//------------------------------// // Martyr of Salvation // Story: My Little Strife: The Sigil Is Magic // by Ichtudirweh //------------------------------// 1) Read this section if you've initially chosen to trust Dash. Continue onward to face the murderous Loremaster. 2) Read this section if you've initially chosen to trust Zecora. Continue onward to fight the colossal Inquisitor. 1) You step off from the elevator, to venture deeper inside the undeground complex. Your heart pulsates with every ounce of adrenaline you've mustered up for this fight. Order ranks perish one by one, due to the power of your almighty Sigil. However, something horrific lies ahead that halts your progress to locate the Loremaster. The bellowing robotic yell of a behemoth Inquisitor rattles the inside facilities from your presence. You cast out an indiviual homing shower of lighting towards the colossal robot. The Inquisitor absorbs the lighting impact with no visible effect. You retreat backwards to the left peak of a staircase, to avoid a grenade being lobbed by the Inquisitor's internal module chassis. One of the grenades unintentionally make contact with a single shadow Acolyte. The Acolyte erupts into a massive pile of gore, after the time delay from the grenade detonates. The collosal footsteps of the Inquisitor marches onwards to your location. Time was in short supply.To little avail, you were blocked from fleeing the Inquisitor by traveling the left stairway. You had to make a decision, fast. Attempt to defeat the Inquisitor with your Sigil, or use your Mauler from your backpack on the plasma ball settings? A) Use the Sigil to defeat the Inquisitor. B) Use the Mauler to defeat the Inquisitor. A) It was either fight or flight in your situation. You conduct one bold attempt to use your Sigil against the Inquisitor. The Inquisitor's enormous iron hand breaches the mechanical doorway from the other room. You cast your Sigil, once the Inquisitor was in full view of the doorway. You cast a series of lighting showers in attempt to defeat the robotic monstrosity. The Inquisitor remained unphased by your fruitless attempts to stop it. It locks onto your heat signature created by your body, and discharges a cluster of HE grenades. The grenades explode near your stature at the top of the staircase. Just like the Acolyte from below, you rupture into a massive pile of gore with little time to react. Choose Option B to continue onwards with the story. B) You scurry to take off your backpack, to remove your experimental mauler weapon. The Inquisitor joins the fray, after its enormous iron hand forces the mechanical doorway upwards. You charge your mauler weapon with a energy canister, and lock onto the plasma ball settings before the Inquisitor was in plain view. You squeeze the handle bar trigger of the weapon, which as a result makes your recoil backwards. The plasma ball strikes the outer shell of the Inquisitor. The Inquisitor ruptures in a violent flash of green light. The colossal monstrosity was no more. You switch your mauler settings back to the dispersion settings and continue onwards. After activating a series of synchronized switches, you've unintentionally awoken another Inquisitor inside the lair. How many colossal bodyguards did the Loremaster actually have? While you jog past another biological screening point inside the lair, you recieve a message from Blackmare. "Darn impressive entryway, but the Loremaster is on another level. Head down." Two parallel elevators were present in front of you. You attempt to use the left elevator. Luckily for you, it descended downwards to the lower levels of the lair. Your luck was short lived, by the sounds of a mechanical behemoth stomping inside the facilites. You stumble off from the elevator, to be greeted by a few personal guards of the Order. A shockwave of electricity was casted by your Sigil. You quickly disposed the threats within a quick session. The iron feet of a unknown colossal machine rumbled the masonry of the lower floor. You locate and step onto a elevator that ascends from the bottom floor, into a assembly storage room full of Crusaders. The Crusaders animate into life opon your arrival. You cast another shockwave of electricity inside the close quarters. The entrapment of Crusaders incinerate into a pile of electronic rubble. As your progress further inside the lair, you nearly drop your Sigil to the sight of the very behemoth that has haunted your dreams. The almighty Inqusitor clashes inside a large corridor. It's array of laser rangefinders scan the proximities of the corridor. It locks onto your heat signature, and pursues after you with it's jet pack thrusters. You cast a wave of electricity in self defense. However, none of the balls of lighting made direct contact with the Inquisitor. You retreat backwards into a elevator lift, where you can hear the sounds of HE grenades make contact with the hydralics of the elevator. The elevator glitches from the deep impact. You cling onto a rope of electronics from inside the shaft, and climb upwards with all of your strength. The Inquisitor stalks your every movement, but you sucessfully avoid the mammoth by exiting inside a doorway. After activating a series of switches, you return to the lower floor with three possible teleportation devices for you to travel into. Your faced with the dilemma of choosing the right teleportation device, to advance further into the lair. Which portal will you choose? A) The left portal B) The center portal C) The right portal A) You choose to advance into the left teleportation device. You materialize inside of a enclosed metallic room with a single viewport to the right of you. As you step off from the transmitter, you were caught off guard by the gutteral robotic cry of a Reaver. You attempt to cast a shockwave of lighting outwards, but you experience a sudden sharp pain inside your chest. You drop your sigil, due to the intensity of the pain increasing. You look downwards to behold a horrific sight. Two claw like protrusions were lodged just below your chest cavity. The Reaver contracts it's claws away from your silhouette. You fall to the floor in a puddle of blood, ending your bold journey from a lone Reaver. Choose another option to continue onwards. B) You choose to advance into the center teleportation device. You materialize inside an enlongated hallway, with a switch at