A/N: Hello and welcome to chapter two of Seeds of Insanity: The War for Equestria's Future.
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Aura stood in front the ponies that found him. "Who are you?" he asked, pointing his finger at them.
"Well my name is Dimmed Star" she answered "These are my friends Spiderlock, Rotten Bunch, Stone, Zalgy Cake, and Dull Sloth."
"Now tell me why you look like Twilight and her friends?" Aura asked
"Simple, we come from Equinox. Equestria's alternate world." Dimmed explained "Think of it as the two sides of a coin; one can't exist without the other even if they don't know of each others existence."
Aura still kept his guard up "That explains the look-alikes" he said "Now lets skip the whole 'telling me your evil plot' thing and get to the part where I turn you all in to Princess Celestia and Princess Luna cause I know that you were the ones who were controlling Glimpse to kill Twilight and her friends." Aura started glaring at them and Spiderlock started to cower "No one tries to hurt my friends, especially the one pony that I love" Aura noticed that Dimmed Star had a glass bottle with a black liquid inside. She then poured the liquid on the ground, the grass dying from the liquids toxins. Dimmed Star's horn glowed with a red aura and it started to surround the slime. Dimmed Star created a sharp tendril that reached out to Aura, attempting to impale him, but he sliced it with his aura blade. "I see you have some tricks up your sleeves, but it won't help you."
*Theme: Light 'Em Up by Fall Out Boys*
Dimmed Star created more arms with sharp claws from the slime and made them reach out to Aura, but he ran towards the middle of all the arms and attempted to kick her, but Dimmed teleported away and shot a red sphere of black magic at him. The sphere hits him, exploding in a cloud of smoke. Dull Sloth flew towards Aura when the smoke cleared and tackled him to the ground. She attempted to bite him on his shoulder, but Aura kicked her off of him. Rotten Bunch charged at him and tried to buck him in the gut, but he dodged it since he noticed that Rotten had blades sticking out from her hind legs. Zalgy came from behind with a butcher knife and slashed his back. "AH!" Aura cried in pain and grabbed Zalgy's hoof and threw her towards Dull Sloth. Spiderlock trotted to Aura very shyly, and he looked at her in confusion. Then the parasprite's legs cut his right arm "Ow!" Aura growled and raised his hand, charging an aura sphere and Spderlock cowered again and spoke.
"I'm s-sorry" she said in a quiet distorted voice "I don't have full control of the parasprite inside me" Aura hesitated, but he was slammed by Stone's snake tail, knocking him to the ground. He stood back up, but he started to feel dizzy.
*Theme Ends*
"What the hell? Why do I feel weak right now?" He asked himself.
"Yes! The spell is taking effect!" Star shouted as Aura began to feel weaker and weaker by the second. "Attack!" The Equinox ponies charged at Aura, Dull Sloth bit his shoulder, Rotten Bunch bucked/sliced Aura, Zalgy hoofed his face, Stone grabbed his leg with her snake tail and slammed him on the ground, and Dimmed Star charged a red beam of black magic and aimed it at Aura as he got up, unable to fight anymore. "Good bye" she said and fired. Time slowed down as Aura stood in front of the beam, getting brighter and brighter as it came close to him, his life flashing before his eyes.
*Flashbacks*(These are from SHF)
Aura finished Eggman's robot off with his aura spin slice and later he and Max met Tails, demonstrating his transdimensional portal. After that, they were transported to Equestria where they met the Mane six and the princesses. Later they met Unknown and Aura challenged him to an intense battle that ended in a draw. Soon after they met a red hedgehog named Rage. The flashback skipped to when they defeated Discord, Chrysalis, Eggman, and Sonic and Aura's dark counterparts. The flashback skipped again to the Winter Gala and Aura said four little words to Applejack "Will you marry me?" and she replied with a...
"Yes" Sonic and his friends went back to Mobius and Aura stayed with Applejack and they both married two days after he proposed.
*End of flashbacks*
Aura let a tear drop from his left eye and everything went bright and the last thing he said was "I'm sorry... Applejack" and the beam hits him, exploding in a huge cloud of smoke and he flew out of it, unconscious. His body was covered in blood from the marks he got from Dull's bite,Rotten's blades slashing his chest. The Equinox ponies trotted up to his body and Dimmed Star laughed.
*Ponyville: Twilight's library*
Twilight, Applejack, Rainbow, and Pinkie pie were with Glimpse, trying to help him remember what happened in the forest when Applejack screamed. Twilight ran up to her with a concerned look. "Applejack, what happened?" the young alicorn asked.
