ACT EIGHT
The Dazzlings were so outraged, that they took the stage and tried to sing their spell back into effect, but not only did the spell not work, their voices sounded awful…! The crowds booed and hissed.
“Ha! I guess without their gems, their magic is useless.” said Lightning.
“They should’ve taken music lessons.” joked Rainbow.
Suddenly, the skies grew darker as red and black clouds started to form. “What’s going on?” cried Celestia, and then she and everyone else heard the sound of snickering coming from the stage.
There, stood Blaze, and his comrades, all five of their bodies were glowing brightly as Blaze said “What’s going on is exactly what we sang about. The real show is about to begin!”
Then, their bodies glowed brighter than ever as they shed their human disguises, and reverted to their true demonic forms.
Everyone screamed in fright at the sight of the wicked monsters.
Fluttershy fainted in fear, but only briefly, but everyone was most confused.
“How can this be?” cried Dyno.
“I thought they couldn’t absorb the energy?” added Myte.
The demons heard that, and explained that they were wrong.
“It doesn’t matter if we don’t absorb that energy we’ve gathered.” said Tempest “It’s only part of the energy we’ve been gathering ever since we started.”
Lightning winced. They never said anything about that, so it was never recorded in his book.
The demons bodies glowed brighter than ever and their bodies expanded to twice their original sizes.
The humans were frightened, but the Sirens were impressed.
“Way to go, guys.” said Aria.
“I’ve never seen such power before.” cried Sonata.
“Wait a minute…” snapped Adagio “Where’s our share?”
The demons gazed down at the pitiful girls and snickered “Your share?” sneered Slick “Sorry to break it to you girls, but, uh… we’re performing solo this time.”
“What?!” snapped Adagio “What are you saying?”
“It meansssss… our partnership has been dissolved.” hissed Scales.
The girls felt their rage starting to boil.
“You were just using us to help you all this time!” snarled Adagio.
“You never intended to share this power with us!” added Aria.
“Right… that’s very good.” said Blaze, and then he charged up a pair of fire balls in his hands “Now guess what THESE ARE…!”
“RUN!!” screamed Sonata.
Blaze threw the fire-balls hard, just missing the girls, and spread a huge fire all along the grounds.
“Everybody out!” cried Luna, and everyone began to evacuate the camp grounds as the fire continued to spread.
“Finally, we get to finish what we started five-thousand years ago!” shouted Boomer.
“Yes!” cried Blaze “First we shall destroy this island, and then THE WORLD!!”
“We’ve got to stop these guys!” cried Buddy Rose.
Lightning then remembered “The energy, it’s been purified…” and he got out the two transform gems, and he held them up high, and magically, the energy beneath the stage began to pulsate and transfer into the gems, making them glow brightly, and the magic flowed into Lightning, and each of his friends, making their insignia badges appear on their clothes…
…Even the Rainbows got insignias too.
Spike was glowing too. “Ah, yeah… it’s time.” Spike said.
The Rainbows all looked at their insignias “Hmm… not exactly matching with the colors.” said Rarity.
“Whoa…!” said Rainbow.
“Cool.” said Pinkie.
“What are these things?” asked Fluttershy. “And what are we supposed to do with ‘em?” added Applejack.
“Just do exactly as I tell you…” said Lightning.
The nasty demons were enjoying tearing the camp to shreds and scaring off the campers and staff.
The Crusaders were suddenly confronted by Slick, and he just couldn’t resist. He leaned in forward slowly and let out a simple soft “Boo.”
The girls shrieked and ran off like scaredy-cats.
“Hey!” shouted Flash as he dashed forth with a baseball bat in-hand “You don’t scare little girls like that!” and he took a huge swing at Slick’s slimy body, and bounced right off him like rubber, flinging himself backwards and skidding along the ground.
Scales then ensnared him with his long serpent-like hair. “How insssssuferable you humans are.”
“But then again, he isn’t really human, is he?” teased Tempest.
Flash was struggling hard trying to break free, but to no avail.
“Struggling will get you nowhere, little fool.” hissed Blaze, and he slowly begun to creep forward with the others joining him by his side. Flash didn’t like the looks in their evil eyes.
“Let him go!” shouted Lightning.
The demons turned and saw him, and all the others standing together in one big group, all thirteen of them glowing brightly.
“That… that glowing…!” cried Boomer.
“So, we were correct about you!” snarled Blaze “You really do possess magic of your own, but I’m afraid now that we are fully energized, no magic on Earth can save you now.”
