Cherry came into the Spellman attic where there were boxes, old clothes, and a bubbling cauldron, you know, the usual stuff you would find in an attic... "Jezebel, I know you're up here..." she said in a scolding tone of voice as she wandered in the dusty attic.
"Hello, Dream Bender." Jezebel smiled evilly.
Cherry glared sharply to the witch woman. "Hello, witch with a captial B." she retorted.
"Ooh, sassy, are we?" Jezebel smirked evilly.
"Jezebel, I presume?" Patch growled.
"Patch?" Cherry looked down.
Patch looked back up at his owner's human best friend. "I thought you could use some help."
"I'll take what I can get," Cherry nodded, then firmly looked back to Jezebel. "Look, I don't know what your plan is, but you're not gonna win, good will always triumph over evil!"
"Why are you helping Drell, dear?" Jezebel folded her arms with a sick grin. "All he does is make your life miserable..."
Cherry kept her glare.
"You can try all you want, but you'll never get her on your side!" Patch glared.
"All Drell does is make your life into a living nightmare..." Jezebel tempted Cherry and came over to her side. "When was the last time he had thanked you for your help?"
Cherry thought back, then actually looked puzzled and lost.
"He doesn't even deserve Hilda..." Jezebel continued. "Wouldn't you think so?"
"They're destined to be together..." Cherry argued, narrowing her eyes. "He obviously loves her!"
"Yeah!" Patch nodded firmly.
"You can't even beat me if you tried..." Jezebel smirked darkly to both Cherry and Patch.
"Oh, really? Well, have you ever experienced the power of Equestrian Magic?" Patch asked.
"Yes, yes, I have." Jezebel nodded.
"Oh." Patch said with wide eyes.
"You won't win..." Cherry insisted. "I have dream bending powers..."
"Yeah," Patch said. "You're not going to win, Jezebel, the good side always wins."
"Let's just see about that..." Jezebel grinned menacingly. "Equestrian and Dream powers verses Witchcraft!"
Patch and Cherry growled in determination and they ran to fight off Jezebel. The Dalmatian puppy and perky goth did their best to fight against Jezebel, but she proved to be a worthy opponent with her inferior skills of having both types of powers while they each only had one. Cherry blacked out from one blast. Patch frantically tried to wake her up, but Cherry was in her own little world in her subconscious.
"I just can't win..." Cherry put her hands to her eyes. "She's too good... The bad guys are gonna win and it'll be all my fault!"
"Don't give up, my dear." A familiar elderly woman voice said.
"Who said that?" Cherry removed her hands and looked around.
"Who do you think, sweetheart...?" the voice asked.
Cherry swallowed hard and shook a chill down her spine. "Grandma...?"
"Yes, my dear, it's been a long time since you and your friends last saw me and Delilah who is with her daughter now." Her grandmother smiled.
"Oh, Grandma, I just didn't think we'd ever find you after that quest that lasted for what feels like an eternity..." Cherry shut her eyes wearily and hugged her grandmother.
"I know, it's okay, the nightmare is over..." Mally soothed, hugging her granddaughter right back.
Cherry let out a tear from her eye as she hugged her grandmother, she embraced every hug even more than ever now that they were reunited.
"You should know that I will always be with you and good is always going to win." Mally told her.
"I know, Grandma, but Jezebel has Equestrian and Witch magic..." Cherry sounded doubtful of herself. "She's stronger than me and Patch!"
"You know which one has to defeat her it's the same one that defeated the great Sombra and let him go." Mally said.
"English please..." Cherry scratched her head, she felt far too stressed about this situation to think properly.
"It's Atticus and Drell." Mally whispered in her ear.
"I have to ask for their help?" Cherry asked.
"Teamwork, even with Drell." Mally encouraged.
"But Grandma, you know Drell likes to pick on me!" Cherry moped.
"Would you rather like for that witch to win?" Mally asked.
"Well... No... But..." Cherry winced at that possibility.
"You know that you need their help." Mally told her.
