This is my first fanfic, and will start off as a retelling of the episodes. However, certain things will be changed to accommodate the story. If you think that there is something wrong, safely assume that it's wrong for a reason.
This first chapter is fairly long, but I feel that it helps start the story better
Please no flames. I appreciate constructive criticism.
Everything that I didn't make up belongs to their respective owners.
I hope you enjoy.
My Little Pony Friendship is Magic: Elements of Reality
It was a quiet evening in late December, newly fallen snow on the grass and a soft breeze blowing through the air, and the setting sun causing light to bounce off the frozen lake in ominous, yet beautiful ways.
Colin would usually take the time to enjoy every moment of it, and just sit down and think. About life. About himself. And about who he was, or his place in the world. But today was different. Colin sat on his porch, remembering the recent events that had changed him, that had caused something inside him to die, that had unlocked that psychopathic glee that came bursting through his mind like a missile when ever he saw blood being spilled. Colin seemed to be your average teenager, with shaggy blackish-brown hair and hazel eyes that had recently developed a golden tint, athletic, intelligent. At school he was not the least popular kid, nor the most popular one, which was the way he liked it. The way he saw things, he was at the top in every situation, at school, and when working towards his goals. But, that was the last thing on his mind at the moment.
If you met Colin you would think of him as a perfectly calm normal person, but deep inside his heart, lay the anger, the killer instinct, and the pure hatred he had gathered over the years. But by some miracle, it never came out; he refused to let it come out. He continued to replay the past events over and over again in his mind, one event leading to another.
/
Colin sat in his high school's auditorium alongside the rest of the students, watching with disgust at the events that were taking place before him
It was the last day before winter break, and the high school was having the largest assembly of the year, the Principal, Mr. Lancer and his brainwashed followers hell-bent on celebrating the school's "greatness".
Lancer was up on the stage, ranting on and on about the school's supposed "glorious history", how it crushed every other facility in the state, and how the Football team was supposed to be the "outcome of the decades of hard work and triumph", how they were supposed to be the best of the best, and that everyone should treat them with utmost admiration and respect.
Colin simply smirked at the speech, resisting the urge to laugh out at the worthless idiots that surrounded him.
And at the center of the assembly was the Captain and running back of the Football team, Derrick Anderson, who smirked wider and wider as Mr. Lancer continued to go on how he "kept the school standing", and how it would be nothing without him and the team.
The players, the cheerleaders, the staff, and everyone else were completely caught off guard by the lone voice that spoke out.
"Bullshit." Colin said loudly, causing the room to fall silent.
Lancer's face immediately turned blood red in anger as he turned toward the crowd.
"Who said that?" He asked, voice dangerously calm.
No response.
"WHO THE FUCK SAID THAT?!" He shouted at the top of his lungs, causing all but one student to flinch.
Without any hesitation, Colin stood up and began walking toward the stage, his signature smirk plastered on his face.
"Maxis…" Lancer muttered under his breath, saying the name like one would say the name of a serial killer.
Colin's position in the student hierarchy was…interesting, to say the least; To be blunt, every single jock in the school would love nothing more than to tear his guts out and dump him in a hole. They hated him for many reasons, but one was more prominent than the others: The guy outclassed them in ever single way, including intelligence, speaking ability, actual skill, and the ability to seemingly always succeed.
You see, throughout his life, Colin had always come out on top, never failing no matter the odds, by some sort of dumb luck that always enabled him to turn the situation to his favor, usually unintentionally. All he had known in life was a string of victory.
"It makes me disappointed to see what the world has come to theses days." Colin said, continuing to walk toward the stage.
"Shut your mouth, you bastard!" Derrick shouted, eliciting gasps from the crowd.
"Here's a prime example of what I'm talking about." Colin replied calmly, shaking his head as he walked up onto the stage. "You see, it's worthless, unintelligent pieces of shit like you who get everything they want, but deserve nothing. Idiots like all of you are getting paid millions and are treated like royalty, by doing what?" Colin asked, pointing at the sports teams, "By throwing around a piece of inflated leather, while people who have actually accomplished things in their life, who have worked for the human condition, and fought to defend their countries are pushed aside in favor of these worthless piles of shit who actually think they're special, and deserve nothing. At all. You, deserve nothing at all. You, are all pathetic, worthless, idiotic pieces of trash that will never contribute to anything on this planet, and who only hold back the ones that the world would actually give more than two shits about. Auf Wiedersehen."
