“Fire Thestral: Brilliant Flame Blast!” Goku shouted shooting off a blast of scorching fire from her hooves and down at a few Timberwolves that were leaping at her. The huge ball of flame engulfed them and the howls of pain they emitted indicated to Goku that they got hit. Form the way they were running off and the way that the fire burning their wooden bodies, they would not be coming back to the battle field.

“Fire Thestral: Scorching Neigh!” She yelled, shooting off a streaming blast of fire at another hoard of Timberwolves that were coming at her group from behind. Around the same time, another stream of flames joined her owe, fusing together into a larger ball of fire, that blasted the canines away from them.

“Sorry about that Goku! I didn’t mean to disrupt your attack!” Zephyr said, coughing slightly as steam emitted from his mouth. “I saw the Timberwolves coming at you from behind and…well, I just…stepped in out of instinct.”

“That’s okay Zephyr, I appreciate the save!” The tan Thestral replied. “Besides, you made my attack more powerful by doing that! So, it’s a win for both of us!”

“Don’t let your guard down everypony!” Fluttershy shouted from behind them. “There are still a many more Timberwolves that we need to fend off! Not just those couple of groups!”

“You think we don’t know that Flutters?! That do you think we’re going right now!” Rainbow Dash shouted, lightning dancing about her body. “Lightning Pegasus: Electric Slice!”

The cyan mare flared her prismatic coated wings out and swung them out on either side of her, sending large bolts of lightning down below. They struck the Timberwolves head on, making the wood on their bodies burst into thousands of pieces as they collapsed to the ground. The ones that weren’t hit scurried away from the Timberwolves that were, and made to go after Rainbow Dash, only for Fluttershy to intervene.

“Sky Pegasus: Exploding Whirlwind!” She shouted, diving down as she gracefully spun around in the air. The coat of wind surrounding her grew larger the closer she got to the ground, and she flared her angelic wings at the last second. Propelling herself up, she watched as the speeding whirlwind shot down and exploded into the ground, sending sharp gusts of wind at the closest Timberwolves that were there. Fluttershy winced as she watched the wind slices cut right into the wooden canines, emitting cries of pain as they tumbled across the ground.

“I’m so sorry I had to do that.” She whispered quietly and remorsefully to the beasts, holding a hoof to her chest. “Please forgive me.”

“Way to go Fluttershy!” Rainbow Dash shouted, shooting a fanged grin towards her fellow Pegasus. “That was one badass move that you pulled off!”

“Oh, it wasn’t much really.” The buttermilk Pegasus replied, blushing as she ran a hoof through her mane. “I was just acting as the extra eyes for the rest of you here with me.”

“Well, you totally got a real bucking sharp pair of eyes in my opinion!” Rainbow continued, sending an electrified kick to a Timberwolf. “Maybe not as sharp as my eyes, but still good enough to detect shit that’s about to go down.”

A snarl from behind Fluttershy caused her to spin around and see several Timberwolves creeping towards her, with more surrounding her from all sides. Fluttershy paused for a moment, before she slowly hovered to the ground, her wings still spread as she looked around at all the wooden canines. The Timberwolves stayed where they were, waiting to see if the buttermilk Pegasus would make a move on them. When she didn’t, they slowly began to stalk towards her, all of them preparing to lunge at her.

Suddenly, and without warning, Fluttershy’s head snapped up, her eyes going wide as they went from two gentle teal orbs to two blazing golden fiery orange spheres, the pupils becoming pure white. They bore into the gazes of the Timberwolves that were in her line of vision like two twin roaring flames of the Sun. All the fight and determination that they felt inside of them vanished quicker than it had come, as if it wasn’t even there in the first place. Fluttershy gave no visible reaction to their sudden change in behavior, her expression remaining completely unreadable as she stared at the carnivores.

“Now, I’m only going to say this once...you can either leave this clearing and leave me and my friends be, or, you can stay here and risk me turning you all into firewood.” Fluttershy said softly, her voice carrying the same undertone of military-like assertiveness that she had used with the singing birds she was with earlier that day. Her eyes burning with such an intensity that the Timberwolves’ bodies would’ve gone up in flames had she been able to. “Choose wisely...or you’ll be taught quite the lesson.”

