//------------------------------// // Goodbye New Enemy, Hello New Home // Story: Season Spike // by Haoryu Changer //------------------------------// Theme: "This power... it's enormous!" Tirek said in amazement looking at himself. "I never knew such a power existed. It's much more than those filthy princesses and Ruler of Chaos." Tirek scanned the now slightly cowering ponies, draconequus, and dragon. "This dragon had so much power. I can't pass this opportunity to see if his twin brother has as much." Spike gulped when Tirek stared at them with his glowing eyes. "Now you all are next." "You already have so much magic! What do you want with even more?!" Armak yelled. Tirek crossed his arms. "All of this magic belong to me." Armak growled. "In your dreams!" Twilight teleported the all of them out to the wastelands not too far from Ponyville. "We can't fight him near Ponyville! He's too big!" She explained. "He's way too powerful. Can we even fight him at all?" Spike asked. "We have to. He'll just track us down if we don't." Armak said. "Well, does anyone have a way to stop him?!" Twilight was about to hyperventilate. The other Element Bearers didn't know what to do. "I can propose a solution." All eyes looked at Discord. "We obviously can't beat him by force-" "OB-VI-OUS-LY!" Rarity yelled. Discord frowned but continued. "But, we could beat him by extracting his stolen magic from him, rendering him powerless." "But where will that magic go? Equestria needs it back." Twilight said. "Magic can't just disappear, and clearly we're going to find a way to give it back." "Aren't you the Embodiment Of Chaos? Haven't you changed Equestria into a checkerboard before?" Armak asked. "Your point being...?" "You should be able to do something!" Armak yelled. "I'm afraid even Tirek had grown too powerful for me." Discord said sadly. "Is that so?" With a blast of flames, Tirek appeared in front of all of them. Twilight quickly teleported all of her defenseless friends away safely. The four left standing took their fighting stance. Tirek chuckled. "Do you really believe you can beat me?" "Discord, can you perform the spell to take away his magic?" Twilight whispered. "...No." "What?!" All yelled. "It would use too much magic to do it! I don't want to di-" Tirek yelled and fired a magma sphere at all of them. They all dodged with teleportation. Tirek suddenly clutched his chest. "What... is this... pain...?" "He he he..." "What?" Tirek rubbed his thumb in his ear. "Am I hearing things? It sounded like-" "Hello, buddy!" Darkness abruptly shouted in Tirek head. "Wha- You- ...How?!" "What do you mean how? I literally jumped into your mouth." "What do you want?" Tirek boomed. "You made me really sad that you didn't want to work with me, so I'm taking your body." "...WHAT?!" Darkness started to laugh. "You can stay in my head if you'd like and watch Equestria burn. But there's no way I'm letting you take over MY body and MY magic." "Oh yeah? Well, try and stop me. As we speak-" Tirek gave a powerful roar. "Anyways... -Gragh!" Four powerful beams hit Tirek dead in the face. Tirek screamed and pushed back at the beams with his hands. He fired an enormous plasma beam afterward. Spike flew in the air to dodge, he flew back down and tried to strike at Tirek's forehead. The minotaur grabbed Spike and reached out for Discord. He used them as bats to hit Armak and Twilight, then threw them away harshly. Spike and Discord created two craters on the surface. Before Discord could get up, however, he got encased in Tirek's magic and was brought up to him. Tirek started to inhale and take his magic, making Discord scream in agony. Twilight and Armak flew up and shot beams at Tirek, canceling his magic stealing. Discord dropped and got up weakly. "Discord, are you alright?" Spike asked when he flew down to him. "He... took about a third of my magic... But I'll be fine." Meanwhile, Tirek was about to fire another blast when he got another sting, this one in his head. "Having fun without me I see." Tirek growled. "I'm not letting you have what I worked so hard to gain." "Really now? You've been doing great so far." Tirek could hear Darkness clapping in his head. "Stop clapping!" Tirek was annoyed. "What's the matter with him?" Twilight asked. "Oh stop with this foolishness. I know your kind. Thinking that, they are above all others. Thinking that, they are all powerful. Thinking that, they're a GOD." Tirek growled. "So tell me Lord Tirek. How does a god feel when he is overpowered by a