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// The Activation 
// Story: Rainbow Dash and the Crystal Empire 
// by Rainbow Dash 55 
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"FIRE STREAK! FIRE! Please, wake up!"
Rainbow heard Sombra cackling behind her, but she could only think about Fire Streak.
"Fire Streak, please!", she continued begging. "Wake up!" She listened to his heart pounding, but it got slower and slower.
She reached out to heal him, but she was pulled away by five guards. They settled death grips on her, but she tried to get to Fire Streak anyway.
She saw Fire Streak's color disappear from his face.




Rainbow Dash felt it coming all along, but she didn't activate it until now.
She pulled all of the energy from the room, and used it to fuel her powers. Her eyes glowed bright, and the Avatar part of her decided to keep taking in energy and release it "little by little", when it was really causing extreme damage around the room.
First, Rainbow released the airbending force. She threw all four hooves out, and airbended the guards away from her. They crashed through the walls the instant they made contact with them.
Then, Rainbow spun upward, pulling water from the clouds above and the oceans below. They were soon surrounding her, drawn to her energy. She struck out once again, and sent the water flying in twelve different spears. The spears sliced through Soarin, Luna, and Twilight's chains, breaking the four chains on each of their hooves.
Rainbow called the element of earth. She pulled up four crates of rock around Soarin, Luna, Twilight, and Fire Streak, and lifted them up to her height.
"Tell everypony in the empire to leave their homes," Rainbow's Avatar self commanded in a loud boom. "Get everypony and their families to safety."
She sent the crates to three different parts of the village surrounding the castle, Fire Streak with Luna.
Rainbow slowly turned around, struggling to keep all of the power under control. It wasn't agreeing with her powers; it wanted to be free, and destruct everything.
She stopped turning, still flying in mid-air, and her white eyes landed on none other than.
King Sombra.