The Fall of Sepiks Prime - Final Chapter : The Devil's Lair
Old Ponyville, two o’clock AM. On route through the Ponyville main street via Sparrow. Hitching a ride with Rainbow Dash, Twilight and I held onto her tightly. Hoping for dear life that we wouldn’t fall off.
Apple Jack followed close behind on her own Sparrow.
In the short time we have spent out here, nothing was found. Any and all Fallen we should have encountered by now were nowhere to be found. This was because they had all gathered around the City, once again crawling up its walls like Twilight Gap.
“There’s nothing out here!” Rainbow Dash shouted in the rushing air.
“Keep on lookin’ Dash! Finding a hideout somewhere fer some oversized can’t be too hard!” Apple Jack advised Rainbow, continuing with the search.
“Hideout…?” Twilight said to herself.
“What is it Twi!?” Rainbow asked.
“I think I know where Sepiks Prime is! Head to the Everfree forest!!” Twilight ordered us, setting our next destination for the fabled woods of magic.
Zooming past ancient houses and lost era cider machines until we had reached the forests entrance.
The Everfree forest itself was big and embossing. Tall skyscraper like trees, and monstrous vegetation was displaying a dark abyss that lay in front our path into the forest. Historic records state that these woods stretch on for thousands of miles. Making it nearly as long and as expansive as the Hellmouth itself.
“You didn’t have to come you know…” Twilight commented, who felt conflicted by bringing her friends into her dangerous adventure.
“Are you kidding!?” Rainbow Dash responded, “When Twilight Sparkle has a plan I’m behind it ninety-nine percent of the way!”
“What ‘bout the last one percent?” Apple Jack inquired.
“Oh, that’s just in case if things go south” Rainbow explained, who was being blatantly open that Twilight’s plan might not work anyway.
I know that feeling.
Apple Jack rolled her eyes to Rainbow Dash, unimpressed by her snarky personality.
“Well besides that, we’re your friend’s darlin’… And nothin’ has gotten in the way of that…” Apple Jack encouraged Twilight, wrapping her hoof around her as we all stared into the pitch black wilderness.
“Discord came close…” Twilight reminded Apple Jack.
“But we’al know how dat’ turned out”
Twilight smiled at Apple Jack, happy to once again be at her friend’s side.
“Your right, for better or for worse, we’re together again, and that’s all that matters… Right! Let’s go save Equestria!” Twilight said, providing a little vote of confidence for the strike team, as the other Ghosts and Guardians cheered in response.
Spirits lifted and moral high, Twilight’s strike team moved forward into the forest. Narrator, Scarecrow and I radiated light. Making the path ahead visible.
As we ventured further and further into the Everfree, all three Guardians expressed caution with their weapons drawn. My Guardian Twilight with her outdated excuse of a gun, Apple Jack one hoofing her Invective shotgun, and Rainbow Dash brandishing her Hawkmoon, a Hoof Cannon considered Exotic to everypony in the Tower, from its silvered barrel to the hawk like feather etchings carved into its design, the Hawkmoon is sot after by many.
One day Twilight will have her own Exotic treasure, and I think Twilight hopes she does. Taking notice to her comrade’s firearms as they marched through the darkened path, my Guardian couldn’t help but ask.
“So…” Twilight tried to speak, but her dried up at the sight of Rainbow’s attractive Hoof Cannon, “You girls… Uhh… Have some impressive gear there…”
“Yup! You…Too…” Rainbow saw Twilight’s gun, the shattered sight, the scrapped up paint job, every bit of it old. To just look in its direction sent a shiver up the Pegasus’ spin in pity for Twilight.
“Uhh… Y’know Twi, I do have another one these back at the Tower if you want?” Rainbow said, confirming to the team she had a second Hawkmoon.
“No that’s alright, I plan on refurbishing this!” Twilight declined Rainbows kind offer as she posed her assault rifle in the air, “Thanks for the offer though”
“You don’t… Need it…” Rainbow Dash mumbled, looking at her gun and then Twilight’s. Lost in thought about world without a Hawkmoon.
“That’s mighty resourceful of ya’ Twilight, taking something taken as far as it can go an’ givin’ it a second chance… You fancy how it aims don’t ya?” Apple Jack interjected.
“Yeah, everything just comes into alinement when I look down it” Twilight answered, commenting why she’s kept it with her.
“I found it as Ghost and I escaped Ponyville, how did you two find your guns?” my Guardian asked, ever so curious about those fascinating firearms.
. “Well…” Rainbow Dash started, telling a tall tale in detail about her campaign in the Crucible to defeat every Guardian until she collapsed. She said that it was the most challenging thing she had ever done in her life, and that at the moment when she faced Lord Spike, she lost, after forty strait hours of fighting. But as a reward for surviving that long, Rainbow dropped an Engram upon death that Spike gave her as a prize. It only when Rainbow decoded it that Spike regretted presenting that priceless Engram to Rainbow. And it was just a few weeks later that she had found a second Hawkmoon in the Tower, being sold by some mysterious stallion in a cloak, selling it for a single crystal.
