Humans, Ponies and Chaos
Chapter 22: Final Chapter. And with fire came disparity.
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Bright shining light emerged in front of Heavy. There he was, his best friend and most loyal comrade for years. It was Sandvich! But wait. Heavy noticed there was something attached to the deliciousness. It was a hand! And it was holding the Sandvich.
"Yo knucklehead, I'm talking to you!" The person holding the Sandvich said. After that he raised his other arm and started repeatedly slapping the 'Holy Mackerel' against the Russian's face.
"Oh it is puny baby man as well! What is little man doing here?" Heavy answered as he finally noticed that it was his teammate in front of him.
"Wait... You know this guy?" Rainbow Dash asked the Russian. He looked pretty familair to the blue pegasus.
"Da! You remember Heavy said little blue pony remembered him of someone?"
"Uhh... Yeah."
"This is someone! Is RED Scout!" Heavy said overjoyed as he was finally reunited with his beloved Sandvich. NOM NOM NOM. He immediatly started chowing it down. Now to hoping it would 'respawn' back in Heavy's pocket after a while.
"So yeah... Do you have any idea how much trouble we went through just to find you? Any damn idea? And what do we find out? That you rather hang out with damn colorful tiny horses instead of us!" Scout said annoyed.
"No no, is not like that. Ponies have big problems all the time! Heavy was just helping them crush puny enemies." Heavy replied.
"Yeah pfft. What problems can these girly ponies possibly have? Let me guess. Their glitter or candy machine broke down or something?" Scout said mocking the colorful inhabitants of Equestria.
"Uhmm, excuse me. But if you'd just look up you'd see we're in quite the pickle." Rarity stated as she interupted the two humans, pointing out that the burning meteor storm was still going on.
Scout looked up to the sky. Unimpressed. "So you got some bad weather... Big deal. Have you ever seen the weather in Boston, you ever been there?" He asked.
"Uhh, no I have not." Rarity answered.
"Yeah, let's keep it that way. Anyway, any other problems I can solve? Just point me in the right direction!" Scout said fully confident of his own abilities.
"Well there is a gia-" Pinkie Pie wanted to explain the situation but was interupted.
"Shh! Don't finish that. I like a surprise, just point me there!" Scout said excited.
"Uhh. It's that way." Pinkie Pie pointed her hoof towards the ruins of Canterlot.
"Alright then. Here we go. WOOO!" Scout started sprinting towards the town.
"Scout! Is not very good idea." Heavy shouted at his teammate.
The RED Scout suddenly stopped his movements to respond. He turned his face around slowly and started raising his thumb. "Don't worry. I got this!" He said confidently while smiling. The group of ponies and Heavy were certain his teeth started blinking as he spoke.
The confident Scout started sprinting further. He armed with the Scattergun, stock pistol and the Holy Mackerel. He had no idea what he was about to face. He continued further and started noticing how many of the buildings in this town were completely smashed to the ground. Including some fiery craters that were created by the meteors crashing in to town.
He sprinted one block further passing quite a large building. He was not prepared for what he saw next as he passed the corner.
Sweet mother of god, what the hell is that thing?
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Back at the ponies and Heavy.
"Are you sure your friend will be okay?" Rarity asked Heavy.
"Da. Little Scout is dumb, but really fast. He is fine." The Russian answered.
"Ahm still worried 'bout that big mean dragon. We oughta get the hay out of here!" Applejack said.
"Yeah... But we still don't know where Ulfgar and the Princess are. We can't get out of town to far without them." Rainbow Dash stated.
"Ah! Twitchy twitchy twitchy twitch!" Pinkie Pie's tail started twitching. "Something's going to fall from the sky!" She said.
"But Pinkie... There's already things falling. You know... Those giant burning rocks maybe?" Rainbow Dash replied.
"Hmm. Yeah, those don't count." Pinkie Pie answered.
As Rainbow Dash was facehooving Princess Celestia suddenly arrived. She wasn't dropping from the sky, so that's still not the reason for Pinkie's twitchy tail.
"Is everypony alright?" Princess Celestia immediatly asked the group.
"Yeah. Only Twilight got knocked out as well after that earthquake. But she's still fine and breathing." Rainbow Dash answered.
"Is dragon-man...?" Heavy asked.
"I don't know." Princess Celestia answered. "He stayed behind luring the dragon away from us, all on his own. Just to give us an oppurtunity to escape and regroup. We can only hope that he's alright."
A moment of silence followed, but was rudely interupted by an annoying noise growing louder each second. It was coming from above them.
"fffffffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-" The group saw the RED Scout, being lit on fire and launched through the air falling towards them.
*POOF*
He crashed down comically headfirst in to the ground. The impact of him hitting the ground managed to shake the flames away from him.
The Scout coughed up some dust. "Medic..." He said silently.
"Wait... Another human?" Princess Celestia was shocked.
"Yeah, appareantly he's a friend of Heavy." Applejack explained to the Princess.
"Oh no!" Heavy didn't want to see the Scout die already. He quickly reached to his pocket.
It truly is magical.
The Sandvich has respawned! Warm, moist and delicious from being in the Russian's sweaty pockets should be mentioned. But with an amazing power. The Sandvich would completely heal any of the Mann. Co. employees. RED or BLU.
"Quickly comrade!" Heavy shouted while stuffing down the delicious treat down the Scout's throat. "You must eat Sandvich!"
"Mmmmggghh!" Scout struggled as he was choking, but eventually was able to chew down the Sandvich which magically fully recovered him. "Uhh, I hate you. But thanks big guy." He said.
"Sandvich is credit to team!" Heavy grinned.
"Yeah sure... WOAH WOAH WOAH, WHAT THE HELL?!" Scout was suddenly extremely confused. "Okay, I was willing to overlook the fact that there are 'unicorns' and 'pegasus..sesesses' or whatever. But now there's an actual giant horse with wings AND a horn?" He said as he was pointing at the Princess of the Sun.
"Excuse me?" Princess Celestia replied.
"Da! She is little pony-princess. Her fire is stronger than puny Pyro's." Heavy explained.
"Yeah that's really cool, I'm sure." Scout said sarcastically as he just couldn't believe something as silly as that.
"Anyway... Why were you soaring through the air while being lit on fire? Weren't you going to solve our problems huh? Weren't you?" Rainbow Dash asked as she started poking the RED Scout. Afterall, she had met the BLU Scout before. Didn't really like him, but most likely due to the fact he was trying to kill her at that time.
"Yeah don't do that." Scout said as he pushed the blue pegasus's hoof away. "OH SHIT!" He suddenly remembered what he encountered before and had sent him flying.
"What is it?" Princess Celestia asked.
"Oh yeah, we got a major problem on our hands. Appareantly there's a giant freakin' monster stomping around over there!" Scout answered as he pointed towards the ruins of Canterlot.
"Well duh! We tried to tell you that before, you silly!" Pinkie Pie replied.
"Woah! You smell like cotton-candy. Anyway, there I was with my fish. The monster was crapping his pants just from being in my presence, but due to some unfortunate accidents he managed to get the upper hand on me and... uhh well yeah, it lit me on fire and used its tail to launch me in to the air." Scout said.
"Well that's really helpful." Rainbow Dash said sarcastically.
"Yeah but that's not all hot-shot. It's also headed in this direction!" Scout answered.
And right on queue the lambent-dragon monstrosity destroyed the last few buildings standing between him and the edge of Canterlot. He looked down upon the group and started spewing more violent flames towards them. It also appears he had grown another head. Which meant double the fire. Alduin had only one goal and purpose. Destroy everything.
