Off course
Chapter 22: Chapter 19: Problems
Previous Chapter Next ChapterI woke up the next morning with a sore back. I figured it had something to do with me not having that kind of physical activity in over two hundred years, which in my opinion a day without a workout is bad. So with that thought in mind I got out of bed and headed to the training room of the ship, you know the one where you saw Texas kick York's and Main's asses in the RvB series. Anyways I spent about an hour or so in there training on my hand-to-hand combat and spear skills, and even though I did my best I still couldn't beat Texas's score. Fucking bitch. 'Now I know have Carolina felt, or somewhat felt.' I thought as I threw the spear in my hand across the room before walking to the bench below the window.
"That was impressive sir." I heard Delma say.
"It wasn't. I still didn't beat Texas's score that she set." I said as I sat down and spawned a cold towel to wipe the sweat away.
"Well you still did good."
"Doesn't matter. How's Elisa?" I asked as i brought my arm with the towel to my lap and gave a huff.
"She is still asleep from the sedatives you gave her yesterday." Delma said as she appeared in front of me.
"Anyone else awake?"
"No, everyone else is still fast asleep. Now I think you need to go and take a shower. I may not have sensors for smells but I think that others won't appreciate you're smell." she said which made me lift me arm up before taking a whiff. My head shot back as I got a real good smell of my stench, a little too good maybe.
"Y-yea you're right." I said as I put my arm back down and got up. I didn't feel like walking to the bathrooms so I teleported there. The room looked like any other military bathroom you'd find, a room with lockers and another with a shower heads spaced out on the walls. No separating walls what-so-ever. Doesn't bother me at all seeing how there are only two guys on the ship and I can plan around his shower schedules. I took my shower and when I got out I got dressed. I had on a grey t-shirt, a pair of light blue jeans and a pair of black boots.
I put my old clothes in the hamper that I had placed in there and headed to the hanger bay I had placed Elisa in. I wanted to make this quick so I could head to the castle. When I arrived in the hanger I went straight to the cage that held her and I saw that she was indeed still asleep, which is going to make this easier. I summoned several magic dampers and restraints and got ready to put them on. I put bracelets on her legs, around her tails and horns, and placed a collar around her neck. I had to take into all accounts of the outlets that magic could get to, because I couldn't be too careful. Anyways with that done I put her back into the cage and locked the door before looking her over. I saw that she still looked like a wolf but the substance was decreasing around her as I could see skin in places, but this also meant that her clothes may be gone and I'd have to give her clothes when she changes back.
I gave a sigh as I looked around the hanger. There were multiple vehicles I could use to take her but it would be too much of a hassle to do it, and I'm not someone that likes to go the extra mile. Plus there's no need for it seeing how I could either pick the damn thing up or carry it with my magic. I really need to test out the vehicles to make sure they work at sometime, but I'll do that so other time. I gave a sigh as I took hold of the cage with my magic and concentrated on Rages magic signature before teleporting about a couple yards away from where he was at. When I appeared I was in a cross section with a hallway to my left, right and behind me; as well as a set of doors in front of me. I could feel Rage's magic coming from the other side of the doors so I walked to them and opened them up.
On the other side was then entire crew of Ash's world in there, I'm guessing eating breakfast, at a long table. They all looked towards me as I walked in with Elisa's cage in my magic.
"What's going on with Elisa?" Bones asked as I got closer.
"She almost turned into a hollow." I said as I set the cage down and sat down in the chair at the end of the table closest to the doors I came through.
"She gonna be alright?" Rainbow asked.
"Yes, she will. There will be changes to her form from this accident but she'll revert back to normal." I said before sitting forward and leaning onto the table with my elbows as I cupped my hands together I gave a serious expression to everyone as I looked to Faust with a look that said 'Be careful'. "Now for the reason I came. Faust and Rage already know but I want to know if you want everyone else to know."
"I think I speak for everyone when I say go ahead," Bones said.
"Well as you know we are from a dimension where people are displaced. Hundreds of people have been sent to different versions of equestria that corresponds to what they were displaced as. Elisa's little sister decided to come after us in an attempt to be with her brother again and was sent to a equestria that was related to the anime Bleach. Elisa or Ethan as he was known at the time spent around six months there before shit hit the fan." I said as I gave a pause to breathe before continuing. "Now what I'm about to say is very serious and doesn't leave here. All the soul reapers were turned into hollows and Ethan was forced to kill his own sister."
"That's a lie and you know it Evo," Rage said as he slammed a fist on the table.
"What do you mean?" Evo asked in confusion before his expression turned serious once again. "What happened during the memory you saw?"
"Some dude named Aizen killed Elisa's sister Samantha right in front of him because she stepped in the way of Aizen's sword to protect Elisa," Rage said.
"I get it he blame's himself because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time and because of that it cost her sister her life," I said.
Evo had paused for a second before speaking again."Hm, well still. The memory was enough to trigger her hollow within. I have no idea how the lich eye is involved with this, but in order for her to revert back to normal she needs to stay calm. Which hopefully will be easy."
Suddenly Luna appears on my lap and grabs me by the front of my coat forcing me to stare into her eyes.
"WHERE DID YOU FIND THAT BOX!" Luna roared in Bone's face. Now for most they would be screaming their heads off in my position but Bones just grabbed Luna by her shoulders and pushed her away till she was at a comfortable distance.
"One do you have an idea how awkward this is two don't shout in my face again and three *sniff* *sniff* whew get a mint girl morning breath ewww," Bones said while fanning a hand in front of his face Luna sniffed her breath before she blushed in embarrassment before she got off of him. "Now what did I do to you which led to this?"
"I wish to know how you came by this," Luna said as she summoned a metal box.
"What's inside?" Soarin asked.
Luna used her magic to open the box and out floated the items that were inside first was a blanket which floated over to Rage, then a leather bound book which floated to Twilight then a large bracelet that had a pair of wolf heads on it went to Faust while a strange key and a device floated next to Luna.
"Ash's baby blanket," Rage said.
"This is the arm band I gave Ash on our last Heart's Warming together," Faust said.
"And this is definitely Ash's book," Twilight said as she started to look through the book.
