“Celly, I’m home!” I slammed open the throne room doors. Celestia and Luna jumped as I walked in. They were sitting in their thrones. I noticed that Luna had a bandage on her shoulder.
“There you are Sean.” Celestia nodded to me. “What took you so long?”
“What? No hello?” I looked at her hurt, putting one of my clawed hands to my chest. “I’ve been gone for so long.”
“Sean! I don’t have time for your jokes.” Celestia gave me an uncharacteristically aggressive glare.
“Well then.” I crossed my arm. “What’s your problem?”
“Are you seriously asking me that!?” Celestia shouted, I noticed her nostrils were flaring a bit.
“Sister calm down.” Luna said trying to calm her. Celestia glared at her for a moment, then she slowed her breathing and closed her eyes. When she opened them again she looked normal.
“I apologize.” Celestia looked at me. Still looking serious.
“Fine, if we’re being all serious.” I shrugged. “I was busy saving your little ponies. I’ve liberated all those conquered cities.”
“That explains why you look like you bathed in a can of red paint.” Luna looked at me with a bit of disgust.
“Really?” I looked myself over. She was right, there was at least some red all over my armor. “Eww. One sec.” I removed Nick from my chest and changed back to my usual self. “There we go.”
“Great, now that we’ve cleared that up.” Celestia nodded. “We need to figure out our next move.”
“I assume Luna told you all about the griffin’s violation of my memories?” I asked her as I put the charm in my pocket.
“Yes, we have put the town under a lock down.” Celestia nodded. “All secret entrances and weak points are being guarded.”
“What about that little train I saw? It was chugging right along and came straight into town.” I asked.
“That train is carrying fleeing ponies. We are attempting to get as many citizens as possible into the safety of Canterlot.”
“What about changelings infiltrating, or griffins attacking, what stops them?”
“The trains are under full guard watch.” Celestia explained. “And when they enter the city the ponies are looked over to ensure they are not changelings.”
“Sounds like you have it all figured out.” I nodded. “I personally say we should completely regroup, call back all guards outside of the city. Then we’ll be able to truly prepare.”
“But many of those guards are there to protect the ponies in the still safe towns.” Luna said.
“Right, cause those ones in Manehattan did a great job.” I rolled my eyes. “You just told me most ponies from the surviving towns are being evacuated to Canterlot, leaving our military spread out is a poor strategy.”
“I have to agree.” Celestia nodded. “While I don’t like the idea of leaving ponies to fend for themselves I feel that it’s what we must do if we wish to win this war.”
“But.” Luna looked at Celestia worried.
“Good call.” I smiled. “Once we get everybody here I’ll explain the rest of my plan.”
“Alright. I’ll send out the message.” Celestia stood up and walked towards the door. “Twilight and her friends should be here soon.”
“Excellent.” I nodded before I heard the rest of her sentence. “Wait, what!” I looked at her in shock. “This is no place for mortals like them.”
“They’ve proven themselves in combat.” Celestia looked at me. “Besides, we may need the power of the elements.”
“They’re still citizens, they lack any sufficient training.” I shook my head. “They’ll be griffin food before they can get the first friendship speech off.”
“I don’t like it either Sean.” Celestia said. “But we need all the power we can, and that includes the elements.”
“I can’t believe this.” Twilight said as she looked out the train’s window. “How did the griffins manage this?”
“From what I heard Sean had something to do with it.” Rainbow Dash said. “He told them secrets or something.”
“That can’t be right.” Twilight turned to look at her friend. “He hates griffins, why would he help them?”
“Maybe he finally snapped.” Rainbow circled her ear with her hoof. “He never was too right in the head.”
“Rainbow Dash stop it.” Applejack glared at her friend. “You’re only upsetting her more.”
“I’m just saying.” Rainbow shrugged. “He’s a fun guy but I never got the feeling he was all there. After all, you saw the one from the other world. Completely crazy.”
“But he’s not that one.” Twilight shook her head. “Our Sean is different.”
“If you say so.” Rainbow leaned back in her seat.
