Sabre, Time Steve, Light Steve, Elemental Steve, Dark Steve, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Starlight, Shining Armour, the 3 elites of the Colourless Guard and the 3 elites of the Royal Guard are near the bottom of the path. When they all got to the bottom, they could hear the dreadful cries and screeches the Demon Steves made. The demons slowly marched their way forward, and they began to pick up their pace.

"CHARGE!" Light Steve let's out a war cry, running up to a Demon Steve and piercing his spear through it's head, destroying it. The demon made a screeching groan as he fell to the ground before it's body turned into smoke. Light Steve then steps back to get some distance as he notices a Demon Steve attempting to lunge at him. The elite Royal and Colourless Guards do the same, running up to and piercing a Demon Steve with their spears. The unicorn Royal Guards are using their magic to hold their spears, while the single pegasus elite Royal Guard member has grip of their spear with his left forehoof, using only 3 hooves to charge, which he can do thanks to his elite training. Sabre meanwhile is providing support to both the elite Royal and Colourless Guards, shooting several arrows at many Demon Steves with his bow. Each time Sabre fired an arrow, the infinity enchantment gave him the arrow back.

"They're encircling us!" Pinkie Pie screamed. They then all take a step back as although 7 Demon Steves fell, 20 more came out of nowhere each side and tried to surround the group, forming 2 pincers. Time Steve and Elemental Steve strikes the 2 Demon Steve pincer movements with lightning, destroying most of them, while Rarity uses her magic and flings the remaining Demon Steve pincer movements into the air, them being dead as they landed back down. Meanwhile, Rainbow Dash flies high up, into the clouds. Everyone falls back as the Demon Steves just push on, careless of their losses. They all then notice Rainbow Dash coming back down, and had brought a dark grey cloud with her, placing it directly above the majority of the Demon Steves, all in under 5 seconds. She repeatedly jumps on it, striking a massive hole in the ranks of Demon Steves with lightning.

The remaining Demon Steves mindlessly marched on, which they get destroyed with ease. Pinkie Pie slows 2 Demon Steves down by throwing several cupcakes out of her forehooves, coming from seemingly nowhere, while Rarity finished them off, using her magic to levitate some large stones, using them to pelt the Demon Steves in the head. Then only 9 remained, which Dark Steve destroys by striking lightning on 3 of them. Starlight destroys 5 of them with a single bright blue beam of magic, incinerating them. The last one, Sabre kills with an arrow.

"How are you so fast!? No Yellow Steve can match that speed!" One of the Elite Colourless Guards exclaimed at Rainbow Dash.

"It's just what I do. That was well easy as well," Rainbow Dash smirked.

"Yeah well, you did just obliterate the majority of them. I didn't know you could do that with clouds. We would've probably been overwhelmed there if it weren't for that. There was probably at least a hundred of them you had destroyed alone, Rainbow Dash," Sabre responded. They all then hear more screeching and crying in the distance. Another a wave of Demon Steves approaches, 4 times the size of the one they all defeated, all charging towards them, who are holding the bottom of the hill still.

"There's more!? How..." Sabre thought to himself.

"I made a personal oath to not use this again... but in this situation... I shall make this an exception!" Elemental Steve roared as he hovers up.

"Earth Splitter!" Elemental Steve strikes several lightning on the ground, splitting the ground horizontally between the Demon Steves and everyone else, also making sure he doesn't destroy anything important. The crack leads to a 50 block drop, with lava at the bottom of it. Several Demon Steves fall down into the cracks. The demons behind the ones that fell began to manoeuvre around.

"Woah..." Rarity gasped in shock, but with awe as well. Rainbow Dash's mouth is wide open, just as shocked and in awe. They knew Elemental Steve is strong, but not that strong.

"Guards! Hold our western and eastern flanks! We'll all hold the ones ahead of us!" Light Steve yelled out his order, to both his elites and Shining Armour's elites. The elite Colourless Guards head over to the left side, west. The elite Royal Guards head over to the right side, east. Regardless, the Demon Steves continue pushing, while the elite Royal and Colourless Guards fall back, despite slicing many of the demons into pieces. The elite Colourless Guards on the west flank began using their abilities, summoning fireballs and lightning, destroying 20 Demon Steves, and they went on the offensive, piercing more Demon Steves with their spears.


