Author's Notes:

RATED T

Some swearing in one part of the chapter.

As the tournament went underway, Twilight appeared in a purple flash somewhere near the edge of the arena. She could hear the loud sounds of combat towards the center and felt the arena shaking from the forces. But she was too frustrated to even comprehend how intense it truly was because she lost track of Spike. She cursed at herself for failing to follow his teleport correctly due to the different type of magic and now she was by herself, alone.

She wasn’t too worried, however. She knew Spike could hold his own just fine, and they would probably meet again later. She was more worried about her other teammates as she just left without warning. She trusted them, but she didn’t want them to run into trouble while she was gone.

As she contemplated, her thoughts were interrupted by a red laser heading her way. She shrieked and activated her horn quickly, managing to get a shield up just in time to block the attack, and despite saving herself she still flinched and shut her eyes.

The beam disintegrated, and when she got a good view she noticed three grey robots standing in front of her. The robots had red eyes and two arms and legs. All three of them had red glowing antennas on their heads and steam flowing out of their vent mouths.

Twilight also noticed a small bald old man with goggles and a lab coat, sporting black gloves, grey eyebrows, and a mustache.

“Greetings, alien... horse... thing." He said. "It is I, er... Professor Calamitous!”

Twilight raised her brows in alarm as rotated her vision between the three robots and the Professor like a small puppy in danger.

The professor held a small remote control in his hands. Before she could say anything back or take any action, Calamitous pushed a stick on his remote, and all the robot started to fire lasers once again targetting her.

Twilight teleported out of harm's way while thinking to herself, "I should group up with the others, I shouldn't have tried to follow Spike anyways and stook to the plan."

She tried to sprint back towards her teammates, but the robots flew in front of her with rockets below their feet.

"Sorry," Calamitous said. "But I can't let you, er... escape, I need my, erm... universe to survive too you know." He pushed a button on his remote.

With them blocking their path, Twilight knew she couldn't just trot past them freely. She would have to stand her ground and hope for an opening.

The robot on the left fired a beam.

Twilight jumped to her right to dodge and fired a purple beam back through her horn. But instead of landing like she hoped it would, the robot in the middle dashed in front of Twilight's target and held up its arms, eliciting a red barrier.

While Twilight wasn't looking, the third robot managed to get behind her and fire a beam at her, but she heard it and reacted quickly, putting up a barrier of her own.

"Grand Zeno," The Grand Preist started above where the thrones were placed. He stood on a floating platform in front of the thrones. "Please take a look at your GodPads."

The Grand Zeno's looked down at their screens, which had the list of universes partaking in the tournament currently being displayed.

"You can see the universes and fighters that are and aren't knocked out yet," He explained. "But also, go over to the Power Level app and have a look. It will tell you the current level of power of any being on the stage and who they are currently fighting."

The Zeno's hummed to themselves as they looked at the app. They stared down at Twilight facing off against Calamitous's robots, and after a few seconds decided to select Twilight's smiling picture on the app.

The screen changed from the selection of fighters to Twilight's page, with a picture of her, her name, and a number below.

Twilight Sparkle: 1200
Robot A: 1000
Robot B: 1000
Robot C: 1000
Professor Calamitous: 100

"What do the numbers mean?" One of the Zenos asked the Grand Priest.

"That is Miss. Sparkle's power level." He explained kindly.

Zeno looked at him blankly for a moment before the other one asked, "Is she strong?"

"In comparison, your power level is ten million." He said. "But watch closely, I think something interesting will happen soon."

Back with the rest of Universe 7, they were surrounded beside the central pillar by six Universe 9 members called Jimmy, Goddard, Sheen, Carl, Cindy, and Libby. The kids wore robotic armor, designed by Jimmy, and were looking to throw out Universe 7.

Jimmy: 800
Goddard: 1500
Sheen: 700
Carl: 500
Cindy: 800
Libby 800

Starlight: 1000
Applejack: 700
Thorax: 7000
Shining Armor: 800
Cadence: 4000

"This must be the universe with humans, no magic, but more advanced technology that Princess Celestia explained about." Starlight thought.

"These fighting suits better work, Nerd-tron." The blond girl named Cindy Vortex said with attitude to the boy called Jimmy Neutron.

The kids had on grey and black armor-suits. With various gadgets all around the arms, body, and legs.

Starlight noticed that their enemies were getting ready to charge at them, and shouted, "Remember the formation, everyone!"

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Using rockets on below their shoes, Cindy and Libby charged forward swiftly, but before they reached Universe 7, Thorax stepped on the frontlines and shape-shifted into a rhinoceros. Applejack's voice echoed in his head, "Thorax, try and turn into something that can defend us, something really big that can block attacks."