“Stupid Celestia.” I growled as I walked to the train station, walking past several refugee ponies as they wandered the city. Some jumping at the slightest noise. “Those six aren’t ready for real combat.”
For once we agree. She’s putting too much faith in the elements.
Hey, all three of us agree.
That’s rare.
I had managed to find a string, Nick had a small loop where I was able to put it, effectively turning him into a necklace.
If we want to prevent theirs or any more deaths we will have to go all out and kill the griffins quickly.
Preferably with a lot of blood.
Ugh.
I finally reached the train station. The one the elements were riding was meant to be arriving any minute. I walked up towards a small rise where several guards were waiting, preparing to check all of the fleeing ponies.
“Hello sir.” One of them nodded to me. “Might I ask what you’re doing here?”
“Just waiting for the element bearers to arrive. I can also help with inspecting the refugees.”
“Your help is always appreciated sir.” The guard nodded, quickly looking ahead as the train arrived. “Alright, let’s go.” Then all of the armored ponies walked to the train and waited for the door to open. I followed them. After a few seconds the door opened and ponies began to walk out in a single file line. The guards would look them over, scanning them with magic before nodding and letting them through.
They are surprisingly efficient.
Yeah, for squishy mortals.
So now you have superiority complex. Great.
It’s not a complex if it’s true.
Ugh. I can’t stand you. Can we just destroy the charm?
As if, without me we’d have died at the Manehattan prison.
That’s true.
Ha! Outvoted!
Whatever.
“Good afternoon Ms. Sparkle.” I heard a guard say, snapping out of my little conversation I looked towards the train to see Twilight and her friends exiting it, they were scanned and then let to pass.
“Hey guys.” I hopped down from the rise. “Glad you could make it.”
“Hi Sean.” Twilight smiled. “The Princess asked us to come and meet her at the palace.
“Yep.” I nodded. “I came to make sure you got here safely.” I then noticed one of the refugee ponies, a black male unicorn, he looked a bit off. Mainly due to the fact he was a bit hunched over, not in the scared way but in the sneaky way. “One sec.” I walked towards him and kicked him in the face, he went flying and smashed into the train leaving a dent.
“Sean!” I heard Twilight shout, running up. “Why would you do that?”
“For giggles.” I then went over and grabbed him by the horn. “Changelings are always fun to hit.” I drained his magic and he slowly was enveloped by a flame until he entered his ugly true form. “Arrest this one and question it.” I threw the bug to a guard, I turned back to the elements. “Right, let’s go.”
“So I caught the changeling.” I was telling Celetia about the event only a few minutes ago. “The concerning thing is the fact it so easily got past the guards. This means they’ve found some way to mask the spell, I’m also guessing this means their preparing for their final assault.”
“This is not good.” Celestia shook her head. “As much as it pains me, we are going to have to cancel the rescues.”
“Those poor ponies.” Luna looked at the ground.
“It’s the right choice.” I nodded. “I’m sure the citizens that are left can hide or something.”
“I suppose.” Celestia looked back to me. “Bring Twilight and the others in.”
“Right.” I had told them to wait outside the throne room while I talked to the princesses. Walking to the large doors I opened them. “Come on in.” The ponies nodded and entered, walking towards Luna and Celestia, bowing and then looking at them expectantly. “Well, I’m going to go help the guards scan the last train of refugees.”
“Wait, the last train?” Twilight looked at me. “So all of the surviving ponies have already managed to get here?”
“Nope, what’s left are being abandoned.” I shrugged. “It’s ok, we saved plenty.”
“But they’ll die.” Twilight looked to me then the princesses. “How can you just abandon them?”
“I don’t like it any more than you do Twilight.” Celestia looked at her sadly. “But that one changeling is a sign the changelings are able to get in. We need to protect the ponies that are in Canterlot.”
Boring.
Yep. We already went over this. I decided to just leave, turning I went out the open door.
“You’re good.” I nodded. The last train had arrived a few minutes after I had reached the station. So far all the ponies that came in were clean of changeling magic, the way I tested was to drain a small amount of magic from every single new pony. I know what the cheese leg’s magic feels like so it worked fine.
