“Sire, something’s wrong, we’re not seeing enemy forces.” One of my guards said and I let go of Pinkie looking at the hologram. “That dragon seems to have been the only enemy force that came from the darkness, everything else is empty, we’re seeing several dozen portals opening, but nothing’s coming out.”

“She knows then.”

“She?” Pinkie asked I sighed falling into a chair.

“The darkness, is, a female.” Pinkie nodded wanting more making me sigh. “She’s kind of my, biological mother.” Pinkie’s jaw dropped.

“W-what?! Then this is Spike’s mother!”

“Yes, she’s the mother to all Spikes no matter the world or time. Apparently your future self told me this is the last of her. Once she dies, then the filth is gone forever, and it’ll never come back.”

“Oh yeah, I remember that, but why was I crying?”

“We’ll find out soon enough.”

“Sire, a single portal opened in Ponyville.” I paused. “The darkness is forming.” The shade of the black star started retreating and disappearing giving light to the land. I got up and cracked my neck.

“Guess it’s time to fight, move all units into position.” I hugged Pinkie and teleported appearing on a cloud above Ponyville looking down at it. A large portal was open spiraling dark smoke. I looked up seeing the black start shrinking.

My entire doll army converged around Ponyville filling the land and the sky for a few miles ready for battle. Pinkie wrapped her legs around my arm tensing. A wave of black energy swept through everything and going around the entire planet in seconds.

“What was that?” Pinkie asked.

“She’s coming, for a god to walk in a mortal world, they must refine themselves to a certain body.” The portal closed on itself forming a black ball. Black light started to crack through the shell and shattered sending out a wave of energy.

A blue dragon appeared and shivered sending out shockwaves making the entire planet tremble at her might. She looked around and chuckled darkly, she stomped her hand sending out a wave of energy making every single one of my doll evaporate instantly. I grabbed Pinkie shielding her from the blast.

“So much for that plan.” Pinkie looked around breathing fast, Ponyville was gone in the same instant. The waved came back moments later reconstructing everything but my army, remaking Ponyville.

“What-what, just happen?” She looked at me and I let go of her.

“Time to talk to mother.” I jumped off the cloud landing in front of her and she grinned seeing me.

“Son.” She growled and I changed form, she was easily ten times the normal size of a dragon, more than twice my size.

“Mother.”

“I hadn’t expected you in this world, you ate me in the other one did you not?” I chuckled a little. “Such a pest, I won’t make the same mistake twice. I’m not going to keep you as my pet again.”

“I wonder, could you though?” She looked at my chest.

“Tree of life, how annoying, I assume if I return the favor I'll get that.”

“Do you think you could?” She chuckled and we changed down to Celestia high forms, she looked much like Sapphire, but was all blue and easily half a yard taller than me. She smiled as clothes appeared over both of us. “Such a wonderful treat to see you like this again.”

“I wouldn’t say that.” She cracked her neck. “But smaller is always more effective to a point.”

“True, will you give up and die? Or is this going to get messy?”

“If you had the power to refuse me, it would.” I gripped my fist and it glowed white making her frown.

“You’ve made a mistake, you’re assuming that this world doesn’t have the power to kill you, but I never needed the power to kill you.” She held out a hand and a sword appeared making the ground tremble.

“Oh, so impressive, but that is an easy feat, let’s see if you have it in you.” I held out my hand and a sword appeared. I smiled and we held up our swords letting them crumble. A real fight with power doesn’t require swords to meet, just that they take form, or at least to the point where only the raw power exists, which death can happen.

“Hmmm.” She looked at me frowning a little. “Perhaps I jumped to the wrong choice of fighting you openly.”

“You always did.” She chuckled.

“But, that’s far from over.” She held out her hands and two swords appeared, I did the same and both of mine evaporated with one of hers. I fell to the ground coughing blood. She chuckled a little as I stood up. A leaf fell off the tree of life making me frown. “Impressive, I am impressed, and that’s not easy.”

