//------------------------------// // Chapter 18: The New Order part 3 // Story: Assassinverse: Unicornia The New Order // by efug25g //------------------------------// Upon seeing Professor Felhand's Huge Mechanical Invention, Twilight and the rest of her friends could not help but stare at it under a state of shock and horror. "Hello, Princess Twilight." Professor Felhand sneered while inside the cockpit of his Shadow Warrior Mech. "It seems that you were able to save one of your closest friends from my control, which was no cake walk. But make no mistake, as long as I have the opportunity to create new machines, new weaponry, and new creations to serve under the will of Unicornia, you cannot get too conceited in taking us down like that. Your days are numbered. Say hello to my master piece, The Shadow Warrior." As Felhand's Mech approached out into the light, the Shadow Warrior was revealed to be a 45ft giant Unicorn robot. On both of the robot's sides, there is cluster missile pods deployed, armed, and ready. At the robot's back, there is two huge black swords mounted in a crossed scabbard; they're both glowing in a ominous green color. Underneath the robot unicorn's hooves, there is wheels that made the robot move faster than an average unicorn would. When the robot unicorn's horn lit up, it emitted a red aura. Before any pony could see what was going on, the two green-glowing black swords came out of its scabbard and started aiming at Twilight's friends. "Metal Knights, attack!!!" Professor Felhand ordered. From both of Twilight's side, the Metal knights appeared drawing out their Yari spears and their katanas, arming themselves to the teeth. The next thing Twilight's friends saw from them is that the Metal Knights charged at them with all their might. "Don't falter, every pony." Twilight shouted in a Royal Canterlot Voice. "Drive them back, with everything you got!!!" Upon hearing Twilight's orders, Rainbow Dash and Flash Sentry charged head first with their spear and lance. Just when the two pegasus are about to stab the Metal Knights with their weapons, the androids activated a plasma phase shield, emitting an electrical, purple aura. The moment Rainbow's spear and Flash's lance made contact with the knight's phase shields, they both got a minor shock underneath their skin. Before the Metal Knights were able to get any closer, Starlight Glimmer appeared in front of them and hurled three chains with axeheads attached to each of them. Upon contact, all three Metal Knights had their heads decapitated due to Starlight's new weapon and the exploded, the moment they collapsed onto the pavement. As soon as Flash and Rainbow recovered from their minor shocks, they charged at the Metal Knights again, this time the two pegasus went circling around two more Metal Knights. Before either Metal Knight had a chance to react, Flash hurled a javelin that pierced one Metal Knight right through his skull, while the other Metal Knight received a kick to the face with one of Rainbow's hind legs and stabbed it from above his position. As for Twilight, she used her magic to charged up her horn to the fullest. When it was done, Twilight blasted five Metal Knights with just one shot, as well as crippling the left hind leg of Felhand's Shadow Warrior. "UGH!!!" Felhand grunted after feeling a vibration in the cockpit when receiving damage from Twilight's spell. "You're not getting anywhere near my master." Before Twilight could see what was coming, the Shadow Warrior's legs deployed small rocket engines and made a fast strafing run while firing its cluster missile pods at her. Twilight unfurled her wings and flew up high, avoiding the multiple explosions caused by the Shadow Warrior's cluster missiles. The next thing the purple alicorn did was drawing out her orichalcum halberd before launching herself directly at Felhand's Mech. Without hesitation, the Shadow Warrior used its huge horn, as a gravitational device, to draw out its Shadow Swords and performed a cross parry against, Twilight's lunge attack with her halberd. After breaking away from Twilight's lunge, the Shadow Warrior made several horizontal swipes at her only for the alicorn to do several mid-air flips while holding her halberd 25ft above her. As soon as she was clear away from the Unicorn Mech, Twilight charged at it again, this time she summoned all of her magic with her horn and zeroed into the Shadow Warrior like a huge magical bolt of energy. Upon impact, Felhand activated the Shadow Warriors, plasma shields to guard