“I really hate the night shift.” A prison guard grumbled as he neared the cell the mayor’s son was locked in. “This place is just creepy.” Then he noticed a bright light in the nearby cell. Running to the cell he looked inside just in time to see a few sparks of fire dissipate. The guard drew his gun and opened the door. “Who’s there?”
“Hello.” A dark voice said. The guard spun to the sound of the voice to see a figure standing in the shadows.
“Show yourself.” The guard pointed his gun at the shadow.
“Fine, let’s get some first impressions on my new look.” The figure then moved out of the darkness slowly. The guard’s confidence wavered even further as he saw the person.
The guard could barely recognize him as the mayor’s son. He had gained at least a foot in height, his torso, arms, and legs were all covered in armor resembling the armor worn by Nicol Bolas, to fit the comparison more, the parts of the body not covered in that armor were protected by olive chain-mail. In the center of his chest there was some kind of jewel. The guard spotted the light gleam off one of the clawed gauntlets he wore, two draconic wings spread from his back near the shoulders. The last details were two glowing green eyes.
“So, what do you think?” He smiled, showing his pointed teeth. The guard simply stared at him, fear encasing him as he heard the boy’s voice. It sounded different. There was clear hint of malice in it. “I’ll take silent awe.”
“Freeze.” The guard finally worked up the nerve to say. The prisoner laughed menacingly before swiftly charging at him. The guard shot at his attacker twice, both shots bouncing off the armor before his head was cut off.
“That was fun.” I looked at my right hand, the claws glistening with the guard’s blood. His head rolled merrily along the stone floor.
“Wasn’t that a bit drastic?” Luna asked me as she walked out of the shadows.
“No.”
“I think it came from over there!” I heard the sound of several people running towards my cell.
“Oh joy!” I smiled walking towards the door. “More.” As I stepped out of the cell I saw several guards run up with their weapons drawn. “Hello.” I waved a clawed hand.
“Stand down freak!” One of them shouted. I swear they must be obligated to say the same phrases all the time.
“Make me!” I then opened my mouth and shot a column of fire at the pack of guards.
“Run!” I heard one order. Most were unable to react fast enough and became piles of ash. The five that did survive all looked at me before running.
“Oh, leaving already?” I spread my wings and shot forward, stopping in front of them I cracked my knuckles. “The party is just getting started.”
“Done.” I clapped my hands together.
“Well that was…Gruesome.” Luna said, looking at the flesh pile that used to be guards.
“Eh, I needed to relieve some stress.” I picked up a bit of a dead guards shirt and began to clean my hands of the blood. “Now then, how do we escape?” I looked at her expectantly.
“How would I know?”
“You’re the one who is always running around the dream world. Shouldn’t you be an expert by now?”
“I told you, this isn’t a dream. This is some sort of magical trance.”
“So, you have no idea?” I sighed.
“Well, I have one idea.”
“What is it?”
“I’m guessing that this illusion only generated the town, so if we leave the town you’ll likely wake up.”
“Well that’s going to be a problem, the town is protected by an electric barrier, and the gates are heavily guarded.”
“Hmm.” Luna looked at the ground thinking. “Wait, the barrier has to have a power source right?”
“Right, but we don’t know where it is.”
“That shouldn’t be too hard to find out.”
“Now you’re talking.” I smiled. “Let’s go find a hostage.”
“This is not going well!” Luna shouted as we ran down a hallway.
“Thanks! What would I do without you Princess Evident?!” I shouted back.
“There they are! Fire!” A guard shouted as the pack chasing us rounded the corner.
“I’m getting tired of you guys!” I spun around and shot a fireball. I glared as it bounced off a shield one of them carried. They had been using that thing to stop all my magic based attacks. “I hate that thing!”
“There’s a door.” I heard Luna say. Looking ahead I saw the door she was talking about, it was made out of metal, which should stop their projectiles. Luna reached it first and quickly opened it with her magic. “Hurry!” I nodded and sped up, quickly running past her into the room Luna slammed it shut. “We made it.”
