Chapter 20: Finding the Elements
Okay more action. Hopefully everyone finds the balance of emotion and character versus action to be sufficient. If not, let me know. In this chapter, you might notice some inspiration from movies like "Inception" and "Harry Potter".
Thanks for everyone who has read so far, and thanks for all of the reviews as well.
And, as usual, I only own my OCs.
Wilmont City Hall
Obscure stood at the large window in his office, watching in pride as the anarchists and US Military battled in the streets below, sending buildings crashing down, fire now engulfing almost every inch of the city as the sounds of gunfire and explosions filled the night.
All Obscure could do was stand at the window and close his eyes in a state of near perfect bliss as the war continued in the city.
"You know closing your eyes doesn't get rid of me." Came the familiar, young voice of Crescent as he stood beside Obscure, who opened his eyes but his smile still persisted.
"I know, and frankly I don't care." Obscure said tauntingly as he trotted off, Crescent right behind him.
"Why don't you listen to me?"
"Why don't you leave me alone?" Obscure asked in a tone the suggested a growing irritation, "I hate to look like I'm talking to myself…of wait! Silly me, I am talking to myself."
Obscure stormed off while Crescent kept up with him.
"Don't you remember the day you joined Discord?" Crescent asked, "how he turned you against the Princess and your best friend?"
"Of course I do." Obscure growled, "it was after the Princess picked Bright over me to protect the Element of Magic on this pitiful planet. The day she proved how little she cared about all of the work I put into my magic."
"What about your cutie mark?" Crescent asked, "Do you remember the night you got that?"
Obscure sighed, "No, I completely forgot the day my childhood dream came true." He stated sarcastically before he turned around to stare into Crescent's innocent, silver eyes that nevertheless showed disappointment, "I may have forgotten much of my past life but that I will never forget."
"Then you remember how Bright was the one who gave you the idea, right?"
Obscure scowls as he remembers the day.
Flashback- Canterlot- Night
Both Bright and Crescent were laying in the middle of a field in Canterlot, pondering ways in which Crescent could earn his cutie mark. Actually Bright was thinking about ideas more than Crescent, who just lay on the grass in a very depressed state. Suddenly, Bright had a "lightbulb" moment and grinned.
"I've got it!" Bright said happily as he stood above Crescent, who still had a defeatist's look on his face.
"What have you got? The name of a tattoo artist that can give me a fake cutie mark?"
"An idea about how you can get your cutie mark. Why don't you try to do something to the moon?" he asked, "After all your name is Crescent and most ponies I've met have cutie marks that are related to their name!"
Crescent looked at Bright and nodded, "Are…are you sure it will work?"
"Worth a shot, right?" Bright asked with a big smile that made Crescent chuckle a bit as he made his way to his hooves.
"Right." He looked up at the moon and sighed, "here goes nothing."
Crescent shut his eyes and began to concentrate on the moon. His horn glowed as he pointed it at the full sphere in the sky, the silhouette of Nightmare Moon still on the surface. He began to strain, trying to get something to happen. Bright was looking up at the moon when, suddenly, he noticed something strange about it.
It was becoming engulfed in the same black aura that was glowing on Crescent's horn. The moon eventually became surrounded in the glow and Crescent let out one last grunt effort before the moon completely disappeared from the sky, leaving the night in utter darkness.
A few screams were heard nearby as the moon left the sky, as the sudden darkness made ponies everywhere think the world was coming to an end.
"Crescent!" Bright shouted excitedly, making the colt whose eyes were closed and horn was glowing open her eyes and gasp at the moonless night sky. As soon as he broke concentration, the moon re-appeared in the sky and the screams that were heard in the distance calmed down as the light provided by the re-emergence of the moon took away the pure darkness of the night.
"Wow. Crescent! You did it! You did magic!" Bright shouted excitedly as he danced around his friend, "you made the moon disappear!"
"He-he, I guess I did." Crescent said with an embarrassed blush on his face. Bright kept dancing before he quickly stopped right behind Crescent and gasped, pointing at his flank.
"Holy Celestia! Dude, look on your flank!" Bright shouted.
"What? What's wrong with…" Crescent turned around to see his flank was no longer "blank", so to speak. It now had the image of a crescent moon on it, shining brightly against his black coat.
His eyes went wide in shock, "I…I have a cutie mark." He said somewhat quietly before he grinned and began to hop around excitedly and shout, "I've got a cutie mark! Yahoo!"
Bright chuckled, "Yeah man, congrats!"
Crescent stopped his celebration and turned to his best friend, the one that had given him the inspiration and idea he needed to finally accomplish his goal. He ran over to Bright and gave him a big hug, "Thank you Bright! Thank you for everything!"
Bright smiled and hugged his best friend back, "Don't mention it Crescent."
After they broke the hug, Bright smiled, "Hey come on let's go work on some more magic!"
"Yeah!" Crescent said excitedly before both colts ran off into the open field to work on their magic.
Up above them, standing stoically in her castle, was Princess Celestia, who smiled at the two colts' friendship, and how strong Crescent's magic was.
"He'll be a perfect addition to my academy with Bright." She said with a smile.
Wilmont City Hall- Present
Obscure's eyes were slightly watery as he remembered the night that Bright, the stallion that he killed, had helped him get his cutie mark.
"It wasn't just the cutie mark he helped you get," Crescent said to the nostalgic looking Obscure, who snapped out of his trance to look down at the small colt, "he helped you get the confidence you needed to perform magic at the level that made you one of Princess Celestia's top students."
"Pfft." Obscure said with a smile, "I was her top student."
"Either way." Crescent sternly said, "Bright helped you get the power you have today. A power that, I'm ashamed to say, seems to have done more harm than good."
Obscure was about to respond when he heard the booming voice of Discord come from behind him.
"Obscure!"
Obscure turned around to see Discord standing before him with a stern look on his face.
"Yes..erm…yes sir?" Obscure said nervously.
"They know where the elements have been hidden." Discord said sternly before he smiled his usual, maniacal smile, "and I do believe it's time to deal with this emergency situation."
"You want me to send off the troops?" Obscure asked, to which Discord gave a nod.
"That would be best, Obscure."
Obscure nodded and trotted off, transforming back into Brett as he neared his office so he could use the phone easier. Once inside, he shut the door and walked over to his desk and sat down. He grabbed a phone and called one of the main leaders of Milites Chaos and told them to get a group together and head off to the mall so that they could ransack it; thus "sending a message against commercialism".
Once he gave that order to the anarchist leader, who immediately began to rally numerous other members of the Milites Chaos to go to the mall in their war-prepped vehicles, Brett called up Officer Cantor and told him to go to the park with the entire police force to stop the elements that were heading there.
Once he finished talking with Brett, Officer Cantor began to get all of the officers that he could together. He had managed to teleport back to the station after the jailbreak to find his men unconscious and the entire building destroyed. He managed to wake up as many officers as he could before he started to give them the orders to head out to the park.
