My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Friends from Unexpected Places

Chapter 42

Blinding Twilight

Begin Song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj107qyeEnY

Brooding Omen - Tales of Vesperia OST.

Lightning and tornados crashed down all around them, stretching from Ponyville all the way to Canterlot. The rich snobs of Canterlot were lucky; they only have to deal with the bad weather. Ponyville and everyone there had a much larger and more terrifying threat to worry about.

Dark Oscurita roared as it’s new body began to painfully take shape. Bones snapped and limbs grew so out of place, it was borderline horror. Even the most hardcore among the group felt sick to their stomach.

The finished product was so… eh…. For a lack of a better word, scary. you could hardly tell this was Oscurita anymore. And trying do describe such a horrid sight would be difficult, so I recommend clicking the picture link.

It would save both of us a lot of trouble cause I honestly have no clue how do describe it. And to my Fanfiction.com readers, because I know they never show the domain name, it‘s from Photobucket.

Pores opened up all over his body and tendrils shot out of them, adding more nastiness to the grotesque sight.

“my…. God…” a disgusted Req said.

“So… horrible…” Jax said in the same tone.

Orochi appeared just in front of the mutated Oscurita, happy and eager as can be.

“See this? See this gorgeous form?” Tenebrae

“Gorgeous!?” a disturbed Fox yelled.

Orochi ignored her and kept on talking. “this- this is what happens when you let the power of darkness deep into your heart. That bastard eTu`nes could’ve had this if he just let go of that dumb mare.” on the ground, said dragon snarled at Orochi. “This can still be yours, Jax, if you open up to it.”

Confused, Req looked back to the mage. “Jax, what the hell is he talking about?”

Jax shrugged. “I honestly have no clue. He keeps trying to recruit me into his ranks but I keep saying no. he‘s one of those bastards that never listens. Why me, I‘ll never know.”

Orochi sighed and sat back like he was on a lawn chair. “it’s such a shame that you can’t open up to the darkness.” Aqua said. “A few of your friends did and look how well it worked out for them.”

Riku and Lina got ready to turn the bastard into dust. “If being like that thing…” Jax pointed to the mutated Oscurita. “…is what I have to look forward too, then I’m gonna say ‘HELL NO!’. I want to keep my sexy looks, thank you.”

Orochi rolled his eyes and chuckled. “Very well then…” Glacies said. He spread his arms and rose up to the monsters eye-level.

“Oscurita! The time has come! The time has come to subjugate this world and defeat these pathetic worms! Just make sure they suffer.”

Oscurita confirmed his orders. “subjugate… spread darkness… destroy…” he repeated like a emotionless computer. His eyes glowed yellow as his back bulged. “DESTROY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

His back opened up in a painful and disturbing sound and sight. Darkness shot out of his back and into the air. It absorbed into the clouds already in the sky and began to spread.

From the emptiness of space, one could see a large black cloud forming over a rather large part of the central continent. The cloud was so big, it even stretched as far as space.

The darkness began to spread across the entire planet, covering it’s skies so no light could break though.

In just a few short moments, the darkness covered the entire planet from pole to pole. Nothing could get it and nothing could get out.

From a castle located in the artic north, a mysterious figure watched the clouds spread from the shadows of his own palace. He wasn’t worried a bit. He still had his own plans to take care of.

A glyph of two crossed swords piercing the infinity symbol appeared in the sky above them.

End Song.

Begin Song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nff3Bj09glk

It’s Our Fight - Transformers: Dark of the Moon Soundtrack

0:00.

“ILLUMINATION!”

A ball of light as bright as the sun appeared in the sky above Ponyville. Another one appeared above Canterlot, another above Manehatten, and dozens more over every city on the planet. It was the biggest Illumination Jax did, or that anyone did. Seeing the monster, however, made her wish that she didn’t know that particular spell.

Orochi laughed evilly as a plan long in the making came to fruition.

“You have no chance now! Give up while you still have a chance!” Lucis laughed. “and maybe I’ll forgive you for playing with our toys.”

Wait! What did he say? “Toys?” Req angrily repeated. “Toys!? You were treating these innocent ponies like toys!?”

“why not? That’s what they’re made for.” Ventus said.

They all could not believe what they were hearing. This… monster was treating these ponies like… like playthings.

