“Okay let’s take this from the top,” Cadance said, “I hereby call the first Crystal Empire and Equestria Coalition War Meeting to order.”

We were at a large round table, Cadance opposite from me and Fluttershy, Shining Armor at her right and Flurry being held close in her magic, fast asleep. Flurry’s caretaker, Sunburst to the Princess’s left and next to his Kudamon. Kudamon was on Fluttershy’s left and Flutters on my left. To my right was a Gabumon who kept giving me curious puppy-dog looks, and to his right…. Was a stuck-up purple bitch, who was thankfully ignoring me. To her right was Spike, who had tried to introduce us later only for us to walk past each other without a word. The dragon seemed to be stewing over the confusion that encounter had given him. The last member of the war meeting was Applejack, apparently being the former Element of Honesty gave her the right to sit in on a war meeting even though I’m pretty sure she was as civilian as it comes.

“Yesterday, at approximately four A.M,” Cadance paused to give her sleeping daughter a mixed look of relief and sorrow, “My darling girl was foalnapped by a group of Digimon. They used a tunnel system that they had dug under our shield, the tunnel was filled in earlier this morning and guards have since found five more… ALL of which have been filled in. we have reason to believe that Skullmeramon is not the culprit."

Tara snorted, “Oh really? Then who else could it be?” She asked.

Cadance gave her an irritated glare before continuing, “As of right now, we do not know, but keeping in line with Skullmeramon’s usual methods this is very unlike him.”

Shining Armor then cast a spell which turned the table into a 3D map of Equestria Several cities and towns were already highlighted in red, “As you know, Skullmeramon prefers a more ‘in your face’ method of attack. Busting in with his lackeys and burning cities and towns to the ground as he revels in the panic and chaos. This was not that. This was subtle, calculated and efficient. The enemy knew what they wanted and had several well-orchestrated plans in place and they almost succeeded if not for the actions of Connor,” Shining then gave me a sheepish grin with a nod.

I gave him a devilish grin, “Nah Shining, the credit’s all yours for finding that hole in the ground."

Shining gave me a deadpanned look as Cadance giggled, I could feel Fluttershy's disapproving glare on my neck, but it was worth it. The rest of the table looked confused, (minus Kudamon who’s default state is confused).

“Yeah, if we call you knocking me in me finding it,” Shining rolled his eyes.

“You deserved it. You were making an ass of yourself,” I retorted.

“Oh right, I almost forgot to ask about that, but we can deal with that later in private,” Cadance said, giving Shining a now unamused look, who gave her another sheepish smile.

“Oh no, I want to hear all about it now!” Tara demanded slamming her hooves on the table giving me a furious look.

“Twily now is-” Shining began in a nervous tone.

“NO, let’s hear it. If we’re supposed to trust each other we should have all the cards on the table. So go ahead Shining, tell them how this psycho attacked you,” She said pointing her hoof accusingly directly at me.

“Psycho!?” I shouted, “She’s the one that trapped me here, blasted off my arm, and demanded I save her world and she calls ME the psycho?” I snap at Tara.

“SHE WHAT!?” Cadance said looking absolutely furious as she turned to a now surprised and confused Tara, “Twilight Sparkle, I would expect that Celestia would have taught you better!”

“Okay, first of all, I was aiming for the desk because you were clinging to said desk. So really, it’s your fault you lost your arm. You should have just come quietly. Secondly you did get your arm ba-” Twilight began to say.

“Okay I’ve been letting it slide but it's really starting to annoy me. I didn’t get my arm back,” I snapped.

Tara smuggly pointed towards one of my arms before, tauntingly humming and pointing to the other and giving a sarcastic gasp of surprise, “Looks like you did, dumbass!”

“Does this look like a human arm to you?” I asked with a growl, bringing up the arm that replaced the one I lost.

The room went quiet so I continued.

“This isn’t my body. This the body of another person, a Digimon. The one that would have been my partner if you and your Princess had been patient. Yes, I would have joined you if you had sent the message even a few more times, or used that portal to communicate to me rather than kidnap me,” I snapped.

