I'm Knot a Daemon
"Finish them, Puppet Master!" the Ork god called out, momentary panic rising. He had seen the sudden pause in combat, and the shift in the tones. No longer were the puppets attacking the marines, but rather defending against them and not making further aggressive moves. What was once a wave, was now a tide in retreat. Providing a bubble around the marines which neither his orks could shoot through, nor the warriors could slice out of.
The Puppet Master was speechless, his eyes locked upon the face of his friend. Evaluating the situation among the chaotic fighting was proving futile, but he knew one thing for sure, and that was that nothing was what it seemed. He threw a new plan into action, puppets suddenly enclosing on all of them, as more and more multiplied into existence, waves upon waves of puppets now overwhelming the outer forces of the Orks, as a thin shadow of a hand reached up and grabbed the abandoned summoning trinket that had been used to bring him here in the first place. Taking it with him, he used his own trinket as a pathway backwards, dragging with him, the combined groups of a dozen space marines along with himself. Deciding to delay further action until he could safely determine it himself.
The Ork god looked on enraged at the sudden disappearance, reaching for the mask that had been stolen while he was distracted. Discovering the ploy he shouted in rage against the Space Marines and Puppet Master, as the ever closing gap between his palace and the sun shrunk. He vanished, among that bright light, right as the fires hit, and the world shattered. Consumed within the orb of fire as its massive gravity continued to grow and fires hotter than anything could hope to achieve, consumed all. His echoing screams resounded throughout that roaring fire, that he would be back. And both the Marines and the one he had summoned would pay for their actions that day.
The world consumed in fire as they warped away, before it had been cramped, as the Puppet Master was shoved through the first time, now so, it was even more so, and the degree of influence he had over their exit location was generalized. In the end he managed to drop the party of puppets, half ton marines, and himself in a scattering spray of humanoid cannonballs, as they exited. Skidding into the training room of one of the dozens of floors within his base. Thankful that he hadn't brought this war into his own world's Canterlot throne room.
Everyone groaned, from either their own discomfort from traveling between universes, or the rough landing. A dozen marines, and Yoko splayed out in various positions, quickly recovering as was their creed. Once again the puppets had been separated from their masks, an effect that the Puppet Master noted, for future travels as he slowly stood back up. Glados was back up and running again, as he stretched, and held out a hand for Yoko, who looked questioningly at him, "The hell did you just do?"
"Giant ball of fire, heading towards us from out the window, learning that your best friend from your childhood who you were previously thought never to see again was fighting your new buddy, and then trying to save you and your evident friends not a good move?"
"About as good a move as an Ork psyker stealing displaced tokens. Never expected you to be one as well, though." Yoko replied, getting up, before staring me dead in the eyes, "Are you really my Xander?"
"As assured as Deargon went working for the Tau." I said, dropping a little inside joke that only she would really know, "Shame we couldn't meet at the con. Did Discord get you too?"
"No, actually. The merchant did." Yoko replied, casually, "You got a prop from Discord? Thought you made all your own stuff. Cheater."
"I was actually shopping for a replacement tool for my kit. Can't carve foam with a broken Dremel. Picked up a lesson on forming Dissy's horn and got warped to Equestria to show the worth of Tragic villains, so that they wouldn't keep getting murdered by the elements of harmony." I explained hurriedly, "What about you? You had someone else? A Merchant?"
"Yeah, long story about that," she shrugged, "I was looking for a new bolter prop because I wanted to show off when we met again next con, but the-"
The buzzing of chainblades, cackling of thunder-spewing hammers, and whirling of axes cut her off as the group of half ton armored marines came at us, or well me. "Get the Daemon!" One of them yelled, joined by the others as they took up holy yelling. I deadpanned, portals openning beneath their feet and appearing again once more at the far end of the room. Once more they went sprawling, yelling turned into confused screams, before more angry yelling. Portals closed before they could use them to regain the distance.
Turning back to Yoko I asked, "Were they part of your world before or AFTER you came into it?"
She sighed, "Sadly, after it, they're a bit less xenophobic than the lore ones, but I did fill them up with tales of our group, both from the table top and later on in the war. Sadly they seem to be running out of worlds, since that Ork guy came in roughly at the same time I did on the opposite end of the earth. Unluckily he won in the end, as you can tell."
