G5 Adventures in The Bad Guys

Mr. Snake had just committed what was considered the ultimate betrayal, teaming up with Professor Marmalade and Safira, even though he had just heard that Safira and her deceased sisters had killed Reva and her cousins’ parents and destroyed the Valley of Mythix.

Naturally, the cubs were heartbroken at the sound of this news, but realizing that they had more important things to worry about right now (like stopping the heist and the villains' plans once and for all), they pushed their own personal feelings aside to try and help their friends in any way they could.

But little did they realize that their attempts to save the day were going to end in a battle and several twists that no one else saw coming.

Now, let's get back to the story and see what exactly we're dealing with, shall we?

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At the same time, Professor Marmalade, Mr. Snake and Safira were walking down the hall, discussing their excitement about how their plans were finally going to come to fruition. “With this meteorite,” Professor Marmalade said with a sadistically evil smirk, “we will be able to commit crimes people have only dreamed about.”

“Not bad for a butt rock,” Mr. Snake commented, causing Safira to sigh and rubbed a clawed paw across her face. “Once again, it’s not a…”

However, when Professor Marmalade pushed a button on the wall, the three of them saw the remaining Bad Guys, the cubs, Diane, Allura, Twitch and the Mane 6 gathered around Mr. Wolf's car, with the meteorite in the back seat! “Don’t mind us,” Allura purred. “Just robbing this place!”

“Wow… she does it good!” Zari whispered, causing Carmine to nod in agreement. “Come on, guys!” Misty shouted. “Let’s get out of here!”

And so, Mr. Wolf stepped on the gas, causing Safira to shriek with rage as they drove away. “NO NO NO!!! I MUST HAVE MY REVENGE!!!”

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The others quickly drove out of the garage and into the open, only for Mr. Wolf to stop and drive backwards to park at the palm tree where the Bad Guys' kitty friend was hiding. “Here, kitty, kitty, kitty!”

The kitten jumped down from the tree, landing in Mr. Wolf’s arms just before Izzy pulled out a pair of kitten sized sunglasses and put them on the kitten’s face. “There you go, cutie-patootie.”

“Okay, Wolf, step on it!” Sunny declared. “We gotta go before Safira gets on our tail!”

Mr. Wolf slammed on the gas at this, driving out of the gate and into the city, causing the group to ditch their black latex suits (don’t worry, they had their normal clothes on underneath) and cheered for their apparent success. “Now,” said Hitch, “to get this thing to the chief and clear our names!”

“Huh, weird,” Carmine looked up at Mr. Shark. “Usually, we drive away from the police.”

Suddenly, Mr. Piranha saw something that made him frown out of confusion. “Hey, chico, are you sure we stopped the heist?”

“Yeah,” Mr. Wolf nodded. “Relax,” Diane reassured. “Marmalade can’t control them if he doesn’t have the meteorite, and Safira won’t be able to gain power from the meteorite either.”

Suddenly, Rogue pointed his paw at some trucks driving on the road above them. “Then… who’s driving those trucks?”

“What?!” Zipp immediately pulled out her visor and zoomed in on the trucks. “The drivers are guinea pigs, guys! But that means…”

“The meteorite is still transmitting!” Reva realized. “Uh-oh…” Mr. Shark and Twitch muttered in worry. “The charity money. Change of plan, guys,” Mr. Wolf said before turning to the tech member of the Bad Guys for insight. “Webs, is there some way to override the truck’s navigation system?”

“Good thinking!” Oran nodded, realizing the plan with a grin on his face. “If we reroute their systems, they won’t be able to deliver the money to Marmalade!”

“Well, yeah,” Ms. Tarantula added, opening her computer, “ we’d need some kind of magnetized cross-circuit interceptor.”

“You mean this?” Diane asked, getting a small, circular device out from her pocket. “Ooh-hoo!” Zari squealed. “She just keeps getting cooler!”

“And we can all help!” Sunny declared. “Me and the rest of the flyers can zoom ahead and stick some of those devices on the trucks!”

“Oh, yeah!” Reva cheered just as Mr. Wolf turned the car around to follow after the trucks, with Sunny (in her alicorn form) taking the lead, with Zipp, Pipp and Allura right behind her. They got between two trucks and Zipp tried to plant the device on one, but it rammed into her, causing her and Pipp to fall back into the car with a shriek.

