As the sun was heading to west and preparing to set, the ones who had stayed behind, while the others were heading to help Star Knight and Hawthorn, were pilling the dead bodies of the clones and changelings they had defeated.
Obsidian Blade was leading a group and he overheard them talking about Tirek’s appearance and how the regents, what included his father, were fighting him together. Obsidian had heard about that demon centaur and how he had betrayed Stonult during a war with Evermist. His father never wanted to talk about that, but he knew that moment had some effect on him. For what he could hear, Tirek was really powerful, even capable of making a meteorite fell. He just hopped his father would be able to handle him along with the others.
It was then that he heard a buzz nearby. That could only mean one thing: there were changelings nearby.
“Prepare yourselves!” he exclaim. “There’s changelings around here. Be aware of any one new that tries to join this group, understood?”
“Yes, sir!” they replied.
They advance and then they found a group of ponies ahead. Seeing them approaching, a pony of the group said:
“Captain Obsidian Blade, we’re glad you’re here. Now we can go safely help Prince Star Knight and Lord Hawthorn.”
“Yeah, about that…” he said.
And then he shoved the pony, throwing against the floor, making everyone stop.
“We’ll not allow you to come… changeling” Obsidian Blade said.
The pony looked angrily to him and then he changed. It was Crush. The other ponies turned into changelings as well.
“Only a stupid creature like you would think we would fell for something like that” Obsidian Blade said.
That really upset Crush who hissed:
“You’re gonna regret what you juzt zaid, pony!”
And the fight started between ponies and changelings. It didn’t take long for ponies being able to subdue the changelings, as they were in numerical advantage. The only problem was Crush, who had a lot of strength and was being a challenge to Obsidian Blade. The changeling hit him hard with his horn on a rib and Obsidian could feel it breaking.
“I told you would regret” Crush said. “Now, I’ll take you with me and my queen will be glad to have a pony like you to feazt on.”
But Obsidian Blade wouldn’t let himself be defeat like that to a changeling. Using his magic, he caused a fissure to open under Crush, what caused him to fell in. After he fell, Obsidian closed the fissure, causing to the mutated changeling to get stuck, having only the shoulders and the head out.
“NO!” he exclaimed, trying to get out, but without success. “You filthy pony! You’re gonna…”
But before he could finish, Obsidian Blade hit him hard and knock him out.
“Regret, yes, I know” he said. “At least you should have told something more original.”
After getting his rib healed, Obsidian Blade turned to a pair of guards and told them:
“Watch over these ones. We don’t want them, mainly the mutant, to cause havoc, mainly when we’re so close to end this war.”
“Yes, sir!” they exclaimed.
And then Obsidian Blade continued to advance with the rest of his group.
At HQ, White Light was thinking about their situation, while looking to the map with the position of the Alliance’s forces.
“The regents are holding back Tirek and sending Prince Blue Sword and Prince Shining Armor ahead seemed to have worked. But Prince Star Knight and the others at the front lines are under pressure. Fortunately, the others with their own battles will end them and then go lend them support.”
Now that he thought about it, it wasn’t only the ones at the frontlines under pressure, but the others as well, including the ones working at the headquarters. He then turned to them and said:
“Listen up, at this moment, the war is entering its final stages. We’re the central commander for every unit. We can’t afford to commit a single mistake. I can’t tell you to not overdo it. Please, hand it there and do your best!”
There was a pause and then Boreal Blizzard said, with a smile:
“There isn’t one single member of the Sensor Unit that is going to throw the towel over something like this. Right, guys?”
“Right!” they all said.
“Neither will the Communication Unit” Diamond Glow said, with her subordinates agreeing. “We’re going to show everyone will persevere no matter what.”
White Light smiled. Now everyone had the motivation to proceed with their duties and do their best. That could only lead to an even stronger unification in the Alliance and, with that, he was sure they would be able to win that war.
It was then that Boreal Blizzard sensed something that led him to say:
“This is…” he said.
“What is it?!” White Light asked.
