Rugia

Daxis watched as Rugia’s body flashed again and his hair had extended a few inches. His body had been granted the same lightning aura as Daxis, only white. Some of the hair on the back of Rugia’s head hung down and rested on his back. Rugia grinned and revealed his teeth had become the same as a canine’s. Rugia stood in a battle ready position and prepared for the battle at hand. Candace and the princesses watched in suspense, wondering who would win.

The battle kicked off with Daxis making a leap at Rugia, attempting to slug him in the face. Rugia’s left arm blocked the punch and he countered with his knee which was blocked by Daxis’s. The next few moments were filled with high speed blows and movements that were hard for anyone watching to keep up with. There was a loud thunder crack sound from the two of them colliding punches and they took off into the air. Like lightning, the two zipped through the air clashing against each other and then disappearing, then repeating the pattern again. It got to the point where there were only shock waves going through the air, which broke all of the windows in the area. The ground suddenly exploded in front of Celestia and Luna. In the dust, they could see Rugia trying to overpower Daxis in a struggle to push each other off balance. Rugia’s right leg came up in the blink of an eye and Daxis was sent into the air. Rugia took flight after him and made for an attack, but Daxis was able to recover and swated Rugia out of the air. Rugia landed on his hands and back flipped to his feet. Rugia simply smiled and took flight again. He and Daxis began zipping through the sky again causing shock waves with every collision. The surrounding ponies watched they sky as shock waves traveled through the area. A louder, bigger shock wave went off and the two combatants sled away from each other. They stood staring each other down waiting for something to happen. Rugia stood straight up and crossed his arms. He then closed his eyes and shook his head.

“Just what is that supposed to mean?” demanded Daxis.

“If that’s all you’ve got,” sighed Rugia, “then you are just wasting my time.”

“What!?” shouted Daxis, “You think you can best me!?”

Before Daxis knew what had happened, Rugia had plowed his fist into his stomach. Daxis immediately coughed up blood and his form faded. Rugia withdrew his fist and Daxis fell to the ground, unable to move.

“I thought I told you,” Rugia said, “don’t underestimate me.”

“I don’t understand, “Daxis wheezed, “my power is higher than your’s. How are you able to paralyze me with a single punch? Wait! You were just suppressing you power weren’t you?”

Rugia nodded slowly.

“I see,” Daxis said, “so you do have the pinnacle form after all. I never stood a chance against you.” Tears rolled down his face, “I’m a failure to the Shadow Armada.”

“Commander Daxis,” a voice said, “are you alright sir?” A Rucan flew down and laded next to Daxis, helping him up.

“Just take me back to the ship,” Daxis said, “my job is done anyway.”

“What does that mean?” demanded Celestia.

“While Rugia has been busy with us,” Daxis smirked, “Resnoff has been in Ponyville having his fun.”

Rugia’s eyes widened in shock. It was then an explosion came from Ponyville and everyone looked in the direction of the blast.

“You and your squad were only a distraction!” Rugia exclaimed.

“For someone so smart,” Daxis replied, “it took you this long to figure it out.”

Rugia didn’t take the time to respond, he took flight and headed straight for ponyville. Daxis chuckled at his success as he slowly lost consciousness.

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Down in Ponyville, several buildings were a blaze and ponies were fleeing for their lives. A tall Rucan in a black combat uniform came walking out of the fire of a house laughing. His hair was long and stood out the right. His blue fur was darker than the other Rucans seen so far. His irises where yellow and he had a scar going down the right side of his face. He spotted Sweetie Belle, who was crying out for Rarity.

“Well what do we have here?” Resnoff said snatching Sweetie Belle up and held her like a tiny hostage.

The other Rucans watched their general with blood thirsty eyes. Rarity came running up to retrieve her sister, but stopped seeing Resnoff and the large number of Rucans behind him.

“Rarity help me!” cried Sweetie Belle as tears of fear ran down her face.

“Please,” Rarity begged, “let Sweetie Belle go.”

“I don’t know,” Resnoff smirked, “give me a reason why I should.”

“Please,” Rarity pleaded, “she’s only a child.”

“Well if you insist.” Resnoff said.

