Equestrian Wild, 1 Month After the Nightmare Universe
The Nightmare stands over his oldest foes, and he dispatches them one by one. You are the Nightmare.
“HAHAHAHAHA!!!!”
“AAAAAHHHHH!!!!”
“You took EVERYTHING from us!”
“GRAAAAGGGHHHH!!!!”
“But if that’s the way your kind wants to play, FINE!”
“I’ll see you in Tartarus Varmit!”
“No More Running!”
“NOOOOO!!!!”
“It’s time for YOU to live in fear for a change!”
“Why?! Why?!”
“Cause now that our dreams are dead!”
“Hoody…please…”
“All that’s left is a Nightmare…”
You stand over them and laugh to the heavens.
“THE NIGHTMARE HAS COME!”
“No…”
The blade goes through you again as you look into the eyes of the Princess of Love.
“The Nightmare is gone…”
You open your eyes and gasp as you wake up in a cold sweat. Your hair is damp, and despite the cool night air, you are burning up.
“It’s OK, It’s OK. I’m not the Nightmare, he’s gone. I’m not the Nightmare…” you say as you try to get your breathing under control. To confirm this you look around your location. You are in a tent that you purchased in one of the outlying towns at a trading post. Your daughter Nightshade is beside you in her sleeping bag with a smile on her sleeping form.
Your breathing becomes more controlled as you place a hoof over your chest wound which aches in pain.
“Uggh, you stupid thing, it was just a dream, now heal already!” you angrily whisper to it. It’s been a month since the other world’s Cadance stabbed you and the wound never fully healed, even after the Doctor’s care. That’s just the nature of Orichalcum, the magic nullifying substance that can kill the gods themselves.
Deciding not to wake your daughter, you stealthily exit the tent and walk to a nearby stream. Guided by the moonlight, you are able to traverse the trees that surround your camp right to the brook. You take a sip of the cool clear water before dunking your head in to cool off. You then puts some cold water over your delicate chest scar to numb the phantom pain. After having finally calmed down, you look at your reflection in the water.
The changeling with the wet orange hair staring back at you is the same one you’ve seen all your life, though the Orichalcum caused scars over his eye and chest make it known that he’s seen better days.
“Heh, all I need now is a big winding red tattoo over the right side of my body and then I can take on the gods of Mt. Olympus,” you chuckle to yourself, remembering one of your favorite games. You continue to stare at your reflection before a sigh escapes your lips.
“I’m not the Nightmare,” you tell your reflection. “I’ll never be the Nightmare. I’m a good bug…I’m a good bug.”
The smiling form in the water momentarily changes into a hideous four eyed, sharp tusked, horned monstrosity as you flash back. You strike the stream and disrupt the image.
“I’m not you…” you say weakly before turning around and heading back.
As you head back to your tent, thanks to your wet form, you begin to feel a chill.
“Brrr. It must be Fall already. Good thing I got Nightshade that coat back at the outpost, the last thing I need is her catching a cold.”
You walk back into your tent and see that she has not stirred. You stroke her mane lovingly as a smile comes to your face.
Nightshade knows how to dream-walk and enter other’s dreamscapes, but you had forbidden her from coming into yours for awhile, and for good reason. You would never forgive yourself is she saw what the other you did.
“Sleep tight my angel, I’ll have the bad dreams so you won’t have to.”
You then lay down on your own sleeping bag, and before you nod off, you meditate and enter your own mindscape. While normally a chaotic mess, there is a place where there is nothing but a bed and someone you owe your life to. Like Nightshade, the Alicorn on the bed is dark and mysterious, but unlike Nigthshade, this one might not wake. The mare formerly known as Nightmare Moon has also seen better days. Shrunken in both body and power, she lies upon the bed, breathing shallowly, but thankfully in a consistent matter.
“Hey Selena, you doing any better?”
She does not answer you, just like the other times.
“Well I think you’re doing better,” you say with a forced smile before sighing.
“I had the dream again. The dream where I was HIM. I wish I had your power to dream-walk so I could just seal these nightmares away.”
The prone mare says nothing.
“I mean, I know that I will never become him, not just because of the Doctor, but because you and I promised each other we wouldn’t,” you say as you place your hoof over hers.
