//------------------------------// // The Power of an Indomitable Spirit!! The Greatest Kamehameha // Story: Six Manipulations, Six Heroes // by Matthew Stone //------------------------------// Up in the sky, Fireblaze keeps fighting against his evil clone. “I’LL BE THE ONE TO WIN” Fireburn screams. “YOU WON’T WIN!” Fireblaze shouts, “I WILL DESTROY YOU!” “LET’S SEE YOU TRY!” Fireburn snaps back. Then they fight each other as they blast away with their fire powers coming from their hooves. They even try to get to the upper hand level of the mountain, so they can have that space of a fight for themselves. This also gives Fireblaze the chance to throw a bigger fireball to try and strike Fireburn. However Fireburn uses his magic to steal his attack once the fireball touches his hooves, and throws the betraying ball back to hit Fireblaze. The red pegasi instantly flies backward to dodge the ball, looking back at his enemy with vengeance in his soul. To finish the fight, Fireblaze then cracks Fireburn’s skull with both his hooves the moment that enemy dashes at him, just to attempt a stabbing at Fireblaze’s heart. Fireburn than pants loudly as he sweats, removing his strong hooves from digging into his evil clone’s skull. Fireburn, now staggering in the sky, falls real fast to strike the ground. The clone body splats into ooze, then turns into ash. Fireburn nods at content at his victory. “It is done.” he said. Back on the ground, Mokuba visits his friends Luna, Leo, and Ian. The three heroes are injured from the ongoing explosions during the battle. “Here, eat these.” Mokuba said, handing them Senzi Beans, “Tails and TJ told me this is good for healing and giving better strength.” The three shrug, and take the beans to chew in their mouths. “I heard you talking to my sister about the energy transfer strategy.” Luna said to Mokuba, “But how do we lure Volucris to our trick, to take the final challenge?” “Leo and Ian…” Mokuba said to them, “Do you know what orders the other changelings are taking from Volucris?” “I sense she’s going to go after the ponies that Twilight and her friends helped escape.” Leo remembers, “The victims are heading back to hide in Vanhover, and Volucris intends to trap them there and slaughter all the ONE MILLION pony victims in population.” “Then we’ll meet her there.” Mokuba said. “Wait, ‘MEET’? Are you crazy?” Ian gasps, “Sure we can protect the ponies, but… VOLUCRIS has TRILLIONS of ponies that will take us down!” “Which is why I thought this through.” Mokuba explains, “I told Celestia that Volucris will be more interested in taking the lives back into misery. She’ll also be expecting to kill us with her greatest magic possible, making it easy for her to win this battle on the mountain. But if we do a mind trick of us dying, she will evade this place to also leave the dragons alone. The dragons will be safe when we make our big ray attack of all our elements.” “Ray?” Leo asks. “That’s why we’ll be meeting in the deserted opening field toward the city.” Mokuba said, “Once she wrongfully surprises our friends who hide in the buildings… we’ll surprise her.” Ian nods, understanding. “I’m in.” Ian agrees, “But do Discord, Spike…” “They know.” Mokuba said, “And they’re prepared.” They the her the screech coming from Volucris, as she has her changelings group up into a giant pyramid with their movements. The clones that fight their enemies then disappear, confusing their fighters. The Cutie Mark Crusaders than come up by Mokuba, including Diamond Tiara, who hugs him. “I’M PREPARED…” Mokuba finally said. “I’ve waited long enough for this…” Volucris starts to shout, “CHNAGELINGS! FLY UP! KILL THEM ALL!” The changelings that formed their pyramid then split upwards to cover over the heroes in the cove. The dragon soldiers even look up at their strategy in shock. Then, the changelings throw strong killing acid liquids out of their hooves, having it hurl straight towards everypony in the cove. At the signal by Mokuba, Discord snaps his fingers while Celestia uses her magic to make a crystal shield with Shining Armor’s assistance. Discord then makes the false projection with his mind, covering the shield that Celestia made. As the acid hits, Discord uses his own special effects to make their false deaths realistic, as if Volucris is really seeing them die now. In the reenactment that’s being all dimensional