Last time on Harmonic Chaos High The three new girls began to put their plan to confuse the school with arguing so that they may use their powers and to do this they altered the music festival into a battle of the bands. Twilight, Sunset Shimmer and their pals unable to use the power of friendship to stop them lost hope during the announcement in the Gym. But suddenly Rage who was helping in a fight on Mobius returns and promises the new girls they would not succeed.

While on his way out of the Gym Rage was surprised and drugged to faint. Waking up in a storage room binded by Firestrom who had reverted him back to his hedgehog form Rage's suspicions were confirmed as the three new girls Firestrom, Sanity, and Maud were indeed The Shades. The three who destroyed all of the Chaos Guardians of the past. After Spike finds Christain and they bust Rage out along side Christain Rage meets The Shades for battle. Will Rage avenge those who died at their hands and amend the mistakes of The Shadow War? Or will the same fate that befell those before him fall upon Rage? Find out now in Harmonic Chaos High Chapter 9: The battle of Shadows

[Music: Deep Drive- Kingdom Hearts II]

Rage leaps at Firestrom who uses a ball of Darkness to attack him but Rage blocks it with his sword but the force made him land before he could reach her. Angered by the failure to hit him she begins throwing more and more energy balls at him only to have him dodge quickly.

"Over here!" he says as she shoots one "nope too slow!" he taunts again as he warps somewhere else "Oh so close!"

"Just hold still!" Firestrom yells angered at his taunting. Soon Rage appears behind her, "You're not very good at this are you?" he asks using a Chaos powered kick to send her across the stage.

Over on Chiristain's end he was having no problem with Maud and Sanity as both were already heavily damaged and weakened due to Chistains Solar Flare which weakens their dark powers. "Well for The Shades you two are pathetic!" he spits at them as they stand up

"We are not done... yet!" Sanity huffs

Back with Rage he was able to land a Holy Chaos Blade Rush on Firestrom as she falls down she felt weak "What the hell have you done to me?" she pants

"Holy Chaos weakens all dark abilities even your Shade powers." Rage explains to his foe "now it is over!"

"Not yet!" Firestrom yells warping to the other two "Behold the true power of The Shades behold True Darkness!" she laughs as the three combine their power to form a fusion of the three beaming with an unbelievable amount of dark energy surprising even Rage. "Rage Chaotic the same fate that befell the guardians all those years ago will not fall unto you!" the fusion laughs "Or I am not Julia the ultimate Shade!" she laughs insanely

"Someone is full of herself." Christain whispers to Rage as he chuckles

"Yeah." Rage replies to him "Sorry Julia but that is not going to happen!"

[Music Start: Open your Heart (Crush 40)~Theme of Rage Chaotic]

Rage then summons the Chaos Emeralds as they glow he looks at Julia the fusion of the three enemies of the ones who protected the light before him. As Julia watches Rage and the Chaos Emeralds she attempts to attack him but the attack was blocked by an invisible energy field generated by the Emeralds as they were super charging Rage. Soon a pillar of light shot from him and blinded everyone there. Julia covers her eyes for a while until the light dies down and she looks at what stood before her.

Rage stood there his Inhibitor Rings were gone and he was beaming with energy, His hair was on end like normal but a brighter red. His normally emerald green eyes were now a bright red. His jacket was pure white with bright red stripes that would make an X if the jacket was zipped. Under it was bright blue shirt with a light gray R on it that looked like the hump was a fire ball and the ends curved like his normal shirt. His jeans were replaced with dark gray shorts with two yellow stripes on each let and his gloves were dark gray with indents where his Inhibitor Rings would have been and a glowing red stripe that split at the mid hand and went through all the fingers.

"What kind of magic is this?!" Julia yells surprised by the young guardians transformation

"No magic just a Chaos transformation the strongest there is... Ultima Chaos! I am... Ultima Rage and I will defeat you and avenge those who protected the light before me!" Ultima Rage yells charging at high speeds into Julia sending her back before he follows up with a sword combo. Taking time to charge his final attack was a mistake though since Julia grabbed him and threw him on the ground before assaulting him with millions of dark energy balls throwing smoke everywhere.

"RAGE!" Spike yells from the stage next to Christain who looked in horror at the scene.

"Hmph just like the others weak!" Julia spits as the dust clear however her look of triumph was replaced with a look of disbelief as Ultima Rage stood there with only minor injuries a few cuts and bruises and a small stream of blood on his lower lip going down his chin.

Ultima Rage wipes the blood from his lip and looks at his foe "well that was very rude." Ultima Rage taunts "You should really know it's not polite for a lady to go apeshit on someone like that." Ultima Rage leaps for her and charges his blade "Time to end this! Chaos Finisher: Fusion Dawn!" he yells as his blade charges with darkness then with light as he slashes Julia with all his might causing her to collapse and separate into the three who formed her. "It's over Shades you lost." Ultima Rage says to the as he floats down from the air and forms a fist over his chest whith his right arm then shooting his right arm out and the Chaos Emeralds fall around him as he is reverted back to his normal form.

"We will not be defeated!" Firestrom pants in weakness

"Save it." Rage says as Cerberus appears

"I got your message Rage are these the three Shades?" he asks Rage who nods

"Yes they are Cerberus take them away... and be sure to torture them nice and painfully." Rage says with a devious grin

"It would be my pleasure!" Cerberus says with a toothy smiles as he grabs the three with magic and throws them into the portal to Tartarus where he had come through.

"Thank you Cerberus." Rage says with a wave

"No problem Rage." he says as the portal closes and Spike, Christain and the mane 6 run back to him.

"You did it!" they cheer as Sunset looks at them with a semi bummed smile. Rage sees her and signals for the others to release him.

"Sunset Shimmer don't feel bad you are just as much of a friend to me as they are." he says giving her a hug making her not only blush but also jump in surprise.

"Thank you Rage." she says returning the hug "It means a lot to me." she smiles warmly as they separate from the embrace and Rage begins to dig in his pocket.

"Here Sunset I want to give you something." he says as he pulls out a necklace with a gem that looked like a burning fire was inside of it. "This was given to me by a dear friend before he died and now I want to give it to you." he says handing it to her

"wow Rage..." she says in shock "I... don't know what to say." Sunset puts the necklace on and asks how she looks

"It's beautiful you darling!" Rarity says

"Coming from Rarity means that it fits you perfect Sunset Shimmer." Applejack says

"Come on let's head home." Rage says "The Shades magic over the others will wear off soon and they won't remember a thing it is best we are not here for that... they might think we caused it." he looks at the others nod and they run to Rage's car and get in before driving off to their homes for the night.

To be continued