Part 2: Chapter 1: Charlie
The room was alive. Lights, hanging from the ceiling, changing color to ever beat. Glow sticks and rings, colors ranging from white to silver, outlined the ponies wearing them. The sound of hoofs hitting the ground, all dancing to the music, all in sync, sounded like thundering claps. The air smelt of sweat and was humid.
"Another of Vinyl's infamous Raves, figures." Beta said, disgusted by the air quality.
"Yeah, well, that's what she likes." Alpha agreed. He frowned as he looked around the room. His hair and eyes were glowing red and blue, giving him excellent cover if one were to find out why they were really there. He made his way through the crowd of ponies and what looked like floating glow sticks. The lights were changing colors to the beat, each change of the light changed, ever so slightly, the position of his target.
"Alright ponies," DJ-PON3 announced. "Gonna take a 10 minute break, get my favorite songs and take a breather. Stay dancing and wubbing!" She announced as she left the stage. The music cooled down to the popular song: TCIF.
"Let's go." Beta said, keeping the target in range. Alpha responded by following the DJ into the back, easily slipping past the bodyguards.
Vinyl took off her glasses and sighed, a water bottle floated towards her and she drank. "Luna Moon, I'm beat." She laughed to herself as she realized the pun she made.
"It's been a looong time, Vinyl Scratch."
Vinyl stood straighter, her exhaustion forgotten. Her ears perked up and she listened. "Who said that?" She said, fear creeping into her voice.
"Come now, Vinyl. Did you really forget about us? It's only been Four years since you talked to us."
Vinyl looked around for the pony who was talking to her. "What do you want?"
Alpha was hiding on the beams above her, cloaked in the shadows. His hair and eyes were no longer glowing. He was using the walls to make his voice seem everywhere at once.
"How's Octavia?"
"She's fine." Vinyl said, nervously. She straightened her neck and pretended to not be frightened. Some pony was playing with her, she thought. It must be some sort of trick or joke. "How are you?"
"We are fine."
"How about you show yourself and we talk face to face.
"As you wish." Alpha jumped from the beam and landed in front of Vinyl. Her eyes went wide as she realized who was talking.
"Why are you here!?" She said, all her strength gone.
"I'll be honest Vinyl; we are not here to hurt you. Instead we are here to offer you a...new job."
"I don't want a new job. I love my job right now!" Vinyl protested.
"Just hear us out, Vinyl. Celestia has gone insane."
Vinyl rolled her eyes. "Here you go again, talking shit about Celestia. That she has gone insane, bat-shit crazy, that "She's torturing others." Give me a fucking break; I talked to her personally yesterday. Now if you would excuse me, I have a rave to resume." She walked out of the back stage, vinyl discs floating behind her.
"That could have gone better."
"Next time, let me do the talking." Alpha replied as he went back into the rave party. He heard a disc screech and a new song begin to play and recognized it.
"Here is a new mix for you ponies, Vinylisicous."
He walked around the party near the walls and found an empty table, free from beer bottles and ponies. He took a seat and closed his eyes, trying to ignore the music. Behind him were a group of ponies, thugs by the looks of them. He didn't care about them until he heard what they were talking about.
"Did you hear about the new rumor going about?"
"What do you mean?"
"Rumor goes that a Pony named Alpha is going around, assassinating other ponies for his plan to overthrow the princess."
"Bull-fucking-shit."
"It's also said that Luna joined him, and all of her guards followed suite."
"Are you serious!? Why in the world would she turn on her own sister?"
"Probably for power, most likely."
"I would love to meet this Alpha and teach him a lesson."
"I'd love to see you try." Alpha said aloud, as he stood up and walked to the group, grinning.
Alpha sighed as he walked out through the back door and into the dark alleyway, his mane dripping in blood. "That was fun."
"Yes it was."
He took a deep breath and took off into the night. "I wonder how Charlie and Delta are doing."
It has been 4 years since Alpha/Beta and Charlie/Delta teamed up with Luna and her guards. Alpha had grown close with Charlie, treating him as the younger brother he has never had. Alpha was now 17 years old.
