Author: Moonlight here, posting a new chapter for ya'll. This will be the end of the arc and another one will come up in the next. Since I need to progress the story more on to the best part of it. I might skip somethings and yeah. Enough of talks, and let's see what is going on.
Chapter 23: Breaking Point
Excalibur Sonic and Golden Cyan Silver is standing in front of Rarity in her chaos form. Rarity wears a white and sky blue dress with white scarf. She is standing on a hovering ice and her eyes are pure cyan.
"Rarity! I know you can here me! Trust me, Fluttershy-!" Silver stopped as both Sonic and Silver jumped from an ice spike that flew towards them.
Sonic groaned as he hovers in the air, "She won't listen to you. Any ideas how will she listen?"
Silver looked down and looked at Rarity, "I- I don't know... Rarity is a type of a person I know that accepts advices and suggestions... but..."
"But she is different if she is in a chaos form." Sonic finishes the sentence.
"Yeah." Silver answered as he just looked at Rarity who is idly standing, "How can I reach you?"
Outside of the Sphere
Fluttershy is flying around and noticed some anthroponies got stuck from a giant ice block that fell from the side of buildings. Fluttershy came in to aid. She tried to lift or push the ice block although it's pointless.
"Oh no.. I- I have to... h-help... them! It's the least... thing I... could do..." Fluttershy groaned trying to push the ice but it won't budge.
Fluttershy didn't know but the ice starts to melt down. It took few minutes for her to notice that she manage to push the ice. "I-I did it?"
The anthroponies flew and some run, but one stayed, "T-Thank you! Both of you... Please save Ponyville." He said before he left the scene.
"Both?" Fluttershy wondered.
"I think he was talking about me as well." A familiar voice was heard and Fluttershy looked to where it comes from.
"Spike!" Fluttershy called out as she saw Spike standing heroic on the ice block that Fluttershy pushed.
"Hehe, good thing I can melt down the ice. But uh, what happened here?" Spike thought about it and Fluttershy looked down.
"It's best that you won't know." Fluttershy said as she holds on to her arm.
"Aw come on. You know that I can handle anything." Spike said proudly.
Fluttershy sighed, "Rarity saw me with Silver... although, I only told Silver that I will support him and Rarity together. But Rarity saw the wrong part of it..." Fluttershy looked down from what happened.
"And this happened huh?" Spike looked at the giant sphere but he heard a sniff.
He noticed that Fluttershy teared up which made Spike panic, "I-I mean, you know Rarity right? She is still your friend. She won't hate you or get mad at you that much."
"She did... She yelled at me and hurt Silver and now she is destroying Ponyville... this is all my fault..." Fluttershy sits on broken part of a house and cried.
Spike felt guilty from asking but he kept his cool and walk up to Fluttershy.
"She may get mad at you, but I know one other thing about Rarity is that she forgives any one even if they make mistakes." Spike said which made Fluttershy look at him.
Fluttershy sniffs and slightly played her hair, "T-Then... why didn't she forgive me right now? I mean, both Silver and I told the truth but she didn't listen."
"Well, I'm sure that is not the Rarity we know as a friend. Right now, she is being controlled just like Pinkie Pie and we are going to save her." Spike said with determination.
"B-But how? Silver said that, it's dangerous to go in." Fluttershy tried to reason with Spike.
"Don't worry, I can melt ice. And if anything goes wrong, I will handle the rest." Spike said as he closed his eyes and point himself like a hero.
"You... sure?" Fluttershy have a slight of doubt about Spike but as she took a few seconds to look at Spike's smile and honesty. Fluttershy smiled at this.
"See? Now let's go!" Spike said in a cheerful tone.
Fluttershy clean herself and stands up, "You're right. It's up to us to save Rarity, let's go Spike." Spike nod and prepares himself for the flight.
Fluttershy flaps her wings and carries Spike. Both of them rush to the giant ice sphere. Fluttershy is flying faster than she ever could and Spike is in a flying superhero posture. Fluttershy thought that they will just pass through but when they collided with the sphere, Spike took a big hit as he hit wall.
"Ow." Spike said after getting hit on the solid ice.
"Oh no! It seems we can't enter..." Fluttershy said in disappointment, "Oh my, Spike? A-Are you alright?"
Spike forced himself out and as he landed on the ground he shake his head, "Never better..."
