My little Escapade
Chapter 12: Chapter 12: The Big Showdown
Previous Chapter Next ChapterAfter getting home and washing the blood off my shoulder. I decided to spend the rest of the day sitting on the couch and watching T.V. I was relieved when I found out today was a Saturday, I don’t work on Saturdays.
~You mind telling me what that was all about now?~
“A year or two ago I was at that bar when he came along and got drunk off his ass. In his drunken stupor he decided to try and flirt with a woman there. She declined, he didn’t like that, and started to get physical with her. I stepped in and told him to ‘get the fuck out’, Corey thought that was a challenge and swung a fist at my face. Long story short I beat the shit out of him and from then on hates my guts.”
~Oh… Hmm…~
“What?”
~Nothing, it’s just that you don’t look like somepony who would fight, from what I’ve seen earlier. You look more like a… a…~
“Gentle giant?”
~Yes, something like that.~
-Yeah, he used to get that a lot.-
“Fuck you Embris.”
-Nah, I’m good.- Amulet goes quiet and so does Embris, leaving me to watch more T.V. There’s a football game going on and it just went to commercial.
[youtube=https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ul29X69UJA]
“No fucking way…”
~What?~
-We just got the last piece of the puzzle.-
=Yup.=
“I fucking knew that was familiar. An old friend online told me about this. About this cartoon called My little Pony. I knew they were all familiar.” I get up from my couch and head over to my room, opening my laptop and quickly search for whatever I can find about the show…
It’s late afternoon, and I’ve gathered all the information I needed to know about My Little Pony; the music, the fandom, the art, the ‘bronies’, everything. I called my friend earlier over Skype and told him about my latest… adventures? I think I can call it that.
“And now I’m here. I don’t know how I got back home. But I did.” Rick Lets out a long whistle.
“That’s some story. I just have thing, how do I you’re not fucking with me?”
“Switch to video chat.” I levitate the remote from the living and have it float next to me. As soon as he the remote covered in my magic aura floating next me, he goes wide eyed. “You believe me now?”
“I… wha… how… You can use magic!?” I nod. “How!? That’s not fucking possible! What happened to you!?”
“Like I said. I was sucked into some kind of wormhole and sent to fucking Equestria. And I recently found out that I can use the magic there. I don’t know how I’m using magic right now though.”
“That’s-!”
“Daddy?” I heard a little girls voice from his end of the call.
“Who’s that?”
“That’s my daughter. Hey Emily, what’s up?” He turns away from the call.
“Why were you yelling? Who’s that?”
“Don’t worry about it honey, and it’s just an old friend.”
“Oh. Ok!” I can hear Emily skip away as Rick turns back to me.
“Finally had one huh?” He nods with a smile. “Congrats. Anyway,” A yawn escapes my lips. “I gotta get some sleep. Later.”
“Later.” I end the call, close my laptop, and head walk to my bedroom. Choosing the flop onto my bed face first. And let sleep take over...
Today, I decided to walk around my neighborhood, after taking care of breakfast, taking a much needed shower and preening the feathers on my wings. Since I have absolutely nothing better to do. And I already came to the conclusion that, by some means, I was sent back home from Equestria, that's what the calls that place, and never be able to return. And I just came accept that. Even with all these new powers I still have a hard time believing in everything that happened to me over the past few days.
~Where are we going?~
"I don't know. I don't have any set destination in mind."
~Oh. Ok.~ With that being the last thing Amulet says my mind goes silent as I look around.
"Ember!" Around me I can see people freeze in their tracks and stare at something behind me.
*Oh for fucks sake.* I turn around and Corey, with his little gang, covered in bloodstained bandages. "How'd you all not end up in prison?"
"A buddy of mine picked us up before the police got to us." He says with a cocky smirk.
"Then why were looking for me?" He and his buddies grin widely.
"You didn't think this is over, did you?" He says in a malicious tone.
“I figured not. You wanna fight with guns again?”
“No.” He and his friends raise their fists. “Fistacuffs.” Corey breaks out into a full sprint at me. Followed by the others with him. The people around us either watch, or run in terror.
