My Brave Pony Starfleet Humans STARFLEET EVENTS

by DakariKingMykan

Act 9: Amends

ACT NINE

Xaydie brought her prisoners in a big empty room aside from her control ops. It had to be big for the big ritual she was going to perform and transfer her spirit into Cadance.

Cadance, still paralyzed, was tied up and placed in a tub filled with green liquid and sacred leaves and powder for the ritual, altogether was very rancid to smell. She could hardly breathe well.

Xaydie then released her from the paralysis, and as expected, Cadance felt like gagging by the scent of the horrible odors.

“Don’t worry, it’ll all be over soon.” said Xaydie “I released you from the paralysis so that I can move freely when I inhabit your body. Then Fratello will untie me so that I may proceed with my plot to dominate the world.”

Fratello looked more regretful than ever.

“Fratello, please… don’t do this!” Cadance groaned.

Fratello clenched his fists and really felt like helping her.

“You stay where you are and guard the others.” snarled Xaydie, and she held up the remote for the bomb, enforcing her threat.

Fratello nodded and remained at his post watching over Celesto and Krysta perched on his shoulder. Though they were both still paralyzed, they were unlikely to cause any trouble.

Celesto couldn’t even move his mouth to speak, but he could still see and hear well enough, and his insides were going crazy with worry for Cadance, and he could do nothing. Worse than that, he was still morbidly upset over Lightning’s supposed death.

“It is time…” hissed Xaydie.

She laid herself on a solid stone bed also covered in sacred leaves and with ritual beads.

“This old body of mine has worn and served its purpose for far too long. I can hardly wait to feel what it’s like to be young again.”

Cadance struggled to breathe but was losing strength fast due to lack of fresh air. “What’s going to happen to me? I don’t think I’ll take kindly to having you in my body.”

Xaydie snickered “Oh, you won’t have to worry about any of that. Once the ritual is complete, your spirit will be nothing more than a wandering soul.”

Cadance gasped.

“That’s right; a wandering spirit, doomed to roam the Earth, languishing unloved, unnoticed, and with hardly any hopes of even finding peace. Perhaps if you are lucky enough I will consider making you a mechanical body you can inhabit, just like your brother.”

Cadance gazed over at Fratello, and he gazed frightfully back at her.

Xaydie then lay flat on the bed. “Let’s begin.” She lay flat on her back, closed her eyes and held her hands together with a string of voodoo beads between them, and she began to chant her ancient spells.

Winds began to pick up right in the very room itself, and Cadance could feel herself getting lightheaded.

Suddenly, as the ritual seemed to be working…

BANG!! A gun fired, disturbing Xaydie’s concentrating. “What?!” she snarled as she looked up.

There stood Lightning, armed with supplies from the sub; a gun, a knife, rope, and a few grenades. “Ceremony’s over, Xaydie!” he snarled.

“Lightning!” cried Cadance.

Celesto and Krysta were overjoyed as well, though they couldn’t move, but Xaydie was speechless on how Lightning survived his fall.

“I’m not so easy to get rid of.” Lightning said.

Xaydie growled, and thought it was tempting for her to fight Lightning herself, she wanted to get the ritual completed, which meant she couldn’t try to paralyze him, having to keep her power leveled.

“Get him!” she shouted at Fratello.

“Yes master.”

He turned to face Lightning fiercely. “I’m sorry, Lightning, but I have my orders.”

“Fratello you don’t have to do this.” Lightning said, but Fratello lunged at him. Lightning swerved to dodge him, but was caught off guard and Fratello punched him hard, knocking him off his feet, and being part machine, Fratello was much stronger that average.

“Whoa!” Lightning groaned, as he rubbed his chest. He got up onto to his feet but made no attempt to shoot Fratello, not wishing to kill him for Cadance’s sake, not to mention risking blowing the bomb inside him.

Fratello lunged at him again, and he rolled out of the way.

“Fratello, I don’t want to fight you.”

“Oh, and you think I want to?” cried Fratello “I have no choice, can’t you see that.” He punched hard, and Lightning ducked causing his first to slam clean through the rock wall and trapping him.

