It was a nice sunny day in Ponyville, the birds were chirping, the critters were picking flowers as per Fluttershy’s request and said critters were periodically wincing as they heard groans and cries as the Mane Six were getting their buts handed to them by their roommates.

“Come on Twilight I expected better from Celestia’s student,” Roxon said.

“Rainbow you told me you’d beat me in ten seconds flat, but all I saw was you FLAT on your face in TEN SECONDS,” Rexon taunted.

“Pinkie I’m taking it easy on you and you still haven’t scratched me,” Cyxon groaned in boredom.

“Tisk, tisk, tisk,” Raxon scolded, “I expected better from you Rarity yet you disappoint me.”

“Fluttershy I’ve been bitten by ants with more fight than you…any pacifist in general has more fight than you when pushed,” Ryxon said glaring.

“Applejack self proclaimed tough pony couldn’t take a kick meant to break a branch as thick as my arm,” Nyxon mocked.

After the incident with Zecora the hybrid brothers discovered that their roommates had fought of demons to protect Ponyville but in doing so had made themselves targets for demon attack, but on that same day the Element Bearers were gifted with secret Devil Arms, which the Morph Six never knew about, sealed into the Morph Six’s Devil Arms.

Rainbow Dash received a cyan bladed Arbiter (DmC: Devil May Cry) which had a lightning bolt engraved on the blade, as well as a cloud pattern on the shaft, Applejack got a orange bladed Osiris (DmC: Devil May Cry) which seemed to have an apple on the bottom end of the shaft as well as leaf patterns on the shaft, Rarity had purple hilted Klyamoor (DMC 2) with white sheathes, that had diamond patterns in light blue, that left the small blade acting as a guard exposed, Fluttershy found herself with a sword similar in all aspects to Nero’s Red Queen (DMC 4) but with an engraving of a butterfly halfway up the blade and the blade serrated four inches from the base downwards to the hilt, Pinkie had a black iced Cerberus (DMC 3) with a pink ring and chains and Twilight ended up with a halberd with a purple executioner style blade and indigo spear tip on both ends of a sunset orange shaft.

An agreement was reached after they had received those Devil Arms stating that the Morph Six would train the Mane Six in how to use their Devil Arms as well as how to fight, leading to their current situation.

“Do you all know what you did wrong?” Roxon asked.

A collective groan was the response.

“Twilight, you did everything right, you assessed the threat, steeled yourself then attacked when you saw an opening but forgot I have one more appendage, my dexterous tail, that is how I tripped you up then surprised you with an Aura Sphere,” Roxon pointed out tail swishing, “Small details like this mean life or death in the battlefield.”

“Rainbow Dash, you did none of what was expected you simply charged in blindly hoping to beat me in your promised ten seconds leaving you very open to my Hyperfist, Beast Uppercut and Hammer combo,” Rexon added absentmindedly twirling his transforming Aquila, “Words of advice Dashie: You either get smart or you get killed.”

“Pinkie, you did well with…whatever you were doing but how about next time you try shooting cannonballs or…well anything that can maim, injure or kill out of your party cannon because getting hit in the face with a cupcake does not leave a scratch on an enemy,” Cyxon said taking a bite out of said cupcake, “after all you can’t spell slaughter without laughter.”

“Rarity, you should really try to remember what I told you about dirt because you looked like you didn’t want to get blood on your coat. When fighting a demon you are bound to get dirty or get hurt so don’t hold back or you will die,” Raxon advised, looking at his dirt covered clothes sadly, “Looks are temporary death is permanent.”

“Applejack, your approach may work with oh~ two or three demons but remember not all demons go down with power you need to adjust your style to match the demon you’re fighting,” Nyxon said golden rose in hand, “Adapt or die AJ, simple law of nature.”

Ryxon sighed glancing at an anthill at the edge of the clearing, “The weak will fall and the strong will stand. Fluttershy, I think you should just give this up, you have no fighting spirit whatsoever you froze when I charged at you and I fail to see how you killed a demon as you have no killer instinct.”

“She did it to protect a friend,” Rainbow cut in.

“Oh so if she’s the one in danger she’ll just sit there and die... how pathetic,” Roxon added in.

