Twilight began to awaken. “What… what happened?” she wondered “Am I dead? The last thing I remember was the castle exploded and The Dark Realm collapsed…”

There was a loud noise, sounded like sparks flying, which snapped her wide awake, and she realized not only was she still alive, but all her friends were too, though lying unconscious all around her.

The spaceship had obviously escaped The Dark Realm before it was destroyed, and had crashed on a planet. However, the ship was severely damaged and was getting ready to blow up at any second.

Thinking quickly, Twilight teleported everyone outside and a good distance away from the ship, just as it exploded in a huge bang!

The explosion woke everyone instantly. Some of them screamed, others got up anticipating a fight, and Pinkie got up and panicking, “I’m up! I’m up! I’m start the breakfast! Call the guards! Close and lock the doors!”

“Pinkie, calm down…!” Twilight shouted as she shook her to her senses.

“Oh!” Pinkie snapped, and she hugged her tightly, “Twilight, I never thought I’d see you again!”

“Um… yeah!” choked Twilight “Glad… you’re… okay too!”

Copione gazed far over at the wreckage of his ship. It pained him so, as it meant they were now stuck wherever it was they were, but at least they were all alive… for the moment.

The world around them looked absolute desolated, post-apocalyptic. The skies were all red with hints of black clouds; the ground was all one giant wasteland with jagged rocks and scored dirt all over, small pools of lava and burned trees…!

“Where are we?” asked Starfire “What planet is this?”

Cyborg tried to calculate, “It’s no good, my wrist-com’s busted. It must’ve happened in the crash.”

Suddenly, Robot-Man noticed something by his foot; an ordinary crushed root-beer can. “Whoa! No way…!” he said as he picked it up. Everyone looked at it, and there was no other explanation. “We’re on Earth.” said Robin. “Or rather what’s left of it.” added Raven.

The two royal sisters had never seen such chaos and destruction before, for their first ever visit to Earth. “Beast Boy and his henchmen must have leveled this planet some time ago.” Luna deduced.

Celestia looked up, and could the void and how enormous it was. “From the looks of it, this planet doesn’t have much time left to exist.”

This frustrated Copione, for letting Beast Boy get away. “If I only I had destroyed him when I had the chance!” he grumbled to himself, but everyone heard him anyway, and they, too, realized the serious of things, even Terra, but she couldn’t bring to apologize, it wouldn’t fix things.

Suddenly, there was a loud crash which made everyone jump. “What was that?!” whimpered Fluttershy, and that’s when the grounds, away from the group, burst wide open as Beast Boy emerged, still looking weak tattered, but just as frustrated and as angry as ever. “Don’t you people ever die?!!” he growled, and he fired a small, but still fierce blast of energy near them, making a big explosion. His weariness made it hard for him to aim.

“Beast Boy, please…!” Terra cried.

“My name is LOGAN!!!” he shouted. “Not that it matters now! Nothing matters now! None of you matter!” he paused and looked up at the void, “…In fact, in a short while, you won’t even BE matter.”

Almost all the others glared furiously at him, but Terra, still overlooking the danger, approached him. “Beast Boy, please. I don’t want to hurt you anymore. Please, just let us try and help you!”

“Get away from me!” he sneered while backing away from her. “I don’t need you, Terra! I don’t need anyone!” he reached behind for his book “All I need is The Dark Pro--” he felt around and searched himself all over “Where is it?”

That’s when Nekard appeared on the scene, “Looking for something, Count?” he teased as he held the book up.

“The Dark Prognosticus!” cried Raven.

“How did he get it?” asked Negative-Man.

Beast Boy smiled, “Oh, well done, Nekard. Quickly, give it to me.”

Nekard snickered, “Oh, I’ll give it to you… HERE!!” and he unleashed a powerful wave of magic at Beast Boy, holding him in a field of dark light.

The heroes gawked in horror, and Beast Boy shouted “What… what are you doing?!”