But if he's here... Then Ulfgar is... Princess Celestia thought to herself. But there wasn't any time to worry.
"RUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN!" Scout yelled and started running first. Heavy quickly picked up the still unconscious Fluttershy and Twilight Sparkle and ran after his teammate. Princess Celestia and the remaining mane six followed next.
"Where are we going?" Rainbow Dash asked as she was the only one able to keep up with the extremely fast RED Scout.
"Engi's setting up camp further with the rest. I was just sent to scout the area. He'll know what to do." Scout answered.
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Engineer, Medic, Demoman and Soldier. Temporary base camp for the REDs below the mountain where Canterlot stands.
Buildin' buildin' buildin' Engineer was repeatedly whacking his wrench at the many constructions he just made. After he finished creating three dispensers along with four level three sentry-guns he couldn't help but chuckle a little.
Outside his own world he had no limitations or contracts to oblige to. Oh no. He'd be able to continue building them as long he had metal to spare. And so he did. He'd like to see the faces of the BLU Medic and Demoman if they were ever to encounter this impenetrable defense.
The dispensers were all spread out across what the REDs proclaimed 'their territory'. And so were the Sentry Guns. The REDs weren't stupid, they all noticed the infernal storm above them, plus the terrifying roars of an unknown creature faintly in the distance. They knew Heavy was up there, but had no idea how to quickly get atop the mountain.
Their first idea was to either let the Soldier rocket jump up there, or the Demoman use his sticky bombs to lauch himself there instantly. But they couldn't take that risk. There's obviously no health packs around here and they'd better prepare properly for what 'might' be coming.
So they did the next best thing. Send Scout to well uhh... scout! He's by far the fastest of the mercenaries and even though he's quite fragile he usually refuses to die easily. He's extremely good at running away. He was obviously the man for the job to quickly check on Heavy and send him towards the REDs so that they could quickly return home without any problems. He was able to jump pretty high, but not up a mountain. So he had to run around it.
Yet three of the other mercenaries were sent on a mission as well. Pyro, Spy and Sniper were sent on the task to retrieve the one responsible for all these events. In other words, they need to capture Discord and return him for punishment. They've been tracking him down ever since entering Equestria because the RED Spy was smart enough to plant a bug on the strange creature when he first encountered him back in Badwater Basin.
Discord should've done his research better. He never realised that these mercenaries were not simply strong random individuals. No, far from it. This was a team. And as a team they stand strong together, and will not let any of them get hurt by others.
Also, Saxton Hale; the shirtless Australian CEO of Mann. Co. pressured the RED team to get him back as soon as possible for the sake of the company. Heavy might be the most expensive employee, but he is one of the most valueable, so his absence was surely missed.
To make certain the RED team was motivated enough to rescue their colleague, Saxton Hale fished out a giant white shark from the sea. Bare-handed of course, and locked the vicious beast ( who thanks to state of the art Australian-technology was able to breath on land obviously. ) inside the respawn chamber with the team.
After two hours of constant deaths by killer-shark attacks Saxton Hale decided it was enough and sent the REDs to the world of Equestria. At this point the BLUs who were also briefly in Equestria hadn't returned yet.
The REDs endured a lot of suffering while being imprisoned and sold as slaves in the gryphon kingdom. But were luckily able to escape the grip of their 'owner' by baking him alive after he had returned the REDs their weapons.
Now they're back in action, blowing stuff up. The end was nearing, Heavy had to return today or else....
"Mein hard-hatted freund. You don't zhink that all zhese sentries are neccesary, do you?" Medic asked Engineer.
"Doesn't hurt to be prepared ya know. By the looks of it Heavy's got quite a few problems. Luckily we're here to solve em." Engineer answered pointing at the sky. "Ya just keep buildin' that uber of yers, just in case."
"Ah yes, I have not brought ze normal medi-gun. I thought ze Kritzkrieg vould be more appropiate." Medic replied and continued overhealing Soldier to build up his uber-meter.
"If that maggot doesn't return in exactly two minutes I'm going to strangle him with his own frilly training bra!" Soldier barked, clearly annoyed at the fact he didn't bring his shovel. Yet the 'Disciplinary Action' has proven its usefulness as the RED team arrived at Ponyville rather early, where they first marked Heavy's location.
Just moments before the entire town was evacuated by Princess Luna, and Heavy and his group already had taken off. Yet one pony remained in Ponyville doing some sinister sneaking in the shadows. She pointed the team towards Canterlot, where the human would most likely be. The RED team of course questioned absolutely nothing.
"Oi! Ye lads heard that roaring before? If I wasn't drunk I'd swear that was a dragon! Oh, me mum would be so proud if I brought her a real dragon's tooth or something of that kind." Demoman paused for a moment to take a sip of his Scrumpy. "Then I'll be Tavish DeGroot; Dragonslayer! One more job to add to the pile."
"Are you a damn idiot! Dragons don't exist you numb-nut!" Soldier barked.
"Oi, but ye also said talking birds an' horses don't exist. Yer still denying that?" Demoman replied.
"I've seen nothing of that kind! And if my eyes are not there to witness it. It clearly doesn't exist!" Soldier always wore his slightly oversized military helmet. In fact, the helmet was so big it actually blocked nearly half the Soldier's vision. But he didn't care. Hats save lives! That he was certain of.
"Oh!" Demoman suddenly started sobbing. "Ye always know how to hurt me feelings with yer talking about eyes. Yer nothing like the BLU Solly."
"If I ever see you hanging out with that BLU scum again I'll make certain that they will have to glue YOU back together in hell private!" Soldier shouted as he slapped the Scottish demolitions expert on the head.
"Did ze fräuleins have zheir mittelschmerz hmm?" Medic chuckled at his own joke.
"Pardners, ah think that's Scout over yonder with some blue bird up in the sky." Engineer said and pointed upwards where the RED Scout seemed to be falling down.
"Eine blue bird?" Medic frowned.
"Dag-nabbit, it's a damn flying pony alright?" Engineer facepalmed.
"ffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-" Scout came crashing down once again.
He managed to lose a few teeth this time, but wasn't critically injured. "M-medic..." He coughed up some dust again.
"Zhis dummkopf." Medic sighed and started healing his teammate.
Shortly after a small blue, rainbow-maned pegasus landed next to the scraps of the RED Scout.
"Are you humans this guy's friends?" She asked.
"Yep, ya can call me Engineer. What the hell just happened over there?" He asked.
"Oh, I'm Rainbow Dash and the thing is, there's a gi-" She was interupted.
"WOAH WOAH WHAT THE HELL MAN?! You said you were able to lift me and take me here as fast as possible?" The now fully recovered RED Scout asked the blue pegasus.
"Well you're here and fast... aren't you?" Rainbow Dash chuckled.
"That still doesn't explain why uhh.... YOU THREW ME DOWN HERE! Was I to heavy to lift or what?" Scout shouted.
"I was able to lift you just fine! At least untill you started pretending you were a superhero or something and you started making awkward movements that made me lose my grip on you." Rainbow Dash explained.
"Fine... I'll fly another day." Scout was pretty dissapointed, not by the fact he got hurt. Who cares about that? Medic will fix him up every time. But it was because he was being denied to fly gracefully through the sky.
"OI ARE YE SEEING THIS NOW SOLLY! A BLOODY TALKIN' HORSE RIGHT IN FRONT OF YE! YE CAN'T DENY IT NOW, CAN YE?" Demoman suddenly shouted as he held Soldier in a choker hold, forcing him to look directly at the pony.
"I'VE SEEN NOTHING YOU WORTHLESS MAGGOT!" Soldier belowed.