“No she won’t,” Rarity defended.

“Oh really,” Rexon said skeptically.

“Yeah,” Applejack responded.

“Hold and gag them,” Roxon ordered as he walked to Fluttershy.

The siblings had the ponies restrained faster than they could blink, and Roxon started to approach Fluttershy.

Fluttershy started backing away as Roxon approached drawing his sword and saying, “If you aren’t going to fight might as well end this so we don’t have you dragging us down.”

“W-what?” Fluttershy stammered picking up her pace a little.

“You heard him, no killer instinct no use,” Rexon said, “Unless you prove you have it.”

The other Element Bearers' eyes widened.

“You can easily avoid this you know,” Roxon coldly said, “Fight back or die. Simple choice really.”

“No…no…no I-I…I can’t, please don’t make me do that! You have to understand, please!” Fluttershy begged as tears fell from her eye.

“I understand after all I had to do this since I was a year old,” Roxon added in.

When Fluttershy heard this she recalled every word Roxon had ever told her about his life.

“Demons tried to eat me alive…”

“You ever beg for your life and have the one you’re begging laugh in your face?”

“I was forced to kill the kid’s parents right in front of him because they were possessed by Infestants.”

“Cultists thought they could sacrifice somebody close to me…they’ve been feeding plants ever since.”

“Sometimes you have to kill to protect others and you have to lose the good inside you to do the right thing.”

“So tell me Fluttershy. What would you do if you were cornered and alone with no way out?”

“Cornered…Alone…No way out.”

Those words repeated in her head, getting louder as she replayed every memory she had about her past, her childhood, her days in flight camp, her time in Ponyville and finally one memory she had no idea she had.

“Give up Fluttershy we both know you’ll never have the guts to hurt any living creature good or bad.”

That memory snapped something in her mind as she suddenly surged at Roxon.

“I’ll show you that I have the guts.”

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Fluttershy was in the middle of picking flowers with a happy smile on her face, but it quickly dropped as the weight on her back brought back the memory of the previous day popped up into her head.

‘I never got to apologize…’

Yesterday

Fluttershy found herself frozen staring at the scene before her, her friends freed but frozen in shock, awe and slight fear.

“How the hell did she get me with my own sword!” Rexon yelled.

“What are you complaining about I'm stuck headfirst in a tree!” Raxon yelled at his brother.

“A scimitar through my throat and another in my chest. This brings back some painful nostalgia.” Nyxon added voice coming out garbled.

“Kinda brutal, don't you think. Also could you please get off me!” Ryxon said trying to get fluttershy off of his gut and her sword out of his chest.

“My spine...” Cyxon wheezed impaled on his own ice spike.

Roxon had already started to pull his own sword out of his chest saying, “You have potential Fluttershy.”

Present time

The Morph Six vanished for the day after that but she remembered what she had done and couldn’t help but wonder.

‘What’s happening to me? I know I’d never hurt anything on purpose but yesterday it’s like something from deep inside me just-’

Her musings were cut short as she felt a tugging on her tail along with distinct chattering, turning around she noticed the squirrel holding a dandelion and smile appeared on her face. She craned her head low to get eye level with the squirrel.

“Why thank you little squirrel,” she said kindly, “but remember these flowers are for Princess Celestia. Only the prettiest ones will do.”

As soon as she completed her sentence a breeze blew and blew the dandelion apart, the squirrel proceeded to hide the stem in embarrassment and run off looking for a better flower. As the squirrel ran off Fluttershy turned and went to a basket of apple resting on a tree stump for…reasons. When she got close a sound from a behind a rock frightened her. In another world she would have yelped, jumped and hid behind the apple basket, in this one?

Fluttershy yelped and she took a quick step back, bumping into the basket but then drew her sword as quick as a flash and cut the rock in two barely missing the little creature hidden behind it.

The little thing climbed onto the tip of the blade and stared at her giving a few chirp-like calls.

Fluttershy returned the sword back onto her back and leaned in to get a closer look, “Well hello little guy, I’ve never seen anything like you before,” she said kindly but something made something inside her distrust the little creature as it flew towards an apple, that had been knocked out of the basket by her bumping into it, and hungrily sniffed it.

