The last thunderbolt

Whitemane told everything he knew to the ponies. They were shocked and confused and at first didn't believe what he said was true but eventually Whitemane managed to convince them of the upcoming danger. It wasn't long before the ponies made their way to the town mayor to explain the situation, and as they did, one by one the entire populace of the town gathered around to see what was going on. Convicing the mayor turned out to be a lot harder than convincing the mane 6.

"You must understand, Equestria is in danger, THIS IS NO JOKE!" Shouted Whitemane, trying to reason with the mayor.

"And why should i believe YOU?" Asked the mayor, unconvinced of Whitemanes words.

"The real question is not whether you can believe me or not, but whether you can afford to not believe me if what i'm telling is true."

Whitemanes words finally seemed to be sinking in to the mayors mind, for a moment she stood there thinking and not breathing a word. Then Whitemane continued.

"Look at this town, these ponies are your responsibility, they trust you with their lives and it is your duty to keep them safe....do not let them down."

The surrounding ponies were talking to each other, some of them believed Whitemane, some of them didn't, and some just didn't know what was going on.

"Alright, assuming that what you're saying is true...what would you have us do? Do we run? Where would you have us go?" Asked the mayor silencing up the gossip going on in the crowd and direction everyponys attention to Whitemane.

"No. These things will stop at nothing to wipe us all out, no clouds, trees or even the underground can protect us from their wrath....We must fight back, and protect that which we hold dear!" Said Whitemane in a loud voice, leaving some of the ponies scared of what will become of them. Many of the surrounding ponies had never seen violence in their lives...and now death itself is drawing close to their friendly town.

"Fight back?" Asked the mayor "With what? We have no weapons."

"Then we must make weapons"

"We have no allies"

"Then we must make allies"

"WE HAVE NOTHING!"

"....We have magic."

"HA!" Laughed the mayor. "What can our magic do against their armor. If they are truly as powerful as you described then our magic would only be good for bringing out a red carpet and showering them with flowers as we let them take our town." Said the mayor sarcastically.

"Our magic is more powerful than you might know, our will is strong, and we have harmony and friendship to help us." Whitemane tried to reason with the mayor once more.

"HA! Friendship? Harmony? We are not here to make friends with them Mr. Whitemane." The mayor laughed.

"And what would you have us do?!" Shouted Whitemane in a fierce voice, leaving the mayor with her eyes wide open and the crowd gazing at him. "Huh? What are you suggesting? Do you want to just give up? Just let them march in here without a fight and slaughter everyponys children and leave the town defenseless? Yes, i know the situation sounds desperate but there is always hope...it's only desperate if we let them win."

Whitemanes speech inspired some of the ponies, but most were still too scared of the upcoming horrors, or just plain confused. Nopony knew what would become of their precious town, they knew they couldn't run but kept their ears open to hear if Whitemane has a plan on how to stop this.

"The towns safety might be my priority, but i am no warhero" Explained the mayor. "I lack the courage and the strenght to lead my ponies to victory.....would you be willing to lead them, Sir Whitemane...Could you show these ponies hope in a time when there's nothing left but despair?" Asked the mayor, now talking in a voice much more respectful towards Whitemane.

Whitemane paused only for a brief moment, he knew that accepting this role would mean no way back, and that the entire town...no, WHOLE of Equestria would be counting on him, but he also knew that this had to be done, and so he spoke "I am willing to lead....but are you willing to listen?" Asked Whitemane turning around and and reasking the question, to the mayor, the crowd, and the mane 6. "Are you?.........Are you?"

The whole town was concentrating their attention to Whitemane, nopony had the courage to breathe a word right then, coz it would probably mean speaking in the name of the whole town. After a brief moment, the mayor finally spoke.

"It doesn't seem like we have much of a choice Sir Whitemane....I shall do whatever it takes to protect my town....even if it means following your orders."

The crowd of ponies looked upon each other and noded to each and to Whitemane, that way showing their will to cooperate. Whitemane saw everyponys expression and heard shouts coming from the crowd "We will follow you!" "We are with you Whitemane" "Tell us what we need to do!" "YEAH!"

And nopony tried to stop the ones shouting, Whitemane realized that he has secured their support and so he spoke. "Alright then, we've got no time to waste so listen....this is what were gonna do."

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In just less than half an hour ponies were already running around the town, securing their homes, building barricades in front of the town, sending their children out of the town until the battle is over, closing windows and finishing things they thought had to be done before the battle.

Meanwhile Whitemane was talking to the mane 6 and Spike in the middle of the town.

"Since you are my most trusted ponies and dragon within the town, there's no one else i'd have do this important task for me....Equestrias fate is withing you hooves."

"Khe, khem." Loudly coughed Spike.

"....And claws"

Spike noded in approval.

"Alright then, listen, were not going to win this war without allies, so i've entrusted you in gathering some...this is no easy task, so that's why i've chosen you for it, i know you can do it. Are you up for the task?"

Spike and the ponies noded, and Rainbow added impatiently "Just get on with it already!"

"Right, i have assignments for each of you. First of all" Said Whitemane turning to Twilight. "We need information, Twilight, i know you have all sorts of books in your library. Can you look up something about someone who calls himself "The Legionnaire"?"

"Consider it done." Answered Twilight.

"Good, Second, we need to warn the high queen of what's going on. A letter to Celestia should suffice, i trust you can handle this quite easily Spike." Whitemane said turning to Spike.

"Of course i can! I'll have it done in no time" Said Spike and ran off to Twilights library.

"Glad to see someones so eager to help." Said Whitemane watching the little dragon run off as if he was competing in a race.

"Khe khem" Loudly coughed Rainbow, growing tired of watching Whitemanes eyes following Spike.

"Oh right, where was i....Ah yes! Defenses, i'm pretty sure Pinkie can muster up something interesting to keep the attackers out of our town for a while long. Am i right Pinkie?"

Pinkie giggled. "Of course silly, i got just the trick for these occasions."

"You had something planed in case the town got attacked by a large group of unknown attackers from a different real?!" Asked Rarity, shocked from Pinkies words, to what Pinkie just gave a simple answer. "mhm!" and continued smiling.

"....That's Pinkie Pie for ya." Added Applejack.

"Hehe, i got a feeling i'm going enjoy this."

Rainbow gave an angry look to Whitemane.

"Erm...yeah." stuttered Whitemane. "For the rest of you, i have a lists of allies i have entrusted you to gather. I'll start with the one that's the easiest one to my mind."

"Applejack." Said Whitemane turning to her and handing her a list. "I hope this won't be too much of a problem for you."

Applejack looked at the list and spoke with great confidence. "HA! Piece of cake."

"Excellent, the next task won't be as easy, and i am very sorry i have to hang this burden upon your shoulders Fluttershy." Said Whitemane turning to the shy pony and continuing "But in times like these i just don't have much of a choice."