"I'd like my question answered Bones where did you find this box?" Luna asked.
"Buried in the forest just east of here," Bones said.
"Why would someone do that and how did you find it if it was buried?" Gilda asked.
"That's the weird part a grey wolf with bone white marking on it's sides and olive green eyes showed me," Bones said causing everyone to stare at him in shock. "What?"
"That description matches Ash's wolf form perfectly," Rarity said.
"Wait hold up are you all saying that Ash is haunting me?" Bones asked
"I highly doubt it seeing how he never know you." I said.
"Perhaps, but if so why did a wolf that match's Ash's wolf description lead me to this? And here's the part that's really bugging me all of Ash's items were buried with him in his tomb right, including these items?" Bones asked.
"Naturally." Celestia said.
"If that wolf was Ash why would he bury these objects after he's confirmed being dead and why involve me?" Bones asked causing everyone to look at each other. I just continued to look at him.
"That seems to be the question isn't it," Rage said.
"One that deserves to be investigated at a later time. For now lets discuss what we do now since you now have you weapon Bones." I said motioning Bones to continue and explain what he might have planned. Bones gave a sigh before he started.
"Well I believe the most obvious one would be morale most of everyone here saw what I saw in the Woods of Suicide down in the Inferno," Bones said causing everyone who went with him and Elisa expressions to suddenly turn sad. "Right now the mares of Equestria are slowly losing hope and are desperately looking for some sort of sign telling them this is almost over right now we have the sign we just need to get everyone to see it."
"And how do we do that? Most of the mares that we have with us are no match for Diann and his sons." He said before looking at the others. "No offence."
"I was thinking we do it over television down in Apple Wood," Bones said, and that could work but there was only a tinsy weensy problem with that idea. They Caribou will be on our ass's as soon as the broadcast goes up. But I have no rational ideas at the moment so his is as good as its going to get.
"That's a start, but you do realize if we go and do that the caribou will be on our asses as soon as we go live."
"True but's why I need to have you, Elisa and Rage come along also I also have a quick get away planned in case things do go south so no sweat," Bones said.
"Also we have a camera crew here that would be more then happy to help and also we have our top two unit's willing to come along as well," Rage said.
"Well I see everything's in place except for Elisa," I said as I gestured to Elisa, who was still asleep in the cage. "who is still out of it. Seeing how she's acting on animal instincts there's no way to talk to her in this state."
"Any way we can help?" Bones asked.
"Well the only way I can see is if Fluttershy could take care of Elisa when she wakes up." I paused just as I heard a growl. I looked down and saw that Elisa was now awake and glaring daggers at me. "Well speak of the devil." I said to which Elisa barked twice at me and I suddenly a gasp escaped from Fluttershy's mouth.
"Such language," Fluttershy said.
"What's up?" Bones asked.
"Elisa said...fuck you," Fluttershy said nervously.
"Heh got a smart mouth for a lady hey lass," Rage said with a Scottish accent. Elisa growled back at him before laying down and glaring at me again. I looked at her for a seconds before looking back at everyone else.
"Now before we try and have Fluttershy talk to Elisa is there any other questions or information you all would like to know about us?" I asked with open arms, in reality I hoped they wouldn't press to much but I did ask them so I pay the price.
"Not so much as you Evo but rather Bones, cause you see Ash appeared to be studding Wraith's if these notes are anything to go by. And I'm curious to know if they are accurate." Twilight said as she gestured to the book in her hands. I gave an internal sigh of relief as I wouldn't have to disclose any other information, but that wouldn't stop them from asking later.
"Ash was studying Wraith's?" Luna asked.
"Hmm the more we know." I muttered.
"So what does it say?" Rainbow asked.
"Well so far I've read what we already know and that Reapers have their wraith's organized into three fractions like the arm back on Earth there's the land faction, the sea faction, and the air faction," Twilight said.
"Pretty accurate," Bones said.
"So that's true?" Rainbow asked.
"Mm hm since the world is so large it has to be divided into small sections and then even smaller sections. The Wraith's that work on land we call those Undertakers, the Wraith's that tend to the dead at sea are called Ferrymen, and finally those that die in planes we call them Wings of Death."
"Oh here's something I didn't know during the ages Wraith's have been given two different name's one is called The Crow. It says here that when one dies a crow carries said soul to the Land of the Bead but sometimes when something so bad happens it leaves a haunting sadness and the soul is unable to rest and just sometimes said crow can bring that soul back to put the wrong things right. Ash has added some really old newspaper clips about mysterious murders and reports about people presumed dead walking around wearing...mime face paint with a crow by their side," Twilight said.
"Hm appears Ash is an educated one gotta give him that," Bones said.
"Is this true also?" Luna asked.
"Somewhat you see Wraith's aren't allowed to bring souls back like that and if they do the have to stay in their crow form to keep the soul attached to the bod but staying like that also makes us extremely vulnerable now Wraith's don't do that unless the Wraith has pity on the soul for what happened to them,"
"And I assume you didn't do any of this?" Celestia asked.
"Wrong...Twilight is there a newspaper clip mentioning a guy called Eric Draven?" He asked everyone. I hadn't said anything because one I have no idea who they're talking about, and two I was listening to see where exactly this was going. And I had a feeling it wasn't going to end well.
"Uh...yes it mentions an Eric Draven and Shelly Webster Eric was in a rock band called Hangman Joe's and was a lead guitarist while Shell was a well respected civilian says here that these two we getting married on the 31st of October," Twilight said causing Cadence to sigh.
"Who get's married on Halloween?" Rage asked.
"No one," Bones said causing everyone but Twilight to look at him. I was already looking at him with interest, because honestly this was giving me some back ground information.
"He's right says here both of them died on October 30th Eric was found in the street surrounded by glass with a stab wound in his chest and two bullet shot's in his back and when authority's arrived they determined that Eric received these wounds while in his apartment before he was tossed through the top window of his building which was six stories high and as for Shell Webster she was found by paramedics in the apartment and she showed signs of being beaten and raped died in a hospital 20 hours later killers were never found," Twilight said sadly causing many to share her expression.
"What about suspects or witnesses?" Rarity asked.
