Author's Note

Outside of the intro here, the next two arcs are going to be first person view from Scootaloo's perspective.

Also, originally this arc was full of throw-away one-off boss fights. But I've scrapped all of them and will only be using the major fights with one lone exception.

Beyond earth Era: Triple Threat Chaos - Making Mistakes

What was I thinking? A voice over of Scootaloo's thoughts suddenly came up. I should've realized that Rob being Rob, something like this could've caused the five-year gap to happen regardless of if I salvaged his relationship with Patra or not...

Scootaloo was with Rob and Dr. Krono staring up at the largest multi-limbed mech the young pegasus had ever seen in her entire life. Seems a lot more happened in just two months rather than the full six. But I'm getting way ahead of myself. The voice over said. Let me back up here, to when me and Zapper had went to Thunder Isles...

Two months prior...

When Rob had informed me that his shadow self had went to Thunder Isles a few days ago and had not reported back, Zapper insisted that he and I should go to Thunder Isles to check things out. So, that's exactly what we did. A lot of residents were hiding out in their houses as we headed for Thunder Tower, where the Thunder Cheif resided. We began climbing the tower, but halfway up, we came across Shadow Rob.

"Shadow Rob? There you are." Zapper said.

"Wait." I said. Suddenly me and Zapper dodged an attack from Shadow Rob.

"Oh boy..." Zapper said. It seemed we were having to fight Shadow Rob.

Clone of Rob

Shadow Rob

Shadow Rob was using his usual shadow moves of Shadow Shining Flare, Shadow Storm, Shadow V-Create, and Shadow Fire.

As I had gotten a preview of how Shadow Rob fought from the VHS tape Expert had me watch, this made knocking Shadow Rob out relatively simple.

"Okay, what happened there just now?" Zapper asked.

"Not sure, but I don't think Shadow Rob did that of his own accord." I said. "Kind of looked like he was possessed somewhat."

"...Then I can already guess who's at the top." Zapper said as he and I continued up to the top of the tower.

I could already guess who would be up top as well, and sure enough, Zapper and I were both right: It was Gorzon.

"Well, look who the cat dragged in? If it isn't the banished Thunder Isle resident. You really shouldn't be here, you know. Don't want to be going up against your cheif's word now, do you?" Gorzon asked.

"That doesn't matter right now. Zapper is here to investigate the darkness readings the Protection Spear was giving Rob." Scootaloo said.

"Speaking of him, it was easy to use my dark magic to take control of that hero's shadow half. Honestly, it was quite pathetic. And honestly, he's just a joke. He could barely put up a fight against me, and you two easily overcame him." Gorzon said. "Seriously, that shadow clone should just take a hike."

"Don't diss him like that." I said.

"That Shadow Victini should just face it: He's nothing but a worthless copy. He'll never amount to anything." Gorzon said.

"That's it, your going down." I snapped at him.

"Go ahead, just try and defeat me." Gorzon said before he suddenly summoned a strange syth out of thin air. "Because heroes will always end up being stuck-up at the end of the day."

Shapeshifting Being of Darkness

Gorzon

Gorzon's usual magic blasts were on full in this fight it seemed: Fire, Lightning, Ice, Wind, Earth, Water, Holy, and of course, Darkness. All those spells were being used on Gorzon and I. However, getting close was no option this time, as the self-proclaimed "Master of Darkness" had a sythe now that he would swing if we got too close.

I didn't even know he had a sythe until now, but apperently, he did. He was just saving it for a real showdown. And he was pretty clever with it. After knocking down his health enough, he started imbuing the sythe with his magic thus turning the fight on it's head: Now we had to dodge an elementally charged weapon while still fightning Gorzon. Eventually though, we managed to defeat the shape shifter.

"You got lucky ths round. That's all. But next time, I'll be in full force. You haven't seen the last of me." Gorzon said before he vanished.

"I could've handled him on my own, thank you very much." The Thunder Cheif said.

"Seriously old man? We just saved your ass." Zapper snapped.

"I'm pretty sure I banished you. You should have never come back." The Thunder Cheif said.

"Now let's just both calm down--" I tried to defuse the situation.

"And you were going to end up becoming sliced sushi if I hadn't have come back. Ever think of that?" Zapper asked.

"I had that monster where I wanted him. You got in my way." The Thunder Cheif said.

"So this is how you thank someone after they save you? Grill them consantly?" Zapper asked. "Fine, if that's the way you want it..." Zapper walked over to the protection spear.

"Wait, don't remove that!" I said. Too late, Zapper dislodged the thing, threw it over the edge to the ground below Thunder Isles, and got us out of there using one of Rob's Return Discs to teleport us out of there.

"Zapper, what did you do? Why am I not recieving a singal from the protection spear at Thunder Isles anymore" Rob asked when we teleported in front of him.

"He did a bad thing." I said. I would then go into detail about exactly what happened.