Capricore "Agees' Sparkle walked down the now abandoned corridors of the once tyrannical prison known as Stiffson Academy. In his front pocket was a flash drive Vinyl Scratch gave him earlier. The data within it was all the abuse, neglect and prejudice Team A had recorded earlier. Now it was ready to be downloaded on a computer, and sent to the head of the U.S. Department of Education, who was only a few minutes away.
As he approached closer to the faculty computer lab, he took a moment to reminisce on his past. Less then a year ago, he was a sad, frightened and lonely child with no one to talk to or rely on. Then, within a few months and several weeks, he had transformed into the strong, confident and courageous boy, with the friends and family he only dreamed of. Now, here he was, ready to overcome his greatest foe, and once prove himself a hero, both on Earth, and in Equestria.
Upon reaching the door, he had noticed it was slightly open. A shadow was moving across the faded glass window, as if it had been spying on him. But as he gently pushed it open, he took a sigh of relief as he saw it was one of students he freed from detention early.
"Wow, am I glad to see you." The student commented. "I thought you were one of the hall monitors."
"We got rid of them." Cory replied. "How did you get here?"
"Through the shaft silly." He replied upon pointing to an opening in the ceiling.
"Alright listen. I have within me all the info you need to take down Stiffson."
Cory fumbled through his pocket and took out the flash drive.
"Download this and send it to the U.S. Dept of Education head. Then he will..."
Suddenly, they heard a loud, monstrous yell, coming from the gymnasium down the hallway. No doubt Stiffson was now prowling the school to hunt down Cory.
"I gotta go." Cory said as he quickly handed over the drive. "Can you do it?"
"It's a no brainer." The student replied. "Say, where you goin?"
"It's time for me to settle the score."
With a deep breath, he turned around and headed towards the gym.
He could hear the sounds of clatter and murmur from outside the walls. Probably the students gathering themselves off to safely. He, Stiffson, and the few remaining kids climbing through the shaft were all that remained. He took time to examine the bare floor, empty corridors and abandoned locker bays. Never before had he realized how big the academy even was, minus the students of course.
Approaching the gym doors, he swung them open with the greatest of ease. As he walked across the rusty wooden basketball court, the doors behind him swung shut, their sound echoing across the room. It was dark, musty and cold. Strangely, the smell of sweat and blood was absent in the gym's atmosphere. The only light source was that of a few unattended florescent lights dangling from the ceiling, and of course the small windows, which were just a few inches from the edge of the ceiling.
Suddenly, he heard a few trudging footsteps off in the distance. As they drew closer, they sounded as though they were stomping against the wooden pavement, complimenting it was the deep, threatening sound of someone breathing very heavily. Cory clenched his fists and took a fighting stance, ready to defend himself against the incoming enemy.
From out of the shadows, Stiffson approached him in all his horrific glory, carrying in his right hand his belt, which doubled as a whip. His face steamed red with anger and hate, almost to the point where tears started coming out of his ducts.
"Why are you still alive?" Stiffson demonically whispered.
An aud silence fell across the large empty room. then...
WELL!!!!?
"Because I found something worth living for." Cory responded. "Friendship."
"You think your precious little companions are going to help you now? I have everything, and you have nothing!! You have no family, no help, no home, nothing but the flesh off your back. My power over this school is infinite. I am god here. I am Principal STIFFSON!!!!
"You are no principal." Cory responded defiantly. "Not anymore."
"How dare you." Stiffson said as if about to explode. "How dare you denounce me."
"You've denounced me for a good portion of my life Stiffson. You took my friends, my passion and the ability to carry on, and still I had the courage to walk away from this waste of my energy. I found a place where I truly belong. I found my voice. I found my family, and above all, I found a reason to live. And that is something that takes true courage to find, at least under my own circumstances."
Stiffson stomped towards Cory and grabbed him by the chin.
"I'll see to it you will spend the rest of your miserable days in a cell, never to see the light of day again."
It was then Cory gave him a good jab to the chin and kicked him 10 feet back.
"You couldn't be more further from the truth. I have never been more free in my entire life, I have loving, caring family of endless relatives teachers and most importantly, friends. They nurture me for who I am. And what's more, I've given back to them. What have you done Stiffson. While these students work to the bone, you sit idly by and watch them suffer to your hearts content, and all because long ago you thought someone stood you up, when she was only trying to help you..."
"SHE WAS NEVER MY FRIEND!!!!" Screamed a now deranged Stiffson as he lunged forward and thrust his whip into the air.
Cory dodged the blow and tripped Stiffson over. Next, he did a back flip against the nearby wall, to which he grabbed a jousting stick from a stack to his left.
"I'm much stronger than you think I am." Said Cory, who was now looking down at the once proud tyrant. "And you can't control me anymore."
And so, the fight began. Stiffson got back on his feet and lassoed his weapon in the air, while Cory twirled his joust around his torso, after which the two opponents collided. Cory blocked a few lashes as Stiffson came at him like a wild animal, pushing him backwards the exit. But Cory was fast on his legs as he placed the pole upright for balance and kicked him right in the chest. Stiffson did a flip in the air as he latched his belt along Cory's ankle and tripped him to the floor. As he he was about to step on top of him, Cory somersaulted backwards and grabbed his weapon.
"I learned this from my uncle Shining Armor." He said.
Stiffson ran towards him like a raging lunatic from an asylum.
"Back arched, your head against your left shoulder, and your fore arms up front close together to block any face blows." Cory said to himself.
And with that, Cory jabbed the joust right at his forehead, to which Stiffson responded with a jab to his right cheek. This was followed by a punch to the stomach. Luckily, Cory sucked it in before he could get struck. He grabbed Stiffson's arm and body slammed him to the floor. Stiffson quickly got up and whipped him across his chest. Cory's torso stung with pain as he got hold of his javelin. Stiffson fastened his belt like a pair of numb chucks and flung it towards Cory's head, to which he bent back with each attempted blow.
