Colenso Rivers

Colenso watched helplessly as his whole squad volunteered but him, eyes shifting towards the ground. He would have like to have helped, but in such a enclosed space as they were scouting, magic such as his would do more harm that good. Intelligence outweighed his need to be with them, to make sure they were safe, and obedience overruled his worry about who they were going with as horrible it made him feel to admit. He gave a worried expression visibly as they walked forward away from him, and he had to bite his lip hard enough to make it leak blood to keep himself from stepping forward. In his mind, he was begging them not to leave, but as with most parts of his inner workings, it was held under lock and key. One thing apparent though, as he looked to the pony whom was taking them with her, the pony whom would throw any amount of ponies at a problem to solve it, seeing as they already lost a squad, he hated her. The amount of contempt in his heart was enough to scorch the world that was already dying. (Sorry, I wanted to post, but like explained here, there is not much Colenso could do at this point. Also why the post is so short)

The pony behind her flew back a few meters at the blast and recovered expertly, landing on it's hooves, it's gem shards heading into the space around it, sparking with magic as the unicorn figure rose into the air in magical concentration. The large figure began to sprint towards Twilight, it's heavy footfalls impacting the ground enough to shake it slightly. The red dot in the far window suddenly flashed and a large, winged, and covered in a sickly poison javelin shot from there, heading towards her at breakneck speeds. The remained silent, and showed no indication that they had any interest in what she was saying.

@@Ruby Splash, Out from an alley, after the attack but before she could leave, stepped out from the shadows of an alley. It was a hooded figure, the cloak it donned bearing the same grey glyphs that Amarok had used to dispel Twilight's magic before. Probably the reason why the figure wasn't dead. It was a large figure, big for a pony. Then, from behind her another hooded figure, smaller and with a horn. A multitude of gem shards with machine parts floating around it's form. They didn't speak. The larger one advanced, stepping forward with heavy footfalls, and a small dot of red light appeared in a window across the street as well. It could be told, these weren't hunters that took prisoners. This was a death unit. The intent to kill painted across a canvas of indistinguishable features and woven silence.

@@DwhitetheGamer,@@Ruby Splash, Regenerating in his spire of ice, he approved of them not killing the alicorn hunters, but believed the alicorn standing before him was much too naive. He adressed his other concerns, "First, you must understand that having her on any aspect of this goal is going to result in bloodshed, plain and simple. She will kill the hunters, along with anypony else she feels like killing, which is everypony." He gave her a pointed stare, "She will never be anything more than a murderer. If you believe anything otherwise then I don't know why I am having this dispute with a foal." He didn't care if he upset her, and chances were that this wouldn't, however he knew the truth of the horrid heart within her, "Second, I don't plan on doing what's best for me. I still serve the one true Equestria and if ponies are unable to find my power, they will stop killing and dying for it. So you can go search for answers that may not even exist, be my guest." He was pretty solid on his side of the dispute, seeing copper as a flailing yearling without any idea of what to do. "You better remain wary, you are teamed up with a monster."

After a while, not only had he realized that everypony else was crazy, but all of them were blank flanks, and he wasn't liking the attention he was getting for having a cutie mark. Eventually, he stopped outside of the town again and laid down, there was nopony helping him get any sense of direction, and so he would have to wait for the stars to navigate back home. What in the world was going on here? Whatever it was, he wanted nothing to do with it.

@@DwhitetheGamer, She hadn't lied about the other one, but he still didn't agree with what ever they wished to do. And the one telling him what to do made it even worse. Like they knew what was best for the world. What, bloodshed. Celestia and Luna would've seen to it if that truly was the way. And so to the demand of the Alicorn, he responded, "No. I will not come with you. She is a murderer, you are a murderer, and anypony else whom joins you to indiscriminately kill those whom hunt us will only make you even more of villains in the eyes of all pony kind. No thank you."

Rivers didn't know what to make of what was going down, and listened to them in absolute disbelief. They were crazy, they were all crazy, and he wouldn't be crazy with them, awkwardly saying, "I must go now." Heading away from the rest of them, he would find his way back alone he decided.

@@OmegaBeamOfficial, "Universe?" His eyes staying wide as he assessed her levels of crazy. Entirely he chose, entirely crazy, but he knew he still needed directions, and so he cleared his voice and regained his composure, "Um, no. I am definitely a pure born Equestrian, and am still definitely lost, so if you could tell me where it is that I am I would be truly grateful."

@@Ruby Splash, Before she, or her second beam could strike him, his body and horn became engulfed in a massive multi shard of ice. For this split moment, he believed her death magic would be able to hit him, or destroy enough of the ice to actually neutralize the attack, but the very next moment afterwards, he teleported and was suddenly heading towards the ground in the forest again. As he struck the ground, a huge towering mas of ice shards erupted form him and the ground. This was too unexpected, and so he remained in the ice, gathering his environment and bearings on the situation.

