Zach turned away from the corpse of Lizoror and turned to see Luna picking herself off the ground. He quickly hurried over to her, using his magic to help her to her hooves.
"Are you alright Luna?" He asked. Luna quickly nodded her head, but it was obvious she was in pain. Zach couldn't blame her, he was hurting after the battle. After a moment of making sure Luna was alright, she and Zach both made their way back towards the open window, Zach staying by her side to make sure she wouldn't fall. As they landed, they took into account what damage Lizoror had caused.
Much of the room had been wrecked, there had been some casualties, luckily not many, and then there was Celestia.
"Celestia!" Luna worriedly called out to her. She was badly beaten, bruises and cutes littered her body, and one of her legs appeared to be broken. "Celestia! Are you okay?" Luna asked, hoping her older sister was still alive. The sun princess was beginning to stir, allowing Luna to relax. She coughed up some blood as her eyes slowly opened. She looked at her younger sister, who looked back at her with tears in her eyes and a smile on her face. Luna couldn't resist anymore, she fell to the ground, giving Celestia a hug while quietly sobbing. Celestia understood why she was crying and returned her hug with her left leg.
Meanwhile, Zach was at the back, just watching the two, happy that both of them were alright. He was also happy that most of the guards had survived the attack. But now he was growing worried, the attacks were getting worse, even Deathly, alongside the umbralings didn't cause this much damage. Lizoror had managed to cause more damage already. Whatever had the power to bring his creations to life, he was worried that it would soon discover his more powerful creations.
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Night had come and gone, everyone had recovered and was rested. Zach was getting ready to fly back to Ponyville after one eventful night. As he was walking through the halls though, he bumped into somepony.
"Ugh, who let this ruffian in?" A horribly familiar voice asked. As soon as Zach realized who it was, he cursed to himself.
"Oh sweet lord." He said as he looked into the face of the source of the voice.
"What are you doing here peasant?" Prince Blueblood asked.
"Just walking around you son of a bitch." Zach responded spitefully.
"Ahem, my name is. Prince Blueblood, peasant. You may now bow down to me." He said, as he raised his head into the sky like any typical rich snob. Zach just looked at him with a raised eyebrow before yawning loudly. Blueblood looked back down at him with annoyance. "I see you are not giving me the respect I deserve."
"Oh please." Zach responded, doing his Spy impression. "Let me tell you something, I don't respect people who don't respect me. And if you think I'm just going to respect you because you are some rich snob, think again."
"Excuse me, but that is no way to talk to a prince!"
"Does it look like I care!?"
"I can ruin you, you know!"
"Oh, you're so scary!" Zach responded doing a Scout impression. "Piss off!" He said, doing his Sniper impression.
"I will have you punished for your attitude!"
"Oh just shut the fuck up you big head wanker!" Zach said as he moved passed him. "Now if you excuse me 'Sir Faggotpus', I need to go back to Ponyville and see Twilight and her friends."
"Ugh, those show offs?" Blueblood commented, causing Zach to stop in his tracks. "And. Ponyville, ugh, that place should have been torn down years ago." After that last comment, Zach's eye twitched.
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Luna and Celestia sat in the throne room, Celestia having to lean on Luna a bit to allow he broken right leg to heal. Nothing too eventful was happening, until they heard a banging noise. The guards in the room got into a defensive pose, spears at the ready to sink into anything that attacked the princess's. Suddenly, the doors flew open, reveling a badly beaten up Blueblood, he had a bloodied nose, a black eye and many bruises and cuts along his body.
"Aunt Celestia, Aunt Luna, please help! There is a tyrant on the loose!" He screamed as he ran to them, hiding behind Luna and shaking like a leaf.
"COME BACK HERE BLUEBLOOD!" Zach yelled, performing the Royal Canterlot Voice, which may have been louder than even Celestia's Canterlot Voice. "I WILL CUT YOU OPEN AND REPLACE YOUR BRAIN WITH YOU STOMACH!" He yelled as he came into view. Celestia knew Blueblood had done something to piss Zach off, this had happened in the past. She quickly called forth her magic and lifted Zach off the ground, stopping his rampage. He tried to fight it, but after seeing he couldn't free himself, he calmed down.