“Oh you’re hungry,” she said slightly surprised then crushed the apple under her hoof, “Here you go.”

What happened next made the feeling worsen but she ignored it as the little creature turned around and devoured the entire basket of apples in seconds.

“I guess you were hungry,” she said the rest of the scene stayed the same but with a final thought before leaving.

‘Why do I feel like I’m going to make one of the worst mistakes of my life?’

Later With The Morph Six

Roxon ducked behind a tree to dodge Cyxon’s grenade two seconds later shrapnel pelted the tree he had his behind.

He had no time to breathe as a bullet suddenly tore through his shoulder courtesy of Raxon. Ignoring the pain he ran from his no longer safe cover to a large boulder turning his Pandora into its Minigun formation and firing causing the two who cornered him to scatter.

Cyxon was unlucky to end up facing Rexon who had already started shooting. Jumping he managed to escape but not without taking five bullets to his left leg. Raxon ran into Nyxon who had already targeted him.

“Multi-Lock won’t be helpful against one target,” Raxon smugly said.

Nyxon just grinned and executed a Sphere before continuing to the second part, “I’m not doing Multi-Lock.”

Raxon immediately started running as he realized the tell-tale signs of what his brother meant then seconds later the attack started to rain down upon him.

“I HATE ACID RAIN!” he yelled, ducking dodging and sidestepping as many as he could with his Trickster abilities.

Roxon who was still hiding behind the boulder had finally regenerated from a small shrapnel wound but he knew better than to let his guard down because he had counted only four of his siblings from behind the boulder.

The sound of ten small rockets caught his attention making him jump into the air in an attempt to escape three struck the boulder reducing it to dust when they detonated as the remaining seven pursued him. Throwing the Pandora it turned into its Frisbee shuriken form cutting four of the rockets detonating them and leaving only three. As he took his pistols to shoot the remaining rockets he managed to only take out two of them before a sharp pain in his legs and feet made him lose aim and miss the third as it flew directly at his chest causing even more pain and launched him into a nearby tree.

“Ow,” Roxon rasped out.

Ryxon showed up moments later, “Uh hey are you okay.”

“Yep, my feet hurt, is all,” Roxon answered.

“I don’t know why you can’t use a vital star for that,” Ryxon mumbled in annoyance, “You could save yourself a lot of grief if you did.”

Roxon hearing his brother sighed and said, “It’s not a regular pain it’s as if my bones and muscles feel wrong like they shouldn’t be like this and it just came and disappeared.”

Ryxon was about to retort before the same pain shot through his legs, causing him to collapse to his knees, before just as quickly vanishing, “What the fuck?”

Roxon opened his mouth to make a snide comment before his siblings interrupted him.

“YOWCH, WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED!” Nyxon cried out.

“OWIE, MY LITTLE PIGGIES!” Cyxon followed.

“DAMN IT! THAT HURT!” Raxon cursed.

“FUCK THAT HURT!” Rexon shouted.

Literal seconds later the others gathered at Roxon’s position asking the same question.

“What the fuck just happened?”

Roxon and Ryxon replied saying, “If we knew don’t you think we would have said something.”

Before they could talk about it Fluttershy showed up and the Morph Six heard a chirp-like sound from her mane which made them wonder what it was.

“Um hi there guys,” the shy vet said, “Am I interrupting anything?”

“Nah,” Roxon answered causing Fluttershy to flinch, “If you were we would have still been talking about it when you showed up.”

“Oh that’s good…” she said her voice trailing off.

“Did you need any-”

“I’m sorry!” Fluttershy interrupted causing the Morph Six to look at her in surprise.

“What?” Roxon asked in confusion.

“I said I’m sorry for yesterday, for hurting you all of you, I don’t know what came over me and I wanted to say if you hate me, fine I don’t blame you,” Fluttershy said tearfully.

Roxon stared at her for a few seconds not knowing what to do, here was Fluttershy on the verge of crying for doing something he had goaded her into doing. It was crazy, ridiculous, stupid even…

…and neither he nor his brothers could stop laughing.

