Puppets of Tragedy

by Iridescence T Wind

Sweet Treat, You or Me?

"Mmmmm... I smell some strong energy. That will have to make a sweet treat. Probably a solid seventy or eighty even!" The pink form had barely arrived from the portal but already she was salivating. A new world, full of new ponies and apparently another displaced, "Oh I'm positively drooling! Maybe I should skip straight to the main courses!" She sniffed the air as the weakling green-skins around her barely registered aside from their usual plant-like stench. Hmmm... This lunie and Auntie are a solid few points less on the power scale, shame... Though their twilight on the other hand..."

Her nose turned from the distant mountains, the scent of distant powers filtrating like she was a blood hound in a candy store, "bit stronger, maybe a bit less dark chocolate but not milk quite yet... Aw..." The look of disappointment on the unblemished face was more a look of someone finding out the price of a tiny truffle to be far higher than it was worth to them but still finding a cheaper just-as-seemingly-good truffle right next to it.

"Fuu... Gotta admit I'm really going to owe Skarr-y for this meal, maybe he'll let me take another world out too after this."

"Ahh.. Pink 'umie? Are ya' goin' to get goin' or wot?"

She ignored the ork, not that she wasn't hungry, she just wasn't a vegetarian. That and orks had an awful taste about them. Like a Truffle that was left to rot before being dipped in ghost pepper mixed chocolate. Nasty. But then again, most food that wasn't candy to her taste buds tasted similarly. She considered stopping by Pinkie's abode, but that was going to be for later. First was the main course. That delectable scent. It was like mint, dark chocolate, and caramel all combined and made a new delectable flavor! She must find the source, she craved it, desired it... No... Needed it!

"Ohhhhh...." she moaned, crouching down before dashing off. The force of the push off the ground causing several of the surrounding trees to sway and knock over the Ork nearby.

"Wot's her deal?" One ork asked the face-planted one.

"dun' kno'." Said the first, "Dun' care eitha'."

Both orks, however, watched as the distant pink blur flew off to the mountain, and the second replied, "Sound's like a good foit is 'bout to 'appen tho." They both nodded in sagely wisdom before returning to work. The Dakka wasn't gonna build itself after all.

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Back to a Puppet Master's perspective

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Rainbow Dash was handling herself well for a first time using Rubilax. To my surprise, he continued to function without any input from me, implying that Rainbow was the one supplying him now, in both personality and magical power. His attitude was also being changed to more brash, just like Dash, both wanting revenge for the downed stranger Rainbow had only just met not minutes before.

The best part was that she was somehow winning. At one point, I had upped Razortime to see how fast I could get the heavy hunk of metal to go, but nothing would connect. Rainbow's natural athleticism and need for speed had placed her pretty far up there, and even in the restrained space she was using it to her advantage. Bouncing off walls like some kind of ninja and slashing away, giving razortime a death by a thousand cuts as the later failed over and over to even touch Rainbow. Though that is to say she didn't have any problems in her combat style...

For she had dozens. Her brash headed nature meant that she kept coming in head on, and that any attacks she made were heavy wide open swings that had as much zeal as an actor on stage playing a paladin type. In a fight that put her against someone of similar speed, she'd be outclassed easily by skill. But for this fight, she was perfectly mat-.

Some instinct told me to dodge, and dodge I did. Card walls erupting as I ducked down going prone as fast as my body and another card would let me. A blast pierced through the base, pink in energy and as wide as a baseball. It had cut through a card like butter, and turned the one on the other-side into a sweet roll before stopping.

That instinct, had not been instinct but my subconscious reacting to the attack from the camera feed outside. Which had came from a being that was distinctly not a pony. She was floating in the air, and the color of her skin was almost cotton candy in color. She wore blouse like white pants, with long unkept hair of similar color that was only barely tinted with the same kind of pink as her skin. Her eyes were red with a black backdrop that scent shivers down my spine. To my surprise, and embarrassment she wasn't wearing a shirt, but instead a black sports bra and sleeves that looked not out of place of some anime character alongside some decorative gold jewelry strewn about her body primarily in the form of various rings.