against, Twilight's fearsome attack. As the Shadow Warrior's shield and Twilight's magical energy collided into each other, a huge line formed between the two sides as lighting bolts started striking randomly all over the area. After seeing such force occurring, Rarity, Sunset, Starlight, and Trixie disengaged with fighting against the Metal Knights and used their magic to form shield barriers to protect the rest of their friends from the electrical discharge that Twilight and Felhand are both causing. Every pony and Metal Knight that wasn't able to defend themselves from the rampaging electrical discharge have either vaporized or exploded. After Twilight and Felhand's Shadow Warrior disengaged from their collision, they both backed a couple of meters away from each other. Before Twilight could resume her fight with Felhand's Shadow Warrior, Flash Sentry appeared from behind Twilight overhead and performed an aerial lighting strike with his lance at the Shadow Warrior. Upon seeing Flash heading straight for him, Felhand started firing another barrage of cluster missiles at the orange pegasus. As some of the missiles exploded in mid-air, Flash evaded most of them before hurling several javelins at the Shadow Warrior. Several of Flash's Javelins struck the Shadow Warrior in its sides before Felhand had the Mech move backwards, evading the rest of the javelins, in which pierced the ground a few feet away from him. Flash continued to press forward, with his lance aiming straight at the Shadow Warrior's face. Before Felhand was able to do anything to the Shadow Warrior while inside his cockpit, Flash stabbed the Shadow Warrior's face, damaging its left eye, destroying one of the cockpit's side cameras. Infuriated by Flash's lunge attack, Felhand activated the Shadow Warrior's horn again, drawing out one of the Shadow Swords and launched it at Flash Sentry. Flash was able to raise his tower shield to block the oncoming Shadow Sword, only for it to slam Flash at a nearby building. In just an instant, Sunset Shimmer used her magic to summon her anti-tank rifle and started shooting at the Shadow Warrior's legs, making it less maneuverable. After Sunset crippled the Shadow Warrior's legs with her rifle, she drew out an EMP Grenade from her pouch and threw it at the Shadow Warrior. Upon impact, the EMP grenade exploded a few feet away from the Shadow Warrior, temporary disabling it. However, before any pony got closer to finish the Shadow Warrior off, Felhand turned on a switch that was hidden underneath his control panel, which activated the Shadow Warrior's emergency backup power generator. As soon as the Shadow Warrior activated itself again, it lunged straight at Sunset Shimmer dead in the center. Before the yellow unicorn could react, the Shadow Warrior rammed her with its mass, sending Sunset Shimmer slamming her back to a wall of a nearby house, knocking her out cold. As the Shadow Warrior starting closing in the yellow unicorn, a barrage of cannon fire started bearing down on the Mech from its rear. It was Pinkie Pie and Cheese. The two earth ponied were commandeering a huge tank that was being driven down to the town square. It had a blue turret with a 50mm cannon and a red chassis with track wheels spinning underneath the vehicle. On both of the tank's sides, it was also armed with 4 side sponsors of 25mm cannons. They were all firing random cherry bombs at the Shadow Warrior. "Pinkie Pie. Where in the name of Celestia did you get that thing???" Rainbow Dash yelped after seeing Pinkie commandeering such a hugh contraption. "It's a secret weapon that me and Pinkie Pie have been planning for a very long time." Cheese Sandwich smirked as he was driving the tank towards the town square. "We've saving this bad boy for a rainy day." "Okey, Doki, Loki. LET'S GO BLAST SOME BAD PONY DEMONS INTO THE NEXT MILLION, TRILLION, GAZILLION, BAZILLION, QUADDILLION MOONS!!!" Pinkie roared, unleashing a battle cry while aiming the guns at her targets, with devilish fire in her eyes. As Pinkie's tank moved out into the open, it fired all of its weapons at the Metal Knights, along with the rest of Felhand's creations. During the multiple explosions, Soarin and Rainbow Dash were able to get Sunset Shimmer to a safe place to recover. Undaunted by the destruction that Pinkie's tank is causing, Felhand gained control of his Shadow Warrior once again. This time, he charged straight at the tank, unleashing a salvo of cluster missiles at it. "Cheese, that mad scientist wretch it firing at us!!!" Pinkie shrieked