//------------------------------// // Chapter 2: The welcoming committee. // Story: My name's Axel, and these are my friends // by Mr Darkstone //------------------------------// Twilight's P.O.V , present day And here I thought that today was going to be a good day too, I had planned to have me and Celestia to get catch up on things, practice some new spells, and have a nice dinner with the princess and my friends. However, one second after Celestia had promised that nothing would interrupt our day; as if she jinxed us, a strange tall human with long spikey red hair in some kind of coat had popped out of no where and introduce himself as Axel. Finally breaking her speechless moment, Celestia walked up to Axel while passing a still aggressive Applejack." Axel, how are you here, the sleep spell Luna and I put on all of you should have lasted for another 8,962 years!" Celestia said, the look on her face looked of caution and confusion. "Truth be told Celli I'm just as confused as you are, but hay, you don't see me complaining. Besides, we have unfinished business." He said well closing the gap between them. "If you're referring to what happened that night, I'm sorry that we had to use that sleeping spell; however we only did it to stop you and your 'friends' from destroying what was left of the castle and from hurting any more of my ponies!" "Ok A: I don't care how big your throne room is, use your inside voice Celli, and B: we only did that because we were angry when you told us that you can't help us get back, so we figured, we will find a way back with or without your help." At the tone of his voice, I had had the feeling that he's going to attack so just in case I have a knock back spell prepared in case of a fight, from the looks of my friends they were thinking the same thing, even Pinkie looked like she was ready for a fight, and that's saying something. By this point both Axel and Celestia are only a foot away from each other, both glaring daggers at the other. "Now you may think of us as some cliché group of villains hiding in a cave planning something evil that involves taking over the world but you know what, I don't care, I don't care if all of you hate us, I don't care if we start a war, and I don't care if we have to kill each and every last one of you in this room if it means we can go home. As long as me, my friends, and my little brother and sister find a way home; then I don't care about anything else." He said in the most coldest tone of voice I have ever heard in my life. I began to question everything about Axel, who is he, how did he get here, who are his friends, does he really not care if he takes a life? But above all questions I had, one of them outshine them all... "Just how much do you care for your friends and both your brother and sister?" Surprisingly, he stopped glaring at Celestia and looked to where I was. "Sorry, didn't catch that, can you repeat that?" "I said just how much do you care for your friends and both your brother and sister, you clearly pointed out that you don't care about anything or anyone else besides those who I have just mentioned. So I ask again, how much do you care for them?" In response to my question, he looked away from me and looked down to his open left hand. "More then you can imagine." Despite how vague the answer was, I could hear the sadness and regret in his voice, he clearly regrets something involving his friends and younger sibling's but the question is what. Before I could press further, he made a fist and just walked passed Celestia. "Look I don't have time for this, I'll just get what I need and leave." Just then, Celestia teleported right in front of him. "If you think that I will just let you waltz away right after threating the lives of all the ponies in this room then you are sadly mistaken. I will not allow a threat like you just walk away like that without having to face the consequences of your actions. GUARDS!" All the guards that were in this room and even more made a line behind Axel. "Take him to the dungeon till his trial and-" Celestia didn't finish due to Axel continuing to walk to wherever he was going; that is until a certain cyan hoof from a certain cyan and rainbow mane Pegasus collided with what I assume is his gut. "Oh no you don't! The only place you're going is the du-" Rainbow Dash was interrupted from the now laughing Axel. He stopped laughing after 30 seconds and just looked back at her with a smile on his face. "Oh madam, didn't your mother ever tell you that if you play with fire..." Just then, he spreads out his arms and then both of his arms spontaneously catch on fire for a few seconds and when it stopped, two uniquely shaped objects showed up in each of his hands, this seams to have scared Rainbow to the point of paralyzation since she was the only one who didn't try to move out of the way."...you're going to get burned!" He then raised one the thing's of which I assume is a weapon and looked like he was about to hit the still paralyzed Rainbow Dash. However, before he could hit her, I used the knock back spell on him, knocking him back a few feet and giving me enough time to get Dash out of harms way. By now the guards had took the advantage on Axel by dog piling on him. "Rainbow are you ok, he didn't hurt you did he?" Rainbow Dash still looked a bit shaken up but was till able to answer."