Chapter 16
Downtown Battle
Sunset Shimmer soared over Canterlot City, double-checking to make sure that she had enslaved every single citizen within the city limits. Once she was satisfied that she truly had the entire city under her control, she laughed lightly in victory as she flew up towards the tall buildings in the middle of the city. Her work in the Lego World was complete. Now, it was finally time to take the fight directly to Equestria.
Sunset stopped and hovered over the roof of one of the tall buildings and looked around at the surrounding city. She took a brief moment to appreciate the eerie silence that settled across the area, thanks to her efforts. A quick glance at the clock tower confirmed there was now only one hour left before the gateway to Equestria closed, which made her grin. The time had come.
She closed her eyes as she telepathically sent out her first order to her army of Lego minifigs: “My loyal subjects, you are to gather in City Park and await my further command. Tonight, we begin the invasion of Equestria!”
As one, every single minifig stood up straight, turned directly towards City Park, and began marching. Their movements were slow and constant, almost like mindless robots. Once every one or two seconds, the loud clacking noise of thousands of minifigs simultaneously taking a single step echoed all over the city. It was downright creepy and horrifying to an outside observer, but to Sunset Shimmer, it was music to her ears.
In one seemingly random part of town, the scene appeared to be just as similar as it was everywhere else in the city. But soon, something different began to arrive. A pair of headlights could be seen approaching along a street, accompanied by the noise of a vehicle’s engine. As the glare of the headlights moved aside, the oncoming vehicle was revealed to be something like a jeep on large tires and with some kind of turret sitting in the back. This special vehicle had room for only two minifigs, a driver and an operator for the turret. Sitting behind the turret was Rarity, while the driver was Applejack.
As the junkyard jeep zoomed by, Applejack honked the novelty horn, which played a quick tune that lasted for a few seconds. Once the brief tune finished, Applejack excitedly shouted, “Yee-haw! Now we’re gettin’ somewhere!”
Meanwhile, Rarity was busy scanning the skyline through a pair of binoculars. If they were going to put this creation to good use, the first thing they needed to do was find Sunset Shimmer. She sighed in frustration as she was unable to see any clear signs of their opponent, so far. “How hard can it be to find such a hideous demon in an ordinary city like this?” she muttered to herself.
As the jeep rapidly approached an intersection, Applejack saw something that made her eyes widen in shock. “Whoa, nelly!” she exclaimed as she stomped on the brake, quickly bringing the vehicle to a screeching halt.
Rarity had not expected the sudden stop and was nearly thrown out of her seat. She immediately lowered her binoculars and glared at the driver. “Applejack! What is the meaning of… this…?” Her words of frustration trailed off as she shared the same reaction as Applejack at what lay before them.
It was only now that they finally realized what all of the enslaved citizens were doing. Applejack and Rarity looked on in stunned silence as every surrounding minifig marched in perfect lock-step in the same exact direction. They made no reactions to anything that was going on around them as they marched on. The simultaneous clacking of each footstep was impossible to ignore. Perhaps the most startling detail of all was the wide variety of minifigs that were part of this mindless march: a firefighter, a chef, a racecar driver, a construction worker, and even children!
“My stars…” muttered Rarity in shock and disbelief. “It’s like… something out of a horror movie!”
“An’ they’re all goin’ in one direction,” observed Applejack. “Towards City Park.”
“So it’s true, then,” stated Rarity in disbelief. “Sunset Shimmer really does intend to march them all through the interdimensional portal there.”
“Not if we have anythin’ to say ‘bout that!” said Applejack in determination. “We’ll track down that monster an’ put an end to her madness!”
“I could not agree more with that statement,” responded Rarity as she returned to looking through her binoculars. Within seconds, she finally found their target. “There! I see her!” she exclaimed. “She’s on top of the Octan Building!”
“Think ya got a clear shot from here?” asked Applejack.
“I believe so,” replied Rarity as she set down her binoculars.
“Then have at her!” encouraged Applejack.
