Before going to the abandoned storage, Sunlight told everyone that they should go to her apartment, as she has something that could help them, the girls arrive at Sunlight's place and waited for her to come up with that item. "Ok, I got it... although it's a prototype... I think it should work." Said Sunlight as she comes with a big locked box, she opens it and reveals a what appears to be a mini electric generator with many modules connected to it and also many components for other stuff.

"What is this?" Asks Twilight while grabbing one of the modules, Sunlight then takes the electric generator out, revealing it has a set of controls attached to it. "When I saw the First Order archive related to Master Chief, there was footage of how he had a kinetic shield, so I decided to create one of my own, but... I've never had the chance to test it, plus unlike Chief's... my version of kinetic shields needs all these modules to have the ability to recharge, so it's like one time use..." Replied Sunlight as she activates the engine, she then calls for the girls to group up and gives each one of them a module.

"I can create shields around us if what you want is to protect us." Said Rarity with a friendly voice as she tries to understand the module in her hands, probably those would be more effective than Sunlight's prototype. "That'd be a good idea, but... if your magic works as mine... then using it constantly exhausts you, and against these... parasites, we can't afford that." Replies Sunlight after giving everyone a shield module.

"Ok... if you can, place the module on top of your spine." Said Sunlight as she gives the demonstration, but none of the girls trusts enough in her to do it. "Like this?" Asked Sunset who already put on the module. "Yes, exactly like that... once I activate the circuit, all of you will have a kinetic shield, but... as it will only take one... physical hit." Replied Sunlight, the girls now put on the modules as Sunset was the first one to do so.

"And what about... projectiles?" Asked Rainbow Dash after putting on her module. "Well... that's another issue... the shield with only one module will only have the strength to stop hits that don't exceed a speed of 120 m/s, but a bullet or projectile... exceeds that significantly." Replied Sunlight while preparing the generator, she turns around and says.

"But don't worry! The shields will recharge... but it'll take a while, unless..." Sunlight then goes with everyone and disconnects and modifies their modules slightly. "Alright now I think that should be it..." Said Sunlight with a proud smile.

"What did you exactly do, darling?" Asked Rarity confused of what Sunlight did, she was fast and didn't say a word. "I disconnected them from the generator... I found thanks to the First Order's research that magic behaves like electromagnetic waves. So I opened the circuits to receive external energy that will start the module, and then... you have to activate your powers to keep the shields up and recharging, got it?"

Sunset then focuses and makes magic flow through her body, which included the module that started instantly and creates a golden shield, but it loses its color after a short while. "What happened?" Asked Sunset confused of what just happened. "Electromagnetism is a wave, it emits no light, but thanks to the output of energy... the shield appeared with that... golden light of yours." Replies Sunlight, with a smile, her prototype actually worked, the rest of the girls do the same and creates shields around them. "You're forgetting something..." Said Cortana, who appears on Sunset's shoulder. "... Some Flood infestation forms can spread toxic air that carries their spores, so you might need some filtering masks if we're going back there to eliminate them all." Added Cortana, after all, she has the records of previous encounters with the Flood in her memory. "Good thing I have that covered!" Said Sunlight then goes to her room and takes another locked box and opens it, revealing multiple filtering masks, she then hands each of the girls a mask. "We might need these." Said Sunlight after giving everyone a mask, they seem complex, but also from a good quality. "Great! This masks should be enough." Said Cortana after scanning one of the masks.

"Where did you get the materials for these?" Asks Pinkie Pie while putting on her mask, it fits perfectly around her face. "Well... I often do these masks as orders from some street artists on the internet, I afforded these materials with the money from my newest client... but... it was Flanksy's order... I'll need to work the double to pay my bills and buy more materials for these masks." Said Sunlight with a face of regret, although she didn't want to do that, there is no other option if she wants to help everyone.

"I think Flanksy won't be mad if it takes you longer than the due date." Said Sunset with a smile, she remembered that order, but she never expected it to be Sunlight the one who made the masks. "Haha... now that's having high hopes... I've never been late with any of my orders, and I won't break that streak now… otherwise my reputation would be damaged." Replied Sunlight with a serious face as she left the box back in her room.

"Wow! You really are good for this!" Says Twilight after admiring Sunlight's job. "T-Thanks... I've worked on all of it for days... I'm only glad that the shields worked, so... we have to leave, people!" Said Sunlight as she grabs some keys. "What are those for?" Asks Applejack, intrigued of Sunlight does.

"These are my bike's keys, I have room for two... who wants a ride?" Asked Sunlight with a smile. The group leaves and heads to the abandoned storage... Twilight goes with Rainbow Dash on her bike, while Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie go with Sunlight, whose bike seems like a hybrid between a Chopper and a Sports bike, painted with a black and with beautiful red flames on it. Rarity also goes with Sunlight but as lack of space, she created a platform attached to the bike's side where she can sit, Sunset creates wings with her magic and flies, while Applejack hangs from Sunset's hands.

Meanwhile... Galen and Rey arrived at the CHS world, and after exiting the hideout, they're ambushed by the Flood, then... both jedi use their lightsabers and Force powers to eliminate the threat, Galen combines his lightsaber wielding with Force lightning attacks, incinerating the Flood they encounter and protecting the civilians in the area, Rey focused more on evcuating the civilians, but also kills many Flood forms with her lightsaber techniques, and a good ol'blaster she carries on her waist. Once finished with the Flood in their area, Rey and Galen regroup. "Is everyone safe?" Asks Galen as he turns off his lightsabers and attaches them to his waist, he seems to be in pretty good conditon, despite doing such acrobatics and using Force techniques. "Yeah... I've led everyone to a safe zone, what are these things anyway?" Asks Rey referring to the Flood.

"Nothing good... the only thing Chief has told me about these creatures is not to let them approach you with those red apendages." Said Galen as he looks down upon a Flood Combat form, afterwards, he tries to contact Chief or anyone else from the Blue Team but he gets no response. "Dammit... they're not responding." Said Galen as he puts down his communicator, Rey then focuses and senses more people in danger. "Master... there's more people in danger we have to help them!" Said Rey as she takes her lightsaber and ignites it before leaving the area, Galen follows her and after running for a while, they arrive at the place where many police officers are shooting their guns against the Flood, but one of them is reached by an infection form and was about to be turned into a zombie. "Fall back!" said another officer as he watches his partner struggling to survive, he was about to help but fear stopped him dead, fortunately, the Infection form is killed by a shotgun shot that came from the side, the officer turns and says. "Lieutenant! What's going on?!" As the other officer stands up.