What he was feeling was the fight between the five tailed beasts and Star and Kurama, like the shock between the two Tailed Beast Bombs.
After being able to release the tailed beasts and having said those words to the General of Chaos, he said:
“A lot of names? What does that have to do with anything?”
“Oh, so you don’t know…” Star replied, in a mocking way. “Well, I’m sure I’m not going to tell you.”
That answer upset the General a little, while Gyuki gave a laugh.
Noticing the determination and confidence his son was displaying, he told Shining:
“You know what, Shining, seeing Star like this makes feel old.”
Shining chuckled and replied:
“I think I should be the one saying that, as I’m not immortal like you. But don’t forget that we still have a lot to give.”
Seeing the expression in Star’s face, showing the same things Blue had seen, the General couldn’t let but feel one of his forelegs shaking a little and then something watery going through it. For a moment, he thought it was sweat, but then rain started to fall. That put his mind on easy. In the way things were at that moment, there wasn’t any possibility for them be able to make him perspire.
But then he looked to Star. That brat was able to defeat him in the past, but the General was able to get to know his limits and he knew he could use that by the time they met at the war. There wasn’t no way that, with him having his master’s full support, he would push him that hard. That made him wonder for a moment, how could that be possible. But quickly realized that didn’t mattered who or what that alicorn brat was. At the end of that war, the past and the future wouldn’t exist anymore.
At HQ, the Sensor Unit couldn’t believe what they were sensing at that moment.
“Amazing… Did you all feel that?”
“I can’t believe it, but… there’s no doubt about it.”
“So much power… It has to be the Nine-Tails.”
“Yeah…” Boreal Blizzard agreed, who couldn’t help but feeling also something different.
“What’s the current situation?” White Light asked.
“Prince Star Knight is holding back the General of Chaos with an unbelievable amount of power” Boreal Blizzard answered. “The energy is incredible… Star Knight is keeping him at bay. It’s just the four of them: Prince Star Knight, Lord Hawthorn, Prince Shining Armor and Prince Blue Sword.”
With that information, White Light turned to Diamond Glow and told her:
“Diamond Glow, I need you to relay Prince Star Knight’s actions directly into the minds of the reinforcement troops. Give everything you got. Fifteen seconds is all we need. I want to boost everyone’s moral. Those four are out there, giving everything they have. I want the rest of us to do everything we can as well. Convey their resolve to everyone!”
“Everyone?” one of her subordinates said. “Doing that, will override the energy network and if she does just one little mistake, Diamond Glow is dead.”
But she smiled and said:
“You’re asking a lot. Just ten seconds.”
“Captain Diamond Glow…”
“I’m sorry, but this is critically important, Diamond Glow” White Light said. “Make it short, but make it count, do you understand?”
“Well, I’m not very good with inspirational words” Diamond Glow said. “After all, I’m Mirror Coat’s student. But you can count on me.”
And she did her telepathic spell to reach all the members of the Alliance that were advancing to the front lines and told them:
“Message from HQ. Reinforcements, we now have the upper hoof. Prince Star Knight is standing forward, the one we must protect at all cost. Prince Star Knight and Lord Hawthorn are fighting with everything they got at the front line of this battle. Prince Shining Armor and Prince Blue Sword are there too. Everyone in the Alliance, I need all of you to help them and their mighty hearts. Amplify them with your mighty hearts. If you do, I promise you victory…”
A little blood came out from her nose, as she finished the message, due to the effort she used to send the message, what caused to lose her breath.
“I knew I was bad with words” she said. “That took me twenty seconds…”
But White Light didn’t think that way. She had said exactly what everyone needed to hear.
Those words seemed to be truth, as all the members of the alliance were now moving with a renewed spirit. All equines, dragons, griffons and deer were very determined. Not even the rain could stop and slow them. Leading the Third Unit, was Twilight who said:
“Star, Blue, Shining… don’t worry. I and all the others are coming. Just hang out for a little longer…”
And it was then that the raining clouds moved and started to clear the sky, letting the sun shine and let the mud prints of the ones who passed by be revealed, revealing thousands and thousands of them.