Chapter 18: Sunset's Last Stand
Celestia's sun was once again rising over the mountain to begin a new day for the castle, and the ones who inhabit it, the city started out a little slow this morning as ponies were slow to get up and enjoy this new day, but on this day an event will take place that is certain to wake them all up. There had been some unnecessary conduct late last night and there was soon going to be a great amount of Tartarus to pay as the castle itself also began to get active. Guards were setting themselves up for the new day as the rising sun gleamed off the golden armor of the guards who were unaware of the storm that was to come.
Within the castle the storm was coming as Heavy Weight was still sleeping peacefully with a sock in his mouth that seem to subside his snoring that he did, he seemed undisturbed and even with the dirty sock in his mouth, he did not stir. For over a few more minutes Heavy laid there sleeping and oblivious of what was in his mouth and what was missing from his arms, he had worked late with his book last night and fell asleep with it in his arms last night, but now there was an empty spot where his book use to be.
Suddenly his nose began to cringe at the stench of what was in his mouth, his eyes also squinted as sunshine managed to reach his face, he then finally began to stir as his eyes began to slowly open. When his eyes finally opened, the first thing that hit him with the stench of dirty clothing, he slowly got up in his bed and sat there as he looked around before he then noticed the dirty sock that was in his mouth, and that's when the nasty taste hit him.
He immediately became greatly annoyed by the thing in his mouth as he let out an angry muffle before spitting out the sock and watch it stick to the door, he still could taste the sock and began freaking out as he stuck out his tongue and began trying to wipe his tongue with his hooves. He whimpered and growled in irritation as he spit several times and even made a bottle of mouth wash appear and dumped a pint of it in his mouth and began swishing it around before spitting the whole pint out.
It was then that his mouth was freed from the awful taste he had in his mouth all night and looked around the room, it was quiet, but the place did show signs of an intruder being in here last night. He first thought that it might have been a prank from one of the guards, after all him and the guards did treat each other like brothers half the time, but he felt uneasy, who ever was in here last night had no intention of just having a little fun with him.
"What the hay happened in here...? If this was a prank of Rex's I'm going to get him back so hard he's gonna..."Heavy started as he then noticed the missing space on his chest where his precious cargo use to be."What the buck?! my book...! Where's my book?!"
Heavy immediately forgot about the mystery of the sock in his mouth and threw the covers off him before taking a quick look around, he then jumped out of his bed and began to aggressively panic as he began to search for his book. He levitated his bed up and quickly scanned the entire under side before slamming it down and running to his closet and swinging open the doors, once he was done looking there, he threw his whole closet against the wall and began looking under his desk.
Heavy was starting to get more worried and angrier as he searched without any results, his growls got louder as he began slamming things and tossing things in all directions of his room, but his book still couldn't be found. He roared and began to throw a massive tantrum as well as everything he could take up in his levitational hold, he kicked at the walls and threw things every where before he stood in the middle of his room as he began to glow blue, his eyes were flaring like fire as he lifted up his head and roared.
"WHERE...IS...MY... BOOOOOOOOOOK!"Heavy roared as he allowed his temper to take control and not knowing the activity outside."SOME PONY HAS STOLEN MY BOOK...!"
Meanwhile just outside Heavy Weight's room in the throne room, two royal Canterlot guards were standing guard at the doors that lead out into the hall while two more were stationed right next to the princesses throne. As they stood there, they were getting an ear full and a world of fear going as they listened to Heavy Weight freaking out in his bedroom, all but one guard was freaking out over what the colt was doing for one simple fact. He could hear what Heavy was ranting about, and he knew that there is only one pony in the whole castle that would want his book.
It was then that the doors out to the hall way opened slowly and with it princess Celestia came through the door looking as majestic as ever, but as she stepped into the throne room, she too could hear the crashing, the slamming, and the screams of Heavy Weight. His roars made her ears hurt as she turned to the door to Heavy's bedroom, he seemed angrier than ever and this issue needed to be resolved, and it all started with the guards.
"Guards...! Would some pony please tell me what has gotten into Heavy Weight this morning? what is he so irritated with now?!"Celestia demanded as only one guard had the nerve to approach the princess with answers.
"It sounds like some pony got the stupid and very dangerous idea to sneak into Heavy's room in the night and foolishly take something of his,"Said the guard with a stern yet honest look.
"What...?! We have a thief in this castle?!"Celestia exclaimed with shock.