“Poor guy wouldn’t stop talking about them, and after I gave him the crystal he up and eat it! Weirdo didn’t stop mumbling about them ether…”
Rainbow Dash finished, pointing out that the only weird thing was her life, and pretty much any pony involved with Twilight.
“How about you AJ?” Twilight now asking the cowgirl.
“Ah’ was on a routine Patrol on Mars, ah’ kinda stumbled upon it, and then these Cabal come jumping in out of nowhere, I tried to talk them down, they made a grab for my Ghost, and after that… It was a short conversation”
Apple Jack cocked her shotgun, hinting at the end of the story.
We all had a good laugh, and continued onward.
Still walking in pure shadow, the Guardians were beginning to wonder if there really was anything out here. And I would second that notion.
“Twi, ar’ ya’ sure the hideouts this way?” Apple Jack asked.
“I don’t why, but I can tell it’s just ahead…” Twilight answered, squinting through the trees in the hopes of finding some sort of structure.
“Look, if you can tell that it’s ahead somewhere, that’s good enough for me, I’ll scout this place out and get back to you!” Rainbow Dash said in a hurry, obviously more impatient than the rest of us combined.
As we all called to her to stop before she left us in the dust, Rainbow slammed head first into something, knocking her back to the ground in the process.
Rainbow writhed in pain as she sat before whatever she hit.
“That wasn’t there before…” AJ commented, looking to the doors of some sort of military compound.
“What do you mean this wasn’t here before?” Twilight asked.
“Fire squads, strike teams, and other Guardians who have Patrolled the Everfree have never found the Devils Lair… I think this whole invasion has left this place out of hiding and into plain sight… Good call Guardian” I told Twilight, commending her for her knack at trouble seeking.
Rainbow Dash recovered from hitting her head, and we entered the Lair.
The set of doors led strait down into an underground tunnel. Metal made and with a little of fancy architectural design thrown into it. I never would have guessed the Fallen to be such adept builders.
Moving forward down hallway after hallway, our strike team saw no sign of the Fallen. Coming into an open room, filled with stolen City tech, lost Griffin treasure, and garbage as far as the eye can see.
“And I thought Pinkie Pie was a hoarder…” Rainbow Dash mumbled, picking up pieces trash in reference to her friend.
A little further into the room and we found that our next path, an intricate section of lasers prevented us from moving forward.
“Really!?” Apple Jack complained, “Fallen and their booby traps, can’t a Mare catch a break!?”
“Calm down AJ, we just need to find the power source of the lasers, can’t be too… Far…” Twilight fell short of the point she was making as the cords powering security in front of us led to a lone transformer beside it.
“Do they even try?” Narrator commented, floating up to the machine with the rest of us Ghosts to examine it. All of us coming to the conclusion that the Fallen were smarter than we thought.
“So what are we waiting for? Let’s cut this off and go!” Rainbow said, proposing that we sever the wires. Pulling out her Hunters knife, ready to slice and dice.
“Wait Reaper!” I warned Rainbow Dash, halting her plan, “If you cut that wire you’ll kill us all, the Fallen have set up some sort of defense mechanism to detonate anyone near this transformer within a two mile radius”
Rainbow slowly moved her knife away from the wire.
“Now what?” Apple Jack asked, looking around to for maybe an alternate route.
“Let me see that transformer!” Twilight pushed us Ghosts aside, taking in the complexity of Fallen security systems.
“Can you crack it?” Rainbow asked Twilight, looking over my Guardian’s shoulder.
“If I had a book on Fallen technology? Yes…” Twilight answered.
“Bookworm…”
Twilight narrowed her eyes at Rainbow Dash, taking offence to that comment. Rainbow Dash stepped away with a shrug.
“What do you think Ghost? Think you can do something about this?”
“I’ll try my best Guardian…”
I began my work immediately, firing up my beam tool with hast, I delved into the inner workings of the machine, bypassing firewall after firewall in order to shut the system down.
“How strange…” I mumbled.
“What is it Ghost?” said Twilight.
“The Fallen, they’ve gotten smarter… Like the entire system is wired to a…”
My words failed me as soon as the alarm rang aloud throughout the compound. Shortly followed by the howling of several Fallen from elsewhere.
“I’ll work faster!” I said, but before I could, Apple Jack stepped me aside.
“Sorry little guy but we don’ have time fer’ faster!”
Apple Jack turned to face her back hooves at the transformer, and bucked the machine into itself, shutting off the lasers, allowing us to escape.
“Move it!” Apple Jack shouted, high tailing it into the next room along with the rest of us. Fallen roars were closing in behind, when we looked back the full force of the House of Devils was rushing to kill us.
There was no real escape from so many Dregs and Vandals, and even with the Exotic gear Apple Jack and Rainbow Dash possessed, we would be overwhelmed in seconds, making us dead Ponies from the start.
Seeing no solution out of this predicament, Twilight froze, and along with her Apple Jack closed her eyes to what was upon them. Rainbow Dash however, was lining up a shot. The other two Guardians were too paralyzed to notice Rainbow patiently waiting for Fallen to make it to the sabotaged transformer. Waiting for the precise moment to the fire.