“You’re wrong, you don’t have to. We can try and help you.”

“STOP IT!” shouted Fratello, and he broke himself free and swiftly kicked Lightning hard, into the control room, and his gun dropped out of its holster. It then became of a struggle to get at it. The two men fought brutally, but Fratello had the upper-hand, and got the gun.

Lightning stood with his back at the console, and Fratello holding him at gunpoint.

Meanwhile, the team had just braved through Xaydie’s storm surrounding the island. The winds were rough, the rain was rough. Rarity never thought they’d get through it. She also never thought her hair would ever recover from such an ordeal.

“Never mind that… look on ahead.” said Celestia.

“That must be the island.” said Sunset.

“We made it!” cried Pinkie.

“No, not yet we haven’t.” said Dyno.

“We still have to find the others.” said Myte.

Suddenly, those wearing visors could detect strong energy forces coming from the volcano.

“I think we found them.” said Artie.

“Let’s go!” shouted Sunset “Hang on, Twilight.”

“Right!” cried Twilight, and she held on tight as she, Sunset and the others flew closer in.

While all this was happening, Xaydie was busy finishing the ritual, and now Cadance was starting to feel her life-force weakening, and did it hurt…

…so much she couldn’t help but scream!

“You hear that!” snapped Lightning “You’re sister’s going to die because of you.”

“Shut up!” shouted Fratello “Just shut up! I’m ashamed enough as it is!”

“You don’t have to be!” shouted Lightning “You can help me save her. We can stop Xaydie!”

“She’ll blow me up! I died once before; I really don’t want to go through that again.”

“Not even for your own sister?”

“Huh…?”

“I know you may be part robot, but you still have the emotions of a human, and Xaydie can’t make you forget those.”

Fratello struggled with his emotions, finding it difficult to maintain his stance, giving Lightning the chance to tackle him to the ground, causing him to accidently pull the trigger, shooting the console.

Sparks began to fly as the machine began to go crazy.

The entire lair began to rumble, and Xaydie’s ritual was disturbed once again. “No!” she growled “I was so close!”

Cadance was very weak from all the pain she had endured, but was still in control of her own body, and with the machine’s disruption, the paralysis field was neutralized, so Celesto and Krysta were set free.

“That’s much better.” he groaned as he stretched himself free.

Xaydie saw no choice but to abandon her ritual and stand to fight by herself, and she would start by detonating Fratello.

She grabbed her remote control “That worthless scrapheap. I give him one simple task and he botches it up. Now, he will pay!”

“Oh, no you don’t!” shouted Celetso as he rushed forth, tackling her to the ground, causing her to drop the remote.

“Don’t toy with me!” Xaydie snarled as she shoved him off of her and reached for the remote, only for Krysta to snatch it and fly off with it.

“I don’t think so.” Xaydie hissed, and then she held her hand out, causing Krysta to stop in midair. She wasn’t paralyzed, but she couldn’t seem to fly forward or anywhere.

Celesto tried to rush her, but she used the same telekinetic force to lift him off the ground too.

“I told you, you hadn’t seen my full power, some of which is just natural magic.”

She then flung Celesto hard into the rock wall, knocking him unconscious, and then made Krysta come closer to her. “When I’ve finished, little birdy, perhaps I’ll have you for a victory feast!”

Lightning peeked into the room, and saw this. He pulled the pin out of one of his grenades and tossed in the room, away from everyone.

BOOM! The grenade exploded, causing the room to shake, and broke Xaydie’s eye contact, releasing Krysta from her power.

She raced over to Lightning and gave him the remote, but Xaydie then used her magical force to yank the pins out of Lightning’s other grenades. “Ah!” cried Lightning and he fussed about and pulled off his belt, and threw it off just in time as the bombs exploded, but forced him back hard and the remote went sailing upward.

Xaydie used her powers to steady it in midair and bring it into her grasp again. “Yes!” she shouted, but as she rejoiced.

