Lights flashed across the sky as twin streams of magic bombarded the lands below, signaling a desperate attempt by those who were sworn to protect their land to bring down a foe that was beyond what they thought possible. A beam of solar magic combined with a burst of lunar power, which then collided with a colossal monstrosity that was in the process of decimating what was left of the city of Delemare.
The monster was the size of a skyscraper and more than capable of bringing one down in a single strike. It's main body was made up of thousands of crystals, all of which were as hard as diamond and able to take extreme amounts of punishment without so much as a scratch. But it was the personality that had caused it to become hated by the rulers of the land. For the monster was merciless and crushed any in its path. But the worst thing about it? It was one of many.
"Sister! Go for the legs!" the princess of the night, Princess Luna, cried out as she dove underneath of a strike by the colossus. The titans blow was slow enough to be easily avoided, but the burst of wind generated by its strike nearly sent Luna spiraling into the torn apart streets below. She managed to keep herself aloft and cycled around behind the titan, but as she did so she had to take in the state of the city.
Multiple buildings had been toppled, lining the streets with thousands of tons of rubble. Ponies were either running for their lives or trying to save the lives of those that were wounded. But only a few were wounded. Most had passed on. Dozens of fires caused by the creatures rampage had forced the fire department to be everywhere at once, which was something they couldn't do. And then there was the second titan, off in the distance, causing even more damage.
'First thing is first. We must deal with this one,' Luna forced herself to think as she tilted to the side and went low, firing all of her lunar power into the back of the titans knee. The titan let out a bellow that could shake the city as it slowly lowered onto one knee, the back of which was now cracked and blackened by her magic. Luna let out a sigh of relief before a ray of solar light tore through the other knee of the titan, bringing down completely.
"It seems that these beings do have a weakness!" Celestia, the princess of the sun, called out to Luna as she circled by overhead. The white alicorn reared her head back as she channeled all of her power into the horn on her head, before unleashing all of her magic in a scream of rage and anguish. The magical blast struck the titan in the side of the head, drawing forth another bellow as the titan collapsed into the side of a building.
"Perhaps they do! Let us strike and strike hard!" Luna agreed with a roar before she and her sister rocketed towards the stunned titan. The being slowly turned its head to face the oncoming alicorns, its bright blue eyes glaring them down as they approached. The beast then opened its maw, which, to the horror of the princess, was filled with magic that shined like the stars.
"MOVE!" Celestia roared as she and Luna threw themselves out of the way, just in time to avoid a laser of magic that erupted from within the titans maw. The blast cleaved through the heavens and pierced through the clouds, blasting them away and allowing moonlight to shine down on the burning city.
Celestia and Luna regrouped a good distance away from the titan, which was beginning to push itself back up to its feet. The two princesses flashed a glance at the other as their foe rose back up, both of them realizing that the other was breathing heavy and looked to be near their limit.
"We are out of practice, aren't we sister?" Luna asked with a small smile to Celestia, trying to alleviate the situation as best she could. Celestia looked from her sister to the titan, and then to the burning city behind her.
"Indeed we are. And our subjects have had to suffer because of it," Celestia said in a somber tone, before gazing at their colossal foe who was lumbering towards them once more. "We need to attack it together. Attacking limbs, trying to divert its attention...none of that is working. All we can hope for now is that a combined strike will be enough to pierce its crystal armor and bring it down."
The titan opened its maw once more and fired another beam of magic into the sky, just narrowly missing the two sisters. The two sisters nodded to each other before hurling themselves towards the titan, the both of them glowing like stars in their own right as they combined their magical powers.
Both princesses let out a bellow of rage as they unleashed the both of their powers into the head of the titan, consuming it in both solar and lunar magic. The building behind the creature was practically knocked over as the power of the magic shook the landscape, but more importantly tore apart the head of the titan. The titan let out one last bellow of rage before its head finally disintegrated, allowing the sisters to end their combined attack.
