Author's Note

Hi everyone! I know this chapter really took a while to come out, but I had to make many corrections to the story, as it happen more than once that the story was taking a path I didn't like at all, but I think the final version will be well received by you as I loved writing it, please let me know your thought on this new chapter, hope you like it, and see ya next time.

PD: Thanks to everyone for following the story, it's thanks to you that I keep writing it in first place, and I wouldn't be able to thank you enough for your support.

-DReep

Chapter 18: Conflicts

After the previous events, Sunlight gave Sunset a part of her saving to fix the damage she did to her apartment, despite Sunset refused to receive the money, Sunlight insisted and compromised to pay for all the damages, no matter how much they'll cost. The day after, Sunset finally decided to give Principal Celestia a call to ask for guidance to check options of university, Principal Celestia said that she'll send Sunset a list of the best universities she can attend to according to her current academic performance, which is great. Sunset now left for school with a face that shows that she didn't sleep much, as Sunlight went to a Hardware store and bought many things with her remaining savings in order to fix all the mess she made in Sunset's place.

Meanwhile, Chief was training in the lab at his house, he was doing some bench press as his phone suddenly rings. He then puts the bar back in the rack, and he takes his phone and sees who's calling him, it's Sunlight, Chief answers quickly and says. "Sunlight! It's everything fine?" Asked Chief as he cleans his face with a towel and heads to a control panel on the wall that says Gravity Augment: 1.34 G and turns it off, feeling relieved and finally able to stretch comfortably.

"Hey John! Yeah, I'm... f-good, I wanted to see if I can talk with you." Says Sunlight on the other side of the phone, Chief then sits on the bench and says. "Sure, what is it?"

"Well... you'll see... I have a little problem, and I'd rather talk to you in person, but maybe I'll need more than yours... your friend... the Jedi... can you call him and tell him to meet with us?" Says Sunlight with a shy voice, she doesn't to be very fond to talk about this, but Chief replies with confident voice. "Galen? Sure, where's the meeting gonna be?" Asks Chief as he puts on a t-shirt and exits the training room.

"Yeah... about that... I'm quite busy at Sunset's place while she's gone... so, if you can meet me here, I'll greatly appreciate it." Replies Sunlight, the sound of many things moving in the background can be heard, it's like... she's fixing many things. "What's all that noise?" Asks Chief confused of everything he's hearing. "Told ya' I am busy right now... I can explain you once you arrive here!" Says Sunset aloud, her phone seems to be far from her, now a hammering noise can be heard in the background. Chief only sighs and ends the call, he then takes his jacket and calls Galen, who's unavailable since he's on another mission regarding a recent discovery that may help them to fight the Final Order, which is yet unknown to them, in his behalf, Rey went with Chief.

"So, here's the place?" Asks Rey with curiosity, Chief seems annoyed about something, he then looks at Rey and replies. "*Sighs* It's where the coordinates say, but we would've arrived sooner if you hadn't stopped to make a public magic show with your lightsaber, I had to come up with something convincing to make them believe the lightsaber it's a magic trick made out of a blue flashlight and translucent tape."

"Aw c'mon! They were kids! How can you resist seeing their happy faces?" Asks Rey with a smile, she seems to enjoy spreading happiness around children. "It's not that! The fact that you do such a thing without measuring yourself, it might make people become suspicious of what's truly going on." Replies Chief with a serious voice, he doesn't like the fact that they show themselves to the world in such a carefree way, the conversation ends and Chief knocks on the door, and they wait for a while and Sunlight opens the door and greets them. She looks a bit dirty from all the fixing she's been doing, but she seems optimistic and with a smile, she says. "Hey! You finally arrived guys... erhmm... excuse me but, I don't think we've met before." Says Sunlight as she looks at Rey with confusion, it's obvious that she's not Galen Marek, but someone else.

"Hi! My name's Rey... Rey Palpatine... pleasure to meet you!!" Says Rey as she waves with excitement and then shakes Sunlight's hand. "And I'm Eclipse Sunlight, pleasure to meet you, Rey. Do you guys want to come in?" Asks Sunlight politely, Chief and Rey agree and go inside Sunset's apartment, Sunlight closes the door behind them and Chief asks as he and Rey look around the mess. "What... happened here? It's like someone had a fierce battle all over the place."

"That was... me." Says Sunlight with an ashamed voice, John and Rey turn their backs only to see her sad expression, despite being surprised, Chief's most confused by this, after a brief pause, he asks. "What do you mean? How could you do such a chaos?" Rey only keeps her surprised expression as she tries to understand what's going on. "I was haunted by an illusion of Kylo Ren, he forced me to fight him and, although I ended up injured, there was no one else here, only Sunset and I." Says Sunlight as she heads to the bathroom and attaches new hinges along with a whole new door, the frame seems to be fixed by filling it with concrete, but the color doesn't match the apartment's wall. Chief sees how there were also broken stairs and a mess with books, a fallen bed and bookshelf, a broken PC, a shattered desk, slash marks on the couch and walls, a dented locker and a pierced wall.

"And... how are you sure it was an illusion?" Asks Rey as she inspects the slash marks, they're not made by a lightsaber, but there was something else. Rey stands up and closes her eyes, focusing on her surroundings, Sunlight then finishes placing the door and stands up as she replies. "Because there are no traces that Kylo Ren was here, plus... he seemed different, like if he was made out of dark magic, which is why Sunset and I think it was MY necklace the culprit, but we're not 100% sure about that."

