Cherry had returned to the cave with tear stained cheeks and blood covered hooves. She had explained to her allies what had happened. They had all mourned afterwards. Afterwards, they had all headed outside to see the ponies that had died. But apparently, this time was special. The large projection in the sky showed all the tributes that had died in the games so far, not just for the day. Cherry made a mental list of the poor ponies that had died.

Kabuto
Breezerunner
Coldblood
Pageturner
Steel Spanner
Ember Blaze
Tuna
Death Reap
SpiceSnap
Night Fang
Terry
Indigo Rain
Duck Rhinoceros
Chicken Elephant
Ember
Draco Flare

Once the first projection had ended, Cherry bowed her head in respect to the ponies. Afterwards she looked up and scowled at the evil laughter that echoed around the arena. A black face was shown in the sky. Nightmare Moon gave another laugh before continuing.

"Aahhh, its nice to see you all again my dear entertainment. I hope you have enjoyed your stay here, but alas all good things must end, well, almost all." She smirked, as if referring to herself. "the deathmatch shall begin tomorrow morning, as soon as the day moon rises above the horizon. A forcefield shall form around the main area, and a poisonous gas will be released into the remaining area. So its either deathmatch, or gas. Your choice." She laughed again, her green eyes glinting in the darkness. The projection ended, and the whole arena was filled with a eerie silence. Sketch broke it.

"Welp, we best be going now." Cherry looked at him with a confused expression.

"Your just going to give up like that?" She asked, disbelievingly.

Sketch Pad shrugged, "Yeah, we don't really have any other choice than to go to the cornucopia. We'd at least have a chance to survive if we go there."

Moon nodded in agreement. "Its the best option we have now." Cherry opened her mouth to object again, but Blaze silenced her with a glare. Sketch slung a backpack over his shoulder and began to walk out. Moon grabbed her bow, arrows, and another backpack, then followed Sketch. Blaze took the rest and exited as well. Cherry looked at them, and sighed, grabbing her knives and following.

She rushed out and began a slow trot next to Blaze. She looked down at the ground, and sighed again. She kept her head low for most of the trip, when she felt a strange urge. Something was telling her to look up. She furrowed her brow, but kept her gaze lowered. Soon, her instincts got the best of her, and she raised her muzzle. She gasped.

A thin streak of colors was forming across the sky. Cherry's gaze followed it, observing the beauty. It consisted of six colors, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple. Cherry's eyes flicked open in realization. It was something extremely rare, that most ponies only ever dreamed of seeing.

"Its a rainbow.." Cherry muttered, never letting her eyes leave the colors moving across the sky. She saw Moon give her a puzzled glance from the corner of her eye, but Cherry looked in the direction it was headed. the edge of the arena. Then, she gave in to temptation. She turned and began to run, following the rainbow. Blaze was shouting to her, but she didn't notice. They could come if they wanted, but they couldn't stop her.

Soon she heard hoofsteps behind her, and she glanced to see all of her friends following. She smiled, realizing that she had made true friends. She turned back toward the front, and began to run harder. The rainbow had begun to slow a bit, and seemed to lower closer to the ground. The barrier of the arena was getting larger and faster. Cherry was beginning to slow from the cold and exhaustion, when she saw a pony at the head of the rainbow.

Cherry gasped as the pony slowed a bit, then took off faster than ever. White was beginning to form at the tip of her hooves. A cone was soon visible too. Cherry began to run harder too, just barely managing to keep the mare in sight. Soon, when the mare was on a crash course toward the barrier, she pulled up. A ring of colors exploded outward. Its knocked Cherry back on her rump, and managed to blow Blaze back a couple yards. Cherry looked up in time to see it cracking, then breaking the forcefield.

Cherry jumped up and ran toward the hole, her escape. Her friends began to follow. the mare began to turn her accent around and began to head toward the running ponies. She then pulled up along them and dropped down to a run. Cherry looked to her side to observe the mare. She was a pegasus, obviously, and had an orange coat. Her mane was messy and purple, and she had dark eyes, also purple. That wasn't what surprised Cherry. The mare had a thick jacket on, with various metal devices all around it. A small piece of metal was also snug in her ear, with a microphone leading toward her muzzle. She also had heavy duty boots, and guns strapped to her sides. The mare then began to talk.

"Once you get out of the arena, stop and wait. We have to remove the tracking devices before we continue." Cherry nodded, just barely managing to hear her over the howling wind in her ears. She soon stumbled out of the barrier, and stopped to catch her breath. Blaze followed, then Moon, Sketch, and the mare. The mare herself then wasted no time in waving some sort of scanner over Blaze. She then put it down and grabbed a knife. "I'd advise you brace yourself," she muttered to Blaze, before cutting out a spot on his skin. She then reached in with the knife and flicked out a tiny device, that was blinking green. She then stomped on it with her hoof, and moved on to Moon Breeze.

Cherry was soon sighing with relief as the last tracking device was thrown away and crushed. "Lets go." The mare said, beginning to run in a direction. At one point, she started flying, and began typing in things on something that looked like a watch. She then dropped down and took a quick turn to the right. Cherry and Moon turned with east, Blaze barely managed to turn, Sketch had to use his wings to help. The mare then stopped, and typed in a few more things. She looked at all four ponies. "You'll probably want to take a step back." They all obliged and stepped back, only to witness a dark blue cylinder open up in front of them. The mare then smirked at Blaze's startled expression.

"Lets go, before they catch up." The mare said, beginning to wave them toward the portal. Cherry gulped.

"Before, who catches up?" She said, looking around uncertainly.

"I think I know who.." Moon Breeze pointed out, pointing a trembling hoof toward a pony flying toward them, with several other behind her. It was Nightmare Moon. The mare grunted in annoyance, but seemed strangely calm. You four go through the portal now, I'll deal with miss eternal night here. She began to push Moon through the portal, when she objected.

"No. I'll stay and fight." The mare was surprised.

"But, you don't have the right equipment, your tired and hungry! You were just in the Equestrian Games for suns sake!" Cherry was about to question her use of the word 'sun', when Moon spoke again.

"I know, but I've betrayed my friends already. This is the least I can do to help. You all can go, I'll hold her back as long as I can." The mare was about to contradict her, before stepping back and giving a nod. Moon Breeze looked at Blaze, Sketch, and then Cherry. "I'm sorry..." Cherry ran forward to hug her, but was pulled back by a frustrated mare.

"We have to go through the portal now! Or else we'll have to run the whole way, with Nightmare Moon on our backs!" Blaze and Sketch wasted no time in leaping through, Cherry hesitated. The mares glare hardened. "Now." Cherry gulped, and turned toward the blue cylinder. She took a breath and entered.

She then felt herself being thrown about, torn apart and being put together again. She felt herself shrinking and growing. She felt lightheaded, when she found ground under her hooves again, and a light, gentle voice spoke next to her.

"Welcome to the rebellion."

Author's Note

Its finally done! Woo! God, my fingers hurt. If you couldn't tell, THERE WILL BE A SEQUEL! YAY! Stay turned for, 'The Dark of Night, the Light of Day.' Thank you to everyone who submitted OCs to make this story possible! And thank you to everyone who stuck through it, despite the fast paced writing, and grammar mistakes. Thank you everypony! I hope you enjoyed this finale, and look forward to the sequel. I will also be looking for more OCs for the sequel itself, but I will soon make a thread in this group when I am ready. See ya soon!

(Oh, and Shooting Star won the games )