Akatsuki in Equestria

by chaos2012


We have a weapon

The Everfree forest rang with explosions through the moonlit night. The bright blasts continued to light up every few moments as Deidara continued his assault on the wonderbolts. From atop his large dragon, he smiled as his large creation formed smaller, more agile dragons from its mouth and shot them after the evading pegasi.

Fire Streak looked behind him at the clay that was chasing him. Even though it was over eight feet across, the massive shape had as much agility as he did, and in fact slightly higher speed. Inching closer and closer, the pursuing bomb was nearly on top of its target until Fire Streak decided to try something new. Heading right at a tree, he flipped around and kicked off the trunk, launching himself back at the incoming bomb. Folding in his wings, he dropped down to the ground instantly and narrowly dodged it. Unable to turn quick enough, the clay shape crashed right into the tree, blowing up on impact.

Spitfire found herself flying low through the trees, dodging and weaving around the massive blasts that exploded around her. Her body felt the pain from earlier, but her adrenaline was pumping so hard she overpowered the uncomfortable feeling and continued to fly. As she continued however, she found herself at a large rock outcropping that just stuck up out of nowhere, blocking her path. Looking up, her heart skipped a beat as she watched the massive white dragon come to a stop over her, the Pegasus on top of it beaming down at her with a smile.

“It looks like you have met your end.” Deidara snickered, “Now, I will enjoy watching you go up in a blast!” The large maw of the c2 dragon opened up, revealing another dragon double the size of the target below. Launching outward, the bomb barreled down through the sky down to the petrified captain.

Spitfire felt helpless as she was stuck in her spot. She could hear the voices of some of her comrades screaming for her, but her mind seemed to tune them out as her eyes were locked onto the projectile rushing to her. Unconsciously, she folded her wings into her sides and dropped onto her belly, curling up into a ball. Every nerve she had was flooding with fear, causing her body to shake

“No, I don’t wanna die, I don’t wanna die…” she whimpered.

The dragon was now only twenty feet from her, but before it came any closer, a lightning bolt from the trees rushed out and struck the clay shape. Spitfire stared wide eyed as the clay suddenly dropped down to the ground, skidding to a stop right in front of her. “Huh?” she stuttered.

“Spitfire!”

The wonderbolt captain flipped around to the sound of her name to see a familiar orange Pegasus in a wonderbolt uniform flying towards her, his bright scarlet mane identical to hers. “Rapidfire…”

Flying up from the ground, she dove headfirst into her brother, wrapping her hooves around his back and pulling him close. “Rapidfire! I thought you weren’t going to come!”

Pulling away from his sister, Rapifire gave her a wide grin. “I would never leave my big sister alone. We were on our way back to Canterlot when we noticed the explosions happening in the forest and came to investigate. “He turned his eyes to the small cloud that he set aside. “We got them.”

Deidara sneered at the sight below him in the forest. “What the hell? More of these stupid ponies coming here? ”

A bright flash to his right caught his attention. Moving his large dragon, he barely dodged in time as a long lightning bolt blasted past him and lit up the sky. Looking up, he noticed several new pegasi all carrying small clouds. He looked around in the sky for more large clouds but couldn’t find any. “Where did that lightning come from?”

All members of the wonderbolts flew up into the air where the newcomers were waiting with the clouds. Rapidfire turned and spoke up to all of them. “Well, we got the clouds that we were ordered to retrieve.”

Fire Streak lifted an eyebrow at the small patches that floated behind the newly arrived wonderbolts; The small dark clouds were only three feet across, hardly big enough for just one pony to stand on. While they were nearly pitch black, he couldn’t help but frown at what was brought. “You have got to be kidding me. This pony is shooting out exploding crap and you bring us puffs of fluff?”

Spitfire glared at the complaining pony. “Fire Streak, didn’t you see the bolts that-

“This pony is crazy powerful and you bring us these!?” Fire Streak was in such a rant he didn’t even listen to the others. His brother tried to calm him down, but he shook his sibling off as he reached and grabbed one of the clouds. “Something this small is going to do nothing! I can’t believe I listened to you!” He swung his leg out and kicked the cloud. “This is-

CRACK!

His speech was cut off as a speeding bolt of lightning shot out from the cloud, reaching out at least forty feet before sputtering out. Fleetfoot lifted her goggles off her face as she looked at the small cloud. “Woah…”

Rapidfire rolled his eyes before reaching down and pulling the cloud away. “These are specially created clouds that were designed by the head creators in Cloudsdale. Each small cloud is enchanted with high compression magic, allowing massive storage of electricity inside of them. They can shoot ten lightning bolts each, so don’t waste them.” He emphasized the last part as he pointed a hoof at Fire Streak.

Fire Streak rolled his eyes before grabbing the cloud he had kicked.he looked around and saw there was three other clouds. "Is that all you brought?"

"That is all that could be made at this time." Rapidfire answered. "The amount of power that they stored inside of these clouds used up nearly everything the factory had. We will have to keep an eye on the amount we have and share it." He turned to the few wonderbolts that were with him in picking up the clouds. "You should head back to Canterlot. It would be best to keep less of us here."

