“THOU ART NOTHING BUT A FILTHY LIAR!” Luna screamed at Xolotl with her righteous fury. “MY SISTER WOULD NEVER BREAK A PROMISE, AND SHE WOULD CERTAINLY NOT MAKE A DEAL WITH THE LIKES OF THEE! THOU ART NO MASTER OF THE UNDERWORLD, THOU ART A DASTARDLY CRETEN, AND NOTHING MORE!”
The beast began to growl. “What do we have here? The little princess back from her space rock throwing a tantrum. Why do you care about the sun? I thought you like the night? Well, no upstart filly princess is going to ruin my plans. You are a failure as a ruler, AND as a rebel.”
Flutterbreeze became indignant. “How dare you speak to her royal highness like that!?”
“SILENCE you little worm! It is an embarrassment that they should a little mailpony to stop the likes of me.”
“We are more than capable of defeating the likes of you!” Fleur said. “Your despicable rule is over!” She threw a barrage of shurikens at Xolotl, but the monster was quick. He leaped to the side, dodging them all. His eyes then lit up, and then from them came a powerful laser beam that knocked her back into the wall.
Flutterbreeze ran over to where she was laying. ‘Breathing, but unconscious’. Xolotl stood there, laughing, until he took a blast of magic from Luna. His skull mask started to crack. Turning to her, he shot out another laser, but she was able to shield most of it with a magic bubble.
“Hey you big brute!” Flutterbreeze was hovering in the air now, with one hoof inside of his mailbag. “Why don’t you pick on somepony your own size! That is, unless you’re too scared!”
Xolotl roared in anger. As his eyes lit up, Flutterbreeze quickly pulled a mirror out of his bag and reflected the lazer right back at the beast’s face.
As Xolotl’s mask shattered and fell to the ground, a horrified look spread across all of the ponies’ faces. The sight of his... hideous complexion was forever burned into their memories. “You insolent foal!” The beast opened one of its two mouths and sent a stream of fire at the stunned Flutterbreeze.
The pegasus tried to dive out of the way, but still took quite a bit of the fire before landing hard on the ground. He ripped the burning uniform from his chest, showing the bandages beneath. The fire still raged behind him. He fell to the floor, catching his breath and inspecting his wings. Many of his feathers had been burnt off, and he wouldn’t be able to fly till they grew back.
Suddenly he got an idea. “Luna, fire as strong a blast as you can at the ceiling!”
She closed her eyes and started focusing the magic in her horn.
Xolotl turned to Luna and laughed, “Just one left...” His eyes started to glow once more.
‘No...’ Flutterbreeze thought. He got off the floor and started sprinting, leaping in front of Luna just as the laser was fired.
He lay on the floor in pain, hearing only a ringing in his ears, watching as as the ceiling crumbled... collapsed... an enormous glass ball fell where Xolotl had been standing... shards of glass flying towards him... a blue light... darkness...