Perfected Korsan roars, signaling the start of battle, and the heroes instantly charge forward. What they’d ahead of them was the equivalent of a mile long path of burning coals with spikes added for good measure. But this doesn’t deter them in the slightest. As they make their first gallops, the first set of robot tentacle cannons turns to face them and open fire. The twelve heroes dodge the incoming volley. The cannonballs fired explode upon contact with the wood and metal floor behind and shower the ponies in debris and rainwater. Another volley fires. The ponies barely avoid them, having the flaming balls scape against their sides. A third unified volley fires onto them, this time aiming ahead. The group jumps over the incoming fireballs, with Rainbow Dash taking flight in order to take them out.

Three of the weaponized appendages turn to her while the others continue to lay down fire onto the ponies on deck. One after the other, each cannon fires at Rainbow in rapid succession.  Although the rain and lightning slows her down, Dash is able to avoid the cannon fire. She sweeps away from the airship and into the open. A lightning bolt strikes at her and is absorbed into her mane and hooves. She then returns to the cannons, now covered in electric static and sparks. The middle of the three cannons fires first. Its flaming ball of metal beelines at Rainbow Dash, a perfect point-blank shot. Dash instantly rotates backwards and delivers a powerful kick into the ball. The force and electric energy combined in her hind hoof splits the projectile in half and fires it back. They smash into the adjacent cannons at the necks, shattering them and the cannon heads plummet below. Rainbow Dash then bolts into her final cannon hooves first and blast through the barrel and out the other end. The cannon explodes as she exits and causes a series of smaller explosions to go off in the limb robot arm. Victorious, Dash joins back with the others. Twilight at this point has erected a magic shield and deflects the cannonballs as the team presses forward.

Looking back at her friend’s work, Fluttershy watches in horror as the previously destroyed cannon arms reform themselves. Only this time, they looked much stronger and armed with two barrels instead of one. Soon, the arms begin to fill with a green glow, the sign of anti-magic. Applejack then lunges into Fluttershy’s side and shoves the two of them away as one of Perfected Korsan’s ice blades strike down at them. It barely hits Fluttershy and Applejack as they nearly escape the massive sword. Fluttershy returns her look at her friends and Korsan’s head, seeing that the rest of his body is now glowing.

“Girls!” Fluttershy screams. “Korsan’s remade his cannons already and is now covered in anti-magic!”

“How is that even possible?!” Pinkie Pie exclaims in question.

Twilight instantly replies, “Perfected Korsan must be using his magic to reform the atoms in the air into metal and the ingredients of anti-magic, essentially creating anti-magic with magic!”

“Is that a bad?” Maurice asks just before another sword smashes into Twilight’s shield, shattering it instantly.

“A huge bad!” The same sword rises into the air. It slams in between Rarity and November, who quickly roll out of the way. As it pulls back up, Rarity and November leap onto the tip of the metal shell of the top of the sword. They run down the long length of the sword as more cannons activate and fire. The two mares leap. They duck. They teleport. They deflect with their weapons. They do everything in their power to avoid the almost random and chaotic firing barrage of cannonballs. Celestia’s airship then rises from behind the edge of the deck and fires at the cannons next to the two and the others below. Noticing this, Perfected Korsan starts to rapidly climb back up high into the raging sky and rebuild his cannons. The two mares on top of the long sword soon start to pull ahead of the others. However, a second sword slams into the one their one midway, grinding against the top and charging right at them. The almost burning ice of the blade shreds into the sleek metal below, creating showers of metal shards and daggers of ice. Quickly, Rarity and November jump onto the second blade and continue forward. A fiery haze starts the fall onto the living airship as it climbs higher and higher into the night storm. Halfway across the top of their new catwalk, Rarity and November see a white figure approaching them in the distance. The figure soon reveals itself to be Maria, reattached to the control of Perfect Korsan, and is now wielding five daggers at once.

“Maria!” Rarity exclaims. “You can break from his control!”

Maria chuckles, “Hahahahaha, she’s long gone now!”

“November, don’t hurt her.”

“I’ll try not to, much.” November nods.

Rarity and November prepare their rapier and dagger and the three mares engage on the long sword. The sword slowly moves over the edge of the deck and leans downward, creating a steep slope for the ponies to fight on. However, the three ponies continue to fight on, fighting upwards against gravity and slowly making their way to the top of the arm.

