Rage opened his eyes to find himself in a dark moonlit grove. He stood up and looked at himself in a small pool of water that coated a stone surface. Still a unicorn but he felt weird. He looked around. The tall, dark trees that extended skyward casting ominous shadows below. The only light came from the soft glow of the moon. Something felt off. Rage shivered as he was overcome with a bitter chill. A chill he knew all too well; Darkness. "Where am I?" He asks himself softly.
The last thing he remembered was flying to Canterlot Castle after what had happened in Cloudsdale. He was going to warn Celestia. But did he make it? Was it some dream? He shook his head and looked around again. This place was strange, even by his standards.
It didn't look like anyplace he knew. Not the Everfree, not the forests of Angel Island, the jungle around the Mystic Ruins. Definitely not the great Iron Jungle or even the thickets from the strange Blood Forest.
"Blade?" Rage calls out. No response. "Blade?!" Silence.
Rage was alone. Blade either was being petty over the recent events and ignoring him, being suppressed by the Darkness or…it was a dream.
"Is this some dream?" He wondered aloud. He didn't remember going to sleep. He didn't realize that strange, shadowy figures had formed around him. Small, humanoid in shape. Glowing red and amber eyes looked at him. "Dark Spawns?!" He exclaims looking around.
If this was some dream it wasn't funny. One lept and Rage swiftly evaded. There were a fair number of them too. Rage fired a magical blast. It struck two and they vanished into a cloud of dark mist. He looked at them and bared his teeth. He couldn't take them all. Not like this. He turned and ran deeper into the thicket of trees.
Rage ran as fast as he could. "What in Chaos is going on?!" He grunts hopping over a downed tree. "If this is some joke or vision I am not laughing."
Finally he came to a tall stone structure and skidded to a stop. "Damn." He curses "Dead end?!" He looks behind him to see the creatures hadn't given up.
"You didn't honestly think you could run? Did you?" A cold but low voice chuckled. Rage looked into the swarm of Dark Spawns. He knew that voice. Out of the shadows a dark gray hedgehog with strange purple markings walked into the light. A pair of vivid, glowing amber eyes glaring at Rage. A fanged, toothy smile wide with pleasure. A long black long coat went to the hedgehog's feet. Long silver hair blew gently with the breeze.
"Christain?!" Rage exclaims.
"I am surprised you remember me." He chuckled. "Can't say I like the new look though, Ragis."
"How are you here?!" Rage asks. Then he thought about it. How did Christain even know it WAS him? He had never seen him like this and Christian definitely wasn't skilled enough at energy sensing to realize it was him.
"What? You think I'd let my old friend run off and make new ones without me?!" The hedgehog laughed. "As if!" He then walked closer to Rage "Especially when they're so ripe for the pickings…"
"What?!" Rage shouts as his eyes narrowed "What are you talking about?!"
Christain's eyes lit up as he grinned. "Oh my…you really don't remember." He stated. "How could you forget? The loss of your friends? Me taking them one…by…one?" He laughed as magical projections of his new friends surrounded him. Each one was…twisted…a shadow.
Rage forced his eyes closed and looked away. "No…that's not true!" He denies. "I'd never forget something like that!" He shouts.
"It's true. Easy pickings, each and everyone.." Christian chuckles. "Some were easier than others. Fluttershy for example…she is just too kind for her own good."
Rage looked at Christain and frowned. Anger began seeping into his blood. His blood boiled with fury. "You're lying!" He shouts. "Even you don't have the power to work that quickly! What is all of this?! Explain yourself!"
"Or what? You failed…" Christain chuckles. "See?" He points and Rage turns. In front of him now was Princess Celestia. She looked at him with a disappointing look.
"I told you Rage…" she sighs "You had to keep your promise…I have no choice now but to banish you from Equestria."
