Author's Notes:

Well, you asked for it, and me and Shadowmane provided it. Finally, at long last a Stardust centered chapter. Thoughts are welcomed.

Celestia supposed it started soon before Sunfall Dawn, and what she had told her son even as the sun broiled Equestria to a crisp.

“I’m sorry my son, but we can’t be here for you right now. By Faust, I wish we could, but we have to save the world right now. But I-I promise, no I Pinkie Promise. When the day is over, all will be set right. C-cross my h-heart, hope to fly. S-Stick a cupcake in my eye.”

“Mommy, what’s going on? Why is it so hot? Why is everyone so afraid? Please! Tell me, I want to know!”

“It is nothing for you to worry about my son. As I said, by the end of the day when all is said and done everything will be put right once more and I will be able to hold you in my arms once again.”

“Are you sure? Please tell me I will see you again mommy!”

“Yes, you will. You’ll see all of us someday, I can promise you that. I’m… I’m sorry, I’m so sorry my son. I wish you didn’t have to know, but it seems I have no choice. That promise I made? You know the one? It’s one I’m afraid Twilight and I will have to break. The sun, it’s currently scorching the planet to a husk, and I’m… I’m afraid I won’t be able to hold it back for much longer. Listen, I know you’re afraid, but there’s one thing I want you to do for me. Can you do that, my son?

Carry on Equestria’s legacy, teach the magic of Friendship to everyone, it’s just what Twilight and I would have wanted you to do understand? Carry on our wills. Be the next Prince of Friendship, carry on my will. Carry on Twilight’s will. Carry on Luna’s will. I’m sorry, I wish I didn’t have to force this on you my son But I have no choice. You are my legacy, you are my son. My little sunshine, my little Stardust. Please, can you do this one last thing for your mother?”

“Y-Yes, I’ll try. C-Cross my heart, hope to fly. Stick a cupcake in my eye.”

Tell someone they would save the world, and chances were they’d probably get it into their heads that they’d do exactly just that. Celestia, honestly at the time meant well but she never knew things would get so far.

“The Path of the Dragon is a long and harsh one, but a glorious one in the end. If I don't do it, who will? Someone must carry on my aunt’s legacy as the first Kyuranger, Draco Violet, so why not I?”

Even before that incident, his first recorded morph Stardust had got into his head that he would be the one to be the greatest hero Equus had ever seen, and in his words: “I am a man who walks the path of the heavens to rule over everything, Stardust Sparkle. The Eye of the Dragon, and a national treasure.”

Celestia knew she should have stopped him then and there, but she relented. No, she was hesitant. Why wouldn’t she be? Stardust was her son after all, and she raised him even if only as an AI to be the one to shepherd the last of Equus and what remained to the stars, finding this new home for them.

Only the best was good enough for her, only the best swordsmen and tutors, and only the best cooks and only the best of anything was good enough for her. In hindsight, she’d failed him just like she failed her adoptive nephew Blueblood. She, by her own stupidity and her own hubris had failed to notice what her son was growing into, an arrogant young man who believed he could do anything he desired once he set his mind to it. And the problem was, over half the time he could do that thanks to the tutors he’d been given making him believe that he was the best of the best.

The first thing Celestia did, well that was have herself be reintroduced to Stardust a few years after he’d awakened and her personality was uploaded into an AI Matrix.

“Got a surprise for you,” Flurry had said, leading Stardust to this room full of databank after databank, lights blinking on and off as streams of data uploaded themselves through wires and cords towards one huge central processing unit with a holographic projector. “Been a few years in the making, but…”

Switches were flipped on, and in a swirling blue form of data and code, the familiar figure of Celestia Solaris came to life once more, taking in a deep breath and sighing.

“M-Mom…?” Stardust asked, the thirteen year old’s mouth quivering. He knew what both of his mothers had sacrificed, all just to buy him and the rest of Equestria a little more time. “Is… Is that you?” he whispered as he reached out to touch the projection.

