World Three - Edolas
Right away, Xlestia knew something was very, very wrong with this world. It was the magic - usually, a world either had magic flowing freely though the whole world, or it had no magic at all.
Here, it... just sat in place. Not moving. If you wanted to collect magic for a spell, you had to either generate it, or physically gather it yourself. Xlestia closed her eyes in concentration as she felt the world around her. Here, magic was.... a physical substance?!
That was extremely disturbing. If magic was physical, that meant that it was finite. As in, it would run out some day. Now, she and her ponies generated their own magic internally, but they supplemented that with magic from the world around them. Not having that would make magical activities much harder - the Earth Ponies and Pegasi would be more or less fine, but she, her sister and her unicorns would tire themselves out casting magic much faster than normal.
She had come to this world with the intent of conquering it, but now she wondered if it might actually be a mercy to them to be converted into magic-generating forms. That should be a good enough motivator to make up for the fact that the Barrier couldn't possibly exist without constant upkeep, which she couldn't give it here...
But still, if magic was finite, then what did that mean for friendship?
Her thought process was interrupted by wing-beats. Preparing to scold the Pegasus who interrupted her, Xlestia was very surprised to find herself face-to-face with a flying cat flying though the royal windows.
It had wings, bright orange fur and an oversized head, but it was clearly a cat.
"Art thou Princess Celestia?" The cat demanded grandiosely.
Xlestia nodded dumbly.
The cat coughed into his paw and began to speak. "Hear ye, hear ye. Queen Shagotte of Extalia, ruler over the Exceed people, has a message for Princess Celestia of Equestria, ruler over all ponies."
Xlestia nodded. This was standard diplomacy for her, although she was surprised that a message had been sent so quickly. She hadn't even been here a full hour!
"Leave Edolas while you still can."
Xlestia blinked.
"That is all." The Exceed added, flapping his wings and flying off.
Xlestia narrowed her eyes at the retreating feline, before shaking her head. Run away? What nonsense. She had only just arrived!
Ponyville was mighty surprised when a tree-building sprouted out of nowhere into the middle of Sweet Apple Acres. At first they thought that something had happened to the library, but a second look revealed it was a completely different tree-building.
And out of the building spilled... humans?!
About half the town gathered to watch as a pile-up of human bodies fell out of the door and vomited onto the Apple family's soil.
"Levy, whatever you did with that transport, never do it again!" Came a cry from somewhere in the crowd.
"Hey, Lucy?" One of the humans, a spiky pink maned one asked nervously between heaves.
"What is it Natsu?" Lucy, a blond maned human with some impressive teats demanded in reply.
"Wasn't this place supposed to be a barren desert?" He replied, clearly scared of the answer. Or was that the answerer?
At that, Applejack moved up to explain. "T'was yesterday. Then the Princess moved Equestria here."
The humans were shocked to find a pony talking to them, but not as shocked as the ponies thought they should have been. "You managed to move a whole farm here?" Lucy asked in amazement.
"Heh. Farm? Try continent." One of the onlooking ponies corrected, to the rightful amazement of the humans. Then, the humans became confused.
"Wait, she had that much magic power and she chose to come here? There's almost no magic left in Edolas, why would anyone willingly come here?" Natsu asked, earning him a smack to the back of the head from Lucy. The other humans just remained silent, watching the conversation.
"The Princess used her own magic to bring us here. Any unicorn can get magic from inside themselves." Twilight explained, confused as to what Natsu meant by Edolas being 'almost out of magic'. How could a place 'run out of magic'?
"Wait... your ruler gets magic from inside? Like an Exceed?" The humans became visibly nervous. "Your ruler doesn't decide when humans die, does she?"
"What? No!" Came the response from about a dozen ponies at once.
"Oh good." The humans visibly relaxed. Then an idea seemed to occur to them. "So, those of you with horns... get magic power from within?"
"Well, anypony gets magic from inside, but only unicorns can cast spells with it. Why do you ask?" Twilight replied.
At that, the humans went into a huge group huddle. They spoke in hushed but clearly excited tones, and the ponies could see faces that were nervous, ecstatic, suspicious, worried, and some switching back and forth. The snippets that did escape put nopony at ease: things like "We can't fit a whole town in the guild hall!", "Free magic, dude. Free magic!" and "Ponies are herd animals. They won't leave 2/3 of their town behind!"
All at once, the group huddle ended, and most of the group dashed back inside, leaving Lucy and some blue-maned human mare outside. "Okay, everyone who wants to live, get inside the guild hall!"
The crowd of ponies didn't take that well. Ears flattened, and hooves pawed the ground.
Lucy punched the other girl in the back of the head, smashing her face into the ground. "Levy! Seriously girl, this is why no-one ever lets you open your mouth, you psycho!" She turned to face the ponies. "What she means is, anyone who doesn't want to be here when the royal army gets here will get inside right now!"