"Zach, what is going on?!" Luna asked.
"I'll tell you what's going on, this fucker wants Ponyville burnt down!" He said, pointed a hoof towards the unicorn behind her. "And for the reason I beat his ass up, is because, one, I hate him so much. And two, I have a slight anger problem." He stated. "Plus, he think he can push other ponies around just because he is related to you two." Celestia had heard enough, she looked at her nephew with irritation on her face.
"Blueblood... we talked about this before." She said.
"But auntie,". Blueblood whined. "he is so, so, so uncouth." Luna giggled at his predicament while Zach simply rolled his eyes, the situation not amusing him in the slightest.
"But you are not above him, in fact, you seem to be sinking lower than him." Celestia said, Zach was able to chuckle at this statement, he was insulted by his own aunt. "Now go, we will discuss this later." She said as she set Zach back on the ground. Blueblood wanted to say something,but no words would form. Instead he settled for grumbling to himself. As he passed Zach, he shot him a glare, but Zach simply growled at him, causing him to loose all anger and run off like a scared child. Zach smiled again as he left the room, hoping to never see his face again.
"And Zach," Celestia said, getting the other white alicorns attention. "next time, be more rational. I may not be as lenient next time." She said sternly. Zach just chuckled nervously while nodding his head.
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Zach flew through the skies, dashing through clouds and on occasion, dodging (or flying into) a bird. He was getting better at flying, he wasn't the best at it, but in time, he will learn. As he neared Ponyville, he noticed something out of the ordinary, there was a large group of ponies at the library. He was curious as to what was happening, so, taking a dive, he flew towards the ground. As he neared the crowd, he began to hear yelling from them, letting Zach know this may have been some sort of riot.
"There he is!" He heard a stallion call out, as he landed, all of the crowds attention was set on him. Looking inside the tree, he could see The Elements, Vinyl and Octavia, all of which look very worried, excluding Rainbow and AJ, who looked annoyed.
"Um, can it help you?" Zach asked the angry mob, confused as to why they were angry in the first place.
"You! You are the one who almost got our town destroyed!" A mare yelled.
"Wha- me?!" Zach asked, now very confused.
"Oh don't act surprise, Zach. We know you planned this!" Another mare yelled out.
"Wait, how do you know my name?!" The situation was getting more confusing by the second.
"Pinkie Pie told us!" Zach felt his eye twitch as the words lift the stallions mouth. He peered into the library, spotting Pinkie, who had a sheepish grin on her face.
"Okay, that's one question down, now, what makes you think I want to destroy this place?"
"We know how you are not from our world, and how we are fake in your own world! And those monster attacking on the same day as you arriving? Coincidence? I think not!" The same stallion yelled.
'Does this entire place have mood swings?' Zach questioned. "I risked my life to save this town! And you think I want to destroy it?"
"You just did that to cover it up, you're just waiting for the right time to strike!" A mare called out.
"Let's get him now while we still can!" The same stallion called out as he ran out of the crowd towards Zach, he jumped up, planing on making contact with Zach head with his hoof. As he was about to bring his hoof down, a black spike embedded its self into the back of his neck, killing him. The lifeless corpse rag-dolled onto the ground next to Zach, who just looked at it with wide eyes. Not far away, an umbraling growled in annoyance as its shot missed its target. The shooter umbraling was a bit skinnier than the other umbralings, but had claws that it could shoot off from its palm, either a concentrated, sniper like shot, or a rapid fire.
Another umbraling smacked it in the back of the head for missing, which, in turn, received it a punch to the jaw. As the two brawled it out between each other, the rest of the umbralings moved in. The town saw this and, like usual, panicked.
"It's funny, one moment their confident that they can defeat me, the next they're shitting themselves over another umbraling attack." Zach commented.
