My Little Pony: The Human Chronicles

Episode 14: Revenge is Poison

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While many areas in Equestria were peaceful and idyllic, there are a few places that are the complete opposite, such as Tartarus prison for example, which was a dark and gloomy place where evil creatures are held prisoner and guarded by the three-headed dog Cerberus.

Tartarus prison resembled a giant, floating black castle made out of brimstone and cooled lava and was floating right above a fiery pit of molten lava.

Inside large giants patrolled the long hallways which was full of large, metal prison doors, and while the doors were locked up tightly, the prisoners were still able to talk through them.

Six prisoners in particular, talked to each other constantly, namely; Gilda, Garble, Trixie, Flim and Flam and the leader of the Diamond Dogs, Rover. They were talking about Toby Morrison being a major threat to them and Rover and Garble also added that Sophia Lawrence means twice the pain and misery for them.

"And you failed as well Miss Trixie?" Flim asked Trixe through the small bars on his prison doors.

"It was a perfect plan, both Ponyville and Twilight Sparkle finished off in an instant… until he interfered and ruined everything," Trixie grumbled.

"Yeah, yeah, we've all heard your stories," Garble complained annoyed.

"At least your boys aren't locked up in another part of the prison!" Rover growled.

"Are you, ya dumb mutt!" Garble barked.

"While as annoying as he is, I'll admit the kid is tough competition," Gilda admitted.

"This isn't one of your pathetic flight competitions, Gilda," Flim told her "Toby Morrison, is the annoying child who imprisoned us and needs to be crushed once and for all. Of course, his friend, Sophia Lawrence, is going down with him. "

"Hey, it's not that simple, horn head!" Gilda exclaimed "Believe me, I tried,"

"So did I," Rover added.

"As did Trixie, even his duplicate couldn't defeat him," Trixie said.

"Well perhaps you should have thought of something better then stupid magic tricks!" Garble stated, which made Trixie glare at him.

"Yeah? Well what are you gonna do Garble?" Gilda asked mockingly "Blow them away with your big, bad breath? I'm so scared!" she said sarcastically.

"ENOUGH!"

The loud and booming voice echoed the hallway, catching all of their attentions. They hear what sounded like hoof steps marching towards them from the shadows.

"This arguing is pointless," the voice said before stepping into the dim light, it was Lord Tirek himself "Obviously, you have all underestimated your opponent,"

"Who are you?" Garble demanded.

"You are not worthy to hear my name," Lord Tirek told them.

"WHAT!?" Gilda exclaimed.

"All I can tell you is that I can give you all a second chance to smite a certain human," Lord Tirek said.

"You know the hairless apes known as Morrison and Lawrence?" Rover inquired.

"In a… manner of speaking," Lord Tirek replied "Now, while the six of you have your differences, you all have one thing in common; you all have a strong hatred for the humans known as Toby Morrison and Sophia Lawrence, and if you six do exactly what I say you'll all be able to take them out… for good,"

The six prisoners all exchange glances as they contemplated Lord Tirek's offer.

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Elsewhere, back in Ponyville, Toby, Spike, Sophia, and the Mane Six were enjoying their day in the sun with a nice, relaxing boat ride across the lake, the boat of course was being paddled by Toby.

"It sure was nice of you to build us a boat so we could sail across the lake Toby!" Twilight Sparkle remarked.

"No problem," Toby said, "Luckily, Sophia and I managed to save up enough bits to buy supplies for building this thing, thank goodness Miss Cheerilee had such a dirty attic otherwise I wouldn't have been able to get the last board,"

Rainbow Dash groaned loudly.

"What's wrong with you?" Applejack asked.

"This is so boring! I need to fly!" Rainbow Dash proclaimed "Can't I fly now?"

"No!" Everypony said in unison.

"How about now?" Rainbow Dash inquired.

"Rainbow Dash, this boat ride is supposed to be relaxing, enjoy it!" Rarity told her.

"I know I am," Fluttershy said before sighing contently.

"Ooh! Me too! I just love the way the boat rocks back and forth and back and forth!" Pinkie Pie exclaimed as she began to rock the boat left and right much to the alarm of everypony else.

"Pinkie!" They screamed.

"Oops, sorry!" Pinkie Pie apologized.

"Uh, I kind of agree with Rainbow Dash, this boat ride is taking forever," Spike stated.

"You could have said 'no' to coming you know," Sophia reminded "But then again Rarity is here so…"

Spike gave him a small and annoyed scowl while Rarity giggled amused.

"But still Toe, is there any way in Equestria that this can go any faster?" Rainbow Dash questioned.

"Nope," Toby responded.

Spike heard something behind them, turned around and when he saw the source of the noise his pupils shrank while a large shadow loomed over them.

"Well… what if a giant octopus creature was after us?" Spike inquired meekly.

Everypony turned around and their eyes all widen in shock and horror when they saw the octopus like creature behind them.

The octopus created was dark red and had a long body and many long tentacles. It had a head with a beaked mouth, two large red eyes and brown spots all over its back.

