"All right, new song!" DJ Pon-3 remarks as she put in a new CD and plays 'Metal Madenss' from Sonic Heroes. Psycho Steel roars as he shoots out metal fire at the ponies and the Dragon Council armies.

"I didn't know that we're going to be dealing with this!" Feathermay exclaims in alarm and worry.

"You did when we signed up for this!" Firecracker protests to her friend in annoyance.

At this moment, the Mane Six hid behind some rocky cover while watching Psycho Steel the Destructible, make its terrorizing display of power the likes no pony or dragon has ever bare witnessed before. They have to figure out how to stop this enemy, but how?

"Rainbow, how do we stop 'dis thing?" Applejack turned to the dare-devil pony in wanting some answers.

"Why ask me?" Rainbow shrug off her shoulders in not following that comment.

"Cause ye're the one dat said it was yer own creation!" Applejack pointed out in reminding Rainbow of her saying this creature Lorcan brought out was something similar to her own creation of some kind.

"That was a different work; I don't know anything of this copy-cat!" Rainbow Dash protest in stating that she hasn't a clue about this new foe.

"But if it was the same, does it have all the strengths?" Pinkie Pie asked a curious question that was on a lot of ponies' minds.

"Um, maybe..." Rainbow Dash spoke a bit distracted and worried that the answer might be true, but she doesn't have a clue herself.

"Oh dear me, that doesn't sound good to hear." Rarity spoke a bit worried; this might not be good for them at all.

"No, it doesn't at all." Fluttershy responded in feeling the same feeling, this creature sounds like bad news to them.

"But what about weaknesses, surely you thought of that, right?" Twilight pushed the others discussions away to think up a way that could help them like if Rainbow made something similar, it's strengths, may always have the same weaknesses, perhaps.

"Um, maybe...I never paid much attention to how to make something cool be uncool, you know?" Rainbow Dash sheepishly shrug off her shoulders as she never was one to put in weaknesses or remember them when making something be cool.

"Rainbow, you were able to defeat Metal Iron the Invincible when the video game world and Equestria fused once before!"

"Oh right. If I remember, I used the Jello pony to reveal the weaknesses then slay him with the Dragonslayer sword...except I don't got any of that stuff on me!"

"Well, we will have to hoof it!" Ben Mare exclaims as the villain destroys a rock with his metal fist, roaring in fury.

"Hang on guys! I'm coming!" Spike shouted out to his friends, as he was about to rush in to join the ongoing battle when… "Wooh," The baby dragon dodged an incoming green fireball that exploded a few feet in front of him.

"Where do you think you're going?" Lorcan spoke from soaring across the skies and appeared a few feet between Spike and the battle that is going on behind him.

"Um, over there before you cut me off?" Spike remarked off in stating in what he was gonna do until Lorcan cut him off, rudely much.

"Don't toy with me, Spike!" Lorcan snapped at Spike in glimmering anger issues in seeing that this baby dragon dares to insult him. "You and I have a FINAL Score to settle!" The villain pointed out in stating that he and Spike have old unfinished business to complete.

"Hugh, were we keeping track of some game?" Spike rubbed his noggin in pretending to forget or not know what this guy was on about, even if they were just fighting.

It took a lot of patience for Lorcan to not lose to Spike's ignorance, but… "Nrrugh…It's only you and ME! We fight to the DEATH until only ONE of us…survives!" Lorcan loudly declared off that this was going to be the end and that only either he or Spike will come out of this, alive and breathing.

"You actually want me to kill you, just so that I can survive? That's insane!" Spike asked in wide eye shock that someone would ask for such a stupid challenge, that's crazy to accept.

"Oh, I have no trouble doing the same…FOR YOU!" Lorcan spoke off with a wicked and sly expression just as he held his two indexes and middle claw fingers out to shoot out a dash of green volts which Spike duck down just in time to have that miss him.

"Wooh; Again with the green lightning," Spike spoke off rhetorically in seeing what this villain was up too, this was gonna be another day for him…he just knows it.

"Just be lucky that I made it fair for you, Spike!"

"You call fighting me as an adult dragon is fair?!"

"My answer, no," Lorcan said with a shrug as he and Spike charges at one another, using their powers and Elements to fight one another.

The ponies quickly dodge Psycho Steel's next attack. Nyx cries out, "Watch out," She dodges another attack from the mad version of Metal Iron.

Pinkie Pie comment, "For some reason, I can't help thinking about the possibility of the existence of some universe where WE are dragons and Spike is a pony. In fact, I get an image of Twilight's dragon self having to magically merge together newborn unicorn, pegasus AND Earth pony foals into an infant alicorn AS AN ENTRANCE EXAM." The others groan and commenting on how random she is even in this situation.

