The Fabulous Wonderbolts Part 2&3

"Come on guys! Princess Celestia wants us to go explore that cave right away! We can't keep her waiting!" Twilight said. The other ponies were gathering their stuff together and were ready to leave.

"All right, is everypony ready to go?" Asked twilight. They all nodded in agreement. All six of them were traveling to an ancient cave that Celestia wanted them to explore and bring back artifacts they find to the princess. For them, it was a simple mission, nothing hard at all.

"So um why do we have to go through a scary cave? I mean why can't you guys go in and I stay outside for a little bit?" Asked fluttershy.

"Because Celestia wants us to go and find older artifacts that could reveal more about ponyville" said twilight. "Plus, you don't want to fail the princess do you fluttershy?"

"Well um no but I still don't think it is smart to go into a-"

"We're here!" Yelled Pinkie, interrupting Fluttershy. There was a huge mountain and at its base, there was a huge cave. It was pitch black and the ponies could hear wind going through the cave. Fluttershy stared backing up, but was met by Rainbow Dash staring at her.

"Come on fluttershy, stop being such a baby and just go in." Rainbow said to Fluttershy. Fluttershy just walked back up to the rest slowly with her head down. One by one, they all went into the cave. They all had helmets on with lights to see where they were going. In the cave, all the ponies could see was rocks and dirt for a while.

"We aren't finding anything. This really doesn't make any sense." Twilight said. They were looking all around the cave, but it looked empty.

"Look whatever was in here, it was probably cleaned out years ago twilight." Said Applejack. The ponies kept looking around, going deeper into the cave, finding nothing but stalagmites and hearing wind run through the cave.

"Hey this actually might be an empty cave so why don't we just leave now." Said Fluttershy. She started backing up to leave, and ran into the wall of the cave and screamed. The other ponies looked at her and their lights showed that what she hit, wasn't a wall.

"What is that? It looks old." Said Rarity. They all looked at it and realized it was a door that had been forced shut.

"What could be in there?" Asked Pinkie.

"It might be what Celestia wants us to explore and find something in there." Twilight replied. She used her magic to move the door out of the way. When she did so, the door fell and there was a dark tunnel that lead to a huge cave room.

"Come on gang, lets find out what's in there. Nice work finding this cave Fluttershy." Said twilight. Fluttershy just sighed and slowly walked into the cave with the others. As they walked into the tunnel, torches on the walls lit and there was light throughout the tunnel leading to that room. Once they reached the room, torches lit up all around the room and the room was filled with artifacts. There were stone pillars all around the room and at the front of the room, there was a shrine with two candles and a statue of a pony sitting down.

"Woah, check this out. All this stuff is so old and...and that statue is amazing. It's in perfect condition." Said twilight. They all looked at the statue with amazement. The pillars had cracks, and in those cracks, there was an orange light coming from inside.

"This stuff is so old and ancient, we have to take some of this stuff to the princess." Said Rainbow Dash. They all agreed and started finding small artifacts that they could put in their saddle bags. Then, twilight stepped forward to get a better look at the statue. When she did this, she stepped on a tile and it pushed down. Twilight started floating unwillingly and her horn glowed with magic and she shot magic at the statue.

"Twilight, what are you doing?" Asked Applejack.

"I don't know! I can't control what I'm doing!" Twilight replied. As she said this, the statue started glowing orange and twilight fell on the floor.

"Wha...what's Happening?" Said Fluttershy. They statue then started cracking and in the cracks, there was an orange glow. Then, the statue exploded, sending rock fragments everywhere. Out of the clouds of dust and rock, stood one single stallion. He was a light orange and his mane was a darker orange. He was a unicorn and his horn glowed in orange and the rocks that blew off his body came back to him and started piecing together, but with space. He was making a type of rock armor.

"Who are you? And what were you doing in a cave?" Asked Rainbow Dash. As she said this, he was putting on his last part of his armor, a rock helmet and once he put that on, his eyes were fully enveloped with an orange glow, and every part of his body that wasn't in armor, was glowing orange.

"Ah it's good that you ask who I am, my dear." He said. His voice was low and there was some distortion to it. "For you are staring at your new leader, I am Doom and you will all be my eventual slaves! Now run while I give you he chance fools!" He said. The ponies looked at each other and back at him.

"No way are we leaving! We are here because the princess wants us to do something for her." Said twilight. All the ponies stood their ground and he just looked at them.