"Yeah. That'll do!" Toby said quickly as he began to paddle even faster while the Mane Six screamed at the top of their lungs.

The boat zoomed across the lake till it skidded into the edge. The girls and Spike all jumped out while Toby closed his eyes and began to create his astral form on Rainbow Dash laughed triumphantly "Aw, yeah! Now that thing has gone and woke up the big man!" she exclaimed.

The astral form quickly took on its regular shape and size and stomped into the water to fight the giant octopus. The octo-creature roared at him before stretching out its tentacles towards Toby. But Toby used his astral form's large arms to grab two of its tentacles and flip the creature onto it's back, causing a large amount of water to splash onto the others, much to their dismay.

"Ugh! Toby! Please be careful! Hasn't my mane been through enough!?" Rarity exclaimed. Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes in response.

"I… don't think he can hear you," Twilight Sparkle told her "Besides… I think he's a little busy at the moment,"

Twilight gestured to Toby continuing to fight the octopus.

"Boy, doesn't that boy ever take a break?" Applejack remarked.

"I've seen him take naps but never a break," Fluttershy stated.

"And every time he fights one of those big and ugly monster thingy's he always ends up hurt!" Pinkie Pie added.

"Listen guys, I know Toby's super strong and fast but that does not he's invincible," Rainbow Dash stated "One of these days he's gonna be way in over his head,"

"But luckily, we'll be there to help," Twilight Sparkle said firmly and confidently.

"Oh yeah!" Spike agreed. The others also nod in agreement.

The octopus creature then fired thin red beams of energy at Toby's astral form, but they just bounced off him. Then Toby used his giant form to grab the octopus, pull it out of the lake and hold it up high like a trophy before tossing it into the distance.

The astral form then began to shrink but Toby managed to teleport to where the others were before he dropped into the lake.

"Ha ha! Nice one Toe!" Rainbow Dash told her human friend. "You are so getting a handle on your powers," Toby sighed tired "Thanks…"

"Interesting," Twilight Sparkle mused "I know using that spell makes you tired but I never knew it was… laser proof,"

Toby rubbed his chest and groaned "More like, laser resistant, those beams stun," he stated.

"Oh dear! Toby, your clothes are soaked!" Rarity exclaimed.

Toby looked down upon himself and saw that she was right, he frowned.

"Uh, nuts!" Toby remarked. "And I just washed these too! Now their gonna shrink!"

"Don't worry, we're on it!" Twilight Sparkle told him. She and Sophia charged up their magic and in a flash Toby's clothes were all dried up.

He smiled thankfully and impressed "Whoo, that trick never fails to impress me!" Toby told Twilight and Sophia, the former blushing at his last remark.

Applejack then noticed Toby was having a bit of trouble keep his eyes open.

"You alright sugarcube?" she asked.

"I'm fine, just a bit winded, that's all," he assure them.

"Oh you poor thing," Fluttershy cooed "Why don't you go home and take a little rest?"

Toby sighed "Fine," he said, he started to walk away but he soon stopped and turned to them "And hey, shouldn't you be heading to that show that supposed play today?"

"Oh right, that… we were but…" Twilight Sparkle started.

"We were thinking we'd uh… keep an eye on ya," Applejack finished "I mean you have been working pretty hard lately,"

"True… but you've all been planning to go to this show for weeks!" Toby reminded them "Come on, you all deserve to have a little fun once in a while,"

Pinkie and Rainbow nodded in agreement.

"Well I suppose…" Twilight Sparkle said.

"I coming with you guys," Sophia said to the Mane Six and Spike.

"Just the time for your lives, ok?" Toby told them "Oh, and wake me when the world comes to an end,"

Pinkie Pie saluted, "Roger that!"

Toby nodded and started to make his way to his and Sophia's house.

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As did so Lord Tirek, along with the six prisoners he freed from Tartarus watched him walk off via viewing globe.

"Should we go after him?" Garble asked eagerly.

"No," Lord Tirek responded.

"But he's weak now! This is our chance to attack!" Gilda exclaimed.

"Instead of taking the fight to the boy, let the boy come to you," Lord Tirek told them.

"And just how do we do that?" Rover questioned.

"Simply engineer a situation that forces the boy to play 'the hero'," Lord Tirek said, "Then and only then will he come, he can't help himself,"

"Like attacking his poor, defenseless friends?" Trixie suggested evilly.

Lord Tirek smiled evilly "Just what I had in mind," he said.

"Then let us get on with the show!" Flim declared.

"Indeed!" Flam added.

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Later on, Toby had just about dragged himself to his house. He jumped onto the bouncy mattress and leapt all the way up to the deck before entering.

Toby rubbed his arm and groaned "Man… this 'protector gig' ain't easy… especially on my body," he muttered to himself "And I'll just keep talking to myself out loud because that always a smart thing to do…" Toby proceed to walk up the staircase to the second floor.

He eventually reached his bedroom floor and stared at his large bed tiredly before glancing out the window.