Said Whitemane sympathetically and handed her the list.

"Fluttershy looked upon the list and gasped "Oh my....i don't know if i...."

"Fluttershy..." Said Whitemane, raising up his shades and looking deep into  Fluttershys eyes.

"But i...."

"Please Fluttershy....i'm counting on you....and so are your friends." Said Whitemane, grabbing Fluttershys hooves and bending down, but not breaking eye contact, "Please......"

Fluttershy blushed and looked worried, but found the courage in herself to accept the task. "Um..okay..I'll try my best."

"I know you will, i have faith in you my dearest friend." Said Whitemane and let her hooves go and got up and turned to the next pony.

"Rarity..." Whitemane stuttered for a moment, the task he was about to hand to Rarity was hard even to write down. "I know you won't like this." Said Whitemane.

"What is it my dear?"

"I want you to visit some old....friends."

The expression on Raritys face after seeing the list was beyond priceless, her eyes sprung wide open from shock. "You want me to WHAAAAT?! Oh no no no no no, absolutely not, i will not..."

Whitemane interrupted Raritys refusing. "Rarity, i know this is too much to ask, but i wouldn't ask for this if it weren't so desperate."

"But i....i..." Rarity wanted to refuse so very badly but at the same time some part of her was pushing her to accept. She just didn't know what to say.

"They could prove to be truly powerful allies." Added Whitemane.

"I......i..." Rarity just didn't have the strenght to say yes, but when she saw how seriously and at the same time desperately Whitemane was looking at her, she just use all her power to just push the words out of her throat, through her sealed lips. ".....Fffffiine...."

"You'll do it?" Asked Whitemane, surprised of Raritys answer. He never actually thought that she would accept.

"Yes."  Said Rarity with an angry look on her face. "BUT YOU'LL OWE ME BIG TIME FOR THIS!" Fiercely shouted Rarity, jumping towards Whitemane.

Whitemane just laughed of the ponys anger, he was far too cheerful right now to be scared by her. "Haha, whatever you say my queen." Said Whitemane and even bowed before Rarity.

Whitemanes attitude nearly angered Rarity even more, but eventually she calmed down.

Rainbow was getting pissed off meanwhile, watching Whitemane talk to everypony but her. She couldn't take it anymore and yelled at him. "HEY! What about me? I'm here too, remember?! Got something for me too?"

"Indeed." Replied Whitemane. "For you i've prepared a particularly difficult task....two of em, to be exact." Whitemane corrected himself and handed her the list.

Rainbow read the first task. "Huh, this shouldn't be too hard, looks like you've underestimated....wait.." Rainbow turned her attention to the second task. "WHAT? You can't expect me to..." Rainbow started yelling and got interrupted by Whitemane.

"Why do you think i left you for the last? I know this is no easy task, and i have great confidence in you." Explained Whitemane, trying to calm her down.

"But she'll never listen to me..."

"Does this mean you're not up for the task? Have my hopes in you been in vain?

"What?! NO! Of course not, i just...."

"Then what seems to be the problem, i can't see." Said Whitemane with a grin on his face.

"Oh you are sooo..."

"I know."

"Whatever..." Carelessly said Rainbow. "Lets just get this over with already."

"Right then ponies, we've no time to waste, proceed with your tasks, and please make it as quick as you can."

"You bet cha" Said Applejack and ran off.

"Alright." Said Twilight and also left, Rarity went away grunting and mumbling something angrily to herself, and Pinkie Pie just bounced away not saying a thing. The last one to leave was Rainbowdash.

"On it." Said Rainbow and flew off but stopped in mid air after a few seconds. "Huh, wait a minute....What about you? What are you going to do while were working our flanks off for the sake of Equestria? You're not just planing on sitting and watching us sweat, are you?" Asked Rainbow, suspicious of Whitemanes passiveness

"No....i have something special in mind, hehe"

"Whatever, lets hope it's something we can use." Said Rainbow, having doubts of Whitemanes words and flew off.

"Believe me, it is." Said Whitemane to himself.

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The evening was upon Ponyville, and the day was starting to darken with each passing minute. As the ponies prepared for whatever fate awaits them, Whitemane was consulting Celsetia herself in the town square when the town mayor ran up to them trying to catch her breath. She bowed before Celstia before she spoke.

"Your majesty. Pardon me for interrupting you, but the defenses are ready Sir Whitemane."

"Excellent, that's the first good news i've heard in the last few hours." said Whitemane with a sudden smile on his face that soon faded.

"What of our allies Sir Whitemane? and where the hell are your main agents?" Asked the mayor, she was starting to doubt Whitemanes capability of being a leader of war.

"They should be here any moment." Whitemane noticed Twilight running up to them. "Ah, and there they come. What news have you brought us Twilight? anything good?"

"Not good at all i fear...."Said Twilight in a worried voice.

"I take it you didn't find any information of our attackers then?"

"On the contrary, i found a lot of it, but..."

"But what?" Whitemane didn't like Twilights worried look "Is everything alright Twilight?"

"These things....if they are what looked up in my books then we are in for one hell of a fight....."

"Gulp..." Whitemane chuckled loudly. "One way or another, i need to know everything you have to tell me."

"Sigh" Twilight took a deep breath before starting "the creature that calls himself "The Legionnaire", he is said to command an army of creatures that no one has ever called other than "voidlings"

"Voidlings?" Asked Whitemane and the mayor. Celestia looked as if though she's had to deal with these things before.

"Yes, voidlings" continued Twilight "Creatures that do not hold a body of their own, but instead are a dark walking mass that consumed everything it crosses, keeping the most suitable and strongest part for a body and tossing out the previous shape they had taken before it. Your human torso description really gave me the shivers....you know what this means, right? Twilight asked to the equally as scared as her, Whitemane.

"Earth......they've been there.....and by the looks of it, the humans did not have the power to stop them...."

Twilight noded with her head hung down.

"This is ill news indeed...." said Whitemane desperately.

"And that's not all....It not only means that the humans couldn't stop them, but also that they only strenghtened them and dealt no damage to their forces what so ever. Their leader has the power to bring back to life fallen voidlings, so if their defenders haven't destroyed every single one of them in battle then they will only all come back to life...."

"So their army is as strong as it ever was, they have the body of humans and the head of....i don't even know what that was." Said Whitemane unable to find a name for what he saw.

"their head never changes, what you saw was the typical voidling face." Explained Twilight.

"Hmm...that doesn't help." Said Whitemane and hung his head down, Twilight and the mayor did the same, and as the night drew closer, Celestia finally decided to say something.

"The night is coming Sir Whitemane, and my power begins to fade...i'm afraid i must soon take my leave, my sister will aid you as best she can over the night."

