Twilight gasps upon the situation before her. She quickly turns her body back towards the Tree of Harmony and tries to focus on opening the portal. She is quickly grabbed on the spot by Midnight’s twitchy claw and dragged towards her foe. The arm then whips over Midnight and flings Twilight towards the void. Twilight is quick to open her wings and begins to fly back to the tree. However, just upon being able to reach the edge of the island, a large, brown boulder smashes into the alicorn and sends her back even farther than before and even closer to the growing white sphere. Twilight regains control and shoves the boulder aside, only to see the same barrage of rocks that took Midnight away are now returning to her. The purple pony uses evasive maneuvers and quick timing to avoid each chunk of land hurdling at her. To her, she was making great progress towards her goal; however, as she continues to dodge the sea of stone, meter by meter, she is being pulled closer to the void and farther from Midnight and the tree.

On the ledge of the platform she rested, Midnight watched and saw Twilight’s skill and begun to grow angry.

Why won’t you die?! Midnight thought to herself. She then looked behind and saw a massive boulder about to swoop right past her. Midnight then had an idea and implemented it quickly. With one well-placed strike, Midnight clubs her claw and punches the boulder, shattering it into several hundred pieces. An unavoidable storm of rock fragments and debris emerge from the once giant rock and soon reach Twilight. The flying mare becomes overwhelmed by the new wave of rock and is carried back even further towards the void. Midnight laughs at this sight, only to be forced back into the tree trunk by a powerful jolt. Within seconds, Midnight realizes what she has done. The island that she and tree stood on is now being locked into the gravitational pull of the void and is rapidly growing speed. I don’t care at this point, all I want, is her DEAD!

“Help!” Twilight screams, hoping to catch any pony’s ear, despite her situation. She looks back to see now that she was only a hundred meters away from her demise. Twilight immediately panics and uses whatever energy she has left, breaks from the rock barrage, and flies against the heavy pull and towards the quickly approaching tree. She notices Midnight on the edge holder her fist up and quickly swoops under the island, with Midnight’s metal fist barely clipping her tail. The purple mare then rises from behind the floating island and hides behind the Tree of Harmony.

“Oh Twilight,” a voice uncannily similar to Twilight’s speaks, “I know where you are…” A sudden loud bang rattles the entire stone island. Twilight looks at her limited surroundings to see that Midnight didn’t punch anywhere near her.

You're bluffing I see… Twilight happily thinks to herself.

“Right here!” Another crash ruptures across the floating chunk of land, this time coming from right below. Another punch hits, and another, and another, each getting weaker and weaker in seemingly random spots, causing a great pleasure to build up inside of Twilight. A laugh begins to build inside the hiding mare’s stomach, but she attempts to hold it in. A weak thud lightly shifts the island, moving the laugh up her throat. The sound of metal flopping on the dirt floor echoes across the land mass, causing a soft sputter to escape Twilight’s mouth. She tries with all her might not to reveal her position, but the growing feebleness of Midnight’s attempts are driving her over the edge. Finally, Midnight speaks again, but in an exhausted, panting gasp, “Twilight, where, are, you,”

“BAHAHAHA!” The young mare couldn’t hold it in anymore, so a loud, taunting laugh escapes from Twilight’s mouth and all across the empty space around her. Within a millisecond, Midnight’s metal fingers reach around to the back of the tree and grab Twilight and drag her once more towards her other.

“YOU!” Twilight, still in a laughing fit, tries to regain control of her body, but finds that she can’t. In a fit of rage, Midnight whips her arm over her back and slams it into the dirt, turning Twilight quiet upon impact. Midnight whips the arm over her back again, this time slamming it into the purple crystal center of the tree. The evil Twilight then let’s go and Twilight slips between the metal claws and slumps against the base of the tree. A painful groan escapes the beaten alicorn’s throat with her eyes barely open to see Midnight looking over the pulverized equivalent of a corpse.

“Midnight…”

“Twilight Sparkle, you’re still alive I see, well, technically. You’re pretty much good as dead at this point…” Gently, Midnight picks up the pony by the wings with her claw and holds her facing the growing void, which was now only a couple hundred meters away from them. “I want you to have the best seats to the greatest show this world will ever see. It’s a tragedy where the only two characters left in the end of the play die.” As the two Twilights then watch as they grow closer and closer to it, Twilight tries to use her remaining consciousness to try and think of a way out.

“Midnight,”

“Yes? Final words is it?”

“Please, just please, I know you don’t see any benefit, but if there is any of me still in you, just please let me go.”

“All of you that was in me is now gone. Our history, our friendship, our lives, all gone now, never to-” Midnight’s taunt is cut short by a sharp bolt of pain surging through her body. Her arm twitches violently and finds Twilight right behind Midnight. Twilight turns her fallen body towards the tree and painfully drags herself to it. Midnight quickly recovers from the unforeseen pain and sees where Twilight has fallen just a fast. “Oh no you don’t!” Her arm, now flailing and twitched uncontrollably, reaches to grab Twilight. The claw manages to scope around Twilight’s back and hoisters her sitting directly across from Midnight. Midnight then aims her head down, heaving the sharpened tip of her horn armour point directly at Twilight’s neck. The trapped pony shrieks and tries to pull away, only to be held in place by the claw and the black horn slowly getting closer. By now, the void was only several meters away from Midnight behind, causing the claw to push Twilight towards the spindle of Midnight’s destroyed armour.

“Please, don’t!”

“NEVER!” Twilight pulls her head up, trying to pull her outstretched neck away from the needle, but only succeeds in gaining a millimeter. By now, the white void is about to touch the edge of the floating island and Midnight’s arm can barely stay still. Just as the tip of the needle’s begins to pierce the thin layer of skin in the middle of Twilight’s throat, all havoc breaks loose. In an instant, Twilight sees a flash of green. She then immediately feels a large pain ripping across her back as she sees Midnight being launched into the void, screaming with no sound to be heard. Seeing that this her moment, Twilight turns to the tree about to be sucked in, opens the portal, and leaps. She loses consciousness upon leaping as everything turns from white to black in a second.