Sunny Knight: a Pony's Tale

by TheothersideofSunny968

Garganda Must Fall

It was truly a horrific sight. A dragon taller then the tallest mountains, who's cleared the sky for miled with a single beat of his wings and who's foot steps shook the very earth below, was now making his way towards a heavily populatd Crystal Empire. To make matters worse, he was now under the complete control of the wicked Queen of the Umbrum!

"We're really going to fight that thing!?" Lighting Dust asked, trying remain cool looking and not let her subordinates hear her or see how panicked she actually was. "We're like nats to that thing!"

Flying closest to her in ear shot were Princess Luna with Snowstorm on her back, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Thunderlane, and Tourch the former Dragon Lord.

"Have faith, my stylish friend" appearing from out of nowhere, a cloaked stallion stood on Torch's neck. He wore a black mask that barely hid his yellow coat, a long rimmed, Renaissance style fedora that he tucked his orange silky mane in. His body was hidden underneith his black cloak that wrapped tightly around him. Tourch appeared just as suprised as anypony else at his sudden appearance. "We can stop this mighty creature if we follow the words of the other Masked Matter-Horn."

More then a little confused, Rainbow Dash asked the obvious question "where did you come from?"

"Did he just call me 'stylish'" Lightning asked under her breath.

"Not important right now" the Dark Detective stated flatly, eyes looking up and down at their large target, formulating a plan. "And yes. Black and purple are a great combo. I prefer just black myself. But I did wear purple for a short time."

"Focus!" Snowstorm spat out before checking himself, realizing he want technically wasn't the one in charge. Clearing his throat, he asked princess Luna, "do you mind if I formulate a quick plan?"

"Thou had better make it quick" Luna suggested as Garganda took another large step towards the Crystal Empire. "A few more steps and he'll be at the Empire."

"Alright, New guy" Snowstorm pointed at the Dark Detective, who looked up at him with an expressionless muzzle. "What are your skills?"

"Well, I'm really good at charades" the Masked hero stated with a smile. "Oh! And stratigo. I love stratigo."

Growing frustrated, Rainbow and Lighting dust symotaniously smacked their heads with their dominant hooves. Rainbow spoke up and stated in an annoyed tone "what skills do you have that can help stop a giant dragon!?"

"Ah! Those skills" the Dark Detective stated as if he didn't already know what Snowstorm meant. "I'm great at safe cracking, lock picking, being stealthy, I've mastered several martial arts, including one that utilizes the magical energies from the surounging area-"

"Good! I got a special job for you! Hold on for just one second." Snowstorm interrupted the Dark Detective to return his attention to the flying team leaders. "Rainbow Dash, can you hit Garganda with a sonic rainboom?"

Now that the surounding storm had cleared, Rainbow had no obstructions or wind currents that could throw her off. "Yeah, totally!"

"Good. I need to aim for the mask-" Before Snowstorm could finish his instructions, Rainbow Dash zoomed off flying as high as she possibly could to gain maximum momentum.

"Are you kidding me!?" Lightning barked at Snowstorm, shooting him a rage filled look. Before he could ask what her problem was, Lighting spat at him "if you only needed HER do do her 'sonic rainboom' then why are the rest of us here!? There's like, 40 flyers here who came to help!"

"Hold your horses. We have to time this perfectly" Snowstorm told Lightning Dust, who looked like she wanted to say more on the matter, but was silenced when Princess Luna shot her a cold look. Lighting Dust claimed up immediatly. Turning back to the Dark Detective, Snowstorm instructed him "I want you to get up to his face and see if you can't try and help pry the mask off."

The Dark Detective took a second glance at the large mask on Garganda's large head. "Its a big job. Good thing I brought this!"

The Dark Detective pulled some sort of folded up contraption out of nowhere and held it in like a trophy. Before anypony could ask what it was, the Dark Detective unfolded it and shook it, locking the contraption into position. It looked like Pinkie's flying bike, minus the wheels and balloons. In place of the missing parts were chains and gears that led up to a large propeller that had unfolded from almost nothing. It looked impressive with a slick, reflective black paint job and the Dark Detective's logo on the tail. The Dark Detective hopped on the contraption and began pertaining with all his might.

Unfortunalty, right after the Dark Detective took off of Torch's head, the entire Darcopter fell like a sock filled with rocks. Ponies who had been impressed by the Dark Detective's flying machine a moment ago were too in shock to do anything to save the falling hero as he quickly plummeted to the ground, landing with a small explosion.

"Ugh…. I don't think it's supposed to do that…" Thunderlane stated what every other creature was thinking.

Before anypony could say anything else, the Dark Detective called out from atop Garganda's head at the edge where his scales met the metal mask "Don't worry, I'm OK!"

Shocked, everypony turned and looked at the Dark Detective, who was now taking a closer look at Garganda's mask.

