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// Chapter 11 B 
// Story: The Rise and Fall of Dark Fire and The Elements of Disharmony 
// by Shady pillow 
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Chapter 11 B: Fall of a Floating City

Darkness fell upon Cloudsdale as black clouds formed over the city. Even though it was on the brink of a thunderstorm, there was silence… the silence before the storm…
"Strange, they seem almost prepared for us." Ammisive said to himself, standing on a cloud above the city.
"Ammisive, your division is ready and the ground forces are surrounding the city." A Pegasus commander said to him.
"Good, so all five hundred Pegasi soldiers are up here?"
"Yes sir. Speak when you're ready."
Ammisive then turned around to all the soldiers that stood before him on the cloud.
"Stallions, today… we make history! History that will be recorded for the centuries! Stories that will be told for years to come to ponies of all races! The Pegasi on the ground are counting on us to distract most of the guards on the cloud's surface! Our objective is to take down the spotlights for total darkness! When we do that, the rest of the deviation will ambush the guards through the clouds and finish the job! I do not expect stealth from any of you, but take down as many ponies as you can before you're detected! Remember, take no prisoners and show no mercy and I certainly don't take failure! FOR THE GLORY OF THE NEW CONFLAGRATION CONFEDERACY!"
He then turned back around and lifted his right hoof into the air.
"On my mark… ONE!"
The Pegasi then assumed a sprinting position.
"TWO!"
They then unfurled their wings, making a loud, "pomf" noise.
"THREE!" Ammisive shouted as he dived off of the cloud.
Lightning flashed across the sky repeatedly as he, and his division of five-hundred Pegasi, made a fast descent into the city. Thirty seconds passed before the first Pegasus made contact with the clouds. You would think that, because the ground is made of clouds, that the landing would be silent. Ammisive proved that assumption false as he crashed into the ground at full force, making several guards fly into random directions.
"Home… it feels good to be back…hahahahahahahahaha!"
A multitude amount of guards then leaped out from several buildings and surrounded the Pegasus in a circle.
"Surrender now, and you will not be harmed." One of the guards ordered.
"It's so surprising that every time you surround your enemy, you give them a chance to surrender even though they won't. What happens instead is that you leave yourselves wide open!"
Ammisive then ran around inside of the circle and knocked out every guard in seconds. Outside of the circle were more guards charging at him from all directions. As one came behind him, he ducked, making the guard topple over him and bucked the next guard that followed. Five more approached him rapidly as he lunged himself towards them. Tackling the first two, he flipped over the other three, and dashed into them with great speed.
Several more guards then attempted to get a quick punch on him, but missed even with the help of their wings. Ammisive quickly delivered multiple punches to the Pegasus guards until they passed out from pain. More guards came to attack the pegasus, but all met a fast and untimely defeat at his hooves. He then looked up to see dozens upon dozens of guards grouping together to attack.
"How the heck did Cloudsdale get a defense force so quickly, and how are they so prepared?!" Ammisive yelled to himself as he kicked another guard through a cloud building.
More fighting endured throughout the floating city as more and more guards came to confront Ammisive and his battalion of Shadow Guards. Ammisive's brigade was holding out, taking out more guards before being defeated, but their numbers were dwindling and more reinforcements kept coming.
"Ammisive! We took cloud four, seven, and thirteen, but we're nowhere near our objective!" The Pegasus commander shouted.
"MAKE IT HAPPEN YOU FOOL, BEFORE I THROW YOU THERE MYSELF!" Ammisive shouted into his face.
"We've lost almost half of our stallions, we won't last long." The commander said in fear.
"YOU'RE USELESS!" Ammisive yelled as he picked up the pegasus.
"Ahhh, what are you-?"
Ammisive then magnetized the commander's armor and flung him into a crowd of about one-hundred Pegasi guards.
"Eliminating any possibility of failure." He whispered as he shot a lightning bolt at the commander.
