The Return of the Dark Lightning Menace

During the fight between Eternal Flames and Thunder Drum, both stallions summoned a giant fireball and a giant dark lightning ball and proceeded to throw them at each other.

"Welcome to oblivion." Thunder said. As their attacks landed simultaneously, the force became too great and was about to explode. The gang outside the mountain saw this and immediately proceeded to form a barrier around the top of the mountain. Shadow Force, with his dark powers, Spark Wave with his lightning powers, Hurricane Blitz with his wind powers, Tidal Wave with his water powers, and Ground Dasher with his earth powers. The girls proceeded to aid the guys by helping them strengthening the barrier using their combined strength and magical powers as the wielders of the Elements of Harmony. The barrier is soon formed shortly after, but it still begged the question: Will it be strong enough to hold back the explosion?

The force of the attacks had gotten too out of control and immediately exploded, destroying the black mass lightning walls around the cliff at the top of the mountain. The barrier seemed to hold the blast in and made it shoot upwards. However, the team was struggling with all their might to keep it from bursting everywhere. Sadly, the blast became too much to handle, and the barrier broke, blasting the gang back far away from the mountain. The result was the same for the two stallions as the force sent them flying away from each other with so much tremendous brute force.

Then Twilight, Rainbow Dash, and Fluttershy rushed towards Rarity, Pinkie Pie, and Applejack, who were about to land smack onto the ground surface below the mountain. They caught them in the nick of time, while the rogues were still air born with the exception of Ground Dasher who was caught by Spark Wave.

"Nice catch there, Sparkster!" Rainbow says.

"Thanks, Dashie." Spark replies.

Soon they all flew down and landed safely on the ground. But all too quickly...

"Wait, what happened to Eternal?" Sunset asks all worried.

"Crap, I don't know, he must've gotten caught too close to the blast! We gotta find him!" Shadow replies.

"Let's go everypony!" Twilight exclaimed. Everyone then followed close behind.

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Meanwhile, both Eternal Flames and Thunder Drum had landed roughly in the rocky plains a couple of miles away from their previous battling area all bruised up in a bloody mess. The two struggled and slowly rose on all fours, panting.

"It would seem that we've matched each other equally." Thunder says, weakly.

"Yeah *pant* I got too careless * and put too much force in that attack." Eternal said, weakly. "You might as well just give up the fight! You're clearly in no position to throw any attacks, much less, a decent light one."

"Shut the hell up with your fucking preaching!" Thunder Drum says, spitting out some blood from his mouth onto the ground. "You may have won this round! But I will not make the same mistake again! I'll be back one day, and come back STRONGER than ever!"

"Why don't you just give up! You're fighting a losing battle over an impossible dream! You have to wake up and face reality. You can't always have your way just because you have more than one power. A real leader doesn't cause harm to others and make them do their bidding, they help their citizens stand together as one! But you can't see that clearly, now can you!" Eternal exclaims.

"I thought I told you to shut the fuck up about your preaching!" Thunder snaps. "A REAL leader should rule with an iron hoof and crush his enemies with strength and power! But in today's modern world, YOU can't even open your eyes to see that. You're too busy chasing YOUR impossible dream of who knows what the hell it is."

"My goal is to become the strongest guardian of Equestria, and if I have to die trying to fulfill that goal, then I die." Eternal says, ignoring the pain and standing tall. This made Thunder laugh but then cough out some more blood.

"Strongest guardian of Equestria my ass! Ponies like you disgust me..." Thunder says, before he sees a group of ponies behind Eternal getting closer towards the both of them. "I'll be back one day...and when I do...I'll be READY!" Thunder then used his dark and lightning powers to teleport him out of there and soon he vanishes into thin air.

"ETERNAL!!!" The gang shouted, running towards Eternal Flames. Eternal turned his head over his should to see the gang and gave a small smile towards them before losing conciousness and collapsed.

"NO, ETERNAL!!!" Sunset shouts, dashing towards him and held him in her hooves. "ETERNAL, OPEN YOUR EYES!"

"Sunset, hold it!" Tidal Wave shouted, running towards Eternal. He placed his ear over Eternal's chest to check his heart beat. It was faint but barely stable. "Shit, we have to get him to the hospital and quick! Twilight, can you teleport us all back to Ponyville? I'm afraid we won't be able to make it on foot!"

"I'm sorry Tidal Wave, but I don't have enough magic in me. We used it to put up the barrier." Twilight said sadly.

"Maybe we can enhance her magic with our powers. It worked before when they powered up the barrier." Hurricane explained.

"Well it is worth a shot, but we'll have to work together on this and quick." Spark Wave says.

"Alright, everypony, focus your minds on Twilight and hold hooves." Shadow says.

Soon everypony joined together in a circle. The rogues used what's left of their powers and miraculously strengthened Twilight's magic enough to send them all to Ponyville.