Part 2: Chapter 3: Revenge is a Dish Best Served Cold
"It's not right, Delta. None of this is right! I am not right."
The torches were giving off their normal orange flickering light, lighting up his room. Charlie was under his bed, talking to Delta. The one place that was truly dark, which allowed to rest without covering his eyes from the light or snuffing out the flame and relighting it in the morning.
"No pony is supposed to be "right", Charlie. Hell, I know that more than you. I was and still am a mutant, one that could what others never dreamed of doing."
"I am not supposed to be like this!"
"Supposed to be like what?"
"I am gay. Being gay is wrong here. I push everypony I knew away, I have a shitty personality. I'm an asshole. I suck at life, never stood up for my friends when they were being bullied before I met you, but they would stand up for me."
"I don't know about that," A voice said from the door.
Charlie poked his head out from under the bed to see Alpha standing there. His scar was open and raw again, bleeding profoundly. His metallic wing was broken, the metallic feathers spread out in different directions. Alpha had many scratches along his body. His eyes were half open, and he was missing a few teeth. Blood was dripping from his body to the ground, creating a small red puddle underneath him. His left wing was broken, his right front leg and his left hind leg were terrifyingly disfigured. There was a trail of blood drops behind him.
"You are quite the opposite, to be honest." Alpha said with a tooth-missing smile.
Alpha felt his mind race. He felt Beta rise within in him faster than ever before. His adrenaline kicked in, his panic, rage, anger and hate mixed together, creating one hell of a substitute of energy.
Celestia grinned with half-opened eyes and shot a white glowing bolt at Alpha. Instead of dodging it, Beta took over and blocked it by raising the metallic wing and using as a shield, the bolt bouncing off the wing like a laser bouncing off a mirror.
"It has been a long time, Beta." Celestia said casually.
"Yes, it has." Beta replied, lowering the wing slowly before teleporting to the top of the machine. He looked down on Celestia. She had splashes of Rainbow Liquid all over her body, especially her face. She turned around and looked up at him with a teeth-baring smile, her teeth glowing in a vibrant rainbow state. "Taste good?"
"It tastes like blood. But it has an energetic feeling to it, like BlueBull has." She said with a nod. As she was nodding, her horn began to glow white and it spat out a cone of rainbow-colored magic. Beta jumped off the machine just in time to narrowly miss the spell. He spun in the air, giving Alpha back control and watched as the machine was hit.
The top of the machine was easily ripped off like if it was made of paper and somepony ripped the top off. The pipes within easily broke, creating a fountain of the rainbow-liquid, spurting it up into the air. Alpha landed on the ground behind Celestia, watching the Rainbow rain onto the floor when he got a face full of Celestia's Hind kick. He wheeled around, teeth flying out of his mouth. He raised his right front hoof up to his mouth and felt the holes where his teeth were missing. He turned his head and looked at Celestia.
She grinned in reply. "Taste Good?"
His mane and tail began to flicker; every other color streak was red, blood red. His eyes glowed, one red, one blue. His scar was open and bleeding again. He spun around, his metallic wing raised. Celestia grinned and waited until he got close enough before extending her right hind leg and kicking him…
But Beta expected it and teleported in front of Celestia. She turned her head back forward and watched as Alpha's right metallic wing impacted her chest, easily breaking three ribs. She instinctively stood up on her hind legs and yelled in shock and pain. Alpha ran underneath her and extended his right wing again, and exited near her left hind leg, breaking it when it came into contact with his wing.
Celestia landed back onto her front legs and kicked out her left leg, both straitening it out and breaking Alpha's left hind leg in the process. Alpha skidded to a stop, turned around and grinned. Celestia looked at him in horror and anger. She watched as Alpha's leg seemed to heal itself on its own, hearing the crack as the bone connected and resealed itself.
"Alpha…" Celestia began to plead.
Beta shot a bolt, nearly missing her and hit an explosive pipe behind her. She, again reared up, but this time, Alpha and Beta decided not to give her a chance to recover. Alpha galloped straight at her stomach and before he hit her, Beta shot off an explosive spell at her, making her fly backwards and up, crashing through the wall and into the cafeteria. She got up and watched her sister kill.