Both princesses let out a tired sigh before they slowly descended to the ground, collapsing the moment their hooves touched the destroyed cityscape. Celestia fell to her knees while Luan keeled over onto her side, gasping in as much air as she could get in each lung full.
"It's dead. It's actually dead," Celestia said in-between breaths as she gazed at the now headless titan, half expecting it to regrow its head at any moment and resume its attack on the city once more.
"Sister, I'm trying to die over here and your talking is making it hard to do so," Luna wheezed out as she forced herself to sit up, smirking at her sister. Then the sound of another building being knocked over reached the ears of the two princesses and they gazed over to see that the second titan had brought down another skyscraper. Celestia and Luna channeled what little magic they had left to push themselves back up to their hooves, while drawing what rage they had to glare at the titan.
"So, think we have enough in us to bring down another one of those things?" Luna asked Celestia, both of them extending their wings to take to the skies.
"Most likely not. But we will have to bring it down anyway. We have no choice," Celestia replied as she kicked off the ground, Luna following her a moment later. The sisters sailed towards the titan with their horns glowing with power, both of them doing their best to not think about how tired they were.
The titan saw their approach and swung an arm towards the approaching alicorns, trying to swat them out of the air before they could get close enough to do any real damage to it. The princesses were forced to dodge, but the titan followed up its arm swing with a blast of magic that would have killed the princesses had they not erected a barrier of magic to protect themselves.
"Think Twilight and her friends are doing better?!" Luna called over to Celestia as the two split apart, weaving around the titan and attacking it from both sides. The titan roared at their attack, while the princesses flew straight up and positioned themselves over its head. The combined their magic once more, to a much duller light they noticed, before taking aim at the top of the creatures head.
"I pray they are, sister. We are the only hope these ponies have."
And then the two struck.
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Autumn Breeze had almost got used to the cries of pain or the smell of those dying all around her. She was used to her mother rushing around to save as many as she could or how she couldn't get to sleep at night if she couldn't feel the ground faintly shaking beneath her. After months of having lived in terror that the titans might kill her and everypony she knew, she had gotten used to being afraid all the time. But what she couldn't wrap her mind around was that the princesses and Ambassadors hadn't managed to defeat them yet. That was too much for her.
The small pony whose coat and mane matched her season weaved around the legs of the doctors and nurses that were hard at work trying to save those that had been wounded in the attacks by the titans, trying to ignore the fact that where they had sent up a field hospital used to be the town where she lived. She had a bucket with dry bandages gripped in her mouth and knew that the faster she got those to her mom the sooner she could get back to her other tasks.
Their village was a secure location in the center of Equestria, away from where most of the titan attacks had taken place. The princesses had chosen it as a place to tend to the survivors of the attacks, so nearly every doctor in the nation had been teleported in to lend aid to those that needed it. But even though their town was a good size, eventually the number of wounded filled up the homes and the streets.
Autumn tried not to look at the hundreds of wounded as she ran, knowing that if she saw a pony that was badly injured she'd stop for a few minutes and stare. She had to keep herself focused and on task, so that the dark thoughts that had been plaguing her ever since these attacks began wouldn't come back. She spied her mother knelt down next to a pony covered in bandages with two doctors flanking her side.
"Hey mom!" she managed to get out as she skidded to a halt next to her mother, dropping the bucket next to her hooves. Autumn's mother flashed her a quick smile, which was the most amount of joy she'd seen on her mothers face in weeks, before her stone like features returned and she pulled the bandages out of the bucket.
"Thanks dear. Now can you run these canteens of water over to the south section. They've almost run out and they're going to be getting some new arrivals soon. Rumor is last night Delemare was horribly ravaged by the titans," Summer Sky said to her daughter, placing numerous canteens over her daughters back.
"Was the entire city lost?" Autumn dared to ask, surprised when her mother flashed a bitter smile.
"No. Luckily for them the princesses made it to the city in time, but the casualties were still high. Not to mention that the princesses exhausted themselves bringing down the two titans that attacked."
"Two?" Autumn asked in shock as both of her eyes went wide with horror. "But the titans have never teamed up before. It's only been one of them attacking a city at a time! If they're starting to realize the power of teaming up..."
