My Little Pony: The Human Chronicles

Episode 28: My Enemy, My Friend Part 2

Recap: Last time, after learning the secrets of his true parentage and going through the trauma of having a creature actually die inside his mind Toby became full of anger and sadness as he wandered through town, beating up any monster or crook he could find and avoiding his friends in the process. Rainbow and Pinkie attempt to talk him down and managed to convince him to have a world with his true mother. But on his way Toby is confronted by Twilight who actually argues with him and engages in a fierce battle where they nearly kill themselves until Celestia and their friends intervene. Then, after a series of odd events begin to occur, the group splits up to investigate and the girls end up discovering something they never thought possible, Twilight revealed herself to be the ones behind the whole thing as Discord planted a small part of himself in here and now it was beginning to take root and control her and there seemed to be nothing the rest of them could do to stop their now rogue friend.

The streets of Ponyville were in complete panic as all the townsfolk of Ponyville were either being chased by muscular and scary looking animals that used to be cute looking, giant birds that were behaving like vultures or were trying to maintain their balance as the ground beneath them continued to bend, twist and shift all over the place. The town hall was also floating in the air, upside down.

Cotton candy clouds constantly raining chocolate rain floated around town all by themselves with no Pegasus controlling them and somewhere even raining gushes of chocolate rain on some ponies.

Screams filled the area, ponies were running for their lives, all in all the whole town was in a state of complete and total chaos and the only pony that seemed calm, cool and collected as she strolled through town undisturbed as Twilight Sparkle. She sighed peacefully.

"Look at all this chaos… and just a day ago all these ponies were being so carefree…" The unicorn mused. Her eyes glowed yellow, due to Discord's magic and control over her. "Well, it's safe to say that's changed."

Throughout the town she could hear ponies like Octavia, Vinyl and Derpy yelling various things such as…

"Help us!"

"I can't find my lunch!"

"Somepony hold me!"

Twilight then proceeded towards the wooden statue created by the citizens of Ponyville in honor of their hero Toby. She sneered at it and then levitated a wooden stake before tossing it straight at the statue. The stake imbedded itself in the center of it and made it crack up a bit.

"Your next Tobias…" Twilight hissed.

Twilight's eyes glowed bright yellow again before she charged up her magic the teleported away, leaving the town in complete chaos.

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Meanwhile, inside a dark chamber deep inside Canterlot Castle, the sounds of something hammering the walls and windows could be heard over and over again, like a thunderbolt booming in a continuous loop.

The cause of the pounding was actually the cyan blue Pegasus known as Rainbow Dash who hammered the walls, doors and windows of the chamber constantly in an attempt to get out, but no matter how many times she hit it, no matter what kind of trick she attempted it always failed.

Her equally loyal friends were all sitting around the floor looking somber and hopeless while their flying friends continued trying to escape. They did not try to help her or even stop her, as they still seemed to be reeling from the recent shock they were just delivered, thanks to Twilight herself. Eventually Applejack raised her head and watched her friend pound the windows for the umpteenth time with no luck breaking it. She rubbed her very sore shoulder.

"It's ok Rainbow…" Applejack tried to assure her.

"It's not ok! The world has gone crazy out there and so has Twilight! Not to mention we're all trapped!" Rainbow proclaimed. "We gotta do something!"

"Yes, but what?" Rarity wondered.

"I'm kind of wondering that myself…" Fluttershy admitted.

"Well we can't just stand around do nothing like watching paint dry! That's no fun at all!" Pinkie Pie exclaimed.

"That is an understatement." Rarity stated, flatly. "Especially since we are all trapped in this room. Not thanks to Twilight…"

"Why would she do this? Why would she betray us?" Fluttershy questioned, sadly.

"I don't know shy… but we won't be able to figure it out if we just stay here!" Applejack stated.

"So what do we do?" Rainbow Dash wondered. They all did a collective shrug.

"Um… maybe we can find a way to call Toby…?" Fluttershy quietly suggested, though no one heard her.

"There has to be something we can do… anything!" Rainbow said, flying and back and forth across the room.

"Uh… maybe Toby…?" Fluttershy suggested again, but still no one hear her.

"Come on, y'all think!" Applejack urged them.

"But Toby can…" Fluttershy continued to suggest.

"Oh, it is hopeless! Just hopeless!" Rarity declared, dramatically.

"Toby…" Fluttershy spat out before Pinkie's eyes widen.

"I know! We'll call Toby!" she exclaimed. Fluttershy just sighed in defeat.

"Great idea, but how do we do that?" Rainbow Dash questioned. "I mean it's not like we can just send him a letter or something."

Rarity's eyes then brightened with an idea. "Actually… I do believe we can!" she realized.

"Uh… how?" Applejack inquired, not getting what she had in mind exactly.

"Well, Twilight taught me how to send letters through Spike in case of an emergency." Rarity explained as she found a piece of paper then pricked a feather from Rainbow Dash to use as a quill.

"Ow! Why does everypony have to pull out my feathers?" Rainbow Dash complained.

"Because Fluttershy here is delicate and you are supposed to be the tough pony of the group, now act like it!" Rarity stated to her, stressed.

Rainbow crossed her forearms and turned away. "Fine!" she said.

"So you can contact Toby and tell him we're in here!" Applejack said, finally understanding her plan.

"Precisely!" Rarity said as she began to write several things down on the paper. "Dear, Tobias, it is me, the beautiful Rarity… oh and the others…"

They glared at her, a bit annoyed by that last remarked.

"Anyways… we seem to have gotten into a little bit of trouble…" Rarity continued.

"INCOMING!" Pinkie yelled as a giant sofa zoomed down out of the sky just outside the giant room they were all in and crash landed below.

"Um… make that a big problem… we are all trapped inside one of the rooms in the castle and it's raining furniture! Please HELP!" Rarity exclaimed. "Sincerely, Rarity Belle."