"We thank you for your support supreme ruler, and for the guards you've sent to help defend our town."

"Don't thank me yet, we haven't even seen what were dealing here yet. for all we know, my guards might not offer much help against something so....dark." said Celestia, wishing she could offer more then she has already given to the defenders.

"Every little bit counts your majesty."

"Bits do not win wars Sir Whitemane...but i hope you will. May luck shine upon you this night my brave ponies, and may you emerge victorious."

Shortly before leaving, Celestia handed Twilight a box containing the elements of harmony. "I trust you'll know how to use these, my precious student, they might just change the outcome of the battle. I have great faith in you Twilight, you've never let us down before, and i know you can do it again." And with those words Celestia flew off, back to her castle.

"Lets hope those come in handy in this battle." Said Whitemane.

"we'll see, i don't think they were made for purposes like these." Replied Twilight.

Whitemane looked to the skies which were getting dark. "The time has come to gather everypony at the town square, we need to discuss our battle strategy."

"Right, we've no time to lose." Said Twilight and followed Whitemane to the town square.

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The sun was nearly behind the mountains when everypony started gathering around the town square to hear what Whitemane has to say. Whitemane looked around and saw his allies arriving just as planed. From the west side of the town, Applejack came in, and behind her the populace of the town of Appleloosa, led by Braeburn and Sheriff Silverstar and the Buffalo tribe, led by little Strongheart and Chief Thunderhooves.

At the same time, Fluttershy emerged from the Everfree forest alongside with Zecora, The Chimera and The Hydra. From the eastern side of the town, Rarity came running in, seeming scared of something following her, she was indeed followed by someone- the diamond dogs. And it wasn't long before the last of their allies arrived from the skies- Rainbowdash followed by two groups- one, The Wonderbolts and the populace of Cloudsdale, and second, Gilda and her father, the supreme ruler of the griffon empire, known only as Bladewing. The two were leading a massive force of griffons. The griffon army covered half of the sky with their majestic wings as they were preparing for a landing.

One by one, the sons and daughters of Equestria gathered around the town square, everyone- griffons, diamond dogs, earth ponies, pegasi, unicorns, and the residents of the Everfree forest were eager to hear for what purpose they have arrived here at this time of the day. Even the great and powerful Trixie and the Flim Flam brothers were here for some unknown reason. Whitemane felt so small, and unimportant as the thousands of eyes surrounded him, waiting for him to give something of a speech. He had only just realized, what and army he has called forth, and that everyone of them will need convincing.

Whitemane looked through the crowd, he was used to the ponies, but the diamond dogs gave him a little shiver, the fierce looks of the buffalo chief and the griffon ruler nearly knocked him out of balance....And lets not even talk about the damn Hydra....Whitemane would have been happy if Fluttershy would have brought out just Zecora and a few eagles, not this giant.....for headed....MONSTER! All four angry heads starring at him and licking their tongues. Whitemane was trying to avoid looking at them, but every time he looked through the crowd he saw them....

"I'd be lucky if i even survive till the beginning of the battle..." Whitemane thought to himself. He hadn't even prepared a speech for this, but the time for it had come and he had to say something. It was hard to simply stand without fainting in a situation like this, let alone convince every single soul of how grave the danger is, but if anypony could do it, then it was Whitemane. Whitemane was already hearing loud coughs of boredom as he was about to begin, every second wasted now would mean an even lower chance for him to succeed in convincing them, and could even lead to someone leaving, so he began.

"Right...good evening everyone, i suppose you all know why have i gathered you here, right?" Whitemane heard no response from the crowd, only the same coughs of boredom. "I'll take that as a yes, but just in case, let me refresh your memories." Whitemane took a deep breath and continued. "As you all know, A large force of attackers is gathering not far from Ponyville, and could start marching to this direction any minute now...The fate of Equestria, is uncertain, and without your help, we will all surely be overrun and be scorched from this land in a matter of days."

A laugh was heard in the crowd. "HA! this guy is a real comedian, where did you pick him up, huh Rainbow? From some kind of circus?" Said Gilda, trying to ruin Whitemanes speech.

"Shh, be quiet Gilda, this is not the time for joking." Rainbowdash tried to reason with the griffon.

"Really? Coz this guy looks like one big jo...." Gilda got interrupted by her father who raised his talon up to her face. He did not make contact, but it was still enough to shut her up...If there was one being in Equestria that Gilda respected, then it was her father.

"Please excuse my daughter, she can get a bit.....rude at times.....please continue."

Whitemane knew of Gildas past visit to Ponyville and knew of her negative attitude towards Fluttershy. He greatly despised her for that and the look on her face when her father called her rude brought joy to Whitemane.

"Right then, as i was saying, Equestria is in grave danger, and we need your help to prevent this disaster, and i mean all of you....Equestrias fate is in your hands."

"HA!" Gilda laughed again. "Why should we help whose who have never offered any help to us? Who's to say we can't just sit in our cloud castle and watch these....things just purge the town of Ponyville? This is not our war." The rest of the griffons laughed and cheered for Gilda.

The leader of the diamond dogs agreed with Gilda. "Indeed, our underground holes are just as deep as thick are the walls of the legendary griffon kingdom. These creatures will never find us, why should we care for some town of donkeys? We are not a part of Ponyville." The diamond dogs laghed. The whole town was talking loudly and laughing, nearly forgetting about what Whitemane had said in the past few minutes.

"BUT YOU ARE PART OF EQUESTRIA!" Shouted Whitemane. "Aren't you?" Whitemane shut the crowd up and left the crowd intrigued, wondering and looking at each other, rethinking their decisions. "Sure, go ahead sit in your petty castle walls, and roam in your undergrounds for as long a you live, see if we care...we won't, COZ WE'LL ALL BE DEAD! And you'll have all the time in the world to decide on what you're going to tell your children, when they ask you "what were you doing while the battle for middle Equestria took place?"

Whitemanes shouting opened the eyes of some of the gathered allies, a few looked like they were ashamed of themselves. "Have you nothing to offer this land but cowardice and shame? Is there no passion in you hearts? Has the blood from your veins dried out completely? is your soul nothing but a chunk of ice, and you mind only a tool that makes your body move, that you would just sit back, watch and laugh as your brothers and sisters are getting slaughtered in the field of battle?"

More and more started taking Whitemanes words seriously as he continued. "These things have traveled continents, worlds and even universes, and left nothing but ashes in their path, do you honestly think your walls and undergrounds can protect you? You castle will crumble easier than a cookie in the hands of a child and they will smoke you out of your underground if they have to.....they will leave no tree unburned, no building standing, no river flowing......and no soul living."

