Ashes of Ponyville, among the destruction, burned and collapsed buildings by ten-meter monoliths, a portal appeared through which Alex came out with a fire sword in his hand and Twilight Sparkle wielding a thunder hammer, both stop in the large space between the monoliths.
- what now. Twilight asked as she looked around the devastation area of the once beautiful city that was her home.
- it's simple we go to look for the first of the warped ones, you have to stop them from charging the monolith which is sure to be buried deep underground and be careful, an attack can happen at any moment. Alex said taking the first step forward.
- so be careful, we'll be able to cope together, what not. Twilight Sparkle said.
Twilight, having a man by her side, felt no fear, knowing that Alex was close, he was with her, she felt neither fear nor fear, even the grief at the sight of the destroyed city was a little less, and at the same time Princess Alicorn, feeling strength and power, wanted at least once to impress a man by running out to the middle of a destroyed field and that was to be her mistake.
- Twilight watch out!. Alex shouted.
But it was too late, a mighty beam of scarlet power fired from the collapsed house and sped towards the startled Twilight, less than a second later Twilight was pushed aside and a powerful beam of power struck the man jumping on the power rope.
- Alex!. Twilight screamed, and her inner instincts, given by the hammer of thunder, activated in the same instant.
Twilight pulled a hammer on the ground, releasing a series of rushing lightning from it, hitting the collapsed building and Cozy Glow, the warped Alicorn was pushed out of the destroyed building, struck by a hundred volts but this did not stop her designed goal, without emotions and a grimace on her face Cozy Glow jumped over the collapsed buildings surprisingly Twilight and throwing out from his horn a powerful beam of scarlet power of many elements, but before the scarlet beam of many elements struck before everything was thrown out of the fiery sword, a rushing wave over the flames breaking and destroying the scarlet beam, so there was a more powerful explosion of fire and after it raging lightning struck, but This did not stop Cozy's distorted form, Cozy Glow leapt out of the building charging with scarlet power, trying to hit the human three times.
Alex dodged fast charges three times and jumped over the opponent twice with his fiery sword sending Cozy Glow high above the scarlet monoliths. Seeing this, Twilight struggled again instinctively, carrying her hammer high and striking Cozy with a mighty lightning bolt that hurled Alicorn from the sky into the warped form of Alicorn, a mighty roar shook the ground causing a few scarlet monoliths to shatter, and another scream of a warped form popping out of the crater and fighting uncontrollably for nothing. own wounds and bruises.
The corrupted form of Alicorn, from the scarlet corner, again started firing a series of quick shots, this time directing all her power at the surprised Twilight, come the princess was already fighting Cozy Glow she was deeply surprised by the power displayed by her opponent, her own barrier broke after less than three blows and the next the burst seemed endless, until Twilight's instinct led her again, swinging the hammer in front of her and creating a field of thunder which easily reflected each shot of the warped form, reflected fire began to hit everywhere around until Twilight, pulled by the hammer's power, took off at great speed and hit Cozy directly in the head, another explosion pushed the warped one back, this time on the collision line with the human.
Seeing a man walking calmly with a man glowing from the fire, Cozy Glow screamed and released one of her more powerful rays that she had created, all this met with power over the flames that fired from the fiery sword by man clashed in the fight of two great powers. The earth and debris left by the scarlet monoliths trembled and cracked a considerable distance, and with each second the human beam was gaining strength, pushing the beam and Cozy herself incessant in battle.
Seeing this, Twilight wanted to jump into battle as soon as possible, but was again surprised by her warped opponent who jumped into the portal to the other side of the battlefield and released her beam aiming straight at the surprised Twilight. The beam hit but not Twilight but Cozy Glow itself when the beam fell into another open portal and hit the scarlet opponent, blowing up everything nearby.
As the cloud began to descend, the power shudder could be heard again, and standing just behind Twilight, the angry form of scarlet Cozy hitting with all her might with its horn, Twilight Sparkle could only look back as the powerful horn Cozy Glow rushed towards her, Twilight closed her eyes knowing that unable to react quickly enough to prepare for a blow and subsequent pain.