Demoman decided it was useless to convince Soldier that ponies can talk, so released Solly from his grip. "I can't believe yer so stubborn lad. It's right in front of ye and yer still denying it." He said.
"Are you an idiot?" Soldier shouted.
"W-what? What the bloody hell do ye mean?" Demoman replied.
"It's obvious there's a talking little horse in front of us. There's no denying that."
"Okay?"
"There's only one explanation..."
"And that is?"
"By the flag! Haven't you seen the signs private?"
"What bloody signs? What the hell are ye talking about man! Start making some sense damm it!" Demoman started getting annoyed.
"It's simple really."
"COME OUT WITH IT WILL YE?"
"Robots..."
"R... Bloody robots lad?"
"Beep boop beep. That's right private! They're robots. The pictures around base clearly shown us that, plus the word TOBOR, which is ROBOT reversed keeps popping up everywhere. It's all a massive conspiracy! It's going to be Mann. vs. Machine. from now on!" Soldier was pretty sure his conclusion was the right one.
"Oi... Are ye serious?" Demoman was appareantly drunk enough to see all of this as a probability. It all makes sense, yeah robots. That's it.
Rainbow Dash was meanwhile flabbergasted. Just really messed up in the head after hearing the complete random nonsense coming from the two RED mercenaries. What the hay is wrong with these guys? This is the great team Scout and Heavy were talking about? They seem rather... weird.
"Uhh... Ya might want to ignore those two." Engineer said to the pony.
"Yeah... that sounds like a good idea." Rainbow Dash replied.
"What can ye tell us what's going on, is there another large human that slightly resembles a bear up there?" Engineer asked.
"You mean Heavy?" Rainbow Dash replied.
"Yeah, Heavy's up there with some more ponies. Appareantly he's friends with them now." Scout said to confirm this.
"Well I'll be damned. The big mean Heavy friends with cute little colorful ponies? That's something ah never imagined myself seeing." Engineer was pretty surprised. "Where is he exactly?" He asked.
"He'll be here in a minute. Princess Celestia would teleport herself and the rest here when me and that Scout fellow arrived." Rainbow Dash answered. Princess Celestia would be able to magically detect Rainbow Dash because she was carrying the Element of Loyalty with her.
"It vould be nice to be reunited with my Russian freund again. Ze hurting is a lot more fun with him around rather zhen... zhese two dummkopfs." Medic stated, implying that Demoman and Soldier weren't as useful as Heavy in some battle situations. Heavy was always there to catch bullets for him. Soldier and Demoman just launched themselves away most the time, out of range of the Medic's medi-gun. Plus the Heavy-Medic combo was feared by almost every class.
And right on queue a bright flashing light started engulfing the REDs temporary base. There was one problem though. The Sentry Guns started beeping as soon the group got teleported right in the middle.
But Heavy, as a combat veteran he immediatly recognized this familair sound. He quickly jumped in front of the line of fire between the sentries and the group of ponies. The Sentry Guns most likely viewed this unknown large group as targets.
"Stay behind me little ponies!" He shouted while the ponies were still recovering from Princess Celestia's teleporting spell. Exhausted by excessive use of magic without the power of the sun to back her up made the Princess of the Sun collapse on the ground.
"Uhh... What's going on?!" Pinkie Pie shouted.
*BEEP*
*BEEP*
*BEEP*
*BEEP*
The sentries had already turned to their targets and started firing several rounds and rockets towards the group. Heavy catched every round. The group was lucky he was rather fat, because none of the shots passed him. But even the giant Russian could get hurt. Especially if there's four sentry guns shooting at him.
Medic upon seeing this immediatly jumped in and started overhealing his good friend with the Kritzkrieg, building the ubermeter even faster.
"You might vant to tinker with your contraptions a bit Dell!" Medic shouted at the Engineer.
"Thank you doktor!" Heavy shouted as he continued catching bullets while continuously getting healed. He was overjoyed to see the REDs again, but couldn't really express his feelings in this situation.
"Dag-nabbit! Ah thought ah already added ponies, unicorns and pegasi to its 'NOT KILL' list." Engineer quickly started whacking his sentries with his wrench to install the latest updates.
"Oh yeah, they also got flying unicorns. Maybe I should've mentioned that before?" Scout said sheepishly.
So appareantly the sentries were firing at Princess Celestia, whom the Sentry Guns recognized as a possible threat.
Engineer quickly ran at all the sentries, hitting them as hard as he could. One by one they stopped firing at the group. He finished up on the last sentry and turned towards Rainbow Dash. "Anything else beside ponies, pegasi, unicorns and pegasus unicorns around?" He asked.
"Uhh... No, I think that's it." She answered.
As the sentries stopped shooting Heavy was finally able to drop his guard. The ponies one by one started scraping themselves up, clearly scared by whatever it is just happened to them. Twilight Sparkle, Fluttershy and now Princess Celestia were all unconcsious.
"COMRADES!" Heavy shouted overjoyed and sprinted towards his German friend; Medic. "Is good to see you again doktor!" Heavy gave him a good old hug.
"Aghh! Put me down zhis instant dummkopf!" Medic shouted annoyed and slapped Heavy's new hat right of his head. This made Heavy release the German. "Ahem. It is good to see you again as well meine freund." He answered casually. Medic wasn't a really emotional kind of guy.
Heavy just grinned and proceeded to pick up the hat Rarity had crafted for him. Surely the REDs will bask in its divine presence.
"By the flag! That is some OUTSTANDING headwear you got there private!" Soldier, the self-proclaimed leader of the REDs was next to speak with the Russian.
"Da! Is very good hat. Has Soldier killed more Nazi's while Heavy was gone?" Heavy asked, uninterested because he knew where this would lead to.
"LET ME TELL YOU ONE THING MAGGOT! Back in the war when I was in Europe there was only one thing that mattered. SHOES! Yes those Nazi-bastards thought they were some clever geniuses hiding them in th-" Soldier kept rambling while Heavy continued to his next teammate.
"Oi laddy. Tell me, those ponies aren't really robots are they?" Demoman asked pretty drunk and confused.
"Maybe. Heavy did not pay much attention. But crush many enemies here instead." Heavy answered.
"Aye... So yer sayin' there's still a chance they're actually robots?"
"Da."
"Bloody hell. I have no idea what's going on anymore." Demoman proceeded to brainstorm while sitting on a rock, all while sharpening the Eyelander. Heads. HEADS! No wait, screw the Eyelander. He proceeded to sulk while stroking his beloved sticky-bomb launcher.
Heavy continued to the last RED at the scene; Engineer.
"Ahm glad we found ya big guy. We've been through a lot of trouble just to get here. Ya knew ya were still linked to the respawn right?" Engineer asked.
"Da. But much happened here. Little ponies needed Heavy's help. There were more strange humans here." Heavy answered.
"You'd better finish up yer business here then. Cause we're goin' home today." Engineer replied.
"Da. It would be good to go home again. But ponies need help one more time. There is no one left to help them."
"Ya mean they got us to help em. Ah like fixing problems. Ahm sure whatever it is ain't no big deal so we'll just finish up yer business here and we'll be going alright?"
"Da. But first doktor must heal little ponies. We need them."
Heavy left Engineer and walked towards the Medic. He grabbed his shoulder and asked. "Doktor! You must quickly help little ponies get better!"
"Healing ze ponies? Hmm, I'm not certain zheir hearts vill be able to withstand ze pressure of my medi-gun." He answered.
"Njet! You must try, ponies are strong!"