"I sure hate to leave those guys alone, bad things seem to happen to them when I'm not around," Toby said out loud "I wish I knew if they were ok or not… man these creatures really need to know how to make a phone,"

Toby walked over to his bed and allowed himself to fall face first into the bed before flipping over on to his back.

"Ah, you worry too much Toe," he told himself "I mean, what's the worst thing that could happen to them?"

And just like that, he was out like a light. But while he slept several shadows flew right over his house and headed in the direction of Ponyville.

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Back on the said town, dozens of ponies were all lined up at the theatre, including Spike and the Mane Six, who were all talking about the show that they were going to see.

"Oh and I heard Blossomforth was just hilarious in…" Rarity started to tell the others before she noticed Twilight's thoughtful look "Twilight?"

Twilight then snapped out it "Huh?"

"Is something the matter?" Fluttershy asked.

"Oh, it's nothing… I'm just thinking maybe one of us should have stayed with Toby to make sure he was ok," Twilight Sparkle stated.

"Yeah, yeah, you like Toby we know," Spike said slightly annoyed.

Twilight blushed madly "Uh… don't be ridiculous! He's only thirteen! Right girls?"

One by one the others slowly start to agree with her, trying their best to hide the large blushes on their faces

Spike rolled his eyes at this and moved on.

"So what? You're like his Mom then?" Spike questioned.

"Uh…" Twilight Sparkle started to say.

Unbeknownst to any of them, somepony was spying on them from the shadows using a pair of binoculars. The person waves a little flag and then Trixie appeared between two houses on top of a hill and upon seeing the flag she nodded.

She saw a parked wagon near her and used her magic to send the wagon downhill.

Back at the line-up, screams of panic are heard all over, which catches the Mane Six's attention. The sound of a crying foal from ground level elicits a shocked gasp from Fluttershy as she saw that a baby carriage was right in the middle of the street and the wagon appeared to be on a collision course with the carriage.

"Everypony, move!" Twilight Sparkle shouted. And with that, the girls all spring into action. Fluttershy and Sophia pushed the carriage out of the way, and Rainbow Dash and Applejack plant themselves in the vehicle's path.

When the wagon reached them, they both push against the front with their fore hooves to slow it down. Then Twilight used her magic to hold the wheels still, causing it to stop with only a foot or two to spare between Applejack and Rainbow Dash.

Applejack then noticed that nopony was pulling the wagon or pushed it "Uh… don't wagon's usually have somepony pulling it?"

Meanwhile, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy and Rarity were peering into the carriage bewildered.

"And don't baby carriages normally have babies?" Rarity wondered.

"Something's wrong, guys." Sophia remarked.

She used her magic to lift what appeared to be a teddy bear out of the carriage that had been taking the place of the typical occupant. An obnoxious voice boomed suddenly.
"Are you dweebs normally this stupid?"

The shadow of another wagon suddenly appears around them. They all look up flabbergasted as the wagon dropped and crashed into the ground near them. Fluttershy squealed and hid behind the others.

Gilda then suddenly dropped down on top of the wrecked wagon and cawed like an eagle.

Rainbow Dash gasped "It's Gilda!"

Gilda's loud cawing reached all the way to Toby's house, which instantly woke him up.

"Hero time!" he told himself, smiling.

He sprung off his bed and zoomed down the stairs and out the house towards town.

Chuckling evilly, Gilda slowly approached the pony gang. Most of them were greatly scared but Rainbow and Applejack readied themselves for a brawl as Gilda got closer and closer.

Then Toby zoomed over, catching everypony's attention once more.

"Ah, Gildy, I knew no prison was wide enough to hold that massive ego of yours," Toby quipped.

"Prison?" Twilight Sparkle echoed confused.

Gilda laughed sarcastically "Wide enough, yeah, funny,"

"Wow, you knew you found a way to break out of the slammer AND get a sense of humor," Sophia remarked.

Spike then spotted something flying straight towards Toby "Toby, watch out!"

Toby turned around "Huh?"

Before he could react Garble then slammed into Toby like a battering ram and sent him rolling backwards. He stood next to Gilda.

"Sorry Toby, was I supposed to wait my turn?" Garble asked mockingly.

Toby stood up onto his knees and looked annoyed "Oh don't tell me the two of you are partners!"

"The two of us?" Gilda echoed with a smirk. Flim and Flam both then appeared on opposite ends of the destroyed wagon.

"So sorry my boy," Flim said.

"But we're afraid you are not getting off that easy," Flam added with a head shake "No sir, even for your human girl buddy here."

Toby then started to look a bit worried, he got even more worried when he saw the leader of the Diamond Dogs rush over to join the others.

"What is this? A class reunion of evil losers?" Toby asked trying to stay calm.

"Afraid not?" Toby looked up to the source of the voice and was surprised when he saw Trixie magically levitate herself down in front of the others with an evil smile.

"Now then, Mister Morrison… any last words?" Trixie inquired.

Toby gulped "Homina, homina, homina, comes to mind…" he squeaked.

The six villains that he had previously taken down start to approach Toby threateningly, which made him back away a bit.