The bang of the blow spread and the surprised princess watched as the horn of the corrupted opponent hit the man's fiery sword and he pushes Cozy away and in three turns hits the chest and the scarlet amulet on the head, blowing it up once and for all and throwing away the defeated Cozy Glow, the corrupt form of Alicorn fell on earth with a great bang and her body, after being released, assumed its normal color.
- I, he deceived us, he betrayed us!. Cozy Glow said in a broken voice as she held out her hooves to the man.
Alex silently used his power of time and transformed the adult form into the form of a child that was Cozy Glow, who kept stretching front hooves to the human.
- you, no, no. Said Cozy Glow before she petrified for good, whether it was the result of a lost battle or the power of the elemental lord, or whether Akeron wanted to stop her from revealing the truth, no one will probably find out.
- we did it. Twilight said hopefully.
- I think so, but it's not over yet. Alex said, looking at the next powerful spot.
- there, it must be Tirek, yes he is, come, we must hurry. Alex added, seeing the evil scarlet centaur begin another trial with his own power.
- you want me to go with you, so far I have not been very useful.
- and you want to quit. Alex asked.
- no never. Twilight said shaking her head and picking up the hammer.
- so come. Alex said as his hands lit up with red light.
Less than a minute later, Alex and Twilight looked at the evil scarlet centaur who see their enemies immediately launched a frenetic attack firing his horns from the lower large cannon, all attacks aimed at both the human and Twilight who this time jumped to the right pulled by her own hammer.
- Alex !. Twilight screamed as she looked back at the man still standing in the same place.
Alex, with the sword sheathed, did not move even a minimum of a millimeter, this time emitting red power and every bullet of the evil centaur was intercepted by the red power and thrown back onto the scarlet centaur, everything started to explode again, the bang after bang shook the ground and exploded nearby scarlet monoliths.
Twilight Sparkle, remembering the last fight, directed her hammer towards the black smoke, striking with all her might with a powerful beam of lightning, blowing up the earth all in another cloud of black smoke, for a moment she heard a scream which caused her heart to collapse all attacks, as it turned out to be her biggest mistake From the black cloud like a hound, Tirek, warped by the scarlet power, jumped out, releasing his next great power in the form of a giant lightning bolt, lightning rushed like crazy at the surprised princess.
Lightning struck and blew everything up, and Twilight herself appeared from the power of the portal on the other side, but as it turned out, there was no trace of the human.
- Alex, no, no!. Twilight Sparkle screamed, knowing what Tirek could really do, and the evil centaur himself again crashed into the black cloud, sending a cannonade of great missiles of destructive magic.
- leave him, monster. Twilight shouted, throwing her hammer with all her might.
The hammer, accumulating the power of thunder, struck the surprised centaur with a great bang, dropping it from its hooves at a distance of ten meters, the hammer quickly returned to the princess's right hoof, instead of starting another attack, Twilight ran towards the falling smoke. As the smoke cleared the eyes of the surprised princess, a man full of red power and a few stuck bullets of the evil centaur appeared, Alex looked at her for a moment and directed the captured power at the evil centaur trying to get up.
Before Tirek got up again, everything was blown up the evil centaur was pushed to a distance of twenty meters, for a moment Tirek was lying on the ground showing signs of defeat, but it was another trap that Twilight fell into again when he was walking towards him.
- stop !. Alex shouted, but it seemed to be too late again when the centaur jumped out of the hole and hit the surprised princess.
This time Twilight was not so surprised, her instincts guided her and her hammer, hitting it with all her might and flying ten meters into the air, and a massive blow to the centaur's head caused another shockwave full of lightning throwing the evil centaur away on the big distance.
Twilight Sparkle landed next to the human, glancing at her human companion, lowering her eyes in slight embarrassment.
- me, I keep getting into problems. Twilight said.
- you know, it's not your fault, they are different, wild, insane, unpredictable and empty, they are only designed for one thing to destroy us. Alex said, placing his right hand on the surprised princess's neck.
Come on, the human gesture was surprising, it was also the most wonderful gesture for the princess that a man gave her, eventually it turned out to be a very thoughtful gesture with the sudden movement of the human pushing the surprised princess aside and standing in the way of another radiation of the evil centaur's power, this time Alex accumulating the whole the power in the form of a red bullet sent him straight into the bursting beam and the startled evil centaur, Tirek exploded with everything, as did his scarlet amulet.
