Chapter 25
The dream was of a training field. Dusty ground, stone buildings all around, the flag of the Storm King hanging from the biggest one.
As I stepped out into the dream, Tempest Shadow went flying, passing through my dream image to land on the ground, knocking dust into the air.
One of the large yeti/baboon creatures that was with her in the attack, backed away, squeezing his quarterstaff.
She laid there for a moment before struggling up.
She looked… younger than before. Maybe fourteen... fifteen… maybe sixteen? She also looked completely exhausted but what stood out to me was her lack of a cutie mark.
That was really old not to have one.
Gritting her teeth, her broken horn sparkled and she rushed at him again.
Hmm.
Watching her fight against her… trainer? I focused on the deeper layers of her dream. I needed something to free Cadence and Chrysalis.
I needed to…
Hmh. Her name isn’t really Tempest Shadow.
Her name is Fizzlepop Berrytwist.
I suppose I would have picked something else too if I was trying to be intimidating. Difficult to be the dark enforcer of an evil tyrant with a name like that.
Fluffles, the terrible!
Potentially useful, but not what I was looking for. Okay, guide the dream in the right direction. Danger, magic… dark stone?
To subtly guide dreams in the direction you like is more of an artform than a science. It’s all about connections and mental pathways.
I could of course poke her and try to force her to tell me what I wanted to know, but this could potentially be more useful without having her remember that I could do this.
The dream shifted around me and was replaced by three fillies in a forest.
I really doubted this was what I was looking for. Fizzlepop I could recognize from the group, her colouration standing out against their lighter colours, one green, the other blue.
They didn’t seem to be paying much attention to the forest around them as they threw a ball around.
Memory. This was another memory dream, not a fiction.
The surroundings blurred. There was a roar, a flash of remembered pain. Darkness. Stars moving and shimmering in a blue mist. The dream shifted all around.
Sunlight this time.
Fizzlepop were alone this time, her friends playing with other ponies. Her horn broken. She had been crying.
As interesting as seeing the supervillain origin story might be and might make me feel a bit sorry for her, it wasn’t why I was here. Still… to be hurt like that at such a young age…
I shook my head.
I tried again. Focusing, I nudged her dream. Less trauma, more magic. Stone.
The dream shifted, blurring to reveal a tower with books and scrolls. Stepping forward, I looked around slowly. Thick grey stones, a fireplace roaring by one wall.
Outside it was dark and cloudy, the wind howling against the tower.
Despite the fire, the place was chilly.
Fizzlepop were sitting by a desk close to the fire, candles lit, a thick book before her, wearing a cloak. She was older now, looking about the same as she did now.
I moved over, looking over her shoulder. As they tend to do in dreams, the images and text on the images blurred and shifted constantly. To find out anything specific, I would need to solidify the dream. That would reveal for her that I was here.
Turning my head at a shift of the dream, there was a couple of seconds before the door slammed open and a figure stalked inside.
Same primate creature as the ones that attacked, but this one wasn’t as bulky. He was wearing a cloak over a set of dark armour and a crown with black horns, not the face masks of the soldiers.
“Tempest, my dear,” he said without pause, “You promised results by now!”
“And I have them, your highness,” she answered and shifted of her seat to bow before she looked up at him, standing up straight again, “Martalans Petrifying Petrification. The spell is perfect and can be performed beforehoof, even an alicorn won't be able to dispel it on their own.”
“Excellent! Continue like this and I will give you back your horn. As soon as I have the magic of the princesses.”
So that’s was it.
That’s the name of the spell that turned them to stone. But an alicorn won’t be able to dispel it their own. Which meant several might be able to.
Besides, with the name, I bet the Sparkles will be able to find it.
Turning, I walked out of the silvery portal and exited the dream.
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Martalan's Petrifying Petrification...
Does Martilan have a redundant redundancy spell too?
I'm really looking forward for direct confrontation between Page and Tempest. How he will treat her now, that he know her weak point and how will she react in face of total failure? If Cadance and Chryssy will get released and Page will done this correctly, he may pull "You have no choise, but to join us" argument, which, with proper caution toward Tempest, will make final defeat of Storm King very easy.
Page has a way with villains that exiled themselves from Equestria. I think Tempest is gonna be hanging around a while.
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Page has a way with villains who show remorse.
Tirek, the other Changeling Queen... Frankly don't remember what happened to The Dazzlings and Starlight.
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not sure they got to glimglop, the dazzlings never happened because he didn't really put up with any shit in the mirror world, went straight in smashed the case, grabbed the crown and strong armed her back through the portal
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Page, Sunset and Mane 6 got Starlight imprisoned in Our Town, after she showed true colors and get her delivered to Cantorlet, where later Page spied her in her dreams, to find out her dream-memory about losing Sunburst as friend, when he get his Mark.
Then Page dropped on her Tactical Nightmare, to show her how vile she is (without her knowing about his influence), which broked her. It's implied she is now with Twilight, long ago reformed.
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All spells can be found in his Mystic Magic Book Tome.
I am hoping Fluffles is still able to be redeemed, the Legion always has openings.
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Yeah, she's more than proved her badass credentials. She may have lost that Ursa fight, but surviving it at all is more than most would be capable of.
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He killed Tirek though
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I'm referring to that both Tirek and said Changeling Queen died.
Got the feeling Page is going to datamine Her dreams for all her knowledge before approaching her. No need for interrogation when sutlely guided dreams are working.
Only if you haven't read the Evil Overlord List.
After all, one of the rules plainly state:
"I shall dress in bright and cheery colors, and so throw my enemies into confusion!"
So Fizzlepop Berrytwist is actually a perfect name for an evil overlord! No one would take them seriously until it's far too late!
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+1 for that reference.
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She's not the overlord though, just a hench pony who's been promised something she is never going to get.
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Precisely! Right now she is Tempest Shadow blind edge-lord henchmare to an idiotic two-bit equally edge-lord villain.
When she could've been Fizzlepop Berrytwist the mastermind that used the Storm King's overconfidence and idiocy to hit him with one of the stoning balls when she showed them to him for the first time, and takeover the kingdoms he had conquered while portraying herself as 'the savior' that defeated the villain and win the loyalty of her new
minionssubjects.9881420
"I didn't kill him officer, I swear. It was the bullet, that killed him. Not me!"
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I've a headcanon that he assassinated his own father so he could ascend to the throne. The character just struck me as too big an idiot to have obtained his position by his own merit. Which then begs the question, why didn't Fizzlepop take over?
One more spell for the royal archives that are never to be used/teached outside the castle grounds!
Since its a spell designed to be permanent because i doubt a spell that needs more than 1 Alicorn to be undone is planed to be reversed.
9880707
Most genius individuals are exentric or a bit strange
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I was referring to the song, but yeah discord is sacred to death of page
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Funny how well so many solutions thought up by those predator monkey-apes tend to REALLY solve the problems at hand... ♪♫
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Exactly!
How is a non unicorn or natural magic user suppose to give her a restored horn? Personaly i think she should travel to Equestria in disguised to scout out her options plus get some Intelligence of them...
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It's all lies, he never did intend to give her anything.
Actually:
https://youtu.be/dhmGJrX3f48?t=792
and here's the first episode of the series
https://youtu.be/V6kJKxvbgZ0
Tempest and Starlight are they same. Do what ever leads to the target outcome. No price to high...
Huh... The comment section is once more playing a hard game with the chapter for best entertainment.
Great read either way
But can it petrify Goku though?🤓
(Joke)
How did he get that from "Fizzlepop"? And why hasn't anyone mentioned Fluffle Puff?