My Little Pony: Spike to the Rescue

Chapter 3

Spike and the girls stared at the strange creature with wide and fearful looking eyes as he slowly stood up and stared at them with an icy glare. They all stood where they were silently for what seemed like a long while until one of them finally broke it.

“Who is that…?” Fluttershy asked, quietly.

“I think… I think that’s one of those satyr’s you mentioned!” Twilight realized.

“Really?” Fluttershy responded, surprised.

“So that’s a satyr? Heh, kinda funny looking if you ask me.” Rainbow admitted.

The satyr in front of them narrowed his eyes. “I would watch my tone if I were you.”

“Oh! Heh, heh… sorry about that.” Twilight apologized, sheepishly. She then composed herself. “Hello. My name is Twilight Sparkle, the Princess of…”

“I know who you are.” The satyr stated. “I know who all of you are.”

“You… do?” Twilight said, surprised.

“That’s right.” The satyr nodded. “Twilight Sparkle, Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie…”

“That’s me!” Pinkie chirped.

“The ponies who saved Equestria…” The half-goat creature continued, narrowing his eyes.

“Hey! I helped too ya know!” Spike spoke up. “Or at least… supported them in a big way.”

The satyr turned to him. “Oh look, a little dragon, I didn’t see you were standing there,” he remarked, bored. “Word of advise kid; don’t talk, or think for that matter, your not very good at it.”

Spike was angered by the satyr’s words and clenched his claws tightly as they shook with fury.

“Besides, my business is with them.” The satyr stated as he glanced at the Mane Six.

“Why is it with us? Who are you anyway!?” Rainbow Dash demanded.

“The name is Zol, and I am the last the great race of satyr’s.” The half-goat creature revealed.

“You’re the last of your kind?” Fluttershy echoed, sadly and sympathetically. “Your poor thing…”

“Sure, rub it in.” Zol said, sarcastically. “Anyways… ponies, I’ve been waiting a long time to meet all of you face to face.”

“Us?” Rarity remarked, surprised.

“Why us?” Applejack questioned him.

“You six… are Equestria’s main defenders…” Zol began to explain before his face became serious and fierce. “That’s why… after I bring all of you down, taking back Equestria will be easy!”

The girls and Spike gasped.

“Take back Equestria!?” Twilight echoed, stunned.

“Take us down…?” Fluttershy added, fearfully.

“What the hay are you talking about!?” Applejack demanded.

“And what did we ever do to you?” Rainbow Dash questioned, angrily.

“Not you six personally, just all of Ponykind!” Zol stated, growing anger.

“All of Ponykind…?” Twilight echoed in shock.

“Uh… is anypony else confused here?” The party pony inquired, dumbfounded.

“No, I’m afraid we’re all right there with you, darling.” Rarity said.

“Alright mister, spill!” Applejack demanded, pawing at the ground with her hoof and preparing to charge at him.

“You wanna know my tale? Fine.” Zol said. “Before you ponies arrived, my kind lived a kind and peaceful existence. We had no need for violence or arguing of any sort. That is… until the three ponies tribes arrived!”

The dark tone that had appeared in his voiced unnerved the ponies, as well as the dragon, standing in front of him while he continued to tell his story.

“And with those loathsome ponies came the Wendigo’s. Drawn to this land because of their constant fighting, a fierce winter was brought down upon us, a winter we were unprepared for,” he continued. “Many of us froze while others managed to flee and never allowed to return after the winter had ended… thanks to the ponies who drove us out of their society because we were different. We were casted out! Forgotten! Turned into stories ponies told their children at night! Eventually, one by one the noble satyr’s fell… accept for me.”

Spike and the other ponies were stunned by his tale. As they let it sink into their minds they began to feel the gravity of it and felt a great sense of sadness and pity for the angry satyr.

“And… you’ve been alone… all this time?” Twilight inquired both curious and sad.

“Yes… but now I will rebuild the satyr race… once I bury all of you ponies.” Zol declared, surprising them again.

“What!?” Spike responded, stunned. “But…”

“It’s bad enough your ancestors destroyed your first home… and then they just came over and destroyed mine.” Zol hissed. “This… is merely payback. From us… to you!”

