The Boss and Twilight crashed through a vent of some kind and landed on their feet/hooves easily, turning their gazes upwards upon hearing that voice. "Quite the entrance." Fury began building within Twilight as she laid eyes on the one responsible for everything that had happened to her.
The room itself was enormous, the Emperor and themselves standing on a raised platform in the center while several other smaller platforms dotted the room around them. Steam rose from the space between each platform.
Even while sitting down on his massive, possibly gruesome throne, the pinkish skinned biped obviously towered over them both. He appeared very muscular, with odd black spikes protruding from the top of his head, his arms, and his chest. His legs, waist, and some of his torso were clad in what appeared to be armor, a red cape hanging over his right shoulder. In that same hand, he held a large goblet, idly sipping from it while a few red eyed CIDs hovered around him upon that raised throne.
"Figured you had a flair for the dramatic," the Boss replied as a CID flew to look at them both closely, advancing towards the alien while Twilight followed just behind her.
"Oh, you know me so well." That voice of his was infuriating.
"I'm really going to miss these bonding sessions when I kill you."
"Hmhmhmhm... Look at you... Mercutio to my Tybalt."
"Don't be too excited. Tybalt dies at the end."
Zinyak leaned towards the two, attention fully on the Boss. Twilight was okay with that. She was already thinking of creative ways to kill the smug sack of shit. "I'm surprised you knew that."
"I didn't. Kinzie told me over the radio."
"... Well, at least you're honest."
The Boss took another step forward. "Always. That way you know I'm not lying when I say I'm gonna rip your goddamn head off."
The Zin Emperor swirled his drink and smiled a sickening smile. "You're adorable." Then he turned his gaze towards her, and Twilight fought the sudden urge to shrink away. "And you... I had such high hopes for you. To think that you would throw away your home and everyone close to you... just to help this savage get her petty revenge."
Twilight growled and grit her teeth, lighting her horn within her helmet. "Like Tartarus I am!"
"Oh spare me your righteousness. This could all be avoided..." Zinyak smiled again and glanced at something on his throne, then back at her. "My fleet will arrive at your planet within the hour. Needless to say, there will be blood... However... I'm willing to offer you a chance to protect those dear to you."
Twilight said nothing, but listened closely.
"All you have to do is kill the President... and I will guarantee the safety of your friends, family, and your dear princesses. Refuse, and I will see to it personally that every last creature on your pathetic world suffers. And they will know that it was Twilight Sparkle that ultimately doomed them!"
"The choice is yours."
Twilight actually considered his offer. If it meant everypony's safety, it would be worth it, right? The unicorn glanced at the Boss, then back at Zinyak...
She lit her horn, grasping every single CID in the room with her telekinesis, gritting her teeth as she turned on the woman. "... I'm sorry, Boss," she uttered softly, solemnly, forcing every single CID against the human's head.
The President barely had a chance to scream before the impacts eventually took down the woman. Whether she was dead or not was anypony's guess. Twilight dropped what remained of the robotic spheres and deeply sighed, shuddering inside her armor. "... Th-... There... I did it... Now will y-"
She felt something clamp down around her neck, a sharp, burning, draining pain filling her entire body and forcing her to black out almost immediately.
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Twilight awoke with a start on cold, hard dirt, leaping to her hooves and looking around frantically. Her surroundings immediately proved familiar: Ponyville. There was no wind. Despite the sun's presence in the sky, everything was dim.
Twilight's eyes widened with realization, falling back to the ground in utter shock.
She was back in the Simulation.
The Boss was dead.
The Saints were probably dead.
Equus was gone.
Everypony was gone.
It was all her fault.
"... No... No... No please, no... no no no no no..." she whimpered pathetically, curling up into a little ball of remorse. As the tragically familiar sound of an approaching mob approached her, she did nothing.
She would let death take her as many times as Zinyak wished it. She deserved nothing less.
5679677 Nobody Loves Me is a clothing store in Steelport where the Boss bought her black outfit and sunglasses.
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My bad. It's late where I am, and "The Ship" could have just as easily fit in that space, and I rarely used the clothing stores.
Wish there is a scene "Boss meets real Princess Celestia"
Reminds me of that Red Door, Blue Door choice in-game. Also not really that surprising of an outcome.
5661602 CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS, PSYCHO MURDERERS! YAY!
Hmm. I was sort of expecting an epilogue or something of the like, such as the Return of Twilight or something like that.
This premise is genius. I have high hopes going into this. lol
Welp, I love Saints Row 4, and I love MLP, but ...I dunno. For totally different reasons.
The story's clearly had a lot of work, and is a good read, but it would be better if it weren't so...in-the-middle-ish.
From Saints Row we have rampant violence, but none of the catharsis. While the Boss is having the time of her life (just like the player), twilight is miserable and must commit acts of terror that remind me more of SpecOps: the line. It was hard to smile at the violence when Twilight's miserable.
And from MLP we have the character facing the responsibility of her actions, but none of the lightheartedness or humor. Really, if you'd made it either more pony (gloss over Twi becoming a monster, more laughs, more MLP, friendlier saints members, etc.) or more Saints Row (Violence taken to the cathartic extreme, less emphasis on the actual evil things the saints do, Twi having fun like the other characters, etc.) it would have been more fun.
BUT...I like what you've done instead. The characters were always in-character, and Twilight's internal crisis was pretty gut-wrenchingly fitting for her situation. It's not as fun as either SR4 or MLP, but it's a decent character drama.
Twilight, you chose... poorly.
OMG.
A SR4 crossover.
A soon as I find some spare time I will be reading this.
Never believe the bad guy Twilight, never believe them.
Because I also agree with what the author said. You are one gullible piece of shit that got the crappier less thrilling dark side ending for those star wars games that have it. Heck, I'd also say that SW Battlefront 2 was a dark side ending despite it having only one. Where the imperials won the battle on Hoth and effectively nullified Episode 6 in the process.
Well, yeah. Never trust Zinyak. He'll make you regret it
5680726 glad you agree, though technically, that battle on Hoth WAS canon. The Millenium Falcon escaped.
5679815 Wait for it. This is only ending number 1. More are sure to follow.
So I'm gonna guess there's at least two more alternate endings:
1. Twilight can't contain her bloodlust and kills Zinyak herself and accidentally becomes the Zin Empress.
2. Twilight has fallen so far into her dark side she helps the Saints conquer her home.
I can think of a few more endings but they rely on whether or not Twilight can reintegrate into pony society so I'll have to see how that goes in the epilogue first.
5680831 Oh that I know, but there was a campaign in BF2 that has you playing as the empire and the final mission was on Hoth where the final objective was to place an orbital strike beacon at where the transport ships were and were thus destroyed. Never remembered what they said about the falcon in that part of the campaign though.
5682274 I know, and I don't remember if they said anything about the Falcon during the mission, but I know that brief movie clips did play during some missions. A clip of the Falcon flying out of the hangar plays... Right after the game gives you Vader. I think. I can't remember for sure.
5681387 I'm glad you liked it mate. Also, Kinzie and Shaundi talk about that if both of them are following you.
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not to mention zinyak's humans from the past. Jane Austen was the narrator at the beginning.
Please tell me theres a sequel planned for this