Insanity War

by InsaneBatPony

Insanity Rises

The dust was beginning to settle after the door was blasted off of its hinges and the princesses and the six looked into the dust and smoke to see a face looking at them with glowing blood red eyes and two claws coming out of the smoke on fire with power. They all stood awestruck at the hideous sight of him.

“Oh, how precious. They’re frozen with fear.” Insanity said through the smoke amused. He then vanished and reappeared in front of Celestia, the rest looked on in terror. Insanity grabbed Celestia’s chin and began to run his hand along its length. “Celestia, my you’ve grown in to a beautiful specimen. You look so much like your mother, that it’s haunting. Hehehe.” His deep baritone voice resonating off the walls.

Celestia was frozen in place as his power slid from his hand down to her body. She was not going to go easily. She snapped back and began to hyperventilate a little bit trying to catch the breath that was taken from her.

“Ohhh, Celestia it’s not that bad is it?” He said mockingly. He snapped two of his clawed fingers and he disappeared in a mass of red energy. The eight of them looked around the room from where they stood.

“Where are you Insanity!?” Celestia yelled into the empty air, her voice a little shaky.

“Here.”

Insanity reappeared behind Celestia and as she turned he smashed her face with the back of his claw and she was sent soaring into the wall opposite of them.

“Sister!” Luna shouted as she looked on to see her sister hit the wall.

“Don’t think I’ve forgotten about you Moon Princess.” Insanity said as he sped over the ground not touching it and this time made a fist smashed the princess’s head into the ground with a blood curdling thud.

The Elements could only look on in severe fright as Insanity pummeled the princesses into the wall and the ground.

Celestia was able to recover from her devastating hit to the head, thanks to her regenerative abilities, and staggered to her feet. Celestia’s horn began to glow a bright white color. Insanity turned his attention to the six. As he made his way toward them Celestia fired a bolt of bright white magic. It impacted Insanity in the middle of his back. His chest arched out wards and he stumbled a few steps forward. He let out a small moan. He turned to the still staggering Celestia.

“That wasn’t very nice.” He said menacingly. He charged his own attack in his clawed appendage. A crimson red orb formed in his hand he put his hand in front of him. “Block this!” He fired his own attack at the Princess of the Sun. She summoned a shield spell just in time. The Red energy beam hit Celestia’s shield spell head on. “Your quick with spells aren’t you. I guess I should not be surprised. Your mother was too.” He said not even breaking a sweat while Celestia was struggling under the force of the attack. The ground under Celestia began to crack under the force of the spells combining. Celestia looked down for only a second.

Insanity noticing this small movement increased the power of his attack a small amount. Celestia began to hurt now. Her horn was getting hot and changing color from its natural white to a burnt red color as she expelled more energy into her shield. Insanity increased the power only a small margin once again. Celestia’s horn began to ache horribly and she was in extreme pain. Celestia was struggling to keep herself from getting hit by such a massive amount of pure energy. The Castle walls were beginning to shake and crack and collapse in a few places due to the massive amount of pure energy in the area.

Luna had regained consciousness and slowly made her to her feet as well. She looked at the sight to her left. She could see her sister struggling to keep herself from getting killed. Luna charged at Insanity’s side and made contact with her horn using it like a large dagger. Insanity collapsed a bit to his side and landed on his knee. His beam of energy was weakened enough for Celestia to be able to expel it completely before she too collapsed to the ground in exhaustion hoping to recover in time to help her sister.

Insanity stood once again and his wound healed nearly instantaneously with a spiral of red energy. “That was clever. Princess, I’ve never seen a horn used like that before. But it was foolish!” Insanity leaped at the Princess of the Moon and got one hand on her neck. She yelped in pain as his claw made contact with her flesh cutting it slightly. He picked her up and looked at her the eye. “You may be an immortal Princess but you’re still so young.” He laughed as he threw the princess into the ground below himself. She hit the ground hard and blood escaped her lips upon impact. He proceeded to brutally attack her without mercy. He stomped on her head, jumped on her ribs and went so far as to electrocute her with beams of red lightning. Luna could only scream in pain as the attacks continued for what seemed like an eternity.

Celestia, seeing the brutality of the attacks against her younger sister, realized that she had no more time to recover from her energy expenditure. She got to her feet and summoned another powerful spell. She fired it directly at Insanity’s head. The bolt of fire as hot as the sun itself hit him head on. Insanity stepped off on Luna’s body and stumbled backwards tearing at his head trying to put out the fire. Celestia knew she would have a few moments to get closer to her sister to defend her. She rushed over to her sister who had already begun to heal slightly, though not as fast as Celestia could.

