All the ponies trapped within the confines of the alien ship's control room were prepared for a huge brawl the likes of which none of them had seen before. That fight began when the Mane Six ran towards the elevated command chair, which King Sombra was sitting in at that moment. He had reacted by jumping down from the high standing pedestal and riding on a shadow cloud to meet the Mane Six head on. When he was about halfway from colliding with the six mares, Sombra melted his body in with the shadow cloud he stood upon and rode the rest of the way down like that. Before the cloud could fall upon the Mane Six, Twilight Sparkle used her magic to teleport herself and her friends out of its path.

When the shadow hit the ground, it instantly transformed into an aggravated and snarling King Sombra. He looked around, trying to find where Twilight might've teleported the Mane Six to in the room. His search was ended when the Mane Six reappeared all around him in a circle. King Sombra looked around in alarm as he growled. Everyone of the Mane Six leaped to pounce on Sombra at the same time. King Sombra fought them all back by releasing a circular blast from his horn that spread out and knocked all the Mane Six back and into the ground. Then Sombra turned into a shadow and slid across the floor out from the middle of the Mane Six's circle.

King Sombra rematerialized next to one of the control consoles and immediately set his sights on Twilight Sparkle. By that time everyone of the mares had gotten back up on their hooves. After Twilight shook away the cobwebs, she turned her glaring gaze on King Sombra, who had a glare of his own. The violet alicorn shot several short bolts of energy from her horn, all of which were aimed at King Sombra. Before any of them could hit, his horn's magic created a lime green orb around him. It easily deflected everyone of Twilight Sparkle's bolts with no problems at all.

The shield disappeared, except for a rounded section that remained in front of King Sombra, who then launched it at Twilight Sparkle. It moved so fast that all Twilight had time to do was gasp before the energy projectile hit her and caused her to yell out in pain. The blast sent her sliding across the ground for a few seconds before coming to a halt and laying in a heap. The evil king that dropped the alicorn princess cackled wickedly.

"That's right, princess, lay down before your king," Sombra said evilly.

Before the wicked pony could gloat any further, he was knocked aside when Rarity came ramming headfirst into his side. King Sombra rolled across the floor a few times before he managed to stumble back onto his hooves. He was met by the back hooves of Applejack kicking up into his face and sending him stumbling even further backwards. Sombra ended up coming to a stop when he crashed into the side of one of the control consoles. The evil one moaned out as he reached a fore hoof to his lower jaw and rubbed it.

He didn't have long, for Sombra saw, out of the corner of his eye, Applejack running up to him to continue her assault. King Sombra took his battle stance as Applejack turned her back to him and began bucking out her back hooves at an amazing speed. Despite the speed of which Applejack was able to kick back her hooves, King Sombra was actually able to move at even greater speed and get his head out of the way of his foe's bucks. Applejack did not let up, though; she bucked her back legs out again and again, King Sombra dodging them every time.

This attack strategy repeated several times. Applejack rapidly kicked her back hooves at King Sombra, but was unable to land a blow because of the speed he was able to move at to avoid her attacks. For nearly a minute, Applejack was bucking to try and land a kick on Sombra, be it on the jaw or anywhere else. But despite how fast her legs could move, King Sombra was just barely able to stay a split second ahead of her. This did not discourage the southern Earth pony in the slightest. In fact it helped to fuel her defiance of the evil being.

"I'm gonna squash you flatter than a pancake, ya dirty turnip!" exclaimed Applejack.

She was able to keep bucking for a few more seconds before King Sombra decided it was time to make his move. After dodging out of the way of another one of Applejack's many bucks, his horn lit up with a light green aura and fired an energy beam. The blast hit the orange mare in the back and instantly made her cry out painfully as she fell to the floor. The tyrant unicorn kept his beam going as he walked up and hovered over the now helpless Applejack. She looked up to she his evil grin leering down at her.

"I'm gonna turn you into applesauce, Ms. Hillbilly Jane," said King Sombra.

At the exact same time Sombra stopped firing his beam, Applejack was surrounded in a lime green glow and was unable to move a single muscle. Applejack watched as King Sombra's smile turned into a scowl. Then he shouted out loud as he spun around. His levitation spell on Applejack brought her spinning along with Sombra before he launched her through the air. Applejack screamed as she crashed on top of one of the control consoles with a loud thud. The orange pony rolled onto her back before she ceased moving at all.

King Sombra cackled loudly as he stepped over and gazed at his opponent's fallen form.

"Mere farming techniques will not be enough to stop me," the evil one pronounced loudly. "I'm afraid you peasants will have to do better than that."

"YOU MEAN LIKE THIS?!"

Rainbow Dash came flying in from the side and tackled King Sombra in a fashion that would make even the best hoofball linebacker nervous. The two went rolling across the ground. When they finished, Rainbow Dash ended up coming out on top of Sombra, pinning him to the ground. The incredibly angered pegasus mare wasted no time in laying several hard and fast punches into the black unicorn's face. Each one of those punches felt like a stone smashing across King Sombra's head. Despite this, he was still able to use his horn's magic to create a light bright enough to temporarily blind Rainbow Dash.

"My eyes!" the pegasus pony cried as she reached her hooves up and covered them.

King Sombra took the time to turn into his shadow form and slid out from underneath the mare who previously had him pinned down. When he turned back into his physical form, Rainbow Dash's eyes had recovered and she was boiling mad. She looked around for Sombra and snarled like a rabid timber wolf when she spotted him. He just smiled in amusement.

"Well come on then," said Sombra. "Let us resume combat, you bag of hot air. Yet something else you share with a balloon besides being able to fly. I wonder if you pop just as easily as one. Let's find out. Or are you as much of a chicken as your dear, sweet baby sister?"

Rainbow Dash's eyes widened in rage before they lowered into a glare as she growled loudly. Then she let out an equally furious scream. Seeing that he had struck a nerve, King Sombra just laughed. Then Rainbow Dash flew up to him and began swinging her fore hooves forward at a speed that almost matched Applejack's back bucking. But King Sombra was able to dodge everyone of her punches and made it seem like it was an easy thing to do. Rainbow Dash screamed out each time she threw an amazingly fast punch with a snarl on her face. Sombra's comprised a mocking smile aimed directly as Rainbow Dash as he kept dodging every punch that came his way.

"What's a matter, Dashie?" asked King Sombra mockingly as he kept ducking and dodging Rainbow Dash's swift punches. "Why so serious? Did I strike a nerve? Was it because I brought up the subject of that pathetic little filly that follows you around like a hungry dog so shamelessly? What was her name...? Scootafool?"

"It's SCOOTALOO YOU SON OF A-"

"Ah, yes, that's right! Scootaloo! A cute little kid, that one is. About as cute as she is pitiful. No wonder you stick around when she comes snooping at your door."

Though King Sombra was talking in a voice that oozed confidence, in reality, he was beginning to find it harder and harder to keep up with Rainbow Dash's fast paced punches. As he continued to move at speeds that surpassed Rainbow's swinging hooves, more and more beads of sweat were materializing out of Sombra's pores from his physical activities. He was doing the best he could to keep his breaths from getting heavy so he could keep up appearances for Rainbow Dash and continued to talk in a wickedly confident manner.

"You know, Dashie, once I have rid myself of you, as well as your friends here, that will mean you won't be there to babysit young Scootaloo. Somepony else will have to look after the little mutt going forward once you're gone. You know... I could probably help with that." A horrified expression crossed Rainbow Dash's face as she thought about what Sombra was implying while the tyrant grinned back at her. "That's right, my dear. Don't worry, once I've destroyed you and your friends, I will take good care... of your little Scootaloo."

"NOOOO!" Rainbow Dash screamed out in tearful anger.

After that, the speed of her punches increased to ten times what they were before. King Sombra now had to work even harder than he had previously to move faster than his pegasus opponent was swinging her hooves. This time he could not hide his extra efforts as sweat poured even faster from his pores. Worry crossed his face as his breaths got heavier and deeper. Knowing it was only a matter of time before he could no longer keep up with the grunting mare currently on the attack against him, Sombra acted fast. He used the same trick as he did to blind Rainbow Dash before, flashing a bright light via the magic of his horn.

