Power of the Cybernetic Soldier

by HeartfireFirebrand


Chapter 11: The Final Battle

Tempest had arrived at the school with a sigh, today was the day they were going to defeat the sirens and bring the Battle of the Bands to a close. Just as she got out of the car she saw Sunset and her friends pop out of thin air holding onto Pinkie Pie, Sunset shakes her head “I’m never gonna get used to that.”

Tempest smiled “Are you ready to win this?”

Sunset sighed “No, the counter spell isn’t ready…” she then whispered in Tempest’s ear “Mum can we talk privately?”

Tempest nodded as they walked away a good distance from the group, Tempest frowned “What’s wrong?”

Sunset frowned as she looked back “It’s Dash she is letting her ego run rampant and everyone else is feeling it. Worse Twilight is under so much pressure to succeed she can’t see them falling apart.”

Tempest sighed “I know what you want me to do but I can’t fix this. Sure I could tell them the problem, I could even force them to confront it but it would be the word of a teacher or a word of parent but that is not what they need, the need the word of a friend they need you.”

Sunset looked at the ground “It’s not my place.”

Tempest gave her a warm smile “I can’t make you do this, when you are ready do what you must.”

Sunset looked at her “How will I know when I’m ready?”

Tempest shook her head “That is something you will have to find out for yourself, there is no way of knowing until you find it. Now come on let’s head into the gym.”

The two followed the Rainbooms into the school. As soon as they entered the Auditorium they saw all the bands glaring at one another as if ready to fight. Principal Celestia called out “Luna and I wish to welcome you all to Canterlot Highs Battle of the Bands, I do believe this is the greatest event we have ever held at this school” Everyone save the Rainbooms, Tempest, Sunset and the Sirens cheered , Principal Celestia smiled as she gestured to the Sirens “I must thank the Dazzling for providing us with such a wonderful idea.”

Luna walked forward “Yes however in the end, only one can win so are you all ready!”

Tempest frowned as every other contestant save the Rainbooms began shouting at one another. She covered her ears as Snips and Snails gave a terrible rap performance, she growled “What are they doing?!”

After their performance ended the Rainbooms took to the stage, Sunset watched from the side as Rarity arrived wearing. Applejack scowled “Why are you…what are you wearing?!”

Rarity frowned “We’re performing in front of a live audience, do you think I would miss out on an opportunity like this.” Applejack grumbled as she got on the stage.

Tempest smiled clapping at the performance until she noticed Photo Finish and her goons messing with Rarity using magnets.

Tempest dissapeared in a flash of movement before towering over them she looked at them with a killer scowl “What do you think your doing?!” Then she saw that Fluttershy was running from the light being focused on her, Tempest turned to see Snips and Snails messing with the light, she then dissapeared in another flash of movement appearing behind them placing a hand on their shoulders “So you kids want to play silly, do you?” The two looked up to see Tempest towering over them fury etched on her face.

She then turned around to see Applejack and Rarity arguing, she sighed “Well this is just ‘fantastic’!” She frowned as her daughter led them out, she followed them until Sunset branched off after they had an altercation with Flash Sentry, she was struggling not to punch a student as logic tried to push done her fury.

She followed Sunset who confronted the Dazzlings, Sunset growled “You’ll never get away with this!”

Adagio grinned “Oh because you didn’t. Oh yes we all now about your demon incident.”

Sunset growled “I’m not that person anymore, I have moved past that!”

Aria chuckled “Oh yeah then why are you here while you friends are playing, they didn’t want you there because no-one would listen them to play if ‘she’ was performing.”

Sunset gritted her teeth “Shut up!”

Adagio grinned evilly “Yes you’re so tight!”

Tempest was about to intervene when her daughter growled as she glared at Adagio her eyes sclera had turned black as a pair of demonic wings emerged from her back as she spoke in a demonic voice “Shut up Adagio!” Before Adagio could even move Sunset’s left hand turned into a demonic claw that pinned her to the wall “Adagio, I am not just some little kid scared of their past. I have accepted it, I have moved on with the help of my friends, it’s why you’re still alive right now!”

She let the siren dropped the siren drop to the floor before joining her siblings, they all bolted away from the demonic teenager. Sunset took a deep breath as the demon retracted within her, Tempest walked over to Sunset “Are you alright?”

Sunset sighed “Yeah, I just didn’t expect to do that again.” Tempest frowned as she recalled the event.