“See he can’t even keep his facts straight! Digimon are just data. They're not people, they don’t have feelings. They’re just programs, doomed to end when they finish their duty!” Tara looked like she had snapped, her hair looked like the worst case of bed head ever, her eyes had become insane swirls and her voice was that of panic, as she began to laugh maniacally.

“Twily?” Shining asked, looking in horror.

“Faust, she’s finally snapped,” Applejack said looking on with a grimince.

“You have the nerve to call me a psycho!?” Twilight snapped at me, “How could I be? All I've done is for the betterment of Equestria. it's all that matters! Why can’t you see that!?”

“Jesus, she’s gone crazy!” I said, stepping away from her, glancing at the Gabumon in between us who… was looking down at his paws, tears falling down his face. Poor little guy.

“I'm not real?” he sniffed, seemingly snapping Twilight out of her raving as she looked down at the digimon, “B-b-but you s-s-said-” He whimpered, getting a horrible case of the hiccups as he sobbed.

“I lied okay! I lied because… because…” A look of confusion came over her face as she tried to justify her actions, seemingly failing to even convince herself.

“Twilight, please just calm down. We can han-” Cadance began trying to calm the mare down, being cut off by the castle itself being shaken with a considerable force.

“What in tarnation is going on!” Applejack shouted, Sunburst keeling over seemingly having an intense headache.

“T-the shield, they broke the shield!” Sunburst gasped in agony, his horn cracking near the base, blood trickling down it and onto his face.

“Oh, my goddess! Sunburst are you okay!” Cadance gasped, breaking her attention away from her now crying daughter, rough way to be woken up.

“Go time Flutters,” I said, giving Fluttershy a look as I ran out of the war room.

“Right behind you!” She exclaimed as we charged down the hall.

“Come on Gabumon we’ve got to go,” I heard Tara say seemingly unable to get the Digimon to follow her. I however had more important things to do.

We caught up with the fatigued guards that had been trying to rush to the exit, “Stay back with the Princesses! We’ve got this,” I said to the guards, a look of surprise and defeat washing onto their faces.

“You can barely move as it is. You would just get in the way,” Fluttershy said softly, with a worried smile.

“I'm sorry we aren’t much use… good luck!” One of the guards said as they gave us a nod walking past as we used the platform down.

The city was in a panic... ponies running from Snow Goburimon and quickly being corralled by the Digimon into the plaza. The girls, and Big Mac among them. The population of the Crystal Empire was now surrounded by a tight circle of Snow Goburimon. A tall thin devil like creature stalked towards the circle with a kind of twisted elegance, its skin a pale white with an icy like texture. His wings are ragged and hole ridden, as if they had been frozen and the skin below had died from the cold. It had two horns on either side of its head that were thin, but curved sharply upward towards the end. Its eyes were a sickly purple that seemed to glow with malice and pride. On its chest was a deep, magenta colored bat-like symbol, the mark of evil and a symbol of pride for some virus type Digimon that took pleasure in their misdeeds. Below his waist he wore three belts, two going around his waist at an angle to the left, and one going in the opposite direction, far more than what was necessary to hold up his tattered milky white jeans, on his feet he wore spiked boots the left of which also had the mark of evil.

“Who is that?” Fluttershy asked, a hint of fear in her voice as she pointed to the Digimon.

“IceDevimon, the arctic counterpart to the infamous Devimon, and if I had to guess… the one behind the attacks,” I muttered, “Better Digivolve.”

Fluttershy nodded and held the digivice up to me, the screen lighting up and gaining the crest of courage… but the crest was blacked out, only the outline being visible with a glow of orange emanating from the device as I felt power rushing through me.

IceDevimon suddenly stopped and seemed to perk up looking to his left away from us before turning right and locking eyes with me.

“AGUMON DIGIVOLVE TO-!” I shouted, once again transforming into the behemoth known as, “GREYMON!!”

