//------------------------------// // Episode 2: Rise of the Fire Alicorn (Part 2) // Story: My Little Pony: The Mobian Era (Season 4) // by Mister E-Nonymous //------------------------------// Episode 2: Rise of the Fire Alicorn (Part 2) 25 years in the future of an alternate timeline, more appropriately, the timeline where Silver, Sunny, Hitch, Pipp, Zipp and Izzy came from, the Windigos were just being taken down by the magic of the Unity Crystals, being held by MC's alternate timeline counterpart. One of the unicorn fillies who were causing a fight walked away from the group of ponies. Once she was out of sighed, she then changed into Opaline, who laugh evilly. "My plan to take down the last Freedom Fighter has gone on perfectly!" Opaline said. She then looked out among the ponies. "Oh, Michael Crayton, you so called King of Equestria, you just lost your faithful followers." Once the Windigos were stopped, MC looked down at the ponies with a proud smile. But it soon faded when everypony in Ponyville kept arguing. "No! Stop!" MC shouted. Opaline laughed evilly and said, "Goodbye, Michael Crayton!" She then fired a beam at the bottom of the Castle of Friendship, causing it to start breaking apart from under MC. MC looked down and saw the Castle cracking. He then shouted, "NO!!" The Castle then started crumbling from under MC, him falling and screaming all the way down. Opaline then started walking away and said, "So much for him trying to stop me." She then started flying away, but magic then started glitching and kept her from flying. "What?!" She then inspected her wings. Then she looked up at her horn, trying to light it up, but to no avail. "No. NO, NO, NOOO!" "What have you done?!" came a voice disguised by a vocoder. Opaline turned around and saw Iron Mask coming out of a time portal. "You shouldn't have done that!" "Who are you?" Opaline asked. "Doesn't matter!" Iron Mask answered. "But for your punishment, I will banish you and your lair to an alternate timeline where all the Freedom Fighters are still alive, and will take you down!" Iron Mask then raised her right hand, blasting a time sphere towards Opaline, her getting caught in it. "NOOOOOOOOO!" Opaline shouted before she disappeared. Iron Mask then turned around to look at the rubble that used to be the Castle of Friendship. Iron Mask then took off her mask, revealing Sarah Crayton. She then said, "Michael. It's okay. You can set things right once again in this timeline. I just know it." She was then starting to walk away when she stepped on something. She looked down to look at it. Sarah Crayton picked it up and inspected it. She then said, "Nope. I better not let anyone find this. I better find a location to hide this so it doesn't cause any trouble." She then started walking away from that spot. Back in the Present of the main timeline, Opaline was standing tall amongst everyone who was attending the graduation party for the School of Friendship. "Opaline!" Luna said. "What are you doing here?!" "We thought we've seen the last of you since you were banished from Skyros for trying to take all the magic for yourself," Celestia said. "Whoa, whoa, whoa," MC said, getting in front of the two Alicorn Sisters. "You know this wicked witch?" "Opaline Arcana," Luna said. "One of the worst Alicorns we've encountered. She was even more wicked than me when I was Nightmare Moon." "Wicked, am I?" Opaline asked. "Was I wicked when I asked to be friends when the three of us were fillies?" "WHAT?!" Twilight asked. MC sniffed and said, "She's lying." Opaline gave a shocked look. "She hasn't asked to be friends with Celestia and Luna." He then looked towards Celestia and Luna. "Let me guess, she was a snobbish brat, wasn't she?" "The exact reason why the ponies who are pure of heart and true to themselves are chosen to be alicorns," Celestia said. "Opaline stole magic from every other Alicorn in Skyros for her own selfish needs. We had no choice but to use Grogar's Bewitching Bell to steal back all of the Alicorn Magic she had stolen. But it was already too late for the other Alicorns in Skyros." "For Opaline had already taken their lives during her power hungry raid," Luna said. "The only Alicorn Magic she had left was the magic that she had. So