(West flank)

"Alright, new tactic. Fall back. Fireballs and lightning. Push, and Repeat," Happy Orange Steve yelled.

"Affirmative!" Both of the other elite Colourless Guards responded. They fell back, letting the Demon Steves make their push.

"Attack!" Happy Orange Steve yelled. The 3 began summoning several lightning strikes and fireballs at the Demon Steves, destroying over 20 of them this time. The Demon Steves then rushed, catching the Elite Colourless Guards by surprise by their sprinting maneuver.

"Help!" One of the elite Colourless Guards yelled as they began to get surrounded by Demon Steves.

"Affirmative!" Another yelled in response. They and Happy Orange Steve fearlessly came in, piercing and killing the Demon Steves surrounding their fellow elite. They then kill 4 more Demon Steves each before tactically falling back.

"Hold position!" One of the Colourless Guards shouted.

"Affirmative!" Happy Orange Steve yelled in responded. The 3 then strike more lightning and fireballs. The numbers of Demon Steves began to dwindle, as they only destroy 15 of them this time.

"Should we help the Royal Goard that are holding east side!?" An elite Colourless Guard yelled as they push with Happy Orange Steve and the other elite Colourless Guard to attack more Demon Steves with their spears.

"Negative!" Another yelled in response.

"Negative! Hold position!" Happy Orange Steve also yelled in response.

"Affirmative!" The elite Colourless Guard responded, the one that made the suggestion.


(East flank)

"Just go back to the pits you belong!" The grey unicorn elite roared as he impales a charging Demon Steve in the abdomen with their spear.

"They just keep coming!" Flash Sentry exclaimed, whilst impaling another Demon Steve in the chest with their spear.

"We have to hold our line Flash Sentry! Take our spears for a moment!" The light orange brown unicorn elite yelled as he impales 2 Demon Steves at once with his spear before giving his spear to Flash Sentry, with the grey unicorn doing the same thing. The unicorns began using their magic, the aura around the horn of the grey unicorn being a grey colour, and the aura around the horn of the light orange brown unicorn being a pale peach colour, both shooting powerful beams of magic, incinerating 15 Demon Steves each. But more demons began appearing out of nowhere, and they put their full force into their beams, unable to return fire, and the Demon Steve continue approaching, showing no fear whatsoever, continuing to mindlessly march on, making putrid cries and screeches.

"I see you three need some help." Sabre comes over, and using his bow, fires an arrow at a Demon Steve, killing it with a single arrow. He then fires 3 more arrows, killing 3 more demons.

"Y'know, this bow is pretty powerful. One hit, one kill," Sabre stated, shooting and killing 4 more demons.

"Thanks for coming over, we needed a bit of help," The grey unicorn responded, shooting another beam of magic, only destroying 8 of them this time.

"We heard of you, but forgot your name. Glad you're here to help us regardless," The light orange brown unicorn responded, also shooting another beam of magic, destroying 7 more Demon Steves that got hit by it.

"Oh, I'm Sabre, I've fought these Demon Steves before," Sabre replied, firing 3 more bows, hitting and destroying 3 more Demon Steves. Lightning began striking on the demons, and the ground below them became bedrock and darkness blocks.

"The Colourless Guard to the west right now are owning these demons, so I thought I'd come over here to help," Dark Steve said as he walks on the darkness he had spread below the ground and strikes more lightning, and continues charging, destroying several more Demon Steves.

"Note to self. Don't get on the bad side of that steve," Flash Sentry said to himself, looking at the dark-coloured steve continue going, who is plowing his way through the Demon Steves.

"That steve there is darn powerful! We were struggling, and he just decks the floor with them!" The grey unicorn Elite exclaimed.

"The darkness is one of their weaknesses. Don't worry, it ain't like the darkness you know to be evil. Dark Steve over there, he's a good guy," Sabre responded.

"He is on our side, so I take your word... Sabre- Yeah, Sabre," Flash Sentry responded.

