Chapter 62 - "A Horrible Chill Goes Down Your Spine."
-EQUUS, THE CORRUPTION BIOME, PONYVILLE-
Tempest and Spike, the drake currently sat upon the unicorn’s back wielding a bow customized just for him, are looking up towards the large floating orb with determination. The broken unicorn turns to princess Cadence and says:
“We’re going up there to deal with that orb, you need to activate that machine your highness.”
The Flim-Flam brothers and Shining Armor nods understandably.
“Indeed Tempest, both of you please be safe and may Harmony watch over both of you.”, Cadence replies.
With a simple nod in response from both Spike and Tempest, the dragon ponders on something and question’s:
“So, how do we get up there?.”, Tempest simply chuckles to herself as she then replies:
“Hang on tight, kiddo. I guess there’s one good thing that came from my broken horn...”, The purple unicorn attaches her blade to her armor and then lowers herself to the ground as if she were ready to pounce onto prey. “Unlike most unicorns... My physical attribute is almost right there with an earth pony’s.”
“Hey!, I’m not a kid- AWWWW!”
Spike screams out in surprise as Tempest leaps off of the ground and starts to scale up the corrupted building, Town Hall. The unicorn was gracefully climbing the structure with incredible finesse and accuracy. Not a single one of her movements was uncalculated and despite how horrified Spike had become, for fear of them both falling as Tempest was drawing near the top of Town Hall, the unicorn was practically crawling up the structure with little to no effort.
“Alright kid!, get ready to shoot that thing!. As for me...”, Tempest smirks as she then detaches her blade and wields it within her muzzle. “I’m gonna slice this thing clean in half.”, The duo are now mere moments before colliding with the large orb as Tempest finally reaches the very top of the structure.
Suddenly, the broken unicorn narrows her eyes but more in suspicion as she looks up towards the orb. As this is going on, nearby battles continues to play out in the skies and on the earth below. Tempest starts to ponder on something as she then glances back towards the young dragon and says:
“Do me a favor... I want you to shoot that orb. It’s way too exposed and why aren’t there more monsters trying to defend it?. In fact, the creatures seem more interested in fighting everypony else rather than protecting this thing.”
“Heh, you didn’t even need to ask me that. Here’s goes nothing!.”, Spike replies as he then hops off of Tempest’s back, draws his bow and aims an arrow towards the floating object positioned just above them.
[FWOOM]
The world practically slows down for the two allies as they watch on with hopeful expressions, although, Tempest in particular also has a sense of doubt as she mutters:
“Please don’t do what I think-”
[SKSHSHSHSH]
“Luna bucking damnit.”
“No way!, it has a barrier?!”, Spike exclaims in shock.
“I knew this wasn’t going to be that simple. I don’t even need to swing my blade at this thing to know what’s going to happen, we need more firepo-”
[POOF]
“Ohoho, more firepower you say?. Well, I can certainly provide that along with some... Chaos!”
“Discord!, I’m glad you’re here!”, Spike replies happily.
“Took you long enough... Where the buck have you been?. You’ve missed out on most of the fighting.” , Tempest question’s.
“You’re a very edgy mare... Are you by chance related to Lulu?. Also, I’ll have you know that I was speaking to an old associate of mine. Now then...”
[SNAP]
With a snap of his eagle’s talon, Discord summons five mysterious bipedal entities as they then take their positions and surrounds the giant orb. Incidentally, the draconequus is wearing camouflage military garments.
“What the buck are those?!”, Tempest and Spike exclaims.
Discord simply smirks and replies with a confident:
“Chaos Elementals.”, The lord of chaos then clears his throat as he then shouts: “Beings who works for a handsome draconequus!, materialize your weapons!”, Heeding to his orders, the Chaos Elementals conjures mysterious weapons. Well, mysterious to Spike and tempest, that is.
Tempest and Spike’s eyes were widened upon seeing this unfamiliar weaponry which causes them both to say:
“I don’t remember anypony crafting that from the ore.” - Spike.
