"Rain!" Lucky screams at the top of her lungs towards her falling friend, she uses her levitation magic to soften the landing. She then turns her attention to Crimson who is still standing between her and her friend, "and why is she here?"

"Lucky, do you know her? I don't recognize her from anywhere; it must be some pony new to the cult sense the last time we were here."

"That's... she's the filly that I was with when I got my cutie mark... The one that I was protecting, the one that I was friends with my whole foal hood... But why is she here?" Lucky's eye brows arch downward, her face wrinkles with anger, "Why have you sided with the cult?"

"Lucky, look at her neck, she has on that amulet that Dream sealed the leader in last time."

Lucky squints her eyes to look at the amulet her past friend is wearing, and Peaches is correct, it is the alicorn amulet created from the fight they had those months ago with the cult.

"Hmm, I guess that means that we didn't really seal him away. I wonder if that amulet did something to her."

Regal begins another charge towards the two ponies, "I don't know Lucky but we have other things to worry about right now! We need to finish this and get to Rain before it's too late, if-"

"It's not..."

Both ponies roll to the side as Regal charges towards them, narrowly dodging him. In the background Crimson turns around, electricity forming from her mane as she begins walking towards the passed out Rain.

"Don't you lay a hoof on her!" Peaches screams towards the insane pony before galloping in their direction. Crimson doesn't react, simply inching forward.

"I said don't!" Peaches voice begins to crack from the pure emotion she is putting into her warnings and screams, her face showing it all. Crimson still moves forward.

The sand around Regal's feet vibrates for a few short moments before he teleports in front of Peaches, kicking into her guarding stance. Lucky takes this opportunity to put up a small barrier around Rain in the distance, she knows it's not very strong at this distance but its better than nothing.

Peaches sword begins to glow; a eerie blue light surrounds its blade before steadying out into the form of a sharpened edge around the otherwise dull blade.

With more force than ever, she swings the sword into Regal's shoulder, slicing his right front leg clean off. His magic armors no match for the new blade on Peaches sword. Regal's face winces in pain as he opens his mouth to yell, but nothing comes out of his mute mouth.

Peaches grabs the chain on her sword to chaotically swing the sword into Regal, sending it flying into his chest before twisting it sideways ripping it out.

The nearly immortal stallion begins to heal at a unfathomable rate; his leg regenerates within seconds, his chest fuses shut. A smirk appears on his face as he remembers the immortality gifted upon him by his otherworldly master.

Peaches grips the sword by its handle like normal, twirling sideways before cleaving the brute's head off. His body falls over sideways, but the head begins to regenerate back into its spot, beginning with the bone, then the muscle around it before finishing with the skin. The black box is thrown to her by Lucky so she can seal away the behemoth before he causes more grief. Which Peaches gladly does.

While Peaches was fighting with Regal, Lucky had taken the liberty to quickly take the black box and Rain away from Crimson's reach. She had little trouble, merely shooting a beam of light at the lightning pegasus then levitating Rain back to herself.

With all the resurrected out of the way, Peaches and Lucky turn their attention to Crimson. Who is still taking their time getting over to the two.

Peaches looks behind her at the passed out Rain, nearly crying when thinking about how something like this could happen when they were still all together, "Peaches, she'll be alright, she's still breathing. I did a quick checkup while I levitated her over here while you were taking care of Regal earlier."

I look of relief washes over Peaches' face; she turns her attention to the pegasus walking to them.

Crimson leaps into the air then flaps her wings, taking the form of a bolt of lightning she zigzags in between Peaches and Lucky before they can even blink. As the two begin to turn to look at her, she places her front hoof onto the ground pivoting on it, kicking both ponies with her back legs sending them away from each other.

Both ponies are nearly paralyzed from the static of the attack, Crimson's body is covered in a thin layer of it for whatever reason whenever she attacks. Every time Crimson turns into lighting or any form of electricity a loud clap of thunder is heard.

Peaches runs towards the electric pegasi, readying her sword for the next swing. To reduce the affect of the static she releases the sword, letting it fly towards Crimson, and then grabbing it by the chain behind it. Once the sword gets close enough to strike, it doesn't. Crimson materializes as another bolt of lightning twirling around the sword and its chain, striking Peaches in the face with a shattering punch once she gets close enough. Afterwards landing on the ground as the pony she normally is, with Peaches laying on the ground twitching from the static.

Lucky tries to shoot some beams of dark magic into the electric pony, Crimson moves out of the way in a flash of light. The beams throw up plenty of sand behind her. Peaches runs towards Crimson lashing out with her sword, just hoping for one slash to hit its mark, none of them do. The extremely agile pony dodges every attack even if she doesn't materialize as electricity.

Crimson turns to lighting once more, shooting high into the sky then, like a laser, straight down towards Peaches. All Peaches can do is barely roll sideways in time, Crimson lands on all four once the lightning strikes the ground. She turns in quick succession kicking Peaches' sword as she tries to guard sending her sideways.

