The collapse of the universe
Chapter 13: Silence!
As the vessels flew above their heads, the small group was now recovering, after knocking the spirit of chaos out. As the green apparition got up, Celestia sighted in relief.
"At least Discord is stopped."
"I wouldn't get my hopes up just yet Princess." The Harbinger of doom spoke up, then continued. "This guy is mighty strong. You'll need a far more effective way of containing him, than the one you currently used."
The solar goddess fell in thought as the three mares helped each other up. The ghostly scarecrow turned his attention to the little filly next to him, and asked her.
"Annie, are you okay?"
"Slightly bruised, but I'm fine uncle Fiddle." She said with a warm smile on her face and with watered eyes.
Fiddlesticks chuckled, ruffled her hair, and said with a sight.
"I'm glad. I'd really dislike it if I broke my promise."
"Because breaking a promise is the fastest way to lose a friend!" Pinkie exclaimed, as she stepped out from a window of a demolished building, holding a dumbstruck Spike in her left hooves.
Te sudden appearance of the mare made the scarecrow cover the filly's ears, not moving his stare from the pink pony. When he was sure Annie couldn't hear anything, he exclaimed.
"How in the almighty..."
A window pane fell on the ground, and shattered loudly.
"...did you two get here?!"
"Don't ask me. One moment I'm helping clean a section in the Canterlot Archives, the next I find myself in Pinkie's grasp, hanging from the window of a demolished building." The purple dragon said, with slight shock in his voice.
The spirit turned his head to face the Princess, but because she was still in deep thought, Applejack answered the unsaid question.
"It's Pinkie Pie, don' question, and just go with it."
"Aha..." He merely uttered, allowing the little filly to hear again.
"So...what happened here?" Spike asked, after the pink mare had let him go, and both walked to Rainbow, Rarity and AJ.
"It was so AWESOME!" The cyan pegasus exclaimed, before continuing. "First Discord was like 'I got the powa!'" Her excited grin turned to a light scowl. "Then he wrecked the town, and had us running for our bits." Suddenly the grin returned."But then Fiddle here drained some of his power, became all metal with a diamond scythe, and..." Her face turned to an expression, which showed disgust. "What happened next was kind of disturbing..." Grin again. "But in the end he beat him!"
"Whoa, that really was awesome!" Pinkie exclaimed.
"Fiddlesticks." Celestia addressed the scarecrow. After he turned to face her, she continued. "You are correct, the way we used to trap Discord is obviously not strong enough to hold him for as long as we'd prefer. If I may ask, do you happen to know any kind of imprisonment spell, which could contain him?"
He thought for a moment, before answering.
"Actually I do. The summoners from my world taught me the spell with which to imprison a living nightmare, which I was trying to cure of his bloodlust. Whatever it is used on, can’t use any sort of magic, while contained, but while it is impenetrable from the inside, it can easily be broken from the outside."
"It sounds like just the thing we need." The alicorn replied. "What do you require so you can make this spell?" She asked.
"You don't happen to have an enchanted crystal which cannot be breached by magic?" The Harbinger of doom said.
"As a matter of fact I do." The sun goddess stated.
Then her horn began to glow in a yellow aura. In a moment, a twelve inch, light pink crystal emerged from the ground. The apparition picked it up, and put it next to the still unconscious spirit of chaos. After motioning for every pony and dragon to back away, he stretched his arms at the crystal and the draconequs. A green line of energy began to flow from Discord, up in the palm of the scarecrow's left arm, while another line of energy, this one purple, leaked out of his right palm, and into the crystal. If Fiddlesticks's expression was any indicator, he was being highly exhausted by this.
The ponies just stood there, and watched in awe. Slowly, Discord's body began to vanish, and in a minute he was gone. The scarecrow dropped on its knees, panting loudly. Annie trotted next to him, and nudged him with her muzzle.
"Is it done?" The solar princess asked.
"Nearly..."*pant*"...the only thing left, is to hit the crystal with an enormous amount of magic, so it can reverse the outside unbreachability, and harden the spell." Was the reply.
"If Twilight and Fluttershy were here, we could use the Elements of Harmony on it." Rarity stated.
"Yes, that would work." The scarecrow said.
"Okay, so I brought you the Twilight girl, and you froze her..." Shaco stepped in, before continuing. "...but I have no idea where this "Fluttershy" is."
