//------------------------------// // THIS IS BAD! THIS IS BAD! THIS IS BAD! // Story: Ultimate Equestria // by CrAzY FaLcOn //------------------------------// Twelve minutes later, Twilight comes back in the library with a dragon standing barely 2/3 her height, with purple scales, green underbelly and spines, closing the door behind her. I recognize the dragon as Spike. "Twilight, can you please tell me… why… you… need…ed me- AAH! WHAT ARE YOU?!" Spike says, his sentence starting off pleading before he sees me, causing his voice to trail off before he screams. "Spike! Please don't shout. You'll cause a commotion." Twilight says, her horn alight for some reason. "DON'T SHOUT?! WHAT DO YOU MEAN, DON'T SHOUT?! THERE'S A MONSTER IN THE LIBRARY!" As Spike is shouting, I'm worried about catching the attention of the ponies outside but I am also worried that my intervention would only make things worse. At this point I notice the walls seem to be glowing. What the? I then remembered that Twilights horn was, and still is, glowing too. Please let that be a silencing spell. I hope. It was now I notice that Rainbow wasn't sitting were she was before. I then start to hear muffled speaking. I look to Spike and see Rainbow is covering his mouth. Thank you, Rainbow. "Calm down Spike! He's not gonna hurt us!" Rainbow says through clenched teeth. But Spike just pulls her hand away. "Not gonna hurt us?! How do you know that?! And why's he here? Better yet, how'd he get in here? He's massive!" Spike says, seemingly having calmed down but still scared and confused. Twilight then decides to try and calm him down completely. "Spike, do you remember when we got that message from Celestia? With that mission? To investigate that weird magic surge in the Whitetail woods? Well, when me and Rainbow went there, we found him," Twilight says, pointing at me. "Right by the source. He hid at first becau-" "How could he hide from you? He's massive!" Spike interrupts, waving his arms at me. I prove him wrong by disappearing from view, reappearing two seconds later. "Oh, that's how. How… did he do that?" Spike asks, directing the question to Twilight. "He doesn't know how he can do it. He just does." Rainbow answers. "Oh, sooo… like Pinkies Pinkie sense?" Spike asks. "Yeah. Just like Pinkies Pinkie sense. Except he can control it. He also has other strange powers." Twilight answers. Spike looks like he is going to speak again but Twilight stops him. "Anyway, when we first found him, we didn't know he was there. He made himself invisible, like you saw, so that his appearance wouldn't scare us. When I was scanning the area, he spoke to us, nearly made me have a heart attack. He introduced himself, his name's Seth." "Present." I say affirmingly. "And he even saved us when a timberwolf showed up and attacked us." Twilight continues. "A timberwolf? I thought you were going to the Whitetail woods? Not the Everfree." Spike questions. "We were. It must've been an outcast or a stray. Anyway, he stunned the wolf and carried us to safety." Twilight says, her horn now no longer glowing. "He stunned it? How? And why did he carry you? Couldn't you just run?" Spike asks. "Well…" Twilight says, her horn glowing again, causing the walls to regain their glow, as well as her own head. She then covers Spikes ears with her hands, much to Spikes confusion. Rainbow, seeing what's about to happen, covers her ears too and tells Pinkie to cover her ears as well. I, catching on to what's happening, let off a comparably low volume screech at nothing in particular for a second, causing Spike to press his own hands onto Twilights and cringe. After noticing that the sound is gone, he looks up at me in awe. "Wow. So that's how you stopped that timberwolf? That's amazing! But why would you need to carry Twilight and Rainbow away?" Spike says, ending his sentence with a question. "Because it was much much louder than that. Pretty sure it spooked every animal in the forest." I answer. "Oh. Alright. So… Oh! Why did you bring me here Twilight? Other than to meet Seth?" Spike asks the mare next to him who has stopped casting magic. Before she can reply, a few knocks at the door are heard. I immediately go invisi-tangible. Twilight, seeing the cost is clear, answers the door. A mare whose voice I don't recognize asks Twilight. "Hey Twilight, what was that shout earlier, sounded like it came from Spike?" The mare asks. "Oh. Uhh… it was…" Twilight stutters, trying to think of a excuse when she sees Rainbow and Pinkie. "A