Chapter 5: Mighty Magic Show
The God Emperor and Celestia met together in a clash of power energies clashing against one another. The ponies in the crowd awed and ooed, completely entranced by the rare yet amazing spectacle before them. Both of the contestants were using their powers to force the other to concede, the force of wills a standstill as the Emperor’s psychic energies dueled against Celestia’s magic in the form of force-fields that wouldn’t let up.
“So, you think your magic has a chance against my psychic powers, huh?” the Emperor asked, pushing his wall of power against Celestia’s own, forcing her back a step.
Wincing, Celestia scowled, a smile still clear and bright on her face as she pushed the Emperor back as well. “Not just a chance. A full blown advantage.”
The two broke apart, their collective energies hovering in blue and gold sparks that slowly fell to the ground. The ground was shaking from their collective might, the air filled with a hum that seemed to shimmer in the light.
Grinning, the God Emperor held up his claw to the heavens. “Then let us see how far this advantage shall take you, my dear!” A bolt of lightning fell from a now darkened sky, nailing his gauntlet directly so that the electrical sparks that flowed forth across his arm turned a brilliant blue. Closing his claw into a fist, the sparks dissipated into an electrical discharge that surrounded the God Emperor in a blinding light of sparks and bolts of lightning, earning him a loud cheer of approval from the audience.
Celestia scoffed, dusting her shoulder off nonchalantly. “Is that what you call power, Mister Emperor? I’ve seen better stuff from a foal.” Celestia’s horn shined so bright that it took on the intensity of the sun for a moment, causing all but the God Emperor to look away. As the power kept on building up, flames licked Celestia’s hooves as an inferno formed beneath her. Before too long, an entire tornado of pure flames formed around her, turning the ground immediately near her into lava while ponies all around backed away to avoid the extreme heat. “Now this is how far my advantage shall take me, my dear!”
Holding a hand above his eyes, the God Emperor chuckled, nodding his head. “Impressive, impressive indeed. You’d put any space marine out there to shame.” The Emperor’s playful smile turned into a full blown smirk as he swept his crimson cape over his chest, the entirety of it transforming into a billowing fire. “But I am no mere space marine!”
The flaming cape surrounded the Emperor in a halo of light, outclassing Celestia’s fiery tornado as the clouds parted from overhead and the sun itself shined down upon him. The God Emperor levitated in the air, the field of flames surrounding him only growing brighter and more spectacular by the second.
“For I am the Emperor of Mankind!” he bellowed, withdrawing his massive fire sword from its sheath. The intensity of light now was almost unbearable, yet it was so beautiful no one in the crowd and not even Celestia herself could look away. “Leader of the Imperium of Man, Ruler of the Golden Throne, and Father and Guardian to All of Humanity!” He pointed his sword directly up to the sky, a ray of sunshine reflecting off the fire-induced blade. The entirety of the Emperor was covered in light, the man himself appearing like a Sun God of the most fiery wrath who has come down to bestow his judgement on mortals. “And I have won this contest!”
The Emperor’s blinding radiance briefly turned supernova, then dissipated into a field of light that spread out over the sky like a storm, destroying the clouds that had gathered in one fail swoop. He came descending to the ground like a comet, touching down in a cloud of dust that did nothing to dull the radiance surrounding his entire body like the sun itself was was his heart.
Celestia and just about everypony in the crowd were stunned, jaws hanging low to the ground in utter astonishment. Her magical tornado of fire disappeared in an instant, Celestia’s wings drooping to the ground in an admittance of defeat.
“That was… that was amazing,” Celestia whispered, her eyes moving from the sky to the Emperor and back again. “How did you even manage to do that? The energy itself was far beyond anything I could ever imagine.”
“It is the presence of the Warp that guides my powers. Unlike your magic, the power that I use is from a source that is endless as it is all powerful, a literally endless supply of psychic energies to draw from,” the Emperor explained, returning his blade to its rightful place. “I only used a small source of that power, however. I did not want to turn this town or your ponies into a burning crater, after all.”