“Hello, Stardust.” Celestia gave him a smile, despite the modulation in her voice. “How long has it been? How long have I been… gone?” she asked not entirely sure if she wanted to know.

“Thirteen years, at least from my perspective. It’s probably been longer for you, really,” Stardust replied still not exactly able to believe it. Flurry nodded in confirmation, not exactly believing this was actually Celestia. It was just a crude copy of her, thought up from data and the memories everyone had of her in the history books.

“One million years, that’s how long it’s been,” Flurry stated coldly. “One million years since the Sun burned.”

“A million years?” Celestia recoiled as those words sunk into her digital cortex. Despite being a faux created to ease the pain and supply some sense of comfort for the crew, even she knew how to properly emote. “What of Twilight? And her friends? Are they…”

Celestia cursed herself in memory and let out a small sniffle, Twilight’s friends had died long before Sunfall Dawn due to the simple passage of time, and Twilight… Her wife, the only chance she had of surviving was if someone had uploaded her to this matrix like they did herself.

“Please, don’t pain yourself, ‘Celestia’,” Flurry stifled the pain herself with a wince. “There was nothing we could’ve done to save them. Unicorns, pegasi and Earth Ponies are… sadly mortal.”

“And those you did save, did they make it to the bunkers? Is Equestria’s dream… alive?” Celestia asked hesitantly, noting the cold aloof tone in Flurry’s voice. Of course Flurry would never accept her as she was now, to her she must have looked like a poor copy of her real aunt just staring her in the face like a ghost.

“Well… yes and no, in a way.” Flurry swallowed. She knew that this day was coming. “Those that we did save? Well, you see, there’s this… problem.”

“What sort of problem?” Celestia asked, even if she already knew. After the sun would burn out, Equestria and it’s lands would cool down, rapidly to the point of the next great ice age. A global freeze, impossible to stop and with every passing year the planet growing ever the more colder.

“Yes, they were moved to the bunkers but after that, some of us are still trying to work our way through the new status quo. The new undercities, they won’t protect us from the cold forever. Sooner or later… Equus, it will become uninhabitable.”

“Un… uninha…” Stardust was still trying to figure out what the word meant.

Celestia sighed. She knew Stardust would have to grow up, but she hoped it wouldn’t be this fast. “Uninhabitable, an adjective. It means: unfit for habitation.” she told her son.

“Basically, it’s so cold that nopony could live there, unless they turn into ice sculptures.” Flurry patted his back and pulled him close. “Nopony can stay alive on the planet, Stardust. At least, not on the surface.”

And even then Flurry knew she was lying to him, as even living underground wouldn’t save them for long. One day soon, Equus would freeze over in every place from the pits and it’s nooks and crannies. Nopony would be able to survive, not even Alicorns. And so this, she explained to both her ‘aunt’ and to Stardust.

“Mom?” Stardust, now shrivelling in his spot hid half of his face behind his mane. “Where do ponies go after they go to sleep forever?”

“That’s… that’s a question I’d like to know the answer to as well,” Celestia whispered, thinking of both her parents and the many friends and lovers she’d lost throughout the ages. Stardust, she sighed to herself. No child of hers or anyone else for that matter should have had to grow up this fast. And yet because of the circumstances he would have to.

“Flurry, have you kept it?” Celestia asked, and in hindsight she would recognize this moment as the one that possibly became her greatest failure. “My sister’s Kyutama?”

“Yes… Yes, I have.” Flurry replied, fishing it out of her pockets showing off the bauble to the Celesti-AI. “Never left my side, auntie.”

“Give it to him, now.” Celestia ordered, looking towards Stardust.

“No. No way. Absolutely NOT!” Flurry threw her hands to the side. “He doesn’t deserve to go through this kind of pain! He’s the only living memory I have of you and Twilight!”

