Twilight Twinkleshine Sparkle’s nocturnal scythe clashed with the ethereal blades of Starlight Shadow’s own weaponry as a clang reverberated in midair. The shockwave of power echoed about the magic filled area as sparks flew from their sharpened weapons. They shared brief direct contact for a moment, their violet eyes piercing into one another’s like kunai knives. The two mares eventually separated, before Twilight flew at Starlight again, swinging her scythe down at her once more after spinning it like a disc through the air.

Starlight laughed, letting her ethereal blades lock with Twilight’s scythe as she pushed back against her force with all her magical might. One of her eyes looked up at Twilight through her curly two-toned mane as she giggled, “Ha! You almost had me there, Sparkle!”

Twilight didn’t respond, merely grunting as Starlight’s swords swung her backwards, creating an opening for the indigo Unicorn to attack. Without hesitation, Starlight lunged forward and pointed one of her swords at Twilight’s chest, aiming to pierce her heart. Twilight’s sharp eyes saw it coming unfortunately, and her wings enclosed around her. Their durability kept Starlight’s blades from cutting into them, but that didn’t mean it didn’t hurt like Tartarus for Twilight.

‘Shit, now I know that’s going to leave a sting!’ Twilight thought to herself, flaring her wings to push Starlight back. ‘It didn’t hurt as much as it did while I was increasing my pain tolerance during my training with my dad, but now…! Dammit, I really wish I didn’t slack of so much in my training and mainly focused on my studies!’

“Yoo-hoo, you shouldn’t let yourself get distracted right now!” Starlight’s voice pierced through Twilight’s thoughts like the blades she wielded. “I’m still here!”

“Dammit!” Twilight cursed, raising her scythe defensively against Starlight’s swords. Out of her peripheral vision, she noticed a flock of them surrounding Starlight like it did minutes ago, and it let her know exaclty what was about to happen. ‘Oh no, I gotta move!’

“Space Magic: Ethereal Sword Flock!” Starlight shouted, shooting a hoof forward as the swords flew at Twilight moments later. Twilight’s massive wings of ebony flapped hard, taking her away from the swords that flew through the air and stabbed the room. Some of them barely managed to get at her elongated tails skirt, but other than losing a few tail hairs, Twilight was otherwise unharmed. As Twilight began to slow down, she suddenly noticed that Starlight was no longer in front of her. Eyes widening, she looked up and saw Starlight diving towards her, and Twilight once again found herself clashing blades with her.

“Surprise!” Starlight said gleefully, her violet eyes glowing as a cosmetic aura surrounded her. “Bet you weren’t anticipating me to try to strike from above huh?”

“No, not really.” Twilight replied firmly, baring her fangs at Starlight as her back hooves slid across the smooth blue floor. “I wasn’t just expecting you to vanish and appear in front of me so fast!”

With that last word shouted, Twilight drove one of her hooves into Starlight’s gut, causing her to hunch over as Twilight delivered a sock to her face. Spinning around, she let her armored hindhooves slam into her stomach, sending Starlight tumbling across the ground. Spitting out blood, Starlight looked up at Twilight only to see her flying at her with her scythe reared back.

“Sparkle Scythe Meister: Letter C Hunter!” She shouted, swinging her scythe forward and letting a large wave of slashing magic shoot out from the blade. Starlight’s eyes widened as she saw the attack coming at her, and she leaped away just in time for the attack to slice right into the ground beneath her. As she surveyed the damage, her eyes grew even bigger at how deep the slice was within the floor.

“Holy shit! You actually made a split into the floor!” Starlight cried, looking back up at Twilight, who was hovering in front of her. “How did you even manage to do that?!”