“Now that isn’t fair.” I say as the gauntlets appear on my hands. As Corey got closer I raised my hands and put them together. When he’s close enough I bring them down and perform the perfect haymaker. I barely made contact when the world around me changed. My closed fists slam into what looks like marble. Making a small crater. The gauntlets fade away as I frantically look around. *Marble floor, tall windows, huge fucking room, four ponies. Wait.* “Twilight, Luna, Celestia, And Cadence? The fuck!?”
“Ember! Where were you!?” Twilight nearly pounced me when she saw.
“I was back home on Earth, why? What’s going on?”
“A great evil has come upon us, Ember.” Celetia answers with a sour expression. “And we need all the magic we can get.”
“What?”
“Twilight will be given all our magic before Tirek gets here.”
*So that’s where they are in the story line.* Remember when I said I did a little research? Yeah, I did most of that on the villains of the show. “Who?” I had to play dumb to not raise any suspicion.
“We do not have time for explanation. Twilight, are you ready?” Luna says.
“Wait, she’s taking my magic too!?” I started to back away slowly.
~Don’t worry, I can just ‘recharge’ as you would call it.~
“It’s either her taking to defend Equestria, or Tirek takes yours to rule us.” I quickly calm down.
“Oh… Um… How am I going to give Twilight my magic?” Celestia smiles.
“You let me worry about that.”
“Ok… Lets get this thing started then.” *Please for fuck sakes do not let this hurt.* I think to myself as we gather around Twilight. Celestia, Luna and Cadence close their eyes in concentration. Their brows also furrowing as liquid light leaks from their horns. All gathering above Twilight into a mass of multi colored light. As that happened I get the sudden feeling of something coming up my throat. Nearly making me gag until I the same light leaks from my mouth and joins the ball of light. The light coming from me has a slight black tint to it, but not dark enough to notice at a distance, the tint disappears midway as my magic goes into the ball of pure magic. It doesn’t last long as the feeling goes away as quick as it started. Leaving a bit of a spicy aftertaste. *So that’s what raw magic looks like.* I think to myself as the ball of light literally pours into Twilight. Her body is briefly covered in the blinding light. I shield my eyes from the brightness. The light fades away and full absorbs into Twilight. Her mane and tail flowing in an eternal wind, like Celestia and Luna, for a second. The only evidence of what just happened came in the form of electric sparks that dance across her body. I look to the other… what was it? Ah! Yes. Alicorns. Celestia’s and Luna’s mane and tail freeze and go limp. And all three of their cutie marks are missing. They all look weak, looks like they’re trying their hardest to hold their heads up.
“Go Twilight. Tirek will be here any minute.” Celestia urges Twilight.
“Are you sure you’ll be ok?” She puts on a face of concern. Celestia, Luna, and Cadence smile weakly.
“Do not worry about us, Twilight Sparkle.” The ground began to shake. “Now go!” Twilight nodded, and ran out a side door. The ground continued to shake more violently as Tirek got closer.
“What do I do?” *Hopefully I can do something.*
“You just stand there. And let them do the talking.” Cadence ordered.
“Screw that!” I take to the air and hide in the rafters of the extremely high ceiling. Just in time as the giant wooden double doors burst open. And the big centaur named Tirek walks in, he’s easily two or three times my size. *Just like in the show…* I shake my head. *Hopefully this works.* Tirek was about halfway towards the three alicorns I spring into action. The gauntlets form on my hands and I nose dive towards the giant, quickly gaining speed. *This is either a good plan. or the worst idea ever.* I think to myself as I get closer. The ground rapidly growing until I suddenly stop, I can’t move, and my body is covered in this weird orange glow.
“What do we have here?” The giant speaks as he turns around to face me, his voice even reverberates through the air, almost like a souped up car stereo. His eyes widen a tiny bit we look at eachother. “And what the hell are you?” I look up and see that he has huge fucking demonic horns, both pointing upwards. In between them is a large ball of… fire? It looks like fire.
“Fuck you.” I try to break free from his grip. It was futile to say the least. I couldn't move at all. He just smirks and turns back around to face the three alicorns.
“Leave him alone!” Luna shouts.
“Or what?” He responds, luna goes silent. he huffs out a laugh and walks closer to them. Everything goes quiet as he gets up close to Celestia. From my viewpoint I he opens his maw, thinking he’s going to take their magic. And nothing happens, except for Celestia flinching a bit.
