//------------------------------// // Plans // Story: The Fall of Spike the Dragon // by Wrangle Wolfe //------------------------------// "Twilight!" Five voices rang through the air in panic. They didn't know what to do. The shock of seeing the most powerful and respected pony that made every day possible in such a state had made their minds come to a sudden halt. Everypony looked away from Celestia to Canterlot and what they saw made them gasp in horror. Right where Celestia had been flung from was the large form of the dragon they'd tried to attack, surrounded by green flames. "Well don't just sit there!" A random stallion yelled from the crowd, startling everypony. "There are injured ponies to care for!" That got everypony out of their shocked daze. The mane five rushed over to Twilight and Celestia, and scowled when other ponies attempted to help. "Get. Away. Now." Applejack growled with a furious glare. "But we only want to help..." A mare in the front of the crowd said softly. "Ah think ya'll dun helped enough, don'tcha think!" She exclaimed and gestured to the piles of ashes that were once their homes. "It's not our fault that monster decided to go on a rampage!" Said another stallion. "Don't you dare call Spike a monster! You all made him a monster! You are all the monsters!" Applejack yelled with a stomp of her hoof, then lowered her head in guilt. "And so are we..." "Come on ya'll, the Princesses need our help..." Applejack said in a defeated voice. Nopony else said anything for a while, until Nurse Red Heart decided to speak up. "Are you sure you don't need any professional help?" "I'm a pony who gets hurt workin' on the farm all the time. Rainbow's a pony who crashes into buildings almost every day while doin' new stunts. Rarity is a pony who works with scissors and needles every day along with other heated and dangerous items. Fluttershy heals up animal wounds all the time. Pinkie Pie is Pinkie Pie. Now if we don't know how to heal up sum scars an' wounds, we'd most likely be dead by now as many times as we dun been injured. If we do need sum 'professional help', we always got Zecora. Now ya'll go tend to the other ponies who really need yer help." Applejack picked up Twilight and Celestia's horn while the other four lifted Celestia and headed towards the Everfree. All of them did know how to cure wounds, but since the supplies was burnt they would have to go to the only place that hadn't been attacked, which was Zecora's abode. The rest of Ponyville scattered around to find any ponies that were possibly trapped somewhere in all of the debris. After arriving to Zecora's hut, they explained what happened to the shaman. She mixed a brew that would heal them, but could not restore Celestia's horn. It was after all of this that Twilight woke up. "What happened to me?" She mumbled groggily as she attempted to sit up, but the pain made her regret the action. "You must not move, Twilight just stay at rest. Trust me when I say it is for the best." Zecora said and gently pushed her back down onto the bed. "What happened to me?" The asked once again once her head stopped pounding. "You fainted. We were worried sick about you and since we didn't have any supplies to help, we brought you here." Fluttershy explained to the confused lavender mare. "No... supplies?" Fluttershy squeaked in surprise when she realized that she'd said too much. "Why wouldn't we have... Oh my Celestia! No... I-it can't be. It can't be real. It... it wasn't a nightmare?" Twilight's voice wavered as she began to cry. "Ah'm sorry Twi..." Applejack said as she gently held the mare in her hooves. "We all are." They got into a big group hug and held it for a long time before parting and sitting in silence. I was awkward, until Fluttershy decided to speak up and say what was on everypony's mind. "What do we do now?" She asked. "Well... we have to stop him somehow." Applejack said. "Indeed," Rarity agreed, speaking for the first time in hours. "But I don't want to hurt him. The poor dear has already been hurt enough." "What about the rainbow power?" Rainbow Dash spoke up. "Rainbow Dash! How dare you suggest such a thing after the cruel punishment it gave Tirek?! For heaven's sake he was banished to Tartarus!" Rarity said in horror. "Well then, if I'm such a bad guy, you tell us how to stop him! You come up with something better even though the only thing we've ever used on a villain was the elements of harmony and a crystal heart that's all the way in the Crystal Empire! All of Ponyville who tried to attack him already proved that we can't fight against a fifteen foot tall dragon! He doesn't want to listen to a word we say because this is all of our faults!" Rainbow dash yelled, her voice starting to leave her. She had been crying and yelling too much. The room was silent for a moment. "So you tell me..." She whispered. "Tell me what other choice we have, Rarity." "Y-y... you're right Rainbow Dash. I'm sorry, it... i-it's just th-that..." Rarity didn't finish and sobbed quietly. Everypony hung their heads low, their ears flat against their heads. "I don't see no other choices either." Applejack said solemnly. Nopony had anything else to say on the matter. They all knew what they had to do. That still didn't mean they wanted to though. "You know, my friend, you could rule this land if you wanted to..." Darkness whispered to me. I sighed once again at the suggestion. "How many times I gotta tell you, I don't give a crap about ruling over these damned ponies! They're idiots anyways. "So, what will you do? Kill all the ponies until you have nopony left?" "I've been alone all this time. What would be so different?" "Okay then, Spike. You can do as you wish. Now, what do you actually plan to do?" "I'll just crush their towns and watch as they attempt to build themselves up again and crush them again. That is until they lose hope and give up, dying a slow and painful death or committing suicide until almost all of them are dead. The ponies left will live a long life of terror at my side. That is how I will spend my long dragon life. Watch ponies struggle and crush all of their hopes and happiness until I die." "That's a dark path to walk down, boy." A familiar voice said behind me. "Well, it looks like I've already walked down half of it, don't you think?" I said, not turning around. "Yes, it would seem that you've done a large amount of disaster to the ponies and yourself, young drake." "Well, it is what I'm known for; causing problems." My mismatched friend teleported in front of me, a concerned look on his face. "Spike... please don't do this. You may think that there's nothing worse than what you've already been through, but trust me when I say there's always something worse." "It doesn't matter..." I chuckled coldly, darkness beginning to cloud my vision. "I can't feel anything anyway." I could've sworn I heard something faintly whispering, saying 'Yes... let the darkness consume you'. "You know, I can't allow you to go that far. As much as I hate how these ponies have treated you, a lot of them are innocent, and I have to protect the innocent." Discord said grimly. "You can do as you wish Discord. It doesn't matter though, no matter what you do, it won't change the fact that these ponies are in for a world of pain." "Please, stop this madness. Don't let the darkness consume you." 'Get rid of him... he's just like those ponies'. "I'm not stopping. Now, I believe we will see each other soon. But for now, surprise mother fucker." Just as I said that, a green blade made out of fire stabbed through his chest from behind him. He floated there, his face frozen in shock and pain and he looked down at his chest, then back at me. After making a gurgling noise, probably from the thick blood that was most likely rising in his throat, he let out a weak scream as he plummeted to the ground. It took him at least half a minute to make the long decent to the ground. At the end of his fall, I could hear a loud thud and a couple of bones cracking. "I'm sorry this happened to you, Discord. You were maybe the only one who understood. But you took their side. "I got closer to him and bent down so that my face was only a couple of feet away from his. "You got too close to them when they forgave you and let you roam free. "I stood back up, turning away from the draconequus. He didn't move or respond to anything I said. "But of course, they won't forgive me. I am worthless to them." I walked away. He'd be okay. It would take way more than that to kill the spirit of chaos. I just left him hurt and weakened. I knew exactly what I was going to do now. Soon, the ponies will experience what if feels like to live in pain and have no way out of it no matter how hard they try to escape. The pain shall be eternal.