Author's Note

Friend battles Friends in thus chapter. This chapter will feature Cobalt vs The main 7(excluding Rarity of course). Also, in the future, I plan to get into Cobalt's spiritual journey soon. The reason for thay is becauae I'm planning to make a side story for this series. It'll be full of side stories from the first book, and this one. Most of them will be comedic, and some will be serious, but mostly comedic. Anyway, gotta get back to work so I'll all of ya' soon!

Chapter 31

After a few months of living in the mountains, Cobalt had not aged well while I'm the mountains. Cobalt now had a full beard, and his hair was in an unkempt ponytail. He was basically a mountain man at this point.

As he was in the mountain, he came to one realization, "I can't take Brisk on alone. I need help...," He can't get help from his friends, but he can get help from other people that he trusts.

"My village..."

Since my village was rebuilt, the once missing villagers retuned. Now that I have people on my side, I may just have a chance to assassinate Brisk, and end his reign of tyranny once and for all...

Cobalt opened a portal to the mountain of his village, but was shocked to see it, once again, destroyed. This time, there really was nothing left to build from.

There were dead bodies everywhere. Dead animals, and the houses were just nowhere to be seen. It didn't look like it was accidental either. His village was attacked.

Cobalt looked around continuously for any survivors. He saw a body move slowly, and he rushed to its aid, "Hey! Are you alright?! Did you see what happened here?!" He turned the body over to see a raccoon moving it, "Damn it..."

"Cobalt?" An all too familiar voice answered. Cobalt clenched his sword as he stood up, "What are you doing here?"

"..."

"Cobalt..."

"What happened here?"

"I'm sorry Cobalt. We had tried to get help from your village, but as soon as they heard about us abandoning you, they attacked. We never thought the people of your village was so strong. We had no choice..."

"Shut it. This is my fault. I changed, and that's why this has all happened."

"We didn't want to fight back, but Brisk gave us the order..."

"So you're working for Brisk now? First you abandon me, and then you run to the enemy, betraying me in the process? No matter, it's not like I have anything to lose now," Cobalt turned around, and held his sword in the air.

"Cobalt!" The person behind the voice... was Rainbow.

"Nothing matters anymore... I'm already... dead inside...," Cobalt dashed forward in an attempt to attack Rainbow, but she dodged it, "Using your speed huh? No matter, speed can't help your reaction time..."

Cobalt stabbed his sword into the ground as multiple eruptions filled the ground. Rainbow tried her best to dodge each eruption, but she knew she couldn't forever.

Meanwhile, from afar, Twilight and the gang were looking around at the destruction until Twilight noticed that Rainbow was missing, "Where's Rainbow? We need to leave..."

She was answered when one of the eruptions rose into the air near them, "What did you do this time Rainbow?" Twilight sighed as she looked at her friends, "Scarlet, you head out and get the plan ready."

"Right!" Scarlet ran off further into the mountain.

"Rest of you, on me!" The girls nodded as they started to follow Twilight towards the explosions.

"Come on Rainbow, you have to be more skilled than that!" Cobalt continued his attack on Rainbow. All the while she attempted to talk sense into him. She didn't want to hut him. Actually, she doesn't think she can.

She just can't bring herself to hurt him. Yes, she would like to punch him, but only as a joke, not intentionally. Rainbow felt the fatigue hit her as she stumbled on her feet. She fell to the ground, and saw Cobalt slowly walk towards her, "Just great, I'm gonna die to the guy I lost my virginity to...," Rainbow shut her eyes to prepare for the inevitable. But before she could feel her head get lobbed off, Cobalt jumped behind her as a beam flew over her head, "Huh?!"

"Rainbow!"

Rainbow saw her friends approach her to help her up from the ground, "What are all of you doing here?"

"Trying to not get you killed. What's going on?"

"Take a look," Pointed over at Cobalt. The girls were shocked to see how much Cobalt had changed. His full beard and everything made them somewhat queasy.

"Is that... Cobalt?"

"Just look at him. His facial features are there, but he just has his beard..., and his hair is unkempt... and blue?"

"He got his powers back? But how?"

Cobalt looked at them with dead eyes. They had no idea what he could do next, "So all of you are working with my arch rival? Hmph, I should've expected that much from all of you. I mean, you don't trust me anymore, so what's the point? I have nothing to lose. Especially not any friends...," Cobalt dug his foot into the ground, and dashed forward towards them.

Cobalt spun around as a vortex of fire surrounded him. The sparks of the flame came into the contact with the girls, and to their surprise, they hadn't felt that kind of burn ever.

"Why does it burn so much?!" Rainbow yelled in agony.

"My heat matches that of the sun!" Cobalt jabbed his sword into the ground, causing more eruptions, "I will burn you all to a crisp!"

"Lightning and fire! Choose one Cobalt!" Rainbow jumped into the air, and spun around, creating a massive tornado.

"Ha, I remember this...," Cobalt smled, but he shook his head as he dodged the tornado.

"Girls, did you see that?" Sunset asked, they all nodded.

Twilight smiled at the sight, "Our Cobalt is still in there. He remembers the fun times we had. However, he is our enemy now. and we can't allow him to ruin our plans. Let's go girls!"

"Right!"

