My Brave Pony: Starfleet Magic (Season IX)

by DakariKingMykan

Episode 1: Devils out of Darkness

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EPISODE ONE

At Sugar-Cube Corners, in New Ponyville on United Equestria, the place was closed for a “Private Event” it was a very special day for little Shining Light, as his mother placed a cute little cupcake with a Number-One shaped candle on it.

“Happy Birthday, Honey.” Starla cooed, and her little son giggled while flapping his little arms.

Lightning gazed at his son from afar, hard to believe he was finally a year old, but he still wore an anti-magic manacle to prevent his use of magic, and an anti-lift patch on his wings so he couldn’t fly.

Everyone just cheered, and some blew noise makers. Krysta flew about spreading sparkly dust all over, “Yippee!”

“Feliz cumpleaños!” hollered Dyno and Myte, which meant “Happy Birthday” in Spanish.

“Seems like only yesterday, he was so tiny.” said Dyno.

“Si,” agreed Myte “Come to think of it, he’s still pretty tiny.”

The brothers shared a chuckle.

Then, of course, Pinkie Pie peeked through the doors to the kitchen, with the five-year old Cake Twins, Pound and Pumpkin, and the kids were blowing noisemakers while Pinkie sang one of her favorite birthday songs to the little colt as she put a little hat on his head.

“Happy Very First Birthday,
to you, yes you, today
I-can't-believe-you're-already-a-year-old. Time-sure-flies-doesn't-it-wow. Seems-like-only yesterday-you-were-born.

But now you’re a year old today, hey!”

Pound and Pumpkin sounded their horns, and Shining Light cheered for joy.

Starla giggled.

Lightning gazed at his son from afar while he was comingling with the other patrons.

“Isn’t he adorable?” he asked to Buddy.

“Sure is, I feel the same way about my Seedling.”

He looked over to the quiet corner of the living area, where his infant daughter was sitting in her buggy, along with Button Fly, Twilight Sparkle Scales, with their respective mothers, Tree Hugger, Fluttershy and Rarity sitting on the sofa near them.

Lightning looked at Cadance and Shining Armor, “I’m glad you guys could make it especially.”

“It’s our pleasure.” said Shining Armor.

“Besides,” added Cadance “Flurry likes your son so much, I think she’d be upset if she couldn’t come.”

She held her cheering and cooing daughter in her arms.

Flurry was a year and a-half old and starting to become more aware of her surroundings, but she was very happy to be there.

“Where’s Swift Star?” Cadance asked “Wasn’t he invited too?”

Lightning nodded, “I told him he was more than welcome to come, but he insisted that he wouldn’t take time off from his training, and if that’s his choice, I’ll leave him to it.

I don’t think I could’ve chosen a finer pupil.”

In the fields far away from the party, Lightning’s student, Swift Star, was indeed hard at training.

-Practicing his martial arts-- punching and kicking at the air.

-Improving his strength by lifted two huge boulders like weights

-Then just meditating under a tree.

Much as part of him did wish he was at the party, he didn’t wish to let down his master, his friend, the one who really changed his life and helped improve him for the past several months.

Starla was playfully blowing, trying to get Shining to blow out his candle.

“Come on, sweetie; Blow… blow…”

Pinkie joined in too, “Come on, big breath,” and she took in a huge breath, puffing her cheeks, which only made the baby laugh.

Pinkie suddenly couldn’t hold her breath in much longer, and puffed it out, sending the cupcake sailing and splatting right onto Starla’s uniform!

Starla was a little annoyed, that her clean and spiffy new General’s uniform was splattered, but everyone couldn’t help but chuckle at her and she smiled embarrassed.

“Sorry about that.” Pinkie said innocently.

Starla brushed it off and just picked her son up, “Time for presents.”

She then places him sitting down on the carpet near the other babies, and Cadance brought Flurry over, strapping her into her own buggy.

Rainbow Dash excitedly fluttered up hollering, “Me first, me first!”

And she unwrapped her own present which was revealed to be a huge gold medal she had actually had made for him with a number one on it. “For you, because you’re my number-one favorite special little guy.”

She hung the medal around his neck.

“Uh, Rainbow,” Lightning called over “He’s just starting to learn to stand, so I don’t think that’s a good idea to--”

It was too late…!

Shining already fell over onto his back by the weight of the heavy medal, but surprisingly he didn’t cry. If anything he just laughed while kicking his feet in the air.