Cherry groaned a little. "Do I have to ask Drell for help? He'll just laugh at me if I do..."
"Yes, Cherry, ask him and Atticus for help so he and Hilda can get married." Mally firmly advised her granddaughter.
Cherry moaned. "I just know he's gonna want me to do something humiliating first."
"He won't, I assure you." Mally said.
Cherry glanced to her grandmother. "Clearly you don't know Drell."
"All right, Cherry, you will awaken on the Spellman couch, remember what I told you..." Mally said as her voice turned echoey as Cherry was about to wake up then. "Remember..."
Cherry squeezed her eyes and opened them as she looked up to see Mo, Patch, and Atticus standing over her to see if she was okay.
"Oh, thank goodness, you woke up..." Mo sounded relieved.
"How long have I been out?" Cherry muttered.
"Long enough for Atticus to challenge that witch to a duel." Patch said.
"Oh..." Cherry rubbed her eye.
Zelda came over then, holding a glass of water and put it in Cherry's face.
"Thanks, Zelda." Cherry took the glass and drank from it. She then cleared her throat and stretched a little.
"And where they've set their bets." Mo said.
"I don't like where this is going so far..." Cherry mumbled weakly.
Drell sat on the arm of the couch. "I've made a wager of my own..."
Cherry looked back at him in silence, but she did eventually say something. "And?"
"If we win, Jezebel and Sombra have to be imprisoned for 100 years." Drell informed.
"And if we lose?" Cherry then asked.
"Drell gives up his magic and I'm to rule the magic dimension by my uncle's side, whether I like it or not." Atticus said.
"I don't regret any sacrifices I make..." Drell bowed his head humbly.
"Wow, Drell, that's pretty mature of you..." Cherry said. "Um... Think the four of us could all work together to stop this madness?"
"I'll help you on one condition..." Drell put his finger up. "I want you to do something embarrassing and goes against everything you stand for..." he then leaned in and whispered the details to her.
Cherry's eyes widened. "No way, that's so demeaning!"
"Drell, can't you go one day without humiliating her?" Atticus asked.
"I can't help it..." Drell grinned mischievously. "Okay, fine, Cherry, you can do it after we win this."
"I wanna hurt you so badly sometimes..." Cherry shook her fists.
"Let's focus at the task at hand." Mo said.
"Yeah..." Drell ruffled up Cherry's hair. "Come on, Cherry, we'll go as soon as you can walk again... Can you walk?"
"I... I don't know..." Cherry shrugged.
"Well find out, will ya?" Drell glared. "I'd like to see Hilda one last time before I possibly give up my magic forever!"
"We won't lose." Atticus assured him.
"You don't know that..." Drell frowned.
Cherry attempted to walk, but stumbled a little, though she seemed to be doing it on purpose.
"Are you doing that on purpose?" Drell narrowed his eyes.
Cherry looked back. "Maybe?"
"Cherry, do you want me to be ruling along side to the most evil unicorn in the universe?" Atticus asked her.
"Never!" Cherry quickly shook her head, sounding frightened by that.
"Let's go then!" Drell stood up.
Maroot blubbered with her hands to her eyes.
"Ma..." Drell groaned in annoyance.
"Why is she blubbering into her hands?" Patch asked.
"What kind of question is that?" Mo glanced at the puppy.
"Ma, knock it off, you're embarrassing me..." Drell came to his much shorter mother.
"Oh, I'm just so worried for you, Drelly Bean." Maroot hugged her son while crying into his stomach.
"Drelly Bean?!" The kids and Patch asked before bursting out laughing.
"You be safe now..." Maroot tugged one of Drell's curls.
Drell looked like he had murder in his eyes since his mother was humiliating him in public. He was even embarrassed that the kids and Dalmatian puppy were laughing at him. Maroot hugged her son again.
"Come on, Mar, dear, let him go." Warwick took his wife away.
"Thanks, Dad." Drell smiled halfway to his father.
"You're welcome, just don't lose against your ex." Warwick said.