“I know this, but I still dream of it. I don’t know, maybe it’s because there’s noling around to get it off my chest to. I mean, you’re in a coma, the Doctor and Derpy left me behind again, and Cadance…” you wince remembering what she did, “she’ll never remember it. And I just can’t go telling our Cadance or anyling else because I don’t want to horrify them, or they think I’m dead.”
You sigh once more as you look at the floor.
“I haven’t really talked to anyone besides Nighthshade or the occasional backwoods merchant for a month, and I can’t tell them what happened either. Also, I don’t know who to trust, and when there’s large groups you don’t know who’s who. Anypony could be an enemy…anypony,” you ponder as you rub your chest.
“Sticking to the wilderness is rough, but I can’t stay in any town yet because I can’t afford to have anything go wrong. I can’t fight at my full potential because you might…” you shake your head as you can’t say the word. “Not only that, but this stupid wound keeps opening up. Nightshade, bless her heart “borrowed” a staple gun and some bandages in case I open up too much…”
You look to her again.
“But thankfully that hasn’t happened. I’ve bought a few supplies for Nightshade and I to help with roughing it. She has her own inventory now, courtesy of the other world, and she keeps track of her own things, except for food, I’ve put her on a diet. She wasn’t happy at first…actually scratch that, she’s still not happy about it, but it’s necessary living out here. Her inventory only had a few items within it and apparently the majority of it was filly clothes, I guess HE kept thinking he could buy back forgiveness. On the plus side though, now I have two Boomsticks for emergencies."
If that got through to her, you can’t tell.
“She wants to go back and see her friends, and I hate myself more and more when I tell her she can’t. At least she understands somewhat. Out this far gossip is slow but I’ve gotten a few rumors about the Crimson Knights. Nothing big has occurred thank heavens, but there have been secret recruitments. I’ve still got that list of names of the Generals from the other world, and chances are their counterparts are in similar positions, but we’re in no shape to hunt them yet.”
You place your other hoof over hers.
“I wish the Doctor would come back. He knows things, and now I know more than ever how important they are. He knew Grandbuggy somehow. He said so himself. Grandbuggy never told me about him though, and I feel like there’s always been a conspiracy over my head. I mean, even my Grandmother knew the Doctor, so what is going on?”
Still she says nothing, so you brush her hair out of her face.
“Selena, please wake up. I need someone to talk to, someone who understands. I need your help so that I won’t make stupid decisions. I need you back. I’m lost. So please, please just wake up.”
Despite your pleas, she does not awaken.
You sigh once more.
“One of these days you’ll answer. You just need your strength back. Maybe if I ever run into Quacksilver again he can do something, or maybe I can get a shadow magic transfusion or... something. I will fix this, I swear,” you say with a squeeze of her hoof, before you stand back up.
You begin to walk away, but look back.
“Oh, and tomorrow I’ll be helping Nightshade with her magic. Twilight taught her quite a few things, but she hasn’t been practicing since we left. I’m sure I’ll get hurt in the process. Hope that gets a laugh out of you somehow…” you say with a weak smile.
You turn around and then exit your mindscape before falling asleep, and thankfully, it is dreamless.
The Next Day
After having a light breakfast, and an even lighter one for Nightshade to which she complained about, you packed up your campsite and you had her do her magical lessons that Twilight taught her. Thanks to a month of no practice, she was rusty, but because she’s Nightshade, she was able to pick them back up fairly fast.
Her levitation spell was good, she picked you up about 20 feet and dunked you in the stream by accident, and so was her “Magic Missile” as you called it, which knocked you backwards into a tree.
“Why did Sparkle teach you that spell?” you asked.
“Twilight said that any unicorn in Ponyville that doesn’t know how to fire offensive magic is just asking for trouble,” she explains.
You kind of have to agree with this since that town seems to be a beacon for all things disastrous and chaotic.
Nightshade then showed you a trick you’d only seen her do once, where in a flash of green flame, she was able to make her wings disappear and reappear. She did the same thing with her horn and you got to witness your daughter as every incarnation of pony. Although this still confuses you as she is clearly part changeling, but you have no idea how you and Selena created her. You decide to put these thoughts aside as you witness your daughter as an earth pony falcon kick a tree in half.