“Flurry, as much as I love you, I do but you’re being selfish,” Celestia replied sternly. “You can’t rule solo forever, and I hate to sound arrogant here but the residents of Equestria have always looked up to me as a guiding figure. I know you’ve done your best to keep my son out of the spotlight, but he’s always been destined to help lead Equus to a new age now more than ever!”

“Then forgive me for what I’m about to say, but destiny can go and suck a fat one!” Flurry snapped as she violently slammed her arms to her sides and crossed them. She turned her back to the AI, barely even giving her the luxury of a glance. “I’m not putting him through this, he deserves to be able to act like a thirteen-year-old just that little bit longer!”

“If… If I might have a say?” Stardust whispered nervously. “You’re not asking for my opinion on this, and I want to help save my people, however I can. So… I’ll do it.” he said, taking the Kyutama and in a gold flash of light a long cane tipped with a golden dragon’s head manifested in his other hand.

“Please, Stardust. I don’t want you to die…” Flurry’s eyes quickly flooded with tears as she looked at the thirteen-year-old placing a hand on his shoulder. “This is a dangerous job, and a massive responsibility. Not just dangerous as in mommy burned the food or daddy forgot to pay his taxes again, but dangerous dangerou-”

“Save it!” Stardust shouted, slapping her hand away. “You’ve always treated me like a child. Well, guess what! I haven’t been a child for years, not since I saw my mother die right in front of me!”

“I… I see.” Flurry whispered looking away to hide her tears. “So be it.”

And so the training began.

First thing Celestia had asked of her subjects was to get Stardust properly trained up in the art of swordsmanship, asking a pegasus known as Stormrage Fury -Who looked every bit of his name, what with his wild light blue lightning shaded mane and dark blue coat- to do the job. In a room designed specifically to imitate any environment requested, the two stood on everchanging cubes that could shift places or change size and dimension at a moment’s notice. In his hand, his cane tied to his belt, Stardust held a prototype version of the sword Flashfire would later use. Funnily enough, Stormrage would later teach Flashfire all there was to know about swordplay as well.

“Are you sure that you’re up for this, kid?” Stormrage asked as the cubes began to take form as their new battleground. “Swordplay’s a tricky thing to master; even for seasoned veterans like myself.”

“Trust me, I’m more than ready. I’m taking up my aunt’s responsibly to walk the path of the heavens and become the Dragon’s Eye.” Stardust replied, his Draco Kyutama placed in a slot on his sword.

“Then all you need do is say the change.” Stormrage nodded before his student whipped out his cane, and placed his Kyutama into it with the dragons head biting down on it.

“Star Change: Draco! Eye of the Dragon!” Stardust shouted, morphing into Draco Violet with a flash of light, and pulling a hood up over his helmet as the star on his chest plate glimmered with light.

“Now then. Let us begin.” Stormrage clapped his hands, right as the landscape turned into a mountaintop, the unicorn standing below raging storm clouds. A pure circle ring of combat, with what seemed like an endless drop into the abyss looming over the edge. “The first rule of swordplay is that your opponent will take any chance they get to strike you down. Like so!” He immediately dashed towards Stardust, his sword curved back and ready to strike.

Stardust leaped backwards and extended his wings to their full length and landed atop another cube that had jotted up from the landscape before flying forwards and meeting Stormrage’s blade in a flash of sparks. He struck fast, though that was to be expected with his age and stature. His blade clashed with Stormrage’s over and over again, but none of the hits seemed to break through his stance.

“Rule two. If your attack doesn’t break them--” Stormrage countered with a kick after the last hit and drove him across the ground with his hands “--Then get creative.”

He then fired off blasts of lightning from his horn, forcing Stardust to roll to the left and either catch them with his blade or just outright dodge them. Next, Stormrage gathered up some cyclonic winds in his blade and flung them towards his opponent.

“If you can’t face the howling winds…” Stardust muttered. “Then stomp them out at their source!” he roared, flinging a wave of purple flames from his sword towards Stormrage. These connected and detonated with sheer force, knocking him backwards. Before the dust settled, Stardust took the opportunity to dive in and swing downward with his blade, only barely missing its’ mark as Stormrage sidestepped at the last second.

