As Starswirl and the girls ascended the tower that the Mane 6 of the past had ventured through, they were all taken in surprise by all the majestic features inside. It seemed like it was the pure essence of solidified music that kept this place afloat. It was evident with all the lit up segments of the floor, walls and ceiling as well. And the thirteen of them could have sworn that there was some kind of musical track that was wafting on their ears as they travelled through the confines of the tower.
"My, oh my... I've never seen such an exquisite taste in beauty..." Rarity said as she examined the different sections of the structure, feeling the music resonate every time she touched the illuminated sections with her hooves. "And this is made completely out of pure, solidified music?"
"Precisely, Rarity of the Human World. The Pit of Lyrics was primarily controlled with ponies singing powerful songs that maintained the welfare of this city's eco-system..." Starswirl explained as they continued to ascend the majestic structure. "The magical music was quite hard to call forth, however, so they needed to ensure that their pitches, tempos, and even their lyrics had to be completely flawless in order to call forth the magic within such music..."
"So, I'm guessing that not even our awesome skills as 'The Rainbooms' would be enough to call that magic out?" Rainbow Dash asked, beginning to doubt herself.
"If that is what you believe in, then it might just be so. However, there are times when the beliefs of ponies, or in your case, 'humans' were wrong..." Starswirl said, seeing the other girls suddenly perk up a tad. "Sometimes, beliefs can lead you astray, and cloud your minds from the truth that is meant to be sought for... Should you continue to believe false beliefs, it could ultimately lead to your demise..." he turned to face the girls by stopping in the middle of the staircase. "Just let your minds run freely, believe nothing of falsehood, and only believe in the truth..."
"Hmm..." Adagio said as she slumped herself in thought once more as the group continued their ascent. "All our lives, we've been believing the same things over and over again... What if, some of the things we believed in were false?"
"Huh? What do you mean, Dagi?" Aria asked, seeing her Furen sister stooped in thought once more.
"What if Lyrican Sirens don't actually die, but are merely moved to another realm of existence?" Adagio explained to Aria, seeing as she had been compelled by Starswirl's words. "Think about it... Whenever beings involved with Lyrican affairs die, they either end up in Dystopia or Euphoria. But what of Lyrican Sirens themselves? Where do they wind up after dying?"
"Have you finally taken a blow to the head, Adagio? If there was proof of us still alive in another existence, then we would have still been alive to witness it, right?" Aria continued, seeing a flaw in Adagio's words.
"Even so, what if you don't have to be alive yourself, but merely slumbering?" those words that tumbled out of Adagio's teeth and lips caused Aria and Sonata to look rather shocked. "When life-forms usually die, their bodies become motionless, but their consciences end up drifting away from a physical plane of existence, only to wind up in a imaginative plane of existence. A sort of afterlife that simulates immortality after you perish..."
"However, when pulled back into reality when the time's up, your imagination of a perfect life fades away as your conscience returns to a physical vessel. while it does make a regular life seem worthless when you return, your consciences have absolutely no memory of dying when you're resurrected..." Sonata said, completing what Adagio was going to say.
"In a way, yes. So maybe, there's a chance we might be able to pull our brothers out of their slumber, so that we can reform them when this all blows over," Adagio then thought of all the atrocities that The Blasters had pulled over the years, with each memory making her cringe. "though it might take some time, that's for sure..."
Eventually, the group found their way to the top of the tower, where they saw that there was a massive portal being powered by a white beam of light from the sky. It seemed like some otherworldly construct was manipulating the light from the stars, to maintain a portal to anywhere across the star map, so long as the portal stayed open.
Starswirl lit up his horn, making it match the frequency of the white beam of light so that he could manipulate where the portal would take the group. Eventually, he found the positioning for Lyrica, where The Blasters and the Siren 6 awaited. Focusing once more, he manipulated the portal's light, revealing a clear vortex to Lyrica.
"This is it, everyone! The portal to Lyrica!" Adagio said as she clearly saw the war-torn landscapes of Lyrica on the other side of the portal that Starswirl had tinkered with. "Now then, does anyone need the bathroom? I don't want to just arrive on Lyrica, then hear that one of you has to go do a number one."
"Why do you stress over such a trivial detail? I'm certain that Lyrica has restrooms for us to use, even if it is completely ravaged by war..." Starswirl said as he walked through the vortex and vanished.
"Well, we'd better not keep them waiting..." Celestia said as she, Luna and Cadence vanished into the vortex themselves, hurrying towards Lyrica.