Just as Celestia was about to say something, one of the vessels in the sky, lowered itself above them, and in several flashes of light appeared three beings, and a strange contraption. The beings were by the looks of it protoss, like Klastanar. Two of them wore golden armor, just like his, and the third seemed slightly smaller than the two, and wore armor, which also represented something like a robe.
Along with them was a strange field of energy, with several...puzzle pieces, the ponies thought, hovering in it.
"Are you sure that this is it?" The robe wearing protoss, female, judging by her voice, asked.
"Yes Executor, this is the central point of the whole land mass the zerg had been going through." One of the two responded, as both were pressing strange runes at the base, which was emitting the field, holding the pieces.
"We are ready to fire, and annihilate all zerg DNA signatures." The other one spoke up.
'Annihilate?!' Celestia thought, putting on a shocked expression.
"WHAT DO THEY MEAN ANNIHILATE?!" Rainbow shouted.
All four mares, along with the Princess went to the strangers, leaving the three champions alone.
"Good, fire at my command." Selendis said, when a blue creature, with a rainbow colored hair flew in front of her face, and started to talk with attitude at her.
"Listen you! You are not annihilating anything! Our friend is infected with that zerg hooey!"
Selendis barely even flinched at that. All of a sudden a strange force, wrapped around the cyan pegasus, and threw it behind the Executor's back. She was still looking at her men work, not even bothering to acknowledge the ponies. Celestia had put on an angry expression, and addressed the strange woman with the royal Canterlot voice. "I am the ruler of this kingdom, and I DEMAND that you state your buis--"
She was cut off, by Selendis, who turned around to face her, stomped her leg in the ground, and spoke with a voice, which sounded at least twice as loud as the one the solar princess was using.
"SILENCE!"
That one word, unleashed a shockwave, which pushed the smaller ponies with a few inches, and left Celestia mute and dumbstruck. For the first time in a long while, the sun goddess felt her legs soften, because of the mix of respect...and fear. With that done, the Executor turned to her soldiers, and said.
"Fire."
'No...' The ponies thought.
A giant flash of light exploded in a dome. From the dark of space could be seen, how the energy wave went through the entire planer. In her room, the frozen shell around Twilight Sparkle cracked.
After a moment passed, every pony noticed that they, the champions and the protoss, were untouched. The pieces in the field formed a strange pillar, and disassembled in a moment.
"What just happened?" Rarity asked.
Once the effect of the blinding flash left the princess's eyes, she was about to lay out her rage on top of the aliens, but was stopped by the creek of a door. All ponies turned around, and saw how a familiar lavender unicorn, with a groggy expression, was rubbing her head, as she came out of the library. No trace of the bony covering, that had appeared on her body, was found.
"Ugh...what did I miss?" Twilight asked.
The answer came in the form of all her friends and mentor, surrounding her in a group hug. She could feel tears making contact with her fur.
"Ookay..." The mare uttered.
"TWILIGHT YOU'RE ALRIGHT!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed.
"What is that supposed to mean?" The unicorn in question was confused.
"You were infected with the zerg virus my pupil. I had to cast a freezing spell on you, o it wouldn't spread." Celestia explained.
"But I thought Klastanar said that there was no cure to the virus?" Twilight exclaimed.
"We are as clueless as you are darling." Rarity said.
"Hey wait." Pinkie stepped up. "Didn't those guys..." She pointed at the protoss. "...say that that puzzle thingie annihilates zerg DNA?"
"Yeah, so?" The cyan pegasus deadpanned.
"Well, maybe that flashy thing that happened cured Twilight?" The pink mare theorized.
"Ah, Miss Sparkle, it's nice to see you are okay." Fiddlesticks greeted the mare.
“It most certainly is Fiddle.” The lavender unicorn replied.
She then turned her attention towards the three protoss. She narrowed her eyes at the female alien, but just as she was about to speak to her, another prismatic vessel stationed itself on top of the town center, or at least what was left of it. The ship changed its form, illuminating the ground, making a circle of light. In several flashes appeared familiar figures.
First a pony in spiked metal armor, who wielded a giant mace within the grasp of a green aura. Next was a bipedal creature, whose head looked like that of a manticore. His eyes looked very strange. In his right hand was a blade, and with his left he was dragging the creature, which released Discord. It appeared to be unconscious. Then followed a strange being, with the lower body of a pony, and the upper one was humanoid. It held a lance in its right hand. Once these unknown to Celestia beings gathered with the ponies and the three champions, the ghostly centaur stationed his weapon in the ground, and reached behind his back with both hands.
"I believe these belong to you." He said, after which he brought his arms forward.
