Twilight could not believe her eyes, a tan stallion with cyan hair, wearing a black furred jacket, with armored arms and legs, was facing off with Nightmare Moon. And the weird part is, it seemed that the stallion was winning, and he wasn't even using weapons to begin with. From what Twilight observed, the tan stallion seemed to deflecting Nightmare's attacks simply by slapping it, blocking it with his legs by kicking Nightmare's scythe, or down right catching the scythe with his bare hands and redirecting the attack. Twilight stared at awe at what was happening infront of her, that is until she remembered that she had to activate the spark on the Elements for it to work against Nightmare Moon. She hurriedly went towards the stone platform where the Elements laid, knelt down, and started applying magic to the artifacts.
Ballista was having fun, somewhat. Although Nightmare Moon was strong when it comes to magic and her use of her scythe, he already saw a glaring weakness that his opponent has. True that Nightmare has combat discipline, and has a good technique when it comes to close quarters combat, but from what he could observe, she can't use both magic and fight closely at the same time. So, when ever Nightmare tries to strike from a distance with magic, Ballista would rush in and attack with a series of punches and kicks.
Nightmare Moon slashed down with her scythe from her right, and looked at the tan stallion. The stallion then jumped back, seeing this opportunity, Nightmare aimed her horn at the stallion and fired a strong magic beam towards him. She wore a smug grin, knowing that her opponent had no way to dodge her attack since he was air borne. She smiled manically as she saw the stallions eyes shrink, only for her smile to vanish as she saw something unexpected. Nightmare Moon saw the stallions hands and hooves start to glow, and in an instant, the stallions body flipped backwards, completely dodging the magic beam, and landing a few meters away from her, only for the gap to close as soon as the stallion landed on the floor.
Ballista rushed in, sidestepping the scythe that was still in the ground, and aimed a right punch to Nightmare's left shoulder, to create an opening. Nightmare Moon's body recoiled at the impact, staggering back as she felt the pain on her shoulder even though she wore armor. Now that there was an opening, Ballista then left kneed her to the stomach, as he stood on his right hoof. He then jumped up using his right hoof, not even bothering to land his left leg, and proceeded to to kick Nightmare Moon in the face with the same right hoof. Nightmare Moon on her part, felt pain from the impact, as well as intense heat along with the kick to the face. When she staggered back more, she looked at the stallion, and saw one of his hooves catch on fire.
Ballista ran towards Nightmare Moon, seeing her wide open. As he got close, he lifted his right flaming hoof and repeatedly kicked his opponent, all the while with a grin on his face and a short laugh.
"Aaaahahahahahah!!!!! Hora! Hora Hora! AAATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATA!!!!!!" He said as he kept kicking Nightmare Moon again and again at a very rapid pace. What Ballista did not notice was that Nightmare Moon was focusing most of her defensive spells on her body. After a moment of rapid kicks from Ballista, he then stepped back a bit and revved up his right leg, his leg encased in a blue energy as he prepares to round house kick his opponent to the face.
Seeing this opportunity, Nightmare Moon then used her protective barriers around her body, to explode outwards, as soon as Ballista got near her. Ballista was then flung away from the dark blue mare, due to the force from the explosion. His body bounced on the floor a few times, before he slides to a stop by using both his hands. Ballista then stood up, slightly staggering, but as soon as he stood up, he was then sliced to the chest by Nightmare Moon as she passed by him, stopping only behind him. A few seconds only passed and soon blood spewed out from his chest.
From behind Ballista, Nightmare Moon rushed in again, only this time, she was slicing away rapidly, cutting into the flesh of the tan stallion. After a few more cuts, Nightmare Moon swung her scythe forwards from her right, she then held her arm forward and spun her scythe like a buzz saw, finally she charged her scythe with magic and swung her weapon down.
Focusing his power around him just before the scythe hits him, Ballista sped himself up, but from his point of view, everything else slowed down. Glowing blue, Ballista made a series of heavy hitting kicks directly to the face of Nightmare Moon, and finally finishing the kicks by flipping forward and hitting her on the face with his armored hoof.
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As soon as his combo ended, his vision returned to normal and Nightmare Moon was flung backwards. With out delay, Ballista rushed forward to deliver more kicks with it ending in a whirlwind of kicks. Nightmare Moon did not have time to react, and since she used most of her shield spell to interrupt an attack, she could not do much but take the attacks. "How am I being defeated by a mere colt, he's just a MORTAL, and yet I'm-" Nightmare Moon thought, only to be interrupted as a fist colliding to her stomach, followed by a fist to the face flinging her once again. She saw the tan stallion then run towards her, so she prepared to strike back. But what shocked her the most was that the stallion turned around while jumping back, soon she saw herself launching up into the air, and was then quickly brought down by a spectral fist.
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From afar, Twilight saw the battle between the two ponies and was experiencing both shock and awe from the rather violent display of skills. She could only do so much staring since some of the attacks of the tan stallion would make him disappear. She knew that getting rid of Nightmare Moon would be hard, but she did not know that the Mare on the Moon would be this violent. Twilight then remembered why she came here for. She ran to the broken remains of the Elements to try and figure out how to fix them. From outside, a group of mares heard the rather explosive commotion inside the castle. The mares then ran in to inspect what happened, only to find destruction to the already destroyed castle, a tan stallion wearing a black furred jacket, kneeling on the floor, Twilight Sparkle on the far end of the room, and a beaten down Nightmare Moon on the floor to their right.