Twilight jumps over the edge after seeing this and flies down, in an attempt to help her friends. However, she is cut off as one of the robotic tentacles wraps themselves around Twilight and pulls her back up above the deck. Six other cannons circle the trapped mare and aim. Using her Earth pony strength, Twilight breaks out of the tentacle. The six surrounding cannons fire late, and accidently destroy each other. Twilight turns around towards the dragon head that houses Korsan’s controlling body and blows a raspberry at it. She proceeds to fly towards her goal once more. She suddenly stops however as a massive collection of giant cannonballs soars above her and smashes into the deck below, blasting almost half of the middle out. Twilight turns around to see that the seven mechanical arms have reformed into one massive super-cannon.

It fires again at her. Twilight weaves between the clusters of projectiles twice her size, leaving them to blast their ship again. The airship splits in two due to this, but immediately reforms back stronger. After a good look at the new weapon, Twilight darts towards it, avoiding the incoming volleys. The cannon switches tactics midway and instead sprays Twilight with an endless stream of cannonballs. She drifts along the stream and reaches the cannon. It backs away and attempts to slam her. Twilight instead catches the cannon in her hooves. She then zips underneath the head and flies between the arms holding it up. They attempt to grab her and trap her, but she evades them. The arms accidently tie themselves up and causes the massive cannon to be fixated at the sky, firing aimlessly into the clouds. Twilight claps her hooves together in triumph before flying back down to support her friends on deck.

As the ten ponies on deck are reach the middle, the crossbow cannon from Korsan’s chambers bursts from the floor and aims at the ponies, roaring in hunger of blood.

“Hold still!” Twilight declares. Everypony listens and freezes on the spot. However, the cannon does the unexpected and starts firing at them. They all immediately run away and take cover behind larger chunks of debris, having their hair and ears nicked by the fury of metal bolts.

“What?!” Slasher gasps in surprise and terror. As she pokes her head from around the corner, she sees the machine travel towards her by a long mechanical tentacle revealed behind it. “Korsan’s controlling it!” The machine then bolts around the corner and fires at Slasher. Remembering what Korsan did, Slasher quickly pulls out her war scythe from its metal scabbard on her back. She rapidly twirls the blade in front of her and deflects the metal bolts. Maurice, Cecil, Jarvis, and Nitin watch this from behind a nearby fallen mast piece in joy, whooping and roaring in zeal. However, they notice another one of these super-cannons emerging from behind Slasher. The stallions immediately gallop to her aid, pull out their weapons, and deflect the incoming metal bolts just before hitting her. While Maurice, Cecil, and Jarvis take care of the rear, Cecil turns around to help Slasher. “Thanks!”

“No problem,” Nitin Gale groans as he wildly slings his blade around. Another crossbow cannon suddenly burst from behind the debris wall. “Oh come on!” Maurice and Nitin immediately leap in front of it and defend their team from its incoming fire. “Slash, are you okay?”

“I’m fine!” A fourth cannon appears from behind, finishing the surrounding.

“Aw come on!” Nitin groans as he turns around and deals with the fourth’s barrage of bolts. The other mares run to the five pirates, only for Nitin to decline their efforts. “Go on without us!”

“No!” Fluttershy exclaims.

“We got this, Pinkie’s friend.” Jarvis mutters with his weapon in his mouth.

“Take care of Korsan!” Cecil declares.

Nitin croaks. “Take care of my daughter!” Reluctantly, Twilight and the others agree and press on across the midpoint of the deck. Perfected Korsan sees the five remaining ponies still charging forward and roars in rage. All of the cannon arms from the gun deck concentrate their fire at them, not letting a millisecond go to waste a cannonballs now practically flow from the melting metal barrels. Nonetheless, Twilight, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, and Fluttershy press forward and dodge every projectile, every explosion, every lightning bolt, every pellet of debris, and even the crimson rain. The wood and steel deck turns into the crater of a volcano at this point, and is beginning to be destroyed faster than it is being repaired. A portion of the deck in front of the mares snaps and is pulled away from them, creating a tall wall. The surrounding cannons press them into a corner, unable to escape.

