//------------------------------// // The Time for Action // Story: Dissidia Final Fantasy Friendship is Magic // by Final Fantasy BRN //------------------------------// The Time for Action. The Warrior's of Cosmos had done well to make it to the rift, now was the time to stop the manikins. Warrior had also done well in protecting Equestria, even coming close with the Mane Six. However, it appeared that a much larger threat appeared for both Cosmos and Celestia. It appeared that even though this would be a sign of hope for Cosmos, it appeared that victory was at hand for the God of Discord. In order to stop this, Cosmos would have to do something she was hoping she would never have to do. At the Old Chaos Shrine, Kefka returned after being forced to return by Garland. He didn’t look happy that he had to stop his fight before he could kill Warrior or the ponies at the Gala. The remaining Warrior’s of Chaos were there, except one. "Why oh why would you have me stop my plan to burn Equestria to ashes!?" Kefka whined. "Weren’t you listening!?" Garland said harshly. "The Warrior’s of Cosmos are at the Rift’s doorstep! We need to stop them. Don’t worry about Equestria, One of ours has already launched a plan to destroy that world. If there’s time left we’ll be sending a team to destroy Equestria if the Equestrians find a way to stop him." He turned to Trixie. "Your first battle against the enemy is here, time to show us your worth." Trixie smiled. "The great and powerful Trixie will show the Warrior’s of Cosmos their place." "The horde will make it to the Sanctuary and the Goddess will be slain." The Emperor smiled. Back with the Warrior’s of Cosmos down in the Gateway, the warriors were only one floor away from the Rift. The Warriors were feeling the presence of the manikins. "I can feel the manikins just teeming up ahead." Yuna said. "We’re close to the door to the Rift." Vaan had a stern look. "As soon as we break it down and get rid of all the manikins, we win for good." Lightning grumbled. "There you go again. When are you gonna quit being so naïve?" Vaan smiled at her. "What you picking on me for? Does the word ‘win’ bug you that much?" Lighting grew angry. "Yeah, when you say it like it’s nothing. Do you really have a grasp on what we’re doing here? If you’re going to waste your life, go to the next conflict! I’ll put you to sleep myself!" "Light!" Yuna said disturbed. There was a silence, and Vaan wasn’t affected by Lighting’s threats. "Heh-" Vaan laughed. "If you care about me that much why don’t you just say so?" "What!?" Lightning yelled. "I don’t-" "Calm down. I’m only saying that we’re going to ‘win’ after a lot of thinking, and I mean it. You’re not putting anyone to sleep. We came this far we’re going all the way." Lightning grumbled. "……Mouthy brat. So you can talk the talk. We’ll see if you can walk the walk. Come on." The team kept walking but Vaan stopped to think about something. "Course, if we lose. I won’t be able to go get that girl. But I think she’ll make it fine. If I can’t go, someone else will find her. I just hope she can say what she’s feeling. Then any Warrior of Cosmos would help her. Or maybe if I could talk to Pinkie Pie again, maybe the Equestrians could look after her. Well, only the clown might slay her if he finds her first. So,hang in there….." Vaan couldn’t remember her name. "T- Wait. What was her name? Tidus? No. Tifa? No… Oh yeah! Terra. That’s her name." Back in Equestria the mares felt better about themselves after a horrible Grand Galloping Gala. For some reason the temperature began to rise in Ponyville that day. Not only that, it seemed to be rising all over Equestria to. Twilight walked the streets with Spike, Twilight wiped the sweat off her head, since Spike was a dragon he didn’t feel it. "This heat really is strange this time of year." Twilight said. "You think Princess Celestia juiced up the sun for today?" Spike asked. "I don’t think so." Twilight said. She was passing Rarity’s boutique, Twilight saw Rarity in the window looking around. Twilight giggled, for Rarity didn’t want to come out in the heat due to it being bad for her complexion. Fluttershy kept visiting Warrior in the Sanctuary, she needed Cosmos and Warrior to help her get back on her hooves after being tortured by Kefka. Cloudsdale was in a total uproar over something. Rainbow Dash was busy tending to it. Pinkie Pie used the heat of the atmosphere to melt some chocolate for treats. She placed chocolate bars in a bowl and left it on the windowsill. Applejack wasn’t too bothered by it, working in heat is something the Apple family was used to. Spike and Twilight went back to the library she went to the sink and poured some cool water. Spike brought her a towel from her washroom and dabbed it in the water. Twilight used her unicorn powers to cool herself off with it. Unfortunately it didn’t seem to do much. Twilight grew frustrated with the heat. She trotted up to the balcony and stared at sky. "There has to be an explanation for this heat." Twilight said. She saw something small and red glowing in the sky. "A star? Visible in broad daylight?" She turned towards her telescope and used it to look at the red star. She gasped in fear as she stared at what she thought was a simple star. "What is it Twilight?" Spike asked as he looked to her from the main room. "A meteor!" Twilight said loudly. "It’s heading straight towards us!" "METEOR!" Spike screamed. There was a knock on Twilight’s door and she walked down to the main room and opened it to find Pinkie Pie. "Oh, hello Pinkie Pie!" Twilight