Everyone was frozen, in both confusion, and terror. “Okay...run that by us again?”

Scoddri sighed and rubbed his face with his hoof. “That is Discordant. The Anti-Spiral I was supposed to become when I forsook my connection to the Spiral. But, my will was great, and I did not wish to become an Anti-Spiral, not truly. So, instead of becoming Discordant, I became Discord. Sure, I was an oddity to the Anti-Spirals, but I was still no longer of the Spiral Races, and so they left me be.”

Kamina actually began to visibly panic, hyperventilating. “Y-you mean we have a full-fledged god-like entity of destruction that hates all life going on a rampage in the desert right now?!”

“Yes. Discordant is currently in a frenzy, completely unaware of his surroundings beyond instinctive reactions. He's furious for something he doesn't know of yet, and he senses there's no life out there in the desert, and his Anti-Spiral nature forces him to react logically, so he is venting where the repercussions would be less obvious. As you can guess; I was the one that made Discord so unique.” Scoddri tapped his head, and a single back-angled horn came from his forehead, making him hiss. “Still recovering...sorry. But I'm no use to you like this. The Elements also won't work on him since Discordant isn't evil as he is; merely confused. But if you don't do something soon; he'll move on to inhabited areas. Eventually wipe out the planet, and then; start the Anti-Spiral dogma in this dimension, as they are all want to do.”

“So all of this was just a ploy to finally get Harmonia to give up, and let the Rainbow of Light be used on you to free you from the Anti-Spiral?” Twilight asked in shock, and then sighed. “I can't blame you. If you had that...thing, inside you, trying to change who you are; then I can understand.” Twilight paced for a few moments, clearly coming up with a solution, and not liking her conclusions. “Okay...everypony...I MIGHT have a way to resolve this....”

“What is it sugarcube? From the way yer lookin' and talkin'...I'm thinkin' we might not like the sound of it; but we're kinda in a spot right now.” AJ gestured for Twilight to continue, and she looked at everyone assembled.

“Kamina.” She turned to her lover, who focused entirely on her. “Remember? Combining?”

Kamina smiled wistfully. “Yeah...that was so awesome....”

“I've developed a way for it to be done....” Twilight bashfully supplied, getting them all to shout “WHAT?!” in reply, as she nervously blushed and kicked a hoof. “W-well...it was just a little project...and you weren't even looking at your armor....”

“Wait. My Hearth's Warming Eve armor?” Kamina asked in confusion. Since his evolution into a chimeric hippogriff; he hadn't even looked at it since he could only wear the helmet now.

“Yes. At first I was just adding enchantments to make it morph and fit to your body; however it changed. That was hard. But then...I just...well; come on, I'll show you.” Twilight galloped to the library, and the others, save Scoddri, followed.

“...Okay...tired old kirin here...just...sitting alone....” He fell over onto his side, sighing in exhaustion. “I'm so lonely.”

===//////>

Twilight yanked the white sheet off of the display in the basement, and...well.... “You used my Nightmare Night costume too?” Kamina asked, both irritated, amused, and somewhat ecstatic. His armor now looked like a ponyfied Gurren in full; like a four-legged Ganmen, as the peytral now had a clear and familiar face; shades and all. He reached out and touched it, and it grew and shifted to how it would be able to fit him. “Wow....”

“It's got a full network of spiral runes on the inside. I theorized that so long as it was in the form of a spiral; anything could be used as a conduit for your Spiral Power.” Twilight added, and used her magic to open the peytral of the armor, which split open at the “mouth” of the face on the peytral, eventually splitting all the way open along the barrel and folding open to reveal the armor was a solid piece of construction; engineered like a fine piece of technological robotic hardware. This got many sounds of awe and confusion. “I've been reading the books of a genius engineer who lives in Bitsburg. His theories and construction applications have been invaluable.”

“...Does his name rhyme, or is at least similar to the name Leeron?” Kamina asked, getting Twilight to blink in confusion.

“Um...yes, actually. The engineer's name is Hayron.” Twilight informed him, getting Kamina burst out in laughter to their confusion.

“Even across time and space, that fruity-cool guy just keeps helping us.” Kamina chuckled a bit more, but it was a bit melancholy since Kamina just had to reminisce about Leeron. “This is great Twi, but I need more than just Gurren. I need someone who can act as Lagann, and we don't have a powerful enough catalyst to use as the focus.”

Spike's ears perked up, and he levitated the drill-shaped Hope from his peytral up to his face, to see that it was, in fact; a drill. “Wait...we do!” Hope shined brightly as Spiral Power also filled the spiral on it, making a pleased and truly harmonious tone ring out from it. “I'd be proud to combine with you bro!”

All the mares and Blitz blushed at the phrasing, but the guys didn't even flinch. “That's great Simon...Spike....” Kamina shook his head, visibly trying not to get lost in nostalgia. “But you still need-.”

