Boss rush
Xlestia yawned. She'd worked hard today implementing her plan, but she had to sleep sometime. Time to turn control of Equestria over to her sister. Flapping her wings gently, she alighted on the royal balcony and trotted into her sister's bedroom. "Luna? Are you awake?"
"How could I sleep?" Came a cruel and haughty voice that was barely recognizable as her sister's. "When the fear and despair is so thick in this world?"
Complete and utter shock paralyzed Xlestia for the crucial moments that Nightmare Moon used to bind her in shadows. "What....? But... but we fixed you! Luna is stronger now!"
"Luna hasn't grown weaker." Nightmare Moon purred. "With the mess the world is in, what else would the humans do..."
She paused dramatically, aiming Xlestia out the window toward the sunset. "...but feed their Nightmares?"
With a scream, Xlestia was banished to the sun.
Nightmare Mood let out a deep, booming laugh. Then, as something occurred to her, her eyes furrowed. How the hay do I implement Eternal Night on a round planet?
The Barrier advanced, unstoppable in its rampage. Wherever it passed, the tones of Earth became brighter as the ground was transformed below it. Stuck between the Barrier and a ravine, a family huddled futility in their SUV, waiting for the end.
Then the Barrier suddenly decided to go backwards. And turn pink with purple polka dots. When the father dared to look out the window of his car, the Barrier suddenly rushed back out, stopping a centimeter from his face. The terrified man fell back, letting out a girly scream of terror.
Hysterical laughter echoed from somewhere unseen.
"Discord!" Reprimanded a booming voice from far away. "Stop that at once!"
"Sorry, what was that? I couldn't hear you over how much fun I'm having!"
With that, the Barrier's surface became made entirely out of embarrassing photos of Xlestia.
"Token Minion?" Xlestia asked, haggard. "Token, where are you? Oh! Token, what have you been up to?"
"Getting kidnapped by changelings, actually." Xlestia's assistant mare replied.
"Huh?" Xlestia tried to process that along with all the other messes happening lately. "Well, how did you escape?"
'Token' simply raised an eyebrow.
"Ah pony-feathers." Xlestia cursed, firing a beam of sun yellow magic at the disguised bug-pony. The Changeling Queen dropped her disguise and fired her own sickly green beam to match it.
As the green beam began to overtake the yellow beam, Xlestia cried "What the hay?!"
"It may not be as concentrated as Shining Armor's love," Chrysalis explained smugly "but there are a lot of humans hoping for your defeat, so it doesn't matter."
Fueled by stolen hope, Chrysalis overpowered Xlestia and imprisoned her in one of her namesakes. The Changeling Queen licked her lips. "First, your ponies. Then, we will feast on human gratitude before draining the lot of them dry. Oh yes, now is a good time to be a changeling."
"I have had enough!" Xlestia roared, many of the humans having to hold on to loose items of clothing as the pressure became ridiculous. "If you wish to oppose me so badly, so be it! You shall see me at my full power, when I rabdigrabble..." Her rant became unintelligible as Plunder Vines wrapped around her, covering her mouth and dragging her away.
One of the younger human soldiers watched as the giant black tentacle-vines dragged the alicorn all the way back into the Everfree forest. "Uh, sir? Should we help her?"
His C.O. smacked him in the back of the head as the assembled troops scrambled around, trying not to be taken by the vines themselves.
King Aspen, sometimes called the Heart of the Forest, shared a confused glance with his son Bramble. The two deer looked together at the messenger deer. "Celestia's doing what?"
"She's expanding out the Barrier." The faithful subject repeated. "Making it grow."
"Are you sure?" Bramble said, highly confused. "That doesn't sound like... anything she would do. Ever."
"You see, son?" The king told his son. "I told you ponies were no good."
"I think the idea is she's trying to force all the humans to become ponies." The messenger deer clarified.
The king's eye twitched. "She's killing all the Earth deer just so she can get some more subjects?! Fat chance!"
With great fury, the king snatched a potion bottle from a cabinet, and with great fury... gently poured it out onto the ground outside his palace.
The magic from the potion exited the Everfree forest at high speed, reaching Canterlot in minutes. Giant vines (a natural green this time) burst out from the ground, bursting buildings from the ground as they made their way to the palace.
Xlestia's use of the royal cussing vocabulary could be heard from Ponyville.
Tirek the centaur stared up at the Barrier. Then he tilted his head, reached out with his hands and ripped the magic right out of the Barrier. The magical wall spluttered and died as it lost all power.
"Pathetic." He snorted.
Adagio Dazzle inhaled deeply. "You feel that, girls?"
Sonata groaned in pain. "Yeah. I like, shouldn't have eaten that third taco..."
Aria kicked the other siren in the shins. "She means the magic in the air, doofus."
"Oh. Yeah. That." Sonata wheezed.
Adagio shut the other two up with a glare. "Seems to me like somepony forgot that they've been using this magic-free place as a dumping ground. You know what this means?"
"We get a second shot at conquering Canterlot?" Aria grinned, feeling magic already starting to refill her gem. "Can't wait to leave this dump."
