//------------------------------// // Tails & T.J. vs. Cosmos: The Final Showdown // Story: The Revenge of Tirek // by Matthew Stone //------------------------------// Celestia stands over Discord, lying in his bed. The Crystal Empire was also under deep sadness for Discord. Some stand outside under the balcony in the garden, with permission by the guards. They hold candles in front of them, praying for Discord to live. Some even cry out for him and pray that he can come back to his playful self. Celestia feels all the happiness she can get from knowing that they care for him. She then has her wing brush against Discord’s cheek softly. “I’m worthless…” Discord moaned, still under the spell. “Shhhh. You’re not.” Celestia comforts, “We love you….” Ian then perks up one of his ears. He might have just heard something… coming from one of the corridors of the castle. Then… “HELLLP!” The scream came from the throne room, as Ian sensed it deeply. The plea for help belonged…. it belongs to CADENCE! “Someone is in the castle.” Ian whispered in fear. Celestia turns to him in shock. “WHAT?” she gasps hoarsely. “I heard Cadence’s voice.” Ian explains, “Something… or someone….” “I… might have heard that too.” Celestia admits. Leo, who is welcoming the sympathetic ponies from outside, then charges into the room. He too has witnessed something, and their eyes were kept widened as if they haven’t gotten any beauty rest. “Some… some of the guards collapsed. They’re now acting the same way Discord is.” Leo whimpered. Ian came over to hug the frightened gnome, comforting him. “Shhhh. It’s okay.” Ian soothes. “How is this possible?” Celestia shook. She can then hear screams coming from outside the balcony. She comes out, to see all the crystal ponies being surrounded by shadow looking demons, all covered in black. “Those demons…” Celestia gasps. “Similar to the ones that V is using!” Leo nods, “Tirek… he must be here.” Celestia and Ian grimace when hearing his name. Not only has he come for them, he came to make sure Discord doesn’t live. “I’m going down to help them!” Leo said, preparing o jump off the balcony to fight. “Just a second….” a sinister voice shook in the room. Celestia and the others then turn to see who’s barging through the entrance, smashing the doors off the walls. Leo even gets close to Discord to hug and protect him. “I’m not finished just yet….” Tirek smiles evilly, “Now, before I kill Discord, I’m going to kill you.” He points at Celestia, who frowns at the sight of him. A new fight filled with rage is now going to ignite. Cataclysm. That’s the perfect word to describe terrible chaos, which isn’t the good kind at all. Blood keeps drooling out of noses, as Rarity continues using sewing movements for fighting and punching the enemies’ faces with circular arc punches. Her arms do all the hitting, as Applejack protects her from more brainwashed ponies trying to strike her with big wooden clubs. The cowgirl pony’s lasso whips the weapons away, and keeps them back with the stringy strikes. She does take the attacks away from their skin, just so she doesn’t try to scar them. Along the way, she’s thinking of how to free Babs from V’s control. What is the one weakness a brainwashed slave might possess? As Applejack keeps defending Rarity, Pinkie helps by using a helium tank to throw at them. Applejack wonders how Pinkie gets these bizarre things here on the knick of time. She’ll never know. However, the benefit of using that metal cylinder to push the enemies back is very useful. Just then, Pinkie felt a big JOLT, maybe a punch, coming to her forehead. The attack nearly bashed her skull, and Rarity panics. The elegant pony wonders how much more Pinkie can take. If there are more strikes at once, it’s possible she may be killed. Pinkie looks up to her next opponent. CHEESE SANDWICH! “Unbelievable…” Pinkie moans in disbelief. Without saying anything else, she jumps up to her hind feet and gives an automatic repetitive punch style towards Cheese Sandwich’s Stomach. Cheese Sandwich grunts from the attempts, and makes his turn. Their battle resumes, just as Rainbow and Fluttershy continue their fight. The two pegasi ponies use their flight to swoop over the enemies and fist punch them from above. They also miss the spear throws coming from the brainwashed slaves. Twilight continues her fighting skills as well, using her rays to defend herself from the torches of the manipulated ponies. She then turns to look at Tails, still fighting Cosmos and trying to release himself from her grip. Then… BLANG! A magic blast strikes Twilight really hard. Still, she manages to get up instantly, even when struck. She then turns her face into shock, as the