Chapter 6: Armageddon part 2

Red Huntress was walking out of the cave where the sun was set and darkness filled the land. She looked back into the cave and Sombra, no longer shattering and cracked, walked out of the cave as well.

“Well, now would be a good time to move.” Sombra said.

“Move to where?” Red Huntress asked.

“A larger cave, so I can build your army.” Sombra said. “I’d build it here, but the cave has a bunch of tight corners and not enough room.”

“Makes sense, let’s move.” Red Huntress said. She made sure the Element of Allegiance was around her next before she started flying. Sombra transformed into his shadow form and followed behind her.

“So, You’re a vampire pony, right?” Sombra asked.

“Yes I am.” Red Huntress said.

“Are the rumors about Vampire Pon-”

“Most of them are.” Red Huntress interrupted.

“Really? Is the garlic rumor one of them?” Sombra asked.

“No, Most of us actually love Garlic. There was one vampire pony that didn’t know he was allergic to garlic and died when his throat swelled up. Ever since, ponies believed that we had a weakness to garlic, and we went with it. Free food.” Red Huntress explained.

“What about decapitation?” Sombra asked.

“Sadly, no one survives that.” Red Huntress said, keeping a serious face, but flopping her ears against her head.

They continued to travel until they came across a field with a nearby cave.

“Hmm, This’ll do.” Sombra said as he turned physical again.

“How long do you think it would take to make this army?” Red Huntress asked.

“Hard to tell, but I’ll go as fast as I-” Sombra was interrupted when Jen appears suddenly behind him, stabbing him through the back.

Red Huntress spawned a magical energy circle and was about to attack Jen, but Lance dropped beside her and kicked her in the torso, knocking her into the wall of the cave entrance.

Jen lifted Sombra off his hooves and threw him towards the open field. Sombra stood back up with his horn lit. He launches a magic blast at her. She dodges to the left and jumped at him.

He launches another blast towards her, she blocked it with her Cybernetic blade hoof and struck at him with the other one. Sombra dodges it and spawned a crystal from the ground, launching her into the air.

She recovers, hovering in the air and looked down at Sombra. Sombra picked up the Crystal and threw it at her, but not before he broke off part of it to back a Scythe.

Jen slices the Crystal in half before flying back down to Sombra, charging in between the sliced Crystal.

Sombra and Jen clashed blades and Sombra pushed Jen back and engaged in combat with her.

Red Huntress recovered to her hooves and looked up. She saw the bottom of Lance’s hoof. She was kicked into the cave, but flipped onto her hooves.

“Surrender now.” She said. Lance looked at her with a glare. She made two claymore swords out of magic. “I won’t tell you a second time.”

Lance jumps into the air and performed a 720 triple kick, all of them blocked by Red’s swords. She slashes multiple times, all efforts were either blocked or dodges. Lance kicked down one of the swords and attempted to roundhouse kick her, Red backflips to avoid it. She stuck both swords into the ground, held onto the handles and used them as swing, swinging herself towards him and kicking him backwards with his hind hooves.

Lance flews back and rolls on the ground before recovering. He lit up his horn as he charged back at her again. She struck at him, only to hit a magic shield. Lance kicked her in the chest, and the Ellipsoid flew off her cloak. She tries to grab it, but Lance bit her hoof and threw her into a wall. He tries to run after it, but Red used magic to launch him into the ceiling before throwing him back out of the cave.

Red runs and grabs the Ellipsoid. She turned around, only to see Lance waving down Jen.

Jen blocked another Crystal projectile before looking at Lance. She flies over to him as he creates a portal. They jump through the portal and it closed. Red Huntress and Sombra looked at each other and then back at the ground they made the portal from.

“Who were they?” Sombra asked.

“Servants of Ligero.” Red Huntress answered.

“They ran away a little too early into the fight. Are they that cowardly?” Sombra asked.

“Not that I know of, but I’d be on guard for a while. They might have something else planned.” Red Huntress warned. Sombra nodded and walked into the cave.