He slowly placed the scared unicorn filly on the ground. Sweetie Belle looked at the towering Rucan and then at Rarity. Sweetie Belle ran to Rarity, but just as she was about to reach her Resnoff appeared next to her in the blink of an eye. Resnoff kicked Sweetie Belle in the head and she was sent twenty feet away from Rarity.

“SWEETIE BELLE!!!” shrieked Rarity as she ran to her sister.

Resnoff grinned evilly. Rarity began nudging her sister, trying to get a response from her.

“Sweetie Belle!?” Rarity cried, “Sweetie Belle, please answer me! Sweetie Belle!?”

Rarity’s please were in vain, Sweetie Belle was dead. Rarity tried a few more times to get her sister to move, but to no success. Rarity sat on the ground and looked at her lifeless sister. Rarity began to weep, but her weeping soon turned to sobbing. Tears were pouring from her eyes, soaking her face and the ground. Twilight and Fluttershy came running up to Rarity to find her sister dead. This sent Fluttershy into a furious rage.

“How could you!?” Fluttershy shouted, “Someone should teach you a lesson!”

“Unless you want to die too,” said Resnoff, “you will stay where you are and not attack me.”

As quickly as her rage appeared, it disappeared and Fluttershy cowered behind Twilight. Twilight looked at Sweetie Belle with saddened eyes. Her eyes were still open, which made her look like a dead animal you would see on the side of the road. A tear made its way down Twilight’s face and she looked at Resnoff in anger. Resnoff only laughed in response to Twilight’s anger. He bid them farewell and he left along with his army, saying he would be back when Rugia saw the damage.

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Shortly after Resnoff left, Rugia had finally arrived. He looked out across Ponyville and saw the chaos that Resnoff had caused. He found SCS-1 moving a large wood beam out of the road and ran to him. SCS-1 said that Twilight and the others were just up the road and Rugia took off in wild dash to find them. As he ran, Rugia powered down to his normal state. He soon came across the tent where all of the wounded were being treated. He came running to the tent’s entrance but he was stopped be Victor.

“Vhere have you been!?” he demanded, “While you vere off with your wife ze Shadow Armada desecrated Ponyville!”

“Its not my fault Victor,” Rugia replied, “I was attacked by a squad of them in Canterlot, and then I had to fight my way here.”

“Vell it doesn’t matter now,” Victor said, “Just go inside and you vill find your friends in a puddle of tears.”

Hearing this made Rugia’s heart leap and he ran inside the tent. Inside he saw the large number of ponies who had been injured, all of which had Victor’s healing devices on them.

“Rugia you’re here.” he heard Rainbow’s sad voice to his left and turned to see she was crying.

“Rainbow Dash.” Rugia said walking to her and squatting down to hug her in his arms.

“Sweetie Belle is…” Rainbow choked, “She’s dead.”

Rugia couldn’t believe what he heard. He released Rainbow Dash and followed her to find the others in the morgue section of the tent. Rarity had her face buried in the blanket covering Sweetie Belle’s body, and was sobbing loudly. Rugia walked slowly to the other side of the bed and pulled the blanket back enough to see Sweetie Belle’s face. Her eye’s had been closed by Victor before she had been covered up. Rugia gently covered Sweetie Belle back up and turned around to see Apple Jack crying on Fluttershy’s shoulder. Rugia saw three beds next to them, he wished he would be wrong on who they were. Apple Bloom, Big Macintosh, and Granny Smith had been killed in the chaos as well. He then saw Twilight weeping next to a bed with Spikes lifeless body on it.

“Not Spike too.” Rugia said walking to his bed side.

Looking around again Rugia had noticed that a lot of ponies had been killed; the Cakes, the mayor, Cheerilee, and many others. Scootaloo came up to Rugia, tears and snot running down her face. Rugia grabbed the nearest Kleenex and wiped the snot and tears from her face.

“Why did they kill my friends?” she sobbed.

Rugia looked around the tent once more and was suddenly filled with rage. He stood to his feet and walked to the tent’s entrance and stopped. He clinched his fists and turned to his friends who had followed him to the exit. Anger burned in his eyes and he was breathing heavily.

