Roxon sat in a lotus position in the dark talking to Despair.

Mindscape

His mindscape was a green field stretching for eternity filled with trees, hills and flowers of many kinds. Like the real world, he sat in lotus position facing a gigantic anaconda as thick as the Empire State Building and was the distance from the Earth to the Sun in length with black scales that had a purple shine and red eyes.

“You know I’ve been thinking…” Despair said stopping half way as if he had second thoughts.

“Is that why you’ve been quiet all this time?” Roxon asked not expecting an answer, “Those must have been some important thoughts. Anyway, what is it?”

“Do you think the Angelus would accept that I’ve changed,” Despair continued his earlier statement.

Roxon was quiet for a few minutes in thought before he answered, “Dude I don’t know but maybe she might if she forgets all those times you tried killing each other.”

Despair sighed sadly, “I guess you’re right. We are opposites in nearly all aspects now.”

“Nearly?” Roxon asked raising an eyebrow.

“Thanks to you I don’t care about causing pain and suffering I still sadly enjoy and cause it thanks to what I am though,” Despair said as he coiled himself up to hide his own head.

Roxon sighed and placed a comforting hand on the serpent, “Listen I won’t say that everything will be fine, it sure as hell wont be, but it will take a lot of work for you to get her to stop trying to seal you away, but I will say that if you work hard enough and show her you want to make peace and work together to stop any cults based around each of you things might turn out alright.”

The giant serpent smile and said, “Thank you Roxon, I really needed that…now can you turn everything back to normal.”

Roxon’s mindscape quickly turned to its original appearance. A surprisingly still green field with trees, flowers and hills, but with canyons having sharp rocks and spikes at the bottom, a few active and rumbling volcanoes sparsely placed around, some of the trees and flowers were dead or dying and a red sky.

“You still haven’t explained why you mind is like this,” Despair said curiously.

“You figure it out,” Roxon said, “after all you were a big part of what made me who I am today, in fact all of the parts of you made me who I am.”

“What’s that supposed to mean?” Despair asked in a curious tone.

“Like I said figure it out,” Roxon said with a wink as he turned and started to fade, “and no shuffling through my memories.”

"I need to tell you something," Despair said catching his friend as he was about to leave, "about the other thing I was thinking about."

"What is it?" Roxon asked solidifying again.

"Follow me..."

Reality (Some Time Later)

He saw Twilight struggling to put on what seemed to be a saddle of sorts as she talked to Spike.

“…never used magic to clean up winter… it’s traditional,” Twilight saddle fell of and she sighed before she turned and greeted Roxon not hearing Spike say something about ridiculous, “Morning Roxon how’d you sleep?”

“I was meditating, I never needed sleep for a long time now,” Roxon reminded.

“Right,” Twilight said taking a scarf and wrapping it around her neck without magic as well as placing a pin in her hair and turned to her check list using magic to tick off each item, “Scarf…check, saddle…check, boots…check, Spike refusing to wake up and going back to sleep…check, hidden Devil Arm…check.”

“Nice check list,” Roxon commented.

“Thanks,” Twilight said, “It’s a good thing I’m so organized bright and early!” she announced proudly.

Only to be met with utter silence as it was still dark out.

“Maybe a little too early Twilight,” Roxon said voice with a slight mocking tone, “It’s BRIGHT and early not DARK and early.”

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Twilight galloped towards the group of ponies gathered at Town Hall, with Roxon running at the same pace beside her, with Spike on her back having ditched the unnecessary items she had put on earlier.

“Those must be the team vests Rarity designed,” Roxon stated as he saw the vests the ponies wore.

“Blue for the weather team,” Twilight said looking at two conversing pegasi, “green for the plant team,” she continued as she spied a pony munching on what appeared to be a carrot as the leaves were sticking out of said pony’s mouth, “and tan for the animal team,” she finished looking at two unicorns not doing anything.

“Yet you will not wear any of them,” Roxon bluntly said cutting of anything Spike was about to say in exchange for making him laugh before he collapsed on Twilight’s back again, “Twilight let me take him back he’s cold blooded remember.”

“Oh, he’ll be fine,” Twilight assured as they arrived.

Roxon simply rolled his eyes, 'You are dense as a brick Twi.'

Mayor Mare had just begun speaking when they arrived. Roxon heard all she had to say and immediately remembered what he was told by Applejack and the other bearers who had lived in Ponyville.

“We’re always late every winter no matter what we do.”

‘They probably don’t have a good organizer,’ Roxon thought, ‘or they panic at a slight mistake made by a single pony, come to think of it these ponies panic way too much are they really that sheltered and more importantly-’

He was lost in thought for some time with those words before he noticed ponies separating to their own groups and heard Twilight say, “What exactly does everypony do?”

