Over the past few days, Lightning and the others helped Sapphire get control over her new powers. By reviewing the past images, they concluded that her powers activate when her friends are in danger. Luckily, they were able to retract a dangerous situation and Sapphire activated her powers. “Easy, Girl, calm down.” Applejack cooed.

Sapphire growled but then took a deep breath like she was taught and her muscles lost tension and her eyes stopped glowing. She looked at her friends who smiled proudly at her. Their majesties were proud of her as well.

Now, she was sparring with Rainbow Dash.

Shining Light, Starla and Lightnings’ baby colt, was on the sidelines, fast asleep in his little buggy, while under the watch of Spike, Rarity and Krysta; all them already having sparred with Sapphire earlier, and just keeping an eye on him.

Sapphire and Rainbow punched and kicked at one another, and even raced around in the air. Finally, Sapphire managed to grab Rainbow by the tail, and gave her a huge yank, sending her plummeting to the ground below.

Rainbow stopped herself at the last few inches. “Sweet!” she cried “Great move, Sapphire.”

Sapphire gave her a thumbs up, “Thanks.”

“You’ll master your powers in no time.”

“Way to go.” said Krysta.

Shining Light just slept peacefully in his buggy, not knowing what was happening. “Wow! Even I could never sleep this heavily.” said Spike.

Rarity could only giggle softly. Sapphire damped herself with a wet tower. Suddenly, she shot up and looked around, “Sapphire, what is it?” Lightning asked.

Sapphire turned and growled, “Look!” Krysta snapped, and pointed over at a whole hoard of Raiders popping up all over the field.

The friends all rose up to their feet, and the noise woke up little Shining, and he began to cry. “Oh!” groaned Starla as she picked her son up. She wanted to get her baby home and away from the danger like a good mother would, but her duty as a frontline soldier also bound her to stay and fight as well.

“I’ll take him home for you, Starla.” said Krysta “And I’ll keep an eye on him too.”

Starla nodded thankfully “Tell the sentries nearby, on my orders to stand guard.” Krysta agreed, and Starla pecked her little son’s head, “Don’t worry, honey; Mama’s going to be just fine.”

“Snowflake, go with Krysta as well.” Sapphire said. The Light Fury nodded and left with Krysta and Shining Light. As soon as Krysta left with the baby safely in tow, the friends, except for Sapphire, transformed.

“Starfleet Magic!”

“HARMONY HOUR, FRIENDSHIP POWER!!”

“Dragon Power!”

Even though it was against regulations to let a Cadet battle, Sapphire was excused because she needed help to master her power and what better way than being in a battle.

The fighters all rushed in to action! Starla punched and kicked every Raider out of her way, and then fired a few magical shots from her horn to blast more of the down, “Feels great to have my A-Game back.”

“Coming through…!” Rainbow hollered as she zoomed straight through a whole swarm of Raiders, knocking them all down hard.

Rarity then found herself surrounded by many of the Cannon Raiders, and they all prepared to open fire on her, but Rarity waited to the last second and leapt up high causing the Raiders to shoot each other, and blasting themselves into ashes.

Spike, with his sword, fought against several of the Blade Raiders at once, parrying their every attack and then slashing at them hard making sparks fly.

“Who's next!” he thundered, but suddenly a whole load of burning rays were shot at him and all the others, hitting them hard and knock them all over.

“What the…!” snapped Starla, and she gawked up ahead and saw Sienna and Mako.

Mako held a blast-cannon, “How was that?” he asked. His sister grinned and patted his head “Good shooting, Mako.”

Rainbow stood growling, “Why you little…!”

“Uh-Uh-Uh…” snapped Sienna “It’s only his first time… and quite possibly our last confrontation. Unless of course you make it easier and surrender to us now.”

“Why you wretched creature!” sneered Rarity.

“We’ll never surrender to the likes of you, Sienna.” added Starla “You can send all the Jemma-Nites you have, and that won’t change a thing!”

Sienna snickered, “Why send so many? All we need is one.” and she motioned to Mako, which her brother was all giddy about.

He held up the new capsules, which Spike noted, “That capsule, it’s a different color.”

Mako snickered and threw the capsule shouting, “Super Jemma-Nite Orgoth… I choose you!”

