Equestria Girls: Symbol Of Undying Love

by vortex123

Shot through the heart, and you're to blame~ You give L.O.V.E, a bad name~

'Why do I get the feeling I'm leading us into a lion's den?' I think in concern. Following my lead, we arrived at an open door. In the room the door leads to, we see two people on the floor, one of them is surrounded by some weird circle.

"What's that weird circle for?" I asked in confusion. Sunset looks like she wants to say something, but decided not to.

It's a magic circle, or seal, whichever you prefer.

"Oh." I say, feeling a little put off by Sunset's lack of snark. Sunset gives me a confused look. "Don't worry about it." I dismissed. Shaking her head, she continued to look the two over. The one in the magic circle, has six chains protruding from her back.

'Those chains feel familiar somehow.' I think in confusion.

"Hey ☝︎♋︎⬧︎⧫︎♏︎❒︎, any ideas on what happened here?" I asked.

Well, given how there's bullet holes on th-.

"It looks like these two had a fight. Considering how this looks like a hospital room, a patient (probably the one with chains) must've gotten aggressive, and a security guard must have been called in to stop the patient. And by the looks of it, while the patient seems to have been taken care of, she (or he, hard to tell) must've gotten some good hits on the guard." Sunset answered my question, unknowingly cutting Gaster off. And for the first time since I've met him, Gaster gained an annoyed look, though he doesn't say anything. Probably because Sunset can't hear him, and therefore wouldn't know he was talking.

Yes well, be careful. The security guard has enough Exp to equal Frisk when they did a genocide route, all the way until they left the Ruins.

"If they're only a security guard, then why does he or she have so much Exp?" I asked, picking up a weird looking gun, then started to fiddle with it. After a bit, I heard a weird click.

"Look, I'm not sure what this whole 'exp' thing is about, but I don't see how it's important now. The one in the hospital gown had chains around the security guard, and the security guard is knocked out. See if you can heal him or her, then we could ask them questions." Sunset says with an eye roll.

“Fine, fine.” I say with a shrug, before walking towards the security guard. Now that I've gotten closer, it's plainly obvious that I wasn't looking at a security guard. Looking them over, I couldn't help but notice the chains.

"What's up with these chains?" I asked in confusion.

Void Chains

I look over to Gaster in confusion.

Void Chains are different from your average magical chains. Tell me, how do you think I turned you into a monster?

"You and I both know I'm never gonna get the correct answer." I say with a deadpan.

Try

"Alright." I say with a sigh. After a few moments, I come up with an answer. "Well…in one fan comic I've read, you cut out circles from your hand, and used them to create Sans and Papyrus."

Ah yes, I'm familiar with that universe. And just to clarify, that is NOT how they came to be, at least with this version of me.

…I've never met anyone who can sound so distant and neutral about something, yet give the impression that they're extremely passionate and enraged about something, at the exact same time. Seriously, he both sounded like he was discussing the weather, and that he'd shatter my SOUL if I ever directly compared this version of him, to that version of him.

Well in any case, that was incorrect, care to try again?

"No." I stated firmly, my undertone screaming "I'm not gonna do something as stupid as risk saying something to make this worse". He must of caught onto my undertone, because he flinched and gave a slightly guilty look.

Sorry, it’s just, those versions of myself are a touchy subject for me.

“It’s fine dude, really.” I assure him with a smile.

Well, when creating your bo-

He’s interrupted by a flash of light from behind us. After the light dies down, we turn to the source, only to see Sunset.

“What happened?” I asked, though I noticed the security guard begin to stir.

“Just had a chat with the daughter of the guy who runs this place. Apparently this woman (apparently) is a member of a zealot group that wants to purge existence of all magic. We should probably go before she wakes up.” Sunset says, before going wide eyed. I give a confused look before I feel the gun snatched out of my hand.

“Spawn of the false god!” The woman yelled in rage, pointing the gun at Sunset.

“Woah! Calm down!” I say in alarm, only for her to point the gun at me.

“Don’t tell me to ‘calm down’, buck!” She seethed. For some reason, Sunset’s jaw dropped.

“Don’t call me that.” I say with a huff.

“Why not? Are those not goat horns?” She says with a raised eye brow.

“They are.” I nod.

“Well there you have it.” She says with a nod.

“Ok!” Sunset starts with a scowl, earning our attention. “I don’t know who you think you are, and frankly, I don’t care.” She continued, walking towards the women, who trained her gun on Sunset.

“What are you doing? She has a gun!” I yell in shock. ‘For someone who’s bragged about how smart she is, she’s being really dumb.’

“I don’t care what that weird paper weight is called, I’m still gonna knock her silly.” Sunset stated, pulling a familiar pipe out of seemingly nowhere. ‘Do guns not exist in her world?’ I think in surprise.

“Oh yeah?” The woman says, the gun making a powering up sound. “I’d like to see you try, demon.” She says with venom, pulling the trigger.

I’m not sure what happened after that. One moment, I was out of the line of fire, the next I was in front of Sunset. I then feel a spike of pain in my chest.

3rd POV

4v3s woke up with a groan, then looked at the others present. She sees the women who shot her, and three other people, her night vision helping her make them out. Looking down, she sees a magic circle around her, not that she knew what it was.

Meanwhile, Manny was doubled over in pain, as the effects of the blast spread. Though instead of it eating his magic, like it did with 4v3s, it made his magic rise to dangerous levels. It was at this moment that the Equestrian agents had caught up to them.

“The hay…?” Cold asked in confusion.