...Yah I'm fine Twilight, he's lucky that the guards got to him first before I could-" She was interrupted by the sound of shaking coming from the pile of guards. "GET. OFF. ME!" Axel yelled as he somehow punched off all of the guards across the room, knocking them all out. What scares me the most about that is that my spell should have kept him knocked out for five hours, Just how powerful is he? Just then Celestia was now between the six of us and Axel, she then turned her head to look at me. "Twilight, I'll keep Axel distracted while you and the rest of the elements go get the elements of harm-" She stopped talking when one of Axel's weapon's had hit her on the head, we ran as fast as we could to see if she as okay, fortunately she was alright just knocked out cold. We all gave him the most hateful look we could give him, who in turn just had a sheepish smile. "What, did you think I would let her talk to all of you while her guard is down? Sorry to disappoint but this is real life, not a kids show." "Actually its neither, but whatever helps you sleep at night." Pinkie said to Axel, who in turn just looked confused for a second but then ignore it. I looked at the rest of my friends and I noticed that Flutershy was walking up to him, as she's giving him the stare. "... How dare you... HOW DARE YOU!" She was now directly in his face. "What makes you think that you can just beat up anypony and get away with it you big bully! What would your mother think if she knew that you were hurting innocent ponies and hurting our lovely princess like that!" She kept going on for five minutes about stuff like how he should be ashamed of himself or that this is a bad influence on his younger brother and sister. But the weird thing is, for the entire five minutes he was taping his foot and bobbing his head, that is until Flutershy was speaking even louder. "Now I want you to apologize THIS INSTANT YOUNG MA-" She was cut off when a fist had collided to her face, knocking her out as well. "Shut. up." Axel said in annoyance. Once again I was speechless, he had resisted the stare! Nopony has ever resisted the stare, not even Flutterbat! This makes me question even more about him now, how in the world did he resist it!? Axel's P.O.V , 5 minute's ago "... How dare you... HOW DARE YOU!" The yellowish Pegasus with pink hair was now in my face and giving me a lecture. However I know how to deal with this, in the past I've learned that the best way to deal with this is to ignore them and play one of my favorite song's in my head... ...Ok by this point she was starting to drown out Queen, so I did the only logical thing and punch her in the face; after all, nobody messes with Queen. "Shut. up." Twilight's P.O.V , present day One vs. five, and somehow I know that those weren't great odds... for us; so far Axel has taken down Fluttershy AND Celestia, if he can take the princess down like that then how do we stand a chance! And where the hay is Luna!? I then turned to Applejack, Pinkie, and Rainbow dash to form a plan. "Girls! Right now we just have to hold out until Celestia wakes up, that means that we need to go together if we want to have a chance to beat him! Applejack, use your lasso so that Rainbow Dash can get a hit on him! Pinkie I need you to tackle him in case he brakes the lasso, and Rarity...where's Rarity!? " " Oh, she's giving me tips on fashion over here." Axel stopped talking for a second, I turned around to see him holding up a half conscious Rarity by the tail. " You know, maybe you should spend less time stating you plan out in the open in case I hear you and focus more time on the guy you're fighting because he might sneak up on one of your teammates." "Black...coat's...are so... last fall..." " I'll have you know my girlfriend made this for me!" Axel yield out before he throw Rarity right at us, me, Applejack, and Rainbow managed to get out of the way in time; unfortunately, Pinkie wasn't so lucky when a half conscious Rarity had slammed into her at full force. "Ok then, four down, three to go, so, who's next?" His answer was answered when a lasso got wrapped around his arm. He looked to were the other end of the lasso was to see Applejack trying to pull back but to no avail, Axel took this advantage and pulled as hard as he can. This resulted in Applejack becoming airborne, flying face first into Axel's fist. Now it was only me and Dash, who looked like she was about to explode with rage. " Rainbow, I know you're mad but we need to..." I didn't finish speaking because she flew as fast as she could to attack him. Luckily, she managed to get more then a few hits and every time Axel tried to hit back she would always fly away or dodge fast enough. She then flew high enough so that he can't reach her. "Ha, what are you going to do now!" In response, Axel throw one of his weapons at her, only for her do dodge it. "HA! You missed me!" However, Axel for some reason smiled at this, I then looked to were his weapon was, only to see it loop around like a boomerang and was aiming at an unsuspecting Rainbow Dash. "RAINBOW LOOK OUT!" It was too late; the weapon had done its job and hit her straight in the back, forcing her to fall down hard on the ground. It was only me now, he had defeated all of my friends in the span of seven minutes, and now I'm next. Axel, for his part, looked disappointed. " My god that was way too easy, seriously, that should have lasted ALOT more then just a few minutes, talk about a disappointing fight sequence. Oh well... its just you and me now." He then started to walk towards me, I had to do something, teleport, shoot lighting, play dead, something! But I was too scared to do anything, all I could do was just stare at him... hoping he wouldn't kill me. Just when I thought that this was my end; another swarm of darkness showed up like from earlier and then another human in the same coat Axel was wearing came out, however, he was wearing his hood so I couldn't see his face. "Axel, we got what we need, lets get going." The hooded man said to Axel, who in turn looked back at me. "Looks like its your lucky day... more or less, well I can't wait for us to meet again." With that he walked to the dark portal, I wanted to stop them but I was still too scared. The hooded man went throw the portal first and before Axel joined him, he looked back at me, with that smile of his." TTFN, Ta ta for now." He then went into the portal, in which it disappeared when Axel went inside. I Then started to cry tears that I didn't know I was holding back, how could such a wonderful day had ended in disaster, my friends are hurt, my princess/teacher has been defeated, and now Equestria might be danger. As I was crying, Princess Luna had teleported right in front of me, and there was some toilet paper stuck under her back left hoof. "Forgive us for are tardiness, we were in the facilities after eating a breakfast burri-" She stopped talking when she looked around the entire room of unconscious ponies. She then turned to where I was, and then brought a hoof to her face. "Ok... what did I miss this time..."