Twilight arrives

Everything had gone silent throughout the remains of the three hours. All the heroes, including Spike braced themselves ready. Applejack was still knocked out however and didn’t look like she was about to wake up anytime soon.

Calmly rested, Trixie’s scouter peeped and she stretched back up again wide awake. “It appears your time is up and we have yet to see no Twilight, is it possible that she has cowered before our great might or just abandoned you all?”

“Twilight’s no coward! She’ll be here!” yelled Pinkie Pie.

“That remains to be seen. For now, I’ll allow Snail to resume with his onslaught on you cretins.”

“Finally! Best take this armour off though. It’s pretty useless now, no thanks to you guys.” Snail then proceeded to do so. “Now to get back at that dragon for what he just called me.”

“Alright here he comes, everyone’s clear on the plan!”

“Yeah!”

“Especially you Spike, be reluctant I’m keeping you on the team, even with the stunt you pulled. But we don’t have Applejack to fill your part, so you’ll be the key to this.”

“Yeah! I’m sure this time!”

“Enough talking back there, let’s play again!”

“Alright! Go!” Rainbow Dash then rocked back, while everyone charged forward.

Just as Snail was distracted by the odd manoeuvre, he was unprepared for Rarity to appear right in front of him and yell. “Astounding flash!” A burst of light ignited from Rarity and it caused Snail to curve off course with his eyes shut.

“Aaargh! My eyes!”

He was then kicked in the flank by Pinkie Pie, which caused Snail to slowly stagger to a halt.

“Who did that?”

He was still long enough for Spike to jump onto his neck and then pull on his ears. The sensitive tug on them forced Snail to turn around and face the incoming rainbow coloured energy attack that went straight for him. Waited until the last moment, Spike sprang off Snail and allowed the attack to head on crash against the unicorn. The collision caused a wide scale explosion that had an impact wave that swept across the field.

“We got him!” shouted Pinkie Pie.

“What a marvellous, splendid attack, that’s sure to have gotten him,” said Rarity.

“Go Rainbow Dash!”

As the smoke vanished, everyone were now surprised for the third time, Snail had survived. He had that stupid grin on his face, but the attack had caused a large swelled bruise on his chest. It was nowhere as swelled as the bruise on Rainbow Dash’s head however, who was right now being held up by Snail’s magic like a sack of meat and didn’t show much reaction.

“You all had to go and make me madder than I already am, didn’t you?” asked Snail.

“What’s it going to take to beat him,” said Rarity trembled.

“No, Rainbow Dash!” screamed Spike.

“Should be worried more about yourselves,” said Snail and threw Rainbow Dash threw the air and smash into a pile of rubble. He then vanished and reappeared right before the baby dragon. “Going to do anything about what you called me?” But Spike just trembled, but out of anger rather than fear. “Fine, then just get die!” Snail then punched him and cannon balled Spike through the air.

“That’s it! I can’t take how much of a meanie you are anymore!” screamed Pinkie Pie, she then stood up on two legs and lifted one of her upper legs in the air. Pink energy then surged over her hoof and formed into a buzzing sharp disc. “Destructo Frisbee!” And flung it at the unicorn.

“Huh, is this another attack you think you can beat me with? Okay, but your just making this born!” Snail then eagerly held his ground to the attack.

“Snail you buffoon! Dodge!” yelled Trixie.

“What?” asked Snail. He corresponded at the last moment and moved his head out of the way, the disc buzzed against his cheek and left a long gash on it. The disk then continued to fly through and scythe clean through a mountain.

Snail now danced about and bawled about his cheek cut. Pinkie Pie though stamped the ground in frustration and screamed. “Almost had him!”

*

Continued to hurry, Twilight looked up ahead and saw king Yemma’s place and yelled. “Yes!”

She rushed on in where the oversized pony was in the middle of work and became surprised to see her. “What the? Did you actually make it across Snakeway?”

Fluttershy appeared in the room grabbed Twilight. “Your here, let’s go.” The two then vanished and left Yemma stunned at what just happened.

The two then reappeared back at Fluttershy’s place where Angel waited on them. “You have to get going Twilight, everyone down there is in terrible danger.”

