Celestia gritted her teeth as she dove to the side as another surge of energy blasted her way. This is ridiculous! Celestia thought as she charged her own beam and fired at the... machine... in front of her. That thing is unstoppable! Even if I was in my full strength it would take most of my power to stand a chance against it!
Celestia realized beforehand that she wasn't fighting somepony but something else entirely. The machine or monstrosity, as Celestia would like to call it, was not actually in a full-body suit but instead, it was actually made of metal! Instead of leg-guards, metal clasps were around it's hooves and spikes on it's knees. Instead of armor, different kinds of metal plating and tubes were around it's body. Last but certainly not the least was it's head. Instead of a mask, it wore a full face helmet with red rounded spectacles as eyes, a tube was connected from it's snout towards the front of it's chest. Even it's horn was covered in armor. All in all, Celestia thought that the name she gave it fitted it well.
Celestia paled as she saw that the figure was expelling steam, meaning that it was ready to release another energy-based attack! Note to self, thank Twilight later for all the reports she sent about her experiments in the past
The figure once again lowered it's head and aimed it's horn at Celestia. Before it could fire though, a huge rock was thrown at it but the projectile did little to no damage. The rock did it's purpose and disrupted it's concentration. The figure looked towards the source of the attack and saw two cyan pegasi glaring at it.
"Hey!" Blitz shouted "Yeah you! Why don't you pick somepony your own size?!"
"Yeah!" Dash shouted beside him "What he said!"
Without any retort, the figure turned towards them and fired the energy beam gathered on it's horn.
Earlier...
"Twilight!" Dash shouted as she flew through the halls of the castle with the others "Why didn't you try and help the princess?!"
Thinking that they were already far away enough from the fighting, the group stopped and tried to catch their breaths.
"Well?" Dash asked with a raised eyebrow
Twilight would've answered but she was still busy hyperventilating. Note to self, try exercising. It helps. She thought to herself. It was a good thing that her counterpart had more stamina than her because he was able to give an explanation.
"It's because we can't use our magic" Dusk Shine explained while panting a little. "I don't know how that happened but if me and Twilight stayed there then we would been sitting ducks."
"Well this sucks!" Blitz groaned as he landed on the ground. "Not only is the princess fighting somepony obviously strong but we can't even do anything to help!"
"Speaking of help" Twilight said as she finally regained her breathing and looked towards her pink friend "Pinkie, why didn't you warn us? Your Pinkie Sense should've been able to notice that thing heading towards us"
Pinkie Pie looked down sadly "I'm sorry Twi-Twi but ever since we arrived at this scary place, my Pinkie-winkie Sense is not, well, sensing anything!"
Berry nodded his head as he turned towards his friends "She's right. Things have been falling apart from this castle but my tail didn't even twitch once"
"W-what's going t-to happen to u-us?" For the first time since arriving at the castle, Fluttershy finally asked "And m-more importantly, wh-what about the p-p-princess?" eyes brimming with tears. "Wh-what are w-we gonna d-do?"
Blitz brought his hooves together with a determined look on his face. Everypony focused their gaze on him as he called their attention.
"I know what I'm gonna do." He looked back towards where explosions could be heard "I'm not just gonna stand here and do nothing while the princess is doing all she can to protect us. I'm going to help her whether you guys would like it or not" he started flying away when he felt a hoof on his shoulder. He turned and realized that the hoof belonged to his counterpart.
Dash was smiling as she returned Blitz' look "I'm coming with you! Two heads are better than one, after all!" Blitz returned the smile and nodded his head. Both cyan pegasi bolted away from the hallway towards the throne room where the fighting was taking place.
Back at the present...
"Look out!" Blitz warned as he and Dash narrowly dodged the incoming beam.
"What should we do?! That pony looks unstoppable" Dash turned to his stallion counterpart.
Blitz had a thoughtful look on his face for a moment before his eyes widened and turned towards Dash with a smile. "Divide and conquer" was the only thing Blitz said before flying towards the figure.
Dash, who already figured out what the stallion meant, flew towards the figure.
Celestia was just standing up when she saw the scene in front of her. Two cyan pegasi attacking and dodging the sole enemy there that neither flinched or got hurt from the constant barrage attacks.
"Rainbow Dash, Rainbow Blitz!" Celestia shouted. Both pegasi looked at her curiously "Hit it as hard as you can!"
Both nodded their heads and turned towards each other. They had a silent conversation between themselves before nodding and Blitz flew away from the castle, up to the clouds while Dash continued her assaults at the unflinching machine.
When Blitz felt that he was high enough, he turned back towards the castle and focused his gaze on the black menace. He then reared back before launching himself towards the castle. A cone of air was around him as he flew faster and faster. Before reaching his maximum speed, he positioned himself where his backlegs were pointing downwards.
Just as Rainbow Dash threw another rock at the figure, she heard it. She looked up and a huge smile occupied her face. A sonic rainboom. The figure looked up just in time for see Blitz dive bombing towards it.
A direct hit.
Blitz's hooves connected with the figure's head and sent it flying, hitting a wall and went straight through it. And then another. And another. The figure went through four walls in total.
Blitz shouted in glee as he and Dash hoof bumped. Celestia trudged towards them but with a smile on her face.
"That was amazing of you two to work together like that!" Celestia praised "Who knew what would've happened if you two didn't come to aid me"
Blitz scratched the back of his neck with blush on his face "It's no problem, actually. Just doing what's right, you know. I am the Element of Loyalty after all"
Celestia laughed lightly "That you are." Before she could continue her praise, her wings tensed and she turned towards where the figure was thrown over.
Clouds of dust was blocking their view but they could just faintly see a red unblinking orb staring directly at them accompanied by a purple one.
"We can't stay here" Celestia said, all business again "We must leave. Now!"
Her horn glowed and both she and the two pegasi faded away, just in time to escape another energy beam from the figure.
The figure walked out of the shattered walls back towards the throne room without a miss in it's steps. It looked just as menacing at it had before but this time a part of it's helmet was broken. Instead of a red glowing one, a purple calculating eye was looking where the three ponies teleported from. It should be noted that the iris was in fact glowing purple.
"System check..." the figure said mechanically "Damage percentage... 23.37 percent..." Her body started releasing some steam "Commencing system cool down. Preparing for teleportation..."
"Destination... Heart..."