"In a war, no one is a winner," I quoted, not sure from who, but it sounded like something a smart person once said, "Mind telling them to stop charging at me before I need to use force? Though the portals may keep them occupied for a while." I said this as I rose a wall in time to block a thrown power axe. Which tore a rather unsettlingly large hole into the wall, before stopping.
Yoko, didn't answer me but turned to face her compatriots and yell, "Hold! This man is no enemy!"
"But he's a daemon!" one of them yelled before promptly falling into yet another portal, having made it half way to me before slipping up on a sudden portal mine field that had spawned in order to stop their rather fast charge.
"He is no more a Daemon than I am an Ork!" She yelled in response, "This is Inquisitor Deargon you fools."
I rose an nonexistent Eyebrow, "Calling me after my Character?" I asked.
"Trust me, its easier to go with that persona than try to explain to them that we role played what we actually did in that world." She responded, a look of wearyness present in her eyes, twinged with happiness, "It's been a long war, and I'd rather not have them think that I started as a complete nerd after all thats happened."
"That midget is Deargon?!" another marine shouted, delayed as he had to run back within earshot again.
I shook my hand at him, "I'm not a midget!"
"In all fairness you are short." Yoko smirked, "Probably should of drank your milk when you were growing up."
"Really?!" I exclaimed, "You're making that reference, now?!"
She gave a small laugh at my anger, "Yep, you're definitely my childhood friend." raising her voice again she shouted, "Thrones sake, Stop fighting, you're only embarrassing yourselves!"
Slowly the group of marines stopped charging, and I smiled as they put away their weapons. Finally able to let them within radius of me, walls rose once more and this time allowed the towering marines to crouch through the portals and rejoin us."
"As I was saying, boys. This is Inquistor Deargon, though he also goes by Xander." Yoko introduced me, properly, as I stared up at them. Somewhat irritated by the lack of my own height in comparison to the seven foot of the shortest of the marines. Even Yoko was taller than I last remembered. In comparison to their heights, I was a young child, barely four foot. I was all too aware of the plights of short characters, and my eye twitched once more as one commented.
"I thought he'd be taller..." The front most of the group, bearing heavier and rarer armor of a terminator Marine. Their armor was much bulkier but protective and treasured in a chapter, as it was built to withstand punishment that would make some tanks go to shame.
"Size is not the name of the game. As I'm sure you have noticed." I replied in turn, and asked, "So who're your friends?"
Yoko nodded, at the request, and replied in turn, "We tend to use a lot of code names, so in respect for their privacy. The Terminator is Captain Bronco." She gestured at the marine who had commented about my size, and he shrugged. Unlike most of the marines his melee weapon was a pair of power fists, which were massive armored gloves that would crackle with power when activated.
"Private Lion," She pointed at a marine decorated in holy scriptures to the empire, his armor was less scratched up than the others, though he bore roughly twelve smoking marks from bolters all located in one of his legs, "Don't mind the leg wounds, he gets shot there almost every time we get his armor fully repaired."
"Guilty as charged!" Lion cheerfully injected, placing a hand over the injury, already pulling out a few spare parts from his pack now that the fighting had stopped.
"Commissar Cipher," she pointed out to a marine decorated with a book sigil, and who was carrying a rather large tome in addition to his sword, remarkably uncharred in comparison to the rest of him, which was covered in various amounts of blood and gore. I recalled that the Commissar's role was to maintain the morale and improve the standings within the troops. The fact that one had become a space marine while maintaining the rank of a person usually reserved within the imperial guard was a curiosity. The marine in question nodded at me before opening his book and staring into it.
"Sharp Shooter Dead." She pointed at another marine, who was the most scrawny of the group, as well as the shortest, but who wore seals like a cape behind him, his armor surrounded in a tattered cloak, that flickered in an out of view almost constantly. He had a knife as long as my arm, which was now being used to clear gunk and gore out of his armor, "Boss, I need a new gun."
"We all do Dead." Yoko muttered to me afterwards, "He wanted his name tags when collected to be a sort of grim joke for whoever collected them."