“We are not toys!” Twilight yelled from below, yelling loud enough for him to hear.

Aqua just scoffed. “we beg to differ, you piece of trash.”

That pissed Halo off. He fired a magic beam at Orochi, who blocked it with his hand. “That’s my Marefriend you’re talking about!”

“Shut up.” Tenebrae snapped his fingers, wrapping Halo in a cocoon of darkness.

Jax gripped her rings tightly, drawing blood. “you… these ponies are not playthings for you to mess with! They are living beings, just like me and the rest of my friends! And we won’t stand for this!”

“Yeah!” the humans all agreed. They got ready to do battle with this soulless… thing.

Terra scoffed. “they’re all yours.” he told Oscurita before vanishing.

Oscurita roared and moved to do battle with them with a loud and terrifying roar.

Satoshi spun the wheel and moved the ship. Those with wings got ready to fly.

The Orion moved to face the monster, who is currently summoned more tendrils to decimate them with.

1:17.

“Take this!”

The cannons, both main and secondary, fired at the monster. The secondary cannons projectiles hit the beast all over it’s body, causing a lot of damage that was quickly getting healed.

The barrage didn’t stop. They just kept on firing.

The beast counter-barraged with it’s tendrils, striking the ship, piercing though the wood and causing a ton of damage.

The Orion just kept shooting away, not letting up on it’s barrage.

Req flew off of the ship, spun her sword around, and fired a contained ‘Judgment Ray’ out of her blade. It cut though his bottom-left arm but it quickly got replaced.

More tendrils struck into the ship, causing more damage. Riku pulled out his baton, summoned up the Lightcycle, and revved across one of the tendrils, with Lloyd and Ash running right behind him.

Emil jumped off the ship and cut though a tendril that had punctured the bottom half of the ship.

In just a few seconds, only Sora and Satoshi were left on the ship.

The main cannons fired, hitting it in the face. It didn’t faze the monster. Any wounds it caused were instantly healed.

“now that’s just cheating.” Satoshi commented.

2:17.

“FREEZE ARROW!”

Zel, Lina, and Amelia fired arrows of ice into the monsters chest, which Gourry slammed his Sword of Light in. it broke though and sliced though it’s heart. Unfortunately, this monster doesn’t have a heart.

Oscurita simply roared, sending the 4 of them falling to the ground.

One of the tendrils retracted from the Orion and flipped around them all. Lloyd, with newly refurbished katanas courtesy of a little reversal magic from Req, cut though it. The tendril stiffened and 2 more took it’s place.

“Great. He’s like a Hydra.” Lloyd commented. The two new tendrils slammed into him, pushing him to the ground.

Aura slammed his lance into the back of the monster. Fire shot out of it and careened all throughout the beast. Spyro added his own flavor into the mix, for what good that will do.

Oscurita didn’t even faze. He just kept right on going. He grabbed the 2 of them and chucked them right into the ship.

3:15.

The battle could be seen all the way in Canterlot. They can see the giant monster and all the explosions around it.

It wasn’t much better from the Ponyville perspective. Having a up-close seat to the fight isn’t exactly glamorous. There was always some miss-placed shot or a tendril going out of control. There was nothing any of them could do to stop this. And even if they could, they were ponies going up against a giant hell-beast. They wouldn’t even be able to lay a scratch on it. But… they didn’t want the humans doing all the work. This was their world and they want to do something about this. But what?

eTu`nes watched with a stern but defeated look as the battle raged on. This was all his fault. If he hadn’t run away 8 years ago, then that monster would never have come, and his dark self wouldn’t be attempting to destroy the world as they knew it. This was all his fault, and he needed to set this right. Without anyone noticing, he snuck away and took off away from Ponyville.

4:13.

The Orion continued to fire it’s cannons relentlessly at the beast but was taking too much damage itself. A few more blows and it won’t last long.

More tendrils came and punched though the decks. One hit the engine room, causing the engine to short-circuit.

The ship violently shook as another barrage of tendrils hit it. Satoshi felt something wrong with the ship and accessed the diagnostics. “uh-oh.”

“uh-oh? I don’t like uh-oh.” Sora said.

“Seems that last attack took out our engines.”

“Meaning?” she worriedly asked.

“we’re going down.”

4:47.

A small electrical explosion came out of the back of the ship, which began to list.

