//------------------------------// // Gates to Taurtarus- Pt.3 // Story: Why so VG? // by dereturd //------------------------------// TWO Gates to Taurtarus Atom was about to leave his home, thankfully his little brother, Neutron, has got ahead of him due to school. He trusts his brother in taking care of the house, he can do anything he want with it as long as he follows the house rules given by his big brother. The other members of Pony On Special Ops (POSO) we're out with their family or either in the hospital. The only active members of the organization is Atom, his friends Dreadlock and Danger Close (Who were now KIA). At this rate, Atom doesn't have any new missions to take on, so he took a trip to the castle of the Two Sisters. The hour has passed, and he was about to enter the castle. When Bonecrusher, Sideswipe and Slice Fang stopped him. "Atom, the request of the Royal Guards needs you involved, this is given by the order of Princess Celestia herself. We require you in our base." Bonecrusher said, Atom turned to them and raised a brow in confusion. "Can you give me a small summary?" He asked as the four started to trot towards the base. "Your organization is slowly dying," As soon as Slice Fang said that, Atom was slightly annoyed. "and Princess Celestia and Princess Luna suggested that we should involve you in this experienced mission. We're about to infiltrate the land of the dragons and bring in the recent dragon who was responsible for destroying almost all of Ponyville." Yes, it was still the Dragon Age, where the dragon Alduin started a war between ponies and dragons. His fellow dragon comrades was following his commands, and some of his dead-but-durable comrades was resurrected and quickly dealt with, thanks to POSO, the Royal Guards and the Luna Republic. But when Slice mentioned 'Ponyville', Atom's expression quickly dropped. Now he wanted to start it sooner. The quad reached the base, and it was underground. The base looked more of a bunker and a prison combined. The base was inside the shack near the castle, and going through the hatch leads to the base. Atom quickly analyzed the base, slowly memorizing it. It would've been better if he had used his Psychokinesis--which was the name of his visual prowess according to his ancestors--but he didn't know if it would affect ponies around him, so he took note of it. They were trotting towards the armory, but Atom didn't know of this. "Are we going to check what's our objective?" The pale blue unicorn asked. "No, we'll gear up first then head to the meeting room." Bonecrusher replied, as they pick up the pace. They reached the armory, and there was a stash of arrows for bows and crossbows, there was swords, rapiers, cleavers, some staffs and even a prototype for a magic cannon, but Atom has no knowledge of this. He approaches the cannon and examined it. It had eight barrels on the front, and there was a hole on the back end instead of a mechanic for lighting the string on fire. "What's this?" He asked. "That, my friend, is a prototype of the Magic Cannon." Sideswipe quickly answered. "It uses magic to shoot out projectiles instead of common cannonballs. All you have to do is place your horn in the hole and make a small spark of magic, then it uses that amount to make a full-barrage." He explained. "But right now, it uses your entire magic to actually make it work." Slice Fang added, equipping her Rapier. Atom, with nothing else to do, he just waited for them. Finally, after what it took like forever, they finished gearing and continued to the meeting room. Where the room was filled with Royal Guards seemingly what look like a long conveyor belt, at the very front of the room was the leader, Commander Ace Shield, who was commander for 3 decades. "...We will also be joined by the current captain of POSO, Atom!" He yelled, as if on cue, the guards quickly noticed him, moved to the side, and saluted. Atom casually trotted to the front where the commander was. While the leader was talking, Atom was checking, he looked at the board and saw the main objectives. 1- Infiltrate the Land of the dragons 2- Make the way to the main mountain 3- Confront and defeat Alduin Atom smirked, and chuckled. 'This is how the objectives are like back in those days.' He thought. He can remember his squad was about to take down an ancient magic dragon, which absorbs you're magic and use it in it's favor. But what they only did is use melee attacks, from the start Atom placed a curse on the dragon when it was glaring at him eye-to-eye, using his visual prowess called Karmic Retribution. Slowly hurting you, coursing over your veins, which promptly will end until you die. It's basically poison. Atom returned to the crowd of guards behind him, as they were still listening to what the Commander recommends to do. Then the elite guards, the representative of the Lunar republic, Crescent Light, the representative of the Royal Guard of Celestia, Sunborn Magic stood by Atom's side. "...Then let's get to it!" Ace yelled, as they all yelled in 'hail!'