Twilight and Midnight continue to gawk at the growing vortex inside the room, watching it expand and suck the color right from the walls and into the white ball of nothing. Twilight snaps out of the gaze and realizes that she has to leave this world now. Leaving Midnight with the growing hole, Twilight flies out of the smashed window and begins to circle around the mountain to the Tree of Harmony. Upon flying over Canterlot, she takes a look towards the exposed throne room to that the sphere’s edge has engulfed the original entrance to Raindrop’s room. However, during her gaze back at the castle, a metal fist grabs her from below and chucks her into the road below. A cloud of smoke and dust burst from her crash landing as she looks up to seeing Midnight diving right at her. The purple mare quickly regains herself from the smash and teleports away just before Midnight could slam into her. Twilight then reappears within a residential house at the edge of the city.

“Twilight!” A voice roars with solid rage outside, “Where are you?!” Twilight stays frozen in place, fearing that one move would give her away, that not even a wall could keep Midnight from seeing her. “You’ve taken away my world, and I want you to suffer for it!” Soon, a thin beam enters through the roof of the house Twilight is in. She observes it as it grows closer and closer to her. She holds her breathe and her gut in as it stops right in front of her nose.

Don’t move, a muscle…

“She has to be here somewhere…” The small beam then soon retreats from Twilight’s face and scans the rest of the building. Twilight gives a sigh of relief, but then covers her mouth with her front hooves upon realizing her mistake. The beam bolts from the back corner of the living room she was in and goes right between her eyes as she looks up at it.

“Uh oh!” Twilight rolls from her spot just as it fires, blasting the wooden floor and ceiling into splinters. She quickly gets up on her hooves and bolts out from front door just before a large ray of red magic disintegrates the building. Midnight lands right in front of the panting pony and fold her claws together, creating a massive fist.

“I got you now!” Just before Midnight is about to smash her super fist down upon Twilight, the red beam of destruction flies back and smashes into Midnight. Her middle and back wings kick into action and deflect the second half of the attack off of her. The two rivals look to their side to see that the beam was being pulled back by the void, which has now engulfed the castle as well as all of the mountain above. Midnight looks back to see that Twilight has vanished. She looks away from the growing sphere and to the forest on the horizon to see a tiny purple dot flying away. “Get back here so I can kill you!” Midnight kicks into flight and attempts to teleport to her, only to reappear in the exact same spot as before. “That hole, it’s even causing a pull on my magic!” She then rows her wings, pushing her away from the ball and speeding up on Twilight. “But not all of it…”

“Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go! Gotta go fast, gotta go fast, gotta go faster, faster, faster, faster, faster!” Twilight yells to herself, motivating her wings to flap harder and faster. Her eyes glance back for a second and catch a glimpse of Midnight speeding up right at her. “AH!”

“Get over here!” Midnight then collides with Twilight and the two engage in a midair hoof fight. All the while, the void sphere’s growth escalates rapidly, nearly making it half as fast as sound.

“Stop!”

“NEVER!” Midnight shoves Twilight in front of her and quickly gives her a devastating uppercut with a metal fist, launching her towards the ball. Twilight’s mind is now completely discombobulated as she is unknowingly hurdling towards the void. Midnight hovers in place as she gleefully observes her enemy being pulled to her demise. Out of nowhere, the sphere pulses and grows dramatically in a single second, causing Midnight to be launched towards the void. In the heat of the jolt, one of the metal wings attached to Midnight’s left side is ripped from her back and flutters into the sphere. The empress screams in absolute pain and agony, but manages to escape the full hold of the gravitational ball in an adrenaline rush. As Midnight is escaping however, Twilight’s body slams into her, sending them both back dangerously close to the void.

“Parry!” Twilight yelps upon coming to her senses. She springs back into action and begins to fly away once more.

“Oh no you don’t!” Midnight grabs one of Twilight’s wings with her front right claw. However, she loses grip as the outstretched arm is yanked from Midnight and flung into the seemingly empty void. Another roar of pain exits the monster’s mouth, but al this does is make her want to destroy Twilight even more. The two Twilights, now side by side, begin to race away from the void and gain distance from the other.

I've got to make it to the tree!

I have to destroy Twilight! The two ponies slam into each other sides, ruining the distance they gained away from the growing wave of destruction.

“Midnight, quit this!”

“Never, you never seem to give up, so why should I? You choose to make these idiot decisions, so why should I not make a smart decision for once, by obliterating you?!” Soon, the two enemies spot the cave holding the Tree of Harmony a kilometer away from where they are. The force of the chasing void intensifies as the two get closer and closer to the cave.

