A small figure walked with the grace and property of a lady down the corridors of the ninth floor of the great tomb of Nazarick, decked out in her velvety black evening gown with crimson details and lace, her face held a mischievous look and the honest smile that betrayed her good mood, it was Shalltear Bloodfallen, the true vampire guardian of the first three floors of the tomb and her smile was not unfounded, she could finally present interesting news to her master.
Upon finally reaching his quarters, she stopped at the entrance, checked her appearance, looked at both sides repeatedly, and quickly adjusted the bust padding.
*Knock knock knock knock*
One of the homunculus servants answered the door.
"Hello? Ah, Shalltear-sama!"
"Ara? Lumiere, I wish to see Ainz-sama, hurry up, I have news to report -de arinsu."
"Yes, immediately."
A moment later she received permission and entered the room.
"Good morning Ainz-sama."
"Umu, likewise Shalltear, do you have something to report?"
"Yes∼❤ that's right, as you order it, I have kept a watch for some time in all the places that we have opened a portal with my familiars, -de arinsu; a couple of days ago, after the dwarf pegasus affair, Mare picked up Some samples southeast of Equestria, the next day a creature got near the place like if he were seeking something around, it calls itself Grogar, a ram, and is able to use magic like unicorns through its horns, I followed his steps, he already passed through Appleloosa, seems to be gathering information on the most notorious villains of recent times -de arinsu."
"Mmmh, interesting, a new element, do you already know what its direction is? his level? Or his objective?"
"At the moment he has only been heard to say that he plans to create anarchy and destruction, in terms of his direction, at the moment he is heading to Dodge City, in terms of his levels, [Disern Enemy] threw a level of approximately 55 and his specialty is magic -arinsu. "
Mmmh, I see, if he is looking for information on villains, does he plan revenge against any of them? Or maybe... does he plan to recruit them for some different purpose? If that's more possible.
After this brief reasoning, Ainz dropped the pensive pose he had taken and continued speaking.
"Umu, you were right to bring this to my attention, talk to Demiurge, make sure he 'finds' information about Chrysalis and her acts against Equestria in Dodge City, but before that, call her here, it's time to give her a trial run and see if she can be useful to Nazarick."
"Yes∼ as Ainz-sama order it❤…"
Noticing that the vampire did not retreat after her bow and strange behavior, the Overlord became concerned.
Mhn? What's wrong? Why hasn't she retired? Don't tell me she thinks my decision was stupid! I'm sure it wasn't so pathetic, at least not that Shalltear thinks less of me.
"Is something wrong Shalltear?"
The little guardian constantly shifted her weight from her feet and upon hearing her master's question, she began to play with her index fingers.
"This ... Ainz-sama, I heard some of the maids say that your ring allows you to take other forms, apart from that of a pony..."
Oh oh, I think I already know where this is going. -the Overlord thought worried-
"Do you think it would be possible for you to show it to me like Albedo?"
*Shigh* I knew it. "Hmm, okay, I think it's fair, but! You're only going to see me in my additional form, nothing else will happen, there's still a lot to do for now."
"Yes∼❤" -answered the ecstatic vampire- does that mean that later there will be time for anything else?
Ainz stood up and walked in front of the desk, raised his right hand, and activated the ring, but this time instead of wrapping himself in a luminous mass, he was enveloped by a slightly reddish-black mist that seemed to have a will of its own, when it was beginning to settle, the first thing the guardian saw was blood red eyes with a cold and intelligent look, then, a pale and perfect face made her hold a breath that she did not need, even though her current equipment covered the majority, the long locks that peeked out from the sides of his head, indicated the presence of long hair as dark as night, but the drop that spilled the glass were the pectorals and abdominals that were visible through the opening of his tunic, all this made her knees shake already, but the coup de grace was delivered by the deep, soft voice of his master's new appearance.
There was no doubt, the form her master took had everything she felt weak for.
"Satisfied Shalltear?"
"UOOOOOOOOOoeeeeeee!!" *PLOF*
The result was something that should be impossible, from that day on, there were three things that Ainz decided to never look for the answer to, how was it possible for a vampire who had no pulse to have a nosebleed, how was it possible for a vampire to faint despite her immunity against mental state changes and exactly what the stain that shared the carpet and the vamp's dress was made of.
*Shigh* "Lumirie, call a team to clean up this mess, also call Solution to see that Shalltear does her tasks, also, tell Entoma to bring Chrysalis here in an hour."
The maid when called responded immediately despite the slight blush on her face.
"Y-yes, immediately."
She bowed and withdrew.