Again Rainbow Dash raised her front hooves to her eyes as she cried out. Because of this, she was wide open to attack, which King Sombra took advantage of. He swung a hoof into Rainbow Dash's mid-area and then swung another hoof forth and back across her face. Then he bucked both of his front hooves into Rainbow Dash's chest, knocking her to the ground. The fallen pegasus cried out and moaned as she reached a hoof to her bruised sternum. Her eyes then traveled upward to see King Sombra standing above her with a tyrannical smirk on his face.

"Perhaps you are not the tough little rebel you've made yourself out to be, eh, Rainbow Dash?" asked King Sombra. "Heh, you look to me like you're about as tough as a bratty little girl that needs a beating from her father. Makes me wonder how much heart you've really got deep down."

"Hi-yah!" Rarity screamed as she came rushing through the air.

Her right back hoof kicked across King Sombra's muzzle in a Bruce Lee-esque flying side kick. Sombra crashed to the floor while Rarity went flying by before landing safely on all fours. The white furred unicorn turned to King Sombra with rage in her eyes.

"Rainbow Dash has more heart, is far tougher, and an overall better pony than you could ever hope to be, tyrant!" exclaimed Rarity. She then used her unicorn magic to levitate King Sombra off the ground. Then Rarity pulled Sombra up to her so he could see the determined anger on her face. "Despite how much power you think you have, magical or royal, everypony in here, everypony I call my friend will always be a million times a better pony than you are! Now I'm going to show you that you're not quite as big and bad as you think you are, you scoundrel!"

Rarity grunted loudly as she spun around, using her magic to take King Sombra with her in a similar manner Sombra himself had used earlier on Applejack. What was even more similar was that Rarity then used her magic to toss King Sombra towards a control console. The black furred stallion screamed out as the center of his spine directly hit the edge of the console before he collapsed to the ground. Then Rarity hurried over to Rainbow Dash's side.

She saw that the moaning pegasus mare was trying as hard as she could to push herself back up onto her hooves. Rarity moved quickly to get to her friend's side and aid her.

"Rainbow Dash, darling, are you alright?!" Rarity asked concernedly.

She gently grabbed a hold of Rainbow Dash's fore hooves and carefully helped her friend the rest of the way up. Rainbow Dash rubbed the side of her face where she was hit as she moaned a little more before replying.

"Yeah, thanks, Rarity, I'm fine. But I think you should go check on Applejack. It looks like she really needs help."

Rainbow Dash pointed a hoof in the direction of hers and Rarity's southern friend. Rarity followed Rainbow's pointing hoof to see Applejack moaning as she tried to push herself up off the control console she was thrown onto earlier. Rarity quickly turned to Rainbow Dash and nodded before running over to check on Applejack. Meanwhile Rainbow Dash had turned her sights back onto King Sombra. The sight of the evil unicorn made Rainbow Dash's blood boil hot. She had never been so mad in her life up to the point where King Sombra had made his threat against Scootaloo. Now she was furious and planned to take every ounce of burning anger out on the demon who had caused it.

As King Sombra was pushing himself back up onto his hooves, he heard the blood curdling scream of a half crazed pony nearby. He looked to see that exact pony flying towards him at speeds he only dreamed a pony could fly. Rainbow Dash was still screaming, tears flying out of her psychotically wide eyes all the while she flew.

"Uh-oh," said King Sombra with a worried look on his face.

His worries were soon realized when Rainbow Dash's right fore hoof connected with his chin. After that first punch came many more, which Rainbow Dash threw all across King Sombra's face and other parts of his body. Rainbow Dash screamed out all kinds of obscenities and warnings not to go near Scootaloo and that he wouldn't even get the chance to try to get to her. She screamed all this all the while she was laying in strong, fast, and incredibly hard punches into King Sombra's head, neck, front legs, and his sides. She made up for every punch she missed when fighting Sombra before and then some. Those punches felt like large stones pelting against Sombra's body and made him wish he had never gotten on Rainbow Dash's bad side.

After thirty or so punches, Rainbow Dash finally finished off her assault by bucking her fore hooves into Sombra's face, knocking him away and leaving her to pant in exhaustion. Unfortunately for King Sombra, the force of the buck had spun him around into the path of another bucking. The now recovered Applejack kicked her back hooves across King Sombra's face, spinning him towards another waiting assault. Rarity charged forward and rammed her head into Sombra's lower jaw, knocking him around face first into a control console before dropping to the floor.

"You okay, Rainbow?" asked Applejack with a concerned look on her face.

The rainbow haired pegasus took one final heaving breath before answering.

"Yeah, I'll live. Thanks, Applejack. How are you? I saw you take that bad tumble from Sombra. I was worried."

"I'm okay, too, Rainbow Dash. I admit it did leave me a might sore, but I'm doing much better since Rarity came and lent me a hoof."

"She lent me one, too." Both mares turned their grateful smiles to the white furred unicorn that they were happy to know had their back. "Sounds like we were are lucky you came along, Rare girl."

"And how!" exclaimed Applejack.

"Thank you, girls," said Rarity. Her face turned serious as she set her sights on King Sombra. "But for now we'll have to hold off on sharing the love. Right now we must take care of this ruffian who would dare strike us down or any of our friends!"

"Right!" Rainbow Dash and Applejack said at the same time.

Applejack and Rarity prepared to run forth at full speed, while Rainbow Dash prepared to fly. All three mares let out battle cries while they charged at the evil tyrant. Sombra had just sat up when his ears caught the sound of the charging mares' calls. He looked up and let out a gasp when he saw the three fillies coming straight at him.

The evil king acted quickly morphing his body into his shadow form. The shadow split into three, which slid across the ground and past the charging mares. Then the three shadows rematerialized into three separate Sombras! Rarity, Applejack, and Rainbow Dash all turned around and gasped when they saw the unnatural grinning triplets. All three let out similar short, but snide chuckles before firing energy beams from their horns. All three of the mares screamed out in agony and dropped to the floor as soon as the beams hit them. It felt as though they were being burned away from the inside out.

The three Sombras lined up together, never ceasing fire of their beams. The Sombras on the left and right step in closer and closer to the Sombra in the middle until they had somehow combined back into a single evil unicorn. The newly recombined King Sombra's energy beam that fired from his horn now had the power of all three of the previous Sombras' horns. It was also three times as big; being able to blast Rainbow Dash, Rarity, and Applejack altogether. It was all the more painful for the poor mares who were now screaming even louder and more helplessly.

"Such a pity," King Sombra said after shaking his head while tsking. "It's a true shame that pretty little creatures such as yourselves chose to put yourselves in such a predicament. Even worse still is that it was all for nothing since you are about to fall by my horn's magic. Say hello to my father down in Tartarus, you foals!"

All of a sudden, King Sombra felt himself being lifted off the ground and pulled away by a purple aura that surrounded him. He horn's magic cut out as he was lifted further into the air and pulled almost to the center of the room. Then he was turned around, also against his will, to be shown who the pony was levitating him magically, though he had a pretty good idea who it was. Sombra's suspicions were confirmed when he saw the glaring face of Twilight Sparkle up close and personal in his face.

"Keep your stinkin' dark magic off my friends, you dirty demon!" exclaimed Twilight Sparkle.

The alicorn princess used her levitation magic to lift King Sombra up even higher in the air before slamming him down into the floor. Then she fired several bolts of attack magic at the black unicorn. When the beams hit Sombra and a few hit the ground, they caused small explosions that produced large puffs of black smoke. The flows of smoke hindered Twilight's vision somewhat, for she was now unable to see King Sombra or the area of the room around her. Thus she was unable to tell exactly how much damage she had done to her opponent.

Seconds later a lime green magic beam broke through the smoke and hit Twilight in the chest. She let out a scream from feeling a searing pain run through her body so agonizing it made her drop down onto her flank. King Sombra came walking out of the cloud smoke with an angry scowl on his face. He ceased firing of his beam, but kept his horn's magic aura glowing. King Sombra growled out and rushed forth at Twilight Sparkle.