“Thanks, Fluttershy, I’ll get moving right away!” Twilight then powered up and rocketed off straight for the battlefield.

“I just hope we’re not too late,” said Fluttershy as she watched anxiously after Twilight.

Just as Twilight descended through the clouds and continued on her way. She sensed a familiar present and looked beside her to see an owl fly right beside her.

“Owloysius!” shouted Twilight happy to see the pet again. She then saw in the howl’s beak a bag that she pulled out with the use of her magic and pulled out a seed. “Excellent! Granny Smith gave you some of her Zenzu apple seeds, there’s not that many, but they’ll do.” She then ate one of them and it instantly recovered her strength in mere seconds. “Right let’s go! Owloysius!”

*

“Raagh! I’ll make you pay!” shouted Snail. He barfed from his mouth, a beam of energy. Pinkie Pie didn’t have much time to dodge and was only able to avoid the direct hit of the explosion, but the shockwave of it hammered against Pinkie pie and she rolled through the air and then flopped back onto the ground, charred and badly hurt.

“I may understand about getting upset about facial damage, but you deserved it for what you’ve done! And you also deserve this! Radiant grace!” Rarity then fired a blast of energy straight at Snail. But the unicorn trained through it and rammed into the girl. The titanic force punched Rarity straight through the ground and left a trench in her wake, before she slammed against the foot of a hill.

“Heh! Now this is finally starting to get too easy.” But as Snail relaxed, a blast bounded through the air and struck onto his back that caused him to yelp and leave a burn mark right there.

“Don’t count on it!” shouted Rainbow Dash back up. She panted on all four hooves as she leered at the unicorn. “It’s never easy so long as I’m here.”

“Raagh! You’re a lot stronger than what I thought you were,” replied Snail with a snarl and turned to face her. “I’ll just have to stop going-.”

But before he could continue, Spike burst out of nowhere and punched Snail in the side of the face and knocked him back into a large mountain and cause the landscape to collapse all around him.

“Wow! Spike! What was that?”

“I don’t know, I guess I just got so angry at him for hurting you, Rarity and everyone else, that I just so of snapped somehow.”

“Might want to snap-.”

Shot straight back out of the rubble, Snail now had a thick bruise on his cheek and wasn’t too happy about it.

“Snail! Do not tell me you are-.” Before Trixie could ask her question, her scouter activated again and started to jumble through flurry of displayed numbers. “Huh? This must be Twi-.” She stuttered however, when she saw the single displayed number that was presented. “Im-impossible, it’s over five-thousand.”

“I knew Twilight wouldn’t let us down,” said Spike.

“Trust that gal to pick such a convienient moment to save the world,” said Rainbow Dash with a smirk.

“What! Five-thousand! That can’t be right! I thought Twilight was under one-thousand!” shouted Snail.

“I don’t even know if it’s Twilight, but whoever it is, is coming this way. I want you to kill everyone right now before she comes here!”

“Everyone, but the pegasus right!”

“No! Kill the pegasus as well!”

“Huh, but what about finding the Orbs of harmony things? We don’t know what they even look like!”

“A thought just an occurred to me. Pegasai grow these things right and there’s a place up in the clouds full of Pegasus. We can just go there, where it’ll be ripe with Orbs of harmony to make our wish.”

“Oh I get it, forget about this here chicken who has her eggs scattered everywhere, when there’s a coop full of eggs all over. That means I can kill this pegasus. First though, I want to go for the dragon.”

“Be my guest, but hurry it up!”

“Forget, the dragon come for me!”

“No Rainbow Dash! I’ve got this! I’m through letting down!”

“Forget it, he’s too-.”

Snail had already barfed another blast from his mouth and it raced straight for Spike. This attack was huge and tremendous and there was no way Spike was about to be able to dodge it with the way he was frozen in shock.

“No!” cried Rainbow Dash. She remembered day one with Spike, at how he impressed her and took her interest to train him. She remembered how she looked after Spike, even how she lightened up and saved him from that other dragon and then gave him some apples. She remembered that talk where Spike had offered his friendship to her. She remembered it all in an instant and it made Spike mean too much to her.