Many of the Timberwolves that were caught in the line of Fluttershy’s gaze shrunk away from her, their ears flattening against their heads as they went from offensive and hostile, to fearful and submissive, before letting out whimpers and scattering into the forest, clubbed tails in between their legs. Those that stayed behind reeled back a bit by the change of color in the buttermilk Pegasus’s eyes and the scorching intensity behind them. Still, they were not ready to give up the fight just yet, which let Fluttershy know that they were not all backing down.

“Very well then,” She murmured as the orange glow in her eyes disappearing. “We’ll do this yourway.”

Without warning, the buttermilk Pegasus swung herself in an incredibly graceful vertical arc with her wings still spread. Before the Timberwolves could even realize what was happening, they felt themselves being sliced apart and blown back in all directions. They howled in pain as Fluttershy’s wind attacks sliced deep into their bodies, so much so that a green substance could be seen leaking form their bodies. Just as quickly as the attack came, it stopped, and all of the Timberwolves could now be seen laying on the ground, bleeding as they all writhed in pain.

“I tried to warn you.” Fluttershy murmured, looking at the canines sympathetically before she took back to the air.

“My word…” Rarity gasped, staring in awe at Fluttershy as she rejoined her fellow flyers. “Did you see that? Our dear Fluttershy handled those ruffians with hardly any effort, and with such grace!”

A blast of violet magic Rarity’s head got her to refocus on her predicament as Twilight blasted a group of Timberwolves from behind the fashionista. Rarity screamed in surprise, and slight pain as the bolt sailed across the tip of her horn, causing her to stumble slightly. She looked over to where Twilight was, and saw the lavender Unicorn just feet away from her, her eyes glowing.

“Rarity, pay attention!” She shouted, whirling around sending multiple magic blasts at the canines behind her. “Is now really the time to be spacing out right now?! You were about to get eaten and ripped apart!”

“I-I, I was most certainly not!” Rarity protested, her own horn glowing brightly. “I was perfectly focused on these heathens, even when I wasn’t really facing them!”

“Then why didn’t you turn back to them when they snarled at you?!” Twilight asked somewhat accusingly. “They were right in front of you, and I know that you were able to hear them that close to you!”

Rarity was about to reply, when she heard a growl from behind her, and she turned around to see a large Timberwolf diving at her. she screamed out in fear, and out of instinct, she fired off her horn, sending off a laser like beam of magic that the beast. As it struck it in the chest, Rarity swung her head about, sending the canine flying in the opposite direction. Remembering there were more Timberwolves with her, Rarity whirled her body around and felt her eyes widen when she saw a multitude of wooden spiked clubs sailing through the air, heading straight for her. She screamed in terror before leaping away, feeling them barely grazing her body as they all slammed into the ground. The fashionista continued to instinctively evade the Timberwolves powerful tails, all the while using her magic to shoot at the ones that were planning to shoot at her, least her situation got worse. Eventually, she was given enough time to charge up her horn and fire a long blast of magic at the Timberwolves and send them flying away, but not before one more tried to crush her with its tail club, just barely missing her muzzle.

“Belle Machine Gun: Laser Beam Flock!” The alabaster Unicorn yelled, firing off large blasts of laser like beams at the canines. The power behind her attack, powered by the raging fear and terror within Rarity allowed her attack to be more efficient than she thought it would be. The fashionista watched in amazement as the magical beams sent the Timberwolves soaring away from her, crashing into the trees.

“Oh…oh my, I can’t believe just did that.” Rarity blinked, grinning as she came out of her shocked state. “Take that you ruffians! That’s what you get for messing with a graceful lady like me! Hmph!”

Twilight rolled her eyes at her fellow Unicorn’s antics, before she turned around and focused back on her own hoard of wooden canines. Without giving them a chance to react she fired off a powerful stream of violet magic at them, engulfing them all in its purple color. As she kept up her blasting the canines in front of her, she heard a bark from behind her. Eyes widening and Twilight spun around to see a Timberwolf leap at her and land right onto her back, its claws sinking deep into her sides. Twilight screamed as she felt blood start to flow out of the slashes, but she managed to fight the pain, and used her magic to try to pry the beast off of her.

“Belle Machine Gun: Gattling Gun!” The voice of Rarity shouted, before a flock of cyan bolts of magic flew towards Twilight. To the fashionista’s relief, the bots of magic managed to hit her desired targets, but a couple of them also hit Twilight in the process. The Timberwolf howled in pain as it was torn off of the lavender Unicorn, who crumpled to the ground in a heap.