“Oh, my!” said Fluttershy “He doesn’t seem hurt at all.”

Rhymey came over to her and said,

“Space Alicorns are born with strong skeletons, as such,
He wouldn’t feel too much pain, or get hurt as much.”

The three mothers blinked their eyes in astonishment.

Seedling and Button were both born from Space Alicorns, and but Twilight wasn’t, which made Rarity start to question more about her daughter since she was a Dragony.

“Is she very strong? Does she have other characteristics I’m not aware of?”

“Never mind that, Rarity.” said Spike “I love her anyway, the same as I love you.”

His wife smiled, and pecked him on the cheek.

The party was wonderful, and Shining seemed happy with his gifts, mostly stuffed animals, new rattles, baby playsets, and the usual things.

Artie presented him, or rather to his parents a beautiful portrait of the family he had painted, to commemorate this day.

“…It’s beautiful.” said Starla.

“How much do you want for it?” Lightning teasingly asked, to which Artie nudged him, “It’s a gift, and it’s yours. I insist.”

Pinkie got to play her favorite game with all the babies, while hiding behind the doors to the kitchen.

“Where’s Pinkie Pie…?

…Here I am!

Where’s Pinkie Pie…?

…Here I am!

Where’s Pinkie Pie…?

…Here I am!”

All the babies cooed and clapped their little hands.

Lightning chuckled as he watched near the counter with the Cakes.

“You have to admit, she really is great with babies.”

Carrot Cake agreed, “She’ll be a great mom herself, someday.”

“Now, now, dear,” protested Cupcake “Don’t rush it. Pinkie still hasn’t even found her special someone yet.”

Then she watched as Pinkie rolled on the floor making funny faces for the children, and they all enjoyed it.

“Oh, but she is adorable with them.”

“By the way,” asked Carrot “Aren’t their royal majesties supposed to be here?”

Grand Ruler Celesto and Queen Celestia would have loved to have been at the party and were invited by Lightning and Starla especially.

“They sent us a letter this morning, saying they couldn’t come.” explained Lightning “We’ve been receiving reports from Starfleet Outposts of strange attacks occurring on other planets, all seemed to be at weddings or romantic gatherings.

The latest being from the Planet Kiran.”

The Cakes felt concerned and asked why Lightning, as Commander, and Starla as General were not present to help out.

“We tried to,” answered Starla “But with Shining Light’s first birthday; their majesties couldn’t bear to let us miss it, and practically ordered us to celebrate with our friends.

So they sent other Starfleet squads to assist and report.”

They could say no more as much of what else was classified under Starfleet Personal, but they both were feeling concerned as it was beginning to feel like something was out there, and they would get involved soon enough.

In another dimension,

This was a dark and mysterious world, shrouded in shadows and blackness, with blue flames in certain places, and much of it was seemingly empty space with only giant floating areas, too small to be land masses, but plenty for all the strange creatures to live on.

Most of these creatures were black, shadowy humanoid figures.

That stranger, with his mask off, came walking down a long pathway, revealing he had faded peach-colored skin, blue eyes, and two black streaks starting at his eyes and trailing down his face.

Many of the creatures chattered as he passed.

“There he is.”

“He is so handsome.”

“I bet he’s going to see the king.”

The path seemed to stop by two large torches of blazing blue fire at the sides of the ended path with nothing by a large gap of empty black space.

The creature got down on his knees, bowing to the blackness saying nothing.

All at once, massive forms of darkness and energy came together, and there appeared the master and ruler of this dimension.

He seemed to resemble that of a tall, tall, humanoid, with pale gray skin, flowing black hair that stretched long, long into the darkness, with long arms with sharp fingers, but he was attached to what appeared to be a gargantuan and throbbing formation of flesh, with a glowing middle of burning aura, and long tentacles that stretched far out into the shadows, with power flowing through them.

Atop his head was a dark golden crown, with spines vertically going across the middle, and two red, and shiny devil horns on either end.

All this, he was about the same size as a mountain, and all his people were about the size of clothes pegs!

Many of the other creatures began to chant,

“Hail Von Devilor! Hail to the King!”

“Hail Von Devilor! Hail to the King!”

The King, though pleased with his praise, roared like a fowl beast into the air, making the blue flames and the darkness blaze!

