Magolor was torn between bragging about his immense magical power and collapsing to the floor in exhaustion. He did just punch a hole through an Ancient super computer as well as the armored window that used to stand behind it. Molten glass was so pretty. His indecision however, gave Susie all the time she needed to pick him up and dunk him headfirst into the open Robobot cockpit.

"...Ow?"

"Sorry, not sorry. We need to hurry to the secondary and tertiary server rooms. I installed them to try to compensate for the loss of Star Dream's power but now they might allow Nightmare Moon to repossess the Ark." Which, Magolor figured was a fair reason to cut his celebration/relaxation short, though it turned out that Susie's paranoia was unnecessary. The extra computers she had installed, a grand total of Magolor-lost-count-after-two-thousand-fifty-something, had all melted shortly after the destruction of the main console. Magolor theorized that the malevolent spirit had tried to vent the energy from his attack to the supplementary systems, but his might was so vast that it had simply burned them as well. He took Susie's silence as confirmation.

He didn't notice Susie staring forlornly at the one surviving video screen, a message burnt onto the glass screen. I'll always be with you sweetie... You could say that I'm there, 'in spirit?' Hohoho! Followed by a caricature of a rotund egg-shaped man holding his hands together in the shape of a heart. It was all in shades of black and gray, but Susie could still see the orange of his eyes and the royal purple of his hair, even as she threw a burnt tarp over it to keep it out of sight.

"Susie? Are you even listening?" She barely glanced at the half-delirious wizard, choosing instead to give a slow nod to the autonomous mecha that carried him. The metal visage of Kirby nodded back, jostling and distracting its passenger. "Hey, careful! You're carrying an MVP you know! A 'Magolor Valuable...' Hold on, that can't be right..."

"...Yes, you were amazing Magolor, now let's get out of here. The crew has probably already used up most of the escape shuttles but I'm almost positive none of them thought to grab any of the jets or cargo ships. And hopefully Nightmare Moon didn't attempt to fly any of them."

They made it all of two steps before a star portal opened up in front of them and knocked Magolor the rest of the way unconscious via highspeed message-in-a-bottle.

Generally, if one was told that there were two bodies on the moon, they would be correct to assume that they were dead bodies. Likewise, if they were told that one was actively on fire and the other was frozen nearly solid, one would be forgiven for thinking the worst. Additionally, if one was aware that these were the bodies of ponies then it would be fair to think that someone had some unnecessary grudge against equines. In this case however, both of the pony bodies were still alive, though clearly not well, and the both of them were on the moon of their own volition.

The royal sisters layed side by side, both disturbingly still even as they greedingly took as many breathes as they could. In Celestia, this looked as if her bald chest and barrel were inflating and defalting faster than an accordian, with every exhale stoking the flames that still burned on the ends of her legs and mane. In Luna, only her barrel was able to expand with each breath, and every exhale shot a flurry of snowflakes out of her still nostrils. Neither had ever needed to channel so much magic for so long before, and it was a gruesome sight to behold for the tired and shocked Susie as she exited the boxy transport ship she had landed not too far away. It was Celestia who spoke first.

"S-susie... Right? How-" Her words were cut off as her target of conversation suddenly started blasting her with the cold retardents of a fire extinguisher. It was only after Celestia was thoroughly buried in foam that Susie let the stream of pressurized chemicals end. "... Thanks, I guess."

"How are you alive?! Your eyelashes were on fire!"

"That is-"

"AAAAH! She's alive too?!" Celestia could only assume that Luna must've expelled snow from her snout, but she couldn't see past the froth that covered her.

"Yes, we are... Quite frankly, we are quite fucked." The muffled sound of Luna's strained laughter emerged from the frozen sisters sealed lips. "Channeling the full force of the Sun and the Moon for so long... Is not fun." Celestia had a hunch it was still going to be preferable to next couple moments, depending on how Susie answered her next question. "Where... where is Elfilis, and the other one?" It was very hard to not wince at the sound of panic from her sister, but Luna unfortunately froze her eyes shut and wasn't able to notice the absence of her first crush on her own.

"Magolor is just tired, but Elfilis is... alive? Maybe? Gah!" The sound of ice cruching as Luna's head snapped up was a very good sign of how much she disliked that answer. "He sent us a message! I was scared to read it because the last time we saw him he was melting and-!" Susie was drowned out by the sound of ice exploding as Luna's jaw forcibly popped her lips open.

"R-r-read-d... t-the... m-mess-sage..." Susie proceeded to smash the bottled message against the lunar surface as she scrambled to fish the letter out.

"Y-yup! No problem! Uh, it reads: 'I'm alive. Hope you are too. I can't come back yet, I have less control over my powers than ever and I don't want to blow anyone up provided you aren't already dead. Please don't be dead. Lots of love, Elfilis... Are you serious? Yes, I'm for real you asshole. I can't believe you! Stop talking, you're fucking up the letter. Fuck you, make me. Little bitch. Little...' Um... the rest of the letter is just vulgarities." Well, that was oddly reassuring in its uniquely concerning way. Not dead or injured, just... struggling. Celestia could accept that for now, and hoped that a particularly loud breathe from Luna meant her sister felt the same way. But for now...

"Alright... Let me and Luna rest for a moment, before we try to teleport down to Equestria." And so, that is what they did.

