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// Chapter 14: Rock vs Metal 
// Story: PonyFable 
// by Omega_code 
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	 “So this is Crevest valley,” Jack said. The valley looked like if someone had the tip of their sword on the ground and dragged it few a few miles. “Tempest, head back to Ponyville, I come back on Wistala when I’m done here.”
“As you command and I also wish you the best of luck.” Tempest and the other pegasus flew off, leaving Jack on the edge of the valley. There were hundreds of caves dot inside the small canyon, and he had no idea where to start. 
“Wistala, you think you can use the element of earth to see if you can sense the lay out of the area?” 
“Umm, it’s worth the tried,” she replied. Jack pull out his Dragon Amulet, and lowered it to Wistala’s level. She touched her snout on the red jewel and it slowly glowed then faded away. She coughed as if something was stuck in her throat; no sparks of electricity came out. “Well, let give this a tried.” She lied down putting her ear to the ground, and thumped her tail on the ground. 
“Not the perfect time to take a nap, you know.”
“I’m listening to the vibration of the earth that I’m making made to see underground,” she annoying said. She thumped her tail again and closed her eyes. “I don’t see anything unnatural.” She got up and flew to another part of the area to repeat the process. This is going to take some time, Jack thought as he followed his dragon. 
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Obsidian was levitating a platter of hay and a glass of water and was walking down to the cell were he keep the yellow pegasus. She was cowering in the back, making herself as small as possible. So afraid, he wished he didn’t have to do this, but… “Just feed her a get back to work,” Advin mentally said. “We need to find my gauntlet. With that gauntlet you will be able to restore me and fix your mistakes.” Right, of course; he opened the cell and floated the food and water down on the ground.  
“Who,” her soft spoke voice said, “are you trying to save?”
“Why do you care,” he asked.
“Because, maybe we can help, my friend Twi…”
“Nopony can help me,” he angrily said, “these stones are the only way.”
“Then why are you acting so brutal to retrieve them; why not ask for them if you’re trying to save someone?”
“Because…,” he stopped. She right…why couldn’t I just ask…it could have much faster. NO, Advin harshly said, if you did that you would’ve been lock away for what you’ve done, and your sister will never be free. Who do you trust more, me or a pony that’s with the enemy? “Because,” Obsidian stated again, “it is the only way.” He closed the cell door and left for the main chamber.  
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“Nope,” Wistala said. She took off again and headed back down a few more yards, with Jack closely following her. She land and put her head down and thump her tail. She opened her eyes, “Yes, there something big and square down here, not part of the natural system of this cave.” She thump her tail again, “I also see two ponies figures down there too.”
“Great…now how do we get down there?” 
“I could dig down there,” Wistala obviously stated.
“Ya you could, but I will still be up here and you can’t face Obsidian by yourself. Is there an opening that leads into this cavern?” Wistala put her head back to the ground and thump her tail.
“Yes, it’s not far from here.”
“Good, now here’s the plan.”
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Obsidian stood at a table, getting ready for the spell to locate the last piece Advin wanted. “What about the other stone you’ve mention?” That one can only be made once I’m whole again, but I have a feeling that I will not have to do that. “You mean the human’s world?” Yes, he came here with the power of the dimension stone as it was trying to reconnect with me.  He must have accidentally use a power source near the same energy frequency as the stone. Now do the spell so we can start heading out. “Right, of course.”  
Obsidian stated to cast the spell, he poured in enormous power and focus really hard on the object he wanted. He cast it on a map of Equestria and a small orb of light glowed on a single spot; right in the middle of the Everfree forest. Finally he thought, he rolled up the map and stuff it in his saddle bag. Then an alarm went off in his head. Scout had spotted an intruder at the main entrance. He focused so that he was able to see what Scout see. To his shook he saw the human, fully alive, but wearing something different than last time he saw him. 
“How,” he asked in disbelief. It doesn't matter, Advin said, just send the tunnel snakes to deal with him. “Yes, I am getting tired of his interference.”
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Man, this cave is dark, Jack thought. He been walking for about three minutes and every foot he took, the light got denser and denser. Wished I got some torches to light up the place. The soft light that was beaming from Jack’s gauntlet help him from running into wall, but that was it. Hope I’m going the right way.
“SSSSSSSSSSSSssssssssssss.” Something grabbed his left leg and dragged him to the ground. The ground scraped against his chest plate and Jack grunted with as he passed over several small rocks. Lifting his right arm he slammed it into the ground to grab it with the gauntlet strength. He abruptly stopped and there was a hard yanked on his leg with causing a piercing pain. With his left hand he armed it with his new weapon; he turned it on and gave a swipe at whatever was holding on to him. The blade slice through and the pulling on his leg went away. Jack quickly got up and looked around in the now yellow lighten cavern. He made his gauntlet change into its gun from and primed it for a shot. He could hear those soft hissing noised coming all around him, and he couldn’t tell how many where there. Sudden Jack’s instinct told her to strafe left, which he did as a fist size long snake like golem zoomed by. He raised his right arm and took a shot at the golem as it was landing on the ground. The blast hit the golem mid-center causing it to split in half, but it front half was still moving. It quickly bower underground and out of Jack’s sight.  Jack got into a battle stance, listening to the hissing sound coming from the golems.  Jack turned around and gave a swipe with his sword cutting another one. It land on the ground about to sliver away, till Jack gave a shot at its head. The head burst into hundreds of pieces. 
