ACT FOURTEEN
The fighters were all spread out, and Lightning’s friends felt wild enough that they could fly, but just as Lightning promised, their suits would not only protect them, but it would increase their natural strengths and speeds, and provide them with their weapons and special abilities to assist them in battle. They each went after the crystal warriors, finding them in various locations and wreaking havoc. “Let’s get ‘em!” shouted Buddy and they all soared down right at the warriors kicking them all hard, and then the battle was on.
Just as Lightning promised, when the warriors hit them, they hardly felt anything that much, but they still did get pushed down and back hard and knocked into walls, but now they were really steamed up and ready to fight back with all they had. They discovered they could do so much more than they thought; they could jump great heights and distances, punch and kick with enough for to break a break wall, and even perform incredible martial art moves in addition to the ones they already learned and studied in books.
They punched, kicked, and knocked those evil creatures to the ground. “Take that!” yelled Starla as she swiftly kicked a warrior in the face and sent him crashing into two of his buddies. Two more crept up on her from behind, and she turned round quickly “PUSLAR LASER” and shot them all right through.
The Spanish twins were getting real kicks out of this, literally. The spun around like dancers and shouting “Uno, dos, tres y Tiro! Uno, dos, tres y Tiro!” before raising their feet and double-kicking the enemies in the chests sending them hard backward, but soon they found themselves surrounded and tried to use their magical attacks on them, forgetting at first they had to join hands and combine their powers to make it work as they were twins. “Ready…?”
“Si, let’s do it.”
They joined hands and shouted “BOOM-BOOM ROCKETS” and fired their missiles right at the swarm, blasting them to pieces. The brothers slapped each other a high-five.
Artie was fighting hard and got shoved down a grassy slope and crashing headfirst into a garbage can at the bottom. He got up angrily. “That does it! SUPER STAFF” His staff appeared and he whirled it and twirled it in poses, and then pole-vaulted right back up the hill. “Did you miss me, boys?” he teased, landing right in the middle of ring of six warriors, and he drove his staff into the ground and swung round and around kicking down each of the warriors. “I think I could get used to this stuff.”
Rhymey leapt up high somersaulting in the air, and attacked more of the warriors, but more ganged up on him and dealt him a few blows and sent him skidding across the ground.
“I won’t give in.
I’ll still win!” he said as he gathered his strength, and even thought of Fluttershy and that he was fighting for her, as well as everyone else which gave him more determination. “WARD SWORD” he stood and swung his sword heroically. Its blade shimmered in the moonlight.
The warriors charged at him, but Rhymey slashed and swung at them all hard knocking them down like trees, and then stood proud and waved his sword, posing and proclaiming…
“There, you see?
That was easy.”
Meanwhile, Grandruler had already made it into orbit. He gazed all around him at the stunning sights of space and the Earth below him. It had been had been such a long time since his last mission before he retired, but he had no time for reminiscing. He could see the satellite cannon up ahead, and it was pretty big, about the size of Canterlot High. He maneuvered his craft until it was just within range. “Arming interceptor missiles.”
The torpedoes were armed “Fire!” and off they went heading straight for the dish, slamming into it and exploding. “Direct hit!” Grandruler cheered, but when the smoke cleared, the dish wasn’t even scratched. “It can’t be...” He tried another two shots, but still no damage. “It must have a special surface!”
Sapphira and Flash, fully aware he was up there, laughed at his feeble attempt. “Foolish, Earthman…” scoffed Sapphira “Your Earth technology is no match for my strong crystallite alloy.”
Flash checked the gauge “We’re almost ready to fire, mother.”
“Excellent!”
Grandruler realized, if he couldn’t destroy the satellite, then maybe he could at least tip it off course so it would fire away from the Earth, by pushing his craft against it. He carefully steered his craft and armed the rammer bumper. “Easy now, easy…!”
“Oh, no you don’t!” hissed Flash and he held up a remote-control linked to the satellite, and activated a special built-in mechanism.
A small gun nozzle popped out atop the satellite, and fired a powerful beam at Grandruler’s craft and holding it in an electro-magnetic deadlock. He tried with all his might, but he couldn’t break free, and the hatches wouldn’t open so he couldn’t jump out. He couldn’t figure a way out, but knew he’d have to, because his oxygen wouldn’t last forever! He just hoped things were going better down on Earth.
