“It didn’t work?!” Battleaxe yelled. “HOW THE HELL DID IT NOT WORK?!”
“You are weak…” Destruction answered, laughing menacingly. “And I have grown stronger! Now not even Omnipotent’s greatest weapon can stop me!” Destruction drove his claws into the ground, ripping the very fabric of Equestria’s existence to the core.
“We have to stop him!” Twilight cried. “We HAVE to!”
“The elements failed…” Greatsword said staring at Destruction, “They…. They…” he looked to his hooves “NO!” he roared, “THEY CAN’T FAIL... I CAN’T FAIL!”
“Greatsword…” Fluttershy said walking to him and placing her hoof on his shoulder.
Greatsword brushed off Fluttershy’s hoof, casting his glare at Destruction, “I’m going out there…” he growled.
“What?!” Battleaxe said, his jaw nearly hitting the floor. “Bro, you can’t just charge in there hooves blazing and-“
“I will stop at nothing…” Greatsword said defiantly, outstretching his wings. “I will give everything… I will NOT fail again…”
“Well then,” Battleaxe said smiling. “You aren’t going anywhere without me.”
“No,” Greatsword said. “You have to stay, this is my fight.”
“They’re called the ELEMENTS of honor, Greatsword…” Battleaxe replied, patting him on the head. “Not the ELEMENT of honor.”
“Battleaxe please…” Twilight said with watery eyes, “don’t-“
“I have to Twilight it’s my sworn DUTY to protect this land…” he gently placed his hoof on her cheek and drew her closer to him. “It’s my sworn DUTY to protect you…” Battleaxe drew her in for one last, passionate kiss before standing next to Greatsword.
“No words ring truer, Battleaxe,” Warhammer said taking his place next to Greatsword and Battleaxe, “We have always been stronger… together.”
“Warhammer…” Princess Luna whimpered. “Please be safe… for me…”
“For you, Luna…” Warhammer said turning to her. “I will do everything to ensure our future,” he softly placed his hoof on her swollen belly, “and theirs…”
Princess Luna wrapped Warhammer in her forelegs and kissed him harder than she ever had. Warhammer tried to return to his brothers but she refused to let go, her tears poured down her face faster than any torrent of water ever could. Once she finally released him he placed his hoof under her chin and smiled, then he returned to his brother’s side.
The three stood at one another’s side, defiantly staring down Destruction as he ripped their world apart. Greatsword looked to Battleaxe and Warhammer; their looks of determination were unwavering. He unveiled his wings again and took flight.
“Battleaxe, Warhammer…” he began. “I want you to know that no matter what happens, that I could ask for a better family… I love you.” Battleaxe and Warhammer nodded. Greatsword then extended his hoof towards his eternal allies. “Together…” he said with a smile.
“Together…” Battleaxe and Warhammer said in unison reaching out for his hoof.
Greatsword turned back to Destruction, with fire in his heart and nerve stronger than any steel he flew towards Destruction. “FOR EQUESTRIA!” he roared, with his brothers following close behind.
Destruction looked up form tearing the world apart to see the three heading directly for him. He laughed and rose into the sky. “You have already failed!” he gloated. “You will never stop me!” he fired a blast of his magic at them but they avoided his attack with ease.
“Impressive…” Destruction said. “But still, like all others, YOU WILL FALL!” Destruction began summoning shadow fiends, blasting magic and throwing the broken buildings of Canterlot at them, but they continued to avoid the attacks and cut through the shadow fiends with ease.
“They move like one…” Long Shot said, staring into the battlefield. “It’s like they feel one another’s thoughts, I’ve never seen more superior coordination.”
“I can hardly believe what I’m seeing…” Twilight said. “I think they might actually do it!”
“Noble are you efforts, elements of honor…” Destruction said, “but alas they are only efforts!” using his magic he launched a massive bolder at the three. They did their best, but it was simply too large to avoid. It landed on the three squarely with a thundering crash that rocked Equestria to its core.
“NO!” the group cried at once, looks of horror came across their faces.
“No…” Princess Luna whispered, a single tear running down her face. “Not HIM too…”
“Now I may continue without further interruptions.” He turned back to tear Equestria apart once more but when he did he heard a loud rumbling sound. “No…” he said turning to the boulder, “it CAN’T BE!” Warhammer lifted the boulder to reveal Greatsword and Battleaxe still very much alive.
“Hey, you overgrown pain in the flank!” Battleaxe yelled, waving rapidly at their foe. “You DROPPED something!”
Warhammer threw the massive stone right back at Destruction, but he just blew it into dust. “The fact that you still live remains unimportant!” Destruction roared. “Your fate shall be no different!”
