Chapter 12
Discovery
Wow, I didn`t expect that one to happen, Red thought, facing Ace who now have awesome powers.
His outfit have changed into black, all black. Even his eyes.
Everyone stopped fighting each other and looked at Ace.
Ace then made a movement on which it cause the force of the wind pushed everyone back.
"Why are you even doing this?" yelled Red, stepping up toward Ace.
"Because," Ace began, facing toward him, "all I ever wanted is power and show everyone how I truly feel. Pain and disgrace. Now, it time for some payback and everyone I know."
"No! I won`t let you!" said Red, and he leaped toward Ace.
But he was thrown back when Ace held his hand at Red.
"Red!" screamed the girls, who were running toward Red but was stopped by fireball Ace has thrown at them.
"Hey! We have a deal!" Lighting yelled, walking up to Ace.
Ace turned to him and said to him, "Well, have you ever heard of double-cross?"
He then held out his hand and open the ground under Lighting and his henchmen. They all fell in and disappeared.
After that, Ace noticed there were people at the main entrance at the school, watching.
Ace made the wall on top of the spectators collapse on them. They move out of the way before it hit the ground.
No one was hurt, for now.
Red stand up and called out, "That all you wanted? Power? You already have power. You are the leader of the elite delta force!"
Ace faced toward Red and hover over him.
"You don`t get it," he began, "I don`t have enough power to control our society. And, I`m always get to be chosen as a wimp. You, on the other hand, is the general favorite officer who always get what he wanted. I don`t. I get send to the mental hospital while you get all the fun."
He then pointed at the crystal on his chest, "Now, with this, I can use this power against everyone who think I`m a fool. This is what they deserve."
He threw another fireball at Red but Red dodge from it and hid behind the statue.
Since Red is difficult to take down but Ace has another idea,
He turned to look at the girls behind him and stated, "Beside, if I can`t get you, let see if you can save your friend." He picked up two walls and throw it at the girls.
They all dodge from its except for Pinkie Pie, again not sensing it in time.
But, she was quickly pushed out of the way by Red.
"Whoa! Déjà Vu!" said Pinkie Pie, getting up.
"What? No time for Déjà Vu! We got to take cover behind those walls!" He pointed at two huge walls that was big enough to protect them from the debris.
By the time they got there, Twilight and Applejack are already there.
When they slide in, Red said, "This is crazy! One, everything was going as planned and two, it getting more crazier!"
" Yeah well, not if your brother have to take the crystal and use it against us!" yelled Applejack, trying to keep her head down from the flying debris.
"I swear I heard this before." said Pinkie, tapping her chin.
"No time for thinking," says Twilight, " where is the other?"
"Last time I`d saw checked, Rainbow, Rarity and Flutter Shy are in the other side of the opening on our left!" Red shouted back, also trying to keep his head down from the debris.
"And?"
"And Flash, Little Joe and Spike are in the school, trying to keep everyone safe! I think they are okay!"
Ace thrown another rock at them but hitting their rear.
At the same time, Rainbow, Rarity and Fluttershy ran across the opening and join the four other.
"What the plan?" asked Rainbow.
"We must get the crystal back!" Twilight replied.
"And how we suppose to do that?" said Rarity.
When she said this, the wall they were hiding behind was lifted up and thrown at the school.
"Found you." said Ace and pointed out his finger at the group and make a circle.
A ring of fire trapped the group in the center, not letting them escape.
Ace held out his hand and make a ball of explosive dark electricity
"Now," he said, "to make end meet."
He throw it at the group.
The girls around Red hold their hands together then came a white flash.
When Red opened his eyes, he noticed he is protected by a purple force field that surrounded him and the girls.
What he also noticed that the girls around him has changed,
They even looked better than before!
"You are wrong Ace," began Twilight, " the only magic that held the Element of Harmony if the magic of Friendship."
"Err, Twilight, you always said that all the time now." said RainBow.
"Yeah, I like saying it." said Twilight.
They all hover up to the air and formed a heart.
Now I get it, Red thought, it wasn`t just their potential, it their friendship. And with their friendship, they hold the power of the Element of Harmony!
Then, the girls shoot out rainbow ray at Ace.
But, what they didn`t know is that it turn out Ace hold the dark power of the Element of Harmony.
He easily deflect the ray with just his hand and send it off toward the sky with an explosion
The girls and Red were shocked when Ace deflected it.
Now, it was his turn.
Ace shoot out a dark ray of static electricity at the girls.
The girls was hit by the ray and they each fell out of the sky, one by one.
"No!" Red screamed and ran toward them when they landed in the ground.
When, Ace was coming near them, Red blocked him and said, "I`m not letting you hurt them!"
Ace just laugh and said, "Oh look at you Red, still trying to protect the people you don`t even know. Also, you don`t know what inside of you."
"Oh, yes I do."
"Well, what is it?"
Red thought for a moment then shrugged.
"See!" exclaimed Ace, "You don`t even know! Anyway, you`re wasting my time here, I got work to do."
He created another explosive dark ball and added, "Any last word?"
"Red," says Twilight behind him, " Follow your heart and find within your true self."
Red thought hard and still think nothing.
"Time up." said Ace and throw it at Red and the girls.
Before it made a hit, Red can only think one word: Courageous.
Then, came another white flash but this time, Red was lost to the world.
Then, a mare he has seen earlier when he was coming into the pony world, had turn onto a person.
Red realized who that person was:
It was Twilight.
Red couldn`t speak for a moment but then, Twilight created a beam that passes through Red heart then disappeared.
Red came out of his state and went back to the real world.
After the flash, Ace and the other had saw what happened to Red.
Unlike Ace, Red also unlock the true power of the Element of Harmony.
In the light side.
Now, the battle between light and darkness began.