I think it would be best to return to my original form to avoid further incidents.
After the vampire was removed and quick cleaning of the carpet was done, Chrysalis entered, led by the arachnoid.
"With your permission Ainz-sama, I have brought it as ordered -desu."
"Umu, can you get up, Chrysalis, the time has come for you to show your worth, I have a task for you."
A task? "Order me, Ainz-sama, what can I do for you?"
"Tell me, are you aware of the most recent events outside the tomb?"
"I'm sorry to say I've only heard rumors or comments about someone trying to remove all magic." Or at least that's how little I've heard Demiurge's-sama subordinates speak.
"Umu, that's right, a pegasus named Cozy Glow with the support of Tirek tried such a thing, but your mission does not have to do directly with it, but rather with the results, the interruption of the magic released from its stasis or prison to Grogar."
This caused immediate alarm in the changeling.
"Grogar! Grogar the father of all monsters is real?!"
But the menacing hiss coming from Entoma made her recover quickly from her surprise and she was quick to apologize.
"I'm so sorry to have interrupted you Ainz-sama, it's just that the surprise was too much!"
"Umu, it doesn't matter, as fact, it's good that you know something about him."
And even better than I have taken that hour to consult the material translated by Titus, otherwise would have looked like an idiot.
"Although I suspect what his objective is, I want to be completely sure, so you are going to infiltrate his plans and keep us informed of everything he does, for that you will use this," -the maid in the room approached with a box in his hands, she opened it and presented it to Chrysalis, inside there was a pair of black and emerald green earrings, as well as a black crystal ring- "the earrings will allow you to record what you say whenever you want, they transmit what is recorded to A storage glass cannot be blocked by any type of barrier, its range limit is within the world, so the distance will not be a problem, although if you find yourself in absolute need, you can destroy them to preserve your facade, no they are of the least importance." It's just a mere note recorder, there are lots of them in the treasury.
As Ainz thought this, the changeling was speechless with surprise.
How can he say that, but it is practically the perfect tool for spying!
"As for the ring, it will protect you from changes of state up to three times a day, be it poisoning, mind control, or petrification, if it is used a fourth time in less than 24 hours, it will do its job, but it will be destroyed, be cautious to not exceed this number per day."
* Glup * "I-I'll do my best to prevent that from being the case Ainz-sama."
"Well, do you have any questions or concerns?"
"Only one, my lord, how should I infiltrate his plans? Or rather 'where' will I infiltrate his plans?"
"You don't have to worry, he will take you to his lair himself, all you have to do is leave the protection of the tomb, you will be with Aura in the Everfree forest assisting him until you are taken to him."
"Understood, I will leave immediately."
"Umu, I'll be waiting for your results."
After completing her school day, having completed her part-time job at the cybercafe, and after returning home with some of the M7s, Shizu arrived at the apartment where Yuri was already waiting for her.
"Welcome home Shizu."
"I'm back Midori Oneesama."
"Do you want something for dinner?"
"Nmn, I ate with the girls at the mall."
"I see, if you want you can go to sleep, I just need to finish preparing tomorrow's class."
"Umu, good night."
Both continued with their routine following the same procedure as always, when they were already on the flight to the mall, they began their real conversation.
"Did you find anything interesting Shizu?"
"Umu, I think Ainz-sama would be interested, I want your opinion."
"With pleasure."
After a little time, both were already inside the main node, the automaton connected and opened what it had found, after a few minutes of reading, Yuri gave the go-ahead.
"You're right, this information will please Ainz-sama a lot, it's just what he ordered us to find, well done, now it only remains to be verified, Red-san?"
"Yes, Yuri-sama."
"Take half of your team to that place, I want you to confirm that this is completely true before reporting it to the supreme, no matter how long it takes, you have to verify at deep."
"Understood."
With this, the Hanzo disappeared into the shadows again.
"Now we just have to wait, but in the meantime, we have to keep looking to see what else we find."
"About that, the reports about the strange creatures, I investigated them."
"And what was the result?
"They are Equestrians."
"Unit 02, do you already have Mr. Umahara's report of the phenomenon and why did it affect only the surface?"
"Yes, here it is, I came just a moment ago."
"Mmm, I see, so it was the work of a certain Cozy Glow... I understand, 'according to the remains of the magic circle used and the pieces of the artifacts, the effect was limited to the ground level where the arrangement was located' -read out loud the pony- I see, so that's why it didn't affect us down here, very well, so it's not expected that it can be repeated, that's good."
Cobbler closed the document window on the screen.
"Show me the updated report on the production of unit 04 and the status of our final project."
