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// Season 3: Chapter nine: The idea of Speech: The return of the Elements arc. 
// Story: Project Harmony One. 
// by Megaskullmon 
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Speech and the beauty of words."

Sugar Sparkle was given a new cybernetic Spine so she can walk again. But the station had another idea for her. She was one of the first to be pulled out of the station. But the station seems to have a plan for her. The tree outside the station places the branch of Speech inside the spell. Sugar Spark opens her eye's finally she is back in the station. But she looks to be alone.

Lifting her head she trots around looking for others. But the entire station is lifeless. She sat in the middle of a room feeling that she is stuck in this spell for a reason. A voice softly spoke. "I'm sorry for what I had to do to get you back into the spell." Sugar blinked she knew that voice. It's the voice of the one that gave them the elements.

" I thought you died.."

" I did but the tree hold's my mind. I placed everything in there before we met. Because I knew something Like what happen to you would happen. The elements are dead thanks to what happened to the station. They need to be healed. The best way to heal them is to heal the mind."

Sugar sighed softly. "I feel fine and happy. I found a stallion that loves me for me. He even helped me get a new spine. But I do miss the others. How are they?"

The voice sighed. " The most broken is Rainbow Cloud. Twilight did many things to her that is causing her to slowly die in her mind. That's why I need to bring you all back. To save her"

Sugar felt bad that she wasn't there for her friend. " What did Twilight do to her?"

"Twilight won the battle with her. She even showed that she is the descendant of Rainbow Dash. She sliced her wing off stabbed her then tried to fully kill her. But a young mare known as Scootaloo saved her." Sugar sighed looking towards the emptiness of the station.

"What must I do then to bring back my element?"

The voice softly laughed. " You must find yourself in this spell. The part of the spell that is the element. Wake them up and then show to them that fighting for the cause you are fighting for is worth it."

"Find me in this spell? What do you mean by that?"

"Finding yourself is the best way. Meaning you go through this empty station and look for yourself. But that would also mean fighting your fear and the counter to your element. They will be waking up soon the counter's to your element's. So their mental power allows them to be in this spell. But they will never find your new world."

Blinking. "I heard about this but how come no pony can find this new world of ours?"

"It's where the world is located in the universe. The station is going to be rebuilt to be able to fly between universes. Since you will be removing all the human stuff leftover. But I don't know how the station will be built."

Sugar sighed " Alright I will start searching."

The voice stopped speaking but a bag of provisions formed in front of her with a melee weapon that looked like a large staff. Sugar puts the bag on her back. She closed her eye's sighing lifting the staff up into her mouth. She opened her eyes again she was in C&C looking around seeing no ponies at all. Alone again.

"You can do this... Sugar. You can do this.." She kept saying. to herself. Closing her eye's going out of the door looking down each hall. One of the halls is blocked off though. There is a symbol of Forgiveness around the other elements. Hers is glowing. Meaning she is the one getting worked on right now. Looking up she saw that her element is the other way. Slowly walking along the dark hall. The station is ripped apart in some spots. Some wire's sprawled all over the area.

Looking at the door blocking the way. Then back to the wires. It seems she needs to fix the door. This will take time Placing down the bag opening it up grabbing a tool trying to find a good way to fix the wire's. But it's going to take her some time. Lifting up one of the wire's placing it inside the wall to fix it. But she doesn’t even have these skills. She sighed tossing the tools to the ground she felt that she can't do this.

Then she saw a button on the side. It said. 'Since you can't do it that way why not give a speech to others you can?' She sighed clicking the button and a group of ponies walked out of a room. They had no faces just empty looking. But they look to be listening She sighed trying to think of a good speech to say. Looking around a moment to the wall. She closed her eyes taking a deep breath.

"Ponies lend me your ear's. I need your help to fix this door. So I can go on. I need to help save my best friend's. I have been on the outside. They haven't been able to get free from this trap. So please find it in your heart to fix this door for me."

She waits to see how that short speech was taken. She doesn’t know but two of the ponies take the tool's starting to work on it. She smiled softly looking towards the door to see a light above is shines. It didn't have that shine before. Maybe her speech what is helped. But of course, she is not a fighter she will need to be trained before they go back to free the other worlds from Twilight's threat.

