Brutalight only had seconds to put up a barrier, and move away from the Night Raptor’s attack. She barely escaped, the lightning claws tearing through her magic like a hot knife through butter. The twisted princess slid away, her hands glowing with magic. “You think, just because you’re healed and got new arsenal, you’re going to win!? Fat chance!” Brutalight yelled, before blasting her spell at the Night Raptor.

The claws flared back to life, and he swiped her magic into four split pieces! Brutalight’s eyes went wide, after the attack actually destroyed her attack like it was nothing. She had to retreat further back, making sure to stay out of Xeron’s range and flight path. Even the twisted princess could tell, those weapons were bane to her magic, almost as if they were designed to destroy such things. Brutalight summoned her large knives, and grabbed hold to prepare herself in case the Night Raptor flew towards her again.

Xeron slowly stepped towards her, holding the engaged claws in front of his helmet. He laughed at her actions, savoring each step he made in the hunt for the twisted princess. “What is the matter, Brutalight? Realize what it takes Eldar merely seconds to comprehend?” He asked her, holding the claw out before joining the second in an opposite display. Xeron widened his stance, the dirt being dug up by his metal boots, and allowed the deadly weapons to discharge their electricity. “That the Lightning Claws are forged to destroy anything with psykic energy? To rip through magical powers!?”

When the Night Raptor’s jump pack roared to life, and sent him soaring towards Brutalight, the twisted princess summoned more knives and sent them like a volley of gunfire at him! “I merely realized, your change in design has made you more arrogant! You forget who I am.” Her grin returned, as she took a more psychotic look. “I’m Brutalight Sparcake! The darker, sadistic, version of your precious Twilight Sparkle! And you don’t scare me!”

Xeron had to hold up both arms, and reverse his jump pack, to block the volley of knives. He landed on to the ground, the knives breaking on to his armor and merely leaving scratches on the thick plating. Using his talons, Xeron slowly made his way forward, trying to get closer to the twisted princess. “Really? Then why do I smell fear sweat about your body?” He asked her, making Brutalight realize something….

Her body was sweating, her hands trembling, goosebumps littered her dark purple skin. The turn in Xeron’s nature has scared her. His arrogance made him seem even more lethal, and likely to actually kill her! If he got close, her magic wouldn’t protect her against those damned claws. He had an advantage over her, and was planning on using it like any Night Lord would. There was no possible way she was going to let her rule end, before she took over the world she came from or this version of Equestria.

“Derpi!” She yelled out, the gray cyborg soaring over.

“On it, Mistress!” Derpigun called out, her Gatling Gun suddenly appearing over her right arm. “Suck on this, ugly!” The barrels began to rotate, then unleashed several rounds on to the Night Raptor’s armor! Combining her attack with that of Brutalight actually made Xeron falter in his steps. When Derpigun started firing her missiles, their combine force made him retreat backwards. He couldn’t hold against that much, and didn’t notice that the Elements of Insanity were herding the Night Lords into a single group.

When Xeron felt his armor clank against the War Sage’s tactical Dreadnought Armor, he realized that his position returned him to the group. “Brothers!” He called out, noticing that Xarl had clashed blades with Night Raptor on his right. Talos was standing to his left, firing at Fluttershout with his patterned bolter. Malachiron was firing his combi-bolter at the two earth pony humans, trying to keep their strength back. Mercutian was helping out the War Sage, by using his Heavy Bolter to keep Rarifruit back and hold her barrier up. All the while, Jago was using his Guardian Spear to try and shoot down Rainbine from the skies.

“We already know, little brother.” The War Sage announced watching how they are positioned. “They’re readying one last attack, intending to take us all out at once.”

“Sound plan… If they can pin us, that is.” Jago said, noticing Rainbine returning to Brutalight’s side. “They’re giving an opening for at least one of us now.” The First Captain stood behind Xeron, allowing the more armored Raptor take the combined attack more than him. He was faster, yes, but Xeron’s armor was actually meant to resist such harsh attacks, his wasn’t.