"Ach ja. Vhy not?" Medic aimed the Kritzkieg towards Fluttershy first. As soon the healing ray touched her she immediatly opened her eyes. Medic stopped as soon he noticed that she recovered.
"W-what happened?" She asked as she could only see a large amount of humans stand in front of her. All unknown and scary looking. She quickly cowered to the ground hoping nopony would harm her.
"Little Flutterpony don't be scared! These are the REDs. They are my comrades." Heavy said hoping to comfort the cream colored pegasus.
"Yeah Fluttershy quit being such a baby and say hello. They're all weirdos but they're on our side." Rainbow Dash said annoyed.
"HEY! I'm not a weirdo. Am I?" Scout asked.
"You're the biggest weirdo here. No doubt about it." Rainbow Dash laughed.
"Screw you!" Scout then started sulking on a rock next to Demoman.
"Uhhm. Hello?" Fluttershy peeped.
"OH HELLO FRÄULEIN!" Medic shouted which only made Fluttershy cower further.
"Ughh. Zhese ponies are so sensitive." Medic then proceeded to heal the next unconscious pony. Twilight Sparkle.
She was hurt slightly more then her friend so it took a few more seconds for her to recover. The wounds she suffered quickly vanished as if they were never there. The power of the medi-gun is extremely similair to the Dovakhiin's healing powers.
Twilight Sparkle then rose up from the ground and started looking at her friends. They looked pretty scared and confused, also there was a crowd of extremely weird looking humans all dressed in red standing in front of her. But something in her brain twitched as she suddenly saw her mentor; Princess Celestia lay unconscious before them.
"W-WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!" Twilight Sparkle quickly jumped in front of the Princess of the Sun to defend her from anyone getting close.
"Oh zhis is a spicy one! I like her." Medic stated.
"Get away from the Princess you!"
"No no little Sparkle-pony. This is Medic. He is good friend and he just helped you recover!" Heavy explained.
"Why do ya always think the worst of humans when ya wake up next to one after being unconscious Twi?" Applejack asked her friend.
"Yeah! I don't really know what's going on, but these guys look like they know how to par-tay!" Pinkie Pie said excitedly.
"I'd really hoped to see some exotic human attire when I heard more of them were here in Equestia. Unfortunatly their fashion choices keep disgusting me!" Rarity said. To bad the well dressed Spy wasn't around to show off his amazing suit to the fashionista pony.
"Then why is Princess Celestia knocked out here?!" Twilight Sparkle asked still panicking.
"Pony princess used lots of magic. Maybe it got to much?" Heavy said.
"Well... I guess that's a possibilty. She already used two powerful spells I knew nothing about today. Plus she teleported herself and us around quite a bit. And without the power of the sun her magic is already weaker." Twilight Sparkle replied.
"Step aside fräulein. To hell vith your magic! Let me show you ze power of technology." Medic said as he pushed the purple unicorn aside and pointed his gun-like object towards Princess Celestia.
To Twilight Sparkle it might've seemed like he was going to shoot her so she immediatly tried to jump in again, to protect her mentor. But she was stopped by the giant Russian holding her tightly.
Medic aimed the Kritzkrieg at the final victim. Princess Celestia. He pressed the switch and started healing her. But there was something odd, his ubercharge meter started raising a lot more rapidly from before. Was it because this is a powerful magic entity? Medic would never find out because there's no way they'll let him dissect Princess Celestia.
Slowly but surely Celestia started recovering from her exhaustion. The power that the medi-gun gave her felt unbelievable. She felt three-hundred years younger. At least!
She rose up to her hooves and started looking around. To her relief everypony seemed to be alright. And the humans Scout mentioned are here as well. She all recognized them from when she entered Heavy's memories. These were all cold-blooded killers, mass-murderers and some just completely insane psychos. But she knew one thing. These humans are strong, incredibly strong. She could only hope to pursue them towards helping them on this dark day in the history of Equestria.
"Is the monster still around?" She asked at the ponies.
"Yep. You've only been unconscious for only like five minutes after you teleported us here." Rainbow Dash explained.
"Vhat monster vould you be talking about hmm?" Medic asked intrigued.
"The monster that has completely destroyed our capital today. He needs to be stopped immediatly before he continues his rampage through all of Equestria." Princess Celestia answered.
"Ma'am. Excuse me, name's Dell. But ya can call me Engineer. Listen here will ya? We're here for one reason and that's to get back our co-worker to fulfill his obligations to his contract. We ain't got much time left but Heavy seems to be set on helping y'all. But since the rest of our team hasn't returned yet, we got some time to spare. Might as well get rid of yer little monster problem while we're here. If ya need help fixin' yer problems that is." Engineer said to Princess Celestia.
"I will gladly accept your help. But know that what we're facing is not a 'little monster'. It's a terrifying beast sent out to slaughter and destroy everything in its path." Princess Celestia replied.
"Woo hee! That sounds like mah ex-wife." Engineer joked. "Don't worry, whatever it is. We can solve it."
"Where are others of team?" Heavy asked Engineer.
"They've been sent to retrieve the guy that put us all in this damn situation. Spy's tracking him down with the others. That ugly goat guy ya remember?" Engineer answered.
"Are you talking of Discord? Surely you aren't going to confront him with just three people? He's an extremely powerful magical being. But recently he's gotten insane and mad with power and will stop at nothing to see his goals completed. He's an absolute lunatic!" Princess Celestia warned the RED team.
"He he he." Engineer chuckled. "Ya just basically described Pyro to me. And (s)he's one of the guys going after uhh... 'Discord'. Let them worry about that and let us worry about yer little problem alright? Now, what is this monster anyway?" Engineer asked.
And right at this moment the lambent-Alduin monstrosity arrived at the edge of the mountain far above them, unleashing a terrifying roar that shook the earth beneath them.
"What the hell is that thing?!" Engineer quickly ran to his Sentry Gun nest and prepared for combat. The rest of the RED squad followed him and so did the group of ponies, taking cover behind the multiple dispensers which kept constantly regenerating them and refilling the RED teams ammo.
Alduin gave another earth-shakening roar and plunged himself down towards the group. He crashed down violently completely reducing him to nothing but a mush of immulsion and dragon scales. But shorty after his entire body started regenerating once again, now even growing a third head. They all shrieked simultaneously and started spewing a small amount of fire towards the group, just to imtimidate. He was angered even further after being denied consuming the dovakhiin's soul. The same way Ulfgar couldn't consume the soul of the Ancient Dragon that was in Equestria much earlier.
"That... is what we're facing." Princess Celestia stated as she saw the shocked faces of the RED team. Nothing they expected to see in a world of happy ponies and bright colors, that's for sure. This monster looked as if it crawled down from the depths of hell itself.
But a target is just another target. The RED and ponies prepared for final battle. Die now and lose everything, or win and hope that things will finally return to normal. That's what they all prayed for. The RED loved their eternal battle with the BLU. And the ponies loved living in harmony and peace. Being surrounded by death was rather... dark. Luckily since they're away from Canterlot now, they're avoiding the meteor storm created by Alduin.
But that didn't mean they were safe. Far from it. The monster was a terrifying sight, completely covered in deadly immulsion and bladed tentacles all over his body. Three heads all with the power to conjure deadly flames without the use of the Thu'um. The final mutations caused Alduin to go completely insane. Nothing of the dragon he once was remains now, only the power and destructive force set out to destroy and annihilate everything did.
"MAGGOTS! GET READY FOR BATTLE!" Soldier shouted at the RED team.
He proceeded to take a shot at the beast using his rocket launcher. The projectiles flew slowly towards the monster but was simply absorbed in its skin without any real impact.
