//------------------------------// // Chapter 9: Vs Black Sun! The Great Mall War! // Story: The Black Sun // by Super Ponyman //------------------------------// (Canterlot Mall) The Canterlot Mall was very busy at this time of day, considering it was the weekend after all. The Rainbooms walked along with Burning Star in tow, they were all heading to many of their favorite outlet stores and Burning Star happened to be interested in buying a few things. He first was going with Rarity to get himself some new clothing, as wearing his two outfits over and over was getting old and Rarity was keen on getting Burning Star some decent clothing. Rarity entered the clothing store with Burning Star and spoke to him, “Oh darling, this should prove to be interesting for the two of us. I didn’t know that you had an interest in getting new clothes, but here we are.” “Yeah, figured I should get something else to wear... considering that I might be on this world for a while.” Said Burning Star breaking away from Rarity and heading towards the mens clothing section. Rarity followed him, curious as to what he was choosing. She commented to herself as Burning Star picked out a black t-shirt and dark gray jacket. He also had a pair of black jeans and a dark red scarf with him. ”My word. All this black and red is certainly hard on the eyes. If he wanted to have such dark clothing I should have taken him to Hot Topic.” She approached Burning Star and asked him, “Burning Star, may I ask why you are going to purchase so many black and red outfits?” His response was blunt, “Rarity, Black and Red hides me from sight and it goes well with how I express myself, do you have a problem with it?” “N-No darling! I’m just wondering if you would like some... recommendation on what you could pick out BESIDES black and red.” Rarity said, stepping back from Burning Star’s fierce gaze. “Personally, this blue and white shirt and jeans would work wonders to contrast with your red hair. And to be frank... it’s still rather warm out and dark colors absorb heat rather quickly.” She said, holding out a white polo shirt and blue jeans. Burning Star eyed the clothes for a minute, before saying, “A’ight. I’ll change into them.” He grabbed the blue jeans and shirt before heading into the changing room. Rarity waited outside, sitting next to Burning Star’s bag of combat gear, which was surprisingly large considering all the stuff he kept in there. She tried to pick it up and move it, but it was extremely heavy. ”My word, Burning Star... you carry this big bag wherever you go? What do you even keep in here, bricks?” She managed to lift it up off the seat, but The bag fell on top of her and she was pinned underneath it. “Well this is not the most comfortable position I’ve been put in...” Rarity huffed, struggling to get out from under the bag. Her words made her blush wildly. “Oh sweet heavens, I realized what I just said... oh my.” Burning Star emerged to see Rarity pinned under his bag in a very... comprising position. His face went red and he quickly said to Rarity, “R-Rarity? Why are you stuck underneath my bag?” Rarity sniffed, “I tried to move it and it fell on top of me... please be a dear and lend me a hand?” Burning Star picked up the bag and slung it back over his shoulder, his face still red. “There you go. Uh R-Rarity?” Rarity tilted her head, “Yes sweetie?” “Why are your... undergarments... on the floor?” He asked, so red in the face he could be mistaken for a tomato. Rarity looked behind her and saw the horrible truth. Her undergarments had snapped off! She went red as well. “Oh heavens! I-I hope you didn’t see anything, Burning Star... Burning Star?” Burning Star was shaking uncontrollably, then he fell down like a toppled tree. Rarity’s eyes went wide, “Oh no! He’s fainted, I better get the girls to help me carry him out of here discreetly.” She began to drag him by the legs towards the back door, thinking to herself. ”I hope he didn’t see anything too lewd, and if he did he certainly couldn’t handle the shock.” The Rainbooms all dropped their bags on the sight of Rarity dragging Burning Star out of the store. “Rarity! What happened to Burning Star?! Why is he passed out?” Asked Twilight, rushing over to him and lifting his head up slightly. Rarity began to speak, “He well... I got pinned underneath his bag and he helped me get up, but my... you know what’s slipped off... and he may or may not have accidentally seen up my skirt while I was stuck there.” Everyone’s face flushed red, with Fluttershy