//------------------------------// // Art of the Lightsaber // Story: The Darker Side of Life // by Brony Parasite //------------------------------// ---Third POV--- “Hmm. Hey guys, anyone want to see a dark jedi? I’m gonna go and see if Folteren wants a mudkip. Like an adoption thing.” Freddy looked over the gathered animatronics in front of him. They all seemed to be concentrating to see which of his memories held info on what a jedi was. Bonnie snapped his claw. “Bingo! Yeah sure that sounds cool. Dark jedi magic force whatever. Maybe I can get the specs on a lightsaber so SB can conjure one up for me.” The other animatronics started remembering, but found they had other things to do, namely since Foxy had decided to build a cannon, which gained the attraction of the others for various reasons. Freddy put a paw onto Bonnies shoulder and placed the Mudkip he had chosen onto his own shoulder. He reached in and grabbed out Folteren’s token, clicking one of the button to talk to Folteren. “Yo Folty! I got Mudkips here now, you want me to pop over with one of them?” Folteren seemed different, his face was covered by a mask, and seemed to have droids behind him, “Greetings Fazbear, what is this about a ‘Mudkip?” The sith tilted his head. “Well I got bored and so I started making Pokemon IRL. SO I got Mudkips now. Another Displaced I met wanted a Pokemon to take with him so I was wondering if you wanted a Mudkip.” He held the small Mudkip up to the hologram. Folteren nodded, “I’ll be happy to take the little one, Shadow, Scoots, and Goldie would enjoy another friend.” “Cool, gimme a sec to use the token I gave you to pop over! Oh yeah, mind if I bring Bonnie here along? I made a bunch of the other animatronics and stuff and he wanted to meet a sith.” Folteren shrugged, “If you so wish, as long as he causes no trouble. I’ve had to deal with strange magic’s, and my plans are near complete.” Bonnie shrugged. “Sure thing.” Freddy grinned and his paw lit up, pulsing the trio over to Folteren’s world. Battle droids scrambled, magna-guards were marching, and Folteren oversaw everything from a hovering pad. “Welcome Freddy.” Folteren greeted, taking off his mask. He looked different, his skin was tan, and hair brown. He smiled, yet still had that ‘evil dude doing evil deeds’ aura, but more stronger. Freddy waved and Bonnie seemed to look around at the droids. “Bonnie that’s Darth Folteren or Folty as I call ‘im. Folty this one of the animatronics I made, Bonnie.” Bonnie uncertainly waved his claw. “Uh. Sup?” Folteren examined Bonnie, then looked to a red battle droid, “Vision, get Scoots down here. And Shadow… Go!” The droid ran down a corridor, and Folteren turned back to the two, “Droids… Anyway, its good to see you again. How has your world been holding up?” He smirked. “Pretty good, I took some advice and I’m doing less utter destruction and focusing on making stuff. I also gave myself a decent rep by reseting my Equestria to how it was earlier, as a favor. Oh yeah I dunno if she’s different here than mine, but Princess Cadenza’s alright. She actually tipped me off to this whole thing about Discord. Turns out the jackass put a chunk of power in my head to make me crazier from the start but it was getting worse since I offed him- Anyway Cadenza helped me get it out and all, and I actually made good use of those changelings I got off ya. Made them a new race without the hive mind so they’re all unique and such. And I started making Pokemon, such as this Mudkip. His name is Waffle.” Freddy grinned and held Waffle up Lion King style to where Folteren was hovering. He smiled up at him and started wobbling his legs. Folteren seemed less enthuzed about the less evil Freddy, but his frown was replaced when seeing the Pokemon. He took it gently, and held it under his arm for comfort and safety. Down the hall, the sound of hooves on steel rang out, and out came a white pegasus, and an all-too-familiar, orange one. Scoots ran up to the group with a big smile on her face, and a little plushie on her back that hugged her neck. “Oh! Mr. Freddy!” Scootaloo said, happy to see the golden bear. Freddy knelt down as she ran up. “Sup kid, how’s the plush doing?” “He’s been learning, and he’s fun to be with!” The plush bear waved, “I called him Goldie.” “And he creeps me the heck out, he roamed around in the fridge!” The white one said, shivering. Freddy smiled at that and stood up, looking to the white pegasus. “Well small white pegasus I haven’t had the pleasure of meeting, you seem to know my name so what’s yours?” The white pegasus smiled, “I’m Shadow Slash! Scoots told me your name when she got back from the wedding!” “Well nice to meet you. Oh and so I don’t forget, I’d like the two of you to meet my son/creation Bonnie!” He pointed a paw to Bonnie who waved to the two. “Hey there.” Shadow walked over to him, “Hello, nice to meet you.” She smiled, looking him over curiously. “So, you just came here to give me this Mudkip?” Folteren asked, unsure if the animatronic was serious or not.         “Well mainly to see if you wanted the Mudkip, by the way the little guy will grow over time rather than evolving, eating algae and moss and the like for a while and then starting to eat fish alongside by the time he’s Swampert age. He’s able to live on land, just give him a pond to make a little nest to sleep in sometimes (y’know as a place to have fish/ algae and moss and all) and he’ll be good. And otherwise I’m just checkin’ up on ya buddy, since you have the whole ‘war on princesses’ deal going on. By the by, if ya want I can swipe a couple of the Elements of Harmony and replace them with fakes, that way they can’t use them on you. Celestia always seems to underestimate her opponents.”         Folteren nodded, he looked to his Pip-Boy, “Sandy, build a pond for Waffles.”         [As you wish.] The AI spoke in a monotone voice.         “She’ll work on that… wait, did you say you built the other animatronics?”         “Yup! Well most of them. I magicked up a new sort of metal for their animatronic skeletons that’s nearly as impregnable as my own, and made new minds, like I took copies of bits of my own personality and memories and put them in the new bodies. Each of them used what I gave sorta as a foundation that they became unique entities off of. Like Bonnie there was started off of my persona and such from back when I was a teenager on my Earth, but with some Fazbeary goodness mixed in. So far I got Shadow Bonnie, Shadow Freddy, Foxy, FNAF1 Chica, Toy Chica, Toy Bonnie, and then any others either haven’t been made or I prefer to leave unmentioned. And for Bonnie and Chica (original versions that is) they’re made so they can sorta transform to resemble Old Chica And Old Bonnie from FNAF2. But y’know, without the damaged costuming and missing limbs. Like you can see Bonnie’s got the claw there. Of course it’s enchanted so it only cut what he means to cut, and anything else it reacts as if its wrapped in bubble wrap.” Bonnie wiggled his claw at Folteren and then turned so that the fillies couldn’t see his face, and took off his mask to show his black-tinted animatronic face. He blinked his pitch black eyes and moved his red pupils in circles before replacing the mask and fixing the disguise over his eyes. Shadow seemed extremely interested, but Scootaloo seemed lost. As for Folteren, he smirked, “Seems fun where you are. Things have been looking up for us too. Why don’t we take this to my shipyard.” Freddy shrugged. “Sure.” Folteren walked over to an Empire Shuttle. “Scoots, take Waffles. Shadow, come with me.” He used the force to give Scootaloo the Pokemon, and Shadow ran up to him. “Vision! Get the shuttle ready!”         The droid mumbled as he worked, “Vision this, Vision that…” Freddy called out as the droid exited view. “If you want I can give you extra arms! Would that help? I could make you look kinda like General Greivous though you may not know him!” “I don’t think you should,” Folteren said, “He’s not that well programed. All Vision can do is shoot, fly, and be funny. I like that about him.” “Eh fair enough. Don’t want a Terminator style revolution of ‘bots and all.” “It could still happen, I’ve got Skynet right here.” Folteren gestured to the red screen on his Pip-Boy. Folteren walked inside the ship, followed by Shadow. Freddy walked aboard and as Bonnie walked in he gained a look like he was trying to remember something. After a moment he snapped his claw. “Oh heck yeah! New memory!” When all the others but Freddy glanced at him in confusion he looked at them deadpan. “Remember how Freddy said we got his memories and stuff? Or at least some of them? Well I just found a new one.” He bent his neck back and reached down into his own chest and pulled out what looked like a keychain of a small, red electric guitar along with a silver guitar pick. He held the keychain in his claw before flipping it like a coin. It flashed and grew into a full size guitar. He sat down and started playing the song he seemed to have remembered with a grin. “I actually remember some of this stuff now! Alright so battle droids, an Imperial shuttle, what else ya got guy? I’m getting more into this now.” Folteren chuckled, and Vision started the ship. “This.” He pulled out a silver device, archaic in design. A purple blade appeared in a flash, humming as it moved. Bonnie stopped playing and looked at it. He snapped his claw and a ripple of light went over the handle. Bonnie shrunk down his guitar and placed it back into his chest with his pick and then gained a look of concentration. Sparks flickered around his paw and claw and a few flashes went off, summoning metal parts around him. He gathered an aura around him paw and snapped in again, a glowing orange gem appearing in his claw. He floated all of the parts with an excited (if somewhat manic) grin. He stopped partway and then looked at Folteren. “Uh, it’s not gonna be offensive