Celestia and Luna had been released from their imprisonment within The Dark Prognosticus, and when they had awoken, they found themselves magically bound to two identical looking transformer devices deep within a dark lair.

“Luna, are you alright?” asked Celestia. “I am fine, sister.” replied Luna, “But what has happened? Where are we?”

Count Logan snickered as he stood before the sisters with and Dr. Nekard. “Glad to see you’ve come round.” Logan hissed.

The sister’s eyes narrowed angrily at the count. “You…!” Celestia sneered softly. She and Luna both remembered what he had done to Discord, Shining Armor, and especially little Flurry Heart. “You brutally murdered an infante!” Luna sneered.

Nekard scoffed at the sisters, “Fools! Count Logan is responsible for the deaths of many, including countless infants. It’s just the way things go: anything The Count does not like or does not approve off; POOF: it no longer exists! Ha!”

The sisters felt sick to their stomachs, but Logan nodded softly, “Your world has been obliterated along with the destruction of others, but there are still many worlds and dimensions waiting, waiting to meet their ends, and that’s why I’ve brought you here.

The devices you are now trapped within shall sap your powers and be used to help me. With your combined powers, the destructive void will expand ever faster, wiping out everything in its path, and all worlds will meet their ends much sooner! All is going as is written in The Dark Prognosticus.”

The sisters were very livid and tried all they could to escape, but they were bound by powerful dark energy streams like chains, which were impossible for them to break. “It is no use.” Logan hissed at them “As long as you are within my realm, you magic will not work unless I let it work. There is no escape for you, or these worlds.”

The sisters glared at him furiously, “You’re a monster!” sneered Luna “You are beyond a monster!”

“I second that!” sneered Celestia “Never have a known any creature as despicable and as cold-hearted as you! You are destroying entire civilizations and killing innocent beings, yet you haven’t a shred of remorse to show for it?!”

Her words infuriated Logan to the point where he leapt right over to her and grabbed her by the neck, and raised his cane to slaughter her right there.

“COUNT…!!” Nekard shouted, urging him to calm down, and surely enough Logan ceased, but he glared her dead in the eyes panting softly but angrily behind his mask, and he let her go. “Fortunately, for you, I still require the use of your powers.”

He backed away from the sisters and the devices. “Nekard, begin the process, and while you’re at it, teach them a little respect!”

“Understood, My Lord…” Nekard said, and with that, Logan turned to leave the dungeon. “Wait!” Luna called, comeback.

“Silence!” shouted Nekard, and with the activation of the devices, the sisters screamed as they were zapped by powerful currents of energy that felt like burning flames enveloping them!

The meters above the machines began to rise indicating how much power was being absorbed. Soon there would be enough to put it to good use and then be sapped form the sisters and used all over again.

Nekard couldn’t help but chuckle at the suffering sisters, and he silently thought “This isn’t nearly as entertaining as it’ll be when I dispose of Logan. He still hasn’t even realized my little bit of insubordination, and by the time he does, it will be too late.”

(Music plays)

Logan walked along the dark halls of his lair, starting to feel aching feelings crawling inside him again. He backed up against the wall, dropping his cane to the floor, pulling his hat down over the eyes of his mask while he groaned painfully. “No! Go away! Leave me alone!” he growled softly, but the pain only seemed to intensify.

He was starting to see images before his eyes, of all the beings he had killed, all the lives he had slaughtered. Though his gloves were sparkling clean, he could still see all the blood shed he had caused on his hands.

And this wasn't the worst of it...

He remembered during many of his confrontations how he felt that when he had his victims cornered and ready for the kill, he felt hesitant-- as if he didn't want to go through with it. Then, all of a sudden, he could feel this force of darkness pulling on him and forcing him to go through with it, no matter how much he seemingly objected.

Especially when it came to Flurry Heart's recent demise.

"She's just a baby!" he thought to himself. "Does she really deserve this! She's so innocent and young!"

But the darkness took over and reinforced its wishes, also his impulsive anger and hate, causing him to kill her... just like that!