Once a group was assembled in the wreck of the police station, Officer Cantor led them out to the squad cars. Within minutes, a long line of police cruisers was leaving the parking lot of the police station, heading to Wilmont Park to take care of the elements that were there. They could have teleported, but as Discord always said, "Letting people get a false sense of security will always cause them to panic more." Therefore, the unicorn officers opted to take the police cruisers to the park.
It may not have been the smartest move, but Discord was always about causing havoc rather than simply "defeating" his opponents. After all, it was always more fun to mess with one's mind before beating them, as was the case with the mane six in Equestria, and now all of the elements here on Earth.
Finally, Brett sighed and turned himself back into Obscure Darkness before sitting in the chair at his desk.
"Don't do it." Crescent said, interrupting Obscure from his state of concentration.
"You're nothing but a figment of my imagination." He muttered before he closed his eyes and began to imagine the school just as Carl's car sped into the parking lot. He slowly began to piece together the architecture of the building from memory so that he could perform his magic on it. "And I do not listen to things that aren't real."
Wilmont High School
Carl pulled his car into one of the spaces that was near the entrance of the building. During the ride over, both Twilight and Applejack had calmed down significantly, but both still had a sad, scared look in their eyes. After all, they were used to living in a universe that nothing horrendous ever happened in, and when something bad did happen, it always was solved. Evil was defeated and good always won in Equestria, but here they got to see what true fighting was like in a reality that isn't always met with happy endings and painless battles.
Once he turned the engine off, Carl turned to Twilight with a concerned look on his face, "Twi are you okay?"
She looked at Carl with a very serious expression and nodded without giving any verbal response. It was clear that, while she was feeling better after they left the city, she was still shaken from the entire experience.
"Applejack?" Alex asked the other pony that was in the car. She nodded at Alex before giving him a small smile.
"Ah'm good." She said, though Alex could tell she wasn't completely being her honest self at that moment. Alex hugged her again and gave her a kiss as a way to comfort her as he knew how much she was holding back from him, and how scared she still was from the war they had just driven through.
"You know we're safe now, right Twi?" Carl asked and Twilight nodded slowly.
"Yeah I do, but I'm still...afraid of what we could be facing in the future." she said as she looked down.
"Well as long as you stick by me, I'll make sure nothing happens to you."
Twilight looked up at Carl and gave him the smallest smile, as if to say "thank you" before she used her magic to open all of the car doors.
They all got out of the car and headed up to the school.
"So how are we going to find the elements exactly?" Alex asked Twilight, as they got closer to the door.
"Well the prophecy seemed to imply that you use your magic." Twilight responded. "It did say; "the magic of love will be the guide"."
"How in the hay will that help?" Applejack asked Twilight, who just shrugged.
"I guess because they associate us with what the elements represent."
"Well first ah think we need ta get into the buildin'." Applejack said as she pointed to the door. Carl walked up to it and, unsurprisingly, it was locked. He groaned and stepped back.
"Hang on let me blast a hole in the door." Carl muttered as he closed his eyes and began to think about Twilight, and how he loved her and how she represented magic to him. Slowly his aura began to build. Suddenly, however, his thought process was cut short when he heard a loud "SMASH"
Carl quickly opened his eyes and his aura disappeared due to the noise. He saw that the glass door leading into the school had been shattered by Applejack, who turned to the others and grinned victoriously at her mad bucking skills.
"How is it you don't cut yourself whenever you buck glass?" Alex asked.
"Us earth ponies have tough skin," she said with a chuckle, "and workin' on the farm helped mine become even tougher."
"Your skin must be like steel." Alex said with a small laugh as they all entered the school through the doorframe and stood in an area where three hallways met. Directly in front of them was a set of stairs that led up one level and down another level. The school cafeteria was located downstairs in the basement while classrooms mostly for Social Studies and science classes were on the second floor. The first floor had the main office, the nurse's office, the library, as well as classrooms for the math, English and foreign language classes.
Carl turned to look at Alex, who returned the glance before they both nodded to each other, ready to use their magic to find the elements. They closed their eyes and began to think about their partners to bring out their magic to find the location of their element.
It didn't seem to be working until both Carl and Alex seemed to sense a concentrated presence of each element at a specific area of the school. As he continued to think about Twilight, Carl pointed his aura to the right of the stairs. It was there that he felt a high presence of magic, which assumed to be the two elements.
"Carl?" Twilight asked as she slowly walked up to him, his eyes still encased in violet, "Carl did you find anything?"
Carl opened his eyes and his aura disappeared, as did Alex's.
"The library." He muttered before running off.
"The library?" Twilight asked before she realized that Carl was already heading there, "Hey! Carl wait up!" she ran after him.
Applejack looked up at Alex, "Alex, where's our elements?"
As Alex thought about his love of Applejack, how she represented hard-work, honesty, and everything that society seemed to be running out of, he finally found a concentration of what he could only describe as a feeling of honesty, or something that lacked in most other areas of the school, where cheating and lying ran rampant.
Alex looked down at Applejack as his glowing hand was directed at the staircase, "It's downstairs in the cafeteria, come on." Alex said, motioning for Applejack to run after him.
"Right behind ya partner!" Applejack said excitedly as she tipped her at forward with a smile before running off after Alex.
Wilmont Park
Upon arriving at the park, Ryan stopped the car on a grassy area near the playground. Normally parking on the grass would be frowned upon by society, but after his parents were killed by that very same society that frowned upon such "improper parking"; Ryan didn't give a shit.
He and James got out, Ryan running over to the passenger-side door to help Rainbow Dash get out of the SUV, as she couldn't open car doors with her hooves, and her wings were broken, so she couldn't fly out of the shattered window. James, meanwhile, opened the back door and allowed Fluttershy to fly out of the car, giving into the whole idea of "ladies first".
After locking the car, which seemed pretty pointless since the park was empty and the windows were shattered, James and Ryan both stood on the grass and looked at each other.
"Well how do we find it?" James asked.
"Let me try using my magic, after all it would fit the prophecy, right?" Ryan asked as James nodded. Ryan cracked his neck and let out a sigh before he began to do what Alex and Carl had done moments before at the High School. He began to think about Rainbow Dash, how loyal she was, how much of a free spirit she was, and how confident she was in herself, which was something Ryan lacked. As he thought about all of these things, including her rose-colored eyes and cute face, his body began to emit the familiar, cyan aura that it had before.
Once his hand was engulfed in cyan, he held it out to scan the park for the concentration of "loyalty". Finally, he finally found out where his and Rainbow Dash's elements were located, his hand pointed up a hill at one of the fields.
"Well Ryan, did you find them?" Rainbow Dash asked with a tone that was all business, no more fooling around. As Ryan's aura went away, he looked down at Rainbow Dash's face, which wasn't showing any more effects of the horror it showed as they left the city, just seriousness.