"I just noticed that it's not growing anymore..." Fluttershy said as she touched the ice.
"You just noticed that now? Could have noticed it sooner thought." Spike said reminding about him getting hit on a solid ice with a great speed.
"I'm really sorry Spike... I thought we will get pass through, but I think we won't get in." Fluttershy said as stating that she is giving up.
"Not to worry Fluttershy, I breathe fire remember?" Spike said as he stand up and walk up to the ice.
He inhaled alot and then blows a green fire at the ice. Somehow, it's working, this made Fluttershy happy but when Spike got tired, the sphere is extremely thick that it might take weeks or years to get pass through.
"Not yet Fluttershy, I got this!" Spike said as he inhaled again and blew a green flame.
"Please save her Silver..." Fluttershy said as she looked at the ice.
Back Inside
"GRrr!" Silver said as he flying away from ice spikes that are following him, "Cyan Magic: Solid Barrier!" Silver shouted as he covers himself in a barrier and the ice spikes broke as it collides.
"Let's go Excalibur!" Sonic rushed at Rarity.
"Sonic? Sonic! Don't hurt her!" Silver said as he trying to tank the ice spikes.
"Don't worry, I'll try and make her unconscious that's all." Sonic said as excalibur got covered in a blue aura.
"Weakling." Rarity said as she looked at Sonic and points a finger at him in a distance.
"Huh?" Sonic wondered why Rarity is point at him.
All of a sudden, a flash of beam came out from Rarity's finger and it almost hit Sonic.
"Woah! That's new. Uhh..." Sonic said as he noticed flying objects beside Rarity.
"Begone weakling." Rarity said as a beam charged up on the ice spikes around her and in her finger.
Multiple beams fired at once and Sonic used excalibur to block the attack. Sonic groans as he struggles from the multiple beams. Rarity then controlled the ice spikes to change angle and it starts to pin harder. She then created more from different locations and it starting to hurt Sonic.
"WRAHHH!" Sonic screamed as he is getting pinned.
"Sir Sonic!" Excalibur cried out.
"Sonic!" Silver said as he watches in horror.
Silver groaned and he expanded his barrier making the ice spikes to bounce back. The barrier disappeared and Silver came to aid Sonic. Rarity noticed this and she point a palm at him.
"Stay there." She said as a beam fired at him.
"I don't think so Rare." Silver said as he magic shield formed on his arm. "Cyan Magic: Mirror Reflector!" As the beam collided it hit one of the ice beam and so Silver took the opportunity and destroy more of the ice beams.
Luckily, Silver manages to destroy everything and then the shield disappeared. Silver forms a magic sword and Rarity did the same. She controlled the ice under her feet and charges at Silver. Both of them collide and their swords are on clashing on and on. While Silver is distracting her, Sonic took the opportunity and rush at Rarity. Little did they know, Rarity already knew what the two where planning. Rarity made Silver lose the sword and he then points her palm at him. An ice fist formed and it hit Silver pushing him back away. Rarity hovered slightly downwards making Sonic miss the hit. An ice fist also hit Sonic and then a she created a magic rope. She grabs Sonic and drags him to where Silver crashed and then she crashed Sonic with him.
Both of the boys groan as they felt the pain. Silver looked at Sonic, he got surprised at Sonic's armor getting frozen.
"Sonic, your..." Silver was about to call out about the armor but he noticed that Sonic looked up.
Silver did the same and to his surprise, a giant magic orb is about to hit them. Without hesitation, Sonic used his magic to blow Silver away making him get hit by the attack. As it collided, a bright flash formed around.
"Sonic?" Silver got confused and he couldn't see a thing.
The light disappeared and Silver tried to open his eyes, but as he did a sword is pointing at him.
"Rarity..." Silver said as he looked at her cold face and at the sword that is ready to impale him, "Why are you doing this...?"
"You hurt me Silver and you broke my precious diamond. How much do you have to hurt me?" Rarity asked him.
"Hurt you? Hurt you?! Look how much you hurt me! Not just me but our friends!" Silver shouted at her but it didn't bother Rarity.
"Hurt you? Friends? I never have any friends." Rarity said in a cold tone that made Silver frozen in his place.
"Wha... you're not making any sense at all now! If you want to kill me! Go ahead!" Silver said as he closed his eyes and waiting for his doom.
