Insanity War

by InsaneBatPony

Battle of the Elements

The General was making preparations to attack Canterlot directly in order to get the last drops of the well water that Insanity required. She inspected her small army of about one thousand. There were five hundred ground units, two hundred flyers and three hundred were of the versatile variety, meaning they could switch between flying units and ground units.

“This should be enough to get what master needs. The siege will begin at first light tomorrow.”

The General led the forces through the volcanic lands and then through the forest and camped the night in the forest to begin the siege in the morning.
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“All of you listen up the five of you will meet the General head on while the rest of the forces keep her grunts occupied.”

The five Elements looked at each other with concerned faces and worried looks in their eyes.

“How are we supposed to fight the general without backup?” Rarity asked.

“Don’t worry Rarity we can knock her for a loop, easy.” Rainbow Dash interjected.

“If this general Mania is Twilight than we can’t hurt her.” Fluttershy commented.

“I believe the General is twilight. Fluttershy is correct, you five need to capture and restrain her. However that will not be easy as she will put up a fight. You will need to lure her into a place where her magic will be useless to her. I have a room farther inside the castle where the old prison is. The cells were designed to neutralize any magic even mine and Luna’s. That is where you will need to get her to.”

“Alrighty Princess we’ll do our best!” Applejack said with confidence.

It was time for Celestia to lower the Sun so the Moon may rise. The five Elements, Spike and the Princesses went their separate ways to finish the preparations for the battle they knew would be in only a little while.

The sun rose the next morning both sides not getting much sleep as they knew this battle would determine the rest of their lives.

The General aroused her troops and began marching once again towards the castle in Canterlot.

The Resistance forces all stood outside the castle awaiting their opponent’s arrival. They waited for only a couple of hours until the first of Insanity’s forces were visible.
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“It is time. Attack once they are in sight and show no mercy to them, demonstrate the power of our master Insanity!” cried the general to her troops as they charged toward the Castle in a blur.

“Here they come!” yelled Applejack to Rainbow Dash.

Rainbow Dash flew up to the top of the castle where her Air Corps was waiting. She gestured with a hoof and within seconds the Air Corps in its entirety flew out of their dispatch hanger. That was the signal for Fluttershy to release her own units of large animals into the fray. She let them charge at the enemy forces in number. The five Elements gathered together and waited for the General to show up so they could have their inevitable show down.
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They two armies clashed in a daze the only thing visible was a mass of gray, black and different colored ponies smashed together in a blob. Claws flew at the ponies scraping on their armor and breaking bones while the ponies kicked and bucked at the creatures breaking their limbs and faces.

In the middle of it all was the General shooting off magic bolts that would hit their mark nearly every time. The bodies of both ponies and monsters were beginning to pile up and cause the battlefield to become congested and slippery with blood.

The general climbed over the bodies and made her way toward the castle taking any down who stood in her way. She continued to make her way to the castle bringing down ten ponies on her short trek. She made it to the doors to the castle itself. She blasted them open with a resounding bang, walked inside and standing there to confront her were the Five.
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“Oh. You again. I want that water you took from the Castle of the Royal pony Sisters!” the General yelled.

“Ok, General we’re here to take you on personally, and if you want that water stuff than you will have ta go through us first!” Applejack proclaimed to the General.

“Hm. Five against one? Now that’s hardly fair seeing as I will destroy you all quickly!”

“Oh, no you won’t!” Rainbow yelled charging at the General.

“Did you learn your lesson last time?” the general said side stepping in what appeared to be a repeat of the last time.

This time however Rainbow learned her lesson and as the general side stepped she changed course quickly to correct her position and struck the General in the face with her front right hoof.

“You hit me.” An angry look came to the general’s eyes as she let a magic bolt fly at Rainbow. Rainbow dodged the bolt only by a few inches.

The general then charged at the four still standing in place. Pinkie hopped in the air and threw small flash bombs made out of some party supplies she had left. They went off blinding the general for only a few seconds. Applejack took advantage of the few seconds she had and bucked the general right in the leg causing her to collapse to the ground in pain. Rainbow rebounded and was now flying straight for the general’s face. The general saw this coming and flipped to her back and kicked upward catching Rainbow just as she flew over hitting her in the stomach. The general came back up on her feet and summoned magic swords and sent them flying at the others. Fluttershy ducked letting the sword fly over her head. Applejack ran behind a pillar and let it stab through the pillar causing it to get stuck. Applejack was caught by the sword in the shoulder; luckily she managed to move so that it was only a light scratch. Pinkie again jumped up and came back down trapping the sword under her hooves. Rarity used what little magic she knew to slow down the sword so she could get out of the way. The general was now furious.

“Why can’t I hit them?” she asked herself losing her composure. “I will destroy you all!” she screamed releasing a large amount of magical energy. The beam of energy blasted past them clipping Fluttershy in the wing causing some trauma. She screamed in pain as the energy burned into her skin. She was crying and wincing in pain.

