The Original Mad Scientist in Equestria

by Br0nyb0y123

Chapter 43: Capacitor Banks

Umberoth stared down Nikola, Nikola felt his inner self shrink, but Nikola still stood tall. He had a goal to achieve. To slay down this monstrous creature of scales and flames. Tesla looked into the dragon's ruthless eyes, those angry eyes, he saw it's teeth, as sharp as knives, yellowed white blades that could cleave Tesla in twixt,

"I wouldn't think of slaying you, great Umberoth," Tesla told him, "I'm smart enough to know that even attempting such a feat would grant me a grisly fate."

"You're not... as foolish as I thought then," Umberoth responded, his brows knitted into a calculating frown.

"You underestimate me, Umberoth," Tesla claimed.

"I do?" Umberoth questioned, "Tell me how, inventor."

Nikola sucked in a sharp breath, his stomach knotted and twisted,

"You undermine my intelligence," Tesla spoke with snark.

"Intelligence? Ha!" Umberoth barked a loud deep laugh before calming down, "I've met many intelligent ponies... more smart than you."

Umberoth faced away, walking away from Tesla, continuing his speech,

"Do you know how old I am, inventor?" Umberoth croaked.

"Older than me?" Tesla asked.

"Funny," the dragon chuckled, "I am. I'm older than the Princesses, I've met many beings in my life. I was born at the beginning, when I was an infant I saw gods fall, cities crumble, the beasts of Tartarus unleashed themselves..."

Nikola stood there, observing the creature and listening to him. Tesla's left ear pricked up to the light tap of footsteps, his eyes glanced sideways and widened to the sight of Rouge approaching the end of the stairs from the previous platform,

What the fuck is she doi-?

"It's on, Nikola," she mouthed to him, "The machine."

"Go upstairs," he mouthed back.

"I've seen... death, many times, it never kept me down," Umberoth continued, not noticing Rouge behind him.

Rouge turned her head and froze once she caught sight of the dragon. Her eyes widened and her mouth gaped open, breathless. She slowly turned to look a Tesla, who was jerking his head, signalling her to go back upstairs, she nodded, her eyes still wide and frightful, she quickly and silently backed away up the stairs, just before Umberoth was able to turn around,

"Let me tell you something, inventor. Whether you like it not, the Brotherhood will win," Umberoth predicted.

"I won't let that happen."

"It will happen, they've gone from pawns in an army to men of their own valor," Umberoth said.

"They're just very lucky, Umberoth," Nikola replied.

Umberoth chuckled, "Aren't you lucky? What are you to them?"

"I'm the one who's going to stop them."

Umberoth smirk until his eyes listed to his right, he caught sight of multiple black circles on the steps that led to the first platform. Nikola notices Umberoth's eye movement. Nikola swallows a lump,

"What are those, inventor?" Umberoth questioned with angry intrigue in his voice.

Nikola shrugs quickly, "I don't know."

Umberoth approaches Nikola and growls,

"Don't lie to me, inventor. Your luck... might run out. Is there someone else here? Have you... come to slay me?" Umberoth asked, his sharp teeth were grinding together.

Nikola opened his mouth, words didn't escape,

"That's right... choose your words carefully," Umberoth instructed him.

"I have come to slay you, Umberoth," Nikola responded, mustering all of his courage.

"Why?" He snarled.

"Because, you're a threat to Equestria. The Brotherhood told me to slay you," Tesla explained.

"You kill me... at your enemies requests? You really are worthless."

"I kill you at their request to save my friends and the rest of Equestria," Tesla responded, "Because after you rest, I know you'll terrorize this country as badly as the Brotherhood, probably even worse."

Umberoth paused, he wasn't curious anymore, he wasn't intrigued, he just stared at Tesla, those black irises, those empty black voids, only anger reflecting from them. The silence made Tesla uncomfortable, to think he wanted the beast to speak to him, and let him know of what the dragon has to say,

"Well..." Umberoth began, "If you think I'll terrorize Equestria. It has always been my dream to do so, I guess I shouldn't disappoint you."

Umberoth extended his neck, stretching like a spring, his spear-like skull bashing the rocky ceiling above him, slowly cracking with every bash against it,

"Equestria will burn, inventor! You will not stop me!" Umberoth roared.

Nikola gritted his teeth, he felt a sense of adrenaline rush through him, We'll see about that, Umberoth. I will take you down.

Nikola knew the first thing he had to was escape the treasury, before it collapses in on him. He galloped across the platform, up the stairs, across the primary platform and up the other flight of stairs. Tesla hoped he'd find Rouge before Umberoth broke through the floor.

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Rouge felt a quake, something was happening underneath the floor. I hope Nikola is okay. She tried to find a place to hide, but, she didn't know where, it was all just open empty spaces. She quickly thought to herself when several thumps rumbled beneath her hooves, she needed to go upstairs. But something happened that made her heart skip a beat, the floor began to crack, dust began to rise, quickly, slickly, like a light brown ghost sneaking through the air,

"Oh no," Rouge whimpered.

The dust had risen to her eye level, she coughed violently, her eyes watered. She slowly moved about, she had no clue where she was going,

"Help!" she screamed.

She continued to trot slowly through the brown mist, her heart thumping, trying to escape her, the cracks grew longer, zig-zagging like a den of venomous snakes,

"Help!" she wailed.

