Ch6

"So, what's the plan?" coughed Bolt, as soot came out of her mouth.

"Well, we were going into Aaira mind and get the blue prints of the Element Pillar. Using it, along with Tank here, it can increase Dr. Wonder Harmony stone and boosting the power of her time spell and look into the past. While looking into the past, we can understand what happened here and maybe fix this universe. But that's the plan anyway." answered Wanda

"That sounds simple enough." said Heat

"Yeah, it is but we got one big problem. Terra showed me this as she saw into Aaira mind, before you guys showed up."

"Which is?" asked Layla

"This." sadly spoke Dr. Wonder as she waved her hand. In front of them, was a holographic projection of Aaira's mind world. It was filled with many different objects, places and black dead looking creatures, as said creatures stare at the group.

"Whoa." said Rain as she was scared by the amount of creatures that was inside Aaira's mind.

"These creatures, are what Aaira told us about. They infected Aaira's mind and before I was pulled out, all I could hear was..." explained Terra as she turned to Aaira

"Make them whole again..." finished Aaira as she held her head in her hands.

"Make them whole? What does these evil spawns mean by?" asked Eirika as she grip her sword hilt hard.

"They want me, to make the Element Pillar. So they can infect more minds and turn people into black twisted monsters. Someone back in my world told me this, before I had to put him down..." said Aaira

Layla stepped forward and couldn't believe what she was looking at. Does every universe has a infection like her world? Where people turn and hurt others? She wondered how many other universe are suffering.

"There's so many of them." whispered Layla as she could feel the eyes of the creatures staring at her.

"There was once, millions of these things. Each one was a person body parts that was infected and controlled. Each one is a nightmare that is real. That's what's been haunting me, along with the loss of Faye. Her death was the worst pain ever and seeing her ghost was even worse. Knowing that she was taken from me. By these fuckers. " Aaira look at the creatures and grew sad as she remember what's happening in her world "There's another outbreak in my world, I don't know if I can stop it this time..."

"I understand, it must have been a lot for you to go through and all alone too. And I'm sorry about your lover. But you can't let them continue infecting people." said Layla as she walked up to Aaira "In my world, most of the planet is infected by the Chaos sickness. I've seen how bad it can get. It's a plague. I can't let the disease take any more lives, I made that my oath, to my teachers and friends, even to my enemies. There's always a dawn after the dark. You must bring it!"

Aaira stared at Layla with bit of hope before Terra joined them.

"She's right. In my world, there's a war between the Changelings and the Greys. It lasted for years, to the point, there are few planets left that wasn't touch by the war. My race is dying off as we're in the middle of their damn war, all hope is fleeing as many are killed by the Changelings and harvest for biomass. I seen living nightmares, things that shouldn't exist. It feels hopeless, but we keep going. We keep fighting. That's all we can do. Even if our chances are low, it's the hope that we can change our future, that makes us continue the fight. You, both of you, can't stop moving forward."

"Right." smiled Aaira, who looked at Layla, who returned her smile.

Dr. Wonder summon away the projecting and hover over to Aaira.

"The problem is, those things can damage your mind further if Terra and yourself enter that part of your mind. If you are truly the only one, who can save your world, then I can't allow this plan go on. I'm not gonna hurt someone else..." explained Wonder as she turned to Berry and Tank.

"Don't worry about me, I'll be fine. I've gone through worse." replied Aaira, as she filled with more hope after hearing Layla and Terra struggles and how they keep pushing forward "This might be the only way!"

"Sorry but no. There's always another way." said Wonder, as Flare smiled a bit, as she saw her teaching stuck on Wonder.

"Sorry but we have no time for that. Look around us! We're about to be shallow up by this colorful void!" shouted Aaira in anger.

"Hey girl, chill." said Bolt as she flew between the two

"No, we're losing time!"

"But if we go ahead with this, we could lose you. That's something I'm not willing to do!" shouted Wonder

"You're a idiot. This is the only chance we got!"

Bolt push both of them to the ground and shouted them to chill out.

"Aaira, I'm sorry, but you're going to have to be patient. Dr. Wonder is right, we shouldn't be risking your mind any further."

"But..."

"No! Look, I don't know what you're going through, but you need to listen to me. You are important and I will not let anyone get hurt. Got it? You are not doing this, end of story. Understood?"

