//------------------------------// // Details are such insignificant things,they spoil all the fun ! // Story: Two of a kind // by OrangeDJ //------------------------------// Following the blinding surge of light , neither Cassius, nor Luna were anywhere in sight, with not even a single strand of hair left behind. Twilight had a sneaking suspicion that princess wasn't as successful in her attack as she thought she was, but dared to say nothing. "Twilight . . . " The fair purplish skinned mare replied slowly with a stutter, for fear she'd be next, she wasn't even referring to her by her regal title anymore ". . .Y-yes Princess Celestia? " " Hmmm, yes, from now on, you will address me as QUEEN Celestia. Is that understood Twilight ? " Celestia had just outwardly told Twilight that she was taking over her duties, and her position. For now though, it was the most wise to go along with her, and try to fix whatever was wrong with her . The creamy skinned mare gazed to the sky and watched as a small piece of the moon crumbled in the sky, but the latter part remained intact. Grumbling under her breath Celestia mumbled "I still have work to do" with red energy rippling off her. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Approximately 2 minutes in the past at the moment of the blast ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Luna awoke groggy and weak, the same way a colt would on a day when he had to go to school. Luna twisted to her side, to try and push herself up to sit up and properly figure out where she was. There was only one problem with that, not only her arm, but her arm AND her leg on her left side were missing! She was disfigured, she couldn't go back out in public like this! "Oh, i see you're finally lucid" a voice rang out from deep within this strange bluish, and rather icy looking place. "Who are you!? Come out so I can see your face!" Per the blue mare woman's request Cassius came out of his icy cavern, with the tray full of bloody bandages and medical supplies he'd swiped throughout his time in equestria. "I know I'm no medic, but i hoped i patched you up ok- ooof!" Cassius didn't get to finish his sentence. He was thrown into the icy wall by Luna before he could finish his sentence . "I don't quite know what you're talking about, but you're going to undo whatever you did to my left torso, and for your own sake it'd better be sooner rather than later ! " Rubbing his head and using his own powers to pick up the supplies and carry them, the young man stands up, with a familiar small blue fairy looking woman jumping out of his forehead. " You dense damn woman! Do you see where you are? " Luna took a second to calm down and view her surroundings. " I'm in an icy cavern, and majorly disfigured!" Luna, now pointing directly at Cassius yelled "What did you do to me?! why am i missing two limbs!" The glowing fairy like woman laughed and grew to a height of about 5'3 "Him!?" she laughed "Unless he's found a way to impregnate females by staring at them like a housemaid then you're fine ." She paused to point at Luna's missing limbs. " As for those, once you clear your head, you'll remember who took them from you " ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Meanwhile in the grassy field with our Protagonist ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Is . . . she, STROKING HERSELF!? " The young mare on the grass wasn't in pain but was in fact, in heat of some sort, and had been enjoying herself in the middle of nowhere. Just as I was about to get the hell outta dodge I hear her call out to me " A- ANARCHY! I NEED YOU! " " What? Anarchy? that's not my name, why are you calling me that? " She was silent, lost in her own little world over there, but managed to pull one hand away long enough to make a finger motion for me to come to her. "If I try to run, I'm probably gonna get caught anyway. If I go to her I'm signing my own death certificate" "Ooooh, anarchy don't make me wait . . ." "Hey! Why don't you come over here?! " That was about as far as my wits went , I could really die out here, so whatever trick this obviously was, I wasn't exactly gonna rush into it. The fiery haired mare sat up, like some kind of possessed rag-doll, and a new voice, more masculine and raspy came out of her. "Oh, you're not going to come to me hmmmm ? not even going to take advantage of this lovely young mare ? You've peaked my interest yet again boy, come and find me . . ." A large pinkish purple plume of smoke rose out of her mouth, and traveled right past our hero, revealing a that he was in a forest the whole time, the girl became a wilted gigantic venus flytrap, and the plume of smoke continued flying behind him, and he began pursuing it. " Strange names, possessed mares in heat, and illusions GREEAAAAT ! " The voice rang out from the purple plume that somehow always managed to stay at the exact same distance, whether i slowed down, stopped , or picked up speed. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Back in Twilight's neck of the woods ( Ponyville : Fluttershy's home ) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ " And that's why we have to pour all of our energy into figuring out how to change Celestia BACK " "Twilight, dear, are you sure you didnt hit your head and imagine all that? That's a bit much for someone like Celestia" Said Rarity "Besides" Interjected spike " Even if she's changed, we're talking about what is basically treason here, if we fail we'll be labeled traitors, and she may not be as merciful as she was with Luna." "Spike , she was already suspicious of Luna, and I know she's suspicious of me, she's just going to keep going down the list of people close to her until eventually, it meets your names . Something is changing her, I've seen it, whenever her personality becomes darker there's this red glow that comes off of her. " Fluttershy asked softly "W-Well what about the elements of Harmony? Can't we use those to help her? " " She has those on lockdown, even I cant get to them," Twilight replied downtrodden " and to ask her would be to risk exposure right then and there." Rainbow Dash interjected in defiantly, and without a second thought lifted herself up into the air on her wings while she talked. " No elements of Harmony, No real freedom, if the normal methods wont work like talking or using magic to change her back directly, then what are we supposed to do, I'm not about to lie down and wait for the end to come!" Instead of twilight, Pinkie Pie answered her cheerily " Well, since those two boys seem to be the common denominator in all this why don't we just ask them? After all, every time Celestia began acting strange it was because she was around one of them!" "No pinkie that wouldn- WAIT THAT'S WHAT I WAS GOING TO SAY! But how could you have possibly known that?" The Purplish skinned mare asked, only to be replied to by the pink skinned mare. "Simple, Plot convergence, once all the pieces are set it all begins to come together!" The other 5 of the mane 6 understood none of what she said, so she simplified it " Since whenever the boys show up, trouble starts, they probably are the cause and the solution!" "Ummm, Twilight?" Dash asked "Could you simplify that for me, and then tell me why , and how exactly we're gonna find those two anyway?" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Meanwhile in the deep Icy Caverns ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Okay," Luna said, having finally been brought back to her senses, and her memory restored. "So, even if you saved me, if you were a second faster , my left torso would still have limbs!" The 5'3 fairy woman giggled "Well it's not exactly like you're stuck like that " Luna's eyes shot directly at the woman. "So you DO know how to restore my form" Cal rubbed his arm nervously, let me tell you about how I got here, its important." Cal then explained to her what life was like as a medical intern, studying to be a doctor. How he found the show MLP, thanks to his roommate. "After a few days of watching it, i started to hear a voice, I thought i was crazy, but what was crazier was when it started telling me to do things like jump over buildings, or try to move things with my mind. One day i was so fed up, so tired of wondering if "hey maybe i can do it, that i tried, i tried moving a car and you know what happened? Nothing, not a darn thing." Luna was confused "Then how can you . . ?" "Simple, once Cal stopped rejecting me, then i could give him the knowledge and the power he wanted, it took him a while to actually start trying and stop testing my words out to see if they were true, and i told him that's what it would take." "Okay . . ." Luna interjected. "But this has nothing to do with my problem-" "Ahem!" Cal groaned, annoyed at being interrupted by both women. "As she said, along with that power came knowledge, knowledge of what I could do, and the consequences of doing them, how does this pertain to you you ask, well that's simple. "I can give you an intangible construct made out of my energy, that will replace your missing arm and leg as if they were the ones you were born with, however, since it is my energy, and still connected to me there is a cost." The fairy woman began laughing hysterically "C'mon Cassius, fess up, it's only a cost for her loverboy!" She barely could finish the sentence in her mouth before she was rolling in the air with laughter again. "Tell me what!? What's going on " "Its . . .uh, well Luna, y'see, ummm, what exactly are the terms of marriage here?" The young Mare blushed and cocked her head a bit "Wait, you can't possibly mean . . ." " Well, in order for me to transfer my energy to you, you have to accept me, into your own being, and i have to do the same for you, that means memories, emotions, thoughts, all of them would be shared between us, all the time., but it's the only way i could make my energy yours, i could also teach you tricks, like how to morph you arm and leg, but its up to you , Luna." Unfortunately for him, Luna didnt seem too enthused about the idea in fact her exact words were "NO! Why would I subject myself to being extorted into marriage, and give you ll my memories, and thoughts, even if you saw and heard some of them, why would I give you my current ones ! How dare you presume id be okay with this i don't even kno-" Luna never got to finish that sentence, because on her forehead, a slender glowing blue finger was placed on her forehead, silencing her, and causing her to shut her eyes, likewise on cassius' head the woman's finger was placed, and his eyes as well, were closed. Simultaneously their eyes opened, with a strange white