The fire on Insanity’s head had finally dissipated and he looked on to see his victim being healed bit by bit by Celestia. He charged them once again this time no holds barred. The power that surrounded his body became more intense and he brought his claws above his head in fist shape and smashed down at the ground releasing a shock wave of energy in their direction. Celestia Teleported away from it, with Luna still unconscious, out of its path.

Celestia turned to see the six Elements standing there too scared to move. “All of you! Go get out of here NOW! Luna and I will do what we can! You have to get out of here! Get Spike and GO!” Celestia shouted at them. Twilight looked at the Princess with disbelief in her eyes and tears beginning to well up in them. “GO!” Celestia shouted again and the six still not wanting to leave the Princess knew that there was nothing they could do. “QUICKLY! While he is still recovering from his attack!” The six began to move slowly at first and ran out of the room as fast as they could but Twilight hesitated at the door and looked back at her mentor and teacher. Celestia noticed this and mouthed the words “I’ll be fine. Go.” Twilight turned and ran to catch up with her friends. Celestia watched as Twilight and her friends left, she could only think that they had to live even if Luna and she did not.

Celestia turned to see Insanity in the final recovery of the damage he had sustained and his own powerful attack. She planted her hooves on the ground and stood there with a determined look on her face. Luna began to stir and eventually stood up herself and stood next to her sister in the same manner. Insanity now stood with an angry looked on his face and stared at the two Princesses standing before him. He looked around to see that the six Elements were nowhere to be seen.

“Where did the little ones go?” Insanity said to himself.

“They are gone. They have to live to even if Luna and I do not!” Celestia shouted at him.

“It is of no consequence. I will deal with them later.” Insanity said turning his attention to the two alicorns in front of him.
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The six elements were running through the castle toward where Spike resided. They had to jump over the dead bodies of friends and soldiers alike and some of them vomited on the way from the smell. They had to concentrate if they were to find a way out of the castle before it was too late.

After non-stop running for what seemed like hours they finally arrived at Spike’s forge. They ran inside only to find more of the same carnage they had seen outside in the halls. They ran in calling for Spike and Rainbow Dash found him by the forge under a pile of stone, wood and metal. She called the others over and they all dragged Spike from out under the debris.

“Spike we need to go now. The Castle is going to come down at this rate!” Twilight said to him.

Spike was staggering to his feet only to collapse to one knee due a severe cut in his side. “I can’t make the trip you need to go without me.” He said with remorse at his words.

“NO! You’re coming with us Spike, and that is final!” Twilight said in absolute seriousness.

“I’m sorry. I don’t have much time left anyway. Listen, I can buy you more time to escape by throwing the castle off balance. The magic in the forge has enough power to blast out enough of the foundation to throw it off balance. That should give the princesses a slightly greater chance of at least wounding Insanity beyond repair.”

The six of them stared at him in surprise, not ready to lose another friend.

“That’s crazy! I’m not going to leave my number one assistant behind to die here!” Twilight yelled teary eyed. The others also crying. “Please! I don’t want to lose another one of my friends!”

Spike wanted to go with them but he knew there would be nothing he could do. He gathered them up in a huge bear hug. All six of them fit in his arms. He shed a single tear and whispered in Twilight’s ear “I’m sorry.” He squeezed them all together so they could not escape and walked with all of them to his room. The six of them were struggling trying to get free.

“What are you doing Spike?!” Rainbow Dash said as best she could. “We’re trying to save your life!”

Spike kicked his window out and some of the wall went with it due to the weakness in the castle’s structure. “I’m sorry.” He said to the group and he threw them out of the window with all the strength he could muster. The six Elements went flying out the window and crashed into the ground a few meters away. Twilight got to her feet as quickly as she could and began to run back toward the castle only to see Spike flash a smile and bring down another portion of the structure covering the exit he had created for them. She stopped realizing that she could not stop him.

“Twilight! We gotta go now!” Applejack yelled. Twilight did not respond.

“I got her!” Rainbow went and picked up Twilight struggling to hold her because Twilight was fighting back trying to go to the castle.

The six of them went as fast as they could to get away from the castle.

Spike now very weak from loss of blood and slowly made his way back to his forge. When he got there he opened up the bottom of the forge. Inside sat a great red crystal endowed with a strong heat magic and when it is removed would create an influx of energy becoming a powerful explosive.

He got to his knees and put his hand on the crystal inside.

“This is it. Rarity, my one true love, may you live happily and find the stallion that you’ve always wanted.” He let out a small chuckle. “And Dad, looks like I’m coming home.” He put his hand on the crystal prepared for what would happen when he heard a voice and saw a great white claw on his own.

“You’ve made me proud my son.” Aodhfin’s voice said. “We’ll be waiting for you.” The white claw disappeared and so did Aodhfin’s spirit.

Spike pulled on the crystal with all of his might.
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Insanity stared at the two princesses with hatred in his eyes.