“What is that?, I’m feeling incredible magic radiating from it.” - Tempest.
“Oh right, this wasn’t created from the Demonite Ore. This weapon is more... Personal, for me. My very own: Rod Of Discord!”
“Rrrready?!”, Discord question’s as he rolls his tongue before the draconequus then points his lion’s paw forward and shouts: “Fire!”
In an odd display, four pink beams shoots out of the rods wielded by the entities which then makes contact with the large orb's barrier.
[SKSHSHSHS]
[CRASH]
[BOOM]
The barrier barely lasted for more than a few seconds as it gives into the series of powerful blasts. Then, a large explosion occurs as the beams makes impact with their main target: The orb. The object fared no differently then its former barrier as the sound of a cracking jewel echoes throughout the infected Ponyville.
Spike and Tempest were about to celebrate, however, at the very moment that the orb was shattered they both couldn’t help but to feel... Concerned.
“T-Tempest... Did you just feel what I did?”, Spike question’s with a sense of uneasiness.
“Yeah, I hate it but it feels like... A horrible chill goes down your spine.”
Coincidentally, a certain machine activates itself mere moments after the orb is destroyed: The Flim-Flam Purification Tower.
Moments before Discord destroys the orb:
Tempest and Spike have already left some time ago in order to scale up the structure and reach the floating orb.
Shining armor’s barrier still remained strong as the unicorn stallion continues to keep it projected over themselves and, most importantly, their powerful weapon of purity. The Flim-Flam brothers stands at the ready to activate the machine all while Princess Cadence and Shining armor, along with their small battalion of crystal pony guards, starts to fuel The Crystal Heart with their love which was positioned at the very top portion of the weapon. The artifact starts to spin rapidly and glows with what could best be described as a holy light. In addition, positioned within and at the center of this contraption was the artifact that Celebes had bestowed upon them: Floret Of Purity, a magical pink flower that remarkably never wilts by yet unknown means. It was very strange to everyone how a flower could be called an artifact but considering what its creator was capable of doing, they didn’t doubt its power.
“Sixty two percent, your highnesses!”, The Flim Flam brothers shouts in unison.
“Almost there, keep at it everypo-”
Suddenly, Cadence’s words were cut off as the ground starts to shake violently and the worst case scenario literally erupts out of the ground in front of them. A large worm entity now stares down the barrier hungrily as it towers above them: A World Feeder. It rears back and prepares to lunge its opened maw towards the barrier.
“Damnit!, it’s one of those new worms!”, Shining Armor exclaims as he braces for what’s about to happen next and shouts: “Everypony brace yourselves!, it’s about to-”
[BOOM]
[BOOM]
[BOOM]
The World Feeder starts to ram itself against the barrier in an effort to crack it open, to reach the delicacies that resided within their protective shield. Shining Armor grits his teeth in pain and grunts as a result from the entity’s relentless assaults.
“Hang in there, Shiny!”, Cadence exclaims as she tries to tend to her struggling husband.
“D-don’t w-worry ab-about me... I can do t-this all... D-day.”
“Eighty nine percent!”, The Flim Flam brothers declares.
[BOOM]
[BOOM]
[BOOM]
“AURGH!, No!, I won’t let you beat me... Monster!”, Shining Armor shouts in anger and defiance. “No matter what... I will not allow you to pass this barrier, you shall not pass!”, As if in response, the large worm continues to thrash against the barrier. “You can not pass!”, The entity is still relentless in its assault.
At this point, everyone starts to sweat nervously along with gritted teeth. Flim and Flam looks at each other in concern before they then turn towards the machine and calls out in unison:
“Ninety four percent!”
Shining Armor lets out another grunt as a result of his struggle and says through gritted teeth:
“You... Won’t... Pass.”
“Shiny!, I’m going to-”
“No Cadence!, one of us needs to keep channeling the- NGH, l-love into the... Crystal Heart. If you stop- NGH, we’re finished!”
