"Blue. Think about what you're doing." Sarge said cautiously, eyes narrowing to small slits as he watched the wrathful stallion.
"I've been thinking about it for the past few years." Church growled, eyes continuing their harsh glow. "I've thought about it for long enough."
"Hey, we thought about deleting you but we haven't done anything..." Sarge grunted.
"Well maybe you should have." Church yelled as he released the beam from his eyes, to everyone's surprise it went straight for it's target.
Sarge rolled out of the way of the oncoming beam and glanced behind him to witness the destruction. But the beam didn't pass him. Looking back, he saw Celestia standing in front of all of them, beam mere inches from her face as she blocked his beam with her magic. Church snarled and narrowed his eyes, concentrating to make the beam stronger and slimmer. But Celestia did not bat an eyelash. Instead, she used her magic to grab Church's head and forced him to look out the window and into the sky until he stopped.
"Enough." Celestia said flatly. "I'm not going to allow you to harm anyone."
"Right, because that would make me so much worse than you." Church snapped, flying straight at her, but again, Celestia flicked her horn, making Church drop to the ground.
"Church, I don't want to do something I'm going to regret."
"Everything I've seen you do so far has been something you regret!" Church yelled, jumping at her again, this time ramming himself into her, knocking her off balance. "I've never seen you do something you shouldn't regret."
"I do what I think is best for the ponies I watch over." Celestia said quietly as she quickly stabilized to focus on Church.
"Really?" Church growled, slamming into her again. "Like when you brought me to the garden and made that douche-bag come back to life?"
Celestia tried to get her balance, but got tackled again, this time knocking her to the floor. As she tried to get up, Church stomped on her stomach, knocking the breath out of her. The guys looked at each other and nodded, sprinting towards them, only to be repelled by a small sphere that surrounded them. As they looked at Church they noticed his eyes were now purple.
"Or how about when you lost to that Changeling Queen, huh?" Church muttered, grabbing Celestia with his magic just to throw her at the side of the shield, making her grunt. "You showed everyone how fucking powerless you are!"
"She was feeding on the love of others-"
"Right, she was feeding on the love of others and love is the most powerful magic of all. Shut. The fuck. Up." Church muttered, slamming her into the shield with each pause. "How about when you put us, aliens that you actually knew were the Elements of Chaos, with the girls, knowing full well that we would corrupt them?"
"It could have gone either way." Celestia said quietly. "There was just as much of a chance of the Elements of Chaos being harmonized as there was the Elements of Harmony being corrupted."
"You left the safety of the ponies you trust most with the toss of a fucking coin?" Church asked, trembling with fury as he dropped her to the ground. "What the fuck is wrong with you?"
"I thought that the Elements of Harmony were stronger." Celestia sighed. "I've seen them grow with the girls, I saw what they overcome. Every time I wanted them to do something was to build them up, make them grow closer as friends. I was hoping by doing that, if something were to happen to me they would be ready for anything. I guess I trusted in them so much that I entrusted them with watching you, that way if they changed you I would know they were prepared for the worst."
"You wanted the worst?" Church asked, raising his hoof above Celestia's throat. "You fucking got it."
"Get away from her!"
Church snapped his head to his right to see who called out, but found himself tumbling across the floor of the throne room. Shaking his head, Church looked back to the bubble shield that was now broken to see a furious draconequus.
"Leave. Her. Alone." Discord said flatly, eyes burning into Church.
Church shrugged off his demand and galloped towards Celestia, only to be knocked to the floor again by Discord's magic.
"What? You wanted chaos!" Church complained, getting off the floor.
"Not this kind of chaos. This isn't the chaos I want." Discord growled, waving his claw at Celestia, who was shakily getting up with the help of her sister. "This isn't fun."
"It is for me." Church grunted.
"Well, it seems we're at a crossroads then." Discord said contemplatively, scratching his chin. "You want to kill her, but I want her to stay alive to toy with her. How do you suppose we settle this?"
"I could kill you." Church suggested as icily as he could.
"You could try." Discord chuckled. "Or I could try picking you back apart so you can do what you were told to do."
"I did what you wanted me to do!" Church snapped, jumping towards him, but phased right through the slippery devil. Church glanced back to see the real Discord sitting on the throne once again.
"Why do you keep assuming I wanted you to become the Alpha?" Discord asked curiously, looking over the alicorn.
"Because you told me to!"
"No, I didn't. I told you to be yourself, not whatever this is now." Discord said disdainfully, now eyeing Church with a small amount of contempt. "I think you heard what you wanted to hear."
