My Little Pony: Birth Before Time

The Mystic Tower

At The Mystic Tower we see two fillies named Blizzard Glacier and Frosty Chill sitting on the steps outside the tower and they look really worried and sad about his brother Arctic being gone for a long time now, they try not to take it seriously not to cry "gee, our brother sure has been gone for a long time now" said Blizzard Glacier and then Frosty Chill sighed "I wonder where he is." But luckily the Port Emerald's light shoots down from the sky to hit the ground, causing them to jump up. They look where the light landed, could it be him?

No it wasn't, it was Wayward laying holding the Port Emerald after the light dissipates "nope, doesn't look like him. Huh? Look! That mare got the Port Emerald that our brother borrowed!" said Blizzard.

"Brother? Oh, you must be talking about Arctic" said Wayward as she stands up "I saw him...but..." Blizzard and Frost walked over to her and push her towards the Mystic Tower "Huh? Hey, take it easy!" she exclaimed the two.

"Are we glad to see you!" said Frosty.

"Come on let's go" said Blizzard.

Meanwhile at the top of the tower Aris is sitting at her desk with Frosty, Wayward and Blizzard standing in front of her "Aris, madam! We just got a clue as to where our brother might be!"

"Ah, Wayward Wind. Zyra has told me much about you. If I am not mistaken, you were ordered to return home" said Aris.

"Well, ma'am, I..." before Wayward explains Aris stopped her there.

"No matter. Arctic has difficulty following directions, too" Wayward laughed when she said that and then Aris wants to know about Arctic's whereabouts, then Frosty sits the Port Emerald on Aris's desk. Blizzard looked at Wayward he tries to say her name but he forgot who she was. They forgot to introduce when Wayward first showed up in front of them. Frosty reminded her name to his brother and then Blizzard relieved by using a hoof to his forehead and Wayward usually go by and she had it before Tinkerbell is about to take it away and then she turned up here. Aris wants her to explain "I ran into Arctic. But we got sent flying into the light...I don't know where he went. He wasn't in the same world as the one where I found that" said Wayward.

Aris thought about Arctic, he has been hurling himself from one place to the next. That explains why she could not discern his location. Frost asked that she can, can't she? Aris nodded yes as her horn starts to glow and hold out her hooves and conjures a circle or swirling smoke. We see Arctic limping on a dusty lifeless ground in pain, covered in bruises and scratches, trying to walk. Then he falls to the ground and drops his keyblade. Everypony was shocked about whatthey seen as the image fades and the smoke disappears "What happened? Where'd he go? Is he okay?" cried Frosty. Aris feared that there is a dark and powerul force that is interfering with her magic. Then Blizzard asked her where his brother is, so he and Frosty go after him and rescue him. But she she it may not be adequate. But it doesn't matter what she said Frosty and Blizzard are confident of finding their brother and save him for all he's got. Aris sits there, closes her eyes and thinks. "I'll find him. I recognize the place we saw" said Wayward.

"If you go, we'll go with you!" said Frosty.

"No, I owe him. Arctic saved me once. And I can't risk putting his friends in danger" Frosty and Blizzard are disappointed again "Don't worry. I swear I'll bring him back safe" then they look up and smiled again.

"Very well, Wayward Wind. We will leave it to you" said Aris as Wayward shakes her head and leaves.

The Desert Lands (Return)

Wayward enters the Desert Lands and runs toward Arctic which he is unconscious. She rolls Arctic onto his back and lifts up his head "Arctic, wake up!" she tries to wake him up but it was no use, then suddenly she lead some tears out of her eyes. She cuddled up Arctic and confort him "Arctic, please!" she whispered to him.

"We meet again, my friend" a voice was heard from the background as Wayward turns her head and sees Master Xora walking toward her. She lays Arctic's head down and stands up. "Master Xora" said Wayward, then she gasp out loud, her eyes was widened and there was light glowing out of her iris. Wayward remembers herself lying on the ground at the Desert Lands and Master Xora rolling her over with his hoof. Then the night where Master Xora was going to leave her on top of the hills. Then when Master Xora left her with Master Zyra. Wayward falls to her knees holding her head. Master Xora smiles "Ah yes, so you are starting to notice...what you lost...oh, but not for good. You had to lose in order to find. Now it can all be yours again, if you only reach out and take it. Reclaim the part that left you. Clash with it! Pure light against pure darkness, to forge the ultimate key. The all-powerful χ-blade" Wayward screams and then falls forward, hitting the ground.

"Key...blade?"