saying to Rarity, “Oh... m-my. Is he ok, Rarity?” Burning Star started to stir, before he opened his eyes with a groan. He said four words that made everyone breathe a sigh of relief. “What just happened now?” Pinkie Pie picked him up and sat him down, “You passed out silly! You were out shopping with Rarity to get some super cool clothes and you passed out after seeing-“ Rainbow clamped her hand over Pinkie’s mouth. “Not now, Pinkie!” Burning Star thought to himself, ”They must be hiding the fact I saw “that” I already know it... Lucina’s gonna kill Rarity, then the girls, then me...” (Canterlot City Financial District) Black Sun screamed across the sky and entered the heart of the financial district. The figure clad in white armor right behind him. He turned around and unleashed a hail of bullets upon the figure, who immediately dodged out of the way of them and responded with a few words. ”Your weaponry is harmless to me, Black Sun. Please, surrender and I can help you.” Black Sun’s response was a missile to the face, which the figure had to brace himself for. “NEVER. I will never surrender to a white-clad, knight in shining armor such as yourself. Everyone must pay for what happened to me!” The figure sighed, ”Come now, Black Sun. You know you are going to lose, why do you still fight me. Please, Surrender and I will show you mercy.” Black Sun fired a pair of rockets towards the figure, who batted them away harmlessly. They collided into the side of a building, causing people on the floor to panic and people across the area to look up and observe the two ironclad titans flying through the air. Black Sun activated his scanners and he saw that the Rainbooms and Burning Star were nearby. “If can’t hurt you, then I will settle for killing that flaming freak and his little friends instead... so watch the carnage unfold, faker.” He said before rocketing off to the mall below. The figure sighed at his threat, ”You try to be reasonable...” Burning Star looked up to see Black Sun coming towards them and he shouted to the girls. “GET DOWN!” Burning Star put up a flaming wall as the figure caught up to Black Sun and grabbed him, crashing through the skylight of the mall and sacattering glass shards on to the crowd below. Twilight immediately dialed for her brother. Shining Armor was in the middle of lunch, he was having a gyro when Twilight’s emergency contact number came up. It caused him to bobble the open gyro and he picked up the phone with food in his mouth. ’ey Twily. What’s going on?” he said with food in his mouth. ”BLACK SUN IS HERE AT THE MALL! Get the police down here, quickly!” Twilight practically screeched. Shining Armor spat out his food and ran out into the main office of the precinct. He shouted to them, “We got a call! The suspect known as Black Sun has been spotted at the Canterlot mall! All personnel get to your cruisers!” The officers and deputies ran through the door with their uniforms on and keys in hand, once they were out of the room Shining Armor contacted Shadow Armor. “Hell yeah! Take that Frostclaw! My Mario Kart 8 DX Skills are still on point!” Shadow Armor said. he was busy playing Mario Kart with Frostclaw on one of the TV sets in the headquarters. Frostclaw had lost, for the 10th time in a row! The alarm went off and the police scanner went berserk, as well as the electromagnetic pulse detector. The two dropped their controllers and ran to their monitors, Lucina and Eclipsio rushes down as well. Shadow Armor opened up a channel to Shining’s radio in his car. ”Shining... this is Shadow Armor. Black Sun has confirmedspotted in the shopping and financial district.” Said Shadow Armor. “That is where Burning Star and the girls are! He must be after them!” Shouted Sunset in the background, extreme panic in her voice. Shining responses by saying, ”Yeah. Twilight called me and told me about him, he is right now fighting in the mall itself. I’m going there, mind sending me back up?” Shadow Armor looked around and saw Lucina already at the door, but he said to Shining. “All right, I’m coming myself.” He then said to Lucina, “Sunset is in command until I return, Lucina. Please don’t run out to help Burning Star. He is with the girl- she is already gone isn’t she?” Sunset sighed, “Yep. I’ll hold the fort while you go stop Black Sun. Don’t worry, I’ve got this.” Shadow Armor rushed out the front door and down the road, while he wasn’t nearly as fast as Burning or Eclipsio... he still booked it down the street at 40 mph. Sunset rolled up to the coms