“Oh goodness!” Rarity cried her hooves flying to her mouth. “Are you alright Twilight?!”

Twilight grunted as she pushed herself onto her haunches. She looked over at Rarity and sent her a weak smile. “Y-yeah more or less…that really hurt when you blasted me though.” The smile on her face immediately dropped when she noticed the Timberwolves beginning to surround her. “Oh no…”

“I’m coming darling hold on!” Rarity shouted as she galloped over to her fellow Unicorn. Her charge was soon halted when a few Timberwolves jumped in front of her, preventing her from being able to get to Twilight. The next thing she knew one of the Timberwolves had lashed its tail out, letting its club strike her in the chest and send her flying into a tree.

“Rarity!” Twilight shouted, before she too felt something strike her chest, forcing her onto her back and into the ground. She looked up behind her to see one of the Timberwolves on top of her, its jaws open in preparation to rip her throat out.

“I don’t think so!” Twilight growled, igniting her horn with electricity. “Solid Form Magic: Lightning Strike!”

A shower of wood surrounded Twilight as she struck the Timberwolf right in its face, sending it flying off of her and into one of the nearby trees. Not wasting a moment, the lavender Unicorn got to her feet and sent off a torrent of lightning strikes at the canine surrounding her. It had the same desired effect with the last one, each of them howling in pain and running off into the woods and away from the clearing.

With her horn still ignited, Twilight spun back around, ready to blast away any Timberwolf that lunged at her from all sides. She didn’t have to wait long before they attacked, some coming at her from the front, while other came at her from the sides. Giving a strong lash of her tail, the lavender Unicorn fired off a few more electrical blasts of magic at the Timberwolves that had come at her from the front, sending sparks of wood flying off of them as they tumbled across the ground. Twilight then swerved and dodged between the Timberwolves that were coming on either sides of her, narrowly avoiding their razor-sharp wooden claws and teeth as they slashed and bit at the air.

“Solid Form Magic: Wind Bullets!” With their backs turned to her, Twilight fired off sharp blasts of wind at the Timberwolves that had their backs turned to her. They howled and whimpered loudly as the attacks pierced into them and sent them toppling to the ground, before staggering back up and racing off into the woods.

“Whew, that was a close one.” Twilight sighed to herself, letting her body relax slightly. A bark from above her put her back on high alert and she looked up just in time for a Timberwolf to jump right in top of her. She cried out as its wooden claws dug into her, leaving deep slashes marks as it pinned her down. Twilight watched as the Timberwolf opened its jaws, its curved teeth exposed in preparation to rip the mare’s throat out.

“NOT SO FAST!” Zephyr shouted, zooming in and slamming into the wooden canine. With a bright garnet aura surrounding him, the royal blue stallion sent a torrent of flames at each of the carnivores surrounding her. “Fire Pegasus: Swirling Flame Pillar!”

Twilight watched in awe as her foalhood friends and protector summoned a large pillar of orange flames around them, scorching the canines surrounding her. Much to her surprise, the fire surrounding her didn’t burn at her skin or wounds, but instead filled her with warmth and enveloped her in a protective cloak. Zephyr, however, wasn’t don’t just yet, having one other trick up in his sleeve to ensure the Timberwolves didn’t come back.

“Fire Pegasus: Scorching Explosion!” The Solar Guard shouted, making the large pillar of flames explode and wash over east side of the clearing, completely enveloping the canines around them. The Timberwolves all shrieked and howled as the flames burnt the wood on their bodies, and they ran off into the forest, leaving the foalhood friends to themselves.

“Thank you Zephyr!” Twilight said thankfully as the stallion helped her up. “I really thought that I was going to get killed there!”

“Don’t thank me just yet Twilight! There’s still a good bunch of these wolves left for us to get past.” Zephyr said, hovering protectively over Twilight. He glanced over at Goku, Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy, who were still acting as lookouts. “I’m sorry Goku, but there’s been a slight change of plans! I’m staying near Twilight, so she doesn’t get surprised like that again!”

“Don’t worry about it!” Goku said dismissively. “I did say we’d be flying over the others and look of for any surprise attacks! So, you’re still sticking to the plan in a way!”