“That’s the last of them sir.” A guard walked out of the train. “I shall go tell the conductor to halt train activity.”
“Good.”
Great, now we can go do something else.
Yeah! But what? The town is littered with ponies, I doubt anything interesting can be done.
We should go back to the palace and report to Celestia.
We can do that anytime. But for all we know she’s still being boring with the elements.
Fair enough.
I’m clearly not going to get anywhere with you two. So, how about a compromise.
What kind of compromise?
Spill it Mr. Dull
Idiots. Alright, we can go have fun for an hour but then we go to report.
That works.
Fine.
“Great, the bakery is closed!” I glared at the white sign, that despicable word written across it.
Your hour is up.
You suck.
Get moving.
Ugh, fine. I turned and headed for the palace. I grumbled as I walked through the street.
“Prepare the charge.” I heard a voice say. Following the sound brought me right against the town’s outer wall. “Blow it!”
“Oh Bolas!” Before I could run the wall exploded.
“Fire!” A voice shouted as I opened my eyes, it was dark. Pushing forward I lifted a large chunk of rubble off myself.
Guess who got inside!
Sitting up I was able to look around. Canterlot was in chaos. There were several fires in the town, a massive hole was taken out of the defensive wall. I watched as a few ponies ran past me screaming, they were soon followed by two griffins holding spears.
We need to get to the palace!
What about all these other ponies?
Screw them! Survival of the fittest.
Not how I would word it, the logic is to help Celestia and the others, if they fall Equestria is done.
Fair enough. I lifted the rest of the rubble off myself. Ready Nick? I looked at the charm as the pupil appeared.
Oh yeah The pupil shrank. Killing time! Then the now familiar fireball enveloped me.
“Look out!” Luna shouted as she dodged another spear.
“Where are we going?” Twilight asked the princesses as they round a corner.
“The armory.” Celestia said not looking back. “We need to prepare ourselves.” Then there was an explosion in front of them.
“Not so fast!” A griffin climbed out of the new hole to stand in front of them. “Where do you think you’re going?” Eight more griffins soon followed him into the hallway.
“I’d recommend you move.” Celestia said, looking at the griffins calmly.
“Not happening.” The griffin lifted his spear. “The king has marked you two as priority kills.”
“Shall we sister?” Luna asked looking at Celestia.
“Of course.” Celestia’s horn glowed.
“Attack!” The griffin shouted before they charged at the ponies.
“Behind you freak!” I shouted to a griffin before pouncing onto him and snapping his neck.
I have a nice little trick.
What is it?
Find some griffins.
Sure. I nodded, running down the street I quickly came across four of them beating a Pegasus.
Now picture their decapitations and swing your arm like you’re throwing something.
“Hey griffins!” I shouted, the four stopped beating the pony to look at me. Concentrating I took my left arm and swung it to my right, then four black blades flew out and sliced through their necks. “Whoa!”
That was great!
Since when can you do that?
Since me!
I don’t know what I expected. Ok, let’s keep going.
“Done.” Celestia nodded as the last dead griffin fell to the floor. It was not a pretty sight, the sisters had been surprisingly aggressive. What remained of the griffins were mostly singed, chopped, and mangled bodies. “Let’s continue.” Twilight and the others stood for a moment in shock as Celestia and Luna walked over the bodies and back down the hall.
“Are you ponies planning to follow?” Luna asked looking back to them. The others regained themselves and ran after the princesses.
“Well looks like they got here.” I said stepping over a guard with a bolt sticking out of his head.
Let’s hope the others are ok.
Reaching the large palace doors I saw that one of them was completely smashed down, just like at the human colony.
At least come up with new methods of breaking in.
Don’t fix what isn’t broken.
Stepping over the rubble I entered the palace. The hallway was littered with bodies, both griffins and ponies. The usually clean white walls were covered in blood.
Aww, we missed all the action.