Because the commander's armor was magnetized, almost all the guards nearby were forcefully bonded to the armor. When the lightning bolt struck, a huge explosion of electricity burst from the crowd, knocking everypony out in the area. Ammisive then charged into the open gap that he created, unfurled his wings, and took flights towards the objective. About fifty guards broke off from the main group to chase the orange pony before he took out the spotlights. When he made it halfway, he stopped in mid-flight and turned around.
"You think you can take on the fastest Pegasus in the world?! You think you actually have a chance of defeating me?! Allow me to show you the error of your ways!" Ammisive said in a cocky tone as he flew into the swarm of guards.
Ammisive knew that a pegasus's strength was fighting in the air, but he attacked regardless of this, even though the guards would be harder to knock out of the sky. Taking on five guards at the same time, while still trying to remain airborne, was thrilling for the orange Pegasus. Thrill and danger was what Ammisive lived for, even if there was a chance of losing a limb or wing. The guards would either attempt to strike at his wings or his neck in hopes that it would take him out. Yet every time they tried, Ammisive would make their plan backfire on them and take out three to four guards in the process.
Luckily for the unconscious guards, there was a large cloud below the battle that prevented them from plummeting down to the surface below. Soon all the guards were defeated, but a hundred more took their place. Ammisive then touched down on the cloud carrying the spotlights and faced the guards.
"We are sorry, but it seems that we've hit a bit of turbulence." Ammisive laughed, swiping his hoof across the sky.
The wind before him went ballistic as it caused all the guards to hurl into random directions. As he laughed at their fate, the thunderstorm took full affect, as heavy rain fell upon the city.



"I can't believe we're winning this fight!" One of the guards said out of amazement.
"It's not over yet, we have to watch out for stragglers attempting to take these things out." Soarin said, patting a spotlight.
"I think it's because they didn't have many soldiers." The guard assumed.
"Unless it was a… distraction!" Soarin said out of fear as he shined the spotlight on the ground under Cloudsdale.
The light shined on what he thought was thousands of dark guards ready to strike on command.
"Holy apple pie! Tell Spitfire-"
"So you caught on Soarin... I was hoping somepony would." Ammisive whispered, holding the unconscious guard in his hooves.
"Lightning Flash?! W-what are you doing on their team?" He asked shocked.
"Isn't it obvious, you were one of reasons I was rejected by the Wonderbolts!" He responded back.
"You're still holding that grudge against us? You tried to use your weather powers to get yourself ahead in the tryouts. You were cheating."
"IT'S MY ABITIY TO USE WHEN I SEE FIT, HOW IS THAT CHEATING!?"
Because of his outrage, ten guards from each side charged at him. Ammisive then casted an air wave to his right, causing the guards to fly off the cloud tower. He then darted left and right into the remaining guards until he was passed them. The orange pony popped his forehooves as the guards fell in sync behind him.
"Do you now know why I'm-"
Ammisive was then punched across the face by Soarin as he flew into him. Ammisive countered by kicking him into the railing of the tower.
"You were always a slow thinker, never able to figure things out on your own, is that why you kicked me out?! Was it because you were afraid that I would be the next star of the show?!" He shouted.
"You always played lone pony… you never helped out the team." Soarin said, getting back up.
"It was a demonstration of my abilities!"
"It was more like overconfidence."
"So it's wrong to be proud of who you are!"
"Not unless it's the only thing that drives you."
"It has gotten me much more than I could possibly imagine…"
Ammisive's eyes then flashed brightly. Before Soarin could respond, Several Shadowbolts grabbed and pinned the Wonderbolt down to the cloud floor.
"It has gotten me power, honor, respect, leadership of the Shadowbolts, control of my powers, friends and royalties from the prince himself. Something you could never have." Ammisive said, passing around him while smirking.
"And what about happiness and love?" Soarin said to him.
Ammisive paused his passing at those words, his smile turned into a frown. Soarin's words cut straight into his heart.
