why did i land here?
Chapter 36: already im ready
Previous Chapter Next ChapterWhen I wake up I get a nice surprise to see dashie had crawled into bed with me, and I realized it was night, so after covering dashie with my wing I drift back to sleep.
The next time I wake up it was sunrise, dashie was still sleeping so I quietly slip out of bed and stretch, spreading my wings and pruning the feathers, trying to get out the blood clots, my own blood from when I died, and with some work I cleaned my feathers up nicely, ready to take on the day.
Careful not to tear any more stitches I go on a short flight, just far enough to enjoy the sunrise from on top of the mountain, and once the sun was up all the way I flew back.
As I land on the balcony celestia spots me and asks where I've been, I reply that I was watching the sunrise, not straining myself like she worried, satisfied I wasn't pushing it she leaves me alone to think.
I stare offhandedly at the sun, starting to think about all that had happened to me, about dying and coming back, about me giving my life for this country, about the new knowledge I had gained while I was dead, and I kinda zoned out.
I was brought back to my senses by someone shaking my shoulder, and I realized the sun had changed positions.
"What happened?, how long have I been staring at the sun?" I ask dashie, the one shaking my shoulder, and from somewhere behind me I hear celestia say its been hours.
"I saw you staring at the sun and figured I might as well let you know that the rest of us are leaving" dashie says, coming closer to me, "where are you going?" I ask, just wondering, "we have a battle, don't worry about us, go rest" dashie says, kissing me to keep me from replying, "I'm coming too then, I can help" I say, and from somewhere behind me celestia says: "oh no your not, you're staying here".
" are you going to stop me?" I ask, turning around to face celestia, "no, I'm not, she is" celestia waving a hoof to my right, and right as I turn my head to see what she was pointing at I see applejack stick a needle in my neck and push the plunger, then the world goes black.
I wake up slowly, my head throbbing, and out of the corner of my eye I see everyone gathered together ready to teleport, I try to get up but I was bound with large chains, but there was no stopping me.
I break the chains without conscious effort, standing up quickly, they must've spotted me be sure as soon as I stood up they teleported away, leaving with a pop.
I instantly run to the spot they had been and teleported my self, following the trail of magic left behind whenever you teleport.
I landed right behind them, for some reason or another when I teleport its silent, so I stood behind them and watched as they viewed the ships ready to land, and they started to put on their elemental necklaces.
We always kept ours with us, like I kept mine in a saddlebag I made from elkondrian skin, remnants of one of my first battles.
As they put theirs on they seemed hesitant, and as twilight put hers on nothing happened, and celestia began to swear. "Dammit, without Tesla you can't become elemental, looks like your going to have to do this the hard way".
I watched for a second longer before slipping into the woods and placing my necklace on, watching from the underbrush as they went elemental with me, and they seemed surprised.
" Tesla must have put his on at the castle, he probably realized that you couldn't go elemental without him, I'm glad he did." Celestia says, looking around toward the ships, "now go get em!".
Right as celestia says this three ships make landfall, and the rest of the elements run to attack, but I had a better plan.
When I was dead it seems like knowledge was flowing into my mind, power also, new abilities and the like, so I was going to put them to use.
I summoned one of the new abilities I had gained while I was dead, and almost instantly my skin began to harden and split, my fur being retracted into my flesh, my wings joining to my back along their length, spikes forming out of my flesh, becoming metal.
I had transformed into a spiked disk of sorts, my reactor in the center, the outer perimeter made of some sort of metal, the core my body in the middle area, and I began to spin.
I lifted off the ground by several inches as I began to spin, becoming in effect spiked metal wheel spinning at easily 1000000 rpm or higher, and I touched down.
The moment I touched the ground my spikes caught and launched me forwards, right over a shocked celestia and luna,. Almost instantly I passed the other elements as I made way to a ship, them to busy fighting to notice me, and I began shredding ships.
I was at that point the most powerful shredder ever, ripping up ships that landed right as they landed, forcing their occupants to run out while I shredded their ship to confetti, and once I ran out of ships I started on elkondrians.
My incredibly sharp spikes tore right through flesh, leaving behind nothing but pulp of the elkondrians I killed, and as I span I through large amounts of this shredded flesh outwards, drawing more elkondrians forwards me, giving me more targets to shred.