“Good job sweetie, you’re even better at that then me,” you praise, before Nightshade sweeps her head around, becoming an Alicorn again.
“Sweetie! Where? Are Scootaloo and Applebloom with her?!” she asks excitedly before looking around.
“No, no, baby, she’s not here, I was just calling…” you begin your explanation before seeing Nightshade’s happy face fall as she looks to the ground, “Never mind…”
“Daddy, when are we going to go back?” she asks sadly.
“Not until your mother and I are healed Nightshade" you half truth.
"I-Is she any better?" Nightshade asks.
"She's...comfortable Nightshade" you say hesitantly.
"Oh...well how come we don't go to a town and have a witch doctor heal her or something?"
"Because towns are dangerous honey, they always lead to confrontation, and we can’t exactly fight in our condition”
“But I could fight for you, I’m strong enough. Princess Luna said so!”
You shake your head no as you place your hoof on her shoulder, “Nightshade, that is the last thing I want from you.”
“But I’ve done it before, I kicked the Hydra in the nards!” she whines.
“I know baby, and I still thank you, but I’m still wanted by all of Equestria, you aren’t. And I don’t want that to change. The last thing we need is a bounty on you as well.”
“Fine…”she huffs as she kicks the dirt, "I just wish mommy was better."
"So do I sweetheart, so do I..."
Wanting to avoid this conversation longer, you try to cheer her up.
“Alright honey, any other tricks you want to try?”
“Well I want to try flying, but the Filly Fooler never got a chance to teach me thanks to the Mare Do Well incident…but Ms. Twilight was starting to teach me how to teleport. I never actually got to try it out though.”
“Oh, well I can only barely help you there, I’m not too good myself,” you admit.
“Don’t worry daddy, I got this,” she says with a wave of her hoof before she scrunches her eyes together in concentration as power begins to build up in her horn.
“Don’t hurt yourself Nightshade, it’s a lot harder than it…” you begin before being cut off by a large flash as your daughter disappears.
“Nightshade!” you call out in alarm before hearing her voice cheer from behind you.
“I did it! I did it! Oh my gosh, did you see me daddy? Did you?!” she squeals in excitement.
“I sure did, great job honey!” you congratulate and give her a hug.
“Oh My Gosh, I can’t wait to tell Ms. Twilight! Watch me again daddy, watch me again!” she yells before powering up again with you still holding her.
“OK, but be careful honey, you don’t want to over…” and once again you are cut off. This time however, the white flash overtakes your eyes and you feel your body contort into nothingness.
After feeling your body rematerialize, you aren’t sure whether you’ve gotten your sight back again as all you see around you is white. Your body is cold and you realize why after a few blinks, you are completely surrounded by snow as a storm billows around you. After this realization, you realize that there is a sharp pain in your chest.
“Arrrrggghhhhh…” you grunt out as you fall to the snow covered ground as you see your Midnight Colored Blood dripping onto it. Your wound has opened again.
“DADDY!” you hear your daughter yell as she steadies you.
“Ugh, what happened Nightshade?” you ask her.
“I don’t know, I just closed my eyes, everything went white and then we were here and you were hurt again!” she says scared.
You grunt in acknowledgement before saying,
“Honey, get the first aid, quickly!”
“Right!” she yells as she dives into her Inventory. You look at your wound and see that it it’s only the top layer that’s open, but it’s still bleeding and hurts.
“Got it!” she yells as she jumps back out. “Hold still, this is gonna hurt!”
“Hold still for wha…”
*Cachunk* *Cachunk* *Cachunk* *Cachunk*
You look down and see that Nightshade has put four staples into your chest, holding the wound together. You look up to your daughter, then back to your wound, then back to your daughter, then back before screaming at the top of your lungs to the sky.
“AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! MOTHERBUCKER!”
“It’s OK daddy, I mediced you,”
“I MEANT I WANTED THE BANDAGES!!!” you roar while your chest still throbs.
“Oh, right!” she says as she dives back in. When she comes out, she is wearing her coat that you got her, along with a scarf, snow boots and your fake beard for warmth, making her look like a very short stallion. You wrap up the wound, not even taking the staples out. You then pat her on the head.