“Good thing this magic doesn’t come from Earth.” Spike said.
The demons all gazed forth with concern.
“It’s time…!” said Rainbow.
“Let’s do this!” added Artie.
Lightning clenched his fists “Okay, let’s go!”
He and his friends transformed first…
“STARFLEET MAGIC…!!”
All of then donned their super suits, and their pony ears, tails, wings, and even their horns. Lightning got his gold horn back while the others each had their own respective colors.
One-by-one they shouted their field of power!
Lightning: “Power of Believing!”
Starla: “Power of Space!”
Buddy: “Power of Flora!”
Artie: “Power of Art!”
Rhymey: “Let’s begin… Power of Wind!”
The Twins: “Power of Fire!!”
Then, just as Lightning had showed them how, the Rainbows went next.
“HARMONY HOUR…!! FRIENDSHIP POWER…!!”
All five of them donned identical power suits and visors, just like the others. All of them sprouted wings too, but Rarity was the only one among them to sprout a horn out of her head.
“Whoa! This is so amazing!” cried Rainbow.
“I never felt anythin’ like this!” said Applejack.
Pinkie felt like she could jump right up to the moon
Fluttershy felt she could stand up to a million armies.
As for Rarity, she couldn’t help but strike several poses “Oh why… this is… truly… A FASHION DREAM TO END ALL DREAMS…!!”
“You think that’s cool, watch this.” said Spike “Dragon Power!”
Then he transformed into the Dragon Knight, which all the girls found impressive.
Now the whole team was armed and ready.
“Prepare yourselves, Demonites…” snarled Lightning “This is going to be one show you’ll never forget.”
“Well, it appears we agree on something.” hissed Blaze. “But don’t think this means we are intimidated.”
Tempest nodded “We spent five-thousand years trapped behind a cursed door because we underestimated forces like yours.”
“A misssstake we do not intend to replicate.” hissed Scales. His grip around Flash tightened, and poor Flash was finding it difficult to breathe.
“Let him go, right now!” shouted Rainbow.
“As you wish.” hissed Scaled, and he threw Flash way, way up high!
“No!” shouted Lightning “Quick, catch him!”
But as everyone spread their wings to take off…
“Oh, no you don’t!” shouted Tempest “TORNADO GUST!” and he flapped his wings super-fast creating strong whirlwinds that blew them all back hard. They would never be able to reach Flash in time now as he started to fall.
“FLASH!!” shouted Lightning.
Flash really felt this was end of him, when suddenly a swarm of birds came in and all worked together to carry him to safety. At the head of the swarm was Krysta “You forget I can control other birds in this world…” said hollered.
“Great job, Krysta…!” Lightning called out to her.
“Impressive…!” shouted Blaze “But let’s see you escape this! VOLCANIC FIRESTORM…!!” he conjured up a huge mass of flames into one massive ball that would fry the birds and Flash to a crisp.
“Stop him!” shouted Starla and all the fighters dashed forth, at the same time, the other four demons lunged forth to try and stop them, but Lightning managed to slip past them all.
“Huh…?!” Blaze turned round just in time for Lightning to kick him hard from behind, causing him to fall off balance and launch his fireball clear up, up, up into the sky.
…
While in orbit, the astronauts could all see a bright flash of light over the pacific region. “Hey, what’s that?” cried Jenkins.
Everyone looked and could see the huge fireball heading straight their way, towards the satellite where Celesto was still working.
“WATCH OUT!!” screamed Kendal.
Celesto pounded on his jetpack hard, forgetting that he was still tethered to the satellite. He reached the end of his line, and the fireball barely missed him, but struck the satellite, blowing it up!
KAPOW!! The force of the explosion sent Celesto rocketing off into space, “…AAAAAAHHHHH!!”
“CELESTO!” cried Kendal.
Then suddenly, bits of fragments from the destroyed satellite flew straight at her, one of them slit the oxygen feed tubes on her spacesuit.
She started choking.
“Kendal!” cried Jenkins “I’m coming!” and he rocketed towards her and quickly got her back inside the station, but he took a moment to see Celesto flying further and further away every second.
He tried to contact him, but he was too far out for the signal to reach him, but there was nothing he could do for him now, especially with Kendal’s life on the line too.
So he took her inside.
…
Down on Mystic Island, the fire was spreading badly, and it was reaching the stables.
“The horses!” cried Celestia “We’ve got to get them to safety.”