Shining Armor acted quickly and lit up his horn pointing towards Thorax. "Shining, you can help make Thorax more durable so he doesn't hurt himself defending us." His blue shielding magic surrounded Thorax like a sheet of armor.

Thorax stood his ground as Cindy and Libby failed in their attempt to hurt him with a rocket punch.

"While Thorax and Shining are defending us, Cadence and Starlight can use their magic to hit them from afar!"

Cadence flew to stand on top of Thorax and fired a beam downwards towards the two girls. They noticed this however and used the rockets on their boots to jump to safety. The magic beam hit the floor and made a small crater.

Carl snuck around Thorax without him noticing and engaged on a defenseless Shining Armor, who was in the middle of casting his spell.

"I'll stand in the middle of y'all, in case one of them gets through Thorax and Shining's defenses."

Carl began his attack on Shining with a rocket punch directed at his face, but before he landed his punch Applejack bucked him away. "Keep it up y'all! We're doing great!"

Starlight eyed Sheen, who was inspecting his own gear and not paying attention to the battle his universe was fighting in. She aimed her horn at him and fired, but her magic proved ineffective as Jimmy jumped in front of him and activated a shield on his chestplate.

"This won't be as easy as I thought." Starlight thought.

Ember crossed her arms as she flew high in the air, looking left and right to find anyone to fight.

She noticed a giant Lobster fighting some type of ghost, and a yellow mouse in combat with a tall man with dark clothing holding some kind a beam sword thing.

But she didn't want to intrude on any of those fights, she didn't want a threeway fight or some nonsense like that, she needed to get into a fight in the enemy's favor so she could prove her strength.

She then came across some small humans from universe 4, some of them seemed to be angry.

She landed near them, close enough to watch and listen but far enough to not be noticed just yet.

The kid with the kite on his back seemed to be the most angered.

"So we need to save the world and that fatass just ditches us! Just great, the one time we actually need him to cooperate!" He yelled in a high pitched voice.

"It's fine, Human Kite." Toolshed, the boy with a bunch of tools, said comfortably. "We don't need him."

"I wouldn't mind, dude. But he took Butters with him and she also followed. Your dad is nowhere to be seen and we're basically outnumbered."

"Professor Chaos(Butters) is one of our strongest." Super Craig mentioned in his monotone voice. "And your dad is pretty dangerous when he's drunk."

"Yeah," Toolshed agreed, "But we can still work together an- hey is that a dragon?" He pointed, and all of their heads turned to Ember, who had her arms crossed while she stood quietly.

Toolshed: 2500
Human Kite: 2500
Mysterion: 3000
Call Girl: 3000
Super Craig: 2000
Wonder Tweek: 2000

Ember: 5000

"Oh, shit." Human Kite said in shock.

"Are you all done talking to each other? 'Cause I'm ready for some action!" Ember said.

The boy in a black cloak and underwear over his pants took a fighting position. "Freedom Pals, let's do this!" Mysterion said in his deep voice as the rest of them took their fighting positions.

Ember uncrossed her arms and opened her jaw to blow fire at the group of kids, and the Human Kite replied with his own type of ranged assault with eye lasers. Their attacks collided and underneath the smoke created Mysterion ran forward with purple mist flowing around and behind him. He jumped up to Ember's level and punched her twice with both of his fists.

Ember growled and jumped back, blowing some fireballs instead of a flame.

The Human Kite stood forward and took on the fireballs head-on using his kite as a shield. To Ember's surprise and irritation he was unscathed because of the protection of the shield.

Super Craig and Wonder Tweek held hands and fired middle fingers and electricity respectively, their two attacks combined to create a middle finger storm heading for Ember. She growled and blew fire at their ridiculous attempt to beat her with the intention of stopping their massive ranged barrage. She realized her mistake when Toolshed rushed up to her quickly and aimed a screwdriver at her and released a force from it, knocking her off her feet slightly and forcing her to stop breathing fire.

Super Craig/Wonder Tweek: 7000

When she perceived that she couldn't dodge, Ember brought her arms up at an attempt to block the attack or at the very least try and lessen the damage.

She underestimated the small humans.

Twilight saw a pattern in the three robots she was fighting against.

Robot A and B were attacking robots, which attacked her relentlessly, and Robot C was a defender, who put up barriers constantly to protect the other two.

The area around her was all rubble now from all the attacks by the robots and herself. The professor took a spot on top of a piece of debris with his controller. He laughed evilly as he toyed with the remote and commanded his robots to attack again.

