//------------------------------// // The Feeling of betrayal // Story: The God of Anger // by The Toaster //------------------------------// "You lie, nobody can be that fast!" A soldier in white armor would say in an amused and surprised tone as he looked at his companion at his side in front of a huge gate. "Believe it or not, but I swear, I've never seen anyone this fast! He cut them like lightning! We could only see the tracks of destruction!" The Other in identical armor would speak in a dramatic tone while passing his free palm forward as if following something at a distance. "Then he flew, I repeat, FLEW up to the other guard, WITHOUT A WING!!!" He shouted at his fellow guard as he tightly gripped his spear. The Other guard at the gate would only look shocked at his companion under his white mask that would be glued to his helmet. "NO WAY! SO?? What happened next??" He exclaimed excited. The Other chuckled over his mask as he continued. "He then before could reach his target, he would ignite his divine weapon!" He prepared his spear as he was about to attack an imaginary opponent showing how it was in history. "AND WITH AN POWERFULL SLASH HE-" "I made him regret everything he did in his miserable life" Both guards almost had a heart attack with the raised voice, and would look quickly at the source, both pointing the tip of their spears at the newcomer. Just to gape at who he was. Towering in all its dark glory, was their Lord, the same one in which the most experienced one was explaining to the young man, their god. Both quickly lowered their spears, with a monumental fear of having offended their lord in any way, and would quickly lower their heads bowing to the same. "MY LORD! W-w-we are terribly sorry! W-we didn't expect your arrival!" He passed his gaze to both of them who were with their heads down, trembling a little, in fear of having been discovered by their lord basically slacking in their shift. .... The silence was almost giving them both a panic attack, they were already sweating like crazy. Their toughts were broken when they began to hear Vader's footsteps moving away, and slowly they would lift their heads and realize they would see him moving away from both. "Get back to work before i cut your rations." He told with an bored hand gesture. Both immediately standed up and released a "YES SIR". After seeing their lord disappear in the village with a hooded figure, they both sighed with relief. "T-THAT WAS HIM??" The older guard would just give a weak laugh and would nod. "Aye, you are lucky kid, he rarely inspects the troops personally." The other guard's eyes could be seen shining under the white mask. "SOOO COOOOOL! I WAS BLESSED!" The boy cheered holding his rifle to his head while the older would laugh. Without both realizing it, two hooded figures would flash past them, jumping over a house and jumping from roof to roof, slowly heading towards the unknown. "From everything I imagined when I was told about a 'Dark Lord'....." He told in a low tone as they jumped building after building with extreme skill and stealth, in the front, all around them, they could only find a huge, thriving community, that could easily rival Ponyville in size. "I did not expect this...." What surprised the figure most was the simple fact that humans were walking around, working, children playing, and soldiers training, like any normal village. What scared him was the said normality of the village, the positive energies it reflected, and how peaceful it was. When he received reports of a slave rebellion led by a self named 'Lord', he already thought it was a Umbra 2.0. He expected to arrive in these territories and find slaves of darkness being abused in every way possible just for the said entertainment. Both hooded figures stopped on top of a roof, hiding behind one of the wooden chimneys looking at what looked like the center of the town. The winged hooded one just growled as it spoke in a low tone to his comrade. "Isn't it? Their attempt to copy the normal life of the ponyfolk is pathetic" He slowly look at his side, and come across a hooded Pegasus that would be hidden with him. "We give them a reason to live and they run and hide like animals." He just looked at his companion with an expression of surprise at the words, but he ignored his words since something else caught his attention. A human had left one of the several wooden houses, and slowly walked to the center of the 'square', he was not going to lie, in all his life, and in all the conflicts he fought, he had never seen a figure so frightening and imposing, he was flanked by beings as terrifying as he, they seemed to be the embodiment of darkness, their robes dark with a black mask with a red vizor, there were twelve of them, flanking what looked like the chief, he wore armor of what appeared to be iron, a helmet that covered the entire head and huge cloak. Show off as far as he could see. "My children, our time has finally come." His voiced boomed as he slowly climbed a plateau that was in the center of the square around the absurd number of snow-colored warriors that it surrounded. Slowly passing visor around, looking at all the knights who looked back him, waiting with antecipation. The figure narrowed his eyes while listening carefully to what the being was talking, His aura of power and darkness and his control by humans said it all, he was the dark lord. "For months, we have stayed in the shadows, for months, we have prepared." He said and slowly paced back and forth while that crowd watched him in silence, swallowing every word that came out of him. "For 600 years, we were slaves, for 600 years, we waited, we served, hoping that with our sweat, our hard work and our efforts, our redemption would come, along with forgiveness for past wars waged by our ancestors. And what do we get? We get contempt, we win suffering and a fate worse than cattle." One of the figures passed his hand over his chin as if in deep thought. "The way he is talking and how the people are feeling about him.... He is the god that the prisioners were venerating so much....." Pegasus looked at his companion with an expression of disgust. "You don't mean they are actually creating fake