“It won’t take long for them to break it down though.”
“Sean, behind you.” Then I heard the click of what I had come to recognize as one of those, guns they were apparently called.
“Don’t move you psycho.” His order may have held more weight if there wasn’t a slight quiver of fear to it. “Hand’s on your head and turn to face me.”
“Eh, I’ve got a bit of time to kill. I’ll play along.” I raised my hands onto my head and faced him. I was able to see the room now, it seemed to be a break room. There were tables, a refrigerator, and coffee maker to my right, and a door to the left. When I saw the guard I was overjoyed to see it was a familiar face. “Oh, hello again.” It was that guard from my first day who had taken my food.
“No talking.” His voice quivered more.
“But I have to fulfill a promise.” I smiled cruelly.
“What promise?”
“That I would kill you.” Just then a few gun projectiles flew past me. I turned to face the door to see Luna looking at the holes in surprise.
“Um Sean, could you hurry it up?” She looked back.
“One minute Luna.” She sighed and used magic to create a barrier in front of the door.
Not to sound like Bob but may I offer a suggestion?
What is it?
We need information, why don’t we use him to get it?
But I want to kill him.
That’s the fun! You interrogate him, the whole time scaring him, then you kill him.
I like the way you think
I then looked back at the guard. Before he could react I slammed into him, sending him crashing into the wall behind us. I then smashed the claws of my wings into the wall, and spread the rest of my wings to create a sort of prison with them. The sound of his weapon hitting the floor was heard.
“Now then, I would like some answers.”
“You’re not getting anything out of me.” The guard said weakly.
“Oh, I don’t need you to speak for me to get the information.” I put a claw to his throat. “I can always rummage through your memories. But it isn’t pretty when I’m done.”
“Oh Bolas, please don’t.”
“Then tell me what I want.” I heard the sound of more projectiles flying through the door and bouncing off Luna’s magic barrier.
“Sean, hurry up!” Luna shouted. I growled behind my wings.
“Well, I’m in a bit of a hurry now.” I used a claw to make a small cut near his jugular. “So, answers, now.”
“Ok! What do you need?” The guard seemed to be on the verge of tears.
Luna grunted with effort as more of the strange projectiles hit her shield. It was becoming difficult to keep it up. She looked back to Sean. He still had his wings wrapped around him while he did who knows what to the guard.
“Thank you for your cooperation.” She heard him say.
“Wait! What are you doing? I told you everything you wanted! You said you’d let me go!” She heard the guard shout, obvious fear in his voice.
“I made no such guarantee. The only thing I promised was your death.”
“What? No please!” Then there was the sound of cutting and gurgling. Looking back again Luna watched as Sean retracted his wings, the guard’s body falling to the ground, with blood spilling out of his throat. She flinched when she saw he was still weakling breathing and looking at them.
“Now that that’s done.” Sean smiled as he walked to her. “I have what we need.”
“Great!” Luna nodded. For some reason the attacks from the other side of the door had stopped.
“Fire the drainer!” She heard a voice say. Then there was one shot, after a second something flew through her barrier and hit her in the shoulder.
“Luna!” Sean grabbed her and dragged her to the left of the door. He then inspected her shoulder, he growling as he saw it was
bleeding. “Are you ok?”
“Of course I’m not!” She shouted. “I just got shot.”
“I am aware. Can you walk?”
“Probably.” Luna stood up. She flinched as a pain went through her shoulder. “Well sort of.”
“Well that’s annoying.” He growled again.
“One minute, I have a healing spell.” Luna then attempted to use her magic to heal the wound. To her surprise no matter what she tried she couldn’t use her magic. “What’s going on?”
“Ugh, so their stupid weapon does work on ponies.”
“What weapon?” Before Sean could answer something slammed into the door.
“Again!” There was another slam.