With the number of crystal-warriors diminished, it was time for the next step; going after the big crystal beasts, and stop Sapphira. Lightning was soaring high over the city, and kept in close contact with his team via his new transmitter. “All right Starfleet, it's time to get serious! I have the enemies in my sights. I'm going in!”
He could see one of the two big brutes down below. “Okay big guy, you’re not going to get me this time. Here I come!” Soaring down swiftly from up above, he aimed his legs out front and kicked the beast hard in the back of its huge head and actually knocked him over. “Direct hit!” but that big brute got back up almost immediately, and unleashed a magical wave of light at him, hitting him full force. “Whoa! He’s tougher than he looks. I need backup.”
“We’re on our way, Lightning.” cried Buddy. He arrived on the scene in almost no time and pulled out his Vine Whip, ensnaring the beast by the legs, keeping him tied up, and he couldn’t snap the special material it was made up. “Sorry, big guy, line’s all tied up.” Buddy teased as he wrestled to maintain his grip. It was like trying to hold on to a really big and feisty dog with a real temper. The monster tried to blast at him, but Buddy leapt out of the way missing it. “Bad move, big guy. Two can play at this game. LEAF SWARM”
His razor-sharp leaves bombarded the monster hard keeping it blinded and distracted, but he could still shoot blindly. “I need help!” shouted Buddy.
“Hang on, I’m coming!” hollered Artie. He landed just near them and shouted “PAINT BOMB” and unleashed his gloopy explosions at the beast, damaging him further, but the beast still struggled to fight back. “Man, these guys are tougher than we thought.”
“Keep trying!” shouted Buddy.
Meanwhile, Rhymey stood face-to-face with other beast, gently caressing the blade of his sword. The beast growled at him and raised his strong arms and the two began to sword-fight fiercely. Eventually engaging in a blade-lock, but the beast still had a free arm and punched Rhymey hard sending him soaring backwards hard and crashing into a wall.
“I’ve been hit hard,
Send help to the boulevard!”
The Spanish Twins loomed over the beast from high on the roof. “Hang on, Amigo!” shouted Dyno “Here we come…!” hollered Myte as he and his brother leapt form up high and onto the beast riding him like a bucking bull, but maintaining a firm grip.
While they were all down there handling the beasts, Starla soared towards the rooftop where Sapphira and Flash were, plotting to get Lightning’s Rainbow Rod back. “Okay, guys I got them in my sights.” she said and then got out her Star Bow, and readied to shoot, but Flash and Sapphira could see her coming, and laughed. “They just make this too easy.” said Sapphira. Her son snickered, and Sapphira stepped out to the edge of the roof and fired her magic beams, hitting Starla hard. “I’ve been hit! I’m going down!” She barely managed to straighten herself up and soften her crash way down below, but still lay flat on a pile of garbage bags.
Sapphira and Flash laughed at her and Flash requested “Mother, allow me…?” his mother nodded, and Flash leapt off the edge, leaving the remote control in his mother’s control, and landed majestically into the street and made his way over to where Starla lay flat, and clutched his sword, “Poor, helpless Earth girl, you should have minded your own business.”
He stood over her and raised his sword ready to cut her in half, which she swiftly raised her foot and booted him hard in the chest knocking him over. She bolted up right and stood poised for a brawl. “I’ll show you who’s helpless!”
Flash growled, and the two went at it hard. Flash swung his blade, punched, kicked and fired at Starla, which she put great efforts to dodge and return fire. “STARLIGHT ARROW” She fired her magic arrow right at Flash, but he deflected it with his sword, striking her back. Sparks flew everywhere and Starla rolled along the ground. “I got Flash Sentry in a brawl. I need backup!” she hollered into her speaker. “Hang tight, Starla, I’m coming!” cried Lightning.
All over the areas, things weren’t improving well!
Buddy and Artie were still struggling with the first beast. “I don’t think I can hold him much longer!” cried Buddy.
Dyno and Myte both got bucked off the other beast and slammed into Rhymey. “He’s too strong!” cried Dyno. “We can’t take him down, not like this.” added Myte.
