New guy at CHS: The next generation

Silver and Blaze glanced at the destruction in front of them. Silver had a makeshift version of her shield and sword from home while Blaze had a plasma rifle sporting a split bayonet at the end of the rifle's end. On her belt, she had two plasma swords that had sharp grappling hooks on the hilt of them, "Silver... I don't know..."

"Blaze, as your older, I'm ordering you to follow me. We need to take that queen out and save our sisters."

"And what of our brother?" Silver fell silent which angered her, "Our brother could be in that building either injured or even worse, dead!"

"Blaze, someone like my brother doesn't matter in a family built around power, intelligence and finesse. It was the best way to pick off the scraps. Hell, maybe I'll order them to take Lavender out too. What does she do? Sing? Write poetry? Nothing that can help our powerful family. She's just more useless trash that doesn't deserve to be part of our family."

"Silver... do you even hear yourself right now? You sound like a monster! I...," Blaze soon pointed her rifle at Silver and said, "can't allow you to do that. I don't know what Platinum did to you, but you're not the Silver I remember from the mainland. You're... a tyrant. Right now, you're not my sister. You're my enemy..."

"Hmph, I knew they would get in your head," Silver turned towards Blaze with disappointment on your eyes, "I guess it's my duty as your sister to whip you into shape," Silver unsheathed her sword and shield as she took her battle stance, "I'll whip you into shape. Then, I'll whip those other annoying sisters back into shape aswell."

"No, I'm whipping you into shape. I'm gonna make you the sister that I know and love..."

"Same to you..."

Back to the front, Quartz turned around towards everyone and stepped forward. He looked around and picked up the soldiers gun. He took all the ammo he had and looked around at the other soldiers around them, "Hold on, give me a sec," Quartz held his hand in front of him and slowly balled his hand into a fist, "Rise: Wall of Earth!" In front of them a large rock wall popped up in front of them. Everyone stared in shock at what they saw.

"Earth? Electricity?" Lavender wondered. Rarity's necklace began to glow a dirt brown as did Silver's.

Silver noticed this and looked towards the capitol with shock, "Two elements?" However, she had to quickly guard from Blaze's attack.

Rarity glanced at her necklace as it soon started to glow red, "Red? Fire?!" Quartz jumped on top of the rock wall he waved his hand into the gun he had, "What is happening to him?"

"He's awakened...," Alicia answered. She turned to everyone as she explained, "Trust me, when I was resting on his shoulder, I felt some sort of abnormal power running through him. I decided to search my library last week."

-A week ago-

"Hm, what happens when a large amount of power is running rampant through someones body?" Alicia scanned every single book in her private library trying to find an answer. Alicia found herself looking for hours upon hours for an answer, "Now I now how Quartz felt when he was working with that evidence."

She spent 4 straight days looking for an answer before, "Wait," She found it, "I found it!"

-Present day-

"Quartz has had this power awakened when he was attacked by Midnight. His power is called: Elemental Efficiency. It's not a mystic power. It's a power passed down through a race that no longer exists. A race that Cupcake is part of. Quartz is not only a mystic... he's an Elemental Hero."

"Wait what? I thought even Elemental Heroes couldn't sport more than one element. Unless the Omni-Dragon allowed them to."

"That's what Elemental Efficiency does. It allows him to have any element at his disposal. That, combined with that necklace he's wearing increases the power of those elements ten-fold. Cobalt also told me that the necklace he has increases the power of you, himself, Quartz and Silver when you're within a 100 mile radius of each other. Which means, Silver is close by," They all looked around as Quartz shot his fire induced weapon into the artillery outside the capitol walls, "I don't want to assume, but I think the three of you also have that ability. That necklace holds many more secrets that Cobalt has refused to tell me. I suggest you get answers from him about these necklaces. These necklaces aren't from this realm. Hell, I don't even think they're of this dimension."

Cobalt looked at his necklace as he held his hand up. A massive ball of fire formed in front of his hand. This shocked both Cupcake and Kat as they witnessed this, "Get behind me," They nodded as he took a deep breath. He looked at the large group of resistance soldier frozen in fear before he fired off this large fireball at them causing the explosion to kill all in its path.

Silver looked at her necklace as well as she banged her shield. It started to have a green shock effect around it as she charged towards Blaze who braced for impact. However, as soon as that shield came into contact with her swords, it shattered them and she was pummeled by it. Silver knocked her into the air before jumping up to meet her. She began winding up her next swing and...