Then he spoke in a deep, dark voice, “As long as the light of love exists, there is no safe place for us Devils to wander outside of our own world!”

He clenched his fists and declared, “We must destroy every single speck of love that exists. Only then can we be free, only then can we take over and gain complete mastery of all worlds.”

The other man bowed to him.

“My lord, I wish to report, that while I fully serve and obey your every command, we have run into trouble in our conquest.”

The King looked disturbed, “A trouble you speak of, Dearka?”

Dearka looked down in shame, “Powerful fighting warriors, who would defend the light of love, have been constantly appearing to foil our plans. They call themselves “Starfleet!”

The King looked extremely angry now, “Starfleet” “defenders of the light?!”

Dearka, still bowing to his king, looked up with a spiteful grin, “But there is good news, sire,

I have pinpointed the official planet and home base of Starfleet, and what is more: I detect vast amounts of love waves emitting from the planet’s populace. I believe this world shall be of great value to us, to aid us in our conquest to conquer all worlds and blot out the light forever.”

“Interesting,” mused Von Devilor “Go and investigate, Dearka, and I needn’t remind you the importance of this mission.

…Our very existence is at stake, and I won’t tolerate many blunders!”

Dearka stood proudly, “I shall not fail you, my king.”

Then he donned his mask, walking back down the path, until he vanished into the darkness.

Von Devilor narrowed his eyes viciously, at seemingly nothing, and recited the oath and honor he expected all his Devils to abide by, while imaging all the romantic beings, every bride and groom, or any couple he had obviously destroyed in the past.

“Find all the beings in love. Root them out and kill them!

Find anyone who is capable of love and destroy them!

And above all: Find those who are about to be married, and wipe them out of existence forever!

Hate the love in this world, for as long as there is love, those of us with hateful hearts will know no peace!”

It was beginning to get late, and the party broke up.

Fluttershy, Tree Hugger and Rarity suggested they and their families head home because the babies were getting tired.

“Rockin’ party though.” said Tree Hugger.

Seedling only yawned and fell asleep in her pram.

Button Fly had fallen asleep already.

“I think we should go now.” said Fluttershy.

“Yes, I agree.” Said Rarity as she stroked Twilight’s little head and she looked so sleepy.

The respective husbands agreed too, and after bidding their friends Goodnight, they headed off in the same direction for their respective homes.

Applejack went along with Buddy and Tree Hugger, “…‘Night, all.” she said with a tip of her hat.

Flurry Heart and Shining Light kept reaching towards each other.

“Time to say “Bye-Bye” honey” Cadance cooed to her daughter making Flurry go sad right away, and gave those tear-filling eyes and her quivering lips.

Shining Light looked the same as he kept reaching over for her.

“Oh, sorry, sweetie, but you need to go night-night.” said Starla.

The fathers hated seeing their kids looking unhappy when they had to part ways until the next time.

Both Lightning and Shining Armor could tell the kids were crazy about one-another, and at such a young age too.

“Guess you’re never too young to know what love is.” said Shining Armor.

“But definitely too young to do all that stuff that goes with it.” Lightning hinted.

The mothers agreed.

“Will you take them home, Krysta?” Lightning asked.

Krysta nodded, and turned to face the royal family, “All aboard for the New Crystal Empire.”

Just as she raised her wand to create the warp portal, the alarms sounded. Everyone’s heads perked up, and the babies began to cry in fright at the sounds.

“What is it?” cried Starla.

Swift came rushing down the road calling to Lightning.

“It’s terrible, there’s a big monster attacking in the park! So, I sounded the alarm and came here hoping to find you.”

“Well done, Swift.” commented Lightning “We’ll go investigate. Can you please take the babies inside so the cakes can watch them?”

“Sure.”

Swift knew he was not allowed to follow Starfleet into battle. He was not an official Starfleet officer and still badly undertrained, but he was pleased to be able to be able to help a little by taking care of the kids.

“Thank you so much.” said Shining Armor.

“We mean it.” added Cadance.

Swift nodded thankfully and headed inside.

“I’ll stay with him.” said Krysta “Then I can give him all the help he needs.”

“Thanks, Krysta.” said Lightning.

Pinkie Pie came rushing out ready to join the group.

“Let’s go!” said Lightning, and he and his group rushed over for the park, transforming along the way.

“Starfleet Magic!!”

“Harmony Hour, Friendship Power!”

