Chapter 2-19: Resolve

"You got everything Pinkie?" Rainbow asks.

"I sure do! The party is ready now all we need is Rage." Pinkie replies.

"I sure hope this works…" Twilight says looking out upon the decorations.

"No kidding." Sonic says "If Rage is like that for much longer it's gonna start to rub off."

"How are we going to get Rage here?" Sunset asks.

"I have that covered." Pinkie answers with a wink.

Rage was laying in his bed looking depressed when the doorbell rings. Reluctantly he gets up and walks downstairs. He looks on the ground and sighs seeing a letter. "Talk about a waste…" he sighs grabbing it. "May as well see what it says." He complains opening the letter.

'Rage, Please come to the Barn,

-AJ'

Rage folds the letter up and groans. "I better see what they want…" he grumbles as he walks upstairs to get changed. In his mirror he looks at a picture that had a younger version of him and Chaotix in a field and he growls as Dex pops into his head. "I swear Chaotix your death will not be in vain…I will avenge you."

Meanwhile at the barn the others were getting everything finalized when the door opens. "Oh that must be Rage!" Twilight says as the group turns to see a shadowed figure. The figure steps into the light to reveal a man with nearly pale skin, black hair and blood red eyes.

"I hope I am not interrupting anything." He says in a cold voice.

"You…you're Dex!" Sonic shouts as he and Shadow put their fists up.

"I don't go by that anymore…but worthless humans like you don't deserve to address me at all!" Dex shouts throwing energy spears at the two who dodge the attack. "Ngh they're fast…" Dex thinks. "no matter…" he smiles "Dark Imprisonment!" he shouts forming a cage of dark energy around the girls.

"Hey!" Sunset yells.

"Now then unless you two get in there as well I will kill the girls… slowly." Dex laughs.

Sonic and Shadow look at each other and sigh. They couldn't afford to hurt the girls. They walk over and Dex pushes them in. "Why are you doing this?" Rarity asks.

"We haven't done anything wrong!" Fluttershy says softly.

"It's nothing against you." Dex smiles. "I am going to take everything that cursed hedgehog Rage knows and loves and make him watch as it is destroyed before his very eyes."

"Hedgehog?" Sonic asks "What the hell are you talking about?" he asks.

"Don't play dumb Sonic the Hedgehog, I know who you are and I know all about your little group of friends." Dex chuckles.

Meanwhile Rage was walking down a road when he jolts up. "That energy…" He says to himself. "It's…Dex's…" He growls before running to the barn "If he lays a finger on them I swear…" he shouts.

"So you're going to kill us then?" Twilight asks.

"Well you guys catch on quick. Did Rage not tell you?" Dex laughs.

"Tell us what?" Sunset asks.

"About who he really is?" Dex chuckles.

"What do you mean?" Rainbow Dash asks. Though they did know Dex didn't know that they knew. 'If we can keep this up maybe we can stall him until Rage gets here.' Rainbow thinks.

"Oh my…like Sonic and Shadow here Rage comes from another world… one where he is something known as a Chaos Guardian. You see Rage is very powerful and he has many powerful enemies… I won't bore you with all of the detail but simply put I have a hard grudge against that little red asshole. Dex explains.

"Why?" Sunset asks. Her question gets a rude look from Dex.

"Because I was supposed to be the strongest Guardian that was born after Chaos' Era! It was supposed to be me! Then that red hedgehog came along, the one foretold in some stupid prophecy that was pulled out of Chaotix's ass!" Dex yells. "But I will show him… once I tear him down and leave him with nothing!"

"Sounds like someone is jealous…" Sonic chuckles.

"Silence!" Dex shouts "Rage is not as strong as I am!" He screams as the door swings open.

"You're right…" Rage's voice comes from the door as he walks in. "…I am stronger."

"Rage!" Sunset exclaims.

"Rage Chaotic…." Dex smirks. "You actually showed up in time this time.

"Shut it." Rage shouts. "You have no idea what I am going to do to you."

"Please you're a mere trainee! You could never defeat a Chaos Master like me! Especially now that I have the power of darkness on my side!" Dex laughs. Suddenly Rage vanishes and reappears with his blade to Dex's throat.

"You missed a lot then…Dex…" Rage says with a dark tone. "I am going to send you straight to hell!" he shouts pulling his blade back and swinging. Dex quickly leaps away and looks at Rage before getting hit by a Chaos Lance.

"How… you can't be this strong…it's not possible…even Chaos didn't have this kind of power!" Dex pants. 'The sheer power of that Chaos Lance is devastating…how did he get this kind of power…' he looks Rage over… 'That's it!' his mind exclaims 'that sword…it is true…'

"Burn…" Rage growls as his sword glows. "Bureijingukaosu!" He screams as a fire engulfs him. When it died Rage was standing there with long black hair that covered his eyes and went past his shoulders in the back. He was wearing a light grey kosode and his hands wrapped in bandages. His sword's blade had gotten longer and the gem in the bottom of the hilt became pointed like a dragons fang. "Ryuu Saishu Bureijingukaosu." He announces.

"What is this?!" Dex exclaims.

"heh…Did you not know Rage has the power to unleash his Blade of Chaos to a second level?" Sonic chuckles. "This is Rage's Final Form…Final Rage."

"Hmph all the tricks you have will not help you now." Dex laughs forming a large orb of energy. He throws it and Rage disperses it preventing any damage to the barn. Rage then kicks him to the ground. "You wouldn't really harm me would you? I was like a father to you!"

"You are no father." Rage scowls "You are a sad old man with a dark heart. I trusted you and I thought you would know better… It seems I was wrong, Dex… You killed all of the other Chaos Guardians that were living peacefully in the Chaos Realm! As much of a father figure as you were at that moment I made my resolve…I would destroy you no matter what the cost…and how sweet of you to come right to my dorrstep. What I do today is in the names of all those whom you slaughtered! Chaos Oblivion Strike!" Rage yells as he moves so fast no one could see what happened. Suddenly Dex's eyes shrink and his body is slowly disintegrated into some small rip in space-time. Rage then puts his sword in a sheath and he returns to normal as the cage vanishes.

Without a second thought all of his friends run over and hug him (minus Sonic and Shadow). "Are you all okay?" he asks them.

"We are." Sunset says wiping a tear from her eyes. "You saved us again."

"Dex is no longer a worry." Rage says "I have avenged those who died…"

"Rage…" Rarity says putting a hand on his shoulder. "You don't need to suffer alone anymore. We are your friends, we are here for you darling."

"Exactly anytime you need a shoulder ta lean one we're here for ya sugar cube." Applejack agrees.

"You know it." Rainbow smiles patting him on the back.

Rage smiles and looks at them. "Thank you guys…and I know it is going to be hard for me to adjust to that…but I will do my best."

"Come on we don't want to let this party to waste do we?" Sonic asks and Rage nods before a loud 'BANG' startles everyone. They look over to the source of the noise and see Pinkie with a party cannon.

"PARTY TIME!" She screams.

And so ends another year for our friends at Canterlot High School. What new challenges await them as they begin their third year? New enemies? New relationships? New hardships? Find out in The Transfer Students Chapter 3-1: Junior Year Begins!