Skyline waited at the cafe later that day, Aviators donned. He sipped his mocha latte as he waited for an old friend of his.
Sketchy Sculpture was something of an ally to him, but they didn't meet often. But the guy could drive as well as any pro racer. He drove a 2008 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X GSR, and he knew how to use it.
Soon he heard a turbocharged engine rev, and Skyline sat back. That was him, for sure. Soon, a Brown colored man strode over and sat before Skyline.
Skyline smiled, and Sketchy began to make origami out of napkins.
"I'd assume there is a good reason you called me here, Skyline."
"This is probably the best reason possible, Sketch." Said Skyline. "Although I'm waiting for one more person. She'll be here any minute."
Almost on cue, a deep rumble of a supercharger could be heard approaching the cafe. It was a 1967 Chevrolet Camaro. The dark green and gold car pulled up and stopped. A woman got out of the car. She slammed the door shut and walked over, and
proceeded to take a seat.
"SuperNova, nice to see that you could make it."
"Skyline, why am I here, exactly?" She asked.
Back when Skyline raced rather than killed, one of his more challenging opponents were SuperNova. She was beaten more often than she won, and she has been weary of Skyline for awhile. She found out that he was an alicorn, and she gave him a call. Skyline asked to meet her here. She might have lost to him, but she was a worthy opponent.
"We," he said, "are going to save Equestria. I'm assembling a fairly large team, and I'd like to have you two there."
"Skyline, I don't really fight, per se." Said SuperNova.
"You know this sounds like a whole lot of trouble, right?" Said Sketchy.
Skyline handed them each a folded piece of paper. "Don't be late."
Skyline got up and walked to his Toyota, and after starting the car, he started torward Canterlot.

***

Skyline stood in a large room on the thirtieth floor of Canterlot castle. He was standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window. He walked over to a large table in the middle of the room. He stood for a second, and suddenly a Canterlot employee told him that they were gathered.
"Send them all in." Said Skyline.
The man left, and soon the door opened, and thirteen figures entered the room. They all approached the large center table.
Celestia was among them. "You have a plan, I presume?"
"I do. Everyone! Gather around."
Everyone stood silently.
"I can't ask you to give up your lives for this land, but the time has come to defend it. Nightmare Moon is back, along with Chrysalis and Sombra. I need some allies to help me, but there aren't many obligated to the task."
The room grew silent.
Skyline pulled out a gun. "You see this gun?"
Everyone nodded.
Skyline pulled out the magazine and threw the gun off a nearby balcony.
"This won't be a gunfight. We are going to win by street racing rules. Our cars will be our weapons, ourselves the trigger. We are going to go in like thunder and be out like smoke. I have a vast plan figured out, but I need to know who will stand by me."
Everyone stood still for a moment, and then Celestia raised her hand. Then Cadance. then Twilight.
Soon, hands raised one by one, until all hands were raised.
Skyline smiled. "Time to put them away for good."
He then turned to a whiteboard and pulled out a marker. "Here's the plan..."

***

Three days later. Skyline sat in his car, clutching the steering wheel with white knuckles. The car wasn't even moving. Skyline was worried about the girls, about Fluttershy.
"I'm coming, Fluttershy... I'll never let this happen again..."
The walkie talkie next to him received a signal. "Skyline, you ready for this?"
Sketchy and SuperNova pulled up next to him. They were on evac team. Three other cars were distraction. That would be the princesses. The other eleven were part of the final and best part of the plan.
Skyline grabbed the walkie talkie. "Let's go. Stick to the plan."
The cars pulled forward and accelerated down the road, where there was a building that Intel said there was a party, hosted by three intimidating figures. The girls would be nearby.
They parked a little further out than the other cars. The princesses parked in the complete other side. Skyline got out and a adjusted his tie.

"You could never get it right..." Tai had said.