Rarity rolled up the scroll and zapped it with her magic to make it disappear where it would be retrieved by Spike.

"Ok, the message has been sent, Tobias should be here shortly." Rarity concluded.

"Rare, that message was just sent, him getting here lickety split could take…" Applejack began before the doors were suddenly kicked open, startling everypony as they turned to the door and saw Toby, Spike and the two Princess' enter.

"Girls! We're here!" Toby announced.

"…Seconds…" Applejack finished.

"Hey, sorry it took us so long, traffic!" Spike said, exasperated.

"Girls, what happened?" Toby questioned.

"Are you all alright?" Celestia added.

"Why were you all trapped inside of here?" Luna inquired.

"And where's Twilight? I mean… wasn't she with you?" Spike wondered.

"Uh… sort of…" Rainbow said, slowly, looking unsure of what to say at the moment.

"Sort of?" Toby echoed, confused. "Where is she?"

"Well…" Rarity began.

"Um…" Fluttershy continued.

"To put it shortly; Twilight revealed herself to being the mole working for Discord and creating all the chocolate rain, attacked us and flew off!" Pinkie Pie finally said, rather quickly which made everypony else glare at her in response. The other group stared at the pink pony in shock, like they couldn't believe a word of what she just side, or rather they didn't want to believe what she was saying at all.

"Wait… attacked you?" Toby questioned.

"Why would Twilight do that?" Spike added.

"We don't know… but it's the honest truth!" Applejack proclaimed. "Twilight has gone the darn dark side and betrayed every one of us!"

"It… it can't be!" Celestia breathed.

"Can be and is." Rainbow Dash stated. "We couldn't believe it either…"

"More like we didn't want to believe it…" Applejack added.

"None of us did." Rarity said, sadly. Pinkie Pie nodded in agreement with a surprisingly sorrowful look. "But it's true…"

"No way…" Toby said, stunned.

"I thought something was off about her." Princess Luna stated.

"Man… how could she just betray us like this!?" Toby said, frustrated. "Twilight you jerk!"

"Easy Toby… we don't know the full situation just yet, we need to think before assuming." Luna advised him.

"Please, listen to her Tobias." Princess Celestia urged.

"I didn't ask you." Toby told her, sternly. "Remember, I'm still mad at you."

"Toby…" The Princess began to say, sounding like she wanted to apologize again.

"Look Celestia, we can settle our problems later, right now we have to put it all behind us and focus on the current crisis." Toby interrupted.

Celestia then took a breath and regained her composure as she nodded. "Agreed."

Pinkie then popped up near them. "And after that we can have cake, right?" she asked hopefully. The two of them, along with everypony else gave her a bit of a glare which made her sink down out of sight.

"So what should do first, boss?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"Well I'm sure Twilight won't be hard to find… but before we do that we need to find out why she betrayed us." Toby stated. "She's not acting like the Twi we know and I want to know exactly why."

"But just how do we do that?" Applejack questioned.

"Yes… I don't Twilight is in the mood to tell us…" Fluttershy added.

A small smirk appeared on Toby's face. "No… but I know someone that might…" he said. "It's time to change things up."

"How so?" Luna inquired.

"Let's just say we're gonna be forced to try and reason with a psychotic." The human stated.

"That doesn't sound good…" The Princess of the Night mused.

"No… it's going to be a nightmare." Toby said, with a serious tone.

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A couple of minutes later, Toby, Spike, the girls and the Princess' were all proceeding down a long stone stairway that appeared to be in some kind of underground cavern that echoed with the distant plinks of falling water drops. From what can be deduced it appeared that they are eight-hundred meters below the surface of the ground.

Toby and the others then approached the golden cage that he placed Discord inside of when they clashed for a second time before robbing him of his powers. The chaos god was sitting in his chair in a relaxed state and with a bored look on his face. He then noticed Toby, Spike and the girls approaching.

"Discord." Toby said, glaring at the chaotic being as he stood before him.

"Ah, Tobias Morrison, I see you've come to apologise. How nice. All's forgiven. No offense taken." Discord said, nonchalantly.

"Enough. Discord, what exactly is going on here?" Toby demanded.

"Well, how can I know what's going on? I've been in this dungeon of yours, alone, helpless, bored to tears." Discord said, with fake pain.

"Don't play dumb with us!" Toby snapped.

"Why whose playing?" Discord asked, innocently.

Rainbow then zipped over. "Knock it off, Discord!" she snapped. "We know you still have your powers, so what have you been up to? How can you still have them? And how did you get out?"

"Alright! Alright! Just stop all the yelling!" Discord said. "And just so you know; I never did get out?"

"Huh?" Toby said.

"You see, as it turns out I still had a sliver of power left in me and after a few chaotic and disharmonious events… I was able to get it to grow." Discord explained. "While I was able to project my image and contact certain other beings… I am still physically unable to leave this cage of yours, which is really getting on nerves by the way."

"Yeah… don't care." Toby confessed.

"You are really not polite for a Prince, you know that?" Discord remarked to him. Toby's eyes widened when he said 'Prince', as did Celestia. "Oh don't look so shocked, you should know that even with my now limited powers I'm still able to hear and see everything that goes on here. And I must say I'm very surprised. I mean who knew that the Great and Powerful Princess Celestia had a brat?"

"She doesn't." Toby snapped, stubbornly. Celestia turned away sadly.

"Yes, well if you say so…" Discord said, unconvinced. "By the way Celestia, you my dear have raised the evil incarnate bar to an entirely new level. Thank you for giving me something to strive for."

"Just tell us what you did!" Applejack demanded.

"Yes, what exactly have you been planning?" Rarity added.

"Well what I always plan on doing; bringing a little chaos into this uptight world." Discord reasoned.

