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// Chapter 16 
// Story: "Twilight and Flash" 
// by TeddyCK 
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	"It looks like it all ends here, old timer!" laughed Fassbender "I don't know how you were able to get that sister of yours out of my trance but I'm not going to ask since that's not important. But I do know that once you made your escape you ruined my whole plan! You sneaked around the screening room to break my valuable projector with a rock and messed with the chair controls. But what I don't understand is how you were able to defeat each and every demon of mine? And why are you glowing like that?" 
Flash smiled as it all began to make sense to him.  
"Why don't you ask Princess Twilight," he said. "She's the princess of friendship after all." 
Fassbender thought for a moment and went into shock. He looked at Twilight and took another glance at Flash. Then Fassbender got furious. He gently took Twilight out of his arms and placed her carefully on the floor. Next, Fassbender took out a sword of his own. 
"This is the last straw!" he grumbled uncontrollably. "You and I are going to settle this once and for all if this is the last thing I do, Flash Sentry!" 
"Fassbender, friendship is magical, you have to understand that when Twilight came for me I got stronger and stronger because she really cares about me. There's no point in trying to defeat me!" 
"I don't care," growled Fassbender. "I'll never believe that there's magic in friendship! You and I are going to finish this if it's going to kill me." 
"Don't do it, Fassbender!" warned Twilight "You'll only get yourself defeated!" 
"Enough!" roared Fassbender "This lovable Flash Sentry of yours, Princess Twilight, is going to battle me and there's no use talking me out of it!" 
"So be it!" said Flash with confidence as he began to glow even more. 
Fassbender charged right at Flash. So did Flash, as the hero and villain lunged at each other with their swords while Twilight stood back and looked on. At one moment, Flash dropped his sword but received it back in no time when somepony slid it over to him who turned out to be Julia! She had been following Flash the whole time and had now come to watch the fierce battle along with Twilight. 
A few moments later, Flash's armor and sword began to glow along with him and as Flash struck Fassbender another hit, Fassbender began to feel a little weak. He then found that parts of him were disappearing around the part where Flash had slashed him. 
"I'm fading away!" shrieked Fassbender "Why is this happening to me?!" 
"Because you won't believe in the magic of friendship, that's why." explained Flash 
Just then, all of Fassbender's demons came to the scene just as their boss was fading away some more. Fassbender noticed them. 
"Do something!" pleaded Fassbender 
"It's too late!" said his henchmen as they began to notice that they were fading away too. 
In no time at all, every demon's existence vanished. Then Flash, Twilight, and Julia noticed that everypony who had been trying to escape were around them. They had come back to watch the battle and were now seeing the end of it. Everypony was in cheers by this point. 
"You did it, Flash!" cried Twilight 
"Way to go, big brother!" cheered Julia "And, oh, sorry that I decided to tag along. I was just so worried..." 
"It doesn't matter," said Flash. "You did your part of helping me out too." 
As everypony continued on towards the exits and soon made it to the beach everypony tried to figure out how they were going to get off the island. At that very same moment, the dark clouds parted away and went back to being a sunny blue sky. Then streaks and streaks of magic dust began floating across the new bright sky. It came pouring down on all the ponies and in no time at all, everypony had their magic back. When Flash got his back, he began floating up towards the sky, even though he didn't have his wings out. Then bursts of colors came out of him in a beam! The colors streaked everywhere across Equestria. Every land of Equestria got rebuilt that the demons had been demolishing and these demons too got faded away. 
Back on the island, everypony continued gazing at Flash's new powers. After Flash gave one more effort, a blinding flash was made and everypony found things back to normal.