Ch 23 - The Final Climatic Finishing Battle of Epicness!

"Sunburst!!------Sunburst!!------Sunburst!!", Miss Starlight Glimmer continued to cry out as she was closely approaching Sunny Boy with open arms with Stellar Flare.

"Sunburst! Please come back home with me! Mommy misses you!", shouted the running Stellar Flare as happy tears flew out from her eyes and her triple D breasts bounced behind her bare-back V-shaped top.

Gingko Dragon looked behind and saw the rushing bride mare and her middle-aged mare friend coming very close to the standoff. He and his men were just as confused as Sunny Boy and Student #12138 about why she was calling out the one named "Sunburst". After the bride and her friend continued running right past him and his remaining bodyguards, and then ran into the middle point between himself and the intense standoff, he immediately deduced that these two mares were obviously related or very close to one of the two young men.

Without hesitation, Gingko Dragon immediately sprung into action and cast a maelstrom spell that sent a red electric shock-wave that incapacitated Starlight Glimmer and Stellar Flare, before using his remaining magic reserves to quickly hover and thrust both himself and his five close remaining bodyguards towards the two stunned ladies.

In response, Sunny Boy cast his blue-ribbon binding spell against Yaw Yeet Fut, before teleporting himself, Student #12138 and the restrained bodyguard closer to Starlight Glimmer and Stellar Flare. Even after teleporting to their new destination, Yaw Yeet Fut's pepperbox was still pointing at Sunny Boy's abdomen and Student#12138 also still had his large-caliber howdah pistol pointed at Yaw Yeet Fut's abdomen.

Upon their arrival though, both Gingko Dragon and his bodyguards were now at their mid-stage nirik mode, with their black suits now burning from the burst blue-and-magenta inferno engulfing their limbs, mane and white-glowing eyes. Their coat and mane colors, however, still remain and their jaws were sporting sharp triangular fangs and canine teeth. Just as Sunny Boy had quickly teleported close to Starlight Glimmer and Stellar Flare, Gingko Dragon immediately grabbed Starlight Glimmer close to his chest with his telekinesis. Starlight Glimmer, now held hostage against her will, tried to teleport herself and Stellar Flare out of their grasps, but the red maelstrom spell had severely incapacitated her magic horn. If she tried using a bit of her mental power, the maelstrom around her horn will send a nasty painful shock to her head before she even had a chance to think out the first syllable of her incantation. As for the incapacitated Stellar Flare, she herself was also held hostage by the neck by one of Gingko's bodyguards and her neck was now touching the bodyguard's tightly held sharp short dao blade. As a last final measure against the Sunny Side Schoolboys, Yaw Yeet Fut (now also in mid-stage nirik mode) instantly used his strengthened levitation magic to snatch Sunny Boy's golden gift off his hand and threw it behind him as high as he can and, most importantly, far far away from Gingko Dragon, not knowing about where the present was going to land. In response, Sunny Boy cast a nullification spell that not only deactivated Yaw Yeet Fut's red horn, but also slowly revert him back to kirin mode.

Now standing a few meters from each other, the intense standoff has now become much more personal and more complicated, as both rival gangs now have live leverage to bargain for and they were pitting against each other over who will give in first---or worse, make the next daring and possibly fatal move.

"HEY, let her go!!", demanded Sunny Boy as he held the ensnared Yaw Yeet Fut with his levitation magic and blue-ribbon bindings.

"DON'T do anything STUPID!! I'll blow this dude's guts out AND whoever is standing behind him!", threatened Student #12138 who still had the howdah pistol pointed at the restrained kirin's gut, despite the fact that this kirin still had a tight grip of his pocket pepperbox pointed at Sunny Boy.

"Release her!! NOW!!", angrily shouted Sunny Boy as he threateningly stared down at the nirik crime boss Gingko Dragon who was holding the scared Starlight Glimmer hostage. Without hesitation, Gingko Dragon pulled out his .75 caliber dragon flintlock pistol1 from his yeti coat with his right hand and pointed at Sunny Boy who was still behind one of his restrained kirin bodyguards! Jutting out from the brass dragon's mouth of the decorated flintlock were glowing blue and magenta flames that emanated from its polished scales, giving the single-shot weapon an even more intimidating and heart-stopping demeanor!

With Starlight Glimmer whimpering and pleading for her life, Gingko Dragon the nirik crime boss slowly turned his dragon flintlock to the left and pointed it blank-range next to Starlight's shivering head. Though it wasn't the first time she was held hostage at such intense situations, but this had to be one of the most scariest moments in Starlight's life time! As for Stellar Flare, her body remained immobilized by the nirik's enhanced telekinesis, meaning that he no longer had to restrain her physically by the neck and could just simply hold his sharp dao close to her throat. One little slit would be enough to cut open her carotid artery and bleed her to death.

Staring deeply into the intimidating bright white and flaming eyes of the nirik crime boss, Sunny Boy daringly asked him

"Why did you attack and seized them? They have NOTHING to do with us!"

"What do you think, genius?? We're taking them hostage, just like you two are! We're DONE playing games here!!", replied Gingko Dragon the furious fired-up nirik.

Suddenly, the front large green multi-panel entrance of the School of Friendship opened and out came the volunteer students of Friendship. Upon seeing the intense and complex situation outside, they soon became aghast at the spectacle, moving in for a closer look, but still maintaining a somewhat safe distance. Soon, the flyers started hovering and gathering around the live incident happening in front of them to get a better look and they were shocked to see Miss Starlight Glimmer being held hostage against her will. For the grounded teachers, some wisely retreated back into the school premises, while others were more curious about what was going on and stepped a bit closer on the granite moat bridge.

As the confused and horrified spectators looked on, Sunny Boy again demanded once again to the fired-up Gingko Dragon, now shouting with a harsher and enraged tone, "Let these mares go NOW!!"

"HA, as I would obey any creature else!! I DEMAND that you tell me where that Ginseng fool is!", furiously demanded Gingko the golden nirik Dragon Head. His voice was now reverberating like a roaring insatiate lion with a hunger for bloodlust.

"NO, never!", refused Sunny Boy in spite of Gingko Dragon still pointing his flintlock at the restrained Starlight's head and the bodyguard's knife now pressing down on Stellar Flare's neck.

"I will NEVER betray my godfather! He gave up too much for me! I owe him a lot! And now it's my turn to make a sacrifice of my own! Let them go now and let ME be your hostage!!!", shouted Sunny Boy, causing Stellar Flare's pupils to shrink and her thoughts drawn to a blank after hearing such a ridiculous sentiment.

"WHAT??!! Godfather?! What are you babbling on about?? Honey, your dad left the family years ago! I'm the only mother in your family you have left right now!", Stellar Flare quickly replied to Sunny Boy before she was brought closer to the bodyguard's chest and wrapped tightly around her stomach.

"SUNBURST!! You don't HAVE an adopting godfather!! You're not actually a street drudge! You're a Vice-Stallion from the School of Friendship! You used to work with the Royal Crystal Empire as their crystaller, remember??!! You're even friends with the Royal Canterlot guards and the local police department, for crying out loud!", cried out Starlight as she tried to correct Sunny Boy and jog his companion's lost memories.

Every creature (except Starlight Glimmer and Stellar Flare) looked around each other with confusion over the hostage bride's seemingly random statement about her supposed fiancé. Not wanting to scare off the other gangsters into thinking he was a snitching police informant, the nerve-racking and confused Sunny Boy quickly replied

"---PLEASE Miss Starlight! Don't make up any crazy lies! He won't believe you! He's not THAT stupid! H-h--how--How can I be a Vice-Stallion who is friends with the police if I taught my students multiple combat wizard spells to take down disobedient schoolchildren who fail to follow institutional protocol??"

The nullified and restrained Yaw Yeet Fut could only look in confusion at Sunny Boy after hearing one of the most ironic statements of all time.

"PLEASE, baby! She's telling the truth! Don't put yourself into even more danger! It's bad enough that you lost your mind! I don't want to end up losing all together forever!", cried Stellar Flare as panicking tears streamed down across her face. "Just stop this madness already, so we will be on our way to be a happy family together---!!"

"SHUT UP, you old hag!!", threatened the restraining bodyguard as he covered Stellar Flare's mouth with his strong arms and placed his sharp dao between her cleavage.

Upon seeing the poor middle-aged lady being gagged like a trash harlot, Sunny Boy immediately disenchanted the magical bindings around Yaw Yeet Fut, grabbed a hold of the kirin's armed hand and placed the pocket pepperbox onto his own left temple, before immediately shouting out to Gingko Dragon

"Let them go and take me as your hostage NOW!!"

Caught off guard by the surprising turn of events, Yaw Yeet Fut was now too shockingly confused to a motionless standstill, as he found himself pointing a pepperbox at Sunny Boy's head under the unicorn stallion's own will and without the kirin bodyguard's knowledge!

"SUNBURST, NOOOO!! Don't do this! I can't lose you forever this time!", begged the tearful Starlight as she was scared half to death at Sunny Boy literally risking his own life to save her and Stellar Flare from the nirik bodyguards and their nirik boss.

Despite the kirin's pepperbox now purposefully pointed at his head under his own will, Sunny Boy then immediately took away the shocked Student #12138's two-barrel howdah pistol and pointed at Gingko Dragon, threatening to shoot the nirik boss dead if he doesn't give into his demands!