Grandruler was still caught in the magnetic field in orbit, and he still couldn’t break free as long as the satellite kept beaming on him. “It’s getting hot in here!” he shouted at no one in particular. His oxygen wouldn’t last much longer, and worse, the satellite was fully charged. “Oh, no!” he cried.
“Yes…!” shouted Sapphria “Full power reached. FIRE!” and the satellite cannon fired, sending a pale blue magic beam right for the island. The people could see it coming and began to run for their lives, but of course there was no place for them to really run to, on an island! The beam hit the coast line, but slowly began to make its way inward onto the land, and every living thing it touched turned into a crystallite version of itself, and began to act strangely, chanting.
“Hail Sapphira! Hail Sapphira!”
Meanwhile, Starla was still having trouble with Flash. After a long fight and exchanging blows and hits. Flash had her at his mercy again, and pointed his sword right at her. “Now who is helpless?” he mocked “You put up a valiant effort, but I’m afraid it was all in vain.”
He was about to stab her dead, when Lightning came soaring like a missile and head-slammed him hard in the side. “DU’AAAAAAHH!” and sent him clear across the street. “All in vain for you, Flash Sentry!” he gloated.
“Great timing.” Starla said with a smirk.
Lightning nodded at her and then turned angrily to gaze at Flash. “I’ve been waiting for this for a long time, Flash Sentry!!” and jumped right at him and mercilessly let him have it. Flash fought back just as fiercely, but he was already a little worn out from his battle with Starla, giving Lightning a powerful advantage to really bash him hard. Starla, recovered a bit of her strength and helped him, but in the midst of the fight, they could see off in the distance, the satellite beam was slowly making its way across the island, cursing everything it touched.
Flashed wickedly laughed and said to him “Your time is up, Lightning Dawn! You and your and your friends were never match for us.”
More and more people and animals on the island were struck by the magic and turned into crystallites. They were practically zombies that lived to only serve their empress, Sapphira. “Wonderful!” Sapphira cheered “Soon the island will be completely under my control, and then I shall proceed to infect the entire world, and proceed to infect the dimensional universe.”
“No, you won’t!” shouted a voiced.
“What?!” she turned round just in time as Celestia, who snuck her way into the building and out onto the roof, swiftly kicked the remote control out of her hand and sent it crashing down below, smashing it, and in turn, released Grandruler from the magnetic-field.
“I’m free!” he cried.
“You!” growled Sapphira “You will pay for this, Earth woman!” She fired a blast, but Celestia rolled out of the way, quickly grabbing a rock and pitched it right at the pedestal, hitting the Rainbow Rod and knocking it clear off and over the edge of the roof. “No!!” shouted Sapphira. Without the rod, the power ceased, and the satellite stopped firing.
“The rod! We’ve got to get it!” cried Lightning, but as he tried to fly up to it, he got blasted by Flash! “Going somewhere…?” he growled and moved into position to catch the falling rod. Starla tried to grab it, but got kicked out of the way. It looked as if Flash was finally going to catch it, when at the last second; Krysta swopped in and grabbed it in her talons. “Forget about me?” she teased.
“Krysta!” cried Lightning.
She winked at him. “Catch!” and tossed the rod at him. Lightning leapt up swiftly and caught it. “Finally…! I have it back!”
Flash was outraged and planned to zap Krysta hard.
“STAR SHOWER” Starla shouted, and bombarded him with her attack. Flashed growled as the stars blasted him, and he turned back to gaze at the others.
“You should know by now, you can’t outwit Starfleet!” said Lightning.
Flash was outraged, but not as outraged as his mother. She grabbed Celestia by the collar and held her over the ledge over the forty story drop. “They have not won yet. I can still conquer this world.”
As Celestia gazed at that wicked face, she remembered something years ago, when she and Bud were making that jump. She could see someone out of the corner of her eye shoot a small stone at Bud during the jump, the one that spooked him and caused the fatal accident forcing him to be to put down. “It was you! You killed my horse!”
“Very good…” hissed Sapphira “And guess who I’m going to kill now for their interference?” With that, she threw Celestia hard sending her plummeting to certain doom. “Celestia!” shouted Lightning, but Flash wouldn’t allow him and Starla to save her and held them back by striking them with his sword, knocking them down.