"Not the Keyblades you and I wield" said Xora as he holds out his hoof and a stylized χ appears floating in it. "'χ'... A most ancient letter. Some say 'kye,' but the meaning is the same" He closes his hoof and the letter disappears "fate...A letter that spells endings." He holds his arms up and summons a dark portal above Wayward and Arctic.

"And I have the magic to forge it?" Wayward was concerned about what Xora is planning.

"Correct. Zyra knows it, too. She knows exactly what you are" Xora confirms Wayward and she gasped about Master Zyra that she knows about her "Haven't you ever wondered? Why she never granted you permission to leave her side, to grow stronger? Zyra was frightened of you. If you were to learn the truth, realize what you are...She never trusted you. Why else would she keep you within her sight at all times?" Purple lightning comes from the dark portal and strikes just in front of Wayward's face.

"Yeah. She never let me see other worlds, no matter how much I asked" said Wayward as she stands up on her legs and then Xora pushes his hoof forward and causes wind to rush at Wayward and said "You can ask her yourself. Learn the truth, and remember you have a greater purpose!" Then Wayward is thrown back and both she and Arctic are lifted into the swirling vortex of air heading into the dark portal.

Seeking the Truth

Meanwhile in the Orbit's Between Wayward is floating in space in her armor, she wakes up and grabs her head, kicking a little "What am I? What has the Master been keeping from me all this time? I have to know for sure" she thought and then she looks up and sees the Land of Exodus. Wayward flies through the Land of Exodus and enters the forecourt. She stops and looks up at the castle before deciding to move forward, and then she stops again.

"Wayward, you're alone? I thought Nightcrest would..." Master Zyra appreaches Wayward and puts her hoofs on Wayward's shoulders. Well, what matters is that you've returned. You don't belong outside this world yet. You need to stay here where you can learn..."

"In your prison!?" Wayward shouted.

"What?"

"That's your excuse...for keeping me imprisoned here, isn't it?"

"What did you hear" she asked and worried about the truth.

"That I'm supposed to be some weapon...some kind of...'χ-blade!'"

Master Zyra has a shock on her face and she knew that Xora could never let it go.

Flashback

Master Zyra remembers a day in the throne room "Wait, Xora. There is a reason the precepts bar us from such knowledge. Why do you seek the χ-blade? Would you blanket all the worlds in darkness, reduce them to nothing!?"

"But darkness did cover the world once, in history. We talked so little about the Keyblade War. It is a curious tale...and one worth exploring. They say ruin brings about creation. So what, then, would another Keyblade War bring? When the darkness falls, will we be found worthy of the precious light the legend speaks within? The χ-blade needs to be forged, and with it, the door to the Keyblade War unlocked! But once again you have it all wrong, Zyra. Darkness is a beginning, you see, not an end. At birth, every one of us emerges from darkness into a world of light, do we not?" said Master Xora.

Zyra has started to turn against him "Fool...You would risk an danger out of sheer curiosity? I will not allow it, Xora. Never with you poetic excuses If words won't dissuade you, only one thing will" as Xora turns to leave Master Zyra summons her Keyblade and charges at Master Xora to attack him. But Xora summons his Keyblade and fires to blasts of darkness at Master Zyra, hitting her in the face and causing her to collapse. Master Xora, with a dark aura, approaches the fallen Master Zyra who is now on the ground. "That power... Has the darkness taken you, Xora?"

Xora nodded and it was not her concern, so he starts to leave.

Flashback Ends

"I failed. I had the chance to stop him and couldn't do it. But I will not fail again" Master Zyra summons her Keyblade and takes a fighting stance and Wayward stood back and said "Master! What are you..."

"The χ-blade has no place in this or any world. Xora has made his purpose clear...and I am left with no choice. Forgive me...but you must exist no more.

Zyra focuses energy around the tip of her Keyblade and swings it forward towards Wayward releasing the energy in strands that look like chains. Wayward closes her eyes.

"Wayward!" Firarra shouted and luckily he blocked Zyra's attack.

"What?"

"Master, have you gone mad?"

"Firarra! I command you to step aside!" Zyra ordered.

"No!"

"You will not heed your master."

"I won't let you!"

"Why do all my attempts to reach you fail? If you don't have it in your heart to obey...then you will have to share Wayward Wind's fate." Zyra sheds a tear on her eye and then attacks Firarra. Wayward tried to stop him from battling against each other.

"Stop it, Firarra! She's right..." Wayward shouted.

