Lightning bolts and mana beams flew in the air as it was also filled with sounds of electricity, fire, explosions, screams, metal, hooves, and rain. The unicorns have been struggling to keep up with the battle, but they have quickly gotten control on protecting their kingdom as Shining Armor and a few other unicorns raised the purple barrier and completely surrounded the castle. But their protective barrier only lasted for less than a minute, for he and the others were forced to defend themselves from a rainbow-maned pegasus who was trapped within the barrier.
Spike and the others quickly broke into a gallop after the barrier was gone. Behind them were a few unicorns that were chasing after them. The purple dragon rode on Apple Bloom's back, and batting mana beams with his green lance. Pegasi ponies flew overhead, and zapped a number of their pursuers while others casted a protective barrier around themselves.
Scootaloo, who was ahead, stopped, making the others stop as well. She excitedly turned to see the poor zapped unicorns, but her grin was wiped out the instant a mana beam flew past her ear, missing only inches. The pegasi were busy battling the unicorns, and the scene was behind three unicorns who were running towards Spike and the Cutie Mark Crusaders.
Raising her only wing, she prepared to fight, only to drop the idea after her friends ran past her. Sighing, she broke into a gallop, and soon caught up with them.
"Sorry Scoots," Apple Bloom spoke as Spike batted a mana beam, "but we got no time fer fightin'..."
They were still far away from the forest. Thankfully, three pegasi ponies saw them being chased from above. Diving, they prepared their swords and clashed with the unicorns. Scootaloo turned her head over her shoulder to catch a few of the action. Just when she thought that the unicorns were going to get it, the pegasi were being rained by mana beams from above. Tilting her gaze up, she saw the source of the attack.
"Ugh, you've got to be kidding me!" she grumbled as she quicken her pace.
Flying armored unicorns were now gliding through the raining air, chasing after them as they fired mana beams after mana beams at them. Spike shouted directions of where to turn to dodge the attacks as he tried to parry some of them if both possible and reachable. He did manage to deflect one and knocked one unicorn from the air.
As they neared the edge of the forest, Scootaloo dared looking back, but as she did so, she stepped on a rather large rock, causing her to collapse on the muddy ground of the War Planes. It took the others a few seconds before realizing what happened. They stopped and quickly turned. Scootaloo turned on her back in time to see three powerful beams of mana heading her way.
She was in panic, and could no longer think of how to save herself, as her friends up ahead shouted and ran to try and save her, but it was no use, for they were much slower than the beams. She closed her eyes in fright, unwilling to see the beams hitting her. It's going to be painful, she knew, but she instead felt the fast rush of air and rain against her coat. Opening her eyes, she saw her friends getting smaller and smaller as they ran towards the edge of the forest, and with the unicorns hot on their tail. A rainbow mane blocked her sight. Blinking, she realized that she was saved.
"I'm not going to lose you again, squirt!" Rainbow spoke through the rush of wind and rain as she turned and flew straight towards Scootaloo's friends.
The young pegasus' vision was now facing the castle of the unicorns, where she saw that the kingdom was now surrounded by flying armored unicorns, firing mana beams at the fleeing pegasi army.
She wrapped her hooves around Rainbow's neck. "I don't need saving, y'know." She groaned, yet she smiled genuinely.
"Heh," Rainbow chuckled lightly, "sure yah didn't, squir---ARGH!"
"Rainbow!" Scootaloo shouted after a powerful green beam had struck Rainbow Dash.
The two pegasi were now diving towards the ground, and landed just near the edge of the forest, and in front of their friends, who all stopped and gasped.
A powerful mana beam was fired at them, and Spike sensed it. He quickly spun around and tried to bat it with his lance, but he missed, and the beam flew directly towards the white unicorn on Applejack's back.
"Ah!" Sweetie Belle screamed as she and Applejack flew towards a tree.
"Applejack!" Apple Bloom screamed and quickly ran towards her sister, unknowingly dropping Spike on the ground in the process.