Following the carnage for a while I came to the throne room, this time the doors were just open instead of smashed. Walking in I had to duck as a spear flew past my head. Turning my hand into a dragon head I pointed to where the weapon had come from. There was a lone guard standing behind the throne.
“Stay back!” The guard shouted looking out from behind the throne again his eyes widened when he saw me. “Sir!”
“Hey.” I picked up his spear. “I believe this is yours.”
“My apologies.” He ran up and took the spear. “I had assumed you were another griffin.”
“If we weren’t in a crisis I would take offense to that.” I looked around the room. As with the rest of the palace it was full of bodies, Celestia and Luna’s thrones had some crossbow bolts sticking out of them. Mine had one of its horns broken off. “Where are Celestia and Luna?”
“The princesses took the elements and ran to the armory.” The guard pointed his spear out the door. “They had told my team to stay here and fend them off.”
“Alright.” I nodded heading towards the door, before I left the room I looked back. “Good job not dying, if you survive after this battle you’re getting a promotion.”
“Grab some weapons and armor.” Celestia ordered as she slammed the wooden door to the armory shut behind them, quickly moving the wooden plank to keep it shut. The door shifted as a few griffins smashed into it.
“So we’re going to fight all of them?” Rainbow Dash looked at her in surprise. “But there were so many of them.”
“You handled the changelings fine.” Luna said as she levitated a sword, looking it over. “There were far more of them then there are outside.”
“Yeah, but they were just hoof fighting, these guys have real weapons.” Rainbow pointed towards the door. “And they’re obviously out to kill not just conquer.”
“Well it’s fight or die.” Celestia told her before tossing a spear towards her. “So get ready.”
“Celestia and Luna were definitely here.” I said stepping over what I think used to be a griffin, this room had at least nine griffins, some cooked, and others cut into sushi.
I forget that they can actually do stuff.
Because they send me out to do all the fighting. I nodded rounding the corner and following the last hallway to the armory.
Exactly.
“Hit it again!” A voice shouted, jogging down the path I rounded the corner to see at least thirty griffins in front of the armory door. Some of them recoiled off the door, they then backed up and did it again.
I’m going to guess they’re in there.
Oh yeah. Let’s kill them. Our armor needs a change of color.
“Are you ready?” Luna asked as she looked over the element bearers. They were all wearing guard’s armor, each wielding spears and swords. Luna had put on the armor from her training with Sean, after the fight she had gotten it remade, she also carried a sword with a black blade.
“Let’s do this.” Applejack nodded.
“Is something wrong sister?” Luna asked looking to Celestia who was next to the door with her head against it. “Celestia?”
“There’s something strange.” She said still pressed against the wooden door. “It suddenly got very quiet out there.”
“Perhaps they left.”
“Why would they do that though?” Celestia then jumped away from the door as something smashed it.
“Hey! You guys gonna let me in?” They heard what sounded like Sean.
“Should we?” Luna asked looking to Celestia.
“I’m not sure. It could be a changeling.”
“Technically I am part changeling.” The voice said.
“We could try asking it a question only he’d know.” Twilight said standing next to them.
“No, the changelings and griffins went through his memories.” Luna shook her head. “They’d be able to answer anything.”
“If you’re not going to open the door I’m just going to come in.” There was a pause. “Oh you’re right, I can teleport.” Suddenly there was a flash of fire and an armored Sean appeared in front of them covered in blood, he had to duck as a spear flew towards his head. “Hey! You could have hit me!” He glared at the thrower who was Rainbow Dash.
“That was the point.” She glared at him.
“Oh you wanna go!” Before he could move a yellow aura appeared around him and slammed him against the wall. Something in his chest was torn out and his armor vanished.
“Well that’s rude.” He looked at Celestia. “War just eats your manners.”
“That’s enough.” Celestia looked him up and down. “How do we know you’re the real Sean?”
“You want proof, give me control of my right arm.” Celestia looked at him for a moment before his arm was released from the aura, the rest of him still in place. “Thank you.” He then turned his hand into a dragon head put his face in the mouth and blew it off with a fireball.
Was that really necessary?