"Quiet!" Firarra refused to Wayward and made her very upset.

"Firarra...why?"

Then Zyra performs an attack that throws Firarra and Wayward backwards. Firarra lands on his feet but Wayward doesn't. Firarra picks up Wayward while Zyra focuses another attack. Firarra focuses and begins to be surrounded in a flaming aura "You may be my Master. But I will not...let you hurt my friend!" Firarra's eyes has turned to flaming red.

"Has the flames taken you, Firarra?" Zyra asked as Firarra opens a portal and throws Wayward to it. Wayward got up and it was too late.

"Wait, Firarra!" The portal closes and Zyra and Firarra face each other. The portal spits Wayward out at the city of the street of Canterlot "wait, Firarra!" But before Wayward can reach the portal, it closes. Wayward's upset, but reaches her hoof to her shoulder to try and activate her armor.

"Leaving so soon?" Wayward turns around and sees Vorion on the roof.

"I'm through with you!" said Wayward as she stars to walk off.

"Well, I'm just getting started with you. You're strong enough now to fulfil your purpose" said Vorion as she summons her Keyblade "So what are you waiting for? Join with me right here and now. Become the χ-blade."

Then Wayward stopped and think "No, I won't do it. He told me, the only way the χ-blade can be forged is if you and me fight. Well guess what? I'm not fighting."

"You used to be too broken to talk back"

Then Wayward's eyes was widened and ended in weakness. She starts to grab her head with her hooves in pain.

Flashback

Wayward remembers when the time she was surrounded by Neoshadows during her training with Mater Xora in the Desert Lands. Wayward's mane was loose and she had no guard rings during that time. She looked around at them. Afraid. "Please don't do this, Master. I'm not strong enough" she cried.

Then more Neoshadows appear and move towards her as Xora said "No. It is because you are trying to hold it in. Let the dark impulses waken in the pit of your heart. Release them, here and now! Sharpen your fear into rage. You must! If you do not let the storm within you run its course, it will wipe you from the face of the world, make no mistake! Do it. Embrace the darkness. Produce for your Master the χ-blade!" The Neoshadows attack Wayward. When they leave Wayward lays face down in the dirt. Master Xora walks over to her "Really? You would rather die than use the power? Feckless neophyte" he places his hoof on Wayward and rolls her onto her back. "If I must...I will extract the darkness from within you myself." Master Xora summons his Keyblade and holds it over Wayward's heart. A beam shoots from it to Wayward's heart, causing a piece of it to be unlocked and extracted. It rises into the air where it is surrounded with darkness. After the darkness fades from around it we see Vorion where the heart fragment was. Wayward's eyes glaze over and Vorion floats down and lands next to her. "Empty creature from Wayward Wind...to you, the name Vorion shall be given."

"Yes, Master" said Vorion obeying to her new Master.

Flashback Ends

Meanwhile back in the streets of Canterlot Wayward is still remembering, still holds her head in pain. Vorion then released her Keyblade and she left with no choice but to tell her that she'll give Wayward a reason to fight against her. With that Wayward stopped moaning in pain as she looked up to Vorion "Come and find me...at the one and only place to spawn the χ-blade...the Keyblade Graveyard. There you're gonna see me choke the life out of Firarra and Nightcrest. Then we'll see how long you can play the pacifist." Then she summons a dark portal.

"Wait" Wayward shouted and it was too late Vorion steps through and is gone. Wayward pulls out her Crystal Charm and looks at it "Firarra, Nightcrest...I swear I'll put an end to this." Wayward summons her Keyblade and opens a portal to the Orbit's Between and flies through it on her Keyblade Glider.

The Keyblade Graveyard

Wayward enters the Keyblade Graveyard and looks around at the scars that have been left in the landscape. She holds her hoof out in front of her and summons her Keyblade "friends forever." She releases her Keyblade and walks through the area. A moment later after minutes of hiking through the canyons we see Firarra enters an area where a crossroad is made by many Keyblades that stick lifelessly out of the ground. He looks and sees Nightcrest walking towards him. Nightcrest stops when she gets near him and after a silence...

"I was told...the Master was struck down" said Nightcrest and Firarra was shcked to here that and he look down in shame.

"Yes...that's right. I was stupid and helped Xora do it. Master Zyra...she tried to hurt Wayward. I only fought because I wanted to protect her. But I was tricked. Xora set the whole thing up...all so he could awaken the darkness inside me. You were right, Nightcrest...and so was the Master. I did need to be watched. I went astray...but no more."