“SUPER JEMMA-NITE?!!”the fighters exclaimed. Then they saw as the light faded, the huge hulking monster. It roared gruffly and gripped its strong blade.

Starla tried to scan it with her visor, but the scan couldn’t penetrate. “Nothing!” she cried “I’m blocked out.”

Sienna laughed, “Don’t waste your power. This is a new form of Jemma-Nite we created; you’ll never realize just how powerful it really is!”

Mako nodded, “Orgoth, Attack!”

Orgoth roared, and stomped his way forth, the fighters could feel the vibrations along the ground, telling them that it was really strong even without scanning him.

“I wonder…” said Starla, and she charged up her horn,“PULSAR LASER” Her blast flew straight at the hulking monster, only collide into his armor and deflect right off of it, straight back at the fighters,

“Look out!” cried Rarity, and everyone leapt up high avoiding the blast. KAPOW! The blast hit the ground and caused a small explosion!

“I don’t believe it!” growled Starla.

“Oh, believe it!” taunted Sienna “This Super Jemma-Nite is infused with the same alloy that coats my ship. All your attacks will be useless, but his won’t be.”

“We’ll see about that!” Sapphire growled. She glowed and changed into a Monstrous Nightmare Dragon. She gave a loud roar and flew for Orgoth. Orgoth fired a blast at Sapphire but she set herself on fire and sent the flames towards the attack, cancelling it out. “Alright!” Rainbow cried.

“What?!” Sienna cried.

Sapphire fired her flames at the Orgoth, but it sent the flames back at her. “Sapphire, watch out!” Just then, her element glowed on it’s own and glowed red The flames stopped and circled around Sapphire in a ring. “What the-? What’s going on her with element?” Lightning asked.

The glowed flames then infused with Sapphire’s dragon form and she charged Orgoth knocking him off his feet. “WHAT?!” Sienna said.

“That’s our Cadet!” Rainbow cheered.

Sienna and Mako were shocked at the power Sapphire held.

“Whoa! That’s a lot of power!” cried Mako.

She’s far better than we thought.” agreed Sienna. Suddenly Orgoth began glowing red and started approaching Sienna and Mako, raising its huge sword to strike them. “LOOK OUT MAKO!” Sienna screamed as she tackled her brother out of the way, just barely missing the strike herself.

“SIS!!” cried Mako.

“I’m okay.” painted Sienna.

Poor Mako, all his courage was all but depleted. He burst into tears, “Sienna I’m scared!”

Sienna agreed, and held her brother tight, “Let’s get out of here!”

The two villains vanished, back to their ship, while their monster continued to run amuck.

“He’s heading for the town!” cried Lightning “Come on! We can’t let him in there!”

“Shining…!” Starla murmured, worrying about her baby.

The sentries at the entrance to town saw the monster coming and sounded the alarms, warning everybody of approaching the danger.

At once, everyone rushed inside and the barriers rose.

All the same while, little Shining Light was crying and wailing, not just because of the loud noises, but he wanted his mother and father.

“Oh… oh, don’t cry, Shining!” Krysta said as she tried to comfort him. She used her magic to levitate him up and rocked him softly back and forth. The baby stopped crying a little.

“There you go, nice… nice…” Krysta cooed as she set Shining down in his playpen.

Shining then looked up at Krysta, and he reached up and grabbed the tiny fairy. “UGH!!” Krysta groaned “What are you-- Let me go!”

Poor Krysta had quite forgotten about babies and their tendency to grab things. Shining shook Krysta softly in his hand making Krysta feel nauseous. “I… hope… Lightning and Starla… get back soon!” Shining then stopped and gawked down at her with a funny look in his eyes. “Oh, no…!” groaned Krysta.

Shining brought her closer and closer to his face, but Snowflake nudged Shining Light. The little pony let go of Krysta and started poking Snowflake. The Light Fury warbled at Shining Light while the baby reached up to touch the Light Fury.

“Whew!” Krysta groaned.

Many of the sentries stood by the town perimeter and prepared to open fire on the approaching monster.

