//------------------------------// // Elemental Analysis // Story: My Guardians // by Toron and Zeno //------------------------------// The three teens stared at the gargantuan monstrosity that rose up before them, climbing onto the roof. It had numerous arms, as they saw before it even got onto the roof, and a thick, obese torso but no legs to speak of. It looked to be composed of complete and total ink, which dripped from every inch of it. The most stand out think on the beast was the large mask which looked like a bull skull, two giant horns protruding from it. The skull was placed in the middle of the torso, and had glowing red dots in the holes were a bull's eyes would have previously been in. It stared at them all before some of the torso beneath the mask seemed to sink into the body, before thrusting out, revealing a mouth full of disgusting, wretched, yellow, sharp teeth, and splattering the inky substance at them. The stared in fear, as its long tongue drooped out of its its mouth, oozing the goop. “Oh no!” Pinkie squeaked, standing up and holding out her hand. A pink bow suddenly appeared in it, the string being a deep, almost enticing blue, with specks of white here and there. She put her free hand up to it, as though she held an actual arrow, and pulled back. A pink arrow formation suddenly appeared, composed of pure energy, which the Element of Laughter fired at the beast. The arrow hit its target dead on, and made it recoil, but it simply roared again and its hands flew out towards her. She jumped back and took aim again, but suddenly a hand grabbed her ankle and lifted her high into the air before swinging down and slamming her into the floor. The pink haired girl let out a cry of pain, but managed to roll out of the way before the monster could crush her by slamming one of its hands down on her. Zeno and Fluttershy looked on in both fear and worry, seeing Pinkie battle with the beast. “Can't we help?!” Zeno asked, distressed. Fluttershy simply shook her head, whimpering quietly. “There HAS to be something!” “I don't know... There.. there is one thing but... I don't know if we can....” she said, almost in a whisper. “What is it?!” Zeno asked, desperate even more so after seeing Pinkie Pie get buffeted away from the Abrogate monster and hitting the field that surrounded the house before falling face first onto the roof. Fluttershy was silent for a moment before speaking, her voice softer than before. “Why do you want to help her?” “What?” Zeno asked, confused. “What kind of question is that?!” “What is she to you that you want to help her?” Fluttershy asked him. “She's my friend!” “How? You just met her.” Zeno thought about that for a few seconds, before it was interrupted by Pinkie screaming in pain. They both looked up, seeing that the monster now had her in its hands, two holding each of her arms, and two more holding each leg. It appeared to be trying to literally rip her into pieces! “BECAUSE ITS THE RIGHT THING TO DO!” Zeno cried out, tears welling in his eyes as he watched Pinkie. He suddenly saw an incandescent light shining beside him. He looked beside him, seeing Fluttershy actually glowing bright yellow. She gave a small smile before holding her hand out to him. He could practically feel the cordiality resonating from her being, and slowly reached out, touching his hand to her's. The beast's attention was drawn by the resulting golden flash of light, and looked over, pausing in pulling on Pinkie's limbs. Fluttershy was now seemingly completely made of pure golden energy that flowed like liquid, the only part of her being that seemed different being her hair, which, while being composed of energy as well, was pink. Zeno stared as Fluttershy hugged him close, her being slowly sinking into him, making him start to shine as well. He looked at his hands before screaming out as the light increased in intensity, the monster looking away as it nearly went blind, dropping Pinkie Pie in the process. She groaned and looked over, seeing that now, Zeno had completely underwent a transformation of sorts. While he still physically looked the same in that his hair didn't change much aside from now being normal, hanging down in his eyes rather than slicked back, he had some... additions. He has yellow wings extending from his back, the same kind pegasi typically had in Equestria. He also now had Fluttershy's aqua colored eyes. He now had the same jacket Fluttershy was previously wearing, the sleeves being longer than his hands but not long enough to cover up the light purple staff he had in his hand, a rune symbol on the paddle-like end of it along with a silver jewel in the middle. He also had a necklace on with the same symbol as Fluttershy's cutie mark. He looked completely calm and collected, simply staring up at the Abrogate. “Poor thing...” he said quietly, walking forward. Pinkie smiled weakly and crawled out of the way, leaning against the house. She heard footsteps coming and her smile got slightly bigger. “It's time for you to go now. I'm sorry.” Zeno said, looking up at the monster as it towered over him. “ZENO!” Toron yelled as he smashed the door open, nearly crushing Pinkie Pie behind it, though she was just out of range of it being fully open. He stared, the rest of the