"What happened to you?" Soarin asked him. "We were the best of friends, Lightning. And you let your plan of revenge impact your life."
The orange Pegasus slowly turned around to face Soarin.
"My name is Ammisive now… The Element of Rage and fastest flyer in the world. AND BY MY HOOVES YOU WILL PAY FOR WHAT YOU DID!"
He threw his hoof into the air as a lightning bolt hit it like a rod. Ammisive laughed evilly as he brought his charged hoof closer and closer to Soarin's muzzle. He then brought his hoof up and was about to strike until a bright yellow blur bucked him into the cloud tower. Unfortunately, that caused Ammisive to subconsciously launch the lightning into the nearby spotlights, destroying all of them on contact.
"Spitfire!" Soarin yelled joyfully.
The rest of the Wonderbolts hopped into the fray as they confronted their arch rivals.
"Let him go or prepare to fight!" Spitfire ordered.
"Of all the things you could have said Spitfire… you said that?" Ammisive laughed as the rest of the Shadowbolts followed his lead. "Could you be any more predictable?"
"Lightning Flash, you're behind this?!" She said out of anger and a bit of sadness.
"The one and only, but your little heroic act just cost you the fall of Cloudsdale!" Ammisive scorned.
"Your little army is finished; you don't have a chance against all of us."
"News spreads slowly around here I take it. One, the sun is out; we already won to begin with. We're just establishing the fact that we're the top ponies now. Two, those spotlights were the only thing stopping the full onslaught of my army, now you won't see them coming."
Spitfire looked over the edge to see… well, nothing. Ammisive was right, it was near impossible to see anything on the ground.
"And three, the most important, I'm an Element of Disharmony. You are the ones that have no chance! With that in mind Wonderbolts, do you still want to keep fighting?"
"We're going to fight until every last one of us is defeated!" One of the Wonderbolts shouted bravely.
Ammisive laughed at their courage as he kicked down the door to the watch tower.
"You will be remembered as those who fought a hopeless battle and thought they could win… SHADOWBOLTS, FINISH THEM OFF!"



Ammisive walked through the entrance as the fight broke out behind him, his next objective was to take out the commanders and cause chaos among the enemy troops. The building he was in wasn't large in width, but it made up for this in height. Ten guards then ran up to him, but were blasted back by an air wave.
"Ok ten guards, first floor… forty guards, fourth floor subtract ten, thirty guards left. I hate math." Ammisive said, bashing through the cloud roof.
Three guards were instantly flung out of the building, not surprising because it was made of clouds. One of the guards then tried to attack the pegasus with a spear and… wait, how did you get a spear?!
"You gave it to me!" The guard yelled.
"So in a world of Technicolor ponies, there are still rooms to make lethal weapons?!" Ammisive said, crossing his hooves.
"I don't know ok, I wanted to be unique in this fight but noooo!" The guard exaggerated.
The guards and Ammisive stood around awkwardly.
"Soooo… should we just continue?" One of the guards asked.
"Yeah. Let me see that spear first." Ammisive said, holding out his hoof.
"Okay." The guard said happily, handing him the spear.
"Thank you."
Ammisive then smashed the spear over the guards head, breaking off the spear head. Spinning around the broken spear around his hooves, he assumed a fighting stance on his hind-legs.
"You have hooves… how are you doing that?!"
"I'm just awesome like that." Ammisive said, striking the guard across the face with the pole. "Anypony else want to question me?!"
The other five ponies in the room looked at each other before jumping at the Pegasus. Within seconds, all the ponies were swatted down like flies. Ammisive then caused the cloud roof above him to dissipate, making the guards fall to the floor. Six of them hit the floor while the other four recovered before impact. Ammisive then took the poll and with two swipes, knocked out the six guards around him.
The other four guards attempted to react, but Ammisive had already lunged into the first one and jumped off. He used the last three guards to ascend to the top of the tower, almost like a pinball, and knocking them out in the process. When he burst through the top he caused a gush of wind to erupt around him, sending the general's bodyguards flying. He then landed, punched the general into the railing, and pinned the general there.
