The One

by Kolective

Chapter 23

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So, You think, lightning + robot = fried robot. Right? Not in this case! It did pretty much nothing. I just dealt the damage of the actual sword impact. There wasn't much dealt afterwards. I was on to thinking about something. Aren't they taking orders from something? I looked around, but saw nothing along the lines of a signal sender. The decision was to just fight them off and wait for the others to break through.

I targeted joints on the Gillchics. They were hard to hit, but I managed to sever three arms, two legs, and a head. I also managed to hack one to pieces. I only killed two out of that attack, but that was all it took--- I had bought enough time to let everyone else get within range. "Twilight, can you use temporary enchanting magic? Turn my swords into ice sabers!" I yelled. If I couldn't zap them, I'd make the shatter.

"No problem!" She said, and my swords immediately turned a sky blue. With that, I swung like I did to fire a lightning burst. It instead this time raised a large sheet of ice spikes from the ground, stabbing straight into the Gillchics with a force I couldn't muster. There was a group of five or six remaining after the strike, and I proceeded to swing at them. With each strike, a small area around impact would freeze. My idea with freezing them worked. After a few more strikes, none of them had heads anymore. "Everyone alright?" I called out. "Yeah. We're fine. How about you?" I heard Rarity ask. "I'm good. Thanks for that Twilight. Now lets go and get Rainbow!" I yelled, and our group ran off in a northern direction.

There was so many corridors, so many doors. I just ran. We all did. After a long while of running, we entered a large room, a lot like the last one. "Canabin's! They are the repairmen of the Rainbow Factory. They can self destruct, use an electric shock, and can pierce through armor." I looked at them. They looked like C's with a bit of machinery at the center of the curve. "Fan out! Attack individually!" We spread out, and proceeded to attack. Derpy hunted them in mid-air, I fire waves of ice shards with a swing of my swords, Rarity took out some of the diamonds that she had gotten sometime between the ruins and here, in which I had no clue. Twilight fired ice blades. Fluttershy was pretty much a distraction.

After some time fighting, we began to tire. It was too much, they just kept coming. There was no hope for winning. The damaged ones got repaired by others, and went back to fighting. "We can't win..." Then I saw a dark rainbow streak downwards and send out an electric shockwave when it impacted the ground. Only one person could make a rainbow like that. "Rainbow?" I looked at it. It was her. "Rainbow, come back to us. Please..." I saw wild eyes. Dangerous eyes. Eyes that meant death. She was hell bent on destroying us. I could tell. "Then I shall fight." I went into a fighting stance. I was the only one of our group who wasn't tired. "Stay back, guys. I'll fight. Join when ready." I swung forward, and found myself stunned instantly. She was giving me a chance to run. To flee. I wanted to, and really wished I could have. But I knew I couldn't. I had to save her from... whatever she was. "Come at me!" I yelled. "And let us pray to Celestia neither of us has to die."

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