Chad was in a room, bouncing a ball against the ceiling above him. He was bored and displeased with just sitting on a bed. He was in Pundya, one of the villages in Zebrica and Zecora’s home village.

Octavia walked into the room and looked at Chad.

“Chad?” She called. He stopped and looked at her.

“Yeah?” He asked.

“Bored?” Octavia asked.

“Yeah.” Chad said. Octavia rolled her eyes and walked over to him.

“How about we take a little walk through the village while Zecora talks with her family?” Octavia suggested. Chad stood up with a smile.

“Took a few days for you to suggest that but I’ll take it. I would love to see this place for real.” Chad said. Octavia smiled and walked out. Chad followed her and saw the beautiful sunsetting sky.

“Come young Chad, let’s explore.” Octavia said. Chad grimaced a little.

“I hate when you call me Young Chad.” Chad said with a pout. Octavia ruffled his mane and then started to walk throughout the village. The Zebras living there were welcoming and social to the two.

Zecora walked over to join them. Beside her was a zebra filly walking with her.

“Oh, hello Zecora, is everything okay?” Octavia asked.

“I’ve been trying to get what everyone thinks, Some have said they have spotted a Sphinx.” Zecora said.

“A sphinx?” Octavia asked.

“Like the one from Somnambula’s story?” Chad asked.

“That I am not too sure, but some rumors say it hopes to Allure.” Zecora said.

“Where do they say it resides?” Octavia asked.

“Avoiding it is what we should do best, searching for it would result in unrest.”

“Maybe if we found the sphinx, we could prevent the black dust that happens here.” Octavia said.

“Though the outcome to the future remains dry, I agree that preventing it is worth a try.” Zecora said. Octavia smiled as did Chad.

“Also, who is this little filly?” Octavia asked.

“This is Safi, My niece year nine. Though she likes to act like a daughter of mine.” Zecora said as she ruffled Safi’s mane.

“(Are they your friends Auntie Zecora?)” Safi asked, speaking in another language.

“(Yes, we’ve known Zecora a long time.)” Chad said in the same language.

“You speak Swahili?” Safi asked, she was clearly impressed.

“A little bit, can’t hold much of a conversation.” Chad answered. Safi giggled a little.

“Shall we begin this journey?” Octavia asked. Zecora nodded and started walking along a path. Octavia trotted alongside her, with the two foals.

Twilight used her magic to lift up the debris as Bandit kept the shield over them. They reach the surface and Bandit drops the shield.

“What was that?” Twilight asked.

“I believe the correct question is who was that?” Bandit said. He looked up and saw the hippogriff.

“Okay, we have griffons, changelings and now a hippogriff?” Twilight asked.

“Actually, there’s two hippogriffs. Voltage has a sister.” Bandit said.

“Does Ligero have two of each species working for him?” Twilight asked as she looked Voltage.

“Kinda. He is very diverse with his army. As long as you agree with his motives he’ll take you in.” Bandit said. Voltage launches a lightning strike at them. Bandit brings up a shield and blocked it.

Twilight looked behind them and saw a hippogriff flying towards them. She looked like Voltage, but here wings were real instead of steampunk styled cybernetic.

“I found his sister.” Twilight said.

“Good luck.” Bandit told her as he flew towards Voltage. The female hippogriff snapped her talons and water from the underground pipes broke from under Twilight.

She notices this and flew upwards. The hippogriff manipulated the water and blasted it at her. Twilight blasted a beam of magic at the water to push it back. She successfully does so and blasted at the Hippogriff. She moved out of the way and charges Twilight. Twilight managed to push her back and used telekinesis to throw her towards a building.

Bandit was performing somersaults in the air to avoid the lightning strikes that were sent his way.

The last one was a continuous beam of electricity, which Bandit brought up a shield to block. He flew into Voltage and crashed him into the ground. Voltage kicks him off and Bandit recovers and looked at him.

“Do you guys always have to attack first? Isn’t there a slim chance you want to talk this out first?” Bandit said. Voltage charged up again. “I guess not.”