She waved at the camera and I was puzzled. She definitely wasn't a native. Another displaced member perhaps? But why was she-

I dived to avoid another beam. Okay stop i-

Portal to redirect another beam back at her. Rude! She dodged, but the method she did it in triggered something in my memory. Instant teleportation by black lines... pink skin... candy... Freeza style death rays... Wait Freeza?

"AM I BEING ATTACKED BY A DRAGONBALL OC?!"

"Nah, I'm Android 21. Get your info straight."

I turned my head in time to see she was behind me, another beam charging, "OH GO-"

I portaled myself out that time to avoid an otherwise fatal laser beam, the blast flying out of the mountain and nailing a nearby pigeon, turning it into a milkshake.

I stumbled out of the portal, now inside the Everfree Forest as the pink... Majin? Android? Whatever Freeza was? Followed after through it.

"Android what now?" I said, trying to stall for time as I regained my bearings.

"21. Though you can just call me Andrea if you really want to know." The strange woman began, bowing forward to look at me at eye level. Being quite scandalous in the process.

I kept my gaze straight on her, not focusing on a single part but the whole as best I could, "How did you get here?"

"Dosen't matter," she replied back, raising a hand as she flourished herself back into the air, "Not when you're about to be a yummy sweet." and began to charge a ball of rather sinister looking energy into her palm.

"How about no." I replied in turn, this time erecting a turret wall and having them open fire.

"Boringggg." she replied, dodging the turrets easily, and launching the first ball into the line destroying them, charging a second as swiftly as the first.

A Five more turret walls popped up evenly spaced around her.

"Ohhh, you're fiesty!" She blew them up one after the other, dodging with about the same amount of effort, "But you're mine now."

"No." I replied back.

"No?" She puffed her cheeks, "Do you not know how much work it was to get here?" Casually, she threw another obliterating beam of energy at me, and I used a pair of portals to avoid it, and move further away from her simultaneously.

Shutting it before she entered, I wasn't surprised that she followed after me with a teleportation of her own. Now the game became her firing shots off at me, while I ran between forming and collapsing portals. Pushing myself out of the Everfree Forest, and the fight as a result away from both being near ponyville and my own home as she continued to fling around energy beams with no concern at all.

I winced as one of the wild beams flew off into Canterlot, though I couldn't tell if it hit anything or not from this distance away, or if it had fizzled out somewhere along the way.

Once we had reached the open plains south of Everfree, I finally decided to stop running.

"Giving up already? You're not so fun." Andrea asked, as she readied a salvo of pink beams this time.

"Nah, we have enough distance now."

Her look turned to one of mild bewilderment as she fired off her shots and my puppets came into play.

First was a row of mooks, who absorbed the shots, turning wooden dolls into candy before fading away. Then came the masks. Shadow flooded the otherwise sunset-lit plains, as a beam of energy impacted my attacker, knocking her out of the air. This lead to a portal uppercut by the king of koopas, Who launched up, grabbing her, and while in mid air took her to a nosedive into the ground and proceeded to roast her with fire. She kicked him off and raised a hand to fire a beam, but her aim was thrown off by yet another portal, as her hand was impacted by a large icicle, taking it clean off without any blood or bone showing from the stump. Confirming another theory about her racial bias, and continuing into the combination as Ice King stepped out of his portal.

"Wuh?" she let out before another interruption caught her off guard. This time, a blast of far more powerful fire, green and black set her ablaze unnaturally. The fire of the fey-dragon Maleficent. In combination with a cannonball from Davy Jones putting a hole in her chest.

More puppets were coming out of reserve, and in the distraction, Razortime had fallen. But that wasn't important at the moment. For instead of being defeated, she started... Laughing. The crazed kind of look usually reserved for a grim-dark yandere lover had taken over her eyes, "Yes! Keep this up! You're only making me want to devour you even more!"

I probably should of expected it, but she was already regenerating at a rapid pace. The hole in her stomach was already sealing, and her arm coming back within seconds complete with clothing and jewels. "Make me more excited! I do enjoy a good workout before a meal! It makes it taste so much better!"

With that, a thousand tiny balls of energy erupted above her, and I paled.

