Trixie froze at the sight of him, she met this guy before and to think that he held a big and dark magic rendered her speechless. She didn’t need to do much to feel his power, she could practically taste it.

The creature jumped and floated slowly to the ground, looking at how everyone kept looking at him dumbstruck, it was funny to him. Looking down at the beaten alicorn princess made him smile a bit more, but it was countered as he felt what was undoubtedly her backup coming closer to their location.

“Took you quite a bit, Princess Sun and Moonbutt.” His voice sounded deep and malicious looking as Celestia along with Luna, Discord and Umbra descended upon the town “And you took your dogs with you too.”

“You wretched vermin, how da-” Luna started only to be cut short by a blur of black and to be hit by it followed by a flash. The princess of the night found herself unable to move as her body had begun to petrify from her legs, she screamed and thrashed all she could but there was no stopping it.

Celestia threw herself in front of her sister in desperation, but it was too late. Long before anyone could properly react the princess of the night was turned into stone, the remaining ponies stared in shock while the princess of the sun fell to her knees to cry for her once again lost sister. Not long after the ponies previously known as the remaining bearer of the elements and the Cutie Marks Crusaders arrived at the horrific scene.

“Listen well,” The purple creature spoke gaining their attention once again “If you have enough time to talk so much shit, you have time to attack. I shall not wait until your bullshit friendship speeches are done nor I will wait for you to get another McGuffin to defeat me, I’ll take you out right here and now.”

“Wh...why…?” He turned to where the weak voice of Princess Twilight called for him, looking at how much it’s costing to the bleeding alicorn to even speak “Why… do you do thi-”

“Fight begins now!” He cut her off and jumped at her with little patience. Just as it seemed as it was about to strike the her, a purple and cyan blur stopped him in his tracks. The creature stood still with both hand and claw struck on his face.

“Not on our guard, freak!” Rainbow Dash struck a cocky grin while Spike gave him a hateful glare.

“Come on Celestia, I’ll take care of Luna, you go attend her wounds.” Discord tapped on her shoulder quickly while he snapped his fingers on the eagle paw to undo Luna’s petrification. Celestia looked up, nodding shortly after as she went to cast a healing spell on Twilight.

“Don’t make me laugh,” The purple creature stared back at Dash and Spike, pushing their fists back with just his face before swatting them away with little effort, yet they went flying into different houses wit at an incredible speed “You cannot hurt me with those mosquito bites you call punches.”

Wasting no time he countered Discord’s spell, leaving Luna as a statue once again. Now with his target set he shot to him the same blast that petrified the night princess, Discord disappeared in a flash avoiding the attack entirely. On his stead the ground below him had petrified instead.

“You won’t escape,” The purple creature rose his arm and reached for his side, his arm seemingly disappearing in thin air. Not long after he pulled his arm back with the former spirit of disharmony’s neck on his grasp, rising him further up “Unlike you, my power is knows no bounds and I can’t be swayed by a bitch that is afraid of her own shadow.”

Both Trixie and Umbra watched horrified and confused, everything happening so fast that she can barely process anything that has been going on. Next thing she knew, Discord was turned back into stone thrown into the ground, the yellow mare running to the statue bawling over him.

The creature turned his gaze to Umbra momentarily, following by checking on the remaining princesses. It seemed that princess smartass was fully healed.

“Heh, as if getting a full recovery will help you.” He smirked walking to them “I only do this so you know the name of the very first villain who truly successfully triumphed over harmony. I am Vaati, the mage with no boundaries.” Raising a hand that charged magic once again, he approached with a malicious grin. Twilight and Celestia charging up magic of their own, but a yellow blur flashed and stopped in between them.

“Now you listen here mister!” Fluttershy glared at the purple mage with wide eyes “Just because you have all the power in the world doesn’t give you the right to be a massive jerk and such a meanie. Now undo all the harm you’ve done and apologize for what you’ve done.”

Vaati stared back unamused, undoing the magic charge leaving only his index and middle fingers raised. Fluttershy let go of the stare smiling and the crazed mage smiling back as he suddenly pointed the fingers at her eyes, setting them to explode and the mare falling to the ground as her eyes burned screaming louder than anyone has ever heard.

“Nobody tells me what to do.” He kicked her making her cough blood, only for him to be almost immediately greeted by another scream filled with rage and a tackle from a technicolor blur.