“Oh come now, you didn’t expect me to play so easily.” I made a sword appear and she smiled making me smile. She paused for a moment as energy was displaced, I shot forward and sliced through her front making her jump back bleeding.

“UGH! You bad child!” She yelled as her front healed. “You need to learn manners.” I smiled a little knowing it was a cheap shot, but pointless at this point in time.

She bent forward and pushed allowing our swords to meet and everything went black and white for a moment before coming back and shattering our swords completely. We stepped back and she frowned.

“Looks like you aren’t happy.”

“That stupid tree of life is a bit annoying, I'll admit.”

“Yep, and I'll burn it to the ground if I have to.” She frowned. “I won’t let the filth live anymore and you’re the last piece.”

“Is that so.” We both made swords and started going at it, shattering our blades each time and then making a new one to only shatter again. Only seconds passed, but it might have been years, the ground was covered in blade bits.

I gripped my chest a little having only a few leafs left. She was breathing a little hard, she had burned through her reserve energy. I smiled having just barely enough. When it came down to it I still had plenty of power sources to rely on, she however didn’t.

“This has gone on long enough don’t you think?” I asked and she sighed sitting down on a hay bale, I sat on one as well across from her. “Just give up, you know you can’t kill me that easily, not with the tree.”

“I can’t believe you became so powerful.”

“Yet it’s barely enough.”

“No, it’s not even close to enough.” She smiled making black fire, I looked up at the sun as it dimmed.

“Oh no.” She laughed a little.

“You really forgot.”

“Yep, that sucks.” She got up and so did I. “I can’t believe I forgot, I rarely forget such important things. Drawing from the sun is pretty important so, darn and I was so much fun.” She chuckled lightly making a sword appear.

“Try to understand, I can’t let the light win.”

“Oh please, it already did.” She moved stabbing through my heart smiling me smile and she pushed more going clean through me. I grabbed her making her pause. “Come now mother, you certainly can’t have forgotten my talent.”

“Oh damn you.”

She blinked breathing a little fast looking around. She hadn’t moved from her spot when we first changed forms. She gave me annoyed look realizing I was drawing a seal. I had made it a habit of invading the minds of others more powerful, it worked well for me.

“Now let’s see.” I finished craving a seal onto her chest and it exploded sending her flying through a building. I walked over to her as she got up coughing blood. “You are such a joy mother, always too smart for your own good.”

“I hate your mind games.”

“That of a child don’t you think?” She paused.

“I suppose, but how exactly do you think this will end?”

“Fighting to the death?”

“Yes.”

“Simple.” I pulled out a sword. “Just have to slow you down enough.”

“For what?”

“For me.” She looked at Pinkie as she appeared in front of her. Pinkie bucked sending my mother flying through a building. I chuckled lightly. “Oh that felt good, but I don’t think I did enough damage.”

“You don’t have had to.” My mother appeared in front of me and she swung her sword at me making me block it with a sword of my own shattering our swords. Pinkie kicked her again sending her flying.

“Not enough of a hit.” I smiled. My mother slashed at Pinkie and I blocked with a sword as she bucked her in the face sending her flying. “Aren’t you rather relaxed for all this?” I smiled and pet her.

“Well, she’s not that much of a nightmare.”

“Am I?” I paused looking around realizing it wasn’t her this time that was on the blunt end of a mind game. She smiled and I groaned a little. We sat down on hay bales and looked at each other. “Rather equal in the mind games.”

“Enough that I think we should stop, or we’ll never actually fight each other. At this point I say we drink some tea and relax talking.”

“Really?”

“Do you really have to eat the planet? Kind of pointless don’t you think? The living are so much more fun. Or did dying break you of that?” She smiled and looked at the sky. “This world is nice, you don’t have to be filth.”

“Don’t I?”

“I guess, but then we’re really going to have to fight for real and stop playing around. I like this, I don’t want to die forever. It really sucks dying, I don’t like it, burns me the wrong way honestly.”

