Right as everyone thought they were done for, the lightning began to be pushed back by some kind of force. Another 4 sets of lightning began striking which quickly died down. One is where everyone is, and the other 3 is where the netherite door was. After the lightning strike died down, Time Steve appears. This catches Madness Steve off guard, and he even steps back.
"Huh? Time?" Sabre spoke slowly, the feeling of relief in him as well as everyone else being unexplainable. The strong sense of relief is so strong, that relief is an understatement. Time Steve is also wearing the coat Sabre, Happy Orange Steve, the mane 6 and Starlight made for him.
"I believe your time harassing these people must come to an abrupt halt, sir," Said Time Steve, he then turns around to face everyone.
"And these ponies too," Time Steve added as he turns back to face not Madness Steve, but something, or someone behind him.
"You three! Now!" Time Steve yelled over to where the 3 sets of lightning were striking. Behind Madness Steve, is a magical glowing colourless sphere, with 3 lines appearing, crossing each other. From that sphere came a rainbow beam, which hits Madness Steve, turning him to stone.
"I can't believe I let that happen again. I'll get out of this, and when I do, you'll regret doing that," Madness Steve growled, who is very angry and annoyed that he got caught off guard and turned to stone for a second time. The armour's head drops down, and Derpy drops down to the floor all together. Madness Steve lost control over both. From behind Madness Steve, Celestia, Luna and Cadence walk over to everyone from where the netherite door was. The 3 alicorns just used the Elements of Harmony. They also avoided getting absorbed into the armour, like the CMC.
"Princesses!" Twilight cried as she wraps her forehooves around the 3 other alicorns.
"Next time, think of an original plot, you sore loser!" Pinkie Pie yelled at Madness Steve, who's False Form is yet again, a stone statue. Pinkie Pie couldn't resist saying that.
"Woah..." M spoke, who is in awe.
"Huh, Time- You three too- You... you- Ha- You saved us!" Sabre exclaimed, relieved.
"I'm so glad you all are okay!" Cadence exclaimed.
"It won't hold. Let's go," Said Time Steve.
"Wait- Time! Over there- Assistant Steve. He must come with us too. We can't leave him behind," Sabre pointed out. Time Steve turns around and sighs as he gets out a fishing rod and pulls Assistant Steve over to where everyone else is.
"Time- And you three too- The four of you, thank you," Sabre kept repeating. Then all of a sudden, lightning began to strike on Madness Steve, and his False Form very quickly out of that stone state. He began hovering up, and gets out his sword.
"You think that would work well as last time!? No! You four are FOOLS to of come here, to try and stop me! Very well, I'll destroy you four ALONG WITH THE REST OF THEM-" As Madness Steve began striking lightning again, Derpy gets up, runs up to everyone and stomps all her hooves on the ground at the same time, teleporting everyone else away, out of the core room and to safety.
Sabre, Time Steve, Dark Steve, Assistant Steve, M, the mane 6, the CMC, Celestia, Luna and Cadence are teleported to the first location Derpy thought of, outside the School of Friendship. She remembered she once delivered a package to that location, and thought that would be the best option to send everyone.
"We're outta there- Oh my gosh I thought we were gonna be goners! But we made it everyone, we actually made it!" Sabre exclaimed, lifting his arms up and stretching them out and walks to the mane 6. The mane 6 walks to Sabre and put their forehooves around him, with Sabre putting his arms around them. Time Steve and the CMC also joins in the group hug. The group hug lasts for a whole 2 minutes, everyone crying from when their fate appeared to be just around the corner, they were saved, and got to safety. Doing nice things together brings everyone closer, but going through and facing stressful times together also does the same.
"Where are we though? Twilight, do you know?" Sabre asked.
"Oh, this is the School of Friendship," Twilight replied to Sabre, pointing her left forehoof at the massive bright pink building the main part of the building being on some hill. The bright pink building has a very dark blue roof going across all of the width, with those 2 tower structures on either side of that triangular roof in between them, and goes even higher from behind the roof, which the top of that part is a roof that curves inward. The tower on the left is made of blue glass at the top of it, a sloped roof on top of it. The tower on the right, the roof curves in a bit, and there's a small little area on top, that has a smaller curved roof than the tower on the left.
"This is massive! The building, it- It's- I'm just amazed. Twilight, this building is nice. Equestria, since there have been little problems it faced, Equestria managed to prosper. Heh, wish I could say the same for the steves," Sabre responded.
