Revenge of the Shadow Pony

Back on the battlefield, Spike, Ember, and Tirek were holding their ground against the Royal Sisters. The more attacks that Spike, the more ferocious he became. He was on all fours and he was quite angry.

"Are you angry, Spike? It's bad for your health, you know." Daybreaker taunted.

Spike charged once at Daybreaker and clashed blades with her. In the middle of their deadlock, he turned his left hand into a dagger in an attempt to slash her. But seeing right through this, Daybreaker pushed Spike back with her magic and attempted to pierce him with her sword. However, he was able to dodge and they went back to clashing their swords against one another.

***

Ember and Tirek kept on the offense and continued attacking Nightmare Moon. The duo coordinated their attacks against the dark alicorn and had slight success with their combined flurry of combos against her.

“What’s the matter, Princess? You’re getting pretty slow!” Tirek mocked while having her on the ropes with Ember.

Having no other choice, Nightmare Moon shouted,

“ENOUGH!!! TANTABUS!!! COME OUT!!!”

Just then, the Tantabus came out and shrouded Nightmare Moon. Flying up into the air, she summoned a series of scythes and flung them at Ember and Tirek with her magic. The duo dodged and deflected every attack that was thrown at them. Then Ember flew up in the air towards Nightmare Moon. The latter swung every scythe she had at the former, but Ember’s speed was too much to catch and they clashed their blades at each other.

“DON’T UNDERESTIMATE A DRAGON!!!” Ember roared as she swung her spear at the dark alicorn.

Tirek jumped in as well and charged at Nightmare Moon with his horns, knocking her to the ground. But before he could attack her, she teleported out of the way and swung her scythe at the raging centaur. However, Tirek was able to catch the weapon with his magic and swung his club at her. Nightmare Moon summoned her various other scythes back to her side and got back into a fighting stance.

“Twilight was more of a challenge than you, princess!” Tirek taunted.

Hearing her name really made Nightmare Moon’s blood boil hotter than the volcanoes at the Dragon Badlands.

“DON’T!!! EVER!!! MENTION!!! THAT!!! NAME!!!!!!” Nightmare Moon roared before charging at the duo.

***

Spike and Daybreaker were charging at each other all over the battlefield. Clashing and trading blows with one another, the two were in a deadlock to see who would kill each other first. Deciding on a ranged attack, Daybreaker flew up into the air and charged her horn up.

“I HOPE YOU BROUGHT SUNBLOCK, YOU LITTLE NEWT!!!” Daybreaker yelled before firing her beam at Spike.

Taking notice, Spike flew out of the blast’s way and went as fast as he could to avoid the incineration. Fanning his wings out, he flew up into the clouds to avoid detection. Knowing she would find him any second, Spike tried to think of a plan.

“What is your plan, dragon? The alicorn has already discovered my weakness and we are short on options!” the creature panicked.

“Shut up! I’m thinking!” Spike shouted while keeping his nerve.

“THINK ON THIS!!!” Daybreaker shouted as she fired a solar beam at Spike.

Spike dodged out of the way and flew at Daybreaker, preparing to swing his claws at her. She teleported out of the way and swung her sword at him, but the creature stopped the swing and Spike caught onto her sneak attack. Seizing the opportunity, he flailed his arms at her and got a scratch on her coat.

“YOU SHALL PAY DEARLY FOR THIS DISRESPECT!!!” Daybreaker shouted before teleporting away from the sky.

Spike took this moment to recover from his encounter with Daybreaker. Just as he was finished recovering, he realized where she was headed. And a sense of dread loomed over him.

“Oh no…” Spike muttered before proceeding to fly back to the ground.

***

Teleporting to where her sister was, Nightmare Moon was on the ropes against Ember and Tirek. Just as she was about to be slain by the duo, Daybreaker fired a shot at the two and helped her sister up.

“What’s the matter, dear sister? You can’t handle a couple of measly creatures?” Daybreaker mocked.