When the laughter died down he said, “Fluttershy I have never blamed you in fact I wanted you to do something like that,” Roxon comforted horribly, “You really need to stop being so kind to everything sure it helps sometimes but in the end it could get you killed if you aren’t careful.”

"Besides we've been through worse than what you did," Cyxon said in a chipper tone, "So we don't blame you at all."

Fluttershy looked at him for a moment thinking his words over before Rexon snapped her out of it.

“Now I know you didn’t just come to say hi to us or just apologize,” Rexon said.

“Oh yes I wanted to show you this little guy Pinkie called it a Parasprite if I remember correctly,” Fluttershy said as the little creature popped out of her hair…followed by six more this caused the feeling to appear again, “I could have sworn there was only one in there.”

The Morph Six tensed which Fluttershy noticed.

“What’s wrong?” she asked, “Is there something on my face?”

“No we just don’t want another pet to take care of,” Rexon said quickly and calmly.

“Wait you have pets?” she asked, “How come I’ve never seen them before?”

“They’re off somewhere and we’re trying to find them... they are often complete nightmares,” Roxon answered.

“Believe it or not they can hide themselves pretty well,” Cyxon added in, “Even with our sensing abilities we can’t find them.”

“Oh…” Fluttershy said not knowing if it was the truth or not.

“If you don’t believe us check this,” Roxon said tossing a little diamond shaped crystal.

It split into four pieces each becoming points on a rectangular frame the size of a flat screen TV. The frame then glowed and turned into an actual screen in which a picture appeared.

“Wow,” Fluttershy said looking at the pets each Morph Six member had it lasted about ten seconds before the picture abruptly vanished snapping her focus back into place, “Those were all just…Wow!”

“Cool right,” Ryxon said to sum up what she was thinking, “Anyway sorry but we can only handle one pet each.”

Fluttershy understanding how they felt said a gentle, “Okay then, bye guys,” and left.

But as she disappeared, out of earshot, behind the trees on her way to Ponyville the six siblings dropped their facades.

“That thing set of tons of alarms in my head,” Rexon said quietly.

“We have to find out what it is since Fluttershy had no clue what it was,” Nyxon added in.

“Did you guys get a good look at it?” Ryxon asked.

“I got the cuties picture if that would help!” Cyxon declared.

“Well of course it would help we need a picture to send to Celestia and show Zecora when we ask her,” Raxon said.

“What about Pinkie she obviously knows these things,” Roxon suggested.

“Do we have to?” Rexon groaned.

“Yes we do,” Roxon said sternly, “We need as much information on these things as possible.”

“I guess you’re right,” Rexon said with a sigh, “Well I guess we’d better get moving.”

The Next Day

Roxon and Raxon looked through each and every book which Celestia had on dangerous creatures found in Equestria and managed to find a very small book on small creatures that they were searching for as the sun started rising. Reading each page quickly they found the information they needed.

Parasprites are some of the most deceptive creatures in Equestrian history. These innocent looking creatures may seem to be cute and make good pets but they are anything but. These little creatures have appetites rivaling a school of piranha and when they multiply they become a horrendous swarm capable of devouring entire decades of harvests in a matter of minutes. Not much else is know about them other than they reproduce asexually and require eating to do so. It is recommended that if you find a parasprite to kill it before it can multiply or eat, but if it has done so already pray that you have something to kill them or can find the following instruments…

As Roxon and Raxon read off all the information they found they could think of only one thing to say about both the Parasprites and the method of getting rid of them.

“Fuck.”

They somehow managed to toss the book back where they originally found, before running out of the room so quickly, it caused a quick depressurization, the guard who stood watch over the two would say it was a miracle the shelves were still standing.

They burst into the throne room where Celestia was dealing with two ponies that the brothers never got a good look at nor cared about.

“We shall continue this another time,” Celestia said to the ire two ponies.

Roxon did not wait for the ponies to leave the room to speak, “We found it!”

Celestia’s eyes widened but hardened a split second later, “Everypony out, now! Guards you stay.”

Any occupant in the room except the guards ran out of the room knowing better than to ignore the princess when she was like this.

“What did you find?” she calmly asked.

They recited the book’s information word for word and when completed Celestia got a thoughtful look on her face.