“Satoshi!” Bahamut yelled.

“Sora!” Jax yelled louder.

The Orion groaned and shrieked as it fell from the skies. It also didn’t help that the tendrils were forcing it down into a crash landing.

“Get off us!” Satoshi yelled. He pulled out his gray brick thing, it changed into a rocket launcher, he took aim, and fired, taking out the tendrils but didn’t stop the ship from falling.

The mighty vessel crashed into the ground and skipped once. It hit again, this time screeching to a violent and deadly halt. It flipped and tumbled side over side before slammed into a large hill, stopping it before it went further.

5:54.

“SORA!” Jax jumped off of the tendril she was on and bolted for the crashed ship. Everyone ignored the fight and retreated back to the vessel.

Satoshi was able to pull himself out, Sora with him. “that hurt.” she lightly chuckled before groaning in pain.

The ground shook as the monster sluggishly made it’s way towards them. This was a perfect opportunity to take them out; distracted thanks to their friends.

More tendrils came from Oscurita, striking into the ground and causing a lot of damage.

6:33. End Song.

eTu`nes flew as fast as he could to Canterlot. There was only one way to end this and it lies back in the capitol. The only time he’d ever been there was as Oscurita so it’s gonna be difficult to try and find them.

Oscurita roared as more tendrils slammed into the ground like whips, intent on taking the humans out.

Begin Song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bna9R11cBHQ

Princess of the Sun~The Final Lesson - by Youtuber Adar Nasivkh

0:00.

The whips began striking against a invisible barrier that came out of nowhere. The monster stopped his attack and snarled at them all. What could’ve…

Req, now in full goddess mode, rose out of the dust. She swung her blade, clearing it away. Despite being injured, the humans were still ready to go and take this bastardo out.

The monster roared as it sent more tendrils at them. Like before, they bounced off a invisible barrier.

“if your master can still hear us, then be sure to tell him this--” she told the savage beast. She pointed her blade to Oscurita. “these ponies are not his to use as he pleases.” she took up her battle pose, as did the others. “they deserve to live their lives without someone as evil as him interfering!”

0:40.

Oscurita just roared and fired his beam attack at them. Jax’s chakram flew up in front of Req and cast a barrier over them all. The beam was absorbed into the shield. The shield shot it back to Oscurita, blasting it though the chest. But, as always, it didn’t even faze it.

“DRAGON SLAVE!” Lina fired her signature spell at Oscurita, hoping that that powerful of a spell can kill it. Oscurita just swallowed it and chuckled as it harmlessly exploded in his stomach. Lina’s mouth fell to the floor. “not fair.”

Emil jumped up into the air, his blade glowing purple. “Ain Soph Auer!” he shot his own blade beam at the monster. It hit, cutting off 2 of his hands. Like before, they just regenerative.

Orochi watched from high above, trying to figure out what these humans would continued to fight against impossible odds. He’s seen it countless times before but could never figure it out. They’re up against a demon that can’t be killed and yet, despite what he’s witnessed with Orion going down yet again and every one of them getting injured, they still fight. Why? Why do they fight despite knowing they will die?

Elsewhere, not that far from the battlefield, Tsylatac walked though the fields and approached someone on the ground who was fading away.

“Well, look who finally decided to show up.” he coldly said as he stared at the creature. It weakly groaned and tried to blast him with what magic he had left. “Save your energy, old man. You’ll gonna need it for your new body. I think you’ll like; I heard you liked Gryphons.”

Tsylatac and the person he was talking to disappeared in a flash of fire.

Oscurita fired another beam, trying to swat Toothless out of the sky. The Night Fury was too fast for him to hit as he flew circles around the demon.

Ash jumped in front of the monsters eyes and fired into them, blinding the creature, but only temporarily. They instantly healed. Oscurita roared as Ash jumped off. Toothless flew over and picked him up.

2:09.

The ponies looked on in wonder as they watched the fight unfold. These humans, these strangers for foreign worlds, are fighting for a world that isn’t their own. Well, not by themselves. Celestia spread her wings wide.

2:21.

Bahamut somersaulted though the air and rammed the monster right in the neck, hoping to at least decapitate him. No luck.

Oscurita roared, grabbed Bahamut and threw him away.

Req stopped in mid air and panted. “This… is getting us nowhere.”