However, just as all hope appears to be lost, Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy scream out, “Whale!” Within a second, the whale from before breaches from the waters below and burrows through the port side of the bow. With the red smog in the sky, the rising beast appears to be on fire as it smashes into Perfected Korsan. The entire airship nearly breaks in two as the front half bends forward by the whale’s weight. But the airship doesn’t sink, and remains to rise higher into the sky. The armed tendrils of Perfected Korsan wrap themselves around the whale and trap it on deck, breached. “No!” Fluttershy and Pinkie scream. “We have to help him! Go on!” The two mares then bolt away and charge to assist their friend. Rainbow Dash, Applejack, and Twilight nod for this motion, seeing their priorities can’t be changed at this point. The wall that Perfected Korsan erected has crumbled into rubble, and the three remaining mares climb over it and proceed onwards.

“We’re almost there!” Applejack exclaims.

“How many more tricks is Korsan going to pull on us?” Rainbow Dash asks, now tired and annoyed of Perfected Korsan’s hindrances.

“He may be an alicorn,” Twilight remarks, “but he’s still a pony. His mind or magic will tire out.”

“Incoming!” The mares look forward and see the five massive ice swords diving right at them. They quickly dodge to the left and right, just fitting between the blades as they slam down. Hollers in the distant ring out, a sign that Slasher and the stallions are also dealing with the blades from across the ship. The swords pull up and align themselves at the edge, horizontal to the deck. One of the swords from port slides across the deck towards them. Twilight and the others jump over the speeding sword. It pulls up and a sword from starboard swings in high. The mares duck accordingly. As the sword reaches the other side, all five of them slice towards the mares are varying level all at once. Twilight, Applejack, and Dash sneak through the small gaps between the razor sharp blades. The swords return from their natural stance and the mares quickly take this time to recover and wipe sweat from their faces. But their break lives for only a second as one of the swords violently rises high into the sky, preparing to pretty much slice this entire ship in two.

“That’s it!” Applejack roars, throwing her hat, which surprising has not flown off of her head and has only sustained a few burns and scratches, down to the floor. “I’ve had enough of this.” Slowly, she makes her way to align perfectly with the strip of ice above.

“What are you doing?!” Twilight shouts in concern.

“Three words for ‘Perfected’ Korsan; Rules of Nature…” The four other blades activate and drop down. Applejack steadies her hooves and leaps as the first blade sweeps low. The massive arms then slice at Applejack from every direction at rampant speeds, reckless in destroying everything surrounding her. In the epicenter of the chaos is Applejack, dodging every attack and fragment of metal and ice hurled in her general direction. Twilight and Dash fly away from the massive swings while they watch their friend practically dancing with the swords. Chunks of the airship break off and reform underneath, but some sections fall beyond Perfected Korsan’s magical influence.

The four blades instantly part. The raised sword then soars down, diving directly at Applejack. She quickly returns to her hooves and grabs the humongous sword by the sides of its blade. The floor below craters beneath the sheer mass and power of the sword, being held up by a pony only one third its height, causing several metal cables than run under the deck buckle and burst from the floor. Despite the icy burns of the blade, Applejack stays firm. Sparks erupt from her hooves as they lock onto the sword tighter and tighter.

With one mighty heave, Applejack yanks the blade forward. The joints of the robotic arm screech in pain and begin to snap. The massive blade slowly pulls away from its controller and into the hold of Applejack, before finally snapping and launching high into the air and out of sight. Applejack then leaps from the crater and backs a fair distance away as the quarterdeck realigns its mass. The ice sword drops back down from the red clouds.  The back part is grabbed by its new master, and now becomes her weapon.

Rainbow Dash’s jaw drops to the floor, lost in words of what she is seeing, sputtering, “H-h-h-how-w are y-you-”

“Dashy,” Twilight pokes at Dash’s shoulder. She turns to Twilight and sees that her horn is emitting a faint beam onto Applejack.

“Oh.”

“Go help her! This strength boost won’t help without some precision.”

