“Aww fuck.” I said as I watched the corrupted Rainbow Dash’s sadistic glare.
“DIE HOLLOWED KNIGHT!” She said threateningly with the Excalibur in her hooves.
“Fuck.”
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Radiant Garden moved through the purified grounds of the land that’s been invaded by the Equestrian’s. The battle still raged through the ranks but Celestia and Radiant Garden’s influence made swift work of the opponents in their area. However over on the right the battle was taking the turn for the worst. Only pegasi remained and the ground forces were all but slaughtered.
On the far left the battle was a tie and soon they will wipe out each other with no clear victor.
Twilight was still cowering and Shining Armor was coaxing her out from under the chariot. Barricade was having it good with all the dragons gone and only hydra’s left to destroy.
Shadow Master himself was nowhere in sight. Celldric was still kicking ass deep in the corruption and cutting off reinforcements to the front giving the Equestrian’s time to purify the lands.
However the death toll was a staggering 40% of the forces. That means when they get back home Equestria would be the least protected country in the world. If Equestria had enemies Celestia would worry.
And Celestia is nervous now…She doesn’t have enemies but that doesn’t mean countries aren’t envious of her lands. She mourns the loss of her ponies but is conflicted with ending the battle and licking her wounds and continuing to destroy the threat forever.
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Shadow Master watches the battle from afar. But mainly the duel between Rainbow Dash and Puppet Master.
He would rather sit back and relax while others fight. The only thing that gets him moving is gold, and platinum if they want him to go faster.
“You can fight all day. But it will get you now where.”
He turns to walk away from the battle at hand.
“Stop right there.” Said a determined voice.
Shadow Master slowly turns around and gave his unwanted guest a cold and annoyed look. Before him was a hollowed guard with a clockwork assault rifle in his hand. His helmet was off exposing his midnight black eyes.
“Ah protagonist adventurer number two. Nice to meet you yet again. Have any gold to give me this time? Or are you planning on using your silly little device?” Shadow Master smirked menacingly.
“You’ve brought terror to this realm without remorse…I don’t think I can forgive you.”
“It’s a job Hunger…don’t condemn me for doing the things I live for.”
“You live to kill me and my friend Celldric!”
“Because I’m paid to. But for a little scratch I’ll give you the location of our mutual dark friend.”
His eyes widened. “Fine here’s five gold.” He threw the gold coins at him without lowering his weapon.
“Good…He’s not anywhere close to here. In fact he’s back in Terraria.”
“Terraria? How do we get there?”
“Ah ah ah!” he said shaking his finger. “I told you where he is. Now you must pay me to tell you how to get there.”
He grinded his teeth in annoyance. “Look if you tell me where he is I won’t shoot your head off.”
“That would do neither of us any good.” He grinned mischievously. Shadow Master had him in the palm of his hand and he knew it. Hunger will have a hard time getting the bits since they were all with Celldric.
“Dammit. Celldric has all the coins.” He said to himself.
“OH? Coins on Celldric? Fine I’ll follow you until we meet up with Celldric. If his coin is better than our dark friend then I’ll fight for you.”
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Rainbow Dash was too fast for Puppet Master. Puppet Master had to dodge and counter every time she got close. But each time she got close she went behind him and always got him.
At this rate Puppet Master would be destroyed in no time. Then Rainbow Dash made the mistake that would decide the fate of Equestria for years to come.
“TIME TO DIE!” She dashed at my chest Excalibur pointing right at it. I quickly drank a health potion and waited for it to impact.
*SHING!*
I fell through the cloud layer with Rainbow Dash on top of me. My body was limp and so were my muscles as I slammed into the corrupted ground below.
“Pathetic.” She grinned evilly.
Then my hand rose up and grasped her neck.
“You should check your opponents states before you kill them.” I said with an Excalibur in my chest. “I don’t die when a fatal blow is delivered. I die when my health is gone.” I took a bag of purification powder and shoved it into her fearful face.
“WHAT NO NO NOOOOOOOOOoooooooo…” She collapsed on the purified grass and I looked into her purified and closed eyes.
“Sweet dreams my little Dashie.” I looked up to find myself surrounded by many corrupt creatures. “Sleep well, now and forever.” I said looking grimly at the swarm that was charging us. I had no weapons in my hand and my health was low. About 10 hp currently.
“Ugh what-GAH!” She saw the swarm charging us.
