MickeyAdaptus

The cultist stopped teleporting and quickly cast a barrier of his own, although this one looked more like an enveloping aura rather than a barrier. The attacks from Celestia and Luna that hit the barrier had an interesting effect with it, rather than hitting the barrier, the attacks got consumed by it, almost like the barrier was literally eating up the attacks. He then regenerated the burned parts of his body, and when he heard Celestia's remark, he gave a response. "Have it your way, Monarch." He said simply Instead of using words as a follow-up response, he did took some sort of stance, and looked like he was preparing for some sort of punch, he stood like that for a few seconds, which could indicate that he was trying to identify something, but then, he did something. MIERDA!!!!! Those words rang across the battlefield as it comes from his own voice, but these words sounded alot different than his normal voice like it was coming from something else. When he shouted those words, He then punched right in front of him, or so it would seem to everyone else, but in reality... He had fired some sort of shockwave from his fist, but it seemed to be almost invisible to the eye due to how transparent the colour of the attack was, and what made this attack terrifying, was not because it was invisible, but because it had no collision... It was like some sort of ghost attack, as it went through everything, even trough barriers and bodies, but there is one thing that it could hit, souls... That was the purpose of the attack. It flew towards Celestia with an impressive speed, and it passed right through her barrier, armour, flesh, blood and bones, it hit her inner soul like a bulldozer impact. The attack itself on impact was meant to unstabilize the connection between the soul and the body, causing not only intense pains from the insides but things like blackouts and the paralyzation of certain muscles/body parts. As this attack in a way interferes with how the brain gives out signals like when somebody moves their hands or close their eyes for example. This attack hit one of Celestia's lungs at high speed, and while it didn't disable the lung itself, it did cause some temporary malfunctions within her brain and body, but one thing was for certain, The cultist had held back when he did the attack. This attack at full power could kill someone from the inside out rather than how most attacks work, and was one of the most feared types of attacks that were utilized by the Blood Cult, as they used techniques where unknown by most, but where meant to deadly and lethal, rather then destructive and big in size. Only what was malfunctioning in her body was not known as of yet, as the effects were always different for each person, and the end result was never guaranteed when this attack was used, but it sure was effective. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Yeah, that was one heck of a beam I had to admit," Jack said with a laugh. But his face then turned serious again. "But that monster survived alright, I can confirm it, do have this weird feeling in the back of your mind that something is trying to analyze it? You might normally just brush it off that it is your own anxiety, but whenever that monster is near, this feeling seems to enter anyone's head, I had that same feeling at that tournament, and I am having it again." Jack explained.

He saw Celestia's attack heading towards him, as well as Luna's attacks, and he knew that he wouldn't be able to intercept all of those at the same time, so he quickly started to use a series of short ranged but fast teleportation in trying to dodge the attacks, because one thing was clear, this guy had very fast reaction senses. 'I have been thinking... Shouldn't we join in? I mean, i did say that i was to afraid to fight that monster, but now... I admit that i feel guilty with having to let Celestia and Luna fight all by themselves like that againts such an opponent.' Jack thought to Evelyn.

It had become silent for a moment, the wind of the desert still flowing as a background ambience. And the cultist was still lying in the crater, but after 10 seconds when their eyes would be locked on the crater again, the cultist was gone! Or that is what would have been believed since nobody had seen him move, whether, by teleportation or very fast and silent movement, he was now suddenly front of Celestia, his left-hand right near her chest plate. He seemed to still have the same injuries as when he was lying in the crater, he didn't take the time to regenerate himself. He grabbed Celestia's with his right hand, holding her head in place. "That was quite the attack... It caught me off-guard there. However..." The cultist spoke before enchasing his left fist with purple energy, and he then punched the place where her armour chest plate was HARD. "I am not one to be defeated, you will find out why because I am done playing games as well.." He said menacingly as he then opened his left hand and formed a purple ball of energy in his hand. The energy ball then detonated straight at the place where he had punched Celestia before, blowing her away far. Celestia's attack had damaged him alot, but one thing had been forgotten, during that attack he still had most of his energy left, which meant he was far from defeated, and while the attack had certainly had done alot of damage on him, it was not just his physical form that had gotten damaged, but his pride as well. "Yeah, i can imagine how fascinated you must be by this, i have seen some individuals perform this same feat of power in the past, aside from all those bad guys, my father was capable of doing this as well, granted i had only seen it once with my own eyes." Jack told Evelyn with a smile.