“Gladly,” responded Rarity with a smirk on her face as she grabbed one of the numerous containers that were attached to the back of the jeep. These containers were actually feeders that held four large spheres that could be fired by this type of turret. Once the turret was loaded, Rarity spun it around until it was aimed directly at the distant figure atop that tall building. She took a moment to carefully make sure she was on target. Once she was finally confident with her aim, she grabbed the lever and quickly pushed it forward, which triggered the turret to fire one of the spheres. When the lever quickly sprung back, she immediately pushed it forward again, and again, and again, ensuring that all four spheres had been fired in rapid succession.
Sunset Shimmer had been basking in her apparent victory so smugly that she was completely startled when the first sphere whizzed right by her. As the second sphere whizzed by, she quickly realized she was under attack. As she moved aside to barely dodge the third sphere, she conjured up a small fireball and flung it at the fourth and final sphere. The impact of the magic blast caused the sphere to detonate in midair, far enough away to not cause any harm.
As the smoke cleared, Sunset could finally see who had dared to attack her like this. Her eyes widened as she was startled to discover that it was Applejack and Rarity. “How did they escape!?” she asked in disbelief. She immediately decided to ignore that question for now, for she knew who was responsible for this failure. As she conjured up another small fireball, she growled and muttered, “I knew I couldn’t trust those brick-heads!” Once the magic in her hand was powerful enough, she hurled it towards the offending vehicle.
Rarity had witnessed all of this through her binoculars. She lowered her binoculars as she said in disbelief, “Oh dear. It appears I’ve missed every shot.”
It seemed that Rarity was not the only one whose aim was off tonight, for Sunset’s magic energy missed hitting the jeep. Instead, it struck a nearby parked car. The blast caused that unfortunate car to fly apart into pieces.
“We’d better get goin’ while the gettin’s good!” said Applejack without hesitation. She immediately stomped on the accelerator, causing the tires to screech momentarily as the jeep sped off down the street.
As the jeep swerved around abandoned vehicles and some of the mindless marching minifigs, Rarity desperately held onto the turret for support. Trying to find some optimism, she commented, “At the very least, I hope we were able to provide a good enough diversion to assist the others in their own efforts.”
The jeep passed by another parked car just as it was blasted apart by Sunset Shimmer. Some of the pieces showered the side of the jeep, but thankfully none of them hit either of the occupants. “Ah don’t think we gotta worry ‘bout that part!” remarked Applejack irritably.
Sunset Shimmer growled in frustration before hurling another blast of magic at the speeding junkyard creation off in the distance.
Meanwhile, on the other side of town, another vehicle was zooming along the streets. This thing was much bigger than the jeep and was mostly red. Specifically, it was an old fire truck. The cab up front lacked a roof or any windows, but that didn’t seem to bother any the four minifigs riding inside. Riding on that junkyard fire truck was Pinkie Pie behind the driver’s seat, Fluttershy in the front passenger seat, Spike behind the front passenger seat, and Rainbow Dash in the driver’s seat. The fire truck also lacked a bell or siren, but it did have that loud horn on the front.
Rainbow Dash blared the horn twice before shouting, “Coming through!” She was forced to swerve the fire truck around some of the people who happened to be marching right in the middle of the road. Past the upcoming intersection, Rainbow could see no way around that many people in the road, so she decided to turn right onto another street. The fire truck went around the relatively tight turn at high speed, causing the tires to screech as it made the turn.
As the fire truck straightened out, Fluttershy gasped as she saw yet another mind-controlled minifig marching across the street. “Look out!” she exclaimed fearfully as she pointed at the person ahead.
Rainbow Dash blared the horn twice again, but the hypnotized minifig made no reaction at all, as if the oncoming vehicle didn’t even exist to him. Rainbow was forced the swerve the fire truck so far to the side that it briefly went up onto the sidewalk, knocking over a trashcan in the process. “It’s no use!” exclaimed Rainbow as she steered the fire truck back onto the road. “They’re all practically zombies!”
“Good thing I thought ahead,” remarked Spike as he got up out of his seat, “because that’s where this thing comes in!” Spike reached back to grab his small creation that was stored on top of the fire truck. He grunted as he struggled to lift it over his head before flipping it over and attaching it onto the front of the vehicle. The small assembly he had just added was some kind of pendulum with a large mass on the end, making the whole thing look like some kind of giant hammer. “Not exactly the kindest approach, but it sure is better than running them over,” explained Spike.
