//------------------------------// // But It Does Rhyme (Omega's Return) // Story: The Tale of the Second Alpha // by Bergen //------------------------------// The musical theme for this chapter is The Meta Theme from Red vs. Blue. You will know when to play it. Theta and Spike slammed into each other. Theta having to suppress a roar of pain as Spike slammed into his chest. One of his broken ribs not taking the impact every well. "Spike this isn't you." Theta heard Twilight behind him. Theta surprised that he could even hear the purple alicorn's words through his pain. "Don't bother Twilight, this isn't something that you can just talk someone out of." Theta heard himself say. His body and brain seeming to be a few seconds behind each. "I don't care!" Twilight shouted, and Theta felt a strange force that wrapped around his body. He looked down to see that his body was in an aura of magenta magic. Theta didn't even have time think about the strange occurrence as he was thrown against the wall of the hallway inside the Canterlot palace. The roars of Omega destroying the city ringing in his ears. "Ugh... Twilight what are doing?" Theta asked Twilight, struggling to get back to his feet. "I'm getting my friend back!" Twilight snapped at Theta, her purple eyes filling with tears. "Spike..." Twilight said to her oldest friend. Her slowly and carefully approaching the large purple dragon. "Spike.. listen to me." Twilight said to Spike, slowing extending her hoof toward the snout. Spike snapping his jaws at Twilight's hoof. Twilight quickly recoiling her hoof, only to bring it even closer to the purple dragon. Spike taking a few steps backward as the purple alicorn that even recognize anymore approached him. "This isn't you, Spike." Twilight said to Spike, tearing shamelessly flowing down her cheeks. Twilight's words seemed to be getting through to Spike, his eyes constantly switching from red and green as Twilight continued. "You would never hurt me." Twilight whispered to Spike. Her hoof mere inches from Spike's snout now. Spike's eyes staring intently at the purple hoof in front of him. His brain switching from seeing it as a threat to seeing it as a friend. "You are my best friend Spike." Twilight said to Spike, her friends beginning to trot backwards, not sure if Twilight's actions were going to blow up in her face. "You always have, and you always will be." Twilight said to Spike, her hoof now touching Spike's purple scales. "My best friend..." Twilight repeated to Spike, placing her head on Spike's. Her tearing falling onto Spike's scales. Spike's large eyes closed as his brain tried to fight against the voice of Omega that was pounding in his brain. "I love you, Spike." Twilight whimpered, her purple eyes firmly shut as she cried on Spike's snout. There not being a dry eye in the hallway as Twilight tried to return her old friend back to the baby dragon that she had raised like her own foal since his birth. While... not dry eye, expect one. "No!" Spike roared, taking everypony and dragon in the room by surprise. The purple dragon's eyes snapping open, them staring directly at the purple alicorn crying on his nose. "What?" Twilight whimpered, opening her watery purple eyes to see the blood red eyes of Spike staring directly at her. "No..." Spike repeated, black smoke coming out of his nostrils. "Spike..." Twilight whimpered as she trotted backwards. Spike's chest beginning to glow a green hue. "Spike!" Twilight exclaimed as Spike opened his mouth. A raging green flame beginning to build in his throat. That was when Theta jumped into action, literally. Him firing his orange flame at Spike as he fired his green. The two flames exploding as they combined as one. The massive explosion caused by the two dragon's fire destroying all of the windows in the hallway, as well as lighting the entire hallway on fire. "Go." Theta roared at the Mane Six as he engaged Spike in another fury of teeth, claws, and blood. "But..." Twilight began to protest. "GO!" Theta roared directly at Twilight as he delivered a swipe from his right claws across Spike's face, just below his chin. The purple dragon slamming to a marble pedestal in the hallway. Destroying the pedestal and the ceramic vase that was resting on top of it. The blue vase falling to the ground with a loud crash. "Twilight, darling, we need to go." Rarity said to the purple alicorn. Twilight nodded dumbly as she followed her friend's up the hallway and toward the destroyed throne room of the castle. Twilight couldn't stop herself from one last glance at the two dragons brawling. Another small tear falling down her cheek as she saw Spike hit Theta across the face with his whiplike tail. "So much for being the best day of my life." Twilight mumbled to herself as she tried to keep up with her friends. Her remembering the words that her sister-in-law, Cadence, told her just before her coronation. On top of one of the few building that was either completely flattened and/or on fire a green eyed changeling warped out of the shadows. "Oh, I hope I'm not late..." Zulu said to himself. The changeling falling silent as he took in the sight of pure destruction across the city of Canterlot. I mean, he had seen Canterlot destroyed before, but most of the damage had come from Alpha breaking out of the ground beneath the city. This... this was something completely different. This wasn't accidental