My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Starlight, Starbright

Chapter 37

Series of War, Destruction, and Love

Sombra lead his daughter and her friends down a corridor, heading to a part of the palace they don’t know.

“where exactly are you leading us?” Glade asked. Screw Loose walked next to him, wearing a fancy dress fit for royalty. A gift from him to her for Hearths Warming Eve.

“that’s a secret.” Sombra sinisterly said. That didn’t fill them with confidence. Ahead, Leopold appeared. He grabbed the handle of the door at the end and opened it. Sombra was the first to enter. A nervous Starlight followed, then the rest of her friends.

The room they entered was very small, at least that’s what it looks like with complete darkness enclosing it. Sombra used his magic to light candles and turn on lights, illuminating the entire room.

It was a domed structure located on top of the castle, with constellations, star maps, planet locations, time tables for the moon, and drawings of bottomless pits aligned on the walls. Telescopes looked out of every curtained window, each looked up at different spots of the sky. It was big enough to hold them all.

The crème-de-la-crème was a image of the Orion, the ship belonging to the humans, nestled in the center.

“Whoa!” the group all exclaimed.

“What is this?” Bass asked.

Sombra walked to a window, explaining it all. “when you live in exclusion like I do, you tend to learn a few things. And the night sky is beautiful up here. With no city lights to obscure it, you can clearly see it. And I had a knack for astrology so it was a win-win.”

“You did all this?” Starlight gasped.

“Yep. I discovered a number of worlds those so-called astrologists in Canterlot missed. As well as distant black holes, galaxies… And, by accident, I discovered a space battle. Really intense. Couldn’t tear my gaze away from it.”

“A space battle? What kind?” Peppy asked.

“yes. Between a unknown group and…” he turned his attention to the Orion picture.

“the humans?” Marian asked.

“yep. And their ship, in your teen terms, got f*&ked up. They survived but they got their butt kicked.”

“Wow.” and here they thought nothing could beat the humans. Guess they’re as fallible as regular ponies.

“And… that’s not the biggest upset I had from space.” Sombra walked to the other side as the others went ‘huh?’ “18 years ago, around the fall of Oscurita, I was visited by other-worlders, very scary people who I think you all heard of.” he used his magic to summon up images of a man with a very odd haircut and a knight clad entirely in black armor. “Orochi… and Tsylatac…”

Orochi and Tsylatac. They heard the names from the stories. It was said they were behind the entire fiasco with Oscurita and aided Nightmare Moon, Chrysalis, and Discord back then as well. If the humans hadn’t turned Oscurita back into eTu`nes, the world would’ve been destroyed, or at least significantly different then it is today.

“What did they want?” Starlight asked, worried for her dad.

“they wanted me to join them. I refused, but…” he magically lifted a part of his armor, showing a deep gash he got from a Windego, but they don’t need to know that. “they were persistent.”

“Oh, my.”

Sombra put the armor back on and returned to why he brought her here. “Starlight… you can use time, right?”

“yes. But not well.”

“but well enough to destroy the Oscurita clone.” using his magic, he pulled up the video of the event. He edited it not to show the 10 minutes of suffering she put the dragon though but it showed it disintegrating into the snowflake shaped crystals. “you aged him forward a billion years, aging him to the point the thing turned into crystal. That shows you’ve come a long way. And let’s not forget that you set the large Timberwolf back in time.”

She did do those, but… “but that was all luck. I didn’t do any of that.”

“but you did… with a little help.”

“Help?”

Sombra used his magic to summon up some charts and graphs. “I’ve noticed that every decade, a rift in time opens up near our system. That allows anyone with the ability of manipulating time to do tricks they were never able to do before. And sure enough, a rift is open right now and has been days before you set out on your journey to find me.”

A rift in time…? She never heard of it before. It’s possible that her mother and Aunt Celestia never heard about it. Uncle Cosmos may have but it’s doubtful. Still… a point in time where she can be as powerful as her aunts. “Why are you telling me this?”

“I want to see if such a thing is possible. You can send things though time but can you look at events in time? I wish to see this worlds’ past and future and what roles we will play in it’s history.”

“Us?”

“All of us; you, me, your friends and family… I wish to see if we leave our moments in history.”