Skyline closed his eyes and exhaled. The cure for his past was the future. Although, first thing's first, they needed to get the girls. Although Skyline wouldn't deny he had a special priority to get Fluttershy.
He and his group entered the building shortly after the princesses did. Everyone seemed tense.
"Relax guys. This can't fail. I won't let it. After the Chrysalis op, she will be stopped. But not here. Not now. The girls need to be evacuated." Skyline said.
The two nodded. Sketchy tugged on his tie. SuperNova looked back and forth, possibly a little nervous.
Skyline put his hand in her shoulder. "I gotta duck into the bathroom. I need to initiate the plan."
They nodded again, and went to scout. Skyline walked to the bathroom and assured that no one else was there. Then Skyline started a spell that he hadn't done in awhile.
His body began to distort as it seemed to be consumed by light. After a few seconds, he was left kneeling in the floor. He, or she rather, got up. She grabbed the dress she brought with her and put it on. The white looked stunning against her dark blue skin.
She stuffed the suit she brought into a bag, and she hid it behind the sink. She left the bathroom quickly.
"Watch out, Chrysy. Silvia's coming for ya."

***

Silvia walked to where Sketchy set the beacon chip. When we got to him, he laughed.
"It's funny, seeing you as a woman. And stunning at that."
"Please. Flirt with me and I'll rip your throat out."
He held up his arms in surrender. "Nova's down the hall, picking the lock to the security office." He said quietly.
"Good. Let's go. She should be done by now."
Silvia and Sketchy walked down the hall, and saw SuperNova picking the lock. As they got to her, they heard a click, and she opened the door.
"Showtime." She said.
Silvia walked in and saw two guards.
"Excuse me, is this the bathroom...?" Said Slivia.
The guards moved forward, telling her that she should not be there, and then she struck.
She grabbed one's neck and twisted it, killing him. Before the other could react, Silvia brought out a throwing knife engraved with SILVIA and threw it at him. The guard collapsed and the life left him. Silvia dragged the bodies to a storage locker and retrieved her Knife. She put it into her thigh-high white boots.
Silvia began to tap buttons on the keyboard, and the other two went to lookout for trouble. She entered the password she found in a guard's pocket, and she got camera feed. He browsed through the rotation until she found the basement. There they were, the girls.
"Hold on, I'm almost there..." She said under her breath. She mentally mapped out the path to it and cut the cord to the computer. She stepped out and locked the door behind her. "Let's go. Now."
The three of them then found a stairwell and walked down. Silvia threw down a sound sensitive bead. It gave the all clear. They were alone.
SuperNova found a light switch and flipped it. There, in front of them, were five cells. Within them, five weak figures.
Silvia ran to Fluttershy's cell.
"Fluttershy...? Are you alright? I'm getting you out of here!"
Fluttershy opened her eyes slowly and looked at her. Her eyes widened.
"Skyline..?"
"For the moment, it's Silvia. I'll explain later. We are getting out of here."
Sketchy sent the text to the princesses to start the next phase: Evacuation.
Silvia got a crowbar and broke the locks on all the cells. "Fluttershy and Rarity are too weak, they need help. Sketchy, help Rarity. I got Fluttershy."
The other girls followed SuperNova up the stairs. Sketchy held Rarity, and she seemed to be enjoying it. Silvia picked up Fluttershy and smiled.
"I'm not letting you go again."
Fluttershy smiled weakly back.
Silvia ran up the stairs and back to the service hallway. The crowd seemed to be looking elsewhere. She silently thanked the princesses.
The group ran for the door and the SuperNova led them to their cars. Twilight and Fluttershy go to Silvia's car.