"Come on, let's go. The darkness below you there won't affect you, plus it'll recede anyways. We need to go help Dark," Sabre said as he walked onto the path of darkness Dark Steve had left.


(The main front, where the crack in the ground is)

"There's so many!" Starlight exclaimed, shooting beam after beam, each beam destroying at least 10 Demon Steves each.

"When will these just stop!?" Shining Armour moaned, shooting more beams of magic at the horde of demons.

"I know, these demons just keep coming!" Rarity moaned, using a massive stone boulder to launch at the demons across the crack.

"Elemental, another boulder please," Rarity requested. Elemental Steve summons lightning and create 5 more boulders, for Rarity to launch at the demons. Elemental Steve and Rarity have been coordinating very well. While Rarity is launching stone boulders, Elemental Steve summons lightning and fireballs, as well as making is snow, freezing the Demon Steves to death. When Rarity ran out of boulders, Elemental Steve created more, and repeat.

"Luckily these demons aren't smart," Time Steve chuckled as he summons lightning on several Demon Steves, slowing down their perception of time. In effect, Time Steve is slowing down the reaction time or the demons. He makes many of the Demon Steves fall down into the crack in the ground, where they couldn't percept they were at the edge in time, due to their slower reaction speed.

"I'm back, and had gathered some help!" Rainbow Dash yelled out. She had gathered 2 pegasuses. ne is a bright yellow pegasus mare with an orange mane and tail, the other pegasus being a very pale blue coloured stallion, with a very dark blue mane and tail. The 3 brought over a massive dark grey cloud each, and they began jumping on them, obliterating the Demon Steves below to nothing. The remaining demons to the left are dealt with by the elite Colourless Guards and the demons to the right are dealt with by the elite Royal Guards, Sabre and Dark Steve.

"How you lot not lost a single one yet against these hordes impresses me," Said the bright yellow pegasus as she, the other pegasus as well as Rainbow Dash lands back down.

"Thank goodness those demons aren't very smart," The pale blue pegasus stated.

"True, Demon Steves don't seem to be very bright," The bright yellow pegasus responded.

"Hey Dash, who are those two?" Time Steve asked.

"Oh, they're some friends I know, who are part of the Wonderbolts. The yellow one is Spitfire and the other is Soarin," Rainbow Dash replied. They then here loud thuds. Ahead are some Demon Steves, and by some, only 3 of them. They are also wearing a full set of netherite armour.

"Ha! Only three of them!? Easy as- AHHHHHHH!" All 3 of those Demon Steves starts shooting fireballs at the grey unicorn elite, setting him on fire. He tries to roll around on the ground to put the fire out, but he sets the ground on fire. The fire just stuck to him like goo. Meanwhile, Rainbow Dash, Spitfire and Soarin place their dark grey clouds above the 3 demons, and starts jumping on them, striking lightning on them. Sabre tries supporting the 3 pegasuses, shooting arrows at the 3 Demon Steves. However, every time a lightning bolt or arrow hit one of them, the Demon Steve glowed yellow, revealing an invisible aura.

"I think these here are their elites! Be careful everyone!" Sabre screamed, panicking as his arrows aren't doing anything to the 3 demons. Rarity tries to use her magic, but the aura around the demons prevented her doing so. The 3 Demon Steves lets the grey unicorn scream as they die, being eaten and consumed by their flames. The flames only disappeared when the grey unicorn died. They fed on what they wanted, their energy and soul, and now it is time to focus on their next meal.

"These ones are protected by something- AHHH!" One of the elite Colourless Guards are focused next, but instead of using fireballs, they make the ground below them lava, then began striking lightning. That elite didn't last long. All of this had just happened in just under 3 seconds, taking everyone by surprise, too quick to show even the slightest of emotions. Starlight tries shooting a beam of magic, but all she did is just leaving a single scratch mark on the sturdy underworld armour of that demon. Elemental Steve tries trapping the Demon Steves in some ice, but the ice shatters, before melting. The Demon Steves tries to summon fireballs at the group, but Elemental Steve creates a stone wall, just before their fireball barrage set them all on fire. Rainbow Dash, Spitfire and Soarin hovers over to take shelter from these fireballs.

"These ones are invincible!" Flash Sentry exclaimed.

