Unnoticed Threats

Doctor Whooves, Jones, Modules, Kinetic, Inertia, Solubility, Solvent, Solute, Graph, Storage, Data, Daylight Dimmer, Starburn, Joker, Darwin, Cassius, Mustang and the other bipedal ponies, Walker, Runner, Sprinter, Genghis, Raging Tornado, Earthquake, Tsunami, Meteorite Hellfire, Tao, Gunslinger, Archer, Kinkaku, Ginkaku, Feral, Soul Medium, Commander Lionheart, Paladin, Archmage Astral Plane, Arcana, Master Nocturne, Robin, Night Witch, Red Baron, the residents of Nature Valley, the residents of Dreaming Paradise, Mother Nature, Spirit, Demonicus, Adetokunbo, Alexia and the other harpies, Elder Hephaestus, Diana, Hera, Athena, Echidna and the other vulcans, and Champion Lucius and the onis trained and sparred with one another. Everybody went easy and paced themselves so they do not exhaust themselves or seriously injure one another, some rested and sweated and recovered while the others continued, they trained until Demonicus, Mother Nature, and Spirit sensed something and looked up,

"What is it?" Doctor Whooves asked,

"It's Claudius." Demonicus answered, everybody became alert,

"Where is he?" Archer questioned,

"He seems to be in a forest in the northeast of Equestria." Mother Nature responded,

"Let us go, but be ready for anything, we don't know what Claudius has in mind." Spirit warned, everybody nodded and the unicorns teleported themselves and everybody else. They arrived and there was only woods everywhere and no animals in sight, Feral grunted with sounds of distress,

"Is something wrong?" Raging Tornado asked, Feral nodded,

"What is it?" Earthquake questioned, Feral grunted and showed all of the animals were gone,

"They must've sensed the danger Claudius posed and left before he could act." Tsunami deduced,

"I mean, it would make sense considering what we've been told on what he looks like." Meteorite Hellfire remarked,

"I do have an idea on his powers to an extent from my own experiences in the haunted village." Soul Medium said,

"I've seen what he can do, he's actually pretty strong." Joker replied,

"I've saw a bit of his powers before, too, but it really scared me at that time." Jones added,

"I mean, you were a foal, you being scared of him at that time makes sense." Tao reminded,

"You didn't have any special powers to defend yourself like how I do, either." Walker added,

"Let's go, we'll waste time if we sit here and converse." Demonicus reminded, and they went forward. Everybody kept their guards up and looked around but saw nothing out of the ordinary, they heard Claudius snicker while their environment and sky turned black, mouths appeared everywhere that had sharp red teeth and black tentacles in them, they shot black ball shaped blobs with tentacles on them everywhere and the unicorns quickly put up shields to block them, they began to become corrupted and the tentacles tried to strangle them, everybody fought the tentacles off by either shooting them with magic, arrows, or bullets, cutting them with blades, smashing them with blunt weapons, destroying them with punches, or burning them with fire, Joker tried to write in his book to make them disappear but they did not. More mouths appeared on the ground and sky and they roared an ear piercing screech, everybody covered their ears' while the mouths shot dark red fireballs out, Walker, Runner, Sprinter, Genghis, Meteorite Hellfire, Kinkaku, Ginkaku, Feral, Soul Medium, Commander Lionheart, Paladin and the earth ponies of Dreaming Paradise, Master Nocturne, Robin and the Pegasi of Dreaming Paradise, Night Witch, Red Baron, the harpies, vulcans, and blue onis cut them apart with their bladed weapons, the fireballs grew back and multiplied while their weapons got corrupted and caught on fire, the tentacles then grew back and tainted their weapons. The unicorns cast magic to try to undo Claudius' powers but they could not, Mother Nature tried to control her environment to make the four elements obey her command but Claudius took over, the wind began cutting things like blades, the earth began taking on various forms and everybody began to sink into the ground with tentacles entangling them, the water turned blood red and engulfed them and began to freeze, and dark red fire appeared on them with angry screaming faces in them.

Soul Medium said an incantation in a foreign language while his voice echoed and the corrupted elements of wind, earth, water, and fire disappeared while the mouths around them began shooting tongues and tentacles out and he cast another spell to undo them, he and the others grunted and screamed when they felt the insides of their bodies mutating, Champion Lucius burned and electrocuted the inside of his own body to destroy them while the red onis burned themselves and the blue onis electrocuted themselves. Modules, Kinetic, Inertia, Solubility, Solvent, Solute, Graph, Storage, and Data used their technology and their eyes' widened when they saw Claudius was growing inside of them and Tao tried casting a spell to get him out of them, everybody screamed as he got black blobs with tentacles and red claws on them out of their mouths, they all gathered together and formed into Claudius. He wore his cloak and his eyes glowed red, five red claws then grew on each hoof, he shot red beams out of his horn, eyes, and front hoofs and they homed on his targets, Archmage Astral Plane shot big blasts at them and Claudius' beams absorbed them and grew bigger, black crystals grew out of the ground and crystals began to grow on the unicorns' horns, Demonicus' eyes glowed green and he had a purple haze come out of his eyes and on his horn, Claudius absorbed the dark magic and got stronger, he then turned into black mist and moved around. He shot black and red blasts everywhere while the sky had dark red circles appear, they got bigger and everyone noticed they were meteors, Meteorite Hellfire and Earthquake quickly tried to use their amulets to undo them while Spirit shot light blue blasts out of his eyes and destroyed them but they continued flying forward, Walker, Runner, and Sprinter summoned transparent light blue pistols and shot and destroyed them, Joker wrote in the book to give everybody extra armor and it protected them from Claudius' attacks.

Daylight Dimmer, Starburn, Kinkaku, and Ginkaku combined their hatred magic and willpower magic together and they destroyed the many tentacles and meteors, they shot them at Claudius and he shot red beams out of his mist form and they created craters everywhere, everybody moved back while Doctor Whooves, Modules, Kinetic, Inertia, Solubility, Solvent, Solute, Graph, Storage, and Data shot missiles and lasers at him, Daylight Dimmer and Starburn shot blasts out of their front hoofs, Joker wrote in his book to make artillery appear and fire at Claudius while he also shot blasts out of his horn, Cassius and Mustang turned into wind gusts and attacked from various areas along with the other bipedal ponies, Raging Tornado created tornadoes to destroy Claudius' tentacles, Earthquake summoned boulders to smash them and shot sand at him while trying to make trees grow and pierce his body, Tsunami sent large waves of water splashing against him alongside making a blizzard and thunderstorm appear, Meteorite Hellfire shot fire out of her horn and made the ground erupt to hit him with lava, Gunslinger shot his pistols, shotgun, and rifle in all directions, Archer shot explosive arrows at the tentacles and meteors in front of her, Demonicus, Mother Nature, and Spirit shot blasts at the tentacles and meteors far away and punched and kicked the ones close to them, and everybody else cut them apart with bladed weapons or smashed them with blunt weapons. Claudius' eyes glowed red and he summoned skeletal creatures of various creatures native to Equestria and from other realms connected through the Void, the harpies threw their bladed boomerangs and destroyed the bones easily, the vulcans destroyed them easily with their fists and various weapons, and the onis smashed and slashed them apart with their weapons, Claudius cast a spell to fuse them together and made mishmashes of the bones to create new creatures, they grew extra mouths and teeth on their bodies and shot dark crystals out. Soul Medium used his runes and charms to repel them, Claudius made more appear and he began saying an incantation in a foreign language while his voice echoed,

"Be mute." Claudius said, everybody felt their tongues about to fly out of their mouths and the unicorns quickly cast a spell to cancel it out,

"Be blind." Claudius said, everybody felt their eyes' about to explode and the unicorns countered it with their magic,

"Be deaf." Claudius said, everybody felt their ears' about to explode and the unicorns cast a spell to counter it, Claudius held his front right leg up and everybody screamed when they felt their heads expanding and about to explode, their visions and heads turned red and the unicorns quickly cast a spell to stop it, they panted heavily and fell while everybody had big headaches. Claudius continued to hold his front right leg up and everybody felt their bodies beginning to bend and contort in unnatural ways, the unicorns tried to undo them but Claudius' eyes glowed red and he put a vision in everybody's minds. Everybody saw visions of civilizations being destroyed, fire and skeletons everywhere, and various creatures screaming while a black liquid coming out of the ground consumed them and their bodies bent and contorted in various ways and their bodies began tearing open, their body parts got absorbed into the black liquid and began to take the form of a creature, it had big arms, a big body, and a head with six horns, the creatures' bloods formed its red eyes on its head and then its big red teeth and claws, smaller mouths then formed all over its body and the creatures' teeth went in them. The creature shot black tentacles out of its many mouths and homed on the many creatures out of range and wrapped around them, they were dragged into the forming creature and they screamed while their bodies turned pitch black from the inside-out, they then bent and contorted in unnatural ways and got absorbed into the creature, its red thick fur formed and grew legs with tentacles appearing on its body. The creature's eyes glowed while it opened its mouth and exhaled with a raspy voice, black bones shaped like blades came out and homed on more people, the creatures got stabbed and screamed when their insides got corrupted and they bent and contorted and the black creature shot black liquid at the buildings in front of it and soaked them, they broke apart and wrapped around the natives, they broke and bent with their bodies and intertwined with their body parts and insides, they screamed and got absorbed into the creature. Archmage Astral Plane cast a spell and stopped the vision while panting heavily from the pain and brought everyone back to reality, Mother Nature and Arcana tried casting a spell to change Claudius into a solid form but he did not, he shot red beams out of his eyes and the unicorns blocked it with their magic.

Joker wrote in his book to give everybody alicorn powers and everybody surrounded him and protected him and the book, Claudius began shooting black javelins shaped like carved bones out of his body, they fell everywhere and grew out black tentacles and tried to stab into the others, the bipedal ponies disappeared into the wind and tried to appear in Claudius' mist and attack him but they went through him, Claudius summoned tentacles out of himself and their stabbed into the bipedal ponies and they screamed. Raging Tornado summoned wind gusts and tried to get them out while Jones shot blasts at him and they went through Claudius, Mother Nature combined her wind magic with Raging Tornado and Archmage Astral Plane combined his magic with theirs, they grunted while trying to change Claudius and managed to change him back to his regular form after a few seconds. Claudius summoned more monsters made of bones and black tentacles and he sent them forward, Joker wrote in the book to give himself and others extra weapons and armor and they shot missiles at them and destroyed them easily, Demonicus, Mother Nature, Spirit, Daylight Dimmer, Starburn, Darwin, Walker, Runner, Sprinter, Raging Tornado, Earthquake, Tsunami, Meteorite Hellfire, Modules, Kinetic, Inertia, Solubility, Solvent, Solute, Graph, Storage, Data, Tao, Kinkaku, Ginkaku, Soul Medium, Archmage Astral Plane, Arcana, the unicorns from Dreaming Paradise, and Champion Lucius combined all of their powers and technology together and shot a big blast at Claudius, he shot blasts out of his horn, mouth, eyes, and front hoofs and combined them into a big blast, he shot the blast at them and entered a deadlock with the blast created by regular magic, hatred magic, spiritual energy, the four elements of nature, lasers created by powerful weapons, and willpower magic, they hit one another and the shockwave almost shot everybody except Claudius back. Joker wrote in his book for himself and everybody else to have the same powers and equipment and they joined in on fighting Claudius, they began to overpower his blast and his hooded cloak flew off, a red long mane and tail flowed wildly and his blast got bigger and remained in a stalemate with them, the two blasts began to absorb one another and everybody stopped firing and looked on in shock, it exploded and a huge shockwave sent everybody flying and they exclaimed.

Everybody groaned and woke up while Claudius cast a spell to undo all of Joker's power ups and equipment he gave them while they stood up, they all saw Claudius has multiplied and each one had a different weapon, one stood on his hind legs and raised his front legs, one had knives, daggers, and swords, one had spears and javelins, one had a whip and a cat o' nine tails, one had big and small hammers, one had hatchets and axes, one had maces and clubs, one had a bo staff, one had a three-sectioned staff, one had sickles and a scythe, one had bows and crossbows, and one had guns. Joker tried writing in his book to give everybody weapons but all of the Claudius' shot blasts at him and Spirit quickly teleported to in front of him and put up a light blue shield to block them, all of the Claudius' then lunged forward, Fist Claudius led them and he began doing hoofsprings and somersaults and Commander Lionheart ran to him, Claudius began doing various punches, kicks, grapples, and swaying while he and Commander Lionheart blocked and parried each other's attacks, they eventually held each other's front hoofs and Master Nocturne flew to behind Claudius and stabbed the back of his neck with a hidden knife, it did nothing and Claudius made a duplicate of himself grow out of his back and shot blasts at the people behind him. Blade Claudius made his knives, daggers, and swords float around him while holding two of them in his front hoofs, Walker, Runner, Sprinter, Meteorite Hellfire, Kinkaku, Ginkaku, and Paladin tried to make his floating swords fly away or hit them out of their air with their swords, he teleported around and shot beams at them that made anything they touched explode on impact, he made more blades appear and float around him and he ran and jumped towards them while swinging the two swords in his front hoofs, Ginkaku and Meteorite Hellfire blocked his attacks and did horizontal swings to make his blades move to the sides and Paladin tried to slash his head with her sword while Kinkaku stabbed her sabre into his left chest, Claudius teleported and and shot knives out of his horn and Walker, Runner, and Sprinter put up shields to protect themselves and the others.

Spear Claudius threw his spears and javelins everywhere while Soul Medium caught them with his magic and shot them back, he made javelins fly out of the ground with his magic and into the air while the others jumped back, they then began to fall and Jones stopped them with his telekinesis and shot them back, he hit Claudius and they got absorbed into his body, he then shot them out at them and everybody moved to the sides and dodged the many javelins, Claudius made many clones of himself appear that had spears and javelins, they teleported around while shooting the spears and javelins with their magic and the vulcans put the ponies behind them while they bounced off of their armors. Whip Claudius sent red waves out with each swing that destroyed anything they touched when traveling through the air and ground, Night Witch and Red Baron flew around and threw spears at him and Claudius hit and destroyed them with his whip and cat o' nine tails, the harpies threw their bladed boomerangs at him and he destroyed them with his weapons, he hit and broke the ground with his weapons and sent ten red waves moving forward on the ground as they cut it apart, everybody flew out of the way and they hit trees and made them explode, Claudius then made afterimages of himself appear and sent many more red waves forward with his weapons. Hammer Claudius swung his two small hammers onto the ground and created small earthquakes that shook the ground and made the others stumble, Earthquake created armor from the various earth elements to make herself heavier and immune to the earthquakes, she then tried to smash Claudius between rocks and boulders but he jumped over each one and hit the ground with his big sledgehammer, it made the ground erupt under everybody and rocks and sand flew up, the unicorns cast a spell to make everybody float in midair, Claudius then hit his two small hammers against one another to make a loud clanging sound and everybody covered their ears' while a shockwave came out and destroyed everything it passed, Earthquake made big and thick walls appear to block it and put them down after the shockwave was gone. Axe Claudius spun the hatchets around and they floated around him, they cut anything they touched while he pointed his front right hoof forward and shot the hatchets at his targets, Tsunami summoned water and ice to stop them in midair while Raging Tornado summoned winds to make them go off course, Claudius swung his big axe around and teleported the blade around so it hit everybody, Raging Tornado flew to get them out of the way while Tsunami froze the axes and hatchets with her powers.

Club Claudius hit his clubs and maces on the ground and shockwaves appeared, Genghis ran around and dodged them while trying to slash him with his sword, Claudius teleported away and cast a spell to extend his club and mace, he swung them down and red lightning struck the two areas of the ground he hit, Genghis jumped back while spinning in the air and the lightning strikes shot smaller bolts out that tried to strike him and flew and homed on him, the blue onis absorbed them into their bodies and weapons and shot them back at him. Bo Staff Claudius and Three-Sectioned Staff Claudius swung and spun their weapons around and created wind gusts that cut anything they touched, Darwin flew around them and shot blasts at him while Tao teleported around and shot blasts at him from his blind spots and behind, Claudius made afterimages and doppelgangers of himself appear on his two bodies and many more wind gusts appeared, they teleported around and the two Claudius' extended their staffs and they teleported more while it became harder to dodge them. Sickle Claudius swung his sickles around and did faster-than-light slashes, Daylight Dimmer, Starburn, and Feral grunted from the cuts and tried to move out of the way but the cuts homed on them, they grunted loudly from the pain and Daylight Dimmer put up a shield with his hatred magic and shot blasts out of it, Claudius moved his scythe with his telekinesis and swung it around, it pulled body parts of them closer to him and they grunted loudly when they felt their body parts getting pulled apart, Starburn shot a blast at him and Claudius teleported and appeared behind him and the others, he cut them with his sickles and they grunted loudly from the cuts. Bow Claudius and Gun Claudius hid in the back and away from the others, they shot their bow, crossbows, pistols, shotgun, submachine guns, and rifle at them, Modules, Kinetic, Inertia, Solubility, Solvent, Solute, Graph, Storage, Data, Gunslinger, Archer, Archmage Astral Plane, Arcana, Master Nocturne, and Robin tried to shoot them but they created clones of themselves and teleported around, they hid behind trees while the unicorns put up shields since all of the arrows, bolts, and bullets homed on them, they tried to shoot the Claudius' in the back but they hid behind trees, teleported around, and created doppelgangers of themselves with more bows and guns.