“Sister, we can’t!” cried Luna “The fire is spreading too quickly!” but Celestia refused to heed. She remembered how her horse Bud had died after his fatal injuries from their accident all those years ago. She wasn’t about to let the same thing happen again.
“I’ll help you!” Sunset called as she dashed off with her. Eventually, even Luna couldn’t let them go at it alone.
…
Krysta and her birds had dropped Flash off outside of the camp. “You go somewhere safe. We have work to do.” she said to him. Then she flew off with the other birds back into the camp.
“Wait!” cried Flash. He couldn’t just sit there and do nothing while his friends were in danger.
Then again, there was nothing he could do against those powerful brutes… unless…!
He gazed down at his hands, and began to remember his past, which was all too clear to him now; whom he really was, where he originally came from, what he tried to do a long time ago… even hurting the human Twilight Sparkle of that world, resulting in her being hospitalized.
Flash clenched his fists and struggled with the unbearable pain of shame and guilt, and yet there was one little spark deep down inside of him that was starting to grow… and tell him what he had to do.
Blaze stood up fierily, glaring at Lightning, as Starla Rarity and Spike came by his side.
“Perhaps you are a tad stronger than I estimated.” hissed Blaze “But unlike your power, mine existed long before yours was even thought of.”
“That doesn’t mean anything, Blaze.” said Lightning “We’ll show you what real power is all about!”
The others all agreed.
Blaze’s eyes flared up, and he shot two fiery beams of fire, which the gang dodged, and then went at him all they had, punching and kicking like crazy.
Blaze tripped Rarity up and then held her in a tight grip. The flames were so hot she could feel the sizzling through her suit. “Can you feel the heat?” he mocked.
Rarity groaned and moaned as her flesh turned red with the burning.
“Rarity!” cried Spike, and he charged forth with his sword at the ready, but Blaze saw him coming…
“FLAME FLOW!”He breathed a huge blast of fire at the Dragon Knight knocking him back hard into Starla and Lightning.
“No!” screamed Rarity “That’s it!” and finding her strength, she managed to get her arm free, and socked Blaze hard in the face, making him drop her.
“My turn!” shouted Starla “PULSAR LASER!" and she fired a huge beam at him, but it only did a little bit of damage.
“He’s stronger than I thought!” cried Lightning.
Blaze laughed “And so are my comrades.”
The other demons proved equally as strong as their leader.
“Get him!” shouted Rainbow, as she Buddy and Applejack went after Scaled, but the sinister serpent hybrid, stood where he was and shouted “SERPENT STRIKE!” and drove his long snake hair and his scaly arms deep into the ground, which then sprung up near the others, knocking them all over.
“Whoa! This fella sure packs a punch!” groaned Applejack.
“Well lets him try this!” shouted Buddy “LEAF SWARM!”
His swarm of leaves headed straight at him “Fool!” snarled Scaled, and he retracted his arms and hair and then swiftly used them like whips to bat all the leaves away.
“No way!” cried Buddy!
Scales laughed and scoffed at them “I’m afraid your sssskill is not up to ssssnuff!”
Rainbow had completely lost her cool, and charged forth like a speeding bullet. She thrust her foot forward for a hard kick, but Scale slipped out of the way, and kicked her instead, sending her crashing hard into one of the bunks, crushing it to pieces.
“RAINBOW!!” the others shouted.
She rose up from the fallen wood pile, grasping her head “Man, talk about a headache!”
“Come on!” sneered Tempest as he flew up, up into the sky, with Rhymey, Artie and Fluttershy coming at him.
Rhymey drew out his sword, and Artie twirled his staff. Fluttershy cracked her knuckles, and Tempest extended his claws and talons.
“Wipe him out!” shouted Artie.
“Now we bout!” rhymed Rhymey
Fluttershy just roared as she and the boys charged at the demon, and Tempest defended himself with his talons and claws.
A real sword and fist fight, three-on-one, parrying their weapons and fists with his own “Now try this! EAGLE EYE!” and his eyes glowed brightly creating a huge flare so bright it was hard for the others to see, giving him the edge to pound, bash, and slash them all hard, sending them crashing to the ground.
Fluttershy had a huge scratch on her cheek, which angered Rhymey severely.
“He will pay!
There has to be a way!”
“But how?” said Fluttershy “We can hardly see him in that glare of his.”
That gave Artie an idea “Then we’ll just have to block it out then. Follow me!” and he soared back up high with his friends following him.
“Come back for more, eh?” sneered Tempest, and he was about to unleash his glare, when Artie dashed forth…!