"Hey! I'm not uptight!" Pinkie exclaimed before turning to Spike calmly and curiously. "I'm not am I?"

Spike shook his head. "Not at the least."

"Okey, dokey, lokey!" The pink pony smiled, satisfied.

"Discord! Explain yourself, now." Celestia told the draconequus, sternly. "Or else the consequences will be severe."

"Now that is the disciplinary attitude a true mother should show, bravo!" Discord exclaimed as he magically conjured up two gloves that started clapping over and over until Toby quickly burned them both to ash with magic. "You… my boy, are no fun at all!"

"I'm aware of that, thank you." Toby said.

"Oh don't feel too bad, for I know what's it's like to be betrayed by Celestia, trust me." Discord assured him. "As a fellow male betrayed by Celestia, if you could let me out now I would entirely grateful. Which doesn't mean as much as it used to I admit…"

"Be quiet!" Toby yelled. "Or disappear back where you came from!"

"I can't disappear!" Discord stated. "Any more than your little buddy Spike can win a beauty contest."

The girls all let out a collective 'Ooh' after he said this and grimace at the angry Spike who had steam emitting from his ears and looked close to blowing his top.

"Say… if I promise to undo all the things I've done then will you let me out so I can go home and have a nice, relaxing bubble bath…" Discord said, relaxed. "Mr. Quakers is waiting for me you know."

"Nice try, but you've fooled us too often, Discord." Toby stated.

Discord rolled his eyes. "Oh… Perspicacity incarnate… Please don't feel compelled now to tell me the story of the boy who cried 'Toby'."

"That's a story?" Pinkie suddenly asked. "How come I've never heard of it?"

"Uh… Pinkie? Kind of in the middle of something here!" Rainbow pointed out.

"Sorry…" The pink pony apologized.

"Sorry to disappoint you Discord, but once this is all over I'll make sure your powers are gone permanently and you'll be in this little cell forever." Toby promised him.

"Maybe we can share it. I mean they will be doubling up, just look at the rate your little home's inhabitants are losing their minds at the moment." Discord said.

"Hate to break it to ya, but these folks don't bend over easily, even if the world is going crazy, they'll fight… and someday… they will triumph." Toby said, determined

"Until their spirit breaks completely. Until they get a good look… at the real Twilight Sparkle, and all the heroic things she's done." Discord pointed out. Everyone looked at him confused and worried by what he meant exactly "You didn't think I'd risk losing the battle for Equestria in a fistfight with you? No. No, no, no, no. Why that wouldn't be any fun at all. To win at my game you need… an ace in the hole. Mine's Twilight. What's yours?"

"What did you do?" Toby asked softly. "What did you do to her?"

"I took Celestia's prized student… and I…. brought him down to my level. Also gave her a nice power boost too. It wasn't hard. You see, madness is… kinda like… gravity. All it takes… is a little… push!" Discord stated before laughing hysterically, a few seconds after he started Toby promptly punched him into the face, knocking him out.

"Points for me for shutting him up." Toby remarked, dryly.

"Word." Spike added as he and Toby fist bumped.

"So… do you guys think what he was saying was true or what?" Rainbow Dash wondered.

"Of course not! It's Discord for crying out loud!" Applejack reminded them. "He's always sprouting up lies!"

"I don't know… he didn't seem like to me." Toby admitted. "Plus I just realized something."

"What's that?" Celestia questioned.

"Remember when Discord blasted Twi?" he asked them.

"Yes?" Rarity said, wanting to hear more.

"Well how could she survive that kind of attack unless…" Toby began.

"Unless… it wasn't intended to kill her…" Celestia realized.

"Exactly." Toby said. "That's when he made his move."

"So that guy's been planning this all from the start…" Applejack added, with realization dawning in her voice as well.

"Sneaky!" Pinkie Pie chirped in a hushed tone.

"And you know… this whole thing actually explains a lot of things as well…" Rarity said.

"Yeah, like why she's been acting so funny…" Applejack realized.

"And why her magic's been going… coo-coo!" Pinkie added.

"Not to mention the journey inside Pinkie, the Cake's kids, Flim and Flam… it was all Discord!" Rainbow Dash proclaimed.

"Seems so, and I don't mind telling you guys… that this freak's row boat is missing a couple of paddles!" Toby remarked.

"And right now he has Twilight on that same boat!" Rarity proclaimed.

"So how we save her?" Fluttershy wondered.

"Well I doubt he's gonna tell us that, so I guess we're just gonna have to go find her and then figure it out from there." Toby shrugged.

"Toe… are you sure? I mean… what if she kills you?" Spike inquired.

"That is a possibility…" Toby admitted

"Well, don't worry Toby, we got your back!" Pinkie Pie saluted.

"Yeah, if Twilight wants to kill you, she'll have to get though us first!" Rainbow declared. "Right, girls?"

The others all looked unsure of how to answer that and began to mumble and stutter a bit.

"Yeah… and I'll treasure those three extra seconds." Toby said in a deadpan tone.

"Gee, thanks…" Rainbow remarked in a deadpan tone.

"But if you fight here… won't you end up hurting her?" Fluttershy pointed out.

"I do not believe she has the same feelings as him about that at the moment, dear." Rarity told her.

"That may be true… but that possibility still exists." Celestia stated. Toby turned away knowing full well that she was right about that.

"Man this rots! If I don't fight Twilight she'll kill me, but if do there's a pretty good chance that she'll be killed." Toby muttered before his eyes widen. "Whoa… that's a lose-lose situation."

"No. Nopony else dies, that I promise." Luna stated. She then turned to Pinkie. "I Pinkie Promise."

Pinkie smiled a giant smile after she said that.

"Well I know one thing; we can't save her if we just sit here and do nothing!" Rainbow proclaimed.

"That's right! We gotta save Twilight one way or another!" Applejack added.

"Yeah!" Pinkie cheered.