"Thanks Sabre. I'm happy you like Equestria," Twilight responded back.
"Sorry to interrupt... but did anyone just saw what happened?" Dark Steve asked everyone.
"Derpy, she ran up to us... and then we ended up here," Time Steve replied to Dark Steve.
"I remember Derpy delivering a package here a year or so ago. The school might of been the first place she thought of when sending us here," Twilight stated.
"Huh- Oh, that's right. Turning Madness to stone must of loosen his control over Derpy and the armour. Derpy used that as an opportunity to get us to safety, so we didn't get taken into the armour. That was... selfless of her," Sabre theorized.
"Anyway... did I just accidentally swallow pufferfish out of nowhere!? Where are we!?" M exclaimed, looking around at his non blocky surroundings.
"Right... just realized you never really got to know everypony or-this place- M, this place here is Equestria- Well, a location in Equestria," Sabre replied.
"Wait, this is the reality these ponies are from I assume," M guessed.
"Yes, M, this is Equestria," Sabre wondered.
"You four. Time, Celestia, Luna and Cadence. Again, thank you for saving us back there," Sabre thanked.
"No need to thank us. Had we of not stepped in...- What matters is that you all are safe," Luna responded.
"Also, Time, I see you're wearing that coat we made," Said Sabre.
"Yes. I really do appreciate the sentiment and thought behind this coat. Thank you. Man, you ponies are too kind sometimes, in a good way of course," Time Steve responded.
"Also, I reverted the time states of Celestia and Luna. Their abilities should be back to how they were when they were in their prime," Time Steve stated.
"I have a question. How did you four have the Elements of Harmony? Weren't they destroyed by King Sombra?" Sweetie Belle asked.
"Time Steve used his abilities with time to repair them just over a week ago," Cadence replied, explaining to Sweetie Belle.
"Oh, I've never seen you three before. Who are you three?" Time Steve asked, walking up to the CMC.
"Apple Bloom."
"I'm Sweetie Belle."
"And I'm Scootaloo."
"Any relative name I could use?" Time Steve asked.
"You can also refer to them as the Cutie Mark Crusaders, Time Steve," Applejack replied.
"Cutie Mark Crusaders- I'm just gonna say CMC. It's quite a mouthful to say," Time Steve responded.
"Time Steve, are you feeling better? If you need to talk about anything, you can talk with any of us if you like. We're more than happy if you need a helping hoof," Fluttershy offered.
"I'm fine Fluttershy, but thank you. I've slowed myself down literally, to deal with it within a shorter relative time," Time Steve replied.
"Well, that's Time Steve for you," Sabre thought to himself.
"I don't think I've actually ever spoke to any of you ponies properly. I want to get to know you all," Said M.
"Oh yeah, that's actually true. M, let's introduce everypony to you," Sabre responded.
(After a few minutes of Sabre introducing everypony and M properly to each other)
"So, what were you all doing before you met Sabre, and the steves?" M asked everypony.
"Want it summarized, or the... WHOLE thing?" Pinkie Pie asked, bouncing over to M.
"Uhhh... actually now I think about it, I'm pretty sure we could discuss this later Pinkie Pie. We have much more pressing issues to figure out," M replied.
"Yeah, M has a good point there. Madness Steve is out there, and I don't know how much... power he has, but according to Hypno, when we were in the armour rescuing M and the six, he said that Madness took almost everyone from every reality and dimension. With Madness in control of the armour, he's probably gaining a lot of power as time goes on. If Madness leaves the Madness Dimension... I don't know what will happen, but it certainly won't be good. We have to stop him from doing that," Sabre added onto M. Time Steve began reverting the damage Twilight's beem did to Assistant Steve, summoning lightning as he did. Twilight did so much damage to Assistant Steve with her beam of magic that Time Steve couldn't properly revert the damage done to the robot.
"Command one!" Pinkie Pie yelled at Assistant Steve, again using her fourth wall awareness, looking at episode 264 of Rainbow Quest to restart Assistant Steve, where Time Steve says 'Command one' at exactly 11:02.
"Systems, now booting up," Assistant Steve said as he immediately got up off of the floor.
"Systems functioning, missing several capacitors, but still functioning," Said Assistant Steve. Twilight began to have a nervous smirk across her face, sweating like mad, rubbing her head wiping that sweat when Assistant Steve said he is missing several capacitors.
