Raven was thrown into a nearby wall. Their opponent was stronger than they originally thought, for it was an entity they had never expected to encounter; it was a lot like the mist that caused Raven and Luna to black out, but worse. This time, it was more powerful, bigger, and it had friends. If that was bad enough, it could also get a hold on their abilities and use them against the heros. Yeah, definitely not something you want to go picking a fight with.
All the titans were going at the monster and its army continuously, but kept on getting overpowered when the creatures used their powers against them. At all directions, there was at least one of the five titans who was cornered, fighting constantly, or was starting to slow down in their attacks by exhaustion. Beast Boy was the last one who was clear of creatures coming at him as he breathed in deep, raspy breaths of oxygen; he was ready to take down their enemy and head back to the tower, but judging by how bad their battle was going, he wondered if he would ever see the tower again.
"Come on, Beast Boy! Keep fighting! Do it for the world, the city, the ponies, your friends, and yourself," the green man spoke under his breath as he looked around him to see the troops of the pitch black beasts grab hold of his team mates, who were either struggling in the monsters grasp, or were knocked unconscious. The man turned his head to the left to see out of the corner of his eye, Raven getting off of the ground.
Their eyes connected as the two comrades agreed on the same thing. Together, they stood side by side. Their huge, black predator noticed and laid it's demonic green eyes on the two superheros as it let out a deep, ominous laugh, "Do you truly believe that little specks such as yourselves can defeat me? I am created by pure darkness, I am a servant to the King of Shadows, I take your precious light and extinguish it. You are nothing compared to me, but I am not here for you,"
"You obviously don't know who we are and what we've dealt with in the past!" as he declared this statement, Beast Boy shape-shifted into a T-rex and allowed Raven to fly on top of his head as the dinosaur charged at the dark cloud of smoke. With great power in her voice, Raven spread out her arms as she announced her signature cry, "Azerath-metrion-sinfose!" which caused a part the roof above them to fall and crush a good amount of the army. The army's leader was momentarily distracted by the sudden attack, which gave Beast Boy to ram his giant body into the creature, who plummeted into the hard ground.
After the blow, the pitch black mist started to shrink down to the size of a human, but still maintained its dark color and mist-like exterior. While it took a moment to compose itself, Beast Boy turned back into his normal self. The man and woman ran next to each other. They got in their attack stances and were prepared for when their enemy would rise up again. However, they were lifted up by two of the monster's soldiers who had also taken the shapes as humans.
The heroines struggled and squirmed in their capturers holds, but found they couldn't. They could only watch in terror as their enemy stood up, and created a large dagger in his palm. It turned it's head around, not even having the body turn with it, and smiled. It's smile was so demented. It's teeth were yellow and sharp, with some teeth missing due to the creature's fall, and the green eyes now had slits for the pupils that ran chills down Beast Boy's and even Raven's spine.
The monster observed his dagger as he spoke in his demonic voice, "I must admit, you two make quite a team. But I am in no mood to play games with such foolish humans like you! I have a message to deliver and I do intend on delivering it," the blackened smog then came up to Raven, who glared at him with complete hatred. With his dagger, the human posing mist gently pressed the utensil on the girl's stomach, which caused Raven's heart rate to increase a mile in a split second! Beast Boy felt rage, hatred, and his inner-beast well up in him until he couldn't control it anymore, "Let her GO!!!" without wasting a second, the boy punched and kicked his way out of the dark human-shaped being's grasp as it evaporated into the clean air.
With seemingly no effort taken, Beast Boy grew claws and sharper fangs as he threw the dagger out of his opponent's shadowed hand and flung Raven's capturer across the room with amazing force, freeing her. The cloaked woman just stared at her rescuer in uoter shock; she knew that when it came to his friends, Beast Boy was very protective, but she had never seen the man turn into a raging predator like he had just done, and it was all......for her?
Raven blocked that thought out of her mind as reality came back to her as she and Beast Boy stood side by side, ready for their opponent. Their target was also prepared, despite his astonishment of the green male's outburst. The three stared intensely at each other, as the army of creatures stood on all sides, ready to see who will go down. In that moment, the real fight had begun.
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"Princess Luna, stop!" Luna turned to find Fluttershy a few wing-flaps away, clearly out of breath from the pace she had been flying at to keep up with the night princess, "Fluttershy, this is not the time. those humans could be in terrible danger right at this moment!" Luna noticed that Fluttershy was not wearing her element, "Where is your element? We could use it," Fluttershy just sighed, "I left it at the tower. I thought that it would be safer there," Luna thought about it for a minute before she realized that Fluttershy was right; they couldn't take the risk of the last element being taken from them. Not to mention that they didn't know how to use it without the support of the Element of Harmony, yet she still had her worries. Not only for the element, but for the pegasus.