"NO---------!!!

The images suddenly faded and he awoke in shock, panting stressfully.

He gazed down at book, almost angrily as if he hated it, but he clutched it in his hand, and then grabbed his cane and got to his feet. “I won’t let these emotions get to me. I know who I am! I know what I must do.”

Then suddenly he stroked with his finger and hissed, “And I think I have just the idea of what to do next. This will prove I am stronger than these pitiful emotions, as well as settle an old score!” he laughed wickedly as he walked off. His voice echoed through the darkness!

Meanwhile, Twilight began to awaken. She felt very weary, but as he vision cleared she could see the blueness of skies above, and as she sat upright she could see all her friends lying on the grounds in the middle of a vacant lot in an alley of a city.

She softly tapped Cadance, “Come on, wake up…” she called softly.

Her sister-in-law began to awaken, “Uhn…! Twilight…?” she groaned.

The others began to awaken as well. “Oh, Nellie, my head aches!” groaned Applejack.

“Um, what happened?” asked Fluttershy, “The last thing I remember was the world was blowing up around us… and then…” she fell silent as the others pondered. “Perhaps… it was all just some dream?” asked Rarity, but that was instantly proven impossible, seeing as Twilight’s was still broken, not to mention they all were still dirty and a little sore from the ordeals that occur.

Pinkie Pie felt herself all over and gave herself a few pinches to see if she was alive or not. “We’re alive, but… that means…” her expression changed into extreme sadness, along with the others. There was no doubt; Equestria was gone; destroyed…! Nothing left!

All any of them could remember were all those deaths of all the ponies and other creatures, including Discord… Spike… Shining Armor… Flurry Heart…!!

Cadance began to weep, at the thought of not just her world, but her dead husband and daughter brutally murdered before her eyes. Twilight couldn’t help but want to weep herself, not just for losing her home, her family, Spike, and a little for her broken horn as well.

She took a look at herself in a small puddle of water, and she thought she looked just abnormal with half of a horn.

All her friends were silently weeping as well, bewailing such a loss.

“Look, I hate to say this…” Applejack said as she rubbed her eyes, “But… maybe we ought to think about where we are.”

“Applejack!” snapped Rarity “How can you even think such a thing at a time like this?! We just lost our world and all our friends as well!”

“I know, and I’m hurt too, but there ain’t nothin’ we can do about that now. Besides, we can’t just sit around here like this. We’re still alive! I don’t know how and I don’t know why, but I wanna know.”

The others began to suck it up a little, despite the overwhelming hurt they felt inside. “She’s right.” said Rainbow “What I’d like to know is how we even got here in the first place?”

As Twilight looked down the end of the alley, she could see the out into the city they were in. “I think I know where we are…” and she and her friends moved close to the end of the alley and looked out “We are!” cried Twilight “We’re in the human world!”

The other ponies all gazed around in awe at the roads, the buildings, and the people all around. “So this is the human world?” asked Pinkie “This is so incredible!”

“But… exactly what part of the human world are we in?” asked Fluttershy. This, Twilight had not a clue, “I never ventured any further beyond Canterlot High. I don’t know what city this it.

Come to think of it, I don’t even know why we’re still ponies.”

The friends realized she was right. If they were in the human world, why had they not turned into human versions of themselves? “I think I know why,” said Cadance “Normally, anypony who comes here by use of The Crystal Mirror would transform into an alternate version of what they are, but we were somehow just transported here by a kind of warping magic. I don’t know how it happened, but that must be why we’re still our normal selves.”

Rainbow and Pinkie found this to be super incredible, and despite all that had happened, they couldn’t wait to go out there and explore. “I can’t wait to see what else this world has.”

But Cadance used her magic to hold them both still, “No, you two. We’re not known here in this world. We can’t be sure it’s safe to even go out there.”

“I know it’s not safe…” said Twilight, and she pointed up at the sky where they could all see the void. “What?!” snapped Rarity “Whatever is that cursed thing doing here? It already destroyed Equestria.”