Nightcrest began to sigh and said "What else is darkness but hate and rage? Xora is feeding the dark fires within you--making you fight. You'll go astray again. Tell me...how does that honor our Master's memory, Firarra?"

Firarra looks away from her and sees Wayward walking towards them. When she reaches them...

"Xora wants me and Vorion to fight, and make some kind of 'χ-blade.' But the Master said we can't let that happen...and she tried to destroy me for it."

"χ-blade?" Nightcrest wondered.

"I still don't know exactly what it is. But...it really scares me. Even just the thought of it." Wayward touched her heart and Firarra come closer to her and place a hoof on the back of her neck and he tries to calm her down.

"Relax, Wayward. We're here and we're gonna take care of you" said Firarra.

"I may have to fight Vorion after all. If I do, guys...I want you to..."

"The three of us can never be torn apart, all right? I'll always find a way" then there were silence and Wayward closed her eyes in sadness and Nighcrest hold her hoof to Wayward.

"I'm asking you, as a friend...Just...put an end to me."

Nightcrest and Firarra both gasp and then a wind picks up. All three look in the same direction and see Master Xora walking towards them. Vorion comes out from behind Master Xora, walking right along with him. They both stop and then Xora said "Behold... These powerless keys used to be full of power...united with the hearts of their masters. On this barren soil, Keyblades with light and darkness were locked in combat...as a great Keyblade Battle raged. Countless Keyblade wielders gave up their lives, all in search of one, ultimate key. And it will soon belong to me..." Master Xora points at Wayward.

"χ-blade."

Firarra, Nightcrest and Wayward all don their armor. Wayward starts to rush, but Firarra stops her and rushes at them himself. He prepares to attack but is hit when Xora lifts the ground beneath himself as well, creating a cliff much higher than the surrounding terrain. While Vorion strikes Firarra with Purple Thunder, and is immediately pursued by Nightcrest and Wayward Wind, Firarra chases after Xora, who creates a Keyblade infused cyclone to aid Vorion against Nightcrest and Wayward.

Vorion chases and battles Nightcrest and Wayward Wind on the cyclone and neither are able to overcome her. But Nightcrest took off with her wings. Noticing that Firarra is getting closer to Xora, Vorion directs the cyclone towards Firarra, knocking him off the cliff. Nightcrest and Wayward Wind watch in horror, and Nightcrest gets hit by the cyclone, falling down from the air and crashing to the ground, obliterating her helmet completely. Wayward Wind comes to her aid as she casts Reflect magic on Firarra to protect him from the cyclone. The spell protects him from the cyclone until the he is pushed up to where Xora is, at which point it explodes, blasting the cyclone to pieces. Firarra is dropped to where Xora is. Firarra briefly duels Xora until the old pony freezes his left arm. Wayward Wind attempts to attack Xora from behind, but Xora teleports himself behind Wayward and grabs her by the helmet, beginning to crush it. Firarra stumbles forward, probably in an attempt to help Wayward, until Vorion and the Keyblade infused cyclone inexplicably reappear below Firarra's feet, hurling him off the cliff as countless keyblades batter his body. Xora and Vorion stand at the top of the cliff, still holding Wayward, presumably so Nightcrest could see her. When she does, the visor of Wayward’s helmet began to break into pieces and part of her face was shown and the reflection of Nightcrest’s shock was seen in front of Wayward’s eye. Xora first burns and then freezes Wayward Wind. Xora throws Wayward off the cliff, and her armor shatters on a few rocks. Nightcrest catches her. Wayward moves her eyes to indicate that she is still alive.

"Wayward, are you okay?" Nightcrest looked at her.

Thn suddenly Xora's Keyblade is changed into a purple and blue ball of flame-like energy, which he shoots upwards to part the gathering dark clouds, revealing Kingdom Hearts. Nightcrest looks up in amazement. A little distance away we see Arctic approach. Nightcrest sits holding frozen Wayward.

"How 'bout you leave the popsicle with me, so you can go have your little fight with Firarra" said the voice and Nightcrest looks up and she saw Dreg approaching the two.

"Who are you?" Nightcrest asked and Dreg laughed.

"You think you two have got some grand role to play. As if. You're only here so that when I finish you off...Firarra will succumb to the darkness. So...who wants to go first?" said Dreg and frozen Wayward is getting angry.

"Shut up!" Wayward shouted.

"Oh, so this pony-girl thinks she's a full-fledged Keyblade wielder? She's got the angry look down."

