The tears fell freely now, Somnambula unable to hold them back, every shriek and wail assaulting her ears having finally pushed her over the edge. Flash could feel her shaking against his foreleg, Magnus lifting his eyes to the burning embers floating against them, the nightmarish hellscape of her home becoming reality to him at last. Knowing what she had lost. Knowing what she believed made her a failure. Unlike her, he glared to fires and dipped his head low, resting his chin atop her neck, gently gripping her tighter.
Silently telling her she was not alone. She was not who she believed herself to be. Even if she didn’t hear it, or refused to, he was still there for her. He stood and held his friend with as much strength as he could offer in that moment of burning agony, caught in the storm of shredded flames.
Then, the silence was torn by a roar they both heard. Flash darted up like an alert canine. Somnambula lifted her tear-streaked face, mascara joining the rivers against her cheeks, and stared to the source.
Her heart broke when Behemoth shattered the pyramid with a swinging strike of his tusks.
Raining fragments of stone and rubble fell across the city, crushing what remained of the charred houses and slamming against the dirt roads. Where the ponies screamed and ran. Behemoth turned to the fleeing masses, and for a moment, Somnambula could have sworn the beast stared right at them. Through the billowing smoke, flame-streaked night skies, and the floating embers, the Titan stopped and stared.
Her pain slowly turned to fury. The agony she felt had burned into something much more ferocious, something she had never once let get the best of her. Yet the evil they faced did not feel, did not care, did not think twice if the chaos they caused tormented countless lives in the process. Relenting once more, only this time to the fury, Somnambula stood straight and seethed at the beast with righteous judgement. Her chest rose and fell, her teeth were bared, and her eyes burned fresh with tears.
Burned away the tears to unveil the rage.
Behemoth snorted, ramming his fists into the earth before he released another devastating war cry. Then, he charged them. Crushed and tore through the flaming husks of the city to reach the street of innocent, fleeing lives.
Flash pulled forth his fireproof shield from his back, tightening it across his foreleg, exemplifying his element by staring down the face of pure wrath and devastation and never once bending the knee. So he stood, the Element of Courage, the Pillar of Equestria Flash Magnus and his ally, his friend, Somnambula. They stood their ground as her people galloped past them.
So they spread their wings and flew off to meet the beast for battle.
Behemoth © Legendary
Flash Magnus & Somnambula © Hasbro