"☝︎♋︎⬧︎⧫︎♏︎❒︎, what's going on!?" Manny says in panic, still holding his chest.

'Gaster?' 4v3s thought in confusion.

"Hey, kid with the horns, could you repeat the first part?" Cold requested. 4v3s gave a look of confusion.

"He said ☝︎♋︎⬧︎⧫︎♏︎❒︎." She stated, causing the skeleton to look at her in surprise.

She can understand my name, interesting.

"Why would me knowing your name be interesting? Your friend just said it." 4v3s points out, looking directly at Gaster, causing the Monster's interest to rise.

"Who are you talking to?" Sunset asked in confusion, allowing Manny to lean on her for support, as he started to vibrate.

"Him." 4v3s says, pointing to Gaster, causing everyone else (save for Manny and Gaster) to look at her in confusion. To them, she was just pointing to a wall.

As fascinating as this is, we really should deal with what's going on with Manny.

Meanwhile with Manny, throughout that conversation, the effects were getting worse. Normal magical creatures have something called an internal magic network (or system, depending on who you ask). This network regulates the flow of magic, and can withstand a good amount of magic pressure before they burst (the amount of durability depends on the creature, and how proficient in magic they are). They also have pressure points throughout the network, some increase the healing rate of the creature, some disable the flow of magic, etc. Monsters don't have these networks, their actual bodies are magic, so there's no real limit to how much their magic can increase. This would be the most ideal situation for a Monster, assuming they have the foresight to practice with this level of magic, here's the thing. Monsters are sensitive to the emotions of others, hence why Monsters start to hide after you leave the ruins during the Genocide route, but having killed anyone outside the ruins yet (this is before you have spared anyone). This is a magical ability all Monsters have, but not all utilize. The blast was making all of Manny's magical abilities skyrocket, including his natural (and unused) empathy ability.

Cold's agitation, and his various negative feelings.

Gaster's desperation and anger.

Sunset's thirst for power, and annoyance at her own powerlessness, along with her anger at Celestia.

4v3s's feelings of powerlessness and fear, knowing she'll end up as just a tool for some unknown nut job, along with the fact that she might not always have control over her body.

The mysterious woman who thinks everyone except her is connected to her religious enemies, and her pure hatred of them, because she thinks that.

All of those factors weren't exactly helping the situation.

“M̵̼̖̆̅͒ḁ̵̱̏̊̽k̴͎̩͉͛́̀ë̸͔̣̲́ ̴̪͛͜ḯ̸̼̦̯̏t̴͉̀̒͊ ̴͈͆́s̴͂̍͜t̴̙͂͊ò̶ͅp̵̼͔̄͛.̷̥̱̽” Manny says.

“Huh?” Sunset asked in confusion.

Oh no.

“I said…” Manny says, eyes glowing green, and the white in his eyes turning black. “M̶̨̨̛̛͎̤͍͍̖̺͇͇̬̟̹̖̺͍͓̋͊̏́̉̏͒̇͜Ȧ̶̭̟̠̍̍͌̌͐̇͝K̵̡̨̢̻̦̫̻̮͈͉̠̯̗̹̰̙͊̈́̓͛̿́̇̈́̾͌̄͒̀̃̔̚̕Ȩ̶̪̗͕̓͒̅̓̌̔͛͗̄̈̀͑̈́͠ ̶̛͈͇̞̂̈́̄̅͋̔̑̎̓̌̐̍̇̕͘I̷̦̪͍͈͈͚͖̳͉̺̬̫͚̋͗̐̓͂̈̓̍̋͆̈́̽͘͜T̷̢̨̹̞̬̼̪̩͇͙̣̝͔͇̥͉̖̗̰̆͑͊̋̈́̓͆͂̔̐̌̊̽͂́́͘ ̷̨̡̡̧͈̣̰̟̺̜̫̥̍̋̀͘Š̸̭̥̐̉̚͝Ț̵̢̢̠̩̹̱̥͍̥̯͊̓̓̎͊̂̃̈́̏̋͘ͅỌ̴̡͎̜̠̱͇̱͒̍̿͐̒̕P̷̛̫͙̮̺̦̤̭̌͋!̵̡͕͔͉͕̻͖̙̝͎̞̫̽̓̍̓̓̈́̕͜”

As he yells this, an invisible force of magic pushes everyone back, even Gaster. Sunset goes pale as Manny starts to change. His skin turns ghostly white, his horns and body grow to match that of a teenager, and six chains spring from his back. She gets a sinking feeling as the same weird black void appears, all of her colors turn white, and a familiar red heart appeared in front of her.

Author's Note:

To clarify: in the human world, young male goats are called bucks, bucklings or Kids (the last one is gender neutral). In Sunset’s home world, all young goats are called Kids, regardless of gender.

Comments

[LEGION55]

Interesting cliffhanger for this one.

[vortex123]

10147973
It's a little early for 4v3s to be considered an ally, especially since she doesn't know if she can trust them, and the fact that she woke up while Manny was having an episode doesn't help. Yes Sunset could easily explain what happened, but without proof to back her up, she has no reason to believe Sunset.

[vortex123]

10148154
That does make sense, though the circle does remain a problem for that. Also don't forget, she was given a warning about being careful who to trust, since the one in charge has eyes and ears everywhere, even in the police. While Manny having those chains is something that she'll definitely consider, it'll be after things calm down.

[vortex123]

10148857
That sounds like the Hate SOUL trait Glitchtale.

[vortex123]

10153359
The first one