“Lagann.” Game interjected, and then approached Spike. “I'll be Lagann. I'm too tired to do much else, but I'll support you.” Game touched Spike's shoulder, and looked him in the eye, even if he had no eyes right now. “Get me back home, okay?”

“Yes. I will.” Spike answered assuredly, and in response; Game seemed to melt onto Spike, covering him from snout to tail tip, and solidified into gray opaque crystalline armor of similar style to Gurren, with runes of spirals running throughout him, and a hole in his peytral clearly intended for where Hope would go. “Aniki.” Spike grinned devilishly at his big brother as he climbed into Gurren, and it sealed over him, their glowing spiraling eyes meeting in both excitement, and just how effing awesome this could be. #Let's do this!#

===//////>

Discordant panted as he finally came out of his blind rage and confusion, looking out at the desolate and glassed landscape of what was once the San Palomino Desert. “Where am I?” The amalgamated purple being of various parts closed his eyes, and felt out his surroundings. “This world...is utterly ripe with the Power of the Spiral Races. It is constantly on the very edge of practically exploding from it's own power....” Discordant took a deep breath, and let out a hissing sigh. “Disgusting...these fools have let their power run rampant, and now their world is on the verge of collapse. How is it that this planet is even still here? I've seen worlds far greater than this one implode long before they ever reached this level of power.”

The god-like being opened his eyes again, and sneered. “I will have to save them.” He looked to the nearest settlement off in the far, far distance.

Appleloosa....

“By culling their numbers.” Discordant idly raised his left leonine hand in the direction of the completely defenseless town, and began charging his power to wipe it off the face of Equus like a smudge from slate. “It begins.”

An utterly massive beam of raw power streamed from his hand; large enough in span to destroy the small town in a single blast twice over. “What?” Suddenly, inexplicably, astoundingly; the blast split in two. It split just enough for it's halves to miss the town and the orchard, but not enough to leave the land it struck glassed with the intense heat of the blast, and barren of all life downrange of the source for miles. “How? Nothing on this planet is...wait....” He focused his vision, and saw two armored beings of an average size flying towards him from Appleloosa so fast they broke the sound barrier. “Them!”

===//////>

“That was close!” Kamina shouted as he and Spike rocketed towards the giant Anti-Spiral. “If we didn't anticipate him attacking Appleloosa first, they'd have all died just now!” {And be glad I'm here! If I didn't make us link up directly to Gurren; we'd have never been able to do that.} 'I know Animak; you're eternally awesome in my book.' Animak was literally able to directly synch together Kamina and Gurren into a single entity. So, effectively; while wearing Gurren, Kamina wasn't just a pilot, or a guy in a suit; he WAS Gurren. You wouldn't find so much as an ounce of organic tissue inside them right now. Kamina himself was now a living mass of Spiral Power, like how Simon became during his final battle, and the empty space inside was now filled instead with all the mechanical parts a robot of this sort would need, while Kamina himself was now the acting AI.

Kamina wasn't going to ask too much on it though. He can turn into a robot by Combining with Gurren; that was awesome and good enough for him, especially since Animak promised they could return to normal whenever.

“Well let's thank Twilight then! She's the one who said it would've been smart to set out from Appleloosa considering it's the closest town to San Palomino aside from Las Pegasus!” ^Don't forget that she also guessed right that he was closer to Appleloosa than Las Pegasus.^ Game was shocked to find he'd more or less fused to Spike completely, but he got over it pretty fast. Somehow; they were similar to Kamina and Gurren right now, only instead of being a robot, they were a golem. They were crystal through and through, practically bursting at the seams with Spiral Power. It was awesome. Especially since Game could still feel he had the power to return to normal that he always felt with any other transformation.

“Okay little bro! First thing we'll do is try to chat him up, get him to calm down while everyone else gets things ready! If it decides to fight; we'll fight! But I've seen these things at their fullest power! They can destroy entire galaxies, so if it comes to that; we've got to Combine, and put it down as quickly as possible!” Kamina shouted over to his brother, getting a nod in confirmation as their swirling eyes met again.

“Got it!” Spike responded, and they stopped flapping their wings as their energy rockets shut off and retracted back into their backs under their wings, and slowed to a hover just a short distance from the head of the glaring Discordant, who patiently awaited their arrival.

“So...you three again? What is it this time? Can't you see I have work to do?” Discordant's dismissive and only idle irritation threw the brothers off. They didn't expect him to sound like Discord, and aside from his attempt to massacre a town just prior; they'd almost assume he was still Discord and not Discordant.

“This time; we are here to stop you! You just tried to murder hundreds of innocent lives!” Spike shouted so the giant being could hear him. “We thought we'd have to fight you, but it'd be nice if you could see reason!”

