My Little Pony: Friendship is Eternal

Chapter 4
An Unwinnable Battle

As the last pony ran out of Ponyville, Twilight and her friends waited in the center of town underneath Town Hall. The dark night seemed to be darker than it normally was, despite the fact that the Moon was full. Twilight felt a sense of foreboding danger approaching. She looked at her sides and saw the looks on her friends faces that they also felt it.

“What do you reckon this monster is?” Applejack asked.

“I don’t know, but if the Princess fell to it you can bet it is strong and pure evil,” Twilight responded.

Suddenly the already dark night seemed to get darker still, and they knew that the evil creature had at last arrived. They looked around, knowing he was there but unsure where. The night hid him, making him nearly invisible.

“Over there!” Rainbow Dash, who was flying mid air so she could look farther, pointed in the distance, as a shadowy figure walked over the crest of a hill. As he walked down the hill, it seemed like he ate the light around him. The girls waited, hoping to at least catch a glimpse of his face. He kept getting slowly closer, and it wasn’t until it was too late that Twilight came to the realization.

“He has no face!” Twilight exclaimed in surprise.

“What a horrifying figure,” Rarity said aloud.

“You six must be the new wielders of the Elements of Harmony. Celestia was a true fool to think six small ponies like yourselves could ever hope to stop me, even with the Elements,” Rancorous said from afar.

“We will stop you, and you will pay for what you did to the Princess,” Twilight countered.

“What makes you think you six have the power to defeat me, even the great Princess Celestia failed to keep me contained forever when she used the Elements of Harmony herself. Now look where she is...GONE! And nothing you ponies will do will ever bring her back,” Rancorous yelled out with joy in his voice.

“Just you wait. You will see that we are way stronger than you!” Rainbow Dash exclaimed with pride.

“Is that so?” Rancorous rhetorically asked.

Suddenly, he kicked off the ground and soared through the air straight at Rainbow Dash, who was still hovering mid air. Being the fastest in Equestria however, Rainbow Dash barely managed to dodge Rancorous as he flew past her in mid air. Without hesitating, the girls activated the Elements of Harmony. Their various Elements began to glow with a bright aura around them.

“NOOOOOO! I WILL STOP YOU!” Rancorous once again yelled.

With all of his strength, he kicked off from where he was standing. His extraordinary speed made him but a simple shadow moving across the ground towards the girls. But already he was too late. The aura spread from their Elements to around the girls as a whole, making them one singular entity. Their eyes began to radiate lights as bright as the Sun. The six ponies lifted off of the ground and floated in mid air. The aura was bright, and not even Rancorous could consume the light that the Elements displayed. As he continued to charge towards them, he bounced off their aura as if it was some type of energy shield. With all of his might he kicked the aura, attempting to break through it.

At last a double helix with the colors of a rainbow sprouted out of the top of the aura. As it twisted and turned in mid air, it turned towards the evil it intended to stop. Rancorous, was immediately underneath it, but dodged it with his swift speed. The rainbow followed behind him, twisting and turning as Rancorous continued to quickly dodge. The rainbow helix created by the Elements continued to chase him around the town, through the various maze like paths of the city. Yet his incredible speed was greater than that of the rainbow helix chasing him. He was increasing the gap between him and the rainbow with each step he took.

“It ain’t working!” Applejack shouted.

“Keep trying! He will have to mess up eventually!” Twilight shouted back.

“HA! It seems the Elements have lost their touch. Perhaps you six don’t represent the Elements as well as you thought,” Rancorous said, as he continued to skip from place to place.

“Don’t listen to him girls! He is just trying to get into our heads,” Twilight assured her friends.

“I can do this all day, but I bet you six will tire out eventually,” Rancorous stated.

“He’s right,” Fluttershy whimpered, “I’m too weak to keep doing this.”

“I feel it too,” Pinkie Pie confirmed.

“ARGH! Focus harder! We can do this!” Twilight exclaimed.

Rancorous jumped on top of a house, and started to jump from rooftop to rooftop. As he did so, the rainbow helix following him began to start going through the homes, punching holes in whatever it went through. It went through Rarity’s boutique, through the Town Hall, and through the countless other buildings in Ponyville. Whatever building Rancorous landed on top of, the rainbow helix destroyed it in an attempt to stop him.

“NO!” the six girls yelled out at once with a mystical voice unlike their own. Their bodies began to glow a bright light. Soon it spread to the aura surrounding them. It grew slowly but slowly brighter. Rancorous glanced over when he caught the increasingly bright light in the corner of his eye.

“It can’t be!” he exclaimed in horror.

At last the light burst out in all directions, creating a dome which expanded outwards in every direction. As it expanded it began to engulf all of Ponyville. Rancorous, who had saw this began to run with all of his speed away from the dome. Yet unlike the rainbow helix, this dome was catching up. By now the dome had engulfed all of Ponyville and was expanding at an ever increasing rate.

“NOOOOOOOO!!! NOT AGAIN!” Rancorous yelled as he was consumed by the dome of light just before the edges of the EverFree Forest. As soon as it touched him it sucked him into its dome, like a mighty gravitational force. After consuming him, the dome stopped growing and instead started to shrink back to its origin.

As it quickly receded, the same voice which spoke before when the dome was created spoke again. “The great evil has been sealed away again.”

The dome at last disappeared back at its origin. The six ponies still hovered momentarily in mid air with the light still beaming out of their eyes. However, this quickly disappeared as well, as the six ponies fell to the ground, unconscious.