//------------------------------// // Terrence, Draconeqous of Evil // Story: Nucor's Counterattack // by Matthew Stone //------------------------------// Twilight listened very carefully at what Fluttershy explained, summarizing all the words Discord told. The whole story even shocked Tails, not even knowing about Terrence. And his power, would he be good enough to fight against some evil twin? “Terrence is not like any creature or draconequus you might have seen, or anypony has…” Discord confesses, “I should have told you about him, and the fact he’ll make unicorns fire up and become deadly. Any power he gives them can have that race burn ANYTHING in its path, maybe kill somepony.” “Is there a way we can defeat your brother?” Twilight asks. “Well, there may be a weak link to his power, just as he strengthens a link between him and the unicorns he possess, all including the alicorns.” Discord thinks out loud, “If we can find a way to break that link during the fight, it might weaken his chaos, and we’ll strike him very well.” “That could work, I guess.” Twilight thinks, worried, “But the other ponies, CELESTIA! And what about Cadence and Luna? He could target them!” “We’re not going to let that happen!” Discord promises. Twilight smiles, as she looks at him, Tails, and Fluttershy standing tall, keeping their word to be by Twilight’s side. “Thank you.” she said. The streets were quiet in the city of Manehatten, as all the ponies have evacuated inside buildings to be safe. The police guard them, along with royal guards standing at the barrier wall to keep watch for the upcoming monsters. Shining Armor and Flash were also there to assist their troops to protect the city. It was strange that there was a failure to evacuate everypony to leave this city, but the Crystal Empire was full for some reasons. And Shining Armor made a weird assumption that a zombie pony might see the crowd surviving in its distance, finding a way to destroy the empire if that were to happen. It was all tense now that he’s keeping everypony in the city, safe from the enemy. He then looks at Flash. “This is all to much. So confusing…” Shining Armor admits. “I’m a bit confused myself too.” Flash adds, “Um, Shining Armor… your sister… Twilight… do you think she’s fit for me?” “Well, you were a guard once.” Shining Armor states, “Anypony in royal rank is destined to be… prince probably. I’d say do your part, if you want to practice restoring order to lower destruction.” “I know, I’m not too concerned about that.” Flash said, “I just had a feeling that Twilight… might have more affections for… somepony else.” Shining Armor sighs, and puts a hoof on his shoulder. “I’m sure she has true feelings for you.” Shining Armor comforts, “Hey, unlike me, I had a harder time dating Cadence for a couple years before she saw MY affections.” “Pfft. Bachelor.” Flash jokes. As both ponies chuckle, a scream is heard. Banging than grows louder, as both Shining Armor and Flash rush to the guarding wall to see what their troops are up against. They climb up the barrier, and gasp at the sight. The zombies bang and thrash their spike formed hooves at the barrier, tearing through the walls and eating up the metal scraps without even feeling the bleeding in their mouths. They climb up the wall like a ladder with colliding their bodies to make a pyramid like step way. Guards keep shooting their arrows, but get pulled outside the way the reaching grip of the zombies. As more guards are being lost, Nucor rises up with the zombies supporting his body, as if a pillar is setting him up for a podium. Flash then squints his eyes, realizing Nucor is chanting something. He can see his lips moving, calling out a spell…. “ZATAN NATO NEATH DETAH! BLASTSA THATA BARA!” Nucor suddenly screams. He then raises his hooves, having the aura glow real huge and bright as he chanted the words four more times. Then, he aimed at the barrier in four separate zones, locating where to hit. BLAM! That sound was made exactly four times, as he strikes and melts each section of the barrier, having his hooves make the blasts in square movements. It took some time for the guards to retreat backwards while still the zombies that are sneaking inside. Finally, the barrier is destroyed by Nucor’s magic aura. “KILL THEM ALL!” Nucor roars to his zombie slaves, “I have business I wish to tend to… with Terrence. HEHEHEHEHEHE!” The zombies have then taken all of the royal guards down as they rush into the city, but the fight still resumes. Police ponies interfere wit their invasion, as they shoot their assault riffles at the zombies, piercing them through their eyes to tear out their