"If only we got a huge sword...and some way to expose this guy's weak spots." Phobos said, recovering from his dazed form. "Then this guy would be toasted."

"Metal Iron's weak spots been exposed because 'de Jello donkey exposes 'de red spots." Applejack said with a frown. "But we don't have something like him on us!"

"Perhaps I may have something." Zecora said with a smile as she holds out some sort of red stone. "A way to expose the enemy's weak spot..."

"Zecora, yer're a lucky savior!" Apple Bloom exclaims to Zecora with a grin.

"Thank you, I do my best."

Zecora uses the red stone and the whole area flashes red. Soon five weak spots appear on Psycho Steel's chest, one of his metal arms, his neck, one of his legs and his tail.

"Now we need a sword." Twilight said with a frown. "But we don't have the weapon used to kill off Metal Iron the Invincible."

"Then it's time for this alicorn to defend her subjects." Nyx said seriously as her horn glows: suddenly a sword appears in mid-air, the same one used to fight Celestia.

"Amazing, never thought I would see that sword again." Celestia said, recognizing the same sword that Nyx uses to fight her when she was Nightmare Moon, "My granddaughter, let us fight together."

Nyx got on Celestia's back as the two flies at the enemy, dodging his laser blast. The alicorn slashes at Psycho Steel's chest, causing him to roar in pain. That's one weak spot done.

"All right, Nyx is doing it!" Phobos cheers on but frowns. "But there's no way that Nyx and Celestia can hurt him unless they can get Psycho Steel to turn around."

"Oooh, ooh! I got an idea!" Pinkie giggles as she spin changes, much to her friends' surprise or confusion, into a peasant then rush into a spot and...clone herself somehow! Don't ask.

"Oh, goodie! Psycho Steel, look! A defenseless peasant!"

While Psycho Steel is Lorcan's creation and a copycat of Metal Iron, he also shares the original's weakness: he cannot resist burning peasants. The monster turns and throws fire at the Pinkie Pie. This allows Celestia to fly in and slash at the dragon's arm, causing Psycho Steel to roar some more.

Psycho Steel the Destructible looks furious as he fires rockets at the two alicorns who dodges them quickly. Fluttershy yelps, "Eep! I don't think that's supposed to happen."

"Neither do I!" Rainbow said in worry as Psycho Steel shoot out lasers from his eyes. "And neither did that; must be new additions!"

"We need to distract him further, come on!" Twilight exclaims quickly as the ponies rush in quickly.

"Come on, everyone!" Granny Smith calls out to the other ponies in determination. "Time we teach this monster a lesson!"

"Dragons, charge at the clone rogue!" Jormun roars out quickly.

The ponies and the good dragons attack Psycho Steel, the villain shoots out his attacks and swipes at some of the heroes. Of course, it's enough distraction for Nyx and Celestia to fly in and hit him right in the neck and leg. That leaves only the tail to destroy.

"One more weak spot to go!" Nyx exclaims out quickly.

"Right, we must keep this up, everyone!" Celestia exclaims to the ones defending their homes from the evil of Lorcan and his Dragon Army. Those who don't fight off Psycho Steel fight off the evil dragons still standing or flying.

The song 'Solaris Phase One' plays as both Lorcan and Spike continues their fight, the brother on the ponies' side is gaining the advantage, putting his brother in a force field and jamming him a few times.

"Argh," Lorcan screams in fury as he breaks out of his prison, "Heavy Crimson Fire!" The dragon shoots out his attack but Spike rush in and closes his mouth, causing the villain to explode a bit, "ARGH!"

"Nice try, Lor-on, but there's this. DRAGON RAGE," Spike roars as he fires out an energy blast from his mouth, sending Lorcan right through a wall. Then the dragon jumps in after him, "Dragon Kick!"

Lorcan can only get up in time for his brother to kick him in the chest. The scarred villain can only wheeze as he backs away, still injured from earlier.

"You can't do this to me! ME, THE SCARRED RULER," Lorcan exclaims to Spike with a groan of pain.

"I'm sorry, you left me no choice." Spike said sternly as he held his claws back. "And now...DRAGON..."

"No, no, no, DON'T!"

"KAMEHAMEHA!"

Spike fires out a huge heavy wave that send Lorcan right through the roof; the villain got out of the blast as it heads of into the sky. The villain lands on the ground, looking furious and pissed off.

"Did our grandfather teach you that?! Or did you learn it by your own?!" Lorcan snarls Spike in fury, "Because you just sealed your fate, little brother! Lightning Bend!"

