Author's Notes:

I am so going to hell for writing this chapter.

If the title wasn't already enough indication, holy hell, this is going to gut anyone with a soul. Probably not as bad as that one Futurama episode with Fry's dog, but still...

Don't say I didn't warn you from this point on.

-The Destoyer

*The Crystal Empire, December 23, 2019; 4:19 PM*

Alex continued to struggle against the apparition of Yang he fought so hard against the past month or so, struggling to finally conquer his challenge.

"Alex, your death has been a Xiao Long Time coming!!!" The apparition yelled.

Alex growled in anger, building up a decently sized attack behind him.

"Is that so?!" Alex roared in fury, raising his right hand to his shadow-y opponent, the ball of electricity buzzing with intense power.

"THUNDERBURST!!!"

The ensuing blast decimated not only the shadowy copy of his ex-wife, but the room itself, the black magic surroundings eventually broke down, as Alex began to laugh crazily. The shadows seeping down from the walls settled around his feet.

"King Sombra... I broke your illusion... Hehehe.... Hahaha... HAHAHAHA!!!" Alex laughed.

Alex blew his way out of the room, back to the hallway, to where he had been living.

"Hm.. Disappointing, now that I lost my one training component... No matter... I'm ready for anything that pun-bitch can dish out!" Alex grinned to himself.

Alex quickly went to the bench, adding another 1000 pounds to each side, totaling in at about 4000 pounds, plus whatever the bar weighed.. Whatever it was made of, it was nigh invulnerable, as the bar stayed completely straight no matter what.

*Meanwhile*

Yang strolled into town, loading her Celestial Detonators.

Yang's wardrobe had changed quite a bit since her training with Raven began. She now wore a jet-black armor, emblazoned with her insignia at her right shoulder. The armor trailed down to her knees, similar to a trench coat.

"So... This is where you ended up... You probably won't come out yourself.. I'll have to draw you out.." Yang decided.

The Crystal Ponies looked at Yang in surprise. It was common knowledge in Equestria that Yang was among those who helped fight off the Inquisitors alongside Cadence and Shining Armor. Surely, Yang wasn't here for anything dangerous, right?

... Right..?

*Inside the Crystal Castle, 5 Minutes Later*

Alex suddenly heard frantic pounding above him. Focusing a dark magic pulse, he opened the gates to find a dense cloud of smoke covering his view.

"What the..?" Alex wondered.

"Alex.!!" Skirmish yelled.

Immediately, Alex flew upwards, trying to find out anything wrong.

"What is it? Did Shining burn his toast again?" Alex asked.

"We're under attack! Cadence and Shining are fighting.. Someone..!" Skirmish shouted.

Alex immediately realized who might be attacking.

Either Raven, or...

Alex froze in panic.. He hadn't expected her to actually be the one to kill him!

He ran out alongside Skirmish, only to see the once bustling city a near-desolate ruin.

Houses and business had erupted into flames as clumps of dead Crystal Pony laid still on he ground.

Alex quickly spotted a dense cloud of smoke. Balls of fire burst out, decimating the city.

Cadence flew up to Alex in fear.

"Alex.!! We can't hold her off much longer!!" Cadence told him.

The cloud grabbed Shining Armor by the neck, a prompt explosion followed, reducing the unicorn to ashes.

Eyes clouded with terror and grief, Cadence flew down towards the ash cloud before a fireball blew off her leg.

Skirmish leaped down, spear at her side, as she charged towards the cloud, only to have another shot blow her into the castle.

Yang leaped out, punching Skirmish in the neck, killing her instantly.

She seemingly teleported to her original spot, glaring down at her wounded victim.

'NOW LOOK AT THIS SONG, THAT I JUST FOUND!'

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZzSMhKoOt6I

With cold-hearted malice, the figure quickly finished off Princess Cadence with a simple step to her head.

"Well, now... That was disappointing." The hauntingly familiar voice grumbled.

"Grr... THAT DOES IT!!" Alex roared in anger, charging outside.

Clouds of ash intermittently blew past, revealing his former wife..

Yang.

"I knew you might be here, Alex. Isn't it so nice to see each other again, after so long?" Yang greeted in a mocking tone.

Alex didn't even bother with demanding a reason why.

He didn't care about why.

All he knew was his life was in danger.

Alex immediately transformed to his Evolved Warrior state, charging at Yang with his sword raised.

Yang blocked his sword, punching him in the face as hard as she could.

Growling in anger, Alex launched a one-handed barrage of Thunderburst attacks before leaping at Yang, roaring in fury as he kicked her in the side.

