> Love and Honour: Unbreakable Bonds
>  by Trigger_Finger
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> Prologue
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    Note to readers:

I know that when an author says ‘Read this story first’ most people don’t read it so I’m not gonna go bothering to say read the first story, but reading Love and Honour will give you a better understanding of this story. Love and Honour is the original story and this is the sequel.


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Narrator:

After Clare’s passing Luna began to seclude herself from love, even the loving affection of her sister in fear that she may become distraught from another loved one’s passing. However she did not seclude herself from society and was very sociable with others.

Though Clare was also emotionally heart-broken from his own death he had other more pressing matters on his mind. Luna was due to give birth in less than a week and he wanted to be there. 

Although the heavens had gifted him by letting him keep his mortal form instead of the regular mist of spirit that most others got, he was not allowed to travel to the world of the living as a spirit. It was highly forbidden to travel to visit the living after your passing, yet there was a small exception made for Clare during his funeral due to his great sacrifices in his life.

Clare now trained rigorously with the most veteran and elite class of gods in the form of advanced martial arts. It wasn’t exactly what Clare had in mind when he first joined. 

He heard martial arts and figured Judo or Taekwondo or even perhaps kick boxing. He had never expected what it actually was and was somewhat taken back by the initial explanation of the form of this particular ‘God’ martial art.

> Chapter 1: Training
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      Clare, heavens training area:

“I can’t do it… the only reason I was able to become that powerful was because Twilight enchanted me with magic” I informed the elderly angel. He was funny looking, not at all what angels were described as looking like. He had pointy ears like an elf with pure white hair and no halo ring above his head, indicating that he was actually not dead and was a living soul like some of the other angels.

“You can and you will, now go again” he ordered. I rolled my eyes and let out an exhausted exhale as I widened my stance. I tried to remember how I did it when fighting Solar Eclipse.

I clenched my fists and tensed my muscles. I tried to imagine the most angering thing but still was unable to fuel my anger enough to ascend. 

“Hurry up… that soap opera is on soon and I don’t want to miss it” said the elderly angel. He was so perverted that I didn’t actually know how he was an angel. “Well I can’t. I’m not some spell casting mage that can mystically amplify my own power” I said in an exhausted tone. We, more like I, had been training for forty hours straight. 

First I was simply fighting holograms but then he tried to make me power up like I had against Solar Eclipse. I kept trying to convince him that I wasn’t able to do it but he wouldn’t believe me.

“Such a failure… and explain to me why is it exactly that the night princess herself was interested in you? You’re a failure to her and yourself” he said in an insulting tone. The comment fueled my rage as I remembered Luna’s saddened face. How I had failed her.

I let out a roar as my muscles all tensed and I felt veins bulge from my muscles then a powerful blue aurora surrounded my body. Cloud dust was blown out from under my feet.

“See, that’s the spirit” said the elder. I realized at that moment that I had just done exactly what I said I couldn’t do. But this made no sense, how exactly could I do this. No other humans had ever been able to simply change the colour of their hair and muscle size just out of pure spite.

“How… How…” I trailed off and he chuckled. “You younglings… can never see the picture until it’s literally right in front of your eyes. Now if you would please follow me, I have a contest that I need to win” he told me as we walked away from the cloud training area.

“Elder… how is this possible?” I asked and he simply laughed in his squeaky voice. “You humans possess incredible powers yet you can only unlock them with the proper use of training” he informed me as we walked up to a small kiosk.

“I want 500000 on this guy” Elder, that’s what I called him, told the spirit at the kiosk. “Is he registered?” asked the kiosk attendant. ‘Gambling? Is that legal in heaven?’ I asked myself.

“Well of course he’s registered” Elder replied then handed him an envelope and the kiosk attendant checked it in. “You’re number ten” the kiosk attendant informed me. “Number ten? Number ten for what?” I asked and he gave me a suspicious look.

Elder pulled me along quickly. “Hurry or we’ll be late for the first match” Elder said and dragged me to some stadium that looked like something from ancient Greek mythology. “Elder, what exactly did you get me into?” I asked and he chuckled. “Well my dear boy, you are going to win me millions” he said and I raised an eyebrow as we entered the stadium prep room.

“Gambling… isn’t it illegal in heaven?” I asked curiously and he shook his head. “Only compulsive gambling is illegal. This is sports wagers. It’s different. Alright listen, the rules are simple. Hand to hand, no hitting below the belt, no hitting while the other spirit is down and once you’re knocked out than you’re out” he informed me.

“What is this? Gladiator?” I asked and he looked both ways as he tried to think of something. “No… it’s a very special event held every thousand years. I felt your power when you fought with Solar Eclipse and I knew that you’d be the one to finally win something for me” Elder told me and I raised an eyebrow just as my aurora faded away. I felt my strength and power fade as well.

“HEY! Change back, hurry the event is almost starting” he ordered and I gave him an apologetic look. “I uhm… I don’t know how” I replied and he became frantic. “Well… you’re a disgrace and all that stuff I said earlier to make you transform. Now change back” he said frantically but I didn’t really get any sort of anger off his comments.

“Oh well this is just great… I just blew half a million on a human that can’t even transform” he bickered to himself. “Well if it’s a human you wanted why not just go get another one?” I asked curiously and he simply sighed in regret. “Because humans don’t usually go putting everything they have on the line to save the world, and when they do get the gift of their mortal form they don’t ever want to continue fighting for eternity” he informed me.

“Well come along, the first match is about to begin” he told me and led me out to a watch post. There was a huge arena with two fighters in the middle. One was some freaky looking alien thing with giant horns, its skin was red and it had no hair whatsoever. 

The other fighter was dressed in heavy white robes that covered its entire body. I couldn’t even see an inch of its actual body. I leaned over to Elder. “So what is this exactly?” I whispered and he leaned towards me.

“The first match. There are ten fighters and this is the elimination round. After that then they pair up the best fighters with the worst to eliminate the worst of the fighters then there is the finale match where the two best fighters have a final duel” he informed me. I nodded.

The creature in the heavy robes flew forwards at an incredible speed and slammed the alien in the gut. The alien wheezed and flew back. When the alien crashed into the ground it didn’t get up.

“Incredible… that was just incredible” I muttered. “Of course it was. Jonas was the champion of last millennia’s championship. You’ll most likely have to fight him in the final match” he informed me. I watched the other matches but none seemed to catch my particular attention as much as Jonas’ match had.

“Nine and ten” called out an announcer over the radio system in the stadium. Elder gave me a nudge and motioned for me to go down to the stadium. 

Luckily I had learned how to fly with Elder’s help so I just flew down to the stadium. I looked around to the crowd. Giant lights illuminated the stadium battlefield. Suddenly a twenty foot creature slammed down a few yards away from me.

“Now we have a human from the lands of Earth and Equestria fighting the powerful JUGGERNAUT! Juggernaut was last millennia’s runner-up before being knocked out by Jonas. Boy do I feel bad for that little human” the announcer yelled out over the radios. I looked up in awe at this giant creature that now stood before me. 

It was a dark yellow colour with large demon-like horns. Its eyes flashed red and it had a large tail with spikes on the end. I let out a deep exhale as the creature brought its arms up in the air and made a fist with both hands. The crowd went wild, cheers echoed the stadium. 

It looked back down to me. “I need a good warm up so try not to go getting knocked out from my first hit” he laughed as he swung his colossal hand towards me. I lept back and flew through the air, dodging his rather slow punch.

He growled then tried to throw another punch that missed terribly. He was slow but I bet that his punches would knock me out cold with one hit. 

I flew forwards and slammed my most powerful punch into his forehead. My punch just bounced off his head harmlessly, my fist felt like it just hit a brick wall. Damn he was tough. I was judging that he was a male due to the tone of his voice, if it was a female than I’d hate to see that species male.

The creature laughed hideously then tried to swing at me again but I flew downwards and missed his swing. “There’s no hope for you little insect. Just give up before you embarrass yourself” he said insultingly. I smirked as I looked up into his eyes.

“Nah… I think I’m gonna make you earn it” I chuckled. His face reddened and he brought down his fist to try and squash me like a bug. I was about to leap back but found that I couldn’t even move my body. It was like all I could focus on was his demon eyes.

“OHHHH, it looks like Juggernaut has the human in ‘The Stare’. Hopefully the human can walk after this brutal attack” the announcer yelled out.


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Third person, heaven battle arena:

Juggernaut’s fist slammed down on Clare. The ground was smashed beneath his powerful blow and it created a large crater beneath his hand. “OHHH, that has gotta hurt” the announcer yelled out.

Elder let out a depressed exhale as he buried his face behind his hands. “Well, since no-one has ever survived a strike from Juggernaut I think it’s safe to say that the human is…” the announcer trailed off as Juggernaut grunted in effort. Suddenly a blast erupted from underneath his hand and debris was blasted away, creating an even larger crater.

Juggernaut growled in effort as his hand began to be lifted up. Elder looked up to see Juggernaut’s hand getting lifted up by Clare, who had transformed into his powered up form.

Clare’s aurora flashed brilliantly around him, his hair had turned dark blue and was now spiked up. Elder’s jaw dropped open as he watched in pure amazement, no one who had ever been struck by Juggernaut had ever just got back up, usually they were knocked out for a few years.

Clare smiled then released Juggernaut’s hand and flew forwards at an incredible speed. He slammed a powerful punch right into Juggernaut’s chest, right where the ribcage ends and the lower torso area begins.

Juggernaut’s eyes went wide as he gripped his stomach and fell back wheezing in pain. Juggernaut didn’t get back up. Clare floated down to the ground peacefully and his powerful aurora and hair style disappeared.

The announcer and everyone else were awestruck. Clare had been the first ever person, or first every spirit for that matter, to survive a hit from Juggernaut. “Well…I… Uhm…I guess that means that Clare, the human, wins” the announcer said in pure shock.

Clare smirked then flew over top of Juggernaut and grabbed his hand. Clare used his flying propulsion to help Juggernaut to his feet. Juggernaut grunted in pain. “Why… why did you help me back up?” he asked curiously and Clare shrugged. “Well it’s just a championship, it’s not like we’re trying to kill each other. The match is over so that doesn’t mean we’re fighting each other anymore so I figured I’d do the kind thing of helping you back up” Clare told him. Juggernaut smiled. “I hope you win the championship” he told Clare and they both smiled.


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Princess Luna, Canterlot castle, royal bedroom:

I awoke and reached over to hold Clare but sighed depressingly as I remembered he was no longer with me in this world. A tear trickled down my face but I held back my sniffles and crying.

I rolled out of bed and trotted out of my room. Hart and the other shadow guard at my door saluted me. Rustler, Clare’s guard replacement, was a gentlecolt just like Clare had been and was always asking if there was something else he could do for me.

I would always tell him I’d be fine but he, along with just about every other shadow guard, knew that I wasn’t really okay. I gave them a nod and continued trotting through the castle. Painfully happy memories flooded my mind as I passed the library. How we had trashed the library as we made our way through the castle in search of food. Another tear trickled down my face as I stopped and stood there silently, remembering the fun times we had together.

“Sister, there you are” called out a voice. I  took a deep breath as I turned around and put on a fake smile to greet my sister. I wasn’t giving a fake smile because I didn’t like her but rather I was giving a fake smile so that she wouldn’t worry about me. I rarely smiled anymore, sometimes I’d give a faint laugh from one of Hart’s crude jokes that I’d hear him tell Rustler but I never smiled that much anymore.

“Hello dear sister” I replied in a fake casual voice. “Luna, I have a party to go to that Pinkie Pie herself is throwing. I was wondering if you wanted to go” my sister asked me. I shook my head. “No… I’d rather not today” I said and she put her hoof on my shoulder. 

“This is why I forbid you from love” she told me in a soothing voice. I let out a sigh then went to continue on my trot but she stopped me. “Sister please. Just come with me, perhaps it will get your mind off of these depressing things” she told me and I let out a sigh then put on a smile.

“Alright sister, let us go to this party of Pinkie Pie’s” I said and she gave me a heartwarming smile. “That’s the spirit” she said happily and we trotted off through the castle.

> Chapter 2: Battle of the strongest
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      Clare, battle arena:

It was unreal. Every fight that I fought seemed to be incredible, the other fighters were so powerful yet in each battle I’d find their weak point and win. But that wasn’t the most incredible thing, that guy Jonas was fast. And when I say fast I mean like really-really fast.

I had seen him speed around one of his opponents so quickly that his speed generated enough heat to scorch a fiery ring around his opponent.

Finally the match we had all been waiting for arrived. The finale, like most wouldn’t have expected the final match was between Jonas and I. Everyone had figured it would have been a match between Juggernaut and Jonas.

I put my hands together and gave Jonas a respectable bow which he returned. “You are quite the exceptional fighter” he said in a very polite voice. “I suppose, but you are just absolutely incredible” I told him. He nodded. “Well I have been training for the last ten thousand years” he replied. 

My jaw dropped. “Really?” I asked and he nodded. “You on the other hand have only trained for a few months yet you were able to exert incredible amounts of strength. You could almost match me in brute strength if I let you” he told me and I smiled competitively. “Oh really? Well let’s just test that out shall we?” I challenged and he nodded. “But before the match starts allow me to do one thing” he said and I nodded to allow him to do whatever he needed to do.

He pulled off his robes in one simple fluid motion. His robes tossed to the side but crashed through the ground and cratered like it weighed almost a ton. “Weighted clothing… it makes fighting without them a lot easier” he told me as I looked at his robes that had crashed in the ground.

I smiled and looked back to him. He was now only wearing light ceremonial robes. He had purple skin with orange hair and was more of a humanoid looking alien with no nose. “Those robes don’t exactly look like they’re meant to be in a fight” I commented and he nodded. “Indeed, they are meant for ceremonies” he informed me.

I smiled as I pulled of some of the robes that I had on and tossed them to the side. They too crashed into the ground but were nowhere as heavy as his were. I now wore a keikogi that had a dark blue robe on the outside robe weave with a white undershirt garment. The pants were the same colour as the jacket and there was a black belt around my waist. 

When I first started I wished to use my old duster clothing but soon found the keikogi very comfortable for fighting. However I still wore my black combat boots as opposed to the regular shoes worn by most martial arts fighters.

“Interesting choice of clothing” Jonas mentioned and I smiled. “So… shall we begin?” he asked and I nodded. He flew towards me at a tremendous speeds and tried to slam a punch into me but I blocked it. I skidded back from the force of the punch but was able to stay on my feet.

I removed my arms from in front of my face and charged back at him. Before colliding we flew into the air for aerial combat. We began to throw a volley of punches at each other and our fists looked like blurs due to the speed. Some of our punches connected with one another but we also dodged most of the other’s punches.

I quickly grabbed my hands together and swung a powerful smash into Jonas that threw him downwards but he caught himself and simply floated in the air. I looked down to him and he launched himself towards me.

I quickly swung myself to the side and as he passed by me I spun my body around his and kicked him in the jaw. He winced and was tossed through the air but then aligned himself and clenched his fists.

A white aura of power burst from around his body and propelled outwards. “It’s time to stop messing around and get serious” he snarled then flew at me. I readied myself but suddenly he disappeared. 

I was struck in confusion. I couldn’t tell where he had went. I kept my guard up but suddenly a kick collided with the back of my head and sent me spinning forwards through the air. I whirled around to see Jonas floating in the air like he was standing on something solid.

I clenched my fists and flew at him but as I went to connect the punch he disappeared and then reappeared directly behind me and slammed an elbow into the back of my neck. I winced in pain as I fell downwards but stopped myself mid-crash and swung my body around just as he flew into me with a crashing dive.

He crashed us into the ground but made sure that my body crashed first to absorb all the impact. He lept off of me and relaxed his body. I rolled backwards and to my feet then steadied myself.

“You might as well transform. You won’t be able to beat me like that” he commented. He was right yet at the same time I didn’t know how to just force my transformation. I relaxed my posture and widened my stance.

I was about to take a leap of faith and hopefully it paid off. I clenched my fists and gritted my teeth, I let out a loud yell as my muscles flexed. A powerful aurora surrounded my body but it was white and lacked the powerful gusts of wind like my blue aurora that surrounded me when I was transformed.

I felt my strength rise but only a little bit. I reached my peak of strength and could ascend no further. The aura of white energy flashed around me and Jonas sighed as I relaxed my stance. “Well come along now we don’t have all day” he said and I sighed. “I can’t… I don’t know how to” I told him and he laughed. 

“Well… I guess it was fun while it lasted” he chuckled as he flew forwards. I tried to dodge his punch but it connected with a powerful strike of pain that jolted my entire body. I flew upwards from the force but he quickly teleported behind me and connected a powerful kick to my back and sent me hurtling to the ground.

I crashed into the ground and created a large crater from the impact. My body felt like every bone had been broken but I knew that I could keep going. I staggered to my feet as Jonas flew down in front of me.

I was breathing heavily but he was calm and relaxed. “Give up” he offered but I shook my head. “Sorry… but I have… someone relying on me winning this match” I said through painful winces.

He sighed disappointingly and flew towards me. He tried to throw a punch but I caught it with my left hand. He gasped then threw another punch with his free hand which I caught with my right hand.

I felt my strength surge and the ground beneath me simply blasted away as my aurora flashed and turned into a deep blue. The aura became more jagged and gusty, dust and debris was blown out from under my feet.

Electric energy sparked from around our clasped hands. He smiled “That’s what I wanted… now I can test out my full strength without the fear of killing you” he smirked. Like a flash of lightning he slammed a kick into my side but it didn’t faze me. His mouth continued to smile as he slammed more kicks into my side but I took the brute force head on without so much as flinching.

“Incredible… these kicks have ten times the force of a hit from Juggernaut and it seems like it doesn’t even affect you” Jonas muttered.

I released my hold on his hands and threw a powerful uppercut that sent him propelling upwards through the air. I followed him and darted right at him but at the last possible moment he vanished. I swung my body around with a powerful round house kick that collided with the side of his head.

His body was knocked back. “How did you…” he trailed off in shock that I was able to strike him during his sneak attack. “You’re predictable” I told him and he smiled as he launched himself at me.

We began to throw a fury of punches and kicks at each other that blurred through the air. I managed to land an incredibly powerful punch into the side of his jaw that cocked his head back but he used the momentum to back flip and kick me in the bottom of my own jaw.

I staggered back through the air, managing to keep myself afloat. I groped my jaw and he laughed. “Guess that took you off guard huh?” he asked rhetorically. He lifted his hand and a blast of orange energy shot at me.

I brought up my arms and blocked the blast that erupted around me. Smoke surrounded my body but Jonas flew through it and began slamming punches into my stomach. He cocked back his right arm and an orange aurora surrounded it then he slammed the punch into my stomach.

I was tossed backwards by the force of the punch but as he dove forwards to connect another punch, I swung my left leg into the side of his head and sent him hurtling through the air.

He stopped himself and readied himself in a widened stance. He brought his right hand up above his head and his left below his waist. A powerful orange sphere of energy formulated on each of his palms. He brought his hands towards each other and they met in front of him. His arms now fully extended, he flexed and veins bulged from his biceps.

I realized that I had no real training in the whole magical energy blasting area and would have to think something up really quick. I could do the Spirit Surge but that would take too long and he wasn’t evil so it would have no effect on him.

I decided to just throw something together really quick. I extended both my arms out to the side and tensed. Electrical currents ran down my arms as two large spheres of energy formed at the ends of each of my palms.

Jonas began to yell as he powered up his magical blast. I let out a prolonged grunt and swung my arms forwards, connecting the spheres together. My energy sphere was larger than his but I had this feeling that his was more powerful. He flew upwards into the air, still cupping the sphere in his hands.

He fired his energy blast and I fired mine, but as they left our palms the blasts turned into powerful beams that flew at each other. The two blasts of energy flew through the air and collided together. The energy beams erupted violently and there was a large explosion that shook the stadium.

I lowered my hands and let out a deep exhale, Jonas did the same. Our beams had drained our energy considerably and I could tell we were both exhausted.

He clenched his fists and cocked his arms at his side. A powerful white aura surrounded him. His muscles flexed and grew in size. I was still powered up but I decided to see if I could push myself further.

I clenched my own fists and let out a roar of anger as my strength began to rise. My muscles grew but I made sure not to let them get too bulky. My aurora of energy flashed outwards and became extremely jagged, my hair grew somewhat but not in considerable lengths.

I yelled as I felt a sudden surge of energy flow through me and my muscles bulked up. My hair grew out longer by another few inches and my aura flashed out wider. I felt incredibly strong but at the same time it made me somewhat more exhausted, like it was sapping my energy away from me.

“Ha-ha, about time you got serious” Jonas laughed. I gritted my teeth. His aura flashed as he dove towards me, his fist created a small cone of hyperkinetic energy.

I clenched my fists harder and launched myself towards him at incredible speeds I didn’t know I had. I guess all the rigorous training with Elder over the last few months really did pay off.

I concentrated my power to my right fist and electric energy surged around it as a magic dark blue aurora surrounded my fist. The air seemed to start to bend around my fist like Jonas’. We were both relatively far apart but now flew towards each other at speeds that I could only imagine were impractical.

I pushed myself to limits I could only dream of and there was a loud thunderous BOOM as the air bend around my fist snapped. My eyes watered and the world seemed to transform into a blur. All I could depict was Jonas as he too snapped his air bend. There was a second BOOM and the seemed to erupt and explode behind him. 

Had we just broken the sound barrier? I didn’t know and didn’t really have time to think about the subject.

As we flew towards each other at incredible speeds our fists connected and a tremendous KA-BOOM echoed throughout the heavens. A powerful shockwave rocked the entire stadium along with the surrounding area.

Electricity surrounded our fists and I felt my vision blurring as I began to slip into unconsciousness. Both Jonas and I threw one last powerful punch that connected with each other and sent out another shockwave. But I finally slipped into unconsciousness and my vision was filled with blackness. I hope I wasn’t dead… hey wait a minute, if I’m dead than what happens when I die again?

> Chapter 3: An evil lust
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      Third person, Hell:

Sombra grunted as he came, Chrysalis squealed in delight. Somehow the two had met during their eternity in hell and found that the two could nurture the other’s needs. Sombra’s powers were fueled by Chrysalis’ evil and Chrysalis was rejuvenated by Sombra’s love for her. Guess they’re like peas in the pod.

Sombra pulled out of Chrysalis and rolled off onto his back and let out an evil chuckle. Cum dripped out of Chrysalis’ soaking cunt as she trotted off the bed. “Well, I need to go get cleaned up… I’ll be around back when you’re ready” Chrysalis told Sombra and he gave a grunt.

