Thirty minutes earlier.
I found Sunset in her chambers, frantically packing. She stared at me as soon as I told her what I wanted to do.
“You are nuts.”
“Maybe. But I have to try.”
She shook her head, “Page... that's idiotic, even if you somehow manage to defeat him where the Princesses and the Royal Guard failed, he could kill you in the process! Come on, you can come with me. We can still get out in time.”
I just nodded, “Possible,” before I sighed, “Likely even. But I have to try. For them.”
Sunset sank down to sit, “You love her. You really do.”
I smiled slightly, “What tipped you off?” before I shook my head, “But I need your help and we need to hurry. We need to get to the armory, it will take ten minutes at most, then you can run.”
She shifted, scraping her hoof against the floor, undecided.
“I won't lie, Sunset,” I continued, “The sooner you run, the easier it will be to get away. Staying can kill you. But the question is not if staying can kill you, but if you can live with leaving?”
Sunset gritted her teeth and then got onto her hooves, “Fine, Monkeyboy, you win. Let's go.”
“Thank you.”
“Don't thank me, this is a stupid idea and I still think you are going to get yourself killed.”
I didn't answer, I just followed along towards the armory. She was right. Even if everything went perfectly, I might get seriously injured or killed in the process. But I couldn't do nothing, I couldn't just leave.
I'm sorry, Luna. But I have to try to do something, anything to keep you safe. Even if it killed me.
It didn't take long to reach the armory. It was unguarded. Normally there was at least two guards outside it keeping the contents safe.
Now there was nobody here.
Still, the door was locked.
I moved aside and motioned towards the steel door, “Sunset, if you please?”
She nodded and gathered up her magic before blasting it off its hinges, causing it to go crashing through the room behind it, shattering a stand of spears across the floor.
“What do you need?” Sunset asked as she walked inside first, leaving me to follow.
“Focus on the sturdy things. Steel hafted spears, swords. That kind of thing. The bigger and stronger the better.”
Sunset nodded and started to gather, picking and choosing between the weapons before getting to work with a frown, “Page...”
“Hmm?” I asked, picking up some spears in my magic, giving them a spin. These will work.
“Thanks for bringing me back,” She said quietly as she wove her spell craft.
I nodded as I picked up a pair of daggers, checking the blades and sliding them into one of the belts, “Didn't do it for you. But you are welcome.”
“I just don't think I'm going to get the chance to say it later.”
Grabbing another pair of daggers, I couldn't help but think she might be right.
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Now.
Pain racked through my body as Tirek opened his massive jaw. I could feel my magic starting to drain from my horn, the golden energy glowing like the sun as he absorbed it.
I gritted my teeth and worked through the pain from the draining, the pain in my left frontleg and reached up to grab my necklace with the medallion and all the little decorations hanging all around the thin chain all around my neck using my right hoof.
Tearing it free, I threw it straight into that gaping maw and down his throat. It didn't even touch the sides.
For a second, nothing happened and it stretched on longer than any second in my life had before. Then Tirek jerked and arched his back as he roared, the draw on my magic turned into a scream as he stumbled back, clawing at his chest and throat as I fell.
I landed hard, something in my right rear leg made a crackling sound and pain shot through me, my vision threatening to go dark for a second as Tirek stumbled back and forth.
He screamed and trashed before slowly sinking down onto the knees of his front legs. He looked confused, “Wha...” he started to say before he fell over onto his side, hitting the floor with a loud crash, the ground shuddering beneath the impact.
Silence. The throneroom was completely silent as everyone stared at the fallen Lord Tirek. I was just trying to stay awake from the shooting pain through two of my legs.
Tirek started to slowly glow. First in small spots on his chest, then his sides. His eyes flashed open, glowing a bright white that filled his slack and open mouth.
The glow spread across him from the growing spots on his chest and sides, covering him in a half sphere before it flashed outwards. I didn't have time to do anything.
I didn't have the magic to shield, I couldn't move and try to get out of the way.
Everything dissolved into blue sparkles.
That...is brutal to think about it. Well done sir. I am especially glad that Page actually succeeded. The whole Tirek fiasco was handled very poorly in-show, in my opinion. I much prefer yours. Mayhaps this will also kick Luna/Celestia the kick in the ass they need to bloody include Page in certain decisions.
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Twilight Sparkle, Princess of Kicking Ass and Taking Names, doesn't appeal to you?
Edit: I cannot format things correctly. For this only, I apologize.
Blank Page; Alicorn of
ass kickingcreativity.Very satisfying, and why you don't threaten Page's waifu.
Lord Page wins!
FATALITY
Also, new cover art! Congrats!
Blank Page, Slayer of Lord Tirek.
Wait, what? Rammy is confused What did he do!?