"As you wish." Rarity said as she raise her sword and prepares to thrust Silver.
Silver tried everything but he knew that he wouldn't get to save her. "I'm sorry everyone... I failed all of you..."
Rarity then motions her sword but it just made a contact to the body. She didn't continue rather she stopped from impaling Silver. He opened one of his eyes seeing Rarity didn't finish him off.
Silver then gasped seeing Rarity's tear."Rarity?"
Out of nowhere a giant explosion formed in the corner. Silver and Rarity looked to the explosion but Silver got covered in entire ice. Rarity decides to check what cause the mess and it turns out, Sonic is still alive while he has his knee on the ground. Sonic was breathing heavily as his armor is massively damage stating that most part of his body is visible. Sonic held excalibur knowing it doesn't have much energy within. Rarity chuckles seeing Sonic in a very weak state.
"To think how you are still standing is quite marvellous." Rarity said as she point at Sonic with a beam charging up.
Sonic laughed at this which made Rarity confused, "You did great out there buddy... it's time for you take a rest." Excalibur levitated and disappeared from view signifying that it was return to its original place.
"You let yourself get defeated? How foolish of a knight you were." Rarity said as the beam disappeared from her finger but rather an ice starting to grow on Sonic's feet.
"You know that I'm not done yet right?" Sonic said while looking down with a smirk as the ice starting to reach his entire body.
"You still have tricks? Please, I know you don't have any more strength to beat me nor save me." Rarity said as she floats away.
"That's what you think... Y-You see... I'm not just cer-certain that if I-I could do thi-" Sonic was cutoff as his body got covered entirely in ice.
Rarity isn't still going far but she felt an extreme heat being formed at Sonic's place. She took a quick look at Sonic and at her surprise, steam is appearing around Sonic's frozen place.
"W-What is this?" Rarity got curious and decides to take a closer look but as she did the ice that is covering Sonic exploded making her cover her eyes.
As Rarity open her eyes, she saw a large figure standing in front of her. A bulky hedgehog with orange rings with it. The fur is only visible on some of the parts of the body as most of it is cover in a purple like skin. The bulky hedgehog opens his eyes showing pure white eyes. The hedgehog punched the ground and flames emit from his hand.
"F-Flames? Who is this monstrous lookin." Rarity said with disgust in her tone.
"Hehe... surprised? This... this is new to me so I have only few minutes to take you down. I think I'll call this, WereSpine." Sonic said as he stood on a battle stance.
"You dare challenge me? Knowing that your victory is like a coal against a true diamond in terms of value?" Rarity said as an ice sword formed on her hand.
"I don't know what you're talking about, but I'm pretty sure a coal is enough to be polished to beat a diamond." Sonic said as stick his hands on to the ground and slightly walk backwards to get some distance.
Sonic's hand slightly got longer and as he let's go of his footing, he launches himself with the help from his hands as it acts like a booster. Sonic prepared a punch with flames emitting from it. Rarity covered herself in an ice barrier. As it collides with Sonic's punch, the barrier cracked and it got broken to pieces.
"W-What?" Rarity couldn't believe herself, as her ice barrier is vulnerable to Sonic's single punch.
"Heh, surprised?" Sonic said as he covered himself in flames.
Rarity shots out three shards of ice but as it pierces through the flames, Sonic was no where to be found. Rarity looked around to see where Sonic would be but then multiple flames came out of nowhere. Rarity was then covered in floating flames. She looked around to see if Sonic would appear in one of them but little did she know, a fist came out in one of the flames and it hit Rarity.
"Ah!" Rarity then turned back and shoots at the fist but the fist went back to the flame and the ice shard just went through the flames.
The strategy was repeated more and more on as it starts to get faster. Rarity couldn't catch up as she kept on getting punched around. On the short interval of punch, Rarity touched the ground and ice spikes covered herself within. Rarity has a little time to think of something, as the punches are incredibly fast. Sonic took the opportunity as Rarity is trapped in a corner. A larger flame appeared on top of the ice shield. Sonic came out of the flame and he stretch his arms pretty far back.
"You're finish!" Sonic shouted in a different tone as a giant flame grew on the fist far behind.
"Take this! Meteorite Cannon!" Sonic control his hand to move the giant flame towards Rarity's shield.