"You are not the only one that realizes the terror of what this new development means, but right now there is nothing we can do about it," her mother replied before leaning over and gently kissing Autumn on the forehead. "Now go drop off those canteens and go to bed. Get some rest and get ready for another hard day of work. These titans are the most destructive force that our land have ever seen, meaning that there will only be more causalities. Go rest, sweetheart."
Autumn smiled at her mother, trying to show her that she was fine, before she started to shift the canteens on her back in a way so that they wouldn't fall off. But as she adjusted the canteens a doubt began to gnaw away at the back of her mind, one that had been trying to get her attention for weeks.
"All those casualties. And those were caused with two princesses of Equestria there to stop the titans," Autumn said to her mother, getting Summer to look down at the scared face of her daughter. "But if they can't stop these monsters, if the Ambassadors can't stop these things, then what chance do the rest of us have?"
Summer was silent for the longest time after Autumn asked this, working in silence as she tried to think of an answer. Eventually she just let out a sigh and moved her head back to stare up at the sky, which was shifting from day to night.
"We just have to pray that the princesses will be strong enough to deal with this threat. They've dealt with so many threats for thousands of years now, so I guess all we can do is hope that they can deal with this one as well," Summer said to her daughter, but the mare's eyes showed that she was starting to lose faith. Autumn snuggled up to the blue coat of her mother, smiling up at her while trying to keep her moms golden mane out of her eyes.
"At least we have each other. Right mom?"
Summer smiled down at her daughter before reaching over her back and grabbing the canteens. "How about you go get some sleep and I'll drop these off for you? You're still a growing filly and you need your sleep." Autumn wanted to argue, but when she let out a small yawn she realized that her mother was right. She hugged the side of her mother before heading off to her quarters, knowing that her mother would most likely work through the night.
'I hope my mom is right and that the princesses can deal with these titans. They've always protected us in the past, so I hope they can do so now,' she thought as she walked, but the doubt hung around her like chains, dragging her down. Eventually it got so bad that she had to stop and stare at the heavens, which were now brimming with an uncountable number of stars. One of the stars shone brighter than all the others and seemed to be right above her. Despite knowing that it was just something little foals did, Autumn closed her eyes.
"If anypony is listening, if anypony is up there, I need help. My home, my family, my nation is under attack. And...I'm scared. Every day I'm scared that that day will be my last. We're trying to stay positive, trying to believe, but we're running out of strength and faith. Please...if anypony is there...help us. I beg of you."
Autumn waited for five minutes after she finished her prayer for some kind of sign, but when nothing happened she let out a dejected sigh and walked into her tent. She laid down on her cot and wrapped herself in her blanket, her heart sinking into the depths of her chest as she felt the faint tremors of the titans off in the distance, destroying anything they came across. And she was terrified she would be next.
I wouldn't worry too hard I am sure that a certain god has seen your plight and possibly heard your request for aid.
back with the crossovers eh? lol i look forward to it
Wow, things are already pretty dire when the former Elements as well as Celestia and Luna together are outmatched.
But hopefully a certain God of Thunder will come soon. Let's see how the Mighty Thor fares in Equestria (and hopefully his trickster brother didn't follow)! This could be a good chance to bring in some more mythical creatures we haven't seen in the show and some cool Marvel villains.
8127838 let's just hope the otter god doesn't go becoming a meddling posterior...
And as powerful as thor maybe he is not immortal just ask Marvel heaviest hitter. The incredible hulk.
I prefer Raiden for Mortal Kombat, but you've got me interested.
YES! I've been hoping for years that you'd do a Thor story! I eagerly await more!
By the hammer of Thor.
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I saw that a while ago, but I'm more of a Raiden fan than a Thor fan. Probably because I played a lot of Mortal Kombat.
8128128 I'm myself more of the Tekken fan and never really liked Mortal Kombat's plot. But in the end I prefer the Flash from all the heroes, with Hulk the close second.