However, Krysta chirped loudly and a huge swarm of birds flew in from all ways and surrounded Celestia, grabbing onto her and all working together, they slowed her down as she fell, saving her. “I made a few friends myself all the time we were here.” she said with a smirk
“Not bad for a birdbrain.”
“Way to go, Krysta!” cried Lightning.
As angry as Sapphira was, she had work to do. “Finish them off, my son!” she shouted as she transformed into light and crystals and rocketed up into the sky. Flash stood ready for more, and Starla and Lightning leapt into action.
Now that he was free from the force, Grandruler, again, positioned his craft and began to push the satellite trying to throw it out of orbit and off into space. He managed to shove it a little ways out, but it was too big as massive compared to his little spacecraft, he just didn’t have enough power to do it, without running out of fuel for re-entry.
Suddenly, Grandruler could see a bright light heading towards him. “What the-- Whoa!” he quickly veered away just as the light crashed into the satellite, causing the entire thing to glow in pale blue light, and Sapphira’s face appeared in the satellites hub where the cannon was. Her sinister laughter and voice seemed amplified. Grandruler couldn’t believe his eyes.
Sapphira didn’t need the Rainbow Rod anymore, both she and the satellite had plenty of power, allowing her to merge into it and control it at will. “Now, where were we? Ah, yes…!” and she opened fire over all corners of the Earth as well as the island, infecting more countries and people but the minute.
“No!” shouted Grandruler and he armed and fired the last of his missiles at Sapphira. Not a single shot missed, but did absolutely no damage at all. Sapphira turned to face him. “My turn!” as she charged up, Grandruler quickly reeved the controls to get out of the way as Sapphira fired a powerful beam at him, hitting the side of his craft and knocking out one of the rocket thrusters. “My port engine!” he cried. Without that engine he couldn’t maintain control very well, or keep his craft well in orbit, not that it mattered, as Saphira was preparing to shoot him again. “Abandon ship!” shouted Grandruler as he bailed out just in time before his craft was shot and destroyed in a big explosion.
Grandruler was still safe using his jetpack, but now he was in more danger than ever. He only had thirty minutes of air left, and there was no way he could get back down to Earth! Sapphira merely decided to leave him to his fate to die while she continued to curse the Earth. “You have failed, Earthman. Now your planet is mine!”
Grandruler could only gaze down helplessly at the Earth.
All over, the magic beams were crashing on the Earth and Sapphira’s wicked spell was spreading faster by the minute. Lightning and Starla were still fighting with Flash while the others kept attacking the crystal-beasts. Buddy Rose finally lost his grip and was shoved back hard. Artie helped him up. “You okay, man?”
“Yeah, but we can’t hold out like this anymore.”
Rhymey and the twins dodged the other beast firing his magic at them.
“What do we do now?
Lightning, tell us how!”
Lightning figured by now the beasts were probably tired enough, Flash too. “Channel all your available power and use your finisher moves!” he hollered.
“This is going to be so awesome.” said Dyno.
“Okay, let’s go!” shouted Myte.
One by one, they each unleashed their fury...
“GALACTIC PROJECTILE.”
“WHIPLASH STRIKE.”
“SUPER STAFF SPIN.”
“THRASH SLASH.”
“BOOM-BOOM FLARE.”
The beasts were struck and blasted hard. They roared and growled as their bodies’ flared and sparked, and jolted with beams and bolts, and they exploded in two big bangs.
Flash never felt so outraged in his life, and Lightning turned to face him. “Now it’s your turn!”
“Fool!” growled Flash. “You forget, that Rainbow Rod of yours will only strengthen my power.”
“Wrong!” sneered Lightning and he blasted him with a small shot, knocking Flash’s sword away and sent him skidding up the road. “You forget the Rainbow Rod’s other special power allows me to dispel and vanquish evil magic.” With that, his weapon began to glow brightly. “SPECTRUM STREAM”
The big burst of powerful energy soared right at Flash. He stood his ground and held out his arms trying to defend himself from the blast thundering “LIGHTNING DAWN, I WILL NOT LOSE TO YOU!!”
“Flash, you’re too late!” shouted Lightning and gave it all he had.
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Flash roared and growled as the force consumed all his evil energy. Lightning turned his back to Flash in a heroic pose as Flash stood where he was, flaring, and sparking, and he exploded!