“Wow, so much different than magic,” Celestia noticed, tapping a chin to her hoof as she inspected the glow on the Emperor’s golden armor. “For us magic users, the power comes from us alone, no outside sources. Although…”
The God Emperor arched a brow. “Yes?”
Celestia smiled, her horn once more powering up for a new spell. “I bet your psychic powers can’t do this.”
The spell came into effect in an instant, flashes of light and puffs of smoke appearing here and there among the crowd of ponies. From where there was once a hedge now stood a chocolate cake three ponies high. A fountain nearby with a statue spurting out water was now producing fruit punch instead. And from a chariot appeared a fully automated carriage with surround sound speakers and extra large cupholders.
The God Emperor stood dumbfounded, holding a clawed hand to his head as he stared at the changes Celestia made with wide eyes. “You… you completely changed those objects?”
“That’s correct,” Celestia replied, a smug grin clear on her face.
“And not just teleported and replaced them with something else?”
“Nope. I changed each and every one of them with magic.”
“How interesting.” The Emperor’s astonishment took a quick turn into fascination, his keen eyes inspecting the changed objects with a careful scrutiny. “It appears the entire molecular makeup of the objects changed and were replaced to form these new objects. The science behind achieving such a feat are astounding and would require the most complex technologies mankind has to offer, yet you managed to do it all by yourself, and all with magic as well. Utterly amazing.”
“It’s not too much of a big deal,” Celestia said, a slight blush on her cheeks. “I mean, the spell to turn water into fruit punch is one even a foal could learn.”
The Emperor winked to her. “But still, to me, it is fascinating, which you fascinating as well, my dear.” Reaching out a hand to her, he asked, “How about we call this a draw?”
“A draw?” Celestia asked, a devious look on her face. “And before you seemed to confident.”
The Emperor shrugged, his smile growing wider. “Well, I have to keep some fair face by not conceding to you altogether. So please, my dear, show mercy on me.”
Humming under her breath, Celestia nodded and shook her hoof with the Emperor’s hand. “Well, I am known for being merciful. Plus, you’re much too cute to say no too.”
“I could say the same thing.”
As Celestia’s blush grew a shade of red darker, Pinkie Pie dropped out of nowhere, throwing confetti and ribbons everywhere. “Princess Celestia and the Geom are the winners! That means both of them get the prize!”
“Prize!” Celestia cried out, already licking her lips.
“Geom?” the Emperor asked, scratching his head while arching a brow.
“Short for the God Emperor of Mankind, silly-head,” Pinkie said, already attaching a party hat to his head while situated on his shoulder. She slide down his arm like a slide, giggling all the way down.
Sighing, the Emperor poked his tiny hat that was extremely disproportionate to the rest of his massive body. “Well, I have been called worse…”
“Oh come now, I think it sounds cute,” Celestia said, following Pinkie back to the bake shop. “So, Geom, you ready for some cake? Better hurry up, because I get extra hungry after a victory.”
Smiling, the Emperor ducked beneath the doorway and joined the mares for some justly earned cake. “Yep, I’ve definitely been called worse. Although, with someone as beautiful such as yourself saying it, I think I can get used to it.”
The Emperor laughed, Pinkie joining in with her own giggling as Celestia’s blush covered her entire face in a field of red.
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Wow. I literally just favorited this, moved back to the main page and refreshed and there's a new chapter.
Well then.
in war the Geom would win hands down while in piece Tia would dominate
Okay, that was fun! I like the idea that the systems are so different that the basics in one are beyond imagining in the other, and vice versa.
Too cute
AAAAH! The Empreror flirting with horse-like xeno! Warp gone wild!
Not anymore, he aren't. And I'm sure that if Humanity would be able to unfuck itself, it will come for him.
If not, Chaos Gods would be glad to pay him a visit.
