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"Well would you look at that? It looks like Glacius' tech was able to find Ultratech after all..."

Black Orchid and Chief Thunder hid themselves on a rocky ledge at the side of the mountains they were climbing and observed the large facility hidden deep within.

Outside it would seem unnoticeable at first, but when you're a secret agent hell-bent on taking down a Megacorporation responsible for making the lives of millions everywhere miserable, it'd be hard to miss.

Seeing the agent tense up with anger, Thunder placed a comforting hand on her shoulder. "Remain calm, they are not going anywhere. You can put an end to them any time, but not now. We must focus on the first task at hand."

Nodding, Orchid turned back to the large facility. "You're right..."

Moving her sight towards several of the facilities entrances that they could take, she noticed the security was pretty weak. "Weird...there's only two guards posted at three of entrances, one on the roof and another on the bridge leading over to the facilities structure."

Thunder nodded. "Indeed, it would seem rather too easy. However, perhaps they were sure no one would find them here, to the point that high security would not be required. And due to the fact that they have suffered massive damage in the past, it shouldn't exactly come as a surprise that their security is weak. Perhaps they just don't have as much to spare?"

"That's a possibility. Well then. let's get moving. The sooner we deal with this, the sooner we can track Gargos and save my brother." Orchid replied as she got up to move on.

"And my own." Thunder muttered before following the agent.

As the two made their way down to infiltrate the facility, they were unaware of the dark presence nearby, also intending to sneak in.

After telling her friends to catch up with her, Twilight had taken off for Canterlot and flew there as fast as she could like her life depended on it, though her rather poor flight capabilities only delayed her slightly.

It didn't take long for her to reach the castle courtyard and hoped her friends would catch up soon, not entirely confident in facing whatever was inside by herself.

When a few guards informed her of an intruder attacking the castle, she immediately made her way to the throne room, though most of the hallways were blocked off by rubble, her magic let her get through with little trouble.

It was only after she had finally reached the throne room that she finally came to a complete halt.

"Twilight!"

Though she was relieved to see Cadence was fine, it was the injured and slightly bloodied forms of Celestia and Luna that froze her where she stood.

"Princess Celestia! Princess Luna!"

Ignoring the sound of blades echoing, Twilight rushed over to the injured Princesses. "A-Are you okay?!"

"We are fine Twilight Sparkle, our sister will be fine too, she is just unconscious." Luna replied as Cadence finished healing her.

Slightly relieved that the Princesses were fine, Twilight now focused her attention on her brother who was currently on the other side of the throne room clashing with a bipedal skeletal creature.

"What is that thing?" Twilight asked as she got back to her hoofs.

Luna glared daggers at the skeleton and replied, "The one responsible for all of the damage. My sister and I threw some of our most powerful spells at it but they didn't even so much as faze it."

Celestia stirred and groaned as she tried to sit up. "Princess Celestia!" Twilight rushed to the white Alicorn's side. "Are you okay?"

"I...I think so...what about the creature...is it..." Celestia's question was answered when she saw the creature clashing against Shining Armor. "We must...we must stop that thing at once..." The Princess attempted to stand but found no strength in her legs.

Luna placed a hoof on her shoulder and said, "Rest sister, we shall deal with that monster."

Twilight and Cadence turned just in time to see the skeletal creature fire a large green glowing skull from his shield.

The large skull blast collided against Shining Armor and sent him flying towards the Alicorns. "SHINY!" Twilight rushed to her brothers side and helped him back up. "Are you okay?!"

Shining Armor nodded. "I'm fine Twily, just stay back."

Before she could protest, Twilight noticed a small blue glowing skull floating above Shining Armor's head. "Shining, what is that?"

"I don't know..." He replied as he glanced up at it for a moment before glaring back at the skeletal creature. "But I'm not waiting to find out." He charged his horn and prepared to use his magic to fire back.

The only problem now was, he couldn't.

"W-What?" Shining felt his legs give out and dropped to the floor. "M-My magic...it's completely drained!"

The skeletal creature cackled loudly.

Twilight and Cadence jumped in front of the Unicorn and charged up their horns.

Just as they were about to fire their magic, the skeletal creature did something they didn't expect it to do.

It spoke.

"Hehe...that skull above yer head is absorbing all of yer energy and givin' it to me." The skeletal creature spat, its bony jaw moving up and down with each word said.

Luna growled at the skeletal creature. "How dare you!"

"Who are you anyway?! And why did you attack the Princesses?!" Cadence asked, keeping her magic charged and ready.

The skeletal creature chuckled. "The name's Spinal. Remember it little Ponies because it's the last name all of ya are ever gonna hear." Spinal turned his neck slightly, causing a sickening crack that earned repulsed looks from the Ponies. "As fer why I attacked yer precious Princesses, I was under orders from my boss." Spinal started making his way towards the Ponies, cutlass clutched tightly as the sound of his boots stomping on the floor echoed throughout the entire throne room. "Now let's pick up were we left off."

"BE GONE FOUL CREATURE!" Luna shouted as she fired a beam of magic from her horn, Cadence and Twilight mimicked her actions and also fired at Spinal

Cackling, Spinal raised his shield. A bright green glow began to surround the shield as the beams of magic shot straight towards it.

