> Demonoid Overlord
>  by Reizthefakebrony
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> Prologue 1: Dreaded Start
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Time had passed.

A very long time had passed the night in which the Elements of Harmony were brought into the Freak World. Wandering in that dimension, they stumbled into a forsaken graveyard and become possessed by the ghosts of dreadful monsters. Having their minds being fractured and being corrupted by their newfound powers, the once fabled heroine of Equestria were turned into the abominations known as the Elements of Insanity.

Although they were powerful enough to rule that world, they weren't so interested to that. In fact, Brutalight and her companions had one goal: Find a way to return into Equestria... And take it over for their grim, hidden agenda.

However, the Elements of Insanity weren't the only ones who suffered this fate. Spike was turned into the heroic antagonist known as AssSpike when he had reached the Freak World while looking for them. More dreadful than him were Sunset Shimmer and Trixie, Twilight's rivals who became the Subjects, being Painset Shimmercakes and Magic Mare. Loathing the elements and hungry for domination, they went after them and engaged in a very devastating battle with them.

In the aftermath, Brutalight and her group managed to get their upper hand and defeat the Subjects, but came out of the battle weakened and exhausted. As for Painset and Magic, they disappeared from the scene without leaving any trace. They took a long time to recover, but they eventually recovered all of their strengths. Since that fight, they felt very confident to have proven that none one can't stop them.

But fate has its own opinion regarding this.





Two months later...

It was a very cold night. A beautiful one for the Elements of Insanity for a manhunt. They stormed a facility in search for a very powerful artifact. Although Brutalight and Fluttershout organized the whole thing for scavenging, Rainbine was the less enthusiast due to her contempt about facing the face weaklings over and over again, but decided to come anyway. Rarifruit, Pinkis and Applepills just came there to get a supply of treasures, living food and pills.

Having killed the usual mercenaries standing in their way and clean up grand of the facility, Brutalight and her friends made their way toward the very core of the place where object was protected when they found another threat. But, much to their surprise, it wasn't another mercenary or another failed freak.

Much to their surprise, It was a dark, blurry, humanoid demonic figure, whose appearance was impossible to describe. It was like a living dark matter with no flesh or substance, silently threatening to devour everything in its way. His eyes were the only thing visible. The creature looked coldly at them, as if he was looking down on them, which instantly irritates them.

"Is that prick seriously making fun of us?" Rainbine said irritated with her robotic voice.

"Just let him taste his arrogance until he can," Brutalight suggested calmly, before smirking deviously. "That would make him more for us to rip into shreds."

Accepting her invitation, the Elements of Insanity charged toward him, with Brutalight summoning two swords above her head, Fluttershout charging her scream and Rainbine pointing her arm-cannon at him. In response to that, the creature pointed her ethereal hand in front of them and unleashed a wave of black energy that devoured them in one instant. Brutalight didn't had the time to react that the world around her became engulfed by the darkness that was overwhelming her.

In a split of a second, Brutalight found herself laying on the ground, badly battered and with her wings being tattered. She felt exhausted and her body was hurting everywhere. She was confused at first, not knowing what happened, but those questions were putted aside when she remembered her friends being swallowed by that dark wave. Concerned, she forcefully stood up on her feet and was greeted by a very tremendous sight.

The whole facility was destroyed, being reduced to nothing more but rubles and debris. Black flames surrounded the whole place with a unnatural heat. But that was nothing compared to what was in front of her.

Her friends were laying nearby her feet, horribly beaten up. Applepills, Rarifruit, Pinkis and Fluttershout were gravely injured but Rainbine got even worse, having her cybernetic body being mostly destroyed, with jolts of electricity on her body. And the creature was still standing, looking at her unimpressed,.

Brutalight's face instantly contorted in rage, because taking her bite the dust was irritating, but hurting her friends was just unforgivable.

"You had pissed the wrong mare, YOU PUNK!!" Brutalight shouted furiously as she flew upwards while menacingly charging her horn and unleashed a devastating beam that overwhelmed him.

Or that was what she thought, until the creature dashed through the destructive stream and managed to reach her at a very scary speed, much to her shock.

"You gotta be shitting me!" Brutalight thought incredulous.

The last thing that she saw was the creature's left eyes briefly glowing in a sinister white light, a moment before he punches through her head, shattering her sight and the reality in front of her.

In the same instant the blow connected, Brutalight woke up in her own bed with a start, sweating cold like she never had for ages. Panting like a madmare, she looked around and realized to be in her own bedroom. She had various nightmares before, including the ones with the spirits possessing her mind, with migraine included, but nothing like that. That never happened to her.

Daze, she slowly turned her head toward the window. The light of dawn began to made its appearance. She sighed, unsure about what she had experienced. She know that was just a dream, but was so livid that is seemed too real.

"What the hell did I just dreamed?" Brutalight whispered, bewildered.

Brutalight let out a soft groan. She was about to let out her frustration but then calmed down to analyze the whole dream. As much she tried to dismiss it as a sick joke, the events of that wretched dream were still fresh in her mind.

With her breath being a little more stable, Brutalight put her mind to rest for a moment and rolled out of her bed. She turned her eyes on a book on her bedside table. It's cover was a red one with golden adornments, with the title being 'Possessions and Exorcism'. For a moment, Brutalight felt a little conflicted about it. And she knows why.

But before she could even ponder about that delicate dilemma, somebody knocked from behind the door, inviting her to turn her gaze toward it.

"Hey, Brutalight. Is there something wrong?" A female voice asked with a worried tone from behind, being no other than that of Fluttershout.

"... No," Brutalight replied, trying to act though as she rubbed her forehead. "Just... Just another headache."

"Huh... A pretty intense one." Fluttershout replied, but seemingly unsure of the answer that she heard. "Alright, I'm going to met up with the others. See you later."

After that, hoofsteps were heard departing away, slowly becoming quiet. Alone with herself, Brutalight gave the book a second glance as one doubt traveled inside her head. She knew what that book was all about and its mere presence would even affect her relationship with her friends, being also pony freaks as her. It was the cure for their condition but was also a real double edged object.

"If only Krieg didn't had split my head like that, I wouldn't had to suffer a personality crisis like this... I would end up getting killed someday."

"... There's no turning back, huh?" Brutalight asked bluntly to herself, a moment before shaking her head to shrug off her doubts. "I will put that aside for later. I don't even know If I would even do that. And besides, I have a plan to carry out."

Turning away from the book, Brutalight was about to teleport. Until a cold bead of sweat flowing on her head reminded her of her body, being drenched in colt sweat. It wasn't the top for her, so isn't her bed, being sweat soaked as well. But that was the last of her problems.

"I need a damn shower." Brutalight said quietly as she headed toward the bathroom with a grumpy, half sleepy face.





A hour after the breakfast, Fluttershout traveled throughout the Mann Manor, intended to gather her companions in the secret laboratory where Brutalight intended to make a reunion. Rainbine was already there due to that place being her workplace. Fluttershout, however, has the annoying task to deal with the urges of the other member, so trolling them would make a much easier way for her to persuade them.

Her first stop was the kitchen, where she found, of course, Pinkis Cupcake eating a big... whale-canine thingy. Fluttershout wasn't used to Pinkis' habit to eat living things alive, but what she saw really weirded out. Pinkis noticed the yellow pegasus and looked at her confused.

"Fluttershout, you know me," Pinkis pointed out. "I couldn't resist at something like that... Even if doesn't entirely taste like meat."

"I know but... What is that thing, anyway?" Fluttershout asked.

"I took that from a scientific laboratory, yesterday," Pinkis responded. "They called it Whale-wolf."

Fluttershout blinked, perplexed. "Whale-what?"

"Whale-wolf." Pinkis replied.

"Whale..." Fluttershout paused, having difficulty to digest the ridiculousness of that word. "Wolf?"

"Oh, come on. Even I know that was a bad pun," Pinkis muttered. "Anyway, you didn't came here for this reason, right?"

"Well, Brutalight required your presence at the secret laboratory where... You know what," Fluttershout said calmly.

"Alright, alright. But let me at least took some last bites before leaving it first." Pinkis replied with reluctance before returning to her food. "Always during my breakfast."

Fluttershout rolled her eyes and went out the kitchen. Traversing a corridor, she had arrived at the living room where she found Applepills, who, just for once, wasn't swallowing any pills... At least not yet. Instead she was looking at the ceiling with a bothered look, probably thinking about something.

"Applepills?" Fluttershout said, getting Applepills attention.

"Oh, howdy," Applepills replied. "I didn't had noticed you."

"Is there something wrong?" Fluttershout inquired. "You looked very bothered."

"No, nothing wrong with me," Applepills said, before pointing upward with her hoof. "But with this."

Fluttershout lifted her head upward and became wide-eyed, displaying a bit of annoyance in her face. She never thought to see that happening for real. What she was witnessing was Rarifruit's compulsive hoarding reaching gigantic levels. The ceiling was infested with many showcase being attached to it, filled with various objects that kleptomaniac had gathered in her scavenging of treasures, including some old rusty dolls and fresh Napalms.

That sight gave her a really scary impression of her friend's bad habits. Fluttershout face hoofed in irritation.

"For the love of..." Fluttershout muttered but then sighed and returned to Applepills. "Good thing I was about to talk about that with her. Besides, Brutalight required your presence at the secret laboratory."

"Ah know, ah know," Applepills replied calmly. "Brutes wanted to expose us the plan."

"Exactly," Fluttershout assured. "Oh, right, what happened between you and Francie Bloom."

"Well, we'd a sister talk after a long time, since," Applepills paused, a little embarrassed. "Being too busy getting high."

"Nopony judged you for that," Fluttershout assured before leaving. "Now I have kleptomaniac to take care of."

"Alright, I will meet ya there. But first," Applepills turned toward a bottle of painkillers that was lurking at her right and felt her urges instantly kicking in. "PILLS!"

Ignoring that, Fluttershout pressed on and reached one of the door leading to one of the three warehouses. Slowly, she opened the door and ended up meeting a mess that was more demented than the infested ceiling. The room was a very large one, filled showcases, being both nearby the walls and attached to the ceiling, and a lot of stuff, even some antiquated junk, infesting the room. And in the middle of this mess, there was Rarifruit, sitting on a obsidian throne nearby a giant leviathan skull and laughing like a maniac, all while admiring a giant looking golden axe at her left.

"Oh, I will never get tired of that," Rarifruit said gleefully before chuckling.

Fluttershout never wanted to resort that in other to get her attention, mostly because she would had avoided repeating herself, but she did that anyway.

"Seriously, madam," Fluttershout said almost loudly, pretending to be melodramatic. "Now where I could put this unusual hat!"

"What, where is it!? MINE!" Rarifruit exclaimed, a moment before leaping out of the room in the attempt to catch something, but then realized that was a prank the same moment she notice the said hat no being here at all and looked at Fluttershout annoyed. "Oh, c'mon! Really!? It's the second time I fell for that!"

"I'm sorry, but you won't had listened to me if I didn't had distracted you," Fluttershout explained sternly. "And to be fair, Brutalight required your presence at the secret laboratory," She paused. "Where we can also talk about your tendency. I know that your things are your treasure and anything, but seriously. Infesting even the ceiling with that?"

Rarifruit smirked nervously. "I rather call that space management in my own way. Eheheheh."

"Hmph, whatever," Fluttershout said with narrowed eyes, not wanting to argue with her. "Now follow me."

"Hold a moment," Rarifruit halted. "Where's Derpigun?"

"Well, she's with the Cutey Mark Creeps," Fluttershout informed. "Probably to keep them in check since what happened two months ago. You know, the battle against the Subject. They were involved as well."

"Oh, dear, I don't make me remember that. It was a miracle that Creepy Bell survived," Rarifruit replied uncomfortably. "Now, I imagine that Brutalight wanted to talk about the inter-dimensional portal. Fair enough. We better get at the laboratory as soon as possible."

Far away from the Mann Manor, in a warehouse nearby a desolated scrapyard, two pony freaks wandered nearby the huge piles of scraps. Differently from the Elements of Insanity and the Subjects, these ones were chosen by a unknown entity to deal with the former. One of them was the draconic pony named AssSpike, while the other one was a azure-neon maned black mare with azure lines covering her body with the name of Berrypan.

They scanned every pile, searching for something. It wasn't for them, but for someone else. Berrypan couldn't help but feel perplexed about that expedition.

"Are you sure this is the place?" Berrypan asked.

"I am more confused as you are," AssSpike replied. "And the one who asked us to find these two objects wasn't even our master."

"Which kind of strange. Why he didn't go to take them by himself?"

"Did you had forgot what he said? He preferred to remain unnoticed, although I don't know why. Besides, this is an area under the control of Brutalight."

"Oh, right. I had forgot," Berrypan paused for a moment, looking at him with a doubtful expression. "I'm sorry to touch that button but... Is our 'client' going to give you a way to save your old friends? Including Brutalight?"

"I don't know... But he better to." AssSpike said, as if was a threat.

After a few minutes of wandering they stopped upon seeing something sprouting from a pile that was half the size of the others.

"I think we had found what we were looking for," AssSpike stated before galloping with Berrypan toward the tower of scraps.

The draconic pony pulled out the two objects from there, removed their dust and took a look at them. Much to their surprise, the objects were actually two metallic boxes, a gray one and a black one. Berrypan, however, doesn't had any idea of what those things are or what their use are.

"Are those things... What he asked us to find?" Berrypan asked confused.

"Yes, and I think to know why..." AssSpike responded, narrowing his eyes.

"Really?"

"I will explain that later. Now have to bring them back to him."

Without saying anything, Berrypan cheerfully materialized a pan and made shako from nowhere and putted the metal boxes inside it. She then made it disappear and returned her attention to him, who looked quite baffled upon seeing that.

"What?" Berrypan asked.

"I-Is that hat bottomless?" AssSpike demanded.

"AssSpike, I don't use my shakos just as bullets," Berrypan explained. "I am a trader pony freak, after all. So of course I have something to keep my stuff. So, yes... Is bottomless."

"Ah.... Ok." AssSpike replied with stupor but then shrugged it off and returned to his task. "In any case, I think we-"

AssSpike couldn't end the phrase that a pink blur tackled him, making him fall on the ground. As she tried to recover, he got pinned down by a dark-pink hoof. Dazed a little bit, he looked at his aggressor, being none other than Pinkis Cupcake, who looked at him with a ravenous glee.

"Long time no see, AssSpike. Hihihihi." Pinkis said with a crazed tone.

"Pinkie," AssSpike replied mockingly, maintaining his calm. "You are still upset because you weren't able to eat me?"

"Do you have even the audacity to ask?" Pinkis demanded, irritated by that. "You managed to escape before I could even sink my teeth on you! I had almost bitten my tongue for that!"

"Figures."

"Ooooh, but you won't escape this time. Because I will eat you for real!"

"You disappoint me. I thought that you could had at least came up with good pan of yours."

Pinkis blinked, confused. "What does that even mea-ARRGH!!!"

Too distracted by AssSpike, Pinkis didn't noticed a grinning Berrypan striking with a frying pan, being used as a baseball bat. The pink freak was hurled in the air until she dived, screaming before breaking through the wooden roof of the warehouse nearby the scrapyard.

AssSpike slowly got up and approached her. "You saved me... I guess that we are even."

"I don't know. I'm still a little upset for having turned me into a freak without my consent," Berrypan pointed out, doubtful. "Still, she tried to kill you but I felt a little sorry for her."

"She will be alright thanks to her conditions," AssSpike assured her, kinda. "Now we have to go."

But as soon as they were about to leave, a cruelly invigorated Brutalight suddenly appeared behind them. "You will not go anywhere."

Both the two freaks turned toward the dark-violet unicorn and reacted with dismay. AssSpike in particular gave her a distrustful and yet regretful glare.

"Brutalight." AssSpike called her, almost hesitantly.

"Time to pick up where we left off, big boy." Brutalight proclaimed with sinister confidence. "Twilight won't save you this time."

"I wasn't even counting on that. I will do the best that I can."

"That won't be enough."

With that, Brutalight glowed her horn and disappeared, materialized two volcanic swords and tossed them at him with her telekinesis. AssSpike didn't made her wait.

"ASS!!" AssSpike shouted, emitting his pseudo-sonic scream, only for Brutalight teleported away from it's trajectory, leaving the swords where repelled away through its sound waves.

The alicorn reappeared behind him, just in time to materialize a battle axe above her head and swinging it toward him. 

Before the axe could even connect, Berrypan putted herself in between them and blocked it with her frying pan, much to the irritation of the alicorn, who charged her horn with a intense flow of energy. AssSpike tried to use his powers, but was then struck in the back by two metal arrows appearing from above. He yelled in pain and was almost falling.

"Spike!" Berrypan yelled.

