Their Names Across The Multiverse

Powerful attacks could be seen outside the library tree as they destroyed the surrounding area. Dawn and Fayth were still fighting each other, but even with her new form, Dawn started to lose the battle. This could be seen as the same cloaked figure from before watched on as she stood on the top of the library tree. She took out her book and started reading, ignoring the battle below her...

Dawn did an axle kick and was about to strike Fayth, but a massive explosion of dark energy blew her away. Dawn flew backward but quickly regained control. She could see Fayth's power increase once again.

Fayth smirked as she pointed to Dawn. "Why are you doing this? Just give up. You know the old saying. You can't stop Fate,"

Dawn gritted her teeth and charged. Her horn glowed pink, and the pink aura of magic surrounded her fists.

"GIVE UP!? SPARK WON'T GIVE UP! I WON'T STOP BECAUSE! YOU CAN'T STOP LOVE!"

She punched her, sending Fayth a massive blast of light and pink magical energy through her body.

"DAMN YOU! DIE!"

Fayth did nothing. She took the attack head-on. But the smoke cleared. Fayth was unharmed.

"Did you really think that would work?" she dusted herself off and smiled twistedly.

Dawn didn't reply. Instead, she did an ax kick, followed by an elbow strike.

Again, Fayth just allowed herself to be hit by the attack. Dawn's attack did nothing.

"Why won't you fight back!?" screamed Dawn, trying to punch her with her right fist, but Fayth stopped it with her floating black book and smiled.

"I'll tell you. The reason why is because your power is too weak to stop me, and you can't. It is your destiny to fail. So why try?"

"Because I'm not the only one fighting you," answered Dawn, smiling.

Fayth knew what she meant by that and allowed herself to be hit by different attacks from behind. She turned back and saw those still standing were now fighting her.

"We will defeat you and save Spark!" shouted Dawn.

Fayth just chuckled. "You all are so pathetic, you know that. Even if you were stronger, I'm still stronger." She disappeared and reappeared behind Bolt and Heat, blasting them toward the magical barrier of the library tree, damaging it even more. The two ponies bounced off it and landed behind. Those two were out of the fight as Fayth held the Element Emearlds and Element Diamonds. She tossed the useless Elements away and turned to the remaining fighters. "Stronger than all of you combined."

Flare quickly blasted toward Fayth, punching with all her might, but Fayth smiled as she spoke to her.

"The one based on Superman, from the DC universe." She was punched again, but Flare wasn't holding back now as a giant shockwave erupted. "Flare, you are known to be the strongest because you are a version of him, yet you are still weak compared to me."

Flare gritted her teeth as she kept punching. But Fayth just stood there and smiled. "What? Don't tell me. You aren't even giving your all. Oh, wait, you are. Pathetic."

"Shut up!" Flare punched her even harder, destroying half of the town with the aftershock. "I'm always holding back! I must hold back because I'm living in a world of cardboard!" she kept punching her. "But you!? I'll make an expectation! Because I'm breaking my own rule! For Spark's sake, I will beat you!" her eyes started to glow red with her heat version. Her whole body began to glow red with a vast amount of heat. She punched Fayth in the chest, damaging the reality around them.

"THERE IS A REASON MY PARENTS NAMED ME FLARE!"

Fayth quickly grabbed Flare's arm and pulled her face toward Flare with a twisted smile. "Is that so? Well, I'll burn out that burning star within you!" Fayth picked her up and slammed her into the ground, creating a large crater. She raised her hand, and her book came to her. She was about to write when Flash was about to attack from behind.

"Too slow," whispered Fayth, quickly walking to the side and making her miss. "Rainboom Flash. A version of different heroes, mostly notably Goku from the DBZ universe." Fayth and Flash stood there, dodging each other blows. "You learned from Son Goku how to use ultra instinct. Something I'm surprised you could use. You were always the fastest because you are a version of Rainbow Dash, but you can't outrun me." She quickly moved behind Flash and blasted her back to the magical barrier of the library. Dawn jumped out of the way as Flash crashed into the barrier and fell to the ground.

Fayth looked around at those left. She sighed. "Looks like the fun is about to end."

Bolt and Heat were unconscious. Midnight, Nanna and the others were scattered about and injured.

"Looks like the only ones left are Dawn, Flash, Flare, and... you five," she said, taking a hit from different colored batarangs in the back. They blew up with various effects, creating a multicolored smoke. A shield was soon tossed into the smoke, and the sound of it hitting something could be heard and flew back to the owner. Soon, the three-layer cake fell on top of the smoke and created three vast explosions.

Dawn, Flash, and Flare could see Nightmare, Berry, and her friends joining the battle. Captain Applecore, whose outfit was severely damaged, landed alongside them.

Nightmare helped Flare and spoke to her in a cold tone. "What will you do without me?" she smiled.

Flare chuckled. "Well, we are the world's finest heroes after all. Always glad to have you watching over my back-" Flare couldn't finish as she spotted green lights approaching them from behind Nightmare. She pushed her friend out of the way and was suddenly blasted by a rain of green rocks. She could feel them stabbing into her skin.

Nightmare quickly recovered and was horrified to see her close friend dropping to her knees and turning green as the rocks infected her. She knew what this was.

"Kryptonite!? How!? This universe doesn't have-"

But Nightmare couldn't finish as she could hear laughter coming from the smoke where the cakes blew up. She and the others could see Fayth walking out of the smoke, laughing as she closed her book.

"Correct, those little green rocks don't exist in this universe, but I made it so. You can't stop fate," she said, smirking.
She walked to the down Flare. Her green skin was bleeding heavily from the wounds.