“I’ll explain in a bit.” Sean then quickly ran to the dead guard and tore off part of his shirt. Coming back he quickly wrapped it around her bleeding shoulder. “Ok, that’s going to have to do. Follow me.” Sean then turned and headed towards the door on the other side of the room.
“Right.” Luna began to follow him. She was moving slower due to the wound. Sean looked back to her annoyed.
“Bolas! We don’t have time for this.” Sean ran up and grabbed her. He then threw her over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes
“Hey!”
“Deal with it. Let’s go!” He then quickly moved towards the door, kicking it open. He ran down the hallway it opened up to. Just as they entered the hall the sound of the metal door getting knocked down was heard.
“Where’d they go?” She heard one guard ask.
I followed the hallway, I had gotten useful information from the guard. He had told me where the generator was located, as well as the way to the roof.
“Where are we going?” Luna asked me. She didn’t sound too pleased, that may come from how I was carrying her.
“Can you still fly?”
“Probably.”
“You’d better hope you can.” I told her as I reached the stair case that supposedly lead to the roof. Following the stairs I eventually reached a door, kicking it open the roof opened up to me. There were two guards with longer guns. When the door opened they turned to see me. They weren’t much of a problem after I melted their faces. I then put Luna down.
“Ok, so why do I need to fly?” Luna asked.
“Because if you don’t you’re going to be street pizza.” I stood at the edge of the roof.
“Seriously?” Luna looked at me surprised, she walked next to me and looking down.
“It’s either jump and fly or get shot to death.” I thought for a minute. “Wait, why do you care about death? Aren’t you basically an imaginary Luna? If you die wouldn’t you just wake up?”
“Unfortunately no. If I get injured or killed here it effects my real body.”
“Oh, well then you’d better hope those wings work.” Just then the door slammed open. “Jump!” I said as I leapt off the roof, Luna quickly did the same. Then we both spread our wings and began to fly over the prison. A few gun shots began to fly near us.
“Agh!” Luna dodged a few. “Sean!”
“I got it.” I stopped flying and turned. “Finally I can kill you idiots.” I then opened my mouth and shot a fireball. Not at the group but the ground they were on. I smiled as they raised the little shield, unfortunately for them it destroyed the roof they were on and it crumbled down. Hopefully killing them. “Yes!”
I then turned around again and sped to catch up with Luna.
“So, where’s this generator?” Luna asked as we hid on a roof. We had decided it was a good idea to hide for a minute to discuss our strategy.
“
Well, apparently it’s in the mayor’s garden, hidden underneath some sort of fountain.”
“Ok, so where’s the mayor’s house?”
“It’s a near the south edge of town.” I pointed to its general location. “If we can get there unseen we should be able to shut it down with no trouble.”
“Excellent. Let’s go.” Luna nodded as she stood up. I noticed her flinch as she put weight on her injured shoulder.
“There it is.” I said pointing to the large house. “The mayor’s house. We need to find a button, when pressed it will offer us access to the generator.”
“Right.” Luna nodded “Let’s go.”
We both silently flew off the roof of the building and landed in the backyard of the mansion.
“Ok, that guard told me the button is under a fake rock. Get looking.” Luna nodded before turning and lifting a nearby rock. I went over and lifted another, there was no button. Several rocks later I growled and threw the one I had just picked up. “You find it Luna?” I looked behind me as the alicorn lifted another rock.
“No.” She shook her head as she put the rock down.
“Well that’s just great. We’ve looked under ever rock here.” I sat on the ground glaring at the fountain. “Guess, I’m not getting out of here.” Luna sighed and sat next to me.
“My sister isn’t going to be happy.”
“Who’s there?” A voice said behind us. Looking back I saw the mayor holding a long gun, which he had pointed at us. “Whoever you are, you have three seconds to get off my property before I shoot your head off.”
“Wait, father it’s me.” I stepped forward a little bit into the moonlight, suppressing a groan as I called him that.
“Sean?” The mayor lowered the gun. “How’d you get out?”
“Just a bit of dragon power.” I grudgingly smiled.
