Sprawling Light

-In the Everfree Forest, a little before the Blackout-

Amy and Pinkie Pie fly through the trees in their Super Forms, with golden streaks behind them, “So Pinkie, did anyone get hurt in Rockville?”

Pinkie giggles, “Nope, I blasted all those shadowy ghosty guys away. How was guarding Ponyville?”

Amy gets a little sheepish, “Took out those little things with ease, but I may have caused a small earthquake.” Amy looks around, “You see the Tree anywhere?”

Pinkie’s tuft of hair twitches to the left, “Oh! Oh! There it is, finally got it on my Pinkie-Radar. C’mon Amy!”

They both zoom beneath the canopy of leaves to find an old castle that is across a canyon connected by a rickety bridge, Amy asks, “What is this place?”

“This is where me, Twilight, Dash, Rarity, AJ, and Fluttershy solidified our friendship and defeated Nightmare Moon! Who was actually Princess Luna. Who isn’t evil anymore. Anyway, this place is super-duper sentimental for us.”

Amy and Pinkie land on the ground in front of a cave. Amy looks up at the cave, “I can sense the Element Emeralds in there with Twilight, as well as a… massive wellspring of power.”

Pinkie then responds, “Holy hay! You're right, that’s a crazy amount of power. We should say hi to Twilight.”

They enter the cave, and Twilight is standing in front of the glittering Tree of Harmony. The Element Emeralds are on the cave floor in front of the Tree.

She’s talking to herself, “Okay. Let’s try again. You can do this Twilight.” Her eyes and horn glow with dark magic. Twilight tries to cast a spell on the Tree, but the bolt of energy scatters itself on the Tree’s surface. She groans in frustration.

“Hey Twilight, watcha doin’?” Pinkie looks at Twilight then up to the Tree.

Twilight turns around, still in her Super Form, her wings splayed out, “Oh gosh, well this is embarrassing, but hello, Amy, Pinkie. What are you two doing here, you handle your shadow-imp problem?”

Amy spins her hammer in her grip, “We beat all the ones that showed up until they stopped appearing. Me and Pinkie thought that the Tree of Harmony would have a ton of those things but seems like they didn’t show up.”

Twilight ponders while looking through various books and notes she has scattered about the place, “I was moderately concerned about that, considering that the Master knows where this is, or at least he said he did. That’s why when Rarity used her Generosity to send me a message about all the shadows, I doubled my efforts to make this darned Tree moveable.”

“Why Is this happening today?” Amy thinks out loud as the cave gets darker and darker.

“Hey, who’s turning the sun down!?” Pinkie yells

Twilight stops what she’s doing, “Wait what?”

She warps outside to see the sky turn black, she spreads out her wings, her horn and eyes glow bright, as her aura sharpens and expands, then she fires a small beam that creates a small star in the sky, like shining a flashlight on a black sheet. This single star expands and multiplies rapidly to millions of little glowing dots in the sky, giving a decent amount of illumination.

“The sky is covered in such dense darkness; I hope what I did helped in some way, and I hope the princesses are okay.” As Twilight ponders, she goes back inside.

Twilight looks to Amy and Pinkie, “I cast a star spell on the sky, its improvised but it should hold for a long while.”

Amy looks at the sky, impressed, “That’s a lot of energy Twilight, hard to believe you’ve in a Super Form for a month now.”

Twilight blushes, “Oh stop. It’s just my Element Ability. Magic lets me have a lot of reserves of energy. Plus, I can improvise spells! I just wish I could write them down or put them in a scroll. The only spell I can’t improvise is the spell Lix took from Celestia.”

Twilight groans “If the Princess just taught that spell to me, we could have gotten the Tree out of here by now.”

Amy looks over, “Why didn’t Celestia teach you, Twi?”

“Because apparently its ‘dark magic’. Like that really matters at a time like this! So, I guess I just have to figure it out.”

Amy turns toward the exit, “Well we got your back, Twi. Isn’t that right, Pinkie?”