The scarlet amulet broke and Tirek, lying paralyzed on the ground, returned to his normal form, and looked at the man walking towards him, extending his hands to him.
- man, he has deceived us for a long time, drained the powers of warring creatures, ponies, dragons, changelings, gryphon s and hippogriffs but you were free, and, and, and you are free. You have to. Aaaaaaarrrrrr. Tirek said, and his entire body turned to the stone it was from before his release.
- we all powered the enemy!. Twilight Sparkle screamed in surprise.
- and it looks like you're still doing it. your friends on the battlefield fighting another scarlet legion, I already understand what strengthens it, what Akeron fed on. Alex said.
- all of us, me, each of us fed him with our essence! how could I have been so stupid. She told Twilight angry with herself.
- there was nothing you could do if you had not fought you the world would have collapsed anyway. Alex said and a golden glow illuminated his forehead.
- and I think it is also my mistake, if I had fought only for you, it would have been different. Alex added, which was quickly answered by the princess standing next to him.
- don't say that, you did a lot for us, you did too much for us, you did some terrible things too, but I believe there was no other choice and you did it for all of us to save our world. Said Twilight Sparkle looking straight into the man's blue eyes.
- you?. Alex asked.
- me?, I mean?. Twilight asked, thinking it was something else, but not what happened when the next power hit.
Everything exploded again and the surprised princess landed on the ground lying next to someone she knew very well.
- What?. But how is that possible!. Twilight Sparkle screamed as she stood in front of her own clone saying what she was doing and doing what she was doing.
- Chrysalis!, take this form of illusion off you. Two princesses said at once.
- Alex, me, what's standing here is not the real me, I'm me! She screamed Twilight Sprkle, seeing in front of her the man with the golden point on the forehead of the night of knowledge, looking at the two forms saying exactly the same as the real form and doing the same as the real form.
- interesting, so I have a problem which of you is real, I have one shot, so?. Alex said, showing his maniac smile and his golden point on his forehead emanated more and more power.
Both the true and the false forms began to recede slightly, doing exactly the same as the first, they see the blow approaching the real Twilight did not know how to show the true self but Chrysalis knew all too well and had just used her greatest artillery to break out of the repetitive ranks.
- I forgive you. Duplicate said.
- why did I come here, I'm a crutch here again. Twilight said, and Alex unleashed all his power hitting Twilight blowing everything up.
The dark cloud rose again into the sky with the fragments of the scarlet amulet, the real Twilight looked at the man with wide eyes, not believing what had happened, Alex predicted, saw the truth, he was not fooled by Chrysalis, now lying on the ground, returning to its normal form.
- Alex like you.
- you forgave me. The human asked.
- so long ago. Said Twilight Sparkle, understanding how a man knew who's who.
- how did you know.
- I knew that that day in Canterlot, first you hit me with blows and then, you know, I already knew that you forgave me, it showed me the truth today and that day. Alex said, come on alone, he did not know the whole truth yet.
- Come on, it's a bit surprising that you managed to forgive me, how, for what, it doesn't matter now. Alex added as he approached the Chrysalis lying on the ground.
- man, Alex. Chrysalis mumbled.
- Yes, I know, you have been deceived, Akron was sipping the powers of the beings of this world who fought, tell me what I do not know, if you want to help me. Alex said, looking at Chrysalis and her stone-turning hooves.
- it's more than you think, this arrr. Chrysalis said before the stone finally enveloped her body.
- It doesn't look good, maybe we should. Twilight Sparkle said, looking to the right.
- right where. Twilight said, realizing that her companion had suddenly disappeared, and not far from behind the broken scarlet pillars, explosions could be heard again.
Twilight Sparkle, hardly thinking, grabbed her hammer firmly and waving it forward, she soared into the sky, while flying over the city, she saw the sight of another fight between a man and the last twisted black king who this time was deprived of his original color by the scarlet color.
