The ponies were flying high up over the city, and not a soul had noticed them. They had been flying for a really long time, and were starting to get tired.

“I cannot… keep my magic up… much longer!” panted Rarity.

“We must’ve combed over every square inch of this city.” said Rainbow “Maybe we should just set down.”

Everyone else agreed, and as the flyers began to descend, they could see the explosions and shockwaves erupting from below. “What’s going on down there?” asked Cadance. “It looks like the fourth of July.” said Pinkie, but that earned her a scornful look from the others, but as Twilight looked down again she recognized the plasma energy, the lightning, the flames…!

“It’s them!” Twilight snapped “It’s Count Logan’s minions!”

The ponies’ features hardened, “We found ‘em! Now let’s go get ‘em!” said Applejack.

“Oh, dear…!” Fluttershy murmured, but she followed the others down, down towards the city below. When suddenly, there was a huge, fiery explosion from a building-- most likely caused by Pyrus and her flame power. The flames shot so high, like a huge cannon firing, that shot straight past the ponies and causing them to lose balance.

“WHOA!!” cried Twilight. She tried her hardest, but couldn’t hold her balance, nor could the others and they all began to plummet down hard like crashing planes.

“MAYDAY!! MAYDAY…!!” Rainbow shouted.

Fluttershy shut her eyes tight, “Tell me when it’s over!”

All Rarity could do was scream, “I’m too BEAUTIFUUUUUUUUL!!” as she and her friends plummeted down, down, down, and crashed down somewhere on the far side of the city.

Meanwhile, Count Logan’s minions were really making trouble, and causing more damage than ever and killing so many people.

Kamica gave her sword a huge swing, and slaughtered so many people-- SPLEET!! Blood and guts spewed all over as the people keeled over.

Kamica merely snuffed.

Sir. Elik fired massive lightning bolts, blowing up cars, buildings and breaking up the streets, and Pyrus drew in a huge breath and unleashed her flames on more people, roasting them to ashes, and blowing up more buildings toppling them over like burning dominoes.

“I like ‘em fiery.” she hissed, and then she saw none other than Jackie and Jillian. The two nasty girls were quivering with fear as they gazed at the evil sorceress. “Stay away from us!” snarled Jackie. “We mean it, you freak!” added Jillian.

Pyrus narrowed her eyes at them, not liking their insulting her. She watched as the two girls ran up the burning the streets, and once they were far out, she conjured two seeking flame-balls in her hands and sent them after the rude girls; hitting them and blowing them up like bombs. “Well, I stayed away at least.” she teased.

The three villains regrouped in the streets. “I think that should do It.” said Elik, “The Titans must surely be on their way by now.”

“Wrong!” shouted Robin, “We’re here!”

The villains turned and saw the Titans and the Doom Patrol, Terra too, standing together and staring them all down. Kamica snickered, “Like moths to the flame.”

“Good one.” said Pyrus.

“You three have had it, this time!” sneered Robin. “You will pay severely for what you did to my planet, as well as all of these innocent beings!” added Starfire.

Kamica yawned, “Yeah… we get told that every time, and every time it’s the same thing. We kill, we destroy then we leave-- So there.”

“This is all some sick twisted game to you?” sneered Elasti-girl “Killing innocent beings, destroying whole worlds…!”

Elik fired a small blast at the ground, “Enough!” he thundered, “We are merely our orders. It is what we exist for: To serve our master, and to carry out his wishes.”

The heroes exchanged curious looks with one another.

While no one was looking, a manhole cover by Kamica’s foot softly and silently lifted up and someone’s hand poked through softly touching her bare leg. She didn’t see, feel or know anything about it, and yet, the hand magically transformed into what appeared to be an exact copy of Kamica’s hand; her skin color, her red sleeve…

…and the hand just disappeared back down the hole still unseen by all.

“And just who are you guys working for?” Mento asked. He was about to get his answer as the skies grew dark and eerie, and HE appeared on the scene.