"Yes... And from what I can make out through his screaming and yelling it sounds like it was his uh... Personal book of spells that the thief took,"The guard added as Celestia put a hoof over her mouth in disgust.
"Then we must act with haste, you and a few of the guards search the castle, find the thief or thieves and bring them before me...!"Celestia ordered before she heard a crashing noise against Heavy's bedroom door."And hurry...! Before Heavy levels this whole castle."
It was at that moment that a sudden explosion went off behind them, they all turned just in time to see the door to Heavy's room fly right out of the door way and crash right against the wall of the throne room and stick to the wall. They all stood there frozen with shock and a bit of fear as they slowly turned their heads back towards the bedroom only to see very angry and very magically glowing Heavy slowly walk out of the bedroom with the door way completely lit up with blue flames. He growled and looked around to see the guards and the princess all looking at him with worry as he made an obvious announcement.
"Some pony stole my BOOK!"Heavy shouted as the princes walked to him and did her best to defuse the time bomb.
"Easy now Heavy, I know the book means very much to you, and I promise that me and the guards will be searching the castle and we will find the book and the thief that took it,"Celestia explained as Heavy only calm down slightly.
"Who would dare steal my book...?!"Heavy questioned as the brave guard suddenly approached him.
"Kid...? I think you do know who would be desperate enough to take a book filled with many useful spells to learn,"The guard said as Heavy suddenly began to realize the answer.
"No... That little thief...!"Heavy said before he suddenly began glowing bright again."SUNSEEEEEEEEEEET...!"
Meanwhile in the halls of the castle a certain filly was now enjoying the spoils of her theft last night as she was now reading the spell book in progress of Heavy Weight, Sunset felt proud of her accomplishment of acquiring such a tool for her use and she knew that it was only going to get better. The spells she was reading and learning as she walked the halls were incredible, so many spells that could make her a force to be reckoned with are now in her magical hold and were now being learned from Sunset personally.
She felt herself getting stronger and more confident as she read, taking in the spells that could cause great devastation or could cause great things to happen around her, so far she had managed to learn only four spells from the book, but those spells themselves made her feel stronger. Even with those spells at her use now, she still wanted more, she wanted even more power from this book, it was written by a powerful unicorn, that means it can make her powerful to, that means that she must learn it all if she wants a chance to be strong like Heavy Weight.
Suddenly Sunset barely noticed that she had made it out to the main hall and looked up from the book for a moment, she knew what was now laying among the massive gates that lead out of the building, and that's when a plan struck her. Now that she knew a few new spells and one in particular that would help balance her against the strength of more powerful and fit enemies, now would be a good time to try out what she now knows on the guards who thought very little of her, but thought that Heavy was practically their brother to them, Sunset's jealousy had finally gotten the better of her at that moment.
Sunset quickly managed to hide the book in her man as she began to charge her way down the stairs feeling completely dominant, large and in charge, she laughed proudly at herself as she made it down the stairs without even falling, she even decided to jump of the last stair before running to the main doors. She smiled as she chose to light up her horn and show off her new found power as she swung the main door open with just a powerful magical force of her horn, and as the doors swung open, Sunset leaped out of the castle.
Sunset was able to make it pass the steps of the castle before landing hard on her hopes and letting out a hearty yell before turning to her target on the right, the castle training grounds, the dwelling place of all the guards that looked down to her and treated her like a child. A wicked smile grew on her face as she casually walked to the iron gate of the grounds and threw the gate open as the sound of swords and spears sounded off, just what she wanted to hear plenty of.
Sunset then made her way inside and let out a nice big sigh taking in the fresh air before smiling at more than fifty royal Canterlot guards that were now practicing their skills and sparring with each other, the filly had many of her targets right in front of her ripe for the harvest. It was then that she cleared her throat out loudly and got the attention of all the guards who ceased their activities for a moment to see Sunset, and that's when raised eye brows, chuckles, and snickers could be heard from half of the guards.
"Well... isn't this a nice way to greet a lady? So which one of you stallions would like to fight me?"Sunset offered as more laughing and taunts raised from the crowd of guards."Aww... Am I in the glorious presence of stallions, or am I in the pathetic presence of little colts?"
"Oh...! Listen to that every pony, Sunset finally grew some guts for a change!"A guard yelled out as the crowd roared with laughter.