Nightmare Moon ducked under several spears, leaned forward and bit one of her attacker's neck, easily biting through the vein and, with a thrust with her makeshift dagger, a horn she had earlier ripped off of a unicorn's head, shoved it into the other side of the guard's. With a quick thrust, she ripped the head off its neck and watched the guard's body fall to the ground and twitch, the Guard's head dangling from her mouth. She looked up and saw Celestia. Nightmare Moon froze, watching Celestia watch her. She grinned with the Guard's neck, the guard making gurgling sounds as he made futile attempts to breath. She slowly pulled out the horn from his head, killing the guard and stood back on her hind legs, her wings spread, and extended her free hoof before folding her wrist back and forth, gesturing her to come here.
Celestia began to walk towards her dark sister when Nightmare Moon heard a bloodcurdling cry and watched as Alpha bolted through the hole in the cafeteria floor and impacted Celestia through the walls next to her. Nightmare Moon grinned and turned her attention to the guards, whose numbers were beginning to dwindle down.
Celestia, being pushed by Alpha, was hitting and destroying each wall before Alpha ran out of momentum and both rolled and tumbled on the ground, Celestia's body crushing through each wall before ending up in the same room Alpha was punished in, the two unconscious.
Alpha came to first. He looked around for Celestia. Once finding her and realizing that she was unconscious, he took a breather before slowly getting up.
"You okay?"
"Yeah, I'm fine, just had the wind knocked out of me."
"Your right front leg is broken, the same for your left wing." Beta said with a disappointed sigh.
Alpha looked over and confirmed Beta's notes. "Great…" He said with a grimace as his bones slowly began to heal.
"If I were you, I would wait until later."
Alpha nodded in agreement. Healing, although fast, takes a lot of magic and energy. He opened his eyes after nodding and froze. He realized where he was. Everything was in the same place since he last saw it: The blood splatters on the tables that were stuck on the wall, the cuffs on the middle table, open and broken from when Beta bonded to him. Even his welding torch was still on the ground, cold and non-moving. Alpha felt the pain in his right wing start to ache, as if it was remembering what had happened here.
Celestia rolled over to her left side and stared at Alpha. "It all started here?"
"Technically, it started with you." Alpha paused as he heard a prisoner laugh hysterically, then glanced at Celestia before moving and looking around the room.
"What do you mean?"
"Before I was "punished", I was told that they had specific orders from the princess to keep me alive." Alpha replied, glaring at Celestia who was still on her side. "I wonder who that would be." He walked over to Celestia's side, and looked down at her wing, sprawled across the floor. "You know," He said slowly, looking at her wing. "A broken wing doesn't hurt as much compared to losing one with a welding torch." He glanced at her, watching as horror and fear filled her face.
He thought it over out loud. "Hmm, one broken leg compared to two broken legs, one wing broken, and teeth missing. Not quite that fair…"
Celestia gulped.
His eyes flashed red and he grinned. Beta took over and was beginning to bring down his metallic wing when Celestia attacked him with a beam of magic. He covered his face with his wing and begun to deflect the magic when she got up on her legs and began to overpower Beta, the wing glowing red.
Beta groaned in annoyance and had begun dueling Celestia, his red beam against her rainbow-colored beam. Alpha had now slowly lowered his wing and saw that the feathers were disfigured. Angered with this fact, he kept his place, not moving, glaring at his enemy. The magic between the two beams was intense. Bolts of magic began to peel off from the main beams and hit the walls of the room, destroying it, ripping apart the metal and wall.
Nightmare Moon was nearly done taking care of the guards. One pony, a prisoner no doubt, had laughed hysterically when he grabbed a nearby sledgehammer and slammed it against a guard's side, destroying his ribs. She looked up after killing another guard with her makeshift dagger when she looked up and, through what seemed to be a torture room, saw Alpha dueling Celestia. Her mouth dropped as she watched Alpha hold his own against her sister. She grinned then spoke. "ALL RIGHT, ANY PONY THAT WANTS TO LIVE AND GET REVENGE AGAIN FOLLOW US, WE WILL BRING YOU TO OUR HOME." Her horn glowed purple as she shot a bolt at the ceiling, destroying it. "QUICKLY NOW, COME ON LET'S MOVE!"