“What?” He goes over to Luna and does the same thing, then to Cadence when nothing happens for the second time. I’m just stuck in his grasp as I watch everything happen. “Where is all your magic? Where is it!?” She shouts.
“We are not telling you Tirek.” Celestia calmly states. Tirek growls in frustration. He looks to me again, he smiles maniacally and roughly moves me in front of them into a standing position.
“You will tell. Because if you don’t. I will
tear this thing’s wing off! You have five seconds.”
*No… he wouldn’t…*
“You wouldn’t.”
“Five.” All of our eyes widen. Theirs looking like saucers.
*No… NononononononononoNO!* redouble my efforts to break free. It’s still no use, I can’t move a single muscle in my entire body, I can’t even use my magic to teleport. I look pleadingly at Celestia. She just gives me a helpless look.
“Four.”
-Are we seriously going to lose our wings!? This is bullshit!-
“Three.”
=This is not happening this is not happening this not happening!= Embris and Emby start to panic. =Amulet! DO SOMETHING!=
~I can't! He's blocking me from doing anything!~
“Two.” At this point I just gave up. There was nothing I could do. And I was just about to lose my most precious limbs. I’ve always treated as if they were my own children, you could say they were my children.
“One.” And I’m going to lose them, forever. “Time’s up.” I felt a pulling force on my wings and it just got stronger. It slowly built up after it started to hurt. He was making painfully slow. I started to scream out in pain as the joints pop out of place. I think even a bone or two broke too. It felt like my wings were on fire. The pain just continued to get worst as the skin and muscle started to tear at a slow pace. Loud squelching and slurping sounds came from behind me as all the tissue holding my wings to my body tore. Tears began to to blur my vision, the pain was overwhelming, and my vision started to turn black at the edges. And at last, the pain dulled a bit.
And I can’t feel my wings. I only felt a stinging sensation where my wings connected to my back. Tirek released me from his grip and I just flopped onto the floor. I felt weak, like all the energy in me just left. My vision almost faded to black. But I could feel A rush of magic throughout my body. And I felt strength returning to my limbs. Once I have enough I shakily get up on my talents.
*FWOOSH* I turn around and look in horror as my wings are set ablaze. They quickly turn to ashes and fall to the ground. I can only stand there in shock and horror.
“If you won’t me who has your magic. I’ll go get it myself!” He teleport to god knows where. I just sink to my knees in front of the ashes that used to be my wings. I fall silent too, my mind going blank. I sit here for who knows how long until I hear a couple sets of hoofsteps from behind, then my back is covered in white and blue feathers. Cadence sat in front of and spoke.
"I'm so sorry Ember. We all are. I just wish there was another way." As she spoke I felt something inside snap. My face goes blank and I stand up. "Ember?"
"Everypony back away!" Celestia shouted and stepped away, closely followed by the others. I continued to stand still as my body began to warm up.
I know what this feeling is, i've only felt something close to this a few years ago. You how angry you get when you've been investing hours of gameplay into a single game, and you're one stage away from facing the facing the final boss. Then all of a sudden some bug or glitch that keeps you from reaching the final boss. And you realize that all of those precious hours you spent leveling up your character, all wasted, yeah, just like that. But now, it feels like an inferno of pure, unrestricted rage. Just begging to be released.
And I couldn't be any more happy to let it run wild.
I couldn't help but grin like a psychopath and double over, the heat building in my chest was starting to hurt. I closed my eyes in pain.
"Ember, are thou alright?" Luna asked, I heard a single hoofstep.
"Don't get close to him sister." Celestia said. I couldn't care less. The heat was getting to be unbearable. Then, I felt nothing, it was as if I lost all feeling in my nerves. The world faded away, and there only existed me, and the fire in my chest. The immense heat then spread throughout my entire being and I immediately knew everything. I stood back up and held my arms out in a position just like Goku when he ascended to super saiyan four. I feel that powerful. Reality came back and I quickly looked at body.
My body, which is normally composed of feathers, skin, bone and muscle. Is now white fire with bright blue edges, accompanied by a miniscule black tint. The tint being hardly noticeable. The fire makes a nice crackling sound and there’s a faint smell of burnt feathers.