Colin turned around and walked toward the exit, bringing his two best friends, Jackson and Robert with him, who were as appalled by Colin's speech as the rest of the school.
"Dude, what the FUCK was that?!" Robert shouted as they followed Colin out of the building.
"Speaking the truth." Colin replied bluntly, still smirking.
"Well, you just pretty much got yourself expelled there!" Jack said angrily.
"I'm quite certain my point will come across." Colin said.
The trio walked in silence through town, seeing no point in saying anything more.
Five minutes later, they reached an alley that would cut the length of their trip in half, and entered.
Jack was about to ask Colin something, but was interrupted by a familiar voice from behind him.
"Well what do we have here?"
The trio spun around only to be greeted with the sight of Derrick and two of his mentally deficient lackeys.
"Three superior beings, in case you weren't self-aware enough to notice." Colin retorted, looking bored.
Derrick's expression hardened, getting more and more pissed off.
"Shut up, or I will SHOVE A PIPE UP YOUR ASS!" Derrick shouted, murder in his eyes.
"Bow-chicka-bow-wow." Jack muttered with a grin.
Letting out an angry growl, Derrick pulled his fist back and slammed it into the side of Jack's head, causing his eyes to dull for a second and for him to crash into the wall.
"Why the hell are you doing this?!" Robert asked, getting into a fighting stance.
"It's because…THAT FUCKER HUMILIATED ME!" Derrick shouted, veins bulging. "And now…he's gonna pay with his corpse."
Derrick's lackeys each put on a pair of brass knuckles, and stepped forward, getting into pathetic fighting stances, backs stiff and fists held high.
"Sic 'em"
Before any of them could react, the two brutes had leaped forward, attempting to punch Robert and Jack in the skulls.
Before his fist connected, Robert neatly dodged to the side and delivered an ax kick to the brute's head, causing him to instantly recoil in pain and fall backwards.
But before he could assist his friends, the other lackey grabbed his neck and slammed his fist into his back repeatedly, eliciting cries of pain from Robert as the brute continued to kick him as he was down.
As he neared unconsciousness, the lackey screamed in pain. Robert looked up to see Colin drive a nail into the lackey's arm, ducking as he swung his fist.
Jack fared no better; The brute he fought had already punched him several times in the ribcage, and had barely grazed his head.
As he helped Robert, Colin felt something grab his neck. He quickly turned to see Derrick, a snarl on his face and his fist cocked back.
Derrick released his fist, letting it fly full force into Colin's temple.
His vision flashed red as he fell to the ground.
Derrick walked over to Colin's collapsed form and grabbed his shirt, pulling him up.
"Listen you son of a bitch," Derrick growed, "I am about to fucking kill you guys. First you, and then your PATHETIC FRIENDS!" Derrick then proceeded to punch Colin in the face, over and over again.
Colin's face was now bruised and bleeding, and his friends were off just as bad.
Colin slowly turned his head to see Robert and Jack being brutally beaten by Derrick's lackeys, and suddenly, something disappeared.
All the hate, all the frustration, all the fear that was going through the boy's mind had suddenly disappeared, and then, he heard it.
"Slaughter them, ALL"
Derrick watched as Colin's pupils dilated, as a terrifying, and purely psychotic grin began spreading on his face.
Colin slowly reached for something, and a scraping metal sound filled the air.
Derrick's heart stopped cold as he saw what it was.
A knife.
A BIG knife.
Before Derrick could even think, Colin raked the knife across his chest, leaving a gigantic gash that instantly sprayed blood all over Colin's black aviator jacket, drove the knife through his right arm, and gave it a sharp jerk.
Having stopped screaming, Derrick looked down in horror to see that the limb had been completely severed.
Colin quickly slammed the knife's handle into Derrick's head, knocking him on the ground, and then proceeded to stomp his face with one of his combat-boot clad feet over and over again.
When his work was done, Derrick's face had been literally reduced to a bloody pulp.
Derrick's lackeys were too stupid and too preoccupied with beating Robert and Jack to notice the blood covered teenager sneaking up behind them.
"Surprise." Colin said as he drove the knife through lackey #1's spine, severing his spinal cord, and buried it up to it's hilt in the brute's shoulder. He then proceeded to stab lackey #2 in the stomach, tearing it open and shattering his sternum in the end.
The screams were so loud that it was a miracle no one had come to stop the slaughter.
Colin looked at his handiwork: Blood splattered all over the alley, staining the snow red, several limbs, and even a few organs.
Suddenly, Colin's eyes widened as he saw the scene and looked at his bloodstained clothes.