4351684
Shhhhhhhhh, let him have his titles. That's pretty much all his has left now... other than ridiculous amounts of psychic power, which is nice. But it isn't cool titles, goddamnit!
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4351342
Think of psychic energy being more powerful but magic having more finesse and practicality for stuff other than war.
4351425
When you have a cutie who you're currently on a date with call you that, you buck up and stick to that nickname like no tomorrow!
4351540
Humans and Eldar can inter-breed, and used to do so while the Emperor was alive. All I'm going to say.
4351737
Somehow, I don't feel any need to humour a fucking deserter, and from what we have seen so far, that's who GEOM is.
For the sake of those countless billions he had abandoned, I hope that something will piss on his romantic parade.
4351737
Hey RainbowBob, you know what would have made this better?
If the God Emperor was really an angsty 23 year old male who had put on a costume, causing him to vanish to Equestria and gain powers of the God Emperor to terrorize Equestira.HERESY
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4351754
ITS a HORSE!
4351824
You mean the ones who were fucked to begin with? You realize that 40k is the original Grimdark. There is no saving Good from Evil in Grimdark. There's nothing even someone as powerful as the Emperor could do to stop what's coming. Let's look at the options, shall we?
Emperor is removed from Throne, his nature as a Perpetual revives him immediately. Now ready to take the fight to Chaos in both the Material and Immaterium. Oh hey, the Astronomicon just shut off. Warp Travel is done and over with now.
Emperor is removed from Throne, his nature as a Perpetual revives him immediately. All the Eldar die and are fed into the Infinity Circuits of their Craftworlds, awakening the final Eldar God, the Goddess of Light - Ynnead. Together, the two gods of light and justice spring forth, doing direct battle with Chaos. Either one side wins, or the resulting clash destroys the barriers between the two realities and everything is annihilated.
Alternately, if the Emperor and Ynnead win, then the TRUE enemy appears. Yes. Chaos is a diversion. For all the billions and billions and billions of Tyranid in the galaxy now, they are the scouting tendrils of the vanguard. The true Tyranid fleet is beyond all comprehension, as they've already devoured many other galaxies, potentially with beings like the ones here in the Milky Way. And as we know, species who get devoured feed their genetic strengths and knowledge to the Hive.
When the main fleet hits, the entire galaxy is fucked, even if everyone stands together. Which they won't, because every force is fractured and warring with itself for dominance and opinion. Everyone and everything is destined to be destroyed one way or the other, and all the mortals caught in between are the casualties. So, really. If there's absolutely no hope at all, then the guy who... AFTER GETTING MURDERED BY HIS FAVORITE SON... has been fighting for the human race 24/7 without the slightest respite against four+(there's more than four Gods of Chaos) nearly-infinite beings who twist time and causality itself for over ten... thousand... years, decides to pack up and attend to his love life, I say more power to him.
By the way, your opinion?
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4351837
So are you! Purge yourself!
4351878
Liar! You are demon of Tzeentch. I know!
4351884
You dare accuse an Inquisitor of the Ordo Sicarius of being a daemon? Heretic, when I'm done with you there won't be enough left to make a Servitor out of!
Also, seriously. SHE'S a horse and a lady. Manners, heretic! The Dawnmother commands respect!
4351919
Romances with Xeno is way for extiction of humanity! Purity of our kind should remain unblemished!
Die, Demon! *used stormbolter on 1d6 roll*
i laugh at all the people that say this is Heresy, if Big E wants to fuck a magical xeno horse then he will fuck a magical xeno horse, you don't tell the Emperor no, Horus told the Emperor no and he got erased from existence! countless rogue human worlds told the Emperor no and they got curb stomped, think of all those xeno empires during The Crusade, they said no to the Emperor and they got purged! so if the boss man wants a magical pony waifu then by his gold plated easy bake oven of doom he shall have a magical pony waifu!
