//------------------------------// // 6 The Chaotic Fall of Celestia and the Rise of Luna. // Story: The Six. // by GoldyBoi //------------------------------// When the unexpected happens. It can change almost anything in time and space. It can alter the past, present, and future. I can decide the fate of others and seal the fate of many. Although... sometimes the unexpected can be countered. Twilight's hand was burning proving everything that happened so far to be correct. Although there was a few things wrong with this picture. It twisted her gut and made breathing futile. Rarity and AppleJack were helping people evacuate, Rainbow went after the chopper but... Fluttershy and Twilight stood there. To Twilights suprise Cadance was as well, just as shocked as she was. All three girls stared at King Sombra himself standing where Cadance used to. He had jumped out the chopper along with a suprise visitor cuddling up to him. Princess Celestia. Pinkie and Shinning Armor usually hit it off when they talked. Unless she was in that armor. The memories of her private presentation was a traumatic experience. Even for him. He decided to stick with small talk as they walked to Canterlot until he brought up the big question. "After we were defeated... what happened to Equestria?" "We were summoned to fight the battle. They knew all of us would probably die by the time we got to the last of Sombra's forces. Still... it's for Equestria right? Trading souls for a greater cause." Pinkie continued walking infront of Shinning Armor as she blinked her eyes entirely turned black and her tone of voice was ominous at that last sentence. She blinked again and turned around her eyes going back to normal as she stared straight at him. Watching him put his hand on the hilt of his sword. Shinning Armor still had doubts if she's able to control her powers... or control herself. "You're my friend... but Pinkie I will warn you. Don't try anything funny and I wont have to draw my blade. You know how fast I can strike someone down when I mean it." Suddenly Pinkie Pie was behind him. Putting her hand on top of his making sure he can't withdraw the blade. The other on his shoulder as she whispered with a chilly breath. "Why threaten allies Shinning? I was only telling you the truth, seeing that nobody really looked for you and declared you all either dead or missing. Proving my point... Equestria doesn't care about you or I. We could leave right now if we wanted to and still be in the right " She licked her lips and smirked. "Of course I couldn't leave without my friends and my potential... mate. She's so emotionally worn out, your sister needs to relieve stress. Maybe I should do something about that." "You wouldn't dare!" He turned his head to face her. Only to be greated by that black voids which were sky blue and white. In a flash he saw every mistake he made and would make. All his sins and blessings. Even his death. "No!" Shinning looked around only to see Pinkie way ahead of him. As if the entire thing was an hallucination. "No what?" Pinkie turned smiling at him. "Come on, we gotta get to the castle in time!" She started skipping off, laughing to herself as Shinning tried to keep up. Little did he know... she had just finished feeding off his fear. Rarity crashed into a funeral chair. Her hair getting tangled, her sword broken, and her sheild having several dents in them she layed down thinking. She was deciding if she should give up or keep fighting. She got up and changed her broken sword and dented sheild into dual cannons attached to her arms. "AppleJack assist me!" She yelled over to the kneeling AppleJack. As she ran down the carpet towards the offenders. AppleJack knew what was happening and didn't complain. She slammed her fist into the ground making a piece of the marble flooring Rarity was running on launch Rarity into the air. AppleJack continued it by sinking into the ground and launching back up in the form of a medium sized boulder rapidly spinning with spikes. Rarity finished it off by charging up both cannons and shooting the boulder AppleJack. She crashed right into Sombra and Celestia making dust shoot into the air making a haze of debris in the way of the view. What Rarity saw next shocked her. The dust cleared to reveal Princess Celestia choking AppleJack dangling her by the neck. "Now before you shoot... please think of the danger you could be putting your dear AppleJack in." Sombra spoke up with a smug attitude. "Now watch as I drain her of her element." "No such thing, I of all people know that! I've studied into the elements and I know that's impossible." Twilight spoke up now. Getting up from the Crater Celestia had