As The Forgemaster entered the chamber, the ponies sped ahead of him, running or flying straight to the large statue.

Twilight was saying, "The Elements of Harmony! We found them."

The Forgemaster thought that they just looked like carved stone, but the ponies seemed to revere them as, for lack of a better term, holy relics. Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash were taking down the stones off of their pedestal and placing them in front of Twilight, who was urging caution to the pegasi.

As the rocks were being collected, Pinkie Pie counted them and found, much to her surprise, but not The Forgemaster's who had counted them beforehand, that there were only 5.

The pink pony was asking, "Where's the 6th!"

At this point, The Forgemaster was getting bored with the ponies and their holy rocks, which looked like nothing special to him. And so, he looked around the castle, admiring the craftsmanship even though it was almost completely destroyed and thousands of years old. He was still looking about the room when Applejack and the others left, mumbling about how Twilight needed to concentrate. She tried to get The Forgemaster to leave with them, but he just stood his ground and, after a few failed attempts, Applejack let him be. After all, how could a giant, silent, and unintelligent animal like him disrupt her concentration?

After a few moments of looking around the room, his eyes settled on Twilight Sparkle. Her head bowed, her horn glowing, and crouched before the stones. It looked as though she were performing a ritual of some sort. He thought it best not to interrupt a ritual that required the power he could feel flowing through the room and, silent or no, he wasn't going to stand there and be a potential distraction. He had just made up his mind about leaving when he noticed a dark blue aura, shadow thing snake over to Twilight and cause a tornado on the Elements in front of her. Well, he wasn't going to have any of that! He may have only met the ponies a few hours ago, but they were the only friendly creatures to him that he had met, they also had no idea who he was but still treated him with respect, so he felt he should repay their hospitality.

He was rushing towards Twilight when she noticed the tornado and called out, the other ponies heard and came rushing back up the steps but were far too slow. While he may not have known what this tornado was going to do, but he felt no good could come of it. Just as he reached her, she jumped into the tornado and he followed closely behind. Once inside, he felt a stomach wrenching pressure and then he popped out somewhere else! Twilight was beside him and she was coughing up the smoke that had appeared. When she had stopped coughing, she looked up and gasped. He followed her line-of-sight to where it ended in a large black pony, with both wings and a horn who was laughing… at them! It occurred to The Forgemaster that this evil creature was likely Nightmare Moon.

All of a sudden, Twilight got a determined look in her eyes. The Forgemaster knew that look, he had seen this look before, he saw it on the faces of every hero he had ever given one of his creations to: it was the look foolish heroes got whenever they were going to do something incredibly brave and, simultaneously, incredibly stupid. He knew just what she had planned; a charge. He knew the larger combatant had an advantage in a direct charge, and he wanted to protect Twilight Sparkle from harm. So he picked himself up, unsheathed his claws, pushed Twilight out of the way, and charged in her place. He noticed that both ponies were surprised at his actions; he managed to get 1/3 of the way to the dark pony before she too charged. Just as Nightmare Moon and he connected, he looked past his enemy's shoulder to see Twilight Sparkle at the elements. There was no way she could've been that fast but he paid it no heed. The pony in front of him required his complete attention.

The combatants connected only once before the Nightmare looked back to see Twilight and what she was doing. She gasped, turned into smoke, and got to Twilight far faster than he ever could. She appeared from a puff of smoke right in the middle of the Elements. Twilight yelped out in pain as a bolt of electricity hit her in the head. Nightmare Moon then looked down at the stones, which were pulsating blue, and gasped, she thought she was going to be defeated! Then whatever it was that had happened to the rocks stopped and Nightmare Moon just started to laugh before rearing up and stomping the ground, shattering the Elements. The Nightmare then turned to The Forgemaster and, with a glow from her horn, trapped him beneath the rubble of a collapsing ceiling.

As he was trapped, The Forgemaster could hear everything that went on outside. He heard the stereotypical, evil, and egotistical rant that Nightmare Moon gave to Twilight about how she couldn't defeat her and some other terrible gibberish. Then he heard the other ponies walk in. He then was forced to listen to Twilight's speech about the spirits of the Elements of Harmony, how she had found out who they were, and what Element they represent. It turned out Twilight was talking about her friends and that Twilight could defeat Nightmare Moon after all. As he was trapped, he thought about how much he HATED being a captive audience. He managed to move a few stones around that obstructed his view. He watched as a rainbow tide of pure ass-kicking power swept over Nightmare Moon. Then everything went quiet.

After several minutes of no activity, The Forgemaster decided that everyone in the room, besides himself, must be unconscious. He could only see the pedestal that Nightmare Moon and the Elements had been on through the hole he had made but didn't hear anything. After still more minutes of no activity, he started to feel this day's and the previous one's drain on him. As he was trapped in his stone prison, The Forgemaster fell asleep for the first time in almost 2 days.