The android's eye blinked rapidly several times and the documents appeared on the screen in front of the pony.
"Mmm, excellent, unit 04 is almost complete and the final project is close, very soon Celestia will be forced to leave the throne."
On a regular and repetitive day in Tartarus, Tirek kept trying not to lose his sanity with the incessant babbling of his new prison mate.
"Look, I made a statuette to commemorate our friendship!"
Said the little pegasus showing a figure formed with stones that crudely resembled the centaur with her on his shoulders.
*Shigh* "For the last time! No! I am not! Your! FRIEND! Stop saying-"
But the end of his sentence was not heard in Tartarus as they both disappeared in a dark flame with yellowish edges, leaving behind two empty cells and a Cerberus who came to sniff the statuette that collapsed on the spot causing it to whine for the lack of company.
Somewhere in the Everfree Forest, the former changeling queen found herself wandering and grumbling.
*Mumble mumble* How long is it going to take that idiot to summon me, it's already almost two days!, two days in which I had to wander through this insufferable forest... well, it is true that it is more bearable now that the little elf controls all the beasts, at least I can rest decently, *shigh* I don't want to dare to even think about it, but, was Ainz-sama wro-
At that precise moment, her thoughts were interrupted by a dark, yellowish-edged flare with which she disappeared.
"-silly stuff!"
-ng in his prediction?
Suddenly everyone was in another place and they were not alone, surprise invaded them for a moment when they realized the change of location and the fact that they were no longer alone, Chrysalis took an aggressive position and looked carefully at the others, but she had to play dumb.
"Lord Tirek!"
"A changeling! You see, she does know." -He said to the little pegasus next to him-
"I am the queen of the changeling, or I will be again when I regain my throne, why did you summon me, what do you want from me!" -said Chrysalis holding the paper that the archdemon suggested-
"Wow, hey!" Cozy immediately hid behind Tirek's legs- "we didn't bring you, as fact, we thought you got us out of Tartarus." -she said putting on a cute face-
"The Tartarus? If you were taken from that place it must have been somepony very powerful."
An evil laugh was heard and appearing on a raised ledge after concentrating a cloud of smoke, the figure of the best-known tyrant pony was formed.
"King Sombra! Have you returned? Why did you bring us here?!"
"Buffoons! Be quiet and pay attention, he's not the one who brought you together!"
From the shadows of a side corridor, emerged a ram with cobalt blue fur, red eyes, and undeniable old age.
"It was me, and you can refer to me as Grogar and you are going to obey me!"
Tirek was shocked
*Ghasph* "THAT! Grogar."
Chrysalis pretended to be surprised.
"The most notorious of all tyrants in known history."
Sombra pretended to be disinterested.
"I have heard of you, it is said that you are the father of all monsters."
Cozy Glow was just having doubts.
"Errr, I'm very sorry, I know that Tirek is already very old, no offense, you look very good for your age," -The centaur rolled his eyes with a grimace of annoyance- "and he had already heard about you, but I had never heard the name of Gorgar."
"GROGAR! I must have been absent too long if my name no longer makes the heart of someone so small tremble."
Finished the ram looking very closely at the pegasus, then he walked to the center where there was a crystal sphere that had the appearance of a ram's eye.
"My kingdom was a great period of terror and anarchy when what is now Equestria was only a handful of scattered farms, I gave life to the most despicable and nefarious creatures," -the crystal sphere began to make shapes that illustrated its story as he narrated- "I let them loose allowing them to do whatever they wanted, taking what they wanted and destroying the rest, my reign of terror spread across all continents, and everything will be mine again! If you obey me you will be able to keep your pathetic kingdoms, but all will be mine."
"Everything was yours until Gusty the great raised and banished you," Chrysalis interrupted smugly as she thought: And you have no idea what's around here today.
"That fool believed that by taking away the cowbell she would defeat me, but she only weaken me temporarily, I recovered slowly, very slowly because of the spell with which she locked me up, as soon as I was free I investigated, which I think usually escapes your sight In making their plans, I read about all your pathetic defeats to the hooves of six pathetic ponies! And do you know why you lost each time?"
"Because they are cheating!" -Exclaim Chrysalis-
"Because they have maddening luck." -grumble Tirek-
When Cozy was about to make her excuse, the ram continued.
"You were defeated because they work as a team! Where one is weak, the other is strong, that's why they have always surpassed you! But there is no reason why their tactics should not work against them."
"What are you suggesting?" -instigated the changeling-
"I do not suggest anything, I order you to join me! And working together, the world will be ours."