The Lieutenant pumps her shotgun and takes off her helmet, it's Aura the one who wears that bulletproof vest and protection. "Many of these have been spreading all over the city, but there's people eliminating them as we speak! Go at the truck and gear up, we're going to need as much firepower as we can get!" Said Aura as she takes the civilians away, and her squad leaves, she was about to follow them but she's stopped by a Flood Combat form, which shouts loudly scaring Aura making her stumble and drop her gun, she quickly moves her hand towards her shotgun but it appears she won't be able to make it in time before the Combat form attacks her.

Suddenly, a spinning lightsaber arrives, slashing the Combat form's upper body, dividing it in two, but also killing it in the process. "Aura! Are you ok?" Asks Galen as he calls back his lightsaber, and Rey starts fighting with many other Combat forms, taking her distance and using the Force so that she doesn't get infected. "Yeah, thanks for that... what are these things and WHY are they killing my men and turning them into violent zombies?" Asked Aura with several confusion.

"These are The Flood, a threat that comes from Chief's world, and as he once said... they're the only thing that actually scares him the most... do you know where the outbreak happened?" Said Galen as he takes both of his lightsabers and ignites them. "No... we only got word that some weird creatures were appearing around the city." Replied Aura as she takes her shotgun and prepares to fight, after that... the three of them start killing the infection and combat forms that have spread to their position, protecting the civilians that are escaping and also protecting themselves from being infected.

Unfortunately a Gaunt form escaped them and head to the escaping civilians, the Gaunt suddenly lands on top of a car, making the civilians lose their balance while other fall to the ground.

Rey chases it and was about to land a finishing blow, but the Gaunt dodged it and jumped far away. "How did...?" Said Rey astonished bby the Gaunt's speed, but suddnely, her left arm is trapped by another Gaunt's tentacles, while her other arm is trapped by the tentacles of the Gaunt that jumped away, droping her lightsaber. After that, both Gaunts started pulling her, Rey used the Force to pull them in order to not being dismembered, but the Gaunts gripped to some streetlights, stopping Rey from pulling them, as now she struggles to hold them at bay, but she lost her lightsaber.

Suddenly, a flaming trail approaches her, with quick movements, the blazing trail slashed s Gaunt's tentacle making it burn, which was trapping Rey's right hand, she now pulled her lightsaber and ignited it, slashing the other Gaunt's tentacle, freeing herself. after that, the blazing trial fades and reveals a young man, who quickly charges against a Gaunt, killing it with the flaming edge of his blade, then Rey pulls the other Gaunt towards her, and slashes it midair. Then, more Combat forms start to approach them, Rey and the man stood back to back, preparing to fight.

As they engaged into combat, there were few civilians that were trapped by the battle, and after a short while, they managed to take out the Combat forms while helping the civilians escape the area, Rey turns off her lightsaber and says.

"Hey... thanks for helping me, but... who are you?!" Asked Rey as she turned around and saw the man sheathing his blade, revealing an exosqueleton around his body as an armor, covering his black jacket with the symbol of a lightning over a shield on his shoulder, a messy but also stylized blue hair, those blue eyes that can show both compassion for the innocent and rage for the evil ones, and with that gentle voice of his, he says.

"Don't worry, I had to help..." The man then approaches Rey and says."...My name is Flash... Flash Sentry, and... you are?" Rey is a bit surprised of him, despite the situation, he seems a bit relaxed. "Oh! My name is Rey... Rey Palpatine." Said Rey as they shook hands, both then begin to move to return and help Galen and Aura, while Flash follows her and replies. "Pleasure to meet you Rey... do you mind to explain why were all these Floods around?" Asks Flash as he takes the lead, he hears the shots of fireguns at the distance alongside the swinging of lightsabers, something's wrong, more than it should. "Sorry... we're in the same situtation, me and my master arrived to warn some people about a great danger, and we encounter these abominations as we arrived." Said Rey who now took the lead and began dashing with the Force and arrived much earlier than Flash, she then jumps on top of a Flood tank and slashes its head with her lightsaber.

"Did you hunt that creature down?" Asks Aura as she takes cover along some civilians, it appears her shotgun ran out of ammo and she's now using a common handgun. Rey blocks many incoming spikes from some Flood Ranged forms, she then counters with shots of her blaster as she takes cover. "Yeah! and I brought some help!" Said Rey with a smile, Galen then arrives on top of a Flood tank corpse and takes cover with them. "We need a plan to eliminate them and evacuate the civilians." Said Galen as he used a car door with the Force as shield.

"Help?! What kind of help?" Asks Aura as she leaves cover and shoots, taking down one Flood Ranged form, Rey looks at them with confusion, she doesn't know if they know Flash at all, and she can't find the right word to describe him. "Well..." Rey is then interrupted by a blazing trail that jumps above them, quickly taking down the Combat forms, then many Gaunt forms approach him and try to restrain Flash from doing anything, but as they extend their tentacles, Flash focus and exhales, and assumes a stance with his blade.

"Flame breathing, Fourth Form: Blooming Flame Ondulation!!" Said Flash as he charges forward while spinning his blade in circular motion, slashing the Gaunts' tentacles and burning them, while also killing them with slashes of his blazing blade as he approached them. Those moves, thought Aura, that fighting technique... it could be?...Flash?, after the attack Flash lands and draws his energy gun and starts shooting the Combat forms, taking them down swiftly, the situation finally got under control, any Flood presence has been eradicated from the area and the civilians are gone and safe, Flash stands still and lets out a sigh of relief, he sheathes his blade and turns around.

"Is everyone ok?" Asks Flash with a concerned face, he has heard about the Flood, and despite this being the first time he fights them, he's well aware of the danger it represents, but despite his noble intentions, there are more important matters to discuss, Aura run hastily and hugged her son tightly, tears start to run down from her cheeks and with a smile she says. "Flash!... you're back!!..." Said Aura is she struggles to speak, she can't think nothing else but to hug her little boy, Flash smiles and hugs her mother tightly, but he senses something wierd, my mother... on the field?, thought Flash, he then grabbed Aura by her shoulders and asked confused.

"Mom! What are you doing out of the office? Wasn't your squad sopposed to be the ones on field insted of you?" Asks Flash, he seems truly concerned about this, not only as a sudden surprise, but also he's concerned about the Flood being out and Aura is fighting them. "I had to go with my team! Despite Jerome told me they were handling a bunch of these creatures around the city, we've been helping the civilians evacuate and hold the monsters at bay for as long as we could." Said Aura with a serious voice as her tears subside and cleans them off, despite the situation, she's glad for seeing her son's return.