They wanted proof I was me.
You could have cut off your arm to show the healing!
I liked it. Proof, with style.
Anyway, let’s see if it worked. I opened my eyes to see all the ponies leaning over me.
“So, you believe me now?” I asked looking at Celestia.
“Blowing off your face is a bit drastic.” Celestia used her magic to stand me up.
“True, but it was more interesting.” I cracked my neck. “Anyway, you guys look pretty geared up.” Luna was in that armor I had given her a while ago, Celestia was wearing what looked like her fiery form’s armor just without the fire, and the others were in boring guard armor. “Though it hardly seems necessary, they’re just griffins.” I grabbed Nick and reactivated him.
“Then why are you in armor?” Luna asked me.
“For style.” I raised one of my blood covered hands. “Plus it comes with free claws.”
“So what’s going on outside?” Celestia asked me, looking concerned.
“There’s a lot of griffins running around doing lots of killing.” I held out a hand and began to count using my fingers. “They’re slicing, shooting, mangling, beating, and burning.”
“We have to get out there.” Celestia quickly turned and opened the door, as it opened several griffin bodies and a small pool of blood fell into the room. “I’m guessing these were the griffins outside.”
“Yep.” I nodded, looking at my work with pride. “They were a lot of fun to kill.”
“That’s a lot of blood.” Rainbow Dash said looking at the pile.
“You should see the hall.” I walked to the door exiting the room. The ponies followed. After they had all entered the hallway I gestured proudly to the scene. Some of them like Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy did not seem thoroughly impressed.
The area was quite a masterpiece, almost every wall had been painted red, none of the wimpy half coats that the others had been doing, the amount of blood was able to almost reach my ankles, floating in the pool of blood could be seen little chunks of meat, armor, and weapons.
“Are you sure these used to be griffins?” Luna looked around the room.
“Of course.” I nodded. “Why do you ask?”
“Well from what you’ve done to the corpses they could have been goats and it would still be impossible to tell.” Celestia pointed to a floating leg.
“I’ll take that as a complement.” I smiled. “It took a lot of work to pull this off.”
“I believe you.” Luna nodded.
“Can we get moving?” Twilight asked. “The smell is making me feel sick.” The others nodded with her.
“Wimps.” I rolled my eyes. “Fine, let’s go.” As I turned to walk back to the front door I noticed there wasn’t the sound of eight sets of hoof steps following me. Looking back all the ponies except Luna and Celestia were slowly trudging through the blood and guts. “Hurry up!”
“Well sorry for not wanting to fall in this stuff.” Twilight glared at me.
“Ugh, it’s getting all over me.” Rarity complained.
“If you don’t hurry up I’m going to push you all into it!” I stretched my wings.
“You wouldn’t.” Twilight eyed me as she neared the turn of the hall.
“We both know I will.” I rolled my shoulders. “You have till the count of four.” That got them hurrying, after maybe three seconds the six were in front of me. “Good let’s continue.” I turned and headed down the hall.
“Ugh.” Rainbow Dash shook her hoof, getting the blood to splatter on the walls. “This only helps prove I’m right.” She whispered
“What do you mean?” Twilight asked as they followed the princesses and Sean.
“He’s a lunatic.” Rainbow jerked her head back. “You saw that room.”
“Well it was to help us.” Rarity spoke up.
“I’m just saying, he could have just killed them but he decided to turn them into griffin juice.”
They’re talking about us.
I’m aware. I nodded as we followed the hall.
The colorful one is questioning our sanity.
Doesn’t surprise me. She’s been a bit against me since that other dimension nonsense.
True. You should keep an eye out, she very well may manage to turn the other five on you.
Not likely.
Besides, even if they do turn on us we can show them the true power of a god.
We wouldn’t kill them.
Maim?
No.
Beat?
No.
Eat?
What? No!
As amusing as your back and forth conversation is, could you have it elsewhere?
Fine. After that the two grew quiet.
“When did you get the second one?” I looked to my left to see Celestia eyeing me.
“What?”
“The second voice. The one who talked about eating them.”