She rammed Spike out of the way, but unable to do anything else in time, she was struck full on by the blast. It grinded against her and caused Rainbow Dash to roar out in agony, before it went ka-bloom and caused a mushroom cloud so huge, that it reached half way into the air.

“Rainbow Dash!” yelled Spike.

*

“I can feel two energies that are really huge. I can feel one that’s decent, three others that are holding onto a thread and-.” Twilight stopped for a moment though as something shocked her. “I’ve just felt this one rapidly decrease all of a sudden and I think it’s on the verge of dying! Owloysius! We have to hurry!”

*

The smoke began to clear and Spike frantically moved looked through it. He saw tried to smile when he saw up on all fours was Rainbow Dash, but couldn’t stop his upset appearance, when he saw how the pegasus barely moved, was covered in burns and chars and her face gritted to stay awake.

“Alright- Spike?” asked Rainbow Dash, right before she collapsed onto her side.

“Rainbow Dash!” yelled Spike and rushed over into the large crate. He then got down onto his knees and leaned over her. “You shouldn’t have done that! You didn’t need to do that!”

“Listen Spike.” Rainbow Dash breathed heavily and her voice was pretty tired, but she showed a grin on her face. Tears even started to well across her eyes. “I’m sorry for all that stuff I did to you, I’m sorry I didn’t do better and I’m sorry I brought you into this.”

“No, Rainbow Dash, don’t be! I’m glad-.”

“I said listen. Even though you might not think it, you made me proud for me to call you my pupil.” She paused for a moment to cringe in agony before she continued. “You also did things that no one else did, you made me feel a belonging in this world I never felt. It’s therefore that I’m also proud...” Her head then began to relax against the ground and the tears started to roll down her face, but with the last of her strength she whispered. “My friend.”

“Rainbow Dash!”

*

Fluttershy opened her eyes again and turned to her rabbit. “Looks like this is goodbye, Angel.” Fluttershy began to fade and caused Angel to panic and hop around her, in an effort to do something. “No, Angel, please don’t be like this, I don’t want you to act like this before I go.” The bunny then came to an eventual stop and stood in front of her. But he trembled and started to cry with tears as he watched Fluttershy slowly go.

“I’m sorry to leave you, Angel. But I’d like to let you know, before I do go, that you’ve been loyal and I’ve always noticed your hard work and I have been very grateful for all you done. You’re maybe the best bunny rabbit any pony could want as an assistant and as a good friend. Goodbye.”

Fluttershy was now fully gone. Angel had reached out for her at the last moment. When he came to realise it, he started to move his head and hop around the place in a desperate attempt. But when he saw this was no use, Angel just cried.

*

Spike gaoled over Rainbow Dash’s remains. Drops of rains pattered over the fallen Pegasus, but her eyes continued to be shut and showed no reaction whatsoever. She was now in complete peace.

“Oh, what a touching moment, are you just going to let this go on Snail?” asked Trixie sarcastically.

“Don’t worry, I’m about to make the dragon follow her, them two will be together in-.”

“You big bully!” roared Spike as he rose up and faced Snail with his fists clenched and his eyes venomous.

“Big bully all you got to say to me?” said Snail and laugh.

Spike moved out of the crater and then an aura built up around the baby dragon, it was so huge and powerful that it ripped up and split the ground underneath him. His size begun to increase and suddenly became five times his height.

“What the, that dragons starting to grow all of a sudden, but how,” said Trixie concerned. Her scouter activated and gave a result. “It’s almost three-thousand! Snail do something!”

“I’ve got it, come here baby dragon!”

The dragon responded with a spew of flames that was hurled at Snail. The unicorn had quickly lifted up his front legs over his face and allowed the attack to collide against him. The fires utterly consumed Snail and danced around him.

Spike closed his mouth and halted his attacks, but when it looked like he was about to do something else, he began to shrink already and returned to his normal. He was confused at just what happened.

The flame finally cleared and emerged from their ashes was Snail, whose legs was now singed and shook a little.

“You little punk, look what you did to my legs! You have an idea what I’m going to do to you!” Snail then opened up his jaw and fired his blast directly at Spike.

Spike was about unable to dodge again, but something flapped and picked him out of the way, which caused the blast to strike through and into the mountain and evaporate it.

