The universe 9 has been completely erased, this has stunned the representatives of universes 3, 4 and 6, in addition, there were also warriors on the platform who had no words to describe what they had seen, including some participants in the universe. they had realized that this situation was very serious, Yellow Diamond saw with fear the stands where the universe 9 was now empty.

"No......They're not there," Yellow Diamond said trembling with fear.

"The universe 9 has disappeared," Blue Diamond said equally her frightened.

"I can't believe what I saw," Neptune said.

"We knew that this could happen, we should not lose any warrior," Neptune's wife replied.

"It's a shame that the universe 9 has disappeared due to his incompetence," Time Baby said.

"I must admit that it is something disturbing," Patrolman Blendin Blandin said, who was also a representative of the universe 11.

"Don't worry, with Bill Cipher on our side it's impossible for us to lose."

"What happened?" Zeno asked.

"Why did they stop fighting?" Grand Zeno asked.

"They are only a little impressed, I ask all the warriors to keep fighting," Daishinkan said, after those words all the warriors would continue with their fights.

In the meantime, near the central pillar was Fluttershy and Spike avoiding as much as possible the fighting, after Fluttershy saw how the universe 9 was erased, a great fear had grown in her. After walking, Spike asked him to stop for a few minutes to think of some strategy in case a warrior attacked them.

"Although our universe has not lost anyone, I am very afraid," Fluttershy said in a low voice.

"You don't have to worry, I assure you that if we work together nothing will happen to us, I promise you," Spike said causing a smile of joy in Fluttershy.

"Thanks, Spike," Fluttershy said as she hugged him.

"Don't worry," he said responding the hug.

At that time a large missile would appear speeding towards the two warriors of the universe 7, Spike would notice this attack immediately and destroy the missile with a flare of fire fired from his mouth, after that unexpected attack the two warriors would see the human 'Sheen' of the universe 3 with a special armor as the rest of his companions.

"Not so fast! I've come to get them out of this game," Sheen said.

"Let's flee Fluttershy," Spike said.

"No," she replied, frowning.

"What did you say?" Spike asked confused.

"Rainbow Dash told me to hide, but I want to help our team with something, I will not hide anymore!" Fluttershy exclaimed raising her wings and heading full speed towards Sheen.

"I hope you like explosions," the human said, firing two high-powered missiles at Fluttershy.

But to Sheen's surprise, the young Pegasus would dodge the two missiles very easily, Fluttershy would hit the child's armor with enough force causing some cracks, Sheen would use the propulsion rockets to rise a few meters from his enemy. The boy would look towards the ground realizing that Fluttershy had disappeared from his sight, Sheen immediately looked towards other directions of the platform trying to look for Fluttershy.

"Where could he have hidden?" Sheen asked in his head.

"Here!" Fluttershy exclaimed who was above Sheen without his noticing.

"What---" then Fluttershy would hit Sheen's face with enough force to push him to the floor of the platform.

Before the child collided with the ground, Spike would fire a strong flare of fire towards Sheen, the attack would directly impact the human of the universe 3. The explosion caused Sheen to end up outside the limits of the platform, the human would finally disappear into the deep emptiness.

"Mr. Sheen of Universe 3, has been eliminated," Daishinkan said.

"Hmmm, Sheen.......outside," Grand Zeno said, marking him on his Godpad.

"They are falling more and more," Zeno said very happily.

Sheen would appear in the stands of his team just uncomfortable having lost, in addition to feeling quite upset about not having foreseen the strategy that Fluttershy used to get him off the track, even Cindy and Libby looked at him with contempt.

"You made it Spike!" Fluttershy said very happily.

"You too, you are incredible," the little dragon replied.

"That's nothing incredible," the warrior Barnacle Boy said, who saw Fluttershy's fight and Spike with Sheen.

"Let me handle it, Spike," Fluttershy said.

"Are you her sure?" Spike asked.

"I must confess that I am a little afraid, but we can not let our universe lose," Fluttershy said.

"Good, but be careful," Spike said.

Then Fluttershy would walk towards the old man, although his appearance indicated that it was easy to overcome, the reality was that had to be careful when confronting him, then both warriors would run to fight.

On another side of the platform, the Lion warrior had been taken out by Trixie with a blue ray from his horn, taking advantage of the fact that the animal was very weak from all his previous fights, Starlight was at his side as they have been since the tournament began.

"Many are easy to beat," Trixie said, very her confident.

"Remember that there are quite dangerous participants, remember the woman of fire who became giant," Starlight said.

"The universe 2 easily defeated her, there is nothing to worry about," Trixie replied still quite confident.

"You should reconsider that," a very deep woman's voice said.

