Fuel the Eternal Flame | A DOOM MLP Crossover

by NotAnEditor

Otherworldly Machinations

Rainbow Dash stressfully ran a sky blue hoof through her hair, watching the remains of her house in the sky. It was surrounded by several pegasus construction workers working hard on her home, building and working up on the artificial cloud foundation.

The mare had just managed to scrape together enough work hours to get enough bits for the construction of her house. Well, foreseeable construction. If she stuck to the schedule her and Twilight had formed together, then by the time construction was finished everything would be paid for.

“When is my delivery shift?” the daredevil asked her lavender colored friend who was just behind her.

Twilight held a calendar, notepad, notebook and the correct writing utensils for them all in her magical aura, a saddlebag sitting on her back. Since the cube had been found, she had hardly been seen without it.

“I think…” she looked between her calendar, notepad and book. “Eight. Four hours until then.”

“Thanks, Twilight.” Rainbow said. “For all this management stuff, I wouldn’t know what I’d do without ya.”

“No problem!” she replied. “It's what friends are for.” Twilight pondered for a moment, slipping her tools away into her saddlebag. “What exactly tore your house down?”

Rainbow Dash shrugged. “Some crazy meteor, me and Tank were lucky to survive it!”

“Ah. Alright.” she nodded.

The multi-color maned pony set a hoof to her chin. “Well… I’m not sure it was a meteor. Looked a little too weird, more metal-y than rocky.” she explained.

Twilight gave a confused look. “Could you show me?”

Rainbow nodded, pointing a hoof to a large upheaval in the earth a couple hundred meters away. “Over there.”

Twilight leaned towards it, squinting to get a better look.

“Come on.” Rainbow Dash led, flying her way over to the upheaval.

Twilight sighed, glancing back at her saddlebag, noting her inability to fly with it on. “Wait for me, Rainbow!” she began literally hoofing after the pegasus.

Rainbow smiled cockily as Twilight tried to catch up, hardly even reaching a speed that she considered fast. It was practically like jogging for the pegasus. “Why do you need that bag so bad?” she queried.

The lavender alicorn shook her head. “It has all your scheduling stuff.”

“And that weird murder cube thing?” Rainbow assumed.

“...Yes.” she admitted.

The blue pegasus rolled her eyes. “What’s up with you and that thing?”

“You wouldn’t understand.” she responded.

Her flying friend huffed in response. “Of course, why would I?” That mare is going to go crazy eventually.

Rainbow Dash suddenly witnessed an orange flash blaze past her, dashing backwards to avoid being hit by it. “What in Equestria?!”

She watched the fast moving orange blur fly back to her, landing in front of the flying pegasus. “Hey, Dash!” it was Scootaloo.

Her orange coat had a gray tint to it, her eyes looked crusty and ever so tired, her hair was very unkempt and loose. Despite all of that, there was an excited and sparkly look in her eyes.

Rainbow was about to open her mouth to talk with the little filly before she repulsed at the sight of her sore features. “Eugh, hey Scoots!” a disgusted face formed. “Did you get any sleep last night?”

Scootaloo didn’t seem to notice her repulsion to her appearance. “Best sleep I’ve had in forever! A full thirteen hours.”

“Thirteen hours?!” the pegasus exclaimed. “That’s way too much!”

Twilight tilted her head. “Don’t you nap all the time?”

“That’s napping after strenuous flying drills.” she pointed out. “I don’t stay in bed every night for thirteen hours straight!”

Scootaloo gave a confused look. “I thought the average was twelve.”

“It's eight, Scootaloo.” Twilight corrected.

“Whatever.” she shrugged it away. “So, what happened to your house, Rainbow?”

Rainbow Dash glanced at the destroyed cloud in the sky. “A meteor, you know, the usual.” she said. “I was just about to go show Twilight the big old rock that did it.”

“Ooo! Can I come?” Scootaloo jumped.

“Sure.” the older pegasus replied.

Twilight definitely had a bad feeling about the filly as she started back on the path Rainbow was leading her. “So, what did you mean by more ‘metal-y than rocky?’” she quoted.

“Well, it was metal with all these weird markings and shiny little screens poking out of it.” Rainbow attempted to describe. “It's hard to explain, you’ll see it.” she said as they approached the mound in the earth.

The trio clopped up to where the grass was crushed into the upheaved dirt, a trail leading right up to the object which had laid waste to Rainbow’s home. Twilight stepped over a couple pieces of electronics and steel, avoiding the alien pieces of technology as the three made it in front of the strange asteroid.

There was no way that it was a natural formation. The dirt stained grayish white object sat sideways in the earth, a couple of shimmering panels of blue color perfectly reflecting the sun’s shine that stuck up from the thing like shining branches. Some pieces of internal electronics zapped still from when it first crashed. This was no asteroid, it was some sort of advanced piece of alien technology. Something out of one of Spike’s comic books, a satellite, or whatever it was called.

Twilight stammered a little at the sight of it, excitement filling the alicorn. A-Alien technology?!

“I also saw these weird symbols on the front.” Rainbow Dash pointed a hoof to the acronym on the side that faced them. Several other little numbers and letters were marked in the corners and sides of the thing.

Scootaloo “Ooo!”’d at the text. “This must be some cool alien language!” she moved her straggled hair out of her vision.

Wide-eyed, Twilight Sparkle inched towards the front, trying to compare the symbols to anything she had seen before. She set a hoof on the cold metal of the front, noticing that around the three symbols were lines, screws in the corners of them. It appeared that this part of the strange asteroid was a part of some sort of panel.

“I can’t really compare it to anything I’ve seen before.” Twilight stated thoughtfully as she investigated it.

“I bet it's an alien spaceship!” Scootaloo wagered, her tone dripping with excitement. “Maybe if we open it we can fight a cool alien monster thing!”

