The Typhoon was one of the mightiest ships left in the Storm King's once vast fleet of conquest. Once serving as the personal flagship of his King's enforcer, Commander Tempest Shadow, it was now under the command of Thunderhead, one of the commander's bodyguards.
Once the final Equestrian princess had been secured in the throne room, Thunderhead had been instructed to return to the Typhoon and await further orders. But when the tornado came down from the sky right in front of the castle, and he witnessed the storm begin to pick apart the Storm Guard on the ground, Thunderhead made the call to move the ship away from Canterlot, and it was one of the only ships to survive.
Whether their King was captured or defeated mattered not; his reckless endangerment of his own troops proved once again that he was long past due to be replaced by someone better. The strong were not only meant to rule the weak, but lead them, make them stronger. A conqueror without a capable army was no conqueror at all. Every warrior on the ship had pledged loyalty to him, and now all that mattered was keeping them strong... Strong enough to eventually take back what their Storm King had so immaturely thrown away. The lands of Equestria could wait. When they grew powerful enough, they would bring the rest of the ships under their banner, retake the Storm King's castle, and become the conquerors they were meant to be.
"Lord Thunderhead," The first mate came up to his side as the towering Storm Guard manipulated the wheel, taking care to keep the Typhoon in their chosen cloud cover in the Sea of Clouds. "The others do not understand why we wait. It has been days since they passed through."
"Patience," Thunderhead told him calmly. "For prey is easiest to catch when it feels safe. Soon, we will accomplish that which our King nor our Commander could not, and we will transform ourselves into something far greater than we are now."
Ooooo. I actually kinda like this as a little 'aside' chapter. This is going to be interesting...
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/me is pleased
... Thunderhead is the name of one of my hero OCs...
Also, I CAN'T TAKE THE SUSPENSE!! MOAR!!!
The Storm King is an interesting character. On one hand, I didn't like him because at first, he came across as silly merely for the sake of silly, like the pinkie pie clones who were only capable of silliness, without the heart that makes Pinkie Pie such a great character. On the other hand, he is one of the more disturbing villains of the show's EU in that his swapping from silly to serious to threatening and back again makes for a much worse villain than even NMM who really if you think too hard about it is a very cliche villain (evil laugh check, take over the world check, stomp on anyone who gets in her way check) the only thing that would have been worse would be if NMM sprouted a curly mustache. In all honesty, though, it took some very insightful articles I read on Equestria Daily and elsewhere to come to this conclusion, so not all of these are fresh thoughts that "came to me".
Tempest was the essentially brute enforcer and at first glance the brains of the outfit, perhaps she fed her insight to her liege and when he inevitably took her ideas as his own she would say things like "of course your majesty, what a brilliant plan", perhaps she was like Jafar from Aladdin, a sneaky second in command who was just biding her time. But the Storm king's randomness means that even his own allies never know exactly what will set him off, one day he might be your best friend but the next day have you shot for treason because you forgot some tiny detail like I don't know, the topping on his oatmeal that morning.
The movie didn't do much for me, don't get me wrong the animation was brilliant, but more recently I found a deleted clip that would have started before the movie that was scrapped for being too scary, and from the bits and pieces I've found, the movie had a lot of other locales, and story-telling depth than the final product did. This is where I love people like you for fleshing out the world that Equestria is part of.