"No one talked Rarity local gang's had a firm grip on that neighborhood anyone who talked would share in the same punishment and eventual the case was forgotten along with so many others," Bones said.
"So what does this Eric have to do with anything?" Soarin asked.
"You brought him back," Rage said causing everyone to stare at me. "Didn't you."
"I have a soft spot for young lovers," Bones said as he showed us a picture of mime mask and a calendar marked October 30th, which was etched into his left shoulder's fur.
"So how'd it go Eric get back at them?" Rainbow asked.
"Sure did. Gotta say kid had style when it came to killing his target's."
"So what was the other name Twilight?" Comet asked
"Huh?" Twilight asked.
"Another name for Wraith's you said said there was two," Comet said.
"Oh right the other name ahem...another name Wraith's are known by is Angels of Darkness," Twilight said causing Celestia to snort in laughter.
"Something amusing?" Bones asked with a growl, and I heard another growl. I looked down and saw Elisa looking and growling at Celestia.
"I just can't see Wraith's being called Angels when all you do is bring death." Celestia said.
"I'm going to take a walk." Bones said before he got up and started to leave the room.
"Is it okay if I come with you?" I asked as I watched him leave.
"If you don't mind killing caribou, then sure," he said.
"Sure, haven't killed anything in a while." I said before looking at the others. "Please try and get her to help us while in that state." I pleaded before getting up and following Bones. I caught up to Bones shortly and he lead me down the corridors heading for an empty balcony when suddenly I hear footsteps coming from behind me. When I turned my head around and looked I saw Rage running towards us.
"Hey hold up guys," Rage calls out when he reaches us. "Got room for one more?"
"Your funeral," Bones said with a shrug as he spun around and continued walking. It didn't take Rage and I that long to catch up to him, but he could have waited in my opinion.
"Where do you plan on attacking?" I asked
"I was thinking Vanhoover. I would have gone for Apple Wood, but we kinda need Elisa for that. Also if I have to hang around Celestia for any longer I swear I'll rip her throat out with my teeth and leave her remains for blood flies." Bones said making me raise a brow at his statement.
"Blood flies?" Rage asked.
"Nasty insect's that like to make hives in corpses."
"Charming." Rage said and I had to say that's something I wouldn't have thought Bones was capable of doing that, not physically but mentally. I thought that he wasn't okay with people defiling others remains but I guess I was wrong. Then again some people do deserve it.
"I'd have to agree with Bones, and I would be lying if I said that Celestia was pissing me off as well." I said before cupping my hands behind my head. "Now I do believe that if we go with what Bones said this will hurt the economy of Diann's."
"Indeed Rage would you like to tell?" Bones asked.
"Sure, now I don't know what it was like in your world but here it's a massive airship port. Plenty of cargo was exchanged back then but now enslaved mares seems to be the top seller; granted there are few ships now but there are still those that sell mares. In fact many royal ships stop there to resupply and sell off or pick up some mares before heading to the main reeducation center; formally known as the Crystal Empire, which is now under the control of Blueblood," Rage said.
"So simply if we attack here then one massive load avoids the Crystal Empire,"
"That would be good, but not good enough." I said as I looked at the two from the corner of my eye.
"Something you wish to add?" Bones asked.
"We need to make sure they can't bounce back from our attack. We need to burn the town to ashes. Yes it would hurt us after defeating Diann, but it's better that it hurts him rather than us."
"And what about civilians?" Rage asked.
"Don't tell Elisa this but I'm more proficient in magic than she gives me credit for. I've delved in elemental magic and with this magic it allows me to destroy whatever I want. The least thing we have to worry about is getting everyone out of buildings and the people I may mentally scar." I said. Now this was true as I had been practicing with that magic since before we were turned to stone and sometime after we were set free from that prison.
"An Ultimate Judgment Spell, that's nuts." Bones said.
"An Ultimate what?" Rage asked.
"Ultimate Judgement Spells are spells that are able to annihilate those who are an enemy of the spell caster while leaving all others and everything else untouched, but the drawback is it takes an overwhelming amount of magic to use." he said.
"Yes well that is the price of choosing what you want to destroy. But luckily I have a very large mana pool." I said with a smirk.
"I don't like it but I understand this needs to be done but now we just need to get there," Rage said
"I suggest we teleport. If we combine our magic it will take less of a strain on all of us, and we'll still have sufficient amounts of mana left for when shit gets crazy." I paused for a second as I thought dawned on me before I continued. "But before we go we should get what ever supplies are needed, plus I need to go back to my ship and change. I'll meet you back in the royal gardens." I said before into my room on the ship.
I quickly headed over to the lockers that were designed to be closets and opened the one one the far left. I had a pair of black pants, a black vest with gold trim and a pair of black and gold gym shoes. I shut the locker after I grabbed the clothes I was looking for and it didn't take me long to change into them. I went over to the mirror and looked myself over. 'Not bad, not bad at all. Still haven't lost the fire in my eyes whenever I wear this.' I thought to myself before going over to the far right locker; which is the one I store my guns in, as well as one of my hammer spaces. I pulled out a modded DKS-501 sniper rifle and a 10mm pistol before closing the locker and locking it. I placed the weapons in my personal hammer space and opened the locker next to it and grabbed two hooded trench coats before teleporting into the gardens, right next to a large fountain, and saw that the garden was beautiful. I distracted myself form the beauty when I saw that Rage and Bones where standing at the entrance to the gardens.
"There you are." Rage said.
"Yea here I am, and I brought the both of you something." I said before tossing the coats that were in my hands at them. I gave the black one to Bones and gave Rage the brown. "It's to keep your identities secret."
"Suppose it will do" Rage said as his armor disappeared and put the coat on and Bones put on his.
"Alright let's do this." Bones said.
"I need you to charge up your magic and then place your hand on top of mine." I said as I held my right hand out in front of them before closing my eyes. I concentrated on the city of Vanhoover and even though I haven't been there I'll pluck some of the information from the other's memories. I charged up some of my magic into the spell before I felt them place there hands on top of mine. They did as instructed and began charging up their magic into the spell and once it was done i opened my eyes and saw our surroundings changed. I saw that we were on a hill overlooking a seaside town with large towers for airships to port.
