My Brave Pony Starfleet Magic: Season 4

In the future, the lighted area began to emit more light, and more of the dark forces began to perish. The Dark King could feel this, “This is unacceptable!” he thundered at his minions “The past is being altered because of your blundering. And now we have lost more ground. What have you to say for yourselves?!”

Tnaig bowed and apologized on behalf of all of them “A-thousand pardons, your majesty. We realize the seriousness of all this.”

“Really, then why is it you haven’t succeeded in destroying our enemies? My patience has worn thin. Give me one good reason why I should not dispose of you all right here and now!”

Neila spoke up “Begging your pardon sire, but I do have a plan. If you will allow me to proceed, I request the Dark Scepter.”

Tnaig gawked at her in shock. “The Dark Scepter?!” snapped Tnaig “You don’t seriously mean to try that do you?”

“Yeah, and so what if I do?!” growled Neila.

Tnaig knew of Neila’s plan “The Dark Scepter is one of our most treasured items that can not only increase our powers and strengths many times, but it also may open a gateway to the void of darkness; but such a feat to inflict upon our enemies is a very risky move, though it can be quite effective if not botched.”

“Glad to see you agree with me…” hissed Neila.

The Dark King was hesitant, but answered “Very well, Neila; I hope you realize what you have just asked.”

Neila bowed and said “I am fully aware of the risks involved, but given our current circumstances, and desperation for victory, I am prepared to do anything to secure victory.”

Tnaig thought this far too much, and tried to convince her to stop, but Neila made up her mind. “Very well…” hissed the Dark King, and he raised his huge hand and a tiny little speck of dark light fell out from it, and into Neila’s hands, revealing the simple long scepter with a red sphere resting in the grip of a skeleton claw.

Neila snickered wickedly as she held the deadly weapon, but Tnaig still felt uneasy about this.

Spike and Rarity had just finished loading the laundry baskets, when suddenly something zoomed right by the yard. “What was that?” asked Spike. Rarity had no idea, and then the thing zoomed by again, too fast for them to see. “I’ve got a bad feeling about this, Spike.” cried Rarity. Spike nodded, and then suddenly, right before them; rat wearing an armored vest and cylindrical helmet.

Rarity shrieked at the sight of the snarling monster. “Rat, I hate rats!”

Spike saw the dark insignia on the rat’s head. “It’s a cardinal!” The rat snarled at her and then curled up, and dashed off. “Let’s go after him!” cried Spike. “Must we?” Rarity whimpered, but Spike grabbed her by the tail, pulling her along, and soon they were chasing the creature as fast as Rarity could fly with Spike on her back.

At Fluttershy’s, Rhymey was teaching her some fencing moves she could use for her Valkyrie powers, when the rat zoomed past, followed by Rarity and Spike, making two of them jump. Fluttershy was quivering softly “What was that?” she peeped.

“I don’t know.” said Rhymey, but he had a bad feeling about it.

“Come on, let’s go!”

Buddy Rose, Applejack, and Artie were busy at the farm; or rather Applejack and Buddy Rose were busy tending to their summer crops and plowing the fields. Artie was painting a landscape of the country side and how pretty it looked in midafternoon light.

“You guys sure you don’t want me to help out?” Artie asked. “N’aw, we’re just fine. You worry about that paintin’ of yours.” said Applejack. “I can’t wait to see what how it looks.” added Buddy Rose.

“It won’t be much longer now.” said Artie.

Suddenly, the rat zoomed past the land, with others chasing behind, at such a speed they created an aftershock wave of wind, which blew violently, knocking all the friends over and Artie fell over onto his canvas. “Oh, no!” he groaned. The others helped him up. “You okay?” asked Applejack.

Artie, covered in paint smudges held up his ruined canvas. “I’m fine, but my painting sure isn’t. What was that?”

“I’m not sure, but I think I saw some of the guys chasing something else.” said Buddy Rose. In almost no time, the three of them had joined the chase.

By this time the alarms had sounded, and many ponies were clearing the streets except for Pinkie Pie who was carrying large sacks of flour she unloaded from a wagon, with her super strength. “What’s happening?” she asked to no one in particular.

She suddenly got her answer when she began to feel strange twitches in her nose. “Uh oh, that means something bad is headed this way.” she cried, and that’s when the rat raced right past her and she flung the sacks of flower up high in the air. Just as the gang was coming into view the flower sacks hit the ground and burst open, puffing the flour all over the place and making a thick cloud.

The gang couldn’t see where they were going and crashed all over each other into a big pile in the midst of the flour cloud. The cloud finally settled and everyone was all covered in flower, leaves and specks of dirt. Pinkie popped her head out at the top “Wow! That was fun! Let’s do it again sometime.”