He felt better seeing how she seemed to be recovered from the mental trauma she endured. He gave her a small nod, "Yeah it's on the lacrosse field up there." He said as he pointed up at the lacrosse field that was about fifty yards away, up a small hill.
"Awesome!" Rainbow Dash said. Ryan was about to run off when he stopped in place and turned back to Rainbow Dash, giving her a sly grin as he decided to help her feel better, even if she seemed fine he wanted to make sure.
"Do you want to race me?" he asked, thinking that asking her to do something that she loved would help her feel even better after going through such a terrible ordeal.
Not to mention himself, as he still kept thinking about his parents. Even though he seemed fine on the outside, most of it was an act for the benefit of the group, as he couldn't afford to grieve yet, not while Discord was still causing havoc in the city. Not only that, but he knew that he couldn't appear weak in front of Rainbow Dash anymore than he already had, especially after everything that she'd seen.
Upon the request for a race, Rainbow Dash's eyes lit up, going from still a little downcast to excited, "Really?"
Ryan nodded and Rainbow Dash gave him her typical, competitive grin, "Do you think you can keep up with me?"
"I'll try. Ready set go!" Ryan quickly said before he turned and ran off, laughing as he got a head start against Rainbow Dash.
"Hey! No fair!" Rainbow dash complained with a smile still on her face as she ran after the laughing teen.
Meanwhile, Fluttershy watched as James did his own magic and scanned the area before he found a concentration of kindness. He thought about Fluttershy's kindness, not just to him, but to everyone and everypony else. How she always complimented him when his parents degraded him, how she always thought about what was right, how she had gone to see Caroline when she was still alive, and how she had been there for James when he needed comfort after Caroline passed away.
Eventually, James looked down at her, his aura fading away.
"Um, James. Do you know where the elements are? If…if you don't that's fine too, because if you try your best that's all that matters."
James smiled at her typical uneasiness before getting down and hugging her.
"I love how kind you are." He chuckled before he felt Fluttershy hug him back. He turned to her ear and whispered, "and it's in the forest behind the soccer field, where we went for a hike a few days ago."
With that, they broke the hug. Fluttershy gave James a kind smile before they both ran off to find their Elements.
"Hah! I beat you!" Rainbow Dash shouted in victory as they reached the lacrosse field. She, of course, managed to beat Ryan even though he had a head start.
"No fair! You have wings!" Ryan complained jokingly as he caught his breath, repeating the complaint Applejack had used in the episode when her and Rainbow Dash were competing against each other.
"But I couldn't use them." Rainbow Dash said as she motioned to her bandaged wings, "besides you got a head start. If anypony should be complaining about cheating it's me."
Ryan shrugged, "Fair enough, but I do want a re-match later."
"You're on," Rainbow Dash chuckled, "but first I think we should find our elements."
Ryan nodded and proceeded to use his aura-engulfed hand to sense where it was located on the field. He was happy that Rainbow Dash seemed to be feeling better after the horrors that she saw in the city.
"It's right here." Ryan muttered as they approached one of the goals. Once they reached it, they both pushed it back so they could get to the grassless area that had been torn up from years of goalies being present in the net, doing anything and everything to prevent a goal from being scored on them. Ryan got onto his knees and began to dig with his hands, Rainbow Dash helping him as best as she could with her hooves. They both began to dig with more fervor, both Ryan and Rainbow Dash getting covered in the dirt and grass as they dug deeper and deeper.
Mall
"Get back!" Louis shouted as he used his newly harnessed white aura to smash through the glass doors of the mall. As his aura disappeared, a satisfied grin grew on his face as he saw the power that he could harness with his magic.
"Wow Louis that was quite impressive." Rarity said with a huge grin.
"Oh you haven't seen anything yet Rarity." Louis said joyfully as he walked through the doorframe, "when I run into anymore of those bastards they're getting a face of my psychic force."
"Not to be a party-pooper-Pinkie-pie," Pinkie interrupted, "but I think we should find the elements before we think about fighting anypony."
"Good plan darling." Rarity said before turning back up to Louis, "I do believe the magic you two possess will help you find it."
Louis nodded before Pete walked by him, his hand, mid-section, and eyes already glowing pink as he thought about Pinkie Pie being the first person to completely love him for the random things he said, how bubbly she was all of the time, and how she was there to cheer him up after his parents disowned him.
"Way ahead of you guys." Pete muttered before he stopped walking and the aura that engulfed him disappeared. He turned to Pinkie Pie, "Pinkie! It's this way come on." He said as he started to jog off.
Pinkie Pie grinned and bounced off after Pete, amazingly keeping up with him even though he was jogging and she was hopping like a certain bunny that delivers painted eggs.
"Well Louis?" Rarity asked, "Have you found our elements?"
Louis' eyes were shut and his hand outstretched, just as Pete had doe, and began to think about Rarity, and everything that she meant to him. He thought about her sweet nature, her desire to work hard, and, of course, her generosity, something that was never appreciated in this world, as he learned when his parents were killed while doing charity work in Somalia. All of this eventually helped Louis locate the concentrated feeling of generosity that the elements were giving off.
"Yep." He muttered as the white aura disappeared and he returned to his normal self. "Found them."
Wilmont: City Hall
Obscure's eyes were closed as a black aura engulfed him. He began to picture the school in his mind, as he had been there before, just to be prepared in case something like this happened and he needed to use his magic from afar. He would have teleported there, but Discord had told him earlier to remain in City Hall with him no matter what, and he wasn't just about to go against the God of chaos. As the classrooms began to form in his head, the library, cafeteria, gym, and he smiled as he felt the presence of the elements in the library and cafeteria.
Crescent was sitting on his haunches watching this with a sad expression on his face.
Wilmont High
Carl and Twilight were in the school library, where they were trying to find their Elements using Carl's aura, which still danced around his outreached hand. The library was quite large for being part of a typical, public high school. It was filled with aisles upon aisles of books, making Twilight feel like she was back at her tree house library, surrounded by the books that she loved to read when she had free time. She had to fight every ounce of her being to prevent herself from sprinting around the library, looking at each book on every shelf to see if there was anything that interested her. And knowing Twilight's obsession with books, Carl looked down at her.
"Don't even think about it Twi."
'But there's just so many." she complained as her dinner plate-sized eyes scanned the entire library in awe.
"Twi." Carl scolded before Twilight rolled her eyes in frustration.
"Fiiiine. Where are the elements then?" Twilight asked.
Carl nodded, "They're down that aisle." He said as he pointed down one of the aisles of books to his and Twilight's left. They both ran down the aisle of books, many of which, Carl noticed, dealt with the supernatural and magic, quite ironic given the circumstances.