"Well we're not here to admire the sights let's get down there," Bones said as he pulled the hood on his coat over his head.
"Alright." I said as we made our way into the port town. It didn't take us long to get to the front gates of the town. I noticed that there where multiple high grade turrents along the walls on this side, and that it was heavily guarded. I could understands seeing how this was a very important piece to the economy and that there were hundreds of mares that would come through here a day. I knew we could do this because of how powerful these two were, but it wouldn't matter how tough they are if our enemy has enough numbers to over run us. Anyways I had to stay sharp on my feet and not inside my head, so with that I looked to the two companions that were with me. "Now remember we don't cause any trouble until need be." I said as we neared the gates.
"Noted," Rage and Bones said in sync. I nodded as they understood before we reached the gates. We were being stopped by a caribou in silver armor, and he looked over the three of us for a second before pointing to the right.
"I'm going to need you to step over for a search." he said. I looked to Bones and saw him looking at me and I gave him a nod before doing as the guard said and went to an inspection area to the right. I was hoping that he wouldn't ask them to remove their coats. "I'm going to need you to remove the damn coat now."
"Sir I don't think you know but my friends are albinos, so the sun hurts them." I said as I leaned forward and clapped my hands together with a smile. In a chance that he did ask them to remove the coats I could just do what Charles Xavier, or professor X, did in that one x men movie and trick the caribou guard into seeing what I want him to see. It's a little trick I picked up when I started to expand my magic prowess. I can't really remember how seeing how I learned this a few hundred years ago, but I will say it does take a fourth of my magic to do; seeing how my special talent isn't entering other's minds.
"I don't give a shit. They will take the hoods off or else we'll send them to prison for disobeying orders." the caribou said as he rested his right hand on the hilt of his sword on his waist.
"Fine but they can't be in the sun for more than a few minutes." I said with a sigh as I leaned back and closed my eyes. I then reached into the guard's mind and went into the part that allowed him to see and precept what he was seeing and changed it from Bones' and Rage's faces to two similar albino ponies. The reason I made them similar is because it's less of a stress on my account and it
Rage and I did as the caribou said and pulled our hoods down and I saw that he was looking at us as if trying to tell if there was any fault. He looked us over for a minute or two before turning around and throwing a hand back at us.
"You can go through." I heard the guard say as I heard him walk away. I let go of my hold on his mind before opening my eyes and looking at Bones and Rage.
"Now that that's over, let's go and size up the town." I said as I walked ahead and through the gate. I wanted to get through this as fast as possible.
"Hey Evo I've noticed this earlier, but why are you so ticked at Celestia? I can understand Elisa being ticked since she's a god of death, but why you?" Bones asked.
"She's starting to piss me off because she's getting onto you just because your a wrath. She has no real evidence not to trust you and she's only basing you on some past experience." I said.
"Well as thankful as I am it's really my problem to deal with but I am glad for you sticking up for me."
"I'm glad you think that way." I said before we walked in silence. That silence was broken when I spoke once again. "Evan."
"Sorry?" Bones asked.
"My name. It's Evan." I said before looking at him. "I usually don't tell people my name because I have trouble trusting others, but I trust you."
"Thanks," Bones said with a smirk before we heard someone yell out.
"Mares For Sale! Mares For Sale!" All three of us snapped our heads to the sound of the voice before we rushed off towards it and when we came across a wooden platform with different mares on it and a caribou shouting at the top of his lungs to get everyone's attention.
"Gentalstallions and male caribou feast your eyes on these sluts from across Equestria. All of them healthy and ready to be fucked and breaded!" the caribou shouted.
"Okay he's dead!" Rage said as his left hand began to smoke.
"Whoa hold on I've got a better idea. Evan we need to take out any and all anti aircraft weaponry to get out of here; can you take care of that while we keep these guys busy here?" Bones asked.
"Sure sounds fun. While I'm gone though try and bid on the mares, when they ask you who's gonna pay tell them I will. Just say I'll be here soon. Be back in a few." I said with a thumbs up before teleporting with my wind magic. It feels so good to use this magic after so long, and the reason was so Elisa wouldn't find out.
You may want to know why I haven't told anyone this and it's because I don't want people knowing it. I just don't. Anyways I appeared on top of a tower about a few hundred yards away; and I had a clear view of the entire town. There were a few dozen artillery stations that I could see and they looked to have a few caribou at each one. I could knock them out and place an explosive rune on the artillery but then they would eventually know something is up if the post doesn't check in. I could also place a cloaking spell to hide myself, but I don't know if they have things to detect magic sources. 'It's better than the other option I guess.' I thought to myself as I placed the spell on myself and went to work.
Ten minutes later
I was standing atop a building in the shipping district of the town after finishing placing the runes in every AA gun in the city and gun deposits, but when I got on top of this roof I noticed what looked to be a heavily armed and armored ship anchored in the harbor. I was stunned to see them using ships instead of airships for war. I know that ships can move a little faster but but airships can go anywhere. I looked across the harbor, if it could be called that, and looked at the large spires that acted as ports for the airships. As I looked over the harbor I heard some people talking and I decided to eavesdrop on their conversation. They were talking about the giant battleship and they had said that the ship was here to deliver a special machine that would help with mares and that it was here to prevent the rebels from either taking it or destroying it. I had to destroy it, there was no doubting that. But I had no idea so I guess I'll just sink the ship it's being carried on.
I scanned the harbor and saw a large cargo ship with only one item on it; a large one at that. I still had my cloak on so that wasn't a problem, but I knew that if I swam there it would raise suspicion, and if I teleported it would set alarms off. So I would just have to walk on the water, which is something I'm not good at.
I jumped down silently and headed to the edge of the dock while avoiding touching anything. I slowly climbed down and set my shoes on the water and slowly let go. I let out a sigh of relief as I didn't fall into the water, before I turned around and walked towards the ship. When I reached the cargo ship I didn't bother going onto the ship as I placed the rune charges right above the water line. Once the runes were properly set I walked away and headed over to the ship that resembled a battleship. I was weird, I remember Ash telling us that they were more technologically advanced, but why was a World War I battleship the best in military hardware on the seas?