“Guys, look!” Gretchen pointed at some of the trucks going another direction. “The trucks are splitting up!”

“Then we’ve gotta split up, too,” Diane said before turning to Ms. Tarantula. “Webs, you feel like a girl’s trip?”

Ms. Tarantula closed her laptop in excitement at this. “Um… yes!”

“Here, take this!” Zipp said as she tossed Diane a briefcase. “Misty helped me enchant this so it turns into a motorcycle for you, Webs, Oran and Rogue to all ride on together, in case you need some extra paws.”

“Good thinking, Zipp,” Diane smiled and bumped her hoof. “Come on, cubs, we’ve got some devices to plant!”

“Later, boys!” Ms. Tarantula called out, perched on Diane’s shoulder as she, Rogue and Oran leapt out of the car, with Diane turning the briefcase into a motorcycle before the four of them sped off.

However, Mr. Piranha sighed as he watched them go. “I want to go on the girls’ trip.”

“Maybe next time, Piranha!” Allura said reassuringly as she and the flyers took off into the air again. “Follow us, everyone! It’s time we put this guinea pig on ice!”

Mr. Wolf then swiftly turned after the other trucks, with the flyers taking the lead to put more of the devices on the trucks.

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At the same time, Rogue and Oran clung for dear life on the back of Diane’s new motorbike as Ms. Tarantula fired up her laptop, keeping progress of how many trucks had the devices on them and which ones they still needed to hit.

Rogue and Oran helped out by handing the girls the devices, which Diane stuck onto the sides, front windows and the undersides of the trucks, and in the boys' expert opinion... it was actually really fun!

All the sliding and cool moves, I mean.

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As for the others, Sunny, Zipp, Pipp and Allura managed to fly above the trucks and stick the devices on the top of them without the guinea pigs realizing it, but there were still a lot more trucks to hit.

But seeing as the flyers could only do so much, Hitch knew that they needed to take things up a notch. “Hey, Wolf? You’re insured, right?”

“Yeah,” Mr. Wolf nodded. “Why?”

“Dark sword!” Gretchen used her dark magic to slice the roof off of Mr. Wolf’s car, causing the other cubs to shriek in surprise. “Hey!” Mr. Wolf shouted in shock. “That’s my car!”

“It’s ceviche, baby!” Mr. Piranha exclaimed with a laugh. That was when Zari and Mr. Piranha were thrown by Hitch and Mr. Shark onto the road, and together, Zari and her mentor used their lightning-fast speed (to Zari, it was quite literal) to put each device on the trucks as Diane and her group did their job. They dodged and managed to get onto the front of one of the last two buses, where Zari placed the device on the windshield.

And seeing that there was one final device left, Mr. Wolf decided to take the lead on this one. “So long, suckers!”

He flicked the final device onto the final truck’s windshield, prompting Ms. Tarantula to smile and immediately get to work. “Whoop-bam!”

Then, the single tap of a button caused all of the trucks to stop. Then the trucks started to move by themselves, all in different directions so that way they all didn’t head back to Professor Marmalade’s compound.

Needless to say, Rogue and Diane were impressed. “Whoa!” Rogue blinked. “Where did you learn to do that?”

“Oh, you know. I'm kind of a natural…” Ms. Tarantula began to brag before Oran shot her a bit of a scolding look. “...mostly YouTube.”

The flyers immediately descended back into the car as Diane and Rogue dropped off Ms. Tarantula and Oran, causing Sunny to smile at them. “Nice work, you guys.”

“Meet us at the police station. Don’t be late…” Diane singsonged before she and Rogue drove off on the motorbike. “All right, everyone,” Allura smirked. “What do you say we deliver this butt rock to the chief?”

“Best words I’ve heard all day!” cheered Gretchen before the group cheered and drove off down the road to get to the police station and return the meteorite to clear their names.

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Professor Marmalade and Mr. Snake had been trying to follow the heroes in Professor Marmalade's helicopter, and you can probably guess that Professor Marmalade was not happy when he discovered that the trucks had all been hacked to go in different directions, all while returning throwing the money out of the trucks. “No, no, no, no! That’s my stolen money!” he growled before turning to look at Mr. Snake. “What good are you if you can’t even anticipate their next move?!”