The world slows down for Shining Armor as he looks towards his allies within the barrier. He could see the Flim Flam brothers hugging each other as they watch the machine tentatively, they even call out:
“Ninety six percent!”
The stallion prince could then see his prideful royal guard, all of whom he himself had trained from what was practically the ground up, as they grit their teeth and try to channel as much of their love into the Crystal Heart with haste. But, most of all, he saw the love of his life and the mother of his child who watched him with concern and fear on the alicorn’s face.
One thing popped into the stallion Prince’s mind, something that pushed him forward with rejuvenated vigor that he somehow scrapped up from deep within: The inner vision of Flurry Heart. The thought of this infection reaching his daughter was enough to make him grit his teeth in rage as a blue aura surrounds his horn and spreads throughout his body upon which he shouts:
”YOUUUUU!... SHALL NOT!... PAAAAAAAAAAAAAASS!”
[VROOM]
[CRASH]
The entity lets out a painful roar as the barrier suddenly triples in size which manages to throw back the large worm and sends it flying into the nearby structures of Ponyville. Incidently, it was the Carousel Boutique.
“One hundred percent!, now firing!”, The Flim Flam brothers exclaims in unison as they hit a large red button which causes the weapon to let loose a powerful pulse of light mixed with what seemed to be pink peddles, likely originating from The Floret Of Purity.
Present time:
“Yeah, um, I’m not staying here to find out what would happen if that hits me soooo... Tata!”, Discord exclaims as he snaps his lion’s paw and disappears, The Chaos Elementals doing the same as a result.
In a beautiful display, the large pulse simply destroys and purifies The Corruption as it expands outwards from the the center of Ponyville and reaching out towards Sweet Apple Acres, the edge of The Everfree Forest, and Twilight’s Castle. All the monsters of the infection who failed to retreat simply dissipates from the wave of cleansing light and pink rose pedals.
Everyone present simply watches in disbelief as they witness this wave of purity returning what was once taken from them, doing away the invasive infection that had consumed this town of friendship and love. Finally, the purifying force dissipates and fades away as the light disappears and the rose pedals fades from existence. The machine worked beautifully and the army has won. Ponyville, in addition to Sweet Apple Acres and Twilight’s Castle, are now purified.
For the first time ever since The Corruption had claimed these lands, Celestia's sun was finally able to kiss Ponyville. Shocked silence was present as the army couldn’t believe it, simply put, they’ve won.
[POOF]
“Simply marvelous!, ah, this day has been quite chaotic and I just love-”
”YEEEEEEES!, WE DID IIIIIT!”
Discord’s words were cut off as everyone in the army celebrates in various ways. Changelings, dragons, griffons, pegasi, and hippogriffs all celebrated in the sky while those who were incapable of flight did so on the now purified grounds of Ponyville.
Various of the species representatives celebrates with one another such as Domihaus and Prince Rutherford bumping appendages and Gilda nodding contently to General Seaspray.
Thorax and Pharynx tended to their fellow changelings while Chrysalis simply observed from afar. No one could see it but a smile did momentarily form onto the former changeling Queen’s face. At least, she assumed no one saw this but little did she know, a certain pink alicorn took notice as they say internally:
-I both saw and felt that, Chrysalis. You can’t hide it from me... You still love them.-
Cadence forms a smile onto her muzzle upon witnessing this before she then returns to tending to her husband. Flim and Flam were nearby dancing with each other as they hop around The Flim-Flam Purification Tower merrily.
Prince Zaku and Zellan started to sing in rhyme along with their fellow zebra brethren who joined in as they all sang together in victory.
Dragon Lord Ember and Garble simply watches on proudly as their fellow dragons starts to brag about how many monsters they killed and burned.
Some of the ponies who used to live here such as Bulk Biceps, Derpy Hooves, Vinyl Scratch, and Octavia all celebrates merrily. Despite Ponyville’s current condition, they were still happy to have reclaimed their home.