The sound of something blasting caught all of the wonderbolts attention. Looking up simultaneously, they watched as another clay dragon came rushing down at them. Reacting on instinct, they quickly scattered outward, with Rainbow, Spitfire and Rapidfire each grabbing a cloud. Cleared out of the way, the dragon flew towards its nearest target, that being High Winds.

Panicking, High Winds banked down through the trees to try and escape the following dragon. As she did, however, she didn't notice the dragon dropping down in front of her, catching Her off guard as it blew up. Forcing her to stop, she flipped around and screamed as the first clay dragon crashed into her, exploding in a bright flash.

Misty Fly flipped around in horror at the bright flash that enveloped her companion. "No! High Winds!"

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The Streak brothers hovered in the air as they stared at the dissipating cloud of smoke where High Winds once was. All that was left in the mix of splintered wood and charred ground was the still body of their friend. Blood boiling, they both charged the massive dragon in the air. Fire kicked his cloud, sending off a long bolt of lightning right at the Pegasus on the dragon.

Grunting, Deidara forced his dragon up and over the bolt, spitting out another fast moving dragon through the air. His target quickly blasted out another bolt of lightning and struck his creation. "Damn it, that lightning is able to counter by own techniques. This is troubling." His eyes then caught movement shooting through the clouds above him. Focusing, he noticed the other yellow maned Pegasus trying sneak around. "Hmm, nice try, but I have you in my sight!"

Shooting out several dragons at the lightning using Pegasus, Deidara used his hooves and released a massive owl up into the cloudy mix above. At the moment he timed, he clasped his hooves together and detonated his bird.

Fire Streak blasted off several bolts to counter the incoming dragons, stopping each one before they came close. He prepared to try and strike Deidara again, but stopped when he saw his brother falling out of the sky. "Lightning Streak!" He screamed as he left his cloud in place and flew up and caught his brother.

"Agh!" Lightning yelped as his mangled wing pressed up against his siblings chest.

"You alright?" Fire Streak asked.

"Not really." Lightning grunted.

Deidara chuckled as the two brothers sat in the air unprotected. "Heh heh, at least I'll get those two while..." He turned around at the bright flash behind him. "Huh!?"

Ducking down, the bright stream of lightning barely missed his head as it rocketed through the air. Looking out, he glared as Spitfire and Rainbow flew right at him, each carrying their own cloud. "Damn it, this is unbelievable." Deidara sneered.

Both Rainbow and Spitfire threw their clouds out and kicked them hard, simultaneously shooting out longs blasts of electricity outward. There large target however dodged once again as it flew up higher into the sky. Chasing it, they each shot out three more shots each, the rapidly approaching attacks rushing forward. Deidara used the dragons mouth and his own hooves to launched a mix of his own projectiles to counteract the incoming threats.

The mix of explosions and lightning turned the sky so bright it seemed as if the sun was up again until the smoke spread out and blocked out even the moonlight. Using the large wings of his C2, Deidara cleared out the air to be able to see his targets. He locked eyes with Rapidfire who charged him head on with a cloud ready to strike. Preparing his own clay, he shot out two owls to hit the mark. 'He can only fire one shot fast enough to block the first owl, he won't have time to block the second.' He chuckled to himself.

Rapidfire kicked his cloud, blasting out his lightning and connecting with the first owl as the second one rushed forward. Deidara laughed as it came closer. "Bye bye little-

A arc of lightning came out of nowhere from the sky and struck its mark, taking out the large bird in time. "What!?" Deidara yelled. He then saw Soarin flying by, carrying the cloud dropped by Fire Streak earlier before dropping it in place. Deidara's attention was taken off of that when Rapidfire kicked his cloud again and shot another lightning strike at the akatsuki member.

Deidara launched another dragon out of the mouth of his C2 and stuck the incoming lightning. His mind suddenly clicked and he looked back up in shock as Fleetfoot dropped down and slammed into the cloud left by Soarin, shooting out blast directly at him. Panicking, he moved to the side, but was too slow as the lightning tore through the right wing of his dragon. "Damn it! They set me up for that!" He yelled out.

Rainbow banked back as she watched the falling dragon. "This is it. We can get him right now!"

"Alright, this is our chance! Do it now!" Spitfire yelled to all the wonderbolts.

Charging forward, Rainbow, Spitfire, Rapidfire and Fleetfoot all blasted out several lightning strikes all at once, the blinding flashes comin down onto their target. Deidara shot his eyes back and forth at the incoming flashes, knowing he was in trouble.

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"Go! search the homes for anypony that hasn't left yet!" Barren yelled out, "if they haven't evacuated yet, get them out and tell them to head to the castle!"

"Yes Sir!" Several guards nodded before taking off.  

Looking around, Barren watched as his small platoon of seven ran around trying to get every civilian out of the residential district and up to the main castle. If they were to engage with these ponies that were attacking the city, they had to make sure innocent bystanders weren't going to become caught up in the mix.Luckily for him, most homes already cleared out, the occupants running straight for the main palace. 

"Alright, it looks like we are good now." He said to himself.

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"You're good for what exactly?" A cold voice said from behind.