“Isn’t obvious, the answers staring you right in the eyes.” Twilight replied, twirling her scythe in her hooves. “Though, if you want a simpler explanation, it’s because of the powers that that the clan that my father originates from has. They allow us to gain supernatural strength and use exponential levels of magic, both physically, and…well, magically. Although for this power, we’re given more…darker versions of power, such as this scythe, but it’s specifically designed to eradicate all forms of evil, no matter what it may be. Thanks to the power that I’m using right now, I’m able to conjure it through my scythe, or any other weapon that I can use. Which is why I was able to create the damage to the floor that I did just now.”

“That’s…a pretty straightforward explanation there.” Starlight murmured, glancing back down at the slice in the ground. She was unsurprised when she saw it begin to fix itself, albeit a bit slower than the last time it was severely damaged. “What else can that mode of yours let you do?”

Twilight flicked her tail, blowing her elongated bang from her face. “Well, other than allowing me to use powers that’re more or less similar to Goku’s, though not quite as strong, it can let me absorb the powers of my enemies. Although, the way I do it requires me to take more savage and…animalistic measures.”

Now it was Starlight’s turn to pause. “What’s that supposed to mean?”

Twilight’s eyes narrowed, pointing her scythe at Starlight in retaliation. “You’ll have to find out for yourself. Sparkle Scythe Meister: Number Six Hunter!”

Without warning, Twilight swung her scythe again and swung another slashing attack at Starlight, this one being in the number six shape. It went at a far faster pace that Starlight was not able to dodge or evade, and she found herself slammed into the wall. Starlight cried out in pain as she spat out a bit of blood, watching as Twilight soared towards her.

“Oh no you don’t!” Starlight shouted, pulling herself out of the hole in the wall. “You’re not gonna get to slice me up that easily! Space Magic: Ethereal Wave!”

Aiming her horn towards Twilight, Starlight shot a huge wave of ethereal magic right at the bat winged Unicorn, the magic tearing through the air. Twilight’s ears pinned back as she ignited her own horn, a dark purple aura surrounding it.

“Death Horn Cannon!” She shouted, letting the magic around her horn explode like cannon fire, watching as it collided with Starlight’s ethereal wave. The two mares found themselves locked in a powerful magic ethereal struggle, an explosion coming a few moments later. Thanks to Twilight’s sharpened vision, she had no trouble sailing through the smoke and towards Starlight, who was trying to look for her the smoke.

“Got you!” Twilight shouted, swinging her scythe down and letting the blade slash across Starlight’s face with all her might. Thanks to how quickly the strike came, Starlight didn’t realize that she had gotten cut for at least a couple of seconds. Once the pain set in however, she found herself screaming as one of her hooves flew to her face to stop the black blood from blinding her, allowing Twilight to attack again. Starlight’s screaming turned into gagging as Twilight let the end of her scythe slam into her chest, a soft, yet audible crack following just a split second later. The dark purple winged Unicorn watched as Starlight reeled through the air, and once again crumbled into the ground in a heap.

“Grr…dammit, I can’t believe that you nearly blinded me!” Starlight hissed, glaring at Twilight with her one visible eye. “I was totally not ready for that last attack you know!”

“Well, it’s not like I had attacked you from behind or anything.” Twilight murmured, frowning back at the indigo Unicorn. “I just happened to see and opening an caught you off guard, and you just weren’t able to evade it in time.”

“Yes, but still, you were this close from making me go half blind, which would’ve put me at a serious disadvantage in this fight!” Starlight growled, wiping the inky black blood form her face before she revealed her wounded face. Ethereal mist suddenly emerged from the wound where Starlight’s right eye was, and Twilight watched in silent awe as the wound healed. “You’re so lucky that Queen Moon granted us these powers, otherwise you’d really be seeing me lose it with that sneak attack of yours!”

“Isn’t that what you were doing just a minute ago?” Twilight asked, tilting her head as her bat-like ears flicked. “I mean, you were coming at me particularly hard with your last few attacks, and I could feel that you were not holding back in any of them.”