All of a sudden, the sound of a firing cannon burst throughout the clearing, immediately reaching the ears of the three other flyers. They looked down and saw large orbs of blue magic being blasted throughout the clearing, striking right into the Timberwolves. The strikes were so devastating that the blasts send the beasts through the trees and out the clearing.

“Whoa, look at those blasts!” Rainbow Dash exclaimed. “Is Rarity doing this?”

Fluttershy suddenly gasped, and pointed downwards. “No, look!”

The cyan Pegasus and the tan Thestral looked over to the exit of the clearing and saw Pinkie Pie at the front, defending her side of the clearing. However, they could see, much to their shock, that there was a large earth made cannon in front of her. The pink pony giggled and laughed merrily as she fired blast after blast of cannon fire at the wooden canines, while the others just stared at her silently.

“Does…does she really have a cannon made out of earth?” Zephyr asked once he had managed to collect himself.

“Yes, yes she does.” Twilight replied dryly. “Pinkie literally has a cannon made of wood and his condensing her magic in it to create all of those devastating blasts.”

“Pinkie Pie!” Rarity exclaimed sharply. “What where you are firing that thing! Do you know how close that you hit me with that last blast?! You could’ve blasted my tail skirt off!”

“Heeheehee, sorry Rarity, I can’t help myself! This is just so much fun!” Pinkie Pie giggled as she paused in her blasts. A second later, she channeled her magic into her weapon, aiming at the Timberwolves surrounding Rarity. “Earth Make: Cannon Blast!”

With a stomp of one of her hind hooves, she sent off a huge cannon blast right at the wooden canines, enveloping them in her magic. Rarity ducked under the blast just as it hit home, and she watched it soared through the clearing and sent them off into another part of the forest. A few more blasts followed them as Pinkie Pie sent away any other Timberwolf that was trying to get her from any side.

“Land sakes Pinkie, y’all seriously gotta watch where yer aimin’ that buckin’ thing like Rarity said!” Applejack shouted, watching as one of the canons strikes hit dangerously close to her hooves. “Do y’all have cotton in yer ears ‘r somethin’?!”

“Of course, not! Why would I have that?!” Pinkie Pie frowned. “It’s not like cotton will make anything I bake delicious! I’d that have cottoncandy then regular cotton, cause that’s just, blegh!”

“That’s not what Ah-” Applejack protested, only to jump away from a Timberwolf that was lunging at her from behind. She reached out and grabbed its tail, spinning it around and slamming into others that were around her, before going on the offensive.

“Earth Make: Vine Snare!” She shouted, slamming her forehooves down, causing the ground the crack and emerald green magic to pour out. Vines exploded from under it, and lashed out like whips, ensnaring the Timberwolves and yanking them from the ground. They swung the wooden canines within the air and flung them away, high into the trees and a good distance away from the clearing.

“Heh, so long lil’ doggies! Have a nice flight!” Applejack shouted to the canines, a small grin coming to her face. The grin on her face soon morphed into an expression of agony as she felt something stab right into her. Through the graces of Faust, she managed stay on her hooves, but the pain in her back didn’t vanish, even as the tail club was removed from her back by the Timberwolf that it belonged to.

“Damn it…that was a might stupid o’ me.” The tangerine farmer grunted, turning to face the wooden canine that attacked her. “Let mahself wide open t’ that. Looks like Ah gotta fix that…”

Chirping sounds suddenly filled Applejack’s ears, and she looked back in front of her to see a shower of magenta lightning sailing down towards her. The farmer cried out and made a hasty retreat to somewhere safe as the lighting bolts sailed passed her.

“Lightning Pegasus: Lightning Shower!” Rainbow Dash shouted, shooting a flock of lightning down at all of the Timberwolves in Applejack’s section of the clearing. The farmer and athlete both watched as they struck and zapped the Timberwolves, making large chips of wood fly and explode all around them. Applejack and Rainbow Dash both shielded themselves from the incoming wooden shower, not wanting to get stabbed in their eyes.

“Ha, take that ya bunch of mangy wooden bastards!” Rainbow Dash boasted, flying down next to Applejack’s side. “Are you alright AJ?”

“Well Ah was tryin’ to keep mahself from getting squashed int’ apple sauce by them wolves, so Ah guess ya can say Ah ain’t all th’ way alright.” Applejack deadpanned. “An’ it didn’t help that ya had send all o’ them lightnin’ bolts down on me RD.”