"Being a version of Rainbow Dash AND Superman and Supergirl. You share Superman's weakness." She knocks over Flare, who is too weak to move. "Kryptonite. A small piece can bring you down in an instant. So why not a ton of them?" She turned in time to catch a batarange, which started to beat with a red light. She let it go as it exploded, but it had no effect.

As the smoke cleared, she walked out and spoke to Nightmare. "A version of Twilight Sparkle but as Batman. Just like every version of them, you lost your parents to some random mugger. You took up the mantle and fought crime. Swore never to use a gun against any criminals because you didn't want to be like them." She stopped and raised her hand, making it into a finger gun. "What a stupid mindset. You and every Batman could end the problem by ending them, but no, you want to show them the light, but guess what, Nightmare. Sometimes, the world is too dark. You can't fix everything. You can't change fate." she fired, making a bang sound.

Nightmare narrowed her eyes at her, not liking how Fayth was acting. "You remind me of someone. She tells awful jokes. Even...even...?" Nightmare suddenly felt something warm going down her chest. She looked down and could see a bullet wound right in the middle of her bat logo. She dropped to her knees, touching the blood.

"I'm more dangerous than your version of the Joker. But they were right, you know? All it takes is one. Bad." She turned her sight to the others, who all took battle stances. She could see the past rewrites. She saw different versions of FIM characters, all joining... 'her' as she stood against her. "DAY!" she screamed as she opened her book and started to write down something.

"GO!" shouted Captain Applecore, rushing toward her with the others.

But as they got closer, Applecore quickly aged and dropped to the ground.

"Cap!?" Berry shouted as she rushed toward her, but Grape realized what had happened and tried to stop Berry.

But it was too late as Berry and her friends lost their magical girl forms and became normal-colored pony girls. Flash quickly acted and attacked Fayth, but she suddenly felt something in her chest. She fell to the ground and held her chest. She was having a heart attack or some sickness that made it look like it.

"Shit!" cursed Dawn, seeing that Fayth beat them all by changing their fates in this battle.

Fayth slowly looked over at her with a twisted smile. "Only one left." She could see Dawn raising her fist as she charged toward her, and she smiled. "And I know just how to end her." She pointed her hand in the air, slammed it down to her book, and started to write, but something happened. Her book repelled her writing hand. "What!?" She was soon punched in the face and went flying into a building.

As the smoke and rubble cleared, Fayth looked inside her book as if Dawn's attack hadn't hurt her. She could see her handwriting glowing, but at the end of the sentence, her writing was glowing a white color rather than a black one.

"What is this!? " she asked herself as she stood up. She tried to finish writing the sentence, but again, her book refused her. "Is something wrong with my book?" she glared at it. "No, something or someone is stopping me. Only myself can control someone's fate...unless it is my...mother?" She put away her book and walked out of the destroyed building. She stood face to face with Dawn.

The cloaked figure put away her feather pen and returned to reading her book.

"So, not writing in your little black book, brat?" Dawn asked, making pink magical orbs before herself and punching them toward Fayth, who smirked and took the attacks head-on. "Oh, so tough, aren't we?"

Fayth chuckled. "I know what you are trying to do. You are trying to stall. You hope Spark will wake up, but I'm playing with you." She started to walk closer to her, allowing the magical orbs to hit her body. "I won't kill you this time. No, I'll do something much, much worse. You wish I killed you."

"Like what?" asked Dawn, charging her horn with magic.

"Simple," answered Fayth, appearing right in front of her. She was on her tiptoes and whispered into Dawn's ear. What she said made Dawn's eyes with horror. "That's right. Let it sink in," she said, lowering back the ground and seeing Dawn holding her head. She could hear the confusion in her voice, trying to understand what she said to her. Soon, Fayth could hear Dawn and Luster's voices rather than just Dawn's. She grabbed Dawn by her shirt. "A fusion identity crisis. You are confused, aren't you, Dawn, or is it Luster?" she asked.

Dawn's eyes snapped open. "NO, MY NAME IS DAWN!"

"Are you sure about that?" She raised Dawn. "How about you go somewhere far away and think about your identity while I handle things here."

"Fuck you," snarled Dawn, her eyes going crossed eyes.

Fayth smirked and sent Dawn flying out of town over the great dam that New Ponyville was famous for. She then turned her sights to the barrier surrounding the tree library.

S.P.I.K.E. watched Twilah, looking at her readings as she slept in the bed, still severely sick. The robotic dragon saw a spike in her temperature and quickly got out a syringe filled with medicine and injected it into her body. It had no effect, as he knew it wouldn't. The poison that was inside of her was spreading faster. No matter how many ideas he created in his systems, none of it will work. His creator was going to die soon, and he was helpless to do anything about it. He looked over at her, hoping she would be okay.

"Twilah..."

Suddenly, he could hear the sounds of running up the stairs, and the door burst open. He could see Twilight, Dash, Dashie, and a few new ponies resembling Twilight and Twilah's friends. What confused him was seeing the new Twilight and Dash ponies. He was going to ask what was wrong, but Dashie rushed to bed and pulled the covers off.

"Spike! We can remove what's hurting Twilah." She carefully held her up. "It won't cure her but can allow her to live longer."

He turned and looked at her. "...what? What are you talking about?"

Dashie didn't explain to him; she just held up Twilah and looked over to Nightfall and Sky. She nodded at them. The two nodded back, and they started to glow with the rest of the Elements. Dashie suddenly felt her chest glowing. She looked down and could see a blue light circle forming. A small glowing blue stone orb formed within the circle a few seconds later. Dashie could see the Element of Loyalty slowly floating out of her chest. Her anthro form disappeared, and she became human again. The Element flew back to Sky and entered her body.

