"How are you even still alive?"
"All the power I absorbed made me immortal. No matter what you do, I won't die."
"So they made you president of the Magical Vanguard?"
"They sure did. More so, forced them to do so," Albert snapped his fingers, and multiple robotic arms grabbed Mitchell.
"No, Mitchell!
"Let my dad go!"
"Tell me Mitchell, where is your partner?"
"I have no idea..."
"Oh, it seemed to me you two were close through our whole ordeal. Did it end when you ended me? Oh wait, when you thought you ended me?"
"..."
"That disappoints me Mitchell, the three of us could've had a reunion. Oh wait, we can," He snapped his fingers once again to bring uop a pod with a girl inside. The girl who helped him on his mission to kill Albert Blaze: Emerald Blake, "I wanted her to see you before you died. It would make her really happy."
"What did you do to her?"
"You may not have known, but she's a highly powerful mage. A little too powerful. Almost as strong as you. Which means..."
"She's prone to tests. Just let them all go. You have more here now, so let them go."
"No, I want to see their faces when they see you beg for mercy."
"No, they don't need to see this!"
"Oh, but Emerald just wishes to see you after so long. Give her the satisfaction of seeing you once again Mitchell. You wouldn't want to make her mad would you?"
Mitchell held his head down as he nodded. Albert pressed a button on his wrist, and Emerald, the girl in the pod, slowly opened her eyes to see Mitchell suspended in the air, "Mitchell?"
"Hey Emerald... long time no see..."
Emerald looked around, and saw his sister suspended just like Mitchell was, "Emily? Albert, we agreed that you wouldn't capture her!"
"I'm sorry, but how else were we going to bring him here?"
"That's not the point, our deal was to allow me to see him before I'm...," Emerald stopped herself before she could finish.
"Too afraid to tell him?"
"Tell me what? What's going on Emerald?"
"You see, Emerald isn't your ordinary mage. In fact, she's just a little stronger than you."
"How? I'm the Dark Mage..."
"Yes, but you see, she harnesses untold power that can't be used by humans. Stronger than the Angelic Hero... stronger..."
"Than the Dark Mage, but how? I'm the Dark Mage. Only the Angelic Hero is stronger than the Dark Mage..."
"Yes, that is true, however, you don't have all of your Elements of Darkness. Or so you think..."
"What do you mean?"
Before Albert could even explain, Mitchell's daughter spoke, "You have all the Elements of Darkness except one already. This is why your memory was slightly altered to have you forget about those elements that you possess already."
"Hm, how does your daughter know that and you don't?"
"Because, I have his actual memories... not his altered memories."
"Wait, that means you..."
Albert looked at Silver, and backed up with a look of fear in his face. Silver eyes soon began to glow... silver. Mitchell smirked as he looked up at his former partner, and then at Albert, "She has all of my powers...," She broke out of her chains and looked at Albert. Soon afterwards, Mitchell and Emily broke out of their chains, "You see, I never intended for this to happen. I never knew you were alive. However, I thought it was pretty foolish of you to kidnap my daughter. Actually, I may have been a fool to think those missiles had actually killed you. Hehe, the daughter of the Dark Mage kidnapped... without for one second, thinking of the consequences. You could've listened to your advisors, but you turned them down."
"You trusted nobody...," Albert turned to see his own son.
An explosion blew out the wall behind them, revealing Emilia, "Mitchell fights along side us as our equal...," Emilia was leading both the human and pony friends of Mitchell from a
"That in turn, makes us all strong!" Emily said as she cracked her knuckles.
"There's nothing weak about needing one another...," Rarity said, and continued, "It's what I heard Mitchell say before we came here. One thing he said as we prepared for this assault, and that was: There is only one thing worse, than fighting with allies. That's fighting without them at your side on the field of battle..."
"Not my exact words, but yes," Nearly instantly, a hand was shot through Albert's abdomen. Her hand began to glow green, and a large beam shot through Albert's body, causing him to scream in pain, "Do it my daughter," At her father's order, she charged towards Albert, and placed her hand on his face. Soon, a black aura started to protrude out of his face, and into Silver's hands.
Once it was over, the hand was taken out of Albert's abdomen, revealed to be Emerald. Albert angrily looked at Mitchell, and quickly stood up, "Humans, sentimental... to the end...," Albert fell with a thud as Mitchell looked at his daughter.
A ball of dark energy was formed in her hands. He took it from her, and to his friends surprise, purified it, and released it to the open air, "For now, it's over. Without their leader, the Magical Vanguard will be thrown into disarray. This will be our chance to finally-," Before Mitchell could finish his sentence before he was knocked out.
Everyone looked around for a culprit, and were surprised when they saw... Celestia. She had fired a knockout beam at Mitchell, "Princess Celestia, what are you doing?" Emilia asked, a voice of shock and anger easy to hear within her voice.
"Twilight...," Celestia, and nearly instantly, they all dropped, unable to move.
"Twilight! What in are you doing?!" Rarity yelled, she was extremely enraged by her action.
"Let's go Twilight, we have what we came here for," Celestia shot a beam at Mitchell to lift him into the air.
"Yes ma'am...," Twilight responded in such a dead pan tone. Similar to Maud.
Emily shook from anger, and somehow broke free of the paralysis spell, "Give back my brother!" Twilight quickly reacted and shot Emily's arm off, stopping her in her tracks.
"Emily!"
During this whole ordeal, Silver kept a straight face. She knew this would happen, and planned it over with her father. How you may ask... through telepathy...
Now, they must deal with another threat. A threat they never expected to face. Twilight, their own friend. Princess Celestia, the one they followed their whole lives... betrayed them... their reason... is yet to be found out...