“I don’t want to die forever either, but if I lose here, then I will.”

“Same here.” Both of us chuckled. “So will you give up, you don’t have to die, we could live in this world’s beauty forever.”

“No, we have to.”

“Fine, we’ll fight for real.” We got up and she pulled out a sword, armor went over her body, I pulled out a sword as well making armor appear. We cut mental ties and posed for a real fight. Minds were one thing, but real fights we another thing, it was nothing special, just trying to chop the other apart.

We moved crossing swords making sparks fly and the air lit on fire, the speeds we moved even air burned from the friction. We pulled back and started slicing at each other. We jumped back after a minute and I fell to my knee and she grinned having a clear advantage over me, I relied on the tree, she had natural power.

“Finally an end.” I looked at her and stood up.

“I hate you.” She stabbed through my heart for real this time and it turned to crystal instantly. I frowned and she pulled out of me. I fell to my knees, my blood crystallized and evaporated. “Not nice.”

“I can’t very well kill the tree of life, it’s nearly impossible, and I don’t have the energy to do it anymore. Stupid thing is hard to destroy, but if I freeze it in crystal, I have a chance to kill you finally.” I chuckled.

“I guess dying isn’t that bad.”

“No.” A whisper said and Pinkie appeared next to me freezing the ground instantly. My mother stepped back as light bent around Pinkie. Everything turned pink for a moment as her powers unlocked.

“Hi Pinkie.”

“Stupid Spring Winters!” My mother shouted and Pinkie grinned. “I hate you creatures, for goodness sake give it up you can’t win! You have nothing, even you can’t hope to beat me as I am.”

“Would you like to know something between you and me?” Pinkie asked.

“What’s that?”

“I never go it alone.” She stomped making the ground turn white and a large seal appeared above us. Princess Celestia and Luna walked through a portal next to me on either side of me. “And the one thing you didn’t realize.” The Luna and Celestia from my world appeared along with pony soldiers. “Is the light always shines through the darkness, or else we wouldn’t see stars would we?”

I looked around as every powerful pony from both worlds teleported in, the Lich walked next to me helping me up and stopping me from becoming crystal. My mother looked around completely surrounded.

“What a nice little group you have here, and you even have this worlds Spike.” He stepped forward. “How nice of you, but if he wasn’t enough for me, then what makes you think all of you are? He took over your planet.”

“Did he now?” Applejack asked stepping forward.

“Didn’t he?” She looked around at them. “Oh well, what’s it matter now? At least I can enjoy a treat before I eat the planet. I’m sure it will be oh so filling till I find the next planet to devour.”

“There won’t be a planet to devour.” This world’s Twilight said, coming forward and all six had their elements of harmony making my mother frown. “This is the end.” I smiled a little not seeing my mother here.

“Far be it to question a princess.”

“Pinkie, would you mind?”

“Not at all.” My mother disappeared and I looked around. I then looked up seeing a triple rain boom far away. A rainbow wave cleared the sky instantly and Dash shot through the air making Twilight chuckle a little.

“Well that pissed her off.” They looked at me and I spread my wings making everyone around me back up as I shot into the air intercepting my mother grabbing her and kicking sending her flying into the ground a few miles from Ponyville.

I then teleported behind Dash catching a dagger with my chest and she caught me sending us falling, Pinkie teleported us, but it didn’t slow us down as I landed first saving Dash from impact.

“Are you alright?” Dash asked and I chuckled at the question.

“I’m turning to crystal and have a dagger in my chest, I’m about as dead as you can get honestly.”

A growl made everyone turn as my mother appeared slicing through several pony and Celestia moved blocking her sword slice again. The Lich growled easily bringing back the pony and I made a sword.

I ran forward and blocked getting sent down to my knee and sending out a shockwave knocking back pony. Spike and Lilly appeared next to me slicing with their swords, she dropped her sword and grabbed their blades allowing me to slice up her belly.

