//------------------------------// // The truth // Story: Alicorns and Creatures // by Alvaxerox //------------------------------// "Brickburg Jones? Is that really you?" Twilight asked. "What happened to you?" "Twilight... is that another Red Guardian you talked about?" Spike asked. "Yeah, but he looks off..." Twilight mentioned. "Brick, what happened to you? Where are all the other Red Guardians? "There all dead." Brickburg said. Twilight's eyes were in shock. "They all died in the explosion." "Who cause the explosion?!" Twilight asked. "A creature of the night. She killed every last one of us. I was spared... And she open my eyes..." Brickburg said. "Talon was a fool to think we could use our powers for the good of love and justice. And for the good of mankind. She granted me unbelievable power, and you can join us as well." Twilight, Spike and Rarity were getting scared. Their hearts pumped rapidly. "What do you mean? You don't sound like yourself.' Twilight said. "Twilight... come back with me, and with our new mistress, we can rule the universe." Brickburg said with an evil laugh. Twilight now realized what happened. "Your not Brickburg Jones! I'm not going back!" "What living in this stupid world with colorful talking ponies and dragons?" Brickburg asked out of rage. Twilight nodded, Rarity got beside her, and Spike hold Twilight's hand tightly. "I see... you betrayed your species. Now you will die!" Brickburg charged at the 3 and they jumped out of the way. "He must be under some kind of mind control." Spike pointed out. "Looks like we're gonna have to fight." Rarity said getting her magic diamond shield ready. "We are not done with our early conversation." Rarity ran up to Brickburg and she did a kick 3 times and then a karate chop. And a magic push from her diamond shield. Brickburg felt it all, and landed with an elbow blow and Rarity split down, and Spike and Twilight jumped in to land their attacks. Brickburg burst out intensive energy that sent Spike, and the two girls blasting off to the entrance of the Everfree forest. Spike and Rarity got up while Twilight was knocked out. Brickburg was walking towards them until he was stopped by a rope. "Whoa there partner, but if you mess with them, you mess with us." Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy came to the rescue. And with Spike and Rarity, they all attacked Brickburg. Brickburg kepted yelling as he's being hit over and over. "Your...- nothing..- but...- puny...- little...- PONIES...!!!" "Oh shut up!" Rainbow Dash finished him off with a swift kick to the face. He was knocked out for 5 seconds until and immediately knocked all if them down and even Fluttershy cried loud after being hit that hard. Twilight woke up and sees all her friends on the ground, they were badly injured. "Brick... you are not a red guardian." Twilight said while standing up. "I won't forgive you... imposter!!!" Out of rage she blasted Brickburg with intensive crimson energy while screaming. Brickburg was on the ground... he is now... dead. The Mane 5 and Spike got up slowly. Twilight managed to help them recover a little bit. "I thought... you said the Red Guardians were heroes..." Rainbow Dash said. Twilight was starting to shed tears. "There are no more red guardians. I'm the last one left." Even though he tried to kill them. Twilight mourns for her dead guardian comrade. Everypony around Ponyville saw her cry. And they saw the Red Guardian dead in the ground. Then... a light blueish aure raised from the corpse. Twilight and the others looked up, it was the spirit of Brickburg Jones. "Brick? Is that really you?" She asked. "Yes Twilight." "But... how?" Twilight was confused. "I lost my spirit to the darkness that corrupted my body. But what I said earlier was a half truth." Brickburg's spirit said. "Half truth?" Applejack asked. "There was an explosion at the Red Guardians academy. The other Red Guardians did die, but not all of them. Those who died get reborn as evil dark guardians for the creature of darkness. More will come, do not hold back. Like me, kill the body and free the good spirit. Talon Hawks is still alive. He and some new guardians have escaped before the creature could get to them." "Oh thank God." Twilight said. "Who is this creature of darkness?" "I don't know the name... but she's similar to your new friends." Brickburg's spirit said. Fluttershy and Spike were trying to start putting the puzzle together. "She has black fur, and flowing dark blue hair. And she had a guardian that's a traitor." Spike and the others now realized who Brickburg was talking about. "I'm sorry I hurt you Twilight. But I see you've adapted to your brand new home. Remember... the dead guardians are our dead comrades. They don't want to live as weapons. Go to your ship. And you'll see how you managed to get to this planet." Brickburg's spirit said as he fades away. "Goodbye... Brickburg Jones." "Uh... Twilight... we should better get to your ship." Pinkie Pie said. "Yeah Pinkie. Let's go." Twilight said. Twilight and the others made to Twilight's ship. She accessed the security files and watched how did got into the ship in the first place. The Red Guardians were escaping and other were being slaughtered. And as Twilight was looking at the shadowy figure, the girls and Spike talked about what Brickburg said. "Um... Twilight? You know that creature of darkness that Brickburg was talking about?" Fluttershy recapped. "We know who that is, Surgercube." Applejack said. "She's mainly known as the pony of the moon." Rarity said. "And her plan is make nighttime go in forever. Pinkie Pie sounding sinisterly. As Twilight turned her head to see the figure... it was a dark pony, with dark blue hair and tail, wearing armor and doing an evil laugh. Everyone got scared. "That's... Nightmare Moon." Rainbow Dash said. To be continued...