Seeing this causes Twilight's face to change from shock to anger as she rushes over and stands in between him and the villains, who all look unimpressed.

"Twilight Sparkle, I suggest you step aside," Trixie told her.

"Why? So you can hurt my friend?" Twilight Sparkle asked.

"Pretty much, yeah," Gilda responded bluntly.

"Well I don't think so!" Twilight Sparkle stated.

"Uh… Twi?" Applejack interjected.

"I'll be fine Twi, just get to safe, I'll handle them," Toby assured them

"But Toe…" The purple unicorn started to say.

"I'm helping you, Toby." Sophia assured her friend.

"No, Sophia. Stay with Twilight and the others," Toby replied.

"Come on! Let's just trash him already!" Garble exclaimed as he began to march towards Toby but Trixie used her magic to hold him back.

"Hey, look! Show's starting!" Toby said as he began to push Twilight, as well as everypony else into the theatre.

"You guys ok?" he asked.

"Yeah," The rainbow maned Pegasus nodded.

"I believe so," Rarity added.

Rover's long arms and hand burst through the door and suddenly grabbed Toby.

"Go! Get as far away as you can!" Toby ordered them "GO!"

Toby was then forcefully pulled out the theatre, much to everypony's horror.

"Wha… what do we do?" Fluttershy asked

"We can't just leave him," Sophia said.

"Yeah, especially if all those Meanie -Pants are gonna beat him up!" Pinkie Pie agreed.

"That's the last thing we're gonna do girls," Twilight Sparkle stated.

"Aw yeah!" Rainbow Dash cheered.

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Outside, Rover had just thrown Toby to Garble, who wacked him away with his tail which lead him to get punched in the face by Gilda and magically thrown into the ground by Trixie and the Flimflam brothers. He left a body shaped impact crater in the ground upon landing.

They both said before hitting Toby with their long piece of wood like a baseball bat.

Toby screamed as he flew and flew right through the broken roof of town hall. Multiple crashing noises are heard as Toby hits every level of the building on his way down till he reached the bottom.

The front doors open with Toby seemingly standing up straight only for him to fall right onto his face. The thirteen year old groaned loudly.
"Oh… Holy Guacamole, my SPINE!" he exclaimed in pain.

Flim and Flam laughed triumphantly "Ha ha! We got him now!"

"Enough talk! Let's crush him already!" Garble shouted.

They all begin to approach Toby threateningly once more, who struggled to get back on to his feet.

"Come on Toe, you can do this!" he told himself while grunting.

He slowly stood up and enlarged his fists. He prepared to strike Garble in the face but because he was in so much pain his reflexes were slower which allowed Garble to block his attack and snap kick him in the leg, breaking it.

He screamed in pain and dropped to his knees.

Garble prepares to strike him once more but is stopped when the lid of a magically levitated trashcan blocked his attack before striking him in the snout. The Mane Six, along with Spike and Sophia in her Sibyl form then stood in front of them and Toby once more.

"Nopony's gonna lay another claw, paw or hoof on him!" Applejack declared.

"That's right!" Twilight Sparkle added.

"Fighting is still not my thing, as you all know I'm more into fashion," Rarity reminded them while brushing her mane back, then her mood quickly became angry "BUT IF YOU HURT HIM ONE MORE TIME I WILL TEAR YOU TO SHREDS!"

"Yeah! What she said!" Fluttershy stated "Only… not as violent,"

"One more attack from you six and I promise I will beat you to the ground and make you cry for mercy." Sophia said angrily.

Spike and Pinkie Pie then puts Toby's arms around them to help him up.

"You ok Toby?" Spike asked.

"Yeah, you look like you got a real boo-boo on your leggy-weggy," Pinkie Pie added.

Toby groaned "I told you guys to get out of here!"

"Since when have we ever listened to you?" Rainbow Dash questioned with a raised brow.

"So… your gonna fight us?" Trixie inquired amused.

"Not exactly…" Twilight Sparkle smiled "Rainbow Dash, now!"

Rainbow nodded then began to fly around and around her friends till a tornado appeared around them and a large cloud of dust is sprayed into the villains' eyes. They all coughed.

"Can't… can't see!" Rover yelled.

"Use your nostril, you mangy mutt!" Trixie shouted while coughing.

"Can't smell either!" Rover said "Dust in nose!"

"Oh, great!" Garble said sarcastically. When the tornado finally stopped and the dust cloud cleared, the villains all saw that the group of friends were already long gone. Trixie screamed in frustration.

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Elsewhere, the gang had quickly escaped town and got the beaten up Toby back to his house.

Sophia blew her healing pollen onto Toby while Fluttershy quickly did as much as she could for him by bandaging up his wounds, putting a cast around his broken leg and demanding that he'd stay in bed for a few weeks.

Everypony was gathered around Toby's bed as he laid flat on his bed and while Fluttershy did some last minute inspections on him.

"Ok, I believe all your cuts have finally stopped bleeding," Fluttershy told him "But… I'm afraid your gonna have to wait for a while before you can properly walk… sorry…"

Toby groans disgustedly and rubbed his casted leg "Ugh, I can't believe this! How could I have let the guys toss me around like a rag doll!"