"I don't accept 'ours' I don't share with anyone, I just accept 'mine', I'll take the crystal empire on my own and defeat any pony that gets in the way, I don't need anyone's help." -Interrupted Sombra-
"Oh!, how much confidence! it's okay to go away and try, what's more, I'll send you myself, but when you fail and come back licking your wounds, you will become my slave!"
"What if I don't accept this... 'deal'?"
"Then I will return you to the darkness that I brought you out of."
"Well, it's just a waste of time, I will never be anyone's slave, I will achieve my victory and everyone will recognize my greatness, then-"
Sombra's triad was abruptly cut off by a bored-looking ram; Having disappeared the object of his annoyance with its magic, he spoke to those who remained while activating her crystal sphere to observe everything.
"Take a good look and let the stupidity of that useless serve as an example."
"-I finally…"
Sombra looked around and realized that he was in the crystal empire, and not only that.
"Hahahaha, that fool has given me victory on a silver tray by transporting me inside the barrier, mhahahahahaha."
After taking a moment to bask in his luck, the shadows king began to calmly advance towards the palace, along the way, with the small skirmishes with the guards trying to stop him, he began to form his force controlling the defeated soldiers, when finally He arrived at the castle, instead of going directly to the throne room, he decided to make a quick stopover to ensure his victory, he formed a staircase around the outside of the palace with dark crystals, with a specific balcony as an objective, when he arrived, he smiled evilly, he had found his goal, he could already taste victory.
"NO FLURRY!"
Cadence and Shining had been late, little Flurry heart was suspended in the magic of the king.
"Release her this instant Sombra!"
The princess of love was about to attack, but her husband stopped her, if she attacked could hurt her daughter.
"Mhahahahahaha, it is not me who is at a disadvantage." -said the tyrant as he squeezed the little filly with his magic-
"Ugu, moma!"
The rulers of the crystal empire gave up, were chained, and had a suppressor placed on their horns, Cadence wings were also tied and both were taken to the throne room, to the horror of the family, the King Sombra had already redecorated the throne room, dark crystals sprouting everywhere and above where he sat, was the crystal heart pierced on both sides by dark crystals that threatened to shatter at any moment.
"Long live the king... mhahahahahahah" -said the Umbrum as he sat on the throne-
The next day, the King had already made himself comfortable and for his amusement, he had the royal family locked in a grille of dark glass in the same throne room, or so it seemed, it was all part of his plans, the suppressors had reached their limit a couple of hours ago, after that, between the two adults they were responsible for freeing themselves from their bonds.
Ahhh, all that contempt in their looks, it will be a lot of fun when I destroy all their illusions, hahahaha, Aaah, they finally arrived.
When the M6s broke into the throne room, the king stopped playing with the former rulers of the crystal empire and his inner monologue.
After a fairly short battle and some struggle, the king achieved his mission, when they attacked him with the multicolored friendship laser, he immediately surrounded himself with the strongest shield that he could generate as soon as he was about to be hit; while the attack hit it quickly drifted through the floor in the form of smoke, after leaving his shield to crumble under the tremendous assault, believing him defeated, the mares retired on a quiet journey home aboard the train, unlike the rapid teleportation with which they had arrived, but this was not a setback for him, on the contrary, it served him since he had received some damage with the attack they launched.
Well, I don't know where they hide them or where the elements come from, but I'm sure they will lead me straight to their source mhahahah.
When the M6 arrived in Ponyville, the whole town, if it could still be called a town with its current growth, was all laughter and joy to the chagrin of the tyrant, the most notable was the beautiful white mare with a black mane that crossed the six annoyances that he was following.
Mmm, yes, when I control everything I am going to make that Nabel one of my concubines hehe, but I'm not sure what it is, there is something strange since we got here, I feel observed for some reason.
Predictably, the mares carried him to his goal, the only variable in their plans, was the strange mare in full armor that had joined them, but it would not make a difference, as soon as they left the tree of harmony after returning the elements, the umbrum found its moment to attack.
"MhahahahaHAHAHA"
The macabre and familiar laughter behind them caused the six mares and an android to turn immediately and they could observe the black cloud that was on the ceiling of the cave, as well as the dark crystals that began to sprout from the walls, damaging and breaking the tree of harmony, until finally, a huge crystal emerged from the ground hitting the trunk and shattering it.
*Ghasp* collective
"But how did this happen?!" -exclaimed the speedster-
"The shadow king destroyed the tree and the elements of harmony!" -Twilight exclaimed with great concern and disbelief-
"Did you think that you defeated me? Mhahahaha, stupid mares!"
Using his dark magic, the king quickly locked the entire group in a cage of dark crystals.
