//------------------------------// // What is this darkness in me? // Story: It takes six keys too open my heart. // by Darkjolly //------------------------------// This is a dark chapter indeed, so I expect mixed reactions. ----------------------------------------------------------- *PLONK* A giant mallet whacked my helmet, as I turned to the noise. I didn't move at all, I mean I was just smacked around by a mutant dragon for god's sake, a hammer to the head is the least of my worries. I just blinked at the image in front of me. Three little fillies, armored up in kitchen utensils , were struggling to hold a hammer three times bigger than them. God that's cute. They glared daggers at me and once again, with a lot of effort, swung the mallet. I effortlessly grabbed the hammer, yanked it off their hooves and hurled it backwards with some force sending the bat a good mile. The small ponies eyes widened in shock as they saw me disarm them with so much ease. Two of the ponies, an orange winged one and a white horned one, trotted back shivering, while the yellow normal one took a step forward and tried to pull on a brave face. I couldn't help but chuckle. It was so warming to see these little ponies being the first of their species to come in contact with me, and actually TRY to subdue me. I gently placed my metallic hawkish hands onto the filly's head and stroked it. She flinched at first when she felt the coldness run through her veins but then nuzzled it against my hand, the expression of the other two behind her changed from fear to curiosity, before I noticed I was patting all three of them. They sure seemed to like it, hands are just amazing like that. "Well at least there's something to like in this world....I...think". Wild ponies appeared. A sound of a door being slammed open flew into my ears and I instantly shifted my gaze away from the fillies towards it. There, standing just outside the tree house, were the nine technicolor horses I saw when I crash landed into the building and they seemed pretty angry. So much that two of them, the orange one and the winged rainbow one, started galloping (other one flying) towards me, eyes ignited. I could tell by this sudden aggression that they thought I was harming the fillies. I respected the idea of sacrificing one's life to save the weak but it was also stupid, I mean didn't they just see me execute a damn nine eyed dragon, which is first much more intimidating than paint can sprayed horses and second much larger. I ushered the fillies away as I stood up and crossed my arms, I was just going to let them hurt themselves. The rainbow one reached me first, it flipped in the air then extended its right rear leg. I rolled my eyes and mentally face palmed Flying kick?...no just no. The hoof connected to my head, I felt nothing at all, the rainbow flying horse however barked out in pain and fell to the floor, grabbing and rubbing its hoof furiously. I grappled on to its multicolored tail and lifted her up, her whole body upside down. It shouted some random gibberish I could not understand as it waved it legs frantically. I couldn't help but laugh, receiving a dumbfounded gawk from the aggressor. I did a big spin while holding on to the tail and lobbed her to the incoming orange pony, they both collided into each so hard that even I twitched and said "Ouch". They both rolled along the floor until the tree stopped their movement, but what happened next amused me greatly. The rainbow one was lying on top of the orange one, belly to belly, snout to snout. They were half asleep but when they returned to their senses they blushed immensely at the incomprehensible moment they were in, even the other ponies, except for the two winged horned ones and a buff white horned, were blushing horribly. I couldn't help but shriek with laughter, just a few minutes on this god awful planet and I've already ridiculed two of them. The ponies all scowled at me and I just flicked up my middle finger, all their heads cocked in bewilderment making me laugh again. The dark blue winged horned alien, stomped her hoof in frustration as her horn lit up, I felt myself get lifted high up in the air, much to my astonishment, and then violently tossed down back to the ground. It was much harder than the collision I had when I stumbled through the portal, but yet again it was nothing. I stood up with no trouble and continued laughing, the faces of all the ponies changed to one of confoundment, the blue mixed horse above all. She scowled again and her horn lit up for a second time and once more I was lifted and then thrown to the ground. I stood up amused, this was actually quite fun even though it was supposed to hurt me. The dark blue horse repeated this 'attack' five more times and I was starting to get bored and pissed. She attempted to do the attack again, but I was