//------------------------------// // The return home/ The reveal to the world // Story: Nights. Darkness rising // by Tunefulsubset72 //------------------------------// "Here it is." Swift said as he and Red Rave left the forest. "Ponyville." "Thanks so much for this." Red said hugging Swift. "I can't wait to see my family again.” "You’re welcome." Swift said, chuckling. "Come on, I'll take you to the castle." "Sure thing." Red said with a smile as they entered the village. "I can't express how thankful I am for this Swift, I mean I get to see my family for the first time in about ten years." "That long?" Swift asked, shocked. "I know it's personal, but why did those things take you when you were younger?" "They originally wanted my sister." Red said sadly." But when they went to grab her, they said something about not having the right type of blood, you see, in my family every so often someone would be born with a type of blood similar to dremora." "So you so happened to be born with this blood?" Swift asked. "Wow." "Yeah." Red said sadly. "So they grabbed me and return to boehtiah’s realm of oblivion, and there they did so many awful things to  me to awaken my deadric blood. Sadly it worked, so when I get angry I turn." "I'm so sorry." Swift said sadly. "I won't push it, Let's just get you home." --Crown city-- "So the eights attacked New York and D.C?" I asked after  Midnight, Gold Dust, Twilight and I had  returned from supergirls home. "So, that means there's war now huh?" "Pretty much." Max said as he took a sip from his drink. "We've been thinking about fighting back but...." "It would risk blowing our cover." I said, knowing what Max meant. "I say we should fight back, it's about time the world knew who we are." "We're one of the only hero teams left in the world." Vinyl said sighing. "We need more help." "We have more then enough, it's not like some of us have been hiding their power." I said, then looked at Octavia. "Octavia." "Ok, I can explain." Octavia said, laughing guiltily. "Oh I don't think you can." I said, giving her a playful glare. "So when did it happened?" "When did what happen?" A few them asked in unison. "I may or may not have achieved my tenkai master form." Octavia said, nervously. "It happened yesterday." "Congrats." I said, and patted her on the back. "So we got a team of tenkai masters, and two mystics, I think we can do this." "But where do we start?" Trixie asked. "I mean we need to lure the eights away from Crown city." "Um guys." Ryker said, looking at the tv. "The eights have already destroyed all of the major cities." Ryker said as the tv showed the army trying to hold off the eights. "They've won." "Then let's move." I said standing up. "Trixie, Max, Vinyl, and Ryker, you guys deal with the eights in chicago while Midnight, Gold Dust, Octavia, and myself will deal with the ones in Seattle." "What if we have to retreat?" Vinyl asked as we left the cafe." What then?" "Return here." I said, sighing. "I'll come up with something." --Chicago-- "THREE MORE ON YOUR LEFT!!!!" One of the soldiers yelled to his partner as he shot down an eight. "They just keep coming." he cried as one of the eights war fighters flew over them, shooting down a military jet. "I know what you mean." His partner said as they took cover. "You hear what they did in New York?" "Who hasn't?" the other said as they ducked beneath an onslaught of gunfire. "WHERE'S A SUPERHERO WHEN YOU NEED ONE!!!?!?!?!" (SHABOOOM) "WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT!?!?!" The second soldier said as a energy blast vaporized some of the eights, and as the soldier looked around he before looked up. " UP THERE!!!" "Need some help?" Ryker said as Max and Trixie appeared next and Vinyl hovered next to him on a hoverboard. "Because you look like you need it." "Thanks for coming." The first soldier said, standing up as the team landed. "The names Shining Armour and I’m the captain of this unit." "Aren’t you Twilight's brother?" Trixie asked as Sining looked at her with shock." Yes, I'm the same Trixie." "But when..?" "Fight now, questions later." Max said, stepping in." This is our plan, we hold off the enemy as long as possible while you and your men get people out of the city, that cool?" "Who are you to give orders?" Shining asked, offended as eights began to charge them. "OH SH...." Before he could react, Max teleported in front of them and breathed a wall of flames, melting them. "Ok then, Commander, you get some men into that building and get people out while I'll..." "Let’s do this together." Max said as they got ready for a fight. "Four of us, and hundreds of them, I’d say it's about fair." "Agreed." Ryker said as he powered up and charged an oncoming war fighter. "It's pretty fair." "How is this fair exactly?" Vinyl asked as Trixie and Max flew to join in the fight. "Guess I'll find out." --Seattle-- "And another one gone." Midnight said as he sliced an eights robotic soldier in half. "How you doing Gold?" "NEVER BETTER!!!!" Gold Dust shouted above him as he was being chased by three eights fighter bikes."BUZZ OFF!!!" he yelled in rage as he ripped apart one of them, causing its pilot to scream in pain. "I'm guessing they have gold in them?" "Probably." I said as me and Octavia fought off the ones in the sky. "I thought this would be a lot easier." "Oh really." Octavia said with sarcasm a she blew up one of the war fighters. "I thought this would be a walk in the park."P "By the sarcasm I hear in your voice, I'm guessing you’re in the zone." I said, smirking as Octavia blew up war fingers one by one." Aren't ya?" "What do you think?" Octavia said as she turned and faced me. "How about you?" she asked as she hit one of the eights in the face as it tried to sneak up behind her. "At least it's a challenge." I said with a shrug as an explosion shook the city. "Oh no." "What is that?" I hear Midnight say over the Com links. "Is that a war ship?" "Attention all eights." I hear a voice say from one of the coms of one the dead eights. "The sky breaker is in the city, and ready to fire its weapons." "What do we do?" Gold asked as him and Midnight pulled up next to us. "Nights?" "Everyones out of the city." I said after doing a life sense around the city. "That's alive at least( sigh). Retreat." "You have to be joking." Midnight said, surprised. "The Nights I know would never retreat." "Do you want to see Sunset again?" I asked as Midnight looked at me. "We don't even stand a chance against that thing." "How do you know?" Gold asked. "It may look big but..." "Because my father didn't." I said as they looked at me, shocked." My father told me about sky breakers, they are impossible to beat, and I mean impossible." "I understand." Octavia said as the ship fired a missile at the space needle causing multiple buildings a,d the needle to collapse into a fiery mess. "We need to get back." "Let's go then." I said as members started filling the black smoke sky. "Better luck next time." --Chicago-- "FULL RETREAT!!!!" Shining Armour yelled as the soldiers retreated back to the truck that had both civilians and soldiers in them. "That’s everyone." "We need to keep fighting!" Vinyl said she used her gun to shoot down more eights. "They just keep coming." "We're leaving." Ryker said grabbing her. "I don't want to lose you." "But what about..." Vinyl said, trailing off as she noticed the sky breaker above them. "Is that one of the sky breakers that Nights told us about?" "Yep." Max said as he flew up next to Ryker. "I sent Trixie back to Crown city to get the hospital ready for wounded." "Good." Ryker said wearily. "Because we're going to need it." "Thanks for the help Tenkai." Shining Armour said through the com. "Lots more would be dead if you guys hadn't showed up." "We had to." Max said replied. "Our team leader said it was about time that we showed ourselves to the world." "About that." Shining Armour said sadly. "We just received word, the eights conquered the entire east side of the globe before heading here, there's nowhere left, they control the world."