“Oh my… You must be the Greymon that's been causing us trouble. Your reputation precedes you,” IceDevimon said, a sly smirk upon his face.

I stomped towards him, “Thought I warned you what would happen if you showed your face here again,” I growled in my deep gravelly voice, “Let's get this over with."

“Oh ho, you are a mighty specimen. The power of your ancestor, AncientGreymon, is not wasted I see. I would be a fool to fight you, however. Not only am I weak to fire based attacks, as I'm sure you already knew, but I'm of the virus type meaning a vaccine such as you has inherent advantage,” I continued my advance towards him, just a few more feet til I could wring his little neck.

“Not to mention the Greymon family line is known for being powerful beyond their level. Even able to hold their own against Ultimate levels, and with luck, even beat one. No doubt this power is what allowed your Patriarch AncientGreymon to survive his clash with Lucemon,” He continued to prattle seemingly unperturbed by me being almost on top of him at this point.

“You talk too much,” I snapped, my shadow not looming over the much smaller Digimon.

“On the contrary,” he quipped, his smile growing from ear to ear, giving him a maniacal look, “One must talk quite a great deal to distract one as perceptive as you,” Before I could process what he just said, the wind was knocked out of me as something side checked me on my left and sent me flying over the gathered people and through the doors of the library.

Bookshelves crashed and shattered over me as books piled on top of me. With a groan, I brought myself back to my feet, the books washing down my back having been uncomfortable but not painful.

“Sup Greymon,” A voice almost as deep as mine said, my vision recentered and before me, no, looming over me, was a huge serpentine dragon-like creature. It had a metallic helmet much like my own carapace helm, but without the horns. Instead, two horn-like extensions to the helmet pointed back on each side of its neck. It had a dark sickly purple tint to its scales, its hands seemed to have been replaced with two metallic claws, the heads of which only had three claws. In the center of its palms I could see the tips of a missile. The last few features I saw were its dark grey metal wings, the same color as its claws, and of course how could I not be transfixed by its glowing hungry yellow eyes.

“Gigadramon…” I growled, meeting the Digimon's stare.

“Heh, hey Icy, he knows about me,” Gigadramon said with a hearty chuckle seemingly pleased, “Hey, just for not getting me mixed with Megadramon, you get to live! Can’t say I won't rough ya up first though,”

“So is IceDevimon your boss?” I asked, ignoring his “mercy”.

The Gigadramon looked over to where IceDevimon had set down near them, he can fly… good to know. The Gigadramon seemed to be looking for confirmation or perhaps orders. IceDevimon simply grinned and nodded, getting a laugh from the Gigadramon.

“Yep,” He laughed.

“Huh didn’t know champion’s could have ultimates as pets,” I quipped with my own grin.

“Oh ho, that's the most damage you’ll do to me today boy,” Gigadramon chuckled.

“NOVA BLAST” Was my elegant reply as I blasted him point blank with a white hot fireball. Before the smoke cleared Gigadramon’s claw arm shot out and grabbed my front horn and dragged me close.

“Now that wasn’t very nice,” Gigadramon said coldly seemingly unscathed by my attack and bringing his other arm to my chest, “But guess it's my turn. Genocide Gear,” he said in a bored tone as not just one missile, but a barrage of them had fired from his claw. As he let go of my horn, the force caused me to be flung through the back of the huge library in a matter of seconds and knocked me to the outside of it. The pain was nearly unbearable, but I was able to get to my feet with some effort.

“The toughness of the Greymon is only slightly over exaggerated, eh?” the Gigadramon asked as he took his time slithering through the library towards me.

“NOVA BLAST” I roared, firing another ball of white flame at the creature and causing smoke and ash to surround him in a cloud. Not more than a few seconds later, Gigadramon slithered slowly and deliberately out of said cloud, not the faintest hint of harm on him. There wasn't even a smudge on his metallic armour.

“Aw, come on!? Where is that fire you Greymon are known for?” Gigamon taunted with a sadistic grin on his face.

