Chapter Eleven: Defeat?

What's up? The sky! Anyway, here's the next chapter, I know you were waiting for it. I'm surprised my story has over 1000 views already! :) makes me happy to see how many people I am entertaining with this. Enough emotional stuff, let's get back to the action.

-the ruined tower-

The sky blackened even more and golden lightning crackled all around, some bolts striking the ground, making huge explosions. GreatHeart was glowing golden, and Spike had to shield his eyes from the glare.

"Facade? If you mean the Changeling, he's attacked Ponyville with a huge army of changelings, and turned everyone there the same as Twilight and the rest."

GreatHeart let out a roar that shook the earth as he stamped the ground in rage, knocking Spike over.

"I am going to DESTROY HIM!" He yelled, as his eyes blazed fire. He ran across the land, faster and faster, until he dissapeared from sight. Spike sighed, sitting down next to the stony Rarity.

-Facade-

Facade was getting his army to build him a new city, bigger than anything that had been seen, with a palace bigger than Canterlot. He smiled as he flew overhead, occasionally zapping a changeling who wast working and getting the others to speed up.

Suddenly, he felt a sharp pain pierce his skull as if a knife had jabbed in. He looked around but nothing. He felt a pulsing pain in his head, and he realised it was backlash from an enormous magical output. He scanned the landscape and saw a small golden streak hurtling towards him.

"GreatHeart..." he snarled.

"Ah well, he is nothing to me now. Changelings, destroy him!"

A group of changelings rushed at him, but we're met by beams of magic which turned them to ash.

A Drangeling swooped down at him, breathing fire. GreatHeart looked at the fire and stared at it, fire blazing from his eyes, which blasted the Drangelings fire back at him and incinerating it. He then turned back to his target, and sped up.

Facade fired spell after spell at the approaching figure, but GreatHerat blocked or avoided every attack. He propelled himself faster with magic, and a cone of golden energy began to form around him, similar to Rainbow Dash when a sonic Rainboom forms. Then a blinding golden light erupted, and GreatHeart doubled in speed, and a horizontal Cyclone of golden magic spiralled out behind him. A wall that the changelings had built was reduced to dust as he hit it.

Facade swore as the figure leapt at him, and moved to the side. GreatHeRt slashed with his horn as he passed, and caught Facade on the chest, leaving a nasty cut.

"How are you alive?" Facade screamed at him. "I can never be rid of you!"

"I am answering none of your questions until I meet you in Hell!" GreatHeart roared, and fired a beam of all his power.

It slammed into Facade, knocking him across the city, smashing buildings and pulverising changelings,

Facade got up, the saw a golden aura surround him.

"You really think that your telekenesis spell can work on me? I am now all powerful, able to crush cities with a blink!"

GreatHeart looked at him. "Have you forgotten what i do? Every time someone close to me is in grave danger or- dies, I unleash all my power in rage. You should know that."

"Oh, yes, so you do. So what you are showing me is your full power. And I can beat you"

Facade broke free of the spell and flung GreatHeart so far he thought he would reach Ponyville. Facade held GreatHeart in a spell and started to pull his legs in different directions, which would rip him apart.

GreatHeart felt the pressure, and fought against the spell, but it was no use. He felt his legs about to come out of their sockets, and his skin on the verge of ripping.

Facade laughed as he saw GreatHeart in pain. Then he stopped. A blue orb of magic had formed around GreatHeart, and then a golden beam struck him, sending him crashing to the ground once again.

He looked up only to gasp in amazement and shock. Casting the spell that had saved GreatHeart was Princess Luna and Midnight Moon, and attacking him was Celestia.

"What? How?" he looked over and use his power to see the crater where Canterlot had been was, and gasped again to see Canterlot in all it's glory, without a scratch on it.

"How?" he shook his head, "I can get all the answers I want when you lie half dead."

"No," Celestia said, "You can't" she pulled the Elements of Harmony out from somewhere (you know the non existent pocket the ponies always seem to have) and fire a spell at them, which bounced and hit Facade.

"Your elements do nothing! I have their power!"

"Exactly" the princess replied, and he suddenly felt power being sucked out of him.

He looked down and saw GreatHeart holding the Elements of Harmony, which were slowly turning to their original colours as Facade felt his power draining.

"No! I cannot be defeated this easily!" he shouted, and sent out a pulse of magic, knocking them all over.

He fired a spell into Celestia's head, and she gasped, slowly turning stone like. The others gasped as Facade absorbed her power, then turned towards Luna.

"No!" Midnight yelled, jumping in the way and getting hit first. Facade fired again, catching Luna with the blast. The three alicorns fell to the ground with a thump.

GreatHeart narrowed his eyes and Facade, with the power of three alicorns, rose up, then a shield formed around him as green magic shot at him. Turning, GreatHeart saw Queen Chrysalis, weak and wounded, firing at Facade with the last of her strength. A short spell and she too fell to the ground.

GreatHeart looked at the Elements, then at Facade. Then he turned, and ran once more.

Reaching the place of the ruined tower, he put the renewed Elements on the ponies, then fired a spell. The colour spread throughout the ponies, and they fell over, then stood up as they looked at one another, then the surroundings.

"GreatHeart! You've saved us!" Rainbow said happily, pulling him in for a hug.

"Not quite" GreatHeart said, lifting her hoof off his shoulder. "Facade is still alive and even more powerful. He got all the alicorns but Cadence."

Twilight took a few steps back in shock. "No! It can't be true! Princess Celestia! Hang on, wasn't Canterlot destroyed?"

"Well, we thought so, but apparently not. We need to get there fast, he will go there next! Is there anypony else there powerful enough to be of any use?"

Twilight sat down and thought. Fluttershy spoke very quietly;

"There's always-"

She as broken off by Rainbow, "The guards aren't good enough"

She tried again. "Remember there's"

Twilight cut in "There's no powerful unicorns there as far as I'm aware, I was the only one"

Fluttershy scowled.

"Hey, what about Discord?" Spike said cheerfully, making Fluttershy sigh and sit down heavily in annoyance, but no one noticed.

"Of course! He's the only other being that powerful in Equestria! That also explains why Canterlot isn't gone! He must have been making some sort of illusion! Come on girls- and you, GreatHeart. We need to get to Canterlot!"

The seven ponies and one dragon set off full speed towards Canterlot, the pegasi flying and carrying the others with GreatHeart and Twilight using magic to propel themselves faster.

They raced towards Canterlot, GreatHeart noticing a black cloud in the distance, which he knew had to be the changeling army.

Rainbow saw it too, and sped up, creating a sonic Rainboom and carrying the others through.

Twilight was too engrossed in thought to notice, as she was worried about Discords loyalty to them, and whether he may turn to the side of Facade.

Okay, there we go. This story seems to be getting pretty popular with people from all over, so I hope you enjoyed this chapter. I'm not sure exactly how many chapters are left in this one, might be two might be twenty, I don't know. But stay awesome, brony pals! /)