we cancelled her magic and banished her to the deepest parts of Tartarus where nothing could escape from. And Grogar's Bewitching Bell, we've placed it in a cave on top of Mount Everhoof and made a barrier at the cave entrance so no greedy villain would take the magic for themselves." "Well, that explains why I turned into an alicorn," Cozy Glow said. "That magic is mine by right!" Opaline shouted. "And if I can't have magic, then nopony can!" She then fired a beam straight at Twilight, who was shocked as the blast was coming right towards her. But then Celestia, Luna, Cadance and Shining Armor came in, their horns glowing, and created a barrier to stop Opaline's attack. "What?! Impossible!" "You shall not lay a hand on my best student," Celestia said. "Freedom Fighters!" MC said. "Let's take her down!" Then the Freedom Fighters started charging towards Opaline. Along with Midpoint and Olive. "Oh, fifteen Mobian heroes against poor ol' me," Opaline said in a mocking tone. "Who's gonna win? Oh, I know!" Her horn then started lighting up. "It's me!!" She then sent out a shockwave, sending all of the heroes back. "Okay, that hurt," Sonic said. "She's so powerful!" Sally said. Midpoint then pulled out a trick arrow, brought it to his bow, aimed at Opaline, and released. Opaline caught it with her hand. She then said, "Seriously? Did you honestly think that you'd be able to stop me with..." The arrow then exploded, sending her back to the other side of the room. All the ponies there, were running for the door. Spike jumped out of the way as Opaline crashed into the Turntables. "They always fall for that," Midpoint said. Opaline then recovered with a roar and said, "How dare you make a fool out of me?! OPALINE ARCANA!!" She then charged at the heroes, her horn glowing. Sunny then came up flying in her Alicorn form and fired a beam at Opaline's incoming beam, cancelling each other's out. "So, you're the newest Alicorn in this time." "Even though I'm from a different timeline, I'm still not gonna let you destroy what my father and I believed in," Sunny said. "Alright, Sunny!" Pipp called out. "Get her!" Hitch called out. The other adult Alicorns came flying up and helping Sunny fight off Opaline. Opaline roared at the fact that she was outnumbered in Alicorn firepower. "How dare you make a fool out of me!" Opaline shouted. Just then, she saw MC climbing the walls behind the five Alicorns that she was fighting. MC then jumped from the wall and dove straight towards Opaline. "WHAT?!" "Chaos... Dragon... FIST!!" MC shouted before using his left fist to punch Opaline to the ground, the sound of a dragon roaring coming as the collision happened. "Ooooh!" the other Freedom Fighters, Midpoint and Olive said in unison. "That's gotta hurt," Spike said. Opaline then started getting up from that last blow she took. She then said, "You foolish beasts! None of you are worthy of ruling this world! I shall take you all down, right here and now!" She then fired a blast at the heroes, but MC got in front of them. "Chaos... Circle!" MC said, moving his hands in a circle with a golden aura circle coming out of his hands, his voice echoing when he said "Circle". The Chaos Circle absorbed Opaline's attack and started bouncing around the circle. "What?!" Opaline asked shocked. "NOOO!" "Eat this, you wicked witch!" MC said. He then jumped up, let go of the Chaos Circle, and kicked it right towards Opaline, sending her back towards the wall where the Turntables were. Opaline collided with the wall with a loud grunt. Opaline looked up at the heroes coming towards her, all with angry expressions. Sonic then said, "You know, this would be a good time to surrender." Opaline then growled and shouted, "NEVER!!" She used the Royal Canterlot Voice to send all the heroes back. Opaline then stood up and said, "None of you can ever stop me, Opaline Arcana!" "Do you ever stop talking?!" MC asked, angrily. Opaline then got up and teleported away. The heroes looked around. Sonic then said, "Where'd she go?" "I'll find her," MC said. His eyes then started glowing in a golden aura. He searched all over the planet for Opaline. But then he saw her at the Treehouse of Harmony. "Oh, no!" MC said, his eyes going back to normal. He then pulled out