Chapter 29: Final stand Part 1

Authors Note: Hey, it turns out that Legonick26 and pony master own Ice Cloud and Duel Shot. If you guys want to send me an OC, then please do! But if you do it as a guest, then make an account and tell me they are yours, that causes problems. So either just make an account to give them to me, or don't try to claim them afterwards. Todays OC was brought to you by shadowwing135. Oh and this chapter will be violent, so be warned. Enjoy!

"Hello Frostnight." I said

"So what? Are you gonna fight us all by yourself? Where is your pathetic little army of guards?"

The rest of the royal guard then walked out from behind the buildings and stood behind me.

"Thats it? HA. This will be a piece of cake."

"I DON'T WANT TO DIE!" I heard a voice yell from behind me

Soon the remaining guard members started to freak out, and eventually started to run away.

"WAIT!" I yelled

"HA! You ponies are pathetic. GET THEM! GET THEM ALL! SLAUGHTER THEM!" Frostnight yelled

I saw the massive horde of bandits start to rush forward towards Ponyville, and I ran as well. I saw many of the guard turning into alleyways, and narrow streets. While running away, I heard the bandits right on my tail. I turned down a street, and found it was a dead end. I ran to the wall and turned around.

They charged into the alley and then stopped a couple of feet short.

"Dead end punk. Time to die boy!" A bandit yelled from in front of me.

All of a sudden, I looked up and saw a flash of light. That was our cue. I grabbed the piece of metal next to me, and hid. Half a second later, I heard several loud explosions, and a lot of screams. I lowered my shield to see 4 ice spikes stuck to it. The bandits who were just so recently about to kill me were now a bloody pile of bodies. I counted around 30ish. There were a couple scattered still alive, but I need to get out of this alley before more come. I flew out out of my alley to see the rest of the guard doing the same. I did a quick count to find that we didn't lose a single pony. Sweet! This is going quite swimmingly.

I looked down to see more of the bandits charging through the town, tearing it apart. Damn shame. The rest of the pegasus guard and I flew down to the center of town to meet up with the rest of the guard. We landed, and was met with a loud applause.

"Good work, that was a nice distraction. But we didn't even dent their forces. Phase two?" Shining Armor said

"Phase two." I said with a smirk.

I took off, and flew off to a nearby rooftop. I saw White Flash, Nightstar, Leafstar, Fire Heart, Lightning Thrash, Ice Cloud, Duel Shot, Dash, The Wonderbolts, Thunder Cloud, and a massive pile of ice bombs.

"You guys ready?" I yelled

They let out a thunderous shout of approval, and took off. The majority of the pegasi grabbed a bomb, and flew off. I flew down and grabbed one as well. I was expecting this to be a lot heavier! This isn't bad at all! I took off towards the bandits to find that everypony was either dropping their bombs, or shooting magic or whatever at them. Thrash was sitting on top of a cloud conjuring massive lightning storms, and Fire Heart was making huge pillars of fire. I dropped my bomb on a big group of bandits, and then made sure everypony had dropped their bombs. I then pulled out my light bomb, and lit it on fire, throwing it up in the air. When it went off, it made a huge flash, and after a second or two, all of the bombs went off.

We started to fly back to the rooftop to make another bombing run, when we saw a huge group of archers fire a barrage of arrows at us. Those dumbo's. When the arrows were about to make contact, they got deflected by a shield that Shining Armor made for us. We looked down to find that the front of the bandits made contact with the Guard. The guards were going all out; they were in a tight phalanx, with their backs against a wall, just trying to bide time for us to take out some more bandits with bombs.

On my way back, I saw somepony on a nearby roof.

"DASH! I'm not going on the next one! Here!" I said as I threw the next signal to Dash.

I flew down to the pony on the roof, and he didn't stir at all. I landed behind him, and slowly started to walk up to him. He was a pegasus with...with...with crystal wings? Wow those are so kick ass. It's like a web of light purple crystals, woven together to make wings. On the ends, there were long crystals running the length of the bottom. He had a white coat, with a grey mane. His cutie mark was a crystal sword crossed with a bow.

"Hey, you should have evacuated with the rest of the citizens. What are you doing up here?"

"No, I want to help." He said

"Who are you? And what's with the wings?"

"I'm Flashwing. I was raised by my essentially insane parents who thought it was a good idea to live in a radiated cave. They thought it would be safer to hide away, than to live like normal ponies. When I was still in my mothers womb, I guess the radiation got to me. When I was born, I had the structure for wings, but no feathers. As I grew up, these crystals started to grow. Now as soon as I break them, they grow back in an instant. Enough about me. Let me help."

"Umm sure I guess? But why do you want to help so bad?"

"These same bandits killed my family. They may have been crazy, but they are my family. And they need to pay for what they have done." He said

He picked up a bow that was sitting on the ground in front of him, broke off one of the long crystals at the bottom, and strung it up. After a couple seconds of silence, he shot the crystal in the air. Right then, a bandit flew up to us, and drew his sword. I started to back off, but Flashwing just sat there. The crystal then flew down, and hit the bandit square in the head. He fell off of the building down to the ground below.

