Lunar Trench
Celestial Sea
December 23rd, 2022
2250hrs
Midnight sent a shockwave of magic right at Daydream, who sent her own shockwave in a perpendicular orientation to slice through Midnight’s. She followed up with magical energy throwing stars right at Midnight. “You’ll need to try harder than that.” She quipped.
“Oh I got more. SO much more!” Midnight growled as she dodged the stars and blasted at Daydream.
Meanwhile, in the weapon room, Clear-Cut burned another drone with his fire breath, Sunset dual wielded hers and Twilight blasters against the drones, and Rudolph used his flight ability to kick, check, and bat drones into walls. “Twilight! How’s it going?” He asked.
“Almost got it…” Twilight responded, after a few more key taps, she saw the screen change and the charge timer stop. She smiled as the progress bar emptied. “Weapon is Discharging! It’s safe to free the Generator!” She called out.
Sunset beamed as she aimed the blasters and fired at the cage doors which granted access to the generator. The door was blasted off its hinge and fell to the ground. Rudolph landed next to Sunset. “Once I touch my antlers to it, it will shrink and I’ll be able to carry it in my mouth…But only for a limited time.” He said.
“How long is that timeframe?” Sunset Asked.
“Best guess? Ten minutes.” Rudolph responded.
“Well they know we’re here so no use sneaking around, Let’s snatch and dash.” She said.
Clear-Cut roared as he flapped his wings and rocketed out of the room, Rudolph watched him go. “Where’s he going?”
“Probably back to Sparkler.” Twilight said. She tapped the earpiece Sparkler equipped all of them with. “Generator is secured, Commencing Evac.” She announced.
In the Hall, Daydream smiled at Twilight’s announcement and smirked at Midnight. “Aww. Looks like your plan failed.” She said as she charged at Midnight and roundhouse kicked her into a wall, which knocked Midnight out cold. Right then, Clear-Cut shot passed her and down the hall.
Daydream wondered where he was going, before it dawned on her. “Sparkler.” She deduced as she flapped her wings and flew after him.
In the control room, Sparkler dodged a magical shot from Sundown and threw her disks so they bounced off walls and slammed into Sundown from different angles, before boomeranging right back to Sparkler.
Sundown growled as she was hit, and became enraged when she heard the announcement. “You are NOT leaving here with that generator!” She growled as she levitated everything not bolted down and threw it at Sparkler, it was a lot.
Sparkler just leapt out of the way of the debris again, and readied her ring again. “Oh but we are. And I think it’s time we did something about this base of yours.” She declared as she aimed and fired a sonic blast at the console. While Sundown had to cover her ears. The computer went haywire as a voice frizzled in. “Error, Error, System malfunction. Selselself destruct active. Total detonation armed, t-minus 15 minutes.” the computer said.
“No! Dea-gah!” Sundown was cut off when she was knocked in the back of the head with one of Sparkler’s Disks. She growled as she turned around, only to be met with a giant crystal wall that slammed her against the wall.
Sparkler smiled when Sundown was buried in the wall she made. “MAN I love this thing.” She said as she made her disks disappear. “It’s been fun Sundown. Please NEVER call again.” She said as she ran out of the control room. She met up with Clear-Cut and Daydream, and they all eventually caught up with Twilight, Sunset, and Rudolph.
“Did Sundown set the self destruct Sparkler?” Sunset asked.
“Nope, I did.” Sparkler responded. “Those demons aren’t going to be using it anymore so I figured I’d scuttle it with THEM still inside.”
“I thought you had standing orders to capture them?” Twilight asked.
“Capture if possible, destroy to save ourselves if needed. And they woulda slowed us down.” Sparkler said.
“If they actually go down with this thing this will be the best Christmas ever.” Sunset said.
Almost as if she had jinxed it, They all heard growling, and they turned to see Sundown and Midnight gunning it for them. “If we’re going down ALL of you are going down with us!” Midnight growled.
Sparkler, seeing what needed to be done, turned to Clear-Cut. “Clear-Cut! Time to Crystal Pony Up!” She declared.
