After Danger had explained his plan to the rest of his team, Inferno Tempest and Estrella Dragonheart were beside the Wild Cats Baseball Stadium with a mixture of confidence and worry on their faces.
“Estrella, are you worried over what Danger’s forces are?” Inferno asked as she saw a tear flow down Estrella’s left eye.
Then concern flowed through Estrella mind like a waterfall. Inferno was trying to get her attention, but it fell to deaf ears as she heard the roar of about 20 engines as the time struck 23:55, the time when the Legion of Speedfreaks set off for the Paradise Keys bridge. Inferno now realised why Estrella was sweating bullets eariler. If the Alliance of Extreme Darkness loses this battle, Oscura will takes the situation into her own hooves, if it means Oscura duelling Danger, one-on-one.
Inferno then groaned in ignorance and stormed off to the Waston Revenge and headed to the Marina. Estrella didn’t care in the slightest as to what Inferno was doing. Two possible scenarios can happen right now for her in the span of 4 minutes and 20 seconds.
The first is that she decides to join the fight with Oscura against Danger. The second is that she could opt of the battle and wait for the chance to vanquish her nemesis, Starlight Glimmer. But knowing Oscura’s reputation, she would be classed as a traitor to the Alliance of Extreme Darkness she decides to go for the second option.
After about two minutes of a dilemma, Estrella realilised that she had a score to settle with Starlight. She knew that Oscura was waiting for the moment that see would bring Danger to his downfall. But what she doesn’t know is what sort of tricks Danger can pull off. Estrella then headed back to her Watson Revenge Racer and followed Inferno to the Marina.
Meanwhile, Oscura was meditating on a dark magic field consisting of red draconian symbolism around two rings and in the middle of the field was a symbol consisting of two dragons to form a ‘X’ shape. Midnight Skies however, had no time to meditate because she saw Estrella and Inferno coming from the Wild Cats Baseball Stadium. After they both stopped, Inferno then rushed to Midnight as she Oscura meditating and having visions of what life would be like if she captured Danger and putting her Desert Eagle, square on his face.
“Inferno, what’s with the face?” Midnight then asked Inferno, waiting to know to full story.
“Well Midnight,” Inferno began, “It appears we seem to have a possible traitor on hooves.”
Estrella was shocked to hear what came out of Inferno’s mouth.
“What! No! I just had a dilemma, that’s all!” Estrella objected angrily. This doesn’t convice Inferno in the slightest.
“Yeah, a dilemma over whether or not to join in the fight against the Legion of Speedfreaks, Estrella! What were you thinking off!” Inferno spat out, trying to pin Estrella to a mental corner.
Estrella was trying to explain that she had a score to settle with Starlight Glimmer, but to no avail. Having heard enough of the dispute being Inferno and Estrella, Midnight smelt a scent of treachery on the horizon but didn’t want to expose anything to the rest of allies: Rotten Apple, Shadow Wings, Anti-Pinks, Adagio Dazzle and most importantly, Oscura.
“Estrella,” Midnight then spoke, “We have less 50 seconds before the Legion of Speedfreaks attack us. Could you not bring the tram to an abrupt end, please?”
After about 10 seconds of slience, Estrella sighed and a tear rolled down her right cheek and apologized to Inferno for snapping to her eariler.
Meanwhile, on the Paradise Keys bridge. The Legion were at the middle section and were waiting for the time to reach 23:59:50. Being experienced in these situations before, they didn’t make any noise, but if they did, Oscura would hear it and their surprise attack would vanish into thin air.
“Tempest and Spitfire, we are waiting for the signal, all vehicles accounted for.” Danger said as he grabbed his CB with his wing. “How many seconds before I fire the flare?”
“About 10 seconds.” Tempest responded.
Then a thought occurred to Danger before he fired the flare. If the Legion did in fact face the 15,000 strong force of Oscura’s army, it would mean that another obstacle emerged to make his life more difficult if Oscura hadn’t been messing with his mind for the past nine years. But another memory occurred to Danger. Relating to the evil doppelganger of Rainbow Dash, Midnight Skies.
When she and Danger first met six years ago in the human world, Danger was racing in one of his fully-customised muscle cars and Midnight challenged him to race back in Danger’s flagship city, Danger City. The race went on for about three hours before Midnight crashed into the back of delivery lorry at 100 mph, Danger then made a sharp U-turn and rushed towards the wreckage.