"And the girls?! Where are they? Is everyone alright?!" Asked Flash concerned about his friends, but fortunately, Galen seems also glad to have Flash back, but there's more serious affairs to attend, so he then replies with a serious but calmed voice. "As far as we know... they're fine, but there's something worse happening..." Galen was saying with a serious voice, but he's then interrupted by a Jerome, who called him through his communicator. "Galen... I got your message, we detected a friendly portal opening? Was that you?" Asked Jerome, Galen quickly takes his communicator and replies. "Yeah! Rey and I came here to discuss something going on, but I think you're already too busy... mind to explain why there's a Flood outbreak?" Asks Galen with concern, he knows about the Flood and the threat they represent.

"We don't know... Sunset Shimmer found them first and told us about the outbreak, she and her friends got assigned to taking down the Flood Hive to stop the outbreak." Said Jerome with a calmed voice as Galen can hear that he's battling against something, but Galen just heard that the girls were sent to destroy the hive. "Are you crazy?! They're kids Jerome!" Said Galen with a slightly angered voice, everyone got shocked by Galen's sudden reaction, but Jerome replied. "They have powers Galen... plus, they have Cortana, which nows quite a lot about the Flood... *sigh* listen... I know you're mad, but we couldn't help them, you've seen all the Combat, Infection and Tank forms spreaded around the city, it would've be much worse if they were fighting here." Said Jerome, despite being severe, he made a good point, the outbreak managed to propagate quickly, and without enough experience fighting the Flood, someone would surely be dead.

"*Sighs* Fine... where do you need us?" Asks Galen, decided to help as much as he can, Isabel then sends Galen some coordinates and Jerome replies. "The coordinates Isabel sent you are where the zero zone was found by Sunset Shimmer, if you can, go and help the girls... or you can help us dealing with the Flood spreaded around the city, we're gonna need as much hands as possible." Galen then sends the coordinates to Flash, and then replies. "Understood, there's still many civilians that need evacuation... Rey and I are going to help them." Said Galen as he now ends the call and tells Flash. "You have to go and help the girls, I can sense someone else is helping them, but they're going to need more hands if they want to destroy a Flood hive, got it?"

"Understood..." Said Flash as he approaches his mother, who hugs him and says. "You better be careful... got it?" Said Aura with a worried voice, she trusts her son's capabilities but also she's worried about losing him again because of this infestation. "Don't worry mom, I'll be fine." Said Flash as he now takes a deep but focused breath and runs at a high speed, leaving a blazing trail behind him. "He'll be fine Aura, he was trained by the best." Said Galen, trying to calm Aura, but she takes her hand gun and says with a confident smile. "I know, c'mon... there's a city to save." Said Aura as now she, Rey and Galen go and help out many other civilians.

On the other side of town, the girls arrive at the storage and prepare for the worst, Sunlight activates her magic and creates a magical barrier around her, afterward, the group enters the storage and heads to the hive that Sunset saw, Sunlight asks. "How big was the hive that you saw, Sunset?" Sunset then takes cover behind a wall and replies. "It had the size of a wall." Sunlight then starts to doubt, how can a hive that small creates such a big outbreak? It had to be much bigger to have that capability, or at least... that's what Sunlight suspects.

"We're here." Said Sunset as she stops in front of the hive and the groups stands behind her, without hesitation Sunset shoots an energy beam to destroy the meat bumps that emerged from the wall. And with her magical flames, she burns the rest of the biomass. "I think that's it." Said Sunset with a serious face, it was too easy to be truth.

"Hold on, why there's a hole on that wall?" Asks Applejack while pointing the wall where the combat forms bashed through and attacked Sunset for the first time. "Everyone, stay together." Said Twilight, as she takes a defensive stance, the girls also do the same and lined up in a small circle and moved forward. As Sunset illuminates the path, blood, guts, and biomass can be seen throughout the hallway, which seem to have crumbled, creating an underground path that leads the girls into what it seems to be an artificial cave.

As they go downwards, the light begins to be more and more dim, the only thing that they can see is the path that Sunset illuminates with her magic. The echoes of her footstep is the only sound that they hear, but as they get deeper into the tunnel, a strange noise can be heard at the distance, the group suddenly stops after hearing it. "Everyone... put on your masks." Said Sunlight with a serious voice as she puts on her mask, the girls follow her lead and do the same.

The group moves cautiously and finally arrives at the end of the tunnel, revealing an artificial cave with many underground connections, illuminated by some biolight created by the Flood. "We're here." Says Sunset as she turns off her gloves, after that everyone hides at the corner of the tunnel, so that they can't be noticed. A pair of Flood Tanks walk around the cave, like they're guarding the connections that might lead to other parts of the cave.

The Flood Tanks seem to be mumbling something, but no one can understand exactly what they're saying. "Fluttershy, can you understand them?" Asks Sunset as she looks to Fluttershy, who replies. "I can indeed, but they're only repeating the same thing over and over again... kill for the Gravemind... kill for the Gravemind... what's even a Gravemind?"

"That's not good... a Gravemind is the result of the biomass of the smartest living organisms available, fused into one being. Creating a sentient Flood form, capable of leading the Flood, create combat strategies and much more... but according to my predictions based on the rates of disappearance, it should be a Proto-Gravemind... so we can still win." Said Cortana as she appeared on Sunset's palm.

"What if we can't beat them?" Asks Twilight with a serious voice, imagining the worst case scenario. "Then it'll consume more and more biomass, creating a fully-functional Gravemind... and when that happens, only a Halo ring can stop it." Said Cortana with a serious voice as she shows the girls footage of the destruction the Flood can do on its own.

"Then we're going to stop it here and now." Said Sunset closing her hand, waiting for the right moment to exit the tunnel and infiltrate in the hive, but Sunlight takes the lead. "Rainbow Dash, Applejack... Follow me." Said Sunlight before jumpint out of the tunnel and landing quietly, followed after by Rainbow Dash and Applejack, they take cover and hide from the Flood tank's sight behind a pillar. "Listen... I'll distract them enough for you two to bring them down, then I'm going to cut off their heads, got it?" Said Sunlight quietly, Applejack and Rainbow Dash agreed with their head and take the left side, while Sunlight takes the right side and approaches the Flood Tanks from their back, and with a quick move she jumped on top of one and brought it down with a heavy punch, while slashing the other Tank's claw, stunning it enough for Applejack to punch it and thanks to the double impact of her gauntlets, she destroyed the Tank's body by piercing it with the shockwave. Rainbow Dash gathered some energy and with a powered up kick she managed kock the other Tank down.

Sunlight then creates a blade with her power, and with a swift and quick move, she slashed the Tanks' body completely into pieces, it appears she changed her mind and prefers to make sure they can't get up again. "It's safe now!" Said Sunlight to the rest of the girls, which came out of the tunnel and regrouped with the others. "That's was a bit reckless, don't you think?" Asks Twilight concercing Sunlight's sudden plan, which despite the negative points, it worked. "Hey, if you were going to make a complex plan to take them out, you have to snap out of it... we don't have that much time, we don't even know what's going on out there." Said Sunlight with a serious voice as she explains the reasons behind her actions.