"If YOU don't take me as your hostage, I'LL SHOOT YOU!"

"GO ahead and do it! See if you have the actual balls for it!", taunted the flaming Gingko Dragon as he continued to hold the frightened Starlight Glimmer hostage with his dragon flintlock pistol. All the niriks and the four nerve-wrecked unicorns were now at a more complex and convoluted standoff than ever before. Any wrong move would spell a bloody disaster, regardless of whoever shoots first. More spectators coming over from outside of Ponyville, mostly teachers and schoolchildren from other primary schools, were now looking with horrified expression at the growing intense situation among the flaming niriks and unicorns near the school grounds. Not wanting to get caught in the potentially deadly crossfire, they carefully maintained their distance away from the dramatic scene, hoping the police will arrive soon to resolve this situation.

Speaking of which...

----------(MEANWHILE DURING THE POLICE CHASE)----------

"WEE-WOO-WEE-WOO-WEE-WOO-WEE-WOO!!!!" goes Master Zhi as the blinded supercharged taxicab drove northwards along the yellow-dirt road outside of Ponyville. It was still being chased continuously by the two police bikers and a Stanley police steamer.

Suddenly, the taxicab came to an instant halt at a distance that was about half a kilometer south from the School of Friendship. Mister Tang immediately got out of the taxi and shouted

"HEY, why the hell did you stop, jangly??!"

"That's it! I'm---huff--DONE for!! I---HUFF---can't---go on--HUFF--like this any longer!", wheezed the exhausted and weakened Ocellus as she immediately transformed back to her changedling self, before fell off the smoking lead-acid car batteries and fell down onto the dusty yellow ground.

Sandbar immediately exited out from the left backseat door and cried out for the weakened changedling.

"OCELLUS! Are you all right??! C'mon, you can't give up now!"

"J-j-j-JUST---l-leave--me---be!", begged the tired Ocellus as her wings were becoming limp from the lack of vital essence.

"FUCK IT, Tang! We'll just have to run our way through!!", shouted Master Zhi as he leapt out the driver seat window, before being knocked on the back by Yona's sudden forceful car opening. Without even using the door handle, Yona just rammed the door open with her horns and stepped outside, while Tiny Turnip Head flew out from the car floor and shouted

"C'MON, Master Zhi! Get up before the po-po catches us!!"

"No friend left behind!! Every creature, to Miss Starlight!!", shouted Yona as she picked up Ocellus on her back and began running towards the school. Soon, the rest of the Student Six and Tiny Turnip Head were all heading out to meet up with their headmare, hoping they would be there on time to see her walk hand-in-hand with her newfound boyfriend. After Mister Tang picked up Master Zhi from the dirty ground, they both immediately ran with the students before the police managed to catch up with them.

As soon as they stopped their bikes behind the busted abandoned taxicab, the four unicorn police officers left their electric Humber tandem bicycles and chase the reckless drives on their hooves. Soon, the Stanley police steamer also stopped on its tracks and from the vehicle, out came one kirin police officer and three Canterlot Royal guards---one of which happened to be Captain Shining Armor!

"FREEZE!! POLICE!!", ordered Shining Armor as he, his squad and the police started running towards the school. Soon, they were suddenly met by Princess Twilight Sparkle, who flying with blazing speed alongside eight more royal guards at her side. They all landed onto the ground to meet up with Shining Armor and his squad

"SISTER??! What are YOU doing here??!", questioned the surprised royal captain.

"What do you think, Captain??!", sarcastically asked Princess Twilight Sparkle. "One of your guards spilled the beans about how you were withholding information about your missing unicorn friend, Sunburst!"

"WAIT, I thought YOU were the one withholding information on purpose...", responded the confused Captain Shining Armor, before his regal sister shockingly asked

"WHAT??!!! Why would I---??!!"

"PRINCESS, no time to talk!!", interrupted one of the pegasus guards who spotted a group of nirik holding three unicorns hostage "We have trouble brewing over near the School of Friendship!!"

As soon as they heard the urgent news, all the royal guards and the princess immediately started dashing towards the school, while the police were on pursuit towards the fleeing Master Zhi, Mister Tang and the students for carjacking an electric taxicab.

"C'mon, guys!! MOVE YOUR ASSES ALREADY!!", shouted Master Zhi as he and Mr Tang sped across the road on their hooves like wild jack rabbits on steroids. With all the adrenaline pumped into his racing heart, he and Mister Tang was able to surpass all the friendship students (except the extremely fast Tiny Turnip Head)

"No run too fast, Master!! Please wait for Yona and friends!", pleaded the chubby and sweating nak girl who was literally falling behind from the rest of her friends, due to having to carry the tired Ocellus on her back.

"PICK UP THE PACE, fatty! You're supposed to be sticking with US, not US sticking with you!!", scorned the adrenaline-fueled Mr Tang as he ran and looked behind to stare menacingly at the slow-running Yona.

"HMMPPH!!", grunted the frustrated pouting Tiny Turnip Head who immediately left behind Master Zhi and Mr Tang to be with Yona.

"Where are you going??!!", shouted Mr Tang as he saw Turnip Head flying away from him and Master Zhi.

"Friends stick together, no matter what!! That's the School of Friendship's motto!", shouted Tiny Turnip Head as he flew back behind the rest of the students to push Yona on her back to keep her going.

Then, Yona immediately stopped as soon as she saw an orange-coated and purple-helmeted pegasus girl resting by a tree with her blue wooden scooter. With Ocellus still on her back, the determined nak girl quickly ran up to the helmeted pegasus and shouted

"Scooter peggie! Yona need help right now!"

"May we PLEASE borrow your scooter for awhile??!! It's an emergency!", pleaded Tiny Turnip Head.

The scooter girl looked in confusion at Yona as she was holding a black-and-red can of "Hydralisk Power Potion2", which had the logo's name written in bloody red and a silhouette of a hydralisk on the can. The scooter pegasus questioned the tired nak and changedling girl

"Yona?? Ocellus?? What are you two doing here? Who is your little pegasus friend here??! What's going on---??"

"NO TIME TO EXPLAIN!!! Gimme that power potion!!", screamed Tiny Turnip Head as he immediately grabbed the opened energy drink can from the scooter girl's hand.

"Wha--HEY!!", shouted the scooter girl as she saw the white pegasus boy steal her drink within two seconds flat.

"DRINK-DRINK-DRINK-DRINK-DRIIIINNNKKKKK!!!!!!", screeched Tiny Turnip Head as he vehemently poured ALL of the remaining energy drink into her drooling mouth.

Suddenly, Ocellus' green shiny bug eyes started to burst into green wispy flames---!

"GODAMMIT! Is that little shite still lazing around with that fatbody and that jangly??!", complained Mr Tang as he ran alongside Master Zhi along the yellow dirt road.

Suddenly, out of the blue, both Master Zhi and Mister Tang were sideswiped by a speeding blur, causing them to spin around uncontrollably like wound-up ballerina toys! As soon as they stopped their twirling and regained their consciousness, they looked forward and were in total shock upon witnessing the crazy trio of creatures.

Riding on the speeding scooter's wooden platform was Yona, who despite her heavy weight body was able to use her short stubby legs to propel herself on the scooter with elegant breeze! In fact, she was SO elegant, that she immediately stopped what she was doing and performed at a second arabesque ballerina pose3 as she balanced herself on one left lower hoof.

Of course, she couldn't do the whole scooter stunt herself with the help of her two friends!

Pushing on Yona's hairy back was the faithful Tiny Turnip Head, who stretched out his forearms and back legs as he flew rapidly in the same direction as the speeding scooter. At the front of the scooter was the caffeine-fueled Ocellus, who had transformed into a rapidly flying monstrous elephant-sized cuckoo wasp4 and was now pulling the scooting forward with her web-like mucus harness sticking between her thorax and the scooter's handle bars! In other words, the roles between carrier and rider had totally became reversed for both Yona and Ocellus!

As the spectacle continues, Master Zhi and Mr Tang immediately began chasing the the trio down the road, all while the growing number of local police and royal guards were beginning to catch up with the crazy scooting trio

"HEY, WAIT FOR US, YOU LITTLE BRATS!!!", shouted the hypocritical Mr Tang who was no longer the fastest runners in the unofficial race to see Miss Starlight meeting her one true love.

"You should be sticking with US, not US sticking with YOU!!", back-sassed Tiny Turnip Head as he yelled out the same phrase Mr Tang had used against Yona as she was carrying Ocellus.

"HEY! FREEZE!! Stop where you are!!", shouted Captain Shining Armor as he and his army of law-enforcing friends continued chasing the rambunctious hooligan students and two eccentric Far Eastern Equestrians.

"What are THEY doing back in school??!", questioned Princess Twilight Sparkle as she flew alongside the pursuing royal Canterlot guards.

Meanwhile, back at the floating white sailboat, Delft Blue was crazily panicking after seeing so many police and royal guards heading for the niriks near the School of Friendship

"OH SHIT!! Saan Jyu, we have a BIG problem here!! There's a fuck load of golden guards and blue hats heading straight for Gingko's men and your cursed godson!!", cried Delft Blue as he spoke to Ginseng Dragon, before the crime boss got up from his deck chair and checked out the commotion through the tower viewer himself.