“I see this is very interesting to hear inde-”

She was cut off as the door suddenly flew open revealing Luna and Nightmare looking panicked.

“Uhm sister,” Luna nervously said.

“We have a problem,” Nightmare said as not only she, but also Luna and Celestia blurred out of existence for a split second.

“You are so going to Limbo,” Roxon said before all three alicorns vanished, “Called it.”

Seconds later ‘Fuck you’ was burned into the ground in front of him.

In Limbo (The Alicorns)

Celestia’s horn dimmed and stopped glowing altogether as she finished with her message.

“Gee sorry,” Roxon said looking like a blue phantom to the alicorns.

“We need to think of a way for them to get out of there,” Raxon said, “and get rid of the parasprites in Ponyville!”

“I know but ho…” Roxon said cutting himself off, “Celestia if you can meet up with us in Ponyville I have an idea.”

As the Roxon and Raxon turned to leave something caused them to stop.

“Wait what is it?”

Luna had blurted the sentence out without thinking but was surprised when Roxon turned looked her right in the eyes and said, “We can’t tell right you now.”

The guards in the room looked on in confusion as they could not see the alicorns.

Roxon and Raxon

When Roxon finished talking to Luna he turned and both brothers jumped through a portal made by Raxon.

“You realize we’ll need to explain how we can see and hear them right?” Raxon asked.

Roxon simply nodded, “We need to let the others know what’s going on too.”

Meanwhile in Ponyville with the Elements

Things were not going well for the Element Bearers first Twilight, Rainbow Dash, Rarity and Fluttershy woke up to find their homes overrun by parasprites and also that the same little creatures they thought were good pets were horrible pests. Then they discovered the same with their other friends, Applejack and Pinkie being exceptions as they had not taken a parasprite.

They managed to gather the parasprites into a ball, with some help from Nyxon’s containment field, and roll them out of Ponyville but that solution turned out to be temporary because Fluttershy had kept one, which had multiplied into hundreds again.

Then finally Rainbow tried to suck them all up into a tornado it had worked for a time until Pinkie, who had been messing around with cymbals, with Cyxon helping find instruments nearly decapitated Rainbow Dash forcing her to abandon the tornado and launching the parasprites to Ponyville. This incident caused Twilight to begin a small argument with Pinkie.

Now the worst part of their day starts as Twilight is in the middle of arguing with Pinkie…

“Will you forget about your silly instruments for one second you’re ruining our efforts to save Ponyville!” Twilight said slightly angered.

Twilight expected a retort along the lines of, ‘Me…ruin…I’m not the ruiner I’m the ruinee!’ before the pink pony somehow confused herself but instead she got…

“Uh oh,” Pinkie Pie said eyes darting to their surroundings fear creeping into her voice, “I think we may have been taken into Limbo.”

Twilight had no idea how to answer but as she looked around she could only form one thought to describe their situation courtesy of the Morph Six.

‘Well fuck.’

“How did we get transported to Limbo?” Rarity asked in a small panic.

“I have no idea but we need to figure out how we can get out,” Twilight said, “and panicking is not going to help us.”

Once they had all substantially calmed down they decided to get themselves organized.

“First are your Devil Arms sorted?” Twilight asked.

The response was Pinkie reaching into her mane and pulling out her Cerberus, Applejack flicking her hat into the air launching Osiris before she caught it and the hat landed on her head , Rainbow Dash though only tapped the shaft of Arbiter on her right shoulder which she never tried to hide, Fluttershy did the same with her Red Queen's handle although hesitantly and Twilight and Rarity both pulled hair pins out of their hair and shot small beams of magic at them causing them to transform into their halberd and Klyamoor respectively.

“Looks like you all have yourselves in order,” Nyxon said.

The six mares were all surprised by the sudden praise but they were even more surprised by the fact that they could actually be seen.

“Before you go blabbing our ears of with questions we need to tell you that we are the only ones that can see you apparently and also Celestia, Luna and Nightmare are also in Limbo and they’re going to meet up with us in Ponyville,” Nyxon continued, “We’ll take care of the parasprites and I do mean all six of us so you don’t need to worry about it. Questions?”

