"Come on! We can't let any more time go to waste!"
Twilight and Applejack blazed through the streets (leaving Pinkie and Fluttershy to head off and find a hotel room without them), dodging poles, people, dogs and more. Panicked reports had it that a crime was raging on in the miles nearby and thinks weren't looking any better.
"Twi...! Don't get this the wrong way! But why can't we just let the police deal with this matter??" Applejack belowed despite her lungs being burnt out.
"Monster or not, we have a responsibility as the defenders of Equestria to seek out and stop any problem that may occur...!
Even if this is our day off...!" Twilight stoically replied, holding her head straight with determination.
"Right, right...! Ah see what ya mean..."
"Hey, guys! Up here!" Rainbow descended in front of them. She had been sent forward beforehand to get a better scope of the task at hand.
"Rainbow Dash! How the situation? What's happened?"
"Twilight...! You won't believe what just happened! I-it's just too-- just so... Crazy! I'll explain later, follow me! We're not too far away!" She ran off once more.
"Wait! But, Rainbow- Dah! Fine! Let's go!"
With the girls now in hot pursuit, tensions unknowingly rose between the group. For the past few years, the gang continued to fend off all sorts of untamed beasts, big and small, freaky or harmless. So much so, they became virtually desensitized to near enough any creature or situation.
But within all these years, no feeling would ever come close to the sheer absurdity. Of now, and the time yet to come.
And thus, with the final turn around the corner, Twilight, Pinkie, Applejack and Fluttershy all laid eyes...
... on the massive crater that was buried before them.
They all curiously admired the magnitude of it. Remaining speechless as a result. But this did get the cogs in Twilights' brain spinning.
On estimate, the crater looked to be about 10 metres (33 feet) with a total depth of around 1 to 2 metres (3 to 6 feet).
The number of Newtons it would take to make a crater like this wouldn't even be remotely close enough for any regular creature to create. This would've more believably been the works of some kind of magic or explosion... But she couldn't come to any definitive conclusions yet. Twilight needed more context.
"Rainbow... You were here at the time of the event, right. Would you mind telling me what you saw?"
Dash awkwardly scratched the back of her head. "I can. But you're probably gonna have to keep an open mind. OK?"
"Yeah, go ahead."
"Alright...
At the time I got there, I sat on top of a building right across the street.
I had to have been late though, cus I saw four ponies surrounding one- No! Actually...! Three police officers and some regular guy with one girl held hostage, all positioned around Jojo."
"W-What...?! Jojo?? You mean Jolt? The random stallion from the train?"
Rainbow nodded with no doubt, "I'd recognise those bandaids of his from even a mile away. Anyway.
The four guys, they... I... I'm sure what they did. All I knew was that they had all just grew unicorn horns from their own head... At this point, I woulda flew down there and took those guys out but Jojo just... He didn't even flinch! If anything, he looked calmer than anyone else in the crowd...!
He began to tear off one of his bandaids, reached inside and grabbed a Mug."
...
"Come again?" Twilight asked, tilting her head. "...You're saying that he reached inside his bandaid and pulled out a mug of all things...???"
"I'm not kidding!
Afterwards, he stood in some sorta stance, staying brave in the face of his own death! One of the cops launched a magic attack, right behind him... and he slapped it away with the mug!
"How in the...?? How in the wide world of Equestria is that even possible!?" Applejack exclaimed in utter shock and disbelief.
"I'm not sure... There has to be something else at work here. Continue, Rainbow."
Right...
What happened next... Jojo... He... He lifted his mug up and slammed it right onto the ground with enough power to... Well...
Rainbow dash pointed right at the before mentioned crater, eyes widening with the cause of something so phenomenally titanic to come from a being more than 10x smaller than the very thing he created.
"I don't believe this... I can't believe this...! There can't be any other to blast a hole as large as this into the ground...! And with a mug?? It's just too... too... Impossible!" Twilight ended up clutching her head in deep and agonising though, trying to come to terms with the supernatural events that happened. "Rainbow. Are you sure that everything that just happened was real?"
"Yes. Every last word I told you was exactly what I saw. I don't know what else to say Twi..."
"Ah... I see..." She breathed out her words as her eyes seemed to drain empty of any sanity that inhabited there before.
"I... Did see where Jojo went. His house isn't too far from here, we can pay him a visit and you can ask him whatever you need to ask. That sound good?"
"...Yeah. Yeah, let's do that." She said, shaking her head back to life.
Dash lead the group away once more.
...
"Hmmm... Jojo..." Upon a roof nearby, a figure of a mare, or rather, a changling wrapped back into visibility. She wasn't like most copy paste changelings, she looked a tad different with her turquoise mane and blue pupils. "So he's the one who caused my stallions all that trouble... *Tsk*... He's nothing more than a reckless idiot... But... He's a reckless idiot with a stand, and a strong one at that. How interesting..."
She pulled out a notebook and began scribbling, as the green flames that engulfed her vanished her out of sight once again.
Movēre crūs
In a World.
In a country.
In a continent.
In Canterlot.
In a City section.
On the road.
In a house.
Within a room.
A candlelit the ominous darkness that surrounded Enya, with a single curtain-shut window with near to none of Celetias' light illuminating the silhouettes of the room. She down, a cheery smile shone across her face.
Enya turned around, candle in hoof, and headed toward the edge of a bed.
"Wake up, my lord...! Rise, and claim your crown...!"
The bedsheets shuffled and twisted before a pony dragged them off. Sitting up and scanning the environment.
Her shadow ridden face meeting Enya's eager eyes.
"Did you get a good nights sleep, lord?" She said, bowing before her.
"Haaaaaah..."
A purple aura oozed from the Shadow Mare. She shifted her hind-legs up and off the bed, standing on all fours. She passed Enya by, the slow taps of her hooves breaking the ever-cold silence.
"I see all is well. Say, my lord, have you discovered your ability? It must've manifested by now..."
Just then, her ears were brought to the sound of a bubbling fizz.
She turned around to find the bed the Shadow Mare previously laid on was melting out of proportions. Spreading itself across the floor as a slimy liquid.
"Oh... Oh my... Could this be...?"
Enya dipped her hoof into the 'bed', examining the substance.
"You... You've liquidized it... You've liquidized it completely...! Amazing! A powerful ability for a stand alone to have!"
That wasn't the end of it.
The bed, in the spur of the moment, rapidly reconstructed itself to its former glory. Only to unnaturally snap and crack and twist as it sluggishly began to implode on itself. Enya's jaw-dropping awe was abruptly ended as the bed blasted her back in an explosion of air and bark, causing Enya to violently crash into the wall across the room and land with a bone-cracking thud. She shakily got up, coughing and wheezing out blood. Even after that, a smile stayed strong on her face.
"Hoh... Hoho... Ahhahhahhah...! E-excellent...! Your ability...*cough**cough* is unlike anything I've ever seen...! You have fully left your past life behind you and rebirthed into... into... Godhood."
The Shadow Mare spared her a hidden glance, facing her head toward the window, looking out upon the kingdom.
"...And for this occasion, we must truly cast away your previous life and rename you. But what to pick...? There are many names, but none would suit you... Wait...! I know just the name for you...! Derived from the ancient language of another dimension meaning 'God'...! You shall here on out be called
DIO!"
|To Be Continued==>