Jasper sat in his chambers staring at the egg. Within lay his future assistant and confidante, but one thought at the back of his mind nagged at him. Granted he had achieved a decent hold in Equestria but for some reason he felt a sense of creeping dread. He glanced at the gauntlet and pulled it off and exhaled. The runes he had inscribed were from the clasps of the Alicorn amulet, this meant only he could remove the glove and or gem. Any outside force was useless against the enchanted runes. His gaze traveled to the window as he glanced out and began to brood. Deep in thought, the human reflected on the time he had spent within Equestria and what he had done up to this current point in time. Was it worth it? The ponies wished only to help him and give him some decent friends. His calm look turned to one of disgust; he didn’t need their pity or their charity. Why have friendship when one can merely take what he/she wants with power.
He walked over to the bed and donned the gauntlet once more. His gaze fixed on the shiny surface of the egg. The smile that spread across his face was reminiscent of exuberant joy mingled with some malicious intent. Outside the castle, there was an immense flash of red energy within the royal chambers accompanied by a victorious yell.
*
The Friendship Express pulled into the train station and let its passengers disembark. The six mares, plus one dragon statue with a now restored head all gazed at the once beloved castle. But the looks were not ones of warm joy, but of spite and purpose.
Spike narrowed his eyes, “I knew that guy was trouble.”
“I know Spike,” Twilight looked with anger at where the princesses now stood, “He deceived us all and he will NOT win.”
“Tell it loud and proud sister!” Pinkie yelled in agreement.
Rarity huffed as they approached the large double doors, “And to think I made him that coat as a gift,” she pet Spike on the head, “now he’s hurt my little Spikey Wikey,” she became greatly angered, “I WILL NOT STAND FOR THIS!”
Spike wiggled his nose in horror, “Oh no, IT’S ITCHING!!!”
Applejack trotted over, “Got ya covered Spike.”
Twilight knocked on the door, “JASPER OPEN UP!”
The double doors swung inward. Standing in the door way was neither a guard nor the guilty human. In fact, it was a dragon that was Spike’s age. The dragon had black scales that shined in the light and his belly scales were a deep dark indigo. Atop his head were small black curved horns that seemed darker. Running down his back were small dark indigo spines. His ruby red eyes stared at the shocked mares with disinterest.
“Yes?”
Twilight blinked a few times, “You’re a baby black dragon?”
“Yeah, I am,” the black dragon was becoming slightly impatient, “can I ask what your business here is?”
Twilight regained herself, “Right. We’re here to see King Jasper…Mr?”
The black dragon rolled its eyes, “Ignatius, assistant to his highness.”
Twilight gave a small smile in an attempt to appeal to the dragon, “Well would you be so kind to let us in?”
Ignatius tapped his chin, “Do you have an appointment?”
“Well…no but-“
The door slammed in Twilight’s face.
*
Jasper heard the door slam as Ignatius walked into the throne room, “Visitors Iggy?”
Ignatius nodded, “Just six ponies and a dragon,” he smiled proudly, “They tried to get in without an appointment but I showed em what for.”
Jasper gave a small smile, “Good work lad. I’ve taught you well.”
Ignatius shook his head, “More like crammed a book load of knowledge into my brain and aged me up to,” he gestured to his being, “this in one sitting.”
Jasper placed a scroll he was looking at aside, “Certain measures must be taken. Now would you be so kind as to show those ponies inside?”
“But-“
Jasper cut him off, “I’ll handle them.”
Ignatius was indifferent at first but nodded, “Yes my lord.”
Jasper raised a hand, “Jasper or Jas, no need to be so formal.”
Ignatius nodded and walked out of the room. Jasper folded his hands and waited patiently as the sound of a distant door being opened met his ears. Ignatius walked into the room and gestured half-heartedly.
“Presenting the Elements of Harmony.”
The black baby dragon then left through a side door.
Twilight walked into the throne room backed by the girls, “JASPER!”
Jasper smiled and stood up, “Twilight! So nice of you to drop by,” his smile dropped, “Unannounced.”
Twilight stood firm, “Jasper what you have done is utterly despicable! Deceiving all of us and abusing our trust!”
Jasper raised a finger, “ALL within the boundaries of Equestrian law. I have not broken any laws, I’m afraid you have no leg to stand on.”
Pinkie tapped her chin, “But she has four.”
Rarity sighed, “It was an expression.”