"Ah yes, you are working for Princess Celestia aren't you?" He asked. When he asked, he was smiling.

"Yeah, what's it to you?" Rainbow Dash said. She was flying and was looking at him angrily.

"No need to get violent, Rainbow Dash, is it?" He said. She jumped back a bit in shock that he knew her name.

"How...how do you know my name?" Rainbow asked. He turned and looked at her.

"Well I am one of the greatest wizards throughout all of this land, so know who you are right away. You are Rainbow Dash. An in your face Pegasus that wants to join the Wonderbolts and takes reputation as serious. Oh and you won't back down from a challenge. Is that good enough for you?" He said with a smile. She just was standing there is shock. "Now if you don't mind, I have a throne to get to that belongs to me." He said.

"You aren't going any-" just as twilight was going to finish what she was going to say, Doom's horn lit up and they all were teleported to the middle of a random field.

"Come on everypony! We must warn Celestia!" Said Applejack, and they all started running toward the train station to Canterlot.

"Wow last weeks performance was amazing." I had said as I jumped onto a couch in in house.

"Yeah it was, we did awesome! As we normally would." Said fleetfoot. I had a couple of Wonderbolts in my house to hang out with for the day.

"I say we could've done a better performance for the gala, but still, it was pretty perfect." Said Rapidfire. We were all sitting in the living room and talking about the performance.

"Yeah, but the actual gala was cool too, I had a good really good time." I had said. I was remembering back to how I had spent the night with Rainbow Dash.

"You know, where did you run off to in such a hurry after the performance all dressed up Soarin?" Asked fleetfoot in a sarcastic tone. I just looked up and started getting red.

"Uh none of your business fleetfoot." I said nervously.

"You know I saw you run off with some Rainbow looking mare." Said Rapidfire. He was smiling when I looked over at him.

"Ok I spent the night with a girl, what's the big deal?" I said. By this time, I was red and the other pegusai were laughing and I just looked down and smiled.

When the six arrived at Canterlot, they were all rushing to the Princess. They made it to the castle and ran into the main room and the princess was there.

"Princess Celestia, we have dire news to tell you!" Said twilight.

"Go ahead twilight." Celestia responded. Princess Luna was there as well. Twilight then began to explain what had happened when they went to the cave.

"Who is this stallion you speak of? What did he look like?" Asked Celestia.

"He was bright orange and his mane was a darker orange. He also had rock type armor on and was amazing with magic." Said twilight.

"Did he go by the name Doom?" Celestia asked. She was concerned when Twilight nodded her head in agreement. Celestia then walked over to a bookcase and took out a book with her magic and gave it twilight. "Doom was a wizard that was one of my original two students that I had. He was a very promising student at first. He was able to complete any magic or spell I gave him. He even created his own spells. He was actually able to use a type of mind control that let's him know everything about a certain pony just by looking at their cutie mark. His other spells include teleportation, magic bolts, levitation, offensive attacks, and worst of all, mind control. He could have used those for good, but he then was corrupted by evil. All his spells are original and cannot be replicated. He challenged me to fight for the throne and I had to turn him into stone with the help of my sister, but he has returned and he is stronger than ever before." Celestia said. She sounded disappointed when she said it.

"What do we do Princess?" Applejack asked.

"You must go with twilight and get the elements of harmony, beat him, and turn him to stone just as you did with Discord." She said. "I shall notify Shining Armor to come and defend with the Royal Guard. We will try to stall for time as much as we can so you can gather the elements and defeat Doom." She said. The six then bowed to Celestia and left to Ponyville to gather the elements before it was too late.

"Do you really think Shining Armor will be able to hold a pony like him off?" Princess Luna asked. Celestia looked out of the balcony of the castle.

"I don't know, and I hope the ponies can get the elements before he arrives. He cannot reach the throne before they get back. I will alert the Wonderbolts to come and assist the Royal Guard as much as they can." Celestia replied as she walked off into another room.

"Well cadets, the performance at the gala let people know the new generation of Wonderbolts means business but I haven't told you that the bolts not only preform, but also fight!" Spitfire said. We all looked around at each other confused. "Normally, Wonderbolts don't have combat experience or are involved in any type of combat, but there are times when the Princess needs us to protect her. This is one of those times. Our objective is to keep this pony named Doom away from the princess at all costs. We need to use all of our ability and flight skills to keep him away from the castle. The royal guard will be there to assist us in stopping this pony." We all just looked and were quite nervous because this was my, and other Wonderbolts, first time in actual combat and we didn't know what to do. "We are to leave right now, get in formation and fly over to Canterlot." Spitfire said.