"Hahahahaha, it would be so easy to dominate every one of you right now," -he said in a deep voice as he approached- "but it won't be necessary, after all, I'm about to make your worsts fears come true."
"Don't you even dare to think about it!" -screamed Rainbow furious-
"Yes, I will start with your beloved home, but I will not stop there, now that you no longer have the power to stop me, I will dominate all of Equestria! Mhahahahahahahahaha."
With these words, Sombra transformed into a cloud of black smoke and left the cave.
"And now, how are we going t'a put a stop to that sow water snake? We can't let him get away with it!" -said the farmer annoyed-
"What is the plan, Twi?" -asked the speedster-
*Shigh* "I don't know, without the elements or the crystal heart we have no way of stopping him," -the princess got up from where she had been lamenting in silence, and spoke with determination- "but we have to get out of here as soon as possible, we cannot allow him to win," -seeing her regain her determination allowed the rest to regain hope- "We will find a way, no matter how but we will stop it, Turing, do you think you can break the glass wall?"
"Wait a moment" -the metallic voice of the automaton answered and began to turn in its place slowly- "Analyzing... analysis complete, calculating, calculation complete," -Turing approached one of the walls of the cell and continued- "I recommend protecting yourselves, it is likely that many crystal shards will be scattered, activating 'E' mode."
The automaton raised one of its front hooves, while the additional servos were heard that provided additional strength, Twilight's eyes widened and immediately afterward created a bubble shield around her and her friends.
*CLASH, Clac, cling cling cling, tilt tilt*
"The way is already clear, now we can move forward."
The alicorn undid her shield and after hastily thanking Turing, she and the rest ran off in a hurry, but to their horror, when they reached the town, every pony they came across was already under the control of the tyrant and walking without apparent direction, they all tried to stop someone when they found him, Applebloom did not even blink at her sister's desperate pleas, Sweetie Belle simply walked around Rarty when she tried to stop her, the Cakes completely ignored Pinkie, the only one who did anything more than Blink her empty eyes, it was Starlight when Twilight tried to make her react, she just turned her around while speaking with a voice as monotonous and empty as her eyes.
"I must go to Canterlot."
*Snif* "It's useless, the only way to free them without hurting them is by defeating Sombra." -said the alicorn with resignation-
"Emm, how are we going to do that? I mean, we don't have the elements." -asked Fluttershy-
From here a debate/brainstorming on how to stop Sombra took place that lasted several hours, fortunately, there was no other problem within hoove reach that required their attention at the moment, but after walking in circles for a while, finally, one of the mares has despaired.
"What if we contact the Sorcerer King?" -asked after a moment Dash causing everyone to look at her in disbelief- "What? I'm sure that with all that power he must be able to do something right?!" -said quickly to justify herself-
"No, I don't wish to resort to that unless everything is completely lost," -answered Twilight- "Besides, I'm afraid of what it might do to all the ponies that Sombra has under his control, *shigh* also the only way to contact him Immediately, is in Canterlot, after the trial of Cozy Glow and after reprimanding the princesses for not having been able to control the problem from the beginning, he handed them a scroll, he said that it contained a communication spell with which they could easily contact him."
"So what are we waiting for? If we still go to Canterlot to face Sombra, it wouldn't hurt for one of us to look for the scroll." -Rainbow interrupted-
"The problem is, I have no idea where the princesses are keeping it."
"Then you have to ask them!" -interrupted the party pony-
"Pinkie dear, the princesses are in Canterlot, how do you suggest we ask them something? That ruffian has my poor Spikie waike too."
"That statement is partly wrong," -interjected Turing's voice- "it is true that Spike the dragon is under the mind control of King Sombra, but the princesses are here."
"WHAT?!"
The alicorn turned 180 degrees and saw Starswirl, Celestia, and Luna galloping closer.
"Twilight! Good thing everyone is safe!"
Although the Sun Monarch spoke with relief, and gave everyone a kind smile, upon seeing Turing, her face turned neutral for a fraction of a second before ignoring her and continuing to speak.
"Now that we are all here, surely we will have no problem fixing everything."
"Princess, I'm sorry, because of me the tree of harmony and the elements were destroyed."
"That is precisely why we are here," -interrupted Luna- "Starswirl contacted us as soon as he realized it."
"Indeed, suddenly I felt as if a part of my essence simply disappeared, I returned to Canterlot immediately after I understood what it had been about, but tell me Twilight, how was it that the tree and the elements are no more? , I never believed that that could just crumble."