Both Ponies would look behind their backs to find out who the voice was from, to their surprise they saw that it was Jasper (U2) who had stopped looking for Flash Sentry, considering him as an unimportant rival, when they saw her, they knew it was different from the warriors they had faced before. Jasper looked at the Ponies believing that like humans in universe 6, they would not be any threat to her.

"First I face weak humans, now also colored horses, there is no doubt that their universes will be the next ones to be erased," Jasper said with contempt.

"Do not underestimate us, our appearance has nothing to do with power," Trixie said, as confident as she was a moment ago.

"You are the ones who should not underestimate me," Jasper said, preparing to attack.

Starlight and Trixie knew very well that they had to fight as a team to defeat that powerful gem, Jasper jumped with all his strength towards the two Ponies, they also jumped towards Jasper at the same time, the helmets of the warriors of the universe 7 and the fist of Jasper would crash causing a loud rumble, the three participants moved apart after crashing their fists. Trixie would launch a blue ray with high power that would receive by Jasper causing a strong explosion, Jasper would come out of the explosion that caused Trixie's thunderbolt, hitting her hard with her right fist.

The sorcerous Pony would crash into the ground causing some cracks in the platform, Jasper would take Trixie up from the ground to the height of his face, before the gem hurt the warrior of the universe 7, Starlight would hit the face of Jasper with a purple ray throwing her a few meters from Trixie, Starlight would help her friend to get up to continue fighting against her enemy, Jasper would rise with a little difficulty from the ground with a face of anger, on the other hand, Starlight and Trixie kept a smile of confidence in their faces, again the three warriors would go towards them to fight.

Fluttershy repeatedly beat Barnacle Boy without giving him time to rest, Spike was following the two warriors as they advanced during their fight to help Fluttershy in case she could not win, near the edge of the platform, Fluttershy would hit Barnacle Boy in the chin, knocking him down, the old man would stop moving when he fell to the ground causing a bit of fear in Fluttershy.

"Huh? are you okay, sir?" Fluttershy asked with a little fear.

"Oh no, if he's dead we'll be disqualified," Spike said touching his forehead that began to sweat.

"It can't be, I did not want to do that," Fluttershy said quite her nervously.

"Let me see if it breathes," Spike said approaching the warrior of the universe 4.

At that time Barnacle would open his eyes and kick Spike with enough force to throw it into the air, Fluttershy was her impressed by that cowardly attack of a renowned superhero of the universe 4, Barnacle would begin to hit the Spike's body repeatedly to get Near the edge of the platform, Spike immediately realized what Barnacle wanted to do. When they finally reached the edge of the track, the warrior kicked Spike out of the platform, Spike covered his eyes with his arms for the fall that was going to experiment.

But at that moment the little dragon could feel that someone was holding him, Spike would open his eyes realizing that Fluttershy had flown at the exact moment, preventing Spike from being eliminated, immediately Fluttershy would return to the track carrying Spike on his back, Barnacle was quite upset because his strategy had not worked.

"Are you okay, Spike?" Fluttershy asked.

"Yes, thanks for helping me climb" the little dragon replied.

"We must do something with that man before he tries something else," Fluttershy said looking angrily at Barnacle Boy.

"I have an idea, but I need you to go behind his back," Spike said.

"Okay," Fluttershy replied, flying towards Barnacle's back, he observed both fighters without knowing the strategy they were going to use.

Spike would create a small green fireball and hold it with her hand, then she would throw it to Barnacle Boy who had no problem dodging it, the fireball would now head towards Fluttershy, she did not know what to do and would hit the fireball returning it to Spike, he hit the ball of fire with his fist sending it back to Fluttershy but a little bigger, she would return the attack with her helmet towards Spike again, the dragon would push the fireball to Fluttershy for the third time making her even bigger.

At that moment Fluttershy realized Spike's plan and returned the fireball to the dragon again, this process was repeated several times increasing the size of the fireball as well as the speed in which he was traveling, Barnacle Boy was having many difficulties to dodge the fireball.

"That thing is getting bigger and faster!" the man said as he dodged the ball of fire with great difficulty.

"This is for deceiving us!" Fluttershy exclaimed, throwing the fireball that was now in her hooves.

"Finish him!" Spike exclaimed with a confident smile.

The fireball was so big that Barnacle Boy had no chance to dodge her, the attack caused a powerful explosion that ejected the warrior from the universe 4 from the platform's limits at a great speed, later, Barnacle Boy disappeared into the deep void that existed outside the track, it would appear in the stands of his team.

"Mr. Barnacle Boy from universe 4, has been eliminated," Daishinkan said.

"Let's see, Barnacle Boy........Outside," Zeno said, dialing on the Godpad.

"Good job guys!" Princess Celestia exclaimed full of happiness.