and prepared, Discord hugs Celestia one last time while crying, just as the acids makes them die into bone. All the fillies even whimper and sob as the acid makes them bleed out all their blood. William even faints again to his tragic death, as the acid sinks down. The rest of the gang that involves Gilda, Trixie, Storm, Blade, Sunset, Mokuba, Kaiba, and the foxes also collapse into limp bodies. Spike even sighs one last breath as he dies. Volucris looked hard to make sure they’re dead when floating in midair. She smirks. “Foolish imps.” She laughs, “LET US NOW LEAVE CHANGELINGS! I HEARD TWILIGHT AND HER FRIENDS ARE PROTECTING THE PONIES IN VANHOVER!” They then disappear magically out of the top of the mountain, bringing the evil clones with them. Volucris bought the lie. This has Discord and Celestia break the shield and hologram barrier. Everypony sighs in relief that they are safe. “Good teamwork.” Celestia compliments Discord. “But, is it true that Twilight and her friends are going to…” Discord starts to ask in a worried tone. “They might be killed!” Spike panics. “We’ll get there before they even hurt them.” Luna reassures Spike, “Twilight is also quite the fighter, and it’s obvious that their enemies might meet Volucris at the far distance to put her and her friends aside.” “If they don’t?” Leo considers. “Skull is with them too.” Discord thinks, “I’ll go find them anyway.” Discord disappears to do so. “Back to Vanhover then…” Tails sighs. Back in Vanhover, Twilight and her friends rush behind one of the buildings to hide from their evil clones. Twivine roams through the sky with a sadistic twist in her eye. When hiding, Fluttershy notices all the pony families that are hiding too. Mothers, fathers, and children whimper, and Applejack comes over to comfort them and calm them down. A magic poof is then made in front of the main six. Discord appears in the hidden always, smiling in relief. “I had to make sure you’re safe.” he breathes happily, “Where are your evil…” “SHHHH!” Twilight warns him, “They’re searching for us!” Discord uses his magic to see through the buildings, looking at the evil clones tearing the first building apart. A loud rumble shakes the ground, having everypony in their hiding place shake with the fierce movement. The building from their long mile finally collapses, and the evil clones laugh at their first demolition. “SILENCE! THEY AREN’T DEAD BECAUSE THEY AREN’T IN THAT BUILDING!” Twivine roars to her assistants, “KEEP SEARCHING!” The clones do so, smashing every window from ever new building they see. Discord, Twilight, Fluttershy, Pinkie, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, and Applejack then hear a “PSST!” from a new pony citizen. The families and friends look at him waving a direction at them. He wants the group to follow him. They then go his direction without nodding or disagreeing. They just move because they have to, in order to survive. It was then that the gang enters into a building with the pony guide, as they go into an abandoned opera house. Inside, all the other ponies, millions of them, fit well in the building, and hug each other to protect themselves and others from going outside to be discovered. All was silent in the room, except for the cries and whispers coming from the victims. Discord than follows Twilight and her best friends onto a stage, where they comfort the ponies that just hid with them in the alleyway. Discord then whines and whimpers. He magically grabs Twilight, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, and Applejack to hug them tightly. He nuzzles on their heads as her cries. All six ponies understand his pain and traumatization of seeing their fake clones as their evil selves. “I didn’t want to believe I saw you as a horrible being Fluttershy…” he sobs, “Deep down…” “I understand.” Fluttershy comforts. Twilight looks around the room, making sure everypony is here. She even uses her magic to keep everypony warm in this cold weather entering through the building cracks. “Mokuba is going to bring the others.” Discord softly informed. “Then we’ll be ready.” Twilight answers when he tells them. Rainbow Dash then perks up her ears. Something unusual is sounding in the room. BANG! All the ponies look up and scream as they see Volucris and the evil clones dashing down to target their victims. They’ve just broken the roof