“Good enough for me,” said Rainbow Dash, before turning the fire truck left onto another street, which turned out to have a lot of enslaved citizens marching through the middle of the road. Once the massive vehicle was straightened out again, she told Spike, “Swing away!”
Spike grinned as he grabbed onto the lever that would allow him to swing the large hammer around. Pushing the lever left would make the hammer swing to the right, and pushing it to the right would make the hammer swing to the left. As the fire truck quickly approached the marching crowd, Spike started swinging the hammer back and forth. Each time right before the hammer struck someone, Spike shouted things like, “‘Scuse me! Pardon me! Comin’ through! Move it! Look out! Incoming! Oversize load!”
In the fire truck’s wake, a few minifigs got knocked aside and landed on the sidewalk. Each of them showed no emotion as they slowly stood back up and resumed marching in the same direction and at precisely the same pace and timing as everyone else.
Meanwhile, Pinkie Pie was busy looking around for any sign of Sunset Shimmer. Rainbow Dash had mentioned having some kind of secret weapon loaded on the back of this fire truck, and had plans to use it against Sunset. Pinkie couldn’t wait to see what Rainbow had in mind, so she continued to look around to help her get that opportunity she needed.
Finally, Pinkie spotted that red monster hovering atop one of the tallest buildings in the city. She pointed up at the building and shouted, “Look! There she is!”
The others turned to glance up at the building to see for themselves that Sunset really was up there. Now that she knew where to go, Rainbow Dash turned her attention back to the road ahead with a determined look on her face and declared, “Good! Now let’s take her down!” She quickly turned right onto another street.
Unfortunately, this turned out to be a mistake, as Spike pointed ahead and shouted, “Uh oh. Roadblock!” Blocking the road up ahead were a few cars piled up together. The fire truck was too long to turn around on such a narrow street, so the only way out was to go right through the roadblock.
Knowing what had to be done, Rainbow Dash narrowed her eyes in determination and shouted, “Hang on!” She stomped down on the accelerator, pushing the mighty vehicle ahead the highest speed possible.
“Oh my goodness, oh my goodness, oh my goodness!” whimpered Fluttershy fearfully.
“Wheeee! Smashy smashy!” shouted Pinkie Pie cheerfully.
The screams of all four minifigs onboard grew louder as they got closer to the roadblock. Finally, the massive fire truck slammed into the roadblock, demolishing the pile of cars and sending Lego pieces flying everywhere. One could almost imagine seeing the impact happening in slow motion. Remarkably, the junkyard fire truck made it through the heavy collision without losing even a single piece. This was likely because Spike’s creation — which got knocked off the fire truck from the collision — had taken most of the impact.
With that obstacle out of the way, Rainbow Dash immediately turned left onto yet another street. This time, the fire truck was going so fast around that corner that it didn’t just make the tires screech. The left side wheels actually came up off the ground as the entire vehicle leaned over towards the outside of the turn. As Rainbow Dash remained silent in concentration, Spike and Fluttershy screamed in panic, while Pinkie Pie just squealed excitedly like she was on an amusement park ride.
Finally, Rainbow straightened the steering wheel out, allowing the massive vehicle to slam back down on its base. Once the fire truck was steadily moving forward again, Rainbow Dash climbed out of her seat and kept one hand on the steering wheel as she turned back to Pinkie Pie and exclaimed, “Pinkie! Take the wheel! It’s time to use my secret weapon!”
“Roger, dodger!” responded Pinkie before hopping over and into the driver’s seat.
As Pinkie grasped the steering wheel, Rainbow Dash made her way towards the back of the fire truck, where her secret weapon sat in preparation for use. She stood up and placed her back against her creation. She then pulled part of it down over her chest, and then two more parts alongside her arms. With the set-up complete, Rainbow pointed at Fluttershy and shouted, “Fluttershy! Flip that switch!”
Fluttershy looked over on the side of the fire truck and saw the lever next to her that stuck out noticeably. She pushed the lever forward, which turned some gears and axles inside, ultimately releasing a series of clamps that held down Rainbow Dash’s creation to the fire truck.
