//------------------------------// // Preparing for war part 1 (Villains) // Story: The Last Human (Book 1) // by Lady Maria //------------------------------// (This consists of the last chapter and well the new one I deleted the other chapter so I could combine these two.) As the night approached Xavier stood in his command center staring at a screen showing the status of his army. The changeling drones were slowly activating the mechs stored in the lower hull of the Hellbringer. As Xavier yawned as he cracked his neck and reached out touching several holograms and rearranging the screens around him. Xavier sat down in his throne like chair as a holographic keyboard appeared before him as he started rapidly typing in commands to the main system. Xavier had the robots that were active start to work over time to get ready for the massive war that was about to start. As Xavier sat there typing furiously. Discord walked into the room and just stared at Xavier as he rapidly typed and made thousands of commands per second. "Xavier are you alright?" Discord asked walking up to Xavier as his eyes were glued to the screens in front of him. Xavier stopped typing and looked to Discord with his bloodshot eyes. "Yes Daren I am perfectly fine. Although I haven't slept in three days I'm fully awake and aware of my surroundings" Xavier says looking to Discord as Discord's face turned to one of concern. Xavier went back to typing as he issued a command to start building heavy tank like mechs. As the command was issued the robots in the docking bay took a few hundred medium sized mechs and took them apart to put together about a dozen heavily armored mechs. "Xavier you need to rest, just leave this to me" Discord says as Xavier types in one more command and turns around and stares at Discord with his bloodshot eyes. "you can handle this? Hahahah... Hahahahah!! HAHAHAHAHAH!!!" Xavier laughed making Discord feel uneasy, "You with Tweedledee, and Tweedledum couldn't succeed in creating a atomic bomb! So explain how you will operate the Hellbringer and produce enough mechs to wipe out Equestria?" Xavier asks "We will use our magic to run the Hellbringer" Discord says simply causing Xavier to scowl. "There is no such thing as magic! This so called magic you speak of is a process that happens in the brain causing you're brain activity to rise and allow you to manipulate gravity and matter without making physical contact with it" Xavier says as he stares at Discord his eye twitching ever so slightly. "Look Xavier just let me handle you're duties. Ill make sure everything is done with 110% precision" Discord says to Xavier making him relax. "Okay I'll let you take control of the mech production but don't make me regret this Daren!" Xavier snarled as he turned around and walked out of the room leaving Discord to run the Hellbringer and prepare for war. Xavier walked down the hallway of the Hellbringer holding his head as some changelings ran by bumping into him making Xavier fall to his ass. One of the Changelings stopped and turned around to look at Xavier. "M-my lord are you alright?" The Changeling asks as Xavier rubbed his head. The Changeling guard went over and helped Xavier up. "Yes I'm fine I just haven't slept in days" Xavier says as he gets up rubbing his head. "My lord do you need help?" The Changeling asks as Xavier stood up and shook his head. "No soldier carry on with you're duties" Xavier responds as the Changeling soldier nodded and ran off to catch up with his other group members. Xavier rubbed his head in exhaustion and went to his room. As he opened the door he saw a centaur like being in his study chair. "I have been waiting for you Xavier. Truly it is wonderful to meet a human, one of our creators!" The old and frail Centaur said. "Yes this is a lot of praise coming from someone who has sinister intentions so what do you want?" Xavier asks. "I want power... You're power and now sense I have a decent power supply with me I can fight you for yours." The centaur says turning around and taking off his hood. "Oh I remember you... Hello Beta or should I say? Tirek." Xavier says as Tirek smirks and crushes the artifact he's holding and grows to twice the size of Xavier and cracks his neck as the two prepared to fight. Xavier VS Tirek Xavier awaited Tirek's first move as he circled the once human beast. Tirek charged forward and roared as he generated what could only be described as Hellfire in his palm. Xavier narrowed his eyes as he let Tirek get closer and closer. Tirek was now inches away from Xavier as Xavier smirked and sidestepped avoiding Tirek's attack. Xavier then tripped him and quickly slashed Tirek's spine with his plasma blade. Tirek roared in pain and then slammed into the wall breaking a few bones. Xavier