“NOVA BLAST,” I said once more, knowing it was pointless but not knowing what else to do other than run, and deciding being a distraction was the best plan for now, hopefully giving everyone else enough time to escape.

“Connor!” Fluttershy cried to the left of me, filling me with fear and dread.

“Fluttershy!! Get the hell out of here!” I roared to her, “He’s too strong!”

“Aw stop it~ you're makin' me blush!” Gigamon chided, making an “oh you” wave with his right claw.

“I can’t just leave you,” Fluttershy cried, still flying mid air just a feet from me, she had stopped flying towards me but she didn’t make any move to leave.

“You can and you will, get out of here, take the others and lea-” I was cut off by the sounds of an explosion from the castle.

Twilight’s pov

What was going on…

First my friends turned on me, and now the castle is being attacked! And to make matters worse, Gabumon wouldn’t respond to my commands!! Was the program broken? Did he become corrupted? NOTHING Sunset had told me about computer programs explained why it was acting like this!

“Come on we have to go!” I begged trying to grab its arm and move it, but it held still looking down at a claw with a look of… pain…. But it was just a program… it couldn't really feel, right? It was just mimicking emotions right… Of course! If it could, then that meant I-… No! No no no no no, let's not go down that path. I'm not crazy. Not crazy! Yes, I'm the Princess of Friendship! I can do anything! I can figure this out, I can prove that human wrong.

“Twilight! Snap out of it!” Applejack’s loud voice rang through my head. I blinked and looked up to see the farm pony had been shaking me.

“We have ta get the Princess outta here!” Applejack insisted, “Lets go!”

“What, no! Me and gabumon can handle this. It just needs to Digivolve!” I said confident in the program’s ability.

“He,” The gabumon growled, to my surprise.

“What?” I asked, looking at him in confusion.

“I'M A HE, not IT, a he,” It snapped at me, looking up from his claw with an angered look, “I am real! I feel, just like you!” He said pointing at me, “I'm not fake, because… I know I'm real!”

“That is horrible logic,” I sighed, rolling my eyes, “You can’t be real. YOU are just a data program made to defeat the invading Digimon."

Rage, sorrow and fear washed over the digimon’s face, but mostly tears, “T-that's n-not true, I'm r-real, I'm real!”

It couldn’t actually be breaking down. If it was, then that means they are actually sapient creatures which means I would be a mur- NO, I-im not a- I'M NOT CRAZY.

“Of course you are!” An elegant yet somehow foreboding voice said echoing through the room.

“Who are you!? What do you want with us?” Cadance demanded, I turned to her to see her tightening her grip on her daughter, my brother taking a defensive stance as a still recovering Sunburst tried to stay standing at Cadance’s side. Flurry Heart's program, Kudamon looking agitated as it floated over the table to place itself directly between Flurry and where the voice was coming from. I turned to face the intruder, a white ice like devil Digimon.

“I am IceDevimon and wish for nothing more than the bearer of the crest of light, and their Digimon!” IceDevimon replied with a devious smirk.

“You will not touch my charge!” Kudamon said with a growl.

IceDevimon laughed, “Oh? And what will you do little Kudamon? From what I hear, you failed to stop a few Snow Goburimon from taking her last time. What makes you think you can stop me?”

“I-I may have failed before, but this time… I won’t let her be taken!” Kudamon proclaimed, charging the creature.

“Kudamon wait!” Cadance cried.

“Bullet Whirlwind!” Kudamon cried spinning like a drill directly at IceDevimon.

“Tundra Freeze,” IceDevimon hissed in twisted joy, a dark blue beam of light firing from his eyes and hitting Kudamon, causing the digimon to fall to the ground now frozen solid. “That should cool you off,” He quipped before bringing back his head to let out a sinister laugh.

“Kudamon!” Cadance cried out in a pained tone, “You monster…” She growled.

But no one made a move for a few seconds, “What's wrong?” IceDevimon taunted, “Don’t tell me you’ve gotten cold feet, or is it hooves? Ah, but it doesn’t matter. Give me the foal, and I will spare you,”

“Never,” I said, placing myself between my former babysitter and the creature.