"Keep in that way!!" Luna said equally happily.

"You did great, Fluttershy," Spike said, approaching his friend.

"Thank you, you also helped a lot" she replied while smiling.

"I did not know you could fight against someone, you're usually very her shy," commented the dragon.

"Yes, I had never needed physical violence to win something."

"Collides that helmet," Spike said, raising his arm.

"Hmmm, it's okay," Fluttershy said crashing his helmet with Spike's hand.

Before they could continue talking, a small ball of water would impact on the back of Spike's neck but without receiving any damage, the dragon would turn around and be hit by another water ball in the face without suffering damage again, the two warriors of universe 7 they saw the participant Mermaid Man of universe 4 who was a friend and companion of Barnacle Boy.

"Hmmm, I can help you, sir," Fluttershy said her confused.

"I'm going to eliminate them from the track for having expelled my friend Barnacle Boy," the old man said throwing a ball of water towards Fluttershy which would impact her without damaging her.

"I'm not her sure I'm doing this," Fluttershy said a little uncomfortably, looking at Spike.

"Don't worry, now it's my turn," the little dragon commented taking a few steps forward.

spike would take the breath, and shoot a cloud of black smoke that would leave Mermaid Man without visibility, the man would try to find Spike and Fluttershy but the black smoke would prevent that from happening, the smoke began to cause discomfort in the warrior along with a bit of difficulty in breathing. Mermaid Man managed to get out of that cloud of smoke only to find an unexpected surprise, Spike had taken advantage of Mermaid Man's time of distraction to expel his maximum power in a special attack.

"I hope this does not cause me any disqualification!" Spike said about to launch his special attack.

"Ah! Wait a minute, I think we can fix it," Mermaid Man said trying to stop Spike.

"GOODBYE!" Spike screamed with all his strength throwing a grand burst of fire from his mouth.

"OH NOOOOO---" the old man screamed as Spike's attack hit him directly, the burst of fire pushing Mermaid several meters away from the platform until they could no longer see him".

"Mr. Mermaid of universe 4, has been eliminated," Daishinkan said.

"Hmmm, Mermaid........outside," Grand Zeno said, marking his photo on the Godpad.

"They keep falling more," Zeno said happily.

"Yes, many are falling," Grand Zeno said.

"I could not expect more from Spike glorious," Cadence said excitedly.

"You're pretty strong Spike," Celestia said from the stands.

"That's right, there is no doubt that it was a good idea for Twilight to include him in the tournament," Luna commented while smiling.

"Thanks, you guys are great too!" Spike said with a thumbs up, closing his eyes and smiling.

The little dragon began to boast and thank Cadence's and Celestia's compliments without realizing that a shadow was approaching stealthily.

"Thank you very much, it was about time that I eliminate someone without any help," Spike said smiling even with his eyes closed.

"It's also time for you to come out of the tournament," a rather mysterious male voice said.

Spike would turn around with a frown to see who had spoken to him, but the mysterious man would use his gray tail to hit Spike's face with a great force that would throw him off the battlefield disappearing instantly.

"No!" Fluttershy exclaimed who had realized too late to save Spike.

"I can't believe it," Celestia said who had changed her face with happiness to one completely scared.

"Spike!" Cadence exclaimed who had been her surprised by this unexpected act.

"He trusted too much, this is not good," Celestia said, touching her forehead with embarrassment with her right helmet.

After a few seconds in which the Grand Zeno marked the picture of Spike in the GodPad, he finally appeared in the stands.

"............" Spike would remain silent making a face of shame.

"Why did you lower your guard?" Luna asked, a little her annoyed.

"It was an oversight, now they're going to believe I'm a failure," Spike said very embarrassedly.

"Don't say that Spike, we do not think you're a failure," Cadence replied.

"We know," Luna commented with an annoyed look.

Fluttershy would look at the person responsible for Spike being eliminated, saw one of the warriors in the universe 10, it was a humanoid lizard dressed in a suit named 'Toffee', Fluttershy was very her upset about what had happened to the little dragon.

"How could you do something as cruel as an attack from behind?" Fluttershy asked with a frown.

"I just got rid of a nuisance that would not last at all in this tournament, only forward the inevitable" Toffee responded grinning maliciously.

Fluttershy flew to Toffee to attack him to avenge Spike, but Toffee would twist his tail around Fluttershy's neck causing him to stop in his attack, the Pegasus would try to break free but Toffee would squeeze Fluttershy's neck with his tail cutting off his breath, the warrior of the universe 10 would begin to pummel Fluttershy's stomach with his fists for a few seconds.

"I see you're not as strong as you look," Toffee said, then he would slam Fluttershy to the ground with great force, leaving her dazed.

