//------------------------------// // Beginning of the end // Story: inFamous: Bloody Equestria // by Mikoyose //------------------------------// Cole sprinted to the shield and attacked it, the shield held fast. He kept trying to break through along with the other mares to no avail. They watched, helpless, as Shining Armor plunged his fangs into his sister’s neck. Her eyes widened in pain and fear, tears streamed down her cheeks, “BBBFF…” that was the last thing she said as he began turning her. Cole slammed a fist into the barrier. “No!” He felt enraged by this. Mary would pay and he would fix this before returning to New Marais. He scowled at them and prepared his stake for when the captain lowered the shield. Twilight’s eyes began glowing white and he pulled his fangs out, leaving two small holes where his incisors had penetrated. He lowered the shield with a knowing smirk and braced himself, but as soon as he did, Cole acted. The conduit shot forward, ready to bring the stake down and put an end to Shining Armor. He stood there calmly, prepared for something, something Cole would find out the hard way. Twilight’s horn shone brightly before a massive surge of magic spread out, knocking Cole away along with the mares and the unconscious Vamponies. Her brother slid back slightly as a beam of violet magic shot up towards the sky as if announcing that the element of magic had been turned. ---------------------------------Everfree-------------------------------- The attack stopped as a violet light shone in the distance, they all turned towards it; giving Zecora the chance she needed to escape. She hit one of them with her staff, knocking him over, and jumped through the space. This movement caused the attention to return to her, “This situation is dire, out of the frying pan and into the fire.” She spoke and hit a changeling before turning tail and sprinting towards the town of Ponyville. It wasn’t much better there though. Vamponies were turning ponies left and right, from every age, gender and race. They were all running to the town hall but had a large space to gallop. Zecora tried to help some of them reach the town hall, using her staff to knock the Vamponies away when they’re too busy chasing one pony. Her staff slowly gains hairline cracks as she scores hits on the Vamponies. She slowly ran towards the hall, she had helped only two ponies who weren’t already being changed. The three of them reached the hall and were ushered in as unicorns closed the double doors, earth ponies boarded up the lower windows and the door as Pegasi boarded up the upper windows. But not before one of them managed to see the mail mare fly towards the window, her crossed eyes were unmistakable as she missed the window entirely and hit the roof. The Pegasus winced at the loud sound and finished boarding up the window. -------------------------Badlands----------------------- When the magic stopped and the white left her eyes, they were noticeably darker but not red. Cole thought this was strange, he began hearing Mary’s voice as she gloated, “You can’t stop me Cole, you and this world will be mine. I’ll make sure you watch as she turns all of her friends as well.” She laughed and left his head, leaving a headache like always. He shook his head and looked at Twilight, she was looking over herself; her fur had somehow darkened in color from her normal lavender color. She opened her mouth and felt her new fangs before tensing up. Cole knew what was happening, Mary was speaking to her and there was nothing he could do now. He looked at the skyline for Rainbow Dash and only saw a large dark cloud begin to form in the distance before turning to the other mares. They stared at Twilight in horror, though he could see a glint in Rarity’s eyes, she clearly had gotten an idea for something. Cole shadow streaked in front of the mares, his hunger building. Twilight stood as still as a statue, hopefully she was fighting Mary’s control. Shining armor laughed, “Feeling the hunger MacGrath? Maybe I’ll just have you feed off of them.” He smirked, “I can see it clear as day.” “Shut it before I send this,” he hefted his stake, “through your heart.” The royal guard captain laughed, telling Cole that he couldn’t do that. “It wouldn’t be too hard.” Cole scowled. “But if you kill me think of how badly you’ll hurt my dear sister Twilight here.” He nodded to the mare, “I won’t let you hurt her, so I can’t allow you to kill me. Even if you manage to she’ll be the one to take you to Mary.” He smirked, Cole stood his ground, quickly going over his options, kill him or let him live. The conduit scowled at shining and the stallion laughed. “I knew you couldn’t do it.” He mocked, firing a magic blast at Cole; he dove aside and rolled to his feet. Cole gripped his stake harder, his knuckles turning white. He quickly glanced around and saw a massive cloud forming in the distance. “I don’t need to kill you.” He smirked. Shining armor was about to turn before Cole charged him; he put up a shield and mocked Cole for not being fast enough. Cole kept his smirk as Shining armor was informed about the current situation. “The princesses can’t hold on much longer Cole. Just help us and fulfill your maker’s will. You little rainbow friend won’t be making it here with that cloud either.” He smirked, and so did Cole. ---------------------------- Weather factory----------------------------------- Rainbow dash had overloaded the thundercloud machine and broke it, the massive cloud wasn’t going to be stopping anytime soon. She smiled and bucked a Vampony in the jaw; it recoiled from the hit, stunned for a few seconds which was long enough for Rainbow to get in another strong kick. More Vamponies came into the room with her and started surrounding her; she glanced around and saw some of them were trying to stop the cloud from growing anymore. She saw one fly towards her and she flew away, dodging the attack thanks to her quick reflexes and speed. They growled and hissed at her, shadow streaking up to her. She knew what they were doing and flew through a cloud wall to get outside, the Vamponies on her tail the entire time, slowly losing ground on her. She flew up to the edge of the cloud and tore a chunk out to fly it to