Kung-Fu Equestria 2

Inner Peace

As the memories reached their end, the changeling queen rested her head and prepared for death.

However, her eyes shoot open as she felt an arm entwine around her.

Looking up, Chrysalis was met with the sight of Tai Lung pulling her towards the harbor, alongside Urtica and Luna.

"W-Why...?" Chrysalis whispered out

"You sacrificed yourself for your children," Tai replied, lifting her onto the dry harbor. "You are not without redemption."

"And besides," another voice added, drawing Chrysalis' gaze. "If you're going die, wouldn't you rather die in the arms of your daughter?"

Chrysalis turned to Urtica, who knelt down and put pressure on her mother's injuries. Her horn lit up, trying to cast a healing spell.

Chrysalis stared at Urtica with shock. "Even... after everything I did...?" she whispered. "What a foal I have been...?"

Urtica simply looked up, an unspoken conversation passing between mother and daughter. Resting a hand on her daughter's cheek, Chrysalis noticed a spark in Urtica's eyes. A light show she thought she'd never get the privilege of seeing again.

"You... have your father's eyes," Chrysalis noted, giving a genuine smile of love for the first time in many years. "As well as his heart."

As mother and daughter reconciled, Tai backed up, unsure if he was to be involved. Turning to his mother, he tended to her, as her eyes fluttered open, and she pulled herself up.

"Oh, Tai," she whispered, cradling his head. "Are you okay?"

"Fine," Tai replied, before turning to Chrysalis with worry. "But she isn't."

But Chrysalis forced herself to a sitting position.

"It doesn't matter what happens to me," the changeling queen declared. "What matters is what 'she' can do now."

Chrysalis pointed, and the group turned.

Twilight had reached a large piece of driftwood, and stood defiantly before the remnants of King Sombra's fleet. Though she was battered, bruised and beat, she was far from broken.

"You wish for death, Twilight Warrior?" Sombra demanded.

Twilight said nothing, performing a motion that made Luna's eyes grow wide. Sombra, however, merely scoffed and turned to the yaks still under his control.

"Finish this," he ordered.

The ten remaining ships around Sombra aimed. Twilight shut her eyes. Unknown to them, the world faded away around Twilight, as she envisioned a pond in a field. Droplets of rain surrounded her.

"Fire!" Sombra's voice boomed, followed by the literal boom of one of the cannons.

But Twilight forced herself to remain calm. To think of the cannon ball as nothing more than raindrop.

'Inner Peace...'

Twilight drove her arm forward... and caught the cannonball.

Every jaw in the harbor dropped as she redirected it, sending it flying away harmlessly into the water.

But no one was more horrified than Sombra. As Twilight finally opened her eyes, a grim grin graced her features as she glared his gaping form down. She raised a flaming fist and clenched it.

Unfortunately for her, clenching her fist didn't extinguish the flames. And as the burning sensation registered to her, Twilight screamed and thrust her arm into the water, accidentally sending herself into the drink as well. A bright purple flash shined under the water before Twilight reappeared back on the driftwood, shaking herself off.