Drell looked to his parents, he looked a little hurt and worried, even on the outside, but he gave both his parents hugs and gave a kiss to his mother. Maroot sniffled and tugged on one of his looser curls again and grew very weepy. Warwick held his wife and comforted her.
Drell then came over to Atticus, Patch, and Cherry. "We got a witch to fry."
"G-Good luck, Drell..." Sabrina said, surprisingly enough, as she clung to her mother.
"Thanks, Sabrina." Drell smiled.
"Um... Sure..." Sabrina replied, giving a small smile back to him.
"Come on, there's no time to waste." Patch told the others.
Cherry was about to walk with them upstairs to the attic, but suddenly, a glowing bright light overtook her and carriedh er in the air. The white light wrapped around her and her hands, feet, and eyes started to glow until she was suddenly and slowly lowered back on the floor. Cherry then stood back up, she had a black gown on with a tilted pointed hat and she held a magic wand in her hands. She then turned to the others and her hair seemed loose and curly as it seemed to flow in the wind.
"What the heck was that?" Atticus asked.
"I'm not sure, but I feel stronger somehow..." Cherry said as she looked at herself, then saw she had a witch's wand. "Like... I'm a witch..."
Drell looked away innocently. "Uh, come on, let's go stop Jezebel before she takes over the world."
"Drell, did you have something to do with this?" Atticus asked.
"Let's go upstairs please..." Drell said through clenched teeth.
"Did you just help Cherry?" Sophia asked.
"Move upstairs please..." Drell repeated firmly.
"Drell, did you just... Give me a helping hand...?" Cherry asked out of shock.
"MOVE UPSTAIRS PLEASE!" Drell nearly growled, not going to even bother answering that question.
"Okay, okay, we're going." Atticus said.
"Thank you." Drell shut his eyes then.
With that, Cherry, Atticus, Patch, and Drell moved upstairs.
"We'll be right back," Drell promised as he held onto the stairwell. "Five of us shall enter and one of us will never return..." he said before going up to the attic, bravely.
"Yeah, and we'll give you a hint, she's a Witch with a B." Atticus added in.
"My line..." Cherry glanced back.
Patch was nervous, but he mustered his best bravery. He was starting to think of how his parents were very brave and protective of him and his siblings when Horace, Jasper, and Cruella had kidnapped him with them and that they were rather frightening when they got angry. He thought of how scared they made the bad guys.
He thought of how Thunderbolt was brave against the bad guy. He also thought of how bold and daring Lucky was and he truly looked up to Lucky more than the other dogs he had known in his life and now it was his turn to be a high and mighty dog who was now blessed with magical powers.
"With the four of us working together, we're sure to win." Patch said.
"I guess so.." Cherry said as she gripped her new wand. "I just wonder how I got witchcraft all of the sudden anyway..."
"If you tell anyone, I'll stuff you into a graham cracker..." Drell whispered to her as they were farther away from Patch and Atticus.
"Y-You gave me this magic?" Cherry asked in surprise.
"Yes I did, now remember, don't tell anyone." Drell whispered back.
"That just makes me wanna tell..." Cherry whined.
"Not a soul..." Drell glared firmly. "Now come on, we got a mission."
Cherry nodded and followed him to catch up with Atticus and Patch.
"This battle is going to be intense." Patch said.
"Probably the most disasterous one we've ever been in..." Atticus agreed.
"And if we fail, Atticus will join the dark side..." Cherry gulped slightly, then stopped walking. "Um... I think I'll just stay here and cheer you on, and-"
"GET OVER HERE!" Drell yanked her over.
"Okay, okay, okay." Cherry said repeatedly.
Drell gave her a look and walked with her. Cherry held her wand securely as they were coming to the Spellman attic door. Atticus opened it and they all climbed into the attic together.
"Okay, Jezebel, come out, come out, wherever you are!" Drell called.
"Took you long enough." Jezebel said with an evil smirk.
"Oh, God, it's a yeti!" Drell flinched, then deadpanned with a glare to her. "Nah, it's just Jezebel, just as unbelievable and insane as the yeti."
