S.T.I.A.D.L: Future problems and past solutions

As Nightmare looked over the frozen Kindo she was still prepared for another attack. She pulled her beak out and prepared to break the ice and kill the creature inside. As the beak came out however, one of his wings broke free and made another slash at her leg. The slash smashed into the damaged area and made a clean cut through her leg freeing him from her grip.

Not ready to back down she lunged her other clawed foot toward the mostly frozen Pegasus but a blast of energy pushed it back. The energy also blasted the ice surrounding Kindo shattering it and turning his icy prison into projectiles. Millions of ice shards pelted the Frost Raptor but barely injured her overall. Kindo, now in his alicorn form, stopped for a second to look at the damage.

Nightmare was missing a foot; she had frozen the blood in her leg to stop it from bleeding, along with some ice shards scattered in her wings. Kindo on the other hoof was also mostly uninjured but the ice had created some frostbite on the tip of his wings. The moment of peace didn’t last though as Nightmare fired a freezing blast from her mouth while Kindo threw up a shield to protect him.

Almost as soon as the ice blast ended Nightmare pieced his shield with her claws and threw it as far as she could. The shield stopped about fifteen feet away with a nearly perfect coating of ice around it. Nightmare went for the shield at full speed to shatter it but before she got to it a wing slashed at her wing. She turned and noticed her right wing was nearly taken off from the attack as she tumbled toward the shield.

The shield shocked her briefly before breaking to reveal that it was empty but the pony that was inside was nowhere in sight. Kindo had actually stopped his existence to pass through his shield and shimmered back when Nightmare passed him. Right now however Nightmare was losing her patients and was about to release her full power when Kindo pulled her into the time vortex.

As they traveled through Nightmare tried to escape his energy trap and attack Kindo but he was directly behind her in her blind spot. As she was fighting it with all of her might while Kindo struggled with his energy trap the seven watching the memories went unnoticed.

  “Where are we now?” Cadence asked about the tornado around them that was changing color every minute.

  “This is the time vortex and it’s currently changing color due to us leaving the universe we were in,” Dash surprisingly spoke up.

  “How would you know Rainbow Dash?” Luna beat everypony else to the question.

  “Kindo would take me different places for a little fun every now and then,” she answered nonchalantly.

  “Why did he do that?” Celestia asked since she knew him the best, other than Vectra.

  “We’re here!” Vectra interrupted in surprise by the universe they were in.

Their destination had been a planet populated by dragons and an unintelligent version of everything else. The fighting duo was up above an enormous mountain with Nightmare still inside the trap. The release of her full power both broke the trap and created a beam of pale blue light that shot into the sky. Deciding to give her the same privilege he readied to unleash his full power but she was too fast and threw him into the ground below.

The planet got a violent shake as Kindo smashed into the ground but Nightmare wasn’t done as she again shot an ice blast at him. It impacted him with full force creating a ball of ice around him nearly fifty feet in diameter. Not ready to stop yet Nightmare takes off at full speed to try and beak Kindo in half again but this time she succeeded in breaking the sphere in half. Once again the alicorn wasn’t inside but was instead over by the mountain right next to one of the caves.

As Nightmare flew after him the changes in both were very obvious. Kindo’s once jet black coat and rainbow mane and tail were now pure white as they were filled with energy. His mane, tail, and back were also leaking excess energy causing a nearly pure white aura around him. Nightmare on the other hoof had gone from nearly pale blue to a midnight blue shade but her energy leak was less obvious due to her species.

Nightmare stopped in her tracks when she noticed the cave was actually an enormous eye. The right eye was focused on Kindo while the left gave Nightmare a look of indifference. Kindo glanced at the right eye with a pleading look on his face but the eyes merely looked at Nightmare. She looked terrified as the two eyes were focused on her.

Suddenly the mountain got taller and shook off the dirt, grass, trees, and ice to reveal an enormous dragon. The massive dragon actually had dark purple scales with twenty light red curved horns on its head. Both the Frost Raptor and the Alicorn were visibly shaking at its stare alone. Suddenly the massive beast spread its wings, revealing its light blue wing membrane, and released a massive roar. Taking the hint both demi-gods left the planet without another attack and not a word was said between the two.

  “What was that?” Twilight asked after she regained her composure.

  “That was Mordekai. She is the mother of all dragons and has beaten us guardians in an unfair fight. Unfair as in according to the situation our side should have been favored. We have been on unsteady ground ever since,” Vectra replied after a few extra minutes to regain her composure.

  “Even the dragons on our planet?” Dash followed up.

  “Don’t be ridiculous-” everypony gave a sigh of relief, “-not all of them.”

Everypony was worried about that but had no time to continue questioning as they were pulled back into reality. The only thing around them, other than Nightmare and Kindo who was frozen again, was sparkling gold and silver cannon. The cannon is about sixty yards in length and about one yard in diameter for the barrel. It was obvious that whatever came out of the cannon was extremely bad and extremely powerful.

Nightmare wasted no time in loading the cannon with something that surprised everypony. She stocked it with all four thousand and one shards that power the guardians themselves. Kindo was breaking through the ice as fast as he could but while he struggled she took Dialia and slid the sword in the back of the cannon. Kindo finally broke free of his ice prison just in time to see Nightmare slide his other sword, Shadowbane, into the top of the cannon.

Kindo had little time to prepare as the cannon fired the power that created the universe straight at him.