“What?! No, I wasn’t!” Rainbow Dash protested. “I was aiming at those Timberwolves because I saw that they were going to eat you! I wasn’t trying to roast you!”

“Ah know that!” Applejack snorted. “Even so, y’all could’ve warned me that you were going to get a hit in yerself!”

“So you’re saying that you didn’t hear the lightning coming your way?” Rainbow Dash asked, raising an eyebrow at the farmer. “I think that was warning enough.”

“Mah ears ain’t as sharp as yers Rainbow!” Applejack growled, a tick mark appearing on the back of her head. “Even if Ah did here ya about strike, that didn’t mean that Ah would have enough time t’ git outta the way o’ bein’ roasted like a fritter! That’s why Ah said ya could’ve warned me before ya attacked!”

“Yeah well, my lightning does make a shit ton of sound when I summon it, so you should’ve been able to hear it.” Rainbow snorted, crossing her forearms. “If not, then you really need to get your hearing checked.”

“Are you sayin’ that Ah have th’ hearing o’ mah Granny?!”

“No, I’m saying that you’re-”

A blast of wind and a torrent of flames soared passed the two arguing hotheads, sharply and rather heatedly cutting off their verbal fight. They both shrieked as a tan and yellow blur shot passed them, burning and slicing at the Timberwolves around them. Applejack and Rainbow Dash watched as Goku and Fluttershy worked in unison, reducing the canines to writhing wood in mere seconds. Without a single word to one another, they hovered to the ground right as the Timberwolves they attacked scrambled to their paws and ran off into the forest.

“Whoa girls…that was awesome!” Rainbow Dash exclaimed. “We almost didn’t see you guys for a second there!”

“Yeah…” Applejack nodded as the two flyers walked over to them. “…though ya did almost burn the Cutie Marks off us-GAH!”

Applejack had barely finished her sentence before she and Rainbow Dash were on their flanks, holding their heads that were now sporting huge lumps. They looked up and froze upon seeing Goku hovering over them with her hooves on her hips and face contorted into a sharp glare.

“Of all the times for you two to be arguing, you pick now as a time to do it?!” She chastised; her fangs bared into an angered frown. “Have forgotten the danger that we are currently in right now?!”

“N-no, we didn’t!” Rainbow Dash replied in protest. “I was just trying to explain to Applejack about how she should’ve been able to hear my attack coming so she could dodge it!”

“Ah already told ya, Ah couldn’t hear it, especially with all o’ this other noise!” Applejack shouted, glaring at Rainbow Dash. “Ya didn’t give me a verbal warnin’ RD which is why it took me longer t’ see it comin’! Which is why Ah was sayin’ ya should’ve hollered b’fore ya did it!”

“Oh, so you’re saying that you can’t hear multiple bolts of lightning coming right at you?!” The athlete shouted back, baring her fanged teeth at the farmer. “Is your hearing really that bad?!”

“No, it ain’t!” Applejack snorted, narrowing her eyes. “An’ let’s not forget, Ah got nearly crushed my one o’ them doggies back there! So, Ah think Ah can be forgiven for not bein’ as alert when I as tryin’ to keep mah back from breakin’ in half!”

“As if some lame wooden club can break your back!” Rainbow said rolling her eyes. “It probably wasn’t even all that-”

“That’s enough!” Fluttershy exclaimed sharply, rendering both mares silent. “Look, I don’t know what made you decide that now was a good time to go at each other like to make Manticores over a female, but it is not helping us right now! Me, Goku, and the others are risking out lives just to keep ourselves from being eaten, and you two are here fighting?! What is the matter with the two of you?!”

Both Applejack and Rainbow Dash flinched at the scolding, their expressions going from anger and annoyance, to guild in shame. At that same moment, Rainbow Dash spoke up in an effort to defend herself. “W-we were just-”

“I don’t want to hear it.” Fluttershy said, swiftly cutting the cyan mare off. “Just go back to helping the others and making sure none of you get killed. I’ll talk to you two about your behavior later.”

“As much as I want to bash these two idiot’s skulls in…” Goku sighed, looking over at Fluttershy with a softer expression. “…I don’t’ think we’ll have to wait for very long.”

The veterinarian looked over at the tan Thestral. “What do you mean?”

“Look around you.” Goku said, surveying the battlefield. “The pack of Timberwolves are getting considerably smaller right now. And I’m estimating that within a few minutes that they’ll be gone if we keep going at the pace that we’re going.”