“BLAST OFF!!” shouted Rainbow Dash before activating her secret weapon: a powerful jetpack. The small but mighty engines instantly roared to life, shooting bright flames downward and quickly pushing the jetpack up — taking Rainbow Dash with it.
“Whoa!” shouted Spike as he briefly shielded himself from the blast of smoke from the jetpack as it took off.
“Goodness!” exclaimed Fluttershy as she did likewise before she and Spike turned their attention up at the airborne creation.
“Wow-wee!” exclaimed Pinkie Pie as she and the others watched Rainbow Dash and her jetpack soar over their heads and high into the sky.
After a brief moment of stunned silence from the three remaining minifigs in the fire truck, a grin suddenly formed on Spike’s face as he excitedly exclaimed, “I have gotta get me one of those!”
Up in the air, Rainbow Dash was laughing, yelping, and grunting as she struggled to control what was arguably one of the most awesome things she had ever built. After swerving around uneasily, she finally managed to bring the powerful jetpack under control and steered directly towards the top of the building where Sunset Shimmer was waiting. “You’re going down, demon!” she shouted, before unleashing a battle cry as she flew straight at the monstrous minifig.
Sunset turned to see Rainbow Dash and her jetpack rapidly approaching. Smiling, she simply moved aside and let the rocket-propelled minifig pass by harmlessly.
“NOOO!!” shouted Rainbow Dash in frustration as she continued to fly forward. “I missed! How could I miss!?” Her eyes suddenly widened in shock as she saw the rapidly approaching side of another tall building. “Uh oh.” With little time to react, she immediately pulled back on the controls to steer the jetpack upwards. The jetpack sharply turned up and barely avoided slamming into that building. Unfortunately, in her haste to avoid that impact, Rainbow quickly lost all control of the jetpack as it continued to soar straight up. “Ah! Whoa! Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whooooaaaaaaaa!” screamed Rainbow as she and her jetpack spiraled upwards uncontrollably and out of sight.
After witnessing the disappearance of that amusing sight, Sunset Shimmer couldn’t help but laugh. “Pathetic!” she taunted to the five remaining minifigs zooming around in the streets below. “Is that the best you wimps can do!?” The demonic minifig then resumed her evil laughter.
Sunset’s laughter was suddenly cut off as she began to hear another noise. It was a faint rapidly thumping noise. She looked around suspiciously, trying to locate the source of that strange sound.
Soon, the source of that thumping noise moved into view from behind another tall building, revealing that it was a small personal helicopter. What really surprised Sunset Shimmer was not the helicopter itself, but the one who was piloting it: Twilight Sparkle. “What the…” muttered Sunset in disbelief as the junkyard helicopter moved to hover directly overhead of her position.
Inside the small helicopter, Twilight tapped a button, allowing the winch to automatically lower down. “I sure hope that crown is magnetic,” Twilight said quietly to herself as she tapped that button again to make the winch stop, then tapped another button to activate the magnet that was dangling on the end of that winch.
As soon as that magnet activated, Sunset felt the magic crown on her head start to shift. She quickly reacted by bringing a hand up to hold the crown to her head before it could slip loose. “I don’t think so!” she shouted before using her other hand to telekinetically grab the magnet and quickly force it away, dragging the entire helicopter with it.
“Ah! There goes Plan A!” exclaimed Twilight fearfully as the helicopter was dragged backwards, despite holding the controls to move it forward — which caused the rapid thumping noise of the rotor to become much louder. She quickly shifted around in her seat so that her feet could hold the controls in their current forward state, allowing her to reach underneath the helicopter to grab something she had stored on the bottom. That item she pulled out was a brick separator, which she had been fortunate enough to find buried at the bottom of a random pile back at the junkyard.
As she kept her feet on the controls, Twilight reached the brick separator over to remove the part that attached the winch to the rest of the helicopter. After prying it around awkwardly, she finally managed to remove that piece. As the winch and the magnet continued away, the helicopter quickly slowed down to a stop and then accelerated forward. This sudden change in momentum caused Twilight to drop the brick separator and scream as she was nearly thrown out of her junkyard helicopter.
