Chrysalis took two steps toward Toby and was immediately interrupted by a beam of dark purple magic splashing against her back. As the crowd of ponies cleared out, Toby was able to gain sight of Luna blasting spell after spell from where she flew in the air, a look of fury upon her face. A particularly strong beam seared straight through the side of the changeling's neck, spurting pink glowing life fluids across her front. The wound immediately sealed itself however, in a flash of green flames. The chitin in its place was dark green and spotless. And then Chrysalis's head spun one-hundred eighty degrees on her body.

All of her neck carapace shattered and splintered off, leaving only the pink flesh and muscles underneath. It was, in a word, absolutely grotesque. It shocked the lunar princess for just long enough for her opponent to attack back. A green orb flew from Chrysalis's horn, over her own body, and hit Luna directly on the base of her own horn. It splashed against her head, ungulfing it, and then turned into a solid emerald around her. She quickly lost control of her flight and crashed headfirst into the tiles. Chrysalis turned back towards her target, neck healing and replacing the broken shell with more green chitin, just in time to receive a roundhouse kick from Toby into her dome.

She flinched back with a large crack, but even as she healed she fired another spell back at Toby. Exactly what he was waiting for. He opened his mouth wide, and inhaled as much as he could. The green beam flew into and then disappeared into his gullet as he swallowed the orb of magic. He wanted an edge in this fight, and he knew this would give him a Copy Ability of some sort. Beam, Laser, maybe even Stone based on what it did to the Princess. So Toby puffed himself up as he felt the magic change him, strengthen him, and he stood tall as his Copy Ability turned from his usual self into-

...The 'Copy' Copy Ability. A visor that allowed him to scan copy-able items and creatures, and then change his Copy Ability to match. Toby glared up at his new accessory as it settled on his head. Not helpful. He had to quickly duck and run away as Chrysalis came back at him with magic and hooves, attempting to trample him and stomp him into the floor. He managed to gain some distance as a new pony entered the fight. Celestia stood near the entrance and summoned a wall of light that stopped the crazed changeling just as well as any stone or morter could. She turned to hiss at the elder sister as she charged a spell in her horn.

Celestia lowered her horn in preparation for the fight. She needed to either end this fight or stall long enough for Luna to return and for all the guests to be evacuated. She felt her body heat up as she prepared to give it her all... And her body heat kept rising. And rising. She realized quickly that the heat wasn't hers, and she turned to her right as much as she dared to spot the source. And then she fully turned to look to make sure she wasn't seeing things.

Twilight Sparkle was pissed. She had started the night worried about her friends, and things only got worse as the night dragged on. And then the Gala was attacked, and she started panicking, and she didn't know where her friends were or if they were okay, and she hated all of it.

Twilight's anger has reached critical mass. 100%

Her mane and tail was instantly transmuted to pure fire. Her magic became dense, and potent, and violent as she pulled every ounce of energy she could find in herself to a single point above her head. She spent only a second to make sure she was aiming at that bitch who was ruining everything, and then she fired.

Spike would later describe it as a Hyper Beam, a massive pure white pillar of magic and destruction fired straight into the body of Chrysalis. Celestia was thrown back by the back blast, the tiles melted, and the end of it could be seen careening through the air from Ponyville. Discord's statue was sweating drops of granite as the bushes next to him smoldered, instantly turned to charcoal.

Celestia blearingly lifted her head in time to see her student faint on the spot, completely and totally spent. She had barely gotten onto her own hooves when she was struck in the horn and legs by magic that quickly turned solid around her. She looked up in shock to see Chrysalis standing in the smoke, streaks of fresh green chitin coating her all over, even as steam drifted off of her body. Celestia began to struggle and break her bonds as the striped changeling turned back towards her target. Toby hadn't been idle. He hurried all the musicians off of the stage as he looked for something to use, and he was pretty satisfied with what he found. He pulled down his Copy Visor as he looked at one of the most dangerous weapons in his arsenal.