Whitemanes voice became much calmer, but it attracted more and more of those willing to fight to the death by his side. "Only together we will stand a chance, united as we once were in ages past....do you not remember those days? When we all fight side by side....our victory was glorious, and our spoils were ultimate....the foundation of Equestria."

"But those times are long since over." A voice shouted from the crowd, to which Whitemane replied. "Over...but not forgotten...Who's to say we can't reforge this alliance...who's to say griffon, pony, buffalo and diamond dog are not alike in heart? For pity's sake, you dogs were once ponies, weren't you? Who's to say...That we can't win?!"

The crowd stood silent. "See?! You all know what i mean, you all know the legends and you all have the courage to stand with me this day. I ask you once more, join me in pushing this foe back from whence it came...or go back and never show your sorry face here again......Children of Equestria....i call upon you this day, just as the great lord Equestros did in ages past...fight with me as you once did with him....."

"I've had just about enough of this clown!" Shouted Gilda and flew up and spread her wings. "First you call us out of our homes coz your stupid imagination is playing tricks on you, and now you disgrace the name of our great lord, founder of Equestria with you pathetic lies!"

"GIIIIIILDA!" A massive shout, louder than anything the ponies of Ponyville had ever heard was now echoing through the streets of Ponyville...for the first time in years, Bladewing finally decided to take control of his daughter. "Stand down Gilda, i've heard just about enough from you this day!"

"B..But.."

"I don't want to hear it. Come down and stay calm, or i'll have you expelled from our kingdom!"

"WHAT?! You can't possibly mean to..."

"I HAVE SPOKEN! Do i really need to repeat myself?" The entire horde of griffons was shocked by Bladewings sudden burst, they all knew that Gilda was no honorary of the griffon empire, and the only thing saving her from getting beat up in a dark alley was the fact that her father was the supreme ruler of the griffon empire himself. They all had a hunch that Gilda had it coming, and that it was only a matter of time when her father won't be able to stand her arrogance anymore, but no one ever thought that the old griffon had THIS in him...

"Nnno, father.." Muttered Gilda.

"Then come down and stop acting like a little griffon!" Gilda had no choice but to obey. she slowly landed by her fathers side, sat down and stood silent.

"Good girl. That wasn't so hard, was it now?"

"No, father" muttered Gilda in an irritated voice.

"Excuse me for my daughters childish behavior Sir Whitemane. As you see, she can sometimes get a bit...feisty."

"Your apologies aren't necessary oh great king, Gilda simply doesn't understand the importance of this meeting."

"Yes, well, even if so, such disrespect won't be tolerated...not by me...even if it is my own daughter. She seems to have ruined your speech once again, so i think i'll just continue from where you left off.

Bladewing cleared his throat and spoke loudly to everyone around him. "It is true, we all know the legends of the united forces that fought together long ago against evil forces and called themselves , and as a reward for the efforts of the great lord Equestros, the citizens decided to name this land in his name, and from there on, the alliance was known only as "The children of Equestria. Since then many clans have been made, and that which was once united, is now so separate....Ever since that day, i've longed for that alliance to be reforged...to fight once more for something we all hold dear."

Bladewing started speaking louder. "Citizens of Equestria....we've defended this land in ages past...i ask you now to do so again."

The supreme ruler of The griffon empire fought long and hard for his title. In the griffon empire, a ruler is decided by his strenght in combat, and before Bladewing was made king, the empire was ruled by a tyrant. The empire was slowly crumbling- children were starving, farmers couldn't grow anything, families were being separated and some were even working as slaves for the tyrant known as "Darktalon". Many tried to question his methods, but questioning the methods of the king meant challenging him to a duel to the death, and no one proved capable of beating him. He might have been evil and dim-visioned, but he was just as strong as his heart was cold.

"The empire was at the brink of destruction when someone decided to challenge the king to a duel again. Bladewing then was working as a slave over day, but trained long and hard over night, just to prepare for that battle for the throne. He endured many sleepless nights just for this one purpose. The two fought for hours, and the entire empire gathered around as the battle lasted. No challenger had ever lasted longer than two minutes in the arena with Darktalon, so most of the griffons didn't come to the arena coz they thought that the battle would be over before they'd even get there, but this battle lasted so long that the watchers even had the time to go and call the rest of the empire to observe.

As the empire gathered around to watch the epic battle that was going on, Bladewing awoke something in them...a feeling they had not felt for years...-hope. It wasn't long before the entire populace of the griffon empire started shouting his name "BLADEWING! BLADEWING! BLADEWING!

The two fighters strenght and endurance proved to be evenly matched, but Darktalon lacked a few things that Bladewing had- cunning, intelligence, and the support of his beloved ones...Darktalon never even had someone that would or even could care for him...it was those three things that turned the tides for Bladewing.

As the battle was nearing it's end, Bladewing managed to disarm Darktalon and was walking towards him to execute him, and as the cowardly Darktalon was backing up shouting "WEAPON! SOMEONE GIVE ME A WEAPON!" No one even thought of obeying him anymore.

"Fools! I'll have you all..." Were the last words of Darktalon, he had reached the walls of the arena and had nowhere to back anymore, and the arena had a net over it that was preventing any contestants from leaving by air. "Nowhere to run this time, eh Darktalon?" Bladewing laughed as he drove his sword towards the tyrants neck and ended the long years of tyranny with just a swing of his sword. At last, the great tyrant was dead, and the empire was left speechless for a few seconds, only to prepare for cheers louder than anything the walls of the empire had ever heard before. The crowd cheered for hours, watching their hero pick up the crown and place it upon his head....a new king was born and the empire was saved. Bladewing restored the empire to it's former state in a matter of days.

The griffon empire had undying respect for their new king and since that day no one ever dared question his methods....he was the ruler of their dreams, and as Bladewing spoke now, the crowd followed him like bees follow honey.

"THE GREAT KING HAS SPOKEN!" Shouted one of Bladewings most trusted agents. "The griffon empire stand with you this day Sir Whitemane!"

"As do we!" Said the chief of the buffalo tribe.

"Wonderbolts reporting for duty Sir Whitemane." Said Spitfire, and saluted to Whitemane, the rest of the Wonderbolts and populace of Cloudsdale repeated after her.

"Finally a chance to prove how great and powerful Trixie REALLY is!"

"If these things succeed in their quest, then that would mean no more apple trees from which to make our precious cider." That's right brother, that's why we must fight this day. Our cider might not taste good, but a barrel to the head might just keep them out of our lands!" Said the Flim Flam brothers.

"If it's a war that we must fight,

Then we shall aid you with all our might." Rhymed the mysterious Zebra, and both the chimera and hydra roared in approval.

"The town of Ponyville and it's residents are yours to command Sir Whitemane." Said the mayor of the town.

"Eeyup!" Noded Big Mac and with him, Braeburn, Sheriff Silverstar and all the ponies of the town of Appleloosa.