Luckily for Danger, Midnight’s car wasn’t in flames and she was only shaken after the impact. Also, there were no other occupants who were using the lorry at the time of the crash. Midnight scrambled out of her car and sat on the road, leaning onto the door of her car to take some deep breaths when Danger arrived at the scene. Danger felt a lot of emotions when he saw Midnight battered and bruised from the crash. She could been killed, but he knew she was a fighter and that she would battle on, no matter the cost.
After the flashback, Danger then fired the red flare to signal the move and then he fired another flare, this time a cyan-green hybrid-coloured one. The flare that emitted an electro-magnetic pulse with affected all of the Rai-Jin’s, Thunder Shadows and the Nighthawks all in one shot. The 15000 soliders of Oscura’s army... were immoblised and eroded into the atmosphere.
Rainbow knew that he had a flashback and decided not to question his logic.
Meanwhile, Oscura saw the particles of her army floating away towards the north-east and because of this... her eyes turned into a Sombra-esque colour, but in red and black, her helmet, leather outfit began to show blood-red patternation by the amount of rage building up inside her. Then, the colour of her tears turned blood-red. As the Legion of Speedfreaks headed towards Lone Stallion Ranch, the Legion’s former base in Paradise City, Oscura rushed towards her Überschall Clear-View and sped off heading for Danger. The rest of the Alliance of Extreme Darkness rushed into their cars and followed her.
Danger, however, got a message from Tempest Shadow saying that the Alliance of Extreme is now on the move. Danger then rushed for his CB and ordered Nomad group to keep heading west and Shuriken group to head north to the Crystal Summit Observatory.
Then, 20 seconds later, Aria saw a gloss yellow Kitano Touge Sport driven by Shadow Wings and knew that she was an ally of Oscura, judging by what she was wearing. She then shunted the back of the Kitano, causing it to go through a gate and crash head-on into a wall.
Oscura heard Inferno say on her radio that Shadow Wings is out of the fight which made Oscura even more angry and ordered Rotten Apple to head to the Crystal Summit Observatory.
Rarity meanwhile was waiting for her CB to sound when, Rotten Apple was on the attack, She waited for the orange Carson Opus to appear at King Avenue, as she was on 2nd Street. Rotten Apple didn’t see the fast approaching Grand Marais and was side-swipped in the passenger side by Rarity and the Opus barrel rolled four times before coming to rest on it’s roof.
With Rotten Apple out of contention, Nomad stormed past Lone Stallion Ranch junkyard and headed north to the Windfarm when Rainbow saw a pink Montgomery Hawker driven by Anti-Pinks and asked Danger to sandwhich the Hawker and Anti-Pinks underestimated the tatics of the Legion, especially when the leader of the Nomad group is DangerDean of all the peagsi in the group. The grinding of the Hawker lasted for about 5 seconds when Rainbow and Danger applied the brakes which Anti-Pinks didn’t not and crashed into a barrier, head-on, similar to Shadow Wings’ crash back in the Naval Yard.
With Anti-Pinks out the Legion’s way, Estrella, Adagio and Inferno decided to head to the interstate to see they can spot any reserve troops that hadn’t been victims of Danger’s EMP blast. But that was a mistake as the Shuriken group where already on the interstate heading northbound. As a result, all three of them were taken out by the hooves of Twilight Sparkle, Crimsonia Dragonsfire and Diamond Blazer.
So all that remains for the Legion was Midnight Skies and the final boss, Oscura Galaxia who was apocalypticly angry as her eyes began to fire up and her leather suit patternation glowed brighter.
Twenty minutes later, Nomad group were now at cruising speed having heard from Star Blazer that they took out Estrella, Inferno and Adagio in one fell swoop. So the Legion were at peace, but that... was only a pause when Lightning Dust saw a Jansen X12, the regular version of her XS12 coming from her right mirror. She saw Midnight Skies looking determined to end Rainbow Dash now, but she was not going to let that happen.
“Danger, there is a X12 coming towards you, 100 foot gap between you and Midnight Skies.” Lightning warned Danger as the X12 overtook her.
“Leave this to me.” Danger replied as he turned towards the interstate where he knew that group Shuriken would be and heading towards South Rouse Way.
Midnight then saw the maneuver and followed him towards the interstate junction.
