Twenty two hours later, all the preparations were nearly complete.

Twilight was putting the finishing touches on the sonic weapon and even managed to spare some time to build makeshift flamethrowers for each of her friends from the equipment Applejack had gathered.

Sunset and Fluttershy had purchased new guitars and were able convince Vinyl Scratch to lend three 26 inch sound speakers for a few days.

Pinkie had stood guard over Twilight for the entire time and only went to rest for a while when Applejack came back with welding machines and other flammable materials, and offered to take over her shift.

Rainbow, meanwhile, had ran over the entire town two hundred times but couldn't found a single clue that could lead to Venom's whereabouts. Every time she thought she was coming closer to a clue, it proved to be yet another dead end. Moreover, she occasionally had an eerie feeling that something sinister was watching her from a distance.

Applejack, in addition to gathering the equipment, had arranged for Sweetie Belle to stay in her house with Apple Bloom and Scootaloo for a while in order to protect her from any possible harm. While Sweetie Belle had agreed to this arrangement, she was still unsure regarding whether or not what she had been told about Rarity's current condition was the whole truth.

Long story short, everyone was meticulously preparing for the unavoidable confrontation with Venom. While they were more or less hopeful that they would get Rarity back without much trouble, they were also greatly worried about what Venom had in store for them. Although, one thing was certain: this was going to be one of their worst (if not THE worst)nightmares yet.

The sun had already set and another storm was brewing. Since everyone except Twilight had finished their duties, they were all now scattered around her house standing guard with flamethrowers on their hands until the sonic weapon is finished. Twilight herself was beyond exhausted, but was also extremely relieved by the fact that she only had to add a handful of components to add to the weapon and test it on the new symbiote.

She was just about to take a sip from her hundredth cup of coffee when she suddenly felt the cold wind from the outside. Then, she noticed that the window had mysteriously opened and immediately rushed to close it. Once that was done, she grabbed a flashlight from her desk and began to look for anything suspicious that could have crawled inside through the window. She pointed the light towards every corner of the room for half a minute, but managed to find nothing out of the ordinary.

Letting out a deep sigh from relief, Twilight turned back and was about to head towards her desk to finish her work when she was freaked out by the sudden appearance of none other than Rarity. Aside from the dark blue nightgown she was wearing and the weird smile on her face, she looked completely normal. Once Twilight had managed to calm down, she was both thrilled and intimidated by her presence.

"Rarity? Is that you? Wait. How did you get past the others and what happened to Venom?"

"You're focusing on the wrong questions, my dear Twilight. The ones that you SHOULD be asking are 'how long will we stay with you?' and 'why do you matter so much to us?'."

Twilight's eyes widened with horror.

"Oh, no. That's not really you, is it? That's Venom speaking through your body."

"Very clever, dearie. We knew we made the right choice when we selected your brain as our main course. We simply cannot wait to devour every single juicy piece of it."

Twilight let out a nervous sigh.

"Then, why aren't you getting over with it instead of wasting time with monologuing?"

"Oh, but we don't seek to just do that and leave in a hurry. Instead, we're going to give you a special treatment before the feast and take part in a sexual activity unique to this planet."

"Wait. What?! You mean..."

"Yes, we mean exactly that and truth be told, it's one of the few thing that we found to be interesting about this planet, and we've been very curious to explore and understand it."

"Okay, uh, can we just talk about this for a minute? I mean, scientifically speaking, I don't think this can- Whoah!"

Rarity suddenly grabbed Twilight by the arm and laid her on the nearby bed. Then, she placed herself on top of Twilight and began to ran her fingers across her arms while leaning closer and closer to Twilight's face.

"Science and thought process has no place in this situation, my dear. Just give in to your raw emotions and focus on the utter beauty of the occasion. Who knows? Perhaps you'll get to enjoy it as much as we will."

Twilight was about to scream and call for help, but instantly became too terrified to speak when Rarity's unusually long tongue began to circle around her face, covering it with utterly disgusting saliva.

"Is this how it usually starts?"

"I,,,"

Before they could go any further, however, a knock on the door is heard.

"Hey, Twilight! How's it goin' in there? Are you finished with the sound gun yet?"

Before she could shout for help, Rarity covered her mouth and looked at the nearly completed sonic weapon on the desk before glaring at Twilight.

"Still hellbent on eliminating us, I see. Well, it seems we won't be here for long after all."

Just then, the symbiote began to cover her body, transforming her into Venom once again.

"Your brain cannot be our doom. It shall be the other way around!"

Just as it was about to bite Twilight's head of with its razor-sharp teeth, however, the door is burst open and all five of her friends rushed into the room. Although Venom gave them a pretty loud roar, they pointed their flamethrowers at it and fired them just a little bit in order to get it away from Twilight without harming her. Once they succeeded, Rainbow Dash fired her weapon at full power, causing Venom to retreat and jump out of the window. She quickly ran after it, followed closely by Applejack and Pinkie Pie while Sunset and Fluttershy stayed behind to check on the disturbed Twilight.

"Are you okay?", inquired Fluttershy. "Did it hurt you?"