destruction that could be repaired in time. This was destruction that could make an entire city vanish without a trace. Zulu was snapped back to reality by an all too familiar roar. Zulu's blank green eyes shot toward the sound of the roar, the massive body of Omega coming in picture. The massive dragon seeming to be having the time of his almost two millennia lifetime. Zulu then drifted his eyes across the ruined city, his eyes falling upon the destroyed the castle. The unconscious body of Alpha resting on the rumble of the throne. Zulu's heart skipped a beat as he thought the giant dragon was lying on the ruined castle died. His fear was short lived as he used his magic to scan the emotions of the giant dragon. The dragon's unconscious dreams being filled with sadness that Zulu couldn't last five seconds in without being overwhelmed by the emotion inside the giant's head. "Ok... so he isn't dead." Zulu said to himself, trying to think up a plan as quickly as possible. Zulu's eyes then drifted back to the massive body of Omega, and he almost fell off of the roof of the building that he was standing on. "Wings..." Zulu said, noticing the massive bat-like wings that were attached to Omega's back. His current wings very different than the bug-like wings that he had earned when he killed Chrysalis. "He can't be..." Zulu thought out loud. A massive roar coming from Omega shaking the ground around him. "WHERE ARE MY DRAGONS!" Omega roared his one golden eye burning brighter than the sun. "Right here... Alpha." Steelclaw said to Omega. "No..." Zulu said to himself, in shock as a group of over a thousand dragons bowed to Omega. "I could get used to this." Omega said to himself, enjoying the power that the Alpha Call gave him. "Go forth and do to this pitiful excuse for country whatever you so desire." Omega said to the thousand or so dragons in front of him. Many of their eyes lighting up at his words. "Yes, sir." Steelclaw said. All of the dragons taking in every possible direction to destroy the rest of Equestria. "This there anything else that you wish upon us?" Steelclaw asked Omega, opening his large wings. "No. I have a special 'matter' that I need to attend to." Omega as he began to walk over toward the destroyed castle. Alpha's unconscious body laying in the rubble. "No... Theta, Sigma. Where are they?!" Zulu exclaimed, him knowing that the only possible creature that could stand a chance against Omega being the two younger alpha twin brothers. Zulu's thoughts were interrupted by the sounds of a roar that had unmistakably come from Theta. This roar, being one coming from pain. "Theta." Zulu said in shock, his green eye widening as he shadow traveled to the location that the roar had come from. Spike and Theta continued to fight throughout the castle. Them slamming each other through different rooms of the castle. The castle becoming completely engulfed in both green and orange flames from Theta and Spike, respectively. "You can't beat me, Spike." Theta said to Spike, blocking one of Spike's swipes with his foreleg. "I'd beat a differ." Spike roared. Him swinging his massive tail around. His tail hitting Theta across the face. Theta tumbling to the ground. Theta roared out as he fired his orange flames at Spike. His orange fire hitting Spike directly in the face. Forcing the purple dragon the retreat backwards. Spike then lashed out at Theta. His right claws hitting Theta just under his lower jaw. Spike's purple claws digging a full inch into Theta's scales. Red blood beginning to flow from Theta's chin. Theta roared out in pain and blasted his orange flame into the ground beneath him. The red carpet of the castle hallway erupting into the same orange flame. Spike took advantage of Theta's imbalance and body slammed him into a large marble column. The top half of the column cracking and falling to the ground. The column smashing through one of the many stained glass windows of the castle. Spike then swung his whiplike tail around and blasted Theta through the rest of the marble column. Theta flying a solid twenty feet of the impact. Theta adding another two cracked ribs to his already broken one earlier. The two dragons continued to fight. Spike driving Theta closer and closer toward the throne room of the castle. The ground around them shaking as Omega continued to flatten the once great city of Canterlot. "Twilight, what do we do?" asked Twilight. The purple alicorn about ready to have a mental breakdown. "I don't know." Twilight whimpered to herself. Her words being able to rival Fluttershy's in volume. "What was that darling?" Rarity asked Twilight, placing a hoof on her shoulder. "I DON'T KNOW!" Twilight snapped at her friends. Each of her friends taking a step backwards at the alicorn's outburst. "I'm sorry I... just... don't know what to do." Twilight apologised to her friends. Her body giving out on her, her collapsing to the ground. Twilight using her large wings to cover her body as she cried shamelessly into the ground. All of Twilight's friends shared a concerned look at each other. They had seen Twilight in emotional turmoil before, but that only went as far as Twilight freaking out over missing an assignment by Princess. This... this was Twilight opening breaking down and crying in front of them. "A... sugar cube. I think this your area of expertise." Applejack whispered to Fluttershy. The yellow pegasus always being