“Yeah, but that’s only because I was having the time of my life trying to learn your strengths and weaknesses in this in this fight!” Starlight retorted, slamming a hoof down on the glittering floor. “Now though, I think I may need to teach you what happens when you try to attack me when I least expect it, especially in a column of smoke! Space Magic: Wave of Outer Space!”

With a whinny, Starlight conjured up her swords, and once again shot them towards Twilight, followed by a wave of space-like energy. Like before, Twilight stayed suspended in the air, her sharp eyes following the swords movements she deflected them with her scythe. Once they were gone, Twilight used her magic to split apart the wave of space magic that was threatening to wash her up and sweep her in it. This hardly prove to be effective when the magic suddenly began to coil around the spot she was hovering.

“Good luck trying to save yourself like that!” Starlight laughed. “This wave of magic is designed in a way that no matter how much you slice and cut into it. It’s just going to keep coming back at you! You’ll have to find some other way to save yourself from it!”

Twilight hissed as she dodged a few streaks of the space wave, some of them just narrowly managing to get her before she blasted it off. She looked up just in time to see it rising above her, its shadow casting over her before it came crashing down towards her. Twilight only had time to scream before she was engulfed in the sparkling wave of magic, much to Starlight’s immense glee.

“Yes, I finally got you!” Starlight cheered; a wide grin stretched across her face. With a simple command from her horn, she made the space magic expand, allowing her to see Twilight’s head through its coils. “How’re you going to get yourself out of there now?!”

Twilight hissed in discomfort as she tried to free herself from the space magic that had her coiled within its grasp, but the more she did, the tighter it began to squeeze. With a frustrated cry, she glared down at Starlight and said, “You just don’t know when to quit, do you?”

“Me?! Look at yourself trying to get out of something as powerful as the magic of outer space!” Starlight retorted. “You literally have nothing but your head sticking out of there, and I highly doubt that’s going to anything for you!”

At this, Twilight paused, looking up at her horn, before looking down at the magic that had her within its grasp. With a smirk that showed every inch of her glistening fangs, she shouted, “Well, maybe not my scythe or my physical strength at the moment, but my horn can!”

Shutting her eyes tightly, Twilight focused on channeling her energy to horn, and with a final push, turned into a large sphere of magic. It expanded across the room and tore away at the waves of space magic that had her in it grasp, leaving her able to fly freely. Without wasting any time, she grabbed her scythe and hurled it at a shocked Starlight.

“Sparkle Scythe Meister: Letter U Hunter Barrage!” She shouted, swinging her scythe in front of her repeatedly. A flock of ‘U’ shaped slices emerged and sailed towards Starlight, who conjured up a shield to block them from slicing into her. Just as she deactivated it, Twilight was once again in front of her, and this time, Twilight was too fast for her to evade.

“You’re mine now!” Twilight yelled, slamming the top metallic bar of her scythe into Starlight’s chest. A mixture of pain and terror made up for the gasp that left Starlight’s throat as she was slammed into the ground, with the blade of Twilight’s scythe aimed at her throat.

“It looks like you’re in a bit of a tight spot right now.” Twilight said, one of her eyes shadowed by her extended bangs. “What do you have planned to try to escape me?”

“Seriously? This is how you’re going to finish me off?” Starlight asked, hardly fazed by the blade pressed against her neck. “You do realize that you’re only gonna waste your strength like this, right?”

“You think I don’t know that? You’re practically oozing of dark magic, which is all that your body is made out of, so I know that you’re not really real.” Twilight shot back, her brows furrowing. “The very same thing this power of mine is made to destroy, and judging from how much there is, it’ll prove to be exceptionally beneficial for me.”

“Beneficial? What in the hay are-” Starlight froze, looking again at Twilight’s scythe, then at her fangs, and into her cat-like eyes. “Wait, do you mean that this power of yours lets you increase and amplify your magical reserves?!”