Doctor Whooves, Demonicus, Spirit, Mother Nature, and Champion Lucius tried fighting all of them and Claudius' various attacks hit everybody, they struggled to repel him and Doctor Whooves tried using his technology to rewind time and undo Claudius' attacks but it had no effect on him, extremely fast red slashes hit his machines and went away while red circles flew past him and missed him, they hit the trees and they exploded,

"Great whickering stallions!" Doctor Whooves exclaimed as he looked ahead and saw two more Claudius'. Boomerang Claudius threw boomerangs at his targets while more floated around him and homed on the others and also blocked attacks, they flew at the others and tore fabrics in existence and floated through space while a new tear appeared near his targets and cut them while Demonicus tried to shoot them out of the air and made them disappear. Shield Claudius had shields floating and spinning around him and they flew after his targets and homed on them, the wind around it drew in various objects as they were torn apart by them, everybody rolled to the sides while the shields hit trees and exploded. All of the Claudius' held their front legs' out to the sides and shot their respective weapons out of their bodies and they homed on them, the unicorns quickly put up shields and teleported themselves and the others around, Claudius' weapons homed on them and exploded on their shields, everybody grunted and felt their shields weakening while Walker, Runner, Sprinter, and the bipedal ponies moved around and tried slashing and hitting every Claudius in sight, they got stuck in their bodies and screamed when they began to get absorbed into them, Mother Nature, Raging Tornado, Earthquake, Tsunami, and Meteorite Hellfire combined their powers together and a big explosion appeared on them and everybody was knocked back and fell, they grunted when they hit the ground and everyone stood up and saw all of the Claudius' were gone.

Everybody kept their guards up and looked for all of the Claudius' but did not see him, blades, javelins, hatchets, arrows, bolts, bullets, boomerangs, and shields came down and everybody looked up and saw them in the sky. All of the Claudius' began to come down and everybody with long-ranged attacks shot at them, all of the Claudius' teleported, multiplied, and had afterimages of himself that created more weapons and attacks, Master Nocturne, Robin, and the other Pegasi from Dreaming Paradise shot their crossbows and guns at them and went through the Claudius', Shield Claudius surrounded himself and the others with his flying shields and created a magic shield around himself. The unicorns tried shooting bigger spells to try to destroy them but the shields corrupted their magic with Claudius' magic and shot them back, the red blasts came and everybody jumped back while each blast hit the ground and put craters, many shockwaves appeared and destroyed everything, Spirit teleported himself and everybody with his powers while Kinkaku and Ginkaku pointed their swords at the sky and shot gold and silver blasts out of their swords at the Claudius' in the sky, they focused their willpowers as hard as they could and shot two big blasts at them, the Claudius' shot red blasts at them and began overpowering the two easily, their willpowers got stronger and the blasts got stronger and much bigger, they overpowered the many blasts and exploded on the Claudius in the center. The Claudius' disappeared but all of them reappeared elsewhere and tried to attack everybody from their blind spots and behind, they teleported around and hit everybody in their blind spots and behind before they could react, Champion Lucius used his electrified telekinesis and the Claudius' grunted when they got electrocuted, he gathered all of them in one place and everybody shot many different types of blasts at them, the smoke cleared and they were gone.

Everybody kept their guards up and it was silent for a moment, all of the Claudius' reappeared and had their weapons again, wind gusts, red lightning strikes, and red waves went everywhere and homed on everyone while Claudius multiplied and created afterimages of himself, the ground shook and many different types of blades appeared and disappeared while cutting everybody and Joker wrote in his book to give everybody armor and magic shields to block them. Soul Medium shot blasts and tried casting spells to destroy the weapons while saying an incantation in a foreign language, his voice echoed and the runes and charms flew onto all of the Claudius', they pressed on their foreheads and they exploded, all of the Claudius' disappeared and reappeared a few seconds later, their weapons continued creating environmental hazards and Soul Medium blocked them with his shield and attacked with his spear, he got knocked over by a hatchet and his spear got knocked out of his hoof, he saw another hatchet coming and he unsheathed his sword and hit it out of the air. Tao tried casting a spell to contact the angels and archangels for aid and Spirit used his powers to enhance it, they managed to reach them and portals opened, they threw spears with yellow lightning on them and the Claudius' grunted when they got hit, they grew back and began fighting again. Spirit used his powers to contact the demons and more portal opened, black spears with red magical energy on them got thrown at the Claudius' while the angels threw more spears, everybody combined their various magics, powers, and technologies and shot them in a big blast, the Claudius' exclaimed in pain and a huge crater appeared, the smoke cleared and everybody smiled when the Claudius' did not regenerate and the portals closed.

Everybody looked for Claudius but he was nowhere in sight, everybody turned pitch black and floated in front of them and around Claudius, they formed into skeletons held together with black energy and everybody realized they were doppelgangers of themselves, they went forward while Claudius led them, they copied the powers, abilities, and weapons of everybody and Claudius had his weapons float around him and he shot them around while casting spells that controlled nature. Everybody used all of their powers, abilities, magic, technology, and weapons against them and everybody was in a stalemate, Darwin shot regular magic and dark magic everywhere while his crystal pony body made him more durable, he shot blasts at the doppelgangers and tried to destroy them, his doppelganger knocked him into the water and they swam around with their seapony parts, they tried to bite one another and Darwin teleported himself and his doppelganger onto the surface while Claudius gave Darwin's doppelganger nirik fire, Kinkaku and Ginkaku had their willpower magic attacks go everywhere due to their doppelgangers hitting and redirecting them with their own, they almost hit everyone else and they rolled out of way while Claudius' doppelgangers regenerated, Meteorite Hellfire and her doppelganger hit one another's swords against one another and an explosion appeared with fire and lava flying everywhere and everybody got shot around from the impact. Claudius floated around and shot many blasts at once and they destroyed the ground, the pieces of the ground that got destroyed flew around and tried to hit the others, Paladin swatted them away and picked up her doppelganger and threw her at Claudius, he grabbed her and threw her back and the doppelganger did a somersault and tried to kick her with her hind hoofs and Paladin grabbed her and spun around and threw her away, Claudius made her reappear and tried to fight her more. Arcana and Robin tried to attack Claudius but he strafed around in midair and dodged them easily, Arcana summoned fog and made doppelgangers of herself, she and her doppelgangers shot at Claudius from various directions and teleported after shooting, Claudius swatted them away with his front hoofs and summoned more doppelgangers of Arcana to fight them, Robin shot her guns at him while evading her doppelganger, he grunted loudly when a bullet hit his horn and he shot a blast at Robin, she flew back and her doppelganger went after her.

Claudius used his magic to make the doppelgangers' shadows come up and fight with them, everybody began to fall while they got attacked by two of their respective doppelgangers, everybody switched around and fought others, the harpies cut the oni doppelgangers with their boomerangs, the vulcans overpowered the harpy doppelgangers, and the onis destroyed the vulcan doppelgangers. Doctor Whooves, Modules, Kinetic, Inertia, Solubility, Solvent, Solute, Graph, Storage, and Data used exoskeletons, powered armor, lasers, and missiles to destroy the doppelgangers of themselves alongside Genghis', Gunslinger's, and Archer's, Jones and Tao destroyed Paladin's and Robin's doppelgangers, Daylight Dimmer and Starburn destroyed Kinkaku's and Ginkaku's doppelgangers, Joker destroyed Walker's, Runner's, and Sprinter's doppelgangers, Darwin destroyed Tao's doppelganger, Cassius, Mustang, and the bipedal ponies destroyed the ground ponies' doppelgangers, Walker, Runner, and Sprinter destroyed the doppelgangers of the residents of Nature Valley and Dreaming Paradise, Genghis destroyed Doctor Whooves' doppelganger, Raging Tornado destroyed Earthquake's doppelganger, Earthquake destroyed Raging Tornado's doppelganger, Tsunami destroyed Meteorite Hellfire's doppelganger, Meteorite Hellfire destroyed Tsunami's doppelganger, Gunslinger and Archer destroyed several air pony and ground pony doppelgangers, Kinkaku and Ginkaku destroyed Night Witch's and Red Baron's doppelgangers, Feral destroyed Jones' doppelganger, Soul Medium destroyed Arcana's doppelganger, Commander Lionheart destroyed Master Nocturne's doppelganger, Paladin destroyed ground pony doppelgangers, Archmage Astral Plane destroyed Commander Lionheart's doppelganger, Arcana destroyed water pony and fire pony doppelgangers, Master Nocturne destroyed Archmage Astral Plane's doppelganger, Robin destroyed Feral's doppelganger, Night Witch and Red Baron destroyed Modules', Kinetic's, Inertia's, Solubility's, Solvent's, Solute's, Graph's, Storage's, and Data's doppelgangers, Mother Nature destroyed Spirit's doppelganger, Spirit destroyed Demonicus' doppelganger, and Demonicus destroyed Mother Nature's, Daylight Dimmer's, and Starburn's doppelgangers. Claudius looked around and saw the doppelgangers were gone, he floated down and tried to create more doppelgangers but Demonicus shot a blast at him and he quickly teleported. He reappeared far away and Demonicus turned into black mist and shot red spears out of his body and Claudius quickly teleported and disappeared.

Everybody watched carefully and they heard many noises around them, they saw all of the animals were now under Claudius' control and had glowing red eyes, they went to them and began attacking them. Mother Nature tried to free them with her magic but Claudius' hold on them was too strong, Joker wrote in his book to make machine guns appear around them and they opened fire, many people looked away and Raging Tornado nearly cried while Feral shot his arrows at them, Gunslinger shot his guns at the animals while Archer could not bring herself to fire her bow at them. The creatures soon began to overwhelm them and some of the ponies began stomping and smashing the bugs, the harpies, vulcans, and onis fought the animals and destroyed most of them, the Ursa Majors, manticores, chimeras, and bugbears fought the others and everybody had a hard time against them, parasprites began swarming them and the unicorns shot beams and zaps at them to destroy them. The vulcans and onis overpowered the manticores and chimeras a little easily and punched their heads off, the Ursa Majors and bugbears took them down by swarming them and Tao tried to put up a shield while Soul Medium cast a spell to make spears surround them in all directions, it did not help against them as they stepped on them and destroyed them, Gunslinger shot the bugbears in their heads with his shotgun and rifle and they fell over while Champion Lucius used fire and lightning magic against the Ursa Majors but it did nothing, he saw timberwolves coming and he and Meteorite Hellfire shot fire at them and they burned into ash, Spirit shot spiritual energy out at the Ursa Majors and they screeched when he pulled their souls out of their bodies and absorbed them into himself, the animals then disappeared.

Demonicus tried to sense out Claudius but did not find him anywhere, the ground erupted and began to shift and everybody got separated, Claudius floated in midair and he had a creature floating behind him, it was pitch black that floated in midair and had no lower-body, it had red eyes, claws, and teeth all over its body and octopus-like tentacles and thin limbs that looked like vines with thorns, more grew out of the tentacles and even more tentacles and vines came out of the mouths and eyes, the creature shot them out alongside red blasts from its eyes and mouth and everybody took cover. Claudius floated in midair with the creature behind him and it swung its arms upwards and red waves flew forward and destroyed whatever they touched, everybody stepped to the sides and the red waves multiplied into many and homed on them, the Pegasi flew and the red blasts going after them flew into the air to attack them, the creature behind Claudius threw red discs at them and they homed on them, Night Witch and Red Baron threw their spears at the creature and it got absorbed into its body while Joker wrote in his book to give them extra spears. Claudius teleported around and tried to slash everybody with his claws and several people blocked him with their powers and weapons, everything he touched began to turn black and become corrupted, duplicates of himself came out of them and tried slashing and biting the others and teleported around with his magic, Modules, Kinetic, Inertia, Solubility, Solvent, Solute, Graph, Storage, and Data fired machine guns that were on their bodies at them and the bullets tore them apart but each Claudius regenerated and his severed parts grew into more Claudius', Ginkaku tried swinging his sword around and sent the Claudius' flying without cutting them, the Claudius' teleported back and tried to slash the others with their claws and bite them from behind, everybody grunted loudly and several screamed when they felt Claudius growing out of their bodies and trying to possess them, the harpies threw their boomerangs and cut the Claudius' off of their bodies and they formed into full bodies.

The creature behind Claudius teleported around and tried slashing everybody with its claws and Kinkaku tried slashing it as much as she could with her sabre while sending gold energy waves into the creature's body, the creature flexed its arms and tentacles and the gold waves turned black, it shot the waves out of its body and many different beams shot out of its claws and began destroying the environment. Jones ran and jumped past Claudius' clones and shot blasts at the original Claudius, he held his arms up and black spheres floated around him, he thrusted his front legs forward and they turned into small beams and flew to him at high speeds, the unicorns put up shields and the debris flew around and pelted everybody, Earthquake controlled the debris with her magic and shot them at the original Claudius, he absorbed them into his body and shot them out in all directions, Meteorite Hellfire cut the ones coming to her and then swung her sword around and sent waves of fire at him, Claudius caught on fire but it extinguished itself and he was unharmed. Raging Tornado used her wind powers to have the bipedal ponies move faster with the wind and tried attacking Claudius, he blocked and parried all of their attacks and threw them back, Raging Tornado summoned wind gusts and tornadoes around Claudius and the creature behind him and they teleported away while the creature shot dark red blasts out of its many mouths at her and she flew up while turning into wind gusts and appeared elsewhere, Tsunami tried sending tsunamis at the creature and it stood there unaffected, she tried sending snow and ice at it, it got frozen but broke free a few seconds later. Mother Nature combined the four elements of nature together and Raging Tornado, Earthquake, Tsunami, and Meteorite Hellfire went to her combined their magic with hers, a big tornado with a lot of water, hail, big boulders, fire, and lava in it engulfed Claudius and the creature while Champion Lucius added his fire and lightning magic into it, Doctor Whooves saw Mother Nature surround Claudius and the creature with her magic and they turned into a sphere, he shot a rocket launcher at it and it exploded, the unicorns teleported themselves and the others away while a huge explosion and shockwave appeared and destroyed the land.

Daylight Dimmer and Starburn sent their hatred magic at Claudius and his creature while Adetokunbo threw his boomerangs at the hatred magic waves and they got covered in it, Elder Hephaestus flew forward with a glaive and put it in Daylight Dimmer's hatred magic to enchant it, he flew forward and tried slashing the creature apart, Claudius snickered while he and his creature regenerated. The creature punched its arms forward and sent red waves shaped like its fists in multiple directions, it then threw more red discs that homed on everybody and Red Baron looked at them and got an idea, he tried to deflect one red fist with a sword but it knocked him down, Night Witch then tried to deflect one of the discs with a shield but she got knocked down and the shield broke, Walker, Runner, and Sprinter tried to deflect them with their weapons but they got overwhelmed and put up shields, they teleported to behind Claudius and the creature and tried to shoot him with pistols, the creature flexed its black and shot red thorns out at them and they quickly teleported to in front of them, Claudius' duplicates began to restrain everybody and they threw them at Claudius and the creature, the parts of their bodies that touched them began to become corrupted. The creature began shooting red beams out of its tentacles and bug legs and Meteorite Hellfire ran and strafed around to dodge them, she did a somersault and then tried to slashing Claudius and the creature with her sword, he blocked her and then pushed her back with his front right hoof, she grunted loudly and fell over, Doctor Whooves tried shooting laser beams out of his armor's eyes and burn Claudius, it began to cut and burn him and his creature apart but they regenerated, Archer shot explosive arrows at them and it had little effect, she shot more while Arcana enchanted them with her magic, they exploded and magic beams flew everywhere, Claudius grunted and stumbled a little. Archer, Feral, and Soul Medium got an idea and they shot arrows at Claudius and the creature while the unicorns from Dreaming Paradise enchanted them with magic, Claudius grunted and stumbled while the creature winced back, the vulcans and Pegasi from Dreaming Paradise began shooting arrows and bolts at them while their projectiles got enchanted with magic, the ponies with guns then began firing and their bullets got enchanted, the creature screeched loudly and Claudius' duplicates disappeared, the smoke cleared and Claudius' eyes glowed red while his mane and tail moved around wildly,

"I see my usual attacks and methods aren't going to take you all down, let's see how you all fare against my true form and full power." Claudius said in a deep but distorted and echoing voice, a black flash engulfed everybody and they exclaimed as they got transported elsewhere.