"Hey Sunset! Maybe you should wait till Heavy gets out here, we're all game for watching you get your flank kicked again,"Another guard yelled out just as the captain was entering the grounds.
"Oh that's funny, I thought you guards always wanted Heavy to join you all because you need him to protect you, who knew stallions would use a colt for protection, sounds pretty cowardly if you ask me,"Sunset taunted as the guards suddenly became silent showing that her last taunt did the trick.
"Alright then you big mouth...!"A guard said as he suddenly stepped up to the plate and challenged Sunset."It would be more fun if Heavy was here to see this or even pound you into the dirt, but I suppose he wouldn't mind if we wailed on you a bit."
"Go ahead and try wimp, you're all in for a big surprise... I can promise you that,"Sunset said as she smirked and got into a defensive position.
"Go easy on her now corporal!"The captain suddenly ordered from the entrance.
Sunset only took one small glimpse at the captain and glared at him, and by doing so she did not see the guard charging at her, she was only able to turn towards her opponent before he blind sighted her with a vicious right hook that knocked Sunset to her flank. The guards began chuckling as Sunset slowly got up with a small bruise on her cheek, but now she was mad and ready to show off her new tricks.
Suddenly she saw the guard coming in with his sword and was about to strike, Sunset quickly threw up a shield and braced herself as the guard unleashed a hard downward slice with his sword and almost smashed through her shield in the process. Suddenly Sunset saw her moment to strike with one of her newest spells as her horn glowed even brighter with green magic and suddenly made the ground around them shake.
The guard raised an eye brow at her as he was about to reel back from his failed attack, but as he was about to do so. The ground suddenly exploded all around him, they all looked on with shock as green tentacles shot from the ground and wrapped around all the guards legs, his torso, and even his sword. He struggled against the tentacles as they constricted him and tighten against his body, he looked to see that this was indeed Sunset Shimmer's doing as she was now smiling at him with great evil as her eyes suddenly began to glow bright green.
Sunset suddenly lowered her damaged shield and began putting the squeeze on the guard, all the others recognized this trick as Heavy Weight's tentacle rise spell, but how could she have learned one of Heavy's spells, they did not know. They all watched as Sunset then suddenly swung the guard around and slammed him all over the place, his armor began to crack and crush against the force of the attack as the guards all separated and scattered away from the fight.
The captain's eyes widened in confusion and shock as Sunset finally released the guard only for her to show them all another new trick of hers, and that's when a bright green aura surrounded her body and made her eyes glow brighter. She then levitated the guard up by his throat and brought him to her, she laid him on his belly and looked him directly in the eye as she wickedly chuckled at the stallion like a maniac who had gone mad with power.
"Yes...! Do you recognize the spells I have just used here today? You all should, Heavy uses these spells all the time like the Mr super student that he thinks he is, but not any more..."Sunset said as she then suddenly poured magic into her back hooves.
She then suddenly spun around and delivered a swift and powerful buck right at the stallion's jaw and heard the crack of bones go off as the guard flew into a wall at incredible speeds and was then buried in the rubble. Dust and rubble covered up the scene for a moment as Sunset let out another wicked chuckle, and once the dust did settle, the guard was now sitting in the pile of rubble completely unconscious. Another guard then suddenly ran to the down guard and pulled him out, and after a quick medical check, he made the chilling discovery that the guard is critically damaged and possibly in a coma.
Now knowing that a guard was possibly half dead, all the guards including the captain all went from surprised to angry and full of hate as they all turned to Sunset, they all suddenly pulled out their swords and spears and readied themselves for battle. Sunset looked on and chuckled again as she then turned to the captain who had just brought out two magical swords with his magic to join in the battle.
"Sunset Shimmer...! You have just assaulted and fatally injured a member of the royal guard, as of now you are under arrest, we will bring you before princess Celestia and she will find a suitable punishment for your crime,"The captain announced as they all moved in to take her.
"Go ahead you weaklings, by the end of this day, you will all bow before your newest princess, and so will Heavy,"Sunset Shimmer said as she prepared for a fight.
Meanwhile back inside the castle, Heavy Weight along with princess Celestia were now looking around for Sunset Shimmer, and Heavy could not be more furious with her even if he tried, she had his most prized possession in her hooves, and he was going to get it back by any means necessary. Celestia was becoming more and more worried for Heavy as they searched the place from top to bottom, but there was no sign of Sunset any where, and there was no sign of the book.