his Super Warp Ring and threw it, opening a portal to the Castle of the Two Sisters. They saw Opaline climbing the steps. "Opaline!" Twilight shouted. "That's as far as you go!" Opaline laughed at that, turned around and said, "Oh, Twilight Sparkle. You don't understand." She then gave a dark smirk. "Magic never belonged to any of you." Her horn then started lighting up, and her magic was surrounding the Treehouse of Harmony. Then, all of a sudden, magic started being drained from the ponies and other magical creatures of Equestria. Even Truemen's magical robot arm was being affected. "No!" Truemen said. "Not my arm!" "Magic... is mine," Opaline said, smirking. Magic from all over the world was being drained from every magical being and artifact and heading towards the Treehouse of Harmony, which then started glowing dark purple. The pony heroes started getting weaker. "She's... draining our magic," Twilight said. "My arm isn't working anymore," Truemen said as his robot arm was just drooping. Sonic looked towards Opaline and shouted, "What have you done?!" "You still don't get it," Opaline said. "Alicorns are so powerful, we should be ruling the whole world with an iron fist. But no, you all decided that peace and harmony were the way to go! Well, that changes now!" She then fired a blast towards Sonic who sped out of the way. "Magic is getting drained!" Sally said. "What do we do?" "We go all out with whatever we got left!" MC said. He then notice Truemen trying to reactivate his robot arm, but to no avail. MC then walked up to him and said, "Stand down, Truemen. We got this." MC then started charging towards Opaline, along with Sonic and Maria. "So the three fasted Freedom Fighters want to take a shot at me?!" Opaline asked. She then cackled. "You can't even touch me!" She then created a barrier around the Treehouse of Harmony, blocking the three from getting near Opaline. "Ow!" Maria said. "She's trying to block us out!" Sonic said. "We can't get through." "If we can't go over, around or through it..." MC said. He then grabbed Sonic and Maria and rushed away from the barrier. He brought the two hedgehogs to the root of the Treehouse of Harmony and started going up. "Then we'll just go under it!" MC let go of Sonic and Maria as they started speeding up the Tree as well. "Chaos Claw!" MC then used his claws to dig through the bottom. Eventually, he dug through and the three of them got inside the barrier. "What?!" Opaline asked. "How?!" "We might not be able to get through, but we could come in from below!" Sonic said. "Alright, Maria. Time to go for a spin!" He then grabbed Maria's right arm while MC grabbed Sonic's legs. He then started spinning around like he was about to do the Hammer Throw in the Olympics. He then threw the two hedgehogs as they were doing spin dash, and they collided with Opaline, sending her back and colliding with the wall above the door. MC then rushed in, grabbed Opaline, and threw her towards the barrier. As soon as her horn collided with the barrier, the barrier dissipated and magic returned to every magical creature and artifact in the world. "No!" Opaline said after noticing all the magic was returning to where it was being taken from. She was then grabbed in Celestia's magic and was lifted into the air. Then Luna used her magic to chain up Opaline's arms, legs and wings. "It's over, Opaline," Celestia said. "You shouldn't have come back!" "Nrr! You shouldn't have betrayed what should have been!" Opaline shouted. She then broke out of the hold and fired a beam towards Celestia and Luna. But the beam was intercepted by blasts from Sunny and Truemen, who's robot arm was active again. "Not today!" Truemen said. "You fools!" Opaline said. "Especially you, Sunny Starscout! You're not worthy of being an alicorn!" She then used more power from her horn to push Sunny and Truemen back. But they were being pushed forward by Hitch, Izzy, Pipp and Zipp. "We got your back, Sunny!" Izzy said. "You got this!" Zipp said. Sunny smiled at that. Then she started getting more powerful in her magic. Twilight, Celestia, Luna, Cadance and MC also came in, firing blasts towards Opaline, helping Sunny and Truemen win the magical blast fight. "NOOOO!!" Opaline said as the blasts collided