brains. The zombies then roar, jumping at the police ponies to tear at least five apart, though hundreds of the law ponies come to the zombies by surprise, throwing tear gas to slow them down. The gas is doing its effect, as the zombies cough and try to find their way through the smoke like chemical fog. They hiss, and then knocked out with a big mallet, as Flash trots real fast against them to crack their skulls. As he runs, he smashes the jaws of the zombies as they try to bite him. He then jumps away as they extend the poisoned thorns connected to their hooves. He keeps balance of his tripping, as he then pulls out a katana knife to their surprise, chopping off their heads like a hit man savage would do. Shining Armor does his part in battle, as he swings his sword against the zombie thorned hooves, using the blade as his shield. He then pushes them back, while chopping off their hooves with a fast sling. They roar, as blood bleeds out their legs. Shining Armor then knew they aren’t brainwash ponies under a zombie spell, they’re zombies for real. There’s no dealing sense in them if they only follow the law of Nucor. “Keep focus Shining Armor.” he tells himself, “Keep focus.” Nucor has just knocked out all the police force that have bee keeping guard of the underground tomb statue that sealed up Terrence. The stairway to the tomb like crypt was in the middle of the city, which is like an abandoned park. With so much power, Nucor has accomplished so much to get whet he wanted, just so he can bring misery onto everypony. Now, he’s in front of the strong metal door, sealing up the tomb that held the statue. The door won’t stop Nucor easily. BLAM! His aura breaks open the metal entrance, tearing apart the bolts and hinges. It then falls flat on the floor, as Nucor breathes in awe at the villain he wished to visit all this time. The statue almost has the same resemblance as Discord, except his eyebrows are much huger than his. He has no buck tooth that’s sharp either, just huge, HUGE, razor sharp teeth that looks like there’s blood stained on them. His eyes loo human and immoral, to show his dishonesty and meanness. His body, two human arms, and two spider legs for his limbs. His head is also one that resembles a fox. His tail is the same like a lizards. Nucor licks his lips in pleasure. He slowly comes up to the statue to collect his prize, raising his hoof close to his cheek. He then SMASHES the hoof to break the stone, having light tear open through the cracks, as the tiny lines grow bigger, and bigger…. CRACKLE! SNAP! BANG! Smoke erupts and fills the entire cryptic dome room, as Nucor closes his eyes to keep the dust out of his optic lenses. He then opens them again, seeing the creature breathing and rattling. He isn’t even stretching to be relieved of his release, he just snarls in fury and anger. Now that Terrence is released, he also turns to Nucor to see his face. He’s curious, wondering why he freed him. He also didn’t know why he cared, he can just kill anypony if he wanted to. “Who are you?” Terrence demanded. “Your savior.” Nucor said, “And I have an offer I want to give you.” “What kind of offer?” Terrence asks. “It will involve getting revenge on your own brother, Discord.” Nucor said. Twilight has all her friends with her when they approach closer to Manehatten. Their new assignment was clear, as Twilight decided. They’ll head into the city to see how they can help Shining Armor and Flash, as they find a way to stop Tirek from releasing Terrence. The dragon armies will then stay behind in Ponyville, to repair it and guard the town from any other zombie that might interfere. Twilight sighs in fear, as she can then see the fire coming from the Manehatten buildings from over the mountain. The barrier is broken, and the zombies are already attacking the guards and officers. She now wonders how Flash and Shining Armor are doing. Fluttershy, Spike, Tails, TJ, Discord, Rarity, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, and Rainbow Dash then rush forward real fast and enraged. They’re determined to help bring the zombies to justice to Twilight’s loved ones can be safe. POW! SLAM! A sudden punch and wrestling creature than catches Discord, grabbing him by the neck to choke him. The main six ponies scream in horror at the creature trying to kill Discord, and run at it to try and stop it’s deed. The creature then snaps his fingers and puts the gang in chains that cling them to the ground. As they all over at the same time, Twilight looks up and weeps. Discord especially sobs in sadness and is scared as hell as he sees his arch rival. “Hello, brother…” Terrence sneers.