Quartz jumped back down to meet the others about the next plan, "All that just wore me out a little. Look, Mom, Aunt Fluttershy, and Alicia, get the villagers to safety. Is there anywhere we can take them to regroup?"

"Uh, Boshin's rock is a safe place. It gives us much more cover. From there, however, we'll have to traverse through a large ravine of sorts."

"I see, if it's going to get the people to safety, then so be it. You two," Quartz pointed at Lavender and Saber as he handed them two guns and a load of ammo, "stay here with me and we'll cover this part. We can't let them get past us. My father is defending the other side too, right?" They all nodded as he cocked his gun, "Yeah, let's get to rocking!" Everyone went off to do whatever Quartz ordered them to do. This brings us back to now

"Cobalt!" Cobalt's eyes slowly opened as he heard multiple explosions and gunfire around him. In front of him was Cupcake who was covered in gunpowder and dirt, "Cobalt wake up! We gotta get moving!"

"Huh?"

"The captiol is gone. There's no turning back. Rarity told us to meet her down the stream. She said that we can all regroup there. Kat watch out!"

"What...?

"Quartz! There's one on your left!" Saber yelled as she fired at the advancing enemy army.

"I got it!" Quartz responded as he quickly took out a resistance that got too close. Quartz was shirtless and bandaged as he sported only only a pair of bdu pants and combat boots.

"Anyone got an extra mag?! I'm running dry!" Lavender asked.

Quartz glanced around at all the empty mags and saw one last mag that was half used on the ground, "It's the last mag! Make it count! It's only at half capacity!"

"Thanks!"

"Come on! This way!" Fluttershy yelled as she guided the startled villagers to safety, "Rainbow, get all the children to a save area outside the walls."

"It's on it!"

"Pinkie, Aj, help me get the rest of the villagers to Boshin's Rock!"

"Gotcha'," Both women responded.

"Rarity, help me out here!"

"Don't worry Fluttershy deary. Go get the queen!" Rarity took over the villagers Fluttershy was leading leaving her to get Alicia.

"Alicia...," Fluttershy turned to Alicia who killed off a small group of resistance soldiers, "We have to get moving. The capitol is gone..."

"I know, but Quartz is still back there..."

"It's fine. Saber should know when to retreat. Let's get going. We've wrapped up nearly all the villagers," Alicia nodded as she followed her, but was stopped when she heard a distant whimper.

"Hello?" She went to investigate the noise, and it led her to a destroyed house. In front if it were two dead villagers. Both with bullet wounds to the heart. She glanced around for the noise and saw a turned over sofa. She ran to it and flipped it over to see a young girl no older than 4 years old.

"Mama...?" The girl softly responded.

"No, it's me... Queen Alicia..."

"Queen... Alicia?"

"Listen, it's not safe here. Come with me, and I'll keep you safe...," Alicia held put her hand and the girl slowly took it before Alicia carried the little girl in her arms.

She attempted to sprint to safety while covering the girl's head, but a nearby artillery strike sent her and the girl flying. Close by, a resistance soldier came sprinting at her with a plasma sword and was ready to strike as she protected the girl in her arms.

What sent this whole thing into disarray. Well, when Silver knocked Blaze into the air, she sent her flying into the village everyone was in, but she didn't stop there. Her necklace began to glow red as she balled her fists with a red aura surrounding it. She smirked extremely devilishly as she punched the air sending multiple balls of energy following Blaze as she collided with the ground followed by the balls of energy.

However, Blaze landed beside Cobalt with a loud thud. Cobalt checked on the explosion and was shocked at what she saw, "Blaze?"

"Cobalt! What is it?! They're closing in!" Cupcake said as she ran over to him as she held a suppressive fire.

"M-My daughter...," Cobalt slowly walked forward until the hair on the back of his neck shot up. He looked up to see those same balls of energy coming down on him, "Cupcake move!" He pushed Cupcake out the way and attempted to cover Blaze. Of course, this resulted in what happened earlier.

So back with Alicia's situation, the soldier readied his sword, but was sliced in half by not Quartz's sword, but Silver, "Huh? W-Who are you?"

"Oh, my brother hasn't told you about me?"

"Silver?"

"Oh he has! Well, I might as well take care of you right now. Only then will I free my family from your evil clutches!"

Alicia tried her best to cover the child in her arms as she flinched. However, a gunshot rang through out as Silver turned around and sliced the bullet in half. Alicia looked around her to see Quartz with Lavender and Saber behind him. He held up a handgun with the other two pointing plasma rifles at her.