“Fluttershy!” Rainbow screamed.

The others looked at Fluttershy in disbelief. The General was trying her best to end all of their lives! The four charged the general all at once trying to overwhelm her. The General was ready and put up a magic shield to which they all thrown backwards a few feet.

“Rainbow! Sonic Rainboom her!” Applejack yelled over to Rainbow Dash.

Rainbow Dash saluted in acknowledgment and summoned up a sonic rainboom. As she flew the sound wave it unleashed was amplified due to the close quarters in the castle. The pillars began to shake and crack due to the intense vibrations of the rainboom. Pieces of the ceiling began to crack and pebbles fell from those cracks. Luckily for them the structure was strong enough to hold under the intensity of the sound wave. The others plugged their ears to avoid damage. The General reeled back in pain as her ear drums were nearly shattered by the force of the sonic rainboom. She screamed in pain and seeing their chance they sprung on her. They were able to bind her legs as her ears bled and could not hear for a short time. They quickly dragged her to the old prison.

“NO!” the General roared and broke loose of her bindings. She stood up on her back legs and smashed down on Rarity.

“Aaaahhh!” Rarity screamed as a scorching pain filled her body. The general managed to break some vertebrae but not enough to paralyze her. Rarity collapsed to the ground squirming.

The General was slowly backing up. She knew she was outnumbered and possibly outgunned.

“I…I… I AM THE GENERAL MANIA! I will not be beaten by the likes of you!” She charged one last time.

Applejack, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie charged as well. They collided with a great thud. Applejack had broken a leg in the collision, Pinkie Pie had broken her nose and Rainbow Dash had broken a wing but the general lost something much more important.

“My… My HORN!” The General wailed as she cried from the pain. “You broke it!”

“Surrender General! You can’t use magic no more.” Applejack said panting under the pain of her broken leg.

“No…No I can’t surrender and I won’t!” The general stammered up from the ground, her horn laying on the ground and her head bleeding from its previous location.
She again tried to attack them but Rainbow came in and stood up on her back to legs and fell forward while reeling thrusting her hoof at the Generals face. It hit her square in the face, the General stumbled backwards her head now facing away from them. The General’s helmet flew off as the General collapsed on the ground in a heap.

“I think that did it.” Rainbow Dash said panting.

Lying before them was the General, her face finally revealed and lying on the ground was none other than Twilight Sparkle former protégé of the Princess.

“Look! It’s Twilight!” proclaimed Pinkie Pie.

The others looked on in amazement. The Princess was right. The General was indeed Twilight.

“I just can’t believe it. The Princess was right after all.” Applejack said. “We need to get her into the cell before she wakes up. Even though she is our lost friend she is still under Insanity’s control.”

The ones who were able to walk dragged Twilight to the cell that the Princess had indicated earlier. The same patched up the others the best that they could.

“Tell the Princess we have her. And please bring us some of the medics, would ya sugercube?”

“You can count on me.” Pinkie Said as she left to inform the Princess.

The others breathed a sigh of relief for the first time since Insanity’s release.
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As their battle transpired another was watching the entire fray.

“Good. Just what master wanted, the General defeated and captured. Now for my mission.”

Thanatos dissolved into his form of shadows and mist and made his way through the castle looking for the water that Insanity required. He traveled for what seemed to be a few hours. He stumbled upon a room located deep inside the Castle and it was guarded by at least a dozen or more guards.
“This must be the right place.” Thanatos thought to himself.
He solidified one his hands and tapped on the wall farther down the corridor from which he came. The guards all looked in that direction. The commander issued orders for two of them to go check out what had happened. The two of them made their way down the corridor.

“SMASH!” The guards collapsed in a heap where Thanatos had smashed their heads in with his hands. The other guards took quick notice of the sound and half of the remaining made their way to where the noise originated.

“BOOM!” Thanatos hit them with his transformed hand. He morphed it into a wicked sword and in one nasty swipe and had broken their necks or severed a few of their heads with it. The commander was now only left with two other guards. They decided that it was their turn to try to fight whatever was causing this to occur. They made their way down the corridor but

Thanitos had other plans for the remaining guards and their captain.

He did not materialize but used his shadow form to scare the two other guards and steal their sanity for his master. He literally reached into their minds and took their sanity and all of their knowledge from them. The two guards instantly started darting back and forth and began acting like children and hitting their heads on things. Their commander was now terrified.

“Where are you?!” He yelled into the corridor.

“I’m everywhere and no-where.” said a ghostly voice behind him.

The guard commander stumbled backwards and fell on his haunches looking in every direction his neck would allow. He was sweating and breathing shallowly.

“Show yourself!”
“Very well, you asked for it.” Thanatos materialized in front of the guard. “Hello, my name is Thanatos, meaning death.”