Aaira stared at her before letting out a sigh, knowing that she's not going to get her way.

"Good. Now, Doc, you said you needed a power boost for the spell?" asked Bolt

"Yeah, we need another version of the Harmony stone, with the same power, it can increase my spell and recover the lost time." explained Wonder, as she got up.

"Harmony stone? What kind of stone is it?" asked Heat as she walked up to Wonder

"The power source of the most powerful magic in my world, This."

Dr. Wonder showed everyone the stone around her neck as she removed it from its box. It was glowing with the seven different colors and was a perfect round sphere. It was about the size of a basketball and was beautiful.

"Whoa." everyone said in amazement

"What is it?" Rain asked as she noticed Bolt, Heat and Eirika were staring at it, like they saw a ghost.

"It's like..." Heat took out a purple Harmony Diamond

"My emeralds..." added Bolt as she took out a blue Element emerald

"Glowing bright, just like the Sol Harmony emblems." chimed in Eirika as she showed them her shield, which has five color orbs in it and her sword, which had a blue orb on it.

Wonder eyes went wide, as she saw the counter parts of the Harmony stone.

"These are called the Element emeralds, which held unlimited power and when all seven are together, a miracle is born." spoke Bolt, who showed them the seven different colored emeralds that were floating above her.

"The Harmony diamonds are the same thing in power and feats." said Heat as her colorful diamonds hovered around her

"The Sol Harmony emblem shield, were forged by the sol dragon goddess, Helios, from one of her scales, it was used to seal away the demon dragon, that was threatening to destroy humanity. She then gave me the Rainbow Sword, made from her fang, and fused with the divined and greatest Element emblem of them all, Spark of Magic." explained Eirika as her items summoned the same spirit dragon from the fight she had with Layla.

"Whoa, that's a big dragon." said Rain as she stare at the majestic beast

"This is the echo spirit of Helios, it's not really her but it carries her hope and dreams for humans and dragons to live in peace." explained Eirika as the dragon flew around, giving her a warm hug before vanishing into the weapons.

"So these stones are basically the same thing?" asked Wanda as she check out each items "Then with these!"

"Yeah, there's another way..." whispered Aaira, as she realized her sacrifice wasn't needed

"We can make this work." said Wonder as she smiled

"Great, how are we going to do it?" asked Layla

"It's simple. I can make the spell more powerful, but it's not gonna be easy and I'm gonna need all three of you. This boosted spell will drain the most of my magic and energy as I rewind time, so I'm gonna need someone to be a power source, to keep me stable and active. Any volunteers?" asked Dr. Wonder

"I'll do it." smirk Bolt as she was flipping a emerald up and down on her wing "The emeralds can control over time and space. Like this! Element control!"

Everyone but Heat, was shock to see Bolt just gone.

"Where'd she go?" asked Berry as he looked around

"Up here!" shouted Bolt as she was standing on the last remaining tree in the area.

"Oh, my." said Wanda, fixing her glasses in awe

"Wow, that's awesome." smiled Flash

Bolt used Element control again and was now standing next to Wonder, as she gave a thumbs up with her feathers.

"Let's do this then." grinned Wonder, who was impressed by the feat

"Right".

Wonder sat down in the middle of the crater, while Bolt and Heat turned super and place their hooves on her shoulder, while Eirika stood behind the three and stabbed her sword into the ground. A strong beaming light blasted out of the blade, as the dragon came out of the light and flew into her. She placed her hand on Wonder back.

"Eirika, Bolt, Heat, I need you three to channel the power of your gems into my stone through me. You ready?" asked Wonder

"Yes, just give the word." replied Eirika

"Ready!" replied Heat and Bolt

"Okay then, let's do it." said Wonder, who felt the immense power of the three.

A blinding light appeared and the area around them grew white, soon broken time shards started to return and the blur vision was getting clearer. But the same time, the remaining land started to fall apart as the void creep closer to the impact site.

"Okay, the spell is working, but we don't have much time, so I'm gonna start rewinding time!" shouted Wonder

"Do what you have to!" shouted back Eirika

"Right, okay. Let's do this! Reverse time!"

A rainbow light came out of the Harmony stone, and the area around them started to rewind. Everyone could see the bright pillar of rainbow energy before returning into the fusing shards.

"That must be it! That must had been the cause of all this!" shouted Wanda as she saw the two shards defusing and returning to the ground.