the dead end. You jog over to the switch and activate a lever, and steer back into the teleporter from behind you. You materialize into a new indiscrete location inside the lair. Two enormous banners are displayed on parallel sides of a metallic doorway, with the imprints of two fully assembled Sigils. Two Inqusitors from below the fully assembled Sigils, beckon anyone brave enough to advance forward. You feel a sudden emission of energy flowing from the metallic door just before you. You clutch your Sigil unconditionally, and proceed into the large metallic door; To meet the butcher of both equines and mankind... C) You choose to advance into the right teleportation device. A large metallic thump alters your calm, collective nature. You have materializes inside the same room with your behemoth stalker. The Inquisitor swoops his mammoth sized robotic arm, to grip you for scurrying away from escape. It clenches it's mighty hand around your silhouette. You could audibly hear your bones crunch, from the intesive pressure building up around your body. After experiencing intestive pain, you pass out after your stamina implant malfunctions. You were crushed by the iron grip of the Order, litterally. Choose another option to continue onwards. "The truth can only be found through universal will. You will fall to your knees in front of the One God. The One Light. Join me and my quest for true power, and I will complete the Sigil." The robotic voice of the Loremaster oscillates through the stone masonry. You receive a direct response from Blackmare, as a comment from the Loremaster's speech. "I am starting to get sick of this mystical double talk! End this butcherous creation once and for all!" You were getting fed up by the elite of Order craving for power as well. A lone Templar stood in front of you inside the Loremaster's lair. Oddly enough, it presented no hostilities towards your arrival. It activated a switch from behind, and lifted it's visor to identify itself. It turned out to be the one and only Lyra, with a delightful grin from your arrival inside the chambers. She waves a Templar humanoid robotic craw as a greeting. It puzzled you how she successfully infiltrated the underground base, let alone sneak into a Templar suit undetected. Your curiosity was short lived opon the arrival of the Loremaster himself. Lyra marches away from the upcoming conflict that was about to unfold. She exits into the corridors located behind you. The depiction of the Loremaster matches the exact etchings from the ancient ruins. Mechanical, tentacle like petrusions were in place of the Loremaster's arms. Opon further examination, you identified the monster as the man who led the occult group into the Apoolosian mountains! It would explain the charismatic nature with his speech, and his persuasive intent to retrieve your Sigil. His left eye was replaced with a infrared ocular implant. At the end of the mechanical tentacles were razor sharp claws, that you've presumed 'lured' Rarity's squad into the pits below. The Loremaster activates two personal Inquisitors to do his bidding. You steer into a right hallway away from the pits. You switch your mauler weapon back to the plasma ball setting, and anticipate the arrival of the two Inquisitors. You heard the jetpacks activate inside the hallway. You fall to the ground in a prone position, and swiftly point the muzzle of the weapon towards the end of the hallway. As the Inquisitors made their grand entryway inside a elevator shaft, you fire off a single plasma ball. The plasma ball disperses into a great shockwave of vibrant light. The two Inquisitors implode from the impact. The Inquisitors were just a mere distraction for the Loremaster. Without any prior knowledge of the Loremaster's previous location, you here the mechanical sounds of a claw extending from behind you. The Loremaster latches onto your armor, and attempts to drag you out from the hallways. You drop your mauler weapon, and withdraw your Sigil piece before being lured into the pits below. You cast a homing shower of lighting towards the Loremaster. He shrieks in robotic pain, due from the lighting making contact with his cybernetic frame. You jog away from the Loremaster, to jump onto the elevator shaft from which the Inquisitors originated from. After descending into the lower floor of the pit, you take cover behind a towering pillar. The Loremaster tracks your every movement with his infrared sensor. With the Sigil wielded, you had the choice to flank the Loremaster from either direction of the pillar. The right of the pillar was in the direction of another elevator, and to the left was the acidic pit in which the Loremaster dragged his victims into. The Loremaster hovers closer to your location. A) Flank the Loremaster from the left of the pillar. Risk being lured into the acidic pit yourself. B) Flank the Loremaster from the right of the pillar. Attempt to take out the Loremaster from the opposite elevator. A) You attempt to flank the Loremaster from the left side of the pillar. You dart towards the left side of the pit, while casting a series of homing electical showers at the Loremaster. The Sigil piece locks onto the heat signature of the abomination. Each successful strike causes the Loremaster to glitch in the air. The fifth lighting strike is what did the trick. The Loremaster collides into the floor in a vile green mass. His smouldering body, however, suddenly twitches with life. A gasous cloud of another Spectre erupts from his spinal column. Without hesitation, you cast out more showers of lighting towards the hovering abomination. You enthusiastically dodge more showers of electricity casted by the Spectre. After a long confrontation with the Spectre, you stand victorious in the aftermath of the firefight. The Spectre implodes in a series of gaseous eruptions opon it's defeat. From it's body, flung the final Sigil piece that you have yearned for since the beginning of this journey. You composedly pace over towards the final Sigil piece, and grasped it in your hand/hoof. The last piece latches into the center of the Sigil, without any foreign aid from you. The Sigil vibrates persistently from the complete formation. The sigil suddenly causes you to transcend into the air. Pure, god like surges of energy pulsates from within your veins. Your vision suddenly fades to black and white for a brief