Twilight Sparkle shot up to her hooves when she saw Sombra coming and activated her horn's magic. The two powerful ponies' horns collided with each other when they ran up to each other. Twilight and Sombra both pressed their horns harder together and pushed forward in an attempt to force the other back. Both ponies scowled into each other's up-close faces as they poured more power into their glowing horns. Their auras got brighter and brighter by the second until finally the crossed, overcharged auras ignited a bright blast of power that sent them both flying back.

The two warring ponies laid on the ground for a second before they both hurried as fast as they could to get back on their hooves. King Sombra ended up being the first one up, though he still moved around very groggily. He managed to straighten himself out when he heard the sound of trotting hooves coming at him. He looked to his sides to see Fluttershy running up on his left and Pinkie Pie coming up from the right. He acted quickly, using his magic to teleport just as the two incoming mares were about to collide with him. They ended up crashing into each other, the impact of which dropped them on the floor.

King Sombra reappeared above the fallen mares and laughed out in amusement before smiling down at his would be opponents.

"Fighting isn't your strong point, is it, my little ponies?" asked King Sombra. "It doesn't appear that way. Maybe you two should stick to what you know best: Cowering in fear and running around like an out of control child hopped up on sugar trapped in an adult's body."

King Sombra used his magic to send both Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie sliding across the ground in different directions. Then he lifted his head into the air as he cackled in enjoyment. He was cut off when a beam of Twilight Sparkle's attack magic struck him in the chest. Sombra cried out as he dropped to a knee and put a hoof to where the beam hit him. Breathing heavily, he glowered at Twilight Sparkle, who responded in kind.

"I told you to keep away my friends, Sombra!" exclaimed Twilight Sparkle. "Right now this is between you and me! Let's keep it that way!"

A small swirl of wind began to whip around Twilight Sparkle, which was generated from her horn's aura. Said aura got bigger, brighter, and even longer like it was the blade of a sword.

"Sounds just find to me, little filly," replied King Sombra. His horn's aura mimicked Twilight's, growing brighter and longer until it was a near replica of the princess's. "It's your funeral, child!"

The two foes charged at each other and attempted to pierce their magically charged horns into one another. The horns ended up colliding with each other, creating a flash of light and making a loud electrical sounding hum upon contact. Twilight and Sombra growled at each other before pulling their horns back and swinging them into each other once more. The two ponies continued on like this for a long time. They would swing and thrust their horns at each other from several different angles. But their horns ultimately ended up colliding each time they attempted to stab or slash at the other. They also took moments to block incoming attacks.

They repeated this process of attacks several times for many long moments. The auras of their horns would flash brightly and let out loud hums each time the horns collided. As the ducking, dodging, horn swinging, and blocking went on, in a surprising development of events, Twilight Sparkle was actually able to hold her own against King Sombra. Despite him having more experience with magic and combat among several other factors that should've gave him the advantage, Sombra and Twilight were at a stand still.

It could've stemmed from the fact that he had already suffered fatigue and injuries from fighting the other ponies before. But overall, the one true reason above all others was Twilight's heart and undying drive to go on and protect her friends no matter what. This drive is what kept the violet alicorn pushing on in the fight and kept her swinging her glowing horn against King Sombra's. So the fight went on with both ponies swinging their horns against each other's without much success in their assaults.

The duel of horns culminated when both Twilight Sparkle and King Sombra spun around, resulting in their horns colliding together one last time. Rather than go for more strikes, the two combatants pressed their entangled horns against each other in a test of strength. Twilight Sparkle and King Sombra snarled hatefully in each other's faces almost the entire time they struggled like this.

"You're an abomination that has no place in this world!" exclaimed Twilight Sparkle. "Especially in Equestria! The only place you belong is in a burning pit after all you've set upon Equestria and her children!"

"Well, excuse me, princess!" King Sombra said sarcastically.

Suddenly he leaned in and kissed Twilight Sparkle right on her mouth. This stunned the violet alicorn, making her eyes widen and her body jerk back violently. King Sombra took advantage and bent his right front knee up, slamming it into Twilight's lower jaw. Then he smacked her across the face before firing a bolt from his horn that sent the poor pony screaming to the ground. The dark tyrant stared down at Twilight full of sadistic joy knowing all the pain and trauma he was causing her.

"You should stay down, princess," said King Sombra.

Suddenly, a hollering Pinkie Pie came charging out of nowhere. The collision between her and Sombra sent both tumbling to the ground. They rolled for a little bit, which ended with Pinkie Pie coming out on top of King Sombra. She quickly swung a fore hoof across the unicorn's face.

"You leave Twilight alone, you big meanie, mean pants!" exclaimed Pinkie Pie.

King Sombra just smirked up at the Earth Pony sitting on top of him before morphing into his shadow form. He then slid out from under Pinkie Pie and reformed into his physical body. Then King Sombra shot two bolts of energy into Pinkie's back, making her scream in agony. After that, King Sombra used his levitation magic to lift Pinkie Pie into the air. Sombra then used his magic to bring Pinkie Pie nearly face to face with him.

"I still don't see why you mares are trying to be fighters," said King Sombra. "All you're showing me right now is that you're not very good at it. Especially you, dear stupid one. You should seriously go back to cake baking and balloon blowing. Or that is, you would... if I were to allow you to leave here today alive. But I'm not feeling very charitable today!"

While King Sombra laughed in Pinkie Pie's face, Fluttershy watched from nearby. Despite every ounce of fear that filled her body telling her to stay back, Fluttershy just couldn't stand what was happening to Pinkie Pie. All the pain that had come to her friends so far felt like mental and emotional blows to the young pegasus mare. So, despite her better judgement, Fluttershy ran up behind King Sombra and bucked her front hooves into his flank. King Sombra stumbled forward a step before spinning around and snarling at Fluttershy, making her squeak in fear as she dropped on her flank.

"You've got to be kidding me!" exclaimed King Sombra. He stepped towards Fluttershy, who slid back for every step he took. "Are you out of your mind?!"

Sombra stopped for a moment and looked back at Pinkie Pie, who was still levitating close by. He quickly disposed of his pink captive, using his magic to send her flying away. The sounds of Pinkie Pie's screams and seeing the rough landing she took made Fluttershy worry for her well being. She held out a hoof towards her friend while a concerned look comprised her facial features. Fluttershy wanted desperately to go over and check on Pinkie Pie, but when she stood up to go after her, she was face to face with a menacing King Sombra.

"You know, I was wrong before," said King Sombra. "You're the worst fighter of the bunch here, not that pink one. Though she's no prized fighter either. But you?! What are you even doing here?!"

"Uh- I..." After stumbling over her words a few times, a determined and defiant expression crossed Fluttershy's face. She then stood up and finished what she was trying to say. "I'm here so I can be by my friends' side when they need me."

"Heh, yeah right, sure. Nice try, Fluttershy, but I know all about you and who you truly are deep down inside. You are the weakest link of the bunch, the runt of the litter. You are completely helpless and pathetic. You have no place here. You should've stayed at home and stayed safe in your cozy little cottage and hugged you cuddly fury animals close to you while you still had the chance. Now, because you have so foolishly come here with your friends and put yourself in the position you're in now, you'll never get that chance again.

"For you see, I am about to put an end to the miserable little joke you generously call your life. Just like I'm gonna do to your friends here before doing the same to every animal and everypony you care about!"

The entire time King Sombra was talking, every word he said instantly replaced the fear in Fluttershy with boiling rage. This was expressed in Fluttershy's uncontrollable shaking and the furious stare on her face aimed at Sombra. The moment the tyrant got a look at Fluttershy's face, he was instantly paralyzed beyond his understanding. He watched in worry as Fluttershy let out a loud angry growl and her eyes widened.

"NO!" was all Fluttershy screeched out before she charged forward and knocked King Sombra to the ground. King Sombra looked up from the floor in alarm as Fluttershy raised her fore hooves and slammed them into his chest. He coughed and gagged as he reached his hooves to his chest after feeling the wind get knocked out of him. Fluttershy flew up a little bit then kicked her back hooves into King Sombra's underbelly. Then she left the evil king behind to pine over his pain as she flew to check on Pinkie Pie.

