“Previously on Starfleet Magic”

It turned out that Starla had never truly been under Sombra’s control, and she, Lightning and the rest of the team turned on Sombra, effectively destroying Melantha in the process, but severely weakling the already damaged spaceship. In a big blazing punch, Lightning struck Sombra hard causing the entire ship to explode into space dust, and the team barely managed to escape with their lives. Unfortunately, Sombra had completed the Crystal Heart and is now using it to wreak havoc on United Equestria.

EPISODE TWENTY-FIVE

The rumbling continued as lightning struck across the skies. “What are we going to do?” cried Rarity.

The ground below where Sombra floated in midair burst open, revealing a breach into the dark dimension. Although it started out small, the darkness, which was already flooding out from it, began to consume the planet, cursing it with despair and fright. Soon the entire planet would be enveloped and sealed in the dimension forever!

Sombra could hardly bring himself to stop laughing with wicked glee. “Dusk Shine!” shouted Celestia. Sombra gazed down and could see her and everyone else gazing up at him. “Well, well, Celestia. It’s been such a long time.” he snickered “And Celesto, well, look what the three-horn has become in the past millennium: a powerful monarch.”

Grand Ruler clenched his fists “You’ve changed a lot over the ages, Dusk Shine, but for the immense worse. You’re still nothing more than the same schoolyard bully who feels the need to torture others just feel grand about himself!”

Sombra chuckled “And what if I am? Look where it’s gotten me. With every passing second, the darkness seeps through and my power increases. After all these ages, I am finally getting the greatness I deserve. The planet is mine now-- to rule as king”

“You are unworthy to even think of yourself as King!” growled Celestia “You cause nothing but pain, suffering and misery to everyone around you and for only your own amusement. You’re nothing but monster, Dusk Shine!”

“Ha!” growled Sombra “You’ve still got that same old attitude as before, Celestia, but it will no longer intimidate me, and one more thing…” he fired a shot at her which she barely dodge “…It’s Sombra! “Your majesty” to you, slaves!”

“You vile beast!” snarled Shining Armor “We won’t ever bow to you! No one will!”

“Really…? Perhaps you’d like to see how PERSUASIVE I CAN BE!!” Sombra raised his arms out and the dark crystal heart on him glowed along with the spewing darkness in the ground. “Now what is he doing?” asked Rainbow Dash.

Through the dark smog, they could all hear the sounds of cackling, snarling, and hissing, and finally the sound of marching. The gang could hardly believe they’re eyes. It was practically every single monster they had defeated in the past. All of Sombra’s monsters, Titan’s monsters… there were even many of the monsters that Starfleet had defeated from way back over the centuries that couldn’t be captured, banished, or changed.

“Oh, but it is…” hissed Sombra “With the dark crystal heart in my possession, and the darkness ever spreading, it was no difficult task to resurrect the evil magic spirits of those you defeated in the past.”

All those snarling, growling beasts just eyed at the gang, and it didn’t take much to realize they wanted payback. “There’s so many of them!” cried Rarity.

“There’s nothing you can do!” sneered Sombra “Me and my ever expanding army of monsters will continue to grow stronger as the darkness increases, and all the creatures of this world will have no choice but to bow to my every command if they wish to survive!”

All over the planet, more monsters appeared and wasted no time in terrorizing the inhabitants and forcing them into Sombra’s slavery-- every stallion, mare, and child, and all the other creatures as well. Already their fears were turning into hopeless glumness, which only further accelerated the growing darkness.

“Never!” shouted Celestia. That’s when the sound of brigade trumpets called out followed by the hollering and rushing of the entire New Canterlot army of guards, and all the Starfleet officers coming to aid the gang, and also those from all the other planets that had long since arrived on United Equestria ever since Sombra’s ship blew up, and ready to fight. Krysta had even summoned some of her best fairy fighters to join in form her home-world. “Now we’ll really see who has whom beat!” snarled Grand Ruler.