"Zach!" Twilight scolded him for cursing.
"What?" He asked in return as he summoned up a shield to block the incoming spikes.
"That's new." Rainbow commented as the mares exited the tree.
"Yeah, I learned it at the castle. Sadly though, I can't attack at the same time." He said. As the umbralings neared, the nine got ready. An armored umbraling went strait for Zach, ramming into his shield. Zach grunted as he was being pushed back by the umbraling. "Oh no, not this time." He said though gritted teeth as he pushed back, using all his might, he managed to stop the umbralings charge and even push it back. As the umbraling staggered, Zach called back his shield and moved in, encasing his hoof in red magic. He jumped up, nailing the umbraling in the side of the head.
The umbraling went to punch him, but missed its shot, the alicorn made another move and hit the umbraling in the opposite side of its head. While it was stunned, he made his way to the back, shooting it with two lasers. The umbraling then fell over dead, as Zach turned around, a spike flew passed his head. Not far from him, a shooter umbraling had shot part of its claw at him. It held its right arm, as if it was a gun. The umbraling then let go, shooting the rest of its claw at the alicorn in rapid succession. Zach moved to the side in order to dodge the hail of fire.
Zach then countered, shooting lasers at the umbraling, who managed to dodge most of them, only two managing to hit. Zach decided to move in, encasing his hoof, the umbraling swiped at him with its other claw. It managed to create a cut across his chest, earning a grunt of pain from him. Zach then punched the umbraling in the mouth, he did so one more time, caving its skull in and earning him a charge.
He looked at the wound in his chest, it was bleeding, but it was nothing dire. Zach turned around, scanning the battle for any suitable place to perform his charge. However, all the umbralings were to far apart to take out a descent number of them. Speaking of, there wasn't as many umbralings as before.
'Are they running out of forces?' He questioned, as he heard a scream. He turned around to see Octavia being used as a meat shield by an armored umbraling against Twilight. "Octavia!" Zach yelled as he flew through the air, as he was doing so, a spike embedded itself into his under side. Grunting in pain, he pulled it out, looking down, he saw some shooters attacking him. He paid them no mind though, he was more focused on saving Octavia.
As he landed, he encased his hoof, giving the umbraling the hardest punch to the back of the head that he could. It recoiled, letting Octavia go and grabbing its head in pain. Then the two alicorns attacked together, Twilight sent a wave of magic at it, while Zach bucked it in the back. It all resulted in a sickening crunch from the biped as it fell over, dead. Zach turned to Octavia, offering her a hoof, which she gladly accepted.
"Thank you, Zach." She said as she was pulled up back to her hooves.
"You're welcome." Zach responded with a smile.
"Watch out!" Twilight yelled out. The two turned around to see two umbraling ready to pounce on them, but they were blown away by Vinyl's bass canon.
"Okay, that was a little close." Zach commented. The three then parted ways, returning to the battle at hoof. However, there was not much to do, as most of the umbralings had already been defeated. There were only a few survivors, who, like last time, fled into the forest. As the girls celebrated, Zach knew something was up.
'That attack was too easy, something isn't right.' Zach thought.
"Is everything alright, Zach." Twilight asked beside him. He shook his head.
"No, it feels as if there was more to this attack." As soon as he finished the sentence, he was engulfed by flames. Twilight jumped back, startled by this. As the fire died down, Zach reemerged, covered black. He coughed, allowing some smoke to come out of his mouth.
"What in the world?!" Twilight asked.
"Dragon!" They heard Rainbow yell. Looking towards the sky, they saw that it was a dragon like creature. Except it was far more skinnier than the native dragons to this land, having a very tube like body. It had four appendages, two where the legs would be, and two where the arms would be. They all ended in a gauntlet form with a fire design to it, the front of the head was somewhat like a dragon, but ended at a point. And lastly, it's tail and back of the head ended in a fire like design, and it's entire bod was red and orange like fire.
"That's not a regular dragon... that's Blazeian."