Sunlight then sees her tools floating in front of her, along with many other stuff floating around the apartment, Chief makes a movement with his hand that orders Sunlight to be quiet, as Rey is focusing now, they stood still for a bit, waiting for Rey to do something else. Then, Rey now begins to see what happened here through the Force, which was something she learned from her current master, but unlike him, she has a much stronger connection with the part of The Force known as The Cosmic Force which bounds all things together in the universe, and surprisingly... in this world the Force feels much stronger than on any other world.

As Rey placed her hand on a slash mark on the wall, she began to feel what happened, indeed there was Sunlight, whose aura emitted anger, confusion, traces of hatred and sorrow, which are boosted by a dark source in her, it's probably the necklace she mentioned. But deep inside... there was a small but strong light of faith combined with determination. Rey also felt another presence, it wasn't like Sunlight's, it didn't even share the negative emotions from the necklace, thereby the option of an illusion made by the necklace is discarded. Rey focuses more in this other presence to find out who truly was, the first things she felt were, the cold, an immense anger and a deep hatred, they were also boosted by a dark source, similar to Sunlight, but there was one big difference, Rey kept digging in this presence and felt the pain of him, a broken heart and a lonely soul, corrupted by... The Dark Side, Rey has felt this before, but there's something different, it wasn't the person she once knew... in order to figure out what happened to him, Rey keeps going deeper in this presence.

Kylo is walking through the halls of The Eclipse, heading to his room, when he feels a disturbance that makes him stumble for a while, he managed to get into his room and when he finally seats on his bed, he says with a deep and serious voice. "Rey..." He couldn't believe it, Rey was standing right in front of him, as also Rey couldn't believe what was she seeing. "Ben...?" She asked with a sorrowed voice, as she can't accept the truth that the man she once knew and loved, known as Ben Solo, had completely fallen to the Dark Side. "What are you doing? I thought that you broke our connection when we parted ways." Says Kylo as he stands up, his expression remains the same, his yellow eyes seem to glow in the darkness of his room thanks to the dim lights in it. "I-I thought... that you..." Said Rey as she stutters to come up with the proper words, but Kylo interrupts her and says with a serious and menacing voice.

"What? That I wouldn't achieve what I was meant to? That I'll always remain as the crybaby you knew?" Kylo then turns around and heads to his locker, as he opens it and takes some of his gadgets as the communicator he and Sunlight have, but Rey then finally gathers courage and says.

"I thought that you would be ready to make the right choice once and for all... to leave this path, to realize the Dark Side will not bring you anything but sorrow and pain to you!" Said Rey with determination, but Kylo only sighs and turns back as he replies.

"The Dark Side is ALL I HAVE NOW!!! You left me! We could've been so much more together... you and I, but you refused to and picked your side! With the Resistance!" Rey then walks towards him as she replies with frustration. "Ben, you knew I couldn't be with you!! I sided with The Resistance to help you! You can still get out of this and come with me!"

"For what?!! Return to where?!! There's nothing for me in the Light, my mother's dead and I killed my father... the ONLY thing I can expect is death, but now... now I have embraced the darkness, the only thing that has shown me who I'm truly meant to be, and has given me the POWER to seize my fate!!" Says Kylo aloud, he seems angered and his expression shows it. "And what about me?! I tried to bring you back to the light because I love you!!" Says Rey as now tears run down from her face, Kylo looks at her with a serious expression and replies with anger. "And THAT'S THE PROBLEM!!! All this time I thought that being together we'll make us stronger, but now I realize... Ben Solo was the one having feelings for you, those feelings only restrained me from achieving my full potential... but now he's DEAD! And I've risen from his death, I'm the Sith Lord KYLO REN!!" Said Kylo as now his eyes begin to glow with dark magic and he walks towards Rey and stands in front of her with a hateful expression.

"And now you go around tormenting girls?" Asks Rey with determination, despite going a few steps back, she now stands forth. "What?" Asks Kylo with confussion, but his anger doesn't fades away. "Eclipse Sunlight... did you attack her through your necklace's magic?" Replies Rey with another question, she's not letting Kylo get away from this one. "Oh... Sunlight, no I didn't attack her, our crystals are connected because they come from the same source, but whatever she said to have happened to her, it's most probably to have been her necklace acting on its own... establishing a connection with mine... but that may only happen if... the necklace rejects her wishes, or at least that's what I think." Replies Kylo who's now more calmed, but anger can be noticed in his expression. "How can I believe you?" Asks Rey with a serious expression, although she wants to believe in him, that'd be too irresponsible. Kylo then looks at her and replies. "Why would I harm a vital part of my team... which now makes me think... how do YOU know about Eclipse Sunlight and WHY you know something happened to her?!" Kylo seems to have finally found the excuse he needed to set in motion his plan, Rey knows she screwed up and suddenly cuts the connection between them, leaving Kylo alone who only smiles and chuckles as he says. "Well done, Rey! Run, run like you always do! Next time we meet, it'll be as enemies!"

Rey now returns back to her physical body back in Sunset's apartment, it felt like her mind woke up suddenly and she fells backwards, but Chief catches her and asks. "Rey, what happened? You were in a trance." Rey then stands up and realizes she's shedding tears, but she wipes them off and replies. "I managed to contact Kylo through The Force, I know it's complicated but, it was the only way to know if he was the culprit."

"He was?" Asks Sunlight intrigued of the result, but she might not like the answer. "I'm afraid not, he said that your necklaces have a link between them, and he supposes that it was your necklace the one who used your fear against you and connected with Kylo's crystal to create an ilussion you'd be frightened of." Says Rey as she explains what Kylo told her, but there's another thing concerning Chief. "Maybe it sounds rude but I have to know, Rey, how did you managed to contact Kylo through The Force? We're in different universes." Asks Chief with a serious voice, he seems curious about learning how Rey used The Force this time, Rey then begins to explain.

