“Previously on Starfleet Magic…”
The teams parted ways while Lightning and the Equestrians headed for Ainzul to confront Stammadon in a final showdown, only to run into Stammadon’s newest monsters which landed them all trapped within the villains’ temple. Meanwhile, the battle on United Equestria continues, and while the fight seems equal, who knew what would tip that balance.
EPISODE TWENTY-FIVE
Dyno and Myte were fighting against one of the rock gators. It opened its mouth wide to use its meteor attack, but the twins nodded at one another and joined their hands, “BOOM-BOOM FIREBALLS” throwing more and more flames into the creatures building energy, you’d think were crazy, but the boys knew fire…!
All that burning energy made the creature overheat from inside and made big explosions, weakening it severely.
The boys cheered for joy and prepared to finish the creature off…
“I don’t think so!” Rai Shi sneered, and he raised his arms up, forcing the dark power in the skies to strike the downed gator, healing its wounds and restoring its strength.
“Ay’ Miya!” cried Dyno.
“Talk about a cheap shot!” groaned Myte.
Starla and the others couldn’t believe this. “He’s just been playing us along.” said Spike.
Rai Shi laughed “You are slow learners. The creatures have been empowered by the very darkness that looms above us. The forces conjured by fear and hate that grant them strength.”
Starla clenched her fists, “That’s just swell. It means we’re only making them stronger as we fight!”
“We’ve got to try and dispel that darkness up there.” said Buddy.
“But how…? It just keeps getting stronger.” said Artie.
Rhymey gasped,
“Uh, oh! This isn’t great!
They’re heading for the village gate!”
Indeed, the remaining gators were heading straight towards the gateway where the army was standing there, still focusing their powers.
“Stop them!” shouted Starla.
“I’m on it!” said Spike and he rushed over and rammed the gators away from the gate, “FLAMES OF LIGHT!” one blast of his flames sent them off even further away, and only damaging them slightly.
Spike turned to face the army “Is everyone alright?”
Grand Ruler nodded, “We’re fine. Just get back out there. We’re still charging over here, don’t worry. It’s all part of the plan.”
Spike nodded and dashed back to help the others battle the rock gators.
Those big brutes continued to swing their massive weapons at the team, and they kept dodging as best they could.
Some of them actually got hit a couple of times and would had been fatally injured if not for their new super armor and enhanced strengths that came with them.
Rai Shi continued to laugh and taunt them, “You are only delaying the inevitable! Your powers will eventually run dry, while my forces will remain fresh, and nothing will stop us from destroying your world.”
Starla had finally taken enough of this, turned round sharply, “PULSAR LASER” blasting him right off the gator’s head, and he crashed and skidded on the ground.
Starla snuffed, and then turned to the others, “Can you guys handle yourselves here?”
“Don’t worry about us,” called Buddy “You go get him!”
Starla nodded and soared down to where Rai Shi had landed. The two figures coldly glared at one another. Rai Shi narrowed his eyes, and Starla jiggled her foot in the dirt.
The two charged straight for each other, their fists collided forcing each other back hard, and then they dove at each other again, and again, and began to throw their punches and kicks like crazy.
“Ata go, Starla!” said Artie “Whoa!” he swerved as gator tried to swing at him with his club.
Meanwhile, back in the dungeons on Ainzul, En Shi continued to gaze at Swift. “It’s been a while, hasn’t it?”
She reached in through the bars and began to caress his face. Swift just stood there looking at her with a strict expression.
“I must admit, it was clever of the way you and your friends tried to ambush us, and I do have my orders to destroy, but once I saw you I felt those feelings of anger slipping away.”
Swift still seemed unmoved.
Still caressing his face, En Shi said “…It doesn’t have to be this way. You can still join forces with me. If you do, I promise you guaranteed freedom and no harm.”
Finally, Swift softly slapped her hand off of him, much to her shock. “I’d much rather be destroyed than join the likes of you.”
En Shi felt enraged, and smashed the cell open, pinning him into a corner, “What is wrong with you? I offer you freedom. I offer you my love and compassion. I even promise you power and glory, and STILL you reject me?!”
By this time, Swift had finally grown a stronger spine and was able to tell her what she needed to hear. “You don’t know what Love is. You’re so fixated on power and slaughtering innocent beings.”
He stopped when En Shi suddenly embraced him, much to his surprise.
“That’s not true. I can understand love, if you’ll only let me show you.”
Swift clenched his fists, but didn’t make a move. “Why are you so fixated on me?”
She tightened her embrace, and even looped her leg around his. “My heart is drawn to you. I want us to be together, Swift Star. I can make you a great and powerful creature. The galaxy will be ours!”