Eventually, Carl stopped in front of a shelf and pointed up to the top shelf at a violet book that seemed to have gold lettering on the cover.
"It's that one, Twi. The one with the purple cover." He said as he gestured to the book with his finger.
Twilight nodded and closed her eyes as her horn glowed. Her magic eventually brought the book down to Carl's outreached hand. He snatched it out of the air and opened it up. Instead of finding the normal inside of a book, which would consist of pages upon pages of text, he found that the pages were hollowed out to make room for the two elements. One was Twilight's familiar tiara-like element, which she referred to a "crowny-thing" in the show, while the other had more of a crown shape to it, giving it a more masculine appearance. Carl took his out of the hollow book while Twilight removed hers with her magic.
"That was easy." Carl muttered as he examined his element crown, which looked identical to Twilight except that it was, as stated before, more crown-like.
"Yeah. What was the book called anyway?" Twilight asked with some of her innocent curiosity, her eyes directed to the book that was still open in Carl's hand. Carl closed the book and looked at the cover, which showed the image of an alicorn and the title, which he read.
"Um, it's called Magic and Reality: How Things Cannot Always Be Explained".
"Is that Princess Celestia?" Twilight asked as she pointed the hoof at the alicorn on the cover. Carl looked at it as his jaw dropped. The pony on the cover did, in fact, look a lot like the goddess of Equestria. Even the mane and tail were colored a brilliant, rainbow spectra, and there appeared to be the image of the sun on her flank, just like the Princess' cutie mark.
"Wow, that's…that's interesting." Carl muttered before he put the book onto one of the lower shelves that had space on it. "Come on, let's get…"
Carl stopped speaking when he saw a creepy, black mist slowly climbing the up walls of the library. There was also a sound that was similar to a crank being pulled. Both Carl and Twilight looked around as the mist made its way up to the roof of the library, both of their faces showing great worry and confusion at the sight.
Meanwhile, downstairs in the cafeteria, both Applejack and Alex were behind the counter that lunch-ladies served the food from to look for their element. In the kitchen area that they were walking through, they saw boxes of fruit and vegetables all across the floor. There was a huge stove and two, large refrigerators in the kitchen as well.
Alex finally felt the presence of the Element and stopped walking before looking down at a box that was filled to the brim with fresh Empire Apples that had been picked from one of the local farms.
"What in tarnation?" Applejack asked with a raised eyebrow as she leaned towards the box, her skeptical eye zeroing in on he apples that filled the box, "the element is in there? Are ya sure ya weren't just drawn ta apples because ya were focusin' on me?" she looked up at Alex.
He got down onto his knees and began to toss the apples out of the box until he reached the bottom, or at least what seemed to be the bottom. He could tell that the "bottom" he was looking at was not truly the bottom of the box. He noticed a small hole in the bottom of the box that was on the edge in-between the "bottom" and the side of the box.
Alex put his finger into it and pulled up, revealing a hidden compartment with two identical necklaces that both had apple symbols on them, the Elements of Honesty.
"Nope, just a lack of originality." Alex said with a smirk, referring to the chosen location of the elements, "Yet still strangely inspired."
Alex and Applejack got down and grabbed them and put them onto their necks, Alex helping Applejack put her necklace on since she had hooves and normally had to rely on Twilight's magic to put it on.
"Thank ya Alex." She said as he clicked the necklace into place.
They both stood up just as they noticed the walls of the kitchen becoming engulfed in a similar, black mist that was currently surrounding the library.
"What going on?" Applejack asked as she pointed her hoof at the mist.
Alex shook his head, "I don't know."
Little did they know this was Obscure gaining control of the school from Wilmont City Hall as he sat at his desk, his arms outstretched and his eyes closed as his black aura danced around his unicorn form while the image of the school completed its formation in his mind. He smiled as he felt the image coming to completion.
He now had control of the entire building.
In the library, Twilight and Carl looked at each other with worry as the fog finished covering all of the walls and the entire ceiling, resulting in the library becoming dark, before the mist finally disappeared into nothingness. As soon as the mist was gone, the "cranking" noise grew louder, and louder, and louder, until the library began to rotate upwards, folding so that Carl and Twilight began to slide down the aisle, screaming as the room became more and more vertical. Carl managed to grab Twilight's foreleg with one hand and grab onto the leg of the shelves that the book had been found on with the other. Fortunately the shelves had been screwed to the ground so he could use it as a means of preventing them from falling. He held Twilight in one hand, and his element in the other as they dangled about fifty feet above the "ground", which was really the wall on the opposite side of the library that had become the floor to them as the other wall became the ceiling.
Twilight let out a scream as she hung in the air; only Carl's grip was preventing her from plummeting to the ground. Her legs dangled before he calmed herself down so that her panicking would prevent Carl from losing his grip.
Meanwhile, downstairs, both Alex and Applejack began to make their way out of the cafeteria just as the entire building's walls and ceilings began engulfed in the mist before it disappeared, just like it did in the library.
But instead of a cranking sound, what Applejack and Alex heard sounded like a large amount of rushing water heading their way. They both slowly turned to face the other end of the hallway, which was where the rushing sound was coming from. The floor began to shake, as the roar of the water grew closer to the duo; and closer, and closer, and closer.
"What the hay is that?" Applejack asked with fright as she sniffed the air, "and what's that smell?"
Alex's eyes widened when it hit him. The smell of chlorine hit his nostrils and he knew what was heading their way. "The pool…the pool water. AJ run!"
Both of them darted off in the other direction of the sound just as a wall of pool water began to crash down the hallway after them, destroying everything in its path. Alex and Applejack ran up the stairs to get to higher ground, but the water continued to follow them. As they reached the top step, they sprinted off down a hall that was lined with lockers, only to watch the lockers behind them burst open as even more pool water burst out, adding to the giant wave of doom heading directly at them.
"This ain't even fair!" Applejack shouted up at Alex as they continued to run.
"You expected Discord to play fair?" Alex shouted angrily, "My God! He made you into a liar! And he used magic when he said nopony was allowed to use magic! He never plays fair!"
(I'd like to give credit to a comment on youtube for that joke, as they brought that hypocrisy up, not me).
"Will ya shut up and just keep runnin'?" Applejack shouted back as the continued to sprint down the hallway.
Back in the library, both Carl and Twilight were still hanging above the opposite wall.
"Twilight, can you use your magic to get the room back to normal? Can you counter-act what's going on?" Carl asked in a panic.
"I'll try." She replied.
Twilight's eyes were closed as her horn glowed, her mind focused on countering the spell. Nothing was happening in the library, as the room was fully folded over, but in the hallway where Alex and Applejack were, the massive wave of chlorinated pool water began to slow down to a snail's pace just as Alex and Applejack were cornered at a dead end.
"Alex, use yer magic to counter it!" Applejack shouted.