Lorcan fires out lightning blasts at Spike who dodges them and flew up, head butting his brother right in the chest then performs an uppercut; Both fighters lands on the ground as they continue their fight around the castle.

The group of ponies was battling in a fairly equal moment against the creature of darkness that Lorcan created. It looked like they could hang in there just a bit longer and then they might win…or so it seemed.

"Stabvhmm…" There was a sudden stab noise which made Ben freeze up before letting off a tiny cry, "Uuagh," That pain was heard, as it was none other than Twilight that saw Ben Mare kneeling on the ground.

"Ben! What happened?" Twilight Sparkle cried out before vanishing from her spot in the battle to stand near Ben's right side in seeing something was making the love of her life feel awful.

Then from around the other side of Ben's Cutie Mark, three yellow diamond spears seem imbedded on one triangle mark each. But then the weird thing that surprised everyone was that they fell off…but with no eternal blooding like they didn't pierce through.

"I'm fine now, Twilight." Ben Mare spoke from feeling somewhat relief stress relish all of a sudden. "As for what hit me, got me." The stallion shrugs off in feeling that whatever happen him just seem to leave the center of his mind.

"What about you're Cutie Mark?" Twilight Sparkle asked in thinking that she may have seen something that looked to have stabbed him there, but all she saw was nothing. All that was behind Ben were three yellow gem stones, but they showed no pierce of entry.

Ben looked to his Triforce Mark, and when he consternated, the mark glowed brightly as familiar magical energy energized the stallion with a calm expression.

"It's all good; it all checks out, I still have it. The three Elements," Ben Mare smiled in stating that nothing has happened, his Triforce Cutie Mark which holds the Elements of: Wisdom, Courage, & Power, were in check.

"Then why did those gem stones stub your mark but left no wound or any signs of stolen magic?" Twilight Sparkle pointed at the only evidence that wasn't where Ben believed wasn't there until after he felt something hit him.

"They weren't here until I felt something but I'm fine and so is my magic. So well, if nothing else is the cause, then the only things cable of doing this weird act are…" Ben Mare was stating in finding all this puzzling to the 'T' for Trouble. Gem stones that are yellow showed no sign of harming a being and when they leave the body, have nothing of damage, the only logic is that what they have here are….

"Copy Gems," Twilight Sparkle gaped out in shock and horror in realizing what was upon them. She read of such odd magical gems that are said to pierce into any source of magic and then when explode from that source, they are said to transform into an exact perfect copy of such a magic. It was said that Celestia had banned and had such gems hidden away from civilization so that no evil my used such powerful objects of nature for evil, but then…how is it that three of them Copy Gems are here and stabbed Ben Mare's Triforce Mark unless…

However, the soon spoken gems glowed and wobbled a bit in front of Twilight & Ben before…skyrocketing off before them. This action soon caught the attention of many ponies still fighting against the foe created before them. But the ones that were in a battle of dragons and their pride, Spike and Lorcan soon cease their acts in noticing…that the Copy Gems formed into an exact form of three golden triangles stack into a form and it meant one thing.

"The Triforce; But how," Lorcan spoke in shock and surprise, then quicker than a flash, he flew away from his battle with Spike to chase the object in question.

"Hey, wait a minute!" Spike shouted off to the villain leaving him as they weren't done or settled the score yet. The baby dragon followed after Lorcan and the hovering Triforce item that were nearing almost near the tallest tower.

Lorcan was chasing up after the copied Triforce, its power, he wanted it! But at the same time wondered, how can it be here and why? Who could have pulled this off without him knowing anything about it unless…only one name comes to mind, But just as Lorcan saw the Triforce cease movement and was on the top of the tower where the dragon chased it, he almost reached for the element objects of power until…gushing flames surrounded the sky area to form some opal form. Then a hand of flames reached, snatched the Triforce before sinking into the object window, then if that wasn't enough, background music was heard. It was laying 'Arrival Of Evil' by Megumi Ohashi, and if the theme wasn't perfect fitting enough, a familiar and diabolic new being entered from within the realm beyond the flaming mirror that Lorcan knew.

"Grimmore; what are YOU doing?" Lorcan snapped off shocked as he demanded why the Overlord King was doing and got hold of the Triforce.

"Just acquiring something as repayment for what I gave you." Grimmore spoke in a calm, casual tone at the upset dragon villain, just as the theme was kicking off more dramatic theme.

The others took notice at what's happening on top of the tower, as did Spike who arrived, and only the Royal Pony Sisters eyes froze with tremendous fear in…who Lorcan spoke towards.

"That power is from a victim I was planning to claim, you have NO right to it!" Lorcan snarled off at the Overlord King, how DARE he take what is HIS prize to claim?