“No!” snapped Swift as he shoved her back, much to her horrors. “As I’ve already said… you and I have irreconcilable differences, En Shi. We fight for different reasons, and I could never join up with a creature as cold-blooded as you!”
En Shi stood where she was nearly devastated by the rejection. She clenched her fists and shut her eyes tightly. “Very well…” she said “…I was hoping it wouldn’t come to this, Swift Star… but you leave me no choice!”
She embraced him again, much tighter than before.
“What are you doing?!”
“Showing you how much I won’t take “No” for an answer!”
Her body began to glow, and it suddenly got really cold as frozen winds seemed to form around them.
“If you cannot be willingly made to be mine, we shall still be together-- frozen and inseparable!”
“Ah!!” Swift yelped, and he could feel the toes of his boots already being encased in ice, and slowly the ice crept up to his ankles. En Shi’s legs were being frozen too, but she was used to the low temperatures.
“This is bad!” whimpered Swift “This is really, really bad!”
En Shi just maintained her grip on him.
In the upper holding area, Stammadon continued to drain Lightning and the mares of their strength.
“Striker, it doesn’t have to be this way!” Lightning called to him.
“Silence!” growled Stammadon “Striker is gone-- faded in the darkness like the weak loser he is!”
“He is no loser!” snarled Celestia “You will pay for having said that!”
“Really?” sneered Stammadon “And just how do you intend to do so?”
The mares all had nasty expressions on their faces, and Pinkie answered “…This is how!” and they all concentrated hard, focussing on their inner Elements of Harmony. Then, together, they all shouted, “VALKYRIA!!”
The light shone brightly. The villains covered their eyes, “What sort of trick is this?!” whined Tan Shi. Lightning grinned “…Just another little trick of ours that you aren’t aware we could do.”
The power was so bright that it shattered the barriers-- Lightning’s too, and the ladies then stood fully armored up and held out their swords and shields.
“…VALKYRIES OF HARMONY!!”
Celestia: “Magic!”
Rarity: “Generosity!”
Rainbow: “Loyalty!”
Fluttershy: “Kindness!”
Pinkie Pie: “Kindness!”
Applejack: “Honesty!”
Stammadon growled fiercely, and Lightning snickered “Getting captured was part of our plan; to get you to reveal what secrets you’ve been hiding and to let us into the temple.
Stammadon, your nightmare days are about to come crashing down!”
Stammadon remained unnerved, “Speaking of crashing down…” that’s when there was a loud crash that shook the temple, and the rock gators burst through the walls, roaring and snarling.
Rarity, Fluttershy and Pinkie screamed again at the sight of those beasts.
Lightning grunted and stood ready for battle.
“…No, Lightning!” said Celestia “Let us handle this, you go off and see if you can find Swift Star.”
Lightning agreed and started to head off.
“Stop him!” Stammadon ordered Tan Shi.
She nodded and chased after him, tackling him down in the hallway. Lightning punched her in the face knocking her off of him.
The two then stared each other down, and “Starfleet Magic!” Lightning transformed.
Tan Shi roared “You…!!” and she charged at him.
“Super Mode, Activate!” Lightning donned his super suit and attacked Tan Shi. Their fists collided and they began to punch and kick at each other like crazy.
They jumped at each other in a flying kick, bashing each other hard in the face, flying backwards and landing on their feet growling at one another.
In the holding room, the two gators stomped forth, making the temple shake with their huge steps.
Celestia gripped her sword tightly, “Quick, outside where there’s more room!” she called to the other Valkyries.
The others agreed and followed her through the holes in the walls.
“After them!” thundered Stammadon “I’m not letting them get away this time! This fight only ends when one side is destroyed!”
He roared and then chased after the Valkyries, with his gators following him-- breaking the structures even more!
Once outside to the dojo, they lost sight of the enemy.
Stammadon just stood where he was, clenching his fists and concentrating all around him. “You can’t hide from me in my domain!”
Suddenly, he heard a noise that sounded like running, and caught a glimpse of a shadow a wall. He roared as he fired a burning blast from his horn at the wall, blowing it down, but no one was actually there.
Suddenly, Pinkie’s head dropped in upside down before his face. “Surprise!” and she punched him hard sending him back a few paces.
The Valkyries all then stood together with Celestia at the head of the team, their capes fluttering in the breeze as they glared the villains down.
“It doesn’t have to be this way, Striker.” Celestia said, hoping to make a connection to the inner spirit. “You can fight for control! You can expel the evil from your body!”