"Yes! That was it!" confirmed Wonder, who was sweating like crazy and feeling her body getting heavy.
Bolt noticed this and used Element control, to keep the witch going.

"Thank you."

"No prob." smiled Bolt

"I can see it happening." smiled Heat

"Keep going, we're almost there! Where did those shards come from!?" shouted Layla

"Just a little more." said Wonder as everyone could see two figures appearing between a broken portal and touching the shards. Bolt and Heat were shock to see a look alike of Bolt touching the shard.

"Is that me?!" asked Bolt, who was confused

"No, not really!" yelled Wanda as she hovered over to them "It's why you and the other versions of you are here. Of course! Look, her and a human version of her touched the shards at the same time. Those shards must of have reacted to each other energy at the same time and blasted the walls between universe, which created an overlap and dragged "you" here." explained Wanda before the vision kept going, revealing a Heat look alike and human version as they were sliding up crater.

"So that's why we're here." said Wonder as her body was feeling weaker, but was being held together by Bolt "But where did these shards come from?"

"Wait, we're about to find out." said Eirika, as everyone was watching the vision.

Everyone watched as the four girls reverse walk out of the crater and the shards undoing the impact and flying back into the night sky. Everyone looked up, as the shard returned to the Rainbow Comet, as it was bleeding a black ooze.

"I think my new theory was correct..." whispered Wanda, making Layla asked her what she meant. "There is a Rainbow comet in my world and Terra told me there is one in hers, Flash, and Rain's world. Tell me, the rest of you, do you all have a Rainbow comet?" shouted Wanda as she started to panic, which made every nod.

"The comet passed my planet hours ago, and I was in space collecting a sample of it's weird rainbow trail..." said Flare

"The Rainbow comet appears every 200 years and it appeared 2 years ago in my world." answered Layla

"The emeralds flew to the Wish islands after the weird Rainbow comet appeared in the night sky few days ago. Long story short, I kicked a evil moon butt before coming here." explained Bolt

"There was a Rainbow comet that appeared over my kingdom two days ago and the Harmony diamonds came to me the next day before I found myself here." replied Heat as she looked at Bolt

"I suddenly saw a Rainbow comet last night and just defeated a cult leader before coming here!" shouted Eirika as she could see the black ooze falling down to them.

"The Rainbow comet appears in my world as well!" Berry replied as she could sense something within the black ooze.

"Just saw records of the Rainbow comet." said Aaira as her helmet covered her face and the face grill lights turned on

"In my world, there's record of a Rainbow comet as well." chimed in Wonder as she turned to Wanda "What was your theory?"

Wanda sweated as she went over it in her mind and spoke, "My theory "was", like Terra believed, was that the comet was a just natural occurring phenomenon in every universe but something kept bothering me about it. Then seeing those shards, as it broke the walls of the multiverse, it's making sense now."

Everyone waited for Wanda to finish but watched as the black ooze almost reaching them.

"What are you talking about, Wanda?! Spit it out!" shouted Flash

"The comet exists between the universes, it's how those shards can break the walls of the between. Ever notice it's still in this universe? It looked frozen but it's tail, it's still flowing like it's moving. So my new theory is, the comet is some type of dimensional comet, the walls of the universe are weakened enough by it, to allow it to cross the multiverse but seeing it still here...almost like it's watching and waiting..." explained Wanda, who was trying to put the new pieces together

"Waiting for what?" asked Flare as she felt the ground shaking as the void was almost at their feet

"Waiting for... dear god, no..." weakly said Wanda as she went over and over of the completed puzzle

"Waiting for what!?" questioned Aaira, who was starting to get agitated.

"The shards broke through the universe, which the comet was and going to pass through. The shards must of have sent us here....no, I stand corrected...." explained Wanda, who was panicking as the ooze landed on the ground "It was looking for the versions of "us" that was blasted with the shards. It pulled us here, thinking it was "them!".

"So the comet is sentient?! It can think?!" asked Flash as the ooze started to form something.

"Ha! I fought a living talking moon! This another Monday for me!" jokey said Bolt as she watched the ooze creating two white eyes.

Everyone watched as the ooze creature finally took a form of a pony. It's hallowed white eyes stared at them. The head, chest, body and hooves were all melting ooze, while the mane was trying to form but failing as it bled back into its body and the tail was a long, melting and dripping rainbow.