prank!" She says a bit too loudly. "Yeah, Rainbow pulled a prank on him. Isn't that right Rainbow?" Twilight says open the door to let the mare see the pegasus, allowing me to see a glimpse of a pinkish purple coat. The mare pokes her head in and looks at where Rainbow is sitting. I now see that the pony is Berry Punch but something looks off about her. I stare for a second before realising her eyes are the wrong colour, being a almost eerie yellow. Before I can question it she looks right at where I am, proceeding to step inside the library and close the door behind her, causing me to panic. I try and move out of her line of sight but her strange eyes just follow me. "What are yo-" Twilight begins before being interrupted by the strange mare. "You can come out now, I know you're there." She says in a different voice. One that, after a second, I recognize. Screwball? Deciding against the panicked looks of the other three ponies and dragon, I release my power. "Seth, what are you doing?!" Twilight quietly yells, reapplying her spell on the walls. The now identified mare looks at me in awe. "Wooow, you look even cooler than I thought!" She says excitedly. Twilight, looking confused, asks, "Your… not afraid of him? And what happened to your voice?" "No. Why would I be, he's not going to hurt me, and my voice changed because…" She responds, twirling on the spot at the end of her sentence, causing a yellowish golden glow to pass up her body, revealing a lighter purple purple coat, white and purple swirling mane and tail, a yellow propeller hat with a green fan on top, one that I recognize as the green hue I saw before, and cute purple eyes with spirals for irises. Huh. I was right. I think happily. I look to Twilight and can't help but laugh at her expression. Completely flabbergasted. "W-b-h… huhytyvdj… How did you… WHAT?! Howdidyoudothat?!Yournotevenaunicorn?!There'snowayaearthponycoulddothat!? How did you do that?!" Twilight rattles off incoherently. "Twilight. No one can understand you when you talk that fast." I tell her calmly. "Calm down and enunciate." Twilight then starts breathing heavily for a few seconds before calming down. "Okay. O…Kay. How did you do that, whoever you are?" Twilight asks the chaotic mare. "Oh that's easy, I'm-" Screwball says before stopping abruptly, flinging her head to one of the side walls. Before I can ask, a huge boom goes off in town, directly in the direction Screwball is looking. I stand up quickly, knocking my head against the ceiling, before going intangible and running outside, closely followed by everyone in the library. Outside, I see something as impossible as me. A thing, with a blue and white head, tentacle-like hair hanging off it, a beige green torso with black squarish holes on the front surrounding a rounded bump in the center of its chest, yellow jackhammer like things for arms and legs covered in spiked maroon armour. Underneath it's chin was a metal band with three grate-like glowing orange slits on it. The thing was Ultimate Aggregor. "WHAT?!" I shout, feeling frantic. "WHAT IS HE DOING HERE?!" "Oh look, another one." Screwball comments. "Wait. Do you know who he is?" Twilight asks me. "The show my powers are from," I say pointing at myself before pointing at Aggregor. "He's one of the antagonists. You need to evacuate the town, NOW!" I shout, accidentally getting Aggregors attention. His eyes widen before narrowing menacingly. "Well well well. Another Osmosian? Interesting." He says, starting to make his way towards us. "Get out of here! Go!" I say, shoving Twilight toward her friends. "Evacuate EVERYONE!" I finish, not even caring about my pronunciation. Twilight gets the memo and turns back towards the town, pulling her friends with her. "Why do you care about these things? They're nothing but food for us." Aggregor says as he approaches. "Why don't we work together and rule them all." "Never. Unlike you, I plan to use my powers to help others, not take from them." I retort. "You really are a fool. Our kind can only take. It is our destiny to rule." "Well then I'll just be different. Not all of us are as power hungry as you, Aggregor." "You know my name?" "Yes, I do. I also know what you can do. And, if I'm right, you are severely outgunned and out numbered." I say, getting into a fighting stance. "So be it." Aggregor says, also assuming a fighting stance. Aggregor runs at me and rears one of his arms back. I respond by flaring my wings and flying up into the air, the studs adorning them sinking