"Ok, we can leave the discussion there, we have to find that Proto-Gravemind... Cortana, can you guide us?" Says Sunset as Cortana appears on her palm. "These tunnels connect to different areas of this city, that explains why they managed to spread so quickly, which is alarming, but with just a few echolocalization beats I managed to make a map of these tunnels and if we take THAT tunnel, we will arrive to a room similar to this one, but with much more movement... I think that's where we're heading... but let's stay sharp, we don't want any unexpected surprises, got it?" Said Cortana with a calmed voice as she checks on some data she'd recolected since they entered the cave.

"Alright, everyone... let's move!" Said Sunset leading the group, Sunlight goes right next to her as the rest of the girls follow them. "So... if we find this Proto-Gravemind, how exactly are we going to destroy it?" Asks Rainbow Dash, she knows there's a plan to get there, but there's no plan on how to take it down, fortuantely Cortana appears on her shoulder and replies. "Luckily for us, the Flood is biological tissue, so if we can bring down the whole place, the Flood hive will die." Said Cortana with a confident voice.

"Then... what if we make the whole complex crumble? By creating cracks in specific places, we might be able to make these whole web of tunnels crumble alongside the main part where the Proto-Gravemind lies." Said Twilight as she though of multiple ideas, but that plan seemed to be the best one yet.

"Doesn't sound bad..." Cortana then scans the whole tunnel. "...Stop!" Said Cortana, making the group stop, then she points at one side of the tunnel and says. "Applejack, if you punch that area, you'll create a crack that'll weaken the estability of this tunnel, making it crumble in minutes..." Said Cortana, who now points at Rarity and says. "Rarity, you'll have to create diamonds that put pressure on the crack, in order to hold the tunnels long enough for us to eliminate the Proto-Gravemind and escape this place." Said Cortana as she checks again on the map of the complex.

"Alright, let's do it then!" Said Applejack as she charges her fist and with a heavy punch, makes the a crack on the tunnel the size of her, then Rarity creates a daimond with those dimensions to hold the tunnel. "How much many of these cracks we'll need to do?" Asked Rarity as she looks around the tunnel to see if anything else crumbles. "Well... this tunnel leads to the main part of the cave, so probably we'll only need to make a few more of these and after we're done, the tunnels will collapse and therefore, will bring the other tunnels down." Said Cortana as she points on the map the most important tunnels, which are three, the one where they are right now, one ahead of them and the last one which is passing the main part of the cave.

As they keep moving forward, and made the crack on the second tunnel, everyone noticed the lack of Flood forms in the tunnels, like they're gone, Fluttershy notices it and can't help but to ask. "Does someone else feel a bit off by the fact that we haven't encountered more of those things?" Pinkie Pie bumps with her and replies with a cheerful smile. "Probably they just left because they got too scared from us!! HA! What a bunch of cowardly monsters they are!"

"I won't be so sure Pinkie, probably they left because they're looking for more biomass to consume, which leads me to think that everyone out there is in danger if we don't stop them quickly." Said Sunset with a worried face, the mere thought of everyone being consumed by the Flood only makes her wanting to end this as quickly as possible, but as she saw on Chief's memories, you never know what can happen when dealing with the Flood, so hustling would be pointless in this situation. Then, Sunlight, who had taken the lead, stops the group by raising her fist, she then turns around and says. "Can you hear that?" Sunlight starts looking around as she hears a low growling, which can be heard to be a bit far, but it's so prominent. "We're close, everyone... move cautiously." Said Cortana, as now everyone began to move slower, the end of the tunnel could be seen not far away.

Sunlight peeks and sees a huge cave, with multiple Tank and Combat forms surrounding a column in the middle of the cave, which has inlaid a pice of Flood biomass, with many branches of biomass around the cave, and the biomass at the center seems to be moving and growling.

Sunlight then hides again and asks with slight signs of fear. "What... the fuck... is that?" Cortana then appears on Sunset's palm and replies. "That's the Proto-Gravemind, and probably it was created with the objective of spreading the Flood infection, that's why many people have been dissapearing, their knowledge about the city helped the Flood to create this hidden passages to attack swiftly and unnoticed." Said Cortana as she studies the structure of the Proto-Gravemind, Applejack then asks Sunlight. "How much of those creatures were down there?" Sunlight looks at her and replies with a serious voice. "At least... twenty Flood forms, including Combat and Tank forms... we're going to need a plan, and a good one if we want to success." Replies Sunlight with her nervous voice, she'd never seen anything like that before.

Cortana then calls everyone to gather up and begins her explanation. "Ok... Sunset, Sunlight... you're our best cards right now, we have to cut off those branches, Sunlight... can you deal with them?" Sunlight then agreed with her head. "Sunset, you'll have to go with Applejack, Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash who are of the best fighters, you three will need to fight those combat forms as Sunlight removes those connections, in order to stop the Proto-Gravemind from commanding the rest of the infectiion forms... Twilight, Pinkie Pie, you have to make space, combining the gravitational grips and explosions, you'll give Sunset's team chances to fall back and dodge attacks. Rarity, you'll have to create shields to protect from inminent damage... got it?" Said Cortana, the girls agreed with her plan and began to move.

"Are you ready?" Asks Sunset to Sunlight, despite the odd situation, she never thought to be fighting side by side with her, she can't help but to feel a bit excited. "Born ready, girl." Replied Sunlight as she makes the first move, landing as she punched the ground, creating a shockwave stunning the Combat forms, she then jumps and with dark blades she began to cut the multiple protrusions that connect around the cave. Sunset and her team dropped and begin fighting, Sunset manages to take down multiple Flood forms by shooting focused beams and fighting with a light blade, while Rainbow Dash overwhelms the Flood forms by attacking them quickly from different flanks, drawing their attention and allowing Applejack to easily beat them with her strength. Fluttershy follows them and easily dodges the Floods' attacks and counters them with her martial techniques, Pinkie Pie throws many of her bombs away and ends up hitting the Proto-Gravemind, which screechs loudly and starts vibrating through its remaining protrusions, calling more Combat forms.

Fortunately, Sunlight managed to cut off all the prostrusions before the Proto-Gravemind could call for more help, and then she joined the fight, but as she landed a Tank form approached her from behind and was about to attack her, but Rarity creates a diamond behind Sunlight, protecting her from the hit, then she quickly turns around and with a combination of punches and kicks, she managed to take down the Tank form. but she's then grabbed from the waist by a Gaunt form and is lashed against the ground with force, breaking her magical barrier, she then cuts off the tentacle with a blade and kills the Gaunt form with a beam of dark magic.