Rage's heart sank and he looked down. "No…" he says softly. His heart weighed like a stone in his chest. He fell to his knees. Or the ground in this case. His friends were everything to him. Was that it? The end? He thought about everything for a minute. Finally he looked up.
"I promised to protect them!" He shouts defiantly. He then looks to Celestia. "You can banish me but that wouldn't stop me!" He then looks back to Christain who had been standing with a cocky smirk. "But that won't stop me…I also promised to be there to bring my friends back!" He claims as a golden glow surrounds him.
"What?!" Christain exclaims and takes a step back as the Chaos Emeralds appear around Rage. His fur turns to a bright golden color and his mane pure white. His emerald green eyes now a blazing red. A powerful flare of Chaos Energy surrounding him. Burning like fire. Like the time before it focused down to form a pair of wings.
"Even if I must bend the rules…" he proclaims. "I will never back down against the Darkness!"
"Alright, alright enough." Christain groans. His voice, no longer his own. Rage stood more confused now than anything as he suddenly changed back to normal.
"What?!" Rage exclaims as Christain walks forward. As he did so his form changed. From a hedgehog into a draconequus.
"I can't figure you out!" The draconequus exclaims. "The one pony who threatens my plans now and I even got inside your head!"
"Who…what are you?" Rage asks. More confusion was the last thing he needed now.
"Applejack was easy, Rainbow Dash even easier. Rarity a bit of work and Pinkie Pie just a lot of effort. You and Fluttershy though? I can't get you to crack!"
"What's this about?!" Rage snarls.
"My my you don't remember?" The draconequus chuckles. "Huh my spell must have done more to you than I thought."
"Spell?" Rage asks "This is an illusion?!"
"Bingo!" The draconequus laughs. "I threw you in here so you'd not interfere. Though it's hardly fair to leave you without memories. Tell me what is the last thing you remember?"
"Last thing I remember…?" Rage asks, raising an eye. "Cloudsdale...I saved that pegasus then went to Canterlot...I made it there...I think."
The draconequus nods and looks at Rage. "Yes, yes I see now." He chuckled. "I must say this mind of yours is rather cozy too." He then snaps. "Oh well. I am not a monster. Not like that hack Sombra."
Rage's head jolts up as a flood of memories come back to him. The wacky events around Ponyville, the discovery of Discord breaking free again… his friends going off to deal with him… after that he remembered being with Sonic and Celestia before some strange miasma knocked them out.
"Discord! Now I remember!" He shouts as his eyes narrowed in anger at the draconequus in front of him.
"Yes, a little too late though it seems." Discord chuckles. "You see, I was pressed to let you sleep away the rest of time but I got curious, you see. I wanted to find out what makes you tick."
"So you could turn me against my friends." Rage stated and Discord shook his head.
"Not quite. When I heard about you, or rather when I went through Twilight's mind. I began to get curious about this otherworldly unicorn that she was so fond of. So I did the same to you. Yet your mind is locked away by some strange power even I can't figure out." Discord chuckled "So I used your dream state and I must say you are quite the interesting one. Anyway it's far too late now. Your friends failed and you are powerless to help them."
"Discord!" Rage growled as his horn glowed.
"Ta ta! I have a date with some chaos!" Discord waves as Rage fires a magic blast that hits his door blowing it off the hinges. It flew past Twilight who looked back in shock.
"Rage?!" She exclaims. "You're awake!"
"Twilight, what happened?" Rage asks, walking out of his room. She used a spell to return the door to normal as he walked up to her. She frowns.
"Discord." She states. "He got to us…again…"
"Where is he?" Rage asks with a glare. He stormed out of the Library in anger. "I'll handle him."
"Rage wait!" Twilight ran after him into the rain of chocolate milk. "The girls and I already plan to use the Elements against him!"
"Then let me occupy him for a while." Rage says "Buy you some time."
"Alone?! Rage you-" Twilight tried to object.