Still holding the now crimson kukri, he turned around and ran.
/
It was over. All over.
Eventually, the authorities would find the scene, and Colin would be accused of violent assault, or if he had overdone it back there, murder.
Colin almost cringed. Murder. That wasn't a word he would associate with himself. While he was a sarcastic, egomaniacal, cynical, sociopathic asshole, he never thought he would ever be forced to go that far.
Ever since he was five years old, Colin had aspired to help the world through the advancement of his race, and the improvement of the human condition.
That was never going to happen now.
And he couldn't bear to imagine what would happen when his parents found out, but fortunately they weren't home.
And what would his friends think of him now?
He had know Robert and Jack ever since was seven years old.
Jack had an easygoing personality while at the same time having the dirtiest mind in the world, and at times being both immature and slightly perverted, making innuendos at a moment's notice.
Robert had the stereotypical American personality, was extremely athletic, competitive, had severe anger management issues, and got particularly pissed whenever anyone mentioned his height of five foot six inches. They had nicknamed him "Ed" in elementary school for that reason.
Colin looked at the woods and frowned.
Right now he just wanted to get as far away from here as possible.
There was a collection of paths in the forest that led to an abandoned site with strange buildings and structures, rows of fuel tanks, and even a broken down truck. However, he purposely went in a completely random direction, avoiding anything familiar.
Colin had lost track of time hiking through the labyrinth of trees, and the sun had begun to set, causing his flashlight to cast eerie shadows.
All of a sudden, the sound of a branch breaking rang out from behind him.
Colin immediately spun around, knife drawn, only to see Jack and Robert.
Jack was of average height, with medium-length brown hair, and bright green eyes.
Robert on the other hand, was several inches shorter than both of them. He had short dirty blond hair and blue eyes.
"HOLY FUCK!" Jack shouted in surprise, hands held high.
"It's you guys…" Colin sighed in relief, "I thought you were the police…or something…" He stopped, noticing how his best friends were looking at him.
In fear.
Colin sighed, and sheathed his knife. "I'm sorry you guys had to see that." He said, looking down, noticing just how much blood stained his clothes. "That…shouldn't have happened."
"No." Jack said.
"What?" Colin asked in disbelief.
"If you didn't go batshit insane back there, all of us would've been murdered in cold blood. And remember, they were trying to kill us, so it was self-defense."
Colin's face was blank. "So…essentially, you're saying me acting in self defense justifies butchering three people?"
"Yup."
"You know what, you're perfectly right. That does justify it." Colin agreed nonchalantly.
Robert on the other hand, was completely mortified.
"You're JUSTIFYING potential homicide!? WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU!?" He shouted in disbelief.
"Don't answer that." He added after a few seconds.
"Alright then, so we head back and tell the police what happened?…After altering a couple of details of course." Colin asked as if he were talking about the weather.
"Sure thing!" Jack replied cheerfully, "But which way is the way back?"
Colin's face immediately fell.
"You know what…I fuckin' hate you."
"You could use your phone's GPS." Robert suggested.
Colin pulled his I-Phone out of his pocket and attempted to turn it on, only to be met with a black screen.
"Damn. Out of power." He muttered, putting it away.
"Same here!" Robert half-shouted, "It had half-power a few minutes ago!"
"And yours Jack?" Colin asked.
"No power at all." Jack replied.
"So what now?" Robert asked.
Colin thought for a moment.
"We could always use the setting sun to determine what direction we're going in. But because I don't know which direction I went when I got here, same with you two, we won't be able to find the exact way back." Colin explained, looking around for anything that could prove as useful.
Deciding to find out just how late it was, Colin looked at his black calculator watch, only to see the screen blank.
"My watch isn't working either." He said, eliciting confused looks from his friends.
"Do you think something's messing with our electronics?" Robert asked.
"Not likely…but possible." Colin replied slowly.
"Wait…what the hell is that?" Jack asked, eyes wide.
Robert and Colin spun around to see what could be described as a blinding light roughly the size of a door.
Colin couldn't process where the light was coming from. There was no source the light could be coming from, not here nor from a distance. He slowly began shuffling toward the light, one hand reaching out, the other shielding his eyes. Surprisingly, there was no heat radiating off of the light.
"What the hell are you doing Colin?!" Jack shouted, breaking him from his trance.
But before he could react, the light spread and engulfed his forearm. Colin immediately tried to withdraw his arm, but it wouldn't budge. His arm was stuck inside the light.