"Ben..." Rey stops herself as she remembers Kylo's words, she then sighs and corrects her sentence. "...Kylo and I had a link known as a Force Dyad, we were able to interact between us through The Force, but when he assumed this crusade to become all powerful, I cut that connection and restablished it only to contact him this time, but don't worry, I've broken it permanently." Says Rey as she places her hand on her chest, assimilating the truth, Ben Solo is gone, and Kylo Ren is nothing but his remains, she has no actual connection with him rather than the one with his past self, but that's no more.

"So... going back to the issue of my necklace, what should I do?" Asks Sunlight as she grabs her necklace and takes it off. "Have you tried living without it? It might be a good idea if you place it somewhere else, like... in a metal box or something." Replies Chief with a neutral voice, he thinks that's a good idea, but little did he know about what Sunlight replied. "But I've tried! I left it at my aparment and then went with Sunset to visit some friends, and when I was sleeping and the ilussion appeared, I had my necklace on my hand... how is that even possible?!" Asks Sunlight confused and frustrated about this matter, it feels like the necklace will follow her wherever she goes.

"I'm afraid... I don't know, yet." Replies Chief with resignation, despite his ignorance in this field, he'll try to help Sunlight as much as he can, but Rey comes up with a supposition. "Kylo said that the crystal came in conflict with your mind, so the only thing I can suggest you to do is... control your power through harmony between your body, soul and necklace."

Sunlight seems reflective of this, "...harmony between body, soul and necklace..." She thought, probably she'll think of a solution later, but now, she has to fix the mess she made, probably some hard work will help her think, Sunlight now heads to the stairs and takes some wooden planks and nails, she was removing the broken planks and then she sees Sunset's bed levitating along with the many books that were lying on the floor.

"Wow!" Says Sunlight as she sees Rey using The Force to lift those things, then Chief lifs the platform where the bed was with one arm, he then takes away the slashed beam and places a new one with his other arm, fixing the platform, Chief then takes a welding gun and uses it to attach the new beam to the ground and the platform. "Guys, what are you doing?" Asks Sunlight confused, but deep within her, she knows why they're doing it, but a part of her needs to hear it.

"What do you think? We're helping you!" Says Rey as she know reorganizes the bookshelves and orders the books in alphabetic order. "If you want to fix all this mess on your own, you'll end by tomorrow, let us help you halve it at least." Replies Chief as he takes off the TV and places it away, while also using concrete to fix the slash marks and the hole on the wall. "Thanks guys, I... really appreciate it." Says Sunlight with a comforted smile, she then grabs a screw driver and says. "Let's get going then, we have plenty of job to do!" Says Sunlight as she now takes the lead, Chief and Rey put on some protective eyewear as also some gloves, and then start to work together to fix the apartment, Sunlight then turned on a speaker and connected her phone by bluetooth and started playing some of her favorite tunes.

After a few hours and most of the job done, Sunlight receives a message from Sunset, Sunlight takes her phone and pauses the music.

"Hey! AYT? How u doing? 🙂" Asks Sunset.

"Great! Almost done here! Oh BTW, look whom decided to lend me hand 😎"

Sunlight then sends a photo, Sunset opens it and sees Sunlight, Chief and Rey greeting at the camera.

"Hahaha... seems you got some help." Replies Sunset.

"We're installing your new TV rn, you'd love what we did when you get here." Texts back Sunlight.

"Looking fwd to it! I just finished school for today and I'm gonna head to your place now, I forgot my diary there, thx for lending me a copy of your apartment's keys btw." Replies Sunset, Sunlight's reply took a longer while to be sent, but she finally replied.

"K, don't take too long! Oh btw, The Dazzlings told me to hang out with them, but I told them to come over to your place since I'm working here, hope you don't mind it." Replies Sunlight, Sunset only nods her head as she smiles and texts back.

"FBM, just tell them to not make a mess." Replies Sunset, then Sunlight only replies with an emoji. "😇" Sunset then heads to Sunlight's apartment and when she arrives, she hears a strange sound of something beating but it sounds technological, Sunset walks around the apartment following that sound, she then hears it in Sunlight's room, Sunset slowly opens the door and sees her counterpart's room, which is actually big, but most of the space is filled with musical instruments.

An electric and acoustic guitar, a bass, a keyboard, drums, even a saxophone and many other instruments, next to Sunlight's bed, there's a nightstand with a watch on it, Sunset realizes it's the watch the one making the noise, before pressing any of its buttons, Sunset realizes that's the watch she used to communicate with Kylo Ren, so if it's an incoming transmission, Kylo will know right away it's not Sunlight the one holding the watch, but probably he'll part of his plans, Chief might need that intel if they want to take advantage against them.

Sunset sighs and crouches in front of the nightstand and after placing his phone next to the watch to record everything. She presses the beeping button and takes her hand off right away, a hologram can be heard and after a while, a deep voice says. "Sunlight, what's taking you so long?" It's Kylo, Sunset can feel it, but there's no time to panick, she has to pretend to be the actual Eclipse Sunlight.

"Sorry, I caused a mess in a friend's place and I'm fixing it right now!" Says Sunset as she pretends to be struggling doing something. "Why can't I see you?" Asks Kylo, seems a bit confused, but Sunset can't let him know she's lying. "I told you I'm busy, fixing a ceiling isn't an easy task to be honest! But I'm alone now, although I don't know for how lonog, so be quick!" Replies Sunset, who crawled away so that her voice can be heard at the distance.

"Ugh... FINE! I need you to carry on the next part of your infiiltration paln, have you earned their trust yet?" Asks Kylo with a serious voice, Sunset can't believe it... "infiltration plan?" She thought, Sunlight has been doing ALL of this as part of a plan to infiltrate them? That... can't... be, but Sunset can't let her thought overwhelm her now, she has to convince Kylo.

