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Friendship is Failure #13: DARKNESS OF DIMENSIONS

by DakariKingMykan

Chapter 22: Act 22: The Last of Dying Mortals

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ACT TWENTY-TWO

Spike continued to glare Rarity and Cadance down, and he clenched his sharp claws wondering, “Which of you hags should I do away with first?” but the answer was obvious as he glared at Rarity, “Of course…!”

Rarity backed away nervously, and Cadance stepped in front of her. “Spike, you can’t do this!”

“Sure I can, just like I killed Shining Armor and Flurry. Too bad I didn’t kill you too when I had the chance!”

Those awful words pierced both ponies hard in their hearts. Rarity felt near tears and Cadance’s anger was rising again.

“I cannot believe you, Spike!” snarled Cadance “We all used to be close! We used to be friends, and you had feelings for Rarity!”

Rarity refused to deny this as well, and it brought up of how sorry and miserable she acted towards Spike and all the things she said and did to him, but Spike was ultimately unmoved.

“We WERE friends once, and all I feel for any of you now is anger and hate, not to mention all the discomfort you’ve given me and the dark angels!”

He raised his claws and actually fired them like knives, straight into Rarity’s neck.

Cadance screamed in horror, and Rarity choked and gaged as her blood cascaded down her throat, and she keeled over dead, and her remains melted away into darkness!

Cadance looked sorely back at Spike, “How could you just kill her like that!”

Spike refused to answer and just lunged over, punching her hard in the face!

Cadance skid along the sand and her crown fell off, and stopped by Spike’s feet. He then stomped on the crown, crushing it to pieces!

Any sympathy or care Cadance had was now gone, replaced by anger and determination that helped her spring onto her feet.

She fired many magical blasts from her horn, which Spike skillfully dodged, and then he leapt up high and breathed a huge ball of black fire at her.

Cadance fired a strong blast at the fireball, blasting it out.

The two cold figures glared at one another!

Spike then charged at her only to suddenly run smack into a huge rock-wall that just rose up from the ground!

Terra, riding on a flying rock, landed near Cadance, “Are you okay? Where’s Rarity?”

Cadance just gave her a sad and horrified expression. Terra gasped and turned to face the wall, just as Spike melded straight through it while intangible.

“I’ll take you both on!” he growled, and just as he was about to rush forth, Beast Boy came along, landing in front of him.

“Easy, Spike,” and he turned back to gawk at Terra “I’ll have the honor of taking Terra down.”

Terra swallowed hard.

“Whatever,” said Spike “I already took out the one who broke my heart. I’ll go handle the others.” and he flew off to go face the others, leaving Terra to gaze at Beast Boy’s furious expression!

“This is the last time you and I will ever see each other, Terra.” he hissed at her.

Terra trembled with fear.

And Beast Boy thought back to all the horrible things she did, during and after Things Change…

Ditching him and telling him to “Beat it” just so she could forget her past and move on without him, not even caring how much it would hurt him, just as long as he was gone and out of her picture! Then constantly following him around and trying to force him to move on, lying in open court about when they slept together and she was pregnant, and all the rest of it!

“YOU WILL (BLEEPING) DIE!!!” he shouted, and he charged forth ready to wipe her own, when Terra quickly reached behind her and held up the baby.

Beats Boy stopped dead in his tracks, just a few inches away from Terra, and he saw the little bundle. He was completely stunned on the spot.

The baby finally awoke and rubbed his sleepy eyes.

“Beast Boy,” Terra said softly “This is your son-- our child.”

“My… son…?”

The baby looked up at him, and despite his dark and creepy appearance, his smiled up at his father, as he knew him.

“His name is Garfield.” Terra said.

Beast Boy gawked at her deeply. “She named him after me?” he thought. Then he continued to look down at his son and he took a few steps back unable to grasp this!

Terra really felt her plan was working, and she held Gar up and took a step towards him, “Hold him.”

“No! Stay away!” Beast Boy groaned “I’ll kill you both, I swear!!”

Terra continued to approach him, insisting he and the baby bond, and the more she approached him, the more seemed to panic and cower, as if he were actually regretting his ways, and that not all mortals really deserved to have been wiped out.

