The myr, not willing to be destroyed yet, released a giant burst of flames from his flamethrowers. Rythian, however jumped to the side and dodged it. The mark stopped glowing as, with a thrust of his arm, Rythian threw a mass of wind against the myr, putting out its flames and crushing it from the sheer strength of the wind.

“And that’s that!” Chandra said with a grin.

Dion & Katarina vs. The Cleavers

Dion quickly closed in on one of the clevers, kicking him in the gut. The cleaver stumbled back a bit before receiving a fireball in the chest from Reaper, killing him. Five other cleavers advanced and drew their scythes. Katarina, then appeared behind one of the cleavers slitting his throat and throwing a dagger that bounced between the other four of them.

“This is frikin’ easy! Those wards took out so many of them! The lightning ones did some work too!” Dion exclaimed, firing an icicle from Reaper, impaling a cleaver.

“You’re right. This is too easy…” Kat said throwing a blade, hitting a cleaver on the chest. She turned around and saw a scythe going in her direction. “Look out!” She said ducking and dragging Dion down as the scythe passed over them. A second later the scythe appeared again, going back to its owner.

In front of Dion and Kat stood eight cleavers, clad in white. “What’s with the uniform change?” Dion asked.

“They must be stronger versions of the others.” Kat concluded.

“Well, let’s see how they like a lightning bolt to the face!” Dion fired Reaper at the white cleavers, who didn’t as much as wince at the impact. “What?! Did they really not even react?!” Dion asked in shock.

“Maybe they’re immune to magic…” Kat pondered. She was so deep in thought that she didn’t notice Dion picking up a scythe from a fallen cleaver and starting to spin it.

“Well… then I guess we have to get close and personal!” Dion exclaimed. “Let’s do this Kat!” He said as he charged against one of the white cleaver and engaging in combat. Kat followed and began attacking the white cleavers too. Slashes were traded between scythes and blades as Kat and Dion fought valiantly. Attacks were parried and countered, as both sides tried to gain the upper hand.

Finally, Dion spotted an opening on one of the white cleavers and swung downwards as hard as he could. His scythe pierced the helmet and killed his opponent. A white cleaver closed in from behind, but he did not notice Katarina in time, as a blade went through his heart.

“Thanks, Kat.” Dion said as they were both back to back.

“No problem. What do you think about finishing this?” She asked.

“Let’s do this!” They both started spinning around, Katarina was throwing blades to everyone who got close to them while Dion slashed everyone in range with his scythe. When they were done there were only the bodies of the cleavers left.

“And remember kids, spin to win!” Kat joked as she looked at the afterlife lens, resulting on a laugh from Dion.

Malik & Myrs vs. Carrier Tanks

The tanks opened revealing an army of dark myrs, some with swords, and some with bows. The bow myrs drew back the strings and immediately fired a volley of arrows, which rained down on Malik and the myr elite. Malik easily blocked this attack by summoning a shield, which absorbed all damage. “Alright guys, let’s do this!” Malik shouted.

Alpha was the first to charge, his incredible speed getting him to the frontlines rather easily. Alpha rushed through the sword myrs taking out as many as he could on his way to the archers. As he got to the bow wielding myrs he started slashing as many as he could, taking down a quarter of them before Gama got there.

Gama and Alpha worked brilliantly together, for with the striker going at blinding speeds across the battlefield, no one noticed the sneaky assassin. Taking out a target at time, Gama did a number on their troops him and Alpha taking care of half of the archers while Beta was swinging his massive axe and taking out the sword-wielders.

Malik, watched as his myrs did some work, taking out many of his opponents. Suddenly, he started running against the army, with a mighty jump he got into the fray. Malik unleashed hell on the myrs unlucky enough to cross him, slashing everything on his way in half. He got surrounded but quickly dispatched his assailants by summoning spikes from the ground to impale them.

His sword turned into grey light, absorbed by his gauntlet. He enveloped himself in grey light. When the light dissipated Malik was in a full set of iron armor, his hands, replaced by wide and sharp jousting lances. “Come at me!” He taunted. He rushed forwards and thrust the lances forwards, taking out one myr with each. He had found a new strategy. “Wipe them out!” He ordered his myrs.