. It's been days, and they were still marching to the Land of the dragons. They were still meters away from the location itself. But at least they crossed the great sea of Equestria. So they were more likely hidden in the forest. Camping while some scout around. Atom however was nowhere near the camp. Rather, he was somewhere near the edge of the forest, where it transitions into the territory of the dragons. He was there with his Psychokinesis active, the light from his glowing eye looms a small radius around him, enabling him to see from his position. He can see the grass slowly switching to cobblestone and rocks. He really wanted to get in there and slay them himself, to avenge them, to complete his vengeance. It will be victory, for him and for everypony else. He clenched his hoof on the hilt of his blade. But then he released his grasp, and trotted back to the camp. The entire army of guards are outside their door, and they are ready to confront and kill Alduin themselves. The smoke was arising, dragons were seen at a distance, it's either they know they're here or they're clueless of what's going on at all. Commander Ace stepped up, and faced the army in front of him. Speeching for the guards. While Atom was looking at the land of dragons, he didn't wield, nor did he use magic to grasp his sword. He had his Psychokinesis active, and can see 10 other single dragon flying around that were nearby. He can hear sounds of 'hail!' and cheers from the background, but then he was called to by Ace. "Atom," The pale blue unicorn turned to him. "Are you ready?" He only nodded. "Ponies," He turned back to his fellow comrades. ONWARD!!" He yelled, pointing towards the landscape as the royal guards, both the Luna and Celestial republic, charged forward, with their yells loud enough, they were able to take attention of some dragons. They prepared, they trained, they studied, and they are ready to kill. A sword then appeared from Atom's back, another sword, sheathed in his quiver. Using his two hooves, he was able to dual wield his swords, a small amount of ponies are able to do this, and that's what makes them powerful. He looked forward, where a dragon looked to his friend beside him, they exchange looks, and opened their mouths. "EVERYPONY SHIELD!!" Ace yelled, as the guards did so, mechanical and magical shields was raised. However Atom didn't, he was ready, he wanted to kill Alduin, and stab his whole, again and again. His Psychokinesis active, with that, he made a block formation, crossing both swords together, which then from the dragon's mouth, shot a frost breath and a fire breath on Atom. After they stopped, they almost froze, Atom was still alive, but he was never harmed, using his Psychokinesis got himself a hidden shield. But that's not the reason why the dragons froze. As soon as the army lowered their use of protection, Atom was nowhere to be seen. Without a trace, he's basically gone. Dragons don't compare they're abilities to themselves, as long as they stay dead, they're finished with it. And that's where they're wrong. They felt a sinking feeling on their neck, one turned to the others nape while vice versa, and saw that the left one had a blade on his nape while the other had Atom, sticking his other blade on the other's nape, he slowly dug it in, until he found the sweet spot, the blade quickly snapped in the dragon's nape, tremendously making pain to his body, Atom quickly grabbed his other blade, as he sliced off the dragon's head itself (the right one), killing him. Atom grabbed his blades, he sheathed his other one, as he gripped his sword tightly, he climbed on the dragon's muzzle, where thr unicorn impaled his blade onto his face, killing another one. He pulled out his blade, and the dragon dropped, the souls were quickly absorbed, and the army watched in awe how powerful actually he was. When they ever go on 'killing dragon missions' along with the POSO, they slightly see Atom do work, they normally see him slice some tail, ears and some wings off. Entire wings. Hell, it's been a long time since they saw a real fighter, and Atom was the one who got back the working title. The army went wild, and cheered on what he did. "PONIES, ATTAAACK!!" Ace shouted, and so did the crowd. This is going to be one long day. More and more dragons came on the spot. Some where flying, while the others were on ground. The army splits as they come in small groups, a Luna republic squad took down some, a Celestial republic squad also slaughtered some, and a mixed group used bows and swords to take down their opponents. Atom however massacred 5 dragons all in one go. The souls is now absorbed into Atom His momentum striking forward. He kept on advancing forward, as he came into the deeper territory, his sight came across a crater, in the middle was a mountain. Where then, his