gloss over them, and once it was over, both of their irises glowed with a brilliant blue light. Cassius turned angrilly toward the fairy woman, who had just invaded both their privacy, but all he managed to get out of his mouth was a Y- consonant before he was being embraced by Luna's one arm , and she was thanking the woman with tears in her eyes. "Thank you! both of you! thank you so much!" "I didn't want you to find out how I really felt about you that way, but at the very least you know now . . ." Luna then turned and blushed a bit " I- I meant about, saving me, and trying to warn me, I owe you . . .a lot , but I need time to think about this, and well, you know, us being bonded forever , but at least now I know I can trust you." Cal didn't even need to guess, their minds were melded, while he was in love with her, she didn't love him back, Luna wasn't sure about anything, all she knew was that she was forcibly attached to someone who she considered a trustworthy friend. "You can, you can call me by the short version of my real name, call me Cal ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Back in the Forest with our mane protagonist (bad overused pun ahoy) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I finally stopped, after about 5 minutes of chasing this thing my legs gave out from tiredness, a lifestyle of pizza, chicken Parmesan subs, and mountain dew was to thank for that, i was way too out of shape. As if to taunt me, the plume of smoke floated at the same distance from me as when i first started chasing it. " You know what?! Fine! Forget this I'll find you myself " I said as i did a heal face turn and walked in the opposite direction of the smoke. "What are you doing? Don't you want to find me?" The pinkish purple plume beckoned to me " Leaving, and you obviously aren't going to be any help finding you, so I have no choice but to look around myself." Immediately the plume of smoke vanish, leaving behind a cackle and the words "well done, you have matured while you've been away, come and find me." a path lit up, with complementary neon signs that read "This way Anarchy" At the end of the path was a lake, in the middle of this lake was a small peice of dry land, and on that land stood Discord, the one I'd been trying to find all this time . "You know, when I first met you, i found you to be, all together unimpressive, naive, smelly, and a little bit ugly . " I grumbled listening to him lord over me "Now though, I've seen that you aren't all that naive" I wanted to retaliate at that, but i needed his help so I wasn't going to bother. " I was surprised that such a small creature could hold so much raw potential for power and chaos, and then I remembered, 500 years ago." "Hold on," I interjected "Whats this got to do with me Discord" "You address your father by his first name? You don't seem to have learned manners in your time in that world" My eyes widened and a strong burst of rage crawled up in me that I couldn't suppress. "DON'T YOU DARE EVER SAY THAT TO ME, I ALREADY HAVE A FATHER, THERE IS NO WAY YOU'RE MY FATHER!" Discord laughed, rolling around on his mini island on the lake " Who do you think your abilities came from!? why do think you're here, and speaking of family, you and your brother have been fighting a bit to much don't you think?" Every time I felt my own rage surge through me i felt like i was suffocating, like I was an angry bulldog on a leash, trying desperately to break his chains, but whenever I tried they would only tighten. "That's right , Anarchy, son of Discord, brother to Calamity. But we can h"ave the reunion later son, first, I'm going to remove the leash from the pup, and see just how badly he'll tear up the furniture . A red glow overtook me all I could see was red, and for me, that meant I was losing conciousness. The last words I could hear were "Have fun son, I'll pay you a visit after you play with your friends a bit ." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rainbow Dash's perspective ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Why did I have to get picked to look for this guy?, he could barely fly a few hours ago and now he's suddenly super important ?" I'd been flying for what felt like forever, just flying and scanning for anything that looked like the kind of big announcement of "hey, i screwed up again! come help me!" Whenever something happened involving this guy, it was pretty big, and pretty loud.too. Scanning the horizon i saw the tip of a large round red surface, but couldn't quite tell what it was. getting closer evealed a large pulsating red dome, with every pulse it enveloped more of the gigantic forest, until finally it was domed completly by the energy. Every pulse pushed me farther and farther back, even at top speed, until finally, the energy condensed, sucking me towards it, I had been only 200 yards away and was now 50. The final effect for me, was kind of like a rock flying from a sling shot and launched into another one that was still being pulled back, and when it was released, I went flying out of control, a less experienced mare would have broken their neck and crashed, Somehow i managed not to break my neck being cocked back by the force, but i was going to crash into the ground, hard. Then the was the issue of being caught up in this explosion of energy.