"EVERY CREATURE, GET OUTTA THE WAY!!!", shouted Tiny Turnip Head as Ocellus the humongous cuckoo wasp started flying into the complex standoff between the niriks and the unicorns.

"YONA NO HAVE CONTROL OVER GIANT BUG GIRL!!!!", warned the panicking nak girl as she saw all the niriks immediately splitting up to avoid the flying leading monstrosity.

As soon as Sunny Boy noticed the crazy trio of wacky insane creatures, he immediately took this opportunity to teleport himself, Stellar Flare and Starlight Glimmer out of harm's way, before instantly relocating them near the golden steps of the Castle of Friendship, relieving Gingko Dragon and his nirik bodyguard of their live leverage. Now no longer under the influence of the nirik's maelstrom magic, Starlight Glimmer's and Stellar Flare's horns no longer bear the harmful red aura that limited their magical capabilities.

Immediately after the nirik guards stepped out of the way to avoid the seriously strange scooter chariot, Gingko Dragon the nirik crime boss found himself being grabbed by the primeval-minded enraging insectoid monstrosity as it barreled through like a loose freight train. As the giant cuckoo wasp flapped its wings heavily and lifted the roaring flaming nirik off the ground, it continued to pull Yona on its rickety wooden scooter, until---

WHAM!!---goes the scooter as it crashed into a boulder and got smashed into multiple pieces from the combined acceleration and the added immense mass of the fat nak girl! Tiny Turnip Head checked to see if Yona was okay and was relieved to see her standing back on top of her two hooves, after pulling her two horns out of the cracked boulder.

With the giant cuckoo wasp now free from its sticky mucous reins, the flying beast was able to fly much higher and it flew towards the white sailboat, still grasping onto the panicking nirik who demanded to be let free from the chitinous horror! Then suddenly, green misty flames started to emanate from the gigantic cuckoo wasp---

FWOOOF!!---goes Ocellus as she instantly reverted back to her normal changedling form and was no longer able to carry the heavy nirik crime boss with her appendages! However, the built-up momentum from the lift-off and freaky flight still sent the nirik boss flying and diving towards the top deck of the sailboat, where Delft Blue and Ginseng Dragon were previously scouting from!

As for Ocellus, she was feeling too woozy and addled-brain to flying herself properly back onto the ground, as she was making a series of random loops, twirls and curves around the bend, like a drunken fly. Fortunately, she was eventually saved from a harsh landing by Silverstream, who managed to catch the little bugger and carry her back down onto safety.

Meanwhile on the deck of Ginseng's sailboat, Gingko Dragon had just upgraded to full nirik mode with his entire coat turned jet black and spouting white, blue and magenta flames! Feeling extremely upset by the sudden betrayal of his once blood-bound brother, he picked up his dragon flintlock on the ground (now also flaming similarly as the nirik) and tried to aim at Ginseng Dragon. In response, Delft Blue quickly tried to deck Gingko Dragon in the face, but he was quickly kicked back by the powerful Gingko Dragon to the starboard side of the boat. As soon as Ginseng Dragon found himself cornered between the boat cabin walls and Gingko Dragon pointing his dragon flintlock in full nirik mode, Sunny Boy immediately saw what was happening on the boat, grabbed the Starlight's hand and quickly ran towards the edge of the moat.

Before he could though, a group of police officers and royal guards rushed over to meet him, as well as Captain Shining Armor and Princess Twilight Sparkle.

"Princess Twilight!!", shouted Starlight Glimmer upon seeing the princess in person.

"Starlight! You finally got all your memories back!", cheered the delightfully surprised princess, before she took another look at Starlight's snow-white outfit. "Wait---why are you in a wedding dress??"

"Uhhhh, is this a bad time for us to interrupt your honeymoon here??", asked the confused Captain Shining Armor.

"There's no time to explain!! My godfather's in trouble!!", shouted Sunny Boy before he immediately grabbed Starlight's hand and grabbed her to the edge of the moat river to get a closer look at his godfather's sailboat.

"Godfather??!!", questioned Princess Twilight Sparkle before she, her royal guards and the police chased after Sunny Boy to the edge of the moat.

"HEY, you let my godfather go!!", shouted Sunny Boy as soon as he got to the river's edge and pointed his finger at the group of three niriks on the sailboat. As of now, Gingko Dragon was holding Ginseng Dragon hostage with his dragon flintlock pistol pointed blank-range at Ginseng Dragon's head. Delft Blue hesitated to interfere as he did not want to risk his crime boss' life. Of course, nopony could tell them apart as all three of the niriks on the boat looked exactly the same! Things only were made a bit more complicated as a fourth Triad kirin exited out of the cabin, saw what was going on and immediately transformed into another nirik!

"Put down the hostage or WE will open fire!!", shouted Captain Shining Armour as the police officers drew out their Model 1862 Colt police revolvers5 and aimed at the niriks on the boat.

"Ifyoudareshootmedeadrightnow---!", warned the growling Ginseng Dragon as he was held tightly by the neck, "---allthosepoliceofficersandroyalguardsonthegroundwillraindownuponyoulikealocustswarmwithahailofbulletsandbeamrays!Youwon'tsurvivetheonslaught!"

Meanwhile, back on the ground, most of the spectators (friendship students, parents, teachers and school-children included) tried to rush forward to the shore as they were now curious over what was happening on the boat, while others just hover around for a better angle, keeping themselves at a safe distance. They dare not try to interfere with the niriks onboard, as they were too bulky and menacing to battle with. Even to the muscular dragons didn't want to get involved as they can't burn something that's already on fire and many of the buff yaks were too heavy to swim across the moat river and climb onto the big hull of the sailboat. There were not enough local police and guards at the scene to stop the onrush of curious citizen spectators and that was only made worse when the Triad niriks (now also in full rage mode) tried to head for the boat to save Gingko Dragon and eliminate Ginseng Dragon (assuming they could tell them apart)...

"LET GO OF ME!!!", shouted one nirik gangster who had his right leg held tightly by the fat Yona. He tried desperately to shake her off, so he could save his boss, but found himself too pinned down by the nak's immense weight.

"Yona no let go!! Yona no let you hurt Miss Starlight OR her love boy!!", shouted the determined fat nak as she continued to hold down the nirik's right leg.

"I SAID---LET GOOOO!!!!", roared the nirik before he tried attack Yona with a flurry of flaming magenta punches and bucking kicks to ward her off. But no matter how many powerful punches or kicks he doled out onto her head and face, she amazingly still wouldn't let go of him!

"Stop hurting my friend!!!", shouted Tiny Turnip Head as he flew in from behind and bit the nirik in the neck, causing him to unleash a jet of blue-and-magenta flames from his head.

"AAARRRRRGGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!", screamed the nirik before he immediately grabbed the little pegasus boy by the neck and shrieked, "You little bastard!!!"

Before he had a chance to squeeze his neck tight, a speeding rainbow-maned blue pegasus mare came crashing in with an angled diving kick that sent the nirk straight to the hard ground!

"Professor Rainbow DASH???!!", questioned the amazed Tiny Turnip Head as he stared at the athletic teacher after she saved him from a cruel death.

"Didn't I TELL you to call me over whenever your 'dad' does something stupidly crazy??!!", reminded Professor Rainbow Dash as he continued to battle the onslaught of summoned niriks emanating from the nirik's rice-white horn!

"HEY, they started it!! I'm just here to finish cleaning up the mess!!" shouted Master Zhi as he later barged in to kick more nirik butts with the power of kung-fu!

"Woo-hoo!! Master Zhi!! Go knock'em down!!", cheered Tiny Turnip Head as he stood back to see the action. Yona, now also bruised and singed on the head and stomach, joined Tiny Turnip Head to avoid the danger and in spite of her injuries, the strong nak girl was still holding out very well.

"HEY, save some for me, dude!!", squawked Gallus as he later joined Master Zhi in a two-fighter co-op battle against the onslaught of several niriks. As the panicking citizens all around them tried to escape the chaos as soon as they took notice of the growing chaos around them, both fighters took their defense stance to fend the School of Friendship from the gangster niriks!

👊As soon as one nirik decided tackle Master Zhi with a charging fire punch, Master Zhi quickly countered by dodging the punch and striking the nirik hard on the chest, sending him flying backwards onto the ground!

✊"HOYAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!!!"

👊Another nirik soldier tried to side-swipe Master Zhi's right flank, but the nirik was quickly knocked back by Gallus' uppercut talon swipe to the chin, before finishing the nirik off with an aerial twirling lion's paw kick to the face!!

✊"WACHAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWW!!!!!"

👊Another nirik then tried to deck Gallus at the back of his bird head, but Master Zhi leapt from the ground and kneed the kirin in the chin to temporarily discombobulate him, before performing two dual left-and-right high kicks to the face and knocking the kirin back off his hooves with a single palm-strike to the chest!

✊"AHHWWEEEEEEEEEEYYOOOOO-AAAAAAAHH!!!!"

Both Master Zhi and Gallus goaded more nirik reinforcements to come over and face the two most talented kung-fu duo fighters in all of Equestria!

