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// Dalek Army 
// Story: More In Common Than We Thought 
// by Swift Gale 
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  Hello everypony!  I hope you all had a good Christmas!  I only got one game, but I'm grateful for it.  If you're wondering what it is, I'm doing a Let's Play on it for my channel.  The link is on my user page if you want to check it out.  Anyways, let's get this chapter started!




They were outnumbered by the Daleks. However, they were not overpowered by the possible thousand Daleks that were there.

"Let's get this party started!" Swift yelled, taking down thirty in one air blast.

Dark and Chrome charged in, destroying thirty themselves. They took them down, one by one, turning the Daleks into scrap metal.

"You're not going to like this one bit!" Swift yelled. "Velocity Break!"

Swift blasted off, destroying multiple Daleks by dashing pass them. He did this five more times, destroying about 200 Daleks. Dark kept throwing fireballs that created a huge shockwave when they hit. Chrome was using the soundwaves from his electric bass to completely blast them away.

"This is getting boring," Swift said landing next to Dark and Chrome. "How about we wrap this up quick?"

The two unicorns smirked. Swift flew off to one side, while Dark and Chrome both dashed to their own sides. They had formed a triangle around the remaining Daleks. All three of them had a aura glowing around them.

"ATOMIC TWISTER!"

All of a sudden, the Daleks were engulfed in a fiery tornado with booming soundwaves keeping them in. Everypony else stared in awe at the sight of the huge tornado. After a few seconds, the tornado was gone, revealing the three ponies that just destroyed the army. They were standing tall with cocky smirks.

"That was a piece of cake!" Swift laughed.

The smirks disappeared when they saw a terrible sight coming their way. It was a large army of Daleks, which had a army of possibly 3,000 of them or more.

"On second thought, this might not end well," Swift said, getting ready to dash into the army.

"You just had to say something, didn't you?" Chrome asked angrily, cranking up the mini amp he was carrying to a higher level.

"Stop fighting each other and focus on destroying the Daleks!" Dark commanded, dashing towards the army.

The crimson unicorn and the azure pegasus followed shortly after.

"Velocity Break!" Swift called out, once again dashing through Dalek after Dalek.

"Say goodnight!" Chrome yelled, striking a heavy cord that created a powerful soundwave that spread across the field that they were fighting in, frying the circuits of multiple Daleks.

Dark was having to do close combat, since these Daleks were resistant against his normal fire attacks, unlike the first army of Daleks. He wasn't bad at close quarters combat, but he was not the best at it either. He was getting surrounded and he thought he would had to use his last resort attack. Thankfully, Swift had dashed in and smashed a few.

"Wind Blade!" Swift called out, firing a air blast that was as sharp as a katana.

The air blast was as thin as paper, making it extremely hard to see. The Daleks didn't see the blast until it was to late. Twenty Daleks were destroyed in that one blast.

"Thanks for the help, not that I needed it," Dark scoffed, destroying another Dalek.

"You would've been toast if I didn't save your ass!" Swift retaliated, kicking five Daleks away from him.

"I can take care of myself!" Dark yelled, smashing his hooves over a Dalek's head.

"Sure you can," Swift said sarcastically, punching a Dalek's head completely off.

Dark started to growl at the pegasus.

"PAY ATTENTION!" Swift yelled, jumping over Dark and delivering a axe kick to a Dalek charging at Dark.

The Dalek was smashed into a million pieces like all the others.

"Your welcome," Swift said, dashing towards another group of Daleks.

Dark looked at Swift angrily as he watched him dash off.

"Time Stop!" Swift yelled.

Nothing seemed to happen, but in fact something did happen. Swift had slowed time down for him, meaning he was moving faster for everypony else's point of view. However in his eyes, time had slowed down to a crawl. This technique is very risky for Swift because he risks burning to much of his power and tiring out. Luckily, it didn't backfire on him. He had destroyed 100 Daleks in the short amount of time. Swift however went over his limit for using Time Stop, which was five seconds in his time. This caused him to lose more power than he should've.