Clear-Cut roared and flew in front of her, stopping, and glowing so that Sparkler would merge with him as she ran. As they merged, Sparkler transformed into her crystal pony up form, complete with her soundblaster guitar. “Go on ahead, I’ll deal with these demons.” She said as she turned and started playing the guitar, sending out a continuous sonic pulse that stopped the demons in their tracks. “Get to the Sparkmobile and get out of here!”
Twilight and Sunset stopped while Daydream and Rudolph kept running, they turned around to look back at Sparkler. “What?!” Twilight asked.
“What about you?” Sunset asked.
“I’ll use my ring to protect myself from the water pressure long enough to catch up! GO!” Sparkler ordered.
Twilight wanted to protest this idea, but Sunset gave her a look. They both knew there was no point in arguing with a trained secret agent. So instead Twilight just nodded. “You better catch up to us.” She said as she and Sunset ran after the others.
Clear-Cut talked to Sparkler through her mind. “You DO realize that while it can make anything you can imagine, that doesn’t make it indestructible.” He said.
“I know. But it’s a risk I’m willing to take to ensure that this demon business ends now!” Sparkler responded. “I would say you don’t need to go down with me, but I already know what you’re gonna do.”
“If this is the end it’s been an honor.” Clear-Cut responded.
Soon, Daydream and her friends blasted their way out onto the landing pad that they used to enter the facility. Rudolph placed the generator on it. “I can’t keep it shrunk anymore! Hang back!” He called as the generator began to grow. Within seconds, it returned to its true size.
Once it was done, Twilight commed Flappy. “Flappy! Tow cable the generator. Sparkmobile should be able to carry it now.” She said.
“On it.” Flappy responded as the Sparkmobile fired tow cables that wrapped around the generator, the Sparkmobile had moved inside the base shield at this point.
Daydream grabbed Sunset and flew up with her into the Sparkmobile, Rudolph meanwhile urged Twilight to hop on. “Hop on, I’ll get you up there.” He said.
Twilight nodded and mounted Rudolph, who flew the both of them into the Sparkmobile. Once everyone was on, Flappy piped up. “Where’s Sparkler?” He asked.
“Stayed back to keep Sundown and Midnight from escaping, we got a minute before the whole place goes up.” Sunset responded. “She said she’ll catch up using her ring, punch it Flappy!” She said.
“Aye aye.” Flappy responded as he threw the Sparkmobile into maximum throttle, and bolted out of the shield, with the Magic Generator in tow. He sent the Sparkmobile into a steep incline as Twilight looked back down on the base, which she saw was starting to crumble. “Come on Sparky…” She prayed Sparkler would make it.
A few seconds later, the base absolutely went up and exploded. Everyone watched the destruction, and remained silent, waiting anxiously for a sign Sparkler survived.
For a moment, nothing came up, nothing but silence. Until they all saw a crystal pod ascend from the chaos towards them. “Look! She made it!” Sunset exclaimed.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief as Sparkler made it aboard the Sparkmobile without them taking on TOO much water. “And that’s how ya end a mission.” Sparkler commented as Sunset and Twilight pulled her into a tight hug.
“Oh thank god you made it Sparkler!” Twilight said.
“Can you try not to have any more close calls?” Sunset asked.
“I make no such promises.” Sparkler responded. She looked out the back window and saw the mushroom cloud of bubbles following them. “Not sure if they made it out. But I doubt they did.” She said.
“So, that’s it? Sundown and Midnight are gone now?” Sunset asked.
“I for one won’t miss them if they are.” Daydream responded.
“A few people will be happy to hear that.” Sparkler responded. She turned back to the front. “Flappy, contact the North Pole, let them know we’re on our way back.” She said as the Sparkmobile swam towards the surface.
Soon later, back down in the rubble of the base, it was dark, before a purple light glowed from underneath, before there was an explosion, followed by a magenta orb floating above the wreck, inside the orb were none other than a VERY ticked off Sundown and Midnight. “Foiled again!” Midnight growled.
“They will PAY for this!” Sundown growled.
To be continued…