Chapter 11: The ultimate price

Dark Legion Fortress

Darkness was looking at Spade who had recently arrived with the hope to join up with them mainly for revenge on Rage after the humiliating battle he had done. Nazo was looking disapprovingly at him.

"I don't think he's cut out for it." Nazo says

"That's not you place to say Nazo." Darkness says

"I think he looks fine." Noah says

"We need more members and Spade will be one of them… soon we can put our plans into motion." Mephilies says

Mobius—Tails' Lab

Rage was sitting in with Tails and Sonic who had asked for his presence for whatever reason. "So what is it you needed me for Sonic?" Rage asks

"Well we wanted to ask you if you knew anything about a guy named Noah." Tails asks

"Oh god you mean that drunk panda?" Rage sighs "Not much only that he is in line with the Dark Legion." Rage replies "Why?"

"Well you see he took something from me and we didn't know if you might have known anything about why." Tails says

"What did he take?" Rage asks

"A material decoder." Tails says

"Why would they want that?" Sonic asks

"The heck if I know." Rage says "This is news to me too, I don't see anything that they would gain from that."

"Well can you try to get it back?" Tails asks

"I can try but I wouldn't count on it. After they are done with I plan on blowing that castle of theirs sky high along with their planet." Rage responds when he hear his communicator from Christain go off and answers it "Christain what's wrong?" he asks

"Rage we got trouble Ponyville's under attack!" Christain responds as a crash could be heard in the background

"Hold on I am on my way!" Rage says "Sorry guys I need to go!" he informs the two who wave as he disappears

Equestria—Ponyville

Christain was protecting himself from a bombardment of dark energy blasts from Noah with an energy shield which wouldn't last much longer. Soon it breaks and Noah laughs

"Ha you are no match for us!" he laughs as Nix grabs them with a grip of dark energy. Soon a Chaos Spear hits him as Ace runs up and kicks Noah to the ground

"You know your forgetting me." He chuckles

"Who are you?" Nix asks

"My name is Ace." Ace responds "And you know my brother Nazo do you not?"

Nix smirks when he hears this "Well then two is better then one!" he laughs forming a large ball of dark energy "Try and avoid this!" he yells and throws it at a high speed so fast no one saw it but…

(Music: [Event] Sonic Appears—Sonic the Hedgehog 2006)

It is destroyed releasing a smoke like cloud of energy and within it stood Rage who had leaped from Angel Island and blocked it just in time. "Rage your time couldn't be any better!" Christain pants

"Sorry I am late… looks like you started the party without me." Rage smiles summoning his Blade of Chaos, "Now who's first?" he smiles as Chip flies next to him

"Yeah, who's looking to get a beating first?" he adds

"Allow me…" Noah says stepping up "Besides I have a score to settle with this one." He chuckles throwing a punch out of nowhere hitting Rage hard. Ace then hits Noah with an Axe kick from the air making him turn to Ace and swing a punch but his arm is then hit by a cold ball and encased in ice. "Agh!" he yells in surprise

"Chaos Blade Buster!" Rage yells swinging his sword in a downward slash hitting the ice shattering it but it just falls with Noah's whole arm perfectly intact despite what Icy Chaos should have done.

"You little!" Noah growls swinging his other arm to hit Rage but this time Rage dodge rolls out of the way.

"Too slow!" he smirks as Dark Gaia hits Ace with a kick from behind and while Rage is distracted from the grunt Ace made Noah takes the chance to leap on top of him. Rage struggles to break free but to no prevails

'Dammit even though I am strong I can't move 9000 pounds off of me." He curses "and my Chaos is still recharging from my wasted True Chaos Unleashed form…. What am I supposed to do?!' he thinks when a Rainbow blur knocks Noah off of his balance and he fly off to the side allowing Rage to stand up but when he tries his injuries made it hard so he was struggling just to look and see Rainbow Dash looking at Noah.

"Leave him alone!" she yells glaring him in the eyes

Noah growls in anger stomping at the ground "I am tired of all these interruptions! Be gone!" he screams grabbing Rainbow Dash and throwing her into a building as hard as he could right as Rage got up he saw her hit the building and lie on the ground motionless.

"RAINBOW DASH!" he screams running over to her as the others who were god knows where arrives and Ace finally gets Dark Gaia to flee and looks over himself to see what was happening. Rage puts a hand on her… she was cold… she was dead.

"Oh no is she-" Twilight asks hoping it was not true

"Rainbow please don't…" Applejack says

Rage stands up and begins shaking in anger as he looks at the remaining two. "You…" he says his eyes glowing red "You are going to pay for this!" he screams in fury running right through Ace accidentally knocking him out as he leaps up and punches Noah in the chest making him slide back.

"What…what happened to him…?" he gasps for air while asking Nix

"I wish I knew… just kill him!" Nix replies shooting an energy beam at Rage who was no longer where he was when the beam was fired. Nix soon felt a foot hit him in the back of his head and plant his face into the ground. Soon Rage lifts an arm and it forms into a spike like blade as he stabs Nix in the chest. Knowing he would die if he stayed he warped back to wherever they were hiding leaving Noah who looks at Rage almost frightened.

"Wait for me!" he yells disappearing as well. Rage then morphs his arm back and his eyes turn back to normal as he runs back over to Rainbow Dash where a doctor pony had arrived to check on her. He looked at her in worry

"Well?" he asks choking up at the sight

"She's….." the doctor pauses "dead…" he says coldly causing everypony to gasp in horror

"No…." Rage stammers in disbelief "R-rainbow…." He sniffs as a thought races into his mind 'first Icezer… now Rainbow Dash' he begins to cry and collapses on Rainbow Dash's body as the others join in simply broken about their loss of a close friend.

Rage felt like he had lost everything…his brother… and now the pony he cared for most risked herself to help him and paid the ultimate price… she died trying to help him when he could have helped himself. That thought just made him cry harder… no matter how impossible it felt the cold…hard…vile truth was…Rainbow Dash is dead.

To be continued…