The moment the ponies began their song the Roxon went and talked to his brothers before they launched off to their jobs.

“I heard you guys are helping some of the teams with Winter Wrap Up today,” Roxon said, “What do you do in each team?”

“I’m on the weather team,” Rexon answered pulling up his sleeve to his elbow showing the blue band around his forearm, “Vests were too small, and I didn’t want one, so I settled for an armband instead. I help with cloud clearing and clearing snow from roofs now if you’ll excuse me.”

He proceeded to jump up and land on a roof dropping all the snow on some unfortunate ponies on the ground, he gave the ponies a sheepish smile as he was almost immediately thanked by another pony for the job.

Raxon and Ryxon both said, “Animal team…obviously,” Raxon with a tan vest designed for him on and Ryxon was wearing a tan bandana and having a little bell in hand.

Raxon then said, “I’m helping with building nests for the birds with Rarity, oh yeah that reminds me I have to go,” he turned to the cart he had been pulling and walked through a portal to where a scowling Rarity waited also joining the song as he gave a sheepish grin.

“Well I’m helping wake up the hibernating animals with Fluttershy,” Ryxon said, “Sorry to leave but those animals won’t wake themselves,” he quickly teleported to Fluttershy’s location and finding a little burrow with some bunnies and ringing the bell waking them joining the song as a few birds from the trees landed on his head and he gave a warm smile.

Nyxon said flicking his green cap, “I’m in the plant team helping clear the ground of snow and planting seeds. Find a team maybe you might enjoy something,” he said entering a portal to an awaiting plough appearing in Applejack’s part of the song clearing the ground but at a faster pace than the others.

Cyxon having a blue vest as well simply said, “Lake scoring,” before vanishing and appearing where Pinkie was, using his Aquila to cut lines in the lakes.

‘That was weird,’ Roxon thought as he joined with Twilight again.

He joined as she walked up a snowy incline then listened and observed everything that happened next until the song ended and he could have sworn that the snow had piled up again in places that were once cleared as the song ended.

He wondered about what was going on before a rainbow blur passed by.

“Alright team you are cleared for take-off!” Rainbow Dash announced before three pegasi flew off…somewhere, he had no idea where.

“Rainbow Dash what are you doing?” Twilight asked inquisitively.

“Sending one of my flight teams to retrieve the birds that flew south for the winter,” she answered.

Before Twilight could offer to help Roxon said, “Sounds like you might need to fly fast to do that,” immediately stopping her cold in her tracks.

“What about him?” Twilight asked pointing to Rexon who was on a cloud with his eyes closed.

“He’s on demon lookout, he doesn’t know magic plus he jumped up there,” Rainbow Dash answered, “He gets a pass, sorry Twilight.”

‘We do know some magic…’ Roxon thought, ‘why would he lie though?’

Twilight sighed before she turned around and woke Spike, so they could leave for their next attempt at helping, which was Rarity and Raxon.

“Rarity, please tell me there’s something anything I can help you with,” Twilight said pleadingly.

“Actually, there is! How would you like to help me make one of Ponyville’s finest bird’s nests?” Rarity asked.

“Bird’s nests?” Twilight asked with Roxon having a look of confusion like she did.

“Yes, I felt the same brother,” Raxon answered also acknowledging his brother, “When the weather team guides the birds back for spring they’ll need a place to live and lay their eggs.”

“Talk about working with nature…” Roxon mumbled thinking his brother would be the only one to hear him.

Rarity destroyed that thought a split second later, “It actually helps ponies build trust with all the animals Roxon.”

Roxon and Raxon showed no outward reaction.

On the inside, they were surprised that she could hear them.

“Roxon is right though,” Twilight added.

This made them almost react, almost because they were wondering if Twilight heard them as well.

“Uh what are you guys talking about?” Spike asked having not heard Roxon’s comment.

“It’s nothing Spike,” Roxon said stopping them from going off track, “Weren’t we making nests?”

“Oh right,” Rarity said grabbing a basket in her magic and dumping the contents on the table, “Take that straw and hay over there and…oh my…” she trailed off.

Twilight had gotten the gist of what she was trying to say and had begun weaving without magic from the expressions on everyone’s faces she was not doing a good job. When she was done, it looked like it did in canon.

“That nest should be condemned!” Spike declared.

“Forget condemning burn it,” Roxon said.

“I will be honest Twilight you might be more useful elsewhere,” Raxon added in.

