//------------------------------// // Chapter 5: Power Grandeur // Story: Demonoid Overlord // by Reizthefakebrony //------------------------------// In the crater that used to be Rambling Rock Ridge, Alex Phirell, now being the ponoid demonic Zaidel Goelnix, was standing victorious over Painset and Magic, but has now the inconvenience about what to do with Sunset Shimmer and Trixie, now purified and unconscious. "Seriously, now what I am going to do with these two?" Alex asked. "Well you better hurry, because maybe Celestia or Luna would came to investigate. Aidan said. "Oh, shit." Alex murmured. "No panic, you know what to do". Aidan said. Alex didn't know what it meant but then an obscure thought gave him the idea. "OPEN GATE!" A enormous black portal appeared in front of him, giving him the time to drag the mares inside of it. Once on the other side, the portal shrunk from behind them before disappearing. Alex realized to be in a totally different place, being a mountain. "Where are we?" Alex asked. "We are nearby Canterlot." Aidan said. "C-CANTERLOT!?" "Don't scream. Someone will see you." Aidan said. Suddenly, inside the gates, a siege was going on. What is happening in the town was something that he could find in any monster movie, except that is not funny to watch, and is happening in front of his eyes. The wooden gates were smashed, a few houses were destroyed, various pile of ashes with a blue crystal on them filled the ground and the still living red cloaked ponies were running away from it. And at the center of the whole chaos was a towering monstrosity engulfed in black flames. He could tell that is a Mindeater, but he wasn't expecting to see a very huge one. That thing was a nine-foot hulking creature with a short steel tail and very long claws. It looked like a green eyed humanoid wingless dragon-goat hybrid creature being engulfed in black flames. Compared to the other Mindeaters that were infesting the town, that thing was more taller than the town itself. The dragon-like creature opened his mouth and spitted blood colored meteors in various part of the town. The meteors crashed to the ground, exploding into pillars of red flames that incinerated a few ponies and other Mindeaters nearby them and leaving craters in their wake. The killed ponies, due to them being Homuncoli, dissolved into ashes and leaved in their place blue crystal, that were disintegrated as well. "What in the shitty hell is that thing?" Alex asked "Something that Painset had previously sent for the conquest of Equestria. Time to get ride of it." Aidan said. "You expect me to fight it? Why!?" "You will see." Aidan said. Reluctantly, Alex was about to go facing the monsters but then stopped upon seeing a domino mask. He picked up and put it on his face. "Let's do that with a bit of a style, because I have a plan." At his right hand, a sword-gun hybrid suddenly appeared in the same moment he went ahead toward the Dragoliath. "Hey!" Alex said at the dragonic monster, inducing it to turn toward him. "You forgot the Dragon Code!" Alex shot a dart of dark violet energy that goes right into the Dragoliath's left eye, exploding in the green pillar of energy that destroyed it along with part of his face and leaved a vertical opening on it's wake. The monster roared fiercely for the pain as blood colored flames were coming out of the wound. He then teleported above him, mustered his strength, and dived on him in a falling overhead slash on him with his energy blade. He cutted his way through it's body during his fall. He then landed unharmed afterwards with his energy made weapon slamming against the ground, unleashing a giant pillar of violet darkness from beneath the Dragoliath that instantly disintegrated it's body. The monster was reduced into black dust and disappeared into nothingness as the scarlet pillar advanced forward, disintegrating all the Hell Hounds, the humanoid Mindeaters and everything else in it's trajectory. As the dragon and the other monster died, they turned into black masses of energies entered inside Alex's body, like the stream of a river. "It's their vital force. That would be useful for you in the future. Use it." Aidan said. Alex pointed his hoof on the ground and said. "IRON CERBERUS!" Two puddle of black slime filled the floor and two canine figures came outside of it. There are two armored wolfs with metallic claws, scorpion tails and volcanic eyes. Gesturing to the unconscious Sunset Shimmer and Trixie, the creatures went to pick them up by their mouth and then returned nearby Alex. The mares were released. The survived ponies of Canterlot and the incoming Royal Guards went to meet their improbable savior. What they didn't expected were Sunset and Trixie being there. "I can't believe it! They disappeared months ago," A Royal Guard said. "Thanks me for the job," Alex said. "Not so fast, "savior". For starters, who are you?" Another guard said, being a female one. "You can call me Zaidel Goelnix, and I came just in time what you have lost," Alex said. "That's right. I retrieved them in a journey from another dimension. I came from it to give them back to you." The citizens and the Royal Guards oh'ed in surprise but had some doubts about the veracity of his words. "However, their retrieval is not for free," Alex gestured Giant Dad. "I request to be in the presence of Celestia for an audition." "And go back to my world for revenge."