"No........" Fluttershy said in a weak voice.

"Don't worry, I will not take you off the track to eliminate you, for now, I prefer that you stay knowing you could not save your friends," Toffee said looking at Fluttershy who was very her exhausted because of the blows.

"What are you going to do?" Fluttershy asked trying to get up.

"I'd like to stay, but I have to go, I'll find another fool to lower his guard and allow me to expel him," Toffee said as he walked away until he disappeared in the explosions of other battles.

"Fluttershy is very her exhausted, someone must help her before any other warrior wants to take advantage and take it out," Cadence said.

"Twilight!" Spike shouted from the stands, drawing the attention of the friendship princess.

"Spike!?" Twilight exclaimed her confused and shocked when she saw Spike in the stands. "Who has eliminated you?" Twilight asked.

"That does not matter, Fluttershy is near you, she is very hurt, help her please," Spike said, pointing to the location of Fluttershy.

"Okay," Twilight replied, flying to where Fluttershy was.

Meanwhile, Starlight and Trixie were getting into trouble with Jasper who was being her defeated by the teamwork of the two Ponies of universe 7, Starlight would fire a purple bolt at Jasper who, full of fury, would stop the attack using his fists, Trixie would appear behind Jasper to stop her. But the gem would take Trixie by the neck and whip her to the ground, the sorceress Pony would not let Jasper defeat her so easily, then she would use a special spell to teleport Jasper a few meters into the air, the warrior would not have any trouble landing on the ground without damage, Jasper would look at Starlight and Trixie with contempt.

"Maybe the colored horses are not as weak as I thought".

"I told you not to underestimate us," Trixie said full of confidence.

"Although they are strong, they must know that I am more," Jasper replied.

"Because you do not come here and you check it," Starlight said smiling.

"They will know, very soon" Jasper replied with a frown.

This is incredible! Even though Spike fought bravely against the two warriors of universe 4, he did not see Toffee's dirty move coming to get him off the track, at this moment Starlight and Trixie are fighting against Jasper from universe 2 who looks be very strong, will Starlight and Trixie be able to defeat such a powerful opponent? There are forty-three minutes left until the end of the tournament.

Author's Note

Statistics of the universes:

Universe 2: Live
Eliminations= 3
Amount Of Warriors= 9
Team Rescue= 1
Warriors On The Platform= Garnet, Amethyst, Pearl, Steven, Connie, ~~Lion~~, Lapis Lazuli, Peridot, Bismuth, and Jasper.

Universe 3: Live
Eliminations= 0
Amount Of Warriors= 7
Team Rescue= 0
Warriors On The Platform= Jimmy, Carl, Sheen, ~~Libby~~, ~~Cindy~~, Calamitous, Katopesla, Koitsukai, Borareta, and Panchia.

Universe 4: Live
Eliminations= 0
Amount Of Warriors= 6
Team Rescue= 0
Warriors On The Platform= The Quickster, Captain Magma, Elastic Waistband, Miss Appear, Mr. Krab, ~~Karen~~, Plankton, ~~Man Ray~~, ~~Mermaid~~, and ~~Barnacle Boy~~.

Universe 6: Live
Eliminations= 9
Amount Of Warriors= 8
Team Rescue= 5
Warriors on the Platform= Sunset Shimmer, Sci-Twi, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Applejack, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Flash Sentry, ~~Sandalwood~~, and ~~Bulk Biceps~~.

Universe 7: Live
Eliminations= 6
Amount of Warriors= 9
Team Rescue= 1
Warriors On The Platform= Twilight, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Shining Armor, Trixie, Starlight, ~~Spike~~, Rarity, and Applejack.

~~Universe 9: Eliminated~~
~~Eliminations= 0~~
~~Number Of Warriors= 0~~
~~Team Rescue= 0~~
~~Warriors On The Platform= Finn, Jake, Ice King, Flame Princess, Huntress Wizard, Lemongraab, Princess Lumpy, Marceline, BMO,~~ ~~and~~ ~~Gunter~~

Universe 10: Live
Eliminations= 2
Number Of Warriors= 8
Team Rescue= 1
Warriors On The Platform= Star Butterfly, Marco Diaz, Tom Lucitor, ~~Buff Frog~~, Rhombulus, Hekapoo, Omnitraxus, Eclipsa, Toffee, and ~~Kelly~~.

Universe 11: Live
Eliminations= 0
Amount Of Warriors= 10
Team Rescue= 0
Warriors On The Platform= Bill Cipher, Pyronica, 8-Ball, Amorphous Shape, Hectorgon, Keyhole, Kryptos, Zanthar, Paci-fire, and Teeth.

Remaining Warriors: 57