//------------------------------// // Chapter 12: Battle for Canterlot (Part 2) // Story: A Place in Equestria V: The Storm Awakens // by GoebelTron //------------------------------// Meanwhile, the Mane 8 were placed into a giant cannon that was set to blast them to the castle. “You sure about this?” Rainbow Dash asked. “Yes! Absolutely! Let’s do it! Thank you! I'm excited! Who's excited?! Aaah! I've never been so excited!” Pinkie Pie said, until Spike jumped and then lit the fuse with his fire breath and hopped into the cannon. The cannon then made a huge boom, and the rest of the Mane 8 and Spike were screaming, while Pinkie Pie laughed, “Whee!” Thomas saw them coming and then aimed the Storm King for the upcoming bombardment. “INCOMIIIIIIIIIIIIING!!!” Rainbow Dash said, as the Mane 8 and Spike bumped into the Storm King and he landed inside the castle after crashing through the window. “Bull's-eye!” Pinkie Pie said weakly. “MOMMA!” Thomas said, as he was running over to Fluttershy. “Thomas!” she said, wrappping her hoof around him as he wrapped himself all over her other leg. “You all came back! I knew you would come!” Twilight said. “Not that I was worried or anything, but you’re the bravest pair of friends a pony could ever ask for.” Pinkie Pie had tears in her eyes, and then zoomed over to hug Twilight, “I knew that! We’re just glad that you’re okay!” “Uh, make up later! This isn't over!” Rainbow Dash said. The Mane 8 gasped at the staff as it was starting to destroy the castle as more debris was falling and the walls were crackling and crumbling into piles and being blown away. Tempest Shadow panted to get out of the way and take cover. Twilight grunted and gasped as they all tried to avoid the storm, “I've gotta get control of it!” “Go! You've got this, Twilight!” Pinkie Pie said. “No. We've got this. Together,” Twilight said. “Momma!” Thomas said, pointing at the Storm King, getting back on his feet. The Mane 6 held hooves with each other, and then Thomas grabbed Applejack’s rope. “Get the staff!” “Thomas?! What are you doing?!” Rainbow Dash asked, as they saw him tying Applejack’s rope with her, and then onto a big rock. “We’ll hold the rock steady!” Sunset said, as she and Starlight concentrated enough magic to keep the rock in place. “Thomas! Be careful!” Twilight said. Thomas nodded, and then went to go fight the Storm King. “Whee!” Pinkie Pie said as they were feeling like they were flying as a chain, and then stayed that way as Twilight tried to reach for the staff. The Storm King grunted as he got back up, “The staff belongs to me!” Twilight gasped as she nearly got closer. The Mane 6 whimpered as Twilight was almost close. “No! That's my staff!! Miiiiiine!! Mine!!!“ The Storm King said, as he was now tumbling down the debris while climbing. He then saw Thomas looking at them like he didn’t want the tyrant to hurt them. “Well... looks like we’ve got ourselves a little weakling trying to defend them, huh?” he said rudely. Thomas then started shaking, but he tried to be brave. “You think you can take me? You ain’t worth it,” The Storm King said. “That may be true. I may be small, but I am big hearted... and I may run from danger, but I will always stand up... and fight... a bully!” Thomas said, as he threw a couple of rocks at the Storm King, and then he got angry and started chasing him. Starlight and Sunset looked back at Thomas holding off The Storm King while the Mane 6 try to retrieve the staff. “Almost... there!” Twilight said as she was nearly there while reaching out her hooves. Thomas hid underneath the rocks as the Storm King tried to grab him, but Thomas was still too small to reach. As the Storm King finally got him, Thomas screamed and then grabbed his hand and bit it. “AGH! Why you little!” The Storm King said, as he tried to crush him with his fists, but Thomas ran from him and kept throwing rocks at him. “Whoa!” Applejack said, as the rock was being pulled in. Thomas then climbed up the balcony, leaving the Storm King confused, “What’re you doing up there?” “This!” Thomas said, as he swung towards the Storm King and kicked his face with his feet, and then Spike breathed fire at him. Suddenly, as Twilight finally had the staff with her, the glass broke and then she and The Storm King screamed as the wind pulled them into the hurricane. “Twilight! Nooooooooooo!!!” Pinkie Pie said, as she saw their friend go into the storm, and then the wind started to die down with a glow of the sun. “The storm’s over,” Thomas said. “We’re all okay, b-but...” Thomas then broke down into Pinkie Pie’s belly and then hugged her as she hugged him while sobbing, and then Applejack and Fluttershy came to comfort them both. The light suddenly glistened as Thomas and Pinkie Pie saw something coming. “Look!” Thomas said, and then they saw Twilight flying over with the staff in her forelegs, and then she landed on the ground. “Auntie Twilight!” Thomas said. “Yay!” Pinkie Pie said. “Yee-haw!” Applejack laughed. “All right!” The other Mane 5 laughing and cheering. “Group hug!” Pinkie Pie squealed as they got in together, and Thomas hugged Twilight on the side. Twilight sighed as they enjoyed the moment. Tempest was happy to see them all together again. The Storm King grunted as he climbed up with a orb in his hand, planning to turn the Thomas into an obsidian statue. Tempest gasped, “THOMAS!” The Mane 8 and Spike gasped as they saw The Storm King was about to toss it, but Tempest ran over and landed in front of Thomas and the Storm King and then he started turning into obsidian as the orb broke onto Tempest’s hoof and puffed smoke. Twilight prevented Tempest’s petrification with the staff, as the Storm King then fell onto the ground below and then broke into pieces as the other pieces fell into the river until some other pieces fell over the waterfall. Thomas hugged Twilight’s leg as she kept her wing wrapped around him. “Whoa! I can't believe she did that!” Rainbow Dash said. “Me neither,” Applejack said. Fluttershy then came over to hug her son, and so did Rarity. “I can,” Twilight said. “Now what?” Fluttershy asked. “Now... we fix everything,” Tempest said, and then Twilight nodded.