Suddenly, it seemed to be working as Stammadon clutched his head while groaning. “No…!” he thundered “Get… back…!” Then his voice changed to Striker’s normal voice, “…Please… Help me!!”
The Valkyries thought this was their chance.
“Let’s try and blast him now!” cried Rainbow.
The others agreed, and so did Celestia.
They all stood together, and joined their swords at the tips. “Get ready…!” said Celestia. The swords began to glow brightly, and together the Valkyries shouted “HARMONY BEAM!!”
POW!! Their great magic was unleashed, heading straight at Striker, but the rock gators leapt in front, shielding their master from the blast.
“No!!” cried Rarity.
“I don’t believe this!” growled Applejack.
Stammadon then regained control, laughing and taunting, “Did you really think it would be that simple?”
The Valkyries growled at him.
Stammadon snickered, and powered up his raging aura, and then he ordered his gators to attack!
Both gators prepared their meteor attacks. “Look out!” cried Fluttershy.
The Valkyries split up and scattered as the meteors were fired, making huge explosions that damaged the walls and grounds of the temple even more.
“Whoa! Too serious!” shouted Rainbow.
Celestia gnashed her teeth and soared in to attack one of the gators.
She swung her sword hard, only for the gator to easily block her with its club and then lunge to take a big bite out of her. She zipped off.
“Come on!” Pinkie hollered, and she charged in to help Celestia. Some of the others dove in to attack the other gator, while Rainbow decided to head straight for the boss. “Okay, big boy-- let’s rumble!”
Stammadon roared at her and charged at her swinging his burning fists and kicking his flaming feet, which Rainbow dodged and/or blocked with her shield valiantly.
Then she took a huge swing with her sword, only for him to grab it in his hand and wrestle her arm down. “You’re strong, but I am stronger still!” he hissed at her.
He raised his free hand to punch her, and she blocked with her shield, this left her open for him to fire a blast from his horn, sending her clear out of the ring.
She looked up and saw him cracking his knuckles and ready to go at her, when suddenly he was bombarded all around from above.
“You forget about us?” called Pinkie.
The other Valkyries joined her by her side.
Stammadon remained still and snapped his fingers, signalling the gators to attack, and the Valkyries split up again.
Stammadon snickered and raised his arms up high, manipulating the energy in the skies to empower the gators-- making them expand and grow even larger!
“Oh, my! They’re getting bigger!” cried Rarity.
“We can SEE that!” sneered Applejack.
“Try not to give into your fears!” shouted Celestia “…It only makes them stronger!”
Fluttershy swallowed her fears-- literally taking a big gulp.
The two gators roared loudly, making the entire temple quake.
The shaking could be felt inside where Lightning and Tan Shi were still brawling-- wrestling to pin each other down. Finally, Lightning pushed her off and kicked her in the gut sending her sailing back hard.
“SYMBOL POWER: AIR BOUNCE!” and Tan Shi bounced off the air and kicked him hard in his super armor, hardly damaging him but sending him back a few yards.
Suddenly, Lightning could hear the sound of screaming echoing along the walls.
“Swift Star…!”
Down in his cell, the ice had covered Swift’s entire lower body and was slowly creeping its way up. It felt so cold that it hurt him, he was barely finding the strength to move or scream anymore, while En Shi continued to embrace him, “Don’t worry, it’ll be over soon. Then it will just be us… together… frozen as one!”
Lightning tried to make a run for it, but Tan Shi tackled him to the ground. “I am not through with you yet!”
She rammed numerous punches at his face, and while Lightning was able to take the hits, the pain still got to him. Still, he really wanted to get free and save his student from these monsters…
…And that’s what did it!
His body began to glow brightly as the pure inner strength began to awaken, much to Tan Shi’s shock. “What…?! No!”
Lightning roared loudly, unleashing the energy, blasted her off of him, and sent her crashing through many walls and stone columns.
She barely managed to get back up, but saw Lightning, still glowing, and holding out his capture blaster. He didn’t even speak-- just scowled fiercely and pulled the trigger!
POW!! Tan Shi screamed as she was enveloped by the light.
Stammadon could hear her from outside, and he didn’t like the sound of it one bit! “TAN SHI…?!
…TAN SHI!!!!”
Celestia could sense what happened, “Well done, Lightning!” she muttered under her breath.
Tan Shi was contained in a sphere, which Lightning stowed on himself. He was no longer glowing with the pure strength, and he didn’t seem to mind.
Quickly, he dashed for where he heard Swift’s scream.