Twilight then lifted the remaining Combat forms and with effort, she manashed to squash them against the ground, killing them at the process. Finally, they tookd down the Flood defend forces, but they have to act quickly as probably more of them will arrive sooner. "Ugh... can we finish with this already... my armor is covered in... whatever this gross thing is." Said Rarity as she tries to clean off her armor from the Flood's dead biomass with a disgusted face. "Uhm... I don't think that's going to come out easily." Said Fluttershy as she points to Rarity's armor, referring to the dead biomass on her. "Are you joking? Why did it happened to me? When Twilight was the one who smashed those creatures on the ground, she was the one supposed to be stained with this." Replied Rarity as she desperately tries to clean all of it, but she ends up giving up.

Sunset approaches the Proto-Gravemind, she had the intention to burn it as she did to those Flood spores she found at first, but she realizes there's something inlaid in the Proto-Gravemind and it's emitting a light. "What is that?" Asked a confused Sunset, it's not biological, so it has to be artificial, Cortana appears on her palm and scans the Proto-Gravemind, after scanning it, a face of confusion can be seen on her, as she remains dubious of what she found. "What is it?" Asked Sunset, Cortana then turns around and says.

"The Proto-Gravemind has a First Order portable machine, capable of opening portals..." Said Cortana with a serious voice, everyone remains confused, how would there be First Order technology fused with the Flood?, they had the same question in their heads, unlike Sunlight, who seems more shocked than anyone else, she stands up and replies with a concerned voice.

"How? Kylo was supposed to use the Flood at that ring as a weapon, plus there was a containment barrier." Everyone is surprised of what Sunlight said, but Sunset seems more surprised than the others, a ring... what kind of ring, it had to be related to that Halo Flash mentioned in his notebook, but if so... what exactly happened there? Asked Sunset in her mind, but as she was about to ask Sunlight what did she mean with that, she's interrupted by Cortana. "You knew about this? Ugh... of course!! You were at Zeta Halo, but you disappeared and we never found you!" Said Cortana, now she remembers, Chief and Atriox were about to fight her but Sunlight suddenly got teleported somewhere else, after that, they got no word of where she was.

"Care to elaborate... Sunlight?" Asked Twilight with a face that shows slight signs of disapproval, as she thinks the Flood infestation might be Sunlight's fault, but she quickly takes the defensive in this discussion. "Hey! I didn't participate in any of this... in fact, I tried to warn Kylo of not using the Flood for his cause, but he ignored me as he insisted I..." Sunlight's face changed drastically, instead of discomfort, it began to show some regret. "...I-I had... a mission... to complete. *sigh* After that, the events of the observatory happened." Said Sunlight with a regretful voice, she still remembers how she was driven by anger and hatred, and was blind to believe that Kylo agreed to her plan under her conditions, but Sunset places her hand on Sunlight's shoulder as a sign of support, she then takes a deep breath and encourages herself, that's not her... not anymore, so mistake of hers or not, she's going to do everything she can to stop this outbreak.

"So... are we going to destroy this or not?" Asked Pinkie pointing at the Proto-Gravemind, it's gross and spooky, so as fast as they can get rid of it, the easier. "Hold on Pinkie!" Said Applejack as she steps forth and removes a pice of flesh from her armor. "If there's a portal machine inside that thing, then if we make the whole cave crumble, wouldn't that make the machine... explode... or somethin' like that?" Asked Applejack as she takes off her hat and scratches her head as she thinks of a good idea to destroy this place and not causing huge mess later.

"You're right Applejack, the First Order's portal machines work by using hyperspace mechanisms with electromagnetic beacons that use Equestrian energy as receptors and emitters, and when they invade a new world, they anchor to the nearest signal that ressembles the one of the emitting frequency that's being emitted, so if we destory the machine with the collapse of the cave, we might make the whole area be transported to another universe, and as we don't know the extent of the explosion, we might end up caught by the anomaly and we got stranded in another world. And the Proto-Gravemind had already assimilated the machine's structure, so if we take it out, it's going to blow up in a matter of minutes." Said Cortana as she analyzes many possibilites to destroy the cave without jeopardizing anyone.

Rainbow Dash goes away for a bit to think, after a very short while, she comes up with an idea, and says aloud. "I got it! Cortana... if we take any of these tunnels, where are we gonna end?" Everyone seems a bit confused of her plan, but Cortana trusts her and says. "Well... if you take the tunnel at your left, you'll end up... near Canterlot High... but... if you take the tunnel behind Applejack, you'll end up at the forest, far away from the city."

"What's your plan, Darling?" Asked Rarity concerned about Rainbow Dash's plan, but she replies with a confident smile. "If we take off the machine, I can run super fast through the tunnel that leads to the forest and use the accumulated speed to throw it far away, then the explosions won't harm anything or anyone, what do you think?" Asked Rainbow Dash, she seems quite confident of her plan, but it doesn't convince anyone, except for Sunlight. "Well... I can help you, but you'll have to be extremely fast, one wrong step and you're doomed, do you get it?" Asked Sunlight with a serious voice, she can help Rainbow Dash carry out her plan, but she needs to know if Rainbow Dash's totally sure about this.

"Got it! Let's do this!" Said Rainbow Dash with determination, Sunlight then created her dark magic gauntlets and grabbed the portal machine by piercing through the Proto-Gravemind's flesh, making it growl from pain, scaring everyone, Sunlight keeps pulling the machine as the Proto-Gravemind shouts loudly of pain, after that Fluttershy seems more alert than anyone and says. "We gotta hurry, there's more coming!" Sunlight then began to pull the the machine even harder, and as she finally takes it out, the machine is starting to heat up as it reaches its explosion. "Here, take it!" Said Sunlight as she gave Rainbow Dash the machine, she then began to run towards a tunnel, Sunlight was about to follow her but she tops and says. "You go to the tunnel that leads to Canterlot High! I'll help Rainbow Dash, no matter the reason, DON'T... stop!" Said Sunlight as she began to run following Rainbow Dash, the rest of the girls take the other tunnel and as they began to run and head through the exit, Cortana said. "Ok, Rarity take out the diamonds! This tunnel will be the last one to collapse."}

"Finally!" Said Rarity as she makes a swift move of her hands, erasing the diamonds covering the cracks AJ did on the tunnels, and as the diamonds were removed, the tunnels began to collapse one after another, meanwhile Sunlight follows Rainbow Dash from behind and as they approach the end of the tunnel, Rainbow Dash said. "Sunlight! You grab the machine and throw it!" Despite being faster than her, Rainbow Dash lacks enough strength, and maybe the energy she gather with her armor won't be enough. Sunlight then makes a bigger effort to surpass Rainbow Dash as she grabs the machine right before leaving the tunnel, Sunlight jumps and after a cry of effort, Sunlight throws the machine with overwhelming strength, and as the machine reaches an extremely high top, it finally explodes, the shockwave is big enough to bring Sunlight and Rainbow Dash to the ground, also is bright enough to be seen by everyone, and as Flash notices the explosion, he heads full speed towards there.