Within two minutes there was nothing left to kill, blood and death piled up and soaking into the sand, I began to uncoil.
The metal stuff fell away from my body in plates, leaving me like nothing bad happened, but as I looked forwards the others they were gaping, eyes wide and staring at me.
I walk towards them, feeling pretty proud of my actions.
"What in the holy fuck are you doing here?, I told you to stay there!" Twilight yells at me, rearranged her priorities and said "what in the fuck was that? Your a fucking disc!?!?".
I ignore her as I walk by, not wanting to answer questions as I wonder the same things, but I decided to answer anyway, although before I could one of the retreating elkondrian motherships lobbed a huge boulder at us.
I catch sight of it out of the corner of my eye, and instantly I spring into action, the plates I dropped from being a disc quickly reattaching to my body like magnets, I start spinning much faster than before, right as the boulder hits me.
If I hadn't reacted as quickly as I did it would've crushed us all, but as it hit me one of my spikes catches it and lobs it right back, with alot more force.
As I watch it hits the ship that had lobbed it, breaking the metal ship into several pieces and sinking it quickly, its passengers drowning while we watched.
" any questions?" I ask the others, who had started to run away from the boulder, but I didn't get a answer, they are all in shock again. One by one they come back to attention and we gathered around Luna and celestia to teleport back.
We get back to the castle, the remnants of the chains that had failed to hold me spread across the floor, I quickly clean them up with some magic, and right as I was going to sit down I feel something warm running down my back.
"Tesla, you tore your stitches again!" Twilight exclaims, and as I turn my head around I had indeed tore my stitches, making the wound much larger than before.
While twilight bandaged it up, not stitching it together in case I tore it again, they asked questions. Mainly about things like how did I break the chain, how did I get there, and what in the world was I when I was dipping apart the ships.
"May I see one of those pieces of shell?" Twilight asks when she was through bandaging me, "sure, just be careful of the entire back, its incredibly sharp" I say, showing her the smallest plate, the one that fits on my head, "what is it made of?, its some type of metal but I can't tell which" she asks, looking puzzled, "I don't know either, but I don't think it occurs naturally anywhere on this planet, it reminds me of a material called graphene but its not, I don't know really" I reply, examining the plate also, wondering how it could possibly connect to my body at will, but I couldn't think anymore, using all that magic in my weakened state made me incredibly tired, so I went to lay down, barely making it to my bed before I fell asleep.
I woke to the sound of clanging metal, and as I drag myself out of my room, still groggy , I see twilight and applejack trying to put the plates of metal together, trying to figure out how they interlocked. I walk up to them and ask what their doing, "trying to figure out how these things fit together and how they connect to your back, will you show us?" Twilight asks, pushing the pile of plates towards me, so I start to put them on slowly.
I start with the ones for my head, interlocking them down my spine and neck, followed by the almost twenty plates for my back and wings, then the ones that wrap around my stomach and rear legs, forming a barrier of plates in such a way I could curl up into a disc.
" that's incredible, they form a perfect barrier, coupled with however their attached to your body their like millions of perfect swords sticking out your back!" Twilight exclaims, looking me over. " I know, now that I think of it, you know how my sword and the armour I made for you all is electromatter?, well I think this is neutron matter, or atleast crystalized proton matter, I don't know exactly which."
She stares at me while she pondered this and asks: what are protons?" This catches me off guard because I thought they knew what I was talking about when I said electromatter, "protons are part of the nucleus of the atom" I reply, talking slowly so she understood me, "what's a atom?" She asks, looking puzzled.
I spent almost three hours explaining what the atom was to twilight and celestia, the latter overhearing me and joining to learn, I taught them about the atom and how it was configured, the enormous amount of energy inside of it, and the most basic quantum mechanics of the electron, the "wonder particle".
" if atoms are real prove it, you can't expect us to just beleive ijn something to small to see or something like the electron with all its weird properties, we'll beleive when you can show us" celestia said when I had finished explaining. I had prepared to prove it to them while I talked, knowing one of them would say that, so I went into my room and fetched a piece of electromatter armour, a chunk of uranium ore I had found near one of my nuclear blasts, and some wax.
I stood I the middle of the room and levitated the objects from my room around me, starting to bring up enough energy to perform the trick, and when I did the magic started to happen.
