Meanwhile, the Crystal Crusaders who just not moments ago defeated Merciless, were out of Canterlot and now out into another large town which they learned was called Dexlon and so far nothing seemed out of the ordinary to them, more peaceful then what the last town was like. There was life, no monsters, and absolutely no types of chaos at all. This came to their relief now that they could rest their muscles and Sweetie Belle could begin to rest and restore her magic while she could. For now they were only wandering around hoping at one point they find a crystal to give to Celestia and secure it. To their dismay it was no dice for them at all. Scootaloo groaned and placed her hands behind her head as she began to think.
" It's probably not hear, maybe we should travel a little further." Sweetie Belle suggested. Scootaloo looked at her with a stern look on her face that made her nervous.
" No, we'll stay here till your magic comes back. We need it if were going to have the world remember the Crystal Crusaders." Sweetie Belle didn't protest, she just turned away as they continued walking aimlessly now. For a few minutes of walking they suddenly noticed at a distance, a tall building that towered over the rest that they saw. It was pointed at the top and just from a far distance, they saw it was heavily defended by Unicorns and Pegasai Equestrians. Scootaloo was first to question aloud what that building was and got their answer.
" Why it is the Citadel. A place that governs this city and is a worldwide army." An accented voice spoke behind them. The Crusaders turned around to see a light brown Equestrian with short brown hair, and was a darker brown patch of fur around his right eye.
" Pipsqueak?" Scootaloo asked. Pipsqueak nodded and smiled widely at them. He wore a black hoodie with basic jeans, along with that he wore blue goggles over forehead.
" Its been a while, I thought I'd never see ya again." Scootaloo tried to smile, but being in a race again the enemy is just too much to do so. Instead she looked back at Citadel again, but Pipsqueak spoke again breaking her view from it.
" So, what brings you here? I'm aware of the whole Goddess conflict, but nothing goes through Dexlon no matter if it's those pesky Behemoths. I killed one once, tough creatures." All of the Crusaders looked him not able to believe what they just heard.
" You actually defeated one them tough beasts?" Applebloom asked. Pipsqueak chuckled at their reaction, but nodded. He told them they were as easy as taking out a silver wolf in the open. Part of Scootaloo thought that he was lying since you needed to team to take out a beast like that, but anything was possible according to her hanging out Rainbow Dash so much. Applebloom began to notice a red dot appear on Scootaloo's chest. With instinct she pushed her out of it's way and made a wince as she felt a burning sensation on her lower arm. Scootaloo regained her balance and was about to shout at her, but a sight of blood dripping from her arm stopped her. Next thing she saw a small hole in the ground and to her guess was the object that would of struck her.
" Applebloom! Are you alright!" Sweetie Belle asked as she got her magic ready. However Applebloom waved her away.
" Nothin' I can't handle. Scootaloo probably would of been worse if I didn't push her." Applebloom replied as she held her bleeding arm. " Besides I've been bitten lots of times, this isn't different."
" Sure doesn't look a bi-" Pipsqueak was cut off when they heard screaming. Him and the Crusaders ran out to where the screaming was located which was close. Out in the open of the busy city was a large aircraft hovering over and attacking civilians. For a minute Applebloom was about to hold her hand out, but it was the wrong one which made her arm burst with pain making her scream.
" That does it, you need help." Sweetie Belle said as she grabbed Applebloom's good arm and pulled her away to safety.
Soundtrack: Final Fantasy 13-2 Worlds Collide
" Okay, have any ideas?" Scootaloo asked Pipsqueak as the aircraft came to a stop in front of them and suddenly a large cannon emerged from below it and took aim towards them.
" Wish I knew, but I'll be sure to leave some hits for your friends." He replied happily. Scootaloo groaned at that responses as her sword appears in her hand. She placed it over her should and gave a gesture towards the aircraft to attack her.
" Come on." She provoked. She saw a yellow light glow from the inside the cannon which was a perfect warning for getting out of the way for her. She grabbed Pipsqueak's arm and with speed no one thought she'd had, she was able to hover fast enough before the cannon fired and causing destruction all around the area and even left a crater in the ground to Sweetie Belle and Applebloom's shock.