“Yes, you’re right, they are getting smaller…faster than I was thinking.” Fluttershy said, looking over the clearing before turning back to Goku. “Still, you have something planned, don’t you?”

Goku nodded, lashing out with her legs and kicking a nearby Timberwolf in the face and sending it slamming into a tree. “Yeah, I have a technique that I think will wash the rest of these wolves away…but I’m gonna warn you. This technique is going to leave quite the burn in this clearing.”

“Uh, what do you mean by that?” Applejack asked. “Jus’ what’re you plannin’ t’ do?”

“Something absolutely crazy.” Goku replied bluntly, causing Applejack and Rainbow Dash’s eyes to widen. “Hey Fluttershy, do you think you can do a favor for me?”

“What do you need?” The buttermilk Pegasus asked softly and patiently.

“I want you, Rainbow and Applejack to let the other girls and Zephyr know what I’m planning to end this fight in one fell swoop.” Goku explained. “I want you all together them all in the middle of the clearing and have Twilight and Rarity create a shield to protect you all. Trust me when I say this, that it is going to be big.”

“Alright then, you can count on me.” Fluttershy said, staring into Goku’s eyes for a moment before turning to Rainbow and Applejack. “Come on you two, let’s go get the others.”

“W-wait a minute! What about-” Rainbow sputtered, only to freeze when Fluttershy glared back over at them.

“I said…” She said, her eyes giving a soft orange glow. “…let’s go.”

“Yes ma’am!” Both mares said as they scrambled over to where the others were. With that said and done, Goku spread her wings and took off into the air, her golden aura flowing behind her.

The four other ponies, who had noticed Goku take off, watched as she made her way into the sky, her wings making slow yet powerful flaps as her extended mane and tail flew rather gracefully behind her. She soon stopped just above the very top of the trees as she looked down at the clearing below her, staring down at the small glowing dot that was her shielded friends and the multiple eyes that were the Timberwolves. Taking in a deep breath, Goku closed her eyes and raised her forehooves against her head as aura around her body began to glow a brighter shade of gold, making her look like a beautiful golden star. Suddenly a sphere of fire appeared in her right foreleg, before a sphere of lightning appeared on her left one, growing larger the more magic she channeled into them. The tan Thestral brought both hooves together and combined both powers that were now radiating from her hooves, making it even larger than before.

“What in th’ hay is she doin’ up there?” Zephyr asked, squinting his eyes as he tried to get a clear look at his friend.

“I don’t know, but she looks absolutely divine in that pose!” Rarity replied with gush, her eyes sparkling as she took in the rather beautiful sight. “She looks like a beautiful gemstone shining in the light of the night sky!”

“Well, whatever attack she’s going, it looks like it’s going to be big.” Twilight said, her voice carrying some slight apprehensiveness. “Still though, what is she planning right now?”

“Girls!” Fluttershy suddenly shouted as she, Applejack and Rainbow all came running towards them. “I need you all to come over here now!”

“Wait, right now?!” Pinkie asked, a confused frown coming to her face. “Aw, is the fight ending already?!”

“I’m afraid so Pinkie.” Fluttershy nodded. “And it looks like Goku’s going to be the one to do it.”

“What is she going to do dear?” Rarity asked, tilting her head after firing a blast of magic at a nearby Timberwolf. “Does Goku have some sort of plan?”

“We think so, but that’s not all.” Applejack replied nervously. “She wants Twi and Rares t’ put a shield around all o’ us so it’ll protect us from her attack.”

“What she what?” Zephyr asked his eyes widening. “Her attack is going to be that powerful?”

“From what I’m looking right now….” Rainbow Dash replied staring up at the large orb in the air. “…it is.”

As the six ponies conversed, Goku continued to hover in the sky, pumping more magic through her body into the giant electrical wind sphere that she was holding in her hooves, making it more powerful by the second. It continued to grow larger, stronger, and more intense with power as the lightning and wind grew with more intensity and concentration, looking be nothing more than a giant sphere of light from where the others were down below. It eventually got to the point where the sphere was nearly the equivalent of a large air balloon floating into the sky, swirling with wind and crackling with lightning and causing the trees around it to rustle and get drawn into it.