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Clare, Heaven:

I groaned as I got up, pain surged through my body in defiance to my movements. “Ugh… I don’t think I ever want to do that again” I muttered to myself.

“Can you believe those bastards?! They said that it was a draw so I wouldn’t win the money I deserve, they only gave me back the money I wagered” Elder complained from beside me. I realized that I was in some sort of medical bed.

“Oh hey, look you’re awake. Good, well that’s just terrific. You know you really botched that whole fight for me? I lost millions… millions, now in the next tournament it won’t be ten to one odds for you, ARRRRG” Elder complained. I chuckled as I sat up painfully and rested my back against the cloudy wall.

“What happens when you die after you’re already dead?” I asked then came a reply from a vaguely familiar voice. “You die and enter the void for eternity” said the voice and I turned my head to see The Apache and a young male zebra. “Apache?” I said curiously and she smiled as she extended her hoof. “Please call me Sky Dancer. The Apache was a nickname from the war that I do not wish to remember” she told me as I shook her hoof.

“And this is my son Long Tail” she said, I shook Long Tail’s hoof and gave him a nod. “Nice to meet you, your mom told me good things about you. I guess when they say the apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree, they weren’t joking” I commented and Sky Dancer blushed.

“Don’t be so kind, I’m hardly a saint. I pretty much had to bribe my way into heaven for Pete’s sake” she laughed and I chuckled. “So… come to say hi?” I asked and she nodded. “And to apologize. What happened during the war, I” she began but I put my finger up to her mouth to silence her.

“I already forgave you a long time ago. Just live and let live, you know” I said and she nodded. “Well when I heard that there was a powerful human fighter, I knew it had to be you so I came to see you” she told me and I smiled.

“Well let’s ditch this scene, I hate hospitals” I chuckled as I literally lept out of the hospital bed. Elder’s jaw dropped in shock that I was able to even move. “I… the…but… the power of those strikes should have bed ridden you for at least six months” Elder said in pure shock.

Sky Dancer leaned over. “He was stubborn before he died so I don’t think telling him what he can’t do is going to stop him” she chuckled. I stretched out and heard my back crack in several spots. “So… I guess we should…” I trailed off and waited for them to throw suggestions. “Train” Elder said and we all sighed. “What? You all could be powerful fighters if you trained properly” Elder said and I let out a deep exhale as I looked to Sky Dancer.

She gave me a shrug and we nodded. “Alright… let’s train” we both said with boredom in our voices. Elder smiled as he led us to his training area.


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Third person, Hell:

Sombra stepped forwards with Chrysalis by his side. The king of darkness with the changeling Queen by his side, a deadly combination. Solar Eclipse stepped up beside them with a darkening smile on her face. 

“What is the meaning of this!” boomed the all mighty Satan. His muscles were large and bulky, his horns were proper and devil like just like the rumors foretold. His skin was red and coarse like leather. His eyes burned like the fiery depths of hell itself and he had bat like wings.

“Hell is under new management” Sombra hissed, purple smoke emulated from his eyes and his cape fluttering about. Satan laughed, “And I suppose you’re going to tell me that you’re going to overthrow me?” he laughed and Sombra shook his head. “No, she is” Sombra informed him and pointed to Solar Eclipse.

Satan looked over to Solar Eclipse and began to laugh insultingly. “HA! That stupid unicorn looking thing is supposed to defeat me, Satan?” he laughed and Solar snarled as he muscles tensed then bulged outwards. Though she had been brutally defeated by Clare due to her lack of speed in this form, she still used it due to the fact that her power parallel by none in this hell that she now resided in.

Satan’s face became one of interest. “Well… I see, shall we begin then?” he challenged but in an instant it was over. Solar Eclipse flew forwards and slammed her horn through Satan’s chest. He gasped as the horn impaled him. “Imp…Impossible” Satan gasped but then Solar Eclipse’s horn flared and a massive blast of energy shot from her horn, vaporizing Satan in the process.

“Now than, shall we proceed to the gate keeper?” Chrysalis asked and the others nodded. Suddenly a dark blue, almost black, alicorn landed in front of the trio. “You will have to get through me first” scowled the alicorn known as Nightmare Moon. Solar Eclipse laughed. “Don’t make me kill you again” she sneered and Nightmare snarled.

“Clare killed me, and I let him do it” she snarled at her evil rival. “Fine whatever the case be, I will end all speculation here” Solar Eclipse said with boredom in her voice. Nightmare Moon flexed and a powerful aura of blue energy surrounded her body, her own muscles bulked up but not to the extent that it hindered her speed like Solar Eclipse’s.

“You never learn do you?” Nightmare asked and Solar Eclipse laughed. “Coming from you that’s almost insulting” she sneered then launched herself at Nightmare. Nightmare flinched and brought her hooves up to block her attack but as she did Solar Eclipse vanished.

Nightmare lowered her guard in confusion but suddenly a kick slammed against the back of her head and knocked her to the ground. Nightmare groaned as she tried to stand up but Solar stepped on her back and raised her hoof. A powerful yellowish white sphere formed at the palm of her hoof as she prepared to kill Nightmare Moon off for good.

“Enough of these games! We have no time for these foolish disputes, Solar Eclipse let’s go” Sombra hissed and Solar Eclipse immediately stepped off Nightmare’s back and trotted up beside Sombra and Chrysalis.

Nightmare looked up helplessly as the trio trotted towards the gateway of hell. What they were about to do was highly illegal and punishable by the highest court of laws, usually resulting in second death and exile to the void.


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Princess Luna, Sugar Cube Corner:

“Every-pony dance now” Pinkie yelled in rhythm with the beats that Vinyl Scratch played. I sat by myself and sighed as I moved the glass of cider around in steady circles. I was hoping for hard cider but due to the foals along with younger colts and fillies were in the party, the others had shunned alcoholic beverages.

“Uhm… Princess Luna?” asked a very hesitant voice and I looked up to see the big red stallion known as Big Macintosh standing beside me. I looked away and sighed to myself. “Eeyup” he replied and slowly trotted away from me.

I sat by myself for a few more minutes before Big Macintosh returned again. “Uhm… Princess Luna?” he asked, hesitantly like the time before. I let out a depressed sigh. “Eeyup” he replied and slowly trotted away again.

A few minutes later he returned once again. I knew that this was probably the work of the element bearers and my sister trying to get me to lighten up a bit. “Uhm… Princess Luna?” he asked hesitantly. “Fine… I’ll dance with you” I said reluctantly, knowing that my sister would continue to poke until I gave in. Didn’t she forbid love?

Big Macintosh was obviously forced into this because he didn’t look very excited in the least, rather he looked somewhat afraid. He held out his hoof and we began to slow dance. The dancing made me remember when Clare and I had danced at the ‘swanky’ restaurant. It brought tears to my eyes and I immediately rushed off into the washroom.

Ponies watched as I ran off crying, several tried to ask me if I was okay. Okay? Okay? I was crying! Couldn’t they just leave me alone for a day?

I sat in the washroom and cried to myself, there was a knock on the door. “It’s occupied” I called out. The door was magically unlocked, “I SAID IT’S…” I trailed off as my sister entered the washroom then closed the door behind her.

“Sister, I know that it is painful but please… you must move on” Celestia pleaded. “Sister! I cannot simply forget about him, I am still pregnant with his…” I trailed off as I felt a small vibration in the ground. 

“Did you feel that?” I asked curiously and Celestia waited for a moment. There was nothing. “The party speakers, perhaps they created vibrations in the…” Celestia trailed off again as a more violent vibration occurred. 

I heard glasses begin to smash off the floor outside. “It’s an earthquake” Pinkie screamed. Both my sister and I rushed out of the washroom to see everything shaking violently.

“Oh my goddess, look!” Twilight screamed and pointed out the window. Celestia rushed over and gasped. I quickly trotted up beside her and saw a dark purple light coming out of the ground.  Then there was an eruption that blew away large chunks of the ground, similar to a volcano eruption. “It can’t be… he has returned” Celestia whispered to herself.

> Chapter 4: Bending the law
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      Third person, Canterlot:

Ponies screamed and scurried about frantically as swarms of changelings flowed through the streets. Chrysalis had regained her army that she used to overthrow Canterlot. Sombra, Chrysalis and Solar Eclipse burst into the royal castle. Shining Armor stood alongside dozens of royal guards along with elite shadow guards.

“STEP ASIDE!” Solar Eclipse yelled but they refused to move. Solar eclipse lowered her horn and sent one powerful blast of energy at the group that sent them all hurtling through the air and crashing into walls.

The trio continued on past the injured guards but Shining stood up. He was determined to stop them but he was foolish to think he could take them on by himself. “This is for what you did to me!” Chrysalis screeched as she stabbed him through the upper right chest with her jagged horn. 

Shining yelped in pain as Chrysalis swung her head to one side and sent Shining flying into a wall. He slumped over, blood now trickled from the hole in his chest.


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Clare, training area:

Sky Dancer flew at me but I quickly lept aside. “Yeah… that’s the way” Elder called out, I looked down to see that he was focusing on Sky Dancer’s flank. I flew forwards and took Sky Dancer in a grapple. 

“I think he’s checking you out” I muttered. “I know, he’s such an old pervert” she whispered back. I swung our bodies in a circle and released her but she caught herself in mid-flight. She had learned to fly, at some point, and we now engaged each other in aerial combat as Elder and Long Tail watched in fascination. Well Long Tail watched in fascination but Elder watched in perversion. 

A frantic angel rushed into the training facility but suddenly fell to his hooves like he tripped. Technically he sort of did. The training facility had some sort of advanced gravitational pull that made it seem like we were in twenty times regular gravity.

“Oh right… uhm” Elder muttered to himself as he turned off the gravitational pull amplifier. The angel staggered to his feet as Sky Dancer and I floated down to the ground. “Elder, the high council requests that you and your student meet with them immediately” the angel told us and I raised an eyebrow.

“Well come along you three” he said and Sky Dancer raised an eyebrow as well. “Well you might as well come along, you are sort of my student” he said as we walked along towards the high council building.

“It’d be faster to just fly there” I said and Elder looked to me. “Well I don’t feel much like flying at the moment” he said as he walked behind Sky Dancer and gazed at her flank. I sighed from his elderly perverseness. I picked up the trio “We’re flying there” I said as I took off. I heard Elder make a perverted noise then I heard Cloud Dancer scream.

“What are you doing you sick perv!” she screamed and Elder chuckled. I felt Cloud Dancer crawl onto my back and away from the perverted Elder as I flew along. “Oh well… I can always just imagine it” he muttered to himself then I felt his tiny fingers grope my muscular chest muscles. “HEY WHAT THE HELL!” I yelled out and he giggled to himself.

“Oh yes… big indeed, ooh and so firm and perky” he giggled in a perverted squeaky voice as he groped at my chest. If he wasn’t my sensei I think I’d drop the old perverted elf, or whatever the hell he was. 

I pushed myself to reach the building faster. I landed and released the others. “Oh… is the trip over already. Oh well, I’ll just have to take a feel for the road” he said as he went to feel me up again but I smacked his hand away. “God, I feel so violated” I muttered to myself as we walked into the building, morel like a temple.

“The high council is this way, please don’t dally” Elder said as he led us through the building. Finally we reached a giant set of doors that Elder opened. Inside were many other elderly looking elf things and angels, along with Jonas.

We walked in and Elder sat down in a throne chair that I presumed was his. “It is good of you to join us north elder, now we can begin” croaked a very old angel. They were all ‘living angels’. Basically Sky Dancer, Long Tail, Jonas and I were the only ones in the room who were truly dead with halo rings around our heads.

“Elders, I regret to inform you all that some demon souls have escaped hell” the decrepit old angel said and several others chanted to themselves. “So what? Just send me down and I’ll take care of it” Jonas said boastingly. “It won’t be that simple. They managed to kill Satan and his gatekeepers. They are more powerful than we ever could have expected and they now have a vast army of insect things” the angel told Jonas who scoffed at the comment.

The elderly angel looked to both Jonas and I and sighed. “The reason I brought you both here is simple. We need the best of our fighters to combat with these demon souls” he said. “So why not send an army?” I asked curiously and several elders chanted about. “Because if anyone was to die a second time they would be sent to the void for eternity with no way to bring them back” said the old angel.

“Alright… so me and Jonas go?” I asked and the elderly angel nodded. “Along with the two other students” said the elderly angel. “Uhm, I mean no offence your majesty. But I do not think I would be of any help. I have seen these two battle and if they cannot do it then I doubt that I would be any help” Sky Dancer replied and the elderly angel nodded.

“Yes indeed… I think that she should stay here… with me” Elder muttered, I didn’t even need to look back to tell he was staring at her flank. I heard the swish of Sky Dancer’s tail as she tried to cover her nether region and let out an irritated sigh.

“Is something wrong?” asked one of the other elder angels. I heard Elder give out a perverted and quiet giggle as he continued to look at Sky Dancer’s flank. “Nothing, just a kink in my neck” Elder replied and Sky Dancer stepped in front of me. I heard Elder give out a dissatisfied grunt as he leaned over the edge of his throne chair to try to get a peek at her flank.

“Is something… wrong north elder?” asked another elderly angel. “No… nothing… just trying to… stretch is all” he said as he grunted and leaned over the side of his throne chair. Sky Dancer let out a quiet and irritated groan as she pressed her flank right up against me to completely block the view of her flank. Though I could understand her reasoning, it still felt weird to have her flank pressed right up against my crotch.

“Sorry… but that guy’s a perv” Sky Dancer whispered to me. Several other angels looked over in curiosity at her sudden movement against me. Sky Dancer realized that she had put herself in an awkward position. “Uhm… just needed to… scratch” she said and several angels raised their eyebrows. “Uhm… my flank” she replied unsurely, I suppose that she completely forgot that she was pressed up against me because she began to scratch her flank, more like rub her flank, against me and it just so happened that her flank was rubbing against my crotch.

I couldn’t stop myself from getting a boner and the sudden protrusion poked Sky Dancer in her rear. She gasped as she remembered she was pressed up against me to conceal herself from the perverted eyes of Elder. But now she was under the shocked and unsure eyes of all the elders.

She stepped forwards, “Uhh yeah, that scratched the spot” she said. She had obviously not thought this entire scenario through very well. “Uhm… right well regardless. How are we supposed to defeat the demons if Jonas and I are dead and the demons are roaming the living world?” I asked, taking the attention away from the strange predicament that Sky Dancer and I were in.

“Ohh right… we shall give you an hour’s worth of life time to descend down to the living realm and defeat the demon spirits. With the queen dead that her disciples shall perish” said the elderly angel. “Wait… the queen? Her disciples… are you saying that the demon is Queen Chrysalis?” I asked and he nodded. 

“You know her?” he asked and I nodded. “How about her friends Sombra and Solar Eclipse?” he asked and my jaw dropped. “Uhm… we might need a little more than an hour to beat them” I said and the elder shook his head as he arose from his seat.

“We cannot spare any more time, you must work with what we give you. However you are not properly equipped to fight them” he said and I raised an eyebrow. “Aren’t we going to just go down there and fist fight them?” I asked but he shook his head as he proceeded out of the room.

“Please follow me to the relic room” he said and we followed him closely. He led us to some sort of room filled with relics and other sorts of junk. “Nice… stuff” I said and he raised his small hand. 

A very large crate was levitated towards us but unlike any magic I had seen there was no aurora of magic around the crate. The crate lid was pulled off revealing a large assortment of parts.

“Construct one of these to defeat the demons. It is your only hope” he said and I went to grab a piece of metal but he slapped my hand. “You mustn’t touch it until you have properly constructed it” he scolded me.

“Okay just what the hell are these pieces of junk anyway?” I asked and he gasped. “These are not junk. These are the pieces mandatory for creating a holy blade” he replied and I groaned. 

“So how am I supposed to make one without touching it?” I asked and he sat down. “You must focus your inner spirit and concentrate on the box. The pieces will appear in your thoughts and you must construct the blade” he informed me.

Jonas and I sat across from each other as the elder motioned for everyone else to step back. I closed my eyes and relaxed. Amazingly the world around me seemed to visualize itself like I had my eyes open. I focused on the box as Jonas did the same. A cluster of metal pieces levitated up in front of me like I was controlling them with my mind.

‘Okay… now what the hell am I supposed to do with these things’ I thought to myself. ‘I think you’re supposed to put them together… Like a puzzle’ Jonas replied. I looked up to Jonas, his eyes were open but everyone else was gone from the illusion realm. We sat alone in a dimly lit room. ‘You can read my thoughts?’ I asked through my thoughts like I was telepathic. He opened his mouth to say something but then brought his hands up over his mouth.

‘I can’t talk… we can only communicate through thoughts he told me telepathically. ‘Oh cool… so a puzzle huh? Alright let’s crack down on this to see what we got’ I said as I levitated the parts over to me.

I scratched my head. These pieces looked like they all fit together somehow. I had two halves of a cylinder like piece of metal, a knob looking thing with six square knobs on the knob, some button thing, the inner tube and a dark blue crystal.

I sighed to myself and quickly constructed it the way I thought it was supposed to go but it didn’t quite work out very well. I disassembled it and tried to reassemble it another way and this time it worked. I think. All I was left with was some hilt looking thing. I chuckled in my thoughts and Jonas looked up to me.

‘Hey how’d you put that together?’ he asked. ‘Oh you’ve got to put the crystal in that slot in the knob and’ I began but he cut me off. ‘What knob?’ he asked and I realized that his thing was completely different than mine. He had no knob but rather a simple plate, his crystal was a medium shade of green and his cylinder was two inches smaller than mine and it 
was black rather than the silver colour of mine.

‘Check that plate thing. Is there a small slot that your crystal could fit in?’ I asked telepathically and he nodded. ‘Alright, put the crystal in that slot then slip the tube over it. Then slip the cylinder over the tube until it clicks together. Then insert the button thing and it should create some sort of shield blocking the entrance of the tube’ I told him and he followed my orders.

He soon had his hilt thingy constructed to. ‘What do you think they are?’ I asked and he shrugged as he looked down the entrance of his hilt. ‘I don’t know but they look pretty sweet… maybe they’re some sort of energy supplement distributor or something’ he guessed and I looked at mine. 

‘Maybe it’s like a teleporter gun thingy to transport the demons back to hell’ I guessed but suddenly the illusion world vanished and both Jonas and I returned to the high council building room. 

“So are these things hand warmers or…” I trailed off as I looked at the hilt thing. “No you idiot. They’re holy blades. Press the button” the elderly angel scowled and both Jonas and I looked to each other. We shrugged then pressed the buttons on our hand warmers, or whatever the hell they were.

A dark blue beam of light extended out the top of my hand warmer thingy. It hummed and buzzed as I stood up and waved it around. Jonas did the same, his blade beam was green.

“Cool a lightsaber… someone’s been watching too much Star Wars lately” I commented. “They are not lightsabers, they’re holy blades. And be very careful, they’re dangerous and the demons have their own versions of the holy blades” the elderly angel told us. “Yeah and I bet the demon’s lightsabers are red right?” I asked and the elderly angel looked both ways as he thought up a lie. 

“No… they’re... yellow” he lied and I chuckled. “Yeah whatever… cool I always wondered what it would be like to have a lightsaber” I muttered as I started waving the lightsaber back and forth. Now that I thought about it, this lightsaber looked like Obi-Wan Kenobi’s lightsaber.

“Hey be careful with that, it’s extremely dangerous” the elderly angel scolded and I waved to him. “Yeah-yeah, I’ll be careful… goddamn this thing is so cool” I muttered to myself but as I waved it to the right my saber blade caught the leg support of a giant shelf with heavy looking relics resting on it.

The shelf tipped and the relics all fell towards Jonas and I. Time seemed to slow to mere fractions of a second and I could tell exactly what to do. My lightsaber, or holy blade, ha holy blade my ass, it’s a lightsaber, hummed as I began to swing it at the relics. My saber blade cut up the relics before they could land on us and as time passed I chopped up all the relics that fell at us.

Time seemed to return to a normal pace and I gazed upon my lightsaber. “Oh this thing is sooo cool” I said in utter shock and awe from the kick ass saber. “YOU IDIOT, YOU JUST DESTROYED HOLY RELICS FROM VATICAN TIMES” screamed the elderly angel. I looked down to the smoking pieces of the relics. My face was expressionless. “Oops” I muttered to myself.

I looked over to the elderly angel whose face was red with anger. I pointed to Jonas “It was him”.


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Third person, Canterlot streets:

The element bearers, along with the two princesses rushed along the streets. Although Celestia had insisted on Luna staying behind due to her rather prominent pregnancy, Luna had opted to come along.

Changelings swarmed at the group but Celestia and he sister blasted the changelings. Pinkie Pie looked over to Twilight who nodded. “Come taste the Pinkie Pie machinegun” Pinkie yelled out as she grabbed Twilight and began to crank her tail around like a classic twist crank.

Twilight’s horn flared up and dozens of energy blasts blew away changelings as they flew at the group. Applejack kicked a changeling and sent it crashing through a saloon wall. “Yeehaw, that’s how we do it on the farm” Applejack called out.

Rainbow Dash zipped through the air and performed her iconic sonic rainboom. The concussive blast sent changelings hurtling through the air. “Yeah, taste the rainbow suckas” Dash called out.

As the group finished off the remainder of the changelings they heard a buzzing come from behind a large brewery. They all watched in horror as hundreds of changelings swarmed around them. The changelings hissed as they quarried the group. They were completely surrounded and the changelings had looks of hunger on their faces as they licked their lips. 

> Chapter 5: A ruined date
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      Third person, Canterlot streets:

The group huddled together in fear as the changelings surrounded them. One of the changelings lept at them but then there was a thundering chugging sound and the changeling simply exploded into a mess of green blood and guts.

The blood and guts splashed over the group and Rarity screamed in disgust. The thundering chugging continued and the group started to wonder what exactly was happening. Changelings would burst apart like they were filled with explosives. One changeling screeched in fear but its head exploded then its body soon followed.

Brass casings fell to a human’s feet as the chugging continued and changelings burst apart as they scurried away from the onslaught.

The changelings that managed to escape the onslaught fled Canterlot completely, in fear of whatever the hell just blew their buddies apart. A burning cigar hit the ground by the feet of the human and his black combat boots stomped out the cigar.

“Bastards, come back to let Black Betty finish you off” said a drunken Russian voice. “Danko!” Applejack exclaimed. She, along with the others, had met Danko during Clare’s funeral. “Yeah who else?” he said in a drunken tone as smoke emulated from the end of the massive machinegun barrel.

