//------------------------------// // Chapter 18: Mad Reveal // Story: The V-Team // by Reizthefakebrony //------------------------------// With Twilegion being finally defused, Zade's group, Starlight's group, the Mane Six and the three Princesses were faced by a very exhausted and yet persistent Julius, who was exuding a very tremendous black aura. They were in a very numeric advantage, and yet something about that aura was just wrong. That shouldn't be underestimated. "I hope that having Celestia and the others on our side is enough." Jace said. "Just how much persistent he could be." "I never felt that power when we first met him." Luna commented. "I think you know what he's capable of." Sera said. "We don't have time to waste!" Zade said. "Let's just attack him altogether until we can!" Without wasting any time, they rushed toward the marble gray pony. The Princesses, Twilight, Rarity and Starlight were the first to charge their horns with their magic as they advance. Sera charged his dark meteor and Thorax turned into a dragon. Rainbow Dash surpassed the group and was about to approach him. Julius, in response, unleashed an explosion of light around him that overwhelmed the whole group and repelled them away from him. They ended up crushing on the devastated floor and rolled for a few meters until they stopped. Thorax returned into his original form. Zade, like the others, slowly rose up and looked at the others. "Are all right?" Zade asked. "Since by then a villain cares about us?" Twilight retorted. "Twilight, those four are not our enemies." Starlight said. "Guys! What happened to Julius!?" Jace asked dumbfounded. Zade and rest of the ponies turned toward Julius, only to find something different. Julius wasn't the rust maned marble gray pony anymore. He took the form of a red haired young boy in a spiked black armor. He approached Zade, towering him and his companions. Zade, Chris, Sera, Jace and Starlight were struck by astonishment, while the others were just confused. "You were a human?" Zade asked dumbfounded. "Surprised, Zade?" Julius said. "You can perceive the presence of the others but never expected me to be just like you. However, I have enough to talk with you. You angered me for the last time." "Damn...Bastard." Jace muttered. "Jace! Don't play hero in a moment like this!" Chris warned. Julius turned toward Jace. "You will be the first to die." Suddenly, a very blinding green light glowed behind him. Julius didn't had the time to turn that a magical beam of green energy struck him in the back. He almost stumbled but remained still and turned furiously toward the source. It was none other than Chrysalis, who had returned into his original changeling form. "You had forgot about me, Fortem Virtu!" Chrysalis said triumphantly. "Although I should thank you for the amulet that had saved me from the Elements of Harmony, you had also putted into a mortal danger. I shall not forgive you for that!" "What?" Celestia said, glaring at Julius. "You were the one who gave that cursed amulet?" Cadence said angered. "Say whatever you want, I- ARGH!" Julius suddenly felt a horrible headache and kept his hand on his forehead, as if he was trying to maintain his sanity. "Not now!" "What's happening?" Chris asked. "What the hay is he doing?" Applejack asked. "What's wrong? That was too much for you?" Chrysalis mocked him. Julius' black eyes turned into green ones and he fell silent. He then disappeared and reappeared in front of the changeling queen, gripping his neck and strangling her. "Maybe that will be too much for you, you insipid piece of shit!" Julius said with a almost warped voice while tossing Chrysalis against the ground. "Fortem Virtu!" Twilight shouted as she rose up and launched a beam of energy toward him. Julius' eyes turned red as he deflected the blow with his own hand creating a invisible shield, much to Twilight surprise. "Too slowly," Julius said with a cold voice. "Did you see his eyes?" Starlight asked to Zade. "It's not just that but his personality as well." Zade said. "Is he a case of multiple personalities and powers?" Jace said confused. "This is insane!" "Sister, let's go!" Celestia said to Luna. "Alright." Luna replied as both charged their horns. "Brother, let's go!" Jeska said. "Time for your downfall, Julius!" Kamahl said as he and Jeska charged. Julius' eyes turned blue and he looked like he was silently crying. "You insipid fools. YOU ARE RUINING EVERYTHING!" Julius shouted with a female and yet powerful voice as he stretched his hands and launched a devastating wave of plasma at Kamahl, Jeska the two Princesses, overwhelming them and nullifying their attempt to attack. Zade and his companions rose up and took their distance from him. But to escape, but to study him. Fear was the only thing that they were feeling in that moment. A fear way different by that of the first time they met him as a pony. "This is not good." Zade said. "Great, now we have to deal with a Legion wannabe." Jace said. "What the heck is wrong with him?" Rarity said. At that point, a third, blackened eye with red irises opened on Julius' forehead and his eyes becomes the same as that one, and his voice becomes a demonic one. "That's enough, Julius. You have failed to contain me for the last time." "Containing... You?" Sera said dumbfounded. "I-its... Creepy... You don't sound like yourself anymore." Fluttershy commented intimidated. "Just what the hell are you?" Zade asked. "You are not supposed to know it," 'Julius' said. "I am Deofordred. Interdimensional overlord of nexus. And this kid it's my host. He was a very smart one. He created multiple personalities inside him in order to contain me. He even resorted in creating that puppet named Twilegion Spadeus in order to find a way to get ride of me. He could never imagine how much he failed in these years." "You used him." Zade said coldly. "But... Why?" "I don't have the full control of the nexus, and to complicated the things, I need a host for my current incorporeal form," Deofordred said. "But why I should explain you that when you are about to die." He then pointed at the entrance, where alicorn Royal Guards with red glowing eyes were advancing toward the Zade and the others and surrounded them. "After all, all those ponies, including the 'purified' ones, are now at my service." "And now we are in deep shit." Jace said gravely. "By the hands of a demon lord from another dimension I should add." Sera added. "That's not funny." Pinkie Pie said. "And it's only getting worse." Zade said. "The time of you execution it's upon you." Deofordred said. "Goodbye." "NO!" Starlight shouted as she glowed her horn and teleported away with Zade's group, Thorax, Kamahl, Jeska and a very injured Chrysalis. Celestia, Luna, Cadence and Twilight followed suit, taking the other Elements of Harmony with them. Deofordred didn't move a muscle. He just remained to contemplate about his results. "You are just amateurs after all." Deofordred said and laughed with a demonic glee. And that was only the beginning of his own plan. What he didn't had noticed was one thing. Virum witnessed what happened and disappeared into nothingness like a shadow.