“Don’t you remember?” said Twilight “I told you, Spike and I saw the void here in this world.”

Fluttershy thought, and remembered what Discord had told them as well, and how those villains that attacked Equestria mentioned how they were trying to “Destroy All Worlds!”

“They must planning to destroy this world too!” said Fluttershy. The others realized she was right, and that put them back into mind of when that evil Count Logan kidnapped Celestia and Luna, stating that he wished to use them and their powers to destroy worlds.

Their anger began to flame up. “You don’t suppose that creep is somewhere in this world, do you?” asked Rainbow “Because if he is, when I find him… I’ll… I’LL…!!” she couldn’t find the right words to say to describe the kind of punishment she wished to inflict on Logan for what he and his minions had done!

“So it’s settled then…” said Twilight, “Does anypony disagree?” She looked at all her friends, but not one of them objected. They all nodded with brave and stern expressions on their faces, and Rarity spoke up, “That awful Count, whoever he is shall pay dearly for his wickedness!”

“Darn Tootin’!” agreed Applejack, and all the others agreed; for Equestria, and for their friends and families! “Um… where exactly should we start looking?” asked Fluttershy.

“She’s right.” said Pinkie “Those bad guys could be anywhere.” She looked behind her at a simple trashcan and nervously pulled the lid off to find it was totally empty. “Whew!” she sighed.

“If only we hadn’t lost the Elements of Harmony.” said Rarity. “Twilight, can’t you seek out the dark magic?”

Twilight felt her broken horn, “I don’t know if I can.” She shut her eyes and concentrated hard, but her horn just gave off several sparks of lightning, and in a small POW, Twilight was thrown back hard into a wall! “Twilight…! Are you okay?” cried Cadance. “I’m fine, but I was afraid of that.” said Twilight “With my horn broken, my magic pretty much worthless.”

“I don’t think it would matter even if it weren’t broken.” said Cadance “I remember when I tried to look into Count Logan’s heart, there was such a massive burst of dark power that blocked me out. I never felt anything like it. It’s probably got something to with that book he has.”

“The Dark Prognosticus…” Twilight muttered, and she began to ponder about it again, still astonished to find that it was real, and frightened to see how much power it really had, if it could destroy whole worlds like that!

She also remembered reading about the seconds spell book; The Light Prognosticus. If the Dark one was real, then surely the second book had to be real as well…

…but where was it?

Regardless of all this, the friends decided the best and only way to get anything done was just go out there and start looking!

The four ponies with wings flew up high. Twilight carried Pinkie on her back and Cadance carried Applejack, while Rarity simply used her magic to lift herself up high, which was like flying.

They were very careful to keep out of sight so that no human would see them, fearing it still was not quite safe to be seen yet and unable to know if they humans could be trusted…

…But someone did notice them.

The ponies had no way of knowing they were in fact in Jump City

That stranger, with The Light Prognosticus, was sitting up on a rooftop studying the book, when the books suddenly began to resonate. “What?” he snapped softly to himself “The book has begun to resonate?”

That’s when the ponies flew high up, over the roof of the building he was on. He saw them, but they hadn’t seen him. He kept on viewing them until they had gone out of sight, and he noted their unusual coloring. “Those creatures…” he whispered “They are not of this world.

Could they possibly be the third team?” He didn’t know.

The book stopped glowing, and the stranger combed through the pages to read all the passages he could, and he found yet a new passage that was not there before; a small layer of text within the pages were glowing brightly as the stranger now seemed able to translate the passage.

The stranger pondered deeply. This was not truly the answer he had sought, but it was beginning to look as if it fate was shining on him. Those pony-like creatures he had just seen, as well as remembering the Titans and the Doom Patrol, “Perhaps they are the chosen teams; the ones that I seek whom can help aid me in my quest, but how can I be certain?”

He decided that he would have to observe the three teams, starting with those ponies. So he silently slipped off after them, but kept well out of sight.

Meanwhile, The Titans and the Doom Patrol were training hard in the tower gym. Cyborg was punching a huge and thick punching bag which Robot-Man held, so they both could build up strength and endurance.