“Say hi to Celestia for me!!” Rainbow shouted, pulling the trigger on the Hawkmoon, and watching the bullet fly until it cut through the wires powering the transformer, blowing the fallen up sky high, and the rest of us out of the facility.
Narrator and Scarecrow retreated to their Ghost storage, I however did not have the luxury. Instead I was caught by Twilight with her hooves as she and our other comrades crashed through the brittle metal wall, leading us back under the starlit sky, and landing us onto the soft snow.
A little time had passed before we were up and healed again.
Heads stirring and shields recovering, the Guardians wasted no time to take in their new surroundings. A snow ridden valley seemed to be funneling us to a neighboring bunker that must be the real Devils Lair.
Since the last one no longer existed on Equestria.
Meanwhile, Apple Jack was lecturing Rainbow about her methods on saving us.
“We almost died!” Apple Jack nagged.
“Yeah, almost!!” Rainbow has proven to be as reckless as I expected her to be. Perhaps a bit more…
“Twilight back me here!” the Earth Pony and Pegasus turned to my Guardian to settle their argument, but Twilight and I were already on our way. Trotting through an old Pony outpost of some kind, we came out on the other side standing just before a long drop into a few puddles in a trench. The thing we must be on probably was a bridge once upon a time, but now it was a diving board into a group of Fallen, two Dregs, two Vandals, and one Captain. There were more crawling around our next destination, and they must’ve been aware of us surviving, otherwise they wouldn’t already be attacking us.
Apple Jack had taken a running jump from behind us, taking the damage from the fall, AJ let her shot gun loose on her enemies. Killing the pairs of Dregs and Vandals each with one shot from her shotgun. Firing a third time to destroy the Captains shield to only punch it herself, sending it flying uphill until it slapped its head against the base of the valley’s Cliffside.
“And I thought I hit hard…” Twilight said to me briefly before she looked over at Rainbow Dash in the top left corner of the battleground. Dodging like a pro, Rainbow took down one Vandal after another with her trusty Hawkmoon. Four Vandals later a fifth one came out of the woodwork. Assaulting Rainbow Dash with a Fallen sniper rifle. But its trigger was never pulled, as Rainbow whipped out her own, and silenced the Vandal in one shot.
“They really are amazing aren’t they…” Twilight reminisced about her friends. She couldn’t be prouder of them.
Bullets came zooming past Twilight’s face, she barely dodged them as Fallen were approaching her from the left. Surprised by their attack, but equally as eager to show off her new skills, Twilight glided over into action.
Assault rifle drawn, Twilight aimed for two Dregs charging at her, and each one of them received bullet through their skulls. Moving onto the Vandal just behind them, Twilight released the rest of her clip into it, and finished off with an enchanted hoof to face. Her hoof passed through the Vandal so fast that it turned into stardust upon impact.
Twilight looked back to her friends, who were beside themselves with joy to see Twilight fight with such ferocity. Twilight grinned with the rest of them, feeling like a contributor to the group.
With the Fallen in the area dead, the strike team started to move up in progress to their goal… Before a unrecognizable shadow cast itself above us.
“Are you bucking kidding me!?” Rainbow Dash yelled from across the way, looking up to see a Fallen Dropship floating overhead.
“What’s that doing here!?”
“This is the headquarters of the enemy Dash!” Scarecrow answered, “Why wouldn’t they send everything they’ve got at us!?”
Following the plasma cannons firing down on us as the three Guardians took cover at different points in the valley, the Dropship started to dislodge something from its belly. Loud clanking like sounds were heard in the midst of the plasma hitting our cover and then… The drop.
Something had slammed against the ground in front of us. And with that something there, the Dropship took its leave, flying the direction of the City.
Twilight and I looked around the steel pillar who hid behind, and saw it. A Devil Walker had entered the battlefield. Painted red brown, heavily armored, and with three legs on either side to support its weight, the Devil Walker carries with it a laser-guided main cannon capable of firing high-explosive rounds every five seconds. It also has two plasma cannons for side weapons.
If overpowered had a name… It’d be the Devil Walker.
“Ghost… What is that?” Twilight asked me to explain.
“Trouble…”
“Ghost is right Twi,” Apple Jack said, talking over our intercom “An’ Ah’ suggest you take our lead on this one… Dat’ overgrown spider has six legs supporting it, if we take down three of its legs at once, it’ll overheat and have no choice but to expose its core…”
“How do you know this?” Twilight begged to ask.
“Long story short, Dash an’ Ah’ve fought a bunch of’em in the past… Don’t mean its easy though… Just attack it when we attack it and we’ll al’ be fine…”
Twilight agreed, and waited for Apple Jack’s signal.
Luckily the Walker hadn’t spotted us yet, so we still had the element of surprise.
