The Biggest Battle Ever
Chapter 4 - Return Of The Cold
At that moment, me and the others were running towards Ponyville, where we thought that Twilight was waiting for us. As we were sprinting to the village, I started to slow down, since everyone else was faster than me, it was hard to keep up to them. I came to a sudden halt and dropped on the ground, trying to catch my breath. Suddenly, Rarity's face came into view.
"Come on, Lukas. We got to hurry!" She said frantically.
"I can't, it's too hard." I panted.
I began to close my eyes, but just as I did that, Rarity then picked my up with her magic and ran off to catch up with the others. We finally reached Ponyville as Mayor Mare welcomed us with open hooves.
"Because Ponyville's own heroes of Equestria are here to save us!" She declared to everyone as we joined the crowd.
I looked around the crowd and quickly realized that all the ponies here were all earth ponies. I think we all had the same thought.
"Where'd all these ponies come from?" Applejack said as she walked up to her family.
"Earth ponies been pourin' in lookin' for somewhere safe." Granny Smith timidly said.
"We don't have unicorn magic to protect us or a city in the sky to hide in like those cowardly Pegasi!" An earth pony clarified as Rainbow flew up to her.
"Cowardly?!" She said angrily.
Suddenly, we heard some clouds rumbling in the sky as we all looked up.
"They're blocking Cloudsdale! Said they didn't want any "grounded" ponies up in their business!" The earth pony cried out.
"Listen up, buddy—!" Rainbow shouted, they were about to start a fight, but I separated the two.
"Break it up, you two! That's exactly what Chrysalis and the others want, they want us to fight!" I said, separating them with my hands as Fluttershy walked up to me.
"Lukas is right." The butterscotch Pegasus agreed. "We know you're scared. We're here to help."
"You better fix this!" Another earth pony cried out as the crowd agreed.
"Twilight's probably as worried as everypony else and tryin' to find somewhere safe." Applejack claimed. "That's why I was sure she'd be waitin' for us in Ponyville. Where else could she be?"
We all started to ponder to ourselves, wondering where Twilight could possibly be. I then snapped my fingers.
"I think I know where Twilight is." I claimed to everyone.
"Where?" Rainbow asked me.
"The Crystal Empire!" I cried out.
To the train station!" Applejack cried out as we all followed her to the train station.
After a long and nervous train ride, we finally arrived at the Crystal Empire as we swung the doors open to see Princess Cadence holding Flurry Heart and Shining Armor next to her.
"Oh, thank Celestia you're all alright." Cadence said worriedly. "She's upstairs. It's... not good."
Now we were really worried about Twilight, We all busted open the door to one of the rooms and inside, we saw none other then our fellow purple alicorn frantically reading every scroll and book in the room. She looked to us in relief
"You're here?!" She asked in relief before we quickly gathered in a group hug. "I was so worried! Where are the princesses?"
"They put up a crazy fight so we could escape and find you! Mission accomplished!" Pinkie explained. "Now let's save Equestria!"
Then, before we knew it, a banner came down from the ceiling with Twilight's happy face on it as confetti exploded everywhere, how Pinkie was able to set all of this up when we just came in is something that nobody can explain.
"They made a terrible mistake. You all did." Twilight whimpered as she backed away slowly.
"What are you talking about, Twilight?" I asked.
"From the second I got away, I've been searching every book, scroll, and spell for a way to rescue you and stop Chrysalis, Tirek, and Cozy, but I haven't found anything." Twilight then threw the book she was reading to the ground. "I failed."
"You'll come up with something. We can't save Equestria without you." Spike pleaded.
"You all escaped without my help. You didn't need me then. So why would anypony need me now?" Twilight moaned.
"We know things look bad." Rainbow began. "But we've been in tough spots before, and we always—"
"Look around!" Twilight interrupted. "Nothing we've ever done has mattered!"
Twilight then walked up to a corkboard and picked up a picture of King Sombra with her magic.
"Sombra? Returned and destroyed the Tree of Harmony!" Twilight then crumpled up the picture into a ball, then, she picked up a picture of Chrysalis, Tirek and Cozy Glow. "Chrysalis, Tirek, Cozy Glow? Returned and more powerful than ever!" She also crumpled up the pictures into balls. "The School of Friendship? Shut down! Everypony in Equestria is so blinded by fear, they can't remember what friendship is! Nothing we do makes any difference!" Twilight then slammed her face into a nearby desk as we looked at her with concern.
"But we're still free and together." Pinkie said.
"And it's not like things can get any worse."
Right after Rainbow Dash said that, we all heard some howling out as we opened up the window and what we saw rattled us to the very core. Circling around the skies and howling, were the windigos.
"Haven't we learned never to say that by now?" Spike asked rhetorically.
We all stared at the windigos in disbelief.
"You just had to say that, Dash." I said angrily.
"We have to do something!" Rainbow cried as Twilight walked away from the window.
"I've already done enough." Twilight sighed as she slammed her face on a table. Applejack walked towards Twilight.
"You want the truth, Twilight? Bad things happen. No matter what you do, there's never gonna be a time when everything's perfect. But that don't mean you quit tryin'!" Applejack said.
"What if I make things worse?!" Twilight cried before I grabbed her by the shoulders.
"Twilight, listen to me!" She turned slowly towards me as I sighed. "Look, I understand that you're scared, you've come such a long way since you came to Ponyville, I've even come a long way since I came to Equestria. But sometimes, you have to find faith in yourself, it may be a bit hard, but we all believe that you can find that faith within yourself, and when you do, you can do anything you set your mind to. So, what do you say, are you ready to save Equestria?"
Twilight was silent for a moment, before tears slowly flowed down her cheeks.
"Thank you." Twilight then wiped the tears with a tissue. "Sometimes even the Princess of Friendship needs a reminder that there's more to the Magic of Friendship than rainbow lasers."
"Although that part is pretty cool." Spike said.
"I agree, Spike." I agreed as we all gathered in another group hug.
"We still need a plan." As Twilight was thinking of a plan, the doors burst open revealing Cadence, Shining Armor and Flurry Heart.
"That sounds like the pony I used to foal-sit for. Count us in." Princess Cadence said with confidence.
"No." Twilight denied her offer. "You need to stay here and protect Flurry Heart. If we don't... If things don't work out, she's Equestria's last hope." Twilight then turned to us "Okay. Three of our worst villains have taken over, powered up by ancient magic. Everypony in Equestria is so scared and divided that the windigos are circling. And it's up to us to fix it all."
"What are we gonna do, Twilight?!" Pinkie cried out.
"The same thing we do every time, Pinkie. Try to save the world!"
Stay tuned for Chapter 5