Canterlot Castle

Hidden Garden

"Huh?" asked a confused Twilight. She looked and was surprised beyond belief when she saw a unicorn guard wearing a purple colored suit of armor that had put up a purple shield, which was blocking James' Gyarados' Hyper Beam attack. The move ended and soon, everyone had a clearer view of who had block that attack. It was a white unicorn who had a blue mane with a lighter shade of blue streaks in his mane.

"Shinning?!" asked a surprised Twilight. The stallion looked back at Twilight and winked before facing Team Rocket.

"You know you guys are starting to get on my nerves. So how about you let go of Victreebel and come with us peacefully or else." said Shinning, who sounded very calm, yet somehow everyone could sense the anger he had.

"We're not afraid of you! Frillish, come out and use water gun!" yelled Jessie as the jellyfish like Pokémon came out and blasted a stream of water at Shinning, who countered with a strong blast of magic. The attacks somehow were at equal power until Applejack suddenly came up and used her hat to blind Frillish, allowing Shinning to overpower the water gun and make a direct hit.

"Alright, ya better let mah friend go or else!" yelled Applejack. Meowth just laughed at this though as he pulled out some sort of controller.

"Yeah right, these Pokémon are going to be our present to the boss and our new army,  Activate, The Robocord!" yelled Meowth as he pressed a button and suddenly, the balloon started to transform. The balloon disappeared and the basket it was carrying began to morph into a familiar looking robot, its body consist of many different animal parts, on the left side was a robotic lion paw and a dragon leg, on the right side was a robotic eagle talon and a goats leg, a metal bat wing and a bird wing on the back, its head had a deer antler and a goat horn, on the body there was a bold red 'R'. Where the eyes would be was a control room behind a glass wall and Team Rocket could be seen in it with the Pokémon, being put in some sort of containment chamber, the machine let out a mechanical roar.

"Eh, what do you think of our machine? We made it have the same power either one of your princesses have, but powered by the chaos magic in our gems." said Jessie, who sounded very proud and took out  a necklace that had a small red gem, James and Meowth did the same only theirs being a different color, blue and gold.

"You're going down!" yelled Rainbow Dash as she charged at the Robocord, but James' Gyarados got in her way. James then pulled out another Poke Ball as the glass window opened up.

"Time for you to get out of the way! Come on out Carnivine!" yelled James, only for Carnivine to suddenly bite his head the moment it came out of it's Poke Ball.

"How many times must you do this!?" yelled a annoyed James, causing everyone else to sweat drop and for Twilight to ask her mentor something.

"Has that thing done that to him before?" asked Twilight. Celestia just sighed.

"Several times. I lost count sometime after it reached 80." said Celestia before she suddenly fired an beam of magic at the machine, but was stopped by Gyarados. James had finally gotten Carnivine off him at this point.

"Carnivine, use bullet seed, Yamask, use Shadow Ball, Cacnea., use pin missile, Amoonguss, use energy ball, and Gyarados, use Hydro Pump!" yelled James.

"My turn now! Seviper, use Flamethrower, Dusktox, use psybeam! Woobat, use Air Slash, and Frillish, use shadow ball!" yelled Jessie. All 9 Team Rocket Pokemon fired their attacks as Meowth had the Robocord fire another beam, Twilight immediately tried to counter with her own beam combined with both Celestia's and Shinning's. Dash went back and scooped up Appejack, with the two going for a combo attack.

"YEEHAW! Take this!" yelled Applejack as her and Dash sped towards Team Rocket, but Jessie just smiled as she called Wobbuffet over.

"I still have one Pokemon in the field. Go, Wobbuffet! Use Counter!" said Jessie as the blue Pokemon came out and became enveloped in an orange aura, which blocked AJ and Dash's combo move and dealt twice as much damage they would have dealt at them, causing them to fly back and crash into the others, allowing Team Rocket's combo move to hit them and send all of them flying into the castle walls.

"We did it!" Jessie said with happy giggle. But her celebration was cut short when a bolt of thunder hit Gyarados, causing it to fall down to the ground out cold. Team Rocket was shocked by this and turned to the source of the move, which revealed a group of armored pegasi carrying a large storm cloud, now quickly flying away when they notice Jessie glaring at them.

"Where do you think you're going!? Seviper, use Poison Fang!" commanded Jessie, but Seviper suddenly got blasted by a magic beam. The guards looked to their side and saw Rarity and Pinkie helping Luna back up and smoke was seen coming from Luna's horn.

"Go, see if our friends are alright darlings. We'll hold them off." said Rarity as she picked up a large looking boulder with her magic and launched a at the machine while Pinkie fired at it with her party cannon. Luna just nodded at the guards and charged into battle, despite being weakened from the poison. The guards nodded and went to Applejacks and Rainbow Dashes unconscious  forms.

"Was that the best you 3 could do!?" asked Jessie before she laughed. The others tried to get themselves ready, but pain shot through their bodies, causing her to flinch in pain.

"You honestly think you can beat us in your condition? Don't make us laugh cause it's time to finish this!" yelled Meowth as he flipped some sort of switch. Suddenly, the machine jumped up into the sky and locked in on the others.

"Chaos Storm, fire!" yelled Meowth as the robot fired several small balls of electrity, which was aimed at the others. Shinning tried to put up a shield, but was unable to as pain suddenly shot through it's head.

"Oh no!" said Shinning right before everyone was hit with balls, causing them to go flying and hit the ground out cold, except for Celestia, who was barely holding onto her consciousness. Team Rocket laughed at this.

"To think this machine would be the one we used to finally destroy you and your sister." said Jessie. Celestia, not wanting it to end like this, struggled to get back up.

"Fighting to the end huh? Not going to help, but I commend you for that Princess. You'll be a very good trophy for the boss!" said Meowth as he fired a black rainbow beam at Celestia, who suddenly found second whim and dodge it, Celestia looked behind her and gasped as she saw the patch of grass she was standing on turned to stone, Celestia then fired an beam of magic at the robot, knocking it off balance. Celestia jumped with as much strength she could muster up and knocked it down. The crash of the robot falling down was enough for the glass window to break.

"AH! I though you said the glass was unbreakable!" said Jessie. Celestia then fired a magic beam at the chamber holding the Pokémon and destroyed it, freeing all the Pokémon that were captured. But suddenly, Meowth hit Celestia from behind with a Fury Swipes, causing her to fall down to using her front legs.

"Well Princess, we win." said Meowth. Celestia glared at Team Rocket, but suddenly saw something appear behind Meowth. Team Rocket soon noticed it too and turned to see what was there. Standing there was none other then Twilight herself, who looked very angry and was charging up a powerful spell.

"Quick, do it now! Don't worry about me, just make sure the others are safe!" Celestia yelled, Twilight thought she was crazy, but the look in her eyes made her know she was serious. Just as she fired the spell, Celestia put up a last minute shield, making the blast only affect team rocket.

"Looks like Team Rocket's blasting off again!" yelled Team Rocket as the disappeared into the sky with a twinkle being sent flying. Twilight immediately rushed towards the remains of the machine, despite not being able to walk, and began trying to find Celestia, she was severely injured and was out cold.

"Quickly take her to the hospital!" Twilight yelled and at a few nearby guards.  

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Canterlot Statue Gardens

In the statue gardens a very familiar looking statue glowed. 'hmp, looks like team rocket failed, oh well such a shame that mech of theirs was really quite the looker.' Next Chapter: Ch.9- The Blast off Aftermath Estimated time remaining: 1 Hour, 36 Minutes