"Go ahead if you want to waste your time. Keep trying to drive us apart with your vicious words. It'll never work!" Nightcrest lays Wayward down. Wayward struggles to move. Nightcrest stands up. "Firarra will prove to you he's stronger!" Nightcrest summons her Keyblade and charges at Dreg.

"Nightcrest, wait!" she shouted and she continues to struggle, trying to move.

Meanwhile after the battle betwee Nightcrest and Dreg "I keep forgetting--don't mess with Keyblade wielders. But you know what? That just means I made the right choice!" Nightcrest charges toward Dreg again. "Well...he wanted me to buy time, and I'd say he got it" said Dreg and he turns and falls back. Nightcrest stopped and looked at Wayward. Then suddenly Wayward looks up and she sees Vorion falling from the cliff.

"Nightcrest look out" warned Wayward as Vorion falls and she strikes Nightcrest down with her Keyblade. Wayward tries even harder to try and free herself of the ice. Vorion holds her Keyblade over Nightcrest's heart, raises it, and...

"No!" Wayward has freed herself of the ice and is in a fighting stance as she battles Vorion to protect Nightcrest. Meanwhile Wayward defeats Vorion who's hunched over. A dark Aura begins to form around Vorion.

"You've done it, Wayward" said Vorion as she releases her Keyblade and her suit begins to dissolve revealing her face and looks identical to Twilight Sparkle but black with yellow eyes and her mane is grey with black and dark grey stripes. "Now that my body is about to perish...you and I will have to join together! The χ-blade will be forged!" Vorion releases some darkness, from which Flayers shoot out and hold Wayward still.

"The Flayers...come from you?" she asked while she struggled to get out.

Vorion laughs and spawns more Flayers "It happened when you and I were split into two. The negativity took shape as these monsters. They are what I feel...a horde of fledgling emotions under my control. I released them in all the worlds I could, hoping to lure you away from home and isolate you from your Master. We needed to make you stronger. The Flayers were the perfect opponents. And better yet, no matter how many times you defeat them...their negativity flows right back into me." She absorbs all but the few Flayers restraining Wayward. "You never stood a chance against us, Wayward." Vorion walks toward Wayward and the two are surrounded by a sphere of light. The sphere grows and its force blows Nightcrest away and cracks the ground around it. We see Wayward struggling in the sphere, she screams and then the sphere condenses and a red light fires up toward the sky.

Wayward's floating in her normal clothes. As she wakes up she floats down and lands on the stained glass station of her heart. Vorion floats down, holding a new weapon "our union was not finished" said Vorion and we see that the station now includes Vorion in its design. The weapon Vorion holds, a blade that comes from two Kingdom Keys crossed, is broken and missing pieces "The χ-blade shouldn't stay broken like this. Join me now, and we can complete the χ-blade!" she points the χ-blade at Wayward. Wayward shakes her head, no.

"I've got a better idea. How 'bout I destroy you both?" said Wayward as she summons her Keyblade and takes a fighting stance as Vorion laughs.

"The χ-blade is made of your heart, too, idiot. If you destroy it, your heart will vanish forever."

"Whatever it takes. Anything to save Firarra and Nightcrest."

"Hmph, it's always about your friends, isn't it?"

"At least I have some! I've become a part of their friendship, just as they've become a part of mine. My friends are my magic...and I'm theirs!"

During the fight, Wayward's station was shattered and the two were at D-link, Wayward floating and try to dodge Vorions encounter and Wayward's light beam came out of her Keyblade and points right to her and Vorion does the same, they struggle and struggle. With all that pressure Wayward's red band came off and suddenly her mane was loose.  She pushed and then broke the connection Vorion is down. Wayward floats towards her and finished her off by doing slice combo moves. Finally she deals the final blow to Vorion. The χ-blade slips away from Vorion and she struggles, trying to grab it. But she can't. As she falls, the χ-blade shatters, followed by Wayward's Keyblade. Vorion falls toward a darkened broken station, when she nears it she fades to light. The light hits the station and restores it with only Wayward's picture on it. Wayward lands in the middle of it and smiles. She starts to glow, her cutie mark has started to glow, she looks at it and her cutie mark fades to light and disappears. And then she closes her eyes and turns into a heart and flies off.

Wayward's body and Nightcrest float in space in their armor. Arctic arrives with his Port Emerald and takes Nightcrest's hoof. He waves the Emerald and leaves with them.

We see a bright light that Wayward splashes through. As she's falling she opens her eyes "this place...I've been here. So warm...I remember now. This is your heart." then everything fade to white.