"Aw, don't yell yourself Toby woeby!" Pinkie Pie told him "There's no fun yelling at yourself, at all, Nuh-uh!"

"Yeah kid, stop kicking yourself, even I mess up every now and then," Rainbow Dash admitted "Yeah… I said it… don't rub it in!"

"I'm not supposed to mess up, I'm supposed to protect you guys but you all ended up protecting me… so I failed," Toby said depressed.

"Ooh! I know what might cheer you up!" Spike exclaimed before pulling out a black marker "We can all sign your…" Spike stopped speaking when Toby gave him a thoroughly fed up glance. "Or not…"

"By the way Toby, what did Gilda mean when she said you locked them in a prison?" Twilight Sparkle questioned.

Toby shrugged "Easy, after Sophia and I beat them all up, I locked them all away in Tartarus, did you know it's only a short walk from here?

The Mane Six and Spike all yelled a collective "WHAT?"

"But… Tartarus prison is full of all sorts of dangerous creatures…" Fluttershy said shaking in fear.

"Of course," Sophia said casually "Where else were we gonna put them?

"Well no wonder they hate you two so much!" Rainbow Dash remarked "Locking them up in a prison that they may not survive being in, now that's cold,"

"Like you wouldn't," Toby stated

"And it looks like that prison didn't do its job and now their free and I'm powerless to stop them!"

"Just relax, sugarcube," Applejack told him "You'll be fine,"

"Yeah, but the town won't be as long as those merry morons are on the loose looking for me," Toby pointed out.

"And that's why we will be going after them!" Twilight Sparkle stated.

Toby got a panicked look on his face "No! No, guys if you all go up against them they'll kill all of you!"

"Hey, it's us, remember?" Rainbow Dash reminded him "We've saved Equestria dozens of times, this is nothing!"

"Indeed, and besides I do owe that fleabag mongrel payback for kidnapping me… twice!" Rarity exclaimed.

"But…"

"No buts Toby, we're going, you're staying, end of story" Twilight Sparkle told him firmly before heading in the direction of the door "Come on girls, let's fan out and try to find those six villains,"

Everypony nodded in agreement.

"And I'll stay behind at the library and hold down the fort!" Spike added.

"Great, you're a lot of help," Toby said to Spike with biting sarcasm.

"Your one to talk," Spike shot back.

Toby started to talk back but stopped when he remembered his current predicament "This is true…" he admitted.

"I'm coming with the girls." Sophia said.

Toby watched with a worried face as all seven of his friends made their way out the door.

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At the same time, Lord Tirek was speaking to the six miscreants in an undisclosed and mysterious location.

"So, the kids and their friends escaped, did they?" Lord Tirek asked them.

"Yes, sir," The Flimflam brothers nodded shamefully.

"I had it under control, you yahoo's lost the kids!" Gilda stated "Next time I'll smash him myself!"

"I don't think so, you over grown feather duster!" Garble shouted. "Those brats are mine!"

"Enough! Let us all calm down!" Trixie told them.

"The Great and Powerful Trixie is correct everyone," Lord Tirek told them, all they nodded.

"So… what do we do now?" Rover inquired.

"Well… knowing their friends, they will probably attempt to defend them by searching all you out, and that's exactly what I want to happen," Lord Tirek stated.

Gilda seemingly understood his intentions "Yeah and by crushing their loser friends, we'll finally get our revenge on them!" he exclaimed excitedly.

"Fool!" Lord Tirek bellowed. Gilda, along with everypony else flinched "You want that kind of revenge? You have to do it right in front of their faces,"

"How?" Garble asked "I broke Toby's freaking leg, there's no way he's in any shape to come after us,"

"Let me worry about that," Lord Tirek told them "And prepare to give his friends a world of hurt,"

All six of them nod and fade away. Lord Tirek turned away and chuckled to himself evilly "Now… it's time for me to get to work,"

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Back in Ponyville, while the rest of the townspeople were discussing that battle that had occurred only recently as well as struggling to repair the damages done to the town hall and the road the Mane Six and Sophia searched through every nick and cranny, looking for the raucous group of villains.

Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy searched through the air to get a closer look but still saw nothing around.

"I don't see anything," Rainbow Dash said, she glanced downwards towards Twilight "See anything?"

"Nothing," Twilight Sparkle replied, shaking her head.

"Me neither," Applejack added.

"Me neither, neither," Pinkie Pie stated as she popped beside them.

"They're not even here," Sophia answered.

"Do you think their gone?" Fluttershy wondered, she almost sounded a bit hopeful of the idea of the villains being gone.

Rarity scoffed "Hardly! Ruffians such as those would never give that easily," she stated.

Twilight nodded "Rarity's right, their out here somewhere…"

A small explosion was seen from a far, starling everypony and making many of the townspeople run away in fear.

"I think we found them…" Rainbow Dash remarked.

"Come on girls, let's go get those brutes!" Twilight Sparkle commanded.