All the others just groaned.

“What’s going here?” snapped Lightning as he and the rest of the gang came down from the sky. Everyone in the pile straightened themselves up and brushed themselves clean, but before anyone could say anything, Rat Racer zipped right back before all of them. “Ah, yuck, a rat!” groaned Rainbow. She wasn’t scared of rats, but rather found them gross.

The rat snarled and growled at everyone before zipping off again. “After it!” shouted Lightning, and everyone sped off, chasing that sneaky rat all over and under and everywhere around, until they headed back to near Rarity’s place. “Look, in the distance…” cried Dyno. “It’s Neila!” said Myte.

Everyone skidded to a halt, and Neila smirked wickedly at them all. “Welcome, so glad you could join me.”

“Whatever it is you and your cardinal are up to, Neila, I suggest you give up now while you have the chance.” said Lightning.

Neila could only snigger. “Actually, I suggest you surrender, and spare yourself form the trouble you’re about to endure.” she held up the dark scepter. “What is that thing?” Rainbow muttered.

“Whatever it is, I don’t like the looks of It.” said Starla. Everyone decided it was time to transform.

“STARFLEET MAGIC”

“HARMONY HOUR, FRIENDSHIP POWER”

“Dragon Power”

Neither Neila nor her monster even flinched. “Let’s get them!” shouted Lightning, and everyone charged forth. Neila scoffed softly and gently waved the scepter. All the fighters felt themselves running into a wall of power that forced them back hard.

“What was that?!” cried Rarity.

Neila laughed softly “You’ve just felt a sample of the power of the dark scepter, and it has much more where that came from.” She then used the scepter to cast a small spell on her monster. Rat began to glow with sparking magic; the others didn’t like the looks of it, and the rat began to curl up and rolled in place.

“He’s going to charge again!” cried Spike. Everyone stood ready to intercept, but strangely Rat began to rise up into the air, and then he charged at everyone-- bashing straight into them and knocking them all over as sparks flew everywhere.

Then, rat flew in a sharp curve and struck again, and again, and again from many angles. He was so fast that the team couldn’t tell where and when he could strike. In the midst of it all, Spike and Krysta got knocked clear away from the team.

Neila could see the time to act was now. She held the scepter way up high, and the ball on it emitted with a sinister dark magic. All at once, the immediate area around everyone began to warp and transform. “Hey!” cried Pinkie “What’s going on?!” Sapphire dashed right for the gang and got near them just in time.

Spike gazed up and saw everything. “Guys…! Rarity…!”

“Lightning!” cried Krysta.

Rarity reached out screaming to him “SPIKE!!”

“Krysta!!” cried Lightning.

Before long, a large dome of darkness had formed in the middle of the road, and there was no sign of the others anywhere.

The ponies found themselves in a void of waving darkness. “Where are we?” asked Buddy Rose.

“I don’t know, but I don’t like it a bit.” said Artie.

Rarity and Lightning were worried about Spike and Krysta, and hoped they were okay.

As everyone looked around, they remembered this was almost like when Celestia fought against Raven, when they were contained within a dark void. “I got the feelin’ it’s not gonna quite be the same this time.” said Applejack.

Neila’s snickered echoed as she appeared “You’re correct about that…”

The others stiffened as they saw her. “Fire!” shouted Lightning, and he, the unicorns and alicorns tried to zap her with their magic beams, but she faded out, and then zapped them all from within the darkness. “Wow! Talk about a cheap shot.” groaned Rainbow.

“And don’t forget about Rat Racer.” Neila hissed.

Everyone gasped, and that’s when they all got struck hard multiple times by Rat’s charge attack. His attacks felt much stronger than before, which suggested the darkness of the realm gave him more strength and speed than ever, which Neila confirmed.

“This darkness that shrouds us increases my power and my monster’s ten times.”

“Ten times?!” snapped Fluttershy “But that’s not fair. How are we supposed to beat that?”

Neila snickered and shouted “You’re not!” and she poised the scepter and fired a huge beam at the ponies, which they barely dodged. “Whoa! That was way too close!” cried Pinkie.

“We better scatter about.” said Lightning.

“What? We can’t do that?” snapped Rarity “We need to come up with a plan… a strategy.”

Starla protested “Oh, this is a real fine plan and strategy; staying huddled together in one place to make an easier target for her.”

Neila prepared to fire again.

“All for one,

But now we run!” shouted Rhymey, and everyone leapt out of the way before the blast hit them again. Neila only smirked sinisterly “It’s no use ponies. There is no place to run or hide.”

She had a point, all ways the friends tried to run, they magically ended up right back where they started, like running down and endless and continuous loop, and even though all the fighters had split up, Rat Racer was still able to zip up and down and all the way around, bashing into all the ponies, damaging them further.