“Absolutely! No baddies are gonna get through us! We’re powered up and ready to throw down!” Pinkie yells out while bouncing. Then they all sense it. Something dark has erupted in Canterlot. Pinkie’s ears flattened against her head, “What just happened?”

Amy grips her hammer, “Something really bad just popped up in Canterlot right now. If we can feel it from here, it makes those shadow things look like a joke.”

Amy and Pinkie guard the cave, as Twilight continues to blast spells at the tree.

As the two stand there for a minute, Pinkie looks on the ground and sees pebbles shaking violently, then they start floating upward. Her tuft of mane points to the left, her eyes widen as she jumps toward Amy to save her from something unseen, Pinkie yells out, “Amy, look out!” as she pushes Amy, four long tails stab deep into the stone where Amy’s head was. Amy’s eyes widen recognizing the tails.

“Damn you and that little power you have, Pinkie.” As Pinkie Pie hears the voice, she recognizes it, but she knows it isn’t Kilo. it’s Fist.

As he breaks the tree line, they see an upgraded Fist, he was given parts from his failed partners, but all given a purple coat of paint. He still has a metallic body, like his initial Metal Knuckles form, but he has nine twisting tails, his hands are not like Knuckles’ and instead look more like Lix’s hands but with the same empty holes where the knuckles are that shoot out crystal blades.

“Man, this is fate or something. I get to find the Equestrian Emerald and I get to kill two shit stains. It really feels like my birthday.” Fist arrogance emanates off of him as he lumbers close.

Pinkie and Amy flare with energy as he comes closer, Amy’s voice becomes full of disgust, “Stay back, freak, you are not welcome here, turn around and go.”

Fist stops points at both of them, “Aw come on, you guys are starting in your Super Forms? That’s not very fair. Pinkie, that’s not very nice. I gave you the Emeralds to power you up when we fought, can’t you do the same for little ol’ me?”

Pinkie raises an eyebrow, “Uh, no! You tried to kill us! I’m never gonna give someone evil like you a single thing! Besides why are you back? Didn’t we kick your muscle-brained butt?”

Fist’s voice gets angrier, still smiling, “Let’s not mince words, Pink, you killed me. You, Rainbitch, and the blue bastard, took my body from me.” Then he chuckles, “But I still won. Got myself a little promotion for getting those emeralds, my boss, Mephilzo, let me pick from Kilo and Lix’s blueprints to upgrade myself. I got Kilo’s tails, and I also took Lix’s databanks, so I know all of his tricks.”

“So, your boss’s name is Mephilzo?” Amy asks.

Fist responds with his arms crossed, “Yeah, he lifted the mental block, because he’s on the planet, so I and my good buddy Prism can sing his praises or whatever. If you want my opinion, I don’t really care about ruling Equestria, I just want to fight strong people and get stronger, then someday I’ll kill Mephilzo myself. Until then, it’ll be smooth sailing. Now which one of you ladies want to fight me before I Reverse Roboticize and flatten the western hemisphere?”

After Fist’s threats leave his robotic speaker, Pinkie bursts off the ground, she blazes toward him at faster than light speeds, she throws a Party Favor at him, he smiles ready to take it to the chest, but then it hits him.

The pink ball explodes with a much greater force than when they fought on Angel Island. Fist flies back, his chassis already damaged. As he struggles to right himself, Amy drags her hammer along the ground, kicking up dirt. Fist turns his head while he’s flying through trees, only to see Amy’s red eyes streaking with a glow as she runs next to him.

She raises her hammer high and slams it downward as hard as she can on Fist’s Chest. The hammer snaps on impact.

The blow craters Fist into the ground. Amy tosses her broken hammer pommel down, it poofs away.

She holds out her hands and summons a hammer in both. Amy swings one like a golf club scooping Fist up and flinging him to the air at an angle.

As he reaches the top of his ascent. Amy teleports in and bashes his head between her two hammers. Fist’s eyes almost blink off, as his monitor eyes crack, his robotic voice garbled a scream.

Amy opens her arms and spins around with both hammers in a swiping motion. Both flat ends of the hammers slam into the front of his body. The robot echidna gets blown away toward a grouping of trees. He looks up and he sees Pinkie’s hoof with Party Favor aimed at point blank. When the Party Favor detonates Fist plummets through the pink smoke.