"Pinkie Pie, what if we was still trying to blow up everything!?" Sabre yelled at the pink earth pony.
"Oops," Pinkie Pie responded.
"Fear not, morons, I'm not gonna activate my safety parameters for several reasons, but I'll list two of the biggest and most important ones. Reason one, we're not at the Red Kingdom. Reason two..." Assistant Steve spoke, with Assistant Steve's voice going very deep with the last two words. He walks over to Twilight, stopping when he is looking directly down at her.
"...this moron here destroyed several of my capacitors. Oh... I can't wait when I get my own back on you, Twilight Sparkle. Oh... I will do so many not nice things to you when I catch you asleep," Assistant Steve growled in that deep voice. The robot is so made he even says Twilight's full name, clearly indicating the robot isn't pleased. Twilight took a few steps back.
"Assistant Steve- Calm down, alright. I know you aren't... too happy with Twilight- Well, you were about to blow us all up, so... it's justified," Sabre spoke to Assistant Steve. Assistant Steve just stares at Sabre as he puts his iron sword away.
"I... definitely don't feel safe around Assistant Steve," Twilight stated.
"You shouldn't be, moron," Assistant Steve responded in that deep voice.
"M... maybe turn him off when it's night time," Time Steve whispered to M. M furiously nodded in agreement.
"Okay this isn't what matters right now," Sabre interrupted on the topic before moving on to more pressing matters. Sabre didn't want this to become a fight.
"What matters is that, Madness is by the core, and if Madness blows up the core which he probably intends to do, and knowing Madness, he's probably going to extend the effects of the explosion as far and wide as possible. Assistant Steve, can you calculate how much power Madness possibly has right now, and how big he could make that explosion?"
"Unable to calculate, because of Twilight, has damaged several capacitors, including the ones I use to calculate things. Luckily, the capacitors for my weapons are still intact, and I can't wait to use them on you Twilight," Assistant Steve replied, his voice going deep as he says his last sentence, facing Twilight and gets out that iron sword again as he says his last sentence.
"Stop threatening her! Whatever she did, she must have good reason for!" Luna yelled at Assistant Steve.
"I don't give two piles of redstone what you think, you moron," Assistant Steve snapped back at Luna. M quietly sneaks behind Assistant Steve and manages to turn him off by hitting a button on the back of him.
"Shutting dowwnnnnn..." Assistant Steve spoke, getting slower and deeper until silence.
"M, that's actually a good call man. Assistant was getting out of hand there," Sabre stated.
"He's... not gonna be switched back on, not until we get him back to the Red Kingdom at least. I apologize for his behaviour there Twilight," M apologized, looking at Twilight when he apologized. Twilight nodded, and responds back.
"It's okay M, it's okay."
"Yes, it's about time that robot just shuts the- Pardon my language here- Shuts the buck up!" Rarity exclaimed, who is very fed up with Assistant Steve.
"Okay, Assistant is now off. But we now have one less person and we have to do something- Wait, if Derpy managed to send us all here, what's the chances that Madness lost interest or was sent somewhere else by Derpy?" Sabre wondered.
"Yeah, Madness seemed so hellbent on destroying us. I think he may of actually left the core itself alone to try and find us. But that's my guess- Yeah I'm a Red Steve and I'm all about wisdom, but I wouldn't take my word for it," M replied to Sabre.
"Wait- The books, we haven't read them. Time, can you read through them quickly, and summarize what they say?" Sabre asked. Twilight sulks slightly that she isn't the one who gets to read them. Time Steve nodded, and with that, Sabre hands both books to Time Steve. One being from Celestia, Luna and Cadence, the other one being from the First Curse.
"Speed time!" Time Steve said as he looks down at the book as he is reading. He only. spent literally only a few seconds reading through each book. He looks back up once he finishes reading.
"How does he read that fast?" Scootaloo wondered.
"He is Time Steve, Scootaloo. He has the abilities of... well, time," Sabre replied.
"Basically, one book says how to uncorrupt those that are corrupted with Madness Steve's essence. The other one is the different stages his False Form has, and what is has to go through before he can fully leave the Madness Dimension," Time Steve explained.
"Wait wait wait- Uncorrupt!? One of them says how we can uncorrupt... anyone!?" Sabre exclaimed.
"Yes, and the methods of uncorrupting someone are so simple. Damn I wished I knew at the time, and I would've uncorrupted Spike," Time Steve replied, muttering slightly with his last sentence.