“Jesus… what the hell are you doing here?” Rainbow Dash asked and Danko shrugged. “I had date with pretty woman but she stood me up. So I had to buy other sexy woman… actually she is sexy mare but I don’t care… sometimes I wish that vodka and I were married than I wouldn’t have to pay for her” Danko said in a comically drunk voice.

“Wait… you were at the saloon to… date vodka?” Dash asked curiously and Danko nodded. “Well yeah, haven’t you ever had date with… (Burp) vodka before?” he asked and Rainbow Dash simply sighed.

“Corporal Danko, we” Celestia began but Danko cut her off. “Oh no, it’s lieutenant now, they promoted me” Danko said proudly. “Right… Danko we need to reach the castle and I was wondering if you’d care to escort us there?” Celestia asked and Danko nodded. “Alright, just let me get drink first” Danko said then stumbled back into the saloon. 

Moments later he exited the saloon with multiple whiskey bottles stuffed in his coat. He poured some whiskey on some bite marks on his arm. “Danko, what happened?” Fluttershy asked worriedly. “Flying insect crashed through saloon wall and bit me… he spilt my wine then tried to eat me so I snapped its neck like a chicken” Danko replied then he remembered the mare’s love for animals. “Oh sorry… I meant… I break its neck like bottle neck” Danko said then snapped the neck of the whiskey bottle with his thumb. 

The bottle now had a sharp jagged edge to it but that didn’t stop Danko from drinking out of the whiskey bottle. “Come my little ponies… let’s go to castle… maybe my baby vodka is there” Danko said and they all paced towards the castle while Danko stumbled along drunkenly.

They reached the castle and the front doors were locked with chains, a dark cloud seemed to be originating from the castle and was quickly blotting out the sun from shining down upon Canterlot.

“Hurry, we have to find a way inside” Rarity said frantically. Twilight tried to blast off the chains but they were very sturdy and resistant to magic. “Ha stupid chains” Danko said and simply kicked the doors down. The chains held the doors together but the doors’ hinges broke off and the doors smashed to the ground. “Ladies first… oh wait… I am only man, okay… you first” Danko said and pointed to Rarity.

“Why thank you my fair sir, you are a true gentleman” Rarity said as she stepped gracefully into the castle but soon zipped back out in a hurry. “No-no, man with gun first” Rarity said frantically and Danko looked inside to see a swarm of changelings inside, ready for any-pony or anyone who entered. But they weren’t ready for a drunken Russian Spetsnaz soldier with an M2 .50 caliber machinegun.

Danko entered the through the doorway and the wings of the changelings buzzed as they got ready to attack. “Okay Betty, do your thing” Danko said as he began to fire the massive machinegun. 

The mighty .50 caliber rounds tore through any changeling that got in the bullets’ path. Changelings began to splatter against the walls and floors, staining the once clean hallways with the blood and guts of the changelings.

“I don’t know about you… but I’m not eating what you’re cooking Betty” Danko said to his gun as he continued to fire it. Spent casings fell to the floor and cluttered about. The mighty machinegun continued to chug until every last changeling was destroyed by the M2 machinegun.

Danko lifted the barrel up and blew away the smoke. “Oh yeah baby, that’s what I’m talking about” Danko commented 
then reloaded the mighty machinegun and continued on through the hallways of the castle. Changelings had gotten smart and no longer patrolled the hallways of the castle. Instead they hid in the shadows and waited for the Russian man and the group of ponies to pass.

They reached the throne room and Danko booted down the door. In the throne room sat Sombra on Celestia’s throne. Chrysalis sat on his lap and Sombra stroked her ghastly mane. Solar Eclipse stood beside them like a royal guard. 

In front of them lay Captain Shining Armor and Princess Cadence. Both were alive but a pool of blood had begun to formulate around Shining. “Brother!” Twilight cried and rushed forwards towards her wounded brother. “Twilight no!” Celestia ordered but as she screamed out for Twilight to stop, Solar Eclipse raised her hoof.

Electricity crackled from the end of her hoof and electrocuted Twilight. The force of the electrical shock sent Twilight hurtling backward. Smoke emulated from her body as she groaned in pain. 

“As you can see my powers have nearly tripled since the last time we met” Solar Eclipse told the group. Danko stepped forwards. “And guess what?” Danko said and Solar Eclipse rolled her eyes as she heard the drunken tone of Danko’s voice. “What?” she asked reluctantly. 

Danko opened a whiskey bottle and downed it. He stumbled about for a moment then steadied himself. “I want to introduce you to BLACK BETTY!” Danko said as he leveled Black Betty on Solar Eclipse. 

She flew forwards and a ‘holy blade’ hilt flew into her hoof. The red blade beam shot out from the hilt opening and the blade hummed. Solar Eclipse swung the saber blade and cut the barrel off the mighty machinegun. The gun fell out of Danko’s hands in two pieces. 

“You killed Betty… you bitch” Danko said and Solar Eclipse swung her blade back in preparation to execute the drunk Russian man. But as she was about to swing her blade he kicked her in the shin. Solar Eclipse howled in pain as she dropped down to all fours. She had lowered her guard and hadn’t expected the drunken man to kick her.

Danko then booted her in the lower gut and slammed his boot tip into her tits. Solar Eclipse screamed from the painful kick that had hit a very sensitive spot on her body. She staggered back and readied her blade.

“Hey horsey, do male horses have titties to?” Danko asked and Solar Eclipse gritted her teeth in anger. “I’ll take that as yes… that would explain why horses don’t like it when I kick them in gut… it’s long story” he laughed in his drunken voice.

Solar Eclipse flew forwards at Danko but suddenly a green saber blade collided with Solar Eclipse’s red one and the blades sparked from the collision. Both blades hummed and sparked as the blades grinded together.

Solar Eclipse looked into the eyes of an alien creature. Clare landed beside him and Solar Eclipse lept back. Clare levitated a saber hilt into his hand and a blue blade buzzed out of the hilt.

“Lord Eclipse… deal with the boys” Sombra ordered casually and Solar Eclipse nodded as she stood to her hind legs and held her saber in one hand. Clare and Jonas readied their sabers in both hands as Solar Eclipse began to walk towards them, her saber blade cut a line in the floor as she allowed the blade to drag along the floor. 

> Chapter 6: Battle of will
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      Clare, Canterlot castle throne room:

“Clare!... You’re alive?” Luna called out. I really wanted to just go over and hug her tightly but I knew that we had Solar Eclipse to deal with. Jonas looked over to me. “Go on, go see your mare. I can handle this bitch” Jonas said and I looked over to him hesitantly.

“She’s very powerful” I warned him and he chuckled. “Just go before I change my mind” he said quickly. I gave him a thankful nod as I quickly deactivated my lightsaber, or holy blade, and rushed over to Luna.

We embraced each other in a tight hug and I could feel her inflated womb press up against my own stomach. We began to kiss furiously and I seemed to lose track of everything that was happening.

“Luna… I love you so much. When are you due?” I asked. She leaned back from the kiss. This really wasn’t the time to be talking about our relationship but we did anyways. “Less than a week” she replied. I almost gasped from the information. “I don’t care about laws or anything, I swear by Celestia’s name that I’ll be there when you’re giving birth” I promised and her eyes widened with happiness.

“Really?!” she asked hopefully and I nodded. Then the crackling and buzzing of the sabers colliding caught my attention and I looked over to see Jonas combating with Solar Eclipse. I looked back to Luna.

“Right now you all have to get out of here. And take these two with you” I said as I reached my hand out and focused my mind on Cadence and Shining Armor. They levitated over without any sort of aurora surrounding their bodies. I watched as Sombra tried to grab hold of them with his own magic only to find that my new magic was stronger than his.

I levitated the couple over to Celestia and she took them in her own magic. As they went to leave a large swam of changelings entered the throne room. Rarity screamed out and it took my attention. I rushed over to them as Danko pulled out a Desert Eagle with a 10 inch barrel and began firing it at the changelings.

Changelings screeched as they were struck by the large caliber pistol round. But despite his handgun he only had so much ammunition and there were dozens of changelings.

I brought my hand up and launched a powerful blast of electrical energy at the large group of changelings. They were caught in the electricity and electrocuted as they flung back, most of them crashing into the wall and falling in clumps to the ground like insects getting hit by a bug zapper.

“Danko, make sure they get to safety” I told the drunken Russian man. I felt kind of stupid leaving my friends, my lover who was pregnant and two wounded ponies in the safety of a drunken man but I had seen what he was capable of and I knew that he would protect them with his life. Especially if he ran out of whiskey, then he’d be enraged.

I turned back to see Solar Eclipse and Jonas battling with their lightsabers. It still kind of took me as strange, fighting with lightsabers seems like something you would say when two kids have those fake lightsabers and are screwing around pretending that they are Jedis or something. But here I am, watching two spirits fight with real lightsabers, and it was kind of cool because it looked just like the movies.

I lept through the air as my own lightsaber ignited. The saber crackled as it collided with Solar Eclipse’s. As we grinded our sabers together Jonas kicked Solar Eclipse in the side and sent her tumbling back.

Jonas deactivated his saber and tossed it away. “What the hell are you doing?” I asked and he shrugged. “Swords aren’t really my strong suit” he told me. My jaw dropped, “Man, these are lightsabers! Haven’t you ever watched Star Wars?” I gasped and he shook his head.

“Regardless, swords are not my strong suit. It gives a warrior great powers to equip him with the most powerful weapons but you get an even greater warrior when you equip him with his style of weaponry” he said as he clenched his fists.

Solar Eclipse stood up and I looked to Jonas. “Well, you take Chrysalis, I’ll take care of Solar Eclipse than we can both take out Sombra” I suggested and he nodded. Chrysalis lept out of her spot on Sombra’s lap and began to slowly trot down towards us. 

She lept to her hindlegs and held out her hooves. Suddenly six saber hilts flung into the holes in her forelegs and activated. Jonas took a step back. “And it takes an even greater warrior to realize that he’s a fool when trying to fight some angry broad with knives” I chuckled.

Chrysalis swung her hoof up in preparation to cut down Jonas but then there was a loud BANG and one of her saber hilts sparked and was destroyed. Chrysalis gasped but then several other BANGs echoed in the throne room.

All of Chrysalis’ saber hilts were knocked out of her hooves as she looked in pure shock at what had just happened. We all turned to see Sky Dancer with her preferred SVD Dragunov rifle. “Don’t piss off The Apache, or you’re likely to get burned” she called out as she tossed her rifle to the side.

As Sky Dancer stepped up I looked over to her. “Couldn’t stand Elder?” I asked jokingly and she rolled her eyes. “He tried teaching me about proper sword combat, I told him that I already knew and to send me down to Equestria to help you… and that if he did I’d give him something special when I got back” she said with a chuckle. I rolled my eyes from her deceptive lie that she had told Elder. That guy would do anything if he thought he’d get something from it.

“Why didn’t you just shoot her?” I asked. “Out of ammo, met lots of insect things on the way here” she replied. “No, I meant why not just shoot her in the first place?” I asked and she shrugged. “Guess I learned a few things about honour from a good teacher” she told me with a wink.


*          *          *


Third person:

Clare turned to face Solar Eclipse while Jonas flew up to Sombra. Sky Dancer readied herself in front of Chrysalis.

Sombra pounced at Jonas but Jonas slammed a powerful punch into Sombra’s face that sent him staggering back. “You’ve obviously never fought with a martial artist before, now it’s time for you to go to hell” Jonas said as he lept up to give Sombra a round house kick to the head.

Sombra snarled and his muscles flexed and a powerful purple aura surrounded his body. Jonas smiled as he too powered up and a white aura surrounded him. The two fighters flew at each other and began throwing lightning fast punches at one another. It was like flashes of blurry motions as they kicked and punched at each other.

Jonas lept back and threw a powerful kick into Sombra’s side. His body was cocked to the side from the force of the kick but he grappled Jonas’ leg with his foreleg than brought down a powerful elbow that broke Jonas’ knee at the joint.

He screamed in pain as he staggered back. Jonas had never fought someone so brutal like Sombra before. He could barely walk and knew that he would be seriously outmatched on the ground. Subduing his pain, Jonas flew into the air and Sombra followed. 

“You’re going down dark lord” Jonas snarled and Sombra simply laughed then his body faded away. Jonas gasped then a powerful kick collided with the back of his head and sent him tumbling forwards.

Jonas spun around and looked to Sombra who was giving him an evil smile. “So… you know how to fight… well this may take a little longer than expected” Jonas commented but then Sombra flew at him without warning. Jonas charged towards his opponent but just as he was about to collide with Sombra, the dark lord disappeared again.

Jonas gasped but then yet another sneak attack struck him in the back of the head, but this time it sent him crashing to the ground. Jonas made a small crater in the ground then staggered to his feet as Sombra came crashing down on him, crushing him back into the ground.

Jonas rolled his body painfully and cracked Sombra in the side of the face with a powerful punch that sent him hurtling back into the air. Jonas propelled himself back into the air and the two continued their aerial combat.

Sky Dancer gave Chrysalis a swift kick to the side then lept over her in a front flip and slammed an elbow into the changeling queen. Chrysalis hissed as she swung her hoof and back hoofed Sky Dancer across the face. Her jagged hoof cut open a small slice in Sky Dancer’s face that bled a little. Sky Dancer winced in pain then threw a punch but Chrysalis grabbed her hoof and spun Sky Dancer into the ground. 

Chrysalis went to stomp Dancer’s neck but she swiftly kicked Chrysalis in the head with her hindleg then spun to her hooves. The two charged at each other and began to hammer each other with a fury of punches and kicks.

Clare battled Solar Eclipse with his saber. The two sabers hummed and chimed as they connected, sparks would erupt from the saber blades as they collided with each other. Clare stepped into a narrow hallway and Solar followed as she swung at him with her red saber. Her saber sliced burning red cuts in the narrow hallway walls. 

She swung her saber at Clare who deflected the swing with his saber. The two began swinging the sabers at each other at incredible speeds. The sabers looked like blurs of light as they swung through the air and collided.

Solar swung her saber low to cut off Clare’s legs but he back flipped and dodged the swing of her blade. “Impressive” Solar Eclipse commented as she swung at Clare again, this time in an attempt to decapitate him. Clare deflected the swing and kicked Solar Eclipse, sending her staggering back. She back flipped and landed on her two hind legs. Clare stepped forwards and as Solar Eclipse swung at him he front flipped over her. “Most impressive” she commented.

She spun around lept to face Clare and kicked him back. Clare staggered back but as Solar Eclipse lept at him he gave her a powerful kick that sent her hurtling down the hallway.

Clare rushed down the hallway and met Solar Eclipse at the exit of the hallway. They were now on a balcony of the tallest tower. Clare rushed at Solar Eclipse and lept over her then swung his blade towards her. She ducked then side swept his legs with a kick. Clare fell on his back. Solar Eclipse brought her blade down to Clare and hovered it above him by inches. “You could be a great ally, do not cloud your mind with acts of simplicity” Solar Eclipse told him.

Clare swung up his saber blade and chopped her blade away from his chest then flipped backwards and landed on the balcony ledge. He had to steady himself with one of his hands so he was only able to hold his saber in one hand.

Solar Eclipse gave heavy swings with her saber and managed to chop off the bottom part of Clare’s saber. The saber deactivated and the hilt fell in two separate pieces as they fell the ground many stories below. Solar Eclipse readied her lightsaber at Clare’s chest.

“Hold on” Clare said and she was taken aback by his sudden outburst. “Say ‘Don’t make me destroy you’” Clare told her in his best Darth Vader voice and she raised an eyebrow. “No, this is a fight to death and you want me to make some crappy one liner?” she replied. “Please, it would be awesome” Clare pleaded and she sighed. “Don’t make me destroy you” she said quickly. 

“No-no, you gotta say it like this. ‘Don’t make me destroy you’” Clare said again. “Fine-fine… Don’t make me destroy you” Solar Eclipse said in a very well mimicked Vader voice. “I’ll never join you” Clare said and Solar Eclipse sighed as she swung back her saber blade.

As she swung her blade, Clare lept through the air above her and as he landed he side swept her hindlegs with a sweeping kick. Solar Eclipse tripped and fell on her flank. Her saber deactivated and the hilt bounced out of her reach.

Jonas was fighting with Sombra and was losing quite terribly, Sombra was ruthless and relentless. Jonas staggered back through the air and Sombra flew forwards and slammed a powerful punch right into Jonas’ gut. Jonas cried out in pain but as he did his body disappeared into thin air. Sombra smirked to himself and looked down to Chrysalis.

Sky Dancer lept back but as she did a powerful kick slammed into her back and sent her tumbling forwards. Chrysalis slammed a punch into Sky Dancer’s gut and she doubled over in pain then she too disappeared.

Clare fought hand to hoof with Solar Eclipse. Clare reached out and Solar Eclipse’s saber hilt flew into his palm. He activated the saber but as he brought it down on her she punched him in the stomach. Clare winced in pain as he had the wind knocked out of him. The saber hilt deactivated as it fell from his hand and his body vanished into the air.

> Chapter 7: Alicorn Amulets
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

      Clare, Heaven training area:

I groaned as I felt the familiar gravitational pull of Elder’s training arena. I groaned as I rolled to my side and figured I’d just relax for a moment but then remembered vanishing. ‘Was I dead? Was this the void?’ I thought to myself and quickly sat up to see Elder bickering with Sky Dancer.

“A HUG! A hug is not special, I wanted something special” Elder complained and Sky Dancer shook her head. I could see that she had irritated the perverted old elf/man thing. I groaned as I sat up then I looked to Jonas who looked to be doing fine and was practising a fury of aggressive punches on a hologram fighter.

“Oh look, he’s up… we’ll settle this later” Elder sat as he walked over to me with Sky Dancer and Long Tail. “What… happened?” I asked curiously and I could tell that the question irritated Elder quite a lot. 

“You ran out of time! You blew away your hour time limit like it was some joke and now we’re screwed” Elder commented. I remembered the elders telling me that we only had an hour than I realized that we had wasted it away. “So, just send us back” I replied.

“Just send you back?! We can’t just send you back. We already bent the laws and we can’t do it again” he said and I sighed. “Well there has to be something we can do” I said but he shook his head. “No, there is nothing we can do” he replied. 

“Well what about you?” I asked and he raised an eyebrow. “What about me?” he asked and I pointed to where a halo ring would be if he was dead. “You aren’t dead, so why don’t you go?” I asked and he laughed like it was a joke. 

“If I went it would be a waste of perfectly good life. They would destroy me” he replied and I sighed.


*          *          *


Third person, Canterlot castle:

Sombra, Chrysalis and Solar Eclipse walked down the hallways, inspecting the castle as they went along. Suddenly a swift gust of wind blew through the hallways. Sombra let out an irritated sigh as they all turned to see who was screwing around.

Nightmare Moon stood in the hallways, snarling and snorting like a wild bull. “Didn’t you learn the first time?” Solar Eclipse sneered as she stepped forwards. Nightmare Moon didn’t step back and instead stepped forwards to face her long-time rival.

They both immediately powered up and launched towards each other but taking a swift sweep, Nightmare Moon swiftly dodged the collision and kicked Solar Eclipse in the jaw. The powerful alicorn slammed against the wall and Nightmare Moon flew right into her and crashed their bodies through the wall and into the library.

Solar Eclipse swung their bodies around mid-flight and crashed her opponent’s body into a book shelf. The shelf toppled over and the two began to slam each other with powerful punches and kicks. 

Nightmare Moon brought a powerful kick into Solar Eclipse’s gut then head-butted her. Solar Eclipse was dazed from the attack and Nightmare Moon blasted her with a powerful energy beam from her horn. 

Solar Eclipse was blasted off Nightmare Moon’s body and crashed through several other book shelves. Nightmare Moon stood to her hooves and flew towards the crash site but she couldn’t find her rival’s body. 

A powerful white blast caught her side and slammed her through a wall. Nightmare Moon skidded down the tile floor of a hallway and propelled herself up but as she went to land, Solar Eclipse flew into her and crashed her body through a stone pillar.

The dark princesses began to fight again with furies of punches and kicks. Nightmare Moon slammed a powerful kick into the side of Solar Eclipse’s head that sent her spiraling into a wall that broke from the force. 

Nightmare Moon quickly flew through the wall but as she did her evil foe blasted her side with another energy beam, sending her crashing into a chemistry set. They were in some sort of laboratory. Glass shards stuck in Nightmare’s back and the glass sent jolts of pains through her back.

She staggered to her hooves but no sooner had she stood up Solar Eclipse slammed into her and crashed their bodies through another stone wall. Nightmare Moon slammed a powerful head-butt into Eclipse then punched her in the side of the head. Solar Eclipse was sent hurtling through the air and crashed into a chalk board. Solar Eclipse levitated dozens upon dozens of chalk pieces meant for drawing on the board then crushed the chalk up into dust.

As Nightmare Moon flew at her, she puffed up the chalk dust into Nightmare’s face, temporarily blinding her. She crashed through the chalk board and the wall ending up in the library again where Solar Eclipse kicked her through several book shelves. 

Nightmare Moon’s powerful blue aura disappeared as she groped in pain from the beating she had endured. Solar Eclipse stepped in front of the battered princess and raised her hoof. “No-pony will stop me from killing you this time” Solar Eclipse hissed but no sooner had she said that, Sombra entered the room.

“Do not kill her” he ordered and Eclipse gasped. “WHAT! No, I’m killing her” Solar Eclipse snarled but as she went to blast Nightmare into oblivion Sombra raised his hoof and began to choke Solar Eclipse with a magical choke hold. “You will not defy my orders. Is that understood?” he asked in a deep tone. Solar Eclipse gagged then nodded reluctantly. 

Sombra released his choke hold on her and she fell to the ground, gasping and wheezing for air. Sombra trotted up to Nightmare Moon. “She is very powerful, she just needs a little… touch” he whispered as he slowly lowered his horn down and touched the tip of his horn with the tip of Nightmare Moon’s.


*          *          *


Clare, Heaven training area:

“Well… just break the rules this once. The fate of the universe is at stake here” I argued with him. “No, the elders will not allow it” Elder argued back. “Who cares?! I’ll take the blame” I yelled but his mind would not be changed. 

I flexed my muscles and let out an angered roar, a powerful blue aura surrounded me. My hair stood up into its spikey form and my muscles expanded. I brought my arms into the air and let out a tremendous roar then cocked my arms back down to the side, I felt my power surge incredibly. My hair shifted and it became more jagged. My muscles didn’t expand but I felt more powerful than before.

Electrical currents crackled around my entire body. I unclenched my fist and bursts of electricity crackled in my palms. “Amazing… what have you done?” Elder asked curiously. “I…I don’t know” I replied. My anger and frustration had pushed me to a new limit. “Well… there may be hope after all” he replied and I looked up to him.