The yellow pegasus flew up and landed a few feet in front of her pink friend, who was laying on the floor and staring at her in open mouthed wide eyed shock.

"Are you alright, Pinkie Pie?"

"Whoa! Fluttershy, that was amazing! The way you just took Sombra out was... Wow!"

"Are you alright?"

"Huh? Oh, yeah. I'm fine, thanks. The fall I took wasn't that bad.. I mean, you know, knowing what he could've done to me."

"That's good to hear. I'm glad you're okay, Pinkie Pie. Here, let me help you up."

Fluttershy grabbed a hold of Pinkie's fore hooves and helped her get back on all fours.

"Thanks, Fluttershy, for both helping me up and coming to my rescue against Sombra. MY BIG STRONG HERO!"

Pinkie Pie threw her hooves around Fluttershy and hugged her tight as she pressed the side of her face against Fluttershy's. The two ponies' smiles turned to surprise when they heard the growls of King Sombra coming up behind them. They turned to see that Sombra was, indeed, running at them, lime green fire burning in his eyes.

"You just made a big mistake, little girl!" the tyrant shouted. "Now I'm gonna rip and tear you both into little piec-"

The lord of darkness was interrupted when a loop tied at the end of a rope came down around him and pulled him back across the floor. As King Sombra pulled himself up, he looked to see Applejack glaring at him with the other end of the rope, which she had found earlier, in her mouth.

"Why you piece of inbre-"

Sombra was cut off by a chair crashing down on top of him. He turned to his left to see the unicorn that had levitated the chair over him standing by and scowling.

"Watch your mouth you fowl creature!" ordered Rarity.

Before King Sombra could say or do anything, he was hit from his right by a large beam of energy fired by Twilight Sparkle. The dark lord screamed as he fell on his flank. As soon as Twilight Sparkle ceased fire, Rainbow Dash came flying up behind King Sombra, grabbed him around the waist, and picked him up off the floor. She flew up to the top of the room at full speed before spinning around for a backwards loop, during which Rainbow Dash released her grip on Sombra. The dark king let out a scream as he dropped from the top of the room to the ground and landed with a loud thud.

The Mane Six weren't about to give Sombra a single second to rest. Applejack let out a whistle to get Rainbow Dash's attention.

"Rainbow, the high dive!"

The pegasus mare winked understandingly to her Earth pony friend.

"You got it, boss!"

Rainbow Dash came flying towards Applejack, who ran towards her. At some point, Applejack jumped into the air, sailing the rest of the way towards Rainbow Dash. The blue pony put her two front hooves together for Applejack to land on. Then Rainbow Dash used all her strength to launch Applejack higher into the air. When the southern pony landed back to the floor, she crashed down upon King Sombra in a manner similar to a pro wrestler performing a flying elbow drop on a downed opponent.

King Sombra screamed out loud from the pain that came from the move Applejack dealt him. He then transformed into his shadow form and slid out from under Applejack. King Then he moved a few feet away before returning to his physical form to lick his wounds. King Sombra breathed heavily as he felt every ounce of his body hurting from the assaults of the Mane Six. He was examining one of his injuries, running a hoof across a bruise on his side when he heard the sound of wings flapping.

He looked up to see Fluttershy flying in his direction full speed ahead. He let out a gasp and his eyes widened in alarm at the sight of the angry faced pegasus coming at him. He never even noticed Pinkie Pie rolling up behind him like an armadillo. Caught between a rock and a hard place, King Sombra wasn't fast enough to keep his head from nearly being taken off by a clothesline from a passing Fluttershy. He wasn't able to keep his legs from being knocked out from under him at the exact same time by Pinkie Pie either.

The high and low double maneuver sent King Sombra flailing and tumbling to the floor in a world of hurt. Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie shared a quick hoof bump before running and flying over to join the rest of their friends. Once those two had rejoined the group, Twilight Sparkle and Rarity looked to each other with confident and determined smiles as they nodded their heads. They touched their horns together and began generating their magic auras into each other. The two auras built up more and more energy, which made them grow bigger and brighter.

King Sombra noticed the glow out of the corner of his eye as he was pushing himself back onto his hooves. He let out a groan of despair because he knew the glow couldn't mean anything good for him. King Sombra was unable to keep himself from looking up to see what the glow actually was. He instantly regretted it, letting out a gasp when he saw the super charged auras of Twilight Sparkle and Rarity's horns. The two mares smiled defiantly at the worry ridden stallion as they released the built up magic from their horns.

The combined magic came out in the form of a mega-sized energy beam. King Sombra's eyes opened as wide as they could while he stood in frozen shock and watched the beam come flying towards him. He could do nothing when the beam scored a direct hit on him. This caused a big explosion and an even bigger flash of light. The explosion was so big and strong that it made the whole room shake a little, while the light was bright enough to get the Mane Six to all turn away and cover their eyes.

When the shaking finally ceased, the glow was gone, and the smoke was clearing, the Mane Six uncovered their faces and looked to see what had become of the evil King Sombra. They found him kneeling down and breathing very heavily as he fought to get his breaths under control. His body greatly trembled from the pain and agony the powerful blast had caused him. Most of the physical signs of damage he took, like the bruises and bleeding, were covered up by a black cloak Sombra had summoned with his magic to hide his body's deformities. The Mane Six did get a small glimpse at the injuries he sustained to his face when Sombra looked up to glare at them hatefully.

The Mane Six all glared back while each took a step forward, which made Sombra's eyes widen.

"Enough!" King Sombra shouted as he raised a fore hoof at the mares before him. The Mane Six all froze and looked around at each other before looking back at Sombra. "Enough!"

"Why, whatever is the matter, Sombra?" Rarity asked very sarcastically.

"Is it because you just got your flank handed to you by a bunch of tough little fillies you were bad mouthing about being weak not too long ago?" asked Applejack.

"If you can't take the heat..." Twilight Sparkle began.

"Jump into the nice cool ocean and sink to the sea floor with the rest of the bottom feeders," Fluttershy finished.

"Ooh, somepony call the burn unit," said Rainbow Dash.

"Because you just got scorched!" exclaimed Pinkie Pie.

She then turned to Fluttershy and the two exchanged a high hoof.

"It's like we tried to tell you before, King Sombra," said Twilight Sparkle. "You may be an all-powerful dark lord, but when we stand together, united as one, your power is nothing in comparison. There's nothing you have we can't throw back at you a thousand times stronger."

None of the Mane Six noticed the small flash of light that came from Sombra's horn. It was a response to a distress signal he had sent out before he was caught by Rarity and Twilight's beam. Because they had not noticed it, they were all confused when Sombra managed to let a smile cross his face as he let out a laugh.

"True," said King Sombra. "True. You may have more power than I could ever hope to achieve when you're together. But you will still never... ever... have more power than the beasts under my command!"

At that moment, a shadow befell the room that emanated from the ocean outside, as did a now familiar bellowing roar. The Mane Six all looked up and gasped in fear when they saw Manda staring down at them. His face conveyed both the vicious hunger of a predator and the anger his dark master felt and was making him feel.

"But... Godzilla?" asked a wide eyed alarmed Fluttershy.

"He's not the kaiju you see peering in through that glass, now is he?" asked King Sombra.

Fluttershy gasped as she raised her hooves over her mouth.

"No." Fluttershy wept as she buried her face in Rarity's shoulder.

"I wouldn't worry about your pet at this particular moment, dear Fluttershy!" exclaimed King Sombra. "You've got other friends to worry about right now. Not to mention yourself." An scowl crossed the evil one's face as he trembled in anger. "YOU LITTLE BRATS!"

Manda let out another roar, which made all the mares flinch back and let out small screams. They looked up to see the huge sea serpent peering in at them. This sight made the Mane Six all start to tremble fearfully, though they tried so hard not to.

"Awe, don't be scared, my little ponies," said King Sombra mockingly. "Manda doesn't want to eat you up. He just wants to play his favorite game: Drown the brats!"