As the explosion fades away, Sunlight and Rainbow Dash stand up and with cheer emotion, Sunlight said. "We did it?! WE DID IT!!! Hahahaha, YEAH!" Sunlight then laughs and hugs Rainbow Dash as both of them laugh, but Sunlight takes her distance and drops on her knees. "Aw man! I'm so tired! hahah!"

"Really? I mean, I'm also tired but not... THAT grade of tiredness." Said Rainbow Dash as she stretches her legs and arms. "Yeah... I haven't sleep in a whole day and I feel like I'm dying..." Sunlight then stands up and checks her locator in her phone and sees that the coordinates where they are aren't far away from the abandoned storage. "Hey! The storage is nearby, maybe we can pick my bike and regroup with the others!" Said Sunlight with a more relaxed voice, she seems a bit happy that they managed to prevent a massive destruction event from happening, Rainbow Dash looks at Sunlight and says.

"Cool! Let's head there and..." Rainbow Dash is then hit by the claw of a Tank form, she receives the hit and crashes against a tree, she seems fine but her kinetic shield fell, Sunlight quickly looks at the tunnel where they came from and it appears some remnants of Flood forms followed them through the tunnel that hasn't collapsed yet. "Dammit!" Said Sunlight as she creates again her dark gauntlets and fights agains the combat forms, taking first the Tank forms, but she's then overwhelmed by Gaunt, Comabt and Ranged forms, and as she takes down a few of them while protects Rainbow Dash, she's starting to feel the same she felt back at that planet, where the First Order brought Darth Vader back, but she manages to get control over her body again, but she's then grabbed by a Gaunt form and is lashed against a rock, she falls to the ground and struggles to stand up, but when she began to think that they were against all odds, a blazing light approaches from the deep forest and arrives, the light fades and shows Flash Sentry, about to swing his blade against a Combat form.

"...Unknowing Fire!!" Said Flash as he swung his blade and slashed the Combat form into half, and burning it to the ground, Flash then draws his energy pistol and shoots down the Ranged forms, he then dodges the hits and tentacles of the Combat forms, he then managed to lure them all together, Flash then raises his blade and flames began to appear around his blade. "Fifth Form: Flame Tiger!!" Said Flash as he swung his blade heavily downwards and doing multiple slashes that took the form of a tiger, which not only cut the Flood forms' bodies but also burnt them all.

Then, Flash exhales and swings his blade in a circle, removing the flames, he then sheathes back his blades. Those flames, those techniques, and obviously that blue hair of his, Sunlight and Rainbow Dash couldn't believe it, Flash's back! And he's right here! As both of them stand up, Flash turned around. "Are you two ok?" Asked Flash with a serious face, but his voice trasnmits calm. "Flash!" Said both Sunlight and Rainbow Dash with excitement, but Flash points his gun towards Sunlight.

"Why are YOU doing here?" Asked Flash referring to Sunlight with a serious voice, his intentios doesn't seem to be harmful, but he's ready to do what it takes, Rainbow Dash then stands between them and says with determination. "

She's been helping us stop this madness... and believe it or not, she's willing to do the right thing this time... I've seen her put her life in the line to save others... including me." Rainbow Dash then looks at Sunlight with a smile, as a way to say I trust you, she then looks back at Flash and says. "And if you ask me... the determination to follow that oath, is something worthy to be trusted for."

Sunlight then gently moves away Rainbow Dash and steps forth as she says. "Thanks Rainbow Dash... but I have to deal with this on my own." Said Sunlight as she takes a deep breath, and with determination she says. "Listen, Flash... I know I did many wrong things in the past, and despite feeling bad for it, I can't go back in time and fix them... I've realized that my actions have done nothing else but to harm everyone, and now I'm decided to walk down the path I chose in order to fix my mistakes and begin a new life, instead of the dark path that Kylo Ren wants me to follow, and as John said... it may be a difficult task, but as long as it's the righteous one... time is nothing but a small detail."

Flash then holsters his weapon and says. "That's what I wanted to hear..." Sunlight and Rainbow Dash seem surprised. "W-What?" Asked Sunlight, Flash then replied with a calmed voice. "I could see that you were with John at Hell, bringing my soul back... and I can't be thankful enough for it... but I had to be sure that you were doing it for the correct reasons instead of pursuing another evil interests."

Sunlight sighs and then says. "Thank you guys... the fact that you're giving me another chance is more than I could ever ask for." Rainbow Dash and Sunlight finally can have a break and Flash asks them. "So... did you manage to take down the hive?" Sunlight then takes her keys and replies. "Yeah... but we split up, Dash and I took the portal machine that brought the Flood here and destroyed it... that's the reason behind the explosion from earlier, the others used a tunnel that lead to Canterlot High, but if some Flood forms managed to follow us, it's most likely that they followed them too... C'mon I'll drive us to the school." Said Sunlight as she began to move, Rainbow Dash then bumps Flash with a gentle fist and says with a smile. "Hey, glad to have you back, Flash... Sunset would be really happy to see you."

"Hehehe... me too, the last thing I remember before waking up was... her voice, I only hope she's alright." Said Flash with a concerned face, he seems specially worried about Sunset's welfare. "Then let's hurry!" Said Rainbow Dash as she followed Sunlight and Flash followed her last.

Now at Canterlot High, the girls come out of the tunnel and appeared to be near the parking lot, and as they escaped the tunnel, they finally got a break and remove their masks to catch their breath. "That... was... exhausting..." Said Rarity as she breaths heavily, she has never run these much in her whole life.

"Whew... let's head to the school, only to check if there aren't any... intruders." Said Applejack as she helps Rarity, the group now heads to the entrance, but they hear something coming out of the woods, many Flood forms behind them. "Run! Get inside the school!" Said Twilight shocked by the ambush, the Flood managed to follow them, and as the girls bashed through the door to get into the school while being chased down by the Flood, they start wondering what's happening.

"How could they even follow us? Weren't the tunnels supposed to collapse?"Asked a frustrated Applejack, this is now irritating. "Well... the Proto-Gravemind called for reinforcements..." Said Cortana, but before explaining the situation, Pinkie Pie is reached by a blaster shot, breaking her kinetic shield temporarily and bringing her to the ground, Rarity then creates a barrier to stop the incoming shots, and as she looks through the barrier, she sees a group of infected stormtroopers running towards them.