Quickly I rose a multi-puppet wall between me and her, but the explosions threw me off my feet, only managing not to eat dirt by virtue of the cards that carried me away from the rest of the backblast, loud enough to leave my ears ringing and vision blurred. The puppets took into action, firing beam after fireball at her, while she nimbly avoided more of it like a dancer. She set herself upon Aku first by coating her arm in a strange energy before plunging it into the master of darkness, ripping a chunk out of him and... Absorbing it? I felt the loss in power as if she had taken a chunk out of me.

But it didn't end there, she was now firing lasers from her eyes as well. Aku responded to her first burst of lasers by socking her hard enough to send her flying again, only recovering a hundred feet up or so, and reforming a missing upperbody in time to witness a large amount of minion-based firepower being shot up to her with enough bullets, lasers, hammers, fireballs, and arrows, to make an Ork happy. This concentrated fire reduced her to pieces again, but it wasn't enough. Infact, she seemed to be enjoying it instead of being irritated in the least.

She reformed, and this time, blew Davyjones to pieces before I could respond. The puppet was shattered in a single shot of pink energy, different from the candy beam. "Not into sushi, unfortunately!" she gloated before losing another arm to a well placed barrage of sentry turret bullets. "Come on!" She giggled, blasting away a row of mooks with a continuous beam of lasers as if it was a sword, and then lunging for the Ice King, her arm coated in the same strange pink energy she had attacked Aku with.

The puppet was rendered barely working after the impact, but she was giggling even harder than before, "So much fun!"

She wove her hand this time, like a backhanded slap, and then a giant pink lightning bolt made of ice formed into the air. Now it clicked. With that attack, she was stealing the abilities of the people she hit with it and making it her own. Oh for goodness sake. I began to swear, as I entered the flying card and the deck scattered. The giant pink shard of ice crashing into the ground and exploding in that same colored energy as before. But just as I thought I had gotten away from her focus in the chaos. She appeared from the frontside of the card I was in, "Found you! Now I'ma gobble you up, Okay?" she licked her lips as a beam formed again on the tip of her finger this time, and I promptly rammed her into another card.

"Hey no fair!" she yelled as I began to put distance between me and her as much as possible.

I barely breathed a sigh of relief, considering the situation handled before she did something impossible. She roared, and what could only be described as a rip in space and time tore the card apart and she appeared from the rip instead of the card. Now she was mad, "I said I won, that means you become a treat!"

"You need to learn to take no as an answer!" I yelled back at her, "Seriously!"

She vanished again, but this time I was prepared, as she appeared behind me, this time I raised a metal wall with a portal just in time to intercept a ramming punch, and just as soon as I had opened it, I shut it on her midway through. With a wet splotch, the upperhalf of her body landed several hundred meters away from the lower half. Though, now she looked genuinely pissed before the Bowser puppet jumped and crushed her lower body, while the Maleificent puppet subjected her upper-side to a bath made of fire again. Only after twenty seconds when she stopped squirming, did I ask, "Done with the attempts at cannibalism yet?"

She glared at me, and suddenly I felt another chunk of my power give way as the Bowser puppet was absorbed by her legs. Caught off guard, she giggled as her lowerbody now went for my exposed backside, only for the giggles to turn to a frustrated groan as another portal sent her own kick back into her face. Before I could roast both parts of her body in more fire, she was back, this time wielding a giant pink version of Bowsers shell and crashing it down at me.

I intercepted it with a snap of my fingers. Coating and throwing it all away with a chain of explosions, barely diverting the path enough to avoid the side spikes, and nearly forgot to breathe as her fist was deflected off the energy shield that had engulfed my body during the explosion from the Rosarius shield. The shield had visibly cracked under the weight of that blow. And from the look on her face, she was getting sick of being put on fire.

She vanished again, and I felt another stab of energy loss as she jabbed-n-grabbed Maleficent, before throwing the giant dragon at me. I was forced to disengage the puppet this time, the ground too uneven for another portal to have time to construct, and caught the mask as it flew at me. Throwing it back into Maleficents more mage-like form behind me as I raised my shield up in time to block another attempted haymaker.