away, allowing me to fly unhindered. Well, that answers that question. And now it's time for a trial by fire. I look at aggregor as he swings his punch, stumbling for a second before looking up at me. He glares at me as his eyes begin to glow red. Uh oh. I think as I dodge his radiation beams. Aggregor keeps firing so I go intangible, thankfully allow the beams to pass right through me, and fly down to tackle him. As I fly, my instincts tell me to tuck into a ball, so I follow them. As I do, my wings fold in to cover me and then they harden, the studs covering them emerging and turning into spikes, with the cloak itself turn ing into ball shaped armour. Whoaaa. Thank you U. Cannonbolt. I think as I notice I can see Aggregor through my shell, allowing me to crash into him, completely knocking him over and causing me to bounce into the air. I use the bounce to land on him. After I land on him, I bounce again, and I decide to land on him again, causing me to bounce off him yet again. While in midair, I unroll myself and stomp him. As I'm about to get off of him, he shoots a radiation beam at my face. I am able to dodge but just barely. After that, he blows me off him with a blast of wind from his chest. I am able to recover but he gets up, albeit tiredly. "You… will… pay for that." He pants. He points his hands at me and I see what's coming. Feeling my instincts kick in again, I raise my hands too, with them giving off a strange blue coloured gas. As Aggregor shoots a torrent of water at me out of holes in his hands, I full counter him by shooting a bonfire sized blast of blue flames at him from my hands, completely ignoring his attack and launching him through two buildings to the other side of the town. I look at my hands in awe, just now noticing that my skin is a dark gray colour, like U. Swampfires, and I seem to have strange blue pods on the upper half of my fore arms. I REALLY need to get a good look at myself some time. I am brought out of my reverie by a roar from ahead and above. I look up and see Aggregor has jumped into the air to attack me, one arm held behind him and its piston extended. My instincts take over and all of a sudden a wall of ice has appeared in front of me, blocking Aggregors punch and leaving him open. I rear my own hand back, feeling a weird squeezing feeling pass over it, and punch him, a explosion adding to the damage he takes but also stinging me a little. I look to my hand and see that it has transformed, losing the four fingers for holes and has become U. Humungasuars missile launcher with the Echo Echo speakers from my palm and back of my hand resting on the top and bottom, respectively. I smirk and turn my other hand into a launcher, awaiting Aggregors next move. "What… are… you…" He asks me, heaving for breath. "What am I? I am the Ultimate protector. If you wish harm upon the innocent, you will feel the wrath of my power. Only those who give thanklessly and with compassion are my allies. Those who only take? Will have everything taken from them." I say, feeling a strange rush of power flowing through me. Unbeknownst to everyone, including myself, one of my speakers clicks off and disappears from the world, quickly being replaced by another. Aggregor just growls at my speech, proceeding to fire radiation beams at me. I respond by rolling into a ball, untransforming my hands in the process, letting the beams brush off my armour and giving me the opening to rush him. He tries to counter by hitting me with both arms, full power, but I just tank the hit. The attack only stops my momentum and makes my shell feel slightly numb. He reels back from his strike not working, giving me the opportunity to unroll and blast him with a sonic scream, slamming him through a wall ten meters behind him. I approach him, standing tall and ask. "Do you surrender?" "N-never." He answers, but I can see he is beaten. "You know what I am. You know what I can do. Surrender and I swear to help you. But, if you keep trying to fight, I think we both know what will happen." I say, meaning every word. He just roars and lashes out with his tentacles, trying to electrocute me. I just catch them and absorb the electricity. Oh. I can absorb things. Neat. I think. I keep absorbing and put one of my hands on his head, taking his powers away. Ten seconds later, normal Aggregor falls to the ground, too weak to stay conscious. It is at this point that solar guard pegasi fall from the sky, immediately surrounding me and Aggregor, with weapons pointed