the best at comforting others. "Um... ok." Fluttershy said, her words barely above a whisper. "Twilight, talk to me." Fluttershy whispered to the whimpering alicorn, putting one of her hooves on one of Twilight's shoulders. "I'm sorry." Twilight said to the yellow pegasus, wiping away some of the tears on her cheeks. "Don't be." Fluttershy said, the pegasus's words taking Twilight by surprise. "What?" Twilight asked in shock. "Don't be." Fluttershy repeated to Twilight. "If there is anypony that deserves a moment to just sit and cry it is you." Fluttershy said to Twilight, her Element of Kindness coming out in full colors. "This day was supposed to the be one of the greatest days of your life, and it turned into this." Fluttershy said to Twilight, using her free hoof to point around at all of the chaos around her. "I know." Twilight said, sniffing up a sob. Her purple eyes falling on the massive head of Alpha. Him laying in a pile of rubble unconscious, small drips of his red blood still flowing from the massive gash in his neck. "She's right darling." Rarity joined in, the white unicorn trotting over to Twilight. Her fantastic purple dress being torn and covered in the dust from the rubble of the destroyed castle. Twilight gave both Rarity and Fluttershy a smile as her friends were always able to bring a smile to her face. Even in the darkest of times. "Not to spoil the 'moment' you girls are having, but don't you think we should be. I don't know, thinking up a plan to defeat the mountain-sized dragon that is currently destroying Canterlot, and now all of Equestria." Rainbow Dash said in her normal straight to the point manner. Bringing everypony back to the matter at hoof. "I can only think of one thing that can stand a chance against 'Omega' or whatever his name is." Twilight said rising to her full height, her now a few inches taller than her friends. "What's that Twi?" Applejack asked the purple alicorn. Twilight didn't respond for a second, preferring to stare blankly out at her once beautiful home being turned nothing more than a burning pile of rubble. "Twilight... did you hear me?" Applejack asked Twilight, when she didn't respond. "Yes... yes, I heard you AJ." Twilight said, turning to face her five friends. "And the only things that I think can defeat Omega is the Elements of Harmony." Twilight said, staring up at the golden crown atop her head. The purple six-pointed star gem of the crown being her Element of Harmony, the Element of Magic. The Mane SIx's thoughts were interrupted by the sounds of a roar of pain coming from Theta. The roar was then followed by the white dragon being literally thrown through the blue double doors of the castle. The doors being torn off of their hinges by the impact. "Theta!" Twilight cried out, rushing over to the white dragon's side. "I'm alright." Theta said to Twilight, his body covered in minor cuts and bruises. The white dragon struggling to his feet. "You won't be." Theta heard from the doorway. His head snapping toward the voice to see Spike standing in the destroyed doorway. His red eyes burning with anger and animalistic instincts. "Get behind me. Now!" Theta demanded at Twilight and her friends. Twilight quickly retreating behind Theta. The two dragons then charged at each other. Spike landing a single bite on the neck of Theta. Theta roaring out in pain as Spike teeth dug into Theta's flesh. Theta's roar being able to be heard throughout the castle. Sigma continued to travel through the destroyed halls of the Canterlot castle, his pace at a slight jog. His brain going over five hundred miles per hour has he been to think about all of his life choices. "What am I doing?" Sigma asked himself, the gray dragon coming to a complete stop. "You are questioning your placement in this world." A booming voice said to Sigma, taking the gray dragon by surprise. The gray jumped in place, his head bolting toward the location where the words had come from. The blackened scales of Omega being what his yellow eyes saw. "Omega..." Sigma snarled, his yellow eyes burning with hatred. "I am not here to fight you... Sigma." Omega said to Sigma, holding up one of his forelegs in defense. "Bullshit!" Sigma roared. "And how do you know my name?!" Sigma demanded out of the giant dragon. "Oh, I know many things. But that is not important." Omega said to Sigma, his words intentionally cryptic. "Then what IS important?" Sigma asked Omega, dropping down into an offensive stance. "To be, or not to be? That is the question." Omega said to Sigma. "What is that buckin wisdom." Sigma spat at Omega. "No, it's Shakespony, but regardless." Omega said, shifting his attention back to the matter at claw. "I hope I'm not late." Zulu said to himself. Shadow traveling into the hallway where the two dragons were chatting. "Oh shit." Zulu said to himself, warping into the shadows of the castle. Luckily not being spotted by Omega, nor Sigma. "We all have a question that has to be answered in our life. And you are no exception." Omega said to Sigma, the massive dragon lowering his head to speak to Sigma directly. "And question would that be." Sigma spat at Omega, a crooked grin appearing on the blacked dragon's face. "We all must answer a simple question in our lives. What is are calling in life." Omega began, Sigma surprised to the ancient wisdom coming from the creature that he originally saw as a mindless beast. "For