Princess Luna smiles proudly and closes her eyes in content as she thinks internally:
-We’ve won, dear sister. The first of many more victories to come.-
Two ponies started to walk away from Ponyville and were on route to a certain apple orchard, which was now purified: Big Mac and Sugar Belle.
Still positioned at the top of Town Hall, Spike and Tempest had just finished their own celebration which consisted of Spike fist bumping Tempest’s right front hoof. Discord floated down towards his friend and the broken unicorn as he then says:
“Looks like I get to keep my promise to Fluttershy, I certainly-”
“You.”, Discord’s words were cut off as Tempest refers to him angrily. “If you were this strong all along then why didn’t you do that from the beginning?, Chaos Elementals?, that unknown weapon of yours?. Why didn’t you send a whole damn army of those things against The Corruption from the start?!”, The broken unicorn was now becoming infuriated with the Lord Of Chaos. Truth be told, the purple unicorn wasn’t mad at the fact that she and everyone else had to fight against The Corruption’s monsters, not at all. In fact, she loved being on the battlefield. What enraged the former commander of The Storm King’s army was the fact that he could’ve finished this from the start. A battle didn’t have to take place to begin with.
Spike tries to save his draconequus friend by interjecting:
“Hey... Ease up on him, Tempest. Discord did say that he was meeting with an old associate so maybe-”
“That doesn’t change a bucking thing, Spike. Who knows how many lives were lost in this battle that we don’t know about yet. Don’t get me wrong, you are the reason we even managed to destroy that orb and you get full marks for that. But, I ask you again, Discord: Why didn’t you use that power from the start?”
Discord simply stared at the purple unicorn but not in anger or him being condescending. The draconequus simply stares at her blankly before he then sighs deeply and finally replies:
“I wanted to act sooner but I do have my reasons. On my lion’s paw, I wasn’t sure if The Corruption would get worse because of me... there are terrible sins that I have committed back when I was still in Terraria. On my eagle’s talon, I promised dear Fluttershy that I would help you all against it. Yes, I could’ve done that from the start and maybe that would’ve saved lives... But I wanted all of you to know that you’re strong enough to fight this. Even without the aide of someone powerful like me. Also, I owe my associate a favor.”
“Wait, so you wanted us to defeat The Corruption on our own just so we can feel accomplished about it?”
“Yes Spike, despite my usual attitude I do want to look out for you all. What would you prefer?, always relying on my strength to save the day or relying on your own?. You can make the argument that my intervention would save every living being here but to that I ask you: What if I’m gone?. Here’s a scenario: let’s say everypony depended on me to destroy The Corruption but then I fall in battle. What will you do next?”
Spike simply goes silent as he couldn’t help but to appreciate his friend’s intentions. It’s risky to be sure, but, the end result has its rewards. Tempest stares onto the draconequus with a neutral expression as she plays out Discord’s words within her head. Finally, she sighs and replies:
“I suppose that’s fair. Besides, you did step in when we needed it most.”
“Good to know that you two can see things my way. Would anyone like some chocolate milk?”, Discord inquires as he then snaps his eagle’s talon and conjures three glasses of the aforementioned dairy product. Incidentally, glasses of chocolate milk also formed in front of everyone else down below on ground level. Spike was about to drink his beverage, all while Tempest just places it onto the floor, until the dragon gets a sudden thought and asks:
“You mentioned that you were with an associate and you did them a favor?, who are they?”
“She and I go way back. In fact, she comes from Terraria just like me but she was here for much longer than I was.”
“What?!”, Tempest and Spike exclaims in unison. “Who?!”
Discord strokes his beard in thought before he smiles mischievously and replies with a single raised eagle claw:
“Ah, ah, ah, can’t reveal that to you just yet. You’re a good friend Spike and I suppose you’re ok in my book, Tempest. But, she would be very mad at me... Trust me when I say that she’s someone who can put up one heck of a fight despite her kind nature. Now, I should probably let you two go back down there in order to celebrate your victory with everypony else. Allow me!”, With a snap of his eagle’s talon, Discord sends Spike and Tempest down to ground level as they disappear in front of him and reappears right next to Princess Cadence.