"You think I wanted to be the Alpha?" Church growled, eyes glowing a soft red.
"Please, you've used that a few times already, now it's easy to stop." Discord sighed. "Seriously, try something new."
"You got it." Church muttered in a deeper voice, eye color changing to red before vanishing from Discord's sight.
"Well. That is new." Discord admitted, floating to where Church was. "I would have never guessed you him to be a cowa-"
Discord let out a pained grunt when something hit him in the chest. Looking around hastily, Discord saw that the Princesses looked just as concerned as him, and the other ponies were on the other side of the room, watching in silence. Discord thought his mind was slipping, so he opened his mouth to question if anybody saw anything, only to have been hit in the jaw, slamming his mouth shut. With a yelp, Discord swatted the air around him, clipping an invisible Church in the face. As Church tumbled on the ground, his red colored eyes changed back to normal and the cloaking spell he was using stopped working.
"Interesting. I have not seen somepony use a properly working cloaking spell in years, especially by one who has no experience with magic beyond messing up." Discord said bemusedly. "Though I suppose you have the Element of magic to thank for that, no?"
"Yeah, I guess I do!" Church muttered, launching himself off the ground, kicking Discord in the face before he could react. "And now I'm stronger than you are, and I'm not going to hold back."
"Enough of this fighting! I told you I could play dirty, and I will." Discord sputtered, rubbing his nose viciously.
"You aren't right now?" Church asked.
"Hah, no. Your mind is full of chaos, Church. Sweet, sweet chaos. And do you know what I do with chaos?" Discord asked in a low toned voice. "I manipulate it."
Church gasped as Discord vanished from the air and turned into a brownish mist before shooting into Church. Church rolled around on the ground screaming as Discord worked his way through Church's body and to his brain. Church let out a pained shudder as he floated off the floor like a puppet.
"It would have been so much simpler had I done this before." Church's mouth moved with Discord's voice coming out.
"Then that would have ruined the fun, right?" Church asked in his own voice.
"Now you're getting it." Discord nodded within Church's mind.
"Yeah, and you're about to too." Church laughed roughly, clenching his eyes shut as tightly as he could.
"What do you mean by that?"
"You fell for the oldest trick in the book." Sarge said, seeing what Church had done by the small smirk that sat at the corner of Church's mouth.
"Wait, what are you talking about?" Discord asked quickly, seeing a sad but satisfying smile on the red stallion's face.
"It's the reverse Trojan horse." Church said tightly, giving Sarge a quick nod. "I've been trapped in my own head for years, what made you think you could waltz in and just leave whenever you wanted?"
"What?" Discord asked again, this time with frustration over confusion.
"Do it." Church said to Twilight and the others, gritting his teeth as Discord slammed against the inside of Church's brain, threatening to drive him mad within the next minute..
"Do what?" Twilight asked, nervous now, seeing a strange intent in Church's eyes.
"You of all ponies should know, Twilight. It's really fucking obvious what I want you to do." Church said hurriedly, making it clear that what he wanted needed to be done fast. "I need you girls to take the Elements back and use them on me."
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Wha... it was a trick to get Discord?
OH YES! Dis gon b gud!
Looks like Discord Fucked up
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Well sheeet just got real with the reverse Trojan condom
DAMN SON! I did NOT see that one coming!
oh...ok...well at least church got to beatup celestia for awhile
MOARMOARMOARMOAR!!!!!!
Oh and more AHiE please...
Well church certainly had me fooled. Discord is gonna be pissed!
so his target...was discord...did celestia and church plan this.
mind meld successful.
Ho shit.
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Was it a trick? I am still sort a kinda confused about what all just happened. But I am sure my mind will sort it out shortly. Still it will be interesting to see the affect the elements have on church/Discord.
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Wait... If Church becomes a statue I am super DUPER unsubscribing!
Well not really. But he has very valid points.
I'm not sure what exactly just happened here. Someone tell me, did he honestly just take her down like that ? Or is Celestia apart of the trick too(at this point, I wouldn't be surprised if not)? Also with other thoughts, what in heavens name is Luna doing? Faffing about in the corner while this is going on? Never expected Discord to have quite the moral code either.
Darkwing I swear to god...if you say they had telepathic conversation....
is theta coming back! please oh please oh please make theta come back
aww i wanted discorded delta and omega
pinkie pie is donut
Caught up on RvB, Caught up on MLC...
Holy fuck, this shit is amazing.