"I suppose you are right, but you will still need to defend yourself incase we are in battle," the princess then used her magic to create a sword for Fluttershy, and levitated it to her. Alas, when the pony grabbed hold of the weapon, it's weight was too much for the mare, for it caused the pony to stoop down at least twenty feet. Once Fluttershy had risen back up to Luna's level, she blushed in embarrassment at her clumsiness.
Luna hoof-palmed her face as she tried to think of what to do, before turning the sword into a bow with arrows. Fluttershy looked at the object. She had never used a bow before, so she was afraid that she was going to mess something up, but before she could bring this information to light, Luna flew off, "Come now! There is no time to waste!"
Fluttershy gave her new tools of defence one last uncertain look, before catching up with her comrade as the soured through the city, "So, um...what exactly are we looking for?" Luna only responded with a hoof pointing to a nearby street that had seen some struggle.
The two girls landed and began looking for any clues that could link them to the titans. The area had clearly seen the destruction recently, yet they still couldn't find anything that was related to the team. Fluttershy was convinced that there was nothing to worry about, at least for the titans, "Princess, I don't think we wi-AH!" Fluttershy had fallen into a opening in the ground that wasn't there before, catching Luna by surprise.
Luna flew down gingerly on the floor of the opening, only to be met with mucky water and a terrible smell that made her crinkle her snout in disgust. Fluttershy was equally disgusted by the water, if it even was that, and trotted onto a narrow pathway on the right side of the area. Luna followed her friend's lead as they looked to see that the opening led to a tunnel. The two girls could see that there was light at the leading towards the place they were looking at, but it was rather dim. Nonetheless, Luna started following the way that led to the light, fluttershy close behind her.
They both walked in silence, trying to figure out what to do. Fluttershy was wondering if the alicorn had a plan, a weapon, or a clue of what they were about to walk into, "So, you do have an idea, right princess?" Luna halted in her tracks at the question. She hadn't even thought of a plan to save the titans, or how to defeat whoever started this mess. In fact, Luna didn't even think it through when she volunteered to come to this world, stop Sombra, and return the Elements of Harmony. Luna slouched to the ground, feeling like a failure, but then felt a comforting hoof come over her shoulder. Luna looked up to see Fluttershy giving her an apologetic smile, "Oh, I'm sorry, your highness. I didn't realize-" Fluttershy was cut off by Luna's cries of despair, "This is ALL my fault! I should have KNOWN that Sombra would return, but I was just too foolish!"
Fluttershy gasped in horror at the princess's accusations, "No, no...princess, this is NOT your fault. We all didn't see it coming," "But I should have! I am the Princess of the Night for feathers sake! King Sombra is connected to darkness, and so am I!" Luna was angry with herself for all she had done to cause this misfortune upon her sister, her kingdom, her friends, the titans, and herself. She wanted it all to be nothing more but a bad dream, but if it was, she was not going to wake up from it any time soon.
Fluttershy was outraged by this accusation, so mad that she raised the princess's head up by the chin and got in her face. She was not about to let the ever so regal royal put herself down. The pink maned pegasus had done that to herself before, and she was not about to let an almighty god do the same, "Listen to me, Luna. You are not the cause of this! Do you hear me! Yes, it's true that you are connected to darkness, but that gives us an advantage in a way. I believe in you, Celestia believes in you, my friends believe in you, and Equestria believes in you! You can do this!" Luna whipped a few tears away as she gave a smile of gratitude to her young friend.
Luna regained her composure, stood up, and plastered on a face of determination. She knew that she had to put guilt aside for now and focus on the task at hoof. It was the only way they were going to make it through, "You are right, Fluttershy. I do have others who are counting on me, and I'm not going to let them down! I have a plan, but I will need your assistance," Fluttershy nodded in understanding, "Well, what is it, princess?"
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Beast Boy and Raven breathed heavily; they had used everything in their willpower to destroy their attacker, but were starting to tempt fate and let the monster-turned-human do what he wished with them. They were just too tired to continue on in the battle, "Aw, what's the matter? Have I bested you and your pathetic abilities already?" the monster spoke in a tone that was confident and smug. The two heros just glared at him before collapsing on the floor, to tired to fight on even if it costed them their lives.