When the smoke had cleared, Flash had transformed back into his human form, and lay flat on the ground unconscious. Lightning had only vanquished the evil magic inside of him.
Lightning’s friends, even Celestia cheered for joy, but the mission wasn’t over yet. Lightning gazed up at the sky, and then back to Celestia. “Take care of Flash..." and he pointed way up in the direction of the satellite "...We’re going up there!”
Celestia nodded, and the fighters, after activating their suit helmets to protect them, they flew up, up, up into the sky, traveling at a speed of 15.5 kilometers per second. Their suits and super powers protected them, and they made it into orbit in almost no time. As much as the friends could hardly believe they were actually in space, they kept well focussed and searched for Grandruler.
“Look, there it is!” cried Starla.
The satellite was just coming into view, and they could see Grandruler as well, and he looked in bad shape due to lack of oxygen.
Sapphira could see them coming. “So, you wish to play, huh?” she growled, and she opened fire on them. “Look out!” shouted Lightning.
Everyone swerved out of the way just in time, missing the blast. Some of them tried to return fire, but they had used up a lot of their powers during the fights below, and Sapphira still managed to deflect their blasts with her own power. “Nice try, Star-brats!” she mocked as she continued fire and the fighters continued to dodge. “We’ve got to get Grandruler out of the way!” cried Starla
The twins nodded and soared closer, scooping Grandruler up in their arms, and connected airlines from their suits to his sharing their oxygen with him. “Hang on sir.”
“…We got you.”
“No, wait…!” Grandruler cried weakly “I think I’ve discovered a weakness in the satellite.”
“Nothing any of you can do will stop me!” thundered Sapphira. She fired right at them, but the twins carried Grandruler out of the way quickly. “We’ve got to block up the main cannon. It just may work.” said Grandruler.
“Yeah, but what do we block it with?” asked Buddy. That’s when they realized, bits of debris and wreckage from Grandruler’s destroyed craft, and they all happened on the same idea. As Sapphira continued to blast at everyone, one-by-one, the team gathered big chunks of debris, and mashed it all into one big ball. “Okay, this is it…” said Lightning “When I give the signal, everyone get as far away from the satellite as you can.”
Sapphira continued to blast at everyone laughing maliciously, all the others continued to dodge the shots, but succeeding in keeping her distracted from Lightning. “Now!” shouted Lightning. The others scattered away!
“Huh?” Sapphira could see him coming straight at her with the junk-ball, and she prepared to fire just as Lightning jammed the huge ball into the mouth of the cannon, and sped away just in time as Sapphira fired, and there was a big explosion followed by smaller explosions. Everyone shielded their eyes!
Even down on Earth, the explosion was so bright, everyone else hid their eyes. Some even hit the ground, looking away. “What was that?” cried Luna.
Twilight’s friends felt shivers run down their spines.
Back up in orbit, the smoke had cleared, and Sapphira was in a big mess, the satellite was all charred, warped and busted in many areas. She felt very weary. “It’s over, Sapphira! You’ve lost!” Lightning snapped at her.
Sapphira, weak but not totally defeated, swore that she wasn’t finished. “You may have won today, but I’ll gather my strength and strike again.” and while she was bellowing, her magical force fired out the back end of the satellite like rockets and began to fly off into space “So long, Starfleet!”
“Oh, no you don’t Sapphira.” said Lightning “I still have one last trick I can use.” He concentrated hard until his golden horn began to glow. The others gazed in astonishment as the glowing got brighter and Lightning chanted…
"I summon forth a mystic power
to aid me in this darkest hour
casting now upon my foe
I now unleash… this magical glow!"
“…UNIFORCE” He unleashed the great burst of energy!
Sapphira looked behind her screaming “What...?! NOOOOOOO...!!” The force hit her, blasting her farther and farther out into space followed by a huge explosion! The fighters shielded their eyes again, and the people down on Earth could see it too. Sapphira was really gone! They could tell because without her, all those infected by her magic rays reverted back to normal. All over Mystic Island, and all over other countries, everyone just burst into cheers of extreme joy, while up in orbit, Lightning and his friends hovered in free float above the Earth as the sun shined on them all. Lightning gazed back and forth at each of his friends, and they smiled heroically at him as Lightning proclaimed “Starfleet… Victory is ours!”