"He put me to sleep in order to turn me against you Twi!" Rage shouts. "He nearly got to me! He tried to make me break my promise! For that he'll pay…"
"Rage…" Twilight says looking worried. "You don't have to…"
"For all I know he learned things that I can't let others learn about." Rage says "This is my duty Twilight. To protect you…all of you…the worlds even…it's my burden to bear...and mine alone."
"You're not alone." Twilight says with a smile "You have us! We'll do it together!"
"Then do what you do best Twi." Rage smiled. "I'll keep our new friend occupied." The two nod at each other before breaking up. Twilight to gather her friends and Rage to give Discord a piece of his mind.
As for Discord he sat atop a small throne on a mound in the center of the chaos that was now Ponyville. He laughed as a pony started burping up bubbles and sighed.
Rage walked up to the foot of the checkered mound and looked to Discord. "Discord!" He shouts getting the draconequus' attention.
"Hm?" Discord pulled the eccentric glasses he was wearing down and looked at Rage. "Oh. It's you." He sighs. "What does tall, red and broody want?"
"You know why I am here." Rage snorted angrily.
"Please, you don't honestly plan to fight me. Even the almighty Princess Celestia had to use the Elements of Harmony to stop me. What makes you think you can do any better?"
"If I recall correctly, you put me to sleep." Rage scoffs. "Because you were afraid of me!"
"At the time I had my concerns. Especially after what you and those little ponies did to King Sombra. Bad luck that." Discord shrugs "Now though with the Elements of Harmony out of play I felt it appropriate to wake you up. I was even so generous to fill in your memory! Maybe I should take it away."
"Try it…" Rage taunts him. "I'll turn you to ashes!"
"Please." Discord scoffs "Listen here." He stood up and walked up to Rage. He taps his horn and it turned into a long balloon. "You're just a unicorn. Besides violence isn't my style. I prefer games of skill, and wit! If you challenge me it is on my terms…afterall, I am the one in charge here." He then chuckled sitting back down. "I'll admit you look better without your horn!"
"What kind of game?" Rage asks, narrowing his eyes.
"A game of the mind." Discord chuckles with a snap. Suddenly Rage is in a seat at a table across from Discord who had a green visor on now. "I propose a game of the minds. With a few rules."
"Name them." Rage stares into Discord's eyes.
"Rule one; no magic. Rule two; No violence. And finally, if I win…you accept that you failed to protect your friends!" Discord chuckles.
"I see your angle." Rage scoffs standing up. "No."
"Ah ah ah…you remember the last time someone lost my games…" Discord chuckles. Then he snaps in realization. "Oh wait! Maybe you don't. You were asleep." He laughs.
Rage glared at Discord who looked more serious at him as his horn returned to normal. "In case you forgot, I never agreed to anything." Rage scoffed.
"You're no fun." Discord scoffs.
Meanwhile, Twilight and Spike had finished gathering the rest of their friends. "So you really think we can zap him like last time?" Applejack asks looking at Twilight with concern. "He fell for that twice and ya know what they say about foolin ponies."
"We don't have any other options?" Rainbow Dash asks. Twilight shook her head.
"I'm afraid not. We got fooled by him twice too." Twilight reminds her friends about how he had managed to get to them much like he had last time.
"I don't know Twilight…" Fluttershy worries playing with her mane anxiously. "I mean…it took all we had for Sombra the last time we used the Elements…it takes a toll on us."
"I know and I wouldn't suggest it if it wasn't important." Twilight states.
"I say let's go trash him!" Rainbow Dash cheered.
"If it's for the good of Equestria I suppose we could." Rarity sighs.
"I suppose it is easier to harvest apples that aren't three times my size." Applejack sighs.
"I'm gonna miss the chocolate rain…" Pinkie Pie sighs. "But okay!"
"Thanks girls. Remember we can do anything as long as we're together!" Twilight says with a determined smile. The others may have forgotten their friendships thanks to Discord but this was all they needed and with luck, his defeat would return their memories as well.
