Cole stared at his arms that were radiating pure energy. He felt like he could run around the world at the speed of light, looking up at that larger dragon in the distance it would have been impossible for Cole if he didn’t have the Friendship Rockets TM attached to his back. Cole looked at the ponies who were in awe, he walked towards them and asked, “How is this possible?”

Twilight looked at what was going on and after a few minutes of analyzing the situation she said, “I think that because we care for you so much now that our hopes that you were still alive caused the spark to ignite the elements of harmony inside all of us. Long story short, the elements of harmony work in mysterious ways and will take on many forms. I think that we are currently giving you power, but only if we can make direct contact, if you’re sealed off, I think the magic will be cut off. Also, this gift isn’t infinite; I can feel my energy draining by the second. So we better hurry to The Nightmare before it’s too late.”

Cole thought to himself, he really wanted to reserve as much energy as possible for when it was necessary, so he had to figure out a way of getting to Greece without using his new powers. Cole thought hard and critical as giant axes and spears were being thrown and smashing against an invisible force field behind him. Cole’s face broke into a very wide smile as he got the best idea on the universe (that’s right, fuck you logic, this idea can’t be contained in the universe). Cole then walked up to an abandoned gas station, he went to the fridges in the back and opened the door to pull out a RedBull, a Monster, and a Rockstar. As he was leaving he left a couple of dollars on the table (stealing is wrong asshole, even if it’s the end of the human race you should obey the law) he walked up to Pinkie Pie with a most sinister grin on his face and said, “Open wiiide.”

Pinkie did as she was told and Cole popped off the three bottles and began pouring them down her throat. Rarity trotted up next to Cole and said in a frustrated tone, “Now is not the time to party, we are trying to save your world here.”

Cole simply looked at her and said with an evil smile on his face, “Don’t get your mane in a tangle, just giving her fuel.”

Applejack suddenly had a nervous look in her eyes as she said while spears whizzed passed her, “Oh boy, you ain’t feedin’ her coffee are ya?”

Cole just said as his eyes grew menacingly wide, “Even better. Everybody hold on now!” As Cole said that Pinkie had chocked down the last of her drink and her eyes were dilating, her head began to shake as the rest of her body began to vibrate.

To Pinkie, she felt like she was filled with magic not even the most powerful unicorn could make, Cole began to grab the others and hold on to her, suddenly there were no longer any white in her eyes, her mane had begun to mimic a pink fire and her body began to glow. She heard Cole shouting, his voice becoming slower and deeper until he didn’t even finish his sentence. When the shaking stopped, Pinkie felt as though she was able to think clearly, she looked around to tell everyone else what happened when she realized her friends were frozen, she began to panic thinking that she had done this when she noticed a spear was stuck in midair too, Pinkie then realized with her new found collectiveness that all of time had stopped. It was either that or she was moving so fast, not even light was as fast as her. Pinkie remembered Cole had said something about a place called Greece, so she set out to find a sort of map of this world t figure out where Greece was. After what felt like an hour of searching, but was really less than a nanosecond, she had found a map and a compass to help her in finding Greece. Being only capable of carrying one at a time, Pinkie dragged each pony across the continent, over the ocean, and onto the next continent until she had managed to get them all to the destination. To her, she felt like it had taken years, she was able to travel incredibly fast, and she wasn’t aging either because the entire universe had stopped. But in reality, it only took her a second to get each pony and Cole to Greece.