She blinked hearing nasty creatures making their way to them. She looked to the ponies who just kept working. Not any faster or any slower. She lifted the spear into her mouth to get ready to fight. The creatures that walked into the hall look like Timberwolves. She got herself ready for a battle. But they don't want to fight her they just walk by her. Going through the door like it was already opened for them.

She blinked staring at the door then back at the workers. They were almost done. Setting the spear down for a moment relaxing her mouth. The door finally opens. The ponies just step back. But they don't seem to be there. They never were there. She is on her own. Looking through the door. Slowly walking through.

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Walking through she finally sees her friend's on many screens. Savanna has many burns in her body and bullet holes. It looks like the army that attacked her used slug throwers. But she looks like she will be fine. Muffin has a large machine blaster with her. Is doing what she can to fight. Looking to see Apple core she has lost her front leg. Then seeing Pinkie Cake. She has had her eye taken from her.  A frown forms on Sugar's face.

She looks at Charity she looks fine. But looks like she is in so much pain. Then she finally sees Rainbow Cloud. Rainbow Cloud looks wounded and to be dying. Twilight had a look of hatred on her face. Spike lay far from them his tail gone. She wishes she could go save them both. But it would be too hard to do that at the moment. She needed to take care of this.

Walking slower into the hall. Another hall blocked off looking up seeing its for Muffin. Only seeing one other open door that has her cutie mark on it.  Slowly walking to it. But standing in front of the door. Is the former bearer of Speech. She finally gets a good look at the creature. This creature is female with a cockroach-like body. But she seems to have a beauty about her.

She turns around to look at Sugar sparkle a smile forming on her face. "Ah, greetings sister. This is how I used to look before Silence took hold of me. But I'm what remains of the former bearer. I have come to speak to you. Of course, I am sure my friend told you that I would attack you at first. Truthfully I don't want this war myself. But Disharmony forced me into this war."

Sugar sighed. " So then why did you fall into darkness then?"

"I sadly had no choice. It’s been so long I have even forgotten my given name. I'm known as Black Shell. But I won't fight you at least. I won't. When we meet out of this we will fight but me being called the element of silence doesn't mean I will be Silent to you. But a warning to you my dear."

Blinking looking around but then looking back at her. " What is the warning?"

"Even if you beat me I won't fall I won't die. I will be healed and maybe back to my normal self. But that's the issue here. If you fall you become the next bearer of Silence. Then I die and become part of the next life." She blinked sighing looking around then Black Shell changed her body to look like the creature black Shell.

"Now enough with that... We must battle. I guess it's the only way you will be sure of yourself. To me, you will be fine. But I guess fate or my friend feels you need to get your butt kicked." She shrugged her many arms.

" Before we fight this friend of yours we met him on that world that held these element's he said he was the only one that didn't fall for into Disharmony."

Black Shell blinks laughing. "He told you that? He was the one that leads us to this path to start with. Who do you think is the leader of Disharmony? It's not the Disharmony maker's no. Like the Harmony maker's they don't fight this battle. They allow their minions to fight."

She blinked. " You mean the creature that we saw die and blew up his world was not him?"

" Oh no, it was him. But it was his Harmony side. He found a way to break both sides off him. He wishes you to end his battle that caused Disharmony to hide and capture his friend's. I don't wish to kill you though. The other's of the army of Disharmony will want to. But I and my friends don't wish to fight the elements."

Sugar sighed softly. " Then why are you? Why not just leave them and allow them to fight without you?" Black shell sighed laughing a bit.

" If only it was that easy Miss Sugar Sparkle. But this war is not going to be easy. Your world is already taken fully over by Disharmony. Now their after the other world's. You can thank Sunset Shimmer for finding a way to wake Sombra back from the dead." Black Shell lifted fully up onto her many legs. Grabbing many weapons mostly melee weapons. Her many hands grip them.

"I enjoyed our talk Miss Sugar sparkle. I do wish that we didn't have to do this. But it comes down to it. That it's a battle between good and evil. " Sugar Sparkle lifted her spear. The spear started to glow her body forming rune's of her element many of her speeches being written on her body. The element of speech glows on the tree outside of the spell. Ponies and other creatures watching this as it happens. The elements went back to the tree to charge. The only element glowing is the speech book.  