manipulated TRIXIE comes to her, with purple aura surrounding her eyes. Dark energy also breathes out through her nose. Rainbow Dash turns to notice, along with Pinkie. They both realize something about her. “SHE’S…. SHE’S BRAINWASHED TOO!” Pinkie screams. Twilight just looks at Trixie. It’s another bad fight she has to cope with, one with an old enemy… reformed yet under control by somepony sadistic. “THE GREAT AND POWERFUL TRIXIE IS BACK!” the pony magician shouts, “YOU WILL PAY FOR LEAVING ME AND NOT BEING MY FRIEND!” “SOMBRA! HE DID THIS TO YOU!” Twilight screams in rage. Not at Trixie, but about Sombra. “HA! AND NOW, I’LL DESTROY YOU!” Trixie shrieks. Close to the throne room ceiling, Fireblaze and Wildfire keep their fighting prolonged with the punching and kicking. Fireblaze speeds up his flight power with his hoof up front, ready to submit his hit to Wildfire’s muzzle. Yet, the buffed up brother swifts upward! He then spins around to kick Fireblaze at the back of his skull. It didn’t severely injure him, but it was EXCRUCIATING. It almost felt numb, as Fireblaze roars out a strong “OW!” when kicked. This made Fireblaze’s eyes widen and glow red. He then spins sideways, and has a giant red ray blast out of his hooves to strike Wildfire. The blast was able to push Wildfire back, but not before he makes his own blast ray. He has the aura glow white, as he aims it to Fireblaze. He then shoots, having the ray come at the red dragon pony. Fireblaze flies backward, and down. He misses it. Good enough dodge for now. But he still hasn’t won the fight yet. Fireblaze has to think harder…. for a way to weaken Wildfire and bring him to justice! Celestia, Ian, and Leo stand their guard. Tirek is in front of them, in this room! And his troops are just outside, invading the Crystal Empire! “HOW DARE YOU COME HERE!” Celestia roared. “Did you miss me Celestia?” Tirek laughed. “YOU BRAINWASHED MY DEAR PONIES, AND YOU FORCED DISCORD TO HATE HIMSELF!” Celestia cried in tears, “I’LL MAKE YOU PAY FOR WHAT YOU’RE DOING TO MY FRIENDS!” “Well, actions speak louder than words.” Tirek said in a soothing voice. He then snaps his fingers. Within a horrifying second, Leo and Ian are gone, ALONG WITH DISCORD. “NO!” Celestia screams. She cries out louder than before. She’s all alone in the room now, with her real sworn enemy. “WHAT DID YOU DO TO THEM?” Celestia demanded at the terrible creature. “I’m having Sombra watch over them…” Tirek grins. Celestia growls at Tirek with such hatred. “I’LL HAVE MY REVENGE ON YOU, ONCE AND FOR ALL!” Celestia yells. “Such a delight.” Tirek said, “Come then, have your revenge…” A new challenge than starts, as the princess charges toward the devil looking creature in this very room! Luna is near being done with the potion in the alchemy room with her friends. Spike, William, and Zecora also make the final touches, and massage the harmless liquid. The Cutie Mark Crusaders stand and watch, hoping and praying this will work. Then, a slow flash is made in the room. Sonic then drops through the portal, panting heavily. The hedgehog then holds the combined materials, all made into Scandinavian Bayleaf. “That is very considerate of you to take this time for helping us.” Luna thanks. “Hey, anything for Tails.” Sonic shrugs. The room then rumbled just a bit. The candles lighting the room then fade out. The moon princess looks around, wondering what’s going on. “Um…” Sonic said, weirded out. "Way past creepy." “Is something wrong?” Scootaloo asks Luna. William thought something was weird too, after everypony in the room saw one of the bookshelves topple over by an unknown being. Then, the worm notices purple aura eyes in the darkness. DERPY HOOVES AND HER DAUGHTER, DINKY STEP OUT. They’re brainwashed by V, and they’re firing up their shadow powers to trap The Cutie Mark Crusaders. Their blank eyes frighten everypony, even Sonic. Before Luna does anything, the brainwashed ponies has the giant shadow hands grab the fillies, and hold them securely when dragging them towards the manipulated ponies. “HEY! WHAT GIVES?” Apple Bloom yells. “Derpy and Dinky…” Luna groans, “They’re under V’s spell.” “No…” Sweetie Belle weeps in shock. “Master V says this must stop. Keep making the potion, and V will execute these two.” Derpy threatens “DO AS SHE SAYS!” Dinky ordered. Then, V magically appears in the room with his shadow powers. He grins at Luna. “I see you’re making the potion Luna.” V chuckled, “Anyways, you better listen to MY ponies.” “THEY AREN’T YOURS!” Luna protests, “THEY DESERVE TO BE FREE!” “Well, once Discord is dead… all his magic will be rightfully transferred to me…” V hums. He then snaps his fingers, and has a cloud project where