"We need more reinforcements! I'll be back!" Shining Armour yelled, trotting back up the hill, up to the entrance into Canterlot.

"Well, what do we do now... doing what I just did... took so much energy..." Dark Steve panted.

"I can tell, but you did just completely obliterate that wave Dark Steve," Starlight responded.

"Yeah, but Dark, you need to conserve your energy next time," Sabre stated. Then all of a sudden, 9 more of these netherite armoured Demon Steves approached, 3 to their left, 3 to their right, and 3 from behind. The stone wall collapses, which the 3 that were being blocked by it just walks on, creating a bridge of magma blocks as they walk over the crack. The light orange brown elite attacks one of the demons with their spear, but that Demon Steve simply snatches it from him and ate the spear as if it was food. The Demon Steve puts both their hands on the face of that unicorn, and puts their head against his. The skin, flesh and insides of that unicorn began to disappear, from the bottom of their hooves first. The unicorn elite screams while the Demon Steve makes screeching noises, all until the unicorn elite became just a skeleton. The Demon Steve used their hands to eat all of the soft flesh and skin of that poor unicorn elite. It was so hungry it didn't even leave a single drop of blood. The demon then catches up with the rest of his fellow mindless Demon Steves.

"Welp, we're in big doo doo!" Pinkie Pie screamed in panic. Then... BOOM! One of the Demon Steves just blew up, along with their armour. Then 2 more Demon Steves blew up, with their armour . Everyone looks at where those 3 Demon Steves were standing, and they notice an item nearby the unoccupied armour on the floor. Spitfire stares at the item, and is surprised what the item is.

"A fish? A FISH!? Out of all things, a DEAD FISH beats these damn demons!?" Another Demon Steve blows up. Sabre looks where that demon was, and he sees another fish by their set of armour.

"Hang on a minute..." Sabre slowly started off. He notices the fish has a reddish coloured body.

"That ain't just any fish- Is that a... salmon?"

"SCIENCE!" Someone screamed in the background, while another Demon Steve blows up.

"No one just randomly yells science other than- Other than him," Said Time Steve.

"SALMON JAVELINS ARE GOOOOOOOOO!" Everyone sees a Red Steve with a black shirt, a lab coat and a pair of black goggles with orange glasses above their eyes, with a salmon standing on their head whilst wielding another 2 salmon in each of their hands.

"Him!? How did he know we were here!?" Sabre exclaimed with relief. He knew exactly who that Red Steve is.

The 7 remaining armoured demons charge at the Red Steve, holding a netherite sword as they then surrounds their target. The Red Steve began spinning whilst crouching up and down, throwing salmon each time he got up. He destroys 6 more of the armoured Demon Steves. Then without fear, walks up to the last remaining armoured demon, whacking it across the face with the salmon, sending the Demon Steve flying into the mountain, with that demon instantly turning to smoke when it made contact with the mountain. What everyone wasn't able to deal with as a group, this Red Steve single handedly fought and destroyed 12 armoured Demon Steves.

"Fish are nice!" The Red Steve exclaimed, moving over to Sabre whilst crouching and looking up into the sky.

"Professor Red... have you... overdosed on cider?" Rainbow Dash slowly responded.

"No," Professor Red, the Red Steve replied in an instant, and at a fast pace.

"It's normal, don't worry. He's okay. He also saved us all," Sabre reassured.

"Yeah Rainbow Dash, you moron. The Professor is just smarter than you. Yeah, I know, it must be, such a shock to you. Just face it, you're knowledge is inferior compared to the Professor's superior knowledge," Said a voice, a robotic voice. From behind Professor Red, Assistant Steve shows himself.

"These demons aren't gonna be expecting what we have in store. I would be laughing right now, if I had real emotions," Said Assistant Steve.

"We all struggled against those twelve and that Red Steve just completely destroys all of them with fish! How in- It don't matter, thank you," Said Flash Sentry.

"The next wave is coming. I can detect them coming, and I know the exact size of this wave."

"How large is the next wave?" Light Steve asked.

"Eight hundred," Pinkie Pie replied.