Back with Discord things had gone south with Rage. Discord was throwing what he could at Rage after being triggered by Rage. Though Discord seemed to have issues hitting him.
"Will you hold still!" Discord jeered as Rage dashed to the side of a clump of cotton candy that had been thrown.
"Make me." Rage taunts as he leaps away from another clump of candy.
Discord bared his teeth "That's it!" He shouts snapping and the ground under Rage turns into mud causing him to slip and fall. "You've had your fun." He says with a glare. "I will not sit and entertain you or your pitiful attempts to stop me!"
Rage stood up and his horn glowed. The mud on him vanished and it plopped onto Discord. Rage smirked some. "I can see why you find some of your jokes amusing," Rage chuckled.
Discord got ready to respond before up the road came Twilight and her friends. "It's been amusing but now I have bigger fish to fry so why don't you skedaddle?" Discord says using a large glass filled with water to wash the mud off of him.
"I am not done with you yet!" Rage shouted as he lunged forward and managed to land a firm right hook onto the draconequus.
Discord stepped back and rubbed his cheek with his right paw. "You know what…you could still be a little entertaining." He chuckles as Twilight and her friends arrive.
"It's over, Discord! There's nothing you can do to win." Twilight says.
"You annoying bugs." Discord grumps "If you think the Elements of Harmony will work a third time you're sorely mistaken."
"You've terrorized the ponies of Equestria long enough, Discord." Twilight states as she and her friends take a step forward. "Surrender now."
"Or what? You honestly think I'll let you hit me with your rainbow magic again? Please." Discord laughs "I separated you all not because I was afraid of you! But because it's fun watching you all turn against yourselves! Especially when it's so easy to exploit so many of you…"
"Your words ain't gonna cut it this time Discord!" Applejack sneered. "Our bonds are stronger than eva thanks ta you!"
"Applejack's right." Rarity grumped, stamping a hoof. "We all want the same thing and that's to protect Equestria."
Discord frowns "Fine. No more mister nice Discord then." He says "I'll have to make you all so miserable, such jerks not even Celestia could hope to help you!" He shouts.
Discord forms a strange energy in his horns and fires it. Immediately Rage jumped in front of him and used a magical shield to defend his friends.
"Not if I can help it!" Rage objected. "I made a promise to protect them…"
Discord furled his brow in anger. Rage had gotten in his way one too many times now. Gotten on his nerves even. "What if I just got rid of the Elements then?" Discord chuckled as his hand glowed.
"What?!" Rage exclaims. "Discord don't-" Rage shouts before Discord shouts, firing the beam and it bends to go over Rage and straight for Twilight. Rage leaps up out of instinct and it hits him.
"Rage!" Twilight exclaims as Rage shouts in pain. He was suspended in the air for a moment before falling to the ground glowing. He grunted in pain as his form shifted. He shouts in pain as his horn retracted a bright glow concealed him. Twilight tried to run to him but Applejack stopped her.
"Are you mad? We don't know what's going on!" She objects.
Finally when it went away Rage was no longer a unicorn. He was once more in his hedgehog form. On his hands and knees. He looked at Discord who laughed. "You've really gone and done it this time…Discord…" Rage pants.
"You see ponies? He's a pretender! Not even one of you! You'll be friends with something like this?!" Discord laughed.
"What…Rage?" Rarity asks "What is he saying?"
Rage finally gathered the strength to stand up and he looked at Discord. "You don't realize what you've done." Rage says in a low tone. Anger flooded his voice.
"I think I've just pulled the wool from over your so-called friends' eyes." Discord chuckles.
"Rage?" Twilight asks, stepping forward.
"Stay back." Rage warns her and she stops in her tracks. He looked at Discord and extended his right hand. A distortion appears and with a flash of light and flourish of flames a strange black and red dragon wing shaped blade appeared. A green eye-like gemstone in the handguard and a green triangular green gem in the pommel. "He doesn't know what he's done."