Thumbs up, subscribe and i haven't even read the first chapter yet.
Sorry, not going to work( When you take some superhero with their strangely gained power they are outside of context in heavily magic Equestria dimention. So you can variate comparable power of characters and that is ok. It worked with Superman or Flash and others like them, It even worked with magic sourced Black Adam who gains power from several deities, but barelly.
Unfortunately in this case you inserted not some randomly powersourced superhero but essencially deity - Thor. And that calls for the questrion of what exactly ageless beings that move sun and moon are? Considering you just entered deities to exist in this universe answer could be only one - Celestia and Luna are deities themselves. And they are not that much younger and less experienced that Thor. It may have worked with his father who you could portrait as more ancient and powerfull, but not with Thor.
You now can't logically make Thor any more efficient with crisis then equestrian deities without turning all in bad comedy. And without making him more efficient it will only work until ttitans start to group in three. Hell, it may have worked with his brother if you put an angle of "Princesses fight, Loki thinks and tries to find source of problem", but with Thor...
They are ageless beings that wield powers of sun and moon and move them around via magic. Exactly the same that Asgardians are. They are no more and no less "divine" then Thor.
I personally prefer simple check of is some charater a deity: 1) Is he/she ageless? 2) Does he/she have some massive scale supernatural ability preferrably connected to some aspect of world? 3) If he/she somehow ends on the ancient Earth and his/her ability will be known will humans worship him/her?
For Celestia and Luna all three checks are passed, as for Thor.
Sorry, no.
Awesome your Thor crossover is finally up! Of course the whole giant monster attack makes me think of that Kid Kaiju story arc from the comics. Anyway I'm interested in how the first encounter will turn out.
But again I AM curious about what comes next: Are you planning anything with the reformed Doctor Doom AKA the Infamous Iron Man? Or any other reformed villains? Any ideas involving Sunset and the Phoenix Force? Maybe one of the ponies or mirror world humans ending up on the Marvel Earth? Sorry if I'm annoying you with these questions but they keep popping into my head.
If this fic is going to be just how I think its going to be. Then its going to be a great one. Going to read this later. But one question.
Is this going to be Marvel Thor or Norse mythology Thor? And by mythology Thor I mean, no connection with the Marvel universe what so ever.
Just wondering.
I see promise
can you do a story with the heckler or squirrel girl?
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Depending on the line of thought, Celestia and Luna might "merely" be demigods or divine-blooded. Slepnir isn't generally considered a deity, nor we're Apollo's sun pulling horses...but they are powerful.
I hope to fuck that this isn't going to turn out like 'Damned Are the Guilty' in writing misshapen.
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They move the sun and the moon around - that's full divine level in all pagan religions and nearly all fantasy world ones. You can make Celestia and Luna naive, or young (compared to someone more ancient) or even weak in battle, but unless you take sun and moon from them, they are fullscale deities.
In case of your words - Celestia is not horse from Helios's chariot - she is Helios's equal - one who moves the Sun around - solar deity.
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Doom will be a villain in an upcoming story. I've never read any of his reformed works (and I love him as a villain)
8128359 ah, the alicorns. one of my favorite themes, so naturally let me throw in my two cents.
the main issue with your argument i see is, that just because certain cultures would consider them deities, doesn't automatically MAKE them deities. i mean, heck there are even a bunch of humans who would be -and in fact were- considered gods by many, even though they are anything but. tutankhamun, xerxes i, julius caesar, alexander the great and so many more, they all were considered gods by their subjects, even though they were anything but. so just because a culture would consider you godly, doesn't automatically make you a god.
oh and just to keep with your fantasy setting; i'm sure you are aware that there are a lot - and i mean a lot- of stories about powerful mages, posing as gods and impressing the masses with powerful magic, when in truth there is nothing godly about them at all. so here we already have our next point, just because someone is a strong mage and can do a lot of impressive stuff, that doesn't automatically mean they are gods.