said in a nervous tone. "Twilight something’s falling from the sky!" Pinkie Pie said. Twilight began to panic on inside. "Oh really?" Twilight smiled weakly. "How do you know?" Pinkie Pie adjusted her flank and showed Twilight her twitching tail, twitching like crazy. Twilight sighed and pulled Pinkie Pie inside and slammed the door. She covered her mouth with one of her hooves and stared her down. "Look. I’m about to tell you what’s happening. It’s terrifying, but you have to promise that you won’t scream, shriek, or yell. DO NOT! Tell anypony either! Ok!?" "Ok!" Pinkie Pie said with her voice muffled. Twilight released her. Twilight cleared her throat, and began to explain. "A meteor is falling right towards us!" She dragged Pinkie Pie up to her telescope and placed Pinkie Pie in front of it and showed Pinkie Pie the meteor. "Judging from the size of it, once it impacts……nopony will survive." Pinkie Pie looked away from the lens. "Gee…..I spent a lot of my life on a Rock Farm. I never thought one would come back to end my life." Pinkie Pie shrugged. "I may need to ask Princess Celestia for help." Twilight said. "No need!" The voice of Princess Celestia said. She dropped down from above and landed on the balcony. "Princess Celestia!" Twilight said happily. "You know about the meteor?" "Yes." Celestia said. "What are we going to do!?" Spike panicked. "I fear I do not know." Celestia said. "All of Cloudsdale has already spotted it. That’s why they’re in such chaos. Princess Luna is over there now trying to restore order." "Will we be ok if it hits?" Spike asked, he needed other assurance from someone much brighter than Twilight. "I’m afraid not." Celestia sighed. "I’m afraid that all life on Equestria will be gone if this meteor hits." "Princess……" Twilight said sadly. "There must be something we can do!" Celestia looked into the telescope and noticed something odd about the Meteor. Celestia pondered something. She used her unicorn powers and pulled a black feather from under her wing. "What a pretty feather!" Pinkie Pie said. "What’s that?" Spike asked. "I’m not sure, but I found this feather in the city when I went to raise the sun this morning. There’s a small presence of Chaos coming from it. With the appearance of this feather, and this meteor, I fear that Chaos might be behind this." "Then we should find Cosmos!" Spike said. "She must have a solution." Celestia said. "Go and see her." Twilight, Pinkie Pie and Spike left the Library and went to the Sanctuary. Once they entered the Sanctuary, they felt the change in atmosphere once there hooves made contact with the cool water on the floor. They found Fluttershy lying on the floor right in front of Cosmos and Warrior, who was back in his blue armor. Warrior knelt next to her head. Cosmos smiled at the Pegasus and gently petted her back. Twilight and the other two were feeling happy for Fluttershy. It seemed like she was finally over being tortured by Kefka. They didn’t want to ruin the scene that was very heartwarming, but they had to if they wanted to save their world. "Hello everyone!" Pinkie Pie said. Fluttershy picked her head up and smiled at her friends. Warrior and Cosmos looked at them. "Cosmos….We need your help!" Twilight said in a frightened tone. "What for?" Warrior asked, Cosmos flashed into the heavens and used her goddess vision to see what was happening in Equestria. She saw the meteor and gasped, she reappeared in her throne. "Oh My!" Cosmos said. "What’s going on?" Warrior asked. "A Warrior of Chaos summoned a meteor to destroy Equestria." Cosmos explained. "Oh my!" Fluttershy said worried. Spike was worried. "If you don’t mind me asking…..Why couldn’t you see this before?" Warrior didn’t say anything. He didn’t want to question the goddess, but he to was wondering why Cosmos couldn’t see it. He paused because he saw the irony in how he was just like Twilight when she refused to believe that Princess Celestia was possessed. "I’m unsure which Warrior of Chaos is behind this. But whoever it is, it managed to completely mask its actions. Remember, Chaos and his Warrior’s can use their power to hide themselves. Just like how Chaos can’t see you. This Warrior of Chaos must be the strongest of all of Chaos’s warriors." Warrior rose to his feet. Cosmos tensed up as she felt a disturbing presence near the edge of the Sanctuary. "Warrior, stay here! I’m going to Equestria!" Warrior nodded and Cosmos flashed up into the heavens. The ponies turned around and Fluttershy looked at Warrior. "Thank you and Cosmos so much for helping me feel better!" Fluttershy said. She got up and fallowed the others back to Ponyville. Back with the Warriors of Cosmos they were halted by a large inconvenience by Laguna. "OHHHHHH! Leg…leg cramp!" Laguna cried. Lightning scoffed while the others showed concern for him. "You alright, Laguna?" Vaan asked. "Here, grab my hand." Vaan helped Laguna stand back up. Yuna looked behind the path they’ve traveled and noticed that it’s slowly vanished. "The path behind us…it’s gone!" Lightning thought about it. "It’s…for the best." "Let’s keep going, come on!" Tifa said. There was a light at the end of the tunnel and the warriors all entered it. There was a bright flash and the warriors found themselves in the Empyreal Paradox. "This must be it!" Vaan cheered. Back in Ponyville the six all met up in the town square. They took notice of Fluttershy’s warm smile. Twilight explained everything to them with her and Cosmos, they felt a little jealous that Fluttershy got so close to the goddess. "What was it like