Spike dropped his lance as he fell on the ground. The lance, after hitting the ground, turned into green flames before it disappeared in the rain. He rose up, and saw that they were now surrounded by unicorns with flaring horns. He gulped as Gold Blitz struck his bubble case with a mighty headbutt.
There was a purple glow in the brown earth pony's eyes, but no one had noticed, and it only lasted for a second. He calmed down. He breathed rapidly, but slowly becoming normal. Purple was slowly mixing in his red and yellow eyes as he calmly stared at the purple dragon that was standing a meter or two away from his bubble case.
Two beams of mana hit the purple dragon, pushing him towards Gold Blitz's bubble case. "Oomf!" Spike fell on the ground as soon as the beams stopped, leaving behind a shocked brown earth pony.
The purple color disappeared, and instantly, anger and fury filled his heart as his eyes suddenly became all black before returning into red and yellow. He screamed and delivered a mighty headbutt on the crack of his cage. He got through, leaving a breaking bubble case behind. He landed in front of Spike, who was rubbing his painful head, and Gold Blitz quickly ran towards the unicorns. He kept on running towards them, ignoring the beams of mana that hit him, as if they were nothing. He bit the neck of a startled unicorn, spun twice, and threw him at the others as he continued his rampage, hitting and knocking unicorns in the process.
Scootaloo and Rainbow Dash groaned as they slowly went back on all four hooves. Apple Bloom had shoved his big brother off of her sister so Applejack could easily stand back up.
They turned and saw Sweetie Belle and Spike, both were standing beside each other, and both were either awestruck or dumbstruck as they stared at the angry Gold Blitz, taking deep and quick breaths as he stood in front of the unconscious unicorns that were threatening to kill them a few seconds ago. He suddenly turned around, and angrily eyed Spike and Sweetie Belle, who stumbled back after seeing his fierce glare.
Gold Blitz growled and ran towards Spike. "N-not again," Spike gulped, but a blue blur gave the earth pony a mighty headbutt, sending him flying back as Rainbow Dash flapped her wings and landed in front of Spike.
"Hey, calm down!" Rainbow Dash shouted, but Gold Blitz ignored her as he quickly stood back up and started running towards her.
Gold Blitz jumped at the startled pegasus, only to fly back to the ground after Applejack gave him a powerful back kick on his side. Applejack grinned, but it didn't even last for two whole seconds after Gold Blitz was quickly back on all four. "W-what in tarnation!?" Applejack spat as she jumped away from a dashing Gold blitz. "Who the heck is this guy!?"
"Sweetie Belle!" Scootaloo shouted, snapping the unicorn out of her daze.
"S-sorry! I'm on it!" the unicorn filly replied as she concentrated her magic on her horn.
"T-that's not Gold..." Spike whispered, and jumped out of the way before Applejack could land on him. The rain had turned into a light drizzle, but no one seemed to have noticed.
Growling, Applejack dropped her saddlebags and ran towards Gold Blitz, who was trying to stomp the crawling Rainbow Dash. Applejack gained enough speed to deliver a powerful headbutt on Gold Blitz before he could put his hooves on the pegasus' head. The brown earth stallion quickly rose back up, only to continue flying up in the air as a bubble case was encasing him. He growled and started pounding his new case.
"Gold, stop!" Spike cried, only to receive an angry growl as Gold continued to try to escape his imprisonment.
"Ugh..." Sweetie Belle concentrated to encase the crazy pony with a more powerful cage this time. "I-I think he's blinded by rage..."
"So whatever we tell him is useless?" Scootaloo asked as she walked and stopped beside her unicorn friend.
"N-no... There has to be a way to get to him..." Spike said, as he desperately tried to think of ways to calm him down, and as he noticed a sudden purple coloration in Gold's eyes, he tried his best not to remember what Twilight had told him. "Twilight..." Spike whispered as an idea was slowly forming in his head. "That's it!" He shouted and quickly spitting green fumes from his mouth. The fume then turned into a scroll and landed on the muddy ground. He then breathed a small fire on his finger nail, picked the scroll, hoped it'll work, and started writing. "Gold, please stop! We're trying to help you!"