1548248
Why do you basically copy and paste that comment?
You've said the exact same thing like 20 times now.
... What a twist!
1548288
Because you've fucked our minds man....you've mind fucked us all... Fucking love this so far, and don't even fucking THINK! That church isn't going to survive this... Even though you do write the story...
Christ, how many twists are you going to pull on us? This was just a ruse all along to trap Discord? (and beat the snot out of Celestia for a bit?)
Good freaking job. Have all of the internets sir. You deserve them.
1548000 YEAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1548248 Do you do anything but bitch about Theta and a lack of North Dakota?
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M'kay?
M. Night Shyamalan, eat your heart out!
...well sir.
I can honestly say that I didn't see that coming
Well, at least Omega got a bit of a workout. Church might actually appreciate being hit with the harmony beams at this point. Probably be a relief for him.
I still have to wonder if cave-guy is going to play a role in all this.
1544133 You got it all wrong. This is how it its
Sarge: Good ol' Shotgun
Simmons: Rocket Launcher
Grif: Grif-shot Aka Meta's Granade launcher
Caboose: O'malley or Assault rifle
Tucker: Swish, swish, stab, stab
Church: Sniper rifle (even though he just misses everything with it)
Wash: Battle rifle
Donut: Plasma nades
Now your asking what is the diffirance of the Battle and Assault rifle? Well The Assault rifle is full auto, whilst the Battle rifle is three round burst
Im crying tears of joy... i must read this.....now
so he wants the girls to fuck his shit up so discords shit will also be fucked up? thats wat church is doing right?
1548582
You got it.
Have a sticker
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Well, didn't see that coming.
you tricked me! I think that may have been the best ive ever been played by a story.
You know, somewhere in your life you stop and realized you've just read a shocking twist, in a slice of life (with a hint of romance) fan fiction, about space marines turning into colorful horses, and i'm just fine with that.
I so did not see that coming and Church got a bonus of bating the crap out of Celestia both physically and verbally.
I KNEW it! I knew he was going to get turned to stone!
1548591 A sticker? I LOVE STICKERS!!!
1548422 1548288 dos scootaloo talk about fast pegisi and not talk about Rainbow Dash
Spartans and A.I.s? North and Theta respectively... bow chika bow wow
1548649 where did you read that? sound good
1548582 wouldn't be the first time remember when alpha defeated the meta and sigma? he killed himself
1548532 you forgot caralina's plasma rifles... whats tex, and lopez'?
Cliffhanger? Noooo!!!!
Anywho, keep up the amazing work!
NNNOOOOO!!!!
i totaly could see a few chapters of.....
AARRGGGHHH!!!
*trows brain in trash can*
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damn i love what you did ...
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Thanks to you DarkWing, for keeping me up three nights in a row reading or STORY! CURSE YOU AND EVERYPONY WHO ARE AMAZING WRITERS! /)
So Church will end up on the moon, the sun, turned to stone, trapped in a memory unit, or otherwise removed from Equestria.
And Discord was never really evil. He was just having fun all along.
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Long time reader, first comment.
Love the story, please write more, etc.
So now I'm wondering what is Churchs real plan here? Does he have one? If he tries to kill Celestia (and it seems he can), and Discord stops him, that means Discord isn't all bad, but I think that's been covered. Was all of this a plan to "get Discord"? Now (As I'm thinking faster than I comment), that this -is- his plan, he is frustrated his life has been so controlled (esp the whole Blood Gulch thing, which while is an awesome part of the show, connected to the larger story, as they go on in seasons 6-9 [10 now], Blood Gulch was almost too goofy to be real), so (long comment train of thought short), did he do this to make the EoH attack him, to try and clear out his problems? Stops discord (who he might not believe is even real, they are still in the Epsilon unit if you remember back, although thinking of that sort of depresses me, and I hope is explained somehow, since I don't want this story to be "fiction"), but also clears up his own problems (which we all know exist, thus the whole fragmented AI business, and him being a created person [AI?]).
If nothing else fun to think about. Sorry if my comment doesn't exactly explain my whole train of thought, but again it's me trying to give some of my points of views, and ideas about what is happening, at 5:42 in the morning. Plus it's a comments board. Deep philosophical discussions on the internet belong on IRC, not comment sections (which should always remain trash, and hate filled, ha).
You sir have won the one and only [Data Redacted]
1549314 pretty sure somewhere it stated that they weren't in the Epsilon unit anymore
1547848 shameless self-plug!
1546555 EEYUP already found it