"Captain, what do we do once we get there?" I asked. She looked back at me.

"Do anything in your power to stop Doom from reaching the Princess." She said, and we took off to the castle. When we got there, we were met by Shining Armor and the royal guard. Spitfire and Shining Armor were discussing what the battle plan should be and what the last resort will be. The royal guard was all around Canterlot searching for Doom.

"What do you think this guy will do when he is here?" Fleetfoot said. I looked over at him.

"I don't know, but if he we need this many ponies to protect the princess, then he probably will be a very worthy opponent. Come on, lets make a blockade around the city and block off the roads coming in." I said. Fleetfoot saluted me, called out seven Wonderbolt's names, and left to secure the city. It had been thirty minutes, and there was no sight of Doom. We were all on a sharp defense. We had pegusai in the air looking for him and all of us Wonderbolts were flying around the city.

"Pony coming into the city! South side!" Yelled a royal guard. We all converged to that area. We flew above the royal guard and all we could see was one single pony walking toward the castle. He was getting closer and closer. His mane was a dark orange, I had never seen a pony with that kind of mane. When he got close enough that we could see his face, I had never seen a pony as sinister as him. He had no pupils, only an orange glow from where his eyes should be.

"Stop right there! Don't go any further!" Shining Armor yelled. We all looked at Shining Armor, then back to Doom. He kept walking forward without hesitation. I looked over at Spitfire and she put down her goggles and nodded at me. I put down my goggles over my eyes and signaled the Wonderbolts to fan out across the sky and bring him down. We all flew up above the clouds and then when we were over him, shot straight down and tried to hit him one by one. Right as we got close enough to start the attack, he shot some sort of magic blast and hit about three pegusai in the air. I kept going and right as I was about to hit him, he teleported and we all hit the floor. I slowly got up and and was a little disoriented, but I shook my head and saw he was getting closer to the castle. The royal guard had already attacked doom and he was shrugging them off like they were nothing. He was stopping them and just kicking them down pony after pony.

"We need to get back in this fight!" I yelled. I then bolted off and targeted doom. He was busy attacking other royal guards, at the last moment, just as I was going to hit him he turned around and stopped me. I don't know how but he did. He just turned around, raised his hoof, and I was just stopped in mid air. The air between my body and his hoof was distorted. All the ponies stopped attacking him when they saw this.

"You sneaky fool!" He said he then raised his hoof and as he raised it, I flew up as well. I was trying my best to break through this spell, but I couldn't. I was just, stuck. "Now you see what I am truly capable of Soarin of the Wonderbolts." As he said this, he turned me around and looked at my cutie mark.

"Let me go you coward!" I yelled at him. I was trying to move but I couldn't. My body was frozen.

"It seems you have somepony you care about more then the others, is that correct?" He said it me. In my mind I only thought about Rainbow Dash when he said that.

"You'll eave her alone! Fight me instead!" I responded. He just laughed and as he did, Shining Armor sent out more royal guards to fight him. Doom then just threw me and I just skidded across the floor and he continued forward attacking the guards.

"Enough with this insolence! If you want to truly fight for a cause, then fight with me!" Just as doom said this, he sent out a huge red blast that hit all the royal guards and Wonderbolts, but the only ponies that didn't get hit back were me and Shining Armor.

"Ha! Was that supposed to hurt us?" I asked. He turned and looked at me with a smile. He pointed to spitfire and I turned to look at her. Her flight suit was slowly turning red and when I saw her face, her eyes were closed and she was shaking her head. When she stopped, her eyes opened and they were a blood red. I took a couple of steps back from her. By this time, her whole flight suit was red.

"What happened to you spitfire? Are you ok?" I asked her. I was afraid. I looked around at the other Wonderbolts, they were all the same. Red suits and blood red eyes. Spitfire looked at me with a weird gaze that was intimidating.

"I'm perfectly fine, why I am finally free." She said in an ominous tone and a smile on her face. I was about to leave when two other Wonderbolts from behind me jumped onto my back and help me down.

"No guys what are you doing? It's me, Soarin!" I said. They kept holding me down and one of them tied me up. I looked over at the royal guards and they were all in red armor with the same blood red eyes. Shining armor was trapped and taken prisoner too. I was being tied up when one of the Wonderbolts hit me on my head and I blacked out.