“Oh,” Mr. Snake turned to him in anger, “so it’s my fault?!”

“Yes!” Professor Marmalade shouted with just as much anger. “And if Safira were here and not going off on some wild goose chase for a way to power herself further, she would agree with me!”

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At the same time, on her ride to the police station, Diane changed back to her business attire, got her and Rogue off the motorbike, which turned back into a briefcase for her to grab, and they approached Chief Luggins, who was with Tiffany Fluffit and the news crew. “Chief Luggins!” Rogue greeted optimistically, but Chief Luggins didn’t exactly seem pleased with the sudden call to meet up. “This better be good.”

“Trust me,” said Diane. “You don’t want to miss this.”

Suddenly, Tiffany let out a stunned gasp and pointed toward the road. “Look!”

That was when they saw the Bad Guys’ car with our heroes and their friends inside, driving toward the station with the meteorite. “Well… butter my crumpets…” Chief Luggins said with wide eyes as Tiffany turned to her viewers. “Can it be?? The Bad Guys and their supposed new allies are returning the meteorite! Perhaps this is the feel-good story we all need!”

“Whoo-hoo! This is gonna feel so good!” Izzy chirped. “We’re gonna get to be in the city’s good side again!”

“You know, I think you might be right, Iz,” Carmine nodded. “Do you guys think they’ll throw us a party?”

“Yeah!” Mr. Piranha nodded. “With fireworks, piñatas and cake!”

However, upon hearing the word 'cake', the Bad Guys and the tiger cubs stopped to notice the empty seat with the birthday hat lying there before they all became a bit sad. The car stopped near the police station, where Mr. Wolf shot Diane a regretful glance before he sighed, eventually making a decision. “We can’t do this without him.”

“You mean… Snake?” Zipp seemed concerned. “Wolf, are you sure? You’re so close to clearing your names.”

“Come on, Zipp-- y’all would do the same thing for each other,” Mr. Shark told her before smiling again. “Besides, he might be a Mr. Grumpy-Pants…”

“But he’s our Mr. Grumpy-Pants,” Ms. Tarantula added. “And… he’s been the second closest thing to a father since the fire,” Gretchen said softly. “...we can’t give up on him.”

“You ponies didn’t give up on me and Twitch,” Allura added, “so we’re not going to give up on Snake either.”

“...you’re right, guys,” Sunny smiled before becoming quite serious again. “We need to find Snake, and fast.”

Zipp pulled out her visor and scanned the skies, eventually settling on Marmalade’s helicopter in the distance. “That’s the professor’s helicopter over there! Step on it, Wolf, before they get too far out!”

And so, Mr. Wolf slammed on the gas and sped off, past the police station, causing Diane and Rogue to sigh just as Chief Luggins growled in anger. “Wolf!!”

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Professor Marmalade was still busy reprimanding Mr. Snake on his foolishness, not noticing that the Bad Guys, cubs and Equestrian heroes were in hot pursuit. “I’m starting to see why your friends dumped you!”

“I don’t have any friends!” Mr. Snake shouted, getting in his face before he heard a familiar voice shout. “Snake! Snake!”

Mr. Snake finally looked down to see his friends, old and new, chasing after the helicopter with the meteorite in the trunk, honestly a bit surprised. “Gretchen? Wolf?”

“Snake!” Mr. Wolf shouted. “Come back!”

“We need you, baby!” Mr. Shark shouted. “And you need us!” Zari shouted, just as Professor Marmalade began to fake sympathy once again. “Oh, there you go again, making it personal. I'LL GIVE YOU ONE LAST CHANCE TO GIVE ME THE METEORITE!!!”

“Oh, yeah?” Mr. Piranha challenged. “What’cha gonna do, Whiskers?”

Upon seeing he needed to make one final statement, Professor Marmalade snatched the mind control helmet from Mr. Snake, put it on and smirked. “This.”

“AFTER THEEEEEEEEEEEM!!!!!”