She twisted and pulled Lilly and Spike forward slamming them into the ground dodging my second slice grabbing her sword and blocking both Celestia. She made a second sword blocking both Luna’s stabs.

She moved back spinning her blades sending bullets flying back into soldier pony shooting at her. Big Mac slid around and she moved slicing him in half which he healed from instantly punching her and sending her flying through a mountain.

“VERMIN!” She screamed becoming full size.

“Press the attack!” Applejack shouted and jets came through portals from the other world launching missiles. Thousands of pony soldiers opened fire shooting her with bullets, but only to shatter falling to the ground. She roared blowing fire.

Shining Armor and Cadance moved creating a massive shield protecting everyone from her black fire. Lilly’s eyes glowed with green fire as her body rippled dead fire. She grew to my mother’s size and kicked her sending a beam of green fire burning.

She moved to dodge it, but both Celestia and Luna kicked her from behind sending her flying and rolling. She pulled a sword from a black portal just her size. She sliced and I changed to my full form blocking with a black of my own.

The ground around me ripped up from the massive wind causing soldier pony to fly off the ground to be caught by pegasus. Spike changed to an adult dragon form as well going next to Lilly.

“KEEP PUSHING!” Pinkie shouted and pony moved into place attacking her and she swung her sword to be blocked by Lilly’s horn and both Spike and I sliced without own swords, which she made another sword appear to block. Both Luna and both Celestia then attacked from behind blasting her again and sending her rolling.

She flipped up and her eyes went wide as a huge amount of air turned to chocolate milk choking her. She looked down as Discord stomped his feet making the ground turn to empty space imploding around her feet.

Pinkie appeared in front of my mother’s face and kicked sending her twisting through the air and crashing into a mountain. Lilly shot another blast and she dodged blocking, and her tail whipped sending the Luna and Celestia flying.

“NOW!” Twilight yelled and all six of the elements had formed up glowing with white power. They shot a rainbow and it encased my mother in seconds turning her to stone.

“YEAH!” Some white overly buff pony shouted flying over head. I frowned and Spike and Lilly looked at me.

“It’s not over!” Spike yelled and they turned as the stone exploded sending huge pieces ripping through the soldiers pony. My mother stepped forward steaming, smaller, but more pissed than ever.

“Not nice.” She stomped her foot sending out a wave of power. Shining Armor made a shield protecting most, but over a hundred soldiers were evaporated instantly. I sliced at my mother and she caught my blade along with Spikes.

Lilly fired and she kicked the blast back burning Lilly and sending her flying crushing into Everfree forest. My mother spun and I let go of my sword making a second one as she landed slamming Spike into Shining Armor’s shield.

I stabbed cutting off her wing barely and she slashed with her claws ripping off my left arm and sending me rolling. Dash did a double rain boom and she was crushed into the ground, she jumped slashing at Dash.

Applejack and Pinkie flew kicking her arm snapping it and sending her spinning back away from pony and crushing a few trees. I picked up my sword and Spike got up bleeding badly, so did Lilly.

“Such a fond effort.” My mother said getting up and her arm healed. “But your still out classed!” She punched the ground turning it molten. I blew down cooling it before it could kill pony. She moved punching me and sending my flying.

“Move in! Protect the Dragon King Slayer at all costs!” Everyone looked up as hundreds of dragons filled the sky. Dozens attacked my mother slashing at her with large steel swords and she roared breathing fire and cooking a few clean through.

She slashed cutting two dragons in half only to be filled by more, I jumped stabbing through her arm stopping her as dragons moved chopping at her arm. She roared sending out a shockwave and causing their heads to explode from the pressure.

Discord stomped his feet making more ground under her implode. Both Celestia’s horns glowed sending down a beam of light burning my mother’s chest. She slashed at them and both Luna met her arm kicking it away.

Spike moved stabbing into her arm and holding it down. Lilly punched my mother’s chest and ripping through it. Her tail whipped up sending Lilly crashing into Spike freeing her arm as she blew fire being countered barely by Shining Armor and Cadance.