I thought fast. “Rainbow look into this.” I held up a magic mirror to her face and she took it in her hooves and looked at it with a grim expression expecting it to be a distraction for when the end came.
*ZZZZZZZZING*
Dash was gone from my arms. Safe at home.
“I face death valiantly.” I said knowing I would respawn anyway.
*Splat*
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Celldric was valiantly destroying everything in his way. He murdered thousands like he was the lord of death himself.
“CELLDRIC!” Said a familiar voice.
“What?” He looked around and saw Shadow Master running alongside Hunger and both were being targeted by the corrupt foes. He quickly assumed that Shadow Master was paid to be with them now. “AH IS SHADOW MASTER WITH US NOW?”
“NO HE NEEDS PLATINUM TO OFFICIALLY JOIN US!”
“GOOD NEWS SHADOW!” He sliced a Soul Eater in half. “I HAPPEN TO HAVE TEN PLATINUM!”
“Give it here!” He shot up in the air towards Celldric.
Celldric saw this and hurled ten platinum towards Shadow Master. The moment his hands grasped the platinum he went into battle mode and flew about destroying creatures faster than both them combined.
“…damn.” Said Hunger.
“Yea…he’s out classing me.” Responded Celldic.
Shadow Master did loops in the air and fluently struck down anything in his path. Destroying corrupted creatures and regular corrupted monstrosities with ease, and without effort. He finally rested by floating in front of the two protagonist adventurers smiling smugly at them.
“Adventuring only gets you so far in the world my new employers.”
“Well…ok where’s Dark Wolf?”
“Right this way.” He flew off towards the everfree forest which was several miles away.
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Radiant Garden was in the middle of purifying a guard who foolishly backed up into the corrupt grass. Four other guards were holding him down as Garden poured the powder all over his midsection and head and slowly trailed at his hooves.
Once finished he looked up and saw three Terrarians flying away from the battle in a V formation.
“Is that?” He said to himself when he saw the two terrarians in back. He remembered them. “It is!”
He took out his Ivy whip.
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Hunger and Celldric both simultaneously felt a tugging at their legs.
“WHOA WHAT THE HELL?” Shouted Hunger. Celldric calmly took out his Excalibur and looked at the target but stopped when he saw the uncorrupted image of another terrarian wearing jungle armor.
“Jungle god is that you?” Said Celldric.
“Keep it down back there!” Yelled Shadow Master.
“Hello friends!” Said Radiant Garden.
“Hello Radiant! Ready to save the world?”
“This one right?”
“Both at once actually!” replied Hunger.
“Sounds Good to me!”
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I found myself back home…all was quiet and the NPC’s were nowhere in sight. It made me wonder what happened to them. I checked every room and not a creature stirred. The tables and chairs were missing as well. All I could possibly think of was-where the hell?-but quickly redirected my focus at the current task at hand.
Finding Dark Wolf and getting him to stop this madness.
I reached for my other Excalibur to be able to duel wield before I noticed something wrong.
“Where’s my sword?” I said to myself. I had only one Excalibur. “If I don’t have it then that means…” My eyes widened in realization. “Rainbow.”
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Rainbow Dash lies in her bed without energy. “W-whatever he did…ugh I’m tired.” She yawned heavily. “WAIT NO MY FRIENDS!”
She tries to get out of bed but the second her hoof touches the cloud floor it falls through. She had the rest of her body on the bed and she sat there wide eyed for a moment…and afraid.
“H-how?”
She got up from her bed and tried to flap her wings. To only some success. She hovered for a while then fell to the bed.
“W-what happened?” She looked around and saw on her bed was Puppet Master’s sword he gave her and the mirror thing he got her to look into.
“Stupid mirror.” She glared at it. She then remembered what happened before she looked into the mirror. “No…PUPPET MASTER!” She shouted to the heavens.
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The group of four flew-and hung-their way towards the Everfree forest. Radiant Garden continued to dangle helplessly by the legs of Hunger and Celldric while Shadow Master paid him no mind and led the way.
“Are we heading towards the portal?” Shouted Radiant Garden.
Shadow Master looked back and raised an eyebrow.
“You know where the portal is?”
“Yes master and I use it all the time got go from home to Equestria.”
“Hmm.” Shadow Master turned his head to the distance toward Everfree and squinted when he caught sight of a village. “Ponyville is nearby. We are almost there.”
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Puppet Master flew toward the left of the map and a black tower came into view.