7396922 Took all those weapons. Used a spell to shrink them and attach them like a charm-bracelet to his medallion. He baited Tirek into trying to steal his magic, and threw that charm bracelet down Tirek's throat. When his magic got gobbeled, the magic that Page was using to keep the weapons shrunk when bye-bye.
So the weapons grew. Inside of Tirek's stomach/throat. Spears. Swords. Knives, etc.
It was metal as fuck.
With her "Teachable Moments" for living with near-godhood getting short-circuted, I'm afraid Twilight is going to need practical combat magic lessons soon... Sounds like quite a class line up forming. Luna and her half-trained pupil, against Sunset, Skitter, and Twi....
Hmm, meanwhile is that the sound of Communist Poneh Hordes marching over the hills to beseige Canterlot?...
His name is Blank Page, and he straight up murdered the last guy who tried to mess with his woman. Mare. Whatever. His reward is pants! In the relationship!
7396922 Rammy is not alone in confusion. ARTL is 'fused too. Methinks Page killed Tirek.
I hope you didn't kill Tirek with that.
I know you are building an ending for this Fic but I wouldn't like it like that. There is nothing to learn with Death, in the end Tirek was defeated and inprisoned again: why? because he was evil, he had done evil things against others and he deserve it. A rightful retribution. Death? death is just death and its just sad, nobody deserve to have his/her life stolen. There is nothing glorious about it, especially in the contest of MLP.
Also, Black Page becoming and Alicorn after he have defeated/kill Tirek? I would hate it. like really hate it.
Wow, that was brutal
7396883 to be fair, it's not like they can do stuff like that in the show.
It's a nice way of getting things done. Magic drain and pocketspace elegance. Very much wish he had a portable hole and a bag of holding. For nostalgia.
A little confused why there wasn't mention of whatever chunky salsa should have been left afterward, Universal magic censorship laws?
Does this make him a noble now? Probably gets a glass window somewhere.
Loved it!
Fukn brutal....
Still wanted doom guy tho......
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Lunas gonna wait till he's healed and then kick his ass for the risk he took.
I always knew his big mouth would be the end of him.
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"Some men just need killing"
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We all do, but all of the crossovers I've seen any of the following: a) short, b) one shots and short, c) follow some weird amalgamation of DOOM cannon or d) are kinda shit and have weird DOOM cannon.
7396975 oh well...
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There's everything to learn with his death, mainly that you don't always have to rely on magical friendship nukes when a little more fighting can get the job done
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I would curse you out for your statement, but I'll say this. If you don't like it, then leave. Tirek isn't someone who should be jailed or reformed. He is an evil man... Centaur that has no redeeming qualities scan only deserve death. Tell me good sir or madam, do people like Hitler or bin Laden deserve to live in prison after their crimes? Or should they be killed for them in this question. Tirek is arguably the worst of the group, due to him not even having a reason to be an asshole, or even lying about having one. The show's protraly of this was so botched that it hurt. Forgiving someone who's back stabbing could lead to the end of at least one super power of a country if not the world is a message thatwas written by someone that was brain addled.
7396989 Kinda like how real life law enforcement forces would deal with The Joker in Batman universe. Or most of Batman's villians to be honest.
You don't let a psychopath (He's more "mutated" arnachist than mentally damage, though. So, even plead of insanity felt short) that can break out of every containment methods and hell bent on causing misery, suffering and anarchy live.
7396938 we all do as we must in this world and unfortunately sometimes we have to do things other may qualify as ''evil''
7397016 Exactly. It's not like you'd want to try to rehabilitate Joseph Stalin, Pol Pot, Hitler, Mengele, etc. Some evil can only be stopped by spreading it's brain over the nearest wall like jam on concrete toast.
Keep the moralizing to your blogs everyone, thxbai.
Damn, Lord Page is creative...
Hit 'em where it hurts.
Good tactic. He made me proud. It is nice to know that one being in Equestria doesn't shy back from doing the right thing. Hell, on earth Tirek would have been killed instantly for going after the leaders.
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https://imgur.com/gallery/xF6yK
And yes you all can view this, imgur blocks referrers from fimfiction, not the users. Just open in a new tab, wait for the error, click in the URL bar and press enter.
See, there is a misunderstanding of my words.
What we are talking about is a Fiction, a story, it's not real. This is the problem with deep immersive fiction, when you try to introduce reality in a work of fiction two different contests clash with each other and it becomes difficult to distinguish an opinion from a comment. Many of you have send me responses and opinions of why death is necessary or needed for certain people, and I totally agree with that, in real life.
But this story and it's just that. So, I only wanted to comment to the Author that leaving a realistically brutal and unsatisfying ending in a world of fiction where even the best possible outcome is possible, would just leave the story with a bitter taste.
It was just a comment, that's all. Not my opinion. I still like the story as it is now.