at me. "Halt creature!" One of them shouts, a stallion with a sword. "At ease gentlem- gentlecolts, threat's taken care of." I say, showing the unconscious Osmosian lying in the rubble next to me. They see him and immediately tense up. I see this and try to calm them down. "Whoa whoa. I'm not the bad one here, he is," I say, pointing at Aggregor. "He's the one who attacked the town." "And how do we know he isn't one of your victims." The same gaurd asks. "Does he look like a pony. Those aren't unicorn horns, y'know." I say, pointing my arms at him. "You don't look like pony either, bub." Another gaurd asks, this one with a pair of metal claw gauntlets. "Yeah, explain that." The guard from before asks. I just groan but before I can retort a authoritative voice calls out. "That's enough, Lance Bolt!" I look to the voice and see the sun princess herself. Next to her is her sister, Princess Luna, both wearing large form-fitting armour in their respective colours. The guard, Lance Bolt, bows. "My apologies, Princess." Lance Bolt says. "Now, would you happen to be Seth? My student has informed me about you." The solar princess asks me. "Yes, I am. And you must be Princess Celestia and Luna. Twilight has told me about both of you. Forgive me for not bowing but, I appear to be being arrested." I say, slight humour in my voice. "Ah yes. Guards, stand down." The princess commands, the guards sheathing their weapons and standing back. I bow my head in respect to the princesses before lifting my head to speak. "It is an honour to meet you, Princess." "You as well, Seth. Now, where is the one who attacked my ponies." The princess asks, her expression turning angry. I point at the Osmosian lying in the ruble next to me. "Right here. His name is Aggregor. I would suggest shackles on his upper arms that keep his hands far apart, he can absorb anything he touches." I tell her. "How do you know that? And Twilight said he was bigger." The princess points out. I just groan, knowing this will make me look bad. "I know because he and I are the same species, and he's smaller because I absorbed his powers." I tell them, everyone reeling back from my statement. "Your race has the ability to absorb power?" The sun princess asks, Luna tensing beside her. "More or less. We absorb energy mostly but we are able to absorb the powers of others, however, it is outlawed among my kind to absorb the life force of living things, because of the damage it does to them. Aggregor does not abide by this law, hungering for power that isn't his. Because of this, he is a criminal and a murderer." I tell them, everyone now looking at Aggregor with hate. "And what of you? Are you like him." Luna asks me, her eyes accusing. Before I can say anything thing, a voice calls out from behind one of the buildings. "Wait! He's on our side!" A mare calls out, running towards us. I recognize her as Lyra Heartstrings. "He fought to protect us. He even made a big speech too. Said he will protect the innocent. Right?" She said, posing me a question. I smile and declare. "That is correct, ma'am. To help those who cannot help themselves and to punish those who take what doesn't belong to them. That is who I am now." "Hmm. Shall we test your mettle then? I challenge you to a duel." "Luna!" The sun princess yells at her sister. "You cannot just challenge someone to a duel on a whim. He was just in a fight with a invader!" "I accept." I say, surprising the sun princess and making Luna smile. "What?" Celestia asks me. "I accept. I shall allow to choose the date and place." I say to the two princesses. "Excellent! Shall we say… tomorrow at Canterlot? Noon?" Luna asks me. "That would be perfect. Except… I do not know where Canterlot is." I respond. She responds by pointing at a mountain to the east of the town. "That city there, on the side of the mountain." "That… doesn't seem structurally sound…" l comment. "Oh don't worry. Many think that. The city is held up by structural integrity spells. I checked them myself." Luna says. "Alright then. Until tomorrow, princess." I say, bowing my head and then walking off back to the library, leaving everyone but Luna stunned. This should be fun. I think. Before I get too far away I remember a small detail about my fight. "Oh! You might want to cast spells that cancel radiation! One of Aggregors powers where radiation based!" I call out to the princesses. A moment later I see Luna lighting her horn, casting a wave of magic over Ponyville. Well, I better get ready for my fight.