“But that was ages ago! The leaders of the three pony tribes have already faced up to their actions!” Princess Twilight pointed out.

“Which begs the question; how are you still here?” Applejack questioned him, confused.

“That is for me to know and you to never find out.” Zol told them. “Now, if we’re all done talking… I’d like to destroy you all now.”

The girls all flinched in surprise hearing this but readied themselves for a fight regardless of how nervous they all were.

“Listen! We don’t have to do this!” Twilight pleaded. “Just stop and we can talk this over.”

“Sorry Princess, the time for talking is over.” Zol stated while the medallion around his neck started glowing and as soon as it did his eyes glowed bright red as well. He gained a wicked smile on his face soon after. “Now it is time for fun!”

While most of the others were beginning to become scared of the angry satyr, Pinkie Pie seemed to completely misinterpret his words and looked excited.

“Ooh! I like fun!” she chirped.

“I think you have different definitions of fun Pinkie…” Fluttershy told her nervously.

“How right you are my dear.” Zol said sinisterly before firing a magical blast from his hand and directly at them.

“Look out!” Twilight exclaimed as they all dove out of the way to avoid the blast, which completely obliterated a decaying house behind them. They all quickly got back on their hooves though and faced the Satyr determinedly.

“That’s it! Your mine!” Rainbow Dash declared as she zoomed toward him.

“Bring it on, Pegasi!” Zol challenged her as his eyes glowed again. He then began to fire multiple blasts of dark magic from his hand which Rainbow narrowly managed to dodge by swerving left, right and swooping around one.

“Ha-ha!” she mocked him before he abruptly zapped her while her guard was down and sent her flying backwards. Her friends jaws dropped in shock.

“Rainbow!” Applejack called out.

The aforementioned Pegasi groaned as she slowly lifted herself off a pile of rocks she had landed on and shook her head rapidly as she regained her focus.

“That all you got? Not all I got!” Rainbow declared as she zipped toward him again but she was quickly blasted back once more.

Twilight turned to her assistant. “Spike! Run!” she cried.

“I don’t wanna run! I wanna help!” Spike protested.

Rainbow backed up towards them in order to gain some distance between her and the Satyr. “Look, we got this, ok Spike!?” she told him. “You can help by not being such an easy target.”

“I’m not an easy…!” Spike began to say, sounding insulted before another blast flew by them and exploded upon impact.

“Go, Spike!” Twilight yelled.

“O-ok!” Spike nodded, clearly shaken as he turned and ran but soon hid behind a large boulder just a little ways away from the battlefield.

Rainbow continued to zip around as she dodged Zol’s attacks before finally flying high up into the air. Her friends watched in amazement while the Satyr just looked indifferent.

“Ok, tough guy! How about I give you a little sonic Rainboom… right to the face!” The rainbow maned Pegasi declared before she began flying straight down at in incredible speed and with both her forehooves stretching outward. All her friends began to cheer for her.

“Alright! You go RD!” Applejack told her.

“Sonic Rainboom him!” Pinkie Pie exclaimed

“Uh… Go, Rainbow go.” Fluttershy added, softly.

Energy began to build up around Rainbow as she prepared to break the sound barrier and create her signature Rainboom. Everypony watched this with anticipation and excitement, if this worked then Zol would be down for the count. Unfortunately their hopes were quickly swept away when the vengeful Satyr suddenly appeared in front of her, held out his hand and stopped her by grabbing her face, canceling out the Rainboom. Everypony gasped.

“Oh my stars!” Rarity gasped.

“It can’t be!” Twilight said, shocked. Her eyes widened even more when she saw that Zol wasn’t even on the ground anymore, now he was floating a few feet above them and was directly in Rainbow’s way. As this happened his medallion glowed. “He’s… flying! W-Without any wings!”

“No way!” Rainbow remarked. She couldn’t believe what had just happened nor what was happening right now to her.

“Way. You shouldn’t have underestimated Pegasus. Too bad.” Zol mocked her before pulling her back and tossing her straight into a rocky wall behind them, causing her to make a imprint in the shape of her body.

“Rainbow!” They all cried.

“Well, that was easy.” Zol remarked before turning his attention to the others and smiling eerily. “Alright then, who’s next, huh?”

