(Play on repeat/loop)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkZ-Z0u5eGc

The entire landscape of Equestria’s Capitol began to shift as trees instantly turned into vine like abominations, some trees underwent other transformations as the wood became a light purple/black color while the very leaves themselves became a much darker purple/black coloration. The grass of the landscape wasn’t spared either as it too became, well, corrupted.

“If we don’t close The Moon Lords portal this infestation will just get worst.”, Celebes notes as she watches The Corruption slowly take over.

“It’s time to act!.”, Celebes exclaims. “Now look, I can explain along the way but right now we must confront The Moon Lord. Princesses, I have a plan but I must have your cooperation.”, the dryad says before she then turns to the rest of the group.

Luna, Twilight, and Cadence nods in understanding although Luna is still noticeably annoyed. The Princess Of The Night leans down to her sister and with the help of her magic she gets Celestia’s body onto her back. Despite appearances Luna is more then strong enough to hold the weight, likely thanks to her earth pony attributes as an Alicorn. Now everyone in attendance sets their gaze upon Celebes.

“Here’s the plan, I want you seven ponies plus the Zebra and the dragon to come with me. Together, we can banish The Moon Lord back to Terraria.”, Celebes says as she points to Zecora, Spike, The Main Six, and Starlight Glimmer. “As for the rest of you, get to safety. You cannot stay here, I sensed the landscape around us and I’d say your Capitol, Canterlot I believe you called it, is 90% corrupted.”, The Dryad then materializes what seemed to be a pouch filled with an unknown powder in addition to what appeared to be two flowers, a rose and a rather large sunflower to be specific. Celebes tosses the items to Princess Luna and Cadence, both of which catches the items in their aura. “These will help you as you make your way to a location of your choosing, you can escape The Corruption by leaving its territory but you must contain it using those items. I have enchanted the sunflower to reproduce itself quickly once it’s planted and as for the rose it’s more of an artifact, The Floret Of Purity. The powder is more of a deterrent and should any of these creatures attack you throw some at them, it will temporarily stop them. You can also use it to purify the corruption. Like the sunflower, I have also enchanted that pouch to produce an unlimited amount of the powder provided the pouch itself remains unharmed. Containment is all you can do for now until you feel you and your allies can defeat the monsters within the infection. I pray you can destroy it before the orbs are created.”

“Those flora are truly out of this world, with them The Corruption will surely be quelled. Never did I think a plant had such prowess like Poison Joke, yet these posses a power that truly makes it look like a joke.”, Zecora says as she couldn’t help but to admire the plants before her.

Everyone remains silent for a little while after they hear the Dryad’s plan and although they are indeed terrified they know they must do this to save Equestria, or at least stop things from getting worse, all in attendance nods their heads. Cadence took the initiative and knew exactly where she, Luna, Tempest, and the last remnants of The Royal Guards needed to go.

“The Crystal Empire will shelter us, I’ll see if I can find a way to integrate this artifact of yours with The Crystal Heart. Maybe if we can somehow combine them we could one day save Canterlot.”, Princess Cadence says enthusiastically as her hopes begins to rise. Everyone nods happily in understanding however a certain Princess Of The Night is still infuriated by Celebes’s plan.

“If thou thinks that we will simply stand idly by and watch as everypony fights against this corruption and that fool who dares to defy our moon thou-”

[WHAP]

Luna’s words were cut off as a lavender hoof strikes Luna across her muzzle which dazes the lunar princess momentarily. The assailant is revealed to be Twilight Sparkle much to not only Luna’s but everyone’s surprise.

“Luna!, that’s enough!.”, Twilight exclaims as she takes a breath and continues, lowering the very hoof she used to strike Luna with. “My heart is broken because of Princess Celestia’s death just like yours, all of us are suffering just like you but we need to push those feelings aside to save Equestria or at the very least halt the process of this infection. You, Cadence, everypony... You all need to stop it while we deal with Razeem.”, The lavender Alicorn’s words causes Luna to look to the rest of the group all of whom bore the exact same expression as Luna, sadness. This causes the Lunar Princess to lower her head in shame as Twilight continues. “We must also think of the future Luna, now that Princess Celestia is... Dead, you must carry on her legacy. Remember when she was forced to seal you in the moon when you were consumed by the nightmare and rose the moon in your stead?, why do you think she did that?.”