"What are those?" Asked Rarity shocked by what she's seeing. "Those are stormtroopers and they are infected by the Flood, probably is related to Kylo's first encounter with the Flood at Zeta Halo." Replied Cortana, Fluttershy helps Pinkie stand up and they began to run towards the cafeteria, they locked themselves to prevent the Flood from entering and give them at least a few moments to think properly of a plan.

"Cortana, any ideas?" Asks Sunset as she checks if the doors are well locked. "Kind of... we can take them out if we scatter them around the school, but if we don't hurry up, they'll escape the school and we DON'T want that..." Cortana then shows a 3D holo map of Canterlot High and says. "If we split them in three flanks, we might be able to have a fighting chance, fortunately for us, the halls seem to be narrow enough to finish them quickly, we can leave the cafeteria with Pinkie Pie's explosions clearing us a path and reducing the Flood's numbers, then we have to split... I suggest Sunset and Fluttershy go together for the right path, Pinkie Pie and Twilight will take the middle path and Rarity and Applejack will take the left path. That's the most effective way I can think of right now as we're lacking people." Said Cortana as she turns off the 3D map, the girls put on their masks again and group up, Applejack and Sunset take position in front of the doors, preparing to open them.

"Alright everyone, be careful..." Said Sunset aloud. "At the count of 3..." Said Sunset, 1...2...3!, the doors open and Pinkie Pie throws multiple bombs, blowing up the Combat forms that were gathering on the door, clearing a path for them to run. "Go!" Said Cortana, and as they leave the cafeteria, they took separate ways, hoping to eliminate their chasers.

On the other hand and after a while, Sunlight and the others arrived. "How did you get your license?" Asked Flash, despite being far away from the school, Sunlight managed to arrive by violating multiple traffic laws. "Videogames are an excellent reference when it comes to driving... plus I had to ignore all the red lights, otherwise we wouldn't arrive on time." Said Sunlight as she parked her bike on front of the school, they drop off the bike and head to the entrance.

"I can't open it!" Says Rainbow Dash as she tries to open the door, Flash tries to decode the password but he's attempts are unsuccesful, Sunlight then cracks her fingers and says. "I'll apologize later." Sunlight then hits the door with a powerful hit of her hand, breaking the doors lock and triggering the alarm, as they enter, Sunlight destroys the alarm with a dagger and manages to hear blaster shots, growls and beams throughout the school halls. "Rainbow Dash! you take the left side, Flash! you take the right one, I'll take the middle side." Said Sunlight as she activates her dark powers, while also controlling her emotions, in order to not lose control.

Rainbow Dash runs through the halls and sees Sunset and Fluttershy fighting, Sunset has a light blade and combines them with her focused beams, whilst Fluttershy uses her martial techniques to beat the Combat forms, behind them, there's a Tank form, but Rainbow Dash rushes and with a charged up kick right into it's body, she manages to pierce the Tank's torso. "Rainbow Dash?" Asked Fluttershy as she just kicked a combat form with enough strength to inlaid it into the lockers and with a punch, she kills it.

"Yeah... sorry for being late! But we had the same problem as you have." Replied Rainbow Dash as she whipes off a bit of blood from the Tank form with a disgusted face, but she quickly begins to run again and helps clean up the area from Flood presence. "We're Sunlight?" Asked Sunset as she dissolves her light blade. "She took another way, where are the other anyway?" Asked Rainbow Dash while looking around.

"We split so that we can take on the Flood that chased us once we left the tunnel, and up until now, it's been working." Replied Fluttershy as she cleans her gauntlets from the Combat form's blood. "Then let's go and help them!" Said Rainbow Dash as she began to run, followed then by Sunset and Fluttershy, meanwhile at the library Twilight and Pinkie Pie blow up many Flood forms, while Twilight absorbs the blaster shots from the stormtroopers and powers up her armor, and by clashing her gauntlets she unleashes a powerful shockwave that brings all the Flood forms down, Pinkie Pie then jumps from the top of a desk and throws multiple bombs, creating a chain of colorful explosions, blinded by the smoke, Twilight couldn't notice a Gaunt form that grabbed her and pull her out of the smoke, crashing against a bookshelf, that later fell over her, fortuantely, her kinetic shield protected her, Pinkie Pie tried helping Twilight, but she was also grabbed by the Gaunt form and got pulled upwards, only to fall against a desk, breaking it along with her shield.

And as the Gaunt form was ready to infect Pinkie Pie, it got pierced by a dark blade, it was Sunlight, who then rushed against it and slashed it with the blade, then, more Combat forms approach but Sunlight used a technique Kylo taught her, Sunlight summons dark fire and burns the Flood forms, cleaning the area, she then helps both Twilight and Pinkie to get up. "Sunlight? Is that you?" Asked Twilight, trying to recover from the hit. "Yes... whether you like it or not, I am here." Said Sunlight with a humoristic tone. "Where are the others?" Asked Sunlight as she looked around the library but it was empty.

"Sunset and Fluttershy are on the left side of the school, whilst Applejack and Rarity are on the right side..." Replied Pinkie as she recovers from the fall, fortunately, her kinetic shield helped her cushion the hit. "...Nice shields Sunlight... they've protected us really good!" Sunlight looks at her and replies with a smile. "I'm only glad they worked as intended." Then, Rainbow Dash, Sunset and Fluttershy came through the door, but the area was already cleared.

"Sunlight!" Said Sunset who was a bit worried about her, but now she's calmed. "Did you managed to destroy the machine?" Asked Twilight. "Of course Twilight, who do you think you're talking to?" Asked Rainbow Dash confident of her and Sunlight's capabilities, Twilight only smiles and nods with her head. "C'mon we have to help the others!" Said Sunlight as she took the lead by leaving the library first, on the other side of the building, Applejack and Rarity seem to fight against a bigger horde of Flood forms, while Applejack uses her gauntlets clad with Rarity's diamonds to be more efficient but also to protect her hands from being infected, while Rarity uses diamonds to both attack and defense, but as they managed to handle a part of the horde, another one approached.

"Oh... this is great!" Said Applejack with a sarcastic tone, many Ranged forms started shooting spikes, Applejack used a locker's door to cover the first shots but Rarity created a barrier in front of them, but unfortuantely, they got surrounded by Combat forms. "Any ideas... darling?" Asked Rarity as she struggled to hold the barrier up, fortunately... Flash arrived behind the Combat forms, he then unsheathes his blade and prepares to charge, but he focuses his breathing as flames start to come out of the blade.