little dragon inside his head?" "I will never have that feeling you ignorant fool." "Let me tell you the difference between you and me, Tirek. You think that you're all powerful, but I KNOW that I'm above all others." "And that's why I have YOUR power?" Tirek said with a smirk. "Nope." Tirek felt like his chest exploded. He grabbed it and yelled in pain. "That's why I have YOUR power!" As Darkness laughed maniacally, Tirek screamed at the top of his lungs. The others were taken aback by this. "What's happening to him?" Twilight asked. "I don't know!" Spike replied. Tirek's eyes and ears poured out dark mist, the spikes on his horns became sharper, and he was sweating. The mist soon covered Tirek's huge form, and when it disappeared, Tirek could be seen with no pupils. Instead, his eyes glowed lime green, and his body resonated a dark green aura. "T-Tirek?" Twilight looked horrified. "Tirek" started to laugh. "I'm sorry, sister. This is not your good ol' Tirek." It said in it's demonic voice. "Oh no..." Armak was now scared. "Equestria! I'M BAAAACK!" Twilight growled and flew up to try and put a stop to this madness. Far before she reached, however, Darkness, using the power of Tirek's stolen magic, shot a dark green beam at Twilight, and it hit. This resulted in Twilight being sent back down to the ground creating a large crater. "Twilight!" Her fellow Element Bearers all came in worry. "Looks like the whole party's here now." Discord shot his eyes at the others with a serious face. "If we don't get that spell ready then all of us are doomed!" He yelled. "We... We don't have enough magic." Armak said sadly. Discord growled. "T-Then we can't do anything?" He put his arms down in defeat and soon walked over to Twilight with a sad face. He sighed. "Tirek, before he got taken over by that guy, tricked me into believing that he could offer me something more valuable than friendship. But there is nothing worth more. I see that now. He lied when he said that this medallion was given as a sign of gratitude and loyalty. But when I say that it is a sign of our true friendship, I am telling the truth." He used his claw and paw to put the medallion around Twilight's neck. The medallion gave a rainbow glow that her friends knew well. "You think that might be the last one we need?" Applejack asked. "We have to get to the chest," Twilight said determinedly. "You all go. We will hold back... him." Twilight gave a nod and started to run to the Tree Of Harmony. Discord turned to the monster with a scowl. "She getting away with all the Alicorn Magic!" "Oh, you're still here?" "You can't just get rid of me." "Yay! Headmate." "Are you going to just let them get away." "Who cares. I'm-" Spike and Armak began to fire multiple blasts at Darkness. "That-" *ZAP!* "Isn't-" *ZAP* "FAIR!" *ZAP!* *ZAP!* *ZAP!* Discord flew up, and with the magic he had left, he poofed up a cannon and started to fire jelly beans out of it. *ROAR!* Somehow, he roared like a dragon with Tirek's body, and the force was powerful enough to send the other three flying. The Mane Six were all in the cave surrounding the blue chest. The medallion Discord gave turned into a key which inserted itself into its respective keyhole. They heard massive explosions and thumping from the above battle. "Together! I think we have to do this together!" So they did, they all turned their keys at the exact same time opening the chest. Right after, a rainbow flew out of the chest, amazing the Mane Six. The rainbow hit the center of the Tree Of Harmony, where Twilight's cutie mark was. Inside the tree, the rainbow connected with all of the other's cutie marks, each one of them glowing when connected. A beam of light then came down on each of the Mane Six. And they traveled inside the chest. That's where their transformations happened. All of their manes and tails grew much larger, and more bright colors appeared on them. While in a huge rainbow sphere, they all rose up and entered the battlefield. They could see Spike and Armak trying to push back Darkness with their magic but failing. That was when Discord saw them. "Look!" He pointed. Darkness looked up with widened eyes. "That's the... YOU SACRIFICED THE ELEMENTS! HOW ARE YOU USING THAT POWER!?" "The magic of friendship is endless. We do not just keep it within the elements!" Twilight shot back. "Defeat them you fool!" "Hmm, Nope." "What?!" "I've lost this fight." "What are you saying? They have no magic!" "He he he... That power can't be stolen from them Tirek. Nor can it