“Oh dear… The child abuser comes to the aid of a child, ironic,” IceDevimon hissed, his expression changing from one of arrogance and amusement to one of rage, “You dare value one life over another as it suits you? That Gabumon deserves better, watching my kin suffer brings me no small amount of pain!”

“Your people have murdered plenty of foals, don’t play innocent!” I snapped, “Gabumon will end this skirmish in a moment. Digivolve Gabumon,” I said, I was sick of these bucking Digimon thinking they could do and say what they want! Skullmeramon, Connor, and now this pretentious prick, no one in the room could beat him, that was true. Without the Element of Magic, I was barely a match for a normal champion like Ogremon, but this guy was far from normal. My brother was a defensive style magic user, so he didn’t do well in direct combat, as for Cadance, she was never much of a fighter even before the war and Sunburst could barely even stand.

“I can’t, I already told you...” Gabumon mumbled, looking down in despair.

“You can and you will!” I snapped back taking out the digivice and pressing its buttons, “One of these has got to do it!”

The device began to glow with a black light, and the screen beeped red with an alarm blaring from it.

“S-stop it,” Gabumon protested, I wasn’t paying attention to his tone, I was busy trying to get the thing to work.

“It must have some kind of safety measure…” I muttered.

“What are you doing foolish pony!? Stop this at once!” IceDevimon protested.

I laughed, giving him a glare, “What's wrong, scared of Gabumon’s power?”

“You would be too if you knew the consequences of forcing a Digimon to Digivolve! Its emotions will run ram-” IceDevimon bluffed.

“I'm sick of you and your cohorts lying! THEY ARE PROGRAMS! THEY DON’T FEEL!” I practically screamed before getting an idea, “I'll just over load its safety measures with my magic!” And as I did just that, the device went silent. Confused, I looked it over all while the device was slowly turning grey. Was that supposed to happen? I turned to check to see if Gabumon had changed.

He was twitching like he had a cold, his head jerking unnaturally every few seconds and his eye glowing a menacing red as he whimpered in pain.

“T-twilight?” Applejack said looking on in horror, her eyes pin pricked and sweating profusely, “I-i got a r-really bad feelin' 'bout this,”

“Twilight, what in Tartarus did you do to him?” Cadance asked in a horrified whisper.

I was equally confused, and more than a little put off, “H-hey buddy are you okay?”

The Gabumon began to glow with a dark purple light, not dissimilar to dark magic. I quickly felt something wet on my hoof, I looked down to the Digivice to see its screen had cracked open as black ooze dripped down from it.

“What in Faust’s name?” I said looking on in horror as my digimon began to grow.

“MY TIME TO SHINE!” A voice sang as a portal opened up and a ball of multicolored energy was fired out of it and hit the growing Gabumon, “Just a little bit of chaos~”

The portal closed and before I could process what happened.

“Gabumon….Dark Warp Digivolve to-”

“ALL OF YOU RUN NOW!!! HE’S BYPASSING THE CHAMPION LEVEL!” IceDevimon screamed with a tone of pure unadulterated terror, but I couldn’t move as I watched the twitching body of my Digimon begin to ooze out the black substance out of every orifice.

The ooze forming a layer around him as he grew to where he barely fit in the 30 ft tall room. The ooze stuck there like a dark cocoon before hardening, a twisted tint of blue glowing from inside.

I heard Cadance and the rest run past me, Applejack stopping to try and move me but… I couldn’t stop watching. Watching with a new feeling… Guilt? Dark magic can only be brought out through intense negative emotion, so if that was true… that means Digimon must have feelings which means… Oh sweet Faust… What have I done?

Suddenly the cocoon burst open, a large creature loomed over me, It had the head of a male goat, pupil less magenta eyes. Two jet black wings like that of a great dragon jut out from its back, two long strong arms with a silky smooth but thick layer of dark purple fur covered its body, and two strong goat hooved legs with the same layer of dark purple fur completed its form.