I nodded as Yoko continue to call out names and point at their respective owners, mentally I had my puppet take pictures of each of them and write down a name so that I could recall it later on, aside from Lion, Cipher, Dead, and Bronco; there was Cat and Dog, twins who were inseparable, apparently. Onion, a chatterbox who had their audio disabled in order to keep the rest of their team sane. Speaking of sanity there was a particularly worrisome looking marine who was turning Ork blood into war paint for his helmet, repeating a V shape into it to make his helmet look eternally angry, who was called "Gogo."
Aside from them we still had Needles, the medic of the group. Circuit, who bore a large communication device attached to his pack, which was sadly useless now that it was in my universe. Polanski, who I had a creeping feeling that they could break the fourth wall if there was one. Ghost was an odd member as well, bearing pure white armor in comparison to the rest of the universal black of the chapter, which the true color only was shown as he started clearing off all the muck that had sullied his armor.
Then there was a tech priest, who referred to himself as Bronze Leaf. I'd have to keep an eye on him to make sure he didn't get into anything he shouldn't of. Already he was trying to fiddle with the edges of a portal, some innate curiosity driving him to ignore the rest of the introductions and study the non-real edge of the opening, an mechanical third arm extending over his shoulder and bringing a variety of strange tools to bear as he examined it. Shutting it on him had caused him to become aware of reality again, and with a short apology he had introduced himself, thus leading to my suspicions.
The final member, introduced himself before Yoko could, his armor decorated in seals and carvings only second to Yoko herself out of the group, instead of a helmet he wore a peaked cap with the inquisitorial symbol on its top. It was a dark red I with a skull surrounded by an almost trident like prong of three rectangles on each side. Just from the holier-than-thou tone of his voice, "I am the Chapter Master's honor guard, Hawkens." I could tell I wasn't going to like him already, his eyes measured me up almost predator like.
Great. So many new faces, "Well... Then..." I said, gesturing my way towards the elevator that lead the way both up and down my main base, "Lets find a place for you all to settle down for now and relax, it seems your chapter master and I have some catching up to do.
At Yoko's nod of assent the rest of the marines trodded on towards the elevator. One which I had to rapidly reinforce to deal with approximately six and a half tons of weight, as Yoko and I joined them last, she whispered to me, "They aren't like the normal marines, made the chapter a bit less religious, but some guys, like Hawken and Cipher follow my world's version of the Codex a bit closer than normal. Just a warning."
"As long as your Commissar doesn't shoot allies to encourage obedience, it should be fine. Not that there is much war going on yet in this world." I replied casually, before realizing, after all the excitement, "Oh god, the court case."
In the excitement and violence, I had completely forgotten the court case, and judging from the outside, how the sun was setting, it was long over. Yoko's look of confusion was amplified as I sent a puppet to check on what had happened to Melody and the other sirens as well as the results of Sharp's trial
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Hmmmm, there be orks here in his world already. From what we do guess, we are curious how the Puppet Master would react to a 'Inquisitor Drogan' Displaced?
Oh dude, I'm excited! I love Space Marines! But they seem to be the... Odd group of Space Marines... Or I've just read to much of the Dark Angels Codex...
5969830 Drogan, as in the Space Marine game villain who was turned into a Daemon possessing his corpse long after death? Probably with a lot of epic fighting is what happened. Was paranoid of that guy playing the game the first time round because he had a strange injury in comparison to all the Orks they had been fighting the first time round. Seriously a claw mark wound that wasn't bleeding at ALL? The longer I watched him, the more I grew paranoid since he didn't make any effort at all to show strain on the part of holding back such an injury even with his excuse of being a psyker or something.
Sadly he isn't actually a 'villain' rather than a giant meat puppet for another villain. Otherwise he'd be tragic.
5970104 Yoko's Chapter is her version of the Deathwatch chapter. Which was normally a chapter that drawed from the ranks of other chapters who had proven themselves exemplary in their line of service. Though normally the Warhammer Deathwatch drew from Ultramarines, Space Wolves, Dark Angels, Storm Wardens, Blood Angels, and The Black Templar chapters.
This one is going to be a bit different in chapter naming, but should have some more information about them as time goes on in this story. Though the troopers aren't going to be playing that big of a part, as in comparison to their Chapter Master, Yoko. Will in the Puppet Master's Story.