"No, it didn't. I'm okay, just a little bit frightened, that's all."

Sunset asked, "Well, if you need anything just let us know, okay?".

"Got it, but we can't worry about that right now. We have to go help Rainbow and Pinkie."

"Is that sound device ready?", asked Fluttershy.

"Aside from missing one or two parts, yes. However, I still have to run some tests before I can be sure that it works."

Sunset remarked, "There's no time! We'll just have to see if it works with a field test."

"But, what if I've made a mistake during the planning sage and it doesn't work. It can make things even worse!"

"Look around, Twilight. Things are already worse! You can't depend on one possible solution to tackle a major problem. Besides, we may not need just a tool to get Rarity back. Yes, this thing could get the alien off of her, but she can also reject it on her own if we remind her how precious our friendship is. I think she's still inside that monster struggling to get out and our encouragement can give her the strength she needs to be completely free. So, what do you say?"

Although, Twilight was initially uncertain about this, she eventually realized the truth in Sunset's words and her expression soon changed from worried to determined.

"Alright. Let's roll."

Just outside the house, Venom was recovering from the flame attack when Rainbow Dash arrived and pointed her flamethrower right at its face.

"Give me my friend back, you slimy creep!"

Venom simply chuckled at that threat.

"If you actually think we'll do what you say this easily, then you're even dumber than a full-grown Groot."

"Okay, first of all, that's a terrible insult, because I have no idea what a Groot is. Second, me dumb? Ha! Please, you're the one who's basically a giant zombie."

Without warning, Venom grabbed the flamethrower with its giant tongue, and despite Rainbow's struggle, pulled it away from her hands and smashed it against the sidewalk.

"You were saying?"

She nervously chuckled for a bit before Applejack and Pinkie arrived.

"RD, get out of the way!"

Rainbow did as she asked.

"You ready, Pinkie?"

"You got it! One crispy alien parasite coming up!"

Even though they both fired their flamethrowers at full power, Venom simply jumped upwards and used its tentacles to grab the weapons, crushing them with its bare claws. Both Applejack and Pinkie became a bit shocked by this before the former rolled up her sleeves.

"Looks like we're gonna have to do this the old-fashioned way. Cover me!"

"On it!"

Pinkie began throwing explosive sprinkles at Venom while Applejack attempted to punch it while running. However, things did not go as they planned. Not only did the explosions had no effect on Venom, but it also easily caught Applejack's punch in mid-air and twisted her arm clockwise while choking her with its other claw. Needless to say, she was an extremely large amount of pain at that time.

"We shall crush ALL of you like spiders!"

Just then, Rainbow threw a rock at Venom's head in order to get its attention.

"Hey, ugly! Over here!"

So, Venom let Applejack go by throwing her towards Pinkie. Even though Rainbow attempted to evade via her super speed, it nevertheless caught her with a tentacle while she was running and threw her towards the exterior wall of the house, causing a fairly large crack.

Eventually, it managed to corner all three of them.

"What the hay is goin' on? Why isn't our magic workin'?"

"Oh, looks like we forgot to tell you. Energies like your so called 'magic' has no effect on both symbiotes and beings that are bonded to symbiotes. So, whether or not you have extraordinary gifts, you're still as weak as the rest of your species against us. Just give up while you still have the chance and we may grant you quick deaths."

The trio looked at each other with both uncertainty and concern before Twilight, Sunset, and Fluttershy emerged from the house with the finished sonic weapon.

Twilight pointed the device towards and Venom shouted, "EVERYBODY GET BACK AND COVER YOUR EARS!"

As soon as they did as she asked, she activated the device and unleashed sound waves so powerful that the earth itself was slightly shaking. While the girls were struggling to minimize the damage to their ears with headphones and ear plugs, Venom's condition was much worse. It kept roaring with intense pain and its symbiote skin had already begun to peel off, revealing Rarity inside.

"It's working! It's actually working! Hold on, Rarity! You're almost free!", Twilight exclaimed.

However, her happiness was short-lived as a small thick portion of the symbiote unexpectedly jumped towards the gun and landed right on the muzzle, blocking the release of sound waves and causing an overload. Even though Twilight quickly lifted the gun upwards in order to minimize the damage, a huge explosion still occurred in the sky and it gave Venom enough time to fully recover and let out another roar out of pure ferocity.

After that, it released razor-sharp tentacles from its body and stabbed each of the girls in the shoulder. Then, it released another set of tentacles similar to that of an octopus to strangle the girls except for Twilight. Instead, it brought her closer to its face and began to softly lick her face with that giant saliva-filled tongue.

"We're simply giving them the same amount of pain that you just dealt to us with that weapon. No need to worry, though. We will spare you the pain of watching their lives ebb away. Make no mistake, it's not because we pity you, but because our patience has officially ran out. Now, if there are no further interruptions, it's dinner time!"

It was this close to biting her entire head off when all of a sudden, it stopped due to the voice of a child.

"Rarity?"

It turned around to investigate source, which turned out to be none other than Sweetie Belle.

Author's Note

So close to the grand finale!