“Mephistomon,” It said in a voice darker and more terrible than I had ever heard, even facing down Tirek didn’t fill me with the same fear that I felt now. Not even Skullmeramon filled me with the despair I felt wash over me in this moment. Its eyes locked onto mine and I felt my soul leave my body. I couldn’t move, I couldn’t even breathe, I was going to die and it was because I was too stupid to see what was right there in front of me.

“You… will… suffer,” It said in barely a whisper. It had no need to speak any louder, the chilling cold to its voice was enough to inflict upon anypony who heard this… an inescapable feeling of terror.

It moved faster than I could see, and I was in its grasp, both hands holding me in a crushing grip.

“Despair,” It said as it bored into my soul through its eyes, as it decided to only hold me in one hand as it looked over to the entrance of the room, “Dissidia Cannon,” It said with an outstretched hand, a black beam of pure dark magic blasting through the walls of the castle.

Connor’s POV

I whipped around to see the beam of dark energy blasting out of the side of the castle, a huge goat like digimon jumping down to the ground, the very sight of it sent a shiver down my spine.

“Who is that?” Fluttershy asked with a horrified look on her face.

“I… actually have no idea, I only watched the anime. If I had to hazard a guess, this one must be from one of the games or maybe the manga,” I muttered turning to the Gigadramon, “Friend of yours?”

The Gigadramon looked nervous, “Nah… thats Mephistomon. Didn’t know their kind ever left the dark ocean.”

I looked back to the Mephistomon, to my shock, Tara was held tightly in its grip. Before I could process that, Cadance holding Flurry Heart, the IceDevimon who was now holding a frozen Kudamon, and the rest ran up to us.

“Cadance, what the hell’s going on?” I asked, pointing to the giant digimon.

“Twilight did something to her digivice and Gabumon turned into, whatever that is,” A fearful Cadance gestured to the Mephistomon, who was now moving towards where the ponies had been gathered by the now shitting themselves Snow Goburimon.

“Damn it, it must have Dark Digivolved… then this must be a champion level Digimon. It's kinda big for that though,” I muttered.

“Oh no, Mephistomon is an Ultimate. Another outside force gave the Gabumon enough energy to bypass the champion and go straight for Ultimate,” IceDevimon cut in.

“I see, so you're not the one in charge,” I growled at IceDevimon.

“Perhaps,” It said as it glared back.

“Hmph, well anyways we’ve got an Ultimate Digimon to deal with,” I said, turning to the Mephistomon as it loomed over the group, the Snow Goburimon having already fled.

“Good luck with that!” IceDevimon said, dropping the frozen kudamon and taking flight, Gigadramon followed close behind.

“Damn it, you cowards!” I roared after them.

“You can’t expect them to stick their necks out for an enemy I suppose,” Cadance sighed in annoyance, “Shining and I will take this group and get out of here, you go save Twilight and the city,”

“Save Tara, sure. I'll fit into my schedule,” I laughed sarcastically.

“Connor, she doesn’t der-” Cadance began.

“Oh no, she most certainly does,” Fluttershy of all people cut her off, “She has let her anxiety and obsession for perfection push her to shoving Digimon into the “unredeemable evil” or “not sapient because what they are made of is not usually sapient” box, she’s had this wake up call coming for awhile now."

“Okay but does she deserve to die for that?” Cadance snapped, “I get it, she bucked you over big time, but let her actually pay for her crimes not die and get off easy for it!”

“An excellent point,” I muttered, “I'll do what I can but the people are my focus, not Tara.”

“Alright fine, just don’t die,” Cadance snapped, “I'll just hope I have a chance to talk with Twilight when this is over. She isn’t evil she’s just going through a rough time,”

“Wasn’t planning to, now get out of here,” I said, turning back the massive digimon who was watching the ponies run around in a panic. Some were moving towards the exit of the city only to find a shield of black magic blocking their escape. Their panic quickly turned to despair, and the Mephistomon seemed to revel in it, outstretching its palm towards the group of ponies at the shield and turning slowly to look down at Tara who was in its grasp. A glow from his eyes caused her head to forcefully turn towards the ponies.