“Stop listening in on my head.” I glared at her. “That’s a complete invasion of privacy.”
“You were looking phased out so I decided to check.”
“What are you two talking about?” Luna asked looking at us. “Who’s talking about eating who?”
“Don’t worry about it.” I waved a hand as we rounded the last turn, we passed the princesses little griffin massacre. “Good job here.” I nodded stepping over a few bodies. “I’m surprised you guys did this, and I thought me training Luna was a waste of time.”
“What’s that supposed to mean.” Celestia gave me an irritated look.
“Well you guys don’t really do much.” I shrugged. “Mostly you sit there and send me or the elements to solve your issues.” We reached the front doors before Celestia could respond, I turned to face the others. “Alright, we’re going to enter the war zone. Those of you who are squeamish.” I looked at Fluttershy. “Suck it up.” Then something bumped my leg, looking down I saw Progenitus looking up at me. “Hey buddy, you wanna go kill some griffins?” The hydra nodded before growing to his full size. “Great.” I turned and headed out of the door.
“Celestia duck!” I shouted before blasting a griffin with fire as he leapt at her.
“Thanks.” Celestia nodded before blocking the sword of a griffin. Then the sound of several crossbows firing was heard, looking to my right I smiled as the little projectiles bounced of my armor uselessly, then with a flick of my wrist the building the archers were on crumbled.
“Sean, try to avoid destroying the city more.” Luna told me as she pulled her sword out of a griffin’s skull. “The griffins are doing fine without your aid.”
“You’re no fun.” I groaned as I backhanded a griffin pouncing at me, turning, my foot quickly flattened its face.
“Just keep the damage to a minimum.”
“So now I have to nags.” I rolled my eyes. “Great.”
Hurry up! There’s more lives to take!
I smiled before spotting a griffin fighting Rainbow Dash. Turns out Miss Ego isn’t too handy with a spear. Running up I quickly jumped on the chicken head, snapping his spine. Before the colorful wimp could say anything I turned to Celestia and Luna.
“We need to make this go faster.” I pointed at Celestia. “You take the elements and start going through the east taking out griffins. Luna and I will go west.”
“Right.” Celestia nodded before turning and heading towards the town, the elements quickly following.
“Let’s go.” I said before running towards the town in the opposite direction.
“Nice.” I nodded to Luna as she decapitated a griffin. Looking down the street a bit I saw a large pack of them running towards us. I also smiled as Progenitus stretched his necks and bit several griffins out of the sky.
Let’s try that spell again. I smiled before spreading my wings and flying to the top of a building, running across two more roofs I then hopped over the group and swung my arms. Black blades flew out and cut straight through every single one.
“Suck it!” Then one of them flew in from the sky and rammed into me. Crashing into the ground I groaned. Looking up I growled as the griffin king landed in front of me. He was dressed in what I’m assuming used to be gold armor, though like mine it was mostly red by now.
“Hello human.” The king nodded. “I see you escaped our little spell.”
“Yep.” I stood up. “Now it’s time to thank you for that.”
“Today I shall return honor to the griffin royal family by killing you.” He raised a gold sword, the guard was shaped like a griffin.
“Trust me, it’s going to take more than beating me to return honor to your miserable race.” I raised a clawed hand. “Not that you’ll win anyway.”
“Even if I don’t beat you, the downfall of Equestria will be enough.”
“Wait up Sean.” I heard Luna call. Looking to my left I saw her running towards us, then a pack of griffins landed around her, Luna to my pleasure looked unimpressed and merely began to fight them with little effort.
“No help.” The king said as I looked back to him. “Just you, and me.”
“Fine.” I stretched. “I could use a break from fighting anyway.” The king did not share my smile as he charged and swung his sword. I easily dodged and attempted to kick, to my surprise he was able to dodge and used his sword to cut at me leg, the bigger shock was that the sword actually went through.
“This will be a harder fight than you think.” The king said as he jumped back. “I studied your fighting. I know all your little tricks.”