“What the hell?” I turn to the three ponies in front of me, all wearing faces of pure shock. “What the hell happened to me?” Celestia was the first to recompose herself with a cough.
“*Ahem* Well, it seems your… anger, has taken physical form.”
“Yeah, I kinda figured that. Losing my wings is a breaking point for me, I guess.” An image forms in my mind. Twi and Tirek are talking at this moment, at the outskirts. And I missed the epic explosion. “Now you’ll excuse me. I gotta go kick some ass.” I was about to teleport but Celestia held a hoof up.
“Please be careful not hurt my loyal subjects. And don’t be afraid to restrain yourself.” She adds a wink and smile. I grin back at her.
“Can do!” I salute before teleporting to Twi and Tirek.
“So what do you say, Twilight Sparkle? Your magic for your friends?” Tirek somehow grew to be seven or so stories high.
“Don’t do it Twilight!” And Fluttershy, Rarity, Applejack, Pinkie, Rainbow and some weird dragon looking thing are encased in bubbles floating near him. I teleported quite aways from them, the ground turned to glass as I made contact. But my hearing has gotten even more sensitive. Either that or it’s magic helping me out.
Without another thought I create a sword of pure fire and bolt straight for the hulking beast. As I got closer Tirek saw me approaching and tried to stop me with his magic. But I only felt a small tug on my legs, then, nothing.
“I’m a fucking juggernaut.” I mutter. Now I’m only a hundred yards away, and closing in fast. I keeping feeling small tugging sensation all over my body. But nothing held. nothing can stop me from killing him. The world once again fades away as I put all of my concentration directly at Tirek. *You like ripping people apart right? Well lets see how you feel when you lose your horns…* I angle myself perfectly when I’m just meters away. And make one, single, slash. And the most satisfying ‘ching’ noise sounded out. I stop in my tracks and turn around. Tirke’s horns lie on the ground at either side of him. “Perfect.” He spins around and looks me directly in the eye with a face that says, ‘I’m going to fucking MURDER you!’.
“You will PAY for this!” The sword in my hands disappears and the gauntlets take form.
“Bring it on then.” I smirk and he reals a fist as back as he could and sends it at me with all of his strength. I do the same and hit the middle knuckle of his giant fist. A shock wave is produced and racks through the air. Tirek draws his hand back and shakes it. A look of surprise plastered across his face. There’s a black smudge where I punched his knuckle. “My turn.” I bolt straight for his face, punching him right between the eyes. Sending the giant centaur into the air. I keep speed with him and land a multitude of punches across his torso. Kinda like Luffy when he uses gatling gun. I land a downward hailmaker and he hit the ground. Hard. Looks like a meteor crashed into the earth.
Instead of giant space rock, the limp form of a grey, black and red centaur took it’s place. I then nose dive right at him, I decided to go for a killing move: Kamikazi right at his chest, where his heart is. Or where I think it is anyway. But he managed to backhand me at the last second. Sending me through for a second before I recovered. He got up and tried to use his magic. But all that resulted were a few reddish-orange sparks that danced around his cut horns. Making me snicker. His hands then glowed a violent orange.
*Shit.* I bolt towards him at unimaginable speeds. Seeing this he put up an orange tinted shield. I help up my arms in a defensive position and break through the shield like paper.
“Impossi-” I cut him off with a jab dead center in the chest. Forcing him to stumble back. I then proceeded to land as many punches I can manage while flying around his body. Ending with a bang by me flying right into him, using my body as an unstoppable object. Tirek held up his arms just before I can make a hole in his lower torso. With all my might I push him as far as my power will allow. What resulted was that I practically forced him back a few yards. I heard his hooves dig into the ground. I teleport and slam myself to the side of his head.
With how fast I was going I’m surprised I didn’t knock his head clean of his shoulders. But it did knock him out, or kill. He flopped onto the ground with a loud ‘thud’ and didn’t move, his body then began to slowly shrink at a snail’s pace. I let a mad grin curve my lips and I dove right at him. Aiming for the head.
