Spawn of Disharmony
By: KenSES64
Chapter 34: Games Ponies Play
I seemed to be standing in the middle of a field that was surround by trees when there was a crack of lightning, and the sky turned red with two dark blue eyes looking down on me.
“TiMe’S uP sEtH.” was all The voice said before I woke up.
I then rolled out of bed, to see Rainbow with Tank.
“Morning Rainbow.” I said kissing her cheek.
“Morning.” She responded, “Oh just to let you know while clearing the weather, Screwball told me that she need you for something, I don’t know all she told me is that ‘it’s ready’.”
I realized what she was talking about, I smiled and said, “Perfect.”
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After leaving Tank, as well as everypony else’s pets with Spike, (not sure how smart this is considering last time we did, Angel took over the library) we went to the train station to go to the Crystal Empire, to help Princess Cadance with trying to get the Equestria Games there.
“This gonna be a real treat. Princess Cadance said she’s never seen the crystal ponies so excited.” Applejack said.
“Duh, of course they’re excited. They’re up for the Equestria Games. It’s only the biggest sporting event in all of Equestria.” Rainbow exclaimed.
“Didn’t Cloudsdale host the Equestria Games one year?” Rarity asked.
“No.” Rainbow said sounding disappointed, “Cloudsdale should of hosted the games one year. I’ll never forget when we got the bad news.”
I knew the story. She was a little filly, standing on my dad’s back, eagerly awaiting for it to be announced that the games go to Cloudsdale, but no, they went to Fillydelphia instead.
“These crystal ponies lost a thousand years to an evil king’s curse. They’ve had enough bad news. No way we’re letting them experience the pain of losing out on these games.” Rainbow said with determination.
“Exactly.” Twi said, “Princess Cadance is counting on us to do our part to convince the games inspector to chose the Crystal Empire, and we are not gonna let her down are we?”
Pinkie slid on her back knees, making a dramatic “No!”
We all look at her weird.
“What I was just answering Twilight’s question.” She said.
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We arrived at the Crystal Empire, and getting off the train with my saddlebags I sensed something. I turned to see the arctic off in the distance, and I heard the broken up laughter of The Voice in the distance. I quickly turned completely running to the arctic.
“Seth where are you going?!” Rainbow shouted.
“Sorry girls, but I need to take care of something!” I call back to them.
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I run through the snow covered ground looking for a cloud of red mist. Sure enough it appeared and I put my saddlebags to the side.
“HeLlO aGaIn SeTh.” It greeted.
“Don’t even start.” I said coldly. “I felt you call me here, what do you want?”
“YoU sEe I’vE rEcEnTlY lEaRnEd SoMeThInG. dEaD bEiNgS aRe EaSIeR tO AbSoRb ThAn LiVe OnEs, So I fIgUrEd ThAt I’d TrY sOmEtHiNg.”
Then the mist started to change into the shape of a pony. The eyes disappeared and it started to change from red to dark blue. It soon started to look more and more like a real pony, a unicorn to be precise, with a dark blue coat and a red mane, and after it stopped it opened up it’s eye that were glowing completely red. What stood out the most was the cutie mark. I was of a gray star. Just like mine. In fact over all it looked exactly like me, but with the colors described.
“But, I don’t... What?!” I shout.
“I sEe ThAt YoU’rE sUrPrIsEd By My TrUe FoRm.”
“How? Why do you?”
“LoOk LiKe YoU. tHaT’s BeCaUsE iN A wAy I aM yOu.”
“What?!”