Cole and the others suddenly warped to Greece, the ponies were panicking at what had just happened, but Cole knew, when he turned to thank pinkie, she was just standing there, a glow emanating off of her mane and fur. She was moving so fast that she was producing light, Cole put his hand over her mouth to make her hold her breath and he said to her, “Hold your breath when you want to speed things up a little.” She just nodded, when he removed his hand, she resumed her unusual glowing. Cole was about to turn to Dash and tell them to get somewhere safe when he remembered that they couldn’t be too far away. A hydra dropped in front of Cole and the ponies, judging by the 18 heads it had, Cole could tell this thing had already been attacked before. The hydra lunged for Cole and the ponies, the ponies cowered in fear except for Pinkie, she was so filled with energy she was causing the air around her to vibrate as a buzzing noise emanated from her. Cole picked her up and threw her towards the hydra yelling, “Party Time!” He suddenly regretted not being able to think up anything better, but before he could say something more epic, Pinkie exploded. No guts were spilled, it looked like an EMP with a pink tint to it, and as soon as she exploded the hydra was gone. Twilight, Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy, and Dash were mortified by what just happened.

“What did you do to Pinkie?” Rarity shouted.

“I didn’t do anything,” Cole pointed to the pink maned pony behind them, “she’s right there. For some reason she was soaked all over, she wasn’t vibrating or anything, her gamma caffeine rush was calming down. She was still talking at a million miles an hour though, but she said everything wasn’t frozen like before.

“Good heavens, dear, what happened?” Rarity squealed as she backed away.

“I was dragging the monster out into the ocean when my craziness wore off a bit and I fell into the water. Luckily I’m a good swimmer and I swam back to shore in a blink of an eye.” Pinkie began flailing her limbs all over the place as though she was a Garry’s Mod character and water went everywhere.

Cole didn’t have time to get the water off, “That’s fan-fucking tastic, I’ll blog about it later, but right now, we have bigger problems.” He said pointing to Mount Olympus; it looked as though dark purple clouds were brewing around it. Cole looked around for a way of getting them there, he suddenly saw a landed helicopter out in a field and had another brilliant idea. Just this one might result in some unwanted casualties. He walked up to the helicopter and pulled a manual out of the helicopter and turned to Twilight and said, “You studied human vehicles yet?”

Twilight shook her head no and began, “I don’t know anything about these machines, why?”

Cole passed the manual to her and she caught it with her magic, the manual glowing a slight pinkish purple as her horn did too. He looked at her and said, “Well then you better hurry, cause we need a pilot.”

A few minutes later Twilight had read through the manual, everypony except Dash had boarded the helicopter, Dash shouted to Cole, “I’m coming with you, Cole!”

Cole shook his head, “It’s too dangerous for you, and I don’t want to risk that.” Cole worried for Dash at the moment, he wanted to keep her as safe as possible.

Dash grabbed Cole by the collar and brought him close to her face, her snout pressing against his nose as she said, “Shut up and take me with you!” She then pursued to kiss him on the lips, this time in a hurry though, she wanted to get to the exciting battle.

Cole then put his hand next to Dash’s cheek as he said, “No, and you can’t change my mind. God knows what kind of fuckery is going on up there.”

After a little argument, a deal was made that Dash could follow Cole up the mountain but could not go in there with him. She would have to stay with the rest of the group. With that out of the way, Cole got ready to jump, when he was curled up ready to spring, his eyes lit up into a bright white as his body did too. He then jumped into the distance as Dash flew after him. Twilight then took off with the helicopter and everypony inside. Cole focused all of his energy on his feet and noticed that his feet were glowing so brightly that it hurt to look at them, but it managed to propel Cole into the air like a human rocket. Dash was close behind as they entered the cloud of purpleliness (what purpleliness isn’t a word? Well it should be) When Cole made it to the top he turned to Dash and said, “Remember the deal, this is where I go alone.”

Dash had a hard time accepting that she had to watch Cole walk to his death as she said, “You come back, Cole! Swear you wont die!”

“I swear Dash.” Cole then turned to walk into what looked like a thick dark indigo cloud of smoke. The helicopter rose up behind Dash where Twilight was arguing with Applejack on how to control it. Luckily they managed to land it with less than one casualty.

Fluttershy walked up to Dash and said in a small, but stern voice, “Do you think he’ll be alright?”