"Y-Yeah..." Sunset's voice sounded shocked by the revelation, Kylo notices it and slightly smiles, but he changed his expression for a more serious one and replies. "Then lure them to the coordinates I'm going to send you, we need to use this chance to strike them down, for good. Don't... fail... Sunlight, we'll be waiting your signal." Said Kylo as he now cuts the call, leaving Sunset shocked, frustrated and also... angered, if what Kylo said it's true, Sunlight's going to regret everything, Sunset stops the recording and takes her phone, along with the diary and before she leaves, she takes Sunlight's watch and heads to Flash's house.

"A daring tactic if you ask me." Says Starkiller as he leans on the wall, Kylo, who just ended the call replied. "Let's just wait for chaos to happen, that wasn't Sunlight, I noticed right away, it was Sunset... and I only had to tell her something that'll make her doubt about Sunlight, her judging is now clouded by frustration and betrayal, their team will be in conflict and we'll be able to kill them with ease, tell Lord Vader, we have a job to do." Says Kylo with a serious voice and evil smile on his face, Starkiller agrees and leaves the room in silence.

On her way there, Sunset contacts her friends and tells them to meet her at Flash's place, since Sunlight's credibility is in doubt, she might betray them in case they team up with her, and that's a risk Sunset's not going to take. Once at Flash's place, Sunset tells Flash about it and suddenly, Chief comes out of the lab wearing his coat and armored bracers. "Wait... weren't you with Sunlight?" Asks Sunset confused, Chief takes his blades and attaches them to his back and says. "I returned here when the job was done, and I heard everything from downstairs, I don't believe Sunlight's plotting against us, but if this ambush is true, we have to ambush them to change the tides of war." After a while the girls arrived and after giving context of the situation, they suit up and before leaving, Flash asks Chief. "You still remember how to use your breathing technique, right? And why aren't you wearing your armor?"

"Yes I still remember, that flamboyant ninja is not someone you forget easily, neither his techniques, and my armor is still under maintenance due all the damage it received on Hell, this is all I have along with my grappling hook. And since the Cortana went with the Blue and Red team for a mission, we have to be twice as careful, got it?!" Says Chief aloud, ordering everyone to check twice their equipment. "I still can't believe Sunlight is a double agent, what if Kylo was lying?" Asks Applejack as she tightens her gauntlets, but Chief replies. "That's an option, so don't believe it's true right away! We're still not sure of that intel."

"But if it's true, we better take no risks, got it?" Replies Sunset as she calibrates her suit, her expression is dead serious, something that concerns everyone, but Master Chief knows Sunlight is innocent, they need to clear it before she loses all the trust she's struggled to earn. "What are we fighting with?" Asks Flash in a serious voice, despite his worries, the fact that Kylo wants to ambush them, is more than enough to make him worry. "Kylo Ren, Starkiller and most probably, Darth Vader." Replies Chief, he also seems worried about this matter, even more than anyone else.

"And what can we do? Last time we fought against Starkiller, we couldn't do much, it was thanks to Flash and Tesla that we made them retreat." Says Pinkie Pie with a serious expression, but Rainbow Dash replies with determination. "But that time, we didn't have these suits, now we can use our powers to fight them."

"I knew that something like this will happen sooner or later." Says Twilight as she tests her Tesla Coils and checks if all her systems are fine, she doesn't need to look to know that Chief is looking at her with disapproval, but as Twilight said, this outcome was something she predicted that'll happen, Sunlight will turn out to be lying to them all this time and then lure them into a trap, just like now.

"Listen up team! Kylo thinks that only you are going to be there, so we have the element of surprise, they're only two, maybe three, but they are highly dangerous, so stay together and fight like a team in order to at least have a chance of fighting them." Says Chief with determination, but he sees Fluttershy who has a blanket on, confused about this, Rarity asks. "Are you feeling all right, darling?"

"Yeah... but it's kinda cold here, don't you think?" Says Fluttershy as she wraps herself around the blanket. "Now that you mention it, it is a bit cold." Replies Pinkie Pie, the girls agreed except for Flash and Chief, this is weird... cold... all out of sudden, but Chief doesn't feel anything, Flash then returns from the lab, as he went down there to take his equipment and gear up.

"Cold? The A/C's not on, I'll go and check what's going on." Replies Chief, he then heads to the thermostat and checks on it, it says that's turned off, but that doesn't make any sense. "(Great, now I need to check if there's no short circuit or anything else.)" Things Chief as he opened the thermostat and began checking the circuits and connections, everything seems right, but nothing explains why the girls are feeling cold, Chief then remembers Galen's warning about the Sith. "(A Force sensitive person can feel their presence, the Sith are always surrounded by anger, hatred, pain, sorrow...") Then the door rings, startling everyone, but Pinkie Pie reacts quicker and opens the door with an optimistic smile, expecting a friend of her, or maybe someone that can help them, Flash tried to stop her but she was too quick, as everything now moves slower, Chief remembers the last words of Galen's warning. "(... and cold.)"

A screeching scream comes from the leaving room, Chief leaves the thermostat and as he sees the scene, his eyes widen. Pinkie Pie stands still, as a crimson blade pierced her abdomen, she's then pushed away, revealing the identity of her attacker.

"We meet again, scum." Says Kylo as he shoots a shockwave of dark magic that pushes everyone away, breaking the walls and ending up in the backyard. "Sunset! Go and help Pinkie!" Said Chief as he stood up, Pinkie was lying on the ground near them, but she was bleeding out, the circumnstances don't allow them to go for a medkit, Sunset's the only one that can heal Pinkie, let's hope it works for them.