"Who are you?" asked Layla, who felt like the creature was looking straight through her and the others

"Rainbow..." spoke the ooze pony as her voice sounded like it's coming from a radio with a lot of interference "...Breaker."

Everyone watched as a bright white halo appeared behind its back.

"Rainbow....Breaker..." repeated the pony monster as she looked around at them and slowly started to move toward to the group

"What the hell is it doing?" asked Rain, who was ready to fight

"I don't know, but I think we should kill it before it can do anything." replied Aaira, who was loading her horn cutter gun and getting ready to fire.

Suddenly, two large melting wings pop out of its sides and shot towards Bolt and Heat, who were carried away into the sky.

"Heat!" yelled Flash

"Bolt!" shouted Eirika

Wonder body started to feel heavy as she realize the spell was draining her, so quickly stopped the spell but was covered by a ooze attack, as the attack came out of it's forming horn and trying to drag her into it.

"I don't think so!" shouted Wanda as she tried to save her but was attacked by the ooze as it created tentacles around itself

"I got you, Wanda!" shouted Flare as she grabbed Wanda before the black slime could grab her

"Don't touch the black ooze!" shouted Wanda, as Flare was able to throw her back to the group and flew quickly to save Wonder as she fired off her heat vision, hoping to cut off the slime that had Wonder but it did nothing.

"Get off of me!" screamed Wonder, who was being dragged into the ooze monster, who was melting her into itself.

"I'm coming, Wonder!" shouted Flash, as he flew over and punched the monster in the face.

"IDIOT!" screamed Wonder as she disappeared into the slime.

Flash watched as the monster slowly turned to her and slowly sucking her into itself, forcing Flash to pull her arm out but couldn't. She being eaten as she struggle to free herself.

"Hold on, Flash!" yelled Eirika, as she jumped on Aero back and flew above them and summon her dragon but watched as the monster bleeding rainbow tail shot up and grabbed on them. Everyone watch as the dragon was screaming in pain before melting into the creature tail, while Eirika and Aero was still trying to fight it off.

"Enough!" cried Layla as she summoned her crystal sword and wings and flew to Eirika and Aero, cutting the rainbow slime, saving the two.

"You okay?" asked Layla, as Eirika and Aero was shaking in fear

"We're fine." answered Eirika, as she watch the ooze was growing arms and punched Layla but she blocked it with her black runes barrier

"You're gonna have to try better than that!" grinned Layla as she kept the barrier up but quickly realize it was creeping its way over it and trying to get Eirika and Aero again, so she spread the barrier over to them but only for all three to be covered by the slime as the barrier was covered. The large ball of slime fell into the pool of ooze, which increase the size of now sea looking slime.

"Shit! They're dead!" shouted Rain as her, Terra and Aaira was shooting at the coming black slime's, while Wanda put her bubble barrier up.

"We need a plan!" cried Wanda as the slime was trying to push through the bubble.

"There's no way, we can't kill that thing!" replied Aaira she reloaded her cutter gun.

Blue Berry was hiding behind the group and crying. "What can I do? What can I do? Oh! Tank what should we do?!" she asked as she looked down at the scare turtle. who she was holding. He looked up and smiled.

"You're right, I can do this!" shouted Blue as she stood up and looked at the group "Everyone! I'll save the day!"

"What! No!" shouted Wanda as she watched Berry flying out of the safe area and summoning her powerful attack move but was grabbed by the rainbow tail slime. She was being eaten alive by it.

"Berry?!" yelled Aaira, who was firing at the creature head but doing nothing as she saw the black ooze was slowly creeping into the barrier.

"She's in trouble! I'll save her!" yelled Flare as she hurry to Berry.

Berry was trying to get out but couldn't. She was scare, was she going to die like the others?

"You won't." said a voice inside Berry mind.

"Tanky? Tank! What are you doing!?" asked Berry as she could see Tank glowing blue and pushing Berry out of the rainbow slime.

"No, no, no! Please! Don't go, Tank!" cried Berry, who was trying to hold him but couldn't.

"It's going to be okay Berry." spoke the voice as the rainbow slime took him and melted into the rainbow ooze.

"Please, I can't lose you too." said Berry, who was crying and falling from the sky, knowing Tank is gone forever.