"It did not just crumble, *shigh* it was destroyed by King Sombra who deceived us by allowing himself to be defeated in the crystal empire, he used us as guides to the tree and as soon as we returned the elements he destroyed everything, now he is going to Canterlot with all the Poniville residents as their strike force."
*Ghasph* "And we left Canterlot unprotected" -said Luna horrified-
"We were talking about possibilities, and we thought having a backup plan would be a good idea, so we thought we would ask you to lend us the scroll that the Sorcerer King gave you in case we finally run out of all options."
The newcomers exchanged glances, the diarchs of apprehension and the unicorn of doubt when seeing the reaction of both.
"That explains why they did not realize the state of the Everfree forest, the princesses and I already took care of preventing Ponyville from devastation, at least for now, and I think it is an excellent idea that they wish to have a backup plan," -Starswirl shifted his gaze from the young alicorn to his students- "But I don't think I know who this Sorcerer King is."
"We will tell you when everything has calmed down, but I think for now we have to focus on what is most important," -the monarch of the sun took the floor interrupting his old teacher- *shigh* "I agree with you Twilight, I put the scroll in a safe box in my room, it is located behind the books on the lowest level of the bookcase to the left of the entrance, if you see the need to use it, remember that you should think about the name and appearance of the one who you wish to contact while saying his name when using the scroll."
"Now go, time is running out," -continued Luna- "we will see to it that the forest does not spread, and you protect Equestria."
With their resolve reaffirmed, the M6s immediately left for Canterlot, tried to prepare as much as possible, and in the end, they decided on a plan of action, as soon as they arrived, they would all distract the controlled ponies while Twilight along with Turing would take care to look for the scroll and they would return for the others as soon as they had it in their possession, after that she would transport them all to the throne room.
As they had planned, Turing and Twilight appeared in a corridor that was practically deserted, since at the bottom of it there was only a closet with cleaning supplies.
"Well, from here it should be a short way to Celestia's suite." -Said in a low voice the youngest of the princesses-
"Wouldn't it have been better to transport us directly to her room?"
The metallic voice of the automaton answered in an equally low volume.
"to tell the truth there are two reasons for choosing this place," -the alicorn replied with some regret- "firstly, it is because Celestia and Luna's rooms are protected against teleportation after the last Chrysalis attack, and the second is because I wanted you to put on covers to muffle the sound of your hooves on the ground." -she spoke ending with an embarrassed smile-
After receiving the answer to her question, Turing lifted one of his hoofs and stared at it for a few seconds, then looked up to Twilight.
"Understood, it's understandable."
They quickly fulfilled their objective in the closet and carefully slipped through a couple of corridors until they reached the doors of Celestia's room, fortunately, the only inconvenience was when they met a soldier almost to reach their destination, which was quickly knocked out with a spell by Twilight and immobilized with a carpet; as soon as they entered, Turing remained blocking the door, while the alicorn desperately tried to open the box where the parchment was, after little more than ten minutes, she finally achieved correctly remember the magic combination to open it.
"I got it!"
She teleported to the side of the automaton, they left the room and immediately teleported both of them to the entrance to the castle grounds, when she got closer she saw that her friends were surrounded by a large crowd, she repeated her previous action appearing next to them in the company of Turing, and immediately after, she disappeared along with the rest of her friends, the entire group reappeared inside the castle, more specifically, inside the throne room.
"My my, it seems that these mares are not able to understand the reason, do you not?, mhahahaha, but since you have taken the trouble to come here, I will make you my private toys!"
Sombra rose from the throne while purple smoke began to come out of the corner of his eyes and launched a powerful attack, but before it connected with its target, it was countered by Twilight's magic.
"Maybe it may seem like there is no hope, but we will keep trying anyway, and I'm sure the one who is going to fall in the end will be you!"
The alicorn launched a concussion attack with enough power, but a crystal was born from the floor in front of the tyrant, blocking and dispelling the attack, shattering in the process.
"HA, you're stupider than I thought if you think that I can be defeated without the heart or the elements, mhahahaha."
Rarity levitated in her magic all the ornaments and tapestries of the throne room and began to use them as projectiles or blunt weapons against the king, while Rainbow distracted him with acrobatics attracting his attacks, Applejack returned to throw the objects that he repelled from the attack of the Dressmaker with all the strength of her rear hooves, as well as any good-sized piece of stone or crystals that resulted from the others attacks, Pinkie threw cupcakes and cakes at him and made him miss targets distracting him by appearing next to him suddenly, Fluttershy was busied herself with preventing the others from any sneak attack that Sombra tried to connect, while all the fighting was going on, Turing analyzed King Sombra's magic to try to find a way to counter it while protecting the butter-colored pegasus.