Cyxon raised his hand.

“Put your hand down,” Nyxon said pointing at his brother who stood behind him.

After a few seconds Nyxon went on to the next order, “Keep what we told you in mind and you will be facing demons here so remember attack with the intention to kill. That is non-negotiable.”

They then quickly left through a portal before Fluttershy could argue.

Rexon and Ryxon

Rexon and Ryxon were waiting at the Town Hall as they had been told through telepathy by their sibling.

The plan which had also been relayed was not the worst plan but all of them, including Roxon who came up with it, thought it was extremely stupid.

“We need to make a half complete Hell Gate and open it…an unstable one works too so long something doesn't disrupt it.”

Seconds later Roxon, Raxon, Cyxon and Nyxon arrived.

“All right lets begin…” Roxon said calmly.

Limbo (Alicorns)

“I BUCKING HATE BUTCHERS!” Luna roared angrily as she swung her scythe horizontally knocking three saws back to the demon stunning it.

She proceeded to charge and execute a lightning quick barrage of slashes then skid to a stop several meters away from the demon. She composed herself seconds later and walked right past the demon which struggled to move a single part of its body. When she made it to where Celestia and Nightmare waited having dealt with their own demon groups she blew on her scythe ridding it of dust as well as making the demon fall to pieces.

“That was a little bit…” Celestia said trailing of at the end.

“A little bit what?” Luna asked.

“Much,” Nightmare added.

“You were dealing with easier to fight demons. Prides, Greeds, Sloths and a Hell Vangaurd each were all you dealt with,” Luna listed off, remebering the demons Roxon and his brothers had told them about, “I took on two Butchers, eight Ravagers, four Harpies AND a Tyrant. They’re targeting me.”

“How do you know that?” Celestia asked.

Luna looked at her sister with a “Did you seriously ask me that” face and said, “You look bigger and stronger and Nightmare looks more sinister than I do.”

Luna almost looked back to normal only some few inches below her canon height, Nightmare definitely looked sinister as her teeth were exactly like Nightmare Moon’s even though she stooped growing when she reached the size of a full grown mare, not to mention when demons got closer to her she became more ferocious and her attacks became infused with a strange ice effect.

“What makes your attacks laced with ice anyway?” Luna asked the shortest alicorn of the group.

“Oh I was special among my kind as I could take over a pony with enough hatred in their hearts,” Nightmare said not really helping the sisters.

“That is important because…?” Celestia said rolling her extended right hoof to prompt her to continue.

Nightmare looked momentarily confused as she said, “Didn’t you know? I’m possibly the last…well was possibly the last surviving Windigo in Equestria since those three ponies made friends with each other in that cave.”

“They had names you know?” Luna said.

“Yes and their fire of friendship nearly roasted me alive!” Nightmare said in annoyance, “Luckily thanks to the Elements, friendship and love can’t hurt me anymore and I can control my abilities enough that won’t cause a frozen wasteland even if there is enough hatred for me to do so.”

“How did Luna not freeze everything when she was Nightmare Moon,” Celestia asked then realized what she had said, “Oh Luna I’m so sorry I didn’t me-”

“Worry not…uh I mean don’t worry I should get used to ponies mentioning that incident but I am curious too,” Luna said reassuringly.

Nightmare looked a bit sheepish, “Well Luna’s love for you actually canceled the freeze everything part of my abilities…as well as some of her own to keep me from fully using them.”

This caught the attention of the other alicorns.

“Are you saying that I was losing to Luna when she wasn’t at full power and was holding back?” Celestia asked.

“Yeah,” Nightmare said simply, “You really slacked off on combat training.”

Celestia fumed but understood what the Windigo-turned-pony meant.

A silence reigned for a few moments before Luna said something interesting.

“Why are we walking?” Luna asked, “Those harpy demons seemed to manage just fine flying.”

Celestia and Nightmare paused and thought very carefully about what Luna had said and only now did it register…

…Roxon had never said that they weren’t allowed to fly in Limbo.

