Author's Note

The title of the chapter is a nod to the 2011 anime for Hunter x Hunter and the way they name the episodes. The x is silent BTW.

Final x Stage

Point of view: Princess Celestia 2 minutes before the maze had concluded...

She had felt the presence of 5 of her clones of the mane 6 disappear. The twilight clone remained. The clones She had created represented the opposite of the 6. However, they were not exact opposites of the six. They looked the same as them, but were opposites in many regards.

The first of the shadow clones to have been destroyed, Pinkie Pie. Her element was not laughter, but the schadenfreude. The joy at laughing at others misery, put a smile on her face. Even if she had to go to the extremes to do it. This version of her was more sadistic and would enjoy the pain, especially torture of others. However, she still would take the subtle pleasure of seeing another being experience the same act that she would do smile at her failures out of respect.

The next of the 5 to meet their demise, was the partial opposite of the element of kindness, Fluttershy. This element was the element of superiority. She was condescending, and always thought of herself first. She considered all life below her as she derived extreme pleasure from another bowing down to her and admitting she was better. This led to her downfall in battle as she only took into account herself as she walked right into the match and got killed second of the 5.

Applejack, Rarity, and Rainbow Dash. They each represented Deceit, Greed, and Trapping, despite Rainbow being mostly opposite, she was mostly the same. Rainbow was mostly the same due to her still making brash decisions and was simple minded. She was also modest with herself and did no let her skill get to her head. She rushed into battle after setting up only one trap in the maze, before revealing herself in an attack on one of the humans, inevitably getting a new hole in her neck.

Rarity was also similar to her old self, in the aspect that they both enjoyed fashion. She makes the designs by herself, for herself. She collected various things and would not let go of any more bits than she needed too. Due to her collecting a lot of stuff, she found various uses for even the smallest of things. She was different in the regard that she was resourceful and made great use of what she had. She would manipulate others to get what she wants. Her death was the most ironic considering that she did not take advantage of the gunpowder in the room or the room itself, she also died by her own knives and cloak which she held so dear and made great use of.

Applejack was probably the most simple of the bunch, the only thing that changed about her was that she was a chronic liar and nothing got the entire truth out of her. She would always find a way to lie and make things worse. This made her happy as she thought it was entertaining to watch others confused and misled. She was bested in a bout of raw ability because she lied to herself about the opponents strength.

Twilight Sparkle, the only survivor of the opposite mane 6, represented cowardice. She would not put herself in a bad situation due to the danger. She was not as powerful as the normal twilight, but instead was more clever with her powers. This version of Twilight is more street smart than book smart.

Shadow Twilight teleported to Princess Celestia in an instant. "They were too powerful, I could not take them. I'm sorry, master." Shadow Twilight said to her.

"No, it's okay my little pony. I will give you another chance in the final phase." Princess Celestia said to Twilight's shadow clone.

Point of view: Killua Zoldyck...

Damn, Hisoka made it, that's not good... Killua eyed the muscular teen with the Japanese school uniform with blood on his sleeve. I did not expect any non-users survive this far... He must have gotten lucky. I guess by that logic, Crazy is even luckier than him- Killua's thoughts came to an abrupt halt as him and everybody there was teleported out of the maze.

Where are we? Killua asked himself as he saw the vast field before him. The other three people were there, confused alongside him, excluding Crazy who sat unconscious on the grass before them. In the distance was the final place they needed to reach. They did not know this until a location about 5 miles away was lit up by an unknown source. A voice came from behind them.

"This is the final phase of my test. Reach that glowing light and touch it, you are free to go. You will be chased by a shadow clone of my personal student, Twilight Sparkle. I have infused one tenth of my power into this clone."

What a stupid name. Are all of the names of the people here named like that? Weird. Killua went and picked Crazy up. He needed Crazy alive to finish teaching him the four basic principles of Nen. To do this he would escape with him and find a place where he could hide. He only was willing to teach him the first four principles, he had a goal he needed to achieve, to protect Alluka.

"I will give you a headstart of 20 seconds. Starting now." The Princess who had spoken left as soon as she came. Killua ran, in fact he ran very, very fast. At least to the eyes of Jotaro Kujo as he stood there comprehending how fast the kid had just ran. Killua made it there in a matter of 6 seconds. Jotaro, on the other hand, was not so fast. The goal was around a mile away from start to finish. Jotaro had made it halfway before the 20 seconds were up. Meanwhile, Hisoka had not moved from the start, waiting to battle.

XXX

Hisoka had a little bit of trouble, but eventually beat the shadow clone of Twilight relatively easily. The whole time the clone accidentally targeted Crazy whenever an attack missed due to his curse. It was around half of Hisoka's raw power, but was too inexperienced in real battle. Jotaro had made it to the end, missing the fight. Before he got there, Princess Celestia showed up and spoke.

"I never expected you to beat my disciple, even if she was a clone with only one tenth of my power. Nonetheless, you passed. You are free for the next 24 hours to do whatever you like before I get the royal guard to get you back. Enjoy." She again left unceremoniously and silently.

The first thought that came to Killua's mind was, Well. That was short. Killua was not complaining though. He needed to get Crazy an arm cast and him up and running. Literally, Crazy had potential, but was not very physically fit, well at least not to his standards.

XXX

Killua, still carrying Crazy over his shoulder had made his way to the forest. It was relatively normal to Killua, he had been in many forests with all kinds of foreign animals before. For example the chimera ants. Killua shivered at the thought of the chimera ants. He knew that he could handle whatever the forest had in store for him though.

Killua found a good location to set Crazy down, next to a cliff face. He was partially sheltered from the elements like rain in this location. Killua decided to scout the location out for fresh water and recognizable food. He scaled the cliff quickly to get to higher ground.

At least I was right about something...