Poor Swift! He knew he had to get out of this, but he couldn’t break free by brute force. “Wait…!” he thought “Lightning taught me…”
And there came a flashback of studying enemy weaknesses. “If you cannot defeat your opponent using brute strength, see if you can outwit them and exploit their weaknesses to your advantage.
Remember, your knowledge as well as your power, when combined, they can both turn into a great force to be reckoned with.
I should know-- Since I can’t do magic, I have combine my brains and brawn all the time.”
Swift could only think of one thing that would possibly help him, “I don’t think I’ll ever forget this.” he thought to himself, he summed up all the strength he could and managed to lift his head away from En Shi’s shoulder.
She turned to face him, and then he captured her lips with his.
En Shi gasped softly, and felt herself melting-- losing control of her focus, and they ice began to die down a little as she let herself go and kissed him back.
Swift could feel it-- the ice was growing weaker and stopped forming.
That’s when Lightning made it the cell.
“Swift…!”
The two turned and gawked at him, and En Shi’s feature hardened, “You’re too late…!” she sneered, and started up the freezing again, but Lightning blasted the weak ice around with a strong wave of uniforce, shattering it enough to let him break out with his own strength.
“No!!” cried En Shi, but it was too late! Without Swift, the ice was able to form much faster, and covered her completely, freezing her solid-- far too much for her to break out on her own.
Swift sighed heavily, still shivering, Lightnng could felt how cold he was, and made a glowing pulse of uniforce in his hand, and waved it along Swift warming him up again.
“That’s much better! Thank you, sir.”
Lightning smiled, “Glad you’re okay.”
Then, he quickly used his capture blaster and shot at the frozen En Shi while she couldn’t defend herself, imprisoning her in sphere too.
Swift almost felt sorry for En Shi, “She’s so beautiful, but that’s as far as she goes. She’s so monstrous.”
Lightning nodded, but the moment was interrupted by a big crash and the temple shaking. “Let’s go!”
The gators had become so big, they barely fit into the dojo, and the temple could barely stand anymore punishment!
“These guys just won’t go down!” groaned Rainbow.
“And they’re getting bigger and badder every moment!” cried Rarity.
The Valkyries were all starting to run low on power. They couldn’t activate Super Mode-- not in Valkyrie mode, while the gators continued to gain strength from the darkness above.
They prepared to launch their meteor attacks again, and the meteors were so huge it would nearly impossible to dodge them.
“Huddle close!” called Celetisa, and the Valkyries did as they were told. “Shields up…!”
The girls held their shields up as told, “Um… what are we doing?” asked Fluttershy.
Rather than answer verbally, Celestia powered up her magic, and her horn was glowing brightly. She enforced the magic heavily into all six shields…
…Just as the meteors fired.
“WE’RE GONNA BE TOAST!!!!” shouted Pinkie.
Celestia continued to enforce the power, and the huge, fiery blasts collided into them. The light was so bright that the Valkyries shut their eyes tight as the blasts struck their shields.
The heat was so intense it would have roasted them alive, but they hardly felt a thing… thanks to Celestia. She had cast a magical aura to reduce the heat, and at the same time grant power to the shields, enough to deflect the blasts right back at the two gators.
“NO!!!!” shouted Stammadon, and he braced himself for the upcoming blast, and at the same second, Lightning and Swift burst outside. “LOOK OUT!!” cried Lightning, and he held Swift close and enclosed them both in a barrier of uniforce as the blasts struck the two gators.
…The entire mountain top exploded, taking the remains of the temple with it!
Back in New Canterlot, all the gators stood together to combine their meteor attacks.
“Oh, no!” cried Starla.
“Oh, yes!” hissed Rai Shi, and he grabbed her from behind and held her in a strong grip, “You can now watch as my creatures obliterate your friends and your entire village!”
He was right. The battle had been going on for quite a while, and the rock gators had only grown in size and power, thanks to Rai Shi feeding them all more of the dark magic in the skies.
The Starfleet fighters and Spike were starting to run low, but they couldn’t let New Canterlot be destroyed.
Buddy, then looked way over at the army by the village perimeter, and saw Grand Ruler motioning at him to bring the team in closer-- that he had an idea!
“Come with me, guys!” said Buddy.
The others didn’t ask questions, and almost immediately caught on, and they huddled in towards the village entrance-- Spike standing tall, and the ponies fluttering over his head.
“What are they doing?” wondered Rai Shi.
Starla smirked, “I think I know!” but then she quickly stomped on his foot, making him shout and let her go.
Rai Shi roared and prepared to lung for her, when suddenly he was blasted at from above by powerful energy.