Lightning, Starla, and Pinkie donned their battle suits.

“Go-Go Ninja…!”

Cadance transformed into the Silent Ninja

“Mask of Saber…!”

Shining Armor became Saber, the Insecto Warrior.

They arrived at the park and found many couples were unconscious and lying flat on the ground, due to an awful creature, the very one that attacked Lenora’s wedding on Planet Kiran, sapping energy right out of them.

“What is that thing?” asked Saber.

Lightning tried to scan it with his visor, but this creature was not in the Starfleet database, but he could read its power levels, which were very high, and the creature’s body itself gave off strange energy readings, almost as if the creature was more composed of energy rather than flesh and blood.

Nevertheless, they had to stop it.

“Let’s get it!” shouted Lightning.

The team agreed, and they all lunged forward.

The creature roared like the lion beast it resembled and charged forth.

“PULSAR LASER”

“STRIDENT SHOCKWAVE”

Starla and Saber’s attacks flew straight at the creature, hitting it hard and knocking it back, but hardly doing much damage.

“Did you see that?” said Starla.

“He hardly even looks scratched.” added Saber.

The monster then got up onto its feet and roared its sonic waves forcing the team to cover their ears, groaning and moaning.

“I can’t stand it!” cried Pinkie.

Lightning furiously charged up his golden horn!

“UNIFORCE…!”

Hitting the creature hard, and actually damaging it a little, but at least the sound stopped.

Still, the monster looked ready for more.

Pinkie looked fired up and motioned mockingly to it, “Come on, you overgrown alley cat. Bring it on!”

Cadance looked over her shoulder, and then tapped Lightning’s back.

“What is it?”

Cadance pointed vigorously over to the fallen couples, whom were now rising up onto their feet, looking pale, their eyes glowed red, and they seemed so evil, so hate-filed

“Whoa!” Starla cried as she scanned them “Their bodies have been infected with some sort of dark aura, it’s altering their brainwaves!”

“Right you are!” laughed a deep and sinister voice.

Everyone looked up, and there was Dearka standing on the roof of a park gazebo.

“So YOU’RE the one behind all this!” snarled Lightning.

Dearka only leapt down from the roof and called to his, now, servants of darkness. “Destroy them! Let your darkness and hate shine through!”

The couples-- every mare, every stallion-- roared and unleashed waves of darkness forcing the team to leap away, as the blasts made a large crater in the ground where they stood.

“Wow! That’s a lot of power!” cried Saber.

The lion creature then roared and was charging forth again, but Lightning and Starla both thrust their hands forth, actually grabbing the beast, holding it by its huge face and holding it into place before both giving it a huge kick and sent it crashing into the gazebo.

“Oh? Is that your best…?” teased Dearka.

He snapped his fingers, and the monster rose up again, still looking ready for more, much to the shock of the fighters.

“It’s like he won’t stay down!” wailed Pinkie.

“That’s the idea.” hissed Dearka “You’ve never faced a foe like me before, but keep up with the hatred and the anger. It makes things all the more interesting.”

Lightning felt there was some sort of connection with what he had just heard, but suddenly the group of couples began marching forth and fired more blazes of darkness in separate waves.

“Watch out!!” cried Pinkie.

The team swerved, leapt, and dodged as best they could, and some of those blasts hit the trees and the lampposts, blowing them up with such force-- much stronger than before.

More blasts fired, one-after-another, but of course the fighters couldn’t really bring themselves to hurt innocent civilians, at least not without absolute, last-minute needs.

However, Starla armed her bow and set it on “Heal.”

“I’ll see if I can try and help them.”

She fried her magical arrows, which flew straight for the civilians to heal them of the evil controlling them, but strangely, the arrows were vaporized by the dark waves before they could reach.

“What the?!” cried Pinkie.

“How is that possible?” added Saber.

Lightning turned and glared at Dearka who was snickering figuring he knew something they didn’t… yet!

“Destroy them!” Dearka shouted to the civilians, and the couples all began to march forth again, with the aura pulsating from their bodies.

“We can’t heal them!” said Lightning “We better contain them until we can figure something out.”

“Right!” agreed Starla and both she and her husband leapt up high to try to cast a magical barrier, enhanced with the uniforce around the civilians.

The others were continuing to dodge, but just barely.

