Wonderbolts V.S Shadowbolts: The Day The Sky Changed Forever

As Applejack saw the battle unfold in front of her, she could only think about what she could do, but the only thing she could think of was joining Starlight in finding weapons. As she slowly went to exit the throne room, the room became black and dark crystals started spiking out of the floor. Twilight was immediately struck with fear and lost her concentration, then Cinch got the upper hand and knocked Twilight to the ground. Before she could finish Twilight off, she saw what had made the alicorn lose her concentration, and she knew where these crystals had come from and who had made them.

King Sombra walked over the throne and towards Cinch. "Good.....Good....." He laughed maniacally and stood over the injured Twilight. "You think that your Princesses can save you?" he said. "Well...They can't!" He then summoned a sword and stabbed Twilight through the chest.

"TWILIGHT!" Rainbow Dash cried out! Using her metal wing, she punched Lighting Dust in the chest, knocking her to the wall, and then flew towards her friend.

"No....No....No...please don't go, Twi, don't go!" Rainbow said.

Twilight could only hold on for a little longer; she said weakly, "Don't worry… I will be fine." Then she fell unconscious.

Sunset was now running towards Twilight, and she said, looking at Rainbow, "Is...Is she?"

"No, just unconscious," Rainbow Dash said.

"We defeated you once, and we can defeat you again. We're not afraid of you!" Rainbow said angrily.

"Oh, but you should." Just then, he grabbed Applejack and put her in a bubble, then four more bubbles popped out of nowhere and inside of them contained Fluttershy, Rarity, Starlight, and Cadence.

"If you want your friends to live, you will bow to me!"

Cinch walked up to Sombra. "I am here to serve you, master."

"As am I," Lightning Dust said as she got up and joined her twisted masters.

Rainbow Dash was thinking in her head every single idea she could, but all of them ended up with all five of her closest friends and her wife meeting an unfortunate end. The only thing Rainbow Dash could do was shed a tear down her cheek.

"Celestia help me," Rainbow Dash said.

"She can’t save you!" Sombra said. "Not this time!"

"Oh, really?" Princess Celestia shouted.

As King Sombra turned around, he could only see Celestia walking in. "Well, well, well. If it isn't the sun god herself," he said mockingly. "Have you come to finish me off by yourself, or is your pitiful sister not with you?"

"Oh, don't worry, she's right here with me," Celestia said with a smirk on her face. Just then, the ceiling came crushing in, and Nightmare Moon with all her glory landed right in front of Celestia.

One hour ago

As Princess Celestia used all the magic beams she could--she was shooting Shadowbolts left and right--but she could only watch in horror as one by one her fellow soldiers kept falling for her. Just then, a giant bolt of magic came shooting out of the Shadowbolt cave, but that wasn’t what worried her: what worried her the most was that it was aiming right towards Nightmare Moon. The magic hit Nightmare Moon and sent her slamming down to the ground.

"Sister!" Celestia yelled.

Celestia cautiously ran over to Nightmare Moon. She was somewhat relieved to see Nightmare Moon was fully well and standing up proudly, but she could see something that was different from the last time she saw Nightmare Moon: her eyes were not Nightmare Moon's; in fact, they were Luna’s.

"Why did you do this? Why did you help me?" Celestia said.

"We may be adversaries in the past, but now I know even if I try to overthrow you, even if I successfully take over Equestria, it wouldn't be the same without you," Nightmare Moon said. "And I'm not going to let some wannabe princess and king take over my land!"

Celestia was relieved to hear that Nightmare Moon was on her side--sort of. Just then, a giant magical energy blast came from the cavern again, and Nightmare Moon and Princess Celestia both knew this was King Sombra’s doing. They both flew towards the cave.

Captain's Quarters/Throne Room

"So the Nightmare returns," King Sombra said, impressed.

"Yes, I have," Nightmare Moon replied. "But unlike last time, I'm going to make sure that you are permanently gone!"

Just then, Celestia noticed Rainbow and Sunset standing over something. As she got a closer look, she could only stare in horror as she saw Twilight bleeding out.

"No..." Celestia said. She felt something she had never felt before and then with all that anger, she said, "King Sombra, this is the last day you will ever see Equestria. Now you will join Tirek in the gates of Tartarus!"

"I would like to see you try!" Sombra said. He shot out a magic beam towards Princess Cadence's bubble, but before it could hit her, Nightmare Moon deflected the blast right back at Sombra, hitting him against the wall. He screamed in pain and slumped to the wall, going silent.

Nightmare Moon then quickly popped all the bubbles holding the ponies, and then Princess Cadence ran up to the injured Twilight and grabbed her.

"Twilight...Twilight, wake up!" she said, crying. "Is she?"

"Just unconscious," Sunset said. "Are you okay?" she said.

"I'm okay… Now let's deal with this together!" Cadence said.

"How? Without Twilight, you can’t use your Magic Princess spell to send him to Tartarus," Sunset said.

"Then it's a good thing we have you," Celestia said. Then Princess Celestia, Nightmare Moon, and Princess Cadence all used their magic and formed one colossal magic bubble and aimed it right at Sunset. The bubble then surrounded her. She could see her life flash before her eyes, and then everything went black.