With that he killed the guard commander mercilessly. The commander slumped to the ground in a pool of blood and brains.

“That’s the last of them.”

Thanatos made his way into the room using his mist form and before him stood a pedestal with the well water he was sent to retrieve.
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The General awoke inside of the cell her horn missing and she helpless.

“I can’t go back to master now and I can’t use magic anymore. I failed.” She said while slumping her head to her chest.
My army was defeated and now I’m stuck in a prison cell in the enemy capitol.”

Then a voice came on the wind.

“Poor General. You were in master’s highest esteem and now look at you. Haha.”

“Who’s there?!”

“Only me.” Thanatos materialized again and stood inside the cell with the General.

“Thanatos! Why are you here?”

“I was sent by master to clean up your mess. And I was to make sure that you did not return to master’s side.”

The General’s face went pale; she couldn’t believe her ears, or what she could hear out of them.

“What? Master didn’t want me back?”

“That’s right he said another was to take your place after this battle and he wanted me to make sure you were not to interfere. Good bye General. Have a nice life. HAHAHA!”

Thanatos disappeared and left the general in her cell. She was now a broken pony with nowhere to go. Thanatos had delivered a death blow to her by telling her she was no longer welcome at Insanity’s palace. She could only lie in her cell and wallow in herself pity.
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Thanatos returned to Insanity’s palace and delivered his report.

“My mission was successful sire.” He handed over the red water to Insanity.

“Finally the last piece of my existence finally returned to me. What of the other part of the mission?”

“Also successful. I delivered your message to the General as she sat in a magic cancelling cell, and you’ll find this next part quite amusing.”

“Oh and what would that be?”

“In the midst of her battle she lost her horn!”

At that statement Insanity smiled and laughed in pure amusement and happiness.

“How fitting, she would lose her horn in her final battle! It’s to perfect! She was useless to me after her failure at the Castle of the Royal Pony sisters and now she sits helpless and unable to use magic! How perfect! You have done well Thanatos, you are dismissed, you have my appreciation and gratitude.”

“Thank you Sire, it was an honor to serve you.” Thanatos bowed and left his master.

“Finally, my power will be at its maximum. It is time to seize the Princess as Mania’s replacement.” He then drank the last amount of the well water. He grew another foot in height and he roared as though he were now a dragon himself. His robe changed into a black skin and changed his scales to a glossy black. Smoke erupted from his mouth a sign of a constant readiness to spew fire onto any who would oppose him. His face became more elongated and looked like that of a wolf. He still stood on two legs, his fingers became nothing but sharpened claws and a new aura surrounded him.

“I am complete. My power is at its maximum but it is not yet time to reveal my new form and my true power to the world of Equestria. I must remain until I grow accustom to my new body. As I had to when I took over Draco Alterian’s body and mind.”

He walked over to the window and called for the great Lava Dragon. The dragon came flying over to the window that the new Insanity stood.

“What is it, Insanity?” His voice making the ground and castle shake.

“It is time for me to hold up my end of our bargain and I have an order for you so that you may fulfill your end.”

“Very Well! What must I do?”

“Go to the Castle at Canterlot. Take the goddess of the sun and bring her to me. Those are your orders.”

“I will be able to fight a dragon?”

“Yes, they have a dragon that serves their army. Do with him as you please. The princess is my only concern right now.”

“Agreed then! I will fly out on your order.”

“Go as soon as you feel fit to do so. Roar when you leave so I may make the proper preparations for your return.”

“Fine.”

The Lava Dragon flew back to the top of his mountain to await his proper time to leave for Canterlot. Insanity walked to his throne and sat down once again, this time planning his strategy for when it would be his time to reveal himself to the world and to take the rest of Equestria.
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The General waited in her cell until the princess arrived to see her.

“Hello Twilight Sparkle. It has been a while.” Celestia said to her former student.

“I don’t go by that name anymore. My name is Mania!” She ailed at the Princess tears streaming down her eyes as she knew this would be the end of her life. “Why don’t you just kill me and get it over with. I know you want to!”

“It would not solve anything if you died Mania. However, I need your persona to die.”

“My persona? What are you talking about?”

“It is time for you to resume your life as my student Twilight Sparkle.”

“What? I can’t use magic anymore. My horn is gone and I would rather rot in here than serve master’s enemy!”

Celestia entered the cell and stood towering above the unicorn.

“YOU have no say in this matter and you will be Twilight Sparkle again!”

Celestia’s horn glowed and she touched the General’s head and the persona of the General Mania died and Twilight Sparkle once again emerged from her mind. When the whole procedure was finished the General lay before Celestia no longer. Instead her former student twilight Sparkle lay in the cell; Celestia teleported her to a bed within the palace so she might recover from the traumatic experience.

“I’m sorry Twilight, I could not erase the memories of your deeds but you will be your old self again, and that is what is important to me my faithful student.”