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// Chapter 22: A Sacrifice of the Sentry 
// Story: The Rise of a Sentry 
// by AndrewGamerGL 
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Meanwhile....

Back in Canterlot Castle, The Trio of Villains; Chrysalis, Tirek and Cozy Glow, were holding hostage a tied up, beaten and badly bruised Shining Armor, who was barely conscious, Shining just let out a few words at them.

"You-you won't get away with this"

"Oh really? But we've already had silly, and if any of the other pathetic ponies try to find you and save your worthless life, we'll make sure they don't see another daylight in their lives"

"And finally Equestria will be all ours!"

The Trio of Villains then did their cue for their evil Laughter, however, they got interrupted mid laughter by a group of charging and determined Ponies, and a Certain Draconiquis as Twilight Sparkle spoke to them.

"Not while we're around!"

Discord then added to the Convo.

"Ugh, when will you Villains ever learn in your entire lives?"

Cozy Glow then made a snarky remark back

"Oh, we've learned alright, and we're ready to take you Pathetic ponies down once and for all, something that we should have done a long time ago!"

"Same thing to you three, everypony, charge!"

All the Ponies and Creatures then charged at the three villains, and started battling with each other, and even though based on power, the Villainous Trio had a lot more power individually, the others had strength in numbers, and it did seem like it was pretty evenly matched for a while, Discord tried his best to help assist the Mane Six Ponies with his Chaos Magic, while also making sure Tirek couldn't come close enough to him to try to drain his Chaos Magic away from him, cause If he did, he knew all of the Defenders of Equestria would be done for. While in the meantime, Rockhoof, Somnambula, and Mage Meadowbrook were Assisting Starlight, Sunburst, Flash Sentry, The Three Other Alicorns, and the rest of the Pillars with some damaging potions to keep Chrysalis and Cozy Glow away from them, and everytime they would try to blast, Flash Sentry was there, ready with his trusty shield, to block and defend himself and the others, however, he was still somewhat suffering the effects of his right hoove which was obviously far from 100 percent okay.

The Trio of Villains then realized that their original plan was not going to work, because it seemed like everypony had them figured out and cornered, and everytime they tried something, the others always had an answer for them in return, and this was really frustrating them, then, while in combat, Starswirl The Bearded came up with an idea on how to defeat the Villainous Trio and make sure that they don't come back for good.

"Twilight, I think I have an idea of how to stop these three Villains"

"Any idea right now could be useful, go ahead, what is it?"

"If you can stall these three Villains long enough, I think me ad the rest of the Pillars can come up with enough magical power to send these imbeciles to Limbo"

"Alright, I think we can do that"

However, Chrysalis, Tirek and Cozy Glow then had a new plan of their own too.

"If we continue going on like this with our original plan, we're not going to go anywhere, and we won't succeed in defeating Twilight Sparkle and her friends"

"Well then, what do you suggest tough guy?"

Cozy Glow then came up with an idea of her own.

"Let's just focus on one pony at a time instead of going after all of them at once, it is just tiring and has been wasting our Magical Abilities"

"That's... Actually a great idea Cozy, let's do it"

Then, during the battle, Chrysalis, Tirek and Cozy stopped attacking and blasting all the ponies at once, which did confuse them a bit, but then, they all realized a little too late what they were actually planning to do.

They all then aimed and charged up their powers on Twilight, everypony then gasped and Twilight closed her eyes, accepting her fate and the worst that could happen to her, but then, in the last possible second before she got blasted, Flash Sentry jumped into her defense with his shield, and it was holding up all that Magical energy for a while, but after a few seconds, the magical power was too much for Flash's shield to handle, and after it was broken off, the power beam hit the right side of Flash's body and also his right wing, making Flash scream in a bit of Agony before being knocked out and being put in a Critical Condition, Twilight screamed in horror when she saw what happened to her former boyfriend.

"Flashie!! No!!!"

Twilight then immediately rushed over to the Fallen Flash Sentry to make sure he was okay, but after taking one look at him, she knew he was in a very critical state, and she started crying while holding Flash Sentry's body.

In the meantime, the Pillars were finally ready with their spell, and ready to blast away the Trio of Villains into Limbo, and make sure they never came back again.

"Alright! Our spell is ready!"

Starswirl and all the other Pillars then got into their positions, and lined up at the Trio of Villains.

"Uhh, what is happening?"

The Pillars then used almost all of their Magical capabilities to blast Chrysalis, Tirek and Cozy Glow, and sure enough, after a few seconds, the Villainous Trio were getting transported to Limbo.

"Nooo!!!!"

A Big Explosion then happened, and once all the dust had disappeared, the Trio of Villains were no longer present with them, they really were gone for good, however, everypony knew what to do in that exact moment, they then immediately untied Shining Armor, who just recently passed out, and then checked on both him and Flash Sentry, Twilight then looked like she was about to lose herself and her head, which was understandable to everypony else, cause they too would do the same if they were in her position.

"No, no, no, no, I refuse to believe this is real!"

And then, Amongst all that Chaos, Spike had finally arrived back from his trip to Klugetown.

"Hey guys, i'm back from my trip to Klugetown, and-"

Spike then saw all the Carnage that was present in Canterlot Castle and he tried rubbing his eyes to make sure that it wasn't a bad dream of his.

"What the hell happened here?"

Starlight Glimmer tried to clear order of the Situation.

"We'll explain later Spike, right now though, we need to get Shining Armor and Flash Sentry to a nearby Hospital and Fast!"

"Fast? You got it!"

Discord then teleported everypony to the nearest Hospital in Canterlot, and then they immediately got Shining Armor and Flash Sentry registered, hoping that they weren't too late to save their lives.