As Sombra cackled loudly, the Mane Six watched above them as Manda let out several low growls while he tilted his head from side to side. Then Manda reared his head back far before thrusting it forward, thereby slamming it into the glass dome. The Mane Six all let out screams as they felt the ship shake violently, which tossed them aside violently. The loud boom from Manda's head colliding with the glass echoed through the room. King Sombra responded to this with a slightly shaky laugh as he, like the Mane Six, tried to keep his balance.

"He takes this game very seriously," said King Sombra. "Like I said, it's his favorite. I'd like to stay and play, too, or even watch from the side. But somehow I get a feeling that wouldn't end well for me. Besides, I got plans to keep. And they involve either the total domination or destruction of Equestria! Depends on how cooperative everypony is. So far all they've wanted to do is defy me! That should change now that Godzilla is and you all will soon be dead! Have fun with Manda and his drowning you, my little sea ponies!"

King Sombra laughed as loudly as he could while his body was slowly surrounded by a shadow cloud. His body then melted into the shadow and became apart of it. Then as suddenly as it had appeared, the shadow cloud disappeared, taking King Sombra with it.

"He's gone again!" exclaimed Rainbow Dash in frustrations.

A roar from Manda made the Mane Six all look up again at the terrible serpent.

"We've got bigger problems to worry about right now!" exclaimed Rarity.

Everyone of the Mane Six were given a glimpse of just how much trouble they were truly in when Manda again pulled his head back and slammed it forth into the glass dome. He repeated this process three more times, each collision causing a loud, echoing bang and making the whole room shake. On the fourth time Manda slammed his head against the the glass, something terrible happened that spelt doom for the Mane Six. A large crack broke across the glass dome atop the ship. Everypony gasped in fear as several smaller cracks sprouted out of the big one caused by Manda's head.

"What're we gonna do?!" Pinkie Pie asked urgently.

"We could put our swimming gear back on!" suggested Fluttershy.

"But we would still be crushed by the force of the water coming down on us with all that water pressure!" said Twilight Sparkle.

"Couldn't you make a magic shield to protect us or teleport us out of here or something?!" asked Applejack.

"No, my magic is strong enough to teleport us to a point we can truly be safe and I don't know if my shield would be able to protect us without breaking under pressure," Twilight explained.

At that moment, Fluttershy remembered something that was the most likely way they were gonna get out of there safe. She then sucked in a deep breath before lifting her head into the air and shouting as loud as she could, "Deus Ex Machina!"

Everypony looked to their yellow pegasus friend with mixtures of fear and confusion.

"Fluttershy, why did you-?"

Rainbow Dash was interrupted when a sudden flash of light ignited out of nowhere. When it disappeared, none of other than the lord of chaos himself, Discord stood in its place.

"Ta-da!" the draconequus announced loudly as he lifted his hands into the air.

"DISCORD?!" Twilight, Rarity, Applejack, Rainbow, and Pinkie exclaimed at the same time.

"Fluttershy, you summoned Discord of all ponies to save us?!" asked Rainbow Dash in disbelief.

"Wait! How did you?" asked Rarity.

"He told me to say those words if I ever needed him for anything serious and he'd appear to help me with whatever I needed," Fluttershy explained.

"Don't worry, my dear Fluttershy. Discord's here to save the... Huh?" Discord looked around him in awe struck silence as memories of long times past instantly came to the front of his thoughts at seeing the interior that surrounded him. "I don't believe it."

"Discord, me and my friends are in trouble!" said Fluttershy. "We need-"

"Could it be?" asked a stunned Discord.

"Discord, we're about to drown and we really-"

"It is! It's a Devonian invasion ship! I haven't seen the inside of one of these ships, or the outside for that matter, in thousands of-"

"DISCORD!" the Mane Six shouted together.

The sounds of their loud voices instantly snapped Discord out of his trip down memory lane and back to reality. He shook his head a little before looking to the Mane Six surrounding him. His attention was instantly taken by Fluttershy, who was standing the closest to him. His face lit up instantly at the sight of his one and only friend.

"Well hello there, Fluttershy, how nice to see you," said Discord. He threw his arms around his friend and hugged her tight and close to him. "Since you said the magic words that I taught you, I assume you're in need of my help in some way or another."

"Oh, yes, I really do, Discord. We all need-"

"I assure you I have every intention of helping you with whatever it is you need help with. However, I must say I'm shocked to see that it has something to do with standing in the middle of a Devonian spaceship."

"It doesn't have something to do with it. It has everything to do-"

"Of course you know, the Devonians were the alien race that attacked Equestria all those years ago?" Discord held out his hand and used his magic to make a picture appear in said hand. It ended up being a picture of a very alien creature that on some other worlds could be identified as looking like a cross between a very muscular man and a fish. "I assume so since you are currently standing in one of their ships," Discord said as he made the picture disappear. "I just simply cannot believe you even knew of a place where of a Devonian space vessel was located. How did you know? Did Twilight tell you about...?"

"DISCORD!" the Mane Six all shouted together once more.

The chaos maker's eyes widen in surprise once again before lowering into an annoyed glare.

"Would you shut up and pay attention for a minute?!" scolded Rainbow Dash.

"Alright, alright, don't get your feathers in a twist!" replied Discord. He then used his magic to twist some of the feathers in Rainbow's wings. Then Discord spoke on while Rainbow Dash tried to untwist her feathers."Now what seems to be the problem that's so important I have to get so rudely interrupted?"

"Well... it's a long story," said Fluttershy "But basically, we're stuck at the bottom of the ocean and now we're in real trouble and we need help getting out!"

Discord looked up at the glass dome and got the shock of his life when he saw Manda floating in the water outside. He was shaking his head around trying to recover from smashing it against the glass so many times.

"A kaiju!" exclaimed Discord. "And it's Manda! I'll say you're in trouble you need help out of if you're stuck down in the ocean with that beast!"

Discord looked down from Manda to see the fearful, begging face of Fluttershy looking up at him.

"Don't worry, Fluttershy!" Discord scooped up his pony friend in one arm as he raised his other into the air. "One snap of my fingers and you shall be teleported to safety!"

Before Discord could snap his fingers and use his magic, Fluttershy reached a hoof up to stop him. This confused Discord and made him look down at his friend. Fluttershy shook her head before pointing a hoof. Discord looked to see that she was pointing at the rest of the Mane Six who were glaring at him. He frowned at this sight with annoyance before looking back to Fluttershy.

"I assume you want me to save these other friends of yours as well?" asked Discord.

Fluttershy nodded her head.

"Yes, if you'd be so kind as to teleport us all back to our boat, please."

Discord let out an irritated sigh while Twilight Sparkle told him where their boat was.

"Very well then, as you wish. Though I must say seeing you other five in this much peril does give me some twisted form of... joy. I do so hope to see you like this again soon."

Before Discord could say anything else or one of the Mane Six could vent their frustrations at him like they wanted to, Manda's bellowing roar broke through the air. Everypony looked up and gasped to see Manda, now fully recovered from smashing his head into the glass, was charging up his hyper beam. They saw the intense, predatory look in the kaiju's eyes. A look that frightened them all.

"He's gonna blow!" screamed Pinkie Pie.

Before Manda could actually fire his beam, however, a second, familiarly glowing blue beam came up from behind and blasted Manda in the back of his head. Manda cried out as Godzilla roared out while swimming down towards him. He carried a large sea rock in his hands as well. Everypony smiled big and let out loud cheers as Godzilla came down and smashed his rock across the back of Manda's head.

"Godzilla's still alive! HOORAY!" cheered Pinkie Pie.

"And he's here to save the day just like a hero always does!" exclaimed Applejack.

"Oh, my word," said Discord as he watched Godzilla in action. He watched as the Atomic Dragon grabbed a hold of one of Manda's head horns and the fin on his back before biting into the back of Manda's neck and dragging him out of sight. "What a beast this Godzilla of yours turned out to be. Well, glad to see feeding him so much didn't go to waste."

"Discord, get us out of here!" exclaimed Twilight Sparkle.