Apple Jack raised her hoof to the sky signaling Twilight and Rainbow to attack. Each of the three Guardians opened fire on a different leg. Rainbow Dash destroyed her target first, six shots from the Hawkmoon was all it took. Apple Jack finished second, two shots from the Invective, but AJ also had to cock it twice, barely popping off the armor after Rainbow did. And last was my Guardian Twilight, unloading a whole clip into its armor, it only started to smoke through the cracks. As Twilight had to reload in order to finish the job, the Walker turned its laser cannon toward Twilight, noticing her out of the rest as she was too slow compared to the others.
Twilight froze, she saw the laser charging, pointed directly at her, if she had time to move she would have, but instead all she heard was the cries of her friends, calling out her name as the cannon fired.
But the last thing she felt was not the concentrated heat of the laser cutting through her body, but a strong tug on her tail, pulling her just out of the Walkers sight. The laser would have been quick and painless, but judging by the discomfort in Twilight’s face, I’d say she’d prefer to be mowed down by the laser.
Rolling down the hill along with her rescuer, Twilight struggled to get a proper hoofing as she slid over the snow.
Halting just inside the trench, Twilight looked around, hoping to scold Rainbow or Apple Jack for yanking on her tail, but it was somepony completely different.
“Just in the nick of time as usual…” Apple Jack stated.
“I’d hardly call it that, she could’ve dodged it, but instead she had to dramatic about it…” the voice we heard was one we hadn’t heard roughly two hours ago… In the Crucible.
Finally getting the haze out of her eyes, Twilight focused on the voice. Seeing first a blur of yellow, red, and white, soon became an image of Sunset Shimmer standing before us in the snow.
“Sunset Shimmer!?” Twilight cried out, but soon lowered her as she remembered their bet, “You still owe me the truth Sunset…” Twilight told the Sun Slinger, reminding Sunset that she lost.
“I don’t have to tell you anything Sparkle, but if it makes you feel better, I got demoted from Vanguard and kicked out of the FWC… And considering I just saved your royal flank, I’m calling us even!”
Twilight and Sunset glared at each other sharply. Going so far as to bang heads in spite of their grudge. Only to be stopped by Apple Jack and Rainbow Dash.
“Okay, break it up, break it up…” Rainbow interjected, holding Sunset back, and Apple Jack Twilight, “Now that we have some proper back up, let’s put our differences behind us and take care Spider Mcspaztic up there…” Rainbow Dash insisted, gesturing to the Walker up the hill. Looking for us around the area.
“Fine!!” Twilight and Sunset agreed in unison.
“Alrighty then, Sunset, you’re with me, Twilight, you’re with AJ…”
“Hold on!” Twilight stopped Rainbow Dash there, “Why would you work with her, she’s a liar and a cheat!”
“Shut it Sparkle, the teams have already been decided…” Sunset interrupted.
“I don’t want you near them!”
“Too bad, we’re all in the same boat!”
“We can take care of this ourselves…”
“We’re all Guardians here, equals!”
“They’re my Friends!”
“They were my Friends too…!”
Sunset went wide eyed, as if something had slipped her tongue, turning away from Twilight altogether. Twilight on the other hoof, couldn’t believe what she had just heard. I had no way in knowing what they were talking about. And if I had to guess, neither did Apple Jack or Rainbow Dash.
“Sunset I- “Forget it!... Let’s just kill Sepiks Prime go home… C’mon Rainbow… I’ll take point…”
With that said, Rainbow followed Sunset to the right side of the valley, and Apple Jack dragged my Guardian to the left. Regardless of finally cracking the surface of Sunsets frustration, Twilight needed to stay focused. They had a fight to win… And if they didn’t, the City, and everyone living in it, will parish.
Minds unclouded, the Guardians took their positions around the Walker. Rainbow and Sunset only needed to destroy on leg on their side, while Apple Jack and Twilight needed to take care of two.
“Now!” Rainbow Dash signaled, all four of them opening fire on the Walker in quick succession. Sunset and Rainbow made short work of the final leg on the right, taking this moment to trot to the other side to destroy the rest, but the Walker made sure those didn’t get the chance, shooting both plasma cannons at them, Rainbow and Sunset took on the full force of the damage. Bouncing against the shots, the Reaper’s and Sun Slinger’s shields merely broke as they both fell into the trench. Apple Jack and Twilight couldn’t worry about them right now. Unleashing all they had at their legs, Apple Jack and Twilight worked together to destroy each leg one at a time. The first leg only took half of Twilight’s clip and one shot from the Ivective. The same could be said about the second.
When the damage had been done, both of them expected the Walker to stager and open up its core. But Walker still remain operational. Swinging it’s laser over to the two, the Walker fired without a charge. The blast was far weaker then a charged one, but it hurt nonetheless.
Sending the two backwards against the cliff, both Twilight and Apple Jack were falling down to the ground in pain, it broke a little more then just their shields, so moving after that would prove to be impossible.
“Apple… Jack…” Twilight struggled to say, but Apple Jack didn’t reply, she wasn’t dead, but close to it.
Twilight looked around to see if the others were alright, and when she did, Sunset was limping over on the other side. Dragging her sniper rifle with what little magic she could muster, Sunset got into position to get the last leg by shooting it in between its legs. And it would have worked, if the Walker didn’t spot her first.
