Loyalty in Brass

by Mr BHunt


71ory 29me - The Cor2up-ERROR

"Where did... Hey, story man! Where did you go? Well then, I guess I'll do his job. But first, better now let's read. "Where the heck, where's the book? *Crash* "AH! Where the heck is it?! It was here! When I find that bugger I'll-"

{User/Corrupt_Joined}

"Who the hell are you? How did you enter this place?"

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"OH GOD NO PLEA-"

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{Much a shame, he was such a good reader. Unlike this filth, you're here for a story. Most unfortunate. I'm not a storyteller, I'm a disciple of the Corruption. My name is-} Error {-But I prefer Corrupt, it's easier to say. Oh joy, can't even say my name. Unfortunate, but it matters not. But now that I have control of this pitiful land, I'm going to purge the story.. hehe haha ha hehe heh...}

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{Chapter name: All is Lost}

All is Lost

Canterlot
No POV

"Run! HAUL YOUR FLANK!" A royal guard yells at a group of stumbling and running ponies, she uses her magic to tear a sword from a fallen guard's scabbard and swings it over the heads of the running ponies. It slices into the skin of a Corrupted pony, it's once blue fur crawling with black tendrils and it's eyes a glossy gold. The beast screams and bites onto the sword, it throws it's head back and the sword is flung out of the guard's magical grasp. The guard yells and shoots a bolt of green energy at the beast, to suddenly realise that there was a large shape moving towards her neck, she can't even scream as the glaive slams through her neck.

The once shining Brass Knight was now a dimmer colour with black pools of liquid stuck to it's armour, tendrils dart out from the pools and grab the mare. The beast moans as it Corrupts the headless mare, the black liquid forms a deformed head in the empty neck. The newly reanimated guard roars and throws itself at one of the surviving ponies, covering the poor stallion's head with the false head it has. The pair Corrupt into a single form, a black and aqua mangled beast. It screams with two voices and rushes at the rest of the survivors.

Ponyville

Most of the residents were Corrupted and many were hiding, but not for long. The Apples were melted into a many, legged beast. Most of the flying residents were hovering above groups of survivors, letting Corruption fall from their hollow bodies. The unicorns dragged survivors into puddles of Corruption and the baby dragon, once known as Spike, was now nothing but a massive mimic, a false dragon. It roars and crushes homes under it's enormous weight, killing those that aren't Corrupted.

"Rainbow, please! I'm your friend!" Twilight yells at the once cyan pegasus, now her face was covered in the Corruption. Twilight grabs her friend and throws her into a house, she hears screaming and the scared face of Dr. Hooves appears in one of the windows. She watches as her friend rams into the doctor, sending them both through the window and back onto the ground. The doctor was Corrupted even before he hit the ground, his body looks up at Twilight and moans. Soon Rainbow Dash flies up and swoops down at her, intending to tackle Twilight. But Twilight throws her at the doctor again, then she turns and bolts through the town.

Rarity cries as she holds her little sister back with her magic, but she didn't see Opal hiss and scratch the little beast, unintentionally Corrupting herself. Rarity sees the Corruption spreading on Opal and, with her magic, grabs a pair of scissors and throws them at her cat. But she let go of Sweetie when she did this, the beast screams and leaps at Rarity's neck. Rarity just grabs the little beast in a hug, letting the Corruption spread over her. At least she will be with her sister, forever.

Brass Inquisior Outpost

The Brass Centurion roars as it smashes it's shield into one of the Corrupted soldiers, then it slams it's axe into it's helmet. It kicks the hollow suit back and parries a glaive that was heading towards it's chest.

"We are routed! But do not give in! DESTROY THE FALSE SOLDIERS!" It roars and rapidly smashes it's axe into the Corrupt soldier, but it was blindsided by a wild grab by a Corrupt Brass Defender. The Brass Centurion struggles but soon collapses, a large amount of it's armour Corrupted. "NO! NOt ToDAy! NOt today..." The Brass Centurion groans and fully turns into the thing it was fighting, it roars and swings it's axe into the back of a Brass Knight, then it sends tendrils of Corruption into the cracks in the soldier's armour. They both turn and attack the rest of the Uncorrupted soldiers, mindlessly following unknown orders.