"Wait, so basically, what you're saying there is... you can revert someone's state to before they were corrupted? Does this mean we... we can uncorrupt Derpy?" Sabre responded, asking his longtime friend another question.
"Yeah... wish I knew that a week ago. If I did, I would've uncorrupted Spike," Time Steve repeated, the thought that he could've uncorrupted Spike this entire time getting to him.
"Time, it's okay. You didn't know," Sabre reassured.
"I know, but it still doesn't take away the guilt man," Time Steve sighed.
"However, we can't uncorrupt Derpy yet. There's a couple of things we still have to do- Here me out, I'll explain," Sabre stated. He goes on to explain why, and his reason is a good one.
"We don't know... if Madness is still by the core. If he is, he could destroy it, and... I don't know how far the explosion will extend. He took practically every being from all these... realities and dimensions, so he probably has... a lot, and could probably extend the affects of the explosion to- Basically poisoning everywhere and everything, and we'd die of radiation poisoning."
"Sabre is right, my little ponies. Down in that room, the amount of energy I felt coming from that core was immense. If that power is unleashed, it will have drastic effects. We have to get Madness Steve out of there before we do anything else," Celestia added to Sabre, agreeing with him.
"Also, if Madness does something to the core, the only one who probably knows how to fix it is Assistant... and well, he wasn't particularly polite there, as you all saw. Getting Madness away from the core first is the right move here, then we can uncorrupt Derpy- As horrible that sounds, it is the better move if we want to save everyone nevertheless," M responded with his input to the topic, also agreeing with Sabre.
"Won't the towers will also need to be reactivated?" Dark Steve asked.
"Oh... that's actually a good point, Dark. But the only one who knows how the towers work is Assistant," Sabre replied as he then looks to M and asks him a question.
"M, do you think you'd be able to fix up Assistant? If so, how much time will you need?"
"Uh... I think I can. I'll probably need at least five or ten minutes. Then I'll explain to Assistant what we need to do," M replied.
"M, would you like me and Luna to help you fix him?" Celestia offered.
"An extra helping hand- Or a helping hoof I guess you could say- Extra help would be useful. Yeah, sure," M replied.
"Oh, you six... you can have these back now. Had to quickly take them so us four could save you all back there," Said Time Steve, handing the Elements of Harmony back to the mane 6.
"Also, everyone... we... may have to distract Madness Steve, get him out of there, at least long enough for M and that to do their thing," Sabre instructed.
"That's just playing with fire and gasoline togrther," Pinkie Pie responded.
"Yeah, Pinkie is dead right. Also, how will we even get back there anyways without Madness Steve catching us?" Rainbow Dash asked Sabre. Sabre began to think how he will get everyone back to the core, but is unable to think of an idea until he gets advice from someone within his mind.
"I know what to do," Shadow Sabre said as he walks infront of Sabre in his mind. He began explaining to Sabre what he can do.
"Madness Steve, like Red Steves, can silently teleport. The abilities the essence brought to the darkness within the Shadow Sword will let you do that as well. You can silently teleport back to the core, and Madness won't detect you, or your friends." Sabre nodded slightly as Shadow Sabre finishes and moves back next to Sabre.
"Wait- Madness Steve can silently teleport. The sword here, which has his essence, can copy some of his abilities. I think I can silently teleport us all there," Sabre shared.
"Okay, let's go over everyone's roles on what to do," Sabre added, beginning to explain everyone's roles.
(A few minutes of Sabre going over everyone's role)
Sabre, Time Steve, Dark Steve, the mane 6, the CMC and Cadence are going to distract Madness Steve. Meanwhile, M, Celestia and Luna are going to work on repairing Assistant Steve down at the core room, so if something happened to the core, once Assistant Steve is completely fixed, he can immediately go sort out and fix whatever may of happened to the core.
"Is everyone okay with what they have to do, everyone got it?" Sabre asked everyone. Everyone nodded.
"Okay," Sabre responded back.
"Take us all silently to the core," Sabre said seemingly just to the sword. However, he is actually ordering his shadow, Shadow Sabre to do it. Shadow Sabre is on the right path to regaining Sabre's trust, whether that's good or bad, only the future can tell. Whether he is doing it to genuinely be redeem himself or that he's trying to manipulate his way into becoming physically present, again, only the future can tell.
"Your wish is my command," Shadow Sabre responded as he went up to Sabre.