👊Chided by their gung-ho taunts, one nirik rushed over to do a running kick against Master Zhi, but he was quickly knocked senselessly by Gallus' flying high lion kick to the face, before being finished off by another uppercut lion's kick to the chin!

✊"WOCHA-YADAIII-YAKAAAAAIIIIII!!!!!!"

👊While that was happening. Master Zhi had just finished tripping another nirik backwards with a low-swinging kick before battling the next nirik who dared try to challenge them in mortal combat!

✊"WOOODDOOOOOOOOWWWW!!!"

👊As the battle went on, both Master Zhi and Gallus continued with their onslaught of blinding kicks and punches that were fast as lightning, while also dodging and weaving to avoid their literal fists of ferocious fire and fury! A spinning kick there, a talon chop over here, a headbutt down over there and maybe also a lion paw twirling kick over here! The nirik were no match for the two greatest kung-fu masters in Ponyville----👊

---because as it turned out, they were ALL already beaten up senselessly a short while ago as they were doing their wild martial arts stunts that were fit for a cheap action flick at a drive-by cinema!

As soon as the onslaught was finally over, both Master Zhi and Gallus were posing in unison with their Shaolin Ban Mabu6 stances, closing their eyes as they bask in the glory of their co-op victory against the nirik!

With worried and distressed faces in their expression, Yona and Tiny Turnip Head ran over to tell Gallus and Master Zhi something really important to them. Both of them cried out for their friends to open their eyes and see the carnage around them.

"Master Zhi! Master Zhi!", cried the saddened Tiny Turnip Head as he shook his foster dad's arm as the master maintained his Shaolin fighting pose like a pro.

"Griffon boy!! Griffon boy!! Please wake up!", shouted Yona as he tried to shake Gallus from his fantastical daydreaming.

"I--am--invincible!!!", boasted Master Zhi as he maintained his Ban Mabu pose, before the worried Tiny Turnip Head quickly replied

"Yes, yes! I KNOW you are super amazing and all, BUT----BUT---!"

"Gallus and Master only just punch and kick innocent creatures faces!!", shouted Yona as she pointed to the groaning crowd grovelling on the grassy ground.

As soon as Gallus and Master Zhi immediately opened their eyes in response, they were horrified to find out that the niriks weren't the only creatures who got caught in their utter ring of fistful destruction!

😭"AAHHHHH, my teeth!! Why would you do that??!", bawled one coconut-coated filly with a swirly green-and-violet mane and a violet-tinned pie as her cutie mark. As she was rocking back and forth on the grassy ground, most of her teeth were knocked down during the melee and she was severely bruised on both cheeks.

😭"Uhhhh, I think my pelvis broke in SO many places!", whimpered the wrinkly white-and-gray maned and sand-coated stallion as he laid achingly on his side and was also bruised multiple times on the face.

😭"AAAAHHH, my beautiful eyes!! THEY'RE RUIINNEED!! AND IT HUURRRTTSSS!!!", shouted the blonde-maned and grey-coated mailmare as she laid on her butt and was rubbing her swollen bruised and crying eyes with her hands.

"GGAAAAHHHH!!!", panicked Gallus as he immediately flew to the elderly stallion in his desperate attempt to plead and apologize for his rash behavior

"I'm SO sorry, sir!! I only intended to attack the bad guys that are ruining our society, so I can bring friendship and harmony to the world!! PLEASE DON'T SUE ME!!!"

While Gallus goes off to apologize the other adults and children he might have also hit by accident, Master Zhi went over to apologize the rest of the citizens he had accidentally beaten up. He went over to the crying coconut-coated filly and pleaded in a panic

"C'mon, little filly! Don't cry!! I'm sorry I didn't watch where I was hitting!! HEY, look at the face I'm making here!!"

Master Zhi attempted to make a goofy face at the filly to cheer her up, but she was too busy bawling her eyes out from the intense pain in her mouth.

Standing by the two piles of beaten-up niriks (who are now slowly fading into kirins) were Rainbow Dash, Silverstream, Smolder and Mister Tang. All these heroic creatures had already taken care of the rest of the nirik by beating up one of the skilled phase summoners, before taking out the rest in close-quarters combat. One by one, the kirins were promptly arrested in handcuffs by the arriving police reinforcements as they gathered around the two nirik piles. As Mr Tang was watching Master Zhi failing miserably to cheer up the innocent people that were unlucky enough to be caught in the crossfire, he yelled out to him

"NICE one, you blind-siding idiot! While we were already done piling up these rage demons, you got so blinded by your own heroic fantasies, that you didn't even realize you were beating up teachers, schoolchildren and spectators that were only here to have fun at the promenade!"

"HA! Guess Yona's not the ONLY one who makes mistakes in scoring for the opposite team, eh 'Master'???", teased Professor Rainbow Dash as he pointed out Master Zhi of his hypocrisy when it comes to disciplining Yona at that soccer game with the street thugs.

"SHUT UP, Rainbow! You could've at least shouted at us about the fight being over already!", cried Master Zhi as he went over to apologize to another victim of his violent escapades.

Meanwhile, back on river's edge, Sunny Boy was still shouting out to the sailboat, where Ginseng Dragon was still being held hostage by the flintlock-wielding Gingko Dragon on the top deck.

"You let my godfather go, you ruffian!!"

"I already told you!!", shouted the upset Starlight Glimmer. "He's NOT your godfather!!"

"You listen and you listen well to your mother, young man!", ordered Stellar Flare as she pointed her white gloved finger at Sunny Boy. "You are NOT a criminal gangster! You're a Vice-Stallion that works with children, teens and adults at the School of Friendship! This pretentious charade has gone on LONG enough, mister!"

"Wait, WHAT??!!", questioned the confused Sunny Boy. "NO, you must be mistaken! I'm Sunny Boy of the---"

"Your name's not Sunny Boy! It's Sunburst!!", yelled the frustrated headmare bride as she took out her framed picture with her levitation, before the flustered Sunny Boy replied

"What??! I don't even---"

"JUST LOOK AT THE GODDAMN PICTURE ALREADY!!!", demanded Stellar Flare she grabbed Starlight's picture with her telekinesis and shoved it hard onto the male honey-yellow unicorn's face. That really scared Student #12138 who was standing behind Stellar Flare.

As soon as Sunny Boy grabbed the picture, took off his sunglasses and looked at the photo of him and Starlight smiling together, Student #12138 peered over and was shocked to see his headmaster's portrait being next to his supposed crush.

"HEY, I thought you said your crush hated you! What's up with that photo??!", questioned the confused Student #12138.

As soon as Sunny Boy took a glance at the photo, everything in his own reality started to warp and lose their grip onto his mind. Why was he in that photo smiling and posing with Miss Starlight Glimmer? Didn't she say she doesn't want to be with him? She did tried to report to the police to sue him for sexual harassment. And yet---

---then it dawned on him. As he dug deep further into his head, he suddenly realized what had happened to him and Starlight before that time he arrived at the hospital! There was---that cart crash---with the oxen carrying many water barrels! He-he----he was the one who pushed Starlight Glimmer out of the way, so she wouldn't end up being crushed by the galloping horned beasts! He couldn't prop up a magic barrier, because there was too little time to react! So instead, he cast a body hardening spell to withstand the heavy impact from the water barrels, the clumsy oxen and the rolling wooden cart. That's why his bones and muscles remained intact during that high-speed crash! However, there was no way his furry coat would remain intact, nor would his brain survive the concussive impact, even if his head was fully protected. That's why he couldn't remember who he was back at the hospital! He could still feel the lingering pain from the nasty road rash he got on his nose and double flanks during the crash. Though he doesn't remember how Starlight survived the crash, he was still glad she remained alive during the chaos.

As soon as he remembered what happened at the crash, his mind started to rewind back every piece of memory he had with Starlight like a movie film on reverse!

That memory about how he gave his apartment key to his dear sweet best friend as a gift of friendship...

Joining with all the other creatures in defeating the Villainous Trio...

Being accepted as Vice-Stallion to the School of Friendship...

How he tried to win that Trivia Trot game with Princess Twilight Sparkle and failed...

Helping Princess Twilight Sparkle turn that magical chronometer that controlled the movements of the moon around Equestria and the orbit of Equestria around the sun...

That time he and his friends escaped a flock of cockatrices with Starlight and her friends...

Resolving parental issues with Starlight Glimmer during a cutie map mission...

Battling against the Pony of Shadows with Starlight, the Mane Six and the Pillars of Equestria

Making new friends with Maud Pie and Trixie Lulamoon by playing a life-sized board game of Dragon Pit...

Attending Starlight's graduation ceremony in Princess Twilight's castle...

Protecting Flurry Heart during the changeling invasion in the Crystal Empire and meeting Thorax for the very first time...

Being appointed the title of the Flurry Heart's royal crystaller by Shining Armor and Princess Cadence...

Meeting Starlight Glimmer for the first time after many years of absence during his time in Celestia's magic school...

That time he left for Magic School after getting his first cutie mark and Starlight Glimmer all alone back in Sire's Hollow...oh how he dreaded the day he cut all contact from her...

Playing around with his best friend Starlight Glimmer, studying new magic spells and promising to each other that they will be best friends forever when they were little foals...