E-erm, hi Spike?

When he saw Luna's beam he stretched his out his fist, encasing it in purple energy, before negating Luna's beam by punching straight through it. "How laughable, did you really think tha-" He was however interrupted as suddenly he had heard Celestia's words behind him, and when he turned around, her beam hit him hard, catching him completely off-guard. There was a massive explosion as the beam detonated, and the entire ground shook for a moment. When the smoke cleared, there was a small crater, within there was laying the blood cult member, severely burned on almost every spot of his body, normally he would have been able to defend himself better, but here he had been caught off-guard. But the question remained, was he really out cold? "Judging by the amount of light that is coming from this magic, I can assure you that was Celestia, but I have to agree that it is quite a lot! Me telling her and Luna to be more on the battlefield really seems to have been a good call." Jack said with joy, as he knew they were strong, but he never imagined that they would go to this magnitude, while Celestia had shown it moments ago, Jack knew without a doubt that Luna would be capable of doing something on this level as well. Though he put his hand before his eyes to cover them when the explosion happenend. "Ok, that is a bit too bright!"

"I see, so you 2 choose the path of resistance? So be it, but I wouldn't expect much resistance to come out of this, so far it has been rather easy for my associate." He said as he lowered his hand. "But no matter, because all the words that are coming from both of you will be rendered insignificant once they arrive, only none of you are able to comprehend WHAT will arrive." "Come" He then said, simply indicating for them to attack, in which he seemed rather confident of winning this battle. Tough for the fact that he couldn't be killed didn't mean he was invulnerable, because it all comes down to the fact of how much of his powers would be left, if he would be out of powers and would be damaged to the point where his regeneration would no longer work, it would result in his defeat, but something like that was obviously not easy. 'P-plan? I... Don't know what to do againts that guy, not to mention, how did he even escape? He was trapped inside my artefact! I guess... He was too strong for the seal to hold him back any longer... Not to mention, you guys said it was too dangerous for me to be there during the fight at first, but now you want me to there when an enemy times 10 more dangerous then a puny convoy is happened to be there?! I hate to say this Evelyn, but he is going to kill me with ease if just as much show my face there.' Jack thought to her with horror. 'I know I said that I didn't want to die a cowards death, but you know that beings from his alliance don't just kill, they just sacrifice your own soul to their master, and then it won't be an afterlife that I would be sent to, but rather... Whatever it is.'

"I have been dead for centuries, but for you flesh creatures the definition of death is different than ours, as all of us have lost our lives the moment we saw the truth." He replied vaguely. "And now..." He said coldly as he pointed 2 fingers of his right paw at the shield, and then fired some sort of blast, but this blast appeared to be very weak as it was intended to see how strong Luna's magical shield would be. "But to terminate all of you would be unbeneficial to our cause, so I will offer an ultimatum. I will allow the 2 of you to choose which ones get to survive, will you choose for the group that you have been protecting, a bunch of people that you haven't known for long? Or will you choose for your close friends that are currently on your homeworld, Shining Armour, Twilight Sparkle, Mi Amore Cadenza, and a bunch of other figures? Wich group will get to live? You can make that choice right here and now because I can assure you..." "That we are capable of eliminating our targets without much resistance, being immobilized or otherwise. Refusal in any of these 2 options will result in both groups being targeted, so choose wisely Monarchs, because this choice will define the lives of thousands.." He said with an even colder undertone as his voice was being projected through his powers. Jack saw Evelyn flying back to them. 'Evelyn, what is going on? Why aren't Celestia and Luna with you?' He thought of her.

And the skeleton tricked everypony into worshipping fidget spinners.