Flipping around, Barren watched in shock as a swirling mass appeared in the air, followed by a pony seemingly coming from inside of the vortex. Due to the orange mask it wore, the earth pony guard could not see the stallions face. He did however take note of the black and red outfit that it wore over its body. 'He's one of them too? How many are there?' He thought to himself.

Stepping forward, Tobi glanced between the few guards that stared at him. Chuckling at their silence, he stopped about ten feet from them. "So, by the look you have, you have seen some others like me,  correct?" 

Swallowing the lump in his throat, Barren nodded. "You ponies attacked Ponyville."

"Oh, I see. You were one of the ponies that came across Itachi and Kisame..." The masked pony commented,  "Normally I would say you were lucky not to have been killed by them. However..." He lifted his head up, allowing his bright sharingan to be visible, "your suffering against me will be much worse."

Barren gasped at seeing the shining red eye. "Y-you have the same eyes as that one pony? Th-then you are strong like him?" A sudden rush by his side caused him to turn and see one of his comrades charging, spear tip out. "No wait!" Barren yelled out.

As the guard ran forward, he lifted his spear and rammed it into Tobi's chest... Except it did not impale him. The soldiers eyes went wide as he felt himself pass completely through, spear and himself, and end up on the other side of the masked akatsuki member. Before he could flip around, he felt himself bucked in the side and sent through a nearby house.

Barren and the other guards felt a chill crawl up their spines after witnessing this pony seemingly turn into nothing, yet could still hit others. "What are you?"

"Don't even compare Itachi to myself..." Tobi snapped, "You will not be able to land a single blow on me with my jutsu."

(Music end)

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"Come on y'all, get on to the castle!" Applejack yelled to the family of ponies as they sprinted down the street.


Twilight came out of a home as she led several adolescent fouls. "Come on. It's a lot safer for you to be in the castle."


The oldest pony following the lavender mare was only fourteen, helping her two younger brothers along the road. "Thank you. It was scary alone here."


Turning her head to the sound of an explosion in another part of the city, Twilight looked back to the youngsters and hurried them along. "Why were you alone? Where are your parents?"

The following mare flattened her ears against her head at the question. "Our dad is a guard, so he is out right now. And our mom... She's gone."


Twilight by her bottom lip at hearing the response. The sound of another large blast in the air made her worry what would happen if these young ponies lost their father in this assault. ‘Where would they go? Who would look after them?’ she contemplated inside her head.


Her thoughts were cut short when she arrived at the entrance to Canterlot castle. The large gates were wide open, allowing the large droves of ponies to file through and make their way into the castle interior. Stopping her trot, she smiled to the ponies behind her. "Alright, just go inside and there will be guards to help you find somewhere comfortable."


As the three youngsters quickly joined the large line of ponies, Twilight flipped around to see her friends running up to her. "Did you get everypony out?"she asked all of them.


"Eeyup, all cleared out." Applejack answered.


"Yepperooney! All out of there!" Pinkie Pie happily cheered.


Smiling, twilight knew now that nearly all of Canterlot had been evacuated to the castle by now. Happy, she turned around and trotted back towards the wall around the castle where Celestia was to tell her the good news. when she got near however, she heard the princess raise her voice at several other guards. "What do you mean the wonderbolts are gone!?"


The guard took a deep breath as he trembled under the gaze of the angered alicorn. "Y-your highness, they confronted the one pony that created those exploding birds and led him away from the city."


Twilight covered her mouth with her hoof when she heard that. 'Rainbow...' She said to herself. Her mind began racing of what could happen to her friend against Somepony so dangerous. Slowly trotting up to her mentor, she came to a stop as Celestia turned and faced her. "Princess?"


Before Celestia could speak, a lunar Pegasus dropped down onto the ground in front of them. His armor was dented and scratched all across as he limped towards the sun princess. "Your majesty, we- agh!" He stumbled as his front right leg gave out.


Celestia quickly trotted Up to the fallen guard. "Easy, don't push yourself."


"No, *huff* your highness..." The night guard mumbled. "We have a problem. The pony that we tried to stop. He *huff* wasn't alone. Another pony was with him."


Celestia's eyes went wide with the new information. It seemed as if one bad thing was happening after another; first the wonderbolts and Rainbow left, which meant the elements of Harmony could not be used. Now she learned another pony from that group had also come in.


Turning around, she faced her own two guards. "Find the trifecta. Send them after the other pony that came in here."


"Th-them?" The two ponies said in unison at the name of The trifecta, the most skilled squad in both the solar and lunar guards. In fact, it was the only unit that had ponies from both sun and night together. "I thought you wanted them in the castle itself for protection?" One of the guards mentioned.


"I have over two hundred guards inside the castle at the moment. I want them to go and aid in combating this threat."


Looking at each other, the two guards nodded and took off into the castle. Celestia turned her attention back to the tired lunar pony on the ground. "The pony you faced, where is he?"

The guard prepared to answer, but his serpent like eyes shot open out of fear as he looked to the right. "H-he's here."

Celestia looked up, her eyes locking with a pale pony trotting her direction, his face littered with piercings.