The two forces stood at opposite ends of the wide open areas glaring at each other fiercely until Sombra and Grand Ruler both yelled out “…ATTACK!!” The two armies rushed into extreme action, covering almost every square foot of nearly half the planet with fighting.

“Warrior-mode, go!” shouted Celestia, and she transformed into her warrior-garments. “Girls, come, form a circle around me!” ordered Celestia as the friendship ponies huddled around her. “Altogether now!” and using the Element of Magic bestowed upon her, the other Elements of Harmony awakened from within the girls and all six of them used their magic to help restore power to Lightning and the Starfleet ponies.

“Okay! No more taking things light.
It’s time to fight for what is right!” said Rhymey

All the others agreed with courage and determination. “Well, what are we waiting for?” Lightning said “Let’s go!” and he and his friends transformed.

Luna, Cadance, Shining Armor, and Fratello stood tall along with everyone else, and Lightning stood in the center in front of Grand Ruler and Celestia. He gazed up at them and they gazed down at him proudly, and let him make the call! “…TO BATTLE!!”

Everyone dashed forth hollering like true warriors against the monsters along with their many comrades. Shining Armor and Fratello joined them on the ground, while Grand Ruler, Celestia, Cadance, and Luna flew straight at Sombra and brawled with him. “Oh, how I’ve waited for this.” Sombra hissed as he fought back fiercely against the four royal alicorns…

They all punched, kicked, and fired their magic at him, only for him to show how much his fighting had improved by blocking and evading their attacks and hitting them all back, one after another, but the royal ones weren’t giving up!

While down below everyone was fighting ever so fiercely. Some monsters they recognized, others they didn’t, but they all seemed to be much stronger than before thanks to all the evil magic Sombra had cast, but not a single fighter was willing to give in.

Lily Bud and her team of Starfleet ponies and Herbolites stood up against a swarm of monsters. Buddy Rose landed to join her by her side. “Colonel…”

The Herbolites unleashed their own powers, straight at the monsters knocking them all down.

Dyno and Myte joined their mother and father, punching, kicking, stomping, and blasting every creature that came their way. “ARRIBA!” they hollered slapping each other a four way high-five.

Krysta and her fairies were faced with a swarm of monsters stampeding right at them. “Now!” shouted Krysta, and she and her fairies created a warp-hole some of the monsters dashed into and then popped back out of again crashing into each other. Other’s reappeared over small cliffs. The fairies even proceeded to use their incredible strengths, able to lift things up to three thousand times their own weight, to lift up some of the lighter monsters and bashed them into the others. “Not bad for a bunch of half-pints.” Krysta joked.

Shining Armor fought valiantly as he kept on punching, kicking, and blasting the enemies he shouted at them “This is for Twilight… and so is this… and this…!” Suddenly, he ran straight into one familiar monster that was once Artie’s statue-- Dark Twilight! She glared at Shining Armor, snarling at him, and her almost froze up and found him unable to hit her, feeling that it was really his sister, but Spike and Fratello leapt down in between and attacked the monster. “It’s not Twilight.” Spike reminded Shining Armor, snapping him out of his trance. “You’re right! Let’s get her!” and together, the three knights blasted Dark Twilight hard, but she got right back up again, as did many of the other monsters that had been knocked down or blasted hard.

Lightning and his team gave some of them a good taste of their finishing attacks, but still the monsters got back up. “They won’t stay down!” cried Buddy Rose.

“Oh, yes they will!” hollered Rainbow Dash as she and the girls charged forth fighting and brawling, but still the monsters wouldn’t give in!

Sombra laughed wickedly at their futile attempts. “These are the spirits of monsters that you have already defeated. In this darkness they are immortal. You can never beat them, but they can beat you.” he was suddenly tackled hard by Grand Ruler, shoving him to the ground. “We’ll beat you yet, Dusk Shine!” he growled as he socked him hard in the face, but he himself was kicked off. “Now, now, Celesto… I’ve told you before… IT’S SOMBRA!!”

