//------------------------------// // Chapter 1: The Siege // Story: Antasma's Reincarnation // by Shadowmane PX-41 //------------------------------// Antasma was noticing something surreal about his new world, The fact that ponies were able to create civilization was completely beyond him, But it all seemed like it was going to be worth conquering in the end. "Vis is certainly a lot different than i excepted it would be." He said noticing the ponies also had their own currencies, Businesses, And even some weird talents no one in the marioverse had ever seen before. "Regardless of it all, I'm still gonna conquer vis pitiful land and use it as a base of operations!" He said materializing a ring of spheres around him. (If you've played mario and luigi dream team, You know what he's just pulled out.) The 1st thing he'd need to do is cause a ruckus, That way everypony would notice him as a threat, After all, What fun is there in being evil without any challenge? He pulled out an enormous rainbow coloured ball of lightning and shot it at Town Hall, The resulting impact caused a deafening explosion that everypony would noticed right off the bat, As they ran over to the smoking wreckage of their former citadel, Antasma was ready to shoot another ball at his new captive audience of equines. "Perfect, Everyone's horrified at my appearance, Now ve fun can begin!" He said pulling out a sword (Compliments of Sombra by the way) and started to slash the ponies with his new fully dark-power-integrated sword of fear. This caused the ponies to start running in fear, Fear which Antasma fed on to give himself a power upgrade, He was now warping in front of the Ponyville ponies, Putting them to sleep, To which he could open up a dream portal into the sleeping ponies' minds and project their true fears endlessly. At a local library, A purple alicorn known as Twilight Sparkle was waiting, Waiting for a new shipment of books to arrive from the Crystal Empire, When suddenly a thunderous knocking came from the door. "Wow, They must really like me." She said thinking the books had arrived a few days earlier than usual, It wasn't her books but a pink haired earth pony instead. "TWILIGHT!!!! Scaryblackmonstervampireputtingponiestosleepsohecandraintheirlifeforcehe'scomingformeandtheothers PLEASE HELP!!!!!" Said the pink pony in a fast high pitched scared insanely fast tone of voice. "Pinkie Pie, Calm down! You know what that new Hyper-Sugar-Rush-Supreme you made last week can do to you." Twilight said to the pink pony, "OK one more time, But this time a little bit slower." But before Pinkie could say anything, Antasma put her to sleep and hopped into her dream portal. "What the hay?" Twilight said leaping into the portal. When she landed on solid ground again, She was in Ponyville once more, Although it looked a little more 2D than usual. "Where am I?" Was the first question she said, The second was, "And why is everything made out of sweets?" Had she brought Spike along, He wouldn't leave this new Ponyville, EVER, But luckily for her, Spike was away on royal Canterlot business. Suddenly she saw a large humanoid creature with 2 extraordinarily slender arms and no legs, with a cape that covered almost all of his body, His head was bald and pointy and his neckpiece was laden with black spikes all over it, He was of course Antasma, But Twilight didn't know this yet. "So vis little pink fluffball loves her candy? Vat's all i need to hear!" Antasma said Powering up his dark magic once more, Once cast, It turned into a sugar massacre, With frosting all over the place, And the candy Ponyville reduced to ruins. To this notion, Pinkie Pie screamed at the truly horrifying sight, Her vision of Ponyville was crumbling and molding around her own eyes. "YESSSS! It feels good to be back! EAT IT MARIO!!!!!" Antasma said relishing in his newfound powers as Pinkie's dream suddenly turned into a nightmare. "Okay, I have no clue as to what's going on, But i know what must be done!" Said Twilight now shooting magic at Antasma, Which in turn drew all of his attention to the purple mare. "Who in the vorld are you, Shooting at royalty?!" Antasma asked the purple alicorn with dark magic in hand. "Royalty? You don't look very princely or kingly to me, And my name is Twilight Sparkle." She said to the enraged bat king. "Tvilight eh? Vorks for me, NOW DIE!!!" He said shooting black spheres of lightning at her, All of which sent her flying. "Ok you're strong i'll give you that, But my name is not Tvilight, it's TWI-light, What are you? Transylvaneighan?" She asked after recovering from the impact. "Vatever you prefer, My little slave, But nonveless you are MINE!" He said charging at Twilight with claws outstretched and ready to scratch her. When he got close to her, Twilight teleported to a candy cane lamppost and shot more dark magic at him, This enraged Antasma, Causing him to turn into hundreds upon thousands of little vampire bats with his same face, All of which darted at and around Twilight causing her to fall into a sugar cart below, When she got up the combat began again, With dark and alicorn magic being flung from the pony and the flying vampire, This went on for a good 30 minutes, Until Twilight shot Antasma with a new meteor spell which she had practiced, Causing him to crash into the ground and explode in a veil of eerie purple-pinkish mist. "Meh, I've been through vorse, Vere are still hundreds of other ponies to enslave in vis backvater town you call home, And like a vampire, I shall bid you farevell!" He said as the fog departed the dream world through the exact same portal Twilight had entered. "Oh no, He's not getting away from me!" She said charging back into real-world Ponyville through the portal, But by the time she got back, Ponyville had took a massive turn for the worse. Houses lay in ruins, Ponies were now Antasma's mindless zombies, And Town Hall had been turned into a massive spiky castle that flew in the sky (It's Antasma's favorite castle style after all.) "Who.... In Equestria..... IS THIS GUY?!?!?!" She said noticing the new flying castle the moment she got out of the dream world. In the throne room, Antasma was being served on hoof and hoof with food drinks and special treatments, "Look at vat little vinged unicorn, Vinking she can stop me, How pavetic, Now ve overthrow ve princess!" He said in his transylvanian accent shooting dark fireballs at Canterlot Castle causing it to fall from the mountains, And crash land next to Ponyville. "No, Princess! WHAT HAS HE DONE TO OR IS GOING TO DO TO YOU?!" Twilight said grimacing at the wrecked castle.