"Nice try!!" Brutalight exclaimed as she released a wave of destructive energy that overwhelmed both the freaks while destroying a big portion of the scrapyard, reducing most of the scraps into ashes.

AssSpike and Berrypan, thanks to the draconic pony's power, barely survived that destruction. Their bodies were laying on the ground, with trails of steams rising from their coat, like they were burnt by the wave. They felt their energy being drained and the exhaustion. Despite this, AssSpike has no intention to remain still. He forcefully stood on his feet, ignoring his fatigue, and faced the psychotic alicorn that walked toward him with a sadistic smile imprinted in her face.

Brutalight stopped a yard away from him and materialized a big looking sword above her, being pointed at him and ready to finish the job. "Any last word, you irritating fool."

"Just let... Twilight known... That... I'm... Sorry..." AssSpike said with a pained tone but then mustered his strength for the last word. "Now you can kill me, if you can."

"Arrogant prick, I will-" Brutalight was about to impale him with the sword when her magic felt suddenly weakened and unstable, much to her shock. "W-What the... Not again!" She struggled to keep her sword under her control but the more she tries, the more her grip on the weapon became weak. "Not... now... I have." She grunted furiously. "In a time like this!?"

AssSpike went wide-eyed, seemed to know what that means. "Could it be...!"

"NGRAAAH!!" Brutalight screamed furiously as her telekinesis failed and the sword fell on the ground with a loud, metallic sound echoing in the scrapyard.

AssSpike starred at the alicorn, barely believing at what was going on. Berrypan barely stood up and watched the scene, more confused that her partner.

As for Brutalight, she panted heavily, looking distressed and keeping her eyes shut. After a few moments, her neck snapped. She opened her eyes and looked at him, who looked surprised to see her. The psychosis in her eyes had suddenly disappeared, replaced by benevolent ones. She looked dazed and confused.

"Twilight... Is that you?" AssSpike asked, almost relieved.

"Spike... I was... Going to kill you?" Twilight asked horrified with her normal voice.

"Not intentionally... Is not your fault."

"You know that I can't maintain my control for long... You shouldn't be here."

"I know, but that situation won't last forever." AssSpike reassured. "I know how you feel. I also know that you wanted to find a way to exorcise yourself and your friends. Guess what, I had almost found the way. In a way or another, we will get out of this madness."

A moment after his last sentence, AssSpike collapsed on the ground, with Berrypan approaching him to give him a help. Twilight was about to say something when her neck snapped once again, resulting in Brutalight regaining her control.

"How cute." Brutalight commented sarcastically. "You should had learned to give up when you had the chance. Now I will send you as bloody package to the creator.

True to her words, Brutalight materialized the other two volcanic swords above her. As demonic smile of satisfaction marked her face as the sword whizzed toward them.

But suddenly, something... Or someone dived in front of her eyes like a meteor, rising a cloud of dust in the impact of its landing. Somehow, a force around that thing deflected the two swords.

Brutalight, covered her face to protect herself as the blades fell nearby her feet. AssSpike and Berrypan did the same, with the female freak pony of the duo protecting herself with the pan. Once the dust had been settled, Brutalight got a good view of the creature standing in between her and her enemies.

It stood tall in front of her, being probably bipedal. His body was covered by a black mantle, and his face concealed by a blue hood. He had four digits hands and was wearing a metal mask in two pieces, covering both his mouth and eyes. He remained silent, staring at the dark-purple alicorn  with cold, fearless eyes.

Brutalight was particularly baffled but angered for that interruption. "The hell?"

"Ah! What are you...?" Berrypan said confused.

"Y-You!?" AssSpike exclaimed, seemingly recognizing him.

"You better get away from here until is possible," The creature said with a younger male, serious voice. "Is not a big gain if you get killed."

"What?" AssSpike protested. "But-"

"Now." The creature ordered.

"You are not going anywhere!!" Brutalight screamed angrily as she flew in the air and teleported in front of the injured AssSpike to attack him, but was then struck by the creature delivering a roundhouse kick, so hard that she was hurled toward one the remaining piles of scraps.

The draconic pony didn't wasted his time to do what that being said. AssSpike and Berrypan suddenly glowed in a yellow aura, a moment before disappearing.

Event without them, the battle continued. Growling furiously, Brutalight came out of the pile and took a few steps toward the one who had interfered with the execution of her archenemy, glaring at him.

The creature stared at her with cold eyes, maintaining his calm.

Upon seeing it, Brutalight went wide-eyed, as she had recognized that gaze The same cold one that the mocking darkened figure of the dream flashed had. Yet she could hardly believe that. She clenched her teeth, with her anger gathering in her escaping growls.

"Who the hell are you?" Brutalight asked irritated.

"Whoever you want I would be," The creature replied calmly. "I don't care for the rest."

"Look, I would care less about your reason for saving them" Brutalight said almost calmly but clearly fed-up. "Your face is already making me sick to look at, and I will have fun to send you straight to hell for having interfered with my business!"

"Depend on what hell are you talking about... Winged punk." The creature replied.

Snarling at her provocation, Brutalight glowed her horn in a white and engulfed the stranger with a aura of the same color, only for it to dissipate with nothing happening, which instantly shocked her. "W-What!? Why doesn-"

"Do you expect me to being Jaratized, bastard?" The creature taunted.

"Grrrr! Never mind, I will crush you anyway," Brutalight said before hoovering in the air.

Looking at her opponent from above, Brutalight glowed her horn with a menacing surge of energy and materialized multiple swords, machetes and other cutting weapons at her disposal. Guided by her telekinesis, the weapons rained toward him.

He didn't reacted this much and avoided the storm of blades while dashing toward the psychotic alicorn with a startling speed. In the same moment Brutalight was being struck with shocked surprise, he was already in front of her, instantly giving her a powerful punch that violently flung her toward another pile of metallic scraps.

"Typical. This is way I completely refuse to fight you seriously," The Creature said, a moment before turning around and ran away with a lightning speed, leaving the scene.

Brutalight came out of the pile with dirt almost covering her fur, looking furious and beaten up. She frantically explored the are and looked around, in search for the creature, but he wasn't there anymore. Her anger was about to explode, but then maintained her calm. She was indeed infuriated, yet she had to be careful about what she was dealing before.

The more she was thinking about the stranger, the more convinced she became that he and the shadowy figure of her dream were the exact same thing. Yet Brutalight wasn't so convinced about that.

"I could still barely believe that but... There's no doubt," Brutalight murmured. "He must be the same guy who had defeated my whole group badly. And yet... He didn't look so similar to the guy that I have saw in the dream."

Brutalight turned around and walked toward the warehouse while pondering about every possibility and instance. Her anger was slowly fading, being replaced with concern. Regardless her thoughts, she know, at least, what to do.

"I have to talk about that with the others... But first I have the pain to retrieve a battered Pinkis Cupcake."
> Prologue 2: Painset Luck
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After the defeat by the hooves of Brutalight and her companions, The Subject weren't so lucky to find a way to recover. They have indeed survived the battle, but were mostly battered and wandered through the wasteland of the Freak World. The didn't said a word but were silently blaming each other for whatever their downfall.

However, they were wandering aimlessly. In fact they had survived the encounter because somepony in a cloak saved their lives in exchange of their collaboration. After a while, they stopped in front of a forsaken laboratory. They stepped inside, not expecting to find a very intriguing surprise.

There was a huge ring, being a inter-dimensional portal. The place was larger than a hangar and was full of machinery. Some of the machines were assembling advanced looking metallic ponies, who were now walking around and doing some job that was assigned to them, including carrying some material, fixing the machines, guarding and so on. And at the center of it there was their benefactor, waiting something for an answer.

"What about that?" The cloaked mare asked mockingly. "This portal it's quite functional. If you don't believe me, you can let me test that by myself."

"Is that true?" Painset asked, surprised.

"No, I'm sorry but should we trust you?" Magic retorted. "You may have saved your life but you expected to gain from us."

"Oh, please. What could possibly be this thing we should be informed about?" Magic inquired.

"Nothing. But had to consider to take advantage of the portal while Brutalight is currently dealing with her mind being split in three by a unknown enemy and is now almost unable to control her powers." The cloaked mare said bluntly. "In fact having three personality fighting each other in her mind is surely a real issue that would endanger her and her friends."

"What!?" Magic exclaimed incredulous.

"Is that true?" Painset asked, surprised.

"Correct... Not that you have enough brain to know how exploit this crisis." The cloaked mare responded.

"What's that!?" Painset shouted before shaking her head rapidly in response to a psychic shift and resumed with a low voice. "How dare you!"

Not minding the scornful gazes coming from Painset and Magic, the mare headed toward two tombstones and looked down.

"Hey! Don't ignore us!" Magic shouted.

"Anyway.... you wanted to return in Equestria, right?" The mare asked calmly.

"That's what I intend to do!" Painset said before shaking her neck again and shifting into a younger voice. "So what!?"

The mare stared in the void without said anything for a moment, not minding their growing anger. Then she spokes with a crude tone.

"You didn't know that a inter-dimensional portal can also be built by converting a specific living being into magical energy through a alchemic process, right?." The mare asked

"Do we look like freaking alchemists?" Magic ask in sarcasm.

"What you have to do is just channeling the magic of a specific scroll that involves inter-dimensional sorcery into the living sacrifice, concentrating one the world you want to return and then 'bang'. Your portal is ready." The mare confirmed.

There was a long instant of quiet. The two pony freak looked at her in shock, feeling really taken aback from that discovery. They didn't found anything like that.

"You lie!" Painset's neck cracked again, returning into her normal one. "I never heard of such method, so that cannot be real!"

"Say whatever you want, but is real. But I don't think you had the common sense to took them with you." The mare commented.

Painset turned her attention to Magic and give her a stern look while the latter looked at the alicorn nervously. The Black Cloaked Mare observed the odd pair impassive, but slightly annoyed.

"Why are looking me like that?" Magic asked nervously.

"You were examining the scrolls before we were attacked by the mercenaries." Painset assumed.

"If you are talking about these," Magic hesitated. "I'm afraid..."

"Afraid of what?"

"The scrolls were burned by a Pyro during the attack."

"Are you SERIOUS!? Why you didn't took them with you!?"

"Most of the scrolls consisted into summoning creatures from other worlds which the majority of them were inferior. I didn't considered them to be useful." Magic meekly said.

"Are you stupid!? These would had been useful!" Painset scowled.

"You didn't told me to." Magic retorted with sarcasm. "At least i'm not stupid enough to not having take the plan to return into Canterlot and find a way to replicate the magic mirror. I would had told you, but you had already gone into a rampage on that village and overused your powers. The destabilization wouldn't have happened if you had read the rest of the scroll and restrained yourself for doing that."

"You want having another bad round with me, dumbass!?" Painset threatened, glaring at Magic.

The mare didn't looked at them, but her face slowly shifted in muted annoyance. As she was even questioning about the reliability of the two mares.

"This is why i never hangout with a duo of retards." The Black Cloaked Mare complained.

"WHAT!?" Painset and Magic howled at unison, turning their heads toward her.

"I won't doubt that you have outer-wordily powers, but your mentality is not brainer," The mare turned toward them and shrugged her shoulders."I can't believe that Brutalight was almost losing against two idiots."

Both of them glared fiercely at her, with Painset's eye nervously twitching. They glow their horn to use their magic, but something bizarre happened. The Black Cloaked Mare looked at them with eyes completely devoid of any feelings and before they could could do anything, the pony freaks found their mouths being stuffed with a stream of red liquid coming out of the cloaked mare's hooves and going right to their throat.

Their horn stopped glowing and their magic was neutralized. But that was nothing compared to what happened next. Their sight was blurring, the world around them was spinning, the oxygen began to missing in their aims, their limbs were frantically shaking and their bloodstreams completely stopped along with their heart beats. They couldn't even scream.The only thing that they could see clearly was the mare's eyes.

Painset refused to believe what she was feeling in that moment, but these eyes didn't looked so terrific before. Magic was just hoping if they end up killed by her. Both the freak mares could feel their consciousness slowly fading away due to the total shutdown that is happening to their bodies' biological activities, unable to do anything but watch and listen her as their sight was slowly fading.

"Is that the right time to give in your arrogance for you?" The mare said with a intimidating tone while giving a glare that would had dismembered even the most fearful of the alicorns. "I wasn't expecting to knee before me, but you should at least know when NOT act very recklessly. Or even according to your newfound chaotic nature, which is very stupid."

Painset and Magic weren't feeling their bodies at all. All of their emotions almost died off, except for their fear, which is very prominent in the pathway of incoming death. The cloaked mare kept her chilling eyes pointed toward the two freaks.

"Did you had forgot that I was the one who pulled both of you out of the clutches of your incoming death? You made had accepted my terms, remember?"

Both the mares hated to admit due to their pride and ego, but she was right. That mocking pony was the one who saved them from their fate during the aftermath of their fight against the Elements of Insanity in exchange of their collaboration. Painset and Magic saw what she was capable of despite her being a earth pony who wasn't a freak, but they weren't expecting her to cornering them like that. Painset felt the pain her pride being gravely hurt surviving the effects of the biological shutdown before being completely silenced.

They could feel their lives almost coming to a end as their sight faded in the dark, their minds being cloudy and their consciousness going to sink in the eternal void. Their once psychotic eyes were filled with a mix of fear and hatred toward the mare before becoming almost lifeless. The Black Cloaked Mare's glare then shifted into a calmer glance at the last second.

"That's enough." The mare said as she pulled the red stream out of their mouths, causing these to vanish.

Painset and Magic collapsed to the ground and remained there, frantically shaking and coughing violently to catch all of their air back. Their sight slowly returned and their brains and organs returning functional as their hearts resumed their beats, resuming their bloodstreams. Their powers, however, were temporarily weakened drastically, just like their anger. They still hate her guts, but wouldn't even think to mess with her after that experience... for now.

"Anyway, let's go to the real topic." The Black Cloaked Mare said, making a chilling smile.

Painset and Magic slowly rose up, still dizzied and trying to hide their scorn and homicidal impulses. That experience was humiliating enough that they won't even going through that again. That doesn't mean that they wouldn't get revenge for that, when the right opportunity will present itself.

"Now, time for teleportation." The cloaked mare said as she pressed some button from a console.

Without any warning, the ring began to glow in a blinding blue light and a black swirling liquid appeared in front of her, growing in dimensions until it became a huge black vortex. The two freakish mares looked at it impressed. They felt a very analogical power going on. They weren't mistaking. They felt it when they arrived in the Freak World through the magical mirror in the first place.

"There is your portal." The Black Cloaked Mare mischievously confirmed, turning toward them. "Now you can go back to Equestria and proceed to take down Celestia, if you want."

"There's no mistake," Magic confirmed. "Is the same as the mirror."

"You tell her, Magic." Painset agreed. "Now i will steal Brutalight's world, just like she stole my future."

"Talking about jealous psychotic rage." Magic commented, causing Painset to look at her with a furious gaze and a twitching eye.

"Did. You. Say. SOMETHING!?" Painset hissed, almost ready to kill her.

"Nothing. Nothing." Magic replied meekly.

"Good." Painset said, calming herself down a little and walking toward the portal, only to be stopped by the mare.

"Before you can going back in your world, You have something that you must do for me." The mare said.

Painset growled angrily. Knowing the oppressively manipulating nature of her supposed rescuer, she knew that some catch was lurking behind her words.

"What do you from us?" Painset demanded impatiently.

"In Equestria, there's one green earth pony with a terrific power that must be dealt with as soon as possible," The Black Cloaked Mare explained, "That would be also a fierce menace for you, but for now he would be just a cocky individual."

"Can you please give us the name!?" Magic inquired.

"This pony called himself Zaidel Goelnix. This one managed to kill a huge black flaming dragon and took down a entire town of cultists, leaded by a pink unicorn name Sugar Bell who worshiped you."

There was a brief moment in which the two freaks stopped moving. They looked at her, each one with a different expression, which give to the mare a different visual opinion about her statement. Magic was just surprised of the fact that such earth pony could actually exist, wondering what power could have. Painset, on other hands, was shocked

"Are you telling me that the pink unicorn of the village that I conquered two weeks ago founded a cult that was worshiping me, and that is now taken down by a insipid, disgusting earth pony!?" Painset demanded in rage.

"That's the deal. You kill off this bastard and i will give you all the support that you need to take down Brutalight Sparcake
and the other Elements of Insanity." The mare paused. "How is that?"

"Do you even ask!?" Painset responded. "I want make him pay for that and use him as a memento of my triumphal return as Equestria's new god!"

The Black Cloaked Mare grinned satisfied of the result. She looked like as she got the desired result.

"Now that is the condition," The Black Cloaked Mare began. "You have twenty-seven days to kill him. If you succeed by the dead line, i will help you to take down both the Elements of Insanity and Celestia as well."