“You monster!” Rainbow Dash reared up a punch and brought it down to the now pinned Vaati “How dare you... how dare you to do such a horrible thing to my friend!” One after another more flurries of punches rained down on him, making him spill blood “I’ll never forgive you!” She delivered the next hit with the most force she could muster, only to make a small crater on the ground where her enemy used to be.

“Rainbow, behind you!” Twilight warned her and followed her advice immediately. Indeed he was there, but he didn’t do anything. Though it was clear that his face was full of bruises and was bleeding in some spots.

“I figured it would be quite boring if I was invincible throughout the whole fight, neither would it make me like a good villain if I was.” He rubbed the edge of his bleeding mouth trying to clean it off “Even if you always cheat by using the same 1 hit K.O. tactic, I am going to be nice enough to give you a fighting chance.”

“Fair? Fighting chance?! You rendered Fluttershy blind!” She pointed at the agonizing mare with another one of the element bearers that the mage was sure that was the wrongly chosen element of Generosity “You have no right to talk about fairness!”

“It’s the shit villains do, duh.”

This only served to fuel her anger, the remaining elements along with Celestia that were still able to fight joined her up. The bearer of Generosity remained attending her injured friend.

“While that is true,” The pink one started as she frowned back to him “However, you forget that we’re heroes. And heroes always win over the bad guys, our duty is to get rid of guys that bring misery to this world like you and that’s exactly what we’ll do!”

“Nice one Pinkie.” The orange one whistled before focusing on him as well.

“Yes that’s nice and all, but I still made this happen,” He clapped sarcastically before pointing at the stone statues of Luna and Discord, making Celestia flinch “And I meant it when I said that I wasn’t going to wait for your deus ex machinas to appear.”

“Vaati, you will not win!” Celestia stepped forward with her courage recovered “Harmony will prevail in the end no matter what.”

“I’d like to see you try,” His aura darkened shaping themselves in a tendril like manner while his only visible eye glowed.

“Let’s do this girls, for Equestria.” Twilight stood firm lighting up her horn, Celestia joining at her side.

“I shall fight too Twilight.” She lit up her horn staring down at her enemy.

“Isn’t that cute? They think that they can take me on.” Vaati smirked sprinting as fast as the wind, barely giving his opponents a chance to react staring face to face at Twilight.

Spike fell down on the cage, exhausted at both the attack from earlier and from using so much strength in futile attempt to break free the rulers of the formerly known Crystal Empire.

What he found strange was that either Shining nor Cadence reacted at anything, it was as if they were replaced by dolls of themselves. Nevertheless, he can’t do anything for them.

He leaned his back on the cage, leaving him the misfortune of witnessing the battle that has broken off, if one could call it a battle. Whatever advantage his friends seem to get they would almost instantly lose it.

The mage changed between a dark mist and normal forms no matter how many punches or magic was thrown at him, the only times they could deal damage to him was when he stopped to attack. However, it was quickly turning to be a risky tactic since he would deal more damage in his few attacks than any attack the girls dealt to the crazed menace.

He ducked under one of Applejack’s kick, taking this moment to grab her tail to lift her and swing her in a circular fashion. The girls stopped their attack, giving Vaati the chance to stop and charge towards them starting to swing the farm pony again, successfully hitting them with Applejack.

“This is one of my favorite quotes,” Vaati took a swing to hit the pink pony that went flying as her blood spilled “I’ll beat a motherfucker,” He heard the cyan pegasus’ war cry once again, permitting him to put the orange on in front of him to intercept her attack that led to Applejack coughing blood “With another motherfucker!” Yanking her tail again he swung her against his enemy that also fell down.

Spike was awestruck at the scene, Applejack’s injuries ranged from cuts all over her face, what seemed to be a deep gash on her forehead and one arm that was bent backwards. He closed his eyes and looked away to not witness this slaughter anymore, unfortunately the cries and screams of the Crusaders didn’t helped at all.

This guy is insane! There has to be something that can beat him, but what is able to defeat a mage with literal unlimited power? A light broke through the dark sky opting Spike to raise a claw to cover his eyes, the light seems to be clearing the sky of any dark clouds.

“Wait, what?” Spike heard Vaati shout and unsure of what was going on, he spotted him looking at the sky and the mares collapsed near him do so too.