set her in. She looked to her left and saw Fluttershy dazed and sprawled out on a couple chairs. Princess Cadance on her right layed face down motionless and burned. She had to make sure she was still alive after. She charged Celestia blasting torrents of water out of her palms, making her drop AppleJack and attempt to gaurd Sombra. AppleJack was trying to catch her breath as a metal arm grabbed her and lifted her over into Rarity's arms. She managed to look up and smiled. "R....Rainbow." Rainbow Dash floated over the scene, her eyes saying Murder. She raised her right hand as soon as she saw the condition her friends were in forming a storm. The sky went dark and the sun was blocked out. A fairly large storm cloud loomed over the funeral grounds. Striking the already soaked Celestia with prismatic colored lightning. It was strong and left the deity defenseless and damaged but not enough to be lethal. Sombra shot a dark beam filled with shards of crystals at Rainbow while she was distracted but failed. Twilight Sparkle had formed a black hole in the beams path sucking it in. She then proceeded by snapping her fingers making an explosion under Sombra's feet knocking him back. Which had doomed them all. Sombra was angered and with the sun shut out. He had all the darkness he needed. "You fools think you can stop me in such a condition... it took all of you to bring me to this point. I shall reward you for your bravery though. When I kill you all I shall build statues of you fallen but worthy warriors in my throne room! To show the people not even you could stop me." He raised his arms as a large dark orb formed above them all. Absorbing the storm, the orb started to glow and inside a black crystal dragon began to form. "Come on girls! We may not be at full strength and we may be one short of an element but we can't give up!" Rainbow's instincts were telling her to flee but as the currently most capable element she had to bring vigor to the others. Rainbow came in for a landing as all the girls but Pinkie managed to get together. "We need to get an Element Blast going!" "We can't make one strong enough with just 5 out of 6 elements!" Twilight's statement was true making all other girls nod their head in agreement including Rainbow. "We still have to try!" Rarity pitched in unable to let go of the fact that such evil people dared to lay a finger on her AppleJack. "I agree." Fluttershy was slowly getting a grip of reality and her head finally stopped spinning from the beam of light Celestia gave her a taste of. "Ah think so too." AppleJack confidently stated. "Alright then.... lets do it." Twilight had confirmed it. "Will we make it in time?" Shinning asked as he took a leap off the last tree launching himself into the air and landed on a Canterlot roof. "Psh! Of course we will, I know the paths and you can keep up! No worries!" She ran to the edge of the building and jumped off, swinging on a flag pole sticking out the side of the building landing in another's balcony. Not waiting for Shinning she found her way ontop of that building and made a leap of faith towards a house which she landed on with a tuck and roll with some difficulty with her armor. She jumped off the house and darted straight into an alley way with Shinning on her heels. She stopped for a minute to open a sewer entry and dived in. Making a short cut to the castle. After what seemed like a good few minutes of running they reached another sewer entry and knocked off the lid. They climbed out and looked at their surroundings for a way to get over the walls to the funeral grounds. "I have an idea.... grab onto me." Pinkie suggested as she raised her right arm and leveled it to the top of the wall. "Alright then?" Shinning shrugged and grabbed onto Pinkie firmly in case of anything. As soon as he did the spikes on the arms of her armor shot out and stuck themselves into the wall pulling them towards it as they used the added momentum to swing ontop of the wall. What they saw next shocked them. They saw the element blast fighting against a blast of razor sharp crystal shards. All the girls were tired and starting to stagger. The barrage of crystals growing closer overtaking the element blast slowly. "No!" Pinkie was the first to react out of the two and launched herself off of the wall towards them. Right on time the crystal beam overtook the element blast and Pinkie jumped in the way right on time. Activating her Element a second before she took the blast. Causing the other girls to be knocked back by the explosive power. Flames, debris, crystal, and... blood flew everywhere. Shinning had just caught up as the dust was still in the air and received a hug from