“This is Cole were talking about, he’ll be fine.” Dash said as thunder ripped through the cloud, scaring the ponies. Dash then gulped, "I hope."

Cole could hear an evil and faint laughter as he walked through the clouds and thunder. Cole felt like he was walking through a windstorm on crack cocaine, he was walking at a 45 degree angle to prevent being blown back when suddenly he walked into the eye of the storm. When he entered he didn’t see anybody, or anypony for that matter, when suddenly a voice spoke up over the storm, it was difficult to tell whether it was a man’s or a woman’s, the voice spoke, “Well, either you’re stupid to walk up a mountain and somehow wind up here by accident or you are brave enough to come face to face with your own death.”

Cole just snorted as he shouted back, “I was stupid to believe you could scare me.” Cole regretted saying another cliché line, but didn’t apologise, now really wasn’t the time.

The voice paused for a moment before it began again saying, “Obviously you haven’t seen my human form yet,” Then suddenly a plume of purple smoke swooped from behind Cole and began to form feet, it continued until it had fully formed the body. It was naked, but didn’t show any signs of gender, then the facial features began to form. It’s face was covered in what looked like a black tattoo as did the rest of the body, it had no nose or ears and only one eye on the left side of the head, the eye was three times as large as a normal human’s eye and instead of white there was black, it’s iris was a dark yellow with a tiny slit as the pupil. It’s mouth appeared normal until it opened, the top jaw remained fine while the bottom jaw split in half down the middle and a new set of teeth appeared going down the middle. It looked at Cole with its lifeless eye as it said, “Behold your god, your god of fear and suffering, your god of creation and destruction.”

Cole looked at it as he approached it, it was significantly taller than your average human, being about 10 feet tall, he said to the monster, “I’m not going to fight you. I’m here to reason with you. What you’re about to do is destroy one of your greatest creations of all time, mankind.”

“What I’m about to do is fix a problem I should have fixed thousands of years ago.” Nightmare hissed at Cole as they began to circle each other.

“That’s where you’re wrong, the human race is more complicated than you think, while we may have invented war and weapons, look at all of the other great things we have accomplished. We humans have invented cures to diseases that were once thought to be indestructible. Humans invented a means of travelling to other celestial bodies, we are so incredible, and there are many more good people on this planet than there are bad ones. We humans are capable of showing love and affection, we protect each other even if we don’t know one another, and the best part, were always changing. Take me, what triggered this whole thing to start was a man with no love, no joy, no life, no meaning. All it took was one simple gesture of kindness and now the person who is going to end this is a man who has found true love in his life. I’m going to stop you Nightmare.”

“You alone would never defeat me; it would take a million of you to defeat me.” It began to approach Cole, its fingertips begriming razor sharp as they slightly cut Cole’s chin.

“I’m not going to fight you; I’m giving you my body. Take this soul and leave this universe.”

Nightmare looked at Cole; it grabbed him by the neck and then threw him, before he could fall off a cliff Nightmare raised a wall of stone for Cole to crash against with a bone shattering crack. Cole fell to his knees, it hurt a lot more now that he was simply a human. The nightmare approached him as it hissed from its teeth, “Big mistake.”

Cole then looked up at it as it picked him up, it forcefully opened his mouth as a cloud of purple smoke began to enter his mouth. He then turned his hand into a canon and blasted a ball of energy into Nightmare’s chest to make it loose its grip on him. Nightmare regained it’ balance as it’s arms began to sprout what looked like whips with blades on the end, all from it’s wrists. Nightmare began swinging them at Cole, he managed to continuously dodge them and throw in a few counter attacks here and there. After what felt like an hour Cole had gotten Nightmare right where he wanted. He used his powers to dodge one of Nightmare’s swings and get behind it, Cole’s hand turned into what looked like a Cannon with a blade at the end. He jammed his blade into its back as it let out a shriek of pain. His Cannon began to grow brighter when he shouted out, “I will now imprison you a million years on Hayley’s comet. Your powers, useless in the night will only work when I feel its right.” With that Cole released all of his energy possible and let out a deafening boom as his entire view was filled with white. Nightmare gave out a loud cry as it was vaporized and sent to the comet, when it was all over, the clouds were gone, and he could see the monsters disappearing along with Nightmare. He could hear faint cheering down at the bottom. As he approached the mares, he could feel his power draining; he looked at Twilight, who was beginning to tip a bit here and there as the others were too. The only one who wasn’t affected by this was Pinkie Pie who was still bouncing. Cole looked at her and said, “You’re still bouncing?”