Jasper approached them, “Why all the hostility? I won the gambit fair and square, if anything you should be showing me respect,” the last word was spoken with power behind it.
Twilight snorted, “Cadance wrote me, she told me what you did. Celestia and Luna would never-“
“Which is why they are unfit to rule,” Jasper paced in front of them, “to rule, one must make necessary sacrifices to preserve ones kingdom. Cadance is about as fit to rule a sovereignty as you are. Hell, you got your title because of a magical fluke.”
Twilight narrowed her eyes as Jasper bent down to her level, “You barely worked to achieve what you have now. You were pushed along, bred to be what you are. You’re nothing more than Celestia’s pet project that has entered the final phases of its testing. In short, the fact that you have the title and wings is a laughable joke. You are nothing without your friends and magic, and you’ll always be a nothing Twilight Sparkle.”
Twilight’s eyes burned with rage, “HOW DARE YOU!”
She then blasted the human into the throne he had taken residency in as he laughed, “Tell me I’m wrong?”
Twilight flared her wings and advanced on the human who stood and opened his hand. In a flash, a familiar pony appeared in his grasp.
Rainbow Dash stepped forward, “You coward!”
Jasper held the limp Sunset Shimmer in front of him, “You want her?”
Twilight froze in mid-stride as Jasper sneered, “Heheh, I thought so.”
He threw her into the purple alicorn and took his seat.
Fluttershy checked the unconscious unicorn and sighed, “She’s alright, but she needs care and rest.”
Twilight once more reeled on Jasper, “What have you done to her!”
Jasper casually gestured, “I merely took some information from her. Did you know she has studied much more fluently then you did? Celestia gave her a really good lesson plan.”
Twilight advanced, “Why you!”
Jasper raised a hand, “How about this. You hit me with everything you have, if you take me down, I shall consider giving the throne back,” his tone then became dark, “Fail and I shall take from you something of importance.”
Rainbow Dash landed beside her, “No way! If she’s fighting were gonna help her!”
Jasper pursed his lips, “Say that you do interfere, what shall become of you?”
The other ponies looked at each other but Twilight raised a hoof, “It’s alright, I can handle him.”
Spike whooped, “GO GET EM TWI!”
Twilight stepped forward, “Prepare yourself.”
Jasper became bored and leaned back, “I already have.”
Twilight’s horn then began to light up with its familiar aura. Her eyes began to glow bright white as the aura increased in mass and overall size. She gritted her teeth as Jasper raised an eyebrow. Twilight narrowed her eyes as her aura turned a celestial white.
“Enjoying the magic reserves fido?”
Twilight yelled out in anger and fired.
The explosion rocked the entire castle to the very foundations as smoke filled the air. Twilight was on the ground panting as the smoke began to clear, Jasper was gone.
Rainbow Dash began to do a dance in mid-air, “In your face Jasper! Twilight kicked your flank so HARD!!! NICE ONE!”
Rarity helped her friend to her feet, “That was astounding darling!”
Twilight stood up slightly woozy, “Yeah it was, wasn’t it?”
A visible chill ran through them all as a slow clap was heard.
“Bravo Twilight, you literally blew my expectations out of the water.”
All the ponies whirled around to behold Jasper smirking behind them, “Surprised?”
Twilight was speechless, “How did?”
Jasper smiled, “A high powered glamour with a voice projection spell.”
Ignatius walked out smoking from head to toe, “Cut it a little close didn’t you?”
Jasper gave the small dragon a pat on the head, “Apologies. See Twilight, when you blasted me into the throne a few moments ago. The flash you saw when I brought in Sunset was in fact me trading places with Iggy whom I had glamoured when he walked off to the next room, the next room which contained Miss Shimmer.”
Twilight stared helplessly as Jasper approached, “Now then, about your failure.”
Before anypony could speak, Jasper snatched the Element of Magic from atop Twilight’s head and teleported to his scorched throne. He smirked at the ponies as a battalion of guards surrounded them.
Twilight noted one in particular, “Flash?”
Flash looked to the side, “Sorry.”
Jasper addressed Flash, “Captain Sentry, escort these neophytes from the premises immediately, they have entered unannounced and have disturbed my preparations for the royal summit.”
The guards then proceeded to escort the six out as Twilight yelled, “This isn’t over!”
Jasper yelled back, “I know it’s not, the lesson has yet to be learned!”
