My Little Pony (R:G5): Ponies Unite! (Book 1: A New Generation)

Canterlot Castle

Silence...

Silence was the only sound Twilight could hear, her eyes remained closed, but her ears listen for any form of sound it could hear. At first, she hears nothing, until breeze from the holes of the castle walls and ruined colored windows started to blow on through, then it starts to pick up into a rougher gusts, then they died down as the sounds of a storm brewed.

She opened her eyes and before her, standing at forty feet away from her throne stood the mad Alicorn, looking much worse for wear, staring at his bloodshot eyes. "So..." He said calmly, "I see that you have returned from the grave. The immortal and almighty Princess Twilight Sparkle, back to finish what she had started."

"You expected more I reckon?" She asked him.

"Not at all. Rather fitting actually." He tells her, he then looks at one of the glass stained murals, chuckling to himself, "Funny thing, friendship. It just like the bonds you have with family, you try to impress them and winning their trust, but in the end, you end up disappointing them.”

“That’s an awful way to look at friendship.”

“But the same happened to you, didn’t it?” Aerovad asked with a grin, “When you told your friends that you’d be better off without them.”

“I never meant it.” Twilight tells him sternly.

“Perhaps not,” he said with a shrug, “But what if you were right?”

“Excuse me?”

“What if you were indeed stronger without them?” He proposed, “What if they only held you back? You could’ve gone back to Seaquestria, and took the pearl by force, you could’ve gained the power, and taken your home back from the Storm King. Yet you chose to cry like a coward.”

“Unlike you,” she retorts, “I felt terrible and remorseful for what I said. Had I not been captured, I wouldn't be able to save Tempest from her enslavement. You on the other hoof? You wouldn't show any remorse for what you would and are willing to do."

The grin disappears from the green Alicorn’s lips as he tells her, “My actions are justified.”

“That isn’t what your sister told me.” She argues shaking her head, “I know what you did to Sunny’s father. Poisoning a young filly’s father? How is that justifiable?!”

“You would be the judge of me?!” He unfurls his wings, ready to launch himself, “I am the Alicorn of Wind, no mortal dares judges what I have done.”

“So, what, you’d rather be judge, juror, and executioner all at once?!” She asked him, completely baffled by his mindset, “That isn’t how justice works!”

“SILENCE!!!!” He bellows, strong currents of wind howl throughout the room, “I WILL NOT BE DENIED OF WHAT I WILL OR WILL NOT ACCOMPLISH BY A PATHETIC EXCUSE FOR A SUCCESSOR!! YOU ARE UNFIT TO RULE EQUESTRIA! I CONDEMN YOU TO SUFFER, FOREVER!!!”

Twilight unfurled her own wings, their rainbow colors sparkle brightly. “Come give it a try!” She taunts him.

With a thunderous cry, the mad Alicorn shot lightning towards the Princess of Friendship, she dodges out of the way and casts a blast of her own, only to be blocked by a cocooned ball of wind, redirecting it to a wall. Twilight then ignites her horn, sending another shot, this time it lands a direct hit to his chest, sending him flying to a wall, crumbling behind him.

“You can’t win against me Princess!” He mocks, gathering up a scraps and splinters of concrete and wood, “Your power is nothing compared to mine!” Twilight could see the attack coming and hid behind a pillar, avoiding the shower of debris. She then teleports behind to a different pillar, recomposing herself. “You’ve only earned your title by false truths and broken promises.” Aerovad mocked, “Celestia was unwise to choose you as the next ruler. You could barely beat me last time.”

“I had my friends, what did you have?” She retorts.

He casts more shots of wind, sending Twilight flying to her throne, landing roughly and causing it lean backwards and onto it’s back side, making her roll down on the back steps.

“Something you will never have, nor will you ever use,” he tells her as his horn ignites into a blade of wind, charging at her howling, “POWER!!!!”

Twilight quickly charges up her own horn, and it forms into a blade of pure energy, parrying Aerovad’s attack with a lock. While doing so, she could sense that the mad Alicorn was about to prepare his dagger, readying for a swift attack on her. Seeing the dagger unsheathed, she pushed him back and slices the weapon in two, then four pieces. The destroyed dagger clatters on the floor, it’s poisonous abilities fades into the wind. The male Alicorn saw the dagger’s destruction and curses at her, “YOU FOOL!!! NOW THE PROPHECY’S CHILD WILL ROAM FREE FOREVER!!! YOU WILL SUFFER FROM THE CONSEQUENCES THAT YOU HAVE UNLEASHED UPON US!!!”

“You can suffer from the consequences of what you have done in Tartarus, Aerovad.” Twilight tells him.

He has had enough and charges towards her once again.

Outside of the Castle

A golden vortex raised and lowered, unveiling the Champions of Unity, some of them were in shock of where they are. Sunny looked at the architecture and immediately realized it. “Guys… we’re in Canter-”

“Hold on.” Hitch gags, his face looking a little green, “I think my stomach is still in Maretime Bay.”

