Charming Thunder walked through a tunnel like entrance as he cautiously crept into a reactor room. He ignited his lightsaber and stepped in front of a large window when she saw a shadow moved from the corner of his eye. He turned to see King Sombra and he rushed forward to attack. As he galloped, a large piece of machinery detached itself from the wall, flying toward him. He spun and slashed the machine, cutting it in half as another piece of machinery already flying towards him. Charming Thunder used his horn to blast them, then saw several pipes flying his way. Sparking wires began to pull themselves from the walls and creep towards him. As he used his magic to defend himself, a large piece of machinery smashed through the window behind him and a fierce wind began blowing through the room. Sombra stood as Charming Thunder grabbed hold of a rail, holding on for his life. A piece of machinery crashed into him and he slipped, rolling across the floor and out the window. He fell into a gantry outside and tumbled over the edge. Acting quickly, he grabbed hold of the gantry and kept a firm grasp on his deactivated sword as he hung. He clipped the sword to his belt and slowly began to climb his way up to the ledge.
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Twilight and the group rounded a corner and headed to a door to the landing platform. They got a glimpse of the YT-2400 freighter outside before the door slammed shut. The group dove into an alcove as the pursuing droids arrived sending a rain of laser fire towards them. Twilight and the group returned fire as Fancypants desperately punched at the door's control panel. "Give me a minute," he shouted as he pressed buttons on a panel next to the door. A microphone then appeared and announced, "Attention. This is Fancypants. The Lunar Republic has taken control of the city. I advise everyone to leave before more droid troops arrive." The mike the went back inside the panel and went to the controls to the door and pressed buttons. The panel then beeped and the door to the ship started to slide open. The group then dashed outside, racing to the ship as Canderous held off the droids.
"Twilight," Canderous shouted. "Go. I'll hold them off. You guys get out of here."
"But what about you?" Applejack asked.
"A certain sacrifice must be made. I can't let them take you." He took a long pause as he shot a droid to the head and got back to cover behind the corner of the door. "Its been a n honor fighting with you all."
"Good luck," Cadence said. The group then ran up the ramp of the freighter and the ramp then started to close up. As the engines started running, Canderous got out of cover and entered the hallway and blasted as many droids as he could. He then got shot in the shoulder and dropped his blaster. He then ran to the droids and started to punch them. A super battle droid came behind him and shot him in the back. Canderous started to crawl to his blaster as a battle droid walked up to the crawling pony and kicked his blaster away. It then shot him in the head and started to fire at the freighter. The freighter then lifted off the platform and into the darkening sky as droid star fighters were taking off in pursuit.
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Charming Thunder moved along the railing to the control room. Sombra darted out trying to lung him. Charming Thunder then instinctively raised his sword, deflecting Sombra's strikes. Sparks flew as the blades clashed, King Sombra gradually forced Charming Thunder back toward the gantry. “You are beaten,” he said as he continued to push him back. "It is useless to resist. Don't let yourself destroyed as I once was." Charming Thunder answered by rolling sideways, thrusting his sword viciously. The blade nicked Sombra's shoulder and his silver armor began to smoke. Sombra backed up, lifting his hoof to the wound, but he quickly recovered and his eyes glowed green, backing Charming Thunder up to the narrow end of the gantry. Sombra swung his sword down, crashing against the instrument complex at the end of the gantry. Charming Thunder swayed as the platform shook as Sombra struck again. His sword then came down across Charming Thunder's right fore hoof. His hoof shot across the air, tumbling down into the deep pit along with his sword. He screamed out in pain, squeezing his severed limb under his left front leg, and began to back up to the edge of the gantry. Sombra slowly followed as Charming Thunder reached the edge as he bites back his tears as he held on to the railing. "There is no escape," Sombra said as he said as he towered over the young colt. "Don't make me destroy you. You do not yet realize your importance. You have only begun to discover your power. Join me. With our combined strength, we can end this destructive conflict and bring order to Equestria."
"I'LL NEVER JOIN YOU!!" Charming Thunder screamed as he slowly edged himself off of the gantry and onto the broken instrument complex.
"If you only new dark magic," Sombra continued, sheathing his sword. "Princess Luna never told you what happened to your father."
"She told me enough," Charming Thunder shouted as tears begin to form in his maddening eyes. "She told me you killed him."
"No. I am your father," Charming Thunder's eyes grew wide as he took in the king's words as his heart began to sink in his chest.
"No...No, thats not true. Thats impossible." he screamed.
"Search your feelings you know it to be true."
"No! NO!" Tears flooded from Charming Thunder's eyes as he screamed maddeningly, trying to deny the horrible truth that lay in front of him.
"Charming Thunder, you can destroy Chrysalis," Sombra continued. "She has foreseen this. It is your destiny." He reached out his hoof, extending it to Charming Thunder. "Join me. And together we can rule Equestria as father and son. Come with me. It is the only way." As Charming Thunder lifted his eyes to meet his father's, a calm came over his body. He wiped the last of his tears, got to his hooves, closed his eyes, and fell. King Sombra darted to the edge of the platform as Charming Thunder fell down the deep pit. The wind whipped around him and he turned as he made his way out of the room. As the beaten bruised unicorn tumbled down the shaft, an exhaust pipe opened and sucked him inside. He then came to rest atop a circular grill. After a few seconds, the grill popped open, and he dropped through the pipe, falling down to a weather vane hanging below the city. He hooked his back legs around the vane to keep from falling to his death. As he hung, he tried to swing his remaining front hoof up to get a better grip, but his body would not obey. It was all he could do to hang, nearly lifeless, from the cracking weather vane.
"Aunt Luna....Luna, please," he mumbled as his will to live was nearly gone. "Luna...Twilight." There was an ominous cracking as a piece of the vane broke off and tumbled down into oblivion. "Twilight...Please hear me..."