“Yes, that’s right, my family, on my father’s side, are known for absorbing the magical essence o anything that is even remotely dark and evil. Which by the way, gave us the nickname as the Soul Eaters of Tartarus.” Twilight replied, her eyes glowing. “I don’t even need to feel your magic to know that there is evil reeking off of you, and it’s no thanks to Nightmare Moon.” Her expression softened slightly. “Don’t worry though, whatever she did to you, I’ll free you from it. It’s apparent that you’re not from this timeline, based on what Nightmare Moon told me about you and your other friends.” She raised her scythe in the air, aiming right for the Magic Life Force Gemstone in Starlight’s chest. “After I finish with you, Nightmare Moon is next, and I'll make her we make her pay for all she's done. To Celestia, to Luna to me, my friends, and everypony else in our town!”

At this, Starlight snarled and shouted, “Like hay I'll let you do that, you bitch!”

Without warning, Twilight felt something sharp stab right into her stomach before it pushed her away from the enraged Unicorn. Blood flew from Twilight’s mouth as she crashed to the floor, her scythe clanking to next to her in a heap. Twilight moaned with pain as she pushed herself up, looking into the angry violet eyes of her adversary.

“There is no way that I’m going to let you go anywhere near our Queen of the Dark! If you then you really need Curaçao to knock some sense into your thick skull!” She shouted, waves of space-like magic swirling around her. “We are the Savage Six, the strongest members of the Dark Army, and it is our sole duty to protect our Queen from any threat, which includes you!”

“The only threat here is your Queen herself, the very same Queen who I saw stab mine right before my eyes.” Twilight retorted with a wheeze, forcing herself onto her hooves. “She’s also the very same Queen that is in control of the real Lunar Goddesses’ body, and as long as she is, she’s a threat to me, me friends, and home, and Equestria. No matter what, me and my friends have to stop her, even if it means going through you.”

“Well, you’re going to have a tough time with that Sparkle.” Starlight breathed icily. “I still have plenty of magic condensed in my arsenal to obliterate you into nothingness. Let’s see how long you can hold out before you can even think of fulfilling that vow.”

Twilight bared her elongated curved teeth, gripping her scythe with her magic as it glowed with her energy. “Challenge accepted, Starlight Shadow Majikku.”

Applejack whinnied a loud battle cry as she galloped full speed towards Curacao, her right hoof reared back in preparation for an uppercut. The ocean blue Earth Pony’s slitted eyes allowed her to evade the movement, even as Applejack went in for another punch with her left hoof. It was met with a block, before Curacao slammed her other hoof into Applejack’s hardened face, sending her face whipping to the other side. Applejack stumbled on her hooves as she struggled to maintain her balance, and once she did, she went for the other armored earth pony again. One of her hind legs lifted to slam into Curaçao’s head, only for the other mare to block that with one of her forelegs, before grabbing it and spinning Applejack in the air. The farmer neighed in surprise as she was thrown into one of the walls crashing into them as she fell to the ground.

With a bat-like screech and a neigh, Curaçao shot off toward Applejack was she was propping herself back up. Her eyes widened upon seeing Curaçao approaching, and Applejack scrambled to her hooves and got out of the way just in time. As Curaçao slammed her hindhooves into the wall, Applejack leaped at her, her forehooves outstretched to grab Curaçao and slam her into the ground.

“Black Cloud Jump!” Curaçao suddenly shouted, leaping and kicking the air so hard that she jumped in the air. She repeated this action several more times before coming down on Applejack, one of her cloven armored hooves outstretched. “Dark Hoof Bullet!”

Applejack leapt in the air, doing several backflips in the process as Curaçao let her hoof leave a massive hole and multiple cracks in the floor. As Applejack landed a few feet away from her, she made eye contact with her opponent for just a moment, before she launched her next move.

“Dark Flash!” Curaçao suddenly shouted, vanishing in a flash of darkness, faster than Applejack could blink. She frantically looked around, and her golden white eyes caught side of Curaçao coming in from behind her. Applejack whirled around and let one of her hooves slam into Curacao’s own hooves, causing a shock wave to emit form the force.