Toothless flew up and joined her. “what do we do, Req? we’re not making any sort of headway with that thing.” Hiccup said.

“I… I don’t know.”

2:47.

Suddenly, a swirling rainbow stream shot from between them and struck the monster in the chest. Where it came from was confusing but what happened next surprised them more.

The rainbow turned into 5 lights and each struck a different part of the monster’s body. Each light belonged to Celestia, Luna, Cosmos, Cadence, and Chrysalis.

A very powerful magic blast from the ground struck Oscurita in the face. The Unicorns pooled their magic and fired again.

With one collective buck, the Earth Ponies sent barrels full of black powder at the beast. When they hit, they exploded with such a fervor.

The remaining 6 catapults and cannons moved into position and fired, hitting the monster all over the left side.

The airships from the Winter War flew though the air, bypassing the humans, and fired their own cannons at Oscurita.

The monster was beginning to be overwhelmed by the combined force. The humans didn’t put up much of a fight but with the help of these pathetic ponies…

“they’re helping?” Req asked herself as she and the rest of her friends watched the ponies spring into action.

3:42.

A tendril sent Celestia right next to them. She screeched to a halt and panted.

“What are you guys doing? Leave us to handle this!” Ash said.

“Not a chance.” she replied. “This is our world and we’re gonna fight to defend it!”

“but you could get killed.” Req said.

“And so could you, but that’s not stopping you from fighting for a world that is not your own.”

she had a point there. Req and her comrades came to the help of their friends and their world, even though it wasn’t their fight. That always seemed to be a bad habit of theirs.

A tendril almost wracked all 5 of them out of the sky, snapping them out of their talk. “how about we deal with ugly hear first?” Ash asked. He jumped onto the tendril as it pulled back to it’s master.

4:22.

In Canterlot, the wild tornados and lightning fell around them, as they did in every city and town around the world. The citizens screamed as they ran for their lives.

eTu`nes just flew though all the mess like it was nothing. A lightning bolt came from above and almost hit him. Almost. He rolled to the right and kept on flying.

He reached the palace, touched down, and ran inside the hall of the Elements of Harmony. He winced when he suddenly remembered, “Crap. I forgot, I need a key. Chrysalis couldn‘t get in because she didn‘t have a key.”

He didn’t have to worry about finding a key because it had just arrived in the form of a tendril. It slithered in, almost crushing eTu`nes, and crashed into the door at the other end. It retracted and began destroying the city.

eTu`nes got up and looked at the doorway the tendril had opened. “thank you, dark me.” he said. He flew in, grabbed the box containing the elements, and left.

The mane 6 felt a disturbance in the air. Something had happened to the Elements of Harmony, they were sure of it.

5:10.

The Pegasi dodged the tendrils and dropped barrels of water down onto Oscurita’s face. If anything, they’ll blur it’s vision pretty badly.

It worked to some degree. It lost some vision but it quickly fixed itself.

Riku cut though tendrils faster then you can say ‘Keyblade’ as he made his way towards the guy’s face.

Oscurita felt the gnat moving and struck him with his own hand, knocking him out cold for a few moments.

Spyro encased himself in a icicle and pierced the monster though the back of the head and out though the front. Hopefully, it’s brain will go bye-bye. It did not. Whatever Orochi did made this thing indestructible. He’s even more of a challenge then Catalyst, and he was a real pain.

eTu`nes dodged tendrils as he flew back as fast as he could to Ponyville. When he got close, he saw that the ponies had joined in on the fight. Great. That’s gonna make finding the wielders much more difficult. He looked at the box and came up with a idea. Or maybe not.

“HEY!” eTu`nes called out as he continued flying on over. “I THINK THIS WILL BEAT HIM FOR GOOD!”

“eTu`nes?” Derpy curiously said. He was just right beside her a few moments ago.

“How did he even get them?” Luna wondered. Only she or Celestia can open the lock.

Oscurita heard his former self and snarled. He took aim and sent the majority of his tendrils towards the dragon.

Derpy saw this and ran over to him. “eTu`nes, Look out!”

6:24.

She pushed him out of the way and took the blow herself, being rammed into the hillside.

“DERPY!” eTu`nes yelled. He didn’t want to lose her. Not again.

“MOMMY!” Dinky yelled as well.