with her horn. She landed on the ground in pain. "You... are all... beasts!" She then stood up angrily. "I will not surrender to any of you!" She then fired another blast to the group. "Chaos... SHIELD!" MC shouted, the second word echoing as his golden aura shield blocking Opaline's magical blast. He wasn't even moving from his spot. "How are you so heavy?!" Opaline asked. "It's called Self Density Manipulation!" MC said. "I can be as light as a feather or as heavy as a mountain!" "Oh, I should've killed you a lot sooner than that future when I brought that Castle down from under your feet," Opaline said. That comment made MC go wide eyed. He then remembered when his alternate future self falling from the crumbling castle. The flashback ended and he got angry. He then asked, "That was you? You made the ponies argue with each other in that future?" "You're such a fool, Michael Crayton," Opaline said. "You and your father. And his father. And every single male member of your family through the generations." MC then got angry. But then a new voice came in. "Oi, laddie! Ya gonna let 'er get under yer skin like that?!" MC looked over towards the voice and he saw the Six Pillars standing there. He then said, "You knew about this witch as well?" "We were the ones who held her back while Princesses Celestia and Luna were preparing the spell to seal her in the deepest parts of Tartarus," Star Swirl said. "We can seal her up again. This time, in her own lair where she can never ever escape from." "So what you're saying is if we banish her back to her lair..." Twilight said. "Then she can never escape from it ever again," Sonic said. "Freedom Fighters, keep Opaline busy!" MC said. He then looked towards Midpoint. "Lynol, keep her grounded." "Roger that," Midpoint said. He then grabbed another trick arrow from his quiver and attached it to his bow. He then launched it at Opaline. The arrow collided and tied down Opaline's wings, but her arms didn't get tied up. "Raaagh!" Opaline said. "Freedom Fighters Forever!" MC called out. "Freedom Fighters Forever!" the Freedom Fighters all shouted as they ran towards Opaline. The Freedom Fighters were doing their best to fight off Opaline, but she kept fighting back and trying to get out of the restraints holding her wings closed. "Not gonna happen, Opaline," Midpoint said. "Titanium chords. It'll take you a while for you to break out of those." "I'm gonna kill you first!" Opaline said. She then fired a beam from her horn and hit Midpoint, but it pushed him back to hit a tree. But he received neither interior nor exterior pain. "What?!" "It's called unbreakable skin," Midpoint said. "My grandfather thought of that while he was saving me at his cabin-slash-secret lab the last time we went camping. What made me the way I am was based on Project: PHOENIX, AKA, Maria Robotnik the Hedgehog." "If I can't kill you from the outside, then I'll do it from the inside!" Opaline said. She was then kicked in the face by Olive, sending the Alicorn down to the ground. "Not gonna happen," Olive said. Opaline then tried hitting Olive in the face after getting back up, but Olive ducked and countered her with a sweep kick. But then she was grabbed in the back by Bunnie's extending robot arm and pulled back. Mutt then tied her legs down with his Elemental Whip as Bunnie let go of Opaline. Antoine then jumped and kicked Opaline in the stomach, knocking her down to the ground. Then tasers were launched at Opaline by a device used by Tails. Then Opaline's limbs were shackled in tree roots from MC's power. "How dare you?!" Opaline asked. "It's a matter of Matter," MC said. "You're done." Opaline growled and shouted, "NEVER!!" She was then burning through the roots with pink flames. "You can never stop me! I am the Alicorn of Fire! I will burn you all!" Just then, she was hit by some arrows that released ice from the tips, cooling her off. "Cool off!" Midpoint said, readying another ice arrow. He then released it. As Midpoint released the arrow, the Mane 6, Sunny and her friends and the Six Pillars were nearly completed with the spell to send Opaline back to her lair, and keep her trapped there. "Alright," Star Swirl said. "It's done." "Then let's do it!" Twilight said. Then the three groups