Everyone watched as Twilah's chest started to do the same thing. Soon, the Element of Magic slowly floated out of her and returned to Nightfall.

"Twilah!" cried Dashie, seeing her lover's pale skin becoming normal again.

Spike was confused about what was happening but realized the Element was out of her and that her vital signs were slowly improving. He checked his systems and saw the poison was receding but not vanishing. She was still severely sick but alive.

"I'm not sure if that helped, but her condition is improving," he answered, happy Twilash's vitals were improving more as seconds passed.

Twilah's eyes started to open slowly. She was awake again but looking confused as she saw Sky and Nightfall in the room.

"Oh,. Am I dead?" she waved at them. "I'm happy to see you two again..."

"TWILAH!" cried Dashie, hugging and crying on her.

"Whoa, hey, calm down, Dashie." She smiled at her but quickly feared as she saw her. "Wait, are you dead!? How you died!?"

Dashie and the others laughed when they heard that. "I'm not dead..." she broke the hug and looked at her. She kissed her on the lips and placed her forehead on hers. "Neither are you."

Twilah was confused, but she slowly realized she wasn't dead. Nightfall and Sky, along with their friends, were truly here. She asked what was going on.

Dashie looked at her, tears in her eyes, as she answered. "Blitz is still alive!"

Twilah quickly smiled and hugged Dashie. She looked at Nightfall, who was smiling at her. Twilah closed her eyes, remembering Prism. "Prism...your future, it's safe! I'll see you again..."

Suddenly, the whole room and the tree itself shook with fury. They could hear someone screaming.

"FAYTH!"

It was Spark's voice. It sounded like it was full of rage and hatred.

They could feel a massive force slamming into something near the tree.

"That sounded like Spark!? But does her voice sound so cold?" Twilight asked.

Twilight steps forward, having a guilty look on her face. "I destroyed her trust in me...and maybe everyone else after tricking her," she explained, looking out of the window.

Twilah soon learned what Twilight did. Though she was upset with how Twilight handed it, she understood why she did it. She tried to get out of bed, but she was too sick and weak to stand anymore, falling, but SPIKE and Dashie caught her.

"Twilah, stop! You weren't cured, only stabilized," cried Dashie.

Twilah shook her head. She gave everything she had to stand and look at everyone,

"Spark! I need to tell her something! Something she needs to hear and, finally, put her worries to rest. She needs me... no..." she corrected herself as she looked at Dashie, Twilight with Dash, and, finally, Nightfall and Sky. "She needs her mothers. And she needs us more than ever."

Twilight nodded in agreement. "Yes, I hurt her, but I'll do anything to make it right! I'm not the best mother, but I'll do whatever it takes."

Dash flew off the ground and spoke as well. "She's hurting. I can tell just by looking at her. She feels so confused and alone, but I will be there for her! That's what she needs, and that's what I'm going to do! She's like Braver, thinking she shouldn't be happy and earning a new life."

Dashie stood by Twilah's side, allowing her to lean on her for support. "She's like Blitz, you know? When things are too much, and she becomes scared, she blitzes like her sister does." she chuckled as she helped Twilah to the door. "Like it or not, she's going to be loved by us! I don't care what she thinks or says about not deserving our love. She's a daughter to me, and nothing will change that!"

Nightfall and Sky didn't say anything. They knew their daughters would be in good hands. They and their friends surround the four. Nightfall unleashed her Harmony form, smiling.

"Thank you..." she wiped her eyes and blasted the wall, exposing the room to the outside world. Sky transformed, too, along with the other four elements. They used their Element powers and floated the group inside a rainbow bubble. They took off to the giant dam, where Spark and Fayth were heading.

Twilah smiled. She could see her family was going to be complete soon.

Before all of this happened, Spark woke up and opened her eyes. She slowly sat up and rubbed her eyes, still waking up. She could feel the hardwood floor under her.

"Why am I sleeping on the floor?"

Her vision slowly came to, and she could see she was on the floor. Next to her was Lucy, who looked like she had cried, and her eyes were red.

"Spark!" Lucy happily yelled, seeing the anthro Alicorn waking up.

Spark was confused. The last thing she remembered was seeing her new mother, Twilight, was-

"STAY BACK!" Spark shouted in anger and fear, surprising Lucy with her rage.

She stood up and glared at her. "You! You were part of the plan, weren't you? That's why you are, right?" she looked around the room, trying to find Twilight. "Trying to use you in making me play along and be their weapon!"

"What? No, no!" Lucy cried, trying to explain, but Spark just looked at her in the eyes, making her stop.

"You know, Lucy, I'm tired. I am tired of this world. I'm tired of myself. I don't know why I'm even born."

Lucy stood up and ran toward her, but Spark quickly blasted a magical beam near her, stopping her. "I don't want to hurt you. But I will." Her eyes glowed bright with rainbows. "I won't be someone else's weapon. I really thought I found a family here and in the human counterpart universe." Rainbow tears streamed down her cheeks. "I guess not."

Lucy tried to speak. "Spark, list-"

"Save it," Spark said, her tone sounding cold. "I don't want to hear it, and even then, maybe I deserve what happened to me, why they wanted to control me." She thought of her sisters and Twilah. "I only brought them pain..."

Lucy tried again to tell her what had happened, but Spark ignored her, and she opened up a rift; she wanted to leave, but Lucy had to say anything to keep her from leaving. She remembered what was happening outside and yelled out. "FAYTH IS HERE!"