At first, there was no response, but about an eerie silence of 2 minutes, a response came, and a familiar voice was only heard back in the city. "You should save your thanks, Weakly minded mammal. By the actions of a blue lizard, a meddling boy and his toy, and a traitor who runs his mouth, we have been forced to take matters into our own hands. 5 worlds will be subjected to the matter of termination, and all witnesses must be expunged..." A voice came from the person. Then the smoke cleared, and it revealed someone familiar, the member of that tournament, the blood cult member had escaped the artefact only minutes ago. He was staring at the trio with an empty gaze, even though he had no eyes, nose or mouth, it could be almost felt from just the air around them that there was a burning anger inside the person, but at the same time the clenched fist gave it away at the same time. "Tell me, Duo monarchs, was it all worth it? I hope it was. because your entire race will be subjected to our coming feast.."

The soldiers tried to shoot to devide their numbers as some of them where shooting still at Luna's barrier while the others where trying to shoot at Evelyn, including the 2 soldiers with rocket launchers, tough these rockets launchers had no lock on feature, so thus it would be easy for her to dodge the rockets, but they still tried to hit her regardless. Although during all this, something happenend, most of the soldiers that were trying to attack the trio got countless of small purple shards impaled through their bodies, and then, the shards denotated, all of the impaled soldiers exploded from within. The remaining soldiers had gotten into disarray, as they tried to locate the unknown attacker, and then they suddenly saw something, behind the convoy was a purple smoke, and there was standing a figure in the middle of it, only a dark brown and disturbing looking paw was visible outside of the smoke, one of its fingers pointing at the remaining soldiers. It created some sort of magical glass plain, before shattering it, and millions of minuscule shards shot out towards the remaining soldiers, as sharp as a master crafted blade, the shards tore the remaining soldiers into nothing more than heaps of blood, as they where in theory hit by a wind of tiny blades, which where so many that the overall attack was larger than the height of such a soldier. As the weapons fell to the ground now that their owners were dead, the hand returned back into the smoke, but the person was still there, and only the silhouette of the person could be seen through the smoke, in where the person was standing still like a statue.

Dear Princess Celestia, I created a massive time paradox with another failed spell of mine, and it is now destroying reality as I write this, my time machine spell has really messed things up. As usual, I and the girls will try to get out of here as fast as I can so you can stop relying on me to fix all of Equestria's problems fix this situation. Your generic human in Equestria fanfic character star pupil Anon Twilight Sparkle Ps, please don't check your cake supply, it um... I ate all the cake Blueblood stole everything inside and ran off with it!

I ate the last cookie...

The convoy halted when they suddenly saw the 3 individuals approaching. But of course they couldn't talk back, the normal soldiers where semi-sentient and just like the infected they could only make animal-like noises, but the closes the 3 would get to a response was one of the soldiers pointing its paw at their enemies. And then they started attacking, around 20 with rifles, tough 2 of them had rocket launchers, which was always a smart thing to have if your convoy would ever get attacked by vehicles. It was pretty much the case that this convey seemed to favour ranged attacks instead of melee ones as there were no regular infected guarding the convoy, though there were still 2 creatures in both of the containers. But all the while this was happening, something was emerging from Jack's artefact, it was a purple type of energy that was subtly manifesting somewhere behind the convoy, all without anyone noticing it flowing, as the only thing could be noticed was a weird feeling in everyone's head, but it was subtle.

"Thank you Luna, i really mean it. I really owe you." Jack told Luna with a smile. Edgar looked blinked for a moment. "I am surprised you would choose me out of all the people to protect him though, I am not the one you would want to choose due to my poor fighting skills. Tough I am going to do it regardless, just don't stay away for too long." Edgar admitted, "Because he might even be the one who needs to protect me." He joked. He then heard Celestia talking to herself. "Well, the way her mane flows, I wouldn't question if it would be an Aurora, but rather how it even keeps flowing like that in the first place, though it still looks beautiful," Edgar muttered, in which Jack couldn't help but stiff a giggle at what Celestia was saying. He then looked at Evelyn. "Goodluck to the 3 of you as well, please be carefull tough, just because you guys worry about my safety doesn't mean you shouldn't worry about your own as well, because even a meager convoy that you guys are going to attack could be rather deadly." Jack said to her. "Please do your best, i am counting on you to fight twice as hard in this one now that i am absent." He told her with a smile.