From the house, Kylo Ren comes out from the smoke, while he carries his crimson blade, he then stands in front of everyone and says. "Thanks for taking Sunlight's watch with you, you made it much more easier to locate you." Says Kylo with arrogance, Flash and Chief are the first ones to assume a combat stance, there's a huge change of plans, they need to draw him away so that no civilians get hurt.

Banana beigns to bark at the right side of the backyard, when they look the fence gets smashed by a Force wave, and Starkiller comes out from the hole made on the fence. "This time, there won't be anyone to help you!"Says Starkiller as he ignites his lightsaber and points it towards Flash, who takes it personal and focus his attention on him, whilst Chief does the same towards Kylo, the girls finally line up along with Chief and Flash, this time, no one's gonna die.

"C'mon Pinkie, wake up!" Says Sunset desperately as she holds Pinkie in her arms, the wound was closed thanks to Sunset's flames but Pinkie hasn't regained consciousness, until. "It really hurts, do you have any cookies?" Asks Pinkie sarcastically, Sunset smiles and helps her get up. "You really scared us!" Says Sunset as she hugs tightly Pinkie, but Kylo interrupts their moment by saying. "Impressive! Healing magic is very uncommon."

Then, everyone feels an abrupt change in the mood, there's a presence much more heavier than Kylo and Starkiller's, the cold feels like a sore winter breeze, there's nothing in it but a deep anger and hatred, from the other side of the backyard, the whole fence is smashed, revealing a dark male with brown hair stepping out, he's tall, but in his eyes, there's nothing but pure evilness. "We finally meet guys, you've been quite troublesome since you appeared." Says Vader with a serious voice, he then ignites his lightsaber, now they're all surrounded.

Master Chief the drops discretely a small smoke bomb that when detonates, grants them a chance to run. "Chase them!" The Sith Lords began to chase the team, thanks to living near the city outskirts is that they hadn't had to run too far to lure them into an inhabited zone. "Spread!" Says Chief aloud, the girls then take a different path, leaving Flash and Chief together, who now stop and face Starkiller and Kylo, which means... Vader is chasing them. "(If we're not quick enough, the girls will be in danger!)" Thinks Chief as he raises his blades, Flash then assumes a stance and cahrges forward, his flames clashing with Starkiller's crimson blade. "I'll make sure to kill you this time!" Says Starkiller with rage.

"The feeling is mutual!" Replies Flash, but he's then kicked by Starkiller and is pushed away, engaging a fierce combat trading their attacks. "Looks like I finally have my golden chance." Says Kylo arrogantly as he spins his unstable lightsaber with pride. "Cut it!" Says Chief as he charges forward and focuses his breathing, just like Flash. "(Sound Breathing Technique, First Form: Roar!)" Said Chief in his mind as he unleashes a powerful strike with his blades, but Kylo blocked it with ease but recieves a powerful shockwave that shakes all the trees and rocks around them. "This is new... what happened to those red lightnings?" Asks Kylo as he swungs his blade awya, making space between him and Chief.

"I'm full of surprises." Says Chief as he charges forward and begins to trade slashes with Kylo, meanwhile on the other side, the girls are still running away, but as they were helping an injured Pinkie Pie, Vader caught them after a short while and stopped them by using Force lightning against Twilight, stunning her and bringing her down, Vader then jumps and tries to land a fatal blow on Twilight with his lightsaber, but he's stopped by Sunset's light blade.

"I won't let you hurt anyone!" Says Sunset as she struggles to keep with Vader's strength. "Then all of you will DIE!" Vader then pushes everyone away with The Force, but the strength of the push was such that brought everyone down. "C'mon and face me! or I'll kill you and those you love the most!" Says Vader as he wields his lightsaber in a menacing pose as his expression shows nothing but hatred, Fluttershy helps Twilight get up and then everyone prepares to fight.

(Credits to Sameul Kim, author of this masterpiece of a cover!)

"We're not gonna run anymore." Says Sunset as they begin their assault, Rarity creates diamonds and pushes them forward to protect themselves, but Vader slashed them easily with his lightsaber and when he realizes, he receives a kick in the face by Rainbow Dash, and tackle by Applejack, bringing him down and Sunset jumps as she tries to land a good hit on Vader, but he pulled a rock with The Force and hit her midair, as he stands up, he sees Fluttershy approaching him, Vader then uses Force Lightning to stun her, but he sees the lightnings evading her and going further away, when Vader quickly looks to see the reason of this, he sees Twilight absorbing the lightning with her Tesla Coils, and redirecting the energy throughout her suit, powering her up. Vader stopped his attack but it was too late, Fluttershy does a backflip kick, hitting Vader's chin, stunning him long enough for her to launch a powerful attack as she landed. "Chi You, Halberd Form:..."Fluttershy lifts her right leg and swings it in a crescent arc, Vader only managed to create dark bracers to protect himself, but the kick was so pwerful that sent him flying away, breaking his bracers in the process. "...White Tiger Crescent Moon." Said Fluttershy with a serious expression as she looked at the hole Vader made through the trees.

"We can't let him recover, c'mon!" Says Twilight with determination as the rest of them followes her, Rarity stays and helps Sunset get up. "It appears we can fight him properly." Says Rarity as she helps Sunset get up. "Yeah, but we must stay sharp, who knows how much tricks he has under his sleeve." Says Sunset as now she and Rarirty follow the group, whom are fighting Vader and manage to overwhelm him for a short while with many attacks coming from mulitple directions, but he after raging scream, Vader manages to choke everyone and lifts them with The Force. "You attack like cowards!!" Shouts Vader as he pushes them away, knocking them down, he ignites his lightsaber and was about to stab Pinkie Pie, but Sunset shoots a light beam, disarming Vader from his lightsaber and Rarity shoots multiple diamonds, making Vader fall back. "Rarity, help them out!!"