"You're not seriously going to try and fight me?" Discord laughs.
"Change me back." Rage demands. "Or we will."
"Even if I wanted to do that I can't." Discord shrugs "That strange fella only showed me how to change you into that."
"Strange fella?" Rage asks.
"Yeah, the one who released me! Oh what did he call himself? Chris? No…Alvin?" Discord tapped his chin.
"Christain." Rage stated and Discord nods.
"That's right!" The draconaquis exclaims. "You know him?"
"Christain?" Twilight thought "Rage isn't that-"
"You could say that." Rage interrupts her.
"Oh well no use in dwelling on the past." Discord shrugs. "Now let's get this over with. I have a schedule to keep."
"Chaos Control!" Rage shouts as he vanishes.
"Chaos what now?" Discord asks aloud looking in shock when Rage vanishes. The next thing he knew Rage was behind him. Quickly he wrapped his arm and sword around Discord. The blade near the draconaquis' neck so if he tried to struggle to flee it'd slice him. He then lifted the two into the air.
"Like I said…" Rage mutters into Discord's ear "You don't realize what you've done…"
"Twilight! Do it!" Rage barks.
"What is this?! Why can't I use any of my powers?!" Discord exclaims.
"Let's do it girls!" Twilight nods. The six gather like they had in times past and glow. Discord struggled a bit but Rage held firm.
"Now think about this Rage!" Discord says "Who knows what that beam could do to you too! Look I'm sorry for everything I didn't mean to cause all of this trouble again. I wasn't given a choice! When that Christain fella freed me he said I'd pay if I didn't help him!"
"It's a small price to pay to protect my friends." Rage replies. "You brought this on yourself. I'll tell Christain you said hi…"
"If you think he'll go down so-" Discord starts to speak again but Rage tightens his grip.
"Silence." He orders "You speak on matters you know nothing about."
"Know nothing about?" Discord spits up. "More than you can imagine..." Discord looked at Twilight and her friends as the rainbow beam launched at him. He screams as it strikes him and Rage. Discord starts turning once more to stone and Rage is sent flying into the ground behind him.
"Rage!" Fluttershy was the first to realize he had been hit too. She shook some as where Rage had landed was nothing but a blinding yellow glow.
As it fades Rage was laying there. A unicorn once more. He groaned and opened his eyes as his friends ran up to him.
"Oh my gosh are you alright?!" Rainbow Dash exclaims.
"Yeah…a bit jumbled up but I'll be fine." Rage sighed as he sat up.
"What…what did he do to you?" Applejack asks.
Rage sighed heavily. No point in keeping it a secret now. They had all seen it. His true form. He says looking down "You all know I am from another world..."
"That's what you really look like...isn't it?" Twilight asks. Stepping up to him she looked with an unsure gaze as to what she had seen unfold. The Elements of Harmony had never acted like that before, at least not to her knowledge.
"But here you're a Unicorn just like any regular pony! How come your friend Sonic doesn't become a pony?" Rarity asks.
"Oo! Rage has some special weird powers from somewhere outside doesn't he!?" Pinkie Pie exclaims "Rage is a shapeshifting god?! Or a-mmmmf mf mmmf" Her mouth was covered by Applejack as she rambled.
"It is a form of magic." Rage sighs. "To protect my identity and prevent mass chaos…my form adapts to the world but it's not consistent…It's hard to explain honestly...I don't know much myself..."
"So…you kept it from us on purpose?" Fluttershy asks "To not scare us?"
Rage shook his head "I don't have control over it…at all. It sorta just…happens." he admits. "If I could control it then believe me I'd have told you about this a long time ago..."
The six sat in silence for a moment taking everything in. "So…you expect us to believe that?" Rainbow Dash asks.
