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Two- Edged

by SomeAssembleRequired

Chapter 4: Decoy

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Decoy

Hase could of trained forever, he craved to finally be able to fully use the potential of his new body, but the intelligence brought bad news.

" We've got trouble. " May Day spoke " Sabredance' soldiers are coming this way. They were alarmed from that blue beam of light. Among them there are wizards, armed with dangerous enchantments "

" What do you mean ? " Twilight had heard from Twister, that all of the villagers are earth ponies or pegasi. What did she mean? " Enchantments "? Peraphs those were some relics or something.

" They are armed with the Word. " the Pre- Equestrian Loky answered.

Word? A word wasn't able to stop them. They were just going to stun those, who tried to attack, and go on, Twilight thought. But according to May, it wasn't going to be so simple:

" Not a word, the Word. It is a force, mainly used by the servants of Sabredance. Three years ago Sabredance' wizards revealed, that if you say all the names of a pony and power those words with magic, the pony's energy would be drained and the pony would remain weak and vulnerable. "

The Equestrian Thor laughed at her :

" Than thou should depend on us, he couldn't possibly know our names. "

And he was right. How could he know the names of the Equestrians, after they weren't from that dimension?

" Their ability to haunt ponies' minds had probably already allowed the magicians to study us from miles away. They aren't able to get in our heads, but they probably already know your names and have added them to their Enchantment books. " May Day answered Thorse and left the group wondering what to do now. The group's members had many different powers, but if they weren't able to use them, they were going to lose.

" We'll strike fast before they have the chance to use it! " Rarity suggested.

It wasn't a very good plan, but they had no choice. Nopony else had a better one. It was time to move.

" The demons will arrive soon. Be ready to use the Word. " Dark Oreol commanded.

The soldiers were always afraid of the demons, those, who wielded magic. Before Dark Oreol was a pawn of Sabredance, he was the mightiest free spellcaster in whole of Prequestria, but the united strength of 10 wizards had forced him to give up.This was actually good, because Sabredance made him the commander . Even if he died in this battle, which wasn't going to happen, because they would catch the demons and their back - up before they even saw them, the others were going to ressurect him again.

The group of soldiers was hiding in the bushes next to the road, that was near the forest. He knew the demons would probably set up an ambush in there, waiting for them to come from the village. But they didn't know, that those ponies, each one with an Enchantments Book, opened on a different page, each one containing different names of a pony from the group, waited in the bushes. And finally, as Sabredance had predicted, the demons went out of the forest.




" Where are they? " the Equestrian Thor was confused.

" I don't get it.... they should of been here! " May Day was even more confused. But the Pre- Equestrian Loky saw something move in the bushes, threw a fireball at it, and yelled:


" It's a trap! "

The soldiers jumped on the road and read from the books. The group agonyzed. Each pony heard only the spell, that was ment for him or her. Twilight heard:

" I name you Twilight Sparkle, Daughter of Magic, Trinity Stars, Master of Books, Owner of Dragons... "

The equestrian Thor heard:

" I name you Thor Odinson, Son of Odin, God of Thunder, Wielder of Mjolnir, Brother of the Traitor... "

And Pony Stark heard:

" I name you Pony Stark, the Iron Stalion, Visionaire, Playboy, Fillanthropist, Billionaire.. "


' At least it's accurate. ' he always succeeded to find the good side of the things.

But Vortex was in much greater pain than anypony else, because he had many names. Dark Oreol smiled, as he read the Summoning Spell, personally designed for him:

" I name you Vortex, the Dark Emperor, Father of Horror, Destroyer of Worlds, Ruler of Darkness, Creater of Chaos, Constructor of Havock, the Mad King, Horror of Stone... "  

The wizard smiled. The spell worked. All of the ponies fell on the ground. Except one.

Hase was still standing. The pony, who read his spell, wasnt the best reader, which allowed him to fuel himself with energy from the Void. He even managed to knock out some of the soldiers. But after the others were knocked out, all of the ponies read his spell. The pegasus was still feeding the spell with energy from the Void, but too much energy went through his body. It was going to rip it appart and open a huge hole in this dimension, that led to the Void.

He couldn't let that happen. Nopony, innocent or guilty, should die only because he wasn't able to deal with some soldiers. The stalion stopped the transfer and immeadietly felt how the Word consumed his vital energy. But Hase had something crazy in mind. Instead of just shutting the prtal, he used his body as a container for the power of the Void, but prevented the Word from consuming it by protecting it with his personal energy. Luckily for him, soon his body was filled up with that energy. If he held it inside, the stalion would fall apart.  So Hase released it.


He was never good at reading. Dark Oreol cursed himself for taking him.  Now the son of Vortex was somehow withstanding the power of the Word. Oreol really felt how the Word was consuming some kind of energy, but it wasn't the energy of his victim. That made him angry. If the pony hads some kind of an energy reserves, this would of lasted forever. But luckily, soon the Word started feeding of his personal energy. The unicorn smiled. Nothing can withstand the Word. But something wasn't right. The pony's body emitted darkness. He realized what's wrong too late.