“NO!!!!” Beast Boy shouted, and in a swift rage he blasted the kid out of Terra’s arms. “GAR!!” she screamed as she watched her newly-born child burn away into dust.

Her eyes flooded with tears as her heart ached, and burned, and suddenly… Beast boy tackled her to the ground strangling her with his bare hands.

She gazed up at him as she gagged and choked while he put more pressure on her saying “Die… DIE… DIE!!!!”

Terra started to turn blue as she struggled to breath, and Beast boy squeezed so hard that she spit up blood, followed by a sickening crunch!

Beast boy panted softly as he let the dead body drop to the sand. Obviously, Terra’s sincerity was not enough as seemed to rather enjoy destroying her and the baby.

He got up onto his feet, but his eyes never left Terra, and he continued to watch her body as it slowly disentangled away.

“I did it…” he said to himself “I finally did it! I destroyed the two biggest bitches I ever knew!”

He could only see Raven and Terra in his memories, as they slowly faded off into darkness.

He fell over back onto the sand and began to laugh hysterically with his triumph! All the other dark angels nearby backed away to give him some time to enjoy the moment.




A swarm of dark angel rushed the other group.

Starfire had been firing her star-bolts like crazy, but was growing exhausted. “I cannot… keep this up… much longer!” she panted.

All the Digimon were growing tired too.

“It’s no use.” groaned Zudomon, and he fell down onto one knee.

“Zudomon!” cried Joe.

Mega-Kabuterimon and Lilymon landed on the ground all tired too, and those Dark Angels, led by Nobunaga, just kept on coming.

“You see now, how it is?” Nobunaga sneered “Perhaps you never should have returned here, at least then you still would be alive and we would not be disturbed by you.”

Fluttershy trembled with fear and wooziness while and Applejack growled “You obliterated all our worlds, killed all the people and creatures, and you expect us to just leave it at that?!”

Nobunaga’s features hardened and he zapped her with an energy pulse, knocking her back hard.

“Applejack!” cried Fluttershy.


Izzy and Mimi dashed up to her, helping her up.

“You sick creep!” thundered Mimi “How far are you willing to go like this?!”

“As I have explained before,” sneered Nobunaga “We plan to prolong your suffering for as long as we possibly can, though some of you will be the exceptions.

As it is, two of your friends have already met their ends.”

“What?!” snapped Izzy.

Nobunaga then revealed what he had sensed earlier and showed them all the images of Beast Boy exploding Raven, and Spike skewering Rarity.

Starfire and the ponies gawked in shock.

“Raven?” cried Starfire.

“No, Rarity!” sobbed Fluttershy.

The others were all just as livid, just as horrified, while Nobunaga seemed to have no qualms about it whatsoever, “And soon that will happen to the rest of you. A befitting punishment for your wickedness and challenging us Dark Angels, just like all mortals of your kind and alike are guilty of!

They got what they deserved!”

The army of angels stood behind him ready to do more damage to the tired team!


Meanwhile, Davis still had the others right where he wanted them, and they couldn’t seem to break free from the dark binds that held them to the ground.

Davis then softly approached TK, and raised his foot to stomp down on his head and crush him!

“NO, DON’T!!” cried Kari.

“Say goodbye!” Davis shouted, and he stomped on TK’s head hard, crushing him like a grape, and his blood and organs splattered all over.

“NO!!!” Kari screamed.

Davis roared in a kind of victory cried. It felt so good for him to have finally defeated his most hated enemy, while all the others were horrified beyond belief at what they had just witnessed.

“Son-of-a-bitch!!” snapped Tai “Davis, how could you do that?!”

Davis glared at him and flew over, to repeat his deed, “I’ll show you…!”

“NO!! PLEASE DON’T!!” Kari screamed.

“I can’t look!” cried Pinkie!

But as Davis prepared to kill Kari’s brother…

…Robin felt his anger growing and raging, which began to ignite the emotion-sensitive powers Raven had given him!

“Huh…?” Davis snapped as he gawked over at Robin just as he broke free from the bindings--enveloped in dark aura, and his features now seemed more demonic.

“No… more… OF THIS!!” he snarled, and let out a huge roar, unleashing waves of energy that blasted Davis away, and broke the others of their bindings, but the waves shocked them a bit.