Their opponent just grinned as he was about to give the adults his final blow, but was then shot by a blue, strong beam of magic hit the creature right where it's face would be, causing it to be flung against the wall! Raven and Beast Boy had enough strength to lift their heads up to see who their rescuers were, but didn't expect to find that they were none other than Princess Luna and Fluttershy! The two stared in awe as the ponies ran over to their aid, "Wh-why didn't you st-stay at the t-tower like I said?" Raven could specifically remember that morning when the emergency signal went off and told the alicorn and pegasus to stay in the tower.
Luna just smirked at the woman, "And leave you and your team to fight alone?" Beast Boy was the first to get to his feet, thanks to Fluttershy, "Well, you came just in the nick-of-time! We were about to be dead!" but before anyone could say another word, they all heard the demented laughter of their enemy as it shaped itself into a pony, "Well, seems that I shall get a chance to deliver my message to you, Princess Luna," at that, everyone, especially Luna, turned in shock, but then Luna's curiosity grew, but she would not let her guard down.
"What message?" she asked, "The message is from the King of Shadows," Luna's eyes widened and Fluttershy gave out the smallest hint of a gasp at the news. The beast only chuckled, "Yes. He wants me to tell you that you shall have six months until you meet with him," Fluttershy, and even Beast Boy and Raven went wide eyed. Luna however, remained calm, but on the inside she was terrified out of her mind. Nevertheless, she spoke boldly and proudly, "Why does Sombra wish to speak with me?"
"Oh, I think you know, your majesty. To discuss his plans for Equestria and this dimension, and to also go over old times," Fluttershy, Raven, and Beast Boy were confused and astonished by the dark smog's exclamation, but Luna was frozen where she stood, "I see that you clearly remember everything, despite it being one thousand years ago," Luna shook herself out of her trance as rage just consumed her. With no mercy, the princess shot continuously at the smog, causing the army of monsters to charge right at her and make Raven feel the same surge of power course through her veins as she joined Luna in the firing.
Beast Boy watched the scene unfold as the two girls shot in every direction, shooting off at every incoming black mist creature that got in their range. Their messenger was nowhere to be found, but they couldn't worry about that at the moment. Not when Luna and Raven were too busy fighting off the army to notice that their attacks were ricoteighing off the walls and ceiling, causing the concrete to crack little by little until the roof of the cave started coming down on them!
Remembering that he still had his fellow comrades lying in different places of the room, Beast Boy got Fluttershy and instructed her to go and get Starfire while he got Robin and Cyborg. Fluttershy did what she was told, but Beast Boy still needed Raven and Luna to stop their attacks, "Guys, STOP! Your bringing down the entire tunnel!"
Hearing the green boy's call, both Luna and Raven stopped what they were doing to see the destruction they were causing. They both flew out of the way when a huge concrete ceiling nearly crushed them! Beast Boy transformed into an elephant as he scooped up his leader and robotic teammate with his trunk and waited by the exit of the cave for everyone else. Fluttershy went first with Starfire on her back, then Raven went along with Beast Boy. As for Luna, she was the last of them to get out of the cave as she took one good look at what she had caused before rushing out along with the team, the messenger's words echoing in her mind as she went.
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Luna was on top of the roof of Titans Tower, getting ready to bring forth her moon and night. She was just worried that she wouldn't be able to do it, not when she was increasingly losing her powers over the moon, but she would try, "Can I join you?" Luna turned to see Raven at the door, the princess cracked a small smile, "Of course. I could use some company," Raven nodded plainly and sat on the edge of the roof next to Luna, "Someday, huh?"
Luna let out an exasperated sigh, "Tell me about it. I cannot believe I have six months until I have to meet with that scum!" Luna couldn't help but feel sadness overwhelm her, but was interrupted by another question, "So...what did that thing mean by 'despite it being one thousand years ago'? And did it say something about a place called 'Equestria' and a 'dimension'?" Raven couldn't help but ask. She normally didn't care about that stuff, but it seemed that information was important and she wanted to know why.
Luna just sighed, "That can wait till morning. Right now, I had a job to do," and with that, Luna spread out her wings and took to the sky. Using every ounce of strength she had left, the night princess used her magic to lift the moon in the sky.
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Inside the tower, Fluttershy and Beast Boy watched in awe as Luna raised up the moon in the darkening sky. Beast Boy was amazed that the mare who was out there, did such an amazing thing every night. Without taking his eyes off the moon, he asked his new pony friend, "So is this why she's called 'The Princess of the Night'?" Fluttershy simply nodded and smiled as she answered, "Yes, that's why," together, the two beings watched in amazement as the night gained it's rising moon.