Rarity sighed noticing it was useless to try salvaging tact with three negative comments already in the air, “I won’t lie especially when they bring up such good points, so why not try working at another place because this is not your thing.”

Twilight, Roxon and Spike left their friends who were trying to fix Twilight’s disaster nest, after some time they found Pinkie who had been executing the most graceful skating manoeuvres they never expected her to do before Cyxon tripped her initiating her playing a game of chase with Cyxon…with Pinkie chasing Cyxon.

“Hey guys what are you doing?” Twilight called out.

Pinkie and Cyxon stopped their little game and noticed the three new faces that had appeared, and Pinkie answered, “Oh hi there we’re lake scorers we cut lines across the lakes so that it’s easier for the weather team when they come and break the ice.”

“You are weather team Pinkie,” Roxon said deadpan.

“…the rest of the weather team,” Pinkie and Cyxon clarified.

“Clever, when the ice melts it breaks along the lines,” Twilight commented, “can I try?”

Roxon shut that train of thought down before it left the station, “Do you know anything about ice skating?”

Twilight rubbed the back of her head in embarrassment, “No, I read a bit about it though.”

“So, you figured it would be easy?” Roxon asked and when Twilight stayed silent he had his answer, “Yeah~ no… sorry but you aren’t going out there.”

“Okay if lake scoring is out of the question maybe you can help Fluttershy with the critters,” Cyxon suggested.

Twilight perked up, “I am good with little animals.”

“Yeah you do that I have something to investigate.” Roxon said as he turned then thought to himself before teleporting. ‘The ponies might not notice it, but temperatures are dropping slowly as time goes on. This is not natural.’

Roxon’s teleportation destination was to the Everfree Forest.

“Roxon why are we here?” Despair asked appearing as a single slashing/grabbing fusion head.

“You know why Despair I felt demonic energy around here and I will find it,” Roxon said resolutely.

“Yeah but something feels off about this energy,” Despair nervously said.

Roxon simply grunted as he followed the clues to the demon causing the odd cold…

…Until he ran into a red barrier which spawned a dozen demons.

“Right on schedule…”

With Twilight

“…LET’S ROCK!”

On her way to Fluttershy’s group Twilight had gotten a sudden change of heart as a few thoughts popped into her mind several unimportant but one standing out above the rest…

‘Wait doesn’t Fluttershy work with dangerous animals too?’

That single question caused her to turn and walk in the direction of Applejack’s group instead where she arrived at an interesting point.

Said interesting point was Nyxon riding a Frost, like a snowboard, as he descended a slope made of ice which Twilight deduced was created by the Frost or Frosts. As he neared the bottom of the slope he backfliped off the demon pulled his pistols out and shot the demon to death.

“Well that was fun,” Nyxon said and immediately after Applejack was heard.

“GET BACK HERE YA VARMIT!”

Said pony was chasing after a thoroughly frightened Savage Golem which was down to being only a pair of legs and bleeding its toxic blood heavily although Applejack seemed fine as she stepped in it.

“YA AIN’T GETTIN’ AWAY THAT EASY!”

The demon doubled its efforts as Applejack started gaining on it. Then it noticed the spikes of ice sticking out of the ground and that it was headed directly at one sticking out of a wall. It did what the Morph Six had hardly ever seen a demon do and leapt directly onto the spike cutting its legs in two committing suicide with instantaneous death.

This action drew an angry growl from the pony as she placed her scythe back into place on her back before she noticed the ponies.

“What are ya’ll doin’ get back to work!” Applejack shouted at the gawking crowd.

The ponies in turn quickly went back to work either ploughing the snow or making holes in the ground to plant seeds only to notice…

“Hey what’s the big idea?”

“What’s the weather team doing isn’t it supposed to be getting warmer?”

“Wait, where’d all this new snow come from?”

…There was a new bigger pile up of snow than there was when the demons showed up. The cries of outrage escalated as ponies stared to pass around blame, some blaming the weather team, others blaming the mayor for the lack of organization, while others spoke of the Morph Six and their sadistic pranks and some said it was the demons…

“QUIET!” Nyxon yelled, “I’ve been here the whole time and I know this isn’t one of our pranks also most of these demons are too weak to affect the weather some are but they aren't in this group,” he then crossed his arms as a thoughtful look appeared on his face and thought, ‘I just really hope it's not the one I'm thinking about…’

Before Nyxon could say anything, he was interrupted by the frantic call of, “APPLEJACK!”

The whole group turned to see Big Mac galloping at full tilt in their direction, looking as though there was something urgent going on.

When he arrived, he didn’t need to take a breather as he urgently said, “AJ, somethin’s up at Town Hall!”

