//------------------------------// // Chapter 5: Confronting the Dread Master // Story: Equestria Wars: The Magic Unleashed VI // by sonicdash123 //------------------------------// Sunset banged on the door as she cried for help. "Is anybody out there?" Sunset shouted. "Somebody open the door! If we don't get outta here and figure out who has the Stone, in a few hours, it'll be too late to restore everyone's memories. I'll lose my friends forever." "You must remember something!!!" Charming Thunder said. "How are we supposed to catch someone who can erase our memory every time we get close to catching them?" Trixie asked. Sunset placed a hand in one of her pockets and felt a piece of paper crumpled up. "By being clever!" Charming Thunder and Sunset said in unison. "What?" "I wrote myself a note: Check the video. Yes! It's been recording this whole time!" "Twilight's camera? What are you talking about?" "I don't remember doing it, but I must have realized our memories would get erased, so I pressed record!" Sunset rewinded the video as Charming Thunder and Danny came to check the video. "Clever girl," Danny said. "Thank you." "Who's that?" "Wallflower Blush." "Name's not ringing a bell." They continued to watch the video as Sunset and Trixie refreshed their memory. They saw the part when Sunset got tackled to the ground after she got angry. "She's kinda right about you." "Yeah, thanks." "Actually, the Wise and Moralizing Trixie was making a point. You said you didn't do anything." "I didn't! I wasn't mean to her at all!" "But maybe it's not good enough to not be mean to someone. Maybe you have to be nice." "You're right. Not that it matters. I'm still trapped in here." Sunset sighed. "Unless you can magic us out of here." "Oh, what's the point in trying? You've seen enough of my tricks to know what'll happen." "I can't use my lightsaber to damage property," Charming Thunder said. "I would get in trouble for that." "At least when the sun goes down and everyone hates me forever, I'll still have three friends in the morning." "Huh?" Trixie said. "And I mean, one of them is the Greatest and Powerfullest Canterlot High School has to offer, so I guess I can't complain." "And don't forget me and Danny, Sunset," Charming Thunder said. "You poor fool! You actually believed me when I was pretending to give up? Mere stage banter! The Great and Powerful Trixie never gives up on herself or her friends. I mean, her Pretty Decent Assistant-Detective-Helper People. Behold! The Magician's Exit!" Trixie threw down a smoke bomb and when the smoke cleared, Trixie was out of the room in the school hallway. "Yes! It worked! I finally did it!" Sunset knocked on the window of the door and Trixie realized that Sunset was still in there. "We're still in here!" Trixie nervously laughed. "Um...all part of the trick! Have you out in a jiffy!" Trixie threw down a smoke bomb and Sunset was out of the room this time. Trixie threw down another smoke bomb, but the result is still the same for every time the smoke bomb was thrown. Trixie then gave up when Sunset, Charming Thunder, and Danny were standing in the school hallway. "You know what? Just leave me and Charming in here! Just go!" "I owe you one, Trixie! I will never forget this!" "Never say never." Sunset, Danny, and Charming Thunder ran off through the hall so they can catch up to Wallflower and hopefully destroy the Memory Stone for good. --------------------- Sunset, Danny, and Charming Thunder ran to the school parking lot in search of Wallflower who was leaving to her garden. Twilight and the others were also outside standing in the parking lot. Sunset shyly walked past them as Danny and Charming Thunder rushed ahead. "Wallflower, stop!" Sunset said. "You remember my name?" Wallflower asked. "We remember everything! The Memory Stone, how I acted, all of it!" "What?! How?! I erased the whole afternoon!" This caught the attention of Twilight and the others. "Listen. I used to be just like you. Sure, I was popular, but I was lonely." "You're nothing like me, and I'm not lonely, because I have... plants!" Charming Thunder tilted his head in confusion as Danny crossed his arms. "That sounded less lonely in my head." "I'm sorry, Wallflower." "No, you're not. You're just trying to look good in front of your friends! And it's working! How am I supposed to get back at you if nothing I do matters?! I hate you!" Wallflower covered her mouth after what she said. Sunset gasped at the statement. "I wanted to teach you a lesson by erasing your friends' good memories of you." She then reached for the stone in her backpack. "But obviously that didn't work. But what if I erased all their memories of high school?" Charming Thunder's eyes widened. "You can't! You'd be stealing their memories of each other!" "They'll think of each other the way you think of me! Which is not at all!" Wallflower fired the stone at Twilight and the others, but Sunset jumped in the blast and it hit her instead of her friends. "NO! I've ruined their friendship once before. I'd rather give up my own memories than let it happen again!" Strands of memories of her friends flew out of Sunset's forehead. "Fluttershy! No! Applejack! Rarity! Aah! Rainbow Dash! Pinkie Pie! Twilight! Don't forget me! Charming! Ahh! Danny!" Sunset then collapsed to the floor then woke up walking on her knees and her hands on the ground. "This isn't Canterlot. Where am I? Princess Celestia? What's happened to me? Somepony, help me!" Twilight walked up to Sunset. "Who are you?" "We're your friends," Twilight said. "We may not remember you," Applejack said. "But after seeing what you did," Pinkie added. "The sacrifice you made for us," Rarity added. "We'd be proud to call you," Fluttershy added. "Our friend," Danny and Charming Thunder said. Wallflower gasped as Charming Thunder and the others except Danny transformed into their hero forms. "Wallflower!" Twilight said. "You have magic you do not understand! But it is nothing compared to the Magic