Some of the others decided to go after Neila, which proved to be very foolish.

“LEAF SWARM”

“DRILL QUILL”

Buddy Rose and Rhymey fired their attacks, but Neila held the sceptre out in front of her, negating the barrage with no trouble. Then she fired a magic zap at them both.

They dodged it.

The twins stepped for and held hands “BOOM-BOOM FIRE” and unleashed a big blaze of fire balls and stream straight at her, enveloping her in a wall of fire. It looked hopeful, but Neila’s laugh was heard from behind the fire as she stepped through it without a scratch. “Is that the best you’ve got?” she hissed while stroking the scepter.

Lightning dashed right up to her and began to swing his fists and kick his feet at her, and she dodged his every attack. Then her eyes began to glow. “Sleep…!”

“Oh, no…!” cried Lightning, but it was too late. He was already drowsed out and collapsed to his knees. “No, Lightning!” cried Starla. Neila snickered “My spell won’t wear off as fast here.” and she kicked Lightning hard send him crashing into many of the others.

Lightning was still a little woozy from Neila’s sleep magic, but he and the others were feeling beat up, while neither Neila nor her monster seemed a bit tired. “If only… we could use… our mega modes!” Artie panted.

“Or even… our Valkyrie powers.” added Applejack.

“If only… if only…” Neila mocked “When will you any of you realize that’s all over for you. You’ve only just had sample compared to what’s coming in your near future. All over the darkness will spread, and evil will rule over all. Of course you won’t be around to witness it anyway.”

Even in his wooziness, Lightning felt outraged “That… will never happen! Not as long as we can still stand to fight.”

The others all stood and nodded bravely in agreement, but Neila was not amused. “Crush ‘em.” She snapped, and Rat Racer charged again, bashing and crashing at the ponies. Neila then zapped them all with a got shot from the scepter. “Look out!” cried Rainbow. No one got hit from the blast itself, but from the force of the explosion, throwing them all over the place.

Everyone looked really beat up now, and struggled to get back onto their feet. “There’s got… to be a way… out of this!” Lightning groaned softly. He gazed at the scepter that Neila was holding, believing it was the key to their escape. The others noted this too, but had no clue of how to get it away from her, plus the darkness around them made her speed and strength much too stronger to even try and get near here.

There had to be a way to break it down!

BAM!!

BOOM!!

BIFF!!

KAPOW!!

The ponies continued to suffer more punishment at the hands of Neila, her monster and the power of the dark sceptre. Neila was really enjoying herself. “More power!” she hissed as she continued to zap at the ponies, hurting them more. The Equestrian ponies began to lose power, and their suits de-energized.

Lightning and friends didn’t have much power left to spare as well, and could barely hold their stance.

Neila then approached them all “Fun time’s over.” she hissed “It’s a shame; I actually think I’ll miss these battles, but I have my orders. The Dark King will be most pleased with me.”

The scepter glowed with a dark light, and Neila’s body was enveloped in the dark glow. Rat was glowing too, both of them were prepared for a very big attack to finish them all off. Lightning and friends stood in front of the others, like a shield, but really they knew this wasn’t going to be well.

“Hey!” Sapphire called. “Nobody messed with my friends.”

“Hahaha, and what can you do?” Neila asked.

Sapphire took out her scepter and the jewel glowed brightly. The rat hissed at the light and moved back a little. Sapphire smirked and fired her magic at Rat. Rat hissed at her and charged her. Sapphire threw the scepter into the air and changed into a Puma. She pounced onto Rat and threw him into the air. Forming a sphere of light in her mouth she blasted it at Rat, destroying the Cardinal easily. “Impossible!” Neila exclaimed. Sapphire changed back and caught her scepter in her hand. “You’ll pay for that.” Neila pointed the Dark Scepter at Sapphire and unleashed it’s strongest attack. “DARKNESS RAY!”

Sapphire retaliated with her attack, “HARMONY BOLT!” a large lightning bolt with the Elements of Harmony colors shot out of the jewel and the two beams engaged in a power struggle. Neila absorbed more darkness making the beam stronger and it began to push Sapphire’s beam back. “Oh no! Sapphire!” Lightning cried. Sapphire’s element glowed brightly and made her scepter shine, boosting the power of the beam and it began to push back Neila’s dark beam of magic. “What?... No… NO!” The beam hit her and

KABOOM!”

The whole dome burst open and everyone was free and Neila and her Cardinal was no more. “Sapphire did it! She really did it!” Spike cheered happily. Sapphire breathed heavily a little and kneeled down. Lightning came to her side with a proud smile. “You did well today Sapphire, very well.”

Sapphire smiled at her Commander and mentor.