ponies, that is easy, with them getting their 'cutie marks'. But for us dragons it is a little more complicated than that. We need to decide on our own what we are going to become." Omega said to Sigma. A roar coming from Theta resonating throughout the ruined castle. "What are you planning Omega?" Zulu questioned internal, wondering what the giant dragon end game was. "For ponies, that is easy, with them getting their 'cutie marks'. But for us dragons it is a little more complicated than that. We need to decide on our own what we are going to become." Omega said to Sigma. A roar coming from Theta resonating throughout the ruined castle. "Theta!" Zulu screamed internally. "Theta!" Sigma cried out at the sound of his brother in pain. "We just need to hope that we make the right choice when it comes." Omega said to Sigma, a light bulb going off in Sigma's head. "You're right, I have decided what my true calling in life is." Sigma said, his scales turning almost pitch black and his eyes blood red. "I hope that the choice you make in this will be the right one." Omega said to Sigma. "Oh, I know it will be." Sigma said, as he took toward the throne room of the castle. "This doesn't sound good." Zulu thought to himself, as he used the cover of the shadows to follow Sigma undetected. "Get... off... ME!" Theta roared, swing his head around until Spike was thrown off his neck. Slamming into the right wall of the throne room. The force of his impact shattering the stained glass painting that showed Princesses Celestia and Luna defeating Discord. Spike slowly struggled to his feet and charged at Theta. An attack that Theta was able to block and recoiled with a swipe from his tail across Spike's face. Slamming the purple dragon back into the wall. "Give it up Spike, you can't beat me." Theta said to Spike, the white dragon completely exhausted both physically and mentally. "Never!" Spike roared at Theta, his words rasping and sounding as if it was hard for Spike to even breathe. Theta grunted in frustration and said to Spike. "FINE!" Theta roared, delivering one last swipe from his tail to Spike's head. The swing landing home, knocking Spike unconscious. Theta then groaned in both pain and exhaustion. Him slowing walking over toward the Mane Six. The six ponies watching the battle between Theta and Spike. Tears falling down Twilight face, her still having a hard time believing that the unconscious beast that Theta had fought was once her number one assistant. "Are you alright, Theta?" Fluttershy asked Theta, seeing the white dragon limping as he approached the six ponies. "I will be." Theta groaned in pain, his one broken and two cracked ribs were not making easy to breathe. "THETA!" Theta heard a deep voice call his name, thinking that it was Spike his jumped back around to protect the Mane Six. Only to get a single claw strike across his face, or maybe it was a tail swipe. Theta couldn't tell. All he saw was a flash of black and the pain caused by the strike. Theta was slammed into the golden throne of the throne room by an unknown force. Theta only seeing only a large black blur and the pain caused by it. A unanimous gasp took over the room. All of Canterlot seeming to come to a deathly quiet. Theta vision went black for a second or two, his ears ringing from the impact that he received. Gold is a soft metal, yeah, tell that to Theta. Zulu, hidden in the shadows of the throne room couldn't believe what he had just witnessed, the creature that had delivered the hit on Theta slowing stalking toward the white dragon. Like a predator about to make a meal out of his prey. "No, this isn't possible." Zulu thought to himself, the creature that had struck Theta, taking a delight in the pain that he had just caused. Theta slowly began to open his eyes. His vision blurry from the impact. Him only being able to make out the large creature with black scales that was stalking toward him. Two piercing red eyes staring right back him. His ears still ringing from the impact into the golden throne. Him only being able to hear muffled gasps from who he assumed was Twilight and her friends. As Theta vision began to focus and the ringing of his ears came to a stop, he began to make out more of the appearance of the creature that he attacked him, and his was hit by an invisible sledgehammer of steel. "No!" Theta screamed internally. Him to weak from his fight with Spike and from the blow that had just received to even speak. The creature that had attacked Theta was a large black dragon with burning red eyes. The dragon just slightly larger and more muscular than Theta. His scales as black as night and his eyes as red as blood. Though this dragon appearance had changed a lot in the last few months there was no debate who it was. "Sigma... what are you doing?" Theta said weakly. Black spots beginning to form in his vision, the emptiness of unconsciousness beginning to set in. "Finding my true calling in life." Sigma said to Theta, his voice much deeper more sinister. "A calling that doesn't include YOU." Sigma spat at Theta. Those words being the last thing Theta heard until the blackness of unconsciousness hit him. His body falling limp on the cold gold of the destroyed throne that he was laying on. One of the greatest betrayals in Equestrian history being repeated fifteen hundred years later. "History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme."