Author's Notes:

Alright, so we are close! Now if I'll be honest, I feel like the climax is going to take a little longer, so I'm gonna dedicate the next chapter to be the big climax. Hope this was worth the wait, and hope you enjoyed this!

Stay tuned, we're almost out of the fire!

The fires continued to billow, a smog forming above the sky just above the factory. Black as the night with a mixture of coal. Adagio, her sisters, Fluttershy, and the rest of the SOTS (who were still awake) watched as the fires burst out of control. But what made it worse is one of the giant stacks suddenly burst and exploded, creating a bigger fire than before.

The boom made them all flinch from the sound, as well as the shake of the ground.

"Oh Trixie, where are you?" Adagio whimpered.

Trixie and her substitute gang of allies all ran down the hallway, chasing Moon Dancer. Their energy kicked up higher and higher as they ran, mostly because they were getting clear of smoke. But the mission was still in their heads; stop her and don't let her get away.

"I wish I had a Gatling gun built into me!" Limestone shouted as she pointed the harpoon weapon in her arm at Moon Dancer up ahead.

"Save that, we might need it for later!"

"Are you kidding? Its retractable!" Limestone grinned.

She winded her arm back, and with her mind honed to the circuits, a sharp arrow launched from the firing hole and right down the hallway with a chain attached to it. The arrow didn't hit Moon Dancer, but it penetrated right through a broken wall. Groaning at her failed attempt, the arrow yanked itself right out and flung right back the launching mechanism like a magnet.

"Save that gun for later!"

The girls chased Moon Dancer up a flight of stairs, following her right through the door she slammed shut. But once it opened up, everyone stopped moving when they looked at where they stood. They were on a bridge, high above the factory. But the bridge wasn't the scary part! The scary part was the inferno down below...

"Oh my god!" Limestone yelled.

The fire that smoked the inside of the building had clearly shown to have spread. The fires had grown much bigger, and they were quickly spreading. No more were they contained in the boiler room. They now went straight through some of the stacks, and continued to get higher and higher.

"Keep running!"

Everyone didn't look down, but looked straight ahead and followed Moon Dancer down the other door. The door led them down a spiral staircase, and everyone rushed to get straight down to the bottom.

"So what do we do when we find her?" Muffins asked.

"We're gonna stop her from escaping, we've got to do that first!"

Once they made it down the stairs, Trixie slammed the door open, with everyone following close. They were in another assembly room, and the smoke was high in the ceiling as well. But there was no sign of Moon Dancer.

"Well, what are we waiting for?" Flash asked. "Lets go!"

"Hold it, lover boy," Limestone snapped.

She bent down and touched the gravel on the floor with her real hand. With the black dust visible on her finger tips, she raised them to her face and sniffed.

"She's here."

She turned her other arm to the left, the harpoon gun whirring and whizzing. With a timer ding, the arrow sprung from the barrel and broke right through a desk, and into the wall. Everyone's heads turned, looking at the desk she broke through. But the desk itself started to creak and moan from the pressure of the shot. Chips started to fall off and the wood began to fall into splinters, until the entire desk fell apart in half. And not even surprised, everyone looked to see Moon Dancer behind the desk.

Moon Dancer snarled and she picked her feet, going off on the run again.

"Lets get her!"

"You go on ahead, I'll catch up!" Limestone shouted, trying to yank her harpoon arrow out of the wall.

And just like that, the chase was back on again. Following her some more, they chased her down another hallway which was less smoky. Moon Dancer glared at them a few times as she ran.

"You won't get away, Moon Dancer. You've got nowhere to go!"

"Just you wait. The entire place is gonna burn down, and you all with it!"

And Moon Dancer grabbed a random rock, throwing it back at them.

"Just get back here so I can kick your butt!" Trixie shouted.

They turned around another corner, and all of them came to a grinding halt. Moon Dancer smirked at them, and for good reason. Right before them was a giant gaping hole in the floor. Too big for them to jump across.

"Can't jump from this ledge, now can you? And its too bad, you would have gotten these."

Moon Dancer dangled one of the pendents in her hand, the string intertwined with her fingers.

"Its a shame really, now those Sirens will forever be human. No singing, nothing to grant them their powers anymore--"

Trixie looked to Muffins who still had her arrows on her. "Muffins, if you can, shoot an arrow at the pendent. Try to get them out of her hand."

"Isn't she going to see me shoot at it?"

"Yes, but she's also a complete idiot, and she's mono-logging right before us and wasting time."

Muffins wanted to argue, but there was no time. At this point, she wasn't going to question anyone's logic, especially since they were on a very time-sensitive situation. So with Moon Dancer completely oblivious to the situation (and making everyone in front of her question her stupidity), Muffins pulled out her bow and arrows, ready to shoot.