"MY ARM'S STUCK!" Colin shouted, wide eyed while desperately trying to get his arm out.
Jack and Robert ran over to help him, but as soon as they neared, the light expanded again, trapping all three of them.
"Oh FUCK YOU UNIVERSE!" Robert shouted, desperately trying to free himself.
The light continued to grow, and slowly ate more and more of their bodies, until it consumed them completely.
The only thing Colin could could see was blinding white, all around him. Suddenly, his whole body was assaulted with pain.
He attempted to block out whatever was damaging him, but some invisible force kept him from moving at all.
It felt as if his body was slowly being ripped apart, atom by atom, and then smashed together, every second the pain becoming even more excruciating. By now, he should have passed out from the agony, but it was almost as if he was being injected with a steady stream of adrenalin. He tried to look at what was happening, but the light was too bright to see anything.
The blinding light began to slowly fade. Colin's vision suddenly went black as he was forced into unconsciousness.
/
Everything began to slowly come back to Colin. He felt something soft under him, like grass...
Wait…grass?
He wondered how this was possible when it was winter, and snow covered the ground. He slowly opened his eyes, and almost passed out again.
Nothing looked right. Even thought it was still night, everything he could see was extremely bright and colorful. How exactly could he describe what he was seeing?
Animated.
The word that described this place perfectly, was animated.
Looking around, he came to the conclusion that he was in a completely different location than before he and his friends were engulfed by the light.
Am I dreaming? He thought, observing further. He considered the possibility; He felt none of his former injures, but this just seemed to real.
Colin tried to stand up, but his hands didn't seem to be working, and he fell back on the ground.
"What the…?" He said as he looked at his hands.
Instead of hands, Colin had two stumpy appendages.
"HOOVES!?" He almost shouted, genuinely horrified at what he was seeing. This wasn't right. His mind began to race, but the rational part of his mind took over and ordered him to remain calm.
Wanting to know where he was, Colin lifted his head and took a look around. The full moon was illuminating the entire area he was in, allowing to see his surroundings. The sky was a beautiful shade of purple, with wispy clouds covering some of the abundant, shiny stars.
Looking to his left, Colin spotted a small pond a couple of meters away.
Deciding to see exactly what he was, and remembering that he had hooves, Colin slowly attempted to stand up on four legs. Once he had done so, he started walking forward one step at a time. He was surprised at how easy it was, and quickened his pace.
Colin looked into the water, and was greeted by a sight that was instantly seared into his brain. He was a horse. Pitch black coat, shaggy black mane, long, spiky black tail, and gold eyes that possessed a strange metallic sheen. One thing that really got his attention though, was the mark on his flank: A white seven-spoked gear that had an arm composed of two lighting bolts similar to the Waffen SS runes, and a hand clutching a split circle with the number "115" on the top, and "935" on the bottom, in front of the gear, orbiting electrons surrounding the hand.
Colin thought he would jump back in surprise, or shout something vulgar in surprise, but instead he froze, holding his breath, eyes never leaving his reflection's.
After a thirty second staring contest, he sighed, pulling himself together and stopping himself from going on an angry rant; He needed to stay calm.
I am not insane. I am not insane. I am not insane. I am not insane. I am not insane. He repeated over and over again in his head like a mantra.
"NIPPLE SCROTUMS!"
Colin must have jumped five feet up in the air when the ground shaking voice suddenly rang out from the foliage to his left.
ROBERT?! Colin thought. No other person in the universe could project their voice like that…or use a phrase like that.
Colin quickly walked over to the foliage, and saw what had made the noise.
It was another horse.
Instead of black fur though, this one's coat was a dark green, much like camouflage, with a short, blond mane and tail, blue eyes, and had a katana and shotgun crossed over a white star on his flank.
Most of all though, it was incredibly pissed off.
The horse proceeded to go on a long rant of curses so vulgar and horrific that if were printed, those who did it would be sentenced to a slow and painful death.
"SHUT UP!" Colin shouted at the horse, slapping it with his hoof.
"SONNAVABITCH, THAT HURT!" The horse cried as it clutched the part where Colin had hit it.
"Robert, I said shut up!" Colin said irately.
"Yeah well buck you-" The green horse started, but stopped mid sentence, "Wait, COLIN?! Is that you?"
"Yes, I think that was fairly obvious." Colin replied with an annoyed groan, "But wait…why did you say buck?"
Robert paused for a moment.
"I have no idea…You think it's because we're horses or something?" Robert asked.