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The area around the spell glow's brightly causing a screen to form. Showing the battle between Black Shell and Sugar Sparkle. A voice spoke. " Greetings ponies and creature's of New Celestia. I'm sorry for this but it seems the tree wishes you to see your element's fight what remains of the former bearer's inside them. To finally free the element from them."

Ponies come out of their homes and their bars. Chaser and Shadow watch this together. The two workers in the background. Helping build the town. Jigsaw comes out of his bar staring at the glowing screen. "Allow me. Most might wonder why Sugar Sparkle was pulled back into the spell. Her mind is not healed. Her ability to walk might be healed down. But her mind is not."

On the screen, the two bearer's circle waiting for their openings to attack each other. But Black Shell speaks. "Your race is alot like mine used to be. Peaceful happy and willing to make friends. But thanks to the harmony and disharmony war. Our race killed ourselves. Hopefully, you can bypass that."

Sugar sparkle nods speaking through the spear in her mouth. " Maybe." Black Shell gives one last smile knowing that this will be the final time she will be connected to the element of speech. The two watch each other's movements the many legs of the bug creature that slowly allowed the creature to be faster and deadlier than the poor mare. Sugar Sparkle is not much of a fighter. It's easy to tell from how she holds the spear in her mouth. The way she places her hooves on the ground. Both their hearts beat loudly enough to become a way for them to hear their nerves.

Black Shell lifted her weapons getting ready to fight. The element starts to glow brighter. Black Shell attacked first her many arms swinging the blades down causing Sugar to fly backdropping the spear. She fell into the wall. Black Shell blinked staring at the mare. "How did you become an element when you can't even fight?" Sugar groaned standing back on her hooves thinking to fight like a pony. She rushed at Black Shell causing her not to be prepared for then turning around quickly to buck the large bug. She used the swords to block one of them broke causing the blade to fall to the ground.

She then trotted away with the large bug trying to chase her. Sugar is smaller than the bug. She stops turning to Black Shell they both stare at each other. Black Shell laughed. " Hmm, it seems you can fight it's impressive that you can." She spreads out her wing's forming a strange armor on herself causing herself to look much bigger then she is. Sugar Sparkle closes her eyes.

"In the name of the Crystal Empire. In the name of the Crystal Heart and the crystal family. I fight you and I will not be stopped from winning this battle."

Near a land, with crystal mountains, a new crystal empire is being built. Candance and her daughter Flurry heart hear this call. They look to see the image even made it to them. She said's it again. "In the name of the Crystal Empire. IN the name of the crystal heart. and the crystal royal family. I fight you and I will be stopped from winning this battle." The crystal ponies that survived to make it to the new world bow their heads to the shard of the crystal heart. Queen Cadance her daughter Princess Flurry heart bow their heads.

The dead Crystal fly's into the air glowing brightly. Crystal's fly out of the mountains forming a new heart. It slowly hovers back down to them. Pulsing and spinning. The royal family starts to speak as one. "IN the name of the Royal Family protect our subject allow her to win this battle. All her to beat this creature. Give her the power of the crystal empire."

The heart glows but the battle start's going wrong. Sugar Sparkle loses her hoofing and falls to the ground starting to get sliced up by the swords. Black Shell breaks the skin causing the poor mare to bleed. " It seems like your God's can't defend you now." Black Shell stabbed Sugar Sparkle right into the chest. Right into her heart. She gasped in pain slowly drifting down looking to the ground seeing her blood drain from the wound.

The heart starts to glow brighter and starts to spin like days of old it's been called and it needs to save one of its own. The heart shoots up a big beam of magic. It slowly makes its way through the new world. A peaceful world it Bypasses a Changeling Hive. They have a new Queen known as Berry bite. She is pure black like her mother was. But she looks more peaceful. They have been watching this battle. Watching the beam of magic fly to the mare. She bows her head to it.

The beam goes through another new city A city of Yaks. The new leader of the Yaks Prince Shaggy. He looks up with his subjects and they scream in unison for the mare to be saved. In the mountains, a new Griffin stone is formed. The leader’s Queen Silver wing and King Sun flyer watch this as their hope depends on the new elements. The beam goes through many other areas. The new dragon lands. A new dragon Lord Ember again. HIppogriffs found their new land along with their sea pony cousins. No new leader yet.

