The Spectra Scepter Saga, chapter 12

by Cullen Pittman

Rainbow's Ending

Rainbow Brite, Starlite, Stormy, and Brian back in his Sentinel of Light Unseen armor, had reached the end of the rainbow bridge and were about to set foot back on Earth in Brian's neighborhood. Until they saw the Grix covered streets. "Hold it, Starlite", said Rainbow hugging his neck, "If you step in that stuff, you might get a bad case of Grix hoof."

Starlite made a disgusted neigh, "And people complain that us stallions make big messes on the roads", he sighed.

"Maybe this will clean up the streets", said Brian as he took his newly rebuilt Spectra Scepter, pointed the top red tip at the Grix. And all of the Grix on the street dissolved making the streets clean again. "Hey, it works", smiled Brian, "I get to make my neighborhood clean again thanks to this baby."

"And here's your chance to make the neighbors clean too", called out Rainbow as she pointed to a whole army of Grix Grunts charging at them.

"Here goes nothing", said Brian as he concentrated, aimed his Scepter at the approaching Grunts and a beam of rainbow energy shot out of the Scepter and hit the Grunts turning them back into humans. And they all fell down on the street unconscious.

"Hey, I did it!" smiled Brian, "I've cured them! And I recognize these people too. They're some of my neighbors, teachers, and friends from school. Uh oh. They're not moving. I hope I didn't zap them to de..."

"Don't worry", said Rainbow, examining them with her magic Rainbow cuffs. "They're just out cold right now. They've been that way from being imprisoned in Grix for a month. Hopefully, once we defeat the source of the Grix and the Dark Princess, we can start the Earth healing process."

"That library over there", called out Stormy, "The Dark Princess is hiding out inside. That's where she captured me and turned me into an, eyew, Grix Grunt."

"Don't worry, Stormy", said Rainbow, "We'll make DP pay for what she did to you, to Brian, and to everyone on Earth. Come on, Team Rainbowland!" And the four friends started rushing off to the library to take down the Dark Princess.

The Dark Princess was looking out the window watching the 3 kids and stallion making their way to her library palace. "So, they managed to turn Stormy back to the dreaded colored side", growled the Princess as she rushed over to the panting blob of goo which was the Grix's Source. "Don't worry, my darling", said the Princess, "I won't let those nasty kids finish you off. That is if Murky can deliver on the device he said would help us."

"And it's all done", said Murky as he and Lurky entered the room. Murky was holding an old film camera.

"That's just an old camera!" demanded the Princess in an angry voice, "You plan on taking selfies of me and my Grix just before we get attacked?! What's the matter with you?!"

"Oh no, your highness", said Murky, "This camera was the nearest device of machinery I could find that would work. I would've used the xerox machine, but Lurky was too busy copying his butt with it."

"Want my autograph?" smiled Lurky as he held up photos of his bushy bottom.

"Anyway", continued Murky, "I modified this camera into a special ray that will make you and the Grix's source even stronger. Say limburger cheese!" Before the Princess could speak, Murky clicked the camera and aimed a dark gray beam at both the Princess and the Grix's source.

Lurky watched in horror as the 2 evil forces merged into one.

"Look at me!" gasped the Princess who looked a lot taller and was covered in gray messy Grix, along with having red glowing eyes. "I mean look at us", said the Princess in a dark sounding voice, "Me and my precious Grix source have become one! I feel so much power!" And she raised her Grix covered hands in the air and started blasting blobs of Grix onto the ceiling. "With this new body, I can Grixify the entire universe. HA HA HA!"

"I thought you'd might like that", said Murky.

"You've redeemed yourself, Murky", said the Grix Princess, "I'm going to make you my right hand man once again. Right after I do away with Rainbow Brite and her little friends."

Rainbow Brite and her friends were rushing to the library with Brian in front, using his Scepter to remove the blocking Grix on the street to create a clear pathway. "Okay, everyone", said Rainbow, "Whatever we find in that library, we'll be ready for it, right team?"

But before everyone could answer, the doors blew open, and a huge puddle of Grix started to ooze out. Then the puddle grew into a giant 10 foot Dark Princess made of Grix. "Well, well, well", cackled the Grix Princess in her monstrous voice, "So we meet again, Rainbow Bimbo. Along with your little horsey too."