"How did he do that?" Princess Luna asked the quesgion everypony was thinking.

"I don't know, but we don't have much time" Snowstorm reminded everypony about the task at hoof. "Rainbow Dash should be reaching the nessisary hight any second. Lighting Dust, Thunderlane and Princess Luna, we need the flyers to go and damage Garganda's wings."

"Wait, why?" Lightning Dust questioned Snowstorm.

"If he flies away before Rainbow Dash has a chance to land a blow on his mask, We're in trouble." Snowstorm explained, growing annoyed at everypony waiting time.

"I don't recommend that" Torch stated, flatly.

Snowstorm was a little suprised the large dragon spoke up at all, took a deep breath and asked "why not?"

"A dragon's wings are sensitive" Torch started to say in an annoyed tone. "You go for his wings, first thing he'll do is fly away."

Snowstorm thought for a moment, but decided time was of the essence and just decided to ask Torch "What do YOU recommend we-"

But just then, Rainbow reentered the atmosphere and shot right at Garganda going at the speed of sound. She finished the move and released the Rainbow energy by bouncing up suddenly mere inches from Garganda's mask. The blast caused the giant dragon to shake a little, but no damage was done to the mask.

"Aaaand we missed the rainboom" Snowstorm was growing more and more annoyed, rubbing his temples with his hooves.

"Calm yourself" Luna tried to comfort Snowstorm while refocusing the group. "Torch, what do you recommend for a plan of attack?"

"The larger the dragon'" Torch started to explain right as Rainbow Dash rejoined the group. She was silanced by Lightnjng Dust who quickly out a hoof to Rainbow's muzzle to silance her. "The harder they fall."

"We need to try and trip him?" Lightning Dust asked, seeming more then a little skeptical.

"Won't he just fly away?" Snowstorm seemed skeptical.

"I think if we distract him we might have a chance." Princess Luna stated, unsure if it would really work, but putting up a good front.

"So we just have to distract the big guy and trip him up! No biggie! We just need some really, really strong rope and-" Thunderlane started to say when Snowstorm, who had been quietly calculating up till then interrupted him.

"Yeah, if we want to completly flatten the Empire" Snowstorm harshly pointed out.

Everypony and Torch did a double take and saw where Garganda stood. Unfortunatly he was close enough to the Empire to actually flatten it if he fell forward.

"Ok, well let's push him so he falls backwards" Lightning Dust suggested, getting annoyed herself now.

"That won't work either" Torch shot the idea down immediately. "Most dragons have great balance thanks to our tails, and won't fall backwards."

"But they can fall to their sides, right?" Snowstorm asked, trying to piece togeather a new plan.

"That is true" Torch nodding after thinking about it for a second.

"Ok, New plan" Snowstorm gathered every creature's attention as he made the plan clear to them all. Quickening his pace, not wanting to waste any more time, Snowstorm barked out the orders and instructions to Lighting and what her Shadowbolts would do, same to Rainbow Dash, Thunderlane and the other Wonderbolts, before Luna pointed out a flaw in the plan.

"Don't we still need something to tie Garganda's legs togeather?" The princess of the moon didn't want to put a damper on Snowstorm's plans, but it wss an important part of the plan.

"Princess Luna, could you try and use your magic to make a rope and wrap it around his legs?" Thunderlane suggested, thinking out loud.

"I don't think you should try that" Snowstorm suggested against the idea. "Garganda is too large. If he breaks a rope you make with your magic, the recoil could do so serious damage to you, your majasty."

"You got any bright ideas, mouthy little pony?" Torch snorted, sencing that they might lose the fight, along with any braging rights he might obtain.

"I do" a deeper voice spoke up, drawing every creature's attention to Tourch's head once more. Atop of it stood the Dark Detective, his cloak covering him like a battle wings.

"No luck getting the mask off?" Snowstorm asked, not meaning to sound cheeky.

Ignoring Snowstorm, the Dark Detective flipped one hoof out from under his cloak and held out what appeared to be silver string.

"What? Are we going to floss his teeth with that or something?" Thunderlane joked and let out a half hearted laugh.

"I once used this material material to help return a giant gorilla to its home island. HE wasn't much smaller then Garganda. If we manage to wrap it around his legs twice at least, that should do it."

"Ok, say we do do that" Rainbow chimmed in. "He's still going to fall flat and crush the Crystal Empire and everypony there!"

"Not if we push him over ourselves" Torch suggested, smirking and he flexed his muscles.

Thinking about what the former Dragon lord said, Luna expanded on the idea. "If we start pushing him on one side, when he trips and falls, he'll fall away from the Empire!"

"It's a little crazy, but we're running out of time!" Lightning Dust pointed to where Garganda was. Four more large steps, and the larger then life dragon would be at the Crystal Empire, and still under Mourning Cloak's control!