With a distance of the punch, it acted like a slingshot aiming at the ice. Rarity started to feel bit hot and she expected an incoming attack. She aims the tip of the ice shield and it charge a beam on top of it. The beam shoots out trying to stop Sonic's giant fist. Although, with Sonic's slingshot idea, the fist isn't pushing back. The flames got larger resulting a heat that makes the area melt. The fist is getting closer but Sonic withdraw them.
"You used too much energy, then... you don't have enough to stop this!" As Sonic's hands returned, he put his hands together and went on a pose, in the middle of his hands; a light is growing in it. Three chaos emeralds circle around him and went inside of his body, "Soul Charge: Burning Gaia Beam!" Sonic shouted and a beam was formed as he release the beam charged on his hands.
An extreme heat ray of beam headed towards Rarity. As the beam collided with Rarity's shield, it almost melts her down but she quickly adjusts the ice shield on an angle. The ice shield became thicker and thicker enough before it melts down. The ice shield turned into an umbrella like shield closing in opposite direction making rays of beam in different direction. The beam went near around Rainbow and Twilight and due to the extreme heat it melted their ice down making them able to move.
Twilight gasped for air as and she put her hands around her arms shielding from cold, "T-This is r-really c-c-cold..." She said and she notice that Rainbow's trap is also melting.
Rainbow also gasped and coughs, along putting her hands around her arms, "T-Tell m-m-me about i-it..."
Twilight puts her hand on the lower part of the ice and she uses her magic to set herself free. The ice broke down and she approached Rainbow's. She put her hands on the ice and uses magic to break it down. Rainbow broke free from the ice but she fell down on her knees.
"Rainbow! Are you okay?" Twilight became worried from her friend,
"Y-Yeah, I think I used too much of my strength against Rarity, I am tired probably." Rainbow said as she is breathing fast,
"The cold makes you breathe faster, try and breathe slowly alright?" Twilight suggested which it helped Rainbow to breathe normally, "Feeling better?"
"I think so... t-thanks." Rainbow said as she looked at Twilight, but as she did, she noticed someone else. "Silver?"
Twilight looked at the direction to where Rainbow is pointing out. Twilight was also surprised that she saw Silver frozen like them. Twilight carried Rainbow on her shoulders and they both walk to Silver. Twilight puts Rainbow down and she use her magic on to break Silver free which it worked. Silver gasped for air as he fell on his knees as well.
"Silver! Are you alright?" Twilight asked the white hedgehog.
"Yeah..." Silver said as he looked at his gloves and the cyan flames went back on, "I'm fine." He said looking at Twilight and stood up.
"G-Great... how are you s-supposed to stop R-Rarity now? W-We got free for u-unknown reason, but we ca-can't stop her." Rainbow said while sitting on the ground.
"You're right Rainbow... still I'm not even certain if we-" Silver was cutoff as someone got thrown near them creating a crater.
"Whose that?" Twilight went to check, Silver uses his magic to lift Rainbow to join in.
The trio got to the crater and they saw Sonic unconscious.
"Sonic!" Rainbow yelled out,
"N-No way, how Sonic able to keep up with Rarity?" Silver wondered but they heard a laugh from the mist.
They saw Rarity floating down before them, "How pitiful, he tried his best but not enough to beat me."
Silver's fist clenched from Rarity's arrogance. He was about to charge at her but...
"Not yet!" They heard a voice and it came from the crater, "I'm not yet done..." Sonic said as he trying to get up.
"Oh? Just how determine are you?" Rarity said in annoyance.
"Determined enough to be sure to protect them!" Sonic said as he stood up and the three chaos emeralds spin around him again, "Soul Charge!" Sonic transform back into his WereSpine form and has his one hand pointing at Rarity, "Soul Charge: Burning Gaia Beam!" A beam fired out to Rarity but she dodged this.
The beam went through to the ceiling and it pierce through it. Sonic then went back to his normal form, "What? NO! Not yet!" Sonic shouted and concentrated again to revert back to his WereSpine.
He then charges at Rarity only then Rarity anticipated this, which is why she dodged the attack to made a counter. She goes for a punch and combining it with a solidify ice punch. It hit Sonic in the gut and Rarity adds a one more punch right in Sonic's face, which pushed Sonic in a wall and with the collision, it created a crater.