Talos kept firing, until he noticed Fluttershout actually flew out of his sights and joined her mistress. The Prophet fired one last burst, allowing the airborne human to dodge it with ease, before holding the smoking weapon up. “I don’t like this… Their arrogance right now is a problem.” He simply stated, watching the other members of the EoI retreat to their mistress… Allowing the group of Astartes to take up their defiant stance, each glaring at their respective foe.

“Me neither.” Xeron said, lowering his claws after noticing both Brutalight and Derpigun had ceased their own attack. He threw one claw forward while holding the other back some. “I say we charge them, quickly…. Try and break them apart, before they can combine any attack.”

“Sound strategy, but the flaw in that is that they’ll used a combine assault to stop us.” Malachiron noted, his Terminator form allowing him to tower over the others. He pointed his combi-bolter at the group of twisted mares, and hooded human. “I say take out the mortal, he seems to be controlling things.”

“Attack him, and we may cause something destructive. He wields a strange tome, I can feel some great power within it.” Talos said, aiming his patterned bolter at the twisted mares. “Destroy it, and we may cause irreversible harm to the land we swore to protect.”

“Seems like, from what I understand, is we charge their ranks and hope for the best?” Mercutian concluded, Xarl giving a nod while holding his sword read.

“Then let’s get it done… Who leads our defiant charge?” The swordsman asked, looking at the others.

“I would, normally… But, let the younger brother have the honor.” Jago chuckled a bit, readying his Guardian Spear. “So far, he’s been quite amusing in such a position.”

Xeron nodded, his jump pack starting to hum. “Then, on my mark brothers.” The Night Lords prepared themselves, while the EoI suddenly readied their own respective powers. Brutalight had a look of depraved pleasure, her horn glowing and burning. “Attack!” With that, the Night Lords all charged forward, Xeron taking to the skies and prepared to slam down on to Brutalight. Until, a voice roared over them all.

“Get back my sons, now!” Night Haunter demanded, the Night Lords halting mid charge and retreating back while Xeron reversed his boasters and actually flew back. They were lucky, for a third attack was about to pass.

Both parties went wide eyed, and forced to cover their ears, as a black energy wailed past them! Had anyone attacked, judging by how the spell destroyed the ground and dug up anything within its path like a blade… They would have been instantly destroyed, their remains being a smoking husk. After it passed, the two groups looked at the large crater the attack left, and looked towards where they came. The EoI’s all became slack jawed, while the Night Lords and the Mane Six were confused.

Standing at the spell’s start point, holding a smoking blade to the crater’s tail end, was a knight clad in black armor. The Night Lords recognized it as the ancient Gothic Knight’s armor, and watched the black cape flow from behind him. The blade itself was black, with runes edged into the face, and released an aura of power, as if it didn’t want to be unsheathed and angry about releasing its power without taking a life. The knight, himself, was glaring at the two groups with red, glowing, eyes. “Enough, is enough.” His voice actually surprised Xeron… That was the voice that chanted, while his armor changed! “I’ll have this story perverted any more than it already has been!”

Brutalight growled at the interloper, angry at how he actually stopped their attack. “And you are, exactly?” She asked him, before hearing Mr. Hood’s fearful words.

“Oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap!” The cloaked figured said, backing away ever so carefully. He held a hand out, while keeping the book tucked against his cloak. “Not good, not good, he’s here… He found out what we’re doing!”

Brutalight, and the other EoI raised an eyebrow at his actions. “You act like you know him, Hood? Who is he?”

Mr. Hood just kept moving back. “The Author…”

The Black Knight just stared at them, before resting the black blade on to his shoulder. It was obvious that he is waiting on them to make a move, but seemed to actually welcome it. “The author? Really? Like he’ll be a threat to us! We’ve already gotten this far, he’s powerless!” Brutalight said, confidently, as she looked at Night Reaper. “Night… Kill him!” She ordered.

