Third Person

Rainbow Dash opened her eyes and founder herself on a bed in a cell. Looking around she found the cell was in a large black throne room. She heard heavy footsteps, looking over to the side of the cell she spotted a silhouette of a figure that was shaped similarly to the hedgehog mobians.

"Who are you?" She asked, sitting up but wincing as she looked to the bandage on her wing and thigh.

"That's not important right now, how are you feeling?" The voice was that of the announcer.

"Better, I suppose." The figure breathed a sigh of relief and turned around.

"Good to know, rest up. Your friends will be here after the last two puzzles." A screen appeared at the side of Rainbows bed and it showed the group walking into the next chamber. "Just press the button on the bottom to change the camera." The figure sat down on the throne and pulled up a screen of his own.

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Jack's POV

We entered the next chamber after having rested up a little and sending Rainbow away to the mercy of our announcer. "Second last chamber guys, try not to die before you reach me."

I looked around at the room. There were disappearing platforms above us with turrets aligned along the walls to shoot down any fliers. Smirking I combined my pistols into a sniper rifle and aimed at the turrets. One by one I shot them down, no replacements moving in to take their place.

After taking all the turrets out with the help of Gamma and his targeting systems it was only a matter of getting to the top of the chamber with the non-fliers.

As the stronger fliers made carry runs up and down the chamber I looked to Gamma and Omega. "Hey, you two." They both turned to me. "You two don't act like Gamma and Omega, why is that?"

"We're displaced too." Replied Gamma.

"Yeah, we're from Metals world, all three of us were displaced at the same time." I nodded, their behaviour making more sense now. After the last pony was at the top Gilda flew down and lifted me up. "How are those two gonna get up?" I asked, pointing to the two robots below.

"We can't carry Omega, he's too heavy. They'll have to jump up the platforms." Replied Celestia. The two nodded and began jumping from platform to platform with the help of their thruster packs. As a platform was about to disappear from under him, Gamma jumped and floated in the air until it reappeared.

It took longer for Omega to get up and he had fallen a few times, but everyone was now at the top. "That was easy." Gilda said as she was about to open the door.

"No," We all looked as another hallway filled with turrets appeared where the door once was, the door now sealed by a button guarded by the turrets, "It wasn't."

"Ok, I've had enough of this!" Omega stepped in front of us all and sent a wave of gunfire at the turrets and destroying the button, opening the door. "We've done this long enough!"

"You're right tin man, I suggest you use the key to skip the next challenge if you want to get right to the end. You may want to keep it on you, you may not, your choice. I'll be waiting." I raised a brow at the final part of that sentence.

"What do you think he meant by that?" I asked Celestia.

She placed a hoof to her muzzle in thought. "I'm not sure, perhaps we should keep the key with us and not use it, there may be a different use for it. We can handle one more puzzle." Everyone nodded and we walked through the door of bullet holes.

As we entered the final puzzle we all looked in horror at the monster that was the last puzzle. Fire pits everywhere, turrets in every wall, crushers at all hallways and the exit was surrounded by spikes that seeped poison that was on fire. "Use the damn key!" I shouted. Omega and everyone else nodded. Omega held up the key and they all appeared in the hallway after the puzzle.

“Smart move. Now, come up to the door, and meet your fate.”

The group made their way to the door, which slid open at their approach. The room on the other side appeared to be a massive throne room of some kind. Sitting on the throne high up was someone or something with a pair of glowing red eyes that sent shivers down the ensemble's spines.

“Welcome to the boss level, ladies and gentlemen,” said that same dark and sinister voice that had been leading them through the puzzles that would make GLaDOS proud. The figure got to his feet and started slowly clapping. "Congratulations on making it this far. Now, who shall be the one to go against me?"

"I will." I stepped forward and gripped my guns. "I'm wanting a little payback for those puzzles."

"Very well then, everyone else can watch with Rainbow Dash." He snapped his fingers and everyone appeared in a cell at the side of the room where Rainbow Dash was resting. "Now then..." He took a fighting stance and glowed red, "HIT ME WITH YOUR BEST SHOT!!!"

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Meanwhile Mephiles groaned and threw Chaos to the side.

"Great, all negative energy in his body was taken back into the master emerald, now I can't fuse with him to make Solaris." He clapped his hands together and turned to Discord. "No matter, there is always plan B."

"And that would be?" Discord asked while siphoning more power from a red crystal.

"Once Metal is done with little Jack, go there and kill him. But get him angry first, that's when his power will be at max." Discord nodded and teleported away. Mephiles chuckled. "Oh Discord, Metal isn't plan B... You are."