This made Spark stop, just standing in there. Not saying a word for a few seconds, and then, "Fayth, she's here?"

"Yes!"

"...so?" Spark coldly said, slightly turning to her. "Is this why Twilight wanted to put me under her spell? Be a weapon to defend this universe from-"

Lucy stopped her and shouted out. "She's fighting Dawn!"

This surprised her. She quickly sensed Dawn's life energy and found Lucy telling the truth. Dawn was fighting Fayth but was sent flying near the dam. She could feel Dawn was in pain, but not physically. She was having a mental breakdown. Lucy approached Spark and saw her looking at the room's wall. She was going to ask if she was okay and hopefully explain that Braver and Blitz were alive, but what happened next blew her away as the wall was destroyed.

Spark's eyes started to glow again, but they were full of dark rainbows and hatred this time. Her mane changed, becoming a dark void with red stars and then the flowing twilight night sky with a bit of rainbow. Lucy slowly rose, seeing Spark walking out of the hole that had been made. She could see her walking out as her aura changed. It wasn't her rainbow or even a void; it was dark.

"Using Dawn to get me to fight Fayth...I tired of being seen as a weapon, something to be used."

"S-Spark...wait!" Lucy cried, trying to get up, but it was too late.

Spark was outside, glaring at Fayth, who was on the other side of the barrier. Fayth was slightly surprised to see Spark looking so different, but it made her happy.

"It's like I thought. You aren't her by a long shot. Just an awful version of the original." Fayth thought as she watched Spark break down the barrier as she walked through. "I was hoping to kill everyone here before you woke up, you damn-"

"FAYTH!" screamed Spark, unleashing a powerful dark magical aura and punching her in a split second.

Fayth's eyes widened as she was sent flying, unable to counterattack or defend herself.

Spark flew after her and grabbed her, holding on to her as they soared across the sky. With rage in her voice, she snarled, "Don't you fucking dare touch her or anyone else ever again!" She punched her once and spoke again. "You were right, Fayth! I shouldn't have shown mercy to you! I was a fool, letting you live, but you will die today, and I'm not going to let you run away!"

Fayth's face was grabbed, and Spark blasted it, Sending her flying toward the cliff wall near the dam and crashing into it.

"I will kill you for everything you have done! To all the poor souls you ruined by changing their fate, taking away their pens, and writing their stories! Taking their happiness from them!" Spark screamed, drop-kicking Fayth through the mountainside, and they were now deeper inside of it.

She grabbed Fayth by her neck, making her look at her. "I'LL BREAK YOU! BREAKER!"

Fayth looked at Spark with no expression. Her emotionless face slowly became a twisted smile as she spoke back to her.

"This is so wonderful! Look at you, the same as me!"

"NO! I'M NOT LIKE YOU!" Spark shouted, punching her in the gut.

Fayth started to laugh through the pain. "Someone badly hurt you. Something bad happened to you. Something that made you like this. It made you like me. You're tired of it all, huh? Wanting everything to end, so you don't have to suffer anymore."

Spark's grip tightened. "You have no idea what I'm feeling right now."

"You're wrong," whispered Fayth, grabbing Spark's neck. "I know exactly what you are going through, Spark."

Spark's eyes widened when she heard that. She felt her neck getting tighter.

"You feel lost. There is no hope in sight. Nothing worth living for." She started to push Spark on her knees, choking her now as Spark's grip became weaker. Everything that once brought you joy, everything you cherished, is gone. There is nothing left, and you want it to end."

Spark was shocked to hear this from Fayth.

"W-Wrong! Dawn is still alive! Whatever you-"

"I have done nothing to her. She became that fusion on her own. Her breakdown was her weak mind's doing. She couldn't handle the truth. Was she a new person or two others? Was she even an original person?"

Spark was speechless. She wasn't lying. Spark knew it. She felt it. Dawn was breaking down because she fused with Luster as she saw Lucy back in the library. Her Dawn was gone, replaced with someone new.

"It's over, Spark. You lost everything."

Fayth slammed Spark into the rocky ground, choking her even more. Spark could feel her life slipping away.

"DON'T EVER THINK YOU CAN CHANGE ME, FAYTH!" coughed Spark. "I will never be like you! NEVER!"

Fayth got much closer to Spark's face, almost touching noses. "I'm not trying to change you...I'm trying to get through to you..."

"H-Huh?"

"I'm like you, Spark. I was in a very similar position, just like you."

"N-No, you're just...lying again!"

"I'm not lying. I lost someone dear to me, and she died in my arms. She was my only friend in this endless multiverse of stories." she placed her other hand over Spark's cheek, gently caressing it. "It broke me, and I wanted the pain to end. I wanted it to end so badly that I did everything possible to bring her back. Even going against my mother and killing her, allowing her powers to become the Tree of Elyndra."

"Mother? Wait, is the tree your-"

"But even when I restarted everything for the first time, she wasn't her. She was someone who only looked like her, and it destroyed me even more. I refused to believe she was gone, so I kept rewriting everything, restarting the multiverse, hoping she would return, but, instead, a fake was born every time. To the point, I'm done. I'm so tired of this pointless cycle, so I will do what needs to be done. I'm going to write the true ending in that golden book and set us all free." she finally loosened her grip on Spark's neck, now touching and holding both Spark's cheeks as she got closer to Spark's face. "And you can help me. Be different from the other awful versions of you. Be..." Spark started to get scared, and she felt uncomfortable as Fayth leaned closer.

"F-Fayth? What are-!?"