Laser cannon charging, and Sunset with nowhere left to run, it looked as if this was the end.
Twilight couldn’t move her body, let alone lift her head. All she could do is watch as the Walker charged its attack and kill Sunset.
Looking to her assault rifle, Twilight concentrated, pouring all of her strength into levitating her gun just an inch off the ground, and pulled the trigger. Resulting in her stray bullets bouncing off its shell. But it didn’t matter to Twilight if she hurt the thing, Twilight grabbed the attention of the Walker away from Sunset, giving her enough time to lie on her belly, aim, and fire.
The bullet left the chamber faster then Twilight could follow it. Flying right through the back of the leg, and popping off the armor on impact.
With the last leg blown to smithereens, the Walker fell over limp. Steam erupted, and the head of the Walker stretched forward, revealing the intricate and twisting, red hot metal clockwork inside.
And at that precise time, Rainbow Dash flew into the air from the trench, exploding with energy and turning into pure gold at the height of her flight, Rainbow Dash dived down and landed on top of the Walker, firing three loud death ringing shots into its core, making it roar in the final seconds of its life, and die.
Its bright red lights for eyes went dark, and the Devil Walker was no more.
This called on a moment of peace, as Apple Jack regained consciousness, and the rest waited for their shields to recover.
“Is everypony alright!?” Rainbow called out to the group, looking in all directions for her comrades.
“We’re fine…” Twilight announced, helping Apple Jack up from the ground.
“Agh…!” Apple Jack strained, her wounds must be worse than I thought.
“Hold still Apple Jack, I need to make your shield is working properly” I said, scanning the Earth Pony for any and all anomalies.
“There’s nothing wrong with your shield… But, it might take a little while before you can walk again…” I finished my examination, leaving Scarecrow to do the rest.
“Ah’m fine! Ah’ can still… Agh!” Apple Jack failed to stand, falling face first into the ground.
“Take it slow AJ, knowing you those leg of yours will be bucking trees in no time…” Sunset said, trotting up beside Apple Jack to help her up. Twilight did the same, both of them aiding Apple Jack past the dead Walker and into the next compound.
We entered a dark room, the only light available to us was the Moon and stars from outside, which was cut off by the door slamming behind us.
“Ghosts, we can’t see, turn on your lights” Twilight asked of us, but I found the other Ghosts to of the same opinion, that we leave the lights off.
“I’m sorry Guardians, but I think it would be best if you let us guide you…” I answered Twilight, who was confused to my proposal. But it didn’t take long for the other inpatient Warlock to ignore my warning.
“Flare, illuminate” Sunset ordered her Ghost to ignite the room with its red glow, uncovering the billions of blood stained bones that hid behind the Darkness.
“No…” Twilight whispered, holding her hoof to her mouth in horror.
“The Fallen sure have been busy…” Rainbow Dash casually said, making her way up to the upper level by flying, while the other three had to walk upstairs, steping over ribs, spins, and skulls of all dead Ponies from Old Ponyville.
“So this is where they all went…” I commented, recalling the times I used to scour the globe for a potential Guardian of my own. To think Twilight almost ended up in a place like this, forgotten.
This entire room was decorated to the last wall with bones. It was indeed an unpleasant sight for everypony. Twilight most of all. The very thought of the Fallen hoarding possibly everypony she knew burned her very soul.
Apple Jack and Sunset could feel her trembling with anger, and they exactly how she felt. Bitter, afraid, and thirsty for blood… These emotions ran deep, but with time, she will heal, but I get sinking feeling, that Twilight doesn’t have that kind of time.
We reached the top of the stairs, seeing Rainbow Dash already having Narrator crack the combination for the next door.
The door in question, was large enough for a Jumpship to pass through. Narr tinkered with the door to make it open. By the time we had reached Rainbow Dash and Narrator, Apple Jack was ready to walk again.
“Thanks y’all…” Apple Jack told us, grateful for our help to get her this far.
“No problem AJ…” Sunset replied.
“Take it easy…” Twilight replied as well.
The Alicorn and Unicorn looked to each other, and then turned to the opposite direction, still plenty cross with the other.
“Hows’it comin’ Dash?” Apple Jack inquired of Rainbow.
“Nearly… There…” Rainbow Dash grunted, using her bare hooves to pry the door open herself, instead of waiting for Narr to finish his job.
“Ar’ you two alright?” Apple Jack turned to the Warlocks.
“Peachy…” Sunset answered.
Twilight on the other hoof didn’t, she stood at the edge, overlooking the dead. My Guardian was beside herself with rage for the Fallen. Words could not explain how she felt.
“Guardian… I know how you feel… The world has taken a turn for the worst since you died, and you think you can do nothing about it…” I told her.
“I just… Wish I could start this all over…” Twilight was trying her best to stay calm. Venting her words with a mumble through her teeth.
“But I want you to know, that I’m here for you, through thick and thin…” I reassured my Guardian.