"What makes you think we have anything to fear from this 'royal army'? And who are you losers anyway?" Rainbow, new on the scene, shouted.
Pretty much on cue, the distant city of Canterlot was wracked by an explosion loud enough to be heard from Ponyville. Shocked, the ponies stared at the smoke coming from the mountainside capital.
Lucy grinned as Levy picked herself back up from the ground. "We're the last of the Dark Guilds, Fairy Tail. And we're your ticket outta here."
Canterlot was burning.
The guard-ponies were doing their job to the best of their ability, but they were hampered by a pony-power and firepower discrepancy.
Not only were there more of the invaders, but they could one-shot any pony hit. Why? Well both Fairy Tail and Friendship is Magic ran on variants of Cartoon Physics - so smashing each other into walls and such was merely painful, not fatal. The trouble came that the army soldiers weren't trying to kill the ponies. Ironically, they were trying - and succeeding, for the most part - to convert them.
Not into humans, of course, that would be silly.
They were using specially designed magic weapons to convert them into Lacrima - magic storage crystals. Originally, the plan had been to convert the Exceeds into Lacrima when the situation had become dire enough. But now a convenient new magic-rich power source had presented itself, and the king of Edolas - Faust - had jumped on the situation with glee. Consequentially, flat blue crystals with the faces of ponies were littering the grounds of Canterlot.
It should be noted that this wasn't completely a rout for two reasons. One was that the guard-ponies did have access to better air support - there were more pegusi then there were flying royal army troops - and the other...
"GET OUT OF MY CITY, YOU FILTHY APES!"
... was Xlestia.
Being an Alicorn, and thousands of years old besides, she had access to more and more powerful spells then anypony else by far, with the possible exception of her sister and her student. With a protective shield-spell around her, powerful blasting spells flying every which way, and her reverting every pony-lacrima she saw made her a walking rallying point. Where she went, the fight swung to the ponies favor.
Of course when she left, the fight swung back, so Xlestia was speeding around the battlefield trying to be in as many places at once as she could.
Clearing the royal gardens of humans for the fourth time, Xlestia barely heard Token Minion's frantic cries from the top balcony. "Princess! PRINCESS!"
"WHAT!?" Xlestia roared back.
Token Minion cringed but pointed. "THEY HAVE A DRAGON!"
Oh, fantastic. Flying up, Xlestia saw what her aid had seen - a massive dragon of metal was approaching the city. One more crisis to deal with. Flapping her own wings, Xlestia flew to meet the dragon mid-way, outside the city.
The dragon was both smaller and closer than Xlestia had thought - it was about 30 to 40 meters tall. When she approached, a man's voice blared from it. "Who dares challenge the king of Edolas!"
"I, the princess of Equestria, dare!" They were ruled by a dragon? That explained the sudden, unprovoked attack.
"Heh. You wish to try the power of a Princess against the power of a King? Very well! My Dorma Anim thirsts for your magic power!
Without any further fanfare, both royals opened fire.
Xlestia's blasting spell didn't leave a scratch on Dorma Anim's armor, and the King's Dragon Rider Missiles failed to break Xlestia's shield spell. This status quo was maintained for several volleys, during which Xlestia continued to fail to leave a mark on the enemy but her shield spell continued to weaken.
From inside his dragon armor, the Dorma Anim, Faust the king of Edolas chuckled. The elderly human knew full well that no spell would ever pierce his trump card's armor. Dorma Anim drained the whole world of magic in order to operate, something that was simply unthinkable in the nearly magic-free state of Edolas. But if he could take the magic power of these ponies... then Edolas would have everlasting magic power! The greed at such a thought overrode any reluctance to use his ultimate weapon.
Meanwhile, Xlestia was growing tired. Alicorn or not, she was running low on magic. Blocking attacks and throwing out mining-grade blasting spells had weakened her even before she entered this fight, and she had nothing to show for it. Magic attacks clearly weren't working... maybe she should just throw something at him?
While dropping the Moon on him was tempting, but not only would it be horrendous overkill, as low on magic as she was, she couldn't manage it without the help of the absent magical field. There were a lot of much smaller things still within possibility, though... especially when you considered that Edolas had many floating islands. Smirking, Xlestia grabbed one with telekinesis and swung it with all her remaining might.
Her actions hard to miss, Faust turned Dorma Anim to face the coming island. Too large! With seconds to spare, the king activated Dorma Anim's Black Sky mode, where it drained fighting spirits for extra power. With all the power the mighty artifact possessed, it roared, the mighty metal dragon firing a beam of pure magic directly into the incoming island.
Exhausted, Xlestia watched the island break apart under the metal dragon's magic. No...