I was thrown off my feet again when the punch connected to my arm, the energy based shield that had cracked before having taken the brunt of the impact before overheating and the rest landing an impact strong enough on the actual metal shield to throw me a good football field with a now numb and dislocated arm.

My concentration disrupted, Andrea took advantage of the lasp of commands to absorb most of the current puppets on the field other than the injured maleficent. My faculties returning just in time to repel her with the dragon and having the mask make a hasty retreat into a GLaDOS portal before she got eaten too.

"You're mine now!" The field clear of puppets she took the lunge, tongue outside her mouth, long and sinewy. I couldn't react in time. Though stronger than before, I forced a puppet to take the punch for me, a combination of explosions also joining in to divert the main attack. However, the shock wave sent me tumbling again. This time, however, she didn't stop.

Now she was standing above me, we were back where we started in the plains turned battle field. I was wounded with a dislocated arm, ironically the same one that had just barely finished healing by Nightmare Night, and a number of burns and scrapes all over me from how much I had been thrown about. She still looked without a scratch, but from how she was panting, I must of been a drain on her too, at least somewhat.

"Finally, a treat denied too long, I wonder what you'll make... Skarry said you'd make a delicious snack." Her drool had returned with her pants, giving me a feeling of needing an adult despite being one, "Now sit still!" She raised her finger yet again, collecting energy only for a sudden moment for time to seemingly freeze.

"Oh hoho..." The Nox puppet chuckled for me, "Gotcha." Within less than an instant, the Nox puppet was now present behind her.

"Not out of tricks yet." I coughed out personally, and stood up, as swarms upon swarms of insect-minions joined me. The same sort that had drained the basilisk dry, and in combination with myself and the puppets we grabbed her.

The amount of energy that began to flood me was immense. Easily larger than both Sharp Opera and the Wendigo king combined. She began to scream, and the frozen time began to buckle in the restraints, but I continued to take as much as I could from her. But just as I thought I had won....

I was shot in the back by a beam of pink energy. I barely managed to get a look at the source before I turned into candy. A single arm, the one that had been shot off during the start of the puppet assault. When the Ice Kings icicle had collided with it from the side. The world turned to darkness, and all connections severed themselves as their source shut down. A feeling of overwhelming tiredness began to take me, transformed into a mere piece of candy I fell out of awareness to my surroundings. I could only think of one thing as it overcame me, "Did she mention.... Skargor?"

Comments

[Rosegfx]

I don't know what this chapter is, but it feels like filler. Just like the actual DBZ then, eh?

[Iridescence T Wind]

9071486
Only filler if nothing happened. Something did though. Still remember skipping every other episode of the Namek ark and nothing missing a thing. Or watching 7 episodes of Goku charging the Spirit Bomb. Ughhhhhhhhh.

[Jonny Bench]

It’s back! I have been waiting for this for so long!

[amiamera]

This chapter reminded me of two things 1, this is a displaced story and 2, why I dislike the genre a lot. Sudden character out of nowhere that I don’t care about, don’t understand, and feels like it’s interrupting my plot? Quite often in these stories. Then again, I can’t remember enough of this story to know what of this chapter actually matters. I just remember the cool concept of the puppet control and using them to teach the ponies lessons and something about weird stuff plus Starswirl if memory serves me correctly.

[Timeless Lord Slayer]

9071905 You certain this wasn't planned and, ya know, thus part of the plot? Look at the previous chapters. Which had VERY OBVIOUS build up to this happening. Specifically "To make a String out of you". I'd recommend having a little more faith in the writer who, despite taking a while to update, always delivers.

[Royal7]

Now she was standing above me, we were back where we started in the plains turned battle field. I was wounded with a dislocated arm, ironically the same one that had just barely finished healing by Nightmare Night, and a number of burns and scrapes all over me from how much I had been thrown about. She still looked without a scratch, but from how she was panting, I must of been a drain on her too, at least somewhat.