“Thanks Nightshade, great job…” you lie so as not to hurt her feelings. You then eat some Orange Buffo-Bombs to get a sugar rush and numb the pain, but the cold still hits you. In your inventory you pull out the only warm piece of clothing you have, Your Nobody Cloak.
With the cloak on, the wind and snow don’t pierce you as sharply, but you’ve got to get somewhere warm and fast as your reopened wound has left you feeling weak.
“Alright Honey, can you teleport us back?” you ask.
She tries to gather magic, before holding her head “I don’t think so daddy, my head kind of hurts after doing that.”
“OK, so that option is out, I could try, but I need to know where we are. But all there is is snow, snow and more…hey what’s this?” you say as you spot a set of hoof tracks. They lead south into the storm, but they come from the North. Following them backwards, you crest a hill and see a massive dome over a sunlit city of shiny buildings made of crystal.
“What in the Buck?” you ask aloud as you see lots of movement within the city.
“Maybe we should go there daddy, the sun if over there,” she says through her fake beard.
“I don’t know, this seems oddly like the beginning of a horror movie, maybe we should see where the tracks lead,” you say with a shudder.
You turn around and from your vantage point and you see the prints lead down to what seems to be a train.
“Oh thank Luna, there’s our ticket out of here,” you say before spotting 7 figures against the snow.
“There’s a group coming this way daddy.”
“I see them honey, hang on a second,” you say as you activate your Sight Beyond Sight Telescopic View, causing you to feel even more weak.
In your view however, you see 7 ponies you’d rather not see at the moment. You unzoom and cry aloud.
“OH COME ON! REALLY?!”
“Who is it Daddy?” asks Nightshade.
“It’s the Deadly 6 and Shining Armor! They haven’t spotted us yet, but they’re coming this way,” you say as you hold your wound in pain, and in doing so, you realize you’re dressed as the Hooded Offender, “and the hits keep on coming,” you growl.
You and Nightshade both weigh your options.
Either run for the Mysterious Spooky Looking City, Fight the Elements of Harmony and the Captain of the Guard that hates you in your weakened state, or freeze to death. None of these options are good, and you both know who to blame as you both yell to the storming sky.
“BUCK YOU LADY LUCK!!!”
WHAT DO?
As Bugzee try to decide what to do, Nightshade look to the nothing and begin to say.
"It's the time, Mister player to choose what Bugzee need to do... Press X to let daddy run to the spooky city or Press Y to let daddy go to the meanie six" Say Nightshade
"Uhhh... Nightshade, honey, what are you doing?" Ask Bugzee
"Well... Pinkie tried to teach me something she called breaking the fourth wall, but I think something is wrong" Comment Nightshade
Just as Bugzee begin to think about how the pink one is corrupting her daughter, a strange and dark smoke appear and the evil six begin to run to the city, leaving only Shining Armor, the smoke begin to follow the evil six but Shining Armor go to the middle.
"Daddy, the smoke is going after them, is he a ally? Or is a enemy?" Ask Nightshade
Bugzee is not sure about that, all he could see in the smoke are big strange eyes that seem very familiar and a strange purple thing that exit from them, just when Shining is going to be attacked by the smoke, Bugzee try to jump and block the strange to protect Shining from the smoke thing but it only pass Bugzee like if it was nothing and go to Shining, for one second Bugzee can see himself as the Nightmare but the image dissapear.
Meanwhile inside of Bugzee, one of Selena hoof move at the same time that the strange smoke pass Bugzee.
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The chapters are going to be once a week then every friday? If so... How much time? Is going to be repaired and return to a chapter every two days?
Have you ever lost a beloved electronic to a watery foe? Yes, one of my phones, I liked to go to shower and listen music with the phone, until it stopped to work because the water.
Still love it :D
Run for the city (insofar as you are able to run). If you or Nightshade can cast an invisibility spell, do so. Better to hide in the city than be caught and permanently imprisoned or freeze to death.
I can't remember any particular electronic I've lost to water off the top of my head. Sorry.
Get to the city and notice how emotionless and sad everypony is.
Hide from the Deadly 6.
