Negative Celestia made the first move by shooting at me with some beams. I defended myself by taking some clocks out of the time stream that were on my side and blocked the beams with them. I then threw the clocks at her to try and hit her. Negative Celestia obliterated them with more beams and then fired at me again. I formed a wall of clocks in front of me to block the beams. I had an idea and pulled the wall of clocks down. I sent them flying after her and flew behind them.
While she was distracted by the clocks, I opened a time hole behind her and flew straight into her. Negative Celestia and I both tumbled through and landed back in our time. We were in front of Canterlot castle, only seconds after we had tumbled through Negative Celestia's portal.
"Nice trick," Negative Celestia said. "Too bad it will be your last."
"I'm not worried," I responded. "After all, I have all the time in the world." Then Twilight and Tina ran out of the castle. They both looked surprised to see me, but got over that initial shock and ran over to help me.
"Stay back!" I warned them, but I didn't need to. There was some aura that Negative Celestia and I were emitting that caused them to stay back. Maybe an earth pony like me couldn't sense it, but with them being unicorns, it must have been extremely powerful.
"Just go get the elements of harmony and stop Nightmare Moon. I'll handle Negative Celestia." I said. They both looked like they were about to argue, until I opened up time holes underneath of Negative Celestia and me, pulling us back into the vortex. Twilight and Tina both looked surprised and stood there for a few seconds before continuing to get the other elements.
Negative Celestia and I continued to battle inside of the vortex. I dodged attacks and fired my own, but it was clearly an even battle. No matter how many beams were fired, no matter how many clocks were thrown, we were evenly matched. That is, until she got me with a lucky shot.
One of the many flying beams made it past my wall of clocks and hit me straight in the eye, blinding my left eye. Negative Celestia took this as an opportunity to take me out. She fired beams out of her horn as fast as she could, which was really fast. None of the beams missed me, and when Negative Celestia stopped firing at me, I was barely hanging on. My body was covered in scars and cuts that were bleeding profusely. I could barely see out of my right eye, but what I saw worried me.
Negative Celestia was charging up her magic, which was coming together to form a ball. Once that was all charged and finished, she fired it at me. I racked my brain trying to find a way to avoid it, but there was nothing I could do. If I opened a time hole it would drain the last of my energy and I would pass out. But then I got the idea.
I put all of my concentration into the making of a time hole. This particular time hole was different than the other ones that I had made. This one folded around me, enclosing me in a sphere. The ball of magic would still hit me, but I had a feeling that my plan would work. Seconds before I lost consciousness, I pushed the hourglass necklace and the phial of sand through the time hole. Then, my eyes slowly closed as the ball of magic came in contact with me. The magic was so powerful, that even my particles separated. My last thought before this occurred was, 'I hope this works.'