Nekard laughed, “What I’m doing is what I’ve waited thousands of years for: I’m taking back WHAT IS RIGHTFULLY MINE!!” and as he shouted, the book opened wide, enveloping him in swirling rays of light and darkness.

“What’s happening!” cried Rarity.

“I think he’s… changing!” said Mento.

When the lights had faded, there stood an enormous and evil looking dragon! He stood two stories tall, had black and silvery scales. Horns on his head, sharp wings, strong claws, and there, engraved on his chest was The Dark Prognosticus itself.

He chuckled wickedly as he glared down at everyone. “I have returned! I will destroy!”

Twilight gasped, “That’s it!” she shouted, “That’s the evil voice I heard in my nightmares!”

“So Nekard’s the one who’s been back of all this?” asked Rainbow.

The dragon snickered and explained himself, “My name is Draken, and I am the true force of the darkness!

Three thousand years ago, in the Ancient World that would late become Equestria, the war Light and Darkness had ceased as those of the two forces chose to stop fighting. A great pony wizard had created the two tomes which began to absorb all the energies to further quell the fighting.

As member of the Dark side, I did not wish for the fighting to cease. The Darkness is the only right path that I ever chose to fight on. Power was the only thing that ever mattered to me. I craved it, that I sought to steal the power tomes for myself in order to re-instate the wars and blight out the light!

That foolish wizard sought to stop me, and when our two forces collided, my spirit became sealed within the pages of The Dark Prognosticus!”

Twilight contemplated deeply, back to her history book, “So that’s what happened to the wizard and the dragon!” she thought.

Draken continued his story.

“For centuries I spent concealed within the darkness of the book, trying to escape. I would have succeeded had the Evil Trigon not taken the book and infected it with his own malicious powers. Even though I enjoyed it, and prospected at the very thought of all the might to claim as my own… the cursed monks of Azarath trying to seal the book with their spells.

Fortunately, for me, my spirit was strong enough to fight them off so that they weren't able to completely seal the power away, which is why only someone with a hate-filled heart could release the power.

Finally, when Beast Boy was accepted as a potential owner, my spirit was finally released. Unfortunately, as if it were bad enough that someone else was now in possession of the book, my spirit had been sealed inside for so long, my body had not returned, and much of my power was still locked within the pages!

As long as Beast Boy continued to control The Dark Prognosticus, it soon became clear to me that I would have to take it from him.

Fortunately, even in spiritual form, I was able to create a makeshift body to house myself in. Even with my temporary body, I could never have hopped to defeat Beast Boy on my own.” He turned and faced the team, “And I didn’t have to when you did all the work for me.”

The heroes all growled fiercely at him, Draken only snickered, “Before the dust had settled after the battle, I snuck in and quickly took back The Dark Prognosticus.”

He stomped hard, and spread out his wings, “Finally, I have returned to my glorious state, and I get to finish what was started three thousand years ago! I will destroy every single world, and rebuild them all in my image! All the light, all the love, all the hope will be gone! Only the darkness shall live and thrive!”

Beast Boy still held by the darkness growled at him, “You… TRAITOR!! I will destroy you for this!” but Draken only laughed at him. “You fool! Weren’t you listening to what I just said? I own the book and the power now, and you’re just a frail and weak puppet!

Much as I should do away with you, I’ve got a much better idea. I’m going to need a little help in destroying what remains of this blasted world, and that’s where you come in!”

“Never!” thundered Beast Boy “I will never work for you!”

“Ha!” snapped Draken “I wasn’t giving you a choice!” and with that, the book in his chest began to glow brightly along with Draken’s eyes, and he opened his huge mouth to unleash a wave of dark magic straight at Beast Boy!

“NOOOOOOO…!!!”

“BEAST BOY…!!!” Terra screamed, while everyone else gawked in shock and yelped!

When all was done, and the light faded, Beast Boy had transformed into a dragon himself. Strongly resembling that of Malchior the dragon, whom Raven defeated once before, only he was larger, and had strong horns on his head, but still just as fierce.