“How? If I can’t go down there to stop them, then how am I supposed to beat them?” I asked. He smiled as he brought out two amulet looking things. They had a triangle base with a blue diamond in the center of each one. On the tops of the triangle amulets there was an alicorn, each one had the alicorn facing a different direction.

“Uhm… uh… alicorn amulets?” I replied. Elder sighed, “No, they are not. The common tale is that they are amulets but they are actually earrings. You place them on your ears and make sure that the face is facing outwards and you will have incredible powers” he told me.

“Uhm, yeah but don’t those things corrupt the user?” I asked and Elder laughed as he levitated them over to me. “No… not these ones. The ones that corrupt the user are the demon ones that were sent to Equestria by a demon lord long ago. These ones on the other hand are the holy earrings, the originals. They do not corrupt the soul” he told me. I was still hesitant to use them but I figured if worse came to worse I could always just break the magic lock that kept me bound to its power.

I placed them on my ears. Luckily it was just a snap on earing and didn’t require me to pierce my ear. I stood there for a moment but I didn’t feel any different. “Uhm… I think they’re broken” I muttered and Jonas snickered. He had come over when he watched me power up earlier.

“No-no, they’re working. You just have to power up” Elder said and I looked at him with a raised eyebrow. “I don’t think I can. I’ve ascended to a plateau of power that I can’t pass” I told him and he sighed.

“Just… let go, do that super thing you always do and I’m sure it will work out” Elder informed me as he sat down. “Alright I’ll try” I said and he looked up to me. “No, do… or do not, there is no try” he told me. “Alright… here it goes” I said and he looked up to me in shock. “No wait, do it somewhere else” he exclaimed but I paid him no mind.

I clenched my fists and yelled out as I felt energy flow through my body. Electricity coursed around my body at a more accelerated rate. The ground beneath me shook and a very strong wind blew from my aura of blue energy that surrounded my body along with the electricity. Elder was tossed back from the incredible power that was produced from my body.

The entire training area seemed to shake as my aura of power blew gusts of wind and cloud dust away from me. Electricity coursed around my body and mixed in with the aura of power.

“Well… he couldn’t have waited for me to move… how disrespectful” he muttered. I let out a final yell then felt my power shift into place. It was incredible, like something was feeding my energy to me at a steady rate, I felt like I could do anything. I clenched my fists and ascended further. But I found that I had reached my limit and slowly un-tensed my body.

“Impossible… this is just impossible” I muttered to myself. Elder walked over to me with Jonas, Sky Dancer and Long Tail. “That is why you fail. You must always remember that there is a point beyond what you have reached. Sometimes you just have to dig deep inside” he told me and I nodded. Though he was a pervert, he was a wise old elf. 

“But that still doesn’t solve our problems. How is Clare supposed to fight those demons if he can’t go down to Equestria?” Jonas mentioned. I sighed as I realized he was right. Despite my new powers it did no good if I couldn’t use them.

Elder sighed depressingly. “Well… I have been saving one last resort, and I wanted to make sure it was worth it” Elder said and I gave him a curious look. Elder let out a deep sigh. “I’ll give you my life so that you can return to Equestria… just don’t go wasting it” he said. I let out a shocked expression, “You mean… you’re giving up your life… for me?” I asked and he nodded. “It may be our only hope” he replied. 

I gave him a nod of extreme gratefulness. “You’re… too kind Elder” I said and he let out a chuckle. “Well it’s the least I can do for my inappropriate behaviour recently” he chuckled. I stifled a laugh, that was a statement true to its word, but he shouldn’t think that he’d have to give up his life just for some bad behaviour.

Elder sat down on the cloudy floor. I stood in front of him along with the others. “Well… I’ll see you later” he said then suddenly he simply dropped dead. We all gasped in shock. Just like that an elder god had sacrificed his life for the greater good of the universe.

I knelt beside Elder and rested my palm on his shoulder, “Thank you, old friend” I whispered. “You’re halo… it’s gone” Sky Dancer said and I realized that she was right. If I was alive than why exactly was I still in heaven?

“Thank you Elder… I won’t let your sacrifice be for nothing” I whispered then all of a sudden he sat up. “Then why are you still here!” he exclaimed. His sudden outburst caught us all off guard.

He had a halo ring above his head. “Why are you still here? Get down there and beat those guys!” he yelled. “I uh… how?” I asked and he let out a sigh. “Fine, I’ll transport you down there… just don’t go wasting your immortality… god immortality is harder to come by than hot babes these days” he muttered. “Immortality?” I asked and he nodded. “Well of course, I was immortal, so by transferring my life to you it makes you immortal. But that doesn’t mean you can’t be killed by those bastards so be careful” he informed me.

I was awestruck. I was so emotionally struck by his sacrifice that a tear came to my eye. “Clare… before you go” Sky Dancer said and whirled me around. She lept up to her hindlegs and wrapped her forelegs around my neck. “I always thought you were cute… and all the would-be males that came and went in my life, you’re the only one who ever stood up for me” she said. “But… I killed you, we were enemies” I stammered. 

She smiled. “Yes, but the war is over and this may be my only chance to say what I need to say. I feel for you Clare, and if it wasn’t for your relationship with Luna than I’d try to become romantically involved. But I respect your relationship with her” she said as she leaned forwards and kissed me. 

We kissed passionately, though I felt kind of awkward about it due to the fact that I was still sort of in a relationship with Luna. She pulled back from the kiss and dropped down to her hooves. “Goodbye Clare, perhaps one day I’ll be able to come visit you” she said and I nodded. “Goodbye Sky Dancer, I’ll never forget you” I told her.

“Figures, I do all the work and he gets all the kisses” complained Elder. I chuckled to myself and looked to Jonas. I extended my hand and we gave one final handshake, acknowledging each other’s powers. “Goodbye Jonas” I said and he nodded. I looked over to Long Tail.

I knelt down so I was eye level with him. “Hey, take care of your mother alright. She missed you” I told him and he nodded. He gave me a hug which I returned. With all the goodbyes said and done I stood up and looked to Elder.

“Alright… I guess it’s now or never” I said and Elder nodded as he raised his hands and said a chant. Yellow magic surrounded my body then my mind went blank.

> Chapter 8: I drink alone
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

      Clare, outside city limits of Canterlot:

I felt a cool breeze on my bare skin as I realized that I was completely naked. “Son of a bitch” I muttered as I stood up. It was becoming late in the afternoon and it was probably 4:30ish.

I looked around for a suitable place to get clothes, maybe if I was lucky there’d be a clothing store nearby but there wasn’t. I cursed to myself then spotted a bar. I thought to myself about my options. I felt bad for contemplating stealing someone’s clothes but at the same time I really didn’t feel like fighting Sombra and the others without clothes.

I quickly and calmly walked across the street and towards the bar. It was probably a biker hangout because there were several Harley’s parked outside and some were customized for ponies to ride.

I walked up the front steps of the bar and opened the door. Several ponies turned to look at me and several stallions’ jaws slacked open. Some mares smiled as I stepped into the bar. I looked around, unfortunately there were no humans that I could see and most of the ponies were smaller than me.

I began to casually walk through the bar with a straight and expressionless face. Ponies would step out of my way and some of the mares would check out my cock as I passed, luckily I didn’t have an erection at the moment or this would be really awkward.

I entered a back room where five men and a few larger stallions played pool. They looked over to me and some of the men chuckled as they pointed at me. I spotted a large man with black leather clothing and black leather boots.

I walked over to him. With a very expressionless face I looked him in the eye. “I need your clothes, your boots and your motorcycle” I said and he, along with the other guys and stallions, laughed. “Well okay terminator… you forgot to say please” he laughed as he exhaled his cigar smoke into my face. 

“Let’s see how you feel getting burned” he laughed and pressed the lit cigar against my bare chest. The cigar burned my chest but I subdued the pain and kept a straight face then looked back up to his eyes. His face became confused, usually someone would wince in pain when you pressed a lit cigar to their bare chest.

I grabbed his hand and crushed it in my grip, suddenly a pool cue snapped off the back of my head but it didn’t faze me. I turned around and grabbed the blue stallion who had hit me with the pool stick and tossed him out the front window. 

He smashed through the window and knocked over a couple of parked motorcycles. I looked to the stallion who had burned me. “Let’s see how you handle getting burned” I said and tossed him into the kitchen. I heard him scream in pain and the horrid smell of burning flesh filled my nose.

I turned back to the other men who cautiously stepped away from me and out the back door. I turned and walked into the kitchen where the man was trying to load a bullet into the cylinder of a Colt Python.

I snatched the revolver from his hands and loaded the round then clicked the cylinder shut. I spun the cylinder then stopped it as I cocked back the hammer. He looked to me in fear and tossed a set off keys at me. “Just take it… ugh” he cried in pain as I caught the keys in my left hand without even looking at them.


*          *          *


Third person, just outside Bar:

Black leather boots descended the few front steps of the bar. Clare had all black leather clothing and looked around then to the keys the biker had given him. He now had the Colt Python holstered to his hip, the biker only had twelve rounds but Clare probably wouldn’t need to use them, at least not when he fought with Solar Eclipse.

Clare looked to the Harley’s and walked over to the one he suspected was the Harley that belonged to the biker. He put the keys in the ignition and turned them then kick-started the chopper. It rumbled to life and the radio on the console of the chopper began to blare out music from a cassette tape. 


Dude looks like a lady



Dude looks like a lady



Dude looks like a lady



Dude looks like a lady…


Clare pressed the eject button and tossed the cassette tape away than put in a more preferable music tape and as the tape began to play a guitar solo a shotgun rang out behind Clare.

“I can’t let you take a man’s wheels son, now get off before I put you down” said a very obese stallion with a pump action Model 1897 that had the stock cut off into a pistol grip and the barrel was shortened. Clare kicked down the kickstand and let the Harley rest for a moment but the musical tunes of cassette tape still played as he slowly walked towards the fat stallion.


I drink alone



Yeaaaaah with no-body else



I drink alone



Yeaaaaah with no-body else…


Clare stepped in front of the stallion that now held the shotgun to Clare’s stomach. “That’s far enough goddammit” the stallion ordered. Clare snatched the shotgun out of the stallion’s hooves in one fluid motion.


Yeaaaaah you know when I drink alone



I prefer to be by myself



Now every morning just before breakfast



I don’t want no coffee or tea…


The stallion stepped back in fear and held his hooves up in a sign of surrender. Clare stepped forwards with the shotgun in one hand. Clare shot his hand forwards at the stallion who flinched from the sudden movement.


Just me and my good buddy Wiser



That’s all I ever need



Cause I drink alone



Yeaaaaah with no-body else…


Clare stopped his hand just at the stallion’s chest and pulled out the sunglasses that hung from a coat pocket. He gave the sunglasses a little flick that opened them then casually placed them on his face, covering his eyes completely.


Yeaaaaah you know when I drink alone



I prefer to be by myself



Yeaaaaah the other night I lay asleep



And I woke from a terrible dream…


Clare turned around then walked back to the idling Harley and sat down on it. The suspension held the bike rigid and it didn’t droop too much from Clare’s weight. He set the shotgun in a saddle bag on the back of the chopper and revved the engine.


So I called up my buddy Jack Daniels



And his partner Jimmy B



And we drank alone



Yeaaaaah with no-body else…


Clare steadied the Harley and kicked up the kickstand then dropped the chopper into gear and drove towards the city of Canterlot, leaving the fat stallion staring in disbelief. Clare drove along the road leading to Canterlot at an increasingly fast speed. Though it would’ve been faster for him to fly he decided to make an entrance the old fashioned way, riding a horse. Even if this particular horse was the iron kind.


Yeaaaaah you know when I drink alone



I prefer to be by myself



Yeah the other day I got invited to a party



But I stayed home instead…


> Chapter 9: Old friends...
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

      Clare, Canterlot city limits:

The chopper rumbled through the empty streets. I couldn’t really say I was expecting to see any-pony but at the same time I was sort of expecting to see a changeling. I slowed the Harley down to a low idling pace as I drove through the empty city suspiciously.

Suddenly a green blast shot through the air and exploded right in front of me. I was tossed off my Harley and it skidded out along the road. I groaned to myself as I got up and looked around. ‘Where the hell had that come from?’ I thought to myself as I searched for where the blast had come from.

I heard the iconic buzz of changeling wings and immediately walked over to my Harley and pulled out the M1897. I pumped a round into the chamber. I only had five shells for the shotgun but I doubted a changeling could take that many blasts from the shotgun.

Suddenly a swarm of changelings flew out from behind a building. Well unless of course there’s that many of them. I waited until they were less than fifty yards away then fired the shotgun. Two of the changelings fell from the sky and plummeted to the ground below.

I hip fired the shotgun until it was out of ammo then began to run. It wasn’t cowardly, it was smart and besides I had no time for this. I turned down and alleyway and exited onto another street. I looked to the left then to the right. I quickly did eeny, meeny, miny, moe and went right.

I turned down another street but as I did a swarm of changelings confronted me. “Shit” I muttered to myself as I slung the shotgun across my back. The alicorn earings dangled from my ears and sparkled in the setting sunlight. 

“Alright you sons a bitches… let’s rock” I said but just as I went to ascend the chattering of automatic gunfire filled the air. Changelings looked around but several of them were taken off their feet. I looked around for the source of the gunfire but couldn’t see who the hell was shooting.

Changelings screeched and tried to fly away but as they did loud thunderous shots rang out. I was lost, what the hell was going on. I drew out my Colt Python and waited but then two ponies stepped out of the smoke that now filled the streets.

“Hey Clare” said a voice that I would remember in and instant. “Derpy?” I asked curiously as the cross eyed pegasus flew at me and tackled me to the ground in happiness. “Uhm… hi Derpy… how’s it going?” I asked and she smiled. “Good, now that you’re back” she said and I nodded.

We stood up and I looked to Moon Crater. “How’s it going?” I asked and he shrugged. “Good I guess. Things sure have been different since you were gone. I swear that I was pretty much praying for you to be with us on some of our missions” he told me. “What missions?” I asked and he looked off to the sunset then back to me. “Mostly top secret stuff, direct orders from Celestia and what not” he informed me.

“Basically the black files huh?” I said and he nodded. “Jesus Clare, I thought you were dead” he said and I nodded. “Yeah… I heard that rumor to” I joked and he smiled, “Guess not even death can keep you down huh? Stubborn old bastard” he laughed but we heard the buzzing of changeling wings.

“Come on. Let’s get out of the street before… is that… Danko?” Moon Crater asked as we looked to a man who was stumbling along the streets drunkenly. “Hey… Sergeant Major guy… we need to… ah fuck it. Come with me” he said and motioned for us to follow him.

He led us to an alleyway where he opened a chained up steel door then led us inside before locking the door behind us. Inside were several pony refugees. Among the refugees was Luna and I rushed to her side. We began to kiss and she pulled back. “I’m ready to give birth” she told me and my breathing became heavy. I looked down to see that her water had broken.

“Now?” I asked and she nodded. “I knew you’d come… you promised” she whispered and we began to kiss again then I lifted her up. “Hey… I need a doctor” I said but no-pony stood up.

Shining Armor stood up slowly. His chest was healed and now had medial bandages around it. “Shining? You’re not a doctor” I said and he nodded. “I know, but I can help you with this. You deliver the foal while I’ll comfort her and lead her through this” he told me and we cleaned off a table.

Danko came over with a vodka bottle in his hand and offered it to Luna. “It takes away pain” he told her but she shook her hoof. “Thank you, but I will not drink while pregnant” she said and Danko raised an eyebrow. “Pregnant? Jesus… I thought you were just fat… no offence” he said in a drunken voice and we all looked over to him. He had a heavy sway in his stance.

Danko suddenly fell back as he lost consciousness from his intoxication. I looked back to Luna as I pulled off my leather jacket. All I left on was my white under t-shirt so that I wouldn’t get the jacket messy. “Okay… now Clare, you have to help her deliver while I lead her through this” Shining said and I nodded. The element bearers, Celestia and Cadence all stepped up to Luna’s side.

For over two hours we helped Luna through her birth. Even Danko got up and watched as Luna gave birth to two beautiful foals. A colt and a filly. First came the filly which I cradled for a moment, my first child was a baby filly. I handed it to Luna who cradled it affectionately. I then realized that there was a twin and delivered that as well.

Luna lay there and I had baby birth all over my hands. I looked over to Danko and he nodded. “I have hand washing thing in other room” he told me and I gave Luna a quick kiss before following Danko into a still room. Several alcohol stills chugged.

“Danko… why do you have so many stills?” I asked and he chuckled. “It’s not mine, was a friend of mine but he was killed by changeling so I decided to help myself. Friend will be missed dearly” Danko said as he turned on the sink.

I washed off my hands until they were clean then dried them with a towel. We walked back into the room with all the refugees. Luna lay on an old musty couch that Danko’s friend had as she cradled her two newborn foals. I smiled, we were parents and I was the luckiest man alive. It almost made me forget about what I had to do right now. I walked over to Luna and kissed her. “Luna, I have to go for a little while but I’ll be back” I told her and she nodded tiredly, exhausted from giving birth. “Don’t be gone long” she whispered and I kissed her one last time before walking over to Danko.

“Danko, Moon Crater, Derpy” I said and led them to a more private area. “What’s up?” Moon Crater asked and I let out a sigh. “You two stay here and protect these ponies. Danko you and I have to storm the castle… got any drunken ideas?” I asked and he nodded. “Yeah, we crash right through the front doors of the castle and blow up the bad guys” he suggested. I raised an eyebrow. “Okay, I like the idea. But how do we do that?” I asked and he chuckled as he led us back into the still room. 

“So… we use the stills as bombs and blow up the front doors?” I guessed and Danko shook his head quickly. “No… we will not kill lady vodka, not today, not tomorrow and hopefully not ever” Danko said as he pushed aside a heavy still.

Underneath the still was a trap door. “Okay, me and you go to secret room. And you two protect ponies” Danko said and Moon Crater nodded. Danko grabbed several bottles of Vodka before descending down into what looked like a cellar. 

As I went to descend down Moon Crater grabbed my shoulder. “Hey Clare, don’t go dying on us again” he said and I nodded. I gave him a handshake and Derpy squeezed me tightly in a hug.

I gave them both a nod before I descended down the stairwell and into the cellar that was barely lit by a single light.

“Hey Danko got any more lights down here?” I asked, he mumbled a reply. Suddenly very bright LED lights lit up and temporarily blinded me. I covered my eyes as splotches of light fuzzed in my vision.

I finally managed to see properly again but my jaw dropped as I figured that I must not be seeing right. In front of me sat an M1 Abrams tank, painted in olive drab camouflage with a remote controlled .50 caliber Browning machinegun on the top of the rotating turret. “What the hell” I muttered as I gazed upon the battle tank. 

“Danko… where the hell did this thing come from… better yet, how the hell did you get it?” I asked as Danko lept up onto the tank. “It’s not mine. It’s friend’s. But he’s dead so we’ll never know how he got it... Actually he told me once about how he got it, found it in army base and took it” Danko told me as I to climbed onto the tank.

We both hopped into the tank and I sealed the hatch. Danko lept into the driver seat “I don’t think you should be driving” I told him but he simple laughed as he pounded back a bottle of vodka. “Ha, what is worse that could happen?” he asked as he started the tank.

> Chapter 10: Joyride... in a tank
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      Third person, streets of Canterlot:

Two changelings sat and had a smoke. They squeaked at each other as they bickered about pointless things. 

“And I’m telling you that there is more too this whole operation than just getting back at Shining Armor” said the one changeling but the other changeling shook its head. “No-no, there isn’t anything else to it. This whole battle is just for revenge…” the changeling trailed off as they heard a loud diesel engine rumble.

“You hear that too?” asked the first changeling. The second changeling nodded and they both turned around to look at the brick wall where the sound was coming from. “What the fuck is that?” asked the second changeling. “Maybe it’s a” began the first changeling but he never got to finish his statement.

The M1 Abrams tank burst through the wall of the building, crushing the two changelings beneath it. The duo in the tank had been driving through buildings non-stop, mostly because it was faster but also partially due to Danko’s intoxication.

The tank swerved down the street. “Danko, at least try to keep the tank driving in a straight line” Clare called out to Danko. “Yeah-yeah… give me minute with my baby” Danko said as he continued to wail back vodka. The M1 tank jolted suddenly as it hit a light post and knocked it over. Then another light post, then another and another. Danko was driving right down the sidewalk and suddenly the side of the tank struck a building and bricks crumbled from the force of the impact. But the tank kept going.

“Jesus Danko. You’re doing more damage than the changelings” Clare called out as he felt the vibrations from multiple collisions. “Yeah-yeah… don’t worry, these tanks were made tough” he told Clare and he rolled his eyes. Danko was completely missing the point.

There was a beautiful 1957 Black Cadillac Deville parked on the side of the road. “Danko, don’t hit the car” Clare yelled but Danko was too intoxicated to care. The M1 tank simply drove over the car and crushed it beneath its mighty weight.

The Cadillac was flattened like a pancake as the tank continued on. “Danko…that was a beautiful car” Clare whined but Danko simply laughed. “Ha… stupid car, that’s what it gets for getting in my way… oh shit look out puppy dog” Danko yelled and swerved the tank into a boutique shop. The tank crashed through the shop and wrecked many high quality dresses that probably cost close to three or four thousand dollars each. Danko looked up to Clare. “Hurry, go rescue puppy before changelings come” Danko said to Clare. “You crushed a 1957 Cadillac… but you swerve into a boutique to rescue a puppy… alright” Clare said as he quickly opened the hatch and disembarked the tank. 

He saw the puppy on the road, it didn’t have a collar but it looked to cute to be a stray. Clare rushed over to the puppy and picked it up. The puppy was a Siberian husky. As Clare was about to turn back to the tank he spotted a group of changelings feasting on something. He squinted his eyes to see that they were eating puppies from an adoption box. Clare’s eyes widened in rage.

Clare snarled as he raced back to the tank and lept into the tank. “Danko… honk the horn” Clare snarled and Danko looked up to him. “I don’t think tank has horn” he told his angered friend. “Well then back up” Clare ordered and Danko backed the tank up.

Clare aimed the main 120mm tank gun at the group of changelings that had killed and were feasting on the puppies. This particular puppy must’ve escaped. Clare lifted the hatch. “HEY ASSHOLES!” Clare yelled out and the changelings all stopped feasting and turned to see the tank. Clare triggered the main gun and hit a few yards in front of them, sending their bodies hurtling backwards.