*
As Twilight and the girls sat in silence, the alicorn turned to Fluttershy.
“Fluttershy, can I ask you a favour?”
Fluttershy nodded, “Of course.”
“Could you tell Discord to come back to Ponyville?”
“But he’s on vacation in Las Pegasus,” she shuffled slightly, “he would be so upset if I cut it short.”
Twilight spoke monotone in annoyance, “He’ll survive.”
Rainbow smiled almost evilly, “But Jasper won’t.”
Sleep? Who needs sleep! I have ponies!
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Famous words that many a brony have spoken
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Indubitably.
Huh discord. This should be very interesting. Me likely .
Haha, Jasper will win xD
3350365 That is exactly how I feel, every night when I should be sleeping; ponies. School tomorrow? Ponies. Homework? Ponies
i imagine discord wont do much he has not hurt fluttershy so i doubt unless he does discord wont be botherd.
I'm still trying to figure out this supposed lesson he's trying to teach.
Honour will be your downfall?
Victory at any cost?
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the magic of friendship cannot solve all problems sometimes you need to become your enemy in order to beat him/her.
However you must also keep in mind that the journey may change you and not necessarily for the best.
I think jasper is trying to get them to kill or injure or start a war.
So we have cold, hard intellect, near infinite power, and human ingenuity and cruelty all rolled up together vs near infinite power and Discord's chaos. This should be interesting. I want this to be the part where Jasper gets a scar or something but stills defeats Discord and absorbs his soul or something to grow more powerful.
3350433 I'm thinking that they are all weak and utterly unprepared against a threat with more brains than a flea. Their victories against the "unimaginable threats" so far have been laughably easy because nearly every villain has been a moron one way or another, and they are not prepared for REAL danger or trouble, overconfident in their abilities just as the villains that they defeated all had been.
I somehow think that plan will backfire badly. I mean when you present a long therm addict with his favorite drug, well things tend to go badly.
Calling it now that Jasper is going to use the crystal heart as a magical amplifier.
Discord will fail!!!
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We both know it'll end with Jasper losing one way or another. That's the sad, sad stereotype it has become.
3350614 true, but not by discord, the girls do have a lesson to learn and by god is it good!!!
3350642 heh..watch him not lose at all..and instead steps down after teaching them a lesson. Heres one: Dont Fuck With People In other Worlds That Care Not For Your Shit.
3350655 Not this lesson is about power and how one handles it, I recognise what he is doing from so many books that are similar to this, but this is best take on it!!
3350663 yea. though it depends on how Cryptic takes the story and how many twists he throws at us.
Go Jasper! Sho those ponies they can't just kidnap you and force you to have friends! He has to win!
PLEASE LET DISCORD JOIN JASPER! PLEASE?!
3350806 ALL THE YES.
Sweet Faust, this guy is so fuckin' Evil
He makes Darth Vader look like nothin' and THAT'S sayin' somethin'
I don't really understand why he's evil though, he was a brony, right?
Just sayin', I'm SHOCKED at how goddamn inFAMOUS this dude is...get it?
I fear for what will become of discord.
3350870 No, he wasn't a brony. He's just some guy who's brony friend showed him the show.
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Why do I want this to happen so badly? Actually, on second thought that may not be a good idea, discord doesn't exactly have a history of loyalty.
3350931 Jasper does seem to be causing a fair amount of chaos,So dissy might actually help him for a while
i tought that this fic couldn't get any better, as always, i was wrong.
3350463 I WOULDuse Discord as a rebuttal, because he was somewhat intelligent but grew overconfident, but he never actively tried to hurt anypony.
...
Does anyone know for sure if Nightmare Moon tried to hurt ponies?
3351062 I'd say Discord's overconfidence was pretty dumb. I mean, he outright dismissed the idea that the ponies could recover after his "brilliant" plan of "hiding" the only weapon against him inside one of their houses and leaving them (and the Princesses) be and do as they please, relying on their moods forever staying sour.
Of course the "stupidest villain" award unquestionably goes to Chrysalis, for as much as I like her as a character. Yeah, let's not use an ARMY of SHAPESHIFTERS for any sort of secret invasion/infiltration, just go there disguised as an extremely public figure during an extremely public event involving her, and do not bother to act like her in the slightest. Oh and when you're discovered by one of your enemies, put her with the pony you're impersonating in a place that is easily escapable with minor effort. AND when you've captured your enemies, bring them together in one room and go stare out of the window.