deities??" The Other wouldn't even look at his partner, just putting an index finger in his mouth, and pointing back at the crowd. His partner just growled, but he would look back at the crowd. Everyone around him would start to get a little agitated, muttering to each other and getting restless as he continued. "All of our work took their species to unimaginable heights, castles that tower above the skies, cities that their brilliance rivaled the sun, at the cost of what? Mountains of bodies." His words seemed to take on the effect he desired, making the crowd of soldiers more and more agitated, while many people who walked nearby and saw all the commotion gathered in curiosity. "Our brothers, children and parents, dragged in chains, doing miracles, and receiving a life of disgrace, being dragged into wars as a cannon fodder for selfish reasons. They believe that after these hundreds of years, we learned to live as servants, that in all these years, chains are the destiny that we will always be destined to receive, that they will be able to enjoy our blood and tears without any consequences." The soldiers and citizens who listened only agreed, shouting with rage and showing it by punching the air with their clenched fists. The hooded figure could feel a little pity, he idolized Celestia for everything she did for Ponykind, but not everything he said were lies, he continued to listen to the comotion with interest. "Starting today, we will show them that we have learned, that Celestia's sunshine shines so much that it burns, burns as much as the fires of hell that will consume them. That if they try so hard to nominate and position themselves as 'guardians of harmony' and 'protectors of peace', we will be the opposite of everything it stand for! As they have no true meaning to the wrenched slaves who live in squalor!" The figures just looked at each other in shock, and returned their eyes to the Sith. Everyone started cheering and punching the air even more fervor, Vader then, slowly positioned his hand around his helmet, and slowly with a 'hiss', he took it off, raising it up to the air, surprising everyone, revealing in the front of hundreds. His true face above his respirator, the pale disfigured head, clearly showing years of war and the fires of hell he went through. But of all this, it was not just these revelations that shocked everyone the most, but more the look that Vader had on his face, bloodshot yellow eyes with traces as if his eyes were the burning flames of the sun. "We will be the war, the darkness, that will consume the land of that tyrant to dares to proclaim herself a goddess!" The crowd grew more and more agitated, being more and more moved by the word of their sovereign, while the two intruders could only gap with shock at his words, the dark lord wanted to start a war. "We will show the passion she created when we were chained, the anger of years of torture and mistreatment, and the hatred of decades without change or sympathy!" He roared under his respirator while what looked like the whole community was cheering, their voices and applause were so many, that Vader had to signal with his hand for them to calm down before continuing. "Starting today, we are the heart of the Darkness, we become beings that don't know what fear is! We pledge ourselves to the darkness that we have embraced so long! We find true life in the death of light! WE ARE SITH!" With that roar and proclamation he would take the cylindrical object in his waist that was hidden under his cloak and lift it up, and suddenly, a red ray would come out. With this action all humans would start to cheer like there was no tomorrow and all of them would raise their fists, the white knights would raise their weapons and strange staff's upwards, showing their devotions and complete support towards the Dark lord. One of the figures lowered his hood, revealing a white unicorn with blue hair, he would look at his companion Pegasus, who would do the same, revealing herself to be a bluish female pony figure with rainbow hair. "Rainbow, we have to alert Celestia of this!" She looked at him with eyes full of anger. "Are you serious? No! I'm going to end this punk here and now!" The other just looked at her with wide eyes. "Are you crazy?! Have you seen the number of humans down there?! Even if you manage to kill the leader, you will be slaughtered by the crowd! It's not worth the risk!" She just gave an arrogant smile while looking at the dark lord. "Watch and learn Shinny, once i deal with him, they will all go back to their owners with their tails between their legs" "RAINBOW WAIT-" He jumped and extended his hand towards Rainbow Dash with the desperate intent of preventing her from doing something stupid, however, he was completely ignored. She went in a flash, leaving only her disguise rags behind. Without her disguise, her diamond armor with her symbol of loyalty would shine with the light as she flew towards the Dark Lord, who would keep his strange sword pointed at the skies with his followers, this was her chance, a blow was everything she needs to end a war before it would even start. With a roar and surprising many of the crowd, she would fly overhead all of the humans and approaching at an enormous speed she would rise her sword towards the heavens preparing strike powerful blow over the dark entity. TLINC She almost bulges her eyes at what had happened. 