“CATO!”
The sound of Applejack and Clove’s terrified screams can leave no doubt in anyone’s mind that something was going terrifyingly wrong. Both Cato and Twilight couldn’t move as the magic engulfed their bodies.
“Help!” Twilight called out, while being engulfed by the magic in mid air.
Cato, meanwhile, felt himself in just a world of pain, unable to move most of his body while lying on his back on the ground. All he could do was turn his head and stare at the others, his eyes literally overwhelmed with terror and tears falling down his face. “Jackie, please. It hurts so much. Please, someone help me..”
Then, Twilight’s ball erupted in a blinding light just as Cato’s ball of magic finished consuming the terrified boy. Inside the ball, he couldn’t exactly see what Twilight had transformed into, but he could see the outline and the dark aura that engulfed her, causing sweat to drip down his already tear-stricken face.
Cinch moved away from the scene as Spike dropped his ears down in fear. Applejack curled in a ball on the ground, scared out of her mind. Not only was the human version of her best friend now a demon like Sunset Shimmer was, but the terrifying possibility that the same thing could happen to Cato now existed. It was too much, even for her as she cried like a scared child, whimpering Cato’s name, calling out for him.
Clove was equally scared, but she didn’t panic like Applejack did. Instead, she stood, frozen in place by fear. The sight of Cato crying and hollering in pain made her heart break and tears flow down her eyes. She really wanted to call out his name, to come save her and the others from this nightmare that was now unfolding in front of them, but Cato was temporarily out of action.
Twilight laughed manically before turning to Sunset. “You were right. I didn’t understand magic before. But I do now!”
The horn on her head lit up, and then she fired a burst of energy at the statue, destroying the horse on top. The portal opened, as well as a crack running along the ground. Cato’s eyes widened in horror as he figured out what was happening. Son of a bitch, she’s going to bring the two worlds together and probably destroy them in the process!
She threw a second bolt at where Applejack stood, and Cato could only breath a temporary sigh of relief when she got out of the way just in time. More tears were opening up, and Twilight was throwing magic at every one of them.
Sunny caught Cinch moving away behind her.
“Hey, where are you going?” Sunny yelled at her.
“Anywhere but here, to get away from that.. monster! And I suggest you do the same!” Cinch replied before running off.
Nearby, Urchin and Adagio both watched as things erupted in chaos.
“Well.. Urchin..” Adagio said, clinging to Urchin in terror. “What do you think our odds are of surviving this?”
Urchin could only look her in the eyes with fear in his own and mouth, “I don’t know.”
Sunset now spoke up. “Twilight! You can’t do this!”
“Why not?!” Twilight yelled back. “There’s a whole another world right there, and it’s just filled with magic!”
“But your destroying this world too!” Sunset countered.
“So what?” Twilight replied. “There’s more Magic there, and I want it understand it all!”
She threw a ball of energy at the ground, causing a portal to appear and a massive, massive tentacle creature to arise out of it. In addition, a large magic shield cracked the ground in a half kilometer circle centered on Canterlot High, that miraculously didn’t split any buildings in two, but trapped everyone inside it. As tentacles begin grabbing people, and other portals began opening, Cato saw a peculiar looking sword on the ground next to him. The handle looked weird, but it seemed to beckon him. Toughening up and ignoring the pain, Cato tried to reach out for it. He grabbed onto the sword, just as his ball of energy began transforming him, only this transformation was a lot less brighter than Twilight’s.
As Clove and Applejack and many other students, mostly females, tried and failed to free themselves from the tentacles, which now slowly led them towards the monster’s many mouths and possible devourment, its head and the mouths were decapitated off from the rest of its body in a flash. The tentacles wilted and the students became free. As Twilight began summoning pumpkin like tentacle creatures to attack the students, a fist came out of nowhere and punched her square in the face.
“Ow!” she cried, before growling. “Who did that?-“
She stopped her question when she saw Cato, floating in the air. The boy had transformed into something so bizarre, so weird that one had to see to believe it.
(What Cato has basically turned into is the Shredder Tengu from TMNT 2003, just scaled down to Cato’s height.)
The boy growled. “You want a fight, Twilight? Then, here it is!”
He held out the sword he had grabbed, whose blade now pulsed with visible energy waves.
“Fine then!” shouted Twilight, who generated her own sword and then attacked Cato.