“With pleasure!” The twisted Xeron flew towards the Black Knight, who carefully watched the sadist fly at him. Slowly, he raised his hand up and Night Reaper was caught mid-air, his jump pack shutting off instantly and was just suspended without anything holding him up. “W-What!?”

“Sadistic Night Claw, huh? Forgot all about you… You were just a simple little thing I was pondering to do on Tumblr.”. The Black Knight said, tilting his head. “But seeing you now, being used like this, makes me a bit sick. While I still will consider you, I can’t bear to look at the likes of you right now.” Clutching his armored hand, into a fist, Night Reaper yelled out, in agony, before he completely vanished into small sparkling dots! The EoI gasped, while the others just watched in a dumbfounded fashion, as the Black Knight approached the twisted group. “The Elements of Insanity… I am impressed with your creator, TheInvertedShadow… How in the name of Thor you lot got into my story, I’ll never know nor care.” He stopped just a few steps away from them. “But I will say this, you aren’t welcomed here. Now, leave before I make you leave.”

Brutalight smiled at him, tilting her head. “Make us? Please! We’ll destroy you!” The EoI suddenly took a more aggressive stance towards the Black Knight, who seemed not really bothered by their threat. “Kill him, girls!” They all prepared to attack, but the Knight moved his hand, only slightly, and their abilities suddenly snuffed out! The magic disappearing, both earth pony girls falling to their knees, Fluttershout finding herself unable to speak, both Rainbine and Derpigun suddenly being out of ammo. “H-Huh!? How did you-?”

“Take away your powers and weapons?” The Black Knight finished for her, tilting his sallet covered head. “Easy, I created this story. If something happens, that I don’t like, I simply… Take. It. OUT!” His gauntlet gripped towards the mares, who soon found themselves unable to breathe and lifted off the ground. The tried grabbing their throats, in hopes to actually free themselves of what was holding them… But found nothing there, they couldn’t figure out how he was choking them. “I hope you enjoyed your stay… Because you won’t be returning anytime soon. Goodbye.” His hand released, the EoI screaming in pain before they vanished, like Night Reaper did! Mr. Hood was slowly making his escape, hoping that he had gone unnoticed while the EoI were being dealt with, but froze. “And where do you think you’re going?”

“U-Um… Going to, uh… Fix the damage they caused?” He gave a nervous laugh, turning to face the Black Knight, that was far away from him, only to find the armored warrior face to face with him.

“Really now? And you weren’t planning on escaping from this story, ‘Mr. Hood’?” The Knight asked him, the cloaked figure freezing even more at how his intentions were found out by the author. He reached up, and placed an armored finger into the center of Mr. Hood’s chest. “You will repair all the damage you’ve done, and return to my home for further punishment for your crimes against the Writer’s Laws… Am I understood?”

“Crystal!” Mr. Hood said, before pulling out the book and vanishing from sight, the Knight lifting the sword from his shoulder, and slide it back into the sheath.

By this time, the group were all watching, dumbfounded at how the Black Knight actually dispatched such powerful foes with a single hand motion. Not even the Night Lords could believe such attacks, and how nonchalantly he did it! The first to snap out of the daze, was Twilight. The Princess of Friendship quickly flew up to the Black Knight, her whole body shaking. Xeron was right behind her, nervous if the knight would turn his strange powers on the Princess and prepared to fight him. “U-Um… Excuse me, Sir Knight?” She said, the Black Knight turning to face her, and tilted his head. “W-Who are you?”

“No one for you to worry about, Princess Sparkle.” He bowed to her, placing an armored hand over his heart. “Simply a creator righting a wrong that was committed… Please, you have my most sincere apologies for allowing this to happen… I’ll be sure the punishment of Mr. Hood will be fair, and worthy of his crimes.”

Twilight nodded to him, before raising an eyebrow. “I thank you for your assistance but… The cloaked man, who was called ‘Mr. Hood’, referred to you as an ‘author’…. Author of what?”