“I’m coming for you Dark Wolf.”
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Rainbow Dash tried to step back on the cloud and realized whatever kept her from touching the clouds and flying seemed to have worn off. She picked up the Excalibur and the magic mirror and flew outside.
Four figures came into view off the horizon.
“What the hay?” She flew off after them.
She got closer and she saw three Terrarian’s, she didn’t know any of them.
“Hey! You guys friends of Puppet Master?”
“Yes!” Shouted the one dangling from the two in back.
“Wait he’s in trouble!”
“Yes we’re on our way to end stop this madness!”
“Well I don’t know where you’re going but I’m going to go help my friends!” She flew off towards the battlefield that was several hundred miles away.
“Should we tell her?” Shouted Hunger.
“Tell her what? That she won’t be able to save them?” Shouted Shadow Master. “Only the death of the king of corruption will save them!”
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Puppet Master avoided every monster that was in his way to the tower of darkness that Dark Wolf constructed. The sheer amount of corrupted individuals in Terraria was staggering. At one point the sun was blocked out by the sheer amount of Soul Eaters.
Every time they got in my way I blocked or swung at them. I even took out my rainbow rod and destroyed as many as I could.
I approached the tower and found an entrance at the bottom. I swooped down and entered before I fought off whatever was behind me. I continued down the dark tunnel and found a door. I quickly opened and closed it and awaited to hear the many thuds that would come from the creatures impacting the door.
*BANG BANG THUD BUMP*
“Damn.” I said out loud.
I continued into the labyrinth and found myself facing a skeleton statue.
“Oh you’ve got to be kidding me.” I face palmed. I realized this is one of THOSE kind of dungeons when you step on the wrong stone monsters come out to kill you.
Not that it was a problem for me but it was annoying.
I decided to sprint through all the traps and spring them all. It worked for a while until I hit a certain pressure plate where the floor fell below me. I spread my wings and flapped out of the lava I so foolishly fell into. I then used my duel hook to get me the rest of the way and not risk falling into the lava again.
I made my way through ten floors and finally I just about gave up. I took out my drill and started to drill up. Then lava fell on my head and I lost most of my health.
“GOD DAMMIT!” I shouted. I was totally expecting lava to fall on my head but I ignored reasoning anyway…it’s what I did when I played as Dark Wolf.
I made my way through ten more rooms activating and destroying traps that I found and unfortunately stumbled into.
Finally my destination.
“The throne room.” I said out loud as I opened the door and walked into the dark room with a single silver chandler with six pillars holding up the high ceiling. On the other side of the room was a golden throne with none other than a shadowy figure of Dark Wolf sitting nonchalantly with his fist up on the side of his head.
“Ah Puppet Master. I was wondering when you’d show up.” His figure was obscured by shadow.
I raised my eyebrow in confusion. “Wolf? May I see your face.” I said calmly.
He got up from his throne and walked forward into the light. I could see behind that headgear that his skin was purple and his eyes were a mix between red and purple.
“As I thought.” I said solemnly. “You’ve been corrupted.”
“And here you are trying to kill your own creations. I did this FOR YOU! But you used us in a little storybook for entertainment! YOU DESERVE NO MERCY!” He looked livid. He took his red phase blades by some unseen force and activated them one at a time.
It looked like one bad ass intro to a boss battle to be honest. I was looking forward to the fight.
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Rainbow Dash couldn’t help but feel she was doing something wrong…like helping her friends wasn’t going to save them. She had an impulse to follow the four travelers to the Everfree.
She grinded her teeth in annoyance.
“FINE!” She shouted out loud and sped off towards ponyville once again.
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The group of four looked over the edge of the cloud home and out in the distance. What met their eyes chilled them to the bone.
A massive cloud of corrupt opponents stood between them and peace. But they valiantly stepped forward and ran into the fray. Once they got half way to the tower they were immediately held back by a wall of basically every opponent they’ve ever faced in the corruption. Giant worms and Soul Eaters surrounded them quickly and they soon were separated.
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Rainbow Dash flew into the Everfree forest and dashed between all the trees until she saw a small break in the tree canopy. The sun beams illuminated a white square portal with each color of the elements of harmony on both sides of the portal.
“Whoa.” She stood there admiring the portal for a few seconds. She shook her head and put on a resolute face and slowly walked through the portal.
“Whoa.” She said for the second time in the last ten seconds.