Twilight, but it was short lived as he asked about Pinkie. Right on cue, the dust finally cleared. It revealed a bloody pool. Pinkies left arm was shredded to the point of no repair. Shards of crystal stuck out of her eyes and forehead and face. Her chest was torn open and her neck had a piece of crystal sticking out of her throat. The sight was horrendous. All sat there and stood in shock. Then the person you least expect to show so much emotion let out a blood curdling scream. Rainbow Dash put her hands to her head and grabbed her hair tightly. Tears running down her face as she let out a scream. It's powers had an effect on the others like a mountian lions bellow near a defenseless hiker. Fluttershy silently went over to Rainbow Dash and held the screaming girl in an embrace. Crying, but no audio came out of her mouth, as if everything had been wiped from her but shock and tears. AppleJack fell to her knees in defeat, sobbing and muttering so many words. Forgetting everything around her she clutched her hat on her head and started smashing the obsidion hat on the ground. Then broke down like a helpless heap. Rarity was pacing back and forth not looking at Pinkie. She had her hand on her stomach and over her mouth. She was trying to hold in the sobs and ease the sick feeling in her stomach. She stopped pacing and looked up into the darkened sky as she ran her hands through her hair, no longer caring. She slowly started hyperventilating and her sobs finally broke through. Usually she would be doing an over the top cry... but this was serious. Twilight Sparkle despite Shinning's protests ran up to Pinkie when she had the chance. As soon as Shinning saw Cadance's condition as well he was distracted. Twilight fell down beside Pinkie looking at the body. Her flame cape went out. "Pinkie... your okay. It's okay... I can save you." Twilight was reassuring herself. She used what magic she had left to carefully pull out any shards stuck into Pinkie's body and was surpised. The blood... stopped flowing like a living human beings would. That sent her into full panic mode. "PINKIE! PINKIE GET UP!" She started shaking Pinkie violently. "COME ON PLEASE! I'LL DO ANYTHING, JUST STOP THIS SICK JOKE!" Her limbs were slowly giving out as her tears and heartache made her look like she was suffering the most out of all the others from this. 'Did I do something wrong? Was it my decisions that caused this? Yes... it was it is my fault. I thought I could ambush Sombra and payed the price. It's my fault your dead Pinkie. It's all my fault. I deserve to die.' Twilights brain was in a full speed collision course. "That's right.... it is my fault." Twilight spoke out loud in a dreadful tone. Only caught by one person. "Twilight?" Shinning Armor had finished checking on his wife and making sure she was alright. He slowly walked over to his sister and grimaced at the sight of Pinkie. "I'm sorry." Twilight picked up a shard of crystal and raised it above her head. She brought down the shard to her neck but her arm was stopped abruptly. "Are you crazy?!" Shinning had caught her arm just in time and started to drag her away from Pinkie. "No... no. Let me go! Don't take me away from her! Let go." Twilight started to struggle and flail. It was her fault someone she was finally starting to develop feelings for died. "LET ME GO NOW! I HATE YOU. I HATE YOU!" Those words made Shinning let go of Twilight and stand there in shock. His sister said she hates him. He never knew how much Pinkie meant to his sister... and he payed for it. Twilight scurried over to Pinkie's body and held her. Although right on cue the crystal dragon had enough energy to fire another blast as it lumbered over the two. Sombra and Celestia both watching in amusement. The dragon fired the blast at the already deceased Pinkie and the emotionally distraught Twilight Sparkle. Only to have it absorbed by a miniature moon. The same moon appeared above Celestia as the blast came out of it and rained down on her. Celestia had reacted on time and managed to put up a protective barrier. She only knew one person who could do this. "Luna! You've cheated death? Show yourself." "Oh no no no my good ol' pal! WE did not cheat death, I mean how could you if you weren't dead in the first place?" Discord sat on the dragons head sipping tea. "I mean, how obvious could you make it Sombra? I sensed you from a mile away. Fluttershy never delivers cookies at night." Discord smirked at King Sombra's look of disbelief and anger. "All I had to do was clone myself before I left the power room and grab Luna before the blast hit her and lay low." "Yes it was a great plan if I do say so myself Discord." Luna