Chapter eleven
author notes: I don't have a lot to say except thanks for reading.
"heh heh heh. It seems your friends are in their way" the king said looking into the water, "and lucky celestia saw them leave"
Scott growled.
"oh now, now. Let's not get angry" the king said walking over to him, "your about to help me and I do so dislike angry aids" with that the king threw back his cloaked hood revealing the darkest black coat imaginable his mane too was a charcoal flame. Scott observed that he was an alicorn like celestia. His horn glowed a dark red and red lighting lanced from it protruding into Scott's chest. Scott yelled out in immense pain as the red lightning lanced through his body. When the lightning had ceased Scott's body sizzled with steam.
"now what do you have to say my little guest" the king said smiling.
Scott looked up his pupils dilated and eyes seemed to stare into nothingness ,"I'm ready"
Luna had returned to celestia in full gallop behind her trailed twilight and the others. Twilight was carrying a box that held the elements of harmony.
"what's the matter princess" twilight said.
"I fear that Shawn and the others have left to go rescue their friend. I believe they do not know what they are getting into." celestia said .
"when did they leave" applejack asked.
"about forty minutes ago. With that amount of time they should be nearing the tower that holds Scott"
"well then what are we waiting for!" rainbow said, "let's get going"
"very well" celestia said. She looked at Luna," I wish for you to accompany us dear sister" Luna nodded as celestia's horn began to glow. When the bright light that had surrounded the eight ponies had gone they were next to a dirt road that led to a great tower.
"I've placed us off a bit" celestia said. Just as she said that Joseph's tank clanked past them followed by the hummer. The two attack vehicles rolled to a stop about fifty feet from the tower doors, somehow the massive doors on the base of the tower swung open. Out of those doors marched row after row of skeletons of the past army of ponies that had once lived in the tower.
"look at how many there are" rarity said, "their so...vile"
All speech was soon cut short as the battle tank released a shell from its cannon. The shell streaked across the air landing in the middle of the first three rows. Bones and armor were exploded up and then fell back down. After the bones and armor hit the ground they were dragged back into rows forming the skeletons again. Some had missing bones due to being exploded into tiny little bits.
Harry had started chugging the big caliber gun releasing a hail of lead. Catching the bones and breaking them into bits and dust. Shawn was driving straight ahead into the rows. He slammed into the ponies crushing bones underneath the heavy tires. The crushed bones no longer formed back into ponies but instead laid there looking like little piles of dust.
"Shawn keep doing that! Bones aren't so helpful when they are crushed" harry yelled.
Celestia gazed at the battlefield seeing the battle tank scared her. The pure amount of death it could produce made her shiver. She gazed up at the top of the tower as a booming voice yelled out, "NO how can this be! My soldiers being defeated by such a simple tactic" the black alicorn yelled looking down at the tank clanking over the undead ponies and releasing explosive shells into the mass crowd, "No matter ,Scott! Please go welcome your friends"
Shawn and everyone else had finished about half of undead army when Scott walked out of the doors.
"Scott!" Harry yelled. Scott continued to walk forward but as he walked his hands were engulfed by a dark aura. Harry jumped out of the hummer as the tank made a protective circle around them ,"Scott you okay? What's the mat..." he was cut short as Scott thrusted his hands forward sending plumes of dark smoke towards Harry. The smoke entered his nostrils and his mouth. Harry's body spasm and convulsed. Scott lowered his hands ending the plumes of smoke, Harry dropped to the ground and did not move.
Shawn shoved the hummer in reverse as Scott got closer, the tank broke the circle and focused back on the ponies. This entire time celestia and the other ponies were watching." what do we do princess" twilight asked. Twilight looked over at where celestia was expecting a answer but was greeted with a empty space. She looked over at Luna and asked, "where is the princess"
"I am afraid her hard head got the best of her" Luna replied and pointed at celestia racing towards tower. Scott turned at the racing pony Scott gathered black smoke in his hands shaping it into a long spear. He threw the black spear at celestia but missed as she raced past them heading into the tower.
Twilight and the other ran out from their hiding place. They ran over to where Shawn was. He had gotten out of the hummer and was in a crouch position.
" what do I do" he asked twilight as he heard her run up, "what the fuck am I suppose to do"
"Shawn . Everything will be okay" twilight said trying to reassure him. He just shook his head, "I can't shoot him, I can't get near him, I can't do anything" Shawn said as he watched the tank starting to circle Scott as another quarter of the army was crushed beneath its tracks.
Twilight retrieved the box from where she was carrying it. She opened it and starting handing out necklaces to every other pony with her except Luna.
"I don't think this is the time for jewelry" Shawn said dryly.
" just watch Shawn I have an idea" she said as she lifted a golden tiara encrusted with jewels onto her head, "come on girls "
The six ponies ran out towards Scott , "wait! What are you doing" Shawn yelled after them. He tried to run after them but was stopped by Luna.