Last thing he had seen was a brilliant flash of light, a mistake, a slip up. An explosion in his lab, and in this mistake he had thought that this was in fact his end. He accepted that in that moment, he was the cause of his own death, but awakening now, safe? Outside of a small town, he didn't know what to make of it. Maybe it wasn't and explosion, maybe it was a wave that induced teleportation? Oh well, he now had to make the long journey back to his lab, and this led him to head towards the village. On his way he spotted three ponies conversing, and while it seemed intense, he dusted off his lab coat and approached, asking, "Would anypony here be so kind as to tell me where this exactly is. I had an embarrassing slipup in the lab and it induced teleportation, so I'm a tad lost." This last part he mentioned with a nervous blush. He noticed one lacked a cutie mark, he decided to quickly forget about it. Not having one at her age must've been a really sensitive subject for her.

@@Ruby Splash, As she went to touch his glyph he backed away and combat was being led into. As she took to the skies with a shield formed around her, the ice feathers of his wings grew, since he wasn't good in the air he needed extra support. As the circle of black magic forming around him and a beam coming from up front, he decided to take the singular beam head on. He pushed into the skies with great speed and the beam tore against his body. Given the power of an alicorn made glyph, it had merely numbed his body and given him minor bleeding cuts, but he flew through it, straight for her with all his might. Frost accumulating on his body. He hoped she still underestimated him. There was little sign in the heat of battle that this was anything more than a mid air tackle.

@@Ruby Splash, He had to stand up for himself. He wasn't going to follow this mad mare's path. Her saying it like it was going to happen placed an ember of fury in his heart. The moment she began to lift him, this fury grew, how dare she? He wasn't her toy or test subject. His unicorn magic kicked in to bump his alicorn power, using a disabling technique that covered his body with grey glyphs, dispelling the magic she was using on him and catching himself on his legs. "No, I think this is where our nonexistent partnership ends. I am ice, clear, cold, solid and sharp, piercing and harsh... Hostile against the weak and sheltered, and right now, you." Usually he didn't lose his composure this way, but behind his eyes a war he no knowledge of was being fought, and his pupils dilated with the hostility of one side.

Colenso awoke with a bittersweet feeling, eyes opening at the order of Twine as he obediently stood and began to get things ready. The dream was rather nice that night, but silence still overtook him. There were too many things to consider, was it prophecy just about to occur, history long past, happening across the world at that very moment? Or was it gibberish given to them by an outside force. The second or last option seemed most likely from what he had learned over the past couple days. Who were they, and what was their significance if they had any? Too many questions, and so he began to stretch before heading towards the tree. His uniform in order and satchel with him, since he wasn't a senior he headed out into the tree's until he felt he was safely distant from the camp before using his magic to pull branches off of the trees. He would eat at lunch, he wasn't rightly hungry at the moment, snapping the branches into smaller pieces.

@@Ruby Splash, He laid down, looking to the ground as she raised her shield. He fiddled with a small pebble in front of him, saying rather gently, "I don't plan on hurting you." Like always he remained calm and collected as he always appeared to be. What could she possible have left to say, to do? He could think of nothing. But then as he just felt to ignore her, she began speaking of her view on herself and thanking him for helping her see the "truth." He could see an emotion enter her eyes, one while familiar, he couldn't quite name. Too long was his distance maintained that he could no longer recognize pain felt by others. However, as distant as his soul remained, he still listened with open ears and eyes, eyes locked on her as she spoke. After she did he shifted slightly, making himself more comfortable before commenting, "I'm tired. And it sounds like you've decided your path. I will not stop you, but I will not help. Are the rocks and winds aligned either malignant or not, I don't think so, and with me in an eternal slumber at the bottom of the oceans, I will be just as they are.",Then closing his eyes and resting his head, "To be honest, changes happen, and I've been experiencing them as well, but with endless slumber comes no changes." Then mumbling, "All I ask is that you please stop threatening me."

@@Ruby Splash, He could feel the frost webs disconnect, crackle and fade from in front of him. He could not catch a break today it seemed, and he wasn't doing too hot on his energy reserves. He would have to be very careful, but the plan of care he was devising suddenly flew out of the window when a blast of energy tore through a large portion of the grassland. It was the alicorn, he could tell by the energy. He decided he might have upset her with his words, understandable. So he figured to try a different approach. Calling out in a softer tone, through the grass he asked, "Come here."

@@Ruby Splash, As he was no longer connected to the lake, he could no longer sense her revenge, but put up thin webs of frost between each blade of grass in the field, in order to sense incoming threats. He had not survived this long off of being careless, and the ocean was close enough that soon he wouldn't even have to try. The fact was he only seen this power as a key to a tower of death, corpses all vying for the power and immortality it grants. He wouldn't be a part of the contribution to the corpse pile. He wasn't visible through the grass, but evidence he was there could be seen. Dew gathered on the grass, sparkling from the sky.