She and everypony else pointed up at the ever more cracking glass dome above. Water was starting to seep through several cracks, each stream bringing in more water than the last.

"Right, we're out of here!" exclaimed Discord.

"But what about Godzi...?"

Before Fluttershy could finish her question, Discord had snapped his fingers and everypony was teleported out of the control room just seconds before the dome broke completely apart, letting in several gallons of water.

---

Godzilla swam as fast as he could while still dragging Manda along for the ride. It turned out to be quite a painful ride for the serpent. Godzilla's teeth dug into a bleeding wound on Manda's neck while Godzilla snapped off the horn he was holding before stabbing it into the side of Manda's neck. After that, Godzilla pulled his head back, ripping off a piece of Manda's flesh.

As Manada shrieked in pain, Godzilla allowed himself to slide down to Manda's lower body which he then grabbed a hold of. Then he dropped down to the ocean floor dragging Manda along with him. With all of his strength, Godzilla swung Manda down into the sea floor as hard as he could. As the ground rumbled from the impact, Manda moaned in agony while his body trembled uncontrollably. Godzilla didn't even give him the chance to get back up. He shot out a blast of his atomic breath directly into the open wound on the back of Manda's neck.

The sea serpent cried out as he felt the beam plow and burn into his wound. The beam drilled and scorched so hard into his injury that it sent even more blood and even pieces of tissue flowing out into open water. Manda felt every ounce of pain the beam caused him until he couldn't feel anymore. Until he couldn't feel anything anymore. When Godzilla finished firing his breath he took notice of his foe's stillness. He looked Manda over until he was for sure that he was in fact dead.

Godzilla didn't even bother to roar or celebrate his victory. With his second wind well spent and his adrenaline rush having worn off, he knew he was fading fast. Godzilla turned and swam over to where the spaceship was. When he got there, he was horrified to see that the glass had completely shattered and the control room where his friends were was now submerged completely. Godzilla quickly inspected the room and the surrounding area and found that his little pony friends were nowhere to be found.

He sniffed around for them for several seconds before realizing he couldn't find the scent. Perhaps it was wishful thinking, but Godzilla began swimming as fast as he could for the area in the ocean where he had left the Mane Six on their boat. He hoped with everything in his being that they somehow made it back there in some magical way since he knew that was something they could do. Godzilla swam on fast and determined, hoping it would lead to his friends.

---

"-lla?!" Fluttershy finished as she, the rest of the Mane Six, and Discord rematerialized aboard the motorboat they had borrowed/stole.

Everypony looked around in surprise. They knew Discord had the power to, and was suppose to, transport them back to their boat. However, they couldn't keep themselves from being surprised that he actually did it; especially Twilight.

"We... we made it," said Applejack in shock.

"We're... alive," said Rarity with the same shock.

Everypony looked to Discord in disbelief to which he responded with annoyance.

"What, did you think I was gonna teleport you somewhere bad like the belly of the best or the hot pits of Tartarus?" asked Discord.

Everypony looked to each other and silently agreed it was best to keep their answer to themselves.

"Th-Thanks, Discord," said Twilight Sparkle.

Most of the other ponies said their thank yous to Discord at the same time while Fluttershy went out of her way to actually hug him. The chaos maker smiled brightly as he let out a happy sigh from feeling his friend's warm embrace.

"Thank you so much for saving us, Discord. We all really appreciate it."

"It was my pleasure to come to your aid, Fluttershy." Discord turned his gaze to the rest of the Mane Six and gave them a deadpan look. "Oh, and I guess I was happy to help you all, too."

The Mane Six ignored the non-genuine tone in Discord's voice and proceeded with what they thought they should do next. That ended up being Twilight Sparkle going around and using her temporary painkiller spell on the others of the Mane Six. She did alright the first two times with Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash, but as it went on she felt herself being physically drained by the spell. By the time she got to Rarity on the spell cast, she was feeling very groggily.

"Twilight, if you're not feeling up to it-"

"No, Rarity, I'm fine. You all need this."

So despite her not feeling the best herself, Twilight Sparkle performed her painkiller spell on Rarity. Then came Applejack and Pinkie Pie, who all got the spell despite Twilight's diminishing physical state. When she was done, Twilight Sparkle nearly fainted and fell over. Applejack and Rainbow Dash ended up having to come over and catch her before gently lowering her to a sit.

"Oh, Twilight, you poor dear," said Rarity.

As everypony else gathered around to tend to Twilight Sparkle, Fluttershy looked to Discord.

"Can you help her?"

Discord looked to Fluttershy and instantly turned to mush when he saw the pony's big, bright, and wide pleading eyes.

"Oh, alright," Discord relented.

With a snap of Discord's fingers Twilight Sparkle was healthy once again. Her half shut eyes opened up and her body movement became less strained looking and more fluent. She literally felt like she could run across the world and still have enough in her for a trip to the gym. Whether it was temporary or not, Twilight Sparkle didn't care. She was just glad she was feeling healthy again, as was her friends who were beaming bright as they could.

"Twilight, you're alright!" exclaimed Rainbow Dash!

"You're okay!" exclaimed Pinkie Pie.

"YAY!" everypony cheered as they group hugged as tight as they could.

Seeing how happy her friends were made Twilight Sparkle smile big like her friends and made her feel even better than she was before. While still hugging each other, the Mane Six looked to Discord who was just standing there with his arms crossed while tapping his foot in annoyance.

"Thank you again, Discord," said Twilight Sparkle ",for helping, not just me, but all of my friends as well."

"Oh, you're all just so welcome... I suppose," said Discord.

While the majority of the mares showed their distaste for Discord's snide, Fluttershy elected to ignore it. She came over to Discord and hugged him again, which put a smile on his face.

"We all really appreciate you saving our tails, Discord, even if you weren't a hundred percent behind it. Because you did it anyways."

"Anything I can do to make you happy, Fluttershy, it will always be my pleasure."

"Yeah, yeah, sappy, sappy," said Rainbow Dash as she flew over. "There's time for sap later. Right now we need to start thinking about getting our tails back to dry land!"

"Rainbow Dash is right, we need to start up the motor and get back to the beach then make our way home," said Twilight Sparkle.

"But what about Godzilla?" asked Fluttershy.

Twilight hesitated for a moment and looked over to her friends, conflict in her eyes.

"Fluttershy, I know what he means to you. I know what he means to all of us, but we have to go. Godzilla is fighting so we can all be safe and right now the safest place for us is back home in Ponyville with our friends and families."

"But it feels wrong to me to just leave Godzilla behind and not know if he's okay or not," said Fluttershy.

"We know what you mean, sugarcube," said Applejack. "Really we do. I know I hate thinking about Godzilla being out of my sight while he's fighting another kaiju. But sometimes we just need to think about our own safety. It's what Godzilla would want; for us to be safe."

Fluttershy didn't respond right away. She knew her friends were right, but it didn't make her feel any better about having to leave Godzilla behind. It just didn't feel right. The only bit of comfort in making this decision came when Discord placed his arm around Fluttershy supportively. Fluttershy did eventually concede, despite not being completely behind what they were suggesting, and nodded her head in agreement.

"Get the engine going, Rainbow Dash," said Twilight Sparkle.

"You got it, boss," the blue pegasus replied as she flew to the back of the boat.

Rainbow Dash wrapped her hoof around the motor's pull cord and pulled it several times in failed attempts to get the motor started. At the same time Rainbow was messing with the motor, both Rarity and Discord ears picked up something.

"Do you hear that?" asked Rarity.

"You mean, besides the chirps of seagulls flying in the distance?" asked Discord sarcastically.

Rarity gave Discord a dark look before they both turned to the ocean in the direction they heard the noise coming from. They heard what sounded like rushing water from something swimming towards them. Discord and Rarity's eyes widened, though they didn't know whether to be excited or worried. They both thought about what could possibly be swimming towards them. On one hoof it could be Manda after having won the fight. On the other hoof it could be Godzilla and he had actually won.

Both Rarity and Discord remembered the last time they saw Godzilla, he had just snuck up behind Manda and dragged him away. This led them both to believe it was in fact Godzilla coming towards them. In fact they were both now a hundred percent sure of it. This made them both really excited and even got Rarity and Discord to smile to each other. Unfortunately they quickly realized who they were smiling to and switched to glares.