He finally remembers who he really is now....he's both Starlight's hero AND best friend in all of Equestria....he's a wizard Vice-Stallion of the School of Friendship....he's---he's----

Still focusing his eyes on that photo with him and Starlight Glimmer, he suddenly got snapped back to reality when his mom called out his name and shook him out of his trance after staring at that photo for two minutes.

"W-w-h--H-How did I get here??", questioned Sunburst as he looked around and found himself standing near the edge of the moat river.

"Oh, Sunburst! Please tell me you remember me and Starlight!", cried Stellar Flare as she touched his shoulders.

"MOM??!! What are YOU doing here??!", questioned the surprised Sunburst as he suddenly found himself being hugged tightly by her mother.

"Sunburst, you finally got all your memories back! I'm SO happy for you!", hollered the smiling Starlight Glimmer as she kindheartedly embraced Sunburst from the back.

"Is everything all right, sir?", asked Student #12138 as he touched Sunburst's shoulder. Staring at the black spiky-maned unicorn that he has no memory of meeting with, the confused Sunburst asked to the stranger

"Uhhhhh---who are you, exactly??"

"Wait, wuuuhhhh????", mumbled the shocked student as he was being shoved away from Sunburst via telekinesis.

"HEY, Shining Armor!", hollered Sunburst before he teleported himself from the two mares' embrace to the royal guard captain's side.

"OH, there you are! Welcome back, Sunburst! Glad to see you and Starlight back on your hooves again...", said Princess Twilight Sparkle with expressive gratitude for her best friend.

"Sunburst, there's a couple of niriks fighting each other on that sailboat!", muttered the worried Captain Shining Armor as he pointed at the hostage situation on the sailboat.

"OH, that's just a trivial dispute matter! You can handle this on your own! If things get too hairy, you can always activate the long-range binding spell on the boat crew.", recommended the wise Sunburst. He later continued on with his explanation

"Besides, if you tried to interfere with the nirik, you might only end up making the situation worse! Just let them fight it all out, until they're exhausted of their energy. THEN you can send your flyers over there to arrest them"

As soon as he was done explaining, he turned around and noticed that Starlight Glimmer was wearing a snow-white corset bodice wedding dress.

"Uhhhh, why are you in a wedding dress??", asked the confused Sunburst.

"HEHEHE, it's a LONG story...", sheepishly replied Starlight Glimmer as she blushed in front of her companion.

"Apparently, her father tried to marry her off to somepony else against her own will!", briefly explained Stellar Flare who was now harboring disappointment for Starlight's father.

"WHAT??! But WHY??!", questioned the confused Sunburst.

"I'm not sure, but if I ever catch sight of him, we're walking STRAIGHT UP to that man and we will DEMAND an explanation from my rival candidate!", asserted the determined Stellar Flare with utmost confidence before she went off on her own to search for Starlight's father.

"HEY, wait for us, Mom!", hollered Sunburst as he grabbed Starlight's wrist, so that he and his companion can easily catch up with her.

"LOOK, there she is! And she's got company", shouted Minty Mocha from the west hilltop dirt road as she pointed at Starlight Glimmer walking alongside Sunburst and Stellar Flare.

"Well, what are we waiting for??! Let's catch up with her!", hollered Firelight as he and his assistant manager ran downhill towards the trio. As they did, Firelight ordered his assistant manager to do another important thing.

"Minty, I want a VERY nice long chat with my daughter once we get there! Don't let ANY pony try to interfere with our father-daughter talk!"

Meanwhile, back on the sailboat, Ginseng Dragon, still being held hostage by his former blood brother, seized his opportunity to swiftly snatch the dragon flintlock pistol that was pointed at his head, before jerking his head backwards to strike Gingko Dragon in the nose to knock him backwards. As soon as he had his special weapon in his right hand, Ginseng Dragon immediately threw the pistol into the water, rendering the weapon wet and useless!

Soon, a two-on-two scuffle among the niriks soon broke out with blazing black fists and kicks striking on hardened jet-black armored coats. Even though this was supposed to be a battle between two rival gang leaders and their right-hand man, for the spectating police, royal guards and the students, it looked like a total free-for-all with no nirik willing to take sides except for himself.

"HEY, check it out, guys!! A nirik fist-fighting deathmatch!", hollered Smolder as she flew towards the edge of the moat river to see the fiery hot action occurring on the sailboat.

"WOAH, really??!", cawed Gallus as soon as he flew up next to Smolder after finishing his apology run. "COOL!! This is WAY better than those staged fights on action flicks!"

Soon, Master Zhi, Mr Tang, Tiny Turnip Head and the rest of the Student Six joined the rest of the spectators to see the built-up drama on the sailboat near the School of Friendship. Every spectator (who wasn't caught in Master Zhi's and Gallus' fists of fury) began smiling, giggling and even rooting for their favorite nirik to win.

"Uhhhh, should we stop them before this gets out of hand?" wondered the concerned Silverstream.

"I don't think that's necessary, Silverstream", commented Princess Twilight Sparkle, before she raised her right wing towards the armed police squad and direct her orders onto them

"Stand down, officers. They're only getting into minor fisticuffs. Wait until they all tire each other out, before you can make your move against them"

Under their absolute allegiance to their monarch, the police officers agreed to lower their guns against the fighting niriks, while the golden-plated royal pegasus guards slowly surround the boat, but still cautiously keeping their away from the rampaging inferno building up on the boat deck.

As the nirik fighting continued on the swaying sailboat, Ginseng Dragon performed a palm strike against Gingko Dragon's scale-plated chest, knocking him back to the port of the deck. Undeterred, Gingko Dragon struck the charging Delft Blue on the stomach with his right-hand fist and performed a push-kick against Ginseng Dragon's nirik bodyguard, knocking out the guard onto a nearby steel boat railing!

Ginseng Dragon quickly retreated back to the boat cabin's door and prepared to gather up his chi to deal a fatal blow against Gingko Dragon. With his right hand brought close to his chest, his vertical right index and middle fingers pointed to his chin and his left hand grasping onto his right wrist, Ginseng Dragon let out a bellowing war cry as his white horn glowed with illuminating radiance---!

"By the POWEROF THE SIXINVINCIBLE ELEMENTSOF KUNG-FU, let thy masterpossess my fighting---!"

Before he could finish his enchantment though, he was immediately interrupted as he was decked in the face harshly by Gingko Dragon's blazing right haymaker, before Delft Blue attempted to grab Gingko behind by the shoulders---only to be knocked in the face by Gingko's right-elbow strike!

"WOW, I never seen such a climatic show-off go down like this!", commented Mr Tang as he chuckled at the nirik fight scene happening on the sailboat.

"YEAH! Bad dudes fighting bad dudes! What a way to end a happily epic tale!", cheerily cried Tiny Turnip Head as he grinned at the niriks on the sailboat.

"Yona agrees!", bellowed the fat nak girl as she watched the fist-fight happening with Tiny Turnip Head.

"SO, who do you think is going to win??", questioned Gallus as he pulled out his notepad to list his bets.

"THAT ONE---no wait----THAT ONE!!---THIS ONE!!---GAAAHHH, I don't know! They ALL look the same to me!", shouted Master Zhi as he lost track of which nirik is fighting against which nirik.

"Ooooh, look who's being the racist rapscallion now!", sarcastically joked Mr Tang as he looked towards Master Zhi with a smirked grin on his face.

With the ferocious fighting still raging on, Gingko Dragon delivered a mighty kick against Ginseng's nirik bodyguard, before Delft Blue attemped to distract Gingko Dragon with a right-handed strike and surprise Gingko Dragon with a whack from his briefcase telephone! However, Gingko Dragon was very swift in his reaction, as he cast a magenta kinetic shield from his white horn, before unleashing a telekinetic blast that sent the briefcase telephone flying up in the sky at an arced trajectory!

As the briefcase telephone was falling back to earth, it went tumbling down towards Yona and bounced off her big solid head, almost knocking her unconscious! Tiny Turnip Head found himself catching the bounced briefcase by its handle, before shouting out "HEAAVVYY!"! Immediately afterwards, the briefcase was snatched by Mister Tang's telekinesis, before it opened by itself to reveal a rotary phone.

"OAAAAHHH!!!", groaned Yona as she rubbed her bruised head.

"HEY, what's that in the briefcase??", asked the curious Gallus as he pointed at the rotary phone within the briefcase)

"Uhhh, beats me!", answered the clueless Smolder.

"WOAH, I recognize this newfangled gadget from the 'Mogul Mares Monthly' magazine!", shouted the eagerly interested Mister Tang as he pulled out the corded rotary phone from the briefcase recess. "Apparently, it's one of those 'wireless telephones' that allows you to call any creature ANYwhere in the world---provided that you know their ID number first. But HEY, at least it beats paying the extra toll by the minute for a long-distance pay-station phone call!"

"Soooo, kinda like the magical scarab projectors we changedlings sometimes used to communicate with our kin back at the hive?", questioned the curious and interested Ocellus.

"...Lady, you're thinking of a téléphonoscope call7!", corrected the unamused Mister Tang as he looked at Ocellus.

"Ooooh, this thing can actually call ANYWHERE??!", hollered Master Zhi as he tried to grab the briefcase telephone for himself.

"UPUPOP!!", shouted Mr Tang as he immediately knocked back Master Zhi with a reverse levering punch to his friend's face "I opened and touched the telephone within first!! So it's MINE to begin with!"