“What now!” yelled Snail. He then looked over to where Spike had gone and saw he was being picked up by the tail from a white owl.

“Owloysius!” cried Spike happily. “That means.”

Everyone, included Rarity and Pinkie Pie, heard a set of hooves clap onto the ground. Turned their heads, they saw arrived to the field, was Twilight.

“I’m back everyone.”

Owloysius had dropped Spike near her. The baby dragon then bounced back up and hugged Twilight with joy.

“It’s so good to see you again,” replied Spike.

“It’s good to see you as well, but you look pretty beat up, here take this.” A seed then hovered up to Spike with a purple glow around it. “It’s a Zenzu apple seed, I promise, it’ll make you feel better.”

The dragon took the apple, as told and when he swallowed it, he felt his body instantly recover and yelped. “Wow.”

“Let me give this to the others.”

Twilight then levitated the last three of the seeds over to the other girls. Pinkie Pie and Rarity took theirs, while Applejack needed it to be slipped down her. All three were bright and awake again and got back up to their hooves.

“Are they all returning to their feet?” asked Trixie astonished.

“That can’t be, I smashed them real good, I swear.”

All three of them then gathered around Twilight in joy to see her, but weren’t all that bouncy, except for Pinkie Pie, who was like a kangaroo in front of her. “Your back! Your back! I’d knew you be Twilight! I knew you’d be!”

“I’ll have to say I’d be one that couldn’t be anymore glad to see you,” said Rarity.

“It’s good your here Twilight,” spoke Applejack softly.

“Anyone want to tell me the play by play of what I’ve missed?”

“It hasn’t been very good I’m afraid. We’ve tried everything just on that big brute over there, but I swear he’s not normal. Everything we give, he just bounces off,” said Rarity.

“I see and where’s Big Mac, I thought your brother would be here, Applejack?”

“He was,” replied Applejack, her head down and face upset. “But my brother chose to sacrifice himself, in an effort to stop that guy over yonder from hurting anybody else.”

“I’m sorry to hear that, Applejack, I truly am,” said Twilight and gave Applejack a brief, but sincere hug. “Take it Rainbow Dash was killed by that guy as well.”

“Sort of,” answered Spike with his head turned away. “The guy aimed on killing me, but Rainbow Dash got in the way.”

Something started to build up around Twilight. The more she was moved by what happened, more an aura started to form around her and pieces of rocks started to gradually lift into the air. Everyone started to move back as they could feel the intense power build up from her. When Twilight snapped out of it, she relaxed and everything went calm again.

“Sorry you guys, got a little carried away.”

“My, you’ve grown stronger,” said Rarity.

“Yes its thanks to Ze-.”

“Hey! Would you cut out the reunion, if you haven’t forgotten, I’m still here!”

“Sorry, I’ll get right back to you in just a sec,” responded Twilight and turned back to the group. “Let me handle this guy by myself.”

“What!” responded everyone.

“Twilight no, this guy’s strong, really strong! You’ll get pummelled!” shouted Pinkie Pie.

“She’s right, let us come in and back you up,” said Applejack.

“No, I want to test my power against this guy, see how strong I’ve truly become. So how about this, you guys stay back, if it looks like I’m in trouble, come in, but for now, let me just be the one to handle him.”

“Very well Twilight, but I’m afraid you might be making a mistake,” replied Rarity.

“Thanks guys, I promise, everything’s going to be okay.”

“Give it to him, Twilight!” shouted Spike.

Twilight then started to approach the unicorns. Snail was dumbstruck by how it was just her that approached him, but reluctantly smiled when Twilight matched up against him and she had to tilt her head up just to look eye-to-eye with him.

“Got to be joking, Trixie, what does the scouter say about his power level.”

Trixie activated her scouter and got a result quite quickly. “Heh, impressive, it’s five-thousand.”

“Yeah impressive, do you want to know what my power level is,” Snail asked Twilight. There was no response though from Twilight who just glared at him. “It’s seven-thousand. That’s like a whole lot bigger than yours.”

She allowed him to chuckle at her for a few seconds, but eventually asked. “You going to just stand there and keep that stinking breath in my face all day or do you want to do this?”

“As you wish.”