Destruction went back to ripping Equestria apart, but once his back was turned the three attacked. Greatsword flew into Destruction, the vast amount of power now coursing through him took Destruction off guard. Battleaxe sent a wave of golden and silver magic at him, slashing across his face and chest and Warhammer slammed his hooves into the ground sending a wave of stone towards Destruction, shattering a great deal of his teeth. Destruction rose from the ground and roared in furry.
“You have not won!” he roared spraying black filth as he spoke, “and you NEVER will!”
Destruction swatted Greatsword out of the sky, sending him off into the horizon. Raising his claw he lifted Battleaxe into the air, he flailed helplessly as Destruction slammed him into the ground in a pile of rubble, the force of the collision caused a fissure that went straight for Warhammer, he did his best but he eventually fell through the crack. He clung to a jagged rock so that he didn’t fall into the black depths of the pit.
“We gotta get in there!” Rainbow yelled frantically. “They need our help!”
“They told us to stay here,” Twilight said, looking worried to the scene. “I’m sure they can do it.”
“I was never really one for following orders,” Rainbow smirked, “nice talking to ya bye-bye!”
“Rainbow WAIT!” Twilight called, but it was too late, she had already sped off into the fray.
“Now what do we do?” Applejack asked, “Rainbow just flew off and the rest of us are stuck here watchin’.”
“T-they maybe strong t-together…” Fluttershy said meekly, gaining the groups attention, “but they’re much stronger…” she hid herself form all the eyes behind her mane, “with us…”
“You’re right Fluttershy,” Twilight said coming to the realization as well. “We need to get down there and help them!”
“Well if YOU want to go all willy nilly and fight that’s just fine…” Rarity said. “But the rest of us need to at least have a plan BEFORE we come to their aid.”
“OH!” Pinkie exclaimed, reaching for a random barrel. “I’ll get my SUPER party cannon!”
“I brought something that might help out…” Event Horizon said taking a small box from a pouch attached under his wing. “I call it a magic amplifier, but I never found the right gem to fit its power core…”
“Say no more darling…” Rarity said looking over the contraption. “I have just the thing.” Her horn began to glow brightly, revealing buried gemstones under the ground.
“Spike,” she called out, pointing to a white gem “could you be a dear and get this for me…” she batted her eyelashes at him, “Pretty please?”
“Right away, Rarity!” Spike said excitedly running to where she was pointing. He dug into the ground and after a few moments popped out with the gem. “Here you go, my sweet…”
“You’re too kind, Spike…” Rarity ignoring Spike and grabbing the gem from his claws, she walked over to Event Horizon and gave him the gem. “Here you are,” she said placing the gem into the device. “No need to thank me.”
“This is… this is PERFECT!” Event said in astonishment. “How did you-“
“That power core socket is just the right size for a star diamond.” Rarity explained. “They’re incredibly rare, but Canterlot was built over a small deposit of them. I hope I was-“
Rarity was quickly wrapped up in Event’s hooves. “You’re the BEST Rarity!” he said happily. “You gave us a chance!”
Rarity awkwardly smiled at Event who was still clinging to her tightly. The others looked to the spectacle and began to giggle, except for Spike, who glared angrily at Event the whole time. After several awkward moments, Event finally released his grip from Rarity and turned to Princess Cadence.
“My lady,” he said pointing to his cast. “If you please.”
“Of course.” She said with her horn aglow, Event placed the device between Princess Cadence’s horn and his leg. It made strange beeping and clicking noises and after a few seconds he motioned her to stop. “But…” she said confused. “My spell…”
Without warning, Event stood up. The others winced, expecting to hear cries of pain, but instead they saw Event ripping of his cast. Showing them his now unbroken leg. “Like magic…” he said smiling, “on steroids…”
“Come on everypony!” Applejack said adjusting her hat. “Let’s use that there contraption on Derpy an’ the others and get in the fight, those boys need us.”
Warhammer looked down into the pit he was dangling over; he peered into its depths but still couldn’t see the bottom. He knew he had to get out, but the only ledge that he could possibly grab onto was the one he was holding onto. He carefully pulled himself up, trying to safely balance his weight across the jagged surface, but he weighed too much. The rock snapped form the side of the fissure, sending Warhammer into the darkness, but before he felt the ground he saw a multicolored blur dash past him. Then he felt weightless, he looked up to see Rainbow Dash, struggling her hardest to bring him back to solid ground.
“Hold… on…” she said gritting her teeth. “Almost… got… you…” but Warhammer weighed too much for her, the two began to fall into the fissure again but then an orange and purple blur came from opposite sides. They looked to see two more pegasi at his side.
“I got you too…” Long Shot said, smiling at him.
“Me three!” Scootaloo added flapping her wings as hard as she could.
Once the four of them were back on solid ground, Warhammer looked to them and smiled. “Greatsword told you to stay behind…” he said.
“If we listened to him, you’d be a puddle right now.” Rainbow said, pointing to the hole in the ground. “And the others are right behind us.”