Twilight just barely managed to hang on and avoid falling out. Her feet kept holding the controls in place as her upper body stuck out precariously. With some careful maneuvering, she managed to pull herself back into her seat and into the proper position, putting her feet down and bringing her hands back to the controls. By the time she accomplished all of this, the helicopter had returned to the Octan Building and Sunset Shimmer.
The rotor quieted back down as Twilight slowed the helicopter down to hover in place. “Okay, Plan B…” said Twilight to herself with uncertainty. “What’s Plan B?”
Sunset didn’t hesitate to strike down Twilight Sparkle. She conjured a small fireball and hurled it at the helicopter, but barely missed.
“Ah! Evasive maneuvers! Evasive maneuvers!” exclaimed Twilight in panic as she quickly started working the controls back and forth, making the helicopter move left and right to keep it in motion, and thus make it a difficult target to hit.
Sunset kept on hurling magic energy at the swerving helicopter. After many tries, she finally managed to get a hit, striking the propeller that served as the tail rotor and causing it to fly off.
Twilight felt the impact and immediately started hearing alarms blaring loudly from the controls. “Oh nononononononono!” she exclaimed fearfully. Her screams of panic continued as the junkyard helicopter started spinning around uncontrollably and slowly descending.
The helicopter soon managed to land somewhat gently on the roof of the Octan Building, but it continued to spin around uncontrollably. Twilight tried desperately to slow down the main rotor, but the helicopter continued to slide around the roof in circles. Eventually, one of the skids on the bottom bumped into the ledge of the building, causing the helicopter to roll over sideways and fall off the side of the building upside down. After a long fall, the helicopter crashed into the street below and completely fell apart into pieces.
Just seconds after the crash, the junkyard fire truck arrived at the scene and quickly came to a stop. As Spike immediately hopped out of the fire truck, Fluttershy gasped and exclaimed, “Oh my goodness! That’s Twilight’s helicopter!”
Spike quickly started tossing pieces aside, searching desperately for any sign of Twilight. It wasn’t long until the pieces were scattered enough to make it clear that there were no body parts at all within the wreckage. “But Twilight’s not inside it!” exclaimed Spike.
Pinkie Pie quickly cleared up the confusion by pointing upward and exclaiming, “That’s because she’s still up there!”
Spike and Fluttershy turned to look up and gasped as they saw Twilight dangling from the ledge at the top of the building. She had somehow managed to grab onto that ledge as the helicopter rolled over it before falling off. Although she was still alive, she was also very clearly in great danger — not just because she could fall off, but also because Sunset Shimmer could simply push her off.
As the junkyard jeep slowed down on its way past the scene of the helicopter crash, Applejack and Rarity needed only to look up at Twilight hanging onto that ledge to understand what was going on. “Y’all don’t worry ‘bout a thing! We’ll take it from here!” assured Applejack, before driving off to provide Rarity with an ideal distance to use the turret against Sunset.
“Nice and steady now, Applejack,” cautioned Rarity as she removed the empty feeder from the turret and discarded it. “The last thing I need is a bump in the road to disrupt my accuracy.” She grabbed one of the full feeders and attached it to the turret. She then spun the turret around and pointed it up towards the top of the tall building. With the demonic minifig lined up in her sights, Rarity fired off all four spheres in rapid succession.
As Twilight struggled to hold her grip onto the ledge, Sunset Shimmer stared down at her with a smirk on her face. “Nice try, princess, but I’m afraid this is the end of the road for you,” taunted Sunset. She then noticed the four spheres shooting right towards her. She quickly dodged the first one, then grabbed the second in her magical grip and hurled it at the third, causing them both to explode in midair. Finally, she grabbed the fourth and final sphere in her magical grip and — after glancing at Twilight with a wicked grin — flung it at the ledge.
The impact of that sphere broke many pieces off of the building, including the one that Twilight had been holding onto. Now, there was nothing that Twilight could do but scream in terror as she fell to her doom.
“Twilight!” shouted Spike as he and the others could do nothing but watch helplessly.