"Damn, I need to be more careful when I use that," Swift said, panting a little.

Daleks started to surround him, which caused his mind to race in panic.

'This isn't good at all!' Swift exclaimed in his mind. 'I shouldn't use this technique, especially since I haven't tested it yet... BETTER NOW THAN NEVER!'

Swift closed his eyes and concentrated all of his power he had left into his left hoof. A blue spark appeared, followed by multiple other sparks until his hoof was engulfed by lightning. He jumped up into the sky and dived back down.

"Lightning Blade: Lightning Quake!" Swift yelled as the electricity surrounding his hoof grew brighter.

The only thing everypony else saw was a blue lightning bolt shoot straight towards the ground. Swift slammed his lightning-covered hoof into the ground, making the lightning spread out across the area while ripping up the ground. Every last Dalek was hit by this, completely frying every electronic thing inside of the robots. They all fell over and exploded. Swift, Dark, and Chrome had already gotten the heck outta dodge (I've been waiting to use that) and were watching the Daleks explode, one by one.

"Swift, what kind of attack was that?!" Dark asked, completely stupified by Swift's last move. "Seriously, what the buck was that?!"

"It's an attack that I've developed on my own," Swift answered.

"Why didn't you use that earlier?" Dark asked in a slightly frustrated voice. "I mean, not that we were in trouble, but it could've saved us a whole bunch of time."

"Because, I've never used it in battle before," Swift answered. "Believe me, it could've backfired. It's hard to keep that much electricity in one place you know."

Swift winced.

"You okay dude?" Dark asked.

"That last move took a lot outta me," Swift answered.

"Oh. Hey, do you need help getting back?" Dark asked, noticing that Swift was having a little trouble keeping his balance.

"No, I can make it back," Swift responded. "Wings, remember?"

Swift took off into the sky, heading back to the group. Dark and Chrome followed shortly. Luckily, the train had been fixed by the time they arrived. They all arrived at Canterlot. By this time, Swift had recovered from the fight against the Daleks. They enter the castle and went into the throne room, where the two princesses resided.

"Princess Celestia," Twilight said to get the attention of the two princesses who current looking out of the window.

They both turned and faced the 10 ponies that were standing in front of them.

"Twilight, thank you for coming here, as well as you Dr. Whooves," Celestia greeted.

Then she saw Swift, Dark, and Chrome.

"Who are these three ponies?" Celestia asked.

"Well, this is my nephew, Swift Whooves, and his two friends, Dark and Chrome," Dr. Whooves answered.

"Swift?" Celestia said, looking at the blue colt with confusion.

"Long time, no see," Swift greeted, giving a smile.

Twilight looked over at the blue pegasus in confusion.

"You've met her before?" Twilight asked.

Swift nodded.  "I didn't tell you that?"

"No, I don't think you did," Twilight answered.

"I met her during summer break," Swift explained.  "The doctor took me here to meet her."

"You've grown since that day, Swift," Celestia said.  "I almost didn't recognize you, granted it has been about fourteen years."

"Yeah, it's been a long time," Swift chuckled.  "Anyways, why did you call us here?"

"There is an evil that has been appearing and disappearing in Equestria," Celestia explained.  "What confuses me is that there are three of them.  One is just a single being that is very powerful.  The next one is a great number of similar beings that has a great amount of power in groups.  The last one is the only one I can pinpoint.  It is a single being with power almost greater than the Elements of Harmony.  It's in the deeper and more dangerous half of the Everfree Forest, in it's jungle."

"Um, sorry to interrupt, but we already know what two of those energy spikes are," Chrome informed the princess.

"The huge power of multiple beings you were talking about are the Daleks," Dr. Whooves explained.  "In fact, they attacked us on the way here."

Swift had look of discomfort on his face.