Oh, my god, he’s prock from the Awesomes.
Also just a quick suggestion you are a good writer but you missed a few small things here and there you should just get Grammarly and pop the story in after writing it the free version would help with the forgotten words and other small things like that, trust me I help firefoxino with his story and Grammarly makes it quick.
9071486
How is this filler he got his energy back from resurrecting starswirl(I guess that means no pony of shadows though kind of sad) and more, Skargor is finally making his move after Puppet master stopped him from destroying his greatest enemy, and he nearly died dramatically (I assume Knox's magic called the sisters so they’ll probably save him) if anything this is a huge turning point in the fic.
9071905
He defiantly set this all up he even had her introduced a few chapters ago but just kept her in shadows so that it didn't seem like she came out of nowhere.

[Royal7]

9071525
I just realized something if starswirl died in this world does this mean that there's pony of shadows or are you just going to change a few things to let him appear like what if starswirl tried to find a way to trap him without him and his friends also being trapped but then something went wrong and he was the only one that stayed, that could be his greatest regret and a reason for him to try to find a way to defeat the pony of shadows while still
bringing them back.

[Bold Promise]

Whatever Freeza was?

In the games, it's called "Freeza race", which is stupid. In the mangas, it's called frost demon.

[Iridescence T Wind]

9072354
Honestly I wrote the starswirl bit well before that episode was even announced, though the pony of shadows turned out to be kinda both epic and lame at the same time. Expect something to deal with it eventually but keep in mind this fic is still at Season 2 chronologically speaking.

[Iridescence T Wind]

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Andrea's mindset will be a bit explored. Though Skargor deployed her for the ambush tactics he mentioned in the 'To Make a String out of You' Chapter. I did write a blog exploring why this sort of trick would likely work from the standpoint of what we've seen in terms of both the competency and lack of presence of security there is in Equestria if you really want to explore that train of logic. Needless to say, anyone with malcontent towards the E.o.H. would be able to easily disable them if they simply went in with the intent to kill on the less combat adept ponies. (Rarity, Fluttershy). Albeit only one of them would be currently easy to target (Since Fluttershy is guarded by Discord, whereas the other is guarded by... Sweetie Belle.)

It doesn't help that the royal guard are shown to be near completely incompetent despite high numbers being witnessed in both the throne rooms and throughout Canterlot Wedding. That the princesses are typically shoe-horned into one form of loss(Princess of the sun losing against the power of one stallions love for his wife) or strange absences (Such as Luna during said wedding. In combinations with the majority of the species being the essence of the 'Too Dumb to Live' trope.

However, trying to keep a psychopath rated T for teen is going to be fun in its own way. Yay. Remember kids, it's okay to blow off the arms and legs of machines and those who don't have internal organs like weird Slime-goo majins on public television as long as no actual guts and gore are present. You know, casual cannibalism and dismemberment. For kids!

[Royal7]

9073026
True I just gave that scenario as an option to explain him being alive while still keeping the epic pony of shadows. Why were you disappointed by him though?

[Iridescence T Wind]

9073324
The redemption and quick defeat of yet another scary awesome villain who barely got any lines. Reminded me of Sombra. Felt like it wasted the hype.

[Royal7]

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True and they never explain if the darkness was evil and wanted to take over the world or if it just amplified his personality and taking over was all him.

[Iridescence T Wind]

9073376
I was sincerely hoping for a villain song about him having enough with their problems or something along those lines, probably a jazz based kinda thing like 'a friend like me' from Aladdin only evil. Where he reminds them all of their various unspoken flaws and reveals his original intent with the relics before going on an epic evil reprise as he now seeks revenge for the misunderstanding. Leading to the rest of it. That or he would kick their butts the first time and cause a season of adventuring and darkness undertones. Either would of worked.

[Royal7]

9073443
Sure that would have been cool but he isn't the type of bad guy to do a musical number or wait he honestly would be more likely to kill them quickly if he got the chance and he would have done just that if Twilight wasn't there.

[Finalmagnus]

Great story but a few thing don't add up, like his magic drain that's a dark magic skill and a high level one at that. And draining that dragon of his magic at the rate that he did, just doesn't make any sense, dragons are notorious for their magic resistance in fiction and would of easily negated that drain ability at his level. There's also the problem of with his lack of skill and strength in magic verses those that he drained all of whom had centuries of practice developing and honing it. Tirek had to build up his strength first before he was able drain stronger foes like the Princesses or Discord. So just taking all these into account I don't see how he could even drained the Siren King when he did even with the windigo kings power do to that being ice magic in nature and the Siren King still having a good amount of strength and power left while being conscious.