2 weeks ago

Tempest was sitting in her house, she frowned as she hard Snowy shout “Sunset, I’m sorry I just wanted to listen to you practice, why are you getting so angry!”

Sunset scowled “That song was personal, no one was supposed to hear until it was ready.”

Tempest ran out to stop the argument when as it continued to escalate when she heard a massive crash, Tempest moved at her top speed appearing in the room to see Sunset flapping a pair of demonic wings she stared out of a Snowy sized hole in the wall.

Present Day

Tempest smiled “You aren’t a bad person, if you were you would have killed her then and there.”

Sunset sighed “I know it’s just…” she then looked up to see her friend re-entering the room “Their next performance is about to start, I got to go.” Sunset rushed in with Tempest walked in behind her, Tempest walked behind the stage to watch for any more potential sabotages. Tempest frowned as she heard the song, she knew what it was, a huge ego trip for the lead singer.

She heard the crowd gasp, Tempest ran over to see Sunset and Rainbow lying on the stage, she watched in shock as every began shouting insults at her daughter, then Rainbow shouted “Why did you do that?!”

Sunset shied away slightly “You were beginning to transform, I just had to do something.” Before any one else could speak Tempest growled grabbing Sunset and then the two dissapeared before anyone could even move.

Tempest was sitting outside the school with Sunset, Sunset looked away “I screwed up, I acted rashly.”

Tempest frowned “You did what you believed you needed to do in the moment, sometimes there is no time for thought, just action.” Tempest shook err head “You should go and join you friends I’ll see you at the finale.”

Sunset looked at her with fear in her eyes “What if they’re still mad?”

Tempest shook her head before as giving her daughter a comforting smile “They won’t be, they just snapped in the moment.”

Sunset smiled “Thanks mum.”

Tempest chuckled as she ruffled her daughter’s hair “Go Sunny help your friends.”

Sunset grinned “I will thanks mum.” Tempest smiled as Sunset ran off to find her friends, she eventually found them preparing for the final round.

Sunset arrived near them, she saw that Rainbow was setting up the microphone. Fluttershy frowned “Why did we make it to the finals, we performed horribly.”

Sunset raised an eyebrow as she stood next to Fluttershy “You are in the finals?”

Before anyone could answer her question, they heard footsteps and turned around to see Trixie and her teammates, the illusions. Trixie scowled “Yes and they shouldn’t be, you all performed horribly!”

Rainbow growled “Get out of where, you lost and we won that’s the end of it!”

Trixie clicked her fingers “I don’t think so.” The Illusions pulled two levers the Rainbooms and Sunset under the stage, Spike however manage to jump away.

Tempest arrived about thirty minutes later to see Trixie beginning her performance, She looked around desperately but found no sign of her daughter or the Rainbooms anywhere, meanwhile under the stage Sunset grimaced Rainbow bashed again the door with her shoulder. Applejack sighed “Dash you ain’t going to break that door, give it up.”

Twilight sighed “It doesn’t matter anyway, the counterspell wouldn’t even have worked.”

Sunset’s eyes widened as Applejack growled “It would have if a certain Rainbow haired girl could keep her ego under control!”

Rainbow shouted “I am just making sure my band rocks out as hard as it should!”

Rarity, Applejack, Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie all snarled “Our Band!”

Sunset turned to Twilight who was crying “Why isn't working, I’m the Princess of Friendship. I have to have to be able to make this work.”

Applejack scowled “It’s not all about you, we have all put effort into this band as well.”

Rainbow scowled “I write all the songs.”

Fluttershy screamed “I have been writing songs since this band started but we have not played a single one!” Sunset watched as the group began to argue, then green energy began to fly into the air as the arguing intensified. Tempest meanwhile was shocked as the Dazzlings began fully hypnotising the crowd as they grew fin-like wings and tails as well as pair of pony-like ears.”

Sunset felt a nauseated feeling in her gut, she shouted at them “Enough!”

The girls turned to Sunset, Sunset gestured toward the green mist “The Dazzling are stealing you magic, this is what they have wanted all along!”

Applejack eyes widened “But we are using friendship magic aren’t we, how can they use it?”

Sunset took a deep breath “I didn’t feel like I should be the one to say this as new to friendship as I am but ever since this band started you have let every little thing balloon into a major conflict. If you let this go on friendship magic be used like this it become something monstrous, I know from experience.”

