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// The Demon: Part 2, The Real Deal! The Nightmare From A Different Dimmension! 
// Story: A New Threat 
// by mjk 705 
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	*The Next Day*
I woke up, only to realize that I had a major headache. I could'nt remember much of what had happened in the past week, either.After about an hour of grunting and other stuff, I finally managed to get out of bed and do my routine. Or atleast, I would've, but there was one problem. I was in the Carousol Boutique!I tried to leave, but when I was almost out the door, I caught glimpse of something white. For whatever reason, I walked over to it. I noticed It was Rarity, lying on the ground. I thought for a while, should I wake her up and see if she knows why I'm here, or scram and hope she doens't even know I was here. I decided to wake her up.
"Rarity. Hey, Rarity." I said, trying to wake her up. No response "Raaarity." I said a bit louder. Still no response. Soon, I noticed she wasn't breathing! "Celestia, No! No No! Please don't tell me I'm too late!" I turned the mare over to perform CPR, but when I did, I saw at least 15 deep cuts in her side, and then I knew it was too late. "Buck! Who the buck could do this?" I soon heard laughter. "Show yourself!" I yelled. Then, from the shadows, I saw someone come out. My eyes widened when I saw that the person looked exactly like me, but with red eyes. "Who the hell are you?" I asked
"I'm Mason." said the person.
"Like hell you are! Did you do this to her?"
"No, YOU DID!" Hahahaha..."
I shot up from my bed, dreched in sweat, panting. 
"What the hell was THAT all about? Maybe those ponies weren't lying..." According to a rumor I had been hearing lately, some ponies had been having horrific nightmares lately, and they all thought it was due to all the madness thats been going on. I looked at my clock, and it said it was 10:00 AM, but it was still as dark as night out.
"Okay, who screwed up this time, Celestia? I asked outloud to my necklace, as if I thought it would be some way to communicate with her. I went outside to find out what was going on. When I stepped outside, I saw Discordstanding there, as if he knew I would be there. But he didn't exactly look the best.
"What happened?" I asked him. 
"Mason...the Elements, he took them."
"Who did?" Discord pointed an eagle claw to the roof of a nearby house in response to my question.
"Well, look who finally decided to crawl out of bed!" said a voice from the roof. I looked to where the voice came from, only to find a being cloaked in a star-collored robe, as if it were the night sky itself. "I hope you don't mind, but I put the sun away for a few days,"
"If that's ok with you." I heard Fluttershy say.
"Fluttershy? Where are you?" I asked
"We're fine, dear." I heard Rarity's voice say.
"Rarity?"
"Don't fall for it." said Discord weakly. "He...he can replicate their.....voices." and with that, Discord fell to the ground.
"Oh drats!" The figure said in Pinkie's voice. "I hate it when it's not a surprise anymore."
"Who...who are you? What is your purpose?"
"Very well," said the being in its original voice. "I am Death, and my purpose is to eliminate every main protaginist in existance, and take thier powers for my own! And with each fight I win, I become even stronger! I have already beaten 79, and I figured you could be number 80!"
"79? How strong were they?" I asked.
"Does the name 'Goku' ring a bell?"
"Goku? But, he's not even real! How can you beat someone that isn't real?"
"It's simple, when you have the ability to travel into different dimmensions, anything is possible!"
"So, thats how you got here, I take it?" I asked.
"Indeed. And after I destroy you, I will be one step closet to being the strongest thing in the universe!"
"Don't bet on it, pal. I'm a lot stronger than I look."	
"Oh, don't worry, I am already aware of your dragonic transformation. I saw your fight against Gavara and Barron. And I guess that's you max, so I guess beating you will be simple." Death lept down from the celing, landing on his feet perfectly. "I tell you what, I'll let you choose the place where we fight."
"Here is fine."
"So, you wish to die in front of your own home? How fitting."
"Listen here, Death." I began " After all the suffering you have caused, I am going to end it here and now! All of it!"
"Funny, I've heard that line each time, and look at where they all ended up. Nowhere but the next world! I know that you can sense my energy, but," death got in a fighting stance "This isn't even a fraction of my true power!"
"Then prove it! Volcanic Express!" Out of the sky, a large, train shaped flame came down in a diaganal path, headed strait twoards Death.
"You fool! Your trian is about to be de-railed! Chaos Spear!" Death waved out his hand, and a spark of electricity came out of it, headed directly for the flame. When it reached the train, both the spark and the train exploded.
"Chaos Spear? But thats..."