As Sunset woke up, she could see everyone was staring at her. Even Sombra was shocked. Then she looked behind her and saw something that made her gasp. "I have wings?!" she said.

"This is impossible!" Sombra turned over to Cinch and Sunset. "STOP THEM, YOU FOOLS!" he yelled.

"Yes, master," Cinch said. She turned over to Lightning Dust. "Give me the Element."

"But...I thought I was going to use it," she said.

"Give it to me!" Cinch demanded.

Lightning Dust then did as she was told: she took off the Element and gave it to her teacher, who put it on. "Now, witness my unstoppable power!" Cinch said. Then, before Princess Cinch could make her move, her horn started to sparkle and zap.

"Now nothing can stop..." Just then, Applejack rushed towards Cinch and bucked the Element and Cinch right in the chest. Cinch screamed as a giant explosion sent Sunset, Rainbow, Applejack and Princess Cinch against the wall.

As the smoke cleared, Rainbow Dash rushed towards Applejack, Twilight, and Sunset. Thankfully, she was relieved to see no one was harmed. "Are you two okay?" Rainbow asked.

"We're fine," Sunset said."

Rainbow Dash then looked at her wife. “You made a dumb move,” she said.

“She helped to take your wing, so I returned the favor,” Applejack said with a smirk on her face. As the smoke cleared, Princess Cinch's head was zapping and sparkling, and everyone could clearly see her horn had been blown straight off, and Princess Cinch was lying there unconscious.

King Sombra then walked over to Cinch who was slowly slipping out of conscience"You have failed me for the last time Cinch" Sombra said. He turned towards Lightning Dust, who was trying to slowly escape. "You!" Sombra said. "Lightning Dust, you have proved yourself to me once before, now do you wish to take your place by my side, and get revenge on the one that wronged you so long ago?" he asked.

"Yes," Lightning Dust said. "That's all I've wanted this entire time!"

"Then use the Element and destroy the rainbow one!" he said as he levitated the Element over to her.

"As you wish," Lighting Dust said. "Now I will have my revenge on you, rain...." Just then, a purple beam of energy shot Lightning Dust, knocking her to the wall next to Cinch.

"Take that, motherbucker," Twilight said as she leaned against Starlight’s leg. Then she fell unconscious again.

"Now it’s just us four against you!" Celestia said.

Then, using all of their magic, the princesses shot a giant magic bubble right at King Sombra, and a giant gate to Tartarus opened. As the air sucked in everything, all the ponies grabbed onto something to hold onto, except for King Sombra who was running for his life towards the door. As the air sucked him in, he could only make out one sentence before he was sucked into the gates of Tartarus

"I will return to Equestria one day, and when I do, I will have the Elements of Harmony, and you will fall!"

But then, before he could be shot into the gates of Tartarus, he sent a giant blast of energy towards Twilight and Celestia, but Starlight jumped in the way.

"No!" Starlight cried out. She was blasted into the throne which broke as she slammed into it. As the gate closed, all the princesses ran towards the rest of the group hiding behind the throne to make sure their friends were okay, but one of them was severely injured.

"Starlight!" Rainbow ran towards her friend.

Starlight was severely injured: one of her hooves were missing, and her horn had a crack on it.

"We will have to get her and Twilight to the medical facility in Canterlot right away," Princess Celestia said.

"Where is Cinch?" Sunset said.

"She must have gotten away during the commotion," Luna said.

"We will deal with her later," Cadence said. "Besides that, do you think Shining Armor and the rest of the army are okay?” Princess Cadence said.

"I think they can handle themselves for now," Sunset said.

Carrying the injured unicorn and alicorn on her back, Celestia walked towards the exit of the throne room, with everyone else falling behind her. Applejack quickly walked up to Rainbow Dash, who was standing beside Lightning Dust, who had just woke up. "This is impossible! I was told that I would win!" Lightning Dust said.

Rainbow Dash looked over Lightning Dust: she could see that she was badly bleeding, her wing was practically broken, and she had a giant black eye from where Rainbow had punched her. "Give me one good reason why I shouldn't end you right here and right now," Rainbow Dash said threateningly.

"You don't have the guts to do it!" Lightning Dust said. "You will always and forever be the chicken I knew to back away from something as wonderful as the Shadowbolts."

Rainbow Dash looked over at Applejack; she had a little bit of dust on her head, but it didn't look like she was injured. Applejack was looking at Rainbow Dash with a stern look, and she slowly nodded her head, saying, "Do what you have to do."

Rainbow Dash lifted up her wing as sharp as she could, and then slammed it down right next to Lightning Dust.

"You... You didn't finish me off?" Lightning Dust said, confused.

"Killing you would just be doing you a favor; where you're going is much worse!"

Rainbow Dash then formed her regular wing into a fist and knocked Lightning Dust out, giving her a second black eye. Then, with a smug look on her face, she said, "That's what you get, motherbucker!"

"You did the right thing, sugar," Applejack said.

"I know, it's just...I had so much anger inside of me. I wonder what would have happened if I actually did go through with it."

"Even if you had gone through with it, I still would have been with you all the way," Applejack said. She grabbed Rainbow Dash by the neck and pecked her on the cheek. Rainbow Dash blushed a little and then put Lightning Dust on her back. They walked out the door to join the Army and help them finish off the rest of the Shadowbolts.