“Whatever that stuff was, it was like liquid energy. This stuff is awesome!” Pinkie said as she started zooming around the place. Cole relaxed his powers for now; he gathered the ponies onto the helicopter and began to take off.

As he was taking off Dash plopped herself in the front seat next to Cole, she said to him with a proud look on her face, “Wow, you actually defeated the Nightmare single hoofedly, no matter how much I think I know about you, you still manage to surprise me.”

“I couldn’t have done it without these powers.” Cole said as he let a bolt of light flicker across his hand. He then said as he was putting on his helmet, “Let’s go home.”

*****

When they arrived at the Rockies, Cole was surprised to see that some soldiers were waiting for him at the helipad. One of the best agents (not as good as him though, wait did I forget to mention this guy? Damn I did… that’s bad writing) was there to greet him. When Cole exited from the helicopter, the titanic soldier walked up to Cole and said in a booming voice, “I knew this would be the first place you’d go after you kicked that thing’s ass.”

“Wait,” Cole began with a puzzled look, “how do you know about that?”

“Maybe it was all over the news, I don’t know, usually interesting things are talked about on the news.” The man said sarcastically, making Cole want to punch him through his head. The man spoke again, returning to a serious face, “The Chief would like to speak with you, you have… uhhhh,” the man looked at the colourful unicorns and pegasi and ponies behind Cole, “another visitor waiting for you, it seems rather urgent.”

Cole looked back at the six of them, they were giving him looks of confusion and worry, “Let’s get our plots moving then.” Cole said as he began to walk towards the door.

When Cole reached the door, he opened it for everyone else, as Rarity passed by, she said, “Why, thank you, dear. Such a gentleman.”

As the others passed by the titanic motherfucker walked by last as he said in his deep voice, “They got into your head didn’t they?”

“Yeah and changed me for the better.” Cole said as he looked into the man’s eyes, he just realized that the sweater he was wearing was torn really badly, but he didn’t take it off, cause it looked good on him.

When they got inside, Mike was waiting there with none other than Spike standing next to him with a panicky look on his face he said loudly, “Cole! Cole, help! All of Ponyville and Canterlot is under attack, everypony is being captured as slaves… houses have burnt to the ground. The leader said that the Princesses will die by midnight if he doesn’t see you, so I snuck into this pod that you forgot and followed the instructions back to here.”

Cole heart sank into his chest, he felt exhausted from the last fight, but at least this time he’s not fighting a monster. It’s just someone or something that knows him and wants him dead (nothing out of the ordinary here). Cole looked at the baby dragon and said, “How long ago did this happen? What time is it there?”

“It’s almost eleven thirty there, I think. You have to hurry, I don’t want to be a slave, and I don’t want to move to a new world and leave everypony behind.”

The sight of the baby dragon crying brought Cole into a deep feeling, something he knew all about, but at the same time was unfamiliar to its power. Cole picked up the baby dragon and hugged him, he then said into his ear (if he has any), “Neither of those are gonna happen, kid.” He then put him down next to Twilight and said to Mike, “Fire that fucker up, were goin’ home.”

Mike did as he said, before they knew it, the gateway was fired up and opened, one by one the ponies trotted in. Cole was the last, as he was entering, Mike said, “Don’t die!” Cole responded the best way possible, he flipped him the bird before his hand disappeared into the portal.