Snail then lifted up his upper right hoof to smash down on her, Twilight however immediately gave an uppercut into Snail’s chest, the male unicorn then croaked with his head stretched out far apart from his shoulders. Twilight then started to give a flurry of punches into his face and started to dribble head.

Everyone, even Trixie, watched in amazement as Twilight hammered Snail. Trixie clicked her scouter and came up with result that made her face cringed in anger. “That’s impossible!” She brushed off the scouter with her hoof and stamped on it as she snarled. “It’s over nine-thousand!”

After she had punched his head within five seconds and delivered roughly over two hundred punches, Twilight head locked Snail and threw him over his shoulder and crashed onto the ground. While he was then stunned, Twilight started to brutally stamp on Snail’s body, each blow on caused Snail to yell in pain. She then used her magic to lift Snail up and throw him over back to Trixie.

The once gigantic powerhouse unicorn was now nothing more than a shrivelled pony who could barely move and really needed medical attention. Half his teeth were missing, had bruises all over and coughed up blood from his throat.

“Sorry I was a bit rough on him, but it’s what he gets for what he’s done to my friends. I’ll let you take care of him though until you’re ready to continue.”

Trixie however just glared at Twilight  in a whatever manner. She then moved her eyes down when she saw Snail hold his upper right leg in front leg in front of her. He then choked for a moment before he could say.

“Please- help me Trixie- I’m badly hurt here.” Trixie’s unicorn glowed and Snail began to glow in a similar colour. “Thanks- Trixie- you’re the-.“ He was then suddenly flung into the air by Trixie’s magic. “Wait! Trixie! What are you doing.”

A smirk creased along Trixie’s lips and she simply said. “Presto.” Snail exploded instantly and that was him gone for good.

Everyone was then shocked at Trixie and stared at her as she just laughed. It caused Twilight to simmer in anger and yell. “What did you do that for? He was your friend! He reach out for you to help him.”

“Friend? Please, I just used Snail to keep the rabble, like your friends out of my face so I could do better things. The fact that he suddenly became useless, even if it was just for an instant, made him not worth my time. Plus it makes things a whole lot more convenient when I wished for infinite power; I wasn’t going to share it with Snail after all and planned to turn on him sooner or later.”

“This pony is a complete psycho,” said Spike.

“Ah well, now that I’ve gotten my hooves dirty and I have no one to deal with you for me, the great and powerful Trixie will deal with you herself.”

“Alright, but could you give me a moment to talk to my friends before you try to?”

“Very well, Trixie will allow this.”

“Thanks.” Twilight then stepped over to the others.

“That was amazing Twilight, but what’s up?” questioned Applejack.

“I’m sorry you guys, but I need all of you to go.”

“What! No way!” yelled Applejack.

“We can’t go! We just met up again!” shouted Pinkie Pie and squeezed Twilight.

“And we’ll meet up again I promise,” said Twilight in order to get Pinkie Pie to let go. “But when that Trixie girl blew up him, I could briefly sense her energy at max and I can tell you not good. I’m sure I can handle her, but at that kind of strength, one stray shot from her could wipe any of you out in an instant if I didn’t do anything and I can’t protect you and fight her at the same time, you have to understand.”

There were disgruntle looks from everyone, but none of them were able to make an argument. Able to suck in her pride first, Rarity spoke out. “Very well Twilight, I’ll entrust you to finish that scoundrel off.”

“Okie-dookie, Twilight.”

“Fine, you’re asking a lot to not let us watch your back, but I understand.”

“Just please come back, Twilight?” asked Spike.

“Thanks you guys, I won’t let you down, now go, you all have families that I’m sure will be missing you.” Everyone then left one by one. “You to Owloysius, you’ve done enough if that’s alright.” The owl then flew away as well and it was only just Trixie and Twilight left.

“Are you finished saying your goodbyes?”

“Yes, but let’s not do this here. The place is sort of in a wreck.”

“You have your point, this battlefield no longer suits my greatness, so I will accept moving to somewhere else to fight and I will allow you to pick to at least be gracious to a fellow unicorn, who will of course have no chance.”

“Alright, follow me then!”

Twilight then took off and Trixie followed her for the two to battle.