Everybody groaned while waking up and stood up, they looked around and saw it was pitch black everywhere,

"Where are we?" Solute asked, Spirit looked around and noticed the place,

"We're in the Void." Spirit said,

"What? But why is everything pitch black?" Walker questioned,

"Claudius must have corrupted it." Spirit deduced, they heard fighting and saw the Senses, the Seven Virtues, Seven Sins, The Judge, Optimist, Pessimist, Passive, and Aggressive were thrown into the place with the others,

"Taste, what is going on?" Spirit questioned,

"Claudius suddenly appeared here and took over immediately and we've been trying to fight him off." Taste explained,

"Wait, where's Diplomat and War?" Walker asked, the two statues then fell in from above,

"We have tried summoning monsters you and your father and grandfather have fought in the past to fight Claudius." Diplomat stated,

"They are not faring well, but we hope it can buy time." War added, they heard various screams and screeches and Claudius snickered,

"There, now I have you all in one place and all obstacles out of the way, it's time to destroy you all." Claudius said, and the black energy around them disappeared,

"Great whickering stallions!" Doctor Whooves exclaimed while everybody except Demonicus, Diplomat, War, and Champion Lucius reeled back in shock and horror, Claudius was now a big bipedal creature with big red slanted eyes on his head and smaller round red eyes all over his body, mouths with sharp red claws and teeth in them, and many octopus-like tentacles, plant-like vines with red thorns, and bug-like legs coming out every part of his body, his long red hair and tail flowed wildly and had tentacles, vines, and bug legs coming out of them,

"Is this... his true form?" Kinkaku asked, everybody felt themselves suddenly getting headaches and they fell over,

"What's going on?" Night Witch questioned,

"It must be another one of his powers." Red Baron deduced, Archmage Astral Plane tried casting a spell to block Claudius out of his head while the residents of Dreaming Paradise meditated and tried to block Claudius out,

"Meditate, block him out of your mind, he's trying to invade our heads and destroy us from the inside-out with his powers." Commander Lionheart commanded, and everybody did, they repelled Claudius and panted, Claudius then shot big red blasts out of his mouths, eyes, tentacles, vines, and bug legs that destroyed everything and everybody tried running away and dodging while the unicorns put up magic shields and teleported, Daylight Dimmer, Starburn, Walker, Runner, and Sprinter put up shields with their powers, and Joker tried writing in his book to give the others extra protection. Everybody tried using all of their weapons and powers on Claudius and he swatted the projectiles and magic beams out of the air, Claudius slammed his fists down onto the floor and it created a red explosion, everybody got shot away and they fell over, Aggressive did a backflip and landed on his feet, he screamed with rage and fire flew everywhere, he punched forward and sent flames shaped like his fists at him and hit Claudius, he was unaffected, Sight and Touch held their free hands out and he and Hear, Smell, and Taste jumped forward while holding hands with one another, five light blue razor wires appeared connected to the fingers and thumbs of Sight's right hand and Touch's left hand, they tried cutting Claudius but their attacks did not cut deep, Claudius swatted them away and they landed on their feet, Demonicus and Mother Nature combined their powers together and shot a big blast at him and Claudius grunted a little while wincing back, everybody else joined in and attacked him together and Claudius swatted them away, black portals opened under them and several screamed while they got sucked in and transported elsewhere.

Doctor Whooves saw he was in a pitch black area and clones of Claudius began coming out of the ground, he shot lasers and missiles out of his armor and used the exoskeleton that increased his physical strength to punch them away. Claudius' clones regenerated and skeletal creatures began appearing in the place, they had various weapons and began attacking him. Doctor Whooves summoned laser blades out of his front legs and slashed them apart, he then shot beams out of his eyes and shockwaves out of his forehead, the bones floated around and formed into new creatures, they tried slashing and biting him but he swatted them away. Claudius began summoning dark red fire, dark red icicles, and dark red lightning strikes and Doctor Whooves used his armor's gear to increase his physical abilities to evade them, he rammed and slashed the creatures and they kept getting replaced, he noticed there will be no end to them and tried slashing a black wall, it broke open and he saw an exit and went in it.

Jones shot blasts out of his horn and his mind got plagued with flashbacks of where he first met Claudius when he was a colt and he got distracted by the flashbacks forced into his head, he grunted when red blasts hit him and knocked him down, he shot beams out of his horn and tried destroying Claudius' clones and the skeletal creatures but could not. Jones panted heavily and tried shooting blasts and beams out of his horn but it did not help much, so he ran and ducked to dodge the attacks but one of Claudius' clones punched him in his collarbone and he grunted loudly while he flew through the air and across the area, he hit the wall and fell onto the floor. He groaned and tried to get up and Claudius' clones held him up with their telekinesis and tried to tear him apart, he teleported out of their grips and shot blasts at them, it did not harm them, he tried destroying the skeletal creatures and managed to destroy them after using a lot of energy, he sighed and his eyes widened when the bone shards flew around and some of them formed into new forms. Jones realized he will not survive much longer if he remains and looked for a way out while panting heavily, Claudius' clones put images of his first meeting with Claudius and distracted him, he tried to block the visions out and got massive headaches, he teleported to the wall in front of him and shot a big blast at it at point-blank range, a hole was made and he went in it.

Modules used the mechanical armor he was wearing to shoot out bullets, lasers, and missiles at his attackers and Claudius' clones and the skeletal creatures reformed from each attack and continued attacking, he shot beams out of his eyes and split his attackers in half and all of them regenerated and there were now more enemies. Hammers and staffs began flying around the area and homing on him, they tried to dent and break his armor but it withstood the attacks, boomerangs appeared in the area and they hit his armor and got a few dents, he used his armor's built-in endoskeleton to enhance his own physical strength and he punched and bucked them and destroyed the weapons and skeletal creatures while Claudius' clones did backflips and landed on their feet. He felt an unseen force trying to pull and destroy his armor and boulders appeared and tried to smash him, he flew with a jetpack on his back and big rocks and ice blocks began falling from ceiling, he flew around and dodged them while punching any enemy in front of him and destroyed them, he flew away while they regenerated. He realized he will not last long and the enemies will keep coming back, so he flew to the floor and punched a hole in it, he flew in it and it got darker, he saw a boulder falling and about to land in the hole and on him, he shot a missile at it and destroyed it and went into the hole.

Kinetic shot lasers out of her eyes and punched and bucked any skeletal creature near her, Claudius' clones used their magic to shoot bullets at her but she activated a force field in her armor and deflected them, they cast spells to make boomerangs and shields appear in midair and flew to her, the force field deflected them. She ran around while the armor enhanced her physical abilities and she ran faster, she rammed the skeletal creatures with her helmet and destroyed them easily, Claudius' clones grabbed and stopped her and she summoned laser swords out of her front forelegs and cut them, tentacles, vines, and bug legs came out of the cuts and began attacking her. She cut all of them and shot lasers out of her eyes and burned the enemies, rocks grew out of the floor and tried to smash her onto the ceiling but she grabbed and broke them and threw them at her enemies while landing on the floor, Claudius' clones cast a spell to break them apart and shot them at her, she punched and broke them while more rocks grew out and tried to smash her into the ceiling. She dodged them and they began breaking on their own and flying to her while rocks came out of the walls and tried to smash her, she quickly punched into the floor and another rock grew out, she punched and broke it and went into the hole and exited the area.

Inertia flew around with jetpacks and rocket boots and used the flames to burn the floating black blobs and they continued shooting tentacles and vines at her, she grunted when she felt the fire burn her and through her armor and she shot beams out of her eyes and destroyed them. The tentacles and vines took root in her armor and began growing on it while the other severed parts grew their own bodies, they tried to pry her armor off and scratch it into small pieces, she shot flamethrowers out of her forelegs and tried to burn them off but it did not work, she made laser blades come out of her front forelegs and cut them off and then flew around and cut apart the floating black blobs and skeletal creatures. The creatures regenerated and continued attacking her, she opened her mouth and shot an electromagnetic blast out and it destroyed every enemy in the area, they came back and Claudius' clones cast magic to make sledgehammers fly around and hit her armor, she grunted and spiraled out of control from the attacks and she fell onto the floor, the ceiling came down and was about to smash her and she rolled to her left and dodged it. She realized she will not last much longer if she remains in the area and looked for an exit but did not see one, so she cut the floor around her with her laser blades and fell into it, a boulder began to rise up was about to push her back into the room, she punched and broke it and left the area.

Solubility flew around and shot missiles off of his wings and slashed his attackers with bladed claws on his hoofs, he shot blue beams out of his armor's chest that exploded on anything they touched and Claudius' clones and the skeletal creatures were destroyed but regenerated. He held his front legs out and shot lightning bolts out of his hoofs and paralyzed Claudius' clones and the skeletal creatures, red lightning strikes began appearing and striking randomly in the area and he jumped and flew around to dodge them, small sparks shot out of them and tried to zap him while smaller bolts flew out and homed on him, he stumbled a bit from the small zaps and spun around and cut apart any skeletal creature that came near him with his bladed claws. He shot more missiles off of his wings and tried destroying them, small lightning strikes came out of the big ones and destroyed the missiles before they could hit anything, heads appeared and began flying around and shooting red blasts out of their mouths at him, he looked and saw they were Claudius' heads, he shot missiles at them and destroyed them but they came back. More lightning bolts began striking down and got faster, he flew around as fast as he could and saw he cannot keep up much longer, he shot missiles at the wall closest to him and made a hole, he flew to it while slashing any head in his way with his bladed claws and left the area.

Solvent flew around and cut apart the floating black blobs and floating heads of Claudius and skeletal creatures with blades on her wings, knives, rocks, and ice shards began flying out of the walls and trying to pelt her while big rocks and ice blocks fell out of the ceiling. She shot white blasts out of her front hoofs and destroyed them but the black blobs and heads regenerated while more knives, rocks, ice shards, big rocks, and ice blocks appeared, boomerangs and shields then appeared and tried to hit her but she flew and spun around to cut them and knock them out of the air, she shot more blasts out of her front hoofs and destroyed them. Lightning strikes appeared and tried to strike her but she dodged them, red tornadoes appeared and spun around violently, she grunted when she felt them trying to rip her apart and there were bone shards and rocks spinning in them that dented and cracked her armor. She realized she will not last much longer if she stays in the area and looks for a way out but does not see one, so she flew to the nearest wall and punched her front hoofs into it, she pulled and ripped a part off and made a hole, she quickly flew into it.

Solute flew and spun around to dodge the many big red blasts appearing in the area and trying to hit her while fire engulfed the floor and boulders fell out of the ceiling, she flexed her limbs and blades covering her entire armor unfolded and cut anything they touched, she then shot lasers out of a horn on her forehead and missiles out of her back. Floating heads of Claudius and skeletons of various creatures appeared and they shot blasts and beams at her out of their eyes' and mouths, she flew around to dodge them and grunted whenever they hit her and they burned holes into her armor, she punched her front hoofs together and white electricity appeared on them, she then slammed them onto the floor and a big explosion appeared and destroyed everything but they came back. She grunted loudly from the fire melting her armor and getting to her skin, she quickly flew out of it and boulders fell out of the ceiling, she rolled to her left and dodged them while they fell into the fire, more fell and she around and dodged them while sharp ones shaped like spikes began growing out of the floor and tried to press her against the ceiling. She realized she will not last much longer and looked for an exit but did not see one, she panted a little heavily and the floating heads shot more blasts and beams at her while others tried to bite pieces of her armor off, she unfolded the blades and cut them apart again and flew to the wall behind her, she spun around and the blades on her armor cut a hole in the wall and she flew into it.

Graph used the exoskeleton and endoskeleton on his armor to increase his physical abilities and punched and destroyed Claudius' clones and the skeletal creatures, he cast a spell with his horn and its power got increased by his armor's equipment and he shot a big yellow-green blast out that obliterated everything in its path. He saw a hole in the wall and he teleported to it but teeth and vines grew out and they tried to bite and smash him, he jumped back while his attackers regenerated and they shot red beams and blasts and bone shards at him, parts of his armor opened and he shot machine guns at them and destroyed them and they grew back while he put up a shield in his armor's equipment and with his magic and blocked the attacks. Red ice began appearing and he got frozen in place, the enemies regenerated and Claudius' clones summoned guns and began shooting him while hammers flew through the air and began breaking Graph's armor apart, they were careful not to free Graph and they continued attacking him, his armor began to fall apart and he felt his body in pain, Claudius' clones then made a hole appear in the floor and put teeth in it, it closed and broke the ice, he quickly held the mouth open and teleported out. He panted heavily while he was freezing cold and could not stand, he teleported to the ceiling and shot a hole into it with his horn and teleported into it and out of the area.

Storage shot missiles out of her shoulder blades and multiple laser blasts out of her horn that turned every Claudius clone and skeletal creature into dust, tentacles, vines, and bug legs came out of the walls and ceilings and she opened her mouth, a gun shot a laser and severed them. Saw blades began flying through the air and coming out of the walls, she got scratched by a few of them and they put scratch marks on her armor, she exclaimed when more came out of the floor and scratched the armor parts on her hoofs, she flew up with rockets in her hoofs and they let out streams of fire that burned anything they touched, it did not do much and Claudius' clones cast spells to freeze her hoofs and she began to fall, she shot big laser blasts out of her horn and destroyed the attackers again and cast telekinesis on herself. Claudius' clones and the skeletal creatures reappeared and they shot tentacles, vines, and bug legs out of their mouths while their heads severed themselves from their bodies and began flying around, they shot beams and blasts out of their eyes' and mouths while the ones close to her tried to bite her, she punched and swatted them away and they broke apart easily, they reformed and continued flying around. She realized her enemies will keep regenerating and will not stop, Claudius' clones tried to cast a spell and freeze her but she teleported around and more buzz saws began flying around the area, she shot a blast and lasers out of her horn at the wall behind her and made a hole, she flew into it and teleported farther inside.

Data shot many lasers out of her horn like a machine gun while her armor had built-in fully-automatic guns that shot apart Claudius' clones, the skeletal creatures, floating black blobs, tentacles, vines, and bug legs, more parts of her armor opened and shot at the attackers behind her and they were all destroyed, smoke came out of her horn and gun muzzles while she smiled. Her enemies reformed and their severed body parts grew bodies of their own while Claudius' clones and skeletal creatures grew extra heads and limbs out of their injuries, the clones made assault rifles appear in midair and they fired at her, they began destroying her armor and she teleported around frantically while Claudius' clones tried to cast a spell and freeze her in ice, they missed and made boulders come out of the floor and tried to smash her between them but she shot big blasts out of her horn and destroyed them. Bone shards began falling out of the ceiling and Data grunted when they hit her back and parts of her armor got chipped off, she teleported around and the bone shards kept falling out of the ceiling and onto her, red teeth and claws soon began falling out afterwards. Data grunted while she fell to her knees and Claudius' clones tried to freeze her and she teleported away, she panted and teleported again when two boulders appeared to her sides and tried to smash her between them, she shot a blast out of her horn at the floor and made a hole, she fell in it while bone shards fell into it, she shot a blast and destroyed them and teleported farther down.

Daylight Dimmer summoned two dark green swords with his hatred magic and cut down all of the bone shards flying to him alongside the tentacles and vines trying to restrain him and the bug legs trying to cut him, they grew back and the severed parts grew new bodies. Some of the flying bone shards tried to attack from behind and he made four dark green blades grow out of his back and cut them, black blobs and floating heads appeared in the area and they began attacking him, the black blobs latched onto him and the tentacles and vines tried to burrow into his body, he held his legs out and a dark green explosion came out and destroyed every enemy around him in all directions. He began shooting dark green blasts out of his hoofs and tried to destroy every enemy in the area but they reappeared, claws and teeth began flying around and attacking him, he cut them apart with his swords and they grew back, he shot another hatred blast and hit the floor in the center, it expanded alongside a shockwave being produced and it destroyed every enemy in the area but they came back a second later. Daylight Dimmer realized he will not last long if he keeps fighting and looked for a way out but did not see one, he shot a blast at the wall behind himself and made a hole, he quickly jumped in it while teeth grew out and it changed to a mouth, it closed and tried to smash him but he already made it out.

Starburn summoned two bright red-orange swords and swung them around and the waves cut Claudius' clones and the black blobs but did not affect the skeletal creatures, they spun their bodies around while arms grew out of their torsos and abdomens and they tried punching him, he jumped back and the fists began shooting bone shards out of their knuckles. He grunted and the bone shards knocked him down, he made bright red-orange light appear in his wounds and shot the bone shards out and he screamed in pain, they got embedded into a few of the skeletal creatures and Claudius' clones and they exploded and destroyed them, they then reformed and continued attacking him. He shot bright red-orange blasts out of his front hoofs and eyes at the many projectiles and vines came out of the floor and wrapped around him, he screamed when the thorns cut him and a bright red-orange magic blast came out of his body and made them explode, more vines came out of the ceiling and tried wrapping around him, he made spears appear around himself with his hatred magic and all of them got cut, the pieces that fell inside the spears and around him set into the floor and became more vines. Starburn realized the enemies will keep multiplying and he will only waste his energy if he continues fighting, he made swords appear and float around him and made them go into the floor, they cut a hole and he fell in it while making the weapons made by his hatred magic disappear.

Joker wrote in his book frantically to give himself weapons and shot beams, arrows, bolts, bullets, lasers, and missiles at his attackers but they kept coming back and tentacles and vines coming out of the floor, walls, and ceiling, and floating black blobs tried to take and destroy the book and he teleported around while holding onto it tightly. He wrote as fast as he could with his magic to give himself extra armor and withstood the attacks, he shot big blasts out of his horn that divided and homed on his targets, they exploded on impact but the attackers regenerated, vines tried to wrap around the book and he created duplicates with his magic, the vines wrapped around all of them and tore them apart with their thorns, nothing happened and Joker kept the real book on his back and teleported around while shooting blasts and missiles at his attackers. Knives and hatchets began appearing and flying through the area and Joker put up a shield to block them and protected the book from them, he tried catching them with his telekinesis but they resisted and continued trying to fly into him and slash him alongside cut the book apart, he wrote in it with his magic and made a bomb appear and fall, the explosion engulfed the entire area and he put up a shield, it cleared and he smiled when he saw all of his enemies were gone but they reappeared a second later. Red fire engulfed the place and Joker grunted loudly from the pain and the book began to burn, he put a magic shield up around it but it still burned, he shot missiles at the walls and ceiling and destroyed them, he quickly teleported out and cast water on the book to douse the flames.