"Oh, how very sad," Grimmore spoke in pretend heartbreak as he opened his hand to show…a tiny emerald glowing Triforce item. "Then if this power you want to taste…so be it!" The Overlord King exclaimed before the item he held swirled and vanished like magic.

Then much to anyone's confusion, the same emerald glow form of the Triforce swirled before appearing on…Spike's belly.

"Gulp…ugh…" Spike covered his mouth as if feeling some 'push' force was happening inside his own body.

"Spike…what's wrong?" Twilight asked from noticing Spike's strange behavior, more than that, the mark on his belly was glowing brighter with every passing second.

"Hmm…HMMM…" Spike only muffled his words as if he felt like he couldn't talk like the dragon tried to hold something back…or something in.

"What is THIS?" Lorcan asked in looking back between Spike's behavior to Grimmore, what was this Overlord King up to?

"Let's call it…the end results…of revealing the power of your enemy…by my work." Grimmore's expression showed the same thing without a change of face as if he kept any guessing with his smile of all vile and hidden mystery.

"Hmm…Hhmmm…" Spike tried holding back, but his cheeks grew puffery and green flames were leaking from any open lip side…he was starting to sweat from what's to come.

"You…You didn't!" Lorcan repeated in shock and near sweat-drop, could the Overlord King have done something…to Spike with that power?

"Precisely; your role in this game…has reached its expiration." Grimmore smiled with a dark expression that what's been known by his words are a shrew and cunning plot played out well….for an extermination.

"BWA-ROOARRRAAAUGH…" Spike suddenly couldn't keep his mouth shut and unleashed the biggest green wave of flames skyrocketing so fast that everyone during the battle saw it going for…Lorcan.

"NO! NO! GRIMMORE," Lorcan cried out in terror as he sees the attack of Spike's humongous flames approaching him as he held his hands for defense. "Bammgruvhmm…" That created a block against the attacking but Lorcan was completely in-shrouded by the rushing jet of green flames that it showed…he was struggling by its shear power.

"Hmm-hmm-hmm-hmm…" Grimmore made a lightly chuckle of the darkest intend before speaking off these words. "Your story has reached a verdict, farewell…Lorcan." The Overlord King made a small gesture wave, as saying…goodbye as they shall never see the other…again.

"No…Noooo….SPIIIIII-IIIIIIIIKE," Lorcan cried out from his struggles, but by the power of his own brother, Spike's green flames enshrouded all of Lorcan's body until it appeared to fade along with the flames. "Bam-frrouvhhmmm……" There was an explosion from the center, but it soon died out and so did the rest of the flames jetting into the skies.

Soon the music turn into the most traumatizing one yet as all those in the battle bear witnessed it, but when Spike died out his jet of flames for a breather…he looked up at what he saw. All that remained of Lorcan was a smoldering body of black ash and his black cloak. Some clattering was heard of branches were heard before a loud smack of impact. Truer words could never escape any pony that saw this…Lorcan was beaten, but in an image they had never foreseen.

"Sister…Lorcan…is..." Luna gasped in shock to seeing the most evil foe they've handled…was bested so easily.

"I see it sister, and we know 'who' had a motive for this." Celestia respond with a very stern expression in gazing at the window of flames and the 'owner' looking at the surprised crowd at what's happened.

Soon the glowing Triforce Mark vanished from Spike's belly as he fell to his knees to catch his breath but stared at the ashes then back up to where Grimmore's window appearance was.

"Ha-ha-ha-ha, haaaa…" Grimmore made a slow, dramatically over-enthusiastic cackle that filled the void skies before gazing at the audience that still see him and sees the battle that was left unsettled. "Until the next time we meet….entertain me from where my reign lies!" The villain announced out to the crowds that for him, he wishes for entertainment from these ponies, just as the drama music was reaching a climate finale. "I shall be watching your troubles…from afar." With that last sly statement made, the Overlord King's flaming window was swirling into the space of the air…until vanishing completely out of sight. And with that, the background music that filled the air had vanished along with that 'unexpected' intrusion that no pony seems to register…except for only those within the Royal Family, such as Celestia & Luna.

All the ponies that were in the battle were so shocked over what happened, that they nearly forgot their battle with the beast Lorcan created from his darkness. But luckily, Princess Luna used a magical horn beam to push the deadly beast away, getting the others to snap back to reality. "Everypony, do not space out, we still have to save Equestria from Lorcan's latest beast!" The alicorn expressed her statement to the others, who suddenly got their determination back to face that they are not out of the woods yet.

Then as Spike sighs to relax in seeing that he's finally done it and won, something mischievous happens. The cloak that Lorcan wears glows and surges with green electricity to be like it's pulsing with life. Then the cloak rises with someone inside, screaming in agony before the work is done, and Lorcan pants breathless as he's now reformed himself.