4351931 NO harm shall come to the Emperors wifu she is under the Deathwings protection!
4351867
Well the Astronomicon was working before the Emperor sat on his throne, somehow -- it's never really explained. No reason to think he didn't just 'fix' it before buggering off for his magical xeno pony waifu.
4352371
AND THE PROTECTION OF THE EMPEROR'S RABBIT CORPS!
NAW OFF THEIR JUGULARS!!!!!!
FOR THE EMPEROR!!!!!! AND FOR HIS BRIDE!!!!!!!
4352371
Another filthy spawn of the Warp!
You dare to mention a sacred name of the Warriors that moving on the way of atonement?! Atonement is a Retribution! Retribution is fight against all incorrect and blasphemous that bears harm to a human race! This horse stole our father and the defender! And you, unfathful, dare to praise her for this! You consider her worthy of His attention!
You are the same insignificant demon! Back to warp! *used ordanance weapon; throwed direction dice and 1d6 dice"
4352443
It's not too clear on that, best we can assume is that he was funneling his psychic energy to it some other way. The Throne's original purpose was to provide humanity with its own Webway to begin with.
That said, Malcador the Sigilite sat on the Throne for the duration of the Emperor's battle with Horus and it killed him. Considering Malcador could take planetoids/moons and shove them into different realities with his mind and he couldn't last more than maybe an hour or two, while the Emperor lounges up there comfortably is really, really saying something about how strong the Astronomicon is and how powerful the Emperor is.
LASER LIGHT SHOW!
4351824 You must be fun at parties.
D'aaawww, Celestia just keeps on blushing from all these comments the Emperor gives her, it's cute!
Hello! I'm just stopping by to say PRAISE THE EMPEROR!
4352151 Gold plated Easy-Bake oven of doom? I... just... I still cracking up over that.
4353410
although I believe pinkie could do it I think you meant attaching
Would Geom start with a soft G or a hard G?
4351867
He was somehow able to be crusading with his troops with Astronomican working just fine, presumably controlling it from a distance. Now his big project that Golden Throne was a part of, which might or might not be a Webway analogue, will probably shut down, but it's not certain.
As fo the FUCKHUGE Tyranid invasion:
The Astronomican, unbeknownst to the Imperium, is what is drawing the Tyranid Hive Fleets to threaten the Galaxy and all of the Imperium.
That puts him on a lower moral scale than every citizen of the Imperium who had died for the sake of Humanity: Guardsmen an Marines who stood the line, psykers whose very souls were sacrificed as the fuel to Astronomican.
If they were to see him like that, Ollanius Pius and loyal Primarchs would not be pleased.
in which way (sans the collateral damage) is his decision marginally better than that of countless individuals who jumped on the Chaos Band Wagon out of despair?
4352629
Usually I'm not a chronicle party-pooper and love me some Rule of Fun based stories, but when a character behaves like a scumbag, I'm not very keen on rooting for them.
4354026
Hey, yo, dude, how 'bout waiting for the reason why he can't return back to his galaxy, mmmkay? I'm sure the author of this story, of which I am him, certainly has a good explanation that is connected to the plot to drive the story forward and show progression of the Emperor's character. Or, you can keep on keeping on and jumping to conclusions right away. Up to you.
4354045
Hello again, dear author.
As you might or might not have noticed, i wrote this:
That means that I'm yet to form any ultimate conclusions, and while I can't think of a reason that could possibly justify Geom's actions if Imperium was indeed doomed (which in of itself wasn't stated outright), I would be glad to be proven wrong.
4354114
I dunno, man, it looks like you made your ultimate conclusion already, as seen here:
So, like, tone it down a bit, sit back and relax, and take a trip down romance and explosions that only a crossover between MLP and Warhammer 40k can bring you.
Geom. . .just like Gem! Eh, eh?
oh, never mind. 
I can imagine what will the Emperor look like during the Gala.