Limbo (Elements)

Rainbow Dash, as opposed to the alicorns, had discovered it was fairly easy for pegasi to fly in Limbo even when gravity shifted, as it was a simple matter of stabilizing and adjusting to the new orientation, and very early as well since the Harpy she had bisected had still been in mid-air. Fluttershy learning this as well suppressed her inhibitions on flying as much as possible and tried to avoid confrontation as much as possible…

Tried being the keyword.

“GetawaygetawaygetawayGETAWAY!” Fluttershy screamed as she flew around in circles avoiding Enigma arrows, Blood-goyle charges and Soul Eater charges, “I’m not attacking you why attack me!”

Twilight tried to assist by killing the Enigmas, Blood-goyles and Soul Eaters but only succeeded in killing all eight Blood-goyles, missing a single Enigma out of six and missing three Soul Eaters out of seven as they always shifted to their mist form to avoid her magic.

She was about to try again but Rainbow Dash stopped her, “Twilight you know I’m the most loyal pony out there but we need to show Fluttershy what she needs to do we can’t always bail her out.”

“But-”

“Think carefully we were pulled in here together and we each had three to six demons to fight, how many went for Fluttershy?” Rainbow Dash asked.

Twilight’s eyes widened.

“You get it now next time Fluttershy might get pulled here alone and who’s gonna protect her?” Rainbow Dash asked.

Twilight looked away clenching her eyes shut.

“Sorry Twi’ but this has to happen,” Rainbow said solemnly.

“Since when are you so smart?” Twilight asked suspiciously.

“I’m a hothead but I’m not dumb,” Rainbow defended, “I happen to actually listen to what Roxon and his brothers say and think it over when I’m alone.”

The two then sat down and watched Fluttershy having dealt with all the demons after them, it didn’t take long for the rest to join in.

“Hoping Fluttershy fights back?” Pinkie asked.

“I think that is obvious Pinkie,” Rarity said.

“The question should be do we worry about any other demons attacking us right now,” Applejack commented.

“Roxon said we’d be fine he’s once done nothing in a cleared area before and no demons attacked him,” Twilight said, “Something about the demons wanting the element of surprise or beaten squads or something.”

“Uh girls I think you might wanna see this,” Rainbow cut in before anypony could comment on what Twilight said.

When they looked they saw Fluttershy toss her blade like a spear at the Enigma stabbing it throught the eye killing it instatly, then jumping to dodge a charging Soul Eater and peforming a Max-Act filling her Exceed then stabbing said Soul Eater with a maximum revved Double Down killing the cowardly demon. Then as a second Soul Eater attacked her from behind she back flipped over it and as she landed she executed a Streak cutting the demon horizontally in half. The last demon made the mistake of looking her in the eyes and froze in fear dropping to the floor with a thud, Fluttershy the stalked over revving her sword slowly, as she stalked closer the revs grew more vicious as she jerked the hilt more violently. When she finally stood over the demon she looked it in the eyes a final time before she flew into the air and dived down pointing the sword at the demon impaling it to the ground then slashed forwards killing it.

The Element Bearers were speechless as they processed the vicious killing of the demons. It took them a few moments before they came back to reality. When they did they saw their friend stare at the strangely spotless sword she held before she wordlessly placed it back onto her back and turned to her friends before she could say a word a new voice interrupted them.

“Well it seems our worry was unwarranted,” a relieved motherly voice said to them all.

The shocked ponies turned to look and found they were looking at…

“Princess Celestia!” the group declared.

“Pretty rude to forget us too,” a second voice said in mock disappointment.

“Princess Luna and Nightmare?” the group asked more to themselves hoping they were not seeing devious demons.

“I see the Parasprites have been having a field day with Ponyville,” Celestia mumbled.

“Princess I am so sorry you had to see this but we were-” her soon to be rambling was interrupted as Celestia smiled at her.

“This is actually a fun change for me,” Celestia said happily, “I was getting tired of the perfect impression for casual visits, it’s actually relieving to come and witness this.”

Twilight was shocked to hear the Princess admit that to her but at the same time relieved that what she had seen in her mind would not happen. The next sentences made her expression shift to one of horror…

“Is that Roxon burning a bunch of Parasprites?” Celestia asked tilting her head to the right slightly while pointing in the direction Roxon was found.