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Case in point: through all of Tirek's whatevers, canonically, he did not kill a single person. No one even got seriously injured. Throughout all of these stories, through all the various crises they feature, not one person has actually died - aside from Silver's dad, and that was natural causes.
It would be kind of a bad place to start now.
Thanks for speeding up the releases of the last few chapters.
Damn. Well, that throws out the whole rest of the season.
Not to mention Discord. This is not the Discord that was humiliated by Tirek's double-cross and humbled and awed by Twilight Sparkle's compassion for him. He's going to be an evil bastard again and without the elements and Equestria still reeling from Tirek's rampage, he's gonna rip the place apart with chaos again.
This opened up a giant can of worms, author. I hope you have it planned out because as of this moment, you're about ready to screw it all up if you're not careful.
Hmm, we got randomly told that Fleur Dis Lee got murdered and now Tirek is probably dead. We get new art that shows Page as some badass battle-mage. Not sure I like this more action oriented direction. Other stories have gone this route where the protagonist started weak and had to solve all the problems with wit. When they much later become powerful unicorns they tended to solve everything with violence. This is a pretty natural development, but also tends to make the story feel less smart and interesting.
Still, can't wait to read about the aftermath.
Blank Page, the new Highlander. Also wouldn't Discord have genuine fear of him now? Because he had slain a immortal and that is a small group currently, if Discord isn't stoned again. He likely would kiss flank to Page at every possible chance to not suffer his wrath, though the worse thing Page could do to Discord is say these words.
'You are honestly the most predictable 'chaos spirit' I have ever known or met, because you are the only one I have met. Even a foal who could get trapped in a bag who knew about you would say the same thing.'
But the method of killing, reveals quite a few things which might get female predators wet for him in different ways most likely... Because he has a 'odd' relationship already with the Changeling queen.
The rails have now been blown up.
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What? When?
7397165 She isn't. Someone can not into reading comprehension.
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Oh, went back to Chapter 33 and checked. Apparently it was at Fancy Pant's party, but not Fancy Pant's wife that got murdered. The murderer apparently killed his own wife. My bad.
7397097 I think we now know why this story is called consequences.
Now I'm all for a little action and all that. For me I would have liked Page to just try and fail at this though. He had drawn blood from Tirek and even tho Tirek wa not taking it very seriously that is way more than anyone else besides Twilight in cannon.
But like you said this screws everything up.
What you said about Tirek and Discord. Plus Twi don't get no castil of Freimdship. No Castil no map. No magic map to magic map missions. They don't get sent out on any mission. Now it's not very bad for almost all of those missions. They made life better especially the Griffins but it's the first mission ever and the Season 5 premiere episodes that really suffer. It means they don't get to help stop Starlight and she continues her war on cutie marks.
Homestly I could continue but I think everyone her is smart enough to realize where I'm going with this and can fill in the blanks.
What I want to know is how is the author planing on gett twilight her castil now? If ever? What's the plan? Dare I say it....hell yah I'm going to say it. How are you going to deal with the....consequences?!
Well I enjoyed the chapter and when I read
7396928 coment I finally got what he did. I think that it was an excellent idea in itself. Brilliant even! But taking this all into the bigger picture I still want to know how you will deal with the consequences of not having Twilight open in the chest.
I await the next chapter and I'll read you then.
-BFBL
7396938 Tirek might not have died.
7396943 I don't think Tirek actually physically died. His power level is a bit too high for that.
Maybe he's an Ender Dragon?
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In my defense that was fairly easy to misread.
7396975 oh that's badass!
I personally am very happy with this chapter. I also like the possible lack of the cutie-map. The map is a weak writer tool that let's them send ponies without the need to explain why or write up a good intro to an event.
7397069 I don't think we can say with confidence that the disasters brought on by Tirek, Discord, Chrysalis, and others didn't end with serious injuries or deaths. With the amount of chaos and mayhem they caused, it's inevitable that there would be some casualties. In Tirek's case, we can see that Pony physiology requires magic to function properly. I don't think that everyone who got magically drained just lay there comfortably until they got there magic back. What if it was a very old pony? Or a foal?
7396938 No, you shouldn't execute prisoners, but keep in mind that Tirek is not a prisoner. In the heat of combat, you need to do whatever it takes to neutralize the threat.
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No, I'm pretty damn sure we can, because it's that kind of show. No one ever dies on-screen from any of these events. Therefore, it didn't happen. Anything else is headcanon.
More than that, as forgiving as they are, I cannot see the princesses let Discord get away with it if he had killed people not once, but twice. The only reason they ever give him a shot at reforming himself at all is because, in that sense, he is not dangerous.
So...Page killing Tirek means no rainbow powers, no cutie map, and no one saving the town that Starlight is governing???
Wow I love to see where this story now takes!!