of the domed opera house, and send every bloodthirsty changeling to come after the citizens. Twilight, Discord, Fluttershy, Pinkie, Rainbow, Rarity, and Applejack do not hesitate. Twilight guides everypony out of the building through another exit while she fires big purple rays towards the enemies that follow her. Discord uses his magic to go into dragon form, to breathe fire against the enemies, and swipe them away from his friends. He yelps as Flutterbrute comes at him, forcing him to change back when she beats him constantly. Fluttershy then dashes at Flutterbrute, and punches her to protect Discord from her. Fluttershy then grabs Flutterbrute by the tail, and swings her around real fast until the clone swings to hit the marble pillar. Under Flutterbrute, more changelings enter. Rainbow Dash and Applejack then use their tactics to punch through the monsters one by one. Applejack even uses her buck kicks to send other changelings to land on one another. Rarity fights along with Pinkie Pie, as they use abandoned swords as weapons. They are outside now when helping Twilight protect the pony citizens, and they were lucky to find these blades on the side of the street. They swing the weapons against any killer changeling that tries to bite them harshly. Rarity even does kung-fu kicks to the changelings’ jaws when they came closer to her. Pinkie Pie then acts like a hibachi chef and chops away at the changelings, to make an escape for herself and Rarity. Discord, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, and Applejack then leave the opera house as soon as the changelings were eliminated from the inside. They then follow Twilight, Rarity, and Pinkie as they guide to lead the citizens out another secret exit way of the city without getting caught. Then, a green flame blocks their path when they nearly come through the field border to the city. VOLUCRIS AND HER MINIONS ARE BLOCKING THEIR PATH. “No…” Pinkie whimpers while hugging one of the citizens, “We can’t be trapped.” “NOW YOU WILL WITNESS THE TRUE POWER OF HELL!” Volucris laughs loudly. Discord tries to use his magic, but Volucris strikes him with a mighty aura blow. He falls back weakly from the powerful gust, as Fluttershy and Rainbow hug Discord so they can protect him. The changelings then rush toward them to make their kill. Twilight just stands still, not knowing what else to do. BOOM! The blast separates the victims from the changelings. MOKUBA AND THE OTHERS ARE FINALLY HERE! Twilight gasps and smiles, when she sees the group of friends that arrived to protect them. Tails, TJ, William, Celestia, Thanor, Gilda, Mokuba, Storm, Cadence, Shining Armor, Luna, Ian, Leo, Sunset Shimmer, Trixie, Skull, Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo, Diamond Tiara, Silver Spoon, Storm, Blade, Braeburn, Big Mac, Little Strongheart, The Wonderbolts, Starswirl, Fireblaze, Chrysalis, and Fluffle Puff. “This has to end, VOLUCRIS!” Celestia roars angrily. “UGH! YOU JUST NEVER GIVE UP, DO YOU?” Volucris yells. “You can battle if you like…” Mokuba said, “But we’ll never stop fighting…” “Why fight?” Volucris sneers, “This is our final stand anyway, now that everyone is here. I think it’s about time that you gave up.” All the companions shake in frustration, and weakness. They’re nearly worn out by Volucris’ abuse and powerful fighting strategies. “I rest my case…” Volucris sighs, “Changelings…” Discord then rises to stand up to Volucris. Tails and TJ then joins along with him, as they step up for the final showdown. Mokuba and Spike then comes up front to block Volucris’ path with the lord of chaos, and foxes. All five friends make their final challenge to Volucris. Mokuba then looks at Twilight. “Your call.” he said to her, “It’s time to start.” Volucris than giggles, and has all her trillion changelings raise their weapons, aiming them at the hapless group. “GUYS! POWER US UP!” Tails said eagerly. “OH NO YOU DON’T! TWO CAN PLAY THAT GAME.” Volucris rang out “MY PUNDERING SIX CAN POWER ME UP TOO!” Then the main six stand next to Tails, TJ, Discord, Spike, and Mokuba, while the plundering six stand next to Volucris. Twilight and her friends don’t have the actual elements. However, the true magic of them, still rested inside their wonderful bodies. “Royalty.” Rainbow Dash simply said “Kindness.” Fluttershy adds. “Laughter.” Pinkie said. “Honesty.” Applejack