"Yes, Pinkie Pie, there is eight hundred. How you knew that, is beyond my computable capacity. But you are right, there is eight hundred. Not even our secret weapon will be enough to stop a wave of this size, unless..." Assistant Steve stated.

"EIGHT HUNDRED!? That's huge! We already fought well over-"

"Five hundred and sixty eight to be exact," Pinkie Pie interrupted Sabre.

"How did you know the exact numbers- Well, how did you know exactly- Wait, have you seriously been counting them all!?" Dark Steve exclaimed at Pinkie Pie.

"Just a lucky guess," Pinkie Pie replied with a smirk.

"Me, and the Professor would've showed up earlier. But, we have recreated a super powerful weapon, one that was used a long time ago. It is an old design, but may provide some usage, but it alone won't stop them. We have been working on a new design to replace the old one. In the mean time, we need a pegasus and one other who can hold another weapon to provide support," Assistant Steve stated.

"Sure, I can do it. What do you need?" Sabre asked.

"I need you to take this here." Assistant Steve carefully places a staff down on the floor. It's a red rod, except for the middle of it, which is a silver white colour. On the end of the staff is a red oval coloured plasma, being held by a forcefield being produced by a black c shape, which looks purple as the plasma lighting up the c shape. Sabre proceeds to pick up the staff.

"That there, is a Supercharged Redstone Staff. With it, you can engage with melee, or use it in ranged combat with lightning," Assistant Steve explained.

"Well, I'll be the one to use the staff," Said Sabre.

"Rainbow Dash and... uh... um-"

"It's Flash Sentry."

"Rainbow Dash and Flash Sentry, which one of you don't mind me getting on your backs?" Sabre asked.

"I'd suggest you mount on Rainbow Dash. She may be a moron, but her speed and agility is immense. It will offer greater efficiency and use of the staff," Assistant Steve highly recommended. Rainbow Dash had grown so used to the robot saying 'moron' that is doesn't bother her anymore.

"I hope nopony takes that out of context," Pinkie Pie kept the thought to herself.

"Alright, Rainbow Dash, you up to it?" Sabre asked. Rainbow Dash nodded.

"Well, I'll need a saddle, if anyone has one," Sabre requested, switching eye contact between everyone in the group. Assistant Steve drops a saddle on the ground, which Sabre picks up.

"When you're ready, you can put it on," Said Sabre, looking at Rainbow Dash, who puts the saddle on her.

"Come on Sabre, what we waiting for? Get on!"

"Oh uh, sorry," Sabre responded, mounting on the saddle that's on Rainbow Dash.

"I've gathered more!" Shining Armour yelled. He had gathered 10 more Colourless Guards and 10 Royal Guards, all 10 of the Royal Guards being grey unicorns, but with a lighter tone of grey.

"Sabre, I do fly fast, but I think you can cope," Rainbow Dash said with a smirk, turning her head and tilting it, just about able to look at Sabre.

"Yeah, I know that but- WOOAAAAAHHHHHH!" Sabre screamed as Rainbow Dash within just a few seconds breaks the sound barrier, creating a Sonic Rainboom and flies for a single second before suddenly stopping.

"You still on me? Good," Said Rainbow Dash.

"Next time warn me! That was super quick! But also kinda epic, not gonna lie, but still, you didn't know if I'd of fallen off or not!" Sabre exclaimed.

"Oh please, even if you fell off I'd catch you," Rainbow Dash laughed.

"Hey, you two," Time Steve said as he and Elemental Steve catches up with Sabre and Rainbow Dash. Before they went to help destroy the Demon Steves on the ground, Elemental Steve sees a single demon, and it is flying towards them.

"I see a Demon Steve flying!"

"I see them as well!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed.

"Everyone GET BACK! It could be anyone! Get ready!" Sabre shouted. Time Steve, Elemental Steve and Rainbow Dash hovers back as the flying Demon Steve gets closer. As it got close, it seem to look like a normal Demon Steve, except it has a head, arms and legs of a Yellow Steve, but with completely white eyes and with the fiery hair of a Demon Steve.

"Well well well... Sabre, aren't you a sight for sore eyes!" Sabre felt his heart skip a beat out of shock. He hasn't heard the voice of this steve for so long.