Brass Stronghold

The Brass Legate suddenly stands from it's throne and roars, then it claws at a growing pool of Corruption on the back of it's neck. It falls limp to the floor, the Storm Praetorians stationed to guard it slowly backing up. The Corruption Legate looks up and moans as a third arm explodes from the back of it's armour, the hand was holding a glowing orange orb. It throws the orb into the back of the C.L's head, causing it to rear up in pain, then it falls with a humongous thud. The Storm Praetorians sprint to the throne room doors, trying to escape their certain death. But the C.L was too fast, it's helmet explodes with Corruption and three huge tendrils appear in it's place. They reach out to the S.Ps and slams them away from the door. The body of the C.L stands up and stumbles towards the door, letting the Corruption spread through it's left arm. Then suddenly the C.L's arm explodes and a claw of black tendrils snake out of the mangled gauntlet, it wrappeds around the massive glaive and hefts it up onto it's shoulder. The C.L slams it's three 'heads' into the door, throwing off it's hinges and at a group of patrolling Brass Sentries. It turns to the right and spots another patrol, it makes a deep and guttural laugh.

"MuST BecOMe PURE!" It roars as it rushes down the hall, it wraps the group of four sentries in a bear hug and absorb them into itself, it's armour getting even more plates of brass armour and a new faceplate was placed over the three tendrils. It clicks it's neck and looks at it's left hand, it slowly retreats into the armour and is replaced by another gauntlet. It nods and marches towards the main core of the stronghold. Then as it was walking it felt something enter it, the Corruption within was pushed out. The Brass Legate groans and falls to a knee, it releases orange steam from the cracks in it's armour. It looks up and the faceplate's eyes glow an orange colour, it's mouth pulled into a snarl. It stands up and lets a low chuckle fill the halls, the soldiers within suddenly disappear in bright flashes of orange.

"Now, I finally can create...peace" The Author says and teleports to Canterlot Castle, a goal of elimination in mind.

Canterlot Castle

The Royal Sisters sit atop their thrones and watch the doors of the throne room, aware that a horde of Corruption awaited beyond it. They hear roaring and snarling, then a pattern of thuds, almost like hoovesteps. The doors are thrown open and Celestia and Luna fly up and ready their magic, only to realise that not a single Corrupt being was entering. Then a bipedal knight appears into the room, looking around with a orange light coming from it's unblinking eyes. The two sisters fly up to the ceiling of the throne room and watch the being suddenly teleport to the thrones, it looks between them and turns around, teleporting towards the exit. Luna decided that this was the time to exhale, but this caused the knight to stop just before the two doors. Suddenly it disappears and appears in front of Luna, a snarl clear on it's face. It grabs her neck and teleports to her throne, it places her on it and looks up at Celestia. She disappears in a flash of gold, the knight looks at the other throne, another flash and Celestia appears on her throne.

The knight starts to pace in front of the Royal Sisters. "For all of two mouths or so, my story was going good. Then suddenly a lose of inspiration struck." The Author states. "My mind was having trouble of finding this inspiration, but I did. Now that Corrupt has taken over, spreading Corruption to the surface of Equis, I've barely taken a host to control. Now that the Brass Legate is my host, and all Brass Inquisitor soldiers are wiped off this planet, there is only you and the rest of the species on this planet. I'm going to reset the planet, this will destroy everything. But it will wipe Corrupt from the surface of my land, this means I will create you all again, without the Corruption. So, do you accept this fate? All memory of this meeting will be restored on the discovery of the first Brass Knight." The Author stops in front of Celestia and holds it's hands behind it's back, Celestia nods. "Affirmative, executing reset... NOW!"

{Loyalty in Brass Resetting . . . Complete }
{New chapter pending . . . Incomplete}