"A technique used by The Ultimate life-form, Shadow the Hedgehog. Or atleast, he was the ultimate life-form untill I came along. Such a weakling..."
*Unkown Location*
"Under normal circumstances, I never really get to play with the anti-hero. In fact, it hasn't been since Vegeta I've had this much fun. But like all good things, this must come to an end." said Death to a black hedgehog. His spikes were black like the rest of his body, but the top of them were red. On it's wrists were two golden rings, on on each.
"Damn..." said the hedgehog weakly. "Who...who the hell...are you?"
"Just your neighborhood-unfriendly Death." Death placed a hand forcefully on the hedgehog's head, and his hand began to glow a dark green. "And now, to take your powers and whatever energy you have left!" after about thirty seconds, Death removed his hand fron the hedgehog's head, and the hedgehog fell backwards on to the ground
*Ponyvile*
"...But it wouldn't be fair to say he didn't try to put up a good fight. Now, back to exterminating the pest I came here for. Ka..." Death put out his hands so that they touched at the wrists, and I did the same
"Me..." we both put our hand be hind us at about waist-level 
"You Fool!" said Death "If you are to fire the Kamehameha wave from where you are standing, you will destroy this enire town!"
"If that's what it takes to punish you for all the crimes you have commited, then so be it!" I remarked
"Ha...me..." We both had a ball of energy in our hands at this time, mine was red while his was blue.
"You know you don't stand a chance! HAA!"
"Try me! HAA!" both of us shot out a wave of energy, each of ours were the same color as the energy we gathered earlier. Both waves collided, causing the ground to shake.
"You know that this is the ace of Goku! I have fully mastered this skill, while you've only used it once against a changeling captain!" yelled Death
"So what? I still beleive I can beat you, and nothing you say or do will chage that!" I yelled back. "Full Power!" I put as much energy into my blast as I could, and the waves started to go towards Death. It hit Death, and when it did, it exploded. When the smoke cleared, I heard Death's laughter.
"Bravo! Ive never been hit to the point of being scratched! But!" Death's body did have a lot of scratches, buthey soon disappeared. "I hoppe you can do better than that, or this is going to be dulll! Show me it!"
"Show you what?"
"Your full power. Your TRUE power. I don't want to fight you. I WANT TO FIGHT RED NOVA!
"Alright. But remember, you asked for it." I was praying to Celestia that this would work, and I would be able to do what I did a month ago.
"C'mon! Don't just sit there! Do I need to tell you that If you don't beat me in 24 hours, the elements and their embodiements will be erased from existance?"
"What?"
"You heard me. You have 24 hours to beat me, or every connection to the Elements of Harmony will be killed off!" Death smirked "And I even managed to get Rarity to be the first."
"Alright, you bucking bastard, you fricking dead." my body began to Glow a dark red, and soon, my body was formed into the dragon of Red Nova. "Volcanic Hell Combo!" I flew towards Death in an instant, I was dealing blows all over to him, each one a puch-like claw strike, the temprature rising each time. After a good 200 blows or so, I hit him with a scorching uppercut. after he flew up about 40 feet in the air, I flew up and struck him with my club-like tail, sending him towards the ground. When Death made contact with the ground, I shot atleast ten waves of red-hot lava at him, each one hitting him succesfully, the tenth resulting in an explosion. I flew back to the ground
"How's that for you, bastard?"
"Well, this is the most difficult fight I've had. So now, time for me to show you my first trasformation." Death was soon surrounded in a red aura 
"Consider youself lucky! Not once in my existance have I ever had to take this form." Soon, wings grew out of both sides of him, one on each and having dragon-like faces on the end closest to his face, as well as long, red spikes at the other. His fingers started to look more like the claws that I had, and his arms seemed to get longer, the back side of each being covered in plates. His body also became red, brighter than mine, except for the top part of his chest that was a dark blue. He also grew out a tail longer than mine of the same color of blue, except for the hook-shaped end, which was a dark red, with a jewel in its center of a brighter red. He also grew out  what apeared to be kneepads of the same blue as his tail. The claws on his feet were similar to that of a bird, but much thicker. On his main head, Death had grown two axe-shaped out of each side if his head, and a hammer-shaped horn out of the top of his head, it spanning across the whole thing. Death had almost doubled his size by taking this form.
"So," he asked in a lower-pitched voice "What do you think?" 
"I think it's time to kick your butt for everything that you've done!"
"I was refering to my transformation, but as you wish. Photon Stream of Destruction!" He reeled back his main head, and shot out a red wave out of his mouth when he was facing me again.