second. A golden aura of energy casts away from your body, and rumbles the interior of the chambers in a cataclysmic shockwave. You drop to the ground, as the hand/hoof that grasped the Sigil trembles with small visible arcs of electricity. You now wield the power of the true god. B) You attempt to flank the Loremaster from the right side of the pillar. You dart to the right side of the pillar, to attempt to 'lure' the Loremaster into the elevator. The Loremaster locks onto your next course of actions. You fail to step onto the elevator shaft, and could feel the mechanical arm of the Loremaster latch onto your back. He drags you closer to the pit, as you attempt to cast more showers of lighting towards him. The showers of lighting miss the Loremaster. He swings your body with his mechanical claw over the base of the pit. You collide with intensive force, on the wall of the center structure of the pit. It paralyzes your entire body, as you helpless descend into the acidic pit below. The acid eats away your armor to the bare flesh of your skin. You could do nothing, but to endure a slow painful death. Go back and read part A to continue onward. A series of archaic memories enters your mind. The Loremaster was nothing but a guard dog, for the true entity behind the Order's uprising. The truth was now clear to you. A single creature was responsible for the start of advanced civilizations, but it wasn't the divine creator of Mankind and Ponykind. It granted us the knowledge of trigonometry, a advanced system of calendars, and a form of communication though hieroglyphics. It was in fact, the same alien who influenced both ancient Mayan and Egyptian civilizations. It goes by many names in the past, such as Ra and Alom to name a few. You recieve a message from Blackmare, after the entire back wall of the lair collapses to reveal an otherworldy interior chamber. "I'm receiving reports from Twilight, that this location is transmitting a massive wave of energy from within! According to her, this is the source of a extraterrestrial force. The same exact entity who created the Order. This is it, my brave hero! The elements of harmony have a word to say before your final conflict..." You hear Blackmare's transmission fade out, to the voice of Twilight Sparkle. "We're all counting on you! Just remember this, keep calm and venture on! I know you can do this!" Her voice fades away. Rainbow Dash proceeds to speak to you. "Hey tough guy! Look, sorry about that incident earlier. I hope you realize that wasn't 'the actual me' back in base. The whole Front is rooting for you! I'm counting on you now, so don't let me down!" Pinkie interrupts Dash with her own little motivational speech. "Hey there silly! Good luck beating the brains behind the Order! I'm gonna throw a party after your victory! Just for you!" Rarity's soft spoken voice cuts in after Pinkie's. "My gallant hero! I sincerely wish you the best of luck for this upcoming conflict. Be sure to gather any gems while your down there, for me?" Applejack's strong southern accent butts in afterwards. "Shucks, Sugarcube! Ah can't believe it yer made it this far! For the Apple family, for Sweet Apple Acres, and fer all that is right in this world, return to us in one piece. We're countin' on y'all!" Fluttershy ends the transmission with a soothing motivational speech. "Oh, um...Please return to base after you've defeated this evil. I really don't believe in violence, but please do it for all of my friends....And for Me. You rock! Woohoo...." The transmission fades back into Blackmare's voice. Her voice morphs into a voice familiar to everyone of Ponyville. "I think it's the appropriate time to reveal who I am. I, Princess Celestia, hereby wish you the best of luck. The entire fate of Equestria now rests in your hands/hooves. You've have demonstrated your flawless leadership to the elements of harmony, assembled all of the Sigil pieces, and have yet to be influenced by this prime evil. Release me from confinement of this underground cell. Go get 'em, bold hero!" Your jaw drops from the voice of Princess Celestia. She was the one who truly organized the Front all along? Was Twilight Sparkle aware of this? Why would she remain reclusive of this fact back inside base? A million questions raced in your mind. However, it was time that you've ended this prolonged Strife. A large glowing pillar, with the imprint of the fully assembled Sigil, now stood in front of you. You place your Sigil inside the imprint. The pillar transends into effulgence, a blinding green light that engulfs you into an unknown location. You materialize within an area of imprinted alien hieroglyphs and fluorescent green light. You locate a triangular switch within the room, and press it to reveal an underground cavern. A Inquisitor, along with a army of Order influence, attempts to end your bold journey from progressing further. You cast out your fully assembled Sigil piece, while charging forwards onto a narrow pathway just ahead. You locate an elevator that descends downward into...What appeared to be a space craft! You return several series of lighting strikes back into the hordes of Order. The elevator platform seals shut and descends downward, just before the Inquisitor had the chance to lob a grenade inside the platform shaft. The platform lowers into a isolated chamber of heavy breathing. The echoes of a thousand lost lives from the Order, whisper inside the chamber. A hum from the ancients transcends from the walls around you. As you drew closer inside the Entity's lair, the whispering merged into a audiable rattling. The whispering suddenly came to a halt, as you stepped foot into the final chamber of the Entity. For all that you've fought for, how the Order ravaged your life and changed the lives of millions of citizens. How you remember the screams of the innocents being dragged from their homes. The forced brutality of the Order and their remorseless concentration camps. It all boiled down to this final conflict. You pass through a mechanical metallic door, to reveal the voice of the One God. His irate growl emits a telepathic voice, that sends chills down your spine. "YOU.....YOU HAVE CRUSHED MY ORDER, TORN THROUGH MY ROUSES, AND THREATENED CENTRIES OF DESIRE! I WILL PREVAIL! I WILL INFECT YOU! AND TWIST YOU! TO MY WILL!" Without hesitation, you cast a shower of lighting at the source of the telepathic