Neophyte

by Blitzer Sparks


A Fight for Friends Ch. 10

Trickster, Logic, Depression, and Screech all sat in a circle around Keith's motionless body. Then he started to stir which made Trickster happy because he was bored. "Finally, this guy is a heavy sleeper" the four surrounding him stood up.

"Welcome back Dr. James" Screech spoke

Keith stir one more time, and landed on his back. All of a sudden a blue, yellow, red, and black beam shot up into the sky where Keith was. Screech was blasted back into Logic who both went tumbling into a tree, Trickster was blasted back into a conveniently placed pillow, Depression just took the blast with a gloomy face. Then Keith yelled. "I WONT LOSE TO THE LIKES OF YOU!!! TRINITY!!!!!!" The ray of light disappeared from the sky and stood a glowing Keith his eyes were now wide open and a blue, red, and black pupils stood in a triangle fashion around his center yellow pupils

"Hey bro be careful, YOU COULD HAVE HURT SOMEBODY" Trickster laughed and pulled out two short swords and rushed Keith. Keith reacted by jumping over a cross slash that was deceived by Trickster, and landing on both of the tips of the blades with one foot. Then Keith brought his other foot around to kick Trickster in the head and possibly knock him out, but Trickster opened his mouth and slammed it shut over Keith's ankle. Keith grunted in pain and followed through with the kick pushing Trickster's head down. Trickster's head slammed into the ground leaving a crater and a dust cloud. Keith stood up and looked around and noticed Ace sitting behind, "Ace thank Celestia do you have any idea why Time attacked me, and why he seemed so care free?"

Depression stood up on his hind legs brought his right hoof back then slammed it into Keith's stomach with incredible force, sending him back sliding on his feet, until he fell over something, and landed on his back. Keith raised his head and saw a purple set of saddle bags with a red crystal poking out of it, and if by instinct he knew what they were 'the element of Harmony? What are they doing out here. Whatever, they'll help me solve what's going on here.' Keith tucked his knees to his chest and pushed off the ground with his hands launching himself onto his feet. Then Keith ran to the bags, reached inside, and pulled out the element of loyalty. Also apparently Twilight never put the crystals back into the necklaces and tiara so Keith pulled out the belt from a while ago. Keith quickly took his off and replaced it with the belt of Loyalty. The crystal pulsed with a vibrant red light. Keith then reached into the bag and pulled out the two bracelets and anklets, and quickly put them on. Then for the finishing touch Keith pulled out the crown and placed it atop his head. The crystals pulsed with their respective colors.

"Honesty" Keith spoke then his eyes flashed orange and looked at his friends, but instead of seeing them he saw their auras shrouded by massive red auras "Sweet, they aren't them right now, now I get to beat their asses again" Keith cracked his knuckles, then his neck "So, who is gonna be first"

"You got a cheap shot on me bro, I want revenge" Trickster stood up, and pointed his swords at Keith. Trickster then vanished from Keith's view, but Keith was smarter

"IGNITE" Keith put his hand over shoulder as though drawing a sword from a sheath, and in his hand appeared his sword just in the nick of time as it clashed with Trickster's blades. Keith then spun around to slash at Trickster, only to find that he wasn't there

"You gotta be faster than that man" Trickster flashed into view right next to Keith, and swiped his legs from beneath him. Keith fell to the ground, and rolled away just in time to dodge two swords firmly slammed into the ground where his head used to be. Keith then jumped to his feet

"Magic" Keith held up his sword as a bolt of lightning struck it. The electricity flowed through his body. Keith was the lightning as he flashed forwards at Trickster who barely managed to block a heavy overhead swing delivered by Keith. Finally the two begun to hack and slash at each other, but no one made any headway on the other.

Keith had an idea. Keith raised his sword and pointed it to the sky, then begun to bring it all the way to the ground. In doing so Keith created an arc slash and sent a towering wave of flames at Trickster.

Trickster did not see this coming and was blasted back through several layers of trees. At last Trickster came to a stop after the the fifty something-ith tree. All Trickster could see was a pink blur racing towards him. Then he heard it "KINDNESS" his skull was grabbed and then everything went dark.

Time opened his eyes to see a panting Keith right in front of him with glowing orange eyes, and holding his head with one hand "Umm Keith if I may ask, what in the world are you doing?" Then he noticed the new bling Keith had acquired "Also, why are you wearing the Elements of Harmony?"