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or
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(Yes that's the Emperor before he became the Emperor)
4352516 DEAMON........WARP SPAWN
You whould dare accuse a Dark Angel of such a thing?
Let us not forget that YOU dared to claim that the Emperor was WEAK enough to be brought low by what your tainted eyes can only see as a deamon!
NO, the Emperors consort is no such thing!
But YOU....IN THE NAME OF THE FIRST LEAGION,
THE LION,
AND THE GOLDEN THRONE!
WE NAME THE BLASPHEMER, RENEAGADE, AND HERATIC!
Prepare to be loved and tolerated by my thunder hammer chaos filth.
(I don't about you but I'm haveing a blast)
4354150
Indeed, my statement above should have looked like this:
I should also mention that I am relaxed, and quite eager to read more.
That brings up the question of your writing schedule for this story, because I didn't see you mentioning anything about it.
4355874
I have in the description of the story it updates every Monday and Thursday. So tomorrow there'll be a new chapter.
4354045
Sorry Bob, I was trying to deflect him away from pointlessly harsh ragging on the story for no good reason without you having to get involved, but this one seems pretty set in his "humanity is the best thing ever and even the tiniest imagined slight by anyone will drive me up the wall" thinking. Apologies.
Thanks for continuing to work on this sidestory despite the blockheads. The rest of us, who generally remain quiet as we are pleased, appreciate this.
4356691
Welp, what a nice way you of having a constructive discussion you have here. Obvious insults aside, would you kindly point out what parts of my comments you were able to
misinterpret as a 'pointlessly harsh ragging on the story for no good reason' or that, in yourdeluded mindopinion, were indicative of me being 'driven up the wall'? In case you are feeling especially generous, you could actually try to refute my points with arguments.4355962
I could swear that this bit wasn't in the description first tie I read it, but that could have easily been me being stunned by the very notion of an Emprah-shipfic.
I would also like to condole with you about your lap-top situation, and advice you to look at today's celebration to assure yourself that such things are nothing to be seriously sad about.
4360775
No need. Your post baiting me into further disruptive continuation with you proves everything I posited. This has gone on long enough, and I don't like to see hard-working authors get caught up in dealing with situations and people like you. Since Bob already has, and frankly has said everything that needs to be said, we're done here or I'm adding to the problem as much as you are. Kindly pipe down unless you have actual criticism that is constructive rather than what you've shown. What I said stands, and that will be the last of it
Argument denoted as concluded.
4360892
So, in your mind pointing out a possibility of an obvious glaring OOC moment that paints character in question as a hypocrite and a morally bankrupt individual doesn't count as constructive criticism?
The author himself stated that he acknowledges such possibility and 'certainly has a good explanation that is connected to the plot to drive the story forward and show progression of the Emperor's character.' which instantly made it ok in my book. I even corrected my previous statement, as you clearly could have seen, if you even bothered to read the comments.
Besides, our discussion, was, for the most part, about the certainty of Imperium's demise and about moral evaluation of Emprah's action, in case if him abandoning the dying humanity is a fact (which it apparently is not). Seeing you as a fellow 40k fan, I assumed that you were willing to participate in a discussion like that. Evidently, that was a mistake and if you prefer to wiggle your sorry ass out of the argument, so be it. Have a nice day, sir/madam.
I'm glad you decided to explore Big E's personality more in this offshoot series, and I'm eager to see where you go with this.
Have a thumb and star.
4352151 Finally! Someone understands!!!
4351827 No it's not.
4351340
Piece? A piece of what?
4390958 that was my atempt at inuendo
Geom? WHAT IS THIS HERESY!
4355064 Bah, it is commonly known that you damned Dark Angels are little better than traitors! Your so called 'secret' that you are so eager to hide from the rest of the Imperium. The very secret that you are so eager to kill loyal Inquisitors, and even other Space Marine chapters - or need I mention the incident with Cypher and the Black Templars? You are little better than the "Fallen Angels" and so of course you would side with this horse-xeno!
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