“Previously on Starfleet Magic”
The team had regrouped and discovered the blind spots in Chrysalis’ defenses. Despite the risks involved, Lightning managed to infiltrate the Doom-Droid where he confronted Fratello. His plan also worked as Doom-Droid unleashed uniforce absorbed from Lightning. Grand Celestial Ruler absorbed the blast, but was left down for the count, and worse than that, Lightning soon found himself cornered and at the mercy of Fratello, while Chrysalis’ chaos continued to spread!
FINAL EPISODE
Outside, Twilight and the teams had reached their limits. They were so tired that even the slightest nudge from the robots was enough to knock them over, and The Ruler was still recuperating “It’s… no use!” panted Twilight “There’s too many of them!”
“We’re… running out of power!” cried Buddy Rose.
Inside Doom-Droid, Fratello was still waving his blade ready to strike Lightning dead, when suddenly he began to feel strange, and he was soon holding his head in pain and struggling! Lightning wondered what was happening when Fratello begged “Please… destroy me!” The real Fratello was trying to hold the robot back again.
“Fratello!” cried Lightning, but before he knew it, the struggle between the robot and Fratello fighting for control of the body actually destroyed the programming Chrysalis made, releasing him from her control, but Fratello began to slash at the controls with his blade, shorting out the wiring, and causing Doom-Droid to go wild and crazy!
The robot began to dash about waving its arms and recklessly destroying everything its path. It was even sparking and flaring a little. “What’s going on?” cried Fluttershy.
“It looks like it’s developed a mind of its own.” said Artie.
“Hey! Could it be Lightning?” asked Krysta.
Chrysalis couldn’t understand it herself. “What’s going on?” she growled. The storm was starting to pick up again, even without The Ruler fighting, but it was getting to be a bit too much even for her to handle with her spell “Fratello, get that wretched thing working properly!”
But Fratello was still struggling with himself and the robot, soon, the robot was back in control and soon he was attacking Lightning again. But Doom-Droid was moving about so wildly that Fratello could hardly focus, but Lightning was able to dodge and evade all those attacks, causing Fratello to miss and break even more things.
Still, it didn’t solve how he was going to get back out again! “Guys!” shouted Lightning “Can you hear me out there?”
“Do you guys here that?” asked Spike.
“Lightning…” Starla called out “We can hear you!”
“I can’t get out!” Lightning shouted.
The others realized the only way Lightning was going to get out was if someone from the outside did was he did before-- cover themselves in magic to let Doom-Droid absorb them, but only half way so they could get back out again, but none of them had enough to do that. Even Krysta couldn’t create a portal strong enough to penetrate the robot’s massive armor.
“There has to be a way!” cried Rarity.
“There is a way! I know there is.” said Applejack.
“We’d never let a friend down.” said Pinkie Pie.
“Just as they wouldn’t let us down.” added Fluttershy.
“Through all the battles we’ve fought, we’ve never given up!” said Rainbow.
“And we… never… will!” Twilight said.
“Look…!” cried Dyno. “Ay’ Carumba! What is happening?” asked Myte.
Twilight and friends were confused at first, but suddenly realized that it was the power of Harmony awakening within them again! “No! It can’t be!” cried Chrysalis “Not again!”
Twilight was suddenly beginning to understand why she didn’t get it to work before. She and all her friends had to control it together, because they were friends who understood how the elements worked effectively, and now that the power had returned. Twilight and friends concentrated their powers, and each stood around Grand Celestial Ruler, firing beams of magic into them, and The Ruler suddenly felt all their strength returning and they shot straight upright again. “We have returned to full strength.” it said “Now to finish this for good!”
They aimed their staff at the team, and they all began to glow mystically. “What’s this…?” asked Buddy Rose.
“I’ve never felt anything like it before.” added Artie.
“This mystical light,
It’s giving me great might!” said Rhymey.
The twins and Starla felt strong too, and The Ruler explained that they had now loaned a bit of their restored power to everyone, even Twilight and friends. Now everything was ready, except Lightning was still not free yet. “We can still try and help!” said Starla.
“Right!” said Twilight “Everyone, concentrate on Chrysalis’s spell!”
Everyone stood in line, and concentrated all their magic at Chrysalis’ spell in the sky. “Oh, no, you won’t!” growled Chrysalis “I’ll block you with everything I got!” but she soon found that her strongest power wasn’t good enough to defeat Harmony combined with Starfleet’s super power and she was forced to suddenly retreat as her spell was shattered!
