Things start to plot. I also realized that i forgot to explain what Dragonite metal is.
Spike hurried out the mine healing as he went, he was hoping Luna hadn't sent them ahead yet but sensing the lack of heartbeats and presence he knew he was to late. "Luna these guys are after your sister!" Luna looked up surprised and so did Rainbow Dash. "Gilda?!" Spike looked her in the eyes raising them until he checked her heartbeat. "So it is you long time no see!" Spike gave her a hug as she looked at him confused until it started to add up in her head. 'Sharp eyes, green spiky hair, dragon blood, oh my god!" Her inner thoughts turning into a shout before she crashed her lips against his own, Spike froze for a second but pulled her off him. "Um thats nice and all but i need to be somewhere so see ya in a little bit." Spike took off towards Canterlot as fast as he could while Luna kept pace jumping from shadow to shadow. "And who was that 'girl' all over you?" Spike nearly tripped at her accusatory tone. "Remember that Griffin blood i rescued a few years ago, yeah she's all grown up."
CELESTIA
Things were going well so far people being moved to spare rooms in the castle with guards and maid fetching them food. On the horizon she could sense a force approuching and so she literally rose to meet it. She pushed open the doors and onto the balcony where she raised the sun and floated over the grand city beneath her as a figure stopped in the air. She was briefly reminded of a butter fly but it seemed more dragonic, no doubt Spike's influence on the blade held in the things hand. It was a weird cross between lizard and man but with as she noted butterfly wings. She took a deep breath trying to keep calm but this was her first real battle. "So you're the one the nightmare spoke of." The leader of the cult smiled. "They'll herald me as a hero for what i'll soon do, DEATH TO THE SUN TYRANT!" He swung the blade to decapitate her but she simply held her hand out and caught it taking care not to touch the edge of the blade itself.
A force of sheer destruction blasted off into the distance behind her but she paid it no heed until she could feel power rising from the sword, then it shocked her, he took the moment to punch her in the face knocking her back several yards before she righted herself in the air. The swords power was not simply in its blade it seemed. "Who exactly are you anyway?" The lizard man smiled. "Drey falchion." Celestia's eyes widened. "The disgraced noble house?" She brought her palms together to block the swipe meant to split her in half as they struggled in the air the blade inching closer to her face. "Don't dare speak of that betrayer, its the fault of your father that my family lives with that shame over our heads!" Celestia would have bitten out a retort but a burst of energy sent her flying towards the castle. She spun in the air to lessen the impact but still landed head first into the hard stone smashing through everything.
Roughly three floors down she landed before landing on a bed in one of the guest rooms. Celestia teleported above him before her hit connected to the back of his head sending him towards the ground slamming and annihilating the castle courtyard.
SPIKE
He skid to a halt seeing Celestia handle herself well. "You know what she made not need our help after all." Spike looked grimmly at Celestia as she kicked, who ever that was in the head. "I don't know Fullru's power is increasing by the second. I dont think she'll last." Luna grimaced before racing down the rooftop to aid her sister while Spike paced, he couln't go down there not as is, a powerful dragon blood showing up was a problem but a powerful unaffiliated dragon blood was cause for mass panic and that would be a headache of monsterous proportions. "I can't go down there as a free agent people have to think I answer to someone or it'll be more trouble down the line. Cely'd never go for it she hates me, so Luna's my only option but she doesn't have the credibility yet, would Celestia support her?" Spike decided to wait to arrive and only step in if needed, now to find some official looking armor.
CELESTIA AND LUNA
Both sisters warily circled Drey watching as more of his reptilian skin cracked and fell away giving way to normal looking flesh. 'A metamorphosis maybe?' Fullru had looked different as well shifting in size from a katana to an Odachi while the design stayed the same.(1) "another no good whore come to die!" Spike power erupted from his body off in the distance and Luna quickly whispered begging him to calm down. Spike's power faded the heat vanishing but Luna felt a cold chill right before it subsided completely. "What was that?! What witch craft have you whore brought upon us?!" Luna's eye twitched but she made no move even as Spike's power flared for a second. "That would be my loyal first in command, i hope you're ready for him." Drey laughed heartily holding up Fullru. "Oh im more than ready." He snapped his fingers and out came several people wearing cloaks.