Discord is with Ian and Leo as prisoner. Discord is all bound up in shackles, weeping in depression and tears. His head hangs low, as his shadow army orders him to use his magic to make himself a guillotine. “YOU MONSTER!” Luna shrieks. “Please… don’t… “ Spike begs, “We love Discord…” “Yet he’ll be of more use to me.” V snickers, “Get used to it.” V then holds his hand in front of Luna, Sonic, Spike, Zecora, and William. Just as he uses his aura to finish them off, a kick knocks him down from behind. The shadow hand from V’s control then lets loose the fillies. Then, Blade and Skull appear, grabbing Derpy and Dinky to hold them down. “NICE TRY V!” Blade insults. “Good timing.” Spike thanks. “We knew it was the right time to check on you.” Skull nods. “Yes, but my plan is already set.” V grunts, when getting up, “I’m prepared for the unexpected.” His horns then glow red, and drip out tiny specks of red blood. He then looks at the brainwashed Derpy and Dinky. “Take care of them, the ones who jumped on you.” V ordered to them. Then, they elbow Blade and Skull, punching them hard into the walls as they went to their next fight. Blade takes Derpy in his hooves, and crashes her through the ceiling. The two of them are now in the royal corridors, throwing their boxing style punches at one another. Derpy using her wings to try and strike Blade with her swift attacks. Blade dodges, having his floating powers bump and push Derpy hard to the tile ground. Cracks can be made on the floor, along with the sound of Derpy’s breaking tailbone. Derpy’s eyes glow brighter, She’s not done yet! In the garden area, Skull crashes Dinky through the window to take the fight outside. He then notices Zecora, Cutie Mark Crusaders, William, and Spike running out of the castle entrance. It was at the distance, that he sees them running out with the final ingredients combined in the formula. Skull also looks through the windows to see that Sonic is looking at a picture of Sally. It looks like this: The blue hedgehog smiles. "Hopefully, I make it back, Sal. For you." Sonic whispered. Then, he turned to the villains, curled and started rolling at lightspeed. "It's Juice-'N-Jam-Time!!" he yelled, racing into action. “Go get 'em.” Skull grins. The pony then focuses on the fight with Dinky, as he pushes back an arm punch she tries to tackle upon him. He pushes her away, then giving a hoof hit to her stomach to send her back. She grins, as her feet dig into the dirt and grassy ground. “Naughty boy…” Dinky sneers, “Playtime is over!” The two ponies then charge again, fist punching. In the alchemy room, Luna is the only one alone with V. A new fight is between her and him. “You’re the one who cares so much for villains.” V laughs, “Since you were one yourself.” “DISCORD IS NO VILLAIN!” Luna screams. She then has her blue rays grow bright and fierce on her horn. Without warning, a mighty strike of the ray blast V against the brick wall. V grunts in pain and anger. Blood drips slowly from his teeth. “Shall we take this outside?” V suggests. “Agreed.” Luna mumbles. “THEN I’LL START!” V snaps. He then flies up to Luna, grabbing her by the neck! He makes a big crashing hole for them, as they go into the entrance room of the castle. It was no throne room or corridor, just an empty room reserved for them. V then does a hard roundhouse kick to her face, and sends her smashing to the corner of the room! “You may have got the best of me. BUT I AM holding my powers! NOW, LET ME SHOW YOU!” V roars, when floating in midair. V then has his arms light up in such electricity. The limbs sizzle as if they have a hundred thousand volts! “GUESS MY POWER LEVEL!” V screams. “Your powers can never compare to anypony else’s!” Luna retorts, “You’re not that powerful! NEVER!” “Oh? Can you do better?” V smirks. “Normally I wouldn’t… but…” Luna shook. Luna stands up straight, as she gathers her energy to build up her GOOD dark powers. She was intending to use them for a desperate occasion. With V, this is… Blue energy sparks around Luna, as she transforms into her new persona. Her eyes bolt up, as she’s now in her fighting disguise as… NIGHTMARE MOON! “A good nightmare to save ponies’ lives.” V giggled, “I would have never guessed.” He then sends a mighty lighting bolt to try and strike her. However, Nightmare’s speed has her rush past the electric moves. “Still…” V continues, “Your power level is not high enough. Heck, you can’t even make electricity that has a hundred volts!” “WE SHALL SEE!” Nightmare Moon screams. Then V moves fast, having all the yellow sparks track his path with Nightmare Moon in shock. Then, he was in front of her, punching her hard into the wall. He then flies towards