“Did Caramel lose the grass seeds again?” Applejack asked irritably.

He shook his head at her, raising Twilight and Nyxon’s interest but not spike who was asleep, “No, it’s about the new snow.”

At Town Hall

As soon as Applejack heard Big Macintosh’s reply she had almost bolted for Town Hall but Nyxon stopped her opening a portal to make the trip shorter.

When they all stepped through they saw what could be best described as three separate groups arguing against each other with Mayor Mare and their friends trying to diffuse the situation.

“Everypony please do your best to be civil and calm,” Mayor Mare pleaded.

“This is no one’s fault so there’s no need to play the blame game,” Rexon said.

“Yeah, there should be a good explanation for this new snow,” Rainbow said.

Rexon and Rainbow’s pleas received the opposite response as the green vested ponies continued yelling at them along with the tan vested ponies with some exceptions. The five members of the Morph Six and the Mane Six pleaded with the other ponies to listen to them but to no avail that was until one had had enough…

“STOP!” Ryxon roared gaining the attention of all the ponies, “Listen I believe Dash and my brother because first it’s not just snow, but ice and icicles piling out of nowhere, second the weather team can’t make this much snow out of already spent clouds and lastly when I broke some of the icicles they grew back in seconds.”

“What are you getting at then?”

“What I’m getting at is that-”

That was as much as he could say before something crashed into Town Hall and then an explosion caused wood splinters to fly everywhere forcing the five gathered brothers to protect the ponies from the deadly projectiles.

Not a second after the explosion what looked to be a giant frog landed nearby and launched ice spikes into what was left of the building freezing it all in a giant opaque block of ice.

The demon stayed focused on the block of ice as it shattered to reveal nothing inside.

“Oh crap,” the demon said as its target appeared behind it and it heard a distinct click.

“Used the last the crystals on your back I see and can’t regen them huh? Too bad so sad,” was the last thing it heard as Roxon pulled his pistol's trigger.

Only for the bullet to meet air as his target disappeared into a portal of oil/tar texture.

“Damn the bastard went into Limbo...” Roxon said.

“Hey bro what's up?” Cyxon asked.

“Not much just fighting another one of Bael and Dagon's brothers...”

BANG

BANG

“... what's up with you?” Roxon casually answered shooting two self-tracking electric orbs which had appeared behind his brother.

Before the pink haired maniac could reply both were forced to react before two tentacles landed on the ground they previously stood. Lumbering forward was the human-turned-demon Arius.

“Figured we'd have to face you at some point,” Roxon groaned voice full of annoyance and loathing for the persistent bastard.

“Need... power... get... revenge...” Arius spoke in his broken manner the tentacles on his back flailing wildly and shooting electric orbs everywhere.

Cyxon stated to overreact, “Crap we need to-”

“-Already in Limbo Cyxon.” Rexon droned interrupting his sibling's panic.

“Oh~,” Cyxon said as though realising something crucial that should have been obvious from the start...

“Okay then!” then returning to the scatter-brained airhead his brothers knew and loved.

They experienced a cruel reminder of their situation when Rexon was forced to evade a volley of arrows from several Enigma.

“Oh yeah Arius summons minions because he has a pretty shitty move set,” Rexon said as though he were commenting on the weather to himself.

“So~ what’s our plan?” Ryxon asked leaping out of the way of a Blitz's charge.

Roxon broke out of his deadlock with a Drekvak, “Same as always with guys like Arius. Dodge or kill the minions, find an opening and attack the leader.”

“Roger that!” was the simultaneous acknowledgement as they all charged from the line they had, through luck, created.

Meanwhile with the Mane Six

A group comprised of six mares stood in front of a large frog demon, all in varying states of resolve.

The most resolute was the analytical Twilight Sparkle, her piercing gaze locked with the demon in what seemed to be a staring contest for the fate of the world. She remembered some of Roxon's stories and advice as well as the little video proof he had shown them. Luckily the ponies had evacuated earlier, while Roxon was fighting the same frog demon she now had in her sights, taking Spike with them.

Tied second was Rainbow Dash and Applejack. They were filled with resolve, but they also were afraid. Applejack feared for her family thinking, 'I hope we can make it through this I don't know what these things will do to everyone on the farm if I die here.' Rainbow was along the lines of, 'Don't get done in by this guy what would the Wonderbolts think heck my reputation would be down the drain before I even have one to begin with!'... obviously selfish but it was still fear.

Rarity was very hesitant and begrudging again because she would have to get dirty and/or disfigured... ironically her thoughts were prioritised like this from most to least important, 'Protect my friends, kill the demon. My dream is still achievable even if I am riddled with scars more difficult, but I am willing to pay the price... for those I care about.' True to her element she thought of others before herself when it truly counted.

