"Rearing your ugly face again? Man, wonder how Bumble puts up with you." I gave her a smirk. I saw Spade trying to ready his rifle, and Shadow was just staring at her. I need to buy him some time. "And really? Twilight's romance book?" She gave me a grin, but I kept talking. "I don't get you, as you don't get me. Now, we can do this one of two ways. One, you can try to get to Celestia again and I stop you. Two, you just back down nicely and I don't have to get bloody." Her grin grew larger.
"Nothing you do will change the fact that I am unstoppable!" She blared at me, hurting my ears. "This body is stronger than Luna was...Was being the keyword." Everyone looked to her except for Celestia and Spade. "Did you not hear? Pity." I gazed over towards Spade, who had just finished setting his rifle up and was aiming right between her eyes. With a smirk, he shot a bullet at her. The bullet slowly came to a stop in front of her face, spinning around in the air. "You dare strike at me? One of you shall pay for this..." She looked over all of us, the bullet following her gaze, which landed on Shadow.
"Shadow, move!" I yelled as I started running for her, but she was frozen in fear. The kind of fear you get when knowing death is at your door. The bullet took off in slow motion as I got closer to her. As soon as I pushed her out of the way, I turned to see the bullet about to hit me. I closed my eyes and felt intense pain, along with flying backwards. Even with the pain, I managed to open my eyes to see the damage. I had been hit in what felt like the center of my chest. Spade, Shadow, and all of the others looked straight at me, both amazed and confused. "Take her down..." It hurt badly to speak, so I had to keep quiet.
"Not who I was aiming for, but it will do for now." Her devilish smile barely visible at her distance. It was taking all of my strength to keep my eyes on the battle about to rage on. To my luck, me taking the bullet gave Celestia enough time to finish her spell. There was a loud boom before Twilight and her friends flew into the air, getting ready to fire and end it all. As the rainbow shot from the group and struck Nightmare Moon, I could feel my strength getting weaker. By the look on Shadow's face, she must have still been shocked at my action.
My vision had finally started to go as Shadow rushed towards me. I couldn't tell if she would be able to do anything to save me, so I just smiled before hitting the ground. It hurt so much, yet it was all worth it...