Says Sunset as she creates a light blade to hit Vader, but he creates a dark blade, clashing their weapons. "I got TIRED of you!!" Says Vader as he excerts more pressure, making Sunset fall back, he then enrages more and begins to swing his blade much faster, it only took a few seconds for him to extremely overwhelm Sunset's fencing skill with his lightsaber combat technique, in a desperate attempt, Sunset tried landing a thrust of her blade, but Vader dodged it and grabbed Sunset's hand, and pulls her forward and quickly punches her with his robotic hand, bringing her to the ground, Sunset tries to stand up, but Vader kicks her, bringing her down again, he uses The Force to lift Sunset and throws her away, crashing with a tree and falling to the ground. "Your will is WEAK!!" Said Vader as he was about to strike Sunset down, but Twilight stops him right in place, excerting pressure upon him. Vader then aims his hand and shoots a dark magic beam, hitting Twilight, and then he throws a dark blade, slashing the main Tesla Coil in her suit, making her now unable to absorb as much energy as she could.

Vader then heads towards them, but he's hit by one of Pinkie's bombs, which created an explosion that not only stunned Vader, but also wrapped him some sort of slime, making him struggle to move, Rainbow, Applejack and Fluttershy were approaching Vader, Pinkie then threw another bomb, but with a simple gesture of his hand, he redirected the bomb towards the other girls' position, the bomb exploded wrapping them around the same slime, Vader then stuns Pinkie with a burst of Force lightnings. Vader then frees himself with his dark blade, he then calls his lightsaber with The Force and threw it spinning towards Rarity, who created a diamond to block it, but after she managed to dodge it, Vader stuns her with Force lightnings, Vader continues his attack as Rarity screams of pain, Twilight stopped him by grabbing his hands and absorbing a fraction of that energy and she then releases it with a punch strong enough to stun him, but Vader uses the Force to body slam her, he then calls his lightsaber again and was about to kill Twilight, but Sunset jumped from behind with a light blade and stopped Vader's attack, despite her wounds and many scratches, she's giving her all to stop Vader.

"You have spirit and a bit of skill, I'll give you that..." Says Vader arrogantly, despite his scratches on his suit and face, but when Sunset thought she was holding him off, Vader aims his hand at her blade as he slowly takes away his lightsaber, Sunset then realizes he's holding her off not with his weapon, but with The Force, as Sunset used all her strength, Vader seems to stop her effortlessly. "... But the Dark Side is much stronger than your pathetic magic." Vader then raises his lightsaber, Sunset's unable to move as she's frozen in place, Vader swungs his blade and thanks to the fact that Sunset was released by an extremely brief moment, she used her blade to block most of the hit, but recieve slight damage, which resulted on her receiving a small cut of Vader's lightsaber in her face, which resulted on a small scar, Sunset falls to the ground as she groans of pain, Vader was aboout to land the final blow, but in a moment of hope, a cable wraps around Vader's legs and pulls him down and he's dragged backwards.

It's Master Chief, who seems heavily wounded, with many slash marks on his body with blood and many scratches, despite that, he attacks Vader, who blocks the hit of Chief's blades, but he's pushed away by a Force lightning attack, it's Kylo, who also seems wounded, with many slash marks on him and blood on his face. "It seems he's giving you a hard time." Says Vader as he stands up and ignites his lightsaber. "He's quite slippery, but together, we can end him once and for all." Replies Kylo as he creates a dark blade and prepares to fight.

Chief looks at Sunset, who's the only one capable of moving freely and says. "Release your friends and go away! I'll hold them here." Says Chief as he takes both of his blades, Sunset thinks she can still fight, and as she struggles to stand up, she says. "B-but, you're..."

"It's an order!" Replies Chief with a serious voice, Sunset does nothing else but agree with him, she then creates a light blade and cuts the slime that's wrapped around her firends and as they stand up, they take Twilight and Pinkie and ran away. "Are you so eager to die, Master Chief?!" Asks Kylo arrogantly as they're about to attack him, Chief spins his blades and focuses his breathing.

(Again, shoutouts to Samuel Kim.)
"If you're so confident, why don't you try to beat me without your magic tricks?" Asks Chief as he prepares his attack. "It'll be our pleasure." Replies Vader with a serious voice as now the three of them engage into combat, Chief's quick and sudden movements give him the capability to fight both Sith Lords at once, but he doesn't know for how long they'll respect the duel, Kylo tried to attack him from the back, but Chief dodges it and with quick punches, he takes Kylo off him and focuses on countering Vader's attacks, which are much faster than Kylo's, but after being pushed away by a kick, Vader also creates adark blade and attacks Chief, whom along the attacks of Kylo Ren, is having hard time dodging and attacking, he can't even dodge all of the attacks and receives a few cuts from them, but he ignores the pain.

"You're becoming quite annoying!!" Says Kylo as he shoots a dark magic shockwave, pushing Chief away, and creating many dark blades around him, Kylo then closes his fist, making the blades thrust forward, trying to pierce Chief, but thanks to his breathing technique, he's now fast enought to block and dodge the incoming blades, but when he realizes, Kylo attacks with a darkfire wave, Chief can't dodge it, so he's force to block the hit and receives some burns from the attack, when he raises his sight, Vader closed the distance between them and tried to stab him, but Chief blocked the hit almost by miracle with his blade, Chief spins the other blade and made an upward slash, making Vader lose his ground and then givng Chief the chance to take the offensive, clashing again his blades with the Sith Lords' lightsabers. "They're running away! Stop them!" Yells Vader as he clashes his lightsaber with Chief's blades, Kylo then runs away, following the path the girls took, Chief can't let that happen, he then hits with his knee Vader and places him a paralyzing node, which electrocutes Vader, immobilizing him long enough so that Chief can chase Kylo.

