//------------------------------// // Alternate Ending : Battle Royale // Story: Children of Chaos // by Mike the Red //------------------------------// "Discord" teleported me into my house, and promptly disappeared, telling me to expect no further favors, and warning me not to summon him again lest I make "him" truly angry. As I walked through the halls of my castle, I stopped by my TV room and noticed my amulet was missing. "Hmm, I remember leaving it there the last time I was here. I wonder what happened to it," I thought to myself. I noticed that many of the decorations adorning the halls had been changed to resemble more closely those in Canterlot Castle -- Princess Celestia had been here, and decided the place needed some sprucing up to suit her needs. I was starting to get a little upset by this. I approached my throne room to see Celestia's cutie mark emblazoned on the door. My slow burn was starting to turn up towards a boil. I opened the doors to see Princess Celestia herself seated on my throne. Now I was mad. "What the buck are you doing on MY throne?" I asked angrily. I noticed my amulet around her neck atop her gold collar. "And what are you doing wearing MY amulet?" Princess Celestia smiled warmly at me. "You told me to make myself at home. So I am! And as for this amulet, it is far too powerful for you, given your irresponsible behavior and poor judgment. I have taken the liberty of confiscating it so as to prevent further catastrophe from occurring." "Discord GAVE me that amulet! It is NOT yours for the taking just because you THINK I might misuse it!" I shouted at her. I started approaching her at this point as she continued to sit comfortably on my throne. "Regardless of that fact, Michael, you are not worthy of such a powerful talisman. You displeased me by coming to my realm without my permission. You deserve to be punished for such a transgression -- however, should you allow me to retain possession of this trinket, I shall forgive you your transgressions against me." I was now standing right in front of her, staring her in the face. "How DARE you even THINK (I snatched the amulet off her neck at this point) of TAKING something which does NOT belong to you!" I shouted. I then placed the amulet around my neck, feeling the power surging through my body. "Michael, I am deeply disappointed in you. I thought you were better than this," she said sadly. She readied her magic to cast a sphere of energy at me. I transformed myself back into Twilight to square off against her. "Your choice of transformation causes me great anguish -- it goes against my nature to attack my favorite student -- however, I know that you are not her, and can never hope to be her regardless of your appearance. You shall face my unbridled wrath -- and I WILL kill you!" she scolded me and fired her blast of energy at me. I readied a magic absorption spell, and succeeded in absorbing this magic energy she had fired at me, adding to my reserves of power. My eyes flashed bright red as this occurred, surprising her somewhat. "That amulet will not save you from the fate I have in store for you, Michael!" she shouted as she tried to envelop me in her magic aura in order to crush me with her telekinesis. I struggled against this telekinetic hold, my eyes and horn glowing a brighter red than before. I broke free from her hold relatively easily, surprising myself at my new power level. She let a cry of surprise escape her lips. "Bad move there, Celestia," I said, turning her attempt back on her. Now I held her in a bright red aura, attempting to crush her in the same fashion she had tried using against me. I could sense her struggling mightily against my hold, but not succeeding. I decided to let her break free, watching her sweat profusely as she struggled against my hold. I tried as hard as I could to suppress a smile, but a small smile did flash across my features for just the briefest of moments. "So you think you can beat me, eh? I have more tricks at my disposal than you can imagine!" she stated proudly. She used a rather bizarre combination of magic attacks, something I wasn't expecting. This caught me off guard, but I was able to counter to some degree. Apparently she had tried a combination of petrification, sleep, and disease spells rolled into a single attack. "You're fighting dirty. Not fair!" I shouted. I used a combination of time delay magic against her, reversing the disease and petrification, and mirroring the sleep spells against her. For added effect, I summoned a hail storm to pelt her with small ice pellets. She groaned at my attempt. "Your magic attacks are too simplistic," she stated. She used a different tactic against me, blinding me with excessively bright light flaring from her body. She then flew at me and kicked my body as I shielded my eyes from the brilliance. I went skittering across the floor of my throne room, coming to a stop before hitting a wall behind me. I rose to my hooves, a truly dark expression of rage on my face. I went into hyper-flame mode, the amulet enhancing my power level even further. Celestia's jaw dropped at this display, one she had never seen before. I readied a blast of raw magic energy and fired this at her. She dodged it, but the area effect of the blast was great enough to send her crashing into the wall to my left. The impact broke one of her wings and scraped her up a good bit. I continued to maintain my hyper-flame mode and approached her, readying myself for any further magic attacks from her. "Twilight, please stop," she said. Had she forgotten so soon? "My name's not Twilight, Celestia," I said flatly. I raised my magic defenses just to be on the safe side. "I apologize for my earlier actions," she said. "I'm going back to Equestria, and will leave you in peace." "Don't bother coming back, Celestia, if you know what's good for you!" I shouted at her. She disappeared in a flash of light and a golden POP. Just then I heard the sound of Discord's return. "Well, well, well! Looks like you've beaten Celestia! Most impressive!" he said. "She took my amulet from me, so I took it back, and taught her a lesson," I said. "Well, Twilight, I'll be needing it back, so if you don't mind, please hand it over." "May I please keep it? You gave it to me as a gift." "You have no further need of it, as you're back in Twilight's body," he said calmly. I relented, and gave him back the amulet. "Thanks a bunch, Twilight. I have no further need of your services." "So what does that mean?" I asked innocently. "I just need to clean up some loose ends," he stated flatly. He then turned to face me holding the amulet in his eagle claw, pointed it in my direction, and a beam of bright red light emanated from it. "Wait, what?" I asked as I was disintegrated by the beam of light that came from the amulet. My body was turned into a pile of dust. "Well, that takes care of that," Discord said and promptly disappeared, returning to his lair. FIN