"The other one is my evil counterpart, Scorch," Swift grumbled.  "He has the power to jump in and out of his dimension and ours.  I've seen his dimension and it's not pretty."

Rainbow Dash, Dr. Whooves, Dark, and Chrome frowned at the mentioning of his name.

"Anyways, what were you talking about when you mentioned the third being?" Swift asked, not wanting to get off-topic.

Celestia nodded.  "It's found in the jungle ruins.  We've tried to send other ponies to investigate, but we've been ignoring it due to..."

Celestia hesitated and took a deep breath, as if she was trying to hold back something, before she continued.

"Everypony that was sent on that first investigation died.  Over half of them never came back and the ones that did were found dead the next morning.  Try to avoid that area at all costs.  I don't need more missing ponies."

When Celestia finished speaking, everypony heard a loud squeak from behind one of tapestries that were recently put up.  They a looked at the tapestry and saw a figure hiding behind it, shaking.

"Fluttershy, you can come out now," Twilight said to the scared pegasus.

"We're definitely staying clear of that area," Swift reasured Fluttershy, who slightly poked her head out from the tapestry.  "Not gonna lie, that also kinda scares me."

"R-really?" Fluttershy asked, slowly coming out from her hiding place.

Swift nodded.

"Well, I'm a little bit scared," Rainbow Dash confessed, walking up to Swift.

"I think all of us are," Twilight said.

"Yeah, so we're not going anywhere near there anytime soon," Swift ressured the yellow pegasus.

Fluttershy gave a small smile and climbed out from under the tapestry.

"Anyways, I can handle Scorch, since he technically is me," Swift informed the two princesses.  "I'm the only one that can actually match him.  The last encounter we had, I didn't even give him a chance to show what he could actually do.  Then again, Ponyville would've been turned into a burning wasteland during our fight."

"It's true," Chrome added.

"Well then Swift, if you think you can take me, then go on ahead and fight me!" a voice rang out, daring the blue pegasus.

Swift was gone in an instant.  A second later a loud grunt was heard at the room's ceiling.  Everypony looked up to see that Swift had kicked his green evil counterpart straight in the face.  Scorch fell to the ground, rubbing his nose.

"He also doesn't know how to keep quiet either," Swift said.  "Isn't that right you idiot?"

"Why you little," Scorch began, only to be interrupted by Swift.

"I'll tell you what, I'll let you leave because I don't feel like causing bloodshed," Swift said.

A firery green portal appeared behind Scorch.

"You haven't seen the last of m-OOF!!!" Scorch felt a hoof strike his chin, except it felt like a train ran into him.

"Yeah, yeah, just go back to your own dimension," Swift spat at his evil counterpart, kicking him into the portal.

The two princesses looked at the azure pegasus with a slightly shocked expression, probably due to Swift's brash actions that completely differentiates from his normal polite behavior.

"Sorry about that," Swift apologized, his polite personality returning.  "I just a can't stand him. For reasons that I'd rather not say."

The two princesses nodded, although still quite confused by Swift's change in behavior.  After a couple of hours of catching up with current events, including the revealing of Swift and Rainbow Dash being a couple, they headed back to Ponyville.

"I can't believe I did that and in front of the princesses no doubt," Swift complained, hitting his forehead in frustration.

"Don't worry about it," Rainbow Dash said, giving the cerulean pegasus a quick kiss.  "You were just protecting everypony."

Swift gave a sad sigh.

"Come on don't be so sad," Rainbow Dash told Swift, giving him a hug.

Swift gave a small smile, which in turn made Rainbow Dash smile.

"That what I love to see," Rainbow Dash said cheerfully.

"Since when are you the one who cheers everypony up?" Swift chuckled.

Rainbow Dash, who had started to giggle, gave Swift a playful hit on his right foreleg.

They soon fell asleep and were asleep the rest of the way back to Ponyville, in a loving embrace.





Finally, I finished this chapter!  With my new keyboard to boot!  Happy New Years everypony!  I'll see you later!