voice. The voice was transmitted from a green, egg like cocoon structure from the center of the chamber. The lighting strike awakened the horrific Entity from it's eternal slumber. You release a cold sweat in response of the floating monstrocity. A cluster of what appeared to be pointed barnicles on a translucent black mass, hovered around inside the interior chamber. Crimson tentacles protruded from the monster in every direction. A shower of lighting snaps you out of your trance. You skid to the pits of the cucoon at the base of the chamber. These next decisions conducted by you, will influence who will emerge victorious from this conflict. A) Fight the Entity at the base of the chamber. B) Fight the Entity at the peak of the chamber. A) You make one daring attempt to engage the Entity at the base of the chamber. The ambient sounds of the Entity hover just above your head. The Sigil quivers violently with every sucessful lighting strike aimed at the translucent monstrocity. The Entity returned fire with a shockwave of lighting, casted inside it's space vessel as a natural defense mechanism. You jog around the circular formation on the base of the vessel, vigorously dodging every shower of lighting emitted by the Entity. One individual stream of lighting from the Entity makes contact with your armor. Your body jolts with a million volts of electricity, and the concussive force recoils you into a wall. Your heart fibrillates in a state of shock, and your muscles transcend into a state of paralysis. Your vision fades away into a world of darkness. You regain your vision, inside yet another world. The afterlife... A flashback of memories fly by like a speeding bullet. The very first memories of the comet strike. The arrival of the ill-advised, brainwashed cult. The dread and misery experienced by every living soul in Ponyville. Every single mission you've sucessfully carried out. How you've made it this far without dying. Was it all going to go to waste on this day? Due to this very last conflict? Blackmare broadcasts a distress message opon your death. Everybody and everypony that have listened to the events unfold, purge into a state of melancholy. "Hello? Can you hear this message? Please wake up! Oh dear! Twilight, if you are listening to this, I call opon you to use the elements of harmony. Our situation is critical! Revert to plan B, now!" Twilight receives the distress message from Celestia. She gathers her friends to conduct a spell. A spell of purity and life. The Mane 6 conjure up the elements harmony in a circle. Honesty, for a world blinded by lies and malevolence. Laughter, to get through the hardest times the world has ever endured. Kindness, for the unfortunate souls who has suffered through a lifetime of tragedy. Generosity, for the millions who have lost everything without hope. Loyalty, for a dedicated resistance movement that would give the powerless a chance for redemption. Last but not least, Magic. The mystical vitality that made this all possible. The cohesive force conjured by the Mane 6, proliferated a radiant light throughout the base. The life orbs from the elements of harmony, transcend from the Front base to collide into your body. Your muscles suddenly twitch with life. The chambers of the interior space craft was now visible once again. You pick up your Sigil piece, now charged with the life force of the elements of harmony. You cast one brilliant ball of lighting, to strike the floating deity in one final blow. The Entity shrieks in a telepathic state of pain, heard across the world by everyone and everypony. The Entity implodes in gasous vapors and translucent fires. It collides into the ground of the chamber, only to reveal yet another trepidation. The Entity has merged into three sub creatures. Without hesitation, you aim your Sigil piece towards the monsters, and disperse more showers of electricity. The sub-Entities fall one by one from the power of harmony. After the intial conflict was over, a looming silence stenches the atmosphere. You've become overwhelmingly exhausted, to the point of losing consciousness on the base of the floor. A message from Twilight Sparkle, broadcasts a victorious message over the Front's receivers. "Attention all troops of the Front, he's done it! Celestia's soldier has purged the evil from Equestria! The Order is no more! All robotic troops are now offline! We can now rebuild Ponyville once more! Celestia, do you copy?" "Twilight, send a medivac team to the location of the Entity's lair. I want him escorted safe and sound back to my castle. I can now safely withdraw from seclusion. A new era of peace and tranquility shall unfold between Ponykind and Mankind! We shall celebrate our victory for all of Equestria!" Celestias voice boasts over the receivers with pride. An escort team of ponies locate your body inside the chamber. You are transported to Celestia's castle, to lie on a plush mattress in a private room. The remnants of Ponyville's citizens anxiously wait for your awakening inside the royal hall. The castle has been restored into it;s normal condition, after you undergo the longest slumber you have ever experienced. It was just as you pictured it in your memories. You were knocked out cold for three days, while your vitals were supported with IV fluid. A gilded robe laid alongside the bed. After a human nurse removes the needle from your arm, she calls out for your friends. You dress yourself with the robe, and are comfortably greeted by Celestia and the Mane 6. Your harmonious awakening was short lived, by a dormant Inquisitor inside the private room. "No need to panic. I've reprogrammed the Inquisitors to be helpful in nature. Their weapons are removed from their chassis, and are now under the command of Celestia. Don't worry, it's finally over." Twilight giggles along with her friends. You relieve a deep sigh, and crash back into bed. There was no way you could move another muscle...... You have recieved the best possible ending for this journey. Continue onto the next chapter. Read about the restoration of Ponyville, and the possible conclusions with Celestia or the Mane 6. B) With every last inch of stamina that you've had, you charge up the narrow pathway to confront the Entity. The Entity vanishes from your sight of view inside the chambers. It materializes to the left of the cucoon, and casts a shockwave of