" Holy cow that packs a mean punch." Applebloom said. Sweetie Belle ignored the scene and placed her hand over Applebloom's wound and a green light began to force.
" This should be quick as long as no one finds us." Sweetie Belle assured. Back with Scootaloo and Pipsqueak they landed back on the ground and noticed the cannon was now gone now. Scootaloo laughed and stuck her tongue out towards the aircraft until suddenly multiple missiles were launched towards them. This time Scootaloo and the brown Equestrian scrambled around and dodged the missiles only to learn that they only stuck to the ground and made slow beeping noises. Scootaloo wasn't aware though that this was dangerous as well as Pipsqueak. Pipsqueak held his hand out as a light made the shape of an object and it was revealed to be a light brown boomerang with a sun symbol at the edge. He threw it towards the aircraft and began to control where it was heading with his arm. He swiped it in horizontal direction and it made it's way to the head of the aircraft and once it made contact it made a small explosion and came out all together.
" Have another." Pipsqueak shouted as he swiped his hand again and this time the boomerang came back and struck again making another small explosion. His boomerang came back in his grasp and he groaned as he saw the little damage he just did.
" Let me show you how it's done." Scootaloo told him as she was about to fly. However as they forgot about the missiles that began to make beeping sounds faster then it started and finally: BOOM. Their screams were heard which came to Applebloom and Sweetie Belle's ears that twitched as hearing their leader fallen. Luckily Applebloom's arm was healed well enough for her to at least reach for something. She rush out first, jumping over the crater and now facing the aircraft with her double bladed spear in her hand.
" All of you that pilot that thing will squirm once I'm through with ya." Applebloom threatened. Suddenly the same cannon appeared from below it and aimed at the redhead Equestrian. Applebloom got in a defensive stance with her spear and scoffed, " Give it your best shot." The cannon was fired and the same destruction formed last time was done again, but only this time it wasn't as destructive. The smoke clears and it reveals that Applebloom is now standing on a small circle of a surface. She was about to counterattack, but she saw a figure zip through the aircraft and in that instant, it began to fall and crashed into a building and exploded making it topple onto it. Confusion was all over Applebloom until coming from the smoke was a figure wearing a pink cloak and what confused Applebloom the most was that her body looked disoriented for a moment. She got her spear ready in case she attacked. " Who are you?"
The figure only giggles and the way it sounded made Applebloom's blood run cold. A knife poked out of the sleeve with dried blood and she held it up at the ready.
Soundtrack change: Dark Impetus
The figure dashed at Applebloom to reveal herself clearly to her and to Applebloom's shock, she found out it was none other than Pinkie Pie. This made an opening for the pink Equestrian to kick her to her stomach which knocked the wind out of the teenager. Along with this Pinkie Pie jumped over Applebloom's head while grabbing onto her shirt then threw her to into the crater that was made around her. Pinkie jumped in as well as and smiled widely as Applebloom slowly stood up. She was gasping for air as if she just lost her lungs.
" Come on, I barely did anything to you yet. Besides, I have to kill you three cause you'll just cause a problem for all of us." Pinkie told her. Applebloom ran towards her and thrust her spear at Pinkie's chest only to go right through her. " Ouch, so close, but you have to do better than that." Applebloom tried again, but this time Pinkie Pie dodged with a spin. " Ole." She ranted. She wasn't aware though when Scootaloo came from behind with her body nearly looking as if she was abused and with two blades in her grasp tried to attack Pinkie Pie herself and Pinkie turned at the last second, " Uh oh. You got me!" Unfortunately Scootaloo went right through Pinkie Pie and she continued to rant, " Oh, you didn't? Bummer."
" They probably haven't but I did." From behind a brown cloaked figure with glowing yellow eyes grabbed Pinkie Pie by her head and threw her out of the crater and jumped out after her leaving confused Crusaders. As the figure landed, Pinkie was already dusting herself off till looking at who attacked her. The cloaked figure removed it's hood and now revealed to be none other than Zecora. Pinkie Pie growled as he hair turned straight, but her eye color stayed the same.
