Darkness and Magic

Our heroes stood their ground. One after another, they took out multiple danman with ease, but they wouldn't stop attacking. The tornadoes and rock slides didn't make it any better. Mitchell started to wonder if the clones are either not doing their jobs, or are being pushed back.

Meanwhile, at each alter, a hooded individual would take the place. Each chanting something different. The clones had trouble against the hooded mages and their soldiers. This meant trouble for the heroes.

"This isn't good. We can't hold them off for much longer..."

"What's taking those clones so long?" Dashie frustratingly asked as she uppercutted one of the danman in to other ones.

"They're probably having a hard time. I don't know..."

"Mitchell watch out!" A danman came charging towards him, and Mitchell didn't have anytime to react. The razor sharp claws of the demon pierced through Mitchell's vest, and the force of the hit set him flying into Rarity.

"Forgot how hard they hit..."

"Are you alright?"

"Yeah, don't worry about me. I have a healing factor that heals all my wounds in seconds. However, all of you don't have a healing factor like mine, so all of you should be careful," Just as Mitchell said, his wounds were gone, "Everyone, circle up! I have an idea."

Everyone nodded as he did so, he placed his hands on the ground before a large elemental circle formed beneath them, "What is this Mitchell?"

"Just a sec...," Mitchell's body was soon surrounded by a blue aura, and so were the girls, "Ften cou htinr all ij lojh, xo noh loje tome. Vige pe hte jhkenvht ow hte Elepenhal Tekoej ho vige uj htah tome!"(Translation: When you think all is lost, do not lose hope. Give us the strength of the Elemental Heroes to give us that hope!)

Instantly, the whole crew were somehow filled with so much power. Their eyes started to glow similar to how Mitchell's eyes would glow, "What's happening Mitchell?!"

"We're now harnessing each element. Water, Earth, Fire, Air...," Mitchell then paused and said, "Darkness!" The circle dispersed as the 7 of them gained power like they've never felt before, "Let's do this!"

Without wasting anymore time, the whole gang spread out across the rooftop, doing what they can to keep the danman at bay. With only the power Mitchell is lending them, they won't last long. They must wait for help to arrive, but how long will this take?

Soon afterwards, Emily joined the fray, along with the tornadoes disappearing, "Whoa, did you do this Emily?"

"Yeah, it took a while to take effect. The danman should disappear soon. The conjurers are still out there though. The ones controlling these were just clones. They must be attacking with there main force soon. How long will it take for Celestia to arrive with reinforcements?"

"It'll take some time. She'll have to gather up her best warriors. For now, we need to hold our ground. Steel yourselves for the battle ahead."

After seemingly hours of warding off the danman, they soon saw over the horizon, a large army. A pony army.

"Sorry for taking too long!"

"No problem! The tide of battle has now turned in our favor! Can you spread your men around the city to search for large altars? I tried to send some clones, but I they aren't as strong as us."

"Very well. Move to it my ponies!" Her soldiers nodded as they flew off to handle the altars.

"Twilight, I need you to read this right quick," Mitchell took out a reddish-blackish scroll, and laid it out in front of her, "This scroll is a corruption spell that allows you to take control of the tornadoes until the altar is destroyed. It's in the ancient Ostracyce language, so I don't know it that well, but that studying we did a 2 weeks ago should have been enough for you to know the basics. Read over this spell, and use it."

"Wait, Mitchell," Celestia stopped him before he could hand it to her.

"What?"

"I'm not sure Twilight can handle a spell like that. Her heart is too pure for that spell. Why can' you do it?"

"I just explained why. After I absorbed the Jealousy Element, I couldn't remember Ancient Ostracyce. It was like... it was erased from my mind. Trust me, she can do the spell, she just needs to be able to chant it."

"Very well then," She looked at Twilight before firing a danman out of the sky, "I trust you my student to this task!"

"B-But Mitchell!"

"Don't worry. I trust you two. Don't doubt yourself, that's the main ingredient to failure. I have my faith in you," Twilight looked down in doubt, but Mitchell held it back up. He caressed her mane to soothe her, "You can do it. I know you can," She smiled as his touch and nodded, "Good, we'll defend until you can read the spell. Having these tornadoes on our side should catch the danman off guard."

Twilight took the scroll, and ran off to a safe area, "Alright, let's see this..."

"Alright everypony, listen up! We're going to defend Twilight until she learns the spell. Until then tighten your defense. Move into pairs of two, and spread out around the roof away from Twilight! This will keep them away from Twilight position!"

"Right!"

They all did as Mitchell said, and grouped up, spreading out afterwards. The danman followed them, and attempted to attack them. But they were being dropped like flies. The tornadoes soon split into multiple smaller tornadoes, chasing towards our defenders.