there is also the issue that while certainly impressive celestia's and luna's power are nothing special. in equestria everyone can control the sun and the moon, provided they can create enough magical energy to do so. sure celestia and luna are stronger than average in order to do it on their own, but right at the start their supposed unique godly abilities aren't so godly at all.
they are also severely lacking in the strength department. even though gods technically can be vincible, it would be an herculean task to do so and it would take much more work and strength than anything that was ever needed to dispose of the princesses. the princesses have been defeated by chrysalis, tirek and even plants and bad weather. sure, as i said gods don't need to be invincible, but they should posses at least a certain minimal amount of strength, which the princesses don't do.
sorry, but honestly i can't find a good reason to consider them gods. there is literally nothing that would qualify them as actually deities except superstitions and misconceptions.
STOP.
Tis' hammer time.
8128342 Same here.
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Ah, but Apollo (or Helios, or both depending on the myths) didn't have the power directly.
The chariots horses did. Thus Phaethon's story.
8127979 I now can't help but imagine Loki as an Otter...
8128359 Celestia and Luna move the sun and moon respectively, but before they came to be, the sun and moon were moved by ordinary unicorns. So sure moving the sun and moon might make them automatic deities by our human standards, but in their world, moving the sun and moon is something a group of capable mortals can do without issue. Considering Discord can move the sun and moon, and even Twilight moved the sun, rather than being a divine right, it seems anyone can do it as long as they have enough magic. So that would place Celestia and Luna at about say, 15 unicorns each at the minimum, the closest thing they have to divinity is their eternal youth, seeing as the requirements for moving the celestial bodies isn't all that grand. The x-men could probably take them, sending someone like Thor is like calling in an air strike to get rid of some mosquitoes. When your judging a fantasy characters power, you have to remember to look at it from the context of their own world, not ours. Sure when compared to humans who could only ever dream of such a feat, moving the moon is godly, but when you can grab a dozen people off the street and they can do the same, the feat has little value.
Looks interesting, will read later. But for now...
Also, congrats on the feature! You're on the front page.
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Wow. Been a while since I made the front page with the first chapter.
8128812 Yes, it appears that moving the sun is something that is merely for those with enough magic. However, I disagree with something you said.
You say they are as strong as 15 unicorns, magic wise? How much is Discord? 15, 30, 45? Then I suppose that, when Tirek absorbed magic, he drained 15 Unicorns and one Discord in order to defeat the combined power of four Alicorns. After all, they're just 15 unicorns, and Twilight and Cadance's magic must be weaker than them because they haven't been capable of building up strong enough magic reserves in the much shorter amount of time they've been alive. If the stronger Alicorns are both, combined, are equal to 15 unicorns, as your wording suggests, then that's all the power he would need to obliterate Twilight with all the Alicorn magic. In case you don't recall, Twilight only raised the sun and lowered the moon when she had the magic of all 4 alicorns. Unless you say Luna and Celestia are individually 15 unicorns strong, in which case, he drained somewhere from 15 to 30 unicorns or pegasi and one Discord, given that they all have innate magic and only the unicorns shown to specialize in magic or have a specialization that involves magic actually tend to learn spells beyond levitation or have strong magic reserves, and pegasi use their magic to fly and manipulate the weather.
Except he drained hundreds, if not thousands of Earth Ponies, Unicorns, and Pegasi, along with Discord, in order to go toe to toe with Twilight, and wouldn't have won without blackmailing her. If we judge judge them only purely the magical power alone, then their power exceeds a mere 15 unicorns to encompass an immense amount of the ponies in Equestria per Alicorn.
Why does it remind me of the first episode of Sanity Not Included... more specifically...
AWWWWWWW YEEEEEEEAH!
8128885 s2.quickmeme.com/img/01/0131041995e3abe2f9c955f022284a4d24e1c0e6c129485afbbb5cc0966df5f1.jpg that is how i feel
8129034 You're right, my wording was completely off to what I was trying to portray, and that's on me. In fact in hindsight, I absolutely butchered what I was trying to convey. What I was trying to convey is that moving the sun or moon is something that would require the power of roughly 15 unicorns, not to say that would be the limit of their power. That is my bad, thanks in fact for pointing out how badly I worded that. I'm glad you understood the main idea that moving the sun and moon is more of what equates to a stat check then some sort of inherent power of the princesses.