Nearly everyone had agreed to aid Ponyville in the upcoming battle, and a smile was coming up Whitemanes face, until...

"Now hold on...Diamond dogs do still not understand, what's in it for us if we aid you?" "Yea! Yea! Yea!" The rest of the diamond dogs added to their leaders speech.

Whitemane had to deal with these creatures before, and was more than sure that an answer such as "you get to live" wouldn't suffice in this situation and had a hunch that the speech would have no effect on the diamond dogs. So he just decided to bribe them with promises of riches....he knew that these things would do anything for a handful of gems.

"What do you think? Gems of course!"

"GEMS!?" eagerly asked the leader of the diamond dogs and started licking his lips and the rest of the dogs repeated after him.

"Of course! Didn't you know? These thing have traveled universes gathering up the treasures of the land they conquer, they're bound to have tons of gems stored in their treasury. Fight with me and you'll get more gems than there are drops of water in our rivers."

"Well why didn't you say so? So many gems, how can we refuse. hehehe. We will turn those walking blackberries into cardboard boxes and use them to carry our gems in them." The diamond dogs laughed loudly hearing the words of their leader. "The diamond dogs aren't with you Whitemane, but we just happened to be against them, and i guess that makes us allies, hahaha"

"That's good enough for me" Whitemane laughed back to the leader of the diamond dogs. "And i think that's just about everyone, oh wait i almost forgot." Whitemane whistled loudly, and the ground beneath everyones legs started shaking, as a great roar echoed through the skies of Equestria. Everyone nearly started running at the sight of the giant dragon landed in front of Ponyville, but remained calm when they saw the dragon lowering it's head and winking his right eye while looking at Whitemane.

"Ready to help us save Equestria big guy?" Whitemane asked to the dragon. To which the dragon replied by getting up and breathing fire up in the air, not burning anything near him.

"I'll take that as a yes, hehe"

"Mmmhmm" noded the dragon.

"Right then..." Most of the crowd were still focusing their sight on the dragon, but turned back to Whitemane as he began to speak again.

"Are we ready to defend Equestria one more time?" Shouted Whitemane out to the crowd, and got quite a loud and convincing reply "YEAH!" coming from all of the gathered equestrians.

"Right then. Let our voices be heard this day, for together we are..." Whitemane started a sentence and the rest of the crowd joined in and shouted out it's ending with him "THE CHILDREN OF EQUESTRIA!" the hydra and chimera roared, the Wonderbolts bolted through the air, leaving their trail behind them and the dragon filled the skies with fire once more.

"Right then, the night is nearly upon us, and our enemy draws near. Children of Equestria...The day is over, and it's up to us now to bring it back!  The time for us to fight back has come....THIS LAND BELONGS TO US! GUESTS WE WELCOME, BUT INTRUDERS WE DRIVE BACK TO FROM WHENCE THEY CAME" The crowd cheered for Whitemane once more, louder than before and awaited his final orders "MAIN YOUR POSTS!" Whitemane shouted out to the crowd and everyone acted quickly.

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The dragon flew away for now to come back later for a surprise attack from the sky, the hydra and chimera repeated the same strategy by hiding in the forest, the pegasi and griffons flew up and occupied the roofs of the town, watching for when the attackers might come, the diamond dogs dug under the ground. It seemed as if though they just left the scene of battle but Whitemane had a feeling he'd see them again. The land ponies strenghtened their barricades and dug a large hole in front of the town and disguised it to look like simple terrain, and the rest of the ponies stood in the middle of the town, preparing for whatever might come.

Whitemane and the mane 6 gathered around behind the barricades. "Say, Whitemane..." Rainbow started a conversation.

"Hmm?"

"How in the nine hells did you get that dragon to fight for us?!"

"Haha, i told you i had something "special" in mind" Laughed Whitemane. "And hopefully that won't be the last of the help we get...Oh and by the way, Rarity...don't be surprised if you're missing a few gems from your giant chest at home." Laughed Whitemane, slightly nervous.

"WHAAAAT?! Yelled Rarity with her head looking as if though it was about to explode. "YOU ARROGANT LITTLE THIEVING SELF LOVING.....HOW DARE YOU MARCH INTO MY HOME AND TAKE MY POSSESSIONS WITHOUT PERMISSION!?!?"

At this point half of the town was more afraid of Rarity than they were from the voidlings. And yet Whitemane was just standing there with a wide grin on his face.

Rarity was breathing heavily and angrily but calmed down a bit. "When this is over, i'll have you walking around Canterlot in fancy dresses and high heel shoes until your hooves fall off, a single gem missing from my chest is one day of humiliation for you!" Yelled the furious Rarity

"I'm looking forward to it my queen." Said Whitemane and bowed once more.

"You are unbelievable!"

"I know"

"Uugghh....I....hate....you!"

"I love you too my queen!" Laughed Whitemane.

Rarity was about to slap Whitemane as hard as she could when a pegasus came dashing through the sky towards Ponyville shouting "THEY'RE HERE!" The entire town turned their attention to the pegasus who continued to dash through Ponyville shouting "THE ATTACKERS ARE HERE! THEY'RE REALLY HERE! THEY'LL BE HERE ANY MINUTE!"

The pegasus landed next to Whitemane, and Whitemane tried to calm him down. "Easy there, relax boy, and tell me everything you saw."

"They're here sir, they're all marching towards here as we speak."

"How many?"

"I don't know sir, i never knew what number comes after ten thousand...."

Whitemane nearly lost his balance just by hearing ten thousand...."Ten thousand?"

"More sir.....more."

The surrounding ponies didn't hear the conversation but knew that what ever the pegasus had to report didn't make Whitemane happy. Whitemane decided not to inform the others about the numbers, coz that might scare someone into dropping his pitch fork...and the last thing the town would need right now is someone hysterically running around screaming "WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!"

One of the ponies from the barricades walked over to Whitemane. "Is everything alright Sir? you seem worried."

"Just need to take a deep breath before this begins, i'm alright."

"Sir....is there even any hope for us?"

Whitemane walked over to the young pony and put his hoof on his shoulder and looked into his eyes saying- "There's always hope."

Their eye contact didn't last long, after mere seconds the army of darkness was already visible from the barricades. The voidling leader stopped in front of his army and waited for his army to fall in line. One by one, the voidlings moved closer, forming a massive line. The ponies could only see one line, over a hundred voidlings stood in it, but behind that one were hundreds more lines just like that one. For a short minute, Whitemane and the voidling leader starred at each other. Legionnaire seemed a bit, confused at the sight. "What's this? a last stand? HAH! How charming....This should be fun...GIVE ME THAT HORN!"  Legionnaire blew a loud horn and the army started marching towards the town, and the ponies cowered as they saw more and more lines of voidlings appear behind the first line.