after seeing the missiles flying towards her position. Without hesitation, Cheese flipped a switch from above him. Not a moment too soon, 2 small hatches opened up revealing a pair of anti-missile gatling cannons. In an instant both gatling cannons fired a endless stream of bullets at the encroaching missiles, exploding of most of them in mid-air before it even hit the tank. One missile, however, was able to get through the stream of bullets and hit the tank on the side, destroying one of the side-sponsor cannons. "I don't know how that Pink clown was able to built a contraption like that, but I'm not going to let her get the best out of me." Felhand snarled to himself. As most of the tank's cannons fired a volley onto the Shadow Warrior, it started moving side-to-side evading most of its exploding shells. As soon as the Shadow Warrior got close, it was about to stomp on the tank with its huge front hooves but not before Cheese pulled out a level on his left, making the tank perform a fast reverse evasion. In an instant, the tank backed away from the Shadow Warrior before it was able to stomp on it. After the tank back away, it fired the three remaining side-sponsor turrets at the Shadow Warrior's face, only for Felhand to activate a huge red shield to defend itself from cannon fire. As the fight continued between Felhand's Shadow Warrior and Pinkie's huge tank, Twilight spotted an open weak spot in the Shadow Warrior's left side compartment, exposing the Mech's main reaction attached to the backup generator. Not wanting to wait any longer, Twilight zoomed in and attempted to stab the weak point with her halberd. However, as soon as purple alicorn latched onto the Shadow Warrior's side, she started to loose her balance, due to the Mech's fast movement. In a flash, Twilight used her magic to teleport herself onto the compartment while grabbing the ledge with her left hoof. After she pulled herself back up, Twilight used her magic to stab the backup generator with her halberd, in which gave her an electric shock. "AAAAARRRRRGH!!!" Twilight screamed as she felt the electrical current flowing through her body in excruciating pain. Before she knew, the backup generator exploded, sending the purple alicorn flying against her will and crashed into the pavement. As soon as Twilight got up, the Shadow Warrior started to malfunction. Inside the cockpit, Felhand realized that he just lost control of the Shadow Warrior and before it crashed straight into Pinkie's tank at full speed, he activated the emergency ejector seat. As a result, the pilot compartment popped open from the cockpit and launched Felhand straight into the sky while still on the seat. Before Felhand came down, after being ejected, his seat opened up a parachute, in which safely landed him on the ground unharmed. As for the Shadow Warrior, upon seeing the mech closing into their tank, Pinkie Pie and Cheese were able to get out in time before the mech crashed into it, causing a big explosion right behind them. "Man, we should've got another tank to join the party." Pinkie muttered to herself in disgrace. As soon as Felhand unstrapped himself from his ejector seat, he finds himself surrounded by a couple of Crystal Guards, Twilight Sparkle, and Flash Sentry after he got up thanks to Rarity's wake up call. But before any pony was able to restrain him, Felhand made an evil cackle. "Don't even think this is over, yet." Felhand snickered as he pulled out a white diamond, imbedded with green magic. "As long as I have this device in my hooves, Majesty will do exactly as I say." "What do you mean by.... Oh Shit!!!!" Twilight gasped in horror. Before any pony could understand what was going on, a distant explosion came from behind Twilight and her friends. As soon as they turned around, they saw Majesty flying around and screaming like crazy as she felt electrical jolts rapturing her brain like there is no tomorrow. The next thing she did was unleash a massive beam of magic at Twilight Sparkle. Luckily, Twilight was able to use her magic to form a huge shield barrier that block Majesty's attack in an instant. "What in the bucking horseapples is wrong with her, ah??" Applejack said in horror. "When we saw her, she was trying to help evacuate the fillies and gentlecolts but the next she did, is that she was trying to attack us???" "You all don't realize it, do you? Well, neither did Majesty?" Felhand laughed as he raised the diamond above his head. "All right, you bucking maggot. What in the heckload of walnuts did you bucking do to