“Oh, no you don’t!” shouted Dearka, and he extended his claws, powering them up with energy to fire, but Cadance managed to throw her ninja stars at him, forcing, but he just raised up his other arm, slashing the stars with his other claw, and still stood ready to fire, and ordered his monster to just rush in and finish the trio on the ground, even though the civilians were about to fire more blasts. He didn’t seem to care.

The monster began to rush forth, and the civilians unleashed their fury…

…and then…

WHAMM!! From out of nowhere, Dyno and Myte rushed in and rammed the monster, with a double-kick into the side, and sent it crashing for Dearka, forcing him to leap out of the way.

“Get him!” Buddy shouted as he and the rest of the team came rushing in… having left the babies in Tree Hugger’s care at Rhymey and Fluttershy’s place.

A big brawl broke out with Dearka battling all those fighters.

Much as Lightning and Starla were relieved the team had arrived, they quickly conjured up their spell-- Starla cast a strong barrier over the civilians, and Lightning reinforced it with a little or uniforce.

The civilians were trapped and knocked against the barrier like crazy, demanding to be let out, and would you believe the angrier they got, the dark aura emitted from their bodies even stronger than ever, and actually pushed against the light of Starla’s barrier.

“It can’t be!” cried Starla.

Lightning couldn’t believe eyes either, but it was starting to confirm something he suspected from what Dearka said.

“Keep up with the hatred and the anger. It makes things all the more interesting.”

The others all continued to brawl with Dearka.

Rhymey and Spike with their swords slashed at the villain while Dearka skillfully parried their attacks with his claws, and then punched and kicked them both into some of the others.

“What’s with this guy?!” groaned Spike “It’s like he’s getting stronger by the second.”

The rest of the team battled with the monster, only to have the same results.

“PAINT BOMBS”

“BOOM-BOOM ROCKETS”

Artie and The Twins’ attacks blasted the monster hard, and it roared with pain and anger.

Applejack and Rarity then rushed forth from either side of the monster, punching it hard upward.

“Serves you right for harming innocent couples!” scoffed Rarity.

The monster crashed down hard, but just got right back up again and roared its sonic waves which were more powerful than ever, knocking all the fighters away, and crashing into trees, benches and skidding along the ground.

“Oh, my!” cried Fluttershy “How is he getting so much stronger?”

Before anyone could answer, the civilians actually broke out of the barrier and began to march forth again.

Lightning regretted what he was about to do, but he saw no other choice.

“CAPTURE BLASTER”

He held his huge gun up, pointing straight at the oncoming civilians.

“Lightning, what are you doing?!” cried Starla.

“I won’t let you!” Dearka shouted as he rushed forth with his claws ready, and his monster charged alongside him.

The other fighters all leapt in front of Lightning to keep him covered and rushed the villains down while Cadance and Saber remained by Lightning’s side to assist him as he charged up his gun.

The civilians fired more dark blasts, but Saber, with his sword in one hand and his chain-and-sickle in other leapt in and repelled the blasts as best he could, while Cadance used her ninja force-wave punches to block even more, which gave Lightning a clear shot.

“FIRE…!”

POW!! He fired a huge blast that crashed into all the civilians. They all screamed and wailed, and they exploded-- magically shrinking down-- and were imprisoned in capture spheres where they couldn’t cause any more harm, and they weren’t able to break out of it this time.

Lightning cringed softly at what he had just done. “Forgive me, all of you, but it had to be done.”

The monster then let out a wailing roar, and seemed to be shrinking down a size or two.

“Its power levels are decreasing.” cried Rarity.

“But how?” asked Pinkie.

Suddenly, they were grabbed from behind by Dearka, and were held by their necks.

The ladies fussed and struggled, but couldn’t break free.

“Rarity…!” Spike shouted “You let them go!!” and he leapt over to help both his wife and friend, with his sword at the ready, but Dearka swerved out of the way, and kicked him hard in the back, sending him crashing down.

“Spike!” cried Rarity.

The others tried to rush over and help, but the monster was still strong enough to rush them and knock them away with its sonic roar.

“We’ve got to get rid of this beast!” thundered Saber.

Cadance nodded in agreement.

Lightning could scan the monster’s power levels starting to rise again, especially when some of the others began to battle with it as well.

“Guys, Stop!” he shouted at them, but his friends couldn’t stop, and the more they seemed to battle, the stronger the creature became, and it batted them with its huge paws, and rammed them with its huge head.