“Dark Hoof Bullet: Barrage!” Curaçao shouted, and her hooves became a blur as she let them slam into Applejack’s armored forelegs. Applejack gritted her teeth from the force of the punches, but managed to keep herself suspended upright, up until Curacao planned another move. Her eyes caught one of her hindlegs trying to swing at her, and, almost out of instinct Applejack countered it with her own hindlegs and send it off in the other direction. Just as she was about to face her again, Applejack noticed a reddish black slice come out of Curacao’s leg, and slice right through the glittering walls.

“What in buckin’ tarnation?!” Applejack inadvertedly shouted before she could stop herself, caught off guard. This moment of distraction allowed Curacao to buck the Sweet Apple Titan right in her face, before grabbing her tail and throwing her into the ground. As Curacao lunged for her, Applejack’s back hooves suddenly shot up and collided with her opponent’s muzzle, sending her tumbling across the ground.

“Heh, ya almost had me there, hon’…but ya may have gotten a lil’ too carried away back there.” Applejack murmured, wiping at her hardened mouth as she glanced behind her. “That was what allowed me t’ pull off that lil’ counterattack Ah gave ya.”

Curacao snorted, spitting blood from her mouth as she stared at Applejack. “Yeah, Ah noticed that thank ya very much. Ya made that pretty obvious from th’ fact thay ya nearly knocked out mah damn teeth. You really caught me off there with that attack.”

“Look who’s talkin’!” Applejack shot back, flicking her free tail. “Ya totally took me by surprise when ya pulled off that little kickin’ attack ya did there! It was a good thing Ah countered it, otherwise Ah would’ve had my damn head sliced off like an apple pie!”

“I think your overexaggerating it a bit there…” Curacao murmured with a slight chuckle. “Ah can say fer certain that you wouldn’t have been decapitated. Even so, you certainly would’ve had a really nasty wound, either on your neck or on your face. One that you would certainly have branded on ya fer a real long time.”

Applejack frowned confusedly. “What th’ hay do ya mean by that?”

“Well…let’s just say that the injuries inflicted by my family are ones that pretty much nothin’ can truly heal.” Curacao replied, rubbing the back of her head. “T’ put it more simply, you’d have a permanent scar from it if it doesn’t kill ya. If ya hadn’t evaded that last attack, that was what would’ve happened, but you got lucky that time.”

“…Ah really don’t see how that’s such a bad thing.” Applejack said after some silence had passed between them. “Ah’ve gotten plenty o’ scars back in th’ four years that Ah spent tryin’ t’ master this power o’ mine. So, Ah don’t really understand why that’d be such a problem if Ah got another ‘specially if it’s from you.”

“Well, given that you are a farmer, you make a valid point ‘bout that.” Curacao murmured, giving a shrug of her shoulders. “Ah’m sure yer wonderin’ just what the hay it was that Ah conjured up back there right? Well, to Answer whatever question ya may have, what as was about to use was called the Black Tempest Slice, one o’ may families Six Powers.”

Applejack froze, her white eyes widening as she took an involuntary step back. “S-S-Six…P-P-Powers?”

“Oh, so ya heard o’ that type o’ power have ya?” Curacao asked noticing the shocked look on the armored farmer’s face. “Heh, what am Ah sayin’? O’ course you should know it. What farmer that has powers like ours doesn’t?”

“Ah do…members like mah o’ th’ Apples, Grapes, Carrots, and Corns have ‘em…not exactly the same, but pretty similar.” Applejack replied, calming down slightly. “S-so…yer sayin’ that yer able t’ use ‘em too?”

“Yer damn tootin’ mah little sweet slice, only mine ‘r a bit more…darker than yers.” Curaçao replied, running a hoof through her dark armor. “Not t’ mention it packs a hay of a lot more of a wallop when it makes direct contact with its intended target. Somethin’ that yer sure t’ experience before Ah end this lil’ duel o’ ours.”