The group gasped and looked around upon hearing the shrill shout. “What in Equestria was that?!” Zipp shouted, glancing around just as Misty yelped and looked back. Chasing them was a giant horde of guinea pigs, with Safira flying overhead, her blue eyes filled with rage. “GET THEEEEEEEEEM!!!!!”

Mr. Shark gasped in horror at this. “We’ve got adorable and angry company!”

“RUUUUUUUUN!!!” Pipp and Izzy shrieked as Mr. Wolf slammed on the gas to get away from the giant guinea pig horde. But the more she thought about it, Allura knew that she needed to give the others some time to rescue Mr. Snake before it was too late…

…and she instantly thought of the perfect plan. “Sunny, you and the ponies help the others get to Snake! Twitch and I will get Safira off of your tails to give you more time!”

“Allura, what?! No!” Reva shouted. “You know what she did to our families! She’s too dangerous!”

“I have to do this,” Allura vowed as Twitch got on her back. “For all of you.”

And with that, she flew up toward Safira and flew in front of her to get her attention. “Safira, stop this! None of this is the right answer to get what you really want!”

“How do you know what I want, furball?!” Safira growled in anger, blasting a few fireballs at her, which Allura dodged. “You hold still! Right now!”

“No! I’m not going to let you hurt them,” Allura vowed. “And if you want me, you’ll have to catch me first!”

“GET BACK HERE!!!” Safira shrieked as she gave chase, abandoning the guinea pig chase to assume her revenge on Twitch and Allura instead of the cubs.

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At the same time, the Bad Guys’ car zoomed down the highway while the guinea pig swarm tried to slam down on the group, causing them to shriek. “Maybe I shouldn’t have called him Whiskers!” Mr. Piranha shouted. “Gee,” Hitch said sarcastically, “you think?!”

They quickly made it out of the tunnel, but the swarm kept chasing them, causing Pipp to pant in terror. “When I woke up this morning, this is not where I saw the day going!!”

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Mr. Snake watched as Mr. Wolf did his best to pilot the car away from the guinea pig swarm, and all of a sudden, a feeling of guilt and regret entering his stomach. “Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Hey, hey, let’s dial this down a notch, huh?” he suggested. “Besides, you’ll never get him. He’s too good a driver.”

“Hmm… you’re right,” Professor Marmalade said as he slowly began to get an idea. “But now that I think of it, maybe it would be better to exploit his greatest weakness.”

“Exactly!” Mr. Snake agreed, but suddenly began to realize what this meant. “Wait…”

Suddenly, the professor threw Mr. Snake out of the helicopter, causing Mr. Snake to scream while hanging onto the landing gear with his teeth.

The others gasped in terror as they saw Mr. Snake hanging from the helicopter for dear life, and they immediately panicked as they saw Professor Marmalade preparing to stomp Mr. Snake’s face and kick him off. “Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold on. Hold it, hold it, hold it!” Mr. Wolf tried to stop the professor before finally relenting. “Okay, okay. You win. You can have the space rock.”

Professor Marmalade smirked at this. “Good boy, Wolf.”

With the helmet, the professor made the guinea pig swarm back off, just as Cuddles lowered a hook down to snag the meteorite. Misty looked over at Mr. Wolf in worry. “Wolf, what are we gonna do? We can’t give him the meteorite, but Snake’s life is literally hanging in the balance!”

“...I got an idea for that,” Reva said before whispering a plan into Mr. Wolf’s ear, causing him to nod and climb over the others to the back of the car. “Take the wheel, Zipp.”

“Uh, okay,” Zipp nodded and did as told as Mr. Wolf, Reva and Gretchen reached the back of the car, just as the hook grabbed onto the giant space rock. “Not so fast! Pull him up first!” Mr. Wolf shouted before pulling out the lipstick/blow torch he got from Diane’s secret room. “Or I'll use this!”

“Lipstick?” Gretchen looked confused. “Seriously, Wolf?”

“You’ll see,” Reva told her cousin. “Things aren’t always as they appear to be, remember?”

Mr. Wolf then ignited the blowtorch and used it to begin to cut off the chain holding the hook. Mr. Snake saw this and chuckled while Professor Marmalade glared down at Mr. Wolf and the two cubs. “Do it!” Reva shouted. “Or you’ll lose the rock!”