Hecarim was holding two creatures by the necks. In his left hand was Fluttershy. Her friends and the Princess gasped. She had returned to her normal appearance, with the only difference being several locks of brown, spider-leg like hair among her mane and tail. Celestia recognized the other creature to be Chrysalis. Her silky mane and tail had both greenish blue and purplish stripes, and in her see through wings, the sun goddess noticed multiple purple veins.
Both mares hanging from the specter's hands were unconscious. The ponies took them, and put them on the ground.
"Are there anymore cases like them?" Celestia asked, not taking her eyes off the yellow pegasus.
“Hundreds like the bigger one. All of them got knocked out while the other things burned to a crisp.” The ghostly centaur replied.
The sun princess closed her eyes in a mental sight, then her horn glowed yellow, summoning a piece of paper and an inked quill, after which she started writing something.
Klastanar was the last to emerge from a flash of light. As he moved forward, he scanned his surroundings. During his visual sweep, the glance of a figure caught his attention, and made his eyes widen with awe. He rushed to her, and kneeled as he said.
“En Taro Tassadar Executor Selendis.”
“En Taro Tassadar, Captain Klastanar I presume.” She replied, before accompanying her next word with a rising hand gesture. “Arise.”
He complied to the order, and once his eyes towered slightly above hers, he spoke.
“I never imagined that you would receive my distress signal. I am humbled and honored to be in your presence.”
“Formalities are unnecessary Captain.” She replied calmly. “You have performed your duties to the letter by discovering and protecting this world from the zerg scum.”
Klastanar’s gaze fell from hers.
“It was I who originally dragged the foul wretches here, and brought nothing but spiteful pain and fear to this world.”
Selendis placed a hand on his cheek, making him quickly shift the direction of his eyes.
“I received the report. It was impossible to foresee the hybrid attack. Be certain that I will make sure that High Arch Artanis rewards you properly, but now we must leave.” She let go.
Her words made the ponies, Celestia included, to turn their attention to them.
“Wha? Yer leavin’ so soon?” Applejack asked with surprise.
“But you can’t leave yet!” Twilight exclaimed, before continuing. “There’s so much we want to learn from you! All of your technology and advancements are so amazing!”
“Yeah, not to mention that first we have to throw you a “Fare well, don’t get lost in space!” party!” Pinkie finished.
“Sorry, my duties to this world have ended, but those to my people are still at hand.” Klastanar stated.
Twilight’s eyes watered, both from the fact that she was probably never going to see her friend again, and that she wouldn’t be able to study the technology of his people. She then shut her eyes, getting a grip, and walked forward to him.
“I want you to have this.” The lavender unicorn said.
Then her horn glowed in a purplish aura. All of a sudden a piece of red cloth emerged from thin air. On it was the banner of Equestria. A circle split in two, one half representing a golden sun and the other, a moon. While it was still in the mare’s magical grasp she tied it to his left arm, and uttered her last words, bearing both watered eyes and a warm smile.
“Promise me you won’t forget us.”
The protoss nodded as he replied.
“I promise, Twilight Sparkle.”
--
“Hold on a moment.” Fiddlesticks spoke up. “Where is Nocturne?”
“A baneling exploded on him, our medics are doing their best to save him.” The Captain said.
Then he stepped closer to the green apparition, and gave him a small blue crystal with a golden ring around it. “Once he is well enough, we will warp him to you by this device.”
The scarecrow looked down at the thing.
‘The Captain’s ship has been recovered Executor.’ One of the other two protoss reported to Selendis.
‘Very well. Signal the engineers to prepare the ships for warp jump.’ She thought before speaking.
“I am sorry to interrupt, but we have important matters to attend to.”
After that, the Princess gave her farewells.
“Safe travels friends, and I hope that we meet again, but on better terms.”
After receiving nods from Klastanar and Selendis, they, the two other protoss and the artifact boarded the two warp prisms above them in a flash of light. The vessels flew up to the capital ship of the Executor. Many others like them could be seen coming from the Everfree. In a few minutes the engines of the ships charged, and they all disappeared in the blink of an eye, to parts unknown.
All of a sudden the small crystal levitated from Fiddlesticks’s hand and hovered above the ground. Then it burst into light, and once it faded, in its place stood something bizarre. It seemed like the Living Nightmare, only he was covered in polished silverfish metal, revealing bared red flesh. His blades shined. All around his metal suiting could be seen glowing red energy stripes. More red energy was pumping form underneath, allowing him to hover. The energy tail was surrounded by several rings. Everyone stared him with their mouths agape. He then opened his arms in an inviting gesture, before saying in a slightly cheerful voice.