“NO… DON’T…!!” Lightning tried to shout to them, but the sentries already opened fire, shooting magical blasts and rays from guns, only for each and every attack to bounce off of Orgoth and head straight back at them.

The sentries all scattered and dodged about as the blasts struck all over the village perimeter; blasting lampposts, destroying stands, roasting the trees and blowing holes in the ground, but at least the homes and buildings were protected by the barriers.

Starla groaned as she rubbed her face in frustration, “How are we supposed to stop that thing?” she asked. Sapphire roared and lunged at Orgath, blasting it with her fire blast. Orgath turned around and reflected the blast back, but they didn’t stop Sapphire. Using her claws, she slashed the front of Orgath with the claws on her wings, creating a small explosion. Then she spun in the air and blasted Orgath with a mixture of fire and her magic. Orgath began

Orgoth began to flare up and spark like crazy.

“My turn, Sapphire!” said Starla “GALACTIC PROJECTILE!”

POW!! Her arrow was launched, crashing into the breach hard, and finally Lightning was up.“UNIFORCE”

The power of the attacks consumed Orgoth in a great blaze that disintegrated the creature’s gem-like body, leaving behind only a few fragments of armor and its huge sword.

The team could do nothing but cheer and holler with joy.

While on the enemy’s ship, Sienna and Mako made it onto the bridge, and Sienna angrily shoved the Raiders out of her way. Mako angrily kicked the walls whining, “It’s not fair! It’s Not Fair!! That was such a good monster!”

Slash snickered softly at the way Mako was behaving, and now he was hoping Sienna would scorn him for this failure, but much to his dismay, Sienna was sympathetic and soft with Mako.

“Don’t despair, Mako. It was still and excellent plan. You’ve given us a lot to think about. We’ll just have to work harder to figure out what went wrong.”

Mako looked up at his sister and smiled happily, while Slash clenched his fists angrily, but was being careful not to give himself away.

Instead he just walked off in a huff, passing Omnisha along the way. “He better watch himself.” she said to herself in thought.

“Hey!” snapped Sienna as she observed the console. She noticed a master switch for a berserker-gem was left “ON” and she knew fully well that this was not an accident.

“Somebody set us up.” she hissed.

“What?” Mako couldn’t believe what he just heard “Who would do that? They nearly destroyed us too.”

Sienna clenched her fists, “I don’t know, Mako, but when I find out who did, they’ll wish they had never been born.”

Omnisha felt a little shiver run down her spine.

Meanwhile, the damages down to the town perimeter weren’t that serious and wouldn’t long for the maintenance crews to repair.

The team all went home to Lightning and Starla’s, with Orgoth’s discarded sword and bits of armor in tow.

“Krysta…?” Lightning called out softly.

The friends all saw Shining asleep in his playpen and Snowflake was curled around him while he was clutching Krysta in his little hands, holding her close.

“Aww…” Starla cooed.

“Help me!” Krysta groaned quietly.

The others couldn’t help but chuckle, and Shining began to awaken. He smiled as his mother scooped him up in her arms and smothered him softly.

Lightning patted his son’s little head, which Rarity and Spike felt was touching.

Krysta stretched out and shook herself vigorously, “I don’t think I’m cut out for this babysitting stuff. More like the baby will sit on me.”

“Thanks a bunch, still Krysta.” Said Lightning “I’ll make other arrangements for future situations.”

Rainbow inspected all the weapons confiscated from the battle. “What are we going to do with all this?”

“We’re going to send it to Professor Brian.” replied Lightning “If we can analyze this alloy and tech, we may be able to use it for ourselves. We’ll be one step closer to bringing Sienna down for good using her own resources.”

“Awesome!” said Spike, “But how long will it take?”

“Hard to say.” said Lightning “But the sooner we send them off the better.” he paused and picked up the huge sword in his hand, “We’re about to take a huge step, people; a very huge step.”

“And what was up with that fire attack?” Spike asked. “You never did that before.”

“I don't know. When the fire was coming near me, my element glowed fire like the fire and I guess.. It absorbed the fire and turned it into fire magic which strengthened my Monstrous Nightmare form.” Sapphire said.

“Well either way, you sure are good with battling. We’ll make a fine fighter out of you yet.” Lightning praised. Sapphire blushed a little.