Spark couldn't finish as Fayth kissed her very passionately on the lips. Fayth's eyes closed while Spark's opened, full of shock. She felt Fayth's tongue entering her mouth. Spark didn't know how to think about this. It was a strange sensation she had never felt before, and the more the kiss went on, the more wrong it felt. Spark was about to push her away and try to escape this situation, but her body acted independently instead. She was kissing her back.

"N-No...stop this...please...I can't let this happen. I'm stronger than this. I am better than this!" she said in her thoughts.

Spark felt her heart racing, and her whole body became hot. She knew it was wrong, but something deep within her wanted this. She wanted Fayth.

"N-No...stop...this..." Spark whispered as she finally broke the kiss.

Fayth looked at her, finishing what she was going to say.

"Be her. Be the real her, please."

Spark could only look at her in confusion, unable to talk. This was even more so as Fayth's hood fell off, revealing her face. The darkness that hid her eyes was gone, revealing her crying purple eyes.

"My dear friend, be her again. I have been wanting to see her again. I longed for her, but no matter what, none of the fakes could live up to her. You will be her. Please, my beloved."

Spark was still trying to talk, but no words came out.

Fayth leaned in and kissed Spark's neck, still speaking to her. "You told me, no matter the pain, you'll always be here for me, and you said it yourself, Spark. No one deserves a sad fate. No matter who they are. Everyone deserves a happy ending."

She kissed her cheek, tasting the rainbow tears. "I want our friendship back. We were always together, no matter what, and I miss it so much. I don't care about anything else."

Spark couldn't believe what she was hearing, and her face turned red, her heart beating fast. She finally found the voice and forced Fayth off. She quickly sat up and held her body, feeling dirty.

"That's not what friendship is, Fayth. What you are feeling is..." Spark started to cry, knowing she was going through the same thing. She hated it, as she felt she betrayed Dawn.

"What I feel for you is love. I want you by my side again; this is the only way. Please, I need you, and you need me." Fayth's crying face slowly became twisted. "WE NEED EACH OTHER! WE'RE ALONE IN THIS WORLD OF FAKES!"

Spark was scared, and her whole body was shaking. Fayth tried to come closer, but Spark kicked her away. Fayth slowly stood up and stared at her, her tears streaming down.

"Face the cold truth, Spark. Your sad little life is over. You're just like me, so please accept my feelings, and let's start over again. You can be her again. Please say yes, and all your pain will go away. I will make you forget about everyone. I will not even end everything; I will rewrite it again. A rewrite where we can live and be happy together! Like it was from the very start." she took a step. "You won't be born as a weapon! Be seen or used as one! That foolish white Alicorn author of the Prime FIM is doing that to you! She and her group see you as a weapon and nothing more." she took another step. "Or how in this universe, Twilight, along with the former princesses, put you under, trying to cast a spell to make you follow their orders." she lied, knowing the absolute truth. She took a few more steps. "In the new universe I'll write, you can with your sisters and real parents! The life you always dreamed of!"

Spark's mind was filled with thoughts. Her body and emotions were telling her yes. Yes, she was just like Fayth, and it was true. She was tired and wanted to be done with this, and she knew if she accepted Fayth's offer, it would end. She wouldn't be a clone of another; she would be a real living Alicorn and have the life she always dreamed of. She would have her family, and maybe things would be different.

"N-No! That's not true. I'm not like her and don't care what others see me. They aren't the ones that define who I am. I can't let her get to me! I'm better than this!" she thought as she crawled away but stopped. "But yet, I'm tired of it all. If I'm like her, then I can be free. I can give up and let it all go. Live in a new, clean-slate universe. Everything will be perfect and peaceful."

"Just say yes," whispered Fayth. Spark stopped and looked at Fayth. "Say yes and forget this universe."

She slowly got up, staring at Fayth with the same lifeless eyes.

"Be her! Let me call you by your real name. Your Name! Across the multiverse, across the rewrites, I never forgot it! Your name is-"

Cozy was in so much pain, as her horn was killing her. She tried to use magic to increase her flying speed since she couldn't teleport but wasn't fully healed. She needed to land and rest but could see what was happening in New Ponyville. Fayth was back in this universe and going to kill Spark. She owes it to Braver to save her, but also to what that cloaked figure told her. Luster was in trouble and needed her.

"Hold on, you two. I'll be there soon...huh?"

Cozy stopped as she saw something heading her way and crashed near the dam. She quickly flew over to it, shocked at what she saw. It was Dawn, but she looked like an anthro now. She could see her getting up, and two voices could be heard fighting each other.

"I'm Luster! I'm me!"

"Shut it! I'm Dawn! I'm me, not you!"

Dawn's body shook, and she grabbed her head. She was repeating over and over again. "I'm Luster! I'm Dawn! I'M THE REAL ME!"

Cozy didn't understand but remembered what that cloaked figure had told her.

"She's going to need an anchor," she whispered. She was about to land when a massive explosion could be heard from a nearby cliff, shaking the dam and everything around it. She had no idea what crashed into the cliff, but she focused on Dawn and Luster.

She finally landed and slowly walked to the fusion, which was still struggling with itself. Cozy slowly reached out and spoke.

"Luster...I'm here for you."

Luster, the one in control right now, jerked her head and looked at her. Cozy could feel her fear. She slowly reached out, and the moment she touched her, she hugged her tightly, crying.

"Cozy! I'm me, right? I'm Luster?"

Cozy was about to answer, but she felt Luster pushing her hard to the ground. She could see how pissed off Luster looked, almost the same look that Dawn gave.

"Fuck off! I'm Dawn, not Luster!" Dawn said, being the one in control right now.

