The Alicorn War

It was dark. So dark. The entire land of Equstria was covered in a dense, black fog. If you listened, you could hear the screams of the wounded. Wings of shadow flapped overhead, sending a jolt of terror through anypony that heard them. The ominous crack in the sky grew ever bigger. The reign of The Darkness had come.

“Here are the places that need the most help.” Luna pointed to a map at four separate places on opposite corners of the map. Rarity and Pinkie Pie had gathered ponies from all over Equestria and built an army. This army was divided into four sections. The first was led by Princess Luna. The second was led by Silverbolt. The third was led by and pure white Pegasus named Albus, and the fourth byTwilight and her five friends. “I will go to Fillydelphia .” stated Luna. “Silverbolt, you go to Cloudsdale! Twilight, you take your group to Ponyville, and Albus, you stay here to guard Canterlot.

“Wait!” yelled Applejack. “That leaves the Crystal Empire undefended!”

“We will handle that.” said a voice directly behind Twilight. She felt a chill go through her as she recognized the voice that still haunted her dreams. She turned around to see Queen Chrysalis standing there, with an army of changelings backing her.

“Chrysalis!” yelled Silverbolt.

“Ahh, Silverbolt.” said the changeling queen. “I never thought I would see you again!” Silverbolt ran up to Chrysalis and, to everypony’s surprise, nuzzled her! Chrysalis looked shocked, but then warmly accepted it.

“Silverbolt!” exclaimed Luna. “You and… her!?”

“Oh yes.” He replied with a sly chuckle. “Chrysalis and I became quite…er…close during the war.”

Everypony gathered around the two to ask questions, so nopony noticed Rainbow Dash going into the corner to sulk. Except, of course, the unicorn with the eye for detail, Rarity.

“Rainbow Dash! What’s wrong? It’s not like you to sulk like this!”

“I don’t know.” Replied the cyan Pegasus. “I guess it’s just seeing Silverbolt and Chrysalis together like that..”

“But why would that- OH!” Rarity unsuccessfully tried to stifle a yell of surprise as it hit her. “Dashie! You have crush on Silverbolt?!”

“Yeah” answered Rainbow Dash. “I guess it’s kinda stupid to think that an alicorn like him would fall for a normal Pegasus like… well, like me.”

“Now Dash, you mustn’t be so hard on yourself.” Said Rarity. “I’m sure you still have a chance with him.” Rainbow Dash still looked depressed.

“Don’t lie to me to make me feel better, Rarity. I know there’s no chance. Oh well, plenty more fish in the sea, right?”

“Hmm…” said Rarity under her breath, not entirely convinced that Rainbow Dash was okay.

The two of them went back to join the group, where nopony had noticed their absence. “Ok, everybody. Let’s take our armies and go in our designated directions, with Chrysalis and the Changelings in the Crystal Empire.”

“I’ll go with Chrysalis!” interrupted Silverbolt.

“No.” said Chrysalis and Luna at the same time.

“Silverbolt, you have your own responsibilities.” continued Chrysalis. “You can’t follow me around like this forever. Go with your army, and when we win, we can come back here later and talk.”

“Fiiiine.” muttered Silverbolt sullenly.

“Let us be off!” ordered Luna.

“Okay, girls!” yelled Twilight. ”Let’s go kick some Darkness butt!” they all took off running in the direction of Ponyville.

After a couple of hours, they arrived to find their beloved home a war ground. The bodies of earth ponies, pegasi, and unicorns littered the ground. Among them fought the unicorns and earth ponies, while the pegasi and alicorns were engaged in a deadly aerial battle far above.

“Rainbow Dash!” yelled Twilight over the noise of the fighting. “Take all of your pegasi and bring some reinforcements to those fighting above! Fluttershy and Rarity! Find some supplies and start fixing up all the wounded! Applejack, Pinkie Pie and I will help those fighting on the ground! Good luck.”

She shot a bolt of shimmery purple magic at a dark unicorn, turning him to dust. Applejack bucked up and kicked a dark pony so hard he evaporated. Pinkie… well, Pinkie Pie was just being Pinkie Pie. She wheeled out her party cannon (loaded with titanium confetti), and began firing it in all directions, laughing maniacally while she did so. In less than an hour, they had cleared the area of all of The Darkness. Or so they thought.

“We did it!” yelled Pinkie. “We saved Ponyville! I'm gonna throw a HUGE par-“She was cut off as her voice stopped working. Her mouth opened and closed wordlessly before she looked down at her chest with a puzzled expression to see the shadowy horn sticking out of her neck. Twilight immediately vaporized the dark alicorn, but the damage was done. Pinkie fell to the ground, blood already flowing freely from the gaping wound.