They all charged at Cobalt at the same time, causing him to stand his ground. Rainbow was the first to strike, but she failed in her attack as Cobalt knocked her wing blades away, and kicked her in her sternum. The force of the kick sent into the ground with a large explosion

Applejack attempted to attack next, but Cobalt easily blocked her spear. She took them apart, and tried to hit him with the other end, but Cobalt grabbed both ends of her spear before tossing her into the air.

Cobalt dragged his blade across the ground, casing it to ignite ever so slightly before throwing at Applejack. She had managed to block, but the force behind the throw was breaking her grip on her weapon.

What she didn't see, was Cobalt jumping towards her to fully release her guard. Cobalt followed up the guard break with multiple kicks to her chest. Cobalt kicked at such astonishing speed, that his legs seemed to have disappeared.

Cobalt landed in front of Fluttershy, and glared at her, causing to step back slowly to hide behind Pinkie, "Don't worry Fluttershy. Your Auntie Pinkie Pie will handle this!" Pinkie jumped up towards Cobalt to fight him, all the while Fluttershy sighed.

"I'm a year older than you..."

Pinkie delivered many explosive blows, no pun intended, at Cobalt. However, Cobalt stood his ground against each punch. Pinkie jumped back, and jerked her wrist before, "Bangbangbangbang!" Pinkie fired her cannons as if they were machine guns at Cobalt.

Cobalt smirked at this, "Tch, duplicate!" Multiple copies of Cobalt appeared before the cannon pellets.

"I thought you couldn't use that Cobalt!"

"You learn things when you're alone..."

Pinkie could've sworn Cobalt was in front of her, but his came from behind her. She waited for the smoke from the cannons to dissipate to see all the copies gone, "I killed him! And now he's a ghost wanting revenge on me!"

"Hehe, no Pinkie, I'm just behind you," Pinkie turned around to be met with a fist in her gut. The force from the punch sent her flying into a tree, knocking the roots out the ground, and tipping it over, "Like I said Pinkie, I adore your eccentric personality," As Cobalt said this. he grabbed his head in pain, "Agh!"

Twilight caught this again and nodded, "Girls, quit trying to attack one by one! Attack him all together!"

"Twilight, I don't think they can get up. Well apart from Fluttershy, but she's too scared to move. It's up to us. We can attack her together. We have the range, so let's see if we can hit him with a combo attack."

"Alright," Twilight charged up her war fan, and Sunset got a volley of arrows ready. Sunset aimed at the sky, and Twilight was ready to fire her massive beam. They both nodded as Sunset fired off an army's worthy volley, and Twilight fired a massive beam of light at Cobalt.

Cobalt stood still with no emotion, and held his hand up, "Reverse...," The beam shot back at Twilight, and Cobalt looked up at the volley, "Freeze...," The arrows froze in midair, much to Sunset's surprise. Then she noticed the massive beam heading back towards Twilight.

"Twilight, watch out!" Sunset pushed Twilight and took the hit from the beam. The beam burned most of her armor off, and she felt some of her skin melt off.

Sunset fell onto the ground unconscious, and wounded severely. Twilight ran over to her in fear, "Heal!" Soon afterwards, all of Sunset's wounds were healed, but she was still unconscious.

Due to her healing Sunset, she didn't see Cobalt in the air, spinning down towards her. Twilight had managed to dodge the attack, but Cobalt spun his blade towards her, casing a fiery vortex to surround her.

Twilight yelled in pure agony as the vortex surrounded her. Cobalt watched on as he looked at his friends, all laid out in front of him, "How disappointing. Did all my teachings go to waste on the 6 of you?"

Rainbow stood up slowly, only to collapse back onto a tree, "Even with the 6 of us, we can't beat him. Is this his true strength..."

Fluttershy peaked out from behind a tree to bear witness to the situation, "Cobalt...," She took a deep breath and stretched out her whip at astonishing speed. Cobalt didn't prepare for this speed. He was entangled by Fluttershy's whip, and then she said, "Unbreakable!" The whip soon glowed a gold aura as Fluttershy let it go, "That's enough Cobalt..."

"Unbreakable spell. Smart...," Cobalt accepted his defeat as Fluttershy looked around at her friends.

"Unity...," Fluttershy said quietly as she twirled around like a ballerina. A green aura formed around her graceful dancing as her friends' wounds began to heal themselves slowly.

They all surrounded Cobalt as he looked away from them, "Do what you will with me..."

"Really!" Rainbow said in excitement. Knowing what she meant, Applejack punched her arm, "Ow, right..."

"Go ahead, do it. I am ready to die...," They all stared at him with sympathy. They never expected Cobalt to willingly give up like that. Just as Twilight was about to say something, Scarlet arrived behind them.

"The attack begins now. Let's go, huh? Cobalt?" Scarlet stared at Cobalt who was now captured.

"No time to explain, Scarlet. Let's get going..."

"R-Right...," Scarlet opened a portal which seemed like it was a whole other world..., or more so looked like it.

"Japan?"

"Let's go everyone! This is our one chance to find Rarity!"

"Yeah!" They all entered the portal, only after glancing at Cobalt who stared at them back as they left.

"That looked like Japan. One of Brisk's safe havens are there. I know what to do. Manifest: Plasma Sniper...," A weird, alien-like weapon appeared in Cobalt's hand as he held his hand up, "Gate...," The portal opened to another wooded area, "Hm, I think I have plenty of bullets for this gun, but for you Brisk... I only need one..."