She looked over the side of a brick and snow fortress that seemed to be floating without anything holding it up.
She swooped below it to see if there are any support beams but she became wide eyed when there weren’t. But she became extremely worried when the whole world was corrupted.
“C-could this be what Equestria would look like if we fail?” She said demoralizingly.
She flew off toward a giant black cloud that caught her eye.
Upon reaching said cloud she realized it was a swarm of those evil creatures that she helped wipe out. Taking sword in mouth she decided to charge in and kill as much as she could.
That is until she saw a dark tower behind the cloud.
“What the hay?” She tilted her head in confusion and decided to avoid the monsters who seemed to be preoccupied by something else.
She flew above and over them darting between clouds before making her way above the tower. She looked in all directions before she dove for the entrance and did a ninety degree turn into the labyrinth.
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Puppet Master stayed out of Dark Wolf’s range by flying around him. Of course the corrupt dark lord thought hard about the battle. He was outgunned when it came to armor and protection but his offensive capabilities with those six phaseblades made him an opponent that needed special treatment.
Puppet Master darted behind a pillar and two red phaseblades wedged themselves in the surface of said pillar.
“GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!” Dark Wolf exclaimed in anger.
“Two down four to go.” I said confidently.
I believed I can sacrifice some health to do damage now. Thanks to his six phaseblades the risk was too high but now with four it is a reasonable sacrifice that I could use when I need.
“I WILL DESTROY YOU!” He bellowed.
“Shit.” I dodged his flailing red beam swords and I flew around behind his throne.
“GET BACK HERE PUPPET MASTER! I WANT TO SEE THE BLOOD DRAIN FROM YOUR BODY WHEN I KILL YOU!”
I charged at him and before impact I used the rainbow rod to disorient him, then I used Excalibur and sliced him across his chest.
“GAH!”
“Take that YOU LITTLE BITCH! OBEY MY COMMANDS LIKE YOU DID ONCE BEFORE!”
“NEVER!”
I launched myself at a pillar and cut it into a chunk, then flew around it and kicked it into Dark Wolf. It was split in half by two blades of his and I was close enough to deliver another blow. He swung his two other phase blades that were ready for such an attack and blocked my single Excalibur.
I backed up to the throne. We eyed each other for a moment.
“PUPPET MASTER!” Shouted a familiar voice beyond the throne room door.
*CRASH!*
The wooden door exploded and a rainbow maned Pegasus made herself known.
“RAINBOW!” I shouted.
“I ain’t leaving a friend behind!” She charged at the corrupt Dark lord and I stopped her half way and grabbed onto her. I also grabbed the mirror she had in her left hoof and I took out tnt and threw it at the wall.
*BOOM!* A gaping hole now showed the outside of the throne room. I thrust the mirror into her face to force her to look at it and she disappeared in many magical sparks with my sword.
“NO!” She shouted as she disappeared.
I took out my Rainbow Rod and flung a bolt out the new hole in the foundation of the building.
It traveled across the sky and over the cloud of enemies and hero’s valiantly fighting them off all the way over to the ‘cloud home’ that I’ve created.
*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMM*
There was a massive explosion that resonated throughout Terraria as the Rainbow Rod’s missile struck the portal.
“W-what have you done.” Said Dark Wolf looking out the hole. A massive shockwave was heading right for us.
“Nothing too damaging I hope.” I said right next to him. He turned to me in shock and I threw purification powder in his face. The corruption melted off and he fell to the ground on his knees.
“M-master…My lord…I’m sorry.” He said fearfully for my punishment.
I looked out the hole and watched the wall of energy come towards us.
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Rainbow made her way outside her cloud home seemingly unaffected by the mirror this time. She saw a shockwave wall crashing towards her flattening buildings and trees.
Her eyes widened in fear and she almost dropped Excalibur that was still in her mouth. The wall got closer and she instinctively swung at the shockwave creating a small crack in it that she fell through.
Then darkness took her.
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In Terraria the battle stopped and all manner of creatures watched the doom head straight for them. Some showed fear, others showed strength.
But the four companions embraced their fate honorably and put on a content and strong face in the face of death.
Then the wall of energy took them.
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Puppet Master looked at the wall of energy come closer and closer.
He lifted his sword in readiness while the newly purified Dark Wolf looked at it in amazement.
Once it reached them Puppet Master swung his sword at the wall in defiance.
“I WILL NOT DIE!”