Chapter 10: Treachery

Firestorm entered his room with Rainbow Dash. As he switched the light on he saw Firebolt standing next to the bed. He wore a full body armor, the helmet carrying in one hoof. "W-What are you doing here?" the blonde stallion asked confused.

"Traitor!" the armored pony said through gritted teeth. "You gave Trixie the gem of Power before you banished her! You helped Apocalypse to escape!"

"What?" both of his opponents answered doubtfully in unison. "What should I have done?" Firestorm asked doubtful and confused.

"You were the reason why they almost killed me!" Firebolt yelled. He put on his helmet and the oculars began to glow reddish. "You have a single opportunity to go." He said with a demonic voice while pointing on Rainbow."

She looked at Firestorm and heard him saying: "Go. It's not your fight."

"No way! I am not for nothing the Element of Loyalty." She answered.

"Wrong decision!" Firebolt laughed as heavy metal bars shut down and closed the exit. He charged towards firestorm and smashed him into the wall. Firestorm heard Rainbow Dash screaming his name. She dashed towards the armored stallion but realized far too late that he raised his hoof to fend her attack. The hoof hit her chest and she heard several of her ribs break. She fell on her back and tried to crawl away but Firebolt stepped on her tail.

The black aura appeared around Firestorms horn as he shot one of his lethal magic spells at his enemy but the spell missed and destroyed the bed instead. "You don't need it anymore." The golden alicorn smiled evilly under his helmet and charged once more at Firestorm as he recognized that vine like objects crept around his legs.

Firestorm was surprised as he saw that his spell didn't stop his enemy or at least slows him down. He tried to dodge but it was too late. Firebolt crashed unbraked into him. The blonde stallion spit out some blood at his opponents' helmet and groaned in pain.

Rainbow Dash sneaked up on Firebolt and tried to kick off his helmet. She hit him but the helmet was still on his head. He turned around and rammed his hoof into her chest. She screamed in pain and spit blood at him and passed away. He grabbed the lifeless body and threw her out of his way.

Firestorm raced to Rainbow but got stopped half way. He tried to shove Firebolt out of his way but the stallion swung his hoof and broke both of Firestorms front legs. Afterwards he rammed his armored hoof in his chest.

Firestorm screamed in pain and heard several of his ribs breaking. His body hurt like hell and the pain made him unable to move.

"That must be enough." He heard a demonic voice laughing. He saw Firebolt falling down and a figure appearing next to him. "Finally I got my revenge." The figure laughed evilly.

"Apocalypse?" Firestorm asked half confused and half doubting.

"Who else?" Apocalypse answered "You don't know how strong your friend really is. It took me a while to take possession of him but he is the only pony who is strong enough to beat you."

Behind Apocalypse he saw Firebolt waking up.

"You may got your revenge but you won't be able to savor it long enough." Firestorm said groaning in pain.

"You fool! You can't stop me! You are almost dead just like your little rainbow maned friend."

Firebolt opened his eyes slowly and found himself covered in a full body armor in a totally destroyed room. He heard Firestorm talking with another him unknown pony. He turned his head towards the source and saw his friend lying wounded in front of the other pony. He demounted the cover of his horn and charged towards Apocalypse creating a small plasmaball at the top of his horn.

Just as Apocalypse raised his hoof to give Firestorm the deathblow, Firebolt rammed his horn in Apocalypses flank. Apocalypse screamed in pain as he felt his body burning innerly. He turned around and was surprised to see Firebolt. "Y-You? ... You should be unconscious for an hour!" he screamed.

The plasmaball burned his way through the body and left a big hole in Apocalypse as he fell to the ground and cooled down.

"You messed with the wrong Ponies!" Firebolt said as Apocalypse passed away.

"What happened?" he asked Firestorm. But the only answer he got was: "Rainbow!" He looked around and found a body. He ran towards the body and identified it as Rainbows body. Her head laid in a pool of blood and blood dripped out of her mouth. He grabbed her and ran to the exit but it was still blocked. He laid her behind the destroyed bed and went to Firebolt. Also his body he laid behind the bed.

Firebolt created a fireball and shot it towards the door but nothing happened "Come on!" he said despaired and shot a plasmaball at the door. The metal bars began to glow. He repeated his attack until the hole in the door was big enough. He returned to the bed and grabbed Rainbow Dash. He damned himself for not allowing teleportation inside the base. He put the body in the elevator and went back to rescue Firestorm but he realized that Rainbow won't make it when he returned. So he entered the elevator and brought her to the medical station. "What happened?" the nurses asked upset but he can't tell them what happened. He laid the body on a stretcher and left the station.

Firebolt chased back to Firestorm. He grabbed the body and carried him to the elevator. "She is safe. But she is in a bad condition." He told the unconscious stallion.