"What's wrong you two- Other than Dread being here, what's wrong?" Time Steve asked. Twilight and Fluttershy gulps, knowing who is back judging by the green flowing eyes.
"Behold, my new ally!" Dread Steve cheered. Then what follows is a loud deep-toned evil laugh, catching Time Steve's attention.
"Ah."
The Demon Steve with the horn slowly turns darker, it's arms and legs becoming hooves made of magma, the bottom of each being made of netherrack. It's back became one of a pony, and a red cloak on it's back appears, the edges of the cloak being made of molten lava. It's whole body is made of magma, as well as it's head. It's mane and tail is nothing but pure fire. On it's head has the horn, which stays the same, the sclera becomes a pale light orange colour. The iris become slightly orange with a mix of red, and the pupils are black.
"King Sombra!?"
"Ah ha ha ha ha!"
"So that's it, just a spirit that can take over bodies? Like we haven't seen that before."
Angered, the dark spirit instantly strikes Time Steve with not his usual dark purple, but a bright orange beam of magic. Everyone else takes their focus off the 2 demonic figures and hastily went to help Time Steve back up.
"Time are you okay!?" Sabre exclaimed.
"Gah... that was- Agh."
"How dare you!? You want to get to Time, you got to get through me!" Sabre yells as he turns around, using the Supercharged Redstone Staff against King Sombra.
Poof!
He turns into an orange cloud, which the lightning strikes right through. After the attack failed, King Sombra manifests back together and chuckles.
"With us two, we're unstoppable!"
Twilight and Fluttershy shivers in fright, not because of Dread Steve or King Sombra. King Sombra is out of his character. He's working with somebody without using them as a slave. Other than using those around him as slaves for his own gain, the arrogant spirit works alone, towards his own goals.
Whoever is in charge of the Demon Steves has a lot of power. They only have a single thing to go off of, they know the one behind this is Dread Steve's creator. Whoever it is, they have shown they're very capable, especially if they can make somebody like King Sombra step out of character.
He glares at Sabre, Time Steve, Dream Steve, Twilight and Fluttershy. His menacing look still made the alicorn and pegasus' blood go cold, their soles leaving their body, especially with the demonic coat added to him.
"With mine and Dread's powers combined, we can make everybody's worst fears real! Both our corruptions shows your worst fears!" King Sombra bragged while laughing. Dream Steve gulps at that prospect. Before, what went on in the mindscapes, stayed in the mindscapes. But if what he says is true, everything that everybody is so fearful of could leak into the real world.
"We'll see about that, Sombra! You may have a new ally, but we'll stop you once again!" Twilight yelled with confidence, putting her fear aside.
"Enough! Now, what is your worst dread?" Dread Steve looks at Time Steve and flies towards him, followed by his new ally.
"Stay away!" A voice screamed as multiple balls of ice summons out of nowhere, catching Dread Steve and King Sombra off guard, and freezing them in place. Then a blurry blue object came whizzing and spinning through the air and into the ice, shattering it.
"I thought the Doctor was inside Derpy's house," Time Steve stated.
"It is Doctor Whooves," From above, Elemental Steve hovers down. Time Steve heads over to his brother. The door of the Tardis ahead meanwhile opens.
"Where were you!? I've been waiting to hear back from you since yesterday!" Time Steve exclaimed.
"It has only been a few minutes, in my time at least," Elemental Steve answered.
"Oops, accidentally set coordinates a little bit further into the future than intended," Doctor Whooves giggled lightly as he opens the doors and came out of his TARDIS.
"So... where did they go?" Twilight slowly asked. After the ice shattered, Dread Steve and King Sombra vanished. Twilight so wishes they would be gone like that, but she knew that alone wouldn't destroy Dread Steve or King Sombra.
"I don't know, but it'll hold them off for a while," Doctor Whooves replied.
"Good, because with two similar corruptions going around and making everyone's worst fears real, we need to cure as many people, or at the very least cure those with the worst fears out of worst fears," Dream Steve declared.
