As the two titans battled in the sky a black skeleton with a white cloak held by a blue gem watched them with a creature made of a dark purple substance that resembled the shape of a teenaged boy except it had no mouth, it's eyes were lifeless yellow circles and it had four dark tendrils growing out of its back and it was slouched.

They watched as Metal clamped his claw onto Solaris' arm and breathed a huge blast of energy from his mouth onto the sun gods face, causing it to give an angelic screech.

"Your plan is working flawlessly Nightmare, if all goes according to plan we will have Metal by our side and be rid of two of our greatest enemies." The skeleton commended the creature now identified as Nightmare.

"Thank you Xram, it was a strike of luck finding Mephiles in the void. The Nightmare King and True Xram will be very pleased if we bring back one of our enemies to do our bidding." Nightmare replied to the being now known as Xram.

Xram looked up at the battle and nodded. "Well then, let's leave them to tear each other apart. For now..." They both turned around to see a chained up Cosmo. "... What do we do with this one?"

Meanwhile in the floating island castle, in the room that Mephiles had resided in sat the person that Metal had fought and was fighting for. The young woman slowly opened her blue eyes and looked around the area before sitting up. She pushed a few threads of her medium-long brown hair out of her face and rubbed her eyes. She wore a grey sweater with a shirt and tie underneath, her black sailor skirt dropped to just below her thighs and her white socks reached her knees and wore black slippers on her feet.

Looking around the dark room she started feeling confused. "Where am I?" Her head began to hurt and she winced as she placed a hand to her temple. "The last thing I remember is... I was with Myles and Connel, we were on our way to see... Nathan... then I just blacked out." Getting to her feet she began to walk towards the large black door. "I'm not gonna find any answers here, this seems too real to be a dream, I can actually think and feel so I'm gonna assume this is some kind of trick or something I shouldn't try to understand."

As she walked down the dim hallways only lit by small red flames she felt the ground shake slightly and dust from the ceiling floated down to the marble floor. She then heard a loud boom followed by a metallic roar.

"I have a bad feeling about this place." She folded her arms and continued walking until she came to the room that Jack and Metal had battled in, seeing a large hole in the wall leading outside. "I guess I'll go through here."

As she reached the outside she found that the sky was blood red and the clouds were black, everywhere was devoid of life. She was even more surprised to find she was on a floating island, although that level of shock didn't compare to when she saw Canterlot in ruins.

"W-What the? Is that what I think it is?" As she was about to look around she noticed a bit of movement from the corner of her eye. Looking up at the sky she put her hands over her mouth to stop herself from screaming as she saw the two titans going st each other with emense power. "M-Metal Overlord... is fighting Solaris?" She asked to no one. 'Beats my fanfiction.'

As she was distracted by the battle she failed to notice Nightmare and Xram teleport behind her. Xram nodded to Nightmare, signalling him to proceed. Nightmare nodded and opened one of his claws as he slowly approached the unsuspecting girl. As he was right behind her he quickly wrapped her in a tendril and sunk his claw into her back and piercing out of her front. She couldn't scream from the part of a tendril gagging her. Pain overwhelmed her as she fell unconscious, Nightmare took his claw out of her and licked the blood off his fingers with a reptilian tongue and dropped her.

Xram smirked. "Excellent, the second her finds her like this then he'll go blind with rage, destroying everything in his path and becoming a mindless beast for us to tame."

Nightmare looked up at the battle and then walked back to Xram's side. "Let's get out of here before anyone else shows up, we cannot deal with Gale or Author right now."

"Agreed, let us go." With a snap of his fingers a portal appeared in from of the two demons which they then walked through.

Meanwhile on the peak that the two had previously been on a beaten Cosmo was desperately trying to break her chains, but her lack of strength and injuries made that difficult. She eventually gave up and slowly lifted her head to watch the battle. "Don't lose Metal."

Meanwhile in Gales world, the group had regained consciousness and we're all slowly getting up, rubbing their heads and groaning. Omega and Gamma were the first ones to recover with their systems at full functionality. They scanned the area, trying to find their only hope of helping Metal at that point.

"Come on everyone, we need to get moving of we want to help Metal." Gamma urged everyone to get up.

"And how exactly are we meant to help him? None of us can open portals to other worlds. Metal was the only one of us that could because of his training with that Marx guy." Rainbow pointed out.

"Metal wouldn't just send us all to any random world, he would send us to someone he could trust, and that someone is Gale." The group all nodded in agreement and began to rise to their feet.

"Alright then everyone, let's get going, we need to help Metal in anyway we can." Tails said as he began spinning his tails to fly. The group then began walking through the forest they had been dropped off in, beginning their search for the other metal hedgehog.

Author's Notes:

Boy things have been getting really dark haven't they?

Now Xram and Nightmare Fuel have come into play, things will only get worse for our hero from her on in with those two after him.