Sombra ran at the man throwing more and more powerful and larger projectiles, each time Alex moved with the power of the characters from place to place and the subsequent portals fully absorbed all the blows of the evil king, Sombra, without stopping, rushed on throwing larger and larger projectiles until the moment when the man stopped fleeing and opened twenty portals, showering the surprised scarlet king over him with his own power, a powerful fire shook the earth, cracking monoliths and the evil king, Sombra with a bang fell out of the place of explosions with visible abrasions and bruises all over his back.
Sombra did not yield and, regardless of his own damage, charged on, Sombra used human strategies by jumping across the battlefield with his own teleportation jumps, and with each successful jump Sombra fired another fast scarlet missile at the human's direction. Twilight, flying at a fairly long distance, could only watch for a moment as the endless attack from each end began hitting the human.
The missiles flying at dizzying speed should blow up everything standing in the middle of the man and the whole earth around, but instead each projectile fired to a stop and the eyes of Twilight and the surprised scarlet king saw the sight of smaller and larger portals speeding with dizzying speed and before Sombra attacked another with a series of quick shots the entire battlefield was bombarded by hitting bullets from the resulting portals at a height of ten meters, even the quick reaction of the scarlet king, quick teleportation s were not able to save the warped from its own fire hitting the integrated chaos until the first of the shells knocked the warped off the hooves , in an instant, when Sombra was grounded, all the portals were directed at him and his own fire fell on the evil unicorn screaming in pain.
Another black cloud formed and a crack in the earth grew larger and larger, destroying the last of the scarlet monoliths visible in Ponyville, as she saw the turn of the battle, Twilight paused for a moment above the ground, hoofed the hammer of thunder until the human looked at her and waved.
Twilight smiled broadly and waved the man, but her happiness did not last long, another scarlet beam shot out of the black smoke again, hitting the man with great force.
- no, you bastard!. Twilight Sparkle screamed, and her hammer pulled her straight at the scarlet king as she wished.
- you will pay me for it. Twilight shouted, alerting the scarlet king.
Sombra turned to the oncoming Twilight and released all his power from the scarlet horn, but this time Twilight was not afraid to fight, instead she rushed faster and faster until Sombra suddenly screamed out of his hooves with his own beam from the open human portal.
Sombra rolled over the ground and Twilight, seeing the opportunities, and the scarlet amulet struck with all her might with her hammer blowing up the scarlet amulet forever, shards of the scarlet amulet scattered on the wrecked ground, and Sombra returned to his momentary normal state to look at Twilight and the coming human.
- Alex, you can't, you can't. He tried to say Sombra, despite his instantaneous turning to stone all the way to his head.
- What I can't, you really think I can't stop you, if you believe it then you're a fool. Alex told Sombra, his head trembled.
- not that, no, no!. Sombra shouted, trying to warn the man, but the accelerated transformation turned the evil king to stone.
Twilight looked at the four forms of stone brought by the man to the outskirts of the city and Alex himself watched the ruins of the destroyed city and cracked monoliths suspiciously, knowing full well that it was not the end.
- it has not been stopped yet, it has only been recharged. Alex said, ruining Twilight's hopes of ending the dangers.
- you really think it's not over, it means that. Twilight asked in a trembling voice.
- yes, the scarlet obelisk underground has been charged and Akeron prepares for the final solution. Alex said, looking out over the city and suddenly trembling scarlet shards.
- Twilight!. Shouted Spike leading everyone, friends and armies of the united peoples.
- are you OK?. Asked Spike cuddling up to his friend as well as the rest of the Mane Six endowed with human gifts.
- oh girl how scared I was. Applejack said.
- and when I saw those explosions there, it was terrible. Rarity said.
- the most important thing is that this is the end. Fluttershy said
- you and this man, have you finished it?. Steel-armored Rainbow Dash asked with distaste as she stared at the human.
- so it's really the end of spoiling our days. Pinkie Pie screamed, putting her ax aside.
- Twilight is true. Thorax asked.
- it is over, you managed to finish it. Luna asked looking at the princess and the man.
- please give us hope that everything is over and that our world is safe now. Ember said to the chief dragons.