" There are always more and more pests getting in my way!" Pinkie Pie shouted. Zecora was silent for a moment until she rolled one of her sleeves revealing what she showed Max a while ago on her arm, two different eyes on her forearm . One was purple with a wolf as it's pupil and the other was green with the pupil shaped as wind. Pinkie ran towards Zecora with her body now disoriented while she ran, but Zecora made a reach for her and to Pinkie's shock, grabbed her wrist and her body turned back to it's normal state. " N-no way. Impossible! As long as I'm in that state nothing can touch me!" Pinkie screamed. Zecora smirked at her reaction and merely threw Pinkie Pie in the air above her along with holding her arm up.
" Too bad you sealed your own fate." She said as a spell began to produce from her hand, but suddenly she was stopped when Scootaloo tackled Zecora to the ground making the Pink Equestrian land on solid ground. She began to slowly stand up while coughing and looked at Zecora weakly. However she passed out and vanished into black smoke. Scootaloo got off of Zecora and took some deep breaths before she yelled at her.
" DO YOU KNOW WHO YOU WERE ATTACKING!!! THAT WAS PINKIE PIE! I DON'T KNOW WHY SHE'S ATTACKING US, BUT WE WILL SAVE HER YOU HEAR?!!!" She screamed. The zebra merely stood up and before anyone knew it, she punched the orange Pegasus in the stomach with so much force she was sent flying back into Applebloom and Sweetie Belle. Zecora scoffed and looked up in the sky as she began to talk again.
" Equestria is diseased down to the core. Chaos is reigning everywhere and no one can stop it. The being behind this is transcended even past my capabilities. I can't save no one and now there is only one way to end this." Zecora began. Sweetie Belle was too busy healing Scootaloo to even ask what she meant till the answer came out herself. " Total Annihilation. DoomsDay." The Crusader's eyes widened at this. Sweetie Belle was first to speak while still healing Scootaloo who was in to much pain to speak.
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" Your giving up by destroying everything? That's insane! That's as cowardly then running away!"
" I don't have a choice. I either let the world suffer by the chaos or just end this pain." Zecora replied.
" Really and just how?" Applebloom asked. Zecora stared at them with a small grin on their face as she used actions to answer their question. A white light surrounded her and suddenly wind blew to the point it was strong as a tornado, but the Crusaders were somehow able to stay in their spots ( Scootaloo was almost blown away since she was near dead weight, but Sweetie Belle caught her). The wind died out and the area around them was nearly a wasteland now thanks to the wind. The Crusaders open their eyes and the sight was a completely new Zecora. Her body was all new as he skin was brightly white as holy light itself, but her long black hair flowed as it disturbed the white color. Next was her eyes that glowed yellow just like last time and the eyes on her arm was what renewed her normal body, one arm was green with wind around it shaped as a large sword and the other was purple with a large double bladed sword and the armor around her body was black and white striped. She was hovering a few feet in the air with new produced wings on her back which one was purple and shaped as a dragon's wing and a white wing shaped as an angel's wing.
" You know nothing about me. Ever since I was in the Everfree Forest, I was gifted of a power of a god ten-fold. Normally, I would just go on without a trace and face the threat myself, but..." Zecora paused, her voice no long had it's accent and it was doubled as she spoke. " This is the only way. My name is Ragnorak and this world shall be saved by destruction itself." Zecora told them. Scootaloo began to stand with her sword in her grasp. Although she wasn't completely healed, she still had the will to keep going.
" That is completely wrong and just stupid. Why destroy everything that Celestia and Luna put effort into making. I won't allow this." Scootaloo told Ragnorak. Ragnorak was now silent which, now annoyed Scootaloo. " Fine, we'll just stop you by force!" Sweetie Belle and Applebloom got ready as they now stood in front of a godlike being. Scootaloo ran towards her along with Applebloom while Sweetie Belle got a spell ready to cast at Ragnorak.