Hase released the energy. A huge shockwave blasted the ponies away. The dark wave produced a horrible sound when it was released. At first the pegasus thought, that he failed, and that this was the sound of a dimension tearing appart. But he had succeeded. It surely was risky and he'd never repeat it. But this energy transfer he used to remain concious gave him an idea how to fuel his friends up. He touched them one by one and let the energy of the Void flow through him and rip them off their unconciousness.

Vortex needed to know how Hase had done it. When his son reached the part with the shockwave, he went cross and spoke:

" You have saved us, I admire. But this was a very foolish way to do it. This spell is called " The Void's materia " and it should be your last resort. As you know, energy can convert to matter and vice versa. When you fill up your whole body with the energy of the Void, if you don't release it fast enough, you risk to fall in the Void and an equal amount of it's materia to replace you and open a hole in the dimension. Before you release it, all of the energy nearly becomes matter inside you. After you release it, that energy, which was very dense before that, in order to materialize, spreads in a powerful shockwave. It's a very efficient way to knock out your enemies, but I wouldn't suggest using it again, unless it's a very tough situation. "

After that they went to the soldiers. All of them were knocked out, only Oreol was still concious. When he saw the group, he smiled. Though the Iron Stalion engaged his missile system and both Thor and Forge threathened him with their hammers, he still smiled. He spoke:  

" Go ahead, kill me. My wizards will ressurect me again and I'll be stronger than ever! " than he spat at the Equestrian Thor.

The others let Hase go to the pony. He deserved it. The mad earth pony smiled again. Everypony could see, that Hase' mane was glowing in gushing red. They haven't seen anything so red before. Even than Dark Oreol smiled and said:

" Oh, are you angry? Kill me than! "

" You don't deserve such mercy. " Hase replied. That made everypony shivver.

" You'll slowly sink into the Void, feeling inpony pain every second of it, untill your whole body is fed to the Voidians. "

Now the Mane 6, the Avengers, the Lords and everypony else were shocked. Hase was trying to redeem himself ever since he knew, that he was the son of Vortex. They didn't even suspect, that he was able to do such horrible thing. But he did it in front of their eyes. Oreol slowly sinked into the Void, screaming and yelling like an animal. Fluttershy covered her eyes and cried, Applejack put the shield in front her eyes and try to ignore the horrible screams. Everypony else also covered their eyes. Bone hands, horrible claws and all other kinds of horrible things held Oreol and slowly dragged him. After whole 5 minutes Oreol's head finally sunk into the portal and Hase closed it. Twilight neared him and spoke:


" Hase... it was .... wrong what you did. Why did you do it? "

After the stalion turned around, for a second Twilight thought, that it wasn't Hase. With his red mane waving behind him and his eye rings in the same colour, reflecting his euphoria, Hase didn't look like himself. He spoke:  

" He deserved it. It was a bit extreme, I know, but it was the only way to take him off our way. "

" You... did it because of us? " Twilight was confused. The stalion nodded.

" I did what was necessary. And I also repaid him. Vengeance. " he looked at the Ghost Biker.

" What's that? " the mask of the Iron Patriot, that came down, so that Dash couldn't see the horrible murder, lifted again. And there was really something next to Hase. A weird object, that looked like a snake, that had curled up, , levitated next to him. Vortex looked at it for a second. It appeared, that he knew what it was, because his mane showed, that he was very worried. He neared the object and looked at it's handle. It had a handle, because it was... a whip. Nopony had seen that whip coming, it had just materialized. After he looked at the handle for a second, he stepped back. His worst nightmares were real.

" Emma told me, that during that horrible thing you did, your mind looked like it was on fire and she couldn't stay in for more than a second. Tell me, son, does this whip feel like a part of your mind? " Vortex asked Hase.

The young pegasus closed his eyes. The whip uncurled and slashed through the air. But instead of sound of a whip slashing the air, the ponies heard something, that sounded like thousands of ponies were screaming. If it was loouder, it was going to sound like if there was a great battle nearby, but the sound was still horrible. After that Hase opened his eyes and continued slashing.

" Y... yes. " he replied.  

" Tell me, does it fell like when you are angry, when you use that whip? Each time you slash through the air with it? "

" Y... yes.  "

" You have brutally slain an enemy. Perhaps it was necessary and I would of done the same. But guided by your rage, this had found you. It should of never existed and it was thrown to the Void. But we must never forget, nothing bond with the Void gets lost in it. We just hoped it would never find it's way back. We didn't think somepony can be so angry, that it would shine like a beacon even through the Void. But you were so angry. And it had found it's new Master. " Vortex spoke. His mane was dark, it reflected his grief.

" What's "it " ? " Twilight looked at the whip. It looked way more sisnister than any other weapon she had seen. It wasn't completely dark, weak shades of light ran across it. And it's handle... this was a very weird spell, that had crafted it. Battle scenes of a monster- like pony brutally slaying whole armies of other ponies, as Hase did a minute ago, were projected in her mind. This wasn't an ordinary whip.

" And now you are the new Master ... of the Whip of Rage! " Next Chapter: The Story of the Destroyer Estimated time remaining: 1 Hour, 33 Minutes

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