After Danger joined on the interstate, the much faster Midnight Skies shunted the rear of the Tempesta, Danger quickly regained control but did lose some speed doing so before moving to left side of the interstate. Midnight Skies didn’t see this manoeuvre as defensive but as offensive as Danger quickly steered right and in respone, Midnight tried to avoid the Tempesta, but to no success as the front of her X12 sideswiped the front of Danger’s Tempesta and rolled twice before resting on it’s wheels. Danger’s Tempesta meanwhile, richocheted off the barrier before coming to a stop.
Danger felt shaken after the crash and felt a bit of dèjá vu because of the crash Midnight had back at Danger City. The crash was reminiscent in his mind. Danger climbed of his Tempesta and rushed to the beaten up X12 and Midnight Skies was out of breath as the impact with the Tempesta took the wind out of her. Danger was concerned as she was one of her friends before Oscura corrupted her mindset and made her hate his friend, Rainbow Dash
A minute passes and Midnight got her breath back.
“What happened? Oscura? Where are you?” Midnight wondered looking across.
“Midnight?” Danger interrupted, trying to avert her from looking for Oscura’s assistance.
“That voice,” Midnight said to herself, “Is it... you Danger? No it can’t be... him? Can it?”
“Midnight?!”
“Danger!”
Midnight then remembered who was trying to grab her attention.
“Oh Danger, I’m really sorry. I shouldn’t have a grudge on your number 1 friend, Rainbow Dash so hard. I... I have a confession to make, Danger. I have now realised that joining the Alliance of Extreme Darkness... was one of the worst decisions of my life!” Midnight confessed as tears started to flow down her cheeks.
Danger was moved by the confession and then sat down beside Midnight.
“So tell me, Midnight, why did you have a grudge against Rainbow?” Danger then asked her.
“Well...” Midnight began. “It started back in Equestria about three years ago when I was cruising through the skies overlooking Cloudsdale, Twilight’s Castle and even Ponyville in some cases. I saw you and Rainbow that one day and I’m pretty sure you both were also planning to talk to Twilight Sparkle about a very important topic, regarding the Legion of Doom.”
“You mean Sombra, Chrysalis and all that crazy folk who seeks destruction of Equestria?” Danger then asked.
“That’s right. I was looking over the window that day, the rest of the mane 6 didn’t really care what was above heads and because of that... I left Equestria and I travelled about 10,000 miles and I found a land that is basically the equivilant of Oscura’s haven. After I entered the building, I was looking from somepony that’s-“ Midnight continuted before interrupted again by Danger.
“Do you hear that?” Danger then announced.
“No? What?” Midnight replied in a confused tone as she look left and right and then, to her horror, the engine of Oscura’s Überschall Clear-View echoed instantly from the north.
“Midnight, are you ready for this survival session?” Danger asked Midnight.
Midnight’s eyes then watered as she didn’t want to be agonised by Oscura. She then nodded and rushed to her X12 which was still driveable but needed a repair shop, the same goes for Danger. They both got into their cars and sped off to one of the interstate’s shortcuts and get to thr repair shop as fast as possible.
After landing the jump, Danger didn’t see the Überschall coming from his passenger side and because of this, Oscura T-boned the passenger side of Danger’s Tempesta so hard, Danger himself was ejected out of the driver’s door and slided onto the sidewalk while his Tempesta rolled three times before rest on it’s roof. Oscura then got out of her damaged Überschall and at the same time, Rainbow’s P12 saw the wreckage and slammed the brakes hard.
Danger, who was still feeling the injuries after sliding about 30 yards on the sidewalk, heard the Desert Eagle primed and aimed at his face.
“Well, well, well. It seems the tables have been turned, DangerDean! And now... the time... for my revenge... has finally come!” Oscura then announced as she layed a firm and heavy magical field around Danger’s neck.
“Oscura, no matter how you hard try,” Danger said, weakly and in pain, “There is no chance you take me alive, not in... ugh... a thousand years.”
Oscura smiled as she watched the injured crimson pegasus stallion try to lift himself up, but the weight of the magical field prevented him from any sort of movement.
Rainbow, watched in horror and with tears flowing down her eyes as she can’t stand to see her friend injured and in agony.
