//------------------------------// // Chapter 9 How The Deadly Wolf-Spider Died Part 1. // Story: Spiders and Destiny: The Fall of Wolf-Spider // by Funnel Web //------------------------------// Wolf-Spider was searching everywhere for Twilight and Rainbow Dash. He looked through every cave, every abandoned treehouse, even under a few rocks. But there was nopony there.  Then all of a sudden, he senses something. Something familiar. He caught Twilight’s sent, somehow! He tracks her scent, and finds her at the top of a mountain. Wolf-Spider is relieved and was about to swing to the top, only to be interrupted by a punch to the face which sends him flying. He knew who punched him. No pony could make a punch that painful than…...Mr.Earthquake! “She gave you a choice. You chose wrong. By the way, what’s with the costume?” Mr.Earthquake said as he charges up his weapon, ready to throw another punch at Wolf-Spider. “OW! You again?! I don’t have time for this! I need to get to her!-” Wolf-Spider said as he got interrupted by another punch which sends him flying, again. Wolf-Spider tries to get up from that punch, but Mr.Earthquake punched a tree which hits Wolf-Spider and causes him to go flying and hit another tree in the process. “I wasn’t sure about these weapons at first, but….DANG!” Mr.Earthquake said as he punched Wolf-Spider, causing him to go through a bunch of trees and hitting a giant rock. “Ow…..that….hurt..a lot. I think he fixed my back” Wolf-Spider said as he tries to get up from the rock but Mr.Earthquake instantly sends that rock Wolf-Spider was on spin and shattered into pieces, leaving Wolf-Spider helpless and unable to defend himself. “Why did she send you, here?” “Guess, you’ll never know.” Mr. Earthquake replied as he prepares to finish off Wolf-Spider but his hoof got caught in a….rope? Wolf-Spider looks to see who threw that rope and…..it was Daring Do herself! Wolf-Spider is relieved as Daring Do pulled Mr.Earthquake towards her and gives him a big superkick. Mr.Earthquake tries to get up but Wolf-Spider instantly tied him up to a tree with his webbing. “What are you doing here, Daring Do? I mean, I am relieved that you saved me but what are you doing here?” Wolf-Spider asked Daring Do. “I was trying to track down this “Mr.Earthquake” character because I know who he really is. He’s my arch-rival for years. When I heard that he robbed that jewelry store and left you for dead, I knew it was him. It’s Dr.Caballeron. Plus, I was looking for Rainbow Dash as well” Daring Do replied. “Well, she’s here. I just know it. You take care of Caballeron while I go get Twilight and put a stop to this threat. Okay?” “Ok” Wolf-Spider swings away while Daring Do takes Caballeron and goes to search for Rainbow Dash. Wolf-Spider makes it to the top of the mountain and spots Twilight still just standing there. He runs towards her, trying to get her attention. “Twilight?” Wolf-Spider asks Twilight. “Hm? Oh, hey. You’re here” Twilight turns around to Wolf-Spider and says so calmly. “Twilight?...Do you know who I am?” “Hehe. Of course I do, Midnight” “Yo-...your eyes.” “I’ve actually been waiting just for you. I want to introduce you to somepony” Wolf-Spider follows Twilight but with a concerned look on his face. Something’s not right. She’s acting strange. Wolf-Spider needs to find out what’s going on. Wolf-Spider grabs her hoof and says “Twilight. Please, talk to me”. “Oh. We’ll talk. But first, my master has been dying to meet you” “Yo-your master”?! “My master. The one that I was always meant to obey. Now, come on. She’s been waiting to meet you” “Twilight, please…..Wait”! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Meanwhile in the middle of the forest, Daring Do sats Caballeron down to take a quick breather. But when she looked up, she finds Rainbow Dash. Daring Do tried to catch Rainbow Dash’s attention but she ran off. Daring Do starts running after her. “Rainbow Dash, wait”! Daring Do shouted. Daring Do chases Rainbow Dash across the forest until eventually Daring Do finds Rainbow dash heading inside a cave. She goes inside to find her. When she was inside, she couldn’t see anything. It was too dark to see. But while she was unable to see, Rainbow Dash snuck up behind her and knocked her out cold. When Daring Do woke up, she finds herself inside of a jail cell. “Ugh….my head…….huh? Where am I? Rainbow Dash?!” Daring Do questions the mare on the other side of the bars with a concerned look on her face. “Master says all intruders must be captured. She will be pleased at my work” Rainbow Dash said with an evil grin on her face. “Rainbow Dash! Let me out of here! Listen to me”! “Nuh-uh-uuuh. You didn’t say the magic word”. “Rainbow Dash, please”! Rainbow Dash just laughs to see that her work is done and her “master” will be pleased to see what she’s done. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Twilight and Wolf-Spider reach the castle of the two sisters. Twilight opens up the front doors while Wolf-Spider is still concerned. “Twilight, please. Don’t you remember me”? Wolf-Spider asked Twilight. “Here we are. This where me and my master live” Twilight opens up the doors and they both head inside. Twilight just says “Now, feel free to make yourself at home. It’s not a lot. But my master and I both live here together, happily-” “Twilight, please”! Wolf-Spider stops her, only to look at some pictures on the walls.Wolf-Spider saw the destruction of the Wonderbolts Academy, The Jewelry Store, The Canterlot Castle, The Grand Galloping Gala,......his own treehouse…..somepony has been watching him! But Who?! Somepony has been planning this since the beginning! But...who?! “Master, there you are!” Twilight said to…..the Condor! “Good girl. You’ve done just what I asked” The Condor replied. “Anything to please my master”. “You….after all these years”. “You monster! What did you do to her?!” Wolf-Spider shouted at the Condor. “Hehehehe. Isn’t it obvious”? “Answer me”!. “Hehehehehe” The Condor finally decides to take off her mask to reveal…..Lightning Dust. It was her all along. She was the one that was behind all of this….but...why? “YOU”! Midnight shouted. “Remember? I doubt that you ever forgot” Lightning replied. “LIGHTNING DUST”! “Take a good look at her, Midnight. She’s mine, now”. “What have you done to her”?! “I’m planning to take back what should have been mine. She’ll bring Equestria to my hooves, and she’s almost the perfect princess”. “YOU”! “Temper now, Midnight. Twilight, why don’t you head into the closet and go where something more….princess worthy”. “Yes, master” Twilight replied as she left in the closet. “Don’t you dare touch her”! Wolf-Spider shouted at Lightning Dust. “Stop! You forget she is under my control. Make one wrong move, and you’ll regret it” “Grrr”! “Come back when you’re ready, princess….now..you and I need to talk...about old times” “There is nothing to talk about”! “Hehehehe. Oh, yes there is. Do you remember...back at the Wonderbolts Academy? I’ve finally had everything I earned for. The respect, the power of leadership, I let all of those rookies run all over me. All for the sake of getting what I wanted….to become the next leader of the Wonderbolts….and then you and your friends took it all away from me! You and your stupid friends”! “I...I have no idea what you’re talking about”. “DON’T PLAY DUMB! I found out, Midnight. You can’t hide it, anymore. I know it was you on that hot-air balloon on that day! You were the one that dethroned me as leader when I’ve rightfully earned it”! “You didn’t earn anything. You made a mistake on making that tornado. Spitfire gave you leader. You were the one who manipulated other Wonderbolts and tricked them into getting what you wanted! That’s not something a leader would do”! “I am my own leader! I play by my rules! And as a mutant, you have no place in this world”! “......” “Suddenly have nothing to say? You must have thought you were being so clever. That nopony would find out about mutants. You always were so smug”. “What do you know”?! “More than you think. It’s not just the myth, most think it is. The mutant werewolf, what the first mutant. He turned ponies with cutie marks back into blank-flanks and was shunned by ponies, everywhere. His bloodline still lives on. But it skips a generation or two...and it lives...in YOU”. “You don’t know what you’re talking about”! “On the contrary, the pony who helped me bring down the Wonderbolts Academy, Dr.Caballeron, sometimes likes to talk about the first mutant. He knew the bloodline was real. He told me all about how he would hunt down any information on the mutant bloodline. A pony with the ability to transform anypony into blank-flanks must have unimaginable power”. “.....” “One day, my curiosity got the better of me. I had to know more. I snuck into the doctor’s room. Locked in his desk, was a journal of all of his findings. Do you know what I’ve found”? “Huh”? “The Mutant Werewolf. It can all be traced back to one family: The Wolf Family! I never knew if that old colt ever found out where the Wolf Family was. But I did. But I wasn’t about to tell him that I know EXACTLY who the mutant werewolf is. Isn’t that right…..Midnight Wolf”? “NO”! “Ahahahahhaha! That look on your face! I’m right, aren’t I? YOU are the mutant werewolf. It was all SO obvious. I knew that day, years ago, when your dethroned me that SOMETHING was different about you. Something about you. Even though your mask screamed “MONSTER”! “All of this was just to get back at me for something that happened at the Wonderbolts Academy”?! “This goes so much deeper than that…..when I heard that Twilight became the new princess and