"My followers, have been with me since this started and they will bear witness to my triumph!" Luna looked at him deadpanned while Yao Lang materialized next to Celestia. "Is this guy serious?!" Celestia rubbed her temples with her palms while running her hands through her hair. "I wish i'd stayed in bed today." Spike appeared in light armor smiling. "Well i'm no genie so i cant do much about that but i can make an asshole disappear." Celestia glared at Luna. "You brought HIM here?!" Luna shrugged comically. "He can help!" Spike rolled his eyes studying the chanting out of the corner of his eye. "So whatcha doin?" Drey chuckled as several screens appeared all over the place. "Hey look we're on T.V." Spike groaned as a screen appeared to the far corner showing them exactly what everyone else saw. "Should have never told you about that." Drey laughed before the screens shifted to show his face.
"Hello Equestria your new ruler speaking, my name is Drey Falchion-" "wait from the disgraced noble house?!" Spike raised an eyebrow before a blast of energy engulfed him. "Now as i was saying today marks the end of an age." "903" "Today a tyrant falls and a new king rises!" "1,745" "I will-" Drey turned around to look at Spike who was tapping his foot trying to recall something. "Wha-What are you?" Spike waved him off. "It nothing go back to what you were doing." "And i am the one who will lead you to a new era!" "2583" "bow before y- What the hell are you doing?!" Drey turned and the screen focussed on Spike. "Honestly i've heard speeches like this literally thousands of times wether by heros or villains. It all starts to run together after a while so i made a list of how many time i heard a certain line, after all as Discord once said, 'you can only slice a pig seven ways to sunday and still get bacon." Drey looked at him shocked. "Are are you real?" "346"
A vein unhealthily large swelled in Drey's forehead. "You mother fucking cock muncher of a pickled whore, im gonna tear off your warty dick and stomp on it till pus shoots out and craves out your eyes before i rip your heart out through your asshole!" Everyone looked shocked even the cloaked figures with their faces obscured. "Oh my, 12" Drey shouted in rage bringing Fullru over his head and slashing at Spike but Spike closed his eyes and raised his finger stopping it cold. "You know, i've been joking around with you but the truth is, I'm pissed." Spike took a deep breath Dracos leaking out of him. "You attacked my friends, you killed tons of people, you tried to kill Dinky, you're tying to kill my boss and her sister, and worst of all you used my sword to do it." Drey had a look of fear on his face as a cold chill ran through him and Fullru hummed in pleasure. "Itsubotchu!" Spike's Dracos and hair began changing from ghostly green to Azure Blue and he opened his eyes to show the same change.
His pupils and Sclera blood red a sign of Dragon rage. "So please suffer and die. SHEER COLD."
PONYVILLE
Even without the screen everyone could see what Spike had done as a pillar of white and blue power shot into the air blackenng the sky in an instant and a shockwave nearly knocked people to the ground. Rarity looked up in fear as snow started raining down and the temperature dropped just below freezing. "He's a monster." Fluttershy shook in fear and chill. "How could something be more powerful than a god?" Applejack shook her head. "I knew he was an abomination." Pinkie pie was thinking, i know shocking right, before she smiled springing up. "I get it!"
SPIKE
As Celestia uncovered her eyes the chill that she felt was ice on the ground and snow falling from the sky. Oddly she felt cold but not in a frost kind of way like she was supposed to be this cold at all times. It was like, she knew it was cold but she was only reacting like it was room temperature. "Spike!" She looked over to see Luna jabbing her finger into his chest. "Why didn't you warn us you were going to do that, and since when can you do that?!" Spike looked away sheepishly. "Forever." Luna looked at him pouting kinda cutely. "Why didn't you tell me? Am i not important to you?" Luna looked away while Spike just deadpanned. "Luna i've been married six times you're not fooling me with that." Luna flinched and Celestia couldn't help but giggle at how easily Spike shut her ploy down.
"Besides i never told anyone, not even Mary." Luna's eyes nearly popped out of her skull. "You what?!" Spike shrugged as she turned around looking at him with even more shock than when she saw him again for the first time. "B-Bu-but you used to tell Mary everything you told me you and your sister were thicker than theives before she died!" Spike shrugged solid in his conviction and at peace with his choice. "I never told her because she'd do the right thing that's just the kind of person she is." Spike noted the ice was moving out the way to allow their 'friend' to spring loose. "We have more pressing matters." Drey popped out the ice and snow shivering as several of his followers did the same, Spike noted he'd outright killed most of them but the most stubborn survived. He faintly heard foot steps behind him and he smiled as Big Mac, Rainbow Dash, and Twilight finally appeared, then Twilight tripped and fell into Rainbow Dash who fell onto Big Mac who almost managed to keep his balance but his foot caught purchase on a bare piece of ice and he tripped as well.