“Reason? You fools are blind to the danger! This planet teeters on the precipice of doom! One small tip of the scale; and it will all die! Can't you idiots see the folly of the Spiral Race? No. Of course not; you're their champions. So there is no reason on your behalf; your reasoning will lead only to destruction!” Discordant crossed his arms, and leered at the infinitesimally smaller males who challenged him. “Or do you? I would hear your side of things before I act. To act as rashly as I had was perhaps far too extreme. Give me enough validation to let you worms live and I might just go elsewhere. I'm sure there is someplace else I might be able to save if this world is so intent on it's own doom.”

“This world has existed for eons without it destroying itself! Why would it happen now?! Everyone lives their own lives, doing their own things, not hurting each other all the time! The biggest examples of Spiral Power fly before you right now!” Kamina shouted at Discordant, who hummed and scratched his chin, before sighing.

“I see...so this surge of Spiral Power I see flooding this entire world is all your fault? Simply you; who have come here, has caused everything to begin shifting in balance so swiftly? Madness. Then if I remove you....” Discordant sneered as he began charging his power. “Then this world would begin to stabilize again! Thank you for providing a means to saving this world without having to sacrifice so much.”

Discordant immediately began summoning balls of energy, and launching the homing blasts at the two warriors like a rain of missiles. “Scatter!” They flew in opposite directions to divide the attack's projectiles away from such a clusterfuck of instant death. They met again on the other side of the massive being, who's size was clearly a speed disadvantage for such small things. “Alright, we've got to Combine! There's no way we can take him on separately, it just makes us easier to deal with!”

“Right...sorry bro.” Kamina hovered in place, and braced himself as Spike flew over him. “Hope! Let's show this guy what it means to look towards the future!” Spike held Hope out in his hoof, and it shined in response before he stabbed it into the hole in his peytral. “GATTAI!”

He twisted Hope into his peytral, and suddenly all the spirals across Game flared as they morphed into a humanoid torso with Spike's Kirin head and draconic arms, while where the legs and tail would've normally started; was a giant drill, that span and they stabbed clean into Kamina, right behind his neck. It was painless, and Kamina grunted in surprise at the impact, but then his peytral's mouth opened up, and his head withdrew into it before closing, as his body became even sharper, and more defined, their wings working together along with their jets to keep them afloat as Kamina's limbs grew longer, and his decorations sharpened, became more angular, the flame motifs actually emitting green flames.

Finally; they grew. They shot up in size so rapidly it was like they were injected with the raw essence of the titans themselves. “WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK WE ARE~?!” They all screamed in unison, all four of them. “We are the ultimate!” Discordant finally finished turning all the way around, and they punished his accomplishment by punching him across the face with Lagann's right fist. “We, together, are Gurren Lagann! Not even the heavens can contain us! What makes you think you can?!” They were now at eye level with the serpentine purple being. “So then, if you think you can; who the hell do you think YOU are?” Their voices demanded in perfect unison, creating a mechanical echo.

“I am Discordant...the Last Anti-Spiral.” He leered at them and prepared to fight by summoning a familiar purple sword, and in response, Gurren Lagann generated a giant drill lance from nothing; a staple technique of Spiral Power, which he twirled around and got into a pouncing stance with his lower body. “Even so far removed, even split from the whole; I felt it when the Anti-Spiral died. If you think I'll let you kill me; think again!”

They charged at one another, clashing weapons.

===//////>

Everyone looked on in worry towards the desert from the deck of a massive airship galleon that was nearing Appleloosa. The ship was an elegant thing, made of lighter, yet firm woods, lacquered with a cherry finish, and trimmed with liquid gold embroideries and railings. Nobles just knew how to waste money. The sky bubble that kept it aloft was lightly armored with sheets of metal, and painted on the sides with the royal emblem of two alicorns crossing horns. They all gaped, and fretted over how helpless the situation made them, as not even the massive number of cannons on the sides of HMS Sol could do anything according to a certain albino kirin.

“So you're saying that those four are our only hope?” Celestia asked Scoddri desperately, whom sighed and shook his head from his seated spot next to her.

“For the last time Tia; yes. Nothing can defeat an Anti-Spiral but someone who can use Spiral Power to equal or greater power.” He waved a white scaly hoof towards the ongoing clash, their weapons colliding with each other causing shockwaves powerful enough to be felt as turbulence from this far away. “And those four are easily the most powerful Spiral Warriors on this planet, beings not only are they the only ones, but they're far more powerful than even I was before becoming an Anti-Spiral.”

Scoddri was recovering rather well. He was already growing back to his original birth-form height of around seven feet, which was a whole foot taller than Celestia, which made her a little flustered; she was used to looking down all the time. “But what about you? You're coming along nicely.” Celestia didn't catch her phrasing until it was too late, and she blushed as the kirin leaned towards her with a wily grin.

“It's okay. I look at myself too.” Scoddri wagged his eyebrows, and made a quick smooch at the air, and she scooted away slightly as she averted her eyes. “Regardless; witty banter and sexual tension can wait. We can't do much, but if we combine everything we have; we might be able to turn the tables in our friend's favor should they need it.”