“I promise,” he said, “Resnoff and the Shadow Armada won’t get away with this.”

A bolt of white lightning shot up his body as he walked out of the tent. He walked to the center of the road and screamed at the top of his lungs, frightening every pony around him.

“RESNOFF YOU COWARD,” he screamed, “COME AND FACE ME!”

It was then that Celestia’s carriage landed and she got off along with Luna and Candace.

“WHERE ARE YOU RESNOFF!?” he screamed once more, “STOP HIDDING FROM ME!!!”

“Alright enough with the screaming,” Resnoff said as he landed thirty feet in front of Rugia, “I can hear you just fine.”

Luna was looking at Rugia confused, “I don’t understand,” she said, “why is he so angry?”

“Princess Celestia!” came Twilight’s voice.

“Twilight what happened here.” asked Celestia concerned.

“They killed so many ponies,” she said bursting into tears, “Spike is dead too.”

This left Celestia speechless, the Shadow Armada had attacked Ponyville and then left them to clean up the mess. But worst of it all was the fact that the armada had killed it’s residents. Twilight explained that twenty adult ponies were killed as well as sixteen children.

“That horrible monster murdered my beloved Sweetie Belle.” sobbed Rarity as she walked up to them.

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Suddenly, a loud beeping came from Candace’s pocket. She pulled out the object that was beeping, and revealed it to be a scanner that detected Rugia’s energy levels and body status. At that time Rugia was screaming at the sky like he was in pain and his hair turned white and grew out to his waste line. His eyes turned completely white and a bright flash of light surrounded his body. When the light disappeared, Rugia had ascended to the third and final form, Super Ruca 3. His hair was down to his waste and was spikier than in the other forms, and had a single lock of hair hanging in front of his face. His body’s muscle mass had increased in size slightly. To top it off he had become a white fox instead of just the usual tail and ears add-on. White lightning was surging through his hair and his pupils had become slits like a snake’s eyes.

“Now fight me,” Rugia said in a dark voice, “if you’re ready to be destroyed.”

Rugia didn’t give Resnoff any time to react. In one swift movement, Resnoff was sent crashing through several houses. Rugia stood calmly looking in Resnoff’s direction, knowing that one attack wasn’t enough to defeat Resnoff. Rugia shifted into a more aggressive stance, and an explosion of power came from the rubble of a house and Resnoff, in his third transformation came flying at Rugia. Rugia have stepped out of the way, but upon missing Resnoff turned and round-house kicked Rugia through the air. Resnoff took off after him in an attempt to deal more damage, but Rugia dodged just before Resnoff’s fist made contact with him. Rugia appeared behind Resnoff and made a swing at him, but his attack was blocked. The two started at each other as hard as they could, dodging and blocking each other’s attacks. But the struggle suddenly ended with Rugia being smashed into the ground. Resnoff pinned Rugia to the ground and started pounding Rugia in the face repeatedly. Rugia managed to focus his energy and teleport behind Resnoff, kicking him into the air. With a quick movement he chased after Resnoff through the air delivering punishing blows to the purple Super Ruca 3. Resnoff blocked a single hit and the two disappeared in a flash.

“I can’t see them,” Rainbow said looking around to see a sign of them, “where are they?”

“I don’t think they’re still here a’tall.” Apple Jack said squinting.

“There both still here.” Candace said looking at the scanner in her hand, “They’re just moving to fast for anyone to see them. Rugia told me that the Panicle form’s top speed is faster than the speed of light.”

“I wish I could fly that fast.” Rainbow said looking to the sky.

A massive shock wave went off and the two combatants landed on their feet. A small amount of smoke was coming off of them from moving so fast.

“Hold it Resnoff.” Rugia said standing straight up.

“What is it.” Resnoff demanded.

“Let’s take this battle outside Ponyville.” Rugia said levitating into the air, “More innocent lives could be harmed.”

“Very well.” Resnoff said coolly as he followed Rugia to the outskirts of what was left of ponyville.

Every able bodied pony had gathered outside Ponyville to watch the battle taking place. When Candace and the other’s arrived, Rugia and Resnoff had already started at each other again and had already caused significant damage to the area. Shock waves were exploding all over the place.