As soon as the blasts collided with the shield, the Princesses could only watch in horror as their magic attacks died down and were fully swallowed up by the shield.

Spinal lowered the shield and cackled again. "AHAHAHAA!!! Ya actually thought that would work?!"

Luna growled and fired another blast of magic at him.

Once again, Spinal raised his shield and, with its power, absorbed the magic attack with ease. "By all means, keep going, I could do this all day!" He laughed.

Cadence turned to the lunar Princess and said, "Princess, it's clear that shield of his is able to absorb magic. I tried using my magic to hold him down, but it didn't work, any attempts to use magic on him will only fail since the shield can drain nearby magic sources at will. As long as he holds that shield, we can't beat him."

Twilight Sparkle looked at the throne room doors, slightly worried that she didn't see her friends entering right now. 'Come on, where are they? If we can't beat him then maybe Fulgore can. We could really use the support right now.'

"There must be some way to get that shield away from him..." Celestia muttered as she tried and failed once again to stand.

Spinal cackled once more and aimed his shield at the group of Ponies. "I don't have time to waste here so I'm gonna have to make this quick." With the shield glowing, Spinal fired a barrage of glowing green skull blasts at the Ponies.

Together, Luna, Twilight and Cadence created a barrier and shielded themselves, Shining Armor and Celestia from the green blasts. Each blast created a crack in their barrier, but thankfully it held up enough to shield them against all blasts.

"Try this!" Spinal shouted before jumping into the air.

A large green circular portal appeared on the floor beneath him and, as soon as he dived into it, it disappeared...

...and reappeared right beneath them.

Shrieking out in terror, Twilight and Cadence jumped back as Spinal came flying out of the portal, and swung his cutlass down at Twilight.

"NO!!!" Shining Armor jumped forward and shielded Twilight from the attack, screaming in pain as he felt the cutlass slash his side.

"SHINY!" Twilight screamed.

Luna jumped forward and attempted to deliver a kick but Spinal easily blocked it with his shield.

Jumping back, Luna stood in front of her weakened sister and, together with Cadence, charged up her horn once more.

"You Ponies just don't learn do ya? Stupid creatures." Spinal spat with an amused chuckle.

Luna narrowed her eyes at him. "You will rue the day you challenged us monster. No matter what it takes, we will defeat-" Luna wasn't able to finish however, as the entire wall next to them exploded.

Something large came flying through and immediately slammed into Spinal, sending the skeleton crashing against the wall on the other side of the throne room.

"Well, that's one way of gettin' in." A familiar voice said.

Recovering from her coughing caused by the cloud of dust, Twilight was greeted with the sight of her friends, who were all jumping through the large hole in the wall one by one. "You made it!"

"Darn right we did sugarcube! We told ya we'd catch up!" Applejack said.

Rarity coughed and waved away some of the dust. "Oh dear, I'm going to have to get a bath and get all of this dust out of my coat! And let's not even mention my mane and tail!"

Celestia smiled as she the Ponies gathering around Twilight. "I'm glad to see you are all okay my little Ponies."

Pinkie Pie smiled cheerfully. "Of course we're okay Princess! What's more is we made a new friend!"

"...Yeah, right." Rainbow Dash muttered with a roll of her eyes.

"New friend?" Luna gave them a questionable look before she, Celestia and Cadence turned towards the large hulking metal figure that crashed through the wall.

The dust around the figure cleared quickly, revealing the menacing figure of Fulgore himself.

Luna narrowed her eyes at the metal monster and backed away slightly, not comfortable being too close to him.

Twilight turned to her friends and asked, "How did you all get him here so fast?"

Pinkie Pie was at her face before any of the others could answer. "Well it's a really awesome story. First we went to Ponyville and Fulgore had to be invisible so nopony would see him but everypony else could hear his big loud feet and thought it was us but we told them that it wasn't us so we kept moving until we were at the train which was still there thankfully and then Rarity had to scare the driver into skipping all of the other stops and head straight to Canterlot so he did and as soon as we got here we headed straight for the castle but we couldn't get to the throne room because all of the hallways were blocked by rubble so Rainbow Dash suggested flying in another way but then Fulgore jumped through the wall for some reason so we decided to follow him and we found all of you and then you asked me how we got here so fast and I told you that we first went to Ponyville and Fulgore had to-"

Applejack put a forehoof against the pink mares mouth. "Ah think she gets the idea Pinkie."

Twilight turned back to Fulgore, who started stomping his way towards the rising Spinal.

"Ugh, great, just what I need! Yer gonna regret blindsiding me like that Fulgore!" Spinal yelled before raising his cutlass. "LET'S GO!"

Letting out a loud battle cry, Spinal charged Fulgore.

Author's Note

Since there was already a fight in the last chapter, I didn't want there to be another so quick so I just decided to let this be a short chapter to lead up to next fight between Fulgore and Spinal. Anyway, I don't know when I'll get the next chapter up, but guaranteed Fulgore will have Spinal's head.