Emerging from the dust cloud, Faust grabbed the sun princess in a metallic claw. And now, my dear, you will submit before the King!
World Three - Where friendship was finite
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You know I was so-so on the concept of these at first, but this story has grown on me.
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Thanks! Good to know.
May I suggest Metal/Brutal Earth from Brutal Legend. and Gaia from FF9?
I don't think i'd even wish this fate on the Bureau.
Not so much a specific world, but anywhere where transformation magic/technology is either commonplace or achievable without too much effort is where conversion would be pointless as the converted could simply change back, or change on their own, back & forth as many times as they want, or change into any other species on Equs such as Griffins, Diamond Dogs, Dragons, Etc.
Unfortunately, I can't think of a specific world where Transformation is so easily achievable, but in the vastness of the Multiverse there has to be one right? And if there is a fiction series out there that fits this bill, I'd love to hear about it as i'd love to see an exploration of a world where species is a matter of choice, as I suspect such a world's society would be more focussed on who you are, not what you are.
I think it would be funny for her to show up on the Discworld, being that the world runs off of a narrative means the 'big evil queen' will most likely run into a whole bunch of tropes both subverted and not, before her inevitable defeat by some hero or random happenstance. Would also like to see her run into the wizards and Carrot. Or watch her get eaten by the big turtle.
I wonder how Xlestia would fare against the UNSC.
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DC's mars or Animphorh's Andilite homeworld might fit the bill...
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The UNSC? Apart from orbital bombardment, what the heck can the UNSC do that vanilla humanity can't? Keep in mind that vanilla humanity was helpless to stop this barrier.
5683976 Leave the Planet?
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...that depends completely on the population of the planet and the time frame they have to leave in. Even something as simple as moving 1 billion people in 10 years means 280 people leaving per day. The UNSC doesn't have that many ships.
Besides, as many brony power-gamers have noted before, if you put Celestia or Luna into a non-flat earth-like planet, they can move celestial bodies around. Even if she didn't play whack-a-ship with the moon, no starship in Halo has the power to take off if she's pulling it down. Slip-space shenanigans aside, (which are ridiculously difficult in-atmosphere even if you have covenant tech) no-one will be able to leave if she doesn't want them to.
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El Goonish shive includes an alien species that can transform at will, and one of the protagonists has a transformation gun based on the alien technology (and knows how to build more). It's hardly common, but it's easily done (on an individual basis, at least).
Warhammer fantasy next!
Good chapters for this take on the ACB...
I will like to see how Xlestia fare in the Nasuverse (Fate/Stay Night, Tsukihime, and so on), read: a place where EVERYTHING try to kill you (expecially in the supernatural side of the world) or the Who-verse (in this case, the two-part episode Doomsday: Xlestia will be caught in the middle of a war between Cybermen and DALEKS)...
Vote: 10+++
This one seems to be a constant anywhere the written word is found. I would not be surprised if someday they unearth a bunch of ancient cave paintings and there's a caveman with pointed ears and a cape, throwing bats* at a woolly mammoth and somehow killing it.
*literal bats, because CaveBatman has yet to develop anything more effective.
I would like to see equestria trying to invade the Brutal legend world, jack black vs Xlestia
You know, it's far less satisfying when she's defeated by a world that's even MORE horrible than her own... probably because it means all the innocents under her tyranny will suffer as well.
Gonna throw any fanfiction worlds at her?
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274 thousand, give or take a hundred. This is a civilization that regularly builds multi-kilometer spacecraft and has access to, and regularly uses, perfectly functioning cryogenic hibernation technology.
This is also a civilization that has shown that it's quite willing to abduct children for military indoctrination and genetic experimentation to deal with a simple rebellion. In that light, they wouldn't have any qualms about loading civilians by the thousands into cryobeds, packing them like sardines in freighters, and shipping them off that way. Planetary evacuations are actually possible when you're not having to scramble around plasma fire coming down on your head.
Assuming that they can affect celestial bodies other than "their" sun and moon.
Not leaving? Okay.
The UNSC loves MAC cannons and has shown a certain amount of giddiness in using them when it comes to aliens.
600-ton slugs at 30 kilometers per second. If you're trying to limit damage to the planet itself. If not, most planets in UNSC space are equipped with orbital defense platforms capable of firing 3000 ton slugs at 12,000 kilometers per second (that's 4% the speed of light), and capable of doing so as quickly as once every five seconds.
And if you REALLY don't care about the planet, there's this little ditty called the NOVA bomb, which has canonically cracked celestial bodies in twain.
Repeat until the problem goes away.
Come to think, I guess it turns out a chapter is unneeded.