“Who’s that?” Terra asked, but the others had no idea, but Raven could see in his hands, “The Dark Prognosticus!” she cried softly.

“This is our master....” said Pyrus “The deleter of worlds, the keeper of The Dark Prognosticus, and lord of all darkness everywhere: Count Logan.”

“Count Logan…?” the others all thought at once, and Logan snickered at them, but then his eyes befell on Terra and he cringed softly behind his mask, which no one could see, yet, Terra looked into Logan’s eyes behind his mask and could begin to feel something odd; almost even familiar.

Logan then turned to his minions, “You have done well. You may go now, have some fun, but do not destroy the planet; Not yet.”

The minions bowed to him, and looked pitifully at the heroes. “It’s been fun.” said Pyrus, “Happy Screams.” teased Elik. “Ciao.” hissed Kamica, and they all vanished and were gone.

A cold wind began to blow as the heroes and Logan stared each other down like cowboys prepared to draw. “So you’re the one who’s been back of all this.” said Cyborg “You’re the guy who destroyed Star’s planet, and you’re the bastard that’s blowing up Earth, created that void and is trying to kill the universe… ARE YOU (Bleeping) KIDDING ME, MAN?!”

Logan stroked the tip of his can and hissed, “For someone about to cease existing, you are astonishingly perceptive.” he snickered “Yes! I admit and confess to it all.”

The heroes bloods gave nasty turns, and Raven got seriously bad vibes as she tried to psychically contact the evil Count, only for the darkness to be far too strong, too deadly for her power to work. She knew this was more work of The Dark Prognosticus. It was what was making him so powerful.

“I don’t know how you got that book or unlocked its power,” she hissed at him “But I won’t let you use it to destroy everything.”

Logan chuckled, “I’m afraid it’s too late for that…” and he held out his hand unleashing a small wave of power that blasted Raven hard, and sent her flying backward, hard.

“Raven!” cried Cyborg, and he dashed over to help her up. “You okay?”

Raven wasn’t really hurt, but in shock, “His power… I’ve never felt anything like it!”

“What you have felt is merely a small fraction.” said Logan “It shouldn’t have to take even half of my full potential to rid myself of you, or this miserable world!”

Terra clenched her fists “You’re so sick!” she sneered at him “Why do you want to destroy the world?”

“That’s something we’d all like to know!” agreed Robot-Man, and everyone else agreed.

Logan laughed and replied, “Why do I want to destroy the world? It’s what I was created for. It is why I exist.”

“What?” snapped Negative-Man “What do you mean it’s why you exist?”

Logan just glared at him and the others sternly, especially at Terra.

Elsewhere, the ponies had all crashed in a vacant lot in an, already, damaged yet deserted part of town. The impact knocked them all unconscious, and they were all starting to come to.

“Is… is everypony alright?” asked Twilight.

“Uhn…! Define “alright?” groaned Rainbow.

“That’s the second time we’ve been conked out.” said Applejack. “You know what they say: “Third time, lucky.” said Pinkie, “Or, wait a minute… um… never mind.”

Suddenly, there was a big explosion followed by the sounds of people screaming and being obviously killed. Fluttershy sick to her stomach, “If this is just some nightmare, why can’t I wake up?!” she whimpered.

Cadance could suddenly hear the sound of a baby cry, and hearing it reminded her of her sweet Flurry Heart, and how she was brutally murdered. She was filled with a deep rage and took off up the street. “Cadance…!” Twilight called.

“Quickly, after her!” cried Rarity, and she and the others galloped off after Cadance, jumping out into the main street where they witness Kamica striking her sword into a mother and her baby, killing them both just like that. She snickered and then licked the blade of her sword, “I love it!!” she hissed.

Then suddenly, she got blasted at from behind, “What?!” she snapped as she turned, and she couldn’t believe her eyes as she saw the seven ponies standing and glaring furiously at her.

