Shadowblade's Revenge

Twilight was happy to be home; she saw her friends were, too. But she was horrified at the sight of the army. As usual, Rainbow was about to charge. And, as usual, Applejack stopped her. “You know we ain’t gonna stand a chance alone against that army, Rainbow. Ya best not even think about it.” Twilight was so excited to make the world good again, but there was always something to get in their way. “Why can’t they be fair once in a while?” Rarity asked. Applejack agreed with her. “Yup. It’s really too bad. Things were startin’ to go right for a spill, an’ now it’s all wrong again.” Pinkie Pie shrugged. “There’s gotta be somepony who’ll help us.” “I see Drukoh’s army! They’re evil!” Twilight said, also irritated with their bad luck. “I’m so frustrated, I could just scream.” Said Fluttershy. “Go ahead, Fluttershy.” Rainbow muttered. “Hey. We can help you.” Twilight heard a familiar voice. Deep and gravelly. Twilight gasped, then smiled. Ariek was back, with a few friends. About 50, to be exact. Pinkie Pie screamed with enthusiasm.

    Shadowblade’s army was worthy of beholding. Everypony in Equestria (except eight) was in the army, and they all had gone through tough training to become better fighters. Shadowblade rubbed the scar that ran down his face and thought for a moment, still trying to remember why he hated Celestia. Then he remembered. (Flashback ripple effect) He had four best friends as a young stallion. They did everything together. But one night, they were at a party and got really drunk. He remembered them doing several crazy things, which ended up killing a pony. They were put in prison for it, and they had no intention of doing anything wrong. When Shadowblade explained to Princess Celestia what happened, she forgave them. He still liked the Princess. But his friends didn’t. They held a grudge against her from that day. Eventually it rubbed off on him, especially after it happened again. After several years, he had grown to hate her. He eventually protested against her rule with his friends, threatening to assassinate the princess, and they were banished. He sighed. Perhaps it all was just a big misunderstanding, but it was too late for that now. He was the King of Equestria. He had an army. He had everything in his control. He liked being his sinister self. He would never want to go back to his old life.

    Twilight looked at the enemy’s army compared to theirs, and though there were 45 well trained enemies for every rock monster, she was pretty sure that they could win. She compared them. Pro: The army had confidence and faith in winning. Con: They were greatly outnumbered. Pro: Rock monsters are stronger than ponies. Con: The enemy had well trained soldiers. Things looked pretty even. Realistically, the enemy would probably win, but Twilight chose not to look at it that way. She looked at her friends. All she could think about was the same she thought about in this kind of situation: They are so awesome. Twilight knew they would win. They had to. The six of them together were capable of pretty much everything. Both armies were ready. The final battle was about to begin.

    Cadence stifled an explosion of excitement when Luna pointed out the six and their army. The two alicorns dashed towards the six as fast as they could. “Girls! You don’t know how glad I am to see you!” Candence exclaimed, hugging Twilight. Luna smiled at them, handing them the Elements of Harmony. “AWESOME!” Dash yelled. The final battle was finally going to start. Seeing the size of the army horrified them, but they knew they had to fight if there was any hope in saving Equestria. The enemy had archers, melee fighters, and quick-working healers. They had tons of tactics and strategies. The good army came together at last second so their strategy was to recklessly attack and hope for the best. They all knew if they worked together they could win. Twilight knew her friends’ strength. They had hope. They had faith. They were ready.The battle started. “CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-

AAAAAAAAARRRGGEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” Everypony (and every rock monster) screamed. Twilight was hesitant to fight against such overwhelming odds, but she didn’t let anything stop her. She fought hard. Really hard. She glanced to the side only to see Rainbow Dash getting hit in the head by none other than Shadowblade. Her confident war face turned into an evil smile. Next was Pinkie Pie, then Applejack, and then Rarity. Fluttershy was hit last, and the five immediately tackled Twilight. She wrestled with them but didn’t stand a chance against all five of them. Shadowblade stopped the five and gave them orders. “Give her to the commander. He will give no mercy.” Rainbow Dash spoke. “Sir! With your permission, we’d like to dispose of her personally.” Shadowblade rolled his eyes. “I suppose you can go but make it snappy!” “Yes sir!” The five shouted in unison.  They carried Twilight off. Twilight sighed. Killed by her own friends. Once they were away from the army, they put her down. “Well, Sugarcube, get on up. We got enemies to kill.” Applejack said. Twilight was puzzled. “What?” Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes. “Just look at that pony! She thought we were actually evil!” She stifled a laugh, as well as Pinkie Pie, who found it especially funny. Twilight sighed, smiled, and walked to her friends, who were ready to go back to battle. “Are we just going to charge them recklessly like last time or some up with a strategy?” Rarity asked. “I think we should go after Shadowblade. If we break the staff, all of the ponies he ever turned evil will be good again. None of my spells will work on it. We need to use the Elements.” Twilight said. The six had their elements on already so they dashed off to fight Shadowblade.