To understand what greeted the Princesses upon their exhausted return to Ponyville, one must start back at the beggining. To recap, Twilight convinces half of the Element Bearers that they need to help Celestia and Luna protect the planet and even goes as far as to recruit Star Vision to the cause. The lone kirin of the group states that he thinks he knows where the Elements of Harmony are, thus starting the game. First, they leave Carina and her old cave behind in a flash of light as they begin to teleport across Ponyville to find the missing bearers. Then, they go to Elfilis's house to try to find Swaddle-Dee, who they suspect may be in possession of the magical artifacts.

Unbeknownst to them, Swaddle-Dee had already grabbed the book he kept the Elements hidden in and had run back to where the Lor-Starcutter had crashed into the Sisterhooves Social. He had spent a significant amount of time trying to find their rightful owners or his creator in the crowd of perpetually panicking ponies only to instead run into the trio of fillies known as the Cutiemark Crusaders. He reveals to them that he has the Elements and recruits them to help him find their sisters or their friends so he can return them. So now Swaddle-Dee is sitting in the back of a kiddie wagon while the orange pegasus known as Scootaloo uses her scooter to drag him from place to place.

The first two stops were the nearby Sweet Apple Acres farm and the Carasoul Botique, but it was their third stop to the Golden Oaks Library that is important. After knocking on the doors and receiving no answer within ten seconds, Scootaloo lost her patience and began to shoot off to the next destination. It was just as she left that Spike the baby dragon answered the door, in time to see Swaddle-Dee slip the missing Elements back into his book as he was carted away. Spike, not immediately coming to the conclusion that Swaddle-Dee was there to return them, began to give chase. Given the speed advantage of his unknowing adversary, the miniscule drake instead to chooses to start laying basic traps around town in order to try to catch Scootaloo.

So now, we have the Bearers frantically searching the town for Swaddle-Dee, Swaddle-Dee and Scootaloo frantically doing the same for them, and Spike slowly but surely turning the entirety of Ponyville into a semi-literal minefield. It gets worse of course. The other denizens of the town haven't exactly been sitting around twddling their hooves after all. And, if it wasn't obvious, they didn't all calmly and reasonably bunker down in their homes.

No, the panicking ponies from the filly race came to town and worked up the rest of the already stressed ponies into a frenzy. Which means every street and corner was subject to a miniature stampede, and the sight of the heroes of the town blazing a trail through the crowds turned it into a regular stampede. This was then upgraded into a super stampede as ponies all over Ponyville started suddenly falling into pit traps and getting caught in nets. More than a couple buildings collapsed. By this point, the sun was halfway across the horizon but the moon had not made its appearance.

Eventually however, Scootaloo was actually the target of a trap herself. A rope shot up and tripped her on her scooter and launched Swaddle-Dee into the air, directly into a line of laundry some poor mare happened to leave out to dry. He landed with a huff and scrambled to remove the teat binder from his eyes, only to abandon his effot when he suddenly felt someone try to pry his book from his arms. This was Spike having finally caught up to Swaddle-Dee, but Swaddle-Dee couldn't see who was trying to take the Elements from him and fought back, thus reinforcing the idea in Spike's mind that the Dee was trying to keep the Elements for himself.

It was this sight that greeted the Bearers and Star soon after as they skidded around a corner to where the two were fighting over the book. But when they saw Spike, he was... different. More than twice his regular size, Spike let out a menacing growl as he smashed Swaddle-Dee into the ground with one leg.

"This isn't... yours! It's... It's... Mine!" And then Spike was suddenly triple the size of the buildings and throwing Swaddle-Dee into the distance. And then he started stomping around and smashing houses. Now, the dragon was scary, but oddly enough there was a surge of ponies (mostly stallions) who decided to take their chances and chose to run towards the rampaging lizard in hopes of getting past him. This was because, from the edge of the Whitetail Woods, emerged an even greater beast. A pissed pink princess changeling, Carina.

"You left me behind bitches! Do you think I'm useless?! I'll rip your dicks off!" This didn't go unnoticed by the giant Spike, who in his greed clouded mind, decided that he was jealous of Carina for the fear she installed in the male population. He was a great drake! He deserved the fear of the ponies! He wanted it! So, he pushed off the ground with one mightly leap, and swung his tail with all his weight behind it into his pink nemesis.

Finally, as two princesses, one Ceo, an unconcious magician and a pink mecha teleported onto the street, they were graciously welcomed by the scene of Carina suplexing Spike into Town Hall.

Next time, perhaps we will discuss Canterlot and the aftereffects of the 'Cunt heard around the World.' It wasn't often the entire population of a major city had to juggle the tasks of replacing every window and explaining to all the little children that the C-word was a bad word. While deaf.

... Toby? Oh. He wanted to help, but he was busy running the bar. He wanted to set a good example to some new employees and refused to end his own shift early.

... Yes, really. He has the mind set of a particularly stubborn five-year old. This is not surprising.

Author's Note

Not abandoned or cancelled. Not writer's blocked either. Just slow.

I had the whole idea for this chapter written in my head for more than a month but couldnt get the pen to paper (metaphorically) becuase life is bumpy.

Oh if only I could spend all my days doing only the things I love.