The girls all headed in the direction of the explosion, which seemed to be the edge of town.

Rainbow Dash flew as fast as she could to the source of the explosion but when she got close enough Gilda unexpectedly swooped down and kicked her in the back.

"Happy landings, Rainbow Crash!" Gilda sneered.

Rainbow Dash ended up hitting Fluttershy on her way to the ground and caused them both to crash into the others, except for Sophia who dodged right before they hit her. They all rolled down the road in a ball before ending up near the edge of town, where all six of the villains Toby had previously defeated were looming over them.

"Well Trix, looks like you were right after all," Garble remarked.

"But of course," Trixie said proudly "It seems that goody four shoes such as these are just too dumb to live!"

All six of them gulped in fear as the six villains smiled evilly as they prepared to give each of them a world of hurt.

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At the same time, Toby was laying on top of his bed resting peacefully and letting his wounds slowly heal. Then suddenly a pair of evil red eyes open up above him and start to glow with a red aura. The cast on Toby's leg also starts to glow with a red aura as well before fading away, the scratch marks all over him also start to fade before he snaps his eyes open and sits straight up with a sharp gasp.

The red headed boy quickly noticed that he was fully healed but could not fathom how or what had just happened.

"How…" he started to say. The pair of red eyes appear behind him, much to his surprise.

"Hello, Tobias…" The dark voice breathed.

"Who are you?" Toby questioned.

"I am the thing that keeps you up at night, the evil that haunts every dark corner of your mind," The dark voice replied cryptically.

"Catchy name," Toby quipped, trying his best not to seem afraid. The voice then echoed in another part of the house.

"Don't make me laugh boy, even my shadows cannot hide your fear," The dark voice told him "Or the truth,"

Toby got up and started to wander around the house, looking for the voice.

"What truth?" he asked.

"That you and your friend will fail, this world and all the creatures that thrive in it and deep down… you know it," The voice stated darkly.

"Well… even if either Sophia or I fail, Twilight and the others… they'll succeed," Toby said confidently "Just like they'll succeed in taking those thugs down,"

"And if they don't?" The shadowy and evil voice questioned further "They will all die, because of you and Sophia. But you can put an end to this chaos Tobias. All you have to do is open yourself fully to the power that lies within you,"

"Yeah… I would listen… but your evil so…" Toby said.

"Your friends will perish if you don't act," The voice told him gravely, before it started to fade "Don't… be a fool,"

And with that the dark voice disappeared from the house, leaving Toby fully healed very bewildered. He then looked outside the window and saw what appeared to be a battle raging on from a far. His eyes narrowed with determination as he prepared to set off.

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Meanwhile, at the battle ground, the fight between the Mane Six and the Raucous Six raged on.

Rainbow Dash was engaged in a fierce aerial fight with Gilda. Twilight, Sophia, and Trixie were dueling it out by firing magical beams at each other while Sophia blocked all of Trixie's blasts with her shield. Applejack and Pinkie Pie were struggling to free themselves from the Flimflam brother's magic, Rarity was engaged in a martial arts fight with Rover and Fluttershy was screaming her head off while running away from Garble.

Rainbow Dash and Gilda flew all over the battlefield, slamming into each other every now and then like meteors. Rainbow shook off a claw scratch she received from Gilda and flew forward, her hooves outstretched to slam Gilda's face. But Gilda flew up at the last second and sent Rainbow crashing into the ground, leaving a large crater.

"RAINBOW DASH!" everypony shouted in horror.

"Flim, Flam, now!" Trixie ordered.

Flim and Flam magically toss Applejack and Pinkie Pie into Twilight which allowed them all to be struck hard by Trixie's magic and fall into the crater. Rarity gasped in shock while Rover took advantage of the distraction and roughly kicked her into Fluttershy, knocking them both over. But Sophia dodged them again and hid behind a tree.

Garble then loomed over them both and kicked Fluttershy in the wing, causing them both to roll in the crater along with their greatly injured friends. All the antagonists loom over them once more.

"Not a bad job everypony," Trixie admitted to her evil companions.

"Ha! These six pests are pathetic compared to the six of us!" Rover proclaimed.

"Indeed, on their best day none of them could even fight a cold!" Flim added, Flam nodded in agreement with his brother.

Garble pointed at the pony gang threateningly "You namby-pamby divas and your little monkey friend may have been able to beat us one at a time, but together; we're invincible!"

"So what now? Should we just kill these dweebs and take all their stuff too?" Gilda asked eagerly.

"Trixie likes that idea…" The blue unicorn mused evilly.

Pinkie Pie moaned. "Oh… this isn't any fun at all…" she muttered in pain.

Applejack groaned in pain as well. "Wha -what are we gonna do, ya'll? Twi?"

"Ugh, I don't know…" Twilight admitted. "I really just don't know…"

"Well Garble, you won the coin toss, so are you going to crush their skulls or simple tear out their hearts?" Trixie questioned.

"I'll take… of the above!" Garble smirked evilly as he began to make his decent toward the crater. The girls all gulped.