"It's no use." Princess Celestia stated. "The dragon will simply regenerate all the damage done. We need to destroy it with a simultaneous attack from all sides."
Engineer equipped up the Wrangler and took manual control of all his sentries. "Ma'am, that big ol mother hubbard got a world of pain coming towards it."
"Stop! You can't do this alone." Princess Celestia shouted one more time. "We need all our combined power!" She was certain this was the only way, Medic had recovered her up to the point where she would be able to conjure another flaming ball as she did before. Hopefully this time, combined with the REDs firepower it'll be enough.
"Meine freund." Medic approached Heavy. "Are you ready to re-live ze old times?" He said while pointing out the Kritzkrieg was fully charged.
"He he he." Heavy started chuckling. "Njet, is not good idea." He said afterwards.
"What?! Vhy vouldn't you want ze ubercharge?" Medic said confused.
"Sasha. She is strong but not strong enough to crush puny dragon. You must use it on someone else." The Russian replied.
"Ughh, Demoman! Get over here!" Medic shouted annoyed.
"Njet, not Demoman either."
"Ze Soldier then?"
Heavy shook his head. "Njet."
"Then what?! Should I just uber das Scout or Engineer hmm? Vill that solve out problems then?" Medic started getting more annoyed by the second.
"Njet. You must use charge on her." Heavy replied as he pointed towards the group of ponies.
"Ze ponies? Are you insane. Zat would be a waste of an ubercharge."
"Njet, trust me doktor. Little ponies are stronger than you might think. Little pony princess is strongest of them all."
"Ughh. I trust your word meine freund. But you better stand ready in case it doesn't work." Medic then left Heavy and started heading to the group of ponies.
"Hello fräuleins! You'd better all get ready for ze finale? We're running out of time you know hmm?"
"Do you humans have a plan then?" Princess Celestia replied.
"Pfft! Dummkopf! Ve don't need a plan. You'll know what to do when it happens." Medic replied confident.
As much Princess Celestia got annoyed by the fact that the humans were underestimating everything in their path, she couldn't just give up. Alduin was right in front of them and had to be stopped. With or without the power of the sun.
"My little ponies. I sincerely apologize for all that happened the last few weeks. I can't help but feeling partly responsible. Yet, today we end this. And normal life will return to Equestria, that I promise. I want you all to get ready to use the Elements power one more time." She asked of the group of ponies.
"Don't blame yourself princess... It's all Discord's fault for the terrible things that happened. And we're always ready to help save Equestria aren't we girls?" Twilight Sparkle turned the the rest of the mane six.
"Ah sure am. Ah have had it up to here with these annoying monsters creepin' around. This has to stop." Applejack stated.
"Yeah! We're always ready Twi! Let's take that big ugly down." Rainbow Dash replied.
"Yes. It's been enough, this madness has to be put to an end." Rarity said confident.
"I'm really scared... But I'm going to help in any way I can. I just really hope nopony gets hurt." Fluttershy peeped.
"Don't worry Fluttershy! I'm sure we got this in the bag and we'll celebrate a HUGE party afterwards!" Pinkie Pie chirped.
"I'm glad you're all still in high spirits. Then lets put a stop to this. Once and for all." Princess Celestia stepped forward, getting ready to attack as she was being followed by Medic who constantly kept firing his medi-gun at her.
But Alduin was the first the attack. He unleashed a powerful attack by breathing deadly fire towards the group. Luckily the group was shielded just in time by a barrier spell created by Twilight Sparkle.
"Pardners... We attack in five, four, three, two, one..." Engineer manually aimed his sentries towards the giant monster and was the first to start the assault. The four Sentry Guns launched a barrage of rockets and deadly bullets towards the dragon.
"MAGGOT! NO ROBOT MONSTERS ROAM AROUND FREELY WHILE I'M IN COMMAND!" Soldier yelled, firing several rockets from his launcher while standing next to a dispenser which kept refilling his ammo.
"They're gonna hafta' bury what's left of ye in a soup can!" Demoman shouted confidently. He wanted to slay this 'dragon' more than any other from the REDs. He already launched eight sticky bombs towards Alduin, which slowlyy sunk within his body. He followed launching several pipe-bombs from his stock grenade launcher.
Scout was there as well! Standing heroicly at the side eating a sandwich. His weapons wouldn't do much good in this situation. He still fired a few rounds from his pistol because WHY THE HELL NOT?
"YAAAAAHAHAHAA!" Heaving was laughing maniacally while firing a endless amount of bullets towards the dragon. With the dispenser next to him he would never have to stop and reload.
The mane six were next to take action. They stood in formation and used to power of the Elements once again to summon a powerful ray of magic to finish of their foes. As a last desperate attempt the magic they conjured together was stronger than usual.
The dragon started shouting in pain, but wasn't even close to getting finished. But they had to follow up with one final powerful attack to finish it up for good.
Princess Celestia stepped forward but before attacking she turned towards the RED Medic. "Are you sure this will work?" She asked.
"Hmm hmm hmm." Medic chuckled. "I have no idea!" He shouted and then proceeded to flick the switch on the Kritzkrieg which activated the ubercharge.
Princess Celestia's heart start beating much more rapidly then normal. Her skin started glowing red and her eyes became bright yellow and 'demonic' like. She also grew in size. She was at least two times larger than normal. At this point she was even bigger than Heavy.
She also felt another thing. Incredible power. Power she had never felt before or even imagined it existed. This was more than the power of a single god. It was the power of multiple gods on a rampage. Even without the sun she felt like she could destroy the entire world.
"Ha ha.... Ha... HAHAHAHHAHAA!" Princess Celestia started laughing maniacally which was a minor side-effect of using the mysterious ubercharge. She was the most powerful being ever created, and nothing could stop her. That's what currently went through her mind.
Her horn started glowing darkish red due to the ubercharge. She attempted to conjure a similair fire spell as she did before in Canterlot.
But what came out was not the same. Where she expected to see a destructive sea of flames. That's not exactly what she got. She got something better.
It appeared she summoned the fire straight from hell as an ENORMOUS orb of fire appeared in front of the ponies and the RED. Its completely engulfed Alduin in its power. But that wasn't all. The power of her spell managed to reduce the mountain where Canterlot stood atop on to nothingness. Also a large part of the Everfree Forest suffered from her attack. A final shriek of nothing but pain and suffering could be heard faintly. The sky at this moment started turning back to its normal color and the meteors simply ceased to excist.
One more small explosion could be heard as well from the Demoman activating his sticky bombs. But it was useless.
Because there was nothing left.
Everything that was in front of them was gone. Alduin, the mountain and even the ruins of Canterlot. Reduced to absolutely nothing. No ashes nor debris. There was nothing at all.
Princess Celestia turned back to her normal size and color after the ubercharge lost effect on her. She started breathing heavily, exhausted from the events that just occured.
"D-did I do this?" She asked confused.
But no one answered. Everyone and everypony was speechless. Alduin is beaten.
But Heavy was the one breaking the silence as he approached his good friend the Medic. "I told you little pony princess is strong." He grinned.
"Ja..." Medic answered flabbergasted. He quickly removed every thought of ever dissecting Celestia away from his mind.
Scout already started scouting the area. Looking if he could find anything interesting among the destruction just caused by a magical pony. It was hard to believe, but stranger things have happened.
He already sprinted half a mile when something caught his attention. It was the man who did not fear any flames.
Dovakhiin.
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Pyro, Spy and Sniper in pursuit of Discord. A bit earlier.
"Oi. I don't like these bloody caves one bit." Sniper complained. They were entering Discord's hide-out which was hidden rather close to Canterlot. They'd never expected him to be there.