and called Burning Star. ”This is Stable, come in Pyro. Burning Star, pick up!” Burning Star opened a line and said, ”Yeah, I know. Black Sun is at the mall, I’m gonna try to get the girls and civilians out of here, Sunset. Which way to the nearest exit?” “Hold on, I’m sending you the building schematics now. It’s down the right hall past the restaurant. Good luck Burning Star!” shouted Frostclaw over the radio. (Canterlot Mall) Meanwhile back at the mall, Black Sun lay sprawled out on the floor of the mall, he was embedded in the tile floor, the other figure standing about 20 feet away from his hole. The figure called out to Black Sun, ”All of this can end if you just give up, you know.” Burning Star looked at the figure standing over Black Sun and immediately thought, ”Normally I would love to get in on this... but innocents come first!” Black Sun screeched at an ear-splitting volume, “NO! I WILL NOT BE DEFEATED BY SOME SELF-RIGHTEOUS LITTLE SH-T!” He rocketed out of the crater and roared, “You want a battle, white boy? I’ll give you a war.” Black Sun shot out a series of rocket darts from his gauntlets, the figure rushes behind a island in the middle of the room, which exploded into a shower of tile and dirt. The figure attempted to go rescue the girls, but Black Sun unleashed an entire salvo of missiles on him, and he went flying into a store, which then collapsed on him and buried him in rubble. While some tiny part of the girls wanted to watch the battle, the majority of their brains only had one word to say right now. “Run!” Screamed Rainbow, who took off towards Burning Star. Before they could even take a step, Black Sun boosted up to the bridge they were on and landed with a crash, smashing the bridge to Burning Star. The Equestrian of Fire dropped to the floor below, wincing in pain as he crashed through a food cart. He stood in front of the Rainbooms and pointed his wrist mounted flamethrowers at them. (Pause music) “Sorry, but I’m not leaving until you all are reduced to charred corpses on the floor. No white armored, pure of heart freak or edgelord fireball from Hot Topic can defeat me, so it’s been nice knowing you. Wait, no it hasn’t...” hissed Black Sun, staring down the Rainbooms with true hatred in his eyes. Applejack screamed at him, “Why hay are you after us. What did we ev’r do to you?!” Black Sun laughed at Applejacks question, his frightening voice echoing in the now empty corridor, “Why, you ask? Why? I will tell you why... once my audience gets here.” The distant sound of police sirens was heard and Twilight said to Black Sun, “You are out of time, The Police are outside now, probably armed with heavy weaponry... you may have us cornered, but you are surrounded yourself.” Black Sun looked up to see helicopters overhead and he said to Twilight, “Surrounded, no Twilight... they are in my trap. You were only here as bait for them. Now observe what I think of “Canterlots finest”.” Black Sun fired a rocket towards the helicopters above him. It split into mini rockets that blasted each chopper out of the sky. He then smirked viciously under his helmet, “They are pathetic. Unable to stop me, just as Burning Star and his allies are unable to stop me from killing you. So you will burn and die...” Shadow Armor and Shining Armor arrived in a police cruiser, the SWAT team was here already. The two protectors were both outfitted in Riot Gear and armed with automatic weapons. Shadow Armor then handed Shining a pair of HUD glasses, “Here, these will let you communicate with us in the building. All cell service is down thanks to Black Sun’s suit.” Shining Armor put them on and immediately spoke to all the radios of the police cars in the area. ”This is Chief Of Police Shining Armor, all officers in the area report in, and put in a message to the mayor about the situation. Tell her that Black Sun is here in the Canterlot Mall.” Shadow Armor said to Shining, “Wait, let me call Burning Star. He is in there, he may be able to tell us what is going on. He may have taken the girls hostage, this may be a trap.” Shining nodded, “Alright. All officers! Standby for further orders, we have someone on the inside!” Shadow Armor activated his HUD glasses and called the fiery warrior. ”Burning Star, can you hear me? Come in, Burning Star?” Burning Star responded with a weak, ”Yeah... ow. I’m in the building, Shadow... but I’ve got some bad news.” Shining Armor hopped on his own Iine to Burning and asked nervously, ”Burning Star, tell me. Is my sister alright?” ”No. Black