"Everyone, there's something out there in the ocean on the port side!" Rarity called out to her friends. The other mares looked to Discord and Rarity before walking up next to them. "I actually got that right?"

"I don't see anything," said Twilight Sparkle.

"I don't hear nothin' neither," Applejack agreed.

"Give it a moment, you will," said Discord.

Everypony looked first to Discord, then to Rarity who nodded in agreement with the draconequus. Having reassurance from their friend, everypony looked out to the ocean and listened for what Discord and Rarity thought they heard. The wait was not a long one.

"I think I can hear it now," said Fluttershy.

"Hey, I hear it, too," said Rainbow Dash.

"Me, too," said Applejack.

"Me four!" exclaimed Pinkie Pie.

"And now I can see it!" exclaimed Twilight Sparkle.

Everypony was able to see a gigantic bulging spot on the water moving straight towards them. The Mane Six and Discord stood by and watched in uncertainty, waiting for the creature under the water to reveal itself. That didn't take long, for soon three sets familiar of back spikes poked up above the water. Everyone on the motorboat smiled brightly at seeing their friend had survived and apparently won the fight against Manda. Godzilla was forty seven yards away when he poked his head out from underneath the sea. This sight garnered cheers from the Mane Six while even Discord got caught in the moment and applauded.

"GODZILLA!" Pinkie Pie screamed excitedly.

"He's alive!" exclaimed Rainbow Dash.

"He did it! He beat Manda!" cheered Rarity.

"Yee-haw! Way to go, Ziller!" Applejack cheered.

Fluttershy smiled happily while everypony else cheered and Godzilla swam closer. When he was nearly ten feet away from the side of the boat, Godzilla came to a stop. He let his body sink bellow the water until he was in a vertical position, leaving only his head above the waves for his friends to see. Those same friends clapped their fore hooves against the side of the boat in applause for their kaiju friend as they continued cheering.

"It's absolutely splendid to see you here and in one piece, Godzilla darling," said Rarity. "Truly fantastic."

"Yeah, we're all really happy to see you won the fight," said Applejack.

"I knew you could beat him, G-Man," said Rainbow Dash. "You mess with the best, you go down like the rest. And that's just what happened! Knew you'd show that slithery snake who's boss!"

"Thank you so much for helping us, Godzilla," said Twilight Sparkle. "We knew we could count on you."

Everypony spoke loudly at the same time to express their gratitude of Godzilla being there for them. Everypony, that is, except for Fluttershy, who just quietly smiled in appreciation for Godzilla's valor. He smiled back at his pony friend before letting out a low, questioning roar.

"We're all fine, Godzilla, but thank you for your concern," said Fluttershy. "We were all feeling pretty bad from our fight with Sombra. But Twilight Sparkle cast a spell that should give us enough relief until we can be seen by a doctor. She's doing good, too thanks to Discord casting a similar spell for her."

Godzilla turned his gaze upon the draconequus of who Fluttershy spoke. This made the usually calm and snide magical being slightly flinch and even put a small look of uncertain caution on his usually fearless face. This shocked everypony, for only once before had they ever seen anything like this happen with Discord, which was when they turned him back to stone. Then again, this was Godzilla, the four hundred foot tall King of the Monsters. Apparently even a spirit of chaos can't keep a straight face with one so much bigger staring upon him.

Discord tried to regain his calm composure while putting on a still very nervous looking smile as he waved and chuckled timidly.

"Uh... hello there, big guy," said Discord. "Godzilla was it? I... I'm the one who left you all those tasty slabs of meat you like so much."

Godzilla turned to Fluttershy and asked her if this was true, to which she nodded her head in reply.

"Oh, yes, it is true," said Fluttershy. "It's Discord's amazing, unmeasurable supplies of magic that keeps you fed like a healthy growing boy should be. It's helpful things like this and more that Discord's willing to do that makes him such a great friend to have on your side. He was also helpful when he used his magic to get us all out of the spaceship before we could drown."

Godzilla's eyes widened as he looked back to Discord who now had a blushing smile on his face. Fluttershy also took notice of the chaos spirit's smile and beamed one back at him. Meanwhile the other mares on board the boat just sort of mumbled basically in agreement with what Fluttershy said, though it was obvious their hearts weren't all in it. Godzilla let out several roars meant for Discord, which Fluttershy was more than happy to translate.

"Godzilla wanted to say he thanks you from the bottom of his heart for rescuing us. Because we're the closest friends he's ever had, he'd hate to lose us and thanks to you he didn't. He also says because of that, you two are friends now."

Discord looked to Godzilla in surprise.

"We... We are?" asked Discord.

Godzilla only slightly nodded in reply. At first Discord didn't know how to feel about being declared someone's friend for only the second time ever. Then the warm, happy feeling that came from the first time it happened with Fluttershy slowly began to spread through him. It wasn't quite as strong as the first time, but having found more friendship in life was still very heart warming for the draconequus.

"Thank you, Godzilla," said Discord with a slight bow. "I'm very happy to have you as a friend now, as well."

"Oh, this is just great seeing both of you get to make a new friend," said Fluttershy Especially since you're befriending each other! It's wonderful. It's also wonderful that you were both there for all of us when we needed you the most. You're both big heroes today. Thank you both very much."

Discord rubbed the back of his neck while Godzilla lightly purred with happiness. Suddenly Godzilla began to wince in pain at the same point his exhaustion had completely caught up to him. He let out a small gasp as his eyes shut and his head lowered even more into the water almost to the point where it went completely under. The ponies on the motorboat all let out gasps and some even reached a hoof out to Godzilla as they looked to him with concern. Discord even seemed to be worried about his newest friend. His upset facial expression seemed to imply so at least.

"Godzilla, what's wrong?!" asked an alarmed Fluttershy.

The great kaiju let out several low growls in reply to his friend's question as he lifted his head back above the water.

"Please don't lie to me like that. I know you're not okay, I can tell. Now please, what's wrong?!"

Godzilla didn't answer, choosing instead to look away from his friends with what appeared to be a look of shame on his face. Seeing such a mighty beast reduced to this made the Mane Six look on with sorrow for Godzilla.

"I know what's wrong with him," said Twilight Sparkle. Everypony turned to her and listened closely to what she had to say. "All the fighting Godzilla did today has caught up to him. The mounting exhaustion and injuries he's sustained all combined from hours of non-stop fighting is taking its toll on Godzilla's physical health."

Everypony all sadly looked back to their ailing friend.

"Is that true, Godzilla?" asked Fluttershy.

Godzilla didn't respond right away; his eyes just looked away from the ponies on the motorboat. After several seconds Godzilla turned his eyes back to his friends with even more shame before nodding his head to answer Fluttershy's question. Everypony gasped, while Fluttershy and Rarity both raised hooves to their mouths.

"I thought that Godzilla had shaken off that beating he took from the Behemoth," said Rainbow Dash.

"Honestly, so did I," said Rarity. "He just... made it seem like he could take anything and keep going."

"Yeah... I guess we were just fooled," said Applejack.

"Not really surprising," said Pinkie Pie "Going through any sort of physical fight can get to a pony. What is surprising is that Godzilla went through both the fights he had with the Behemoth and Manda and didn't come out of it dead. Then again, this is Godzilla we're talking about."

"Still," said Applejack, "even creatures as big, powerful, and mighty as Godzilla need to sit back and take a breather once in a while. Especially after going through everything Godziller here went through today."

"And we all really appreciate everything you went through for us and Equestria," said Fluttershy. "Oh, you poor, poor thing. I'm sorry, Godzilla."

Godzilla roared in reply, saying that Fluttershy had nothing to apologize for. He also said as long as he was saving innocent lives he would gladly go through far worse if he had to. Godzilla also apologized to Fluttershy and the other ponies for not being a better protector and also said that he felt he was letting them down seeing him in his current state. Hearing Godzilla say this made Fluttershy's eyes widen.