"You will support us!?" Painset asked.

"Don't even doubt about that. So, what about him?" The Black Cloaked Mare asked.

"I will definitively kill him!" Painset said. "But let me clarify one thing. I'm not doing this for you!"

The two mares headed toward the portal and entered inside, vanishing in the pitch-black center. After that, the vortex shrunk rapidly until it disappeared in a spark of lightnings. The Black Cloaked Mare was now alone, smiling in her glee.

"All according to the game."





Meanwhile; In a wood nearby a cliff in the Ghastly Gorge...

A black vortex appeared, and the Subjects came out of it, accompanied by a horde of mercenaries who were previously turned into Meems By Magic Mare: Scouts, Medics, Heavys and the list goes on. Both Painset and Magic looked upon the huge mountain in the distance, knowing what it is. Canterlot can be seen from there.

Magic Mare felt like she was at home at last. Despite the fact she was now a pony freak, it felt like it's been a long time since she saw Canterlot before her arrival in the Freak World. She then looked at Painset Shimmercakes, who has a different way to see that familiar sight. A very sinister way.

A perverted sense of nostalgia pervaded the mind of the former student who is now a terrific alicorn. Memories and rage danced in her tainted heart.The only comfort that she could get in that moment was the payback she was waiting for. She smirked at that promising prospecting. Painset couldn't help, but chuckle in a way creepy enough to chill Magic's spine.

"I couldn't be more satisfied than this. I'm finally back to Equestria! And this time is for real!" Painset said triumphantly.

"Big time." Magic Mare commented. "I didn't see our homeworld for months since our arrival in that twisted world. But now that i'm looking at, it look so.... dull. Too much peaceful."

"Indeed." Painset confirmed. "I should thank our 'savior' for the ride... But i won't! Not after all that horrible experience that she made us going through!"

"It pains me to admit, but she was somehow a little better than us in one thing." Magic remarked.

"What?" Painset inquired.

"Competence. One. On. One." Magic said with sarcasm with Painset looking at her annoyed.

"Was that sarcasm?" Painset demanded while charging her horn.

"Hehe.. But does that matter? I mean, we are here now." Magic said, laughing nervously as she was going to have another bash from her companion, who interrupted her charged one second later.

"Right." Painset said almost calmly as she returned her attention to the landscape. "Though that we still lack of a proper army and a proper equipment."

"You can tell that." Magic agreed.

"Still, that is a good start." Painset said gleefully. "Of course we have to deal with that green pest, but at least we have the time to take a look at how much happened in Equestria during our absence. That will give us the opportunity to take prepare ourselves for the final act."

"That would require a lot of job and a new hideout far away from there, but if everything goes right, that would have a good payoff." Magic commented optimistic.

"I can't wait for this. Soon i shall seize the throne from Celestia and take the place that i deserve." Painset said.

Painset walked at the very edge of the cliff and looked at the castle, with eyes filled of pure sadism and cruelty. She has the impression that Celestia was waiting for her, trying to fix the rift between her and her former student. Painset can predict that. It's so predictable and hypocritical to her that it disgusted and infuriates her. If she will meet Celestia, she would had to remind her own truth. The unicorn know as 'Sunset Shimmer' died long time ago. Only Painset Shimmercakes remained.

"The day i'm going to ascend as a god of your world will be the last day of your rule. You are next, Celestia! And after that, Twilight Sparkle will follow you in the death coil!" Painset announced.

Painset Shimmercakes laughed maniacally, confident of her own abilities and ready to prepare the doom of her hated enemies. Magic Mare would had done the same, but since that would angering her, she just smirked in approval. They were impatient to begin. After all there is a world to explore, and conquer in the process. That Celestia wanted or not, Painset's vengeance was about to begin.





Meanwhile on Earth...

At the very heart of dawn, the warden of the reformatory opened the door, only to meet a red haired boy with black habits being sat in his contemplation.

"Get up you punk!" The warden said.

The boy lifted his head and looked at him with a slighlty bothered face. He let out a soft groan like he wouldn't even do anything that will cause any problem to him.

"The same ritual everyday." The boy thought.
> Chapter 1: Absurd Breakout
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Hidato reformatory. A special facility for particular inmates whose crimes where particularly grave. That none of them managed to escape was kinda obvious. What wasn't obvious was the host that entered this facility two months ago. The warden approached one cell and opened the door, only to find a red haired boy dressed in black sat in contemplation. He then knock the metallic wall of the room with a metallic stuff to get his attention.

"Get up already, Alex." The warden ordered.

"Alright, alright," Alex said quietly with a bothered tone. "Tsk. Not that I want to remain here doing nothing anyway."

"Keep it up knowing your place, you punk." The warden said harshly before leaving the jail. "Besides, you have a visits.

Alex flinched. "What?"

Two figures stepped inside the cell. A tough girl with a long black hair and a tall guy with a serious face. Alex knew very well who they are.

Alex sighed. "Gon, Lena."

"We know that you didn't had beat up the president of our school," Lena said.

"However, this does excuse your method of revenge against the ones who had wronged you." Gon reminded.

"I am not obligated to keep consideration of my actions." Alex said.

"If only we weren't guarded, I could had kicked your sorry ass," Gon threatened.

"It's not worth the effort," Lena suggested.

"Hey, I've done what I think its right and suit me at the same time. Nothing wrong with this." Alex said.

"You son of--" Lena halted.

"You had been changed for the worse." Gon said.

The warden approached the trio. "The visit time it's over. You better go. We have our rules."

With that Gon and Lena leaved Alex alone as the warden closes the door of his cell. That was a bitter reunion, but Alex didn't cared at all. At this point, Alex lay on his bed and took his sleep, waiting for dinner to come.

But came instead was the ringing of the alarm. Confused, Alex stood up and rushed toward the door to hear what was going on. Multiple guards were talking to eachother

"We have a problem, four inmates disappeared in the nothingness, and their cells were sealed!."

"WHAT!?"

"Are you serious!?"

"I saw that in the cameras!"

"Four inmates just disappeared inexplicably? What the hell is going on?" Alex thought,

"Could be the same thing happened to her?"

"Her who?" Alex demanded.

But before he could ask anything else, a unbearably immense light was illuminating the room. He shielded his eyes to prevent his retinas from being damaged. He couldn't understand what is going on. Alex tried to interpret the situation, but he felt instantly weak and light-headed. The world around him warped itself, and seconds later he found himself falling inside of a endless dark abyss. He tried to scream but he was unable to do so as he passed out during the fall. So his mind does that for him.

"WHOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!"

That would be literally a journey to the abyss.





As his consciousness stirred, Alex was greeted by a grotesque scenario. He was nearby an altar, in what seems to be a combination between a prison and a ceremonial room used for some ritual sacrifice, which was baffling for him. There are cells on his right and on his left respectively. Being there was confusing considering that he was in his cell a few moments ago. As he tried to move his body, he felt it being weird like no other.

He stood up four legged like it was natural to him and observed his body... Which was changed. Not feeling his fingers at all, he immediately glanced at his own hands. He froze in horror upon seeing them being replaced by hooves. He then quickly took a look a his back legs, and then to rest of his body, being covered in a green fur.

"No... You are kidding me right?" Alex asked.

Noticing a mirror being in the front part of the altar, he saw his current from: He was turned into a pony in the style of MLP,  dark green maned green stallion. Among the surprises that he had witnessed so far, that was the worst one. This is also count since he was also a bashing internet troll targeting the MLP community.

"Seriously, I had gotten arrested for a crime that I didn't had committed and now this. This can't be happening. There's no possibility that such thing could happen."

Seemingly pissed for the thing, Alex checked every part of his body one more time and slapped himself twice. What he was living was true. He stood up two legged in protest.

"WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON!?"

"Oh, look, there's another victim into their grasp," One female voice said from behind the altar, startling him.

Forgetting for a moment to have been turned into a pony, he took a moment to remember where he heard that voice.

"Who's there?" Alex asked.

A mare came out from the altar, being the one before being reformed and ex leader of the Our Town cult.

"Starlight Glimmer it's the name. You must be new to this cursed place." Starlight said mockingly.

"Well... Yes.... Wait, what do you mean with cursed?" Alex asked.

"During the exile that Twilight had inflicted on me, one of my former friends took me into this place to be sacrificed."

"Sac.... What?"

"That traitor started it's own cult and began to gain more followers than I had before, all of that in honor of a alicorn."

"A-alicorn?"

"You won't even know who she is."

Suddenly, their conversation was interrupted by some voice.

"Hey, guys! I think we found both her and somepony else that is going to join our cause!" A elder voice said from the entrance.

"Oh, no." Starlight said.

"That's not good," Alex said with a grave tone.

Hoofsteps were heard getting closer to the entrance with the pass of the seconds. Multiple ponies in red cloaks entered inside the room, armed with shovel shaped swords. The unicorns carries five of them. Among them there was female mare dressed in a green cloak, also armed with the same weapon, only more longer. Those creatures formed a wall a frenzy. Starlight was intimidated by that but Alex was surprised to see who the green cloaked pony is.

"Sugar Bell it's the cult leader?" Alex said stupefied.

"Yeah, you can tell that," Starlight confirmed.

"It's doesn't matter who has to die. Every sacrifice and rebirth is needed for our new god," Sugar Bell proclaimed.

"Oh, great. So tell me. What kind of fucked up god is this?" Alex asked.

"Shut up. Don't get things worse!" Starlight halted.

"She is the one who show the truth about the laws that rules this world." Sugar said with gleeful and yet serious tone. "Celestia and Luna deceived us for a very long time. But she unmasked their lies and revealed the Elements of Harmony's their true colors as the self proclaimed Elements of Insanity. But i have faith in Painset, because she will save us all!!"

"...... Ok, your level of cultism is abysmal. We have a problem." Alex commented.

"Enough talk, seize them!" Sugar ordered.

Before the order was delivered, three claws protruded from Alex's right hoof and shoots black lightnings at Starlight, who fell on the ground while yelping for the pain. Sugar and her follower stopped, and Alex goes to check Starlight condition when something strange was happening to her.

A dark red aura suddenly engulfed her body. Starlight slowly rose up, but in a very unusual way. She was standing on her two legs like a human without even realizing it, holding her head with her hooves as she was suffering from a that was whipping her brain. She shook her head frantically and let out a pained moan.

Then a strange transformation was occurring to her body. She watched her hooves in awe as her pink coat loosed it's luminosity and became a pale lavender one. The violet colored part of her mane became tinted into a magenta one. Her mane was also getting longer and her violet eyes were colored in red.

"What have you done to me?!" Starlight howled, confused and troubled.

Starlight struggled to repel the alien influence that was infesting her mind. Her inner being was being shaken by the corrupting aura. Starlight tried to reassure herself that is not real, but her focus was then interrupted by a stream of memories that weren't her own. The images were all blurry at first, but then, slowly, they showed a really crude scenario. She could see the fate of the Elements of Harmony and their possession that lead them to became the Elements of Insanity.

Unable to resist any longer and being assaulted by the mnemonic flux, Starlight looses her consciousness. Alex trembled for the fact that it was incidental and most of all because he didn't know where these claws came from.

There was a moment of silence. Nothing happened so far except that Sugar Bell and her followers slowly approached Alex. In response, Alex put on a fighting stance, as for a street fight style and kept his eyes on his pursuer.

"Ok, wackos. Get on!"

"I may not like ponies and I don't know what the hell is going on, but I wonder if I had accidentally killed Starlight."

But before Alex could concluded it's phrase, a creepy and yet warped voice interrupted him.

"Wretched traitor, stop trying to steal the spotlight, ya shitty witch!"

Alex got his answer from Starlight Glimmer's voice coming from behind him, but his intuition was telling him one thing: 

She wasn't the pink unicorn that he met before. 

"It's Bloodbath Fever time!!"

Alex hesitantly turned toward her. He got a good look of her appearance, but not in a good way.

Starlight was standing two legged, holding a sharped iron scissor for each hoof. Her once bright pink coat was now a pale lavender one. Her mane was a messy, long magenta one, leaving the azure colored part of it unaltered. She has blurry, shaped red eyes and her tongue was abnormally large, coming out of her mouth and reaching her chin. But it cannot hide her gleefully sadistic and dreadful expression that her face was displaying.

Compared to the ghosts who had transformed the Elements of Harmony into the monsters that they are now, this one was different. Is not a TF2 Freak, and is not a internet meme either. It was something else, a entity that he had accidentally created with his own hands

"What the...?" Alex murmured, watching at the new pony freak that he had created with his own hooves.





"Yo, guys! Did i missed something!?" The new Starlight said with a confident tone.

Sugar Bell and Night Glider gasped, looking at her with in bewilderment. But the most bewildered was Alex. He felt like he had passively smoked pot without even realizing it. He couldn't believe is real.

"I DID WHAT!?" Alex shouted in disbelieve.

"S-Starlight?!," Sugar Belle exclaimed, baffled by her behavior. "What happened to-"

"Shut it, loser!" interrupted the new Starlight, displaying a murderous aura. "I don't even need that name anymore. I'm now the epitome of bloodlust, Starcider Glimsho!"

"Oh my god if this is getting ridiculous." Alex thought

"But seriously, the old Starlight Glimmer is a real failure." Starlight, now Starcider Glimsho, affirmed.

"Y-you are joking, right?" Sugar Belle muttered, realizing something. "I can sense something wrong in your magic! How did you gain that-"

"KYEEHAHAHAHA!!" Starcider laughed loudly, interrupting her again. "With a murderous rebirth comes a murderous reward! Something that you don't even deserve!"

"SILENCE!" Night Glider screamed in anger, flapping her wings and rising in the air while holding her own shovel sword in her hooves. "I don't care what sort of monster you had become! You killed our companions! You don't deserve our god's forgiveness! You will be destroyed as a blasphemous heretic, along with that green stallion over there!".

Sugar Bell used her telekinesis to lift every single shovel shaped swords of her fallen followers and pointing them toward her two targets. Her intention was then confirmed by her enraged expression.

"Starlight, you were almost escaping your purification." Sugar Bell said angrily. "I don't know what happened to you, but either a you or that fake detective have defied our god for the last time. I'm going to clean your acts by SHREDDING YOUR FLESH PERSONALLY!"

"Bitch please," Starcider said as she summoned multiple energy scissors and launched all of them to Sugar's head and that of their followers. Strangely enough, they didn't bleed or anything. They just turned themselves into pile of ashes.

At that point, a question was the legit one for Alex.

"In what mess I fell into... And where did my powers came from!?"
> Chapter 2: Dreadful Entrance
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Alex wasn't expecting what was witnessing to take this weird level of bad. As being arrested wasn't enough. He was now ponyfied, brought in a chamber full of cultists and having somehow turned Starlight Glimmer in a killing machine who killed said cultists in one shots. Or for the weird scenario, turned them in pile of ashes. Alex was standing nearby the altar and was starting to think of the situation as a nightmare.

"Well... That's a let down. GYAHAHAHAHAH!" Starcider said gleefully.

"No... That can't be real," Alex murmured. "I rather be in my own cell instead."

Before he could do anything, she was already in front of him with her scissor being near to his face. Alex was sweating cold right now.

"Hey, you!" Starcider said, playing around with her scissors and leaning her face toward him. "You've done this to me, right!? Right!? Right, right!? You've turned me into this, riiiight!?"

Alex could barely maintain his calm with her eyes shooting daggers at him and her Genoscissors being around his face. He saw very well what this mare has in store for him. Fighting the real Starlight was a thing, but this new Starlight Glimmer was not joking around.

"You will not get away with that, buffoon." Starcider said with a grim tone. "I'm going to tear your body apart and append your head as my cup."

Alex frowned. "You better not screw with me, horned bitch." He said before dissolving in black-green flames and reappearing at her right to give her a kick who sent her in air. She end up crashing against a wall, creating various medium cracks on it, and collapsed to the ground.

Alex flinched for what he had just done. "I-I can teleport!?.... Whoever. I have to check up that she's not dead yet. If Genocider Sho has very ridiculous resistance that allowed her to get up immediately despite being slashed, shot or even hit by explosions like in her videogame... Maybe even this corrupted Starlight can do that."

But before he could do that, Starcider suddenly stood up on her own hind legs and lifted her head toward him. She looked at him with a unpleasantly euphoric face. She was even blushing, which was very disturbing and grotesque for him.

"Aaaaah! You know how to surprise me, you fabulous bastard!" Starcider said, embracing her shoulders. "I have to admit. You've got quite the cojones, fighting back this serial killer who has also a great amount of magic in her arsenal. But don't get me wrong. I have no intention to be your lover!"

"What is wrong with you!?" Alex bellowed.