"Won't be long now girls." Adagio could feel her true form rising up under her human shell. "Lets rock."
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heh...
This is GREAT. Love how all the villains beat Xenolestia but would have liked to see The Dazzlings beat her and what about Sunset Shimmer?
Here is a world that nopony has suggested yet
The world of Yggdra (it's an rpg for iOS ststems
Why it's a bad choice
1. Currently an evil guy called the Black King has invaded the land
2. Living being can become infected with the blackening (essentially people/ponies would becocome monsters and the urge to kill)
3. There is lots of pure magic
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I didn't show the Xlestia vs Dazzling fight because... I have no idea how that would go. Principle Celestia was brainwashed pretty easily, but I don't know if her pony counterpart would be so easily affected. Probably? Also I'd have to write a song about that. Ugh.
As for Sunset Shimmer... her villainous plot was to brainwash herself an army and march. Not the best of plans.
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was just saying and I would think getting the element of magic would give you some kind of power in my opinion
What about Sombra?
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All the other villains (with the exception of the Dazzlings) defeated Celestia in canon. Sombra didn't. In a comic he defeated/killed an alicorn (whatthewhatwheredidSHEcomefrom), but not the mare who raises the dawn.
5963336 The author of that comic planned for Sombra to kill the alicorn (it wasn't an alicorn, it was an unicorn princess; it is explained in the comic that when an unicorn gets a powerful cutie mark-like Sombra's friend, the power to heal any illness or injury-they get the opportunity to be royal), but you know, that is too violent.
So, instead, Sombra petrified her, then shot a beam at her form and scattered her remains across the world. In theory, she could be reconstructed (Sombra himself said that he couldn't bring himself to kill her).
fullmetal alchemist
5963336 I was just curious. He is one of my favs
A lot of writers also portray Celestia as an unbeatable chessmaster who's always three steps ahead, but her main defense has always rested upon the physical and emotional wellbeing of six individuals...which she never rectifies.
Rick and Morty.
A suggestion for a world where Xlestia will surely FAIL?
Ah Megami-sama! (Oh, my Goddess).
Go there Xlestia, we will all watch Skuls bomb you back to stone age!
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The Conversion Bureau and specifically all the stories where Celestia appeared godlike were written before A Canterlot Wedding. Before then, the interpretation is that Nightmare Moon, Discord, and Celestia were physical gods (who can move Celestial Bodies, and in Discord's case manipulate reality itself), and were able to defeat each other because they were also gods.
After Celestia got taken out in A Canterlot Wedding, that kind of portrayal was dialed way back. By the time the Plunder Vines appeared in season 4's opening, their status as physical gods was pretty much shattered.
Anything written afterwards emphasizes that Celestia became significantly more powerful somehow, or just whitewashes the power of magic as being significantly more powerful than non-magic.
In An Academic Visit has that as the premise, where the Griffons were able to push forward their invasion of Earth due to non-magical, non-cold iron bullets not hurting them even without a shield, and shields being able to withstand very strong explosions. Of course, this just prompted the humans to escalate to nuclear weapons, which no amount of magic could protect against, causing a rather abrupt reversal in the war.
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See, even then I find it a little hard to believe. I understand I joined this fandom late, but even episodes one and two had Nightmare Moon fighting off six more-or-less ordinary ponies with methods that just don't fit with the Physical God image. Causing a rock-slide? A crude loyalty test? Sticking a thorn into a monster's thumb?
If Nightmare was half as powerful as the fandom sometimes makes out, she could have just obliterated the Mane Six almost without effort. Non-lethal incapacitation would be almost as easy - and keep in mind this is the pony that escaped from the moon, defeated Celestia, and appeared to Ponyville in the span of about four seconds.
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Everything Nightmare Moon can be summed up in a word: She didn't take it seriously. Actually, since she did destroy the elements she did technically win, them reassembling out of nowhere was really out of left field, but like with Discord thinking he won by modifying their minds, by then it was too late.
At no point did she really try to hurt them. And while we know that because it's the pilot of a show for very young children, many authors have tried to explain it in different ways
1) The fight was made more deadly in a retelling
2) Nightmare Moon wasn't actually evil and was just trying to scare some foolish ponies away until it was too late.
3) Nightmare Moon wasn't taking the fight seriously in the same way Discord didn't take it seriously until it was too late.
4) The fight was staged, in order to get the new bearers of the elements of harmony together (considering Discord escaped later, it may have even been predicted).
5) Handicapped, either because Celestia had a bet that her student could win against Nightmare Moon provided Nightmare Moon couldn't actually hurt them, or because Nightmare Moon, having just escaped prison and using almost all of her power to do so, and then defeating Celestia immediately afterwards, was simply running on fumes.
I mean, you can probably think of a 101 ways to explain why, and it's much easier to believe than the entity that moves the moon is physically weak, which we know to simply not be true based on the Tirek episode. But there was very few ways to explain why Celestia lost to Chrysalis in one move and have it be believable while keeping the god image in mind (beyond she let herself lose, but considering the situation . . . )
5964604 Most say she had to hold back so she doesn't obliterate everything around her...
(Celestia VS Chrysalis)
Same could go for Nightmare Moon.
