…but their attack dealt 0 damage to Watch Tower!

“FOOLS!” he taunted after another evil laugh. “Your Rainbow Power is no match for my hyper-charged magic self-healing shield!”

“This can’t be good, y’all!” cried Applejack. “We gotta use brute force on ’im! Maybe that’ll teach ’im a lesson!”

“I—am—so—in!” cried Rainbow Dash.

While Rainbow Dash and Applejack slammed into Watch Tower and bucked him, respectively, his aforementioned magic shield dealt heavy damage to the (relatively) puny ponies, thus both injuring them and exhausting them.

“Oh, no!” shouted Pinkie Pie. “Not only is it that magic won’t faze him; it’s that plain old pony muscle power won’t faze him, either!”

“Good guess, Pinkie Squirt!” commented Watch Tower. “I have zero weaknesses!”

Turning his head to examine Pinkie Pie’s Cutie Mark, he added, “I also bet that you have the very weakness I seek!”

Fluttershy, having finally plucked up enough courage to speak again, shouted (at the top of her own voice), “How dare you call our Cutie Marks a weakness?! Shame on you, you big bully!”

Watch Tower just laughed at Fluttershy, answering, “Your weakness will become my strength!”

Then, he charged his mighty horn up, thus preparing himself to amplify his time-reversing spell.

As he cast the spell again, he announced to all the Mane Six, “Time to say good-bye to your powerful present…”

Author's Note

Here’s another cliffhanger! Will I make it to three cliffhangers in a row? Let’s see!