“Kamica!” cried Elik, “What’s wrong?” but as he and Pyrus came up to her, they could see for themselves. “This can’t be…!” cried Pyrus. Kamica agreed, “How is it you are here? I thought I was rid of you back in Equestritack!”

“That’s “Equestria!” sneered Twilight, and then she cringed sadly, “It WAS Equestria…”

All her friends felt the same depression and rage as they glared the villains down. “You blood-thirsty monsters!” growled Cadance, “Where is your master, Count Logan?! ANSWER ME!!” her rage gave her an uncontrollable need to shout.

“He is not here.” replied Elik, “Even if he were, he’d destroy you all just as easily as we’re going to. Those are his wishes: To destroy and kill all and we follow.”

Rainbow felt sick to her stomach, “You guys really are a bunch of sickos, you know that?!”

“Perhaps…” sneered Kamica, “But the facts don’t change. We have you princesses. We have the power, and soon we will have the entire universe and the worlds under our wrath!”

Pyrus nodded and added, “You seven may have been fortunate enough to survive the destruction of your world, but this is where it shall end for you!”

Cadance snuffed, and reared up on her hind legs, neighing furiously as she charged forth, and the others followed her.

“Ho! Is that your best?” sneered Elik, and he unleashed a wave of his lightning at the ground, blowing it up hard and sent the ponies flying up and crashing down hard before they could get close.

After just that one attack, all seven ponies looked as if they had been trampled on by a heard of elephants, and they were wounded and bleeding as well.

“We’re still… too weak from all that flying and falling.” said Applejack.

“Ha!” scoffed Kamica, “Even at full strength you wouldn’t have a chance against us.”

She and her comrades approached the fallen ponies intending to finish them off for good. Twilight tried to conjure a barrier or a spell of protection, but her broken horn only gave off a few small flickers of light; useless!

“How pathetic!” sneered Pyrus “You came all this way, hunting us down, only to fail here making all your efforts in vain.”

The ponies were beginning to lose consciousness again form being attacked so hard and still feeling overly-exhausted.

Kamica picked Twilight up, choking her by the neck, “Now I’ll finish what I began with your horn!”

She raised her sword ready for the kill, and then turned Twilight to face her friends, “Get a good look at them! It will be for the last time…!”

“Twi… light…!” Cadance cried, but Elik put his huge heavy boot to her head, ready to crush her like a bug, “You’ll be joining her soon.” He hissed. “That goes for the rest of you…!” Pyrus sneered at the other ponies. Her eyes blazing with fire!

But suddenly…! Powerful light blasts hit each villain, and actually knocked each villain away from the ponies. Kamica even dropped her sword as well, and as she scrambled to pick it up, a foot came down stepping on her arm. Kamica looked up and saw what appeared to be a perfect duplicate of herself, yet wearing a mask similar to Robin’s, and spoke in a deep male voice, “We meet again!” he hissed.

“You…!” sneered Kamica, and that’s when the stranger kicked her hard in the face, actually hurting her and sent her rolling along the ground to where her comrades helped her up.

“Who’s… that…?” Rainbow groaned. Twilight had just enough strength to say “I… can’t… tell…” and she finally passed out along with the other ponies, while the villains stared down this Kamica lookalike.

Kamica held out her hand and her sword magically launched into her grip. “You’re that annoying little punk who’s been out to stop us from day one!”

The stranger held his own duplicate of Kamica’s sword in his hand, and in his other hand he clutched The Light Prognosticus, “As The Light Prognosticus guides me with its wisdom and power, the day draws near when you and your evil master, Count Logan, shall answer for all the horrible things you have done!

You have now met your match, you three!!”

The villains did not seem a bit amused, “Come and get us!” thundered Elik, and he and his comrades launched a full barrage of their powers, but the stranger swiftly swerved and evaded each attack as he charged forth, and he gave a great swing with his own sword, striking all three villains hard, actually wounding them as sparks flew.

The villains unfortunately were not wounded too badly, still very strong from the power of The Dark Prognosticus, but they were shocked that this creature actually harmed them when all else could barely lay a finger on them.