"Most likely the 'or something' option." Colin muttered, "But what I really want to know is-"
"HOLY BALLS, WHAT HAPPENED TO MY PANTS!?" A familiar voice interrupted.
The two horses turned to see yet another horse, this one with a white coat, crimson eyes, a red and white mane and tail, and had the mark of a half light, half fire pillar. One thing that stood out though, was the white horn on its head.
I think it's pretty obvious who that is…Only one way to find out for sure though… Colin muttered in his head.
"Hey, where did you get that horn?" He shouted out reluctantly.
The unicorn's response was immediate.
"BOW-CHICKA-BOW-wait, since when did I have this?" Jack asked, interrupting himself, looking up at the growth on his head.
"Jack, shut up or I will pour kerosene down your throat and drop a lit match in it." Colin said darkly, causing Jack to acknowledge his and Robert's presence.
"And besides, why do you have a horn? You compensating for something?" Robert joked.
"Har har." Jack muttered sarcastically, "What I wanna know is why Jeff the Killer here got wings!"
Colin immediately looked down at his side. True to Jack's word, he had two black, feathered wings.
He frowned.
"Well fan-bucking-tastic." He said angrily, "I get a pair of wings, but judging from their size and shape compared to my current form, they're completely useless."
"C'mon, this is cartoon world!" Jack assured, "Anything's possible!"
"Such as you coming back from the dead after I kill you repeatedly?" Colin asked with a sadistic grin.
"Look on the bright side!" Robert interrupted, "I have giant hooves to hit things with, Jack has a horn to stab things, and Colin can use his wings to kamikaze dive our enemies! It's the perfect-"
"What's that over there?" Colin interrupted.
Robert and Jack turned toward where he was pointing, and saw something they didn't expect.
There was a lit-up city protruding off the side of a mountain that seemed to be several kilometers away.
"Civilization…" Jack breathed, "We're SAVED!"
"How long do you think it'll take us to get there on foot-I mean hoof?" Robert asked.
Colin quickly did the math.
"I'd say at a fast walking pace…approximately four hours." He said.
"Fair enough." Robert said, "Let's get going."
And with that, they set off towards civilization.
/
The trio had been walking through the woods for what seemed like days, but in reality had most likely been a few hours. The path they had settled on had too many twists and turns for them to be sure they were going in the right direction, and the thick canopy prevented them from seeing the lights of the city.
"Something isn't right." Colin said, breaking the silence.
Robert rolled his eyes. "You mean besides the fact that we're horses in a cartoon world?"
"No, look at the sky." He said, "It hasn't changed at all, and I get the feeling the sun should have already risen."
True to his word, the sky was exactly the same as it had been several hours ago.
The trio was cut off from there thoughts when they heard screaming and a roar shatter the perfect silence of the forest. It seemed to be far away, but not far away enough that they couldn't investigate.
"Holy shit!" Jack whispered as he, Colin, and Robert, got down, out of the line of sight of any creature that could be stalking them.
"What do we do?" Robert whispered.
"Judging by their sound, those screams were definitely human." Colin replied, "And because the roaring stopped, it's safe to assume whatever made that roar is gone. We find those people, and get help."
"Agreed." Robert and Jack said with a nod.
After fifteen minutes of straight running, the trio needed to rest. They hadn't heard a single sound since the screaming, and were beginning to doubt if they were going in the right direction. For all they knew, they went in the opposite direction.
"I don't like this." Colin muttered, tired, "I get the feeling that we're just throwing ourselves deeper and deeper into this damn forest."
"We should've just kept going toward that city…" Robert groaned, equally fatigued.
"Since there isn't any visible path, it would be pointless to try and go back. We just have to keep going." Jack said with determination.
As they took their first few steps forward, it was suddenly pitch black.
"What the hay is going on?!"
"I can't see my hoof in front of my face!"
"Ow, that was my wing you asshole!"
They silenced when another shriek rang out.
Turning his head to the direction the scream came from, Colin saw a dim pink light illuminating a section of the forest ahed of him and the others.
"C'mon." He whispered as he walked toward the light, Robert and Jack following.
As they closed the distance to the illuminated area, he heard something. Something a lot like…Singing?! Yup, that was definitely singing. The trio quickened their pace as they adjusted to the darkness. as they got closer they noticed that the singing had stopped, replaced by laughter.
After five minutes or so they finally arrived at the clearing where the people had been, surprised that it was lit up again.
"Shit. We missed them." Robert cursed.
Looking for anything that might help indicate the direction the people went, Colin noticed several trails of circular marks.
Hoof marks.