“What about this one?” I swung my right hand and five black blades flew towards him. The griffin looked at them unimpressed before blocking each with his sword. I looked at it in shock, the sword was completely intact.
“Like it?” The king raised the sword to show me. “Family weapon. With one little touch, I enchanted it with some of your magic. It can cleanly cut through anything magic.”
That explains the armor.
“Good for you, sadly it’s not enough to save your miserable life.” I then shot a fire ball at him, he easily dodged but as I flew towards him he was able to fly up a tiny bit and ended up chopping one of my wings off.
“Nice try.” The king looked at me smugly. “I told you, none of your tricks will work, and that magic armor isn’t going to protect you.
I growled looking at my wing, to my surprise neither it nor my leg were healing.
What?
Yeah, this form requires your magic reserves to keep it going. So, no healing.
What!? I kicked the king as he flew at me, quickly jumping up.
What did you expect? How would you be able to do all this powerful magic without it getting a power source.
With that sword you’re not worth it right now then. I ducked as the king swung his sword before grabbing Nick and removing him from the armor. Reverting back I cartwheeled away from another swing before wrapping Nick around my neck. The familiar feeling of my leg healing returned.
“Abandoning the armor?” The king smiled. “Giving up?”
“Nope.” I turned my right arm into a blade. “It was only slowing me down.”
“Very well.” He then charged at me. I smoothly dodged every single swing of the sword.
Wow, Nick was slowing me down.
Well it’s a tradeoff. Speed, maneuverability and intelligence, or power, durability and idiocy.
You guys suck.
After the king stopped his attack I took my turn, aggressively bringing my arm down. Annoyingly the king blocked and the sword smoothly cut through my arm. Jumping back I let my arm heal.
“Well, that didn’t work.” I hopped as the griffin swung his sword at my legs, his reaction time was surprising as he swiftly made another shot. I was able to make my arms into a large shield, while the sword went through it with relative ease, the protection did offer enough resistance to keep the weapon from completely cutting me in half.
“Argh.” The king growled as he began to pull the sword out of my torso, taking the opportunity I kneed him in the face. The royal chicken went flying back along with his sword. He stood up after a second spitting out some blood before glaring at me. “Well played human, sadly that won’t happen twice.”
“It might.” I shrugged. “Your race is pretty dumb.”
“Enough talking.” The king growled before shooting forward, I smiled waiting until he was just in front of me before bringing my fist down on him. At least I would have if he didn’t manage to swerve at the last second and chop my leg off. Falling to the ground my leg began to grow back as I slowly lifted myself up. Sadly king chicken head made another slice, this time removing the arm supporting me. Face planting again I growled.
“Stop doing that!” I ordered as I began to get up.
“No thank you.” Then the griffin rammed into me cutting me off at the hips, falling I landed on my back this time. The king walked up smiling, I watched as he raised the sword preparing to stab it into me. Before he could bring it down he was blasted by a blue laser.
“I believe he told you to stop cutting him.” As my lower half grew back Luna came to stand next to me.
“Nice of you to join us.” I said as I sat up.
“Well I apologize if killing fifteen griffins took a while.” Looking back there was a pile of chopped up griffins.
“Good work.” I nodded before standing up.
“How pathetic.” Looking forward the griffin king was standing a few feet away glaring at us. “The mighty human has to be saved by a pony.”
“What is that supposed to mean?” Luna looked at the griffin.
“I’m merely saying I wanted a real fight with a true opponent, not some pitiful pony.”
“Well if ponies are so pitiful you won’t mind fighting both of us.” I smiled.
“Fine, maybe put together you’ll make one real adversary.” The king raised his sword. “Let us continue.”
You’re a bit smug for someone who was getting shredded like cheese.
Shove it. Now how do I help beat him? Luna can probably hold her own, but he knows all my moves.
That’s why you need to mix it up. You know, do things he wouldn’t expect.
Spontaneous!
Exactly.
Alright, let’s do this.
“If you have no intentions of making the first move.” I looked over to the king to see him spread his wings. “I will.” He then shot forward, I was able to leap over him. Spinning around I watched as Luna charged towards him and they began to cross swords. Surprisingly the king was able to knock her back and get a cut on her leg before turning back to me.