Doesn't really matter seeing how we have technology far advanced than that I'm sure we'll beat them in the end. But I still had to destroy it, can never be too cautious. After placing multiple runes on the starboard side of the ship, and again right above the water line. I placed enough to where it could get through the four inch steel plating that was on the ship and enough to send this baby to the bottom of the harbor. With my job complete I made my way back to the dock and teleported into an alley way near the market. I de-cloaked myself and stretched my arms above my head before heading into the street. I watched as several vehicles, which resembled big rigs, pass by. They had military insignia and logos on the side of the tractors and trailers. 'I hope that they are harmless.' I thought as I watched them make a right turn just before the town hall. I gave a shrug as I walked across the stone street and past a very disgusting hotel before entering the market again, where I saw a Caribou talking to Bones and Rage. As I neared I started to hear there conversation and it seemed they were about to be forced to pay.
"No bits no slut," the caribou said as he began to turn away.
"Hold up, I'm back." I said as I neared the three men."You having trouble?"
"We were just telling this guy on how we were gonna pay." Bones said.
"Okay, you got her?" I asked.
"Not yet but allow me this one's on me," I said as I placed a hand on the stallion holding the mare's leash. Suddenly Bones hand gives off a silver glow for a brief second when suddenly the stallion starts to scream in pain as his flesh begins to rot and disintegrate leaving behind only his bones.
"What!?" the caribou asked in shock as he watched the stallion die horribly.
"Guess I should come clean we never intended to pay for the mares," Rage said as he walked over to the caribou announcer and grabbed him by the throat and lifted him into the air. "We're here to liberate them from you sacks of shit."
Suddenly the caribou is engulfed with hellish flames causing him to scream in pain before he was tossed into the staring crowd.
"Ah I love the smell of chard caribou in the morning," Rage said as he inhaled the scent of burning flesh. Bones and I then looked at the crowd before us and I saw they were still staring at us in fear.
"Boo!" Bones said as he jerked forward suddenly causing the males to scramble in panic and I saw many mares took this as a chance and started fighting back against their former masters. "The fires of revolution have been fanned."
"And let them burn brightly." Evan said as several explosions could be heard around the city.
"I take it that was your doing?" Bones asked.
"Yes it was. I had explosive runes placed on all AA guns and ammunition stockpiles in the city. As well as two ships in the harbor." I said.
"Great now Evan I need you to round up and all the mares and any brainwashed stallions. The ones who are brainwashed have glowing green eyes, it's not their fault that the're like this. Rage can I leave burning this place down to you?" Bones asked.
"Sure but we best do it before anyone leaves," Rage said.
"No problamo I already took care of it."
"How?" Rage asked.
"If I even try to explain it I would most likely break your brain." he said.
"Rage don't worry about it. Let's get this done as quickly as possible." I said as I got onto the stage and went behind the curtains. Behind the curtains were hundreds of cages filled with mares. I walked along the cages and when I thought I was in the the middle of the room I stopped. It looked like the places where there wasn't any cages were streets, but I'm just making a comparison. Anyways I looked around and saw that the mares where looking at me in fear or anger. I could understand why they felt this way but I didn't care as my mission was to free all the mares in the city. I walked over to the nearest cage and looked at the lock that was on it. The mare inside scuttled to the back of the cage and looked at me in fear.
"Hey get away from her!" I heard behind me, but I didn't bother answering as I continued to examine the lock. It looked to be specially crafted and I preformed a scan and found that it had a unique magic matrix to it. I could scan the ci-. My thoughts on what to do were stopped when something hit me in the back of the head. "I said get away from her!" I heard the same mare yell again. I turned around and looked at her for a second. It didn't matter what she looked like because I only looked at her long enough to see who and where she was. I charged up a sleep spell and aimed my palm at her and fired it. The spell connected with her chest and she immediately slumped to the floor of the cage.
I turned around and continued to examine the lock. It had a complex spell matrix to it, but I've gotten past more that were worse. I guess it was only complex enough to where the unicorns couldn't break out. I copied the spell matrix before letting the lock go and standing up. But I didn't get to go far as I felt a throbbing pain in my head before I hit the floor. My vision was blurry but I could still make out the outline of a pony with a blunt object in their hands. I rolled to my left as they brought the weapon back down, and I quickly rolled back over as they hit the spot I just rolled to. I gave a swift kick to the pony's crouch area and heard a scream of pain before my attacker hit the ground. 'At least I know its male.' I thought as my vision slowly came back and I could see again. The guy was rolling back and forth as he cupped his junk. and I could see a slight glow under his eyes, but I had to confirm it.
"Open your eyes!" I yelled as I kicked him in the gut. His eyes flew open as I knocked the wind out of him, and I could see that his eye's were indeed glowing green. So he was being manipulated. I crouched down as he heaved, trying to get air back into his lungs. I ignored his attempts and placed my right hand on his head and scanned for the spell controlling him. It wasn't hard and I copied the spell that was controlling him before destroying it. He immediately stopped his attempts and slowly fell asleep. I stood up and started channeling my fire magic and connected my magic to all the locks back here before pouring my magic into every lock. My idea was to overload the spell's matrix and melt the locks, which would set the girls free. A few seconds later I hear several cage doors open and I watched as hundreds of mares passed by me. I scanned the entire room and found that all the locks were broken so my work was own. I teleported high into the air above the city and scanned it for the males being controlled with that spell I got form the pony that attacked me.
I found that there were close to a hundred of them being controlled and I charged my magic one more time and let lose a shock wave of magic across the entire city. My goal was to over load that spell as well. But I know what you're thinking, 'won't that kill them?' no it won't. It would only kill them if the person that placed the spell on them overloaded it, not someone else. But the downside to doing that is the person or people being controlled will be unconscious for a few weeks. I also left a small trace of my magic in them so I could easily teleport them to me before we left and headed back to the empire. I then teleported back to Bones and Rage and saw burning buildings, and anything that wasn't burning was colored red with blood from the fallen victims of both Bones and Rage. I noticed that beside them were a few stallions, mares and even a few foals.