Celestia cleared her throat, and nodded. “Right. Luna is already preparing it. I really, really hope the other countries don't think we're performing military spell testing. This would not be easy to ignore....”

“Tia, just drop the usual. A world-ending cataclysm was happening and you had to act accordingly. They'll accept it as usual and just be glad Equestria has to deal with these things and not them.” Scoddri stated to calm her down, getting a confused and surprised look from her. “What? You thought I was contained to that statue? I was the least “discordant” part of Discord.” Scoddri winked. “While I may be a mischievous maker of Chaos, I don't believe in going as far as Discord always went. I'd never change a living being's form without consent. So while my body was trapped in stone; I had free range within Canterlot as a phantom. You would NOT believe the things your ponies can get up to.”

“And I can assume you stalked me most of that time?” Celestia asked slyly as she fluttered her eyes, and it was Scoddri's turn to blush and look away.

“W-well...you were the only constant in that limbo...and it was hard to ignore you, beings you always caught my eye, my thoughts, my....” Scoddri shut up, he wasn't going to dig that hole any deeper.

“Oh-no, please, go on.” Celestia urged as she leaned up to him, her sly expression just getting smarmy at this point.

“...You're beautiful, alright?” Scoddri admitted, and Celestia tittered as she backed off.

“Just so long as you admit it.” 'Score! Sexy stallion has his eyes on the prize.' Celestia was excited at the prospect. Sure, she had an infinite number of suitors, but none of them had the potential that Scoddri possessed, what with him clearly being ageless, along with all the other bonuses he had even before being split from Discordant.

“Really sister?” Luna's voice came from behind them, and they turned to see Luna. “Not even a day out of his torture and you're already reeling him in? You couldn't give him more time to adjust?” They both blushed and kicked their hooves in embarrassment. “Regardless; remember that he's my daughter's sire.” Luna quickly trotted up, and nuzzled the surprised Scoddri, while she looked at the miffed Celestia in triumph. “He's already got one of us.”

“It. Is. ON!” Celestia declared as the sisters began glaring at each other.

“Um...ladies...don't we have more important things to consider?” Scoddri knew it was true; beings the moment he was split from Discordant, Nyx changed from a draconequus into a kirin according to Luna; who was the only one who had seen the sleeping poor dear. The evidence was damning, and he was going to take responsibility. However; that responsibility was quickly turning out to be rather complex. Such as; being the object of desire of TWO possessive and competitive sisters that practically molested him with their eyes the moment they saw him.

“...Truce?” Luna asked.

“...Truce.” Celestia confirmed, but quickly grabbed Scoddri's head, and kissed him to both his and Luna's shock. “But this isn't over. He WILL be mine!”

“Ladies!” Scoddri shouted, finally getting them to focus. “Giant battle? Impending doom? End of the world? Ring a bell?” He pointed back at the battle which was utterly destroying any form of landscape the desert had, as while Discordant was intent on simply fighting; Gurren Lagann was desperately trying to contain the fight to the desert. “We can talk about our love triangle later! As far as I'm concerned I love you both!” Scoddri clasped his hooves over his mouth in shock as his face turned red, and the sisters both beamed at him. “Oh no....”

“Oh~ yes! When this is over; we're all going to sit down, and talk this out.” Celestia crowed, and looked to her sister who nodded as well.

“Yes, we shall. Now then, don't you worry about the spell; it's charged. I just wish we didn't have to resort to the Megaspell.” Luna shivered. “I still remember what Think Tank told me about the possibilities of Megaspells...I wish we never tread so far.” Luna remembered what Think Tank told her about the destructive power of a Megaspell could do. Some could implode, utterly destroying everything within a spherical mile radius by gravitationally pulling it into a dense ball of pure matter. Others could simply wash a swathe of fire over miles of land in a flash, and some could even do outlandish things such as turn everything in the AoE into a cactus. Terrifying.

“Yes, but the one we're using is going to be one of the contained spells.” Celestia looked out at the desert, and sighed in worry. “I just hope that if we do have to use it, that somehow my son can escape with his friends.”

===//////>

Lagann grit his teeth as he pushed against Discordant's blocking sword, and then jumped up slightly with his talons and Gurren grappled with the Anti-Spiral's serpentine body as they took him down, pinning him as he desperately tried to push them off, and Lagann proceeded to lock his lance into the sands of the desert, trapping Discordant's sword, and then grabbed Discordant's throat with his free left hand. “What now Discordant? Still plan on destroying us or Equus?”

“Ech...you're making it rather hard to....” Discordant then blasted Gurren Lagann off of him with his eye beams, and he jumped back to his feet as GL recovered. “But yes!” He spawned another sword, and jumped into a wild spin, turning into a glassless cuisineart as he made his way through the air at GL, who in response spawned a broad, nearly cymbal-like drill from his left hand and used it as a shield.