Voltage picks up a taxi carriage and throws it at him. Bandit stops it with his magic and a lightning bolt was launched through it, hitting Bandit backwards. Bandit hits the ground and got back up. Voltage jumped into the air and started flying.

“Come’re you.” Bandit said as he grabbed Voltage with his magic and threw him to the ground. He flies to him and kicks him into a building wall, leaving a hole. Bandit flies to the hole, only to get knocked into the building across the street, exiting the front door. Voltage flies out with a steel door in his talons.

As Bandit was on the ground as Voltage slammed the door onto his carapace and started to electrocute the changeling, using the steel door as a charge.

“My Carapace!? Seriously?!” Bandit exclaimed through strains. “My carapace is very hard to polish!”

Bandit launches a fires a blast at a wall, bouncing off of it and hitting Voltage off of him. He then pins him to the ground.

“You have no respect for property management.” Bandit said. Voltage kicks him off and then sparked his talons and brought down a lightning bolt, launching Bandit off of him. He flips onto his hooves. He lifted the ground in front of him, causing a strike to shatter the concrete as Bandit dodges to the left. He started using broken debris to trap Voltage.

“Let’s take this out the city.” Bandit said as he picked up the concrete debris and start flying out of the city. He only got about 500 feet in the air when Voltage punched his talon out of concrete and grabbed Bandit’s leg, tugging him in another direction.

Bandit was on a collision course to a school.

“No no nonononono.” Bandit said before crashing into the building. Voltage got up out of the concrete debris and attempted to attack Bandit, who pinned him to the wall.

“Come on Voltage, this is getting expensive.” Bandit said. Voltage started to push back against Bandit.

Bandit threw him out the window and flew after him. Picking up a light pole, he swings it on top of Voltage’s head.

“Batter up!” He said, slamming the light pole onto his head.

Voltage attempted to get up, but upon turning around, Bandit kicked him in the face. His head smacked against the asphalt.

Voltage looked back at Bandit with a cracked beak and blood leaking out of his mouth.

A large storm cloud started to form in the sky directly above them. Bandit looked at the cloud before looking back at Voltage.

“I’m sorry.” Bandit said.

Twilight and the female hippogriff were going back and forth with magic blasts and water magic blasts. Twilight was constantly on edge due to the constant resources of water turning against her.

The female hippogriff sprouted water from where Twilight was standing, sending her into the air. She recovers to hear a loud thundercrack that caused her ears to start ringing. She holds her ears in agony before looking up to the the hippogriff about to strike her. This is when the metal hoof of a suited Soarin kicked her away. The hippogriff was knocked into a building. Twilight’s hearing cleared up as she looked the armored pegasus.

“Soarin?” Twilight asked from shock. Soarin lifted his helmet up to show his face.

“Hey Twilight.” Soarin said.

“Where’d you get that suit?” She asked.

“Little gift from-” Soarin was grabbed by a large talon made of water. “Fancy Pants!” He exclaimed as he was thrown into a building. He recovers quickly, lowers his helmet and flies back at her. Two guns activating on his back, the left one started shooting machine bullets at the hippogriff, who brought up a water shield, somehow blocking the bullets.

Twilight blasted at her other side with a magic beam, which was blocked, again, by a water shield.

“What’s this lady’s problem Twilight?” Soarin asked, dodging water blasts from the hippogriff.

“She’s a hippogriff with magic, and she came to take an element from this location for a tyrant made of light.” Twilight said.

Soarin flew towards the hippogriff for a better shot. This caused the hippogriff to fly up and grab him.

Twilight fires a blast at her, but the hippogriff threw Soarin at it, causing him to get hit instead. He was knocked into a building.

Twilight beams a continuous blast at her. She blocks it again before grabbing a light pole and throwing it at Twilight. A missile from Soarin hits it, blasting it in three, causing an open space to allow it to move pas Twilight. She grabs the heaviest part and slammed it against the hippogriff hard enough to knock her down.