Oh, I just thought of something that will be cool.
This will either work, or end very poorly.
Ignoring Bob’s negativity I charged at the king, he smirked as he raised the sword. Just as I reached him I turned my hand into a dragon head and shot a fireball at the ground, the smoke cloud blinded the griffin as I went flying over him. I was able to spin in midair and reach the side of a building, once my feet made full contact I pushed off and shot forward. As I passed him I made a cut across his side.
“Aagh!” The king shouted in pain as I rolled before hopping up. He touched his talon to the side and removed it to see it covered in blood. “That was clever.” The chicken head rubbed his talon on the ground to clean it off. He blocked as Luna attempted to cut him again, she was able to dodge his retaliation and teleport next to me.
“Alright, let’s do some killing.” I nodded to Luna before running at the griffin, I began to sporadically but accurately punch and kick at him very few were able to actually hit him but the ones that did were able to dent the armor, as he swung his sword at me I jumped back and Luna attacked. The sudden switch caught him off guard and Luna got several good hits in. After a few shots I jumped behind him and we swapped again. This went on for several minutes until the king was panting, his armor dented and cut in several places, blood dripping off his body onto the floor.
“It is over griffin.” Luna said as she pointed the sword at the king’s head. “You have.” Before she could finish she was blasted by a green beam of magic and sent flying. She went flying and slammed into the side of a building, leaving a small dent. She groaned in an attempt to stand before flopping to the ground unconscious. Looking to where the beam had originated I growled. Chrysalis was flying overhead smiling cruelly.
“That was satisfying.” She said as she landed next to the king.
“So you finally show your ugly face.” I glared at her.
“Well that’s rude.” She smirked. “You need to be put in your place.”
“How about no.” I then shot ice at her face, freezing her mouth shut. “I’m not putting up with that stupid screech.”
“Mmm!” She aggressively scraped her holed hooves against the ice.
“I think it’s time to retreat.” The king wheezed as he looked at the changeling. Chrysalis nodded before lifting the king and placing him one her back. “One more thing though.” He pulled a metal handle with a button out of a pouch in his armor.
“What’s that?” I eyed it.
“A little going away present.” He then pressed the button, there was a loud bang and the whole ground began to shake. Then there was another bang, this time I saw a cloud of smoke from a few blocks away. “Today Canterlot falls.” Chrysalis then took flight and the two began to fly away.
“Get back here!” There was another bang and the ground shook even more.
We have bigger problems! Canterlot is blowing up!
So that’s what it is.
Yes! We need to get Luna and Progenitus and run! Progenitus wasn’t hard to find as he came running around a corner before reaching me and jumping onto my shoulders. Then there was another explosion and the ground actually began to crumble.
“Uh oh.” Then the floor completely fell out from under me, I began to fall as the rest of the city crumbled with me.
This is bad.
You don’t say.
Where’s Luna? Looking around I eventually spotted her unconscious body falling a little ahead of me.
“Hold on tight boy.” I warned Progenitus before I turned my hands into dragon heads and used fire breath to propel myself forward. “Almost there.” After another second I returned my hands to normal and grabbed the falling alicorn. “Gotcha!”
Good work. Now what’s the plan to escape the chunks of city that are falling towards us?
That’s a good question. I didn’t think that far.
Well hurry up because the ground is getting uncomfortably close!
Really? Looking down Bob was right, the ground was only maybe a few yards away. Nick, let’s see if you can handle this fall!
Childs play. He said as I grabbed the charm, and activated it. Once I was armored I wrapped my wings around the pony and hydra I was carrying and braced to hit the ground.
You may want to turn so you don’t crush them.
Oh yeah. I managed to then twist, making it so my back was facing the ground. The wind was knocked out of me as I slammed into the ground. We made it! Then I spotted a large chunk of a building flying down towards me. Oh man. Rolling around again to protect Luna and Progenitus , the building came down and made a loud crash.