BANG!! Fratello came in, still holding Lightning’s gun and shot the remote perfectly, destroy it.

“Fratello!”

He gazed at her angrily and declared “I’m done with you!”

Xaydie growled angrily, but suddenly, there was a loud crash, and the walls burst wide open.

When the dust cleared, there stood the team, with Sunset and Twilight at the head.

“Wow…” Lightning exclaimed softly as he gazed at them all in their hero forms. Starla gazed back at him and nodded.

“Surrender, Xaydie!” snarled Sunset “We have you completely outnumbered.”

Xaydie, as outraged as she was, she was laughing evilly.

“Did I miss the joke here?” asked Rainbow.

“You may have me outnumbered…” hissed Xaydie “But we’ll see who has who outmatched!” She laughed wicked and began to expand and transform; into a giant mechanical version of herself.

“Uh… guys…!” cried Twilight “…Tell me one of you has an idea.”

“I have one…” snarled Xaydie “Just sit back and accept your eternal reward!” She prepared to fire a huge zap from her laser eyes.

Sunset quickly conjured a huge barrier to shield them all, and while it did, the force sent all the heroes flying out through the hole, but Twilight was hanging on for dear life onto the ledge.

Xaydie followed the heroes outside and eyed down at them all. “So, you’re the mighty Starfleet, I’ve heard of. I expected you to be a lot tougher than this.”

The team stood tall and brave, but the truth was, they weren’t feeling a-hundred percent and neither were their powers due to Twilight using them up during the first battle, and the long trip to the island while braving the storm.

Nevertheless, they were not willing to give up and looked ready to brawl. “We’ll take you on.” sneered Sunset “And we won’t give up until we’re taken our last breaths.”

The others all nodded in agreement.

“Such spirit, but foolish as well.” sneered Xaydie, she fired her lasers, and the team scattered about, and unleashed their magical blasts on her, slightly damaging her, but hardly enough to really harm her.

“My turn!” snarled Xaydie, and she used her telekinesis to try and levitate them all, only to find they were immune to her spells; their own magic shielded them.

As the battle continued…

Twilight felt herself slipping from the ledge, and would have fallen to her doom had Lightning not rushed in and helped her up, but he was very surprised and asked. “What are you doing here?”

“I’ll explain later… if there even is a later.”

They untied Cadance and got her out of the tub.

She panted stressfully trying to catch her breath.

“Are you okay?” Twilight asked.

Cadance nodded while still panting.

Twilight was relieved but also surprised to see that Fratello was alive after all, and though he didn’t look much like a robot on the surface, she knew what she had been told.

The lair began to shake and quiver more.

“I think the battles getting worse out there.” cried Twilight.

“No!” snapped Fratello “It’s the island itself!” He raced back to the control console, which was now seriously malfunctioning. “The main reactor’s going haywire! The weather patterns are going way out of control!”

Indeed, the weather was getting worse, all over the entire world, typhoons, hurricanes, and tornados, blizzards…why it was storm to end all storms, and growing worse by the minute.

It was getting so out of control that the Earth’s magnetic field was growing unstable, and the structure of Earth itself was beginning to weaken.

If nothing was done to end the storms soon, the Earth would literally fall apart!

Lightning tried the controls, but they were all fried. “It’s no good. We’d have to destroy the main reactor itself, but I can’t see how.”

Twilight then had an idea, and held her device up in the air.

“What are you doing?” asked Cadance.

“I’ll try and absorb the magic.” replied Twilight, but unfortunately, for even more unexplainable reasons, the device could only absorb pure magical energy. The machine energy was not the same type, and therefore could not be absorbed.

“It didn’t work!” cried Twilight. “I don’t know what else to try!”

Fratello looked down at his body, and put his hand over his chest. “There is one way that’ll work.”

Everyone gazed at him, and he gazed back at them; preferably at Cadance.

“I’ll throw myself into the lava crater, which will detonate the bomb in my body. The force will be strong enough to cause a volcanic erupting, which will destroy this entire island and the reactor as well.”

“But… Fratello.” cried Cadance.