“Miss me?”
The scarecrow slammed his hand on his head, before uttering. “You, you, you…”
“Have to admit, he looks kinda awesome.” Shaco and Rainbow Dash said in union, before exchanging confused looks.
“What exactly did they put on you?” Rengar asked.
“This strange metal radiates something called “psionic energy” from the Void, and before you ask, no, not the Void we know of, some other one, which isn’t that bad.” Nocturne replied.
“Man, you look like something that came out of the Nether, run couple of miles in silver and through a hot forge.” Mord stated quickly.
“Et-er-num?” Annie stuttered, unable to fully comprehend the fast words from the Master of metal’s mouth.
“Huh, that actually sounds pretty good. Eternum Nocturne.” The Living Nightmare said.
Celestia finished writing, and wrapped the sheet of paper in a scroll. She then pulled over Spike, and asked him to send it to Shining Armor.
“Princess what is this?” Rarity asked.
“I’ve instructed Twilight’s brother to gather as many guards as possible, and sweep the forest for any changeling they can find.” The sun goddess returned, before turning to the scarecrows. “Fiddlesticks, could you possibly teach me this containment spell?”
“Well it would take some time, but I guess you need it in a short notice?” He asked.
“Precisely.”
“Well I guess there is a way…”
A green crow came out of his forehead, leaped off, and went inside Celestia’s. That made the alicorn take a step back, and place a hoof over her head.
“WHAT DID YOU DO TO HER?!” Rainbow immediately reacted.
“Relax featherbrain, I only transferred my knowledge of the spell to her mind, nothing too serious.” The Harbinger of doom replied completely unfazed by the pegasus’s sudden outburst.
“Princess what do you need that spell for?” Twilight asked, with slight worry in her voice.
“Maybe she wants to contain all of the changelings in a crystal, like Fiddles did with Discord?” Pinkie stated out of the blue, munching on a cupcake she got from who knows where.
That gathered her pony friends’ surprised stares, making her exclaim.
“What?”
“You are correct Pinkie Pie.” Celestia spoke. “Now let’s take care of this.”
Her horn began to glow green, after which she bowed down, until it touched the unconscious Fluttershy. In an instant the cream pegasus’s eyes burst open. The sudden start made her sit up and hyperventilate a bit. When she got a hold of herself she sighted in relief, as her friends caught her in a group hug.
“Oh dear, what happened?” She wondered.
“What do you mean what happened? We just saved Equestria! Again!” Her cyan friend exclaimed happily.
“Um…I’m afraid I can remember anything from the past two days.”
“Really?” Nocturne’s appearance made her squeal and hide behind her friends.
Then he spoke again, this time trying to look less intimidating.
“You honestly don’t remember trying to rip us apart with pure force…” He gestured to the others from the group.
They did not appeal very much to Fluttershy as well.
“…along with her?” The Living Nightmare finished, pointing at the sleeping Chrysalis.
Once the timid pony’s eyes saw the changeling queen she screamed, quickly dug out a small hole, and stuffed her head inside.
“Apparently you don’t.” The darkling sighted.
“Come now sugarcube, these guys may look scary, but they are pretty nice folks.” Applejack calmed her friend.
With watered eyes the pegasus got up, and said in her usual timid way.
“Um…I’m sorry. I don’t remember anything.”
“Meh, it’s alright. Not exactly something worth rem--” Nocturne was cut off by Fiddlesticks.
“Sorry to interrupt, but it’s getting kinda drafty over here.” He said, rubbing his arms in a self hug.
After no one uttered a word in a few moments, the scarecrow cleared what he meant.
“Anybody got something decent I can wear for a while?”
“Oh, right!” Rarity exclaimed.
Next she disappeared in a blue flash. In a minute she was back with the Tuxedosticks.
“Fortunately my shop didn’t get damaged, and so did this.” The fashionista stated.
“Thanks.” The Harbinger of doom said, before taking on the tux, after which he excused himself from the group.
“If you don’t mind, I have some body parts to collect. Annie, come on.”
“Okay.” The filly replied happily and followed her uncle.
--
“So, what now?” Shaco asked.
“First of, I am going to put my new knowledge to good use.” Celestia said, after which she summoned another enchanted crystal from the ground. This one was green, and an exact copy of Chrysalis’s body structure.