"You two can't keep doing this. You're hurting each other and yourself." Cozy could feel Dawn's grip tightening.

"SHUT UP!" They screamed.

"Please, calm down. You two need to defuse, or your mind can't handle the fusion, going by how you act." she groaned when she remembered Braver telling her something about the creature's brain. "What did that blockhead always go on about? How the brain was made for one person, not two or more. How dual consciousness theory isn't possible. When we had to deal with that wendigo problem in that snowy town in Crystal Mountains, those monsters were trying to take over the town folks' consciousness. Ugh, my head is killing me right now. I swear, Braver, you owe me a vacation for making me remember something like that."

The fusion was confused but was about to yell at Cozy, but Cozy stopped them by hugging them.

"Listen to me, both of you. You need to calm down and try to become one again. Think of something that both of you can agree on. Something that can help your mind to stay as one."

Dawn slowly got up, pulling Cozy up with her.

"Like what? All Luster knows is her love for Braver...like a lot in a creepy way." She turned her head to the left. "You sniffed her jacket? Perv."

Luster was now in control, looking to the right now and blushing. "S-Shut up! I wasn't doing that! I just wanted to see if her scent was on the jacket! That's all!"

"Yeah, that's a perv will do."

"I said shut up! You shouldn't talk! You sure like it when Spark trips over nothing and falls into your butt! And you can't stop smiling when it happens! You even get to position when you see she's about to fall on you."

"T-That was an accident! I-I mean...okay, you have a point, but I was not doing it intentionally. I mean..." she shook her head. "Fuck you! I don't have to explain myself! I'm me...right?"

Soon, Luster took over and started asking the same question. They broke again as they crossed their eyes again. Cozy would laugh at learning how Luster and her semi-pony human counterpart were pervs, but she knew it wasn't the time.

"Shut up, you two!" she said, making them look at her. "Do what I told you, okay? And please, don't use your pervy thoughts to hold yourself together. It will be awkward, and it can't last."

Luster took control, blushing. "I wasn't thinking about that! Using those 'thoughts' to hold ourselves together!"

"Well, at least we agree on something..." mumbled Dawn, taking over but freaking out. "Shit no! Not that!" She didn't want to agree on anything related to their perverted thoughts.

Luster took over. "It's fine, and besides, we have the same taste in..."

Dawn was now back. "Shut it! I won't agree with you on that stuff! THINK OF SOMETHING ELSE!" she punched herself, causing Luster to take over and feel the pain.

"That hurts!" she looked at Dawn. "You hit me! Why are you hitting me!?"

"Because you are the idiot who started to think of..." Dawn blushed red and shook her head. She was now begging her to stop. "PLEASE! PLEASE THINK OF SOMETHING ELSE! ANYTHING ELSE THAT I CAN AGREE THAT ISN'T A PERVERTED THOUGHT!"

Cozy rolled her eyes. She didn't know how long she could put up with these two.

"Oh, please, just shut up. Think of something. You two are making me wish I wasn't here right now!"

Both girls tried to think of something until Dawn turned. "...monster?"

Luster shut her eye, cursing her under her breath, letting her thoughts go there, but she slowly opened her eye as she heard Dawn's thoughts.

"...you too?"

They looked straight ahead, overseeing the whole town. Luster spoke first.

"I'm a monster. My obsession with Braver caused so much chaos and destruction..." she closed her eye, letting tears fall. "After the fallout, everyone saw me as a monster, and they were right. I don't belong anywhere."

Dawn placed her hand on her cheek, wiping Luster's tears. "I understand how you feel. I see myself as a monster. I lived off the streets and joined the Dishamorny gang. I did..." She closed her eye as well. "Evil things...things I know I won't ever forgive myself for. Everyone sees me as some urban legend. As a monster."

Luster opened her eye. "Why are we like this? Why do we see ourselves as monsters? We are just different from the rest. I have seen myself as something completely different for a long time. I knew something was wrong with me, but I didn't know what."

Dawn opened her eye. "I feel ya, sister. I knew I was different from others, but I didn't care. I had no one..."

Luster continued. "No one to understand me. To get to know me for who I am, but..."

"But someone did. She wanted to know me. Even when she learned about my past...she..."

"She stayed with me, loving me. Even when I did awful things to her and her family and friends, she truly loved me..."

"She loved the real me and all the problems I had under my belt. I can't stop being who I am." Both eyes closed shut, and soon, both voices became one again. "But she still loved me. She was the only one who could see the real me, and she accepted me. She's the only one that matters."

Cozy could see both girls were back to being one person rather than two. She slowly approached her and hugged her. "You aren't monsters; you're just different." What she said next was for Luster. "Stop thinking like that. I'm not too fond of it when you see yourself like that. Even the pony you love so much hates it. I know she does. Just be yourself, and everything will be okay."

"C-Cozy," whispered Luster Dawn. "Thank you. I feel better now."

Cozy could feel Luster Dawn was now one, but she was surprised to feel her hugging her. She smiled and patted her back, telling her that's what childhood friends are for.

They broke the hug and were going to say some stuff to each other, but the mountainside started to shake. Soon, something near the dam's lake burst out of the ground.

Before this, Fayth finished saying the name to Spark.

"That's your real name! YOUR NAME!" she got closer to Spark, wanting to hug and love her like she always had done in the original multiverse. "Please, join me! Let us both have a happy ending. Don't you want that? Don't you want a peaceful life without worrying about anything, and most importantly, have the ones you love alive and with you? Please say yes."

Spark just stood there, and then her mane returned to normal. She looked down at Fayth and saw her reaching out to her. She shut her eyes and smacked the hand away, knowing she would break Fayth's heart.

