Is all Hope Lost?

Still sleeping, Spike was unaware that Roseblood was next to him on a bed in the throne room and under a magical bubble that only the evil mare herself can enter with her own magic. She was stroking his head and smiling at him while he was in his sleep, and she said: "Do not worry, my pet, we will take care of these defiant meddlers soon enough, and I can resume my spot as the new queen of Earth."

"Those meddlesome resistance members will be coming here soon, milady." said Chrysalis, pacing to and fro in a worried walk. "We're losing ground against them in here."

Roseblood just looked at her in annoyance. "Can't you leave me and my new pet in peace?" she said to her with her eyes narrowed. "I have the power to conjure powerful demons in the grasp of my horn. I can create as much demons in my army as much as I want to. Besides, I have struck Discord all by myself one time, and I can do it again."

Chrysalis, not looking very convinced, continued worrying about this in a frantic pace. "I know what you mean but... but..."

"Then what are you so worried about, Chryssy? I have all the power in the world. Besides, I can easily break my hench-ponies out of the magical barriers in no time. But, I can easily defeat them myself, just watch." She looked at Spike again. "Nopony will ever touch Spike again as long as I am still breathing."

"I suppose."

"So stop worrying! Need I remind you that Garble, his friends, Iron Will and his cronies, and the Diamond Dogs are on our side against the resistance?"

"Right." The double doors barged opened and, speaking of the devil, the diamond dogs leaders, with a dozen of their troops, Iron Will and his cronies, along with Garble and his buddies, came through the double doors and ran up to Roseblood's aid, and bowed to her.

"Ah, right on time, my dears." Roseblood boldly remarked. "What news do you bring?"

"We're steadily losing our men on the front line." said Rover. "My soldiers cannot hold them off forever."

"Our soldiers, you mean." said the largest leader of the trio.

"I know what I said, Fido!" Rover snapped at him defensively.

"Iron Will has his strength." said he. "But, he and his boys' strength cannot be in them forever." he did a few macho poses and kissed his two biceps. "Kinda loosing ground here, your highness."

"No matter, Iron Will. I can still conjure as much demons as I please. Our 'guests' will be here soon, and we should give them the warmest welcome we can possible."

"And what if that kid wakes up and runs away again?" asked Garble

"Nonsense! He is under a strong sleeping spell that is placed under yours truly." Roseblood pointed at herself proudly. "Either I have to do for him to awake from his slumber, or I can wake him up with my magic." Just then, Discord appeared some of the other heroes, and they all looked pretty angry at her for all she had done with them before.

Discord was the first to speak when he exclaimed: "It's all over, Roseblood! You are running out of ground and you have nowhere left to go!"

"You can try to escape us again, but we will catch you!" said Zecora. "And there's nothing else left for you to do."

"Surrender now," Ember added. "Or I will kill you myself!"

Roseblood, and her followers just laughed at her little threat. "You think you can all scare me?! I am Roseblood, the true queen of darkness! I will have what is rightfully mine, and all defiant meddlers such as you all must die!!" she jumped in front of them and began firing powerful beams of magic with full zeal.

Rights for the song go to George Lynch

One blast hit Ember and another hit Pharynx, both of them knocked down instantly. For that, another skirmish happened. Garble and his friends were spraying fire breath at their opponents, but Smolder flew in on him, and gave him a dozen punches and kicks to the chest and face. Despite Garble loosing one or two teeth, the red teenage dragon was able to pin her down, and he began punching her in the face about five times, before being knocked down by Zuberi with his immense strength.

"Stupid buffalo!" Garble exclaimed in anger. "I'll kill you for that!" he swooped at him like the swiftness of an arrow and clawed him, but Zebrican buffalo had thick skin, and it was only a light scratch to him, and in return: Zuberi bit Garble's right hand.

Sure, Buffalo don't have sharp canines like predators would have, but their bite force is a little strong and it felt like Garble's hand was being crushed by a small boulder. It was so painful that Garble couldn't focus on trying to burn him into a crisp with his fire breath, for Zuberi was biting on his hand hard.

Without warning, Iron Will gave the buffalo chief a punch on the right side of his body, knocking him down with a loud thud. "You puny buffalo ain't got nothing on us minotaurs!" he shouted triumphantly.

"Well you are no match for me, Iron Will." said Conok from behind the blue bull monster. He had his sword out and his larger sword on his back. "It is time to end this between us." he narrowed his eyes and swung his sword around in style.

"Right. Wait! Just a minute."

During this little unusual intervention, the blue minotaur went to the back of the throne and pulled out a large sword and this would make it a fair fight between them since Conok has his own blade out to fight with. In a flash of a second, they clashed their blades and it turned into another interesting grudge match between these two fighters.

At times, they were at a sword-lock with one another, growling. Whenever some of Iron Will's friends tried to intervene, Conok would slice at them without ease and overpowered by Conok's strength. One of his friends was killed with a slice to the chest and stomach in the process and the fighting between the Zebrican minotaur and blue Minotaur continued.