Silvia checked that all the girls were in a car. Silvia glanced, and saw Chrysy and her friends notice their precious cargo was being exported.
"They're coming! We need to go! NOW!" Said Rarity.
"Calm down! I planned this!"
Silvia got into the car and floored it, leading the other two cars. Silvia looked in the rear-view, and saw three cars. Chrysy's 2008 Nissan Fairlady Z, Sombra's 2008 Aston Martin One-77, and Nightmare Moon's 2013 Lamborghini Veneno. Silvia smiled and pressed the gas harder, shifting to fifth.
She grabbed the walkie talkie and pressed the button. "Head to the place I told you about. Break on my mark."
Silvia looked in the rear view and saw the cars approaching.
"Mark!"
The three cars turn at once, all onto different roads. Chrysalis went after Silvia. Just as she planned.
Silvia drifted the next turn, to shake off Chrysalis. But just then, Silvia did not expect what she saw next.
Chrysalis's car morphed while moving. The car turned into a 2013 Lotus Evora S, resembling the car Skyline gave to her. Silvia flinched, and then stared at the road.
"Gotta stick to the plan..."
Silvia slid the car left and Chrysalis followed, her pace kept.
"Skyline, do something!" Yelled Rarity.
Fluttershy grabbed Rarity's shoulder. "Don't doubt him. Or her, I should say. I trust her."
Silvia sped torward her destination: a large building with garage doors. Four of them, in fact. There was a single door open as Skyline approached. He saw SuperNova and Sketchy enter right before her did.
Right after they entered, the door shut quickly. The three enemies waited in front of the doors.
"Come out and you end will be swift, Skyline!" Yelled Nightmare Moon.
Silvia ran to three reinforced pickup trucks in front of doors. She put a cinder block on the gas pedals. Lyra, Bon Bon, and Vinyl pulled the chain to open the three doors. Silvia, Octavia, and Spike started the trucks and shifted them into DRIVE.
The trucks pulled out of the garages, , torward the enemy vehicles. The trucks hit them with a loud smash, and then fourteen cars exited the garages.
The large amount of cars scattered about, and drove in different directions. All six elements of harmony were now in a modified 2012 Bowler Nemesis, which had six seats in the back. Sketchy was driving them.
Silvia knew the enemies would zero in on her, so she drove in the opposite direction.
"It's a scramble, baby! A big one! Haha!"
The three enemies restarted the engines of their mangled cars, and then tore off after Silvia.
In the car, Silvia hurriedly changed back to Skyline, and spawned his jeans and t-shirt. Time to end this.
Skyline turned into a parking garage, and slid up the spiral ramp. The three cars followed. Skyline drove to the top deck, and spun the car to a halt.
The three cars stopped in front of him. Their drivers got out.
"End of the line, Skyline." Said Chrysalis.
Skyline got out, and smiled.
"Maybe it is. But you'd better be damn sure I'm bringing you with me."
"Do you know what you're dealing with?" Yelled Sombra.
Skyline looked at the button in his hand. "Bad life decisions. I have to do what I should've done long ago."
The walkie talkie received a signal inside his car. It was Fluttershy.
"SKYLINE! I know what you're going to do! you can't do this."
Skyline grabbed the device. He pressed the button.
"Love ya, Fluttershy. Don't you forget it."
"SKYLINE!!!" She was saying, as Skyline dropped the walkie talkie at his feet. He pushed the button in his hand.
Timed explosives went off. One by one, they went off, collapsing the garage. Skyline cast a teleportation spell on Nightmare Moon quickly, sending her to the road below. More explosives were going off, and the ground at their feet cracked. Then Chrysalis and Sombra fell through.
Skyline, without hesitation, turned and ran for the edge of the parking garage. The cracks were gaining on him, and Skyline ran as fast as he could. Soon, the street at his feet gave way and Skyline felt himself fall. He hit some rubble below, his vision going black.