“Now it is time to take what is mine.” Insanity said charging the Royal Sisters.

Luna and Celestia both jumped into the air releasing magical energy at the rampaging monster below them. He was struck by both attacks in each shoulder. He didn’t even take a step in recoil he only shrugged and let out a laugh. He was giving in to his own madness and it was dulling pain making him physically stronger and caused him to feel no fear. He let out another laugh.

“You’ll need to do better than that!” he roared while taking off into the air to match the princesses altitude. He circled around and shot a massive claw at Celestia. She dodged and circled back releasing another energy bolt at Insanity. He noticed the glow of her horn and threw a claw at Luna who was not quite as fast as Celestia in flight. He swung her around and used her as a living shield. The magic bolt hit Luna in the heart area to Celestia’s horror. He laughed again and threw the injured Luna at Celestia. Celestia caught her sister’s body with her own and they fell down to the hard stone floor below them. The two sisters got onto the feet with much struggle. Their horns began to glow in unison. Insanity charged his own attack still making his way towards them.

Then a massive pillar of magic and fire shot through the right half of the castle where Insanity was standing. He was seared on his right arm. He let out a roar of pain. Even with his dulled sense of pain it still hurt him badly. Celestia knew the cause of the pillar. She had warned Spike of the crystal's unstable nature and that it would only be stable in the special holder she had made herself.

The right side of the castle began to crumble and collapse at an extremely rapid manner. The left side would fall to where the right of the castle stood in a few seconds. Celestia teleported herself and Luna to safety outside the castle. Insanity began to make his escape when he was hit head on by a pillar and some large stones that had once made up the war room. He roared again and was dragged down into the depths of the now ruined Canterlot Castle.
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The six who had now been running for almost a full hour heard the explosion and all stopped and turned. They could see the remaining few seconds of the pillar of fire and watched as the castle collapsed to the ground. They knew that it was Spike who had caused the explosion and caused the castle to collapse. They all started to mourn their lost friend. But it was Twilight who took it the hardest.

“This is all my fault.” She said while tears streamed down her face without ceasing. “If I hadn’t read that stupid book! He used my love of books against me, and now all my friends and family are gone!” She screamed. 

“It’s not your fault sugarcube.” Applejack said while embracing her heart broken friend. “Come on we need to find a place to hide fer now. We can mourn Spike then, ok?” 

Twilight, still crying, nodded her head in agreement and they continued their search for a safe place to hide, if there were any left. 
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Luna and Celestia had teleported to a safe distance from the collapsed castle.

“Sister, our home. It’s gone.” Luna said weakly.

“I know. We’ll be ok. We can always find a new place to live, little sister.”

But it was too early to think of their futures when a red glow began to flood the wreckage. The two sisters watched as the glow became brighter and brighter until it became so bright they had to shield their eyes from it. Then another large explosion. This one rocked the ground with incredible force and in the middle of the wreckage stood a new Insanity. His body remained the same but his full power was now released. His body was surrounded by a swirling vortex of red energy mixing with black lightning and causing the earth itself to change its own properties. They sky became red though the Moon was still visible. The plants and trees began to wither and die. His robe was blown off by his power and revealed was only a monstrosity. His skin and scales had now all but disappeared all that remained was a roaring creature made of bones and red energy. The energy burning around him like an inferno. He studied his new look quickly. “My true form revealed. Now nothing can stop me.” He turned to the two sisters his full attention now on them.

“This is MY WORLD! AND I WILL NOT ALLOW YOU TO TAKE IT FROM ME!” His voice now comparable to the loudest of thunder cracks. His voice shook the ground and the sky. “You two may be gods but I will still have my prize!” He began to speed toward the princesses. The two of them charged their most powerful spells. Their horns both glowing intensely and they released their attacks. Insanity was till charging and had shrugged off their attacks as though they never happened. He roared again making the ground break and crumble beneath him. He no longer needed to worry about having a sure footing. He knew his power would keep him afloat. His wings now more for decoration than function. The princess looked on as he neared them faster and faster. They could not move, the spells they used rendered the caster unable to move for a few seconds. But in that time he got to them and grabbed them both by their heads. The vortex of power had dissipated but his power still remained as an intense flame on his body.