being next to Cosmos like that?" Rarity asked. Fluttershy lowered her eyes and continued to smile. "It was nice and warm…almost motherly. That feeling was enough to help me feel better about what happened with Kefka. It almost felt like I could forget what feels like to be afraid or sad." "Glad you feel better!" Twilight smiled. "Uh guys!" Rainbow Dash said. She pointed her hoof to the meteor and it appeared to be getting closer. Cosmos flashed down right next to the six. She looked up and saw the meteor and gasped. Celestia saw the flash from Twilight’s balcony and flew over to the square and joined them. Spike walked out to the square after he saw Celestia fly towards it. "I fear that I don’t know what to do about this." Celestia said to Cosmos. "What do you purpose?" "I hope you know what to do!" Spike panicked. Cosmos had one idea. She looked at the mares and floated into the air and closed her eyes and closed her hands together. The mares and several residents of Ponyville stared at Cosmos as she started glowing. Cosmos concentrated and spread out her arms and several small lights flew from her hands and flew around the six mares, they all smiled at how fun the lights flew around and how pretty they looked. Twilight held out her hoof as some lights traveled to the space above her hoof and collected into a bright sphere. The others saw what Twilight did and they did the same, each of the mares had six spheres they traveled into their bodies. The mares closed their eyes as they felt heavenly warmth engulf their bodies. Their bodies also felt much stronger now, Rarity and Twilight felt like knowledge was pouring into their minds. It felt like their skill with magicks was improved even further. The mares opened their eyes as all ponies that were witnessing stared in awe. Cosmos lowered herself and stared at the mares. Celestia had a tear roll down her cheek in happiness. She walked next to Cosmos and stood by her. "What was that?" Rainbow Dash asked. "I feel....strange." Cosmos smiled. "My little ponies….I have granted you a portion of my divine power. With this you will stand a better chance against the Warriors of Chaos, you will also be able to combat Chaos’s dark powers." "Will we have to search for crystals just like the other your warriors?" Rarity asked. Princess Celestia decided to explain this part. "No, your crystals already exist as the Elements of Harmony." Twilight thought of something. "So….does this mean…..that we’re Warrior’s of Cosmos now?" Celestia stood tall and explained further. "Both yes and no, you must continue to aid Warrior and protect this world. You must also continue your lessons on friendship and also understand that the true force of your power only comes forth when you have the Elements of Harmony on." "That’s great!" Rainbow Dash said flexing her legs. "I’m ready to take out some Chaos goons!" "Don’t be rash!" Cosmos said loudly. "I fear that even though you have my strength, you are still at a great disadvantage against Chaos and his warriors." "You must experience battle through manikins to help you get stronger." Celestia said. "With this you must stop the meteor." Cosmos said, she paused. "I’m afraid I must leave you to stop the meteor. I’m sorry to leave you like this, but what’s about to happen is too important." "You’re just going to leave us hanging!?" Rainbow Dash said outraged. "This is too important. I must also order you to NOT to enter the Sanctuary." "Why?" Fluttershy asked. Cosmos stared the mares down, and said more sternly. "DO NOT, enter the Sanctuary." The ponies gulped and Cosmos vanished. Celestia moved closer to the mares. "Now I need you to understand….I knew Cosmos would do this. I didn’t intend for this to happen. But seeing the current circumstances, it is now unavoidable. If you wish to save Equestria now, then you will need Cosmos’s power." Spike felt a little jealous. He couldn’t be a Warrior of Cosmos, he would love to look heroic like Warrior for Rarity. Twilight was afraid, as were her friends. "But…Princess…..can we do it? Not only stop the meteor, but also perform the other duties as Cosmos’s warriors?" Celestia smiled. "You’ve done amazing feats ever since you joined Warrior. Don’t you think you can handle this as well?" Twilight smiled a little and then, she looked at her friends and hey all smiled back. "Right! We’ll be great Warriors of Cosmos!" "The best she’s ever seen!" Rainbow Dash said. "I’m a goddess’s warrior! We need cupcakes to celebrate!" Pinkie Pie said. "I don’t know, sounds dangerous." Fluttershy said. "We’re on the same level as Warrior and Laguna now!" Applejack said. Rarity jumped at a thought that disturbed her. "I’m going to need to look the part, if I am to serve the Goddess!" Celestia smiled. "It seemed like all her dear ponies were pleased to join Warrior in the ranks of Cosmos." "But wait!" Rainbow Dash said. "What was Cosmos talking about?" Twilight was reminded of what Cosmos said before she left. "Why doesn’t she want us to return to the Sanctuary?" Celestia was also curious. They rushed over to the center of the square and saw that the Gateway to the Sanctuary was covered in an aqua colored barrier, blocking any ponies from entering. Celestia frowned. "Cosmos put that there." "It appears that she really doesn’t want us to enter." Applejack said. Celestia had a terrible feeling about why Cosmos wanted no pony in the Sanctuary. "Twilight, I’m going to get the Elements of Harmony. Go to the hills outside of Ponyville. You should be able to stop the meteor from there. I shall meet you there." Celestia