Yang leaped sideways, sharply turning around and punching him in the stomach.

Alex skidded to a halt, powering down to conserve energy.

"What..? She hasn't even transformed..!" Alex spat.

"Attacking me without so much as saying 'hi'. I guess it goes to show how much of a good husband you were." Yang mocked.

"HOW DARE YOU?!!" Alex screamed in rage, assaulting Yang with a barrage of hacks and slashes, further enhanced by his new powers.

Yang blocked his attacks with only her finger, smacking him with her metallic arm before disappearing.

Alex immediately darted around,trying to find where Yang was before he felt a sudden burst of pain on his back.

Yang spin-kicked him several feet before bashing him through a few dozen buildings, grabbing him by the foot and kicking him aside.

Alex skidded to a halt, panting in exhaustion.

'How?! Yang's stronger than I am and she's still in her base form!'

Yang grinned at him, cracking her knuckles.

"I'll go easy on you. As long as you give me everything you've got." Yang confidently told him.

Alex transformed to his Enlightened Berserker, launching himself at his former wife.

Yang blocked every attack Alex had to offer. No-selling every kick, punch, blast, and swing.

Alex leaped straight backwards, leaping to Yang at top speed, kneeing her in the chest as she laughed.

Alex ducked again to avoid Yang's next attack, and punched her in the temple as hard as he possibly could.

Yang had been fazed by his attack, a bit of blood trickling from her mouth. She wiped it away and glared at him.

"Not bad, but that can't be everything you have to offer." Yang grinned maliciously.

Alex laughed a bit himself, raising himself high above the ground.

"Really? If you want my full power, then don't move a muscle!" Alex roared back.

Alex charged his energy, putting everything he had into two electric balls he had. Dark Magic, spare energy, even drawing magic from the shield protecting the city from the outside world.

He eventually slammed his hands at his sides, letting the two glowing orbs of lightning condense into one.

Yang merely raised her hand at the attack, glaring at him in smug hatred.

"GOD SHOCKER!!!" Alex roared as the beam reached Yang.

The blast completely enveloped Yang...

And then split into two separate blasts at her hand, leaving her completely unharmed.

"WHAT!?" Alex gasped.

Yang smirked at him.

"Look. You've definitely gotten a bit stronger since we last met, but I'm past anything you have. Face it, Alex. You're completely, utterly, royally screwed this time around. The only difference is; nobody's here to save you now." Yang shrugged indifferently, adding insult to very, very near injury.

Alex gasped, glaring at Yang with sheer anger, and also a hint of fear.

Alex raised his hands, launching blast after blast at Yang.

"WHY..! WON'T...! YOU..! DIE?!!!" Alex screamed as he kept up the torrent of electric attacks.

Yang floated out of the blasts, entirely unaffected.

"Oh, Alex. Has this ever worked?"

Alex leaped backwards as Yang back-handed him, grabbing him by the neck before he reached top speed.

"Any last words?" Yang asked.

"J-Just f-four...SHOCK BREAKER!!" Alex coughed, placing his hand at Yang's stomach.

The shock blast was enough to level the rest of the city, but Yang was left unscathed, save for the mark at her stomach that burned through to her skin.

"What?!" Alex gasped.

"That. Was. five." Yang glared, throwing him into the ground and kneeing him in the stomach, causing him to power down to base form.

Yang threw him against the Crystal Castle so hard it destroyed two of four legs supporting the castle, causing the once shining tower to fall on top of him.

Floating over the ruined castle, Yang dug him out, glaring at him as she slammed him against a wall.

"Now, Alex... Let me show you some real power." Yang glared as she powered up all the way to her Inflamed Warrior.

"The... Hell?! " Alex coughed. Yang's power far overshadowed his, and by the looks of it, her power was continuing to rise.

Then, her glowing red skin faded to it's original hue as her hair darkened along with her Aura to a dark red. Yang still kept her... Aqua-colored eyes?

Alex then realized: Yang's eye color hadn't changed from aqua colored at all! Not since he last saw her at Helios Falls... And strangely enough, her eye color matched that new circlet she had...

Oh, shit.

"Now, Alex. How do you like my new form? At this point, I'm roughly equal to even the likes of Princess Celestia..! I call it the Inflamed Demigoddess. Now bow." Yang smirked.

Before Alex even had time to react, Yang punched him in the stomach.

Just as Alex coughed up blood, Yang hit him in the chest, breaking his ribs.

Yang pounded Alex's chest repeatedly as Alex found himself being punched almost through the crystal walls as he groaned in pain.

