Susan was completely unrecognizable. Her red and gold hair was upright, her skin became a devilish red, her clothes became a fiery dress and black boots, a long horse-like tail was even visible, on her back were demonic red and black wings, her hands went from five normal fingers to four sharp, clawed digits, and on her forehead was a gnarled horn. Her mouth even had a set of fangs and her ears were pointed. She retained her wicked smile even after wincing in pain as blood trickled out of her mouth. Everyone below her gasped in horror.

*

“What happened to her?!” Rachael exclaimed.

“The contents of her heart were amplified by the Element of Magic, turning her into a demon!” Sunset explained. “The transformation's taken a toll on her body! If she stays like this, Susan could–”

Spike realized the gravity of the situation. “Susan could die!”**

“What will we do?!” Fauna asked worriedly. “Susan did a lot of bad things, but, even she doesn’t deserve this!”

Susan, using dark magic, transformed Skip and Sheldon into demons as well. Transformation aside, they didn’t seem to be in the same mortal peril as Susan.

“This is going to be so cool!” Skip said excitedly.

“Skip, Sheldon!” Tyler exclaimed. “This is wrong!”

Susan then took notice of the students hiding inside the school. After a wince of pain, she landed before the front doors.

“I’ve had to jump through so many f*cking hoops tonight,” Susan said in a low and threatening voice. “Just to get my hands on this goddamn crown and it really should have been mine all along! But, let us let bygones be bygones. After all, I am your mother-f*cking queen now and you will bow down to ME!” Her clawed hand glowed with dark magic before she winced in pain as the sound of bones breaking could be heard. Despite the pain, she clenched her fist and made the entire front of the school crumble open.

“It’s worse than I thought!” Sunset exclaimed.

“Susan’s not just wrecking the school,” Roxy said. “She’s wrecking her own body, too!”

“Further use of dark magic will cause more harm to her body!” Sunset said. “At this rate, there won’t be anything left of her to save in less than 10 minutes!”

With another wince of pain and after coughing up some blood, Susan hypnotized the students before cackling wickedly. The students groaned and moaned like zombies, slowly walking about with vacant glowing green eyes.

“Round them up and bring them to the portal,” Susan ordered Skip and Sheldon. She then faced the others. “Sunset was right about the fact that I was bluffing about destroying the portal. I don’t want to run this pathetic-ass high school. I want Equestria! With my own teenage army, I will have it!”

“No!” Sunset cried. “I’m not going to let Equestria pay for my mistakes!”

“We will do whatever it takes to stop you!” Twilight said bravely.

Susan grunted as her eyes started to bleed a little through her tear ducts, but, kept up her strong appearance.

“Oh, please!” she said. “What the hell can you do?! I have magic and you...have…” She then made her hair flare up like fire. “NOTHING!”

“They have us!” Roxy said, stepping forward. The other human friends stepped forward as well.

Susan ignored her and grabbed Sunset before starting to squeeze her. “And you, dear Sunset,” she mocked. “I have you to thank for all of this.” She then taunted the girls by using Sunset as a meat shield. “And girls, if you want to get through to me, you'll have to hurt her in the process~.”

Sunset bravely spoke up. “Don't worry about me! Just find a way to purify her body while you still can!”

“Purify me?” Susan laughed. “That'll be hard to do!” She began forming a dark magic blast from the crown. “Especially when Twilight's nothing but a scorch mark on the ground! Now...DIE!!!”

Susan fired the dark magic blast and she cackled wickedly for her victory. But, when the smoke cleared, she could see that Twilight was still intact. In fact, she and the other girls were huddled together and surrounding them was a familiar magenta magic aura. Twilight, realizing that she and her friends were safe, was able to smile.

“The magic contained in my Element was able to unite with those who helped create it!” she said. At that moment, the other girls exposed to the magic felt a strange sensation. They slowly levitated in the air and one by one, they gained little pony ears and their hair lengthened to resemble a pony’s tail. In order, it focused on the girl who was a counterpart of a pony and their signature element. It started with Ashleigh.

“Honesty!” Twilight’s voice said. Afterwards, Fauna gained wings on her back in addition to the pony ears and lengthened hair. “Kindness!” Pinkie was next and she happily cartwheeled after discovering her ponytail. “Laughter!” Rachael, in addition to the ears and ponytail, gained an alabaster white horn on her forehead.*** “Generosity!” Roxy gained a sleek pair of sky blue wings in addition to her pony ears and tail. “Loyalty!” Finally, Twilight herself got her alicorn horn, wings, ears, and ponytail. “Magic!”

Once Twilight transformed, Sunset’s pant pocket began emitting a magical glow that she was the first to notice.

“What?” Sunset asked. She touched Susan’s arm and her eyes began to glow pure white. Sunset then underwent a similar transformation to the other girls. Her hair lengthened, a horn protruded from her forehead, and, bizarrely enough, her entire wardrobe changed. She wore a hot pink dress, her skirt changed to an orange base with splashes of golden yellow, hot pink, and a gold yellow and red sun, and sparkling black and hot pink boots.****

“What?!” Susan exclaimed as Sunset freed herself and levitated to the other girls.

“Before we do anything else,” Rachael spoke up. “I just have to ask: How did her clothes change with her?”

“That’s not important now!” Sunset said. “I’ve heard Susan’s voice calling for help! She’s running out of time!”

“Together with the crown,” Twilight said to Susan. “They create a power beyond anything you can imagine, but, it is a power that you do not have the ability to control! The crown may be upon your head, Susan Shoichet, but, you cannot wield it, because you do not possess the most powerful magic of all… the Magic of Friendship!” Twilight and the other girls ascended, positioned in the shape of a heart, while Sunset created an energy construct in the shape of a phoenix. The combined energies shot at Susan in a rainbow of fiery colors.

Susan exclaimed as the magical energy enshrouded her. “What is happening?!” The colors enveloped her in a tornado as Twilight's eyes glowed white. Instead of giving Susan a burning sensation, instead, it was a pleasant warm feeling as if she was being embraced in a heated blanket.

“Here and in Equestria,” Twilight said. “It is the only magic that can truly unite us all!”

The phoenix soared through the air, cleansing the boys transformed by dark magic while the rainbow magic undid the hypnosis the students were under. Suddenly, there was a brilliant white light and Susan was soon found in a crater, removed from her transformation and the crown was off of her head.

Author's Note

Here's the next chapter.

*Image commissioned by me, done by Zanvox on DA.

**Raised stakes.

***That's in the original book.

****Imagine this with a horn on the forehead:

Comments? Questions? Thoughts? You know where to leave them.

UPDATE 11/8/2024: Added Demon!Susan image.