Alex nodded and walked closer to the water, his hands engulfed in an orange glow, which he began to use to push the water back. It was working out for a few moments before the water began to make a gurgling noise and it changed from it's clear, bluish color typically associated with water, into a darker, brownish color. Alex's eyes went wide and his aura disappeared as he realized what the water had turned into, as the smell of chlorine was gone, replaced by the all too familiar smell of alcohol.
It had turned into whiskey, the same whiskey his stepfather drank heavily almost every night. He suddenly was frozen in fear, thoughts filling his mind of the beatings he endured and his mother's lies.
His mother's lack of honesty, which made Alex lose faith in it.
Suddenly, the water began to show the image of his stepfather's face, which stared Alex down angrily. This only served to make Alex remember all of the times he and his mother had been abused by him, and how his mother ignored him as his stepfather pummeled him, and even attempted to kill him.
He slowly fell to the ground in horror, shaking as the whiskey wave slowly began to creep towards the two again, only Twilight's magic holding it back from rushing at them with the force it had earlier. He wanted to look away from his stepfather's eyes, his cold, hate-filled eyes, but he just couldn't. It was like looking at a car wreck.
Applejack walked over to him, "Alex?"
Alex just sat on the ground, staring up at the massive wave with tears forming in his eyes.
"Alex, snap yerself out of it!" Applejack said sternly, giving Alex a gentle slap in the face only to have Alex cry harder.
"She lied to me," he muttered, "honestly doesn't exist here. Honesty doesn't exist in reality. All that exists here is pain. She lied and now she doesn't care about me. He lied about caring about us; instead he abuses us! Honesty can't exist, and I can't be honest."
"Yes it does Alex," Applejack said as she put her front hooves onto his shoulders. He looked up into her big, green, honest eyes, "honesty does exist."
"Applejack, humans aren't honest like you AJ." Alex said sadly, "Humans lie and cheat to get what they want. My mother lied to my father and I."
Applejack looked over her shoulder to see the approaching wave. Her face became worried at their possible doom before turning back to Alex, "But yer honest Alex, otherwise ya wouldn't represent it."
Alex just kept looking into her eyes, not taking them away for any reason. "B-but I…"
Applejack couldn't take anymore of his doubt and kissed him. Alex suddenly felt better, as he always did when either kissing or hugging Applejack. In fact, just having her close to him usually made him feel better when he was feeling bad, like she did after the call he had with his mother.
After she finished, she broke away and said, "Ah would never kiss nopony who ain't honest."
Alex just looked into Applejack's eyes as he suddenly realized that honesty could exist. After all, Applejack was her same, honest self in this world that she was in Equestria, even after seeing the warzone downtown. He may not completely believe humanity could be honest, but as long as he had Applejack in his life he'd believe that a truly honest person would remain uncorrupted wherever they were.
Slowly, Alex stood back up, his aura once again working as he stared down the flowing, whiskey wave that was flashing the image of his stepfather, staring him down as he always did after a night at the bar.
"You don't control me anymore." Alex growled in a rage before he held his hands up and froze the water in place. It didn't go away, but it was no longer advancing on the two of them.
Back in the library, Twilight was doing her best to counter-act the spell, but it was not working.
"This is no good Carl, I don't have the power to do it!"
"Yes you do Twi! You have to believe it!" Carl shouted down to her as some more books fell past them, hitting the wall with a thud.
Twilight began to close her eyes, "Come on!" she shouted to herself.
As Carl watched her, he suddenly thought of something. If his love of Twilight made his magic grow, maybe…
With some effort, he lifted Twilight up to his face, grimacing while doing so. Once they were face to face, he looked into Twilight's eyes, which were still shut as she concentrated on her magic.
"Carl what are you doing? I'm trying to save us!" she said with an aggravated tone.
"Twilight look at me." Carl said sternly. Twilight groaned in annoyance and rolled her eyes before she looked at Carl, their violet eyes meeting each other. Suddenly, her agitation disappeared and was be replaced by her love for Carl.
Before she can say anything, Carl pressed his lips to hers and her eyes shot open in shock as her horn suddenly began to glow more a
Slowly, her eyes closed as they continue to engage in a kiss while her magic became increasingly powerful, as did Carl's. They couldn't tell, but miles away in Wilmont City hall, Obscure Darkness was having a hard time keeping his spell in effect. He began to strain, a little blood dripping out of his nose as he fought back against the powers of both Carl and Twilight's magic, not to mention Alex's own magic, which he was using to stop the wave of alcohol from drowning him and Applejack in his painful memories.
Eventually, he could no longer keep the spell working and was flung into the far wall of the room he was in, knocking him unconscious as he fell to the ground with a picture that he had slammed into.
The library slowly fell back to its original position, Carl and Twilight both still kissing each other as a purple aura engulfed them both. Books were scattered around them as they continued to kiss. They were seemingly unaware that the room had returned to normal until they began to slowly open their eyes to see that everything was back to how it should be. Well, except for the fact that the library was in shambles and books were gathered at the other wall after falling from the shelves to the wall since it had become the floor. But the floor was the floor and the roof was the roof, and that was the main issue before.
They looked at each other and laughed.
"Well that was interesting." Carl muttered which made Twilight only laugh harder.
"That's a bit of an understatement." Twilight added before she flashed Carl another smile. They laughed a little more before standing up.
With Alex and Applejack, they both watched as the alcohol wave slowly evaporated into thin air, significantly shocking both of them. Applejack leapt up and hugged Alex, "Whoa Alex that was amazin'! How did ya do that?"
"I didn't." he muttered, "I just froze the wave I didn't evaporate it." He then looked down at Applejack as she got off of him with a grin on her face.
"Well freezin' the wave still mighty dandy."
He smiled back at her, "Well ah wouldn't have been able ta do it if ya weren't here."
Applejack burst out into laughter, "Alex why can't ya talk like that all the time?"
"Ah might consider it." Alex said with a small chuckle before they both started back down the hallway, that had only moments before been covered in a wave of whiskey, to the entrance to meet up with Carl and Twilight, as they had completed their mission.
Wilmont Park
In the forest, James was running through the path that was wide enough for a car, but narrow enough not to be too spacious. Fluttershy flew alongside him as they continued down the path that he and Fluttershy had gone down a few days before after he had heard of Caroline's death.
James stopped for a moment to focus more on his magic to make sure he was heading in the right direction.
"Oh James, are we getting close? These woods are sort of scary with all of these big trees and strange noises." She suddenly heard what sounded like an owl before she fell to the ground in fear, teeth chattering as her hooves covered her head.
"Relax Fluttershy it's only an owl." James said.
Fluttershy slowly stood back up, blushing in embarrassment, "Oh sorry James."
James smiled at her before he looked over towards a small hole that was underneath a tree just up ahead.
"It's in there I think," James said as he pointed at the hole, "in that hole."