“Do you think Rugia can win?” Luna asked watching Rugia zip through the air.

“Rugia has pulled through in the past,” Candace said slowly, “but I’m worried about him this time.”

“Of course Rugia will win!” exclaimed Rainbow Dash, “He promised us he would make Resnoff pay for hurting our friends and loved ones! He has never broken a promise to any of us before!”

“I hope you are right Rainbow.” Twilight said glumly her mind still on the loss of Spike.

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The battle dragged on for an hour and neither Rugia nor Resnoff were showing any signs of slowing down. But both had taken a good deal of damage. As the battle continued, it brought more stress to the spectators. Rugia was suddenly hit hard in the head and crashed into a large bolder and was buried in it’s debris. Resnoff started laughing at Rugia’s collision with the bolder and started insulting him.

“I will not stand for this any longer.” Celestia declared teleporting to the battle field and launched a beam of light from her horn at Resnoff.

Resnoff took the blast head on and didn’t even blink. Celestia stood aw-struck at the result.

“You pathetic creature,” Resnoff shook his head, “your magical powers are worthless against me.”

Celestia tried again but this time her shot was sent flying into the other direction. Resnoff’s patience was running thin and he charged an energy ball in his hand.

“WHY DON’T YOU JUST DIE!!!” Resnoff screamed as he sent a massive beam of energy barreling at the terrified princess.

The blast came to quick for her to dodge it. The beam came crashing down and exploded putting a crater in the ground.

“CELESTIA!!!” shrieked Luna staring terrified at what she saw.

Every stood in a state of terror. They had just watched their princess die at the hands of a monster. Saddened tears began to fall from every pony’s eyes. But then a flash of light appeared in front of them revealing Rugia, and Celestia laying behind him confused on what happened. Rugia’s left side of his body had been damaged badly, he had apparently shielded Celestia with his own body. Blood was running down his arm but he didn’t show hardly any sign of intense pain. Rugia turned and yanked Celestia to her hooves by her mane.

“You idiot!” he shouted shoving her at the crowd, “Are you out of your mind!?”

“I’m a princess Rugia,” Celestia shouted back at him, “it’s my duty to protect this kingdom! I have to help!”

“BY GETTING YOURSELF KILLED!?” screamed Rugia in anger.

Celestia looked at the ground glumly.

“You may be the most powerful pony in Equestria Celestia,” Rugia said walking up slowly and putting his right hand on the side of her face, “but Resnoff would have killed you if I hadn’t got there when I did. Please Celestia, I know how much this kingdom means to you. But if you die the sun will never move again.”

“He has taken so many lives Rugia.” Celestia said, tears beginning to roll down her face.

“It hurts me as much as it does you Celestia,” Rugia said hugging her with his right arm, “but please let me handle this.”

“Are you just going to stand there or are you going to fight?” Resnoff said impatiently, “Watching you talk to that worthless trash is boring me.”

Resnoff keeled over in pain and Rugia appeared seconds later with his fist planted in his stomach area. Rugia’s left hand grabbed a handful of Resnoff’s hair.

“ DON’T YOU EVER TALK ABOUT CELESTIA THAT WAY!!!” Rugia screamed and he started punching Resnoff in the gut repeatedly before kneeing him in the face and then plowing him into the ground.

Rugia kicked Resnoff in the side and he was sent flopping across the ground like a rag doll. Resnoff shot into the air and began creating a giant energy ball in the air declaring he would destroy Rugia. Rugia put his hands at his sides like Ryu from street fighter and a ball of blue light began shining from them and slowly grew bigger.

“Parish with these worthless creatures!” Resnoff shouted sending the enormous ball of energy at Rugia.

The ball came down at Rugia. The ball of energy in Rugia’s hands doubled in size and started making a high pitch ringing sound.

“Here goes nothing!” Rugia said, “Full power, Super Buster Cannon!”

Rugia thrust his hands forward and a giant blue energy beam was sent colliding into the ball of purple energy. For a few moments the ball pushed Rugia’s beam backwards, but with all his might Rugia poured his power into to beam making it larger. It burst though the ball engulfing Resnoff.