After managing to block the attack, GL stabbed the lance at D only for him to hover just out of reach, but then was unexpectedly impaled on the lance that literally turned into a rocket from the energy that launched it at him. D promptly landed and ripped the offending weapon out of his stomach, only to have to dodge as another long drill nearly stabbed through his head. “Protecting your head...even as Discord you protected your head more than anything.”

“Finally noticed?” Discordant cracked his neck. “Yes; my head is my only real weakness. It holds all my important micro-organs, and only the complete destruction of my head can result in my death.” D then snapped his talons, and his head soon became covered in a simple full helm that stretched down his neck. “Hmph, good luck with that.”

“I don't need luck.” GL stated before they began strafing each other, ready to clash again. 'What are we going to do? We need to annihilate his head.' {Clearly, but he isn't going to just let us do it.} ^We just need one chance. One opening to finish him.^ <Then we'd better step it up.> Gurren Lagann suddenly jumped away from Discordant, facing towards the Badlands, and both Gurren and Lagann opened their mouths, and balls of raw energy began charging from them, and Discordant dashed at GL to try and interrupt them. “GIGA BURST!” To Discordant's surprise; they cut off the charge to fire twin beams of energy fired at the stumbling Discordant who was trying to dodge while the twin beams began to spiral together into a drill of pure energy, and barely moved his head out of the way of the spinning blast of doom as it shredded his body from the neck down into nothing.

“Gah~!” Discordant screamed as his head began to fall, while the blast continued on towards the Badlands, where something was demolished harshly enough to be heard from here. “Damn you!” He tried to regenerate, but GL stabbed another lance into his neck, surging him with Spiral Power which overrode his regeneration. “...Well...what are you waiting for?”

“...You are the last, right?” 'Spike! What are you doing?! Finish him!' <But Aniki-.> ^Just do it! We can't risk it again.^ {...But he is the last....} “You are the last of the Anti-Spirals, right?”

“Yes. I've made that clear haven't I? If I die, then unless someone else sees the folly of the Spiral Races, then the Anti-Spirals would be no more. Now get on with it.” Discordant sighed and closed his eyes. “It's been a long time coming anyway....”

“....” <I...I can't do it....> 'Then I'll do it. I thought we could save him before, and look where that got us.' ^Look where it got me. But, I'm not going to complain too much either way.^ {No.} “No.” GL removed the lance from his throat, and Discordant gasped in surprise as his body began growing back. “Either give up your ways...or leave here. Since you are the Last...I can't bring myself to erase you completely.”

“You would spare me? After all that I've done? What I tried to do? What about the sins of my race?” Discordant was...confused. How could they just give up their golden opportunity like that? 'Intriguing...perhaps....'

“You have a chance...ONE chance. If you try again, if you hurt innocents; we WILL end you.” GL then retracted his weapons, and held a claw down to the fully recovered Discordant. “But otherwise...will you accept? Our offer of forgiveness, and friendship?”

Discordant gaped in awe, and he tentatively reached out and grasped the offered claw in his talon, which helped him up, and they stood on even ground, looking each other in the eyes. “...Very well. But only if you swear. Upon your lives. That you will NOT let the Spiral Nemesis come to pass...Simon did this in the Anti-Spiral's dying breaths. If you do this for me...I can be at ease.” Discordant was still an Anti-Spiral, part of a whole, even if not. He saw it all.

“We will. On our names, and our hearts, sworn upon the pride we hold on our backs, and the love we clutch to our chests; we will not let it happen.” 'This I swear.' <I swear.> {I swear.} ^I swear.^ They slammed a fist against their crystalline chest, and Discordant...relaxed.

“Good...good.” He looked to the sky, and pondered. “But there are other worlds out there. Ones who do not know of the danger. I will not slay them, if I can avoid it. But I must warn them of the power they ultimately must abstain from.” Discordant opened his wings, and began floating into the sky, looking down upon the being who gave him a chance. “If I find you've broken your oath...I shall return. And none shall survive.”

“Understood. We'll be waiting if that happens, but we hope to see you again under friendlier terms.” Gurren Lagann bowed slightly, and Discordant smirked as he impishly saluted before taking off into the sky, turning into a vibrant purple star before he vanished from sight. “...That ended far better than we could have hoped for.” 'I guess it just goes to show.' {That Friendship.} <Is Magic.> ^Tartarus yeah.^ They turned towards Appleloosa and the approaching HMS Sol. “...Does anybody know how to return to normal?” They all went silent...and Animak chuckled. {Don't worry; I've got this.}

===//////>

“That may have been anticlimactic, but it was a wonderful way to end things. I'm proud of you four so much.” Celestia stated as she approached the quartet that had returned to normal, and nuzzled her son lovingly. “You had me worried....”