"Mmppph!" Pyro was suddenly attacked by a flock of bats. So he did what he does best. Burn them.
"Gentlemen. Zhere is no time to complain. We're on a tight schedule unless you vant Saxton to beat you guys up again." Spy stated.
"Why the hell do you care? Ya were hiding in a corner with that damn watch of yours when we were being slaughtered by that bloody shark!" Sniper complained once again.
"Zhat is why I said; You guys." Spy answered while flicking his Spy-cicle.
"Mmppphh!" Pyro gestured his teammates that he heard something in the distance.
"THESE DAMN HUMANS!" Discord was violently slamming his fists on his desk. "They're ruining everything I worked so hard for."
"Gentlemen. I believe ve have found our target." Spy whispered.
Luckily Discord hasn't noticed yet he was being invaded. His anger made him blind for the things happening around him. "No... It doesn't matter. There's already three dead... Yes... I'll just summon more monsters to destroy Equestria!" He shouted.
*POOF*
Discord was hit on the back of his head by the Pyro's frying pan.
"Take this bloody wanker with us. I can't wait to get home again." Sniper said to his teammates.
But Discord wasn't knocked out and backed away cowardly. "More humans? Why do you keep ruining everything!" He shouted.
"Monsieur. I don't care one single bit about your intentions. All I can say is zhat you're coming vith us for... 'proper punishment'." Spy chuckled.
"You're all idiots! You have no idea what you're dealing with." Discord prepared to defend himself against the three REDs.
"I'll give him the ol' chop-chop." Sniper said as he pulled out his large bowie knife. The Bushwacka.
"Ignorant fools! I'll make sure you all burn to death." Discord shouted and started conjuring flames to attack his enemies.
Pyro heroicly stepped forward. He also is one that does not fear any flames. In fact, he embraced it.
But the Sniper and Spy didn't move a muscle. They also appeared to gladly accept the violent flames heading towards him.
"Mon dieu. You are ze fool." Spy equipped the Spy-cicle which made him invulnerable to fire for a brief moment.
Sniper on the other hand was lit on fire, but managed to extinguish himself immediatly by using one of the many Jarate's he had.
"Mmppphh!" Pyro was quite angry. With the Degreaser and Flare gun equipped he approached the draconequus.
"Don't get near me you violent brutes!" Discord shouted and prepared to teleport himself away. He prepared to snap his finger but was interupted as he suddenly got shot by an arrow right to the knee.
The Sniper quickly shot him using the Huntsman.He knew that magicians are annoying. The RED had to deal with Merasmus before after all.
Discord pulled out the arrow with his own strength. "Do you think I'll simply give up everything I've worked so hard for? Don't you understand I'm doing this for the well being of all?"
"Mate, kidnapping people doesn't sound like you're helping them." Sniper replied while approaching Discord with his knife. He gave him a clean cut right across the face.
Pyro and Spy came next attempting to subdue the draconequus. But Discord managed to spook them away by conjuring another magic spell. This time it was ice instead of fire.
Pyro did not like ice at all, so he stepped aside. Spy meanwhile fled to the shadows, waiting for his moment to strike.
Sniper at this moment started firing more arrows towards Discord, but in vain as he reflected them back in all random directions.
Sniper and Pyro were lucky enough to avoid the arrows heading towards them, but the RED Spy who was invisible wasn't so lucky. He was hit directly in his gut. After the arrow penetrated his body the invisibilty wore off and he fell on his knees to the ground.
"Spah!" Sniper quickly went to check on his teammate. "I knew we should've brought Medic with us."
"Ah, mon dieu. Zis is nothing, I'll just walk it off." Spy replied as he slowly rose to his feet again.
Meanwhile Discord was now facing Pyro. The RED madman already started firing his flamethrower at the draconequus. But he managed to avoid most of the flames and counterattacked with an ice spell once again. The attack simply froze Pyro's feet to the ground, rendering him useless if he can't move.
"I'll give you one chance to leave this world and leave me to my business! If you're smart enough, you'll take it. I've killed one of you dirty humans before, I'll do it again!" Discord stated.
The REDs who were close to being defeated just grunted in response. They'd never give up. And subdueing Discord was their main priority.
"Well? What's it going to be? Should I just start killing you one by o-" Discord was interupted as a sharp metal object suddeny started penetrating his back.
"I'm affraid you haven't killed anyone monsieur." The person backstabbing him said.
It was Spy. But it wasn't the RED Spy. It was his BLU equal.
Skinny and pale from weeks of hiding in the shadows and barely eating anything. But he was still alive. The morning he woke up that faithful day that Discord transported him and the other BLUs to Equestria he was determined to test out his new Cloak and Dagger. But a good spy never leaves his home without the Dead Ringer. By using this mysterious watch the Spy would be able to feign his own death, leaving a fake body in the process. This is how he escaped Discord weeks ago when he tried to burn him alive.
At the Canterlot wedding? He was there. When the RED Heavy and BLU Sniper received their hats? He was there. When everyone around them suddenly started dying? He was there. When the mane six discussed their final battle plans along with the humans and the Princess of the Sun? He was there.
He was always there, awaiting his chance for revenge. And now the BLU Spy finally had what he desired.
"Mmmppphhh!" Pyro quickly used the Degreaser to melt the ice that was still holding him down. He prepared to instantly attack the BLU mercenary.
"Wait!" He was stopped by the still hurt RED Spy. "Are ze other BLU's here as well?" He asked.
The BLU Spy dropped Discord to the ground. He knew the REDs wanted him alive, and so he did. Barely though. He was relieved it was over, and celebrated by lighting a cigarette. "No. Ze BLU Sniper was here briefly, afterwards he got killed just as the rest of ze BLU. They've most likely respawned already." He answered.
"Ya know what this means right mate?" Sniper asked.
"Oui. I'll be looking forward to our games again." The BLU Spy replied and tossed his cigarette away.
Seconds after he was burned alive by the RED Pyro. Sending him back to respawn at Earth.
"Alright mates. Lets get this ugly guy back to Engi's camp and then we're finally heading home." Sniper stated. He and Pyro dragged the draconequus with them while the RED Spy was slowly limping behind them since he was still pretty hurt.
As they left the cave they were greeted by the warming presence of the sun that has finally risen.
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Back at the REDs temporary camp.
Princess Celestia who was fully recovered once again thanks to the Medic's medi-gun had finally risen the sun, celebrating their victory.
"Anyway. How did you humans know where to find us?" Twilight Sparkle asked the Engineer. He seemed to be the only one capable of having a normal conversation.
"Ya see. We've been tracking Heavy's weapons for a while now. But he traced it at some other place, ah guess it was just before you left. It was in some crazy town named Ponyville, ya know it?" Engineer responded.
"Yeah, that's where we were before." Twilight Sparkle answered sheepishly.
"So anyway. We jus' couldn't figure out where in tarnation that big lovable giant was hanging out after that. And the town was deserted, so we couldn't ask anyone."
"Then what happened?"
"Ya see... Solly over there accidently blew up one of the civilians houses. Don't worry though, we left a brief-case filled with 700.000 dollars to compensate for the damage done."
"Dollars?" Twilight Sparkle was confused.
"Anyway... The explosion appareantly scared some weird blue unicorn. She had a pretty amazing hat though."
"A blue unicorn you say? What was she doing if I may ask?"
"Ah can't tell for sure. But ah think she was plundering some houses. Left some weird tree-like building with like a million books."
"Are you saying someone broke in to my library?"
