Didact

A week has passed since Oryx and I arrived in this world, with no sign of Alad having arrives thus far, and we were currently implementing the pegasus portion of our plan. For those wondering, it would involve me challenging Hurricane to a duel on the ground, with a limit on how far up he could fly-I had telekinetic abilities, but those didn't give me flight. We'd make it look real, so it wouldn't harm his pegasus honor, but, in the end, I would win, and take control over the military race.

At the same time, Oryx and Platinum would work on the unicorns on the whole "ancient, lost ruler come back" thing. The only reason we weren't doing any manipulation with the earth ponies is because they were, according to Smart Cookie and Chancellor Puddinghead, all right with living with the other two races, so long as they didn't get discrimination on a large basis, something Oryx and I would go to great lengths to ensure.

It took some improvising, but I was able to get the challenge to the pegasus ears, and was waiting just below the clouds where the pegasai lived, sitting crosslegged, awaiting for Hurricane and his guards to arrive. The day itself was cloudy, with some light snowfall. Needless to say, Oryx and i were on guard if more Windigoes appeared.

Anyway, it was a few hours past dawn when I heard the flapping of armored wings. I looked skyward, and saw Hurricane, Pansy, and three other pegasai flying my way. "I wondered if you'd show up," I said in a neutral tone.

"You're the thing that challenged me?" Hurricane asked. "What are you, some sort of deformed dirt eater?"

I scoffed. "No, I am not whatever that is," i said as I stood up to my full height, the heads of the pegasai equal with the middle of my torso at the tallest-Hurricane- and just above my waist at the lowest-Pansy. "So, do you accept my challenge?"

"I don't see how you think you can beat me," Hurricane said. "Why do you even want command of my army, anyway?"

"A general must have an army," I replied. "And from what I know, this is the only army in the area." Which means being the best and worst at the same time.

"Yeah, well," Hurricane said, taking his helmet off, "if you want it, you'll need to beat me."

"Which is why I challenged you," I said, retracting my own helmet, revealing my face, and noticing small looks of disgust from each of the pegasai but Hurricane. Can't really blame them, I suppose. "Winner has command over the pegasai army, and the loser becomes their second in command."

"Then prepare to take my orders," Hurricane said as he got into a fighting stance, hands in front of his body and hands open, while I just had my hands behind my back.

"Then make the first move," I said in an even, neutral tone.

"If you say so," the stallion said before spreading his wings, and flying towards me, attempting to punch my face, but I dodged the punch, and backhanded him into the ground.

"Is that all?" I asked. "I have went against rocks with more tactical thinking than you have."

The commander got up, spit some dirt that had gotten in his mouth out, and glared at me with hate. Given he's a pegasus, I'm not sure if he's acting, or this is real. Still, unless i ma sure, I will continue to act as if this is a real one. If he does intend to deviate from it, however, he will wish he hadn't.

"You insult me!?" he asked in an angry tone, near yelling. "I the great Commander Hurricane?!"

"More like Gentle Breeze, if that first attack in any indication," I said, still in the neutral tone. I chuckled inwardly at the expression of rage on his face.

"I'm gonna make sure you die painfully," he growled before taking off again, aiming for my chest.

I intentionally didn't dodge this one, and let my armor take the hit. He hit, and I heard the sound of bones breaking before I looked at where he had hit the armor, which hadn't even been dented. "You may wish to surrender, now."

"Not in your life," he said, punching with his other fist, which also broke.

I shook my head. "You are embarrassing yourself."

Hurricane brought both his broken hands down by his sides, and glared. "Before you think of headbutting me, you'd probably kill yourself, if not knock yourself out."

He held the glare at my emotionless face, and winked before mouthing, "Had to put on a believable show."

I gave a small smirk and a small nod before I backhanded him to my left. "If you won't surrender, then, I suppose I'll have to make you. And you do not want that."

"Please," Hurricane said, some blood coming out of his mouth. "If that was the worst you got, I can handle it."

Plainly, I replied, "No, you can't." I then walked over to him, grabbed him by the hair, and pulled him up. "If I wished, I could disintegrate you where you are now, both slowly and painfully, and quick and painless. Unless you want to surrender, and ensure your people live, by the way, which of them will you want?"

I winked to indicate I was just acting along and mouthed, "Now would be a good time to end. If this went further, I may actually kill you."

He nodded and, in a volume that was loud enough for the other pegasai to hear, "Fine, then. I surrender."

I nodded as I let him go. "Then you are to get medical attention as soon as possible, unless you wish to never use your fingers again."

He was about to reply before a pegasus behind us yelled, "You dishonorable-how can you call yourself a solider?"

I looked back, and, out of the pegasai that had come with Hurricane, one with black skin and gray hair and tail stepped towards us, anger in his eye and on his face. "Commander Hurricane is the greatest pegasus soldier."

"Therein lies why I was able to defeat him," I said. "I am not a pegasus. Hence, I am not bound by that scale."

He snarled at us. "You could not have beaten him, except by cheating with magic! I saw him hit you, and you didn't even flinch!"

I'm starting to get pissed off. "Did it ever occur to your tiny mind that my armor is simply more advanced than yours?"

"So, you admit you were cheating?"

I rolled my eyes as I put my helmet back on. "If you want to see me cheating, come and get me, then."

He smiled. "Then I can make sure the Commander keeps his honor." With that, he spread his wings, and charged at me.

I rolled my eyes again, and drew my Signet, and, once he was close enough, fired into his face, the entire shot hitting, making him disintegrate, him gone entirely just before his hooves touched me. I looked at the others form the entourage. "Anyone else his brand of stupid?" They shook their heads. "Okay, then. I'll let you take Hurricane to get medical attention, but in a week, I want every pegasus here on the ground." To their credit, the other pegasai took the order with some hostility-I did just initiate a hostile takeover and killed one of their comrades-but they didn't complain. Pansy came over, picked up Hurricane and, with a small trill of fear, looked at me before the two of them and the other pegasai took off towards their cloud city.

"Oryx," I said over a communication channel the two of us somehow had that we found out about last night, "the pegasai are good. You're up, my friend."

Author's Notes:

By fair, I meant the Didact wouldn't use his abilities. And before you complain to the armor, here's the reasoning:a real leader can adapt to anything.
Also, next chapter will have Oryx's part of the plan.