“So this is your father?” Luna asked as she walked forward to stand next to me.
“Yes.” I said reluctantly.
“What’s that thing?” The mayor asked, pointing his gun at Luna. “Is it the reason you’ve been acting so strangely.”
“Wait.” I put one of my wings in front of Luna. “She’s a friend of mine.”
“When would you have made friends with something like that?” He kept the gun pointed at Luna’s location.
“Put the gun down you nut.” I glared at him. “I don’t care if you’re my father, you hurt her I will never forgive you.” I was playing off this father persona of his. The two of us had a stare down for a while before he lowered the gun.
“Very well.” He put the gun on the ground. I nodded as I moved my wing. Luna looking a bit confused.
“Well, that was interesting.” She nodded. “Ok, we need to get back to finding that button.”
“Why are you looking for that?” The mayor asked me.
“We’re trying to find the generator so Sean can get home.” Luna told him.
“But he is home, this has always been his home.”
“No it hasn’t.” I glared at him. “This is all fake, none of your little memories are real. The real you died centuries ago.”
“I won’t let you take him.” The mayor grabbed his gun and fired at Luna. I was able to get in front of her, the shot bouncing off my armor.
“You’re going to wish you hadn’t done that.” I said grimly before speeding towards him. I smashed him through a wall, as he fell to the ground I punched him in the face. “Alright, I’m done playing Mr. Nice Dragon!” I grabbed his throat and hit him again. “Where is the button to release the generator?”
“Why Sean?” Was all he said, it was hard to hear since I was slightly strangling him.
“Sean, I found it!” I heard Luna say. I looked behind me to see her holding up a rock with a button on the bottom.
“Good work.” I nodded before looking back to the mayor. “You’re useless.” I grabbed him by the throat and threw him against another wall.
“Let me go!” I looked outside to see Luna being choked by the sheriff, he had a gun pressed to her head. He was being flanked by at least a dozen other police officers.
“Alright freak.” The sheriff yelled. “Come out slowly and without the armor. Or else you’re little friend will be used to paint the fountain.”
Ha! Like we’ll give in to their demands. Wait, what are you doing? The new voice asked in surprise as I grabbed the charm.
Trust me, I have a plan. I pulled the charm out of the armor. I was then enveloped by another fireball.
The sheriff smiled as he saw a flash of light from inside the house. Then the psycho that was the mayor’s son stepped into the moonlight, he looked normal now. The armor was replaced with his strange original outfit. He noticed there was something in his hand.
“Alright.” The boy said. “You’ve got me. Now let her go.”
“Not yet.” The sheriff smiled. “First drop whatever that thing in your hand is.” The murderer hesitated for a minute. The sheriff pressed the gun harder to the head of whatever this thing was. “Now.” The psycho growled before throwing the object to the sheriff. It landed in front of him, looking at it he realized it was some kind of charm.
“Will you let her go now?”
“No, put your hands on your head and slowly come here. No sudden moves.”
“Fine.” The son slowly put his hands to his head and walked towards the group of police. Once he got a few feet away the sheriff looked to one of his officers. “Cuff him.” Then the criminal spoke.
“Luna, swing your right leg three inches to the left and back. Hard.” He said.
“No talking to. Agh!” The sheriff cried out in pain as the creature kicked him in the crotch. He fell to the ground in pain. He knew he should have worn his cup. He ended up dropping his hostage, it then quickly ran and hid behind the convict who grabbed it and put it over his shoulder. “Shoot them you fools.” He said weakly.
“Now, let’s have some fun.” The psycho smiled before he began to grow. After a second the form of Nicol Bolas stood above them. All the police officers stood in awe as their god loomed over them.
“Shoot him!” The sheriff ordered, having finally recovered.
“But sir, it’s Nicol Bolas.” One of his officers said.
“No it’s not. It’s that lunatic taking the form of him!” The sheriff pulled out his gun. “Fine, I’ll take him down myself.” Before he could fire his gun a massive tail crushed him.