Chapter 10: The Storm King's Power

Back on the island, the others are still pretty upset for what has happen

Fluttershy sighs, and says, "This whole journey was such a mistake."

Fluttershy gasp as she is about ready to cry.

"All we wanted was somepony to help us." Fluttershy adds on the verge of crying.

Applejack sighs, and says, "Ya think, maybe it's time we talk to Twilight?"

"Why? You heard what she said. She thinks she's better off without us," Aria says with anger.

"I'm sure she doesn't mean it. Maybe we should talk to Twilight," Sonata says.

Just then, Spike runs past the rocks as he shouts, "She's! Been! Taken!"

The others look at Spike who is running towards them in a panic.

"What?!" Rainbow exclaims in shock.

"Sun's been taken! Tempest! She grabbed her! And took her on her ship! And Twilight! She went after her!" Spike scream and panic.

Everyone gasp in shock.

Rainbow says with a serious look, "We gotta get them back!"

"How? We'll never catch up!" Fluttershy asks.

"They're too far away to catch up at this rate," Sonata says.

"And we got no way to defeat those monsters," Applejack adds.

Adagio sighs, and says, "You're right. It will be the eight of us against an entire army to storm monsters."

"But we got to do something," Aria replies.

The girls and Spike feels like their hands and hooves are tied. There's no way to catch up to Tempest and fight the storm guards.

Suddenly, a familiar shadow appears with a familiar voice saying, "Well, good thing I happen to know of a group of mighty heroes that could handle this easily!"

The girls and Spike turns around to see Capper on top of the rocks, and are not 100% amused to see him.

Rarity angrily says, "Well! Look what the cat dragged in! Himself!"

"These heroes have faced the Storm King's army and escaped! I've seen them tackle the streets of the roughest towns, break out of the tightest situations, and inspire others to join their cause!" Capper says.

"Ooooh." the girls and Spike say with amazement.

All except Adagio, Aria and Applejack

"Now don't get too excited. He's just talkin' about us," Applejack bluntly says.

"Awww," Everyone say in disappointment.

Capper can see the words are not getting through to them

Then he says in his speech, "They even escaped certain doom at the hooves of Commander Tempest!" He slides down the rock, and does a few flips. Then lands on his feet.

"Yeah. That was pretty great," Rainbow says.

"He's right. We were able to escape Tempest and her guards," Aria agrees.

Suddenly, a familiar female's voice shouts, "Are you kidding me?!"

The gang turn around to see five more familiar faces. That is none other than Celaeno and her crew. They jump from the rocks and land in front of them

With Celaeno shouting, "That was awesome!"

Squabble squawk in reply.

"Figured you could use a claw!" Boyle says.

"We're on board to help you fight the Storm King! Just not on board our... actual ship," Celaeno says, with a little notification.

"What happen?" Sonata asks.

That crazy unicorn sunk it. But you got back our argh! And we're ready to kick some booty," Mullet says.

The pirates laugh as they bring out their weapons.

Suddenly the water begin to bubble and glow. The girls gasp in surprise to see the water glowing. And are amazed to see what is happening. Suddenly, a sea ponies that is glowing a bright yellow color rises from the ocean. Then poof… the seapony transform into a hippogriff.

Surprised Capper asks, "Is that what I think it is?"

Sonata gasp, and happily exclaims, "It's Skystar!"

That's right… Princess Skystar. She then lands on the rock in her hippogriff form

"Hellooooooo! Me again!" Skystar says with a giggle.

Then she says, "I'm gonna get so grounded, but I talked things over with Shelly and Sheldon and they pointed out that you were just trying to help your friends."

"Ahhhh!" Pinkie squeals with smile

"So I wanna help too. 'Cause ya know... one small thing… Skystar says walks up to Pinkie.

Then whispers, "... can make a really big difference!"

Spike firmly stares and bluntly asks,"That's it, right? We didn't make friends with anypony else?"

Suddenly, bubbles begin to come out of the ocean, then multiple. Everyone gasp in surprise to see the ocean bubbling. Suddenly fifteen merponies rise out of the ocean and transform into hippogriffs. Then all of them land on the beach. The one among them is Queen Novo.

Skystar happily cheers, "Mom!"

Skystar runs up to her mom, and gives her a hug. Queen Novo hugs her daughter.

Novo chuckles, "You are so grounded after helping our friends."

Skystar wides her eyes in shock to hear it.

"You want to help us? After what Twilight did?" Aria questions.

"True. But I figured Sun decided to take the blame for her, and Sun told me that if we don't stop the Storm King now, he'll become everyone's problem. Plus she said that is we don't fight then who will. So we decided to join you on the battle for your home. Of course, my daughter beat us to it," Novo explains.

"Yay!" Sonata cheers.

Then Capper says, "All right, y'all! I think our course is clear. Y'all ready to do this thang?"

Everyone cheer and are ready to fight

"We're coming, Twilight!" Pinkie announces.

Everyone cheer again

As Pinkie says, "As soon as we bake up a plan!"

Back at Canterlot everything is not going well at all. The ponies are either stuck in cages or are forced to do the storm guards bidding with metal muzzles on their mouths, and any kind of material that keeps them from using magic or flying.

In on of the cages, Songbird Serenade is trapped like a bird in a cage. Soon, she begins to sing.

Songbird Serenade:

I am here and I see your pain

Through the storms, through the clouds, the rain

I'm telling you you can not escape

But the stormguard is annoyed with the singing so he shakes the cage to get her to stop.

Still trapped in the cage being taken to the castle, Sun who is now in her human form, and Princess Twilight look to see the sadness the ponies are, and the condition of the city has become Of course, Tempest has both of the princesses in the same cage so both of their magic at the same time.