Some were killed in the blast but others simply lay on the road, dazed from the explosion. Clare sealed the hatch. “Run them over” Clare ordered and Danko gave a salute as he drove the heavy tank tracks over the bodies of the changelings who simply squished like bugs under a boot. Their body fluids and innards splattered out as the tank drove over them. Clare opened the hatch to see a few were still alive. “Run them over again” Clare ordered.

Danko put the tank in reverse and drove over the bodies of the changelings several times. “Alright… let’s go, show no mercy to any changelings we see” Clare ordered and Danko put the tank into drive and began to drive down the streets at 35mph. Slow, but for a tank it is quite quick. The diesel engine revved out to its max as they drove down the streets.

Changelings shot at the tank from the balcony of a building. Clare swiveled the main canon and blasted the building. The 120mm cannon shell erupted and destroyed the top of the building, rubble cluttered to the ground along. The tank continued on and Danko cranked the tank around a corner without slowing down. The tank skidded along as it turned the corner. The M1 ran over several cars as it continued down the sidewalk. Cars were sucked under the tracks of the tank and flattened.

Changelings looked over to the tank but they were too late to try and flee. Clare fired the main gun and they were caught in the eruption of the 120mm cannon shell. The changeling bodies flew through the air as their bodies were propelled away from the blast. Rather than turn at the T intersection, Danko just drove right through the bakery. The building walls were destroyed from the brute force of the collision and the tank continued on, completely unaffected by the collision.

Danko skidded the tank back onto the road. Changelings screeched and Clare controlled the remote .50 caliber on the roof of the tank which was still operational. The machinegun targeted the changelings and fired. .50 caliber rounds slammed into their bodies and tore them into pieces. Bodies fell to the ground but the M1 continued down the street.

Down the street a group of changelings had created a roadblock. One of the changelings brought out an RPG-7 and aimed it at the tank. “We got a missile launcher” Danko said and Clare brought the tank gun towards the roadblock but the gun wouldn’t pivot fast enough.

The changeling fired the RPG and the warhead flew downrange and collided with the front armour of the tank. Neither occupant was harmed, “Alright, this thing kicks ass” Clare yelled as he fired the tank cannon again. The shell struck the road blockade and sent changelings hurtling through the air. The changelings that survived the explosion faced the wrath of the M2HB on the roof of the tank.

The machinegun chattered and blasted away those changelings that still staggered about. The tank slammed through what was left of the road block.

Elsewhere there were changelings that prepared an ambush for the duo causing havoc on them. As the tank neared the group one of the changelings rolled out a spike trap that the M1 tank simply drove over. The changeling looked at the destroyed spike trap then to one of his friends. “We really didn’t think that through very well, did we?” he asked rhetorically and his friend nodded but then the tank screeched to a halt.

The group of zebras gasped in fear as the tank gun fired and devastated the group. The changelings were blown to pieces then the tank screeched forwards again. As the tank drove down the streets at around 35mph Clare began to pet the puppy that was nuzzling its head into Clare’s stomach. “So I was thinking Danko” Clare said and his drunken Russian friend looked back to him.

“I think we should name the puppy…Slick, because he was able to escape certain death” Clare said and Danko nodded. “Slick it is… hey Slicky, who’s a good boy” Danko said as he reached back and gave the puppy and affectionate scratch. The puppy was smiling and panting happily.

Clare looked to the digital readout screen. “Danko look out!” Clare exclaimed but he was a little too late. The tank drove through a large transport trailer labeled ‘Perrier’. Glass bottles shattered and splashed the carbonated water everywhere as the powerful battle tank smashed through the trailer.

“Meh, don’t worry. The French somehow managed to fuck up their water” Danko said but then the tank jerked violently as they collided with something more solid. “What the hell was that?” Danko asked as the tank smoothed out and continued driving. Clare tried to open the hatch but it was being blocked by something. Clare slithered down to the passenger seat and opened the hatch on the front of the tank. He looked up to see the statue of Celestia riding on the top of their tank. 

Clare pulled on the front of his shirt as he gulped. He ducked back into the tank as he closed the hatch. “We just hit the statue of Celestia… the big girl is riding on the top of the tank right now” Clare told his friend who was driving the tank. “Jesus we’re destroying the entire city” Clare muttered and Danko nodded. “Meh don’t worry, it was a stupid place to put a statue anyway” Danko muttered.

Clare sat back in the gunner seat. Danko drove through Joe’s Doughnut shop. The bakery was destroyed as the tank drove through it. “Jesus… you couldn’t have just driven around?” Clare asked and Danko shrugged. “He can just claim his insurance” Danko replied. “I don’t think he had tank collision insurance” Clare muttered as they drove through the back of the doughnut shop.

As they drove down the streets there was a bunch of cats hanging around in the streets. “Look out, cats!” Clare yelled but Danko simply drove over the cats. “DANKO!” Clare exclaimed and Danko gave his friend a humoured look. “What? They were ugly” Danko replied and Clare face palmed at the lack of care the Russian man had while he was drunk.

The finally arrived in front of the castle, Clare rotated the gun and fired at the castle’s front doors. They blew apart from the massive explosion. Clare reloaded the tank canon and fired again. Changelings began to swarm out of the castle like he was poking at a bee hive. Clare fired the canon several times until he was out of ammo. The entire frontal part of the royal castle had been devastated by the 120mm tank cannon. Crumbling rubble fell to the ground below.

Clare went to take control of the remote .50 M2HB on the roof but found that it was inoperative, probably damaged from when they hit the statue of Celestia. Clare cursed to himself as changelings began to shoot at the tank. Their energy blasts would scorch the hull of the tank but it was relatively harmless.

“Danko, drive us right into…” Clare trailed off as he found his Russian friend passed out from intoxication. Clare tried to rearrange himself in the tank but then there was a loud buzzing sound outside that drowned out the sound of the tank engine. It wasn’t the wings of the changelings either. Clare listened carefully and could hear automatic gunfire in the midst as well. ‘Guess someone’s playing hero’ Clare thought to himself as he lowered Slick onto Danko’s lap and turned off the tank. 

> Chapter 11: Castle crashers
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      Clare, outsider royal castle:

I drew my Colt Python and slowly opened the top hatch. At some point the statue of Celestia had fallen off the tank, probably when we had plowed through Joe’s Doughnut shop. I peeked around but all I could see was a bunch of dead changelings and empty brass casings.

I exited the tank but made sure to close the hatch behind me. I lept off the side of the tank and began to look around. Something wasn’t right, something felt off I could just tell. Then I felt a presence behind me.

I swung my body around and pointed my revolver to the figure but then my jaw dropped as I realized who it was, actually there were two of them.

“Discord… Sky Dancer” I said unsurely. Sky Dancer smirked “I’m back” she commented and I chuckled. Discord was holding an M60 in each hand and Sky Dancer had her old titanium combat armour but it had been completely refurbished, along with her twin M134s. “But aren’t you two dead?” I asked and she nodded as she pointed to her halo ring that floated above her head.

“I told Elder I’d make out with him if he sent me down to Equestria to help you out” she said with a depressed sigh. I looked to Discord. “What? You didn’t think that I, the god of chaos, would miss this did you?” Discord asked and I rolled my eyes. Figures only Discord would break the laws of afterlife just to be in some epic battle.

“By the way, nice driving” Discord commented. I shrugged, “Nah, it was my buddy Danko. He’s a little tipsy right now” I informed him. Discord nodded, “Well I must say I’m very impressed with his driving. In less than twenty minutes you two managed to destroy half the city and even managed to knock over the statue of Celestia” he said. I think it was a compliment but I wasn’t sure. “Uhm… thanks” I replied unsurely. 

I looked to the castle. “Right, now we need to storm the castle, kill the rest of the changelings and defeat Sombra and his goons… oh and I need a gun, preferably a big one” I said. Discord smiled as he tossed me an AA12 fitted with a 20 round drum magazine. I smiled then he tossed me a belt with three extra magazines. 

I looked over to him as I clipped the belt around my waist. “Trust me, the ammo goes fast” he said and I nodded.


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Third person, inside castle:

“Alright, I want a defensive perimeter set up in this lobby” ordered the changeling lieutenant. The other changelings began to fan out but suddenly a wall blew down. The changeling lieutenant covered his face from the blast but as he looked to see the aggressors he was taken off his hooves from a blast of buckshot.

A draconequus, a zebra in titanium combat armour and a human in leather clothes walked into the lobby. Changelings jumped out from behind a lobby desk but Sky Dancer turned towards them and her twin Gatling guns buzzed them down with a stream of hot lead. The changelings’ bodies twisted and turned as the twin rotary machineguns tore them apart.

Changelings scurried about as Discord fired both the M60s, the ammo belts dangled about from each gun as they chattered in unison. Some of the changelings retreated and Discord shot them down, one off the changelings flung its forelegs up in the air as it was blown apart by the dual machineguns.

Some changelings rushed from a hallway beside them and Discord dropped to his knees and fired the machineguns as if they were pistols. The changelings flung about as bullets blew gaping holes in their bodies and painted the walls behind them green with their blood.  

Some changelings burst from the cover of a desk and Clare fired his AA12 from the hip. The vile creatures were blasted off their hooves and propelled through the air as buckshot blew apart large portions of their bodies.

Changelings shot from balconies and ledges at the trio. Sky Dancer trained her twin guns on the changelings and fired. The iconic buzz of the Gatling guns filled the lobby as 7.62x51mm rounds blew apart the changelings and the balconies with explosive rounds. Stone ruble fell to the ground along with the mutilated bodies of the changelings.

Elsewhere changelings looked to each other as Solar Eclipse led them forward. “We must buy our bosses time while they set up the final part of the plan” Solar Eclipse told them but suddenly the large doors in the hallway were blown down by a barrage of automatic fire.

Bullets and buckshot caught changelings and blew them away. Solar Eclipse stepped back and put a changeling in front of her who was soon riddled by bullets.

Clare, Sky Dancer and Discord stepped through the doorway and all fired their weapons at the group of changelings. Solar Eclipse rushed behind the cover of a stone pillar. Changelings scurried about but were soon chopped down by a hail of lead.

Clare fired the AA12 and multiple changelings screeched as they were tossed into the air by the powerful buckshot. Empty shotgun shells littered the ground along with the spent brass from the other machineguns. 

Sky Dancer continued forwards without the need to take cover but one of Discord’s M60s was hit by a large caliber round and rendered it useless. “Shit” Discord cursed to himself as he took the remaining M60 into both hands and began to fire it at changelings that scurried about.

Changelings fled left right and center but suddenly another buzzing sounded and several changelings twisted and turned. They fell to the ground in puddles of blood and the group looked up to see Long Tail standing on a balcony with a belt fed MG42. He gave them a salute then stepped out of their view and into another hallway upstairs.

Clare ejected the magazine on the AA12 and loaded a fresh one. Changelings charged at him head on, firing their assault rifles wildly. Clare stopped and leveled the AA12 at his hip then opened fire. The changelings’ bodies spun about in different directions as the 12gauge buckshot blew them away.

Clare knelt down beside Discord who was reloading the belt feed on his M60 behind the cover of a terminal desk. Sky Dancer knelt down beside them and pointed to Solar Eclipse who was fleeing. “There she goes” Sky Dancer told them and Clare nodded. “I’ll get her” he said as he lept up, firing the shotgun from his hip, and chased the evil princess.

As Clare charged, changelings tried to take pot shots on him but missed terribly. Clare shot the AA12 from one hand and changelings where taken off their hooves and skidded along the ground as they were hit by the wall of buckshot. A changeling rushed out in front of Clare and leveled a G3A3 at his gut. Clare swung the shotgun and blew off the changeling’s head before the insect could do anything.

Clare raced around the corner in pursuit of the princess. Discord and Sky Dancer hid behind the desk as changelings pounded it with gunfire. Sky Dancer stood up and fired her twin Gatling guns but after a few quick moments the ammo depleted. “Shit” she cursed and Discord checked his own ammo count. 

“I’m out of ammo, I’ll be back” she told him but Discord grabbed her shoulder and held her down. “You’ve been back enough, it’s my turn to be back” he said then rushed off. “Yippee Kai yah” Sky Dancer muttered as she grabbed a Saiga 12 with a 20 round drum magazine from a dead changeling. 

She lept up and began firing the Russian automatic shotgun just as her son trotted up beside her firing an M60 with one hoof. Sky Dancer looked over to her son. “I like your style Rambo” she commented and Long Tail nodded, pleased by the comment. Changelings were knocked to the ground by the M60 and green blood have begun to flood the hallway.

Long Tail trotted off to one side of the hallway and took cover as he began to reload his M60. Sky Dancer ducked behind cover and suddenly a smart car zipped up. Discord looked over to Sky Dancer. “Get in!” he called out and Sky rushed over to the smart car. But rather than open it civilly, she simply ripped the door off the hinges and tossed it to the side as she lept in the car.

“My boot is bigger than this car” she commented. “Shut up and shoot something” Discord replied as he booted off his own door. Discord slammed the accelerator to the floor and the car zipped along through the hallway of the castle. Dancer fired the Saiga 12 with one hoof and several changelings were tossed back from the blasts. 

Discord rested the barrel of the M60 on his left arm and held back the trigger as he focused on driving down the hallway. Changelings that were hit by the 7.62x51mm rounds flew back and slammed into the walls of the hallway, blood staining the once clean walls.

Discord skidded the car around a corner where more changelings waited. Discord booted out the windshield and rested the M60 on the dash. As he drove the car forwards he held back the trigger. 

Changelings scurried about but were blown away by lead. Sky Dancer fired her Saiga 12 but suddenly it clicked. She checked the receiver to see that the magazine had run dry. As Discord drove along she tossed the Saiga out of the vehicle and grabbed an M4 that had been dropped by one of the changelings.

She began to fire it with one hoof and the 5.56mm rounds sliced through changelings. Discord swerved the car in a complete 180 and the duo looked at the damage they had caused. Changelings regrouped and leveled their rifles on the duo. Discord tried to put the car in reverse but the car had sustained transmission damage during the fight and would no longer move. “Oh fuck” Discord muttered but suddenly a tank slammed through the stone wall of the castle, breaking apart the very sturdy wall and knocking ruble about.

Changelings were crushed by the massive tank and those who were not killed did the smart thing and fled. The hatch of the tank kicked open and Danko looked out from the hatch. He looked to the massive hole in the wall as stone continued to collapse. He then looked over to Discord and Sky Dancer. He flung his arms in the air, a vodka bottle in one hand and his Desert eagle in the other, and yelled “It’s good”.

> Chapter 12: Waiting for this moment
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

      Clare, Canterlot castle:

I rushed into a large atrium room where Solar Eclipse stood waiting for me. I smirked, she had no weapons but I knew she wouldn’t need any. I tossed aside my AA12 along with the ammo belt. As I tossed away the Colt Python Solar Eclipse trotted towards me.

“You know I’ve been waiting for this moment ever since you first killed me. Now we shall see who is really better. A human or an immortal princess” she announced. Her muscles flexed and her powerful white aura surrounded her body as she powered up. This time however she did not ascend to the ridiculous muscle mass she had before.

“Looks like you’ve learned” I muttered and she smirked as she let out a yell of anger and her power maxed out yet her muscles didn’t bulk up. “I’ve learned a few new tricks” she told me and I chuckled as I brought fists up and clenched them. “Do not hold back on me. I wish to know who is truly better” she ordered. Yeah, like I was going to hold back while the fate of the universe rested on me killing her. 

I yelled as I clenched my fists and flexed. A powerful blue aura surrounded my body as my hair stood up and changed dark blue, my muscles increased in mass somewhat and gave me a more toned look. As I felt my current power come to its max I let go of my mental restraints and the aura blasted out further. The sheer power of the aura blew away chunks from the floor. A small crater was formed beneath my feet as my hair shifted somewhat to give it a more jagged look.

Electrical currents coursed around my body as I un-tensed and relaxed. Solar Eclipse smiled. “I see you have learned a few new tricks yourself… impressive” she commented. My earrings sparkled and a single glint flashed as the setting sunlight reflected off them.

“So… you’ve managed to finally ascend. How does it feel to have wasted all those months brutally training yourself and you still aren’t as powerful as me?” she said insultingly. I chuckled, “You think you have a chance against me?” she laughed as she flew forwards at sub sonic speed. 


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Third person:

Clare simply disappeared before Solar Eclipse hit him. She swirled around but he was nowhere to be seen. “Coward!” she yelled out but suddenly a kick slammed into her face and knocked her back. She staggered to her proper footing to see Clare standing casually as if he hadn’t a care in the world.

“Fool… I will show you how a true warrior fights” she screeched and flew at Clare again. As she was about to strike him he lept into the air and flipped over her. As he was about to set foot on the ground, Clare swung a round house kick into the back of Solar Eclipse’s head.

She fell forwards from the force and crashed into the ground face first. She quickly regained her footing but as she swiveled to face Clare he was nowhere to be seen. Solar Eclipse cursed to herself. “Coward, show yourself” she screamed. Clare chuckled from behind her and she froze up.

“If you’d simply look around you would’ve seen me” Clare commented. Solar Eclipse spun her body and tried to deliver a powerful back-hoof but Clare’s body once again disappeared. Solar Eclipse figured that Clare would’ve appeared behind her so she swung her body back around and threw a fury of punches into the empty air. Since his body wasn’t there she swiveled to her side and in seconds she was throwing a blur of punches in every direction.

After a minute of throwing punches she relaxed, breathing heavily from exhaustion. Clare chuckled from above and she looked up. “You know that was quite a show, who were you fighting? Ghosts?” Clare chuckled.

Solar Eclipse’s horn flashed and a blast of powerful white energy shot out but Clare once again disappeared. He actually wasn’t disappearing, he was simply moving so fast that the naked eye could not see him move unless his movements were slowed down on video to thousandths of a second.

“Coward… you are not a real warrior… or you would fight me straight up” Solar Eclipse said through heavy panting. Clare appeared in front of her. “Okay, I’ll give you one minute to do your worst and I won’t even hit back” Clare said with a smile.

Solar Eclipse tried to throw a cheap shot to his face but like a flash of lightning Clare’s hand simply swatted it away like it was a light punch. Solar Eclipse gritted her teeth and began to throw a volley of punches and kicks. If Clare didn’t dodge the strike he’d simply swat it away as if it was a love tap she was trying to give him. “Is this how warriors fight? Because I have never seen a warrior fight this terribly before” Clare remarked insultingly.

Solar Eclipse lept back and shot a powerful blast of energy at Clare. He lifted his hand and swatted it away like it was nothing. Solar Eclipse blasted another shot of energy which Clare also effortlessly blocked. Solar Eclipse’s horn flared up and a barrage of energy blasts volleyed out of her horn.

Clare’s hand moved in a series of blurs as every single energy blast was deflected away from him. Solar Eclipse began to roar as she pushed herself harder, trying to overwhelm him with more shots than he could handle. Clare wouldn’t be bested though and after a full minute Solar Eclipse gasped and her horn aurora faded. Clare deflected the last energy blast which struck a stone pillar.

Solar Eclipse was breathing heavily from the extreme physical exertion. “Some warrior you are, you never even managed to land a single strike” Clare said with a chuckle. “If I had landed a strike… you’d be dead” Solar Eclipse snarled through heavy breathing. Clare brought his hand up to his chin and scratched it as he thought about the possibility.

He shook his head then brought his hand back down to his side. “Nah, I don’t think so” he replied. Solar Eclipse curled back her lips. “Why don’t we test that little theory of yours, I’ll strike you with one strike and you stand right where you are and take the full force of the attack” she challenged and Clare chuckled.

Clare floated up into the air. “I’ll make a little wager of my own. I won’t move from this position” he challenged and Solar Eclipse laughed as she floated into the air as well, making sure she was far enough away to not be struck in the blast radius. She lifted her hooves into the air and soon a reddish ball of energy formed above her.

Her horn flared and a single beam of energy began to supply the red energy with power. Clare watched as the sphere began to grow immensely. “Now, for you to feel the power of SOLAR ECLIPSE” she screamed. Clare yawned then went to check his watch but remembered that he didn’t have one anymore.

“Now feel the fiery blast of my inferno” she screamed as she tossed the ball of red energy at Clare. As the energy ball flew towards Clare he realized just how powerful it really was. “Oh shit” he muttered calmly.

The inferno ball struck him and the exterior shell of the fiery energy cracked. Fiery energy splashed out like solar flares and suddenly the volcanic energy ball erupted into a miniature mushroom cloud explosion.

The roof of that section of the castle was decimated. Pieces of debris flew about in every which way. Solar Eclipse had put a magical shield up around herself to protect her body from the blast.

She waited for a few minutes until the smoke cleared. She couldn’t spot anything and smiled to herself. His arrogance and egoistical nature had been his downfall but suddenly she spotted a figure in the smoke. 

A powerful gust of wind blew out as a blue aura flashed with electricity spitting about. “Told you I wouldn’t move” Clare chuckled but as the smoke cleared he cursed to himself. “Well that’s just terrific, do you realize what you’ve done?” Clare asked in an irritated tone. Solar Eclipse gasped, not only had he survived her most powerful attack but he was standing there like nothing had happened.

The smoke cleared, revealing Clare to be completely naked with smoke still emulated from his body. His aura flashed out and he was still in his ascended transformation state. “You incinerated my clothes” Clare gasped as he tried to conceal his manhood. “God this is embarrassing” Clare muttered. Solar Eclipse couldn’t help but to check him out. Humans had always spiked her as interesting since they were usually larger than the average pony but the same general size as a full grown alicorn.

Clare followed her gaze. “Hey, stop checking me out” he yelled and she chuckled as she made eye contact with him. “I see that you are very fit and toned for a human. You must exercise constantly” she commented. “Uhm thanks… hey can we just get on with the killing. This whole naked thing has just got me feeling out of place” Clare said.

“Why? You have already beaten me. I am helpless against you. Now you can take me and do whatever it is you wish with my body” she said seductively. Clare cursed to himself. He hadn’t heard anyone talk dirty directly to him in a long time and her talking like that gave him a semi hard erection. 

Solar Eclipse snickered to herself as she floated forwards, shield still activated. “I could make you feel good all over and you wouldn’t even have to do a thing” she whispered, Clare did his best to cover his erecting cock with his left hand as he kept his right hand battle ready. “Don’t be naïve, you are obviously too much for just one mare. You could easily satisfy two… or maybe more” she said and Clare tried his best to conceal himself but eight inches was a little hard to conceal with one hand.

“Don’t deny it, your member speaks for itself” she giggled but as she drew ever closer Clare charged forwards with a powerful punch. His strike was so powerful that it shattered her shield like glass and the punch connected with her face, knocking her back.