Mainly its a pet peeve of mine to leave people faceless(hah. poor PM) or nameless.
No good reason to not name a character who's going to be living within the same base as the guy and probably getting a face full of danger as well, you know?
5970619 We mean of a displaced variety, but yes he did raise 'flags' nor to our knowledge was he given any first aid what so ever. But in this case he will not have the 'damaged' armor appearance.
Well... that happened.
This is going to be trouble, I mean, he DID kind of get called in my the Ork guy, I would expect a little more help than chatting with the enemy.
What about jet stream Sam from metal gear rising? He wanted to rid the world of corruption and thought that world marshal would do just that.
Plus he is a total bad ass
sad that the puppetmaster had no choice but the hard way.
rest assured that the ork god will be back. either reincarnated or somehow survived.
btw are the space marines from 40K or starcraft? I haven't played any of them fyi.
5970619 Ah, alright then... Still, I really like your story, keep up the great work.
Wait... Isn't your MC technically a demon of chaos?
5972779 The Golden Throne and Warrgh instead of Terrans and Zerg.
I have thought about the issue, and sometime in the future the Zerg Might come into play, but right now I think we have had enough indulgence in the warhammer fandom and I think its 'bout time we kept moving forward. There might however be a side chapter or arc dedicated to other fandoms though, lol... Hmm, what to call them? The Criminal Cases, perhaps? Might put some of the lessons in those for people who want to see those. Soonest one will probably happen right before nightmare night, though.
Good lord that chapter has been waiting for a while now.
Looking foward to see how this will all turn out.
5983770 Aku's tragedy was that he wasn't even given a chance, on his creation from the gods he was labeled evil and attacked by the various gods of Samurai jack on sight. For all the bad he does with his tyrancy, he does do some good things. Take a gander at Aku's armies, oh no killer robots and undead. Wait, what? His army consists of non-living members? His entire police force is expendable, without the risk of actual damage being done to another being. Those typically fighting are breaking laws and Living on the wild Anarchy side anyway.
Going onto the man himself, Aku hadn't had the best track record with humans, though he makes several attempts to gain the popularity of the people underneath his thumb rather than Samurai jack. He was already well conceited and already in complete control of the industry that manufactures his armies, the fact that he bothers to round up the young for a (Comically epic failure of) a story time, and that he occasionally allows 'honest' business between himself and a mafia don with payment and keeping his word shows Aku that he holds some semblance of morality and honor rather than just getting rid of whoever he dislikes. Please note, most of the time we're seeing Aku in the midst of him trying to reign in various forms of populace back underneath his rule. Several nations in even real life have gone ahead and done this before, similarly to how the USA stole and broke the lands of the Native Americans who lived there before.
Aku's acts have been mostly on the defensive ever since Jack showed back up after his portal of time, attempting to squash mostly war like societies like the 'Spartan' episode or the 'vikings' that were wiped out. But then again he isn't carelessly destroying a legacy, as he's willing to leave the three 'blind archers' alone guarding their cursed well, and almost refuse to use mass violence against unarmed civilians. The threat is there, and when jack interferes with his magic sword of Aku-slaying they open fire, but a majority of the time, its the threat of the weapon that gets the job done rather than the actual violence.
A good portion of Aku's personality can be derived from the undertones of the episodes. He can be cunning, cruel, and even vicious. If he wanted to, he could of had every bit of rebellion squashed by sending half the special forces he seems to have up his sleeves at them, and rules with an iron fist. But thats another thing, he's ruling. Not destroying, creating. A society that approves of him, and breaking down fast becoming out-of-date war societies, and modernizing several places where previously untapped and unused rich resources were being left to sit. Under Aku's influence, what has taken People hundreds of years to just reach the EDGE of space travel has taken Aku 50 years of progress to take over the world, and open it up to all sorts of space fairing species alongside a united race front rather than a divided constantly under war world.