“Raxon is crushing another bunch over there and did Cyxon just…yep he kicked a ball of them bound in spider silk to the sun,” Luna said.

“Rexon’s crushing them into a ball and then burning them with Ryxon freezing them then breaking the frozen ones and Nyxon looks like he’s frying them with lightning,” Nightmare added in.

“A bit much for an infestation of pests but it works,” Rainbow Dash said with a shrug.

Earlier with the Morph Six

“If you think I’m playing this song to these things you can bite my furry ass,” Rexon said.

Each pair had just finished explaining what they found out about the Parasprites and the two solutions that were suggested were music or extermination…guess which one they don’t want to do.

“I thought you’d say that so I brought this,” Roxon said as he revealed six bushels of apples behind a few bushes, “We bait them, catch them then do what we think we should do with them, fair?”

“Very,” his siblings replied.

After catching and trapping the pests in traps of their own design relatively effortlessly, relatively because there were some ponies still running into their homes in panic, the Morph Six had gathered at the front of Town Hall which was now deserted and began what they had planned with the thousands of Parasprites they captured, which lead us to this…

“A little too much for pest control, don’t ya think?” Applejack asked jokingly.

“Would you prefer we make it some other town’s problem?” Roxon asked.

“You could have used the instruments but then again you guys take the way that suits you the most so we don’t fault…” Pinkie said the rubbed her chin and added, “…well maybe Fluttershy would get mad.”

Fluttershy shrugged and said, “That’s the weird thing I don’t feel as bothered by it as I thought, I may need time to reflect so that I can figure this entire thing out,” she finished gesturing to all of Limbo and the ponies gathered.

“So you wouldn’t mind if I snacked on a few of your animals?” Rexon asked slyly.

Fluttershy gave him a smile which reminded the Morph Six of a certain someone, “I would appreciate if you refrain from talking like that near me.”

“Anyway great to see we’re getting along and all but how do we get out of here?” Rainbow asked impatiently.

Roxon pointed inside Town Hall, “In there but be careful though Limbo will try to kill you itself this time.”

Five minutes later the Princesses, the ex-Windigo and the Element Bearers walked out of the building.

“Do the walls usually try crushing whoever is trapped in Limbo?” Celestia asked.

“Usually its a trap set by the demon which pulled you there in the first place for when you’re close to the exit room,” Roxon replied, “You get used to it after the first six times.”

“So how was your first Limbo experience?” Rexon asked curiously.

“Terrifying,” Fluttershy said curling into a ball on the ground.

“Just as we expected but we did learn that Nightmare was a special Windigo,” Luna blurted out the realized the actual weight of her words, ‘Uh oh.’

“SHE WAS A WHAT!?” the Mane Six yelled while the Morph Six raised an eyebrow.

This would take forever to explain.

Meanwhile Elsewhere

A Chimera lied in the dark and humid fire swamp. It slept without a care in the world unaware to any and all events around it especially the two golden pairs of eyes that watched it in the mists around its home.

The eyes stalked closer to the creature and as a paw was exposed to the light a very familiar stripe pattern could be seen on it, the other wolf, though had a mark on its chest which could not be as easily seen but one could swear that it was comprised of circles, stepped on a twig on the ground fully on purpose waking the Chimera.

The Chimera which was made of a tiger with a snake for a tail and another head of a goat shot up into a guarded stance.

“You think you can hunt me?”

No response came except for vicious growls.

“Hmph well then bring it on!” the Chimera declared making what could have been its last mistake…

…Had either the other watching pairs of eyes had wanted to join in…

…Or been hungry.

Author's Note

For this AN I have good news and bad news.

Good news is I finally updated and you can enjoy the new chapter.

Bad news I’ve hit writer’s block and real life problems only compound my problems. Winter Wrap Up is proving to be a bigger pain than i expected because as i go through ideas i hit a roadblock and have to scrap that idea. Chances are i won’t be able to get that chapter out until year’s end, sorry.

Hopefully i can think of a good idea or at least progressive idea even if it only has boring exposition. Wish me luck.

Fun Fact: Roxon was originally supposed to not even have weapons of any kind. He was going to just be a fist fighter.