"I'm not her. I will never be her, Fayth." Spark started to cry as she went on as she looked at Fayth's shocked face. "She's gone. You must let that go; you can't drag everyone and everything down because you can't have her."

Fayth didn't say a word as Spark continued.

"I won't join you. I don't want to end the multiverse or be stuck in a universe you created to make me happy. That's not living, Fayth. We all need to live our lives and enjoy it. In our way, without someone forcing how we live or be happy."

Fayth could feel her anger starting to rise. She couldn't believe 'her,' the one she loved and wanted to have a happy life with, was saying no. She was wrong. She was deeply wrong about Spark.

Fayth started to laugh and laugh, laughing like a crazed woman, but along with that laughter came loud sobbing.

"How could I not see it? You are not the one I love. You are not the one that I spent years watching over." She lowered her head, put her hands over her eyes, and let the tears fall into the palms of her hands. "Not the one I befriended and treasure... not the one I wanted to spend my life with...you are not her."

"No, I'm not," said Spark, with sadness behind her voice. "I'm sorry."

Fayth laughed and sobbed until she just stopped on a dime. She slowly looked up and glared at Spark.

"You aren't her, but you are like me. You are correct about letting it go, but not me. It would be best to let go and face the cold, dark truth. You, your life, is nothing." Spark could see powerful energy blast out of Fayth's tiny body. "You are nothing but a weapon, nothing but a fake. I have seen it many times, and it gets more fake with each rewrite. Spark, your whole existence is nothing but a lie."

Spark wanted to say something to counter that statement, but she couldn't find the voice or words to respond.

"You never deserved to be here. Your sisters didn't need to die for you. They threw their worthless lives away to a fake living being. You should be the one dead, not them!" She grabbed Spark by her neck, happy to see her not fighting back. "I'M GOING TO EREASE YOU FOR GOOD LIKE I ALWAYS PLANNED FROM THE START!"

Spark didn't fight back; she let it happen. She let Fayth blast her from the underground and back to the surface. She could see the lake the dam was protecting and came crashing back to the ground. She could hear voices, but that didn't matter; she felt Fayth back on top of her.

"GIVE HER BACK TO ME! THE REAL YOU!"

Spark could feel the cold hands over her neck as she was being choked, and the air was leaving her lungs. She didn't want to fight back. She knew she was going to die, but she felt no fear. She welcomes the end.

"I'm tired..." Spark whispered, closing her eyes.

Within the garden, Night and Day looked to the sky, seeing the blue sky becoming dark. Soon, they could see the whole pocket universe slowly disappearing. They knew that Spark was dying.

"Sister, this might be the end."

Day nodded, and she turned her attention to the sleeping twins.

"We swore to make things right." she closed her eyes and her horn, and soon, her body started to glow.

Night closed her eyes, and her body glowed as well. "We will gladly give up our remaining powers and life. Let us wash away our sins by doing this first and last act of protecting the last remaining life from our dead universe."

Night's body started to break down. Her flesh was rotten away while her bones turned to dust. Soon, Day joined her as her body also broke down. Both sisters looked at the sleeping twins.

"Braver," whispered Night.

"Blitz," Day said with a sad tone.

Both sisters spoke as one as they slowly died: "Use our remaining power to save your sister from death: Nightfall, Sky, and the others. Please forgive us, but she needs to be set free." The only thing left was their heads as they slowly fell to the ground, and before they landed, they spoke one name: "Star Breaker."

Their heads hit the ground and became dust based on their colors. The dust rushed toward the sleeping twins, fused with their bodies, slowly entering their slime bodies.

Soon, both twins opened their eyes, filled with rainbow colors. They fused as one and became the actual version of themselves. They screamed as they felt rage. Rage of someone killing their other half.

"STAR BREAKER!"

Fayth kept choking Spark but stopped as she sensed something. Something powerful was coming, but it wasn't around her. It was coming from within Spark.

"What is this? What is the-" she couldn't finish as an arm burst out of Spark's cutie mark on her chest. It grabbed her and tossed her away.

Fayth skipped across the lake's surface and crashed into the other side of it. She stood up and could see what attacked her. She narrowed her eyes as she knew who was looming over Spark's body.

"BREAK!" screamed the slime anthro pony known as Breaker.

She roared, causing the whole top surface of the mountain to shake with great fury. She took one step and made the ground shake. She took another step, making the dam crack. Another step and a rainbow halo on her back appeared. Soon, a magical tube burst out from it and shot into the air. It soon created a vast rainbow comet. But the comet rainbow colors faded and became dead. Soon, a vast red eye burst from the surface, looking down at Fayth and the surrounding area.

"STAR BREAKER!" Breaker screamed again, creating giant red and blue magical-looking stars.

Fayth summoned her book and would fight when something entered the area from above. She and everyone looked up. They could see a vast black bomb, the same size as the dead comet. She knew who had arrived as well, making her tsk loudly.

Breaker looked up and saw a girl hovering down and meeting her face-to-face.

"Breaker?" Breaker said, tipping her head slightly. "Star Breaker?"

"Yes, that's my name. Star Breaker!" said Star Breaker, ripping off her outfit and revealing her skin-tight black suit. "There's only one true Star Breaker, and you aren't her."

Star Breaker's vast bomb unleashed cannon guns. A few pointed toward Fayth and Breaker, while the rest pointed to the sky. She started to giggle and then became crazed with laughter.

"I'LL BREAK THIS WORLD! I DON'T CARE WHO GETS IN THE WAY! I'LL BREAK FATE AND THE PRETENDER! BECAUSE I'M THE BREAKER OF WORLDS! STARS! STAR BREAKER!"

