"You came back..." Applebloom murmured to herself, watching the reinforcements following Sweetie Belle rush in, fending off the horde that had been threatening to overwhelm the Ark. Even so, there was a clear disadvantage. The monsters that Twilight had sent had thrusters and could easily move about, whilst most of the avatars were relegated to having to use corpses to push off from. However, it didn't matter to Applebloom. Already she could see the wall of the Ark becoming thicker as hope began to grow. Even the mating chambers had ceased their love making and were instead cheering on the reinforcement. Applebloom realized now exactly how all the magic in the world worked. "Everyone! Get up and get moving! We've got to help them!" Applebloom commanded, a surge of confidence inspiring her. Within seconds, the order had passed through the Ark and now the navigators began tilting the massive ship back and forth, crushing any foolish enough to come close.

Meanwhile, Discord's head extended from Scootabelle's shoulder, transforming one of the beasts into a marshmallow and eating it.

"Hehe, it's a lot more fun when you're on the winning side" he chortled to Sweetie Belle. His eyes narrowed as the swarm of creatures pulled back. "That's not right" he mumbled as they began to form circles. In an instant, Twilight's creations had rethought their attack strategy, breaking into two rings. The smaller ring of creatures flew for Scootabelle and surrounded them. "Ring around the rosie?" Discord questioned before bolts of black energy shout out from the inside of the ring, hitting him and Scootabelle.

"No, not again" Applebloom bemoaned as the larger of the rings set upon the Ark, shocking it as well. The avatar army outside attempted to break through the rings, but every time they killed one creature, a new monstrosity took its place to fill in the energy circuit.

"Don't give up!" Sweetie bellowed telepathically, gritting her teeth as the shell of Scootabelle strained against the assault. With a flash of green magic, the horn on Scootabelle's head grew to massive sizes and began spinning.

"Oh, I remember this! Let's do it!" Discord cackled, giving his own power to the drill as they charged for the black ring, letting out a war cry. With a crack, the energy circuit had been punctured and Scootabelle was freed from the horde. The swarm of squealing monsters howled and chased after them, still spinning in their deadly circle.

"She's heading straight for us?!" Applebloom sputtered, turning to Celestia for answers.

"Sweetie Belle has no malice in her heart. The power of her avatar proves this. She's not going to ram us. We are going to fuse our energies" Celestia explained, pride taking her as Discord and Sweetie reached the Ark's tip, avoiding the ring that surrounded the Ark. Instead of crushing the tip, the energies of both constructs flashed and crackled, lightning spurting from impact point as the magic melded together, the Elements of Harmony that powered the Ark synchronizing with the raw camraderie of Scootabelle. With a pulse of green light, both of the monstrous rings were shattered entirely as the glorious sharing of powers completed. The Ark radiated with a green aura now, Scootabelle and Discord firmly embedded inside of the bow.

With a flash of lights, Twilight's remaining minions pulled back, assembling themselves into a living wall of clamped limbs and jaws, capable of matching the powered-up Ark.

"Quick, we need a name" Discord giggled to Sweetie Belle as the assembled horde ignited their thrusters all at once and charged the Ark.

"Ark is still fine, now let's do it!" Sweetie quickly replied, gritting her teeth in preparation for the monsters bodily flinging themselves at the new combining of powers. With an enormous clash, the two forces struggled against each other. But Twilight's creations had met their match this time. With a final roar, Sweetie forced the Ark to sprout arms of magic and slam them into the underside of her foes. Hundreds of the black beasts exploded from the impact alone and the remaining alive ones broke ranks, their formation falling apart as they wildly scrambled for the portal that had brought them there in the first place. But Twilight did not tolerate failure. The portal shattered shut, the space time anomaly smoothing out. As their connection to Twilight was broken, the army froze in place, the tortured creatures floating about in stasis.

The assembled Equestrians let out a cheer, even if the lack of air made it impossible for most to hear each other. Then the Moon began to move. All present were paralyzed in shock as the pale lunar surface was lit up with purple leylines, enchantments of all types covering the Moon in distinct patterns. With a flash, the enchantments were activated and the Moon began to warp, white wisps rising from the purple as the rock deformed, taking a somewhat equine shape. As the transformation ended, the Moon was gone, replaced by a massive golem of white stone.

"Twilight, you would desecrate Luna's Moon?" Celestia hissed, disappointment and anger running through her in equal measure. She had suspected it before when she saw the tortured beings Twilight had created, but this proved it. For the white wisps rising from the purple lines weren't just anything. They were souls, millions of souls. The Moon by nature was a powerful place, the magic that had contained Nightmare Moon still there in traces. Twilight had corrupted the spell to trap the souls of all who died, for the grand purpose of fueling this construct. But Celestia couldn't blame Twilight for this abherration against nature. It had been she who taught the purple alicorn the spells necessary to perform this(though Twilight had clearly improved on them). She had trusted Twilight, given her too much free rein. Now, all suffered for it.

The white golem cracked out its joints, the shape of an alicorn now more clear as lunar soil fell off it in droves. As it finished doing so, it turned its eye on the still stunned Equestrians. The purple magic that made up its soulless eyes had no emotion as the souls on the former Moon burned as fuel. Opening its maw, the golem channeled several hundred souls into its mouth.

"Everyone, dodge!" Shining Armor bellowed desperately, aware that no one could hear him. The souls in the golem's mouth burned purple, and were fired forth in a massive beam of magic that could have engulfed a continent.