Everyone, excluding Sunset's goons, at that schoolyard were shocked at what they are witnessing. Sunset finally seized the crown that the girls were desperately attempting to prevent her from taking. A sense of doom and utter terror were the sensations that Luna and the mysterious dark outfit man feeling when the word "magic" was mentioned and the fiery-haired girl achieved her goal.

"Hehehe..." Sunset cackled with mischievous glee. She grasped on the golden crown with her slender amber hands and greedy eyes. "At last..."

Twilight picked her growling angry purple dog while the rest of her friends huddled behind her, preparing for the worst.

The fiery-haired girl's grin and eyes widen with darkness. "... More power than I could ever imagine." She raised the crown up in the air to fully marvel its design and taunt her enemies of their failure.

The dark outfit man must prevent the girl from fulfilling the deed of gaining magic fast. He instinctively pulled a small piece of metal somewhere in his clothing. The item was shaped of a hexagon that had a hole in the center and six sharp edges that made it resembled a star. He held the metal star with his right hand like a dart and aimed precisely at the crown. He was about to throw the star at the crown to knock it out of the redhead's grasp but...

"Stop!" Luna objected to her friend's decision. She grabbed his wrist, halting his throw.

"What... are... you doing, Luna?" The man said, irritated that she would stop him from committing the deed and stopping the threat.

"I won't allow you to throw that, Sensei," Luna answered.

"I'm not going to hurt her..."

"I don't care what you do to Sunset," Luna said. "It's our true identities that are in great peril. If they see that shuriken, the anonymity of the ninjas' presence in Canterlot City will crumble."

"I think the girls would be too occupied to notice or even care-" The man said but was cut off as Luna had just slapped his face with all of her might.

She had offended scowl on her face. "I wasn't talking about the girls..." Luna was about to speak more. her frustrations on who she meant. "I'm talking about the Or-"

But then suddenly...

BOOM!

It would appear that everyone's speeches have been interrupted tonight by unexpected circumstances. This one was disrupted by a loud booming explosion.

The duo looked down and saw the most shocking and supernatural scene they have ever witnessed.

Sunset had slowly and ceremoniously descended the golden crown on top of her head and instantly a dark blue rings came out, surrounding her entire body.

The rings then exploded into a pillar of corrupted light burst out and shining up towards the night sky, creating powerful shockwaves and ominous dark clouds to gather near the pillar of light. These occurrences made everyone and everything cower in fear. Unfortunately, a number of teens got out of the school building to see what was going on outside, only to have the similar frightened reactions.

The crowds of teenagers and the adult pair on the roof witnessed, in terrified awe, Sunset slowly rises up into the sky, a stream of tears flowed out of her eyes and bit her lower lip as if she was in great pain as the magic was surging throughout her entire being. The crown and her aura once again burst out another darker light on the fuschia star jewel, corrupting the wearer even further from both the outside and inside of her mind, body, and spirit.

Her amber skin became crimson dark red like her aura, hands became sharp claws, her clothes shifted into a ragged dress, her hair has been styled to take the shape of a flame and she sprouted two black bat-like wings with sharp tips at the bottom ends and the front was shaded into crimson red, grew a tail that had the same color as her hair and the top of her ears grew long and pointy.

The redhead had morphed into a horrific form of a fiery demon.

"DAMN IT!" The man cursed out loud.He did not care that his presence might be spotted by the fiery-headed demon. He slammed his right fist on the roof's ledge. "We're too late." He looked at Luna. "Why did you stop me?!"

"I... I..."Luna nervously stuttered, shocked at her error for halting the man's effort to stop Sunset from putting on the crown.

Sunset opened her eyes, revealing blue irises and ink black sclera. It only took a few seconds for Sunset to recollect her sense after her demonic transformation. She was marveled at her new form by laughing maniacally out loud, showing sharp teeth.

Everyone and the adult duo gasped in horror and couldn't move an inch, except for Twilight who stared upon the fiery demon with an enraged and determined look.