Pinkie...? She was the most... unique. She... smiled, but it was an extremely unnerving smile to put it lightly... No, the smile was the same she always had but the aura she exuded was... dangerous, venomous... as if a part of her nobody ever saw had surfaced. The other mares were accustomed to the aura because it appeared every time they had fought lesser demons before but to a much lower extent. Now though she seemed ready to strike at even a hint of an attack with resolve equal to Twilight's.

Fluttershy... need I say more? She was the bravest of the six but the least resolute. She mustered all her courage to stay behind her friends curled up in a ball and considering how she usually reacted in most situations, by hiding, she had the most bravery. Her resolve though was lacking, she doubted she would make a difference in the fight, she feared she would get in the way of the others... although a feeling inside her had been breaking those doubts and fears over the winter.

'Oh, there's the feeling again,' Fluttershy thought to herself, 'I feel... slightly ashamed of myself? Wha- Why? What am I doing that makes me ashamed of myself? I don't like fighting and that demon scares me. I don't think I'm strong enough to be a minor pest to him any-'

Fluttershy paused as she felt the feeling grow a little heavier.

‘Wait could it be that I- ‘

“FLUTTERSHY!”

The sudden call of her name from Rainbow Dash combined with an instinctual urge to dodge was the only thing that barely kept her from becoming a Shy-cicle.

‘Did I just… ‘, her train of thought derailed as she realised that she had spaced out during a battle… like an idiot.

“I just stood there like an idiot.”

Those words were lost to the sounds of collapsing walls, shattering ice crystals and explosions as she softly whispered them to herself.

‘I completely forgot about the demon…’ she thought to herself gracefully backflipping over an ice spike, ‘if Rainbow wasn’t there or I didn’t manage to dodge just then…’

Before she knew it, she charged the demon whose left side was towards her and gave big slash on his side which stunned him.

The demon lay there with his biggest weakness, his tongue, exposed. The ponies, having perfect recollection of their taught knowledge, attacked simultaneously from different angles but each was a different distance away.

Fluttershy, because she stunned the demon was the closet and thus started with a Red Queen Combo A, then thrust the sword into the demon’s side edge facing skyward and revving her blade, causing the three exhausts to generate flames, a pale-yellow flame came from the first and third exhausts, but the middle exhaust generated a pink flame. She revved four more times before using the thrust to launch into the air while cutting into the demon.

Rarity, who was second closest but directly behind the demon, charged and jumped onto his tail. Then pulled her blades out of their sheaths with magic and, with little to no grace, hacked wildly at the demon’s back, while charging up the demon’s back. Then when she reached the demon’s head she stopped and stomped on his head for some time before retreating.

Pinkie, the furthest being three hundred meters away, was running at a spring, from Sonic the Hedgehog games, angled directly at the demon’s face. As she made direct contact with the spring she launched at very high-speed doing front flips with her tail wrapped around Cerberus’ centre ring with no air resistance slowing her at all because she’s Pinkie Pie. When within a meter from her target she put all her built-up momentum into a bone crushing slam directly onto the demon’s nose and bouncing up to an awaiting Fluttershy who caught her.

Applejack came in, from the right side of the demon, immediately after Pinkie bounced into the air and spun her scythe clockwise for three spins performing Prop, then alternated and started spinning it counter-clockwise performing Shredder. A few seconds after she finally stopped shredding and balanced of her rear legs performing upper diagonal slash, and three pirouettes with her scythe blade outstretched cutting the demon some more before retreating.

Rainbow flew at high velocity towards the ground as soon as AJ was clear, unfortunately the axe seemed to be a harder to aim than she predicted and as a result missed contact with the demon by half a meter. It wasn’t a complete loss as she created a shockwave that launched the demon into the air raising it above most buildings in the quiet village town. As the demon dropped the mare lined up her swing to launch the demon to Twilight, who had stopped her charge when the giant frog launched upwards. When about a metre of the ground she swung, and a satisfying crunch was heard as some of the demon’s bones broke and he was launched.

Twilight waited as the demon hit the ground and skid to a stop in front of her. She calmly walked behind him and took hold of the demon’s tail with her magic then lifted him then… she began studying him.

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…

Wait what?

“Much lighter than an Ursa Minor but then again, he is slightly above half the size of one… strange ice protrusions from the creature’s back, sizes vary from ruler sized to… Clear amphibian origins… Besides webbed feet no other clear amphibian features… Glowing lure shaped like… uhm… what did Roxon say they looked like? Ah humans als-”

“TWILIGHT!” the other mares shouted.