This gets Spike to worry as he asks "But...But how did you...when I thought..."

Lorcan responds with this, "Heh, a last minute Body Double. In truth, when prepared in advance, you won't suffer much, but if done when you see you're about to die, even if I switched, I still feel the pain that was near my end. Heh, funny, we're both near exhaustion, but I can see...you're not willing to quit."

"Not a chance!" Spike retorts off in ushering his claim.

"That's what I was hoping for!" Lorcan smirks wickedly at seeing his little brother show that determination as the brothers prepare to go at it again.

"Holy smokes!" Pinkie gasps as she and the ponies saw what happened. "Lorcan's still alive!"

"Of course, I knew he still won't go down that easily." Golden Heart groans in annoyance. "We will hope that Spike can finally beat him. Meanwhile, we got a monster to deal with."

Pinkie grins as she calls out, "DJ Pon-3! Put in 'Voldemort's End' for this part of the battle!"

"Okay, here we go!" DJ Pon-3 exclaims as the unicorn put the music onto the CD player. The song 'Voldemort's End' begins to play.

Psycho Steel roars as he swipes at the gang, keeping them away from his enemies, keeping them away from his least weak spot.

"Dang it; He can't hold still!" Tough Apple groans as the Garoozis is having trouble hitting the tail, "Can't hit him!"

"We must keep from trying!" Luna cries out in determination. "Even if Lorcan is defeated, there's no guarantee his monster would go away!"

Nyx and Celestia charge at the dragon, trying to hit the tail. But the monster turns and fires laser blasts at them both, sending them right to the ground hard.

"Nyx; Princess Celestia," Twilight cried.

"Let me at him!" Rainbow exclaims as she charges at Psycho Steel. The dragon roars as he slashes her, causing the Pegasus pony to fall to the ground, "Ouch, ouch! I think he got my wing!"

Twilight growls furiously, she has had enough! The purple unicorn turns into rage, a flaming unicorn. She yells, "PSYCHO STEEL! YOU WILL NEVER EVER GOING TO HURT ANOTHER ONE OF MY FRIENDS OR FAMILY AGAIN!!!"

Psycho Steel shoots out a huge fireball at Twilight but she flew out of the way and hits the dragon right in the tail, Psycho Steel roars in pain as he fell to the ground.

"Take that, you freak!" Twilight exclaims to Psycho Steel in determination and satisfaction.

"Mother, Nyx!" Ben Mare exclaims as he gallops to Celestia and Nyx who have fallen in the ground. "Are you two okay? Please, be all right."

"It's okay, Ben," Celestia groans as she got off, Nyx slides off her back and onto Ben's. "That dragon monster didn't hurt us too much."

"I dealt with worst, daddy." Nyx grumbles a bit as she checks herself out for any damage. "I took on a lot of monsters in Ponyville once and I'm still standing...or sitting in this case."

"At least you're okay." Ben said in relief. He hates to see what happens should anything happen to the two of the three most important mares is his life. Those mares of course are Twilight, his mother and Nyx.

On top of the tower, both fighters continue with their beam swords, attacking and trying to hit one another.

"Spike, give up." Lorcan said with a groan. "Leave now unharmed and you will survive."

"I can't." Spike said sternly to Lorcan. "My real family needs me."

"Why do you pick ponies over your real family," Lorcan demands to Spike in frustration, "Why?!"

"Because...they care for me," Spike said gently. "And I pity you, for you lost your love in the darkness of Tadaka."

"This is your last chance, Spike!" Lorcan snaps in sadness and anger as he backs Spike to a window. "Leave....now..."

"I... said... no." Spike said in a calm, yet menacing tone, refusing to give up and leave unharmed so that his loved ones would get killed to the monster he called his brother.

"Then you leave me no choice." Lorcan said grimly and darkly. He wants to slaughter Spike for turning his back on his family...but doesn't want to. Why can't he just make up his mind?

"Well, if I'm going down, then I'm taking you with me." Spike said. Suddenly he grabs Lorcan and jumps out the window, taking his brother with him as the two got thrown off the high tower.

Lorcan kept on screaming as he quickly flies them both away. The two kept on fighting in flight then crash landed in the battlefield. Everyone stops as the two dragons got back up, both are nearly out of energy.

Spike and Lorcan throw their beam swords away as they prepare themselves. The dragon calls out, "LORCAN!" He glows a rainbow color, his eyes goes pure white.

"SPIKE," Lorcan snarls as he glows dark green, his eyes are now green slits; his scar is still glowing pure white.