"Oh, ha, ha, ha, very funny, Drelly." Jezebel said.
Drell snarled that she had called him that.
"You have one last chance to not be a fool!" Patch glared. "Back off now or pay the consequences!"
"I'll take my chances, mutt." Jezebel glared.
"Big mistake..." Cherry glared.
"Oh, please, you think you're hot stuff just because your grandmother was a great witch in her day..." Jezebel scoffed to Cherry.
"You better shut your mouth if you know what's good for you." Atticus said, clenching his fists out of anger.
Jezebel laughed at them. "Hit me with your best shot!"
"My mother always told me to never hit a lady..." Drell shut his eyes before opening them fiercely. "Luckily for me, you ain't a lady."
Jezebel snarled, she grew into a large size that broke the Spellman house roof and glared down at them.
"Teamwork!" Drell told Cherry, Atticus, and Patch.
"But how?" Atticus asked.
"Join hands so we can combine our magic to help each other and maybe stop her." Drell instructed.
"Yeah!" Patch nodded. "Let's do it!"
"Join hands." Drell said.
Cherry and Atticus cupped their hands while Patch cupped his paws.
"I meant with each other." Drell said then.
"Oh..." the others said, holding out their hands as they were formed in a small circle.
"Oh, please, what do you think that will do?" Jezebel laughed, ready to crush them under her foot.
"D-D-Drell!" Cherry shook suddenly.
"Trust me, I know what I'm doing." Drell told her.
Cherry screamed and Jezebel stomped on top of them, before her foot being bounced right back.
"What the!?"
The four were in some sort of glowing pink barrier that bounced Jezebel back off from them.
"WHAT?! But how?!" Jezebel asked out of shock.
"It's because we have one magic that you'll never have, Jezebel!" Atticus told her. "The Magic of Friendship!"
"Impossible!" Jezebel glared back at him. "I have all of your magical abilities and I don't even need friendship, that's not even REAL magic!"
"Yes, it is!" Patch growled.
All four of them started to glow brightly which caused Jezebel to cover her eyes from the bright light.
"Whoa!" Patch was surprised.
"Drell, what's happening?" Cherry asked.
"It's time for us to transform." Drell said.
"Transform?" Cherry, Atticus, and Patch asked.
"Yes, or as you kids would like to call it, 'pony up'." Drell said.
"Oh, yeah, we've done that loads of times." Atticus said.
"Oh, yeah." Patch added.
'"That makes sense." Cherry then said.
Drell nodded to them and with that, they all floated into the air and bright colorful lights overtook them all. And each of them began to transform into their Equestrian forms AKA ponied up forms. Jezebel glared, but was truly surprised to find out that friendship was the most important magical element of all. Cherry, Atticus, and Patch glared firmly to Jezebel as soon as they all landed on all fours. Drell joined them as he was in his pony form as well which was a strong unicorn stallion. Cherry snorted, cupping her mouth with her hoof.
"What?" Drell looked at her.
"You're a pony!" Cherry pointed and fell back on the floor with a laugh, laughing like she did when Forte came to Equestria with her, Atticus, Patch, and Mo for the first time.
"You do realize I can use my magic to make sure you can't speak anymore." Drell glared.
"Uh, let's fight Jezebel now!" Cherry gulped before getting back on all fours again with a nervous smile.
"That's more like it..." Drell narrowed his eyes even more, then tilted his head back to yell. "MAGIC DUEL!"
Jezebel was too shocked too move, but then shook it off and was ready to finish these four off.
Atticus flew up to Jezebel, flapping his wings and glared to her. "You are going down, it is on like Donkey Kong!"
"Oh, bring it on, alicorn boy!" Jezebel glared. "You may have my ex on your side, but I'm more powerful than the four of you combined!"
But to her surprise, his magic and strength were much stronger than she thought. Jezebel was even able to fall back on the floor.
Drell growled as he charged for his daughter's mother. "Jezebel, leave, I don't wanna have to hurt you!"
