The cave's inside was a long, winding road leading to a giant pit. All around the very (presumed) bottom of this obsidian extension, lava flowed and glowed with a brightness comparable to Flare. Glowing ashes wavered to and fro in a breeze, and on occasion the whole place shook with what was assumed to be rage.

Rage of all those who were Abandoned.

The humans led the way with the Equestrian natives trotting behind, followed by a Minotaur with a cocky attitude.

"Is it me or does this seem familiar?" Natalie asked, her legs clearly shaking.

"Akron, anybody?" Lance replied with a hand raised.

"Sure, why not?" Matt sighed, his eyes white.

"C'mon!" Iron called, "We can't stop this thing if we stand around here doing nothing!"

"He has a point!" Zecora chimed, stomping a hoof, " We mustn't allow terror to appoint!'

Azure merely nodded, buzzing her wings in anger.

"Oh hell!" Natalie cried in panic as she began searching her entire person for something.

"What?" Both men asked, turning their glances to the mage.

"T-The summoning stones....they're gone!" Natalie shrieked.

Lance tried all of his blasters. Not one energy bullet was fired. "Shit. None of my Blasters are working." He exclaimed.

Matt tried using Temper. It too was a dud. "Great. Can't use my specials..." He deadpanned with a frown.

The mage suddenly collapsed onto the ground on her knees, her hands on the ground as she started to tremble.

Lance glared at Matt. "Really?"

Matt shook his head. "Blame Blake." He replied stupidly.

Natalie threw up onto the obsidian walkway. She coughed and gasped for air as her stomach's contents flew out of her mouth.

"Okay then." Lance sighed as he helped the mage back onto her feet.

"Think you can make it from here?" Matt asked.

"I think I can." Natalie answered, putting a hand on her stomach. She looked ahead of the road.

"We need to move now." Azure sighed, pointing a holey hoof onwards like she became de-facto leader.

"She's right. Let's get going." Iron sighed.

The remaining party members walked down the long, winding road. It was so long they wondered if it would ever end. After a good half-hour of walking, they came across this huge platform that was round and was large enough to hold all of Canterlot. It was a dead end for the wingless, and there was practically nothing of interest here...

...until Azure looked down the edge of the platform and saw lava boiling beyond belief. Something was....rapidly rising from below.

The whole room started to shake as though the Apocalypse were just now starting.

The humans and minotaur lost their balance, landing on their asses as boulders started falling into the lava from the ceiling.

"What is this?! The lava, it seems to hiss!" Zecora called as she landed on her stomach.

Azure ran back to the party before she tripped and landed on her backside. The shaking stopped and so did the falling boulders as an evil laugh was heard.

Iron Will looked up.

And so did the humans.

Lance swore his soul fled from his body.

Matt's jaw hung open.

Natalie was wide-eyed.

Zecora and Azure were left speechless.

There was a massive monster looming over them. The lava darkened his form as from his neck dangled an assortment of gold cages. And in them....

"Anna!" Lance cried as he stood up and reached a hand out.

"Lance!" Anna cried as she reached through the cage and in that same instant was electrocuted. She screamed and jerked back her hand in pain.

"Coryza!" Iron called.

Coryza didn't answer. She took her purple guitar and hurled it to Matt as she was electrocuted.

Matt grabbed the weapon and looked up at the behemoth before them. Next to his head, perched on his shoulder stood the demonic Blake, a cold glare cast from his eyes.

Natalie looked at another cage. "GodCat! NoLegs!" She cried as she struggled to stand.

"Meow!" NoLegs responded.

"Fools!" GodCat's white half called, "Run! Run while you still can!"

"Why?!" Azure shouted, "We vowed not to abandon you!"

"It's futile!" Called GodCat's dark half, "You won't be able to do anything!"

So.... At last, I have more sinners to toy with....

"Did that thing with the cage necklace speak?!" Lance cried, moving his head around in confusion to make sure nothing else was there to possibly toy with him.

Yes, Lance....I did indeed speak.... Replied the behemoth with a grin.