Twilight brought up another barrier again and blocked their red beams, she then fired her own magic but it proved to be useless as Robot C defended against it once again.

"Having trouble are we?"

Twilight hummed in annoyance at the professors taunt, before jumping again to dodge another beam.

She then shrieked as she was thrown back at the cause of some mysterious winds. She was thrown through a rock pile and could only protect herself by putting a small barrier of magic around her, as she spun in midair she got a glance at something blue before knocking into it.

She groaned as she rubbed her temples and tried to control her dizziness. She laid on some soft blue fur, and at first, she thought she crashed into Rainbow Dash, but when she was abruptly thrown off the person and shoved to the floor, she realized she landed on a different pony, one she didn't recognize.

For starters, it was a stallion, the same height as her. She gasped at the wings and horn of the blue pony and stood up immediately, ready for anything. As an alicorn, this pony could be as strong as Celestia for all she knew. And speaking of the sun princess, Twilight recalled her speaking of an alternate universe to theirs'. This stallion must be from that universe.

The stallion stared back at her with no clear emotion in his blue eyes. He took one step forward making Twilight flinch. He flared his wings menacingly and charged his horn, getting ready to attack.

Twilight responded by charging her own horn.

Dynamo: 8000

"You're either insane..." He started in his deep voice, making Twilight raise her eyebrows in surprise.

"...or really brave."

He didn't move, not even to point his horn at her. But Twilight knew he was about to do something, and planned on using her own magic at that moment.

But a red beam barely missing her head interrupted her.

"Did you forget about me?"

Twilight turned her body towards the professor and his robot with her horn charged, and to her utmost confusion, the stallion now behind her turned his attention to the other two robots in the other direction.

The two ponies glanced at each other with furrowed eyebrows, they both knew what the other was thinking.

Robot's A and B fired at Twilight and her temporary ally, who both put up a purple and indigo magical shields simultaneously.

"I'll take that one!" The stallion said pointing towards the one in front of him before Twilight could warn him about their method of defense. He rushed up to Robot B and fired a magic blast at it, only for robot C to abruptly appear in front of it and put up a barrier.

She widened her eyes because that was when Twilight noticed something. If robot C was occupied with protecting robot B, then robot A would be open to an attack.

To test her theory, she immediately teleported to robot A's rear and fired a concentrated beam at its back. She watched as the beam easily traveled towards the robot, and to her delight, it went pierced through the metal bot. She then used her magic to drag the robot off the stadium.

The professor watched it all happen as well. "Impossible! Where's the, er... defense unit?!"

Twilight chuckled at the Professor's frustration and teleported to her temporary ally.

Shockingly, she saw he had both robots down on the ground utterly defeated.

"Well he is an alicorn." She whispered to herself.

The stallion glanced at her for a second before flapping his wings and flying up to the rock where the sweating professor stoodand picked him up with his magic easily.

"W-wai-! Ahhhh!"

Before he could protest the professor was thrown out of the arena.

"Professor Calamitous and his three robot units from universe 9 have been eliminated!" The Grand Priest announced loudly to everyone, and the Zeno's ticked off the eliminated members on their godpads, making them colorless on the screen.

After falling for a couple of seconds, Professor Calamitous and his three robots suddenly teleported up to the stands. The professor sat down and groaned, holding his head in his hands..

"That was... pretty easy," Twilight summarized.

She quickly remembered, however, that the one that assisted her was not on her team.

And she felt like the assistant.

She turned towards the alicorn stallion, who dropped down to her level using his wings. They stared at each other quietly for some time, before he asked,

"What's your name?"

She blinked with her mouth agape, before getting back her senses and answering, "I'm Twilight Sparkle."

He nodded, reminding himself not to forget her name. "I'm Dynamo. Nice to meet you, Twilight."

Twilight blinked and stare, dumbfounded. "S-same!" She caught herself. "You're from universe 6?" She asked.

He nodded. "You must be from our alternate universe. I forgot there was a possibility I'd see one of your universe's ponies from there."

Twilight agreed. "Anyways, I have to go find my team... if you don't mind." She said nervously.

He thought about it for a second, to Twilight, it seemed he was about to attempt to knock her off right then and there. "I don't." He suddenly said. "Go and find them. Try not to bump into me this time." He joked without a smile on his face which uneased Twilight.

She was surprised he was letting her go off without causing trouble. He must have had a good reason to, otherwise she would have to transform and waste her power early on. Something she was against doing. "I won't. Thanks." He turned away and she quickly trotted off not wanting to take any chances of him changing his mind.