“WhEn DiScOrD cReAtEd YoU, iF yOu ReCaLl YoU rEsEMbLeD mE. AnD wHeN tHe ShOcKwAvE oF tHe ElEmEnTs Of HaRmOnY cHaNgEd HoW yOu LoOk ThAt’S nOt AlL tHaT cHaNgEd. I wAs WhAt YoU wErE oRiGiNaLlY mEaNt To Be, AnD i WaS sEaLeD aWaY iN tHe BaCk Of YoUr MiNd. I sTaYeD tHeRe UnTiL yOu SnApPeD wHeN iNfErNo CaLlEd RaInBoW dAsH a SlUt, BuT tHeRe I wAsN’t FrEe, AnD wAs BaSiCaLlY jUsT a HeRoIc SpAz AtTaCk. AfTeR yOu WeRe DoNe I wAs FoRcEd BaCk InTo YoUr MiNd. ThEn YoU wErE dIrEcTlY hIt By ThE eLeMeNtS aNd ThEy dId MoRe ThAn CoNvEnIeNtLy HeAl yOu. ThEy SeT Me FrEe.”
“Of course, order and chaos. Chaos and order. Two sides of the same coin. A coin that has always come up on heads, but soon will land on tails. Oh by Celestia, I’m so stupid!”
“NoW sEtH pRePaRe To FiNalLy Be In mY hOrSeShOeS.” Then The Voice spawned a rapier.
I summoned mine and the two clashed repeatedly. He tried to stab me in the chest, but I teleported just in time, reappearing behind him, bucking him in the back of his head. The Voice faceplanted into the snow and rolled a couple of feet. Before getting back up, shaking the snow off his coat.
He glares at me, and I use the invisibility spell to shroud myself and he gets a confused look on his face. I create a tomahawk a throw it at him, but he smacks it away with magic, and then turns into mist, and goes into the ground. I unsure where he went turned off the invisibility spell, not my smartest move.
He reappeared right in front of me and before I could react I was hit in the head with a crowbar. I recoiled back, and charged up my horn until sparks were coming out of it. He tried to hit me again, but I pointed my horn at his chest and shot a bolt of electricity right at him.
He gasped in pain, making the crowbar disappear, but he seemed to be stuned, so I teleported very far away from him and with my magic I created arrows. Hundreds and hundreds of arrows, and shot them all into the air at once for them to come down upon The Voice.
I was sure that I’d win with that, but saw that at the last second he was able to put up a shield around himself. The arrows sticking out of the ground soon vanished.
I saw a quick flash of his horn, and the next thing I knew we were hundreds of feet up in the air. I was then grabbed by his magic and swung round a little bit before he let go, throwing me at the ground with speed. I landed on the ground with so much force I made a decent sized crater with body.
The Voice reappears right in front of my still down body smiling, “YoU sEe I aM tHe MoRe PoWeRfUl SiDe Of YoUrSeLf.”
I’m able to stand back up, but with much agony, and I say, “I’m not done yet.”
The voice punches me in the face, knocking me back down. “Oh YeS yOu ArE aNd AfTeR yOu ArE dEaD aNd If I cAn MaKe YoU A pArT oF mE I sHalL dO tHe SaMe To ThOsE wHo I cOuLdN’t BeFoRe AnD fInIsH oFf ThIs WoRlD.”
“Then what are you going to do?” I ask trying to get up again.
“I wIlL sPrEaD tHrOuGhOuT tHis UnIvErSe UnTiL iT AnD I aRe ThE sAmE. FrOm ThErE i WiLl TrAvEl FrOm UnIvErSe To UnIvErSe aNd Do WhAt I hAvE dOnE hErE. EvErY sTaR, eVeRy CoSmOs, eVeRy DiMeNsIoN. aLl ThInGs LiViNg AnD dEaD sHalL bEcOmE mE. nO eMpTy SpAcE, nO lImItS, nOtHiNg ExIsTiNg ExCePt FoR mE. ExIsTeNcE sHaLl BeCoMe DeFiNeD bY mE bEcAuSe I aM eXiStEnCe.”
“And then what are you going to do?”
“WhAt?”
“I’m just wondering what are you going to do once you completed your goal. You will have absorbed everything and I do mean everything. You will not have just be the only being in the universe, you will be the universe. So I ask, what are you going to do as the universe? Well you create things? I’d assume not, because then it’d be something different from you and you’d reabsorb it back into you anyways. So again I ask, what are you going to do once you completed your goal? Why do you want that goal?”