her?" Applejack hissed at Felhand. Felhand smirked at Applejack, Twilight, and the rest of her friends before he explained his flashback, starting around when Majesty Blueblood was only 3 months old, before they conquered Equestria. At Unicornia, during the time that an infant Majesty Blueblood was in the nursery. Amadeus and Professor Felhand were both lounging in the break room, drinking coffee while holding their mugs with their magic. "So, Felhand, we you able to inject one of those small control devices in Majesty's body?" Amadeus asked after drinking a sip from his mug. "Why, yes I did." Felhand responded as he put the coffee mug on the table. "The reason why I asked you to do this is because incase my daughter suspects that we took over Equestria due to personal gain, we may need to come up with a backup plan in order to deal with any resistance that comes straight at us." Amadeus explained. "She may still be young, but ever since Princess Luna mentioned about Majesty Blueblood, I feared that one day, my daughter will learn about the truth of our atrocity and that she will not help us control Equestria any longer." "I understand, sir." Felhand acknowledged. "So, if she ever tries to reason with the royal sisters or their subjects, we may need to put her down immediately before she gets any worse." Amadeus suggested to the mad scientist. "You do have the mind-control diamond with you right?" "I do, sir. It's in my briefcase." Felhand responded as he used his magic to open up his briefcase. "As soon as the small control device is in her body, it will send out a signal to the mind-control diamond at will. When the briefcase opened, it revealed a white diamond. Inside the diamond, there is a small swirl of dark magic embedded in it. After seeing the diamond with his own eyes, Amadeus smirked with an evil chuckle. "I want you to keep that Diamond very close to you because if Majesty ever start rebelling against our nation and against us you will have my permission to use that diamond to control her every move." Amadeus told Felhand. "I'll keep a close eye on her and let you know about her situation at hand." "No problem, sir." Felhand acknowledged as he left the lounge room, with his coffee mug held with his magic. "Y-You, you stuffed a mind-control device in Majesty's body when she was still a baby before she even knew it???!!!" Twilight snapped at Professor Felhand. "You heard me, Princess." Felhand cackled. "If you really think you can save Majesty, they way you saved Flash Sentry from me, then catch me if you can!!!! MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!" Professor Felhand teleported himself away from the Crystal Guards and started to make a run for it with his mind-control diamond in his hooves. Just as Rainbow Dash started zeroing in Felhand, Majesty appeared right in front of the female pegasus in a flash. Rainbow's eye widen as she see the white alicorn blast her straight into a nearby house behind her. However, before Majesty was able to trample the light-blue pegasus, Twilight Sparkle appeared right in front of the two ponies. "Twilight, what are you doing?" Rainbow Dash said in horror, fearing that for the safety of her friend. "Rainbow, Pinkie, Trixie, go get that fiendish Felhand and destroy that diamond that he had in his hooves." Twilight ordered. "Starlight, Rarity, help me out with Majesty Blueblood and Flash, get Sunset to a safe place." The moment Rainbow, Pinkie, and Trixie went after Professor Felhand, Twilight, Rarity, and Starlight used their combine magic to keep a mind-controlled Majesty at bay. During the part where the three ponies are chasing Felhand all over the town square, the mad doctor started shooting at magic at them in order to slow them down. As for Majesty, she used her magic to summon a meteor shower on Twilight and her team. Twilight and the two unicorns were able to keep a rampaging Majesty away from Flash Sentry while he takes an unconscious Sunset Shimmer to a safer place and out of harm's way. As soon as the meteors got closer to Twilight and her group, she flew up into the air and fired a magic beam at them, exploding the meteors while in mid-air. As for Rarity and Starlight, they both fired a couple of taser spells at the rampaging alicorn. However, Majesty summoned a shield barrier to defend herself against the taser spells aimed directly towards her. The next thing Majesty did was fire a volley of lighting bolts at the two unicorns but was intercepted by Twilight's shield barrier. During the chase of Professor