-TERRARIA, YHARIM’S KINGDOM: ARENA-

Upon receiving Dr. Draedon’s message, Yharim rises from his seat and turns back to Yharon who stood behind him.

“Come, Yharon. We have a far more pressing matter to attend to,” The Jungle Tyrant said.

Feigning ignorance as it was all part of his plan with Statis and Braelor, Yharon responds:

“What is it, brother?”

“We’re going to confront a certain troublesome witch. I’ll follow soon after with the others, but I want you to fly ahead and deal with her until our arrival.”

The dragon nods in response as he spreads his wings far apart. With a powerful flap that lets loose a gust of wind, Yharim’s orange-fiery hair blowing in response, Yharon floats up into the air and prepares to fly towards Draedon’s Laboratory. However, as Yharim turns back towards the other booths that contained well-known individuals of his forces, Yharon looks towards Mena’s conflict.

-Be safe until my return, my little pony. I promise to save your sister’s life force.- He said internally, but not via the mental link the two would usually speak through.

As Yharon’s form flies off towards the lab, Yharim links himself to three of his allies present who sat in their booths. This consisted notably of Signus, Terraria’s own Storm King, and Siranul.

-You three, come with me.- Yharim says to them mentally.

The Storm King raises a brow in his booth, -What’s up, bossman?- He responds.

Signus remains silent as the entity waits for Yharim’s coming words.

Siranul gestures for his cultists to leave his booth before he responds:

-What is your will, my master?-

-Meet me at Draedon’s Laboratory. We have an issue that must be resolved with utmost haste.- Yharim responds to the trio.

……….

As Yharim and his trio of allies all disappear from their booths, Braelor takes notice of this as he sits among the roaring crowd. All the while, the clashing of Mena and Cosmos echoes throughout the arena.

“Looks like things are going to plan,” Braelor comments. He then closes his eyes as if focusing on something else.

-Sweetie Belle, can you hear me?- He questions internally as he performs an action similar to Yharim.

-What’s up, Braelor?- Sweetie Glutonia responds as she just finished conjuring forth a bucket of popcorn for Crystal Moonbeam. In the background, both Princess Cadence and Terraria’s own Tirek conversed.

-It’s time for me to go, Statis will need my aid should things get too bad over at the lab. Are you ready to take them all away when we retrieve Pinkie’s essence?- Braelor inquires internally.

-Everything is ready, and I have a direct link established to Camelot.- The daughter of Greed responds.

Braelor simply nods on his end as he stands up from his seat and makes his way up the stands.

Sweetie Belle looked up towards the arena’s open ceiling as she comments internally:

-Thanks to Braelor, I have what I need to aid my father’s ally. Polterghast, I believe they’re called. Yharim’s Crystal will undo their confinement.-

……….

As Mena’s summoned skeletons fight against the Crimson enemies and the tortoise brought forth by Cosmos, Mena glares at the Kitsune Tyrant with unbridled hatred.

“Usually I’m a chill mare. I don’t like to fight, unlike what most think. But messing with my family… means that you’re history,” She growls. “This is for my sis, you sick fuck.”

The party cannon she had conjured forth fires off a large blast of spiked confetti, several of which dig their hooks into the kitsune Tyrant’s flesh.

“Grawwww!” Cosmos screams in pain.

Several knife slashes begin to form on Cosmos, a whirlwind of brutality as the mare cuts the kitsune’s fur into ribbons. Each slash gives another dose of the last remaining lavender flames as Mena seems to begin chuckling rather maniacally.

“I forgot how much I like to see wastes of space like you suffer,” She says, her statement punctuated by several blasts from the skulls.

In the midst of the absolute pain Cosmos was currently enduring, she suddenly roars out and raises her right claw high into the air, “You and your sister are nothing but mere tools to me! So what if I ‘abused’ Crystal?! That’s what a tool IS!”

Mena’s eyes suddenly darken.

“What did you just say?” she says in an ominously calm voice, her knife slashes slowing to a stop.

Cosmos grins, but grunts painfully, as she responds:

“Do you have wax in your ears? Here, let me repeat myself very clearly,” She then cups her paws together around her mouth, “YOUR! SISTER! IS! A! TOOL!” The Kitsune Tyrant grins, “Maybe I should go pay your ‘pink’ sister a visit, too?”

Mena appears to start giggling in an unhinged manner before shaking her head and glaring at Cosmos.

“You’re going to make a part of myself that should never have seen the light of day again come back, Cosmos. And when it comes out, I will not be able to stop it. I’m NEVER able to stop it. Do you understand me?” She says, her head twitching slightly.