"It looks like an animal lives there." Fluttershy noticed before trotting over to the hole and leaning inside, "Um excuse me. Little animals? I'm very sorry to bother you so late but if you don't mind, my friend and I really need to get something out of your home. There should be two gold necklaces in there. Could you please bring them out, if you don't mind that is?"
James' jaw dropped as he saw two foxes trot out of the hole with two necklaces in their mouths, each with a butterfly-shaped gem on it. The foxes put them down in front of Fluttershy.
"Oh, thank you two so very much." Fluttershy said happily as she patted the two foxes on the head before they slowly walked back into their den. "Have a good night!" she called after them in her soft voice.
Fluttershy picked the necklaces up with her mouth and flew over to James, dropping them into his hand. He looked at them and noticed that they were identical, so he handed one of them to Fluttershy and kept the other.
They looked at their elements and James smiled at Fluttershy, who was flying in front of his face. "How are you so good with animals?"
Fluttershy blushes and looked away, "Well, animals are just so kind and don't judge me, unlike everypony else. Besides my friends, that is."
James chuckled, "You're honestly the cutest thing I've ever seen."
Fluttershy blushed some more before she looked back at James with a smile, "Thanks James."
He nodded and they both headed out of the woods to go back to Ryan and Rainbow Dash.
Mall
"OH MY GOSH!" Pinkie Pie gasped as Pete and her reached the location of the Elements of Laughter, which was in none other than the main party supply store of the mall. "An entire store dedicated to parties!"
"What are the odds?" Pete asked nobody in particular before Pinkie Pie sprinted into the store, which, thankfully, hadn't been locked up for the night. Actually, every store in the mall was open, as if the owners had left during the to escape the chaos that they thought was heading their way.
Pinkie Pie popped her head out from one of the aisles and called out to Pete, "Come on Petey! Let's find our elements!" Pinkie Pie disappeared behind the shelves as Pete followed her, looking around at the shelves lined with costumes, decorations, costumes, everything needed to have the best party possible.
Well, minus a party cannon and a crazy, fourth-wall breaking, cartoon pony.
"Okay, time to use my magic to find it." Pete muttered as he raised his hand up and began to try to feel out where the elements were. He slowly began to walk down the hall to where it had the greatest concentration, "Okay so it should be…."
"It's right here!" Pinkie Pie shouted from above. Pete looked up to see that she somehow managed to scale the shelves and reach the top and find the elements before Pete could even use his magic to do so. She was waving down at him with one hoof, as their elements were in her other hoof. Pete's eyebrow rose as Pinkie Pie dropped one of the necklaces down at him, "Here you go Petey! They're identical so you can have this one."
Pete nodded and put the necklace on as Pinkie Pie came down from the top shelf using two balloons that she had found at the ceiling, helping her get down with ease.
Once she was on the ground, she looked up at Pete and grinned, "Ready to go?"
Pete nodded, "Yeah, lets."
They both ran off towards the way they came into the mall, Pete deciding that asking Pinkie Pie any questions about her randomness would be pointless.
Meanwhile, in a department store that was similar to Macy's, Louis and Rarity found their elements inside of a beautiful, white dress that looked like it deserved to be worn at a wedding.
"Wow it's simply marvelous isn't it?" Rarity said as Louis looked at the two necklaces.
"Yeah, they're very beautiful necklaces, even if they are a tad girly." Louis chuckled before Rarity looked up at him and shook her head.
"No Louis I'm referring to this astonishing dress. I've never seen anything like it!" she said excitedly as she ran the white fabric over her hooves, examining every inch of it. "Oh I envy the person or pony who made this work of art."
"I still think your dresses are better." Louis said which made Rarity wave her hoof at him.
"Stop it, please. My dresses don't have anywhere near the craftsmanship as this." She said before letting the dress fall back out of her hooves as it still hung on the hangar before she looked back at Louis with a blush. "But thank you dear for the compliment."
Louis nodded before they both started to walk out of the store. Eventually, they met up with Pete near the entrance of the mall that they had broken into.
"What took you guys so long?" Pete asked.
"Sorry, we got a little caught up." Louis said rubbing the back of his head, "where's Pinkie?"
Pete pointed to a small stand that usually sold cookies and, predictably, Pinkie Pie was seen behind the glass eating one of the chocolate-chip cookies that was still there.
"Wait, isn't that stealing?" Louis asked.
"Not if you pay for it!" Pinkie Pie said happily as she dropped a few bits onto the counter before hopping out of the small stand. "There, two bits should cover it."
"Um Pinkie they won't know what bits are." Pete said.
She just shrugged and popped the last bit of cookie in her mouth. She licked her lips in satisfaction as she bounced back over to Pete's side.
"It's not my problem!" she said happily.
"You all set then?" Louis asked Pete and he nodded, tapping the element necklace that he wore.
"Yeah we were just waiting for you." He replied, "come on let's…"
BOOOOMMMM!
All four of them jumped as they watched one of the shops down the hall explode into a ball of flames, followed by screaming and the Latin chanting of the Milites Chaos. Suddenly, a mass of anarchists began to sprint down the hallway of the mall. They all screamed and started to run out to the car as the mob of anarchists flooded the mall, some chasing after them and firing their guns. Louis, however, stood his ground and began to build up his magic. The other three stopped and turned to see what he was doing.
"Louis what are you doing?" Rarity asked in confusion before he turned to her, his eyes engulfed in white as a smile spread across his face.
"Giving them a face of my psychic force."
He then turned back to the anarchists running at them before he reached up and brought his hands down, causing the glass that made up the ceiling in this part of the mall, to come crashing down on the group. They ducked as large shards of glass and pieces of the ceiling. None were crushed, but the sound of shattering glass frightened them enough to stop running and duck for cover.
Louis smiled and used this opportunity to grab them with his magic and throw them through the window of the nearest shop, shattering the window in the process as their bodies flew through.
Right on cue, however, more anarchists were running off towards them.
"Um Pinkie, you wouldn't happen to have your party cannon, would you?" Pete asked as he hurled a ball of his own magic at some of the anarchists, hitting two of them while the others still continued to run towards them, stepping on the glass that Louis had brought down moments before.
"No Pete!" Pinkie Pie shouted as she shook her head.
"Could you get it?" Pete asked as Pinkie Pie raised an eyebrow.
"What do you think, I pull it out of thin air? That's not possible." She replied before she turned her attention to Louis, who was now charging down, or losing his aura, before running back to the group.
"Let's get out of here." Louis shouted before the group nodded and they headed out to the car, Pete still aggravated that Pinkie Pie didn't think one could pull something out of nowhere when she, literally, pull things out of nowhere all of the time.
They finally reached Louis' car and all piled in. Before the anarchists could even reach the parking lot, Louis was already driving the group away.
"Well, I must say Louis. That was quite the display of magic back there." Rarity said with a smile.