Felhand, the green unicorn scientist used his magic to activate frag mines behind him in order to slow the three ponies down. However, Trixie was able to use her magic to teleport every mine away from the trio. Just when Rainbow Dash started closing in Felhand, he summoned a huge frying pan an an instant, letting the light-blue pegasus slam into it, face first, by accident and fell on his side with pans circling around her face. Just when Felhand was about to reach a trap door, leading to the sewers, the moment he opened it, Pinkie Pie popped out of the trap door and aimed her party cannon at the green unicorn's face. After the cannon fired, Felhand was sent flying into a nearby wall. As soon as he got up, Felhand ran to a nearby abandoned house to hide in. However, as soon as Felhand opened the door to the house, he was greeted by Pinkie Pie again. After Pinkie said "Hi" to the professor, she brought out a stack of pies and threw them at Felhand in the face. After several attempts of trying to find a place to hide away from Trixie, Rainbow, and Pinkie, Felhand keeps running into the pink earth pony over and over again. It's like Pinkie Pie keeps breaking the fourth wall in the middle of the Siege of Canterlot. "Stupid Pink pony." Felhand muttered to himself while being chased by Pinkie Pie closing in. "How the hell is she doing all of this??" "You can run, punk!!!" Pinkie Pie taunted as she ran like the wind, with her head stretching 10 feet over Felhand, glaring at him with hostility. "You cannot hide!!!! NOW GIMMIE THAT WHITE CRYSTAL!!!" Meanwhile, Rarity and Starlight were both starting to lose their stamina after dealing with a mind-controlled alicorn, while Twilight was being chased in mid-air by Majesty Blueblood, who is still on a mindless rampage all over Canterlot. During Twilight's flight, she sees the armies of the Lunar Republic and the Crystal Empire pressing forward and still engaging the rest of the Unicornian soldiers at the battlements, leaving various buildings caught on fire or destroyed during the ensuing chaos. As for Majesty, she fired another lighting bolt spell at Twilight, only for the purple alicorn dodge it in a barrel roll. When Twilight turned around to face Majesty, she sees the white alicorn charge at her, with magic swirling around the alicorn queen. Upon impact, Twilight blocked Majesty's magical charge with her deflector magic shield, leaving behind a huge rotating X that started slicing up the buildings in two. During her struggle with Majesty's magic, Twilight was getting pushed backwards while still holding her shield up. In an instant, Twilight teleported herself away from Majesty's mindless rampage, only for Majesty to fire up another powerful spell at her. Twilight summoned another shield barrier to ward off Majesty's spell. Then again, the moment Majesty's spell struck Twilight's shield, the purple alicorn gets pushed back, this time Twilight crashed into a nearby building behind her and came out from the other side of the building. Twilight teleported herself away from Majesty's sights and reappeared in mid-air, unleashing a massive tendril of chains heading straight at the white alicorn. Despite being wrapped around in chains by Twilight's spell, Majesty continued to fire her spells at the chains, exploding them while flying in mid-air. Just when Majesty went up close and person at Twilight's face, she unleashed a lighting bolt spell at the purple alicorn only for her to counteract it with her own lighting bolt spell. Without waiting until the last minute, Twilight tossed the lighting surges up above into the sky and made both of them explode, not making contact with anything else. Twilight immediately teleported herself right behind Majesty and used a flashing stun spell upon the white alicorn, rendering her completely dazed and stunned. The next thing Twilight did was casted a magic sealing spell that disabled Majesty from casting any more spells, temporarily, and summoned another tendril of chains at her. As soon as the chains completely restrained the raging Majesty, she got pulled straight down into the pavement and struggled to break free but with little or no effort. As soon as Rainbow Dash got up, after getting slammed into Felhand's huge pan, she took to the skies once more and went after Professor Felhand. During the chase between Pinkie and Felhand, Felhand was getting really annoyed with Pinkie Pie appearing all over the place. Without another thought, Felhand used his magic to summon a tank filled with oil and poured it