Meanwhile, Starlight Glimmer, Sunburst and his mother Stellar Flare were walking together back to Ponyville, when they immediately encountered the upset Firelight and unamused Minty Mocha.

"DAD!! Uhh--what a--nice surprise!", nervously chuckled Starlight as she knew was going to be in for a rude awakening.

Caught off guard by their sudden arrival, but ready to give Firelight a lectured scolding, Stellar Flare briskly walked up to her mayoral candidate arrival. But before she could even talk, Firelight was the one to make the first brazen move.

"Don't even try to play dumb with me, deary. Your papa wants to have a nice long word with you.", softly castigated the unamused Firelight as he instantly cast a transparent silent bubble spell around himself and his daughter. With a near-perfect vacuum layer between the two ethereal bubble layers, there was no way for Stellar Flare to snap at Firelight. Instantly, Minty Mocha walked up to Stellar Flare and Sunny Boy with her sudden reinforcements of press escorts, before telling them

"Please, Miss Flare and Mister Sunburst. I would like to have a word with you first, before you can have your chance to talk with Firelight..."

Feeling like there is no use in beating this deadbeat horse, both the mother and son agreed and was taken a couple meters away from the silent bubble entrapping Starlight Glimmer and Firelight. Over here, Minty Mocha explained in brief table about why Firelight had to give up his daughter for marriage with his business partner, how he needed the money to pay off the house and the failed conservation projects. However, no matter how much she tried to justify her own boss' actions, it still would not sit well with the unimpressed middle-aged mother.

"He could've try selling off his estate property at an auction to cover his debts or at least filed up for bankruptcy! That's no excuse to take away your daughter's happiness! And that's certainly not I would do my son if I was caught up in a bad situation like that!", retorted Stellar Flare as the press cameras flash around them.

Before the mother and her son could continue with their argument however, Minty Mocha told them that she herself has important business to do for the boss, before heading towards Firelight's silent bubble, where she was invited into the private conversation between father and daughter.

As they were about to go after her, Princess Twilight Sparkle immediately teleported in front of them, scaring the mother and her son half to death. As soon as they gathered their senses, Stellar Flare immediately cried

"Princess Twilight Sparkle! Oh, it's SO wonderful to see you again! Thank you for finding my long-lost son...."

Stellar Flare quickly bow down close to the princess' golden hooves in respect for Her Majesty, before she continued on about paying back her generosity.

"Is there anything I could do as the future mayor of Sire's Hollow to repay you for your heroic deed? Perhaps I could hold a rally at my hometown or---"

"Actually, I'm here to apologize to you and your son...", corrected the contrite princess.

"Really??! The princess?? Apologizing to US?? For what??", questioned the befuddled Stellar Flare.

"Apparently, one of my captains actually had found Sunburst a few days earlier, but chose NOT to report it to either me OR you...", replied the upset princess as she cast telekinesis to drag her brotherly captain over to her side.

"WHAT??! But--but that's outrageous!", shouted the shocked and chagrined Stellar Flare.

"LOOK, I have a VERY good explanation for this! We really thought your son was going undercover to infiltrate some bad guys in some underworld empire! We thought the missing case was a ruse made up by the princess to keep your son from being discovered!", explained the nervous captain as he was being pulled by the ear by his regal sister's telekinesis.

"What really makes you say such a ludricous excuse like THAT??!! My son could've been end up dead if you kept up the charade for too long!", questioned the enraged Stellar Flare.

"WELL, we saw him associate with some Diamond Dogs during a robbery and Sunburst told me he was from a special department! He helped took down those bad guys he was hanging out with!", explained Captain Shining Armor as he stated his alibi.

"WHAT??!! I never remember doing that in my lifetime! If I did, it would've disgraced my reputation as an honorary associate of the police force!! You SURE you didn't encountered somepony else??", questioned the outraged Sunburst. Apparently, he had no recollection of what he had did when he was trapped in his alter ego as a street gangster. That was when Captain Shining Armor began to mumble incoherently, confused that his former babysitter and best friend couldn't remember what he had done back in Manehattan.

"Wait--WHAT--but---you just---I---you were---!"

Before Captain Shining Armor could clear himself up, Princess Twilight Sparkle immediately started levitating him by the collarbone and told him, "....Let's have a chat at the Castle of Friendship....shall we??"

"C'mon, sis! Against your own big brother??!", nervously pleaded the captain as he halfheartedly smiled at his sister.

To show that she is in no mood to play family favorites, Princess Twilight Sparkle immediately teleported some of his surprised royal guards in her presence, quietly indicating that she is willing to have her brother's own guards witness her stern lectures about not keeping secrets from their comrades.

"....Right...not kidding around in the 'no nepotism' code of conduct...", muttered the captain before he, his own royal guard squad and the princess were immediately teleported to the Castle of Friendship.

Soon afterwards, Master Zhi, Mister Tang, Tiny Turnip Head and the rest of the Student Six met up Sunburst and Stellar Flare, who are now being the target of a couple press photographers brought in by Firelight to document the mayor candidate's journey, much to the mother's chagrin.

"C'mon, Mr Tang! Just a little peek and a caressing feel for the briefcase telephone...", pleaded Master Zhi as he followed behind Mister Tang in an attempt to grab his newfound gadget from behind.

"Over my dead body! And that's assuming you could pass through my booby-trapped coffin that is rigged to shoot any grave-robber in the mug!", retorted Mr Tang as he tried to protect his new briefcase telephone with his whole body.

"Vice-Stallion Sunburst!! You're back!! You've been reported missing for over a week!", hollered Gallus as he flew in to give Sunburst a hug.

"I was in a coma at the hospital for over a week??!", shouted the wide-eyed surprised Sunburst.

"Uhhhh, not exactly.....it's----kind of a complicated story....", nervously informed Stellar Flare

"So I've heard...", mumbled Sunburst as he looked aimlessly at the ground.

"Yona and friends ALL miss you!", bellowed the happy nak girl as she snuggled up to Sunburst.

"Well, kind of---you were technically still physically there...but---you were a different unicorn back then...", explained Sandbar.

"We didn't recognize you, because you were lacking a white strip over your nose...", mentioned Smolder as she pointed at Sunburst's muzzle.

"Wait, I lost my nasal birthmark??!!", shouted the panicking Sunburst as he looked down at his nose.

"Ohhhh, honey! Don't you worry, sweetie....it'll grow back to the way it was within a few weeks. That's something your 'godfather' wouldn't know about!", said Stellar Flare with a sensual smirk before giving a nod and a wink at her son.

"Uhhhhh, who??", questioned Stellar Flare before every creature laughed out of sheer joy.

"HEY, what's Mister Firelight doing here??! And why is he talking to Starlight underneath a magic bubble??", questioned Gallus as he noticed the silent bubble and pointed at the father-and-daughter conversation.

"UUGGHH, probably something about prioritizing finances over friendship again! I don't know how long he had been planning this, but no silence barrier isn't going to take us down!", declared Stellar Flare as she turned around and started grievely at the bubble.

"C'mon, Mom! Let's see if we can renegotiate a deal with your political rival over here", rallied Sunburst as he and his mother went over to confront Firelight once more again.

"Wait....That's her MOM??!! She looks too young to be his mother!", complimented the surprised Master Zhi as he noticed the young-looking mare's smooth face. He later wondered to his senile friend

"Hmmmm, wonder if she knows any top-brand anti-wrinkling cream you could use, Tang..."

"I wonder if she's single...", responded Mister Tang as he stared at the smooth bareback brown-orange coat of Sunburst's busty mom.

"Yeaaahhh, maybe she is. I mean, if she is---you just might have a chance with that rack of hers..." mentioned Master Zhi as he sneaked in closer behind Mister Tang. Soon, the seductively hypnotized old unicorn stallion also took notice of her sideboob and spoke in a sensual manner

"Ooooooh, now you're speaking my language. What I would give to grab a hold of these pair of----"

"HEY!! What the hell are you doing??!!", shouted the old Far Eastern geriatric unicorn as he noticed Master Zhi trying to smoothly snatch the briefcase telephone out of his hands.

Meanwhile, inside the silent bubble, Firelight was lecturing his daughter about loyalty and obedience to your parental authority figure, as well as saving face for the Glimmer household name.

"Listen here, Starlight Glimmer! I appreciate if you don't embarrass me in front of all these lovely Equestrian citizens and the public press after pulling off a crazy ditching stunt like that. Je ne plaisante pas!8"

Before the lecture could continue, Firelight cast a temporary opening for Minty Mocha to step into his bubble, before his assistant manager pulled out an Edison VoiceWriter dictaphone9 and held its corded speaker/microphone, while Firelight levitated the disk-playing apparatus with his telekinesis. After sliding the on/off switch, she slid the L/C marker to the start-point of the recorder and pressed down on the circular red-dotted record button. Minty Mocha then held up the speaker/microphone in her right hand and pressed down its white grip trigger to initiate the recording. As Minty Mocha records the private father-and-daughter conversation, she averted her gaze elsewhere and crossed her arms while holding onto the white grip trigger of the speaker/microphone.

"As of right now, anything you say to this dictation machine will be used as evidence against you for breach of contract.", warned Firelight as he stared at his bridal daugher. "Uhhhhh, this IS recording, right??"