"Stallion", corrected Starlite in an angry voice.

"Dark Princess!" gasped Rainbow, "What's happened to you?!"

"Let's just say me and my little Grix source have become much closer than we were ever before", laughed the Grix Princess, "We now share the same mind. Minds of destruction and power!"

"That is so wrong!" gasped Brian.

"And it looks like the Sentinel of Lightheadedness is back too", cackled the Princess pointing to Brian. "And is that your new backscratcher? Or is it that dreaded Spectra Scepter that destroyed the Grix the first time 30 years ago."

"So I guess you know the history of the Spectra Scepter", said Rainbow, "And how powerful it is! Show her, Brian."

"This is for all my friends and family you've tormented this past month!" shouted Brian as he aimed his Scepter at the Grix Princess and fired another rainbow beam. But the beam didn't dissolve the Grix that covered the Princess who just cackled wickedly. "Why isn't the Grix going away?" asked Brian shocked.

"That's right!" gasped Rainbow, "According to the Book of Krys, you can't just zap the Grix's source away, you have to strike it hard with the touch of the Scepter!"

"Well there's no way you're gonna touch this royal beauty!" cackled the Princess as she started to launch Grix blobs at our heroes. Rainbow shot out her stars, Stormy shot her lightning bolts, and Brian shot another beam from his Scepter to blast away the blobs. "Hey, where did the Princess go?" asked Brian.

"There she is!" called out Stormy. Sure enough, the Grix Princess was back in puddle form and quickly sliding away. "You're not getting away that easily!" shouted Stormy as she tried to fire some lightning bolts at the puddle, but the Grix Princess rose again and grabbed the bolts and used them to curl her red hair.

"Thank you, Stormy", smiled the Princess evily, "I loved teasing my hair with these mega hot combs. Now I get to tease you!" And she threw the bolts back at Stormy knocking her off her cloud and somewhere out of sight.

"STORMY!" cried Rainbow, then she looked angry at the Princess, "Your days of hurting my friends ends now!" Rainbow tried to fire some rainbow stars, while Brian kept shooting his Spectra Scepter at the Princess, but she was just too fast and slick to hit.

"It's no use!" called out Brian, "She's just too fast."

"If only something can distract her to slow her down", said Rainbow.

"Leave that to me!" called out Starlite as he used his stallion speed to catch up and step on the Princess puddle.

"How dare you step on royalty you mangy mule!" shouted the Princess as she rose up and grabbed Starlite by the neck. "Let's see how you like being a one Grix pony!" Starlite watched in horror as he saw Grix covering all four of his legs and started to rise up his body.

"NO, STARLITE!" cried Rainbow, but then realized what she had to do. The Princess was now standing still concentrating on Grixifing Starlite. Rainbow and Brian snuck behind the distracted Princess. Then Rainbow took out a rainbow colored X and silently tossed it on the Princess's Grix covered back. "It's up to the Color Kids now", said Rainbow.

Back at the Rainbowland Color Castle, the 7 Color Kids were at their stations until Red Butler noticed a bleeping Rainbow X on his monitor. "That's the signal", Red called out to everyone, "Now to put part 1 of Rainbow's plan into action." He took out a small flashdrive and plugged it into a slot at his station. Just then, the trusty Color Cannon rose out of the top of the castle. But instead of shooting a rainbow, it shot out a weird green ray and was heading for Earth.

The Grix Princess had completely finished turning Starlite into a Grix horse and dropped him on the ground. "Starlite?" gasped Rainbow with tears in her eyes as she saw her beloved stallion friend now a dark color with evil red eyes and making fearful neigh sounds.

"Now, that's what I call a true nightmare!" cackled the Princess out loud. She was laughing so hard, that she didn't notice a green beam coming from the sky, striking her.

"WHOOOOOA!" said the Princess in a hypnotic voice as she started wiggling around while her red eyes turned to green hypnotic swirls.

"Why is the Princess doing a funny dance?" asked Lurky as he and Murky looked out the window in the safety of the library.

"That's looks familiar", said Murky, " Wait, that's the same movements from my hypnotizing program I made to take over Rainbowland! Someone's using my flashdrive without my permission! I should sue!"