Robin was sparing with Mento on the wrestling match, so they could both beef up their moves. “Ha! You’ve gotten soft since I last saw you, kid.” said Mento. “Wait until I get going.” Teased Robin.

Raven and Negative-Man both meditated to building up their dark powers.

And Starfire, she was skeet shooting to work on her aim and strengthen here power and speed.

Terra levitated many small rocks for her to shoot, which also helped her strengthen her own power as well due to her lack of using it for so long, but Starfire went crazy at the rocks, rapidly firing so many shots, blasting all the rocks to gravel while roaring like a tiger. She was very emotionally disturbed by the loss of her planet, but that was expected.

Finally, she got so out of control that she misfired a few shots and almost hit the others while they trained. “Star…!” Cyborg called.

“Watch it!” thundered Negative-Man.

It wasn’t until Elasti-Girl enlarged her hand and grabbed Starfire, “Star… Starfire! Enough!” she called “Calm down! Just calm down…!”

Starfire caught her breath and she was calm. She apologized to everyone, “I am very sorry. Please forgive me!”

No one said a thing, understanding her pain, and at least no one was hurt.

“I think that’s enough training for now.” Robin said. Mento agreed, “Let’s take a break.”

They all headed to the lounge for some refreshments, but everyone was silent. What was there to say? So much horror was happening out there, and the void in the sky was still growing. Robin and Mento were both anxiously waiting for the villains to make a move; they were both starting to work up nervous sweats.

Raven was still highly worried, fearing the training they had just done, although it would help them a bit, would it really work on such powerful foes? She didn’t bother say anything about it, but she then noticed Terra sitting quietly by herself at the other end of the room, near the capsule with Beast Boy’s frozen body inside. The covers were still on, and yet she looked as if she could see right through the plating at the lifeless body inside.

The teams had still not prepared to bury him yet, not with such a big emergency on their hands, but still, it was hard to have the capsule in the tower like that.

Tears were falling down Terra’s cheeks, splashing against the heart-shaped mirror-box she clutched in her hands.

Raven approached her and held out a box of tissues to her. “I never could stand to see a girl cry.” she said trying to be friendly.

Terra took a tissue, dabbed her eyes and blew her nose. “It just never stops hurting.” she said “I try to be good. I try to make things, and others suffer because of me.”

Much as Raven wanted to tell her otherwise, she couldn’t blame her for talking like that. “I know how you feel. I wish things could’ve been different too.” She wasn’t trying to be sympathetic out of pity, she really meant it. Ever since she had heard Beast Boy had died she felt very remorseful for all the mean things she ever said to him and the harsh ways she had acted which lead to the big fight and his running away.

Terra just looked more upset than ever, and took another tissue to dab her ever tearful eyes.

Although she knew very well it wasn’t a good idea to ask, Raven wanted to know, “Terra… what exactly happened between you and Beast Boy?”

Terra looked at her with a mix of shocked and sadness. It hurt her so much to remember what she had done and she tried to find her courage to say it. “I… well, we…eh…”

Suddenly, the computer alarm sounded, “Heads up! We’ve got something!” said Robin.

“What is it?” asked Elasti-Girl, and she and everyone else hurried to the computer where Robin and Mento were. Areas of the city were flashing red indicating destruction.

Starfire looked out the window and saw big flames and chaotic energy waves emitting from the city. “It is them! They have returned!” she said fiercely.

“Well, what are we waitin’ for!” said Cyborg.

“Let’s go pound these creeps into dust!” added Robot-Man

Robin and Mento agreed.

“Titans, Go!”

“Doom Patrol, Move out!”

As they all headed out the door, Terra snapped on her goggles, and then took a moment to speak to the capsule, to Beast Boy’s body, “I’m doing this is for you!”

As for the stranger, he had lost sight of the ponies as it was hard to keep a close watch on them, when suddenly, he noticed all the explosions and powers emitting from the city. “No!” he cried “They are back! I shall have to deal with them first and then see to the three teams.”

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