"H-How do you know us?!" Matt called in an accusing tone of voice.

I am made from the sins of all.....

Natalie's face went pale. She began to shake.

Yes, look at the mage....Her expression tells all...

"What are you?!" Iron Will bellowed.

I am made from the darkness in the hearts of many....I am composed entirely of sin..... I am many, and yet I am one.....

"....Legion?" Natalie squeaked.

That's right..... Legion is my name.....

Lance tried casting Bind. No avail.

Matt slumped down, unable to lift a sword much less his own legs.

Natalie knelt down once more, her body shaking in fear. She tried casting Judgment and it sputtered again.

In that instant, freak tentacle-esque appendages shot up from the back of the monster and scooped up everyone except for Natalie. They were then thrown into cages: Azure and Zecora were thrown in alongside Rarity, Iron Will with Fluttershy, Matt alongside Coryza, and Lance alongside Anna.

I shall make a world where sinners can never be born....a world under a single ruler.... but first, I must purge this world of everything.....

Natalie got up to her feet, her body still quivering. She leaned on her Seraph Staff for support.

"RUN!" Lance called, realizing GodCat was indeed right. "JUST RUN! WE CAN'T WIN!"

Natalie nodded and turned. She began to run as the tentacles started homing in on her.

The world was moving too fast for the mage to notice. Her breath quickly hastened as her body moved faster. Adrenalin pumped throughout her entire body, helping her jump and slide past tentacles.

She got to the entrance of the cave and she tripped.

Raising her head from the dirt, she gasped.

The tentacles were bringing in ponies, Gryphons... Even the Princesses and Discord.

What little hope she had deadpanned in that instant.

All this time, everyone fought a losing battle. And nobody even realized it until now.

Everyone dragged to Legion...to never return....

"No..." Natalie hissed in a sob.

A tentacle scooped the mage up and dragged her down to Hell.

Everyone not caged prior was thrown into another series thereof, save for Natalie. She was being held in a hand of the fiend.

You are the first to be punished, little mage... Let me recount your sins....

Natalie was mentally shaken. She gulped in fear.

Hmmm.... ah, yes. You befriended a petty thief.... and, after a while, slept with him unmarried... You had also helped him defeat Lazarus and kill Lancelot, no?

Natalie's lips began moving as though she were cold. She couldn't speak, for all ability to do so was seemingly taken from her.

Then you help in ruining the world the first time.... by defeating a very powerful zombie with immense spiritual power.

Tears flowed from the mage's eyes. They hit the surface of Legion's hand.

Once Lance threatened the world, you did indeed stop him...though, I have to say, he's an extremist, no?

Natalie was speechless. Was Legion reading her freakin' mind?!

And then you helped to awaken Akron by sheer accident. Though you did stop him, you helped in plundering...Ah, am I forgetting something? Legion trailed off, as if to remember something. Soon, he resumed speaking, Oh, yes! A monster one calls a Beholder has impregnated you with a bastard child, no? And then, you had the NERVE to terminate it. Ohhoho, it gets much worse.

Tentacles began surrounding the hand Natalie was perched upon. She glanced around quickly and then froze.

Again, you pillaged left and right--and dare I say commit murder in doing so--so that you could stop GodCat's plan to recreate the world. Ah, there's always more: you collaborate in yet more murders with a werewolf, a maestro of sorts, and a kitsune. Plundering is apparently ever so present for you--it's almost as if you cannot escape it. Well....you had been a fool. And fools always get the punishments first...

The tentacles closed in on the mage. Her eyes widened with utter panic.

Her clothes were ripped clean from her body.

"Natz!" Matt cried as he banged against the walls of his cage and nearly became a chicken crisp. He landed on his rear as the mugician barely caught him.

Fenrir punched the cage he was in. He punched once more before the electric current threw his aim off.

Tentacles grabbed Natalie's wrists. They spread her arms apart.

"No!" Cried the hapless mage.

The slimy, dark abominations grabbed her knees and forced her legs wide.