Sun has Twilight and the girls hostage. He wanted the police to come here, he wants to slaughter you all... don’t enter the building.” Shadow Armor asked him, “Why? Is this a double trap?” Burning Star sniffed the air, he smelled rotten eggs... “F—k... that is gas.” He responded with a urgent tone, ”Yes. Black Sun has cut the main gas line, you make a move and he blows up the building and half of the financial district with it. I can’t use my fire powers to get up to him, I’d ignite the gas. While I am fireproof, and Black Sun certainly is as well... your sister and her friends are not.” Shining’s heart sank, another danger to his sister... a gas leak. (Resume music) Black Sun heard Burning Star curse and said, “Very good Burning Star. I had the gas line broken so you can’t use your powers, lest you incinerate your little friends...” Black Sun turned to the girls and said, “Now then, where was I?” The figure poked its head out of the rubble and called Burning Star on his coms. ”Burning Star, use your powers. Black Sun is bluffing...” Burning Star’s eyes went wide, ”Wait... How do you know that?! How do I know that he hasn’t set this building to blow us sky high?” ”If he did cut the gas line, his thrusters and my thrusters residual heat would have set it off already... The gas smell is coming from his flamethrowers.” said the figure, climbing out of the rubble. ”Why should I trust you?” sad Burning Star, hesitating to Move. The figure said softly, ”Because I am on your side, Burning Star. And you know that, do not be afraid of Black Sun’s threats. They are nothing but empty show. After all, it’s you he wants to kill.” Burning Star took a risk and used his fire powers to rocket up to the bridge, no explosion went off and he landed in front of Black Sun, who unleashed his flamethrowers upon the Rainbooms. He turned around and said, “As I said... pathetic.” ”No, you are pathetic Black Sun.” The flames cleared and the Rainbooms were unharmed! Burning Star had blocked the majority of the blast, while the figure had put up a golden force field to block the rest. Burning Star smirked and said, “You forgot, I’m fireproof.” A machine gun barrel pointed at him, “And you forget, I have a gun. Die.” The figure shoved Burning Star out of the way and the barrage is bullets hit him in the chest, no damage suffered. The figure kicked Black Sun in the chest, sending him flying off the broken bridge and to the floor. The figure said to Black Sun ”So you are willing to take the lives of innocent people out of petty vengeance for something they had no part in?” Black Sun took to the air and unleashed a barrage of mini rockets, the figure snapped its fingers and they all detonated midair, inflicting no harm to the girls. The figure’s helmet lit up and his armor as well before he said, ”Ok... if a hand will not communicate with you, perhaps a fist will.” The black-armored being sneered, “Why do you deny me my revenge? I have every right to be angry at them! Now I have the power to get what I want and you... you... pests choose to get in my way?! Fine then... I will destroy all obstacles in my way!” The figure said to the Rainbooms, “Rainbooms. I recommend that you exit the building as quickly as possible. Chief Shining Armor and one of Burning Star’s friends Shadow Armor awaits you outside.” Fluttershy called out to the figure, “What about you? Are you really going to fight Black Sun?” The figure walked over to the girls and said, ”Do not be afraid of Black Sun. He is a villain, and I defeat villains.” Black Sun went to grab the figure but he was hit in the back by a large fireball thrown by Burning Star. “C’mon girls, let’s get going!” Said Twilight, who started to run down the hall, followed by the rest of her friends. Black Sun recovered from the attack and looked around to see the white figure and Burning Star, a scowl appearing on his concealed face. “So, two on one it is? Pity, no one here... is going to see you die. RAAAGH!” Said Black Sun as he blasted a torrent of hot lead towards the two heroes. Burning Star dodged out of the way and began to unleash a stream of red-hot flames on Black Sun. No damage, but it did make Black Sun focus on Burning Star. The figure lunged at Black Sun and two long triple bladed claws emerged from his gauntlet. They sparked with white-hot electricity and he delivered a slash across Black Sun’s arm. To Burning Star’s surprise, the weaponry on the gauntlet was obliterated and the nearly-indestructible Magisteel armor was sliced open like a tin can