"Indeed!" Rarity added.

"Uh… ok." Fluttershy said, slowly.

"And I am with you also."

"Then let's go, come on girls." Rainbow Dash said as she started to walk to the forest.

"And dragon?" Spike asked, innocently.

The Pegasus smiled at him. "And dragon..."

"Yes!" Spike said to himself as he began to follow her, along with most of the others. Princess Celestia and Toby stayed behind though and finally gazed each other silently.

After a long awkward silence, Toby sighed, as he looked to Celestia, and asked, "Hey, can I ask you something?"

"Of course," she answered.

"Before you left…" he started out. "Did you… did Dad ever say he loved you?"

She smiled, and nodded, "Yes, he did."

He thought about it, and asked, "Did… you ever tell him the first time?"

She lightly chuckled at that, remembering that meeting, as she answered, "I misunderstood a few things back then. So when he told me, I punched him in the nose."

Toby grimaced at that, "Ouch."

She smiled, "But… I did comfort him after that."

"Good," he said. They both smiled at each other for a while before their smiles quickly turned to serious and sad frowns as they remembered what occurred between them just a few days ago.

"This doesn't change anything you know." Toby reminded her.

"I know…" Celestia said, sadly. "But I hope you'll be able to forgive me… someday."

Toby paused before speaking. "Maybe…" he admitted. "Right now we got to your faithful student."

Celestia nodded. "Of course. Let us focus on the matter at hoof… or… hand," she agreed.

"Right." Toby nodded as they began to proceed out of the cavern. As they did so Discord slowly began to regain coconsciousness. He then noticed the two of them leaving.

"Hey! Where are you going? I demand to be let out of here, immediately. Do you hear me?" Discord said. Toby stopped and turned to him, straight faced.

"No." Toby responded.

"You will deactivate this cell immediately!" Discord ordered.

"No." Toby repeated as he turned and began to walk away. "Oh, just a reminder; once this is over… I'm coming for you."

"Yes, I know, and you'll probably try to destroy me… evidently there will be a line!" Discord stated before he started laughing Toby and Celestia scowl at him and then leave.

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Later, Toby, the Princess' and all the other able flyers, who were carrying the ones who couldn't fly they could, zoomed straight for what appeared to be Canterlot Castle only it now looked more like a twisted looking fun house then a castle.

"Are you sure she'll be in there?" Princess Luna questioned.

"Where else would someone as brainwashed as Twilight go?" Toby asked. "Plus it makes sense… this whole scheme began there…"

"And it will end there, yes." Princess Celestia nodded as she and the others all landed near the front steps of the castle one by one.

"Look alive ladies and gentleman, she could be waiting for us… and she probably is." The human said as they proceeded towards the doors which were large and made out of solid steel

"Oh great… there's no doorbell." Rainbow Dash complained a bit.

"Well, if you can't find a door… make your own!" Toby said as he used his magic to bend and twist the giant metal doors until he sends them back flying off their hinges. They then charged inside and after a while they finally arrived at the throne room.

"Twilight!" Toby cried out.

They looked up ahead and saw a floating throne in the place of Celestia's old one. It stood there floating away from them for a while until it turned around and revealed a now demented looking Twilight sitting on it with a grin on her face that was familiar to the one she wore when she was afraid she'd go to 'magic kindergarten'.

Twilight laughed a bit. "Welcome my former friends," she said. "I'm almost glad to see all of you but you made a grave mistake coming here."

"We came here to save you!" Applejack told her.

"The only ones you should saving our yourselves!" Twilight shot back. "Now bow down and pledge your allegiance to me."

"And when we don't?" Rainbow Dash countered.

Twilight then grabbed a spear with her magic and levitated it upward. "I. WILL. MAKE YOU!" she bellowed as she threw the spear straight for them, which they all manage to dodge by jumping out of the way.

"Twilight, this has to stop!" Celestia cried out. "All this dark magic your using… it's going to destroy you!"

"Why should I listen to you? After all, I am the element of Magic. Shouldn't I be the one to decide what magic the mortals can use? Should I be the one ruling over everypony" Twilight Sparkle pointed out.

"Mortals? Do you even hear yourself, Twilight?" Toby questioned. "Your sounding like a crazy person! Your behaving no better than Discord!"

"No. I'm seeing things clearly now,

"Listen to me Twilight, I made you what you are. I should have seen the signs… I no idea that Discord did this to you… but you are my student, and I…" Celestia began

"I wasyour student Princess. Now you either make me your equal, and treat me as such or I will destroy you all!"

"Twilight, please! Stop this! This-this isn't you!" Spike begged.

"The Twilight Sparkle you all knew no longer exists!" The evil sounding mare declared. "She was a mask! A lie! I am the truth!"

Twilight then charged up her magic and began to fire multiple beams at them. They all scrambled and attempted to dodge the blasts and while some of them went flying Toby flipped and dodge each blast while trying to keep everypony safe at the same time.

"Nice moves, but they won't save you for long!" Twilight Sparkle told the human.

"Right… looks Celestia here had this 'plan' along the way where we'd all talk to you and you'd see the error of your ways." Toby said.

"Sounds like Celestia alright." Twilight sneered.

"But you and I know better, we both know that there is only one thing you understand right now!" The red head stated.

Toby clapped his hands as his eyes glowed brightly before taking a deep breath releasing a large gust of icy wind that encased Twilight in a block of ice. Toby walked over to her pitifully.

"I'm sorry to have to do this too you Twilight but…" he began to say before Twilight suddenly broke out of the ice and knocked him back via the shockwave.

"Always so sure that your going to win aren't you?" Twilight asked.

"Come on Toby let's see what your made of!" she said before zooming through the roof.

"Trust me Twi, your gonna find out!" Toby growled as magically created his wings and flew after her.