“Mom; you should know me better by now.” Kamina nuzzled back and kissed her on the cheek, before looking to the side at...Animak. “So...how'd this happen again?” Kamina asked his new “twin” brother, who only had the difference of blue eyes and red plumage on his head and tail, while Kamina now had both eyes red again.

“Dude; Spiral Power can generate matter from nothing. That's the whole fear factor behind it for the Anti-Spirals. We were exerting so much Spiral Power I'm surprised we didn't detonate the planet.” Animak looked over the railing down at the glassed desert they'd fought on as Gurren Lagann. “In fact...um...look.”

Everyone looked over the railing down at the desert, and gaped at seeing small golem-like foals seemingly made of various colors of crystal start to wander about aimlessly, and Game groaned. “I asexually reproduced?! I thought that was just a myth!” Game looked himself over. While he'd returned to mostly being normal, he could omit any orifices, eyes, ears, hair, or even his reproductive organs at will, and the spiral stripes were there to stay. “Great...I'm a non-consensual dad of dozens....”

“Crystal ponies can asexually reproduce?” Twilight asked both in awe and excitement at learning something new.

“It was just a legend...or, well, not I guess. But it was said in times of great population drops, should no ponies be able to reproduce fast enough; some of the stronger members of the herds would split pieces of themselves off, which would grow into young foals. But, it was long considered a myth...and...well...how many pieces of me broke off during that fight?” Game asked nervously of his three brothers-at-arms, who all looked just as concerned. “Ugh....”

“Don't worry Gamey! We can adopt them!” Pinkie beamed at the thought of being a mommy so soon, but Game paled into a whiter diamond.

“Pinkie there's like; over twenty crystal foals down there!” They all paused as they heard crying start up. “T-that we can't provide for....” Game felt terrible all of a sudden...he had foals, and he couldn't take them. Pinkie suddenly hugged him.

“Shh...I'm here Gamey.” She nuzzled him as he tried not to cry about being a deadbeat dad. He didn't want to abandon them in spite of the odd circumstances.

“Game, we'll make sure they are adopted by loving families.” Luna injected, and looked down upon the crying foals sadly. “We'd best get down there. It would seem that in the end; there were still sad outcomes of all of this.”

“C-can I at least hold one of them?” Game was heartbroken right now...was this how a mare felt if she had to give a foal away? Only he was giving away over 20, all at once.

“Certainly, but I know for fact that neither of you have an occupation that can support a foal....” Celestia informed Game and Pinkie sadly, making them both wilt, until she perked up. “Wait a minute...sister! Do we even have an event planner?”

Luna perked up as well at her suggestion. “No, we do not! We've always outsourced to ponies whose occupation was such a thing, such as Miss Pie.” Luna turned to Game. “Game, my friend; would you like a job at the castle, planning events like you did so long ago?”

“YESYESYESYESYESYESYES!” Game exploded with joy as he hugged Luna, who looked down at him with happiness at making her friend so happy. “THANK YOU WOONA~!”

“Does that mean we can keep one?” Pinkie asked hopefully, and Celestia nodded, making Pinkie's hair poof up from sheer excitement. “I'm going to be a mommy!”

“Pinkie. Being a mother is a serious thing. Are you sure you are ready for it? I mean, you and Game have only been together for a short while too.” Fluttershy brought up, and Pinkie deflated.

“W-well...I...I won't know unless I try.” She walked over to Game, and nuzzled him softly, and he returned it. “I love you Game. I want us to have foals of our own some day, but I'll gladly take in one of your crystal foals. I'm sure the Cakes would appreciate some practice alongside us before their own twins come along.”

“Thank you so much Pinkamena.” Game kissed her nose, making her smile since he used her real name with such love.

===//////>

After they'd collected the crying quartz crystal foals, some earth, some pegasi, some unicorn; the ship flew towards Canterlot, but stopped on the way over the Everfree. They had something to return.

Scoddri led the way into the Cave of Order, and Harmonia, while in a state of exhaustion from having lost all her elements, appeared excited and happy when she formed and embraced Scoddri with a gleeful expression of joy. “Oh Scoddri! I'm so happy! I'm sorry I dragged this on for so long....”

“It is alright Harmonia. You didn't know whether your Elements would have saved or destroyed me. I'm sorry too, for forcing your hoof like this.” Scoddri released the hug, and gestured to the others. “But. We have brought them back.”

The six friends and Spike all presented the Element stones from their golden mountings, and Harmonia smiled as she took them in her magical grasp, and they floated around her. “I thank you. I know it must be hard to part with them, for I sense a piece of you goes with them.”

“Well Ah wouldn't say that...it's just a...yeah....” AJ became glum at the feeling of...loss, she felt.

“For some reason...it feels harder to smile....” Pinkie bemoaned, and took one of Game's hooves into her grasp for comfort.

“Harder to think of others first...please tell us this isn't permanent.” Rarity pleaded with the Spirit of Harmony, who looked saddened.