It wasn’t what Oscurita expected but he worked with it. He pulled his tendrils back. He wrapped one around the dazed Derpy and pulled her back as well.

“No!” eTu`nes yelled. He dropped the box and ran over to her. He grabbed her hooves and tried to pull her out of the monster’s grip. But then he remembered that he was now a weakling again.

Oscurita roared and slammed eTu`nes with that same tendril, breaking his wings. He still didn’t let go of Derpy as they were dragged to the monster.

6:50

Derpy and eTu`nes yelled as they were dragged to the monster by his own tendrils.

“eTu`nes, Let go! Save yourself!” Derpy pleaded.

“No!” he replied. “I lost you 8 years ago and I’m not going to lose you again!”

As they neared the monster’s mouth, Derpy got all teary-eyed. If this was their final moments, then she should tell him. “eTu`nes… I know I’m 8 years too late but… I love you.”

eTu`nes was stunned at first but then smiled. He waited a very long time to hear that.

Thanks to all the chaos, nobody was aware that the Elements of Harmony box was violently shaking.

The tendril positioned itself above the monster’s head. He looked up and opened his mouth wide as he let them go. They both screamed as they fell towards the mouth, both unable to fly.

“DERPY!” The ponies and humans yelled.

“MOMMY!” Dinky cried.

7:15.

A rainbow-colored beam of light shot out of the box and straight into the air. The beam turned right and headed straight for the falling lovers.

The elements reached them both in time. They spun around them in such a dizzying speed, the two of them vanished.

Derpy and eTu`nes reappeared a few feet above the ground near the Orion. They were gracefully set down by a unseen force.

The Elements broke and shot to their owners in their own respective color; blue for Rainbow Dash, pink for Pinkie Pie, white for Rarity, orange for Applejack, yellow for Fluttershy, and purple for Twilight Sparkle.

Surprising to everyone, a gray beam shot straight for Derpy and hit her.

When the light cleared, they looked to see a necklace around Derpy’s neck with her bubbly Cutie Mark.

“is that… a Element of Harmony?” Celestia gasped.

“a 7th Element?” Twilight gasped.

“I heard rumors about a 7th one but… I never knew it existed.” Cosmos said. “the Element of Love.”

Love? Her? Derpy lightly chucked and closed her eyes as she held the necklace close. Well, she is a prime example of love. Her love for her friends. Her love for her family. Her love for Dinky. Her love for eTu`nes. She was a perfect fit and she felt it. This… this was met for her. And that crazy man said that eTu`nes was a biological experiment incapable of love until he met her. Well, this would be a good explanation why.

8:10.

This is unprecedented. Orochi never heard of a 7th Element of Harmony. “time for Plan R.” Fulmen said as they disappeared.

Oscurita roared loudly as it sent tendrils their way. The unicorns and human magic users collectively put up a barrier that not only deflected the tendrils, but also disintegrated them.

Jax snapped her fingers and made it disperse. “Games over, you freak.” was she referring to Oscurita or Orochi? That was something they never figured out. “you using innocent lives is over now and forever.” her chakrams glowed as she powered up her magic.

The humans and ponies got ready for what is going to be their final battle. Win or lose, Equestria’s fate will be decided.

“This is the end for you!”

9:50. End Song.

Begin Song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7eXKsZv2gI

Ibitsu {TV size} - Tales of Symphonia OVA OST.

0:00.

Epic freeze frame of the monster roaring at the humans and ponies as they prepared to do battle.

To Be Concluded…

0:20.

The Final Battle for the fate of Equestria is on, but will a 7th Element of Harmony be enough to turn the tide?

And what of this new mysterious ally of Tsylatac’s and Orochi’s?

Just who are those 2 and what do they want?

All this and more will been revealed in the final chapter of Friends from Unexpected Places

0:50.

Anime stills of the past major events, such as the events of…

‘Of Ponies and Humans‘…

‘Matchmaker’…

‘A Changeling’s Lament’…

And ‘Discordian Troubles’…

Ending with a still of the major bad guys. And I’m not talking about Chrysalis or Discord.

1:30. End Song.

Author's Notes:

well... here we are. 4 Side-stories and 127 chapters later.

this has been one hell of a journey, hasn't it? a lot of action, a lot of drama... a lot of sorrow.

and when one war ends, another more dangerous one begins.