Spike couldn't help but laugh lightly before catching the three and helping them to their feet. "For one second, one freakin second you actually looked cool." Spike snapped his fingers casting a small environmental spell on their feet. "There now you can fight on the ice. Unless Twilight trips again!" Spike couldn't help but laugh again as Twilight's cheeks burned in embarrassment. "A little harsh there don't you think?" Spike huffed and looked away shyly. "You right i'm sorry." Luna cleared her throat. "Right. Attention! Battle formations Men." Each got into a decent stance Rainbow's looking the best because of her practice in Karate. "Excellent." Spike turned around and waved his hand forward. "Attack!" The three seperated and three cloaked figures seperated to fight them. The rest converged on Spike who cracked his neck and rolled his shoulders trying to get used to the armor around him not that he really needed it but still.
BIG MAC
He created(2) his Axe and stood at the ready as a cloaked figure appeared in front of him. She, he corrected himself before he could think male, was of medium build slightly lanky with concealing clothes. Even so he could see glowing orange tattoos that told him something was off, if the womans slasher smile wasn't a dead enough give away. The woman pulled her cloak of the show she wasn't dressed for the cold as her cloak touched the ice, bandages wrapped around her hands and forearms with similar wraps around her shins and feet. The tattoos spread over her whole body and seemed to ripple from her core. He dragged his eyes upward and saw through her, for the lack of a better word rags, and saw the pulsing seemed to come from her chest. "Nonono naughty boy eyes up here." She wiggled her finger at chest height and Big Mac did his best impression of a sneer.
"Well sorry darlin you aint ma type." She smiled like a phycho and he felt the hairs on the back of his neck stand up, Spike was more of a monster than her but she was scarier for one reason, Spike didn't try to kill him. "Oh don't be like that! We can still have fun i can tell just by looking at you you're a goddamn stallion." He spit onto the ice in disgust. "Yeah an yur a dead woman." She laughed looking at him like he told the funniest joke in the world. "Honey you're many thing but i can see it your eyes, you're no killer, but i gotta admit your little tough act is cute." Big Mac closed his eyes remembering what Spike said to him. 'Dont dehumanize your opponents, thinking of them as mindless or savage is hardly fair remember no matter how you look at it your opponent made the choice or had the choice made for them to step out onto that battle field.'
Big Mac opened his eyes cold and focussed remembering what this woman had done. "Check again!" He charged forward axe close to the ground before swinging at her feet. "You're pretty fast." She jumped into the air and Big Mac saw a pulse of energy flow from her legs into the ground. "But not fast enough." She repostioned herself facing towards the ground and her fist cocked back before another pulse shot her at him like a bullet. He dove forward nearly covering twenty feet before landing on his hands and springing to his feet with a front flip, he looked shocked as he turned around amazed at the distance he covered. 'Spike's training paid off big time.' He noted the crater she made was ten feet wide and deep and her hand was a wreck. He slammed the bladed part of his axe into the ice curiously and the edge chipped a ringing sound apparent. 'The ice is harder than it looks.'
Big Mac watched as her hand healed aided by the pulsing of her tattoo's. "That was good my hearts racing now!" He noted the pupses were faster, it wouldn't be, right? She charged hoping to skewer him on her fist and he twisted grabbing her arms and jumping dragging it behind her back as he leap over her and twisted. Her momentum carried them for several feet before she started to fall grinding her face on the ice as Big Mac checked her pulse examining the tattoo to find they happened in perfect sync when her heart made another beat a new pulse happened. Confirming his theory he leap off of her but she managed to clip his side with her legs which sent him flying into a frozen wall which collapsed on top of him. Spike snorted seeing how Big Mac had twisted to lessen the blow, he wasn't fast so he made him agile, and it was working. He pushed free of the mortar pinning him ignoring the pain in his side to see his opponents face fully healed.
He pushed his magic into the frozen stone and found the magical ice that covered it didn't try to stop him if nothing else it leant strength to him as he felt the pain in his side dull to nearly non-existant and there was no numb feeling. Soon Big Mac had a shield and a new crescent axe ready. "I didn't catch your name." She could tell he was stalling. "Doesn't matter dead men tell no tales." She rocketed forward and Big Mac jumped back onto the mortor pile before leaping into the air doing a front flip, by the time she caught him in the air he was hanging upsidedown. He blocked her kick with his shield before slashing at her head but a pulse came and she dodged it. Big Mac tossed his axe towards the ground as they were finally feeling the effect of gravity and he grabbed her leg tossing her at the ground. He spun for a moment before landing on the ice but instead of a hard impact like he'd braced for, he bounced! The impact was hardly jarring as he got up and pulled his axe out of the ground suprised it pierced it.