"It's all your fault!" Starcider replied angrily and yet gleefully, pointing her Genoscissors at him. "What you have done to me altered my brain chemistry as well! You are responsible for my condition.... And yet is literally awesome. Bloodshed can have indeed a wonderful prospective."

"Like killing the..." Alex halted. "How did Sugar Bell and her cultists turned into pile of ashes instead of dying."

"Well... They are all dead long time ago." Starcider confirmed before she started to laugh loudly. "Kyeehahahaha!"

"What do you mean?" Alex asked.

"They were zombies, resurrected by an alicorn," Starcider said with a bit of anger. "A bitch that I had to deal with." She then ran two legged out of the room. "See ya later, amigo."

"Wait!" Alex said in vain. "And how the hell can ponies run legged? Its impossible..."

Without any other though, Alex stepped out the room and wandered through a maze of rocky corridors in search of the exit, still thinking it's a dream. But suddenly, a explosion was heard from afar, accompanied by a echoing evil laughter.

"Oh, boy. Now what?" Alex said, almost startled.

Alex followed the echoing laughter until he reached a light. Hesitantly, he stepped forward and stopped behind the wall to see the situation going on.

The Subjects, being Painset Shimmercakes and Magic Mare were standing in front of her. Unharmed with closed eyes as the currently invoked red metallic form returned into her normal one, still bleeding a little. There are trace of burns on the ground beneath her hooves. The alicorn opened her eyes and glanced in muted self-satisfaction her prey, being a very battered Starcider and approached her.

Alex kept his hoof on his mouth to avoid shout for the surprise. "Sunset Shimmer in a demented alicorn form? And Trixie too?... What I am even watching?"

Not wanting to let Painset get away for having derailed her village, Starcider tried to rose up, forcefully. But her body was so weakened that refuse to cooperate, making her head to lean backwards on the rock soil. She won't even growl in order to not give more satisfaction to her enemy, as her became somehow more smarter than her. But that wasn't very consolatory since Painset was the winner of this lunatic fight.

"I-i can't believe that I had lost to this usurper... I cannot even use a damn spell." Starcider said with a arrogant but weak tone. "That sucks."

Painset smirked and then laughed very maliciously in mockery. She never felt so satisfied to have taken down a nuisance who was almost going to kill her. And Magic Mare as well, but that was a second detail to her. What did matter in that moment was that she was going to make her pay for what she did or said to her. Having partially delayed her plans to take over Equestria, slaying some of her units and trying to kill her were crimes that she would never leave unpunished.

"Well, my pitiful pony," Painset said. "That is the end of your line. You will go down as the my other foolish enemies before you."

The demonic alicorn turned her head toward Magic, who gleefully nodded in agreement as she pulled out two sharp blades out of her hat. Painset alicorn glowed her horn in light-green glow, lifted both the weapons above her with her magic and pointed them at the battered Starcider, who looked a little frightened and a little euphoric at the same time. Painset prepared her cruel and bloody punishment, amused by the thought of the fight that she had with the persistent pony.

"You may have obstructed my plans," Painset said, sadistically. "But you may be a perfect subject in which I can test both my powers and authority. You will fear me even more."

Starcider, being still Starlight Glimmer, would had took her tormentor very seriously and being scared like she never was in her life, if the possession of Genocider Sho didn't screwed with both her mind and her brain chemistry. With her confidence and her ego remaining with her as being bound by the madness of her own shattered mind, she chuckled a little, which confused Painset a little bit.

"Ohohoh. Gently sadistic of you," Starcider gleefully mocked. "I should be angered by the fact that I'm going to die by your filthy hooves, but... That may be also a pleasant experience."

"Did you have lost your mind?" Painset demanded.

"So what's next? Torture section with a slash of menage a trois?" Starcider euphorically said, causing her two tormentors to react in disgust.

"I never felt quite this unclean." Magic said in muted scorn.

"Disgusting insect!" Painset said, indignantly. "We are not torturing you for your enjoyment!"

"Good," Starcider replied with a now serious tone. "Because I don't feel any kind of Stallionkholm Syndrome toward you right now."

Taking that as another, filthy insult, Painset glared ferociously at her, with her irises being shrunk and her eye twitching. She roared with a demonic, deformed voice as she raised her hoof and stomped on Starcider's stomach repeatedly, causing her yell in pain.

"Demented prick!" Painset yelled with her normal voice, stomping on her on more time before stopping. "Not only you have still the guts to talk back at me in your situation, but you have also the morbid taste to joke with my methods! How annoying you can possibly get!?"

The alicorn pulled her blades back with her telekinesis to adjust her aim toward her hated victim's head and preparing to launch them with much force.

"Forget the torture. You are going to DIE NOW!!!" Painset screamed with a monstrous voice, magically moving her flying blade toward Starcider.

Normally he would had escaped, but Alex was not the one who tolerate bullying or any form of one sided massacre, he leaped into a flying kick and hit Painset in the right side of her face, making her fall. Magic and Starcider were both surprised and shocked by this act. Painset, however, was furious.

"H-how dare you!" Painset neck snapped, changing her voice into a deeper one. "But more importantly," Her voice changed again, this time into a younger one. "Who the hell are you."

"Talking almighty and then trashing the others,huh?" Alex said, pointing his still clawed hoof at her. "I don't care who you are but I will kick you ass."

"Idiot, run! Those two are out of your league!" Starcider warned.

"Too late. Now you will suffer my wrath!" Painset said as she assumed her metallic form for a Ubercharge.

Alex, instinctively but struck by panic, charged his clawed hoof with a dark energy and shot a dark violet dart of energy at her. The blow hit Painset, destroying her red metallic armor and sending her flying backward before falling down, interrupting her charge.

Magic and Starcider were dumbfounded by that. Painset was the most incredulous of the three.

"W-w-www--- WHAT!?" Painset exclaimed.

Alex was just stunned at first, but after some consideration, he smiled and decided to take the situation at his advantage. At that point, he draw out three claws from his other hoof. Starcider exploited their distraction to escape with a very exaggerated high jump. Painset noticed that but it didn't mattered to her. Alex was his target now.

"Ok, guys. Let's re-" Alex didn't have the time to say anything that Magic launched three volcanic spears from her hat and pierced his body.

Alex yelled in pain, falling backwards. And before he would say anything else, Painset charged her horn and shot a magical ray in his face. In that fraction of seconds, one thought traversed his mind.

"Two monstrous ponies... killed me?"
> Chapter 3: The Resurrection
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

"How worse this dream can possibly get?"

That is what Alex was asking as he was laying on the ground. The ground of the limbo in which he was sent after Painset and Magic killed him. His wounds were gone but he felt too numb to even stood up. From above him, two ghost of TF2 Freaks appeared and thought that was the opportunity to get his body.

Scoutit and Dr.Teem were about to possess him but then... Something happened.

A white shockwave happened and the two ghosts were wiped out in one instant. Alex was even more confused. He slowly stood up and looked around until he found the source from above him.

Someone or something fell from above like a meteor, right in front of him, making Alex almost fell aback. It was a white humanoid figure with white airs, a black armor with spikes, a violet mantle, silver eyes and sharpened teeth. That was what the benefactor was like.

"W-what the..." Alex muttered.

"You should be grateful that I had spared you the horror to have a mind splitted," He said.

"Huh?"

"Those two ghosts were nothing, but the ones who had killed you were even worse than them... But, hey, I know the trut, h, you were no different since the incident at your school, Alex."

Alex gritted. "Hey! Now you are the one who hasn't self introduced and yet you were digging in my life without any restrain. What the fuck are you creep!"

"I am Aidan, a powerful I.A. given form, flesh and power and I suggest you to no anger me. Arrogant humans. Feeling superior to the first occasion and then susceptible when it's about their hearts. What paradoxical hypocrisy."

"A.I..... Yeah, whatever. What is this place?"

"Your limbo. What do you expect? It's not a dream if The Subjects killed you."

"Subjects?"

"Two ponies who were wiped of their memories and then lured to the Freak World, were they became possessed by the ghost of powerful TF2 Freaks and they managed to return to Equestria to wreck havok."

Alex remained silent for a moment to think about what he heard and knell in front of him.

"So I am a dead pony for real," Alex said.

"Hey, I am not Death," Aidan pointed out. "But there's one way to return to life.

"Really?" Alex beamed but then halted. "Wait... What is the cash?"

"Simple? Let me enter in your body."

"You mean possess me?"

"Everything has a price. Including resurrection... Say, I don't think you are going to be missed in the real world."

Alex glared at him. "WHAT!?"

"In your cell, after you had disappeared, an explosion happened and soon enough you were declared dead."

Alex shivered. "No.... You are lying!"

"Just watch."

An image appeared in front of the two, showing the news talking about a explosion happened in the reformatory and confirming multiple victims. The name of Alex Phirell was included. After a few seconds, the images disappeared.

Alex was crestfallen. It was like being dead twice. The first by the hooves of Painset and Magic, and the second one by this news. In that point, the a particular thought traversed his mind. Not his past actions or former friends like Lena and Gon, but that of a girl which he wanted to apologize for everything.

At that point, Alex made up his mind.

"You know what?" Alex said as he stand two legged. "You can possess, but please, destroy my enemies and I promise that my life will be yours."

"AHAHAHAHAH!.... What are you talking about?" Aidan asked.

"Oh?"

"You don't understand right? I will only possess you to bestow my powers to you but its you that must be in control!"

"What?"

"Prepare yourself!"

Aidan flew toward Alex and entered inside of him, causing him to scream as a column of white wrapped both of them. It was the prelude for a nightmare. Nightmare or the best thing yet.





Painset and Magic turned around and leaved the body that used to be Alex.

"That was easy. Unfortu-" Magic was interrupted.

"We never spoke of that scissor maniac again. Celestia is next," Painset declared.

"Well of course,"

"Gather our army. We must-"

A column of light erupted from behind them in the distance. The Subjects turned around to see what it was. The columns begins to diminish in it's dimension, revealing a creature that looked like Alex, only more humanoid. The head was that of a pony, but has also demonic feet, demonic hands, a trench coat and a stone armor being inside. Such sight leave them speechless.

Alex was the first to speak. "Well, Painset. Round 2."
> Chapter 4: Brutal Display
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

In the wasteland of Rambling Rock Ridge, something that surpass the absurd happened. Just when Painset and Magic had thought to have liquidated Alex as another victim, he returned in a very ponoid demonic form, aided by the entity known as Aidan. The Subject were speechless, especially Magic Mare, who was the one who killed him.

"H-how can you do that!? You were DEAD!" Magic bellowed

"Yeah, don't ask me that, you smuck. Now that was a rush. Being brought in this world as a pony, killed by pony monsters like you and being resurrected as some kind of a terrifying humanoid entity.... You were responsible for this." Alex said.

"What!?" Painset and Magic answered at the unison.

"Listen up, equine screwheads. A new power flows inside me, and more than that, I'll tell you, I fought any thugs and delinquents of the worst dirt. You were out of my leagues? Who cares, because I will make you pay for even trying to kill me."

Painset growled, but then grinned. "So, you had just returned to life and think to have a chance this time? Don't waste my waste my time."

"This time I will make sure you were dead for real," Magic said as she removed her hat and summoned two metallic cerberus creatures who leaped toward him. Alex looked at them and didn't even flinched.

"Give them surprise," Aidan suggested.

As the beasts got closer to his head, Alex grabbed both their heads and start to crush them. A move which surprises Magic and Painset.

"The hay!?" Magic exclaimed.

"As you can see, Alex, my influence gaves you a unequaled strength, endurance and vitality," Aidan suggested.

Alex then slammed the cerberuses' heads on the rocky soil, making them explode. The Subject never expected that display of strength.

"I can fell my power growing with the pass of the time." Alex thought.

"GRR! I have enough of him already! Magic, let's do it!" Painset said.

"Ditto," Magic said as she summoned every kind of leviathan, chimera and Meems can call forth.

The hordes began to shoot lasers, projectiles, plasma shots from the leviathans and fire shots from the chimeras. Magic just launched meteors from her hat and Painset just charged her magic and shot a devastating beam on it.

"Neo Sanctuary," Alex said instinctively as a barrier formed around him, protecting him from all of this barrage, but then realized in confusion what he said. "Wait, I did that?"

"That's right. You are immune to the blows as long you don't move from your position," Aidan informed.

"So I am invincible when I remain still?" Alex asked, but Aidan refused to state the obvious.

"Are you making fun of us!?" Magic screamed.

"Just die!" Painset said furiously.

Alex continued to watch as the barrage continued to vex his barrier. "But now that I am thinking about, It's that what you got!?"

Painset group interrupted their barrage to recover their strength and remain immobile. Magic ordered the leviathans and chimeras to rush against Alex. Aidan smirked upon seeing this.

"Show them what a real massacre really is!" Aidan exclaimed.

Alex charged his demonic hand and slammed it against the ground, causing multiple pyroclasmes of energy to erupt from below each monster and travelling toward the next one, disintegrating them all. As they were about to reach the Subjects, the two teleported away.

For a moment, there was silence and Alex wondered were his opponents could be, but not for long.

Sliding toward her target at the light speed, she reached Alex and leaped on him, only to be met by him backhanding her and sending her to fly.

Magic Mare appeared at his left to exploit his distraction, and, unfortunately for her, Alex facepalmed her with a explosive blow that sent her to fly as well. Both the Subjects fell on the ground roughly.

Alex turned at them and walked toward them to make his next blow. Painset, however, didn't made him wait and glowed her horn in a blue light and shot multiple nails that, which Alex avoids by moving away. He facepalmed.

"I can't believe I was fearing two noobies." Alex said disappointed.

Painset snapped and charged her horn with a tremendous energy as she flew upwards. "You asked for the most brutal execution ever made. I shall destroy your existence in this instant. You are even worst than that cyborg pony. You had returned from the grave, but you will remain there this time. DIE!!!"

Painset unleashed a very gigantic beam of extreme solar heat that was melting everything that hits. Magic, terrorized by her reaction just hid herself from behind a rock. Painset was laughing maniacally as she continued her barrage. She should had won since she was a very powerful goddess, as she proclaimed herself to be.

But then, Alex laughter was heard, causing Painset to flinch and interrupt the charge of her beam, revealing a fuming but still standing Alex.

"You call this killing blow?" Alex asked. "Bitch, please."

"YOU ARE KIDDING ME!?" Painset and Magic bellowed.

"Let put a end to this farce," Aidan suggested.

"Alright," Alex said gleefully, charging his right hand with a light blue energy and raised it upward.

"Not this time," Magic declared.

"You must die!" Painset said as she slides at high speed toward him and jumped above him, joined by Magic Mare shooting a vulcanic sword from her hat.

Unluckily for them, Alex teleported behind them and slammed the charged hand on the ground.

What followed was a titanical pillar of white energy that continues to expands by seconds, slowly. Everything was destroyed in a blink of a eye. And after a few seconds, the pillar shrunk quickly and disappeared. What remains of Rumbling Rock Ridge was a very huge crater, were only Alex and the weakened Subjects laying on the ground remains.

Alex felt to have gone a little overboard, but he didn't cared this much. He turned toward the Subjects, being distant from him for about two yards and looking horribly battered. Furious, Painset tried to get up, but ended up falling. She even tried to use her powers but nothing happened, much to her horror.

"At least I can guarantee that no Diamond Dog was there when that happened," Aidan suggested.

"It's seems like this attack had drained your energy and powers," Alex commented.

"Y-you are not a normal pony freak," Magic said.

"What kind of monster are you!?" Painset asked, hesitantly.

Alex would had used his real name, but since he's not himself in appearance, he came up with another name.

"Zaidel Goelnix," Alex said. "You know, I encountered many so called terrific smuckheads like you who had thought to kill me and failed miserably. And you are no exception."

"E...Exception?" Painset stammered.

"Well, time to give you the finishing touch," Alex said as he walked toward the Subjects, who crawled backwards in fear.

"Not fair!" Magic lamented.

"Stop! Don't finish us! We are going to be us-" Painset was interrupted as Alex dashed toward them and grabbed the Subjects' heads to lift them above him.

"You know what to do." Aidan said.

With that being said, Alex glowed his demonic hands holding the mares with a white energy, which make them shiver.

"HOLY INFERNO!" Alex shouted as an explosion of white flames briefly engulfed the two mare, which colors of their bodies and cutie marks returned back to their original form, and the wings of the pony who was once Painset Shimmercake were gone. The ghosts that were possessing them were burned by the literal inferno that consumed their essence.

After that, Alex loosened his grasp on the mares, letting them fall unconscious on the ground. He looked around at what he had done. The destruction of Rambling Rock Ridge and the purification of Sunset Shimmer and Trixie. He didn't asked for this, and yet he started laughing. And he knows why.