[Iridescence T Wind]

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The difference between them is their current levels of magic, and their maximum level of magic that they can exert. While not very well explained by Skargor(Why would you explain this to a rival?), most magic in Equestria tends to operate on an effort value in combination with a maximum load limit. Meaning this limit is similar to stamina in that it is physical. Sort of like the magic-circuits of No Game No Life in that way. What Xander does to gain magic is not drain the effort values, (the resources that are expended in a fight) but rather drain what they can regain over time. (Their capacity for magic). Why this is important now relies upon the order of the things he drained. To assign arbitrary numbers Dragon Ball Z style. The Wendigo king was based on a rather high level lich similar to Dungeons and Dragons. Given the Wendigos ability to force three entire tribes of ponies out with just three of their own showcased in the stage-play, and that Luna's first solo song on the Starlight episode also only shows a small group of them. Albiet multiple) To put a king of Wendigos would be akin to putting an Alicorn ruler (pick one, Sun, Moon, or the concepts of love and friendship if you want) or a spirit of disharmony(Discord) in terms of power to a regular member of their race. (hence the king of said species would be the far strongest member of it). Easily able to outmatch a (presumed Young Adult) dragons energy output.

So if I were to compare numbers, Lets say that
Windigo King = 1000 points of this theoretical magic circuitry that runs throughout the body.
And lets be generous and say all together starswirls items that he drained are also worth around~
20 total.
Any gemstones drained other than major ones like the elements of harmony~
Temporary 3
The Average Unicorn/Pegasus/Earth pony not dedicated to a cutie-mark of magic exertion(such as Twilight, Starlight, or Sunset)
20 Each
While dedicated ones vary drastically upon training/time spent exerting and growing their capacity naturally.
An Alicorn would be a 600 rating on average not counting flurry heart considering what we've seen in the show, but for the order of fairness, Xander's versions of the various Alicorns are rated
1800 and 1300 points for Celestia and Luna respectively, and 300 points for Cadence due to the lack of a thousand+ years of experience.

Sharp Opera was a lazy ruler beyond his horrible nature, while still strong, his use of magic was far more direct than the puppet Masters, however, it doesn't mean that he had more magic than him at that point. I'd place him at roughly 850. Very strong on his own, easily capable of curb stomping most of his citizens, but in the deep long await underground, He fell out of practice when no more outside threats presented themselves to his realm of rulership.

Flurry Heart: 9001 She's just too op.

Tree Of Harmony: I'd place around the 3000 point place, 6000 with the elements of harmony in it due to its nature, however, it'd hardly utilize this magic supply.

Similarly Discord, as he's able to easily triumph against all of them, only failing when his own ego blinds him, can be roughly placed as a (2000) normally, Perhaps (4000) for Xanders world since he did drag Xander into the world and grant his original powerset in the first place. Keep in mind this is for the raw nature of magic, if one were to compare the more practical usages of it instead (Ie everyone shoots a laser beam) these values would be accurate. However, the various different skill sets of the individual determine their actual worth. (No one would live if Celestia threw the sun at the planet after all.)

This leaves our Dragon, at around (To be generous, lets assume his own self isolation from the rest of the world and that his massive treasure horde represented a lifetime of raids against more metal based kingdoms(Such as Griffons Minotaur, and possibly their neighbors, the Yaks). 400 points at best. Since a Dragon isn't capable of moving a divine body such as the sun or moon, or distorting reality in Equestria. The most they do is burn things to the ground manually with magic and fly. Neither the red dragon nor the green dragon seen around ponyville (Red during The Fluttershy episode to stop him napping) or the (Green dragon of Owlicious's introduction) and place them on around 400 for that basis.

While still far stronger than the average pony, Greed Growth(a form of magic induced growth) alongside dragonsfire is their only method of really utilizing it, leaving them more physically inclined. At the point that one got drained from Xander, he had a minimum of
20+1000+850+?(Xander's natural magic)= 1870+? VS 400
(Starswirls items+Wendigo king +Sharp Opera)

In regards to the dragons natural resistance to magic in many fantasy stories. They were immune to techniques regarding the physical application of them more often than not than techniques that would take magic from them. After all, magic is a two way street in terms of resistances. Similar to Spell Resistance in DND preventing you from buffing yourself with magic without allowing yourself to lower your own spell resistance voluntarily....

