Twilight Gets a Puppy
Season 4
By TDR
Twilight's Kraken,
Part One,
Part 1
[Crystal Empire, early summer, 1 week after the Equestrian Games]
“Pleeeeeeeeeeeeaseeeeee!?!” Princess Celestia begged.
“No.” Twilight said flatly, her wings folded against her sides. “I did that crap in an emergency, and hated it. I am not becoming a princess just so you can have a vacation. Why don't you have Luna take over for a while, while you run off to a beach?”
“The last time I left Luna in charge while I took a quick beach trip, she set fire to the school board.” Celestia turned and glared at Luna who shrugged.
“S'truth. They refused our request to put out new school books informing students that there were two Princesses now, and an Empress.” Luna offered as she gestured at Cadence. “We then proceeded to destroy their building and then deny them their funding when they came to request money to rebuild Apparently their insurance caught wind of their refusal to accept me and thus, since I didn't exist in the history books, they would not cover damage caused by a non existent entity.”
“That sounds like something I would do.” Twilight pointed out.
“To be fair, Luna didn't ask them, she just blew up the building after only one exchange of letters.” Cadence added. “But they did change the books.”
“Of course they changed the books rather than not have their creature comforts and that stupid meeting room.... I need to deal with them at some point. But uprooting ponies like that is like pulling teeth on a highly caffeinated, and annoyed, cragodile.” Celestia sighed.” Besides I would expect you to come up with a less violent way at first Twilight. You usually don't start at explosions, you just slowly work up to it.”
“Not my problem. I have no interest in this delegation of yours, nor sitting on a balcony and waving to dignitaries or what ever else you would want me to do here.” Twilight huffed.
“Well, that wouldn't be all you would do.” Celestia rolled her eyes.
“Whatever. There's a library here I have yet to read all the books from and if this invite up here was just because of some stupid meeting with a duke and duchess, then I have plenty of free time to raid said library.” Twilight grinned then paused. “Wait. Where's Chrysalis? Shouldn't she be here meeting dignitaries to the Empire?”
Celestia smirked.
[ In the Crystal Empire Hive throne room.]
Chrysalis stared at the metal pillar before her, the device was wrapped in a wire fence and glowed a soft blue.
She frowned as she stared at the device and shook her head.
“I don't know what's worse, that Celestia expects me to fall for a bug zapper, or that I am.” Chrysalis growled as she poked the device with a hoof.
BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZTTT!!!!!
“Well, whatever. I've got enough tasks with out adding politics on top of it. I need to finish the Familiar spell. ...” Twilight ranted.
“Please.” Cadence added.
“.. then figure out the Breezy Gate and how to fix it....”
“Really. That would save quite a bit on resources every year.” Luna considered.” Not to mention our own stress from waiting for Teacup to lose it one year.”
“... and there's still that stupid box harmony left, and. AND! The damn names left on the prophecy.”
“I am working on those myself Twilight. Particularly as we are not sure if the Sirens counted towards it. Or if the Magic part really meant you.”Celestia sighed.
“ Well. Thank you for that Celestia. “ Twilight sighed. “At least I don't have to focus on everything. I just hope whatever Rahs is doing doesn't come up as a problem.”
“And what might your brother be doing?” Luna asked.
“He says there's some Moon Dogs reporting that a number of the ones they are connected to aren't dreaming and thereby not producing and food that they can eat.” Twilight explained. “Being their god he's gone to look into it.”
“Ahh. That has happened before on small scales. Either a tantabus or tapir is in the area, or there's a constant late night band practice.” Luna nodded. “Perhaps we should inform him not to worry. He seems to be able to deal with Tantabus' rather well. And tapirs just eat all the dreams and can easily be driven out of a town or village with loud noises. The band practice.. well... that depends on those stuck listening to it.”
“Ehh, better let him figure it out for himself. His harem is almost tolerable when he's not around. At any rate I have a lead on the box and I'm gonna go for that first. I'm hoping to find something here in the...” Twilight trailed off giggling.
“I told you it was a good Hearth's Warming present.” Cadence grinned at Luna who rolled her eyes.
“... the Twilight Sparkle Central Library of the Crystal Empire.” Twilight continued to giggle and prance around in a circle before she recalled there were others there and quickly stopped.. “ Ahem sorry, but yeah I'm hoping they have something about the box.”
“Well …. I suppose if I can't convince you to be more diplomatic....” Celestia sighed.
“No.” Twilight stated flatly.