Stormrage became a blur of motion, slicing through Stardust again and again at simply mercurial speeds before the Alicorn even had a chance to strike back or get his bearings.

“Equestria’s always been under threat! It’s always been besieged by dangerous creatures!” Stormrage shouted, knowing very well what he was talking about given who his many greats grandmother was, the infamous Tempest Shadow herself. “Who’s to say the future will hold any differences? If you’re going to protect it, you need to be more than just a simple pony. Now come on! Let loose!”

Stardust smirked. “Gladly.” he commented, forming a rune circle below Stormrage’s hooves, and four dragons of purple flame erupted from below it knocking Stormrage skywards before he was sent flying into another mountain by a blast of gathered lightning from Stardust’s sword.

“Lesson three, always use your opponent's powers against them if you can right?” Stardust asked with a cocky smirk, his helmet’s normally opaque visor temporarily becoming see-through.

“If you can use them against them. IF.” Stormrage stomped the ground viciously, causing a shockwave to spring out from his spot. Holding his sword to his chest, he took up a samurai’s pose. “Just you try it, boy.”

Stardust smirked walking forwards. “You know, just because I’m not able to use your powers against you right now, it doesn’t mean I can’t use my own.”

One of the things he’d been taught before how to use a sword was the access of his own inner magical abilities, and as the Alicorn of Spring and Summer that guaranteed a large amount of magical powers. For one, binding Stormrage in wooden vines that were blooming and sprouting with pink flowers before unleashing a blast of pure solar energy from his lance of a horn. “Like so,” he said with a snap of his fingers. “Let me say this for starters. I’m Celestia Solaris and Twilight Sparkle’s sun, so that means I’m pretty damn strong if I do say so myself.”

“You’re just an arrogant punk kid, if you ask me,” Stormrage replied grunting out in pain. “Your strength being the real thing? You got that by birth, and up till now, you’ve only relied on that to defeat me, not real swordsmanship skills. You’ve had it drilled into your head that you’re some sort of savior. Get with the times. Saviors, single solo saviors who are out to save anything and everything like some sort of messiah? They don’t exist anymore. Not since Princess Twilight Sparkle and company found the Elements of Harmony all those millions of years ago and freed Luna from her corruption.”

With that, he swung at Stardust, the Alicorn barely having enough time for his blade to block the strike, and then the next and then the next after that. “Get it through your thick skull. You’re nobody, nothing without that parentage! You’d just be another whelp I’d have to build up!”

Stormrage’s words may have sounded cruel, but he was being harsh for a very good reason. Unlike Stardust’s mother, he could definitely see there was something wrong with the stallion. He was arrogant, hot-headed, and believe he was above everyone else. That was not the sort of attitude they needed for the Prince of Equestria and the heir to Luna’s Draco Violet powers. So, he had to rely on the old break you down to build you up strategy. That was, get Stardust so angry he cast aside his arrogance and wanted to actually prove to his teacher that his strength was in fact rightfully earned. “I trained for years to get this strong, this skilled! What did you do?” Stormrage asked. “Absolutely nothing! Celestia just handed me off to you, and expected me to teach you to get good. Trust me, it’s going to be a hard-won battle, an uphill one with your personality,” he lectured, continuing to duel Stardust blade to blade. “That power, it was made to protect. Show me you’re worthy of it.”

“RRRRRAAAAGGHHHH!” Stardust roared out in rage as he charged forwards towards Stormrage, even as the environment shifted around them to a beach with crashing waves all around him, and rocky spikes jutting up from the cliffs. “Shut up! Just shut up!”