Most importantly SHOVE NIGHTSHADE BACK INTO THE INVENTORY ASAP! You were just in a world where her death caused the bucking apocalypse and now you're having her sleep in a sleeping bag instead of her safe hidden normal inventory bed? Facehoof at how stupidly negligent you've been with your daughter and shove her back into the Inventory!
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Press X
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When caught, use a combo of the Power Glove and the classic "LOOK, A DISTRACTION!" gag to escape
6294394 It seems it's working... Nightshade is learning to break the fourth wall.
You see the shadowy mass engulf Shining Armor as you grab him in your magic.
You throw Shining Armor through the barrier, before running through.
As you pass through the barrier, the love magic heals your wounds(, though the Orichalcum stab wound scars over).
Your run off somewhere before Fluttershy can thank you.
With your choices of confronting the party of seven, traveling to the city with Nightshade, or attempting to weather the blizzard you choose the party of seven since, with the way your misfortune finds creative ways to antagonize you, you figured it would be best to deal with the problem now than meet the in the city will wearing your Offender outfit. And speaking of the Offender, you should definitely change to a different disguise. Perhaps your "El Hunko" suit? You can't have everyone know your still alive just yet. But then what? You need an alibi. Maybe you could convince them you are a part time adventurer. 'Why are you wearing a suit in this kind of weather?' they might ask? Just because your part time occupation is dangerous, doesn't mean you can't look good while doing it.
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Have you ever lost a beloved electronic to a watery foe? If so, how and what.
Does a liquid based substance count cuzzz . . . . .
Aw man, it was the stupidest thing I remeber when I was like, 6-ish? One day, I saw one of those "got milk" commercials, reasoning that if you don't drink milk your bones will become supper brittle to the point where you arms will tear off you torso if you do anything to extraneous. So I figured, 'Hey! maybe if I feed my Super Nintendo some milk, it could transform into a Super SUPER Nintendo!!' And you know what I did? I pored a god damned glass of milk down the cartridge slot!! Freakin scared me for the rest of my childhood. I was bawling my eyes out for the fest of that month, grieving over the lost piece of my life that I had unintentionally destroyed because I miss interpreted a commercial . . . .
An idea popped to your head
"I have an idea. Night shade jump in to the inventory right now." you said as night shade jumps in
"Then what?" nightshade asked
"Then I roll in the snow with the clock on and cover myself up wit the cloak and lay on the snow and wait for them to get past me." You said as you started to camouflage yourself.
The Box trick didn't work in the past. So camouflage has to work. if it doesn't work then I'm bad at stealth you thought.
"It is like that Call of Duty 4 mission 'all ghillied up'." Nightshade said staying in side the inventory.
"Quiet they are coming" you whispered
As you lay there in the snow waiting the deadly six to past you listen in on there conversation.
The voices are getting louder.
Please hurry its getting cold here you thought having trouble at staying still. The wound on your chest isn't helping out either.
The voice are even louder. They are on top of you.
"Do you have a plan B daddy?" nightshade ask at the wrong time.
"Yhea it's run to the strange dome place" you replied
"Did somepony hear that?" the voice said which sounded like Twilight
"It's just the wind Twi" AJ said
"I don't think so it sounded like another pony and it is close"? Twilight said
You then felt a hoof pressed on your back where your cut is and made it a bit worse.
You screamed in pain which blows your cover.
AAAAAAHHHH!!!
"!" Everypony saw you.
Twilight looked at you and said in shock "YOU AGAIN!"
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The scream in pain part was suppose to be 'Tom scream' for Tom and Jerry
Elsewhere, in the Badlands...
Where once was barren desert now stands a blue call box with the words 'bad wolf' scratched into the side. From the strange edifice walks a timberwolf, a diamond dog, a changeling, and a pony.
"Man that was close," Grey Rebl sighed. "The breach nearly closed while we were still over there."
"Well, let's have some fun while we're here," growled Solarkness.
Also, who wants to bet that Sombra ends up staying in Hotel Bugze?
you must run into this guy:
It's either run for it, or risk a fight in your weakened condition. Before you can decide though, a big black mist of smoke appears with a horrifying face on it.
"Ccccrrrrryyyyyyssssttttaaaalllllssss..." it seethes as the others encounter it.