“It will take time, but so long as you do not forget yourselves; you will regain what made you capable of bearing my Elements in the first place.” Harmonia then turned to Celestia and Luna. “And for your thievery, I shall forgive you, but only if you treat Scoddri and these brave ponies the way they deserve.”

“Oh, don't worry about that.” Luna replied slyly as she nuzzled Scoddri's neck, and Tia did the same from the other side to everyone's surprise.

“We owe them more than they know. They'll be Knights after all that they've done for Equestria.” Celestia announced, making them all gasp.

“Wait; you mean we'll be knighted? Like; noble titles and everything?” Blitz asked in surprise, only to start crowing in excitement upon Celestia nodding in response. “Yes~! Oh mom and dad are going to be so proud!”

“Good on ya babe.” Gilda smirked as she dragged her coltfriend back to the floor by his tail. “But stop embarrassing yourself.”

“If it is alright with everyone, I fear that this one is done.” Zecora announced, and rubbed one of her eyes. “Today has been too much excitement, some rest would be a good treatment.”

“Yes. I agree. I've been unable to sleep easy for over a millennium.” Harmonia yawned, and then smiled tiredly. “I'll be returning my Elements to their rightful places, but should something arise that should need them; come to me and I shall part with them willingly for a time.” Harmonia floated the Elements to each of their respective places, and with each one returned; Harmonia became more vibrant, as the colors of the rainbow began to shine through her like she was a prism. When Magic was placed after Hope, she sighed in content. “At last...I am one again. Wow...you're all such close friends....” She looked back upon the Bearers, and grinned in thought. “Actually...yes...I shall see you later friends. For I cannot think of you as anything less. Have fun.”

Her last words before fading into a restful sleep boggled them, especially when a crystal flower bloomed from the Tree of Harmony's roots, and revealed a heptagonal chest, with seven keyholes along the lid. “Oh~! Harmonia really likes you girls!” Scoddri trotted around it in excitement. “Oo~ this is nice!”

“What is it?' Twilight asked as she approached, her mane flickering in wonder as Spike and her five other friends all looked just as mystified.

“It's a Harmony Chest. Harmonia only generates them upon feelings of immense gratitude, or great happiness, or sorrow.” Scoddri then became saddened. “The last one she produced was pitch black, and filled with despair. It was when I betrayed her trust....”

“But this one is filled with...everything.” Fluttershy said with awe as she touched it gently with her hoof, as if it was a fragile and precious thing. “I feel it.”

“Me too...it holds something wonderful.” Rarity stated, as she snuggled into Spike's side. “Like Love.”

“Dreams.” Blitz added as he hovered over it.

“And everything between.” Pinkie stated as she made silly faces in the crystal box's reflections. “But how do we open it?”

“You have to find the keys of course.” Scoddri supplied for them in a completely ambiguous and unhelpful way, giving them a sly grin that told them; Discord wasn't exactly gone completely. “Know however; that finding them could take anywhere between a few moments, a few years, or a few lifetimes. Thankfully; nopony has opened the Black Box Harmonia created upon my betrayal. Even though I hid it best I could; some ponies have still arrived and unlocked a few of the locks upon the keys appearing to them. I shudder to think what it might contain....”

“So where do we put it?” Kamina asked as he picked it up in his red magic, only to feel someone else had grabbed it in their magic, and noticed the blue aura mixing with his into purple, and turned to see Animak had the same idea. “This is going to take some getting used to.”

“Yeah...we're the same guy after all.” They then turned to their mares...who all looked at them both with bedroom eyes. “Uh...crap...we just doubled our trouble.”

“Or divided it?” Kamina asked in bewilderment.

“Either or.” Animak then looked at Kamina with his own bedroom eyes, and Kamina blushed. “Don't think you're off the menu.”

“...Twincest?” Kamina asked both disturbed, and excited.

“Hell yes!” Trixie shouted, only to blush and cover her mouth as everyone looked at her. “H-hey, it's hot okay!”

“Let's put it in the vault. We don't want it getting lost or stolen by some random thief.” Celestia offered as she took the box in her own golden magic from her sons. “Let's get going. We have much to do.”

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It was the next day, and after everyone got some sleep, Celestia and Luna organized an emergency address to the country. Or, rather; Game organized it. He was already working at his old job, and so efficiently that it caught the sisters by surprise; they were even thinking of holding off on the announcements for another day as things calmed down, but Game justified that they needed to address the issues ASAP.

As for all the crystal foals; there were 24 in total, and Game managed to keep one who caught his eyes. A golden quartz filly with shocking aquamarine eyes, who was one of the few who didn't cry upon seeing him, and practically begged to be held by him. He asked Pinkie if she wanted to name her, but she declined; saying since she was his baby, he had the right. So he named her Citrine, after his sister...which upon mentioning, he nearly cried, and Citrine actually made cooing sounds and flailed her little hooves at him in a gesture of comfort, and he smiled sadly, since his sister couldn't stand to see him sad either.