Heavy looked down one more hall way and growled as he once again found nothing, the fury for Sunset right now was almost lethal, he let out growls as the thought of her taking the book from under his nose was only making it worse. Finally Heavy felt he needed to let out a bit of steam and suddenly spooked every pony by turning on a wall and smashing it in much to the displeasure of the princess.
"Heavy Weight! Calm down, we will find her and your book, but you need to control yourself or we may never find her if you scare her off with your temper,"Celestia said as Heavy looked to her with a blank look that hid his fury from her.
"That little weakling just took my book, that book is all that I have left from the times with my mom! And I will be thrown to the pits of Tartarus before I let some pony like Sunset Shimmer make off with it like it's some sort of toy!"Heavy growled while the guards looked into four different rooms."Besides...! The book is dangerous now too!"
"What...?! What do you mean the book is dangerous?"Celestia asked now realizing that this situation could be even more of a problem than she thought.
"The book has over seventy different spells of my own making in it, and all the spells require great magic control, concentration, and most importantly, your magic has to be flowing evenly and must be stable through your whole body,"Heavy explained as they all continued down the hall once more."Sunset is not exactly the type of pony that's good enough with magic to have great control or stability, if she tries to use any one of those spells, her mind could be overtaken with the power of the spells, that's one of the reasons that no pony was allowed to read it! Yet Sunset just had to keep lying to you and trying to grasp for power she does not deserve!"
"I... I can't believe it, how could I have not foreseen this? my own student would risk her own sanity for power, how could I have been so blind...?"Celestia said as she suddenly felt the shame hit her."Heavy... This is wrong for me to ask you, but please stop her Heavy, we cannot allow Sunset to descend into such darkness, please... Do whatever you have to stop her."
As those sudden words left the princesses mouth, Heavy suddenly felt his anger completely disappear as he realized the magnitude of what the princess was asking of him, this was a chance to prove himself, this was his first real situation where he would have to save every pony from an impending doom. Heavy suddenly let out a big sigh as he then surprised the princess by giving her a small yet proud smile in response.
"Yes princess Celestia, I will do what I must to save Canterlot,"Heavy said as they all felt a sudden explosion go off from outside the castle.
"Princess...! Heavy Weight! You both felt that right?! It sounds like it's coming from..."A guard said before Heavy picked up the last few words.
"The training ground... I think we just found Sunset,"Heavy said looking out the window and seeing the smoke before turning to the princess."Princess Celestia... I will take care of this, I need you to gather some guards and make sure you're ready for when I take her down."
"Very well Heavy... Go now and do what you must,"Celestia ordered as Heavy gradually nodded in response.
With those last orders given, Heavy put on a serious look and backed away a bit from the princess and stood away from them all as he lit up his horn, he knew what he had to do, this was now no longer the mere retrieval of a book, this was now a fight to save the castle from a crazed sibling student. It was then that his icy blue magic surrounded him, and in a bright flash, Heavy had now teleported away from the princess and was heading towards the scene.
Heavy then quickly reappeared right outside the castle main doors in another flash of blue light and put on a very serious look as every where around him suddenly went quiet like the calm before a great storm. Heavy slowly made his way down the stairs with determination and a first mission to carry out, and as he was making his way down the stairs, the iron gates suddenly exploded in a wave of green magic and dust, the gate itself was blown right off its hinges and sent flying away.
Heavy didn't even blink as he finally made it down the stairs and felt the smokey magic hit his face, it was hot and even a bit burning, but Heavy shook it off as he saw something emerge from the smoke. At first he had thought it could be Sunset as he lit up his horn, but stayed in a steady position, but finally as the smoke began to clear, it was revealed that it wasn't Sunset Shimmer, but it was a gravely injured member of the royal guard who was now limping and fumbling all over the place as he reached for Heavy.
Heavy looked at the guard with a solemn and very pained look as he then watched the guard drop and fall to the ground, Heavy approached the down guard and stood at the side as the guard looked to him and smiled.
"Hey kid... Do you mind... Stopping that little filly for us?"The guard said with a weak chuckle as he then fell unconscious.
Heavy now felt a little angry again knowing that Sunset was boldly attacking and bringing harm to the guards Heavy had come to respect, he turned to the door way and narrowed his eyes as he began to walk to the grounds. He could hear the sound of a sword banging against a shield and the grunts of the captain himself sounding out as Heavy passed through the door and got the sight of a life time.