A microphone.

The visor on his head disappeared as it's use was spent and was replaced by headphone speakers and another mic that fell right into his hand. Mike was a devastating Copy Ability, and he was eager to use it. Chrysalis was eager to give him a target, as evidenced by her mad rush towards him. Toby took a deep breath as he lifted a megaphone to his mouth and screamed.

"AAAAAaaaah!"

A wave of sheer force shot out from him, slamming directly into Chrysalis. To Toby's shock, it barely gave her pause and she was quickly upon him again. Luckily, he still had at least one ally ready to stall her for him. Daroach had hidden himself in the rafters, but as he saw the fight continue to go sideways, he pulled out his favored weapon. The Triple Star. A magic staff that he learned how to cast a variety of spells with, including the one that had just turned Chrysalis into a block of ice. The ray of frost shot from the ceiling directly in front of the running mare, freezing her legs in place and causing her back pair to slip.

That was all Toby needed to prepare, as he pulled his desk mic up to his mouth and shouted.

"HIIIYYAAAAAAaaaaaaaaa!"

The stage under him splintered and the stain glass windows behind him gained spider-web cracks as the force of his voice rocketed at his opponent. The ice around her legs broke into peices as her chitin, her armored skin, fractured and cracked all the way down to her chest. And then she moved, as if she hadn't just been shouted at so loudly that her exoskeleton broke. It quickly healed as she took her first step onto the failing stage. Toby started to take a breath-

And then a cannonball was lodged into Chrysalis's shoulder, sending her sprawling as she lost her balance. Storo, the big cheese of the Squeak Squad stood in the hole created by Twilight's attack, a cannon held under one arm. The cannonball fell out of Chrysalis and the crater it left in her body was rapidly healed over with green chitin as she scrambled onto her legs. But it gave Toby the time he needed to really charge up. He continued to breath in as a stand appeared on his mic, allowing him to hold it with both arms. As he filled his lungs, the most metal of rock-star Mohawks sprouted from his scalp. He held his breath, glared at Chrysalis, and point-blank growled into his mic.

"CHESUTO"

The effect was cataclysmic. The remains of the stage were reduced to sawdust. The shattered windows were instantly turned to sand. The pillars and walls and floor were crushed to pebbles. And Chrysalis's armor was turned into meaty chunks of useless calcium. All of her body to about halfway down her barrel was stripped of its cover, revealing slick muscles and tendons that flopped and tensed without any support. Toby let out a breath as his Copy Ability expired.

He immediately shouted in pain as a dark green hoof stomped his squishy body into the rocky ground. All of Chrysalis's skin had appeared in one burst of fire, replacing what was once black armor with a sheen into green plates that wove together to turn into a thin set of natural armor. Her horn was gone, replaced by a set of twisted and gnarled antlers like dead trees over a grave. Her fanged mouth hung open, drooling onto Toby as he prepared his escape. He saw Daroach in the rafters, preparing another spell. He heard Storo reloading his cannon. He heard the sounds of crystal shattering as the Princesses escaped from Chrysalis's magic traps. Regardless of all of this, he saw her pull her head back, her neck tensing, and just as she was about to strike-

She was gone in a flash of teal fur and a gust of wind. Toby was too close to really see what happened, but the rest of the fighters saw as Elfilis shot across the room from behind a group of overturned tables and bodily shoulder-checked the crazed Chrysalis into a rapidly formed portal. Before anyone could react, the portal had closed. Taking Chrysalis and Elfilis with it. They all stood in shock at the space they had vanished into, unsure what to do or how to react. Luna was the first to look away, and her first instinct was to check behind the tables where Elfilis had disappeared with Carina in the beginning of the brawl.

Behind the hastily put together defenses, Luna found Carina laid on her side. Her black dress had been torn and cannibalized to wrap all of the open wounds on her body. Swaddle-Dee sat in front of her, slowly feeding her slices of tomato as she tried her best to keep it down.

