//------------------------------// // Chapter 12: The Unbreakable Ironheart vs The Unkillable Black Sun // Story: The Black Sun // by Super Ponyman //------------------------------// (Canterlot Hospital, ER) The hospital was busy, well... busier than usual. The commotion all started when multiple ambulances pulled, each one having a person in their late teens in it, they were all covered in cuts and bruises, many of which were bandaged crudely with pieces of cloth and paper towels. Whoever made these bandages tried the best they could to stop the bleeding, but they needed medical attention. After a few hours of surgery, stitching, and other medical procedures, the heroes were all laid down in hospital beds, IV bags of blood being administered into them. In the corner of the room stood Ironheart... writing away in his data logs, which he kept in his gauntlets. ”Ironheart’s Log Date 10/01/28.” “I have made discoveries regarding Black Sun, his employer is the Alicorn by the name of Prince Eclipsio Da’irko/Alicornus, younger brother to Princess Celestia Alicornus and Princess Luna Alicornus. I attempted to confront him along with Element of Compassion, Sunset Shimmer. The Alicorn of Fire known as Burning Star as well as his allies Shadow Armor, Frostclaw the Kirin, and the psychokinesis using Lucina aided me in the conflict, but Eclipsio’s sheer strength and his heartless fighting style bested me.” he wrote down, while keeping his helmet on to not alarm anyone with his cybernetic face. He looked at the sleeping body of Sunset Shimmer, he had requested that he should stay with her. He continued to write, ”Now I stand as the only one not seriously injured by the wrath of the Prince of Eclipses, my armor had to be repaired, but that was about the largest extent of my injuries.” Sunset began to stir in her sleep, and she opened her eyes slowly to see Savior standing in the corner dictating something to some sort of holographic image. “I-Ironheart... ouch.” She wheezed out, sitting up before collapsing back in pain. “Sunset... you’re alive! Thank Faust...” Ironheart said as he rushed over to Sunset. Sunset managed a weak smile, “Agh... I’m not gonna die Ironheart, everything just hurts all over... what happened? Why am I in a hospital? Where is the rest of the group and the Rainbooms?” The cybernetic human hung his head, “They suffered more serious injuries than you did. Some had to be operated on to remove bits of metal and fix broken bones. The doctors said they are all going to be ok.” Suddenly, the Chief of Police, Shining Armor, stepped into the room. He had a relieved expression on his face when he saw Sunset was awake. “Welcome back, Sunset. It was a good thing your white knight over here sent us an alert, otherwise you would have most likely died out there.” He said, his face resuming his worried expression. “But I need to ask you, what happened out there? I arrive on the scene with half of the force with me, I’m outfitted in my Riot Gear, and I find you and your friends critically injured and Black Sun flying off with someone in his arms?” He asked while raising an eyebrow. Sunset started to explain, wincing in pain, “Well... it turns out that Prince Eclipsio was the one using Black Sun all this time... he said that it was all apart of his revenge against his sisters or something...ouch.” Shining had an angry and knowing look on his face, “I knew he couldn’t be trusted, as soon as I saw him I felt something wrong, and i am both angry and scared to see that I was right.” Sunset looked at the two of them before saying, “Well... what now? Both of them escaped and we’re all sitting ducks here in the hospital. I know Eclipsio is going to be sending that armored monster any time now!” Almost as if on cue, an explosion went off outside. Savior ran to the window and saw who Sunset just mentioned. It was Black Sun! He had broken through the police barricade set up along the road and was currently blowing up cars and gunning down officers. He shouted towards the hospital, “Burning Star! Where are you?! Eclipsio has injured you, and it is my job to kill you! I swore that I would be the one to end you, and I will make good on that promise.” Savior looked out upon the destruction, his audio receptors in his helmet picking up the screams of pain and terror from the police and medical staff that were cut down like wheat in a field. He clenched his fist and snarled in rage, “Black Sun has to be stopped... and Burning Star can’t stop him while he is wounded...” Savior turned to Sunset and said, “I’m going out there, Sunset. Black Sun must be stopped before he spills any more innocent blood. This is a hospital, and Eclipsio attacks it because we are here... because he wants to send a message that everyone will