Twilight was looking through her telescope at the other bearers of the elements. "Perfect." She said. She went inside the castle itself.

Twilgiht soon came into the throne room she had managed to set up; right now it only has Sombra's throne, but there is room for hers...for when Sombra decides she's proven herself enough.

"I just hope he decides it soon." She said before bringing out the element of magic. After removing the element of magic from the tree, Twilight had created a black version of the crown that she wore whenever she wielded the Element of Magic. She smiled as she levitated the new crown into storage for later. "Only a matter of time until the other bearers get here..." Twilight just as Sombra entered the Throne Room. "And then you'll see the next part of my plan in action." She said.

"Considering how willing you made Spike, I wonder if you aren't overthinking this by assuming they won't be willing yet." Sombra said.

"I know they won't." Twilight said. "It has to do with the Cutie Mark Crusaders I told you about. Applejack and Rarity are related by blood to two of them; sisters in fact. And while not biological sisters, Rainbow Dash is a surrogate sister to the third." She explained. "Those three relationships will be holding the other element bearers back from joining willingly, but my friends won't be wasting time and be charging the castle shortly in an attempt to 'save' me from you." Twilight continued. "So, I'm going to personally attack them psychologically and make them flee in fear on this go around to buy me some time to get the cutie mark crusaders to join us willingly." She finished.

"If everything goes according to your plan. I'm not sure why you don't imprison them instead of letting them run." Sombra said.

"Because Sombra...I want to show them something special. And make them understand one simple fact." Twilgiht said. "...That the Darkness is here to stay!" She added before giving off an evil laugh.

Arriving just outside the gate, the elements see the front door opened wide.

"This looks like it could be a trap..." Sunset said. Trixe tossed one of her firework bombs at the front door. It went off without much trouble.

"No trap. How odd." Trixie said.

"Now what the hay did you do that for?" Applejack said.

"Trixie's firework bombs; while flashy; are good at using to trigger any traps." Trixie stated.

"You mean you can use those things to safely trigger traps?!" Rarity exclaimed.

"In a nutshell, yes. You could say that." Trixie said.

"I never thought I'd live to see the day to be glad Trixie is on our side." Rainbow Dash said.

"I am SO adding a 'thanks for helping' party on my schedule for Trixie later." Pinkie Pie said.

"You pretty much are the party pony I pegged you for." Trixie said as they entered the castle. They went through room after room, soon finding the main room.

"! Everyone hide!" Sunset said. They all did so. From their hiding spot, they see Twilight giving a bowl of gems to a growing spike.

"Here you go, my number one assistant." Twilight said. "Make sure you take your time with this bowl; there's some special cut rubies mixed into this one. I want you to savor every last crunch this time." She said.

"Spike will." Spike said, his voice having changed a little since the girls last saw him before he took his gem bowl outside. The girls watched Twilight leave the room.

"It's just as we feared: Sombra's corrupted Twilight, and to make matters worse, he's turned spike against us now!" Fluttershy said.

"But as soon as we take care of Sombra, we can get Twilight back and once we have her back, she'll find the Fire Ruby so we can get Spike back." Rarity said.

"Fair enough." Sunset said. "Let's just hope Sombra's dumb enough to not use Twilight against us." She said. The girls passed through the main room and soon came across the largest set of double doors they have ever seen.

From behind the double doors, Twilight smirked.

"...Time for me to prove my worth to my king." Twilight said before doing another evil laugh. Just as the elements were opening the door and heading inside to the throne room, some strange music started playing.

TO BE CONTINUED!

Author's Notes:

What can I say? I couldn't help but make the jojo refrence even if all I know is that it's a refrence to "Jojo's Bizzare Adventure" and have no idea what the refrence is all about outside of there being music and a big "TO BE CONTINUED" being thrown up.