The trio had returned to Grogar's lair.

"You failed to retrieve the Bell!?" Grogar's voice echoed outside.

Inside...

The trio all bowed before the ancient goat. "W-We're so sorry, almighty Grogar," Cozy whimpered.

"But we did work together as you asked," Tirek said with dread.

"I suppose we just aren't as powerful as you," Says Chrysalis worriedly.

"AAARGH!!!!" Grogar shouted in anger and shot a beam of darkness at a wall, creating a massive tunnel in it. The trio were intimidated. "Obviously! But at least you finally came to an agreement and worked together," Grogar said in frustration and a small amount of relief that the trio no longer fought against each other. Just as Grogar was about to leave though, he turned to the group with a suspiciously narrow-eyed look. "While you were there, was there anything out of the ordinary that you encountered?"

"Not necessarily, but we did bring somepony, or someone who thinks they would be a great ally for our Legion of Doom," Says Chrysalis. The trio moved aside and revealed the hybrid Nydrak.

Grogar had a shocked expression.

"So... what do you think?" Asks Cozy Glow. Grogar furrowed his eyes at the 3.

"Do you know... what he is?" Grogar questioned.

"Should we?" Asked Cozy glow.

"He said he was a hybrid of some sort," Says Tirek.

"He is not a hybrid of this realm. He shouldn't be here," Grogar said.

"But why? He'd make a really great addition to the team!" Cozy said in Nydrak's defense.

"This creature is too dangerous to keep around. His powers are far more superior than the entire world’s armies combined with their powers together. Even if you did succeed in retrieving the bell, not even that could stop this creature from losing control of himself."

"Your master is right. Without fuel, I can become unstable," Nydrak stated.

"And you can be as vile and cruel as you are insidious and cunningly strategic in that condition," Grogar states. "And that is why I cannot have you here at all. So, take your leave and never return, and don't blight anything as you exit." Then Grogar turns around and starts walking away.

"We're sorry, Grogar, but... we can't let him go," Says Cozy Glow. Grogar turns to the trio in irritation.

"That creature is a danger to this world, along with every other he encounters. I will not allow him a sanctuary in my lair," Grogar snapped.

"But we can't just let him go! He's really powerful, and he could help us!" Cozy defended.

"His power doesn't work like ours! True, you all understand that he works with the powers of an infectious magic, but it's not magic at all!"

"What do you mean it's not magic at all?" Asks Chrysalis.

Grogar simply huffed and then sighed in annoyance, "Since the beginning of the first being who learned about magic, there was another who learned of another source of something far more powerful. However, that power never worked the same as any other corruption. That power was called 'devoid'. Devoid is a different kind of power that resembles major similarities of magic, but it doesn't carry the same properties as any other kind of magic. Whatever it touches, it will either corrupt or devour the population in a matter of seconds," Grogar said, extending a hoof at Nighdrak. "This creature is the worst of all those who use devoid to either defend themselves or harm others. He uses his power to either turn his victims into his fuel, turn them into his personal ghouls, or even... manipulate them to treat him as family," Grogar explained.

"That is only if I am threatened or placed under harmful contact," The hybrid stated.

"I do not care, I will not have you in my lair. Leave," Grogar says in irritation. Nydrak simply stares at Grogar's dark heart. Then Cozy Glow comes in front of the undead hybrid.

"We're not letting him leave," Cozy said defensively. Chrysalis also came in front of Nydrak with a charged horn, Tirek stood behind him with a glare.

Grogar was angry with these 3, but he knew that he needed them to help him take over Equestria. He looked for any glimpses of dark enchantment, and he found nothing. He also knew that if he attacked any of the 3, the hybrid would retaliate in a slaughterous manner.

Grogar simply snorted in annoyance, "Fine, he may stay."

The trio smiled at Grogar's affirmation, and at Nydrak.

"But I warn you, if he becomes even the slightest of uncontrollably hostile... his presence will be all of our undoing," Grogar says as he turns and goes into the cave.

"Do not worry yourself, Mr. Grogar, I can be very accountable for this alliance," Says the hybrid.

"And that will be our downfall from you," Grogar whispers under his breath.

Cozy Glow sighs in relief for Nydrak. "Come on Nydrak! I'll show you where my room is!" She offers.

"Wonderful." Nydrak follows Cozy Glow to her chambers. Chrysalis and Tirek simply smile at each other, and then over by a stalagmite... where they hid Grogar's Bell!

With Cozy and Nighdrak...

"So, you don't talk to the pony or any other creature in general, because you know those... embodiments, won't listen to you?" The filly asked the hybrid. Nydrak seemed to give her a special book on pronunciations.

Nydrak simply nodded, feeding on the moldy and fluid-leaking crystal.

"And, you can tell how somepony is feeling, even though you can't 'see' them?"

"Indeed," Nydrak answered.

"Wow... so, you actually know where we're all coming from?" Cozy asked in astonishment.

"I can only do my best," Nydrak answered honestly.

Cozy chuckled, "Well, you definitely got me a lot. I never would've thought that there'd actually be anypony or anyone who could understand me. It's almost like having... a brother," Cozy said with honesty.

"Now now, Cozy, let us not rush into any relationships just yet. Grogar claims for us to work together as a team, not as a family," Nydrak did his best to make that remark sound polite, but when you don't have emotions, it's very difficult to let people know what you want your words to sound like.

Cozy could tell he was struggling with tone modulation, and she giggled a little. "Don't worry, I know how you meant that to sound. But you know what it's like to be abandoned and not have a family- I mean, I don't know what it's like to die a thousand times, but at least there's somepony in the world who knows me... unlike Princess Celestia..."

What Cozy didn't realize while she was talking, is that the word 'Celestia' caused a sparkle of darkness in the hybrid's eyes. Nydrak looked up with slightly widened eyes and an insidious smile.

"So yeah, now Tirek and I have a score to settle with that sunny-sunshine princess Celestia for sending us into... Tartarus?" Cozy noticed the look on Nydrak's face, and she was a little creeped out. "Uh... Nydrak?" She asked. She walked up to him and flew just as high for him to see her heart move. "Nydrak?" She said in a sing-song tone. Nighdrak instantly turned his eyes up to Cozy's, she flinched at the sudden movement. "O-Okay, you're kinda scaring me," She said a little concerningly.

"Celestia...?" Nydrak's voice got very demonic and deep. Cozy got more scared and slowly backed away. "Did you say... Celestia...?"

"Y-Yes?" Cozy was anxious now, not sure what was going with Nighdrak. "A-Are you... o-okay?"

"Oh, I'm fine... in fact... I think I'm feeling... ravenous for princess flesh," Nydrak seemed to have more demonic emotion in his voice now, the sensation of deviousness coming in his throat.

"Uh... O-Okay...?"

"Celestia... Now that... sounds like fun." Nydrak chuckled sinisterly.

Doom has ensnared upon the Legion of Doom...