quicker, I lunged at her horn, swiftly grabbing it and swung her forcibly like a bat at the other ponies standing by her, they were too perplexed and frightened to react to my alacritous retaliation. *BOONK* It was an extremely potent hit as I managed to launch six of the nine ponies up into open sky; A pink one who was actually screaming with delight...right, the rainbow one, the orange one, an ivory colored one, a yellow winged one which did a rather annoying 'eep' and a tall, white mixed one, they soared through the sky heading towards a glistening city on a mountain leaving behind a star that went *blink*. I felt a single sweat drop roll down the side of my head as I clenched my free hand , the other one was still holding on to the knocked out blue horse, and muttered to myself "Gravity in this planet must really be low or those horses must be light as a grain of sand". Multiple jabs pummeled my back snapping me out of my trans-fixture and with no thought I span around and roundhouse kicked the attacker, the white bulky horned horse was struck right in its cheek and was sent spinning into a faraway house, making a new entrance for it, ending up with distance screams coming from that direction. I grinned and scanned the area, the whole place was a wreck, most buildings couldn't even be called buildings as they were plagued with huge holes and shattered windows. The cobblestone pathway had grand crater, courtesy of yours truly and the dragon was still hanging there limped. Something glimpsed my vision and I shifted my sight to a terrified looking lavender horned horse, Its eyes were watering and it legs trembling like four maracas. "Time to have some fun" my inner evil part said. I averted myself from the horse and pretended to lift a foot to walk away, at that moment I heard the horse give a sigh of relief "That's my cue.", I gyrated without hesitation, raised my arms above my head to resemble a hungry looking monster, and roared(poorly) like a lion at the horse. What happened next was instantaneous, the purple horse shrieked obnoxiously, followed by its eyes rolling to the back of it head then its body slumped to the ground. I chortled for a good minute, it felt good doing this though I've never been a bully, unfortunately these ponies just screamed 'bully me' but something inside me resented this behavior. I brought my vision down to the unconscious blue equine and analyzed it,........ then it struck me. Let the rage flow I gasped when I recognized who it was, the flashback of the Doctor in the Vaskah base flashed in my brain: Project Moonlight, blue winged horse equine, the reason humanity's dead or well the first reason. It was this bloody horse! The one who tried to send me to the center of this planet! The one that forced me to outrun thirty nukes! THE REASON WHY MY LIFE HAS BEEN A LIE! THE CAUSE OF ALL MY SUFFERING! My rage was uncontrollable and unbearable, something inside me snapped and I felt myself get enveloped by a visible black aura. My grip on the blue equine's horn tightened with so much pressure I could explode a metal ball in it. "You come to my planet." I said, my voice wasn't mine it was foreboding and diabolical. "You agree to start a project! You let them take your blood and inject it into me!" I rose my voice and I was starting to crush the horses horn "Then you escape, and leave my planet to die from a vicious alien race cause they wanted YOUR BLOOD, WHICH I AM CURSED TO CARRY." I was hollering now, but something wasn't right. I felt something dark move in my veins as it overpowered my mind, I fought to control it, but it took over most of my brain. "THEN YOU TRY TO SMASH ME TO A PULP WITH YOUR RIDICULOUS MAGIC". I barely noticed my armor was shifting in shape, I struggled to raise my other silver metallic hand and saw how it got covered in darkness just to emerge as a jet black and red claw shaped hand. Everything around me was disintegrating slowly except for the unconscious equine's, as the aura continued to latch on to anything in reach. My claw like hand was glowing hot red as it grasped on to the horn with no mercy "MAGIC YOU SHALL CAST NO MORE." *CRRRR SNAAAAP* I could only mentally gape as I saw my hands involuntarily demolish the horses horn. What happened next was..I admit frightening, the blue equine howled in pain so loud, it could shatter souls. Her eyes began to glow pure white as sparks of all colors fizzled out of her broken horn. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" Her voice pierced the night sky, as she started floating upwards, I tried to let go, but whatever was controlling me refused. I could see the whole village and the landscape far below me as the equine and I floated up higher and higher. The sky went inexplicably red all of a sudden, I peered over my shoulder to the light source and nearly asphyxiated myself with my spittle. The moon was the source of all the redness, it was blood red itself. "What have I done?". I couldn't ponder any longer as the seriously injured, gravity defying dark blue horse's body glowed an intense white and then..... *BABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM* An...explosion...was....all...I could....hear.....as....I.....felt.......myself.....get.......propelled even higher through the cerise night sky. My visor whirled with alarms "Warning armor down to 20%, puncture in hosts abdomen, bleeding has been encountered, activating Angelic mode." a robotic voice said though it sounded muffled as my ears were still ringing. I felt something brush by my hand , with some effort I peeked down and saw that I still was holding on to the blue hornless winged equine by a hoof. I saw the lights of the village disappear in a flick only to be replaced with high rugged mountains then the deep blue. "Fuck this shit and fuck you Karma" I mentally groaned as my vision blacked out. *_*_* A disfigured Shining Armor was sitting on the ground, jaws wide open. He watched the whole event take place. He saw how the extraterrestrial started spewing some horrifying dark magic from its body and how it's voice sounded so frenetic, so terrorizing. He tried to move and save Luna, but he got two broken rear legs when the Alien calcitrated him with so much clout even his royal armor shattered by the impact both the foot and the house. His face was swollen, both eye's were black and his nose was just recently fixed with his own magic, but that was all he could mend. He witnessed how everything around it started vanishing into thin air, including Twilight's home and how it....broke with no delay Luna's horn. He was forced to back rump slide as Luna and the Alien began elevating into the sky, then the moon went red. Shining Armor has never in all his life witnessed this, not even Discord made the Moon change color. He heard all the fanatical screams of terror as ponies scampered left and right yelling "It's the end of Equestria, the END, REPENT." He spotted a senseless Twilight still lying next to where her home was. He dragged his weight over to his beloved sister, wincing along the way, when she was finally in his reach he started crying. "Twiley....Twil-" *BABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM* An explosion cuts of his voice of concern. He briskly shifted his gaze upwards and saw a behemothic white orb mix with the crimson sky. He squinted his eyes at two objects blasting away from Ponyville, leaving both a Navy blue and Black line trace. "Im sorry Luna, once I recover, I will find you" He thought as he bought his gaze back to a spurring Twilight. "Uh...w-what happened?" She groaned as Shining Armors deformed face filled her view. "OMG" She yelped and bobbed back on to her feet, not removing her sight from her BBBFF. "W-what happened to you" She started bursting into tears and wrapped her hooves around his neck. Shining Armor craned his neck on top of Twilight's head as her tears soaked his batted shoulders. After a while, she was alleviated from her tension and pulled away from the hug, and looked around. She noticed her home was gone, along with all her scrolls and hard work of studying. "That thing did all this, didn't it?" She remarked bitterly, stomping her hoof fiercely. Shining Armor looked away embarrassed. He, the captain of the royal guards, defeated so easily by a foreign creature. Twilight was about to comfort his ego when a flash of white came forth; Two forelegs, followed by a familiar face came on to scene, it was Celestia! But she was injured, blood trickling down her temples and her legs were seriously bruised. Twilight couldn't believe this, her teacher, the goddess of the Sun was injured. "C-Cel-" "No time my faithful student. We must get you and the captain to the royal hospital, where the other elements await" She rose her hoof respectively cutting off the lavender Unicorn. Twilight remembered the alien move with so much agility that before she noticed, he sent all her friends, including Celestia, rocketing to Canterlot. "Are they all right?" The princess shook her head in negation. "No, they got quite injured by the Aliens attack, if it wasn't for my magic, they would have been a bloody mess for the window cleaners of the castle to clean up." Twilight and Shining Armor winced at the thought, as concern filled them. Celestia's horn began to glow as she spoke with authority. "Hold on tight" and with that they vanished, leaving behind a semi demolished and panicking Ponyville *_*_* In another flash of white the two unicorns and the Alicorn materialized in to a hospital room. Some doctors were waiting for them, and in an instant they took Shining Armor away on a floating stretcher. Twilight and the Princess gazed at the scene. There, on