“Seems more like the power to destroy than to protect,” Stormrage snarked as he flew back to Stardust in a blur of speed, sword beared for another fatal blow. “Now, let us see if that anger makes your hits sloppier…”

Stormrage grabbed Stardust by the helmet and slammed his head into the ground with a powerful thud, before picking him up in a gambroge-shaded aura of magic and tossing him into a boulder. As he collided with the stone, Stormrage barrelled through like a bull, sending Stardust across the ocean. Stormrage clenched one of his hands into a fist, and a plume of water erupted from below Stardust sending him back towards Stormrage, the young alicorn landing at his feet.

“All washed up yet?” Stormrage asked with a small chuckle. “Look at you, a Ranger and yet I’m beating you at every turn. Hasn’t it gotten through to you yet? Your anger is ruling you, making you sloppy.” He watched Stardust go for his blade again, but a single stomp on his hand stopped that. “Give in. The spar is over. Let’s get real, kid, there’s no proper way you’re going to defend Equus and her inhabitants like this.”

Stardust swung his blade then, meeting Stormrage’s own, and the duel continued. This time however, something was different. The fight was less of a one-sided slaughter and more of an elegant dance of the blades, Stardust having cooled his emotions and actually meeting his teacher blow for blow, actually recognizing the strikes when they came and how to intercept them best.

“Okay, perhaps I was wrong about you,” Stormrage concluded, the environment changing back to this basic landscape full of cubes, the sky devoid of any defining features and just this black abyss. “Perhaps now we can train properly, instead of me smacking you around like a doll. What do you say?” he asked.

“I’d… I’d like that.” Stardust panted out, and Stormrage smiled even as the cube he was on raised itself high above the alicorn, before Stormrage took a running leap off of his platform his vlade cracking with magical lightning.

“Prepare yourself!” Stormrage shouted, and so Stardust did…

Celestia at times, did wonder if that was enough. Just training her son in the art of swordsmanship. When her wife was finally revived, Twilight had told Celestia it probably was. After all, Stardust still had a long ways to go before he could ever be considered a ruler of any sort.

This was the argument they had.

“You… you are kidding right?” Twilight asked. “S-Seriously, you are kidding me!” she stammered out in disbelief. “In what possible way right now do you think our son is fit to rule?

“In EVERY way, Twilight Sparkle. He is fit to rule in every way possible,” Celestia bit back at her, if not literally. “Think about it. How many other children do we have that are Equestrian Royalty?”

“Just him, but open your eyes, Celestia,” Twilight snapped back, wanting to slap her wife upside the head. “You keep on telling your son he’s going to be the savior of Equestria, it’s last hope or whatever you’ve been putting into his head and look what’s happened! For crying out loud, he thinks he walks the path of heaven or whatever! Is that not a tip-off that something’s severely wrong here?”

“If I recall, you were in the same position, weren’t you?” Celestia lifted an eyebrow. “Didn’t you use to be a lonely recluse until I sent you to Ponyville?”

“And how, in any way is this similar to that?” Twilight snapped back before she began rubbing her temples. “I wasn’t arrogant enough to basically call myself a damn god, for Faust’s sakes! And don’t you start on us being basically gods, because we aren’t! We’re technically dead as it is, and living on only because of data and simple scientific ingenuity!”

“But that's the thing. You didn’t want this. He didn’t want this. And I didn’t want this either, but every time we don’t want something, it turns out that we NEEDED it.” Celestia gave Twilight an arctic cold, silencing glare. “Whenever we don’t want something, we need it. When we need something, we don’t want it and are not obligated to have it by law. It is an odd rule, and one that I’ve questioned myself, but it turns out that it works. So don’t go against the will of fate, Twilight Sparkle. It doesn’t look good on you.”

Twilight growled, before turning on her hoof and snapping her fingers teleporting off in streams of data. But not before leaving her wife with one last piece of advice through tear-filled eyes. “I’d suggest you look at our son Celestia, and start looking at him hard. Because one day soon, this will come to bite you in the back, I just know it.”

Celestia thankfully, did start to listen to Twilight’s advice, remembering that she was often her rock at times, thinking back to her original counterpart’s last moments.

“This world… it was never meant for us to keep was it?”