The cannons pointing at the sky unleashed their power explosions, turning the blue sky dark red. Star Breaker floated to her bomb and combined with it in the middle.

"BREAK!"

The remaining cannons fired, blasting Fayth and Breaker.

Fayth blocked the explosion with her black book, while Breaker used her magical aura to protect herself and those behind her, which was her sister. Thankfully, Dawn and Cozy were behind her, too.

The whole area was in flames, making it look like the mountain was in flames.

"ENOUGH!"

"Breaker!"

Fayth and Breaker destroyed the cannons and flew toward Star Breaker, where a new battle started.

As the final battle was starting, Lauren and Tomomo landed near Spark. Lauren glared at her teammate, who was sweating as she could see the damage that Star Breaker had created. She coughed.

"I'll put a force field around this place, ensuring the battle doesn't harm any more places." She raised her ice cream staff and created a barrier, as she had said.

Lauren sighed, lowered herself to Spark, and asked if she was okay, but Spark glared at nothingness as she looked at the red sky. She tried again, asking if she was alright.

Spark was in her own little world as she tuned out everything.

"...is this what those four kids felt? Having no hope? No spark to keep going?" Spark asked herself. "No wonder they wanted everything to end...but..." she felt something within herself. "...when all four met, their hopelessness started to crack, no?"

Spark closed her eyes, remembering how all four kids met at the top of the tree...

"Are you sure about this, Alice?" asked Twilight, walking behind Alice, who was walking down through a tunnel in the vast wooden branches of the Prime Tree.

"I am! Spark and Fayth left in this direction! We help Fayth, or Spark will stop her from helping us!" answered Alice, who could see something ahead out of their tunnel.

Twilight agrees with what Alice says but still feels unsure about this plan.

"How are we going to beat her? Fayth told us how strong she is. I don't have stable magic..." she stated as her horn sparked a bit and blew out smoke. "I don't know how to fight, and you are just a human with no magic. How can you be confident that you can stop Spark?"

Alice stopped, took out a pocket knife, and did a stabbing thrust in the air.

"She isn't a god or something. She's like you, just having magic. If she can bleed, we can kill her! I'm not going to let her stop us. I won't let her make us return to that awful life we have."

Twilight could hear the anger behind her words and the determination. She knew Alice would not let Fayth down, and the same goes for her. She was now 100% with Alice in beating Spark.

The two walked and finally exited the tunnel and could see what was in front of them. It was moss covering a doorway entrance in a giant branch. Alice used her pocket knife like a sword, swinging it and cutting the moss as she walked through it. Soon, vines could be seen, and she kept killing. There were so many vines that it started to annoy Alice.

"I hate this stupid tree. There are way too many plants!"

Alice swung her knife blindly, and she felt it slashing something.

"AH!"

Alice and Twilight frozed when they heard another girl's voice. Alice feared she cut someone by accident, so she quickly rushed through the last vines and stopped.

"Are you alright? I didn't mean to slash at you!" Alice said, hoping she didn't hurt whoever was up there. This was odd to her, as they had never seen any signs of life up there.

On the wooden ground was Rozelle, holding her cut arm as blood was dripping out. Next to her was Rainbow Dash, freaking out as she didn't know how to stop the bleeding because she went on about not having her medkit.

Twilight felt she melt this mare before but shook her head, focusing on the poor girl's cut arm. Alice did the same, and both sat beside her and spoke to each other.

"The wound isn't deep. It looks like a flesh wound. You will live," said Twilight.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to cut you," Alice apologized.

Rainbow Dash calmed down after hearing Alice's apology and Twilight's diagnosis. However, Rozelle still wasn't happy and pointed at Alice, who was still holding the knife.

"You dick! Watch where you are swinging that knife! You almost killed me! Who swings a knife around blindly?"

Alice was ready to fire back but didn't. She was right.

"I'm sorry, it won't happen again."

The girl's sincerity took back Rozelle, but she quickly recovered.

"Well, you better be sorry..." she looked away.

Alice put away her knife and finally noticed the girl's legs. They were prosthesis legs.

"Take a picture; it will last longer." Rozelle blushed, trying to cover her legs and her thigh with her sundress.

Alice quickly realized she was staring and looked away, blushing.

"I'm sorry! I didn't mean to stare. I wasn't expecting someone to have fake legs."

Rozelle sighed, not really getting mad at her.

Twilight walked over to the Pegasus mare, who was rewrapping her bandages as they became loose.

"You need help?" she asked, trying to offer her aid.

Rainbow Dash, without looking, shook her head.

"It's okay. I can wrap them. I've been doing them for a long time, so I got it." she answered, but the bandage she had finished with fell, exposing her burn scars. Dash quickly covered her scars. "Don't look..."

Twilight could tell the mare was very sensitive about her body and how the burns affected her. She decided not to press on the matter and changed the subject as she helped wrap the bandages.

"I'm Twilight. Twilight Sparkle."

"Dash. Rainbow Dash."

Dash blushed as she felt Twilight's hooves on her sides. She thought she would be feeling uncomfortable, but she didn't. For some reason, she felt...safe?

When Twilight was done, Dash looked at it and then at her.

"....thank you."

Twilight just smiled and turned her attention to Alice and Rozelle, who started to tell each other their names as Alice ripped a piece of her shirt and used it to cover Rozelle's wound.

"Alice. Alice Finkelstein," she said, reaching out for a handshake.

"Rozelle. Rozelle Reinbold. Nice to meet you, Alice."

The two shook hands.

End of chapter 28