The ponies all continued to stare at Rainbow in shock for a bit before turning their attentions to Zol, where their expressions shifted from shocked to anger.

“Alright buster, you asked for it!” Applejack declared as she snorted while pawing her hoof against the ground and charging forward.

“Come on girls, let’s do this!” Twilight said as she flew after Applejack.

“Yeah!” The others cried as they charged forward also.

“Guys! Wait! I don’t…” Spike began to call out but they were already too far away to hear. “…think that’s such a good idea…”

Zol just smiled a nasty smile before he took on each of the five ponies and knocked them down without even trying. He sent Twilight’s magic flying back at her, spun Applejack away, pushed back Fluttershy and karate chopped Rarity to the ground before grabbing Pinkie’s tail and throwing her also. Although, he was caught off guard when she bounced back and knocked him down also.

“Ha!” she said, victoriously.

The satyr tumbled and rolled across the ground for a while before finally stopping and slowly getting back up again and he did not look happy. He then began to rapidly fire dark magic bolts in Pinkie’s general direction but the party pony managed to dodge each of them.

“Ha-ha! Can’t catch me!” she sang.

Zol growled. “Why. Can’t. I. Hit. You!?” he exclaimed in frustration.

“Sorry! Don’t want to!” Pinkie smiled before she bounced ahead.

“Then I’ll make you!” Zol declared as he stomped the ground with his hoof and a pillar of rock shot out of the ground right where Pinkie landed, sending her flying.

“Whoa!” she cried as she flew over the satyr, who sighed in relief.

“Finally… I can hear myself think again,” he expressed before he barely managed to block a magic beam attack delivered by Twilight.

“Stop hurting my friends Zol!” she demanded, angrily.

“Make me… Princess.” The satyr dared her, ending his sentence with a mocking tone.

“Fine. I will!” Twilight declared as she fired an intense beam of magic from her horn while Zol countered by firing his own.

The two beams smashed into each other and lit up the area, both of them tried to overpower the other yet neither of them seemed to have enough power to do so. Twilight soon began to feel the strain of the beam struggle, while Zol only looked a bit tired.

“Is that all you got Princess? I’m very disappointed,” he told her, smugly.

Rarity quickly rushed forward. “Save your reviews for later you ruffian!” she declared as she also fired a beam of magic to join Twilight’s and increase it’s power, now it looked like they were winning this beam war as Zol was beginning to struggle.

He then noticed the yellow Pegasi hiding behind a rock near him and apparently trying to sneak up on him. However it didn’t appear that she knew that she was spotted.

“Ok… I can do this… I can do this…” she kept telling herself softly before Zol reached a hand out toward her and zapped the ground in front of her feet, startling her and causing her to fall over.

This made Twilight and Rarity’s concentration falter. “Fluttershy!” They cried.

Taking his chance Zol increased the power of his blast and began to push the two unicorns beam back. Seeing it near them Rarity quickly hip bumped Twilight away.

“Move!” she told her.

“Rarity!” Twilight called out in shock while Rarity took the full blunt of the blast and was sending flying back and skidding across the ground.

“Aw, what a waste.” Zol commented in a mocking tone.

“RARITY! NO!” Spike yelled as he immediately came out of his hiding place and began to run to her.

Twilight saw him and gasped. “Spike, don’t!”

Zol turned to Spike as well, looking rather annoyed. “Buzz off,” he stated before aiming his pam in Spike’s general direction, preparing to fire at him. Spike froze in his tracks when he saw that the blast was coming for him and Twilight thought quickly and made her move.

“Hang on, Spike!” Twilight cried as she quickly swooped down, wrapped her hooves around Spike and carried him off before he could get hit.

“Whew! That was close!” Spike said, relieved.

“Spike! What were you thinking!?” Twilight scolded him. “You could have gotten hurt out there!”

“I know! But… Rarity was in trouble, I wanted to help but I… I just froze… Ugh! I’m such a wimp!” Spike said, mad at himself.

“No, your not.” Twilight told him, firmly. “You have the biggest heart out of anypony I know Spike, don’t you forget that.”

They soon stopped flying once they reached a tall, slight crumbling stone tower near the edge of the decimated village which is where Twilight set Spike on before landing there herself.