Rainbow rolled her eyes. “There’s no way an alien monster thing could fit inside there. Not a big one, at least!”

The younger pegasus chuffed. “Yeah? You know an alien monster thingy doesn’t have to be big to be dangerous, right? It could be some mind-control alien virus!”

As the two bantered, a voice spoke in Twilight’s head. “This sounds familiar to me.” The artifact hummed within her saddlebag.

Really? Twilight replied. Can you try reading these symbols then?

“Well, I’d love to. If I could see it.” their vision was concealed inside the dark and shadowy saddlebag.

Oh, right. Twilight realized, looking back at the two pegasi who were still arguing. Hold on. She levitated the saddlebag open, carrying the cube out and towards the asteroid for them to see. A short moment passed of the artifact inspecting each portion of language, reading them all.

“It appears that most of these read out as production numbers.” they explained. “However I think the center symbols are an acronym. It reads out to something like…” it pondered on how to translate the letters to an understandable form for the pony. “ARC.”

ARC? She looked at the artifact curiously. What does that mean?

“I am not sure.” they replied. “It very much rings a bell however. You can stop levitating me, by the way.”

Oh, right, sorry. She blushed a little, almost forgetting that it could hover by itself.

The artifact floated in the air finely, looking at the panel. “I feel something in there.” it informed her.

Feel what?

“Something strong.” it began. “Like your magic, however much more powerful.”

Stronger than my magic? Twilight felt a hint of worry. What could be stronger than an alicorn’s magic?

“Stand back.” tons of blades shot out of the cube, swirling around them.

“Who just said that?” Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo gave confused looks, looking for whoever had given the warning.

“Stand back, please.” Twilight repeated what the very different sounding voice said.

Rainbow Dash nodded. “Ah, alright, you sounded different for a second. Erm, why is the cube in ‘attack mode?’” she asked, eyes wide.

Before that could be answered, it began slicing through the panel. Sparks flew as the air screeched with the blades crashing and gnashing through the metal. A glowing opening began forming as it cut along the edges of the panel.

“They are opening it.” Twilight informed.

Scootaloo gave a confused look. “They? Like, there's more than one of them?”

The lavender alicorn shook her head. “I’m not sure anymore.” she replied as the artifact did its thing.

Eventually the buzzing noise halted as the panel fell away, revealing a large interior of the asteroid. It was dark and shadowy, anything inside it unable to be seen. The cube retracted its orbiting blades, falling back beside its owner.

Rainbow Dash got in a defensive position, ready for some sort of opposition to slither its way out of it. As the three looked at the opening with an expecting look, a dark red shimmer ignited within. Another crackle shot off, and more maroon electricity shot through the darkness.

Suddenly, a red energy bursted to life in the center of the meteor. A rather unnerving object revealed itself in the blast of red light. There, floating in the center of the small room was a big bone-like object. It reminded Twilight of a hilt to some weapon, a corrupted and very disturbing hilt.

Its central handle was made from some spine, above it extended out three otherworldly skulls with long, gnarly teeth. Finally, at the bottom showed two pincer-like objects below a green-ish eye thing.

“Take it.” the artifact urged her.

“What? Why?” she looked at the floating cube.

Seeing how the cube apparently communicated with the princess, Rainbow considered the alicorn to be a lot less insane than what she first thought.

“It could mean life or death for your people. This thing is one of the only objects that could help you stop the Ë̵͇̙̹́́̕͜v̷̙̦͉̽͜i̵̱̞̍̃͜ľ̷̡̦̝͐.” It explained.

Twilight gave them a thoughtful look, hesitating for a moment. “A-Alright.” she moved a hoof towards the entrance.

“Wait, Twilight, how do you know it won't melt you or something if you touch it?” Rainbow asked.

“For all you know it could take over your mind! It looks super dangerous.” Scootaloo interjected.

At the suggestion from her friends, she thought back on it, pulling her hoof away. “I-maybe you two are right.” she turned back to the pegasi.

“Princess, you must understand, you need that artifact!” the cube floated in-between the two. “It is more important than you could possibly imagine!”

Twilight glanced back at the meteor, pretty confused on what to do.

Rainbow Dash sighed. “Listen, I’m not sure what that weird floaty thing is telling you to do, but I really don’t think you should go get that.” she explained. “When has using weird ancient artifacts that glow dark red ever turned out well for us?”

The alicorn looked down at the ground in thought. “You have a point.” she nodded.

The floating artifact sighed. “I cannot force you, princess.” they gently floated back down into Twilight’s saddlebag.

The mare turned, grabbing the panel with her magic and setting it back into place from when it was chopped out, hoping nopony else would come across.

“Hey, Rainbow!” the short bout of silence was interrupted by the orange filly. “Wanna go race? I bet I’ll be able to beat ya!” Scootaloo challenged.

“Oh, good luck, squirt! Whoever makes it to Fluttershy’s cottage first wins!” Rainbow replied. “Look, I’ll even give you a head start-” Scootaloo took flight, dashing off rather fast for her age.

“Wow! Isn’t she quick now?” Rainbow laughed proudly. “Keep an eye on my house while it's being built, Twi. I’ll be back soon.”

“Got it!” Twilight responded before Rainbow flew off. The speed that she accelerated at made Twilight’s mane blow in the wind, covering her face up. She blew the dark purple mane out of her face, neighing a small bit in annoyance.

She turned, giving the strange meteor one small glance before walking off back towards the construction site, going over to observe the construction for her friend.

Comments

[Starlight Nova]

11206840
Then why did you go out of your way to put emphasis on the "wild"?

[NotAnEditor]

11241646
Because it gets so wild that it needs to be emphasized. I'm not hiding anything with the italicized wild. It has nothing to do with the other franchise.