"I know it sounds far fetched but it's true!" Rage states "I didn't want it to be this way…I wanted to tell you all but I wasn't sure you'd believe me if I couldn't change myself…or what you'd think…"
"Rage, we like you for who you are." Twilight says. "Not what you look like."
"I mean…that would be pretty hard to believe if you didn't show us." Rainbow Dash concluded. "Though you don't look that different from Sonic."
"Bravo…" a cold voice chuckled and a clapping sound was heard. Rage stood to his feet when he heard it. He knew that voice.
"Who's there?!" Rainbow Dash calls. Out of the shadows forms a tall black Mobian hedgehog with intricate dark purple markings across their body. A pair of sinister amber eyes looked at them as they clapped.
"I'll admit I didn't see Discord being defeated oh so quickly. You seven are truly something else!" The hedgehog chuckled.
"Christain!" Rage barks as the figure walked closer.
"Oh!" Christain chuckled. "I am surprised you know who I am. You must be the friends that Sonic mentioned."
"What do you want?" Twilight asks.
"You must be Princess Twilight Sparkle. It is an honor to meet you. I am here to offer a choice. Two of your other Princesses and Sonic failed to take the right option." Christain chuckled. "I do hope you're not as bullheaded as they were..."
"What?!" Twilight exclaims.
"Bow to me, submit Equestria to the Darkness or else." Christain chuckles. "I'd rather not have to fill the dungeons with you as well. I think you'd serve much better ruling over this land once I am done with it."
Christain walked closer and the six mares backed up. Rage stood firm where he was. "You'll not lay a finger on them." Rage huffed, extending a hoof in a protective manner.
"Oh? And what is a pathetic little unicorn like you going to do?" Christain chuckles getting into Rage's face.
Rage stood his ground and bared his teeth in an angered frown. "I'll obliterate you if I must."
Christain looked at Rage before he smiled then burst out in laughter. "You?!" he laughed. "You couldn't defeat me in a million years!"
"Wouldn't be the first time..." Rage snarls as he glows with a red aura.
"Hm?" Christain looked at Rage. A powerful aura began to come from the crimson unicorn and Christain backed up. He knew this feeling. "No...that's impossible." Rage glowed as he changed into his Super Form once more. "R-Rage?!" Christain exclaimed.
"Long time no see." Rage said with a scoff. "So you're the one I have to thank for all of this?"
"Hmph I should have known." Christain said as the two locked eyes. "Oh well, this just makes this that much easier!" He laughs before firing a beam of darkness at Rage.
Rage leapt into the air and countered with a beam of Chaos energy. The two beams hit each other and caused an explosion of energy. Rage dove for Christain who covered his face due to the dust that was kicked up.
"Rage!" Twilight calls back as Rage lands a kick to Christain.
"Twilight!" Rage looks over his shoulder "Stay back! I'll handle this one!"
"You don't have to do this alone!" She says.
"How noble!" Christain laughs, throwing Rage off of him. "You'll let them watch you die?" he looked at the crimson unicorn who was hovering in the air above him now.
"As if." Rage scoffs as he charges again. "I am not going to give you a chance to use them like you did my brothers once!" he shouts as Christain grabs him by the horn and throws him into the ground.
"Then you'll need to try harder than that!" Christain laughs as he kicks Rage back into the air and follows up with a volley of balls made out of darkness. Each one hit the crimson unicorn and he shouted in pain.
"Rage!" Twilight shouts before bolting over to Christain who glared at her.
"Ah ah ah!" He chuckled, grabbing her by the neck. "I don't think so!"
"Twi!" Rainbow Dash shouts as she also charges at Christain.
"Now this isn't fair..." he said before using a magical grip to grab her and the other ponies. "But I think I can even the odds." He laughed as the grip emitted electrical energy shocking the six.