“ … I suppose I should wish you luck on finding what you are looking for. I will keep you updated if anything is figured out about the prophecy.” Celestia sighed.
“Alright, thank you Celestia. Enjoy your...... well, what ever it is.” Twilight offered with a wave of her wing before she vanished in a pop of teleportation from the room.
“We told you it wouldn't work.” Luna offered as Celestia rolled her eyes.
“If you want some pony to watch over Canterlot so you can relax somewhere, perhaps you should start teaching Sunset.” Cadence pointed out.
“I have tried, but she's far too interested in Rahs right now and helping Twilight with the Familiar spell to do anything. Plus Granny said her help will be needed for the Zap Apple harvest this year, and I flat out refuse to miss getting a picture of Sunset dressed up like a cute little bunny hopping over water pails.”Celestia explained.
“Fair enough.” Cadence nodded.
[ Northern plains.]
Tirek chuckled as he watched the herd of buffalo collapse and tumble across the dirt as their charge's momentum kept them moving forward as he drained their magic. The process was a little more of a power sink than he would usually bother with. It wasn't as if the stupid creatures had the sign of their magic printed on their ass ripe for the picking like ponies.
Still he wasn't there for the buffalo themselves.
“TIREK!!”
There he was, as if the sudden snow fall in summer wasn't giveaway enough.
“Hello Iinii.” Tirek smiled, as he turned to face the massive towering buffalo god, the centaur having to look up to do so. No matter how big Tirek got when he gained power, some how this damn bulky cow god managed to remain larger than he was.
“I do not know how you managed to get out of Tartarus this time, but I will be sure to fix that problem once you are sealed away.” Iinii snarled, the snow swirling around him building into a blizzard.
“Really, five members of the council and you are the only one to come. Disappointing.” Tirek sighed.” I suppose I will need to hunt down the others for their wrongful imprisonment of me later.”
“Wrongful imprisonment!?”Iinii snarled as the blizzard increased, the snow turning to hail as it pepper Tirek making the centaur flinch as it slammed into him. “You killed thousands on your last rampage!”
Tirek could tell the talking and the 'attack' were simply a distraction. The movement half hidden in the snow showed a number of non drained buffalo darting around and dragging off those he had sucked dry of magic. Tirek simply let them go, after all in a few months they might regain some strength so he could drain them again, he had no plans to go a full scorched earth.
Unless he could do that with Teacup, that breezy needed to die, permanently this time.
“All I did was drain their magic, that they died from that is hardly my fault. After all they fulfilled their true purpose, which was empowering me after all.” Tirek grinned. “Just as everything with magic will this time as well.”
Iinii didn't respond, but surged forward, with a thick armor of ice and snow coating his form.
Tirek shifted as the buffalo god charged. Predictable, though despite that Iinii was not one to be taken lightly, he was surprisingly agile for his size and if he managed to connect with a hit the blow would likely tear what ever was hit off of the centaur, even if it was his center torso.
That had happened before and it was not pleasant.
“I expect you are aware of all my tricks then.” Tirek offered darting to the side only for the buffalo to change course on a bit and continue to rush him with no loss of momentum. Clearly Iinii did have some new tricks himself. Though the word of several wars in the last few thousand years would of course mean Iinii had to keep in practice for combat. “Though, you should ask, who the last god who's power I drained was.”
The buffalo god didn't slow, the quick movements of the centaur just barely keeping him ahead of the charging buffalo god. Iinii however had not yet worked up to full speed and every second that passed Tirek lost ground. The massive god of snows also didn't respond, though the expression changed from anger to a hint of worry.
“ oh I suppose I'll tell you. No one important really. Just Grace.” Tirek grinned.
Iinii's eyes shot wide open in his armor as Tirek swung his fist, smashing into and through the ice on the side of his Iinii's jaw, a black energy covering his fist as he did so.
The massive buffalo stopped suddenly, crashing to the ground with a thunderous boom as the centaurs fist connected to his flesh. The blow was barely felt in truth, protected by the armor of ice, but with the stolen power of Grace, the goddess of death, all Tirek needed was a touch to kill.
Not that he escaped unscathed, as the ice reformed as he broke through it, trapping his arm and ripping it bloodily from the socket as the massive buffalo fell to the earth.
Tirek snarled. That ability cost him way too much of his magic. Even having devoured two gods, one utterly, the only reason he even managed to drain Grace was she hadn't seen him and was distracted by the death of a god and the draining of Forgescale. He had hid rather than flee and when she came to investigate he had drained her. He could hold onto the stolen power of the god he had most recently drained, but the use of said power was often far more wasteful than what he gained. Hence why he had hoped the whole council would have come to him so he could have gotten them all at once.