Alpha's scar had fully healed and was no longer raw or open. He had used his metallic brace so much now that he rarely took it off. He could now easily fly faster that before and was now mastering advanced techniques and creating his own. Alpha, sadly, is plagued by nightmares, and rarely gets any sleep. Passing out has become a frequent trait of Alpha, since it is his only way of actually getting any rest.
Beta had fully remembered his memories and is able to remember anything he had heard or seen. His magic has grown un-imaginably strong. In the magic sparring battles with Sombra and the other kings and queens, Beta recently has been able to overcome three to four continuous enemy beams of magic at the same time. Although not as strong as her, Beta and Alpha, when combining their attacks, have come close to beating Luna in full-out free for all sparring matches.
Charlie has become extremely agile; able to climb steep rocks and trees, not to mention actually dodging multiple magic attacks from Beta and Sombra. Although only 15, Charlie has begun to have horrific flashbacks of Delta's past, to the point in which both Beta and Luna have to enter Delta's mind to calm them down. Beta had created 2 pairs of wings, made of the Dragon Metal, for Charlie to use to enter and exit the mountain.
Delta has admitted and apologized to Beta, confirming his beliefs that Delta was the reason why he was blamed for so much death. Although annoyed at first, Beta acknowledged and ignored it, claiming that he was used to killing so many that he believed he did kill so many. Easily regaining is magic ability, Sombra and the other kings and queens have been out more often since where Alpha/Beta and Charlie/Delta live is essentially a secret base in the EverFree forest.
The mountain where Alpha's cave was located is currently his new home. Created and hollowed out by the Pie's rock ponies, it is a labyrinth of rooms and hallways, made sure to last Centuries. Using the lava underneath the mountain as heat, the mountain internal temperature is around 21 Celsius (70 degrees for you "Ameruica" Humans) all year around. The rock face where alpha's cave is located is actually bare, open. Using a cover-up spell, only a few, Luna included, knew about its existence. Only those who have been inside the Mountain are allowed to enter and leave it. New ponies who want to enter need the help of one who has already been inside. By simply holding one's hoof, a new pony is can simply enter the mountain, in which they do not need help leaving or entering again.
The Cover-up spell, created by Delta when he was alive and walking, was ingenious. It allowed only those inside the mountain to see outward, but everypony outside would only see a rock face. Only to those who have ever entered the mountain, if they were to leave, they would see the gaping hole and the inside of the mountain.
Charlie and Delta were bringing Derpy to the mountain. Able to bribe her with the chance of seeing Luna and muffins, she happily joined and was already entering the mountain when Alpha showed up.
The plan was to get as many ponies to join, creating another new modern army. 4 years later and a lot of hard work, Changing Queen Chrysalis and her changelings had joined, filling half of the mountain up, not to mention Doctor Hooves, Smith, Rainbow Dash, Discord, Maud Pie, Pinkie Pie, John and Scootaloo, and half a couple hundred others.
He entered the mountain; saw Derpy and Beta instantly cloaked himself as Alpha made his way for the showers. Once in the showers, he twisted the knob and let the lava-heated water hit his sweat-drenched face, washing away his stress. He sighed loudly and was, for the next few minutes, in pure bliss. That was until Luna came in and saw the blood washing away.
"I'd take that as failure, am I right?" Luna said aloud, grabbing his attention.
"What?" Alpha asked confused before looking down at the blood. "Oh, that isn't Vinyl's blood, just some thugs who wanted to teach me a lesson." He turned off the shower and walked out of the stall, his hair dripping with pinkish water.
"And did they?"
"What do you think?" Alpha replied, annoyed. "How's Charlie and Delta?"
"Delta is doing fine, as for Charlie…" Luna trailed off, looking away.
"What's wrong?" Alpha responded.
"Charlie keeps having nightmares, only it's not Delta's memories he is accessing." Luna explained.
"What do you mean? He is having flashbacks of his past?"
Luna nodded.
"It happens to me a lot when I pass out. I consider it normal for us."
"Normal?" Luna asked.
"If something happens often for me, I consider it normal."
"You have flashbacks of your past, I know. But what Charlie is accessing is much more different."
"How so?" Alpha asked. "What is he dreaming about?"
"Committing suicide."