electricity. You dodge the electric shockwave by going prone. You return a series of electrical dispersions towards the Entity. They strike the Entity in a rapid session, with each strike resulting the Entity to shriek in telepathic pain. A homing streak of electricity is casted by the Entity in one final stand. The streak of lighting makes contact with your metal armor. Your muscles transcend into a irreversible state of paralysis. You could only gaze in horror. Your Sigil skids to the lower base of the cucoon out of reach. The Entity floats in silent ambiance of the atmosphere, howering towards your frozen body. With your basic motor functions now diminished, you were now the Entity's prey. The Entity swoops you up with a single crimson tentacle. "You....Are no longer a threat to my Order. You've should have known I've anticipated your every move by reading your pathetic thoughts. I shall squeeze the life out of you, until you are no more. Your death shall be a shining example for future generations of the Order." The loud crunch of your bones shattering was heard across each living being, telepathically broadcasted by the Entity itself. The Entity has rewritten the prophecized future for Ponyville, Equestria, and the entire world. Celestia resigns from her position of power, and hopelessly submits to the Entity's rule. She has taken her own life in fear of the Front's base being revealed. However, the Front's base was infiltrated by your decayed thoughts. Each inhabitant was slaughtered one by one. The Front was no more. Tolls of the innocents racked up over time. The Order created a super virus that drove every independent living being, into a state of madness. Each living member of the equine and human race were rounded up and brutally exterminated. The only thing that showed evidence of any life, was the pale, organic tissue encased in metallic shrouds of the Order. The cult has achieved its goals. The super race was now born. With no way to procreate and nothing to feed on, the Entity has abandoned it's super race of beings. Humankind and Ponykind only exist as vague memories. You have recieved the worst possible ending. You may either stop here, or go back to part A for the better ending. 2) "The truth can only be found through universal will. You will fall to your knees in front of the One God. The One Light. Join me and my quest for true power, and I will complete the Sigil." The robotic voice of the Loremaster oscillates through the stone masonry. You receive a direct response from Blackmare, as a comment from the Loremaster's speech. "I am starting to get sick of this mystical double talk! End this butcherous creation once and for all!" You were getting fed up by the elite of Order craving for power as well. A lone Templar stood in front of you inside the Loremaster's lair. Oddly enough, it presented no hostilities towards your arrival. It activated a switch from behind, and lifted it's visor to identify itself. It turned out to be the one and only Lyra, with a delightful grin from your arrival inside the chambers. She waves a Templar humanoid robotic craw as a greeting. It puzzled you how she successfully infiltrated the underground base, let alone sneak into a Templar suit undetected. Your curiosity was short lived upon the arrival of the Loremaster himself. Lyra marches away from the upcoming conflict that was about to unfold. She exits into the corridors located behind you. The depiction of the Loremaster matches the exact etchings from the ancient ruins. Mechanical, tentacle like extrusions were in place of the Loremaster's arms. Upon further examination, you identified the monster as the man who led the occult group into the Apoolosian mountains! It would explain the charismatic nature with his speech, and his persuasive intent to retrieve your Sigil. His left eye was replaced with a infrared ocular implant. At the end of the mechanical tentacles were razor sharp claws, that you've presumed 'lured' Rarity's squad into the pits below. The Loremaster activates two personal Inquisitors to do his bidding. You steer into a right hallway away from the pits. You switch your mauler weapon back to the plasma ball setting, and anticipate the arrival of the two Inquisitors. You heard the jetpacks activate inside the hallway. You fall to the ground in a prone position, and swiftly point the muzzle of the weapon towards the end of the hallway. As the Inquisitors made their grand entryway inside a elevator shaft, you fire off a single plasma ball. The plasma ball disperses into a great shockwave of vibrant light. The two Inquisitors implode from the impact. The Inquisitors were just a mere distraction for the Loremaster. Without any prior knowledge of the Loremaster's previous location, you here the mechanical sounds of a claw extending from behind you. The Loremaster latches onto your armor, and attempts to drag you out from the hallways. You drop your mauler weapon, and withdraw your Sigil piece before being lured into the pits below. You cast a homing shower of lighting towards the Loremaster. He shrieks in robotic pain, due from the lighting making contact with his cybernetic frame. You jog away from the Loremaster, to jump onto the elevator shaft from which the Inquisitors originated from. After descending into the lower floor of the pit, you take cover behind a towering pillar. The Loremaster tracks your every movement with his infrared sensor. With the Sigil wielded, you had the choice to flank the Loremaster from either direction of the pillar. The right of the pillar was in the direction of another elevator, and to the left was the acidic pit in which the Loremaster dragged his victims into. The Loremaster hovers closer to your location. A) Flank the Loremaster from the left of the pillar. Risk being lured into the acidic pit yourself. B) Flank the Loremaster from the right of the pillar. Attempt to take out the Loremaster from the opposite elevator. A) You attempt to flank the Loremaster from the left side of the pillar. You dart towards the left side of the pit, while casting a series of homing electrical showers at the Loremaster. The Sigil piece locks onto the heat signature of the abomination. Each successful strike causes the Loremaster to glitch in the air. The fifth lighting strike is what did the trick. The Loremaster collides into the floor in a vile green mass. His smoldering