The Black Knight held his hand up, a black orb of magic appearing within his palm. “Nothing for you to worry about, Princess… In fact, none of you will remember any of this.” Xeron perceived his actions, and words, as a threat… Within moments, the Night Raptor lunged towards the Black Knight just before a flash of light blinding everyone and covered all of Equestria! “Time to let you all get back to your lovely fun and harmony.” His words echoed, before…

Night Claw’s eyes snapped open, along with Twilight. The two looked around, they were at Ponyville’s Town Center. The crowds were all cheering, it was the moment right after Night Claw had given his speech. “W-What happened? I zoned out for a second there.” Twilight said, rubbing the side of her head with a hoof.

“As did I, Princess.” Night Claw said, looking down at her. He looked around, noticing that the other members of the Night Guard were also in a daze, along with those on stage and members of the Mane Six. “I guess today’s excitement got to us?” Night Claw suggested, the Princess nodding.

“Y-Yeah, after all… Today is a big day, and everypony is excited.” Twilight agreed, the two smiling at each other before nuzzling one another.

The Black Knight watched, Silver Star bouncing in his lap and happy to see her daddy home, as the scene of Twilight and Night Claw nuzzling each other continued. He gave a sigh of relief, it took a bit, but he reversed what the Elements of Insanity had done and returned their timeline to normal. “Solution created… Now, to solve another problem.” He looked towards Mr. Hood, who was hiding off behind a large stack of books. “Now for you… Heh, come out here. Your punishment needs to be carried out, ‘Mr. Hood’.” The cloaked figured shivered a bit, being called that by the knight.

“B-But, please, Black Knight… Isn’t this a bit much?” He asked, looking towards him, shaking behind the stack of books.

“You nearly destroyed my longest going story… You tricked poor little Silver Star… You either do it, or I report you to the Forums.” Black Knight gave his ultimatum, Mr. Hood nodding. No way did he want to be reported to the most powerful beings.

He slowly stepped out from behind the stacks of books. A large sign was draped over his chest while he gave an embarrassed pasture. “Really though…” The sign actually said ‘Read Iron Within Twilight! Make Ms. Silver Star happy!” Written in a childish way. “This is a bit much.”

“You’re making it up to Silver Star, not me. I could easily fix the problem… But the fact you betrayed an innocent filly’s trust?” Black Knight held up his right index finger, moving it side to side with a ‘tsk tsk tsk’ sound coming from his helmet. “Shame on you, Mister. You’re punishment is to be wearing that sign, and help promote her story. It is seriously under viewed and underappreciated. Such a poor thing should have her origins known more.”

“Yeah! Yeah!” Silver Star cheered, happy like no other. “More should know about me! Daddy worked hard writing that story to make me happy!” She squealed, though… There was a difference between her and the Silver Star in the story, this Silver Star was still a blank flank. “I liked it! Daddy did good on it! I like how Mr. Zarrix showed that bad man whose boss!”

“She approves… So guess what, ‘Mr. Hood’?” Black Knight’s voice was filled with both a teasing nature, and a threatening one.

“I-I’m promoting Silver Star’s story.” He said, with a defeated tone and slotching over. “I’ll go, and show it off to the forums.” With that, Mr. Hood left the study.

Black Knight chuckled a bit, looking down at the filly in his lap. She was staring up at him with a big smile on her face. “Did you enjoy how Daddy handled things?” He asked her, while she gave a rapid nod.

“Yeah! I liked how you showed up, right before they could actually give one last fight! It looked like you were some real life hero in there!” Silver Star said, hugging her father’s armored chest, while he patted her blonde mane.

“Technically, by profession, I am a Hero. But do not claim to be, I just do my job. However, thank you, Silver Star. It feels good to have your approval.” He patted her head one last time, before suddenly looked at you, and pointed towards you. “I mean it… Read her story, it’ll make this sweet little filly.” Black Knight held Silver Star up, who was giving a ‘pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease?’ look towards you… Those big, puffy, eyes. That pouting lip. Can you resist such a face?