"Are all the females that were back there here and safe?" I asked as I walked towards the group.
"All the brainwashed stallions in the city have been taken care of and are unconscious. But I could teleport them to us at any time, so no worries there. As for transport." I said as I reached them. "Can you guys fly helicopters?" I asked.
"I can operate sky ships not choppers." Rage said.
"I don't use helicopters so no point in me learning how to use one." Bones said.
"Well there goes one of my ideas." I said with a sigh before continuing. "Then I guess we can use the pelicans to get us out of here. I'll have to have them on auto pilot since no one knows how to fly one."
"Why don't we just take one of the airships in one one of the docks. Not like anyone is gonna use them after today if we blow them up." Bones suggested.
"He makes a good point. Besides we're gonna need a lot of pelicans if we're gonna transport this lot. An airship can do that with only one." Rage said.
"We could but it will be tremendously slower than the pelicans and we have no idea what aircraft they have in their arsenal. I mean they did have a battleship in the harbor that resembled one form world war two." I paused as I started to scratch my chin. "How about this, I fly a Harrier to protect you guys and you get everyone with the airships."
"You know not that that's not a good idea but you make it sound like you didn't take out the AA guns," Bones said.
"That's not what I'm saying. They could have had someone send a distress signal before you burnt the place, and they could be on their way here now with reinforcements. But if think it's a bad idea then I'll talk your word for it."
"Airships that are built for battle are slow because of all of their armour and weapons and since there aren't any settlements near here it will take hours for them to get here and it will take them even longer to figure out where we went," Rage said.
"Let's get everyone going then. I'd rather not be here when they come to investigate why this place isn't responding."
"Agreed," Bones said.
"Now you guys address the crowd on the situation. I'm not very good with groups of people." Evan said.
"Oh right best leave this to me," Rage said as he turned to the staring crowd. "Hello, many of you know who I am. Some maybe not. But none of that matters cause now I'm here to tell you all one thing, the nightmare is coming to an end. The caribou are about to learn a very important lesson, Don't Fuck With Equestria! Cause after today a message will be sent, a message displaying our power and our hatred to them... the caribou say they have won when in truth those words are false because me and my allies haven't given up the royal family is safe along with whoever is ready to fight to take back what is theirs from these vermin." Rage said as he picked up a severed caribou head and tossed it into a fire. "So tell me are you ready to join us? Are you ready to take back what's ours and drive these cowardly disgusting disrespectful bastards from our shores and in the name of our fallen king and my brother Ash Blade, bring freedom to those who are still trapped under Diann's hoof?" Rage asked as he raised an arm in the air. At first no one did or said anything but after a few seconds a mare raised an arm in the air.
"My husband was turned into a monster he was a good stallion before this happened he would never harm a soul and now these caribou have done the worst to him it's time I pay them back with blood," the mare said.
Soon one by one others raised their arms in the air Bones then gave a nod to me and I teleported us and every mare, foal and unconscious stallion in the city into a hanger that had a few of ships in it.
"Now everyone will be going onto this ship here!" Evan yelled as he pointed to the largest ship in the hanger, and on the bow it had the words 'Valiant' engraved into the sides. "If there are any wounded, find and take them to the medical bay."
After me yelling that everyone started to go along and climbing aboard the ship. I helped out with some mares that were having trouble walking. At first they were reluctant to accept my help but I managed to persuade them. After that I went into the hold and checked what they had and saw that there were a lot of explosives down here, as well as some very familiar guns that I had placed in the home Elisa made for Ash. You know the one on the mountain side of Canterlot, what yo don't remember? Bah, it doesn't really matter. What does is that they were planning on delivering these to the Crystal empire if the shipping tags were anything to go by.
'This does not bode well, not at all.' I thought as I let go of the tag and left the cargo hold and headed for the bridge. When I got there I saw Rage looking over the controls and dials. Once I shut the door I seemed to have gotten his attention.
"Hey," he said as he looked over to me. "Are we ready to go?"
"Not yet, we still have people coming onto the ship." I said as I reached him. "And when we get back to the Castle I want to have a conversation with everyone. That includes the girls, the princesses, discord, Faust and you and Bones. All of you need to here what I have to say."
"Okay." he said in slight confusion. I could understand seeing how I was vague about what I wanted to talk about, but I had a reason. I didn't want to have to repeat myself. That's one of my pet peeves, and I really really hate having to repeat myself to others. Anyways after our brief conversation I helped him get everything set up and turned on. It seemed like this thing just got here as the engine didn't take long to start up. So we were in there for a few more minutes until Bones came through the same door I came in not to long ago.
"Everyone's on board." Bones said as he stepped onto the bridge.
"Alright let's get outta here." Rage said before he pulled a leaver and the engines spun up. After a few seconds the ship lifted into the air and flew out of the hanger, but stopped a safe distance from Vanhoover. "This should be good enough distance."
"For what?" I asked.
"Uh destroy the city remember I had an idea in mind but since you are the god of destruction would you care to do the honors?" Rage asked.
"Oh yea forgot about that and sure." I said with a smirk before aiming my arms in the air and closing my eyes. I stood there doing nothing as I channeled most of my magic into my hands, and I could feel them start to burn from the amount I was placing in there. Once I was done I began the chant for the spell I was going to use. "By the powers of the gods, angered by mans nature and greed. Let my foes feel your wrath and destruction." I said as I saw the rune appear above the city. Now I do have my eyes closed but I have the ability to see magic through my eyelids, so all I really see right now is a smudgy red circle and darkness."Destruction Rain!" I yelled as I opened my eyes and watched as a beam half the size as my rune came down and destroyed the city below. Whatever that wasn't vaporized by my spell was destroyed by the debris that was moved.
"Whoa." Rage and Bones said in sync.
"Yea," I said with a huff as I let my arms go limp causing them to fall to my sides. "that's the half of the extent of my power." I paused as I took a few deep breaths to try and regain some stamina. "But I rarely use it since most of my strength lies in brute strength." I said I felt a weak magic presence behind us and I spun around opposite to the city and looked directly at it with a scrutinizing gaze. I could tell that it was a long distance viewing spell, and it seemed to be done by a mage who know what they were doing if it took me that long to notice it's signature. I stood there looking at it until Bones said something.