Hope it helps, then again its just my view on Aku, a lot of his face value seems to dominate people's perspectives, but we really need to see into why he does what he does and the motivations behind them that are often left unexplained. While some things lack deeper meaning, like the bounty hunters that go after Jack, keep in mind that Jack is pretty much another extension of the racist gods that wanted him dead in the first place, and thus actions against jack to prevent his own death can't really be considered 'major' to Aku's character. I would sure be acting a lot different if I knew that a guy with a magic weapon who was capable of both murdering me and defeating me on several occasions was coming with the sole purpose of ripping my form from existence. Wouldn't you? Especially when you had just been given sentience from a cursed arrow, so you're in the state of a mental child with jerks coming to kill your butt for being inherently evil? Only to have that attitude reinforced by others actions against you giving you little choice but to fight, destroy, and be as they say you were?
As for Bowser, cornerthewaffle have been exploring that Bowser was actually the good guy of the mario series.
I'd say getting the Overmind as a mask... But then again, how the heck would that even work?
Not sure about Kerrigan, cause you know, it's complicated :v
6010693 Kerrigan was a villain to terrans and protoss, yet a hero to the swarm. Same way Raynor was a rebel of the terrans and considered the 'bad guy' by the public until he helped a guy out. Sure in the end they overturned the 'rightful' government of the people but history tends to promote the winner as just and the loser as the villain in wars. Thus why my logic is that there is no 'good man' in a war scenario. Technically both Mengsk, Kerrigan, and Raynor are villains. As well as a majority of the others in starcraft. The only ones who aren't evil is the protoss who didn't want war in the first place but ended up being the zerg exterminators and in war with the terrans due to Amon using the zerg as a weapon early on and the terrans attacking the protoss out of the blue.
As for tragic villains, The Overmind would certainly count, as by the starcraft 2 DLC Heart Of The Swarm as well as the protoss memories of the overmind in the Wings of Liberty campaign. It is revealed that it had put its hope on the survival of the swarm through kerrigan because it was enslaved by Amon's will to try and attack the other two factions until both were gone or itself was dead.
6011006 Technically, there where 'evil' protoss. See that xel'naga zealot cult (forgot the faction's, name, but the're willingly following Amon IIRC)
And don't forget, Kerrigan did loose a lot of screws in her head some time after she first turned (read: Post Brood Wars)
6011006 I have to admit to being slightly disappointed by your MC. Mostly at the scene where the Ork tried to trick him into thinking the people attacking him were chaos demons. It seems like such a perfect opportunity for a smartass retort! Instead of an awkward
He could have said something like
I mean your guy clearly isn't all human anymore, what with his removable face, and he is a servant of chaos(Discord).
Edit: Oh and any thoughts about what I suggested long ago? About using a tragic villain who became one specifically because of his love of knowledge to show Twilight just how close to the line she personally is?
6046687 You're referring to this, right?
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Well, thing is we already have one danger of learning 'villain' intended for later on. A certain robotic psychopath of science who can really go on too far. Though the lesson things are going to be undergoing some conflict, since while the Puppet Master INTENDS to run a few lessons into the ponies, sometimes fate can get in the way, as was the case of things like our favorite Ork God or Sharp Opera.
There will be lessons, don't get me wrong, but it probably won't be as he, or the audience expects. As for Orochimaru, he has the making of a tragic villain, but the thing is that his motivations and objectives over the course of the show show a complete lack of empathy for the character. Someone who murdered the third hokage, resurrected another, ended up infusing himself into his best students body and slowly mutating it, becoming less than a person in the process. While he intended to master all ninjutsu, sure, the fact that he knows so much doesn't cooperate with the tragedy that befell the three sages. Unlike villains like GLaDOS whos psychopathic tendencies came from having her trust betrayed by someone as close as family to her(Cave Johnson and Caroline), and then being subsequently restrained in her new prison of metal. Overall her lesson would best be shared between Twilight and Applejack on the topic of Honesty and the pursuit of knowledge. Unlike Orochimaru who's best appearance would be as a combatant.
For those of you who really want to seek more out into my line of thought, I have a list of why I have chosen a few of these villains. seen so far. Warning this is a plot spoiler and I will be setting up the spoiler bars in case you wish to only know why certain people have been chosen for certain roles. This will be explored later on, but it might help tie some of you people over. Especially with all the Aku voices yelling that he isn't a tragic villain. Keep in mind, some of these are less than perfect 'tragedies' because we can't all have perfect reasoning characters who don't have a single flaw in their logic. That'd be a flat character. Actually intending on exploring this some more between the PM and Yoko later on. Since both have experience with such shows.