Whitemane did what he could to try and encourage the defenders. "They're really here...anyone still have doubts of my words? I see you shaking in fear, but believe me when i say that now is not the time to be afraid, now is the time to show them, that we can remain brave even when starring into the very eyes of death itself!"

None of the ponies panicked, but no one could remain too calm either, but somehow they all managed to stand still. The sight of the ponies standing so bravely confused Legionnaire even more. "Hmm...interesting, these...ponies don't fear us. How can they remain so calm when even the humans panicked like little girls?...Perhaps there's more to these creatures than i imagined..." Legionnaire paused for a moment to think

Legionnaire shook his head to try to come back to his senses. "Brblbrl, what am i saying? They're just walking chunks of meat, nothing more....lets see how brave they remain when they're sitting under a cloud of arrows, hehe. ARCHERS!" Legionnaire shouted to his army and the front lines made stepped aside to make way for a battalion of archers that were in the back lines. The archers drew their arrows and were preparing to fire on Legionnaires command.

Whitemane foresaw this and was well prepared for it. "You ready Rainbowdash?" He shouted up to the pegasus, to which she replied...

"were ready for whatever might come Whitemane." Rainbowdash, the Wonderbolts and a horde of pegasi flew up into the air and were fluttering over the rooftops of Ponyville. "Alright guys, just like we practiced." Rainbowdash said to the Wonderbolts, and they gathered all the pegasi in a formation and awaited for the arrow storm.

Legionnaire didn't even pay attention to the pegasi above Ponyville, and still commanded his archers to fire without hesitating. "Alright archers...on my command....UNLEASH HELL!" And the arrows were launched into the air right as the archers heard the signal.

Everyones eyes widened and hearts started pounding ever so fast at the sights of thousands of arrows flying towards them. Only Whitemane and the pegasi remained calm. "NOW RAINBOWDASH!" Shouted Whitemane.

Legionnaire started laughing as the arrows neared the town, but his laugh was cut short when he saw the pegasi above Ponyville ascending into giant tornado. His mouth remained open but the laugh had turned into ultimate confusion and a slight shiver ran through his body.....The same arrows they just sent to liberate Ponyville were now flying back towards them. The voidlings couldn't do anything other than obey their leaders command, and since he was too shocked from the sight to give the command for them to brace themselves, the front lines of his army were massacred by their own arrows.

Loud laughs and cheers were heard from the town of Ponyville, Rainbowdash flew down to brohoof Whitemane  and some of the townsfolk even started dancing. The army that was nearing Ponyville suddenly just didn't seem that scary anymore. "Hahaha! I knew you guys could do it!" Whitemane laughed.

"Piece of cake!" Rainbowdash replied.

Legionnaire was stunned by what just happened, some of the voidlings hit by arrows weren't standing as still as he did. One of his servants walked up to him. "Sir?....."

"Load more arrows." Legionnaire commanded.

"SIR! What..."

"I SAID MORE ARROWS!" Legionnaire yelled so loud, that his servant just ran back to the line. The archers seemed confused about this order but they had no choice but to obey,

"Woah! it ain't over yet Rainbowdash...get ready for round two." Whitemane said, and Rainbow reacted quickly.

Right as the next barrage of arrows came flying, the tornado was formed again...Legionnaire fell for the same mistake twice and payed a high price for it....more than half of his archers were now dead, yet Legionnaire himself was not struck by a single arrow again.

"LOAD AGAIN!" Legionnaire yelled.

"SIR! What are you doing?"

"They can't keep this up for long, surely they must be tired, i don't think they'll be able to reflect another round...FIRE NOW!" and so the archers obeyed.

"HA! I can't believe it! He's doing it again!" Rainbowdash laughed. "Alright guys, once more.

The pegasi weren't getting tired...on the contrary, they were only getting inspired from laughing as they saw Legionnaire destroying his own army. The arrows were fired and the tornado was formed, just like before and Legionnaire was still standing in a state of trance, unable to realize his grave mistake.

"Fooled you once, shame on me, fooled you twice, shame on you, fooled you three times....Damn you're stupid" Whitemane laughed and the town laughed with him.

Legionnaires servant walked up to him once again. "Sir.....We don't....."

"Load again!"

"Sir....we can't...."

"WHAT!? ARE YOU DISOBEYING MY DIRECT ORDERS?!"

"No Sir...i was just trying to tell you that we have no archers left...."

Legionnaire looked behind him and saw thousands of voidlings laying in a puddle of their own black mass...he finally realized his mistake.

"Bring forth the infantry...lets hope they're ground defense isn't as good as their air defense."

"Yes sir." His servant sounded very unsure.

"In the many years which you've served me, i've never seen you so...uncertain....don't doubt my methods soldier, when this is over my army will be revived back into it's former size....i haven't lost my leadership skills....but have gotten used to winning without even receiving any resistance....Finally, after all these years, someone has actually proven to be a challenge to me...Be vigilant my men...these ponies aren't as weak as they look."

"Sir...i;ve never had any doubts of your methods."

"Good...gather my army then."

"Yes Sir."

And gather them he did, it wasn't long before the line of infantry was reformed and the dead bodies weren't even visible anymore. The voidlings awaited Legionnaires command once again, and he did not hesitate to give it.

"CHAAAAAARGE!"

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The laughing of the town soon ended as they saw the army of darkness marching...no...RUNNING towards them. Whitemane tried to encourage everyone just as he did before. "Here comes the hardest part...stand with me now, let none pass, don't retreat, and show them no mercy...for you shall receive none."

"The ponies near the barricaded readied whatever weapons they had and strenghtened their positions. Everyone was preparing for the worst when something neither they nor the voidlings had expected...The voidlings started simply briefly disappearing....It took a while to spot what was really going on...they were being pulled underground.

"HA! It's the diamond dogs, they did not desert us after all.

Legionnaires army continued disappearing and there was nothing he could do about it. His servant tried to keep the voidlings in lane. "KEEP RUNNING! don't let their cheap tricks scare.....WOAH!" He shouted right as he was pulled underground. He fell down a long tunnel and couldn't see a thing until he finally landed heavily, unable to get up.

"Uuugh...what the..."

"Got any gems on you mister? Hua ha he he he!"

The last thing the servant saw was the claw of a diamond dog near his face.

With both their leader and his assistant not trying to do anything to help them stay in lane, the voidlings broke the line and just started running separately, which made the diamond dogs job a lot easier.

Legionnaire was in no condition to give any more orders, all his victories had made him forget what it felt like to actually be losing. First the arrow reflection tornado, then his army just randomly disappearing, and if that wasn't enough then there's also the giant camouflaged hole in front of Ponyville. Just as Legionnaire got used to his voidlings just disappearing one by one, a whole line of them just fell down.