The two of them then engaged in a little aerial race. Both of them zipped all around the castle like beams of light making sharp and crazy turns every few seconds. Along the way Toby then created a magical nail gun energy construct.

"Alright, now come the warning shots." Toby said before firing two bolts at Twilight who barely managed to dodge them. "Give up? Please say 'no'."

"You'll never catch me Morrison!" Twilight declared as she flew ahead.

"Hate to break it to ya, but lot's of girls say that." Toby informed her.

Toby continued to zoom after her and eventually caught he in his sights and aimed the nail gun at her as they flew over the throne room again. After waiting a bit Toby finally said…

"Bang." he smirked before firing a bolt at Twilight that knocked her out of the sky and sent her crashing into the ground of the throne room below. Spike, the Princess' and the rest of the gang, including Toby, who just dropped down then gathered around the fallen Twilight and loomed over her

"So… any last words, Twi?" Toby asked her. Just then Twilight's eyes the shot open and became pitch black as her face twisted with anger.

"Enough!"

There was a flash of pure white light, and suddenly everypony in the room was thrown back. They each tumbled over and over until finally they slammed into the marble wall one by one.

Toby groaned and he wearily raised his head to survey the damage. The room had been rocked by a massive explosion, no doubt caused by Twilight. The others all looked sore and almost unconscious as they struggled to rise up onto their hooves again.

Their friend turned enemy stood in the center of the throne room, surrounded by cracks of bright purple lightning. She was terrifying, yet beautiful at the same time. Also her body had under gone some changes. Twilight now had a darker coat and mane, twisted devil like wings and dark accessories on her body similar to the one Nightmare Moon wore, they all fit well with the dark crown on her head. She looked like a real evil goddess.

She panted and panted as dark magic radiated off of her then, she raised her head with a crazed and super angry look on her face

"DO NOT CROSS ME!" Twilight screamed, her eyes were now vivid red with green sclera and dark magic emitting from the edges.

"Twilight… you're a monster…" Tobu said, horrified as he began to see similarities between her and Nightmare Moon herself.

"She's become… just like… me." Luna realized, darkly.

"Nightmare Twilight…" Spike breathed.

"What… what do now?" Rarity proclaimed, scared.

"There's only one thing we can do now." Applejack stated, firmly.

"What's that?" Rainbow Dash questioned.

"We have to take her down!" The farm pony declared. This made everypony gasp, shocked.

"But… but we can't! She's our friend!" Fluttershy pleaded.

"If we don't stop her now she's gonna destroy all of Equestria!" Applejack reasoned. "Now I don't like this anymore then y'all but what other choice do we have!?"

"She's got a point." Toby said.

"Don't help!" Rainbow told him.

"We have to gather the Elements of Harmony! Their our only chance!" Applejack proclaimed.

"But how? We can't get to them with her constantly attacking us!" Fluttershy exclaimed, fearfully.

"Plus without Twilight's their next to useless!" Rainbow Dash added, reminding the group of that important fact.

"Oh yeah… drat!" Applejack grumbled.

"So what should we do now? A know a party won't stop her… and that's all I have!" Pinkie Pie said.

"Someone has to stop her… now." Celestia stated.

"Yes, but who?" Luna wondered.

"I'll her." Toby concluded, his tone of voice sounded like he just accepted it.

"Excuse me?" Celestia question, surprised.

"There's only one person that can fight her and it's me." Toby stated, firmly.

"What?" Spike asked, shocked.

"No way! You remember what happened last time?!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed. "You nearly killed each other!"

"Toby… no… we don't want to lose to you." Fluttershy said, sadly.

"Yeah… if you end up dying we'd never forgive you." Applejack told him.

"We're out of options." Toby said to them all. "I have to do this!"

"Ugh! It always has to be your way doesn't Toby!? Just like walking out on me, Celestia and your friends!" Luna proclaimed.

"Ok, so maybe I should have stayed and talked things over but this is different." Toby insisted.

"Why?" Princess Luna demanded.

"This is something I don't want to but I just don't see any other way! And I don't expect you to understand Princess, let's just say Twilight and I have a special bond, ok?" Toby said. "And nothing's gonna stand in my way of bringing her back to normal!"

He then heard Twilight laugh. "Oh is that so?" she asked.

"Yes, it's that so." Toby confirmed. "And once your back to normal so will everything else!

"Why would you? Isn't chaos beautiful?" Twilight asked. "It's unbiased, unprejudiced… fair."

"You know that's not true! That's Discord talking!" Toby told her. "Twi… you're in real danger…"

"Be silent!" Twilight yelled.

"Take it easy, Twi… we're friends, remember?" Toby said, trying his best to calm her down.

"We're only 'friends' on your terms, but now I make the rules around here!" Twilight declared. "And my friend one is; no more Toby Morrison!"

Twilight released a pulse wave of Toby towards Toby. He held up his arms to shield himself and makes a distinctive skid mark on the ground as he forcefully pushed away. He quickly regained his composure.

"We hung out together, we fought together, we laugh together. Don't you remember any of them?" Toby questioned.

"I only remember a shadow, living in the shade of your greatness." Twilight stated. "You always got everything while I… I became a freak!"

"Hey! What Discord did to you could have happened to any of us!" Applejack pointed out.

"But Discord chose ME!" Twilight Sparkle exclaimed.

"Because you were the best out of all of us!" Toby stated. "He wants to prove that even someone as good as you could fall to his level!"

"And he was right…" The purple mare said, bitterly.

"Twi, listen, you know that's not true! We're your friends!" Applejack called out.

"Liar." Twilight hissed before charging up her magic and firing multiple beams of magic that blast several parts off the castle and caused them to fall down towards them all. They all scrambled again and tried their best to dodge the blasts and falling debris. Some managed to get behind pieces of debris for cover, including Toby, Luna and Fluttershy but Rainbow ended up being shot in the wing by Twilight's blast which greatly angered Toby.