"Affirmative, sir", responded Minty Mocha as she continued to hold her speaker/microphone.

"Soooo, what do you got to say for yourself to our dictation machine, Miss Glimmer?", asked Firelight as he crossed his arms and stared cunningly at his daughter. Starlight Glimmer then closely positioned her mouth next to the speaker/microphone to make her statement clear to the dictation machine.

"--PAPA, as you may had already know, I am a grown mare who can make decisions on her own and will learn from her own mistakes like an adult!"

Suddenly, the silent bubble spell got deactivated by Sunburst's nullification spell, before Stellar Flare jumped into the recorded conversation and immediately spoke into the speaker/microphone of the dictaphone.

"She's right, Firelight! You can't just go around manipulating true love, unless that partner is a manipulator as well!"

"Oooooh, non non non non non non noonnnn! TSK TSK!", disagreed Firelight as he leaned in and spoke closer to the speaker/microphone with a cunningly sassy grin on his face. He later continued on with his remark

"In case you had already forgotten, YOU had signed a marriage contract that basically hands ALL your life decisions onto ME, meaning that---your old PAPA here gets to handle every aspect of your life."

While this recorded conversation was happening, both Master Zhi and Mr Tang had now started to fight against each other over the expensive luxurious briefcase telephone. For his weapon of choice, Master Zhi pulled out a large yanyuedao spear from the back of his plaid pants, while Mr Tang whipped out a pair of spiked fisting gauntlets from his jacket!

"I ALSO have proof from your mental evaluation from your psychiatrist that you are considered mentally incompetent. I could technically call your psychiatrist about your recent escape from your home abode and have you committed at any time I wanted to!", threatened Firelight.

"Are you SERIOUSLY pulling up that paper file you submitted to that Manehattan mental ward from my teenage years??!", yelled the upset Starlight Glimmer. "I'm NOT that rebel cult leader I once was anymore, Dad! I've literally had changed myself for the better!"

"Firelight, you can't seriously be THAT cruel!", argued Stellar Flare as she couldn't believe what she was hearing from her own rival. "This is your own daughter we're talking about! If I knew how this poor little girl felt when my son left for Magic School, I would've been there with her all the way before she turned evil, and now I'm standing right beside her to give her and my son the support they need! If you wanted the money to cover your debts, I wouldn't mind giving it to you! You didn't HAVE to sell out your daughter to a rich mogul!"

"And risk my political reputation of being the mayoral candidate that had to rely on a rival's donation to keep my livelihood stable?", retorted Firelight as he stared at his rival. "What would my supporting voters think of me then?"

As they continued talking back and forth, Master Zhi and Mr Tang continued on with their little deadly skirmish against each other, without regards to even the police walking around the scene to conduct interviews with various witnesses over today's nirik incident. As Master Zhi tried to cut off Mister Tang's head, the senile man performed a limbo dodge, before springing back up on his hooves. Mr Tang then immediately jumped back to dodge Master Zhi's rapid slice-down with his yanyuedao, before performing various leaps, backflips and front flips to dodge Master Zhi's wild swings of his polearm.

Suddenly, Sunburst went in and tried to resolve the situation peacefully, hoping to appease Firelight and avoid any conflict

"Uhhh, excuse me, uhhh Candidate Firelight! But---I just wanted to add---"

"Tu te tais!10", interrupted the extremely upset Firelight as he raised his finger towards the Vice-Stallion.

Master Zhi then started to chase Mister Tang with his yanyuedao as his senile friend immediately grabbed the briefcase telephone and ran off with it!

"And YOU---!", continued Firelight. "If you weren't a unicorn with high social standing with the Princess of Friendship, I would've got you sued for kidnapping my daughter! You may not had technically went after her, but you goaded her into meeting you during your squabble with some criminal kirin underworld figures! I know that, because it was flooding the telegraph news office back in Manehattan!"

As Stellar Flare was about to retort back with an even harsher tone, both Master Zhi and Mister Tang came back to the conversation scene to continue their squabble, before they were both held by the ear from behind by both Silverstream and Gallus respectively, thereby halting their petty death-match all together. Yona later rushed in as she followed Tiny Turnip Head as he met up with his foster father and grandfather. Firelight then turned his direct attention to Master Zhi and Mr Tang, before scorning to them

"And YOU four creatures---the ones who were at my rally last Saturday! If ANYTHING bad ever happened to my daughter during your time with her, I'll sue all of you too!"

That got Gallus' feathers very ruffled as soon as he heard that threat! Master Zhi and Mr Tang also were taken aback by the potential lawsuit (and possible prison time) if he ever find out about the taxicab carjacking incident in Ponyville. Without haste, both Far Eastern Equestrians immediately threw away their weapons out and stood straight and tall.

"Heeeeyy, GALLUS!!", screamed Silverstream as she finally had remembered something critical. "Remember about that special box Headmare--err--I MEAN---Counselor Trixie had given you?? You know, the one that she told you NOT to open unless you were in grave danger??"

"Oooh RIIIGGHHT, of COURSE!! How could I forget!?", remembered the relieved Gallus.

"WELL, since you and your new friends got into a fight with a bunch of nasty kirin, got challenged to a game of soccer by a bunch of thugs, had to help escort a blinded self-moving taxi on a busy road AND got to fight in an epic showdown with a bunck of niriks----of COURSE, there was that time you also accidentally kicked and punched every creature---", babbled Silverstream as she tried to remember what kinds of trouble Gallus had gotten into.

"I GET IT, Silverstream! I was in all KINDS of danger!", interrupted the squawking Gallus as he took out Counselor Trixie's special box from his pocket. "And now we're into some deep doo-doo thanks to Mister Firelight over here!"

"WELL, open it, Gallus! Let's see what Counselor Trixie has in store for us!", urged the giddy Silverstream as she peered over to see what was inside the specially carved rectangular box.

As soon as he opened up its lid and pulled out its held content, he was surprised to the brink of screeching to the heavens to see a sea-blue cheque paper signed by Trixie Lulamoon with a written amount of 100,000 bits!!

"One-one-one-WHA--WHA----ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND BIIITTSSS?????!!!!!!!!!", squawked Silverstream as soon as she saw the amount written on the exact same cheque they had once ripped back at Counselor Trixie's wagon.

"You mean to tell me I didn't have to run around for menial jobs to support myself during this suspension this WHOLE time??!!", cawed the astonished Gallus as he slapped his talon onto his forehead.

"WOAH, one hundred thousand didgeridoos???!!", exclaimed the astounded Master Zhi.

"OOooh, think of ALL the sweet cupcakes and ice cream you can buy!", screamed the delighted Tiny Turnip Head.

"YEAH, I guess you're pretty right, Gallus...", sighed the saddened Silverstream before she immediately threw away the cheque into the gusty wind. "Guess this cheque isn't of any good use anymore..."

As soon as Mister Tang noticed the flying cheque in the wind, he immediately yelled out

"What the---YOU IDIOT!! We could use this to help Starlight! Hire some top-notch lawyer to sue her dad's ass!!"

"WAIT STOP!! Is my name on that cheque??!! I wanna spend that money to move Grandpa Gruff outta that shithouse!!", squawked the screeching Gallus as he immediately flew up and went after the wind-riding cheque.

"NO WAY, I was the one who opened it first!! I should get the reward for discovering it!", cawed Silversteam as she raced towards Gallus for the cheque.

"HEY, don't you DARE take that cheque, you birdbrains!!", shouted Mr Tang before he picked up the briefcase telephone and handed it over to Firelight. "HOLD THIS FOR ME and DON'T let go of it until I come back!!"

"HEY, wait for me, Tang!! We could use that money to pay some part of his debts!", suggested Master Zhi as he ran alongside Mister Tang.

"Screw that! This motherfucker is going to get what's coming at him!!", barked the angry Mister Tang as he chased the two flying avian hybrids who are now racing each other to catch the flying cheque.

"HEY, don't go without me, Master Zhi and Mister Tang!!", shouted Tiny Turnip Head as he rapidly flew towards Master Zhi and Mr Tang.

"Yona follow tiny pegasus boy too!!", bellowed the hopping Yona as she chased after her new best friend.

"HAHA, such dumb idiots! And creatures say dragons are the greediest of all Equestrian kin...", boasted Smolder as she watched her friends chased after the flying cheque.

"There they are!! These are the creatures who stole and wrecked my taxicab!", shouted the taxicab rider who had his vehicle carjacked by the Student Six. As he chased after them, he was being escorted by six police officers who were following behind him.

"And THERE'S the changedling girl who took my energy drink and scooter!!", cried the violet-helmeted and orange-coated pegasus filly who had her scooter destroyed during the nirik incident.

As soon as the police interviewers heard what the two theft victims had blurted out, they immediately stopped what they were doing and began spreading out to chase the suspected carjackers and scooter thieves.

"UH-OH!! Uhhh, WAIT FOR US, GUYS!! I wanted to cash in that cheque too!!", hollered the scared Smolder as she immediately fled from the police and went after her rambunctious friends.

"I'm too SMART to go to prison!!", cried Ocellus as she took off and followed Smolder.

