Friendship is Magic:Equestrian Heroes
Chapter 252: Mechanical Empire: Dawn of a New Threat!
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Equestrian Heroes
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Naruto x Harem
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It was beautiful; Twelve bedrooms, five and a half bathrooms, three kitchens, who knows how many closets and even a view overlooking most of Ponyville. Rarity swore that she even heard the stereotypical birds singing in the cute little evergreens. Everything was as modern as could be bought and purchased in the home. Only the first two floors of the house were stocked and furnished as the other floors were vacant until the inevitable happened. That was what Naruto had somewhat planned out in one of his plans and to his utmost delight and surprise someone had found those plans and surprised Himself and Rarity with this. A home custom crafted to their tastes. "It's lovely!" Rarity squealed and threw her arms around her husband.
Laughing, Naruto swept her into a sweet kiss. "And it's all ours. You sure you like it?"
Rarity nodded, a playful smirk resting on her delicately painted lips. "I love," she replied with another quick kiss.
"When they told us they had a big surprise for us, I was not expecting this."
Reaching down and picking up a chest containing a pack of ice and a bottle of champagne, he inquired, "Shall we christen our new home?"
"At the very least the first floor." She replied with a saucy grin.
Laughing, the pair dropped onto the ridiculously expensive couch, holding onto each other as tightly as possible with passionate and hungry kisses as Naruto let the chest fall on the ground with a solid thud.
Rarity turned her head, smile turning subdued. Softly, she murmured into her lover's chest, "I wish we could stay like this forever."
Naruto kissed the top of her head, not wanting to think about the next inevitable event that would call them away to save Equestria or endanger their home. "Me too."
It was his greatest wish that things stayed like this.
The once lush green forests and meadows of Equestria was now dull and lifeless yellows and browns. The smoke almost choked him as he peered around. Everything was bathed in evening color hues. Everything he could sense because hardly a hint of nature was left.
Naruto opened his eyes, before him what used to be the city of Canterlot .
Naruto swallowed and began his march to the city. As he walked steady and without fear, series of Changelings began to pop up from their hiding spots aiming their horns, yet not a spell was fired. Not too long after Cairbou began to show up as well, armed to the teeth with their weapons.
As he approached the entrance to the castle the great doors groaned and strained but opened wide for him. He entered and made his way down the long and expanding doorways.
He reached the throne room and their he sat. His most hated enemy to date. A living mirror of Discord, the only exception being his coat, a deep orange that seemed to almost glow among the dreariness of his city. The only thing standing between the him and the Chaos Lord was the resurrected and mindless version of Perfect Storm.
"Welcome Element of Empathy," The Draconquus bellowed in jovial tone. "What brings you to my little city?"
His only answer was silence.
"Not in a talking mood. I guess you're rather upset about what happened to the other bearers and your beloved princesses."
He mocked the shinobi, his voice filled with malice. "It's as they say. You're so full of determination, but I cannot have you stand in my way after further."
Naruto erupted in power and was blanketed in the chakra cloak.
"So, this is how it ends. Very well. Storm. Kill him!"
Perfect Storm took off instantaneously, the floor beneath him crackling from the force of his movement. Naruto erupted from his stance into body flicker to match his speed. As the gap closed, Naruto leaped and using the momentum went into a round house kick. Perfect Metal raised an arm as he materalized a shield of dark magic to stop the strike. Twisting Naruto launched a chakra claw that swatted Perfect across the area. Giving chase Naruto launched at him with a Rasengan but dark energy erupted from Perfect's back, impacting the ground and giving him pause. Throwing his arms forward he hurled blasts of dark magic which launched Naruto into the air.
Steadying himself Naruto used wind manipulation to send himself forward and landed a brutal haymaker that sent the zombie hurtling to the ground.
Raising his hand Naruto called to him a Truth-Seeking Ball and began adding wind-nature chakra to it. The shurken-like blades of the Bijuudama Rasenshuriken formed. With a mighty heave he sent the deadly attack towards the ground.