Cory dodged to the left and right and then punched Stiffson in the face. He tried to punch again to which Stiffson dodged as well and punched him in the face as well. The exchange went back and forth for a few hours until Cory grabbed his belt and pushed him again in the stomach with his fists, thrusting him 20-30 feet back. Cory looked at his hands, amazed at what he was seeing. A magical glow seemed to be illuminating from his fingertips, with a hue similar to his mother's coat.
"Mom must've transferred some of her powers to me when we hugged." He said to himself.
Indeed, as he grabbed his javelin of choice, the glow illuminated across the weapon, transforming it into a purple colored saber of pure energy. Cory stood his ground in a warrior stance as Stiffson got back up and charged forward.
"Hold your ground until the last possible moment." Cory said to himself. " Cause if there's one thing our enemies have always fallen for, it's the element of SURPRISE!!"
With those words Cory made a trick move as he flung his weapon in the air and balanced on top of it like a monkey on a tree, dodging Stiffson's blow by only a few inches. Then he climbed back down and swung his beam of light towards Stiffson's belt. The two were at it again as a kung fu styled fight took place. One whacked another, the other threw back, a punch was made, a kick was conceived, a block was thrown, etc. From a distance, Cory looked like a young wizard with the power to conceive electricity, while Stiffson looked like a rabid dog attacking a random passerby.
Then, as they just happened to be approaching the exit, the two collided at the same time, with a force so strong it broke each others weapons. Cory's energy staff split in two while Stiffson's whip was ripped to shreds. They dizzily somersaulted out of the gym and back into the hallway, nearly toppling against each other.
After a moment to take a breather, the two made more fighting poses, ready to attack again. By now, both of them looked like they had just gotten out of a battlefield.
"How did you get so strong?" Stiffson complied. "I thought you wouldn't amount to anything."
"Well I guess you weren't always right on everything." Cory replied. "And I'm about to prove you wrong again."
"We will see about that."
The two charged at each other like wild animals and engaged in yet another martial arts combat. Kicks, punches, thrusts, slaps, dodges, undercuts, flips, one right after the other. At one point, Stiffson commanded the fight, and at another, it was all Cory. The two were like cranes flapping at each other on a cold, cemented floor as they led each other through different hallways.
Sometimes, they would grab whatever they could find and use it as a weapon. Stiffson picked up some board pins and used them as darts, while Cory took a trashcan and used it as a shield. Then stiffson grabbed a poster and used it as a serrated disc. Cory, on the other hoof , used a set of pencils on the ground as primal arrows. But with each object he touched, it turned into a luminescent glow of light, more powerful than Stiffson's weapons of choice.
The fight eventually led to Prof. Discord's science lab as Stiffson crashed Cory through the classroom door window. As expected, they continued to fight, grabbing whatever object they could find to attack or defend. From an onlookers perspective, the scene looked like something out of a Jackie Chan/Jet Lee movie. Cory picked up a teaching skeleton as a defense puppet while Stiffson threw some binders at him, missing each time. Cory flipped over a few student desks while Stiffson picked up some pieces of glass and threw them at his face. Cory picked up two of the desks and blocked each incoming shard, shattering it to pieces. Stiffson scratched his fingernails against the chalkboard, causing an earth shattering noise to fall on Cory's eardrums. He silenced him with a kick to the shin, causing him to fall backwards.
At that moment, Prof. Discord barged in.
"I know this is not the best time sir." Said Discord. "But I've been thinking about my time here, and I believe it's best for me to.."
For a moment, Cory and Stiffson stopped fighting and looked awkwardly at him.
"Your'e busy." Discord said upon noticing the scene. "I'll get back to you later."
He turned to his left and hid inside his broom closet. The two were at it again, both picking up any blunt item as a weapon, with Cory turning his into a magic object. The fight went on for a few minutes, as It seemed as though there was no end in sight.
30 minutes had passed since the fight began. Both were now clearly exhausted. But just as they were about to battle again, the two saw a neatly dressed woman right outside the classroom window. The Head of the Dept. of Education had finally arrived at the prison-like school. Next to her was one of the detention students from before, sharing with her several videos which he transferred from his laptop to her phone. The Dept. head made a very displeasing look ass he stared at the once proud Principal Stiffson. he presented the video for her to see, exposing him of the atrocities, tyranny, and misfortune he committed across his school. The head opened her mouth as if about to say something, but sighed instead in shame as she gave him a big thumbs down and hopped back into her car.
The student gave two thumbs up as Cory made an exhausted chuckle, both in relief and in triumph. At last, Capricore "Agees" Sparkle had won the day. He had defeated his greatest foe fair and square. Now he just needed to avoid having his head squashed by two incoming palms which were directly about to smash right into him. Luckily, thanks to his intuition from coach Rainbow Dash and his uncle Shining Armor, he dodged it just in the nick of time.
Stiffson grabbed him by the shirt and pressed his claw like hand against his face, as his own turned red with anger and spite. Cory could now see his eyes as they turned green with red pupils, complimented by a deep, purple mist coming out of their sockets. He could even see a few veins popping out of his shaven skull.
"AAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!" screamed Stiffson in a furious rage. "YOU...HAVE...BROKEN...MY....DREAM!!!!!"
Cory stomped on his foot and threw him back several feet, causing the back of his suit to get caught in the back cupboard door, which had sealed shut upon impact.
"No." Cory replied. "You did."
And with that, Cory ran out of the room, down the hallway, and out the front door, where Vinyl Scratch picked him up in her van.