"Stop!"

Another tendril wrapped itself around her neck as her arms were forced to bend behind her back. The tentacles holding her arms in place wrapped around her whole midsection. One leg was left dangling in the air as the other had been stretched to its limit.

Two translucent tentacles then forced themselves within her. One up the ass, the other into her womb.

"LET ME GO!!!" Natalie caterwauled as she burst into tears.

The translucent tentacles went to work, pushing in and pulling out of their victim with nigh-blinding speed.

Soon, she was bleeding from both holes as the reminders of the Beholder suddenly grew sharp, jagged spines all over their masses.

Lance clutched Anna, who was sobbing. All they could do was watch at this point, knowing their fate was to come to them with a hastening rate. He grit his teeth as he was reminded of all of his past failures. But this was almost mocking him now, and he knew it.

The slimy and now-thoroughly lubricated spiny dildos began whirring within the mage as though they had become drills.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Blood began flooding out of Natalie's lower body at a quickening rate as the torture continued.

The tentacle in her rectum decided to end her screaming by pushing itself through the rest of her digestive system in reverse while spinning its deadly spines. Its end emerged from her mouth, coated in feces, saliva, and blood.

Celestia and Luna were horrified. Cadence could not move at all upon seeing this.

Natalie was thrown onto the platform, covered in a multitude of filth. Her legs were caked in her blood and fecal matter as her hair was once more a frazzled mess.

Her body was shaking like a leaf as she slowly sat up, using her hands to prop herself up.

"Why?"

She sobbed. Her legs ceased working.

"Why me?"

A tentacle with a bladed edge crept up on the mage.

She took no notice of the tentacle in her sobbing at all.

The bladed abomination rose up behind her.

Natalie opened her mouth to scream at the exact moment a horrible pain shot from her chest and wreaked havoc on her nervous system.

Her eyes widened momentarily before the whole of her irises, pupils included, became a dull blue. They became smaller as the irises went wider. Slowly, they closed....

And when the lids touched, the last of her tears crept down her cheeks and landed onto the floor as the blade thrust itself out of her heart.

The mage collapsed onto the ground, her arms failing to work.

Blake put his hands on his head, just behind his horns. He began looking as if he were freaking out.

Katie, though heavily weakened, was confused. The tentacles tore her out of the cage and threw her onto Legion's hand.

Now, ancient one, let me recount your sins...

"I have already repented them all." Katie whispered.

What?

Katie cleared her throat and stood up on all fours, and she was very wobbly. "I have repented every single sin I have committed!"

Sins cannot be repented! They always come back to haunt you, fool!

"I do agree that sins can never truly be erased from the mind, in my case anyway. But there's always a way to right a wrong!" The fox retorted.

I shall kill you now!

"Na..."

Everyone looked around, nobody knew who that voice belonged to. Even Legion stopped to glance to and fro.

"Nata...."

Matt's eyes widened. It was as if he knew something nobody else could've figured out then.

"NATALIE!!!!" Shouted the demonic voice of Blake, who sounded as though he were struggling to regain his senses. He flew down to the deceased mage and landed next to her. He tried shaking her awake, and immediately broke down into tears. He screamed and cursed Legion's very name as his wings spread wide.

"YOU! YOU KILLED HER!!" Blake shouted at the top of his lungs, his index finger shooting upwards to point at the One who was Many. His eyes became a bright crimson as rage pumped in his black blood.

Legion glared at him, his eyes moving away from Katie.

All demons are sinless. Perhaps I should kill you too?

"Not all of us are sinless! I too have sinned! Try me!" Blake bellowed as he flew up to Legion's face.

What?!

Tentacles began shooting at the half-demon all the while Katie was busy freeing everyone else from their confinement. She worked quickly, ponies and the like being freed while Blake tangled the tentacles around the monster who killed his one joy in the world. The party was surrounding the dead mage while Zecora began working her herbal magic combined with Katie's fire. The others not in the party--rogue Changelings, ponies, Gryphons, manticores, rabbits--ran to the exit and poured into the outside world like a tsunami.