“Alright, I think I’ve got enough power packed into this bad boy.” Goku said with a grin as she looked down at the Timberwolves that were surrounding her friends. “Alright everypony, I’m ready! Put up the shield so I can send those Timberwolves into oblivion!”

“You heard the mare.” Zephyr said softly, his inner Royal Guard looking over at Twilight and Rarity. “Go on and put up the shield girls.”

Twilight and Rarity nodded, motioning the others to come on and huddle together, though it took Pinkie a bit longer to come, not wanting to abandon. her earth made canon. The pink pony eventually sucked it up and bounced over to where the others were and joined with them in the shield that Twilight and Rarity were making with their magic. Upon seein the shield put up, Goku propelled herself upward and shot her forehooves down in a throwing motion, bringing the large lightning and wind sphere with her and sending it diving down to the clearing below her. The others down below watched as it came careening down towards them, the sound of the wind roaring and lightning crackling filling their ears.

“Whoa nelly, looks like Goku released her attack!” Applejack exclaimed, pulling her hat down around her head. “An’ it’s comin’ in hot!”

“Did she have to shoot it down right where we were?!” Rarity whined as she sunk to the ground, covering her head with her hooves. “What if it hits us?!”

“Too late to think about that now!” Rainbow Dash cried, squeezing her eyes shut and gritting her teeth. “Brace yourselves!”

No sooner did those words come out of the lavender Unicorns mouth, the sphere of lightning and fire slammed right into the center of the giant shield that was around the six mares, but it didn’t explode the moment it hit the top. Instead, it flattened and expanded all across the ground, slicing and tearing through the ground and sending rubble, dirt and dust flying everywhere as it headed towards the Timberwolves surrounding the area and beyond the clearing. The wooden canines had no time to react or defend themselves as they were washed in a sea of electrical yellow and roaring red, the electricity and fir coursing and slicing through their bodies as they all gave loud howls of agony their bodies were torn apart from the inside and out. Zephyr and the girls all tore their gazes away and pinned their ears against their heads, both from the blinding light and from the Timberwolves’ howls of agony, as they were zapped and burned beyond recognition.

Thankfully, none of them had endure the constant howling and blazing light for long, for their ears were then filled the sound of explosion resonating all throughout the clearing. The six ponies shut their eyes even tighter as the light shined even brighter, causing them to practically raise their hooves to their faces in an effort to reduce the burning sensation. Eventually, the light slowly began to die down, and all that surrounded the shielded ponies was smoke and dust with no sign of the Timberwolves anywhere.

“Well...that was quite the display wasn’t it?” Rarity asked, blinking a few times as she ran a hoof through her mane. “I didn’t expect Goku’s attack to be that powerful.”

“Yeah…” Applejack nodded, using her hat to fan her face. “Ah literally felt th’ ground rumblin’ beneath me from all o’ that lightnin’.”

“I can’t see here through all of this dust.” Twilight said as she looked around. “Where is Goku?”

Right as that question was answered, the dust that had been surrounding the girls suddenly whirled around them like a tornado before it collided into the shield and broke apart, letting Twilight and the others see the clearing around them. The lush green grass had been torn and ripped from the ground, leaving only nothing but the dark brown soil, and some roots sticking up and about here and there. Large scorched chunks of earth were sitting in random parts of the ground, some them having little volts of electricity emitting from them. All over were wooden parts of where the Timberwolves were, presumably having gone back into the forest

Before the Zephyr and the girls could comment on any of the carnage around them, Goku suddenly shot down in front of them. The ground shook violently and caused even more debree to go flying as she whipped her mane back and forth, giving a flick of her. After taking some time to catch her breath, the tan Thestral met the eyes of each of her friends, a small, yet relieved smile on her face.

“Oh wow! That was a real rush that I had up there! I haven’t unleashed an attack that powerful in a long time!” Goku exclaimed as she brushed her extended mane out of her face. “Are you girls okay?”

“We’re fine, that shield you had Rarity and I put up really did the trick in protecting us from that blast.” Twilight replied as she and the fashionista lowered the shield. “Though I do have to say one thing…that was a relatively impressive blast.”

The tan Thestral giggled. “Heh, it sure was! I did tell you guts that it was going to be crazy, and it turned out just as crazy as it became!”

“Yeah! That was one big blast you did there!” Pinkie Pie added as she bounced around the group. “That was bigger than any shot that I fired from my Party Cannon combined!”