Zipp rolled his eyes, but then he too realizes where they are as he finishes Sunny’s sentence, “We’re in Canterlot.” He looks at the apricot mare and asks her, “You’re sure this is where Princess Twilight is?”

As if on cue, a part of a wall far away from them exploded from a powerful blow of wind. Misty observes the damage and says, “Uhh… if that doesn’t scream a battle with two of the most powerful Alicorns alive, I’m not sure what else to call it.”

“The Princess is in trouble!” Sunny tells them, “Come on! We got to help her!” All of them agreed, and hurried inside.

As sudden as it happened, Twilight got flinged to another wall, weakening her. Aerovad glides down, and gently lands, shaking his head in disappointment. “Why Twilight?” He asks her, “For somepony with all of your power, all of that control… you let it all go to waste.” Twilight tried to get back on her hooves, but with a down push of the wind, she was back down on her barrel again, exhausted. “I expected a fight when I came here… instead, I gotten a squash match with you.”

“Aerovad!” They heard the voice that made the mad Alicorn snarl, who he had grown tired of hearing, and in came to the throne the six ponies that twice defied him. Sunny spoke up, “Get away from her!”

“You witch!” Izzy said in what she thought her friend was going to finish saying.

Said pony, the four others, and two Alicorns looked at the light purple Unicorn very confused. Pipp asked her, “I’m sorry. What?”

“What, you haven’t seen that movie?” Izzy asks her.

“Well, duh, I have, but why call him a witch? Wouldn't he be a warlock since he’s a guy?”

“Yeah, but it wouldn’t sound as cool though.” Izzy tries to make her case.

Then Pipp tries to make hers, “True, but it wouldn’t make sense gender wise.”

“Sure, but what if-”

“Uh, ladies?” Zipp butts in, “Now isn’t the time.” Both of them looked at the white Pegasus at first, then at each other sheepishly.

Aerovad just shook his head with a chuckle, “Are you really that insane? You really want to stop me that badly? Despite you possessing all three of the Unity Crystals, I can still toss you all around and break your bones, cascade you all aside to the winds.”

It was Hitch’s turn to shake his head and then he said, “You know you’d be breaking every law in Equestria.”

“You think I care about your mortals’ law?! I’m above the law!”

“Uhh,” Izzy buts in, in a teasing tone, “Actually the head Alicorn upstairs is the one above the-”

“Did I ask for your opinion you blubbering idiot?!”

“Hey!” Misty spoke up, “Don’t you dare call her an idiot! She’s our friend! Something that you seem to have forgotten!”

Aerovad just sneers at the group and tells them, “You think you’re really strong together when you’re in your little pact? I will crush you all, and when I’m done, I will be sure to pain the walls with your ashes.”

“We won’t let you leave our devoid of magic,” Sunny declares, standing proud and strong, “We will stand and fight. We will win.”

“With what?” Aerovad challenges, his wings unfurled once again, “All you have is magical rocks that could be called upon whenever you’re threatened. You tell me all of this power of positivity nonsense, but I will still be here, commanding my wind to sweep you away, and I will be victorious!”

He summoned the most powerful blustery of wind he could muster, at the same time, the Unity Crystals glowed, creating an orb of energy around the six ponies, protecting them from the sudden blast. Twilight could see the situation that her brave young heroes are in, she knows that with enough power of his elemental wind, the shield will eventually deplete, letting him go into an attack.

She closed her eyes and lowered her head.

I don’t know what I’m supposed to do now… I thought I could stop him alone… and now I’m placing these young ponies in danger… and I can’t do anything about it… my friends… I’m so sorry… I… I have failed you all…

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Whoa whoa whoa, you’re just going to give up, like that? That’s not what I’ve taught you when you got your wings.

Twilight snaps her eyes open. That voice. That voice! It… no, it couldn’t be Rainbow Dash. It must be the howls of the wind.

Darling, we didn’t help you get this far only to have your beautiful mane ruined by a awful storm!

She heard another voice. Either she must be crazy, or she’s really hearing them from beyond the grave.

Yeah! Don’t let that bully slap you down just because you aren’t powerful he’s claiming to be! Oh! Hi lovely ponies and people!

Didn’t we taught ya’ll that friendship will always be stronger than any herd of baddies whenever we were together?

Don’t give up Twilight! You believed in us, now it’s our turn to believe in you!

As she got up slowly got back up onto her hooves, she could feel a strong surge of power as she unfurled her wings, her horn glowed brightly. “My friends…” she said to herself quietly, “If you can really hear me, I request for your help once more. Our next generation of ponies are destined to be the guardians of Equestria. The Champions of Unity. Send them the power to protect our home!”

Aerovad could feel a strong sense of power, so he turned around and see a multi color aura surrounding the Princess of Friendship. “What? What is this?!” He asked in shock.

