Me: Hello... It's been a good while since I updated. Reason for that is because I was having a... Difficult time with the website, but I found the problem and fixed it. So any-

Flare: Are you going to just talk the whole chapter or are you going to get into the story?

Zalgy: Yeah!

Me: Fine... I only own my OCs and the storyline. Everything else belongs to their respectful owners. There, happy?

Both: Yes

Roaming inside the Crystal Castle was half of the Mane Six; Applejack, Rainbow Dash, and Twilight. Accompanied by Tails and Jack in which they were all searching for the Equinox ponies, but their search wasn't doing them any good. "We've been searching for half an hour now, and we haven't found them yet" An annoyed Rainbow said.

"Maybe we should go back an' see if we can fix up the Crystal Heart" Applejack suggested.

"I don't think that is a very good idea" A voice called out from behind the group, giving them a sudden surprise. The voice that called out was from the head of the Equinox ponies; Dimmed Star, and the rest of her group came into view; Zalgy, Dull Sloth, Rottenbunch, and Stone. "I've heard you've been looking for us?" she asked

"These are our doubles?" Dull said, unimpressed by their appearance. "Pathetic... I was expecting something more" Angered by that comment, Rainbow flew towards Dull, but was pulled back by Twilight's magic.

"What is it that you are doing here" Twilight asked.

"You'll see..." She responded. "But, perhaps our associates would like to answer that" Dimmed Star opened up two black portals and out came Flare and Max and Comet was the last arrive, dropping off the rest of the team on the ground. The three Mobians had dark smiles upon them as they were just about ready to kill their prey.

"Hello ponies..." Flare said "Nice to see you again..."

"We'll leave the rest to you, but try to keep them alive when you're breaking them" Dimmed Star and the rest of the Equinox ponies trotted away to continue their plans, leaving the Corruptedand the ponies, with the exception of Tails, alone.

"Now... which one of you wants to go first?" Max asked before a leg cast hit him on his head.

"How about me?"

Back in Ponyville, Rarity was stuck foalsitting the Ex-CMCs. "Well, it appears you girls will be staying until our friends return from their mission..." Rarity said. "You can all go up into Sweetie's room and play, but don't make too much noise. I need to concentrate on a few designs I thought of" With that, the girls went up to Sweetie's room and play while Rarity was going to her inspiration room when the bell above her door tingled. She looked to see a black mare with a dark green mane and tail, and green eyes and her cutie mark was a blank mask accompanied by a question mark. "Oh. Welcome to my boutique, how may I help you?"

"Yes, I'd like to try a new look... Can you help me?" the mare asked.

"Of course darling! I'd be happy to help you" Rarity turned around and trotted to where she keeps her clothing while the mare behind her had a green outlined smile that curved right next to her glowing green eye.

Back at the Crystal Castle, to everyone's surprise, Aura had arrived with no injuries whatsoever. He walked right passed the Corrupted and stopped in front of his friends. "Sorry I was late, the doctors wouldn't let me leave" After that, he turned to face his opponents.

"You sure you can fight them?" Twilight asked.

"To be honest... No, not all at once, but I can buy you some time, so go" Everyone nodded and followed the direction the Equinox ponies left. The Corrupted surround Aura with Max at his bottom left, Flare at his bottom right, and Comet behind him.

"That was a gutsy move Aura" Flare started "It's a shame your friends didn't say goodbye" he let out a dark chuckle before he was rudely interrupted by Aura punching him in the gut.

"It's a shame that you still don't know when to shut the hell up!" Aura coldly stated.

"Don't get so cocky!" Max charged at him with a fist ready, but Aura phased out of the way and appeared behind Max, but was immediately punched by Comet, sending him sliding across the floor.

"Remember, you're dealing with all of us"

*Theme: Sen No Kiseki-Tie a Link to Arcus*

Flare and Max took off to the sides and Comet ran towards Aura. The hedgehog quickly jumped into the air, but was sent back down by Flare's downward axe kick. Aura recovered before he crashed onto the floor, but as he did Max slide kicked him and sent an uppercut straight to his jaw. Stunned by the attack, Aura couldn't react quickly enough as he saw Comet's foot connect with his face and sent him flying across the room. Aura stood back up and regained his focus, immediately charging back to his enemies. Max and Flare jumped to sides, leaving Comet there to face the red hedgehog, but Aura phased out of his sight and appeared behind him, kicking the side of his head. Max was coming from the right while Flare was coming from the left, but Aura saw them coming as Max threw a punch and Aura ducked, sweeping his leg and grabbed him. Aura started to spin Max around when Flare was getting closer and threw Max at him, but jumped out of the way. Aura jumped to meet Flare with a downward axe kick that his brother gave him earlier and sent him crashing on the ground. Above the Corrupted, Aura shot three quick aura spheres at the small group of corrupted mobians and created an explosion of smoke that covered the area.

Meanwhile outside, the small group of heroes heard the explosion that occurred in the room they left Aura in. "You think he'll be alright?" Applejack asked.

"He'll be fine, it'll take more than that to take him out" Twilight replied. The small team arrived at the Crystal Heart and looked around for any signs of the Equinox Ponies, but they weren't anywhere to be found.

"Come on out! Stop hiding, cowards!" Rainbow shouted in annoyance.

"Rainbow Dash!" Twilight started, but heard laughter coming from somewhere in the area. "You heard my friend, come out and show yourselves" she demanded.