Except Pinkie feels a pull on her leg. As Fist successfully wrapped a tail around her hindleg. Fist laughs, “HA! Got you!”

Pinkie’s eyes grow wide, ah aims toward the ground and activates the jets on his shoulders. Slowly dragging them both down.

Pinkie tries to get away, but Fist grabs the tail that Pinkie’s leg is stuck to. The other tails provide wrap around the singular tails for more strength.

He yanks hard and Pinkie plummets to the ground. As she bounces off the ground of the forest. Fist starts spinning Pinkie bashing her into trees. He whips the tail to slam her into the ground. Fist yanks hard on the tail to slingshot Pinkie in his direction.

Fist holds a stiff arm outward as she flies toward the brute.

Fist leans forward and delivers a hard clothesline, slamming his inner elbow into Pinkie’s snout.

On the follow through, Pinkie spins vertically before crashing face first into the dirt, blood pouring out of her nose.

“Pinkie!” Amy grips her hammers tightly and rockets toward Fist with a glittering gold streak.

Seeing her coming Fist puts one hand in front of him to parry her hammer, then he clenches his other fist and slams her in the side of the head with a nasty haymaker.

Though her head moves, Amy’s body doesn’t budge as she stares down the multi-tailed echidna, with his fist in planted in her cheek.

She pulls her head back, forcing Fist to stumble on the follow through.

Amy grits her teeth and slams her forehead into Fist’s, making a cacophonous clanging noise. As Amy reels back, she lands on the ground.

She pulls back her other hammer and bashes his knees out. She spins, her red eyes shimmering and bashes him on the side with both hammers at once. He gets sent flying a few yards then grinds his feet against the ground, to stop himself. One of his knees shatters as he stops himself and Fist is forced to fall to one knee while he glares at Amy.

Amy helps Pinkie up, and Pinkie shakes the blood off of her face. Pinkie spits out some blood, then they both match Fist’s glare.

Fist puts a hand on his head and a dark energy circulates through his body.

“No! I will not lose a second time. Not to these weak fucking nothings.” He looks up and his robotic eye trembles in madness, “You people are going to die and be thankful for it!”

As his voice gets louder his body starts to morph like Super Fist, his metal plates become a dark purple fur. The other difference being his nine tails become extraordinarily long, and cover themselves in matching purple fur, but the tips are made of jagged black crystal, and as he transforms another tail appears, bringing it up to ten.

His hulking body hunches over. He breathes out through his mouth reveling razor sharp teeth. He howls with laughter as his tails wriggle behind him. “God, do I love this transformation, don’t need a single one of those stupid rocks. I’m Ten-Tailed Fist. I’m gonna kill you.”

His eyes look at Pinkie, “Alright Pink, let’s see if I can do this.” He opens his palms, and all ten of his tails point toward the hands, then they all start to glow. Black static starts to form in his hands, then a purple orb highlighted with black manifests and Fist then yells “Star Buster!”

The blast of dark purple energy soars through the air as Pinkie holds up her hooves, to try and hold it back. As her hooves grind against the dirt, the beam seconds from overtaking her.

She Chaos Controls out of the way.

The Star Buster blazes into the horizon, then it detonates deeper inside the forest. It illuminates the Everfree purple for miles.

Pinkie snaps forward to see a form above her. Fist readying a downward punch. Though startled, Pinkie still dodges to the left, like her Pinkie Sense tells her to.

But a fist collides into her head from the side rather than above. She is it sent flying through the forest, her body splintering trees to pieces before slamming and skidding into the ground. Pinkie feels more blood gush from her nose, she stands up breathing heavily.

Fist swipes Pinkie’s blood from his knuckles. “Finally. That dodging shit was getting old.”

“H- How? My Pinkie Sense is unbeatable!”

Fist smirks, “Not really. Lix made this little technique called Chaos Hypnosis. You’re Pinkie Sense is subconscious, if your sense don’t work, it’s useless.” His red eyes tremble again, “I said I’d kill you, Pink, this next time,” His blades shoot out from his hand, “I’m gonna skewer you.”