*Mykan’s POV*
Starla looked up and saw me flying up ahead, Shining Armor as Saber on the ground with Cadance in her Ninja form by his side.
“Thought you could use a little help...!” Saber called to Starla.
She smiled thankfully, and Cadance and I nodded at her.
Rai Shi was furious! “I’ll teach you to interfere!” and he roared and harnessed some of the dark power into himself to boost his strength.
“Oh, no you don’t!” I sneered, “SWORD OF PURE SOUL” I held up my sword to the sky, and the blade began to glow. “I may not be Surfer anymore, but I can still do this…!” and I pointed straight at the beast, and fired multiple shots of energy at him.
My blasts hardly seemed to faze Rai Shi, and he roared as he jumped up to punch me. Luckily I had my teleporter, and whisked off making him miss.
Saber then whirled his sickle-and-chain, and lassoed Rai Shi’s ankle, and slammed him hard down on the ground, and Cadance leapt in.
Rai Shi, broke out of the chain and began to attack at Cadance hard.
Rai Shi fought well, but Cadance, being the ninja she was, swiftly swerved and dodged his every swing, every attack.
Saber and Starla rushed in to make it three-on-one, while I stayed hovering overhead-- I wasn’t a skilled fighter like they were.
*POV Pause*
The Gators finished powering up, and unleashed their meteors-- combining the fiery power into one colossal fire-ball that fired towards the army.
“NOW…!!” Grand Ruler shouted to Luna, and he and his sister-in-law began to harness the energy that the army had been charging up, and focussed it all into one enormous blast, that shot against the giant fireball, and flung it up into the sky where it exploded in a colossal blast that lit up the skies brightly.
Everyone shielded their eyes from the brightness, even Starla, her teammates, and Rai Shi hit the dirt, and in the midst of it all, Spike and the super fighters began to feel strange.
“What’s happening?” Spike asked.
The lights faded, and everyone opened their eyes again. The army of fighters were astonished.
“Did you see that?”
“I can’t believe that just happened!”
“Cool!”
Grand Ruler and Luna were pleased, “…And that’s not all we did.” said Grand Ruler.
Spike and the Super Fighters were all feeling pretty strong, and fully re-energized.
“Hey, I bet all that energy did that to us.” said Artie.
Rhymey gripped his sword tightly,
“No more trouble in sight.
Now let’s give them a real fight!”
The twins agreed.
Rai Shi growled, “I think not! I’ll give my monsters every last bit of energy I can give them!!” and he raised his arms up to empower the gators, but he was tackled down by Starla, “Not this time you don’t!”
They began to brawl again-- Rai Shi against the trio of fighters, while Mykan continued to remain above.
Spike looked up at the darkness. Now that he was full re-energized, and the darkness weakened from all the fighting, his special ability was ready! “Time to get rid of this stuff for good!” he roared, and he leapt up into the sky!
“Do it, Spike!” shouted Starla.
More of the Starfleet fighters cheered Spike on and watching open his huge mouth, and then he unleashed his light flames at the darkness, infected it and causing it to disperse.
“What? No!!” cried Rai Shi “Without that darkness my monsters will--!!”
Indeed… as the darkness and the fear lifted, the gators began to grow weaker, and shrink down.
“The tables have turned!” said Grand Ruler “…It’s our game now!!”
While back on the mountain top, the smoke from the explosion had cleared. The entire temple was completely totalled-- blown into mounds of rocks and debris.
Lightning was alright, and he dispelled the barrier around him and Swift.
Poor Swift was panting heavily, scared out of his mind. That explosion was so massive, and so bright, it blew the whole mountain top to rubble.
“Hey!” Rainbow called as she and the other Valkyries fluttered down from the sky—where they had taken refuge from the explosion-- and landing before the men.
“Are you two okay?” asked Celestia.
Lightning was obviously fine, while Swift was still a little overwrought. “He’ll be fine.” said Lightning.
Suddenly, there was a noise from behind as the rocks began to shift and turn, and then… KAPOW!! Stammadon burst through the rubble, blazing with flaming aura, and sneering with such rage.
“…This is NOT over!!”
To Be Continued…!
(Promo)
In our final episode: Stammadon refuses to give in to defeat and battles fiercely with the fighters in their weakened state, and Swift tries desperately again to reach out to Striker’s inner spirit. Meanwhile, the battle continues on United Equestria, and just as things seem to go well for the heroes, something worse suddenly begins to arise!
Can our heroes finally do away with all this evil for good?!
Don’t miss the next exciting episode of “Starfleet Magic!”
(Next Episode: Final Part: The Greatest Strength”)