“I agree, but um...Goku…” Fluttershy began, looking at the Pegasus with a slight frown. “Don’t you think you went a little overboard with that last attack?”

At these words, Goku blinked and looked around at the wooden remains Timberwolves that lay sprawled across the field, small electric volts emitting them. The tan Pegasus winced as she noticed a few of them still in the clearing, limping off into the forest.

“Yeah...I agree with you on there, Flutters. I did go way overboard with that move.” Goku sighed as she looked back at Fluttershy with an apologetic expression. “All I was trying to do was to stop them from trying to eat you guys. I didn’t think they’d be hurt this badly considering just what kind of creatures they are.”

“No creature is invincible Goku, no matter how much power they have or who made them into what they are.” Fluttershy said, letting out a sigh. “Still, at least you didn’t kill them...so there’s that at least.”

“Yeah, you didn’t need to worry about that.” Goku said reassuringly as she put a hoof on Fluttershy. “It’s like Twilight said, they were only following their primal instincts, nothing more, nothing less. I’m not gonna kill them over something like that.”

“Um, Goku, as touching as that is to hear you say that” Rarity said tentatively, her expression apprehensive. “…I think we may want to go now. We still have a mission we all need to head off on and accomplish, and if we stay here any longer, we will be the ones killed.”

“Um Rarity, with how much Goku kicked these wolves’ asses, I highly doubt they’ll be coming back for us anytime soon.” Rainbow snorted, rolling her eyes. “Still though, you have a point, we have a Nightmare’s ass that we gotta kick! And the sooner we get there, the sooner we can do just that!”

“Calm down Rainbow Dash, we’re gonna get there eventually.” Applejack interjected; irritation clear in her voice as she gave the cyan Pegasus a look of annoyance. “Not all of us can fly, let alone run as fast as you can! The least ya can do is keep at our pace!”

“Yeah, we don’t need you running off again like you did there.” Zephyr nodded as he began to follow Goku out of the clearing, the others following close behind. He suddenly noticed that one of them weren’t following the tan Thestral, and she looked behind her to see Fluttershy trudging behind them.

“Fluttershy dear,” Zephyr asked, stopping in his tracks. “Are you alright?”

“Huh? Oh um, yes...I-I’m fine.” The buttermilk Pegasus replied, looking up at Rarity with a tired expression as the others stopped and looked over at her. “I’m just...a little tired that’s all.”

“Ya’ll certainly don’t look like yer just tired sugarcube.” Applejack pointed out, her face morphing into one of doubt. “Are you sure yer feelin’ okay?”

“Y-yes, I sure.” Fluttershy replied, struggling to keep up on wobbling legs. “I...I just need to rest for a little bit...t-that’s all.”

Right as she said those words, the buttermilk Pegasus’s hind legs buckled and they collapsed under the weight, causing her to fall flat onto her rump. The others, taking notice of this immediately rushed over to her, their concern for their friend growing.

“Whoa, Fluttershy! Are you okay?!” Rainbow Dash asked, looking down at her fellow Pegasus in worry. “What’s wrong?! Why can’t you stand up?!”

The buttermilk Pegasus stayed silent, letting out deep, long and slow breaths as she struggled to keep herself upright and not black out right then and there. She slowly looked up at the concerned faces of Zephyr and her friends, her vision blurring as she opened her mouth to speak, but the growing exhaustion prevented her from doing so.

The next thing everypony, Fluttershy’s teal eyes rolled in the back of her head as she took in one final audible breath, before she fell to the ground unconscious. Just before she did, she heard the combined sound of her friends calling her name, their terrified voice echoing about the desecrated clearing.

“FLUTTERSHY!!!”

Author's Notes:

Heh, well whaddya know, I actually managed to do it; kind of not really expecting it to take as long as it did, but it looks like I was able to do it. For this one, I just decided to have the battled with the Timberwolves kept into one good chapter, with a few additional parts form a couple of parts form the other chapters of it that I had written. Other than that, along with Zephyr's additional role coming into play within the battle, I can say that this chapter went better than any of the ones I had written about the battle with the Timberwolves. Now, some of you may be wondering what was up about that very last scene in the chapter, but don't worry, all will be explained swiftly and efficiently. For now, we'll be going back on what's going on back in Ponyville with one final building climx with the Tantabus battle before things wind down.