As Kylo approaches the girls, he unleashes many slashes with a dark blade, which create magic projectiles cover a large area and move fast, Rainbow tried to run faster but one of her boots was damaged by Vader, and the slashes will pierce through Rarity's shield, Sunset notices this and tries to shoot those slashes down with her light beams, but before she's able to aim her gauntlets, Chief arrives and extends his blades, activating the demonic power within them. "...Fourth Form: Constant Resounding Slashes!!!" Chief then spins his blades around as creating slash waves with his demonic energy, destroying the dark magic slashes of Kylo's blade, and protecting the girls behind him, as he stops the attack, he turns around and says. "Head to the headquarters!! But RUN this time!!" Says Chief with a serious voice, he seems more wounded than before and blood drips from his face, legs, arms and body.

Kylo jumps from the deep forest and clashes blades with Chief, creating a light show of red and purple lights, thanks to the blades' power, Chief managed to broke Kylo's dark blade, making him lose ground, Chief takes this chance to quickly spin his blades, Kylo receives a few more slashes on his body before dodging Chief's attack. Chief takes the chain of his blades by both sides, he then inhales air as he says to himslef. "(Sound Breathing, Fifth Form...)" Chief then starts spinning both of his blades as whirlwinds, as the demonic energy starts creating barrages of red lightning, forcing Kylo to fall back if he doesn't want to be hurt by that violent energy. "...String Perfomance!!!" Yelled Chief as he charges forward, extending the havoc of his attack and forcing Kylo to fall back even more.

As the girls began to run to the other direction, avoiding the battle between Chief, Vader and Kylo, but they're stopped by Flash who flyes in front of them and crashes against a tree. "What are you doing?! Get out of here!!" Said Flash with a serious voice, he seems wounded, but nothing too serious, only scratches and small cuts, Starkiller comes from the deep forest, he also seems wounded, but only a few scratches. "Do you think you can escape, brats?" Asks Starkiller as he ignites his lightsaber, Flash gets into position and imbues his blade with flames and charges forward. "You're fighting me!" Said Flash as he and Starkiller clashed weapons. "C'mon, if we can take out at least one of them, we can win!" Says Rainbow as she takes off her damaged boots and run, landing a punch on Starkiller, followed up by Applejack, who picks a down tree and throws it at him, Starkiller stops it with The Force as he handles Flash's attacks with his other hand, meanwhile Fluttershy uses her nail guards and stabs Starkiller on the side, gouging some of his flesh out, Starkiller then enrages and explodes in a Force Shockwave combined with Force lightning, stunning everyone and pushing them away, but Flash recovers much quicker than anyone else and takes an offensive position.

(Credits to RA Music.)
"Rainbow Dash, take the girls and leave, I'll take it from here." Says Flash with a serious voice as he charges forward and engages combat with Starkiller, Rianbow stands up and uses her speed to help her friends get up faster, and as she helps Sunset get up, a dagger cuts her left leg's quadriceps, making her fall to the ground, it was Starkiller who did it to make sure they won't go too far.

Sunset heals Rainbow's wound, but it'll take some time for Rainbow to recover from it, the girls now proceed to leave, leaving Flash and Starkiller fighting alone, the clash between his blades creates a light show worth of seeing, but Starkiller begins to overwhelm Flash, as his rage only made his attacks stronger and his attack speed increased significantly, Starkiller pushes Flash away, making him fall to the ground, but as he quickly recovers, he repeats to himself. "(Don't lose ground, once they're safe, it'll be much easier, I won't let him hurt anyone else... NOT ANYMORE, I'LL PROTECT THEM!!)" As Flash's thought invade his mind, his blade started emitting those orange flames, that slowly fade away to a leave path to a new color, the blue flames of his determination begin to sprout and thanks to the equestrian magic in his blade, his body begins to flow with it, and a blue aura surrounds him, granting him pony ears, a pair of wings and slightly longer hair. "You HAVE to be joking!!" Says Starkiller as he closes his wound with his lightsaber's heat and charges forward in rage, Flash does the same and quickly gets the upper hand as he's now faster than before.

Despite his new power, Flash can only hold Starkiller off much better, yet he's unable to land a fatal blow on him, so he decides to exhasut him by using his Flame Breathing techniques, despite Starkiller now wields his lightsaber and a dark blade.
"Fourth Form: Blooming Flame Ondulation!"

"Second Form: Rising Scorching Sun!"

"Third Form: Blazing Universe!!"

"Fifth Form: Flame Tiger!!"

Flash managed to inflict serious damage on Starkiller, blade cuts and burn marks are all over his body, but in a sudden moment, Starkiller's body clads with lightnings, and his eyes glow with dark magic, the lightnings extend to his lightsaber and his dark blade, as Starkiller swings his blade, his range gets increased thanks to the lightnings, and his rage boosting him, results in Flash losing the advantage, as he dashes away, Starkiller uses a much more powerful burst of Force lightning to stun him, making Flash unable to move, Starkiller then lifts him in the air and sends him away, crashing against a rock, making Flash drop his blade, and losing his "pony" form, as Flash tried to recover, a dark blade pierces his shoulder and also the rock, Flash shouts of pain and realizes that he can't move, the blade doesn't come out, Starkiller approaches him and with rage he says. "I can kill you right now! But I have to hunt down your friends, so you STAY here!!" Said Starkiller as he pushes the blade even deeper, making Flash grunt of pain, but Starkiller leaves him there, the only thing Flash can do now is warn everyone about it, he uses his communicator and warns everyone. "Girls, Starkiller's heading to your way, I couldn't stop him long enough, be prepared, I'll try to reach you as fast as I can!!"