“...”, silence was all Luna had as she couldn’t argue against Twilight’s logic, tears beginning to form in her eyes.

“She did it because she loves you Luna, she did it because she wanted to protect the kingdom that you both created. She raised the moon in your stead even though it pained her so much as it reminded her of what she had to do to you.”, Twilight walks closer to Luna and raises her head with a hoof to meet the lavender alicorn’s own gaze. “But most importantly, she did it because she wanted there to be a world for you to return to. The world we all call home.”, Twilight then walks over to everyone else as they all look to Luna. Most impressively and despite the chaos around them they all still beamed the Lunar Princess a warming smile. Celebes gives Luna an encouraging nod along with a smile of her own. “It’s time for you to rise to up Luna, as of this moment you are no longer just the Princess of the moon... You are also the current caretaker of the sun. Do for your sister what she did for you, carry on your sisters legacy and protect the world you both love.” Twilight finishes her speech as she and everyone in attendance all stood firm before Luna. They all shout together:

“For Equestria, for all of Equus!”

Upon hearing Twilights speech Luna smiles and looks to her sister whos body laid upon her back.

“I shall not disappoint you, not again, dear sister.”

The group splits up as Tempest, Cadence, Luna with Celestia’s body, and the royal guards are in one group while The Main Six, Zecora, Spike, and Starlight glimmer are in the other. Luna and Twilight stepped forward.

“Be well everypony, make that fiend pay for my sister’s death.”

“Celestia would be proud of you, Luna. Be safe and please watch over everypony for us.”

Cadence ran over to Twilight as she embraces her in a tight hug. “I’ll make sure Flurry Heart knows how much of an amazing aunt you are Twily, I’ll tell Shiny everything as well”, the two alicorns separate as they then proceeded to do their signature dance:

(Skip to 0:06 to see the dance for those who are unfamiliar)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V3F3xrkfMQ

Celebes, The main six, Starlight, Spike, and Zecora makes their way through hordes of corruption monsters throughout the streets of Canterlot. Celebes takes the lead and makes short work of the monstrosities thanks to her powerful blade although bits and pieces of her kills does manage to fly onto members of the group behind her, Rarity in particular made sure to express her displeasure. Creatures that did manage to get past the Dryad were finished off by twilight, Rarity, and Starlight whos magic were fortunately enough to push back and even kill some of them. If any of them got a bit too close for comfort Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Zecora, and Pinkie Pie repelled them with physical force. Celebes is leading the group to one of the mountains outside of Canterlot which happened to be perfectly positioned beneath Razeem.

As they follow a path up the mountain to reach its peak one of the flying parasites ambushes them. It targets Fluttershy and takes her away in its grasp. The group looks on in horror however Twilight, Starlight, and Rarity begin to ignite their horns.

“Wait, Y’all might hit Fluttershy!”, Applejack interjects.

“Don’t worry, I got this!”, Rainbow dash says as she readies herself for combat. Suddenly, a dark pink blur zoomed pass the rainbow Pegasus as if someone was shooting a bullet towards the parasite. The creature sees this and lets out a roar:

”RRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWW-”

[SHINK] [SHINK] [SHINK] [SHINK] [SHINK]

The parasite’s roar was cut off as the blur, with incredible speed and ferocity, butchers the flying parasite by stabbing all of it’s eyes and hacking off multiple of its limbs causing the monster to release its captive. The blur catches Fluttershy and lands on the ground while gently laying down the shy pegasus. Everyone’s jaw drops at the revelation of who was responsible for this, even Celebes. Standing before them was Pinkie Pie however her form had changed just as it did in Canterlot, as it always had when someone breaks a pinkie promise, as it did when she felt she failed to make someone happy, as it does now when someone threatens her friends life. To put it simply, it was a darker yet more serious version of the party pony.

”You think you can hurt Pinkamena’s friends huh?, wrong move bucko. Now look at you, chopped up and ready for me to stuff into a cupcake if I wanted to. You mess with my friends, I’ll beat you senseless. You threaten to kill my friends, I’ll slice you up...”, Pinkamena says as she throws a kitchen knife into the air and catches it. She turns her gaze to Fluttershy.