Then he looked at Dearka still holding Rarity and Pinkie, and he soared down to help them himself, with Starla flying by his side.

Dearka turned and leapt up high with the ladies still in his grip.

“Release us at once!” demanded Rarity.

Dearka landed on a tree limb, and then held both ladies by their necks against the tree.

“I think it’s time for the two of you to experience the dark side of things.”

His hands began to flow with dark aura, as he was preparing to infect them like he did the civilians.

The ladies quivered with fear and shut their eyes tightly, and that was when a bright glow of light emitted from their bodies, forcing Derka to back away.

“What’s this?!” he growled “No one has ever been able to resist the call of the darkness! No one…!”

In his distraction, Spike leapt up high into the tree and kicked him hard in the side, sending him deep into the woods, crashing through many of the trees and breaking them down, and then chased after him.

Rarity and Pinkie were astounded.

“Nobody hurts my friends, or my wife, like this!” Spike grumbled, and then he leapt of into the woods after the villain.

“Spike…!” Lightning shouted.

He decided to chase after him and called to Starla, “Help the others with the monster!”

“Right…!”

Lightning flew deeper into the woods, scanning for Spike’s bio readings, which lead him straight to him and Dearka.

Both of them were brawling hard, sword to claws. Slashes, parried, and spike got struck and flipped up and over, but still landed on his feet, clutching his chest armor.

He glared angrily through his knight’s helmet at the wicked creature before him.

“I may not be able to infect you,” Dearka hissed at him “So I guess you’ll have to be disposed of!”

“I don’t think so!” shouted Lightning, and he lunged forth and began to brawl with Dearka himself, dodging his every attack, and punching him hard in the gut.

Still, no matter how hard he fought and no matter how many hits he seemed to land, the villain hardly seemed to get any weaker.

Lightning and Pinkie both stood together, while Dearka snickered at them.

“Haven’t you figured it out yet, now? The more you fight, and the more anger and hatred you dish out, it only serves to fuel me, just as I’m certain the Leonizer is gaining power from your friends battling it.”

Lightning cringed softly, now that his suspicions were correct, and he wondered how the others were handling the Leonizer back in the park.

Rarity and Pinkie flew in to join their friends, not having heard what was said, but Rainbow called out to Lightning.

“The others… they need help!”

“That monster is overpowering them!” added Rarity.

Lightning was at a split decision. He didn’t want to just leave Dearka like this, fearing the ladies would get hurt, but now that he knew the secret, he did have an idea how to stop that beast once and for all.

“Just go.” said Spike “We’ll handle this big bully!”

Pinkie and Rarity agreed.

Lightning couldn’t stand out arguing with himself, but he flew off for the park.

“Come on, big boy! Let’s see what you’re really made of now!”

Dearka growled, much like a beast himself, as he stood ready, and the brawl was on.

Meanwhile, the Leonizer had swatted some of the fighters with its paws, bashed others with its head, and any and all that were charging at it got blown down hard by its sonic roar, and still seemed stronger than ever.

Starla managed to get up onto her feet, panting furiously and still feeling strong enough to keep going.

The two glared at each other most angrily, and Starla’s visor still told her the power was increasing, which suddenly made it click in to her.

Suddenly, from out of nowhere, Lightning soared in and rammed his arms hard into the monster’s side shoving it with him and taking it far, far away from the rest of the team.

“Lightning!” called Starla.

Her husband flew and flew until he was out of sight of the others, and threw the big beast to the ground hard.

Lightning then scanned the creature, and surely enough, its power was diminishing again, which he saw as his chance, and powered himself up.

“Alright, big guy-- it’s lights out for you!”

Leonizer roared and began to foolishly charge for him.

“UNIFORCE”

POW!! Lightning fired, blasting his magic straight into the monster, causing it to start vaporizing into the darkness it was made of, followed by a big explosion, and the creature was gone.

All this just as the other fighters came onto the scene.

“Lightning must’ve won,
The battle is done!” said Rhymey.

“How did he beat it all by himself?” wondered Rainbow.

Starla was astounded.

While in the woods, Spike brought his sword down, while Dearka blocked with both his claws, until he suddenly felt the darkness starting to diminish.

“No!” he cried softly, “The Leonizer has been defeated?! Impossible!”

Spike then flicked him off, and he, Rarity and Pinkie all attacked, coming in from different angles, one after another!

Dearka spun, leapt, and slashed about.

