//------------------------------// // Act 3: Intrusion // Story: My Brave Pony Starfleet Magic: THE MOVIE // by DakariKingMykan //------------------------------// ACT THREE Distraught remained in his secret hideout, no one but he knew where it was, but he had cast his first spell on United Equestria, and soon the poines would fall into its sinister clutches, which would give him the perfect opportunity to put the next phase of his plan into action. “You have done well.” that mysterious voice called out to him “But you still have much to do before your race can be revived.” Distraught understood, but he really he knew who he was talking too. He had never seen the face of the mysterious voice since the first day he heard it. “Just remember our bargain…” he said “I want my race brought back.” “And they will be.” replied the voice “I promise you.”  Lightning didn’t get much sleep that night. It was already hard enough to sleep with the babies cries being heard even from many hallways down from his room, but his mind was still fixed on what had happened and what was going on. Distraught had no idea of the monster that his father, Discord really was, but aside from that, he wondered about the mysterious voice that told Distraught to destroy United Equestria. He was starting to feel maybe there was more to this than met the eye. The next morning, Twilight and her friends went to the royal library and went through many books in both their records and Starfleet’s records for anything that would give them a clue about what was going to happen, but they hadn’t found a thing. While Lightning and his friends went out to their patrol rounds as ordered, and were told to report sightings of anything unusual. So far, the two teams found nothing, but they weren’t going to give up, and vowed to keep searching for answers, even singing a song about their determination while they worked and patrolled… After the song had ended, Lightning and friends returned to the palace after finishing their rounds. “Did you guys find anything?” asked Fluttershy. “We searched high and we searched low But nothing’s wrong as far as we know.” said Rhymey. This was getting to be very strange. A spell was cast and nothing happened? Suddenly Spike came running into the room “Guys!” he cried “Something’s wrong, you better come quick!” “Spike, calm down!” snapped Twilight “Now, what’s going on?”  Spike told the gang to come with him to the babies’ nursery. When they got there, a horrible sight met their eyes; the whole place had been ransacked and the babies’ cradles were tipped over with the little ones nowhere to be seen. Rarity could hardly believe her eyes “The babies! They have been kidnapped!” she cried. Everyone began to worry if the Grand Ruler and the Queen knew about this, but surprisingly they came down holding the babies in their arms and everything seemed fine. “What happened?” asked Starla, but their majesties were just as baffled. They had doubled the guard around the nursery, and all night long the guards knew that no one else came into the palace, not even by teleportation.  “We came into the get the children, and as soon as we left the room seemed to just fall apart, like this.” Celestia said “Thank goodness they were alright.” The gang was relieved but began to wonder if Distraught did this. It was possible, but knowing Distraught he would have done more than just ransack a room. “In the meantime we must remain alert for anything.” Grand Ruler said Suddenly, the warning alarm sounded. Everyone rushed to the throne room. “What’s happening?” asked Lightning. “See for yourself.” Goldwin said as he let him use his telescope. Starla gazed through it and she could see that New Canterlot was under attack by strange monsters they had never seen before. Big horrible brutes that growled and roared angrily and stomped through town and making a mess of things.  Celestia took a look and recognized the beasts as strengthors. They were an extinct tribe of monstrous, rocklike brutes that lived in ancient times of Old Equestria, and they were bloodthirsty enough to kill anything they saw, even their own clan which was how they came to be extinct. “Gee, talk about a really stupid race.” said Spike. “They sure don’t look extinct now.” said Dyno. “Si, but where did they come from?” asked Myte. No one could tell for sure, but more and more of the strengthors seemed to burst out from the ground by the minute and continued rage on the town. “We’ve gotta stop these guys and fast!” cried Applejack. Their majesties agreed and ordered many of the gaurds and other Starfleet fighters to join them. “Good luck!” Grand Ruler said to them. The others nodded and Lightning and his friends transformed first “STARFLEET MAGIC!!” Lightning: “Power of Believing!” Starla: “Power of Space!” Buddy Rose: “Power of Flora!” Artie: “Power of Art!” Rhymey: “I summon within; Power of Wind!” Dyno & Myte: “Power of Fire!” Then, Twilight and her friends donned their own special armor suits simply by concentrating hard and triggering off the essence of the Elements of Harmony resting within their bodies and enunciated their own special phrase “HARMONY-HOUR, FRIENDSHIP-POWER!!” “I just love doing that.” said Rainbow “She even admired how her armor and her Wonderbolt uniform really made a cool combination.  Lightning stepped forth and recited the oath. “Guardians of the universe,  United we stand to punish all evil,  and protect what is grand!” He and Twilight stood together and shouted “PONIES UNITE!!” followed by a flare of colored light and bright explosions. “All right, team, let’s get ‘em!” said Captain Lightning, and then Twilight teleported everyone down to the surface. Most of the citizens of New Canterlot made it inside the buildings and were now shielded by the force fields, but many more were still outside and running in panic to find places to hide from the strengthors. The Wonderbolts had already arrived, but were not having much luck against the powerful brutes, for they were just as strong as they were in the olden days, strong to crush a giant boulder in their bare claws. Lightning Twilight and friends arrived on the scene, and soon Krysta and her husband, King Topaz, appeared with and army of their warping fairies behind her “I got the message from Grand Ruler. We’re here to help.” Krysta said. “Thank you both. Now let’s see just how tough these guys really are!” said Lightning and he scanned the brutes with his visor, but to his confusion “What? This can’t be right. These guys have hardly any life force at all.” “You mean they’re fakes?” asked Rainbow and she charged in to see for her aiming a huge kick at one of the brutes, but even for fakes the strengthors certainly felt real enough, grabbing her by the leg and whirling round and around and tossing her back.  “Let’s takes these beasts.” snapped Buddy Rose. “Right, spread out!” said Lightning and everyone scattered in teams of two. Despite the strengthors or whatever they were, were very strong, the team was most defiantly stronger and swifter. Lightning managed to match their powerful strength with his own, punching and kicking them, and even head bashing them off their feet. Twilight even remembered reading up on strengthors; “As strong as they are in brute strength, they aren’t very resistant to magic.” Using this to her advantage, the brutes didn’t stand much of a chance against her powers. Rarity and Starla teamed up together, and if there was one thing Rarity couldn’t stand it was big rude brutes terrorizing others. “Feel, my wrath” she shouted as she fired a beam of magic, at two of the monsters, but a third on crept up on her from behind. She screamed in fear, but Starla came ready with her bow. “STARLIGHT ARROW” and she shot monster knocking it out. “Oh, why… thank you Starla.” Rarity said feeling relived “But believe me, I had it under control.” Starla snickered softly “I’m sure you did.” Applejack and Buddy Rose charged at a whole gaggle of the monsters. “Let me show y’all what we do in applebuck season.” Applejack said and used her strong feet give those brutes a good kick, and Buddy Rose tripped them up using his Vine Whip. “Brains and brawn beat just brawn any day.” While back at the palace, their majesties had observed everything, and despite knowing fully well that victory was assured, they knew the strengthors were fakes, and they had feeling this was Distraught’s doing, just like it was possible that he did something to the babies’ room. “Do you think he might strike here again?” Celestia “He might.” Grand Ruler said “We don’t know how powerful he really is, and he could very well even be able to break through our defenses, but don’t worry. We won’t let that happen.” but he was suddenly about to be proved wrong. Suddenly, the area around the palace began to rumble and quiver as if there had been an explosion. “Your majesties!” cried the Captain Shaina of the royal guard, as she came running up to their majesties. “What is it?” asked Celestia. “Enemy intruders are in the palace, deep in the mountain.” Celestia and Grand Ruler gazed worried at each other knowing what was deep in the mountain area the palace was built on; It was the main barracks of the power-sources that helped energize the power for all of Starfleet’s weapons and technologies including the battle armor. “We can’t let anything happen down there.” Grand Ruler said and he called for Princess Luna to help Celetisa protect the babies, while he would to investigate with the entire palace army. “Good Luck, my love.” Celestia said pecking him on the cheek before he teleported away. “He will be fine, sister. You must trust in him.” Luna said. Celestia knew her sister was right. She had to brave right now for her children as well. Grand Ruler and the guards made it to the barracks deep inside the mountain, and they did indeed find none other than Distraught waiting there for them in a room with a magical enchanted generator, powered with a combination of the Grand Ruler and Celestia’s magic that kept the Starfleet super powers in balance, also protected with a spell that they, and only they could break together. “Two and one half minutes…” Distraught said “I thought you were more efficient than that, being a child of the gods.” “So I was right...” growled Grand Ruler “You were able to penetrate through the defense shields.” Distraught snickered and touched the orb around his neck “Really, your majesty, and I also thought that you yourself knew that nothing was without weakness. Your force-fields were hardly what I would call impressive. Especially after the spell I cast over the kingdom the other night.” He explained that his orb granted him the power to bring forth chaos and dark magic to accomplish his tasks that he alone could not accomplish, which was how he managed to sneak past the force-fields. The spell he cast the other night would cause misfortune and more bad things to happen all across the planet until he decided to break the spell. That was how the babies’ room was mysteriously damaged, and how the strengthor clones he had designed were rampaging in the village below, and it was only the beginning. “With each passing second the spell will grow stronger as my power increases, and soon the spell grow strong enough for me to utterly destroy every pony on the planet, and every other out in space until none remain. My father will be avenged, my race will be revived, and you and all that you have come to know and love will be just memory.” Grand Ruler’s eyes narrowed “Listen to me, Distraught. I can understand the pain you feel of losing your father and your entire race, but you must understand--” “All I understand is once I crush this puny generator I’ll have finally put you and your precious Starfleet out of commission. Then nothing will stop me from purging the entire pony race off the face of the dimensional universe; the same way that you purged mine.” It was in vain the Grand Ruler tried to explain that Discord was nothing but a spiteful demon who only sought to bring harm and chaos to other creatures for his own amusement, and that their destroying him had nothing to do with his entire race dying it, it just wasn’t possible. “Silence!” shouted Distraught “I wish to hear no more of your lies.” His orb began to glow as he prepared to attack. “GAURDS!!” shouted Grand Ruler ordering them to attack, and he joined them! Meanwhile, Celestia and Luna put the children down in their cradles in the nursery, but Celestia was still worried about her husband. Luna placed her hand over her sister’s back comforting her. “If you still feel you must go, then go and help him. I will look after the children. They shall not leave my sight.” Celestia smiled at her sister and gazed down at the babies with love before teleporting into the mountain lair.  Upon her arrival, a terrible sight met her eyes; all the guards lay injured and unconscious, and her husband was facing the evil Distraught all by himself. He tried his very best but Distraught always seemed to have the upper hand. His red orb increased his power and strength so much that Grand Ruler had a hard time keeping his focus. Distraught blasted him hard sending him skidding across the floor, right into the wall. “Celesto!” cried Celestia as she ran to him. “Celestia!” her husband groaned as he shakily got back on his feet. The two alicorns stood side-by-side and tried to blast him together. “Oh, please…” said Distraught and his orb glowed brightly actually absorbing the force of their blast and he used it to fire back at the force-field’s around the generators. “No!!” cried Grand Ruler. “Don’t do it!” cried Celestia. Distraught didn’t care to listen and had already begun blasting the place to pieces. The alicorns still made one last attempt to stop him, only to be fired on with extremely powerful magic, and in a white flash, the entire room exploded!