Her eye locked onto the pendent, and she held the arrow out as far as possible, given how strong the string was. Then, she let go of the string, allowing the arrow to fire.

The arrow had some wide fins, and as it flung towards the pendents, the strings got caught in the fins, all of which were snipped from the strings and tapped onto the floor and out of Moon Dancer's palm. She gasped when saw the arrow zip past her and snarled. Her fists were clenched tighter than a bolt screwed into a car.

"Okay so you got the pendents, but how can you catch them from this big a gap? And how can you stop me if you can't even catch me?"

Moon Dancer ran down the hall, leaving everyone in shock and confusion. Now how were they going to chase her? They couldn't exactly jump across that big gap, none of them would reach it! Not only that, but they didn't know how low the floor underneath them was, so there could have been a chance of them possibly getting in more pain if they tried!

But right down below them, they saw a girl in black spandex and the same red hair running on that floor.

"Going down!"

Acting upon instinct, Flash sat on the ledge and jumped down, his feet landing on the second floor.

"Not that big a jump guys! Just slide yourselves down!"

"But the pendents!" Trixie cried.

"I'll get the pendents!" Muffins said. "You guys, just keep going! I'll get them to the Dazzlings!"

Trixie smiled. "Okay, thanks Muffins!"

"Anything for a friend!"

Trixie and Starlight sat on the ledge, and they jumped down to the next floor. And so with Flash, the three of them ran off once more. And Muffins? Well, she looked at the pendents which sat alone on the ledge in front of her. Well... if the others could get down, and if Moon Dancer clearly just ran down a floor... then she could too.

She sat on the ledge, and carefully pushed herself to try and slide off. Just a few more centimeters, and she'd be off. One last push, and she was off the ledge. Unfortunately, her body didn't act to land on her feet, and instead she slammed onto the floor, on her stomach, her arms and legs spread like a spider.

"OW!"

A cloud of dust spread around her when she hit the floor, a soft moan of pain emitting from her lips.

"Now I need a doctor..."

Flash, Trixie, and Starlight all chased Moon Dancer down some more hallways, occasionally bumping into more destroyed junk along the way. But the further they charged at her, the more smoke came their way. The smoke around them became blacker and blacker, and it was almost as if they were heading directly for the source. And making their way through another door, they all stood frozen, in spite of the heat.

The flames had gotten to the corridor of the building they were standing in, and they were blazing all around. They were up on the walls at this point, and the smoke had risen up the ceiling.

"Holy..."

"Smokes..."

Starlight and Trixie looked behind them. Was Moon Dancer going to strike there? Was she going to attack from the right, or the left? No, she wasn't there. But--

"Hiya!"

They looked in front and both of them screeched from the pain of hard metal hitting their faces. Falling down, they looked up at the raging revenged-crazed woman before their eyes. In her hands was a piece of sheet metal which she used to smack them.

"If I can't have my revenge today, then I'll be happy to finally put the stomp on you girls!"

"Hey!"

Moon Dancer looked behind and gasped. Flash held his guitar like a baseball bat, and smacked her right across the face with it, making her growl.

"You... You son of a--"

A support beam dropped from the top of the ceiling, falling onto the ground near them. Moon Dancer only growled some more, and ran off once again. This time making an escape through a single door.

"Alright. Lets--"

"Wait, I know where she's going!" Starlight yelled. "She's heading right for the main floor, where all of the hot metal is poured! We can cut her off there!"

"Okay, well lets go then! Flash, you get out of here!"

"But shouldn't we--"

The two girls didn't listen. Instead, they ran through the single door while Flash grabbed his guitar and started to walk towards the exit.

"Well, okay then. That's... that's happening."

Flash ran outside just in a nick of time. And there, he could see the rest of their friends gathered by the collected vehicles. Muffins thankfully grabbed all of the Sirens pendents, and all of the Dazzlings were clutching them with relief. But they were still worried about the remaining people inside, and the fires that were getting bigger and bigger.

"Where is Trixie?"

"And Starlight, for that matter?" Lyra asked.

"They're still inside!"

"WHAT!?"

"They told me to run out, they're gonna cut her off in the main entrance!"

"But this place is burning faster than a forest, they can't stay there any more, they gotta get out!"

The flames reflected in Adagio's eyes, watching the fiery inferno before them. A dark thought lingered in her head, her inner heart praying that it would never be the case. But thankfully, her dark thought was interrupted for a split second. The sound of firetrucks blaring their horns, along with police cars and ambulances started to hit their ears. And the sounds got closer and closer...