"Everyone move out of the way!" Shining yelped as he calls out to the ponies and dragons still fighting. "It looks like this fight is coming to a climax!"

The ponies, their allies and even the bad guys move as both fighters glow then start shooting a huge blast at each other, Lorcan with his dark magic and Spike with the Elements of Magic.

"Whoa, this is turning into a major conflict here!" Golden Heart exclaims as he kept his hooves onto the ground.

"At this rate, not one of them will live!" Luna exclaims in worry. Both of the dragons are using powerful ancient power and both are getting weak. They may not survive their fight together.

"No! Spike cannot die!" Twilight exclaims frantically. "Spike must live!!!"

"YOU CAN DO IT, SPIKE!!" Nyx cheered the purple dragon on.

"Yeah, kick his flank!" Apple Bloom exclaims eagerly. Despite the fact that Spike had insulted her and hurt her feelings, she knew that he's the only one who can beat Lorcan now.

"Go on, Spike, do it! Do it!" Rainbow and Pinkie cheer onward. Most of the ponies, surprisingly even the snotty duo, begin encouraging Spike to beat Lorcan.

"Spike...please, win." Twilight said, with a tear of worry coming out of her eyes.

Spike nods as he kept pushing further, Lorcan quickly did the same thing. And...soon both the Elements and the dark magic collide, causing a huge explosion.

"Whoa, get down!" Big Macintosh exclaims as the ponies and their allies duck to avoid the attack. Most of the evil dragons gasp as they got caught in the explosion, turning into dust or disappearing altogether.

In fact, only a few members who aren't truly evil of the Dragon Army still remain.

"Applejack," Apple Bloom shouted in fright as the explosion occurred while her older sister was a few feet near her.

"I'm scared!" Sweetie cried in fear as she and the rest of the CMC were embracing each other in fear, just like when Apple Bloom, Sweetie and Scootaloo first saw Nightmare Moon.

"Hold on!" A voice shouted. The Crusaders turned towards the source of the voice, which came from Jakk along with Colby running up to the CMC.

"We're comin'!" Colby added in a stupid tone.

"Hey, wait for me!" Matelda yelled as she followed Jakk and Colby up to the group of foals.

"Stay with me, Nyx." Twilight said to Nyx, who got ahold of one of her mother's back legs as she braced herself.

As they got closer to the CMC, Jakk, Colby and Matelda shouted to them in unison, "We gotcha; we gotcha; we gotcha!"

"That's not proper grammar!" Nyx remarked while getting a hold of Twilight.

"That explosion's getting closer!" Matelda shouted as soon as she and her two friends got near the CMC.

"We're doomed!" Colby cried while bracing himself.

"Hang on, kids!" Crashfire shouted as he got ahold of the CMC, Jakk, Colby and Matelda while protecting them, despite that everypony and good dragon are avoiding the attack. The red male unicorn then conjured up a barrier spell around him and the foals.

Soon, the explosion disappears as the dust clears. Everyone still standing watch as Spike is standing, breathing in and out. That explosion has taken a lot out of him...but he's still alive.

So is Lorcan, but there's something different with him: he is once again in his child form, standing there, motionless and stunned. His mind is clearing up for the first time in chances...he no longer has any sinister thoughts to take Equestria...or destroy the ponies.

Lorcan realizes the surprising yet saddening truth: his bitterness, his cruel personal...along with the influence of his father...they are gone thanks to the Elements' exposure and the collision of dark magic.

But at the same time, Lorcan felt guilt and sadness: he has tried to kill the race who is willing to share Equestria with the dragon, the same race of ponies he never wanted to kill in the first place...but his father's dark magic influences him to the point of him no longer being himself.

And worst yet, Lorcan tries to even kill his own brother for refusing to join his side...and has killed a young colt while thinking that Spike is gone! The dragon realizes then that in his head, they are all right: he is a pawn of Tadaka's revenge...

Lorcan moves a bit and makes a grab at the Mane Six who backs away...then he mumbles in regret, "I'm sorry..." The dragon then disintegrated until there's nothing of Spike's brother left.

It looked like all were going to quiet down now after all that work. You think after a battle this fierce, every one of pony and dragon could go back to their normal lives....but you be wrong.

"Ruuaarrruuughh." Suddenly without warning, just near Twilight Sparkle's area, came Psycho Steel the Destructible, still going and about to attack the unsuspecting unicorn.

"Twilight, watch out!" Spike shouted out from noticing this as he used his Flame Steps technique to dash over to push Twilight out of harm's way, but...