Analyzing... error, unrecognized magic, analyzing... error, unrecognized formula, analyzing... error, unknown properties, analyzing...
The continuous failures in being able to recognize or find some way to counteract the tyrant's magic, were causing feedback that she could not recognize, she knew the futility of the attempt but kept trying, increasing the intensity of the cycle with each attempt, when she saw Rainbow being knocked down in her direction and falling unconscious, she finally understood, she was feeling frustrated, at the precise moment she understood this, she was no longer able to reason her reaction, she activated her 'E' mode, and launched herself at full speed against the target of her frustration, which was causing a new infinite cycle that she was not able to recognize and made her ignore everything else.
When Sombra heard Turing start her charge, for a brief moment he thought, 'Red? Wasn't his glasses purple?' but the thought was immediately annulled by the surprising speed of the mare despite being in full armor, he created a crystal pillar as thick as an adult pony when there were only a few meters between them, but his triumphant smile faded from his face as he saw everything as if it were happening in slow motion, since the pony that must have fallen unconscious when it hit the glass pillar face first, smashed it running through it as if it did not exist so it no longer had time to react when it was finally reached, and the next thing his mind registered, was the deep pain in his left side face at the same time he felt the impact against the pillar on his right side.
For the automaton, when she hit the king, the feedback that made her act stopped suddenly, but not only was she stunned, while looking at her hoof, she registered her damage, one of the cameras that worked as her eyes were out of line, the speaker that allowed her to communicate was crushed along with the profile that formed her muzzle and the sounds were out of phase, she had probably lost one of her ears, but this was completely ignored, what she was most interested in was that the cycle had dissipated.
All the mares that were still standing were equally dazed and with their jaws hanging, but for a completely different reason, the first able to form a word was Twilight.
"Sombra... was hit... he had never... been hit before... it was always thought that it was impossible to hit him physically!"
But before the others could recover, the roar of a wounded beast caught everyone's attention.
"I'VE HAD ENOUGH!"
Sombra seemed to have lost his left eye as well as a good number of the teeth on the same side and with blood on his muzzle, was furious, concentrated a great amount of dark power in his horn and with a shock wave knocked out most of the mares and threw them against Twilight who remained conscious, while she caught them with her magic so that they would not get hurt with the fall, a shadow appeared in front of the still stunned Turing and with a powerful attack he sent her flying towards the alicorn who was barely able to catch her weight, then calling out all his power, he created a crystal prison composed of the most resistant crystals he could summon.
"I had just planned to turn you in my toys, but instead I will do a public execution, you will become an example! *Shigh* but first I must take a moment to heal my wounds, I cannot allow my subjects to see me hurt."
"Then you leave me no choice, *shigh* I didn't want to do this, but I can't see another way out of this mess at the moment."
Hearing her, Sombra, who was already retreating, turned around, saw her draw a scroll from under her wings, and spread it out in her magic.
Is that why she didn't fly? Because she has that scroll under its wings all this time? "Ha, what are you going to do, give me a sermon that you had prepared?"
But what happened next froze him in place, the scroll burned into blue flames and a great deal of magic was released, then Twilight began to speak alone.
"Sorcerer King, Ainz Ooal Gown-sama?"
"What are you doing?" -Shadow couldn't help but feel confused, he had never seen anything like that-
"Sorry to bother you on this beautiful afternoon, I hope I'm not interrupting anything, I'm Princess Twilight Sparkle of Equestria."
"With whom are you talking to?"
"I appreciate your time very much, I will be as brief as possible, we were attacked by an enemy from the past, we tried to stop him, but we failed the first time and we got overconfident, he destroyed our only way to stop him and we tried to face him a second time, but we underestimated his strength, at this moment only me and my friends are held captive by King Sombra, the princesses Celestia and Luna are in Poniville fighting the Everfree forest."
You stupid mare! Now I know where to find the princesses mhahahahahaaj, but why has she a hoove over her ear, could it be that she received a blow to the head and I did not realize it?
"Equestria would greatly appreciate your help if it could be provided, I know I have failed my nation so it doesn't matter what happens to me, but I beg you to protect my friends."
"You are really stupid, mhahahah, if you are asking for help in front of me you are a bigger stupid than I thought, all the neighboring nations are quite far away and need time to prepare an expedition, you are giving me time to prepare-"
A chill in his spine made him cut off his words, behind him a gigantic magic display took place and before he could turn around he heard a deep and commanding voice.
"Well, unless you are able to manipulate time, I don't see how it would be possible for you to prepare."