"Enjoying the view? Good, now I want you to order you guards to surrender before they meet their fate."
The general then pushed Ammisive off and swung at him so fast that he barely dodged. He retaliated by attempting to hit the general across the face, but the helmet the general had had covered his face. Ammisive then swung harder at the helmet and ripped it clean off. He got a fast look at the pony's face before the pony chopped the pole in half, and kicked him across the floor. He looked up to see a cyan blue Pegasus in royal guard armor standing proudly in front of him.
"I should have known you were the one leading the attack on your own home! How could you do this to us, Lightning Flash?"
"RAINBOW DASH!" Ammisive shouted angrily, charging into her.
Rainbow then grabbed him and slammed him into the railing, overlooking the city.
"You betrayed us all Lightning, I won't let you destroy our home!"
"You're too late Crashie, soon all of Cloudsdale will be under Dark Fire's hooves!"
"Your army is finished and… DID YOU JUST CALL ME CRASHIE?!" Rainbow screamed, smashing Ammisive in the back.
"My name is Ammisive now, and as for you…"
He then threw off Rainbow and punched her in the chest. The armor shielded her from most of the attack, but she was still stunned by it.
"You might be fastest pony in Equestria, aside from me of course, but you were never this strong!" Rainbow stated.
"You no doubt have heard of the Elements of Disharmony…HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
"You're one of those guys?!" Rainbow said, surprised.
"Oh yes, and much more! Now witness the end of Cloudsdale!" Ammisive shouted.
Ammisive then swiped his hoof to the left, causing a blast of wind to knock Rainbow off of the four-story tower. She recovered just seconds before hitting the cloud floor on her head.
"My army will crush your resistance like a bug; meanwhile I will make you regret everything you did to me." Ammisive said darkly, dropping down to her.
"I never did anything to you, why are you taking out your rage on everypony?!" Rainbow asked.
"Am I supposed to give you pity? You stood idly by as I lost my home, my friends, my reputation. Why should I not blame you for everything you've done to me?!" Ammisive yelled angrily.
"Because we're friends Lightning… best friends. I tried my best to get you back from being shunned. They wouldn't listen, but your back, why do you still hate us?" She said sincerely.
"We were never friends Rainbow; get that out of your clouded mind!" Ammisive responded, angrily.
"I looked up to you, we watched each other's backs, and now here you are. A former shell of yourself… broken."
"I'VE HEARD ENOUGH FROM YOU, NOW PREPARE TO PERISH!"
Ammisive lunged at Rainbow, attempting to shut her up for good. She swayed to the left just before he made contact and started throwing punches of her own. Ammisive countered, ducking under her and bucked her in the chest, making a loud clash sound. Once again the armor repelled the attacks. Shortly after, Rainbow recovered. Both Ammisive and Rainbow were throwing punches faster then anypony could count. This was a typical fight for both of them. Eventually, Rainbow got a lucky hit when she kicked him in the muzzle, making him back off.
"I forgot that you were a black belt in karate. To think we were the top students." Ammisive recalled, wiping his muzzle.
"We were… I was better though." Rainbow said, smiling.
"YOU WERE NOWHERE NEAR MY LEVEL!"
Rainbow blinked and in that split second, Ammisive had vanished. She looked around frantically for the Pegasus.
"Hiding like a coward again?! Where are you?!" Rainbow taunted.
"UP HERE, MORON!"
Rainbow looked up to see Ammisive coming down with an elbow drop. Rainbow rolled her eyes as she stepped to the right, causing him to smash though the clouds.
"You kind of missed."
"I KNOW I MISSED, WOULD YOU STOP PESTERING ME!" Ammisive yelled, jumping in front of Rainbow, preparing to uppercut her.
She swayed to the side and decked the angry Pegasus across the face.
"Sooooo… where did all that cockiness go?" She teased.