Pinkie stands up, her breathing stable and blood drips from her nose. Then she smiles. Wide

“If I were everywhere, how many ponies do you think I’ve made laugh?”

Fist looks at her with a confused glance, “One or two? I don’t know, why does that matter?”

Fist notices another Pinkie Pie walking into sight, then another one and another one, I gets to the point to where there are twelve Pinkie Pies bouncing around.

Fist crosses his arms while hovering, “So you can clone yourself, huh? How is that impressive in anyway?”

Her smile remains as wide as ever, “On its own, I think it’s pretty neat. Though I had to use Chaos energy to copy what the Mirror Pool did and, well darn, it was some real work to make them coordinate.”

Pinkie cleans the blood from her face, “You probably don’t know, but I have super special ability based on my Element. I’m Laughter so my Element Ability is obviously Laughter! When I make ponies laugh, I get stronger. I sent my Pinkies all over Equestria to make people laugh.” Pinkie smirks as she continues to look at Fist. “All these Pinkies are brimming with Laughter!” Her Chaos fueled eyes widen, “Wanna see what happens when I absorb all of ‘em?”

Pinkie claps her hooves together, her golden aura turns pink, as the energy from the copies start to flow into her. The Pinkie copies slowly fade, as Pinkie’s aura becomes opaque pink, the only thing behind the pink light, are two wild white eyes.

Fist slowly hovers to the ground. Fist’s smile turns into a look of abject horror. His fur stands on end like a cornered cat. Swiftly all of his tails light up with energy as he creates a massive energy ball to eliminate the threat.

Pinkie Pie spreads her arms from within her Pink cocoon and disperses the energy, the pink aura remains stretches with clusters of golden static running about her body. Her pupils are completely dilated as she hovers in the air. Her grin stretches across her face as she stares upward.

Fist feeds his attack more energy, “Are you high or something! What the hell is going on here!?”

Pinkie’s head snaps at Fist. She straightens herself in the air, raises her hooves above her head and charges her energy. The air for miles vibrates from the intensity, pink static erupting in the atmosphere.

The ball she creates is the size of a house, then it doubles.

And doubles

Then doubles again.

Fist starts to sweat. This attack is so large it blocks the view of the black sky when standing under it. And so bright it could be mistaken for the sun.

Everything rumbles when Pinkie condenses it. Until its compressed to fit perfectly in her hoof.

She winds her hoof back and prepares to toss it like a baseball at Fist.

Her voice echoes across the Everfree. “Smile Bomb!”

Fist tries to combat it with his Star Buster. The force of the energy colliding sinks Fist’s legs into the ground. He puts everything he has just to keep it from touching him.

Fist made a grave error forgetting that Amy Rose was still in the fight. Amy flies into Fist’s view with a gargantuan Piko-Piko Hammer being pulled behind her, it was hundreds of meters long, with its hammerhead being half the size of Ponyville.

Amy grips the handle with both hands, she grits her teeth. Amy lifts the city-sized hammer slowly into the air, as it stands straight up. Amy adjusts her grip then drops herself on the ground cratering herself. Her body bursts with gold energy, as her red eyes burn with a righteous fury at Fist.

Then she puts everything into the downward swing, “100 times Piko Hammer Slam!” the hammer’s shaft curves slightly as she aims the full weight of the weapon right on Fist’s head.

When the Piko Hammer reaches the Smile Bomb, it neutralizes Fist’s Star Buster, and the condensed bomb is pushed into Fist’s chest. Right below the Gem housing his soul. He yells out in agony, his flesh burning against the positive energy. As Fist’s back is pushed into the ground. the Smile Bomb detonates.

Pink light spreads in every direction, the feeling is Laughter made manifest. Bright and Happy. The concussive blast completely obliterates the giant Piko Hammer, turning the head of the hammer to dust.

The pair of pink monsters view the massive wound in the ground they created. The hole crackling with pink static and the faint laughter of ponies across Equestria.