Twilight flailed her limbs around and kept screaming as she continued to fall to the street far below. Minifigs may be durable, but she seriously doubted that she could survive a fall from such a great height. Even worse, there seemed to be no way that her friends could be able to save her.
Suddenly, just halfway down to the ground, Twilight felt something slam into her from the side. This object roared with the noise of rocket engines as it soared over the cityscape. The five minfigs on the ground — as well as Sunset Shimmer — gasped in shock at what they were seeing. Realizing that she was now flying instead of falling, Twilight slowly opened her eyes to see who had just saved her.
“I told ya I wouldn’t let ya down!” exclaimed Rainbow Dash excitedly as she held on to Twilight.
“Rainbow Dash?” asked Twilight in confusion as she quickly looked over the large jetpack on Rainbow’s back that propelled them through the air. “This is your secret weapon?”
“Pretty cool, huh?” smirked Rainbow proudly.
After a brief silence, Twilight suddenly asked, “So how does it land?”
Rainbow Dash’s look of pure confidence was immediately wiped away. “Uh…” was all she could manage to say.
Twilight narrowed her eyes at Rainbow and simply stated, “You didn’t think about that part, did you?”
Rainbow grinned innocently for a moment, but the conversation was quickly interrupted by a blast of magic energy passing by dangerously close. The two airborne minifigs glanced back to see Sunset Shimmer was now focusing her efforts on shooting them down. “I think we’ve got bigger problems to worry about right now!” exclaimed Rainbow Dash. “Hang on!”
Twilight immediately reached up to hold tightly onto Rainbow Dash, freeing up Rainbow’s hands and allowing her to control the movements of the jetpack. She used all kinds of aerial maneuvers to dodge every burst of magic, from simple left and right banking, to complex moves like barrel rolls and even a vertical loop at one point. As Rainbow silently piloted the powerful jetpack around, Twilight could do nothing but scream fearfully as she was carried along for each and every wild maneuver.
After missing for the umpteenth time, Sunset Shimmer growled loudly in frustration. It soon became clear that if she was going to shoot down that jetpack and its two passengers, she would have to directly pursue it. With a mighty beat of her bat-like wings, she quickly flew away from the Octan Building and soared after the jetpack. Once she was firmly in hot pursuit, she resumed hurling small fireballs at her target.
“It’s no use!” exclaimed Rainbow Dash desperately as she struggled to control the jetpack. “This thing may be powerful and awesome, but I can’t keep doing this! There’s gotta be another way!”
Twilight thought desperately for an alternate plan. The junkyard creations had done well to distract Sunset Shimmer from focusing on her intentions to invade Equestria, but they ultimately failed to remove those magic powers from her. What Twilight and her friends really needed was some way to remove that magic. Physically removing that crown was out of the question, after her failed attempt with that magnet. That meant they would need to find some way to counteract those magic powers.
Twilight now began to think of what could work against an Element of Harmony. Suddenly, it hit her like a ton of Lego bricks. Sunset Shimmer was using an Element of Harmony… but it was being used for the exact opposite of harmony. If that magic was not being used for its intended purposes, then perhaps it could be turned against the user. It was a long shot, but it just might work.
Finally, Twilight revealed her plan to Rainbow Dash. “We gotta get everyone back together,” she quickly explained.
Rainbow briefly glanced down at Twilight in shock and exclaimed, “Are you nuts!? That’ll just help her destroy us all with only one shot!”
“Trust me!” responded Twilight desperately. “It may be our only chance!”
“If you say so,” said Rainbow Dash reluctantly. She brought the jetpack lower until they were weaving their way between buildings. It wasn’t long until she found the fire truck driving quickly down one street. Rainbow swooped the jetpack down just long enough to tell her friends below, “Meet up with the jeep!” Just seconds later, she managed to find that jeep, to which she pulled off the same maneuver with the slightly altered message of, “Meet up with the fire truck!” Knowing that it would take some time for the two vehicles to find each other, Rainbow decided to buy them as much time as possible by making sure that Sunset Shimmer remained in hot pursuit of the jetpack.
