Now that the soldiers have gone and the Crystal Empire was left in flames, all that remained were the corpses that now litter the fallen kingdom. Walking around the kingdom streets while the flames roared, Daybreaker and Nightmare Moon were at a loss for words with the devastation before their eyes.

“What a waste of a perfectly good citadel…” Daybreaker said, looking around the ruins.

Daybreaker looked around some more and she continued to find nothing. No supplies, no survivors, and no clues about what to do next. This frustrated her to no end. Without any of the three things to help achieve her goals. She was close to burning up the entire kingdom until Nightmare Moon shouted,

“SISTER!!!”

Immediately running to her, Daybreaker asked,

“What is it, Nightmare Moon?"

“Look forward.” Nightmare Moon said in tranquil fury, pointing straight.

Looking in her direction, Daybreaker was shocked to see who it was. Anger replaced her worry as she walked towards the pony who was on top of the corpses that the Corruption swallowed.

“What do you want?” Daybreaker asked, glowing her horn with Nightmare Moon.

“Nice to see you too, teacher. But it’s not what I want. It’s what we want.” the mysterious pony corrected.

The pony in dark purple who walked towards the Royal Sisters turns out to be none other than Midnight Sparkle.

“And what goals do we share, Princess of Friendship?” Nightmare Moon sneered.

“We want the same thing: that overgrown gecko dead. After everything he did to us and what he unleashed on our home, what’s left to stop us from destroying everything he worked for? All we need to do is use this ooze to our advantage. If we cooperate with one another, not even that Creature inhabiting his body can save him. So I will make this simple: I want him dead. You want him dead. With the power of teamwork, he has little to no chance of surviving against us. Can we be friends?” Midnight proposed.

Daybreaker and Nightmare Moon turned away from Midnight Sparkle spoke with each other privately. They were both suspicious of her as they know she has an hidden agenda. But they knew had a lot more knowledge about the Corruption than they did. After silently conversing with one another, they came to a decision and walked back to Midnight.

"Okay. We'll play it your way. But know this. If we find out you're manipulating us and you intend to-"

"We'll deal with that when the time comes. But for now, there's one other key issue we need to handle. One concerning a certain other alicorn."

"Flurry Heart…"

"If we can find her, we could use her magic to strengthen our army. But there is one small pest we need to exterminate. Two, if they have met up."

"Starlight and Sunset? What could they hope to accomplish? They have lost what was left of our home. There's nothing they can do to reverse the damage that is done."

"That throne has really gone to your brains. Think about it. If they find the others, they could rescue them and use whatever knowledge they hold to bring them down first. And when they find out about us, they will do everything within their power to stop us. Then what happens to you?"

The Royal Sisters were baffled by the purple alicorn's attitude. But while they were trying to piece together what Midnight was telling them, the latter walked around and summoned a quarter of the black ooze.

"What are you doing?" Daybreaker asked.

"Watch." Midnight said before pouring the ooze on one of the corpses.

After the ooze dropped on the corpse, it started twisting and contorting itself back into its original shape. Its jaw returning to its mouth, guts going back into its stomach, and life returning to its eye, the pony picked itself up and kneeled before the alicorns.

"On this rock, I will build my church." Midnight said, smiling at the results.

"How do you intend on finding Flurry Heart? You clearly have the resources to find her." Nightmare Moon asked, feeling suspicious of her resurrective abilities.

"And why haven't you attacked us? You could have easily overwhelmed us with your capabilities." Daybreaker asked as well.

"True. It would be easy for me to just blast you into oblivion. But I wish to extend my research on this phenomenon. Also, you could grant our minions abilities that the creatures don't have. And we will have the potential to take Flurry Heart out of Starlight's grasp." Midnight explained.

"But how do we know you won't turn them against us?" Nightmare Moon asked.

"Because I'm your only chance at gaining more power than you received during your lifetime as princesses." Midnight answered.