Yang then smacked him so hard the skin on his face started to rip off. And that was before she ripped out one of Alex's mechanical arms so he couldn't fight back as well, not that it would have counted.

Laughing as she continued beating the life out of him, Alex could only watch as his former wife kept bashing his ribs to dust and pried off another one of Alex's mechanical hands.

Yang eventually let up, glaring at him pitifully as he struggled to pull himself upwards.

"Look at you. You were able to defeat Alpha, then Cinder, then Arabus, Jäger, and even Lilith. Yet you still can't stand up against your own ex-wife??" Yang asked with a mocking grin.

"G-G-... Go.. To h-hell.." Alex barely managed to choke out.

"In due time.. Besides, ladies first." Yang continued, grabbing a small sliver of crystal and raising it above Alex's scarred eye.

"Now I know what you're thinking... 'Should I stab his eye out?' And the answer... might surprise you.." Alex winced as he realized what Yang was about to do.

The following has been censored by the Destoyer on the grounds that... Jesus Christ, did Yang really put out Alex's eye?!

Alex let out a pained scream as Yang sharply tore out the Crystal.

"You know what they say? 'If your the victim, keep the knife in. If you're the killer, take the knife out.'" Yang grinned, tossing the Crystal aside as she raised both fists, put all her power into them, and finally punched out his chest.

Alex, by now beyond simply being crushed and broken, could only let out a small whimper of pain as he curled to the ground, bleeding out of his chest, face, eye socket, and mouth.

Yang eventually powered down, casting a pitiful glance at him.

"Well. My work here is done. I only really give you about eight seconds to live, but you're still alive...ish... Now, where's that little Princess?" Yang demanded, referring to who Alex could only assume was Flurry Heart.

"No!!" Alex heard someone scream as his world faded to black.

*Meanwhile, Cade's POV*

Cade attacked Yang alongside Auburn and Natsu, leaving the rest to find Flurry Heart.

"Oh, great. Children." Yang spat.

"WHAT THE HELL IS UP WITH YOU?! WHY DID YOU ATTACK FAIRY TAIL?! YOU WERE ONE OF US!!" Natsu demanded with tears in his eyes.

Yang teleported in front of him, smacking him out of the Crystal Empire entirely.

"If you two are smart, you won't keep following me." Yang scowled, flying away.

"GET BACK HERE! WHAT DID YOU DO TO DAD, YOU DEPRAVED FUCK!" Cade shouted, enraged beyond words.

"Cade.." Auburn pointed to Alex, who, by this point, was seconds away from death.

"My god, Dad!" Cade ran to Alex's side along with Auburn.

The two hunters sat next to Alex, clearly scared of what had happened.

"Auburn, put as much of your Aura as possible into Dad! I'll worry about his arms!" Cade ordered, grabbing spare tools from his pockets.

Auburn placed her hand on Alex's chest, trying to heal him as fast as she could so Alex wouldn't die immediately.

Cade continued to tinker with Alex's arms, making new holes for screws to go in as he tried to repair his nearly dead father's limbs.

"Shit.. Auburn, did you see his eye?!" Cade gasped as soon as he looked.

Alex's eyes were closed, but there was a fresh wound in his eyelid, and the way it rested told him that the eye socket was quite literally hollow.

Auburn winced, a single tear dropping down from her cheek as she placed another hand to Alex's right eye.

"Cade?! Auburn?! We found Flurry-! Oh, no.." Oreonna gasped, the infant Flurry Heart still in her arms as Gray, Happy, Juvia, and Erza ran out with her.

"Where's Lucy?" Cade demanded as she returned with Natsu, who was himself pretty badly injured.

"Oh my...." Lucy immediately covered her eyes as she saw Alex at death's door.

"Holy..." Natsu gasped.

"How can anyone do this? Especially to someone they loved?!" Erza demanded.

Cade eventually got finished fixing Alex's arm, a relatively easy feat. His hand would be trickier.

"Gray, Juvia, remember where we left our things?" Cade asked.

"Yeah?" Gray asked.

"Get the Magic Mobiles. Hurry!" Cade ordered.

The two immediately ran off.

"Gray, I promise I won't do anything like this to you after we've married.." Juvia promised.

"OH, NOW YOU'RE JUST JUMPING THE GUN!" Gray screamed in response.

"What now? Where the hell do we go from here?!" Oreonna demanded.

"Ponyville." Cade replied.

"What?! Raven and Yang are definitely there by now!" Oreonna gasped.