Cosmos chuckles, “I hear you, and I loooove the sound of this other ‘part’ of yours. So come on, show me!” The serpentine kitsune vanishes in a cloud of pink dust and reappears behind the pink pony. With a claw raised above Cosmos’s head, she brings it down upon Pinkamena’s back in a stabbing motion, skewering the pony in the process. The Kitsune Tyrant looked into the pony’s eyes as if wanting to watch the life be snuffed out of them.

Mena spits a mixture of saliva and blood in Cosmos’s face, “You got me… Heh… Heheh… heheheh…” She said, but coughs after, ”P-Pinkie… Crystal… I’m s-sorry…” Blood is bubbling out of her skewered back.

Cosmos chuckles as she pulls her paw out of the pony’s back section who, in turn, drops to the ground limply, “And just like that, you’re nothing to me. Even with my powers reduced thanks to your stupid flame, you still lose to me!” Cosmos exclaims as she points to herself before she laughs uncontrollably.

Mena manages to glance up towards the laughing Kitsune Tyrant, “Y-you have no bucking idea-” She’s interrupted by her own cough, then continues:

“N-no idea what you’ve just done… she’s coming...”

With those final words, Pinkamena falls unconscious as her breathing seemingly slows down. As a result, her skeletons crumble apart as Cosmos sends away the Crimson infection with a simple snap of her talons.

……….

The crowd had various reactions as some remained silent with sympathy while others roared out in celebration. An apparent winner was now prominent, but among the crowd, Crystal Moonbeam’s face was littered with tears as Sweetie Glutonia caressed her half-sibling. Princess Cadence looked on in horror with a hand covering her mouth while Tirek winces and comments:

“Ouch… that looked like it hurt…”

Princess Cadence turns towards him, “She has a HOLE in her stomach, and she’s on the ground unconscious! Of course it hurts!”

“L-let me go, Sweetie! I need to help her!” Crystal Moonbeam exclaims in sorrow, struggling within her sister’s grasp as the daughter of Greed prevents her from leaving her seat and running onto the field.

“I can’t do that, sis. That monster would probably hurt you too, or even use you for blackmail!” Sweetie Belle responds.

“I’m not afraid of that bitch!” The young kitsune shouts, her eyes now blackening in the process, “Let me kill her!”

However, everyone's attention is drawn to the arena's field as another event takes place. An entity of alien flesh mixed with a trio of skeletal structures, a skull, and two accompanying arms. Skeletron emerges from Mena's form; seemingly fused with the symbiote: Toxin.

Cosmos was admittedly shocked by this scenario as the skeletal entity focused its gaze upon her and says:

"Pleasure to finally meet you... Kitsune Tyrant. Now, would you kindly die for me? Prepare to face the might of Skeletron!"

"Hey! I'm helping too, bonehead! It's not only you doing this!" Toxin exclaims as the two voices shared the new entity.

-MENA’S MINDSCAPE-

“MotherFUCKER!” Roars Oblivion, slamming a fist against part of the mind space, “THAT TWISTED DOUBLE-CROSSING FURRY FUCK! I was trying to AVOID this!”

Valencia looked on in horror, “Sweet Terra… this is awful!” Then, a horrific realization dawns on her, “Oh, no! Not only will Mena’s darkness return, but the one who governs over the darkness itself will arise as well!”

Oblivion grits his teeth in a fit of anger and a sense of fear, “Fucking, Abaddon! Shit, Harmony’s gonna goddamn MURDER me for letting this happen!”

As if on cue, a powerful feminine voice seems to rock the mindscape as a flash of light nearly covers the entire realm, “Accursed Kitsune! I will set entire biomes aflame just to kill you myself, COSMOS!” Harmony exclaims in unbridled fury.

“Harmony, please, you must remain calm!” Valencia urges.

With both of his claws on his head in urgent thought, Oblivion says:

“Come on, Oblivion, think…. How do we freaking fix this... Damnit, this is what caused Valencia to get bloody eaten alive!”

-TERRARIA, ACROPOLIS-

Incidentally, and at Athena’s domain, Pinkie Pie could feel a disturbance on a scale unlike anything before as her body spasms, her face contorting uncomfortably. She then starts to have trouble breathing properly.

Before Pinkie’s senses went awol, Echo Silhouette had already left to return to Anubis’s Pyramid, Athena was currently in her throne room, and everyone else present was preparing to leave for Camelot as they were positioned outside the large Temple; Rarity moments away from using her Ice Mirror.

The ponies, and the small Shroom, look on in absolute concern as Rarity asks:

“Pinkie, dearie? Are you feeling ok?”

After trying to catch her breath, the pink pony strugglingly mutters, “I… N-no, not really… it’s MeMe…” The party pony falls to the floor and grabs onto her head with both of her forehooves, “What is h-happening?!” She shouts with a horrified tone.

Suddenly, a series of tears strolls down the pink mare’s face as she screams:

“No! I would never do that to Dashie!”