Unfortunately, she already vanished when Scootaloo got ready to swing her sword and reappeared behind the orange Pegasus. Ragnorak was about to swing one of her swords, but Applebloom came from behind and thrust her spear which Ragnorak blocked without looking.
" Pathetic." She turned around and swung her other blade towards the redheaded cowgirl. She barely blocked the strike with her spear, but the godlike being used her wind sword which made a large tornado from her swing which launched Applebloom in the air. Luckily, Sweetie Belle used her natural power to levitate and control her and safety brought her back to safety. " Why resist? You don't stand a chance either way." Ragnorak taunted. Sweetie Belle growled and her hands began to flare with magic.
" I'm getting sick of you!" She shouted as she began to cast random element spells which left explosion after explosion of different elements, but it still wasn't enough to the Crystal Crusader's shock. Scootaloo had a second sword appear in her hand and this time jumped in the air with both swords over her head and swung them down towards Ragnorak. She merely used her purple sword to block this time and when they clashed, the sword glowed.
" Chaos will continue if I don't do what's right." With those words Ragnorak pushed Scootaloo back who spread her wings and hovered over her. That was a big mistake, to her shock a gust of wind was blow towards her and before Scootaloo knew it, she was caught into a tornado and launched with it. Not only was she caught in it, but some of the debris around them were caught as well and mixed with the tornado and ripped Scootaloo to shreds. Her screams were heard from inside the tornado which triggered a sudden adrenaline inside Applebloom. She rushed toward Ragnorak herself and relentlessly swung and thrust her spear only for it to be dodged or blocked.
" YOUR GONNA SQUIRM!" She shouted as she spun her spear and it made it's way towards Ragnorak's face, but it bounced off and next thing Applebloom knew, she was struck across her chest with the purple blade and fell to the ground with a horrible gash on her shoulder down to her abdomen. Sweetie Belle was all that was left now and she was already intimidated by what just happened. There was a thud and to her horror, it was Scootaloo's body that was filled with cuts and blood. She tried one more time to cast a spell, but this one was new that none of her friends knew of. A gem appeared in her hand and she pressed it down into the ground with her hands glowing a purple aura.
" I'll show you!" Ragnorak looked down and noticed her legs were becoming in contact with a large gem below her and it began to consume her body. She looked back at Sweetie Belle and saw the fear in her eyes although she had her in a trap. She scoffed merely vanished in a white light, reappearing behind Sweetie Belle with a raise of her purple blade.
" Find peace in the embrace of the Gods." Ragnorak praised as she brought her sword down. Suddenly, her sword was knocked away by a boomerang which also gave a quick shock of electricity in her body making her grimace. The boomerang came back to it's owner to be Pipsqueak who suddenly had a look of fear on his face at the god-like figure in front of him. However, Sweetie Belle really mattered right now.
" GET OUT OF THE WAY!" He shouted. Belle snapped out of her trance and began to run away with tears flowing in her eyes with Pipsqueak using his boomerang for covering attacks. Eventually she was in a safe distance, but her friends were still down and probably dying. Applebloom was still aware around her and breathing heavily as blood pooled around her body from the deadly hit, she's received lots of attacks for her friends, but this was beyond something she was ready for. You couldn't tell if blood was in her hair although the puddle was up to head and down her back. Scootaloo was in the worst shape. She couldn't move and she was slowly losing herself. She wasn't always the one to be a fighter through pain although she tries. This sort of pain she was going through though, was nothing she could ever take. She slowly opened her eyes and first thing she noticed was Ragnorak beginning to glow.
" I've had my fun with you. Unfortunately for me your DoomsDay has to be postponed. Make use of the time while it lasts." She told them as she suddenly vanished into a holy light. Pipsqueak sighed in relief while Sweetie Belle instantly cane to her team's aid. She decided to treat Scootaloo first since apparently, Applebloom could still get up, just barely though. Scootaloo felt like she was losing herself to the world being defeated so easily.
" Don't worry you'll be up before you know it." The white unicorn assured.
