Equestrian Heroes

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Naruto x Rarity x Twilight x Fluttershy x Applejack x Pinkie Pie x Rainbow Dash x Ditzy x Luna x ? x ?

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For Normal Speech

Inner thoughts, Text read, Italics used to represent characters speaking in different language.

Demonic rage, Demonic characters, Kurama Speak

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Story Start

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The Umbra surged into throughout the empire as their numbers began flooding the streets. The final battle for the empire was surging on. Another one surge forward but Pinkie dashed under the creature's swing, colliding shoulder-first into its chest, knocking the air out of its lungs. The surge of Umbra and magical blast from Umbra had the end result of the group being split up. Recovering from her dazed state Pinkie began surging back to the castle when she was cut off by a seemingly never ending swat of enemies.

"You'll have ta be quicker than that, slowpoke!" she quipped, turning herself around and kicking another in the shin causing it toppled forward. With her foes downed, Pinkie ready to take on whatever faced her next. Instead of another, her eyes met with a Lunar Canterlot guard.

"Lady Pinkie," Arctic the often quiet unicorn remarked as he used his shield to smash into and snap into the arm of an approaching changeling. "I'll hold the area."

"Thank you, keep yourself safe." With a single spring Pinkie coerced more ground and height then most athletes as she navigated the streets.

"Incoming!" a voice called out, a warning which the stallion to heed to by throwing up his shield. A chunk of foundation slammed into his shield causing him to skid back several feet before it slammed down onto the ground by gravity. As soon as he was able to regain vision of the battle field he saw the form of Iron Hoof mowing through soldiers.

With a wave of his war hammer, his weapon sent three changelings flying back from their charge as there bodies soon joined the dozens that were filling the street.

The infantry did their best to hold the line, throwing themselves forward to meet the numbers. The two sides exchanged blow after blow, the blades and tearing through the flesh and magical blast meeting magical blast. When one stallion fell, coughing up blood from his punctured lung, another took his place.

"Are you okay, Captain?" A crystal soldier asked, throwing his spear and skewering an incoming changeling through the throat.

"I'm...fine..." Shining Armor replied through heavy breaths, though it was obvious he was not. His wounds stung as some reopened, his inner magic dwindling away from the length of the battle. He had been one of the closest to Sombra when he unleashed his magical surge that had blasted everypony away. Since then he had been working tirelessly rounding up whatever soldiers he could to formulate and enact a counter attack.

The familiar flash of prismatic colors filled his vision as a slender form driver spin kicked into an Umbra sending it crashing into the ground.

"Rainbow Dash!" he called. "Think you can give me a hands up to the sky?"

Rainbow circled around Shining Armor, reaching out to pull him into the air as requested.

"Alright then armor bro, what's the plan?"

"What a leader must do," Shining Armor's reply was flat and somber. "I'm going to protect the citizens and the empire. Take me to the center of the castle."

With a nod of understanding Rainbow was off. She flew around and through the changeling soldiers and Umbra as those who got too close were cast down by a blast of cutting magic from Shining Armor. Sure enough Sombra was there and on the ground a crest was forming and teeming with magical energy. The changelings that were waiting there suddenly took flight and charge forcing Rainbow to release her grip.

Dropping fast towards Shining Armor, the prince of the empire unsheathed his blade to which Sombra blocked with his own.

Though Shining did not let that stop him. Unleashing a series of stabs that pushed himself to the limit in both speed and flexibility, only for each one to be rebuffed with a flash of the dark Unicorn's magic.

"You are quick to hasten your death! Though don't worry your wretch of a wife, family, and citizens will be joining you soon. What I will do to this world will seem like fouls play compared to the past. How does it feel to know that you are about to die for nothing?"

A groan of pain and disorientation escaped Twilight's lips. Her body was aching and throbbing in several places. The familiar visage of the princesses magic faded. The distance she was sent along with the amount of force would have easily killed if not permanently crippled most Unicorns.

In the distance a surge of magic coming from the direction of the palace caught her attention. 'Brother.' She began extending her senses to find the closest familiar signature.

Side by side, the Captain of the Solar guard and vice-captain of the Lunar guard fought together. Whichever direction an enemy would come from, one of the pair would be there to cover the other's flank. After what seemed like hours the numbers of the Changelings were finally dwindling. The only reason the enemy force still had overwhelming numbers was the recent release of the Umbra.

Though with the dwindling number of the former the organized strike was slowly becoming random chaos being contained by the skilled guards-ponies of the crystal empire being directed by their commanders.

The heavy infantry assembled at the flank of the growing unit as more and more Equestrian guards were being filtered in. While incomplete, the prototype version of the long range hirashin teleport system Naruto was working on was being put to the test as every few minutes a few dozen guards arrived to the area to which were connected to the mental telekinetic network being directed by Celestia.

Another wave of Unicorns had arrived from the teleportation and now were being arranged throughout the formation for both long range attack and cover fire. A quick volley of magic missiles surged through the air blowing apart several pockets of the thick blanket of swarms. No matter what they were going to keep these creatures contained.

Raising up their weapons, the warriors clanged their shields together, spreading their arms in a wide stance as they held themselves against the onslaught of the wispy dark creatures. All they could see was a steady stream of the enemy surging at them.

Even with reinforcements the group was slowly facing their physical limits. When it seemed like the line was about to be broken a huge light cornflower blue aura surged along the ground before gem shards and segments of stone and crystal launched into the air and began attacking the enemy.