I can only say two things about this:
and:
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other than that, I'll be watching....
Was this made in honor of the upcoming Thor: Ragnarok?
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I've actually planned this for a while, but only just recently got around to doing it.
8129749 Interesting... Will you be seeing the next Thor? I know I will!
So is Thor going to kick the princesses butt cuz it sounds like it in the descriptions and that would be cool
Intriguing.
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Yeah, the trailer completely sold me on it
8129388 I can certainly understand why in modern Equestria they would be considered gods, after all I would imagine the times before Celestia and Luna are pretty ancient history, and though there are stories from that time period like the hearth warming eve tale, that is a holiday story, so it makes sense to be passed down, where who moved the celestial bodies before the princesses is just ordinary ancient history which would be much less known. So to say that they can be considered gods is absolutely correct, but are they? Most definitely not. Think of Hercules, he had the might of several men, and a good heart, he accomplished several feats that were unthinkable for mortal men, but he wasn't a god. I'm sure many would have considered him as such, but that doesn't make him one. At least, that's what I think.
8130007 I didn't mention that you said they had a deep connection because I agree, they do have a deep connection, after all it is their cutie marks, to claim they didn't would just be plain wrong. The point I was making with mentioning Hercules is that they aren't gods, even if at times it can seem like it. The way I would define a god of an aspect is if they embody it, to the point of irrationality. They may be the best at moving the sun and moon, but that doesn't make them gods, not by my own definition of such. If the sun and moon had been wild like the everfree before they took the reigns I'd agree, but the fact that mortals are capable of the same feat puts a damper on it for me. Like I've said before, moving the sun and moon isn't a divine right granted to them, it's a stat check. Discord for example is far more powerful than the princesses, Discord I would classify as a god. He embodies chaos, he cannot be without it, it practically sustains him. He can also move the sun and moon with far more ease than the princesses can, shifting rapidly between day and night every few seconds with a snap of his fingers. The princesses aren't the embodiment's of their respective celestial bodies, they're just their shepherds. Their link to the bodies rejuvenates them, and that cannot be denied, but to claim they are gods of their respective celestial bodies when they aren't even the most capable at controlling them seems bogus to me.
8130059 I guess we will just have to agree to disagree, you feel they are gods, I don't really see it. Differing opinions thought we may have, I hope we can both agree we are looking forward to where this fic takes the concept.
8130072 Yeah that'd be a little much to just treat them as canon fodder, though I can't imagine the princesses having enough of an ego to declare themselves his betters, they are undoubtedly powerful. I can't imagine why they would get into an altercation with Thor though, then again I can't say how Thor will be depicted in this. I certainly hope this fic isn't just about Thor shitting on both Celestia and Luna, that would be kinda disappointing.
Cool premise. You've got a powerful army of unknown numbers with unknown intention, that have ravaged the nation for a while now, that not even the Princesses, which are the most powerful magic-users in Equestria, can easily defeat.
What we don't know is if the EoH have been used yet. They are literally the most powerful thing in Equestria. Obviously, this is a multiple-target situation and we don't know how the EoH deal with multiple targets, but still.
So, we have a nigh-unbeatable army ravaging a nation for unknown reasons. Morale is low, hope is fleeting. Assuming we're using Marvel's Thor, this will be a difficult, and long, fight.
Here's something to consider. Celestia moves the sun. Mjolnir was made within the core of a collapsing star/sun. Mjolnir can only be wielded by those that are worthy. Can Celestia lift Mjolnir?
The Hulk almost lifted Mjolnir, he was unworthy but his strength is fuelled by his rage.
Captain America almost lifted Mjolnir (While somewhat drunk, might I add), he was somewhat worthy. (Thor interrupted him though, so it's undecided).
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Cap actually has lifted Mjolnir in the "Fear Itself" comic event.