“What are you doing?!” cried Twilight.

“What’s happening to him?” asked Starlight.

“It’s Raven’s powers!” cried Cyborg “If you get overly angry… well… you get the idea!”

“Well, at least we’re free now.” said Rainbow.


The dark angels and Davis glared at Robin, and Robin looked angrier than ever before, snarling and growling like the demon he was becoming.

Cyborg tried to approach him, “Robin, don’t do this, man! Ya’ gotta chill!” but Robin only punched him aside, no longer in full control of his mind and powers-- just like Raven was.

Robin then growled and snarled at all the others.

“Okay, this is getting ugly.” said Discord, and he magically donned a desperado outfit and began to swing his rope, lassoing the growing demon.

Celestia and Luna fired streams of magic, like ropes of their own, and held Robin down harder.

Tai and Kari couldn’t believe what they were seeing, while Davis didn’t know if this was amusing or not that they were all no fighting with each other.

He then addressed the army in their language, and the subtitles read “Why don’t we put them out of their misery then.”

The army agreed, and at Davis’ command they began to charge up.

“Look out!” cried Tai!

“Hang on!” cried Twilight, and she used her powers to create a large hallow barrier over the teams. “Help me strengthen it!”

Starlight, Discord, Tai and Kari used their powers combined with their own to strengthen the barrier.

“Ha!” scoffed Davis “You really think that can stop us?” and he signalled to his army to get ready and fire…

…When, suddenly, there was a bright flash of light that shone up from the sky.

The light was so bright, that the other teams could feel its energy without actually seeing it.

“What’s that?!” snapped Spike.

“What is it?” yelled Beast Boy.


From within his domain, Erebus could feel the dimensional distortion, and he growled more deeply. “Not this time…!”


The light was a rift opening from the Digital World, and there stood Gennai with the entire populace of Digi Destined from all over their own realm, as well as all their Digimon all Digi-volved to their highest levels, and even wild Digimon from all over the Digital World who were willing to lend a hand.

“You got my call!” said Tai, and Gennai nodded at him “We would have come sooner, but an army takes time to form, and it also takes time to give them all the power they need.”

All the Digimon and their partners were glowing with the magical aura Tai and his team had gathered. You’d think that the mortals all stood a better chance now…

…But you would be wrong!

Just as the army began to soar forth through the rift to do battle with the armies of dark angels, the winds began to pick up and grew stronger with each second.

“What’s happening?!” cried Luna.

Davis could feel what it was, “Lord Erebus!”


The winds actually became a swirling vortex that appeared right below the descending digital army, and began to suck everyone in, human and Digimon alike, vaporizing the entire army to bits, until only Gennai was left. He barely managed to hold on for dear life to the edges of the rift.

The vortex disappeared, and all the groups were totally horrified.

“They… They killed them all!” sobbed Kari “They’re all gone!”

Cody fell to his knees and practically froze in devastation. “No! They can’t be…!”

Tai and the others all gawked with horrors. “I can’t believe our plan didn’t work.” said Tai.

“What did you expect?” Erebus called, and then he appeared before the groups through swirling clouds of darkness, appearing in his large, monstrous form. “Did you really think you could take down The Great and Powerful Erebus with such simple tomfoolery?”

The Digimon all looked extremely infuriated.

Then Erebus looked way up at Gennai pulling himself back up the rift and into the Digital World.

Erebus then motioned the dark angels to invade the Digital World.

“Gennai…!!” Tai called up to him.

“We’ve got to help him!” shouted TK, but it was no use! The angels had already swarmed around the rift and entered the Digital World, and taking Gennai in with him.

Gennai screamed and wailed as he disappeared into the darkness as he was obviously being mauled to death!

The rift suddenly disappeared, but there was no doubt, the Digital World wouldn’t stand a chance and would be ravaged just like the others worlds.

This was doubly proved as all the remaining Digimon in the groups began to vanish along with Digi Destined’s Digivices.

“What’s happening?” cried Zudomon.

“I… I can’t… hold up…!” said Mega-Kabuterimon!

“No!!” cried Izzy “The Digital World is dying, and without it our Digimon cease to exist!”

Mimi gasped hard, and held onto Lilymon crying, “Please… don’t do! Don’t leave me like this!”