First I started by breaking the electromatter into individual electrons, the point particles being held in place by my magic. Then I moved onto the wax, with its incredibly dense concentration of neutrons, which I separated from everything else, leaving a ball of neutrons suspended near the electrons. Moving onto the uranium ore I broke it into nothing but protons, carefully watching to make sure I didn't release any radiation, and the fun began.
As hard as my magic could I through the protons and neutrons together, leaving in the middle a gigantic visible atomic nucleus, followed by crushing the electrons together against their electric charge, leaving ten gigantic electrons floating middair, which the moment I brought near the huge nucleus began to orbit, and presto, I had a giant atom.
Celestia and twilight were gaping at the thing I had made, "this is a atom, the basic building block of matter, this ones just bigger" I say, proud of my creation, "OK, we beleive you, now how do we get rid of it?" Celestia asks, watching the electrons go round and around at near light speeds.
"Shit, didn't think of that, any suggestions?" I say, realizing my mistake. " nope, this is your mess now" twilight says, her and celestia walking off.
Getting rid of the neutrons was easy, just venting them off into the air, but the protons were a bigger problem, which I solved by using my magic to send them into low orbit, but the electrons were a even bigger problem. Due to them existing as a wave until measured and a point particle afterwards, I couldn't catch them, couldn't find them, and worst of all I couldn't destroy them.
After minutes of struggling to catch them I remembered that they had a charge, and would be affected by magnetic fields.
So I began to form lightning in a ball shape around the electrons, compacting them tighter together until they wouldn't go any farther, reforming them into a sphere of electromatter, ridding the problem and wearing myself out at the same time.
I bearly make it into my bed before I fell asleep, wondering why I was so weak all of a sudden.
I had the same nightmare that I had the night before, dashie committing suicide after my funeral and pinkamena dragging her down to hell, but this time I was prepared.
As soon as pinkamena came onto the scene i sprung into action, this time not stuck in place. Right as she appeared I nocked her down, then lifting her up and twisting her neck with all my force, not satisfide until I heard the crack of her neck snapping, until I twisted her head right off, it rolling away from me as I pick up dream dashie and kiss her, glad I was able to stop her this time, and that's when I was awoken by a clanging sound.
"What's going on our here?" I say, walking out of my bedroom, feeling groggy. "What do you mean?, nothings happening" rarity says, sewing a purse like item. "There was a crash, what happened?" I ask, wondering if I had dreamt it, but right then I happens again.
I quickly take count and see everyone's was right in front of me, but it sounded like the noise came from my room. We all look around at eachother, wondering what made the noise, but right as I as about to ask if they knew the door on my room opened.
The door opened while we watched, and shut, but I knew there was not anyone in there. We looked around again, double checking everyone was here, and right as we looked back at the door hoof prints started to form in the dust on the floor, coming right at me.
I was almost scared for a second, then I realize I was on a painted tile.
Right before the prints appearing in the dust got to me I went into that weird place on the other side of paintings for me. I walk to about thirty feet from where the prints were last, reappearing in the middle of the room.
In the couple seconds that it had taken me to get to where I was the rest o the elements had gathered in a corner, cowering from something I didn't see, and right as I turn to look I was hit hard in the side, launching me into a wall.
I quickly got up, wondering what had hit me, I had landed next to the others and I could see what they had saw. Two glowing eyes, floating in the air, staring right at me.
They started forwards me, almost running judging by the way the hoof prints were forming in the dust, but I was ready this time. Right as the eyes were about to reach me I slipped back into that place inside paintings, reappearing under where the eyes had been last, feeling my hoof strike something hard as I reappeared, and for a minute a outline shimmered in the air, pinkamena.
I felt the rage grow inside me, why in the hell wouldn't pinkamena die?, or was she a demon sent to haunt me for eternity? I don't know the answers to these, but I had had enough.
Before she could recover need balance I hit her again, knocking her all the way down, picking her up and twisting her neck, just like in my nightmare, not stopping until I heard the crack of her neck breaking, twisting further until it popped off, pinkamena going from just a outline and shimmer with glowing eyes to a solid object the moment her head hit the ground.