chants. “Generosity.” Rarity says. “Magic…” Twilight whispers. They then power up the soulful Elements of Harmony with their hearts, right into Tails, TJ, Mokuba, Discord, and Spike. They also see the evil clones preparing their own elements. “DISLOYALTY!” Rainbow Briar yells. “CRUELTY!” Flutterbrute rages. “ANGER!” the evil Pinkie giggles, “DISHIONESTY!” Appleplant roars. “SELFISHNESS!” Rarivine spat. “DARK MAGIC!” Twivine smiles. They then power up Volucris, as she laughs. “WAIT, CAN THOSE CLONES DO THAT?” William stutters. “Oh yes they can, you idiot worm!” Volucris cackles. Twilight snarls at the evil queen. “Oh, YOU’RE SUCH A CHUMP, TWILIGHT SPARKLE!” Twivine snickers. Mokuba then teams up with Twilight, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Discord, Tails, TJ, Spike, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, and Rarity. Chrysalis, Celestia, an Fluffle Puff also stand by him, along with the Cutie Mark Crusaders "EVERYONE, SHARE ME YOUR ENERGY!" Mokuba says. He starts creating the spirit bomb he learned from King Kai. He finally has himself, Discord, Spike, Tails, and TJ start to use the family-mentor-elemental starlight flash, and it has the powers of the Excalibur move, ready to finish off Volucris! "Its over!” Mokuba yells at Volucris At last, Tails and T.J. knew that the time for 'playing around' (and by playing, I mean fighting at half their power levels) was over, and it was time to finish Volucris once and for all. They nod at Mokuba, agreeing it’s time. As soon as the ponies charge their energy to have them transferred to the five fighters, Discord, Spike, Tails, TJ, and Mokuba charged their respective attacks. "KA.....ME.....HA.....ME..." Tails yelled "DEMON FLASH: MASENKO...." Spike added "......HAAAAAAA!!!!!" Discord screeches They fired their mighty blasts of rage, but Volucris had one last plan. She launched an energy blast of her own, clashing with the twosome's blasts. They were pushing with all the energy they could muster, but it seemed as though they couldn't win. Suddenly... “My son, are you there?" Tails poked up his ears. "D....dad?" he asked. Tails and TJ imagine they’re in a white background, ignoring all the violence when they hear their dad’s voice. "He must be speaking to us from 'The Next Dimension', the afterlife, to use telekinesis!!" Tails smiled. "Yes, I am using telekinesis. Look, I know it seems like you cannot win, but you mustn't give up. You must believe that you have enough power to defeat Volucris." His father whispered Discord and Spike wonders what making the foxes still, along with Mokuba. Volucris just held her strength, and laughs at the foxes. "How typical. They know they're going to die, so they've begun talking to themselves." Volucris smirked. "My nephew, my son...please, defeat her....for ME. Goodbye, you two. Take care, and I love you both dearly. I only wish I could have spent more time with you..." Tails’ father explained to TJ. And then, he was done talking. Tails then opens his eyelids slowly, looking at his fighting friends and cousin. He smiles at his four companions. Discord, Spike, Mokuba, and TJ smile along with him. Then, they cupped their hands, drew them back, and chanted: “ELEMENT-AAAAAA!” They screamed as the blue-and-white blast, along with the yellow-and-white blast combined into a green-and-white blast, as it engulfed Volucris entirely. “WHAT?” Volucris shrieks in anger, “NOOOOOOOOOOO!” Volucris screamed as the blast disintegrated her completely, along with the evil clones. She melts into ooze, as the clones shriek and turn into tiny specks of ash. SHABANG! The blue blast then fills they sky, and sends a blast of wind all around the world. The dragons fell back from the blast back at the mountain, along with Twilight and her friends right in front of the fighters. Celestia falls on top of her sister to protect her, along with Chrysalis hugging Fluffle Puff. Kaiba just watches in shock at Volucris’ defeat. Thanor is stunned at the power coming from the five victors. Then, the blast dies down. There is absolute silence…. Silence… The two foxes, lord of chaos, filly prince, and dragon then collapsed on the ground, exhausted yet happy. “Well…” Spike huffs, “We did it…” "You bet.” Tails said, “Heh.” All again is silent. The field in front of the gang is peaceful. Chrysalis knew for sure now, that Volucris… is no more…