“No! No! You can’t!” cried Twilight.

Lightning gazed deeply at Fratello, obviously not wanting him to go through with it as well, but even he could see there was no other way. The bomb was built into Fratello and obviously could not be removed so simply, and it was too dangerous to even try, plus there wasn’t even any time, or time even to get supplies from the sub get back and set everything up and clear out in time.

…The reactor had to be destroyed fast!

“I have to do this…” Fratello said.

Tears were flowing down Cadance’s eyes. “No… no you don’t! There’s got to be another way!”

“You can’t just kill yourself!” cried Twilight.

Fratello looked deeply at his sister, as if he wanted to cry himself, but he still could shed no tears, and he aimed his fist at her and Twilight.

“What are you doing?” asked Cadance.

“Goodbye sis. I love you, and I’m sorry!”

“Brother!”

Suddenly, Frattello shot Cadance and Twilight in the necks with stun darts, the very ones he had used before, and the girls fell unconscious.

Celesto awoke from his knockout, and entered the control room “What’s going here?”

“No time to explain.” said Lightning as he scooped up Twilight in his arms “Help me get them to the sub!”

Celesto didn’t understand, but he scooped up Cadance, and rather than going the regular way, Fratello lead them back into the ritual room where there was a secret emergency exit. “Slide down this chute, it will take you outside.”

Celesto and went first with Cadance. Krysta flew down after them, and just before Lightning went down with Twilight, he took a moment to gaze at Fratello one last time “You sure you want to go through with this?”

Fratello nodded sadly. “I betrayed all of you, and worse than that I betrayed Cadance, but I would gladly die for her if it meant saving her. You helped me remember that.”

Lightning smiled sadly yet proudly at Fratello and shook his hand.

There was another huge tremor.

“Go, now!” cried Fratello.

Lightning nodded and slid with Twilight down the chute.

Fratello felt very upset, and held his hands against the cold walls and hang his head low.

Lightning landed at the bottom of the chute outside where Celesto was waiting. “Where’s Fratello?” he asked.

Lightning gazed grimly at him and replied “He’s not coming with us. He had something… very important to do.”

Celesto finally realized what was happening, and while this did strike him heavily with grief, there was no time to waste. The men rushed to get the unconscious ladies to the boats, but as they prepared to head off to the sub, Lightning could see the giant Xaydie on the other side of the island, still battling with the others and the others weren’t holding out very well due to their weakened states.

Then he spotted Twilight’s device and remembering what she tried to do in the lair, he got an idea.

He grabbed the device and leapt out of the boat.

“Lightning, where are you going?” shouted Celesto.

“Just get to the sub!” Lightning shouted as he ran towards the danger zone.

Xaydie swung her huge arm, slamming many of the fighters like baseballs, and she fired her beams at the others, creating a huge explosion. The fighters managed to evade it, but were knocked all about by the huge force.

All of them felt pretty weak, and their powers were fading fast.

Xaydie laughed wickedly “Pitiful creatures! You are ranked amateurs to one whom has fought for centuries!”

Everyone barely managed to get up onto their feet and huddled together.

“This is nuts!” groaned Buddy Rose.

“We can’t go on like this much longer.” cried Rarity.

“I really wish Lightning was here.” Sunset murmured, and by that she meant the magical Lightning Dawn and his Enticorn powers.

Xaydie stomped towards the helpless team, and then raised her hand and gave it a huge swing, creating a large air current which separated the gang into two groups, the guys from the girls.

“What just happened?” cried Pinkie.

“She split us up.” said Artie.

Xaydie snickered and gazed down at the girls “Perhaps I shall take one of your bodies instead. Imagine the immense power I get combining your magic with mine, or better yet, I can mold all your bodies together into a super body.”

Everyone shuddered at such a thought.

Xaydie then gazed at the guys “And as for you…I shall destroy you and reconstruct you all into my obedient robot army. I will be totally unstoppable as I conquer the world!”

She powered up her lasers, ready to fire.

“NO!!” screamed Flutteshy.

