Equestria Wars Episode XV: Knights of Zero

by sonicdash123


Chapter 6: Facing Fears

Charming Thunder was still sitting in his cell when Twilight and Cadence came to see him. He was looking down at the ground feeling guilty for what happened the other day. "How are you feeling'?" Twilight asked, placing a hoof on Charming Thunder's shoulder.

"Like the first time I was in a cell before the Lunar Wars," Charming Thunder replied.

"I remember that time."

"Listen, about the probes inside you and the others, it's true. All of it. When the toxin hit me, it somehow activated them and somehow I'm seeing Cyber in my mind."

"I believe you," Cadence said.

"Now, I need your help with something. I need your magic to help me enter my mind so I can confront Cyber so things can calm down. I can't be in this cell though."

"Our magic is not enough. It will take years."

"I know. That is why I had the idea of having Lucina convince Danny to help me. We need his help more than anything."

"You may be right," Twilight said. "With his help we might have a fighting chance, but we need Celestia's permission to--"

"No need for my permission," Celestia said from behind. "If it's the only way to loosen Cyber's grip on Charming's mind then it has to be done." Charming Thunder smiled as he stood up.

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At the Ponyville castle, Charming Thunder sat in the middle in his throne room as Twilight and Cadence stood next to Lucina. Lucina sat down in front of her father and had a look of worry. "Are you sure you want to do this, dad?" Lucina said. "Uncle Danny may have agreed, but I fear that something might happen if something goes wrong during the process."

"Don't worry," Charming Thunder reassured. He then looked at Twilight and Cadence and nodded. He then closed his eyes. "I am ready." Lucina closed her eyes as Twilight and Cadence used their unicorn magic on Charming Thunder. Danny's spirit appeared and flew inside Charming Thunder's body to access his mind.

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A town was in blazes as Cyber flew out of a burning building and landed on the ground. He then took a deep breath and said, "Ah. This may be my finest work yet. Since I am in his mind, I thought I had a little fun. Soon, Equestria will tremble before the new Cyber Eclipse." The ground began to shake as magic began to fire at him out of nowhere, but had no effect on him. He smiled and laughed maniacally. "Guess I'm magic proof. Hey Charmy, you still here?" The room slowly began to turn pitch black as Cyber looked around. "Charmy? Is that you? Oh, Charmy?" The whole room then became dark as he heard nothing but wind blowing. He then used his cybernetic eye as a flashlight to reveal a painting of Charming Thunder stabbing Cyber in the chest. "Ah. Good times." He then turned to walk the dark halls and saw his body being sent into the incinerator. "Ooh. Crispy. I outgrew that body anyway. Trying to tell me something, Charmy? I'm not dead. I've never been so alive." He then followed a trail of candles through a graveyard looking area and came across a statue of himself. The head fell off of the statue and rolled to his feet. "Wait a minute. This? This isn't my grave. Oh no, no, no, no. It's too small. It's overgrown. Where's the head? Oh I get it. They forgot about me, did they? Very funny, Charmy. It's not going to happen." He then turned to see that the hall has changed to the inside of a building of a cemetery. He then came across to pathways and decided to take the right. He reached the dead end and looked around. He then turned got scared to see a statue of Charming Thunder standing in front of him. He then used his arm cannon and shot it out of his way. "See, old boy? You aren't the death of me." He proceeded through the hall until he came across a light. "I know what you're trying to do, Charmy. You and those friends of yours. You think this scares me?" He then stepped outside to see another statue of Charming Thunder and shot it. "Where are you?!" He then turned around to see two more statues and shot them. "Show yourself!!" He turned to see a lot of statues and fired at some of them with his arm cannon. When he was about to fire at another one, the real Charming Thunder popped out of a statue and kicked Cyber in the face and punch him straight to a wall. He looked up to see that he was gone and turned to the broken wall to see a light on the other side. He charged up his arm cannon and fired at the wall. He then jumped down and began to run through a dark room as he laughed. "So long, Charmy. This was one heck of a ride, but I'm getting off." He then arrived to a lever with a sign over it that says 'exit'. He then pulled the lever and the lights began to turn on in the room. "You know that you had me scared back there. What do I got to be afraid of anyway?" More lights turn on to reveal hanging cages in the room. He turned as he heard a door opening and a cage slid towards him and stopped.

"You're afraid of being ashes," Charming Thunder's voice said. "You're afraid of being forgotten." The cell door lowered to reveal Charming Thunder with the purple eye and Danny standing next to him at the other side.

"And you will be forgotten, Cyber," Danny said. "Because of me." Cyber tried shooting them as they approached, but no matter how many shots he gives them, they turn to bats and reform to their normal selves. Charming Thunder grabbed Cyber by the neck and lifted him up in the air.

"I am the bearer of the Elememnt of Courage. I am the immortal king. I am Charming Thunder!!" Charming Thunder then headbutts Cyber and began to fight. Once Cyber was standing at the opening of the cell, Charming Thunder fired force lightning at him as Danny did the same. They stopped until he was weakened and laid some punches to the chest. He then kicked Cyber in and grabbed the door of the cell.

"No, Charmy!!" Cyber shouted. "Wait." Cyber tried to rush out of the cell, but it was too late when the door closed on him. "No! Please! Nooo!" He struggled to break the cage as Danny pressed the button to lock the cell.

"Goodbye, Cyber."

"No, Charming! Don't leave me! Please!!" Charming Thunder pushed the cell back inside the room where it came from as he turned away. "I need you!!" When the metal door closed, Charming Thunder's eye turned back to its normal color.

"Thanks for the help, brother."

"Just like old times, brother." Danny faded away as Charming Thunder closed his eyes.

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Charming Thunder opened his eyes in the throne room and slowly got up. "Did it work?" Twilight asked, worryingly.

"Like a bird in a cage," Charming Thunder said.

"Now we can get back to the Zero and Red Hood characters," Cadence said. "But the question is; how are we going to deal with the fleet that massive?"

"I think I know who can," Danny said. "I have heard of someone with the name 'Lady of Sorrows'. She will know how. I've known her since I was Cyber."

"It's a start," Charming Thunder said. "Do you know where she is?"

"Somewhere in the Crystal Empire."

"Then it is where we must go before we face Zero and the Eternal Fleet."