The Diamond Dogs were having a shove-fest with Thorax, who was struggling with his real form against them at first, and then, when Fido pushed Thorax to Rover, the new changeling king punched Rover in the face, knocking him to the ground with a loud thud, and transformed into a werewolf, a very muscular werewolf.

Looking quite afraid and cowardly, the other two Diamond Dogs cowered under the bed that Spike was sleeping in for cover so they wouldn't get hurt like their boss. The other diamond dog soldiers charged and tried pinning down the werewolf form of Thorax with all their strength, but alas, diamond dogs were no match for a werewolf and it's strength, and they were flung like a bunch of slingshots. One of the diamond dog soldiers crashed through one of the windows, falling to his death, and another was impaled by Imari's sharp horns, killing him instantly.

Roseblood herself blasted at the eland king with her magic and knocked him to the right wall with a loud thud. Despite that, Imari was very strong in mind and body, and dodged out of the way from another blast of magic from the wicked mare.

"You and your kind should not have interfered in my affairs in the first place." Roseblood said. "You would have been without any casualties if you would have not interfered in the first place, eland."

"Wrong! Me and my kind are here for a great purpose!" said Imari, before charging at her. They were both in a horn-lock, and growling at one another. "You have committed mass atrocities against Equestria and the whole earth, and you will be sent back to hell for this!" He head-butted her in the face with a powerful blow, and tried goring her with her horns, but Roseblood used her magic to teleport out of the way and she tried charging at the eland king again.

He was just by Spiral, and the two antelope rulers blocked her attack by standing together and locking their heads with her.

"You could have stayed out of this and not be involved in this little skirmish." Roseblood added.

"Skirmish?" Imari said in anger. "Skirmish?! This is no skirmish! This is practically a beginning of an apocalyptic era!" and he kicked her in the chest. He tried pinning him down on the floor with his mighty hoof, and he was trying to crush her to death with his weight. "Can you not see that you are hurting innocent lives?"

"Equestria will be turned into an apocalyptic wasteland if you continue this hubris!" said Spiral

"Hubris?" said Roseblood. "This is not hubris. This is destiny." then she blasted at Imari with a magical beam from her horn.

Meanwhile, Iron Will and Conok were still going at it, and even rammed at one another with their horns, and it was turning ugly between these two. "A true minotaur would never back down." said Conok. "You should know that as much as any other minotaur in the world."

"You think I don't know that, mister macho?" asked Iron Will before striking at him with his sword. Despite how fast he was, Conok blocked it just in time before it could pierce or slice his skin. "You are so annoying, you know that?"

the Zebrican minotaur chief sliced at him three times before having another sword-lock with him. "Well, you are no true minotaur, only a con artist that only cares about money and himself!" Conok then gave him a painful punch in the face, and kicked him in the belly with a powerful jab, making Iron Will fall to his knees, and dropping the sword from his hand.

"You have no honor or empathy to other creatures around you."

Conok then felt Iron Will ram against him against a wall out in the corridor just outside of the throne room.

Discord and Novo were waving a little bit of a hard time with Chrysalis, mostly because of her shapeshifting abilities and her cunning attitude. First, she transformed into a fly to evade swipes and magical blows from thew two opponents she was facing.

"Come on, Chrysalis. Where is your honor?!" said Discord

"You cannot run forever!" Novo added.

"No, but I can do this." Chrysalis flew up to princess Skystar and the princess of the Hippogriffs found herself in a headlock from Chrysalis, and she officially became her hostage. "Stay back! Or your daughter dies!" said Chrysalis

"Mom! Help me!" she shrieked in fright.

"Let her go!" said Novo. "Release me baby girl, or I will unleash all my magic on you ten-fold!

"Just try it, hippogriff! And I swear, I will kill her!" Little did Chrysalis know that while she was holding the princess hostage, Terramar quietly appeared form behind her and hit her in the back of the head, causing the former changeling queen to let go of Skystar. "Grrrr, you will pay for that you little brat!"

Silverstream appeared next to her brother and tried fighting her as siblings together with all their might, but, being children, they were easily swayed and overpowered by Chrysalis and her magic, and grabbed by the neck by the former changeling queen.

Discord could stand this no longer, and he charged and tackled her to the ground, causing her to let go of the hippogriffs' necks. The Master of chaos was really mad and she was punching at Chrysalis with her fists, and even gave her a black eye, and her nose was leaking green blood from it.

They rolled around on the floor in a cat fight, and Discord managed to pry her off of him, kicking her to the ceiling and making her fall on the ground in a long fall with a booming thud.

At last, Chrysalis was out of it from the impact, for when she hit the ceiling, it hit the back of her head pretty hard. As a matter of fact, Roseblood was not doing as well either. Her nose was bleeding as well, and a few scratches and bruises were scattered across her body.