"Go on, Mum. You and your friends better go on ahead..." Adagio said as she stretched her hand towards the portal, motioning Sunset and The Rainbooms to walk through it. She watched as her mother and aunties vanished into the vortex in a flash of light, a sign that they'd arrived on Lyrica with Starswirl, Celestia, Luna and Cadence.
"Well then, this is it..." Adagio said as she held hands with Aria and Sonata as they walked through the vortex themselves, with rather focused looks on their faces. "Here we go... For the fate of all three of our worlds, here goes nothing... or everything..." and with that, they just walked through the vortex, letting the light consume them before they vanished from the portal room completely.
When The Dazzlings arrived, the entire group was assaulted by a giant knight on horseback, wearing regal armour and wearing a blue pendant. The Dazzlings all gasped and pushed the ponies out of the way as the knight on horseback charged at them, and destroyed the vortex with one of the horse's massive hooves.
"EQUESTRIANS! YOU SHALL NOT INTERVENE WITH DESTINY!" the knight said as it quickly turned its' stampeding horse around, getting all of the ponies and The Dazzlings to look at it.
Euphorian Deity
HONOUS AND CHIVAL
Honour and Chivalry
"Ponies! Get to cover! We'll deal with this thing!" Adagio said, motioning almost all of the ponies to run towards the ruined castle in the distance whilst she and The Dazzlings drew their swords. "It's time to add the final piece to our puzzle..."
"I presume you ladies require a helping hand in slaying such a gargantuan foe, correct?" Starswirl said, summoning an oaken staff with his magic alone. Brandishing the staff, he utilized the full force of his magic to levitate himself off of the ground. "Consider this a momentary alliance, at least until this behemoth is defeated."
"Well, that's one way of putting it. Here's ours:" Adagio said as she and the rest of The Dazzlings extended their hairs and grew their wings as their swords appeared in their hands. "Let's dance, Honous!"
"Time to tango!" The Dazzlings uttered a battle cry as the three of them, aided by Starswirl the Bearded, charged at the knight on horseback, who was already running to initiate a battle.
The Dazzlings and Starswirl were chasing after the knight on horseback, seeing it raise its' sword to cast otherworldly magic from the tip. They watched as blue lightning impacted the ground, making sudden columns of crystal spikes that drew closer and closer to the pursuing fighters. They nimbly dodged a series of crystalline pillars until they finally caught up with Honous and Chival, with each of the pillars approaching them at a more rapid pace than the last.
"You four all run from fate, but fate can only be avoided for so long..." Honous spoke as he brought up his shield, generating a forcefield around him and his trusty steed, repelling both The Dazzlings swords, and Starswirl's magic. "Eventually, you shall all submit and bow down to your new ruler: King Allure!"
"Saying that's just going to make us fight even harder and faster," Adagio taunted as she watched Honous raise his sword, temporarily lowering the forcefield so that he could strike. "You should really learn to keep your mouth shut when battling, it saves you the trouble of taunting, and even gives you more time to focus."
The Dazzlings all saw him wildly swinging his massive sword, trying to make some form of contact with his targets, but to absolutely no avail as they merely flew over and under the blade and slashed one of his wrists, making him drop the shield in surprise. When his shield was gone, he had nothing to defend himself, so they all moved onto his sword-carrying wrist.
Honous once more cried out in pain as he lost his sword. However, Chival had picked up on his master's anguish, and lit up his hooves, speeding him up so suddenly, that Honous knocked The Dazzlings and Starswirl away with his sudden boost of speed and strength.
"He's heading for the castle!" Adagio said as she once more chased after Honous and Chival, seeing that he was about to intercept The Rainbooms and the three remaining Alicorn princesses. "Aria! Sonata! You're with me! Starswirl, see what you can do to distract him!"
The others merely nodded and followed on with their orders.
The Dazzlings flew over to The Rainbooms and the three Alicorns, and hurriedly escorted them to the castle, where they'd be able to seek shelter. They used their wings and their Lyrican Magic to speed up the process, enabling them to reach the castle in record time. They then flew over to Honous and Chival, where it looked like he was having a hard time with Starswirl.
Starswirl, on the other hand was duelling with Honous's magic, using his own clever magic to reflect all of the bolts that Honous had fired from the tip of his sword, yet dealing no damage to the actual being itself. Then, seeing a gap in his defense, Starswirl used his magic to soar over to Honous and Chival, and jump on the head of Chival. He used this so that he could regain his strength, and keep up with his target. However, he then saw that Honous was using his bare hands to try and flatten him into a pancake, with every one of his hand swipes and stamps missing his mark as Starswirl's agility kicked in, nimbly leaping over each one of the attacks.