"Well, I do!" Jezebel glared, about to get up.
"You've forced me..." Drell snarled, he charged up his horn and fired a blast at her. This sent her flying out of the house, landing outside of the house.
"Give up now before it's too late!" Patch growled.
"NEVER!" Jezebel snarled once she ended up in the yard.
"We really don't want to do this to you, but you've left us no choice." Patch said.
Cherry felt instantly angry and pressured, she then let out a scream which sounded like a sonic boom. A white tiger with purple stripes then emerged from Cherry's mind and pounced out onto the floor and snarled, looking around for a victim to stalk.
"A tiger?" Jezebel scoffed. "What's that supposed to do, scratch me?"
"Kimba..." Cherry gently stroked the tiger's face.
"What is thine request?" Kimba asked his mistress.
"Help us destroy her..." Cherry narrowed her eyes. "She needs to understand that just because she has all that magic doesn't mean that she'll corrupt the Magic of Friendship."
"As you wish." Kimba bowed to her.
Cherry gently stroked his fur. "Show her the powers of the dream bender."
Kimba then ran over to the window and jumped out of it once he got up to the window and pounced on top of Jezebel, starting to fight her.
"Ow! Get off me, you stupid tiger!" Jezebel glared.
Kimba snarled and kept attacking. Jezebel growled and she used her magic to turn Kimba into a kitten.
Kimba then shrunk into the size of a kitten and landed on his feet in the yard. "Mew..."
"KIMBA!" Cherry cried.
"That is so uncool, Jezebel!" Atticus glared.
Jezebel cackled darkly. "Just face it, you'll never win..."
Drell broke down and was in a mess of tears. "Hilda, wherever you are, just please know that I'm sorry we let everyone down..."
"You're not quitting, are you?" Cherry asked the former warlock.
"Sure I am..." Drell sniffled. "We can't win! Not even your Friendship Magic can stop Jezebel! Hilda, if I could see you one last time, I would be so happy, but we'll just live in a world of nightmares and terrors that'll never stop... I'm sorry, everybody, just... Just... Sorry!"
Atticus then punched Drell in the face, shocking everyone. Cherry and Patch cupped their mouths in very much shock. Drell didn't even yell, scold, or fight back, he just looked pathetic.
"PULL YOURSELF TOGETHER, DRELL, IF YOU GIVE UP, THEN IT'S LIKE WE'VE ALREADY LOST!" Atticus yelled at him. "Just think about your life with Hilda after the wedding. I'm not going to give up at all."
I... I just can't..." Drell frowned.
"Come on, Drell, you're the most powerful man in the universe!" Patch supported. "Just think of your love for Hilda, it's the biggest strength you have!"
Cherry groaned, she hated to this, but she forced herself do it, she took a deep breath and even helped Drell herself. "Hilda may be gone right now, but just imagine her cheering you on... What it'd be like if she ran into your arms and gave you a big kiss... Just think of how Hilda will reward you after you get married."
This gave Drell the confidence that he needed as he got back up to his feet. He then started to drift for a moment as he had a daydream.
Hilda was in his mind, wearing a flowing white gown as she was in a peaceful meadow with chirping birds and other peaceful woodland critters. She then pet the doe that was by her, then looked back at Drell with a warm smile. "My hero..." she swooned, then stood up and held out her arms, walking up to him. "Come here, big boy, and give me a big kiss."
Drell began to kiss her and after a while, he woke up from his day dream was ready to fight his ex.
"WAKE UP!" Cherry yelled.
Drell flinched from that and looked focused. "Let's do this."
Cherry was relieved that she wasn't scolded for doing that to Drell, but nodded back to him. "Let's."
All four of them then charged at Jezebel who was ready to finish them off. Jezebel snarled and got herself ready to face them. Atticus, Cherry, Patch, and Drell continued to charge at her until they all jumped and started to glow brightly, looking like a giant colorful Alicorn, ready to finish her with one blast of magic. Jezebel smiled smugly, but gasped once they overpowered her and there was suddenly an explosion.