Darwin floated around as black mist and shot dark magic everywhere while making dark crystals grow out of the floor, Claudius' clones cast spells to break them apart and made them fly after him, they went through his mist form and he was unharmed. Black blobs appeared and their tentacles, vines, and bug legs tried attacking him but they went through him and he was unharmed, he floated around and shot blasts out of his horn and nothing harmed him, Claudius' clones cast a spell and changed him back to his regular form, he flew around while shooting blasts at his enemies and punching and bucking them. The skeletal creatures tried punching and smashing him with their fists and balls made from bones and his crystal pony body protected him, he teleported around and shot zaps at his enemies and they were blown apart but regenerated. Claudius' clones cast a spell to fill the area with red water and he used his seapony parts to swim around and evaded the attacks, Claudius' clones then had red lightning strike the water and he grunted loudly when the water conducted the electricity and paralyzed his body, they shot blasts at him and tried to destroy him and his crystal pony body began cracking a little, red tornadoes appeared and tried to suck in his body and rip him apart, he struggled to cast spells but managed to change himself to his mist form. He floated to the ceiling and shot a hole in a ceiling with his magic, he flew in and Claudius' clones changed him back with their magic, he jumped in and flew as fast as he could and he saw a red lightning bolt coming down, he put up a shield and blocked it while it pushed him down, he teleported through the area and lightning and made it out of the area.

Cassius moved quickly with his wind magic and he phased through every attack, he punched and kicked the skeletal creatures and ripped the black blobs apart, Claudius' clones tried to catch him with their magic but he flew around and evaded them easily. Tornadoes made of fire appeared and pulled him in and he changed back to his regular form, he panted from the heat and claws and teeth flew in the area and tried to stab him, he blew them away with his wind magic and vines then grew out of the floor and wrapped around him, he exclaimed loudly when the thorns cut him and he used his wind magic to destroy them. Bullets began shooting out of the walls and he exclaimed loudly when they hit him, he got on his abdomen and crawled, tentacles grew out and tried to entangle him and he turned into gusts of wind and flew around while avoiding the tornadoes, Claudius' clones tried to turn him back into his regular form and his wind gusts moved in different directions and zigzags to evade them. He arrived at the wall and he changed back to his regular form, he punched a hole in it and went in, tentacles, vines, and bug legs flew up to him from farther inside and he punched and destroyed them, teeth and knives grew out of the walls to his sides and tried to close in on him and he quickly flew forward in his wind gust form and exited the area.

Mustang ran around with afterimages behind himself and used his wind magic to evade the tentacles, vines, and bug legs, he punched and destroyed the skeletal creatures while also grabbing the vines and ripped them apart easily. The vines began to grow into his hoofs and he quickly threw them away, they took root in the floor and continued trying to wrap around him, black blobs appeared in the air and tentacles, vines, and bug legs came out of them while they floated around, he ran around with the tentacles and vines trying to wrap around him but went to his afterimages and phased through them. He moved with the wind and nothing could hit him, Claudius' clones made tornadoes appear in the place and Mustang got pulled into them, Claudius' clones then made axes and hatchets appear in the tornadoes and he grunted loudly when they cut him, he punched some of them out of the tornadoes but they flew through the air and homed on him, he tried to turn into wind gusts and fly but the tornadoes pulled him in, he quickly reformed himself and flew around with afterimages around him and dodged the flying axes and hatchets. Claudius' clones cast magic to make the room filled with fire, he grunted loudly and tornadoes now had fire in them, he quickly flew up to the ceiling and axes and hatchets flew to him, he moved at the last second and they cut a hole in the ceiling, he flew in it and exited the area.

Walker made guns appear in his front hoofs and shot his attackers while panting heavily at seeing the many enemies, he teleported around and made dark blue skulls float around him and attack his enemies. Claudius' clones took control of the ghosts and began using them on him. They split the souls into pieces and Walker covered his ears when they let out high pitched screeches and screams, Claudius' clones then put them in the skeletal creatures and they began teleporting around and spun their bodies around and tried to smash him. Walker teleported away and continued firing bullets at them but they bounced off of the skeletal creatures while Claudius' clones healed and shot the bullets out of their bodies and they homed on him, he put up a shield and blocked it but he got pushed back. Walker hit the wall and fell, he saw the creatures were about to gang up on him and he shot the floor with his guns while panicking and made a hole, he quickly jumped into it and teleported farther away.

Runner attacked Claudius' clones and floating black blobs with a sword and blocked them with a shield, the blobs shot tentacles and vines onto his shield and began corrupting it, he made it disappear and teleported when the tentacles and vines were about to wrap around him and made his shield reappear. He shot dark blue flames out of his eyes and tried burning the creatures, Claudius' clones caught on fire while the skeletal creatures were unaffected, he bashed them with his shield and the bones broke off and began flying around the area. Claudius' clones shots beams, blasts, claws, and teeth out of their eyes', mouths, and horns and they floated around and bug legs out of the tips of the claws and teeth, he cut them with his sword and blocked them with his shield and teleported around to evade them. He noticed every enemy was multiplying and there was no room to move around, he teleported to the ceiling and cut it with his sword and teleported out.

Sprinter attacked with two short swords and slashed as many as his enemies as he could, he cut Claudius' clones apart and their pieces grew and there were now more enemies, he put up a shield and teleported around to dodge their attacks. He saw many bones, tentacles, vines, bug legs, and blobs flying around and tried to stab and latch onto him, he held his front legs out to the sides and dark blue flames flew out in all directions and shot all of his attackers away, they floated back up and continued attacking him and he tried slashing them apart with his swords. The bones, blobs, tentacles, vines, and bug legs grew back while the severed parts grew their own bodies and began attacking him, Sprinter did various slashes with his swords and tried cutting them down and then tried to obliterate them with spiritual blasts but they came back and attacked him, he changed to his alicorn-like form with dark blue flames around him and he sent out dark blue and orange flames with every slash and tried destroying the attackers but they came back. Sprinter flew and teleported around and the tentacles, vines, and bug legs grew out of the walls and ceiling and tried to stab into his body and he cut and burned them, he spun and flew up to the ceiling and made a hole and flew out of the area.

Genghis fought Claudius' clones and the skeletal creatures with a broadsword and cut them all and blocked them when they got close to him, he ran and jumped around and cut his enemies while spinning in midair. He landed on his hoofs and all of his enemies regenerated and grew new bodies from their severed body parts, he sheathed his sword and took a spear off of his back, he slashed his attackers with diagonal attacks and spun it around when he got surrounded, he got backed into a wall and he stabbed the blade into the floor and then propelled himself into the air and landed behind some of his attackers. The floor changed to fire and he quickly ran around and tried to find a way out since the fire was harming his ghost form, he put his spear on his back and took a sledgehammer off of his back and began hitting his attackers away and destroyed the skeletal creatures, they continued to grow back and formed new limbs that attacked him and he panted heavily from the flames burning him. A skeletal arm grabbed and pinned him to a wall and he tried to pull it off but could not, the tentacles, vines, bug legs, and bone shards began flying into him and he grunted from the pain while he saw black blobs appearing in the air alongside red claws and teeth and floating heads, the claws and teeth flew into him while the floating heads either bit him or shot red blasts out of their eyes' and mouths, he grunted loudly and reached onto his back and took a shield off, he slammed it down and destroyed the skeletal arm, he then put it back on his back and picked up his sledgehammer, he hit the wall behind himself and destroyed it, he went in the hole and left the area.

Raging Tornado turned into wind gusts to evade the attacks while creating tornadoes with her mind to destroy the skeletal creatures, Claudius' clones shot red beams at her and she flew around and dodged them while using their magic to corrupt the tornadoes and they turned red. She turned into wind gusts and flew around and every attack phased through her, Claudius' clones changed her back to normal with their magic and cast a spell to show her images of Hurricane, Cyclone, and Gusty holding onto one another and scared while the Claudius' clones, she flew to them as fast as she could and a lightning bolt struck down and she grunted loudly, she got paralyzed while the image disappeared. She made wind gusts and tornadoes appear with her mind and held her attackers back and Claudius' clones made knives and spears appear in her tornadoes and controlled them to make them fly to her, she made clouds appear with her mind and they absorbed the lightning around her, she sighed but the clouds became corrupted and turned red, she flew around and dodged the flying weapons and tried making new tornadoes to destroy Claudius' clones and the skeletal creatures. Red fire appeared in the tornadoes and flew around and Raging Tornado screamed in agony, she flew around quickly while panting heavily and panicking but did not find an exit, she used her wind powers to try to blow and cut the wall in front of her but could not, she flew up and evaded the knives and spears that were in the tornadoes and they hit the wall, she grabbed and moved them around and cut a hole in it and flew into it.

Earthquake made plants, soil, sand, dirt, rocks, stones, grass, wood, and clay appear and tried to entangle and smash Claudius' clones and the skeletal creatures, they did not do much so she changed her body into stone and grew bigger, she punched and destroyed them easily and then jumped and created shockwaves and earthquakes that destroyed Claudius' clones and they regenerated. Claudius' clones cast an illusion of her family being in danger and holding onto one another while watching the skeletal creatures surround them, Earthquake rolled her eyes and plants and trees grew out of the floor and broke apart Claudius' clones and the skeletal creatures and the illusion disappeared, they regenerated and continued attacking. She made rocks and stones appear to smash and destroy them but red ice began covering them and they fell faster, she felt herself lose control over her earth powers and the big rocks and stones began falling out of the ceiling and above her, she turned into sand and moved in different directions but Claudius' clones made red water appear with their magic and she fell to the floor and could not move, she quickly reformed and made vines with thorns grow out of her body but Claudius' clones corrupted them with their magic and they attacked her instead. Earthquake struggled to breathe and got cut, she turned her body into rock and grew as big as she could and broke the floor with her weight, she then changed back to her normal form while making stone appear to block the corrupted vines.

Tsunami turned into water and slid around on the floor while every attack went through her and did not harm her, she took the shape of various spikes and shot into Claudius' clones and the skeletal creatures and destroyed them, they grew back and she shot fast streams of water at them and cut them. Claudius' clones made oil and rocks appear in her water form and she moved slower, they then cast a spell and froze her body in red ice, they then cast spells to make hammers, boomerangs, and shields fly through the air and hit her body, she let out muffled grunts while they destroyed her body and Claudius' clones shot red blasts at her and the skeletal creatures were about to smash her with balls made from bones on their arms'. Tsunami let out muffled grunts while trying to control and free herself and her body got shattered by the blasts and big balls made from bones smashing her, the smaller parts of her body melted from the ice and became liquid, they regrouped and her entire body was one body of water again, she made her the puddle bigger and tried to drown her attackers, Claudius' clones cast a spell and made her see an image of her family and their servants being attacked and holding one another in fear, she reeled back for a second quickly went to them, she was about to protect them but the illusion disappeared, Claudius' clones then froze her and made an ice block fall from the ceiling and smashed her. The small parts of her water body melted and they reformed, Claudius' clones then made the room become engulfed with fire and she screamed, she quickly shot streams of water at the wall in front of her and cut a hole, she quickly flowed into it and left the area while changing back to her hippogriff form and flew in it.

Meteorite Hellfire swung her sword around and used telekinesis to destroy the skeletal creatures and throw their bones at Claudius' clones and the floating black blobs, she shot fire out of her horn at the tentacles, vines, and bug legs that tried to wrap around her, she turned her body into fire and burned them and they flinched away. She shot more fire out of her horn and tried destroying her enemies with her sword and telekinesis, floating heads of Claudius and skulls of various creatures appeared and tried shooting beams and blasts at her out of their eyes' and mouths, she deflected all of them with her sword and some of them flew close and tried to bite her, they went through her fire body and turned around and shot claws and teeth out of their eyes' and mouths, she slashed and deflected them with her sword. Tornadoes appeared in the area and spun around, she grunted while her fire body got absorbed into them and Claudius' clones summoned water and ice inside of them, Meteorite Hellfire formed back into her kirin form and shot fire out of her horn but it did not harm Claudius' clones or the skeletal creatures, floating heads went to her and began biting her, she grunted in pain and punched and broke them, she changed to her nirik form and shot a big fire blast out of her horn while screaming with rage. Every attacker got destroyed but regenerated, her eyes' widened and realized she cannot continue fighting much longer, she looked for a way out but did not see one, she cut the floor under her hoofs and fell into the hole, teeth, claws, tentacles, vines, bug legs, and knives appeared inside it and tried to close and smash her, she changed to her fire form and phased through them while burning them.

Tao shot zaps at his attackers and did many jumps, rolls, sidesteps, flips, and hoofsprings to evade the attacks, he cast a spell Archmage Astral Plane taught him and he had afterimages of Janis, Hindu, Buddha, Judas, Sikhism, and Druze appear behind him, he shot seven blasts at a time and his physical attacks were now seven times stronger. Claudius' clones filled the area with red water and he still swam a lot faster than normal due to his seven incarnations in life working together and enhancing his physical abilities, they tried freezing him but only froze Tao and his other six incarnations cast spells to teleport themselves and Tao out of the ice, they shot blasts in all directions and obliterated Claudius' clones alongside the skeletal creatures and floating black blobs. They reformed and bullets began flying through the area, Tao and his incarnations tried teleporting and dodging them but got hit by them, he tried contacting the angels with his magic but saw the angels have become corrupted by Claudius' magic, his clones then cast a spell on it to open a portal to the demon realm and demons corrupted by his magic came in, they threw their spears at him and shot magic blasts at him, he teleported around and shot blasts everywhere. Tao began to gasp for air and noticed he will not last much longer, he continued teleporting to try to evade the bullets and put up magic shields but it did not stop them, he began to fall from the bullets hitting his body and he and his previous incarnations shot a blast at the floor and they went in, the water fell out while the angels and demons threw spears down the hole, Claudius' clones then summoned lightning bolts to strike the water and Tao and his incarnations teleported farther down and left the area.

Gunslinger fired an assault rifle at his enemies and shot Claudius' clones, the skeletal creatures, and black blobs into pieces with the bullets, they regenerated and the body parts grew their own bodies, he ran out of ammo and quickly reloaded it, he fired more bullets and the enemies regenerated. Claudius' clones cast a spell on the assault rifle and he saw the red aura, he quickly threw the assault rifle away and it exploded, he took another assault rifle off of his back that Joker wrote to give him and it shot out homing missiles, the black blobs reformed and shot tentacles, vines, and bug legs came out of them, he took a shotgun off of his back and shot the tentacles and vines and destroyed them, they took root in the floor and formed new bodies. He put the shotgun on his back and took out two pistols that Master Nocturne and Robin gave him, they blew Claudius clones' heads off and they grew back while the bullets went into the walls, Claudius' clones shot red beams and blasts at him while heads of Claudius came out of the walls and shot fast beams at him, he laid on his abdomen and dodged the attacks. He saw them homing on him and he ran around quickly, he shot any Claudius clone or skeletal creature in front of him and blew them apart and ran past them, he heard them regenerate and realized his weapons were not going to work, he saw Claudius' heads come out of the walls and shot blasts at him, he ducked and dodged them and shot them with his shotgun and destroyed the heads, he then shot the wall in front of him and blew a hole in it, he jumped in and exited the area.

Archer shot arrows at Claudius' clones, the skeletal creatures, and floating black blobs with her bow and hit all of them either in the center of their foreheads or in the very center of their bodies, they regenerated and shot the arrows out, Archer shrieked while getting on her stomach and avoided them. She stood up and saw Claudius' clones running to her and ready to attack her, she swung her bow around and cut them with blades Paladin put on the top and bottom ends, they regenerated and she quickly took explosive arrows out and shot them, they destroyed their bodies while the explosions knocked her back and down, she stood up and saw they were gone but they came back. The skeletal creatures reshaped their bodies and shot bone shards out of their torsos at her, she ran while panting and took two crossbows off of her sides that Robin gave her, she shot them and they pierced the bones better, they beeped red and exploded while Archer's jaw dropped, the skeletal creatures regenerated and she panicked a bit but relaxed when she saw the crossbows held more than one bolt, she shot three more from each one and hit the floating black blobs and they exploded but regenerated. She realized she will not last long and looked for a way out but did not see one, she turned around and tentacles, vines, and bug legs grew out of the walls and black blobs and tried to wrap around her, she shot them at the wall in front of her and she screamed when the vines' thorns cut her, the explosion destroyed some of the tentacles, vines, and bug legs and blew a hole into the wall, she aimed while her limbs were pulled and she shot them at the other three walls and they exploded, she was free and sprinted to the hole while teeth grew inside it and she jumped in before it closed.

Kinkaku swung her sabre around while she had a gold aura around her sword's blade and sent waves everywhere, they cut Claudius' clones and skeletal creatures easily while she ran and jumped around and she smiled when she saw she has destroyed all of her enemies but stopped smiling when they regenerated. The skeletal creatures had bones gather together and form big arms that had a big ball in place of a hand, the sections of their bodies spun around and Kinkaku exclaimed when the balls made from bones hit her and knocked her down, pieces of her armor flew off and went everywhere, she stood up while growling, she saw another ball coming and she got on her abdomen and swung her sabre horizontally, waves hit the skeletal creatures' legs and made them fall but they tried to fall on her, she rolled to her right and dodged one about to fall on her. Floating heads of Claudius and various skulls appeared and shot beams, blasts, claws, and teeth out of their eyes' and mouths at her, she did quick slashes with her sabre and cut them down easily, she then saw tentacles, vines, and bug legs come out of the walls and she cut them easily, she then sent gold waves at the walls to destroy them entirely but they took root in the floor and continued attacking her. The room was becoming overcrowded and she noticed she will soon be overwhelmed, she went to the wall to her left while doing slashes with her sabre and sent out gold waves and they cut the wall open, she jumped in and exited the area.

