"Time to die!" The figure summoned a giant trident. He placed the tip on the floor and dragged it towards them.
"That's something I never got," said Night. "Why do villains drag their weapons on the ground when they can easily..."
"Not now," said Gold. The figure stopped in front of the group and raised his weapon. "Scatter." The group ran in opposite directions as the weapon hit the ground. Gold ran forward and encased his fist in white magic. When he threw the punch, it did nothing. The figure grabbed Gold's arm and flung him into the wall, leaving an imprint in it. The figure turned to the girls and walked towards them.
"That's enough." Another figure jumped down from the roof. It looked exactly like the first, except this one had no wrist band. "I hate it when the clones go rouge." The figure summoned its own trident and drove it through the armor. The armor turned to dust within seconds. "I will have to make sure we test the next batch. Now then." Gold and Night were dragged towards the figure. "Now to complete the objective." The figure brought out a small device. "This will drain your magic permanently." Before he could do anything else, Adagio ran forward and grabbed his hand.
"No. Please stop this, Rift." The figure saw Adagio's concerned look and only smiled.
"Glad to see your on the right side Dagi." Rift dropped the device and crushed it with his shoe. "I've been wanting to do that for a while. He slowly released Gold and Night. "Sorry about that fellas, but the magic went rouge."
"Yeah. We both have experience with that," said Gold. He used his magic to scan Rift. "Ok. You are on our side. Good. The names Golden Rise and this is Nightfall Silver."
"Pleasure to meet you, I'm Guitar Rift, Prince of the Seaponies."
"Seaponies?" Gold and Night looked at each other.
"Lots to explain, but no time to explain it." Rift walked over to the main doors. "We got a town to save."
"Wait, I got questions," said Gold.
"What did I just say. I'll explain later. We have to get going." Rift ran out, and the others followed. Rift's trident started to glow as he pointed it towards down town. A green line of energy shot from the second point. "Gotcha. Dark magic straight ahead." Rift took off, and the others were forced to follow. They were getting close to the parade grounds, but it wasn't much of a parade. Multiple floats were flipped over, and people were running from the scene.
"This is a lot of chaos in a little amount of time," said Night.
"Well that's what he wants," said Rift.
Gold and Night looked around with worried expressions. "We have to find Sunset and Twilight," said Gold.
"You two search for your ladies," said Rift. "I'll handle whatever is causing this."
"And what should we do?" asked Adagio.
"You girls go with Gold and Night. You won't be in danger that way." The group split up. Gold and Night ran along the cleared sidewalk to where the girls should've been. The Rainbooms' float was flipped onto the sidewalk. Night looked at one of the stores, and saw Sunset and Twilight inside. There were two others inside as well. One was a girl with pale yellow skin and aqua hair in two pigtails. She wore a black skirt, a blue shirt, and a dark purple jacket, and dark purple shoes. The other one was a guy with dark brown hair and bronze-ish skin. He wore a dark brown shirt with the sleeves ripped off, black pants and brown boots.
"Bronze Leaf and Juniper are in there," said Gold. He went up and knocked on the glass. Bronze got in a fighting stance, but relaxed when he saw the guys.
He walked up and opened the door for everybody. "Good to see you guys. Juniper and I got here as soon as the chaos started."
Sunset ran up to Gold and hugged him. Twilight did the same with Night. "We were so worried," said Sunset, almost in tears. Twilight was the same way.
"Yeah. We ran into trouble at the warehouse," said Night.
Twilight lifted her head up, and saw the burns on Night's arm. "Night, did you..."
"I had to." Night looked to Gold. "We would be dead if I didn't."
"And he was in control the whole time," added Gold.
"Ok." Twilight wiped her eyes. "Just be careful next time."
"I will."
"So how did you guys actually escape?" asked Juniper.
"We got help from a new face in town," said Gold.
Sunset looked up and finally saw the Dazzelings. "What are you three doing here?" She said with annoyance in her voice.
"We can explain," said Adagio. "We were tricked."
"We are going to need more explanation," said Night.
"And a quick one at that," added Gold.
"Ok," said Sonata. "Afterthebattleofthebandswewerereallyangryandsomeonecameuptouswithapromiseforrevengeandwetookit,whichafterweregretedbecausewewerechangedandbecamedarkerwithtotallynocontrolandthenweweregoingtotakeouttheRainboomsbuttheystoolouramuletsandbecametheevilones."
The group was completely silent. "What, you asked for it quickly," said Sonata with a smile.
The group looked to Aria. "Revenge, under control, changed, forced to serve, on your side now."
"Ok that works," said Bronze. There was an explosion that shook the building. "What was that?"
"Probably the new guy." Gold, Night, and Bronze ran outside, and saw smoke coming from a nearby area. "That's our queue." The three ran to the area. When they arrived they saw a giant crater with Rift at the bottom.
He looked up to the three. "I was wondering when you guys were going to show up." He pushed himself up. "Me and my friends are just having a small dispute." A fire ball hit Rift.
The group looked up to see two figures floating. The first guy had black hair and dark red skin. He had the same cloths a Rift, except in a red scale. The other guys had aqua blue hair, and dark blue skin. His cloths were the same except blue.
"Just give up Rift," said the red one.
"You can't defeat us," said the blue one.
"Not alone." Rift jumped up to the top of the crater, and landed by the guys. "Are you guys with me?"
"We literally met five minutes ago," said Gold.
"Ok, let me put it like this. Help me or this entire city will be put into the ground."
"Well I'm convinced," said Bronze. The group got into a fighting stance.
"You mortals will die instantly." The red one charged up a fire shot, but got hit by a giant boulder from Bronze.
"Don't these guys know to never charge an attack." Bronze picked up two more boulders while the others flew up.
Gold punched the blue guy in the face as Night kicked him in the back. Blue flipped in the air, but got back to his senses. "You two are gonna pay for that." He summoned a bunch of clouds and surrounded Gold and Night.
"Is he trying to blind us," said Night. He felt a sharp pain on his cheek, followed by another one.
"It's an ice storm," said Gold. More shards of ice hit the two.
Meanwhile, Bronze was chucking boulders at Red. But Red simply punched through them with a fire fist. "Can you do better than that?"
"Don't have to," said Bronze.
Rift came out of nowhere and sent Red flying into the crater. "One down."
"None down." Red exploded upwards and grabbed Rift. He spun him around and hit Bronze with him.
"That hurt," said Rift.
"How can we beat them?" said Bronze.
Rift thought for a moment and had an idea. "We get them to hit themselves." He flew up into the air and created a cyclone around Red. After a few seconds of spinning, Red ignited. "Perfect." He sent Red flying into Blue's cloud. The two hit each other and a giant mist cloud erupted. Gold and Night moved away and landed. The two other fell into the crater, both knocked out. "We did it," said Rift.
"Yeah," said Gold. He walked up to Rift and socked him in the jaw. "That's for the mess you brought with you, now you owe us a full explanation."