rose from behind Sombra and Celestia. The eyes of Nightmare Moon glowing as she charged her sister with a barrage of lunar energy. Celestia deflected them by illuminating her body with Light only to be greeted by Luna's palm as she was grabbed by her face and thrown into one of the many chairs. Luna made sure to top it off by bombarding her with a series of explosive crescent blasts. Knocking her intended target into the air which she happily knocked back into the ground. "Oh nice hit there Luna!" Discord was narrating each attack Luna planted on Celestia. The dragon tried to shake him off and roared. "Oh shut up you." Discord lazily snapped his finger as the dragon shrunk down in size to the size of a bug. "Oh why look at that!" Discord stomped on the once menacing dragon looking over at Pinkie Pie. "Shame... looks like my welcome party will be delayed." He whispered to himself then looked over at Sombra whom was shocked at the sight of Celestia being given the business by her younger sister. "Now Sombra... shall we?" Discord readied his mind for the telepathic battle he was about to endure. "Pinkie.... please. Pinkie!" A voice rang out in the darkness. Pinkie Pie was now floating around. In the darkness of her mind, body, element, and soul. She drifted aimlessly here as soon as she activated her element. "Someone's calling me?" She said with such a plain expression and look in her eyes. "That's right... now will you sit here and really die? Or will you use your power... OUR power. You have a choice... your friends will die. I don't have all day." A third voice rang out but it sounded like several different people at the same time. Pinkie was used to this. Though it was right... she did have a choice to make. "..... I'll do it." She had just finalized her doom and she knew it. "Good... now lets go teach someone a lesson shall we?" Twilight was knocked back by the flames that enveloped Pinkie Pie and the beacon of energy shooting out from her into the sky. She watched in amazement and horror as her wounds healed and she emerged from the flames with a few different.... specifics. Pinkie had two large wings on her back that looked like what belonged to a large bat but they were made out of black flames. Her eyes all black and her threatening armor looking more like her skin. She gave a wild grin revealing her row of sharp and jagged teeth. Her helm and horns looked like they merged with her skin and her hair... flowed brilliantly but this time it was made entirely out of pink flame. Most of her armor like from her sharpened fingers for stabbing enemies with no blade were on fire. From her fingers to her elbow both arms were shrouded in black flames. Along with her legs from her feet to her knees. Everyone stood there in shock all but Discord whom moved out of the way knowing what would happen next. Luna was baffled but used the opportunity to strike Celestia with a good blow. Shinning Armor made sure everyone was secured and away from Pinkie... all except Twilight who was too close. Pinkie's element shined brightly in the center of all that darkness in her eyes. Giving signs that she was in control of whatever she was in Twilight's eyes. She slowly got up and walked over to Pinkie again despite her brothers protests. "Pinkie?" Getting her attention Pinkie had turned around and at her. Twilight wasn't sure of what to do next but after what seemed like minutes. Pinkie raised her and as the flames surrounding it died off and put it gently on Twilight's cheek. The armor was still a bit warm but the gesture brought tears to Twilight's eyes. Pinkie was alive and well... this was her element. Though it was all cut short by a laugh only Sombra could muster. Then in a flash Pinkie had disappeared leaving a trail of black flames from her wings. Then as fast as she disappeared Sombra's laugh ended as he was knocked back into the castle with great force from a flaming punch to the face. Nobody had noticed yet until the sky looked like it was on fire. With Pinkie's powers growing she was affecting everything around her. Most of the area were engulfed in flames and the shadows looked like they were dancing and calling out to the bystanders. Symbols appeared on the ground around Pinkie and demons slowly rose out of them. King Sombra was in pain and gifted with a crater from one punch. The bystanders were deciding whether or not they should stick around and Luna was unable to keep up the offensive with Celestia for too long. Discord sat there in the sky watching Pinkie Pie with calculating eyes. "Will you be able to control it... or will it control you? Either way... all hell will break loose. Quite literally." Discord said to himself.