"Carina?! Are you alright? We need to get you to the medical-"

"Where... where did he go?"

"I don't know Carina, but right now I have other concerns. Relax, let me help you."

"Mmm... okay. But... you'll find him right? He's... I don't think he's okay right now..."

"I'm sure he is fine. Elfilis is strong, he will be safe."

I felt my fur burn and my skin melt as I flew above a stream of magma, holding Chrysalis under the surface by the neck with both my hands. It was irrelevant. I reached the end of the magma-flow as I pulled her out. I growled as her charred body returned to full health in an instant. She was transforming into a healthier form. But how many times can she do that.

I whipped Chrysalis's body through a portal and quickly followed after her. She flew back at me, hissing and shaking. I stopped her charge with one blackened hand and then drove her head and neck into her chest with the other. Her crunched and shortened body was renewed in a flash of green fire. I kicked out at one of her legs, grabbed her by the chest, and threw her back as hard as I could. She screamed as the spike I saw drove itself through her heart. And then the dark clouds above us flashed and struck her with a bolt of lightning. Her body sizzled and popped and-

Green fire appeared, and she came out unharmed, metal spire nowhere to be seen. She launched a spell at me from between her new horns but I batted the sphere of magic away as I tackled her through another portal. We slammed into the wall of... a completely normal garage? Irrelevant. I threw her through the tables to the side and slammed her into the ground. The floor gave way and we both landed in a completely metal room with tools and instruments all around us. Irrelevant. Chrysalis attempted to kick me from where I was stood on top of her, but I punched her hoof and shattered her rapidly unshattered leg. I tossed her to my left at a wall of light that clearly burned has she struck it, but it launched her back into me at force.

I grabbed her and spun as we entered another portal. The tree in our way was felled without effort as we crashed into it and tore a chunk out of its trunk. I looked at her to see her healthy how dare she be fine while Carina-

I tore off her front legs and kicked her into another portal, dashing in to follow her. She bounced off the concrete roof as she threw out all four of her legs to try to catch herself. I stopped myself just as I reached her side, grabbed one of her legs, and swung her straight down into the building under us. She ended up on the ground floor, covered in pink and red blood as I stomped her neck flat. She was still alive.

The next thing I knew, I had her front legs in my arms as her body got tangled in a giant web. As she thrashed and shook, giant red and yellow spiders were thrown from their homes. They chose to run away as I summoned a barrage of spears. One impaled itself into Chrysalis's back leg, and in a burst of flame it was gone. The next went through her neck. Same result. Spear after spear, wound after wound, until I had finally gotten the result I was looking for. I watched as green blood dripped from where the last spear had taken off one of her antlers. She was out of juice.

I heard shouting behind me, but it was irrelevant as I took one last spear into my hands.

I took one step... two steps... three steps, four, until I was mere feet away from the entangled Chrysalis. It wasn't enough. I wanted to know that she knew what was about to happen. All I saw in front of me was a raving, hissing beast. I expanded my dream. I extended my mind until it enveloped hers, and Chrysalis's thoughts became mine to peruse.

He's coming, I need more. He's coming, I need more. He's coming, I need-

I gripped my weapon with cracking burnt digits as I took aim. I pulled back, ignored the irrelevant screaming behind me, and thrust at-

The following is irrelevant.
Bullshit.

Swollen teats, right under my initial target. Her stomach, large and rounded in a way I haven't seen on any other yet. The tip of my spear was only centimeters away from her when I stopped.

I expanded my dream, I extended my mind.

And I found a second set of thoughts inside Chrysalis.

He's coming, the baby's coming, I need more, I need more love for my baby.

I landed on my ass hard as I dropped my spear. I heard sighs of relief from behind me as I put my cracked and bleeding hands over my eyes.

"God fucking damn it."

Author's Note

Boom. Double Christmas present. Bet a lot of you didn't see this ending coming. Did I write the action well?