“PAINT GUSH” and he slapped a gush of paint at the demon’s face, blinding his eyes. “Ugh! Argh! I can’t see!”
While he was stunned, the friends came from all ends and struck him hard; Flutterhy even grabbed him by his legs and swung him down hard, straight into the stage, bringing the whole thing down into a pile of rubble.
“Oh, wow… I can’t believe I did that.” she said sounding all timid.
Rhymey smiled at her.
“Whoa, look!” shouted Artie.
Tempest burst out from the rubble, hardly hurt at all. “You really think we demons can be beaten that easily?” he teased “You’ve been reading too much fiction.” and he soared up high again to continue the brawl.
Down below, Boomer and Slick teamed up to face the rest of the gang-- Pinkie Pie and the Twins.
“Oh, this out to be wild.” said Boomer.
“What do you take, heads or tails?” teased Slick.
The three friends clenched their fists and decided the twins would handle Boomer while Pinkie dealt with Slick.
“You two obviously share everything; everything but brains.” Boomer mocked.
“Don’t push us!” growled Dyno.
“You don’t know how hot tempered we can get.” added Myte.
Boomer grinning sinisterly and then leapt up high and shouted “EARTH SHAKER” and he slammed on the ground hard, causing a huge tremor which everyone felt, and the twins fell off their feet, giving Boomer the perfect chance to punch and kick them both hard.
The twins got back onto their feet and lunged at him, fly-kicking him hard, but his solid rocky body, it was like trying to kick a steel wall.
“AY’-AY’-AY’!!” the twins groaned as they hopped up and down.
“How pathetic.” hissed Boomer.
The twins were far from beaten though, and joined their hands together. “BOOM-BOOM ROCKETS” launching their rocket barrage at him, which did damage him, but only slightly.
“My turn!” shouted Boomer.
“Uh oh…!” cried Dyno.
“I don’t like this.” added Myte.
“STRIKING SPIKES”
Boomer unleashed several spikes from his back into the boys’ armor vests, and bolts of lightning magically came from out nowhere, striking the spikes and blasting the boys hard.
Boomer laughed at the boys as the struggled to their feet.
Pinkie wasn’t doing so well either.
“Ready or not, here I come!” she shouted as she charged forth and aimed a powerful punch at Slick’s slimy body, but her hand just went right through him, making him giggle.
“Stop it! That tickles!”
Pinkie pulled herself out, and tried again, and again, but to no avail. She used her newly acquired super strength to grab a fallen log and throw it straight through him, making a huge hole.
“Got’cha!” she cried.
Slick only snickered “Think again…” and the hole in him vanished as the slime regenerated itself, much to Pinkie’s horror.
“You dummy! You can’t hurt me!” Slick sneered “I’m made of an enchanted plasmatic slime. I have no solid mass. I’ll just regenerate every time! Even the fire can’t help you.”
Pinkie refused to give up “There are only two things in this world I can’t stand; Party-Poopers, and big ugly monsters trying to take over the world! I’ll find a way to get you.”
Slick admired her courage and boldness, but he silently said in his mind “These humans have yet to learn of a certain specialty me and the guys also possess.”
Lightning’s group was still brawling with Blaze, but he was proving to be as ruthless as he was strong as he punched, kicked, and blasted them all over the place.
“This isn’t working!” cried Rarity.
“Gee, you noticed…!” sneered Starla.
Blaze laughed wickedly as he crept forth “Is this all the power you have? I am feeling weak… with hunger. Yes… I think a human and dragon barbeque is in order.”
He charged up ready to blast.
“Let’s try attacking him all at once.” Spike suggested “We can push him into the water.”
“Good idea…” said Lightning, and he began to charge up the uniforce, while the others charged up their strong attacks.
“You think that scares me?!” shouted Blaze.
“UNIFORCE!”
“GALACTIC PROJECTILE”
“DRAGON KNIGHT SABER… IGNITE”
Rarity didn’t have to shout her attack, but she roared loudly as she unleashed a huge wave of power from her horn.
The four attacks combined into one enormous streak of power that stuck blaze hard, piercing through him, and sent him flying backwards and splashing into the lake, causing him to explode in a huge flame.
The other four demons gazed in shock and all cried out “BLAZE!!!”
Lightning’s team felt relieved and pleased with themselves. “That’s one of them down.” said Lightning.
The other four demons wouldn’t have this, and they each let out a piercing demonic shriek.
The fighters all covered their eyes and groaned at the sound of that awful noise, and then, like magic… Blaze was back, and he looked stronger than ever.