Tempest has the guards and the chain up ponies brought to the throne room. Both of the princesses are shocked to see the other three are trapped as crystals statues. After the cage has been placed, the guards and the chained ponies leave the throne room. Grubber clothes the door, and lets out a grin and laughter.

Princess Twilight turns to Tempest, and asks, "Tempest, are you sure there isn't a way for you to get out of this deal?"

Tempest simply shakes her head. Princess Twilight sighs in disappointment.

Grubber walks over, and asks, "So whyth are you in that thfrom?"

"Because I want to. I like to change into this form. Plus, I've been used to being a human than a pony, so I change into it when I want to," Sun explains.

"Okay," Grubber answers.

Sun sighs, and worriedly asks, "Tempest, I'm a little worried about this. What if the Storm King doesn't live up to his promise?"

"I'm sure he won't. Otherwise, I wouldn't be doing this. I can't wait to show everyone what I can really do," Tempest says with a grin.

Suddenly, a loud voice says, "Ooh, fascinating!"

That startle the four to turn to see someone at the front door. They know who is there… the Storm King.

The Storm King walks in with a grin on his face, and questions, "What can you really do?"

Then tap his staff on the ground.

Tempest and Grubber gets into their possession.

"Your bidding, of courth, Your Mighty One," Grubber answers as he bows before him.

Then after a few seconds, Grubber quickly runs up to the door and leaves the room. Tempest rolls her eyes in reply.

"Bidding's good. I like bidding!" The Storm King says with a grin, walking to the cage.

He then notices Princess Twilight and Sun inside,

He asks with a confused look, "Um, what are you supposed to be?"

"I'm the Princess of Friendship!" Princess Twilight answers.

Then Sun says, "And I'm the Princess of Harmony!"

The Storm King laughs, and says, "Oh. That's nice. And I do admit, when Tempest told me about a princess that has a different form… I'm quite interested."

Sun mutters, "Is this guy for real?"

He turns to Tempest and demands, "Why is this one still moving?"

"The princesses and their friends put up a bit of a fight, but she's alone now. They won't be a problem," Tempest answers.

"Yeah. So, speaking of problems…" The Storm King says, walking past Tempest and rubs her head.

Then The Storm King continues, "This place, it seems a little too—oh, I don't know—cute!"

His voice is so loud that Princess Twilight and Sun covers their eyes in reply.

Then he continues in a loud tone, "I don't like cute! I never did like cute! Doesn't really go with my whole "big bad powerful magic guy" thing, does it?! Deliver the punchline, Tempest, because this has gotta be a joke!"

The Storm King turns to the a hole that is right down the middle of the room. With a loud grunt, The Storm King slams the staff into the hole. Suddenly, the staff begins to spread magica around the marking on the floor.

"Huh?" the Storm King questions, and gasp to see the staff performing the magic.

The magic of the staff travels to the princesses. Soon the princesses magic are being pulled to the staff.

Princess Twilight struggles the pain as she screams, "No!"

Soon she and Sun's magic are being pulled into the crystal on the staff. Sun's magic is being pulled from her gem and her body.

The Storm King laughs in triumph, "Check out the light show!"

Soon the magic of the staff if spreading all over Canterlot, sucking all the magic of the ponies who are still imprisoned there.

Soon enough, the Storm King lifts the staff as he says in amazement, "Wow! Wow!"

Princess Twilight and Sun stare still feeling pain from the staff sucking up their magic that they collapsing onto the floor of the cage.

Excited the Storm King shouts, "Let's get this storm started!"

"Ooh, hey, that's good. I should trademark that," The Storm King adds, liking his statement.

Just then, the Storm King light up the staff and…

Boom!

The debris of the castle wall burst out and falls off the balcony. The Storm King has blast Princess Twilight and Sun with the magic that send them on to the balcony, breaking the cage.

"Not bad. Actually, kinda first rate," The Storm King says to himself, impressed by the magic.

Then asks himself as he observes the crystal on the staff, "What else does it do?"

Tempest walks out, and says about the promise, Your Excellency, you promised to restore my horn and give me…"

But The Storm King interrupts, "Deh-deh-deh-deh-deh, okay. Hang on."

The Storm King is about to use the staff that contains the stolen magic. Suddenly, he notices that when he moves the staff he is moving the sun as well.

Amazed by this power, the Storm King says in a loud excited tone, "You gotta be kiddin' me! I can move the sun?! A ha ha! Wow!"

The Storm King walks towards Princess Twilight and Sun with excitement. Sun protects Princess Twilight in case he is going to attack. But the Storm King walks over them, and head to the end of the balcony.

"Now this is what I'm talkin' about! " The Storm King excitedly says.

Princess Twilight and Sun look at Tempest with worried looks. Tempest doesn't say a word, but walks up to the Storm King.

With laughter, the Storm King says, "Ha ha! Time to play!"

The Storm King begins to use the staff to make the sun and moon go back in forth from day to night.

He says as he is having a fun time, "Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday! Day, night! Day, night! Day night! Day night! Day night! Sunrise, sunset!"

As the Storm King play around, Sun, Princess Twilight, and Tempest helplessly watch the Storm King use the magic to do what he wants.

Princess Twilight whispers to Tempest, "Tempest, don't you think you should do something?"

"Yeah. The Storm King is treating our magic like it's a toy. And he promised you to give you your horn back," Sun whispers back.

"I know, but I think we should wait a little longer," Tempest says. Then looks a little sad.

Princess Twilight and Sun can see that Tempest is not looking happy. They only hope that Tempest can realize the truth that is starting to show.