My Brave Pony Starfleet Magic: Season 4

Three months had passed since the defeat of King Sombra.

As the night continued, the dark stranger was relaxing in a tall tree after having explored more of the planet. “Humph! This planet is more pitiful than I thought.” he said to himself “Conquering this world will be like taking candy from a baby.” He reached into his belt and pulled out a single black card. On the back was a mark, the same marking on his forehead. On the front was a beautiful artwork picture of a kind of tiger-creature, with spikes on its back and fiery flame designs as stripes on its fur.

The dude glared and snickered wickedly at the card while his eyes flickered with a red glow.

The next morning, all the ponies and other creatures were out doing their daily routines, while all the pony friends gathered outside the Cake’s safe at their usual tables for breakfast.

Sapphire, Lightning and Starla were the last ones to arrive, and the gang could tell they were coming by the way other ponies would stop and gaze up as Sapphire came, dressed in her royal gown wearing her crown.

“It’s her.”

“Oh, she is so pretty.”

Some of the stallions would have approached her but Snowflake and Lycanroc blocked them giving them the ‘Nice try’ expressions and they gave up.

Whispers were exchanged back and forth as Princess Sapphire passed them. Two little colts came up to her and asked for his autograph, and Sapphire was only too obliged to give it to them. The two little colts salute to her and she saluted and smiled at them.

“Well, look who’s Ms. Princess Popular.” Buddy Rose teased and Sapphire blushed in embarrassment.

The others couldn’t help notice she seemed a little edgy. “Sapphire, are you okay?” Artie asked. Sapphire gazed over at him “Yeah, I’m fine. I’m just a little tired, that’s all. I was up late.”

The friends knew that Sapphire’s promotion to Princess would gave her extra duties…. which was ironic since she never did any duties before. Either way it sure took her awhile to get used to it all… especially, “Guys you don’t have to call me Princess.”

“Why do you protest so? You’ve already given up wearing your crown all the time the least you can do is embrace your new title.” Rarity said.

“If other ponies want to call me that, I guess it’s okay, but not my friends.. It just doesn’t feel right.” Sapphire said. The others could figure out the reason why. For months before, Sapphire had been a follower of Lightning and the team. Following their rules and their leads in battle. Now she was a Princess, so she had to be a true leader now… not very easy for her since she’s mostly been a follower. “Don’t worry Sugarcube, you’ll be a great Princess.”

So far all had been rather calm the past three months. No serious threats or dangers had occurred, nothing more than simple petty crooks being caught and arrested, and domestic disturbances here and there. Yet, Starfleet remained on constant and continuous alert for anything to happen at all!

Suddenly there was a loud sound heard off in the distance, followed by a flock of birds flying away in panic and a stampede of frightened ponies running from the direction of the sound. The alarms went off and all the civilians began to run for shelter before the force fields were raised.

Lightning grabbed his cap he said “Let’s check it out.” And he and the others all flew off towards the area-- Rarity carried Spike in her arms.

Soon they arrived at the area, but to a terrible sight that turned their bloods cold.

“Galloping galaxies…!” Lightning exclaimed.

“What in the name of bad apples…!” peeped Applejack.

“It… can’t be!” cried Rarity.

The others were all just as shocked. The force fields were still up, but the buildings that were shielded had been completely demolished. The houses and stores looked as if they had been ripped apart and burned by fire, and these were definitely not done domestic accidents, there was proof as there were large footprints in the ground, and soft craters made by something obviously strong.

“The force fields didn’t protect the buildings-- It’s impossible!” cried Krysta. The others all inspected the damages, and remembering the stampede, the civilians had fled the area-- the force fields only stopped things from coming in, not going out, but still it was a baffling mystery.

The footprints were also a mystery. Even Fluttershy couldn’t identify them, or the space alicorns, but it was deduced that it was something that walked on all-fours and defiantly ferocious. “Even dragons don’t make these kinds of prints.” said Spike.

Suddenly, they all heard a groaning sound, and they could see one pony under a mound of rubble outside, in a bad way. The teams cleared the wreckages away. “Are you alright?” cried Fluttershy.

“Of course he’s not all right, Fluttershy.” snapped Rainbow.

Sapphire approached the hurt pony, who softly gazed up at him “Princess… Sapphire. Thank the galaxy, it’s you!”

“Please, can you tell me what happened here?” asked Sapphire.