He laughed as he landed softly back on the ground. “Surprise.” he hissed.
“It can’t be!” cried Rarity.
“How did he come back?” wondered Spike.
Lightning pondered and then he remembered about the pony warlock’s book, and how it was incomplete and missing information.
“You sssssee how it is.” hissed Scales.
“We’ve worked together so many ages, and we’ve learned many new tricks.” said Tempest.
“Destroy one of us, and the others will revive him.” added Boomer.
“And as the cherry on top…” said Slick “Each time one of us is revived, we come back stronger than ever before.”
All the fighters gasped in shock.
Blaze glared at Lightning “That pitiful pony warlock realized this. He could not destroy us, which lead him to seal us in that crypt for five-thousand years. Now we are back, and stronger than before. This world now belongs to us!”
He and his comrades laughed wickedly, making all the fighters feel a slight sense of doubt.
How could they stop the demons now?
…
The fire continued to spread, but Krysta and her army of bird friends were now working their hardest to put it out, or at least get it under control.
They all flew up carrying huge sheets of water they dumped all around to keep the flames at bay.
“Keep it up birdies, keep it up!” hollered Krysta.
She then fluttered down to the stables where Sunset and the two sisters were doing their best to get all the horses out of the burning inferno. “How’s it going out there?” asked Sunset.
“We’re doing our best, but we can’t hold keep this up.” said Krysta.
“We’ve nearly gotten all the horses out of here.” said Celestia.
She and Sunset drove the horses out of the stables, and Luna was outside guiding them to the road on the other side of the trees while the trees were not burning, where some of the campers agreed to look after them.
“That’s the last one.” said Luna.
“Okay, let’s get out of here.” said Sunset, but just as she and the others were about to leave, there at the door stood the Sirens.
“Leaving so soon?” hissed Adagio.
The other two snickered.
“Get out of our way, you devas!” snarled Sunset.
“Ooh… you hurt our feelings.” said Sonata.
“I think we need to teach them some manners.” added Aria.
The three girls snickered and their eyes began to glow, and before the ladies knew it, they were shrouded in fields of light.
“What’s happening?” cried Celestia.
“I… cannot move.” added Luna
“What is this!” cried Krysta “I thought we got rid of their gems?”
That’s when each of the girls reached into their pockets and pulled out other gems, identical to their original ones, but black in color. “You think our powers can be beaten that easily?” said Adagio “I think you’ve been living in fantasy for too long.”
“Our red gems granted us our music abilities and hypnotic spells.” said Sonata “But these ones here grant us even darker powers than what we had before.”
“We suspected we’d get betrayed, so we absorbed some energy ourselves to power us up.” said Aria.
“Let us go!” Celestia demanded.
“Of course we will…” said Adagio “We’ll let you go… down in flames!”
She then cast a look at Sunset and levitated her closer “You on the other hand… it wasn’t nice of you to destroy our other pendants.”
The other girls snickered, and decided to carry her off to punish her more painfully than flames.
“No, Sunset!” cried Krysta. She and other others tried all they could, but they couldn’t budge an inch.
“Sorry, but thems the burns...” Aria laughed as she flew off with her friends leaving the ladies and Krysta in the burning stables.
“Look!” cried Buddy Rose.
Everyone looked and saw the sirens, flying up high with the aid of their powerful new magic, and holding their hostage.
“Sunset!!” shouted Artie “Let her go!”
“Sorry, but we girls need to have a little quality time.” hissed Adagio “No losers allowed!” Then the three demon-girls flew off in the direction of Canterlot High.
“Sunset, No!” cried Artie, and he tried to fly off after them, only to get grabbed by Scale’s head-tentacle. “Going ssssomewhere…?” he hissed.
All the others tried to go after the Sirens, but were halted by the demons.
Blaze was impressed by The Sirens. “Those girls have more spark in them than I thought they did. No matter…”
The fire was spreading all over the stables, and the ladies were still powerless to free themselves from the force-fields. “LIGHTNING… HELP!!” Krysta screamed.
Lightning could hear here “KRYSTA!!”
Blaze turned towards the stables, and then he grinned at Lightning.
“No!” Lightning cried as he dashed for the stables, but Blaze had already unleashed his fiery wrath at the building, seemingly blowing it up before everyone’s eyes.
All the fighters gazed in extreme horror and sadness as the flames burst out.
Tears came to Lightning eyes as he thought of the sisters and his dear little friend still inside. “NO!!!”