die. I will send him a message of my own, that I will not let him destroy a world that has nothing to do with the Alicorn Sisters.” He began to walk out the door, but Shining stepped in front of him, blocking him. “You aren’t going out there without me. I’m tired of being on the sidelines. So I’m coming with you, Savior.” Said Shining, a fierce look in his eyes. Savior shook his head and moved him to the side, “No Shining... you are just going to get yourself killed. Black Sun is far too dangerous for you.” Shining Armor stomped his foot, “I don’t care how powerful he is. Those two bastards hurt my sister, killed my officers, and made my life a living hell for the past week... I’m getting my shot at them, whether it kills me or not.” Savior shook his head again and responded, now irritated, “Black Sun will kill you if you go out there! do not throw your life away for the sake of revenge!” “Not going out there would kill us all... now let’s go.” Shining responded, no fear in his voice. Savior took one look back at Sunset, who gave him a silent nod to go ahead. Savior grabbed Shining Armor in his arms and the two blasted out the doors. (Hospital Parking Lot) Savior and Shining Armor landed out in the parking lot, they hadn’t gotten the attention of Black Sun. The armored villain was currently spraying the ambulances full of bullets. Another group of officers arrived on the scene, Black Sun shrugged. “More humans to crush... these insects have yet to offer me a real challenge.” He said while firing a rocket at the police cars, blowing them up. Savior and Shining both pointed their guns at the ironclad menace and shouted, “BLACK SUN! Down here!” Black Sun turned his head downward to see the two Warriors, and he laughed as he said, “You dare challenge me? Me?! Don’t make me laugh harder, you can’t kill me, no one can kill me.” Shining Armor fired a few shots at Black Sun, they bounced harmlessly off him. He said to the villain, “That remains to be seen, Black Sun. So far you haven’t stayed around long enough for us to deal any serious damage. While I originally thought that you were retreating because you were growing bored of our conflict, you were really retreating because you really aren’t as invincible as you boast you are, am I right?” Black Sun strangely went silent for a few minutes, then he suddenly said, “You are correct, but only in the case that I was fighting the Alicorn humans and that girl Lucina... Your police force has no effect on me.” Said Black Sun, floating in the air. He then loaded his weapons and pointed them at the two before saying, “If you will not wait for your destruction, then I will do away with you now. I have taught you fear, given you pain... and now... you will DIE.” Black Sun unleashed a hail of bullets upon the duo, Shining immediately ducked behind a concrete barrier and Savior rushed at Black Sun, the bullets bouncing off his armor harmlessly. He extended his plasma blades and delivered a slash to Black Sun’s arms, slicing off the gun muzzles Off and cleaving through the external armor coating. He responded by blasting a rocket point blank into Savior’s chest plating. Savior flew back a good twenty feet before he stabilized himself and crashed into Black Sun, driving him into the ground and cratering it. “Here, take this!” Said Savior, tossing his electrified sword to Shining Armor, who picked it up and ignited it. Shining leapt into the fray, putting his fighting skills to the test against a super-dangerous armored human with fuel to WMDs powering his armor. Shining now realized how badass that sounded, and he swung the blade at Black Sun’s chest, it cut it open, but not that deep. Shining was kicked in the gut followed by a cross chop to the face, his nose broke and one of his eyes swelled up, he heard several ribs crack, but he didn’t care. His adrenaline was so high he wasn’t feeling any pain. Shining finally stabbed Black Sun’s wings and broke them, before he enacted his own flavor of pain, a jab to the gut with his combat knife. “You won’t hurt my sister or her friends any more... Black Sun, I’m placing you under arrest.” Said Shining, wiping the blood off his mouth. Black Sun was laying spread out on the ground, and he snarled at the chief of police. “Don’t count on it, Shining Armor. I’ll break out, Eclipsio will free me... I will make sure to kill all of your sisters friends and your sister in the most brutal, sickening, disturbing way possible. You can be sure of that. Heh-heh...” Savior prepared to assist, but he stopped when he heard a haunting sound. Shining Armor let out a scream... a scream of rage that sounded like something not of this earth. Like something from the shadows had crawled out of the blackest pit of hell and arrived in front of him. Shining