“Watch,” It said simply, a feeling of dread jumping down my spine as I was frozen in place, “Death Cloud” A crackling cloud of black mist floated down to the ponies, surrounding them as they began to cough and sputter.

“Wait no stop!” Tara cried, “They don’t have anything to do with this!” She tried to force her head away but its grip was too strong. A dark chuckle left the Digimon's mouth, as the ponies began to melt, screaming in horror and agony as their fur and flesh became goopy sludge that slid off their bones. Their screams were cut off as their now eroding bones fell to the ground as even those became nothing but mist.

Tara promptly lost her lunch all over ground, causing the Digimon to roar in laughter.

“W-why are you doing this?” Tara sobbed.

“They are just flesh and bones, they don’t have feelings,” Mephistomon said, with the biggest grin spread on his face. The look of fear on Twilight’s face changing to one of utter and complete despair and guilt.

“Connor we have to do something!” Fluttershy said, but I couldn’t move. This thing was downright terrifying! It wasn't long before he pointed his palm at where Big Mac was holding the kids close, looks of terror on all of their faces.

“NO!” I roared, charging forward, and jumping onto the titans outstretched arm, sinking my teeth into it.

It let out a howl of pain and began to shake its arm, but I held onto it for dear life. It couldn’t attack while I was on its arm and if it wanted to use its arm, it would have to let Tara go, something I was sure it wouldn’t do.

“Release!” It demanded, trying to shake me off.

“Fuck you,” I mumbled, but it came out as a garbled mess as I clenched my jaws tighter.

“GET’EM CONNOR!” I could hear Scootaloo cheer from below.

“You can do it!” Spike spurred.

“Bite his big ol arm off!” Apple Bloom offered.

“Don’t forget to brush your teeth after!” Sweetie Belle said, I could feel everyone giving her a look, “What?” Adorable, I thought as I clenched my jaws even tighter. I could feel his arm’s bone crack under the force of my jaws, filling with a primal excitement and spurring to tighten it even more, as the beast tried to shake me off by slamming me into the castle, but I was so focused on ending this bastard that I could barely feel it.

“RELEASE!” It howled slamming into the castle repeatedly. Finally, out of pure desperation, it must have dropped Twilight as I felt its grip on my tail as it tried to pull me off.

“FUCK YOU!” I said once again, my words garbled as I bit tighter than ever before. I felt my jaws snap shut, and a warm coppery liquid flowed into my mouth sweet as honey. But the moment was ruined by the howl of agony followed by me being thrown through the castle and falling down on the other side. Looking up, I found that I had bit the creature's forearm off, causing him to bleed profusely from the wound.

“DIE'' It roared with an outstretched palm towards me, “DISSIDIA CANNON!” It fired a beam of dark energy from its palm, but I expected this and rolled onto my feet and barely dodged the attack as I charged forward.

“NOVA BLAST!” I roared, firing the blast at the Mephistomon, hitting him in the face and staggering him back, but it quickly recovered.

“DISSIDIA CANNON!” My charge had put me too close to dodge, I realized my mistake too late, but before the beam could reach me I felt something small but forceful slam me to the side. Recovering quickly, I turned to see Tara had taken the blast for me, her horn having cracked from trying to block the beam with a shield. Blood had started dripping down her face as she weakly stood on her hooves.

“Damn it, Tara you idiot!” I snapped at her.

“Y-you're the idiot for r-rushing in like that,” She laughed despite her vacant eyes, “But that doesn’t matter now. If you die… Equestria is finished, I see that now,”

“Little late for that,” I snapped, returning my focus to my opponent who looked... tired. Good, his digivolution was wearing off, I prepared to fire another blast.

“NOVA BLAST!” I fired it slamming in the stomach and causing it to fall onto its back, one more!

“Get up close and finish this Connor!” Fluttershy shouted, flying over to grab Twilght and get her out of the way.