"Uh, who's Sue?" asked Lurky.

"Your plan to have Red use Murky's hypnotizing program is working, Rainbow", said Brian.

"And she's distracted enough for you to fully use your Scepter on her!" said Rainbow, "So go forth, son of Krys, and strike the source of evil. The Grix and the Princess!"

"Right!" said Brian determined as he concentrated and the Scepter started to glow like crazy. Then he started to charge and strike the helpless mind controlled Princess in the back.

"AHHHHH!" shouted the Princess as she felt the sting of the Spectra Scepter in an unpleasant place. The Grix that covered the Princess was slowly dissolving while the Princess stood there hypnotized unable to escape or fight back.

Soon there was a big explosion of light and when it cleared, Brian was standing there holding his smoking Scepter and the Princess was back to her normal size and all the Grix that covered her was gone too. She was also lying on the ground totally knocked out.

"Did I defeat her and the Grix?" asked Brian.

"Look!" cried Rainbow as the Grixified Starlite started to charge at them. But suddenly, the Grix dissolved from Starlite turning him back to his friendly white and rainbow maned color again. Then he tripped and landed into Rainbow's arms. "Starlite, you're back to normal!" said Rainbow happily as she hugged her friend.

"You're not putting me out to pasture anytime soon!" laughed Starlite.

"Look everyone", called out Brian as he saw the Grix dissolve from all the streets and the houses. And all the Grix Grunts transformed back into the rest of the neighbors and they fell down unconscious, just like the last ones Brian freed earlier. "I've never felt this happy before", smiled Brian as tears of happiness dropped from his helmet visor.

"I've never felt this nauseated before!" growled Murky as he and Lurky were looking out the library window at the Grix free neighborhood.

"Murky", said Lurky, "I think we'd better hide somewhere before Rainbow Brite finds us."

"That's the smartest thing you've ever said in your entire life", said Murky as he and Lurky tried to sneak out of sight. But then got grabbed by a giant robot hand. "What the...?!" growled Murky, "That's my robot hand! Someone's using another of my inventions without permission?! I gotta get better copyright policies!"

Murky and Lurky then looked over and saw that Stormy was using her electric powers to operate the robot hand and smiling at them. "Sorry, boys", said Stormy, "But Britey will want you two back in jail for this."

Back in Rainbowland, all the Color Kids were watching the Earth on the castle's giant monitor. Everyone was happy and was cheering as they watched the Grix completely disappear from the Earth, making it clean again. "They did it!" shouted Red happily. "Team Rainbow saved Earth!"

"That may be", said Lala Orange, "But it still looks kind of pale to me."

"That's because the Earth went for a month without our colorization powers", said Red, "But now that the Grix is gone, it's time to bring back some color in those Earthlings' lives. Color Kids, to your stations!" The 7 Color Kids all went back to their keeps, then took out their keys, and inserted them into some slots causing their trademark color beams to shoot out from the antennas on top of each keep. Then the 7 beams hit the Color Cannon on top of the Castle, and the cannon released a colorful rainbow at the planet Spectra which reflected pretty colors down to Earth.

Bright colors were now returning to all corners of the Earth and people were now getting on their feet feeling happy again. There was singing and laughing and dancing all over the world. Especially from Brian's neighborhood. Yes, the world was now free from the Dark Princess and her evil Grix thanks to the heroism of Brian, along with Rainbow Brite and her friends.

ONE WEEK LATER

Things were now back to normal business in Rainbowland. Now that Earth was free from the Grix, Rainbow Brite and her crew went back to mining Color Crystals so they could make more colors for the planet Earth like they always did.

Back at the Brightest Happiest Jail in All Existence, we see Murky and Lurky locked up like they were when they tried to conquer Rainbowland the last time. "I can't believe we're back in here again!" growled Murky, "I much preferred serving our sentences in the Pits. In fact, shouldn't prison walls be colored gray like the ones back on Earth?!"

"But I like these pretty colored prison walls", said Lurky smiling, "Maybe we should keep doing more bad things so we can get locked up in this pretty jail."

"Are you kidding?!" hollered Murky, "If that happens, maybe I should start being good from now on. Let's see, be good and stay out of the colored jail or be bad and get sent to this jail of icky colors. Oh, why do bad things always happen to bad people?!"