Clare flew over top of her and clasped his hands together then gave her a powerful blow that sent her crashing to the ground.


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Clare:

God, having no clothes at this time was bad, but getting a boner was even worse. At least I didn’t mean to get a boner. It just happens when things like that happen and the air felt really nice so it was likely to go off some at some point.

I landed a few feet away from her. I cupped my hands together then cocked my elbows and brought my hands to my side as I took a step forwards with my left foot. A blue sphere of energy formed in the palms of my hands. Solar Eclipse looked up to me with pouty eyes, still trying her best to seduce me. “Your ways have failed dark empress, perhaps on a weaker soul it may have worked. But I have been cleansed twice now. One by a goddess and a second time by the heavens, you shall not corrupt my soul. I am pure to my lover. She is the goddess of the night and I shall be hers for eternity, her guardian and lover. I am The Night Guardian” I said in a deep tone as electricity crackled about and my aura of powerful flashed and blew dust out from under my feet. It would’ve sounded cooler if I wasn’t naked with an erection but it was still kind of cool.

Suddenly a blue blade stabbed through her chest and lifted her off the ground so that her hooves dangled about. She struggled momentarily but soon died. Then the blade retracted and her body fell back to the ground in a lifeless clump. Her body soon faded away and vanished. I guess since she was already dead that must mean she was traveling to the void.

I looked up to see Nightmare Moon with a blue lightsaber similar to my old one. She was looking me straight in the eyes. She had kind of scary looking cat eyes but they were very pretty at the same time. I felt myself stiffen and quickly glanced down to see that I was rock hard.

I looked up to her as I transformed back to my regular state and let out a deep exhale. “Thanks Moon… guess you saved my ass. Hey you don’t have any extra clothes by chance do you?” I asked but suddenly her eyes flashed a dark blackish purple and she swung her saber blade at me.

> Chapter 14: Battle of heroes
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      Clare:

I quickly transformed to my first powered up state and surrounded my index finger in a powerful aura of energy and blocked the saber blade. Nightmare Moon tensed as she tried to overpower my finger. She swung the blade back and began to swing the lightsaber furiously.

Like a blur of motion I deflected every swing of her saber with my index finger. She stopped swinging the lightsaber blade and deactivated it then tossed the hilt off to the side. “I see you can’t be bested by the force of a lightsaber. Perhaps we will have to do this the old fashion way” she told me as she rose to her hindlegs.

“What the hell has gotten into you? Why all of a sudden are you against me?” I asked curiously. “Forget the formalities and let’s just fight” she said in a dark voice. I guess this must be what the original Nightmare Moon was like. “I won’t fight you. We were once allies and I won’t go back on my friends” I said.

“Fool, you will fight me or you will die” she yelled as she launched herself at me. She threw a powerful punch which I caught with my right hand. Her hoof now trapped in the grip of my hand she tried furiously to break free. “I don’t want to hurt you” I said then she threw a kick which I blocked with my leg.

I released her hoof and she flew back. “I want to fight you… goddess dammit, power up and fight me” she yelled. “Forget it, I’m not fighting you” I said calmly as I powered down, losing both my strength and my hairdo. A group of royal guards busted through the doors and entered the atrium. 

“Nightmare Moon!... Freeze” yelled one of the guards. Nightmare Moon looked to me with a devious smile and ever slowly, she lifted her hoof to the side. A sphere of dark blue energy formed on the end of her hoof then shot out. The blast collided with the guards and blew them to smoldering ashes. My jaw dropped in utter shock, sure she was technically evil but never had I read any books that said she would mercilessly kill ponies.

“Why the hell would you do that?” I yelled and she snickered as her eyes flashed a dark purple once again. Then it struck me like a ton of bricks. “Nightmare… Nightmare Moon, you’re not… really you are you?” I asked and she laughed maniacally. “Of course I am me. I just got a little bit of a push in the right direction is all” she informed me. 

I gritted my teeth in anger, “You didn’t… tell me you didn’t let yourself become one of Sombra’s hench-ponies” I yelled and she smiled deviously as she cocked her head to one side, revealing her teeth that glinted in the setting sun.

“Why of course. I missed the old me. I was the perfect warrior, ruthless, merciless and above all else powerful” she announced. I was so angry that my body began to tense up all on its own. My biceps flexed to their maximum capacity then veins began to bulge from the muscles. “I can’t believe you’d do that… after everything you’ve done to protect Equestria, you’d just let yourself become a slave” I said then I yelled as I ascended. My hair stood up and my blue aurora of energy returned, blowing out dust and debris from under my feet.

“Is it slavery when you get what you want? I am no slave. I am the empress of the night, the pinnacle of darkness. I AM NIGHTMARE MOON! And now you will fight me” she yelled out. I wanted to fight her, I really did but something told me that she still had good left in her somewhere. “I won’t fight you… you’re not really evil I can feel it” I told her.
A group of shadow guards along with some of Celestia’s own royal guards entered the room. Nightmare looked over to them and raised her hoof. A sphere of energy formed on the end of her hoof and she once again she mercilessly killed a group of ponies with a powerful blast. “Ahhhh… Nightmare… Why would you do that?” I yelled. 

She snickered insanely. “Fight me, or would you rather to have more innocent lives build up on your conscious” she laughed. I tensed, I could fight her right here but we would likely bring the castle down, along with just about every-pony still inside.

“Enough of this nonsense” boomed a voice and I turned to see Sombra and Chrysalis step forwards. “Nightmare, if he will not fight then simply defeat him. But do not kill him. Remember that he is vital to the final stage of our plan” Sombra told her. “Enough of your bullshit Sombra. Transport both Nightmare and myself to the deserts outside Appleloosa. Do that and I’ll fight her” I ordered him.

He chuckled and then clapped his hooves together. A flash of purpled light ensnared us and the next thing I knew we were standing in the hot sand of the desert plains. Slow winds blew by. The dusty gusts felt sort of nice against my bare skin but made me remember that I was still naked.

I ascended to my most powerful state, my hair became more jagged and electricity once again coursed around my body. “That’s the spirit, now fight me” she laughed. I readied myself and clenched my fists tightly. “Show me what you’ve got Clare” she yelled as she powered up then flew at me. From what I could tell she was more powerful and more agile than Solar Eclipse ever was.

He punches were like strikes of lightning: fast, powerful and completely unpredictable. I tried my best to block her punches but I only blocked two out of every five or six. This was starting to get bad for me. As I went to throw a powerful strike she disappeared then struck me in the back of the head with a kick that sent me tumbling forwards.

I tensed and forced more power to course through my body. As I swung a backhand towards her, she shot up her hoof and caught my forearm. My swing simply stopped like I had hit a brick wall. “Stop playing around and get serious” she snarled then slammed a powerful punch into my gut and sent me tumbling back. 

I flipped myself to my footing then readied myself. “Fine… I guess I have no choice. I really wish things could have been different… but if you won’t see the light then I’ll have to put an end to your evil ways” I said with regret in my voice. “Yes, that’s what I want. Fight me Clare” she laughed. 

I flew into the air and she followed me, we began to move at such extreme speeds that the naked eye would not be able to see us move. Then we clashed together. I began to throw a volley of punches as she did the same. The quick jabs were less powerful than strikes but made up for the lack of power with the speed that I could throw them at.

Moon suddenly slammed my gut with a knee that made my body bend over from contact. I grimaced then punched her in the kidney. She yelped then painfully floated back. I gave her no time to recover and flew up to her then slammed a powerful punch to the side of her head that sent her flying into a small rocky mountain. 

She crashed into the mountain, her body crashing through the mountain’s side and the entire formation crumbled under the force of the impact. I watched in awe as the ruble and debris buried her body beneath it. I waited for a moment then a powerful blue aura blasted away the ruble and her body slowly floated back into the air. Her blue armour had started to wear and had cracks in several spots.

She smiled with a devil like smile then her body vanished. I swung a backhand as I pivoted my body around and clocked her in the side of her jaw but she managed to hammer my side with a powerful kick. Both our bodies were cocked to one side as the other’s strike made us grimace in pain. Then we began to slam a fury of punches into each other.

Her punches hurt but I made sure that mine would not injure her. Even though I had said that I would end her I still couldn’t bring myself to do it. I flew back and booted her in the bottom of the jaw with my left foot then swung a round house kick to the side of her head that sent her careening into the ground with a crash.

I flew down towards her and as soon as I landed she shot a punch out at me which I caught with my left hand. She threw another punch which I caught with my right hand but then she head-butted me and sent me staggering back. She showed no mercy as she immediately flew forwards and began to pummel me.

I quickly gained my footing and lept over her, hitting her in the back of the head with a powerful kick before I landed. As I swung my body to face her she plowed my face with an elbow that cocked my head to the side. Another strike hit the side of my ribs and cocked the lower half of my body the other way.

As I tried to regain my posture she struck me again with a full forced haymaker that knocked me on my ass. I quickly rolled backwards and flipped to my feet. Knowing that she’d be right on top of me I quickly threw a jab that connected with her nose and made her wince a little. I followed my jab with several lightning fast punches that made her stagger back. I took a step back then lept through the air and slammed a superman punch into her face that knocked her to the ground.

The momentum forced my body past her as I landed and I took a few steps forwards then swiveled to face her. She quickly spun to her hindlegs. It was amazing that she was able to stand on her hindlegs and fight without losing too much of her balance. “Are you going to get serious?” she asked, a little irritated in knowing that I had held back most of this battle.

I let out a deep sigh. “I guess there’s no changing you. I’ll have to end you” I said reluctantly and raced forwards but as I lept through the air to fight her a purple flash ensnared us both and within moments we both crashed onto the cold tile floors of the Canterlot royal castle.

“WHAT?! Put us back, I wasn’t finished” Moon yelled but Sombra stepped forwards with an evil smile on his face. “You have had long enough. You should’ve used your time more wisely. Now I shall fight him” Sombra announced. I swung my hand outwards so that my palm was facing him and blasted him with a powerful beam of energy that sent him crashing through several walls.

I turned back to Moon but in an instant she was tackling me through the heavy stone wall behind me. As my body cleared the path through the wall Moon released me and I tumbled along the tile floor until I skidded to a stop. Moon flew across the room and crashed into me, pinning me against the ground. I spotted her lightsaber and I used my magical levitation powers to fling it towards me. I caught it in my hand but she saw the hilt and immediately slammed my wrist to the floor and head butted me. 

I lost my grip on the saber hilt and she tossed the saber hilt away. I used one of her methods and simply head-butted her, putting her into a daze. I bucked my hips and knocked her off from over top of me then rolled to the side. I lept to my feet and she readied herself. “One of us shall die, and the other shall live” she snarled. As she flew at me I rolled my eyes and lept over her. 

I swiveled my body and back handed her to the ground as she flew at me. She staggered back up and wiped a trickle of blood from her lip. “I don’t want to fight you” I told her, she smirked. “Then I shall kill you” she said as she flew forwards and tried to strike me with a powerful punch. I caught her left hoof with my right hand.

She cocked her body back to get more momentum behind her punch and threw a heavy right hoof at me. I caught her hoof with my left hand. We stood there and struggled. Her eyes flashed purple and I could tell she was getting more powerful, somehow.

She threw several knees into my side but I subdued the pain they brought. We continued to stand there as she tried to break free from my grasp. She flexed and her power finally maxed out but it wasn’t enough to overpower me. “I… will… destroy you” she said through effortful grunts.

“I know you don’t want to do this… you’re good. You don’t want to do this” I told her, trying to set her mind straight. “I will kill you… one way or… another” she hissed as she tried furiously to break free of my grasp. ‘Luna, please forgive me’ I thought to myself as I suddenly lunged my head forwards and pressed my lips up against hers. I felt her body go rigid and she tried to break free of my sudden movement. She tried to pull her head back but I pushed our bodies up against a wall.

Soon I felt her body un-tense and her hoofs fell to my side then she began to stroke up and down my back. For reasons that I hope are never brought up again, her lips opened slightly and her tongue slipped into my mouth.

We quickly began to tongue wrestle and I forced my tongue into her mouth and began to explore the depths of her mouth. My knees felt like they simply gave out from under me like jelly and I slowly brought our bodies downwards. I lay over top of her and she wrapped her hindlegs around my hips. I began to slide my free hand up and down her side as I cradled her head with my other hand. She moaned into my mouth and I felt my manhood stiffen rock hard. It wouldn’t have been as disturbing if I was dressed but due to the fact that I had no clothes on if was free to move about.

‘I have this feeling that says ‘Clare, you’re cheating on Luna’’ I thought to myself as I began to grope at her flank. My erection pressed up against her pussy and then remembered ‘Isn’t Luna’.

I quickly pulled my mouth back from hers and took a deep breath. ‘Please be her, please be her, please be her’ I thought frantically. She opened her eyes and gasped. “CLARE!” she exclaimed, I let out a sigh of relief. She gave me a look of extreme curiosity as she looked down to see my cock pushing up against her entrance and slightly entering her.

“Okay, just let me explain. Now I know that I was making out with you… and that I’m naked over top of you… and was about to make love to you… but trust me when I say that it was the only thing I could think of” I said as I stood up and helped her up. “Yeah… let’s just say you uhm… tripped and uhm… we both fell into that very awkward position” she said and I nodded. “Don’t suppose you remember anything about what happened before this?” I asked and she shook her head. “Last thing I remember was Sombra saying ‘She just needs a little… touch’” she told me.

Suddenly a blast of green energy struck Moon and sent her skidding back. I swung my body around to see that bitch Chrysalis. I flexed and was about to fly at her when we made eye contact. Her eyes flashed green and my mind seemed to slip.


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Third person:

Clare’s eyes went all wonky and green as Chrysalis put her brainwash spell on him. “Now come forth my loyal subject” Chrysalis ordered and Clare brainlessly walked forwards. 

Clare stopped walking in front of Chrysalis and she lifted her nose to look down on him like he was lower than her. “Bow down to me, my servant” she ordered. He placed one hand behind his back and one in front of himself then knelt down in a proper bow. 

“You shall complete our plan. With your love to me I shall become more powerful than anything. Then my evil will fuel Sombra and we shall become the rulers of Equestria with no one to stop us. But first you will make love to me, you will give me pregnancy… and then you will die” she ordered. She looked down to him as he stayed knelt before her. 

“Does that… satisfy you, my loyal servant?” she asked. Without looking up to her, Clare nodded. “Yes, my master. It pleases me greatly to have such a great honour bestowed upon me” he said brainlessly. Moon lept up and charged at Chrysalis. “NOOO!” she yelled out but Chrysalis simply lifted her hoof and green electricity blasted Moon off to the side. 

Moon was too exhausted from her battle with Clare to muster enough strength to fight the empress. Chrysalis presented her pussy in front of Clare. “Take me, take me like you would your lover” Chrysalis ordered and he looked up to her with a brainwashed face. His voice was plain and subtle “Yes, my master”.

> Chapter 14: A new kind of Nightmare
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      Clare:

As I rose to my feet I thought about only one thing, one very simply thing: Chrysalis. With my right arm still behind my back I opened my hand and focused my mind on Nightmare Moon’s lightsaber. The saber hilt flew into my palm and I quickly activated the saber and swung it at Chrysalis.

She swung out her own green lightsaber and blocked my swing. “Impossible… you were under my complete control. How did you escape” she hissed angrily. I chuckled, “You really think your petty mind control would work on me, the great Night Guardian?” I asked, like her mind control was some sort of childish joke.

She lept back and swung her saber blade at me. I blocked her blade with my own and we began to have a furious duel. The saber blades looked like blurs of motion and light as they swung through the air and collided with each other.

I lept back and shot my palm out, blasting her with a push of magic that sent her body hurtling backwards. She flipped through the air and landed on her hooves but still slid back some. She rose to her hind legs and gently swung her saber to and fro, the saber blade cutting slices into the tile floor as the blade touched the floor tiles.

I readied myself in a defensive stance and as she drew ever closer I went on the offensive. I swung my blade at her and she quickly deflected the swing but I cocked my wrist and swiveled the blade back towards her. We quickly began to swing the sabers at each other at lightning speeds, the blades humming and chiming as they connected.

Suddenly Chrysalis shot her hoof at me and blasted me with a force of invisible magical energy. I was sent tumbling across the ground, my saber hilt skidding out of my grip and across the floor.

Chrysalis lept through the air and tried to drive the saber through me but I rolled out of the way just as she drove the burning blade into the floor. I rolled to my feet and blasted her with a magical surge of energy that slammed her against a wall. I grabbed the saber hilt in my magic grip and flung it into my hand. I activated the saber and lept through the air but just before I connected my strike, she grabbed hold of me with her magic and tossed me across the room.

She once again lept through the air and just as she was about to impale me I brought both hands up in front of me and propelled her back with a blue magical blast. She bounced and skidded along the ground and quickly came to a stop as she flipped herself to her hooves.

I lept across the atrium in one leap, using my magic to propel myself further, and sliced my saber blade at her. She blocked the blade with her own and we grinded our lightsabers together. She kicked me in the gut and tried to get a cheap shot on me but I leaned away from the swings, looking like a naked hula dancer.

I lept over her and tried to cut her from behind but she swung the blade over her head and defended her back as my blade swung at her. She spun around while our blades were still connected and we began to fight again. She kicked me back and I fell to the ground, my saber falling out of my grip and clattering away out of my reach.

She was about to make another pounce when suddenly a heavy beam of energy slammed into her body and crashed her through the stone walls. I looked over to see Nightmare Moon standing, somewhat staggeringly. “Clare… your earrings” she called out. “Yeah what about them?” I asked as I quickly began to rush over to her.

“Do you know what they are?” she asked. I shrugged “Alicorn amulets err earrings” I replied casually. “Do you know what they do?” she asked and I nodded. “Yeah, they give the wearer incredible powers” I told her and she sighed. “Give me the one on your left ear” she said. 

I wanted to slap myself, of course. If she had one, although the powers wouldn’t be as incredible without the other, we would both have massive amounts of power.  “Right, with both of us wearing one, we’ll be able to mop the floor against Sombra and Chrysalis” I said positively. 

“No” she told me, I scrunched my nose. “What, no? What do you mean no?” I asked. She let out a sigh. “Alicorn earrings are very rare in the fact that usually both earrings are never together. But if two users are in close proximity, each wearing an earring on opposing ears with the earring facing the correct direction, the two users will be merged together forming a warrior of incredible powers” she informed me.

My jaw dropped, was she telling me what I think she was telling me. “Uhhm…” was all I managed. Chrysalis was breaking out of the rubble and I could hear her but I was still awestruck and dumbfounded. “Just give me the earring on your left ear” she yelled out. “But… how long does the fusion last?” I asked. “Until we decide to break the bond, BUT THAT DOESN’T MATTER, JUST TOSS ME THE EARRING” she yelled as Chrysalis broke free from the rubble.

“Okay-okay-okay, jeeze” I said as I unlatched the left earring and tossed it to her. “Like that right?” I asked. Chrysalis burst from the rubble and flew towards us. Moon looked up to me just as she latched the earring on her left ear. “Thank you, Clare” she said with a smile.

I felt my body begin to slid towards her like she was a magnet and I was a chunk of heavy metal. But she released her footing and flew towards me. My feet slipped out from under me and I flew towards her. Our bodies slammed together, but surprisingly it didn’t hurt. The Alicorn earrings flashed as they pulled together and a bright light flashed, then I lost consciousness. I think.


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Third person:

A bright sphere of energy formed and blew out heavy gusts of winds. Chrysalis was knocked back from the heavy winds as the magical sphere erupted into a bright flash that blinded her. The blast blew out large chunks of the floor and a large crater was formed underneath a single figure.

A haze of dark blue illuminated off the figure, which had the body features of a human: legs, arms, hands, fingers, yet it had the fur and mane style of a pony. Its fur was a dark hazy blue, with a shiny blue mane that sparkled brilliantly. On its flank stood a cutie mark, an atonement to its power. A crescent moon with two handguns crossed behind it. He wore a duster coat over top of blue shadow elite armour that protected his chest and torso.

“What… what are you?” Chrysalis gasped. He, because it had the facial distinction of Clare, looked up to Chrysalis with blue cat like eyes. His eyes flashed, “I am your worst nightmare… but I suppose you can call me Moon Warrior” he said. Chrysalis snickered. “What sort of stupid name is that, Moon Warrior? Sounds like something out of a kids TV show” she laughed.

Moon Warrior gritted his teeth. His muscles tensed and expanded as he ascended. His dark blue hair stood up and went spikey as a powerful blue aura flashed around him. His duster coat flapped about and his muscles could clearly be seen through his baggy coat sleeves. Moon Warrior yelled out as he ascended and his power increased dramatically.

“Please, you’re pathetic and weak. But at least this way I can hit two birds with one stone” she laughed then flew towards him. As she approached Moon Warrior he simply side stepped and hammered her in the gut with a powerful knee that sent her crumpled to the ground and gasping for air.

Moon Warrior took a few steps back then just waited for the changeling queen to rise. She staggered to her hooves. “This is insanity… you can’t be more powerful than me… it’s impossible” she scowled then let out a yell as she rushed at him. Moon Warrior lept into the air and flipped over her as he slammed a round house kick into the back of her head. She stumbled from the force of the kick and crashed into the ground face first. 

Moon Warrior landed gracefully then swiveled and once again waited for Chrysalis to arise. She snarled as she painfully got to her hooves. “How… how is this possible… you can’t be this powerful… nothing is more powerful than love!” she screamed. Moon Warrior snickered. “Your love is fake. If it was true love that powered you than you’d be truly as powerful as you think you should be. But it’s not. Your love is fake and unjust, just like you. And now I shall end you” Moon Warrior told her then flew forwards at subsonic speeds.

He plowed her in the chest with a powerful punch than made her gasp and fall back. He gracefully planted both feet on the ground and let out a disgusted snarl. “Get up, you have caused enough tyranny that you deserve no mercy” Moon Warrior boomed. “If I deserve no mercy than you should just hit me while I’m down” she laughed painfully.

Moon Warrior grabbed her by the back of the neck and threw her into the air then quickly flew after her. He flew faster than the eye could see and appeared behind her then slammed a powerful double hand strike to her back that sent her careening back into the ground with a large crash.

Chrysalis coughed violently as she staggered up to her knees but was too weak to get to her hooves. Blood dripped from several wounds and as she coughed again, blood came up through her spit. Moon Warrior landed beside her. “Your reign of terror has come to an end your majesty. Now feel the power of the moon” he said in a valiant tone and cupped his hands together. 

As he took a step back with his right foot he cocked his elbows and swung his hands to his right side. “Goodbye dark empress, your evil ways stop here” he said but just before he could finish the technique required to launch the blast, a beam of purple energy struck him from the side and sent him skidding away.