The hole wasn't just empty, it contained a little surprise from Zecora, which made quick work of the voidlings that fell into the hole. the army stopped at the edge of the hole, and were looking left and right looking for a way around, but there wasn't any, so they just kept standing, until their leader got there.

"I've traveled worlds and universes, annihilating creatures much more superior to these...and now i'm getting beat by PONIES before i've even gotten to their town!?" Legionnaire kept shouting with great anger.

"WELL WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?! GO!" He commanded his army

"Where sir? there's no way around." Explained one of the soldiers.

"I don't want you to go around idiot, i want you to go through! That hole doesn't have room for all of us. Some of you'll just have to take one for the team and fill it with your dead bodies."

The soldiers lost nearly all the certainty they had left for their leader, and just stood there looking upon each other not knowing what to do.

"I SAID MOVE IT!" Legionnaire yelled at his soldiers.

The voidlings hesitated but eventually they convinced themselves that this was right...their leader hasn't let them down this far and will surely lead them to victory once more. So they just started jumping into the pit.

The defenders starred at the voidlings and had no idea what was going on.

"What the hell are they doing?" Asked Rainbow

"Looks like they're just trying to surrender." Replied Whitemane.

"Ha! yeah, looks like it." Laughed Rainbowdash and shouted out to the voidlings "HEY GUYS! IF YOU WANT TO SURRENDER YOU COULD HAVE JUST TOLD US!"

Rainbows mocking shouts angered Legionnaire greatly and he shouted back. "YOU WON'T LOOK SO CONFIDENT ONCE YOUR HEAD IS ON MY SPEAR!"

"I think you might have just slightly pissed him off Rainbow, hehe." Laughed Whitemane.

"Meh, he doesn't look too angry to me."

Slowly, the pit was filling up with the bodies of voidlings, and the ones still up started walking over their dead brothers in order to cross the pit.

"Worry not brothers, your sacrifice will not be forgotten and you shall be resurrected once this is over."

Even though the army of darkness had buried much of their brothers alive, the sight of them crossing the pit did not please Whitemane, for the army still seemed larger than ever.

"Damn.....is there no end to this? They just keep on coming. Looks like it's time to call in the heavy cavalry." Whitemane whistled loudly and the ground itself started shaking as 3 echoing roars passed over the field of battle, each one coming from a different direction.

The army stopped marching for a moment...for the first time in their lives, the voidlings seemed scared. "What sorcery is this?" Said Legionnaire, slightly nervous. But the look on his eyes was nothing compared to the one that he put on after he saw both the hydra and chimera running out of the forest.

"What in the nine hells are those things?!" Yet again the leader of the voidlings didn't even bother giving orders to his army, and as the two massive creatures were running towards them, he only watched his army getting trampled and eaten alive by the monsters.

"HOW IS IT THAT THESE SMALL PITIFUL CREATURES COMMAND A FORCE OF BEASTS SO SUPERIOR EVEN TO OUR RACE?!" Legionnaire yelled loudly with a voice full of anger and started yelling even louder as he saw his army not trying to do anything to stop the creatures. "WELL DON'T JUST STAND THERE YOU FOOLS....KILL THEM!"

The voidlings tried everything- swords, spears, axes, but with no ranged attackers their were worm food for the two, the chimera clawed them, breaking their armor and weapons like it was nothing, and the hydra wasn't even looking, it simply trampled over the voidlings, leaving only stains on the ground in his path.

"There's no stopping of these things....KEEP MARCHING!" Legionnaire gave the command, and march they did...many did not make it, but many also made it past the two monsters...."If we can't kill em, then we'll just have to ignore them." The plan seemed to be working, the voidling army was still marching towards Ponyville. Legionnaire started getting cocky again as he neared the town.

"Haha! Keep marching men, were almost there." For some reason the voidlings stopped, and Legionnaire looked back. "MOVE IT! What are you idiots starring at." One of the voidlings pointed to the sky and Legionnaire looked towards the direction that he pointed in....As if the hydra and chimera weren't enough for him....The dragon was here too.

"What.....the hell....is that thing...." Legionnaire asked to himself and gazed at the dragon that flew right passed him over his head breathing fire. At first he thought that the dragon had missed him, but when he turned back he realized that he was not aiming for him. The soldiers that were just following him were now scattered, running around covered in flames.

Legionnaire started regretting the decision to come here, if just a few hours ago he thought that a candy covered fairy tale world should be no trouble at all to conquer, then now he realized an important lesson that he failed to listen to all these years "Don't judge a book by it's cover."

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Less and less voidlings made it past the wall of fire and all the clawing and trampling, but Legionnaire wasn't about ti give the order to retreat now. He wasn't always this soulless creature that he is now...The story of Legionnaire started long ago, when he was still just a soldier in the legion, just an ordinary soldier that was doing his job and had no extraordinary attributes besides the ones a typical soldier had to have.

But for some reason it was always this soldier that was the last one to stay alive in the battlefield. and when others asked him "How does he do it?" He would always answer "I don't know, it just happens....i'm just a simple legionnaire, no better and no worse than the rest. And that's how he got his name, since he always referred to himself as "Legionnaire" his general decided that the title "Legionnaire" would suite him much better than something like "super soldier" or "The undying"

As he fought, his general grew more and more assured of his capabilities, and it wasn't long before he granted him his own battalion. Legionnaire made a fetish out of wars, and loved nothing more than marching his forces to victory through the field of battle. But as the years passed, Legionnaire grew old, and so did his men, but he wanted to be always young and always ready for a fight. He was ready to do anything just to keep up his life of endless battles, and so he found a way to contact the fallen one and summon him to his world. He made a deal with him, in exchange for the souls of him and his men. And the fallen one granted him his wish...he was now always young and battle ready.

And so Legionnaires reign spread not only across cities and continents, but also across worlds and universes, through the void gates, and now he was here. Even though he had long since lost all that was left of his humanity, he still had his one undying wish deep inside his head...he always wanted to go down fighting...to die from a wound he receives in battle.

Legionnaire kept marching, and despite everything that got in their path, his army blindly followed him to the end.

"Damn...this guy just doesn't know when to quit....get ready everyone....the true fight is only about to begin." Whitemane shouted out to the defenders.

The army of darkness was crippled, their spirits broken, and their armors shattered....but they weren't dead yet...The voidling had finally reached the town of Ponyville and were nearing the barricades. As they were nearing them, the windows of the town opened and Pinkies party canons were revealed.

The battle reached it's culmination at this point....The voidling were tearing down the barricades, ponies tried to stop them with their home made weapons, the buffalo horde marched towards the voidlings and were trampling them, the griffons formed the front line of defense and were clawing the voidlings away from the barricades,  and party canons were firing everything that Pinkie had put in them- balloons, wet flour, streamers, etc. The Flim Flam brothers were using their machine as a catapult for bombarding the voidlings, and Trixie........Where the hell was Trixie O_O?

Many of the voidlings were stopped by the canons, either blinded by the streamers or got stuck in the wet flour on the ground and tripped in it and got trampled by their own army. Despite all the effort the children of Equestria put up, the voidlings still got through the barricades....their army seemed to never end. If for the first few hours the battle seemed to be turning to the favor of the defenders, then now it seemed like everything they had done was in vain. The army was now marching through the streets of Ponyville tearing down their buidlings, ponies, buffalo's, and griffons were still trying to hold them back but everything seemed pointless. For every voidling they kill, ten more would just march in, and scouts reported that the largest part of their army was still waiting outside the town. Even the three massive creatures in the middle of the field were starting to get tired of the endless battle.

Even the princess of the night was powerless to stop them. Lunas magic seemed to have no effect on the voidlings. The voidlings were shadow beings and Luna could only use shadow magic. This is probably why the voidling planned their attack at night, Celestias magic might be able to harm them, but that would mean having to wait for the dawn to arrive, but the defenders had nothing left with what to hold the voidlings back, and the elements of harmony were useless since the mane six was so separate, and had no time to pay attention to Twilight trying to assemble them,

When all hope seemed lost, Whitemane was still fighting alongside with Bladewing in the middle of the town. The two fought valiantly and didn't even think of giving up...they were ready to fight to the death.

"Hmm...I never thought i'd died fighting side by side with a pony." Said Bladewing.

"What about side by side with a friend?" Replied Whitemane.

The two looked upon each other and Bladewing spoke. "Aye....i can do that." And the two continued fightingas more and more voidlings kept swarming into the town....the two fighters were practically the only thing still keeping the town together...they were the only two with hope still left.

Rainbowdash and the other pegasi were defenseless against the voidlings, with no archers left in their army, they had no more need for air support, yet she still tried to fight, dropping random objects upon the heads of the voidlings and watching for surrounded ponies that she could save from the grip of the voidlings. Rainbowdash still thought that they stood a chance.

"Come on! Don't give up, just keep fighting. We can win this!" She shouted, but ash she looked around she saw that she was shouting to no one other but herself...the pegasi had abandoned her. Rainbowdash looked around the town and saw only flames, rubble and ponies running for their lives...."It's over" she thought, "There's nothing left for us to do...nothing left that could save us....no weapons...no defenders.....no hope....no nothing."

Rainbowdash was just about to let it all go and just stop fluttering her wings, and fall down into the horde of voidlings to be torn apart alive...coz at this point it didn't even matter what she did, either way she would end up dead, she could only flee and delay it, but she didn't want to be remembered as a coward that abandoned everything that she has ever loved.

Something caught Rainbows attention...something that snapped her out of her desperation and gave her one last ray of hope.....Bladewing and Whitemane still fighting...doing more with just two than the whole town did with hundreds. Rainbowdash wanted to fly down and join them and fight to the death alongside the two heroes...but she had a much better idea....something that could actually still turn the tides of the whole fight.

She flew down to the two and called upon Whitemane "Whitemane!"

"Rainbowdash! have you come to join us in our last stand?" Whitemane asked, not turning away from the battle in front of him, he only recognized Rainbowdash by her voice.

"No Whitemane...there's still hope...i have an idea." Replied Rainbowdash.

"Really now? What did you have in mind...i'm up for anything right now, hehe." Laughed Whitemane as he chopped off another voidlings head.

"Good! Coz what i had in mind will need you to do something....something you might not like."

"And just what might that be?" Asked Whitemane, slightly confused...what could possibly he not want to try to pull off at a time like this.

"You know what i mean Whitemane....The one thing you promised to never try."

"What?! There's no way i'm doing that, it's way too dangerous!"

"More dangerous than staying here?"

"Yes! I might end up killing what's left of the children of Equestria."

"We're all gonna be dead soon anyways Whitemane...."

"Yeah, but at least it won't be from my hooves."

"WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE WHETHER WE DIE FROM THEIR HANDS OR FROM YOU TRYING TO SAVE US?! Aren't you at least going to try and save us?! Can't you see that this is the only way?! Rainbowdash shouted, trying to talk some sense into Whitemane.

"Might i ask, just what are the two of you talking about?" Asked Bladewing out of plain curiosity.

Whitemane was too preoccupied with his inner struggle to answer Bladewing right now....He was fighting against himself, unable to decide....Stay here fighting and die a heroes death...or break his most sacred vow, with a chance of killing everyone around him.....Time was running out.

"MAKE A CHOICE!" Rainbowdash yelled.

And that was all he needed to decide. "Evacuate Ponyville! Get everyone out, order everyone to run as deep into Everfree forest as they can!" Whitemane gave a command to Rainbowdash, and even though she hated taking orders, this time she gladly obeyed.

"You got it Whitemane!" Rainbowdash saluted to Whitemane, flew up and circled around Ponyville shouting "ABANDON YOUR POSTS! RUN TO THE FOREST! FAAAAAL BAACK! FAAAAAAL BAAAACK!"

Rainbowdash circled around and watched everyone fleeing. Ponies abandoned their homes, griffons left the front lines, the buffalo herd and the hydra stopped trampling the voidlings, the dragon flew off and so did the chimera.....everyone fled for the Everfree forest.....except for the dragon who flew back to his cave in the mountains. The only one who refused to flee was Bladewing, who got carried away into the forest by Whitemane and Rainbowdash, while still struggling.

"What do you think you're doing?! Let me at them! Let me fight! I'LL TEAR THEM APART!"

When they reached the entry to the forest Gilda flew by and took over Whitemanes role and helped Rainbow carry Bladewing away from the field of battle. Only Whitemane remained behind

"Get everyone to safety, as far from here as possible, leave no one behind!" Ordered Whitemane.

"Got it." Replied Rainbowdash.

"I trust you'll know when everything will be clear for you to come back if this works...."

"Yeah, after the big explosion."

"WHAT EXPLOSION!?" Gilda shouted with a worried look on her face.

"Trust me on this on Gilda, everything's gonna be alright, no time to explain."

"Right...lets hope this guy knows what he's doing."

"Good luck Whitemane, i know you can do it." Were the last words Whitemane heard from Rainbowdash. After that they disappeared into the forest.

Whitemane stood for a moment, making sure everyone's reach a long enough distance from the town. After he was sure, of their safety he took a deep breath, turned around and started slowly walking back towards the center of the town. The army of darkness was marching right towards him with their leader in front. The army stopped but their leader continued walking toward Whitemane, and Whitemane towards him.

"Alright you bastards....time to see how shadow likes lightning......"

                                                                       To be continued......