“They did it!” cried Lightning.
“Which is more than you will!” snapped Fratello as he lunged forth ready for the kill, when suddenly, an explosion burst right through the hull of the Doom-Droid. “What’s this?!” snarled Fratello as he and Lightning looked at the large hole blown straight through the hull and there she stood, much to Lightning’s confusion and shock, “Cadance?”
Doom-Droid was still driven by negative energy and without Chrysalis’ spell to support it, the positive energy from her love magic allowed her to bust right in. “Hurry! The others need you!” cried Cadance.
“…Right!” Lightning said as he left the giant robot and rejoined his friends. They are all overjoyed to see he was alright, especially Starla.
Fratello was outraged “One pony or a million, I’ll destroy you all!”
“I wouldn’t bet on it, Fratello!” snapped Lightning. “Princess, now!” he then shouted, and Cadance saw this as her cue and she kicked Fratello so hard through the hole sending him soaring across the fields and she followed him swiftly.
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Once they were a safe distance away, “Everyone ready?” shouted Lightning as he began to charge up the uniforce for one bug attack, and the teams and The Ruler acknowledged. “…FIRE!!” He and all his friends fired their power into The Ruler’s staff, and The Ruler sent the biggest blast ever towards Doom-Droid destroying it in a massive explosion.
With Doom-Droid gone and Chrysalis’ spell dissolved, the chaos storm ceased and the sky was only filled with regular rain clouds now which just poured plain rain down, and with the destruction of Doom-Droid, all the remaining robots shorted out and fell to bits. Grand Celestial Ruler even changed back into Grand Ruler and Queen Celestia.
“We did it!” Lightning cried, and everyone cheered for joy, but they soon stopped, when Shining Armor and Luna came asking where Cadance was.
Cadance had followed her brother all the way to the edge of the meadow. She found him lying flat on the ground. His armor was all scratched, his cape was tattered, and he was sparking a little bit, the front panel on his chest was knocked off exposing his insides, which were mechanical and wires, but he managed to struggle to his feet. “C- Ca- Cadance…!” he cried.
“Fratello…?”
The upper part of his helmet fell off exposing his bruised, but still normal face to her for the first time in ages. He smiled at her weakly “You… you did it. Now quick… finish me!”
“What? No, I won’t!” I cried Cadance “There must be another way. I can save you! I can reprogram you!”
“You CAN’T.” cried Fratello, “It would never work. The programming would be overpowered and destroyed easily by the robot's will just like before."
Tears were streaking down his sister’s face. She still just couldn’t bring herself to do it, despite the dangers involved!
"Listen to me!" Fratello barked at her. "There is nothing else you can do! If you don’t finish me now, the robot will rebuild his forces, and the whole things starts all over! You’ve got to finish me and you’ve got to do it now!”
Suddenly Fratello began to shout in pain as he felt the robot’s programing trying to take him over again. “If I’m to go down, at least you will die too!” he snarled as he raised his other arm and prepared to blast Cadance, but Fratello still managed to hang on, just barely and did all he could to hold the robot back. “Cadance!” he shouted “Hurry! Destroy me! I can’t hold him off much longer!”
“Brother...!” cried Cadence. Tears were starting to form in her eyes and she began to have flashbacks of all the loving wonderful times she had with her brother before he was taken away trying to protect her. “I can’t… I won’t!”
“You must!”
“I will destroy you!” shouted the robot.
Cadance was panting so stressfully she felt that she would blow up and pop like a balloon!
“SISTER… PLEASE!!” His blast was ready to fire. Cadance then shut her eyes tightly, clutched her head and SCREAMED!!
“FIRE!!” shouted the Robot!
BANG!! A big shot was made as a thunderous bolt of lightning shook the skies.
Cadance and Fratello just stood at opposite distant ends from one another. Neither of them moving, or making a sound.
Suddenly, Cadance gasped and fell to her knees. Her crown had fallen off and landed alongside of her. She was clutching her aching chest and was struggling to breathe… while her brother smiled at her wickedly, and softly said to her...
“...Thank… You…!”
Cadance had shot him clear through his body making a large hole clear through him. The hole began to spark and flare like crazy as Fratello fell over onto his back, and his body went up in a massive explosion, and was really gone!
Cadance’s tears were falling in earnest now, mixing with the rain that fell on her face. “Goodbye… brother!” was all she could say. She felt so devastated she couldn’t even sob.
The rest of the gang saw the explosion and dashed over, and it didn’t take much to realize what had happened. “She did it.” cried Spike. “She really did!” added Twilight.