"I don't know why but if I am to be in that form, so be it," Alex said. "Alex Phirell is dead. Long live Zaidel!"
> Chapter 5: Power Grandeur
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

In the crater that used to be Rambling Rock Ridge, Alex Phirell, now being the ponoid demonic Zaidel Goelnix, was standing victorious over Painset and Magic, but has now the inconvenience about what to do with Sunset Shimmer and Trixie, now purified and unconscious.

"Seriously, now what I am going to do with these two?" Alex asked.

"Well you better hurry, because maybe Celestia or Luna would came to investigate. Aidan said.

"Oh, shit." Alex murmured.

"No panic, you know what to do". Aidan said.

Alex didn't know what it meant but then an obscure thought gave him the idea. "OPEN GATE!"

A enormous black portal appeared in front of him, giving him the time to drag the mares inside of it. Once on the other side, the portal shrunk from behind them before disappearing. Alex realized to be in a totally different place, being a mountain.

"Where are we?" Alex asked.

"We are nearby Canterlot." Aidan said.

"C-CANTERLOT!?"

"Don't scream. Someone will see you." Aidan said.

Suddenly, inside the gates, a siege was going on. What is happening in the town was something that he could find in any monster movie, except that is not funny to watch, and is happening in front of his eyes. The wooden gates were smashed, a few houses were destroyed, various pile of ashes with a blue crystal on them filled the ground and the still living red cloaked ponies were running away from it.

And at the center of the whole chaos was a towering monstrosity engulfed in black flames. He could tell that is a Mindeater, but he wasn't expecting to see a very huge one. That thing was a nine-foot hulking creature with a short steel tail and very long claws. It looked like a green eyed humanoid wingless dragon-goat hybrid creature being engulfed in black flames. Compared to the other Mindeaters that were infesting the town, that thing was more taller than the town itself.

The dragon-like creature opened his mouth and spitted blood colored meteors in various part of the town. The meteors crashed to the ground, exploding into pillars of red flames that incinerated a few ponies and other Mindeaters nearby them and leaving craters in their wake. The killed ponies, due to them being Homuncoli, dissolved into ashes and leaved in their place blue crystal, that were disintegrated as well.

"What in the shitty hell is that thing?" Alex asked

"Something that Painset had previously sent for the conquest of Equestria. Time to get ride of it." Aidan said.

"You expect me to fight it? Why!?"

"You will see." Aidan said.

Reluctantly, Alex was about to go facing the monsters but then stopped upon seeing a domino mask. He picked up and put it on his face. "Let's do that with a bit of a style, because I have a plan."

At his right hand, a sword-gun hybrid suddenly appeared in the same moment he went ahead toward the Dragoliath.

"Hey!" Alex said at the dragonic monster, inducing it to turn toward him. "You forgot the Dragon Code!"

Alex shot a dart of dark violet energy that goes right into the Dragoliath's left eye, exploding in the green pillar of energy that destroyed it along with part of his face and leaved a vertical opening on it's wake. The monster roared fiercely for the pain as blood colored flames were coming out of the wound.

He then teleported above him, mustered his strength, and dived on him in a falling overhead slash on him with his energy blade. He cutted his way through it's body during his fall. He then landed unharmed afterwards with his energy made weapon slamming against the ground, unleashing a giant pillar of violet darkness from beneath the Dragoliath that instantly disintegrated it's body.

The monster was reduced into black dust and disappeared into nothingness as the scarlet pillar advanced forward, disintegrating all the Hell Hounds, the humanoid Mindeaters and everything else in it's trajectory.

As the dragon and the other monster died, they turned into black masses of energies entered inside Alex's body, like the stream of a river.

"It's their vital force. That would be useful for you in the future. Use it." Aidan said.

Alex pointed his hoof on the ground and said. "IRON CERBERUS!"

Two puddle of black slime filled the floor and two canine figures came outside of it. There are two armored wolfs with metallic claws, scorpion tails and volcanic eyes.

Gesturing to the unconscious Sunset Shimmer and Trixie, the creatures went to pick them up by their mouth and then returned nearby Alex. The mares were released.

The survived ponies of Canterlot and the incoming Royal Guards went to meet their improbable savior. What they didn't expected were Sunset and Trixie being there.

"I can't believe it! They disappeared months ago," A Royal Guard said.

"Thanks me for the job," Alex said.

"Not so fast, "savior". For starters, who are you?" Another guard said, being a female one.

"You can call me Zaidel Goelnix, and I came just in time what you have lost," Alex said. "That's right. I retrieved them in a journey from another dimension. I came from it to give them back to you."

The citizens and the Royal Guards oh'ed in surprise but had some doubts about the veracity of his words.

"However, their retrieval is not for free," Alex gestured Giant Dad. "I request to be in the presence of Celestia for an audition."

"And go back to my world for revenge."
> Chapter 6: Gradual Hints
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

With no word, Alex, as Zaidel, was escorted by two Royal Guards through the corridor leading to the throne room. He looked around, admiring the architecture and the security. Nobody was aware of Aidan's presence, nor his voice was heard. The guards weren't so fond of him but they escorted him anyway.

Once arrived, his sight finally met Celestia and Luna, who looked sternly at him. Alex knew they were the ruler of the land, which made him a little bit nervous since he was meeting them in live. Being a Starcraft 2 player that was his theory: He was now in Protoss territory and Celestia is Artanius.

"You must be the one who saved our city and retrieved Sunset," Celestia said tranquilly. "Regardless the circumstances, I'm grateful to you."

"Can at least state your name in our presence?" Luna asked.

"Zaidel Goelnix," Alex answered. "And I'm here for your help."

"For what?" Celestia asked.

"I just wondered what happened to Equestria recently. Should the Elements of Harmony being present?"

At this point, Celestia started to talk about Twilight and the others having disappeared months ago. What's worse, strange creatures made their appearances and started wreaking havok to the entire land starting by Canterlot. Alex explained Sunset's situation with her being Painset and made up his story about the purification, without mentioning the destruction
that he caused in Rambling Rock Ridge. As for the Mane Six, Luna mentioned that they were sucked by a dark force inside a mirror toward a world beyond the imagination, which Aidan suggested that being the Freak World.

I was taking some tea with them as they talked about my possible return to home.

"Is there a possibility to return to Earth or what?" Alex asked.

Celestia shook her head. "Unfortunately there's no chance."

Alex lowered his head. "Understood."

"Is there something wrong, Zaidel?" Luna asked.

"No, nothing wrong." Alex said. "Dammit, now I have to find another way on my own."

Finished the conversation, Alex was escorted into his own guest room by a Royal Guard, and was now alone with himself. Night fell and the room darkened. Zadel was pondering about his current situation.

"There are more chance that they will suspect of me. The Elements of Harmony were my only card that I needed to return back to home. Besides, I don't think I will have time to waste finding Twilight if I don't know where she and her companion are. Dear Celestia, at least things doesn't change or I was forced to find them, you should be contempt to have met Sunset again."

"I may know who knows what happened to them, but he's in the Freak Word." Aidan said.

"Wait, you know it!?" Alex asked.

"Not here. We have to leave this place quietly first." Aidan said.





Stirring her mind into consciousness, Sunset woke up in a hospital bed, dazed and groggy. At her left, Celestia was there, almost to the point of crying.

"C-celestia?" Sunset said surprised.

"You have no idea how much I missed you," Celestia said.

"I don't deserve this return," Sunset retorted.

"I know what you mean. You weren't yourself during that possession."

"BUT I KILLED PONIES! Killed other living beings! And I was even going after Twilight and you!"

"Everypony deserve another possibility. You have no idea how much I waited for you to return. Now relax yourself. You should-"

"Wait," Sunset interrupted in realization "... I was in Rambling Rock Ridge when he saved me, but before that, he did it."

"What!?" Celestia bellowed.

A guard pony stormed the room. "Celestia! We have a problem!"





Outside Alex's room, there are rumors of struggling and a very, irritatingly familiar laughter echoing outside. Screams were emitted, a moment before the door was slammed.

"What the-" Alex didn't had the time to answer that Starcider landed in front of him.

"And thus, the royalties are once again useless, GYAHAHAHAHAH!" Starcider laughed.

"What the hell are you doing here!?" Alex asked.

"Huh.... Is that you!?" Starcider answered in a almost lovely tone.

"You are screwing my position! What is your deal here?"

"I heard that you had purified Painset, negating me the possible vengeance for stealing my followers."

"Not that you had followers to begin with."

As the bickering continued, a scream thundered. "I'ts right there!"

"You know what? You come with me!" Alex said, removing and tossing away his mask.

"Huh?" Starcider looked confused.

"OPEN GATE!" Alex said as he opened the portal and dragged Starcider away by her face before it shrunk back to nothingness.





Alex and Starcider reappeared in a isolated farm far away from everything. Before Starcider would say anything, she stopped, scared upon seeing the image of Aidan.

"You better not mess with us or you preferred be purified or worse get junked?" Aidan said.

"I think it's enough, Aidan," Alex said, releasing Starcider from his grasp and looking at the landscape. "This is not Equestria. Which means..."

"Welcome to the Freak Word." Aidan said.

"Freak.... What?" Starcider said confused but then faced Alex. "Whatever, I will let you go but next time I will mow you down. Because I like you. GYAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!"

Without any other word, Starcider escaped the duo on her two legs at fast speed, wielding her genoscissors.

"Aidan, the point is the same. Where are we going to find this guy?" Alex asked.

"Summon your minion first." Aidan said.

Alex sighed. "FACELESS HORROR."

A black slime filled the soil. A faceless pony like figure emerged, with half of his head being eroded. Once out of it, it began to change from his pony form into a motorcycle form, with wheels protruding from his chest and abdomen, and hooves turning into handlebars.

"A form very fitting for a delinquent like you." Aidan said.

Alex looked exalted. "Yeah! Now we are talking about speed."

Alex put himself on the Faceless Horror's back, gripped the handlebars, revved up the motors and started his travel toward
the unknown at high speed.

"You know the indications, right?" Alex asked.

"I guarantee that you will meet him very soon." Aidan said.
> Chapter 7: Hermetic Atlas
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Driving the motorcycle form of his twisted minion, Alex wandered in the desolated places of the Freak World in search for the one mysterious guy that Aidan mentioned. In almost every part, some places resembled the battlefields of TF2, only twisted. After some minutes of travel, he arrived into a wasteland.

"Halt!" Aidan ordered.

And so Alex did and get off of Faceless Horror, who dissolved into a pool of black slime and disappeared.

"So where is he?" Alex asked.

"Right there." Aidan said while grinning, indicating one figure in front in the distance.

It was a blue skinned man dressed as a greek orator, with vulcanic eyes and sharp teeth. A sight that shivered Alex's spine for a moment.

"Welcome, Alex Phirell," The guy said. "It seemed to be good choice having brought you there from the reformatory."

Alex glared. "You! You are the one responsible for my conditions! You kidnapped me from my cell!"

"But you weren't even lamenting when you got this terrific power. Oh, I forgot. You can call me Atlas."

"Ok, cut the bullshit. What is the gimmick? And more importantly where is Twilight?"

"One day the mane six were trapped into another dimension and were scattered in a zone nearby a hollow graveyard, lured by a cloaked mare named Vaga. As each one of them wandered in search of her friends, they were eventually possessed by a different ghost and turned into powerful, chaotic pony freaks by them. You should recognize these specters with the name of two groups: GMod Monsters and Internet Memes."

"That's...." Alex widened in realization. "Are you telling me...!"

"Let me show you the truth and the motivation of your presence."

Suddenly, multiple image were shown in Alex's mind.

In the graveyard Rarity became possessed, remained stuck in a very upsetting trance, accompanied by her eye briefly twitching. There was no change in her appearance, but then Rarity's face assumed a very psychotic look as she wears the red hat from before. Her transformation became more evident during her fight with some Red Team's rejects as her mane became multicolored, her hoof suddenly wearing a gauntlet and her psychosis became more shocking as she killed both of them with her new powers.

"This is the part were Rarity became a pony freak?"

The memories continued to flow in his mind, showing also the fate of the other ponies. The same possession and mind corruption happened to Fluttershy, then to Derpy, then to Applejack and the list goes on. Alex was confused to see Derpy, of all ponies, being one of the possessed ones despite her having nothing to do with the Mane Six. But that is something that he would have reserved for later.

"I knew it! It's the same why as Sunset Shimmer!"

"As you can see, one by one the Main Six were possessed and turned into dreadful abominations. The possession took a heavy toll on them as they had their minds fragmented and perverted to suit the needs of the monsters inside of them. Twilight Sparkle was their last victim, and the first one to have actually two souls being implanted inside of her."

"Two soul?!"

"Scary, huh?"

"And Celestia knows nothing about that?"

"Princess Celestia has no heart to hurt Twilight and the others. Which is why you must be the one who could do that, Alex" Atlas said.

"Because you thinks of me as a asshole, right?" Alex asked. "You want me to beat them up and purify me so I can go home. And that is also the reason why you had bestowed Aidan on me."

"Correct." Atlas said. "But I'm in the mood to give you a real reason of your presence."

"..."

"The madness exuded by the Elements of Insanity, if not kept in check, has the potential to liberate a powerful lovercraftian horror."

"L-lovercraftian horror... A real one!?" Alex said incredulous.

"A powerful one that threatens to tear the multiverse apart. A entity trapped in a dimensional seal known with one name: the Mad Void."

"The Mad Void?" Alex said confused.

"He's a embodiment of bloodshed and madness, born by the insanity and foolishness of three alchemists who died to create it. The moment the Mad Void raised, his own world was turned into a living hell. His influence twisted the minds and appearance of any living being into his own, which is very handy for him since he feast on their insanity in order to grow his power. If left unchecked, every dimension will be thrown in a eternal mad nightmare shaped at his own image."

"Now that is the kind of shit that i don't like at all."

"Vaga is her servant and serves in the shadows. Purify the Mane Six is also a way to lure her out and finish off her plan once  and for all."

"Seems easy... when its not" Aidan said.

"The Elements of Insanity lives inside the Mann Manor," Atlas informed. "But let me tell you. Whoever challenged them never returned. Now I have to go. And now...."

"Wait a minute. This-" Alex didn't had the time to say anything that Atlas disappeared in a white mist. "Fun fucking tastic. where I am supposed to start?"

"Open the gate to Endru Maz." Aidan said.

"Endru what?"

"Just do it." Aidan said.

"Alright... OPEN GATE!" Alex materialized his portal and stepped inside, entering into a sort of throne room, adorned with a mix of gothic, buddhist and futuristic decorations. The throne seems made of both metal and obsidian.

"This place was once raided by the Elements of Insanity. But now you can have this place." Aidan said.

"What I am supposed to do with this place?"

"Is not just your home. Remember your minions? You can fill this place. Not only that but you have another resource to use in this ordeal." Aidan said.

"What is it?"

Aidan grinned "The dead. There are seven corpses that you can resurrect. Alex, I am giving you a prospective about your powers and what to do in order to get upper hand on Brutalight and friends, because your power alone isn't enough."

Alex showed interest as he sat on the throne. "Explain yourself better."

"You have to become one thing: Overlord." Aidan said.
> Chapter 8: The Generals
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Nearby an abandoned factory of the Freak World, a black vortex appeared. Alex Phirell, as Zaidel, made it's appearance, accompanied by Aidan, the digital specter who was possessing him. The portal shrunk behind him, leaving them alone to scan the place. Like the majority of the places, this place resembled a map of a videogame. At least on that, there was no doubt for him.

"Is this world being shaped after the various TF2 maps?" Alex asked.

"To be precise, this world it's a mush of data being brought to life by a mysterious force." Aidan informed.

"What force?"

"It's unknown even to me, but we are not here for this."

"Why you brought me here."

"Just go ahead exploring this place and you'll see." Aidan grinned.

Alex didn't know if take that cryptic hint seriously, but followed his instruction anyway. Entering inside, he found multiple machinery being destroyed and multiple shattered weapons and turrets being scattered on the floor. He wandered around what was turned into a battlefield until he stumbled into something unusual. There are three wooden crossed being stabbed on the ground. In one second, Alex soon realizes what that means.

"You want me to resurrect them?" Alex asked.

"I hope you have nothing against necromancy. "

Alex sighed. "Alright. I will do what you asked, but if something goes wrong-"

"Look, you better trust me like you trust your powers. Got it?"

Reluctantly Alex pointed his hand toward the crosses and charged it with a black energy. Violet lightnings were unleashed from his hands and penetrated the ground. After a few seconds, Alex stopped the charges and stepped back. Initially nothing happens.

But then, three figures emerged from the ground, standing tall with a grim display, a moment before showing a unusual vitality.

The first one was a young black haired man in a bizarre black armor, armed with a huge platinum axe. The second was a woman in golden armor with white hair, wielding a whip-sword. The third one was a gargantuan figure, who was pale blue skinned, wearing a molten armor and had white eyes, black long hair and mouth mask made of metal.

