My Little Pony: The Prince of Friendship

"Not only does it seem Condescending Consequence released Lord Tirek from Tartarus, but after checking, it seems The Dark Master went and released all the caged creatures that were placed there." Celestia said.

"This Dark Master punk didn't focus on those other creatures. His focus was right on Lord Tirek the entire time." Tempest Shadow said.

"Which leads into the biggest issue with that: Before I refused to do battle with the possessed Lord Tirek, The Dark Master mentioned that it was the centaur himself that destroyed the Golden Oak Library where I used to reside." Twilight mentioned.

"Are you referring to that destroyed oak tree that's not too far from this location?" Ember asked.

"That's the one. It used to be the spot for the local Ponyville Library and yet..." Twilight said.

"...Lord Tirek destroyed it. And The Dark Master was hoping you'd give in to the hatred and anger you felt at that time to take your revenge." Flash Sentry said.

"But I wouldn't do that. That's not me. So I refused to do so. Because doing that would make me no different then the villains I've faced over the years." Twilight said. Flash Sentry pulled his wife into a wing hug.

"I think I speak for everyone here that we can't be more proud of you for refusing to go down that route." Flash Sentry said.

"I guess when you put it that way, yeah...sometimes it takes more strength not to take revenge..." Ember said.

"But what I want to know most right now, is how did The Dark Master know all that?" Rainbow Dash asked. "Last I checked, that information was top secret." She added.

"Yeah that's on my mind too." Spitfire admitted.

"If you ask me it doesn't matter how he found out." Tempest Shadow said. Which made everyone look at her. "Think about it, we are talking about a being who is not afraid of just downright murdering whoever he feels like when he feels like it. Between those that he gobbled up when he first appeared and that possessed Lord Tirek not too long ago, we are clearly dealing with a highly intelligent psychopath." Tempest Shadow said.

"Can we really say he's a psychopath?" Fluttershy asked.

"Again, he murders for no reason then for his own amusement. And to top things off, he went extra miles to try and send Equestria's youngest Princess towards the dark side of life. All for what purpose? I couldn't even begin to tell you. It's reasons unique to him, and him alone. And he's clearly shown himself to be insane, even going so far as to just kill something he went out of his way to grab. Think about it: What reasons would he have for killing Lord Tirek and that new brand of Darkling when he could've simply just made them even stronger and brought it back again later?" Tempest Shadow asked. "Even the Storm King wouldn't have wasted that sort of strategy, but everything Condescending Consequence does seems to have zero logic attached to it." He added.

"Hate to say it, but Tempest Shadow brings up a fair point..." Twilight said. "Exactly what was the Dark Master Planning exactly?" She asked. Suddenly everyone in the room felt a slight tingle of dark magic being used, but nothing seemed to have happened.

"Oh no..." Thorax noted.

"What is it?" Celestia asked.

"Whatever that magic was, it was supposed to effect changelings. Thankfully for me and my hive, it did nothing but..." Thorax trailed off.

"I knew it...there are other changeling hives..." Twilight said.

"Chrysalis only knew of the two other then ours and rumors of a fourth outside of that; but where those other three are I can't say as she kept that information to herself." Pharynx said.

"But what exactly did that spell just do to those other hives?" Ember asked.

"...It caused Love Sickness." Thorax said. "It's a disease that fills changelings with nothing but hate and is incurable. Not to mention fatal." He explained.

"But it seems that these new forms of ours do have one benefit outside of no longer needing love to survive: It stops us from getting the disease." Pharynx said.

"The sickness must target Changeling's otherwise need of love to survive." Twilight guessed. "It's the only explanation for why Thorax's hive became immune to this disease." She added.

"Not sure where Chrysalis is, but if she's as resilient as I know she is, she'll figure out someway to stop herself from being infected." Thorax said.

"Can't that bad changeling queen ever stay down?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"The other changelings hives must be more neutral and peaceful if none of the three others have ever so much as launched a single attack on Equestria." Celestia said.

"Agreed. That's the conclusion I came to." Thorax said.

"Those poor hives..." Fluttershy said.

"Unfortunately there is nothing we can do for them now." Thorax said. "Still for The Dark Master to just want to take out all changelings by causing Love Sickness..." He trailed off.

"Then it's just more proof that the punk is a complete Psychopath. It seems he doesn't care who he kills, so long as he's killing somecreature." Tempest Shadow said.

"Yaks will not stand for this; we need plan on how we get artifacts back." The Yak leader said.

"Control your temper." Twilight told the Yak Leader. "That's what the Dark Master wants is for you to lose it." She added.

"...Princess Twilight bring up good point. Will go smash stuff to calm self down." The Yak leader said before going off.

"And there's that too: He's trying to push us towards a breaking point." Tempest Shadow said.

"Then it's a good thing Twilight has already realized that this dude is trying to get under our skin on purpose." Rainbow Dash said.

"You know, I can totally agree with that statement." Spitfire said.