"Don't say that, Godzilla," said Fluttershy in a motherly tone. "You're doing a great job, a terrific job the way you've been doing things so far. The blood, sweat, and tears you've poured into protecting Equestria has really paid off. Why, I think Sombra's down to only four monsters now because of the effort you've put in to stopping them."

Godzilla roared out noting that even though he has defeated a lot of the monsters there were still four left. He also pointed that this meant they could still attack somewhere and lives could be lost.

"Yes, that's true, but, while it's hard not to, you can't think of it like that. You have to be thinking about how many more lives would've been lost if you hadn't gotten rid of as many kaiju as you have. Why I'm sure if you hadn't been there to meet him, the Behemoth would've made his way to a populated area."

"And remember that Sombra was about to have Manda destroy us," Rarity added. "He probably would've if you hadn't been there to stop him."

"Yes, so you see, Godzilla?" asked Fluttershy. "You are doing great the way you've been doing things so far. I know you wish you could do better. But you mustn't lose track of how good you have been fighting off Sombra's evil forces. You've done better than any of us could ask and we thank you for it sincerely from the bottom of our hearts."

Godzilla looked around at the smiling ponies as they nodded and spoke in agreement with Fluttershy's statements. Applejack even removed her hat from her head and placed it on her chest. She smiled upon Godzilla the way she usually would for Applebloom. This made Godzilla smile as he roared out a thank you to all his friends. He also promised them once more that he wouldn't stop until all the other kaiju in Equestria were gone for good.

After Fluttershy translated what Godzilla said for her the others, they were once again on alert when they saw Godzilla wince in pain once again.

"You poor baby," said Fluttershy. She flew out and lightly stroked a fore hoof across Godzilla's snout. "While I appreciate it, I just wish you didn'thave to go through so much pain on our account."

Godzilla roared to Fluttershy that it was his pleasure as long as he was still protecting her, their friends, and all innocent ponies. This made Fluttershy smile, though it did have a small hint of sadness and guilt to it.

"Discord, can't you or Twilight use a painkiller spell like what you both did before?" asked Pinkie Pie.

The draconequus and the alicorn princess looked to each other with uncertainty. That uncertainty stemmed from two factors. One came from their disdain at the idea of working with each other. The second came shockingly from both feeling doubt that any spell they cast on Godzilla would work.

"I don't think my magic would have any effect on someone or something as big as Godzilla," said Twilight Sparkle.

"Really?" asked a slightly disheartened Fluttershy, who was still comforting Godzilla.

"I'm afraid so. I mean, you've never seen me try to move a mountain before have you?"

"That's true. I guess it's just surprising because of how powerful a magic wielder you've proven yourself to be in the past. But I guess even you have your limits."

"I'm afraid so, Rarity," said Twilight Sparkle.

"What about you, Discord?" asked Rainbow Dash. "You're all high and mighty about how powerful you are. You think you've got what it takes to help Godzilla."

Discord gloomily shook his head.

"I'm afraid not, my little ponies."

"Say what?" asked Applejack.

"To be perfectly honest, my magic was never that effective against a kaiju. None of the ancient magic wielders' were. It was only by combining forces that we were able to enchant that seal with enough power to keep the kaiju trapped in their prison. If King Sombra had absorbed that magic into his horn, it's no wonder he's been able to control the kaiju as well as he has. But even for one as powerful as I, casting any sort of magic upon a kaiju like Godzilla and expecting it to work, I'm afraid is only wishful thinking."

Discord looked to Godzilla who was watching and listening to the conversation the entire time, all the while Fluttershy was still petting and cuddling him.

"I'm sorry... my friend."

Godzilla let out a soft growl, which Fluttershy translated.

"It's okay, he's fine with that."

"Whoa," said Rainbow Dash. "To have someone around who even Discord's magic can't touch. I gotta admit that's kind of trippy for me."

"Mm hmm," everypony agreed.

"How do you think it makes me feel?" asked Discord. "I'm... I'm me!"

Everypony was quiet for a little bit while Fluttershy comforted Godzilla a little longer before flying back over to the boat with the rest of her gloomy friends.

"So, what do we do now?" asked Rainbow Dash.

"I... guess we just make our way back home," said Twilight Sparkle. "I think that's all we can do."

"I agree," said Rarity. "I don't know about you all, but I'm in serious need of professional help."

"Yeah," said Applejack "I reckon we could all use a check up by the Doctor."

"Who said anything about a doctor?" asked a confused Rarity. "I was talking about a trip to the day spa or salon. Have you seen how I look after going through all that? My messy mane, my war torn coat, my smeared makeup. I do not want to be out in public looking like this any longer than I have to." The white furred unicorn quickly took notice of all the baffled faces staring at her. Rarity smiled as her face turned a bright red. "Oh, and I suppose a trip to the hospital is also in order."

"What about you, Godzilla?" asked Fluttershy as she turned to the kaiju floating by in the water. "Do you think you're ready to go home with us?"

Godzilla thought really hard about it for a little bit. After two or three seconds, Godzilla roared out his answer for Fluttershy. What he had to say made the pegasus lower her head sadly.

"What did he say, Fluttershy?" asked Twilight Sparkle.

"He said that he's not coming back with us. At least not right now. He says he doesn't feel like he can make the trip in his condition. He's gonna stay here and sleep off his pain. He hopes that he'll feel good enough to come back home by tomorrow."

Everypony looked at Godzilla, who looked back with a reassuring smile. He also roared to let them know he'll be fine and that he would for sure come back home when he could.

"Well," Twilight Sparkle began ",if that's Godzilla's final decision then we'll have to respect it. Not much else we can do. Rainbow Dash, could you start the motor, please?"

The blue pegasus nodded her head before carrying out her orders. After the motor started up, everypony turned back to Godzilla and waved as they said goodbye for now. Godzilla roared goodbye to them before letting himself sink to the bottom of the ocean. It was here where he hoped to find a long, replenishing sleep while his wounds healed faster than any other creature in Equestria could heal.

Elsewhere on the West Ocean, the Mane Six were in their borrowed motorboat with Discord alongside speeding as fast as they could to get home. Everypony was staring off into the distance thoughtfully, the day's events running rampant in their heads. Rainbow Dash had to watch where they were going, but even she was partially distracted by all that had happened to them that day. Though they had gone through many adventures in their time, the Mane Six all wondered if they would ever be the same again once this crisis with the kaiju was over.

Discord took notice of Fluttershy and placed a supportive hand on her back. The pony mare looked to her chaotic friend and smiled, which he did as well.

"Don't worry, Fluttershy. I have every confidence that Godzilla will returned to Ponyville in good health and be the same friend you've come to know him to be."

"So do I, Discord. I've known Godzilla long enough and seen him go through this enough times to know that. While it won't ever stop me from feeling bad for him whenever he goes through a lot of pain, I know he can take it... And that he will take it... because that's the kind of friend he is."

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Okay, just wondering. Is anybody interested in becoming a proofreader for this story? If so, message me so we can talk and so that I can know what you want to do as proofreader and I can tell you what you're going to do as such.

Until such time as I can find someone interested in the position, I'll still be doing this by myself, so you can all go ahead and tell me what I'm doing wrong or right with a review. Seriously, please leave a review after reading and tell me if you like it or not. Don't be afraid to tell me of any spelling or grammar errors I may have made so I can correct them to the best of my abilities.

Oh, one more thing, people, please stop telling me about 'The Bridge'. I have long been aware of its existence and that it is also a Godzilla/MLP crossover and much more successful than this one. I, however, have not read it and am not interested in doing so. As I've said before, I am not a supporter of turning Godzilla into a pony or anything else besides a kaiju. He's fine just the way he is, which is a badass giant monster. The king of them all in fact.

If there's any off chance at all he's reading this, to the author of 'The Bridge', I say that I hold no ill will against you and your work. I respect that's what you're into and what you're doing and I'm glad you're able to make as many people as happy with your story as you do. It just doesn't sound like my thing. If there's any time that Godzilla turns back into his kaiju self during the events of 'The Bridge', then I'll probably check it out.

I'm The Guy Who Likes To Write Stuff, signing off.