Shining Armor, Celestia and Grand Ruler approached Cadance as she just sat there watching the blasted remains of her brother’s armor burn in the flames from the explosion. None of them were even upset that she had disobeyed them and left the palace. She saved them all and helped put an end to the robot empire for good…
…But still at a terrible price.
Celestia felt heartbroken. Her nephew was really dead, but she knew she had to be strong. There was nothing that could’ve been done. Grand Ruler held his wife close. He, too, felt just as bad. Now he would never truly get to know his nephew.
The others felt very bad, but they had to get a hold of themselves now. They still had one final thing to do. It was time to settle the score once and for all. “Let’s do it.” Lightning said
“For Fratello!” added Twilight. Everyone agreed, and even Cadance got up and replaced her crown on her head. “For my brother!” she said bravely!
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Chrysalis angrily marched through stormy and damaged streets, and the eighteen ponies rushed out to confront her! Spike and Krysta sat out of the way, for this fight was sure to be nothing short of severe.
“You might as well give up!” shouted Twilight.
Grand Ruler stepped forth “We are Starfleet!”
Celestia stood by him “We are Friendship is Magic!”
Lightning stepped at the front of the whole gang “…And you’re under arrest, Chrysalis! You’ve got no one left to fight for you.”
Chrysalis angrily pulled out two energy blades and shouted, “I DON’T NEED ANYONE!! I’LL DESTROY YOU MYSELF!!”
“…CHARGE!!” Grand Ruler shouted, and everyone began to rush towards Chrysalis.
Angrily, Chrysalis fired several blasts, but her enemies evaded each one and kept on moving towards her. Clutching her blades tightly, Chrysalis leapt up high, and Celestia leapt up and straight for her with her horn glowing ready to strike. The two soared closer and closer towards one another, but Chrysalis managed to strike Celestia and sent her crashing down hard… just like before at Cadance’s wedding. She even lost her crown again and just lay there all weak and sore!
Now Chrysalis went after all the others at once-- swinging her blades, evading and parrying every one of their attacks. She kicked Pinkie hard in the chest sending her crashing into Dyno and Myte, and knocking them out easily.
Artie tried to combat Chrysalis with his staff, but she knocked it put of his hands, slashed at him twice, and threw him hard into air, straight into Rainbow. The two came crashing back down to the ground hard.
No matter how hard the team tried, Chrysalis’ seemed to really have the upper hand. Rarity and Twilight tried to blast her, but Chrysalis flicked the shots back with her cape and blasted them herself, really hurting them.
Buddy Rose and Applejack tried to lasso her, but she managed to yank them towards her and punch them both hard. Fluttershy and Rhymey went after her, but she dodged them both and slashed hard at Fluttershy sending her slamming into Rhymey.
Spike and Krysta watched helplessly as their friends were falling faster than ever. “They can’t last much longer!” cried Spike.
“No! They can do it! I know they can!” snapped Krysta.
Chrysalis turned and saw the last of the fighters charging at her at once. “CHRYSALIS!!” shouted Lightning. Chrysalis angrily fired a huge blast, and shot most of the fighters down hard-- all of the injured and twitching on the ground.
(1:45)
Only Lightning managed to get to his feet and he was now the only one standing. “That’s it! YOU...ARE GOING... DOWN!!” he shouted. His golden horn gave off the brightest glow ever, and his entire body glowed in golden lights!
Chrysalis roared angrily, as her body glowed n dark flames! The two furious fighters charged at one another, meeting in a struggle, but Lightning managed to knock away the swords, and attack Chrysalis hard and strong, badly damaging her. Finally, he was ready for one colossal assault, and so was Chrysalis, they both charged at each other roaring like gladiators and collided into one another, causing the biggest and deadliest of explosions, that shook the ground, everyone covered their eyes.
When the brightness faded, they all gazed on ahead, “LIGHTNING!!!” everyone screamed
The dust from the explosion cleared and Lightning was still alive, but he looked in pretty bad shape. His outfit was all damaged and busted up, half his visor was broken off and his one lens was shattered. He was covered in ashes and scorch marks, bruises and scrapes...!
Twilight tried to get up, but she collapsed hard again. “G’AH! UHN…!”
Everyone was all badly banged up and sore and struggling just to try and get up again. Even Chrysalis was in a mess. She was no longer in her evil human form, and was back to her normal shape. She was badly bruised, her hair was tangled and her face was badly scrapped and bleeding. She roared very loudly in rage and pain!