"Ok… that's it… time to bring out the heavy artillery!" Toby declared as he reached into his pocket. "Guess I have no choice then…"

He then took out a familiar dark amulet with a red jewel that Fluttershy recognized.

"Is that…" Fluttershy began to say.

"Yep, the Alicorn Amulet." Toby confirmed as he slowly began to put it on. "I took it from Trixie last time we met."

"Toby, don't!" Luna told him. "You know what could happen if you use that."

"I know what will happen if I don't." Toby stated. "Plus… I'm gonna need a little help."

"Help from who?" Luna questioned, suspiciously.

"In a way… myself." Toby replied as he prepared to clap his hands.

"What? Oh no… no! Don't!" Luna cried as she tried to stop him but she was too late as he had already clapped his hands and caused his eyes to glow brightly.

"With the power vested in me… I unlock the seal!" Toby declared as he placed his hand on the ground and a strange symbol appeared on the ground, glowed red and shot a beam that hit a certain part of the moon. Toby then got out of hiding, stood in the middle of the light and everypony watched as a familiar, yet translucent figured dropped down from above.

"Whoa, that's…" Spike began,

"Anti-Toby… he's merging with his dark half to gain more power!" Princess Celestia realized as the two Toby's became one being. Once they did there was a giant flash of light the filled the room and blinded everypony.

When the flash of light ended everypony unshielded their eyes and saw just what happened to Toby and the result made all of their eyes widen and their jaws drop, including Nightmare Twilight.

Tobu was currently surrounded by a bright red aura with an explosive and flame-like in appearance. His skin tone had become darker, Toby's hair stuck up on end and adopted a neon blue color with a purple tint and eyes were sharper and glowing red due the irises being that color. He then spread out his arms and created a massive pulse that blew a large amount of air everypony's way as another change then began to occur. His large, feather white wings appeared out his back and spread out then suddenly as he growled they donned a more crimson red like color, plus crimson red pony-like ears appeared on the top of his head and a neon blue tail popped out as well.

Everypony stared at Toby's new state with wide eyes full of shock while Toby just stared at Twilight angrily, who simply scowled at him.

"TWILIGHT!" Toby growled.

"What the heck are you?" Nightmare Twilight demanded.

"I'm your friend." Toby responded in tears, which made the now evil Twilight gasp in shock. "That's why I'm telling you, I'm not gonna let this darkness take a hold of you! And if you won't listen to reason then… I'll break every bone in your body!"

Toby extended a hand which created a pulse of hair that blows evil Twilight's hair back and caused her to shield her eyes. Toby then zipped toward her, lifted her up and punched her hard in the gut, knocking all the air out of her. He punched her their several times before kicked her upside the jaw. She then spun in the air before landing back on the ground, when she looked up she saw Toby diving towards her before pounding her so hard that she crashed through several levels of the castle and to the bottom. He lets out a loud and anger filled scream. Everypony was stunned.

"Oh my goodness… what's happened to him?" Fluttershy asked, fearfully.

"And why does he have a tail and ears?" Rainbow added.

"It's his spell… he's somehow been caught somewhere between being human and alicorn!" Celestia realized.

"Is that… is that even possible?" Luna questioned, shocked.

"Apparently… it is." Rainbow Dash stated.

Toby then noticed Twilight flying back upwards towards him, hooves forward. But before she could hit him, he grabbed her jumped upward and spun her around before tossing her back into the ground hard and fast. He slammed on top of her and created a large crater in the ground. Everypony shielded their eyes as the dust blows and when it cleared they saw Toby standing on top of Twilight and holding her by the neck.

"Now let's go! Enough is enough. Snap out of it already!" Toby growled to the seemingly unconscious Twilight. "If you don't come to your senses, then I'm just gonna have to break all your bones and drag you back home! So get up Twilight!"

Twilight's eyes then pop open glowing with rage. She kicked him away, got back up and roared with anger.

"I've HAD IT with you Morrison!" Twilight Sparkle yelled. "Always outdoing me at everything, everypony liking you, everything always going your way!"

Twilight then charged up her horn and began firing a intense beam of dark magic at Toby who put up a force bubbled around himself to block, but he seemed to have trouble doing so, no doubt do to the sheer force of the attack hitting him.

"While I've become a freak, you've become a world famous super hero!" Twilight added.

Eventually the intensity of Twilight's attack became too much for Toby's shield to bare as it shattered into pieces and knocked him back a bit, however he quickly managed to regain his composure and stared at Nightmare Twilight with a determined look on his face.

"I don't even like being famous… mostly." Toby confessed. "Between you and me, I wish I could just relax with you girls for more than five seconds!"

"My heart bleeds for you." Evil Twilight said, half-heartedly. "Now you just bleed!"

Twilight fired another beam at Toby but he easily managed to deflect it into the wall.

"Listen to me Twilight, it doesn't have to go down like this you know," he said.

"I don't need saving." Twilight retorted.

"Yeah, you can only save yourself." Toby stated.

"I don't need saving!" she exclaimed. Her eyes glow as she walked towards him. "I'm not a sad little girl just waiting to be rescued!"

Rocky masses emerged from the earth and were followed by the opening of fissures that sent up curtains of dust and wind.

"I want to be this way. I want this power. I want to annihilate you and your pathetic friends!" The dark unicorn growled

A flick of her horn aimed at boulder toward him. It crashed down just to one side, but the shock wave put him down. As he struggled to rise, she continued her steady approach and directed a second stone; this one also landed short and knocked him flat. He labored for breath after taking the one-two punch as she loomed over him.

"And now I never want to see your face again!" Twilight declared.

Before she could attack again, Toby let out another cry of fury as his eyes glow. Both of them lifted off at full speed and resumed their brawl, which went on at such a high altitude that they are visible as only a pair of bright streaks in the now lurid red sky that bashed into each other repeatedly as they exchanged magical blasts. Eventually they landed on top of two towers outside the castle and stared each other down, both full of fury.

