Lightning Strikes
James wasn't having a good day. He was supposed to just show up in this world of pastel ponies, spread havoc and chaos, and claim the place for ARCO. So far he'd spent almost half of his energy on an army that had just gotten thoroughly trounced and now the one person he had successfully murdered didn't have the decency to stay dead.
"Sarah, if you won't stay down when you're put down, then I'll just have to use you as best I can."
He raised his hands, and tendrils reached out from the opened skull of his dragon type devourer spawn. They wrapped themselves around Sarah's arms and legs, quickly binding her and beginning to bore into her skin.
"Since you blew his brains out, I'll just make your brain the new one! That way you can enjoy a front row seat to killing all these pathetic-"
The invading tendrils touched her spine, and suddenly his mind was screaming.
There was a voice that spoke like a hundred voices, chanting mantras full of death and blood and violence. There was a sound like writing, and the thoughts of a thousand complex equations changing constantly. There were dreams of darkness and power and fear. Some of the dreams were mantras. Some of the Mantras were equations. Some of the equations were dreams.
In the middle of it all was Sarah, her mind the eye of this storm, and from her perspective he saw himself clutching the sides of his head and screaming. He watched himself fall to his knees before darkness swept over him.
Attention: Emergency disconnect engaged.
James sat up, coughing and spitting. He wiped the back of his hand across his face and found himself bleeding from his nose and ears.
"Fucking bitch."
There was a deep, painful roar and James looked up to see his dragon spawn standing up. Sarah was buried to the waist in the thing's severed neck. He smiled, maybe he had succeeded after all.
Then the monster started to thrash about wildly, and for the first time in his life James heard a spawnling scream.
Princess Luna stared up at Sarah, covered in blood and waist deep in the dragon thing's head. Luna could hear distant echoes of the thoughts roaring in Sarah's head, and she could see the manic grin frozen on her face.
The monstrous beast roared in pain, thrashing around as though trying to stomp out an invisible enemy. It wasn't until the thing raised a claw to rake across its own destroyed face that Luna could see what was really happening.
Its flesh was boiling away. As she watched its skin and muscle dissolved, and the blood pouring from its wounds turned to steam. The thing thrashed and screamed as it was slowly eaten away to nothing, even its blood being cleaned away from her clothes.
It's D! Luna thought, At the trial Sarah said D could eat parts of her body for power! That thing just merged with Sarah, and gave D a small army's worth of flesh to consume!
James fed more of his stored energy into the devouerer parasite and his cursed AI. An armor and shield of bone and steel grew from his body as the last of the dragon-spawn dissolved away into Sarah. He got the shield up just as Sarah slammed into him.
The strike pushed him back a few feet, digging grooves into the blood stained field. Sarah pulled back her metal arm and slammed it into the bony shield again.
"You can't win!" he taunted as the blow landed without effect. "You can't even crack my-"
An intricate circle of dark flames burst into being on his shield, and her fist slammed into the middle at speeds impossible for her strength. The crack ran through the bone of the shield and into the bones in his arm.
"AAAHH! BITCH!" he yelled, bringing his right hand around. A steel blade extended out from his hand and punched through Sarah's unarmored stomach and out her back.
A dark claw wrapped around James' wrist, and he realized that he'd trapped himself too close to his opponent. Her steel arm came back again and the black flame circles etched themselves in the air. The steel fist slammed again and again into the bone shield, cracking and splintering it. The punch slipped past the shield and broke his nose. If it weren't for the additional armor and support, it probably would have broken his neck.
ATTENTION: YOU ARE GETTING YOUR ASS KICKED!
"Break!" he screamed, pushing Sarah back. She held onto his wrist with a death grip, and so he brought the razor edge of the battered shield down on his own arm. Taking a half step back, a small turret raised from his shoulder, and his signature red laser raked across Sarah's body and face, taking her left eye and deeply scaring her body.
"There there, you just stay still, mister dragon." Fluttershy tended to the wounded creature with the last of the medical supplies. The rest of the army had regrouped and was watching the two humans trade blows. The raider was quick to fall back, making use of armor and ranged attacks, while Sarah was putting everything into each hit, ignoring the wounds he dealt her.
"I don't get it. She's fighting like she doesn't care," Twilight said.
"Ah've seen a fight like that before," Applejack said worriedly, "in a cornered critter. Ah don't think she can waste time and energy defending. She's running outta time."
"You are very correct," Princess Celestia said, cringing slightly. "Even from here I can hear all her companions screaming. Whatever seal the elements had on Nightmare is gone, and now there are four minds in that body fighting just to stay alive."
