MLP: Playing With Fire

Chapter 2 - Stardust's Goodbye, Part 1

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(Takes place sometime after the ending of Seeds of the Past)

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"You… are by far… the worst excuse for a villain that I have ever seen before in my entire lifetime."

Inside of a darkened cavern, a bruised, chained-up, and battered Anti-Stardust angrily muttered some words underneath his breath after listening to the individual who was standing a few feet away from him.

"How is it that you and your friends were so easily defeated by an average human being, as well as an average Earth Pony?"

Anti-Stardust continued muttering to himself, and this led to the individual in front of him to make a small nod of the head, which was the go-ahead signal for one of the two henchman standing by the dark-gold pony to activate his deadly electrical prod.

"Aaaaaagggghhh!" yelled Anti-Stardust, as the servant rammed the tips of the prod into his side, sending a thousand volts of electricity into his roughed-up body, and this continued for a while until the Boss motioned for him to stop.

Unable to move, the young pony panted, body convulsing with aftershocks from the attack while the Boss shook his head in disappointment, and scowled at him.

"You've failed me too many times, Jack… you were unable to kill your other self, as well as his friend, after Rowan and Elixir's attempts backfired... you couldn't take over any version of Equestria… and you allowed the world of your original host to continue thriving…"

Once he was able to speak again, Anti-Stardust coughed a few times, and he said, "If that's how it'll be, then get someone else to do your fin dirty work… because I'm never dealing with those two ever again."

Then, the young pony stood up, and he glared at the individual standing in front of him with a look that meant he'd had enough of this.

"So, this is what's going to happen, Xenos… you're going to free me from these chains, give me back my friends, and once we're all gone, you can go f*** yourself."

Unfortunately, things didn't turn out the way he'd hoped for… because after a moment of silence, a sly smirk appeared on Xenos' face.

"See, that's where you're wrong, Jack… you are done when I say that you're done… but first, you are going to pay for all of your recent failures… so, let's bring out your friends, shall we?"

Whoosh!

Suddenly, lights were shown in another part of the cavern, and Anti-Stardust saw that his girlfriend, along with the rest of the Anti-Mane 6, had been turned into statues, as well a large mallet lying on the ground in front of them.

"So, tell me, Jack," said Xenos, who made his way over to the wooden tool, and slowly picked it up. "Whom shall I break first?"

The dark-gold pony shook his head, and cried, "If you do one f***** thing to them, I will - aaaaggggghhhhh!"

Both of Xenos' henchman uses their metal prods on Anti-Stardust, and Xenos replied, "I guess I'll have to decide, then. How about Fluttershy?"

Before the electrocuted pony could even say anything, Xenos raised up the mallet, and brought it down onto the statue of Fluttershy, causing it to smash into hundreds of tiny little pieces.

"You… f***ing - aaaaaggghhh!" He tried to stop Xenos, but was stopped by the continuous jabs from his cronies' metal prods.

"This is all on you, Jack," replied Xenos, speaking in a calm but threatening tone. "But I'll tell you what - why don't I get this over with so you don't have to be here that long."

Then, while continuing to be electrocuted, Anti-Stardust watched Xenos destroy the statues of Applejack, Rarity, and -

"No!" yelled the Earth Pony, after it seemed like Xenos was about to smash the statue of Twilight's anti-self, and a small smile appeared on the cruel mastermind's face as he motioned for the two servants to stop using their prods. "Please… don't kill Twilight…"

With eyes now becoming watery, Anti-Stardust looked up at Xenos, and begged for him to spare the alicorn's life. "I… I'll do anything… just don't… not Twilight, please."

To his horror, a sighing Xenos shook his head, and replied, "I'm sorry, Jack, but this is what needs to be done… if it helps, you can blame the 'Warrior of Twilight' for what I'm about to do."

Then, despite Anti-Stardust's protests, Xenos used the mallet to break the statue of his special somepony in half, and as the pieces hit the ground, with the edges breaking off into several tiny pieces, something snapped inside of the now-speechless pony, who could feel the tears sliding down both sides of his face.

"You… killed her… you... f***ing asshole…"

As soon as he said those words, one of Xenos' servants prepared to shock him yet again, but the loss of his girlfriend was the final straw for the alternate version of Stardust, so in one swift move, he broke apart his chains, forcibly took the electric prod from the servant, and with a cold look in his eyes, he said, "Let's see how you like it, you son of a b***ch."

Before the servant could say anything else, Anti-Stardust jammed the electric prod into his chest, and made it so that the electricity would continuously stay on, which then brought him over to the other servant.

"Guess who's next?"

A few seconds later, while the two servants were quickly losing their lives via electricity, a furious Anti-Stardust glared at Xenos, who slowly began to applaud the Earth Pony.

"Now, that is what I like to see, Jack… and as a reward for coming back to your senses…"

Xenos snapped his fingers, and Anti-Stardust watched the alternate versions of Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash return back to their normal state.

"Also, here's something that can be used to help you out on your next attempt to destroy your other self and his friend…"

A swirl of magic appeared in the hands of the evil mastermind, and by the time he was in front of Anti-Stardust, the Earth Pony was holding onto a staff that appeared to be a mixture of the ones that belonged to Kronos and Miles.

"Star…?" whispered Anti-Rainbow, who was slowly regaining her conciousness.

With a sinister smirk, Evil Stardust looked up at Xenos, and he replied, "Oh, I know just how to take care of them…"