As the attack detonated and began slowly expand and consumed the castle both he and Strife left the quickly crumbling remains of the castle. Naruto body flickered to the top of a building outside of the attack's range and watched as the area was essentially atomized by the attack.
Strife merely floated above, looking as every bit as smug as 'that day' when this whole madness began. With a mere snap of his fingers Naruto's dark rival was brought back to life. 'Harmony's protection may make it where I can't kill you directly. But as far as anyone else its fair game.'
"I didn't come to play with that monster. I'm here for you Strife." Naruto darkly whispered as his cloak flickered.
"Aah you see I'm more of a planner than a fighter. That's what minions are for." Strife remarked as he bid Perfect to once more do his bidding.
Naruto went to retreat to draw the menace away from the city. However many inhabitants he could save depended on how he was going to handle this fight.
Just as he reached the outskirts of the city he felt a cold, straw like hand grasp his ankle and was slammed through a building with pure physical force. His body crashed through the concrete and other debris as he went straight through the structure with merely the wind knocked out of him.
Bursting from one of the windows with a clattering shatter was Ashby.
'Shit. That meant Strife had found his scroll.'
He found himself further on the defensive as he dodged a blast of dark magic. The fight was now two versus one, but he still had the advantage.
Naruto managed to raise his arms to block Ashby's strike before quickly burying his left fist into his midriff and sent the other zombie reeling back.
Naruto's ears twitch as he heard the sound of spellfire, suddenly his back exploded with pain. The force from the attack sent him flying, he regained composure and managed to flip and turn mid-air and land on his feet only to see several changeling soldiers flying in the air.
'Morpha's children have a score to settle. Seems they want a piece of the one who killed so many of their older siblings. I'm sure you don't mind. ' Strife's voice taunted in his head.
"Alright since your all so eager to die, I'll grand you that wish." He darkly murmured as the rest of his Truth Seeking Balls. 'Fools!' He thought as they rushed to their deaths. Naruto sent the Truth Seeking Balls flying towards the horde as by the dozen they were being atomized by the dozens. Multiple chakra arms sprouted from his body as he lashed out and slashed and crushed the Changelings. Some of the Cairobu hordes had thought to take the chance to attack him, but they were simply too slow.
And he had no mercy left to give. The fools. At best most of their forces would have given fledgling chunin trouble, but most of them lacked the speed, tactics, or fire power to even be a threat to him. As the battle waged on and Naruto's mental state continued to unhinge he began hurling building destroying attacks decimating their army without any concern to collateral damage. Just as he finished annihilating the mooks he turned just in time to catch Perfect's fist. Tossing the zombie he gave chase. They clashed back and forth only slowing down enough for regular sight for moments at a time as they struck one another. They traded blows back and forth, neither giving ground to the other, eventually locking themselves in a high powered clash of energy attacks.
The slow but durable Ashby finally managed to catch up with them only in time for Naruto's next technique. He knew there was only one way to stop this eternal struggle. "Banbutsu Sōzō no Jutsu," He whispered as flames of red and blue began to flicker from his red. Both of his opponents rushed to try and attack him falling into his trap. Two spheres erupted from the ground and pierced the midsection of the zombies. Two spacial rifts briefly formed, sucking in and tearing apart the two zombies bit like bit before flickering out of existence. Using the power of all creation he created a technique even beyond any known sealing. An eternal feedback loop reminiscent of Izanami which trapped the captive between the passage between this realm and outside of time itself. It was the only way to keep them out of the fight as he had come to learned that Chaos magic could not touch the realms outside of time. After all, what could be the ultimate anti-thesis to Chaos then dimensions of pure nothingness?
"STRIFE! YOU'RE NEXT!" Naruto used the Hirashin to returned to the throne room.
"Persistent, didn't think you'd be in such a rush to die. But I consider myself a sporting fighter. I'll give you a fair Shot. hit me with your best shot and I won't even read your mind or dodge."