"Oh man, my parents are SOO gonna kill me!! TAKE ME WITH YOOOOUUUU!!", cried Sandbar as he began following the rest of his old and new friends towards the moat's river edge.

As the police were closing in on the suspected criminals, Gallus and Silverstream continued to chase after the cheque, but their frantic wing beatings and flappings were generating forceful wind that actually pushed the flying cheque away from them, no matter how hard they flew or how fast they tried to outpace each other.

"You take 50,000 bits and I'll take the other!", suggested the fast-flying Silverstream.

"No way, girl!! My Grandpa Gruff might need the extra cash, in case he have to pay a housing tax!!", squawked the greed Gallus as he pushed Silverstream out of his way to chase that valuable cheque.

As soon as the cheque began flying over the river, Gallus tried to take off first, but was immediately jumped on by Silverstream as she took off first over the moat river. Gallus was not letting Silverstream run over him like that, so he stretched his blue wings as wide as he can and burst into the sky like a flying rocket to catch up with Silverstream. When everything was starting to go into slow motion, Silverstream immediately saw the cheque suddenly being blown towards her! She took that short opportunity to snatch the cheque in mid-air and felt triumphant for taking her prized cash money once again!

"VICTORY IS MIIINNNEEEE!!!!!", screeched Silverstream in slow motion. However, her victory was short-lived as she peered over and saw the rampaging spectacle near the river's edge. In addition to being chased by the police, Smolder, Yona, Ocellus, Sandar, Tiny Turnip Head, Mister Tang and Master Zhi all leapt or flew over the river's edge, hoping to catch up with the two avian hybrids.

Though Mister Tang and Master Zhi were the only ones interested in the cheque, Silverstream immediately thought her friends were ALL in it for the money. So in a quick enchanted sleight-of-talon move, she activated the transformation shard on her necklace to instantly morph into a mermaid, before diving into the water with the blue cheque in her hand.

"NOOOOO!!!!!!", squawked Gallus as he immediately dove into the water, not caring that it would soak up his feathery coat and render him unable to float to the top from the extra added water weight!

"QUICK, AFTER THHHEEEMM!!!!!", shouted Mister Tang as he, Master Zhi, Tiny Turnip and the rest of the Student Six dove into the water to avoid the cops AND grab the cheque off Silverstream's hand. They didn't care in the entire world whether they could swim or not (though Ocellus was the only one who turned herself into a cute fair-skin mermaid to catch up with Silverstream more easily).

All of the fugitive creatures were too focused on was being close together with their friends, because as the wise Elements of Harmony had once said:

"Friends ALWAYS stick together to the end, no matter what obstacles await for them!"

While the police had abruptly stopped at the moat river's edge and were completely befuddled over whether they should continue pursuing them through the river or not, back on dry land, Sunburst continued to make his argument against Firelight as he spoke into the speaker/microphone of Firelight's dictation machine. As the debate grew more intense, more photographers and journalists (some who originally came over to interview witnesses of the nirik incident) began gathering around the unicorns, eager to jot down and record every word of the dramatic debate.

"I believe you must be very familiar with the common international edict laws proposed by the Princess of Friendship, Candidate Firelight. According to Section 45.B5/38 of the Friendship Constitution, one cannot threaten frivolous legal action against related/adopted family members without having the matters evaluated by their local civil courts first".

Stellar Flare nodded in agreement with her son and later added her statement to the dictation machine

"And another thing! You made her sign that contract while she was still recovering from her memory! You can't hold somepony eligible in a contract if she's mentally ill! She can make that marriage void if she wanted to, since she IS a grown mare, Firelight!"

"You know what, Miss Stellar Flare?", said Firelight as he grabbed the speaker/microphone closer to his mouth. "You are absolutely right!"

As Stellar Flare was about to pat herself on the back for making a valid point, Firelight then hit Stellar Flare back with a sassy declaration

"I should inform the Manehattan mental ward about Starlight's mental state and have her completely committed until she understands her current circumstances..."

Stellar Flare really wanted to give her rival a serious beating for even implying his daughter is insane, but with so many photographic cameras flashing around here, she could not risk ruining her own political reputation in front of multiple witnesses and could only stand with clenched teeth and fists as Firelight smirked at Stellar Flare with daring confidence.

"NOW, I'm off to---uhhh"

As soon as Firelight was about to announce that he was heading to Ponyville's Friendship Pony Express-a-Gram to have the Manehattan mental ward ready for his daughter, the briefcase telephone he was holding suddenly opened to reveal a rotary phone device within.

"Uhhhhhh, what---exactly am I holding here, Minty??", questioned the confused Firelight as he stared at the bulky strange contraption in his left hand.

"OH, I heard of those luxury gadgets from that 'Mogul Mares Monthly' magazines! You can actually call ANYpony from ANYwhere, no need to find call-boxes OR pay telephones---provided that you know their number...", explained the eagerly astounded Minty Mocha as she gazed at the glossy finish of the briefcase telephone.

"Uhhh, anywhere?? But---this thing has no wires!", commented the confused Firelight as he examined the briefcase telephone.

"That's the beauty of it! It just sends a wireless signal to any place with an installed wireless telephone network! AND you don't have to have an operator to direct the line to you! You just put your finger into one of the number holes, rotate the dial clockwise to the stop tab here and let it spin before moving onto the next number...", further explained Minty Mocha.

"REALLY----wooooow.....so it's like---a magic mirror??", asked the clueless Firelight who still had no idea how wireless technology works.

"LOOK, let's not get into the technical details! I think I remember that the Manehattan Mental Ward had recently installed their own wireless telephone network! Their number is 233-523-3335...", informed Minty Mocha as she whispered the number into Firelight's ear.

"...OH...well, that's convenient...so I just put my finger on the 2, then---", mumbled Firelight as he did what he told Minty what he said.

"YEP, and then you rotate it---other waaayy...", instructed Minty Mocha as she guided Firelight on how to operate a rotary phone.

As soon as Firelight understood how it works, he tried again and placed his finger into the #2 hole, rotated to the metal stop and let the dial's coiled spring rotate the multi-hole dial back to its original position.

*RUURRGHH*--TICK-TICK--

🎇🎇🎇💥💥💥BBOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMM!!!!!!!💥💥💥🎇🎇🎇

Suddenly, a huge booming explosion instantly rang from somewhere very close by!! As every creature started looking around to see where the explosion was coming from, they soon found out that the source of the explosion came from the Castle of Friendship's second-floor balcony!!

As it turned out, during the scuffle between the nirik gangsters and the unicorns, Yaw Yeet Fut had threw the golden gift box so far away and so high up into the sky with his telekinesis, that the special box (with the dynamite-rigged explosive inside) had landed onto the second balcony of the Friendship Castle! As soon as Firelight turned the dial from its #2 position, it activated the wireless pulsing signal that heated up the EM coil around the dynamite within the cake box, thereby detonating the explosive that caused significant crater damage to the balcony.

As soon as every creature (including Starlight Glimmer the Headmare Bride, Vice-Stallion Sunburst and Mama Stellar Flare) soon realized what just happened, they all pointed the finger at the bewildered Firelight and happily hollered

"Oooooooooohhhhhh, you in BIG trouble now!!"

Without hesitation, Starlight Glimmer immediately teleported herself, Sunburst and Stellar Flare from their immediate spot and left Firelight and Minty Mocha to be faced with all of the cameras taking pictures at them.

"HEY, no more pictures!! Stop taking pictures!! I said STOP!!", demanded Minty Mocha as she rushed towards a group of journalists and photographers.

"What?----WHAT??", asked the befuddled Firelight as he was continusly being flashed by the multiple flashing cameras as he still held the open briefcase phone in his left hand.

Then, out of nowhere, the Princess of Friendship, the Captain of the Canterlot Royal Guard and ten golden-armored guards teleported from the Castle of Friendship to the outdoor greenery to meet the stallion man responsible for the castle's violent destruction. As the police started to surround the nervous mayoral candidate with their guns drawn, the livid Princess Twilight Sparkle took a deep breathe and unleashed her merciless Canterlot voice

"FIIIRRRREEEELLLLIIIIIIIGGGGHHHHHHHTTTTTT!!!!!!"

---END

Author's Note

1. Dragon Flintlock Pistol (Japanese origin)
   

2. Similar to the Hyde Power Potion (which contains 350 mg of caffeine per serving---1.35x more caffeine than a 12oz cup of brewed coffee)
   

3. Second Arabesque: a ballerina pose that has the arm on the same side as the back leg, which is extended out in front of their body, with the arm on the side of the supporting leg to the side or diagonal back.
   

4.Cuckoo wasp (or emerald wasp): parasitoid wasp of the Chrysididae family that lay eggs inside unsuspecting hosts (usually cockroaches)

1. 1862 Colt Police Revolver
   

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3. Téléphonoscope: an early concept of videophone and television that was first conceptualized in the late 1870s-1890s; mentioned in various early science fiction works such as 'Le Vingtième siècle. La vie électrique' (The Twentieth Century: The Electrical Life) and other works written by Albert Robida
   
   Source: https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/06/17/18th-century-concept-device-called-telephonoscope-basicaly-victorian-skype/

4. French for "I'm not kidding you!"

5. 1950s Edison VoiceWriter Dictaphone
   
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ic_JTliRAHU

6. French for "You shut up!"