Blake's rage continued building his strength as he grabbed the Fiend of Sin and twisted his head. But he only laughed.

Only an angel can defeat me! There are none here!

"An angel..." Twilight sighed before gasping and looking at Katie.

The fox nodded and grew her wings. The fur on her body retreated, revealing a fully naked body of a young woman.

And then her wings became white.

Lance's jaw dropped.

"Lance, listen closely," Katie said as she put an orb of blazing blue fire in his hand, "I will take care of Legion with Blake. Take Natalie and run. Zecora, you need to make an herbal blend to weaken the Monster of Sin and dump it into the lava. Only then will we beat him. Now, go!"

Lance merely nodded, noticing the fire didn't hurt him. Something in his head clicked, and Katie nodding only confirmed his suspicions.

He inherited her foxfire somehow. And he was going to use it.

Katie flew up into the air with quick flaps of her wings, rushing in to help Blake while Zecora did as she was instructed. The zebra and the rest of the party rushed out of the Cave of the Damned with the dead Natalie in the Valkyrie. Fenrir stayed behind, using his ki energy to allow flight himself. He soon matched the velocity at which his mate was going. A dark blue aura surrounded him as his Overdrive quickly pumped into full throttle.

The fox's hair became much longer than it had been before, all the way down to her rear end as a silky white replaced the dark brown. Her eyes became the color of wild roses as her pupils became meager slits. Her wings became as large and elegant as Celestia's, the feathers becoming cleaner and much more refined. Blake took notice of what Legion said and swooped out of her way as she began circling the monster's head at the speed of a Gale Slice. The lava became a Changeling green and it froze solid in a second. Fenrir's eyes became a bloody red and his fur shone as if he were bathed in gold. Cold air danced around his form, the dark blue aura becoming a crystal teal.

Wh-What?!

"Foul Fiend from the bowels of Hell!" Katie shouted, her voice becoming similar to that of Fluttershy's.

"Perhaps you need to redefine what it means to sin!" Fenrir exclaimed, a hideous snarl in his voice.

N-No!

Katie's form began glowing with a bright, white light. She was in front of Legion's face and was glaring him in the eye. Blake maneuvered out of the way, waiting for the fox at the entrance. Fenrir was also in front of the fiend's face, his aura amplifying the already-powerful light.

"Thou shalt return from whence thou came! Thy power has no grip here in this land of sinlessness! Now, BEGONE!" Katie shouted with an ethereal voice as the Fire of Angels danced around her form, Fenrir, and Legion. He screamed and wailed as his body thrashed about. His attempts of harming everyone quickly became futile as the cave began to collapse on itself. Cherubs of foxfire and glaciers of the coldest ice danced to and fro around everything, casting protective barriers on Katie, the werewolf, and Blake while Legion's movements stopped. The glaciers hurled themselves onto the monster with such force he bent all the way back after only being hit with two. The lava froze him in its mass as Hell opened its gates and the hands of still worse fiends dragged him down.

The gate slammed as the fallen one, flying wolf-man and half-demon flew out of the collapsed cave, the Fire of Angels and Icicles of Purgatory Overdrives wearing off right as the Cave of the Damned closed itself off from the rest of the world, perhaps--and hopefully--for eternity.

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Natalie was gently lowered into the boiling herbal potion thanks to a crane Lance installed into the Valkyrie. Worried looks crossed the party's faces while NoLegs kept yowling noisily.

"Lance, use your mother's fire. The situation is so very dire," Zecora sighed as she stopped stirring.

"Got it." Lance replied as he threw a fireball of a blazing cobalt hue at the base of an already-raging fire below the mighty huge cauldron. The fire instantly turned a fierce shade of lightning purple and the potion was rolling into a boil from Hell.

Celestia was shocked. A human using a beast's flame? How was that possible?

Blake and Katie returned and landed. The fox immediately returned to her other form and donned her kimono. Fenrir landed shortly after on all fours and a crystal teal aura dancing around him suddenly ceased.

