Spiders and Destiny: A New Beginning

by Funnel Web


Chapter 11 The Final Battle Part 1

The songs were over and it was time to announce the Fall Formal Princess. The lights shine on Principal Celestia who was on the stage with a microphone. Principal Celestia said “First off, I want to say how wonderful, everything looks, tonight. You all manage to pull through after the “unfortunate” events of earlier. But there is also someone here I want to congratulate, here tonight. This person was able to fix all of this despite all of the odds against him. This person did this for the one person to be Princess. This person never asked for anything in return. But now I feel like he deserves this. Midnight Wolf, you have officially become the first ever Fall Formal PRINCE. That’s right. The rules have changed. Now you can volunteer for Fall Formal Prince and you, Midnight Wolf, will be the first one. Come on up, Midnight. You’ve earned it”.

Midnight and his friends were shocked by this kind of news. Midnight was even more shocked out of the rest of the group. Midnight forges a smile on his face and he runs up the stage.

“Gee...I don’t know what to say…..thanks” Midnight said to Principal Celestia.

Principal Celestia nods her head in approval to Midnight as she continues her speech.

“And now without further adieu, I’d like to announce the winner of this year’s Fall Formal Crown. The princess of this years’ Fall Formal is…….Twilight Sparkle”!

Midnight crosses his arms and smiles of this news. Twilight walks up the stage to collect her crown and she goes to her knees. Principal Celestia presents Twilight with her crown and says “Congratulations, Twilight” before placing the crown on her head. Twilight stands up and Midnight gives Twilight another kiss and the crowd goes wild. When they departed, Midnight’s buzzing noise in his head goes off and he see’s that Sunset Shimmer is waving at him at the doors.

“Hey...um..excuse me..but...I have to go somewhere. I’ll be right back” Midnight said as he left the stage.

When Midnight got outside the gym, he started running after Sunset Shimmer. She clearly is trying to lead him to somewhere...but where? When Midnight got Sunset Shimmer cornered in that old alley of lockers, he knew that she lead him there on purpose.

“HEY! Surprised”? Midnight asked Sunset Shimmer.

“Oh. Hi, Midnight. I didn’t see you following me” Sunset Shimmer replied.

“It’s over. You’ve lost and Twilight has her crown, back”.

“You know, I gotta tell you, Midnight. I really, really admire your kindness. I see why Twilight likes you. Really, I do. When you first showed up at the school, I wasn’t sure. I thought “really”? But I get it, now”.

“How could you do this to her”?

“TO her? I’m not doing anything TO her, I’m doing this FOR her”.

“Huh. Yeah, right. Tell that to Celestia and that other world”.

“Midnight. Look…..you’re young. You don’t understand how the world works”.

“Yeah, but I understand that stealing a princess’s crown from another world is WRONG”.

“How do you think that Princess Celestia became what she is, today? Huh? Or even her little sister? Did Twilight ever tell you how? Those people, Midnight. Those people up there, the rich and the powerful, they do whatever they want. But people like us? Like you and me? HA! They don’t care about us. We’ve built their roads, and we fight all of their wars and everything, but they don’t care about us. We have to pick up after them. We have to eat their table scraps. That’s how it is. I know you know what I’m talking about, Midnight”.

“Why are you telling me, this”?

“Because I want you to understand. And….I needed a little time for the boys to get the crown”.

Just when Sunset Shimmer said that, Twilight’s voice shouted “HEY! THEY GOT SPIKE”! Before he saw Snips and Snails run past him with Spike in their hands. Just when Midnight was going to stop them, Sunset Shimmers stops him and says “Remember our little conversation from earlier, Midnight. It’s either let the crown go, or everyone you love dies. It’s your choice” before Midnight turns around at her to see that she’s gone.

“.....What do I do”? Midnight asked himself.
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Twilight and her friends make it outside the school where it was still raining and started to bring out thunder and lightning. Yet, they’re still chasing after Snips and Snails. They stop to find Sunset Shimmer right next to the statue where the portal is with a sledgehammer in her hands as she said "That’s close enough”! At that moment, it was a stand-still. No one moved a muscle. Spike was still struggling to get out of the grasp of Snips and Snails but failing.

“You better not hurt him”! Twilight said.

“Oh, I wouldn’t dream of it. I’m not a monster, Twilight. Let him go” Sunset Shimmer ordered Snips and Snails and they do so. “You don’t belong, here. Give me the crown and you can go back to Equestria, tonight. Or keep it and never go home! Tick tock, Twilight. We haven’t got all night. The portal will be closing on its own in less than an hour. So, what’s your answer”?

Twilight had to think about it few a few seconds. It was either her crown or Equestria. What will she take? She thought about it and says it Sunset Shimmer “NO” before standing up on her legs.

“WHAT”?! Sunset Shimmer said in shock. “Equestria, your friends, lost you forever! Don’t you see what I’m about to do to the portal”?!

“Yes! But I’ve also seen what you were able to do, here, without magic! Equestria will find a way to survive without my element of harmony. This place might not if I allow it to fall into your hands. So go ahead! Destroy the portal! You are NOT getting this crown”! Twilight explained, placing the crown on her head.

“FINE!..You win” Sunset Shimmer said as she drops the sledgehammer.

Twilight sighs in relief as Rainbow Dash and the others walk up to her and started complimenting her on what she was gonna do. Sunset Shimmer can hear all of those compliments and she starts gritting her teeth. She was starting to get ticked off until she finally snapped.

“OH! YEAH! SHE’S SO VERY SPECIAL” Sunset shouted as she charged at Twilight, knocking off the crown off her head.

Both Twilight and Sunset Shimmer started struggling, trying to get the crown. Sunset was so close to grabbing it until Spike jumped in and took it and started running. Snips and Snails started chasing after Spike but Sunset Shimmer shoved both of them out of the way so she could get it. Spike got cornered because he couldn’t open the front doors to the school. Spike saw Rainbow Dash and he tosses the crown to her. Rainbow Dash catches it. Snips tries to yank it out of her hands but failed. Snails tried so as well but failed also. Rainbow Dash throws the crown to Fluttershy and she catches it as well. She got scared because she saw Sunset Shimmer, Snips and Snails running towards her. She couldn’t move. But Applejack was able to use her rope to grab Fluttershy out of the way, but Snips caught the crown. Pinkie Pie yanked it out of his hands and passes it to AppleJack. Then, Applejack throws the crown to Rarity and she passes it to Twilight. Twilight tried to pass it to someone else but Sunset caught the crown.

“I’ll take that” Sunset Shimmer said as she caught the crown. “At last! More power than I could ever imagine”!

To Be Continued.....