The rainbow colored light descended with a familiar silhouette that looked that it has five objects stuck on it’s upper part. The light dispersed and when it died out indeed it was what the young dragon thought it would be.

It was the chest with five of the six keys.

“No…” Vaati trailed looking at the chest wide eyed.

Another rainbow light shone from Discord’s statue prison, a glowing necklace floated out of him that wriggled while it got close to the chest, transforming into a key with the head styled into a six pointed star.

“No.”

The key flew into the remaining keyhole of the chest, the purple princess’ eyes sparking the moment the key turned. Another bright light came from the chest as it started to open, letting out six spectrum colored streams that landed on each of the element bearers.

“No no no no no no!” Vaati’s voice grew watching the transformations take hold, they each glowed brightly and he had no other choice than to avert his eyes so his eyes don’t water. Once it had diminished enough he turned back to find the six mares now transformed into apparences that could be described as a technicolor 80’s fashion vomit, surrounded in a single sphere of rainbow light “MOTHERFUCKER, no no no no! Bullshit! Bullshit! Bullshit!”

“Vaati,” Twilight started “You may have all the power from the world, but I carry within me the most powerful magic of all!”

“Yes, the power of BUUULL-SHIT!”

Magic streams run between the girls, combining into a single giant rainbow blast that went up and dived straight towards Vaati. The blast hit in a bright onslaught of bright colors, hope returning back to the expressions of the town residents. Spike smiling wide while Trixie and Umbra watched with their jaws dropped at the light show, hearing the screams of agony of the mad mage along with the mixed cheering of the crusaders.

Once it faded the sphere expanded, giving out a rainbow wave that undid all of Vaati’s hexes and curses, including turning Umbra back to her original gender, thankfully he covered himself with the blanket as if it was a towel before anyone could see him. Light returned to Cadence and Shining’s eyes the moment the cage disappeared, luckily Spike got up in time before he fell.

Luna and Discord also got released from their stone prisons, the latter flying up in the air freely not long after stretching. Receiving a sudden hug from her sister Luna gladly returned it shedding a couple of tears.

Now that the mage was taken cared of, Trixie finally felt that she could move. Seems that little miss princess has won over yet another another powerful enemy, one with unlimited power no less.

She might as well give up, no matter what she could do there was no way to beat that despite what she does. She watched the sphere lower and levitate the mares inside outside of it, it flew off into the forest and soon another rainbow appeared crossing over to the other side of Ponyville. The earth shook rising from where the rainbow landed a massive crystalline castle that stood taller than any other building in town.

“Nice,” Sombra smiled looking at the new castle and then looking at Celestia “I’ll give you anything for it.”

“I don’t think you’d have anything to give as it is.” She laughed and soon everyone else joined in laughing, even Sombra has found it some humor to it.

The transformation faded off on the six mares, Twilight spotted Spike with her brother and his wife, not thinking twice on running to hug them.

“Thank you Twilight, without you who knows what that monster could have done to us.” Cadence hugged her back shedding tears of joy, Shining joining in the hug as well.

“That’s my sister, saving Equestria even in the lowest of odds.” He ruffled her hair getting a giggle in return. Spike watched happily with the other three girls, it seems that the wave healed everyone too, including Fluttershy’s blindness too somehow.

Celestia walked to her along with Luna glancing at the castle once before looking at her again “You’ve been wondering what you are meant to do as a princess. Do you know now?” Twilight broke the hug to take a few steps towards her mentor.

“As Princess, I believe I have the power to spread the magic of friendship across Equestria.” She looked at the shimmering town and crystalline castle that she had to admit stung a little just by looking at it “That is the role I am meant to have in our world! The role I choose to have!” She walked to her friends getting them closer “But I didn’t defeat Vaati on my own, in fact it was a very close call. It took all of us to beat him.”

“Then it is unlikely you are meant to take on this task alone.” Celestia nodded, she made way to the tree castle until it suddenly blew up in pieces, the remains made holes in some houses as everyone wondered what did just happen. They didn’t had time to do that when another scream reached their ears, Cadence fell down forming a pool of blood below as the light left her eyes for good this time.

“Cadence!” Shining hurried check on her, but a burst of blood appeared from where his heart is. He fell down too as blood ran from his mouth and the darkness returned to his eyes.

Fluttershy screamed, a couple of that blood splashing on to Twilight who had frozen in horror and wondered what was going on. One more shriek, Sombra was turned back into a mare and her memories were erased once again. The onyx mare looked at the scorched spot where the rainbow beam struck before her memories were gone again and stopped moving.