"Magma Shield!" A large, dark red sheild spread out just in time for the wave to hit it.
"You fool!" said the head on his left wing in the same voice as his "Your pathetic sheild is nothing! My attack is charged with the power of the universe itself! NOW DIE!" It shot out a wave similar to his, also from its mouth. I knew that a second blast would break with my shield with ease, seeing as how the first was almost doing so. I flew upwards as quick as I could, but the blast from the second wave sent me flying out out control. Death flew over to me, and landed about twenty  feet away frrom me.
"Well well, I have to congradulate you. No one has seen my Photon Stream of destruction and has lived to tell about it. Oh, wait, you won't either!" Death lifted up his foot, and stomped it on me. He repeated this process several times, laughing while he did. but soon, he got angry.
"Why are you not dead? No god could survive that many stomps!"
"Well, I just did." I flew up, and sctrached his chest, and puched it as hard as I could with the other. Death took two steps back, but then laughed.
"You expect that to hurt me?"
"No, but I expect this to! Volcanic Crash!" I flew up even higher, and one I figured I was high enough, I flew straight towards him, causing a cone of fire to surroud me. when I hit Death, He was sent to the Everfree Forest from the force of the impact.
*Edge of the Everfree Forest*
I landed on the ground, and Death got up on his two feet.
"Well, I'd be lying if I said that didn't hurt, but I don't consider it painful, either."
"Good, because I'm only getting started. Nova Stream!" I shot out a wave of lava surrouded by fire from my claw.
"Let's see who's is better! Photon Stream of Destruction!" Death shot out a wave energy from his main mouth.Our waves met, causing a burst of energy to form in the center. 
"No! How can your's be even with mine? I have the power of the universe!"
"But the power of hope is stronger! And here's proof!" I shot out another wave from my other claw, causing him to stop his attack on impact. The second one hit him on the hammer-shape crest on his head.
"No! How can you be this strong? You are only a human! You and your race are the weakest dominate species of your planet of them all! You should have died on my first attack!"
"What's the matter? You told me that you were here to destroy me, but it seems as though the exact opposite is happening."
"You may have damaged me in this state, but don't let it get to your head! I still have two more transformations I can make! And, with each transformation, I grow stronger and stronger! Now, I think it's time for you to take on a serious beating! Photon Crush!" Death steched out his claws, causing them to them to glow red. He then flew towards me with great speed and tried to scratched me, but I managed dodged each one. He soon stopped, and was panting.
"What's the matter? I thought you were going to give me a serious beating!"
"You idiot, fine! You give me no other coice! Time to whip out my third form! Time for you to die!" Death was surrounded by a black sphere, and his whole body dissappeared in it.
"Now's my chance. Nova Stream!" I shot out a wave of lava out of my claw, but when It hit the black sphere, It was deflected to the sky. The black sphere cracked in a white light, ands then exlpoded. When I regained my vision, I saw what I pressumed to be Death's third form. he was still a dragon, but a very different one. This time, his body seemed to be made out of metal. His wings were purple, and seemed to be separated in three parts, each lower half being a lighter purple. He also now had four tails instead of one, all of them having an arrow-like end. His legs came to a point, and both of them were purple with red lining on them with a blue gem on each knee. His chest was mostly covered by a large red gem, and had two oval-shaped sections on both sides of his body, all four of them filled with a pink gem. He also had two shield-shaped claws on both sides of his body, both bottom ones had a blue gem in the center, and the two top ones had a red gem in the center. His neck also seemed to be made of mettalic plates, with spikes on the back, similar to the ones on my tail. He also had two flat, compartments with a pink gem in each on both sides of his jaw. His head also had a long spike at the back of it, reaching the same leangth as his compartments. However, he had returned to his normal size. Death looked at me and smirked, reavealing his shark-like teeth.
"So, tell me when to start beating you to death."
"Alright, Hell Burst! I put my claws in the ground, and soon, a pillar of flames erupted beneath death. the flame was there for a good minute, and then it was put out. "What? What happened?"
"What happened is I put out your pathetic spark, that's what." Death was till on the ground, and his body made it seem like I did nothing. 
"Alright, lets try this! Volcanic Claws of Destruction!" My claws lit up in flames, and I started to strike Death several times. However, no matter how many times I hit him, he didn't seem to have a scratch on him. Death sighed.