Sunset's monstrous claws started to emit two dark orbs of power and fired them to her underlings. They twitched and convulsed as they were transformed as well. With a flash of light, the boys turned into winged demons like their leader. The lanky one's entire body color was blue while the short one was orange.

"This is going to be so cool." The blue demon boy said with mischevious joy. The girls with virtuous auras flinched and backed away from the lesser demons, while Twilight continues to look at Sunset with a more enraged expression and gripping tightly on her left hand. The rest of the confused students cried out in distress for they have no idea what is going on with the scene they are witnessing.

"This isn't good." The dark outfit man announced to Luna. There was a hint of distress and frustration in his voice. His body trembling for his instincts went wild and telling him to kill the demons before they cause real severe damage to everything and everyone. But before he could act...

"Should we intervene?" Luna asked which sounds like she's begging to do something.

"What can we do exactly?" The man retorted. "We've encountered magic a couple of times in our lives and every time, we barely escaped from its clutches with our lives still intact. And have you forgotten about HIM?" His voice became low and harsh when he said the last word as if this individual was a great threat to the man and Luna.

Luna began to hyperventilate and became hysterical as she remembered what the man meant while hearing the cries of her terrified students echoed in the air. Traumatic memories of their pasts began to unravel in her mind. Every encounter she had with magic was horrifying and always concluded with severe casualties. She almost lost her only sister to magic.

"I'm sorry..." The woman sincerely apologized to the man, who looked at her and got up from his spot. Her eyes tear up with sadness and regret.

"No, I'm sorry, Luna." He approached towards Luna and embraced her tight. The young woman wasn't surprised by this action and in fact, fully accepted it as she rests her head on the man's chest, her tears seeping through his outfit. "I should have stopped her when I got here." He gritted his teeth. "But I let my curiosity get a hold of my intuitions."

There was no verbal response from her. She only tightened her grip on the hug. This only made the man feel more determined to end the disaster that he was too curious to see instead of preventing immediately. A blunder he wished didn't happen a second time.

After he gently got out of his embrace with Luna, he reached his right hand to the hilt of his sword and slowly unsheath it, preparing to surprise ambush the demonized Sunset and her two minions. His blood coursing fiercely through his veins, the hand that was gripping tight on the sword's hilt trembling as his killer instincts were growing impatient as the fiery-headed demon continued to monologue something about ruling Eques-something, a place that he couldn't identify or maybe it didn't exist and the demon was becoming more delusional as the magic corruption lingered more inside her mind, body, and spirit.

Luna had it worse. She had calmed down enough for her emotions to shift into depression to primal rage. She gritted her teeth really hard that it might cause one of them to crack. She clenched both of her hands that her sharp nails pierce through her palms and some of her blood flowed out.

"I'll go get my tools." Luna proclaimed to the man. She was about to head down but was suddenly halted by her friend, who grabbed her left wrist.

"Tools? We need actual weapons like guns, bombs or anything incredibly sharp if we can truly harm or kill these things." The man lowered his short sword, took out the sheath from his back and placed it on the left side of his hip. "The only thing we have right now that can do such a deed is Silver Moon."

"Well, I have those kinds of weapons as well..." Luna started to walk to the window that she came out from but suddenly halted, let out a disgruntled sigh, looked at her friend and crossed her arms. "I wish the Hunter was here."

"Yeah." The man nodded. "At least she knew how to handle these things." He looked around his surroundings while listening to the sounds of mayhem and distress from the school grounds until he became impatient on what he was waiting for. "Luna." He looked back at the woman.

"Yes?"

"Weapons?" He raised both of his arms above his head, trying to inform the woman.

"Oh, I'm sorry, De- I mean, Sensei." Luna ran to the window panel that had a hatch and went inside. The man could hear a distant sound of heels clinking as the woman ran to the room where she kept said weapons.

"... But let bygones be bygones." The distorted demonic voice of Sunset Shimmer said, her voice had a hint of sarcasm. The man headed back to the ledge to continue witnessing what the fiery-headed demon is up to. "I am your Princess now." He saw the demon hold both her hands together and the crown began to glow its unholy light once again. "...and you all will be loyal to..."