“DON’T DO IT!!” shouted Celestia.

The guys braced themselves for what seemed to be the kill, when suddenly, Xaydie roared and screamed as her body began to lose power.

The others looked on and saw Lightning standing on a huge rock, holding Twilight’s device, and using it to absorb the natural magic from Xaydie.

“Ye-haw! Pour it on, boy!” Applejack cheered.

“Keep it up, Lightning.” cried Starla.

“I’ll… try!!” shouted Lightning.

“Stop! Release me!” shouted Xaydie, but Lightning continued to absorb more power causing Xaydie to shrink in size and grow weaker by the second.

Finally, the device had absorbed so much energy; it exploded, forcing Lightning off the rock and onto the sand.

“Lightning!” cried Starla.

“I’m okay!” Lightning called, and he pointed at Xaydie, whom was now half her size and extremely weak having lost her powers, and her mechanical body began to malfunction due to the imbalance of powers.

“Curse you! Curse you all!!” she screeched.

“Now’s your chance! Get her!” shouted Lightning.

“Right, come on, everyone!” cried Sunset.

The gang all huddled together and combined every bit of magic they could spare into a powerful force of energy and fired it straight at Xaydie, hitting her hard and sent her flying up, up, and far, far out over the ocean, right into the savage storms surrounding the island.

“I’M GOING TO GET YOU ALL!!” she hollered at them, but the metal in her body began to attract the lightning all around, which struck her hard…

“No…!! NOOOOOOOOO…!!!”

KAPOW!!

…She was gone!

“WE DID IT!!” cried Sunset, and all the others began to cheer along with her, but the moment was broken as the island began to quiver, and the storms finally hit the island.

Lightning got up onto his feet “We’ve got to get out here!”

Everyone agreed and quickly flew off for the sub, far, far away. Starla flew over to Lightning and took his hand. “Hold on tight!” she told him, and she flew off with him to catch up to the others.

Lightning couldn’t help but gaze back at the volcano. “Thanks, Fratello!”

The sea was getting rough and the sub was getting tossed about, but everyone managed to get aboard safely just as the last of their powers gave out, and they all de-energized into their normal clothes.

“Quick, take us out of here!” shouted Celesto.

Mary and John nodded and started the engines.

“Full throttle!” cried Mary.

“Dive-Dive-Dive!” added John “Everybody hang on tight!”

Everyone braced themselves tight as the sub began to steeply dive beneath the waves, and was still getting thrown and tossed about by the savage water currents.

“Come on, Fratello!” cried Lightning “Do it now!”

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Fratello, now know that everyone was safely off the island, stood above the lava crater was ready for his big jump.

He took a few seconds to think back upon his life, and how much his family and his friends meant to them. “This is for you, Cadance!”

He looked down into the pit, and roared loud as he leapt off the edge, down, down into the lava.

Upon contact, the bomb inside him exploded in a huge BAM, trigging the eruption of the volcano, and caused the main reactor to explode in one might huge BOOM!!

The shockwaves caused a small series of tidal waves that hit the sub beneath the waters, rocking it all over the place, and everyone stumbled about inside.

The entire volcano was destroyed and the lava spread out all over the island, melt it all into chunks of rock that sank beneath the waves.

With the destruction of the reactor, the weather patterns receded, causing all the big storms to break up and all the weather patterns across the world to slowly return to normal, restoring the natural balance.

The waters calmed down and the sub surfaced.

Everyone gazed out the portholes at where the island once stood.

Cadance and Twilight awoke from their knockout and looked out as well. Tears spread down Cadance’s face as she gazed over at the island. “Goodbye, Fratello…” she cried ever so softly “…I forgive you.”

She bowed her head and softly let out her emotions.

“Oh, Cadance!” cried Celestia, and she held her niece tightly “I’m so sorry, dear.”

Everyone felt ever so bad and sorry for Cadance, especially Twilight and Lightning.

Celesto sighed sadly as he sat down. “Let’s go home.”

As the sub headed further out to sea, everyone continued to gaze at the island sight until the very last moment.