“Sir, yes sir!” They all responded. Epsilon jumped over one of his enemies with several arrows in hand. He prepared his bow and unleashed a volley of arrows upon his enemies. When a sword-wielder got close to him, he jammed a beeping arrow on its head and kicked it backwards, taking out a squad of them with the explosion of the arrow. He looked upward and saw Omega pass overhead.

Omega touched the ground and placed his laser generators in a circle, facing outwards. With a swift motion, the lasers fired and started moving making a circular, field of death around Omega. Omega himself took upon his hands to shoot all the heads he could, he was a very good sharpshooter after all. “Everyone but Gama, retreat!” Malik suddenly said.

“Why? Don’t you see we’re winning?” Alpha asked, through the frenzy of battle.

“Yes, but Gama has absorbed enough sunlight!” Malik responded. With that only Gama and the opposing myrs were left on the battle field.

“Initiate process! Solar blades!” Gama shouted as his elbow blades caught on fire. Going faster than even Alpha, he destroyed every single enemy myr, his flaming blades cutting through them with ease.

“Good job myrs, you truly are my elite!” Malik exclaimed.

“You did well too Malik! We completely owned them!” Alpha replied.

Jace vs. Kalistrat

Jace was nervous as he met face to face with the dragon. “You’re so cold blooded… let me fix that for you!” Kalistrat bellowed with a grin as chains of fire surrounded his blades and arms.

‘Where have I seen that before?’ Jace thought as he summoned a phantasmal bear to hopefully damage, even if slightly, the dragon. Kalistrat, however dispatched it easily by throwing his blades.

“Your illusions will not save you, mage!” Kalistrat bellowed before jumping high in the air, blades at the ready. Jace stood motionless until Kalistrat was within attacking range. The dragon sent a blade forwards, bound by the flame chains. Jace smirked as a sudden gust of wind caught Kalistrat off guard, and looked over at the wind elemental he just summoned.

“Wind is able to put out fire isn’t it?” Jace asked with a smug grin. The wind elemental, blew a mighty gale of wind against Kalistrat, putting down the flame chains. The dragon growled angrily.

“Prepare to die!” Kalistrat charged against the mind mage. Suddenly, instead of striking in front of him, Kalistrat attacked to his right with the hilt of one of his swords, revealing an invisible Jace and making him stumble backwards. The Jace standing in front of Kalistrat faded into nothingness. “You really thought I would fall for that?” Kalistrat taunted.

“Not really. But I expect you to fall for this!” Jace said as a mist began forming behind Kalistrat. The mist lifted him up and smashed him hard against the ground. The mist formed into the shape of an angel, pinning Kalistrat down with punches.

Kalistrat decided he had enough. The heat around his body began to rise and, in a matter of seconds, he burst into flames, destroying the ‘angel’. “You’ll pay for that!” Kalistrat surrounded his blades with flames again and threw them to the ground in front of Jace, pulling himself towards the mage.

Jace jumped backwards but was still hit by the waves of searing heat coming from Kalistrat’s body. ‘I won’t last long like this… Guess I gotta use that.’ Jace thought while in mid-air. Upon landing he bellowed one single word. That word, however, was enough to strike fear on Kalistrat. “Enough!” A shockwave caused Kalistrat to trip. Blue mana was circling around Jace, gales were wildly blasting around the battlefield and Jace’s cloak flapped out of control in the wind.

Jace’s eyes glowed with the intensity of the sun as chains of blue mana wrapped themselves around Kalistrat. Jace rushed the dragon and set his hand on Kalistrat’s forehead. “I don’t know what kind of power Flynt has to control such a strong-willed being, but IT. ENDS. NOW!” With that the blue sphere floating above Kalistrat’s head disappeared and the dragon fell unconscious to the ground. Jace was gasping for air as he looked around, seeing all their enemies dead or destroyed. “It’s done…” He then looked at Kalistrat. “We need to find Flynt and finish this!”