Sunset raised her glowing right demon hand directly at the school's front entrance, where the panicked students were inside. The man could feel the solid concrete foundation of the school's roof quaking unnaturally as it was about to be crushed by the demon's magic.

"ME!" Sunset grasped her right hand and the entire entrance soon crumbled into pieces. The debris was shrouded in dark magic and the demon swept it away to the side as she was focused on the students. She menacingly flapped her demon bat wings and approached the teenagers who began to cry in fear and run further inside the building.

And there was a Wilheim scream that could be heard among the crowds for some unknown reason, which the man would have found this moment hilarious if the situation wasn't so serious and horrifying.

"Damn it, Luna. Where are you?" The man was growing impatient with the waiting for the woman to return with the said weapons that she claims to possess... in a public service property. He facepalmed at that thought about the recklessness of the woman for harboring dangerous instruments in her workplace.

He can sense her coming back, feeling tired carrying something heavy. A light blue duffle bag was first to come out of the window. It had a golden ring on all sides of the bag and it had the same color letters that say "CHS", the "S" resembled a horse's head with a dark blue eye. The bag looked bulky as the contents inside were heavy weapons.

Luna was the second to get out the window, feeling fatigued from the haste retrieval and return. She changed her teaching attire into a more biker-like appearance; navy blue jeans, dark sapphire leather hoodie jacket, and black leather boots.

She dropped the bag near the man's feet and opened it. The man was surprised on the number of weapons and ammo boxes inside. There was a lot of varieties such as pistols, revolvers, shotguns, rifles, knives, machetes and grenades. There was also a black balaclava mask on top of the pile.

"Luna."

"Yes, Sensei."

"This is kind of overkill, isn't it?"

"Not with magic, it isn't."

The man sighed as he agreed with the woman.

The pair began to load their weapons and prepared for the most intense fight of the century. They ducked down and slumped their backs on the ledge wall.

"Pray for luck?" Luna asked, holding silver Buckretta pistols on both of her hands.

"You know I don't pray, Luna." The man answered, who had two .44 Neighington Magnum revolvers, instead of pistols, on both of his hands. He twirled both his weapons with his middle fingers and turning off the safety switch.

"I meditate."

Luna let out an annoyed sigh. "Then meditate for good luck then." She retorted. She pulled out her long hair which turned out to be a wig, revealing her true one, a Pixie hairstyle with the same hair color that had a pearl white streak on the front.

She then put on the balaclava mask to conceal her face and performed the same action that her partner did with her two pistols. The duo slightly raised their heads to inspect the main event to find a perfect opportunity initiating a surprise and violent ambush on the demons and save the students.

"... I want Equestria!" The fiery-haired demon announced. Her cyan irises lessen and the darkness of her sclera enveloping it. Both of her claws gripped tighter as her dark desires and corruption increase at an unprecedented rate. "And with my own little..." She waved her right arm behind her. "... Teenage army behind me, I'm going to get it." Every student, apart from the six girls, moaned and their bodies were moving slow and in a trance that seemed to resemble brainwashed zombies.

"That... that is..." The man tried to say something but his thoughts were overwhelmed by the demon's plan and how...

"Fucking stupid!" Luna yelled out, her voice sounded venomous as she is infuriated by the demon's plan and how idiotic and made no sense. She didn't care what this Eques-train or whatever it was Sunset said. All she cared was her students' wellbeing and how to get rid of the mind control.

"I'm going to fucking kill her." She bluntly said. "I'm seriously going to shoot every single gun I have on that thick demonic skull of hers."

"Luna, that's rather an extreme motive you have there." The man said, trying to calm the outraged masked educator. "I'm regretting this idea already. Maybe we should call the Age-"

"Screw that, Sensei," Luna hissed at the man before he could finish his request. "I'm not having another Darkon in this world and ruin everything that we hold dear again."

The dark outfit man saw rage and regret in her eyes. He understands what she was saying as they've experienced every traumatic experience they've encountered over the years. From the day they met to years of working together side-by-side.