Twilight then casts a powerful spell, not towards the mad Alicorn, but to the Unity Crystals, causing them to form six new crystals, gently guiding their respective colors to their new owner. All six ponies can’t believe what they’re receiving as a glow surrounds their necks, as their symbol of their cutie marks formed, with a golden rim surrounding it with a beautiful chain.

“Oh, my stars!” Pipp said almost in a gasp.

“Check these out!” Izzy said excitedly.

Hitch looked at his new pendant and tells them, “I don’t know about you guys, but I really do believe in magic.” Sunny looks at him with surprise at first, of which her friend chuckles, “I know, ‘bout time.”

“This is impossible!” Aerovad exclaims accusingly, catching the Champions’ attention, “Nopony could ever use such magic! That… I don’t understand how this is-”

“We’re creative that way.” Izzy tell him, “Something that you clearly lack.”

Aerovad growls at them, “You would dare have the gall to stand up to me?! A god?!”

“It’s courage that we have to stand up to you.” Zipp tells him.

Pipp chimed in, saying “And it’s enough to give us the confidence we need to stop you, whatever it takes!”

Aerovad yells in rage, “YOU HAVE NOTHING!!” Everyone moved out of the way from his incoming blast of wind towards them, separating them to form a circle, having him pinned. “You can’t beat me! I control the wind, and when I’m done with you, you and your tribes will fall in line!”

“You can’t mean that!” Misty tells him, “We have to be empathetic to the ones we love and care for!”

“But that’s something else you clearly lack.” Hitch spoke up to the green stallion, “You have no love. No kindness! What kind of a protector are you if you don’t have any of that?!”

Suddenly, their geodes, except for Sunny’s glowed brightly and casts a bright light at the mad Alicorn, catching him in mid air, yelling in agony. “AAAAGH!!!! I AM ETERNAL!! I AM THE MASTER OF THE WIND!!! WHAT DO ANY OF YOU TRULY HAVE?!?!?! WHAT KIND OF POWER DO YOU ANY OF YOU REALLY HAVE?!?!?!

Sunny, placed her pendant and geode to her chest, holding them close to her heart. She looks up at him and exclaims, “It’s not power Aerovad… it’s hope!” Now her crystal glowed brightly and it shot it’s own beam of light at the Alicorn of Wind as he screamed loudly. “And as long as we are together in Unity, we will never be broken! We will never fail!”

A screech of defeat came from the green Alicorn, trying to get out of the crossing blast, his joints was starting to become rigid, his body starting to go numb. He then sees that he was beginning to fade away. He could’ve been victorious, he could’ve have destroyed here and now. Yet fate had other plans for him. He slowly shuts his eyes, as he began to be enveloped in light, fading away completely.

Sunny could see the light getting brighter and brighter, and she all of a sudden began to feel faint and fell to her side.

Sunny began to open her eyes blinkingly. Looking around, she could see that she seems to be in that crystal like place once again. “Did I…” she started, but then groaned, “Did I seriously passed out?”

“Maaaaybe.” She heard, making her yelp. Looking behind her, it is the crystal Alicorn, giggling at her, “Don’t worry, you’re just unconscious due to the powers you used against Aerovad. Your friends brought you back to bed to give you proper rest.”

The apricot mare was shocked to hear about this. “W-wait, you mean I’m asleep?! For how long?!”

“In about seven hundred years.”

“WHAT?!”

“I’m joking! I’m joking!” The crystal mare reassures Sunny, “You’ve only been asleep for about five hours.”

The earth pony sighed in relief, “Oh, thank goodness…” then she realized something and asks her, “Wait a second, how did you know that I was fighting Aerovad?”

“Well,” the crystal mare explains, “since you’ve been able to reconnect me to your dreams, I could see what was happening in real time.” She sighed in sadness, “I wish I could’ve helped out, but I’m locked in a comatose state in a crystal.”

“It’s weird…” Sunny said to her, “I thought I felt you there with me during the fight… so, in way, you were there.” She placed her forehoof on the crystal mare’s shoulder, “and I think I’m starting to remember somethings about you.”

“You did!?” The mare asks her excitedly.

“You come from a royal line, right?” The crystal Alicorn nods to the question. “And… oh… what else was it? Oh yeah! You’re a daughter of another Alicorn yeah?”

“Yeah!”

“A-and your name is…” Sunny groaned in frustration, “Why can I remember somethings about you, but why can’t I remember your name?!”

The mares sighs with a smile and tells the apricot earth pony, “It’s okay, I’m sure you’ll figure it out one day. Just those tidbits of info is enough for now.” She notices that the twinkling lights from the crystals started to shimmer, “Oh, you’re starting to wake up again.”

Sunny sighed, “I’m sorry I couldn’t stay around longer.”

The mare giggled, “I wouldn’t be too worried. Besides, I have a gift for you when you wake up.”

“You do?” The apricot mare asked confused, “What is it?”

“You’ll see it when you wake up.” The crystal pony tells her and gave her playful wave, “See you again Sunny! And good morning to you!”