“I don’t understand! He HAS become stronger!” cried Pyrus.

“Heh!” the stranger scoffed, “I have also been studying. The Light Prognosticus has spoken to me, and now I know how to stop The Prophecy!”

“You won’t!” shouted Elik “The Prophecy can never be stopped.”

“Allow us to prove it to you!” added Pyrus, and she unleashed a wave of flames, which the stranger avoided by leaping up high and then tackling her hard into an alley where they both went out of sight.

The two creatures growled and hit each other hard. Small flames light up the alley walls where the shadows of the two brawling were shown, Suddenly, Pyrus and the creature tackled each other out of the alley, only the stranger now had copied Pryus’ form.

“Can’t you try anything original?” Pyrus snarled, “No one likes a wannabee.”

The stranger only responded by throwing fireballs at her, which dodged, and Elik the charged at the strange, and the two engaged in a fist struggle, pushing at one another hard, and Elik shocked the creature hard, harming him greatly making him back off, and Kamica gave him a hi-jump kick to the gut sending him crashing right through the brick-wall of a building.

“Take that!” Kamica thundered.

“Is he down?” asked Pyrus.

Elik moved in closer towards the mountain of bricks and rubble to take a closer look, and as he gazed in closer, a large hand suddenly grabbed his wrist, followed by a magic-flash. That’s when the stranger burst through the rubble, now as Elik.

“You should never underestimate your opponent.” The stranger hissed, and he fired a barrage of lightning bolts at the villains, striking them all mercilessly and making sparks and explosions all around them.

The villains were starting to actually be weakening and realized for once, the battle could not be won. “Insolent pest!” thundered Elik, “You haven’t seen the last of us!”

The girls nodded in agreement, and all three villains vanished and were gone, much to the chagrin of the stranger, but now was not the time to worry about it. He looked over at the unconscious ponies, and he knew what he had to do.

Then he noticed the darkness far over the other end of the city. “Logan…!”

As the dark clouds overhead became more eerie, Logan basked in the darkness as he explained his supposed reasons for wanting to destroy all worlds. “Everything that exists has a purpose, but if there is one same purpose that everything has, it is to meet its end. All living beings eventually die, and a new generation is born only to meet the same fate and the cycle of life continues and repeats.”

He then quoted a passage from his book…

“And I suppose you are that darkened soul?” Mento asked.

Logan nodded while snickering, and he pointed up at the void through the darkness. “Even as we speak, more and more worlds are meeting their ends and each and every world I destroy increases my power! Soon, all worlds will meet their ends, so as is written in The Dark Prognosticus! It cannot be stopped!”

Robin had heard enough, “Oh, yes it can!” he sneered, “’CAUSE I’LL MAKE IT STOP!!!” and he charged forth with his staff ready, but Logan’s eyes glowed brightly and he, telekinetically, lifted Robin.

“Robin!!” cried Starfire.

Logan then clenched his hand softly, and Robin began to groan, feeling as if his bones were being crushed from the inside, and then in a swift flick, Logan threw him hard against the wall, knocking him unconscious.

“No! Robin!” Starfire cried. “You!!” she thundered at Logan and fired the biggest ray from her eyes that she could, but Logan merely shielded himself with his cape, and then flapped it hard repelling the blast back at her and the others, “Look out!” cried Terra, and she and the others hit the ground letting the blast fly past them, deep into town where it exploded and caused much damage and killed more people.

The heroes all looked in awe and fear, “I can’t believe he just did that!” cried Negative-Man!

“Fools…!” Logan sneered “Your pitiful hero resources cannot weaken me! My powers are too great and growing ever stronger still! With The Dark Prognosticus by my side, no creature can even hope to conquer me!”

With that, before anyone could react, Logan began to unleash his wrath on them. He started by glowing in dark energy, and then stretched out swiftly, unleashing the wave upon the two teams, and knocking them all back hard.