“Got it!” Rainbow Dash quickly darts to the middle of the sword’s back armour and tightly grasps to it. The three mares then raise the blade to the dragon head. It roars with great fury and reveals its four free swords. Perfected Korsan attacks first by swinging a sword to the right. The mares orient their sword around and swing back. Upon collision, a thunderous boom detonates from the ice blades and both recoil back. One of Korsan’s swords from the other side then swings at them. Applejack and Rainbow quickly shift their stance to set the sword and strikes back. Two swords from both sides then raise into the clouds and drop down. On the way, lightning strikes the blades and turns them into electrified metal prongs. The mares turn their sword horizontal and parry. The force of the below creates and even greater crater below Applejack.

The two sides continue to clash their swords together, throwing all of their strength into each strike. More lightning strikes Perfected Korsan’s metallic structure, turning the robotic patches of his ship into deathtraps. The rain didn’t make it any easier, spreading the chance of electrocution, but also slowing down the ponies as they cling to their lives. Finally, the mares successfully dislocate one of Korsan’s swords and go in for the kill, swinging at the base of the dragon head upon the quarterdeck. The two blades at the other side of the incoming sword cut in and hold the heroes’ sword in a blade lock. Applejack, Rainbow Dash, and Twilight throw all of their might into pushing forward.

The last of Korsan’s available swords attempts to interject and jab at Applejack, but several unseen harpoons are launched into it and pull it back. From behind the quarterdeck rises one of the last remaining blimps besides Celestia’s zeppelin, revealing the source of the harpoons. In a desperate attempt to free himself, Perfected Korsan brings up the sword Rarity, November, and Maria are fighting on and slashes at the ship. With one offhoof blow, the sword cuts the blimp in two, causing the halves to explode and plummet back down. At the tip of the sword, Spike as well as Yin and Yu leap onto it and run towards the quarterdeck along the metal top. The stallions and Spike make their way across the whipping blade-top whilst avoiding the burning wreckage of their ship pouring on them. Two thirds of the way there, they see Rarity now facing off against Maria and also November, now attached to Korsan’s contraptions and cables.

“Rarity!” Spike exclaims.

“We got this.” Yin declares as he and Yu pull out their katanas and teleport to in between Rarity and Korsan’s proxies.

“Yin?! Yu?!” Rarity yelps, jumping back in surprise.

“How did you boys get here?!”

“One of the airships were being evacuated by Princess Celestia’s troops, something about a leaked balloon or something, I don’t know-”

Yin then interrupts just as he enters a blade lock against Maria, “The point is that we hijacked it and are now at your rescue.”

“Hey Yu, how about asking her for a kiss? You deserve it for saving her life.”

“What? No, you do it, you played an equal part.”

“I got Slasher, it wouldn’t be right.”

“Well what if Rarity has a special somepony?”

“Touché… Hey, why are we fighting the cyborg versions of November and Maria on top of a giant sword in the middle of a hurricane again?”

“Huh, wha-Oh. Korsan entered some super-form and has possessed these two I guess and now they’re evil.”

“…Makes sense.” As the two brothers continue to face off against the mares, Rarity and Spike notice two small tentacles with devices attached to them slither across the sword towards them. The devises then open to reveal that they are two sets of armour similar to Maria’s and November’s.

Rarity and Spike warn them, “Watch out!” But it’s too late as the armour attacks the stallions and attaches to them. They holler and scream. They struggle to escape before suddenly dropping to the floor dead silent in front of the four ponies. Soon though, the two get back onto their hooves. A look of optimism sprouts on the two heroes’ faces. However, they immediately turn to shock as the two turn around, showing themselves to have fallen under Perfected Korsan’s control, and have now turned their weapons to Rarity and Spike. “No…” The four crooked ponies cackle in maniacal laugher as they back their prey towards the end of the sword. The blade they stand on suddenly jerks upward and swings back over to the main deck. There, Rarity and Spike see their friends, still locked against Korsan. They leap down from the sword onto the deck. The four proxies follow suite and pursue their targets. The now free sword resumes its stance below the massive blade lock and prepares to stab Applejack.

“Twilight!” Rainbow Dash hollers from above. “We need to do something fast!”