The pony looked really pale, either from his injuries or from his state of shock. “I don’t know… it all happened… so… so fast. We heard the alarms, we all rush in and the shields came up. Then… all of suddenly, something hit the house, it was like a huge cannonball. The shields didn’t protect us. Everyone panicked, and we all ran out, but, there was a big explosion on this side of the house, all that rubble fell on me, and… and then… I… I saw it, at least part of it.”

“Saw what, what did you see?” asked Starla.

The pony was shaking so hard and tears of fear came to his eyes. “It was… big. It was sniffing around, growling, and I heard smash the other buildings… I Thought I was a goner!” He broke down and softly cried.

Lightning told Krysta to warp the poor pony to the hospital while they would stay behind. Krysta agreed, and warped herself and the pony away.

No sooner had they gone did the gang all hear the sound of a faint growl. “What was that?” asked Artie.

Fluttershy felt her nerves starting to go crazy, but Rhymey held her hand trying to keep her calm as the growling continued. Then it stopped, and everyone turned round hard, and saw a large tiger-creature that roared loudly at them.

Rarity screamed!!

Fluttershy could hardly bring herself to scream, and the others all winced in shock. “I think it’s time to work!” said Spike.

Lightning nodded and the two teams stood ready. First Lightning’s team transformed.

“STARFLEET MAGIC!!”

Then the girls…

“HARMONY HOUR, FRIENDSHIP POWER!!”

Then finally Spike…

“Dragon Power”

Once all transformed, they all started the tiger down, and the tiger gazed back at them growling angrily. While that dark stranger was levitating up high in the sky where he couldn’t be seen from the ground and saw everything. “You’ll soon find this battle won’t be like any other, Starfleet.” he said softly to himself “When Flame-Stripes destroys you we’ll be one step closer to fulfilling our destiny of darkness.”

The ponies tried to scan Stripes with their visors, but the results turned out “Creature: Unknown. No Available Data.”

“What, No data?” snapped Lightning.

“Let’s try and scan for his strengths.” suggested Buddy Rose. Everyone tried just that, but for some strange reason the monster managed to actually repel the scanning so everyone only scanned each other’s strengths. “What’s going on?” asked Pinkie.

“Probably a malfunction in the visors.” said Rainbow.

“No, they’re working perfectly.” said Starla “Something’s repelling our scans.”

The dark stranger chuckled softly, “Silly ponies, not only is your society hopelessly antiquated, but your technology is just as worthless.”

Stripes roared fiercely, and the ponies decided to fight. “Let’s go!” shouted Lightning, and they all charged at Stripes, but the monster just curled up into a ball and leapt way up high, almost out of sight, much to everyone’s confusion. “He’s gone!” cried Rarity. “Where’d he go?” asked Spike.

Suddenly, Applejack looked up. “LOOK OUT!!” she screamed as Stripes slammed hard on the ground, barely missing the ponies, but then he began to roll about super-fast and crazy, hitting everyone super hard and dealing their super-suits more than fifty percent of damage.

“URGH…! Esto es una locura! What’s with this thing?” growled Dyno. His brother Myte struggled to get up “Just one hit and I feel woozy already.”

Even Lightning felt the incredible strength of the beast and kept wondering “What kind of creature is this? It’s not like anything I’ve ever seen or heard of before.”

“Let’s try and charge him all at once.” suggested Spike.

“It’s worth a shot,

Let’s give it what we’ve got.” agreed Rhymey.

Everyone charged forth, and Stripes began to bash them all away by swinging his claws, and his tail, dealing more damage to everyone’s suits. They wouldn’t last much longer. “Here I come!” shouted Rainbow as she dashed forth to smash into Stripes, but Stripes glared at her and shouted “FIRE BOUQUET” firing a stream of fire from his mouth straight at Rainbow, engulfing her in power flames. “YEOW!!” she cried as the flames surrounded her like a cage, slowly damaging her more, she managed to leapt up and out of the flames. “Sure, he just has to breathe fire too.” she groaned.

Rarity charged forth with her horn glowing brightly, and she fired a powerful magic burst, but Stripes barely got fazed, and turned and growled at her. Rarity giggled nervously and began to flying the other way with the angry tiger chasing her. “HELP!!” she screamed.

“Rarity!” cried Spike as he saw her get back up against a demolished house, and Stripe clawed and swiped to get at her.

“DRAGON KNIGHT SABER” Spike drew out his sword and dashed towards Stripes. “LEAVE HER ALONE!!” and he drove his sword right into the tiger’s backside, giving it a huge gash. The monster roared and turned swiftly to face Spike and began to chase him around.