All four of the alicorns rushed him at once, only to get blasted hard in a huge explosion throwing them to the ground, much to the horrors of the main team, but they were all, one-by-one, tackled down by more monsters, and soon… all the monsters were back on their feet again, and seemed to be completely unharmed, just as Sombra had promised, and they looked ready for more fighting.

Some of them blasted at Lightning and the two teams back hard and off their feet. “Wow! That hurt!” groaned Pinkie.

“It’s no use…!” cried Fluttershy “There’s no way we can win now. We’re done for!”

Applejack softly slapped her across the face in attempt to snap her out of it. “We can’t let ‘em get us like this.”

“But what else can we do?” said Rarity “Sombra is the one controlling them all and feeding them power, and he…” She paused, and suddenly everyone began to realize what she was saying. “Of course!” snapped Lightning “Get Sombra! If we beat him maybe we can stop all this!”

The others all agreed, and broke away from the monsters, and left them to the other fighters to hold them off.

While the four royal ones were still not holding off very well. Celestia got punched. Luna was kicked. Cadance was grabbed by her tail whirled around and bashed hard into Grand Ruler. “Get up, quick!” cried Grand Ruler, but Sombra blasted all four of them down again with his power, and it felt as if he was growing stronger all the time, and not just from their getting weaker.

“Not this time!” He raised his arm and fired a pulse at them, but his blast was intercepted by Lightning’s power, and he and the others stepped out before the royal ones. “We’re on to you now, Sombra! The game’s up!” Lightning sneered.

“You’re too late!” growled Sombra “As the darkness increases, so does my power. Nobody can stop me now!”

Sombra roared and charged forth, and all the others charged at him. The royal ones joined them, feeling weak but not beaten, but even still, nineteen against one, Sombra still fought fiercely and hit them all with huge attacks, while the team did their best and managed to land a few successful hits on him, but hardly damaging him at all, but neither of them were willing to give in with the fate of the planet at stake.

“DRAGON FLAMEWHEEL” shouted Spike as he curled himself up and charged in a blaze at Sombra, but Sombra raised his cape in front blocking him, and after a small struggle forced him back hard into some of the others, colliding in a big explosion. “Fools, haven’t you had enough?”

The whole team stood together “We won’t let you win!” said Lightning “No matter how powerful you get, it won’t make a difference.” His horn began to pulsate as his power increased… glowing brighter than ever before. “Oh, no you don’t, not this time.” thundered Sombra as he prepared to blast him, but Celestia and the Friendship Ponies stepped forth. “Oh, yes we do!” she snarled, and the Powers of Harmony began to glow, ensnaring him in magical lines. “Ah? What?!” he growled and roared unable to move.

“Let’s get him!” shouted Shining Armor. His wife agreed and they both charged at him and struck him hard, followed by Grand Ruler and Luna striking him again. Fratello charged up his weapons to full power. “FIRE!” and he blasted him hard. One-by-one, Lightning’s friends unleashed their finishers with all the power they had!

Starla aimed with her bow “This is for what you did to me back on the ship! GALACTIC PROJECTILE” She fired it right at the dark crystal heart, making Sombra screech in extreme agony. “My turn…!” sneered Lightning “Time to finish what I started back on the ship… UNIFORCE!!”

The blast hit Sombra, full force and making tons of giant explosions that seemed to engulf him, after which, the team was exceedingly exhausted, the fighters had only little power left in their suits. “We… did it…” panted Rarity.

Pinkie Pie sighed hard and fell flat on the ground. “Whew! I’m glad that’s over I’m pooped!”

Something didn’t feel right, however. The darkness was still growing, and all the monsters hadn’t disappeared. The reason was obvious and answered as they all heard a soft, and wicked hissing coming from within the smoke. Fluttershy felt shivers run all over her body as she gazed for as the smoke cleared.

“…SOMBRA!!” Rarity screamed. Everyone gawked, gasping in horror as Sombra stood there, a little bruised and battered, but not at all beaten. He just stood there snickering at them. “Impossible!” sneered Celestia “Nothing could have survived that!” added Luna.