be defeated." "YOU FOOL!" Darkness watched as a rainbow beam came down and hit him. Making Tirek's body start to shrink and get weaker. "You win this round. But you can never get rid of me." And with that last sentence out of Tirek's mouth, he vanished. As soon as Tirek got his body back he started to scream in misery. All of his stolen magic was being extracted from him. He gradually shrank down, going into his previous forms until his weakest. The next thing he could see was himself in a cage in Tartarus. Back in Equestria, the Mane Six started to travel around Equestria with a rainbow trailing behind them, giving the magic back to its owners. Twilight Sparkle and Rarity gave back the unicorn magic. Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy gave back the pegasi their flight. And Applejack, as well as Pinkie Pie, gave the earth ponies their strength. Somewhere in Tartarus, the three elder princesses were freed from their prison and was given back their magic. They were headed back to Equestria. The Mane Six were taken back to the cave which held the Tree Of Harmony. The chest closed and rode a newly formed rainbow to Ponyville. The chest sunk deep into the ground like a seed and it sprouted a big blue and purple crystal castle. The Mane Six were then teleported in front of the castle and went back into their regular forms. They all looked at the castle in complete shock. "Sweet Celestia! Are you all seeing what I'm seeing?" Rarity asked. "But... whose is it?" Twilight asked. "I believe it is yours, Princess Twilight." They all looked back to see the two alicorn sisters, Princess Cadence, Spike, Armak, and Discord. All smiling at them. They could all be seen walking through the interiors of the castle the next minute. "Hey! I got a second chance. Why not let Tirek have another one?" Armak asked, "...Why do you say this?" "Well, I need more guy friends! All I have right now is Spike... and Discord." "Perhaps that may be a possibility in the future, but anyways..." Celestia stared at the youngest alicorn. "Twilight, you've been wondering what you are meant to do as a princess. Do you know now?" Celestia asked. Twilight thought for a second, then replied. "As princess, I believe I have the power to spread the magic of friendship across Equestria. That is the role I am meant to have in our world! The role I choose to have!" She teleported to her friends. "But I didn't defeat Tirek on my own, it took all of us to unlock the chest!" "Then it is unlikely you are meant to take on this task alone." Celestia used her magic to open the huge doors. The Mane Six gasped in awe when they saw what was behind it. "You are now Twilight Sparkle, the princess of friendship." It was a huge throne room with seven identical thrones in a circular layout. The only difference in the thrones was that there were the Mane Six's cutie marks and a claw mark symboling whose throne is who's. Spike and the Mane Six sat on their respective thrones. "But what is the princess of friendship without her friends?" Twilight and Spike saw Discord and Armak being left out. Purple magic surrounded Armak and green surrounded Discord. The magic carried them to the group, from which all of them hugged. "Baw! I don't get a throne even, after all, the good things I've done." Armak growled. "Yeah! Where's my throne?" Discord asked. Fluttershy flew up to come face to face with Discord. "I don't think you're quite there yet," She said kindly. "Yes, well, I suppose not," He said while chuckling. "Hey, look! Ponies have come to see the castle." Spike pointed down from a window. Twilight ran up to the front door and started to sing- "Nope." "What Armak?" Asked Twilight. "Nope." "Nope?" Luna was confused along with the rest. "No singing. Nope." Everypony was raising an eyebrow except for Spike, Discord, and some other stallions who knew where this was going. "Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope..." Twilight, Celestia, and the others just stood there in confusion. "He he he- You know what? Screw that creepy laugh. Ho ho ho..." "Oh Spikey Wikey. You can celebrate now, but soon, you'll know nothing but despair and hopelessness." "The next time we meet..." Next Time On Season Spike Spike's Hearts And Hooves day is going great. Sweetie Belle's happy, he's happy, and nothing world threatening is happening. Sweetie's is going great too, but she has more on her to-do list. She has to find a gift for Spike, shake off Spike's "assassin", and introduce her drakefriend to her parents.