"Well then, let's just hit them with the Elements of Harmony!" Rainbow Dash said. "The field is clear of other baddies and they're holding still enough that we could get them."
"Yes, darling," Rarity pointed out. "But the way they are moving we'd have to hit both."
"What happens if all the spirits are released like last time? Or what if they all get locked inside of Sarah? Or what if the author gives away a plot point accidentally as one of my random ramblings?"
"Uh, Pinkie, you're not makin' a lick a sense."
"Girls!" Twilight got her friends focused. "It doesn't matter. This may be our only chance to stop that monster. Still, it never hurts to have a backup." She smiled. "Fluttershy, how's the dragon?"
"He can't fly, and I don't want him to fight."
"Can he still breathe fire?"
"One or two blasts, but that's all." The dragon nodded in agreement to Fluttershy's assessment.
"OK, Applejack, I want you to get your family ready. Anyone with a bow. Rainbow, it's time to bring the lightning. Think you can target it like we did last week?"
"Yeah, I know to get out of the way this time."
"Rarity, Pinkie, I need you to go help the others. Ranged attacks only. This needs to be a combined strike."
Sarah staggered before James, bleeding from hundreds of cuts and gasping for breath. Sweat poured down her body, mixing with the blood and causing her wounds to sting. James felt and looked better, but he was running low on power. There was only so much in each anchor, and he was starting to feel like he didn't have as much as he ought to.
"Give this up Sarah. You can't beat me. All you're going to do is work yourself into a messy death."
"Messier than being stabbed by someone I thought was a friend?"
"It's just business, Sarah. I don't know why you won't just roll over and die already." A magical glow attracted his attention from the pony's army line. "What are your crayon horses doing now?"
"That is the dumbest version of 'Hey, what's that!?' I have ever-"
Rainbow light slammed down on the two of them, and James felt an odd sense of disconnection. As the light faded, he blinked his eyes clear to see Sarah just kneeling there before him.
"HA!" he threw his right hand forward to blast her away.
Nothing happened.
"Dev? Xnic?"
"SoRrY mAsTeR," the deep burbling voice of the parasite said. "It LoOks LiKe We DoN't NeEd YoU."
James looked to his left in time to see a scale and metal hand brush him aside, throwing him nearly thirty feet towards the tree line.
What stood in his place now was massive. It was flesh and steel and bones all melded into one creature, ten feet tall with massive horns and thick armor. A devouerer parasite and a posessed AI merged into a single body of death incarnate. It stomped over to the kneeling form of Sarah, chuckling to itself.
"AlL tOo EaSy." The new daemon raised its right hand, summoning a war-hammer of fire and blood out of thin air.
Sarah shot straight up, her uppercut throwing the daemon high into the sky.
"OW! WhAt ThE?!"
"Hi" A blue pegasus said as it sped by, a rainbow trailing after it. The sonic boom and corona of light that followed spun the demon around.
"If YoU tHiNk A lItTlE lIgHt ShOw Is GoInG tO-"
"NOW!" the blue pony yelled. Further up the rainbow, every pegasus still air worthy was pearched on Rainbow Dash's House-storm. As one they bucked, disgorging a massive lightning bolt straight down towards the ground. When the massive electrical arc hit the ionized light path of the rainboom trail, it made an immediate right angle turn and streaked along it's curving path.
Straight through the demon.
"AAAAARRRRRGH!"
The thing fell to the ground and as it rose, it found itself staring down a single massive speaker. Perched atop it was the dark alicorn. She drew a single long breath.
The Canterlot Voice hit the microphone, destroying it.
The sound carried up the cables, setting them on fire.
The amplifier did its job as circuits sparked and melted, before the final product was delivered through the speaker as its last act in this world.
The Gryphon Emperor raised his head from his pillow in the early morning and glared at his maids and servants.
"Did one of you just call me a bitch?"
The daemon rolled back, quickly gathering energy to regenerate its ruined ears and eyes. As it rose it felt dozens of stings. The ponies were firing arrows at it. A balista bolt hit and bounced off the armored plate.
"HA! LoOkS lIkE yOu'Ve AlReAdY gIvEn Me YoUr AlL!"
Half a massive bow appeared above the archers in translucent golden energy.
"Your Highness," Princess Celestia called to Queen Chrysalis with an air of smug delight, "if you would care to assist me?"
"It would be my honor, your Majesty!" Queen Chrysalis hissed, vengeance burning in her eyes as the other half of the bow formed from dark green magic.
"READY!" Sweetie Bell yelled as Twilight, Rarity and a few other unicorns lifting the fallen tree into the bow.
"Two degrees down and a degree to the lefth, your Magesthies." Twist said, looking through her spyglass.
"FIRE!" Sweetie called.