Bandit’s horn was red and burning, having blocked a powerful lightning strike from Voltage. One that made a crater from one side of Neighpon to the other.

Bandit looked up at Voltage as he threw another strike at him. Bandit made a circle glyph, causing it to bounce back at Voltage with the same speed. Voltage was hit and, shockingly, he was electrocuted by it and began to fall to the ground.

Bandit watched has he hit the ground, shaking from being tased by his own attack. Bandit looked at this and started panting.

“You use lightning as your main power, but you got electrocuted by your own attack?” Bandit asked mid pant. Voltage was still being electrocuted. Bandit shook his head and shot another beam at Voltage. This one teleported him into a jail cell of some kind. The electrocution stopped, and he looked around.

He tried to spark lightning, but found his powers weren’t able to be used.

“Damn.” He said as he sat down.

The female hippogriff uses a water wall to press Twilight and Soarin against the buildings. She then used water to sprout up a yellow Tetrahedron from underground.

“Is that the Element?” Soarin asked with a strain.

“Yes!” Twilight strained out. The hippogriff made a portal and was about to walk through, but a magic blast destroyed the portal.

Once the portal was destroyed, she looked and saw Bandit flying at her. She tries to counter attack, but Twilight broke free of the wall and used her magic to pull her talons down, stopping her.

She dropped the Tetrahedron. Bandit used his magic to make a portal to Voltage’s cell.

She falls through and the water wall restraining Soarin dropped and Soarin landed on his hooves.

“Where did you teleport her?” Twilight asked.

“Helheim. It’s kind of like your Tartarus, except, it’s realms away from this location.” Bandit answered. He looked at the city and saw the damage he had to fix. He let out a sigh. “Get the Element out of here, I gotta fix this.”

“You’re gonna fix all of this?” Twilight asked.

“Yes. If I don’t we’re gonna be the ones hated.” Bandit said. “I’ll catch up, get it out of here.”

“Okay, see you soon.” Twilight said. She turned around to see that Soarin was holding the Tetrahedron. Her eyes widened a little bit before walking over to him.

“Um… we’re gonna need that.” She said.

“Oh, here you go.” Soarin said. He gave it to her, and as Twilight used her magic to pick it up, two things happened that surprised her. One, she was able to hold it with her magic. Two, the yellow light emitting from the tetrahedron dimmed.

“What is that thing?” Soarin asked.

“One of the elements of Unity. Come with me.” Twilight said as she started to fly off. Soarin soon followed her.

Bandit made his magic aura go from red to blue and strained began to undo the damage. It was taking a lot out of him and was taking a while.

Nightfall had occurred as Octavia, Zecora, Safi and Chad found themselves in front of a large temple door. All of them were amazed at this structure, especially Zecora.

“So…. this is where the locals said the Sphinx resided?” Octavia asked.

“That’s what was said. If they’re right, the sphinx is ahead.” Zecora answered.

“Watch the foals, I’m gonna check it out.” Octavia said. Her mechanical tentacle claws emerged from her bag.

“Be safe.” Zecora said. Octavia nodded and looked at Chad.

“Stay here Chad, I mean it.” She sternly said. Chad nodded in understanding. Octavia opened the door to the temple.

“Hmm, rather simple to open for a temple in the middle of nowhere.” Octavia said as she walked in.

She began walking, into the temple. It got darker as she pressed on.

She comes across another door and opened it, closing it behind her. This is when the room became pitch black except for a dim purple light. She looked at the light and saw a purple torus on a podium.

Intrigued and curious, she walked towards the torus. As she got closer, she felt some kind of heat coming from behind her. She turned around and, just barely, she saw a giant Sphinx standing over her. Her orange-yellow eyes looked at Octavia before letting out a growl.

“Uh oh.” Octavia said.

Author's Note

Uh oh, looks like Octavia is in trouble. What do you think will happen next?

It seems like 4 of the 7 Elements are found, and Ligero's forces are failing at receiving them.

Or, are they?

Little note for the future, Lance's bite is a lot more than that.

Hope you all enjoyed. see you in the next chapter.