“Can’t keep, up, much longer, must, reach, the tree! Wings, feel like being, torn,”

“Must, reach, the tree! Must rebuild, and have, my revenge,” After what felt like an hour of strong, gale-force winds ripping their bodies to pulps, Midnight and Twilight make their way to the mouth of the cave with the void hot on their hooves. Their hooves and claws dig into the ground as they resort to having to climb their way to the tree. With the tree now in full sight, the two once again try to sabotage each other’s progress by kicking and clawing with whatever appendages they can have out of the dirt and stone floor. However, in the middle of their fights, they start to notice that the floor right below them is stretching. The distance between them and the crystalloid tree begins to grow, as if the fabric of reality was being torn apart and sucked in by the void. Another metal arm is ripped from Midnight and sucked into the gargantuan ball. However, instead of Midnight screaming in pain, a wave of dark emotions and energy fills Midnight. In an instant, Midnight lets go of her hoofing on the ground and grabs onto Twilight’s wings and tail.

“Ah! What are you doing?!”

“Making sure that you can’t do anything without me right behind you!”

“Are you insane?!”

“Possibly, hahaha!” Twilight continues to crawl towards the tree, contemplating what to do now with Midnight attached to her. After a minute of crawling away from the void, she reaches the trunk of the tree and clings on for dear life as her wings and tail are almost being torn from her body. “Open the portal, do it, you want to save yourself right?!”

Almost any spell I’ll perform will be affected by the ball’s gravity. Midnight’s using her magic to attach onto me and she knows that I can open a portal despite the gravity. What do I do?

“What’s the matter? A little gravity caught on your horn? You can do it!”

‘Gravity…’ That’s it! With a flick of Twilight’s horn, everything turned to chaos. The immense pull of the white sphere had reversed, launching everything still in this world hurdling away from it. The ground surrounding the tree and the two ponies from all sides shatters into clumps of dirt, stone, and whatever was on it and flies off in every direction aimlessly. The whole planet is seems has turned into an empty body of air in mere seconds, with islands in the night sky drifting apart from each other and the white ball in the center of the colossal explosion. Twilight’s face slams into the light blue crystal of her anchor, nearly knocking her unconscious. Her other end body is kicked up and Midnight loses grip of her nemesis, causing her to hurdle speedily into a field of islands far ahead.

“This isn’t the end of it! I will get back there Twilight! I will-” Her roaring is swiftly cut off by a large boulder soaring into Midnight and ripping another wing clean off. Twilight looks back to where the boulder came from and sees an entire mountain, now crumbled into massive stones, flying right past her and the tree and straight at Midnight. The purple hero watches in disbelief as her alternate self is buried within the heap of rock and is launched deep into the field of floating islands.

“Is this… is this it?” The lone alicorn returns her look back at the void behind her. It’s still growing, but the reverse gravity is pushing her too fast for the balls growth to catch up. “Thank you Raindrop…” Twilight then takes a moment to observe her surroundings after most of the havoc has settled. She notices how beautiful and clear the stars are in the clear sky, how they still glow ever after what seemed to be the end of everything, even before Twilight and her friends came to save the RAEM. She then remembers Borris, and the sacrifice he gave to save Rainbow Dash and everypony else. She returns her attention to the Tree of Harmony still perfectly safe right in front of her. The mare backs up to the edge of the floating ground she’s on and with a good amount of time focusing, uses her magic to open the blue tunnel to her world. “Can anypony hear me?”

“Yes,” a voice from the other side of the floating tube replies, “Twilight, is that you?”

“Yeah Spike it’s me, I’m coming in there.”

“Twilight!” Five other voices exclaim from the other end, with Twilight immediately recognizing them as her best friends.

“Make way!” Slowly, the purple pony makes her way to the bottom edge of the portal, only to be flung forward face first into the tree again by a mysterious sudden stop. Twilight pokes her head around the side of the tree and sees that her island has crashed into the large mass of other debris where Midnight had disappeared into. Upon realizing this, Twilight jumps to her hooves and closes the portal, wanting to make sure Midnight was not still around. She then studies the destroyed area in front of her thoroughly, making sure that Midnight was not preparing for a surprise attack. After a while of checking, Twilight turns back around towards the void, only to see Midnight, now with only one of her right claws still attached to her back, staring at the vast ball. The pony at the edge speaks,

“Twilight…”