The draconequus then looks on towards The Everfree Forest as he notices a spectral being who was invisible to everyone, except of course, Discord.
“I believe this makes us even now... Harmony: Empress Of Light.”
Suddenly, a gust of wind blows against Discord as it carries the words in an angelic tone:
”Thank you for helping them on my behalf, Disidian.”
-EQUUS, TWILIGHT’S CASTLE-
“Hello?!, Twilight?!, is anypony here?!... You haven’t been responding to my letters so I started to worry!, It’s Sunset Shimmer!. Also, don’t take this the wrong way but... this place is a dump!”
Crazy chapter am I right? 
Big things are going to happen, along with many shocking revelations, and I can't wait for you all to see it!. 
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I do play this game but I have no one on pc or xbox1 to play it with to add me on both pc and xbox1 online id is
sinewystatue382
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Perhaps we could all set something up in the future.
Featured again!, thank you all soo much!
Sunset shimmer yay.
*Squees like a little girl* I loved the whole thing!! I'm being Pinkie Pie-ish but God this, does put a smile on my face!!
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TYVM!
👋👋well played dude, well played
Have some cookies
Well, sunset is about to learn a lot soon enough, also dear god the empress of Light, well what do you know see’s good in this story.
Opposites attract I guess.
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Omnomnom!
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Tis true indeed.
Let's find out what history they have.
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I'd be up for that. I actually play modded Terraria in my free time. WASDemons is my Steam name.
10618454 I play Terraria as well, but I haven't finished the game yet so no mods for a while. My Steam handle is Renkhar.
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I too play Terraria both vanilla and modded, steam Username is Reshiram42
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Nice! On a side note, I haven't explored the corruption or its underground counterpart yet. I love the Snow Biome... but I made a home base in the Desert with materials from the Snow Biome. Realistically, they'd last three months thanks to the sheer heat.
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I beat the game and I'm working on getting the six achievements that I don't have.
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If we do end up playing Terraria with each other, master mode Vanilla or Revengece Calamity?
That’s the bigger question but I think if we do end up doing it the choice of which we do is up to to you Pomo, as you have gathered us to a possible series ( if someone one a YouTuber and recorded our efforts in Calamity).
Then again dibs on Rouge class if we doing Calamity.
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Ah come on! I love rogue! Oh well. If we do calamity I say we have thorium as well so I can be a bard.
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I don’t know if my laptop will handle both Calamity and thorium.
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Dang. That sucks. I have a desktop computer.
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Worth to check.
Will say if it works NEXT CHAPTER where Sunset is bound to be in trouble
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Also guess it’s time to go back to spending tons of time looking at the Thorium wiki
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I actually have a modpack that I would love to play with others, but I don't think it would work on your laptop.
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I'm also down, I'll post my steam ID in a sec.
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Even just playing Vanilla would be fine for me too.
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Same.
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Same, as long as we don’t steal from eachother
The first major victory for the Coalition (even though it will bite them in the ass later) requires a proper music!
As soon as Discord said that his associate is a she, I was like “It’s gonna be the Empress”.
Sunset is about to walk face first into the Orb, isn’t she?
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, although going by your past predictions you may or may not be right. 
First, I love that theme!
Second, we shall see.
10618727 I can do Master Vanilla. I don't have mods.
I have a Musketeer playstyle, but if worst comes to worst, I can bust out my bow, yoyo, and grenades in a pinch. My favorite building material is bamboo because it makes me think of Spongebob.
aaaand that's Gandalf's standoff against the Balrog. IE:
GO BACK TO THE SHADOWS! FLAMES OF UDUN!
Hmmm… 🤔
PS: how many twist do you want to pull in one chapter? This was insane! XD