The grounds were littered with the many royal guards that were unconscious and gravely injured, the only one that was still standing was captain Husky himself who also looked to be injured, but was still trying to fight off the saw the captain grind on his hooves back towards him as Heavy looked to see Sunset Shimmer in the middle of the grounds with a wicked smile on her face and laughing her heart out as she began tossing more guards around like rag dolls.
"So! Who's the weakling now Heavy Weight?! WHO...?!""Sunset shouted at the sky as Heavy walked up to the captain as he suddenly dropped to his knees in exhaustion.
"Hey captain...? Do you need some help?"Heavy asked as the captain turned to him with a bit of shock.
"You... Why have you come here, It's not safe,"Husky asked as he felt his body betraying him due to the pain.
"I'm here to take care of this little problem, you just step back and enjoy the show,"Heavy said as he began walking towards Sunset.
He then picked up a small rock in a levitation spell and narrowed his eyes of the crazy filly in front of him and smiled as he threw the rock with good aim and force as it smacked Sunset right in the head. At that moment, he then focused his magic right in front of Sunset and blocked her sight with a wall of blue fire that cut her off from the injured guards.
"Hey Sunset! I'm right over hear you crazy filly!"Heavy yelled as Sunset turned around and widened her eyes before growling at him."I believe you have something of mine, and I'm here to get it back, and maybe even smack some sense into you!"
"Heavy Weight...! I was hoping that you would come, these losers didn't stand half a chance, I need a greater challenge than these guards, how about you...?"Sunset said in a sinister tone as she began to glow once more.
"My body enhancement spell... You really gotten busy since you took my book last night, I bet you feel like a real fighter now don't you, some princess you are..."Heavy said as he glared at Sunset.
"Yes... I was really busy last night... With your book that is,"Sunset said as she magically pulled out the book from her mane and presented it to Heavy."This book has taught me better spells in one night than Celestia could teach me in a year, and so far it has never lead me astray..."
Heavy suddenly felt the ground beneath him shake and immediately jumped high in the air just in time to see the ground where he once stood explode before green tentacles had appeared and coiled around the area where he once stood. Heavy eyed up the tentacles and recognized it immediately as he descended towards the ground, he poured his blue magic into all four hooves and brought them down on the tentacles, he crushed the tentacles under his hooves and made them explode into green magic dust as he then stood there as if mocking Sunset's sneak attack.
"My tentacle rise spell... Not bad Sunset, but it's sloppy and too slow, just like you..."Heavy said as he began to approach a rapidly frustrated Sunset.
"Heavy...! Don't you mock me Heavy Weight, that's all you ever done to me since that day your mother passed, all you did was look down to me and treat me like dirt, but not any more Heavy, now I will be the one with all the power!"Sunset said as she flared up and poured more magic into her body."Now come Heavy Weight...! It's time for us to settle this little rivalry once and for all!"
"Then as you wish Sunset, but just so you know, just because you have a few spells with you, it doesn't mean you're a real unicorn, your just a lier and a thief with no real talent,"Heavy said as he got ready for a fight.
"We'll see about that when I'm busy tearing you to pieces!"Sunset yelled.
The two sibling students then began by staring each other down for only a moment, but it felt like an hour to them, both had different desires in their minds, but the goal they had was somewhat similar in mind. Sunset slowly put down the book and focused on Heavy, After so many years together, the two were facing each other down as not sibling students or even friends, it was now a battle between a hero and an enemy.
Then just as a small breeze blew through both of their manes, they both then finally went on the attack, they both jumped forward at each other and slammed their hooves together making a whirl wind of heavy and magical air travel through the area around them. Heavy quickly saw the opportunity and was able to lift both of his back legs up in front of his chest to give Sunset a hard buck right in the gut before back flipping away from her while Sunset only stumbled back a bit before regaining her balance and growl at him.
Heavy floated for a bit in the air and looked below to see Sunset Shimmer suddenly pulling rocks out of the very ground and holding them to her side before suddenly throwing them in the form of a barrage at Heavy. Heavy's eyes lit up and his vision became keen as he anticipated the rocks and moved his head around to dodge all the incoming rocks, they were being thrown like an amateur, it was Sunset Shimmer after all, for the last few rocks he spun and kicked two rocks off to the side before suddenly head butting the last one to pieces with his head before coming down from the air.