“You just never learn, do you?” hissed Sombra and he explained, proving Cadance’s worst fears had come true! As long as he had the crystal heart, and the darkness continued to grow he would be virtually unstoppable against all of their best forces. “Now then, who shall be first to go? I think I’ll start with the metallic one.” He raised his claw and magically levitated Fratello high up into the air.

Sombra narrowed his eyes and fired a powerful blast right up at the defenseless robot. “…CADANCE!!” Fratello shouted as he exploded in a huge ball of fire and bits and pieces of him went flying all over the place. Cadance fell to her knees and burst into tears of anger and sorrow “…NOOOOOOOOOOO!! Not again!”

Blazes of fury filled everyone’s eyes and they all lunged at Sombra, forgetting that they were still low in power and tried from all the fighting and using up so much power. Sombra easily smashed, booted, and struck everyone hard…. Lightning’s team and the friendship ponies, their suits powered down form all the weakness. Celestia and Grand Ruler rushed at Sombra together, colliding into him with such force, determined to get at him for killing their nephew-- Cadance’s brother, but they too had used up a lot of power in the battle and were easily over powered and shoved back hard, skidding across the ground!

Lightning was livid to have seen such a thing… and his fury only worsened as things continued. One-by-one Sombra went after the others, ruthlessly attacking them and really hurting them. Krysta and her fairies flew over just in time to see almost all the friends lying sore, battered, and weak from such beatings, and they were shocked and livid… but Lightning, he had seen enough and bolted up right shouting “ENOUGH!!”

Sombra turned to face him and laughed “Take a good look at your pitiful friends now, brave admiral.” And he blasted all the others with powerful shockwaves making them holler and wail in agony which only further infuriated Lightning. His blood was boiling so hot and his heart was pounding just like his head with blazing fury…

The fairies decided to try and help the fallen friends out, but Sombra fired a few warning blasts telling them “Keep out of my way!” and he continued to harm the fallen ones. “Darkness is all! Suffering is the key to ruling everything! This world… the universe… I will make it all suffer and wail and rule it all for myself!!”

“NEVER!!” shouted Lightning and his horn began pulsate brightly again and he swiftly unleashed a forceful blast right at Sombra, hitting him hard and sending him off his feet. “What?!” he growled “What is this? You should be weak from over-exhaustion!”

“Sombra…! I won’t let you do this anymore! I won’t let any more of my friends get hurt! YOU WILL PAY!!” All the love in his heart for his friends combined with all his courage and determination and all his hatred for evil… something inside him finally sparked, as his horned he glowed in waves of very bright golden light.

Grand Ruler could see it even in his weakened state softly groaning “Light… ning…!”

Sombra growled as he shielded his eyes from the brightness, and when the lights faded down he gawked in shock at what he saw. Lightning had taken on a completely unique shape. He didn’t even look like an alicorn anymore, or anything close to a pony…

Despite still having his golden horn. His body seemed almost totally human and was glowing so brightly with golden energy, as if it were made of the stuff. His edges were white rimmed, and his hair was all spiky and sticking straight upward.

He turned to gaze at Krysta, and his voice seemed a little deeper and echoed as he spoke. “Krysta… You and your fairies help get the other out of here so they can heal. Go ahead. This is my fight now.”

Starla shook herself out of her gawking, and acknowledged. “Well you heard him!” she snapped at her fairies “Get these ponies and Spike out of here!” and soon all the ponies and Spike were being lifted to safety by the fairies and their super strengths. “I see now…” Krysta muttered to herself “I see what’s happened to you, Lightning…”

Grand Ruler spoke in his thoughts “Lightning, you’ve done it! The legendary power has been unsheathed. You’ve become… an Enticorn! It’s all up to you now!”

