//------------------------------// // Chapter 6 // Story: Princess Sky Stormer // by Skymaster9929 //------------------------------// Sky Stormer arrived at Great Galloping Gorge, flying overhead to scout the place out. She saw tons of big grey rocky mountains, but no ponies... Yet. She saw two. One blue mare with short Rainbow Dash-ish yellow hair tied up, a fat pink mare with darker-pink hair like petals standing over her. "Soon..." Rose Bud whispered. Sky Stormer remembered her training and gave Sky Stormer a flying kick that sent her flying, holding back so she didn't give her permanent brain damage, or break her neck or head. Sky landed, burned away the ropes with a fire spell to free the blue mare, and the Alicorn teleported just before Rose Bud hit the wall, grabbing her by the neck with both hooves. "I just finished a week of military training. I know over three thousand spells. I used to be the best long-distance flier in Flight School, and now I'm an Alicorn! The peak and pinnacle of pony power! What do you have?" Sky demanded, trying to force a surrender. "This." Rose Bud said, weakly waving her tail side to side like a flag. "That's all you've ever had." Sky growled, choking her harder. Rose's eyes bulged out like those of a squeezy toy, and Sky slammed her head into the wall, driving her in further and further into solid rock. "That's the signal!" An invisible Unicorn mare with pink fur realized, standing on the edge of the gorge, casting the gravity spell and running away to her next position. Sky and Rose Bud immediately fell to the ground like a dropped plate, Rose passing out while Sky furiously flapped her wings and tried to fight it, the gravity getting to unsafe levels as they both hit the ground. Explosives went off in the gorge to bring the whole thing down on top of them, killing them both. What was once gorge was now rubble, the gravity spell ensuring the rock around Sky and Rose was hardest. It would take years to drill through that rock, and by that point, Rose's family would find an excuse to prevent Sky's coronation. There would be no new Alicorn, there would be no change... Somewhere in Canterlot, there was a pony that didn't care how rich they were, because they wanted MORE. And if a rich pony in Canterlot couldn't have EVERYTHING, nopony in Equestria could have ANYTHING. Such selfishness... Such cruelty... Such... blind... EVIL. Buried beneath tons of rubble, body broken and crushed by rocks, Sky Stormer's eyes opened. Her wings burst open, unleashing a wave of wind that tore a new gorge into the earth and allowed her to once again see the sun and sky. Sky looked down at the pony beneath her, healing her with the sky-blue glow of her magic. She couldn't have her key witness dying. Afterlife, schmafterlife. Feeling the Alicorn magic burning within her along with her hate, Sky Stormer grabbed the pony and flew towards Canterlot, noticing a crimson spell flying towards her. It struck her flank and lightning struck her body, barely even hurting her, though the unconscious pony she carried woke up and started to scream. Did an invisible Unicorn just hit her with a spell? Sky spun in the air and swung a wing down at where she guessed the invisible Unicorn was, turning a huge section of land into a cube-shaped crater. A big splash of green in the crater's middle told her the invisible Unicorn was actually a Changeling, and she felt better about having to hurt it. After all, Changelings were evil, and many ponies had died in the invasion of Canterlot. She hated Queen Chrysalis. She wanted to kill her. But first, Canterlot. Sky Stormer flew towards the stained glass window that was being repaired, the glass pony screaming, and she crashed through the wall holding it instead. "Express delivery for the Court of Liars and Horses!" She shouted, throwing the pony up, having her land on the ground. With how mad she was, throwing her straight to the ground would hurt the lying little mule too much.