"Gripfruvhmm...." But in exchange for saving Twilight, Spike got caught in the creation made by Lorcan before his sudden end. "Prrofruvhmm...." Then without any way of stopping this action on time, Psycho Steel the Destructible ignited its flying system to take off at a fast rate that even the Dragon Council was not fast to act on time.

"Spike," Twilight called out in panic in seeing her friend was taken and by the creature made of darkness that Lorcan made from.

"Grandchild," Skykoran the Old shouted, seeing his last member of his breed was in trouble. He was almost about to begin pursuit, just as anyone would do for their friend except.... There was a glowing flash from the metallic creature's eyes; a familiar sense of magic aura was covering the Destructible monstrosity. "No, it's performing a Magical Kamikaze!" The old dragon spoke in horror in realizing what this defeated creation of Lorcan was doing and it was terrifying by the news to the other dragons.

"A wha's see." Pinkie Pie looked to the old dragon in puzzlement, what did he mean by that?

"The creature is going to explode and take out almost an entire sky area, we need to protect you all when that happens." Mei Long explained with much horror in realizing the means of this action and the effects are not at all too pleasant to witness the bear happenings.

"No way; what about Spike?" Applejack responded off in disbelief, then what does that mean for Spike's case unless....

"Right, I gotta fly up and...." Rainbow Dash was about to soar up to save the dragon that was her pal until...she was cut off by a Council Dragon's claw.

"You FOOL! Even Dragons protection might not hold against what power that thing can unleash!" Jormun argued off to the foolish pony, the dragon maybe stubborn, but even he's not stupid enough to let any reckless action happen. Dragons, though they are big, strong, and powerful, even their durability has a limit, even against such a close range of that kamikaze ploy at work.

"But then Spike would be..." Fluttershy tried to protest that if Spike was left up to that thing going to explode, then it would take the baby dragon too.

"It's about to happen, all dragons, shield your wings to any pony!" Drulis issued out the rest of the dragons of the Council Clans as each dragon went to a pony group in terms of twos, threes, to fours, etc., and shielded them all with their wings.

"But Spikey-Wikey is still up there!" Rarity argued off to the dragons that were not giving her, the Mane Six, or any pony for that matter, any chance to argue.

At this time, Psycho Steel the Destructible was soaring up higher and higher with his grip on Spike not letting off. The baby dragon did not know why this thing was doing, or how it could still be active. He thought he himself saw this monstrous beast beaten already, so how was it that the creature made from darkness that Lorcan spoke about was even still willing to go on?

"Urragh, let go, you reject-copy-freak! At least Rainbow Dash's work is better than you are." Spike struggled and snap at this piece of copy work of Rainbow Dash's that Lorcan pulled out, without knowing 'where' his brother even got such a thing in the first place.

"Beep-beep...." Just then, Psycho Steel the Destructible had its eyes flash with his aura completely covering over him and Spike at this time. "All targets must be eliminated, so says the will of Grimmore's Law!" The soulless creature proclaimed out to which Spike was puzzled, he heard the name Grimmore and suddenly yelped into knowing...that was the name of the guy Lorcan lashed at before the guy made the baby dragon toast his own brother before it turned out to be a clone, "Engaging Explosive Meltdown!" Psycho Steel the Destructible proclaimed out a robotic response in accessing the function to explode and take out any within it's range.

"SAY WHA!" Spike shout out in shock, this thing was gonna blow itself up WITH HIM ALONG FOR THE RIDE!

"Teen minus 30 seconds," Psycho Steel the Destructible proclaimed out the remaining time left before he self-destructs while soaring higher in the air.

"Urragh....." Spike tried to pull himself loose from the thing's grip, but it was very tight.

"20 seconds...." Psycho Steel the Destructible proclaimed out the remaining bits of the time as Spike was just now able to free his left arm from this guy's grip. "10 seconds...." By the time the baby dragon finally struggled to pull out his right arm to use both arms to push out, he heard that last statement on how much time is left.

"No-no, come on, don't quit on me now." Spike struggled to put all his strength into pushing himself free He can't die now, not after all the things and hardships he himself went through, he just can't, the baby dragon wants to do so much after reuniting with his friends. Say things that he shouldn't have said or those Spike hurt, he can't die; Spike can't now.

"5...4...3...2...1...0," Psycho Steel the Destructible's voice spoke off from soaring completely above all of Equestria's watchful sight as he looked like a star within the skies.