"Ingrid will be saddened if we died because of this." He informed the woman sadly.

"Maybe she will be grateful that we at least got rid of an evil magical presence." She said, sighing for she thought would be her last time. "Even though it's not him we're taking down."

"Let's do this." They said simultaneously as they aimed their guns at the demons' heads.

"Gee, the gang is back together again." Demon Sunset maniacally laughed, wiping a single mocking tear from her right eye. After she was done mocking her inferior opponents, she began gathering a concentrated dark magic from the palms of her hands and forming it into a miniature sun orb. Her sights were directly at Twilight Sparkle, who had her friends on both of her sides with defiant looks and combat ready stances.

These girls were completely different and special to the students, maybe even to other humans. They stood their ground with confidence and weren't hypnotized by the fiery-haired demon's dark magic, meaning they have some sort of immunity to it.

Unfortunately, Sunset completely ignored their defiant attitudes.

"Now, step aside." She demanded the girls with pure hostility in her voice that would've made everyone obey without hesitation and submerged with fear but had no effect on the girls. "Twilight has tried to interfere with my plans ONE too many times already." She raised the concentrated ball of destruction above her head. "She... needs... to... DIE!"

She then launched the gigantic orb directly at Twilight, who flinched and raised both of her arms above her head as she doesn't know what to do for it was impossible to dodge the attack in time. However, her friends instinctively jumped to her and hugged together to form a shield, not like it will actually protect anyone.

They closed their eyes and hoped for the best.

BOOM!

Luna and the man were in utter appalled when the orb hit the girls directly. A bright flash of light shined for a split second before a dust cloud was formed by the impact.

The woman was about to jump down from the school's rooftop and unleash her entire rage by unloading every clip of ammo from her guns on the demons for killing her students in cold blood. But the man grabbed her right wrist. "What is it now, Sensei?!" She growled at the man for stalling once again. "That demon just killed my students!"

"Don't you sense that?" He asked, serious about the question. Luna decided to use her ability to see what he meant. She sighed in relief as her students were still alive but felt uneased as something else that wasn't from one of the girls but rather all of them.

After the dust clouds dissipated, the pair were in awestruck when they saw something... astonishing and rather weird. The girls were still huddled close together but something new surrounded their bodies. It was a lavender hue magic field, which protected them from the attack.

Sunset stopped her laughter and was now in a panicked pose when she saw them not get destroyed by the blast.

"What?!" The fiery-haired demon and Luna simultaneously said.

One by one, each girl opened their eyes, and slowly got out of the group hug to inspect the strange magic field that was surrounded their bodies. Twilight was the last one to notice the unexpected occurrence, her friends were holding hands that formed a circle around her. Everyone, excluding the demons, smiled with relief

"The magic contained in my Element was able to unite with those who helped create it," Twilight said with a valiant tone, she raised her arm to point at the crown's jewel which was glowing brightly and expel its essence to the lavender girl and her friends.

As soon as the essence made contact and a ball of light shined, the girls began to float up in the air, notifying the witnesses that they were about to transform as well.

"Do you hear that?" The man asked, confused at what he is hearing. "It sounds like music."

"Hey yeah..." Luna confirming his question. "It sounds very peppy and upbeat... like... like..."

The pair looked on to see what will come next.

The girls began to glow and slowly transformed with marvelous manner. Though, unlike Sunset's dark green tower of corrupted light and horrific painful transformation, the group's light shined like a rainbow that glowed a sense of hope, harmony and other virtuous concepts that were known to all living being. And the girls seemed to change natural and felt no pain but rather enjoyed the magic flowing throughout their bodies. New appendages emerged on the girl's bodies as well. Their human ears disappeared from the side of their heads and reappeared on top of their heads.

In addition, two girls, the one with rainbow hair girl, the shy yellow skin girl and Twilight herself sprouted wings from the back of their shoulder blades. The wings extended themselves, unveiling a majestic pair of angelic feather wings that had similar colors of the wearer's skin.