"Alright, Buck this noise!" you scream seeing the literal ghost appearing. You pick up Nightshade and run to the creepy city.
And boy were you right when you called it creepy. All the ponies are dull and speak in dulcet tones and all seem depressed.
"Oy, you there, what's the name of this creepy place?" you ask a random mare.
"Um...this is the Crystal Empire?" she asks you.
"I have no clue, is it? You're the citizen aren't you?"
"I...uh...think..." she says with a confused look before holding her head in pain.
"OK..." you say as you back away from her, before calling out to a nearby stallion.
"Hey, you there, do you know where the nearest doctor is?" you ask.
"I-I'm not sure. Maybe at the palace?" he suddenly winces as if his head hurts, "Ugh..."
"What, you guys don't have a hospital? What is this, Medieval Times?"
"I-I don't know..." he says.
"Yeesh you ponies are useless," you huff as you and Nightshade make your way to the big palace.
You make your way into the palace, yelling for anyone to answer, you hear some noise upstairs, so you go up and see a familiar looking Pink Alicorn.
Seeing her triggers a flashback to the otherworld, so you hide behind a pillar and hold Nightshade's mouth shut when she tries to walk over and talk to her. Good thing you do because some other guests arrive.
While my phone hasn't fallen victim to a watery death yet, I know what I would do if such a thing were to happen. Just leave it in rice and let it soak up the water for about a day. The phone should be working afterwards, when you try it again.
Dat snow...
And your weakened state...
Makes you wish you brought the Nanosuit from the TARDIS, hm?
Before you can decide. Black smoke creature thing appear and keep whispering loudly and evily 'crystals, slaves and stairs...'
"Fuck this shit I'm out." You said as you and Night Shade run to the creepy city while the deadly six is distracted.
As you run through the love barrier, the love magic that created the barrier healed most of your wound and greatly sped up the recovery rate of you sword wound.
As you and your daughter yell you curse to lady luck, you hear a strange hissing as smoke starts coming out of a crack in the ground.
Bugze: Nightshade run! It's the darkness from the Quiet Ridge games! Run to the dome before Pyramid Head finds us!
When you get inside the dome:
Nightshade: Wow it is really nice and warm in here huh Daddy?
You realize that she is correct. The weather feels as nice as it was in Ponyville.
Bugze: Wait a minuet Dear, let me change into something that will not get me killed on sight.
You take this time to don the "El Hunko" outfit.
Bugze: Alright, let us go and find out what this place is and what is up with the Dark Smoke out there.
Nightshade: OK Daddy. Wait there is Fluttershy and her friends.
You look to see the Deadly Six, Spike, and Shining Armor have just made it into the dome. You noticed back crystals growing on Shining's horn and you look to see the smoke at the dome's edge, green and red eyes with a purple smoke coming off of the sides. You can only think that the eyes look familiar, and not in a good way.
Bugze: Why does he look familiar? Nightshade, get into the Inventory. If they realize who I am, then we will need to run.
Nightshade: Aww. I wanted to say hi to Spike.
Bugze: I know, but now is not a good time, especially with that thing around.
You point to the smoke who glares at you and Nighthade.
Nightshade: Yikes, that is creepy. OK Daddy, I'll go in there now, but I want to say hi to Spike later.
Bugze: Hopefully you can.
Nightshade jumps into the Inventory as you get closer to the group. Not that you wanted to, but the only path to the city is the same way they are taking. As you get closer you hear the group talking about the shadow.
Twilight: So you can't use your magic at all?
Shining: No Twily, whatever Sombra did to make these crystals grow on my horn is stopping me from doing anything.
Sombra? Why do you recognize that name? *Facehoof* Of course, he was the scary unicorn using dark magic against the Nightmare in the other universe. I think Selena said something about him enslaving the Crystal Empire or something like that.
Have I lost an electronic to a watery foe before?
Yes i once lost a cellphone to the surprise force pull of a glass of Orange Juice. After I fished my phone out I showed the OJ the power of the Dark Side as I then chugged it down with pure malice.
6294819 "Dalekarian! You have to come too!"
At this Solarkness drags out the demontaged Dalek, before looking around. "Anyone wanna stay here, or go somewhen else?"
