Chapter 27: Dark James VS James Pt. 3: The FINAL Battle
Twilight paced the court floor, nervous about James’ condition. As she paced, Pinkie suddenly shook. “Uh oh! Looks like a doozy is coming and it’s a real doozy” she said, as a thunderstorm started to form over the castle. Soon, two strange figures floated above the castle. The two floated across each other, like they were standing at the OK Corral for a High Noon Showdown. Everypony in Equis felt as though that everything hung in the balance of this strange aching feeling of battle, yet nopony knew what it was, except for the residence of Canterlot.
The Mane Six felt a strange feeling come over them, to which Pinkie replied, “Quick, to the roof!” The Mane Six quickly ran towards the roof to see what Pinkie was talking about. There was a streak of lightning, and suddenly there was a strike. Nopony knew who struck, but if you asked James, he would say that both struck that day. After that, Dark James and James started to catch each other’s punches and kicks. Suddenly, Dark James head slammed James, causing him to be tossed across the sky, for a moment before returning back to counter punch Dark James.
They soon started attacking each other with punches, with speeds that defied all normal battles. The thunder roared and the lightning flashed across the sky, and for a moment, Twilight thought she saw a face of someone familiar, but then shook that thought away for a moment. Dark James suddenly blocked several of James’ punches, then gave a mighty punch that sent him sailing towards the town, leaving a large crater.
James layed there for a moment, while Dark James tried to figure out why he was feeling as much pain as he would if James did that. James slowly got up, which gave hope to many, and shock to Dark James. James looked at his nemesis, who wanted to ruin his paradise, and decided to end it. He shot at Dark James flying towards him at a powerful speed.
As they fought, the thunder roared again, and the lightning flashed. Suddenly, a sword flew from the sky and landed near the ponies, with sparks of lightning flying around it for a moment.
The Mane Six surrounded the sword, confused at what they were looking at, when Twilight thought about James. She lifted the sword with her telekinesis and yelled, “James!” He turned towards Twilight, seeing her with a sword. This confused him for a moment as he couldn’t figure out where Twilight got a sword. James soon saw the sword fly towards him, to which he quickly caught the sword in mid-air. He then held it out like he was about to sword fight the villain. “En guarde!” he said. Dark James just growled at him again, before producing a sword from pure energy.
They soon started to fight again, but in more different. As they swung, their swords would clink and clank as the storm appeared to get worse. Suddenly, Dark James struck James, leaving a scratch on his lab coat and a scar. At that exact moment, Dark James got that exact scratch and tear on him, on the exact arm.
Both held their arm, as they soon realized why they had felt that amount of pain at the exact moment, they did damage for their counterpart. ‘A balance between the universe. Order and Chaos, Dark and Light, Good… and Evil.’ James thought to himself, realizing what he needed to do.
James then punched his Dark self and threw him at the roof. Dark James felt and somehow knew what was happening. He threw energy at James, who deflected it with the sword. As he backed up, Dark James kept on repeating the same thing, which didn’t work, and frightened Dark James even more.
James nicked his twin’s knee, causing his jeans and his knee to have a slash mark like him. Dark James knew exactly what James was doing and didn’t like where it was going. “Don’t do this, don’t do what you’re about to do.” He said, as rain poured down on them. Lightning crashed again, adding a dramatic feel to where they were standing. “Don’t you want to live in this world?” Dark James said, frightened.
James looked at his friends, who all looked at him with a type of sadness. James then looked back at his nemesis. “I rather die, than have to live with you.” With a battle cry, James jumped, to allow the final blow to him. Lightning struck at the exact moment he slashed Dark James in half, to which there was a brilliant bright light, then nothing.