"Is it my turn yet? Because, I don't know about you, but this is getting dull."And with that, Death whipped his tails at me and slammed me down to the ground with one oh his shields in a matter of about two seconds. He then kicked me with his left leg with an incredible amount of force. I struggled to get up back on my two feet, and when I managed to get up, I saw Death right infront of me
"Look at you." he said. "You take a few hard hits and you can barely stand. Pathetic. And to think that this would at least be entertaining. Oh well. time to make my 80th kill."   
"Damn it. I'm sorry everpony. I...I failed you all."
"Oh well. I guess you will just have to die in shame. Its to bad you never got to tell her how you feel. What a pityiful way to die." 
"Rarity....Twilight.....Dash....Pinkie...Fluttershy...AJ...I..I can't give up! not when I have so much to fight for! But how do I do it? No attack I can do is damaging him, and even if I do find a way to damage him, he can still transform again!" I thought to myself. "But I can still try! Nova Burst! Behold! My most powerful technique!" I curled my body up, and sealed up all but a little bit of my energy in my chest. I let it out, and the result was a huge shockwave that could probably have been felt on the other side of Equestria. After about 5 minutes, the shockwave stopped.
"How do you like that?" Death laughed.
"You FOOL! If that is your strongest technique, then Equestria is doomed, and so are you! Time to die!" Death flapped his wings to clear out the smoke, and then drove towards me at about 50 miles per hour, hitting me head first. I hit the ground as quickly as I was struck. "Now, to end this!" Death flew up in the air. "Tachyon Stream of Destruction!" All the gems on Death's body began to glow in their color. "Say Goodbye!" A dark purple stream was headed towards me, and there was nothing I could do. Just before the blast hit, It was redirected In another direction.  
"What? Who is resposible for this?" Asked Death.
"I am." said a voice behind me
"We all are!" said another
"And were gonna be sending your sorry plot to Cloudsadale!" said another
"Yea! And then we're gonna have a party!"
"Yer' gonna pay for hurtin' Mason!"
"You six! How did you esacpe? Oh well, it doesn't matter." Said Death. "I guess I'm just going to have to send you all to the next world!"
"No you won't! Not if I can help it!" I said to Death.
"Ahh...you finally got some spunk back I see. Well, this might have gotten interesting." I didn't have to look behind me, I knew that the mane 6 were right behind me. "Well then, prove to me you are capable of saving your friends all by yourself! Tachyon..." Death was hit with a rainbow blur before he could finish. He flew back a few feet, but then stopped himself with his wings. "You...You brat! you dare hit me while I'm off-gaurd?"
"Well, sorry pal! You left yourself open!" said Dash.
"Grr...Alright. I can already tell that you 7 aren't exactly the dumbest bunch. And at this rate, I'm going to be pushed into a corner. Heh, consider yourselves lucky! I myself never thought I would have to use my full power in a fight, much less in a place like this!"
"Full power?" asked Twilight.
"Yea, apparently this guy can transform and gets stronger after every one. In the state he's in right now, Dash is the only one to have seemed to...Wait thats it!"
"What?" 
"I know your weakness, Death!"
"Huh? Me? Have a weakness? Gosh, you're pathetic! Fine. Let's see what my 'weakness' is." Death landed on the ground. "But, when you're through, its killing time!"
"Twilight, Fluttershy, Rarity, Dash, Pinkie, Applejack, give me your elements. I have a plan." I whispered
"Are...Are you sure dear?" asked Rarity. 
"Positive."
"Hey, cut the chatter over there! I'm starting to get bored!" I shot a glare at Death, and then returned my attention to the mane 6. "Trust me. I promise I won't get myself in the hospital this time."
"Ok, you heard 'em!" Said Applejack. The Mane 6 handed me their Elements with no further questions asked. I put the Elements of Honesty and Loyalty on my wrists, The Elements of Knidness and Laughter on my ankles, the Element of Generosity on my neck, and the Element of Magic on my head.
"What are you doing?" asked Death "You look rediculous!"
"To answer your question, I'm getting ready to destroy you." I told him.
"Ok, I think that your times up! Tachyon Stream of Destruction!" Just as before, Death's gems began to glow thier color, and he shot out a dark purple stream of energy from his mouth. Just before it hit, I deflected it to the sky with my claw with ease. "What? How can this be! You just went from nearly dieing from my attack to deflecting it like it was nothing! Explain yourself!"
"It's simple. Your attack is concentrated on lies. therefore, I used my claw that bared the Element of Honesty To deflect it, causing your attack to lose its power on contact."
"Yehaw! You tell 'em how it is!" cheered Applejack.