"So, the corruption shows your worst fears... if Derpy gets corrupted- Her worst fear is Madness Steve returning and doing the things he did all over again. So if she was to get corrupted- Right, plan of action, everyone listen up," Sabre said to everyone that is here.
"You Doctor Whooves, head back into Derpy's house. We cannot let Dread or Sombra corrupt her, or otherwise we're gonna be dealing with Madness all over again. Also with you, if Derpy does gets corrupted, there's no one better than you who can help her- Also, tell Star Swirl to start helping others as you'd have Derpy secured," Sabre instructed the brown stallion.
"I just need to materialize my Tardis inside the house," Doctor Whooves nodded. He enters back into his TARDIS and closes the doors. The TARDIS then disappears, now materializing inside Derpy's house.
"Right, with that covered, we need to up our game. One by one, old enemies are coming back, and we don't know who else will. We don't even know what, or who is bringing them back. We now got Nightmare, Dread, Storm King and this... King Sombra guy. We need to work on who we go for first. Dread and Sombra are probably our go to," Sabre stated.
"Doesn't Sombra seem... off?" Fluttershy stated, looking at Twilight.
"We'll have to talk about this with the rest of the girls," She replied.
"Well... if they were dead, and they came back as demons... it's quite possibly that's the cause. Something or someone controls them," Time Steve assumed.
"The Storm King also brought up someone called 'the Second One' or something along those lines. I think him and the other three are working for whoever that guy is," Sabre jumped in.
"Why do I feel like I've heard that before?" Twilight asked herself. She could swear they heard 'the Second One' from somewhere. Are they referring to the same guy Dream Steve refers to as 'the First Enemy' or is it something else?
"What's our next task to solve? Those two should be held off for at least a little while thanks to Doc, but they will come back shortly and we need to be ready," Said Sabre.
"If Dread Steve's corruption is curable, Sombra is the bigger threat. To get rid of Sombra's corruption, you need to defeat him himself," Twilight replied.
"Have you tried entering their mindscape of those corrupted by Sombra, to help them overcome their worst fear?" Dream Steve asked Twilight.
"If Sombra spreads his corruption in the same way Dread does and acts like the same, we could help cure a few in the same way as if they were corrupted by Dread," Dream Steve added.
"Would we be able to help everypony and every steve to overcome their fear quick enough though?" Fluttershy had doubts that it's possible to uncorrupt more steves and ponies than the speed everybody getting corrupted, especially with both Dread Steve and King Sombra corrupting everyone.
"Yeah, Fluttershy does have a point. With them two going round, they probably could corrupt a lot more than those we can uncorrupt. So we have to go for the two of them directly. The more time we wait, the stronger they'll get and... well, Discord isn't anywhere to be seen- Which we still gotta figure that out- And whoever this 'First Enemy' is. But right now, everything, it's all down to us to stop them," Sabre agreed with the yellow pegasus.
"Well, we got to help those with the worst... worst fears. If they can make them physically present... who knows what could be unleashed," Dream Steve replied, saying 'worst' slowly both times. He means those who have the worst fears that are the most dangerous.
"Yeah like- What if a huge world destroying monster gets unleashed- I don't wanna be dealing with that right now," Sabre nodded.
"Twilight, Fluttershy and Time, I need you to gather the rest of the six up, including Applejack- As much as AJ has gone nuts, she isn't like... well- Imagine it's another Professor Red- Anyway, you seven are going to take on Dread Steve and King Sombra directly. BringStarlightalong as well with you. What I'm gonna do is with Dream and Elemental over here, we're going to help cure those that are corrupted. Star Swirl will go around doing his part in the mean time," Sabre explained.
"Okay, does everyone understand what we gotta do? If so, we should probably get going." Sabre and Dream Steve gathers around Elemental Steve, who summons lightning and teleports.
"Twilight, is everypony except AJ of course still at the castle?" Time Steve asked. Twilight nodded. With that, Twilight and Fluttershy gathers around Time Steve, who summons lightning andteleports.