“PINKIE! PIIIINKKIIIIIEEE!!!” Twilight hollered at the top of her lungs. “I’m-sorr-y-Twi-light.” Pinkie’s breaths were already getting shorter and faster. “When-it-is-your-turn… I’ll-throw-a-big-par-ty-for-you. Good-bye.” She broke down into weak coughing, and then slumped to the ground as her spirit soared to the First Realm.

“NO! NOOOO!” Rainbow Dash shot down and hit the ground at breathtaking speed before sprinting over to Pinkie. “Pinkie...” she whimpered. Then she looked up. “We are going to the Crystal Empire, Twilight.” she said. “And we are going to kill all of The Darkness!”

“Agreed.” Said Twilight vengefully. The five friends held a quick burial for Pinkie Pie, and then took off for the Crystal Empire. The reached it in record time, and found Luna and Silverbolt already there helping Chrysalis. Just as in Ponyville, there were bodies everywhere. Luna and Silverbolt were shooting through the air, vaporizing The Darkness with every shot of magic.

Twilight saw a crystal pony cowering in the shadows and heard it whimper, “He-he’s back… I can’t believe he’s back… he’ll kill us all!” Twilight looked up to see who it was. She gasped as she saw King Sombra hovering in the air, surrounded by crackling black electricity.

“But… he died! He lost his magic!”

“Yes.” said Luna. “But he used his own evil and dark energy to reanimate his magic.”

“Well then,” said Twilight, “We’ll just have to fight extra hard to beat him!”

Silverbolt shot towards the ground at supersonic speed with his metal hoof stretched out in front of him. He hit the ground hard, sending out a massive shockwave that disintegrated a good chunk of The Darkness’ ranks. The two armies battled hard for a long time, but The Darkness was slowly being defeated. King Sombra, seeing that he was losing, descended towards Silverbolt in hopes of catching him. He shot lightning at Silverbolt, but it was deflected easily.

When Sombra realized that it was useless, he began shooting into the rest of the group. With some difficulty, his magic was deflected. In a last ditch effort, he summoned all of what remained of his dark energy and fired it. The bolt of lightning punched straight through the defenses and hit it’s target square in the chest. Queen Chrysalis screamed and arched her back violently as the lightning course through her body.

“NO!” screamed Silverbolt. He shot a bolt of magic at King Sombra that, rather than it’s normal silver, was a deep, dark red. It hit Sombra, and instead of killing him, caused him to twist and writhe in agony, screaming at the top of his lungs. Finally, he evaporated into thin air as Silverbolt ran to Chrysalis’ body. “No…” he whimpered as he buried his nose in her fur. “She-she said that we could talk later… “

”I’m so sorry.” murmured Rainbow Dash, putting a hoof on his shoulder.

“DON’T TOUCH ME!” he screamed. Rainbow jumped back, surprised at his reaction. “JUST- JUST GO AWAY! ALL OF YOU!” Everypony slowly backed away from him before turning and bolting in the direction of Canterlot. Rainbow Dash had just taken off when the first tears began to fall.

Everypony was back in the Great Hall of Canterlot Castle except Silverbolt. The rumors about his absence had just begun spreading when he walked. He immediately went over to Rainbow Dash. “I’m sorry I snapped at you.” he said. “I was just so distraught. I guess I should have realized that I never had a chance with Chrysalis.” Dashie smiled to herself as she recognized the words she had said to herself not so long ago.

“And to tell the truth, Rainbow Dash, I liked you from the moment I saw you.” Rainbow Dash blushed. “So, I guess what I'm trying to say is, well… um… see, do you… wow this is hard.”

“Are trying to ask me to be your marefriend?” asked Rainbow Dash.

“Um, well, yeah.” He looked hopefully at her.

“Of course, you big lug!” She leaned forward and nuzzled him. He looked very relieved, and rested his chin on her head as everypony gave a loud hoofstomp.

“I hate to interrupt this emotional moment” said Luna, “But Discord isn’t back with Celestia yet, which means that there are still dark ponies up there in the Second Realm.” Just as she said that, the crack convulsed in the sky and spit out and of pure shadow. Then everypony realized that it was a thick cloud of fresh Darkness ponies. Despair washed over them as the hopelessness of their situation hit them. “We’re dead.” muttered Rainbow Dash.

Suddenly, the air next to Princess Luna began to shimmer. It gathered into the vague form of an alicorn even bigger and more majestic than Princess Celestia. “An Upper Being!” gasped Silverbolt. “But they never come to our realm!” As the Upper Being came into focus, Luna’s eyes widened in shock. She said one word. “Mother!”