"Thank you Rarity." Louis said with a smile before they both kissed.
In the back, Pinkie Pie was looking out of the back window at the mall, which was now on fire, just like the rest of the city was.
"Hey Pete, why do they set everything on fire?" she asked.
"To create chaos Pinkie Pie, I don't know." Pete said.
"I just don't understand how anypony could do things like this," she said, now sounding somewhat sad, "especially what I saw in the city."
She then turned to Pete, who looked at her with some sympathy before letting out a deep sigh, "Well Pinkie, that's the difference between our realities."
All Pinkie Pie did was slowly scoot closer to Pete and hug him, as if she were having flashbacks to the city, after she seemed to have gotten over it. Pete hugged her back as Louis continued to drive them off and away from the mall.
Wilmont Park
Ryan and Rainbow Dash were still digging, now with more speed. Ryan's fingernails had dirt accumulate under them, which eventually caused his fingers to bleed from under the nails. His eyes were determined and his arms and knees covered in dirt.
Rainbow Dash was just as determined, her hooves actually helping a great deal now that the ground was softer after the tougher topsoil had been removed. She gritted her teeth as dirt covered her forelegs and even her face as clumps of it smacked into her.
Finally, Ryan saw the familiar shine of something gold underneath a little bit of dirt. He quickly grabbed at it and pulled out the two necklaces that represented the Elements of Loyalty.
Rainbow Dash stopped digging as Ryan held the two necklaces up to show her. She grinned, "We've got them!"
Ryan smiled back and they hugged each other tightly before a voice from behind them interrupted their peaceful embrace.
"AHEM!"
Ryan and Rainbow Dash turned around to see James and Fluttershy standing behind them. A sly smirk was on James' face while Fluttershy hovered over to their two dirt-covered friends.
"Is this time bad for you two lovebirds?" James asked. "Because we do have a city to save…"
"No actually, it's perfect. I hope you enjoyed the show." Ryan answered before smiling and holding up his element for James to see. "We've got them man."
"Same." James said as he pulled his necklace out from under his shirt-collar, as he had been wearing it. Fluttershy also was wearing hers.
Ryan turned to Rainbow Dash and pointed to her element, which he was still holding. "May I?"
Rainbow Dash nodded, "Yeah."
Ryan placed the necklace around Rainbow Dash's neck and clipped it in place. After doing so, he looked up at her and blushed, realizing how cute she looked with the necklace on.
She giggled, "I take it you like what you see?"
Ryan snapped out of his trance and put his own necklace on before he and Rainbow Dash stood up.
"Ready?" Ryan asked James and Fluttershy, who both nodded in response.
They both headed off to Alex's SUV, now wearing their elements around their necks.
"So do you think Alex is going to kill you for the damage to his car?" James asked as he gestured to all of the dents and smashed parts of the SUV.
Ryan shook his head, "He'd better not. After all it's not my fault we had to drive through a warzone." Ryan then opened the door for Rainbow Dash to get into the passenger-side of the car.
"Well I'm sure he'll be understanding." Fluttershy said in a comforting tone.
James got into the back with Fluttershy as Ryan made his way to the drivers' side door, when he froze.
He could hear the approaching sound of police sirens, roaring closer and closer to the park.
"Of course it wouldn't be this easy." Ryan muttered before he ran over to the driver's side door and got in. He slammed it shut and turned the car on.
"What's that noise?" Rainbow Dash asked as she heard the sirens approaching, which wasn't hard since the passenger-side window had been smashed by Applejack.
All though most of the other windows were now broken anyways, so it didn't matter how they broke.
"The cops." Ryan answered as he began to back off of the grass.
"The police!" James shouted and Ryan nodded. "Oh no! Ryan get us out of here now!"
"What do you think I'm doing!" Ryan shouted back before he got off of the grass and began to speed towards the entrance of the park, only to realize that the police cruisers were now appearing from the road and drove into the park through the entrance, that Ryan was trying to make his way to. They then sped off towards the car that the four friends were in. Ryan quickly threw the brakes on and put the car in reverse before speeding back onto the grass. He then turned the car around and drove off towards the forest. A large blast of magic whizzed by the car just as Ryan managed to turn and go forward rather than backward. That blast hit the large backstop that was on a baseball field, which caused it to come crashing down. Ryan kept swerving and driving as fast as he could, being careful to avoid the occasional blast of magic that was sent their way from Officer Courtie or one of the other police officers.
"James, you go down this hiking trail a lot, yes?" Ryan shouted back at his friend as he started to drive across the soccer field where Rarity and Twilight first met Louis.
James nodded, "Yeah that's actually where we found our elements."
"Can this car drive down the path?"
James' eyes widened in confusion and he looked up towards Ryan, "What!"
"Is the path too narrow for this truck?"
"No, the part of the trail behind the soccer field is wide enough, but are you insane!" James shouted back with fear.
"Insane like a fox." Ryan muttered quietly before he continued to barrel towards the forest. Rainbow Dash was looking in the side-mirror at the long line of about eight police cruisers headed their way. Five were normal sedans that are typical for police use, while the other three were the black SUVS that resembled the one that Carl had first used his magic on.
"Whoa there are so many of them." She said in shock at the number of police cruisers chasing them.
"This is the reason I wanted Alex's SUV instead of a cruiser." Ryan said with a dark smile, "You see, there is a method to my madness."
With that, Ryan smashed through the vegetation before turning down the hiking trail in the direction of the actual road. The dirt road was quite bumpy, but the ride was pretty smooth considering they were riding through the open path of a hiking trail. Some tree branches hit the windshield, which was only broken a little bit so most of the leaves and twigs stayed outside of the vehicle.
"Rainbow Dash can you tell me what the police cruisers are doing behind us?" Ryan asked.
Rainbow Dash nodded as she continued to look into the side mirror, "Yeah they're right on our tails! Looks like one is gaining fast!"
"Okay, James, tell Fluttershy to put on her seatbelt!" Ryan shouted back, "and Rainbow Dash…" Ryan turned to her and reached across her to grab the seatbelt. He pulled it back across her torso and clicked it into the buckle.
"What's this?" she asked, looking down at the seatbelt with annoyance before glaring back up at Ryan in a huff, "why am I wearing this?"
"Because things are about to get a little bumpy and I don't want you to get hurt." Ryan said before looking back at James again, "Hey James!" James looked up at Ryan, who was grinning, "I think it's time to exact our angst on these fuckers."
James suddenly was beaming as he could finally vent his rage at these officers for what they did to Fluttershy. He turned and leaned out of the open window next to him and pointed his yellow aura-covered hand at the nearest cruiser, "Way ahead of you Ryan."
With that, James blasted a huge mass of aura at the nearest police car, hitting it square in the engine and causing it to explode into a ball of fire. The cruiser then landed on the ground and was hit by an incoming police SUV that was right behind it.