Rage managed to stand up and looked at Christain and his friends. "NO!" he shouts. He felt a surge of energy shoot through him. He hardly even cared. He had one thing on his mind now. He had to help his friends. He closed his eyes and felt this surge of energy again. Finally he opened his eyes. His fur once more changed, it was now pure white and his mane was a fiery red. The wings he held were no longer just made of energy, now actual wings. A flare of pale-red energy flared around him. He had transformed, gone even further than his Super Form. Hyper Rage. His eyes glowed a vivid purple color and burned with hatred.
Christain laughed as he slammed the ponies into the ground as well. The six were already drained from using the Elements of Harmony on Discord. This was just adding to it. He then looked up to where Rage had been only to see him mere inches away. A hoof made contact with his face and he was sent flying into a building's wall.
"Hands off my friends!" Rage pants glaring at Christain with nothing but pure malice for the dark hedgehog who had been the source of so many of his problems in the past. Christain stood up from the rubble and looked back at Rage.
"What is this...?" Christain gasps for air. "What's happened to him?!"
"R-Rage?" Twilight looked at Rage who stood tall. He didn't even look back. Instead he flew at Christain. It was so fast he was nothing but a blur.
Christain's eyes shrunk as he didn't even see the incoming attack. Before he knew it he was sent flying into the air by an uppercut from Rage. From there Rage crouched as if ready to jump. He then lept leaving a small bit of a divot from where he had jumped. He jumped with so much force and speed as he headbutted Christain his horn ended up piercing the humanoid figures' shoulder.
Christain shouts in pain before he uses his ability to teleport in order to get free from Rage. He appeared under him and growled in anger. "I AM GOING TO KILL YOU!" he shouts as he throws his arms forward and a spiraling beam of darkness shot from his hands.
Rage had managed to turn himself around in time to see the incoming attack. He gasped with little time to think he fired a Chaos Beam and the two impacted each other. As the two beams collided a bright light blinded Twilight and the others. This was followed by the pressure wave akin to that a large explosion would give off.
Christain had to look away and cover his eyes briefly due to the sheer magnitude and brightness the two powerful forces colliding had made. When he looked again he expected to see Rage in the air still. Rage wasn't there. This made Christain look around. "What? Where?!"
"Right here." Rage said as before Christain could even blink Rage was next to him. A bright white ball of energy was in his front right hoof. Christain looked at it as it glowed brighter. "It's over." Rage comments.
"N-no..." Christain gasped as the beam pierced him. It grew larger and larger before it fully engulfed him. The pain he felt was something he couldn't even think to describe. The beam persisted for a solid fifteen seconds before it finally subsided. Christain then fell to the ground. Dark energy was being emitted from him like a mist. He panted heavily.
"You have lost." Rage said as he slowly walked up to the beaten dark being. "Again."
"This isn't over...Ragis Chaotic the Hedgehog!" Christain pants. "I'll get you yet!"
"Please, lies aren't befitting the great 'King of Darkness' are they?" Rage chuckled, insulting his enemy. Christain hollered out in pain as his entire body was swept into particles of energy.
Rage stood there for a minute taking in what had just happened. He had defeated Christain, again. He let a sigh out as his friends came running up to him. "Rage!" Twilight called as he collapsed to the ground.
"Oh no!" Rainbow Dash exclaims.
The six made it to his position where he was laying, barely able to keep his eyes open. "Hey..." he says weakly.
"Rage..." Twilight says in a voice showing she was worried about how badly he was hurt.
"Don't worry." Rage chuckled before he grunted in pain and coughed a few times. "I'll be..fine..." he stated.
"Rage...there's no way! You look like-" Twilight starts to object but she was silenced by his hoof meeting her lips.
"Trust me. It looks worse than it is...I just...overdid...it...a little..." He told her and his voice trailed off at the end as he closed his eyes and went unconscious.
"We need to get him to the Ponyville Hospital ASAP!" Twilight says as Rainbow Dash rushed over with Applejack and the two hoisted Rage's limp body over their backs. WIth a silent look to Twilight they ran as fast as they could with Rage in tow to the hospital.