“P-Pinkie, I-is that you?”, Fluttershy asks. Pinkamena was noticeably confused by this question for a few seconds before a smirk forms on her muzzle.

”Of course it is silly, no monster is gonna take any of my friends away.”, Pinkamena says as she helps Fluttershy onto her hooves. ”And if anypony tries, well, that’s what happens.”, Pinamena says as she points to the deceased parasite. ”Anyway, let’s get back to the others.”, both mares make their way to the rest of the group and as they pass everyone, whose mouths were still agape, Pinkamena let’s out a simple: ”Come on, let’s go.”

Everyone in the group stares at ‘pinkie’ with expressions that could best be described as: ”WHAT!?”

Pinkamena and Fluttershy continue to walk along the path until the dark pink mare turns her head back to the group. “well?, HURRY UP!”

”-Ok, maybe she wasn’t affected by The Corruption...-”, Celebes says internally as everyone manages to recover from Pinkamena’s... Actions, and continues up the mountain.

The time has finally come as our group of Ponies, Pinky Pie noticeably returned to her normal state, our zebra, and the young and courageous dragon accompanied by a hero from another world now stand at the peak of the mountain just below The Moon Lord whose titanic form floated above them.

“Here we are, I’m confident we can defeat him so long as I have the Terra Blade. Together, we shall banish him from your realm and return the lord of the moon back to Terraria. If you have any last words or questions now’s the time to speak your peace. This may very well be the... Last battle of your lives.” Celebes says as she turns to the group. Her words rocked the core of everyone present, this was without a shadow of a doubt their biggest challenge. All of their worries ranged from hoping their loved ones were safe to praying their homes weren’t destroyed by The Corruption. One in particular worried about her animals, a certain cowmare tilts her hat as she thinks about a certain apple acre and her family who calls it home. Twilight turns to her number one assistant, Spike, and hugs him dearly.

“Spike, I want you to know that you have made me very proud. You are, in my eyes, my son and I don’t care what anypony says about it.” Twilight says as tears begin to flow from her eyes.

“Heh, thanks Twi. I always loved you as a moth-”

“Which is why I’m going to miss you Spike, please help Princess Luna and Princess Cadence to defeat The Corruption.” Twilight interrupts Spike as she shoves a scroll into spikes claws and fires up her horn, taking her aim. “Take that note straight to Princess Luna Spike, they should be on route to The Crystal Empire by now... Good bye, I love you.”, before Spike could say anything he was sent away in a flash of purple light. Twilight then looks to everyone present fresh tears coming down both of her cheeks. “I’m sorry everypony, but I just can’t ask Spike to do this...”

“It’s fine darling, to be honest, I don’t want my Spikey Wikey to have to deal with... This, either. You made the right call.” Rarity says as she hugs Twilight. “And we are ready to fight with you until the end.”

“Exactly, we’re behind you one hundred percent Twilight.”, Starlight Glimmer says as she walks up to her teacher. “You are the reason I’m still here today, you saved me from my self and I owe you my life for It. If this is our final battle, then bring it on.” Twilight’s student proclaims as everyone gives the lavender alicorn a nod and gathers into a group hug.

“We are ready to fight, to show our foe our might, but the moon lord is high above, some of us can not fly like a dove.”, Zecora states rhythmically as she looks up to The Moon Lord.

“Um, I agree with Zecora. Only me, Rainbow, and Twilight can fly.”, Fluttershy says.

“I might be awesome but I don’t think I could carry us ALL up there to clobber that jerk.”, Rainbow Dash says as she punches the air.

“That won’t be a problem for us, well those of us without wings that is. I happen to have just the right potion for our current predicament.” Celebes says as she then pulls out multiple purple potions, one for every non-pegasus or alicorn present. “And I happen to have ten of them, more than enough for us all. These beauties are a gift from a friend of mine in my world, The Gravitation Potion.”

“Oooooh, that sounds fun!” Pinkie says excitingly.

“Then that settles it y’all, let’s go get that no good varmint.” Applejack

Author's Notes:

The stage has been set and the pieces are in place. The next chapter can be described in one word: FIGHT!.