“Oh crap…that is not good fer me, ‘specially since Ah haven’t really heard o yer…other family before, o’ th’ Tyrants.” Applejack muttered, biting her lip. “If it’s true that you can use the same Six Powers that we can use, then that means Ah’m at a real disadvantage. Which means th’ only way that can even stand a chance t’ par against is fer me t’ use…”

“That’s right, ya gotta use yer own six abilities so you can try to stay even with me.” Curacao replied, holding back her laughter. “Though, jus’ sayin’ Ah highly doubt that they’ll stand much of a chance against mine, especially with all o’ the training Ah put int’ mine.”

“Don’t get so cocky there sugarcube.” Applejack growled, stomping one of her forehooves. “Ah may not have had as much experience as you in battle, but that don’t mean Ah don’t know a thing ‘r two mahself. Ya even think of underestimatin’ me, an’ you’ll be in fer a real world of hurt.”

“Who said Ah wasn’t expectin’ ya t’ give me a worthy fight? Ah could tell that ya weren’t holdin’ back, even if ya didn’t use all o’ yer moves.” Curacao giggled. “Still though, Ah’m curious as to how much, hurt, you can dish out on me.”

“Careful now, ya may get jus’ that.” Applejack murmured, lowering herself in preparation. “Ah can’t promise that you’ll like what Ah have t’ give though. Ya my end up regrettin’ makin’ me t’ do jus’ that.”

“Well, let’s see where this fight takes us then.” Curaçao murmured, flicking her tail. “Th’ sooner Ah see what ya have cooked up fer me, the better.”

Applejack smirked. “Now that we can agree on.”

Pinkie Pie giggled jovially as she bounced and jumped around the room that she and Red Velvet were in, the latter slashing at the former with her bloody blades. Deep cuts were made in the floor as a result of the darker pink mare’s attacks, and the windows were smashed due to the shockwaves behind them. Every so often, Pinkie Pie shot off large vines at Red to keep some distance from them, only for the vines to be repeatedly sliced and cut down. Relentlessly, Pinkie Pie used the power of her elemental transformation to catch her opponent in some kind of hold so she could strike back. Red, undeterred by the incoming elements, used her bloody weapons to deflect or block them from her, before retaliating in kind with her blades.

“Bloody Slicers!” Red shouted, swinging her scarlet blade out at Pinkie and causing a flock of slashes to appear. With armored Earth Pony snorted and merely ducked and dodged through them, jumping over a few before bounding towards red. Thanks to the armor covering her hooves, it allowed her to clash against her blades without worrying about having to get cut for, for the time being.

“Is that really all that you have up your sleeve Reddy?” Pinkie Pie asked, smiling slightly at a smirking Red. “I know that you have a heck of a lot more party energy packed up in you, so why the small attack?”

“Oh nothing, just testing out your strength and durability as all.” Red replied, gripping her blade tightly with her hooves. “It’s gotta be hard for you to have to control all of those elements all at once, so’ I’m seeing if you have proper control over them.”

Pinkie Pie frowned, leaping back as Red drew her blade black and tried to bring it down onto her face. “What’re you talking about?! Of course, I have total control over my super-duper colorful powers right now! Why else would you think that I’d have all six of them out here in the open right now?! Even if they’re not completely in view!”

“Mmmmm, that’s true.” Red nodded, spinning her blade in her grip. “Still though, one’s power can run amok without the proper control behind it. You look like you have control over it now, but I wonder how long that’s going to last!” Pointing her blade forward, a small orb of magic appeared in front of it as she shouted. “Bloody Flying Needles!”

Eyes widening, Pinkie Pie frantically dodged the multiple large and extremely sharp needles that were trying to penetrate her. At one point, one of the needles manage to slice her across one of her cheeks, and Pinkie was not prepared for the searing pain that came afterward. Pain that made her let out a pain-filled scream as she clutched her cheek.