"Ah don't know. Don't like to question some things. She was nice enough to send us in this direction so we just left her to her business. Solly was in command, so if ya want to complain, go to him."
"No I'm sorry! I didn't mean it like that. I'm really grateful that you guys helped us save Equestria. Just Discord remains now. And I really hope that my books are okay..."
The conversation ended there as something in the distance caught their attention. It was the RED Scout. Dragging something along with him.
The ponies were shocked as they saw it was the lifeless body of Ulfgar the fearless.
Heavy let out a large sigh. He knew this was coming as the dovakhiin told him this before. He longed for the plains of Sovngarde rather than remaining in this world. He hoped to take down Alduin with just one final blow, or at least greatly damage him. Fortunatly his effort weren't for nothing as it allowed the ponies and Heavy to regroup with the RED and take on Alduin in his place.
Scout was now right next to the group. He stopped dragging the lifeless corpse and dropped the horned helmet he was carrying as well."This your friend?" He asked.
"Da. He is great man. Heavy will not forget him, or comrade Carmine." The Russian stated.
He turned towards the ponies who were tearing up upon seeing the lifeless body of their friend. The dovakhiin's left arm was completely torn of. His armor shredded to pieces by the bladed tentacles and a large gash across his chest. He also he had several severe burn wounds from the immulsion. Yet he still grasped his greatsword with his other hand firmly. Even in death.
"Little ponies should not cry. Dragon-man was good man. He did all this to help you. Honor him and don't forget. Same goes for comrade Carmine. Give them glorious funeral." Heavy said while directly facing Princess Celestia.
"That can be arranged. Their efforts to help us save Equestria will never be forgotten. Even after my lies they both continued helping for the greater good. They're both good men, I did not expect that upon first seeing you three." Princess Celestia responded.
"Looks can deceive..." The Russian said silently. "Heavy will never forget them."
A distant whistle could suddenly be head, grabbing the attention of all those at the temporary RED base camp.
It was Sniper whistling loudly while dragging a shackled Discord towards them along with Pyro. Spy was also there, but quite a bit behind them.
Princess Celestia was shocked upon seeing this and turned to the RED Engineer. "You humans actually managed to subdue Discord with just the three of them?"
"Yep. Told ya it'd be no biggy." Engineer laughed. "Good going guys. Lets get ready to go home." He shouted excitedly.
All the ponies problems were solved. In the spawn of just a few hours. All thanks to a strange team calling themselves the 'Reliable Excavation Demolition'.
"Wait... What are you planning to do with him?" Princess Celestia asked. "Are you going to kill him?"
"Well it's true that since this ugly goat-guy was meddling with our affairs he falls under our jurisdiction. But killing him? No, ya think so bad of us." Engineer responded.
"Then what are you going to do?" Princess Celestia wondered.
"Something much worse..." Engineer responded dark. "We'll be able to strip him of his magic, then we'll link him to the respawn making him immortal. Then we'll set him free."
"That doesn't sound like a very good idea..." Princess Celestia responded.
"Let me finish please ma'am. We're letting him free right on our battlefield with the BLUs. He'll endure suffering worse than ya can imagine just from being around us. And good ol' Saxton Hale can always use a new punching bag. Ahm sure he'll like this gift." Engineer smirked and left Princess Celestia with this information. He then proceeded to build his teleporter entrance so that the REDs can all return safely with their prisoner.
"So ah guess you're going home Heavy?" Applejack asked the large Russian.
"Da. Heavy does not belong here. And I have contract to fulfill. Is all really complicated." Heavy explained with a sigh.
"Aw shucks. Ya don't have to explain it to me. Ahm just really glad for yer help at the farm and all ya humans for helping us save Equestria. We couldn't have done it without y'all. We'll miss ya." Applejack said smiling.
"Thank you Apple-pony. Heavy will miss all ponies as well. But it is better that I leave." Heavy said.
"Are you sure you guys want to leave without having a great super awesome fun party?" Pinkie Pie asked.
"Ha! Party would be nice, but is not the time. This is not farewell little ponies." Heavy said excitedly.
"It's not?" Rarity asked.
"Njet! One day Heavy will return with team. Then you will create glorious hats for us all!" He answered while grinning.
"He he he. That would be nice yes. I'll be looking forward to it." Rarity replied pleased.
"Know that after your heroic actions you're all always welcome in our world. Just let us know in advance so we can prepare." Princess Celestia couldn't help but chuckle a little. "Also I know you're not friends with the BLU Sniper, but could you please let him know we're all extremely grateful for this efforts."
"Da. BLU Sniper is not friend back home, but in ponies world he is. I will let him know." Heavy answered.
Meanwhile the three remaining REDS arrived at the base still holding a shackled Discord who hasn't said a word ever since he got captured. He just stared intensely with massive amounts of hatred towards Princess Celestia.
"Teleporter up!" Engineer stated he finished building.
Princess Celestia approached the RED Engineer once again. "I will allow you to take Discord to your realm. I trust you with that responsibility. But know that he is a dangerous individual and he might be able to deceive you even without his magic. Never lose your eyes on him." She warned him.
"Don't worry ma'am. There's no escaping where we come from. It's completely secluded. Y'all just worry about rebuilding yer town and whatnot." Engineer responded.
"I believe you. Could you please allow me to have some final words with him?" Celestia asked.
"Go ahead. By the way, y'all can keep the dispenser and sentries I made. Maybe they'll be useful in the future. Set up some solid defenses ya know?" Engineer replied.
"I appreciate the offer. But with Discord out of the way I'm certain we can finally live in peace and harmony once again." Princess Celestia said relieved. She then turned towards Discord as the other REDs and ponies left them in private.
"No matter how much they'll let you suffer. It won't be enough for the actions you've caused." She said angrily at the draconequus.
"Hmm hmm... If you could just realise how foolish you're sounding right now." Discord chuckled.
"I don't care for your words anymore Discord. Its over."
"No... It's just the beginning. I tried to help you all, give you a quick clean death. But you and these filthy humans wouldn't allow me. You'll realise what you've caused soon enough. Now I just don't care for it anymore. You have forsaken them all, not me!"
"There's nothing but lies coming from your tongue. Farewell Discord." Princess Celestia left with this final words.
"Yes... Farewell Celetia." Discord mumbled.
At this moment Pyro and Soldier grabbed the draconequus and dragged him with them towards the teleporter. All the other REDs started gathering around as well.
Heavy prepared to say his final goodbye. The others weren't here long enough to care about it.
"Live glorious lives little ponies. Heavy will not forget what he learned here. And ponies don't ever forget what happened. Ever. It makes you stronger." He said. "Goodbye little ponies. Until we meet again."
The RED level four teleporter was fully charged and got ready for a mass teleportation back to 2fort.
"Goodbye Heavy!" Several farewells and goodbyes could be heard from the mane six and Princess Celestia. Heavy was a strange man. A dangerous one. But he was their friend and they will not forget him. Ever. Just as he asked of them.
The teleporting device lights grew more bright and it started spinning more rapidly. Just a mere second before the RED will get sent back to their own world. Along with their prisoner; Discord.
But before the teleporter did its job one final shout could be heard.
"YOU HAVE DOOMED THEM ALL CELESTIA!" Discord shouted at the top of his lungs just a second before vanishing along with the rest of RED.
The teleporter blew into a million pieces seconds afterwards. Blocking the path between the two worlds.
Princess Celestia turned to her beloved subjects. "My little ponies. Please don't listen to Discord, you won't have to fear him anymore. Today has been a dark day for Equestria. Canterlot is no more, but we will rebuild it! From this day on, life will finally return back to normal."