It was without a doubt one-hundred percent chance some sort of trap or bait, but Naruto had learned something else from fighting Discord. For the brief moment a Draconquus had to reform from injury their precognition would be clouded. It would be in that brief moment after he used the Murderous Bone Ash technique that he would have to quickly to follow up with sealing him.
He never thought he would have to use this dark technique, but it was necessary if it meant he had a chance to stop this monster. Hardening his own bones he poised his palms. This was it. It was now or never. "Tomogoroshi no Haikotsu." Firing from his palm he sacrificed both his left ulna leaving that arm hanging like a limp noodle.
And it was that moment he would experience the greatest tragedy of his life. The moment he would break.
It had all happened so fast.
Strife had snapped his fingers and Naruto only had a brief second to comprehend what happened before it was over.
"N-Naruto."
Naruto couldn't get the words out as he watched his wife turned to ash before his eyes. The hurt and confusion as she perished before him. Dead at his hands.
"Ooh an Element of Harmony killing another. I do admit shocking moments are the one thing I share with my progenitor."
Naruto's mind shut down as he collapsed to his knees. His will to fight completely sapped. He waited for the end but it never came.
"Get him out of here!" A voice sounding like Lyra's reached his ears. The blond had went fully catatonic at that point and would be out of it for weeks.
Jolting up in his head the figure shot up clasping his face. That memory. That memory again. He should have never used that power to experience events and memories from the perspectives of others that day. It was his desire to learn how to fight this opponent that pushed him to gain any advantage necessary, but the consequences that came with it her almost not worth it.
He remembered. He was witnessed to it all. Witness as the few survivors who showed up, Lyra, Big Macintosh, Braeburn, Trixie, Limestone Pie, Octavia, and Bulk Biceps had sacrificed themselves to get the catatonic blond out of there.
He had witness Naruto Uzumaki's loss. And Strife's rule that had been solidified until...until the machines came. The bleak world becoming even bleaker.
No.
All of them. He would defeat and destroy all of them to ensure his desired timeline. This was the fault of all those fools and their battles. Their petty squabbles of ideologies and lust for power had ruined the lives of every living thing on the planet. Just as wars and conflicts costs lives and brought ruin from where he witnessed them previously.
Looking at the four glowing stones that were set up for display on the mantle he mentally promised himself that no one or no thing would get in his way.
Naruto found himself hanging out with the royal sisters today. It proved to be a rather normal day all things considering. Right now they were at transitional balcony. A new addition to the castle dual-themed to both sisters that gave a breathless view of the endless expanse of the sky.
As if on cue Celestia spread her wings and took to the sky, her form becoming less noticeable as she approached the sun
He watched as the sun made its slow descent over the horizon, the colors of the sky changing from blue to a rainbow of pinks, reds, and oranges . As the colors faded into darkness Princess Luna then took to the skies, joining her sister on the horizon. The sun made its final descent and the moon start to rise into the sky. The prismatic colors of the sunset darkened to blues and purples as stars slowly appeared in the sky. Soon the night dark expanses of dark blue, purple, and black hues that made the blanketed canvas were soon being littered with sprinkling of twinkling lights.
Luna's silhouette glowed as the rays of the moon washed over the area as the celestial body rose to the sky.
"Well, it looks like it is near time for me to prepare for sleep," Celestia said with a yawn, "I must be awake for the next morning for our announcement." Apparently the royal sisters were going to announce something and they had been tight lip on it, even to him."Goodnight sister, Naruto, may your night be peaceful."
"Night to you as well Celestia."
"Night Tia, may your sleep be wrought with dreams and bliss as well," Luna replied with a nod as she hugged her sister.
For as long lived as they you would have expected such a thing to be simply forgotten over time, but with few beings being able to live as a peer let alone a companion it was little things like this that were precious and should always be cherished.
Luna's Millennium long banishment being the main thing why the little things they did as sisters from their lunches or simply talks were something to be cherished. Especially so with the Lunar Diarch's return.