Armor suddenly flew into what could be described as “Berserk”, he began to hack and cut away at Black Sun, screaming like a hellion. “JUST DIE ALREADY! NO ONE HURTS MY SISTER! NO ONE! RAAARGH!” His onslaught of blows continued, each one slicing through Black Sun’s armor like a hot knife through butter... he finally hit Black Sun’s head and cracked his mask open, before laughing a laugh so frightening that it sent a metaphorical shiver up the spine of Ironheart. ”GRAH-HAHAHAHA-HA!” bellowed Shining, ripping off the rest of the mask from Black Sun, before his eyes widened. The face he was looking upon was the face of Twilight’s first crush, it was Flash Sentry! Flash couldn’t fight back, retreat, or even defend himself. Nearly all his weapons were dead, his wings were broken, and his armor was failing underneath the savage blows of both Shining and Savior. Shining stopped pummeling for a brief moment upon seeing his face, “Flash?! Why are you Black Sun?” He asked in shock, his voice changing in tone and pitch. Flash kicked Shining off of him and staggered to his feet, Savior took this chance and sent a rocket powered Punch to his chest, sending him flying through a brick wall and into a gym next to the hospital. Burning Star happened to be training there when Black Sun flew into the building and he stepped off his treadmill. Because of his Alicorn Regeneration, he was up faster than the others... but parts of him were still sore. So when the armored monster responsible for most, if not all of his pain flew through the brick wall... he was more than annoyed. He was FURIOUS! Burning Star picked up Black Sun and tossed him back out the hole, saying to him. “I don’t have time for this...” Black Sun flew uncontrollably into the arms of Savior, who delivered a slug to his chest with his infinisteel clad fist. Shining heard a sickening crunch as Black Sun’s Magisteel Armor was broken under the superior metal, causing him to collapse in pain. Flash growled, “You... you can’t kill me...” Shining Armor wasted no words and impaled him on the electric Sword, causing the teen to cry out in agony. Savior ripped him off and grasped him by his neck, asking him with venom in his voice. “We have beaten you, stabbed you, blasted you, and you still are alive. How?” Black Sun laughed weakly, “I just told you... you can’t kill me, I can’t die... I literally cannot die.” He began to speak more clearly, “You see, Prince Eclipsio injected me with pure, untamed Alicorn Magic that he extracted from his own blood... heh-heh. while I didn’t gain his magical prowess, I gained super speed, strength, and most importantly... his inability to be killed by natural means. This includes stabbing me, cutting me, and hitting me with attacks that would turn a normal human to mush...” Black Sun kicked out of Savior’s grasp and a blue and black portal opened behind him. He turned towards it and then turned his head to the two men that just beat him senseless, “You fought well today... but I will be victorious the next time we meet. If you want to settle this once and for all, Shining... tell Burning Star to use this device to enter my base.” He finished by smirking and saying, “Also, bring all your friends... make it interesting for me. Eclipsio would love to kill you all, and it would be much easier for you to just come to him Rather for him to come to you... goodbye!” Black Sun rushed into the portal and dropped a sphere filled with swirling blue and black mist in it, before the portal closed with a bright flash. (End theme) Shining turned to Savior and asked quite bluntly, “Why did we let him go?” Savior snorted out, “Because we are doing what Eclipsio intends to do to us. He is only sending Black Sun after us because he is too afraid of us to take us on one-on-one... we have inflicted pain upon Black Sun.” He unloaded his empty magazines and finished by saying, “Once everyone is ready, we prepare to confront them at Black Sun’s base. You go get some rest...” Shining noticed that he still had Savior/Ironheart’s sword in his hand, and he reached out to give it back. Savior waved his hand away, “No... keep it. You fought like no man I’ve seen in a while. Where did you get that strength?” Shining rubbed his head sheepishly, “What strength? I-I don’t know what you are talking about, Savior. But thank you for the sword, and I must be going back to my headquarters now. Bye!” Shining Armor took off running down the street at incredible speed. This made Ironheart raise one of his metal eyebrows in curiosity, while he had seen Burning Star, Eclipsio, and many other of the Humanized Equestrians run at that speed... that was because they could do it as ponies. As far as Ironheart knew this Shining wasn’t a pony... so what could allow him to