Twilight stood up “I can’t believe I let all this tension slip by me, I’m supposed to have all the answers but all I’ve done is disappoint you all.”

Sunset smiled “No-one has all the answers, and that’s not a a bad thing as long as we allow our friends to help us find them we will never truly fall.”

Twilight smiled “I believe you have helped us find out answers now let’s go and show the Dazzlings what we’re made of!” The group slammed against the door only for it to open.

Spike and Vinyl were standing outside the door, Twilight shouted as she grabbed Spike “Spike!”

Spike rubbed the back of his head “I’m sorry finding someone who was not a mind controlled zombie was difficult.”

Twilight looked at her “Um why is she not affected?”

Spike rolled his eyes as he said as if it was the most obvious answer in the world “Headphones.”

Applejack smiled “Let’s go and prove we still have friendship on our side.”

Pinkie’s eyes widened with glee “Does that mean we are getting the band back together.”

Rainbow grinned “Yes but this time it’s not my band, it’s our band.” she then turned to Twilight “so what version of the counterspell are we going to play?”

Twilight smiled “It doesn’t matter as long as we play with friendship in our hearts.”

Rainbow turned to Fluttershy with a smile “Well I believe Fluttershy has a quite a few great songs we can play.” Fluttershy squeed as she gave Rainbow a smile that would rival Pinkie Pie.

Applejack smiled at Rarity “Don’t heroes always dress in style?”

Rarity grinned as she pulled out several outfits “Yes!”

The Rainbooms and Sunset climbed up a hill overlooking the field, Rainbow shouted “How can we affect them from here?!” They all heard a honk as a care droved behind them before morphing into a massive music machine with Vinyl at the helm, Rainbow’s eyes sparkled “Awesome.”

Tempest meanwhile was shaking in fury as the sirens continued to sing, she then heard another set of music behind her. She looked up to see the Rainbooms who began singing back at the sirens.



Adagio grinned “They wanted to turn this into a real battle, the let’s show them what a real battle is.” Tempest’s eyes widened as the siren’s eyes glowed red, summoning huge finned dragon looking creatures. Tempest disappeared in a flash of movement to strike at one only for it to dodge it blasting her in the back with a wave of sound, sending crashing in front of the Rainbooms, she groaned as she stood up “They are faster than me, that shouldn’t be possible I can exceed light speed several times over.”

The Rainbooms began firing waves of magical sound but the sirens pushed it back with one of them knocking Tempest down every time she tried to attack them. They then let out a final push sending the microphone flying out of Twilight’s hand, Twilight turned to Sunset Shimmer “It must be you.”

Sunset grabbed the mic before taking a deep breath, then walked over standing beside glaring at the sirens fiercely as she chucked her jacket on the ground, she began to sing

You're never gonna bring me down
You're never gonna break this part of me
My friends are here to bring me 'round
Not singing just for popularity

She then pulled Twilight up who sung with her

We're here to let you know
That we won't let it go

The Rainbooms then stood up as well playing their instruments and joining in the singing

Our music is a bomb and it's about to blow

A wave of magic flew out cleansing everyone go their mien control.

And you can try to fight
But we have got the light of

Friendship on our side!
Got the music in our hearts
We're here to blow this thing apart
And together, we will never
Be afraid of the dark

Sunset rose into the air graining a pair of pony ears and a pony tail as took off into the sky, soon the Rainbooms joined her.

Here to sing our song out loud
Get you dancing with the crowd
As the music of our friendship
Survives, survives!

They then as they fired off a rainbow light into the sky forming a giant glowing Rainbow orb.

Got the music in our hearts
We're here to blow this thing apart
And together, we will never
Be afraid of the dark

Here to sing our song out loud
Get you dancing with the crowd
As the music of our friendship
Survives, survives, survives!

A huge white Alicorn with a rainbow mane made of magic fired a beam of magic at the sirens. Adagio scowled “We will not be defeated here!” The three floating sirens fired off a combined beam of sound that began to push the magic of the white Alicorn back.

Tempest looked between the sirens and Alicorn before deciding on her course of action. She disappeared in a flash striking the sirens floating forms from behind stopping them for long enough for the beam to hit them destroying them before it hit her sending her flying into the sirens, their real bodies ducking to avoid Tempest’s body flying towards them but still getting blasted by the magic shattering their gems leaving them powerless. Tempest laid there behind the stage as the Alicorn dissipated her body glowing with magical power.