With Luna's part of the day finally beginning it was time to go through the usual rounds. The first part was night court which of course went on with little to no incident. The usual common complaints and problems. Then again dream walking was always the more interesting part of Luna's duties.
With that they entered what was known as Luna's Dream Plain. An ethereal room powered by ancient magic acting as a portal between two realms. It was a bland and windowless with the exception of the skylight in the roof that allowed for the moon to shine its line down in the middle of the room illuminating it.
The only other things in the room were towering bookcases filled with scrolls and books of dreams, nightmares, and other such information recorded.
Luna's Black painted Mahogany desk where such things were recorded.
And the large bed to which her body rested when she went into the realm of sleep. With that Naruto joined Luna on the bed, planning to join her for her usual session of dream weaving.
"So, how did you and the missus enjoy your new home? You have been rather silent on it." Not much of anything was occuring as they went through the dreamscape. As far as the eye could see nothing but white clouds.
"She was very happy, as am I of course. We wanted to christen the entire first floor, did not expect there to have been so many rooms though." He answered as he took in the sensation of weightlessness. It always felt funny to fly under something beyond your own power."
"We figured Twilight Sparkle might commodore much of the free space when she moved in for literature and wanted to make sure your herd had enough room." Luna replied with a coy expression.
"There will never be enough space for that mare." He playfully deadpanned. There playful banter continued on for some time until they came to a stop in front of a massive green cloud.
Wait a minute...green?
White was Normal dreams.
Pink for romantic.
Pink with a red center was romantic with the potential to turn saucy.
Red were for erotic dreams.
Gray were dreams turning into Nightmares.
Black depending on how deep a shade were different levels of Nightmare.
Blue was for those stuck in sleep reminiscent of a coma.
Purple were the inconclusive ones, usually magic based.
As he cycled through the colors he realized that green was simply not there. Sure sometimes the clouds might not be the form the dreams were materialized as, sometimes as doors or even mirror pools depending on how Luna weaved her magic as well as if the individual had powerful mental defenses to protect intrusions, but the most you would ever see green was as a small central hue in the center for nature based life forms like living plants.
"Luna?" He turned to the princess who was wearing a frown. It was obvious something was bothering her.
"Stay close to me." She told him as they proceeded to cautiously enter the dream. They entered what seemed to be some sort of power plant. It was far more advance than the ones Naruto had seen during his aging years back in his previous life. Mechanical arms seemed to be making some sort of humanoid machines.
Something was wrong. The ground before them began to warp and turn like sludge as a large black sphere began to rise out of it. Luna's horn lit ablaze brightly as she fired a bolt of magic at the sphere only for it to deflect. "What matter of trickery is this?" Luna demanded as an red crystal emerged from the black sphere.
"This isn't good Luna. We should retreat." Naruto grabbed onto Luna and attempted to body flicker out of there.
But nothing happened.
"That crystal." Luna's eyes widened in recognition as it began to glow. "The Sp..." The two of them were blasting with powerful blinding rays from the stone. Landing on the cold, hard surfaces glowing white cuffs emerged from the ground and shackled them, binding their arms, legs, and throat.
"Shit...I can't move..." Not even a flicker of chakra would obey his command. 'Kurama!'
"Its no use! Whatever the hell this thing is has severed our connection! I can't even hear the voices of the other Bijuu."
The black sphere faded as an individual looking like a stereotypical reaper of lore from one of the other realms stood before him. "You two stay out of my way for now! Don't worry! You'll be joining your loved ones soon!" The speaker's voice was emotionless, almost mechanical.
"You do well to release us and my sisters and the bearers might be lenient on you!" Luna commanded as she struggled against the bonds.
The figure merely chuckled. "I'm counting on it. If only you knew the miserable future that was to await you, then you would understand why I am doing things the way I am. I won't...I won't fail. Not again." The figure disappeared leaving Naruto and Luna, trapped in the dream bound realm.
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