“Alright, let’s continue with the training session.” Blade pronounces. With that the girls, other than Rainbow, all stood up and yelled that they won’t until Rainbow feels better. “Girls, if we wait until each of you feel better to continue, then we will be here for a year.” The girls don’t back down, but instead pick up Rainbow and tell Blade a week is what they want, to think about what he is saying.
So, after a week, Blade heads to the library. He goes to the library because he doesn’t know anywhere else to go. Of course, Twilight is there to greet him and so are the rest of the girls. They all look worried.
“What is wrong?” Blade asks.
“It is Rainbow, she hasn’t fully recovered.” Pinkie says sadly, which almost makes Blade want to apologize. He only know Pinkie as a very bright and peppy pony, seeing her sad burns Blade’s soul.
“She can only fly for a little bit at a time and…” Then Fluttershy continues the explanation. Blade wants to kill himself for hurting Rainbow, but then thinks. Are they trying to get him to apologize, sending their strongest, saddest criers. Damn, these girls are crafty.
“I’m… sorry.” Blade looks like a filly that broke a vase and is apologizing. The girls all look at each other for recognition and laugh at Blade’s apology. “Now can we get to work?” Blade asks, blushing. With those words he opens the door and Rainbow is there to punch him in the face. She really is pissed.
“Okay, let’s go.” Rainbow pronounces. Her wings are wrapped by a bandage to her chest and an obvious scar is across her back. She tries to hide her scarring to look tough, but ends up making Blade laugh at her, earning him another punch, this time to the chest. He is going to have to get used to this type of punishment if he is going to succeed at training these ponies.
Once the group reaches the “training field”, they all look towards the crater and look more worried. Then Blade emerges from the distance with a huge bag other than his book filled saddlebag. He drops the bag and it makes a lot of crackling noises.
“Okay, is everyone ready?” Blade asks like a teacher asking a class if they are ready for a pop quiz, of course they aren’t too enthused by Blade’s peppiness. He takes that as a no and continues. “Fine, well today let’s start with a unicorn.” Blade looks towards Twilight while saying this and she steps forward. Twilight thinks to herself and finally mimics a quote in her head “Put your best hoof forward.” She decides that is how to beat Blade. She continues to think, how he will test her.
“So, what do you want me to do?” Twilight asks, bemused by the situation. Blade looks at the other girls who back off into a ditch, then Blade smiles.
“You are going to battle me.” With this Blade steps forward and jumps in the air. All the girls look worried and so does Twilight, but she notices Blade isn’t going to give her a head start. She lurches at him in the air, but he smiles. “WIND” Blade uses his magic and launches in the air, while knocking Twilight to the ground at a high velocity. Blade continues to conjure up the wind, and uses it to stay in midair. Twilight sees that Blade isn’t going to go easy on her. “You’re a unicorn, right? Use your magic.” Blade tries to guide Twilight down the right path. She looks around and sees a boulder. She calculates in her head and plans to use the boulder as her weapon. But first she needs to find an opening, so she prepares herself to dodge repeatedly so she can analyze Blade’s movements.
“Are you just gonna hang there all day?” Twilight tries mocking Blade, but to no avail. He just continues to use the wind to stay in the air. Twilight spots a smaller rock that could make Blade move. She uses her magic to pick it up and throws it directly at Blade. He doesn’t notice in time and barely dodges, with this Twilight finds more small rocks and continuously hurls them at Blade. Blade can’t dodge them all, and starts to move.
“Fine, we will play it your way.” Blade then lands and sticks his front hooves outwards towards Twilight, who is confused, but prepared to dodge. She notices Blade is whispering to himself. Then he smirks at Twilight and yells. “Come to me my swords.” As Blade says these words two swords appear in his hooves. Twilight is confused and now is very worried. “Perish Twilight Sparkle.” Blade yells as he conjures the wind again to launch himself at Twilight. She sees why Blade was a leader in the army; he truly is a great fighter. She analyzes the attack and dodges, but still gets nicked the sword in his right hoof. The other girls scream and Applejack stands up and is ready to attack Blade, but then Twilight stops her.
“No, AJ this is my battle.” Blade can tell Twilight is very weak from the last slash, he cut her hooves on her left side, the fore hoof and the hind hoof both have an obvious gash through them. He agrees with her stopping her friends and charges again, but notices her analyzing his body, he smirks again.
“Analyzing my attacks, are we?” Blade is very impressed by Twilight’s interest and is happen she is trying to learn an opening. Blade gets close to Twilight but then uses the wind to launch into the air, turns and uses it to launch back to the earth. He starts spinning at Twilight and makes a needle by bringing his swords together. Twilight dodges, but gets another cut, this time on her back. She trips and starts to wince in pain. Twilight looks as if she is going to die. Blade doesn’t stop and prepares for the final attack. Twilight gets to her hooves and can barely stand. Blade makes his swords disappear. Twilight’s eyes open up wide, and then squint in anger.
“Don’t you dare go easy on me you cocky bastard.” Twilight cries these words in vain to make Blade battle.
“I’m not” Blade simply says and attacks again. Blade jumps again using the winds. And while in the air, casts more magic. “WATER” Blade sends a jet of water at Twilight who dodges perfectly, and lands back on her feet without a scar from the attack. Blade smiles and looks down at Twilight who steps back where she was, her hooves in the water. “ THUNDER” Blades sends a bolt down and misses Twilight, but hits the puddle which Twilight was standing in. She stands strong. Upon further inspection, Blade notices that Twilight dug her hooves into the ground; she knew he was trying to combo her. She grounded herself when she trotted back to that spot after the water. Damn, Blade thought, but then started to feel dizzy. He was using too much magic and is out of mana power. He wasn’t going to make it through the rest of the battle. He launched using the last of his magic using wind. Then casting fire in front of him he punched through the fire and using the fire as a punch to Twilight’s side, launching her and sending her into more tears or pain.
“I’m … fine.” Twilight said with a weak breathe.
“I’ve seen enough, you have a lot of magic power, and you analyzed my attacks and saw my combo coming.” Blade called over Rarity.
“I’m not fighting until Twilight is better.” Rarity states towards Blade. He nods and cures Twilights wounds and close most of them. The pain wasn’t softened.
“Read and study this magic Rarity. It is the cure spell.” Blade explains that he wants to make Rarity learn healing magic because of her more caring nature and less aggressive nature. Rarity looks over it and trots off. Pinkie Pie steps forward and throws a pebble at Blade to get his attention. “Yes, Pinkie Pie take this.” Blade gives Pinkie a bow and a quiver filled with arrows. He sets it up on her, while doing this Pinkie blushes. He shows her how to hold the bow and how to fire the arrows. She fires the arrows perfectly towards Blade hitting him directly, and pinning him to a tree. “Okay, you are a natural, please stop.” Blade asks as Pinkie aims another arrow.
“Not until your dead.” Pinkie says in her cheerful nature. Applejack stops her and lets Blade down from the tree and then kicks him against the tree breaking the tree in half and the Fluttershy helped Blade up. Blade spit out blood from the many strikes to his body. Fluttershy asks if he wants to see her powers. Blade asks her to tell a bear to punch him. She does, but stops the bear before it hits him. He falls unconscious and then awakes in the crater surrounded by the girls. He smiles and says that he is done and that he knows what to do. They carry him to his cottage. He sleeps there until he gets enough strength to stand then writes down something in a journal. What is Blade planning to do with the ponies of Ponyville? The journal must be his plan.