Starlight wondered that as well. Will she leave her own mark? Will her friends? Only one way to find out. “So… what do I do?”

“just do what you ordinarily do when you use time magic.”

Starlight nodded. She walked to the center and took a cleansing breath. She never did something this big before. But if she’s able to age a monstrous Dragon a billion years and sent a Timberwolf back in time, what’s the worst that can happen?

Her eyes turned green, red, and purple. Her Cutie Mark glowed and the clock-face glyph appeared beneath her. She floated up off the ground, wings and fore-legs spread as she concentrated on seeing the past and the future. Once that was done, she cast the spell.

It worked, but not in the way they wanted… or what they expected to see.

Begin Song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loTcZHoIYfQ

In Your Belief (Vocal Version) - Asura’s Wrath Main Theme

Light shimmered off of a pond full of water. Pillars of white marble rose up from the 2-inch water and up into the blue partly cloudy sky.

A distant boom caused the water to ripple. The pillars cracked and fell, causing multitudes of splashes. The sky turned blood red as the clouds darkened.

The Requiem Trinity:

The silver-blue haired tomboy-maiden Requiem charged at her brother, the god of destruction Catalyst, sword in hand and ready to end him.
{Requiem (unbelieving): a… a goddess? Me? t-there’s no way I’m a goddess. There’s just no way. I’m just a simple barmaid from a nowhere town.}

Catalyst smugly summoned his sword and swung his at the same time she did.

A monstrous Leviathan rose out of the water and slammed into the Orion, splitting it in two.
{Gabriëlle: Believe it or no, it doesn’t change it. You are Serenity, Goddess and brother to the most evil threat we’ve ever faced. And if you don’t stop him, there’s no telling what horrible things he’ll do.”}

The dark knight Tsylatac summoned his pole-ax and dug it into the ground. A blood-red triangle glyph appeared beneath him.

The red-headed 15-year old of doom Kyra jumped from atop a pillar and down to Ash.
{Kyra: Destruction is all this universe knows and it’s all it will know. I seek to change that.}

The cowboy clad Ash dove beneath a pillar and fired up at Kyra.
{Ash: By destroying the universe yourself?}

Kyra pulled out a whip and cracked it in Ash’s direction. It hit him in the face, leaving a noticeable scar.
{Kyra: … mmm… maybe.}

Bahamut yelled as he was sent flying into a pillar by a mechanical Gryphon, openings dripping with darkness.

A massive 8-headed golden dragon, with each head corresponding with a element in nature, powered up a joint attack and fired. The blast tore though the Orion, gutting it stem to stern.
{Catalyst: Face it, there are forces much more powerful then us at work here. We’re just pawns in whatever game they have planned}

The majestic airship crashed into the earth and skidded towards Teria, the hometown of Requiem and Aura.

Requiem glowed blue and Catalyst red as they swing their swords at each other. The blades connected, causing a bright flash of light.

War for the Universe X:

The silver-white haired hero of this tale yelled as he was sent backfirst into a electrical wall. He hit it but didn’t get electrocuted.
{Kaiju: how pitiful. And this is what counts for a hero these days?}

The clad in black villain of this tale, Kaiju strode over to the beaten hero, Molin’s blade in his hand.
{Molin: I still have a few tricks up my sleeve, you sadistic son of a bitch!}”

The transformable mech Ra streaked though the air with missiles in pursuit. It transformed into a fighter and gained speed but the missiles kept right on. They struck the mech and exploded.
{Donna: this is a losing war and you know it. You can’t win. Nobody can. Nothing can stop Kaiju and his ilk. Face it. You’re finished.}

A surge of electricity struck Cadence Aurora, the green-hair 16 year old heroine, in the chest. It sent her rolling along the floor and almost over the side. Molin dove in the nick of time and grabbed her hand just as she was about to go.

Anger enveloped the hero. Kaiju looked at him with smug and pride, tossing the person he had just killed away like a piece of garbage.
{Molin: YOU BASTARD!!! I’LL MAKE YOU PAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!}

In his anger, Molin transformed into Xeno Darkcross, a massive armored creature capable of decimating a fleet. Darkcross’ mouth opened and he fired a beam into the middle of a populated city, destroying half of it in one shot.