"Flame Breathing, Sixth Form: Blazing Dance!" Flash then charges and swings his blades quickly and with swift moves, he takes down the Combat forms, as he moves forward, he then slashes the last Combat form into half as it burns along with the rest of the Flood forms, Rarity puts down the barrier as she and Applejack witnessed how the Flood forms were taken down so easily. "F-Flash?" Asked Applejack as she approached slowly towards him, Flash then swings his blade to remove the flames and turns around.

"Are you ok? Did they hurt you?" Asked Flash concerned about them, but he's received by a warm hug from them. "Thank to the heavens... you're back! And you saved us!" Said Rarity who could be heard at the edge of crying, she was truly scared of the Flood, but Flash only smiles as now everything's fine, Applejack then asks. "How did you know we were here?"

"Oh! I woke up and saw the Flood outbreak at the news, I took my items and went to help, but then I got word that you were sent to destroy the hive and I decided to lend you a hand, but when I arrived, I only met with Sunlight and Rainbow Dash, then they told that you were here and the rest is history." Replies Flash, then... the rest of the girls arrived and the as they saw the everything was now under control, they witnessed how there were traces of ashes on the ground, but when they look up, they see Flash standing there, who calmed down Rarity, Flash then turns around and at the exact moment where he crosses sights with Sunset, both got happy for seeing each other again, Sunset ran and jumped into his arms, as she laughs and lets go some tears.

"You're back! You're truly back!" Said Sunset as her tears subside and gently grabs Flash's face, he then looks directly at her eyes and says. "Yes... and I won't leave you, ever... again." After saying that, it appears both of their hearts were at the same tuning, and gave each other a slow but passionate kiss.

And as the kiss stops, they opened their eyes and said nothing but only smile to each other as they blush. "I love you, my Sunshine." Said Flash with a emotional voice, Sunset chuckles and says. "And I love you too... dorky."

"Dorky?... I thought that I deserved a better nickname." Replied Flash as to make fun of the situation, Sunset chuckles and replies. "We can discuss that somewhere else, what do you think?" Flash chuckles as he hears that, the situation escalated too quickly, and if these two aren't stopped, who knows what's going to happen. "Ehem! Can you please cut your couple stuff for a while, we're trying to save the world here!" Said Sunlight with a smile, she know they can't help but to do it, but this isn't the moment.

Suddenly, everyone feel the ground tremble, it comes from the parking lot, and as they head out, from the ground, a Flood Juggernaut emerges from the woods, but it seems a bit smaller than the one that appeared on Zeta Halo.

"The heck is that?" Asked Applejack, who seems scared but also confused of what she's seeing. "That's a Juggernaut, it's of the strongest Flood forms that there exists." Replied Cortana, Flash then questioned something. "How much people it had to consume to create that?" Cortana then replies. "Not only people, they can consume anything that has a nervous system, so probably it consumed multiple life forms."

"C'mon, it's only one, let's end this right here and now!" Said Rainbow Dash who took the initiative and charged against the Juggernaut, the rest followed her in order to find out a weakness, Sunlight and Sunset slashed it's arms and it regenerated a bit quick, and sweeps one of its arms to make some space, forcing everyone to fall back. "We're not going to harm it with direct attacks!" Said Twilight as she sees the Juggernaut growling.

"Then let's try a different angle!" Said Sunset as she used her powers to shoot light beams to the Juggernaut, they seem to stun him but it's not enough, Flash then cuts off one of it's legs with his blade, and the flames of it cauterized the wound, making the Juggernaut unable to regenerate, but then, the Juggernaut slams the ground with one of it's arms and makes everyone break fromation and with its other arm, whipes the floor and hits Flash, who crashes against the school's wall, everyone seems shocked about this, but they got pushed away by another of the Juggernaut's arms, the group falls back and regroups to think of another strategy.

"Are you ok? I spent two whole years in Hell to bring you back, so don't you dare to die right now!" Says Sunlight as she helps Flash get up, he seems a bit scratched but his armor cushion the impact by a lot. "How are we going to defeat it?" Asks Rainbow Dash as she puts her guard up.

"I have a technique that can help us, but I need a bit of time to charge it, plus I need the Juggernaut to be on the ground." Said Flash with seriousness, Sunlight then stood forth and said. "Then let's give you the right chance to land the hit! If we cut off its legs, and anchor it to the ground, we might have a chance." The plan was settled the girls leave and start fighting the Juggernaut as Flash closes his eyes and focuses on his breathing, as he has only used this technique once, and it was when he learnt it.

"(This technique is only meant for emergency situations, but right now... I'll have to recall the Rengoku Oath)" Thought Flash as he put his blade in front of him, and after opening his eyes, a wave of flames surruound him.

Flash then assumes a offensive position. If this fails, we're done for, thought Flash. "(Flame Breathing: Esoteric Arct)" said Flash, now the flames around him spreaded as a heatwave around the place, leaving him alone with his blazing blade. Sunlight then cut off the Juggernaut's last leg and chained it with her powers, Sunset then creates light blades that anchor the Juggernaut to the ground, and as Sunlight and Applejack pull the chains, the Juggernaut cannot do nothing else but to remain still, giving the perfect chance to Flash, who's know recalling the oath his master taught him but with a slight modification.

"Set your heart ablaze! Overcome your limits! This is the Flame Hashira's ultimate move! Ninth Form:.... RENGOKU!!!" Flash then charged at a high speed, creating a blazing trail that takes the shape of a blazing dragon, and as he now clashed his blade against the Juggernaut's body, the flames became stronger and stronger, and finally with a cry of effort, he managed to slash the Juggernaut's body completely and burning it, as to make sure it doesn't regenerate."

Finally, they finished with this madness, and as Flash sees the ashes of the Juggernaut fade away in the wind, he can see how a new day begins with the rise of the Sun, leaving him no other feeling but to smile as she says the dawn of a new tomorrow.

"Jerome... we destroyed the hive, it's over." Said Cortana through Sunset's communicator, Jerome then quickly replies. "You're lucky, thanks to everyone's efforts, we didn't lose anyone else and there's no more flood infestation here in the city, and all the civilians are safe and sound, we only need to find a very good explanation to everyone of what the hell happened today. But besides that... excellent job, team!" Said Jerome as he cut the message, their efforts were succesful and despite there are things to solve, our heroes can enjoy for a brief moment of the calm before the storm.

END OF CHAPTER

Author's Note

Hi everyone! I finally brought the latest chapter, which took me a while to write, but I think it was totally worth it, and from now on, things will be very different for our protagonists. As the multiverse will lead to become wilder than it is now.

I hope you liked this chapter, and if so, please let me know your thought on it in the comments box and share the story with your friends. I'd appreciate it immensely if you can do that, and as always... wish you always the best, and take care.

-DReep