“...if you insist,” the professor relented with a glare. “Cuddles!”

Cuddles quickly piloted the chopper to the edge of the bridge, where a giant crater sat from the impact of the meteorite crash a year prior. The perfect place for the professor to do the unthinkable. “You want him? He's yours.”

And with that, he stomped on Mr. Snake’s head, causing him to scream and suddenly begin to fall out of the sky. “AAAAAAAAAAGH!!!”

“SNAKE!!!” Mr. Wolf, the cubs and the Mane 6 shouted at once, their eyes wide in terror. And as soon as Mr. Wolf got off the meteorite, the chopper hoisted it into the air before making off with it. “Hurry, Wolf!” Gretchen pleaded. “We have to save him!”

Mr. Wolf pulled back the lever and slammed on the gas, driving through the guinea pigs to try and get to Snake before he fell too far. “What are we gonna do?!” Sunny asked. “I can turn into an alicorn and fly fast, but he’ll already be too far into the crater before I can get to him!”

Hitch then spotted Mr. Snake screaming and falling down into the crater before seeing the other side of the bridge, suddenly getting the riskiest idea he had ever thought of, “Guys, I know it’s crazy,” he said, “but we’ve gotta jump it!”

“Crazy?!” Mr. Piranha scoffed. “You’re finally speaking my language, chico!”

Mr. Wolf brought the car to accelerate even further, flying through the air off a ramp of guinea pigs, right in Mr. Snake’s direction. “WE’RE GONNA MAKE IT!!!!” Mr. Piranha cheered, but the second he said that…

…the car began to fall.

The group screamed as they flew out of the car, with Mr. Wolf watching his car fall into the crater before he noticed Mr. Snake falling nearby… and Mr. Snake himself looked surprised. “You came back!”

Mr. Wolf then paddled as best he could toward Snake, a regretful look on his face. “Snake… I should’ve been honest with you,” he admitted. “ I was afraid that if you knew Reva and I wanted to be good that you’d…”

“Act like a jerk,” Mr. Snake asked, “and never talk to you again?”

“Yeah,” Mr. Wolf chuckled nervously. “Point is I… I-I-I, you know…”

“Yeah,” Mr. Snake nodded, knowing what he was going to say. “I love you too, buddy.”

Mr. Wolf smiled at this before he and Mr. Snake pulled each other in for the biggest, warmest hug they ever shared with each other.

Even the Mane 6 could feel the friendship radiating between them.

The other Bad Guys and their apprentices, along with the Mane 6, quickly paddled over with Mr. Shark sniffling, tears in his own eyes. “This-- this is so beautiful. Do you know how beautiful this is, you guys?”

Pipp sniffled back her own tears at this, trying to be strong and supportive. “Now… now you’re gonna make me cry!”

“I know!” Ms. Tarantula sobbed. “So pathetic, right?”

“Come on, guys,” Mr. Wolf smiled at his friends and pulled out the grappling hook he got from Diane’s secret room. “Who said it was the end?”

The others gasped in delight as Mr. Wolf fired the grappling hook, letting the non-flyers escape with Sunny, Pipp and Zipp flying beside them as the car exploded at the bottom of the crater.

The explosion shockwave flicked the helmet off Professor Marmalade's head and into the propellers of the chopper, destroying the helmet. This snaps the guinea pigs back to normal and causing them to scurry away as the helicopter began to descend, which caused Professor Marmalade to panic. “No, no, no, don’t… no, no. Cuddles! We’re losing altitude! We’re losing altitude! We’re going down!”

The Bad Guys, the cubs and the flightless ponies hung onto the grappling hook as they dangled with Sunny and the pegasus sisters hovering beside them. “What happened? Did we blow up?” Mr. Piranha asked, opening his eyes slowly. “Is this heaven?”

“No, not quite, Piranha,” Sunny chuckled. “Come on, let's get you all out of here before that grappling hook lines snaps off.”

The flyers helped lift their friends up onto solid ground, and once they had, Mr. Snake kissed the pavement underneath his scales. “Oh, pavement... safe, safe, solid pavement. I missed you so much!”

“Now you know how I felt when I flew for the first time,” Hitch chuckled. “But what matters is... we're safe and sound.”