A large ship crashed in the middle of a desert, sending the armor clad Garland and the normal every-day girl Bretny flying into a sand drift.
{Cadence Aurora: you may not have something to fight for but we do. We have friends, family… people we love that we want to protect. And you can’t ask for anything better then that.}

The ship tipped over and fell to them. Garland scrambled to his feet and threw himself on Bretny to protect her from the ship.

The E-Shaped tricked out ship, the Nova, flew though space, heading straight for a super-mongo-massive serpent-like monster, holding a oval shaped sphere in it’s hands.
{Brom: Ultrillas. The mighty overseer of the universe. Legends say she holds it in her hands, keeping constant vigil on it. And it’s said that she was created by Auralite and Molin…}

Kaiju laughed like a evil mad-man as he transformed into a massive anthropomorphic scorpion.
{Brom (continued): you have to stop him. If him or the Mass FiM Corporation get to her first, this war is over. No, everything is over.}

Xeno Darkcross and monster Kaiju butted heads, each trying to overpower the other.

Last Symphonia:

Darkness shot out of the suffering Skeith, the 17 year old black dragos. It enveloped him and spread to cover the city.

A massive air-battle took place above Haven City, the capital of the world. The capital ship of the rebels blew up and the pieces rained down on the city.
{Gras: Rebels. Bah! More like excuses of flesh who just want to make a conflict. Nothing more. Nothing less.}

A massive bat-like monster coated in shadows shrieked over the Gias Towers, a pair of towers that symbolizes their worlds technological advancements.
{Cynder: I hate this… this stupid war. Why can’t things go back to the way they were?}

The monster shrieked, spread it’s wings, and flew to the ground below. The force from his wings caused every glass on the tower to break. It pulled up, the gust from that uprooting houses.

Beams of pure energy surged between Haven and it’s twin moons. The beams joined together in the middle then shot into the nebula that surrounded the planet.
{Skeith: Damn your war! Damn your logic! And damn you! You had to go and make things pure hell for all of us! Just die!!!}

Skeith’s blade came down and clanged against the claws of a black-and-gold armored beast codenamed HACK. HACK pushed Skeith away then disintegrated into darkness. The darkness pulled Skeith in and swallowed him up fully and completely.

A pair of beautiful emerald eyes opened within the nebula.

A bright white light shown down on the planet, which was covered in darkness. The darkness turned into a wolf and the light turned into a eagle. Both roared at each other as Haven soon became their battleground.

Glade:

The red-haired 20 year old Glade dug her blades into the ground to prevent herself from being blown over the edge of a cliff by a freak wind-storm. She saw and grabbed Cyan before she went over, though barely.

Mermen- shark like monsters with human appendages -shot out of the water and boarded the ferry. One was welcomed with the business end of a sword belonging to Drake, a anthropomorphic dragon.
{Erys: you think you are the only one with problems? You think you’re the only one who didn’t give up something important? I gave up my life! What does that tell you!?!}

Another merman was stabbed from the back and though the chest by Karen, a pony wearing a suit of armor with arms attached to it.

Glade crossed blades with Ayumi, a dark-haired and dark-clothed servant of a dark lord. Doesn’t help that they also love each other.
{Sombra: Love? Pfft. Who needs it? Love is weak, love wounds you, love is a handicap. Any idiot who falls in love deserves to perish.}

A super volcano burst it’s top, sending ash into the sky. A towering monstrosity rose up from the lava, rising as high as 1000 feet. The monster opened it’s eyes and roared. The roar caused cracks to appear in the ground.

The cracks spread and soon covered the entire planet.

{Glade: you think you have the right to choose how the world dies…}

Drake and Karan took up battle poses.
{Glade: what gives you the right to end our lives; to end our fates?…}

Erys, a hyper-active cat-girl with a whip, and Cloud, a humanoid eagle with a ton of knifes, took up battle poses as well.
{Glade: we decide our fate! And right now, our fates are screaming to rescue Cyan…}

Glade spun her blades around and took up her battle pose.
{Glade: now let her go or die!}

Chaos Theory:

Jade, a brown haired 15-year old roller skater, kicked a rock. It hit a pole and knocked back into his head. Out of nowhere, a raptor-like creature slammed into him, sending them both falling onto the ground.