"Whoa!" Rainbow Dash shouted happily as she watched by sticking her head out of the window, "that was totally awesome!"
"What was that?" Fluttershy asked as she lifted her head to see the fireball behind them, "oh wow, I hope nopony in that car was hurt."
"I don't care if they died." James muttered under his breath before looking down at Fluttershy, who seemed shocked by his words. "Sorry Fluttershy." James apologized before slightly calming himself down.
"Wait, why aren't you scared like you were in the city?" Ryan asked as he turned to Rainbow Dash, surprised by her excitement with the explosion that James caused.
"Because we can handle this." Rainbow Dash said with a grin before gently punching Ryan's shoulder, "and I think it's time for you to vent your frustrations as well Ryan."
Ryan gave her a smile back and stuck his hand out of the drivers' side window as a beam of magic flew by them and missed. Ryan aimed at a tree up ahead and hit it with his cyan magic, causing it to come crashing down. Ryan managed to drive under it in time, as did most of the police force, but the last two cruisers in the line that was chasing them were unfortunate and smashed right into the massive log.
Now there were only four cruisers left, and Ryan wanted his hand at causing even more mayhem, so he saw a large boulder up ahead and grabbed it with his aura before throwing it back at the cars. While none of the remaining cruisers hit the rock that was hurtling towards them, one did swerve out of the way to avoid it and crashed into a small creek that was just off of the road.
Now one cruiser, which Officer Courtie was sitting in the passenger seat of, and two SUVS were all that was left of the eight police cars that had been trailing them earlier. They began to fire their own magic at Alex's SUV, only to miss every time. Ryan saw that they were approaching the road, and the only barrier was some tall grass.
"Rainbow Dash! I want you to take the steering wheel and make a hard turn to the left when I say so." Rainbow Dash nodded and took a hold of the steering wheel in her hooves. It was hard, but she did manage to loop her forelegs around the wheel to get a sort of "grip" on it.
"Let me know when!" she said with her eyes still pointed forward. Ryan nodded as he began to build up his aura, knowing that freezing a police cruiser or two would be more difficult than freezing people or ponies.
"Dude what are you planning?" James asked as he fired another blast of magic at one of the cruisers, which missed the main part of the car, but did manage to send a large rock into the windshield, hitting the officer in the passenger seat.
"You ever see movies about pirates?" Ryan asked, "and you know how they have cannons on the side?"
"Yeah?" James asked.
"Get ready to fire from the left window." Ryan replied. "And freeze the cars behind us with your magic."
James nodded and quickly scrambled over to the window. He looked back at Fluttershy with some remorse, "Please don't hate me for doing any of this, I know you hate violence but…"
Fluttershy smiled and said something that he never expected from her, "Take them all out James."
James laughed and pointed his hand out of the window as the beams of magic kept whizzing by, missing the car each and every time.
"Jesus they can't hit the broad side of a barn." James thought to himself as they were almost at the road.
"Ready Dashie?" Ryan asked.
"Ready!" she said with a stern look, eyebrows furrowed as she looked forward. As soon as the truck hit the tall grass, Ryan shouted, "Now!"
Rainbow Dash turned the steering wheel to the left so that the car was now broadside of the incoming three cruisers.
But that wasn't a problem, as James and Ryan both sent two massive blast of magic at the cars, freezing them in place. Ryan froze two of the cars, one being the SUV , and James froze the last cruiser. Officer Cantor and the other police officers were al trying to get out of the cars, even resorting to teleporting, only to realize that the were trapped. So Alex's car was now on the road, as if it had stopped in the middle of a normal drive, and the three police cruisers were frozen; two in an aura of cyan and one in a yellow aura.
"Hmmmm." Ryan thought out loud, "what should we do with them James?"
"I've got an idea, let's shot put these bastards." James said with a smirk before lifting up the cruiser he had control over into the air; higher, and higher, and higher, until it was almost one hundred feet in the air.
"This one's for Fluttershy." He muttered before he flicked his wrist, sending the car flying off into the distance. A small "boom" could be heard as it hit the ground, indicating an explosion.
Ryan smiled as he lifted the two cruisers that he had frozen, including the one with Officer Cantor inside, into the air at a similar height before he nodded in approval, "And this is for my parents. One cruiser for each of them."
With that, he sent the two cars flying off. Officer Cantor was able to create a force field around the two cruisers as they fell to slow their descent so the cars didn't explode, but it still didn't completely eliminate the pain that they felt from the impact. Once on the ground, a very irritated Officer Cantor and the other three officers teleported back to Wilmont City Hall to join up with Discord and Obscure Darkness.
Ryan and James looked at each other and pounded their fists saying, "Liberal-Conservative Power-Play Bitches." And laughing as Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy just looked at them with confusion.
"Political humor." Ryan said with a shrug. Rainbow Dash just kept staring at him in awe, as if he had just performed a sonic rainboom of his own. She then smiled at him and lunged at him, planting a kiss on his lips. She didn't have to lunge the whole way, however, as Ryan met her as well. After savoring a victory kiss, which was even sweeter than either of them expected, they broke apart and looked each other in the eyes while they smiled.
They then heard what sounded like more making out and turned around to see James and Fluttershy kissing in a way that shocked both of them. Well, as far as Fluttershy goes, as she was getting into it more than they pictured was possible for the timid mare.
"Fluttershy?" Rainbow Dash asked with a chuckle, causing both of them to break off their hug and blush.
"Sorry Rainbow Dash," Fluttershy said as she rubbed the back of her head with her right hoof and smiled in embarrassment, "but James was just so brave back there, I couldn't resist giving him a little kiss."
"And don't think we didn't see the same from you two." James added as he pointed at Rainbow Dash and Ryan, who just chuckled. After all, their affection wasn't reserved in anyway as far as kissing in front of their friends went.
Ryan turned back to the road and started up the engine when Rainbow Dash put her hoof onto his hand. He turned to her and she gave him a kind smile, "You're parents would be proud of you."
Ryan nodded, but also felt some of his jubilance go away as his parents' faces flashed into his mind, making him want to cry some more. But all he did was sniffle and turn back to the road and drive off, uttering a "Thanks Dashie." Before speeding off.
James pulled his phone out and saw that Carl sent him a text.
"Yo Ryan, Carl wants us to meet at his house in twenty minutes."
"Okay."
"Can you make it there that fast?" James asked, and before Ryan could respond with his typical reference to the show, Rainbow Dash interrupted him.
"He can get us there in ten seconds flat!"
Ryan chuckled a bit as her antics did manage to make him feel a little better about his parents.
But for now, there was a God of chaos that needed to be defeated
Next stop, Carl's house…or what was left of it, that is.
Hope you enjoyed that chapter.
Please let me know what you thought of it, and thanks for reading.
And, as I say after every chapter…
Go Giants! Go Rainbow Dash!