eyes found him. The devourer looked around, then gazed at the insect who first saw him directly, he gestured forward where Atom was, and dragons and dragons and dragons race where he is. There was about 14 of them. Atom had no time to lose, he didn't want to let Alduin escape somewhere else. His Psychokinesis active, he leapt and jumped, thrusted and launched like a rocket. Thankfully, his visual prowess allows him to predict every move they will make, unless the opponent is to fast for it to handle. The dragon leading the attack was firstly grabbed by Atom, who then shook it's horns, but he pulled out a dagger, and stuck on his head, not killing the dragon though. But he managed to hijack/control the direction where the dragon flies, so the unicorn targeted the group of dragons, where the beasts were about to unload a mount of fire, frost, magic breaths at the hijacked comrade. Atom, readied 7 throwing knives at hoof, with the assistance of his visual prowess, he threw the knives, targeting the spots where they will be 'knocked out' for a while. The knives hit the eyes, forehead or the muzzle of the 7 dragons, then the hijacked dragon shot out his 'marked for death' shout, as soon as the shout hits the 7 hurt dragons, they collapsed, and when collapse, it means they fell towards the ground, dead, due to the maximum power the shout gives combining it with the throwing knives. Now Atom drew his black katana, gripped on his right foreleg, while his left foreleg was holding onto the dragon, the hijacked dragon was about to unleash a storm call, lightning strikes and meteor showers. The dragon unleashed the shout, which then lightning stormed from the skies and so did small meteors. The lightning and meteors hit the 7 other dragons, which caused them to go blinded by the hits, Atom jumped from the hijacked dragon, which then the unicorn grabbed his other blade, impaling and slicing the heads off in a single strong swift slash, killing the 7 dragons. After killing the last one, he jumped off from the tail of the 14th dragon, he can see Alduin on his sights. Until a gigantic dragon opened it's mouth, about to chomp on Atom. ROAR!! His eyes widened, and he didn't know what to do, his Psychokinesis did nothing, so he disables it for now. The army just came into view, sensors can see Atom about to get eaten. "ATOM!" Ace yelled, while some of the others were ignoring what he yelled about. The gigantic dragon then closed it's jaw, trapping Atom inside it's mouth. The unicorn woke up, and sees himself in a black void. A place full of nothing, but a black space. His attire and weapons were still on his grip, but can only see a black background. The black space then had a red light emitted, then the source showed itself, a red heart. Glowing bright as the moon. "What's this?" He asked to himself. Then turned around, to see a holographic memory of him being born, having a fun time with his family, getting his cutie mark and can see the sight of Neutron held in his father's hooves. "What the..?" "What should we name him?" The young Atom asked. "I think, Neutron." His father said, giving Neutron to his young smart son. Hugging him as his mother smiles. And Atom smiled as well. Everything then faded and turned into this- But it refused. Alduin dropped from the mountain and landed along with the humongous dragon. Ace and his squad arrived to the scene, weapons drawn. Alduin then gestured something to his comrade. "Naadzik, ofan zey sen. (Naadzik, give me the boy.)" Alduin spoke, and the dragon did what he asked him to do. But before the dragon could do it, the mouth was slowly raising and opening, like it was being pryed open. Then Atom came into sights, standing on two legs while his forelegs opening the mouth. "RAHHH!!!" The unicorn struggled and yelled, as he jumped from the mouth to the squad of Ace, who were reliefed to see him alive. "Atom, what were you thinking?!" Ace scolded. "I got my way old man." He said, and sure enough, Ace was annoyed. He looked back to the dragons, where Alduin left and flew away to the mountain and flew inside. Atom got more angry, his Psychokinesis active, staring right at the humongous one, who was about to strike the squad down with it's claw, he swiped his claw but got sliced off by Atom. "Ace, handle him, I'm going after Alduin!" "But Atom-" But Atom thrusted off and jumped like a rocket, did what he did a while ago. The gigantic dragon was in no use to even strike down Atom. Who was still gliding thanks to his new abilities. Atom landed inside the mountain, where at the very bottom was a rectangular portal. He swore he saw Alduin in a fraction of a second flying into it. "Woah!" He yelled, after an arrow flew past him. Skele-ponies were attacking him with arrows using bows. With no time to lose, he jumped off, straight into the portal. Evan flipped the next page, when suddenly his face fell on the book, after, he snored. Now he found his solution.