Sonic grunts from the pain but as he shake his head, he glared at Rarity and his arms dug inside of the ice crater and he throws a large chunk of ice from the walls straight to Rarity. Which Rarity just manipulates it to a different direction but Sonic backs it up with a surprise attack. Rarity didn't have the reaction time to avoid this so she created herself a barrier before the punch really got into her, but the barrier isn't strong enough which is why Rarity got pushed back along her barrier being shattered. Sonic's arm stretched besides Rarity, she looked at this and then back at Sonic with his feet getting closer at her. It collided with Rarity and both of them created a smoke from the impact.
"Sonic!" Twilight and Rainbow cried out loud.
"Tch!" Silver said as he mad to himself, "Why… why can't I do something?! I knew Rarity, I hang out with her often but why she can't have the thoughts to do so…?" Silver thought about it.
"Because she doesn't listens to you. She listens to the who made her like that." A voice came out of nowhere.
Silver and the girls looked at the one who made the call. They saw Shadow with Pinkie and Applejack beside him while holding on to their arms.
"Shadow! Where have you been?" Silver wondered with a slight of annoyance.
"If you ask me that, I've been frozen solid for quite awhile, and it seems I read her thoughts while I'm frozen." Shadow explained but Silver tilt his head from the explanation.
"What do you mean, read her thoughts?" Silver said as he gave a puzzled look.
"Right. Likewise, the ice that entirely surrounds us is all connected to the use of magic. Which is possible for Rarity to control them at ease. Since I'm inside of her magic, I can read her thoughts since the chaos magic that she used can link up through mine." Shadow said which Silver nodded for the understanding.
"I see. But what if you said is true. Then…" Silver was cut-off by a loud scream.
"I-Incoming!" Pinkie shouted as the others looked to where Pinkie was pointing.
Sonic in his WereSpine form is flying towards them. The others jumps/fly away before Sonic crash lands. The group quickly checks on Sonic, Shadow was surprised to see Sonic on a different form.
"What is this form?" Shadow asks himself, "It's more like a combine soul."
"If you say it like that, I guess so." Twilight said which Shadow looked at her.
"Base from Sonic's stories… he told me about his Werehog form and the Darkspine form, and it seems that-" Twilight stopped as a shadow starts to block them.
Rarity's dress was messed up from the fight she had with Sonic. She breathes heavily and looked annoyed.
"You... all of you! How dare you ruin my dress! My perfect sphere! My everything! You all must die!" Rarity said as she raised her hand.
Sonic tried to get up but his body got covered in ice except his head. So does the other groups. The girls screamed while the hedgehogs struggle to break free.
"Let's start with you since you ruin my dress." Rarity said as she lifts Sonic out of the ground.
Sonic can't move his body, what's more is that he turn back to his normal form. Tired and exhausted, Sonic became unconscious and gives up on struggling to break free.
"Sonic! NO! Don't do this!" The group tried to stop Rarity but a sharp ice like needle formed in mid air and it's pointing at Sonic's body.
"Sonic! NO!" Silver shouted in his thought and he breaks Rarity's ice and transforms to his magic form to aid Sonic.
"Say goodbye, rat." Rarity said as she motions the needle like ice to Sonic. The group didn't look at their friend that is about to get stab but Silver rushed as fast as he can.
"NO!" Silver didn't manage to arrive in time but the ice spike stopped right before it impales to Sonic.
Silver pushes the ice spike away but he was surprised to see Fluttershy hugging Rarity in the back.
"Fluttershy?" Silver was more confused to this.
"Rarity! I know you can hear me! Silver never liked me! He always like you, no, he loves you! I gave up on trying, I told Silver that I'm now his friend!" Fluttershy yells aloud which the group opens their eyes and is also surprise to see Fluttershy.
"Argh! Shut up!" Rarity said as she tries to break free from the hug but she doesn't seem trying to atleast.
"I never wanted this to happen, in fact, I'm going to support you and Silver!" Fluttershy said as she put her head behind her back with tears falling down.
"I… I…" Rarity can't speak as she became weak on her control.
"Shadow!" Twilight said but she remembers that all of them are still frozen, "Oh, I can't use my magic to break free!" As she look up and her horn is also frozen.
"Don't worry, I got this." Spike said out of nowhere as he blows the ice that covers Shadow.