"Alright, fine! You've given me no choice! Behold! My final form! My true form!" Death's body began to glow yellow, and the compartments of his wings began to separate and change shape, causing them to take more of a triangular shape. He also was growing two heads out of his soulders, similar to his first one. His sheild-shaped claws exploded, completely destroying them. Then, out of his sides came two wing-shapped claws, each one had three of the shield-shaped claws from before, all of them black instead of purple, and all the jewels turned pink. He was much larger than he was in his second form, Almost the size of an Ursa Major.
"Is.....is he..." stammered Fluttershy in fear.
"He's finished his transformation." I told her.
"Ha ha! No one can save any of you now! It's permanant pest extinction time!" bellowed Death. His voice was so loud, It could have turned Equestria upside down quicker than Discord ever could. "The countdown to your deaths has started! Universal Impact From Hell! Behold! A power that is so strong, not even the Universe itself could stop it!" Death stored energy in his mouths, as well as his wings. He shot out three black streams from his mouth, and then he flapped his wings, causing the streams to go off in random directions.
"What bad aim!" said Dash
"He's not trying to destroy us! He's destroying all of Equestria!" 
"We've got to stop him!" Yelled Twilight.  She shot out a laser from her horn, only for it to be deflected from Deat's metallic body.
"Huh? Not even a scratch?"
"Die! Die die die!" Yelled Death.
"Harmonic Nova Stram!" The Elements glowed, and a ball of energy gathered in my claw. I put it forward and released a rainbow-clored stream of fire. When it hit Death's body, It resulted in an explosion that looked simillar to that of a Sonic Rainboom.  Death stopped shooting out strams from his mouth and recoiled in pain.
"Impossible! I'm in my final form! I was granted immunity to pain in this state! How? How could this pathetic human manage to hurt me in this form, much less at all?"
"Because, Death, I have something that you will never posses! The power of hope! And now, let me show you MY final form!"
"What?"
"What in Equestria is he talking about? Final form?" 
"I managed to do a little research, Death. Just as you have the abillity to travel dimensions, I found out how to make one of my own! I call it the Overlay Dimension! Now to show you its power!"
"Well then, where is this 'Overlay Dimension' then?" I smirked.
"Let me show you. Girls, I'm going to need your Elements for this!"
"Use them!" Yelled Twilight.
"Their your's, darling!" Rarity told me.
"Have fun!" yelled Pinkie.
"Give it to 'em!" yelled Dash and Applejack in unison.
"You can use it! I understand!" yelled Fluttershy.
"Sweet!" I put out my arms. "I overlay Myself with all six of the Elements of Harmony!" as soon as i said those words, the Elements and I began to glow. "With these objects in the universe, I build the Overlay Dimension!" As soon as I said that, a purple galaxy-shaped portal opened in the ground appeared. I flew down into it, entering it. The portal closed, then exploded.
"Hah! The fool killed himself and took the Elements with him!"
"Guess again Death." Death looked all around with his tree heads, and the mane 6 looked, but I was nowhere in sight. "Behind you. Death turned around, and almost fell over in laughter. I was back in my human budy, however, I had longer hair than usual, and it was rainbow colored. I also had an aura of the same color surrounding my body.
"You got rid of your dragon body, and dyed your hair, and you think it's going to be enough to stop me? Laughable."  Death shot out a burst of energy from his middle mouth, but it bounced off of my body like a bouncing ball. "Huh?"
"You sound surprised. I cant blame you, though. After all, I guess you realized you cant win."
"What? You cocky little rat, I'll kill you!"
"It doesn't matter how many times you say that, you know."
"Gah! Die! Be exterminated! Vanish! Die!"
"You said die twice."
"Pest!"
"Ok, I've played around long enough." I teleported and delt 5 thousand hard blows to his heads in about then seconds.
"Woah! He's even faster than me!" remarked Dash.  
"Wooo! Taste the rainbow, motherbucker!" I shot out a ray of rainbow stream from my hands that was big enough to cover Death's entire body. when I did, He was vaporized to his first form.
"No...Not when I've come so close!" I teleported in front of Death, who had fallen to the ground.
"You know what they say." I put out my hand "Where there's toasters, there's toast."
"Wha..?" was all Death managed to get out before I shot out a ray of light, causing his body to slowly disintigrate.
"It's over...I did it!" I started jumping in celebration. "Yahoo!"
"Allright! I knew you could do it!" Exclaimed Twilight.
"Umm....can we go home now?" asked Fluttershy.
"Of course. Let's go home. I'm tired."