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just flattening celestia should be enough... blast wave should kill plenty and assuming it bounces off the shield .. .yeah little survivors trapped in rubble.
also we know celestia got an extremely long life span but to my knowledge I haven't heard her being un-killable or being reborn by her celestial body... at least not canon one( which is not there, unless celestia not leaving luna, cadence or a trained twilight with a sun and moon to keep the planet from you know turning into a barren ball of rock with frozen ice. Given she seems to be moving Equestria not the planet)
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Maybe. But not Fallout: Equestria. That story annoys me.
5686998 How about TCB vs that rancid Fall of Equestria? I'd actually root for Xlestia.
"Oh this?" (points to enormous necklace made of hundreds of dangling pendants) "I had their testicles bronzed as a memento. I wear it on the anniversary of the, aheheheh, peace treaty." (pause) "Oh don't give me that look-- they each got to keep ONE."
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With the obvious caveat that I need to have read the story first.
-reads the summery of Fall of Equestria-
Ewww!
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Agh, Mathematics, my rival! You have defeated me again!
I still think moving a few hundred thousand people per day is beyond the UNSC, given that the ship has to actually then take the people somewhere safe and return - which might be a while, given the slow Slip-Space speeds the UNSC has. Also note a population of a billion or so would mean it isn't a core colony - lower priority, less ships.
This gets even more unlikely when you consider the timeline.
Before the Human/Covenant war? Fine, but all your favorite characters probably hasn't left school yet.
During? Then forget evacuating, heck, ONI might just leak the planet's location to the Covenant and let them deal with it.
After? The UNSC has one planet left and one spaceship worth anything. They're doomed.
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On the contrary, a population of a billion would indicate an Inner Colony, and therefore bump up the priority of its evacuation. Reach, perhaps the single most important colony in UEG space, and certainly one of the earliest to be colonized, had a population less than that before it got glassed. 700 million.
A well-off Outer Colony like Arcadia, on the other hand, was just shy of 3 million before the events of Halo Wars.
Size alone makes it possible.
As for Slipspace speeds, even if Xlestia attacked 23 Librae, a planet WAY out in the ass end of space, at 2.65 light-years per day, the speed which Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Drives are capable of, it would still only take a month for relief, defense, and evacuation ships to reach it. For an Inner Colony like Reach? Four days.
As all of the TCB fics I've read have the barrier expanding at a walking pace, taking into account the sheer size of your average habitable planet, there is a huge margin for error in the evacuation.
On the contrary; the Spartan 2's have seen deployment 2520's (that's 30 years prior to the events of the main trilogy) and likely saw it several years prior to that; they were considered to have graduated by the time they about 14 or 15. Keyes was already an officer by First Contact and had a hand in selecting the S2 candidates. And Johnson was not only a Spartan 1, one of the MC's prototypes, but he was there at Harvest during First Contact.
But as the evacuation doesn't need any of the primary Halo characters at all, this is a non-issue.
While that's certainly possible, that doesn't jive with an organization that tried to save as many lives as it could. Amoral as ONI is, they did what they did for the express purpose of preserving the UNSC and its citizens. They revealed the existence of the Spartans, a program that would eventually come to bite them in the ass because of its reveal, just to attempt to improve morale.
Not to mention their very enthusiastic embracing of the Cole Protocol, which even, especially, ships under their direct command obeyed.
On the contrary, even disregarding the colonies whose status is unknown, the UEG still has about 2 dozen or so colony systems, as many of as half of which were entirely untouched by the Covenant.
And if the cutscenes of Halo 4 and Spartan Ops are to be believed, the UNSC fleet not only survived in considerable numbers, it has since become one of the dominant forces of the galaxy.
Still VERY doable. Maybe even more so than prior to the War. The lower populations would certainly make things easier.
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I am defeated. I bow to your superior knowledge of Halo.
The Dragon Ball universe, ponies are actually accepted, because Celestia realizes the she have less than the zero chances to win against any Z warrior, not even the childs, dosen't have eny other choice but to be friends or be killed.
I'd like to see Xlestia convert a world full of humans that can't integrate into Equestrian society because they're too machiavellian, or crazy, or something of the sort. The one that comes to mind is the Emergents from A Deepness in the Sky. Most of their population has an artificially-induced obsession with exercising one skill and is not motivated to do anything else. These are used as slaves by the rest of the population, who believe this is the right way to structure society.
I'd like to see Xenolestia try to convert the world of Jumanji, Specifically, the cartoon series.
Here's a link to about the show.
Of course, we all know that she's seeking to convert humans. Perhaps her spell to transport Equestria to Earth misfired?
If you want another choice from me. then how about Xenolestia transports Equestria to Superman's Krypton, a few hours before it exploded?
Dammit, now I need to follow a new anime...
I guess it would make sense for a magic-poor fantasy world to both want to get their hands on what amount to living power plants. And having magic exist as a rarity would let them know how to counter it. Throw in a sufficiently large and skilled force, and the end.
Daaamn. That ending though!