"Ok come with me." I said

We flew off towards the roof with the ice bombs on them. It seems like the rest of them were just getting back.

"Where did you go Rad? And who is this?" Dash asked

I explained very briefly who he was while we were getting ready for the next bombing run.

"Flashwing here is going to stay up here, provide cover fire, and protect the bombs, in case they figure out where they are." I said

"Sounds good to me." She said

He drew out his bow, and started breaking the crystals off of his wings. They grew back in seconds, only to be broken again. He kept doing this until he had a big pile. We took off for the third bombing run. By the time we got back, half of the pile was gone, but for some reason, I don't think that is the same one. We started to get ready for another run, when we heard a loud roar from off in the distance. It wasn't just one roar either. It was many. Even the fighting down below had slowed down. We looked around for a while, but we didn't see it. We heard another set of roars, but this time, it was a lot closer. By this time, the fighting had completely halted. And then we saw what it was. It was a massive heard of manticores with a manticore running on two legs leading the pack.

When they got close enough they stopped. The one who was upright, then turned around, roared something, changed into a hawk and flew off towards us. The manticores then charged forward, smashing the back of the bandit army head on. The manticores were wrecking their shit. Drake then changed back into his self, and landed on the roof.

"Sup."

"WHAT IS THAT AND HOW DID YOU DO IT?!" Nightstar yelled

"Well, I said if I changed into a big monster, it would be cheating. I didn't say anything about rallying a bunch of big monsters." He said with a shrug.

I ran over to him, and gave him a big hug, and he just stood there. I backed off, and said we should get more bombing runs in, but I warned them to watch the manticores. No need to piss them off towards us. Drake said he had another "thing" to do, so I figured I would just let him go and do whatever.

Drakes POV:

After I brought the manticores to the fight, I still had one thing to do. I flew off towards the phanax of guards, and found Dusk Wing. I picked him up, and flew off away from the fighting. He was pretty upset. When we landed, and I changed back, he punched me.

"What are you doing?! I need to get back there! They need me!"

"We have a bigger fish to fry mate." I said

He stared me for a second, not understanding what I meant.

"We are the two best fighters in the group. Now what responsibility falls on us?"

"Ummmm taking on the best figh- oooohhhh. Ok yeah, lets go kill that son of a bitch!" He said as we flew off, trying to find Frostnight.

Breeze's POV:

We had a couple of uneventful runs, and it seemed like we were...winning? I mean, none of us have been hurt yet, thanks to Shining Armor's shields, and only about 5 guards and a manticore has been killed. On the other hand, we have taken out hundreds of bandits. Now personally, I am freaking out a bit. I mean, how many ponies have I killed in the past couple hours? To many to count. It's just so horrible to think about...but what can we do? It's either us or them. And THEY are the bad guys right? I mean we have to protect our friends in the castle, and the rest of Ponyville, and Canterlot. So yeah, I guess we are doing the right thing. I think...

"Breeze! Snap out of it and get over here!" Dusk Wing yelled

I ran over to him and looked over at the fighting. It seems like a giant massive ice dome has appeared in the back of the battle field.

"What is that thing?" I asked

"I don't know, it just popped up. I thought I saw somepony fly over to the area before it went up, but I'm not sure."

"Hmm thats really strange."

I then decided to walk back over to the pile, and get ready, but I tripped on something, and I landed on one of Flashwing's crystal arrows. It pierced my back leg, and I yelled out in pain.

"Gah! Why didn't Shining Armor's shield stop that from happening?"

I picked up a rock, and threw it at Nightstar. It hit him, with no interference.

"What happened to our shields?" Nightstar asked

"Oh shit! What if he's down! What could have happened?" I yelled

"Ok guys we need to be very careful now, so just watch out for other pegasi and arrows." Nightstar said

"Wait, Fire Heart and Thrash are still out there, and they don't know that they don't have shields anymore! Dash! Go and warn them!" I yelled

She nodded and took off in the direction of where they were before. We waited around for a bit until she came back. We saw her coming back, but this time, she looked scared.

"I can't find them! What if they got shot down!" She yelled

"Ok everypony, spread out and find them!" I yelled

Just then, Discord teleported in.

"Hey everypony! Not too late am I?" He said with a smirk

"NOT NOW!" I said as I flew off

I started to search for them everywhere, but I didn't see them. After a couple of minutes, I started to lose hope, until I saw some lightning bolts being shot in the air. I flew above to see Thrash shooting lightning at an approaching horde of bandits, with Fire Heart lying on the ground behind him. I flew down and landed beside him.

"WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR SHIELDS!?" He yelled

"Something might have happened to Shining Armor! We don't really know, but we don't have shields anymore! What happened?" I yelled

"He got shot by a couple of arrows! When he went down, I flew down, and then these bandits showed up out of nowhere!"

I drew up my sword, and got ready for a fight, when there was a bright flash behind us. I turned around to see Princess Luna standing there with a worried look on her face. When she saw what was going on, she got pissed. Real pissed.