"Ponyville's still standing, though. If we're discreet, we can get Flurry to Sunset and Starlight, and Ponyville honestly has some of the best doctors in that area. Plus, Vinyl can probably give him some new arms and legs." Cade explained.

"If we're discreet?! Cade, Yang would have literally killed Alex if we hadn't shown up the second we did! Once we get back to Ponyville, she'll probably impale us or something else really fucked up!"

"It's a risk I'm willing to take. They were only looking for Alex, and now that she thinks he's dead, Yang and Raven'll move on!" Cade retorted.

"HOW DO YOU KNOW IF YANG THINKS HE'S DEAD?!" Oreonna demanded.

Cade shivered.

He truly didn't know..

*Yang's subconscious; December 23, 2019; 4:59 PM*

Yang was sobbing loudly, curled into a ball on the ground crying her eyes out.

Chūkan himself was stunned. No matter how much Yang's personality resisted and outright fought the device, it still managed to not only defeat Alex, but seemingly kill him.

"Y-Yang... I..." Chūkan stumbled on his words, too lost to even speak.

How the hell do you comfort someone who was forced to watch as they killed someone they loved?

Chūkan pulled Yang up, and hugged her. If nothing else, he could at least wait until she finally tired out.

Yang kept crying onto Chūkan's shoulder. The once strong woman he respected and admired from Elysium, reduced to a sobbing mess.. For a really, really good reason..

"I... I killed him... I-I gouged out his eye... And k-killed him!!" Yang bawled.

"Look.. Cade and Auburn got there moments after... Y'know... There's still a chance he could've survived!" Chūkan stated.

"C-Chūkan... Even if I get out of this f-fucking thing... Even if Alex d-doesn't flat-out kill me for what I d-did... T-There's no way he'd l-let this go...." Yang choked out.

"Listen, Yang. You've been through even worse. Alex figured out what's going on, I know that for a fact! If I know my own brother, he can't hate you forever. Winchester, definitely. Cinder Fall, God yes! But his own wife? I'm not saying it won't be a mess, but.."

Yang sniffled, wiping her eyes.

"W-What makes you think he won't?!" Yang demanded.

Yang was... Right...

For everything good about Alex that Chūkan could list, he could also think of something bad. If it was one flaw that stuck out the past few years for him, it's that no matter what, he'll ruthlessly hunt down and kill whoever was responsible for hurting him..

The scariest part about that whole experience was the way Alex acted.

Sheer, uncontainable impulse. It was almost as if..

"Oh God, no..!" Chūkan gasped.

"What?!" Yang wondered.

"The Crystal Empire..! The massive amount of Dark Magic..! Alex was prepared, not with his strength, but with his mind! He used that door that leads to your worst fears!"

"I don't get it, why would...? N-No..."

It had been more than a month since the incident.. Who knows how long Alex has spent in that room, driving himself more and more insane?!

"Y-Yang... I'm so sorry..." Chūkan gasped.

*Canterlot Castle, Canterlot, Equestria; December 23, 2019; 7:09 PM*

"So, Princesses, have we reached an agreement?" Raven asked.

"Indeed. A list of every current leading Inheritor, along with addresses, possible offspring, and passes formally declaring immunity for you and your associates. These 'Furies' are highly dangerous, so I fully understand if you need everyone you can find." Luna stated.

"Raven, might I ask what you intend to do with such information?" Celestia asked.

Raven smiled at them, unsheathing her sword, the glimmering purple and black blade shining in the light of the sunset.

"Oh, Princesses. My true name isn't Raven Branwen. My true name.. Is CORVUS!" Corvus yelled launching herself directly at Princess Luna, stabbing her through the neck and hacking her head clean off.

"LUNA!!!" Celestia shouted, enraged, launching magic attack after magic attack at Corvus, enraged at what she had done.

"Before I kill you, and provide Equestria's citizens with the true means to evolve, I intend to do to them what I did to her." Corvus grinned sinisterly.

"You monster..! Why are you doing this?!" Celestia demanded, infuriated.

Corvus didn't grace Celestia's rage with a response.

"ANSWER ME!!!" Celestia commanded in her Royal Canterlot Voice.

Corvus transformed, stabbing Celestia in the neck the same way she killed Luna.

"So that the world may truly stand a chance... For what comes next." Corvus darkly replied, slicing Celestia in two.

Corvus powered down, spat on Luna's corpse, and walked away.

"And for the record. Even my own daughter could have killed you. So she's still more prepared than anyone else in this backwoods little hovel." Corvus scoffed.