Heavy just landed on his hooves and stood right in front of the spectating captain who seemed quite surprised at how Heavy was now handling this issue, he was not just fighting, he was fighting honorably yet with no compromise in his eyes. Sunset at that time had then blasted a beam of magic at both Heavy and the captain, and while Husky just braced himself for a hit, Heavy just snorted as he made his left hoof glow and suddenly smacked away the attack with only a powerful back hoof.
Suddenly as he smacked the attack away, he was caught off guard by another blast of green magic and was struck in the chest by the surprise attack. It exploded and made Heavy grind back on his hooves before regaining his balance and looking to see that Sunset was gone.
It was then that Sunset had suddenly teleported right behind Heavy and was about to swing a hard left at him, but Heavy managed to see the attack coming from out the corner of his eye and ducked his head. He was about to jump out of the way, but then suddenly felt himself get stuck in something, once he had looked down, he saw that he was caught in Sunset's own tentacle rise. He struggled against the grip of the tentacles and began to break free, it was his own spell after all, but he was not fast enough to get free and payed for it with a strong buck from Sunset.
As Heavy felt the hard hooves of Sunset strike him upon the jaw, he then surprised her by holding his ground as he only showed that his head had moved a little from the blow, and that fact was making Sunset angry. Suddenly the filly noticed out the corner of her eye that the captain was able to stand and was about to slash at her with his swords, but she had managed to turn her head at the last minute and blast another beam of magic at the captain and blast him through the wall of the grounds as he came to a landing right in front of the man doors of the castle before falling unconscious.
"CAPTAIN HUSKY...!"Heavy shouted before Sunset Shimmer turned back around and struck Heavy across the jaw with a hard left.
This blow did the trick as Heavy suddenly was released from the fillies grip just in time to for Heavy to be sent back towards the middle of the grounds and landing hard on his back, but he managed to flip back onto his hooves and start shaking off the attack. He then looked up and growled with burning fury while Sunset Shimmer stood there laughing at what she had done.
"SUNSET...!"Heavy roared in shock before suddenly meeting Sunset face to face in lightning fast speed and smashing a hoof as hard as he could against Sunset's jaw."You've gone mad Sunset! You're attacking innocent guards for no reason at all, stop this right now!"
"No...REASON?! These weak dogs have always treated me like I was useless and a pet of Celestia! But they treated you like you were family to them,"Sunset said in a deeply angry yet solemn tone."I... NEVER HAD THAT KIND OF LOVE BEFORE, AND I NOW KNOW THAT I NEVER WILL, NOW FIGHT ME HEAVY...!"
"FINE...! I TRIED TO BE REASONABLE, BUT NOW YOU'VE LEFT ME NO CHOICE!"Heavy shouted as the ground exploded behind Sunset.
She was about to jump as she was thinking that tentacles were coming for her, but she was then caught in a familiar hold as a Heavy clone emerged from the ground and once again wrapped his hooves around Sunset and held her there in a standing position. She screamed in frustration while Heavy just stood there ignoring the blood that had suddenly began to drip from his lip, his first real injury at the hooves of Sunset.
Heavy then suddenly spun as he delivered a double leg round house across Sunset's jaw and sent her soaring right out of the grounds and landed right between the main door to the castle and the golden gate leading to the city. She tried to get up, but the Heavy clone continued to hold her there as the real Heavy emerged from the grounds and begin walking towards Sunset, the filly managed to maneuver her horn enough to blast a beam at Heavy Weight, but he immediately back hoof the attack once more and continued walking towards her with a more disappointed look as he neared her.
"This is your last chance sunset!"Heavy warned as he stopped a good ten feet from her yet as the clone got Sunset to her hooves."Give up my book and come with me, or else..."
"Why...? So you can just...turn me in and... Look like the big hero and top student in the princesses eyes, fat chance Heavy, I won't give into you, not this time,"Sunset growled before she suddenly felt the clone suddenly turn to stone.
"As bold as that is Sunset... It was also foolish, we're just going to have to do this the hard way..."Heavy said as he lowered his head for a moment before his horn lit up.
It was then that the stone clone suddenly began cracking up before magic began to leak from it, a whistle sound instantly followed and Sunset could feel the magic behind her as she realized what was happening. She felt Heavy Weight suddenly buck her right in the gut taking all the wind out of her and sending her flying right through the golden gate just as the stone clone then suddenly exploded in a massive blast of ice blue magic and smoke. The smoking mass where Sunset and the clone went off landed just outside the castle just as Heavy was about to walk to it, but then he stopped as he heard the main gates suddenly swing open and the voice of reason call to him.
