Revenge of the Shadow Pony

Charging towards the Royal Sisters like an arrow, Spike lunged at them in an attempt to kill them. They teleported out of the way and swung their weapons at the enraged dragon, but his back suddenly grew a second body and punched the both of them away.

"AGH!!! He's fast!" Daybreaker shouted after recovering from the blow.

"Do you remember anything about your last encounter with that beast?" Night Moon asked, trying to form a strategy.

"All I remember was him breaking my wings when I tried to escape. But times have changed…" Daybreaker said before firing another solar beam.

Spike moved out of the way and grabbed Daybreaker by the throat. Fueling his strength with fury, he started pummeling and slashing her repeatedly. Then she pushed him back using her flames, making a force field out of it.

"Allow me…" Nightmare Moon said before charging Spike with her scythe.

She swung her scythe at the dark dragon, but he dodged every single attack she delivered and countered her, sending her back to her sister.

"No good, sister! He is one step ahead of us in combat prowess!" Nightmare Moon shouted as Spike came charging towards them.

"Then it's time we stopped holding back…" Daybreaker said before teleporting out of the way along with her sister.

***

Meanwhile, Starlight continued to run a great distance through the forest. She was trying to wrap around what happened to her horn. Not only did she lose to Midnight, but she had no idea where her friends were. Before long, she bumped right into Tempest, causing them to crash and fall.

"Starlight…?" Tempest asked upon recovering from her fall.

After getting a closer look at her, Tempest was horrified at what had happened to her friend.

"Your horn… are you okay?" Tempest asked, feeling sad for Starlight.

Starlight didn't say a word after hearing Tempest's concerns.

"Look… I lost my horn too. A long time ago. But now that you lost yours, we have something in common, friend." Tempest comforted.

But before they could speak any further, they heard a mighty roar from a long distance away.

"It's that roar again…" Starlight muttered.

"I hear it too. We need to find Sunset and Apple Bloom. Let's go!" Tempest said before she and Starlight continued running.

***

Spike continued slashing away at the Royal Sisters like no tomorrow. He charged at them various times, but he ends up getting pushed away by the duo. He proceeded shooting various green-flamed fireballs from his mouth at them, but to no avail. The Royal Sisters charged at them, but the enraged dragon jumped really high into the air and shot a powerful fireball at the duo. It nearly came close to scorching Nightmare Moon, but it hardly fazed Daybreaker.

“You think your cute little fireballs can damage me?! YOU WOULD HAVE BETTER LUCK MELTING A CRAGADILE!!!” Daybreaker roared before firing a solar beam at him.

Spike dived out of the way and landed on the ground without hurting himself. Nightmare Moon immediately charged at Spike with her scythe and attempted to cut him down, but he flipped out of the way and tackled her before slashing away with his claws. Just then, he was shot at by an unknown assailant from the sky. Evading the blasts, he looked upon the sky and saw that it was none other than Midnight Sparkle.

“Am I fashionably late?!” Midnight shouted with a maniacal cackle.

“JUST REDUCE HIM TO CHUNKS AND BE DONE WITH IT!!!” Nightmare Moon screamed as she readied her scythe.

Laughing heartily and maniacally, Midnight fired various shots at Spike who ran across the field to avoid being shot. Stopping himself, he ran forward while continuing to avoid the blasts. The Royal Sisters charged at Spike with their weapons in an attempt to combo him, but he grabbed their heads and slammed them into the ground. Getting close to Midnight, he charged into her and attempted to slam her into the ground. But before he could do any damage to the purple alicorn, she teleported out of the way and fired a megaton beam at the ooze-shrouded dragon.

***

Meanwhile on the other side, Sunset and Apple Bloom were able to lose the creatures and continued running further away.

“Where are we? Do you think Starlight and Tempest made it?” Apple Bloom asked.

“They will. Starlight has helped save Equestria in more ways than I can count and Tempest fought her way around Equestria before it became overrun by the Abyss. Nopony can harm them.” Sunset assured.

The two stopped for a moment to take a breather. But while they were taking a break from all the running, they felt earthquakes all over Equestria.

“Did you feel that?” Apple Bloom asked, feeling the tremors in the ground.

“Me too. I’m even hearing these loud roars from the other side of Equestria. Although I may have a good idea what's going on over there…” Sunset dreaded.

“You don’t think it’s them, do you…?” Apple Bloom wondered.

“Beats the Tartarus out of me, but I suggest we get moving unless you wish to be disintegrated or eaten alive out here…” Sunset said before grabbing the young filly and running away once more.

***

Back in the battlefield, Spike continued his fight against Midnight Sparkle and the Royal Sisters. The latter group did whatever they could to overwhelm the monstrous reptile while the former focused all her dark Alicorn energy on Spike. Raising up the landscape to turn it into rubble, Midnight used her magic to trap Spike. The Royal Sisters teleported out of the way to avoid being crushed while Twilight continued destroying the terrain. Spike tried to run out the way, but it was too late as he got picked up by one of the rocks and got sent into what appeared to be a meteorite.

"Try squeezing out of that, my number-one assistant!" Midnight sneered as she trapped Spike into the meteorite.

She proceeded to crush the meteorite with all her magic and might in order to finally kill him once and for all. But as she continued destroying the meteorite, she noticed a giant hand pop out. Then she noticed the other pop out as well before a massive head breaks through the meteorite. Spike transformed into a huge, beastial version of himself with a third eye on his forehead along with various others on his face and used all his strength to break out of the meteorite before landing on the ground.

"If he wants to go big, then we can go bigger…" Daybreaker shouted before flames started surrounding her.

"I couldn't agree more, dear sister…" Nightmare Moon concurred before transforming as well.

"Let's finish this…" Midnight said before transforming along with the Royal Sisters.

One by one, each of the alicorns grew in size and transformed into their primordial forms before facing Spike.