"Hm, I guess you lived. No matter though, I'll take care of you after I kill your queen here," Silver brought her sword to Alicia's neck which angered Quartz. Silver chuckled as she smiled devilishly, "Why don't you try stopping me?"

Lavender and Saber pointed their guns at her as the rest of the family joined together, "Silver!" Rarity yelled.

Silver turned to see her mother and Aunts which angered, "So you got my whole family on your side? How manipulative are you?!"

"She's not the manipulative person Silver!" Silver heard Blaze's voice from behind as she groaned in frustration.

"Didn't I put you in your-," However when she turned to meet her, she saw her father offering his shoulder to her. They were followed by Cupcake and Kat, "Father?"

"Platinum is the one manipulating you! I can see it in your eyes! Wake up!"

"I-I see what's going on here. H-Her power is so powerful t-that she's controlling your minds."

"Silver, my dearest daughter, please listen to reason!" Rarity pleaded.

"Mother...," Cobalt only stared as he glanced at Quartz who was balling his fists fiercely, "Don't worry everyone, once I destroy this conjorer of evil! You'll all be freed!" Silver with a crazed look in her eye attempted to cut Alicia's head off, but was met instead by Quartz's blades.

"You won't lay a blade on my queen. I'll die before anything happens to her," Quartz kicked Silver away from Alicia as he turned to her, "Get to Boshin's Rock," He then glanced over at the young child, "And get this young one to safety," She nodded as she ran off, "The rest of you, go with her and keep her safe. I'll handle this nuisance."

"Alright...," Lavender glared at Silver before running off with everyone else. Rarity stayed behind just a bit longer, but Lavender reassured her, "Don't worry. I don't think this will go too far. Come on," Lavender sprinted ahead of her, but Rarity was still worried.

Her two kids were about to fight off with one another. Possibly to the death, "Be safe my kids...," She ran off with the others as Cobalt looked at his two kids. He didn't say anything as he helped Blaze walk while making their way to Boshin's Rock.

"Quartz, why are you like this? Has she really gotten into your mind that badly?"

"I'm like this because I found my sense of justice. You seemed to have lost that. I guess, you could say... love is what got this feeling of justice out of me."

"Love?"

"Something I was denied from my own family. I got my love here, and now I found my sense of right and justice. I guess it's my job to teach it back to you."

"No, you, you can't do that! I need to protect you!" Silver charged at him and they met into deadlock, "I can't let anyone steal you from me!" Quartz looked at the psychotic look in his eyes.

"What's wrong with you?"

"I can't allow anyone to steal you away from me! You're mine!"

"Oh, I get it. She must have some sort of brother complex. If she's that obsessed with keeping me under her control, she must be extremely obsessive."

"You're mine!"

Quartz was easily countering her attacks while thinking at the same time, "Hm, so if I try to work into her brother complex, I can get to her. The real her..."

"Quartz!" Silver yelled.

"Silver...," Quartz started, "I don't want you to be like this. This isn't the sister... I knew from my younger days. You're not the sister that helped me through hard times. Saved me from bullies. You're not the sister I grew up to love and care for."

"No..."

"You need to think about who you really are! Beat this jealousy! Beat Platinum and his lies!"

"Y-You're my brother... my little brother..."

"That's right, but think about your sisters and who they are. Think about our aunts, our mother, and our father. Would he really find himself to be manipulated? He's the strongest being in the entire universe!" Quartz kicked Silver back, and then instantly disarmed her as she staggered back from the kick. Quartz pushed her down and pinned her onto the ground, "Think back to the last 22 years of your life! Think about who you are Silver!"

That last sentence echoed throughout her ears as each childhood memory flooded into her mind..., "Remember..."

-15 years ago-

"Mommy, can I see my brother?" A young Silver stood beside her family as Rarity held a newborn Quartz.

"Of course sweety. Fluttershy, can you be a dear, and hold him for to see?"

"Of course I will. Come here young one...," Rarity handed Fluttershy the newborn Quartz as she knelt down for Silver to see, "Look at him Silver. He's healthy isn't he?"

"Yeah, he's cute...," Silver held her finger in front of him, in which he smiled, "He's smiling!"

"Don't be too loud Silver."

"Sorry...," Silver smiled back at her new brother as she asked, 'What's his name?"

"Quartz, Shining Quartz..."

"That's a nice name... Quartz..."

-Present-

"Quartz, you're my brother. My younger brother. My only brother. How could I... be so blind?" Silver avoided Quartz's gaze but she instantly looked at him when he planted his face into her chest causing her to blush, "W-What are you doing?!"