"Its just that ah felt somethin' bad happened to Aura in the Everfree" she replied and a storm appeared out of nowhere, the rain tapping hard on the window, thunder erupting throughout the sky.
"Wait, when I was being controlled, was I wielding a sword with a fragment of an emerald inside it?" he asked and they all nodded their heads no "Those bastards took my sword!" Glimpse walked to the door, but Twilight used her magic and levitated the green hedgehog back onto the couch. "What are you doing?!" Glimpse asked
"I'm sorry, but its too dangerous right now, especially during the night" Twilight explained "The Everfree forest can be unpredictable, so we can't risk you going out there. You'll just have to wait until tomorrow" she said and Glimpse sighed.
*Back in the Everfree*
"What a pathetic little hedgehog" she said
"Pathetic little hedgehog you say? My dear Dimmed Star, speak for yourself; his physique is that of a unique specimen, perfect for my lovely garden and statue collection" Stone hissed
"Oh no! You're not getting this one this time Stone!" Dull shouted "I am! You said that about the last bunch of ponies I had to spare just so you could add them to that cluster of a rock you call a collection!" Dull said, insulting Stone who hissed at her.
"You dare mock my art!" Stone hissed
"Ladies control yourselves. Dull Sloth, you've been patient to eat, so you may have this hedgehog for dinner" Dimmed Star said and backed away from them along with the others. Dull Sloth trotted above Aura's body and lowered her head to his neck and was about to take a bite when a large gust of wind knocked her away from him.
"Who did that?!" Dull Sloth shouted and multiple lightning strikes revealed the ponies who knocked her away. There were three ponies, one being a pegasus. Her fur was white, she had Rainbow Dash's hairstyle only her mane and tail's color was white with blue streaks. The pegasus's eyes were a sapphire blue color. Her cutie mark depicted rainbows, except they're water colors. Another pegasus, her fur was a tan color, her mane and tail were a black brownish color, she had pink colored eyes, and her cutie mark was a swirl with a line going through it. The last was another pegasus, but he was different, instead of pegasi wings they were bat wings, his fur was orange and his mane and tail were a darker orange with black streaks, his right eye was red and his left eye was blue. The bat-pegasus cutie mark was a jack-o-lantern with fire over it.
"Nice shot Misty" the tan pegasus said
"Thanks Ashley" Misty replied
"Girls lets get this guy away from them. Misty?"
"Got it Jack" Misty started flapping her wings and a strong gust of wind happened, the Equinox ponies had to close their eyes from the force of the winds and when the wind died down they were gone.
"Aww come on! They took my dinner!" Dull Sloth complained and Rotten bunch just laughed at her "What are you laughing at?!" Her stomach started growling with hunger "I'm so hungry" a rabbit hopped out of some bushes and scratched its ear. Dull Sloth saw it and trotted up to it "You may not be the main course, but you'll do"
Dull Sloth grabbed the rabbit and... Bit its head off, the rabbits blood spilling on the floor. She crunched the rabbits bones and slurped up some of the innocent creatures blood. She finished by eating the rest of the animals body. Dull Sloth sighed with satisfaction "That should hold me over for a while" Dimmed Star trotted to a spot of grass that had Aura's blood and poured a drop of his blood in the glass bottle.
"Hmm... We now have two useful items: Glimpse's sword and that dark red hedgehog's DNA." The Equinoxians then disappeared into deep forest.
*Outside of the Everfree*
Jack, Ashley, and Misty placed Aura on the ground. Misty started to control the rain and surround Aura with it. The water started twinkling, healing his wounds, but not fully healed and he barely regained consciousness. Misty stopped and started panting "He's healed, but my energy was getting zapped too quickly." she said as Aura stood up and walked over to them.
"Who are you three?" he asked
"Well I'm Ashley Tigers"
"I'm Jacky Jack o lantern, but you can call me Jack for short"
"The names Misty"
Aura still felt sore from fighting all night, but shrugged it off "Thanks for getting me out of that mess, but I got to go now" he began walking, but collapsed on the floor Ashley and the others ran to him and Jack picked him up.
"I thought you said he was healed" Ashley said
"He wasn't fully healed, you know my energy gets zapped when I start healing others" Misty replied
"Come on we gotta get him to a hospital or he won't be able to make it" Jack said and began walking to the nearest hospital with Ashley and Misty following him.
*To be continued*
A/N: Well there's another chapter done and I'll be seeing you guys next time. So Review, Follow, and Favorite. See ya later