Of course even he wasn't willing to risk facing Troph in his own domain after he took down the God of Tartarus and Rages wife. Hence why he fled Tartarus very quickly after that.
Ripping though the ice as his arm regrew, Tirek exposed enough of the buffalo to begin draining him as Iinii came back to life. Even the power of death itself wouldn't stop a god for long.
Draining Iinii would remove his ability to use the death touch, but it would be worth it as his next target was Kaz, and what better power to deal with fire, than ice.
With the buffalo god down and weakened without his magic Tirek smirked. The rush of power from one of the council was better than a legion of mortals. Not like he would stop draining mortals of their magic after all, he needed their power to be strong enough to drain gods. So long as he maintained his power level, he could simply farm the gods for more energy as they recovered keeping himself rich with power. But if he ever wanted to drain the prime three he was going to need more power than this.
His attention turned to the north feeling a large collection of power emanating from there.
A rather strong energy from such an isolated place. He didn't recall any gods residing in any of the places this far north save Iinii.
He glanced down to Iinii as the buffalo god groaned. A grin crossed his features as he reared back a leg, letting loose a kick that sent the massive creature soaring over the landscape to smash into the side of a distant mountain. The impact shook the landscape starting a multitude of avalanches and rock slides, burying the buffalo god in thousands of tons of debris as the mountain side partially collapsed on top of him.
Tirek let out a sharp laugh, eager to crush the bugs of the council and to see if one could drown a sea pony.
But first, it was time to see what was going on in the Crystal Empire.
I already hate him. If you ever ask me what I think is the biggest problem that can be had, I’ll say greed. The scum bag that is this entity filled me with rage.
After SiS Tirek, I'd say you would be hard pressed to make make us hate this one even more.
The Goddess of Friendship really know how to shut down the friendly talk.
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Celestia isn't trying for friendship she's trying for , use the pony for her own devices.
Likewise I already hate Tirek as well
Thank the Creators for that
Probably water, though air might be a better choice
Doing a better job than cannon did. They turned him into villain of the week material. At least the last season and the comics tried to fix that.
I already hate him here but surfice to say im hoping he gets hit in the crown jewels by aj and big mac
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Air would feed fire. And not all fires CAN be fought with water. Ice would be like a CO2 extinguisher, reying on cold to extinguish flames, and of the modern "elements" the total opposite of fire. It's simultaneously the best and worst to face Fire with. If you ONLY have the one, it's up to who is more powerful. If it's a supplemental power, then yes, ice is best.
Just don't sing about it, or a great HBO with a horrible final season would be made about it.
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Actually if you truly control the Element of Air, you can deny it from fire. In theory you could also change the composition of the Air (that CO2 you were talking about). Air, once compressed sufficiently, can chill things well below water's freezing point. So an Elemental control of Air, can shut down Fire even better than Ice.
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And here you're getting into overlap and creative use.
Technically, fire does NOT need air - it needs oxygen. And there are chemicals that can burn in the absolute absence of all air. They cannot be smothered, only cooled down or allowed to burn out. If you allow the compression of air to bleed over into ice's control of cold, then you could easily allow those kinds of fires, as well. In addition, you could also allow fire to replicate a Fuel Air Explosive, where a diffuse mist is ignited, creating a shockwave so strong it generates a vacuum for a while, then a return shockwave of the air rushing back in - that moment of vacuum would likely stun an Air user.
Cold is the simplest and most direct opposite of Fire in more modern fictional "elements". It already is what air has to use tricks to be.
There was a very strange situation during the Big Bang, that of Abolute Negative Zero temperature. All the particles had so much energy, it couldnt move and cause time to exist, sort of like the core of a fully pumped laser in the instant before it fires.
At least last time they didnt pump Tirek to where he was just floating around as the planet was hidden inside a hair root or such?
Also depends if Tirek can absorb normal energy in place of magical energy, or has to burn magic to handle overkill thermaal, electrical, kinectic energy etc?
Need a magical null area, wizards wheel death zone?
After the first time where you killed a third of you main cast for the story, I got worried the whole time reading this chapter.
Oh I definitely hate him already. Btw, thanks for putting in some limits to what he can do with his absorbtion. Still very nasty, but not an uncontrolled power spiral.
Okay, when this is all over, find a tree you can nail him to. It worked with one god after all. Hells, don't whichever race it was (Elk or something?) still guard the tree?