“Hurts, doesn’t it?” Red asked, smiling sadistically. “Something I forgot to mention about this little bloody power of mine. Each of these needles has contains a heated sensation of magic that’ll make you feel like you’re being burned by fire. It’s a good thing that you got hit by only one of these needles, because you’d be in a world of fiery pain of you had gotten hit by it all!”

“Oh, don’t you even think of giving me that you dirty little lying meanie pants!” Pinkie Pie shouted, glaring daggered with her tri-colored eyes. “You left that fact out on purpose so I’d be angrier that you didn’t tell me what would happen if it hit me!”

“Well, it’s not like I’d tell you my powers effects so you can think of how to avoid them. which would only give you more of an advantage over me.” Red shrugged, blowing her dark pink bangs from her face. “Then again, even if you did, you’d still be in a real pickle if I just used some other chaotic power of mine.”

“Y-yeah well…it’s still a cheap shot! One that I’m going to make you pay for!” Pinkie Pie shouted, her eyes glowing as she slammed her forelegs on the ground. Rearing in the air, a large orb of fire appeared in her hoof as she shouted, “Fire Hoof!”

Faster than Red could blink, Pinkie Pie launched her hoof forward and a large stream of fire sailed towards Red at breakneck speed. Red went wide-eyed at the sudden attack, and she used her bloody blade to slash at the fire and split it in two. She leaped over the fire before it could reform, and aimed to descended upon Pinkie, her sword drawn back above her head.

“Bloody Wave Slash!” Red shouted, swinging her sword down and sending a large slash of red down at Pinkie Pie. The earth brown mare’s eyes looked up to see it coming, and she cancelled out her fire attack to create to go on the offensive.

“Ice Cone!” Pinkie shouted, slamming her forehooves onto the ground and making a large shield of ice around her. It came just in the nick of time, and the red wave slash clashed with the ice shield, some ice shattered from the force of it. It didn’t, however, shatter the entire cone, and sure enough the wave of energy dispersed, just as Red landed back down on the floor.

“Nice try, but that little icy shield isn’t going to protect you from me!” Red growled, pointing her sword forward. “Bloody Explosion!”

With a loud boom, an even bigger orb of red shot from Red’s blade, and it slammed into Pinkie’s ice shield with enough force to make it explode upon impact. Red shielded her eyes form the shards of ice that flew through the air, and when it vanished, she looked over to where Pinkie was. Or at least, where she used to be after the ice cone was destroyed from the dark pink mare’s attack.

“What the hay?!” Red gasped, looking around at the battle room. “Where the buck did you go, huh?! Come out before I slice you to pieces and make you into a red velvet cupcake!”

The dark pink mare got no response, but instead got a child-like giggle that echoed off of the walls. She suddenly felt a surge of electricity coming from below her, and looked down, only to see Pinkie Pie under her, a wide grin plastered on her face.

“Surprise!” She said cheerfully, before she launched her attack. “Lightning Hooves!”

The next thing Red knew, she found herself screaming in pain as Pinkie slammed her forehooves into her chest, right where her gemstone was. Red found herself launched into the air as she was ripped apart from the inside by multiple volts of electricity. She fell to the ground with a sickening splat as smoke rose from her charred mane and tail, a moan of pain leaving her.

“Awww, what’s the matter Reddie? Not able to take being struck by lightning?” Pinkie asked, her lower lip stuck out. It soon vanished and was replaced with a glare that was as dark as the void-like pupils she bore. “Well, that’s what you get for pulling that last cheap shot on me! Nopony makes a party pooper of me and gets away with it!”

Red growled, coughing black blood from her mouth as she slowly rose from the ground. Slowly turning her head, she let one of her icy blue eyes glare at the other Earth Pony as she bared her bloodied teeth. “So, you wanna play it like that, huh Pinkie Pie? Alright then, we’ll have this little party your way!”