Ammisive smiled when he got up to face her.
"All according to plan…" He whispered, gesturing behind Rainbow.
She turned around abruptly to see literally thousands of shadow guards rising through the clouds and defeating what was left of the resistance. There she stood in shock, horror, and sadness.
"Now do you realize? Your presence here was in vain, you've lost Crashie. Gaze upon it. Witness the destruction of your home, your life, and your dream. Watch it all just disintegrate away before your eyes; know that despite your best efforts you've still lost to me! Congratulations… you're…a… failure." He said, whispering the last sentence in her ear.
"NNNNNNOOOOOO!"
Rainbow swerved around and bucked Ammisive straight in the jaw, sending him crashing into several shadow guards behind him.
"I HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF YOU INTERFERING WITH MY PLANS! NOW RAINBOW, YOU WILL WITNESS YOUR END!"
Ammisive became so enraged that his veins could be seen even by Rainbow from a far distance. Letting out a loud battle cry as he stood up on his hind-legs, the heavy rainfall around him increased dramatically as a maelstrom formed over Cloudsdale. Rainbow looked to see water form around Ammisive's forelegs, creating a water barrier around them just before they formed into icicles. Ammisive literally turned his hooves into ice blades.
"Now… you will experience pain like never before!" Ammisive said, laughing maniacally as lighting struck both of his wings separately, causing them to flare with flowing electricity.
"YOU'RE INSANE LIGHTNING; STOP THIS BEFORE YOU DESTROY EVERYTHING!" Rainbow yelled, attempting to be heard over the storm.
"IF THAT'S WHAT IT TAKES TO GET REVENGE, THEN BY ALL MEANS NECESSARY, I WILL DESTROY EVERYTHING YOU CARE ABOUT!"
Ammisive then lunged himself forward to attack. Rainbow was now struggling to dodge and sway out of every swing Ammisive threw at her. Knowing good and well that if this kept up, there would be more to worry about than an army and an enraged Pegasus. When she attempted to strike his back, she was electrocuted and thrown off.
"Using lighting as a shield?! That is so not cool!" Rainbow said, recovering from the shock.
"I DO WHAT I MUST TO WIN, SOMETHING YOU WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND!"
The orange pony, out of rage, flew straight at her with his frozen blades. Rainbow quickly reacted by flipping over the Pegasus, grabbing him by the hind-legs, and slamming him into the cloud. Ammisive countered with a ground attack, sending Rainbow down. Rainbow blinked repeatedly before realizing that Ammisive was about to stab her while she was grounded and rolled out of the way. When she got up, Ammisive lunged towards her and sliced upwards. She barely had time to dodge and miss the attack; however, the armor was sliced clean off.
Rainbow couldn't take much more of this and took the offensive once again. This time she was successful when she countered Ammisive's attack, and shattered the ice blade on his right hoof. Ammisive screamed in anger as he smashed the shattered ice into her face, sending her flying forty feet. He then melted the ice around his left hoof to make a whip of water. He sent electrical charges through it and began to whip the wounded pegasus.
"THIS IS HOW IT ENDS RAINBOW, WITH YOU SCREAMING FOR YOUR LIFE AS IT SLOWLY FADES AWAY!"
Ammisive then transferred the built-up lighting to his right hoof.
"NOW… YOU… WILL… DIE!"
Before Ammisive fired his lightning bolt, Spitfire grabbed his hoof while the rest of the Wonderbolts restrained him.
"RUN RAINBOW DASH, YOU'RE THE LAST HOPE OF CLOUDSDALE!" Spitfire shouted, continuing to hold back the lighting.
As soon as this was said, the lighting was released, causing a large explosion to erupt underneath Ammisive and the Wonderbolts. Rainbow couldn't think as she darted off rapidly away from the scene. When she was far enough away, she looked back to see her home, completely destroyed and decimated by hatred and corruption. She cried as the words of Ammisive continued to ring though her head. Words that she would remember forever… "You've failed."