Grand Ruler, still weak and sore, barely managed to get to his feet and confront her and stared the mangled changeling down. She glared and him and growled. “I’ve waited for this… for a long… long time!” her voice sounded weak and raspy.
Grand Ruler struggled to stay on his feet. “My… solemn oath… is to protect this universe from all evil, despicable creatures like you.... AND I PROMISE YOU… I’LL SEE YOU PAY FOR YOUR CRIMES YET!!”
Trying to catch her breath, Chrysalis sneered “Don’t… make promises… you can’t keep!”
They both gazed around at the fallen fighters, not to mention all the destruction that the battle and storm had caused. “You want me? Then come and get me!” growled Chrysalis.
Grand Ruler gritted his teeth, and began to inch towards her, but Chrysalis blasted him back hard, right onto a pile of rubble. “Celesto!” shrieked Celestia. Her husband was okay, but Chrysalis, even in her weakened state managed to run off.
“No!!” cried Lightning.
“We’ve got to… go… after her!” cried Twilight
Everyone agreed, and managed to get to their feet, and they all spread out-- limping and struggling with their injuries. Chrysalis couldn’t have gone very far for a creature in her condition, but it wasn’t easy to find her.
Finally she was chased to a cavern, where the war first began. “Chrysalis!” shouted a voice. Chrysalis turned and saw Starla. Starla then fired a small beam from her horn at Chrysalis knocking her into a hard wall.
She retreated to the entrance of the cave only to find she was completely surrounded. “End of the line for you!” snarled Applejack.
“Make it easier and just give up already!” growled Buddy Rose.
Chrysalis groveled angrily, “I’ll never give in! You may have one this round, but I’ll gather my strength, and I will strike again!”
“What for?” snarled Shining Armor “It’s bad enough you fed off the emotions of other creatures, but you always destroyed the planet you hoped to conquer.”
Chrysalis gasped, and she realized he was right. Just one look at the bad shape the planet was in made her realize that perhaps she had gone too far even for her own limits, but still she didn’t feel like surrendering. “But what am I to do? I need the sustenance! I need to stay alive!” she thundered “You all couldn’t possibly know what it’s like having to be a wretched creature that scrapes for sustenance on emotions. I need to feed, and I need to live!”
“But you don’t need to destroy. You don’t need to go to all this trouble!” growled Lightning. “Can’t you see that all you’re doing is causing more problems for yourself, as well as us?”
“Huh?” remarked Chrysalis, and one by one each of the ponies explained how it was understandable that Chrysalis needed to feed to survive, it surely didn’t have to be by so much anger, misery and chaos. They only captured her changelings, and didn’t destroy them because they believed there were other ways for them to exist and be nourished without having to be so evil and destructive. They hadn’t found that way, and probably wouldn’t, but at least they could help keep the changelings alive, but they all had to answer for their crimes and treachery.
“You would show mercy to dark, wretched beings like me and my changelings… after all that we have done?” snarled Chrysalis “You are indeed very unusual creatures.”
“Maybe it’s because we’re not like you.” Celestia said “We all have our needs and desires, but we all know there are better ways to obtain them.”
Her husband nodded “Think of it, Chrysalis? Would you really want to continue on this path, and instead of obtaining what you desire you only are awarded with the exact opposite, and are forced to the point where you may perish from lack of nourishment because of your foolish ways?”
Chrysalis was starting to feel strange inside. Things she had never felt before-- Shame, guilt, and most importantly the realization that the others were right. What good was there gaining the energy she needed when all her actions did was create more difficulty for herself.
“Please, Chrysalis…” Twilight said “Let’s end this suffering… for all of us, and you.”
Chrysalis hesitated a moment, and then realized that maybe it was possible for her to exist without bringing more misery, she agreed to try, but there would be no promises, and she knew where to start. She stood tall and proud and proclaimed “I’m ready… to pay for everything I’ve done.”
As much as it was difficult for the others to believe, they knew Chrysalis meant those words as she got down on one knee, bowing her head in full surrender.
Celestia and Grand Ruler nodded at one another. They held their hands together and cast Chrysalis into red cube of liquid instead of a blue sphere. She had finally been captured, and was soon placed in the prison caverns where she’d soon be sent to a high security prison on one of the other planets.
Hopefully one day, with luck, she and the changelings could serve their sentences and be rehabilitated. No one ever though a more next-impossible thing, but regardless of it all...
...The war was finally over!