"Rouge!" a distant and distinct voice called out.

"Nikola!?" she shouted, "Where are you?!"

"I'm coming, Rouge! Keep shouting!" Tesla instructed her.

"What happened down there!?" Rouge asked.

Tesla bumped into her from her left, making her jump before facing him,

"All part of the plan, Rouge."

Rouge wrapped her front legs around him, relieved he was okay, hugging him tightly, Nikola returned the favor, before releasing himself from her grasp,

"The machine was in the hall?" Nikola asked.

Rouge nodded, "Yeah. I turned it on, I ran away from it."

"Okay, we need to get there quickly," Nikola told her as he took her leg and placed it around his neck, "Hey, this way, you won't get lost."

Rouge nodded and the both of them made their way to where they thought was the throne room, and hopefully make it there before Umberoth finally erupts from the ground.

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Past two grand doors, the dust was light in the throne, and a bright white spark flickered off and on on the machine, Rouge took her leg away from around his neck and approached the machine with Nikola, underneath the set of buttons was a latched opening into a part of the machine, Nikola opened it, he saw his capacitor bank glowing a whitish-blue,

"Nikola, what's happening to that box?" Rouge asked.

"This is a capacitor bank, I've managed to make one smaller, using an enchanted agent, I've been able to use more accelerated particles, the magic is keeping it from exploding-" Nikola explained.

"Exploding?!" Rouge asked loudly.

"Yes," Nikola casually responded as he pressed another button on the interface, a ice blast hit the capacitor banks, cooling it.

Nikola crouched over and took out the capacitor out of the machine,

"What are you doing with that?" Rouge asked.

"As much as I'd like to give you a science lesson, Rouge, we have to get to high ground, a tower," Nikola said, "Come on, follow me."

Rouge followed him, Nikola made his way to an opening at the corner of the throne room, leading to a spiral stairway to the top of the tower, the two of them began to gallop to the top, they finally heard Umberoth escaping,

"Inventor! Equestria will erupt into flames! I'll roast everything in path!" Umberoth bellowed in rage.

Nikola and Rouge noticed an orange flash of light at the bottom of the stairway, they ran faster up the stairs, approaching the top, flat ground at last. Nikola caught sight of Umberoth's wings spreading, gargantuan wings. He roared, loud enough that Nikola was sure he burst his ear drum, but luckily, he was still able to hear Rouge, even when Umberoth began to fly away,

"What do we do, Nikola?" Rouge questioned, her eyes widened in worry.

Nikola faced her quickly before looking at the flying dragon once again, he was heading towards Ponyville,

"Get back here, Umberoth!" Nikola wailed, failing to get the monster's attention,

Come on, Nikola. Think! Think!

A brainstorm came, Nikola knew what to do,

"Rouge, go down the stairs."

"What? No! I'm not leaving you here!" Rouge dismissed.

"Go! It's part of the plan."

Rouge hesitated, but she quickly went down the stairs. Nikola knew what to do, he had to call out but one word, one word that would surely bring the beast back. Nikola sat the capacitor bank at his hooves, unseen behind the wall that was keeping him from going over the edge. Nikola took a deep breath, before shouting the one word,

"Coward!"

Umberoth stopped, he kept himself floating in the air, but he turned to face Nikola. Those glowing, yellow eyes, the deep, black pupils, Nikola had finally true fury,

"You dare! You dare call me that word!" Umberoth barked, his low voice echoing.

"That's right!" Tesla shouted, a small smirk curled at the corner of his mouth.

"I was going to save you for my last meal, inventor," Umberoth growled, "But now, I won't wait any longer to kill you!"

"Come and get me then!" Nikola blared.

Umberoth flapped his monstrous wings, spearing closer to the tower, Nikola stood at the top of the tower, the bank at his hooves, but he waited, he didn't show any fear this time. Come on, you scaly hellbeast!

Umberoth flew closer and closer, gliding towards Nikola like a missile locked on his target. Umberoth's mouth gaped open, Nikola saw flickering flames at the back of the monster's throat. But Nikola had outwitted him, he grabbed the capacitor bank from at his feet and with all of his strength he threw it into Umberoth's unhinged mouth and quickly ducked down behind the wall, a wave of flames surfed above him and a loud boom was heard. Nikola then saw the dragon flew above him and veered up towards the sky, a burning and bloody chunk blasted out of his neck. Umberoth flew skyward, screaming in agony,

"AH! YOU BASTARD! INVENTOR!" Umberoth wailed in the worst imaginable pain.

The bank had exploded in the beast's neck, blood filled his throat, he gargled and choked. Umberoth flew, trying to cool his neck down, but he knew he had lost, the glow in his eyes faded and he fell back to the ground.

Nikola stared at the beast as he slanted down the mountain, rolling beside the ruins of Canterlot. Nikola sighed heavily, he heard the sound of hooves trotting up the stairs, Rouge stood beside him. She gasped at the monster that laid down at the hill, blood caked the remains of his throat. The wind blew, a moving silence.

He did it.

He slayed a dragon.

Author's Note:

Well, the first task has been completed. What else will the Brotherhood have in store for dear Nikola? Which two ponies will the Brotherhood free? Find out next week, same time (probably not), same website!

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[Br0nyb0y123]

7198946 Yeah, he was and who knows... He may even be a villain in a sequel. If I ever get that far.