That’s one down, Jack thought. He could still hear hissing sounds from the walls, and from his best guess, there were only one left. There was a brief flash of light as the gauntlet changed shape, and a soft whirling sound formed. He heard another coming out of the ground and he thrust his drill at the direction. The golem crashed into the drill and was turned to dust.  Jack cough as the dust reach him and he wave his arm back and forth to clear the air. Well, that was easy.  Obsidian probably angry by now, those golems would have been tough to defeat; if I was still in my Dragonlord armor that is. Jack turn off Darth Laser and continue heading deeper into the cave…at least he hoped so. 
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Obsidian in fact wasn’t watching, but was getting ready to head out. He levitated the black coat around him and fastened it. A sharp pain ran vertically across his with the sound of ripping fabric. He looked at his back, there was some blood, but was only a scratch. He looked at the entrance to see the human standing he right arm stretch out. “You,” he angrily said. 
Suns I miss, Jack thought. “Yes…me. I’m ending this here once and for all.”
Obsidian laughed out loud, “I must promote you on your confidence and your strength, thinking that you can defeat me with your magic.”
“Who said I would use magic?” Jack released another shoot, but Obsidian casted his shield in time to stopped it. The energy pellet blast hit his shield and caused his body to shift a few inches back. Jack rushed towards Obsidian and changed his gauntlet to a hammer and gave a powerful downward swing. The hammer hit the shield causing it to bend and small crakes formed.
Obsidian strain to keep his shield from failing, “How?”
“Science,” Jack grabbed and turned on Darth Laser and gave a power sideway slash.  It clashed with the shield, creating more crakes. 
“No…NO…I won’t let it end like this!” Obsidian let his shield burst sending a powerful pushing force outward. Jack was knocked back a few feet, but still had his balance. Obsidian floated several stones in the air and formed their ends into sharp points. He flung them at Jack, but he lifted his gauntlet and it changed into a tall metal shield which the stones harmless hit, not evening making a dent. Jack quickly clip his sword, disburse the shield and thrust left hand. A black aura covered Obsidian making his gravity field intensify greatly. Obsidian stubbornly got pulled down to the ground. 
“Give up,” Jack said, “you’re nothing against the power of science.” (I sound like Lim)
“Science,” Obsidian said with his eyes closed. No… what… his voice is different, Jack thought. “I am the greatest work of science that you will ever see.  Obsidian opened his eyes and they had an orange glow and he was staring at something. Jack turned his head to see what and saw a sword float up from a table. The point end faced Jack and zoomed at him. 
“SUNS!” Jack grabbed Darth Laser and tried to parry the blade away. The laser hit the blade and deflected it, without making any sort of mark on the edged of the sword. The sword buried itself near Obsidian, and he was smiling. Orange sparks jumped between him and the blade and Jacks gravity field was broken. Obsidian got up and lifted the blade, to Jack surprised, into a fighting stance. He then glide to Jack and gave the blade an upward swing. Jack changed his gauntlet to a sword and with the laser sword caught the blade between the two. Grunting by the power the blade gave Jack said, “Good, now that I got the real person behind this how about a name?” Jack pulled Obsidian’s blade to the side and gave a swing with his gauntlet sword. 
Chuckling, the voice said, “My name is Advin.” Advin dodge Jack’s swing, “I never got yours human?”
“Jack,” he leaned to dodge another swipe. “So what is it: turn everyone into golems, make everyone your slave, or is it,” Jack gave a downward strike which Advin stopped with his blade, “something more personal?”
“I have nothing against this world; in fact, I’m trying to save it and all others worlds.” 
“Save us from what?”
“The greatest evil in all of the multi-verses,” Advin eyes brightly glowed and a ball of light hit Jack in the chest sending him flying, hitting the side of the cave wall.  “In order to do that I need my body restored and gain more power so that I can face it.”
“You know,” Jack said as he got back on his feet, “this is not the right way if you’re trying to be a hero.”
“I’m not trying to be anything. Only fulfilling what my program told me to do. Go to others world, find powerful magic objects, convert their magic into suitable energy for me, destroy anyone who gets in my way.” 
“What kind of way is that? That’s kind-of defeating the purpose of protecting lives don’t you think!”
“The lives of every single living being in every universe, outweighs the lives on a single world,” He replied in a monotone voice.
“How many times have you done this?”
“This world is number 348, and I won’t stop until the energy level that I need is met. You have no chance of defeating me, others have tried and they all fail.” 
“Then how did your body brake up in the first place?”