Next the Princess used the containment spell. Two lines of energy came out from the tip of her horn. Just like Fiddlesticks did, the green one absorbed the changeling queen, and the purple one inserted her within the crystal statue.
“I know that spell.” Nocturne said, sounding kinda grumpy.
“We know. Fiddle told us.” Twilight stepped in.
“He said we had ta blast ‘em crystals with some powerful magic to…what’cha ma call it the effect.” Applejack spoke.
“We could use the Elements?” The lavender unicorn suggested
“That was our origianl intention, but they are all locked inside a special chest in Canterlot.” Celestia stated.
“Can’t you teleport to there, or can’t Dashie go get the chest?” Rarity asked.
“Either way will take some time.” The Princess replied.
“Excuse me Princess.” Pinkie stepped in. “What does this chest look like?”
That caught everyone currently there by surprise, but the sun goddess simply shrugged and described the box in question.
“Well it is medium sized, made from and oak tree, with golden joints and it bore the Equestrian mark on its hood. Why do you ask?” She wondered.
“Medium sized, oak, gold, the mark of Equestria, you mean like this one?” The pink mare asked, before revealing the fore mention chest behind a purple curtain, she got from who knows where.
“Wha-how d-? When d-?” The Princess's student was dumbstruck.
“That is a mystery for later Twilight.” Celestia said, before opening the chest with her magic.
Then all of the Bearers put on their Elements, and in a moment they charged them. A giant rainbow shot up in the air, then began to fall, and drowned the crystals.
“Aah, splendid, that should do it!” Tuxedosticks said from behind.
He was carrying the remains of his other body on his back, and Annie trotted right next to him.
“Are you certain that this will hold them?” The Princess wanted to be sure, that those two wouldn’t make it out any time soon.
“Quite.” The scarecrow replied, before turning to Rengar. “Do you have the rune?”
In return he got a smirk from the hunter, as he raised his hand, holding the stone in mention.
“Sorry to disturb you, but the freaking thing is out of juice!” The Demon jester exclaimed.
“What’n tar nation’s that?” The cowpony asked, pointing at the rune.
“That is our way home, but apparently it is out of power.” Hecarim replied.
“Can’t we use the Elements to heat it up?” Rainbow suggested.
“Hold on!” The Harbinger of doom got everyone’s attention. “There is no need to waste energy.”
After his words, the crystal in which Discord was imprisoned glowed red. In a moment a red crow flew out of it, and landed on the scarecrow’s hoof. Then is vanished, leaving a necklace with a diamond pure gem.
“Is that…?” The white unicorn uttered.
“I thought you wouldn’t need it anymore, so do you mind if we use it to power up the rune?” The Harbinger of doom asked.
“There is no reason for me to deny you this, but what has happened to the Eye of the night?” Celestia wished to know.
“Well the only way I can explain it is that while inside the crystal, when the magic of the Elements hit it, it both charged and purified the artifact itself. I left a crow of mine to retrieve it afterwards.” Fiddlesticks explained.
“Oookay…but how are you going to extract the energy from it?” Twilight wondered.
He chuckled, and turned to his protégé.
“Annie, today I will teach you a new spell. Magical artifact disenchanting.”
“What’s that uncle Fiddle?” She asked.
The horn on the mannequin the scarecrow was currently residing in glowed green, levitating the necklace between himself and the filly.
“I want you to concentrate your magic onto it, and while doing so I want you to imagine the item like a puzzle. Imagine it slowly breaking apart, piece by piece in a steady stream of energy.” He explained to her.
Annie nodded, with a determined expression on her face. Both concentrated as green and red magic coming from their horns enveloped the necklace. Slowly it began shine with white light and break to small pieces. In a blinding flash instead of the Eye of the night, in the scarecrow’s grasp was a small white ball.
“Rengar, the rune.” He said.
The Pridestalker brought forth the stone, which was then enveloped in a green aura. Next Fiddlesticks brought the white ball and the rune together, until the energy was absorbed. The fore mentioned stone began to radiate energy. All of a sudden Fiddlesticks, Annie, Mordekaiser and Shaco began to glow bright as well. After another blinding flash all of them had returned to their original humanoid forms. The scarecrow’s current body had changed to a skinny figure, with a snow white head, glowing green eyes and dressed in a fine tux.
Quick to follow was a loud *thud* sound, as the Demon jester hit the ground. During his transformation he was hovering about nine feet up in the air. That made everyone present laugh.
“So, Ah take it yer gonna leave now?” Applejack asked.