Lightning gazed at Sombra not even blinking his eyes, but all he was thinking of were all that he was fighting for. All his friends, all the good creatures, and even for those whom he and other shad lost… including Twilight. “Evil has done nothing but make other innocent creatures suffer, and taken the lives of others.”

He unleashed a furious wave of power as he screamed “IT’S OVER, SOMBRA!!!!”

“Come and get me!” roared Sombra and he lunged right at Lightning with his fists ready, he thrust them forward, but Lightning simply raised one fist and punched his fists upward, and then socked him hard in the gut with his other hand sending him crashing through a row of trees, one after another.

Sombra burst through the fallen trees to find Lightning standing before him, and before he could react, Lightning kicked him up high into the air. Then, even without wings, Lightning took off and after him and kicked him hard again sending him slamming down towards the ground, but Sombra stopped at the last few inches by flapping his wings and zoomed right back at Lightning colliding into him hard, and he punched him hard in the face, and tried to blast him with a powerful beam, but Lightning countered with a beam of his own forcing it back at him! “You’ll discover that I’m no pushover this time!” Lightning growled and lunged at Sombra aiming to punch him, but Sombra caught his fist and punched him hard, but Lightning seemed to take hardly any damage, and kicked him.

The two creatures brawled furiously, swiftly swinging their fists and feet. Blasting each other and colliding into one another forcefully, but the more the battle progressed; Sombra got hit more and more and was really taking a lot of damage, while Lightning did get hit and blasted at as well, he didn’t seem to take as much damage as Sombra did, much to his annoyance and confusion. “This… this cannot be! No one should be able to stand up to me! Who are you? What are you?”

Lightning snickered “What? You can’t figure it out?” He stood in midair tall and proud and proclaimed “I am… the bane of evil’s existence, the sworn protector of all that is good and decent. I am the answer to all problems, a hero to those in danger who cry out for help. My name… is Lightning Dawn, and I... AM AN ENTICORN!”

Sombra never thought he could feel so furious ever. “Curse you! Curse you, it can’t be!” he looked as if he were about to explode, but really it was his power increasing with the impending darkness. “I have come too far to face defeat again! I will defeat you, Enticorn!” He only had one option left if there was any hope for him to combat Lightning. He began to absorb the powers and magic of all the monsters he had resurrected. “Yes! Yes, I can feel it! Prepare to witness true power like never before!” he snarled as he was enveloped in dark flares. “First I will smash you, and then your planet will follow!”

“Bring it on! I’m ready for you!” growled Lightning, and the fight continued. This time, Sombra put up more of a fight than ever and managed to bash Lightning back harder than ever, and match his magic strengths as well, but Lightning refused to give in.

Their battle was so fierce that it could be seen from all over, even at the palace. Goldwin hadn’t budged from his telescope at all. “Wow! I don’t think I’ve ever seen a more fierce fight before.”

The others were resting in the sickbay, recovering quickly, and they could look through the windows and see the distant explosions and bright lights from collisions of the two fighters. “Look at them go!” cried Spike.

“I’m saying we can’t let overconfidence get to us. Remember, even the ancient entities didn’t know what they were doing when they first unleashed this incredible power. Lightning may have become an Enticorn, but there is always the possibility that he just may need a little extra help until he can truly learn to master his newfound power.”

“There just may be, but it is very risky. It must only be done at the right time and in the right place.”

The others each voiced their volunteering to take the risk if need be as it would most likely be their one and only chance to get rid of Sombra once and for all. The fate of the planet depending on it!

In our next episode, as Sombra’s power continues to grow, Lightning puts up a valiant effort, but the darkness is ever accelerating and pulling the planet further into its eternal chaos. In their last hope to end it all, the team pulls together for one final assault, but Lightning seems to disappear as well.

Will Sombra be defeated for good, and what has happened to Lightning?

Don’t miss the next exciting episode of “Starfleet Magic”

(Next Episode: “Final Part: “Unleash the Magic”)

My Brave Pony Starfleet Magic: Season III

by DakariKingMykan

Episode 25: Part 4: The Legendary Enticorn