But to questions and broken hope, Twilight Sparkle shook her head which meant only the worst but the worst just came when everyone felt the terrible shaking of the earth, everything began to tremble and the earth pierced with scarlet veins spreading in every direction, Twilight, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Spike, Shining Armor, Cadance, Thorax, Ember, Torch, Luna, Queen Novo, Skystar, Justice Dusk, Braeburn, Big Mac, Smolder, Sandbar, Ocellus, Yona, Silverstream, Spitfire, Soarin, Misty fly, Fleetfoot , Gallus, Gilda, Tempest Shadow, Neighsay, Sheriff Silwerstar, Chief Thunderhooves, Gah Handston, Little Strongheart, Trixie and Lighting Dust all feeling and seeing the newly formed veins began to slowly retract like all the soldiers and the scarlet veins expanded exponentially starting the process kinks.
For the first time, everyone looked at the man with a glimmer of hope, dismissing for a moment fear, regret, anger, everyone looked at the man immersed in silence until the first question broke the silence, the Cadance question.
- is this the end of our world, tell us, is it the end?. Cadance asked, finding refuge in her husband's firm embrace, and the man continued to stare deafly at the ground until his hand materialized a fiery sword.
- the enemy drank the essence of your power at the moment of your fight, the fight of all beings except me, but what has been collected is enough to activate a 200-meter monolith located a kilometer underground, its power will start a great fall, I do not want to sound bad but Equestria will be broken into a million pieces Akeron wants to sacrifice all of you to recreate the last beast that will give him freedom. Alex said as he walked away from the gathered creatures, it looked as if a human had left them in the most difficult moment.
- so it's over, all we've done is start the inevitable!. Tempest Shadow screamed in her heart, believing in the human.
- no!, and I will never allow it, there is still a chance but it's only my mission. He told Alex in full seriousness that no one has ever seen before.
Alex struck the ground with his fiery sword and began the burnout process, the flames exploded and all observers of the man backed away to a safe distance, the temperature, the heat was so hot that even the dragons had to withdraw from the incandescent flames burning a kilometer of rock and earth until everything was quiet and everyone was looking at the man, Alex stood sideways to everyone in front of a deep hole five mats in diameter and looked at each gathered, he stood on the edge.
- listen to me because it's very important, I will do anything to stop the destruction of your world, I know what I have to do, destroy the scarlet monolith, it will lead to overload and the monster of chaos and harmony will never be resurrected and Akeron will never return to your world and its power which this time will be blocked forever, but what will happen next is not important to me. Alex said, looking only at the deep hole.
Everyone, hearing the words of man, felt hopes in their hearts, knew that even if a man were to die, he would do everything to stop the process of destruction, even those who hated him forgot for a moment about the hatred, and almost everyone waited only for the last human being, almost everyone except the one running to the Twilight man.
- wait please, I need to know something. Said Twilight stopping in front of the hole and man looking into his eyes.
- please look into my eyes.
- yes, I'm listening. Alex said looking Twilight straight in the eye.
- tell me one thing if you come back. Twilight Sparkle asked, her voice trembling, but the human only smiled at her and gripped the hilt of his sword tightly.
- if you don't tell me I'm going with you hear, the rest whether you say it or not, I'm going with you.
- why. Alex asked, breaking the silence.
- because friends always help each other. Twilight said.
- you?, I am your friend?. Alex asked, surprised.
- I already forgave you, as you remember and you were always my friend, even after what you did, I couldn't hate you, even.
- enough, I don't know if I will come back, there are no certainties here, but since you are my friend you should listen to me, stay here, this world needs you, your friends need you, I won't let you risk it, please. Alex said taking the first step towards the great hole.
- don't wait!. Twilight shouted, lunging at the human.
- do not understand!. Twilight cried out in a broken voice shedding her first tear, which did not escape the human attention.
- your tear, power, it's something new. Alex said rubbing the cheek of the navy blue princess.
Alex clenched his fist, formed a tear and showed only Twilight looking at her, a turquoise tear, a tear that Alex never looked at, Alex put the tear in his pocket with the rest of the collected tears then tore the pocket from his shirt with all the tears he had ever collected in the pony world and Looking at the bag, he looked into Twilight's eyes one last time.