"No time to explain, lets just put it simply, everyone has gone ape shit crazy, follow me"

"*Sigh* Yes sir" Time and Keith then ran in the direction of where the other three still hopefully were.

-------Elsewhere-------

"Logic, shall Depression, and I stay here and keep are guest company while you go and eliminate the other Elements of Harmony?" Screech asked

"Most sensible of you Screech, it would be wise to have as much time as possible. Even if neither of you survived you have helped Equestrian Restart Program's cause" with that Logic teleported away, unfortunately yet fortunately she was unaware of another suitor for the Elements of Harmony

-----Back with Keith and Time-----

"So you're telling me that the Elements work for you and that's how you pulled me out of my funk?" Time asked

"Precisely" Keith replied "Ah-Ha we finally found you!" Keith shouted and pointed at the ponies sitting before them

"How could you have found us if we never hid in the first place?" Depression spoke

"See Time, dudes fucking depressed, and he throws a mean punch" Keith exaggerated

"Don't worry about him, I'll take care of him, you worry about your mare over there" Time assured Keith

"Huh? A tag team battle eh? Who would have guessed?" Screech spoke

"Hey birdie, let's see how well you fly." With that Keith launched himself in the air with Screech right on his tail

"Well Ace it looks like were all alone" Time spoke softly as slowly walked towards Depression

"Ace no longer exists, it is only I, Depression" Depression spoke glumly

"Oh-Ho "Depression" you say, well let's fix that shall we?" Time's horn lit up and a black orb formed around a confused Depression, and a demonically smilling Time

Keith block a blow from Screech and right after heard the most little girlish scream he had ever heard in his life come from the black dome on the ground 'hey everyone should I go check that out?' Keith asked his companions in his head while effortlessly blocking blows from Screech with one hand

'DO NOT GO IN THERE KEITH' Dusk shouted inside Keith's head

'Ow, Why?'

'I have seen some messed up shit in my life but this is something even words can't explain'

"Alright I get it, now were where we?" Keith asked out loud

'We were about to win Master' Frost thought

"Oh yeah, that's right. FROSTBITE." ten daggers shot out from Keith's back and flashed in on Screech's neck.

Screech flapped in place as ten daggers were pointed at her neck "Fuck me"

Keith flew in her face "Is that an offer? Also, MELT. KINDNESS." The daggers disappeared and before Screech could fly away Keith grabbed her wings with glowing pink hands.

Screech could feel her wings disappearing so as a final effort she opened up her mouth and sent a high pitched screech right in Keith's face. When she closed her mouth she had a smile but it instantly dropped to a frown "How in the hell did you survive that!?" Screech shouted

"I have a unique special ability that took me my entire life to master"

"And what's that?" She asked finally her wings vanished and she started to feel a sharp pain go through her head

"SELECTIVE HEARING" Keith spoke with a cocky smile

"Fuck you"

If your offering, my body is always ready" Keith spoke then winked

Finally Screech passed out and Keith caught her.

Then Ranger opened her eyes to see Keith smiling at her "Umm what happened and why are we flying?" Ranger asked

"No time to explain we gotta help Time" Keith flew down to the ground and placed Ranger on the place she found most comfortable. Keith started to run to the black dome but was tackled to the ground by a terrified, shaking, crying, Ace

"KEEP THAT LUNATIC AWAY FROM ME, oh hey Keith hey Precise, KEEP HIM AWAY" Ace then hid behind Ranger

"Oh stop whining you big baby all that was, was a million years of your worst nightmare, and you told me that if you ever became depressed again this is how I should deal with it" Time spoke as he disspelled the dome

"Fair enough" Ace responded immediately stopping his crying

"... Okay now that everyone has gotten that bit of stupid out of the way, where is Twilight?" Keith asked. At that exact same moment the others had horrified expressions on their faces

"Keith, the other Elements are in danger, we have to get to th..." Ranger begun only to be interrupted by an explosion that was in the direction of Ponyville.