Cole as the rest continued to grow. Too few Vamponies were present to aid in diminishing its ever growing size. They relayed this to the others to get more help, Shining armor’s eye twitched. “Idiots.” He muttered to himself. Keeping the shield up he looked over at the weather factory, a cloud with a rainbow trail was coming closer. ----------------------------Canterlot----------------------------------- Celestia and Luna stood in the throne room, blasting the Vamponies and changelings. Some were guards; others were just their castle’s maids, cooks, and the citizens of Canterlot. They were having trouble fighting them back though; the Vamponies were trying to discourage the fighting by making them feel guilty for attacking them. “You were supposed to keep us safe! Now you’re attacking us!?” one shouted with a sly grin before being blasted. “Why are you hurting us?” another spoke in a haunting voice before over exaggerating a scream as another blast hit him. The idea had come from Mary, a single Vampony informed her of how much the princesses cared for their citizens. She planned to use this to her advantage as she watched from the back; she could clearly see the pain the accusations caused them. The hesitation before each strike making her smile, their downfall was going to be soon. The only Vampony left in the changeling hive was Shining Armor; Chrysalis said that she could take care of Twilight on her own. Mary loved when plans came together so perfectly. She had sent the newly turned Wonderbolts after Rainbow dash; that would get her to stop at least, give them time to stop that cloud she’s carrying. ----------------------------Changeling hive---------------------------- Cole shot forward for a strike, again, Shining armor put up the shield in the nick of time. He panted, “Getting tired Cole?” the stallion taunted, still full of energy, the repeated use of the shield spell easily accomplished without much magic use. Cole glanced over at Twilight and looked back just in time to see Shining armor’s horn fire a blast. The conduit dove aside, the magic nicking his side. He couldn’t feel that spot anymore. “So you’re trying to paralyze me?” Cole pressed a finger into his side, sending electricity through it, the circulating energy staying with him. “Mary doesn’t want you dead.” He smirked and fired again as Cole noticed the streak of rainbow racing towards them and he returned the smirk. The white unicorn pointed off to the left, Cole glanced that way to see three storm clouds flying towards rainbow. “Give up now and help us, your brethren, Cole.” Cole just laughed. “I’m going to have to take a rain check on that.” He streaked towards Twilight while the stallion was practically doing a monologue, he didn’t expect that. Cole raised the stake, the other ponies gasping in shock as Shining armor streaked forward to stop him. “No!” he shouted as Cole turned and used the last of his power to put a detonation blast onto the armor and kick him away. He landed on his back, the swirling electricity stuck to his chest; he looked at it before Cole ran over and he stood up, bracing himself for whatever would happen. He expected some sort of electrocution and tried to disperse it as quickly as he could. Cole sprinted towards him and kicked him in the jaw, the captain raised onto his hind legs as the blast exploded, sending the pony one way and Cole into the air towards the streaks in hope of getting more power from the lightning streaked cloud trails. Shining armor lay in the dirt yards away from the others in a daze. The purple beam Twilight caused had ceased a several minutes ago though her eyes were still white, now with a light crimson. Rainbow lay on the cloud to rest as she flapped; panting heavily and covered in sweat as she brought the cloud back, her friends now in view; ahead of her to the left she saw three familiar streaks of cloud and blue suited Pegasi. She smiled widely, “The Wonderbolts! Finally ponies that’ll help!” she exclaimed and flew towards them. She noticed right off the bat that something wasn’t right… Spitfire smiled; fangs. Rainbow’s ears fell while her anger at Mary grew, that bloodsucking bitch turned her heroes. She wasn’t going to let this go. They stopped her, Spitfire kept that smile. “Hey Rainbow,” she started, “How would you like to be a Wonderbolt?” The rainbow maned mare’s jaw dropped as she sat on the thundercloud. “Really?” she smiled widely, refraining from giving a loud fan girl squeal. “You only have to destroy that cloud and help us fix your mistake.” She nodded to the massive cloud that was still growing. She looked over her shoulder then back. “Of course joining us means you gotta join us.” She flashed her fangs. Part of Rainbow wanted to, just to be a Wonderbolt. Shame for Mary, the element of loyalty could only be disloyal through chaos. “Sorry but I have to decline, no matter how badly I want to join.” She said, and the three tights wearing Pegasi growled at her. “We’ll make you then.” She shot forward just as Dash’s wings seized up painfully. She needed to rest her wings and was going to try hitting her idol just as the cloud she was sitting on went off. They both froze and looked down at Cole, being hit by a large thunderbolt; eyes closed he absorbed the power and smiled. Swinging an arm a streak of lightning hit Spitfire and pulled the conduit towards her, the lightning tether forced her wings to stay still as he brought up the stake. “Don’t do it Cole!” Rainbow exclaimed and Cole tethered to another Pegasus and stood on Soarin’s back, shocking Fleet foot. “Why?” he kept the stake on Soarin’s back, a strong push and the Pegasus would be gone. “We have to save them not kill them. End the bloodsucker and they’ll be normal again.” She looked down at the falling ponies. “They’ll be fine; being a vampire has its perks.” He answered as his added weight slowly lowered the remaining Wonderbolt, the clothed pony trying to keep them up, nervous about the stake at his back. He absorbed another bolt of lightning. “Now then let’s get back down there.” He shocked the Pegasus and hovered back down, Rainbow right behind him with the cloud. Shining armor stood back up and glared at the descending conduit. “Now we’re evenly matched.”