"Something wrong?" Bones asked, causing my attention to be drawn to him and away from the anomaly behind us.
"It's.... nothing. Thought I felt something." I said with a small waver in my voice. "But we need to go, now."
Some time later
After the trouble we came into at Vanhoover everything else was calm. The only thing we had to deal with was the occasional person asking if we were almost there. I was half tempted to lock the door but I kept cool and continued to look out the windows of the bridge at the calming sunset. The mixture of yellows, reds and oranges just seemed to relax me and made my worries go away. But I remembered that we still have a lot of caribou to still kill so that relaxation was short lived. Anyways we soon reached the forest that separated Aephoceria from Equestria, and I could see a faint outline of the large castle that was in the middle of the kingdom. As the outline got larger Bones stood up from his seat and started to leave the bridge.
"Going somewhere?" Rage asked noticing Bones Leaving the bridge.
"I need be alone for a bit cause I'm still a little miffed from this morning. Also I don't wanna be there to explain how we saved this lot," Bones said.
"Just don't let her get to your Bones. If need be I'll back you up." I said with a smile as I watched him walk away. I watched as he closed the door and once he did I let out a sigh before turning my attention to Rage. "He really needs to ignore her."
"I think he does; it's kinda hard though when Celestia haggles him at everything he does." he said as got closer. "I have no idea what Celestia's problem is but I'm not going to get into it."
"But why not? Why not find out what the hell's eating her up about wraiths? it's just.... it's just starting to annoy me I guess." I said with another sigh as I looked to the controls in front of me.
"Well there was something Ash always told me when I asked him whatever was wrong with Luna." Rage said causing me to look at him once more.
"And that was?" I asked.
"Don't try and figure women out. It'll only hurt you." he answered.
"But that seems kind of mean don't you think?"
"Not at all. Sometimes you just can't figure mares out, and sometimes the things you what to know is a touchy subject for them." he paused for a second before continuing. "You never know if the subject could hold some emotions they had locked away or could cause an anxiety attack. You just never know, men weren't meant to figure mares out all the way."
"I guess." I said as I went back to looking over the controls as he steered. We continued in in silence as we neared the city, and it didn't take long for us to reach the outer limits.
"The hell is he doing?!" Rage asked causing me to look up from the controls.
"What going on?" I asked and he gave a sigh before answering my question.
"Bones just jumped off the side of the ship." he said.
"Seems kinda reckless if you ask me."
"Yea, I mean I know he didn't want to talk to Celestia but that's talking it too far." he said as he pushed himself back but still held onto the ship's wheel.
"Don't worry about it, I'm sure we'll see him again before the night ends." I said with a smirk.
"How?"
"Let's just say it's a gut feeling." I said
"Whatever you say." he said as we continued our advance towards the castle. When we touched down in the courtyard a few guards came out if the castle and surrounded the ship, and by a few I mean at least twenty. After them came the princesses, and they looked at the ship in determination; almost as if they thought Caribou were on the ship. But when all the ponies walked to the edge of the railings their expressions changed. I'm not going to bore you with the details, but when we got of they asked for us to explain and I told them we would once Bones returned. Celestia made a slide remark saying he was up to no good, which irked me. Anyways we later got all the males that I freed form the spell and the injured into the medical bay where they would receive proper medical attention. All the others were given rooms to stay in and cloths to wear. I'd have to later make a small town next to this one for them to live in, and for anyone else we rescue. When we got here is was around seven in the after noon and the sun was setting, so i was hoping Bones wouldn't take long.
When I separated from everyone else to head to the gym that was in the castle, which I found stupid. But I guess rulers need exercise too. Anyways, when I entered the gym I found Fluttershy playing fetch with Elisa. Said person was looking like an anthro wolf. She was wearing a bra and some panties since the liquid bone that was trying to take hold was almost gone. Besides on her feet, hands, face, ears and other places on her body.
When I say her I had to hold in my laughter as I watched her. Fluttershy told me that she was able to get Elisa to help us in this state, promising that she'd get to kill the caribou. I thought that was okay seeing how Elisa's mind is in a state of high aggression. But I did tell Elisa while we were in there that it would prolong her changing back, though I don't think that was a problem since she's changing back faster than I anticipated. After about and hour and a half we headed to the dinning room where the rest of the main six, princesses, Discord, Faust, and Rage were all sitting at the table. Faust was on the far end and the main six sitting to her right, with Fluttershy at the end of it. To here left was Celestia, Luna, Cadence, Dream Catcher, Chrysalis, Nightmare Moon, Discord, and then Rage respectively.
"Welcome." Faust said as I closed the door after Fluttershy and Elisa came in.
"Well sorry to keep you waiting." I said as I walked towards the table. I watched Elisa run there on her 'paws' before jumping into the seat next to Fluttershy, which only left a seat for me and Bones. I left the seat at the end for Bones and sat in the one next to Rage.
"No worries, all that's left is Bones." Faust said with a smile.
"He's probably up to no good." Celestia said, and that was the last straw for me.
"Oh would you give that shit a rest." I said as I sat back in the chair.
"Give it a rest!?" Celestia yelled. "He's a damn monster!"
"No he isn't! Your just basing things on past experiences that has happened to you!" I shouted as I crossed my arms.
"What would you know!" she said causing me to stand up. My chair slide back as I got up and slammed my hands onto the table and looked down at her.
"I know that you shouldn't judge someone by what or who they are! I know that you should give people a chance no matter who they are! I know that your being a xenophobe!" I yelled as I subconsciously gripped the table and placed magic into my hands. It's at times when my anger gets the best of me does my magic flare out.
"Your calling me a xenophobe! I helped several races across the planet before the Fall! I helped the Dragons, the Minotaurs, the Griffins, the Yaks, the Zebras and others! Don't tell me I'm xenophobic!" she yelled back.
"Yes but your being a xenophobe towards Bones just because he's a Wraith!" I said as I began heating up the table.
"Uhh Evo." I heard Rage say, causing my attention to be drawn to him. I saw him pointing to the table and saw it starting to smoke from my fire magic.