The dragon roared loudly at the team, sending them all tumbling back hard.

“Beast Boy!” cried Robin.

“Beast Boy, don’t do this!” Terra called to him.

Draken snickered, “Go ahead. Yell at him all you like. He can’t hear you! His mind is gone, but his power belongs to me. He is now a perfect slave to help me obliterate what’s left of this world, and serve me in the dawning of the new, dark world!”

Beast Boy growled as if he were actually complying with the wishes of his new master. He could not speak with words.

“Attack them!!” shouted Copione.

“No, wait!” shouted Terra, but all the heroes and the ponies fired everything they had at the two dragons, but all their light pulses and energy-beams to the dragons, was like throwing small pebbles at a brick wall. The two dragons just stood where they were, taking each and every hit, and not even feeling the least bit fazed.

“It’s not working!” shouted Pinkie.

Draken laughed, “And why should it? You’ve already exhausted your powers battling Beast Boy, and even at full strength it won’t matter. Thanks to all the events that have transpired, I am far more powerful than I could ever have imagined!”

The heroes all exchanged looks of concern with one another.

“We must be going now.” said Draken “We have worlds to destroy and remake. Oh, and as a final gesture to thank you all for helping me restore my might, rather than dispose of you myself, I’ve decided to leave you all to perish along with the Earth.”

That’s when the Earth gave a sickening shake, as the void was growing closer, finally going to obliterate it for good, while Draken and Beast Boy flew up, up, and off into whatever was left of space.

“BEAST BOY…!!” Terra called to him “DON’T GO!!” but Beast Boy still had no will of his own, and he couldn’t hear her.

Then he was gone!

Terra fell to her knees and angrily slammed her fists in the ground. The ground shook again, but because of the void getting closer!

“What are we going to do?” cried Rarity.

“What CAN we do, is more like it.” added Elasti-Girl.

“Can’t we use the magic to fix your ship?” Cyborg asked Copione, but Copione shook his head, “The Light Prognosticus can only heal and restore certain bits of injury on a living being, it cannot repair my destroyed ship.”

“It wouldn’t matter even if it could.” said Mento “You saw what happened; we couldn’t even scratch those big brutes.”

Celestia looked mortified, “Are you saying we should just give up?”

“I’m not, but what else can we do?” protested Mento “This planet’s going to go any second, and we don’t have any way to get off of it before it does.”

“Even if we were to escape, we have no place to escape to.” added Starfire.

A moment of silence fell, and everyone felt all hope rapidly fading, as more tremors shook the Earth and the void grew larger.

It was beginning to look as if this was really it, and the entire gang considered of just embracing their fate and waiting for the end to come… however, The Light Prognosticus began to glow, and a voice spoke out to them, “Don’t give up! It’s not over yet.”

Copione dropped the book in shock, and the book glowed brighter than ever before as the spirit of a mystical Unicorn appeared. He was pure white, had a golden beard and mane, he wore a white wizard-like robe and hat, and his cutie mark was that of a heavenly flash.

Everyone gazed in awe. “Who are you?” asked Twilight, but then she realized “Is it possible…?”

The wizard smiled and nodded at her, “My name is Shimmerlock the Golden. In life, I was a great pony wizard and prognosticator. I believed in the light and in hope, and used it as my inspiration to end the dreadful war that shook my world.

I created the Light Prognosticus as well as The Dark One, to stop the fighting, but when Draken attacked to take the power, my spirit was sealed within the pages of the Light Prognosticus.

I think you all know the rest.”

Indeed, everyone did.

“This is all just incredible.” said Celestia. “But, why are you only just appearing before us now?” asked Luna.

“Until now, I hadn’t the power to speak or reveal myself.” replied Shimmerlock. He looked at Copione “You were a wise holder for my book, but I’m sorry to say that even you could not unlock the true powers within.”

Copione felt somewhat ashamed, “Yes, I understand that now.”