used her unicorn powers and vanished. Back with the Warrior’s of Cosmos they found a large tear in the floor that was wide open and had a bright red glow coming from it. This tear was in fact the Rift entrance, they would go and stop it but unfortunately manikins were surrounding it. More and more were appearing as time went on. "There’s too many of them!" Laguna panicked. "Calm down we can take them!" Tifa said cracking her knuckles. "We can’t waste our energy!" Lightning said. "We need to find another way." "Wait!" Vaan called. "I got these!" Vaan reached into his pockets and took out the two summon stones he and Pinkie Pie found. "Same here!" Laguna said, taking out the stones he and Applejack found. He threw the stones at the manikins and they shattered revealing the Eidolon of the Earth, a muscular giant, Titan. Along with one of the Four Elemental Fiends, a large, muscular horned zombie, Scarmiglione. Vaan fallowed up and tossed his stones forward as well. One of his broke open and revealed the Fire Eidolon, Ifrit, a large muscular horned beast with fiery flowing red hair. The other broke open and revealed another one of the Elemental Fiends. A wise, demonic looking man with red flesh and a pair of large yellow eyes, he wore a large red cloak with dark blue diamonds sown into it, the Fiend of Fire, Rubicante. Titian growled and slammed his fist into the ground. Creating a fissure that engulfed several manikins, He gripped the land and closed up the fissure and vanished back into the stone. Scarmigilone, stared at several manikins with his glowing yellow eyes in the empty eye holes in his skull. He placed a curse on several manikins, the curse engulfed them with a black glowing aura but it appeared to not be affecting them. Scarmiglione went back into his stone and vanished. Laguna was angered, it seemed his summon didn’t do anything. "Thanks a lot!" He shouted at the remaining pebble. The manikins noticed the warriors and charged at them. The ones with the dark aura suddenly imploded as a black skull appeared on the manikins remains and vanished. "Guess I had you figured all wrong." Laguna said to the pebble. Ifrit glowed bright red and sent out the glow and sent a hellfire at the charging manikins and completely incinerated them. Ifrit went back to his stone and vanished. Rubicante covered his body with his cloak and then sent a large fire at the remaining manikins and also incinerated them. The path was clear and the warriors cheered and charged at the entrance to the Rift. They stopped right in front of it. "That’s it." Vaan said happily. "The door to the Rift." "We made it!" Tifa smiled. "Now all that’s left is destroying it." Yuna was concerned. "I wonder if Kain and Cosmos are still alright." "Don’t worry, they’re fine." Laguna assured. "We’ve gotta believe in them. They’re counting on us, ya know." They all readied their weapons to attack the entrance. "Well, let’s do this!" Vaan said. A dark circle appeared in front of them. Lightning gasped. "Wait!" Then several Warriors of Chaos appeared before them. The Emperor, Garland, Kefka, Cloud of Darkness, and their newest ally, Trixie. They all gave them a mocking smile. "At last you’ve reached the end of the line." Garland said. The Warrior’s of Cosmos stared them down. "Step aside." Lightning ordered. They looked at Trixie and they gave her a pity look. "HAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Kefka laughed. "Step aside she says, do we look like sidesteppers? Your little game ends here kids." "What? Are you crazy?" Vaan scoffed. "All we have to do is go through you." Trixie snickered. "Through us, an through the new manikins preparing to emerge at this very moment. You believe you can defeat us all?" "We’ll do fine." Tifa said sternly. "Just stay out of my business." "So you’re the Equestrian who joined Chaos." Lightning said to Trixie. She drew her Blazefire Saber. "You made a giant mistake, I’ll make sure you learn it the hard way." "Ahhh….the vitality of youth." The Emperor said. He raised his staff. "Let us see how long it take to bring that to heel." They looked at the bandaged wound on The Emperor and Yuna laughed. She readied her own staff. "This time, there’s no getting away. Especially since it looks like the Equestrians gave you quite a beating." The Emperor growled at being mocked for being beaten at Canterlot. The Cloud of Darkness smiled at Laguna, intimidating him slightly. "You came." "Yeah." Laguna said smiling nervously. "Can’t stay though…Got plans up ahead." He pulled out his gun and pointed at her. "There is nothing ahead that will change your situation." Garland said. He readied his giant weapon, an oversized sword that he can transform into other shapes. "The only thing that awaits you is your inevitable doom. They all took fighting stances. "So what’s your point?" Lightning said sternly. "You can spout threats all day, we’re not turning back now!" "Whaddaya say ya give me back that thing of mine you borrowed?" Kefka asked Vaan. "Why don’t you try and take it?" Vaan challenged. "You think you’re so powerful? Pha!" Trixie scoffed at Tifa. "I’ll show you what you can do with your own body." TIfa said, tightening her fist. "I look forward to seeing this tragedy unfold." The Emperor smiled. "This is my story. It has a happy ending!" Yuna said determined. "You’ve chosen death. Now, let us see it!" The Cloud of Darkness hissed. Laguna was unfazed. "Sure, I got your death right here." He loaded up his gun and pointed it at her. "I will grant you true and utter annihilation." Garland said to