“Huh,” She turned and was met by four glares with Fluttershy back to cowering, “Oh sorry you know how it is with me and something interesting.”

“I’m fighting you and I can’t help but agree with your friends do something to me already you’ve been looking at me for five minutes before they woke you up!” the frog demon yelled.

“Say wh-”

“TWI!”

This shut her up and had the added effect of making her toss the demon like a ragdoll into the Everfree Forest in a panic.

This time she felt eleven glares.

“Wow must have made the guys mad if I can feel them glare from Limbo.”

SHING-SHINK

A bullet hole appeared in the ground in front of Twilight directing her attention to the message in the ground in front of her.

‘No shit.’

Everfree Forest (Some Time Later)

“This way girls he landed in this darker part of the Everfree,” Twilight ordered as they trudged through the dark forest which seemed to be getting darker as they continued.

“I hate this place,” Rarity grumbled.

Twilight turned her head to the irritated mare, “Cheer up Rarity at least we-” Twilight tried to say but froze when a glare was shot her way again, making her ears flatten against her head as she turned and bowed her head slightly sad.

Rarity felt a little pride when her friend stopped talking but guilt welled up in her heart when she saw Twilight look away sadly, she sighed and got her friend’s attention, “Twilight dear…”

Twilight looked back at her with an apologetic look.

“… I’m not angry at you for throwing that demon in here anymore just annoyed were here again.” The improvement of Twilight’s mood was evident and with it came more encouragement from her friends.

“She’s right we know it was a mistake when you tossed that demon’s ugly mug here,” RD said as she landed near her the purple pony.

“Sugarcube when we glared at ya it was more for the studyin’ you were doin’, not the toss,” AJ said honestly also bringing Twilight spirits up.

Pinkie took a huge breath but before speaking words appeared in the ground in front of her unfortunately she had to squint and get closer with how dark it had become, “No… long… single… breath… paragraph… we’ve… heard…. enough… of… that. Oh, I wasn’t going to talk to Twilight she obviously knows I’m not easy to anger, I was actually going to ask it’s nearly one in the afternoon, but it looks like its night and only getting darker did anypony else notice?”

In Limbo

“Oh shit!” the morph six said surrounded by the dissolving bodies of the demons they had just defeated Arius having lost five minutes after the ponies went to find their opponent.

With the Ponies

“What do you mean Pinkie?” Fluttershy timidly asked.

“I mean Mr Croaky must be able to create a blizzard or something and make us blind leaving us vulnerable for an ambush!” Pinkie said menacingly.

The ponies all looked at her with bewildered eyes then started laughing except Fluttershy who seemed to be scared stiff.

Then someone taunted Murphy’s Law.

“As if something that big could sneak up on us even with an artificial blizzard as cover.” Twilight said wiping a tear from her eye.

“But Roxon said these demon types are invisible and untouchable in their own created blizzards.” Pinkie stated gravely.

The ponies suddenly looked behind them when they heard breathing, the timid pegasus was, unfortunately, frozen on the spot. Then then demon lunged…

“Fluttersh-” was the last thing the yellow Pegasus heard from as she found teeth suddenly fill her vision, and pain filled her mind…

Fluttershy P.O.V

It hurts…

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… everything hurts…

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… but what hurts most is the fact that I have almost always had to rely on others to help me.

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Ever since I was a filly I never liked to stand out… I hated is so much I wanted to just hide off in a corner somewhere or even under my bed and never come out, it felt wrong and right at the same time, as if a piece of me was missing and as a result I couldn’t feel secure but hiding gave me that security.

In flight school I was always the last choice because I needed to rely on others, my flying was poor at best and I was bullied for it. Since I was a little bit bigger than the other fillies and colts I had a bit more trouble blending in and often tripped over myself and others and occasionally tripped over myself and brought others with me, Klutzershy was the nickname bullies gave me, the big klutz who couldn’t do anything right.

Then one day the first and only pony to defend me, hell, the first to ever talk to me try to befriend me was Rainbow Dash… it was the first time I ever felt happy and it was also the first time I realised I was on the edge… the edge of falling into darkness and Rainbow pulled me back to solid ground before I fell and did something I would regret. My struggles only got worse from there…

Day after day I would experience the same thing, the same bullies, same falls, the same insults, only more intense and digging deeper into my psyche, filling in the missing piece inside of me with hate and anger… it felt so right for that anger to be there and it would have become part of me permanently if it weren’t for that day when I got my cutie mark…

Things changed then the insults stopped, and my life became better, I was still a klutz, but ponies helped me… sure they never talked to me, but I didn’t care I was glad the names had stopped… but they scarred me for life. Whenever I think about flying those bullies always appear in my mind chanting their special little chant for me. When I grew up I eventually I had to move out of my parent’s place growing as I did I obviously chose the place furthest from other ponies.

