//------------------------------// // Light vs Dark Pt. 9 // Story: My Little Pony: Legends of Old and New // by AlphaToothless95 //------------------------------// “Sunny!!!” Everypony yelled simultaneously in shock and fear. No way Sunny was dead, she couldn’t be, not after all this. Izzy quickly gets up and runs to Sunny to check if she was still alive. She sighs in relief when she finds that she is but she’s barely breathing and she’s losing quite a lot of blood. “Sunny.. why.. why did you do that?” She asks with a concerned, shaky voice. If only she had seen the spear coming at her, Sunny wouldn’t have had to save her.. it should be her with a spear going through her heart, not Sunny. Sunny opens her eyes and smiles at her. “I.. don’t.. regret it.” she struggles to say, her voice weak and full of attempts not to cough. It hurts Izzy’s heart to see and hear her like this. Hitch stops right beside them and kneels down to Sunny’s other side. “Sunny! Sunny, are you alright?!” He says frantically and Sunny looks at him, chuckling but coughing when she does. “I’ve..been better Hitch..” she says and Hitch smiles a bit then frowns, knowing his friend doesn’t have much time left. “Oh Sunny.. You didn’t deserve this.. You deserved a much better, much longer life..if only..if only I could’ve..” Hitch says, his voice trailing off into restrained sobs. He’s always had Sunny’s back, ever since they were kids..he’s always protected her..but not this time. He’s failed..and now she was dying. He feels a hand on his shoulder and he looks to see it belongs to Zipp who’s standing beside him, frowning. Sunny places her hand on his, causing him to look at her and she has a smile on her face. “Hitch.. There was nothing you could’ve done.. any of you.. this.. was always going to happen at some point. But don’t..don’t give up just because of this..don’t let Midnight win.. She..can’t..win.” Sunny says before turning to Izzy when she feels a tear land on her cheek. Izzy’s face was a mess of tears that she was trying to hold back. “It wasn’t supposed to end like this.. not for you.. we were all supposed to.. make it out of this. Sunny please.. please don’t do this.. you can’t.. leave like this..!” Izzy says and Sunny frowns, putting one hand on Izzy’s cheek and slowly bringing her head down to lean her forehead against hers. “I wish.. I didn’t have to.. but you’re safe.. And that’s all I care about. You’ll stop Midnight..you’ll all live good..long lives.. And I’m at peace with that..” Sunny says, her voice revealing that she was also holding back her own sobs too. Izzy shakes her head. Sunny never ceased to amaze her with how selfless she truly was. She stays silent for a few seconds before saying the words that she’s always wanted to say to Sunny. “I love you..” she says and Sunny goes wide-eyed before smiling and nuzzling her. “I love you too..” Sunny says, a single tear rolling down her cheek before her eyes close and she can’t see, hear, or feel anything. Everyone watches as Sunny’s head slowly lays back on the ground and she stops moving.. and breathing. Izzy’s eyes widen in horror. “No.. no no no no no.. Sunny please.. wake up..” Izzy says in a panicked voice but she gets no response. The spear slowly disappears and that seals the deal.. Sunny.. was dead. And all of Equestria would soon follow. Midnight laughs evilly and Twilight, who’s still pinned, watches on in horror as Equestria’s newest and possibly most powerful alicorn dies. “No..” she says quietly before turning to Midnight with an angry look. “What have you done?!” She yells at Midnight who gets close to her face, smirking. “I’ll tell you what I’ve done Princess..” She says before picking Twilight up in dark magic. “I’ve. WON.” Midnight continues before throwing Twilight towards the battlefield and beginning the final stage of her plan. She takes off the alicorn amulet and looks at it and Grogar’s bell. She then flys to Sunny’s old lighthouse and goes below it. Argyle watches on as his leader goes to his old home to finish what she started, he hears crying and looks to where it’s coming from, only to see a unicorn crying over the body of.. his daughter. As he looks at the lifeless body of his own flesh and blood, he starts getting flashes..memories of his life before he..died and Midnight reanimated him. He holds his head as the memories continue to come until he focuses on one..the day Sunny was born. He remembers the room in the hospital, his wife in the hospital bed..holding their little newborn filly. “What do you think we should name her?” Argyles asks in the memory and his wife giggles before looking down at her. “Hmmm.. how about..” She starts to say but then the memory ends and he looks at the body, his eyes becoming their normal color. “Sunny..” he says, remembering everything now. He starts to cry, realizing that everything he’s done has led up to this.. has led to the death of the only family he had left. He then remembers who’s fault it is that he ended up coming back and turning evil in the first place.. who really caused his daughter’s death.. Midnight. He swears to make her pay as he also remembers how his suit works. He walks to the lighthouse and goes in, weapons locked and loaded. Solaris slowly sits up, looking around unaware to what all had happened. She