"Emilia, behind you!" A group of danman charged at Mitchell's sister from behind, but were swiftly cut down by Mitchell's katana.

"Where'd you get that?"

"I made some adjustments to your arsenal. Like this," Mitchell swung his sword at lightning speed, and soon, it changed into a large arm cannon, "I sort of fused your weapons with transformation magic."

"But, don't you need to chant something?"

"Nope, the only activation is a special attack each weapon can do. Like this...," Mitchell pulled his arm back, and punched the area in front of him, causing a massive explosion. He now had the same sword Emilia gave him not long ago, "Each one of your weapons have a special attack that can be used at will without any life power being used."

"Wow..."

"But keep your mind on the battle we have right now," She nodded as she took down 5 danman.

"I think I can handle it brother."

"Hehe, very well then."

"Mitchell, I got it!" Twilight yelled, gaining the attention of the danman.

"Twilight! Get out of sight!" Multiple danman charged up a massive beam together, and Mitchell attempted to stop it, but a group of danman got in his way. Twilight looked towards Mitchell for a second, and at that second, a massive beam was fired at Twilight, "Twilight!" The beam had a direct hit with Twilight.

The force from the beam knocked Twilight off the building, causing Mitchell to grow enraged, "Get out of my way!" Like his battle with his sister, he used Eruption to clear his area around him, and dashed towards Twilight with such speed, in which shocked Rainbow Dash, and everyone else on the roof.

"How fast was that?" Everyone shrugged as Mitchell caught Twilight, causing both to fall at tremendous speeds.

"Mitchell! Twilight!" Everyone shouted.

Mitchell moved closer to the building, and stuff his sword in the side of it to stop them from falling further. Mitchell looked at Twilight who had a massive burn mark around her neck and back, "Mitchell..."

"Don't worry, that beam isn't fatal. It's just meant to paralyze you. You'll be fine, but I can let Emilia heal you. Come on," Mitchell's boots started to glow, and he set them down on the side of the building. To Twilight's surprise, he started walking along the side of the building.

"How are you?"

"These boots allow me to walk on any surface. But they're a prototype, so I don't trust them going at any high speeds. So I'm taking this nice and slow. However, there's no point in controlling those tornadoes anymore. I'm pretty sure Celestia's soldiers are close to taking out the alters."

"Mitchell... I'm sorry..."

"For what? You did nothing wrong."

"I put myself in danger, and I didn't get to chant the spell."

"It's alright, you still know it, right?"

"Yeah..."

"Well, now we have it for future use. You just can't expect to not use that spell in the future. Why'd you think I made you learn all that stuff a few weeks ago. I'm not an idiot, far from it actually."

"..."

"Look, I know you wanted to help in anyway you can, but having you learn that spell and chant in the midst of battle without any proper protection was a foolish idea from me. I'll take responsibility for this. I would like to ask for your forgiveness Twilight."

"Mitchell, I can't do that. I..."

"It's fine let's just keep this to ourselves."

"Keep what-?" Twilight was stopped when Mitchell's lips came into contact with her own, "!!!" Even if this was a surprise to get, she was enjoying each second of it.

There lips parted, a trace of saliva connected from each other's mouths, "Twilight. Twilight... Twilight!"

She was snapped back into reality to see that she was on the roof now, "What happened?"

"That beam knocked you out. Everything is over now," Twilight looked up to see the danmand and the tornadoes were no more.

"It's not over yet. We need to find the culprits behind this attack. To attack such a populated area of all species alike. This isn't the work of dimension hoppers. These are interdimensional terrorist."

"That's what Jax and Nix are. They're in the terrorist group know as: The Enigma."

"I've never read anything about them. Do those two lead them?"

"No, but they're high level officers in the terrorist group."

"I now believe what all of you say about those two. It makes me want to kill them..."

"Likewise my dear sister."

"We'll need to find them. We have no idea where they are. We have confirmed that they were the ones behind this attack. We found their insignia."

"Wasn't they're main purposeto kill Mitchell though?"

"Quite possibly. The damage to the city was just extra. It'll take a long time to repair the city..."

"Is there anyway we can help?"

"We can handle this much, but you need to check on your daughter Mitchell."

"Right..." Mitchell teleported away to his daughter's last known location. Once he was inside the hotel room, he was shocked by what he saw.

The room was completely obliterated. He looked around for his sister and his daughter, but didn't see them anywhere, "Emily! Silver!"

He looked around for any evidence of them, but what he found, was a note. The note read:

If you ever wish to see your sister and daughter I insist you turn yourself into the us. If not we'll execute them. Think about this... Dark Mage.

Signed, The Magical Vanguard.

Mitchell stared at the note for a good minute before his eyes turned blood red. If you thought he was enraged before, this is on a whole different level. This whole attack was planned from the very beginning...