"Finally! Do you know how scared I was if I had to actually fight you? I wouldn't even bring myself to do it. Silver," Quartz paused as he looked at her with a smile, "I'm glad you're back..."

"Quartz...," Silver teared up as she hugged Quartz extremely hard, trapping his head between her arms and her breasts.

"Not again!"

"Oh I'm so glad to know that you love and care for me! Oh, I wonder if it's romantic love, but that type of love is forbidden between siblings. Oh but what if we kept it on the..."

"Silver," Quartz said muffled, "suffocating from big breasts!"

"Oh, sorry," Silver released him only to hug his one last time, except he wasn't enveloped in her breasts, "Yay! I'm back!"

"Alright, let's head to Boshin's Rock," Quartz helped his sister up as groups of resistance soldiers surrounded them, "Looks like we have company..."

"Oh my, this could've been a lot easier if you had just used that jealousy Silver. You would've gotten whatever you wanted if you had stayed on my side," Platinum appeared leading this group of resistance soldiers as he sported a look of disappointment, "Oh well, no use keeping you alive anymore. I'm sure that my good friend Discord would thank me."

"Discord?!" Quartz exclaimed, "You're working with Discord?"

"Of course, how else would I have been able to control your sister so well? I'm surprised you were able to jog her memory back. I guess it's not as effective as Discord's himself. No matter, I'll have no choice but to kill you both right now. Attack...," Platinum ordered as he walked off leaving his soldiers to do his bidding."

"Silver, give me your shield."

"Why?"

"Just trust me. I have an idea to get out of here quickly...," Silver nodded as she handed him her shield. Quartz then threw it on the ground and hopped on it. He then held out his hand to Silver and said, "Come on, let's go...," Silver grabbed his hand and she stepped on her shield. Quartz then pointed his hand backwards, "I have something a friend gave me earlier," Not long afterwards, a large beam of flames fired from his wrist shooting them forward, similar to what Cobalt did with Cupcake. They used the shield to surf along the ground while getting their boost from the fire.

"What are you using for the fire?!"

"Saber gave me a wrist flamethrower before we retreated! I didn't think I needed, but I'm glad I had it!"

"So who's this Saber?" Silver asked accusingly.

"My partner!"

"P-Partner?! Like, your life p-partner?!"

"Oh right, her brother complex...," Quartz sighed as he explained, "No, she's sort of my instructor/partner. She accompanies me into battle and such while teaching me at the same time."

"Oh, well good. You are much too young to be having any type of relationships."

"I'm 15 coming up on 16. I want a girlfriend."

"Aren't your sisters enough for you? Especially me?"

"Are you serious? I can't date or marry my sisters. Which is why I'm trying to hit it up with Alicia."

"Y-You have feelings for her?!"

"Yeah, and I believe she has the same feelings for me as well..."

"B-But what about us?!"

"You act like I'm going to abandon all of you when I get a girlfriend or something. I can't forget any of you. I mean, you all are my sisters. How could I forget any of you?"

"Because... I thought you had not cared for the family..."

"I've been through some events to show me that how I was before was..."

"Terrible?"

"Yeah you could say that. Alicia and everyone showed me my destiny. My will to move on in life. I now have a set path in life..."

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah, I"m sure. Uh oh," Quartz's wrist flamethrower started to puff out smoke slowly.

"What's happening?"

"We're losing fuel," Quartz shot his blades out and he stuck his blades into the ground to bring them to a stop, but the speed they were going was making it difficult, "Silver, use your sword too!"

"But this isn't like my sword from back home..."

"That doesn't matter. Do it or we're gonna crash into that ravine ahead of us!" Silver nodded as she took out her sword and stuck it into the ground. This increased the effect of them braking, but it wasn't enough, "Uh oh, prepare for impact!" They both hugged each other fiercely as they approached the ravine as they fell off.

"Welp, my first time back with you and now we're gonna die together. Well, I guess there's only one thing to do!" Silver grabbed Quartz's face and puckered up.

"What are you doing?!"

"Just something I've wanted to do for a long time!"

"No please! Silver, I can't afford dry cleaning!" As Silver inched closer, they were magically stuck in mid air, "Wait what? What's happening here?"

"I see you kids are having a great time!" Twilight yelled from one side of the ravine as she held them up with her telekinesis powers. Behind her was everyone else. All of their sisters were blushing along with Alicia who was mostly angry from jealousy.