Lightning. "Bring it on! I don’t need a second chance!" Lightning said. Then the two parties charged at each other. Back in Equestria. The six mares and Spike arrived at the hill. The stared up and noticed the meteor was finally close enough for the ponies of Ponyville to see that they’re lives were in great danger. Twilight concentrated hard and attempted to use her unicorn powers to slow the meteor down. But it had no effect. Twilight had a small headache. "Twilight." Spike said concerned. "I should have been able to stop it." Twilight grimaced. "This proves that this is no ordinary meteor." Twilight moved next to Rarity, the white unicorn understood that she would help Twilight with her own magic this time. They both concentrated and focused their powers they managed to slow the meteor down some, but not enough to stop it. Big panicking was heard from Ponyville they need to save their world from the meteor and fast. Back at the Empyreal Paradox, the two parties fought hard. Trixie galloped towards Yuna with her horn glowing. Bright flashes of magicks occurred everywhere and loud sounds of clashing weapons filled the area. "Shiva!" She summoned the Ice Aeon and she shot an icicle at Trixie. "No escape!" Trixie said. She raised a blue barrier and when the icicle hit the barrier and she reflected it back at Yuna. The summoner leaped to the side and dodged. Yuna grunted at the fact that this mare has gained great power since joining Chaos. "Planet’s Power!" Tifa said She collected energy and charged at Kefka. "Burst!" She successfully kicked and smashed him against the large red crystal in the center of the area. "I’ll Crush You!" Garland shouted as he turned his oversized sword into a hammer and slammed it into Laguna causing a small fissure to completely consume his body causing the gunner to scream several times. Garland’s move damaged Laguna several times in a small earthquake. "Flee if you can!" Cloud of Darkness hissed as she fired a dark red particle beam at Vaan, it shot at him in a strait linier path. Vaan didn’t see it coming at him so it struck him. He shifted his attention right back at her. "Asunder!" Vaan called he slammed his fist downwards and created a dust tornado and sent it at her. Cloud of Darkness smirked. The tornado hit her but failed to hurt her. "Enjoy the view!" Lightning said. She spun around in the air with her two giant blades and several lightning bolts shot down and zapped Emperor and super giant bolt shot down and slammed him against the ground. Back at the Sanctuary Cosmos returned and sat on her throne. She looked forward and shrieked. Warrior stood shocked as he drew his sword. There was giant army of manikins at the edge of the Sanctuary, coming to kill the goddess. Only Warrior stood between them, he gulped in fear for he knew he was going to die. "How are the ponies?" Warrior asked Cosmos. "They’re unaware of what’s happening." Cosmos said. "I sealed the way to Equestria, so no matter what, these manikins won’t get to their world." "Good." Warrior said as she stared down the manikin army. "I don’t want them to know that this is the end. I fear that the effects of it will not be good. I fear I failed both them and you Cosmos." Cosmos shed a tear, she wanted to object but she couldn’t think of any encouraging words. Back at the Empyreal Paradox, the battle raged on. "Run amok!" The Emperor sneered as he threw a blue flare ball at Tifa. Tifa jumped over the ball and landed in front of The Emperor. Tifa threw several punches and kicks at him but he just sidestepped and dodged them all. Tifa failed to notice the flare ball chasing her, once it was close enough it exploded greatly damaging her. "Rain Down!" Vaan called he punched an arcane symbol and tried to smash Trixie with several large water drops. She vanished into thin air and dodged the attack. Then she reappeared behind Vaan. "Fire!' She called she fired a red beam from her horn and greatly damaged Vaan. "Ifrit!" Yuna called and the fire aeon appeared and clawed the Cloud of Darkness. "Fist of Hellfire!" Ifrit clawed the Cloud of Darkness again, even though she took both the hits, she again was unharmed. "This is gonna hurt!" Kefka said. He summoned three blue magickal triangles and attacked Laguna with them. He leaped to the side and he waved his gun in the air and used his satellite laser. It drove Kefka in the floor hard. "TO ASH!" Garland snarled his body glowed red and he smashed at Lightning with his giant weapon, she back flipped and dodged. "This is gonna sting!" Lighting said as she spun her giant blades around and summoned several large Lightning bolts and stuck Garland driving him into the floor. He struggled and stood back up. The Chaos warriors almost ready to attack again but he raised his hand and halted them. Garland scoffed. "Are you still trying to win?" Lightning moved closer and pointed one of her giant blades at Garland. "You want me you finish you off?" Lightning threatened. "Just say the word." Garland scoffed again. "I think you should be having this conversation with the manikins." He turned to his allies. "We’re leaving! Forget the puppets, they’re expendable. Besides our army is still grand!" His allies were disappointed at how they were unable to kill their enemies. Garland turned to the Warriors of Cosmos. "This is farewell, Warriors of Cosmos." Cloud of Darkness moved forward and made an announcement. "It should interest you that the six Equestrians you have bonded with, have taken up the mantle of Warriors of Cosmos!" The Warriors of Cosmos gasped in fear. "Those foolish