Ginkaku swung his big double-edged broadsword around while a silver aura appeared around the blade and it went in all directions and knocked all of his enemies into the walls and exploded, Claudius' clones and the skeletal creatures regenerated and shot big blasts at him and he ran around while his armor withstood the blasts. He swung his sword around and destroyed the skeletal creatures easily while some of them tried to smash him with balls made of bones and he blocked them with his sword, he jumped and slammed his sword onto the floor and the skeletal creature in front of him got cut in half, he then turned around and ran while doing diagonal swings to his sides and cut Claudius' clones and the black blobs while silver waves came out and exploded on them. Knives, spears, axes, hatchets, boomerangs, shields, arrows, and bullets began flying through the air and in and out of the walls while boulders and ice blocks fell out of the ceiling, he blocked the flying weapons with his sword and used it to cut the boulders and ice blocks, he stumbled back when bullets hit his armor and put holes in it, he fell onto the floor and rocks grew out of the floor while more came out of the ceiling, they tried to slam into one another and smash him, he swung his sword upwards and sent a wave out and destroyed the rocks coming out of the ceiling and then jumped down and cut the rocks coming out of the floor. He got pelted by the flying weapons and the bullets made him stumble, Claudius' clones shot red blasts at him and he spun his sword around and sent a silver circle in all directions, it hit the nearest skeletal creature and a big explosion happen, he got covered by smoke and then quickly cut a hole in the floor with his sword and fell into it.

Feral swung his spear around while growling and grunting and slashed Claudius' clones while he punched the skeletal creatures with his front hoofs and sent their bones flying, they regenerated and the black blobs got close to him and were about to attack him, he took his knife out and cut them in half quickly but they regenerated and multiplied. Tentacles, vines, and bug legs grew out of the black blobs and went after him, he ran and jumped around while doing parkour to dodge them, they wrapped around Claudius' clones and they went through them and continued going after him, Feral spun his spear around and destroyed them, they grew back and continued trying to attack him, they could not catch him so Claudius' clones had mouths appear on his body and they shot teeth and claws out and they flew after him, he took his hatchets out and cut them and they broke but continued flying around. Feral realized he will not last long if he did not escape and looked for a way out but did not see one, he tried cutting the floor with his hatchets but Claudius' clones filled the area with red water, he swam around and evaded the flying projectiles and cut the floor and made a hole, the water fell out of the area and he moved around to evade the tentacles, vines, and bug legs, the water was gone and he jumped into the hole while Claudius' clones made more water appear and it fell into the hole and then sent a red lightning strike down, Feral heard them and adjusted his body to make himself fall faster.

Soul Medium ran around while shooting his arrows that had dark purple flames on their tips at Claudius' clones and the black blobs while having a shield up with his magic and another shield created by his runes and charms, he saw visions of Wind Priest, Water Priest, Earth Priest, Fire Priest, and War Chief and said an incantation in a foreign language while his voice echoed, they disappeared and he realized they were illusions. Black blobs and floating heads flew to him and he used his magic to make a circle with his powdered herbs and spices around himself and said another incantation in a foreign language with his voice echoing, they got engulfed in dark purple flames and repelled them, he shot his arrows at them and they disappeared with dark purple flames engulfing them but they came back, tentacles, vines, and bug legs grew out of the floor and inside his barriers, he held his shield with his telekinesis and tried to smash them, they wrapped around it and then went to him, he used his sword and spear with his telekinesis and cut them, they grew back and he teleported elsewhere. Knives began flying through the area and his barriers deflected them, Claudius' clones cast spells that destroyed his barriers and made him see the haunted village again, he screamed when the knives flew into him and out of his body, he could not see anything and vines tried to go into his mouth and prevent him from saying his incantations, his eyes widened when their thorns began cutting the inside of his mouth and he teleported, he panted and began saying an incantation Archmage Astral Plane and Arcana taught him, his voice echoed while he said words of a language he never heard before and a dark purple explosion appeared, the flames spread and all of his attackers and illusions were gone, Claudius' clones and the skeletal creatures came back. He realized he will not last long if he remained and used his telekinesis to cut the floor with his sword and spear, a hole appeared and he fell in while putting up a magic shield.

Commander Lionheart cut Claudius' clones with a battle axe while bashing and smashing the skeletal creatures with a mace, he watched them regenerate and tried cutting and bashing them again, they regenerated and multiplied. Floating heads appeared in the area and they tried to shoot blasts at him and bite him, he swatted them away while running and evading the beams and blasts, they noticed he was fast even though he was wearing heavy armor and carrying weapons, they tried casting boulders onto him to slow him down but he jumped and did a backflip and made them fall onto Claudius' clones and the skeletal creatures. Tentacles, vines, and bug legs came out of the walls and ceiling and tried to restrain him but he used his weapons to bash and cut them and ran around and evaded them, boulders and ice blocks appeared in front of him and tried to smash him, he punched and broke some of them and jumped and rammed into the others and broke them. Claudius' clones cast a spell to flood the place with red water and then made red lightning strike down, Commander Lionheart grunted loudly while the water and his metallic armor conducted the lightning and shocked him, a skeletal creature slammed its fist down and smashed him into the floor, it broke and he gasped for air, Claudius' clones then pulled him back in with their telekinesis and he punched and he swatted his attackers away, he swam to the floor and punched his front hoofs into floor and then pulled them and ripped a hole, he went in and fell into it while the water followed him.

Paladin fought off her attackers with her sword and shield and swatted the floating heads and black blobs away, she cut Claudius' clones and black blobs with her sword and bashed the skeletal creatures with her shield, the vines tried to wrap around her but she held her shield out and they wrapped around it and began cutting it, she then cut them with her sword, they took root in the floor and grew new bodies. They shot beams and blasts at her and she repelled them with her shield, they shot claws and teeth at her and she cut them with her sword, they then tried to make boulders fall on her and she punched and broke them, they made ice blocks fall from the ceiling and she swatted them away and broke them. Paladin ran around and she attacked her enemies with her sword and shield and red lightning strikes began falling out of the ceiling, she jumped back and dodged them, small sparks came out of them and struck her, she grunted in pain from the zaps and her metallic armor conducted them and shocked her entire body, she almost became paralyzed but continued running around and looked for an exit, she did not see one and more lightning strikes came down and she jumped and spun around in midair to dodge them. Claudius' clones filled the room with water and she quickly swam to the floor, she tried to cut it with her sword while swatting away the floating heads and black blobs, she cut down a little and then pulled with her front hoofs and ripped the floor open, she fell in it with the water falling in and a lightning strike came down, she rode on her shield and exited the area faster.

Archmage Astral Plane had a red, blue, yellow, green, purple, orange, white, black, and gray aura around his horn and he shot streams of fire, lava, water, and mists of ice alongside rocks, stones, hail, and gusts of wind in all directions, he also made white lightning strike down and they destroyed the skeletal creatures. Tentacles, vines, and bug legs grew out of the floor, walls, and ceiling and tried to wrap around him and he made a shield of fire appear around himself and burned them, black blobs appeared in midair and tried to attack him and he shot big white blasts out from inside his fire shield that obliterated everything in front of him, they regenerated and floating heads of Claudius and skulls of various creatures appeared, they shot blasts out of their eyes' and mouths and he teleported around and shot homing blasts at them and destroyed them. Red fire appeared in the area while red ice blocks fell from the ceiling, red rocks and boulders grew out of the floor, red tornadoes spun around the area, and red lightning struck down in various areas, he turned into mist and flew through everything while Claudius' clones tried to change him back, he teleported around and they could not get him, bullets began flying through the area and he noticed it was getting overcrowded, so he changed back to normal and shot a blast that obliterated everything in front of him and blew a hole in the wall, he then teleported out.

Arcana had a red, blue, yellow, and green aura around her horn and she shot fire, water, and gusts of wind everywhere while making boulders fall from the ceiling and smashed some of her enemies between two of them, Claudius' clones shot beams and blasts at her and she put up a shield that blocked and deflected their attacks to them but they were unharmed. Spears and javelins flew through the area and she put up a shield made from stone that made them break on impact when they touched the stone, Claudius' clones cast spells to disable her shield and she grunted loudly when she felt them trying to rip her apart, she teleported out of their grip but their magic immediately caught up to her when she reappeared, she divided herself into Red Arcana, Blue Arcana, Yellow Arcana, and Green Arcana, they shot fire, water, earth, and wind magic at them and Red Arcana's magic did not have much effect, Blue Arcana's magic slowed down Claudius' clones and the skeletal creatures, Yellow Arcana's magic smashed and destroyed the skeletal creatures easily, and Green Arcana's magic cut apart Claudius' clones. Spells got cast on them and they were held in place, they teleported elsewhere and got caught again, Yellow Arcana and Green Arcana used their magic to destroy them and become free from the telekinetic grips, they tried to look for an exit but did not see one, Red Arcana and Blue Arcana cast fire and water shields that burned the flying spears and javelins or made them stop moving. Claudius' clones and the skeletal creatures began to reform and the four Arcanas formed back together, she looked for an exit but did not see one, she cast a spell to rip the floor under her open and she fell in, vines grew out and tried to wrap around her and cut her and she teleported past them.

Master Nocturne flew around and slashed his enemies with daggers in his front hoofs and blades coming out of his hind legs' boots, he cut the black blobs easily and two of them tried to go to his sides, he folded his wings and then unfolded them quickly, he cut them with blades worn on his feathers that were painted to be the same color as his coat. The skeletal creatures tried to attack him and he flew around and evaded them, he aimed his daggers' handles at them and shot bullets out of them, they put a hole in the skeletal creatures but it did not put them down, he then swung his daggers around and sections of it expanded and turned them into whips, a very thin razor-sharp line that connected them cut the skeletal creatures and Claudius' clones, they regenerated while their severed body parts grew their own bodies. Floating heads of Claudius and skulls of various creatures appeared and tried to bite him, he grabbed his own cape and flew in a circle and cut them with the edges of his cape, he also cut them with the blades on his feathers and bladed rings he wore on his wings' joints, he took revolvers out of the back of his pants and fired them at Claudius' clones, their heads' healed and the bullets shot out. He flew around and evaded them while holding his front legs out and cut his enemies with his razor whips, he then used them to cut the wall in front of him and flew out of the area.

Robin fought off her attackers with her daggers and blades coming out of the front of her hing legs' boots, she pushed a button to electrify her daggers' blades and pressed them on two of Claudius' clones, they got electrocuted but it did not harm them, she quickly flew back before they could attack her and then flew around and cut the floating heads near her with the bladed rings on her wings' joints. She flew around and tried attacking every creature with her daggers but it did not do much, she then aimed her handles at them and shot bullets out of her daggers' pommels, she hit two skulls but they regenerated and shot the bullets back out, she flew around quickly and evaded every attack, tentacles, vines, and bug legs came out of the walls and tried to attack her but she cut them apart with her daggers and the blades coming out of her boots. She took kunais and shurikens out of her jacket and threw them with her wings, she hit all of her targets and Claudius' clones and the skeletal creatures regenerated and shot them out of her bodies, she flew around and evaded them while noticing her weapons were not working, she took another knife out of her jacket and pushed a button and shot the blade out and at one of Claudius' clones, his forehead healed and shot it out and she caught while it was in the air. She realized she will not last long if she did not get out of the place and looked for an exit, she did not see one, so she flew to the nearest wall and quickly cut it open with her daggers and flew out of the area while red beams and blasts were shot at her.

Night Witch flew around while holding a spear and attacked all of the black blobs and floating heads while evading Claudius' clones and the skeletal creatures, more appeared and she flew around and spun her spears around and destroyed the tentacles and vines that tried to wrap around her limbs. Claudius' clones began trying to cast spells and she shot bolts at them with a crossbow, they got distracted but their wounds healed and shot the bolts out when they regenerated, she flew and strafed around and dodged them while the bolts homed on her. She cut them with a sword and flew around and slashed the floating heads and black blobs but they regenerated, spears and javelins began shooting out of the walls and she cut the wooden parts with her sword, the broken parts continued flying and she flew down to evade them. The skeletal creatures tried to smash her and she flew to her right and dodged an attack, she then tried to cut the bones with a hatchet but it did not do much, she saw the area was getting overcrowded and she will not last long if she remained, red lightning strikes came down from the ceiling and she flew back and evaded one, she flew to the floor and cut it open with her hatchet, she flew in it and exited the area.

Red Baron flew as fast as he could and wielded two swords and used them to cut the black blobs, floating heads, tentacles, vines, and bug legs that went to him, he then flew and cut Claudius' clones' heads off but they regenerated and the severed heads grew their own bodies. Claudius' clones tried shooting beams and blasts at him but he flew around and dodged them while he sheathed one sword and took a crossbow out, he shot bolts at them and they regenerated and the bolts got shot out, they homed on him and he cut them with his other sword. The skeletal creatures shot bone shards out of their bodies and he held a shield in front of himself and blocked them, he flew around quickly and held another shield with his wings and put it on his back, he flew around and threw the shield in his front hoofs at a skeletal creature and destroyed it, it reformed and continued attacking, he then flew around and tried punching the skeletal creatures with his front hoofs but it did not do anything. Red fire appeared in the area and he grunted a little while the heat burned him, Claudius' clones shot teeth and claws out of their mouths and they homed on him, he realized he will not last much longer if he remained in the area and looked for an exit, he did not see one and then flew to the ceiling, he cut it with his axe and made a hole, teeth grew in it and tried to bite him, he flinched back and the hole reopened and red water with red lightning in it began falling out, it stopped and he then flew in and upwards quickly while tentacles, vines, and bug legs grew out of the walls and went after him, he cut them with his swords, he saw more water with electricity coming down to him and he cut the wall to his left with his axe and quickly flew in and went elsewhere.

Mother Nature made flying rocks, storms, wildfires, and tornadoes that had fire, water, plants, soil, sand, dirt, rocks, stones, grass, wood, and clay in them appear and fight off Claudius' clones, the skeletal creatures, floating heads, black blobs that grew tentacles, vines, and bug legs out, the tentacles, vines, and bug legs coming out of the floor, walls, and ceiling, and the arrows and bullets flying across the room and out of the walls. She cast her magic and made rocks and stones fall from the ceiling and trees grow out of the floor to destroy her attackers, she also burned them with fire and submerged some of them in water, Claudius' clones and the skeletal creatures shot red blasts at her and she put stones up around her and blocked them but they turned red and became corrupted, they tried to smash her and she teleported out and saw all of her spells have turned red and become under Claudius' clones' controls, they sent her spells after her and she teleported around while creating tornadoes around the area that tore her attackers apart and they regenerated. The floating heads flew to her and tried biting her but she shot fire at them, she burned them and they moved away, sickles and scythes began appearing and flying around her and tried to cut her, she cast a spell and destroyed them, she then cast water around herself to stop the arrows and bullets near her and she shot them back, Claudius' clones regenerated and shot them out of their bodies. She realized she will not last long if she remained and looked for an exit but did not see one, she made trees and stones grow around herself alongside summoning a water shield and a tornado, she then shot a blast at the floor under her and cut a circle in it, she fell in and exited the area.

Diplomat tried using mind control on the creatures in the area and tried to make them docile and stand down but Claudius' clones did not and continued attacking, the skeletal creatures stopped attacking and made various grunt sounds as a way to communicate. Claudius' clones broke them apart with their telekinesis and shot the bone shards at him but Diplomat's statue body made them bounce off and had no effect on him, Claudius' clones tried changing the materials that made the statue and break it apart with their telekinesis but Diplomat resisted. He summoned creatures of the Anti-Spirit Cult to fight back but Claudius' clones mind controlled them and made them attack him. Diplomat realized he was not going to last long if he stayed and summoned a creature under the floor, it moved around him and cut a hole in the floor and he fell in it.

War tried using mind control on the creatures around him and tried to make them attack Claudius' clones, they shot red blasts at them and destroyed them easily. War tried to mind control Claudius' clones and make them fight one another but they resisted and shot red blasts at him, his statue body withstood the attacks and he did not feel any pain, Claudius' clones then tried to change the materials that made up his body and break him apart with telekinesis. He tried to resist and summoned creatures of the Anti-Spirit Cult to attack Claudius' clones but they mind controlled them and made them attack War instead, he dismissed them and tried summoning parasites inside of Claudius' clones but his body corrupted and destroyed them. War realized he will not last long and summoned a creature to destroy the walls, floor, and ceiling around him and he fell out of the area.

Passive sat on the floor while tentacles and vines tried to wrap around her, she exhaled and her breath froze everything in front of her, they fell onto the floor and shattered. Claudius' clones made fire appear in the room and Passive emitted a white mist out of her body and it froze the fire, they made oil surround her and they froze when they touched her, the skeletal creatures let themselves freeze a little and began to try to attack her with their new ice weapons. She floated and teleported around and dodged the attacks and tried freezing her enemies in ice blocks, Claudius' clones turned into blobs and slithered out of the ice blocks and shot them at her, she floated above them and dodged them and moved around when some began falling from the ceiling. She realized her powers were not doing much and looked for a way out, she made icicles appear around herself to defend herself and stabbed holes into the ceiling, she dismissed them and a part of the ceiling fell and she floated out.