"He no good! That's all!" Celestia yelled as I stopped my magic and added some ice magic to it, cooling it off. But I left two scorch marks on the table in the shape of my hands.
"Sorry about the table." I said as I looked to Faust who gave me a knowing smile, before I looked back to Celestia. "Get to know him first before you judge." I said as I sat back down.
"Never." she said as we all sat in an awkward silence for the next couple of minutes. The sound of the dinning room doors opening drew my attention as I looked to see who had entered and saw a guard enter. I watched as he walked down and over to Faust before whispering into her ear, and after that she nodded and he left.
"What is it?" I asked.
"It would seem that Bones is causing a little bit of a ruckus in the city."
"Well let's go see what he's gotten himself into this time." Rage said as we all got up to leave. Faust was able to lock onto his magic signature and teleported us near him. I was blinded by a flash, but once it subsided I saw Bones down in the street fighting some beast. I didn't pay attention until the point where his sword and the things soul. After that he turned to us and looked right at everyone.
"Sup." Bones said as his sword sheathed itself. 'Smooth.' I thought with sarcasm.
"Nothing much, just arguing." I said as I hopped down into the street.
"And that was before we got word of a wolf causing trouble." Rage said.
"Yeah not much I could do about that my new friend here was about to kill a mare if I hadn't stepped in," Bones said.
"What is that?" Applejack asked as she inspected the dead monster.
"Not sure what it was before but now it's a dead Kishin Egg." Bones said as he walked over to the monster's corpse.
"What's a Kishin Egg?" Twilight asked.
"Once an ordinary mortal who consumed the soul from another mortal, which turned them into what you see before you." Bones said as he placed his fingers into the puddle of blood and rubbed it between his fingers and licked it only to spit the blood out again. "And from what I can tell this guy was once a unicorn stallion; before his name was Cobalt Steel."
"He was one of my subject's and you killed him?" Celestia asked in an angered tone.
"He died the moment he did this to himself," Bones responded.
"He didn't need to die you maybe could have saved him but no I bet you just killed him because it was easier and you enjoy killing," Celestia said.
"Okay, that's It!" Bones yelled.
Bones then teleported in front of Celestia and grabbed her by the mane and began to pull her into the alley most of Celestia's family and Twilight went to stop him however Faust, Rage and I intervened but we followed the two.
"Bones unhand me at once!" Celestia demanded while trying to loosen his grip on her mane and find some solid footing.
Bones ignored Celestia and continued to walk till he stopped and released Celestia and forced her to look at a scene before us. What I saw shocked me; the scene was of a mare, or what was left of her, because there was very little of her left blood coated the walls and ground and her body looked like it was being eaten.
"This is what one of your subjects has done Celestia it butchered this poor mare and ate both her body and her soul and it is very possible that it has done this to others also so tell me who's the real monster here the one who did this?" Bones asked as he pointed to the corpse. "Or me the one who kills them to prevent things like this from happening."
With that he stormed off and as he did I saw everyone was staring at the scene in horror while Rarity and Fluttershy had fainted and Pinkie looked like she was gonna be sick.
"Such a sad time." I said with a shake of my head. I watched as Bones left to go to god knows where, but I had to stay and help with the clean up. Rage had ordered guards to come and clean up the corpse and I had to deal with Elisa and a bitchy Celestia. She was tame to be honest since others were around but I knew she was suppressing her hate for Bones and any comments on him she wanted to make. As for Elisa, her happy demeanor went out the window. She was more angry instead of happy, and I had to place a sleep spell to get her to stay calm. After about thirty minutes we got everything cleaned up; the corpse was taken to the morgue, I think, and we started to head back to the castle. Luckily a while ago Rarity and Fluttershy had woken up so we din't have to carry them, and Pinkie wasn't throwing up so I guess thats as a plus. However I had to carry Elisa on my back because she was still asleep form my spell.
I carried her on my back as everyone left I decided to walk back to the castle instead of going with the others as they teleported. I summoned an ear piece and put it in my ear before connecting it to the Invention. "Delma, do you read?" I asked, and there was static at first before I heard a reply.
"I read you clear now. What do you need?" she asked.
"I need you to tell Faust, Lucky and Blaze that we will be staying at the castle tonight." I said as I hopped onto a building and started to hop from one to another.
"That I can do...... Anything else?"
"Yea. Make sure they don't touch anything they aren't meant to." I said as I neared the castle.
"Aye aye sir. Have a good night." Delma said.
"You too Delma." I said as I disconnected the signal. I stopped as I took the piece out and placed it in my hammer space before continuing my journey to the castle. I eventually made it and I teleported into the castle since I wouldn't have made it there if I jumped from the final roof I arrived at. I appeared in an empty hallway and I gave a shrug as I walked to my left, and I continued this until I accidentally bumped into Faust. She asked if I was alright and I told her I was fine. I then asked where the guest rooms where and she said she'd teleport me and Elisa there, and before I disappeared I said to have a good night.
I landed in an empty room with a king sized bed and a dresser to my right. I just shrugged before I went over to the bed and laid Elisa on the left side before heading to the bathroom that was connected to the room and took a shower. I came out of the bathroom shortly after in a pair of black gym shorts and a white tank top. I was drying my hair as I walked to the bed and sat on it. When I thought my hair was dry enough I balled the towel up and aimed it at the hamper across the room. I nearly made it but it bounced off the side and onto the floor. I was too tired to get up and put it away so I gave up and laid down on the right side and let sleep take over, because tomorrow we'll have a lot to take about.
Next Chapter: Chapter 20: Out of the Frost Estimated time remaining: 1 Hour, 45 MinutesAuthor's Notes:
Hey guys, sorry for the delay. Had some troubles going on and they were preventing me and Wolf from writing, but rest assured we're back. At the point in time I'm writing this it's 1:48 in the morning and I just recently got off my shift at work so I'm gonna hit the hay. I hope you enjoyed the chapter. Please give it a like and a comment telling me what you thought and I'll catch you in the next one.
But before I go I have to ask,
Peace!
And remember Let the tides of revolution carry you.