Jack thought for a moment, as he was conflicted with his feelings. "Listen... I am willing to sit this one out, but I want you to promise me something if by any chance things at Cyril are getting too desperate for Me, Festus and Evelyn, then I want you to send the strongest forces that you can find and send them to Cyril to liberate it. And I am not talking about just 1 or 2 people, I am talking about a REAL army, thousands, millions if capable, because if they happen to have things there that the 3 of us couldn't handle, then we need all the help we can get. Alot of help..." Jack said as he stared at Luna with mixed emotions. "As long as that tower in Cyril still stands, I will never be able to rest. No excuses for why some won't be able to help, no excuses in its entirety, Ask Ember for aid, ask Thorax heck, even ask Chrysalis! Ask for their aid and their armies, because should things happen to the 3 of us and said help won't come, then we would DIE." Jack said as he had determination in his eyes. "I know I may be stubborn, but I am looking out for all those who aren't having the same luxuries as we, have if you can promise me that Luna, then I will sit this one out. Because before I die, I want to see that tower destroyed, and know that atleast that planet has managed to be free one way or another..:" Jack said he held his paw up, which he would shake if Luna would promise.

The corpse stared at what was Treasured was doing for a moment. 'Yes... This might be my chance to escape, I have to time this right, I don't know what type of spell he is going to use, but I rather do not want to find out, who knows how much more this body can endure...' She thought with concern. It was then when Treasured fired his spell that the corpse went into action. 'This had better work!' She thought. She grabbed a nearby rat and used an illusion spell on it, making it look exactly like her but this illusion had an effect on it, it was like a physical ragdoll that looked like her. It was then the moment that she set the ragdoll illusion right before and used it as a shield, but to make it more believable, when the crystal spikes hit the ragdoll, she faked a screaming sound from her mouth. Using this opportunity she then very quietly trotted away, and made her way to the surface of the Canterlot city, using a spare cloak she had carried with her before she had died and used it to conceal her appearance from everypony as she walked through the crowds. 'He is too powerful for me to fight head-on, I can't beat him in my current state, my best course of action is to get out of here, far away from anypony.' She thought as she blended into the crowd, having managed to escape. 'I only wonder if he will fall for the trick and how long it might take him to figure out. In any case, I was very lucky there, as handy as my powers may be, they are very unpredictable and unstable..' She thought. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Leave me behind? I am going to die soon anyway, there no longer is a consequence of what I do, it happens earlier or later, it's going to happen eventually, so why should I sit back and just wait before I will be laying in some dusty coffin? Heck, for all I know I might turn sooner than expected, and then I am a goner either way. We have to face it, I have become expendable." Jack said with disbelief. "When hasn't there been a time where I haven't done something very dangerous in which I could have been killed easily, every battle I have fought up until this point was with the case that I have considered myself to be expendable in any way, I have always fought for the sake of helping others." "But you know? I could even just walk to Valtrek and try to fight him without much fear for my own life, that is how it feels to be infected, why shouldn't I just do some heroic sacrifice and give my death a purpose? That is how much value my life is, it has nothing of value if I am going to meet the same fate regardless of what I do." Jack said with a grimace. "I care for all of you more then you can imagine, but what use am I going to be like this? Just sit out everything and wait until sweet merciful death comes to claim me? If I wasn't infected, I wouldn't be feeling like this. If i am going to die, i atleast not die a cowards death, i sure know some that would agree with that."

Sint Nicolas, This one is like a second Christmas if you think about it. As far as I know, this is only being celebrated in the Netherlands and Belgium. It is being celebrated around 1 December to 6 December.