Dragons shot down fire balls making her roll regrowing her arm. She slashed the air sending a wave of fire, which dragons countered by blowing fire of their own. She kicked dragons away and hitting the shield with her tail.

“FIRE!” Akila shouted as a few dozen tanks rolled up opening fire as jets flew over head hitting her with missiles. She slashed in the air blowing up the jets.

“NOW!” Twilight shouted and they fired again turning her to stone once again and I got up breathing hard. I looked at my arm, it wasn’t going to grow back, not this time, at least not without the tree.

“Oh that doesn’t feel right.” Twilight said and I looked at her shivering.

“That’s what you get for using so much magic you pregnant mare.” I said chuckling and they looked at me.

“How do we stop her?!” Pinkie shouted.

“Wear her down.”

“Or.” My sister walked next to me. “Hope a little sister realizes how to control the power of darkness finally.” I paused staring at her. “I guess since your king big brother, that would make me a princess wouldn’t it?”

“Once the Princess of something awakens.” Pinkie said and looked up at my sister. “All hail the princess of Darkness Sapphire!” Pony looked around a bit confused and Pinkie grinned stomping her hoof.

“Well it’s never too late.” I said chuckling.

“Brother do you mind?”

“Everyone move back.” I growled and they moved away from me and away from my mother. I moved my sword stabbing through my crystal heart surprising everyone and green blood poured out. I stabbed my sword into the ground and then stabbed into my chest ripping out my heart along with the tree of life. “I'll eat you later my friend.”

“What are you doing?” Pinkie asked.

“Time for a seal.” Sapphire said and I grabbed my mother’s throat as the stone started to crack. She broke free and grabbed my arm.

“NO!” She screamed as several glowing seals appeared above us. Both of us changed back to our Celestia high form on the ground. She growled and I grinned as blood ran down my mouth.

“Yes.” I said chuckling. A black portal opened below us and I let go letting her fall into it. I turned grabbing the edge grinning seeing her fall into the darkness sucking her into the endlessness of it all.

“Oh I'll never get tired of killing you mother.” I tried to pull myself up and paused. I had nothing left, not an ounce of power. I sighed and looked up at Pinkie. “Help me up Pinkie.” She grabbed my arm pulling me up out of the hole.

“Finally.” I looked at my sister and she smiled. I looked around at them all and paused seeing my heart with the tree of life moved away by soldiers. This world’s Celestia and my world’s Luna came over to me and they both paused looking at each other.

“This is particular.” Celestia said and both of them smiled, I sat down as the hole behind me closed.

“Oh that would be fun to see.” They looked at me and frowned. “Oh my I think I’m in trouble.” I chuckled.

“That’s a bit of an understatement.” Twilight said walking over to us. Applejack walked over to us with Spike and Lilly.

“Pinkie do you think you could give me a hand, or whole arm?” She shot me and my arm grew back rather nicely making me smile. I gripped my fist. “Look at that, all the fun is over and you can kill me.”

“We never planned on killing you.” This world’s Celestia said. I paused as a unicorn stallion that I had seen at the Princess Celestia’s Gala walked forward with a box on his back. I looked around at them.

“I came up with the idea.” My Twilight said smiling as a pony rolled her forward. “When you opened the passage between worlds, you allowed us to finally talk. I had plans.”

“But not enough power.” Twilight said stepping forward.

“Which is why it works now, I had plenty of help.” My Twilight said. The unicorn set down the box in front of me and I looked at them, before looking at the box. It was black and very smooth.

“I’m interested, if you’re not going to kill me, then what? Seal me into a little box and put me away into a storage space?”

“Nope.” Pinkie said going over to the box, and moving it to my feet. “There is just a little bit of darkness left, and this box will take it and destroy it forever.” I chuckled.

“You don’t realize it, but it’s why you’ve done what you’ve done,” my Twilight said coming closing. “I finally figured out how to cleanse the last bit of filth, and you have to open the box to get rid of it, we can’t sadly because it’s not in us.” I chuckled.