body, however, suddenly twitches with life. A gaseous cloud of another Spectre erupts from his spinal column. Without hesitation, you cast out more showers of lighting towards the hovering abomination. You enthusiastically dodge more showers of electricity casted by the Spectre. After a long confrontation with the Spectre, you stand victorious in the aftermath of the firefight. The Spectre implodes in a series of gaseous eruptions upon it's defeat. From it's body, flung the final Sigil piece that you have yearned for since the beginning of this journey. You composedly pace over towards the final Sigil piece, and grasped it in your hand/hoof. The last piece latches into the center of the Sigil, without any foreign aid from you. The Sigil vibrates persistently from the complete formation. The sigil suddenly causes you to transcend into the air. Pure, god like surges of energy pulsates from within your veins. Your vision suddenly fades to black and white for a brief second. A golden aura of energy casts away from your body, and rumbles the interior of the chambers in a cataclysmic shockwave. You drop to the ground, as the hand/hoof that grasped the Sigil trembles with small visible arcs of electricity. You now wield the power of the true god. B) You attempt to flank the Loremaster from the right side of the pillar. You dart to the right side of the pillar, to attempt to 'lure' the Loremaster into the elevator. The Loremaster locks onto your next course of actions. You fail to step onto the elevator shaft, and could feel the mechanical arm of the Loremaster latch onto your back. He drags you closer to the pit, as you attempt to cast more showers of lighting towards him. The showers of lighting miss the Loremaster. He swings your body with his mechanical claw over the base of the pit. You collide with intensive force, on the wall of the center structure of the pit. It paralyzes your entire body, as you helpless descend into the acidic pit below. The acid eats away your armor to the bare flesh of your skin. You could do nothing, but to endure a slow painful death. Go back and read part A to continue onward. A series of archaic memories enters your mind. The Loremaster was nothing but a guard dog, for the true entity behind the Order's uprising. The truth was now clear to you. A single creature was responsible for the start of advanced civilizations, but it wasn't the divine creator of Mankind and Ponykind. It granted us the knowledge of trigonometry, a advanced system of calendars, and a form of communication though hieroglyphics. It was in fact, the same alien who influenced both ancient Mayan and Egyptian civilizations. It goes by many names in the past, such as Ra and Alom to name a few. You receive a message from Blackmare, after the entire back wall of the lair collapses to reveal an otherworldly interior chamber. "Another piece of the Sigil! Let's head back to the Oracle. We are one step closer to the Sigil, and you are one closer step to me......" She ends the transmission in a flirtatious matter. You locate a portal inside the Loremaster's lair, back inside Zecora's temple. You step up to her floating presence, with the Sigil almost at full completion. "Excellent! The Sigil almost complete, but you must hand it over to avoid conceit. You see, I weild the last piece of the Sigil. You shall return to the Front as their vigil. You have reached the end of your journey. Go home, for you are no longer my attorney. " Zecora has been using you as a pawn all along. You reject her demand with a retaliation of your own. "NO! I WILL NOT TRUST YOU ZECORA! YOUR LIES AND DECEIT SHALL NOT SPREAD ANY FURTHER!" You scream at the top of your lungs. You withdrawl your sigil piece and point it directly at Zecora. Her vibrant, golden eyes widen in disbelief from your actions. She bellows aloud in a slight hint of anger inside the temple. You could cleary hear the influence of the Spectre speaking as well. "YOU FOOL! HAVE YOU NOT REALIZED THE ORDERS ULTIMATE GOAL? IT SHALL NOT MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE HERE, YOUR KIND SHALL PERISH UNDER THE WILL OF THE ONE GOD IN FEAR!" You channel the energy from your body into the sigil piece. Zecora casts a circular shield barrier in front of her. A shower of lighting flies directly from your sigil piece to strike the circular barrier. The surge of energy was far too great for Zecora to handle. She recoils backwards from the energy of the sigil piece. She falls unconscious in the pit below, still alive but impared from the conflict. The Acolytes from inside the temple invigorate into life from your course of actions. The rounds fly by your head, as the Spectre from the skyview decends downward. You tumble to a neaby pillar, and cast more surges of lighting from your sigil at the Acolytes inside the temple. Each Acolyte that make contact from the lighting surges, erupt into a bloody mass of gore. The Spectre hovers inside the temple in an attempt to kill you. You aim your sigil piece at the Spectre while it was distracted. You cast small bursts of energy from your body at the Spectre. Every sucessful contact that you made with your sigil, the Spectre would cast a shockwave of electrostatic ball energy. After the 10th sucessful lighting strike casted by you, the Spectre erupts in a violent flash of gaseous explosions. The final Sigil piece skids across the floor. You jog over to the piece and attach it to the Sigil. The Sigil piece vibrates violently from the formation. The Sigil suddenly lifts you in the air. Pure, god like surges of energy pulsates from within your veins. Your vision suddenly turns black and white for a brief second. A golden aura of energy casts from your body, and rumbles the interior of the temple in a cataclysmic shockwave. You drop to the ground, as the hand/hoof in which you grasp the sigil trembles with small visible arcs of electricity. You now wield the power of the true god. You recieve a message from Blackmare after the moment. "You wield the power of the complete Sigil! Head back to the pillar and place the fully assembled Sigil inside the imprint. I will breif you with further instructions." You retrace your steps all the way back to the Loremaster's lair. You locate the pillar with the Sigil imprint, and follow Blackmare's instructions. The wall behind the pillar lowers into the ground. You receive yet another transmission due to