    Luna and Cadence saw that the monsters were getting weakened because they didn’t kill when the evil army did lots of that. They were not going to kill, only knock out because most of the ponies in the army were normally good, so if they died it wouldn’t work out well when they were good again. The two princesses fought harder than before, rapidly taking down the enemies. Which was very convenient for Twilight and the others, who had to keep their focus on Shadowblade. From a distance they saw the six confronting him.

Shadowblade was ready to fight the six. He was disappointed when he saw the ponies could endure his staff. It all came down to his fighting ability. As long as the staff was in his hooves, it was unbreakable. But if it was taken away, the six could break it. He held his staff extremely tight. The six approached. It was finally time to end Shadowblade’s tyranny.

Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo were all alone. They left the base when the army didn’t come back. They had to find somepony who would help them. “They could be anywhere now. We’ll never find them.” Sweetie Belle moaned. Scootaloo’s reply was clearly uneasy. “We’ll find them soon guys, don’t worry.” “Ah’ve got every reason to worry! Mah sister and her friends are out there! Anything could happen!” Apple Bloom shouted. The three friends had no idea what to do. Their aimless trek through Equestria was not as successful as they hoped. “What are we gonna do?” Said Scootaloo. The three were just about ready to give up. It took them a minute to realize that they’d walked all the way to Canterlot.

To say that Shadowblade was hard to beat would be a gross understatement. Pinkie Pie had started the fight by blasting him with her party cannon, catching him off guard so the others could attack. Twilight was desperate to break the staff, but she figured out by the way that he clutched his staff so closely and carefully that they probably could do nothing until he no longer had it. They tested the Elements. She was right. They had to take it from him. He was really strong and dealt each one of them ridiculously hard blows, but they had to endure the pain. They punched and kicked and fought hard, but they would need help if they were going to get the staff.

The three were shocked to see they walked so far. They looked around for a few seconds. “Look!” Scootaloo yelled, pointed at the six and Shadowblade. They were livened by the sight of their compadres. The bolted in their direction, but stopped shortly and observed their friends from a closer distance. “It looks like they’re trying to take that staff away from that creepy looking guy.” Sweetie Belle observed. “Ah think they need help.” Apple Bloom said. They snuck up behind Shadowblade as he wrestled the six and snatched the staff right out of his hooves. By the time he saw who took the staff, Twilight and the others already had the Elements working, and he watched as his precious staff shattered into a million pieces. He was utterly shocked. The look on his face was apparently funny enough to make Rainbow Dash fall to the ground laughing. Twilight rolled her eyes and cried tears of joy along with her friends. Shadowblade had gone running away with four other men. The four who were evil anyway. Five enemies left to hunt down, with all of Equestria turned good. Apple Bloom barreled herself into Applejack, as well as Sweetie Belle, who had Rarity on the ground. After the sisterly reunion they all went to see everypony else. Twilight rushed to Shining Armor and Cadence and hugged them both. “I’m so glad you’re okay.” She said. She was relieved to see Celestia, who she ran up to and hugged. “Twilight Sparkle, I’m glad you’re alright. Are your friends okay?” Celestia said. “Yes. Shadowblade survived along with four other ponies, but they ran away.” Twilight replied. “We need to hunt them down before they try something else. I thank you and your friends for again savin Equestria.” Celestia said, and she walked away to see her sister. “Wait!” Twilight called. “Yes, Twilight?” Celestia asked, ready to listen to whatever Twilight had to say. “I’d like you to give credit to three fillies, Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo. Without them we wouldn’t have stopped Shadowblade.” Celestia nodded, smiled, and left. Twilight headed to her friends. “Without you girls, Equestria would be overtaken by evil. Thanks for always having my back.” She said. “No prob, Twi.” Rainbow replied. “You deserve tons a’ credit too, Sugarcube.” AJ said. The six gathered for a group hug. After a second, they were stopped by Shining Armor. “Twiley! Cadence and I just talked to Princess Luna, and it looks like you, you’re friends, me, and Cadence are going on a trip!”

Shadowblade and his friends were moving quickly to get to a place where they could plan a scheme that nopony in Equestria could stop. Their secret base, which was on the borders of Saddle Arabia. They were riding skateboards because they needed a break from running, and they had a long way to go. Skateboards were the nicest mode of transportation they could afford at the moment.