He struck Spike and Rarity hard and sent them both flying back, slamming into a huge tree, knocking it over as well.

Pinkie, quite literally, blew her top.

“THAT’S IT!!” she shouted “No one hurts my friends, especially like that!”

She jumped at Dearka, swinging her fists and kicking her feet more swiftly than ever before.

“Yes!” Dearka muttered to himself as he blocked and dodged her attacks, “Hatred, anger! More! Give me more!”

Suddenly, both he and Pinkie leapt up high into the air, and Pinkie saw a good opening and socked him hard in the face, knocking his mask off; feed-tubes and all.

“My poison-shielding mask…!”

It fell far off into the bushes, and he would have retrieved it, but Pinkie soared at him, slamming his back hard to the ground.

“Any last words before I--” she couldn’t finish as she was lost in sight of what had to be the most handsome face she had ever seen.

Dearka looked up at her, and their eyes met, causing Pinkie’s heart to start racing.

Spike and Rarity recovered from their crash and rubbed their aching heads, but then noticed what was happening.

“Pinkie Pie, what are you doing?” shouted Rarity.

“Finish him! Do it now!” added Spike.

…but Pinkie just remained where she was, all enthralled and melting at the sight of this creature she was gazing at.

Suddenly, Dearka began to gasp, and quickly kicked Pinkie off him.

The other two ran up to her, and all three of them saw Dearka sit upright, but he was continuing to moan and gag, and his flesh was actually starting to smoke like burning.

There was no time for him to find his mask and try to fix it back on.

“I’ve got to… get… out… of here!”

A large and dark portal appeared behind him and ran straight for it, hollering “We’ll meet again, Starfleet!”

“Wait…!” cried Pinkie, but both Dearka and the portal had already vanished.

Pinkie just continued to stare at the spot where the villain had once stood, unable to get that handsome face out of her mind.

“Hey…!” Lightning called as he and the rest of the team finally arrived on the scene.

“It’s too late, he got away.” said Spike.

Lightning sighed, but it was a bit of a relief; at least the monster was gone.

Rarity then noticed the damaged mask lying in the bushes, and she took it to examine it.

“My, what distasteful fashion.” she muttered.

“Give that here, Rarity.” said Starla “We’ll send it to New Canterlot for analysis.”

With all the fighting done, Buddy began to use his magic to fix the broken trees.

“There we are, good as new.” he said with pride “Luckily there was still some life left in you guys.”

Meanwhile, Lightning freed the civilians from their sphere prisons, only to discover that not only were they back to normal, they had no memory of what had just happened. They had just woken up to find themselves contained.

“Why did you imprison us?”

“Did we break the law?”

Lightning decided it best not to explain to them, not wanting them to feel guilt and shame for what happened.

The civilians, though confused, were certain it had to be for a good reason, and Lightning suggested that everyone return home while the damage crew arrived came to repair the rest of the park.

Pinkie, on the other hand, was still mesmerized. She hadn’t even powered down her battle suit.

Dyno waved his hand in front of her face and snapped his fingers.

“She’s really out of it.”

Myte nodded, and then whispered into Pinkie’s ears.

“Pinkie…?”

No response.

“Oh, Chica?”

Still no response.

The brothers both called to her, “PINKIE!!”

She snapped to her senses; leaping way up high and landing flat on her tail.

“Are you okay, Sugar Cube?” asked Applejack.

“Yeah.” was all Pinkie said instead of usually going off on one of her hyped up rants, and she just walked off.

“What’s with her?” wondered Shining Armor.

Cadance could tell from the look in her eyes, and she shook her head in disbelief, “No… No, she wouldn’t.”

Rarity and Spike, also shared this worry, having seen it up close, and recognizing that same look and attitude anywhere.

Despite this, Lightning was already concerned.

“The reports from the outposts were true. We’ve got a new enemy on our hands.”

He gave every the expression saying “You all know what this means?” to which everyone nodded deeply.

Lightning nodded back, “We’ve got much to do.”

(Promo)

In our next episode: As the team studies up on their new villains, Celestia is suffering from constant nightmares that could be more than just mere dreams, as another great evil seems to be reaching out to her.

How will Celestia deal with these nightmares, and what will our heroes learn for future battles?

Don’t miss the next exciting episode of “Starfleet Magic!”

(Next Episode: “Once Upon A Nightmare”)