“Indeed…” Warhammer responded, “This way, Battleaxe is somewhere in this direction.”
Battleaxe opened his eyes to see nothing but rock and dirt around him, he tried moving but it was no use and he knew if he used his magic to move a few rocks the others would come falling down on him. “Well… this sucks…” he said to himself looking around. “If only I had a Playcolt here, I heard this month’s issue had Fleur de Lis in it…”
Then a large amount of dirt rubble was lifted from around him. He looked up to see a familiar face looking down on him. “Warhammer…” he said, “thinks for digging me out, mind lend-“he froze mid-sentence when he saw the unicorn behind him, “oh hi Twilight…” he said awkwardly. “I thought we told you to stay behind.”
“Fleur de Lis?” She said raising her eyebrow. “Really?”
“Oh… you heard that?” he asked, smiling awkwardly.
“It’s how we found you…” Twilight replied. Warhammer couldn’t help but chuckle at the situation.
“A stallion can look can’t he?” he asked shrugging his shoulders.
“We’ll talk about this later…” Twilight said throwing the rest of the rubble off of him, “but now we need to save the world.”
Battleaxe dusted himself off and attempted to give Twilight a kiss, but she just walked past him like he wasn’t there. Battleaxe looked over to Warhammer to see a very rare smile on his face. “Don’t say anything…” Warhammer just nodded as they made their way to the others.
Greatsword stood up, holding his side keeping balance on a nearby tree. He looked to his side and removed his hoof, revealing another massive abrasion oozing blood. He quickly covered the wound up again and shook his head.
“Another day…” he said to himself with a smile. “Another pain in the ass injury that only seems to happen to me…” He looked to the direction that he fell from and smiled, “but what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger…” he flew into the air heading back towards Destruction.
“Only Greatsword is unaccounted for…” Long Shot said, loading his crossbow. “But knowing him, he’ll be here soon.”
“We all saw him got hit pretty hard,” Patches pointed out, “he might be-“
“You know he’s nearly impossible to kill,” Battleaxe said, “Greatsword’ll be here.”
“I sure do hope so…” Applejack said. “Cause even with that amplifier thing we’ll still need all the help we can-“
A blast of magic interrupted Applejack. Destruction looked down to the group and began to laugh. “Now that you have become reunited it will be far easier to kill you all!” he rose his claws to unleash the final blow but before he could act he was struck by a blast of magic nearly matching his own.
“This amplifier is truly a most impressive item.” Princess Luna said to Event, “I may need to use it for later occasions.”
“Don’t get any ideas.” Event said smiling, “it’s mine.”
“I know not how you managed to obtain such power,” Destruction growled, “but it still won’t stop me!”
He rose his claw again but this time a royal blue explosion interrupted his attack. The group looked up to see Greatsword flying head on into Destruction again and again, until Destruction swatted him out of the sky once again, sending him directly at the group. If not for Warhammer and Battleaxe, he would have slammed into the all of them.
“Hey bro!” Battleaxe said. “Glad you could join the party, as you can see the gangs all here!”
“I thought we told them to stay behind…” Greatsword said rising up from his brothers forelegs.
“Um…”Fluttershy said tapping Greatsword on the shoulder. “We figured… you know… that we’re stronger…” she wrapped him in her embrace, “together…”
“I see…” Greatsword said smiling, “Then let’s end this…” he pulled Fluttershy in closer to his body, “Together.”
The two drew closer to one another, but before they could finally touch Fluttershy as pulled away from him. She floated helplessly until she was finally face to face with Destruction. Fluttershy frantically tried to escape, but her efforts were futile, she continued to float until she was released and fell into Destruction’s massive palm.
“So this is the one thing that has kept me at bay for so long…” he growled, observing Fluttershy as he spun her around in his magical hold. “If not for you, they would have never held me at bay like this...”
“Wha-What?!” she squeaked, “I-I don’t know-“
“Don’t play the fool with me, Fluttershy!” Destruction roared, nearly smashing her in his grasp. “The love you shared with Greatsword was the only thing that allowed he and his brothers to unlock their power, but it makes no difference,” he looked to the shattered world “I have withstood their attack and now I will destroy this land!” he looked back to Fluttershy, “but first I will see your end…”
“NO!” Greatsword roared, taking flight but he was quickly forced back down by a binding spell. He hit the ground hard enough to launch the picture in his wing into the air. The wind caught the photo and brought it up to Fluttershy’s face, initially she didn’t know what it was, but she instinctively caught it nonetheless. The moment she got a good look at what it was her eyes widened.
“He… he KEPT this…” she said looking down to the group. “So he does…”
“No matter what you know, no matter what you do.” Destruction said clinching his claw around Fluttershy. “Greatsword will watch you die, his last thought will be of your blood on his HOOVES!”