mares!" Lightning growled. "They have no idea what they’re getting into!" Yuna cried. Trixie was disgusted at hearing that Twilight’s become even more powerful. "They think that becoming more powerful they can stop us from destroying their world." Cloud of Darkness explained further. "Now let’s go see if they really are more powerful. We shall go and kill them!" Kefka laughed. Garland smirked. "For now, the manikins will keep you company until the sky falls upon your heads." The Warriors of Chaos vanished. "They’re going to Equestria next!" Vaan cried. "They’re going to kill them all!" Tifa cried. "What will we do?" Laguna sighed. Lightning was worried to. "I’m afraid nothing….but pray." Back in Equestria the meteor was getting dangerously close. Rarity and Twilight continued to try and slow it down with their magic, but to no avail. Princess Celestia appeared right next to them with a bright flash. The sky was turning bright brown, it seemed the area became more and more red as the meteor got closer. "Princess!" Twilight cried. "It’s no good! We can’t stop it!" "You must unleash your true powers from the Elements of Harmony." Celestia explained. The ponies put their elements on and they began to glow. "You must now stop the meteor. I must go to the gateway to the Sanctuary." She vanished before Twilight or any of her friends could question her about it. Celestia appeared in front of the Gateway barrier and stared at it. Her horn began to glow. She was going to break the barrier so she could see Cosmos. The ponies were about to use their powers on the meteor. "Power the necklaces and pray for your souls!" Said a familiar evil voice. The ponies looked several feet away and into the distance, stood Kefka, alongside Trixie and The Emperor. The ponies gasped and began to shiver. The villains smiled. "You look shocked." The Emperor said. "You didn’t honestly think this would be the last time we would meet would it?" Kefka looked at Fluttershy and gave her an evil smile. The meek pegasus crawled behind Rainbow Dash and began cowering. Twilight looked at Trixie and gasped. "Trixie!" The others gave her a heated glare. "Surprised Twilight?" Trixie smiled at the unicorn. "I have become much more powerful than any creature! Even you and an Ursa Minor!" The others gasped at what they just figured out. "You joined with Chaos!?" Rainbow Dash yelled. "Yes! He gave me what I always wanted!" Trixie said. "The power to back up my stories and eliminate you and the Warrior of Light." "No!" Twilight shrieked. "Trixie….." "You can’t be serious!" Applejack yelled. "Look at who you allied yourself with!" "Look at what they’re trying to do right now!" Rarity said pointing her hoof upwards towards the meteor. Trixie looked up and saw the meteor. She already knew what her new allies were planning, but didn’t question it. Now seeing her home in danger like this had awakened something in her mind. "Stop it! Stop it! Don’t let them control you!" Trixie rubbed her head for she started feeling a headache. The Emperor smiled more broadly." Don’t think she was the only one of your kind who has sided with us." The team began to feel uneasy about this. "We just did battle with the Warrior’s of Cosmos in front of the rift." Kefka explained. "We could have beaten them if Garland wasn’t acting weak and ordered the retreat after only one critical hit." Trixie whined. "Which is why we’re here now." The Emperor explained. "We’re here to make sure that our little present for this world is well received." "We just thought we could pay you a visit one last time before you die!" Kefka said menacingly. The team gulped in fear. "Twilight." Spike whispered. "What are we gonna do? We can’t get to Warrior." Twilight looked at the dragon who was trembling. She turned to her friends and half of them looked brave while the others were frightened. Pinkie Pie even looked worried. Then she turned towards the meteor. She wanted to stop it, but she knew the Chaos's warriors wouldn’t allow it. Spike was right, Warrior wasn’t around to save them. There was only one option. She looked at her friends again and stepped forward. Twilight gave a motivational speech. "After all this time, we depended on Warrior to get us out of jams like this. He’s done a great job protecting us. But now, let’s do what we’ve done when we became the Elements of Harmony and before we met Warrior. Save Equestria ourselves!" "But Twilight." Fluttershy whimpered. "These guys will kill us!" "It won’t matter." Applejack said stepping forward. "If we don’t fight, then that meteor will kill us anyways." Rainbow Dash stepped forward and cracked her neck. "Beat these losers in ten seconds flat!" Rarity stepped forward but stayed back. She took out a mirrior from her mane and looked at herself and sighed. "I’m going to get dirty from this…..but I guess it won’t matter if our home is destroyed. Then NOTHING will be beautiful again!" Pinkie Pie looked at the villains. "I was raised with rocks! How dare you have my precious rocks betray me!" Twilight looked at Spike. "Spike go hide. This will get ugly really fast." Spike gulped and began running for his life. "HAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Kefka laughed. "You’re foolish horses!" Kefka laughed at them. "I commend your bravery to protect your home but you can’t possibly hope to defeat us. The Warrior of Cosmos who protected you is no longer here! You’re powerless against us!" "I’m going to put you back in your place and reclaim my status as great and powerful!" Trixie said. The two parties stared each other down and a