'I-impossible!' One of the figures that accompanied Sith had intercepted her blow with its sword! She grinded her teeth and growled at that robbed black figure in front of her, he could be different from the other guards but Rainbow didn't care. "GET OUT OF MY WAY PUNK!" She then gave a lot of sudden blows to the figure in front of her at an absurd speed, just for her to be surprised when the figure parried all her attacks, and with a right hook he stunned Rainbow, and with a spinning jump he gave a powerful kick in her belly throwing her away. She screamed all the way and hit a hay cart with force. Everyone around dispersed, forming a circle, while the hooded warrior slowly jumped off the platform and walked towards Rainbow. She suddenly flew upward from the hays, and looked at the hooded warrior with hatred. "FINE! IF YOU WANT TO GET A BEATING, I WILL BRING IT!" Then she began to fly quickly in circles around the dark warrior, who stood upright and watched her calmly as if he were not being surrounded by one of the throne's most powerful defenders. Getting more infuriated by it, she would take a gust up at the warrior, flying like a lightning bolt, and flying up again. Anger was building inside her when another blow was being deflected again, easily, but she was not concerned, her speed and the advantage of being in the air would bring her victory just as easily. So she continued with this hit-and-run tactic, flying quickly around the warrior and making attack after attack before retreating, giving the enemy no chance to retaliate. And he deflected the attacks again and again, and to put salt in the wounds, he was doing all of this by holding the sword with one hand. She was already tired and humiliated enough, this enemy somehow managed to keep up with her! That shouldn't be possible! Gritting her teeth again, she ceased her attacks, and keep hovering over the enemy, who was still watching her quietly over his hood. "Y-you are a l-lucky coward! But alas, I am bored of this insufferable joke of a circus, so I will just finish this with my SONIC BOOM!" She then flew towards the skies, and disappeared from the field of view of everyone who was there. "She is gonna use her special attack???" "This is insane!" "We have to hide!" "he won't survive that!" Then, the skies suddenly exploded in a rainbow coloring as the sound barrier was being broken, while an angry Rainbow Dash came at full speed towards the figure. With a huge smile and a roar, she fell with all her fury at the warrior, which for the first time, showed emotion, when releasing a 'hunf' Upon impact, a huge cloud of dust rose and many around it screamed and protected themselves from the huge Shockwave that was formed by it. Darth Vader meanwhile, was with his arms crossed while using the force to make the smoke and dust just dodge and pass around him. The Sith Lord then raising a finger on his crossed arms dispersed the smoke and dust in the air to reveal the outcome of the clash. And everyone around them was stunned, and then they started cheering. Rainbow Dash could just keep agape at the outcome, her mouth opening and shutting expressionlessly with her bulging eyes, it wasn't possible, it shouldn't be possible! She was lying on her back, her sword shattered at her side, while the figure pointed the tip of its sword at her neck while standing towering over the defeated element. Everything had happened in a flash, ending as fast as it started. Sweat poured down Pegasus' face while the hooded figure in front of her just let out a light chuckle. "After all this time Rainbow, I was expecting your arrogance to be undone over time, but some things don't change right?" She just gritted her teeth even more, her face trembled with hate. "YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT ME YOU PUNK!" she spat at him. The figure appeared unaffected by the element of loyalty outburst. "I'm hurt Dashy, didn't Spike told you anything about me?" She was confused by the figure. "S-spike...? H-how-?" The figure slowly ran its hand over the hood, and pulled it down, leaving her with wide-eyed and gaping eyes. "THORAX?! I-IT C-CAN'T BE! SPIKE SAID YOU DIED!" Thorax just chuckled while turning his head from side to side negatively. "We changelings don't die that easily, we do have thick skin." He said laughing at his own joke while tapping his shoulder in a demonstration, Rainbow seemed to ignore the joke completely, still in total shock. "But you are not wrong, the old Thorax died." Thorax's cheerful expression then changed to one of an evil smile. She then noticed the Dark Lord slowly walking and positioning himself next to Thorax with his crossed arms, who continued. "Vader refined me, reshaped me, and showed me things that you and your elements could never dream of in your entire lives!" He said while approaching Rainbow little by little, that in response she crawled backward, her arrogant stance had changed to one of pure fear, what had happened to one of the first Changelings that was purified? She could see the scars on the changeling, covering him from forehead to chin, if only on his head had he been hurt so badly, what had happened to the rest of his body too? "Thorax! Stop it! Don't you see that he's manipulating you?? He's using you!" He stopped, and just smiled again at what she had said, turning it into a full-blown laughter. "Ahhh, pony hypocrisy at it's finest! I missed this!" She then was just even more shocked as Thorax brushed aside her concern as if it were nothing. "Do you really believe that? That even after I was used as just a puppet by Celestia just to keep my brothers in check? And that even after I tried to prove time and time again how I just wanted to be 'friendly' to Equestria and following its teachings led me to?" He told with anger and rancor in his voice and expression as he got closer and closer to the Element of loyalty, which had now been stuck on a wall with nowhere to run and unable to digest everything that Changeling was saying to her. "You can't be serious! How can you say that after everything Celestia did to you?" It made him have an instant reaction, slapping a hand hard on the side of her head who yelped in surprise, cornering her even more, making her cringe in fear even more, inches from the Changeling's face that growled like a rabid dog. "I'm saying this because of what Celestia did to me, who do you think was the orchestrator of the assassination attempt on me?" She was just even more shocked, but she narrowed her eyes. "She wouldn't." He began to smile again. "Wouldn't?" He asked, laughing while slowly pulling his face away from her. "You really don't know who you serve and what she is truly capable of." But he only looked bored to the side while putting away his sword. "No matter, you will not serve her again either way." She looked confused at him. "What do you mean by-?" She couldn't finish the sentence when Thorax suddenly threw a deadly kick at Rainbow Dash's face, immediately knocking her out, her world turning pitch black.