Sophia, who is still and the only one left standing and still hiding behind the tree, couldn't do anything but watch her pony friends await their impending demise.

But before Garble could go down their he was suddenly sent flying by a focused shockwave, that sent him crashing into another tree. Everypony turned and saw Toby standing nearby. He had an angry look on his face.

Trixie looked worried at first "Well, well, well, it's the human," she said "Care to share your friends' fates?"

Toby looked down towards the crater and saw that all his friends were injured and struggling to get up. Seeing this both horrified and infuriated Toby to a whole new level. His hands shook and trembled uncontrollably as his whole face became filled with rage.

"What's the matter kid?" Garble smirked "Too shocked to crack a joke,"

But a joke was that thing on Toby's mind, as of now, all he was thinking about was revenge.

"You… you… rotten… DIRTBAGS!" Toby exclaimed loudly and angrily. "I'll make you all hurt… I'll make you all PAY!"

A red aura briefly flashes around Toby as both his arms grew in length and size. He charged madly toward them.

"Get him!" Trixie commanded.

The six of them all charged towards and quickly engaged Toby in battle.

The Mane Six all slowly stood up and began to regain consciousness, and the first thing they saw was Toby battling all six villains at once.

"Toby?" Twilight breathed.

As his fight continued Toby suddenly began to fight the villains more aggressively and viciously, more so then usual.

He magically slammed the Flimflam brothers together before teleporting in-between them and slamming their heads together several times.

He then teleported onto Gilda as she flew.

"Hey! Get off me you…" she started to shout before Toby twisted and broke her wing.

She screeched in pain. This action shocked the girls. Toby then leapt off and landed right on Rover while Gilda crash landed. He then faced, Garble and gestured him to come at him.

Accepting the challenge, Garble flew right at him but Toby grabbed his whole body with his giant fist and magically shocked him. He then dropped him on the ground. He also levitated several trees right out of the ground and flung them all at the Diamond Dog.

"Uh… oh…" Rover squeaked before the trees all fell on him. When the dust clear, Rover was laying underneath the logs, unconscious.

The Mane Six continued to look shocked and even a bit scared.

"Something's wrong, I've never seen Toby so vicious!" Twilight Sparkle exclaimed worried.

"He's… he's angry," Fluttershy said scared.

"I'll say, but I've never seen him this mad," Rainbow Dash remarked.

"He's even madder then when Dashie got his hair all soaking wet!" Pinkie Pie added.

"More important, how is it that he's able to fight them in the first place?" Applejack asked "I mean he had his leg broken for pony's sake!"

"It does seem a bit peculiar," Rarity agreed "Perhaps we should ask him when this is all over,"

"Agreed, right now he needs us," Twilight Sparkle stated, she tried to move but only grunted in pain.

"Ah, it's no use sugarcube, we're too hurt to help," Applejack told her friend "Toby's on his own,"

"This isn't like him," Sophia said as she helped up the Mane Six

"Please, won't even be a challenge for the kid!" Rainbow Dash stated confidently.

"That's not really what I'm worried about…" Twilight Sparkle admitted gravely.

Rainbow Dash raised a brown "Then what's the big problem then?"

Everypony else all looked a bit worried and scared.

At the same time, Toby was now facing the last of the villains; Trixe, who didn't appear to be worried or scared at all.

"Trixie knew you had finally gotten serious when you stopped cracking your pathetic little jokes," The unicorn said

"Just as I knew you'd spend most your energy fighting my underlings, leaving it all up to Trixie to deliver the final strike,"

Toby growled. "Who freed you?"

"What?" she asked "Who freed us from the prison cells you put us in? Trixie cannot believe you haven't figured it out by now, but personally Trixie does not care who freed us or why, getting a chance to destroy
Twilight Sparkle and her friends makes it all worthwhile,"
Toby's fists shook as his grinned smugly. "I HATE YOU!" he shouted.

"Ooh, a threat," Trixie said unafraid. "Very scary, but it doesn't mean much if you don't have the power to exact your little… vengeance,"

"No!" Toby cried. "I will not lose! I refuse to! I… need more power, more power… NOW!"

And with that Toby's eyes glowed blood red as his astral form then began to form around him, only this time it's usual blue aura had turned red and it started to take on a different shape than usual, much to the shock of everypony else. The astral form grew and grew until it took on gigantic size and the form of a large bear. Trixie's eyes widen like dinner plates as the bear like astral form seemed to grow angrily as it glared at her with it's blazing yellow eyes. The Mane Six are momentarily dumbfounded.

"Is that an…" Rarity started.

"Ursa Major… yeah," Twilight Sparkle nodded scared.

"That's a new trick…" Rainbow Dash remarked.

The Ursa Major astral form roared loudly, so loudly it could be heard all over the town and even in Canterlot, which caught the Princess's and the townspeople's attention.
Pinkie looked at Trixe. Her eyes looked like they were popping out her head.

"Wow! Check out Trixie," Pinkie Pie said "She's bugging out!"