“I know!” Twilight groans, focusing all of her energy into supporting Applejack and Rainbow Dash. “If only there was some way we can get Korsan to overwhelm himself.” In the corner of the eye, she sees Rarity and Spike approaching her, as well as the small army of Korsan’s. Twilight then remembers how Korsan controlled Maria before his transformation, by connecting her to his life functions. An idea immediately sparks, and she loudly commands, “Rarity! Strobe them!” Rarity instantly obeys, and a blinding light erupts from her horn. The light instantly blinds the incoming ponies. The dragon head roars in pain as well, and his swords immediately begin to twitch and weaken. “Applejack! Rainbow Dash! Let’s do this!” The two other mares nod and give one final push with their might sword. Korsan’s swords are near instantly shoved back and the two proceed to aim their weapon at the dragon head’s now exposed base. They launch their finishing blow. Their blade pierces into Perfected Korsan’s throat and is pushed all the way through the other side. He screams in agony and flails his dying appendages. However, despite his desperate efforts, his massive airship body shuts down, and his dragon head slowly slumps forward. His four proxies groan in pain before their connecting cables snap off. Yin, Yu, Maria, and November instantly snap back to normal.

“Huh,” Yin stutters, regaining his balance and memories, “what happened?”

“We did it!” Rainbow Dash cheers. Soon, Pinkie, Fluttershy, Maurice, Cecil, Jarvis, Nitin, and Slasher reach the other heroes and cheer with them over their victory.

Yu speaks, “I just had the weirdest dream. We were all fighting Rarity on top of a giant metal plank in the sky…”

“Well,” Spike replies, “that did happen. Korsan possessed you with those weird devices you have on.”

“I hope I didn’t cause too much trouble,” Maria moans, rubbing her numb forehead.

“What matters now…” Twilight triumphantly declares, walking in front of the dragon stiff head, looking out over the fifteen ponies in front of her. She announces to them all. “…Is that we did it! We have saved the world from Korsan. Though tiny we were compared to his power, his size, his tongue, his fear, his ship, his unpredictable nature-”

Suddenly, the dragon head springs alive. It lunges forward and engulfs Twilight in one swift bite. The ponies shriek and watch in horror as Perfected Korsan returns to his active state, practically ignoring the massive blade that through his throat.

“Twilight!” Spike exclaims.

“What the-” Rarity gasps.

“-it’s still alive!” Applejack screams. Perfected Korsan leans his airship body forward to a vertical angle and rapidly rises higher into the storing skies. The fifteen ponies on board tumble down the face of the deck until being caught in the stairway leading to the destroyed bow. Directly in front of Perfected Korsan is Celestia’s zeppelin, slowly approaching them far below.

“Oh no!” They all shriek, as they hear the gigantic cannon just behind the deck in front of them charge up, soon followed by the sight of magical energy building up at the opening. All they can do is hold onto the crumbling wood mangle that is the deck, and watch the destruction of Celestia, Luna, Cadence, Applebloom, Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle, and anypony else who’s still on there. However, just before the cannon fires, the entire remainder of the bow suddenly explodes in a massive fireball of magic. The heroes are flung into the air as the watch the cannon become obliterated into hundreds of pieces of scrap metal. Out of the smoke emerges Twilight, slightly more beat up than before, but appears healthy. “Twilight!” Quickly, Twilight flies down to her friends now plummeting, but they all motion for her to go back.

“Finish him off!” Rainbow roars. “We’ll be fine.”

The others cheer, “Yeah, go!”

“I will!” Twilight proudly declares. With a flick of her wings, Twilight flips around and flies back to Perfected Korsan. She lands onto the vertical deck edge and looks above at her target. At the other end is the dragon head and the sword still jammed in its neck.

If I can just reach that sword, Twilight thinks to herself as she paws into her wood and metal floor, I can finish this once and for all. Perfected Korsan is moving too quickly for me to fly, so I’m just going to have to run it.

The dragon head then opens its mouth as it charges a beam attack. Twilight gives a brief snort and prepares to charge. Crimson clouds, now practically rivers of electrified water, bathe her and the airship as the final seconds of their battle draw near. The ponies below eventually safety enter Celestia’s zeppelin and can only imagine what’s going on behind the clouds. Silence breaks between Twilight and Korsan, ready for the first move.