Twilight turned her head to me, seeing a friend, and looking past me, she saw a path to her friends. A beam of hope that resonated with her as realized how blind she was to the light. And that’s when she decided, then and there, that she would never focus on the past again about what might’ve been, and looked ahead to the future, to what can be.
“Get ready Ponies!” Narrator alerted us, “As soon as I open this door, all of Tartarus will break loose!”
Rainbow Dash stepped back drawing her Hawkmonn, Apple Jack joined her with the Invective, and Sunset with ‘The Chosen’. Twilight trotted beside Sunset, her unimpressive assault rifle reloaded and ready to fight.
Narrator cracked the code and returned to Rainbow Dash.
The doors began to open, and as moonlight seeped in, we began to take in the image of Sepiks Prime.
This Prime Servitor was the largest enemy Twilight and I have seen to date. Nearly ten feet in diameter, Sepiks Prime lay suspended in midair as it absorbed on the energy of the Fallen Vandals and Dregs worshiping it. This monstrous being was surrounded by a thick shield, taking in and spitting out energy upon the pile of bones below it.
With each bit of its soul transferring to the bones, the lifeless objects began to reanimate themselves into Fallen of all kinds.
One Fallen in particular was the Captain Twilight first fought.
This proved our theory as to what Sepiks was doing.
“Its bringing back the dead!!” Twilight shouted, and at that moment, the worshiping Fallen turned to see us, arming themselves, but falling short to the strike team opening fire on the room.
As each Dreg and Vandal died to our weapons, Sepiks’ shield depleted bit by bit.
“It’s working! Keeping killing its source of power!” Twilight told the others, who were shooting down Fallen all over this open cathedral of a castle.
Eventually, there were no more Fallen to kill, and so we waited for the last of Sepiks’ shield to disappear. And once it did, Sepiks Prime tightened the its parted metal, as if it were a Ghost, reviving a Guardian to fight for it.
Now it seemed awake, lightning rode like spikes poked its way out of its back, coursing with power. At first it was motionless, but then snapped, turning to the nearest Guardian, that being Apple Jack.
Shooting plasma rounds without warning, AJ took cover behind some crates. The other three Guardians began their attack on Sepiks Prime, unloading all they had onto the Fallen God.
One after another the Guardians took turns being shot at by the giant sphere. Sometimes coming close to their shields breaking, but with enough to regenerate in no time to fight again.
But Sepiks Prime never let up, disintegrating our cover faster than we could hide behind it, Sepiks attacked us in a way we never thought possible. In the middle of teleporting away from our bullets and grenades, Sepiks every so often managed to bring back a captain or two to distract us from the main battle.
“How many times do I have to kill you before you stay dead!?” Sunset yelled, firing her sniper rifle at close, putting three bullets into our old Captain friend. But ‘The Chosen’ failed to stop the Captain from snatching Sunset with its hooves. Unable to move the Captain looked into Sunset’s eyes, not finding what he was looking for, the Captain let Sunset go, and turned to the only other possible Unicorn in the area… Twilight, my Guardian.
Leaping over to the pile of bones in the middle to our side of the room, the Captain wasted no time in drawing his swords on my Guardian. Swinging his blades with such speed and force, I become utterly impressed with how good Twilight has become at dodging.
Twilight knocked one of his blades away, allowing him to take the other sword in both hooves, and swing with far greater strength.
Twilight became locked in combat with the Captain, parrying his sword with the base of her gun swing after swing.
Apple Jack spotted Twilight struggle from afar, and took action to settle this once and for all.
“Stay clear darlin’!!” Apple Jack shouted to Twilight, and then she threw it. It being a pike of metal just lying around, and AJ throwing it with enough force to stick the piece of metal through the Captains arm and into the wall.
Preventing him from interfering with us and Sepiks Prime.
Twilight thanked Apple Jack for the save, and turned her attention to Sepiks, seeing it’s eye, only fractured a little, Twilight sighed. It felt like they had been fighting this thing for hours, and with our ammo running low, I believe Twilight and I were thinking of the same thing when we thought of the long term of this battle. We were going to lose…
“Ghost… Are you thinking what I’m thinking?” Twilight asked me.
“When am I never…” I answered her, and we began to put our plan into action.
Sunset, Rainbow, and Apple Jack were all hunkering down together as Sepiks Prime attacked them with all it had. And when its attack had stopped, the other three Guardians looked around to see Twilight, staring the Servitor God down with nothing but her assault rifle and her wings.
“Twilight what are you doing!?” Rainbow Dash questioned my Guardians line of thinking, but there was nothing to say, Twilight and I knew what we were doing, and that was all that mattered.
“You’re a God to the Fallen right!?” Twilight asked Servitor, “Well guess what I am!?”
“A… GOD…!?” The Servitor hummed and zapped as it attempted to answer my Guardian.
“Wrong!! I am Twilight Sparkle, Forth Alicorn Princess of Equestria, and I am your Destruction!!!” Twilight roared, trotting up the stairs to our right and leaped. Sepiks Prime tried to stop my Guardian, even after taking two direct shots from its plasma cannon, it didn’t stop Twilight from smashing through its eye and entering inside it.