Elements of Harmony behind him doing the same, at the scene before them. Zeno held up the staff as the creature's hands combined into two- a right and a left- and two swords tore from its body and into its hands. It raised both of them and roared loudly, swinging them both at the boy. Toron was about to leap forward, ready to sacrifice his life for his younger brother's, but found soon that there was no need to do so. Zeno's staff shined with a brilliant light as he swung it horizontally to the sword, the light being thrust from the staff and in an arc, slicing the blade in half and causing it to erupt into millions of tiny black particles, which floated into the air and dissipated. The creature recoiled slightly, and Zeno swung twice more, once horizontally and once vertically, two more arcs of light flying out and cutting the monster into four pieces. “Goodbye.” he said finally, closing his eyes and tapping the staff on the ground once. Immediately, the four pieces of the Abrogate erupted into pure light energy, which quickly faded away. Slowly, the dome surrounding the house began to wither until that too was no more. Zeno turned to them, and in a quick flash of light, Fluttershy was there again, and Zeno's changes to his appearance were gone. “Toron!” he said happily, and took a step forward, before his eyes suddenly closed and he collapsed on the ground, unconscious. Fluttershy also felt her eyes get heavy before she suddenly fell face-down on the floor. “No! Zeno!” Toron said, worry striking through his heart as he ran over and cradled his younger brother in his arms. Rainbow Dash walked over and lifted Fluttershy up over her shoulder and smirked. “Who would've thought Fluttershy'd be the first one?” she questioned, to nobody in particular. Toron looked at her in surprise. “What? You thought this would be a surprise to us?” “Dash, just come on. I'm pretty sure I have more to explain now.” Twilight sighed, walking back inside. “Come on, darling,” Rarity ushered, helping Pinkie get up to her feet. “Let's go get you fixed up.” “C'mon. We ain't got all day.” Rainbow said to Toron, walking into the house as well. He nodded and picked up Zeno, holding up in his arms as he followed her. Once they were all gathered in the living room, Dash set Fluttershy down on the couch while she and AJ sat on the floor. “Alright. Where should I start?” Twilight asked Toron, pinching the bridge of her nose to stave off an oncoming headache. “Well, let's see,” Toron said, pretending to be in thought. Zeno was still in his lap, out cold. “Oh yeah, I got a starting point. How about an explanation as to why my baby brother all of a sudden turned into a mother fucking Power Ranger?!” he asked angrily. “Okay, okay, calm down.” she said, holding her hands up as if in surrender. “That's called Crossing Elements. Each world has its own types of Elements of Harmony. Of course, they aren't all called that. But still, all Elements of Harmony can cross with each other. It gives the Elements of the world new abilities in addition to their original ones. It isn't just limited to the synonymous Elements fusing with each other either. Any Element can fuse with any other Element. However, like Elements do fuse to create more powerful results. The one thing that's needed to fuse however, is acceptance or understanding of another Element, or at the very least an Element synonymous to it.” she explained. “Yeah, right before that, he said that he wanted to help me because he was my friend!” Pinkie said, smiling happily. “But Fluttershy asked him why, so he said because it was the right thing to do. I guess that'd be...” she trailed off, trying to think of a word. “Justice?” AJ asked. “Heroism?” Rarity suggested. “Righteousness?” Dash tried. “Righteousness sounds about right.” Twilight said, nodding. “That's pretty synonymous with Kindness.” “I see...” Toron said, in thought. “Okay, so wait. New question. We beat up tons of those things and they just kept coming. But that huge dome thing disappeared after the big one bit the dust. Why's that?” “That's because we were fighting a Tribe of them. Each Tribe is headed by a single, really powerful Abrogate. So they can keep going on and appearing so long as the Tribe Leader is fine. If its hurt, they start appearing at a slower rate and get weaker. That's why we had to go fight at first. Once Pinkie managed to pepper it up a bit, they couldn't break the door, so there was no issue with it. That's why I said we can go to the roof at that point.” Twilight explained. “That Dome is a Field of Abrogation. It's the area that can actually send out Abrogates. Luckily, they can't appear in the same area within a month's time. And it only appears if there happens to be a large amount of negative emotions surrounding the area. Which begs a question from me.” “Um... Yes?” Toron asked, looking at her. “Why would one appear around this home?” Twilight asked, looking right at him. Toron stared before sighing. “I'll put him down, then I'll explain it to you.” he said, walking up the stairs to Zeno's room. The Elements of Harmony were silent before Pinkie spoke up. “So, can I ask a question?” she asked, looking at Twilight. “No, you cannot have cake right now.” Twilight said, giving her a stern