Meanwhile, the two remaining junkyard vehicles sped off through the streets in desperate search for each other. Nobody in either vehicle had any clue what the plan was, but they knew that something had to be done. After speeding through many different roads, both vehicles quickly began to turn left. Unfortunately, neither of them were aware that they were doing so at the same intersection at the same time until it was too late.
“Whoa!” shouted Applejack as she realized the jeep was turning onto the road that the fire truck was turning away from. As the long fire truck made its wide turn, Applejack had almost no time to react as she stomped on the brake and jerked the wheel as hard to the left as possible in a desperate attempt to make an emergency U-turn. Unfortunately, both vehicles were going so fast through their respective turns that they ended up sliding across the pavement and slamming into each other, broadside to broadside. The jeep and the rear of the fire truck were smashed to pieces, leaving only the incomplete cab of the fire truck intact, which spun around before sliding to a stop and facing towards the intersection.
Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy immediately hopped out of the fire truck cab to check on their friends. They didn’t need to worry, as Applejack and Rarity quickly pulled themselves out of the wreckage.
When Rarity reached a hand up to her head, she immediately noticed the worst possible thing imaginable to her: her hair piece was missing! “AHH! My hair!” she screamed as she started looking around desperately. “What happened to my hair!?”
Applejack quickly dug through the wreckage of the junkyard jeep and, within seconds, pulled that stylish violet hair piece out from underneath the pile and stated, “Found it!”
“Oh, thank goodness!” exclaimed Rarity with a sigh of relief as Applejack tossed the hair piece back to her. “I don’t know what I would do without this most valuable piece of all.” She quickly dusted off the outer surface of her hair and gently placed it back on her head.
The faint roaring noise of Rainbow Dash’s jetpack quickly caused the four minifigs in the street — and one Spike in the fire truck remnant — to turn their attention to the rapidly approaching airborne creation.
With the rest of their friends now together, there was only one thing Rainbow and Twilight had left to do. As Rainbow Dash carefully guided the jetpack very low along the street towards that intersection, she told Twilight, “Get ready to let go!”
Twilight looked down fearfully as she anxiously awaited Rainbow’s signal. Since this jetpack had been built with no landing feature, the only way off was to simply drop away and hope for a soft landing.
Rainbow slowed down the jetpack as much as she could while keeping it airborne. Just two seconds away from passing directly over the intersection of the crash scene, Rainbow shouted, “Now!”
Twilight put her fate in Rainbow’s instincts and let go. Rainbow had managed to bring the jetpack down to a height of less than a dozen bricks from the street, which meant that Twilight didn’t have far to fall before hitting the ground. In fact, most of her momentum on impact was horizontal instead of vertical, which caused her to quickly tumble down the street until she was caught by Fluttershy. Despite a little soreness, Twilight was relieved to be back on the ground with almost no injury.
Meanwhile, at the very instant Twilight had dropped away, Rainbow Dash quickly pushed away the piece over her chest that held her to the jetpack, briefly pulled the controls to turn the flying creation upwards, and then bailed out. She managed to do all of this in just one second, but it was just enough of a delay to have her overshoot the intersection, causing her to land just past the crash scene and tumble along the street with nothing to catch her. Fortunately, she managed to tough it out and bring her body to a complete stop. After taking a few seconds to catch her breath, she noticed Applejack run over and help her back to her feet. Although she could have been fine on her own, she didn’t resist the friendly gesture.
With the entire team now back together, everyone glanced up at the now pilotless jetpack as it soared upwards. Just seconds later, Sunset Shimmer finally managed to score a direct hit with a blast of magic energy that completely shattered the jetpack. As pieces of that destroyed jetpack began raining down on the street off in the distance, the six friends turned around and gasped as they suddenly found themselves face to face with a very furious Sunset Shimmer.
Sunset immediately began using both hands to conjure up a much larger fireball. “Playtime is over, girls!” she roared furiously. “It’s time I got rid of you pests once and for all!” Finally, once the massive bright orange fireball was formed, Sunset raised it over her head and hurled it down at the six helpless minifigs below.
With only fractions of a second to react, the six friends quickly huddled together and braced themselves for impact. The massive fireball easily struck its target, exploding brightly enough to be seen from all over the city.