“Let’s get him!” shouted Mento, the heroes agreed and all rushed forth, but Logan effortlessly swerved and dodged their every lunge at him, and punched and kicked them all hard.

“Azarath, Metrion, ZINTHOS!!” Raven thundered as she fired a huge burst of dark light at Logan, but he took one wave of his cane and redirected the magic back at Raven, creating a big explosion that really knocked her out and hurt some of the others too.

“He’s beating us so easily!” cried Robot-Man.

“Our training didn’t help at all!” cried Terra.

“Keep trying!” shouted Elasti-Girl, and she grew into a giant and tried to stomp on Logan like a grape, but Logan effortlessly held her massive foot up with his bare hands, and gave her a huge push, toppling her over onto her back hard.

The heroes continued to bravely fight, but Logan fought back ruthlessly and attacked them all so hard, injuring them mercilessly. However, he didn’t seem to attack Terra at all. If anything, he wasn’t even trying to go after her… until he finally hard her cornered-- backed up against a wall.

Terra tried to use her powers to crumple the wall and burry him under the rubble, but Logan held his hand up over his head, and all the bricks were vaporized into nothingness before they could touch him. “I told you, it is futile to resist my power.”

He began to move towards her, and the others were too injured to get up and help her. “Terra…!” cried Cyborg “Get out of there!” but there was nowhere for Terra to go.

“What are you doing?” Terra whimpered as she looked up into Logan’s fearsome eyes behind his mask. Logan pointed his cane threateningly at her and glared furiously at her, almost as if just looking at her was enraging or hurting him. She could even see this.

Logan then lowered his cane, “I wish you unharmed. Instead you will be coming with me.”

“What?” snapped Terra “Where are you taking me?”

He didn’t answer her, but just raised the book and opened it, and just like before, he captured Terra in a wave of dark flashes and she was sucked into the pages of the book. Logan snapped the book shut, and closed his eyes really tight, struggling with the emotions that were clouding him!

The heroes noted this, but they all just lay on the ground, bruised, scratched, bleeding softly, and slowly losing consciousness. There was not much they could do at all.

Logan caught hold of him and turned to face the fallen heroes, “And now I end your suffering, and exact my revenge…!” He raised his cane, and the tip was glowing brighter and brighter as he prepared for the final attack!!

The heroes finally passed out in hopelessness, surrendering to their fate. “BEGONE!!!” Logan thundered, and he blasted them all so hard that the very city shook violently.

Logan stood where he was panting softly and stressfully, but he felt rather great having blasted that much power out. However, when the smoke from the blast had cleared, “What?!” he thundered “Where did they go?!”

The entire area was completely leveled; all the buildings had fallen, the roads were all busted up, and yet there was not a trace of the heroes anywhere. Not even one fragment of a bone, let alone dead corpses anywhere.

There was no doubt in Logan’s mind, they had somehow escaped, and he had a feeling he knew whom was behind this! His theory was answered as he looked up in the darkened sky to see a right star zooming away and out into space.

This star was in fact a massive starship. It was saucer shaped, and was two stories high, and capable of incredible hyper-speeds to sail the cosmos faster than many things. This super ship was owned and piloted by that stranger whom had nearly trounced Logan’s minions. He had quickly beamed the unconscious heroes onboard his ship just in time, and they along with the unconscious ponies, were all lying in the lower lounge of the ship, strapped to special beds that helped heal their injuries.

The stranger sat at the controls located on the upper-level as he piloted his ship as far away from Earth and out of the Solar System, but he looked back at Earth and the void declaring, “Once again we are all safe, to fight you another day, Count Logan!”

Logan stood where he was, and while he was outraged that the heroes actually escaped him, he remained calm and decided to let them run. “As long as the Prophecy continues, they will soon discover there is no place they can run to.”

He looked up at the void, which was still expanding. Logan gripped his cane fercily, cringing with anger, “I will make them all suffer… the same way that I suffer every single day!”

Then he vanished and was gone!

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