The mare growled when her throat was cut, and it made her flinch because she was still impaled, but when she looked again she saw that Treasured was preparing something with his horn, the dimly glow gave it away. Making a quick decision, she used her powers to propel herself a good distance away from Treasured and escape from the Impalement. 'It is a good thing he should still be blinded, but it would be a foolish action to rely on just that, the effect could expire earlier than normal, so I hope my plan is going to work, I will only get one shot at this.' She thought bitterly. The corpse stood ready, waiting for Treasured to use his spell. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I don't know anyone sadly, and Luna, you mentioned earlier that it couldn't be you either. Perhaps for this one time, I will push myself further then before, and see if I am as strong as some claim to be." Jack admitted. "It isn't the first time i have done such things, as i have been taught to push myself if i am in the direst of situations, perhaps this time i might be able see who i really am."

The mare hadn't managed to react in time as the wing had ended up impaling her. She let out a scream and then her body was no longer moving, hanging motionless on the blade part. However... The mares head suddenly shot up and she shot 2 transparent 2 beams from her eyes straight into Treasured's eyes, blind him temporarily. It was a similar situation like when Shining Armour had impaled her with one his magic attacks, and that had given her the idea to use this trick on Treasured since he, of course, didn't know about her bodies properties. She then let one of the once recreated crystals grow a sharp blade crystal like blade grow from her hoof. "I am not the one dying here today, you will figure out soon enough why." She said coldly as she slashed across Treasured's face with the crystal blade. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "N-no, I can do this, I have fought with injuries worse than these. Since I am infected I might as well use this virus to an advantage in battle, last time I barely felt any pain!" Jack retorted back as he tried to stand up, as his stubbornness was showing again, it was obvious that Jack was a person would set all of his own well being aside if he felt like that he would have to fight.

The corpse blinked for a moment when before she glared at Treasured with anger in her eyes. "You... After crystalising almost my entire body only to follow up with some sort of time suspension, did you really think I would join up with you? If it was meant as a means of intimidation, it wasn't quite as successful as you hoped to be." She said with anger. She then looked him straight in the eyes. "Because i am done playing games with you, this ends now." It was then that her sudden anger was drawing forth her internal powers, but it was not the unicorn powers, but the other powers that were inside of her, the anger was causing it to rise up in her body like a spiritual flame, a faint but purple aura started to surround her entire body. What happenend next was something you would not expect, instead of attempting to break the crystals that were making her stand still on the ground, it instead started to reshape, and they changed from the crystal material to something akin to her flesh and became almost like a second layer. While the chains that had connected her hooves together where now gone, due to Treasured's crystal spell, which had somewhat worked in her favour in the end. But she was not done, the only crystals that weren't changing were the one on her horn due to the magic inhibitor, but she wouldn't let it hinder her any longer. "You can continue to rely on your little toothpick, but I have already outgrown mine..." She said coldly as she grasped her horn with one hoof, and yanked it off with relative ease since it had become mostly crystal. "You can have mine." She said as she threw her now detachment horn straight before Treasured's hooves. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I will definitely join as well, I might not be able to stand but I can still shoot with weapons from a distance, tough my magic might be a bit out of the question since it will drain me rather fast. What do you prefer Evelyn, shall we fight together like usual where I sit on your back or you do prefer to fight without me near you this time? If you prefer to do the second option I can always just lay down on one of the sand hills and shoot from there?" Jack asked Evelyn, tough he smiled with how Evelyn reacted on the situation. "Well... I am not really a fighter, even though I could somewhat handle myself in battle, it is by no means meant for outright attacks but more as self-defence. Besides, my wife would be furious if I where to get hurt badly. Can't take any chances you know? I rather stay with the others, protect them if need be." Edgar said with a nervous chuckle.

Thanks, i hope as well, it was pretty sudden how it fell on my toe.

It still hurts, and the wound is still there but its luckily not broken, tough I am going to having trouble moving my toe for a while.

Sorry that I am late everypony, I had a bit of a day, everything went well until a big wooden log dropped on my big toe It hurt alot, to say the least. Anyway, how has everypony's day been :3?