“No, it was not,” Twilight admitted sadly. “So Celestia, just let go. You made a world, you and your sister for ponies to be proud of, but our age is over. Please, just let it go. The ponies, they don’t need us. When they emerge when the fire has passed and the world’s cooled down, it’ll be up to them to decide how to live. Now it’s time to let go, Luna could use her big sister right about now…”

Celestia chuckled. “When did the student surpass the teacher?”

Finally letting go, relenting at Twilight’s words, she gave her lover a long, last kiss, and after what seemed like far too little of a time, she let go, and pulled her niece and her sister into a hug. The world became ablaze with light, and in a few seconds, it was all over in a blinding flash. Fire consumed everything around them, and howling winds sent the castle crashing to the ground and it shattered. As Twilight fell into the fires below, she closed her eyes and welcomed death’s sweet release, Celestia accepting it as well.

“Yes… when did the student surpass the teacher?” Celestia whispered to herself. “What happened to me?”

With that, she teleported off to where she knew her son was now, in the robotics lab learning from one of the scientists on everything he could possibly be taught.

“Test Tube!” Celestia barked, looking towards the lab coat wearing unicorn with vials of green energy slung around him like a bandolier and safety goggles atop his head. He looked up at the shout of his name, away from him and Stardust’s current project, a mechanical frame that looked strikingly like a pony complete with an artificial magical core using nebula gases to replicate magical energy. “Can I borrow my son for a bit?”

“Of course, your majesty. I’ll get him right now!” Test Tube bowed before darting off to collect Stardust. He soon returned with the now twenty-one-year-old Alicorn in tow. Time had passed, and Stardust had grown into a fine young man, rather handsome really if Celestia were to believe any of the rumors from the mares and such.

“You called mother?” Stardust asked politely, idly tossing his Draco Kyutama in his hand out of sheer force of habit. His coat now bore an image of the legendary Azure Neighponiese dragon simply called Seiryu, fittingly enough.

“I’ve grown… Well, a bit worried. Been hearing some things, especially from my wife about you. Maybe she’s being overly paranoid, she does have a tendency to do so you know, but can’t a mother be worried about her son?” Celestia asked.

“My other mother?” Stardust blinked. “What do you mean? Surely, she loves me just as much as you do.”

“Yes, she does and do not ever think one of us loves you more than the other. We both just have different ways of showing it. Twilight’s the one who always cared for you in your nursery, remember? I was always the one worrying my head off over what you’d become. Seems the roles have swapped between us really.” Celestia chuckled to herself before continuing. “I’ve been hearing… rumors really. Call it concern.”

“Rumours? Who would dare to spread slanderous filth about the royal family?” Stardust’s hand tightened ever so slightly at that remark. Celestia winced, those words reminded her far too much of her late nephew’s demeanor. “I shall smite them where they stand, mother!”

“That’s the kind of rumors I’ve been hearing,” Celestia sighed sadly as she shook her head. “Ones that sadly, seemed to be quite confirmed. You growing far too arrogant in yourself. Remember this my son,” she said sternly. “You are not above anyone else. We are still just ponies, like our subjects. Not gods. Get that straight through your head, understand?” she asked, staring him down.

“But… mother. Are we not the crown and their family?” Stardust stammered out, his eyes widened. “Are we just servants to a higher power than our own?”

“Yes, we are,” Celestia replied. “That higher power being the people of this planet. We serve them, not the other way around. That was the one rule I always went by when me and my sister ruled Equestria for millions of prosperous years.”

“Mother…” Those were the only words he could find the strength to muster.

“Never let yourself be consumed by the illusion that you’re all-powerful, because you’re not. I’m only alive because of science. If you can call being a hologram alive, that is. Remember, there is always something that can kill us. We are not, nor never will be gods. To think otherwise is sheer folly.” Celestia continued to lecture.

“I…” He wanted to argue the point, but even he knew when it was the right time to fold. “I understand, mother. I’ll do my best to make you proud.”