The Guardians cried out to Twilight, but it was too late, we had entered Sepiks Prime, and we knew we weren’t leaving alive.
“I’m sorry our adventure was short lived Ghost…” Twilight apologized to me, floating inside the very anti-gravity Sepiks Prime used to fly.
“My only regret Guardian, is that we didn’t get fly across the stars together…” I returned the kindness she expressed to me.
With our final words said to each other, Twilight had started. Gathering magic not just around her hooves, but around her entire body.
Enchanting her entire being until we were both enveloped in an armor of pure magic.
With her Alicorn magic at its peak, Twilight released our final attack. The magic exploded of off every part of her body, bouncing all around inside the Servitor, we were hit with the full force of the magic that ultimately destroyed Sepiks Prime.
The explosion that erupted all but sent us spiraling toward the ground skidding along the snow until we slammed against a wall.
I couldn’t see, but I could hear the others rushing to Twilight with worry.
“Twilight… Is Twilight okay…?” I managed to say, listening to the hoofsteps get closer and closer.
“Ghost you’re- “Is Twilight Okay!?” I repeated myself, all that mattered was Twilight, I didn’t care if my body was shattered beyond repair, all I wanted to know was if Twilight was alright.
“… She’s alive!” I heard Apple Jack confirm.
The sighs of relief could be heard from all around.
And in the midst of that relief, I felt somepony lift me from where I laid.
“Now hold him right there Sunset…” Apple Jack advised, moving some things about from the sound of it, and after tinkering with me for a little, I started to see again.
“There ya’ ar’ lil’ buddy…” Apple Jack said, putting her tools back away into her saddle bag. Passing my about, I looked for Twilight.
Seeing her there, it was almost as if she were sleeping.
Peaceful and content.
Me on the other hoof…. I could be better off.
Node shattered into pieces and my eyeball barely moving, I could tell it was going to take some time before I would return to action.
“Pony feathers…” Rainbow mumbled, “That Captain got away…”
We all looked over at the last spot we saw the Captain. His arm was still there but the rest of him had left. His blood trail led back to where we came.
I doubt this’ll be the last we see of him.
“Forget it Dash… We won… Let’s go home…” Sunset said, and I couldn’t agree more. Sepiks is dead… Now… We can rest easy…
~Twenty Days Later~
“Assault rifle?”
“Check”
“Ammunition?”
“Check”
“Saddle bag?”
“Check”
“And new Helmet?”
“Check!”
Going over the preparation list with Twilight was now complete. The next stage in our plan was to head down to the Plaza and meet with the others.
Swinging open the door in haste, Twilight darted down the hall and dropped off the side of the stairs. The wind resistance against her wings gave her a safe landing as she came to a stop from floor ten in the barracks to floor one.
Picking up speed once again, Twilight made it out into the Plaza.
We now waited for our companions to arrive.
“Well if it isn’t little miss Alicorn!” sounded off a familiar voice.
It was Gilt, surrounded by his gang of Hunters.
“Off for a little jog are we?” Gilt moved in to bug us again, only falling short of his own pitiful bullying when Sunset Shimmer entered the fray.
“I’m sorry, was that the sound of Sepiks Prime screaming in his grave? Or the sound of my own patients colliding with the sun?” Sunset’s tone was dark and intimidating. And even though Gilt wasn’t well known to be scared off, he walked away, grumbling and mumbling to himself.
“You know you don’t have to put up with their crap right? Just because the FWC couldn’t do it themselves, doesn’t mean they should beat you down for saving everypony in the first place”
“I know Sunset… I just prefer not to draw attention to myself” Twilight explained herself. Smiling warmly to the Sun Slinger.
“You’re too humble Twilight… That title you hold belongs on somepony else’s shoulders…” Sunset said, walking away, concluding her business.
“Sunset wait!” Twilight called her out, and Sunset turned around in response.
“Apple Jack, Rainbow Dash and I are going patrolling today… Do you want to come?” Twilight asked, hoping she would say yes.
Sunset paused for a moment, and then shook her head.
“That’s alright, I have somewhere else to be today… Have fun with your friends…”
“They are your friends too Sunset…”
Sunset looked surprised, she smiled even, but still shook her head.
“Thank you Twilight… But I’m still looking for my own friends”
“I understand…” Twilight said, and she let her go.
Sunset teleported and instant Apple Jack and Rainbow Dash arrived.
“Was that Sunset? Is she coming with?” Rainbow asked, but Twilight shook her head.
“Nope, she’s still looking for something…”
“An’ speaking of looking for something, we were just at Ditzy’s, an’ she told us dat’ your ship was missin’ a warp drive” Apple Jack said, giving us reference as to our next quest.
“Well what are we waiting for? Let’s find Twilight that warp drive!”
With a cheer and a hug, the three Guardians teleported to their respected Jumpships.
Where we would go, nopony knows… Where this’ll all end, is even more of a mystery… All we know, is that it’s our Destiny.