Sombra stepped into the room. “You’re right. This will be her final moments. But I shall be her executer” he laughed. Chrysalis looked to him in fear. “No, please your greatness NOOO!” she screamed with utter fear in her voice. 

Sombra’s horn flashed and a beam of green energy struck Chrysalis. Her body was encased in purple magic. Then she vanished and the energy returned to Sombra. His body tensed and his muscles flexed violently. He let out a horrifying roar as his muscle mass shredded his apparel, leaving only his cape which he soon ripped off and tossed away.

“I may not be able to feed evil and fear energy from her anymore but her powers have supplemented me enough to reach my full powers. Now behold the power of the dark side” Sombra announced. 

“Okay Darth Vader” Moon Warrior laughed as he stepped forwards. “Hmm quipy comebacks from… the pitiful creature” he laughed. Moon Warrior flexed and quickly ascended to his second transformation state. His hair became more rigid and his aura flashed outwards as it became more jagged with electricity coursing about.

Moon Warrior and Sombra stood there in the atrium, the two most powerful entities to ever roam the universe, now faced each other. “So, let us see who is the better. A creature who needs the combined strength of two or a single powerful being” Sombra laughed. “Funny, I clearly remember you needing to absorb Chrysalis to attain your power. Probably several others as well because you were terribly weak when Clare killed you the first time. Actually technically the second time because the element bearers killed you the first time” Moon Warrior laughed insultingly. 

Sombra snarled. “Enough of these petty insults. Let us battle to the death” he scowled. Moon Warrior rolled his eyes. “Yes, let’s” he said with a lack of enthusiasm in his voice.

> Chapter 15: Moon Warrior
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      Moon Warrior:

Sombra charged at me but I quickly teleported behind him and smashed the back of his head with a powerful spin kick that sent him toppling over. He cursed as he stood up but as soon as he got to his hooves I flew forwards and slammed him through a stone wall.

Rubble and debris crashed as I plowed his body through the stone of several walls. As we passed through the stone wall leading to the study hall, I released his body then fired an energy blast that propelled him harder into the opposite wall. It was incredible, it felt like I was both Nightmare Moon and Clare combined. I guess that’s what Nightmare Moon meant when she said fused their bodies together.

Sombra groaned painfully as he stood to his hindlegs. “Alright time to get serious” he hissed. “Awwww, but I was having fun” I pouted, he snarled from the comment and lashed forwards. As he approached I sidestepped his charge and slammed my knee into his chest, making him gasp for air as the strike knocked the wind out of him. I stepped back as he fell to his knees, groping his chest as he groveled in pain.

He quickly subdued the pain and staggered back to his hindlegs. “You insolent little… brat” he scowled as he tried to hit me with a volley of punches that I simply dodged effortlessly. Sombra started to snarl louder as he couldn’t even hit me once.

I swung my hand up and caught his hoof then snapped it back, busting his wrist. He screamed in pain and I released him. He staggered back and looked to me with furious eyes. “I’m going… to kill you… very-very painfully” he threatened. I yawned and gave him an expressionless look. “Yeah okay. I’ll wager fifty bucks on not gonna happen” I chuckled.

He grew irritated from my insults and charged at me again, cradling his busted wrist close to his body. He threw a punch with his good arm. I leaned my body to the side then caught his arm and twisted it. He yelped as I held him in a hold that he could not break free from. I brought my elbow down on his exposed elbow joint and snapped his elbow in the wrong direction.

He screeched in pain and staggered back, both forelegs painfully injured. I stepped forwards but he caught me off guard as he shot me with a powerful blast of purple energy that catapulted me through several walls and into the throne room.

Rubble was clustered over top of me but I simply sat up like the heavy clusters of stone weighed nothing. I stood up and brushed the dust and grit from my clothes then waited for Sombra. I quickly figured that he’d be retreating somewhere where I wouldn’t be able to find him. 

I brought my index and middle finger up to my forehead and concentrated to find a source of enrgy close by with his output of strength. I found a source and quickly teleported myself to its location.

I found myself in the caverns just below Canterlot. Diamonds flashed and reflected images. Sombra let out a horrid laugh 
and his voice echoed throughout the caverns. Suddenly his image appeared on nearly every diamond wall around me. “Fool, now you are in my house. You will not leave here alive” he laughed maniacally. I looked at the diamonds and focused my mind. My senses sharpened and I sensed his power. 

I quickly shot my right hand up and fired a single powerful blast of blue energy that destroyed a diamond wall, revealing a large opening into another cavern room. I quickly rushed over but as I did Sombra flew out of nowhere and tackled me into the ground.

I grabbed him by the back of the neck and tossed him away then spun to my feet. I looked in fascination as I realized that both his wounds were healed. He noticed my curiosity. “Like the healing factor of evil lords huh? It’s the up side to having a dark soul” he laughed.

“Too bad that the cons outweigh the pros” I told him. “Maybe for YOU!” he yelled as he flew forwards and threw a powerful punch at me. I tilted my body to one side and completely missed his attack then slammed my fist into his gut. He gasped in pain as he fell to the ground. I brought my knee up in a powerful strike that connected with his nose and flipped him onto his back.

He tilted his head forwards and blasted me with a purple beam of energy that sent me hurtling into a diamond wall. The force of the impact cracked the diamonds and made spider webbed crack formations. I fell to the ground but landed on my feet, balancing my landing with my hands.

“Come on Sombra. Don’t tell me this is your limit” I chuckled. “Yes… but don’t worry, we will soon be evened out” he sneered as his horn flared. His head began to shake a little as the power created from his spell sent vibrations down his body. “You look like a shaking poodle” I chuckled. “Laugh while you still can fool. For it will be the last bit of fun you will ever have” he laughed then his horn shot out a beam that connected with a large diamond at the top of the caverns.

Dark purple lights flashed about and illuminated the caverns in a dark purple haze that surrounded our bodies. “Cool… a disco ball” I commented as he flew at me. I paid him no mind as I effortlessly dodged his punches without even looking at him. “Fool… STOP MAKING A MOCKERY OUT OF ME!” he roared. “Fine, but only after you stop acting like a four year old who’s not getting his way” I teased.

“Insolence will not be tolerated!” he yelled but I slammed my knee into his stomach and he gasped in pain as he fell to his knees once again. “God don’t you ever shut up” I said as I stepped back from him and continued to examine the giant dark crystal at the top of the cave. It was very suspicious and made me very concerned about its very presence. 

I began to quickly dodge his attacks as I continued to look at the crystal then simply figured that if it was really that bad then I’d just have to destroy it later but at the current time I had a temper tantrum stallion to deal with.

I slammed a punch into his face that knocked him back but he quickly recovered and flew back at me. We began to throw furious punches and kicks at each other. Each strike I hit him with seemed to be devastating but he’d simply miraculously recover like it wasn’t a very powerful strike at all.

I slammed him in the gut but then quickly cupped my hands together and fired a powerful energy blast into him at point blank range. The blast turned into a beam that blew his body into smoldering ashes. “Looks like someone over estimated themselves” I chuckled but then his ashes formed together and his body reformed. “Eh!? What the hell!?” I blurted out as he chuckled. “Looks like someone under estimated his opponent. You only killed me before because I wasn’t at my full power. No-pony has ever seen my full power and lived to tell the story. When I am fully powered up I can easily regenerate, even from full body disintegration” he told me.

I rolled my eyes then few at him and we continued to hammer each other with punches and kicks. Even though I had easily out matched him before I was starting to feel exhausted, like every hit I received was doing more fatigue than it should. Every punch or kick felt like it was sapping way more energy than it should require.

I stopped and lifted my hand then blasted his face with a powerful energy beam that blew away part of his head. My energy was starting to deplete faster than I was expecting, maybe this whole fusion thing zapped power faster than usual.  I had to finish this and I had to finish it quick.

I quickly powered up to my full power, electricity crackled about and my powerful aura of energy surrounded my entire body as it pushed gusts of winds outwards. I yelled as I flew forwards but just before I connected a punch with Sombra I sped my speed up so that it would appear that I disappeared and reappeared behind Sombra.

I slammed a powerful round house kick into his side that sent his body crashing into the ground but as always he quickly recovered. I floated backwards then began to throw a volley of punches into the air along with kicks. The strikes looked more like blurs of motions due to the intense speeds. “Would you look at this, I’m setting records right here” I said foolishly.

He gave me a curious look as he watched me attack the air. He dropped his guard. I swung my hand out and blew small slices of air so fast that each bit of air I threw was like a tiny razor blade. Several wind blades cut him deeply and he winced in pain as his skin cut open in large gashes. “Oops, guess I don’t know my own strength yet” I chuckled.

“Enough of these games!” Sombra roared as he launched a volley of powerful energy blasts at me. I let the blasts collide into me and simply stood there in that exact same spot until the smoke from the blasts cleared. “Hey that felt pretty nice, think you could do my back?” I asked as I spun around. He growled then sped forwards as he tried to impale me with his horn. 

I back flipped and landed on his back. “Huh, guess not” I said as I blasted him in the back of the head with one of my own blue energy blasts. He crashed forwards but I floated down gracefully and landed peacefully on the ground. He staggered to his hooves then swiveled to look at me. 

I extended my hand out and motioned for him to come over. He curled his lips and gritted his teeth. “Come here boy, come here. Who’s a good boy, yes you’re a good boy. Sit down and I’ll give you a treat” I said tauntingly. “CUT THAT OUT” he bellowed as he flew towards me as fast as he could. I lept over him and flipped in the air as I slammed a kick into the side of his face and sent him tumbling away but before he hit the ground I shot him with another energy blast.

He crashed into the ground violently and it took a little longer than usual for him to stand up. “Oh, that looked like it hurt… you’re taking a little longer than usual to get up” I told him.

He flew at me again but I powered up further and the gusts of energy propelled him back. I forced an output of strength even though it would hinder my speed, but at the moment I would still be faster than him. My energy seemed to be draining even quicker now.

“Impressive, you’re quite powerful” Sombra commented but I flew forwards and slammed a knee into his gut before flying into the air. I stuck my air out and a powerful blue beam shot through him, holding him in place. He growled angrily as he tried to escape the beam of energy that now impaled him.

“What’s the matter, I wish you would’ve taken me more seriously” I said then flung my arm upwards, the blade of energy following my motion and taking Sombra’s now impaled body with it.

I swung the blade out to the side and his body slide off the energy blade, flying through the air. I cocked the blade to one side then furiously cut him into tiny pieces in a blur of motion. I retracted the energy blade into one powerful energy sphere in my palms then blasted it into the many pieces of Sombra's body.

His body vaporized and it took several minutes for him to reform. He floated in the air, still moving quite painfully. “Jeeze that looked like it hurt… you’re uhm… missing some” I told him and he looked to see a large chunk of his torso and gut missing. He growled then quickly fused the rest of his body together. I yawned, “Well this is getting boring, it’s time to finish this” I said.

“Fool, I won’t be beaten so easily. I’m more powerful than you could ever hope to be” he told me. “You bad guys never get it. It takes more than power and strength to win a fight” I chuckled. “Yes I know. But apparently you don’t know that” he chuckled. “Right, so that’s why I’ve been knocking your clock this entire fight” I laughed. 

“Fool, the fight isn’t over yet and you’ve been foolish enough to allow your energy to be stolen away right under your nose the entire battle… well more like from right above your head” he chuckled. I gasped as I looked to the giant crystal at the top of the cavern and I realized he was right. My energy had been stolen away this entire match. So that’s what the giant crystal did, it stole my energy and healed Sombra during this entire battle. Well I’d soon fix that.

I cupped my hands and charged a blast but suddenly my sphere of energy simply puffed away. My hair faded back into its original state and both my aura and muscle mass disappeared. I gasped but Sombra soon flew forwards and slammed a powerful kick into my chest that sent me crashing through a crystal wall and into another cavern.

“It’s… I’m too weak… I’ll have to change back” I muttered as I realized that if I continued on like this I would most likely be killed. Then Clare would be killed and sent back to heaven but Nightmare Moon would be sent to the void. I just hope that when I defuse they both had their powers back. My mind flashed then I lost consciousness.


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Clare:

I gasped as we both separated. I still retained my powers but I could only remember parts of what had happened. I looked over to Moon who I suspected was thinking the same thing. 

I heard Sombra laugh as he entered the cavern. I looked over to Moon as I presented my earring. “Should we fuse again or” I began but suddenly a blast struck the earring out of my palm and disintegrated it.

“You think that I’d let you have that sort of advantage over me again. Ha, you’re stupider than I thought” he laughed. We both stood up, Moon was standing on her hindlegs. “Well I guess we could do this the old fashion way” I suggested. She turned to me and held out her hoof. I brought out my hand. “Rock paper scissors” we both said then brought out our choice. I showed scissors and she showed rock. “Ha, looks like I get to go first” she said with a tone of delight in her voice.

“Oh no fair” I complained. “Well if you wanted first go then you should’ve chosen paper” she said as she turned to face Sombra. I slapped myself in the head as I realized that she could only do rock and that she would’ve been unable to beat me if I had chosen paper, even if she wanted to do scissors. I smirked as she stepped forwards to fight Sombra, “Touché”. 

> Chapter 16: Moon Vs Darkness
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      Third person:

Nightmare Moon powered up to her maximum capabilities which, with the alicorn earring giving her boosts of power, was quite powerful and made her evenly matched against Sombra for the time being.

Clare looked over to the large diamond at the top of the cavern. “If we’re going to have any chance of defeating this guy… I’m gonna have to destroy that thing” he said to himself. Clare cupped his hands together and a sphere of blue energy formed in his palms. He took a step forwards with his left foot and swung his hands to his right side.

“I got one shot at this before Sombra realizes and makes it difficult for me to destroy it… gotta make this shot count” he said to himself. Clare yelled as he swung his hands back in front of him and fired the beam of energy. Sombra looked over to see the beam flying towards his power crystal. “NOOOOOO!” he screamed, Moon took this moment of opportunity and flew directly at Sombra.

The powerful beam of blue energy erupted violently as it struck base. The entire cavern shook violently and Nightmare Moon slammed a very powerful punch right into Sombra’s gut then fired a powerful blast of energy into him from the end of her hoof.

Sombra went careening through the air, smoke puffing from his injury, and crashed into a crystal wall. Clare smiled but as the smoke cleared his smile disappeared. The crystal was still there, and it looked like it hadn’t even sustained any damage whatsoever. 

Clare’s jaw dropped and Sombra laughed as he stood up. “Fool, no simple blast can harm my power crystal. It has a shield of pure energy surrounding it” Sombra sneered then flew towards Nightmare Moon.

Moon quickly evaded his charge and brought her hoof forwards then blasted him in the back of the head. He flew back into the ground with a painful crash but simply got back up and chuckled. Nightmare Moon gritted her teeth and flexed, forcing an output of power.

Her flowing mane sparkled and a powerful jagged aura surrounded her body along with electricity. Sombra charged at her head on and she fired a blast of energy that blew away his lower half. He snarled in anger but then gasped as a second blast struck his upper body and blew him into ashes.

Nightmare Moon knew he would quickly regenerate if given the chance. She brought both her hooves forwards and began to mercilessly fire a constant volley of dark blue energy blasts that erupted as they struck the ground. She began to yell as she forced her powers to exceed its regular output.

She drained most of her energy fairly quickly as she blasted away at Sombra’s ashes but she wasn’t paying attention to what was happening behind her. Sombra’s ashes quickly formulated his body behind her and he swung both his hooves into her back, sending her crashing to the ground.

She crashed into the crystal floor but she landed on her hooves, causing a large impact crater where she landed. She rose to her hindlegs to face Sombra who was laughing maniacally. She flew directly at the insane dark lord but as she went to strike him he teleported behind her and slammed both his hooves into her back and sent her hurtling through the air. 

Sombra snickered and quickly flew after her. He flew right past her and swung his hooves, connecting with her body and sending it in the other direction. Nightmare screamed in pain as she was sent crashing into the hard crystal floor of the caverns.

Her body crashed against some crystals and she simply lay there in pain but Sombra showed no mercy. He flew directly down at her, hindlegs first, and slammed his hind hoof into the back of her head. The force smashed the crystals beneath Nightmare’s head and she screamed out in pain.

Sombra flew back to ready a powerful blast. “Alright, my turn” Clare yelled out. “No!” Nightmare called back as she staggered up. “It’s still my go… and I’m gonna make sure I don’t waste a second of it” she said painfully. Clare gasped as Nightmare flew back towards Sombra.

They began to throw a fury of punches at each other but Sombra quickly gained the upper hoof and slammed several punches into Nightmare’s gut then struck her with a powerful elbow that sent her crashing into a crystal wall. The rubble and debris fell on her. She groaned in pain, “Just a little… longer… I can do it… I know I can” she whispered to herself.

Her eyebrows lowered as Sombra laughed hysterically. Nightmare Moon charged at him and threw an uppercut which Sombra dodged but she slammed her elbow back downwards and caught him in his exposed throat with the strike. He gagged painfully as he staggered back and Moon quickly slammed his body with relentless kicks and punches.

Sombra hammered her in the side of the head with a painful blow that sent her slamming into a large crystal. Her body had formed a crater shaped exactly like her body. She grunted in pain, “You’re going to wish… that you never did that… come on!” she growled then flew towards Sombra at incredible speeds.

Clare gritted his teeth in anger, he should be there helping her but it might become a little too difficult trying to maneuver together at those speeds. He had to do something, but at the same time she had won the place to fight first and Clare respected that. He cursed to himself as he watched them continue to fight. “If only that crystal wasn’t there… Nightmare would mop the floor with this guy” Clare muttered to himself.

Moon’s body crashed into another crystal wall and she stayed there for several moments before staggering away from the wall. She ahd transformed back into her regular state from all the fatigue of battle. Sombra laughed at her petty efforts, though her will was still strong. “What are you laughing at?” Nightmare hissed and Sombra motioned for her to come over.

Moon yelled and charged up to her maximum power again then flew at him as fast as she could manage. She swung a powerful punch at Sombra which he simply dodged as he brought up a knee and hammered her gut with a painful strike that sent Moon crashing to the ground, groping in pain.

Sombra laughed then Nightmare rose up and charged at him. Sombra sighed humoressly but Nightmare Moon suddenly vanished. “Eh?!” he gasped then turned as he felt a presence behind him. Moon yelled out in anger as she slammed a powerful punch right to the side of his head.

Sombra’s head swung to the side but Moon quickly moved to his other side in a blur of motion and hammered his head with another punch. His head began to slam in every direction as Moon pummeled him. 

She lept back then gave him a powerful round house kick that crashed his body through a crystal wall. Blood was trickling down her forehead and leaking out of her mouth from a cut lip but that didn’t faze her.

Sombra arose from the pile of debris that buried his body. Moon quickly flew at him and slammed a volley of punches into his chest and face. Sombra’s body shook violently as he was pummeled but then tilted his body side to side and began to dodge all of Moon’s strikes. He laughed as he kicked her in the chest and knocked the wind out of her. 

He removed his hind hoof from under her and hammered her in the back with a powerful elbow that slammed her into the ground. Sombra flew back to allow Nightmare to get up. As she staggered to her hooves Sombra kicked her in the bottom of the jaw and sent her hurtling up into the air. He zipped upwards then slammed her in the back with both hooves. She was sent crashing back into the ground, her collision shaking the caverns and creating a large fume of smoke from the crash.

Sombra floated blissfully back to the ground and began to laugh hysterically. Clare gasped in horror. “Nightmare…” Clare muttered fearfully. Sombra turned to face Clare then began to trot over to him. “It’s about time I fought someone more… powerful” Sombra chuckled.

“Hey!... where do you think you’re going?” said a pained voice from the crater. Sombra stopped in his tracks and turned back to see a bloody hoof rise up from the rubble and pull its body up. Nightmare Moon staggered to her hooves, her dark shadow elite armour was cracked and mostly destroyed.

Sombra let out an irritated sigh as he turned around to face Moon. “I’m sick of you” Sombra snarled. “Yes… you’re sick of me because you can’t beat me… you’re pissing yourself… right now from the mere… sight of me… Is this what you want?” Nightmare asked as she flexed and once again had to ascend to her maximum power. “Go ahead and run away… I wouldn’t blame you… coward” Nightmare taunted. Sombra snarled and lashed out at her.

Nightmare smiled as Sombra charged at her and she slammed a punch into his face, knocking him back. She charged up to him and began to slam powerful punches into his face. She kicked him back then brought both hooves in front of her and fired a powerful blue blast into Sombra that completely annihilated his body.

“That’s right you fool” Nightmare said triumphantly but her small victory was short lived. Sombra quickly reformed his body then slammed her in the gut with a kick that sent her crashing into a bunch of crystals. 

Nightmare Moon staggered up from the pile of rubble but Sombra flew up and grabbed her by her mane. Her brought his hoof up and blasted her with a powerful beam of purple energy that sent her crashing into more crystals. Sombra flew into the air then fired a large sphere of energy at Moon which erupted violently. Clare gritted his teeth, “Forget morals and the whole winner first go. If I don’t go in there now then Moon’s gonna die” Clare yelled out and was about to fly towards Sombra when suddenly a voice called out to him.

“Not so fast Clare… I won, so I get to go until I stop… it’s still my turn” Nightmare yelled out from the pile of smoking rubble. Both Sombra and Clare gawked as Nightmare Moon staggered out from the pile of rubble, holding a very wounded foreleg. Her face was covered in blood along with several spots on her body that had sustained heavy injuries. Her aura along with her powers had disappeared and she was back to her regular state. She was shaking just trying to stand.

“What’s so… funny?” Nightmare asked through painful winces. “What are you… staring at? You think that I’d be finished so easily? Ha… I am the powerful entity known as Nightmare… Moon… and I’ll be the one to take you down and save Equestria” Moon said through stutters of pain.

‘Just a little more time’ Nightmare thought to herself. She teleported behind Sombra and threw a punch that connected with his lower jaw. As she went to punch him a second time he grabbed her hoof. She punched at him with her free hoof but he caught that too then hammered her in the gut with a powerful knee. 

He released her from his grasp the jumped in the air and slammed her with a powerful spin kick that sent her tumbling across the ground. She lay there in pain and was unable to get up. Sombra walked over to her and chuckled as he brought his hoof up to finish her off. 

“Well… thanks for the warm up Moon” Sombra snickered but suddenly a powerful kick slammed across his jaw and set him crashing through several crystal walls. Moon looked up to Clare who was still in his regular state. “It’s… still… my turn…” she whispered in pain. 