Aggressive punched and kicked in all directions while letting out angry grunts and flames shaped like his fists and feet flew everywhere and every Claudius clone, skeletal creature, tentacle, vine, and bug leg exploded when they were hit by the flames. Claudius' clones tried to freeze him but his fire melted the ice and they began shooting fast streams of red water at him, he grunted when it cut him and black tentacles began growing out of his wounds, he ripped them off of his own body while screaming and threw them back at Claudius' clones, they landed on the floor and grew into more Claudius'. He got entangled by many tentacles and vines and the bug legs began cutting him, he screamed in rage and fire shot out of his body in all directions, it destroyed them and melted the skeletal creatures but Claudius' clones stood firm, they tried casting a spell to put gasoline in his body and it set him on fire but did not him, he shot fire out of his mouth and tried to burn them but it did not. Aggressive realized his powers and fighting skills were not faring well and looked for a way out, he saw his enemies coming and he screamed, an explosion came out of his body and knocked them back, he turned around and punched the wall as fast as he could while screaming with rage, it soon broke and he jumped out of the area.

Optimist danced around and did ballet and waltz dancing and dodged all of the flying bones, red beams, tentacles, vines, and bug legs. A red tornado appeared in the center of the room and she hopped and skipped around while the skeletal creatures tried to smash her with their fists and shoot bone shards at her, she continued dancing and dodging. Claudius' clones filled the area with water and she stopped moving around and tried to breathe, everything attacked her and she felt immense pain while trying to swim around and dodge the attacks but could not, she propelled herself and swam as fast as she could and tried to dodge everything. The red tornado grew bigger and began to suck her in, she tried to swim away but red lightning struck down and paralyzed her, she got sucked into the tornado and sharp bone shards and knives flew around in it and cut her, she rode the tornado while enduring the pain and the top threw her into the ceiling and out of the area.

Pessimist sat on the floor and touched the heads of the skeletal creatures and made them fall under his mind control, they lost the will to fight and gave up and disassembled themselves, Claudius' clones took their place and vines appeared in the room and began entangling him. He tried to break free and the floor shook, red blasts of energy erupted out of the floor and flew everywhere, a few splattered on him and he grunted when it began to melt him like acid, he grunted and pulled his arms towards himself and ripped the vines. The entire area caught on fire and the flames took the form of Claudius' head, the heads appeared everywhere and shot many beams and blasts, they hit him and he grunted from the pain. He saw the room was becoming overcrowded and he watched his enemies carefully, Claudius' heads in the flames tried shooting blasts at him at point-blank range and he quickly ducked and they shot a hole in the wall behind him, he quickly went in it before any of the Claudius' could restrain him.

Humility summoned weaker creatures to fight for her while she punched and broke the skeletal creatures that appeared to attack her, Claudius made an earthquake happen and made her and her allies stumble, the ground erupted and lava shot up everywhere and destroyed her allies. Humility jumped around and dodged the lava while stumbling when she landed, Claudius then made bones and bladed weapons fly out of the walls and fly towards her, she summoned more beings and they stood in the way of the flying bones and weapons and got attacked, the projectiles made them fly through the air and they got pinned to the walls. Claudius made blades fly out of the ground and big blocks of ice and rocks fall from the ceiling, Humility panted heavily and noticed there was almost no space for her to move around. Red tornadoes appeared in the area and began trying to tear her apart while each one tried to suck her in, she summoned creatures to try to destroy the walls but they were absorbed into the tornadoes and destroyed, lightning then began striking the areas and Humility went to the most damaged wall and punched it desperately, she broke it after several punches and quickly left the area.

Pride summoned wheels that rolled around and crushed the skeletal creatures, he heard cracking sounds everywhere and some of the big skeletal creatures punched and broke the wheels, he summoned a bigger wheel that entangled them and he used his magic to roll them around and crush them when they touched the floor. Tentacles, vines, and bug legs came out of the walls and Pride summoned more wheels to block them while the bug legs slashed them apart with their tips and they tried to slash him but he jumped and swayed around and dodged them. Claudius' clones began appearing and they cast spells to destroy the wheels and shot the pieces at him, he ducked and jumped around to dodge them and summoned wheels on them to roll over them but Claudius' clones grabbed them and threw them at him, he jumped over them and dodged them. He summoned more wheels but Claudius' clones touched them and they became corrupted with black energy, they rolled to him at high speeds with tentacles and vines growing out of them and trying to restrain him, he grunted when they wrapped around him and he summoned more wheels to fall onto them and break them, he saw his powers were no longer helping him and looked for a way out but did not see one, so he summoned big wheels to fall from the ceiling and onto the floor, they broke the floor and made a hole and he went in it.

Kindness summoned creatures from other realms Claudius did not reach and she made them all fast and strong, they protected her while she punched and swatted her attackers away. Red lightning bolts began appearing and striking Kindness' allies and destroyed them and she summoned more from other realms to help her, more lightning strikes shot out of the walls and the smaller bolts began flying and homing on them. Kindness floated around and used her powers to make herself and her allies immune to the lightning strikes, Claudius' clones began appearing and they punched and kicked the creatures but they withstood their attacks, bug-like legs grew out of the walls and its tips slashed and destroyed anybody they touched. Skeletal creatures appeared and sucked the skeletons out of Kindness' allies and added their bones to their bodies and tried smash her, she ran and jumped around to dodge their attacks while summoning more creatures but their skeletons got absorbed into the skeletal creatures, she realized her powers will not help her much anymore, she stood in one place and one bug leg tried to slash her and she moved to her left, the leg cut a hole in a wall and she floated out.

Envy made freezing cold water appear and it filled the area to its ceiling and Claudius' clones swam around while the skeletal creatures moved much more slower. Claudius' clones cast a spell and Envy screamed when the entire water turned red and filled with Claudius' magic and energy and he felt himself becoming corrupted, he made the water disappear and Claudius' clones made it reappear and only went up to the bottom of Envy's robe. The water had Claudius' face appear everywhere and shot beams and blasts at him and ceiling, red ice blocks began falling from the ceiling and Envy and ran and jumped around to dodge them, bug legs came out of the floor and tried to stab Envy and he turned his body to the sides and dodged them. He saw his powers were not working and felt himself becoming corrupted, he moved to the wall behind himself and the faces of Claudius in the water shot blasts from his eyes, he heard them coming and ducked and a hole was blasted into the wall, he went in it and exited the area.

Charity tried summoning gifts that could be used as weapons and tried to fight off her enemies but it did not do much, she then tried summoning a lot of gifts from above to smash and bury her enemies. Claudius' clones shot blasts out of their eyes' and mouths and destroyed the gifts, they then made the shards fly around and pelt Charity, she grunted and stumbled back a little and tentacles and vines grew out of the floor, walls, and ceiling and wrapped around her, the shards of the broken gifts were shot at her and bone shards then got shot out of the walls, she grunted loudly and tried to think of something. She got an idea and summoned ornamental weapons and had them fall and stab her enemies and the shards of the broken gifts stopped floating around. She then summoned ornamental bladed weapons to cut the tentacles and then used them to cut the wall behind her and she left the area.

Greed shot boiling oil at his targets and the skeletal creatures got stuck and began to melt, the new liquid then began floating around and formed into a blob and began shooting the oil back at him. Dark red fire appeared and mixed with Greed's oil and burned brighter, he grunted loudly from the heat and burns and the flames formed Claudius' head and multiplied, they began shooting red blasts at him and he fell to his knees. He ran and jumped around while Claudius' heads in the flames shot fire at him and he dodged them, tentacles appeared and wrapped around him and the fire moved towards him, he panted from the heat and tried to free himself. Greed made oil appear on his robe and the tentacles could not grip him, vines appeared and he grunted when the thorns moved on him and he pulled his limbs inwards and ripped them off, he saw Claudius' faces shoot fire out and he ducked while they hit the wall behind him and put a hole in it, he quickly went in it and exited the area.

Temperance threw the creatures into the walls to destroy them but they reformed and continued attacking her, bone shards began shooting out of the walls around her and she ducked to dodge them, vines came out of the floor and she grunted when they wrapped around her robe's hood and neck area. Thorns cut into her robe and more appeared and to try wrap around her wrists and feet, she used her enhanced strength to stretch her limbs out and break them, she swung her sleeves around and cut Claudius' clones with the thorns but it had no effect, she grabbed the flying bone shards and threw them at her enemies, Claudius' clones grunted loudly when she hit them in their eyes. She began trying to slash her enemies with the bone shards and the skeletal creatures absorbed them into their bodies and grew bigger, the bones that hit them formed new limbs and they tried to smash her with them, she punched the limbs and the bones broke and flew everywhere. The area began to become overcrowded and she could not move much, she turned around and tried punching the wall, the bone shards flew into her and she grunted a little, she did a hard punch and put a hole in it and she went in it.

Gluttony made rats, toads, and snakes appear in the stomachs of Claudius' clones and the skeletal creatures and they tried biting them but they were corrupted by Claudius' clones' presence and they fell out of his abdomen and went to go attack Gluttony. They began trying to bite him apart and he made them disappear with his magic, vines grew out of the floor and wrapped around him, the thorns began cutting into him and he summoned rats and they tried to chew the vines while he tried to break them. Claudius' clones began shooting red blasts at him and tried to make tentacles grow out of his body but Gluttony summoned snakes to appear on their heads and distract them, he then made toads appear and jump around on their heads and Claudius' clones obliterated them with their magic. Gluttony realized he was not going to do well and he made rats try to chew and nimble on the wall behind him but they could not, so he pulled and broke the vines and rubbed the thorns on them to cut a hole, more vines tried to pull him back but he made rats, snakes, and toads appear in midair to block them and exited the area.

Diligence used enhanced physical abilities to fight off her attackers and telekinesis to move the tentacles, vines, and bug legs away from herself. More appeared and she began breaking them apart with her telekinesis and saw there were many more enemies in the area, she shot spiritual blasts out of her robe's sleeves but Claudius' clones caught them with their claws and redirected them to her, she jumped over them and Claudius' clones shot red beams out of their eyes' and at her and she did a backflip in midair to dodge them. The skeletal creatures shot black blobs with tentacles in them out of their mouths at her and she rolled to her left and dodged them, the wall that got hit grew more tentacles out and went after her, she jumped and kicked the blob and destroyed it, she then did a backflip and kicked a skeletal creature and its body broke apart, she then punched and kicked holes into Claudius' clones. More reappeared and the enemies regenerated, she realized there was no end to them and looked for an exit and did not see one, so she bent her knees and jumped as high as she could, she broke the ceiling and exited the area.

Sloth summoned snakes and they entangled themselves on the skeletal creatures, Claudius' clones, tentacles, vines, and bug legs, they bit quickly and aggressively and but their venom had no effect on them. Claudius' clones grew tentacles, vines, and bug legs out of the back of their heads and flanks and replaced their manes and tails, the skeletal creatures stretched their bodies out and destroyed the snakes, their bodies regenerated and there were more snakes now, they continued biting and the skeletal creatures rotated their bones around and changed their forms. The skeletal creatures began shooting bone shards out of their mouths and torsos while Claudius' clones aimed their front hoofs at him and shot their claws while their teeth flew out of their mouths and homed on him. Sloth grunted loudly as he got hit and tried making pits appear to make his attackers fall in, they jumped out and Claudius' clones cast a spell to make red spikes fly out of the pits and hit him, he quickly made a pit appear below himself and he fell into the floor and exited the area.

Chastity tried using her powers to make Claudius' clones and the skeletal creatures fall in love with one another but it did not work, she summoned love from other realms that were not corrupted by Claudius and used it to empower herself. She grew stronger and shot blue blasts at the creatures to destroy them but they reformed, tentacles and vines grew out of the walls and entangled her, she used the love she absorbed to get stronger and broke free and then shot more blasts at Claudius' clones. The skeletal creatures latched onto her and tried to attach themselves onto her robe and take control of her, she had a blue aura surround her body and it exploded and shot them away while their bones flew everywhere, they formed into new creatures and spun their bodies around while trying to punch and swat her multiple times. Chastity began to get entangled by more tentacles and vines and Claudius' clones shot red blasts at her, she grunted and tried to break free but could not, she absorbed more love from the realms Claudius did not corrupt and another blue aura appeared around her, it expanded and a big explosion engulfed the small space, she saw tears in the ceiling and jumped out of the area.

Lust summoned fire and tried to burn Claudius' clones and the skeletal creatures, he floated around and left a trail of fire behind himself. Claudius' clones summoned dark red acid rain and a blizzard filled with bones shaped like hail, he grunted loudly as the bones pelted him and knocked him back, Claudius' clones had more mouths appear on their bodies and they shot red and black streams of dark energy at him. Lust made a shield of fire appear around himself and tried to burn Claudius' clones but they had no effect on them, he bent his knees and held his arms out to the sides and a big fiery explosion appeared that knocked them back and destroyed the skeletal creatures, the clones did a backflips and shot blasts out of their eyes' at him while they landed on the walls. Lust realized his attacks were not doing much and looked for a way out but did not see one, he went to the wall to his right and shot fire onto it, he burned a hole and Claudius' clones held him with their telekinesis, he put his robe's sleeves together and set them on fire, it did not affect them so he raised his arms to make them explode, they got shot around and he exited the area.

Patience used her powers to make the joys of life appear and tried to distract Claudius' clones and the skeletal creatures but it did not work, so she picked them up and began throwing them at them. She began making lots of food and money appear and threw them at the creatures while also trying to bury them in it, Claudius' clones and the skeletal creatures reemerged and tried attacking her and she made herself have the strength of a physically fit person and held them back. She punched the creatures away and threw them around while doing somersaults and backflips to dodge some of the attacks, she did several jump kicks and destroyed the skeletal creatures and then began ripping the bones apart before they could reform. The creatures regenerated and more appeared, she looked around and saw there was almost no space for her to move around, she ran and did a jump kick and tore a wall and left the area.

Wrath summoned blades and ropes and tried to use them to cut and pull apart the skeletal creatures but they reformed and grew back after he pulled a limb or head off, some of the bones rotated around and tried using different attacks. The skeletal creatures switched between shooting black energy out of their mouths, smashing him, and slashing him, he made bladed weapons appear inside them and destroyed them from the inside-out and they grew back and had a different form. Claudius' clones began appearing and tentacles, vines, and bug legs came out of the walls, Wrath summoned ropes to wrap around them and pull on them, they fought back and tried to break free. The skeletal creatures shot bones out of their mouths while Claudius' clones shot beams out of their eyes' to destroy the restraints, Wrath got entangled by the tentacles and vines and the creatures and bug legs attacked him, he quickly made blades appear around himself and inside his attackers and destroyed them, they began to regenerate and he quickly cut the wall behind him and jumped out of the area.

The Judge hit Claudius' clones and skeletal creatures with his hammer and destroyed the skeletal creatures easily but Claudius' clones withstood the attacks, they shot beams and blasts out of their eyes' and mouths and he winced back a little. The skeletal creatures broke apart and the bones shot at him, he hit them with his hammer and destroyed them easily, he hit the floor with his hammer's angelic side and a portal opened, angels corrupted by Claudius' powers flew out and began attacking him, he looked in the portal and saw Claudius' clones were in the realm and attacking the angels, he hit the floor with his hammer's demonic side and opened another portal and demons corrupted by Claudius' powers came out, he looked in and saw Claudius' clones were also in their realm and attacking the demons. He hit his attackers away with his hammer but it did not knock them down much, the angels and demons threw spears at him and he hit them out of the air, they then shot arrows at him and he hit and broke them. The Judge grunted when he got hit by Claudius' clones' beams and he closed the portals but the corrupted angels and demons reopened them, he ducked under the beams and they hit the wall behind him and broke it, he jumped into it and left the area.

The Senses held one another's hands' and did not let go while getting sucked into an area, Taste tugged and pulled the other four into its area, they held one another tightly and skeletal creatures began appearing. Sight and Touch summoned blue wires on their free hands' fingers and thumbs and connected to one another, they ran and jumped around at high speeds and cut the skeletal creatures apart, their bones floated around and shaped and formed different creatures, they shot bone shards at them and the five siblings moved around together at blinding speeds and cut the skeletal creatures apart. They disappeared and Claudius' clones replaced them, they tried to cut them but they turned into black mist and reformed, the clones made their claws and teeth fly and home on them while they shot red blasts and beams at them out of their foreheads, eyes, mouths, and claws, they moved quickly and dodged most of them while the ones that hit them knocked them back a little, the clones began trying to freeze them but they moved and dodged them easily. The Senses cut apart the tentacles, vines, and bug legs were grew out of the floor, walls, and ceiling, they grew back and the severed parts grew their own bodies and took root into the floor, they cut all of them apart again and cut the wall on the other side of the area and went in the hole.