five bed's were her friends, bloodied and all banged up. Fluttershy was still asleep but she had many bandages wrapped around her torso and a cast on one of her wings. Rarity and Applejack had their whole heads covered up in bandages, much to Rarity's disgust as her posh muffled voice whined from deep underneath all the coverings. Pinkie Pie was.....in between giggling and then moaning in pain, she had gauze wrapped firmly around her ribs. Rainbow dash was just huffing, she wasn't as injured, but she still had a wrapped up rear leg, elevated slightly on above her with some wires. Twilight couldn't help but shed some tears as she watched with sympathy her best friends conditions. "Girls, I'm sorry" Twilight began, her voice was unsteady. Rainbow Dash was the first to reply, with her cocky flair. "It wasn't' your fault Twilight. That alien just got lucky." Rainbow started pounding her hooves together. "Next time I see it, I'll pound it to Tartarus" Twilight dropped her head, then rose it with a bedeviled expression. "I told you girls! I told you girls we shouldn't have attacked it like that! You saw how it took down that horrifying dragon yet you....just...had to charge straight at it". She reprimanded at the injured mares, directing it mostly to Rainbow Dash and Applejack. "You girls are lucky you're still... alive." Tears started rolling down her cheeks as she stuffed her face with her hooves. Celestia tenderly stroked Twilight's indigo mane as she looked at the injured mares, with her royal mask. "Whether it was a bad idea to strike first or not, that is not our preoccupation now" Celestia said doubtlessly. "That creature has done something unexplainable to Luna, as most of you can see the moons new color." "What does it mean, Princess?" Rainbow Dash asked addled. "I'm not sure. While we were relocating your unconscious bodies to the royal hospital, I sensed a very nefarious magic, like if Nightmare Moon was merged with Discord." The mares all gulped, even the sleeping Fluttershy jerked."All of a sudden I felt Luna's magic reservoir go frenetic followed by the red moon". Celestia paused and gazed at the crimson moon. "After that Luna's magic just discharged, ever since I can't feel her magic anywhere" Celestia's voice lowered. Twilight shuddered as a sick conclusion surfaced in her thoughts. "Do-do you think she's d-de-" "Perish the thought Twilight" Celestia quickly renounced. "She is a Alicorn, Goddess of the moon and my sister. She is not one to be killed so easily" Twilight and the other mares gave a sigh of relief as Celestia's wise words comforted them all except a disappointed flat hair pink pony. "Oh fooie, and I wanted to throw Mr. Alien a 'Welcome to Equestria' party" Pinkie's lips pouted. *_*_* "Uhhhhhgg, damn headache, damn stomach" I groused as I sat up, rubbing my head in small gentle circles. My vision was blurry and my head was throbbing intensely like if I had the worst hangover ever. I rose my hands and saw it was my hands not the armor, "Hmm that's weird, I don't remember activating angelic mode." I said bedazzled, while wiggling my digits. "For the matter of fact, I don't remember much of what happened." I turned my head to get a look of my surroundings, I was in a forest though it wasn't dense, as the hot sun glared it's horrible light into my poor adjusting eye's. I stood up with some exertion and brushed myself off. My legs were wobbling and my stomach felt like a rock but other than that I felt fine. "Where the hell am I?" I stretched my extremities and gyrated my neck till the joint cracked I then bridged an arm to my back where the nano pack would be, but nothing was there. "Pad." I said, as a feeling of dread hit me. Only the wavering noise of the trees responded. I started sweating excessively. Ok, calm down Charles, you're in an unknown area on an alien planet and you lost your special pack which has The Pad, my shelter and my food. Now here's the real shit, you lost your target as well the vital information it carried and.....wait.....Pad implanted a map in my visor so I can see where I am!. I closed my eyes and began concentrating. Blood mode. The armor did its small wrapping process, until the burning I felt from day one shot through my body again. "Ahhh, what the hell! I thought I got over this" I said displeased. The visor was lit up in red and small alarms rang in my head. "Armor down to 15%, Self repair necessary" The N.T.A spoke. That explains the pain....Aegis mode!. A few minutes later of repairing and recovering, my armor was up to 99%. I activated my map, and felt myself get brain punched. KEY: Black target mark: Luna YOU ARE HERE: Charles RED DOT: THE PAD "YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME" ------------------------------------------------------- And so the adventure begins >:) and many thanks to my proofreader Horcon