Advin eyes dilate (got you there didn’t I), “The objects that I tried to absorb from this world was far power than I perceived.  They overloaded my energy flow and caused me to separate my body in order to save it. I do not intend to make that same mistake the next time.”
“Good… because I won’t let you.” Jack raised his gauntlet and fired several metal balls at Advin. They rolled on the ground and were flashing. Advin quickly cast his shield and the balls explode spewing forth plasma and making dust fly in the air. Advin let down his shield and a gauntlet fist burst forth from the dust and hitting him square in the jaw.  Advin responded by giving another strike at Jack which Jack stopped with his laser sword. Jack’s gauntlet changed again to a speaker and load irritating noise was emitted.  Advin’s ears flatten trying to reduce the ear piercing sound. Advin’s horn glowed brighter and started to shift earth and push Jack far away.
“Enough of this little game,” Advin looked at a section of the wall and his eyes fiercely glowed. The cavern then shook and a roar from a creature came forth. The shaking stopped and Advin said, “I just let forth my dragon golem to burn Ponyville to ashes. You now have a choice “hero” stop me or save the town.” Jack looked at him furiously and he made his way to the tunnel out of the cave, running as fast he can. “Smart move,” Advin said. What have you done, Obsidian mentally shouted at him, you nearly collapse this cave around us. “You should be thankful that I was able to fin off that human with the power that I could use without burning you up,” Advin scruffily said. “Now I believed we have promised to fulfill. They’re never going to see that yellow pony again.” Advin walk toward the room where cell was built. He opened it…and the pony was gone. “HOW,” the cell was untouched, nothing was out of place, except for a few fragments of a broken collar that was around the pony neck.  A small smile grew on Advin face, “Clever, you using yourself as a distraction while someone else save the damsel. But you still lost…for I am about to be fully restored, and I will punished you and this world.”
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Jack ran out of the cave and was happy to see two figures. A purple dragon and a yellow pegasus, both cover in dirt. “Jack,” Wistala shouted, “we just saw a…”	
“The dragon golem that is heading towards Ponyville to destroy it,” Jack finished her sentence. “I need you in your titan from now, and there is no time to switch elements.” Jack got his Dragon Amulet out and held it up in the air. Wistala flew high in the air feeling the amulet energy going into her and her body growing to her full size. She land on the ground and lowered her head and Jack grabbed Fluttershy and jump on. “Let’s fly.” Wistala took to the air and head towards Ponyville. 
In the air they saw the dragon golem in the distance getting smaller and smaller. “I hope your defense plan work till we get there,” Wistala said. 
“I just hope Cysero didn’t make any sponges.”
Ponyville came over the horizon and the dragon loomed over it in the air. It open it mouth about to unleash plasma flame on the town, until some exploding object hit its chest.  “Oh nice shoot Twilight,” Pinkie said. Twilight was in Jack’s GPS using her magic to help her use the tank. Just before Jack left he gave a crash course on how to run the GPS.  Twilight was reluctant at first of using it, but after being told by Jack and Cysero that magic would have little to no effect on defending the town, she listen to what Jack was teaching her. She rearmed the cannon and aim for another shot to the chest. She fired but the golem bank to the side and dodged it. It open it mouth…and got slammed by Wistala. Wistala dragged the golem to the edge of the town and gave a swipe at the golem’s face and took out one of its eyes.  Jack leapt off of Wistala and landed on the other side of the face, and with Darth Laser he sliced through the other eye.  The golem roared and shook its head fiercely to shake Jack off.  
Jack leapt for Wistala and once he landed Wistala climb in the air. The golem was spewing fire everywhere thinking that Wistala was still near.  But high in the air Wistala was looking down at the golem and did dive straight at it. She smash into the golem and brought it with her as she continue heading down.  The ground quake as the golem and Wistala hit the earth. Dust and debris scatter in the air. One dragon silhouette still stood, and the dust settle down Wistala was standing on top of a demolish golem. She let out a victory roar for everyone to hear. 
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Wistala and Jack walk back to the center of the town (with Wistala back to normal size of course). Everyone and some others ponies were waiting there for them. Jack could see that Fluttershy had made back with her friends, who were all in a big group hug.  The crowd were stomping their hooves and appalling Jack and Wistala. All too soon, Jack thought. Celestia walk to him and said, “I must once thank you again Jack and Wistala for save my little ponies.”
“It’s all too early to celebrate just yet,” Jack said. “Obsidian is still out there.”
“WHAT,” voices of Wistala, Twilight, Rainbow, Applejack all said at once. Celestia however remain silent. 
“I almost had him, but then he released the golem at the last minute, knowing that I would try to stop it,” Jack continued.  “If I stop and took the time to tie him up when (or if) I defeated him, Ponyville could have already be destroyed. I couldn’t risk it.”
“Oh, but letting some evil being brought back into the world is risk you are willing to take,” Wistala said.
“Then we find him before he does.”
“HOW!” Jack reached for one his pouches on his belt and pulled out a clump of blue fur and ripped piece of black cloth.
“Cysero,” he asked, “is this enough for the location spell?” 




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