Such sight gave Alex a bad feeling, at first, but maintained his composure anyway. Before he could think or even act, the black haired man spoke.

"You are the one who had resurrected us?" He asked, slightly surprised.

"Well... Yes." Alex said, not knowing how to deal with them.

"Who are you, exactly?" The gargantuan figure asked with a metallic low voice.

Upon hearing his voice, Alex shivered for a moment but then regained her composure and calmly gave his answer.

"Zaidel Goelnix is my name. Can I at least know your name?" Alex asked calmly.

"I am Bedlam," The younger man said. "She is Vartoa, and my huge companion is Delth."

"Why you are introducing us to him, Bedlam?" Vartoa asked.

"At least he doesn't have any grim intention, he's giving us a second opportunity against Brutalight."

Alex's eyes widened. "You know her?"

"Revenge is what we want. You seems like a powerful figure that shouldn't be underestimated, just like the Elements of Insanity. We will follow you if you have our same task."

"What?" Alex is confused.

"Here's our loyalty and gratitude, lord Zaidel." Bedlam said as he and his companions bowed to Alex.

Alex didn't know what to say, but felt a sense of excitement about having allies on his side. Or perhaps something else. He laughed almost maniacally.

"I wasn't expecting nothing else from you!" Alex improvised. "From this moment forward, you are going to be my generals."

"What?" Vatoa said surprised.

"Generals?" Delth said confused.

Alex pointed his hand to the ground and unleashed black lightnings. In a few seconds, a moltitude human looking creatures emerged from a black slime that had been formed on the ground. Most of them were winged and were armed with curved swords, while others were not and were armed with long swords. All of them knell to him.

"I will entrust my minions, Gartans and Warkyries alike." Alex declared as a few of them gathered around the three, being seven Gartans and five Warkyries, the winged ones, to each one. "Now the point is, are you really loyal to me."

"As long as defeating Brutalight is your goal, we will follow your orders," Bedlam said.

"You can have my whip-sword at your command." Vartoa said.

"Whatever you said, I will do as long its pertinent." Delth said.

"Very well. I will lead you to my hideout," Alex said while opening a black portal. "You can go. I'll remain here, because there are multiple things to do."

Without asking any question, the three resurrected warriors and their minions entered inside. The portal shrunk until it disappeared from the sight of Alex. He was alone with a mixed group of thirty two of his minions, with sixteens being Warkiryes. He was about to leave the factory, until a swarm of humanoid Mindeaters and Hellhounds marched toward him from the entrance.

"That means more of their vital force. Lets asphalt these assholes."

"Whatever you said, mister president," Alex said gleefully as he materialized a bizarre giant axe and sent his minions against the creatures.

The swarm was steadily annihilated by the assault of the minion, with only minor losses from the minion's side. However the last Hellhound rushed toward Alex with vigor. As the creature got closer to him, his axe turned into a scythe as Alex swung it against it, cutting the creature in two. The hound and the other defeated Mindeaters turned into a black mass of energy that entered inside his body. Alex found himself being more invigorated.

"You know, Aidan. Maybe I have a idea about resolving this whole mess." Alex proposed.

"Huh?"

"In Starcraft 2 I played Protoss. Now, as for Brutalight and company, I will play Amon upon their asses."

"Ah, I get it. You want to conquer the Freak World first."

"No. I want only the neutral part. The real plan is to create a army. I have intention to conquer part of the Freak World and borrow some part from Equestria."

"Wait, you want to conquer even the land you are supposed to save?"

"That part must be done in secret. I will take part of their territories, just so I can expand my power and defend them from eventual menaces without Celestia having realized it. As for the Freak World, I am going to grind more of the vital force from my enemies and increase the number of minions I can summon. I can also gather more generals who had a bone to pick up with Brutalight or not."

"Don't forget you can corrupt ponies with digital specters, just like you did with Starlight."

Alex eyes widened and he groaned in annoyance. "Now that I think about it, I have to prevent her ruining my plan. If only I know where she is."
> Chapter 9: Starcider Crusade
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

In the forsaken graveyard that marked the birth of the Demented 6, Starcider wandered with disinterest, but not without any glimpse of glee. She walked two legged, wielding her genoscissors and inspecting each one of the tombs. Her search for Twilight and her group brought her to nowhere, unaware of the fact that they were possessed by TF2 ghosts and turned into the Elements of Insanity.

"I can't believe in this place there's a concentration of magic in this point." Starcider said. "Except that it's a mockery that resembled magic that generate multiple non living things." She paused. "Not that I care about it. GYAHAHAHAHAHAH!"

Suddenly, a blur passed nearby her, accompanied by a shotgun-cocking noise.

"Huh?" Starcider looked at the source but there was nothing.

Another noise was emitted.

"Ok, what's up?" Starcider turned her head at her right and was met by Pinkis Cupcake smiling maniacally. "Oh, crap! It's Puffy!"

"What?" Pinkis said confused. "No. It's Pinkis Cupcake. And I'm going to eat you."

As Pinkis laughed, Starcider face assumed a very grim one. "What a surprise. I know who you really are, you bastard."





In one of the many halls of the Mann Manor, Brutalight and Fluttershout were discussing about the book regarding the exorcism. They looked very unsure about what to do.

"So you were planning about using this book, soon or later." Fluttershout said with interest.

"That's right, but... I am very undecided with that," Brutalight replied.

"Brutes, I don't think the others will be ok. After all, we were so accustomed to these powers that we decided to not turn back to normal. Well except for Applepills, who seemed quite unhappy with that, recently."

"That should remain a secret."

"Even so, how did that book ended up in the library?"

"Why this-"

The conversation was then interrupted by a crashing sound coming from outside the room.





Pinkis ended up flying through the roof obliquely, crashing through a window and the roof of a corridor. This while Starcider jumped at a ridiculous height and entered the corridor. She looked forward and saw multiple pony drones charging at her. Starcider didn't made them wait as she summoned multiple energy scissors above her head that whizzed toward her targets, piercing through their heads and making them explodes. Starcider rushed toward the room at the end of the corridor.

"Twilight Sparkhole! Where did you go?!" Starcider whimsically shouted.

Arrived, Starcider slammed the doors and found another corridor with other drones, that she provided to slice into pieces during her run. She arrived at the end of it and entered in the hall where she found Brutalight and Fluttershout. Before one of the two elements could react, Starcider summoned a violet energy scissor and launched at Fluttershout. The scissor unleashed a field of electricity that shocked her and made her flop defenseless.

Brutalight glared back at the aggressor. "You choose a good day to put make an-" She froze. "Wait, where did I saw you?"

"So you did remembered me, Twilame," Starcider said with fury, "YOU STOLE MY VILLAGE!!"

"..... Starlight Glimmer?"

"Forget that. It's Starcider Glimsho. And... What was your name again? Brutalight?"

"That's right. And you have choose the time to mess with me just because we have ruined your stupid utopia. Let me have the pleasure to rip your arrogance into shreds."





Alex wandered nearby the Mann Manor to investigate both Starcider's whereabouts and the Elements of Insanity location. The rumors of the fight coming from the upper floors echoed through the halls, getting his attention.

"I think I have found our madmare," Alex said with a grim tone.

"Are you sure you want to retrieve this idiot?" Aidan asked.

"I have to do it. Even if it's a pain in the ass."





Brutalight summoned her two volcanic swords and launched at Starcider, who just deflected them. Starcider summoned an ark of multiple energy scissors and rushed toward Brutalights. The energy scissors whizzed toward her as she got closer to the violet alicorn.

The latter creates a barrier around her that deflected the projectiles. Starlight swung her genoscissors at the barrier and shattered it into astral pieces. She was about to hit Brutalight, who teleported behind her, armed this time with a katana and ready to strike. She perceived that and blocked the surprise attack.

Their weapons clashed, and then stopped. Brutalight flew above her and tossed her katana while forming another barrier around her. Starcider, in response, spiraled herself through the air as fast as a lightning, with her Genoscissors creating the vacuum drill around her, shredding the katana into pieces and flying toward the demonic, multicolored alicorn.

Despite the barrier, Starcider's spiraling shredding torpedo managed to get through the barrier. One second before the drill reached her, Brutalight immediately glowed her horn and teleported away from her. Starcider's vaccum drill continued it's flight trajectory until she stopped her rotatory motion and landed gracefully.

Brutalight sweated cold. She knew that her opponent was strong when she was Starlight Glimmer, but not this strong. Not wanting to screw around, she glowed her horn in a white light and wrapped Starcider in a white aura. But nothing happens and Starcider exploited this moment to summon a violet genoscissor and toss it at her, causing it to explode into the field of electricity that paralyzes Brutalight, who moaned loudly and fell on the floor.

"You.... Damn.... Little...." Brutalight said weakly.

"I had almost defeated her?" Starlight said incredulous. "My horn is on fire?" She paused. "GYAHAHAHAHAHAH!"

At one point Starcider stopped laughing as she heard Fluttershout voice making her anger known.

"I have enough... of... your.... SHIT!" Fluttershout launched a ultrasonic soundwave from her mouth at Starcider, who instantly moved away from it's trajectory. "You have the nerves to appear in front of us. Not only that, but you have assaulted us and tried to kill us. All of that while making any kind of sexual innuendos. Are you this low?!"

"I didn't remember you being a badmouth." Starcider commented.

Flutteshout galloped toward Brutalight, who was having a migraine. "Brutes. Hold on."

"No... not... now...." Brutalight said, a second before Twilight's voice took her place. "Starlight... I know how you feel."

"Huh?" Starcider looked confused.

"I know about your wounded pride, but vengeance won't resolve nothing," Twilight said. "Trust me, neither I wanted to kill-"

"Shut up, you damn blueberry little shit," Starcider retorted and then face hoofed. "I don't care if you are cursed to share your mind with other monsters or not. I came to avenge my misfortune and that is what I am going to do. So call back the other you and resume were we left off."

Twilight's neck snapped and Brutalight returned. "Fine, but don't even hope to survive me," She slowly rose up, ignoring the pain of her mangled legs and hoovered in the air. "Time to slain your ugly face. You are even more disgusting than Kreig."

"Ohoho, not really." Starcider said as she slowly rotates her arms and summoned a giant ark composed by a multitude of platinum energy scissors floating above her. "SCISSOR MANDA-"

Her action was interrupted by a pink blur, causing the scissors to disappear. Starcider was slammed against the floor and then held by none other than a upset Pinkis Cupcake.

"Argh! It's Puffy again!" Starcider mocked.

"Quiet, you stupid loud mouth," Pinkis said. "Tell me about being launched through the walls and being sunk into a junkyard. That's not funny." She turned to Brutalight. "Can I eat this sucker?"

"You can have her." Brutalight said gleefully.

Pinkis was about to bite. However, Starcider grinned as a circle of energy scissors appeared above them and fell on the wooden floor, piercing it and making it crumble. Both the mare freaks ended up falling on the lower floor. As Pinkis crashed, a black vortex appeared, sucking Starcider before it shrunk back to nothingness,

Fluttershout galloped toward the hole and then flew down to where Pinkis fell. The pink pony was stunned and irritated but mostly confused.

"Who the heck just happened!?" Pinkis asked.
> Chapter 10: Personal Excursion
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

In the throne room of Enru Maz, Alex, Bedlam and rest of his generals were in front of a black chained Starcider, who didn't even bothered to try setting herself free. Her power were practically drained by the same chains, so cannot do this much. Starcider gave a really confused look at the ponoid ruler in front of her, maybe questioning about him letting her alive.

"Starcider," Alex said. "Did you had realized that you had put the Elements of Insanity on a high alarm?"

"Who fuckin cares." Starcider responded. "That was my vendetta..... However thanks for saving my ass, Zaidiot."

"Idiot!" Bedlam roared. "Now they are going to adopt an aggressive reprisal because of your stupid feud with them!"

"What we should do with this psycho, lord Zaidel?" Vartoa asked.

"Right now the only thing in want to do was to kick her ass hard." Alex sighed. "But at this point, I want to inflict a very simple punishment."

"What?" Starcider looked more confused.

"I think I know what it is." Aidan said, unheard by the others but Alex.

Alex approached Starcider Glimsho and pointed his hand at her. "Just like I had corrupted you, I can also purify you. So say goodbye to your powers and go fuck yourself."

"Wait! I don't want change back!" Starcider protested.

"I don't care. So you better behave yourself and get out of my way." Alex retorted.

"And If I will say that I will serve your cause?" Starcider asked deviously.

Alex stopped his act and took a moment to reflect. Although that will result risky to him, having a corrupted pony with it's own cause similar to his goal wasn't a bad idea. Bedlam and the others didn't looked of the same opinion.

"Zaidel, I don't think this mare is worth of your time. She's too rebellious." Bedlam precised.

"You are not going to take her under your wing I would hope." Delth said.

"Hmm. Alex, you had to consider that have pony freaks on your side is also another way to get more power." Aidan said gleefully.

"It's that so?" Alex turned to Starcider. "As you wish. You will retain your wretched powers, but you have to prove your loyalty to me first."

"I should what the fuck now?!" Starcider bellowed.

"Any problem?" Alex asked.

"........ No problem," Starcider said, much to the generals' shock. "As long you allow me to settle the score with Brutalight, I will follow you whatever you go. After all, you are the one who had corrupted me."

"Fair enough." Alex said. "Vartoa, escort Starcider to her new room."

"What are you going to do, lord Zaidel?" Bedlam asked.

"Well, I don't know," Alex scratched his head, heading toward the throne. "Maybe-"

"I have an idea about that, Alex." Aidan said gleefully.

Alex remained silent as Aiden whispered some secret on his hear. Secrets to those who couldn't see or hear the spectral entity. Alex grinned and turned his attention to the generals.

"Bedlam! Assume the command of the base until my return." Alex ordered.

"Where are you going?" Bedlam demanded.

"I have my own commission to do," Alex said as he turned away from Bedlam. "OPEN GATE!"

The black portal opened in front of him and Alex entered inside, disappearing in the darkness that engulfed his figure.





Coming out of the portal, Alex found himself in a very unfamiliar place. It was indeed in Equestria, except that the place was a jungle, which was very strange to him.

"Are you sure that was the correct place?" Alex asked.

"Let's just say that it's a testing ground. What you have to do I to find a pony candidate to corrupt. Nothing more. Keep in mind, there will be Mindeaters too." Aidan said.

"I knew that create an army wasn't this easy." Alex said resigned. "Anyway, let's just this exploration."

The ponoid ruler summoned a pair of spiked silver gauntlets on his hands and wandered  through the jungle, exploring every angle of it and mowing down every Mindeater who was standing in his way to absorb their vital forces. He can summon his minions but who need waste minions when he had his own spiked fist.

After a few minutes of wandering, he spotted a strange creature with serious look on his face. It's similar to a pony, but her appearance was way too oriental. That reminded him of some creature from Japanese mythology.

"What is that pony?" Alex asked.

"I think that's a Kirin." Aidan said.

"A-a Kirin you said?"

"In this world, they are majestic creatures. However, they became raging beasts named Nirik when they get angry. As result, their village was almost destroyed. That's why they ate a flower that remove their voice."

"A life living in the total silence, huh" Alex paused, having guessed what Aidan was up to. "You want me to corrupt her?"

"Don't ask me. The choice is yours."

"Tsk. Which means that I am going to have a little chat with this one."

Alex turned into his pony form while retaining his trench coat and slowly approached the Kirin with a bit of interest and curiosity.

"Excuse me, can I ask you something?" Alex asked.

The Kirin remained silent.

"I knew it..." Alex sighed impatiently. "Can you tell me where is your village?"

The Kirin remained silent.

"Can you at least gesture me where should I go?"

The Kirin remained silent.

"Grrr! Ok, let's try again. Can you at least try to talk!?"

The Kirin suddenly giggled. "Gotcha! Sorry, sorry, but that was too good. Oh, you don't know how much I missed jokes. Hi-larity! Am I pronouncing that right? Some words I haven't said in a will. While! While. Hi, I'm Autumn Blaze. You've just arrived, and perhaps you're tired or hungry or reflective and want to sleep and eat and journal? Which you should do, of course! But first-"

"Halt your enthusiasm," Alex halted. "Look, as much as I wanted to talk with you, I need a help from you. Can lead me to your village."

"Well...." Autumn sighed uncomfortably. "That's pretty difficult to me because... My kind banished me from the village because I decided to retain my voice."

"What you have to do is escort me there. At that point, I will go there by myself."

"Alright, I'll do that... But seriously, I wasn't able to share my feelings and words for a long time. I-I can-"

"I get it. You were-"

Their talk was suddenly interrupted by multiple monstrous roars piercing the silence that was reigning a few moments ago.

"WOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAGH!"

"W-what was that!?" Autumn said freaked out.

"More troubles." Alex commented grimly as he returned into his ponoid form, much to Autumn's shock.
> Chapter 11: Demolishing Flames
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Following the roars, Alex and Autumn Blaze went through the jungle to reach the village of the Kirins. In their arrival, they were met by the sight that was presented in front of them, witch made Autumn recoil with a bit of fright.

There are three towering humanoid entities engulfed in black flames standing in his way. They were almost taller than the trees of the forest. The bodies looked like made of stone, with glowing red and blue lines flowing on their skins and converging on a hole in their chest. Their heads resembled that of a turtle, but without the lower jaws. Spikes raised from their backs and their hands being rocky, blunt maces. The creatures advanced toward the Kirins, who were silently running away in fear. Their presence gave Alex another reason to be more annoyed.

"W-what are those monsters?" Autumn demanded.

"Three huge inconveniences." Alex commented.

"They are Volems. Don't even waste your minions on those things." Aidan said. "At least you don't have a better idea, you are going to deal with them by yourself."

Autumn, without any warning, turn herself into a Nirik and rushed toward them. "Let my kin be!!"

"Wait! Those are not something you can beat!" Alex warned.

Furiously, Autumn circled the three Volems in a circle of flames and leaped toward one of them, only to be backhanded by it's hblunt-mace like hand and being flung violently against the soil. With their obstacle out of the way, they went through the flames unscratched.

Alex face palmed at that failed attempt. "I warned her."

"You better hurry before they do more damages."

"Hey, hulking idiots!" Alex exclaimed, getting their attention while materializing his giant axe. "Let me show you how much size matters."

One the three Volems raised his blunt-mace like hands and slammed to the ground, causing stone spikes to burst from the ground and advancing toward Alex. He jumped away from it's trajectory and ran toward them. The second one charged his hole in the chest with red-blue energy and shot a big plasma sphere toward him. Alex dodged the sphere by dissolving in black-green flames and reappearing from behind them for a surprise attack.

"Watch out, you idiot!"

The third Volem noticed that and brutally tackled him, making him crashing against a tree. Alex collapsed on the ground. Even after the electric surge stopped to electrocute him, he was battered and stunned, but not so stunned to not notice the same Volem trying to smash him with his mace shaped hands in a raging frenzy. He quickly rolled away, leaving the creature's brutal to unleash his barrage of swipes that destroyed the tree instead of him.

Ignoring the pain that was biting his chest and his back, Alex rose up and charged his axe as the three Volems advanced toward him.

"Let's see if they can resist to this." Alex proclaimed as he slammed his axe against the ground, causing a pyroclasm to erupt around him while engulfing the Volems. "BURN!!"

As flaming pillar was burning, Alex teleported behind away and looked at the wounded Autumn, feeling a little sorry for her. He then returned his attention to the dissipating pyroclasm, revealing the result. Alex froze upon seeing how his enemies took the damages.

Much to his shocked surprise, the three Volems' were still standing, seemingly indifferent to the damage that he has inflicted on them despite having their bodies being mostly destroyed. A portion of their pitch-black skulls, the bones of their legs and chest were now exposed, along with luminous red-blue spheres inside of their rib-cages. Black-violet flames coming out of their opened wounds, mixed with green ones that were still devouring their rocky skin.

"That's bullshit!" Alex exclaimed. "Those flames should melt even the rocks. How much resistant they are?"

"The spheres must be their power core. Alex, I know what you were thinking but your sword gun isn't enough against them. You need reinforcements... And you know who I am referring to."

Alex widened his eyes and turned for a moment at Autumn. He already knows what Aidan was talking about and he didn't like that a bit. However, on the other side of the coin, he also knew what he needed in the mission that Atlas assigned to him.

"I'm sorry... But you will come with me." Alex said as he used his corrupting lightning on Autumn, who briefly screamed in pain.

For a moment, Autumn began to wriggle frantically, but then she exploded in a pillar of flames. Her figure seemed to have disappeared from the existence, until she came out from the pillar, hovering above the ground, regenerated and changed.
Her mane and tail were made of pure fire. Her back hooves, fore hooves, horn and head were resembling reddish-grey volcanic rocks with the rest of her body being made of fire. She deviously smiled, seemingly amused.

Alex on other hand was just struck by surprise. "Autumn?"

"Nopony will prevent Autumn Cinder from rising against your stupid faces!" She said. "I am both Kirin and Nirik in one,"





With newfound fury, the flaming kirin spiraled like a flaming arrow toward the one of the Volems and crushed it's power-core, causing it's body to explode in black-violet flames as she landed in front of the other two. One of them tried hit her with it's blunt-maced hand, but she quickly dodged the blow and proceed to deliver powerful punches at it. The other one tried to attack her from behind, only for her to avoid that by flying upwards. Autumn Cinder then dived upon the second like a meteor and caused a fiery explosion as she collided against it's power-core.

Alex exploited the confusion to dematerialize his axe and equip himself with his sword gun. He charged his weapon and shot a powerful coil of destructive energy that destroyed the power-core of the last Volems, causing it to explode.

The fight was over, with Alex and Autumn Cinder standing two legged, in the middle of the burn soil. The villagers and their queen Rain Shine arrived in place with an awestruck expression.

Before any explanation was being given, a tremendous chorus of roars ranged behind them. Alex turned toward the source and found an horde of Hellhounds coming toward them.

The kirins were scared and Rain Shine was worried. Alex, however, smiled, seeing no problem into deal with them. Alex charged his sword gun and shot another coil of destructive energy that wiped all of them.

Rain Shine and her kin observed Alex and Autumn Cinder in astonishment, not knowing not only what to do, but also not knowing if they could trust him or not. He noticed that.

"It seems like I have attire so much attention." Alex thought.

"Alright, insecure screw heads, listen up," Alex said. "We save your asses, so I expect you being at least grateful for that."

"I wonder how they would react to your actions."

"Grateful?" Autumn Cinder said. "You gotta be kidding me! They banished me because I couldn't accept to silence my voice!"

The kirins began to gesture to each other in body language, looking unsure about Alex's intentions. Rain Shine did the same, but only to bring them back to the calm. Autumn Cinder turned toward Alex with a gleeful expression.

"You did this to me, right?" Autumn Cinder said.

"You can say that." Alex replied.

"I feel wonderful, like controlling my own rage and unleash it with a ominous glee. It's fantastic."

"You can keep your powers, but only if you swore loyalty to me. What you have to say?"

"You know what? I will follow you since you were so kind with me. I will burn everything who stands in your way."

"Good."

"Alex, look at them." Alex said.

Alex turned toward the kirins, who were now bowing in front of him without any fear or resentment. Only gratitude and devotion were in their place.

"The hell?" Autumn Cinder said confused.

"It seems like they had accepted you as their new god, Alex." Alex said.

Alex flinched. "Their new god? Me?"

Alex paused for a moment to reflect about the situation. After some reconsideration, he smiled at that, taking this event as a bliss. 

"Good for us." Alex said deviously while looking away from them. "OPEN GATE!"

The dark portal opened in front of Alex, who entered inside, followed by Autumn Cinder, his new ally. The portal then shrunk into smaller proportion before disappearing from the sight of the kirins, who were reveling in silent jubilation.
> Chapter 12: The Cult
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

In the halls of Enru Maz, Alex was contemplating about his excursion in the realm of the Kirins and about the newfound ally that is Autumn Cinder. Thinking about her corruption being delivered by his hand, he didn't felt so proud about that move, although it was Aidan's idea. Being in his ponoid form, he stepped into the library with the intention to gather some intel about the place and the Freak World in general.

What he didn't expected to see was Atlas, the one who tasked him to take down the Elements of Insanity, standing in front him with a book in his right hand.

"Didn't you expected to see me?" Atlas said.

"Atlas," Alex said distrustful. "How did-"

"I will spare you the less important things and bring about a thing that I had forgot to mention. By the way, good job corrupting the Kirin."

Alex flinched. "Wait, why this complement?"

"As you know, the madness exuded by Elements of Insanity were currently-"

"I know," Alex interrupted. "Weakening a barrier with a Lovecraftian horror sealed inside, but what has that to do with what I had done to Autumn Blaze?"

"Your pony freaks exuded a neutral aura of madness that will counter balance that of the Elements," Atlas stated. "Weakening their hazardous aura and giving you more time for your eventual confrontation with them. You must gather at least ten of them."

"Ten of them?" Alex asked surprised.

"Choose with caution, because I won't tolerate any mistake." Atlas said, a second before he vanishes into a white mist.

"Wow. Worst way to boss you around." Aidan said.

"You know what? I don't think I will trust him since he has the face of someone hiding some secret." Alex precised.

"So, what are you going to do?"

"Well, I think I will go in one of the areas of the Freak World."

"Let me guess. Gather even more of the vital force from the Mindeaters?" Aidan said.

"Yes. Time to go straight to the action." Alex declared.





In Freak World, there was an apparently deserted fort being miles away from the Mann Manor, untouched by any force or influence. The dark gate appeared out of nowhere in an alley and Alex stepped in. As the portal vanishes, Alex scanned the place from behind a wall, seeing nothing more than abandoned buildings and a few dead bodies of fallen mercenaries.
The atmosphere and the silence were mostly unwelcoming his presence.

"To think it seems like another Team Fortress 2 zone." Alex commented.

"Don't let your guard down. You should know that this atmosphere is symbolizing a trap."

"Don't even think I hadn't considerate that."

His attention was then caught by a trio of black hooded figures walking toward a weapon deposit, those shape looked like that of a church. As they silently entered inside, a chorus of prayers escaped the door a second before being closed by the three.

Alex went out the alley and slowly walked toward it. "Looks like we have another cult to take off."

"The question is: Who is the god this time."

"It is like Painset Shimmercake, then it should be a piece of cake." Alex commented.

Once in front of the door, he peered inside to see what was happening. A grotesque scenario appeared in front of him. A multitude of black hooded individuals were praying, if not worshiping, a weird unicorn standing on an altar. It was black maned dark grey one with regal dresses and strange red lines on his face. Alex immediately recognized that pony.





"Is that Blueblood?" Alex asked.

"Yep, and it is a pony freak this time, if his appearance confirmed his corruption."

"Anything that has nothing to do with his life style is evil," One of the hooded figures said. "We should purge this world of any opposition in his honor."

"Eheh. Looks like Doppleganger has found a new host."

"Who?" Alex asked.

"It's the ghost of a freak with the capability of copying the powers of the enemies. You should not underestimate him."

"Interesting, although I will have a hard time to purify him." Alex said.

"Life and Death are both illusions," Another one said.

"Yeah, Keep talking." Alex said as he summoned four Iron Cerberuses, who came out from the ground behind him,

"Our present reality is the only real truth," A third one said.

"Long live lord Doppleblood!" The other ones proclaimed.

At this point, Alex opened the door with a kick and sent his canine minions against the cultists. "ATTACK!"

The Iron Cerberuses opened their mouths, exposing barrel guns coming out from them. They started shooting fire projectiles against the cultists, disintegrating some of them. Alex materialized two golden spiked knuckle in his hands and began to beat up the other cultist badly. The last one of them tried to attack him from behind with a knife, only to be backhanded by him.

Doppelblood was a little bit taken aback by the irruption, but felt also amused by that intrusion. Alex, on other hand, wasn't so excited to see him, knowing the snobby nature of the freak he was facing.

"Since by then a snob like you is managing a cult?" Alex asked.

"You are ruining my newfound joy of living that is outside Celestia's authority." Doppelblood said nervously. "What the bloody hell are you anyway."

"I am Zaidel Goelnix," Alex proclaimed. "And right now I am going to kick your ass before you can even touch me."

"You are welcome to try, but you are no match for my power." Doppelblood said deviously as he raised his hoof and materialized a chaingun and pulled the trigger with his magic.

Alex raised his hand toward the bullets and creates a shield made of green flames in front of him, nullifying the attack. Alex then teleported behind him to punch him, but Doppelblood disappeared before he could even hit him. Doppel's laughters echoed for a moment through the entire church.

A pair of eyes appeared behind Alex and Doppelblood materialized himself, ready to attack him, but ended up being backhanded by his opponent and was sent to fly. Doppelblood used his magic to stop himself in order to not being slammed against the wall.

Furious, Doppelblood glowed his horn in a white light. Alex was wrapped by a white aura that dissipates one second later without nothing happening, much to the snobby freak's surprise.

"You can't transform me into anything, pal." Alex said while grinning.

"And more importantly, he cannot absorb your powers. Not even myself."

"Ohohoh, but i was just getting started."Doppleblood said nervously.

Alex dismaterialized his gauntlets and equipped himself with his sword gun, which was directed toward him. "You are too predictable."

Doppelblood ubercharged himself, turning his own body into red metallic one with spark of lightnings being emitted, and slided at the same speed as Pinkis Cupcake while emitting cocking shot gun noises. As he approached him, Alex shot one bullet of destructive energy at him, shattering his urbercharge armor and sending him to fly against the altar.

And this time, he was slammed against the altar. Not wanting to surrender, he slowly rose up and rushed at a very incredible speed toward Alex, tackling him while materializing a grenate launcher. Doppel shots one freezing bullets at him, blocking Alex in the place as he was falling.

Doppelblood smiled at that prospective. "Prepare to d-"

Unfortunately, he was interrupted and blasted by the Iron Cerberuses firing fire projectiles at him, setting him of fire. He screamed in pain. Strangely enough, the flames dissipated a few moments after that and he took the appearance of his blond old self, much to Alex's confusion.

"What the...." Alex murmured. "Joke aside, I'ts a shot of luck that I can command the cerberuses mentally but... What happened to him?"

"I lost my powers! How could I had completely forgot about them?" Doppleblood said in confusion.

"Don't get distracted. Do it now!"

Following his instruction, Alex didn't waste anymore time that he approached Doppelblood, who was now cowering in fear.

"Let me guess. Not only you gained the power from other freaks but you had also gained their weaknesses. Well time to end your cult."

"No! Please, I-" Doppleblood's head was grasped and he was lifted above the ground by Alex, who proceed to gave him his coup de grace.

"HOLY INFERNO!" Alex said as a blast of white flames blasted Doppleganger, who screeched in agony as he returned to be the old and pathetic Blueblood, who fell unconsciously.

Alex then turned to the Iron Cerberuses and let them sunk into the ground, making them disappearing into the nothingness.

"Good job, Alex. You had showed him who's the boss."

"And I'm going to boss him for real this time." Alex proclaimed.

"Don't tell me..." Aidan laughed. "It seems like we have the same idea. But first, we have cure him."

"Ok, let me try." Alex said as he summoned from the ground multiple pools of gray metallic liquid.

From that puddles, multiple small nymphs made of gray slime appeared and rushed toward Blueblood's body.

"The hell?" Alex said disturbed.

"Those are Titargos. are not suited for a fight, but they can compensate that by acting as healers, spies and human tazers to stun then enemies by surprise. Their curative abilities are spectacular."

"I won't touch them anyway," Alex commented disgusted.

Blueblood's wounds disappeared and the Titargos retreated back, moving nearby Alex, who immediately dismissed them and made them disappear. Blueblood slowly opened his eyes and slowly lifted his head toward Alex. Recognizing him, he shouted and trembled in fear. But his own fear was made worse upon realizing that he doesn't posses Doppelganger's power anymore.

"My powers! W-what did you have done to me!?" Blueblood asked.

"Simple, I had purified you." Alex replied.

"W-WHAT!?" Blueblood blurted.

"Are you ready to die?" Alex asked.

"NO! Wait... I-I will do anything... You hear me? Anything."

"I know."

"W... What?"

"Because you are working for me now," Alex said, one second before using his corruptive lightnings on him.

Blueblood shouted for the pain, but then stopped as what he felt next was shot of a obscure power. His body was engulfed by a very dark aura. His mane and tail were tinted of blue and his coat was a pale gray one. The dark aura slowly vanished, revealing his new form.





"By this moment, you are now Bluefold." Alex declared.

Suddenly, the sound of a explosion coming from under the altar caught their attention. A very familiar laughter echoed after that.

"That laughter... Don't tell me..." Alex said.

"It's Brutalight."
> Chapter 13: Lunatic Clash
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Alex wasn't prepared for what was waiting under the altar of the now extinguished cult. That familiar laughter made his spine chill for the awe. What he heard from Aidan confirmed his fear, that Brutalight may be near. It would be too reckless of him to even think to confront Brutalight in his early stage of his plan. 

And yet, he wanted to see in order to confirm his suspects regarding her presence. That laughter ceased, a moment before being replaced by clashing noises, like two swords clashing with each other. It was clear that a battle was happening far away from him.