Between him and the throne, from a hole in reality as dark as night, an imposing figure emerged accompanied by two others in armor, and a third in a red suit with a long metal tail that ended in spikes.
Sombra concentrated as much power as fast as he could and tried to bring the newcomers under his rule...
But his magic just bubbled up and disappeared into thin air upon contact with them.
"Impossible! WHO THE HELL ARE YOU?!"
He tried to attack again, only this time it was with a magic beam with the intention of pulverizing them, but the result was similar, the magic hit them completely, but it did not even leave a stain on the newcomer's tunic.
"THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE!"
Shouted Sombra furious and when he was about to attack again, the Sorcerer King made a slight gesture with his hand and the figures in armor had the tyrant against the ground the next instant subdued with their scythes, Sombra tried to turn to smoke to escape, but To his surprise he couldn't, he was about to teleport, but the figure in a suit did something and couldn't even activate the spell.
"[Dimensional Lock], ara ara, we just arrived so I cannot allow you to be rude and withdraw."
"I would not go so far as to say that you have failed your nation Princess Twilight, after all, it is still standing and its rulers alive and you have asked for help to solve a problem that exceeds you, a good ruler knows how to admit when he needs help from others, who does not do it is just a clown who calls himself king."
Ainz said, directing his gaze to Sombra as he said the last part, this caused him to open the only remaining eye as a plate.
How the hell does he know what Grogar wanted?! "You, but how!"
"[Silence], [Stop Resisting]"
At that moment, to his surprise, King Sombra was no longer able to do anything.
"What a pathetic prison, *shigh* Pale Raider, free the princess and her friends." -ordered the Overlord-
With a small bow, one of the armored figures advanced to comply with the orders received and with a simple movement of the scythe, the most powerful crystal prison of Sombra was reduced to nothing.
"Besides," -continued the Overlord- "I don't think the elements have disappeared, or are you telling me that your magic element contained all existing magic? Or that no one will ever tell the truth again? No princess the elements were mere representations, physical ways of interacting with the world."
Then the alicorn had a revelation.
"*Ghasph* that's true, but how could I forget?! This is not the first time the elements of harmony have been destroyed!"
Focusing on the sensation she used to feel when using the elements, more exactly the one she felt when they faced Tirek, Twilight's eyes began to shine and she began to float in the air without using her wings after the rest of the bearers followed her example and they also began to shine and regain consciousness as Sombra looked at everything in horror from the floor.
"It is true, the elements have not been destroyed, we represent them, after all, friendship IS magic."
Dash who had finally regained consciousness and understood what was going on continued.
"We always tell it to you, but you guys never seem to get it."
The rest were already smiling and awake now that the magic of harmony had recovered them from the battle and increasing somewhat the level of the brightness that surrounded them, an expansive wave covered all Canterlot and Poniville, undoing the control and the crystals created by shadow, the latter, seeing that he had been defeated again, wanted to shout and insult them, but it was impossible, so he had to settle for throwing glances of hatred at the mares, even Turing had been repaired by harmony, but when they were about to direct their power over Sombra, the Sorcerer King stopped them.
"That won't be necessary, I'll take care of it."
The mares exchanged curious glances and let go of the power of the elements, after which they were again standing on the ground.
One of the armored figures scooped up Sombra by the mane after receiving a signal from his master and presented him by placing the Umbrum's face at the height of Ainz's face.
"I think you've already given enough trouble, so it's time for you to die for good."
For a moment the mares thought they would see something like what happened in the storm king's attack, but all the Sorcerer King did was raise his hand and say two words.
"[True Death]"
Sombra's body convulsed for a moment and then was inert, a few seconds later his body began to lose color and dissolve like steam in the wind, from the bottom up.
"What? What did you do to him, Your Highness?" -asked Fluttershy in a trembling voice-
"I gave him true eternal rest, there will no longer be magic or ritual capable of bringing him back to life, the only way to do it would be for whoever tries to, must be more powerful than me."
This answer calmed the concern of the pegasus a bit, a slight golden glow dissipated from the air when the man in the red suit raised one of his hands.
"I have no way of thanking you for your help, King Gown, all I can offer you is that I will speak on your behalf with the rest of the princesses."
"It doesn't matter, after all, it's part of the free trade agreement that they already signed."
In the next instant with a flash and a *POP*, the diarchs appeared in the company of Starswirl the bearded, ready for combat, but the scene in front of them was not what they expected, everything was calm.
I see, so it was him, this is a great opportunity, with the presence of Starswirl maybe we will get something.
It was Celestia's last thought before starting a war of words.