The Path of Ascendancy

I ponder of something great
My lungs will fill and then deflate
They fill with fire, exhale desire
I know it's dire, my time today
—Car Radio, Twenty One Pilots

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Almost the entire grassland in my sight was blackened due to the fight between me and Celestia before.

And from a distance, the Mane Six finally noticed me.

Anger was plastered in a particular sky blue speedster pegasus face, then she tried to smack me with her high-speed flying action impact, stuff.

In answer of it, my eyes were glowing with blue-ish light and a particular temporal quickening spell.

Boom!

And the result of it was a sonic rainboom added with a barrelling pegasus, and the reappering of myself at the other side of the battlefield, behind the rest of the Mane Six.

"Boo."

"Aaa!" Screamed a certain butter colored pegasus.

An alabaster unicorn fashionista just stared at me in shock, and a pink earth pony just giggled.

"Grr, now watch out ya varmin!" A certain orange earth pony who wore a stetson charged at me, so I reactivate my temporal quickening again and waiting until that earth pony tried to buck me with her back legs. During that duration, I already moved aside and dragged a purple alicorn princess by using a simple telekinesis towards my position instead.

Thwack!

The alicorn was careened towards the ground behind her after the blow connected with her face.

"Twilight? Twilight!"

"Woow... that... was a tartarus of a buck, Applejack..." Still sprawling on the ground, the alicorn just blinked a few times due to the concussion.

"Sorry for that Twilight. Come on, let me help ya."

Finally she stood up and shook her head, then she spoke at me. "What did you do to Celestia?"

A blur of rainbow then appeared beside her, to be precise, an angry Rainbow Dash.

"Argh! It's obvious Twilight, he's the bad guy! Look at his cutie mark, it even looks like Tirek's horn!" All while she was staring at me and ready to strike me again anytime, or she supposed.

"She's fine, but watch out where do you all currently standing." I smirked, still with my raspy voice.

Eyes changed to glow with fiery passion instead of calm blue like before, I then quickly projected a fiery spell. Due to it, the ground beneath us was shaking, and the alicorn's eyes were widen in shock.

"Oh, this isn't good..." The pink earth pony's eyes widened.

Wham...

An eruption of a giant pillar of flame then appeared just within a moment. The tip of the fiery pillar itself couldn't even be seen from the ground below.

Already standing a bit far behind it, I smirked again.

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Twilight Sparkle was breathing in quick succession. The Mane Six plus with an unconscious Celestia were almost getting burned to ash due to the sudden inferno spell from that stranger, but luckily her teleportation reflex was faster.

'How could Celestia lose to this unicorn? Golden curved horns as cutie mark? And what kind gem is that? Is that the source of his power? But why I didn't feel anything from him aside from just a regular unicorn, a sort of masking mechanism must be hiding its presence this entire time.' Pondered the purple alicorn.

"Did that ruffian almost turned us into ashes with THAT!" Exclaimed the alabaster unicorn with her typical shocking expression while pointing at the giant pillar of flame.

The purple alicorn inhaled deeply. 'That's it then.'

"By the law of Equestria, the Elements of Harmony will bring justice to you!" Shouted the alicorn by using the enchanted voice of the alicorn to increase her volume to a ridiculously high level as she noticed the stranger unicorn was trotting slowly towards them. "Girls, get ready."

The stranger just stopped in his track, his golden and silky scarf was billowing in the wind, and a golden gem was also still orbiting around his horn in a very close circle.

The rest of the Elements of Harmony nodded, then Twilight closed her eyes for a moment due to the casting of a particular spell.

A chest with six locks and particular golden keys suddenly appeared in front of her. Activating the keys together, a magical beam burst out from the chest, and it went towards the Castle of Friendship. Then six particular magical beams also returned from the tip of that exact same castle towards the Mane Six.

Six magically superenhanced ponies, with ridiculously more colorful and longer mane than before, added with extra shining looks, were the result after the beams of emotional spectrum hit them, each to their own emotional color respectively.

All six of them were floating in mid air and were ready to unleash their ultimate power.

Shing...

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Time was turning slow as I saw the rainbow beam slowly hovering towards me.

In response of it, I closed my eyes and calming my thoughts.

If others could see it, my eyes were glowing with blue hue again instead of red like before.

And I whispered just one word.

"Never."

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The swirling of emotional spectrum spell, or the 'Blast of Harmony' was swirling around that stranger.

But something impossible happened.

The spell just chaotically swirled around him.

And after that, it dissipated in millions of glittering lights, leaving nothing but just a good light show.

The Mane Six were baffled in shock due to the result.

"I-impossible..." Stuttered the purple alicorn as the truth just came in like a crashing wave towards her.

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"Now it's my turn." I smirked.

Eyes turned back to red again, I propagated myself high in the air by using a jet-like fire spell.

And I naturally descended towards them with two burning hooves in a punching gesture, added with extra fiery mane and tail.