Oh, the demon spit me out, getting chewed up wasn’t as bad as I thought, and that lure of his just stabbed me now with my own sword. I thought I would feel pain for what felt like an eternity but after three or four chews I just went numb. Unfortunately, that won’t change my situation because I’ll bleed out at any minute now. My ribs are poking into and through my lungs my breathing is getting more and more labored and~ I’m rambling now. Anyway, back to what I was saying.

My time in Ponyville was enjoyable I made friends with ponies and critters alike, fell in love, confessed that love, had my heart broken (very gently though) because he had somepony else, and made some acquaintances and friends. Then on the Summer Sun Celebration it came back the feeling of hate and anger but not towards others but me. When the Element of Kindness came to me it also opened another cage I didn’t even know I had.

I won’t recount recent events though I mean it’s fresh in my mind for Celestia’s sake. And now I’m about to die here? Here of all fucking places! No! Just no I refuse to die here to a little shit like him I need to get up and fight because I am tired of relying on others.

Normal P.O.V.

Fluttershy’s broken body started to shakily get up, bones entering back in place muscles mending and adrenaline rushing through her veins as she sparks crackled across her body as she started speaking.

“All that I’ve worked so hard to build in my life are about to be taken from me! Fuck that I will live and take care of little critters until I die of old age! I want to protect them along with my friends and there is noting you can do to stop me! So, take a good look asshole because my face is the last one you’re seeing before going back to HELL!”

Her entire declaration was made without raising her voice and yet it still carried over as though she was shouting and at the last word a sphere of demonic energy shaped like a swarm of glowing pink, yellow and blue butterflies surrounded the pony as she growled furiously.

“GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!”

The swarm of pink, yellow and blue butterflies surged towards the demon and caused some extra damage, before all of them bore witness to the pony that stood before them.

Fluttershy’s coat had turned from its original colour to a much darker mustard like yellow with her mane being pink with black stripes. Her body was quite the change. Her hooves looked like they had a black version of Celestia’s shoes, there was also hot pink V shaped imprints that went along her chest and underside. Her neck had chain like patterns along its length, and the primaries on her wings were blood red and looked as though the shaft and quill were made of bone. Her irises stayed the same, but her sclera had turned pure red with a green mask around her eyelids.

“Now let’s end this,” Fluttershy said in her distorted, yet still distinctively soft spoken and feminine, voice with determination oozing from every word.

She charged at the demon with full intent to kill.

Later in Ponyville

They had arrived back in Ponyville after they called the ponies back… only to return to the predicament they were in before… well more like a similar one.

“Okay Twilight did you use magic?” a random pony accused.

“What? No!” Twilight denied slightly offended, “Why do you think I did?”

“The snow and ice, it’s melting way too fast for it to normal,” Carrot Top answered, “So magic has to be responsible.”

The melting part caught Fluttershy’s attention, “Oh no the critters!”

“Calm down, they’re safe.” Raxon said calmly.

“How do you know?” Rainbow Dash asked.

Rexon rolled his eyes as though it was an obvious answer, “Teleported them to Flutter’s cottage they should be waking up by now.”

“YOU USED MAGIC?” the vocal force of an entire town was not a sensation one could get used to, but the brothers expected it and so were not caught off guard.

Twilight spoke next, “Why did you do that you could’ve told us we would’ve woken them up and moved them to safe places without-”

“Not possible,” Roxon cut in, “without magic I fear some of those critters would have drowned. Which brings up an interesting point… You say you clean Winter without magic yet pegasi magic allows them to manipulate weather and earth ponies magic grants them higher physical prowess making it easier to move those snow ploughs of theirs and this magic is pretty much always active. So why can’t unicorns do the same?”

Not a single member of the crowd could answer.

“I mean really magic is a part of every single pony here, but unicorns can’t use even a basic levitation spell because tradition says no? I get that you want to remember your roots, but others might not be used to your way of life,” Rexon explained. “You can restrict advanced spells but maybe allow basics like levitation for carrying things, I doubt you have enough carts to haul all the loads of hay I’ve seen, and to help shovelling snow because remember this town might have been started by earth ponies but, pegasi and unicorns are a part of this place. If you can’t remember that then you are not representing what Ponyville stands for today, unity and cooperation between the three races.”

It took a solid two minutes before any of the ponies spoke, and the first to talk was Mayor Mare.