“No way!” Rainbow shouted looking where Umbra was looking a second ago “How?! The power of that box should have beaten you!”

Vaati stood with a pointed finger that some smoke was coming from, he glared with an unimaginable rage. The dark aura that he gave off earlier now held a fury that they cannot match even with their combined strength.

“I sidestepped,” Everyone was left dumbstruck hearing such a claim like that “What, you’d think I’d be stupid enough to stand still and let that thing hit me?!”

Discord facepawed as he remembered the two times he did exactly that while Luna looked down feeling a bit stupid.

“But enough about stupid shit. You’ve cheated once again, now I’ll hurt you back a thousand times more.” Vaati pointed at Trixie to successfully paralyze her, then pointing at the white pony of the three that was near Spike.

The dragon jumped in front of Sweetie Belle as Vaati casted his spell, hitting him instead of the mage’s intended target.

“Thanks Spike.” She locked him in a hug while Spike turned his attention to the mage.

“Nice try, work on your aim next time!” He smiled smugly.

“Don’t mind if I do!” Vaati snapped his fingers making Sweetie Belle pass out, Rarity ran over her sister while Spike tried to shake her so that she wakes up. She does, but her eye color has changed to a glowing red delivering a strong punch to Spike that made him fly.

“Sweetie, what are you doing?!” Rarity gasped watching her sister get up slowly and staring at her, her two friends running at her sides.

“What was that for? Spike is on our side!” Scootaloo scolded her.

“What WAS that? You didn’t told us you were this strong.” Applebloom tugged on her arm, but Sweetie Belle wasn’t paying attention to them.

Vaati chuckled seeing that it has worked “Go, my servant! Take out your former sister and return to me!”

“Yes, my lord.” In a similar fashion she kneed the alabaster mare right in the stomach, rendering her kneeled and both arms in her stomach as the marshmallow filly reappeared in a white smoke at Vaati’s side.

“Wh...Why…” Rarity muttered feeling consciousness fading away from her, seeing nothing but darkness not long after.

“Come here, other servant.” Vaati commanded looking at Umbra who rose up not holding on the blanket anymore, her body fully exposed before she teleported with an aura similar to the dark magic she possessed during her time as King Sombra, reappearing behind the purple mage so that he covered the view of her body.

Trixie too complied with the command in the same fashion, her eyes the same as Sweetie Belle’s not. Vaati snapped his fingers one more time to imprison Discord one again, this time so that nothing nor no one could break him out. One more snap to render the butter yellow pegasus blind again, only in a less gory way.

“My eyes! I can’t see!” Fluttershy’s gaps and less audible screams in comparison of the last one had finally snapped Twilight out of her shocked state, looking Vaati and his new allies.

“What the… Let them go now!” Twilight snarled at them.

“I’m afraid that request is not possible.” Sweetie Belle stared blankly at her “We do not desire to return back to our previous lives, so don’t waste you time.”

“I’ve had just about enough for today,” Vaati conjured a mirror that made Celestia, Luna and Twilight flinch, pouring some of his dark magic to it to have it function again “We’ll retreat for now, but be sure that there will be a next time. Come follow me if you wish to stop me, surely you'll know your way around enough to find me.”

The mage ordered his teammates to step in the mirror, they all went until only Vaati was left. While that happened Twilight flew towards them as fast as she could, but she was barely late as not only he escape through the mirror, but the magic disappeared closing the portal.

Spike caught up to her while being carried by Celestia along with her five remaining friends who were carrying the unconscious Rarity. Fearing the unfortunate implications of having that crazy monster not only run off with two ponies and a filly who was sister of one of them, but to the world he had run off to.

“Twilight, isn’t that…?” He asked hoping that he was wrong.

“I’m afraid it is Spike,” She confirmed the drake’s fears “He ran off to Canterlot High.”

Author's Note

Originally I was going to have these cycles Majora's Mask style, but I decided to change it so it'd be less of a pain in the ass.

While I have some idea of what to do next, I'd like to hear some suggestions that you might want to share in the comments section. I'm open to them and yes, if I do use some I'll give credit to the ones that suggested it because I'm not an ungrateful ass.

Anywho, hopefully I'll be able to get on the next chapter soon, but for now I'll rest a bit.