Upon a lightning bolt striking the back of the dragon head, Twilight instantly springs forward and up the massive deck length. Cannons immediately fire off, including the super-cannon that has now freed itself. In seconds, the entire front half of Perfected Korsan turns into the magma pits of Tartarus, with Twilight running through the epicenter of the chaos. Using patches of free wall, hailing debris, and even the massive cannonballs themselves, Twilight frantically climbs upwards, higher and higher to her target. The dragon head then fires a massive energy beam of black, red, and cyan magic. Twilight barely darts away from the beam. She continues upwards alongside the five metre tall discharge, avoiding even more projectiles as she nears a third of the length to the quarterdeck.

The five ice blades activate next and attempt to strike down Twilight amidst the heavy cannon  fire. One by one, the swords violently slash and hack at the ship with their target barely avoiding them. Enormous chunks of the airship crumble and plummet down. Twilight realizes she’s losing galloping space, but is unable to think of a plan as everything suddenly is everywhere. Visions begin to flicker in her head, memories race through her mind’s eye, her thoughts even begin to turn against her. One of the massive ice swords gets the jump on her and slices in front of her. Twilight quickly grabs the burning ice shard and is pushed down. She immediately stamps her hind hooves into the floor. Both she and the blade grind to a stop before she shoves back. However, as hard as she tries, she is locked is a power struggle against the massive sword.

The visions take a turn for the worst, as Twilight’s surroundings quickly fade into darkness. Figures from her worst nightmares emerge from the black fog and surround Twilight, including Nightmare Moon, Lord Tirek, Queen Chrysalis, and hundreds of monsters. Her hooves are now chained to metal cables stretch out ahead into the void. The villains draw in closer to Twilight as she panics and struggles in her binds. She attempts to buck the beings back, only to turn into smoky shadow versions of themselves on contact with burning red embers for eyes. The shadows then reform themselves into figures that look like Korsan. Upon kicking the last villain, Twilight watches in horror as the shadows turn into her friends, all in Korsan’s mechanical suit and being his scarred right eye, and being his equally monstrous grin. The Korsan hybrids pull out their cutlasses and point them at Twilight. Tears burst from Twilight’s tightly closed eyes. Her ears begin to bleed from the deafening roars of Korsan’s demonic laughter. Her hooves buckle and ache as they simultaneously burn and freeze in the metal chains and cables.

However, amongst the chaos and terror surrounding her, Twilight feels something peculiar in her heart. Escaping the madness around her, she is astonished to find a feeling of, bliss, deep inside her. Tapping into this vein, the floor Twilight and the Korsan beings stand on instantly turn into a shallow body of ocean water. The Rainbow Dash and Korsan hybrid fades into a bright light before fading back as a normal version of Dash.

She slowly walks up to Twilight’s side in the middle of the surrounding pirates and speaks to her friend as if they don’t even exist, “It’s so peaceful and quiet out here,” the small cyan mare speaks out, I love it.” As the cool water washes in between Twilight’s hind hooves, eliminating the pain from her binds. A surge of control pulsates inside Twilight as she feels her binds lightening. She looks around to see the hundreds of Korsan hybrids drop their weapons with the biggest look of fear on their faces. The hybrids slowly turn into simply clones of Korsan, now running away in panic. Twilight turns to look at Rainbow Dash, now with Applejack, Spike, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, and Rarity, all looking back at her with confidence beaming from their faces. Twilight then faces at the chains in front of her, no longer afraid. With one mighty heave, the chains and cables shatter into millions of shards, and Twilight finds herself back on Perfected Korsan, shoving the massive ice sword up the vertical incline towards Korsan.

The sounds of war return as well, but she doesn’t pay mind to it. With one final shove, the sword snaps and flings up to the quarterdeck. The dragon head catches it in its mouth and snaps the enormous blade in two before spitting out the halves and firing another beam at Twilight. She quickly dodges the now moving blast and makes her way across the middle of the deck and closing in on the top. In her path emerge the four crossbow-cannons from before. They instantly fire at her. She swiftly grabs a falling metal sheet with her magic and holds it in front of her, letting it absorb the hundreds of metal bolts fired. As hard as the force of the debris, the cannonballs, the massive swords, the metal bolts, the lightning, and rain pour down, Twilight pushes even harder against these obstacles and continues charging forward.