"It's time to end this…" Toby said, firmly.

"I couldn't agree more!" Evil Twilight smiled evilly.

Little bits of red energy then began to gather into Toby's open palm, and slowly but surely as they continued to gather up together and grow and grow they eventually formed a bright red sphere that shined brightly in Toby's hand. Suddenly the sphere became encased in fire, causing it to turn black and be surrounded by a ring of red flames.

Twilight's usual magenta colored magical aura also became black with a purplish haze and green edges. Black sparks emitted from her horn as a dark gleam surrounded it as well. The horn also became even sharper and longer, almost like a electric spear.

Both of the two fighters started at each other, their eyes full of rage. There was a short pause before they both began to fly towards each other. They soon got closer and closer towards each other until finally they leaned back and prepared their final attacks. The world went silent as they lunged forward and screamed.

"RAGE BOMB!"

"HORN OF DARKNESS!"

There was a loud explosion once their attacks hit each other, forcing everypony to shield their eyes from the intense light and shockwave rushing towards them all as the two attacks continued to clash and exert massive amounts of energy that was the color of each of their magical auras.

The energy exerted from Toby's sphere of rage and Twilight's dark magic fueled horn then began to swirl around them until it created a large purple sphere of magical energy that partially encased them. Within the sphere, both of their arms/forearms zoomed toward each other ready to strike. Dark Twilight sees an opportunity to end it, but at the last moment, instead of impaling him with her hoof, something made her groan and she jabbed in the chest with her hoof, making him grunt in pain before scratching her crown, creating a large crack.

Everypony below watched as the sphere of energy grew and grew until it completely consumed them and suddenly became a solid black sphere that floated high in the air where everypony in Ponyville could see it. Including the Apple Family, Snips, Snails, Cheerilee, The Cakes, Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon and the CMC. At the same time, Celestia quickly figured out what was happening, as did Luna.

"Oh no…" Celestia breathed.

"What? What's going on?" Rainbow Dash asked, confused and anxiously.

"That magic…" Luna mused. "…This isn't good!"

"Why? What's the matter?" Fluttershy questioned, greatly concerned. "What's happening?"

"The end is happening." Luna stated.

"End?" Rainbow echoed.

"Yes… with the amount of magic they are exerting… they could go either way at this point. It's up to them now." Princess Luna said as they then continued to stare at the sphere of light.

Inside the sphere itself, both Toby and Twilight floated within it, gazing sadly at each other. The white light that surrounded them then enveloped them and in their place was a filly Twilight and a eight-year old Toby who was holding little Twilight's hoof tenderly as they both smiled. The bright light slowly enveloped them both again before the sphere slowly dropped to the ground below and dissipated.

Elsewhere, in Discord's cage, the chaotic spirit was relaxing on an arm chair and reading a book with a comfortable robe and glasses on. A little light shined above him as well. He also had a pleasant look on his face until suddenly the little light that was above him suddenly went out and his eyes widen, indicating that his spell over Twilight was finally broken.

"Oh pooh…" he remarked, disappointed.

Everyone below in the town shielded their eyes as the sphere shines with an intense bright light. Even the citizens of Canterlot, plus Toby and Twilight's friends and mentor also had to cover their eyes to shield themselves from the intense light above them all. It soon dimmed and they all watched as it began to slowly lower itself towards the ground below them.

"Hey, what's going on?" Rainbow Dash asked, practically speaking everypony's thoughts as the moment.

"I think… I think it's over." Applejack realized.

"Is it?" Fluttershy inquired, nervously yet hopefully.

"Is it truly?" Rarity added.

"Yes… I believe it is…" Celestia said, her eyes widening. "It seems to be finally over… he did it."

"Then what are we waiting for!? Let's go get to them!" Rainbow Dash cried as she began to zip out of the castle and towards the area where both of them were.

Meanwhile, the light finally landed on the flat ground below and stayed that way for a while until it expanded then vanished in a puff of smoke.

When the smoke finally cleared, two figures could be seen standing in the middle of the ground. While the human known as Toby laid flat on his back, back to normal seemingly unconscious, Twilight stood over him, back to normal as well and looking quite sad and hopeless. Then in a millisecond the dark crown on her head snapped in half with a loud crack and dropped off her head, landing on the ground in front of her hooves. Her eyes widened.

"What… what am I doing here? What's going on?" Twilight wondered, quietly as she looked around a bit confused. She then noticed Toby laying on the ground in front of her. "Toby…?"

Just then, it all started to come back to Twilight. Celestia's revelation, her argument with her, her fight with Toby and being under Discord's control the whole time while she could do nothing to stop him. The final image slammed inside her head as she remembered striking Toby in the chest hard in fast when their attacks both collided with each other. She gasped sharply as she realized that she was the one that seemingly knocked him out cold.

"Oh no… what have I done?" Twilight whispered, horrified as tears fell down her cheeks. Then the others all ran over and saw Twilight back to normal and Toby laying flat on his back, looking unconscious.

"Toby! Toby!" Rainbow cried as she rushed over to her fallen friend. She kneeled down next to him and lifted his head with her hooves she looked close to crying. "No… Toby. Please! Please wake up…"

Rainbow held him close as tears indeed began to form in her eyes, then from out of nowhere she started yelling and shaking him with a sorrowful voice. "WAKE UP! WAKE UP!"

"RAINBOW!" Applejack suddenly shouted as well. Rainbow Dash turned to her friend, who had tears flowing down her face as well and gave the Pegasus a knowing look. Rainbow looked back towards Toby and buried her face in his shirt as she began to cry softly and quietly, not wanting anypony to see her like that.