The beam of magic finally makes it into the spell going right for Sugar Sparkle it hits her body. Causing a change to happen in the fight. The sword is pulled out forcibly by this magic Causing Black Shell to fly into the wall. The mare's wounds heal causing her to become a crystal-infused mare again like her kind used to in the past.


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Sugar Sparkle stands up Crystal armor formed on her body. her body calmly glows. A large crystal sword in her mouth. But she places it down. Staring at Black Shell her eyes glow brightly. " In the name of the crystal Empire and the name of the Element of Speech. I will win this battle."

Black Shell smirks lifting her weapons. " Now a challenge." The battle goes on they class their weapons of powerful weapons. The crystal sword shattering just a bit in some spots. But their hunter for the battle is all most can see. The hope to come is how most wish to end this battle.

Sugar Sparkle finally turns quickly bucking the bug causing her to fly and charging with the sword trying to stab her but the sword is not strong enough. A voice speaks in her mind. " Use your Element...Say a speech to fight her."

She smiles at herself letting her sword down. " Hope is all we have left my friend. Hope is but a weapon to some that will never understand what is to come. I will not lose this war to you. I will not lose this battle." Her words become forms taking up the weapon attacking Black Shell.

"The battle is never lost. Listen to the drum's let your heart become the drums. I will never seek the ending it will become the way you wish to see it. But that is how you wish to end it." The words become bigger in her speech. " I use my words to fight for the power of words that can be even stronger at times."

Black Shell laughs. " Finally you're starting to see how the element of speech works. The words that shall fight for you. The ponies that shall take up arms to protect you. Your world is dead Equestria is. Now you must protect your new world from us from me."

Sugar Sparkle smirks. " You have no idea how to find our new world. We will meet at the battle lines. But when we rescue our other planets from creatures like you. Disharmony will lose harmony will win. Then we will go back to how peace was. It's time to fight it's time to win."

Black Shell is forced to the ground by the words. Sugar Sparkle uses the crystal Empire magic to jump stomping down hard on the poor creature. With all her weight that the Crystal empire gave her. She comes down so hard that the bug shatter's but the words give the weapon while the bug is dazed. Stabbing deep into the heart of Black Shell. An explosion happens causing the spirit of Black Shell to finally leave the Element and the element outside of the spell finally stops glowing and goes to a slow dim.

The image that showed the battle vanished but the ponies and creatures around the world sing and dance for the mare that beat the odds. But in the image, a glow happens to show the future for her to see.

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Black Shell stood there at how she used to look before the element's found her. She was smaller and more calmer looking. She had a gentle smile on her face. " Thank you now you see how I used to be before this war happen in the past. I wish we could have met back then. But war is war. But we will meet on the battlefield because after I vanish here I am going to wake. But that would be till your friend's wake the rest of us.

She looked to see the other creature of the former elements in a deep slumber. IN the middle of the former leader of them. The bug that gave the mare's their elements. He smiled at Sugar Sparkle and bowed his head. " Thank you for what you did for my friend. This is the part of her that will always be with you. But you will fight the element of silence."

Sugar nodded. "But I have a question who created the element's?"

He sighed softly the large cockroach bug didn't know how to word it. " You know how you think of the Alicorns your gods? Well, we had similar creatures like that. They were our leaders our creator's you could say. They worked hard on forming us getting us ready for the war ahead. But I doubt your Alicorns knew about this war but they did fight what they could and teach you."

Sugar nodded. "But for now Sugar sparkle it's time for you to rest your mind. This area will shut down for the moment. Your body will be put with the other's when it's done. I am sorry about this but Twilight needed to be given this by war. War gave this to her so long ago after he gave her a foal. "

" That’s right the one that will wake you all is Sun Sparkle the daughter of Twilight Sparkle. She is A pony and creature of harmony. She is half Ailen and pony. You will see this when she shows up again. But again for now rest." The world around Sugar Sparkle slowly turns dark. Her mind gently goes back to slumber to allow her friends to wake her up again. IN the spell her body is being moved to the docks where the tree used to be.

On the outside, the ponies watch the spell. The Changelings now get ready for their war ahead. They wish to fight for the ponies and this new world. The new Queen doesn’t wish to be like her mother was. She wishes to fight for this world. The griffins get ready for the same war. All of the races get ready for this war to come.

An element on the tree starts to glow. It's the Element of health the mare known as Muffin.  It’s her time to become the next to wake.