The Dazzlings all put their feet up and dove their heels directly into Honous's face, knocking him off of Chival as he'd brought both of his hands over his head in an H-Bomb. They watched as the knight impacted with the ground, his armour crashing against the hardened earth with a rather loud THUD!
However, Honous quickly got up and saw Chival, who was still moving, suddenly grow a pair of majestic white wings. Chival had become a Pegasus, and was now using its' newfound wings to hastily return the sword and shield to his master's hands, before circling around for him to jump onto his back. Honous complied with his horse's request, and leaped into the air with such timing that his butt returned to the rather pleasant saddle of Chival, who was now soaring through the sky majestically.
"It's not over yet, Starswirl. Stay after him!" Adagio flew after the flying horse with Aria and Sonata quickly following behind her. "If Honous and Chival get too far away this time, they'll simply charge on us with a speed so fast, we won't be able to dodge OR block!"
The four fighters once more gave chase to the almighty winged horse and his master, chasing after them as the G-forces began to play havoc with their faces. They tried their best to keep up to him, but The Dazzlings suddenly found that the sky was full of a rather large gathering of clouds, which Honous and Chival could use to hide and prepare an ambush. They watched as the knight and horse vanished through one set of clouds, making it near impossible to track them.
The four fighters frantically searched the airspace, blasting clouds into non-existence with their magic, desperately trying to find Honous and Chival before they attacked. However, when they blasted off one final clouds, they saw Honous and Chival were cloaked in a meteor trail of white light, with the sword pointed directly towards The Dazzlings and Starswirl as the knight on horseback charged towards them at the speed of light.
"Mother-" was all that Adagio could get out before the four of them were hit by a charge so powerful, that they were knocked out of the sky and sent smashing straight through one of the towers of the castle, completely separating it from the rest of the structure.
Honous and Chival circled the top of that castle, like a pair of vultures, surveying the damage in an attempt to find their targets once more. They quickly saw The Dazzlings and Starswirl returning to them, so they brought up the shield and prepared a magical barrage.
Within seconds The Dazzlings and Starswirl found themselves playing tennis with a number of magical orbs and volleys launched by Honous and Chival. They did their best to knock the orbs back into the Euphorian Deity, but he merely knocked them right back at them. Eventually, the volleys of orbs got faster and faster that all of the fighters were starting to react slower.
However, Honous and Chival reacted slower first, and a deluge of their own orbs came crashing down on their forcefield, shattering it as the shield chipped a bit. With their impenetrable defence penetrated, Honous and Chival had to resort to using their shield as an actual shield, with little success as The Dazzlings knocked the shield out of Honous's hand.
Seeing a massive gap in the beast's defences now, Adagio, Aria, Sonata and Starswirl opened up a massive surge of sword swings and magical blasts of energy. It would have been enough to completely decimate a structure, but leave some parts still remaining. In this case, it damaged Honous and Chival so badly that they started to bleed.
Chival's wings had been clipped in that onslaught, and the two giants fell from the sky, with The Dazzlings falling after them, trying to deal them the final word.
However, Honous and Chival merely used the remnants of their magic to allow The Dazzlings and Starswirl to overtake them, so that they could deal their final attack. The two of them put their magic together and combined it into a massive orb of power, larger than the two of themselves. If that orb collided with the castle, it could very well have killed The Rainbooms and the three remaining Alicorns.
"Mikra Ombelegran!" The Dazzlings said as they let out another being from Dystopia with their red streams.
The new beasts that reddened the skies were three giants with one eye each. However, despite their lack of depth perception, they were still carrying clubs large enough to swat the orb right back at Honous and Chival. Two of them swatted Honous and Chival towards the orb, whilst the other one knocked the orb straight into them as they were launched into it. The massive explosion that followed made the three giants instantly disappear.
"Now then, I don't suppose you could tell me where The Blasters' apprentices are? We're simply killing to meet them..." Adagio said as she looked at the giant bloody horse, and half skinless knight.
"My demise will not alter fate..." Honous raised his sword for the last time, turning the tip red as he threw it with the last of his strength. "Dystopia awaits you, heathens!"
The sword vanished in the middle of its' flight, and in its' place, a powerful black hole appeared, pulling The Dazzlings, Starswirl, The Rainbooms and the three princesses into its' wake. They all let out screams as the force pulled them in with little effort, only to vanish when everyone had been pulled in.
Honous merely laughed triumphantly as the seal of Dystopia appeared behind him, with many spirits coming to take his soul down and consume it once and for all. "May Allure, the Siren King, see all of your actions as heroic and chivalrous!" He didn't even fight against the spirits as they dragged him down, making the seal vanish from existence when he vanished through it.