The fight continues in... Destiny : Twilight Voidwalker - The 6th
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Great ending to a story! would love to see a story whilelater where twilight has better weapons, abilities and more! I loved reading through your story
I love it! Can't wait for more!
Awesome job! Nice way to end it!
5394842 Thanks! I'm glad you liked it!
I wanna see scene where an earth pony has a laser grenade on his head and someone says "look at that. You are a unicorn!"
(an unicorn or a unicorn. Vowels. ugh)
Hiatus? Well, I can wait. Good story.
SO...one arc completed another begins....intriguing.
Hiatus still. Must wait.
Anyone else imagine a Dalek when Septics was talking?
May I state that, no matter what level you are, the golden gun would not be able to kill the devil walker, even with tons of damage. I hope you know you're seriously nerfed if you're three or more levels higher. If it takes me and my friends (lvl 29 and above) around ten minutes, then please tell me how long it took these ponies. As a reference for rocket launchers, we all used fully upgraded legendary or exotic weapons. On the vanguard Roc strike.
So... is this story finished, or will there be more? Because I it sounded like you were ending the story in the last chapter.
Whooo HOOo another Destiny/MLP crossover!
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when is this gonna come out of hiatus?
Since twilight is a voidwalker and she killed Sepiks Prime (1st god to finish off/kill) does this mean that she also fights Crota? It's possible to kill him alone as Voidwalker but Crota is for both classes.
I just did a review for this story. Check it out: Review for Destiny: Twilight Voidwalker I just hope I did it justice!
I'm seeing many criticisms on your writing in the comments. I'll add this to my Read Later pile, but will wait until you get an editor to iron out the kinks.
6088832 NO... Love ya!
6088832 Personally, this takes place in the Pony Universe so the Fallen and such would be Ponies.
If they were going to be humanoid, I would have kept this story in the Human universe of Equestria Girls.
And as far as spoilers go, if you read (Which I hope have) I referenced to Flutter Shy and Discord in Chapter 2.
Just because I haven't written them in yet doesn't make them big spoilers.
(... To me anyway ...)
And the WRITING!?!?!?! ... Thank you for the advise.
I understand better then anypony that there is a lot of editing to be done, and I am far from being a great writer...
And call me a hypocrite, but in my own defense, I wrote this whole thing in like 2 months, And I think it's pretty freaking good.
And its entirely your choice, but finish the rest of the story, I don't "Role-play" after chapter 1.
I think you might like it.
And in my own line of thinking, (At least how I view it) the main Character of this story is not Twilight Sparkle, Its Twilight Voidwalker.
An alternate version of her that is forced into a world where everything she knows has been destroyed.
and her not asking questions is because she is trying to figure out what she needs to do in order to exist in this Destiny Equestria.
(Also because I rushed this story and... Y'know what forget...)
I'll fix it ok!?
2 years from now...
So thank you for the tips...
And I hope you don't think I'm being sarcastic, I seriously appreciate all the criticism in the hopes of becoming a better writer.
So thank you! and have a nice day.
6226118 when will next chapter be up
6584355 So today is the 2nd of November... So based on my calculations the next chapter will be up around... Christmas time 2016???
Sorry, it'll be a while.
So this story's premise is that instead of Humanity doing the bidding of an evil God and committing genocide left right and centre it's PONIES doing the bidding of an evil God and committing genocide left right and centre? Genius
6226118 "Personally, this takes place in the Pony Universe so the Fallen and such would be Ponies."... What? You what? XD that's not how evolution works. We didn't evolve to walk on two legs because the universe demanded we do so. Did the circumstances on the species planets change to make them quadrupeds? The Vex wouldn't dream of having no hands as that is a retarded idea for a species that starts off with technology and, as such, a use for hands or claws or pincers or just anything can hold stuff. Do the Fallen have 6 legs now? They must have like 2 metre long bodies to have that be usable XD
6608143 .... I have no idea what your talking about... Sorry...
Also, unless I'm missing something in the Destiny Story about Fallen being the future mindless murderers of the human race.... I fail to understand why it is that you think that this is some kind of "evolution" story about humans who become ponies, who become Fallen... And something about pincers and the Vex... I just took the plot of the Destiny videogame and made the events that happen in it occur in the TV Show Universe of My Little Pony : Friendship is Magic...
So have a good day! and thank you for making it to the last chapter!
I must've done something right in writing this story!
You faithful Student...
- BackroundVoice
Been two years since ive last read this chapter, jist now realized something..... is Xur Sombra. Cause that would be awesome!
8176759 first of all, how button mash of you. :)
Second, it feels good to hear that from someone genuinely who likes the game. I know I don't follow the game to exactness for the sake of creativity, and a few things might not be exactly accurate, but I try to point out lore when I can without being a textbook for everyone.
Thank you for you me comment. I'm glad I'm not the only one who likes the Kvostov, that 5 DMG gun is all I ever use in PVP
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Hello, definitely not Scootaloo, another badass Twilight story?
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Yup, that’s me, Definitely not Scootaloo with another Badass Twilight Story!
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For that, you get a thu--- uhh, you get a ha---uh, you get a hoof up :D