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// Chapter 17 - Battle for Yakyakistan 
// Story: The tragedy of Sacanas 
// by Leondude 
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In the present day, Sanies has just finished telling Sacanas about his misadventures while waiting for Sacanas. Sacanas actually seemed amused that Sanies managed to manipulate two incredibly psychotic ponies into doing his dirty work.

"Most impressive, Sanies!" Sacanas said in a congratulatory tone "And as a reward for your excellent work in my absence, I would like you to have this!"

Sacanas then handed Sanies the amulet he used to defeat the alicorn him and the mercs he hired in that other world. Sanies just stared at it, wondering if this is another artifact that Sacanas himself has crafted as the prototype for his staff.

"This, my friend, is the Alicorn Amulet! I was going to call it the Unicharm but then I realized it looked more like an alicorn than it did a unicorn. Plus, I practiced the spell I intend to use on my staff so that I can one day have the power of FOUR ALICORNS!!!! OHOHOHOHOHOHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!!!"

Sanies then pooled the magic he absorbed from many ponies that were kidnapped by his cronies into the amulet, reducing him to his normal size in the process. He then demanded the attention of Killing Joke and Divine Comedy and presented them the amulet.

"Gentlemen" Sanies announced "This amulet can grant whoever wears it the power of an alicorn. I figured one of you could have the pleasure of using it to take down Celestia once and for all. And once that's done, you can then use it to free your master Discord (or you can use it to usurp him)"

Sanies then chucked the amulet to the two clowns, who then proceeded to beat each-other up in a big ball of violence. While that was going on, Sanies and Sacanas then teleported to Yakyakistan, but they noticed Celestia was there healing the wounded yaks. While Sanies knew that Celestia would be too caring to try and start a war with the yaks, he was really hoping the yaks would try to hold her responsible for the attacks led by Killing Joke and Divine Comedy and use that as an excuse to start a war with her. Oh well, beggars can't be choosers. Plus starting a war would have merely been a bonus, with the real prize being Celestia's attention. Both Sacanas and Sanies smiled at the handiwork of Sanies' goons. But one question remained on Sacanas' mind.

"Why did you hand the amulet over to those psychotics?"

"Because Sacanas, if Celestia finds out what I've done, I will be sent to Tartarus. And trust me when I say that's a fate worse than being executed"

"Yes but I put an enchantment on the amulet that makes it impossible for it to be taken off unless the user desires so!"

"I think whoever won their little scrap will probably think the amulet is nothing more than a piece of junk once Celestia defeats them"

"You count on Celestia winning?"

"Only by a hair, because once she's exhausted enough, we can then attack her in her weakest moment and take her power from her"

Sacanas can only smile at his apprentice's brilliance. He then teleported without warning to Celestia's throne room in order to do some "interior decorating". Sanies then looked a where Sacanas was standing in confusion before burping out a note written by Sacanas:

Off to do some interior decorating to Celestia's throne room

- Sacanas

"I hate whe he does that" Sanies said in an annoyed tone.

Meanwhile, as Celestia wandered around the ruins of a village that was once filled with proud yaks, he then noticed an oddly dressed unicorn in clown make-up descend from the skies. It was Divine Comedy, a former knight that got demoted to a court jester after an experiment gone horribly wrong. Divine smiled as he shot a big blast of magic directly at Celestia, but Celestia flew up and dodged it. Divine laughed at he shot lots more magic blasts at Celestia, most of which circling around her.

"Come on, let's play! Dance! Dance!"

Both Celestia and Divine were flying about shooting magic at eachother and dodging eachother's attacks. It eventually got to a point where Divine has shot so many homing blasts at Celestia that they all started to circle around her, something that Celestia noticed and teleported out of the fire of blasts.

"Huh?" Divine went "Was that it? I wanna play more!"

He then noticed Celestia has teleported behind him and proceeded to do the same and blast Celestia with a sneak attack.

"Naughty naughty, princess!"

Before Celestia can attack back, Divine telekinetically grabbed her and started slamming her into the floor several times before electrocuting her with a magical blast of lightning magic. While I could keep describing the battle, especially since that it was pretty apple-bucking awesome, I'm afraid I'm having dificuly keeping up with describing the battle so let me just say that, against all odds, Celestia managed to defeat Divine Comedy with nothing more than perseverance and then a few tricks up her sleeve. Although it wouldn't hurt to mention that she may have cheated by using dark magic, but since that she still haven't gotten over banishing her sister at this point (if anything, the problem was getting worse) she may have slipped up and given into her anger for just a small moment, much to Divine's frustration.

"The power to defeat an alicorn?! Bah! What a load of junk!" he exclaimed as he took the Alicorn Amulet off and threw it to the side. Celestia, as exhausted as she was, just gave a stern look at Divine Comedy before looking at the amulet he just tossed away. Sanies smiled in the distance at how well his plan was going, now the next thing to do was to take care of Sacanas.