“Don’t feel ashamed.” said Shimmerlock “Thanks to you, you helped to assemble these fine teams…” he motioned at The Titans, The Doom Patrol, and the ponies, and then he gazed at Terra, “And you…” he said with a big smile “Your efforts and willfulness helped to unlock the seals with in.”

Terra felt flattered and held a hand to her heart.

“Now that I am free, I can bestow upon you all the ultimate power of the force of Light.”

Robin asked with great hope “You mean, we’ll be able to go after Beast Boy and Draken?”

“Yes.” replied Shimmerlock “Once has Draken has been defeated, The Dark Prognosticus will fall with him, and The Prophecy of Destruction will cease as well.”

Hearing this gave Terra great hope. “It means we don’t have to kill Beast Boy anymore.” she said to herself. “We can still try and save him!”

“Gather around me, everyone.” said Shimmerlock. The heroes all did as they were told and stood around him in a giant ring. “Now, close your eyes and let your pure thoughts be recognized.”

Everyone shut their eyes, and they all began to think very deeply, mostly of Beast Boy.

Robin: “Beast Boy, I know I’ve been hard with you a lot, but you’ve always been there for me and the team, and I’m going to everything I can to help save you.”

Starfire: “You destroyed my planet, but now I wish to save it and you, Beast Boy. You are a true friend, and I hope that you will be able to forgive me for all of my own errors as well.”

Cyborg: “You showed me that it’s okay to be different. You’re not dumb, BB. You really are smarter than you think, and we can get you out of this, that’s a promise I want to make.”

Raven: “You and I were often at each other’s ends, Beast Boy, you were rude, clumsy, annoying, but… you were a great guy, and deep down I know you still are. I’m sorry for every bad thing I did to you. All I want now is to save the worlds, and you, so we can try and put all this behind us.”

The Doom Patrol thought deeply as well, wanting to help their former teammate, especially Mento. “Please, great powers of light. Help me… help me save the worlds, and my…

…My son!”

Elasti-Girl could feel her husband’s thoughts, and she shared them very deeply.

The ponies and Copione all stood together. Though none of them really knew Beast Boy at all, and they could never ignore that he had done some pretty horrible things, they were able to view things in better perspective. It would never be excusable for his actions, but they understood he had been through a lot now, what they wanted now was to help him to undo all the evil he had caused from his sadness, and to help restore all they had lost as well.

As for Terra, it was obvious what she was thinking, “Beast Boy, I’m never going to give up on you. You never gave up on me, and I pushed you away. I can never make up for what I’ve done to you, to me, to us, but I can do better now… because I want it so.”

As they all concentrated and thought deeply, Shimmerlock began to glow brightly, and soon his body dissolved into millions of tiny little shimmers of light that entered the bodies of everyone.

“Wow!” Robin exclaimed when he opened his eyes. “This feels incredible.”

“I feel like I could leap all the way to the moon.” said Rainbow.

“Oh, but… where’s Shimmerlock?” asked Fluttershy.

“I am still here,” Shimmerlock answered, though no one could see him, but Terra picked up The Light Prognosticus. She tried to look through the pages, but they were all the same-- all glowing with a mystical light. No words, no pictures, nothing but light “The power of light has been fully unlocked, and now the rest is up to you.

Go now. Vanquish the darkness forever, and restore the light of peace to the worlds that have fallen.”

He said no more, and the Earth began to tremble most violently and it didn’t stop. “We’ve got to get out of here now!” shouted Robot-Man.

“Come on…!” cried Celestia, and, unleashing her new powers of light, she rocketed up, up, up, and the others soon followed just as the ground began to breakup.

“We must go faster!” cried Starfire. So they all poured on as much speed as they could, actually moving as fast as light itself, and they suddenly found themselves out of the solar-system in a split second, just as the void consumed it all.

“Wow! What an escape…” said Raven.

Everyone breathed a soft sigh of relief. “Now, let’s go find Draken and Beast Boy.” said Cadance.

“You don’t have to tell me twice.” said Negative-Man.

The final battle was about to commence, with the fate of all worlds hanging in the balance.

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