"Thanks." Shadow said as he quickly rushes at Rarity, "Now. Let's get this over with!"
Silver brings out a chaos emerald and so did Shadow, "Chaos…! Purification!" Both of them said it in the same time and the entire field glowed brightly until everything turned white.
The light fades seeing that Rarity, the normal one, is sitting on a bed while looking through a window. Her hair is completely messed up but she ignores this. She heard a knocking from the door which it made her return in to her senses.
"Oh. Come in." She said loudly but not entirely.
The door opened and Silver came in.
"Silver darling…" Rarity said in surprise, she looked away from the hedgehog, ashamed to look at him.
Silver sits beside Rarity and he looked at him, he held out his hand to her chin and forced her to look at him.
"How are you feeling, darling?" Silver said that made Rarity shock and blush.
"D-Darling? I-I mean, I'm fine…" Rarity said as she quickly looked away.
Silver chuckles seeing his girl like that, "You're cute when you're flustered, you know that right?" He said which the blush turned into red but it disappeared.
"Why…" She said,
"Hm?" Silver couldn't hear it so he got closer.
"Why aren't you mad at me? Why are you still here? Teasing me… and lying…" Rarity said as she clenched her hand in the blanket with tears forming in her face.
"Hey, hey. I never got mad at you, and I'm not lying Rarity. I couldn't leave you behind, I can't stop thinking what would happen if I let you be. I'm already committed to you." Silver said.
"What are you trying to say? Didn't you see that I almost killed Sonic and what do you even mean committed?" Rarity said as she looked at him with the tears on her eyes.
"You didn't kill Sonic. What's more is that, he is glad that you're back to normal. Safely." Silver said which it made Rarity calm.
"O-Okay… but *sniff* what do you still mean by-" Rarity was cut-off as Silver kisses her lips. After that, Silver leaves Rarity quiet and she quickly turned red again.
"I love you. That is what it means." Silver said but he is slightly worried because Rarity looked down.
"Silver…?" Rarity said…
"Y-Yeah?" Silver gulp if Rarity got mad at him.
He expects a slap but what more is a kiss from her as well. This time, Silver blushed and became quiet.
"I love you too!" She said as she continues to kiss him.
Without noticing, their friends are watching them at the window of the door.
"Aw! Those guys are really sweet and are totally perfect for one and another." Pinkie said with her smile in her face.
"Yeah, they are, but the kissing stuff is kinda gross if you ask me." Rainbow said as she stop looking at the window.
"But gotta admit that they're perfect." Pinkie said.
"You're okay about this, right Fluttershy?" Applejack asked Fluttershy who is also watching them.
"Yes. In fact, I'm more happy for both of them." Fluttershy said with a smile in her face.
Twilight is smiling for Silver and Rarity and also for Fluttershy. She then checks Spike but she noticed that Spike is the one who isn't taking it too well.
"Why did she choose him in the first place!" Spike cried out loud.
Twilight giggled, "Well Spike, maybe Rarity isn't the one for you. Perhaps, their would be someone better and suiting for you."
Spike sniffs and looks at Twilight, "Yeah, I guess you're right."
Twilight smiled from this, and then noticed that Sonic and Shadow isn't around.
"Hey, anyone noticed Shadow and Sonic?" Twilight asks her friends,
"Uh, yeah. I think I heard that Shadow wanted to talk to Sonic about something, who knows." Pinkie said and then she went back to talking to Rainbow.
"Hm alright." Twilight said, she felt a slight of worry, but she looked again at the window of the door to see Silver and Rarity. It ended up both of them sleeping together. Twilight giggles again at them.
"I'm glad Rarity finally finds her true prince." Twilight said as she told everyone to leave the two alone and privacy.
Back in the room, Silver kissed Rarity in the forehead before he sleeps. Rarity then smiles and snuggles closer to Silver.
Author: Finally done with this chapter and arc. The pattern is starting to form out with the characters of MLP. I wonder who would be the next one to gain the chaos emerald, I mean… maybe none of the girls would get it? Or who knows. Anyways, probably the next arc won't be focusing on the girls but rather to a certain hedgehog. Again, thank you all for the patience. I saw my fellow writers posting and updating their stories so I have to work on mine as well. It's been a while that I update mine since a lot of events took place at life. Well, I won't stop with this story, anyways. That is all for me, Moonlight Arc, over and out!"