the newly revealed location. "I'm receiving reports from Twilight, that this location is transmitting a massive wave of energy from within! According to her, this is the source of a extraterrestrial force. The same exact entity who created the Order. This is it, my brave hero! The elements of harmony have a word to say before your final conflict..." You hear Blackmare's transmission fade out, to the voice of Twilight Sparkle. "We're all counting on you! Just remember this, keep calm and venture on! I know you can do this!" Her voice fades away. Rainbow Dash proceeds to speak to you. "Hey tough guy! Look, sorry about that incident earlier. I hope you realize that wasn't 'the actual me' back in base. The whole Front is rooting for you! I'm counting on you now, so don't let me down!" Pinkie interrupts Dash with her own little motivational speech. "Hey there silly! Good luck beating the brains behind the Order! I'm gonna throw a party after your victory! Just for you!" Rarity's soft spoken voice cuts in after Pinkie's. "My gallant hero! I sincerely wish you the best of luck for this upcoming conflict. Be sure to gather any gems while your down there, for me?" Applejack's strong southern accent butts in afterwards. "Shucks, Sugarcube! Ah can't believe it yer made it this far! For the Apple family, for Sweet Apple Acres, and fer all that is right in this world, return to us in one piece. We're countin' on y'all!" Fluttershy ends the transmission with a soothing motivational speech. "Oh, um...Please return to base after you've defeated this evil. I really don't believe in violence, but please do it for all of my friends....And for Me. You rock! Woohoo...." The transmission fades back into Blackmare's voice. Her voice morphs into a voice familiar to everyone of Ponyville. "I think it's the appropriate time to reveal who I am. I, Princess Celestia, hereby wish you the best of luck. The entire fate of Equestria now rests in your hands/hooves. You've have demonstrated your flawless leadership to the elements of harmony, assembled all of the Sigil pieces, and have yet to be influenced by this prime evil. Release me from confinement of this underground cell. Go get 'em, bold hero!" Your jaw drops from the voice of Princess Celestia. She was the one who truly organized the Front all along? Was Twilight Sparkle aware of this? Why would she remain reclusive of this fact back inside base? A million questions raced in your mind. However, it was time that you've ended this prolonged Strife. A large glowing pillar, with the imprint of the fully assembled Sigil, now stood in front of you. You place your Sigil inside the imprint. The pillar transcends into effulgence, a blinding green light that engulfs you into an unknown location. You materialize within an area of imprinted alien hieroglyphs and fluorescent green light. You locate a triangular switch within the room, and press it to reveal an underground cavern. A Inquisitor, along with a army of Order influence, attempts to end your bold journey from progressing further. You cast out your fully assembled Sigil piece, while charging forwards onto a narrow pathway just ahead. You locate an elevator that descends downward into...What appeared to be a space craft! You return several series of lighting strikes back into the hordes of Order. The elevator platform seals shut and descends downward, just before the Inquisitor had the chance to lob a grenade inside the platform shaft. The platform lowers into a isolated chamber of heavy breathing. The echoes of a thousand lost lives from the Order, whisper inside the chamber. A hum from the ancients transcends from the walls around you. As you drew closer inside the Entity's lair, the whispering merged into a audible rattling. The whispering suddenly came to a halt, as you stepped foot into the final chamber of the Entity. For all that you've fought for, how the Order ravaged your life, and forced you to kill for survival. How you remember the screams of the innocents being dragged from their homes. The forced brutality of the Order and their concentration camps. It all boiled down to this final conflict. You passed through a mechanical mansonry door, to reveal the voice of the One God. It was no other than the voice of princess Celestia, with a slight male growl following her same speech patterns. "Haha! At last! I have waited for a fool like you to bring me my freedom. You should have known that I, Princess Celestia, was using you as a pawn inside my little game. This is where your journey ends, bold adventurer!" Celestia has betrayed us all? A burning rage builds up within you. Without hesitation, you cast a shower of lighting at the source of the telepathic voice. The voice emitted from a green, egg like cucoon from the center of the room. The lighting strike awakened the horrific Entity from it's internal slumber. You sweat a cold sweat in response of the floating monstrocity. A cluster of what looked like pointed barnicles on a translucent black mass hovered around inside the chamber. Crimson tentacles petruded from the monster. A shower of lighting snaps you out of your trance of awe in sight of the Entity. You tumble downwards to the origins of the cucoon at the base of the chamber. These next decisions carried out by you, will influence who will emerge victorious from this conflict. A) Fight the Entity at the base of the chamber. B) Fight the Entity at the peak of the chamber. A) You make one daring attempt to engage the Entity at the base of the chamber. The ambient sounds of the Entity hover just above your head. The Sigil quivers violently with every successful lighting strike aimed at the translucent monstrosity. The Entity returned fire with a shockwave of lighting, casted inside it's space vessel as a natural defense mechanism. You jog around the circular formation on the base of the vessel, vigorously dodging every shower of lighting emitted by the Entity. One individual stream of lighting from the Entity makes contact with your armor. Your body jolts with a million volts of electricity, and the concussive force recoils you into a wall. Your heart fibrillates in a state of shock, and your muscles transcend into a state of paralysis. Your vision fades away into a world of darkness. You regain your vision, inside yet another world. The afterlife... A flashback of memories fly by like a speeding bullet. The very first