"If you insist" From the shadows of the buildings emerged the enemies that have caused so much trouble after being in their world for a short amount of time. Zalgy was anxiously bouncing up and down, almost as if she was about to explode any moment and Dull Sloth was bumping her hooves together as in a way of cracking knuckles. Rottenbunch was glaring at them while Stone had an unimpressed look and Dimmed Star began to charge up her magic. "Now, how long will it take for you to figure out what's going to take place here before the answer is revealed?" Dimmed Star said.

"Just shut up!" Rainbow Dash shouted as she flew towards Dull Sloth and the cannibal flew up higher to the sky. Applejack charged at Rottenbunch in which she did the same and they both did a headbutt, stunning each other. Twilight and Dimmed Star fired two beams of magic that collided with each other and exploded in a smoke cloud filled with magic particles. Tails brought out his arm cannon and started firing charged shots at Zalgy who bouncing around.

"Why did I chose to fight her?!" Tails questioned his unfortunate decision and kept firing.

"Your own fault" Jack told him as he was left with Stone. Feeling confident in himself, Jack charged at her, but she swiftly moved out of the way. He changed directions and rammed into her side.

"That is no way to treat a lady" She hissed and wrapped her snake tail around his hoof and slammed him on the ground. As they were all fighting, they paid no attention to the blackened Crystal Heart as it started to shimmer with dark energy. Dimmed Star, on the other hand, glanced at the relic and smiled.

"Just a few more minutes and our plan will be a success" she thought to herself, but was caught when Twilight fired a magic sphere that exploded on contact with her, sending tumbling across the floor. She stood back up and smiled again, confusing Twilight a little. "Yes, that's it, keep fighting" Dimmed Star used her magic and made a bottle appear that was filled with the black liquid she had used before and poured it on the floor. She used her magic again and manipulated the liquid into tendrils and sent them towards Twilight. The alicorn instantly conjured a shield around her as the tendrils made contact and relentlessly kept slamming against it. With everyone busy fighting, they never noticed how the Crystal Heart was building up more and more dark energy until a dark beam shot out to the sky with enough power to cause the ground to shake violently. The beam exploded with dark aurora lights that had spread throughout the entire area and caught everyone off guard.

"What have you done?!" Twilight yelled

"We have created a portal strong enough to transport a certain being who is just anxious to meet this world..." Dimmed Star said in a way that wasn't very comforting and Twilight just looked at the portal with worry. Just then, Aura busted through a wall with bruises, small tears in his clothing, and blood on various parts of his body.

"Is that all you got?!" he said, sounding completely exhausted. He lost his focus when he looked up at the sky and saw the portal. "Okay, that's not what I was expecting at all" He shook off the confusion and mustered up any power he had left an turned into his Guardian form and flew towards the portal. As he did, Flare, Max, and Comet exited out into the open and looked up to see the portal.

"That's what we were dragged in for? A stupid portal?" Max said completely dissapointed.

"You'll see in just moment..."

Up in the sky, Aura was now directly in front of the portal as he examined it. "I better get rid of this, who knows what will come out" He began to focus his aura into his palm and formed a bright sphere of aura, but before he could disrupt the portal, a Kirin arm lashed out from the portal and grabbed his throat. Little by little did the figure that grabbed Aura exited the portal until it's whole body was revealed. It's right arm was the kirin arm that was holding Aura, it's left was a lobster's arm, it's right leg was a wolf's leg, the other was moose's leg. It also had two different wings; a dragon wing and a dragonfly wing. It also had glowing red eyes with yellow swirls in them and two horns, a ram horn and an asian dragon horn. The creature resembled the appearance of a certain god of chaos only he looks more monstrous and evil. "What are... you?"

"I am Droksyd... The God of Chaos" he responded with a cold tone that sent chills down Aura's spine. "Now bow!" Droksyd raised Aura and threw him down below at tremendous speed. The god opened up his mouth as a red ball of energy began to form in place. Droksyd unleashed a large red energy beam at Aura who was laying down in a crater. The beam made contact and ended with a large fiery explosion that only cleared away after a few seconds, but when it cleared away all they saw was a bubble with Aura inside it. Confusion took place in everyone's mind until a certain laugh filled the air and the ponies and Aura knew who was responsible for saving the hedgehog. The bubble popped and Discord popped in and glanced over to Droksyd.

"You know Aura, you can't take them all on yourself" Discord told him, but Aura gave him the 'I hate you' look and sighed as he came to his senses and stood back up.

"I guess you're... right" he answered

"Good boy, now let's fix you right up" Discord snapped his eagle claw and Aura had his entire energy restored.

"Great, but don't let this get to your head... This will be the only time you and I fight together, so don't expect for us to fight like this again, got it?" Discord nodded in agreement and the two took off into the air, ready to take on their new foe.

Me: Whaaaat?! Aura and Discord, working together?! That's unbelievable Anyway, just like last chapter I wanted to do more, but I keep running out of fuel.

Flare: Sure you did

Me: Shut it, I can have you erased with a snap of a finger

Zalgy: That's not nice. He's your brother

Me: My OCs brother not MY brother. Anyway, I'm getting off topic here. I know I'm getting kind of late on updates and I'm sorry, but I hope you guys had a good Christmas, technically, last year, and a good New Years day. One, last thing. The ending may seem a bit rushed. Okay! Remember to Favorite, Follow, and Review and I'll see you guys next time!