They all stared at Toby silently, unsure of what to say or do as tears streamed from their face and Luna comforted her sister who began sobbing softly as well. There was a long period of silence and mourning until finally…

"WAKE UP!" Pinkie Pie suddenly screamed. Toby the woke up with a sharp and startled gasp, catching everypony by surprise.

"Toby!" Rainbow Dash cried.

Everypony gasped in surprised and looked at Toby shocked, stunned and happy to see that he was still alive and only knocked out, instead of being dead.

"Yay! I win! I worked!" Pinkie Pie cheered.

"What the heck…!?" Toby gasped, startled.

"Dude… your alive?" Spike asked, shocked.

The human looked around and saw everypony's smiling and teary eyed faces. "Yes. I am alive… Now what just happened? …Please nopony kissed me…"

Applejack lowered her hat and sighed relieved. "It's over partner… it's over…"

Toby sighed relieved also. "Alright… yay! Whew! Good job guys… hey let's not come in tomorrow, let's just… take a day…" he said. "Say have you guys ever heard of shawarma? Has anypony ever made that yet? I hear it's good. I don't know what it is exactly but I wanna try it…"

"He's fine…" Rainbow smirked, rolling her eyes as his babbling.

"Oh, thank goodness…" Applejack said, relieved as she wiped the sweat from her brow.

"We were so worried!" Fluttershy told him.

"Dreadfully worried!" Rarity added.

"Since when are you guys not?" Toby pointed out.

"He has a bit of a point…" Spike admitted. Toby then turned his attention to the still softly crying Twilight.

"Hey… good fight…" Toby breathed with a slight smile to Twilight. "You won…"

"But you saved me…" Twilight countered.

"But you took me down… all I did was knock off your crown." Toby stated. "So congratulations… you get the honor of being the one pony that beat me…"

Tears streamed down Twilight's face he rose up, then she hugged him tightly as she continued to sob, which Toby returned.

"Uh… Toby?" Pinkie piped up.

"Yeah?" he asked.

"Why do you still have your tail, wings and pony ears?" she questioned.

Toby's eyes widen as he felt his head and felt his pony ears still on top of his head, he also noticed that the top of his hair was still blue and his tail was still there was well. His eyes widen before he finally collapses out of exhaustion.

"Ugh, you just had to point it out to him." Rainbow Dash said to Pinkie, displeased.

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Later Toby was sleeping like a rock until a noise from outside woke him up. He stirred and rubbed his eyes, he saw a white ceiling. He was back in his hospital bed.

He looked around to see his seven best friends, mentor and biological mother looking over him, with smiling faces and somewhat teary eyes.

"Hey… glad to have you back…" Twilight said, smiling.

"Glad to have you back." Toby smiled back. He then noticed his wings, ears and tail were still there. "Huh… well this is odd…"

"Yeah, now you look even weirder then before." Rainbow Dash remarked before Applejack nudged her. "But at least you now look more like a pony!"

"Why does he look like this?" Fluttershy wondered.

"He must have tried to access his alicorn form during that battle, but he got half way…" Luna deduced.

"Can't… can't you change him back?" Twilight Sparkle asked, hopefully.

"She can't Twilight, my DNA has been altered too much." Toby stated. "This is as close to human as I'll ever get… I guess your little jab packed more of a wallop then we thought."

"You mean you're stuck looking like that forever?" Rainbow inquired.

"Possibly…" Toby replied.

"Man… that's a bummer…" Spike remarked.

"Well I think you look amazing!" Pinkie Pie said.

"Well… that's one…" Toby said, slowly.

"Oh Toby… I am so, so sorry! This is all my fault!" Twilight cried as she held him tightly and began to sob. Toby patted her back comfortingly.

"It wasn't your fault Twi… it was Discord's and nopony else's. Remember that" Toby comforted her. "Speaking of which…"

"Do not worry about him, I shall be dealing with that chaotic devil spirit personally after this." Luna promised him with a bit of a smirk.

Toby chuckled a bit. "That I'd like to see…"

"Well what matters is that the damage done to you wasn't severe and you will soon be released from the hospital soon." Princess Celestia.

"So… will you be coming home soon?" Fluttershy asked, in a hopeful tone. Toby just lowered his head sadly.

"I can't do that, Shy. Not yet. Right now… I'd prefer to be alone for a while." Toby stated as he slowly walked to the window. "I got a lot on my mind, I gotta clear my head and I have a lot of things to fix… alone."

Toby then opened the window up and stepped onto the ledge as he prepared to take off.

"Toby."

He turned around when he heard somepony mention his name and saw all of the sad looks on everypony's faces. His friends. And now his new Equestria family.

"Toby, you know we can't just let you leave, sugercube." Applejack told him, firmly.

"When were you girls ever able to stop me from doing something I wanted to do?" Toby questioned, wistfully. "But don't worry… if you need me and you will I'll be there… just call… after all… what are friends for?"

Toby then leaped out the window and began to fly off towards the setting sun. The girls, Spike and the Princess' all watched him sadly as he flew off like a bird that was just set free form it's steel cage.

"I hope you find what you're looking for… my dearest son." Celestia whispered, as she, her sister and Toby's friends continued to watch the new prince fly off into the distance. As they did so, Celestia's horn began to glow faintly.

As he continued to fly off Toby noticed Celestia slowly beginning to raise her sun out of the darkness and shine it's bright light all over Equestria, signalling a brand new day for all. A gentle breeze blew through Toby's hair as he flew, and as he flied off out of Ponyville he could almost hear Celestia's voice calling him.

"I hope you find what you're looking for… my dearest son."

Toby just smirked to himself and whispered. "10-4 Mom… Toby out," he said before he magically charged himself up and flew off at what appeared to be warp speed as he created a small shockwave after he zipped off, with a familiar rainbow like shine to it.

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Author's Note: Some parts of it were inspired by the Naruto episode 'The End of Tears'.