(Lunamoon Moon VS Mane 6)
League of Legends? I'd very much like to see the hordes of champions rip Equestria apart. Garren always screaming "FOR DEMACIA!", Poppy starting out weak, but then becoming an unstoppable force, (it's how she is in game), Ziggs blowing sh*t up, and Teemo being Teemo. Many other champions too, and you don't even need to play the game, just go to the homepage and read their backstories.
Please please please do [PROTOTYPE] or Infamous. PLEASE!
5971085 At the very least, something where she get's BRUTALLY ripped apart. Ooh, you know who does that well? Samus.
5971603
Thought about that, and while I am having a lot of fun playing through the Metroid Prime trilogy ATM, that fight would be pretty boring IMO, depending on various assumptions about power levels.
5971603 not as cool
5972368 Yeah, but it would still be neat.
5973743 Well... What about... Borderlands? Or Fallout? Or, even better, Ratchet and Clank! Plenty for Exxy to try (and ultimately fail) to do, plenty of bloody opportunities, and general mayhem. Of course, Borderlands and Fallout are stricken with Human strife. Any of the three sound good.
5975089 one word. HOORAH!
5975181 ...Did he already do a Master Chief chapter? Because if not, that would be fucking great.
5975463 UNSC!
5975499 FUCK YEAH!!!
5975463
I did a Halo segment in here, but the ol' MC himself... is a tank armed with an assault rifle. Almost all his greatest feats come down to either Cortana or being in the right place at the right time. Without my fiat, he isn't even going to make it into Equestria, let alone take Xlestia without either Sneak Attacks or orbital bombardment. I suppose he could wait for her to emerge and snipe her, but then again couldn't anyone?
5978871 Do one where magic is convered into its in-world equivalent: spectral energy.
tl;dr The ponies, tools, potions, etc. become ghosts/ ghostly items, and can't really do squat, except "haunt" people, at least until they're 'exorcised' (sent back to Equus)...
...Does it really count as 'haunting' when you're freaking out at "falling through the ground" / walking through people and being absolutely ignored while doing so? Even when people who catch glimpses of them see their freak-outs as "absolutely terrifyingly-adorable"?
5978871 Well, can anyone kill Flood, stop armies, stop more armies, and blow up planets single-handedly that aren't Gallifreyan?
5982804
Again in both cases this is more a case of being in the right time and place to help - Chief goes for high-priority targets, he never actually fights a whole army by himself. (Also the Doctor has the TARDIS making sure he's always in the right place at the right time, so...)
5982870 ...Imma call bullshit. Flood, Covies, Innies, and those new Promethians, or whatever the fuck they are called. Does he fight them by himself? No. Is he the only one who survives? Yes.
Well given that the things that beets her are usually other gods (Nightmare, Discord) Creations of gods (The plunder vines) or beings supercharged to the point they can take her on (Chrysalis, Tirek) you can see that its not completely Unbelievable
5992465 ...
And king Aspen?
Star Wars.
They'd either get bombed from orbit, or get the planet they're on would roll a Critical Existence Failure on the D-20, thus siccing the Death Star on their asses.
That's not even including any of the other things that could have been sicced on them, ranging from giant mobile automated factories that rip planets apart to build itself up and create endless swarms of droid-piloted TIE fighters, to a cannon that fires shells into hyperspace from the orbit of one planet, that has the range and capability to cause any other planet in the galaxy to implode their own cores, to a ship the size of an X-wing that can just fire a missile into a star system's sun and cause it to supernova in less than five minutes, to swarms of hundreds of billions of robots that don't care about losses and can just steamroll over the ponies like the Soviets of WWII, and more....
Shin Megami Tensei. It doesn't natter if it's Persona. Digital Devil, or other.
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I considered omakes for Accelerator (Redirects the Barrier into space, then goes to town on the ponies) Misaka and Kuroko (Teleport inside and Railgun everything) and No 7 (AMAZING PUNCH!) but I realized halfway though writing that most of the people here on FimFiction have no idea about the Toaru universe, so I just left it with the trio here.
Of course, that wasn't even considering what the magic side would do...
One word: Tamriel.
6008023 Edolas is only one arc of Fairy Tail, being their version of the Mirror Universe, but the anime in general is still one I heavily recommend. Thanks for all your comments!
World suggestion: Supreme Commander Earth immediately after the end of the Infinite War.
I'd suggest having them try and take on the world of Berserk, but that would probably be overkill. And bump the fic up to an M rating.
one World: Godzilla??
6013606 That can only end well
Dear Nightmare Moon,
You don't need to implement Eternal Night on a round planet. It is already present. At any given time, it is night somewhere- not always the same place, but still, somewhere- on Earth. So, yay!
Silver
P.S.
"Eternal Night" sounds like a code name for the Equestrian Nuclear Weapons Program (if it had one).
Hellsing and One Punch man
Radar has picked up a helicopter going soi soi soi.
. . . . . Xlestia REALLY didn't think her plans through, did she.
Do it, girls.
We can discuss the climactic battle later.