At this moment, what happened next came completely out of nowhere that everyone was caught unaware. "Triiiisssivhmm..." There was a bright light with the skies, but the dragons and even some unicorns and alicorns used magic to shield everything and everyone before...it happened. "KURPOWWWW-BOOOMFRUVHMMM..." The others could just about register it, a huge explosion of chaotic fire exploded into what some scientist say the change reaction of a star going super-nova in the sky. The entire area was having massive hurricane winds blowing and grounds quaking underneath the ground folks, everything was in a mids of coliseum mayhem and it continued for only a short time before...it ceased. "Frusvhmm....TRIFVHM-Trifivhmm..." Then when everything settled down in expecting it to have been over, something impacted on the ground that was in the bits of six items; The Elements of Harmony, return to their original jewelry form. Many that saw the six preciously Elements lie there, on the ground, smoking a bit, but were apparently not damaged, but that was not the worst of it. What truly had some folks attention, was that something 'else' was missing from having the Elements of Harmony, where was the dragon user, where was...Spike.

"No...." Twilight Sparkle spoke from coming out from under King Spykoran the Old in seeing this, followed by her five friends of the Mane Six. "Spike....I...." The smart pony tried to say, feeling no words could escape her mouth as small tears begin to slip down her cheeks. "No....No...No...." Twilight shook her head in trying to throw out the idea of what this was all meaning and looked up to the sky where the remaining explosive display shows nothing by smoke & flames ceasing into nothingness, "Noooouuuoooaaaaghhhh!" Twilight Sparkle soon screamed up to the very skies of all of Equestria to hear her painful cry...of a heart now breaking.

"No...Spike..." Nyx said as she and her friends hug each other. Their dragon friend...is gone.

"No...Lorcan..." Luna said with her mane covering her face. She notices some of the others looking, making the alicorn correct herself. "I mean, Spike! Spike! Sorry..."

Twilight comments sadly, "No...I can't believe it. Spike is really gone..."

Pinkie Pie point out, "The author has MANY more MLP stories after this one and Spike is in MOST of them." Amost all the other heroes groaning, knowing this is just Pinkie being - well, Pinkie.

Twilight comment, "This is TWO little brothers Lorcan has cost me. MY sole consolation in this case being that at least Lorcan isn't going to be hurting anybody else."

Many were now lowering their heads with much grave and sorrow expressions on their faces. Many saw over the battle that they fought in, much destruction has happened, much have been laid to waste around here. Even though the ponies of Equestria may have won the battle against the Dragon Army of Tadaka, the price by the ending result was too high to pay. Lives that many did not want to see lost, Jormun, Mie Long, even Duilis had blank, but sadden expressions when they looked to their king, Spykoran the Old. The old king let off two tears in bear witnessing the lives that were lost for each one. One was for the lost of his first grandchild; Lorcan, by the the trickery of another treacherous foe and the hands of another. The other...was the brave sacrifice of his second grandchild who was the one who ended Lorcan's life and for saving the life of a pony, one that all feel a heavy burden on their hearts. It may as well be known to everyone here, that Spike, of this generation of ponies, is now....gone. Forever to remembered, the baby dragon lived a short life and died in battle, it was a sad fate....no parent, even grandparent would see befall their children.

Suddenly something crash into Phobos, sending him to the ground hard. Golden Heart turns and asks in alarm, "Phobos?"

"Ouch! Someone get this thing off my back!" Phobos complains upset. The others came over and gasp upon seeing what landed on their dragon friend: it's Spike...but the baby dragon is barely breathing and he is barely alive.

"Spike," Most of the ponies exclaims as they rush over quickly. Celestia trots over and checks on him.

Celestia in worry spoke up, "Spike is barely breathing...he won't have much time. We must get him to the hospital, fast."

Twilight nods in sadness and looks at Spike, praying and hoping...that he would live...

But all hopes cannot come true, can they?

"Hello? Still stuck here," Phobos complains as he is still pinned down by the unconscious Spike, "Anyone; Help!"

Author's Notes:

Lorcan is defeated but what of Spike? Will he live? In the next chapter, the saddest moment occurs in the series...but at the funeral, a miracle occurred. And how is Twilight's Love of Eternal, which Ben Mare has gotten her when he returned, come in play? Read, review and suggest.

Metal Madness is a song from Sonic Heroes.

This chapter holds bits of references to a future fanmake of the final episode of the Strong Bad games.

Pinkie Pie's comment about her and her friends being dragons and Spike a pony is a reference to my future 'My Little Dragon: Friendship is Magic' stories.

This chapter brings back Nyx/Nightmare Moon's sword from 'Past Sins'.

Voldemort's End is the song from the final Harry Potter film. Spike grabbing Lorcan and throwing them both off the high tower comes from the same film.

The demise of Psycho Steel the Indestructible came from the SBBB Game. The scene came from a Super Smash Bros. Brawl game from a robot boss that when it was defeated and about to be ended, it would grab the targets, shot them up into the air, activates a bomb to take them out in an explosion.