Chapter 10 A Beacon of Hope

Everyone is frozen in shock as they watch David collapse with a katana sticking out of his gut. The first one to come out of their frozen shock is Lunar. "David!" She screams as she runs to his side. "David! Please wake up! Please don't die!" She pleads. Sora and Wendy quickly rush over and try to heal David. Wendy using her healing magic and Sora pouring an elixer into the wound. Nothing works. "The blade is enchanted with a dark magic. It's almost impossible to heal. You'll need a miracle to save hime." Striker's voice booms. "And now that he is out of the way, I will take my prize." Striker comes into view as he tries to approch the beacon. "Everyone. Don't let him come any closer!" Lunar barks out angerily. Everyone unleashes barrage after barrage of attacks at Striker, but they only slow him down a little.

"What are we gonna do? David was the only one who could deal damage to Striker." Twilight asks to no one in particular. "I...I jinxed us." Sunset says looking like she may break at any moment. "What do you mean?" Sora asks. "I promised him no one would die. I jinxed us. And now David is dead." She explains on the verg of tears. "He's not dead!" Lunar yells, not taking her eyes off of me. "He can't be." Everyone around David exchanges sorrowful looks. Just then, Twilight perks up. "I think I know how we can save him." She exclaims. Everyone looks over at her expectently. "The generator is the convergence point for the energy of all the worlds right? So what if we put David inside?" She asks. Lunar perks up and looks over at the beacon. "We have to try. It's our only choice." She says. "Help me lift him up." Twilight uses her levitation magic to lift him up and float him over into the center of the beacon. She gives a glance at Lunar who nods. Twilight drops David into the crater.

Meanwhile, everyone else isn't having the best luck in stopping Striker. It's all they can do to slow him down. Right as Striker nears the closest person attacking him. The beacon shuts down. "What have you done?!" He yells. The beacon then reappears, but unlike it's previous light blue color, it is now a radient gold color. A single figure can be seen rising out of the crater and floating in the center of the golden beacon. "Oh Great Multiverse. With Worlds Vast and Infinite. Link Thy Spirits Within My Heart." The figure calls out. "No, I won't allow him to claim what is mine!" Striker yells before shooting a blast of dark energy at the figure. Before the dark energy could hit the figure, it continued. "Awaken. Avatar of the Multiverse. David Nexus Zion!" The dark energy made contact with the beacon and disapated. I open my eyes to see myself floating in a colloum of light. I saw everyone looking up at me in surprise. I then saw Striker. I summon my armor, but notice it has changed. It is more streamline now with four thruster wings on the back. I launch myself at Striker and close the gap in an instant. I strike him and send him flying. I summon my sword and fly after him.

When I reach him, he is just getting up. "How? How are you able to contain the power? You're just a weak human." He yells. "I may be human, but I'm not weak. The bonds I share with the people I met on my journy has made me stronger." I tell him. "I won't accept it!" He yells before charging at me. He tries to attack me but I dodge with incredible speed. "Striker, for you crimes against the Multiverse." I say dodging another attack. "And for your crimes against it's creatures. I will end this." I say before launching into the air. I raise my sword. "Finishing Move! Infinite Spirit Slash!" I call out before bringing down my sword as it becomes covered in the same golden energy as the beacon. As the energy makes contact with Striker, a flash of light ensues and then an explosion detonates right where Striker stands. When the smoke clears, there is nothing left.

I fly back over to everyone and land next to Lunar. "I'm so happy you're alive." She exclaims as she quickly hugs me. "Did you finish him off for good this time?" She asks. "Yes, I can't sense his presence in this or any other world." I tell her. "Wow, you must have been given all the power of the multiverse in there. How do you feel?" Sunset asks. "I feel..." I pause to think of my answer. "I feel perfect." I tell her. "Do you think you would let me gather some research on you and your powers later?" Twilight and the purple pony, which I now know is the equestria version of Twilight, ask in unison. I swear I see them drool a little again. "Maybe later. Right now, I have some things to take care of." I say with everyone giving me a curious look. "I need to heal this world. Then I need to send everyone home and return the B.G.S. back to the museum." I explain. "Oh, so it is in this world." Lunar says. "No, it's in the next world over." I explain. "Then how are you gonn..." Sunset starts asking, but I cut her off by opening a gateway right next to her. "I can now traverse the worlds whenever I want." I explain. "Ok then." Sunset says. "First things first though, I need to heal this world." I say.

I fly up into the air and shoot energy into the ground. The ground starts rumbling. When the rumbling subsides, green grass starts growing as trees start sprouting all over the place. The gray skies start to turn a bright blue. I fly back down as the last tree finishes growing. "Wow, this place looks so beautiful." Wendy says. "This is how this place should look. A world of life and creation." I say. "Now, I will send each of you back to your own worlds." I say opening up breaches that were clear. Through the breaches, you can easily see what world they went to. "To keep certain people from going to worlds not their own." I say looking at twilight. "I've made these so you can only go to your own world." I continue. "Aww." The pony Twilight says. "You better make up for it by visiting my world soon so I can get research on you." She exclaims. "Ok, I promise." I say. With that, everyone says their goodbyes and starts to head through their respective breaches. The only one that didn't leave was Lunar. "I don't want to say goodbye to you." She says. "Oh, don't worry. After, I return the B.G.S. to the museum. I'm gonna return to Constella. Earth is nice, but Constella has something Earth doesn't." I say. "What's that?" Lunar asks. "You." I say as I pull her in for a deep, passionite kiss.

After a brief moment, we break the kiss. "Ohhhhhhhh." We hear. I look over at the still open breaches to see everyone looking through at us. "You do realize that these work both ways right David?" Sunset asks. Lunar and I blush heavy. "Well, I guess I better go." I tell Lunar. "I'll meet you at the temple?" I ask. "I'll be waiting." She replies before going through the breach to Constella. I close the breaches and open a new one. I step through into a steampunk like world. I levitate the B.G.S. and open a new breach to the museum. Through the breach I hear voices talking. "What are we going to do? The police still haven't found the new exihibt yet." Says a voice that I recognize as the curator. I step through the breach. "I think I can be of some assistance." I say bringing the B.G.S. through with me. "David! Where have you been? And where did you find the exihibt?" He asks. "Do you even know what this thing does sir?" I ask as I lower it back where I used to sit. "It's supposed to project fake portal to other worlds on the screen there." He says pointing at the far wall. "Almost. It opens actual breaches to other worlds. I should know, I've been jumping back and forth between them a lot lately." I say leaving him dumb struck. "Oh, by the way. I'll be leaving the museum. I have a new place I'll be living thats to far away from here." I tell him. I open up a breach to Constella and step through.

I step into the temple and see Lunar in a thin, see though gown. "Lunar, what are you wearing?" I ask. "Oh. This is the wrapping on your congrats on saving the multiverse gift." She says giving me a wink. "Oh, what if someone were to come up here and see us?" I ask knowing full well what is about to happen. "Then you can just open a breach and take us else where." She replies. "Fair enough. Now come here." I tell her. She struts up to me and I pull her in for a big kiss before I lay her on the ground. "I love you." She tells me. "I love you too." I say as I get ready for the best night ever.