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Name: Celestia Species: Horse
Race: Alicorn Occupation: Royalty (Former)
Mane Color: Mixed (Blue, Purple and Pink) Coat Color: White
Age: 1326
Affiliations:
Twilight Sparkle: Teacher, Former
Sunset Shimmer: Teacher, Former
Luna: Sister, Former
Canterlot: Princess, Former
Elements of Harmony: Bearer, Former
Previous Residence: Canterlot (Destroyed); Castle of the Two Sisters (Destroyed)
Current Location: Unknown
Status: UNKNOWN
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"Let me get this straight" Twilight Sparkle, who was paling by the second, stared directly at the Everfree Forest "You mean to tell me that this is what our future is going to be?!" She started pacing around while occasionally raising her front hooves to the air for emphasis "Who or what is capable of doing this?! What about the Elements of Harmony?! What have they, I mean we, been doing all this time?!" Twilight continued.
Celestia looked down sadly while a tear fell from her eye. "I know what you are thinking Twilight, also you Dusk, but the risks of having both of you here, in this timeline, is nothing to what the world is facing now." Celestia looked up with conviction. "No, things will be different. I made a promise to him that I will do things right this time."
Twilight Sparkle tilted her head "Him? Who's him?"
Dusk Shine, who was still stunned from what he saw, shook his head and slowly approached the princess. "Uhmm... Not to be rude, princess, but you still never told us why you brought us here. Not to mention you didn't answer my counterpart's question yet"
"I have a name, you know..." Twilight muttered.
Celestia smiled kindly at him. "Yes, I am sure all of you have questions but first, an explanation is in order"
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The figure was standing at the foot mountain, bright red eyes stared unblinkingly towards the destroyed castle of Canterlot. Without any indication, the figure rose both of it's forelegs and stomped them on the ground, burying his hooves an inch deeper. The figure once again focused his red eyes directly at the castle.
Everything around the figure was quiet and all of the animals living around the castle all ran away from the unwelcomed visitor. Nopony, not even ursa majors, would stand there and looked at the figure in the eye.
"Current Magika Level, ninety percent..." the figure sounded mechanical. "Calculating magika needed to eliminate target... Calculating... Calculation Complete... Magika needed, five percent..."
The figure lowered it's head and pointed it's horn towards the castle. "Launch sequence... started..."
Light began to gather at the tip of the figure's horn and it formed a little ball of white light. If one was to stand close to the light then they could feel the intensity of it. Just by touching the light would cause three-degree burns but for some strange reason, the figure felt nothing of it.
Celestia inhaled deeply, this was the most difficult part of their little meeting. "We only have a limited time here so listen carefully because I'm just going to explain this once." Everypony there nodded "My summoning of the 8 of you was actually a last resort. The magic needed for the spell I used requires me weeks if not months to get it back. Now, I'm only half as strong as I was before I used the spell."
Everypony's eyes widened after being notified of the current situation. How much danger was this world in if the princess herself needed to sacrifice most of her magic just to summon majority of the Elements of Harmony?
Celestia sighed as she looked back outside "That was the how and now I must answer the why. The reason I summoned you is beca-LOOK OUT!" Celestia suddenly flew in front of everypony and erected a shield just in time to intercept a single beem of energy piercing the wall and made it's way towards Celestia.
All eyes were wide as the two magical forces clashed with each other, fighting for dominance for a few seconds before a huge explosion occured.
Twilight coughed as smoke covered the whole room "Is everypony all right?!"
There was a chorus of "I'm fine", "We're good!" and "My tails is extra poofy right now!" "Mine too!"
Maybe not all of them.
Twilight squinted her eyes and tried to see past the dust and smoke that altered her vision. She didn't need to squint longer though because Celestia used her magic to blow away most of the dust.
Everypony gasped as they saw that one of the walls practically crumbled by the blast and standing there was a figure that made chills ran down their spines, even the pink ponies. Both of the party ponies knew that this wasn't a laughing matter.
The figure in front of them was obviously a kind of horse by the way it was standing and the horn was a dead giveaway. One of the major differences of this horse with the rest of them was it's appearance. The figure was wearing a full body suit, it was built from some kind of black metal. The figure's head sans the horn was completely covered by the same thing covering it's whole body. They couldn't tell if the horn was naturally black or was dyed. Bright red eyes stared unblinkingly at them. Around it's legs were black metal boots that did nothing to hinder it's movements. All in all, this was the kind of horse that nopony should mess around with.
The figure lowered it's head and pointed it's horn at Celestia and light started to gather around at the tip of it.
Celestia's eyes grew wide as she saw what it was doing. "All of you, run away now!"
"But-"
"I said NOW!" Celestia boomed as she erected another magical barrier to counter the beam.
Another explosion occurred and Twilight took that as cue to run away. She turned towards the others since they were still gaping at the figure "Guys! You heard the princess! We need to go!" that broke the spell and everypony scrambled towards the exit.
As soon as every last of them was out of the room, Celestia glared at the unflinching enemy. "Let's end this. Now."
The figure's body suit released some steam as it readied it's body to charge. "Calculating Success Rate, seventy-three percent..." the figure said mechanically.
Celestia used that little bit of distraction to charge a beam herself and fired it at the figure. A huge explosion engulfed the figure and Celestia panted as her energy was starting to deplete. At least the distraction gave her time to catch her breath.
As the smoke cleared, the figure could be seen standing at the same spot as it was hit from Celestia's beam. "Calculating Damage, five percent..."
Celestia gritted her teeth. This was going to be harder than she thought. With that, she shouted at the top her lungs and charged at the figure.