“Okay.” I flipped open the lid of the box and light came over. Something passed through me and the box closed, then imploded on itself not leaving a spec. I looked around and they stared at me. “What?”

“Did it work?” Pinkie asked.

“I don’t feel any different.” I laughed and they looked around a bit confused. “Oh I never found out, boy or girl?” I looked at my Twilight and she smiled.

“Boy.”

“That’s good, well.” I got up and padded my pants. “Time to make my escape before you all really want to seal me away for good.” I grabbed Pinkie picking her up and then walking over and picking up Applejack.

“Ah, what are you doing?” Spike asked and I looked at him as Lilly walked next to him a little bloody.

“Well seeing as I don’t have the tree of life right now, I can’t very well fight you, not only that but my army is gone. So I’m going to take my pony and retreat.” I stomped my foot making seal appear below me.

“You were always a smart monster.” Akila said joining us.

“Ah! I forgot one.” I ran over to her throwing her onto my shoulder. “Alright that’s everyone.” I went back over to my seal. “Bye.” I teleported to my throne room and set them down. They looked at me as I sat down smiling a little.

“You left in a hurry.” I looked at my sister as she walked through a portal.

“Of course, they’re all going to lock me up sooner or later.”

“Actually no they weren’t.” Pinkie said smiling.

“I bet that’s what they all thought.” I smiled and pulled Applejack closer to me. “But that’s not what they would do.”

“Um, that was fun and all, but I have orders to fill.” Akila said smiling and I sighed. She was always a business pony, never time for play.

“Fine go, you know where to find me.” She teleported.

“Well I’m gonna go, I got family to tend to, and Apple-Bloom’s pregnant.” I smiled a little. “Bye Seffron.” She teleported and I looked at Pinkie which was staring at the ground frowning a little.

“What’s wrong?”

“I have to go now.” Pinkie said.

“Alright.” She looked at me. “Wait for how long?” She smiled, but my heart sunk a little bit. “I, um, won’t be coming back. I’m going to spend the rest of my life in the time vortex making sure time stays on this path.”

“Pinkie that’s a bad joke.” She chuckled.

“I’m not, I can’t stay, the other Pinkies told me, it takes all of my life to stop the darkness once and for all, and I can’t spend a second more than needed here. Or I won’t have enough time to save everyone.”

“Pinkie.” I got up. “You honestly think I’m just going to let you go?” She smiled.

“Don’t hate me.” I froze at her words as tears went down her face.

“Oh hell no.” I grabbed for her and she disappeared. I growled a little looking at her crown in my hand. I sighed looking at the crown. “Pinkie you were always a lonely fool.” I smiled and Trixie came into the room.

“You’re back.” Trixie said and I looked at her and then at the crown.

“That’s so not fair.” Trixie gave a slightly confused look.

“What’s wrong?” I chuckled, if I followed Pinkie I wouldn’t be able to come back, and the trail would close forever.

“I have to return a crown.” I smiled.

Pinkie smiled closing a book and looking around her little white room. A single bed, book shelf and low table were in it. Galaxies swirled around as all time spread in front of her, she smiled seeing her home world move down in front of her making her pause.

“I didn’t call you little world.” She smiled. I chuckled sitting down in front of her making her eyes go wide.

“SEFFRON!” She shouted standing up.

“So this is our world.” I held out my hands as the sun moved close to my chest shining nicely onto the world.

“What, how?!” I smiled, Pinkie was considerably older. I held up her crown making her pause.

“You forgot something.”

“But, this, you can’t be here.”

“Pinkie do you honestly think I would allow one of my toys to escape me? When I own a toy it’s mine forever.” I moved the world and hugged her. “And I would never let my little pony be alone.” Tears went down her face as she hugged me.

“I love you.”

“I love you to Pinkie Pie.”

Author's Notes:

NEW ENDING! old one was a dud and I changed it so enjoy