"thy pony friends know what they art doing" she said. Shawn gazed at the six ponies as they reached a few feet from Scott. The tank had stopped circling and was resting near the ponies, smoke came from the mouth of its cannon. Twilight looked at the ponies on her right and left side, they nodded. She closed her eyes as she concentrated. The necklaces on the five ponies began to glow and they were lifted into the air. Shawn had to look away for a moment as the light grew brighter. But when he looked back he saw a rainbow shoot into the air. It curved in the air and shot down at Scott. It landed on top of him. He could hear Scott yell out. When the rainbow stopped coming down Scott was lying on the ground.
Shawn ran over to him. He met Scott just as Ashley and Joseph ran over to Harry. Harry slowly came too and looked at Joseph and Ashley,"wha...what happened" he asked
" we'll tell you later" Ashley said.
They looked at Scott as he groaned on the ground. He rolled over," I...I'm sorry" he said ," I saw everything I did"
" it's not your fault" Shawn said," you didn't do it."
Suddenly a great explosion took place at the very top of the tower. Rocks and debris rained down on them.
" hey! Isn't that celestia falling " Bert yelled out from the tank pointing at a falling pony. Shawn looked up seeing the three colored mane flapping as she fell down to the ground.
"sister!" Luna yelled out as she took to the air.
"quickly fluttershy and rainbow go help her" twilight said.
"right" rainbow said as she and fluttershy took off. Luna,fluttershy,and rainbow managed to catch celestia and lowered her to the ground.
"quickly we must get her to the hospital" fluttershy said as she examined celestia battered body. Her once lovely mane and tail now shredded and discolored, she had deep gashes on her body, and her wing looked as if it was broken in several places.
Shawn helped Scott into the hummer as the other ponies helped celestia into the back seat. Harry was going to ride on the tank. Shawn punched the gas and sped off carrying his passengers of Scott,celestia,and a very worried twilight.
Halfway through their voyage celestia came to mostly due to bumping around on the uneven road.
"where are we" she asked slowly.
"princess please don't speak" twilight said.
They drove on for a bit until Scott started to spasm and yelled. Shawn skidded to a halt making the hummer jerk to the side.
"Scott! What going on" he asked.
"oh celestia I see you have waken up" Scott spoke his eyes went back to staring into nothingness and his arms at his side.
"what are you saying Scott" Shawn asked.
"quiet you" Scott looked at Shawn, "you may have defeated my army celestia but you forgot about my little pet"
Celestial eyes widened, "you wouldn't"
"hahaha you really expect me not to after you break into my home and kill my only aid left" Scott said smiling.
"princess what's going on" twilight asked.
"he's using Scott to talk to me" celestia said.
"ah yes that right. I suspected that celestia would keep me a secret. I think it's time that they met me celestia. I am mostly known by black flame" he said through Scott," enjoy your last moments of harmony"
Scott went limp as the voice of black flame left him. " hurry Shawn we must get back to ponyville" celestia said weakly. The tank clanked up behind them as Shawn drove off.
"why did you guys stop" the radio crackled.
"what is that" twilight asked jumping at the sound.
"something came over Scott" Shawn said into the mike ignoring the question.
"well whatever it is get moving" Joseph said.
Shawn sped through the towns road the tank right behind him. They raced towards the hospital. They reached the it and twilight and her friends managed to carry celestia into the hospital and harry helped Scott inside. Shawn stood out of the hummer but flinched when he heard the most spine chilling roar he had ever heard. He looked at the edge of the forest and saw trees falling.
"what is that" Bert yelled.
" I don't know! But it can't be good" Shawn yelled," come on Harry man the gun"
Harry ran out of the hospital and over to the hummer climbing he reloaded the .50," I'm going to leave the you somewhere that will keep you protected and will provide a good field of fire" Shawn said.
" but where are you going" Harry asked.
" I'm going to bring hell" Shawn said dryly as he found the spot he wanted. He jumped out and ran away.
" where the hell is he going" Joseph said over the radio.
" he said he was going bring hell"
Joseph grunted and gave orders to hide behind a building," keep your head down this time Harry"
"will do"
It was a good five minutes of waiting. They listened to the roar of something huge, saw the trees topple over as the thing made it way towards the town. When it finally broke through the forest edge they saw a dragon. But the dragon itself looked horribly frightening, most of the meat was gone a few big chunks still clung to the bones, inside it's chest was a black blue flame, and riding on its back was the pony known as black flame.
Ponies in the town screamed in fear and ran for cover. "FIRE" Joseph yelled. The tank sent its mail package of death towards the dragon while Harry cut loose with his .50. The tank shell flew towards the dragon and exploded on it forehead. The dragon roared and shot blue flames from it mouth at the hidden tank. The blue flames engulfed a nearby house, the ponies that were hiding in it ran out. The tank then crashed through the abandoned house. It clanked over to the next road it armored body covered in blue flames that quickly went out as they found nothing to burn.
Harry was aiming for the dragon's only eye that was left rotting in its head. His bullets found their marks making the dragon roar out in rage. As it opened it mouth to spew flames on Harry a streak of smoke came from behind him and exploded in its mouth. Harry looked up to see Shawn roar over head in his hornet. Shawn fired his guns poking chunks of bone out of the dragon's exposed skull. The dragon swung a claw out at Shawn but he avoided it as he pulled up .