Rainbow Brite stepped out of the Color Castle admiring her precious Rainbowland and thinking about how she and her friends helped saved Earth. Just then, she smiled when she saw the magic bike in the sky with Brian riding it. "Hey, everyone. Brian's coming!" called out Rainbow. Then she, Starlite, Stormy, the Color Kids, and the Sprites all rushed out of the castle to greet Brian who just landed. Everyone cheered seeing the hero from Earth.

"Aw, thanks everyone", said Brian, blushing, "But I'm not really a hero. I was the one who accidentally let the Grix rise in the first place."

"But you got rid of the Grix in the end", smiled Rainbow, "You're a hero in my eyes."

"Thanks, Rainbow", said Brian, "And thank you all. When Earth got conquered by the Grix and the Dark Princess, I felt horrible inside and felt like I should be punished for life. But you all were great hosts while I stayed here in Rainbowland this past month and you cheered me up in all sorts of ways, which prevented me from being depressed and gave me hope. You're all great friends."

"No problem, Brian", smiled Red, "And you also helped each us all in a lot of ways."

"Yes", said Canary Yellow, "Remember our two friends, Paco and Quilla?" She stepped aside and showed Brian the two Quartz Quilled Quails he met the other day. And behind them were about 12 baby quails scampering around.

"Wow!" smiled Brian, "Does that mean the Quartz Quilled Quails are now off the endangered species list?"

"Could be", smiled Canary.

"Here's someone who missed you a lot", whispered Shy Violet as she handed Brian his hamster companion back.

"Captain Fuzz!" smiled Brian as he hugged his hamster, "Great news! Earth is free from the Grix and now we can go back home together. Thank you, Violet, for looking after him. You're so kind."

"Th-th-th-th", said Shy Violet blushing at the kind words Brian said to her and started to live up to her name once again.

"By the way, Brian", asked Indigo, "How are all your friends and family doing back on Earth? Are they still recovering?"

"They seem to be doing even better than they ever have in their lives", said Brian as he put Captain Fuzz in his shirt pocket, then took an iPad out of his backpack, "In fact, I want to show you all something", everyone gathered around as Brian clicked on his iPad and brought up a news report.

"And for today's news", said the same newsman who got Grixified in the first chapter, "After the planet Earth got conquered by a mysterious darkness, no one could explain, for about a month, sunlight and color has now returned to the Earth. Not only that, everyone seems to be more happier and calmer and stress free, including me. In fact, all wars and crimes seemed to have ceased all over Earth. And world leaders are getting together to negotiate world peace at long last."

Everyone in Rainbowland smiled and became happy hearing this report. "I can't believe world peace is happening at long last!" smiled Brian.

"And it was because of the Grix", smiled Rainbow.

"You're kidding?!" gasped Brian.

"Sure", said Rainbow, "It turned out the same thing happened here 30 years ago when Rainbowland got conquered by the Grix and your dad removed it all with the Spectra Scepter. It turns out that not only does the Scepter erase evil Grix, but it also erases any original evil inside a person. Which is why Rainbowland is such a wonderful place to live in."

"Now the same thing's happened to Earth", said Brian amazed.

"And it's all thanks to you!" smiled Rainbow, hugging Brian, "When you found that small tiny Grix blob and the Dark Princess got her hands on it, it was a bad thing at first. But when you destroyed all that Grix, you brought happiness and peace to Earth. Kind of like a caterpillar turning into a beautiful butterfly."

"That's right", smiled Starlite, "I was a victim of the Grix and you freed me, Brian. I feel like a better horse."

"Starlite!" gasped Rainbow, "Did you just call yourself a horse instead of a stallion?"

"Whoa, I guess I did", said Starlite, "And it feels kind of good. I now don't mind if people call me a horse or a stallion."

"You were always a better horse/stallion to me, Starlite", smiled Rainbow.

"And you also freed me from the Grix too", smiled Stormy, hugging Brian. "I don't feel any more bitterness, heartache, and rage inside of me. I can finally call you my friend. If you'll accept me as a friend too, if you want."

"Sure", smiled Brian, "Just as long as you don't keep soaking me with your rainclouds."