Rainbow Dash landed and reported. “There’s 5 of them riding on skateboards and they’re goin’ to Saddle Arabia!” Shining Armor nodded. “We’ve got a long trek ahead of us, guys. We should get going.” He said. Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, and Cadence flew at the same pace as Twilight and the others, who were running. They knew they could rest after it was over and didn’t stop. Saddle Arabia was a long way away, but they ran quickly. In a matter of hours, they were all gasping for air as they arrived at the border of Saddle Arabia. They stood right in front of the base, ready to finish off the evil ponies once and for all.

Shadowblade was speechless for a few seconds when he looked out of the window. “Guys! Look out that window! Am I imagining things?” His compadres shook their heads. “No. Unless we’re all imagining things.” One said, furious at the sight of the eight ponies outside. They were beginning to walk inside when Shadowblade smiled. “Slash, go get those swords! Time to give these ponies the worst and last day of their lives!”

When they entered the base using the willy-nilly barging strategy, the first thing they saw was five really tough ponies, each armed with two twin swords that were sharper than something that’s really really sharp. But there were lots of swords in the base so they grabbed some before the enemies could act. Now it was time to kick butt (hopefully for the last time). Shining Armor and Cadence were both fighting Shadowblade, Rainbow Dash fought the one called Slash, Pinkie Pie fought one named Inferno who had a moustache like Hitler’s, Rarity fought one called Nuke, Fluttershy fought one named Necrofury, and Applejack fought named Boltblaze. Twilight was moving from enemy to enemy helping her friends when they needed. She was supporting Fluttershy. The two ponies fought madly against Necrofury. When Fluttershy had Necrofury under control, she rushed to Pinkie, who was getting a bit distracted by Inferno’s moustache. As they fought, Twilight glanced to the side to see Rainbow and Slash in a lock with their swords which they had obviously been in for a long time, but Dash took the upper hoof and took him down, burying her swords into Slash’s shoulders. She continued to fight Inferno but before she knew it Pinkie had Inferno unconcious. Fluttershy had won against Necrofury. Twilight went to Rarity, who was pretty evenly matched with Nuke. Four swords against two was overwhelming for Nuke, who was down pretty quick with two ponies on him. Boltblaze was fighting Applejack for a while but Boltblaze hit Applejack in the head with his sword hilt, knocking her to the ground. By the time Twilight had her eyes on AJ, it was too late. She had been stabbed in the stomach. "NOOOOOOOOOO!" She screamed, catching the attention of her friends. Cadence and her brother had Shadowblade was on the floor with a sword piercing each limb. They stopped what they were doing, tackled Boltblaze, and crowded around Applejack. They all held back from crying at the sight of her wounds. While everypony else watched AJ, Twilight disposed of the dying enemies. She decided instead of killing them just to lock them inck  their own prison. Twilight took the key and destroyed it with her magic and, just to make sure they never escaped, made a forcefield around the cage that was impossible to penetrate. She ran back to her friends to check on AJ. Cadence grabbed Applejack. “I’m going to get her back to Equestria. Do you know anyone who could help her?” She asked. “Yup! We know this awesome zebra named Zecora that lives in the Everfree Forest. She could totally help Applejack!” Pinkie said. Cadence nodded and left the base, heading to the Everfree Forest. The other seven left, walking at a very brisk pace. “That would’ve totally been awesome if Applejack wasn’t dying.” Dash muttered. The others nodded in agreement. “I’m glad this is all over. Ever since Rainbow Dash disappeared everything has been crazy.” Twilight said. They all kept moving, silently praying that Applejack would be okay.

Home never looked so welcoming to Twilight before. They all went straight to Zecora’s house when they got back. When they opened the door, they were very relieved at what they saw. Applejack was bandaged up and Zecora had things to speed up the healing process. She would be better in just a few days. Pinkie Pie was the first to run in and hug Applejack, but she didn’t barrel herself into her because of her wound. Twilight and the others also went in, and then Cadence and Shining Armor would have to leave. After they said their goodbyes, they went to Sweet Apple Acres. It was cider making season, and Applejack was not at all up to the task, so the cider making process went pretty slow that year. The six were hanging out and relaxing on a couch. “Well I’m glad we can finally rest.” Twilight said. “Me too, wars aren’t fun at all!” Pinkie agreed. “I’m excited to nap.” Rainbow murmured, yawning. “I am definitely looking forward to relaxing.” Rarity said, confirming all of their urges to rest. “Ah can’t wait ‘til tonight. Ah don’t remember the last time Ah slept.” Applejack added. “Me too. I just want to relax in my house with my critters.” Fluttershy said, smiling at how peaceful that sounded. Twilight was happy it was all over. They had saved the world again, and earned a good rest.