“DO NOT MOCK ME, DEAR SISTER!!! I WOULD HAVE HAD HER IF IT WERE NOT FOR THAT ACCURSED CENTAUR!!!!” Nightmare Moon yelled.

“Then how about I take the dragon? You can have the centaur.” Daybreaker suggested as flames surrounded her body.

“Agreed, dear sister…” Nightmare Moon said as the Tantabus enveloped her once more.

Charging at the duo, Nightmare Moon took Tirek and Daybreaker took Ember. Nightmare Moon immediately went on the offense and proceeded to overwhelm Tirek with all her might, slamming and swinging her scythes to overwhelm the centaur. Taking note of this, Tirek used his magic and gathered huge amounts of boulders to throw at Nightmare Moon. But before she could react, she was hit by one of the boulders and she was sent flying back a far distance. After teleporting out of the way, Nightmare Moon noticed Tirek charging at her while swinging his club in a wild manner while screaming his battlecry.

“IS THAT THE BEST YOU CAN DO!?!?!?” Nightmare Moon shouted as she got off the ground.

Levitating her scythe back into her hooves, Nightmare Moon flew off the ground and flew towards Tirek at high speed. Screaming at the top of their lungs as they charged towards one another, they raised their weapons in preparation for their next attack. The centaur raised his club in the air and the alicorn remained low to the ground while continuing to fly and spinning her scythe in the process. Getting close to each other, Tirek swung his club at Nightmare Moon. But she moved out of its way and flew upwards to cut Tirek’s head clean off. Walking towards his decapitated head, Nightmare Moon taunted,

“Let us see you absorb any magic now.”

Then she blew up his head completely, reducing it to nothing more than chunks in the ground.

“I wonder how my sister is doing?” Nightmare Moon wondered before flying to her location.

***

Overwhelming Ember with all her might, Daybreaker broke Ember’s spear and prepared for the coup de grace. But the brave dragon dodged and attempted to stab Daybreaker. But the evil alicorn saw right through it and teleported out of the way. She swung her sword at her sword, but Ember pulled out a short sword and grazed Daybreaker’s coat. They flew back and assumed fighting stances once more.

“Since you’re going double, so shall I.” Daybreaker jeered before pulling out a second sword, taking note of Ember’s sword-spear combo.

“Then so shall I. Have at thee, disgusting lizard!!!” Nightmare Moon shouted, summoning a second scythe as well.

“LET ME SHOW YOU WHAT THIS DISGUSTING LIZARD CAN DO!!!” Ember roared before charging at the Royal Sisters.

“THEN SHOW US…!!!!” Daybreaker roared as well before charging with Nightmare Moon and clashing with the fierce female dragon.

Ember fought back with everything she could muster, but the Royal Sisters were too much for her to handle and she started to get worn out by their overwhelming strength. Before she knew it, she saw Spike in the sky and dizzy from the fight, she tried reaching out for him. But in the midst of her potential rescue, she was repeatedly stabbed and slashed by the Royal Sisters. Ember fell to the ground, exhausted and defeated by the malicious alicorns.

“Spike…” Ember said before dying from her wounds.

***

Seeing from far ahead, despair hit Spike like a punch to the gut. He flew over to Ember as fast as he could, but it was too late by the time he made it. He ran over to her side and saw that she was already dead. In a state of grief and rage, Spike looked up to the Royal Sisters filled with tears and screamed at the top of his lungs before transforming,

“EEEEEMMMMMMBBBBBBBEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRR!!!!”

The Royal Sisters covered their faces while the dirt and dust flew out of the air as a huge light shot up into the sky . After everything settled down and everything cleared away, they were greeted by an abyss-covered Spike, filled with nothing but hate and sorrow.

“So you finally show yourself…” Daybreaker jeered as she looked at the transformed Spike.

Growling and boiling with rage, Spike roared a mighty and terrible roar before charging at full speed towards the Royal Sisters, filled with nothing but malice for the two.