//------------------------------// // A Fallen Star And The Sun's Regret // Story: The Greatest Betrayal And The Greatest Of Friends (Perpetual Indeterminent Hiatus) // by DracoBrony //------------------------------// "Twilight!" Seven voices resounded through out the throne room with glee. Though the voice of Shining Armor was not among them, as he was currently passed out at the sight of his sister's... change and her rage. As the sounds of hooves grew closer, Twilight let out a commanding roar that made them stop in they're tracks and tremble in fear. Arceus saw this however and saw it as strange, Did she just use Screech? She thought to herself in amazement, but before she could think of something to say the guards, both solar and lunar, barged into the room an leveled their spears at Twilight as soon as they saw she was face to face with Celestia. "Halt!" One of them commanded with power and pride in his voice. Before starting to sweat. But not from fear no, the room it was actually getting quite hot in the room, almost as if it were a giant oven. Scarlet and Arceus were confused as to were it was coming from until they looked over at Twilight. Her coat was now white with a hint of orange in it and her mane and tail were literally flames. But what was possibly more frighting to Arceus, was not that visible heat was emanating from her but that it was not hitting her friends, Luna or Cadence. D-Di-Did she just use heat wave and then control who it affected? Arceus's mind was ablaze with confusion and panic. Does this mean she can use pokemon moves or is it some kind of magic? She looked over at Twilight horn, but it wasn't lit up with magic and this deeply troubled her. How? How is this possible? No one in this reality should be able to use pokemon moves! She thought. After a few minuets the temperature went back to normal. While Twilight had gone back to normal the strangeness continued to get weirder from then on. "Leave us!" Twilight spoke her voice filled with a power and passion rarely seen before in Equestria. Her eyes had changed once again. Now they were a shining white and they were radiating with an almost unnatural power. "Begone!" She commanded, her voice echoing around the room before a wall of purple light pushed the guards out of the room and closed the door. "Now with those nuisances out of the way I can finally deal with you" She spat with venom at Celestia. She walked back over to her and stood eye to eye with her, before saying some thing no one in the room expected. "You, me, duel now, or are you to scared?" Twilight taunted as she teleported to the other side of the room, she then addressed her friends. "You guys may want to move." Which they did happily. Battle music Twilight then turned to Celestia. "You may have the first move if you would like." She offered. Celestia was stunned at this, she was letting the immortal goddess of the sun, have the first shot? "Very well Twilight Sparkle, if you want to lose this duel quickly then who am I to disappoint you." She stated calmly before gathering a tremendous amount of power in her horn, then sending a beam of gold energy at her former apprentice. But twilight just stood there not even attempting to dodge or block the attack in anyway, shape or form. Just before the wave hit her Twilight's eyes glowed once more before a barrier of a strange green energy formed in front of her. The beam hit the barrier before dissipating into nothing. All that were present were stunned but one, Arceus, for very different reasons then the others. Th-That was protect! She was getting more and more confused by the second. Twilight's eyes glowed once again before a sphere of blue energy formed in front of her. Within seconds it was as big as a pony, when it reached that size Twilight fired it directly at Celestia who barely managed to put up a magical shield in time. The ball of energy struggled to over come the shield made by the alicorn, but soon the shield began to crack at the edges before shattering in to a thousand golden pieces with a thundering explosion. Before the smoke full cleared Twilight charged another attack. This time a beam of purple energy was fired from her open maw. It hit Celestia dead center of her chest, the force throwing her through the stone wall behind her and down into the streets below. Celestia hit the ground with a sound akin to a thunderclap, as the dust began to settle the white and battered form of Princess Celestia rose from a crater, still alive but very tired. Scratches and bruises covered her body but due to her alicorn durability it didn't mind her to much. A crowd of ponies surrounded her with eyes widened in shock. With a powerful flap of her wings she took flight, a gale of wind and dust rose from her crashing place. She set her eyes on the castle, before being taken aback by what she saw coming towards her. Battle music 2 It was Twilight or at least she thought it was. This 'Twilight' had much darker fur and the light purple streak in her mane and tail was replaced with a blood red one. Her body was radiating a black aura. Her eyes once again now a glowing white but this time there was something... off about them. This time her eyes were... well the only word Celestia could think of was otherworldly. The radiated a sense of power and ferocity she hadn't seen since... No it couldn't be, could it? "Why? Why is their magic signatures so similar?" Celestia asked aloud to no pony in particular. Well If I can keep her in the air I should have the advantage. Shes new to her wings and hasn't had much use with them yet. 'Twilight' then did some thing that confused Celestia, she flew straight up. Twilight went up a few hundred thousand feet before stopping, she then started to dive straight at Celestia. A mach come started to form around her as she grew fast and faster. She was about a half way from Celestia the the mach cone broke in an explosion of black, leaving a luminescent picture of her cutie mark behind her. Twilight speed towards Celestia even faster then before but then something unexpected happened... A second mach cone had formed around Twilight. There was another explosion of color before Twilight turned into a golden comet heading straight for Celestia. Celestia was stunned, not only had Twilight pulled of a Star Burst or what Rainbow called the Sonic Rainboom but she had pulled of the more advanced version... The Golden Nova. The attack hit Celestia in the side sending her crashing back into the castle, Celestia crashed through her throne and smacked against the floor... Twilight flew through the hole in the wall and landed next to Celestia, her current form making her friends gasp in shock and horror. No.... Why does Twilight's magic signature remind me of her? Luna thought in fear. "Now its time to end this Celestia." 'Twilight' said as she started charging an ever growing ball of darkness. "NO! If she releases that attack she'll kill her." Arceus exclaimed, worry and fear starting to creep into her voice Luna, Cadence, Shining Armor, and the rest of her friends looked on in horror as they saw their friend about to kill Celestia and there was nothing they could about it. Even the alicorn that introduced herself as Scarlet was looking on with a look of fear in her eyes. It looked like the ball of darkness was just about finished when all of a sudden Twilight let a terrifying yell and started shaking violently as white light started to escape her body. "NO! I will not disappear! Not when I am so close to my revenge! I may have failed corrupting Luna completely but I will not be denied my revenge again!" Twilight yelled as more and more light started escaping her body. Finally after a few seconds the light grew almost too bright for anyone to look at directly when with a tremendous bang Twilight Exploded into a shower of light and smoke. D-did she just use self destruct Arceus thought as he and Scarlet looked on with the others at the where Twilight once stood. Everyone looked on in stunned silence to where once stood an enraged alicorn now only an empty crater with nothing remaining but a few lavender feathers remained. The silence was broken at once by a single sob triggering a cascade of tears of everypony. "TWILIGHT!!!" They cried when they finally realized that the pony they looked up to had just gone evil, claimed that she was was the one who turned Luna into Nightmare Moon, and that just exploded right in front of them was gone for good... or so they thought as after a few minutes of non-stop crying the door that Scarlet and Arceus came through slowly opened again and out stepped a tired looking, lavender, familiar looking alicorn and stopped after looking around for a bit and said what everyone was thinking "Uh... What happened." Author's Notes continued: Hey everyone real quick before I end this chapter I wanna give another big shout out to Sonic Rainboom Dash who has helped me out with a lot of upcoming ideas and also for sending in the after battle ending. Thanks man! Also I know that this chapter was a bit shorter then the previous one but I really couldn't wait for everyone's opinion. But don't worry hopefully I can go for my new 2,500 words per chapter goal in the next chapter. So see yea in the next one!