“That’s all I ask.” Celestia smiled before walking out of the room and finding a very proud Twilight smiling at her.

“Thank you…” Twilight whispered before embracing her wife.

Time flew by of course, as it always did and now Stardust was at thirty years of age and out amongst the stars in a Colony Ship fighting off against an evil empire determined to rule the universe.

“Divert all power to forward cannons!” Stardust barked out as ships from all sides besieged the Orion. “Give those fools a message from me. Don’t mess with Equestria!”

Cannons fired with a mighty thundering roar, blowing some of the scout ships to pieces. Now all that was left was this massive Moraimarz flagship, planet-buster level cannons aimed right at the colony ships.

“And here we go…” Stardust muttered as several laser shots rocked the ship, but he held firm and grasped his Draco Kyutama in his hands. “Stripped, Jabari, I need you to meet me in Hangar Bay 3! Get to your Voyagers, we’re taking this fight to the enemy!”

“Say the Change!” Stardust’s cane shouted out as he raised it skywards Draco Kyutama slammed into it.

“Star Change: Draco! Eye of the Dragon!” Stardust shouted bringing the cane back down, before a purple star appeared above his head and showered him in energy morphing him even as he ran towards the nearest lift.

Meeting the Pink and Yellow Rangers in the Hanger, each leaped into their Voyagers and were fired out of the Orion and towards the massive Moraimarz, the cannons trained on the rapidly approaching fighter craft, Waveriders from the Orion and the Shining Armor having been launched as well to clear some breathing room.

“Combine!” Stardust shouted before pressing the combination button on the Draco Voyager’s central console. The head armor detached and the entire mech folded down in the center to become a pair of legs and a torso, with the head and tail becoming feet. A red visored head popped up, and the kabuto grafted itself on top with the Eagle and Swordfish Voyagers forming arms.

“Dragon Knight Megazord, ready for battle!” the Kyurangers called as systems came online, the Megazord standing in the sun’s glow.

“Now, you listen up you hear?” Stardust shouted towards the pilot of the Moraimarz. “This machine here? This mecha? Our friends' hopes and dreams are etched into its body, transforming the infinite darkness into light! Unmatched in Heaven, and on Equus; one machine, equal to the gods! I am Stardust Sparkle, the one who walks the path of the heavens and bestows upon you the gift of the Dragon’s rage! I reach out to grab tomorrow's path with my own hands, and smash through the barriers that make up the impossible! The Dragon Ma-Star, Draco Violet!” he shouted.

“The Sword Star, Dorado Yellow!” Stripped joined in with Jabari finishing the roll call.

“The Winged Star, Aquila Pink!” he echoed. “A part of ten stars shining in the heavens, Space Squadron Kyuranger!”

“Time for you to clear on out of our way!” Stardust roared, and in an echo of Flashfire’s previous statement on the planet Jume he called out. “And I’ve got just the thing to do so. Spiral Galaxy Galactic Finish!”

Pressing controls on his console, he got the Megazord to line up its arms in such a way that the Eagle and Swordfish Voyagers would serve as a makeshift bow and arrow as what looked to be a manifestation of the milky way galaxy formed in front of them as a targeting sight.

Next, one single piercing shot was fired through the Moraimarz before explosions ignited all over the ship before it went up in one massive fireball.

“Checkmate!” Stardust roared. “Let this be a message to anyone who dares cross Equus’ way, be it Dark Matter or anyone else. We will take the universe back!”

Smiling from his cockpit, Stardust then turned his attentions to his personal quarters where inside the massive tank lay Discord’s broken body, all of the chaos energy being sucked into tubes and deposited inside another tank. “I will help Equuskind evolve, no matter the cost.” Stardust thought to himself even as the Cadence-AI turned back to Celestia both quite unaware of what lay inside Stardust’s quarters.

“You raised a good kid, you know that?” Cadance asked.

“Yeah, I think I did…” Celestia thought with a tear in her eye.