“NOW I WILL RENDER YOUR MAGIC USELESS TO YOU.” He smashed them into the ground and put a foot on each of their necks so they could not escape. He grabbed both their horns and ripped them out of their skulls. Blood spewing from the areas on their heads. They both let out a scream of intense and unbearable pain. “DO NOT WORRY I WILL NOT LET YOU DIE, YOU TWO ARE MY SECOND PRIZE NEXT TO EQUESTRIA ITSELF. HAHAHAHA!” The princesses faces were covered in tears and blood but Insanity was not done yet. “NOW ABOUT THOSE WINGS, WOULDN'T WANT YOU FLYING AWAY FROM ME.” He used his own magic to suspend the two of them in the air. “IT SEEMS ONLY FAIR TO START WITH THE ELDEST OF THE FAMILY.” He walked a few steps to where Celestia was floating coated by Insanity’s red magic. He grabbed her wings and began to pull. Celestia wailed in pain struggling to fight back. This only made Insanity want to savor her screams more but alas all good things must come to an end. Insanity eased up a little bit and used all of his might to pull Celestia’s wings off of her body. When he pulled all that could be heard was a blood curdling ripping sound and Celestia’s scream of pain.

Luna could not believe what she was seeing in front of her. She began to cry and scream Celestia’s name between sobs. Insanity let Celestia drop to the ground a bloody mess as though she were a doll to be tortured and discarded. Insanity turned to Luna who was till screaming Celestia’s name and crying uncontrollably. Luna saw the look in insanity’s eyes. She could only see madness and pleasure at the crimes and actions that he was committing.

“IT’S TIME FOR THE LITTLE SISTER NOW.” He said letting out a sickening laugh and cocking his head from side to side on the joint of his neck.

“No! NO! STAY AWAY FROM ME!”

Luna’s screams would fall on deaf ears as Insanity proceeded to repeat what he had done to her elder sister.
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The six Elements had run for about three hours with short intervals for a break. They had run to the mountains and had found a small cave to hide in for the time being. They all gathered together and collapsed on the ground with exhaustion.

“Ah think we should be safe here fer the time bein.” Applejack said panting for air.

“I hope so. I want to be able to recover from that run. I never thought I would run that much before and now I look awful.” Rarity said.

“Stop your complaining! Were lucky to be alive after all of that!” Rainbow Dash yelled as best she could.

“Yes, I agree with Rainbow Dash.” Fluttershy squeaked.

Twilight did not speak while this transpired. All she could think about was the guilt she felt at releasing Insanity and now she had run away from a battle and had not helped her teacher, mentor and friend. She could only sit and cry. And now she had lost Spike as well. She didn’t know how much more grief she could take before she reached her breaking point. How many more tears she could shed she did not know as well.

“We have to stop him.” Twilight spoke up causing the others to stop and look in her direction. “We’ve lost too much to sit here and do nothing. I don’t care how long it takes but we must find a way to stop him once and for all.”

The others all looked at each other and smiled, determination written on their faces.
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Insanity stood over the bloody bodies of the two princesses. He looked down at them, satisfaction in his eyes as he hunched over them.

“NOW GIVE ME YOUR MINDS.” His voice still booming. He straightened back up and reached for their bloodied heads.

“P…Please s…stop.” Luna said weakly her body writhing in pain.

“BEGGING FOR MERCY ARE YOU? THERE IS NONE TO GIVE. YOU SHOULD HAVE JUST DONE WHAT I ASKED IN THE FIRST PLACE.” He said with menace and no pity to be found in his voice. He grabbed their heads and began to absorb their sanity and their free will. The two sisters could no longer scream. Their throats were ravaged by the previous events. They could only lay there and eke out sounds of discomfort and pain. Insanity smiled as he finished the procedure and stood again at his full height.

“NOW THAT THESE TWO BELONG TO ME, ALL THAT’S LEFT TO WORRY ABOUT ARE THOSE SIX PONIES WHO FLED EARLIER. NO MATTER, IF THEY ARE AS LOYAL TO THESE TWO AS I BELIEVE THM TO BE THEY WILL COME TO ME. NOW TOO DO SOMETHING WITH ALL OF THIS RUBBLE AND WRECKAGE. HMMM, AH THAT’S IT A TROPHY. A SYSMBOL OF THE NEW EQUESTRIA. A NEW CASTLE BUILT TO MY LIKING FROM THE REMAINS OF THE OLD CASTLE. HOW FITTING.”

Insanity used his magic to rebuild the castle of Canterlot using the remnants of the old castle. When it was complete it looked warped and disturbed. Insanity made his way to his new throne room, his two pet princesses by his side and proceeded to sit in his new throne with satisfaction, the princesses taking their places to his sides, Celestia on the right and Luna to the left both hornless and wingless. Insanity sat in his thrown a smile on his face could be seen if he still had skin.

“AND SO I HAVE TAKEN MY RIGHTFUL PLACE AS RULER OF EQUESTRIA! DO YOU SEE THIS OLD MAN!? LOOK AT WHAT I AM NOW! I HAVE YOUR DAUGHTERS AND I SIT AS RULER OVER THE PLANET! I HAVE BEATEN YOU! NOW I WILL FINISH MY CONQUEST BY RIDDING THE WORLD OF THOSE BLASTED ELEMENTS OF HARMONY!”