memories of the comet strike. The arrival of the ill-advised, brainwashed cult. The dread and misery experienced by every living soul in Ponyville. Every single mission you've successfully carried out. How you've made it this far without dying. Was it all going to go to waste on this day? Due to this very last conflict? Twilight broadcasts a message in panic opon your defeat. The whole world that listened to the Front's broadcasts and the events unfolded, purge into a state of melancholy. "Hello? Can you hear this message? Stay put if you can hear this! I will conjure up a spell with the elements of harmony. Oh no, I hope it's not too late!" Twilight receives the distress message from Celestia. She gathers her friends to conduct a spell. A spell of purity and life. The Mane 6 conjure up the elements harmony in a circle. Honesty, for a world blinded by lies and malevolence. Laughter, to get through the hardest times the world has ever endured. Kindness, for the unfortunate souls who has suffered through a lifetime of tragedy. Generosity, for the millions who have lost everything without hope. Loyalty, for a dedicated resistance movement that would give the powerless a chance for redemption. Last but not least, Magic. The mystical vitality that made this all possible. The cohesive force conjured by the Mane 6, proliferated a radiant light throughout the base. The life orbs from the elements of harmony, transcend from the Front base to collide into your body. Your muscles suddenly twitch with life. The chambers of the interior space craft was now visible once again. You pick up your Sigil piece, now charged with the life force of the elements of harmony. You cast one brilliant ball of lighting, to strike the floating deity in one final blow. The Entity shrieks in a telepathic state of pain, heard across the world by everyone and everypony. The Entity implodes in gaseous vapors and translucent fires. It collides into the ground of the chamber, only to reveal yet another trepidation. The Entity has merged into three sub creatures. Without hesitation, you aim your Sigil piece towards the monsters, and disperse more showers of electricity. The sub-Entities fall one by one from the power of harmony. After the initial conflict was over, a looming silence stenches the atmosphere. You've become overwhelmingly exhausted, to the point of losing consciousness on the base of the floor. A message from Twilight Sparkle, broadcasts a victorious message over the Front's receivers. "Attention all troops of the Front, he's done it! He has purged the evil from Equestria. The Order is no more. All robotic troops are now offline....However, I have lost my leader along the way....Dash....do you copy?" Twilight sobs. "Twilight, send a medivac team to the location of the Entity's lair. I want him escorted safe and sound back to base. And Twi, I am deeply sorry for your lost. We are here for your support." Dash ends the transmission in symphony. You lay on a hospital bed inside of the Front base. Twilight has now assumed the duties of Princess Celestia. She evolved into an Alicorn for her responsibilites over Ponyville, left in the achives by Princess Celestia. She greets you with a pleasant smile, along with the mane five circled around you. Your soothing awakening was short lived by a dormant Inqusitor inside the same room. "No need to panic. I've reprogrammed the Inquisitors to be helpful in nature. Their weapons are removed from their chassis, and are now under the command of me. Don't worry, it's over. I'm in control now." Twilight giggles along with her friends. You relieve a deep sigh, and crash back into bed. There was no way you could move another muscle...... You have recieved the neutral ending for this journey. Continue onto the next chapter, to read about the restoration of Ponyville, the evil influence of the Entity over Princess Celestia, and the possible conclusions with the Mane 6. B) With every last inch of stamina that you've had, you charge up the narrow pathway to confront the Entity. The Entity vanishes from your sight of view inside the chambers. It materializes to the left of the cucoon, and casts an outwards shockwave of electricity. You dodge the electric shockwave by going prone. You return a series of electrical dispersions at the Entity. They strike the Entity in a rapid session, with each strike resulting the Entity to shriek in telepathic pain. A homing streak of electricity is casted by the Entity in one final stand. The streak of lighting makes contact with your metal armor. Your muscles go into an irreversible state of paralysis. You could only watch in horror. Your Sigil skids to the lower base of the cucoon out of reach. The Entity floats in silent ambiance of the atmosphere, howering towards your frozen body. With your basic motor functions now diminished, you were now the Entity's prey. The Entity swoops you up with one crimson tentacle. "You....Are no longer a threat to my Order. You've should have known I've anticipated your every move by reading your pathetic thoughts. I shall squeeze the life out of you, until you are no more. Your death shall be a shining example for future generations of the Order." The loud crunch of your bones shattering was heard across each living being, telepathically broadcasted by the Entity itself. The Entity has rewritten the prophecized future for Ponyville, Equestria, and the entire world. Celestia resigns from her position of power, and hopelessly submits to the Entity's rule. She has taken her own life, in fear of the Front's base being revealed. However, the Front's base was infiltrated by your decayed thoughts. Each inhabitant was slaughtered one by one. The Front was no more. Tolls of the innocents racked up over time. The Order created a super virus that drove every independent living being, into a state of madness. Each living member of the equine and human race were rounded up and brutally exterminated. The only thing that showed evidence of any life, was the pale, organic tissue encased in metallic shrouds of the Order. The cult has achieved its goals. The super race was now born. With no way to procreate and nothing to feed on, the Entity has abandoned it's super race of beings. Humankind and Ponykind only exist as vague memories. You have recieved the worst possible ending. You may either stop here, or go back to part A for the neutral ending.