Overhearing this, the entire group feels a shudder as the cyan pegasus comments:

“P-Pinkie? Is this about the whole thing with that bucker, Brainiac?” She places a forehoof onto the party pony, “I forgive you, Pinks. You weren’t-” Her hoof is batted away by the pink mare who’s mood changes drastically and instantly.

“YOU TRIED TO KILL ME, DASHIE!” Pinkie Pie screams out in hatred.

“W-what?!” The rainbow pegasus screams in response, “No! I could never do that! What are you even talking about?!”

In a fit of rage, and too fast for anyone to properly defend against, Pinkie Pie conjures forth her dagger-like weapon, Bloody Rupture, and lunges towards the rainbow pegasus in a fit of rage.

“I WON’T LET YOU HURT ME AGAIN!” The enraged party pony shouts.

“Pinkie, wait! No!” The other ponies present screams in unison as the world seemed to slow down all around them. Rainbow Dash could only look on in horror as her attacker drew ever closer in one swift motion.

[SHLINK]

Unfortunately, the words of the ponies would go unheeded as a splash of blood falls onto Athena’s Temple.

Character inventory/equipment:

Fluttershy: Statigel Armor(pony, equipped), Overloaded Blaster, Eviscerator, Crimslime Staff, Corroslime Staff, Slime Staff, Finch Staff, Snow Flinx Staff, Hornet Staff, Blood Clot Staff, Deathbringer Pickaxe, Blood Lust Cluster Axe, Healing Potion, Honey Comb(equipped), Brain Of Confusion(equipped), Mana Polarizer(equipped), Honeyed Goggles, Slime Mount, Staff Of Necrosteocytes, Purified Jam.

Rainbow Dash: Necro Armor(pony, equipped), Star Cannon, Minishark, Eviscerator, Aquatic Discharge, Bloody Rupture, Deathbringer Pickaxe, Blood Lust Cluster Axe, Healing Potion, Aero Stone(equipped), Brain Of Confusion(equipped), Bone Glove(equipped), Mana Polarizer(equipped), Victory Shard, Slime Mount.

Zecora: Crimson Armor(zebra, equipped), Dune Hopper, Sausage Maker, Beenade, Tooth Ball, Aorta, Deathbringer Pickaxe, Blood Lust Cluster Axe, Various Potions, Rocket Boots(equipped), Honey Comb(equipped), Sand Cloak(equipped), Brain Of Confusion(equipped), Bloodstained Gloves(equipped), Bone Glove(equipped), Mana Polarizer(equipped), Honeyed Goggles, Skeletron Hand.

Starlight Glimmer: Meteor Armor(pony, equipped), Space Gun, Starfury, Vein Burster, Purple Phaseblade, Deathbringer Pickaxe, Blood Lust Cluster Axe, Mana Potion, Healing Potion, Victory Shard, Rocket Boots(equipped), Aero Stone(equipped), Brain Of Confusion(equipped), Mana Polarizer(equipped), Bone Glove(equipped), Slime Mount, Book Of Skulls, Skeletron Hand.

Rarity: Meteor Armor(pony, equipped), Space Gun, Hornet Staff, Snow Flinx Staff, Ice Mirror, Blood Clot Staff, Deathbringer Pickaxe, Blood Lust Cluster Axe, Mana Potion, Angel Wings(equipped), Brain Of Confusion(equipped), Mana Polarizer(equipped), Slime Mount, Book Of Skulls, Skeletron Hand, Staff Of Necrosteocytes.

Applejack: Crimson Armor(pony, equipped), Vein Burster, Orange Phaseblade, Deathbringer Pickaxe, Blood Lust Cluster Axe, Rope, Metal Detector, Healing Potion, Angel Wings(equipped), Honey Comb(equipped), Flurry Boots(equipped), Brain Of Confusion(equipped), Mana Polarizer(equipped), Honeyed Goggles, Slime Mount, Bone Glove, Skeletron Hand.

Twilight Sparkle: Meteorite Armor(pony, equipped), Space Gun, Book Of Skulls, Deathbringer Pickaxe, Blood Lust Cluster Axe, Mana Potion, Ichor, Victory Shards, Aero Stone(equipped), Brain Of Confusion(equipped), Mana Polarizer(equipped), Slime Mount.

Pinkie Pie: Crimson Armor(pony, equipped), Vein Burster, Blue Phaseblade, Bloody Rupture x2, Aorta, Deathbringer Pickaxe, Blood Lust Cluster Axe, Metal Detector, Angel Wings(equipped), Honey Comb(equipped), Flurry Boots(equipped), Brain Of Confusion(equipped), Mana Polarizer(equipped), Bone Glove(equipped), Honeyed Goggles, Slime Mount, The Blood Butcherer, Skeletron Hand.