chuckled and his smirk became a disturbingly wide smile, "Weak as usual Beta with the other experiments you would have gotten them but sense I'm alpha that means I will always be better no mater what" Xavier mocks as Tirek growled and got up. "You are so wrong Xavier I was always stronger and more physically built then you" Tirek retorts as he turned around and spit a blood covered tooth out of his mouth. "You may be stronger in other ways Tirek but the reason I'm still more advance and powerful then you is because I literally know everything. Knowledge beats physical power Tirek. You are all muscle and no brain, and because of that you cannot beat me no matter how hard you try," Xavier respond as he gave a bit of mad laughter. Tirek snarled and again charged forward, Xavier did the same with his blade in one hand and in the other a surge of electricity and lightning reaching up to ten thousand volts. Tirek this time struck Xavier in the stomach, Xavier cringed a bit and grabbed Tirek's neck with his electrocution hand and shot the lightning into him. After a few seconds they were both blown back in opposite directions and hit the walls behind them. Xavier groaned knowing that if wasn't so tired Tirek's attack would have missed. Xavier shook his head and growled as he levitated himself into the air his white eyes now glowing brightly as lightning and pure energy shot out from his body. Soon this energy became pure darkness and swirled around Xavier and making the plants and living things in the room rot at a extremely fast rate. "You son are up shit creek without a paddle." Xavier snarls as he shows his razor sharp teeth. Tirek's eyes shrank as he gulped and started to shake as he saw with his own eyes what was known as the Black blood Sacrifice. Discord was down in the hanger of the Hellbringer as he ordered certain changelings and robots to work on a special mech made for Xavier. Discord planned to have it composed of ten heavily armored Juggernaut class mechs. It would possess the most devastating weapons in war's very existence. It would take the elements of harmony, all the princesses, and the most powerful mages to take down this mech. As the gargantuan metal monster was being built Discord revived a alert message on the radar. Discord turned his attention to the main dashboard and looked at the alert. "What is this?" Discord asks as he looks at the description of why he was alerted on this. It seems one of the scout teams Xavier sent out has discovered a huge amount of dark magic radiating from some old ruins. After reading this Discord furrowed his brow and decided to go talk to Xavier about this new problem at hand. Xavier tore up the ground behind him as he bolted towards Tirek. Tirek attempted to block the attack with his arms but that was a grave mistake. Xavier laid one blow on Tirek and his arms and bones were shattered into dust. Tirek screamed as he fell to his sides writhing in agony. "Mercy, please Alpha mercy!" Tirek begged now crying like a little baby. Xavier picked Tirek up by the neck and stared him straight in the eyes. Xavier's stare had broken Tirek and now he knew Xavier was way past forgiveness at this point. In the back of his mind he could literally see Xavier as Satan, Xavier had no remorse, no forgiveness, and was all composed and made of hatred and sorrow. Tirek saw his whole life flash before his eyes. His childhood full of strife and abuse, his adolescence the experimentation of his body and mind, and his adult hood full of murder and hatred for the ponies. As Tirek closed his eyes accepting his terrifying fate he heard the door being opened. This caused Xavier to look over at the door and see Discord who was wide eyed and speechless. Xavier seemed to calm down and the darkness around him vanished. Xavier slowly fell to the ground and dropped Tirek. "Ugh my head" Xavier says as he lands and stumbled around. "Xavier!" Discord exclaimed and helped Xavier walk to his bed, Xavier laid down and quickly fell asleep from exhaustion. Discord sighed then immediately scowled as he turned to face Tirek. Tirek again felt uneasy as he saw Discord staring at him, "Beta explain to me why you decided to attack Alpha. You should have very well known that would be like committing suicide" Discord says as he heals Tirek but strips his magical abilities from him. "Yes I knew that Discord" Tirek says scoffing and acting all tough. Discord scowled and back handed Tirek, "Number one you will address me as General Daren and Second you're a prisoner of war now until Lord Xavier decides on what he's going to do with you" Discord says as he tied up Tirek and carried him to prison. Discord threw Tirek into a cell then locked it and then walked away. Now he was going to make sure the mechs were ready for war...