“Ember!” I froze in my decent and looked to where the voice came from. The girls, and the same dragon thing from before, Discord if I remember correctly. Where all standing at the edge of the crater. My enhanced vision allowed me to see that they all are wearing looks of concern and worry. Even Rainbow. The grin I had faded away and I calmly flew over to them. They backed away as I touched the ground, which turned to glass under the immense heat. “Ember?” Fluttershy spoke up and took a step closer. She felt the heat hit her and took a step back. Still wearing a worried look. I felt myself begin to calm down. I even saw that the fire making up my body began to turn yellow.
“It’s me, Ember.”
“What happened to you?” Twi asked. The fire took on a yellow color now. I can feel the energy leaving me.
“Celestia said I’m like this because my rage took on a physical form.” My legs feel weak, shaky even.
“Are you alright there sugarcube?” I weakly nod.
“In a way, yes. But you’ll why I’m not entirely fine at the moment.” I huff out before I fall face-first into eternal darkness.
"Emby!" I heard Pinkie shout before I fell unconscious.
"I think I'm floating in between life and death." I said to no one. That's what it feels like at the moment. I'm floating in some kind of void. I can't define up or down. And it feels like I'm fading away. Kinda like those few seconds before you fall asleep when you're really fucking sleepy. Except this feeling is lasting much longer than that, and I don't feel tired.
"Yup, we sure are." Embris stated, then she floated into view.
"If this is it, it was nice bein' part of ya." Emby says out of nowhere and he floats into view,the fire making up him noticeably dim.
"Something's telling me we're not dead yet." Sub floats into view, both eyes squinting at something.
"What do you mean?"
"Well, from what I see through your eyes, we seem to be taken care of by some ponies." Just as he says that the fading sensation went away.
"And barely any time has passed too." I remark, it feels like it's only been three mother fucking minutes.
"Trust me, a lot of time has passed." Then something started to tug at me. "And it looks like you're waking up." A bright lit up and started to take up my vision. "It's too bad you likely won't remember any of this after you wake up. Later." We wave to each other and the bright light take up my vision.
My eyes flutter open and everything swims into view. From what I can see I'm laying in a bed in a hospital. Everything's white like last time. There's also a beeping noise of a heart monitor to my right. I try to pick up my head, but all I get is a weak nudge.
"Too weak to even pick up my own fucking head. Better than being dead though." I'm fortunate enough that u can use my magic to prop myself up to a sitting position.
~About time you wake up. It was starting to get really boring.~
"Hey Amulet."
~And about my name. I finally came up with a proper name for me. ~
"Let me hear it then."
~Ruby.~ I think for a minute.
"Not bad. Kinda fits. The gem was red right?"
~Yes.~
"Right. Good name." Just the door opens and a white coated, pink mane and tail unicorn walks in. Her mane done up in a bun and a hat with a red cross sits atop her head.
"A good! You're awake!" She walks to the side of my bed. Are you feeling ok? And how are you sitting up?"
"Beside feeling really weak I'm fine. And I used my magic to prop myself up." Her brows raise in surprise.
"Well, your friends will be happy to know your awake. Especially Fluttershy." She smiles l sweetly. I return the smile.
"Well what are you waiting for?" I ask in a playful tone. She giggles and walks out of the room.
"Your friends will be here in a minute." She says and she closes the door behind her. A few minutes of silence, broken by the beeping of the heart monitor, go by and the door opens again. This time the six girls and Discord walk in. Followed by the same nurse from before and another pony with a caramel coat and a brown mane, wearing a white lab coat. Fluttershy leaps upon me and hugs me a bit tightly. Making me wheeze out in slight pain from the impact.
"Oh thank goodness you're ok!" She buries her head in my chest and wraps her forelegs around my neck. She stays there for a few seconds then stands back up, leaving a wet spot on my chest. Being mindful of my body she steps off the bed and rubs her eyes. “How are you feeling?” I smile and chuckle. I can already feel strength returning to me.
“I’m fine. Just a little tired.”
“Well that’s good to hear.” Twi walks closer. “We all thought you would never wake up.”
“How long was out then?” She goes silent for a second, then looks back to the group in front of the door, Discord took a seat away from everybody. Twi then looks back to me.
“About a month and a half, give or take.”
“Oh…”
-Didn’t see that coming.-
Next Chapter: Chapter 13: Home Estimated time remaining: 13 Hours, 26 MinutesAuthor's Notes:
I don't think my phone is letting me link videos for some reason...