The shards of the destroyed blade falls down from the quarterdeck and smashes into the cannons in front of Twilight, destroying three of them and taking the fourth one down with them. As the dragon head faces her and prepares another beam attack, Twilight launches her shield up to it. The shield hits the sword buried in the neck and causes it to slowly pull out and down the vertical deck. Twilight leaps in front of the incoming sword. She grabs it before locking herself back onto deck. Using gravity, she sings the sword around herself and swings it back at the quarterdeck. Explosions and fire erupt from the metal neck as the ice blade carves into the beast. Perfected Korsan screeches in pain. As the sword continues the cut, the screams soon turn into choking garbles. His airship body begins to collapse and crumble in on itself. Still holding on tight, Twilight finishes the cut and slices Perfected Korsan’s dragon head off. She leaps off of the ship and takes flight, looking back to see the metal head crash and roll down the deck.

However, Twilight isn’t satisfied. If what she thinks is true, then Perfected Korsan isn’t dead until everything explodes in a massive fireball. Eventually though, the entire airship erupts in a series of massive colourful blasts that tear the entire ship to shreds, launching flaming debris in all directions. Within a minute of destruction and havoc, the entire airship dissipates into shrapnel and tumbles into the sea below, just missing the pirate ships below. The only thing that remains is the dragon head that houses Korsan’s original body. Twilight immediately knows what to do and swiftly soars down to Celestia’s zeppelin, where everypony inside is celebrating once more.

“Girls,” Twilight strongly declares, “we’re not finished yet.”

“Oh, no party now?” Pinkie asks at the back of the main deck.

“Oh come on!” Sweetie Belle roars from beside Twilight.

“How many phases does this stallion have?!” Rainbow Dash growls in front of the party.

“This should be the last one. Korsan’s probably exhausted from his Perfected Korsan form, so he won’t be able to put up much of a fight.”

“I’m in.” Applejack declares.

“He’s going to pay for hurting our whale friend!” Fluttershy announces.

“We can’t just let him cause more trouble now, can we?” Rarity replies.

“I think I’ll stick back and watch,” Spike lazily speaks. “You guys got this.”

“Should we come along?” November asks, referring to herself and her pirate friends.

“No,” Twilight declines, “we don’t want anypony to get hurt.”

Rainbow Dash boastingly adds, “And besides, it’s us versus one double-defeated pirate. How hard can it be?”

“Very.” Pinkie Pie answers, poking her head out of the open aircraft doors behind Twilight.

“What?” Twilight asks before turning around to see what Pinkie means. Her eyes instantly bulge open in shock at what she and the other mares soon see. Above the wreckage of Korsan’s airship is a giant floating platform of ice, a hovering arena with a competitor waiting in the center. “Fine, let’s end this. Celestia, take me, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, and Rarity, all down to that ice platform and pull out as quickly as possible.”

In the middle of the floating arena of ice stands Korsan, silently staring up at the zeppelin slowly descending towards him. His mechanical suit has been rebuilt into a full set of mechanical armour. Its thick black metal plates reflect the red light from above onto the dark blue ice below. On his chest is a group of five anti-magic storage glasses similar to that of his old harness. On his back is a massive fifteen-metre long cape that’s black on the outside and red on the inside, flapping in the storm’s breeze. Poking from slits in the cape is a pair of massive robotic wings constructed of both magic and mechanical engineering, radiating an icy blue glow from its crystal flaps. His head remains revealed, letting his now incredible long mane flutter in the breeze and show his two eyes, burning with icy rage.

As Celestia’s ship flies over Korsan, Twilight and her five friends leap out and land in front of Korsan at the edge of the platform. He first gives a cold look at the mares, studying the determination and ferocity in their stances. In half of a second, his face instantly breaks down into hysterical laughter, but only barely shuffling his massive body. Twilight and the others simply hold their stance and watch as their five-metre tall opponent break down in his maniacal temper.

With a flick of his now gigantic claws, Korsan pulls out two massive cutlasses from his cape and extends them out in full light of the red night. Drenched in anti-magic, these highly detailed cutlasses are not only long, but incredibly thick. With another flick of his claws, the two swords snap and extend into two incredibly long whips with parts of the sword attached to the cable ropes. Silently, Twilight and her friends slowly step forward. A low growl rumbles from this final form of Korsan. The heroes respond by the pawing the ice floor.

Korsan then speaks in his low roaring tone, “You will surely die… You all will…”

“That maybe,” Twilight confidently replies, “but not today!”