got together as Twilight started flying into the air. The three groups started glowing in a bright white light. They then released rainbow beams towards Twilight. That caught Opaline's attention. "No!" Opaline said. "Opaline, as High Princess of Equestria, I banish you back to your lair where you can never ever leave again!" Twilight said. She then released the power she had and a Rainbow beam headed straight for Opaline, surrounding her. "No!" Opaline shouted. She then fired a beam towards Twilight, but the Rainbow Beam prevented it from hitting. "No! My power! This isn't over!" She then saw a portal opening up from under her, Opaline widened her eyes in fear. "NOOOOOOO!!" Opaline was sent through the portal, it closing right as she went through. The Freedom Fighters stopped and continued standing in battle position until Opaline was fully banished. "Is it over?" Sonic asked. "Is she gone?" "For now," MC said before he turned to faced the Castle of the Two Sisters and started walking towards it. "Villains like that always come back." Meanwhile, in Opaline's lair, Misty was sitting in Opaline's throne, board out of her mind. Misty groaned and said, "How long is it going to take for her to come back?!" Just then, a white flash came in and Opaline landed in front of the Throne with a thud. "Opaline?!" Just then, a flash came from her and then an invisible barrier surrounded the lair, Twilight's Cutie Mark was on it. Then it faded from sight. Misty was confused by that. "What... happened?" "Those pathetic heroes just banished me back to my own lair," Opaline said. "And what's worse, they trapped me in here! So I can't leave even if I wanted to!" She then noticed where Misty was sitting. "Why are you sitting in my throne?" Misty then went wide eyed and said, "Whoops. Sorry. I was... keeping it warm for you." She was getting off the Throne as she was speaking. "As much as I hate for you sitting in my throne, I do appreciate the thought," Opaline said, sitting down on her throne. "If only I can get rid of those Freedom Fighters, and those hero ponies once and for all." She then looked towards her enchanted mirror. "I just need to figure out a way to do it." Meanwhile, back at Freedom Fighters Mansion, the Freedom Fighters, the Mane 6, Sunny and her friends, Midpoint, Olive, Cozy Glow, the Cutie Mark Crusaders, Spike and the Young 6 went there. "Whew," Sonic said. "What a day." "Tell me about it," MC said. He then looked towards Midpoint, Olive, Cozy Glow, Sally, Bunnie, Antoine and Rotor. "Alright, you guys can stay here for the night." "Thanks, Michael," Sally said. "We'll be heading off to our homes tomorrow after breakfast," Midpoint said. "Are you seriously considering letting the six valedictorians staying here?" "If they're gonna be Freedom Fighters, they might as well start training here at Freedom Fighters Mansion," MC said. He then looked towards the Young 6. "Follow me. I'll show you all where you'll be staying." MC then started walking off in one direction and the Young 6 followed. They were then led to a guest house with three apartments in it. "Okay, you six are gonna have to share bedrooms. I know that's not gonna be a problem." "Yeah, yeah," Gallus said. He then sighed happily. "I'm just surprised their families are okay with this." "I know, right?" MC asked. "Okay, Gallus, you're with Sandbar. Silverstream, you're with Smolder, and Ocellus, you're with Yona." The Young 6 nodded and headed off towards the building as MC started walking away towards the front. Opaline and Misty were watching from the enchanted mirror. Opaline was furious seeing the Freedom Fighters back home, alive. "Those heroes might have won the day, but I will get my revenge!" Opaline said. "And you will, Opaline," Misty said. "I just know it." "I know, Misty," Opaline said. "But the question is... how?" "Well, it's not like you can get information about them from the inside," Misty said. "You are trapped here." "Yes, I am..." Opaline said. She then noticed something through the enchanted mirror. She saw MC putting up a sign that says "Room for Rent". That gave Opaline a wonderful... awful idea. She smirked and said, "I might not be able to leave." She then looked towards Misty. "But... you can." "What?" Misty asked.