"Don't worry, Berry. We will get him back and save our friends." said Flare as she caught the little pony, only to see that Berry wasn't blue or having a rainbow mane. Her skin was light tan and her mane was brown. Berry lost her magical girl powers.

"We'll save him?" asked Berry as she was wiping away her tears and looking up at Flare

"Of course. I will protect you with my life and get everyone back. I promise." smiled Flare, which made Berry smile.

Flare flew back to the others and could see the barrier was almost eaten. She had to hurry and do something but she was shock to hear something.

"ELEMENT CONTROL!"

Flare and Berry watched as the others disappeared and reappeared next to them, as they were surround by a golden barrier. They all watched as Bolt and Heat appeared in front of them.

"You two are alright!?" cried Berry

"Yes, thanks to Bolt." smiled Heat, which made Flare smile as well.

"What's happening!?" shouted Wanda, who was confused about the barrier

"We can't talk now! Heat, keep them safe!" ordered Bolt as she turned to her.

"Of course!" said Heat as she took over the golden barrier.

"Bolt! Wait!" called out Flare, as she grabbed her tail "I'm not letting you go alone!"

"Flare, I'll be fine! Just keep everyone safe." smiled Bolt as she gave her thumbs up with her golden feathers.

"Don't go!" cried Berry as she tried to reach out to her but Bolt softly petted her.

"It's okay, Berry. I'll be right back, just watch." winked Bolt

"But-" replied Flare

"Trust me you two." grinned Bolt

Flare and Berry nodded their heads, as they trusted her, letting her go and being placed under the golden barrier.

"Just be careful, Bolt." whispered Heat as she watched Bolt rocketing off to the slime monster.

"Hey, ooze face! You forgot about me!" shouted Bolt as the slime turned its attention to her and fired more tentacles at her but she used her lightning speed to avoid the slime.

"Not gonna work, ugly! I fought a water monster, it was just a big drip, like you!" yelled Bolt as the tentacles tried again, and once more, she dodged them and flew closer to its head, as she landed a punch. "Is that all you got?" smiled Bolt as she saw the monster was getting annoyed and tried again, this time the tentacles came from the rainbow tail. She dodge them and punched it's face but this time, the ooze monster didn't like it.
It was angry, the more Bolt hit it, the more it's anger was growing. The ooze was forming a large fist, which was made from the black and rainbow ooze this time and swung its large fist, punching Bolt hard and knocking her back into the air.

"You want more!? Bring it!" taunted Bolt, as she rubbed her face, knowing the punch hurt a bit but not as much. The ooze monster roared, creating a loud screeching sound, which echoed across the once colorful void.
Bolt watched as the creature grew in size, almost becoming the same size as large moon. As it finish growing, it shot out all its slime attacks and covered Bolt in it, as the golden light disappeared into the darkness. Everyone screamed in horror, while Heat wanted to help but couldn't as she was holding the barrier up, keeping the others from falling into the endless dark slime, that somehow was filling the universe.

Inside the mixed black and rainbow ooze, Bolt was giving it everything she had, to keep herself from being crush. She knew she was a strong Pegasus while in this state but the slime was somehow overpowering the emeralds. She could feel the emeralds within, were getting weaker and she knew she can't lose to this monster but if she did, the others will die. She closed her eyes, remembering what the Elders of Wish islands had taught her. It was her last resort she didn't want to use again but there was no choice.

"Sorry, Elder Tia and Lu but looks like I'm going all out!"

Her body started to glow with a rainbow aura. Bolt opened her eyes, her normally pink iris was replaced with shiny blue ones.

She smiled and started to push her wings out with force. The ooze monster was losing, it was feeling the pressure from Bolt and tried to crush. It could feel something growing with such raw power in its slime and watched as a flash of rainbow energy blasted out, destroying the slime that covered its prey.

"I can't believe I'm saying this, but thank you for making me angry." laughed Bolt, as she was slowly floating out of the slime and her whole body was glowing but much brighter now. As well as strong purple and red energy sparkling around her.

Everyone looked in amazement, while Heat knew she shouldn't be surprise by Bolt's power, as she just sighed with great relief.

The whole falling universe was covered in black ooze, the colorful void was gone, the cracks were gone as well. Only left were the Rainbow comet, the monster, as four new white halo appeared behind it's back, and the last remaining golden light within the darkness...

end of ch5