Alpha wasn't aware of what was happening behind him, or didn't really care. For the first time in 3-4 years, both Alpha and Beta were fighting for their lives. Two beams, both being fired from two powerful ponies, were colliding with each other. Beta peeled off and teleported behind Celestia, attacking her flank. Alpha raised his disfigured brace and swiped it across her flank, scarring her cutie mark. Celestia growled and kicked back.
However, Alpha and Beta were ready. Alpha ducked under the incoming left hind leg. He grabbed it with his left hoof, and, while holding the leg, spun under it and pushed it upwards, forming a with her leg. The Princess shook her head and decided that she should stop fooling around. With surprising speed, she wheeled around, her wings spread and attacked Alpha. He ducked under the wing, ran through her legs and was on the opposite side of the room, with the door behind her back.
"You have nowhere to go but through me." Celestia said with a grin, blood dripping from her flank.
Alpha was about to reply when he felt something touch his right hoof. He looked down to see his old welding torch had rolled onto the ground and stopped near him. "You know…" He began to reply, picking up the torch. "I was a mechanic when I was here for five years." He watched the torch spark to life, it's fire a navy blue. "I used to see this torch as a magic wand. I could fix anything I found," He slowly looked up at Celestia, who was now standing up, glaring at him. "And destroy anything that came into my path." He stared at Celestia before Galloping towards her, the welding torch floating behind him. She braced for impact but, instead of impacting her face, Alpha slid beneath her, the torch burning her stomach, then got to his hooves and blasted through the door before stopping and turning around, looking at Celestia.
She had tears streaming down her eyes as she realized what he had done and that the Rainbow factory was all but empty save for the dead guards.
"It appears that I was right." Alpha said, nodding before teleporting off.
He appeared in the Mountain and looked around. Guards and Prisoners filled the space, most with broken bones or other injures. Derpy and the others had begun to address the freed of the plan and most, if not all, had agreed to stay. Changelings, led by Chrysalis, were up and about, most setting up a perimeter and watching for more guards if they were followed.
Alpha's adrenaline had cooled down and he began to move towards Charlie's room, limping horribly. Luna, now transformed back into herself, saw Alpha and quickly made her way to him.
"Shit." She said, looking him over. "You have the worst injuries out of any pony here. Where are you going?"
Alpha groaned in pain as he limped over to his friend's room. "I know where Charlie is."
"What? Where!?"
"Under his bed." He said as he walked to the door.
"How would you know that?"
"Because it would be where I would be if I were him." He said as he opened the door.
"It's not right, Delta. None of this is right! I am not right."
The torches were giving off their normal orange flickering light, lighting up his room. Charlie was under his bed, talking to Delta. The one place that was truly dark, which allowed to rest without covering his eyes from the light or snuffing out the flame and relighting it in the morning.
"No pony is supposed to be "right", Charlie. Hell, I know that more than you. I was and still am a mutant, one that could what others never dreamed of doing."
"I am not supposed to be like this!"
"Supposed to be like what?"
"I am gay. Being gay is wrong here. I push everypony I knew away, I have a shitty personality. I'm an asshole. I suck at life, never stood up for my friends when they were being bullied before I met you, but they would stand up for me."
"I don't know about that," A voice said from the door.
Charlie poked his head out from under the bed to see Alpha standing there. His scar was open and raw again, bleeding profoundly. His metallic wing was broken, the metallic feathers spread out in different directions. Alpha had many scratches along his body. His eyes were half open, and he was missing a few teeth. Blood was dripping from his body to the ground, creating a small red puddle underneath him. His left wing was broken, his right front leg and his left hind leg were terrifyingly disfigured. There was a trail of blood drops behind him.
"You are quite the opposite, to be honest." Alpha said with a tooth-missing smile before collapsing onto the ground, unconscious.