He threw it at her but she dodged and shot at him pounding away at his defenses as he held his shield up to protect himself. The axe left forgotten by her spun in middair changing cource as it aimed straight for her as she shattered Big Mac's shield with one final hit. He jumped back before an elbow found purchase in his gut making him taste copper in the back of his throat as he was launched like a missle. She stopped to gloat right as the axe found purchase in her back and Big Mac took this moment to stagger to his feet and move closer as she tried to reach it and wretch it free. A snapping sound was heard and Spike appeared putting a bone white knife in his hand before nodding to him. Big Mac ran at her as soon as she got the axe free all playful demeanor gone now that he'd meaningfully injured her the wound on her back wasn't healing. She screamed like the maniac she was raising it above her head hoping to cleave him in two with his owe weapon.
Time slows in situations like this and for them it did just that as he thrusted the knife forward and she brought the axe down. The blade of the axe slammed hard into Big Mac's unprotected neck but didn't even break skin as the bone white knife pierced cleanly through her heart. She seemed confused as her magic faded from her body and Big Mac watched as her tattoos flewed in reverse back towards her heart and into the bone white blade impaling it. Soon her magic was gone and she slumped over dead as Big Mac felt bile and blood rise in his throat. Spike put his hand on his shoulder neither congraduating him or condeming him. "Remember you did this for your sister." He snorted as he picked up his Crescent axe and limped over to his other one which he'd dropped when he grabbed her. "And that makes it okay?" Spike shook his head. "Killing is never okay but it should never be senseless. Don't think about the life you took, think about the lives you saved by taking it. Killing should be a last resort but one you should use if it calls for it and this called for it."
The knife in his hand glowed orange before changing shape from a blank template it had changed to a bowie knife with a wooden handle and faded gold finder guard, it was huge even to him almost seeming like a short sword rather than a knife with sharp spines on the back with a firm hard edge it felt right in his hands as he flipped it from proper to reverse grip, on the pommel was a loop connected to a small keychain of a stallion head that shone a subtle but bright vermillion. The blade itself was strange to him as it was gritty and dented with slight scale rather than being polished giving it a rough forged look while the edge was hard and shiny, he almost felt he'd cut himself looking at it to long. Spike grabbed it from his hand inspecting it before putting it next to Big Mac's lower back a piece of riveted leather appearing and enveloping the blade creating a sheath. "It can do that?" Spike looked at him seriously. "I didn't trust you before at least not completely but now i do."
Big Mac snorted. "Because now i'm a killer?" Spike shook his head his sharp cold eyes glaring into Big Mac's. "Because now you're a soldier."
RAINBOW DASH
She grunted as she and her opponent struggled in the air a cold chill racing over them as they fought. Her enemy vanished into thin air before a foot slammed into the face sending her careening towards the groune before the wind holwed to life and slowed her down. She spread her wings riding it and stopped just short of impact floating in the air before looking over at Spike who winked at her. She flew back up towards her enemy who didn't even bother to introduce himself before vanishing in a clap of thunder reappearing above him and kicking him right in the back of the head. He reeled from the blow before vanishing again qnd reappearing in the air in front of her. Rainbow spared a glance to see Big Mac jump over his opponent grabbing her arms. "Who are you?" He smirked in that infernal hood she now hated. "I am Ahuizotl." Rainbow Dash snorted. "Well then you're going down!"
She sped towards him but he dodged and she felt a wire wrap around her throat, Ahuizotl pressed his foot against her back trying to het as much leverage as he could and he garroted her but then Rainbow Dash exploded in a violent burst of electricity and gave him a nasty numbing shock. She reformed and gradded him slamming speeding towards the ground and smashing him neck first into it causing a sickening crack to ring out. A snapping sound was heard and she watched Spike hand something to Big Mac before he rushed his opponent and disappearing. He stood next to her before handing her a flintlock pistol and pointing towards her downed but not quite dead opponent. "Do it if you have to." Spike appeared over near Big Mac and she could tell they were talking about something, she didn't hear what.
Looking down at him though at the person who had a part in trying to kill Scootaloo and she hated him for it, white hot anger flashed through her as she remembered seeing Scootaloo's room covered in blood, her blood as she inmagined her surrogate little sister trying to fight for her life. She didn't hesitate at first as she put the gun to his head, but after pulling the hammer back she didn't know if she could do it. "Do you want me to do it?" Yao Lang crouched down next to her Rainbow having forgotten the Nightmare was even there. "Taking a life even a pathetic waste of one like his is diffiucult." Rainbow Dash looked over to Big Mac who was leaning on his large axe a hand held one in his back over hos shoulder while a knife was across his lower back. "He seems to be taking it well." Yao Lang shook her head. "Killing in the heat of battle and killing when your opponent is helpless are two very different things, especially when they're at your mercy."