I think Nightmare was stupid for different reasons, everyone and everything would've died pretty quick if she achieved eternal night and she'd feel pretty silly afterwards. Although this wasn't what brought upon her defeat.
The ponies have still not learnt their lesson.....show them the consequences
3351095 And yet all of those villains are better than a big dark cloud with a frowny face, AKA Sombra.
I swear to god, Hasbro must have had their heads up their arses when they came up with that one.
I'm just going to go right ahead and say that I'm completely okay with you having Jasper end up on top by the end of this Fic. Also, I'm sure most of the readers of this story agree with me.
3351107 I dunno I liked Sombra as much as the other villains. He was more of a force of nature, an impending disaster than a character and while different I felt it wasn't nearly as bad as people make it out to be. I don't think every single villain should be a super-complex overly talkative charismatic type, and writers are allowed to tell and show us less of some of the characters than others. Honestly if he talked a lot and behaved like other villains he'd be even more similiar to NMM and QC (black-ish evil pony), at least as he is he stands out and is somehow in a twisted way memorable for that.
By the way, the fact that I'm calling other villains hella stupid doesn't mean I don't like them as characters. I like all of FiM's villains so far, even frikkin Sunset Shimmer.
3351119 I'm not saying he was a bad villain.
I'm saying he had a truly shitty image.
He could've at LEAST been made out of the black crytals he spread.
But no. He was a big black cloud.
3351134 Well, he did turn into his real form at the end, briefly. Although I have a hard time imagining how he would possibly be portrayed as a huge looming menace outside the city if he wasn't a big black cloud. QC already did "army". Possibly he could've been gigantic but again that wouldn't really fit him.
Also, something makes me think that there've been quite a few cool villains who were clouds one way or another, but I don't know what's got me so convinced since I can't remember any.
3351141 That would probably be because NMM could turn into a puff of smoke at will.
3351149 NMM is the least noteworthy of the mlp:fim villains for me so I doubt that, but yeah that's also a good point, she's also a cloud every once in a while
3351161 How can she be the least worthy if she' the most unknown?
Discord wanted chaos and altered personalities to achieve it.
Chrysalis was an emotional leech and imperonated loyalty for it.
Sombra was a tyrant and used slavery to stay that way.
Nightmare wanted eternal night, but what was he willing to do to achieve it? Murder? Torture? The posibilities are nearly limitless.
3351210 I dunno she was just really generic/boring to me. I mean the lore behind her is cool and Luna is cool, but none of that was really reflected in her depiction in the episode. No real personality, no outstanding qualities, no MO, just "evil purple-black pony".
3351220 Now I see where our opinion are affected.
You judge villains by their traits, while I go by the lengths they'd go to reach their objective.
This human... THIS HUMAN HAS DISGRACED MY FATHER! I WILL DESTROY HIM!
Jasper know about Discord. Considering all that has transpired so far I highly doubt he hasn't planned for Discords inevitable interference. He'll probably have something up his sleeve, like the crystal heart being used as a magical amplifier for the gem making him far more powerful than Discord, or possibly he'll devise some way to absorb discords magic and use it to amplify his own power. Super villains are like that. Only this time I hope the bad guy wins.
Ignatius. Slightly more sophisticated than one would normally think, especially for a dragon. I find there's a certain irony in that Jasper named his dragon that, when 'Ignatius' is based on the Latin word meaning 'fire', seeing as Jasper is all about control and dominance, and the element he's named his companion after is all about destruction and chaos...
Discord will probably get one look at the Celly and Luna statues, high five Jasper, then spend the rest of the story making funny faces at the stone alicorns in revenge for the 2000+ years in stone.
i have a feeling that jasper will win please do more (i hope that he does not win)
YAY!!! Discord Vs. Jasper so awesome
Prediction: Jasper will convince the population of Equestria that the Elements of Harmony are the evil ones and takes something they do out of context to 'prove' it.
Jasp is already a mary sue. Make him win then have an emotional realization.
Twilight narrowed her eyes as Jasper bent down to her level, “You barely worked to achieve what you have now. You were pushed along, bred to be what you are. You’re nothing more than Celestia’s pet project that has entered the final phases of its testing. In short, the fact that you have the title and wings is a laughable joke. You are nothing without your friends and magic, and you’ll always be a nothing Twilight Sparkle.”
That's the best thing I've ever seen In a Mlp Fanfic