And right on queue a massive earthquake trembled everything around them. Something was happening, something strange. A magical force started creating an entirely different world around them.
Slowly a castle-like building appeared right below them as they were suddenly on a strange balcony overlooking the sun. Where Canterlot and the mountain once stood is now a strange looking fortress leading towards an even larger castle behind a mountain. The entire Everfree Forest was affected by this strange happening as well.
"W-what's going on?!" Rainbow Dash asked shocked.
Fluttershy suddenly collapsed to the ground. "I...I don't feel so good anymore."
"Now that you mention it... I feel pretty strange as well. As if my entire stomach got emptied all of a sudden." Twilight Sparkle said.
"What... What is this?" Princess Celestia was just as confused.
All of a sudden an enormous red dragon flew above the group. Spouting violent flames towards a bridge where multiple wooden and iron armored 'beings' were idling. The dragon burned everything in its path and proceeded to guard the bridge.
The dragon slightly resembled an Equestrian dragon. But it was much larger and violent than most of them.
"Hey everypony look! Ulfgar is still alive." Pinkie Pie suddenly shouted.
The group watched in awe as they say the seemingly lifeless body of the dovakhiin make some awkard movements. He slowly rose up to his feet, still missing an left arm. But he still held the greatsword in his other hand tightly.
He did not speak nor did his face show any expression. In fact, his eyes were completely dark. Hollow.
The dovakhiin slowly started awkardly moving towards the group of ponies dragging the blade behind him.
"Ulfgar! Snap out of it!" Princess Celestia shouted.
But what Ulfgar ever was, nothing remained. There was just the mindless being standing in front of them. He prepared to slice the ponies in half.
The ponies all backed up, closing their eyes. Quickly preparing for this unexpected attack. But it was never needed.
A loud crackling noise soared through the air. A spear, completely made of sunlight penetrated the dovakhiin's back from behind him. It completely incinerated his body from within.
There he stood. Solaire of Astora. The one that now ended the legend of the dovakhiin. It should be mentioned that he was in his normal form, not as a spirit.
He approached the group of ponies. "Why young maidens? Why would you dispose of the gatekeeper?" He asked.
"The gatekeeper... You mean?" Twilight Sparkle was still pretty shocked by what just happened.
"Yes, the one you call Discord. Now you've made the link between your world and mine even stronger." Solaire replied.
"What does that mean?" Princess Celestia asked shocked.
"It means that you're all undead now. Those are the laws of Lordran." Solaire explained with a sigh.
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Slightly earlier. The Great and Powerful Trixie. A hiding place on an island.
Trixie had upon finding out about Ponyville's evacuation sneaked inside the town and plundered Twilight Sparkle's library in search of a certain book. Trixie knew all of these humans and their powers. Trixie wanted her own to serve her. A pony as great as her deserves that. That's what she thought at least.
"Yes Twilight! The Great and Powerful TRIXIE knows everything! And I'm certain a powerful unicorn such as Trixie will only be able to bring even an even stronger 'human' than that annoying purple unicorn got walking around. YES! Trixie will show that good for nothing brat!" Trixie was pretty determined.
She prepared her spell the same way Twilight Sparkle did. But at the same moment the changes around Equestria started happening. She suddenly was trapped in a small prison cell surrounded by nothing but rats and skeletons. Trixie backed off frightened upon seeing this, but not before finishing her spell.
A man in his thirties with long brown hair and a rough beard appeared before her. His eyes were showing nothing but determination. He also had several large scars across his face.
The man was confused. He quickly unbuttoned his upper body wear. Now he was even more confused because the bullet wounds were still there. The last thing he remembered was being gunned down. Is this death? The man did not know, but took no time to question it. He quickly checked his equipment. He still had all of his weapons, but there was one extra thing.
A small ring in his pocket. Engulfed with small flames that did not seem to harm the man. For some reason it seemed to be calling out for him. He quickly put the ring back in his pocket. He then proceeded to sit down on the dirty prison floor, awaiting what would happen next.
"Uhh, excuse me human? The Great and Powerful Trixie has summoned you here to do her bidding! I don't know what's going on exactly, but you have to get us out of here." Trixie asked the man.
The man turned around. There was a small blue talking horse right in front of him. But he couldn't put his mind away from the events that just happened before his death, so he did not question it for now. He could only think of his wife and son.
He slowly rose his head looking up to the ceiling as a sound caught his attention. Suddenly the corpse of a horribly disgusting undead like being was dropped down.
The man looked up to the ceiling where there was a small opening. A warrior fully dressed in Elite Knight armor appeared to have dropped the corpse down from there.
"Hello! We're stuck here! Would you mind helping to get us out of here?" Trixie shouted.
But the knight also didn't respond and simply left the scene. The other man in the prison meanwhile started investigating the corpse that was just dropped down. There was a key attached. The man immediatly tried it out on the prison cell door and just as expected it worked.
The man picked up his hat and along with Trixie they slowly made their way outside the prison cell, wondering what they would be facing next in this dark dungeon.
Brace yourselves, for Lordran has come to Equestria.
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Final author notes; Well there it is. The ending. I'm honestly surprised no one had figured out I was planning a sequel all along. Come on guys, you think I just randomly bring up the Dark Souls universe just for fun?
So yeah, the sequel will feature 3 new 'heroes'. Solaire of Astora. The guy at the ending of this chapter. (If you can guess him I'll confirm it.) And another one which you'll never guess. I might add a fourth... since this story had four humans, but you'll have to try really hard to convince me.
The story will mainly feature Dark Souls obviously.
Why? Because Dark Souls to me is the best game I've had the honor of playing in years. I absolutely love it and I will honor it. It will also be a lot darker since I'm going to try and write something slightly more serious. Though, I'll have some comedy at appropriate times.
And since this story is finished I might as well get the cat out of the bag. I don't like Skyrim. Or wait, let me rephrase that. I was severely dissapointed by Skyrim. I like the lore, I like the characters. But I despise the gameplay. What I also like about Skyrim is doing absolutely nothing while walking in the big open world and listen to this tune.
Might as well say something about Gears of War and TF2.
Gears of war: I love this game, and to me GoW is the face of the Xbox 360. Not Halo. (I don't like Halo.) Although the multiplayer got boring after a while. I don't think there's enough variety. Didn't care much for Horde and Beast mode either. Always liked the Carmine's though.
Team Fortess 2: I'm hopelessly addicted to this game. I love everything about it. I've started playing it ever since it became free to play and I regret every year I wasted not playing it earlier. This is my kind of multi-player game. Fun fact. Heavy and Sniper are my least played classes. I main Solly and Spy. ( I also still want to do a 100% TF2 crossover in the future since those guys are hilarious. )
And yeah, I bought Skyrim and Dark Souls in the same week. (Release day) Guess which game I kept playing?
Anyway, I want to give everyone who ever read, liked or favorited this story a big thanks. I was extremely hesitant towards uploading my first chapter at first. But for some reason I decided; Hey why the fuck not? If it sucks, it sucks!
But appareantly it didn't and I got many positive replies! That is the reason this story made it past 100k words. Because you people were interested. And that gave me the motivation to continue. So I can't thank you guys enough for that, because I have thoroughly enjoyed writing every chapter of this story.
When will the sequel come? That's a very good question. I have no idea yet. I'm still doing a lot of research. ( Dark Souls lore is pretty complicated and I'd like to stay as loyal to it as I possibly can.) Plus I need to replay some other games in order to write the characters I have planned well. I hope you're looking forward to it, because I sure as hell am.
Once again, thank you all very much! And hopefully I'll see you again in the future.
I'll leave you with this.