Twilight began to say each girl's virtues, who in return struck a pose.

"Honesty!"

The blonde cowgirl tipped down her Stetson hat.

"Kindness!"

The shy girl's pose was rather closed and timid, not freely moving her limbs like the rest of her friends and opened only her left eye.

"Laughter!"

The pink girl was ecstatic at her transformation and looked all over her body on the changes. Her finishing pose was her raising her right leg while standing on her left foot's toes, showing a huge grin on her face, and flapping her hands like a bird.

"Generosity!"

The pearl white skin and violet hair girl move elegantly manner as she undergoes her metamorphosis. She placed her right hand on her hips and displayed a beautiful expression that describes her virtue. A professional pose of a fashion model.

"Loyalty!"

The rainbow-haired girl immediately tested out her magical wings capabilities by zooming really fast, leaving a streak of her signature rainbow hair color.

And lastly...

"Magic!"

Twilight said with such confidence and optimism that overshines the despairing darkness that the fiery-haired demon produced on the school.

The light finally diminished enough that the observers can see the girl's colorful silhouettes. Twilight's forehead was glowing brightly of fuschia hue as that appears to look like a single unicorn horn that is fuelled with the magic of... of... the bonds she shared with her friends. Their combined powers were exponentially more powerful than Sunset. It was like comparing the strength of a fully equipped battleship to that of a small worn-out dinghy rowboat.

"That... that is physically impossible." The man said in disbelief at their transformation. It was more bizarre and quite childish.

"Yeah..." Luna agreed, also befuddled at what she is witnessing. "Are we in a Sailor Moon anime right now? Because it feels like we are."

Extraordinary girls with quirky personalities that also act as their virtuous willpower, weird music playing somewhere in the background and their transformations were flashy, colorful, took a really slow time to go through, and they did dynamic poses at the end. Either they were in a Sailor Moon anime or magic has a colorful and silly sense of humor today.

Anyway, back to the fight...

"Together with the crown, they create a power beyond anything you could imagine," Twilight announced as she and her friends look down at the fiery-haired demon. "But it is a power you don't have the ability to control."

As she said that last sentence, Sunset was seen struggling to grab hold of the crown. It appeared like the item was going to its rightful owner.

"The crown maybe upon your head, Sunset Shimmer." Twilight continued on her speech. "But you cannot wield it because you do not possess the most powerful magic of all." She and her friends hold hands.

"The magic of friendship!"

The girls rise up higher into the air and formed a human-linked heart formation. Then suddenly, two beams of rainbows burst out of the group and spiraled towards the sky until it reached the sky and blast down into one larger rainbow beam that was heading towards the fiery-haired demon.

Sunset Shimmer was now screaming in fear and paralyzed, feeling hopeless of ever dodging the direct attack.

But it wasn't a direct attack, the beam landed on her feet which only gave her a split second before it actually performed its true attack and that is a rainbow tornado surrounding the demon's body.

"Ah! What... is... happening!?" She yelled, afraid and confused. The tornado grew into a gigantic size, succumbing the demon entirely. Its center had sparks spewing upwards yet there were no screams of pain or any sound from Sunset.

"Here and Equestria. It is the only magic that can truly unite us all." Twilight said. Another beam of rainbows came out of them and shoot at one of the brainwashed students, which began to multiply and hit the rest, freeing them from the dark magic and removing the demonic forms of Sunset's cronies.

As a final act, Twilight spread her arms apart and a giant ball of white light flashed throughout the area.

And just like that the fight... if you even call that one-minute anime transformation sequence and overdramatic light show a fight... is over.

Good has triumphed over the forces of pathetic and idiotic evil. The students are saved from the dark brainwashing magic and manipulative grasp of the demon Sunset Shimmer.

And all that was accomplished with the magic of friendship...

In the form of a deadly rainbow blast straight towards the fiery-haired demon.

Seriously? That's it?

Author's Note

You have been defeated by a group of friends and your darkness that shrouds and controlled everyone has vanished.

Your fate has been sealed, Little Miss Redhead

But is does it define who you really are?