"I wonder who is battling against Brutalight," Alex said reluctantly. "I have no intention to face her. Is too soon... I should observe the clash from behind the scenes."

"Wait a minute. And Bluefold?" Aidan reminded.

Alex to the now freakfied 'Blueblood'. "Don't even think you can use your powers against me."

"Face what?" Bluefold said nervously. "What are you talking about. Eheh... I-I, of course i will serve you. I mean-"

Alex pointed his hand toward Bluefold, causing black chains to appear beneath him. They wrapped around his body, chaining him down to the stone floor. Bluefold glared back at Alex and unleashed a flash of light on him, but nothing happened.

"What the heck!?" Bluefold said in confusion.

"Your stand is able to infiltrate inside lucid surfaces," Alex stated. "I am sorry. But it can never penetrate my eyes. And I am sure as hell that there's no mirror around."

"You had read the JoJo manga?"

"Sometimes. But I have no time to waste with this detail." Alex said. "I have to discover what is going on."

"The risk is yours."

Wanting to know what was happening, Alex pushed the altar forward, revealing a secret passage; quickly went downstairs and proceeded to explore the depths of the underground tunnel, which was infested with the echoes of fight that was consuming. He walked slowly to not emit any sound. There was a light a the very end.

"Judging by the duration of the sounds," Alex murmured. "I bet that Brutalight is fighting someone who had the balls to oppose to her. I wonder who could he be."

"Eheh. Let's not forget that you have to fight with her, someday."

"I know, I know," Alex replied. "But It would be wonderful if that someone will make my job easier.

Aidan grinned. "Let's see who is our unwitting helper."

Not wanting to waste any time, Alex proceed forward as the rumors were continuing. And by the time he reached the end of the tunnel, the clashing noises ceased, allowing the silence to replace it. There was a moment of tranquility in that moment. Alex arrived nearby a staircase and went up a few stairs: he then stopped and saw the situation from behind a wall.

There was some kind of arena, probably used by the cult as a form of entertainment. And in the middle of the arena, there are two pony freaks. Alex recognized one of them being Brutalight Sparcakes, who looked tired and yet more invigorated than the usual. He then looked at the other pony freak, who had a rather bizarre appearance.

That pony looked like Twilight Sparkle when she was still a unicorn, except that she was a red maned pale yellow mare wearing a bizarre metal mask, standing two legged with a orb that was orbiting around her. Alex didn't know who she was at first, until a sense of deja vu made through his mind, reminding of him of a pony who was similar to her.





"Wait... A pony who looked like Twilight?" Alex thought. "Is that Moondancer?"

"Tsk. Nightmare Medic had possessed her... I see."

"What.... You mean that Nightmare Medic!?" Alex asked in awe.

"That badass bastard. He seems like he found a new host. No wonder if Brutalight was having a difficulty with this one."

Unaware of Alex observing the fight from behind the scenes, Brutalight glared back at her opponent.

"You have plenty of courage to defy me," Brutalight said. "Otherwise you won't had go this far. Just who are you?"

"Scheweinhunds," The masked mare said and then grinned. "But seriously, Twilight. Don't you remember me? After all, you didn't had showed up at my party... Oh, well. Not that I do really care about that anymore, hihihihi."

Brutalight's eyes widened. "No way... Moondancer?"

"The name is Nightmare Dancer." 'Moondancer' said. "You see, I am not the same mare you had known before, in the past."

"How did you had got Nightmare Medic's powers?" Brutalight demanded.

"Let's just say that a benefactor lured me into this world," Nightmare Dancer said. "I was then possessed by him, as you can see. And through the fusion of our souls, I got the illumination. What really triumphed more than friendship or justice is absolute evil. I became her chosen one who was worthy of his teaching."

"Really? You had become this silly at this point?" Brutalight asked sardonically.

"Nothing personal, but I have to suppress you." Nightmare Dancer replied.

Brutalight laughed loudly. "You think you can suppress me?" She then summoned two volcanic swords above her head, controlled through her telekinesis. "Get down of your horses already."

"Very well," Dancer said as she lifted a stone scythe from the ground above her head in the same way as Brutalights. "You asked for it."

The battle had resumed, with Brutalight launching her volcanic swords toward Nightmare Dancer. The masked mare, in response, spun her scythe in front of her, blocking the swords and propelling them away from them. Dancer then tossed her still spinning scythe against Brutalight, who had teleported away from it's trajectory and reappeared behind her for a surprise attack with her swords. That attempt was then blocked by Dancer shifting her orb into the colossal Tenebris sword and shielding herself with her.

"You are in my range," Nightmare Dancer said as she swung her colossal sword toward Brutalight.

In that instant, Brutalight created a barrier around her and blocked the Tenebris. The clash resulted the barrier being shattered during the impact. Brutalight shielded herself from the fragments of the barrier with her hooves.

Nightmare Dancer, smirked for that and pointed her hoof toward her while glowing her horn in a flaming infernal aura. In that point, a pyroclasm erupted from beneath the freak alicorn, engulfing her figure into the hellfire.

"Whoa." Alex said surprised. "That mare must be a really hard hitter."

"Just wait the end before saying that." Aidan suggested.

Nightmare Dancer lifted her colossal sword and quickly reverted it into the orb. She approached the pyroclasm that was still erupting in that point. As it was slowly dissipating, Dancer noticed that Brutalight wasn't there anymore.

She was behind Dancer, armed with machete.

"Now that's annoying," Brutalight said as she swung her weapon, only to be parried by Dancer's orb, now being turned into a hellish scythe wielded by her.

"You are welcome," Dancer said, a second before she channeled the infernal energy inside her body and emitted a shockwave of fire that sent Brutalight flying toward the walls of the arena.

Brutalight used her telekinesis to block herself before the impact and adjusted her equilibrium, landing on the ground unscathed. Brutalight glared back at Dance and growled ferociously as her horn glowed in a blue light. she materialized a myriad of nails and shot them at her at rapid fire.

Nightmare Dancer jumped away from their trajectory and landed nearby the grandstands of the arena. Her body was exuding a hellish aura and the masked mare materialized a multitude of clones of herself around Brutalight. Before the freak alicorn could react, Dancer and her clones already created multiple meteors of fire above them and launched them against Brutalight. In the impact, there are multiple large, loud explosions that were destroying grand part of the arena.

Alex shielded himself from the debrises that were flying in that moment with his energy shield. He was surprised as hell to see that display of power, although it looked nothing compared to his own. Aidan, however, wasn't enthusiast or sad for the course that the fight was taking. He was just waiting for the result, the only thing that mattered.

Silence fell upon the scene as the great curtain of dust was covering the whole arena. It was almost impossible for Alex to see what was going on. Then, a laughter echoed in the air and  the curtain began to dissipate, revealing Nightmare Dancer's figure being the only one standing in the middle of the fight.

"You really deserve it, you demon," Nightmare Dancer said triumphantly. "You often forget to defend yourself, sometimes."

"Oh, really?"

Brutalight reappeared in behind her with an angelic mace above her head and heavily hits Nightmare Dancer, sending her flying upward a little bit before  on the falling stone floor. Dancer looked very battered, with her body being engulfed by the angelic fire that was covering her body.

"W-what the-" Nightmare Dancer stuttered weakly, looking shocked.

"I know your weaknesses," Brutalight said gleefully. "You see, I am very informed about the powers and weaknesses that Nightmare Medic had bestowed on you. Angelic and magical weapons are you only weakness, and this mace that I had retrieved from the treasury of this cult makes no exception."

"... You patronizing demon." Dancer retorted.

"You were the real fool if you were thinking that I would had unprepared for you," Brutalight said as she summoned a volcanic axe. "So while this fight was fun, you were surely a very annoying menace. I have to get rid of you."

Having her prey at her mercy, Brutalight swung her axe with her telekinesis. The coup de grace was about to being delivered, but then her axe suddenly stopped in front of opponent's face. Brutalight felt a horrible headache and began to feel weak and unstable once again.

"No!... NOT NOW! UAAAARGH!" Brutalight screamed, a moment before her neck snapped and Twilight took control of her body once more. She looked suddenly sad and apologetic, much to Nightmare Dancer confusion. "... Moondancer... I am sorry."

"............ Moondancer is me." Dancer declared coldly. "An apostle of absolute evil doesn't need your pity."

Twilight was about to said something when her snapped and Brutalight took over again. "Dammit! I need to do something about this."

And with that, Brutalight teleported away in front of Dancer's eyes. She tried to rose up, but felt too weakened and utterly damaged to do so and stumbled on the ground.

Alex witnessed the scene dumbfounded. He knows what happened to Brutalight and also knows why, but that scene leaved him with a question that made his way toward his mouth.

"Did I just... Felt sympathy for her?" Alex asked to himself.

"Don't trip around! Hurry up and purify that demented fool!" Aidan suggested, snapping Alex out of his dilemma.

"Alright." Alex said, one second before teleported and reappeared in front of Nightmare Dancer, who flinched, looking taken aback.

"Who the-" Nightmare Dancer didn't have the time to retort that Alex grasped her head and lifted her body above his head as she wriggled.

"HOLY INFERNO!" Alex said as a fiery explosion of white flames blasted Nightmare Dancer, who screamed a second before falling unconscious. Her form and colors returned to be her normal once, reverting her into the old Moondancer. He released her from her grasp and let her body fall on the ground. "And even this is done."

Three minutes passed by, Alex pondering about his next move and Aidan waiting his decision. Purifying Nightmare Medic out of Moondancer was a shame since she would have been a good ally, if she was on her side. But on the other side of the coin, that would be an additional menace that Alex would had to face and he couldn't had allowed it.

"So... What are you going to do?"

"That's easy." Alex said as he observed Moondancer waking up from her slumber.

"... W-where am I... My glasses... Where are my glasses?" Moondancer said in confusion.

"Did you remember why you are here?" Alex asked.

"... That ghost... I remember now," Moondancer said. "He was controlling me..." She flinched as she acknowledged Alex's existence. "W-Who are you?"

"My name is simply Zaidel Goelnix," Alex stated. "I am the benefactor who had purified you from that scourge."

"... You saved me." Moondancer said incredulous.

"Look, I know you are angry with Twilight or anything," Alex said. "But she is in your damn same situation, and I am not ready enough for a confrontation with her. So what about this: I will let you go if you join my cause."

"What?" Moondancer looked perplexed. "What cause?" Her eyes widened. "Are you asking me to fight Twilight again?"

"Not like this." Alex said and grinned, one second before using his corruptive lightnings on him.

Moondancer screeched in agony, a moment before the pain became instantly replaced with an arcane shot of energy and her body glowed in a black light. Her coat became slightly darkened and her mane became colored in two colors; the ones being black and white. Her eyes became heterocromatic; her right eye became red and her left eye became grey. She slowly rose up and smirked in glee, which was unexpected reaction, even for a tough guy like Alex.

"So... What do think, Moondancer?" Alex asked calmly.

"Moondancer? Me?" 'Moondancer' laughed. "I think my correct name is Moon Paradox!"





"Moon Paradox?" Alex looked perplexed.

"Congratulations. You have imbued her with the soul of Hilda Paradox, a very rare example of dreadful witch."

"I see." Alex said. "So, what do you really want?"

"What I really want?" Moon Paradox said. "Ah. I want to see Brutalight at my mercy. But keep in mind. That's not because she wasn't present in my own party in the past. No no..." She paused. "I want take her down because I want to shatter her arrogance to find always a solution to everything. Even when she was preaching about friendship, I could see her stuck up ego and that of her own friends. I want shatter her newfound dreams of conquest and find a way to become a Re-Birth-"

"Whoa, get a hold of yourself, lady," Alex halted her. "That's Hilda Paradox's motivation, not your own. Where did that Re-Birth part came from?"

"Don't ask me," Moon Paradox retorted. "You put that spirit inside me. I can feel not only her powers but her desires too."

"Remember that I had saved you," Alex reminded. "You should be at least grateful for that."

"....... And so I am," Moon bowed. "I will fight at your side when you need most. I can feel a tremendous power surging in your being so... That would be a mistake opposing you."

"Now we are talking," Alex said.

The conversation, however, was suddenly interrupted by Bluefold's voice echoing from the entrance of the arena.

"Can somepony release me from this trap, please!" Bluefold shouted. "You won! I will do everything.

Alex facepalmed. "I had completely forgot about Bluefold."

"Even as a pony freak he's such a wimp."

"Alright," Alex turned toward Moon Paradox. "Ok, Moon Paradox. Follow me."

"Whatever you said, big boy." Moon Paradox said gleefully.

"..... Just don't take too much confidence with me for now, ok?" Alex said with a demanding tone.

That being said, Alex and Moon traversed the tunnel and went out of the secret passage nearby the altar of the cult. Alex expected to find only Bluefold. What didn't expected was seeing Bedlam, Vartoa and Delth being also there. The three generals approached him with a worried aura.

"There are a bunch of dead bodies and this... Insipid freak pony being chained on the floor," Vartoa said.

"It seems like our lord showed them the meanings of power." Delth said.

"Lord Zaidel, we need an explanation about what had transpired here," Bedlam said and noticed Moon. "Lord Zaidel, did you had just put that pony on you side?"

"You are doubting about my judgement?" Alex asked.

"Absolutely not," Bedlam sighed. "Also... Did you had saw Brutalight?"

"He fought against another freak," Alex half lied. "And then she had escaped."

"Damnation." Bedlam murmured. "Why did you had convoked us before? I was ready to fight her."

"We are not ready yet," Alex stated. "We have to conquest part of the Freak World, so I lure their attention to us while expanding our power. The main goal is to prevent them to ever enter in Equestria. We have to block them and then launching an attack. However, until that moment, we have to wait. Did you understand the importance of my plans?"

".... I apologize, Lord Zaidel," Bedlam said with an apologetic tone. "I will follow your plans in it's depths, if I must."

"Can you do me a favor?" Alex pointed his finger at Bluefold. "Can you please take this bastard with you. He will fight at our side... As a spy."

"Yes, whatever," Bluefold said nervously. "Ehehe. I will do whatever you ask me to do."

"You vermin." Vartoa said and then turned to Alex. "Alright, we-"

"Wait a second." Delth said. "And what about that female pony."

Alex narrowed his eyes. "What pony."

"We have retrieved a mare named Sugar Bell, in this twisted world," Delth stated. "You want corrupt her too?"

"Sugar Bell?" Alex looked confused. "Wasn't her dead?"

"I think that Starcider only killed the homunculus that looked similar to her. I also think that the real one was just running away after you had defeated Painset Shimmercake."

Alex pondered for a moment and then decided. "No, release her. Two ponies are enough for today... But seriously, why retrieve her?"

"She was still believing in the myth of Painset Shimmercake," Delth said. "We cannot allow her to spread another cult. So why release this menace."

"Sugar Bell is relatively powerless since her god was finally defeated by my hand," Alex explained. "Brutalight and her friends are the real menace. Got it?"

"I will do as you suggest, Lord Zaidel," Delth said.

"You are dismissed, all of you." Alex turned toward Moon. "You will follow them into my hideout."

"Sure. Why not?" Moon said confidently.

"OPEN GATE!"

The dark portal opened in front of the generals. The three warriors entered inside the portal while dragging the still chained Bluefold, followed by Moon Paradox. Alex was about to enter inside when a voice called his name.

"Lord Zaidel!" The voice shouted. "Wait!"

Alex turned toward the source, being a very familiar stallion that approached him. He recognized with perplexity the stranger.

"Feather Bangs?" Alex asked. "What hell are you doing here and how did you know about my name."

"I saw your generals saving Sugar Bell from herself and her obsession over that cursed alicorn," Feather said. "I am very grateful for what having retrieved her."

"I didn't do anything! I though she was killed by Starcider. Besides, it was Delth the one who had retrieved her." Alex thought. "To be fair, I had released her."

"What?" Feather looked shocked.

"Yeah, yeah. Whatever. Why you are here anyway?" Alex asked impatiently.

"I know that would be hard for me but I made up my mind." Feather said confidently. "I want to join your cause."

"Absolutely no. I don't want have any normal pony on my conscience." Alex said bluntly.

"Oh, c'mon. You're the one who show me the truth. I'm sick and tired to be insecure and unable to save anypony. Try at least to consider my request." Feather insisted.

"I think that Sugar Bell i coming just for you." Alex said while pointing his finger into a random direction.

"Where?" Feather asked while looking in the direction before Alex quickly punched him in the face with his hoof, making him collapse unconscious.

At that point, Alex entered inside the portal and reappeared in the throne room inside Enru Maz. In front of him there are the three generals, Starcider Glimsho, Autumn Cinder, Bluefold and Moon Paradox looking at him, waiting for his next order or move to do. Deep inside, Alex know that was only the first step.

That was only the beginning of his conquest before the confrontation.