“Mimi,” cried Lilymon “…I love you!” then she was gone and Mimi’s Digivice vanished too, as did all the others’ with their Digimon.

“Zudomon!” cried Joe.

“Mega-Kabuterimon!!” shouted Izzy.

All the others lost their Digimon and their Digivices too.

“Metal-Garurumon!” shouted Matt.

“Garudamon, don’t go!” cried Sora.

Cody ran towards his fading friend, “Ankylomon!”

“Goodbye, Cody.” Ankylomon said tearfully.

Yolei and Ken watched as Aquilamon and Stingmon went away.

“No, I can’t lose you! Not again!” cried Ken.

Yolei fell to the ground sobbing like there was no tomorrow, which at this point she pretty much didn’t care if there was one or not.


Finally, Wargreymon and Angewomon were the lasts to go.

“Tai…!” cried Wargreymon.

“Kari, I’m so sorry!” called Angewomon, and she and Wargreymon were gone, and the last two Digivices with them.

“…NOOOOOOOO!!” cried Kari.

Tai fell to his knees and slammed the ground with his fists, “Wargreymon!!

…WARGREYMON!!”

All the others in every group felt heartbroken for the fallen Digi Destined, but there were no words that could comfort them, no heart big enough to extend their grief for them either.

Even Demon Robin’s rage was soothed by the sadness and weeping, that his power calmed down and he reverted back to normal. He could not speak as he was far too devastated.

Erebus then used his powers to gather all the mortals and transport them all together before him and his army.

Much as the groups would be delighted to see one another again…

…As if the recent devastation wasn’t already harsh enough on them.

“Where are Raven and Terra?” asked Robin.

“And Rarity…! Where’s Rarity?” asked Pinkie Pie.

“TK?” Matt called out “Where is he?”

Spike, Davis and Beast Boy just acted smug in front of them, which said enough-- that they destroyed them all, and Kari’s miserable expression doubly confirmed it, but it was Cadance who spoke up, “It’s true!” cried Cadance “I saw them!” she glared at Beast Boy “He ever murdered his own child!”

Everyone had nearly forgotten how to breathe!

“Raven, Terra, and the baby?!” cried Starfire.

Cyborg was heartbroken as well, “Shit! No way…!”

Matt was shaken worse than ever, “My bro!! My little bro…!”

The ponies were all silent as they had flashbacks of Rarity-- and all the times they spent with her. Now she was gone, and her image faded into darkness.


“YOU MONSTERS!!” thundered Celestia “HAVE YOU NO SHAME?! HAVE YOU NO HEARTS?!!”

“SILENCE!!” thundered Nobunaga “Of course we have no hearts!” then he paused, and actually seemed rather remorseful “…But we did once!”

The others all agreed, and Erebus explained, “You think we actually enjoy seeing mortals suffer? All the dark angels were mortals once, and yet they were sentenced to an eternity of darkness and emptiness thanks to you all!!

All they could do was slink about and absorb dark aura in order to try and keep the balance of the worlds, and prevent misfortune and darkness from spreading, and what did they get in return…?!

You caused them so much grief in their lifetimes, and then you disturb and damage them all in their afterlife!

…And you have the NERVE-- THE GALL TO CALL US “MONSTERS?!!”

All the angels glared at the mortal with fury and hurt expressions!

“We did what we had to!” snarled Davis “We had to save ourselves from all the pain and torment you caused us!”

Beast Boy agreed “And it’s all because you miserable (Bleeps) couldn’t leave us well alone to our own domicile!”

Spike nodded “And now, the world belongs to us, and you and no other mortals will ever bother us again!

…THIS IS WHERE IT ENDS!!”

All the angels agreed and stood ready for the big kill, and the poor mortals knew they were powerless to do anything anymore. They had tried their best already, but not even an army could stop them.

Some of them didn’t even care anymore, not now that their good friends and loved ones had been brutally murdered!

The Titans and the ponies didn’t even feel their initial plan to find the other creator gods would work now-- they had no hope of even trying now anyway.


“Is this really what you want?” Twilight suddenly asked.

The others all gawked at her, and Discord tried to motion her not to go any further, but Twilight didn’t listen and continued to balk at the angels.