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That is not at all how physics works.
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It aparently has since 1946?
Negative Temperature.
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I was referring to your statement that negative temperatures existed in the early universe. Negative temperatures can only arise in a finite phase space, where there is a hard upper limit to the energy a given particle can possess, which to my knowledge does not describe the early universe. Unless you have a source that says otherwise?
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Ah, I apologise for my confusion. I didnt realise you were pulling me up on a different point.
The very early universe is a point of contention because of the paradox that the maths leads towards a singularity, but break down at the singularity. To me,this implies that the paradox should be avoided by avoiding a singularity. Given theres no accepted method currently, I dont see why arguing about a paradoxical point should occur, when avoiding such paradoxes is a method well used in other situations such as quantum mechanics. The simplest method being, how far can our current understanding take us,at that point we draw a line,and the projected paradox beyond, we mark in as Here Be Dragons.
Because as Stephen Hawking effectively stated with regards to singularities, Everything Exists, Including The Pudding That Ate Chicago, and therefore likely Dragons.
Ive seen the idea of population inversion for decades, because of the mere idea of reionisation. The electrons couldnt generate light because they were all fully ionised.
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This is a new one for my story. A physics discussion. I went with the fairy tail thing of Gray kicking that one fire guys ass.
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Technically, free electrons can emit light through cyclotron or synchrotron radiation. Any accelerated charge emits light. As for the early universe in the Planck era, I’m holding out hope for a proper theory of quantum gravity, preferably with no strings attached. Nine times out of ten, a singularity means your theory needs something else, and we all know how poorly GR and QFT get along.
Hate him. Bah. Only if rarity dies again then you shall have my wraith. Rawr. XD
I would imagine something like Twilight inventing a spell that would invert Tirek's powers would happen forcing him to release all his stolen energy
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FELs (Free Electron LASER) are seriously scary in the science fiction sense because they can produce extremely brilliant short pulses, but they do scale up to planetary sizes. You can relatively easily go above the Schwinger Limit with FELs, that is truly devastating power. (vacuum boiling)
Question: Does magic has a Schwinger Limit? If it has, Tirek will have an unpleasant time hitting it. Or maybe he already does, and that is why he has problems using more than one gods magic at the same time.
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Nice setup for next chapter. why do I get the feeling that you will have twilight deliberately let tirek to absorb most of the gods magic and most of the ponies as the explosive release of the stolen magic will likely be enough to fix the breezie’s portals
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hmmn, in theory...could work...but it might have some messy after effects...
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Joeys deck is based largely around chance cards, so i dont see it being likely for Sonata...perhaps Mermails with Syncho support?
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Ah, okay. Apologies. Must've misremembered.
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Dun worry about it. I write the stories and forget stuff.
HAHAHAHAHA
So... this Tirak can actively use the magic of those drained, not just use it as raw power.... but at least he can only manifest one gods power at a time. And very interested to see how he handles Rahs, a god who eats magic.
Chryssi.... never stop being adorable.
Twilight happygasming over the library was so adorable, and it really is a good present for Book Horse.
And if that was a reference to the EEA, they weren't a school board. They were a school accreditation board, slight difference that explains a lot more of why things went as they did.
Either way, Luna was likely easier on them then twilight would be.
Oh i already h8 tirek
Make it painful plz
Wow this Tirek is a narcissistic ass. Think I'll call him Glen Chambers.
Seriously the Crystal Pony Capitol is almost like Ponyville just with more breaks in between events and lethal...
Tirek's either about to get his shit wrecked, or Twilight's about to become murderous with rage. Odds are in favor of Twilight getting very, VERY, angry.
The only good thing Tirek ever did was killing that Bitch ...
This is probably among the stupidest versions of Tirek around so...
I have hatted Tirek since he blew up Golden Oaks. Seeing him as a goof in season 9 didn't change anything. I take your challenge to make me hate him more.
the fact she did it any makes me laugh
God level magic thief... That is pretty mutch full on Sparkle levels of dangerous...
Yeah I just reread this and got the feeling she will most likely dress as a playboy bunny for Rahs
Tirek is already more epic than in canon, I wonder who come up with the Tirek defeat in the show? Twilight seem so retarded giving up her magic for something that would be mute if Tirek got in the first place.
Discord is clever to stay out of the way, I wonder if Tirek is nr1 or number 2 most feared criminal god.
But who would be locked away in Tarterus even worse than the genocidal Dragon or Tirek the Centaur.
Grogar apperently isn't around anymore after all.