Exploding to her hooves, Red shot one of them out, and her sword flew through the air and rested in her grip. Raising it in the air, she slammed it down on the ground as it began to glow brightly, before Red shouted, “Bloody Crimson Wave!”

To Pinkie’s repulsed shock, a large wave of scarlet exploded from out of the ground after a pool of it had appeared around Red. It washed over the floor like a giant angry wave crashing onto the shore of a beach, heading straight towards the other mare. Holding back the urge to gag, Pinkie slammed her forehooves onto the ground again, and shouted, “Wave of Ice!”

Just as Red’s wave of crimson was about to drown Pinkie Pie, a large watery wave of ice exploded from out of her, clashing with the wave of red. The sound of crashing water echoed about the room as the two liquid abilities fought each other in a powerful struggle over power. Red poured all that she had within her crimson wave, but Pinkie did as well, just as tirelessly as she, and after a while, the two attacks finally gave out. They both exploded into a giant mixture of red and blue liquid as they leapt back from the carnage, however little there was.

“Whoa, now that was a close one!” Pinkie exclaimed. “For a second there I thought that I was going to drown in all of that stuff! I so did not want taste a single drop of that!”

Red growled, ripping her blade from out of the floor as a tick mark appeared on her head. “That wasn’t meant for you to taste, let alone drink! It was made to drown you to drown in my Blood Crimson Wave’s steamy sensation! Just like you said was almost about to happen, until you pulled off that little wave of water on it!”

“Well, it’s a good think that I’m able to use a mixture of water and snow then huh? That was the first thing that came into mind when I saw that really nasty wave of blood coming at me!” Pinkie Pie retorted, finding that time to stick to her tongue out in disgust. “I mean seriously, it smelled sooooo bad! Like a super-duper delicious cupcake that’s been rotting away for weeks and weeks and weeks, except you don’t notice it until it really hits you in the nose!”

“Yeah well, it’s not gonna work on me again, you little silly filly!” Red countered, blatantly ignoring the look of revulsion on Pinkie’s face. “You’re still gonna be in a world of pain by the time we’re finished here, and it’s going to be on hay of a party for me!”

“Hey! That’s my line!” Pinkie accused, jabbing a hoof at Red. “Nopony steals lines from me and gets away with it! That was a whole new level of low!”

“Oh, really now?” Red giggled, running a hoof across her blade. “Well then, why don’t you make me take it back? If you can try, given that sneaky little move you did on me.”

Pinkie giggled as well, flashing a wide grin that paled in comparison to the tone in her voice as she spoke, “As you wish…Reddie~.”

Author's Notes:

Mmmmm...I fell alright about this next chapter with the fight between the Main Seven I guess, Nightmare Moon and the Savage Six. One of the main things that really bugged me about this while writing it is what kind of techniques and names of said moves I should give to the girls and their adversaries while they were dueling. It was much easier for me to do it with the Savage Six than it was for the Main Seven, mainly because I already had them thought up off the top of my head, unlike with the other girls. One the thoughts of Soul Eater and One Piece entered my mind however, it slowly, but surely began to become more easier for me, especially since I didn't want Applejack's fight to be one of just Marital Arts with Curaçao, like how it is on Attack On Titan. Looking over the techniques, I feel like I flushed it out well, especially with Pinkie Pie's fight with Red Velvet and all. Also, for those of you who were wondering if Applejack was going to unleash her own Six Powers, don't worry, you'll see it soon, at least in the next chapter after this one. As for Twilight, yes, her techniques are based off of Soul Eater, with Maka Albarn and her partner Soul's own combined techniques, and I'm pretty sure that you guys can guess why I picked that anime for Twilight's powers to come from, other than Levy Mcgarden's Solid Script Magic from Fairy Tail.

Well, that's all for now, get read to see our dear fashionista in a graceful battle with her greedy counterpart, after we see a divine duel and another look back into the Light and Dark Armies!!!