Applejack gulped "A giant bear will do that to a gal!" he said.

"Well I can honestly say… I would hate to be her right now," Rarity stated.

Twilight slowly started to climb up the crater "We… gotta… stop him, before he really… hurts her!"

The others looked concerned as they watched Twilight struggle to climb up.

The Ursa Major astral form took one step towards Trixie, which shook the very earth around them.

"Uh… you… you may have the form of an Ursa Major but you will never have the amazing, show stopping ability of the Great and Powerful Trixie!" Trixie exclaimed trying very hard not to look scared, even though it was clear to everypony else.

She then conjured a puff of smoke that poorly concealed her hasty retreat but Toby used his astral form to scoop her up and raise her to eye level. As Trixie shook in the Ursa Major astral form's paw, the bear roared angrily right in her face.

Trixie gulped "Mer-Mercy?" she squeaked.

"Sorry," Both Toby and the astral form bellowed "All out of mercy,"

The Ursa Major opened its jaws and prepared to bite Trixie's head off, which made her let out a blood curdling scream.

"STOP!"

Toby and his astral form stopped and saw that it was Twilight that shouted. The others soon joined her.

"Tobias! That is quite enough!" Rarity stated.

"Yeah, the party's over, no need to bite pony's heads off!" Pinkie Pie remarked.

"Please, calm down… please?" Fluttershy begged.

Toby motioned his astral form to drop Trixie, who landed on the ground unconscious, then began to snarl at the his friends. They all gulped.

"Toby what the hay are you doing?" Rainbow Dash demanded

"It's us! We're your friends!"

"I… don't think he's listening," Applejack told them.

"And I think now is not the time for any sudden movements," Twilight Sparkle whispered as the Ursa Major lowered its head and growled in their faces.

But before it could do anything, a bright flash appeared above it, catching it's attention.

"Whoa Nellie…" Applejack breathed.

A beam of yellow magical energy struck the core of the Ursa Major astral form, which was Toby. He screamed in pain as his astral form quickly faded before
dropping to the ground in front of the gang.

They look down on him for a second before a badly dazed Toby sat up and began to rub his head. Coming the rest of the way around, he noticed fourteen normal eyes staring at him with a mixture of shock, horror and sadness.

"Why's everypony looking at me like that?" Toby asked.

---

Later that evening, the girls had all relied what had occurred to Toby at his house. Toby looked greatly shocked and horrified, as well as guilty by what he did.

"I can't believe what you just did, Toby. You started fighting our enemies without thinking." Sophia said angrily at Toby.

"Aw man… guys… I'm so sorry… I just… I couldn't control myself," Toby told them apologetically "I don't get what happened, I was all ready to fight them… then when I saw you guys hurt and Sophia cowering, I just… lost it, my anger… took control somehow,"

"Your anger must have corrupted your magic somehow," Twilight Sparkle said "Creating a power you couldn't control on your own,"

"Maybe… but I still feel responsible, I allowed my anger to control me and I nearly hurt all of you in the process," Toby muttered sadly.

"Aw, come on Toe! Those six were put down hard, not much property was destroyed and we're all still alive," Rainbow Dash told him "So don't be so hard on yourself,"

"Why not?" Toby demanded "Today… everypony, including you guys, just saw my dark side, I know that I have it within me to kill, to become evil,"

"But you were able to overcome your anger and become the nice Toby- woeby we all know and love!" Pinkie Pie reminded.

Toby said rubbing his chest "Anyways, the point is I may have overcome my anger today… but I doubt I'll be able to overcome it again next time,"

Toby glanced out the window and at the crescent moon sadly. Twilight put a hoof on his shoulder.

"Then it's a good thing next time… you won't be alone," she told him, gesturing to the smiling faces of the others in the room.

"That's right partner!" Applejack told him.

"Absolutely!" Rarity added. Fluttershy also nodded with a sweet smile.

"Yeah," Sophia agreed.

"Thanks guys but…" Toby started to say as he stood up "…I think I need to be alone for a little while so I can… process what happened tonight,"

Twilight nodded "We understand,"

"Can we at least have one hug?" Pinkie Pie asked holding out her front hooves "There free!"

Toby thought for a moment before shrugging, walking over and wrapping his arms around Pinkie Pie, the others also joined in to create a group hug. Tears then began to stream down Toby's face he felt himself be warmed by his friend's embrace.

---

Elsewhere, Lord Tirek was watching him from his castle, along with another unknown figure.

"So… have a proven my statement now?" The centaur questioned with a raised brow.

The figure nodded "Yes. Tobias and Sophia are far too dangerous to be kept in this world, especially with the limitless power he holds,"

"And do you understand what you must do to prevent more… destruction? To fulfill your side of our little… agreement?" The Dark Lord inquired.

"I do," The figure nodded once more.

"Excellent, you do your job… then I will take it from there," Lord Tirek said, the figure then disappeared and Lord Tirek then turned his attention to what appeared to be a large chessboard. He moved one of the black pieces to a spot on the board that puts the White King in check. "Only one move to go, then it will all… end,"