"Okay, if you want to spoil my fun", grumbled Stormy, "Ha, ha, just kidding!" And she created a small heart shaped cloud and gave it to Brian.

"I wonder what happened to her royal pain-in-the-buttness, the Dark Princess?" asked Patty O'Green.

"I've been meaning to show you this too", said Brian as he activated his iPad again. "It's a film I took of the Dark Princess today." There on the screen was the Dark Princess back in her library clothes doing her prison community service in the library once again. But she now had a smile on her face.

"Hello, all you wonderful angels", sang the Princess as she waved to the kids who entered the library, "You all really brighten my day!"

"Sorry, Miss Librarian", said a girl, "But this book is kind of overdue."

"Aw, don't worry about it Sweetie!" smiled the Princess patting the girls' head, "Since this is your first overdue book, I'll overlook it. Now go off and enjoy some more wonderful books."

"Thank you", smiled the girl as she went off to look at some more books.

"Aw, I love kids", smiled the Princess as she took her feather duster and started dusting the shelves while singing a happy song. Then the video stopped.

All the Rainbowland citizens stood there shocked and silent at the newly transformed Dark Princess.

"What just crawled out of her butt?" gasped Buddy Blue.

"I was surprised myself", said Brian.

"Well, the Dark Princess was covered in the Grix's source", said Rainbow, "And when your Scepter released the Princess from the Grix, she must've gotten all her evil removed big time as well."

"I guess we should start calling her the Light Princess?" asked Lala.

"Or the Light Librarian", corrected Indigo.

"I thought she was less creepier when she was evil", said Starlite who still couldn't believe how happy and carefree that evil lady had now become.

"Say, Brian", said Red, "Can we all see that Spectra Scepter of yours? We Color Kids only saw it as a droopy, poorly stuck together, stick."

"Sure thing", said Brian as he reached for the scabbard on his belt and showed everyone the newly repaired Spectra Scepter standing straight and tall. Everyone marveled at its 7 colored beauty.

"One thing I don't understand", said Red, "The Book of Krys said that the Scepter got broken into 7 shards once Krys destroyed the Grix that first time. How come it didn't shatter again when Brian used it?"

"I have a feeling once the Spectra Scepter got repaired, it somehow got stronger", said Rainbow.

"Would you like the Scepter back, Rainbow?" asked Brian as he held out the Scepter to her, "My mission is done and it would probably be in safer hands with you."

"No, Brian", smiled Rainbow, "The Spectra Scepter was the original property of your dad, so now it's yours. Keep it with you in case you see any small traces of Grix on Earth. That way, you can wipe them out."

"Hopefully, that will never happen", said Brian as he put the Scepter back in his scabbard, "I think all the Grix is completely gone from Earth."

Back at the library on Earth, we see one tiny gray blob of Grix about the size of a flea hopping around looking for something. It saw a candy bowl on a table and hopped into it. "Time for a sweetness boost", smiled the now happy librarian princess, "So I can keep being friendly to the world!" And she grabbed some candy along with the hidden tiny blob and ended up eating it all. Just then, her happiness turned to a frown and her innocent eyes became evil eyes.

"How did I become a lowly librarian again!?" growled the Princess, for swallowing that small ounce of Grix turned her evil again. "Somebody's going to pay for this!" She scowled and then looked out the window and saw a rainbow appear. "GRRRRR!" grumbled the Princess as she turned around and started to push a cart of overdue books while going back to shooshing the students.

On top of the rainbow, we see Rainbow Brite and Mr. Glitters riding on Starlite's back, while Brian was riding right beside them on his bike. The two kids smiled at each other while singing, "Together we can light up the sky!" as they continued to ride on the beautiful rainbow to who knows where.

THE END

AUTHOR'S FINAL NOTES;

That's the end of The Spectra Scepter Saga. And I want to thank the following people for making this
story possible.

Hallmark and the crew for creating that wonderful Rainbow Brite Reboot.

Feeln for letting the show stream on their site.

Heart of the Demons, for giving me great reviews for each chapter, encouraging me to continue with it to the end.

The Rainbow Brite Facebook and Twitter sites for always posting inspiring RB things.

And to God for giving me the gift of imagination and for creating the wonderful colorful rainbow and all the colors of the world.

Thank you all for reading. :)