Blake returned to normal as well... and Matt started bitching at him. It was incomprehensible, garbled up gibberish. Azure stepped in between them and told them to can it, and they shut up.

Fenrir sighed, motioning with his paw for Lance to walk to him. The gunman did as instructed before he was bear-hugged by a set of bulky arms obscured with fur. "Son," Fenrir chimed with a toothy smile, "You make me proud." Lance hugged his step-dad back with only a smile on his face.

The potion began changing from a sick green to a hue of vermillion. The fire became the color of the twilight sky.

"Is it working?" Rainbow asked. Her ears were flat.

"We must wait for time to tell." Zecora sighed, "I think she's not yet in Hell."

Pinkie's mane was straight, and her colors somewhat faded. "I hate funerals..."

"I do too, Pinkie. We just have to wait." Twilight said with a frown.

The pot began glowing as though Genesis was activated. The potion and fire disappeared.

Iron Will peeked inside. Natalie's wound was cured....and her fingers were twitching!

Blake and Matt rushed to look into the pot as well. Natalie propped herself up using her hands and was already leaning on the walls for support!

"Natalie!" Both cried in joy.

The mage looked up at them. She shook her head in disbelief and smiled once she realized she wasn't in a dream. "Matt! Blake!" She cried, jumping up and down waving her arms in the air trying to get out of the pot.

Iron Will reached an arm down and grabbed Natalie's arms before hoisting her out, much to her embarrassment. He put her down and wrapped her in a quilt to cover her nude body.

Everyone hugged her left and right, even the crazy as hell Discord.

"Guys! Calm down!" Natalie cried in excitement as NoLegs meowed with Opalescence.

"Halt!" Shouted two voices at once.

Everyone stopped what they were doing and turned to GodCat.

"I wish to bring our original world to merge with this one!" Shouted the white GodCat.

"What say you, Celestia? Nothing around here goes without your input." The black GodCat pointed out.

"How would you 'merge' the worlds?" Celestia asked.

GodCat took a moment to think about it.

"Bring all the human inhabitants to this world--as well as the cats. And everything else that isn't hostile." Said the white GodCat.

"That world will perish soon anyway." Sighed the black GodCat. "In the old world, once Legion has awoken, the world pretty much became a time bomb."

Celestia nodded. "Alright. Commence the 'merging' of the worlds. We need some help repairing the Gryphon Kingdom and the Changeling Hives."

"Alright." Both halves of GodCat said in unison. They teleported in a flash.

And just as quickly as they went, they came back with all the humans, cats, and non-hostile creatures of their own world (along with their possessions and technological advances). Anna's little sister, Sarah, ran up to hug her. "Sister! What adventure did you have this time?!" Sarah called in glee.

"Quite the messed up one. It's a looong story." Anna answered with a giggle as she returned the hug.

Believe it or not, Konata was there. And when it came to the current situation, she had no clue what was going on. All she knew was that she saw three familiar people--the ones who felled Akron.

Hikari was also there and she walked right up to Lance. Noticing the ring on his finger, she scoffed, "Who'd you marry?"

"She's right over there." Lance pointed to Anna, who was busy chatting with her sister. Hikari turned around and walked to the archer and merely said 'congratulations.'

"Look up!" Katie called, pointing to the sky. Everyone stopped what they were doing and did as instructed.

"Whoa!" The party shouted as they looked up into the sky and saw their old world become a supernova.

"Citizens of the now deceased world!" Celestia and Luna bellowed in unison. This, again, caused everyone from the Old World to look at them respectfully. "Today, we are gathered here to celebrate your permanent stay in Equestria! Please, make yourselves at home and help us prosper! We shall, in turn, help you prosper as well!"

With that, everyone clapped. Cats that had legs, dogs, foreign ponies from the old world, humans, you name it. A feast--much like that of the Pilgrims--occurred a short while later, and everyone had a grand and glorious time together.

Author's Notes:

EDIT: Included Sarah, Konata, and Hikari.