Luna, the raptor who ran into Jade, glowed blue as sparkles came out of the ground beneath her. One bright flash later, she changed into a giant T-Rex like monster. The monster fired a beam of blue light, which struck a wyvern-type monster.

{Rose: travel the world? See new sights and sounds and meet new people? Who wouldn’t like that? Sign me up!}

Jade high-fived with Luis and Luna fist-bumped with Luis’ Mazoku Fenris.

Zach sputtered like a horse, telling them to stop. He was suddenly pulled by his Mazoku Sharon, much to his dismay.

{Ted: this isn’t no kiddy tournament, twerp. Go home before you get hurt. Or before I hurt you.}

Ted’s Mazoku, a komodo dragon, transformed into a Wyvern and slammed into Luna.

A double-helix beam of light ascended into the purple cloud sky, parting it to let light though.
{Yuri: the Chaos Theory is only good for one thing; money. All the money it rakes it thanks to merchandise is astounding. And I want it and I’ll do whatever I can to get it.}

3:35.
Chaotic Terminus:

Requiem’s blade clashed against Molin’s. sparks flied between their swords, each trying to overpower the other.

Glade swung her blades wildly at Skeith, who dodged every one. A orb of yellow light appeared in the dragos’ right hand. He spun around and fired it at the mercenary.

It missed by hit Jade’s wooden blade. It splinted and that show of force made Luna transform and attack them.

A massive tower, who’s height is unfathomable, stretched up into the sky. Below it was the Infinity symbol, which glowed a bright orange.

On top of the tower, a fierce battle raged.

Molin transformed into Xeno Darkcross and attacked a being made entirely out of darkness. The being blocked Darkcross’ punch and with a flick of his fingers, sent him crashing into the side of the tower.

Glade jumped up at the being and slashed at him. Her blades were blocked by a single finger. A invisible shockwave sent her crashing down to the floor.

Luna lunged at him, mouth wide open and claws ready to go. The being punched down on her snout and kicked her into Glade. Jade jumped up from behind and swung his wooden blade. The being disappeared and reappeared behind him. He flicked Jade like a bug, sending him spinning into a smoldering Orion.

Skeith stabbed the being though the chest but, seeing as he’s a being of pure darkness, it didn’t do much. The being grabbed Skeith and gave him a uppercut that would make a profession boxer go ‘OOH!’

Requiem summoned her angel wings and flew towards the being. The being summoned up a sword and swung it around.

A golden aura engulfed Requiem as she and the being clashed blades.

The tower and the symbol glowed bright, causing the screen to go completely white.

4:38.

Oh, Warriors from Distant Stars, I call to you.
come to this visage of eternal time
And save the ashes of life
Oh, Warriors from Distant Stars, I summon you
Save these realms from the grip of Ultimate Eternal Chaos.

The Requiem Trinity

War for the Universe X

Last Symphonia

Glade

Chaos Theory

Chaotic Terminus

End Song.

Without any warning, the spell back-fired.

The images faded away. A invisible blow sent Starlight back into the wall. She hit and slid down into a pile of books.

“Starlight!” Bass ran over to her. Her friends are nervous to go, fearing something bad, time wise, would happen to them. Sombra just stared at her. He sure wasn’t expecting all those other images to pop up. Who were those people?

“Starlight! You okay?!”

Starlight stirred with a light moan. She opened her eyes and lovingly looked at her secret boy toy.

“What happened? What was all that? Are you okay?” these questions came from her friends and they didn’t shut up.

“I’m fine… I think.” she got up with Bass helping her. “I… I have no clue where those images came from. I went to see the planets future and past but… but I never expected all of that. It was all… all out of nowhere.”

“well, I recognize Requiem and her friends.” Pound said, thinking back to his baby days and trying hard to remember the humans. “but… I don’t recognize the rest of them. Just what the heck was that dragon?”

This was gonna lead to a night of debate, no question about that, but the one thing Starlight recognized from that was the poem. It was told to her before, back in Baltimare, by a unseen woman. So who said it?

Author's Notes:

that was unexpected... and blatant advertising.