"Guys, I've got good news and bad news." Colin said, getting Jack and Robert's attention.
"What is it?" Robert asked.
"The good news is that I picked up a trail. The bad news is that the 'people' are actually horses, just like us." Colin replied, eliciting groans from his friends.
"Oh COME ON!" Robert shouted.
"It's our only lead, so we might as well follow it." Jack pointed out.
"He's right." Colin agreed, "If we quit now, the only thing left to do would be to aimlessly wander this potentially dangerous forest with no supplies whatsoever."
And with that, they continued down the trail.
/
The last thirty minutes had been rather mundane, save for a small river they had used a log to walk over.
The trio came to a flimsy rope bridge crossing over a large expanse. On the other side was some kind of temple, made of stone and overgrown with vegetation.
"This bridge looks like it was put back in place recently." Colin observed, approaching said bridge.
"So they must've come across here…" Robert muttered, "But why? Why would anyone go to a ruin like this?"
"No idea, but this place gives me the creeps." Jack said, walking over the bridge.
"Seems stable enough." Robert remarked, also walking over.
Deciding not to waste any time, Colin stepped onto the bridge. The entire thing groaned as he slowly stepped from one plank to the next. Increasing his pace so he would be across before the bridge collapsed under his weight, he closed the distance to the end of the bridge. Just as he was a few planks away, the board he stepped on suddenly gave way. Without thinking, his black wings snapped open and flapped powerfully, propelling him to the other side.
"Looks like these aren't so useless after all!" Colin said with a grin, he and the others making their way towards the temple.
As the trio neared the structure, they could clearly see a small group of equines, obviously female, standing in front of the main building.
We finally found them… Colin thought.
Taking a look at the group, he observed that two of them had wings like him, one had a horn like Jack, and another two had neither, much like Robert.
Before any of them could say anything, a dark purple light lit up the main structure, dissipating after a few seconds.
"Twilight?" The girls shouted in unison, before running into the building.
"She's gone!" Another voice said.
"What could have made that light?" Colin asked, "They obviously don't have any equipment, and I doubt that there's an electrical system in that structure…"
"Might as well check it out." Robert said.
"That's what she said!" Jack added with a grin.
Sneaking up the main stairs into the temple, they came to the main chamber of the structure where the three former humans saw a giant horse, with a flowing black mane, both wings and a horn, and a set of cobalt armor standing on a pedestal. On the opposite side of the room was a purple horse with a horn, who seemed to be confronting the larger equine.
The trio ducked behind a fallen pillar to stay hidden. They watched as the small horse, who they assumed was "Twilight" get into an aggressive stance, looking ready to charge.
"You're kidding." The larger mare laughed. "You're kidding, right?" She said seriously, realizing it wasn't a joke.
Twilight started charging at the dark mare with the tip of her horn glowing with a purple aura.
"Well, she's dead." Colin said flatly.
Just as soon as the two equines were about to make contact, Twilight disappeared in a flash of light and reappeared on the pedestal the large horse had been on moments before.
"Just one spark, come on, come on!" Twilight grunted, concentrating.
Skidding to a halt, the larger horse spun around and saw her enemy pointing her horn at the five stones on the pedestal.
"No!" She shouted as she started charging at Twilight.
"Do you think we should help her?" Robert asked.
"Why would we do that? She's clearly going to get skewered." Colin replied.
"Her friends might give us money." Jack pointed out.
Colin paused.
"Alright guys, here's the plan…"
Colin quickly explained his plan of action.
"That's a terrible plan." Jack deadpanned.
"You got a better idea?" Colin replied with a deadpan of his own.
"…Alright, but we better get paid for this…"
Just as the dark horse was upon Twilight, Jack galloped forward to intercept the collision course.
I'd better be paid dearly for this…bow-chicka-bow-wow… Was the last thing he thought before colliding with the large horse.
It HURT. It felt like he had just collided with a steel wall.
Staggering back, Jack grinned when he saw that his pain had been worth it; He watched Robert throw Colin using the enhanced strength that had come with his new body at the horse, the former human's wings spread, and a sadistic grin on his face.
"Death from above, BITCH!" Colin shouted seconds before slamming into the horse and making her crash face-first into a pillar, the force of the impact breaking it.
Groaning in pain, the large horse slowly dragged herself back on her hooves, seething with anger.
"Who are you, you foal that dares attack Night Mare Moon!" She shouted.
"What are you even trying to accomplish?" Colin asked, confused by the villain's lack of a motive.