After giving her answer to the Royal Sisters, Midnight proceeded to resurrect every single pony that was killed in the Crystal Empire Massacre. With every resurrection that occurred, Daybreaker and Nightmare Moon created with their magic by giving them various abilities of their own making. One by one, the ponies rose up from the ground and were extremely angry.

"This is a start. When we find more ponies out there, alive or dead, we will convert them to our cause."

"Yes. When we head towards our home and he is cowering before our Might, I will turn him inside out."

"It will be a matter of time before he learns of our reemergence. If he has not put the pieces together, it would be good time to strike."

After Midnight resurrected another pony, she turned towards the bumbling alicorns and said,

"If you two airheads show yourselves to him, he will do everything he can to kill us. We need to expand our army and we need a plan to destroy his kingdom."

"And just whose fault is that?" Daybreaker pointed out.

"We don't have the time for this. I will find Flurry Heart. You two focus on taking down that loathsome reptile and his pathetic kingdom."

"The resurrections are coming together. It is almost time to announce our big plans for Equestria." Nightmare Moon said.

"It seems we have came to a decision. What will you do now?" Midnight Sparkle asked.

Turning back towards half of the population who was already resurrected, Daybreaker turned back towards Midnight and said,

"I think we're going to give them our plans. What about you?"

"I will search for Starlight. If she has already left the Crystal Empire, she shouldn't be too far behind." Midnight said before turning around and spreading her wings.

"Will you be returning?" Nightmare Moon asked.

"As soon as I retrieve Flurry Heart, I'll return immediately. But right now, you two have a speech to give." Midnight said before flying off in search for Starlight.

***

After everypony in the Crystal Empire was resurrected and gathered around the time square, Daybreaker and Nightmare Moon flew up to the remains of the castle and everypony bowed before their presence.

"Arise, our dear subjects." Daybreaker said.

"Today is the most tragic day we ever held. We have lost our kingdom, we have lost our home, and we have lost the pride that we have held as princesses." Nightmare Moon said.

"This darkness has twisted and mangled everything we held dear to us and we have but only one creature to blame for this sorry state that we now we now live in."

"That creature who we took in to our home, who we cared for, who we loved with all our hearts, turns out to be none than that treacherous little gecko… Spike."

Everypony was shocked to learn who the leader of the attack was and now they started to get angry.

"He was the Creature who ambushed us and used us to further his malevolent goals to drive our species to extinction. But after this… when we burn down his kingdom and whatever wretched creature who wishes to remain against us, there will be no one to oppose in our glorious new empire. Upon which, these creatures will find no place in our home!"

"And this is only the beginning. When we find him and we carve out his still-beating heart, this will be but a reminder to those who would dare cross the Royal Sisters in our new empire!"

"You are the strength in our hooves! The holders in our dreams! The time for forgiveness has all but nulled when they attacked us!"

"But soon, we will smite them! We will trample them! Crush them! And we will remind them what happens when they take our home from us!"

Everypony started getting riled up from hearing their speech. Seeing this, Daybreaker shouted,

"THEY WILL REGRET THE DAY THEY STEPPED HOOF ON OUR TERRITORY AND WE WILL SHOW THEM WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THEY FACE THE WRATH OF THE SOLAR EMPIRE!!!"

Everypony cheered upon hearing the entire speech. The Royal Sisters smiled with glee as they looked up in the sky and faced the eyeball up in the sky, ready for the next war against against the Shadow Kingdom.

Author's Notes:

And thus concludes Arc 4. I hope you all enjoyed this. I sure as hell had a blast doing this. The 5th (and final) Arc will be more closer to a survival-horror story as Starlight, Sunset, and Flurry Heart brave the now-corrupted lands of Equestria as they try to find a way to destroy the Corruption once and for all. But it will come at a terrible price. I will write the 5th Arc (along with Saber if he's willing) when I have the time, but for now, I want you all to enjoy yourselves and if you wish to keep yourselves occupied, check out my Spider-Man story on my profile page. You won't regret.

Anyway, I hope you all enjoyed this chilling conclusion to Arc 4. If you wish, leave your thoughts and opinions in the comment section down below. I am Ghoul. See you on the other side.