Spike had ducked down behind the steering wheel of the disabled fire truck. Once the bright flash from the blast faded away, he slowly peeked over the steering wheel, fearing what he would see. As soon as he got a look at the scene in front of him, he gasped in shock.
Sunset Shimmer laughed victoriously for a few seconds, but when she finally opened her eyes, she also gasped in shock at what stood before her.
Twilight Sparkle and her friends, under the magenta glow of some kind of magic, were completely unharmed! The six friends opened their eyes and looked at one another in confusion. None of them had even a scratch on their bodies!
“What the— How is that even possible!?” exclaimed a very dumbfounded Sunset Shimmer.
Twilight smiled as she realized what just happened. She looked up at Sunset with a smirk and explained, “For the same reason you couldn’t get rid of me back in the forest. An Element of Harmony may be very powerful, but there is one thing they can never ever do, and that is to take away a pony’s life! Or, in this case, a minifig’s Creation Spark.” As she and her friends began to rise up and magically hover over the street, Twilight continued, “But there’s more to it than that. The magic contained in my Element was able to unite with those that helped create it.” As Twilight began to list the six Elements of Harmony, something remarkable started happening.
Applejack noticed her hair piece change shape. First, a pair of pony ears sprouted up from both sides, quickly followed by the back getting much longer, as if to give the impression that it was like a tail.
“Honesty!”
Fluttershy’s hair piece also gained a pair of pony ears and grew longer in the back. In addition to that, an entirely new piece came into existence. That new piece was attached by the neck and went over her back, and from there a pair of feathered wings sprouted and unfolded.
“Kindness!”
Pinkie Pie’s hair piece gained a pair of pony ears and grew longer at the back. She smiled as she reached her hands up and around to feel those new magical additions to her body.
“Laughter!”
Rarity’s hair piece transformed in three ways instead of just two. In addition to the pony ears and long extension in the back, she also gained a unicorn horn on the front.
“Generosity!”
Rainbow Dash transformed in a similar way as Fluttershy did. Her hair piece gained pony ears and a longer extension in the back, and a pair of feathered wings over her back on a new piece that attached by the neck appeared. Unlike Fluttershy, Rainbow was more than happy to start flapping those wings right away.
“Loyalty!”
Finally, Twilight Sparkle felt the magic transform her body as well. Her hair piece gained a pair of pony ears on either side, grew an extension at the back to look like a tail, and gained a unicorn horn at the front. Finally, she also gained a piece for a pair of wings over her back, though these feathered wings were broader than what Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash got.
“Magic!”
With the transformations complete, the six friends hovered closer to each other, causing the surrounding magic to start backfiring into the crown on Sunset’s head. Twilight continued, “Together with a crown, they create a power beyond anything you could imagine, but it is a power you don’t have the ability to control! The crown may be upon your head, Sunset Shimmer, but you cannot wield it, because you do not possess the most powerful magic of all: the Magic of Friendship!”
The six friends were now arranged in a circle and, as one, they all clasped hands with each other. With this gesture of friendship, a bright rainbow burst forth from the center of the circle and arced over directly towards the evil Sunset Shimmer.
Sunset gasped as the seemingly endless rainbow started to swirl around her like the funnel of a tornado. “What is happening to me!?” she exclaimed as she looked around in panic.
“Here and in Equestria,” finished Twilight as her eyes glowed brightly, “it is the only magic that can truly unite us all!”
As Sunset screamed from the loss of power, six smaller rainbows shot out from the twister, each of them striking a random minifig in the head and setting them free. From each of these minifigs, six more rainbows shot out and freed many more minifigs. This process continued, accelerating the number of people that were being set free. Soon, within only a matter of seconds, all of the thousands of Lego citizens were freed from Sunset Shimmer’s spell. At first, these people looked around and muttered in confusion.
“Huh?”
“What happened?”
“What’s going on?”
It didn’t take long for the people within sight of the magic rainbow to notice that incredible event taking place.
“Whoa! Look!”
“What is that thing?”
“What’s happening over there?”
As the citizens continued to look on in confusion and awe, the glow of magic surrounding the six close friends signaled the end of its task by flaring brightly until nothing but pure white could be seen.