"Ok, let's do it everypony!" Snowstorm suggested quickly, sending every pony or dragon off to contribute to the crazy plan.

Rainbow Dash and Lighting Dust flew as fast as thet could to get around Garganda's legs, waiting for the exact moment when he moved to take another step. Every other creature other then them flew into position, ready to fly into and push the giant dragon with all their might. All their hearts racing a million miles per hour as they watched the giant dragon lift his leg in super slow motion. When one leg began to cross infront of the other, Rainbow Dash and Lightning Dust zoomed as fast as they could to wrap the silvery string around the large dragon's legs, leaving streaks of Rainbow and golden lightning behind them in a jet stream. Seconds before they had begun to move, the Dark Detective latched his grappling hook onto the side of Garganda's leg and shot himself down to level where Rainbow Dash and Lightning Dust would eventually meet. The two speedy pegusi met with their two ends right as the Dark detective stopped his descend. The Masked hero worked at lighting speed to tie a knot in the unbreakable string, and finished right as the giant dragon's leg was lefting past the other.

Right when Guarganda's leg caught, the string actually stopping his leg from moving forward, Princess Luna, Thunderlane, the former Dragon lord Torch, the Wonderbolts, the Shadowbolts, and even the two power ponies, Zapp and the Saddle Ranger bolted through the air,, closing the space between them and Garganda's side, and hit him with all their might, never stopping the beating of their wings as they continue to push after their initial impact. Zapp had called forth lighting from the sky with the use of her pendent, filling her body with the needed strength to try and move Garganda. While the Saddle Ranger chuckled to herself. Her power was summoned when she was angry, but years ago she learned to control her anger. Now, for the most part, she was always angry. Her body streached, showing slits in her baggy costume that were meant to open when she changed jnto her larger form. Rainbow Dash and Lightning Dust quickly joined the group, putting aside their differences to push with all their might. It was a good long moment before Garganda's body began to wabble, and slowly, he began to fall.

Snowstorm screamed at the top of his lungs, "every creature! Push with all your might! Don't let up! Push harder! HARDER!!!"

"PUSH WITH ALL YOUR MIGHT!" Princess Luna yelled, her voice being herd from everypony in a ten mile radius.

All togeather, the flyers began putting in 120% effort to push the falling Garganda out of the way of the Crystal Empire. Unfortunatly it didn't look to be enough. They needed more force!

An odd sound came up over the horizon, but everypony was too concerned and focused on pushing Garganda that they ignored the battle cry of some other creatures. The things that screached their battle cry cut through the air with such great speed, they left a streak of grey and white behind them. When the creatures reached Garganda, poniss who looked up for a second to see what had joined them in colliding with the giant dragon, pushing with all their might. Eagles. Giant white and grey eagles!

Flying on the back of one carrying up the rear was none other then Fluttershy! Somehow the timid pegasus wanderd off and made some new friends with the giant snowy eagles of the surounding area. Later, she might tell them about HOW exactly she made friends with the eagles in such a short time, but for now, they all pushed with all their might.

Garganda was falling fast, the aid of the giant eagles really helped to steer the giant dragon off course, but it still wasn't enough! Without hesitation, Luna turned her head around and told Snowstorm "Hold on tight."

Snowstorm had little time for his mind to process what Luna had said to him before the princess of the night zoomed kicked off from her position on the falling Garganda. The impact from her kick off added a little force,
but what the princess of the night was planning would help far more then that. When she reached a good 100 yards away, Luna paused in the air for a second, then, focusing her magic into her wings, flapped them once, shooting across the sky, faster and harder then a comet! She rejoined the rest of the flyers in pushing Garganda out of the way, landing at an open spot on the dragon's side. The last push from Princess Luna was exactly what the flyers needed to push Garganda safely out of the way. The giant dragon began to fall faster, but now in a direction away from the Crystal Empire! The mind controlled Garganda hit the ground hard enough to create an earthquake that split the ground around the arctic and create a rippling that would cause a tsunami on the other side of the world. But that was another story, for another time.

All the flyers, including Snoestorm who was still holding onto princess Luna for dear life, Tourch, the eagles, and the Dark Detective, who was now in the hooves of the still muscular Saddle Ranger, paused for for long moment to survay the area and make sure they actually had succeeded. After the briefly pause, every creature began to cheer, scream, roar and hoot in victory! A moment after the large dragon hit the ground, the mask that had been controlling him popped off, cracking into three large pieces that hit the ground with a metallic thud. The poor dragon was out cold and enjoying a nice dream.

Regrouping, Luna told Rainbow Dash, Thunderlane, Fluttershy, Torch and the other leaders "You all did well, but we need to get back to the Empire. I'm afraid the fight isn't over just yet."