Just then Ahuizolt lunged up surpising them both and making Raindow jump in shock her hand squeezed. A loud shot rang out as blood splatter all over the ice and he fell back this time dead. Rainbow felt tears in her eyes as she felt white hot anger replaced with fear of what she'd just done, Yao Lang was right killing someone who couldn't fight back made her pale with fear, she'd killed someone, she killed him and she couldn't get it out her head(3). Yao Lang hugged her close rubbibg her back, even if it was an accident it was still pretty bad she noted the pistol glowed blue before tutning into a revolver but she ignored that for later. To think she wanted to kill this girl she sat here comforting, she couldn't help but feel horrible about that now.
TWILIGHT
She tensed as she waited for her opponent to make the first move her barrier ready to deploy at any second while her impact magic pulsed at the ready. She opponent took off her cloak to show a tan face with red and yellow hair with simple curls in it. Her shirt showed the emblem of the sun on it while her pants and shoes were black. "My name is Sunset Shimmer." Twilight watched an aura of flame envolop her Twilight punched the air creating shockwaves and Sunset waved her arm creating a barrier that reflected the shots back a Twilight who jumped to the side to dodge them before sprinting at her firing magic blast before moving as they travelled towards the shield. They bounced off just like she thought before she cocked her fist back smashing it into the barrier which shattered. "What?" Twilight shashed her fist into Sunset's face making blood shot out her mouth as she was launched back.(4) "Deflector shields are made to deflect magical attacks, they're useless against melee attacks even magically imbuded ones."
Sunset got up rubbing her cheek healing magic already working to fix her jaw. "I forgot that, figures she'd replace me with a book worm." Twilight was confused but then lightning shot at her making her dodge before a flash of light appeared in her vision slightly blinding her before Sunset punched her in the gut. Twilight felt a surge of energy that tried to force its way past her suits protection but it only went to her muscle layer leaving the organs underneath untouched. She forced Sunset's hand away before another found purchase in her face snapping her head back. She readjusted it before blocking a knee to the gut with her forearms before a blast of concusive force knock Sunset back and Twilight blasted her with a magic blast powered by her impact magic. Sunset was launched back slamming into the mortor with a crack and a gasp of pain. "Dammit, i have to retreat!?"
Sunset began to scale the wall hoping to get away and Twilight moved to stop her but Spike stopped her. "Let her go she's wasn't involved in this, she just came here with them." Twilight looked at him suspiciously. "How do you know that?" Spike chuckled patting Twilight on the head and looking at her condescendingly. "Because i'm a better Magician than you." Twilight huffed looking away before her armor glowed and orange and red lines appeared on her undersuit causing her to look at them oddly. "Yeah they do that sometimes." Twilight got the 'ODD' feeling he wasn't really telling her whats was really happening.
SCENE As always please review.
(1) Fullru looks like the picture Katanas of boredom by deviantart user Intactus i do not owe it but it looks amazing so i had to mention it in story.
(2) Big Mac's inner magic gives him an ability similar to Kiba's Sword Birth from Highschool DxD, the basics is Kiba can make swords with a ton of different powers. Big Mac's power is more versatile and broad in the sense that it makes more than just his axes, it can make several different things primarily tools and equipment. He could make a giant axe to use in battle or make a hammer and a group of nails in order to fix a fence, or a length of rope to tie someone up. He also has a few more abilities to supplement that one to give him an edge So far my only name for it is Tool User but i cant really think of something cooler leave a review telling me what you want it to be called if you have an idea.
(3) this is deeply personal to me when i was twelve i was bullied by this one kid barely bigger than me so when it got physical on a bad day for me i fought back and i beat him up but even after he was on the ground i kept punching him and only stopped a little while later. I felt horrible despite having no sympathy for him. When someone fights back thats one thing but they're on the ground beaten and helpless thats just brutality.
(4) one difference between the impact magic Big Mac's opponent used and Twilight's is that Twilight's goes into the person it hits before detonation while Big Mac's opponents creates a shock wave as soon as it makes contact, in this way while Twilight doesn't have as much inital power in her strikes they bypass the defences of most people. It doesn't work on certain creature blood who are actually tougher on the inside rather than the reverse.