Spirit shot dark blue blasts everywhere and summoned creatures from the uncorrupted realms to aid him, he punched, kicked, grappled, and neck locked the creatures and tore the skeletal creatures apart with his bare hands while summoning a dark blue ghost form of himself to fight off more enemies. The skeletal creatures broke apart and their bones flew around and Spirit swayed and dodged them while trying to catch some of them but could not, he grabbed two bones and slashed Claudius' clones and they grew another head out of their cuts, they shot their teeth and claws out of their mouths and they flew around and Spirit's ghost flew around and tried to possess them but Claudius' clones shot him out, he began shooting dark blue blasts out of his hands and feet and destroyed some of the clones. Spirit summoned a grenade launcher in his hands and fired explosions at his enemies and destroyed them but the clones regenerated and multiplied, arrows and bullets then shot out of the walls and Spirit grunted when they hit him and Claudius' clones cast a spell and tried to control Spirit's ghost and he quickly absorbed it back into his body. He teleported around and tried to dodge the attacks but he got hit and grunted, he saw the area was overcrowded and there was almost no room to move around, he shot two blasts out of his hands and destroyed his attackers again and tried to teleport out but could not, he shot blasts at the ceiling and made a hole and flew out of the area.

Demonicus shot red blasts out of his horns and front hoofs at Claudius' clones, the skeletal creatures, floating black blobs that grew out tentacles and vines, the flying bone shards, knives, daggers, hatchets, sickles, shields, boomerangs, and red claws, teeth, and rocks. Tentacles and vines began growing out of the walls and the area became filled with red fire and tornadoes, the flames spread and Demonicus turned into his shadow pony form and floated around while red spears grew out of his body, he shot them around and destroyed the many projectiles, Claudius' clones grew new heads and limbs out of their cuts, they summoned bows and arrows, crossbows, and guns and began shooting at him. He teleported around to dodge the bullets while shooting blasts at the arrows and bolts and destroyed them, he tried casting a spell to make the bullets disappear but Claudius' clones made them reappear, he floated around quickly and began shooting big red blasts out of his horn and mouth while shooting bullets out of his body. Everything got destroyed but came back, they continued attacking him and he quickly changed back to his unicorn form, he teleported to the ceiling and shot a blast at it to make a hole and went in it.

Adetokunbo slashed his opponents with his boomerangs and threw them around to cut the tentacles and vines and they grew back, they got stuck in the skeletal creatures and he used his magic to electrify them and they were stunned. He flew and got his boomerangs back while Claudius' clones appeared in the area and they began freezing him, he fell onto the floor and the clones tried to corrupt and destroy him from the inside with their magic, he grunted loudly and moved his arms as hard as he could and broke the ice, he slashed his own abdomen and a black blob fell out. The blob floated in midair and shot tentacles and red beams out in all directions and Adetokunbo threw his boomerangs at it and cut it apart while panting heavily, it formed into two floating blobs and they attacked him. He realized it will multiply more if he cuts them more and looked for a way out and did not see one, he cut the ice on his wings and then flew up and tried cutting the ceiling with his boomerangs, he cut a hole and quickly flew out.

Alexia flew and spun around and cut anything that came near her with her two boomerangs, red boomerangs began flying around in the area and she flew around to dodge them. Vines appeared and wrapped around her and she grunted when they cut her, Claudius' clones then appeared and began casting spells to freeze her, she growled while trying to move her arms and grunted loudly when she broke free, she threw her boomerangs at Claudius' clones and they cast shields to appear and block them. She flew around and dodged everything and tried to get her boomerangs but she got shot by Claudius' clones' blasts, she grunted loudly and fell, she saw a boomerang coming and she rolled to her left and dodged it, she grabbed the shields and spun around and she grunted when they began to corrupt her and black tentacles wrapped around her wrists and tried to go under her skin, she held her arms up and Claudius' boomerangs cut them. She flew down and grabbed her boomerangs and she panted heavily while seeing the boomerangs and shields flying around, she flew upside-down and then spun around while holding her boomerangs above her head, she cut a hole in the floor and flew in it.

Elder Hephaestus fought off Claudius' clones with a broadsword and cut them apart but they regenerated and the severed parts grew new bodies, Claudius' heads appeared in the area and began flying around and shooting black blobs at him out of their mouths. They flew away from him and shot their blobs with tentacles, vines, and bug legs growing out of them and trying to wrap around and cut him, he flew around and shot them with his one-handed gun, each shot sent out a scattershot that hit multiple targets but did not stun them, their wounds healed and the bullets were shot out and back at him. Elder Hephaestus got pelted by several bullets and they put holes in his armor, bones then appeared in midair and flew around and he cut them and destroyed them easily. He flew around while dodging all of the projectiles and saw the area will soon be overcrowded, he flew up and tore the ceiling open and flew out.

Diana flew around and attacked with a spear and destroyed the flying black blobs that shot tentacles out everywhere, red fire erupted under her as she flew around and fireballs began shooting out of it and homed on her. She spun her spear around and cut the tentacles while flying around and dodging the fireballs, she spun around with her wings around her and dodged some of the fireballs, she grunted when a few hit her and began melting her armor, she tried flapping her wings to put the flames out but it made them bigger, she tried rubbing the flames but they did not extinguish. Streams of fire flew out and homed on her while bones began shooting out of the walls and vines grew out, Diana panicked while she flew around and could not douse the flames, the fire rose higher and began to burn and melt her armor, she panted heavily and realized she could not see the flying blobs, vines, or bones through the fire. She flew quickly and panicked while looking for an exit, she flew forward as fast as she could while her armor got scratched by thorns, shot at with bones, and burned by fire, she felt parts of her armor getting loose and about to slide off and she tried flying faster, she arrived at a wall and cut it with her spear and flew out.

Hera fought off the creatures with her sledgehammer and smashed and destroyed the skeletal creatures easily, the tentacles, vines, and bug legs winced back from each hit but continued trying to attack her, they wrapped around her sledgehammer and she wrestled with them. Claudius' clones appeared behind and under her alongside more tentacles and vines that restrained her and the clones shot red blasts and beams at her and her armor protected her, she spun around and flew and destroyed the tentacles and vines and then pulled on her sledgehammer and destroyed the tentacles and vines wrapped around it, she flew down and hit the clones away. A red tornado formed in the center of the area and felt it trying to tear her armor off, she flew away from it and black blobs shot out of the floor, walls, and ceiling at her and she flew and spun around and dodged them. She realized fighting and surviving will get harder for her the longer she stayed and looked for a way out but did not see one, she flew to the wall behind her and hit it with her sledgehammer, she broke a hole in it and flew out.

Athena swung axes around and cut the tentacles and vines around her and the flying black blobs near her, skeletal creatures appeared and she could not cut through their bones while Claudius' clones were cut but regenerated and their body parts grew new bodies. She flew around and tried cutting everything but they were replaced and more of Claudius' clones appeared, she stopped cutting them since they were multiplying, she flew and dodged their attacks and more clones came out of the floor, she cut the floating blobs, tentacles, and vines and flew around while looking for a way out. Bones floated around and formed into balls and flew and hit her, she grunted when she got hit and noticed her armor was getting dented and cracked, she took a rifle off of her back and shot them and they fell apart, she shot the blobs and they disintegrated. Claudius' clones shot red blasts and beams at her and they homed on her, she exclaimed when they began melting parts of her armor, she flew around and cut a hole in a wall with her axes and flew out.

Echidna attacked the skeletal creatures and Claudius' clones with a glaive and destroyed them easily, she spun and swung it around and bones scattered everywhere, she slashed the floating black blobs and the tentacles, vines, and bug legs growing out of them and the walls got cut and flew everywhere. The area filled with red water and she began swimming, she swung her glaive much slower than before and her enemies hit her a lot more, she tried punching and kicking them away but her movement was much slower and she could not land a hit, she got entangled by tentacles and vines and the bones flew to under her armor and tried to pry the parts off. She struggled to move and tried to flex and stretch her limbs around, she managed to destroy a few vines, she grabbed the ones around her torso and ripped them apart, she moved slowly and more tentacles and vines appeared and caught up to her quickly and restrained her and pulled her down. She realized she will die if she stayed in the area and moved her limbs around to break her restraints, she then grabbed and ripped the tentacles and vines on her torso, she then grabbed and ripped a hole in the floor while more tentacles and vines wrapped around her, she flung around and ripped them off and then swam out of the area.

Champion Lucius punched and kicked Claudius' clones, the skeletal enemies, floating black blobs, tentacles, vines, bug legs, flying knives, shields, and boomerangs and destroyed them easily, more floating black blobs appeared and tentacles came out of them and tried to restrain Champion Lucius, he pulled them forward and punched and destroyed them. Skulls of various creatures and Claudius' clones' heads appeared and flew in midair while shooting bones and red blasts out of their mouths at him, he got them with his electrified telekinesis and electrocuted and paralyzed them and then tore them apart, he then caught the boomerangs and shields and threw them at his enemies and destroyed some of them. He shot red fire and blue lightning everywhere and he destroyed his attackers easily, they regenerated and there were more enemies than before, he teleported around and began punching and kicking his attackers from their blind spots and behind and destroyed them, the area got filled with water and he continued teleporting. He summoned fire and lightning and the fire extinguished while the lightning electrocuted everybody and Champion Lucius was unaffected, his attackers exploded and all of them and their severed parts regenerated and there were more enemies, he punched the floor and broke it and fell out of the area.

Claudius stood around and watched while his enemies got attacked in his smaller areas, he saw red cracks appear everywhere and everybody came out of the areas and stood up,

"Is everyone here?" Raging Tornado asked, everybody checked and noticed some of the residents of Nature Valley and Dreaming Paradise alongside some harpies, vulcans, and onis were not among them, Claudius exhaled loudly and everybody looked at him, he shot black blasts out that corrupted everything it touched and everybody moved elsewhere, Soul Medium tried firing his arrows at him while Walker, Runner, Sprinter, and Spirit shot spiritual blasts at them to make his exorcism magic stronger and they exploded when they hit Claudius' body, he was unharmed and Claudius swung his arms around and threw red energy shaped like discs that had claws and teeth moving around all over them. Everybody moved or teleported away while the flying discs homed on them and exploded when they hit walls the unicorns put up shields with their magic, the claws and teeth flew everywhere and the harpies cut them with their boomerangs. Claudius punched his fists forward and sent out corrupted versions of fire, water, earth, and wind magic that destroyed everything they touched, Kinkaku jumped over them and did slashes with her sabre and sent out gold waves, they hit Claudius' body and cut him in a few areas, tentacles, vines, and bug legs grew out and all of them had screaming mouths on them with teeth, claws, eyes, tentacles, vines, and bug legs growing out of them. Mother Nature summoned her magic and destroyed the corrupted elements of nature and shot her magic at Claudius, red flames floated out of the hole in his body and they took on faces that let out high pitched screams and everybody covered their ears',

"What the?" Gunslinger asked,

"It's the souls of the natives from the realms that Claudius corrupted." Spirit explained, the souls flew forward while screaming and they shot black blobs and red bullets out of their mouths, Soul Medium said an incantation in a foreign language with his voice echoing and they got engulfed in dark purple flames, Walker, Runner, and Sprinter then shot dark blue flames out of their front hoofs onto them but they continued flying forward.

Claudius held his hands close to one another and red electricity appeared between his claws, big bolts came out of them and began going in all directions, they destroyed everything and the Senses ran forward while all five of them evaded the lightning strikes, they jumped forward and used their razor wires to cut Claudius' body, black liquid spilled out and it took the form of screaming faces that let out high pitched screams, they shot claws and teeth out of the holes that made up their eyes' and mouths, they then transformed into knives and javelins and homed on everybody. Ginkaku hit them away and broke them apart while silver waves coming out of his broadsword hit the ones far away, Claudius then had parts of his body detach themselves from him and they took the forms of angels and demons but were pure black, they flew forward while screeching and roaring, Diplomat and War summoned various creatures who were members of the Anti-Spirit Cult and they attacked them, the red onis smashed them with their weapons while the blue onis cut them apart. Doctor Whooves, Modules, Kinetic, Inertia, Solubility, Solvent, Solute, Graph, Storage, and Data fired all of the bullets, lasers, and missiles in their futuristic armors and used their laser blades to cut and destroy the flying black blobs, claws, teeth, tentacles, vines, and bug legs, Claudius' body opened and heads of many different types of creatures slithered out while roaring, knives, daggers, swords, spears, javelins, whips, cat o' nine tails', big and small hammers, hatchets, axes, maces, clubs, bo staffs, three-sectioned staffs, sickles, scythes, arrows, bullets, boomerangs, and shields flew out of their eyes', mouths, and nostrils. Joker wrote in his book to put up shields and barricades to block the weapons but the bullets still got through and everybody got on their abdomens, he wrote more and made machine gun turrets and missile launchers appear, they fired at the weapons and destroyed them and hit Claudius, he shot a big red blast out of his mouth and it destroyed the barricades and weapons and the unicorns teleported everyone and themselves elsewhere in the area, Tao and his previous incarnations shot blasts at Claudius and destroyed the parts of him that held the various creatures coming out of his body.

The heads of the various creatures that came out of Claudius' body floated around while screeching and continued shooting weapons out of their bodies, Genghis ran and jumped around and cut them with his sword while Gunslinger and Archer shot down the ones he did not get, some of them flew into the floor and formed bodies of their original selves, Master Nocturne flew to Claudius and swung his daggers around and tried to cut him with their razor wires but they scratched him. Black liquid came out of his cuts and took the form of sharp objects and tried to slash and stab everyone, Kinkaku and Ginkaku sent gold and silver waves at him with their swords while Raging Tornado, Earthquake, Tsunami, and Meteorite Hellfire used their elemental magic and made them appear inside his body, The Judge opened portals to the angel realm and demon realm to redirect the flying weapons and corrupted angels and demons came into the area, they attacked everyone and Claudius summoned meteors to fall and everybody's eyes' widened, Archmage Astral Plane cast a spell to multiply everyone and put shields up while Soul Medium used his magic to put his powdered herbs and spices in a circle and said an incantation in a foreign language, his voice echoed and a barrier of dark purple flames appeared. The meteors hit all of the shields and every impact triggered an earthquake and shockwaves, the ponies exclaimed while they got knocked back, the meteors broke into pieces and began flying around and trying to go through the shields, Archmage Astral Plane cast a spell and shot the pieces back at Claudius, they merged with his body and formed armor. Everybody realized Claudius will use more spells if they did not put him down now and Archmage Astral Plane put the shields down, Doctor Whooves, Modules, Kinetic, Inertia, Solubility, Solvent, Solute, Graph, Storage, and Data shot lasers and missiles, Jones, Joker, Darwin, Tao, Soul Medium, Archmage Astral Plane, Arcana, Demonicus, and the unicorns of Dreaming Paradise shot magic blasts, Demonicus, Daylight Dimmer and Starburn shot hatred magic, Cassius, Mustang, and the bipedal ponies shot wind magic, Walker, Runner, Sprinter, and Spirit shot spiritual energy, Raging Tornado, Earthquake, Tsunami, Meteorite Hellfire, Mother Nature, and the residents of Nature Valley shot magic blasts of the four elements of nature, Gunslinger, Master Nocturne, Robin, the Pegasi of Dreaming Paradise, Elder Hephaestus, Diana, Hera, Athena, Echidna, and the vulcans fired guns, Genghis, Archer, Feral, Commander Lionheart, Paladin, Night Witch, Red Baron, and the earth ponies of Dreaming Paradise fired bows and arrows, Kinkaku and Ginkaku swung their swords and sent out waves with their willpower magic, Adetokunbo, Alexia, and the other harpies threw boomerangs with yellow electricity on them, and Champion Lucius shot fire and lightning magic while the red onis shot fire magic and the blue onis shot lightning magic, all of them aimed for the center of Claudius' body and a big explosion appeared and seemed to destroy him.

Claudius did not reform but everybody kept their guards up since the places were still corrupted, Claudius reformed and he now had two big bat-like wings made out of black liquid and interwoven bug legs come out of his shoulder blades, he flew around and flapped his wings, he created wind gusts that destroyed everything they touched while red claws flew out of his wings, Demonicus turned into his shadow pony form and shot red spears and arrows out of his body and destroyed them. Claudius clapped his hands together and it created a loud sound and everybody covered their ears' while a shockwave came out and destroyed everything it touched, small red beams then shot out of the mouths, eyes, claws, teeth, tentacles, vines, and bug legs on his hands and a big red blast shot out of his fists afterwards, the beams burned anything they touched while the blast destroyed the floor and it spread, Champion Lucius tried to hold him in place with his electrified telekinesis but he teleported out of it. Claudius made duplicates of himself appear and screaming faces grew out of their bodies, they shot bone shards out of their bodies and Doctor Whooves locked onto all of them, he shot lasers out and destroyed them, Claudius and his clones then began shooting acid out of their mouths and they homed on everybody, Kinkaku's eyes widened and she quickly swung her sabre and the waves destroyed them but there was now more flying acid. Tao and his other six incarnations used their magic together and tried to gather all of the Claudius' together, Arcana got an idea and cast a spell on them and made skeletal, shadow, and soul versions of them appear, all twenty eight of them shot a blast at Claudius and his clones and they grunted loudly but were not destroyed.