her again, and grabs her legs. He then swings her hard and heavy until he lets her go, having her drive through ten walls of the castle. Nightmare Moon didn’t even go through the throne room, but ended up at the last room of the castle. It was dark and gloomy, as she wheezes in aghast and terror. V then floats into the room, and steps on the dusty floor. “So weak.” he sighs, “I fear I’m growing bored of this….” TJ has joined the fight with Tails, and kept going no matter what. He can’t allow his brother to lose against a mentally insane pony. Cosmos especially is dangerous with her venomous vine powers. With that, she kept striking the attacks at the foxes to try and hurt them. TJ then takes out a hidden switchblade from his secret belt. The foxy cousin then swings his sharp blade, and cuts through the dangerous plants with such fury. Tails also uses his Kamehameha wave to try and take out Cosmos. She dodges, to Tails disappointment. The way she does it is with her black magic. Every time and attack tries to come upon her; she has a group of vines twirl around her body to make her disappear to a different spot or location. In that moment, she then comes behind Tails and TJ, without having them know. She then grabs the foxes by their feet, and from there, begins to drain their strength. “WHAT THE HELL?!” Tails shouts. “It’s my new move, Tails!” Cosmos explained in a mean tone, “My vines will drain your powers, and I will take control of you once again, without any resistance!” “DROP DEAD!” Tails screams at her. “Hmmm. You know, you’re right.” she coos, “I should just kill you where you stand. Just so turns out, you broke my heart Tails.” Pinkie notices, and tries to come over to help. However, more weeds surround a circle barrier around the foxes, making it impossible to help them. Tails and TJ then look up at the vicious bat pony, having electricity slowly form around her hooves. The foxes struggle to pull their feet out of the weed bindings. Their energy is near being gone. There has to be a way to stop Cosmos. Tails then remembers something from a while back, probably from that fight between Volucris. Her weak point may be something sappy maybe, an act of brotherhood. If Tails can to that with his cousin, they may be released from the weedy grip. Tails looks up at Cosmos, knowing he has to act fast! Tails then puts it together. Maybe the weeds will be weak enough to be hit, and let ONE go. Tails then uses his sacrificial move, and uses the struggling last move of his wave powers to burn the weeds holding TJ. The cousin then falls back, grunting. “TAILS!” TJ screams. "GYYYAAAAAAAAH!!!!! I HAVE TO TRY!!!" Tails yelled. Cosmos then has her electricity shoot towards the fox, laughing long and hard. The moment the sparks strike, TAILS BLOCKS! TJ looks in amazement. The two tailed fox seems to be blocking the sparks with a new type of Ki power. He can uses that aura as a shield. This makes Tails grin. Cosmos looks in dismay, as the foxes break apart the weed barrier and minions surrounding them. Cosmos screams in rage, and fires her rays real fast like a machine gun. Tails and TJ keep dodging the gigantic attacks, flying through the air with their jumps. TJ fired a barrage of energy balls at her to distract her, and then used the Solar Eclipse Flash to temporarily blind her. Cosmos screams in pain, having her eyes act like they’re bleeding. Meanwhile, Tails gathered the some energy from the plants, but finally, he put in all of his anger. "Now...taste this!!" He smirked, drawing back his hand, which was clenched into a fist. He thrust his energy fist forward, which launched his spirit energy ball at Cosmos. As TJ leaped out of the way, Tails opened his mouth and fired an energy blast into the Genki-Dama spell, making it MUCH, MUCH bigger. Cosmos, having finally regained her vision, looked up at the energy ball, and upon doing so, started wishing that she HADN'T looked up at the ball. There was the spirit bomb, coming down at light speed. And at last, it made impact. BWOOOM!!!! The ball hit Cosmos full-force, head-on. The giant flash than instantly disappears. Twilight and her friends still kept fighting despite that high glow. Twilight even looks up being impressed of Tails’ fighting skills. Tails himself, floats down and looks around to see if there are any remains of the wretched bat pony. He could faintly her the sound of the battle around, while TJ fights off the brainwashed ponies trying to come at him. Tails then sees something on the ground. It was Cosmos’ wings. And bloody, lifeless slime is under them. “As I said and warned you…” Tails said to the remains, “Drop dead…” He then spins around, to help TJ fight off more enemies.