"I will rule over the world and make it forever night!" Night Mare proclaimed triumphantly.
"So you're attacking everyone here?" He asked.
"Yes!" Night Mare replied.
"You're a dickhead!" Colin exclaimed.
"What?!" Night Mare asked angrily.
"You are such a dickhead! I mean, who even does that?! C'mon!"
A dark aura began surrounding Night Mare's horn as she pointed it at Colin, getting angrier and angrier.
However, her focus was wrenched away when when the six stones started sparking intensely, flinging Twilight away. Jack ran over to her.
"Are you alright?" He asked.
"Who are you?" She asked, confused by the sudden arrivals.
Her focus suddenly snapped back to the six stones.
"The elements! Look!" She looked over at the sparking stones. However, they suddenly stopped sparking. Twilight looked on in horror.
Then it dawned on her, that there had only been five elements. "But… Where's the sixth element?" She asked, confused.
Night Mare Moon laughed manically, raising her front hooves and bringing them down with a crash, shattering the stones on the pedestal. "You little foal! Thinking you could defeat me? Now you will never see your princess, or your sun! The night will last forever!"
Twilight watched, horrified as the shards of the stones landed around Night Mare Moon.
"Don't worry Twilight!" A voice called from the entrance.
"Were here!"Another called.
Twilight looked back, she could hear all of them calling out to her…and that made her…happy. Then all at once, it made complete sense.
"You think you can destroy the Elements of Harmony just like that?" Twilight said, very confident all of a sudden. "Well you're wrong!" She said standing up tall. "Because the spirits of the Elements of Harmony are right here!" She shouted as the five other equines lined up beside her. The shards of the Elements of Harmony started to float in the air.
"What?" NightMare Moon said, panic in her voice.
"Applejack, who reassured me when I was in doubt, represents the spirit of…honesty!" Twilight said as several shards of the stone flew over to her and began orbiting her.
"Fluttershy, who tamed the manticore with her compassion represents the spirit of…kindness!" A surprised Fluttershy was bestowed her own collection of shards orbiting her, just like Applejack.
"Pinkie Pie, who banished fear by giggling in the face of danger represents the spirit of…laughter!" Jumping up and down, the pony in question was thrilled to see shards spinning around her as well.
"Rarity, who calmed a sorrowful serpent with a meaningful gift represents the spirit of…generosity"! The snowy-white unicorn nodded modestly as the shards began circling around her.
"Rainbow Dash, who could not abandon her friends for her own hearts desires represents the spirit of…loyalty!" The rainbow-maned pegasus stuck out her chest proudly as the shards began to orbit her, the same as her friends.
"The spirits of these five ponies got us through everything you threw at us!" Twilight announced proudly.
"You don't have the sixth element! The spark didn't work!" Nightmare retorted, her voice panic-stricken.
"But it did!" Twilight countered. "A different kind of spark! I felt it the very moment I realized how happy I was to hear you, see you, how much I cared about you!" She said as her eyes began to fill with tears. "The spark ignited inside me when I realized that you all…are my friends!" She said to the five ponies behind her, paying no attention to the trio.
"What the buck is she talking about?" Colin asked.
"You see, NightMare Moon, when those elements are ignited by the…uh…spark! That resides in the hearts of us all, it creates the sixth element: the element of…magic!"
All at once, the shards came together to form necklaces, each with its own distinctive gem in the middle:
The Yellow pony with the pink mane had a necklace with a pink butterfly jewel in it.
The Pink pony got a blue balloon shaped jewel in her necklace.
The Rainbow pony got a red lightning bolt in the center of hers.
The Orange pony with the blonde mane got an orange apple jewel in the center of hers.
And the white pony with the purple colored hair got a purple gem in the shape of a diamond.
Finally, the stone hovering over Twilight morphed into a crown with a purple six-pointed star almost identical to the one on her flank. Closing her eyes, the six ponies rose into the air, surrounding Night Mare and radiating a white light. Then she opened her eyes to reveal a glowing abyss in each socket. The three former humans watched as they fired a gigantic rainbow beam at the dark equine. The blast was so intense that they were blown back slightly. All seemed well, but as the smoke cleared, the nine ponies saw the horrifying truth: nothing had happened at all.
"W-what?!" Twilight stammered in disbelief, "How is this possible? The Elements were supposed to stop NightMare Moon! Just like in the prophecy!"
Night Mare, who herself seemed confused, but then quickly adopted a smug look. "You foals, this was all part of my plan! I told you the spark did not work! If you had listened, you would have had the privilege of being my slaves for eternity! HAHAHAHAH!"