Spike skidded to a halt and then turned with his blade at the ready and Stripes skilled to a halt. Both of them went at each other hard, but Spike got his sword knocked away. “I’m not beaten yet...

DRAGON FLARE”

Stripes eyes narrowed, “FIRE BREATH”

The two fiery forces collided. “Spike…!” Rarity cried, but she watched as Spike’s flames were forced back hard by the opposing flames, hitting him with a huge explosion that threw him off his feet. Everyone gasped in horror, and Spike lay on the ground, in his normal forum after his power had completely drained out. He tried to move, but was really sore and exhausted.

The monsters looked ready to devour the defenseless dragon when Rarity dashed over and scooped him up in her arms. “No one hurts my Spikey-Wikey!”

Lightning’s team got out their weapons, and tried their attacks, but Stripes dodged most of the attacks, and those that actually hit him barely scratched him, but did make him angry! “I don’t believe this!” cried Lightning “We’re hitting him with everything we’ve got, but it’s not working!”

The battle continued, and more of the fighters got bashed and burned, and their suits powered down leaving them weak and sore just like Spike, while Stripes hard hardly suffered much at all. “That’s it, time to turn up the heat!” Lightning snarled, and he charged up to fire the uniforce. Despite the sickening feeling he had, he had to try it.

“UNIFORCE”

The great power struck the beast hard, consuming him in its blinding glow, and when the glow had faded, much to Lightning and everyone else’s horrors; Stripes was still standing, though covered in soot, he shook himself clean. “Even the uniforce doesn’t work?!” cried Pinkie

“That was expected…” said Dyno.

“Si, the force fields, they’re conjured up the Grand Ruler’s uniforce magic.” added Myte.

“What do we do now?” cried Fluttershy.

Strips curled up in a ball again and did his rollout attacking bashing everyone down. All their suits had powered down. Then he breathed more of his fire at them, hurting them further. While up above the dark stranger was laughing with glee. “Oh, if only this weren’t so entertaining I’d go down there and finish them all myself right now.”

Stripes kept attacking so mercilessly that Sapphire couldn’t stand the sight of it all. “Alright then… time for the big guns.” Sapphire rushed over and leaped into the mid and in mid-air she glowed and she changed into a large tiger. The same size as Stripes. She landed in front of the injured friends and roared at Stripes. “What?!” the dark stranger exclaimed. Stripes and Sapphire growled and Sapphire charged Stripes and the two engaged in a tiger vs tiger fight. Sapphire bit Stripes on the neck and Stripes clawed Sapphire in the face, leaving three scratch marks on her face, but she wasn’t giving up.

The two collided once more and Sapphire forced Stripes to the ground and bit him on the back. Stripes roared and tackled Sapphire, but Sapphire threw him off and he skidded along the ground.

Sapphire roared again. “Hmm.. interesting.” the dark stranger said. Stripes charged again and so did Sapphire. They both leaped into the air with their claws ready for the final strike. They collided and landed on either side….

… until….

Stripes collapsed on the ground with a grunt. The dark stranger gasped while Lightning and other cheered. “Atta girl!” Applejack exclaimed.

Sapphire turned to Stripes and growled. She formed and large ball made with her Element of Harmonys’ magic and launched it at Stripes. The magic consumed the tiger and destroyed it as well. “She did it!” Spikes exclaimed proudly. The others watched in astonishment, and then saw something mysterious. When the smoke had cleared and the brightness faded, they could all see something small spinning in the air and then falling to the ground.

“…A card?” said Rarity.

That’s when the picture of the tiger faded away leaving the card blank. The dark stranger was baffled. “I don’t believe it. It’s not possible!” he cried. Then the mark on his head began to glow red. It was a signal telling him to return from whence he came. “Oh, no, this won’t be good.” the stranger said as he vanished and was gone.

While down below, Sapphire suddenly collapsed on the ground and changed back into herself. “Sapphire!” Lightning cried. He and the others rushed over to their Princess. She had lots of bite marks and scratches on her face and body and her gown was torn a little as well. “Let’s get her to New Canterlot.” Lightning snapped. The others agreed and Starla picked up Sapphire and they all rushed to New Canterlot.

They were all very concerned about the monster and all that had happened.

They had a feeling that this was just the first signs that once again the planet was going to plunged into war against a brand new enemy.