Keith flipped his shit and transported everyone via shadows as close as they could get which was right in front of Twilight's Tree House "No No No No No No" Keith continued saying as he kicked open the flaming door "HELLO, IS ANYBODY IN HERE" Keith shouted inside the house. Keith heard a faint calling of his name, without a second though he rushed into the ablaze house, but before anybody could follow him the entrance collapsed

"KEITH!!!" Ranger shouted

Keith searched the first floor and hadn't found anything, anything that is until he saw a yellow tip of a wing on the opposite side of the room beneath burning wood. Keith rushed over to the pile, and began to move the large amount of rubble out of the way until he saw three ponies: Pinkie Pie, Applejack those two looked considerably better than poor Fluttershy who's wings where broken yet covering the other two also she had a large running along her flank to her shoulder "INFERNO" Keith ran over to the nearest wall and punched it with his gauntlets, completely obliterating it leaving a huge gap in the wall. Keith then ran over to AJ "Please don't hate me for this" Keith slapped her, instantly waking her up

"Keith! What's happening!? Where are we!?" She was silenced by another slap

"Shut up, take Pinkie Pie and get outta here, NOW!" Keith order and placed Pinkie on her back. Keith then walked over to Fluttershy and carefully picked her up and walked as fast as possible out of the house and placed her carefully next to a unconscious Pinkie, and a furious Applejack. Keith ran into the building again, "Is anybody else in here!?" Keith shouted. Then from the ceiling above a blue blue crashed through it and fell to the ground unconscious "RAINBOW DASH!!!" Keith then looked back up to block any other debris only to be horrified as he saw Twilight fire a bolt of magic at a scared Rarity. Time slowed down as he watched his love get struck with magic. Time speed back up as he watched Rarity get launched into the stairs, then fall down them. Finally she came to a stop at the bottom of the stairs. Keith picked up R.D. And rushed over to Rarity to pick her up, but was stopped as Rarity pushed away his hand.

"S-Stop Twilight, before it's to l-late, I-I will always love you Keith, always. Goodbye" With the magic She could muster she pushed Keith away from her as the roof above her fell on her.

Keith could only watch as she smiled at him before his world came to a stop. He could no longer see Rarity. He just sat there hands in lap with the cyan mare over his shoulder, and a empty look of despair plastered across his face "INFERNO!!!" Keith shot up and punched the falling pillar that was about to crouch him, the pillar exploded into splinters. Keith then jumped straight up and punched through the ceiling above into the second floor. He stood there face to face with Twilight.

Logic looked at Keith's emotionless face. 'I best give her back her body' Logic thought with a smile. Twilight opened her eyes to find herself flying through the air in Keith's arms. They hit the ground.

"YOU STAY HERE!!!" He yelled at Twilight then rushed back into the house. He reach the pile that fell on Rarity, and with a bat of a hand destroyed it. He picked up the battered and bruised, blood soaked Rarity, and walked outside obliterating anything that got in his way. He got outside just as the rest of the tree house caved in on itself. He placed Rarity on the ground, "SOMEONE, PLEASE CALL A DOCTOR" Keith screamed crying over Rarity's body.

A white and a black hoofs where place on his shoulders. Keith turned around, his eyes on fire both literally and metaphorically, and saw both the princesses looking down on him. "Keith, she is gone" Celestia spoke glumly

"No, NO, YOUR WRONG, SHE CAN BE SAVED" Keith continued to cry

"Princesses, what's going on here?" Twilight asked the two extremely confused

Keith stopped crying and sat there and let Twilight's voice echo in his head. The princesses couldn't act fast enough. As Keith placed Rarity on the ground after holding her deceased body one last time. Then out of nowhere Keith was right in Twilight's face. Keith punch Twilight out of blind rage. Twilight would have gone a lot farther if she did not crash into Applejack. "IT'S YOU'RE FAULT SHE IS GONE!!!" Keith shouted as though he was speaking with two voices. He launched himself at Twilight again only this time he pinned her down and began to wail on her

"Keith please stop" Twilight began to cry

After the fifth punch he was engulfed by white magic and flung off Twilight, and was pinned himself to the ground "Keith stop this at once" Celestia warned Keith "What right do you have to do such a horrible act to my student"

"SHE KILLED RARITY!!!" After those words went through everyones heads everything came to a stop. Celestia was so stunned by the turn of events that she lost focus on her magic and released Keith. Everyone just stood there stunned. Everyone except Keith who just stood up and began slowly walking to Celestia. He grabbed her by the horn, "were going to bury Rarity is that understood?"

"Understood" Celestia spoke shocked

Keith then turned to Twilight "Don't you dare talk to me until I find what the reason was behind this murder. Twilight nodded in fear. Then he turned to Luna "Dont take your sight off Twilight for even a moment, also Match, Frost, do a energy reading on Luna, were going to kill a Nightmare"