"fool" black flame said stomping on the exposed bone of the dragon's back, "your mere explosions cannot break my pet"
Shawn was still gathering altitude as the dragon tried to shoot flame after him. The tank clanked from one road to the another stopping in front of the hospital as a gear on its track had missed the hole in the track. Bert jumped out cursing. He grabbed a sledgehammer from the side of the tank. Twilight and the others ran out hearing the explosions ,they wore the elements but were not able to get close enough to use them due to the blue flames the dragon was spewing out all over the ground. They flinched as the tank fired another shell at the dragon. Bert was hammering away at the track trying to get in back in place.
"try it now" he yelled into the tank.
The tank surged forward a loud popping sound was heard as the track popped back into place. Bert climbed back inside. They clanked forwards firing at the dragon. Shawn was driving down his guns spitting out death poking more chunks of bone out. The pony on the dragon's back shot black flame from his horn in front of Shawn's flight direction. Black flames engulfed Shawn as he flew through them.
" Shawn! Are you alright!" Joseph asked through the radio.
" I don't know" he said worriedly, "but I can try to keep her up a bit longer" he flew in a circle coming straight at the dragon. He fired the last missile from under his wing. It streaked across the sky slamming into the chest of the dragon containing the black blue flame. The dragon reared back clutching at its chest. It seemed to be gasping at the sudden explosion in its chest.
" that's it" Shawn said," aim for the flame in its chest"
" are you sure" Joseph asked," we are running out of shells"
" I'm almost out" Harry said.
" I'm positive" Shawn said.
He jet started to shudder as the black flames began to eat away at the skin of his jet and even ate away at the metal. " come on . Just a bit longer!" he muttered. He looked down at where Harry was hiding, he saw tracer rounds being focused at the chest. He saw the tank clank to the edge of town firing it shells. Shawn flew down low over Harry and the tank. He fired the remaining bullets at the dragons chest before his guns clicked empty.
Joseph observed that Shawn was not going to turn away from the dragon.
" Shawn! What the fuck do you think you're doing!" he yelled into his mike.
"this bird is going down anyways, might as well go down in a blaze" Shawn said over the radio.
" Shawn wait we can figu"he was cut short as the jet slammed into the dragons chest. The wings tore off as it went through the ribs and as the cockpit entered the flame within the chest the entire jet exploded.
"SHAWN!" Joseph yelled jumping out from the tank running towards the dragon as its bones began to fall apart. Joseph saw a flowering chute open as he was running. The damn fool he thought as Shawn floated done to the ground. As the dragon was falling apart black flame jumped from its back, he shot another burst of flame at Shawn. The flame went high catching the chute.
Shawn stared up in horror as massive holes were burned in his chute. He fell to the ground landing hard on his back sending up dust. Black flame had landed gracefully on his hooves from his jump.
" you...you mere insolent humans!" he screamed," how dare you kill my pet!"
He stared black hate at the town, he gathered a massive fireball in front of him," your time of harmony has ended!"
By this time twilight and the others were next to the tank watching the fireball grow in size. " goodbye worthless ponies" black flame laughed as he said it. He stopped laughing as a white hot pain lanced through his leg. He fell down the fireball burning into the ground and then disappeared.
"arrrggghh" he yelled out and looked behind him. Shawn was standing up holding a pistol. He still had in Scott's extra clothing which had absorbed most if the impact but left Shawn with a broken arm and a badly twisted ankle. Shawn limped over to the laying alicorn his black mane scorching the grass behind him.
" you can't do it human" black flame said smiling," you can't kill me"
"shaaawwn don't!" twilight said as she raced towards him her friends right behind her.
"that's right Shawn don't do it, or you'll never see your world again" the black pony said.
"you brought us here" Shawn glared at him.
"yes I did. But I must admit you and your fiends are completely unpredictable. You ruined my plans. But it's no matter you can't kill me" he sneered at Shawn
"you wanna bet I can't" Shawn said dryly as he pulled the trigger back. The bullet exited the barrel and flew into the pony's head. Black flame's face turned into that of one being tortured, his eyes wide opened as well as his mouth.
" Shawn why" twilight asked running up her face turning pale at the sight of the dead pony, it's head bleeding through the hole where the bullet had entered.
Shawn glared at her," why not"
She stepped back a bit," this thing almost killed two of my friends, almost destroyed that town. Now explain to me why he did not deserve to die! Why!" Shawn was screaming at her. Twilight looked to the ground. Shawn began to limp towards the town.
" something's we have to get rid of" he said limping past her. She looked back at the limping Shawn. He dropped the pistol and fell to the ground his arm was now gushing blood. Shawn remembered seeing the look in the other ponies eyes as he fell to the ground. Fear, they feared him now, and yet he saw thankfulness. He blacked out for another time in his experience in this world.
Author notes: poor Shawn. I keep making him black