if I make my own lightsaber, right? I can’t remember if it was super sacred to make a lightsaber to a Sith.” Folteren gave Bonnie an unamused look, “Indeed, it is. Yet how you made it isn’t. First, you aren’t a Sith. You aren’t even a Jedi, but that could be overlooked. You didn’t give it any thought. A Lightsaber is in fact, sacred, but it is not a weapon. It is an extension of oneself.” Bonnie gained an embarrassed expression and levitated the incomplete saber in front of himself. While it was in midair he lifted his claw. His claw seemed to extend and sharpen a bit, and he moved it through the blade as if it weren’t even there. After a second it shattered into shredded fragments, sans the gem. Bonnie grabbed it and held it out to Folteren. “Uh, sorry. I got this crappy habit of acting before thinking when I get excited.” Folteren sighed, “I can teach you how to customize it. If you want one.” “Well I won’t lie I do want one, but not if it’s, y’know, offensive or whatever.” “Nonsense, Freddy helped Scootaloo, and gave her a guardian. The least I could do is help you construct a Lightsaber. It would be like you were an apprentice. So, you up for it?” Folteren gave Bonnie a friendly smile. “Hecks yeah! Thanks!” “Thank me when we’re done. Okay, first off, there are no rules in the building of a Lightsaber, except color, but we’ll get to that later. First, type of Lightsaber. The standard Lightsaber is this,” He gestured to his, “It’s useful, and the most common. It can use all forms of combat, yet master of none. Next, there is the Saberstaff.” Folteren used his hologram projector to show Darth Mauls Lightsaber, “It has a better grip, great at defense, and is surprising to find one. It does come with flows. The extended hilt makes it vulnerable to attack.” Folteren looked to see if Bonnie was still with him, because Scootaloo fell asleep when he taught her. Bonnie looked up from the hologram and gave him a thumbs-up.         Folteren continued, “Next, there is the light Pyke,” The hologram changed to a long rod with a short blade, “Good for dealing powerful blows, and better length. Its weakness is by far my second least favorite. It has god awful maneuverability. If you want to be strong, yet not as agile, then I guess this could do…” The image changed once more, this time, a small handle, and a wavy light, “This is the light whip. Don’t pick it. It’s stupid, and dangerous. Its not even a lightsaber if you think about it… Some reason it is one… and its the least common of all. Can you see what I don’t like about it?”         “Yeah. Sorta seems like it’d just explode upon being activated, seeing as it’s not really restricted. Plus you could easily mutilate yourself.”         “The second one is correct, but you do have a point.” The image changed one last time, it looked like Count Dooku’s “This is the last one I remember, and by far one of my favorites. The curved hilt. While it does make some moves harder, it makes others easier. Same size, same length as a standard, but curved. Its rare, and not as impractical as the last two.” Folteren finished, he looked to Bonnie once more, “You got all that?” Bonnie nodded. “Standard is a straight blade, Saberstaff is the double bladed one like Darth Maul’s, Light Pyke is a staff lightsaber with a shortened blade on one end that’s good for attacks but not very maneuverable, light whip sucks ass, and Curved is the same length as standard but is, as implied, curved.”         Folteren smiled, “Good, you excel just as well as Shadow… So, what hilt would you like?” “I think I’ll go with a standard type. Curved seems like it’ll take more finesse in usage, so I dunno if that’ll be as good a fit for me. Same for the others, since they either need extra skill or care to use without mutilating someone.” Folteren nodded in approval, “Good choice, though, they can all be is you have the skill, and where you are from, I doubt you’d need anything more.” Folteren turned to Shadow, “Now, for the crystal, my main problem with your constructing a Lightsaber. Each color represents different choices of skill. Shadow loves this topic, so she’ll teach you.” Shadow jumped in excitement, “Yes!” She turned to Bonnie and smiled, “Now, the colors have different purposes. Like for instance…” ---[Watch this for what Shadow’s teaching.]--- Shadow took a deep breath, and trotted over to get some water. Bonnie put his claw on his chin and gained a look of thinking.         “Well I don’t have the force, as I am an animatronic albeit alive, so that removes the options of my having a saber/class that uses the Force a large amount… Hmm. I guess that my best bet would be yellow, since I got technology knowledge up in my head, and I have more balance of, though of physical skill/strength and magic rather than physical strength/skill and Force power. So would yellow be alright?”         “You could consider magic the Force, but yellow seems to suit you. Better than orange I believe.” Folteren said, “You can customize it anyway you’d like.” “Cool! Uh. Gimme a sec to see if I have any memories on lightsaber appearances…” Shadow came back, “Yellow? Cool! I took red!” “Sounds awesome. Okay Master, I think I’ll take my saber as a shoto build. That way I can have it as a secondary sort of weapon alongside my claw.”         Folteren nodded, “Build it piece by piece, so as to understand that it is a part of you.”         Bonnie nodded but then looked up. “Uh. Should I summon up all the mechanical bits with magic like before or should we get stuff made the normal way?”         “Everything but the crystal, magic tends to make duds. I’ll get the crystal.” Folteren moved to get a crystal in a compartment. “Get your stuff ready.” Bonnie nodded and gained the same glow of magic to his claw and paw, making the new components under Folteren’s instruction from what he had learned of Folteren’s own saber. “Okay all the parts are made.” Folteren came back, holding a yellow crystal, he set it down in front of the parts, “I made this with my nanites when I got out of stasis.” Bonnie nodded, and began to construct his saber under further instruction from Folteren. After a short while the new Shoto Saber was constructed. Bonnie stood up with his new saber in his left paw. He activated it, bringing out the yellow blade. He grinned. “Awesome...Thanks Master!” “The pleasure was mine.” “Lord Folteren! We’ve landed. Why aren’t you at the bridge?” Vision said, they had landed on a still being built Death Star. “You moron! I’m not Sonic, I can’t be everywhere at once!” Folteren glared at the droid. [Lord Folteren, hurry up.] “Everyone is so impatient… Come, the bridge isn’t that far.” Both of the animatronics made to follow him along. The group arrived in an iconic Star Wars area. The meeting room from the first movie. “Okay, so know what?” Folteren asked, looking to Freddy. Freddy shrugged. “I dunno, I thought you were taking us here for something.” Folteren thought for a moment, “Oh, I was going to tell you about how I’m doing with my Celestia problem.” “Oooohhhh. So you’re gonna make a mini Death Star to blow her up? I say miniature as the original would, y’know, take years to build and a constant stream of materials from other planets as one alone wouldn’t have enough, etc etc etc you know the spiel.” “Well, sort of. I did make a smaller Death Star, but blowing her up would zap my revenge. I’ll use my droid army to invade Equestria, and this will be the army carryer. It is nearly complete, so I’ll be ready in a day or so.” “Nice. So are you just gonna take out Celestia or are ya gonna go for the whole pot? You know taking over the whole country type of deal.” “Yes, Celestia killed one of my friends, so I’m going to take her ponies! Its the perfect revenge!” “Hmm… Well I can see where you’re coming from but then there is a better way to make her feel your pains. Instead of taking her ponies then maybe take one of her friends. Perhaps one as close to her as yours was to you, such as Luna or her student? That would take a good deal of time out of it and get it done faster. Then again, your revenge your plans. And I suppose that would definitely work as well… Anyhoo, let me know if you need help keeping it between you and Sunbutt, and I can whip up a bubble to keep any...interlopers out”         “Thank you, but there is something. Could you give me something to corrupt three of the Elements. I’m related to two, and Scootaloo would like Rainbow not to hate her.” “Hmm. I suppose that’d be doable, though it may be difficult to have them withstand your plans and still show the same personality, as it would seem out of character.” “Make them half evil. They’d be themselves, yet be on my side. It doesn’t sound difficult.” “Well the mind is a complex thing. Madness is easy, just gotta turn their own knowings and beliefs and such upside down and there, but this takes more finesse. Like I said it’s doable but it’ll need more caution. Would simply turning them against Celestia work? That way they’d be willing on their own to join you, and I wouldn’t need to spend as much time on it.”         “Thats good, I’d also like some loyalty for me. Hate for them to turn on me.”         “Yes I suppose that’s doable. Ponies are suckers for a sob story, and would undoubtedly help someone that had lost a friend. Turning them against Sunbutt should be easy enough, I’ll just be able to show them every gamble Celestia has taken in her rule, especially those which could have affected them and their loved ones and then show them how it could have turned out if she lost those gambles. The only thing that’ll make it hard is you taking innocents in your revenge. Those ponies have ‘good’ all mixed into who they are. Putting them on your side should work as well. You may have to choose to have them as allies and find another way to get vengeance or to specifically take innocents and make enemies of the elements.”         “I just plan on killing those who fight for Celestia, I do not plan to kill bystanders.”         “Okay that makes it easier. I can just convince them that Celestia needs to be put out of power for what she could have done. That’ll easily include the justification for taking out guards, though they’ll naturally prefer simply knocking them but or such. But they will understand the need. So which elements do you want on your side?”         “The Elements of Laughter, Honesty, and Loyalty.”         “Well Honesty will be doable, as from what I recall that one is fiercely to family members and thus would be massively protective about family and would take offense to the risks taken by Sunbutt. Loyalty of course for obvious reason, and Laughter… Hmm. She isn’t as confrontational as the others, so she won’t be willing to get actively involved but I think she can be made to see that there’s no other options… You may have to settle for her not revealing you out of Loyalty and otherwise refusing to take a side either way. But hey, she won’t be against you per say.”         Folteren smiled, “I can take care of that. I am her Granny Pie.”         “I’m gonna assume that either you have that by disguise shenanigans or you’re a crazy shapeshifting gender-changing nympho. Either way, you have my respect.”         “I still need the corruption. And thank you, I don’t get that quite often.” Folteren smirked, “Like I said, tomorrow is when I’ll attack, so I’ll take care of them here.” “Right right, I’ll pop out and take care of that now, that sound good?” Folteren nodded. Freddy smirked and snapped a paw, first going invisible and then warping to the farm of the element of honesty. He moved above her in the air and planted his paw onto her head. Freddy had already scanned Celestia’s mind back in his own world so he knew of some of the things that she had done, and many that she had hidden. In an instant he planted all of that knowledge and all of the possible outcomes into her mind. Along with that he revealed the truth of who Folteren was and how he connected to her family. She shook for a moment before Freddy placed her into unconsciousness and placed her in bed. When she woke up then she would feel like there was a voice whispering about who Folteren was, and she would see Celestia for what a poor ruler she was, and all that she had risked on her own mistakes. Freddy smiled, his work for this one was complete. She now wanted Celestia out of power by any means and understood Folteren’s reasonings and ideas.         Freddy snapped a paw and repeated the process on the element of laughter, adding in all of the sorrow and pain that Celestia both had and could have caused. After that it was easy enough to convince the element of loyalty. All he had to do there was make her question her loyalty to Celestia and show her why she shouldn’t feel that way, as well as showing her how Celestia could have ruined the lives of her friends, family, and all of Equestria. He snapped his paw again, returning to Folteren after a while.         “Alright, my work’s done Folty. They now see how much Celestia sucks ass and you got good reasons for doin’ what you’re gonna do.”         Folteren smiled, “Thank you so much, you keep helping me and all I do is give you things you could have gotten yourself. I’ll take good care of Waffles. And enjoy that Shoto Bonnie.” Bonnie saluted. “Can do! And would it be alright if I called you up from time to time for tips on using the thing?”         “Of course. I’d be happy to. And heres a tip for you: The Lightsaber is powerful, but it is only that, if you know how to use it. So here.” Folteren gave Bonnie a book labeled, ‘Form One Lightsaber Combat’ that he pulled from a hidden panel. “Should give you something to work on.” Bonnie grinned. “Cool!” He placed it into his ribcage to get later. Freddy snapped a paw and Bonnie shimmered, returning home. He turned back to face Folteren. “So, you need anything else before I go buddy?” Folteren grinned evilly, “No, you’ve done so much. I think I’ll be fine. And may the dark side aid you…” Folteren said. Freddy felt a chill attempt to run up his exoskeleton. He shrugged. “Eh think nothing of it. What’s the point of reality defying powers if ya don’t help your friends with ‘em… And fuck up your enemies...And do some stuff just for fun...Where was I going with this again…? Oh yeah! Anyhoo, no big deal and all. Seeya later Folty!” Freddy snapped his paw and disappeared in a flash of golden light. Folteren sighed. “I guess he is my friend… If I see him again and he has someone else call me Folty, I’m gonna force choke him even if it kills me.” Folteren sighed, “It was good to see him though, I hope him well.” Shadow smiled up at the dark jedi, “I liked that Bonnie guy.” Folteren glared at the pegasus playfully, “No boy’s till your older.” Shadow held her lunch. Folteren began walking away, “We will see them again. And when that day comes, we will already rule Equestria.” To Be Continued