"Larry from universe 3 has been eliminated!" The Grand Priest shouted.

"Boop!" The left Zeno said as he tapped on Larry's icon under universe 3's list.

After disappearing off the arena, the lobster was teleported up to the stands next to a growling King Neptune.

"People are getting ringed out quick." Starlight thought in alarm after hearing the Grand Priest. She took her gaze off of universe 9 for a moment to look over at her own allies. Everyone seemed to be fine, doing their respective jobs in defending against the opponent. But she noticed that every ten seconds or so, Thorax would look over in a certain direction far from their current opponents in what looked like to be worry. She didn't question him just yet about it, and instead focused her attention back on universe 9.

Cindy was getting frustrated by the minute. Every time she would try and fight universe 7, the giant bug would transform into something huge and she wouldn't be able to pass by it. In her previous attempt to try to attack, the bug transformed into a bull and knocked her away. If she didn't have Jimmy's battle suit on, she would have been severely injured.

Coming up with an idea on the spot, she ordered Carl and Sheen to charge at universe 7, whispering to Libby about sneaking around while they were distracted. And as the bug was distracted, this time a buffalo, Libby and her circled around and attempted to engage on the white horse.

But she was blasted away yet again by the pink pony.

She was thrown back a few feet away, feeling a bit dizzy after landing on her back. After rubbing her temples, she looked up to see Jimmy extending his hand. She smiled and took it, letting him pull her to her feet. "Thanks." She said.

"No problem."

Just as he said that, Libby landed beside them on her butt. "Ow!"

"They have a good strategy." Jimmy said. "They've made sure their weak points were lessened dramatically. And we can't get a good engage to fight them properly."

"So the question is, how do we beat them?" Libby asked as Cindy helped her up.

"Let me think of something."

Starlight noticed for what seemed like the hundreth time now that Thorax looked in that same direction. "Is there something wrong, Thorax?" She asked with concern.

Thorax turned his head at her sharply, startled a bit. "Oh! It's nothing!" He laughed nervously.

"I saw some unreformed changelings in that direction? Does that have to do with anything?"

"...Maybe."

Starlight looked in the direction they noticed the changelings, then back at Thorax with thoughts in her mind.

Eventually, she said. "Do what you think needs to be done."

"And what do you think that is?" Thorax asked with curiosity.

"If you want to confront and talk to them, it's fine." She said, looking back at universe 9 talking and stretching. "I think we can hold our own, no one else seems to be coming after us and they haven't gotten near to breaking our defenses just yet."

"Are you sure."

"Positive! We should be fine with Shining's shields." She said before Shining abruptly jumped in front of her and put up a shield to block a punch, this one from Carl as he made a weird warcry. "Go!" She said, lighting her horn and firing.

Thorax nodded and left the group, rushing through many fighters.

But not without apologizing first.

Rainbow yawned mockingly to herself. "This is boring!" She yelled to no one in particular. With her luck, she didn't find anyone to fight yet. Those she did find was already fighting, their minds deep in concentration.

She would join the fight, but she wanted to warm up first, a nice spar with someone one on one, or at least a few weak people.

She looked left and right with frustration before yelling, "Someone fight me!"

It was then her ears picked up some people talking below her.

It sounded like... arguing.

What she saw was a krab yelling at a computer. But as she inspected further, she noticed he was actually yelling at some small green thing. She didn't know what creature it was, she wasn't Fluttershy, or whatever a pony that studies aliens are called.

The small green guy stood on top of the computer with wheels, while the krab stood beside a bored squid.

She landed a fair distance away and started stretching while they continued.

"We're at a war, and you didn't even bring weapons?!" Plankton yelled.

Guy has a loud mouth for being tiny, Rainbow thought.

"I don't need weapons like you when I have me claws!" Mr. Krabs said.

"An idiot like you can't even use 'em!"

"Try me!"

Rainbow stared at them for some seconds quietly, looking back and forth occasionally. Before humming to herself and thinking of an idea to approach and fight them. She bet she could take on all four at once.

An idea sparked in her head. It was the most brilliant thing ever!

"Hey!"

They stopped arguing and looked over.

She turned and shook her butt at them, blowing a raspberry.

Mr. Krabs and Plankton growled.

Mr. Krabs: 800
Squidward: 300
Plankton: 100
Karen: 800

Rainbow: 800

"Let's do this you rainbow seahorse!" Plankton said while cracking his hands, at which rainbow wondered how that was even possible.

"Let's." She responded with a smirk.

There are only 46 minutes until the end of the tournament!