“Is this really any better than what you had before?! You’re still in the darkness, you have nothing to mingle with but darkness, and all the things you do and create… It’s all darkness!

Why even your drones, they may resemble people you once knew or wanted to know, but YOU made them, and you control them! You think that’s proper interaction? I’d say it’s more than you’re desperate for the way things were!”

The angels all felt more infuriated than ever and refused to believe that.

“We believe in no such thing!” growled Nobunaga “We simply just do what we can to amuse ourselves now. We can never go back to how we once were!”

“No!!” snapped Twilight “You could have let us try to help you! You could have changed, and things could have been better!”

“ENOUGH!!” shouted Erebus, and he raised his giant hand to blast her dead, but some of the others used their powers to yank her back towards the group just in time!

“You okay?” asked Rainbow.

Twilight nodded, but whimpered nervously at the sight of the angry god!

“You continue to speak of the impossible!” sneered Erebus “We did not ask to become what we are, but nothing can be done to change it. Fates do not simply change no matter much you desire or work for it.

…And now, because you all refused to acknowledge that, you will suffer the fate as all mortals have!”

He and all the angels powered up…

“We have to do something?!” cried Starfire.

“There’s nothing we can do-- not against all of them!” wailed Discord.

The groups all huddled together, bracing themselves for their end. Many of the others didn’t actually care anyway and even felt like perishing in shame and to end their misery!


Suddenly, Erebus gasped, and began groan and clutched his head.

“Lord Erebus!” cried Davis.

“Dude, what’s wrong?” asked Beast Boy.

Nobunaga and many of the angels from long ago also began to act the same-- groaning and clutching their heads.

“Our… memories…!” cried Nobunaga “…Our pasts… are being… altered again!”

The mortals gawked at the suffering angels, and Rainbow, Cadance and Luna felt there was only explanation…

“Inuyasha…!”


Centuries ago,

When Kagome and Inuyasha followed Nobunaga into the Dark Zone, you can bet Nobunaga and the sentry that took him back were displeased.

“How dare you follow us here!” snarled the sentry.

Just as he was about to forcefully send them back, Kagome pleaded, “I must see Lord Erebus!”

The sentry and Nobunaga were shocked. “How do you know of Lord Erebus? No mortal knows of him.”

“Oh, boy, do we have to go through this again?” grumbled Inuyasha.

Suddenly, a huge voice called over the distance, “Come forward!”

Kagome and Inuyasha shuddered softly, but the sentry and Nobunaga had no choice but to obey their lord’s wishes.

“Come,” said the sentry, and he and Nobunaga lead the duo across the realm to where Erebus, in his monstrous form was waiting for them.

“Who are you?” he asked them deeply “How do you know of The Great Erebus and the Dark Zone?”

Kagome stammered a bit, “Well, it’s sort of a long and complicated story, but I do wish to speak with you about something very serious. It concerns your own safety as well.”

Erebus went silent, and many dark angels gawked at her in concern.

“I am listening…” said Erebus.

Kagome explained as best and as quickly as she could in a montage regarding the My Little Ponies.

Nobunaga realized, “Yes, those unusual creatures. I had nearly forgotten them.”

Inuyasha grunted in boredom, “Can we continue here?”

Kagome grunted at him, but continued the story, all the way up to the part of the ravaging of the worlds.

“So, you see how it is? Can you, like… not ravage the world in centuries to come?”

“Oh, boy!” groaned Inuyasha. He really felt all this asking would never work.

Erebus and the angels were all shocked, and somewhat amazed as well as horrified to hear of this-- most because they would all be in danger in the centuries ahead due to the carelessness of many mortals across the realms.

The sentry spat angrily at Kagome, “Lord Erebus does no favors for any mortals! How dare you even ask!”

“Enough!” said Erebus.

The sentry was confused and shocked, “My lord?”

Erebus transformed into his smaller form so he would appear less frightening.

“For many eons, we dark angels have gathered the aura of darkness from the mortal worlds, to prevent as much evil and misfortune from spreading so that other mortals may not suffer.

In many ways, we are doing favors… even if sometimes we fail.

But fate is not always carved stone, nor is it promised to anyone. Even the best thought of plans and precautions can result in failure and doom.”