. . . . . The ground beneath you collapses, taking you through a network of cartoonish tunnels that leads to a dark cave. "Omph, Bucking tunnels, and that turn!! Hnnngg, I think my wound just reopened. Hmmm, some lighting would be nice. Would you kindly burn." you for got to change you power glove from high to low, as the intense heat begins melting the icy cavern, causing several stalactites to nearly impale you and a lucky mount of ice (not so lucky for you) to fall on your head. "Ack, that was too close. Ok, would you kindly make a light?"
The room now looks less like an icy prison and more like and abandon warehouse. Rows a pone rows of valuable (with a few degraded due to time) artifacts as far as your eyes can see. The most noteworthy of them all is a massive suit of armor that looks like a pony shaped tank. On the sides of the tank-armor are a pair of large and intimidating weapons, a flamethrower and some kind of automatic cannon.
"Sqeeee! This is the most stallionist thing ever!" Running toward the armor to see if it's your size, you trip over your own hooves, causing you to comically tumble forward into a skeleton. "Eww, its in my mouth!!! Dead pony in my mouth-, whats this?" When you tumbled into the corpse, you dislodges the strange gem that was firmly gripped between its hooves. Being the smart (*cough cough, idiot) buggy that you are, you pick it up to see how many bits it could go for. " Wow, I've never seen anything like this. Maybe this has something to do with the city? Oh neat. a button." A hologram of an aged mare if projected from the crystal that you dropped from
fearcaution. "AAAAHHHH!!! A ghost. PSYCHO CRUSHER!!!" You pass through the projection and collide with the suit of armor, leaving not a scratch. The hologram appears unphased by your attack as it repeats its message."Entry 1: I name is Fractal Beam, the arch magus of the Crystal Empire , and what stands before you is what we hope to be the salvation to the crystal empire, The Indomitus. It is probably the will be the most advance piece of armor ever to be created by the crystal ponies. We hope to use this armor to best King Sombra and free the other crystal ponies that are still enslaved in the capital. Now we just need to finish the darn thing."
"Wow, the crystal ponies made all of this? They must have been super futuristic. I wonder if there's anymore records."
*click* "Entry 21: Were losing the fight against Sombra. The jerks cutting through our forces like a hot knife through butter! We've cut ties with the with other and relocated our base in hopes it will delay him eventually finding us. We have so little time, but were so close to completing The Indomitus.
*click* "Entry 23: we've finally did it, the blasted things complete. With this, we will take back our home. Ain't that right!!" (You can hear the sounds of cheering in the background) "Anyways, just for a precaution, we've contacted the Alicorn sisters to assist us in our final battle for the Crystal Empire. Lets hope we make it out this alive, heh.
*click* "Entry 24: It's . . . . . it's gone. THE BLOODY TARTARUS, WHERE IS IT!? He took the blasted thing with him because the 'dark overlord with a crystal fetish' can't play fair! And the best part about this? . . . . one of the scientist made a mistake in one of the Indomitus's spell matrix's . . . .
*click* "Entry 27: " . . . . Heh. We've found the problem in one of the spell matrix's in the armor. Good news? Turns out, it now has a semi-magic dampener that can drain the residual magic rear the armor, draining the magic from the air and making it resilient to magical effects. Bad news? We didn't find out about this until now. Oh, but don't worry. At this rate, the Indomitus won't kill us in roughly . . . . 13 more days until we die of magical deprivation. Lets see here . . . . these say that the spell matrix should fix itself in, 1000 years? . . . . Buck."
*click* "That's it? No more Entries? well, this sucks bal-" A needle jams itself into your neck, filling you blood stream with some kind of paralyzing drug that renders you motionless. several metal appendages emerges from the ground lift you up and lay you across a medical table. the crystal recorder turns on, showing the same mare, albeit with backs in her eyes and looking as if she was barely standing.
" . . . My name is Fractal Beam, arch magus . . . of the Crystal empire. Who ever you may be, you have been chosen to *cough cough* . . . use this armor to defeat Sombra . . . . whether you like it or not. However you won't be able to properly use the suit without . . . proper modifications . . . "
I have such fan tiredd.
Hows this for bossfigt music?