The other 23 were put up for adoption, which was honestly a very fast process here in Equestria, since being a herding species; ponies were naturally drawn to taking in orphaned foals, and often adopted before even reporting it, or decide to take in the child themselves upon growing attached. Tragically, or hopefully good; almost all the unicorn foals were adopted by noble houses by the end of the day, likely they were smitten with having a child literally made of a semi-precious stone to fawn over.

They knew the rose quartz unicorn filly that Fancy adopted with Fleur, whom they named aptly; Rose, was definitely to a good home though, so they could only hope the rest got genuinely good homes like her.

Regardless, thanks to the address, the public was informed of several things.

Discord had returned, and was freed from his discordic turmoil by the Elements of Harmony, which upon being completed with the Element of Hope; were able to split the two halves that created Discord into Scoddri and Discordant. Scoddri was to be “detained” in Canterlot Castle for rehabilitation into the modern world, while Discordant, upon being defeated, was let go to try and live a new life in favor of not executing him.

Kamina, Animak who was his confirmed twin brother who formed as backlash from the power they'd unleashed, Spike, and Game were the four heroes that together formed the giant mechanical golem Gurren Lagann that fought Discordant off and offered him friendship rather than death. Thus, they were knighted along with the Elements.

Kamina was already a prince, so adding on a knight title only made it applicable for him to be referred to as Sir Kamina.

Animak was genetically the exact same as Kamina save the color divergence for his eyes and plumage, so he was already a prince too by “birth” but he preferred the thought of being called Sir Animak than Prince Animak.

Spike was titled Sir Spike of Ponyville and Bearer of Hope; granting him the Dukedom of the area to be shared with the others. Rarity practically squealed at the idea of her actually being nobility upon the realization, but being a Lady, she restrained herself.

Game was a special case, beings he was a citizen of...wherever he hailed, before being a citizen of Equestria. So he was simply titled as a knight, and servant of the court as their official event organizer. The public was also informed that all the foals were his children, but as they all could understand; he couldn't take them all in under such extenuating circumstances. This was also part of how within two days all the crystal foals were adopted.

Twilight was named Lady Twilight Sparkle of Ponyville and Bearer of Magic. She needed no further title beings she was already Celestia's protege and Kamina and Animak's First Mare, which held more power than most would think. The others were all similarly titled, beings they all didn't want or need any further titles, and some even tried to turn it down, but couldn't since it was so sudden, and didn't want to look disrespectful in front of the public.

Zecora, Trixie, and Gilda were just so happy for their significant others, and that things could calm back down.

After all had been said and done; they all went home, and were at a loss for what to do now that things had settled down.

The six members of a polygamous relationship all looked at each other from around the table in the library. Wondering what was going to happen now. “So...how do we address this?” Applejack asked as she pointed to both Animak and Kamina, who looked at each other equally lost.

“Well...Kamina was the one our whole herd was based around. But now there's two of them.” Trixie stated. “So, does this mean...what? That we divide our attention to both of them? It'd be only fair, since Kamina made time for all of us.”

“I do agree with this, especially if we can see some twincest.” Zecora licked her lips, and the brothers blushed.

“Well. As odd as it seems; I can't think of anything being too different. It just means Animak has the same feelings Kamina does for us. So that means we should do the same. It wouldn't be right to ignore him.” Twilight sat between the two, and hugged them both. “So boys, it's been a long day, and I've made the bed bigger. Want to just snuggle?”

“Yeah. I'm tired, snuggling to sleep sounds good right now.” Kamina confirmed and looked to Animak, who blinked.

“What? I'm you; just more hardcore and adamant about our Aspect. Of course I'm going to say yes to snuggling. We've been through a lot in a short time.” Animak looked at his talon and wiggled it around experimentally. “I'm still getting used to being out of our...your body.” 'And damn if this mental link wasn't confounding.'

'Don't I know it? It's like nothing's really changed. You just have a separate body now.' Kamina yawned and got up, everyone following him upstairs, where they all got into bed, and snuggled, which was a much easier thing when there were two males for the mares to spoon. “Love you all.”

“Love ya too.” Animak said before the others, and kissed Kamina on the lips, getting him to blink in surprise, and Animak to leer at him seductively. “I wasn't kidding yesterday about you being on the menu.”

“Can we please go to sleep before you two get me horny?” Trixie demanded with a light slap on Animak's chest, getting a rumbling laugh out of him and Kamina, but they complied and laid their heads back down, ready for a well-deserved period of rest.

Author's Notes:

So loud, so angry, so not in the right mindset for this. Seriously; if I tried writing this after work instead of before work the night prior; there would be tears, there would be so much hate in this chapter you would all wonder where the Dark tag is.

I want to rip someone's throat out with my bare hands right now. And I know how to do it too.

Please, comment, I need something to get me back into a writing mood, and all this anger is NOT what I want to bring into this story.