I ran through the halls chasing after Danger Side. The others close behind me as I fired a spell towards him only for him jump, spin, before deflecting it with a small shield back towards us. My eyes widened as I saw he had somehow added more power to it. "Duck and cover!" I yelled as I fell to the floor. The others did the same as a large explosion occurred behind us. I heard him laughing as I looked towards him and saw the crazed look in his eyes. I quickly ran at him as he started to run once more.
"Twilight how do we contain him?!" I heard my brother ask over Danger's crazy laugh.
"the only thing we can do is get him with magic exhaustion! But hes smart enough to know that that's the only way we could take him out!"
"why only that?! I'm sure we could give him the one two!" Rainbow Dash yelled as she yelped and ducked under a barrage of ice.
"because hes a prodigy in magic! He was learning as much magic he could so he could become- get down!" a fire spell exploded above us as he turned to the left at the end of the hall. "besides what I was going to say Danger Side has always been reckless unlike Safe Side! Its why his name is the polar opposite!" we continued to follow him as we came across more and more bodies. Both changeling and royal guard.
"Gather everypony up at the courtyard! Herd him there!" I heard princess Celestia yell as some guards seperated from the group.
"Danger just stop running!" I yelled.
"Noooooooooooooooo-" royal guard death scream. "ooooooope!" he yelled out before he began to laugh again.
"party cannon!" pinkie pie appeared on front of him with a cannon as she fired it. Sending a cake at him. He ducked underneath it and kicked the cannon barrel as he slid underneath it and pinkie pie. The cannon then proceeded to fire covering Pinkie Pie in cake as he eyes were the only thing that could be seen.
"nice try pink one!" Danger yelled. "i only like chocolate cake though!" we ran past pinkie pie as Rainbow Dash flew at him. He obviously sensed it as he jumped onto the wall on the right just as royal guards popped up coming around the left hallway. Rainbow Dash proceeded to crash into them as Danger jumped off of the wall as soon as he jumped onto it during this and over the pile of guards and rainbow dash before he disappeared around the corner at the end of the hall.
"hes running to the courtyard!" a guard yelled before a pain scream was heard. We all turned the corner to find him looking at the body of a guard he just slaughtered if the large hole in his neck was any point.
"you know I wonder does everypony have a set amount of blood in their body or is everyponies different?" he ducked a stun spell from me as he started to run once more. Soon he entered the courtyard as guards began to pop up everywhere.
"princess Celestia! We have him trapped!" yelled a lieutenant as Danger Side looked around with that deranged smile of his. The guards closest to him charged him as I noticed his horn light up.
"don't let him use magic!" I yelled but it was to late... the guards who charged him couldn't react fast enough...
they were skewered onto large earth spikes that shot out around Danger Side. The bodies fell as the spell was cut off as he ducked and dodged a few arrows before he teleported. I instantly looked up to find him hurtling down towards the ground with a Pegasus guard under his hooves. When they collided Danger Side's hooves went into the guards armor and body. He stepped out of it with a sickening crunch.
"its been sooooooo long since I had this much fun!" he yelled out as all the guards were now afraid to do anything for fear of dying. "oh come on? Lose your spines already?!"
"Danger Side we will get you!" I yelled out in rage. "you will release Safe Side!"
"Danger Side you are ordered to stand down so you may be trialed!" princess Celestia yelled as he laughed.
"sorry I love my freedom at the moment!" he yelled with his smile still on his face. "but nice try though!"
"please! Just stand down Danger Side!" I yelled out as he gave a thoughtful look.
"you know I would take that sympathy look for you to be worried about me but I know you Twilight Sparkle. Your only worried about your first true friend. Nothing more... nothing less..." he said in a small tone of voice. "so unfortunately for you I don't want to die... even if Safety wants it I don't want to die." he chuckled.
"a duel then!" I yelled out in desperation remembering the times we had using charms on each other to try and make the other fall to win.
"a duel?" he started out at a soft chuckle... before it began to slowly evolve into a loud laughter. Setting everypony on edge. "don't you remember Twilight Sparkle?! I won every duel we had when we were younger! Granted we only used small charms on one another but your asking for a duel with everything we have at our disposal! I know I have more knowledge of combat magic then you of all ponies! Sun butt over there is to much of a pacifist to teach anything combat related!" princess Celestia narrowed her eyes at Danger as he laughed. "but... ill take it. Winner gets one thing the other wants like always..."
"Twilight don't do it... you know he always beat you when he was younger and if what we have seen is true he has gotten stronger. You barely know any combat magic." Shining Armor spoke up.
"that's why I got to do it..."
"Twilight..." I cut him off.
"Darling you saw what he did to those guards right?"
"she can take him!" Rainbow Dash yelled out. "hes just one pony!"
"a pony who has no sense of self whatsoever like what she said." Rarity retorted. "Twilight hes surrounded and I doubt he would be able to escape."
"which is why I got to do this... Danger has always been known to get out of sticky situations whenever he escaped his room... nothing bad will happen to me."
"Twilight if the situation looks dire..." princess Celestia started. "i will order my guards to take him down... be it with nonlethal or lethal force... I will not lose my prized student over a deranged pony." I looked at her shocked but I nodded.
"so do we have a deal?" he then asked putting out a hoof as I slowly began walking towards him. Determination filling me as I knew there was a lot more at stake here then anything. Either he died or he didn't... I had to win.
For Safe Side...
I grabbed his hoof as he smiled. His horn glowed putting the guard on edge until the guards closest to us went blasting backwards. Getting out of the center of the courtyard before his horn lit up again causing a dark purple see through barrier to pop up around us. "don't want any interlopers now do we?" he then whispered as my determination faltered for a moment before I remembered just why I challenged him to a duel. "may the best pony win Sparkles..." we started to walk away from one another as I could see princess Celestia trying to break the barrier. Everypony else looked worried for me as I stood at the edge of the barrier. "the barrier is one way Sparkles! They can hear us but we cant hear them!" I then heard Danger yell as I turned around and stared at him with a growing hate. "shall we begin Sparkles? I nicked a bit from one of the guards I slaughtered so it will be out start!" he held up a bloodied gold coin with his magic as I narrowed my eyes.
He tossed the coin into the air as I tried to think of a battle plan. He liked to keep things fun so I don't think he is going to try and do things quickly. He will try to hurt me a lot that's for sure just to hear my screams. The coin approached the floor as I charged up my horn with magic... before the coin hit the floor.