"Twilight!!!" They yelled out, three mares from the group ran towards the purple unicorn, while the last two quickly addressed the tan stallion.
Ballista was panting, trying to get as much air to his lungs as possible. But due to the heavy bleeding and the subsiding adrenaline, the pain is just enough to blur some of his vision. "Heh, good thing I learned a lot of fighting techniques from Punch-mare and Kick-colt. Not to mention their extensive use and creativity of their powers make them unique, kinda' helped me make my own fighting techniques. Yare, yare daze, I haven't been beaten up this much since I tried fighting the Imitator, I wonder what's going to happen next." Ballista thought as he tried to rest his tiring body.
Although he did not get enough rest since he was disturbed by two mares and was knocked down on the ground by one of them.
"What did you do to Twilight!?!? Answer me or you're gonna' get it bud!!" One of the mares asked as she kicked him on the chest. He coughed out blood as he was forcefully send on to his back. From what he saw, a light blue someone struck him, only to be pulled back by someone orange.
"Hey, now hold on there cowgirl, he's already hurt pretty bad. Ah don't think that he could take more from the looks of things. Hey, are you alright, how you holdin' up?" The orange figure said to him as she reaches her arm out for him to hold on to. He reached for the waiting hand and was pulled up to stand, only to stagger forwards due to his weakness.
"Whoa, hay now, take it easy. You doin' okay?" Ballista heard her say as he holds on to her shoulders for support.
"D-Daijōbudesu, Daijōbudesu. Thanks for the help though, I was just resting for a while. That fight with the dark mare took a huge toll on me, hehehe." Ballista said as he stood straight and wiped the blood dripping from the side of his mouth. He looked at the two mares infront of him and smiled at them, his vision getting slightly better to the point that he could see their faces and what they were wearing. The orange one with the blond mane and tail wore a stetson hat on top of her head, a white tank top inside a red and white plaid shirt, jean shorts for her bottom wear and the hoof equivalent version of boots.
"Die-joe-bud-what?! What did you just say?!?! You better take back what you just said to by friend or you're gonna regret it, and you still haven't answered my question, and what do you mean dark mare, do you mean Nightmare Moon?! Are you working for her, what are you planning on do-" The cyan mare was yelling at Ballista while she holds the collar of his shirt, only to be silenced by her orange companion as she pulls the shirt of the cyan mare.
"Rainbow, stop assaulting everything you think is bad, that's going to be a bad habit for you." The orange mare said as she hits the top of the cyan mares head.
"*Humph* Fine, as long as he starts explaining what he's doing in the castle and what happened to Twi-" The cyan mare said, only to be interrupted by a hand grabbing her shoulder, and was then thrown to the ground.
"HEY!! What's the big ide-" Once again she was interrupted as an explosion happened infront of her. Her eyes wide as she saw the tan stallion that was previously behind her, standing, now infront of her, kneeling in pain. On the far side of the room she and her orange companion saw Nightmare Moon standing with fury in her eyes. Both saw the amount of offensive magic spells surrounding the dark mare, and both mares eyes turn into pinpricks, in fear as to what would happen if they got hit by the many spells. From behind them the other three mares and Twilight saw this, but they were too far to reach the two vulnerable mares. The magical blasts were fired and was quickly approaching them, the cyan and the orange mare shut their eyes in fear that they might get hit.
"FACE THE WIND" was the only thing the two mares heard last before getting hit. They waited and waited, only to find no pain on their body. From behind the rest of the mares were at awe at what they saw.
Ballista created a wall of "magical" wind to negate the barrage of magical attacks from Nightmare Moon. When the barrage stopped, his right hand glowed blue and from the palm of his hand, an blue sphere appeared.
"HIKOU!!!" He yelled as he launched the sphere out of his hand and towards Nightmare Moon. When Nightmare Moon was hit, she staggered a little from the impact, but she was knocked back more, when a sudden collision of a hoof reached her chest.
"SOZEN!!!" Ballista then yelled as he grabbed the left shoulder of Nightmare with his left hand, and propelled himself around the mare so that he would hit the back of the neck of Nightmare Moon with his knee, dropping her down to the ground again. Ballista then fell forward to the floor, but he pushed himself up, knees and hands on the floor. Slowly he stood up, resting his hands on his knees as fatigue overcame his body. He was panting really hard now due to the first blast hitting him when he protected the two mares. When he stood straight though, that's when every thing slowed down.
From his point of view, he saw the mares smile slightly at him and the fact that their supposed friends are safe, but at that same moment, their eyes and expressions turned into that of shock and horror. Ballista did not know why their expressions were like that, but after a few moments, blood was ejected out from his mouth and his vision started to get blurry. He then felt pain on his chest and on his back, and as he looked down, he saw a blade was sticking out of his chest. His head felt stiff but he still managed to look behind him, only to see Nightmare Moon smiling at him maniacally.
"I'VE GOT YOU NOW~" Nightmare Moons said. She then lifted her scythe up and charged it with magic, Ballista still on the scythes blade, then she swung her scythe launching Ballista along with a wave of magic. Ballista then hit the wall hard with his back, to the point where there is a small crater on the wall and a figure imprinted on where Ballista hit. Then in a few seconds, he got hit by the magic wave. He fell down to the stone floor, unconsciousness taking over his vision. The last thing he was able to see before darkness filled his eyes was a bright colored light, and soon he fell into the world of unconsciousness.