Twilight and Chrysalis
" Many less to worry about." Chrysalis said as she walked past falling human bodies with Twilight behind. The purple unicorn felt slightly intimidated at the dark magic she used on them and could tell it was a very slow and painful death. They were never aware that they shouldn't be killing them in the first place, but they happened to draw blood first. The child Chrysalis was merely thinking of this as ' returning the favor ' which involved harsh spells and poisons placed on them. As they walked around the ruins of the city Dexlon, Twilight suddenly noticed a red dot on Chrysalis's chest which made her react quickly by tackling her out the way while her brown robe took the hit with a hole on the lower portion. Along with this, Twilight was somehow able to pinpoint where the shot came from and while recovering used her magic to shoot a fireball towards a building that was strangely intact.
" And a one and a two and a thr-" Twilight's count was a split second short when she heard an explosion made from her spell which made the building crumble and topple to the ground. Twilight was sure there were no survivors for the moment so she helped Chrysalis up who dusted herself off as she stood.
" You could of warned me instead." The young Chrysalis told her.
" Too slow, It would of been better for me to just take care of the problem myself. Besides, I think I've already seen enough that you can't be trusted to use non-lethal spells." From saying that Chrysalis looked back at the crumble Twilight made from her non-lethal spell and looked back at the purple unicorn who looked sheepishly at her as she rubbed the back of her head. " Ok, I got carried away." She sighed. Suddenly Twilight was tackled by an unknown figure and they both rolled against the ground for a few seconds till Twilight teleported out of the figure's grasp. The figure was in a down stance as if it was crouching, but began to stand up with a wide smile from it's face. Next thing Twilight and Chrysalis notice was glowing red eyes and chains appearing from the sleeves of it's purple cloak. In a instant Twilight already knew who this was.
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" Meroshia! Why are you here?" She demanded. The red eyed girl grinned as she stood straight and with a swipe of her hand a glow was made on Twilight's back which made the shape of purple angel wings of her back. Chrysalis gasped at the new change as well as Twilight, what was her biggest shock was that she controlled when her wings would pop up instead of her using it herself. Meroshia wasn't down though. Forming on her back was torn bat wings and instantly used them to hover from the ground.
" What are you waiting for? Use your flying skills and magic and please me." Meroshia said seductively. She dashed towards Chrysalis first and to their surprise, she went as such a speed that it looked like she went through her. The chains from her sleeve wrapped itself around the young changeling and trapped her leaving her completely helpless. From behind Meroshia had a purple fireball forming from her mouth and shot it towards her. Fortunately, Twilight was fast enough to form a barrier that absorbed the hit. The alicorn flew towards Meroshia with wind spiraling around her arm like a blade as she charged towards her. She swung the blade while her horn glowed, Meroshia released Chrysalis before she back flipped multiple times to even Twilight before she saw a flash of light form around her.
The red eyed girl winced. Behind her was Twilight who was now behind her with the blade through her back and out her stomach. Unfortunately though Meroshia's pain suddenly turned to pleasure and she moaned out which gave Twilight an uneasy feeling. Along with this she caressed Twilight's cheek which forced her to move away from her with a blush on her face. To Meroshia's dismay, the pain stopped.
" Aww, your no fun." She cooed. She ran towards Twilight with a high kick which connected with Twilight's jaw sending her in the air. Chrysalis used her insect wings to try and attack Meroshia herself, instead while she charged she was instantly thrown over her shoulder and back towards the pavement. She returned back to Twilight and elbowed her to the gut next and finally decided to end it by grabbing her head and slam her to the ground.
" At this rate, your more than dead. Completely damned." Meroshia insulted. She folded her arms while trying to think of something else insulting to say towards her. " You really are a disgrace to the word Harmony if that's all the power you wield, an Alicorn no less. Such a waste," She turned around as she got ready to fly away. " see ya." Meroshia vanished in a swift flash leaving the downed team. Twilight didn't want to believe anything she said. She didn't want to admit that Meroshia was more powerful then her, not in the situation that she was in right now. She knew what would happen if she were to lose.
Everything.
" Well, well. What have we here?" A figure spoke as it walked towards the girls.