look. “No, no, no! Not that silly!” Pinkie responded, shaking her head. “Then what, Pinkie Pie?” “Those two are Celestia and Luna of this world, right?” the former Earth Pony asked. “Yes. We established that.” Twilight sighed, facepalming. “Then doesn't that mean they aren't actually Elements?” she asked. Twilight paused, stunned. That wasn't something she had thought about. “That's a good point.” Dash said, looking at the Element of Magic. “We haven't actually met the Elements of this world. Where are they?” “Um...” Twilight said quietly. “I dunno. I guess we'll have to worry about that later on. For now, we found the Alicorns of this world. Well, minus Cadence. Hopefully, we'll meet them soon.” “Maybe. Ah hope so.” Applejack said, leaning back. “If push comes ta shove, the medallions the Princesses gave us will shine, right?” “Yeah.” Twilight said, nodding. “Still. I can't help but wondering. What are they like? This World's Elements...” – A scream resonated out as a clanging noise was heard. “Nice one, Laila.” a female voice complimented. Two females stepped out of the shadows. One had blond hair, tied back in a ponytail. A single red bang hung down in over her right eye. She had on a black crop top, also wearing black sweatpants and a blue hoodie tied around her waist. She had on white sneakers and black fingerless gloves, which were stained with blood. Her light red eyes scanned the scene before she grinned a sadistic smile. “Thanks, Christine.” she said, an Italian accent in her voice, looking over her shoulder at the other woman. She had violet hair and wore glasses over her purple eyes. She was taller than her companion, at around five foot two. She had a white lab coat on, with a purple shirt under it, which ended right above her belly button. She also wore a black skirt which went down to just above her knee and hospital-nurse-like shoes. In the waist of the skirt was a silver pistol, shining in the moonlight. “No problem,” the girl in the scientist's coat said, walking over. At Laila's feet was an man, his face scrunched up from multiple punches. He was laying facedown in a small puddle of his own blood. Christine bent down to him and pat him down before removing a wallet from his pocket. She then walked forward, to the second of many people in similar condition. She took his money as well, before moving on to the next one. This one was a girl, who had blood pouring from her mouth, her face holding a dazed look. There seemed to be a permanent indentation where Laila's fist had struck her stomach. After she had finished collecting the money, Christine walked over to Laila and smirked. “Got it all. Nice one.” she chuckled, but then turned her head at hearing a groan. One of the men who had been beaten up was slowly raising to his feet. She sighed and pulled the gun out of her skirt, aiming it at him. “WAIT!” Laila yelled, grabbing her hand just as she pulled the trigger. This jarred her hand slightly, making the bullet miss its intended target, the man's head, and hit him in his spine. He bellowed in pain as Christina gave Laila a look. It wasn't one of anger, but she didn't look pleased regardless. “What?” the taller girl asked. “You said I could handle all of 'em. I get to kill him.” Laila responded, walking over to the man and sitting on his chest. Christina sighed and rolled her eyes before nodding. “Fine. Just come on when you're done.” she said, walking off. “Right, right. I got it.” Laila said passively, smirking at the man's terrified, tear-stained face. “Y'know, I kinda hate to do this. But what can I say? I'd be dead if it wasn't for the boss. I'm loyal, y'know? Like a dog. It where I get my name.” “Please... Please don't..” he whimpered. “Nah, nah. Shut up. I can't let ya live. You should have paid off your debt, rather than think my organization was weak.” She said, raising her fist and punching him hard in his mouth. Several teeth flew out and onto the ground beside him. “You should have pleaded with your BOSS!” she said, grinning as she landed another punch with her other fist. She then rained down punches onto his face, laughing. “Next time, ya better consider the conciquinces of your actions, buddy! Think before ya do and all that good crap! Don't underestimate us! Nobody can beat us! You will serve as a personal fucking message to your boss, you low life piece of crap! Now, just, DIE!” she snapped, landing one final punch to his nose. Without a doubt, the man was no longer breathing. “Tch, pathetic. Not even worth getting pissed on, ya poor bastard.” she sighed, getting up. Blood was all over her clothes and some had even splattered onto her cheeks. She shook her head before walking to follow her colleague. Christina was outside of the ally, waiting. “Had fun?” she asked, rolling her eyes. “Kinda. It let me release some anger. Now c'mon. Let's get outta here and grab a bite to eat before we report to boss. I'm starved.” she said, stretching. “I swear. You took to life as a mafiosi so quickly.” Christina said, shaking her head. “Where do you wanna eat?” “Meh, maybe some McDonalds would be good.” Laila said, smiling. “Fine, fine. Let's go. AFTER you wash up.” “Jeeze, you're like my mother.” Laila muttered as Christina put an arm around her shoulder, the two walking off together.