Chapter 3: the ending battles

Twilight fired off her magic into the changeling that had her pinned down; the changeling flew off into the window. "If lightning made it through the crash, I hope he's going to help us out!" Rainbowdash called to twilight, 'Did he make it out of that? Did he … die?' Discord snapped and all the changelings froze where they were, discord them caused them all to float into one big mass in the center of the room; then they all vanished in a flash of light.

Lightning didn't know what just happened, one moment the changelings had them surrounded; the next all of the changelings were on the ground. Oh, and sketch had a look that some would call completely and utterly dumbfounded. "What was that?" was all pocketbook asked, "I have no idea, what WAS that?" lightning commented. Stubborn as she was; pocketbook didn't let the question go unanswered, "woop-dee-doo, that was something that you did and I want to know what it is." Lightning sighed, "clearly you didn't hear me, I have no idea what I just did. The best thing we can do now is to get to the element tower." They all galloped off to the tower.

MEANWHILE

Dapper flew high above the kingdom streets; the commander clearly hated him; after losing the re-ranking duel to Twilights brother: shining armor, the commander had a disliking to all magic, and the fact the he can't fly like his daughter just makes him even more bitter than usual. The commander (as you should have guessed by now) was an earth pony, his eyes were (what else?) red and his coat was stark white his mane was blonde and his scar from the last war with the changelings stood out. The thing that worried dapper the most was the fact that his cutie mark was a long bloody spear, nopony should have drawing blood a special talent.

The commander had quite the service record; with being promoted 5 times and demoted 4, twice for yelling at the prince and the other two for bloodying fellow guards. The only thing he did right was fight; even then he was a commanding and harsh boss. Dapper spotted three ponies heading in the direction of the tower, 'strange; one is a pegusus and he isn't flying, the other two are from a famous comic book store.' The prince did a bank and turned back towards the castle, maybe these ponies would like to speak to his aunt.

Lightning galloped as fast as he could towards the tower his mind ablaze with questions, such as 'why didn't Rainbow know about my wing anyway?' and 'is everypony okay?' he pushed the questions aside for the moment, he had to find twilight and fast. The three ponies approached the tower and saw the mane six sitting down inside the tower, Twilight looked up and saw all three ponies galloping up and managed a weak smile, "Okay so I didn't hang back on this one; but did you really think I would?" lightning asked twilight. Twilight shook her head, "I knew you would try to get here first so I…I…" she didn't finish; only turned her head and tears streamed down her cheeks. Lightning smiled, "you shot us out of the sky, Listen Twi, you did what you thought was right. I don't hate you for it." He tried to calm her down, "that makes one of us." Sketch commented, pocketbook elbowed him. "ow!"

Twilight looked up and smiled, he didn't hate her after all, discord warped out of the room. "So now what?" Sketch asked, "We should first speak to the princess" discord pointed out from the walls. "Discord can you please not be a disembodied voice?" Pocketbook asked, "but that's no fun." Lightning smiled in spite of the situation, it was good to be with his friends. "Is it just me, or do we need to see the princess?" Rainbowdash asked, "Well that's true, let's go to the other parts of the castle" lightning announced, the now 10 equestrians moved towards the castle. (Wow 10 equestrians! Do the math.) They approached the castle and the heavy doors swung open, inside stood a pony that wasn't the princess.

Authors note: Whoop de doo, cliff hanger. I would like to thank Corporal lunch for sending me a review on my stories; he addressed the flaws and also looked at the whole story. Strange that he said the exact same complaints as my brother, and in the same order. I hope you other readers enjoyed. and lunch, your complaints will be addressed.