“Actually, Pinkie mentioned some kind of party, and I definitely wouldn’t want to miss it! Would you Annie?” Fiddle asked.
The filly did a perfect impersonation of Big Mac.
“Nnnope.” Her face was colored by a warm smile.
“In that case I guess we won’t be out of your manes for at least another day.” Her uncle chuckled.
“THAT’S WONDERFUL!” Pinkie yelled. “I have to get baking, oh and make the invitations, and get Mayor Mare to let me use the town center for it, and--” Her energetic listing was cut off by Rainbow Dash’s hoof.
“Yeah, I guess I will help her with those things. See you guys later.” The cyan pegasus said, before picking her pink friend, and flying away.
“If it’s going to be a fare well party, it will probably get pretty rough. I better fix this thing up quick.” Rarity stated, picking up the body parts of Fiddlesticks’s old body with her magic.
“No, I couldn’t ask you do tangle yourself with that task again.” The scarecrow protested, but that was quickly rejected by the fashionista.
“Nonsense dear. It would be my pleasure to do that. Meet you all tonight.” She said before teleporting away.
“Ah’ll go get everypony from the evacuation site. Cya.” Applejack stated, before galloping away.
--
The rest of the day went pretty calmly. Shining Armor and the Royal Guard brought in all the changelings they could find in the forest. All of their bodies were disformed in some way. By the time the goddess of the sun was done inserting them all in the green crystal, Applejack had returned with the town’s folk. Despite the rough start, everypony accepted all of the newcomers, and with their help began to rebuild Ponyville. Half an hour before dark, Rarity returned with the scarecrow’s body. She had re-stitched it together in its pony-like build, but once the Harbinger of doom took hold of it, the energy radiating from the rune transformed it, into its original build. Fiddlesticks was more than happy to once again feel both his hands, and grip tightly his trusty scythe.
Once Celestia rose the moon in the sky, because her sister was still hospitalized, most of the damage was repaired. It was time to party! The Princess stood up on the stage of town hall, and gave a speech.
“Fillies and gentlecolts. Today we celebrate for several reasons. Discord and the changelings have been defeated, as well as the repelling of the alien threat. For that we have these heroes to thank to.”
She stepped to the side, revealing the champions. The crowd began cheering and stomping in delight. Next followed the entertainment part of the night. Vinyl Scratch had set up her DJ table. She had also provided a head axe to Mord, and an electro fiddle to Fiddlesticks. All of those were cabled to several large amplifiers. The mixture of techno, heavy metal and country was surprisingly amazing! The whole town was rocking out under the epic sounds.
The CMC were hanging with Annie, and drowned her in questions about how does it work to be bipedal and if she could help them get their fireworks cutie marks. Amongst the crowd a familiar pare approached them. Apple Bloom, Scootaloo and Sweetie Bell’s brows furrowed upon noticing Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon. The little girl understood their reaction only when the new arrivals began to speak.
“Ugh, how can you even tag with these lame blank flanks.” The pink filly started.
“Yeah, you don’t seem like the loser type.” She was backed up by her gray companion.
“Hey leave her alone!” The orange pegasus exclaimed.
“Or what? What can you possibly do blank flank?” Spoon said.
“Silver please, don’t call her that. You know chickens don’t get cutie marks.” Tiara laughed, followed by her companion.
They were really starting to get on Annie’s nerves, and her expression made it obvious. Once their laughing ceased, Diamond Tiara put on a smug face and spoke.
“Listen, if you want we will allow you to hang with us, unless you want to be a loser like these three.”
That made the CMC drop their gazes. However, the girl’s next words quickly changed that.
“Call me, or them losers again, and I will have to call an undertaker for you two.” She coldly said, as both her hands caught on fire. “Got that?”
That made the two slowly back away, with terrified expressions, until they bumped into something. When they looked up, they saw a giant monstrous bear, which was on fire. They screamed in terror, and ran away. That made the little pyrogirl smirk.
“Whoa, that was awesome!” Scootaloo exclaimed.
“A tad bit scary thought.” Sweetie Bell filled in.
“Ah know it was Tiara and Silver, but why did ya have ta talk like that to them?” Apple Bloom asked.
Annie simply shrugged, before replying.
“I guess uncle Fiddle is rubbing off on me.”
“He talks like that to people he dislikes?” The white filly wondered, with slight worry in her tone.
“Pretty much, but I am barely as good as him.”
That answer made the crusaders’ jaws drop. And so the festivities continued until dawn. Ponies and champions alike ate, drank and danced to the groovy concert.
It was a good night.