sees Twilight slowly getting up but everyone looks like.. like they’ve given up and she can hear Midnight's army cheering, most likely unaware that she’s about to destroy the world.. but the cheering tells Solaris all she needed to know.. they lost. She hears crying and looks shocked when she sees Sunny’s friends all distressed but that wasn’t the shocking part.. it was what they were distressed about.. Sunny was on the ground.. lifeless. “No..” Solaris says, frowning and almost giving up too.. until she remembers how Sunny made her feel when she was saving her.. Sunny wouldn’t give up on her.. Sunny saved her.. now it was her turn to save Sunny. She tries walking to her but she falls, still exhausted from everything she’d been through. So she just decides to crawl instead. She slowly makes her way there but she’s running out of strength alarmingly fast and just when she’s about to stop, someone picks her up, and she looks to see Twilight who nods at her and she nods back before Twilight takes her to Sunny, setting her down next to her. Solaris grabs Sunny’s hand and looks at her face. “You saved me Sunny.. you’ve saved so many ponies from me and I thank you for that.. but you’re not done.. not yet. It’s my turn.. to save you.” She says before unleashing her magic into Sunny, both of their bodies glowing brighter and brighter until everyone is forced to cover their eyes. Sunny opens her eyes and she’s in her lighthouse on the couch. She looks around confused and looks at herself. Her armor is gone and she’s in her usual clothes. She could’ve sworn that she had just.. “Hey Sunny Bunny.” a gentle and familiar voice says from beside her. She recognizes that voice but.. she hasn’t heard it in such a long time. She slowly looks to her side.. and sees her mother sitting next to her with a soft smile on her face. She looks shocked and her eyes start filling with tears. “Mom..?” She asks, getting a nod in response. She instantly hugs her mother who hugs her back. “It’s me sweetie.. I’ve missed you so much.” Sunny’s mother says and Sunny continues hugging her before replying. “I’ve missed you too.. wait.. if I’m here.. and you’re here.. that means I’m really..” Sunny says as she pieces it together, earning a nod from her mother. “I’m afraid so dear.. but you can’t stay. You’re not ready.. and you still have a job to do.” Her mother says before showing her everything she’s been through, telling her that her journey is just beginning then showing her what’s happening. Currently her father, Askari, Nebula, Brightburn, and Sky were about to be killed by Midnight but then Magma shows up and saves them. Her lighthouse.. was floating through the sky on a huge chunk of land that it had been on, surrounded by dark magic and boulders. Everyone else has just given up and her friends.. they were still surrounding her body, crying. Sunny knows now that without her, they’ll all die and Midnight will win. She hears a voice and looks around, recognizing it. “Solaris? Where are you?!” Sunny asks before a flash of purple magic comes out of nowhere, scaring her and making her jump back. She looks at what caused it and sees Solaris on the ground in front of and she instantly picks her up. “Solaris what are you doing here?” Sunny asks and Solaris slowly opens her eyes to look at her. “We need you to come back.. you have to stop her. Also you saved me first so.. I thought maybe I could return the favor.” She says and Sunny chuckles at that last part before looking at her mother who gives her a reassuring smile and a nod that tells her “It's ok, I’ll see you again.” Sunny smiles and looks at Solaris and nodding. Solaris nods back and begins taking them both back to the world of the living. Sunny looks at her mother with a sad smile. “I love you mom.. and thank you.” She says and her mother smiles back. “I love you too.. now go save the world.. my little princess.” She says before both Sunny and Solaris disappear. “Sunny please.. please come back.. Equestria needs you, we need you.. I need you.” Izzy says before closing her eyes and letting her tears continue to fall. Suddenly Sunny wakes up, gasping and coughing and everyone looks shocked and relieved. Before hugging her and she hugs them back. She looks at Izzy and smiles. “I’m here..” she says and Izzy smiles back with teary eyes before they all help Sunny up, seeing that her now healed wound left a scar that they can see the smallest hint of through the hole in her armor. Solaris walks up to her, giving her something. “I found this on the ground while I was trying to reach you.” She says while holding up the emblem of Sunny’s cutie mark that goes on the breastplate of her armor. She smiles at her before taking it and reattaching it. “Thanks.” She says and Solaris nods with a smile. “So now that you’re back.. what are you gonna do?” Pipp asks and Sunny thinks about it before growing a determined look and shaking her head. “It’s not what I’m gonna do,” she says before backing up a little bit and smiling at them, holding one fist forward. “It’s what we’re gonna do. Together.” Sunny says and soon the others do the same with their own fists, putting them with Sunny’s. “We’ll do our part,” Sunny says before the others say the rest with her, for better or for worse, one last time. “Hoof to Heart!!!”