that she was your girlfriend, I knew that I wanted the bigger fish. Yeah, there was that revenge for the Wonderbolts….but I can imagine the power I can have if I have her right by my side. Equestria would kneel before me. Nopony will disrespect me like that ever again!...So tell me, Midnight. When were you planning on telling her the truth about yourself? Was it in the Wonderbolt’s Academy? Or were you waiting for something? OR...were you never planning to even tell her what you really are? That’s it, isn’t it? You were NEVER gonna tell her that you are a mutant. Not even that, you were never going to tell ANYPONY that you are the mutant werewolf! And you know why? Because you chose...to live...as a DISGUSTING normal pony. This entire time! You hid it from everypony! So you could be one of them! You’re ashamed of what you are, aren’t you, Midnight?! And you chose to live...a LIE! This entire time! Just like your dead mother”. “Master, I am ready to bring Equestria’s to its hoofs” Twilight said as she looked like an evil princess. “Ah, the real reason I wanted you here. Oh, Princess Twilight, come to me” Lighting Dust asked Twilight. “You will make her a blank flank”!. “I WILL NOT”! Wolf-Spider shouted. “Excuse me”? “NEVER! I will never take away her cutie mark against her will”! “I wasn’t asking! Good thing that zebra had lots of ingredients for these potions, otherwise this wouldn’t have been possible”. Lightning Dust throws a potion at Wolf-Spider but he manages to dodge it and web it up against a wall. “You..broke my potion! How dare you?! I only had two of them”! Lightning Dust said. “I won’t be a pawn in your sick games”! Wolf-Spider shouted. “Fine...if you won’t turn her, then what’s the most...painful thing I can do to hurt you? Make you suffer! Twilight. What would you do for me”? “Anything for my master” Twilight replied. “Perfect” “What are you doing”?! Wolf-Spider questioned Lightning Dust “Taking away the only good thing you’ll ever have”. Lightning Dust brings out another potion and throws it at Twilight. Wolf-Spider screams “TWILIGHT! NO”! As the potion does it’s effects on her. “WHAT DID YOU DO TO HER”?! “HAHAHAHA! The first potion was to make her be under my control, forever! The second potion...to make her despise you from the bottom of her heart….forever”! Lightning Dust gives Twilight a knife and she takes it from Lightning Dust. Lightning Dust says “Kill him”! As she tries to do so. “Twily….Twilight. I KNOW this isn’t you! It’s just a potion. You can beat this”! Wolf-Spider said to Twilight, taking a few steps back. “You don’t even know me”! Twilight replied with her evil eyes. “That’s not true! Please, remember”! “Look at you, Midnight! Where are you, now? No friends to help you! You never spent time making friends”. “I couldn’t….I….”. Lightning Dust just laughs and says “Didn’t you hear me? She now hate you more than anything in the world. I want you last thoughts to be of how miserable your life has become. HAHAHAHAHAHA!” ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Meanwhile back in the jail cell, Daring Do gets confused on what’s going on and asks “Midnight? Rainbow Dash? What’s going on? Midnight sounds like he’s in trouble”! “Oh that’s just my master. She says she plans to kill Midnight and take over Equestria. Don’t worry. It should be over soon” Rainbow Dash replied. “WHAT?!” -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “I know you can hear me, Twilight. I know the mare I still love is in there. Somewhere”! Wolf-Spider said to Twilight, getting cornered. Twilight just kicks him through the door and sends him outside. ------------------------------------------------------------ “I need to help Midnight!” Daring Do said as she tries to use all of her strength to break the bars, knock Rainbow Dash out cold and escape. “Midnight, I’m coming”! --------------------------------------------------- “Twilight, listen to me”! Wolf-Spider said to Twilight. “Listen to a coward? You always think you know what’s best for me. The reason why I even talked to you is because I felt sorry for you! A sad little colt with no friends.” Twilight replied as she pushes Midnight closer to the edge of the mountain. ---------------------------------------------- “Midnight, I’m coming! I-” Daring Do said but gets interrupted by a freezing potion that Lightning Dust threw at her. “What? I can’t move! MIDNIGHT! NOOO”! ------------------------------------------------------------------ “Twilight….I will always love you” Wolf-Spider said, with tears in his eyes behind his mask. “You…….NEVER….made me happy”! Twilight replied. “Please….”. “The best thing, you could do for me?...is DIE”! Midnight closes his eyes, ready to meet his fate as Twilight slashes him across the chest, causing him to fall off the edge of the mountain….. To Be Continued......