And Dragon's in Equestria are involved in Greed Growth..., A form of Magic.

[Finalmagnus]

Ok 1: were did you get an effort value system from the show 2: Celestia and Luna both have a special power to move those bodies which mitigates the energy requirement as opposed to Starswirl and 6 to 8 unicorns to move them 3: Celestia and Luna have both face a dragon together with x number if guards using a spell they devised it held him for less then 10 seconds the only thing that drove him off was Celsetia big loud mouth (that from the journal of the 2 sister abridged version) 4: 400 really for an adult dragon? Creatures that are know to challenge gods and demons, are nigh-ageless, suffer no form of deterioration physically or mentally, have bone that are hundreds of time lighter and stronger then steel, scales that are nigh-impenetrable, know to grow stronger and wiser with age, a magic resistance to both direct and indirect that grows stronger with exposure (I can confirm that if you check the comics of mlp dark waters spike was immune to the effects of that water while all of the ponies including the ailcorn turned evil from it.) magic fire that is feared for it ability to burn or melt almost anything and in most if not all lore are know as most magical of creatures.

I know my lore I love reading about dragons and MLP so the number you gave seem really off to me but still great story.

[EnderHooves]

Well, that was quite a fight. I wonder how he'll get better from this.
I am starting to wonder though. Have you consodered the power scaling of Xander? At this rate, nothing would be a challenge to his Raw magic in about 3 more villains scaled at this rate. That is to say that he figures out how to actually Use this raw magic he's stolen.
The King of the Windegos, The "God"-King of the sirens- fire type, a random staff of non-significance, and a dragon with a horde big enough to crash eqiestria's market on gold.(yes I know horde size doesn't = power, but it was a dragon!)
Yes, he will be facing a god of time, but man, "if I could, I would just snap my fingers, and bring balance to the universe"
I'm not dissing on the story at all, I'm just trying to comprehend how fast he's ramping up and how the story will be effected because of it.

Carry on, I eagerly await the next chapter!

[Iridescence T Wind]

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This is arbitrary values for a magical condition. Occidentall Dragons(the four legged talon clawed ones with wings on back) are more of the Warrior/beserker type than the magic type typically in stories. You usually associate these dragons with two things. Massive amounts of fire, and even larger physical destructive capabilities. Especially considering that the dragons take after western hemisphere dragons around the medieval age of knights who run around slaying the Occidentall type to save princesses and the like from them. Which implies a regular human being trained for war with other humans can somehow out match the large bulky lizard who has had decades to centuries of experience. While the comics have been considered mostly non-canon material by the show authors.

However, this isn't to say the power scaling is linear, similar to a scale of magnitude (Such as those used for Mach speeds), the returns of power for draining something does begin to fall off. Using arbitrary numbers again, a 100 points is a lot more significant when you yourself have around 100 and reaching 190 or so from the drain. The same versus having already 1000 would only add like, 10 points to overall power. This sort of logic is in place due to Tirek draining a large portion of Equestia's populace in order to become evenly matched with the power of 4 alicorns in one body. Implying either That the Alicorns are walking weapons of mass destruction capable of throwing entire cities into the ground Or that the rate of return for draining everypony else was less than a 1:1 ratio for Tirek the more he drained, the less he got out of the 'junk food' of regular citizens.

[Iridescence T Wind]

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Having magic, and utilizing it is a very different set of things. Though power draining isn't a be all end all. Don't worry, there is more coming in regards to this that has been planned since the power was introduced. Just need to get the cards in place... So to speak.

[TJPet2]

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alrighty, thanks, if that's the case, then i'll just mentally visualize them as this, since it's say that they are covered in fur

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[looker2611]

But why is the hero here i was lead to believe that it was only tragic bill and who fit the bill (also suggestion for a villain ganondorf the gerudo prince who is sealed with the hatred of demise

[The Dark Knight]

Do darth vader pleeeeaaaase