"I-It's not what it looks like!"

"Yeah, yeah, explain when I put you both down. We're planning our next move. Silver, it's good to know that Quartz finally put some sense into you," Twilight brought them over to him as when she did, everyone hugged them greatly.

"We're so glad you're back Silver!" Electric said as she sniffled a little, "Now we can be a family again."

"Not right now we can't," Cobalt started as he walked up with Cupcake and Kat behind him, "Our home here is in the hands of an enemy so strong that it has taken over nearly every single realm in this dimension and possibly others."

"Father, Platinum said something that should worry you...," Silver started, "Discord knows about Uskain..."

"What?"

"He said that he was controlling Silver's mind since her mind was easy to manipulate, but his manipulative powers aren't as strong as Discord's himself. I'm afraid that Discord will make his push towards the south soon."

"Yes, now that he knows that we're all here and the last of the the Mystic Realm's defense is down here, he'll surely push down here destroying all in his path."

"If we land in Depab, we'll be attacked from two sides. What are we going to do Cobalt...," Rarity asked as she worried about their own safety.

"I don't know. For the first time, I don't know what we can do. My only suggestion is surrender. This is a battle we know we can't win. There's no choice but to surrender now and minimize any innocent casualties," For the first time ever in his life, Cobalt had a tone of defeat. A tone nobody thought they would hear.

However, Quartz stood up and dusted himself off, "You are right father, or are you?"

"What are you on about son?"

"Yeah, you're right about our chances of winning such a battle are slim, but there's a saying in the Art of War and it reads: Do not engage an enemy more powerful than you. If it is unavoidable, engage on your terms, not the enemy's. We strike now, we throw them off guard. However, this can't be a slow attack. We have to be quick. Prevent them from regrouping. Cut off their reinforcements, disable their supply line. We do what we can to slow them down while destroying them. This has to be extremely fast. A blitzkrieg if you will."

"Can that work? We don't have the manpower to combat such a large army filled with officers of talent and valor. Quartz," Lavender questioned, "do you think that we could stand a chance against them?"

"Hmph, battles have been won through wisdom and strength working together. We just use our brawn and wit to overpower our enemy. We have our wit right here," Quartz walked over to his father and Twilight, "I'm sure these two genius minds can come up with some sort of strategy to ensure an easy push. While the brawn," He then takes everyone around him and puts them in a circle, "allows that strategy to come into fruition."

"Quartz," Everyone stared at him in shock as he continued his speech.

"However, you're right when it comes to numbers and we can't do too much without any troops. However, if we make our way to Depab now, we can get whatever army there is there and you know, perform a little magic while we're there in order to create a phantom or stone army. Possibly even both. It's up to whoever is the sorcerer on how long it'll take."

"What about the villagers? Where will they go when this battle rages on?"

"It's up to them if they want to take up arms or search for safety. We can't force them to fight. Leave it up to them."

"And what about weapons?" Rarity asked, "We'll have to rely on firearms and our signature combat weapons won't we?"

"Not necessarily. If we have a decent amount of troops extremely well versed in firearms, than they can handle them."

"What about any bombers or fighters? We can't hope to fight them with our amount of supplies," Alicia wondered as she remembered the mass amounts of air units sent in to bomb and protect themselves.

"Leave that to us," Twilight said as the girls ponied up, "Since we're all able to pony up, we can take care of all those air units from earlier."

"Right, I'm sure we can sway off those bombers and gunships away from our army," Rarity stated as she ponied up.

"That leaves us to lead the army into battle."

"Who will be the commander?" Cupcake wondered, "A battle can't be lead unless they have a commander."

"You're right, but who would be the right person to lead...," Quartz paced around thinking about who it would be, but everyone smirked at each other as they looked at him and said.

"Quartz."

"No, that's a terrible- wait what?"

"You're the one that thought of this plan. You should be the one that leads everyone to victory."

"B-But why? I-I'm too young to even attempt to lead a battle that could mean our future."

"Quartz," Alicia started, "you proved to your family and everyone here that you're not someone to be taken lightly. This is your chance to solidify that fear into your enemies," Quartz fell silent as he glanced off the ravine, "Quartz?"

"I'll do it. However, don't expect too much out of me. I'll do my best out of there and I hope all of you will do the same for me."

"We'll do it," Alicia stated, "All of us."

"Thanks. I'll need all the assistance possible from everyone," Quartz sighed as he ignited his hands and brought them together causing a massive shockwave, "This is where I'll show my prowess to my whole family..."