Her laugh was interrupted when her eyes combusted in a fiery explosion.
"BY CELESTIA, MY EYES!" Night Mare screamed in agony, clutching her decimated eyes as a strange purple aura caused them to slowly regenerate,
Twilight turned quickly to see Jack, who's horn was glowing with a blinding crimson aura, his eyes glowing, and light radiating from his body.
"How dare you!" Night Mare snarled in rage once her eyes had regenerated. "I'll kill-" She was interrupted as her whole body exploded and caught fire, eliciting even more screams from her burning and regenerating body
"How absolutely pathetic." A deep, raspy, metallic voice echoed throughout the room, seemingly coming from everywhere. "Harmony is such a futile and useless thing. Why even think that something so redundant could be even remotely useful? It asked.
"Wh-what are you talking about?" Twilight asked, horrified anything would think like that, "Without harmony, we would be nothing!"
"I would assume the reason for your naive and ignorant mindset would be the fact that Celestia refused to show any of your kind reality?" The voice asked.
"No!" Twilight shouted, now furious at the voice's insulting of the Princess, "That isn't true!"
"…I suppose the only solution would be a demonstration." The voice said, sounding disappointed, "Jackson, would you care to begin?"
As soon as the voice finished it's sentence, Jack changed.
The only way to describe the unicorn's transformation would be to say that he had become pure heat and light.
Jack's fiery form was engulfed in an impossibly hot pillar of flame and light, and his eyes were essentially yellow floodlights. The only part of him that hadn't been reduced to energy was a gold medallion around his neck that had some sort of shining pillar engraved on it.
"Jackson, who keeps the beacon of hope shining and gives life the drive to move on, is Hope."
Jack immediately turned towards Night Mare, his energized horn glowing pure light. A red spark crossed between him and Night Mare in the blink of an eye, and once it made contact with the dark mare, caused her to combust in flame again, this explosion infinitely more powerful than the other two, the former human sending explosion after explosion at her, essentially burning her to death over and over again.
Suddenly, Jack stopped and stepped back, giving Night Mare time to fully regenerate.
"Robert, who makes sure a being's inner nature is always present and that only the strongest survive, is Rage."
The ground below Robert instantly fissured and quaked in every direction, the stone and metal rising out of the ground and forming an armored shell around him, leaving only his eyes uncovered, which had been reduced to pits of infinite fire. He had a medallion with a flame engraved in it.
Robert slammed his hoof on the ground, causing dozens of stone spikes, projectiles, and limbs to burst from the ground, impaling, blasting, crushing, and tearing Night Mare's ravaged form, blood spraying everywhere.
The six ponies had now turned in the other direction, not wanting to witness the brutal carnage.
Just like Jack, Robert suddenly stopped.
"Colin, who is the end to any and all, brings doom and defiles light, and makes life cease to carry on, is Death."
Gigantic arcs of black electricity blasted their way out of Colin, enveloping his form. When it completely enveloped him, the back lighting dissipated, leaving him with no resemblance of his previous form.
To start it off, his whole body was encased in an extremely advanced looking suit of black and silver exoskeleton that radiated death, the black visored helmet obscuring his face. That was nothing compared to the other additions.
To put it simply, he was a living weapon.
There were weapons absolutely everywhere, all over him and the armor; His front legs had been transformed into two gigantic black and silver cylindrical cannons, there were two giant futuristic rail guns mounted on his back, with various turrets, cannons, miniguns, missile launchers, and firearms integrated into the armor, all of them matching the suit, and all modified to deal even more death. The only part of him that wasn't a weapon or made of metal was medallion with a human skull engraved in it.
"I would recommend it that you three use your element at the same time." The voice said.
The trio immediately lined up in front of Night Mare, much like a firing squad.
"Elements of Harmony, if Night Mare is to be purged and not completely eradicated, then you must also assist them." It added.
Twilight gave a determined nod as she and the other elements lined up in their formation.
"Alright, let's end this!" Twilight said with determination, repeating the "Harmony Protocol".
The Reality Elements simply nodded.
"Three"
"Two"
"One"
"Kaboom." Colin said, his voice demonic and distorted beyond recognition.
The Elements of Harmony once again fired their multicolored beam.
Jack sent a gargantuan inferno at Night Mare.
Robert made countless stone missiles and spikes go streaking at his target.
Colin unloaded his deathly arsenal at Night Mare.
As soon as they unleashed their power, the trio blacked out.
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