and exposed Black Sun’s right arm for an attack. Burning Star waisted no time and jumped to grab Black Sun out of the air and he burned Black Sun’s exposed under-armor padding badly. Black Sun roared in frustration, since he couldn’t feel pain. The armored monster delivered a headbutt to Burning Star, who returned the favor, stunning the both of them. Black Sun recovered and threw Burning Star into the floor before he prepared to fire a large magic-caster cannon at him. The figure grabbed Black Sun’s arm and twisted it, turning the cannon into the air and causing it to fire into the ceiling, dumping rubble between Burning Star and Black Sun. The figure said to Burning Star as he climbed out of the dust, ”Go. I will deal with Black Sun. make sure that the Rainbooms are safe, and then get home. I will be in touch shortly...” Burning Star wanted to protest, but he understood and responded with a quick nod. He booked it to the exit that the Rainbooms were going towards, leaving the figure and Black Sun alone in the mall. No one said a word for a good minute, until Black Sun said. “So... you can puncture my armor. Interesting... but it will do you no good. For my Armor is self-repairing, ergo... you can’t kill me.” The figure watched with little surprise as the plating on Black Sun’s armored gauntlet stretched and reformed itself. It then said to Black Sun, scraping the metal fragments off of its plasma claws. ”I know what it does, it is how you can get back up again after being dealt a justified blow from Burning Star and his allies.” Black Sun sent a talon-covered kick to the figure’s head, causing the figure to turn his head slightly. Black Sun then extended his own plasma blade and sent a brutal jab into the figure’s chest, it pierced the armor... but the figure didn’t double over in pain. Instead, the figure’s own chest piece opened up and fired a beam of light that flung Black Sun back and seriously damaged his armor. The armor-clad warlord tried to stand up but he was grabbed by the figure and thrown through the entire mall and out into the street. Black Sun looked around and saw the hundreds of officers surrounding him, he tried to activate his weapons... but everything was too heavily damaged. The figure exited the mall and stared at Black Sun before saying, ”You have lost Black Sun, surrender and I will not harm you any more.” Black Sun roared out in fury and in slight fear. “This is not over, Burning Star. We will meet again, and next time you won’t have this guaridan angel to save you!” Black Sun’s armor lit up orange before his wings ignited and he rocketed off, leaving everyone stunned. The figure landed in front of the girls and Burning Star, before saying to them. ”Are you all ok?” Burning Star groaned in pain, “Yeah we are good, just a bit banged up and dirty from your battle... What is your name and why did you save us?” The figure suddenly lit up a bright blinding white before saying. ”I saved you because that is what I do... and my name is exactly what I do.” Rarity raised an eyebrow and asked, “Which is what?” The figure said before he flew off, ”Savior...” “Savior” took to the air and rocketed off, breaking the sound barrier and flying off into the distance. Burning Star suddenly had his radio blast into his ear, ”BURNING STAR COME IN!” He winced in pain, ”Gah! yes I read you Stable. Mind telling me what the hell I just met?” Eclipsio’s voice came over the coms, ”Actually I was hoping you could tell me that. Something just touched you and... everything went dark. All the systems just overloaded and overheated. We caught it in time, but we came dangerously close to a crash. So care to tell me what the hell was that white-armored thing?” Burning Star spoke into the Coms, ”It is called Savior... and he may be coming over soon to speak with us.” Sunset groaned over the radio, ”Wait? White-armored figure? I saw him a couple nights ago! He dropped off Eclipsio. He mentioned that “our paths may cross again” so he must be coming to discuss Black Sun! I’ll go get ready to welcome him...” Burning Star said to the radio group, ”Alright Sunset and Lucina, you go get ready to welcome our guest. Eclipsio and Frostclaw, start running over any references to this “Savior” in recent news.” “What are you going to do?” Frostclaw asked Burning Star. ”I have to make sure that everyone gets home. I’ll be back in an hour or so. See ya.” Burning Star closed his coms and thought to himself. ”What are you? Savior... well you certainly lived up to that name, didn’t you...”