I snapped, like pinkamenas neck, only mentally. I was a shaking pinkamenas decapitated body as hard as I could, fully losing it as I tore it into chunks, legs being tore off like drumsticks, torso landing in three large chunks on the ground. After reading pinkamena apart I fell to the ground, trying to clear my conscience of the rage and evil running through it, but then the decapitated head started talking.
"I'll be back, I'll always be back, you can't win this!" Pinkamenas head said, eyes glaring at me with evil filling them, and a new rage filled me.
I picked pinkamenas still glaring head up and smashed it into the wall as hard as I could, blood splattering everywhere as I crushed her skull, and I didn't stop, hitting it over and over again in the rage that consumed me, my mind a glowing ember of anger as I lost control, pulverizing the head with all my force, with every hit I grew stronger, until I couldn't stop, losing control of my actions, or atleast untli I felt a needle slide into the back of my neck,"calm, Tesla, calm, you'll be alright, don't fight it" I hear, world fading into a comfortable peace.
I wake up feeling well rested, my mind going over what had happened before. I walked out of my room and was met with twilight and pinkie talking about what to do with pinkamenas body, looking surprised when they saw me. "Tesla, how are you up already, I injected almost 400 milliliters of drugs, that should've put you out for days" twilight says, and I knew that's alot of drug, but I just shake my head and say I don't know, walking up to pinkamenas corpse.
"If you don't mind I think I'm gonna dispose of this properly" I say, holding up pinkamenas body, "go for it" pinkie replies.
I start by lighting it on fire, burning out all the liquids, then I continue by creating a plasma arc and holding it over the body, fully incinerating every last bit of the corpse, and to end it I compact the ashes Into a ball, using my magic to destroy the matter itself, containing the produced energy and letting it off slowly.
"She won't recover from that, there is literally nothing but energy itself left of her, I won't see of her again" I say, happy, walking out onto the balcony, ready to take off.
Instantly I knew something was seriously wrong," somethings wrong, my wings won't open!" I say, trying with all my strength to open them, "yeah, that's a side effect of the drug, I thought you would be out for days so you would've slept right through it, sorry" twilight says, not seeming very apologetic, and as I go to turn around I feel my joints stiffen up, "now I can't move!" I say,, unable to move anything but my head and mouth, barely able to breathe, "yeah, that's another side effect, you would've slept through it too" twilight says, starting to smile, "this isn't funny!, help me!" I say, struggling to even nudge my legs, "its really funny, calm down, I'll get pinkie and applejack to help me move you to your room" twilight says, starting to giggle before she walks off and leaves me alone.
I was there the entire night, unable to move, and around 1 am something started to happen.
It was as if something else was in the room with me, circling me, kicking up dust and rustling against the ground. At first I was scared, until I realized it was once again pinkamena after seeing red eyes flash in the dark, then I was pissed.
I couldn't move so I knew I had to use magic to stop her, and as I prepared a lightning bolt something spoke to me from the back of my mind.
"Wait Tesla, I have a better idea, its me discord, when you killed me I took up residence in your head, and I'll give you some respect for killing me, Celestias tried for thousands of years to kill me, and you did it" the voice says, "what in the fuck!?!" I think, confused, "no, not the fuck,the mind, its me discord, and I want to help you" the voice says, making me realize it was discord, "OK then, your welcome to stay in my head, what's your plan?" I think, my mind just accepting that discord was In my head, "OK, here's the plan..."
" you think that'll work?" I think, "yeah, I'll guide you through it" discord says, reassuringly.
It was almost a hour until pinkamena showed herself, her body forming out of the dust in the room, the dust turning into flesh.
"Well well Tesla, it seems your kinda stuck, I win!" Pinkamena says, the moment she fi ishes she charges me, knife above her head, ready to strike. As she nears me discord begins to tell me what to do, and he finishes right as pinkamena was about to bring the knife through my skull, my horn suddenly glowing as I did something discord was famous for.
I cringe, thinking it wouldn't work and the knife would enter my skull, but after a few seconds I look at pinkamena, knife only a inch from me, her body turned to stone.
I relaxed, according to discord pinkamena wasn't dead, but rather only solidified, and so she wouldn't come back, she wouldn't reform, she wasn't a threat no longer.
The spell had drained me, my eyes growing heavy as I drift into the oblivion of sleep.
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