“Forget the whole turn thing… I’m not gonna let you die… besides I was just starting to like you” Clare said as he lowered his hand and transferred some of his energy to her. Though the alicorn earring supplemented her with power this entire battle, the power crystal of Sombra’s had zapped her energy faster than the earring could give. In the end it didn’t matter that Nightmare had him outmatched for the majority of the fight, Sombra had a pretty much infinite amount of energy while Nightmare was being drained of hers.

Nightmare stood up painfully. Clare had given her enough energy to walk and felt bad for not giving her more but he knew that he couldn’t really spare all that much energy because at the moment that stupid crystal would start sapping his energy.

Sombra floated forwards. “Oh please goddess… don’t tell me you plan to fight me like that” Sombra sneered. “No… trust me I have something very special in mind for you… I realized it while I was watching you fight with Nightmare and I think you’ll be surprised” Clare said as he stood to his full height.

Clare’s hair immediately transformed upwards in its spikey blue pattern as a powerful blue aura surrounded him. “This is my super form” Clare informed him. Sombra chuckled. Clare flexed and his muscles expanded slightly as his aura pushed out more jaggedly and electricity surrounded his body. “This is my ascended form, it’s what happens when I ascend past my super form” Clare informed him. 

“What a useless transformation, so you changed your hair a little. Big deal” Sombra said. Clare smiled. “Just wait, you’re going to love this” Clare told him.

Twilight was focusing on the duel with her telepathy and showing the others what was happening on a magical screen. “Has he really found a way to ascend past his ascended form? Is that possible?” Celestia asked herself. “He must be bluffing… I mean what would that make him? Double ascended?” Rainbow Dash asked back.

“And this” Clare announced as he spread his stance and flexed. “Is to go even further beyond” he yelled as he began to dig deep inside for what he needed. His hair began to flutter about and electricity began to crackle at a more constant pace. The ground beneath him seemed to shake violently as he began to ascend. The vibrations from his power shook the ground like it was an earthquake

“Uhg… what’s he doin?” Applejack asked as Clare’s vibrations shook even the furthest reaches of Equestria. Clare continued to yell in anger as a powerful blue light surrounded his body. Sombra raised an eyebrow. “This should be interesting” he muttered to himself.

Elder watched over the battle with his own magic. “Oh yeah, that’s the stuff… lucky bastard… I wish I had those kinds of powers… then I’d get all the hot babes wanting my cock” he muttered to himself. “Lucky bastard”

Clare’s powerful aura became even more jagged as his muscles tensed and expanded by a few more inches. They became more toned and his overall power and strength continued to rise. Sombra’s jaw opened wide as he realized just how powerful Clare was becoming. Wind blew back his mane and he had to tense to keep himself from being blown away from the powerful force of his aura.

Wind, gusts of dust and debris blew out from under Clare. He continued to yell louder as his hair became more luminescent and holographic, like Luna’s mane, but it retained its shape and form rather than free flowing.

His spiked hair began to push outwards and it started to grow to considerable lengths. His power output was tremendous. Celestia gasped as she could sense his power even from the outskirts of Canterlot. “It’s… unreal… how is he generating that much energy” she gasped. “Yeah, do it Clare” Derpy said in her cute funny voice.

Rarity gasped as she too felt his energy surge. “Is… is that Clare? Wow, he’s really powerful” she commented. “It’s incredible… he’s even more powerful than Trixie and I put together, even when she had the alicorn amulet” Twilight mentioned.

Clare’s hair grew outwards, his spikey hair growing into longs stands that reached past his waist. The vibrations from him ascending shook Canterlot. Buildings that had been damaged in Danko and Clare’s ‘joyride’ collapsed to the ground. Several tall buildings shook and glass windows broke. Shattered glass fell to the streets below.

Prince Blueblood was hiding in his quarters. He had locked himself in his failsafe room when the changeling invasion had begun. His failsafe room shook and several items fell over: shelves, canned food and his television. “Ahhh what’s going on? Some-pony please… make it stop” he cried out, hoping that some-pony would hear his pleads.

Nightmare Moon looked up to Clare as he ascended and smiled. Zecora staggered as she tried to keep her footing. “It feels like the whole world is shaking apart… If Clare doesn’t hurry up than the whole world might be destroyed” she muttered. She too had been focusing on the battle through her cauldron.

Clare let out a tremendous roar and pushed himself over the top. A final blast of powerful wind energy shot out and the light surrounding him burst outwards, pushing Sombra away. Nightmare hid behind some crystals that started to crack from the sheer force of his energy output. 

There was a loud explosion but nothing actually erupted and a bright light flashed throughout the entire cavern.

Clare floated effortlessly in the air and Sombra turned towards Clare then gawked in awe as he felt the tremendous output of power Clare had. Clare looked up to him, his hair was still spikey but it was more translucent and longer, a lot longer. His aura flashed almost straight outwards before going upwards. Electricity surrounded him and crackled about. 

Clare’s muscles were toned and quite large. His hair gleamed even though no light shawn upon it. Clare smirked “I’m sorry that took so much longer than the others… but you have to understand that I haven’t had time to practice this one… This is what I call a super moon warrior… nah maybe I’ll call it super form three… eh fuck it, I’ll just call it something later” Clare muttered as he tried to think up a cool name for his final and most powerful form.

> Chapter 17: Battle for Equestria
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      Clare:

I felt incredible, this new form was giving off energy just from the aura, supplementing me with energy even while I just stood there. “It doesn’t matter… I’ll still destroy you” Sombra hissed. “We’ll just have to see about that” I said then quickly teleported behind him and slammed my fist right into the back of his head. His body was propelled forwards and crashed violently into a crystal wall, breaking through it and still travelling through several other crystals.

I flew forwards and chased after him. He quickly redirected himself and flew back at me. We both threw a very powerful punch that connected with one another’s hit right in mid-air. The strikes collision send shockwaves that shattered crystals apart from the sheer force. 

We began to absolutely pound each other as hard as we could. My hits were obviously more powerful than his and soon he was fatigued. I spun my body in a complete 360 and kicked him in the side of the head, sending his body crashing through several crystal walls in the caverns.

As I went to fly after him he appeared behind me and slammed a kick into my back that sent me crashing to the ground. I quickly rolled sideways and dodged his attack as he tried to crash land into my body.

I quickly flew into the air and we began to throw a blur of punches at each other. He slammed a punch into the side of my head and I power housed a kick into his ribcage. He was knocked sideways from the force but kicked me straight in the gut and knocked me back. That damned power crystal was supplementing him with power, but my energy aura was supplementing me with energy as well.

I back flipped in the air and brought my hands together as I cupped a sphere of bright blue energy. He flew directly at me and I fired the blast. He collided with the blunt force of the blast that erupted on impact and vaporized his body into smoke.

He quickly reformed his body but I flew forwards and pummeled him with a furious volley of punches that riddled his body. His horn flared and he blasted me with a purple beam of energy that knocked me back, smoke emulating from my chest where the blast had hit me. That’s when I remembered that I was still naked.

“Hey wait” I said and Sombra hesitantly stopped. “Moon, use the earring and give me some clothes” I called out. She had rejuvenated herself with the earrings and I knew that they could most likely get me some apparel.

Her horn flashed and my body was covered in a beautiful set of clothes: a duster coat, trousers, a white t-shirt and black combat boots that fit perfectly, even with my bulky muscles. I smiled and gave her a nod. She was looking a lot better and hopefully she would recover quickly.

I turned back to Sombra. “Thanks for waiting… I just thought it was awkward fighting with no clothes” I said and he nodded. He flew at me and we both connected a punch with each other’s face. I slammed a kick into his chest that knocked him back but he back flipped and booted the bottom of my jaw. 

I staggered back through the air as he charged at me. I quickly brought up my right hand and blew him away with a blue energy blast. Part of his body had been disintegrated and the other part of his body simply floated in the air. 

“Why you little… ARRRRG!” Sombra yelled as he regenerated his power. I didn’t give him any time to properly regenerate and quickly began to pummel him with a volley of furious punches and kicks.

He staggered back and managed to blast me away with his horn, part of my duster coat became torn. He flew forwards and grabbed my leg then spun me around in circles before letting go of my leg. I was propelled to the ground and crashed into the floor of the cavern. The crystal flooring cracked and I was in a small crater that had formed from the impact.

I quickly spun around and fired several energy blasts into the air that erupted violently as they decimated Sombra. I stood to my feet and quickly flew back into the air. Sombra zipped out of the smoke and we collided with each other. 

In a blur of motion we began to hammer each other with a fury of punches and kicks. I managed to hit him with a powerful kick to the head that sent him crashing into the crystal wall of the cavern. If we kept this up then the entire mountainside of Canterlot was likely to collapse.

I flew downwards and crashed into his body. He gasped in pain and blasted me with another purple beam of energy from his horn. I was sent tumbling across the ground with smoke pouring off my body. I skidded to a stop and back flipped onto my feet.

Sombra charged at me and I gave a tremendous uppercut that sent him flying into the air. I teleported behind him and slammed both my hands against his back and sent him careening back to the ground. He caught himself and was about to land peacefully but I flew down at supersonic speeds and drove both feet into his back as I crashed his body into the crystal flooring. The collision formed a large crater and several crystals burst from the ground and into the air a few feet above ground level.

I lept back but suddenly Sombra appeared behind me and hammered the back of my head with a brutal kick that sent me crashing through several crystal walls. I flipped my body around but he appeared behind me again. I tried to swing my body back around but he fired a blast of energy right into my back that sent me hurtling upwards.

I cupped my hands then swung them to my side as I stopped my body in the air. I swung my hands back outwards and the sphere of energy in my palms turned into a powerful beam that collided with Sombra’s body. There was an eruption that destroyed part of the cavern. I waited until the smoke cleared, Sombra’s body still hadn’t reformed.

I waited for a few more moments but then a kick hit me in the back and sent me crashing to the ground. He grabbed my body in a magical aurora and began to slam my body through several crystal walls. I yelled in pain as my body crashed through each wall then he released my body and sent it crashing through a very thick diamond wall that shattered like glass as I collided with it.

I lay painfully in a smoking crater then staggered to my feet. Sombra landed close by. “You’re… pretty strong… stronger than before” I commented. He smiled. “Yes indeed… it would seem that the longer I fight the more powerful I get” he said. 

“Well then… I guess I’ll just have to finish you off quickly” I said but he shook his head. “No… I’m going to kill you” he told me. “Well… you wouldn’t be the first… and then there’s always the chance that you do” I said but I disappeared in a blur of motion and flew so fast that the naked eye couldn’t see me move. I appeared behind him and slammed a kick into the back of his head that flung him forwards.

I quickly zipped in front of him and kicked him again, sending his body crashing into a crystal wall. His body didn’t quite go through the entire crystal wall but he was floating in a crater formed from the collision.

He flew downwards at me and I fired a blue energy beam that vaporised his body. He quickly reformed and he stood there laughing maniacally. “Shoot… my hits aren’t having any effect on him… I have to find a way to beat him…” I muttered to myself as I looked to the crystal that stood at the top of the cave. I could try destroying his crystal again.

I began to yell as I cupped my hands and charged a sphere of energy in my palm. I took a step forwards and swung my hands to the right side of my body as the sphere of energy charged up. “HAAAAAAA” I yelled as I swung my hands forward and fired the sphere of energy which formed into a powerful blue beam.

As the beam was about to hit the power crystal it erupted. The blast shook the caverns. “That had to have destroyed it” I said positively. The smoke from the eruption cleared, revealing the crystal to still be fine and operational. “Then again, maybe not” I said with a sigh of discourage. 

Sombra charged at me and we began to fight furiously again. Our punches and kicks looked like blurs as we swung our strikes at each other at Mach speeds. As our strikes connected the shockwaves would destroy crystal formations close behind the impact. I clenched my hands together and hit him with a heavy blow that sent him crashing to the ground.

I figured out a possible way to finish him off, there was only one little problem. I searched Nightmare Moon’s soul to see that she was pure, or well close enough to pure so that she wouldn’t be injured by the blast. I raised my hands into the air, my palms facing the ceiling. Sombra stood up, knowing exactly what I was doing.

“Fool, I will not be defeated as Solar Eclipse was” Sombra hissed as he flew at me to try and stop me from completing the technique. Nightmare Moon collided with him mid-flight and slammed his body into a crystal wall. She gave him a powerful head-butt that dazed him then threw him back to the ground.

She looked up to me as my Spirit Surge began to formulate above me in a giant sphere of blue light. “You better hurry up with that thing. I don’t know how long I’ll be able to keep him busy” she told me then flew back towards Sombra and began to fight with him.

It was taking a lot longer than usual to charge. I didn’t understand what the hell was going on until I looked up. Part of my energy that was being transferred to the Spirit Surge was actually getting absorbed by the power crystal. “Fool!” Sombra laughed as he struck Nightmare with a back hoof that sent her crashing into a wall.

There was no way the Spirit Surge was powerful enough to destroy him at the moment. I gritted my teeth as I tried to think of something I could do but couldn’t think of anything. Sombra flew up at me but suddenly a warhead fitted rocket slammed into his side and he fell back to the ground in a smoking clump. 

I looked down to where the rocket had come from to see Long Tail standing with an FGM-148 Javelin missile launcher. He dropped the launcher to the side and gave me a salute. It helped me greatly but only for a few seconds. Sombra rose to his hooves. “Insolent little shit… you shall die now” he screamed as he flew towards Long Tail but then a burst of large caliber rounds slammed into his body and propelled him back.

Sky Dancer stepped forwards in her titanium combat armour along with Discord, both their machineguns were smoking. “You shall not harm my son” she said in a very calm voice then blasted him with another burst from her twin Gatling guns. Sombra brought up a magical shield to protect his body but suddenly an M1 Abram tank burst through the crystal wall and flattened his body like a pancake. 

The hatch of the tank popped open and Danko looked out. He was swaying heavily and was continuously taking sips from a bottle of vodka. “Dasvidaniya bitch!” Danko yelled out as he looked up to me. “Hey, move out of way. I destroy crystal thing” he said. “Danko! The crystal has a powerful shield around it. You won’t be able to destroy it” I yelled out to him. 

Sombra’s body had started to reform. Danko shook his hand, “Don’t worry… I have good plan, come on Slicky, let’s go destroy expensive crystal thing” he chuckled as he closed the hatch to the tank. The large 120mm smoothbore cannon pointed up towards the crystal and fired but rather than hit the crystal the cannon shell hit the top of the cavern.

“FOOL, hasn’t you mother ever told you drinking was a bad habit” Sombra laughed but suddenly the cavern roof gave way and the crystal broke free. The power crystal fell from the roof of the cavern and as it hit the ground it shattered into millions of tiny pieces. All the energy it contained traveled right to my Spirit Surge.

The cannon swiveled and fired at Sombra who was blown to pieces from the blast. The hatch of the tank popped open. “Okay… everybody in tank now… we get out of here” Danko said drunkenly. Sky Dancer, Discord and Long Tail raced towards the tank but Nightmare Moon refused to go.

“Ugh… Moon… go” I called out to her. She looked up to me. “I won’t. You might need help” she called out. Sombra’s body was starting to reform again. “Nightmare please just go. I’ll be fine, I promise” I yelled out. She quickly raced over to the tank. The others hopped in the tank and she created a shield spell around her body. “Okay, we see you later funky haired man” Danko slurred then drove his tank straight through another crystal wall.

Sombra finally reformed his body. He looked up to me and gasped. My Spirit Surge was incredibly powerful. I launched the sphere of energy at him and it collided with him but he tried to stop it with his hooves. The Spirit Surge stopped and drove him into the ground but he managed to stop it. He began to try and push it back to me but I tensed and forced an incredible energy output. I extended my right arm and faced my palm towards the sphere of energy.

Sombra yelled out in anger as he tried to withstand the blast. The energy created from the Spirit Surge was enough to crack and shatter several diamonds and crystals in the cavern.

Sombra’s forelegs began to cock as he couldn’t withstand the force I was pushing with. His eyes widened with fear and he clenched his teeth to try and push back. 

Elsewhere Twilight still showed the events of the battle to the others with her magic. Celestia smiled. “Why am I not surprised” she chuckled happily.

Sombra’s biceps flexed and veins bulged from his arms. His jaw dropped as he realized that this was the end, he was defeated. “Looks like this is the end of the road for you Sombra. Your evil and dark tyranny has come to an end” I said as I smiled. “I wish things could have been different” I said then yelled out as I began to force out the final push to erupt the Spirit Surge. I brought up my index and middle finger to my forehead and gave him a small gesture as a goodbye. “Adios” I told him.

The Spirit Surge cracked and lightning energy crackled around throughout the caverns. Sombra screamed in anger as the Spirit Surge began to crush his body into the ground. I let out one final yell as I ruptured the Spirit Surge. It erupted into a flash of blew light.


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Third person:

The Spirit Surge erupted and Sombra’s body was vaporized into the explosion. The explosion ruptured the back half of the Canterlot Mountain and completely destroyed it. The blast erupted in one final explosion that spread out the sphere into a large ball of flashing light.

Smoke emulated off the destroyed part of the mountain. Danko’s tank burst from the front of the Canterlot royal castle and most of the castle collapsed to the ground.

Danko popped the hatch on the M1 Abram and everyone piled out. “Think he’ll be okay?” Discord asked and Nightmare Moon nodded. “I don’t think I’ve ever met someone more stubborn than him… he just doesn’t die” she commented.


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Hours later,

Clare, outside remains of Canterlot royal castle:

It was dark out but the lights of rescue vehicles now illuminated the night. Somehow Prince Blueblood had survived in the castle this entire time. I chuckled to myself as the others conversed with one another.

Suddenly a police cruiser screeched up and the General burst out of the car. His real name was Dance Prancer but for obvious reasons everyone just called him The General. “CLARE, YOU’VE GOT A LOT OF EXPLAINING TO oomph” he yelled but just as he went to yell at me Celestia opened the door on her own police cruiser and his face slammed into the door and knocked him out cold. 

Celestia looked around in shock as she realized that most of the castle had been absolutely totalled. She looked over to me and trotted over. “Good job Clare” she said proudly. Luna was close by with our two new born foals. “Hey thanks Tia, hey how about I buy you two diner. I know this great Mexican restaurant and…” I trialed of as they both chuckled and shook their heads. 

“No? Come on whatta yah say?” I chuckled jokingly. The others all trotted up beside me, even Elder had come down from heaven to see the victory. “So… I guess this is the end huh?” Long Tail said. I gasped, I had never heard him talk before and figured he probably only new native zebra tongue.

“Long Tail… you… you talked” I gasped and he chuckled. “Yeah? An that’s mind boggling because?...” he trailed off humoressly. “I’ve never heard you speak before” I replied and he snickered. “Well… I guess I’ve always been the strong silent type” he told me.

“Well regardless… it’s nice to finally and properly meet you Long Tail” I said as I extended my hand. He shook my hand and gave me a nod. “Well Clare… I hate to say goodbye… but my time is running out. I’ll see you around” Sky Dancer said as she stepped up beside her son proudly. I gave them both a hug then stepped back as Elder stepped up beside them with Discord and Nightmare Moon. 

Soon they all vanished into the air. Luna stepped up beside me. “So Clare I was thinking. What should we name our children?” she asked and I looked over to her with a smile.

“Oh Clare… I almost forgot. Now that your back I’m going to need you to start up your old unit again. All it would take would be you coming back” Celestia said. I turned back to her then looked down to Luna. I had a promise to never leave her and now we had children. I looked back to Celestia with a smirk. “No chance” I told her and both Luna and myself walked away.

> Epilogue 
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      Third person narration:

And with that the evil darkness that had ensnared Equestria finally had light shawn upon it. 

Somehow Elder managed to convince some hot babe that he had helped save the universe, which he did but it was still weird that the babe would still go for him due to his age and perverseness. 

Sky Dancer and her son Long Tail trained with each other in heaven. They won several championships together and became known as the stripped duo. On occasion they would get permission from the high elders to travel to Equestria to visit Clare.

Celestia came to bear with herself that perhaps love wasn’t as cold as she had thought it to be and went on her own quest to find some-pony or someone who may be able to fill the gap in her heart.

Cadence and Shining Armor went on a vacation out to Marevada with their few month old foals. They spent the duration of a few weeks in Marevada before returning to Canterlot, both with nice tans.

Discord simply drifted from place to place as a spirit, looking for ways to make himself useful. Soon he found a placement as a circus clown where he constantly brought happiness to those who loved his chaos that he brought.

Nightmare Moon no longer drifted the worlds as a sight of fear and nightmare. Instead she roamed the night and brought happy dreams to those who deserved peace but brought horrid nightmare’s to those who were crooked and evil.

As for Clare and Luna, they went to Los Pegasus. They decided to name their foals Sunburst, the colt, and Moon Shadow, the filly.


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Months later,

Clare, Los Pegasus beachfront:

The foals were asleep and both Luna and I sat on the warm beach sand together, cradling each other in a passionate embrace. “I love you Luna, and I’m going to be with you for eternity” I whispered and she giggled. “Yes, I know. You’ve told me dozens of times” she laughed. 

I had told her the good news of how I now had immortal life and we could be together for always. I smiled as we began to kiss but then a high pitched whine of a supercharger took my attention away from her.

Down the beach a large fume of sandy dust was being rooster tailed from an object driving at ridiculous speeds. Luna peeked over my body as we continued to lay there and a Lamborghini Reventón pulled up in front of us. It was the roadster addition with the convertible top.

Danko staggered up to his feet and stood on the seats of the car with a vodka bottle in his hands. “Hey look… new car” he said drunkenly. “Danko… how the hell’d you get that thing… there’s only like fifteen in the whole world” I gasped.

“Celestia bought it for me as present for helping to save Equestria… I’m rich baby, I don’t need to serve in military Spetsnaz anymore” he said, his speech slurring several times. I raised an eyebrow. Those cars were expensive and here he was, a drunken Russian man, driving it on the beach carelessly.

“I just thought I’d tell you that you are my best Canadian friend… no-no, you are my ONLY CANADIAN FRIEND” he announced. I chuckled. “Hey, I’m going off roading with this bitch, want to come?” he asked and I raised an eyebrow. “No thanks Danko, you go ahead though” I said. “Okay, suit yourself. See you around” he said as he sat down and slammed on the accelerator. The car’s engine whined then sped off down the beach.

I chuckled as Danko drove off. That car would be trashed by the end of the day, I just knew it. I looked over to Luna and gave a relaxed sigh. I loved her so much and now I would be able to love her forever. I leaned down to kiss her but she brought her hoof up to my lips. “First tell me what you’re going to do” she giggled. I smiled, “Well first…