battle of great valor had begun. Twilight had her horn glowing but Rainbow Dash charged right at them. The Emperor smirked and tapped his staff on the ground and the earth below Rainbow Dash rose up and smacked Rainbow Dash in the mouth. She was sent flying upwards and slid across the ground. "Rainbow!" Twilight cried. Twilight had to act quickly. She remembered an old spell that could help them out greatly. "Vanish!" She casted the spell on her friends and they became invisible. The villains began looking around for the Equestrians. "Hmph." The Emperor scoffed. "You cannot possibly think that one spell can save you?" "A bold gambit I admit." Trixie said. "But no match for us!" "I’ll take care of this! Kefka said. "Ha!" He threw a giant icicle and made it shatter. "Come on Come On COME ON!" The icicles scattered all over the area and smashed each of the ponies. They were surrounding the villains and when the icicles hit the mares and the Vanish was dispelled. Rainbow Dash regained herself quickly and charged at Kefka and tackled him down. Rainbow Dash grunted and bucked Kefka in the face. Kefka stood back up and growled at the pegasus. "Come on! Tap into your elements!" Twilight said. The mares tapped their elements with their hooves and they began to glow. "Good!" The Emperor said. "I get to challenge you at your full strength." "Dance Dance!" Kefka shouted. He had big trouble hitting Pinkie Pie. Fluttershy ‘eeped’ everytime Kefka hit the yellow pegasus, her Element of Kindness formed a barrier that shielded her from the magick. Kefka grew angry and shot larger bolts at Fluttershy unfortunately her barrier shattered under the power and she was sent flying and slammed into a tree. He laughed hard but Rainbow Dash again rammed herself into Kefka and launched him into the ground. Kefka felt the bruise behind his head and grew very angry. "Ok little horsie!" Kefka growled. "Enough of you ramming me! I’m going to burn you alive! YOU’LL BE WELL DONE!" He shot three fireballs at Rainbow Dash she soared away from them but they chased her. One came at her from the left, one form the right, and right from behind. Rainbow Dash soared into some trees for cove, the fireballs went in after her. They all tried to swerve around the trees like Rainbow Dash, but they were no ware near as aerodynamic as she was. The fireballs went out when they hit trees, Rainbow Dash u-turned and went out of the trees, her body started glowing and she started leaving a rainbow-light trail and slammed into Kefka again. He screamed as the power of Rainbow Dash’s loyalty seriously damaged him, she stopped on the ground and launched Kefka forward. The Harliquin regained his stability and planted his feet on the ground and skid across the ground several feet. He stood for a little bit, and then dropped to one knee. His lip was bleeding and a large deep fissure in the ground remained. Rainbow Dash flexed her legs, she felt very proud of herself. Trixie was locked in a duel of magicks against Twilight. Trixie kept using black magicks she learned from her new allies. Twilight didn’t want to hurt her, she kept using her defensive spells Cosmos gave her. Trixie casted her Thunder spell. Twilight reacted quickly and casted Shell, which blocked the spell, but once the spell faded Trixie immediately casted the Blizzard spell. Twilight was fast enough to recast Shell. Rarity intervened and casted the Fire spell at Trixie from the right. Trixie noticed the spell. "Reflect!" Trixie called. Then a blue barrier rose and shielded Trixie and the fire hit the barrier and was sent right back at Rarity. She gasped as she began to fear her beautiful body getting scorched. She ducked and the fire hit her in the behind which was sticking up in the air. She looked at her flank and shrieked. "MY TAIL! MY BEAUTIFUL TAIL!" Rarity screamed. "Cure!" Twilight said. She casted the white spell healed Rarity’s damages. Rarity’s attitude cooled off instantly. Pinkie Pie got up and bounced over to stomp on the Emperor like she did to Kefka at the Gala. He noticed her and raised his staff. "Suffer!" The Emperor hissed. He drew a pentagram in the air and several blue magical lights and struck Pinkie Pie several times. Twilight saw her and knew exactly what to do. "Pinkie!" Twilight called, she shot the shell spell from her horn, it covered Pinkie Pie and blocked the lights from pelting her even further. The Emperor smirked at how pathetic this was. Fluttershy kept cowering she refused to fight, she covered her eyes, she didn’t want to see her friends get hurt. Applejack attempted to take the Emperor down by coming at him from behind, but he already knew she was there and trying to hit him. He vanished and Applejack was surprised. "What!?" She gasped. Then all of a sudden, her head was grabbed by the large hand of the Emperor he held her perfectly still and the tan pony was flailing about. She was struggling to get free. Her friends saw her struggling. Even Fluttershy uncovered her face. "APPLEJACK!" They screamed. The Emperor gave them a big evil smile. "Don’t hurt her!" Fluttershy cried. The Emperor nodded and his smile grew bigger and from the palm in the hand he was holding Applejack in, he summoned fire and ignited Applejack’s body. "AHHHHHH!" The tan earth pony screamed. "NO!" The others yelled. Kefka and Trixie laughed. The Emperor tossed Applejack back to her friends, with her body scorched. They all rushed over to her. She wasn’t dead, but she was completely unresponsive. "Applejack are you ok?" Rarity asked. She didn’t get a response from her. Rarity