“On it!” I heard everyone cheering for me as I jumped onto the chest of the creature causing it to spurt up blood from its mouth as I stared him down.

“Sorry kiddo you’ll be nappin as an egg for a bit k? NO-” As I began to fire the Nova Blast, I felt an unwelcome cold as I reverted from my champion form. The aura of shock and horror was tangible as everyone realized what had just happened, I was out of time.

Mephistomon cackled and, with a flick of its remaining wrist, sent me flying. It took everything I had to keep my data from dispersing from that attack alone as the pain was unbearable. I landed with a thud at the foot of the castle.

“Pest” It grinned, outstretching a palm towards me, but before it could do so, a blast of yellow magic pierced its forearm. Celesita had arrived.

“That’s far enough, monster,” Celestia commanded as she floated above the creature.

“H-how?” I managed to get out as I got to my feet with the last of my energy.

“Spike sent me a letter as soon as the city was attacked, I got here as fast as I could, but it took my sister and I pooling our magic together to teleport here. Regrettably we could only send one of us and with my sister’s injuries we thought it best to send me,” Celestia explained, “But that matters not, you did well to weaken the beast Connor, now forgive me as I must now ‘steal your kill’ as my sister would put it,”

“Don’t interfere” Mephisto growled.

“You Digimon like naming your attacks correct?" Celesita smirked, “Then allow me to join in the fun. Solar Supremacy!” She cried, creating a huge ball of bright yellow magic, like a miniature sun, and fired at the Digimon. With both of its arms disabled, it was unable to defend itself and was reduced to data.

“Gabumon,” Tara sobbed softly as she watched it be disintegrated, “I'm sorry…”

I simply waited with a sigh of relief, watching the data reform into an egg with blue curves for markings, “Didn’t think I'd be happy to see you, Sunbutt,” I laughed weakly, before falling forward into unconsciousness.

Twilight’s Pov

I can’t put into words how massively I’ve bucked up. My thoughts bounced all over the place, starting first at the massacre of Ponyville, to the slaughter that was the battle of Manehattan, to my own atrocities that were killing that family of Goburimon and their father, an Orgremon… and now this. I turned my partner into a monster, because of my unwillingness to see Digimon as anything more than heartless monsters… ponies had died, and for what? All he wanted was a friend, all he wanted was for ME to be his friend, but… my thoughts were cut short by Princess Celestia.

“What did you do?” Her voice wasn’t necessarily angry, more pained and confused. I didn’t look up to face her, how could I?, “After all I've strived to teach you… I-im sorry Twilight but….”

“I know,” I said, I knew what was coming next but it didn’t make it hurt any less.

“...As the High Princess of Equestria, I ,Celestia…” I heard her choke back what little tears hadn’t already fallen to the ground, “Revoke your title as Princess of Friendship, you will be stripped of your title, your power, and your rank.”

A burning sensation overwhelmed me, but I remained quiet, as I felt my wings dissolve into nothingness, as well as my cutie mark.

“Im sorry Twilight…” The Princess said.

“Don’t be, your majesty, If I can’t be held accountable for my actions, what are we even fighting for…” I turned to the egg on the ground and walked over to it, attempting to use my magic to pick it up only to feel an unbearable amount of pain from my horn. It would need time to heal. I picked it up with my hooves instead as I heard Spike scamper up to me outstretching my damaged digivice.

“I found it in the castle!” Spike said proudly.

“Thank you, I can always rely on you Spike,” I said smiling weakly as I took it from him. It beeped weakly, the crest of friendship… was gone? My shock was soon replaced with understanding.

“Looks like I'll need to earn that back too…” I laughed weakly.

“We will reconvene at a later date after the shield has been replaced and the guards have been replaced with fresh units… there is much to do,” Her majesty stated, “Fluttershy, please take Connor to his quarters so he can recover. We will need his strength in the future, Twilight… it would be best if you remained in your quarters until we have need of you.”

With that I returned to my quarters, dreading what was to come.

Author's Note

Wonder if my has earned its M for mature tag yet =3