“Then why don’t you let me help!?” Spike questioned.

“You know why!” The Princess reminded him.

“But Twilight! I can’t just stand here, I wanna do something!” Spike said.

“Spike, listen to me, this is too dangerous for you.” Twilight told him, firmly.

“Why Twilight? Why is it so dangerous for me and not for you?” Spike grilled her.

“Well your just a baby dragon! So you could get hurt and I…” Twilight started to explain.

“So because I’m so little and weak I’m supposed to just watch as this guy tears you all apart!?” The dragon demanded, insulted.

“No! That’s not it!” Twilight protested.

“Then what is it then!?” Spike asked, growing angry before Applejack was suddenly tossed and crashed into the wall next to them, surprising them.

“Applejack!” Twi cried out in alarm.

The farm pony groaned as she got up again. “Whoo! Boy! This feller’s really tough!” she remarked.

“I know! Where is he getting all this power?” Twilight asked aloud, baffled.

“I don’t know, but I don’t like it.” Applejack said. “Not one little bit.”

“What are we gonna do?” Spike inquired, worried.

“We’re gonna try and figure it out, you are gonna stay here where it safe!” Twilight stated.

“But…” Spike began before Twilight jumped and flew down, while magically levitating Applejack down also. The dragon growled in frustration. “Well, I don’t care what Twilight says, I’m coming to help and that’s that!”

Spike then began to climb down the tower in order to catch up to the others, who were heading straight for Zol, who didn’t look the least bit worried.

“I’ve had enough, it’s time we put this to an end,” he declared as he began to concentrate hard, which caused his medallion to glow brightly, illuminating the whole area around them and causing the rest of the Mane Six, who were unconscious at the time, to wake up. Twilight and Applejack both stopped in their tracks when they also saw what was happening.

“What the hay!?” Applejack remarked.

“This is some high level magic… never seen anything like it…” Twilight remarked, amazed and afraid. “We have to get out of here!”

Just then, Spike suddenly appeared and zoomed right by them. “Coming through!” he called out. Both of them were stunned and almost didn’t realize what had just happened.

“Spike! NO!” Twilight protested.

“Don’t worry Twilight! This time… I’m gonna save all of you!” Spike declared, confidently. But as soon as he saw something up ahead of him he screeched to a halt with a look of surprise on his face and that thing being an even more eviler looking Zol.

Not only did the satyr have red glowing eyes but a translucent purple aura surrounding him. He grinned a nightmarish grin.

“Alright my little ponies… now fall… fall into the darkness!” he declared in a bellowing tone.

As Zol cackled, a giant black dome surrounded him and quickly expanded. It didn’t take long before the dome began to consume Rainbow, Fluttershy, Rarity, Pinkie and Applejack one by one, leaving Twilight and Spike remaining. They all screamed as they were consumed by the darkness and Spike’s eyes widened with fear as the darkness moved forward to consume him as well.

Twilight acted quickly to save her assistant and magically pushed him away. “Move!”

Spike grunted as he hit a wall and gasped sharply when he saw Twilight slowly getting consumed by the dark dome. Panicking the little dragon quickly rushed toward her.

“Twilight!!” he screamed as he grabbed her hoof and tried to pull her out, but the pull of the darkness seemed to be too strong and he didn’t have the muscle power that he didn’t but still he continued to pull.

All Twilight did was give him a comforting smile, the kind of smile one gives to their son or brother, as if she was trying to tell him that things were going to be ok, even know she knew they weren’t. Eventually her hoof slipped from his grasp and gradually sunk into the blackness along with her still smiling face.

“No!” he cried as his life long best friend finally vanished. He braced himself when he thought it was gonna hit him too but to his surprise the dome suddenly started to flicker before vanishing and all that was left of the area where his friends and Zol were was a giant crater. He stared at it in silence before finally speaking. “Twilight!”

He quickly raced over to the crater and began desperately searching for any sign of them, though he didn’t quite realize that it was pointless, he was just too distraught.

“Twilight? Applejack? Rainbow Dash!? Fluttershy!?? Pinkie!!?? Rarity!!!?” Spike cried out. He kept inspecting the ground over and over again before reality finally sank in. He let out a skyward scream to the heavens above. “Nooooooooooo!!!”