- I am glad that at least one soul of this world has forgiven me, he is my friend, but when you come back home you will understand what was invisible, you will understand, everyone will understand, you know I regret that I have never appeared in your world before and I have not known you better. Alex said looking deeply into Twilight's eyes, until Alex shivered as he felt his own tear fall.
- is it possible. Alex said, taking his own tear in his right hand and showing everyone its golden hue.
- what is this. Twilight asked, looking at the golden crystal tear.
- I always thought that silence is golden but now I see that the truth is gold, TRUE!, the last element, the last tear. Alex said, hiding the last tear in the sack of the remaining tears.
Alex tied the sack and held out his hand to the surprised twilight asking her for one last favor.
- You can promise me something, Twili.
- yes, everything, but you also promise me that you will come back.
- I can't do that, but you, yes, if I don't come back, take your tears back to my world, give my people freedom, the power of the collected tears will free my world from the power of destiny and nothingness forever. Alex said slowly backing away from Twilight.
- no please wait, I will do everything but wait please. Twilight said, trying to stop the human, but it was he who stopped her with the power of the hammer attached to her right hoof, the hammer hit the ground and even the strongest pull did not cause the slightest twitch.
- no Alex please wait you have to!. Twilight shouted.
- you sheep stop!. She screamed trying to launch Rainbow Dash, but neither she nor any of the crowd had ever been able to do anything as a series of portals moved everyone out of the ruined Ponyville area.
Alex looked into the deep hole and smiled again in a way that suited a mad maniac, then he jumped down the burnt tunnel, rushing farther and farther and further delving into the unknown underground world where at the end you could see a large scarlet monolith from which grew huge scarlet veins.
Alex with power over the flames stopped in front of the great monolith and began to charge his fiery sword, with the power of thunder, red power, golden ray of knowledge and even ice, everything was mixed in the growing blade, Alex raised his sword and stuck it into a scarlet monolith and the increasing size mixed caused a self-piercing scarlet monolith.
Suddenly everything started to crack, starting from the great roots, the scarlet roots crumbled to dust and the monolith itself began to emanate more and more power, Alex understood the truth of the monolith, hastily trying to open the portal but each time his attempt was in vain, a small gap in the portal appeared only on moment and quickly disappeared and the very blade that Alex was holding seemed to connect more and more with his hands, preventing him from escaping.
Despite knowing what had started, Alex smiled again like a total maniac and with all his strength he plunged the fiery sword to the hilt, starting an accelerated process of destruction.
Ponies, dragons, griffins and a hippogriff standing on the surface. Everyone watched as the earth in the destroyed Ponyville area suddenly erupted, two hundred meters high, hundreds of tons of earth shot up and crumbled around the area, the sight of disintegrating veins following the eruption meant the ultimate defeat of the elemental lord, but not only his, as it turned out, gifts of power that Alex gave to the Mane Six began to fade with the end of the great underground eruption.
Rainbow Dash's armor faded, as did Fluttershy's cloak, Rarity's ice bow, Pinkie Pie's thunder ax, a blue shield with a white cubic Applejack symbol, and Twilight's thunder hammer, which meant only one thing.
- a man gave his life for us, why did you do it, why you took away even our hatred and resentment for you, for what!. Shining Armor shouted.
- you took everything from us again!. Thorax shouted, shedding more tears as everyone else.
Everyone shed tears, those who lost too much by the hand of man, as well as those who saw in him a real bastard. But the tears were nothing compared to the scream of Twilight clutching the sack of tears in her hooves.
- why Alex, why didn't you let me tell you I love you!. Twilight shouted, surprising all those who didn't know the truth.
- why. Twilight whispered to herself as she fell to the knees of her front hooves, staring at the crater that remained of Ponyville and the final testimony of human heroism.
- why, Alex why!. Twilight cried out for the last time when she finally burst into tears with the tears gathered before her and the visions of eternal loneliness that would accompany her for the rest of her life and the last promise she made to a man, the last task she wanted to complete despite all the pain.
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many victories are often paid at a great cost, loss and sacrifice, but no one saw or knew, did not try to listen to the voice of the defeated, defeated four, but what it means, what I did subconsciously and contradict myself, because sometimes it seems to me that some of the heroes even escape me out of control, have I lost control of my own story?.
