//------------------------------// // Chapter 14 - The Job // Story: The tragedy of Sacanas // by Leondude //------------------------------// It was a very dark night at the castle, as Sacanas and the mercenaries he hired walked into a room filled with all sorts of mirrors. It was a collection of mirrors made by Star-Swirl the Bearded, who was surprisingly fond of travelling to other worlds. However, since there are some mirrors within that room that were smashed to pieces, one would assume that there were some worlds that were too dangerous for Star-Swirl's tastes. But luckily for Sacanas, he brought a bag of magical treesap with him. Perfect for fixing mirrors and maybe resurrecting petrified individuals (except for Serpentine because he is essentially dust at this point). After fixing up the mirror, they traveled to a world that basically felt like the pits of Tartarus. I mean seriously, it felt like the inside of a volcano. Naturally, this provoked everyone to take off whatever they were wearing, with everyone surprised by each-other's appearances. "YOU'RE BALD?!" shouted Dead Poop and Sacanas at the same time. Though the weird thing (among other weird things) about Poop is that he looks like a bald, stallion version of Pinkie Pie. "I'd be more concerned about the fact that he has three horns instead of the one, Poop" said Death Stroke, who has a short white beard and and a white mane, and an eyepatch on his face too "No offense". "None taken" Sacanas said Though what came as a surprise to everyone involved is that Ben had no deformities or losses to speak of. Instead, he had a very tough looking face and a buzzcut. "Ever considered growing a ponytail?" Dead Poop asked "I did, amigo. Everyone kept pulling on it, so I cut it short" Ben said "You know, I was expecting you to sound like this" Dead Poop said before covering his mouth with one of his hooves and trying to sound like Darth Connery, I mean Bane from The Dark Knight Rises "Oh, you think friendship is magic. But you merely adopted friendship" "Let us not stand on ceremony here, payaso. We got bigger fish to fry" "Indeed, and that fish is coming down right now to fry us" Sacanas said, pointing a hoof at a flaming alicorn. Everyone in the vicinity can only stare at the flaming alicorn flying right towards them. To say they have bitten off more than they can chew is an understatement. The alicorn landed rather forcefully, with flames circling where she landed. The alicorn had a white coat and was wearing a lot of gold and encrusted jewelry. Her eyes were slits, looking like the eyes of a serpent. She then looked at Sacanas and the mercs with disdain. "A group of mercenaries?" the alicorn said "You're kidding, right?" "Clearly you do not know us very well, for we are a bane to everyone that came across us" Ben boasted proudfully The alicorn laughed "Oh, I doubt that. So have you come to destroy me?" Naturally, her question was answered when Dead Poop teleported behind her (don't ask) and hit her over the head with a frying pan. She responded by firing a fiery blast of magic at him, but he hit it back like it was a tennis ball. Ben went on to make his move by diving on the alicorn, but she dodged swiftly and managed to singe one of Ben's pecs. Death Stroke teleported behind the alicorn and managed to force her mouth open to make her swallow an elixir of some sort. Sacanas noticed that was one of the sleeping elixirs he brought with him in case taking down the alicorn proved more difficult than planned. "Good thinking, Mr Stroke!" Sacanas plauded "When you've got a job like mine, you gotta think on ya hooves" But that wasn't enough to slow down the alicorn, who proceeded to levitate Dead Pool, Death Stroke and Ben and proceed to slam them into the ground several times. She then charged her horn for an attack intended to finish them off, but Eddie managed to snuff it out with his Nightmare Magic. This enraged the alicorn, who proceeded to charge at Eddie, swinging her horn every which way and shooting several beams in an attempt to kill Eddie. That only managed to exhaust her even more and allow Eddie and Ben to pin her down. Sacanas then pulled out a silver amulet with a ruby in the middle and a design that looks somewhat like an alicorn. Sacanas then proceeded to forcefully remove the magic out of the alicorn and channel it into the amulet. Both the alicorn and Sacanas fell to the floor in exhaustion while Eddie and Ben got off of the alicorn. "Outstanding!" Eddie exclaimed "Now, let's bite her head off and pop it in the corner!" Sacanas just looked at Eddie in befuddlement "Why would we do that?"