“EvEryThInG eLsE dOeSn’T DeSeRvE tO ExIsT. EvErYtHiNg MuSt Be Me.”
“And when everything is you what are you going to do next? What is your purpose once your purpose has been fulfilled? What will be your meaning once you made the ultimate achievement? Is existing an end of itself? Well that can’t be it because you’re already existing and there fulfilling that part of it. So I dare you go ahead and absorb everything so you are existence itself! In the end you’ll have you will have the problem that there is no challenge left. No heaven to aspire to, no tartarus to avoid. You will live forever, alone as everything, and existence itself shall become your new prison. All experiences will be a part of you. All possibilities will have been considered and completed. Every life form, every being, every should and never should and it all have been done. Everything will be you, and everything will be meaningless. And when you do become existence, you will scream when the line of your existence is laying bare because there is simply nothing else left for you to do! You will be there alone in the darkness of mere being forever!”
“SILENCE!!!” It shouts spawning a blade that made a deep cut me in the shoulder before I teleported out of the crater.
I made used another spell to make the earth around his legs wrap around them as I took something out of my saddlebags. He was about to teleport away, but I threw a ring like thing at him that wrapped around his neck, and his magic canceled out.
“W-WhAt?!” He exclaimed.
“Anti-magic collar.” I said, “If you were able to see through my eyes, then you’d remember these back in that alternate universe. I asked for Screwball to make me one of these just in case. I even have a wing bounder on me just in case if you were able to fly.”
“HoW dId YoU kNoW yOu’D nEeD tHeM?”
“I didn’t, but it’s amazing what extra time you have when you lose so sleep. I thought of many different ideas and ways to beat you with many different types of beings you could of been. Plus I’ve been preparing for this encounter by learning some new spells as you may have noticed. Now I’m going to try another new on out.”
After I said this I raised my horn to the shy as a small ball of fire appeared from it, that slowly grew bigger and bigger until it was the size of an elephant. I looked at the voice, who looked like he was ready to piss himself, yet you would too if you were in his situation.
I smile and say, “You’re fired.” (I apologize for that horrible pun.) as I throw the fireball right on the trapped unicorn, who let out a loud, high pitched scream as he burned alive.
As the flames died down there was just a still standing black corpse. I stare for a few seconds before it just suddenly exploded into a bright flash of blinding light. I cover my eyes, but I see visions of ponies and other beings slowly return to the world, and fading back into existence.
After the light fades I notice how much magic I used. I’m not surprised, but I had enough to teleport back to the Empire.
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I reappear in front of Shining Armor.
“Seth?” The Prince asks.
“The Voice *breath* is *breath* dead.” I make out before I fall to ground.
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Now the rest is a bit of a blur from a mix of being knocked out of a while and some pain meds I was put on when my shoulder wound was being worked on, but I remember getting off the train to see Spike, the Cutie Mark Crusaders, and the pets at the station.
Scootaloo walked up to me looking at my bandages. “Whoa Seth, what happened at the Crystal Empire?”
“Oh just saving the mutiverse from an evil version of myself that escaped from my brain about six months ago.” I said with a straight face.
The Crusaders and Spike all got faces to show that they didn’t know how to respond to that.
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A couple of hours later I was outside relaxing my leg a bit when a brown earth pony came up to me with a newspaper.
“Seth, have you seen this?!” The Doctor asked.
I read the headline, “Local Pegasus Mare Gone Missing... Uhh... Doctor, two things. One, this paper is from like three months ago, and two.” I pointed my hoof to behind him where a grey, crossed-eyed, pegasus mare with a blond mane was standing.
“Ditzy! Oh thank heaven you’re okay. I was worried that something happened to you.”
“Y-You were worried about me?” Ditzy asked with a blush.
“Of course I was, you’re my assistant after all.”
Ditzy started to get tears in the corners of her eyes.
“Ditzy? Is something wrong?” The time lord asked.
“Doctor!” She exclaimed, jumping on him and giving him a huge hug.
I smile and walk away to leave to two alone with each other.