survive against one of the most dangerous men in the world? He opened up his recorder again and began to speak into it. ”Profile Update: Chief Shining Armor” “Subject has exhibited heightened strength and speed, as well as a ridiculous tolerance to pain. His wounds would have proved fatal to a normal human, but he was unhindered by the various wounds. In fact, his physical strength had increased to superhuman levels for the time he was brutally attacking Black Sun.” He changed files to “Black Sun” and he began to write in that as well. ”Profile update: Black Sun” “Identity of Black Sun has been confirmed as Flash Sentry, who I previously thought deceased due to finding his grave in the Everfree Forest. Upon further inspection of Flash Sentry it seems that his body has grown from his previous 5’ 07” to a large 6’ 01”. Eclipsio’s magic is the most likely cause.” He finished up his writing with one last paragraph, “This change may be possible through the use of the Equestrian magic equivalent of an anabolic steroid as well as several milliliters of Alicorn Blood, judging from the samples on my claws and bullets found shot through his exposed skin.” Ironheart closed his database and turned to the hole in the wall and sighed. “Oh boy... that’s gonna suck to fix.” (Black Sun’s Base, Eclipsio’s room) Prince Eclipsio’s room was built like an astral observatory. It had a clear view of both the sun and the moon outside in the blackness of space. Eclipsio hated Space... and the fact that he was in space during his banishment didn’t help it. Black Sun reasoned with him that this would be “the best possible way to continually replenish his sisters powers.” After all, he needed it to heal Black Sun, and to charge his “project”. He had been working with Magitek for a little while, he usually left that twit Flash Sentry to handle it. Despite being dumb as a post at most things, he was an expert in everything technology and magic. Apparently he had paid attention to the ravings of that “Sci-Twi” as he called her... ”Pathetic human, you had ambition when you turned into Midnight Sparkle. I saw your power, but you gave it up like the weakling you are...” thought Eclipsio, fiddling with a knife. Behind him floated his sisters Celestia and Luna, stuck in suspended animation, being bathed in the the light of their respective celestial bodies to charge their magic for later... Black Sun flew out of a portal and into the observatory, he was beaten and bartered... He said to his “champion”, “Typical, you lost again... it’s becoming a pattern Flash. I’m starting to wonder why I even bothered brining you back from the dead.” Flash pulled off his helmet and threw it to the side, before he pointed the prince and said. “Hey, you’re the one who wanted me to teach you how to act on this world. You also needed MY help to find the Magic Battery that Twilight used.” Eclipsio smirked and responded, “Yes. She should have disposed of the shards in its entirety...” He pulled a circular object out of his robe, it was the magic battery! However, instead of purple and dark pink it was black and silver with red lining. It also had his Eclipse mark on it instead of the magic emblem of Twilight. He placed it on a machine that was connected to Celestia and Luna’s pods by two silver tubes. He pressed a button and the tubes began to glow white. Celestia and Luna writhed in pain as their wings drooped and the color drained from their eyes, Magic was flowing into the amulet. It glowed bright white and silver, illuminating the dark room. Black Sun suddenly stopped the machine and Celestia and Luna stopped twitching. The Prince looked mad. He nearly roared, “Why did you stop?! The battery is almost full... just a little more and I will have all the magic I need to activate my project... and yet your HUMANITY continues to get in the way!” Flash suddenly did something Eclipsio didn’t expect... He slugged Eclipsio across the face, HARD. The Prince recoiled back and collapsed in pain. Flash walked over and spit on him, “I wish I never met you, I could have had a happy afterlife. But you, you dragged me into your hellish scheme for revenge. I will abide by our contract, I will kill Burning Star... but after that... I’m coming for you.” “BEGONE... THOT!” Prince Eclipsio shouted as he sent Black Sun out of the room. He rushed over to his cushion and ripped it in half with his sword, tearing the feathers across the room in a fit of rage. Eclipsio thought to himself, ”My plan is almost complete, Sisters... soon, everything you built will fall and die. And the best part, the very best part?” He turned toward the earth and smiled, “Soon, EVERYONE WILL BURN! Hahahahahhaha!” From her suspended animation, a single tear could be seen dripping from Celestia’s eye.