Lucky puts some sort of holding spell on the pegasus; it looks like a levitation spell, a small layer of aura covering Crimson. She tries to turn into electricity again, but she can't. Her eyes widen, she turns around to see Peaches about to strike her down.

Then the newly formed edge on Peaches sword disappears, her face overcome by shock giving Crimson a chance to block the attack. Peaches falls forward past Crimson still shocked that her blade has failed her, leaving her back wide open for another kick from the pegasus. Luckily Lucky's spell is keeping Crimson's static from tacking affect.

Crimson gallops to Lucky who is concentrating on her spell, leaving Peaches behind her by a few feet. Once she reaches Lucky she smacks her in the face releasing the spell, giving her the chance to use her powers once again.

Her front leg turns into a long whip of electricity, latching onto Peaches then slinging her sideways into a mound of sand. Lucky begins to throw beam after beam at the pegasus as she flies into the air, moving as quick as the lightning she controls.

Once the pegasus gets far enough away, Lucky begins to cast the holding spell once more. Crimson transforms into a lightning bolt to strike down her enemy, heading straight for Lucky's heart, knowing that lightning is faster than any unicorn's spell.

A loud clash of metal fills every pony's ears; Peaches threw her sword into the flight path of Crimson, who was materialized as lightning, redirecting the lightning from its path to Peaches body. Throwing her backwards away from the chain connected to her sword.

Peaches body was sent through an electric thunder storm; her mane and tail is burnt, thrown into coughing fits. Crimson is standing next to the nearly killed pony, unmoved once again by it all. She begins walking towards Lucky, her eyes even more bloodshot than before. Her front leg and hoof form into a large electric blade. It extends towards Lucky, but as it gets within feet of her face the holding spell takes effect, causing the blade to disappear.

Crimson flies into the air with her pegasus wings, flying towards Lucky with the intent to punch her in the face for daring to use the same spell more than once. But Lucky has had experience with some pony trying to fly towards her at fast speeds in a battle with a certain changeling...

Lucky smashes her into the ground with a levitation spell, Crimson smashes on the ground face first. Lucky walks up to Crimson now that she is being held down to the ground, and then continues to step on the alicorn amulet around her neck; smashing the crystal pendant and knocking the pony out.

Lucky walks over to Peaches, she uses a holy healing spell that she has learned recently. Something only she can do sense she has her special eyes. Peaches body lights up and levitates over th ground slightly before setting her down on her four hooves in a standing position.

"Whoa Lucky, you beat her?"

"Ya, that battle would have lasted forever except I broke the alicorn amulet. Turns out it was the source of her power and insanity..."

Lucky and Peaches walk over to Rain, casting the same spell on their passed out friend bringing her back from her sleep.

"Oh whoa, Lucky did you-"

"Yes, we beat them. Sorry to put you through that, we didn't think that Crimson over there would be here..." Lucky looks down onto the sand beneath her hooves, pawing at it.

"By the way, you said something about her being the filly that you knew from when you were younger?" Peaches looks over to the passed out Crimson. Wait a minute; Blade said something about my sword only having a blade when it needed to. Maybe it didn't want to kill Crimson?

"Ya, she was the filly that was with me when I got my cutie mark. She was my best friend back then, I don't know what happened to her to make her become this though... something terrible no doubt as she would never do something like this to any pony."

Crimson's hoof begins to twitch; her face slowly looks forward towards the three ponies talking to each other.

"Lucky... where am I?"

Lucky walks over to Crimson and crouches down by her, "You mean you don't remember anything?"

"It's all fuzzy; I did some bad things didn't I?"

"Ya you did some bad things! You sided with the cult that tormented us as fillies!"

"I didn't mean to, I never wanted to kill those guards, I didn't want to fight you guys, I didn't want to hurt any pony, you should know that Lucky!" Crimson tries to yank the amulet off her neck but it won't come off, it seems to be attached to her body and skin, she begins to break down and cry into the sand, "I never wanted this stupid amulet, all its done is hurt others..."

"Lucky, I believe her..."

"Rain..." Lucky goes to snap back at her friend, but then looks back down at the crying pony beside her, "I guess you're right. The amulet is probably the cause; it did feel evil somehow once we started fighting. Almost like it had a mind of its own, probably another twisted experiment of that cult on some innocent pony."

Lucky continues to use her holy healing spell on Crimson, "I guess there's no harm in keeping you around, and if you act up we always have a few spells to keep your powers in check."

Wretched Darkness stomps angrily in the sand, "The only ones of our regimen left are us two, perhaps it's time to use that?"

"Yes, perhaps."

The scientist pony walks forwards in the direction of Lucky's group, the sound of gears turning and oil rushing fills the area. Some sort of machinery is beginning to run.