AS Stated, WARNING to SPOILERS. Read at your own sanity's risk. These are the lessons that will eventually be introduced to the fic. Not in any specific order. They also show who they are meant for.
Davy Jones: A promise unkept that lead to heartache and a seeking of revenge. For Pinkie, and her pinkie promise being taken far too seriously.
Aku:The hard decisions a ruler must make, where short term loss can be migitated by long term Gain. Alongside some of the crucial mistakes of the leading Diarchy in their stoning villains craze.
GLaDOS:Trust Betrayed by the father figure, and thus ended up turning the pursuit of science too far, and performing a number of experiments out on the sole survivor. Essentially going into the plot of portal 2 with AJ and Twi.
Maleficent:Appearances can be deceiving, Just because something may seem frightening dosen't mean it is. Short term meant to get Fluttershy over her Dragon Phobia, long term meant to give her a more open mind to the strange rather than squeaking off in sheer terror at every little thing like in seasons 1-3 of the show.
Nox:Obsessions can be taken too far, A lesson he learned when he lost his family, one that he could show to Twi through Chronological 'Viewing' of an obsession. Such as when Twi attempts the time travel spells in the Starswirl wing of the library or becomes obsessed with friendship reports in Lesson Zero.
Mr.Freeze:Not Every Villain is black and white, some have a purpose, while if tragic is still lawfully wrong. He is meant to start the redemption ball rolling rather than see more villains Stoned(discord), exploded(Sombra), or thrown(Chrysalis) to death. He is meant for Shining Armor and the mane Six.
Bowser: A Personal challenge towards Shining Armor and Princess Cadence. Kidnapping the latter and admitting affection for said Alicorn. Expect a lot of cheese and lessons of possessiveness against the Shiny one for being overly so (not developed point yet, since we rarely have a good opportunity to explore Married Shiny's life. I'd assume he would be possessive of his wife due to the recent incident at his wedding after all chronologically when this particular lesson happens.
6046687 Also he really should, but really how would you react when one second your in a court room, discussing a punishment as a lawyer and the next you're in the middle of an Ork vs Space marine War?
Disorientation is a fun thing I'm going to keep track of when the PM is thrown for a ride like that. First and foremost he is an Artist, or crafter not a warrior, and saying something like that to an Ork God would tip him off to what he was about to do, Let alone the number of things in the room that was happening at the same time is more than enough to confuse a newcomer like that.
It would of been an awesome line though, I admit. Maybe I will save it for later, though?
6046999 Ah, that makes sense, and your welcome for the line. I am to please, and any way I can help I am happy to give! Don't hesitate to ask!
6046990 Right! I had actually forgotten for a bit that he already had a Glados mask, that could work just fine! I just used Orochimaru as an example of the motivations. I know he doesn't really fit the bill, because he just isn't a tragic villain (hence why I also suggested Logan, poor Logan. Going insane while chasing after the knowledge of the scaleless dragon, but once more I am not sure he even counts as a villain. Mostly just a tragic loon). A villain yes, but not tragic. He regrets nothing. He chose the life he has, and he even succeeded. He became an immortal, making any attempts to stop his research utterly fruitless. Ultimately it is the motivation I would like to see for when the Puppet Master can finally begin "teaching" them. Just the idea of Twilight realizing not only how thin the line really is, but just how close to it she has been this whole time is a hilarious thought!
Honestly I'm picturing my character in here because honestly your worlds magic feels tasty... Although being a sword really isn't great for mobility... And I'm wondering what happens when Alexander red Herrington loses all his magic. Eh don't worry about me I'm just abandoned is some dragons hoard with nobody to talk to for hundreds of years.
Honestly I want out of this universe its so boring... No events that could shatter the world. Just see past this notice me not charm made by four alicorns and send me on my way.
(I personally think this is a great story. I'm just acting. And the names still funny.)
Ah ha, a hundred years in that pile and some pony found me, well I've got my ticket out of here.
Anyways see yah. I might come back
(If you haven't noticed I love acting, doesn't matter what role I just like acting)