grew angry and she used her unicorn powers and pulled several large chunks of earth and threw them at The Emperor. He raised his guard and blocked each of them. "You think you can beat me with those rocks?" The Emperor mocked. "I’ll show you how to fight with rocks." The Emperor. He rose into the air and began spinning his staff. He laughed manically, he was going to unleash the same attack on the mares that he used to almost kill Warrior, the Starfall. Twilight figured out what he was trying to do. She had to stop him, she began chanting her Blizzara spell. "Going down!" Trixie shouted. She created a bright light from her horn and shot it up in the air and it split into several small spheres the size of fat pearls and all shot down and hit Twilight. When the spheres touched her body it burned her in warmth that felt like something from Cosmos, but it was very painful. The villains all laughed at them. The Emperor continued to use his Starfall. "Heavens!" The pentagram underneath him shot lightning streams up to The Emperor’s staff. The staff began to spin faster and the Emperor groane, the staff created a much smaller meteor above the mares and he made it collapse on them. They all screamed in pain and they were all sent flying and they all skid across the land and slammed against hard objects "You like the new spell I learned?" Trixie smiled, circling Twilight’s body. "It’s an advanced Black Magick. "One of the most deadly spells in existence. Holy." Twilight coughed. "Yes….(cough cough)….it shows how much you learned since joining Chaos." Twilight eyed her friends and they were all down and out. They groaned in pain. "Enough of this!" Kefka said. "I’m ending this right now!" Kefka raised his hand and a white sphere appeared in Kefka’s hand and he shot it up towards the falling meteor. The mares gasped in fear as the meteor started glowing white, it started falling faster. The air slowly began to turn red and the heat became intense. "I admit, you fought well." The Emperor smiled. "But I’m afraid this is the end for you." "Goodbye Twilight!" Trixie smiled evilly. Then she heard that voice in her head again. "You don’t kill others! Don’t let them destroy your home!" Trixie felt another headache and she rubbed her head again. "We…..can’t give up!" Twilight groaned. She and her friends struggled to get up but they were too wracked in pain do so. "Please." Twilight said to her Element of Magic. "We can’t lose now…..please help us save our home." All six of the Elements of Harmony began to glow. The mares rose into the air and the villains stared in awe. "So this is the power these mares posses." The Emperor said amazed. "Harmony in its raw form." Kefka noted. "It’s disgusting!" The Mane Six all came together and they stared at the villains with glowing white eyes and they shot the huge rainbow colored beam at the villains they stood their ground and when the beam touched them. They cringed because it stung them but it didn’t have much effect on all three of them. "HAAAAHAHAHAHA!" Kefka laughed. "Did you think that would work?" "This shows how much more powerful we are compared to you!" The Emperor said. Then something else happened. The figure of Cosmos’s insignia appeared in front of the mares and the villains were shocked. "It’s true!" Trixie shouted. "They’ve been blessed by Cosmos’s power." The Emperor grumbled. Then the Rainbow turned into white light and it seriously damaged the villains. They screamed and they were blasted far away, the light then redirected towards the meteor and once it made contact with the meteor it disappeared into several sparkles that strung out across Equestria. A particular Warrior of Chaos who didn’t take place in the fight but summoned the meteor, watched the whole thing. It grumbled in disgust and walked away. The Mane Six stopped glowing and they fell back to the ground. "They weren’t hurt anymore, but were completely worn out." "We….did it." Twilight panted. "If only Warrior could see us now." Fluttershy said. "I’m so tired." Rainbow Dash said. "Ha, I never thought I’d here myself say that." "I just wanna hit the hay." Applejack said. "Me to." Pinkie Pie said. The others were surprised to hear that to, but were too tired to do anything. Rarity was worried about her precious body. "I can’t sleep in the dirt, but I’m to beat to bring out my bed." She didn't want to look at herself, she probably already looked disgusting. Spike rushed back over to them after all of Ponyville saw the light and started cheering. "Twilight! Everpony!" Spike cheered. "You did it! You saved Equestria again!" He stopped for he noticed that they were all snoozing. Princess Celestia shed a tear of pride after she saw the victory of Equestria. Then she refocused on the barrier blocking the way to the Sanctuary. She was greatly worried for Cosmos and Warrior, she had to see what was happening. She began focusing her unicorn powers and she blasted a golden ray that resembled sunlight at the barrier. At first it had no effect he concentrated harder, it seemed the light was starting to effect the barrier. She focused harder and the barrier began to crack. Celestia began to sweat hard, she focused seven harder and the barrier finally shattered. Celestia felt proud, she felt something wet touch her cheek she didn’t know what it was so she touched it. She was disturbed as she saw the red stain of her own blood on her hoof. It appeared that she bled from her eye after all the hard work to break Cosmos’s barrier. She couldn’t go in alone. She had to get Twilight and the others to go in as well.