“...not all of us,” Reva looked to the distance with wide eyes. “Everyone, look over there!”

Flying toward them was a tired and weary Allura with a terrified Twitch on her back, and the two collapsed onto the ground, causing Reva and her cousins to gasp and run toward them. “Allura! Twitch!”

“Oh, thank... thank goodness you're all okay,” Allura panted as the cubs purred up against her. “But she's coming... she's coming and she's looking to kill!”

Safira slammed down into the pavement behind Allura and Twitch, her eyes blazing with fury. “Did you really think you could escape me so easily, snow leopard? Wrong... I always win. And I will finally take what is rightfully mine.”

Naturally, the cubs' first instinct was to run away in fear, but then again... they couldn’t be cowards and run away again.

Not after knowing that Safira was the one who killed their families all that time ago.

There had to be something that could stop her from hurting their friends... but what could it be?

Suddenly, Reva’s eyes lit up with an idea, turning to her cousins with a strong smile. “Guys... remember when we each tried to do the Mythix Roar on our own but it never seemed to work?”

“Yeah, and keyword-- it didn’t work,” Oran deadpanned. “What are you trying to say?”

“What if it never worked because we tried to do it on our own?” Reva asked her cousins with a cheerful smile. “Maybe if we try it together, we might generate enough of a wind blast to...”

Suddenly, she whispered her plan into her cousins' ears, and once they heard this plan, their eyes widened as they smiled and nodded, ready to give this a try.

But before they could, Gretchen turned her head back to give the others some last-minute instructions. “Allura, Twitch? Keep everyone a good distance behind us,” she said quietly enough so Safira wouldn’t hear. “Sunny, ponies? When we start doing the roar, use your unity magic to make a portal behind us. We only have one shot at this, so we have to make this count.”

The Mane 6 nodded as Allura and Twitch kept the Bad Guys a safe distance away while the cubs stepped forward. And seeing this, Safira slightly let down her guard and chuckled. “What? You cubs think you can stop me by yourselves? Look at me… I should be considered your mother.”

“You will NEVER be considered our mother,” Carmine hissed. “Allura’s been more of a mother to us in the past few days than you have the whole time you’ve known us?”

“And to think you can just get off easy after killing our parents?” Zari scoffed. “You’ve got another thing coming.”

The cubs’ cutie marks began to glow with a bright white light, and it seemed to be sucking in whatever energy that Safira had taken in, making her weaker and more vulnerable. “W-What?!” she screeched. “How are you…?”

“One thing you taught us, Safira?” Reva said as the wind began to blow rather harshly. “Someone always gets hurt. And it’s time for you to leave Los Angeles and never… come… back!”

Then, as the wind reached its harshest, all five cubs let out a unified roar… louder than any ordinary tiger could perform. And as they roared, ten tigers made from clouds roared alongside them.

Their parents.

Safira’s eyes went as wide as saucers as she saw this. “W-What?!” she stammered as she stumbled backward, trying to keep her footing. “T-T-This is impossible!”

“Quick, ponies, get ready!” Sunny shouted to her friends, waiting for the right moment to create the portal. “And… now!”

Then, as their magic began to activate, they each shouted their cutie mark mantra.

“I sparkle like the stars, cause I'm always super glittery. My cutie mark comes to life, watch this brilliant creativity!”

“I'm a stylish pop star princess. My voice makes me strong. When my cutie mark comes to life, confidence is my song!”

“I'm a princess of a different kind. Always trying to figure out why. When my cutie mark comes to life, I blast bravely across the sky!”

“I might seem a little quiet, but my strength is very real. When my cutie mark comes to life, my heart helps me feel!”

“I'm the pony of the law. Coolest dragon dad you know. My cutie mark comes to life, and my kindness overflows!”

“I am all three pony kinds wrapped up into one. My cutie mark comes to life with hope bright as the sun!”

And the magic of the ponies’ cutie marks was so strong, it created a portal behind Safira just as her grip against the ground began to loosen, which caused her to fly right into it. “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!”

And within just a few seconds, the dreaded dragon was gone and the portal was closed, leaving Los Angeles, the Bad Guys and their cubs free from her at long last.