of---!" Pinkie then butted in. "Yeah, yeah, we get it," Pinkie said. "LIGHT HER UP, LADIES!!!" The seven then grabbed hands and fired a beam of magic towards the Memory Stone causing it to explode into pieces. The strands of memories returned to the rightful owners. "Twilight...Sparkle?" Sunset asked. "Sunset Shimmer!" Twilight said before she hugged Sunset as the others came to join in. "We're so sorry." "I'm just glad to have you all back." "It's not over yet," Charming Thunder said as he activated his lightsaber. Danny also activated his tonfa lightsabers and got into battle position as he and Charming Thunder encounter Bestia herself walking towards them. "Birth," Bestia started. "Pain. Fear. Death. You live. You know pain. You have learned fear." "I was wondering when you would show, Bestia," Danny said. "Ah. I see that you are friends with another who wields a lightsaber." "What do you really want, Bestia?" Charming Thunder demanded. "Mephiles commanded me to kill you in this world. You pose a threat ever since the other Charming Thunder came here." Danny charged towards Bestia, but stopped when two more figures appeared out of the forest. "And I didn't come alone. Face it Charming. You are outnumbered." "No. I am not alone. I have friends around every corner that will defeat you!" Charming Thunder then turned his head to look at Twilight with a smile. He then got into his battle position as Bestia's minions activated their lightsabers. "Then death only remains!" Bestia activated her double bladed lightsaber as Charming Thunder charged at her. Danny charged at Bestia's minions and attacked one of them as the rest were being handled by Charming Thunder. He cuts one of them down as he made his way to Bestia. Bestia blocked some strikes against Charming Thunder while Danny was finished with his opponent. Twilight and the others took cover as the duel continued. Danny charged at Bestia, but was stopped when she fired lightning at him causing him to be pushed back from the fight. There Charming Thunder and Bestia are now at a standoff as they held their blades in their battle positions. Bestia charged at Charming Thunder, but he avoided the incoming strike and rolled away from the second one. They then got into their battle positions. "You have failed, Bestia." "I haven't yet. The war in the other will be over with the help of the other Dread Masters. And when I have killed you, it will be the practice to take down King Charming Thunder!" "Amazing. Everything you have just said was wrong. The war rages on without you. And I will not be the only force user left." Bestia realized what he meant and turned to look at Danny who was slowly getting up and then at Twilight who was hiding behind the van. "Maybe I'll destroy your precious friends as well." Charming Thunder deactivated his lightsaber. "No. Strike them down in anger, and I will always stand my ground. Just like my friends." Charming Thunder smiled as Bestia gripped her lightsaber tightly. She then looked at Twilight who was coming out of hiding and started to charge at her with a strike ready for her. Charming Thunder turned to see her and rushed over to her and jumped in front of her causing Bestia to cut off his hand. Charming Thunder landed on the ground now with a cut off hand. "NO!!!" Twilight shouted as she rushed over to him. Danny sneaks up behind Bestia without her knowing it while she approached the two. "How precious. Two in a price of one. This must be my lucky day." When Bestia was about to strike with her lightsaber, Danny stabs her in the chest. "No..." He then brought the blade out of her chest as she looked at Charming Thunder who was smiling at her. "See you round, Bestia," Charming Thunder said as Danny walked around to face Bestia with his lightsaber ignited. "NO!!!" With Bestia's last words spoken, Danny slashes her in the chest killing her in the process. She then collapsed to the ground as Danny and the others rushed on over to Charming Thunder's side. He then used his cybernetic eye to fire a non lethal laser at the wound to ease the pain and stop the bleeding. "He'll be alright," Danny said. "He just needs a new hand." "You can help him?" Twilight asked. "Of course. Just give me time with him." Twilight and the others got up and saw Wallflower sitting down with her back towards them. "I'm so ashamed," Wallflower said. "When I first found the Memory Stone, I only erased little things; awkward hellos, saying the wrong thing, literally any public speaking..." "I've had plenty of awkward moments I wish I could erase, too," Twilight said. "But it's no excuse. I was so used to erasing memories that I got completely carried away. I'm sorry for everything." "It's okay," Sunset said. "I'm sorry, too. I may have stopped being mean, but a Great and Powerful friend helped me realize I still wasn't very nice to you. Everyone matters, Wallflower. No matter how insignificant or invisible they feel." Sunset offered to help Wallflower and she took it and blushed then hugged Sunset. --------------------- The next day, Charming Thunder was admiring his new cybernetic hand that was made for him by Danny. He then puts his glove over it and notices a delivery truck parking. Vice Principal Luna noticed it and said, "No student parking in the faculty lot." Sunset opened the back of the truck and opened the box to see a that the new yearbooks have finally arrived. --------------------- A few hours later after handing out some yearbooks, Twilight and the others were hanging out at the broken statue. Charming Thunder walked towards the corner of the building of the school and saw a ghostly image of the pony version of himself smiling at him and nodded. Charming Thunder then bowed to him and smiled as the figure vanished. Twilight walked up next to him with a hand placed on his shoulder. He turned to see her with a smile and hugged her tightly. She then grabbed his hand and led him back to their friends to have some fun as they celebrate the new yearbook. THE END