Inuyasha scoffed, “So you’re saying you won’t ease off, and you’ll just kill everyone anyway?”

Kagome felt her fears and sadness catching up with her, and she tried hard to hold them back.

Erebus finally answered, “Whatever will be shall be, unless a change is created in the events which lead to this.

Now, I return you to realm from which you came.”

Before Kagome or Inuyasha could protest, Erebus had sent them through a portal, back to their own Feudal Era.


They emerged in the open field were the previous battle had taken place.

“Well that was a big waste of time.” said Inuyasha, but Kagome disagreed. “A change in events. He means we need to change the past somehow.” She felt ready to smack herself for not thinking of this before.

“Quick, let’s go back and tell the others.” And she ran off to the village.

“Hey, wait up!” called Inuyasha.


Back in the present,

Erebus and the angels shook off their pain, but they decided no more waiting!


“Farewell, mortals!” Erebus sneered, and the angels all powered up to deliver the final blow… not seeing that Luna and Celestia winked at one another.

POW!! The angels fired a massive barrage of aura into one super wave that bounded straight at the mortals!

At the same time, Luna and Celestia’s horns were glowing as they concentrated all the magic they possibly could just as the blast struck them and the mortals.

“Princesses!!” cried Twilight as a bright light flashed around her and the rest of the gang.

KAPOW-- a massive explosion so huge that it shook the ground and blew sand waves all through the air.

When the smoke had cleared, the mortals were nowhere to be seen. However, the dark angels could still sense a part of their essence.

“They escaped?!” snapped Nobunaga.

“But… But how?!” wailed Davis “We had them! We totally had them!”

Erebus clenched his fists, and ordered the angels “…Find them, and finish them! The sooner those last mortals are no more, the better!”

The angels agreed and spread out across the many countless realms to follow their.

“They can’t get away from us!” growled Beast Boy.

“Yeah, we’ll get them!” agreed Spike.



The group had appeared in Kagome’s world, ironically right near the collapsed shrine of the Bone-Eater’s well.

“What happened?” asked Joe “How did we get here?”

Twilight had the only explanation, “Celestia and Luna… they used their magic to block the angel’s attacks and teleport us to a random location.”

Then she gasped, “Princesses!!”

“Over here!” called Robin.

Everyone looked up and ran to his side. All were devastated to see the two sisters lying in the sands, extremely weak and frail, blocking such a great force like that, and teleporting everyone to safety really forced them to push their powers beyond their limits… far too much for them to handle.

“They’re still breathing.” cried Starlight, “…But just barely.”

Cyborg scanned the princesses with his wrist-com, “Their vitals are dropping badly.” he regretted to say, “…They’re not gonna make it.”

Those awful words struck everyone hard, especially the Equestrians, but none felt as sore as Twilight.

“No!” she cried, and she bent down by the princesses.

“Twi… light…” Celestia groaned softly.

Tears were falling down Twilight’s face. “Stay strong, please! We can’t lose you both, too! don’t leave us!”

“The choice… is not… ours… I’m afraid.” said Luna.

All the ponies were weeping softly, so was Discord.


“Can we not heal them with Raven’s magic?” cried Starfire.

Robin shook his head, “It wouldn’t help, not against this much damage.”

Cyborg hung his head low.

The remaining Digi Destined all huddled close together as the ponies continued to grieve for their dying monarchs, except for Tai who approached Celestia, feeling he should at least make up for himself.

“Princess…” he said as he looked deep into her eyes, “Can you ever forgive me for balking at you?”

Celestia softly scooted her hoof to touch his hand that was next to her, telling she did forgive him, which Twilight thought was so touching.

Nobody said a thing thereafter, and the two sisters expired, breaking all the ponies’ hearts.

“Not another one.” Cadance muttered herself. First she lost her daughter, then her husband, and now her two adoptive aunts-- not to mention all of her home world, and saw Rarity get murdered before her eyes.

She honestly didn’t know how much more punishment she and the other ponies, as well as the groups could bear to take.

Tai felt hurt too, even though Celestia forgave him, he still felt really back for yelling at her, calling her and the ponies mistakes, and also the fact the two sisters just sacrificed themselves to spare everyone from certain death!

The bodies of the two ponies vanished-- disintegrated into dust, and were gone.

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