Amy and Pinkie slowly land at the bottom. They see the barely breathing form of Fist, charred from the blast, his mouth agape.

Fist shakily stands up.

Then he laughs his arm sloughs off and fades to dust.

He turns to Pinkie, “You surprised me, Pink. Truly. What a monster you are.” Fist’s aura flares, “I’m not done yet though.” His eyes glance in the direction of Twilight, and he Chaos Controls away.

Pinkie and Amy warp in the same direction.

Twilight sweats, but she focuses her magic as hard as she can. “Please, work with me! My friends need help!” This time the Tree twinkles as the spell hits and the Tree shimmers and morphs into a large white, hexagonal cut gem. “Finally, now I can-“

Fist arrives, and Twilight can’t react fast enough to stop the massive echidna from cutting a hole in space and throwing the Cyan Element Emerald into the Void. He pivots on his heel and is about to run.

Then Twilight grabs the purple echidna with magic and flings him into wall, she holds him in place magically. Twilight looks him up and down. “You must be Fist…”

Twilight’s eyes and horn alight with energy, she casts a spell on Fist.

An orb of light encloses itself around Fist. The light fluctuates for a moment then it starts burning his flesh as the light intensifies like a microwave. He yells out in pain as he thrashes against the magic.

Twilight stops the spell for a moment, her eyes still gleaming, “You were about to run. Why!?”

Fist snarls as his body is turning to dust, “Eat shit!”

Twilight frowns and flicks her horn. The light intensifies once more. Amy and Pinkie watch this grizzly display nearby.

Twilight stops again, “I don’t want to do this, but I was told with things like you, we have to take drastic measures. I am willing to let you go, if you just tell me why you only took one Emerald then tried to bolt.”

Fist pants then starts laughing, “So cold blooded, you’re just like me, Twily.”

“You don’t get to call me that. Only my brother gets to call me that.” Twilight sneers, “And I’m nothing like you!”

“You're torturing a man who’s going to die. I’m kicking it, with or without this little spell you’re using. Bet you feel cathartic, huh?”

Twilight’s eyes refocus, “You’re avoiding my question! Why did you only take one?!”

“Your mother.” He spits on the ground.

Twilight frowns and lets down her telekinesis, “I’m not going any further, Fist. Get out of here so you can pass on peacefully somewhere else.”

The moment Fist is free, he lunges at her like a rabid animal. Fist’s other arm sloughs off from the movement and how damaged It is.

Twilight looks away as her spell reactivates. Fist’s whole body is wreathed in a burning light, and Fist screeches like an unholy beast. As his body is turned to dust The gem on his chest shoots off and lands on the ground next to Twilight. It reflects the light for a moment, until Twilight stamps on it, shattering Fist’s gem. Twilight’s eyes catch a small black wisp creep from the gem. Her eyes glow for a moment. As the small wisp is incinerated by a flash of light.

Twilight exhales, “Sorry you gals had to see that.”

Pinkie walks up and gives Twilight a hug, “Twilight, don’t you feel bad. If a tiny light spell can hurt them, then these guys are evil to the core.”

“Pinkie’s right. We’re fighting the closest thing I’ve ever seen to real demons.” Amy looks at the dust blowing away in the wind, “Also, we learned the master’s name. It’s Mephilzo, I’ve never heard the name before, but we should get moving.” Amy conjures a new hammer and rests it on her shoulder.

Twilight summons her resolve, “Okay, let’s get going! I’ll take the Elements- “, as she turns, she watches as the Element Emeralds are enveloped by a black cloud. Then in a burst of energy they all vanish.

“No!” Twilight yells as she runs over to the empty spot where the Emeralds once stood. As the Equestrian Master Emerald is removed, the entire forest goes quiet, “Without our Master Emerald the Everfree’s environment can’t sustain itself!”

Pinkie gasps, “Twilight we gotta go! If they disappeared that means that Mephilzo has ‘em!”

That’s when they all sense something else happening in Canterlot. A monstrous charging of energy, as this power builds, it starts rumbling the ground, everything shaking and tremoring.

Twilight looks in the direction of Canterlot with her eyes wide, “Fluttershy?”