Claudius snickered and he made skeletal clones of himself appear and their bones moved separately from one another and tried to smash them, the earth ponies from Dreaming Paradise attacked with their blunt weapons while the ponies wearing futuristic armor with endoskeletons and exoskeletons punched and destroyed them with their enhanced physical strength. Ginkaku swung his sword around and sent silver waves at all of the enemies and they were cut apart, the skeletal clones got cut into pieces while Claudius and his clones received deep cuts but they regenerated,

"Nothing's working!" Meteorite Hellfire said,

"I'm getting to my wit's end as well." Night Witch added,

"Any of you got a plan?" Solute questioned,

"I can try giving you all more weapons and armor." Joker suggested,

"Thanks, but it's not helping." Elder Hephaestus reminded,

"What about that spell you all taught me?" Tao asked,

"That's only for those who have reincarnated." Arcana answered,

"Do you guys have anything similar?" Soul Medium inquired,

"Best we got is a spell that creates an afterimage of yourself to double all of your power." Archmage Astral Plane stated,

"I'll take it." Jones said, the others agreed,

"Alright, let's cast it." Arcana said, and she and the unicorns of Dreaming Paradise did. Claudius and his clones and skeletal clones continued their attacks and shockwaves appeared from their claws, teeth, and bone shards growing bigger and hitting the floor, everybody had an afterimage behind themselves and all of their powers and abilities doubled, Claudius' weapons began flying around and attacking them again and everybody shot all of their long-range weapons again and they were now twice as powerful, they all aimed at the original Claudius and a shockwave appeared and it destroyed him and all of his clones. Claudius and his clones came back and they made the entire area get engulfed in fire, flooded with water, have rocks and boulders grow out of the floor and fall from the ceiling, ice blocks fall from the ceiling, red tornadoes appear everywhere, and red lighting strikes come down that sent out smaller bolts and sparks, everybody had trouble moving while Diplomat and War were stuck in place, they summoned marine animals from various realms and tried to swim to the enemies but the fire burned them and the tornadoes tore them apart, Greed shot boiling oil but it floated in the water and did not go anywhere, Lust tried to control the flames but could not, Spirit teleported to Claudius and the clones and used dark blue whips made of razor wires and tried cutting them apart, tentacles and vines grew out and went after him and he teleported. Darwin swam around easily with his seapony part and he tried making dark crystals grow in Claudius' body, he made them break apart and the shards flew after him, he teleported around and shot big blasts at him and blew parts of him off but they grew back, Champion Lucius used his electrified telekinesis on all of the attackers and they shot beams, blasts, bone shards, and bladed weapons at him, he teleported and dodged them and then ripped all of them apart and the disasters disappeared.

Everybody except Darwin, Genghis, Spirit, Diplomat, War, Optimist, Pessimist, Passive, Aggressive, The Judge, the Seven Virtues, the Seven Sins, the Senses, Mother Nature, Tsunami, the elemental ponies, and the vulcans gasped for air, Joker looked at his book and saw it was still fine, he wrote in it to give everyone oxygen tanks and they caught their breaths quickly and made it disappear, Claudius and his clones then reappeared and began attacking while Claudius' head detached itself and another grew in its place, it then multiplied and they floated around. Some of them shot beams, blasts, claws, teeth, tentacles, vines, and bug legs out of their eyes', mouths, nostrils, and where their ears' should be from afar while some went to the others and tried to bite them, Pessimist ran around and touched the heads to make them lose the will to fight and Aggressive punched them while shooting fire out of his fists at the heads far away. They caught on fire and the flames rose, faces appeared in the fire and smoke and had angry expressions while they screamed and screeched, they flew forward while shooting knives out of their mouths and Gluttony made rats, toads, and snakes appear in their mouths and stomachs, Claudius, his clones, and his skeletons flexed their bodies and shot them out at them, they became corrupted by Claudius' body and had black liquid on them, they changed into Claudius' pony form and Demonicus shot a blast and destroyed them. Archmage Astral Plane and Arcana cast a spell and made everybody except Diplomat, War have skeleton, shadow, and soul duplicates of themselves while Genghis got a clone of his body before he died, everybody was now four times more powerful and they fought off Claudius and his clones while Diplomat and War continued summoning creatures from other realms to aid them, everybody focused on Claudius and shot all of their long-range weapons and magic at him, they aimed for the center of his body and he grunted, the smoke cleared and he was still standing, he shot his weapons out of his body while making red water appear and faces of him appeared in it, they shot beams and blasts out their eyes' and mouths, Archmage Astral Plane cast another spell and afterimages appeared behind everybody and their duplicates, they were all now eight times more powerful and shot their weapons and magic at the center of Claudius' body again, he screamed and everything disappeared, everybody kept their guards up and there was nothing for a few seconds,

"You all are proving to be more troublesome than all of my opponents, it seems I have to absorb you all into my body and make you a part of me after all." Claudius said, he was nowhere to be seen but heard under them, a black liquid appeared at everybody's feet and they got absorbed in, they screamed and struggled to break free but could not, everybody fell in while Claudius reappeared in his true form and watched them get consumed.

Claudius stood and looked around, he turned around and opened portals to different realms while chuckling and looked for the next ones to corrupt, explosions appeared behind him and he quickly turned around hearing walking, he saw Demonicus, Mother Nature, and Spirit come out first, he then saw Champion Lucius emerge and then Darwin and Tao with his six previous incarnations behind him, they walked forward and scowled at him while Claudius raised his fists. Champion Lucius tried to hold him in place with his electrified telekinesis but he absorbed it into his body and shot it back at him, he dodged it while Darwin charged at him and tried to ram him with his horn, Claudius swatted him away and Tao and his previous incarnations shot blasts at him, he ran and dodged each blast and punched Tao in his face, he grunted while he flew through the air. Mother Nature shot boulders at him and he jumped and kicked them, they broke into pieces and went to her, she jumped over them and tried to freeze him in an ice block, he flexed his body and broke out while Spirit made dark blue spears float around him and shot them at him, he grabbed and threw two of them back while punching and kicking the others out of the air, Demonicus then pressed his hoofs on where his ears should be and then jumped back and tried to land on the floor with his abdomen and smash Claudius' face into it, he bent his lower-body over himself and wrapped his feet around Demonicus' neck and then moved him to under himself and he grunted when his body hit the floor with Claudius standing on him. Darwin and Tao teleported back to him and they combined their blasts together and Claudius crossed his arms across his torso and blocked it while shooting claws and teeth out of his forearms at them, Champion Lucius teleported around and hid behind the smoke, he punched and kicked Claudius from his blind spots and behind while trying to burn and electrocute him with his fire and lightning magic, Claudius made clones of himself grow out of his sides and back and they punched Champion Lucius away, he did a backflip and landed on his feet.

More explosions appeared out of the floor and Genghis, Commander Lionheart, Paladin, Archmage Astral Plane, Arcana, Master Nocturne, Robin, The Judge, the Seven Virtues, the Seven Sins, the Senses, Elder Hephaestus, Diana, Hera, Athena, Echidna, and the other vulcans emerged, they went to go fight Claudius and The Judge tried to hit him with his hammer, Claudius kicked him in his abdomen and he grunted and got stunned and Claudius then punched him in his temple and tried to inject black liquid into his head from his arm, the Senses moved at blinding speeds and cut him apart with their razor wires and The Judge threw Claudius' arm off, all of his body parts went together and reformed into him. Commander Lionheart jumped to him and tried to tackle him down, Claudius hit him in his chin with his wrist with an upwards strike, he grabbed Claudius' head with his hind hoofs and threw him over himself while he fell onto the floor, Claudius got ready to do a somersault and land on his feet but Master Nocturne and Robin flew to him and cut his spine with their daggers, he fell on the floor and Paladin then smashed his head with her shield, he regenerated and everybody tried to jump on him but he got up and spun his feet around, he kicked everybody away and then landed on his feet. Archmage Astral Plane and Arcana looked for the others with their magic and saw Claudius shoot beams and blasts at them, they put up shields while the vulcans tried attacking him with their various weapons and he grabbed the close-range weapons and turned them against them and threw the vulcans at the ones that were flying and shooting at him with long-range weapons, they grabbed the vulcans he threw at them and he shot beams and blasts at them out of his entire body, Tao teleported around and tried blocking them with his shields but could not, the red and blue onis then climbed out of the black liquid on the floor and they tried attacking Claudius with their weapons and magic. Claudius swayed and dodged their attacks while the ones that hit him did not phase him, he shot claws and teeth out of his torso at them and they smashed and cut them while Darwin appeared behind him and shot a big blast at Claudius' back, he made a duplicate of himself grow out of his back and shot red beams and blasts at him while Darwin teleported and Archmage Astral Plane then shot a destructive blast from above Claudius, it hit him and destroyed part of the floor.

Everybody tried destroying the floor and looking for the others but Claudius came out of each hole and everybody fought his arms off, he came back up and shot spears and javelins out of his mouth, the floor broke in more places and Daylight Dimmer, Sprinter, Meteorite Hellfire, Kinkaku, Ginkaku, Soul Medium, Adetokunbo, Alexia and the other harpies emerged. They all joined in to fight Claudius but he slid and flew around while making duplicates of himself and they blocked and parried all of their moves with their hands' and punched and kicked them, they grunted while his attacks made them fly away and they felt black blobs on their bodies trying to burrow into them, they thew them off and Daylight Dimmer, Sprinter, Meteorite Hellfire, Kinkaku, Ginkaku, and Soul Medium shot their magic and powers at him, Claudius and his duplicates jumped to their sides and dodged them. The floor broke and Starburn, Joker, Cassius, Mustang, the other bipedal ponies, Runner, Earthquake, Gunslinger, Feral, Night Witch, and Red Baron emerged, they joined in fighting Claudius and he shot red lightning out of his body while Joker wrote in his book to make an artillery shell fall on Claudius, a big explosion happened and the unicorns teleported everybody and themselves away while Earthquake made rock and stone shields with her powers, the smoke cleared and Claudius was unharmed with his arms across his torso and his hands on his shoulders, he shot the artillery shell shards out of his body and it flew to them, Gunslinger ran and dodged them and shot at his head, left side of his chest, and center of his body with his assault rifle, the bullet holes disappeared and the bullets shot out of his body, Arcana teleported him back to behind their shields and the bullets soon stopped. Demonicus broke the floor with his magic and found Diplomat, War, Passive, Aggressive, Optimist, and Pessimist, he brought them up with his telekinesis while Doctor Whooves, Jones, Modules, Kinetic, Inertia, Solubility, Solvent, Solute, Graph, Storage, Data, Walker, Raging Tornado, Archer, the residents of Nature Valley, and the residents of Dreaming Valley emerged, Claudius looked on in disbelief and everybody quickly fired their magic and long-range weapons at him together and he grunted when he got hit and exploded, the smoke cleared and he regenerated.

Claudius multiplied and he made Blade Claudius, Spear Claudius, Whip Claudius, Hammer Claudius, Axe Claudius, Club Claudius, Bo Staff Claudius, Three-Sectioned Staff Claudius, Sickle Claudius, Bow Claudius, Gun Claudius, Boomerang Claudius, and Shield Claudius reappear,

"Oh, not this again." Kinkaku complained, Fist Claudius then cast a spell and gave himself and the other Claudius' skeletal duplicates and everybody's eyes' widened. Red fire, water, ice, boulders, rocks, tornadoes, lightning strikes, non-elemental magic waves appeared while arrows, bullets, shields, and boomerangs flew everywhere, the skeletal Claudius' also shot bone shards everywhere, everybody exclaimed when they got hit and the harpies threw their boomerangs and they homed on all of the Claudius', they teleported around and evaded them while Sickle Claudius and Skeletal Sickle Claudius moved at blinding speeds and cut everyone. Bo Staff Claudius, Skeletal Bo Staff Claudius, Three-Sectioned Staff Claudius, and Skeletal Three-Sectioned Staff Claudius extended the length of their weapons and hit everyone while sending out wind gusts that cut anything they touched. The unicorns from Dreaming Paradise tried casting spells to dispel all of the Claudius' but they teleported around and evaded the zaps, Club Claudius and Skeletal Club Claudius hit the floor with their clubs and maces and they created shockwaves and lightning strikes, everybody moved carefully while Darwin and Demonicus turned to their shadow pony forms and shot their blasts at them while Demonicus shot spears out of his body with his hatred magic, Fist Claudius and Skeletal Fist Claudius punched and kicked them while Blade Claudius and Skeletal Blade Claudius cut and broke them. Whip Claudius and Skeletal Whip Claudius hit their whips and cat o' nine tails' in all directions and sent red waves out that cut everything, Diplomat and War summoned creatures to help them fight while Wrath summoned rope and blades to restrain and cut all of the Claudius' but they broke free, Archmage Astral Plane cast a spell and gave everybody except Diplomat and War shadow, skeletal, and soul duplicates of themselves while Genghis got a duplicate of his original body instead of a soul duplicate, everybody became four times more powerful and he cast a spell to give everybody an afterimage and double their current powers and abilities, everybody evaded and destroyed the Claudius' easily and only Fist Claudius remained, he quickly shot a big red blast at them and a big explosion appeared and a mushroom cloud appeared while Archmage Astral Plane cast another spell.

Claudius watched and waited for the smoke to clear to see if anybody survived, he watched and saw a silhouette of Champion Lucius, he got ready and the smoke cleared, he saw him and he quickly a big red blast at him and Champion Lucius ran at blinding speeds and punched him in the center of his body, Claudius' body broke apart and he grunted when he hit the floor, he looked on and his eyes' widened when he saw transparent images of everybody else and their shadow, skeletal, and soul duplicates alongside Genghis' body duplicate and an afterimage behind them,

"No, it can't be." Claudius said while reeling back a little,

"It is, we all fused into one and can use each other's magic and powers now alongside the spells making each of us eight times more powerful than our usual selves, follow my lead, everyone." Champion Lucius said, and all of them went into him. Claudius shot blasts as quickly as he could and desperately while Champion Lucius ran and an afterimage of his shadow, skeletal, and soul self alongside everybody else and their duplicates appeared behind him, he punched Claudius in his face and he screamed when his head and torso split open and quickly regenerated, he tried punching him but Champion Lucius ducked and then kicked the back of his right leg with his right ankle, it broke alongside his abdomen and he fell over while regenerating. He sprung himself back up and Champion Lucius began kicking him in his chin with his right foot, each kick made his neck and shoulders stretch out and they soon tore open but healed, Claudius shot beams, blasts, claws, teeth, tentacles, vines, and bug legs out of his body and Champion Lucius shot blasts of multiple colors out of his hands and destroyed them, Claudius' eyes widened when he saw it was hatred magic, spiritual energy, fire magic, water magic, earth magic, wind magic, lightning magic, exorcism magic, light magic, and willpower magic all fused together. Claudius began flying and teleporting away and Champion Lucius caught up to him easily and punched and kicked him, he grunted and screamed while each hit split open or severed parts of his body and they regenerated, he teleported and grabbed Claudius' head with his feet and tried to throw him over himself and ripped his head off, it regenerated and Champion Lucius began doing punches and kicks at blinding speeds while Claudius made regular shields and magic shields appear alongside extra arms, tentacles, vines, and bug legs to block him but he broke each one with one hit, he punched his right arm through a layer of vines and shot the various types of magic at Claudius' head, he screamed and got stunned while Champion Lucius punched his right fist into his forehead and shot the various magic types into him, he got destroyed and screamed but regenerated and groaned while stumbled and dizzy,

"Hmm, Joker, I would like the endoskeleton that enhances one physical capabilities even farther." Champion Lucius requested, and Joker wrote in his book to give him a black frame on his body,

"Done." Joker said,

"Thank you." Champion Lucius replied, Claudius still moved side-to-side while groaning and Champion Lucius put all of his weight and strength into his right arm and punched Claudius in the center of his body as hard as he could while grunting loudly while afterimages of everybody else and their duplicates appeared behind him and his duplicates, Claudius screamed loudly while Champion Lucius shot the magic types into his body and blew him away and the shockwave made them spread to his entire body.

Everybody appeared around Champion Lucius and their duplicates disappeared, Claudius tried to regenerate but his body became formless and he screamed while the punch and various types of magic broke his body apart, eyes and mouths appeared everywhere on him and they screamed and screeched loudly, they exploded and faded into black mist,

"NO!!" Claudius screamed and his body floated in the air and exploded while everybody's magic spreading in all directions and everyone took cover while Claudius' corruption in the realms became undone and everything returned to normal. Everybody groaned and woke up and saw the Void was back to normal, The Judge, Seven Virtues, and Seven Sins went to their stations and tried to judge Claudius' soul,

"Strange." The Judge commented,

"What?" Jones asked,

"Claudius has no soul." The Judge replied, everybody murmured,

"Well, let's go home." Doctor Whooves stated, and everybody went back to their hideout. They looked at the uncorrupted realm and everybody smiled slowly and began cheering,

"We did it!" Tsunami chirped,

"We won!" Kinkaku hollered,

"I believe this calls for a celebration." Mother Nature stated, everybody agreed and they all partied, played music, and danced all afternoon, everyone then did a funeral for everyone that died against Claudius when nighttime came and The Judge, Seven Virtues, and Seven Sins judged how they were in life and sent their souls to appropriate place for them to go to and spend the afterlife in,

"Well, it's time for us to home, pay us a visit sometime." Alexia stated,

"We'll be waiting for you guys." Elder Hephaestus added,

"We have to rebuild first." Echidna, everybody laughed,

"Come on, everypony, let's go home." Doctor Whooves said, and they did and they all rested. Doctor Whooves woke up the next morning and looked at all of the money he made from his job as a therapist and locked it away since he now had enough money to pay all of his bills for the rest of his life, he headed outside and saw it was bright and sunny day and Ponyville was peaceful with everybody getting on with his days, he smiled and walked out of his home to go enjoy his day and went to go see Roseluck and Derpy.