onto the pavement right where Pinkie Pie is. Before Pinkie was able to see what was coming, she started sliding over the oily slick pavement. "I'm sliding, WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-Dooff!!" Pinkie squeal until she slid straight into a wall of another house, knocking her out cold. Just when, Felhand was able to lose sight of Pinkie Pie, Trixie and Rainbow Dash appeared in front of him, after the light-blue unicorn use a teleportation spell in order to catch up. Before Felhand was able to use his magic to teleport himself away from the two ponies, Rainbow Dash slammed into him and pinned the green unicorn to the ground. "You're not going anywhere, you cowardly mad doctor." Rainbow Dash hissed as she started struggling over the white crystal in Felhand's hooves. During their struggle, Trixie marched forward towards Rainbow and Felhand. The moment Trixie got close, she used a taser spell to stun the green unicorn, letting Rainbow grab the white crystal from his hooves. "Great and Powerful Trixie is hoping to perform puppet shows by using crystals someday, but for now we can't have you control live ponies with such insidious devices as this." Trixie said to the mad scientist. Before Felhand could see what was coming, Rainbow smashed the white crystal onto the pavement with her hooves, in hopes of free Majesty Blueblood from being controlled against her will, much to Felhand's horror. "NO! NOOOOO!!! My wonderful masterpiece, gone!!!" Felhand shrieked as he rummaged through the shattered diamond, unable to do anything about it. "My apologizes, Mr. Weapon designer scientist, but we have no intention of using such devices to treat other ponies like living toys." Pinkie Pie growled at Felhand angrily. "Even I wouldn't do that in parties, either." As Felhand gets restrained by Trixie's magic, they turned him over to a group of LR soldiers, prior to the green unicorn's arrest. Meanwhile, during the time Twilight restrained a rampaging, screaming Majesty Blueblood, the out-of-control alicorn slowly started to settle down. The next thing Majesty knew is that she blinked her eyes a few time before returning back to normal. "What the? Where am I???" Majesty Blueblood shrieked after realizing that she was chained to the ground against her will. "Twilight, what is going on here?? Why am I being chained up??" "Sorry about that, Majesty." Twilight apologized to the white alicorn as she landed on all four hooves and disengaged her magic used on Majesty Blueblood. "You were being controlled by one of Professor Felhand's devices against your own will." "What? Why???" Majesty asked in a state of confusion. "Well, let's just say he and Amadeus had a backup plan of his own." Twilight answered Majesty's question briefly. "Majesty, are you okay?" Admiral Thunderball asked as he appeared behind the two alicorns, while under a state of panic. "The last time I saw you, you were flipping out like mad and the next thing I knew me and Lord Bronze were seeing stars for a couple of minutes." "Everything's fine, Thunderball." Majesty responded. "Is the rest of the noble families safe?" "Don't worry, my queen. They all got out, safe and sound." Thunderball answered. "Let's get out of the city while we still can." "Thank you, Admiral." Majesty said. "Twilight, if you're going to stop my father from his selfish greed, there is one thing I want to say to you." "And what's that?" Twilight asked. "I'm sorry for everything. I should never have listened to my father. So, if you ever see him again, please tell him goodbye for me." Majesty explained to the purple alicorn before she and Thunderball left the town square. "Twilight, this is Trixie." Trixie spoke to Twilight Sparkle through the ear-bud. "We got Professor Felhand in our custody." "Good to hear, now have every surviving pony regroup with me at the Palace Courtyard, ASAP!!!" Twilight responded to Trixie through her ear-bud. "Understood." Trixie acknowledged. After Twilight retrieved her battle gear, she marched forward down the main street, leading to the Canterlot Palace. Behind her, the Element Bearers appear from the buildings from both left and right, one by one. After that, the three unicorns came up to Twilight all at once, while drawing out their weapons. Last but not least, Shinning Armor, and Flash Sentry appeared behind Twilight. With all of Twilight's friends, her brother, and her colt-friend by her side once again, they all pressed forward to commence the final confrontation between Amadeus Blueblood and Twilight Sparkle.