“Do any unicorns feel the same way Rexon says you might feel?” she asked carefully.

Mutters of “Yes,” “Of course” and “Obviously” came from the crowd as the unicorns spoke up.

“Understood. Then from here on out unicorns can use magic to manipulate tools when necessary, and only when necessary,” that declaration got cheers from everypony.

“Oh yeah,” Cyxon added in, “you also need an organiser because it looks like you all end up clashing into each other’s jobs, misplacing something and if I’m guessing right going to the wrong place at the wrong time at some point.”

The ponies all looked down in slight shame, prompting facepalms from the brothers except Cyxon who was laughing.

“Seriously,” Ryxon whispered.

“Well Twilight can change that she is a genius at organisation,” Roxon said.

Twilight a little nervous asked, “Are you sure I’m good enough?”

A smile from Roxon was all the assurance she needed.

“Okay I’ll do it.”

The Winter Wrap Up reprisal happens almost the same except instead of the waking of the critter’s scene Cyxon is instead draining the water from all the flooded burrows by sucking it through a straw leaving the burrows free of water.

Later: Outskirts of Ponyville

The clearing of winter had been significantly shortened without the need to melt any snow, there was a quick argument about the draining of the flooded burrows something about lung capacity, but that was resolved quickly by Pinkie and Cyxon entering an argument and resolving it in ten minutes without once pausing for a single breath; it took until around midnight for winter to be wrapped up and they were happy to be on time for once.

Mayor Mare had congratulated the entire town and even gave Twilight a special vest (same as canon), declaring her all team’s organiser. The Morph Six also got a special jacket, was thanked for dispatching the demon that had caused everything which they declined and said Fluttershy was responsible (much to her dismay) and was set as a fourth team the lookout team, their job was to watch for any pony breaking the limited magic rule of the clean-up, lying here was impossible as they were too intimidating for ponies to try to lie to, demon watch and ponies deviating from the plan, like Derpy flying west to find the southern birds.

When the townsponies left the Mane and Morph Six went directly to Akuzz’s cave.

She surged forward with such speed and power she left four hoof imprints in the ground and a small crater. She neither cared about how she moved her blade, what objects collided with her, or even how her friends witnessed the scene she simply wanted blood.

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They had arrived and the cave and Roxon being happy to see his friend again went, “’Sup bud how’s the new recruit doing?”

She didn’t know how long it was happening but when she was brought to her senses she was standing on her hind legs the tip of her blade at Twilight’s throat.

It took less than she thought to calm her down but when she was calm she noticed she had turned back to normal and could feel a well of power in her body just waiting to be called out, she also noticed the demon on its back and breathing and jumped behind a tree behind her.

“So, this is how it ends…” the demon said.

“Nope…” Roxon countered with a grin, “I can see it your eyes you know you don’t want to go back to hell do you, you could stay if you want. All it costs is your name, your story and a promise never to harm any of this world’s inhabitants…”

The demon looked apprehensive for a second and appeared to enter deep thought it was a while before the demon became responsive again.

It looked around at its surroundings and started to open its mouth…

“Null’s fine, he’s still pretty shocked that you let him stay here, but I think it’s just a matter of him being surprised he doesn’t need to deal with his brothers anymore…”

The demon now, known as Null said that he was sent here because he was the softest of the family and was hated for it. Hated, ignored and sometimes even attacked for his slightly gentle nature. They had thought fighting would make him change but all it did was make him less inclined to fight, unfortunately the fear of death and Arius’ presence forced his survival instincts to be a major factor in his actions; thus, he kept fighting.

Calming Null was easy, he was easy to panic and fear but also easy to calm down. A few good words made him stop crying, before they told him to head towards the cave and, before they left for the ponies again, remove the snow and ice he made.

“Well call him here we should introduce ourselves, right?” Roxon said calmly.

Vult, the demon he had been talking to the entire time smile and said, “You sure do,” then she turned and called out into the newly made cavern system, “NULL YOU HAVE GUESTS!”

It didn’t take too long before Null’s steps were heard, and it took less time before his form was revealed, but when into full view a strange thought entered Fluttershy’s mind as she smiled at the demon.

‘This has been one fucked up winter wrap up…’

Author's Note

Finally! this chapter is out after nearly A YEAR'S worth of writer's block I have finally done it.
I feel so relieved to be back in the groove unfortunately mid semester exams have started so crap... but i will try to make as much time for this story as possible especially with the end of G4 so close.

I'm also looking for anyone talented enough to draw Roxon and his siblings if they're willing to that is.

Fun Fact: The Morph Six each found a pet in a different world.