Surging past and dancing between multiple attackers slicing and stabbing past with grace Shine Spark recognized the Unicorn as one of her niece's friends and the Lunar captain's wife. "Support the bearer of Generosity!" With renewed vigor they continued to hold the line.

Cadence closed her eyes for a moment. She had never been a fighter. The cutie mark that symbolized her power as an Alicorn was focused on love magic: creating harmony between the ponies she watched over. But even with an army and powerful allies she had seen her Aunt Celestia and Luna jump into action to protect everything and everyone they love. And if not them then Twilight and the were her citizens and her home and she refused to be passive. It was time for her to step up and take central role in saving it.

Princess Cadence. Clad in a double layer of cream and beige dress with golden arm gauntlets, body armor and neck with crystal body, arm, and neck pieces. Armed in one hand was a sword with golden hilt and red ruby heart piece.

With a single wave she unleashed a wave of magic that crashed into Sombra sending him sliding across the ground just in time to stop a downward strike that was coming from her husband.

Rushing to her husband she placed her hand to his chest as magic began radiating from her as she healed his injuries and exhaustion.

"Princess Mi Amore Cadenza," Sombra sneered as he lowered his sizzling arm. "You save me the trouble of hunting you down. "

Cadence's reply came in the form of a blast of magic power to Sombra's face, a hit which he endured with only a slight flinch.

"You have terrorized this world long enough, Sombra," Cadence yelled, narrowing her eyes at the unicorn before her. "So many ponies have sacrificed their lives to defend their home and preserve the empire's future. I swear it by the end of this day you will never threaten this empire again."

Flaring her wings, Cadence launched herself at Sombra, lashing out with a crescent beam of magic from her horn sending him cascading back down the stairs. Despite her husband's pleas she chased after him, sending blast after blast.

The dark unicorn summoned up his own magic, righting himself and retaliating with a blast of his own; an attack which Cadence narrowly managed to avoid.

"That pitiful level of magic won't be enough to overcome me." Sombra's horn exploded into a surge of sorcery, his entire body pulsating with power as the raw magic as he took to the air. Flying circles around Cadance he began firing an array of corrosive magical blasts that warped and burned the infrastructures of the buildings they came across.

Cadence let out a series of her own magical blasts enchanting surfaces that absorbed the blasts and teleported between the oval shapes arrays before firing back at Sombra who erected a barrier to block the attack.

He then replied with a telekinetic spell that launched debris at Cadance while mixing in a magical blast as well.

Magic sparkling to life on her finger tips Cadance danced around the debris as she attacked her magic to several pieces of the flung debris before being caught on the side by Sombra's blast.

Knocked back several feet the alicorn of love regained flight and halted her momentum after several flips. Cadence readied herself for the next spell. Casting the first spell that came to mind, Cadence twisted over in mid-air and fires an arcane blast.

In retaliation Sombra fired a blast as well to which their beams stalemated in the middle upon colliding. "You only delay the inevitable." Sombra hissed as his side of the beam inched forward. "You are only prolonging the inevitable!"

"I will not let you do as you please." Cadence screamed, pushing back with all her might. "The fate and life of every single citizen is depending on me. You ended the destiny of so many ponies and with what power I have I will not let you claim any more."

"You know nothing of power!" Channeling the full might of his power Sombra's blast overpowered Cadance's blasting her through one of the castle's towers. In its wake a trench that was smoldering from the heat of the attack stretched far and wide. Driving his blade through top right portion of the armor its tip shattered the armor. He then dug the blade near the root of her wing resulting in agonized screams coming from the Alicorn of love. "What I had to give up? Countless years of work, toil, and sacrifice and a mere hand full of ponies obtain ultimate power over something as pitiful as frienship? It sickens me! Countless years of being seen as an abomination only for the one thing I care about to be taken from me. But fear not I will be sending them along with both your friends and family to join you soon. And now to claim your power. With it I will finally crush the alicorns of Sun and Moon." A crest began to form on Sombra's blade as he raised it up to deliver the fatal blow.

Cadence's thoughts turned to her husband Shining Armor and her sister Twilight.

'No...I can not...'

Of Celestia and Luna. Of the sparkles. Of all the friends she had made over the years. Of the citizens.

"...give up and die here..."

Cadance never felt herself like a hero. She always felt that she could never live up to over whelming history of Celestia. Even Twilight and the bearers discovering magic through friendship to make they used its power to save the world multiple times and yet she who saved a simple village was granted the status of alicornhood.

If she didn't do something now everypony she knew and loved was going to die. 'I love them all so much...' tears began to fall from her eyes. Something warm and strong began to surge in her heart. 'I won't let them down!'

As if spray by acid Sombra howled and tossed himself back as a vortex of reds, whites, and pinks erupted from Cadance. Swirling around her in a column of magic the atmosphere began began to warm. Flickering to life and appearing before Cadance was the crystal heart.

"I shall not allow this to stand!" Turning into his misty ethereal form Sombra charged only for him to be shocked and thrown back by the power radiating from Cadance and the heart.

As long as she drew breath, the love for her sister, her husband, her family, her people; all of this would never die. Her ability and capacity to love was boundless because like the ever changing and endless nature of Friendship itself, Love too was a concept that could not be defined by mere words or logic. Cadance's hair transitioned into the purest of whites as her horn and wings lengthened and glowed and her aura took on a prismatic coloring.

The Princess of Love had ascended.

Well as you can see I am really, really rusty. I might come back and add details, but still trying to figure a few things out. Anyway the finale of this arc is coming in the next 1 to 2 chapters so stay tuned. The next chapter will be out in a week's time, that I promise.