The tree had no point to it, but it still punched right through the plate, sticking half way out the back of the demon.
"YOU WRETCHED LITTLE GLUE FACTORIES!" The demon yelled, tearing the tree from it's chest and turning towards the line.
And that's when the dragon caught it in a massive blast of fire, turning the tree to ash and causing the daemon's exposed flesh to bubble.
"ENOUGH!"
A blast pushed back the lesser ponies and scattered the remains of the Bass Cannon.
"I WiLl NoT pUt Up WiTh YoUr PaThEtIc LiTtLe ReSiStAnCe AnY mOrE! YoU AlL DiE! NOW!"
It's arms came together, distending and shifting in a disgusting fashion. Luna watched in horror as she began to recognized the shape they now took.
She was staring down the business end of a soul shard rifle.
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6965492 Well, since you asked so nicely
6965535 this was an extremely pleasant surprise XD
wow didnt expecct another chapter so soon.
PINKIE STOP OBLITERING THE FORTH WALL!
Is this story coming to an end? Please no.
6965704 This story is part of a planed trilogy and is reaching it's conclusion.
Dimension Jumper and Phase Shift run effectively at the same time, though I'm still working on Phase Shift. Phase Shift shows a lower power Jumper dealing with smaller and more political problems.
The final story, Asylum, has not been released at all yet and probably won't be until Phase Shift is finished or mostly finished. It involves some of the fight against ARCO, the real secret goal behind the dimension jumping, and tying off any plot points I missed in Dimension Jumper or Phase Shift.
Thank you for explaining Luna, I was confused, and this counts as James getting Hoisted
I get the feeling his 'companion' doesn't like him and is a troll.
The dragon has been adopted and will now be attending Fluttershy's monthly book club. Don't ever change Fluttershy, you wonderful, wonderful mare!
My ears hurt just reading this... and the grin on my face would be easy to find on Pinkie's.
Even more win, this is why ponies rock, get them working together and there's pretty much nothing they can't do.
Cliffie ending is evil, but this was a great chapter so I'm merely screaming at my screen for you to update ASAP.
Two chapters ago was good. The last chapter was great. This chapter was awesome. I can barely imagine what the next chapter will be like....
MurderState.exe has been activated proceed y/y
That's how my mind works with James.
So much awesome is going on.
I take my eyes off this story for a while and come back to it and bam! Three fantastic chapters for me to sink my teeth into. Dang, that was awesome!
I haven't gotten around to reading Phase Shift yet, but it looks like I better get on that.
6969390 Don't hurry too much on Phase Shift. It is still needs to have a lot more written and a lot of beta reading and edits.
Do you have the rest of this story finished since we're at the final battle and you released three chapters in a row?
6970709 yes? There are a lot of grammar/color tweaks to the next chapter so it might be a day or two before it's out. My beta reader has been wonderful lately and that's really helped a lot.
6970769 Awesome. I kinda binge read the whole thing in about 7-8 hours last night and I can't wait to see how it ends.
I came into this story thinking to myself 'why not, Iv read every other story that's popular, why not try the last one' and I'm fucking glad I did this one last because while the other stories were good, I would have never read any of them because this would have taken up all of my time because it's so awesome!
6972839 I don't have friends. I have people I tolerate. Friends are only people that will stab you in the back later instead of right now. But, thanks for the compliment.
*is totaly overdosed on absolute awesomeness, frothing from the mouth*
6981695 glad you like it
So I'm a little confuddled. Why did James attack? Was there a good reason that I missed? Or has that not been revealed yet? Cause right now it just seems like a battle with no direction.
6993362 Short version: he's a psychotic asshole.
Long version: coming in a future chapter
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If you think friendship is non-existent, why do you watch a show titled Friendship is Magic?
Just a bit counterintuitive, ya know?
Also "ATTENTION: YOU ARE GETTING YOUR ASS KICKED!" is the best line ever.
7013147 I don't. Can't stand the show. I do love the fics and their fandom, however.
7014912
Eh, fair enough. I mostly watch it so I can stay updated on events in-universe.
Ok, this is the first time in...a DECADE I was so into reading something I FORGOT TO EAT! I'm not even kidding, I would have completely forgotten dinner if an alarm for something totally unrelated hadn't gone off.
More please!
7019437
Working on it. Right now the next few chapters keep being passed back and forth between me and my editor/beta reader
7015212 I just use the Wiki for that.
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Really? I'm sorry, I really enjoy this story, but that was terrible. I get Pinkie's 4th wall breaking tendencies are difficult to write, but addressing the existence of the author like that in a story like this just feels....off. Personally, I would have just not written that last sentence.