***

Twilight's POV

"Love ya, Fluttershy. Don't you forget it."
"SKYLINE!!!" Screamed Fluttershy. Twilight felt awful for letting her know the rest of the plan.
In the distance, the parking garage stood, and a few moments later, the first of the explosives went off. Fluttershy started crying. AJ went to try and comfort her.
"We need to go change Nightmare Moon back to Luna! Let's go!" Yelled Twilight.
Sketchy turned the car and approached Nightmare Moon, who was still dazed by the sudden travel.
The girls got out and surrounded her quickly. Twilight initiated the spell, and it spread to the girls around her. Fluttershy stood up reluctantly.
The girls were raised in the air, and a rainbow shot upwards. It came back down on Nightmare Moon.
"NO!" She yelled.
The rainbow encircled her, and a white aura glowed brightly, illuminating everything for a hundred yards.
After a few moments, the light died and in the middle of the girls, passed out, was Luna.
The girls all fell to their knees. Fluttershy held her head in her knees. Sketchy ran over and helped Luna up. She awoke as he helped her up.
"Wha..... Nightmare Moon.... You dissipated her.... For now..."
Celestia ran to them and hugged Luna.
"Sister! You're okay!" Celestia hugged her harder, a tear on her face.
Luna smiled. "Where's Skyline?"
Celestia's look went from happy to mournful. Fluttershy started crying again. Everyone seemed depressed.
Luna turned and saw the collapsed Parking Garage. She sank to her knees and her breath was shaky.
"He gave his life for ours..."
Fluttershy got up and ran to the ruins. AJ and Rainbow Dash pursued her.
Fluttershy approach the rubble and tried to dig. "He has to be okay..... He has to!"
Rainbow Dash and AJ pulled her away. "It's okay..... It's okay......"

***

Skyline's POV

Skyline felt himself falling through endless black. He felt the pain wash away, the memories, the mental scars. He felt like everything he wanted gone had left him, finally. He closed his eyes, and smiled.
"My name is Skyline, and I have saved a lot of lives. I had made many bad choices, but in the end, I did the right thing. To the innocent, to my enemies, to those I love."
Skyline let go, and as he did, he felt his surroundings shift. A ghostly female voice said a single sentence: "You have finally figured out your cure. It was love. It was always love. You must realize that now."
Skyline raised his eyebrow. "Yeah, I do. Who are you?"
The voice laughed. "I'm giving you the life you always wanted. A life to spend with your love."
At that instant, everything in his life connected, and the dreams made themselves clear. Everything made sense.
"I hope you pass on this lesson, for you still have yet to change many lives. You, Skyline, are one of the purest of heroes. You will change history, and be remembered forever. May the pistons forged take you where you must go."
The voice went silent and Skyline blinked.

***

Skyline now saw fragments of what happened around him. A rainbow. Fluttershy crying. Just about the entire Equestrian Police force and a few ambulances.
Skyline opened his eyes slowly, and noticed he was in an ambulance, a sheet covering his face. He got up slowly, and looked out the door.
About fifty people were standing around a tombstone made of crude concrete, probably from the garage wreckage.
Everyone looked depressed, and Fluttershy was near the front, her face stained from tears. She laid some flowers down onto the stone.
Skyline looked around. They apparently relocated to an empty field. The wind blew softly through some trees.
Skyline got up slowly, and limped torward the crowd. Some people turned, and notified the others silently. Soon everyone stared at him in dead silence.
Skyline approached a cop and he took the gun from his belt. He then limped torward the tombstone. He pulled the hammer and emptied the clip into it, the concrete cracking and falling apart.
He then limped over to Fluttershy.
"I can't die that easily."
Fluttershy began to cry again and she buried her face into his shoulder. Everyone cheered. Afterburner hugged him. Sketchy smiled and nodded. SuperNova laughed lightly, like she wasn't surprised. Morning star smiled thoughtfully. She approached him.
"Looks like my work here is done. Here's my number if anything else comes up."
Skyline smirked. "I hope you're not flirting with me, because..." He looked at Fluttershy, who was still holding him in a death grip. "I'm taken."
Morning laughed. "I'm not flirting. You'd know if I was."
Skyline rolled his eyes. "Right. I'll let you know if anything fun happens around here. For my sake I hope not."
Morning smiled, then walked over to a 2012 Ferrari 458 Italia. She climbed in and pulled away.
Sketchy walked up to him. "Call me more often, will ya? We should hang out."
"I'll try. I promise."
Sketchy smiled, and then walked off.
Soon, the crowd began to dissipate. Skyline used a healing spell to prevent him from collapsing. He looked at Fluttershy, and held her close.
"I love you, Fluttershy..."
She looked up at him.
"I love you too."

Author's Note

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