"Chief gets the message and after sweeping the area around him with his blades to make space, then he runs towards the girls' position at full speed, Kylo and Vader chase him down, but Chief managed to get to Starkiller, who was already fighting the girls, who seem pretty exhausted by blocking all of Starkiller's attacks. Chief, with a powerful strike of his blades managed to sent Starkiller away, but Vader and Kylo reach him right after. "Take shelter!!" Says Chief aloud as he now begins to fight against the three Sith Lords, although Chief manages to hold them off, Kylo charged a darkfire attack and he was about to shoot it towards the girls, but Chief notices this and unsheathes his knife and throws it, piercing Kylo's hand, making him stop his attack to take out the knife, he had to combine his strength, techniques and items to fight the three dark lords, but Chief takes a thermal imploder from his waist and throws it to the dark lords, but he slashes it midair, which causes an even more violent explosion, creating a big dust cloud and separating everyone.

Chief stands up coughing, his wounds are very deep, he's getting out of breath, as blood runs out of his body, with effort, Chief stands up and asks confused. "Girls? Are you ok?!" He can't see really well, as dust got in his eyes, but as Chief cleans his eyes, he feels a hand taking him by his shoulder and a dark blade piercing through his body, Chief lets go a scream of pain as he drops his blades and grabs the dark blade in order to stop it from slashing any important organs. "How does it feel to see life escaping your body?!" Asks Starkiller with arrogance as he tries to slash Chief's heart, but John unsheathes a small knife from his bracer and said with anger. "I'm ready! What about you?!"

Chief then punches Starkiller with his elbow and stabs him in the eye bringing him to the ground, surprsingly, he didn't die, Starkiller lies shouting in extreme pain as he grabs his face, Chief breaks the front part of the blade and the rear part of it with his hands, leaving only the par that's inside of him, with his grappling hook, Chief takes his blades and assumes an offensive position, Kylo and Vader help Starkiller as they're ready to fight again, Chief doesn't know how long will he endure until he fades out, fortunately, Rey comes out jumping, and landing in front of Chief and ignites her lightsaber. "Rey... Palpatine." Says Kylo with a serious voice as he tries to catch up his breath and helps Starkiller. "Palpatine's granddaughter, why are you helping them?" Asks Vader with rage as he walks forth but falls on his knees as he can't keep fighting, but he stands and ignites his lightsaber anyway.

"I'm a Jedi, and you better remember it." Said Rey with a serious voice as she spins her blue lightsaber, but beneath the Sith Lords, a portable energy field activates, surrounding them and making them unable to get out. "Mind to explain me what the hell have you been doing? Look at you, dammit!" Says Sunlight as she walks out from Kylo's side, she's wearing her First Order armor, making it seem that she's with them instead of The Resistance.

"Sunlight... what TOOK you so long?!!" Asks Kylo with rage as he sees Sunlight so calmed about this. "They took my watch and pretended to be me, it seems your little trap got fucked up, and now I have to fix it." Says Sunlight as she sighs and loads the coordinates on the energy field to teleport the Sith Lords. "You're not gonna make it alone!" Says Vader as the device begins to teleport them slowly, giving Sunlight time to reply with a serious voice. "Trust me, I can do it." The Sith Lords finally disappear, the containment fields dissipates and Sunlight sighs of relief. "Finally, they're gone... how's everyone?!"

"Help... them" Says Chief as consciousness begins to fade, he finally falls to the ground, dropping his blades. "We also need to help you, Rey... check on the others." Says Sunlight as she checks on Chief, Rey helps everyone recover from the explosion Chief provoked, suddenly, Rarity shoots many diamonds that tie Sunlight's arms, confusing her, Sunlight then asks. "Hey! What the..." She's then interrupted by Twilight who says with anger.

"You LIAR!! You've been plotting against us the whole time!!" Sunlight can't believe what she said and asks outraged. "The FUCK you say?! What are you meaning?!"

"Sunset showed us a recording of Kylo's message to orchestrate this attack, you change your attitude and help us only to gain our trust to betray us one of these days!" Says Applejack with traces of disappointment on her face. "Wha-what?! No! Rey and I came here when she felt Kylo's presence in this world, we pretended to be enemies to protect you! Where's Sunset, she can tell I ain't lying." Says Sunlight as she tries to break the diamonds, but it's pontless, Twilight then moves her away with her pwoer and check on Chief.

"Sunset's unconscious, it seems like she received a good hit, and she's the most wounded excluding Chief." Says Rey as she carries Sunset gently and drops her with, Flash then comes out of the woods and sees the scene, shocked by Chief and Sunset's condition, he heads there and checks on them. "No no no no, how are they?" Asked Flash as he holds his shoulder, he seems to be the second most wounded after Chief, Sunlight then replied with a calmed voice. "Sunset's fine, we managed to draw the Siths away, but Chief..."

Rarity creates small diamonds around Sunlight, shutting her at once. "You have no saying in this matter." Twilight then has a shocked expression and says. "He's not breathing... Chief's not breathing!"

A portal opens in front of them and Rey says. "We called for extraction on our way here, c'mon! We don't have much time!" Rey then carries Sunset with her arms, as Applejack lifts Chief's body, Rarity made a bed of diamonds for them to place their wounded companions, Twilight then created a magnetic field around Sunlight to not let her escape, the group walks through the portal and gets to the Infinity, hoping to save John from death and traet everyone's wounds, as also they have to clarify the matter regarding if Sunlight is trustworthy or not anymore.

END OF CHAPTER.