//------------------------------// // Chapter 9: To The Crystal Empire // Story: The Hunt for the Crystal Staff // by DarkFang116 //------------------------------// Dr. Torture was all that Weird Weather could think about. 'The only Draconiquus anypony knows is Discord, but maybe Dr. Torture was so evil that Princess Celestia had to keep it a secret, trying to stop him. Maybe that's why Celestia wanted to reform Discord so he can stop Dr. Torture,' Weird Weather thought, 'besides, he called me Dark Fang and claims to have given me amnesia. Why is he so deadly, no evil villain ever killed, only stolen the things that they wanted or go straight to ruling Equestria, he just kills and kills and kills and tortures ponies all day long. Maybe he is the one who caused that rainstorm, maybe he is the one that made me an orphan, or maybe ... he IS my father. HA HA HA HA, what am I thinking, he is an evil Draconiquus and i'm just a pony, how could that be?' 'Well maybe I want what you will soon want, a staff that holds great powers.' said Dr. Torture. 'Yeah or mayb- HOW ARE YOU IN MY THOUGHTS?' asked Weird Weather. 'I can enter any dream, nightmare, thought, and body alike, ha ha ha ha. Besides, aren't we already at the station?' Dr. Torture had distracted Weird Weather and left his mind and thoughts. Weird Weather had gotten out of his thought trance when Rainbow Dash had punched him. "OWWWWWWW, why would you DO that?" asked Weird Weather. "Well I was trying to break you out of your trance, thank you very much." responded Rainbow Dash. "Well thank you, but next time yell in my ears ok." thanked Weird Weather. "We did, we did everything EXCEPT brute force so I punched you in the face and it worked." answered Rainbow Dash. Weird Weather looked around the cart and had met worried faces, even from some strangers. Weird Weather had been so deep in thought that he forgot that he was on a train. There was something strange though, they had to use brute force to get him out of his thoughts, that was weird even for weird Weather, no wonder they were so worried. "I'm sorry for making you guys worried, it's that sometimes I get so deep in thought that I get in a thought trance. It was just a stupid thought anyway." apologized Weird Weather. "Yeah, a stupid thought that was making you stay in a trance for 17 hours my flank now what was the thought, was it about your childhood or something?" asked Rainbow Dash. "No, it was ... *sighs* when I was knocked out on the surprisingly comfy floor, I had a dream about beating the Slenderman and it turned into a weird nightmare after I beat him, he vanished and a new creature came out, he called himself Dr. Torture. He was a Draconiquus, like Discord, but had different animal parts, he even wore a monocle. Uh, that British fiend. He even came into my thoughts, it was so weird. He said that he wants what we will soon want." after he explained his dream and what happened in his thoughts everypony was scared, especially the foals that were there. "Why didn't you tell us about the dream sooner, now we have a new enemy that wants to rule all of Equestria." scolded Twilight. "Well he doesn't wanna rule it per say, he said he has killed millions upon millions of ponies and he loves to also Torture oth-" Weird Weather had forgotten that there were foals on the train and they were scared after he said the word 'kill'. Now everypony was panicking, the torture of it all and a certain Draconiquus was watching the show, laughing it up, feasting on the torture that ensued. "Oh how I love the taste of random torture, it has a cotton candy taste to it, and it's only 8:00 in the morning ha ha ha." said Dr. Torture. Well everypony ran out of the train except the mane 6 and Scootaloo who were scolding Weird Weather for freaking out everypony on the train. Weird Weather spotted Dr. Torture for the last time before the Draconiquus teleported out of there, laughing. Then Twilight was tackled in a hug and was nugied on the head by her own brother Shining Armor. "Well well well, look who we have here, wassup sis." said Shining Armor. "Well we have more than one news now, but one of them concerns Sombra so we gotta talk in private." explained Twilight. "Well the sky is up, the clouds, some birds, some pegasi, some griffins, maybe insects, and the universe, that is what"s up." listed Weird Weather in a serious yet sarcastic tone. "Well I haven't seen you in a while Weird Weather, how are you?" asked Shining Armor. "Uh well I told Twilight this already so here goes ... I have been an orphan all my life and I still am, even when I first met you guys. *whispers* and I also have taken a fancy to your sister ever since we met so don't tell her ok." explained Weird Weather. Shining was surprised by this, both that he was an orphan and that somepony finally taken a fancy to his little sister. 'Finally' he thought, knowing that she might find love like he did, and he even knew him. "Ok then, lets go to the castle and talk there." said Shining Armor. ------AT THE CASTLE------ "How did we not get sued for that cloud that I accidentally made, it zapped that nag like a hundred times. It was hilarious though." wondered a beaten up Weird Weather, who was followed by a group of angered ponies. "You're lucky that we came in to save your sorry flank, you would have been banned to the mountains." grumbled Shining Armor. "Well I did say before-hand that weather can change with my mood even without me knowing so you knew it and didn't take heed of it, that was your fault. You just witnessed why my name is Weird Weather. So when do I get to tell you of my special past?" said Weird Weather annoyingly. "Well now you can talk about your past if you waited on telling it when you got to the castle." answered Cadence, Shining Armor's wife, who was an alicorn. "Ok then," and then Weird Weather started his tale of his past. He had finished his explanation with,"and that's how Equestria was born." That last sentence earned a couple of 'WHAT' from almost everypony except Pinkie Pie, who high hoofed Weird Weather for an awesome joke that was so clever and never used before (you can't prove anything). "I'm just joking on that last part, but everything else is true and now he wants what we will soon want." admitted Weird Weather. Just then, a loud 'ROAR' was heard from outside, and a couple of screams. Outside a huge beast was terrorizing the Crystal ponies, he was carrying two fillies on his back, one yellow skinned and red maned with a huge red bow and one white skinned and light purple maned. "Oh no, Applebloom and Sweetie Belle!" exclaimed Scootaloo.