"Heavy Weight! Hold on for a second! Let me try talking to her for a moment!"Came the voice of princess Celestia as her and many more guards showed up right at Heavy's side.
They all looked over to the smoke as the saw Sunset Shimmer slowly rise from the crater she was in and struggle to stay standing, she was barely able to look at Heavy, she was now badly injured with many scratches and bruises all over her body. Her mind was suddenly beginning to waver and become calm once more, but then tears were the next thing to followed as she tried to keep up her angry look, but sadness threatened to creep up on her.
"Is... Is that... All you got Heavy...?! This is... Nothing!"Sunset yelled while panting.
"Oh just stop trying to act tough and look at yourself!"Heavy commanded while gesturing to the cuts, bruises, and the bloody lip Sunset had gained in this fight."You've lost this fight Sunset! And you're far to weak to continue."
"Sunset Shimmer...! Please... That's enough, it's over now! Come back here and we can work this all out, I'll even help you how to control this new power of yours, I'm begging you..."Celestia begged while Heavy and Sunset just looked at each other.
"No... All you ponies ever do is look down at me and treat me like I'm worthless, like I'm just a worthless no pony, I'm not going to keep having that life..."Sunset said as tears began to flow from her eyes.
"Sunset... Maybe I did push too hard, maybe I asked you a little too much of you, but everything I did was so you could toughen up and grow strong, for six years I have had to do the same when my mother died,"Heavy said while Sunset shook her head at him."So why can't you?!"
"NO! YOU'RE WRONG! All you want is power Heavy, you keep trying to crush my dream while accomplishing your own, but... not any more! I...QUIT!"Sunset suddenly shouted as the last word struck Celestia hard.
"Sunset...! Do not say such things, you are a very talented unicorn, I do not wish to lose you, please come with me, please... We can put all of this behind us if you just-"Celestia started before being cut off.
"JUST SHUT UP! I'm done with you! With all of you! If I really am that worthless to you all, then I'll just go where am worth something... Even if it's not here..."Sunset said as she suddenly lit up her horn."Good bye...! I hope you'll have a great time with your star pupil princess, because I QUIT!"
With that said to every pony including Heavy's shock, Sunset then had suddenly vanished in a flash of green light and left a small bit of smoke, they all saw that Sunset was gone, and Celestia felt her heart drop while Heavy just stared solemnly at the spot.
"Guards! Half of you search the city for Sunset, the other half round up the injured and get them to a hospital stat!"Celestia ordered as the guards did so.
The princess felt her heart becoming heavy with regret as she felt almost like crying as she turned around to go back into the castle, she looked out the corner of her eye and noticed that Heavy had retrieved his book and had checked it for any damage. With his needs satisfied the princess continued to venture into the castle to be alone as she then felt the tears starting to come on from the fact that she had possibly lost a good student to the greed of power.
What she didn't notice however was that Heavy had watched the princess walking into the castle all alone and felt some memories of his own poking at his mind, he knew exactly how the princess was feeling right now, and for the first time in a great long while, he wanted to help. He put his book on his back and passed a few guards and ran for the castle as his horn lit up once again. In a flash of bright blue light he had disappeared and quickly reappeared right in the main hall of the castle just in time for the princess to approach him.
Heavy stood there and watched the princess stop right before him, she lifted her head up and looked at Heavy as he saw tears streaming down her face, her pain almost felt like his pain and for the first time in a while, he felt guilty that he had driven away and important student of Celestia. Heavy then suddenly went for broke and gave Celestia the saddest smile he could give her before surprising Celestia with a great big hug against her legs.
"I'm sorry about Sunset princess Celestia, I promise that it won't happen again, I'll try my hardest to control myself from now on..."Heavy said as he nuzzled the princesses leg only to be hugged back tightly by a crying princess.
"I know you will Heavy... I know you will... My faithful student..."Celestia said as they both hugged each other and prayed for a brighter future to come after this heart breaking loss.
AND THAT'S HOW SUNSET SHIMMER LEFT THE CASTLE IN PURSUIT OF BECOMING A PRINCESS WITH ALL THE POWER SHE COULD EVER WANT, AND NOW COMES THE MOMENT OF TRUTH, THE RETURN OF TWILIGHT SPARKLE!