“Pitiful, I must say.” Oscura said as she trotted towards Rainbow’s P12 with Rainbow herself now out of her car and keep the field around Danger’s neck permanently and her Desert Eagle locked and loaded at his face.
“Rainbow Dash, I must say you have fought valiantly throughout this battle with so much courage... that mind is bleeding me dry of it’s own volition.” Oscura then said to Rainbow, no really congratulating her whatsoever.
“Oscura... I... want you to stop harming Danger. BECAUSE NINE YEARS IS FAR TO LONG!” Rainbow boomed, trying to show symphathy towards the stricken DangerDean.
“I must say Rainbow that I like it when you get worked about some stupid, imcompetent, putrid pegasus!” Oscura then spat out.
“I DON’T CARE, PUT THAT GUN DOWN!” Rainbow demanded.
Oscura’s final stage of rage was now showing, while it was flaring up, Aria, Lightning, Sparky and Blazey were approaching the bedlam between Oscura and Rainbow.
“Oh my gosh! Danger, are you alri-“ Aria then exclaimed before being forced back by Oscura.
“Danger is not alright,” Oscura growled, “he was destined to be my arch-nemesis, HE ALSO DIDN’T BELONG HERE ANYWAY! So... I ask you all around me, are you willing to surrender, because you don’t... the trigger will be pulled and Danger’s fate will be sealed now, your answers in 60 seconds... and counting.”
Aria then noticed Danger’s eyes were closed and tried to get Rainbow’s attention.
Rainbow didn’t cry yet because she knew he had some strength left him.
“Oscura, please don’t this, please!” Rainbow wept as wiped tears with her hoof. “Danger is my friend, my icon if I’m down in the gutter, my last piece of the jigsaw of my life. And... to this day, if I wish to see him die... I will go out with him.”
Aria became shocked at what came out Rainbow’s mouth.
“The same is if his mind is plagued by you, Oscura.” Rainbow continued. “His courage is what keeps me alive to this day... But there something you have forgottern, Oscura.”
“What’s that!”
“Danger... is my brother.”
One second later, a red powersurge exploded from Danger was lying and the field that was around his neck... shattered into pieces, Danger’s body began to glowed orange and yellow and after another five seconds, Danger lifted himself slowly back up with the red lightning beams touching his back. His Washouts-style flight suit’s coloured began to turn into an artwork of flame and his eyes glowed like a rekindled flame.
“Oh my gosh!” Aria, Rainbow and Lightning exclaimed in unison as they saw Danger in his new form.
Danger then faced Oscura with electricity flowing around his body.
“Oscura, you know when you said to me that I can’t run away from you forever nearly a decade ago? Well, it turns out that... was a LIE!” Danger boomed and then fired a red laser beam at Oscura. She quickly fired her own beam in response and caused the sky to show crimson explosions in the sky.
After two minutes, something was fired out of stun gun and the beam Danger was slowing coming towards Oscura, but before it reached her face, the beam stopped as Oscura was tasered with 75,000 volts of blue electrictiy and Oscura screamed, causing red coloured thunderstorms and visual fire tornadoes were whirling around at 175 miles an hour, and after the firetornadoes vanished and the storm stopped, Oscura fell on to the surface of the road, stunned but not unconscious and revealed the pony who fired the guns... Midnight Skies.
As Danger’s electricity visage dissipated. He realised that Midnight had betrayed Oscura and if she did betray her eariler she wouldn’t live to see another day, but she did it the right time when Oscura was pre-occupied with Danger.
“We got to get out of here!” Midnight then announced as she fired a portal-based weapon to the start point of the Paradise Keys bridge. “I set the portal for Danger City, Danger where you will be safe until she unleashes her rage again.
“I hate to say this, Danger but... Midnight’s right.” Rainbow then confessed. “Group Shuriken, Tempest Shadow, Spitfire and the rest of Group Nomad are on the other side of the portal. I asked her to set the GPS location to the Legion of Speedfreaks’ headquaters on 160th Street and as you go towards the junction at 26th Avenue, it’s the first building on your right.”
Danger was satisifed with what he thought was Rainbow’s arch-nemesis was actually a good ally of him.
“Right! Danger City... here we come!” Danger then announced as he rushed towards his Tempesta which was at full health after the electricity blast and revved the engine and blasted off towards the portal at Paradise Keys Bridge with the reminder of Group Nomad and Midnight Skies following suit.