Dark Steve and Nightmare Steve flies for each other. Both their swords collided and slid, and Dark Steve kicks him back. Nightmare Steve hovers left to avoid Dark Steve's lightning.

"I am your creator!" Nightmare Steve said in a taunt.

"Maybe, but I have changed, Nightmare!" Dark Steve yelled back and went to go in for another melee attack. But Nightmare Steve shoots 10 fireballs, but 5 of each are deflected and sent flying into the other 5. Dark Steve looks below him and sees the Doctor pointing his sonic screwdriver up at Nightmare Steve. The demon fires several volleys of lightning, but Dark Steve flew into the Doctor and pushes him out the way, standing where the Doctor was and takes the brunt.

"Gah!"

"Pathetic! I thought I gave you more power! But I guess not." Nightmare Steve hovers back down to stand on the ground and walks to his creation. Nothing seemed to be able to stop Nightmare Steve.

But as he got closer, he is stopped by something. It felt like some sort of force field pushing him back.

"What!? Why- STEP FORWARD!"

"Oh sorry, two TARDIS force fields working together. Good luck breaking through," Doctor Whooves smirked as he steps out of his TARDIS.


Time Steve, the mane 6 and Starlight are next to that statue. Twilight shudders, not because of those in the statue, but because what followed after.

"Those three, who were they again exactly? I forgot their names," Time Steve asked.

"That there... is... Tirek, Chrysalis and Cozy Glow-"

"Wait..." Time Steve interrupts Rarity and looks at the filly that's in stone.

"You lot turned a filly turned to stone? That's kinda messed up, not gonna lie. It's like having somepony like Scootaloo turned to stone."

"To be fair, it was Celestia, Luna and Discord," Pinkie Pie responded

"Well she did almost got rid of Equestria's magic, tried to take over, and teamed up with these two- And hey, don't compare my Scoots to Cozy Glow!" Rainbow Dash frowned upon Time Steve's comparison.

"And Madness Steve tortured whole dimensions, realities, left others scarred, and yet we still reformed him. Remember when we thought that we couldn't reform Madness back into Calmness? Yeah, but with friendship, we were able to- What happened with friendship with that situation!?" Time Steve argued back.

"Now since he brought that up, Time does have a point," Starlight nodded in agreement.

"Then why haven't you all tried-" The argument between everybody is quickly silenced.

"Back for round two I see Twilight, just with two different friends," The Storm King slumbers his way towards them, holding the staff in his right hand.

"You may be a demon now, but it doesn't mean we can't stop you!"

"So, these steves are such industrious creatures aren't they? But their weapons or powers can't stand against the might of me, or the almighty Second One!" The Storm King chuckled while lifting his staff up and aims.

In anticipation, Time Steve strikes on him and a massive active clock appears behind him. His eyes began to glow yellow and right as an orange beam forms and shoots towards them, a clock shield protects them. The orange beam deflects off of the clock shield.

"WHAT!?" The Storm King is now angry. He continues using his staff against the clock shield and does destroy a glass block. Meanwhile, Demon Steves are surrounding them, eager to pounce.

"Much better..." The clock began to shatter more. The Demon Steves began to break bits of the glass block.

"I have you all surrounded! You barely stood up to me at Ponyville! What makes you think you can fight me with my staff returned to me!?"

Out of nowhere, several lightning bolts are spammed, and lots of it. Several Demon Steves are wiped out all at once.

"Holy moly-" Rainbow Dash covers her eyes with her right forehoof at the bright light from the lightning. Everybody covers their eyes. When they uncovered them, they see the Storm King making a run.

"Why are ya runnin!?" Pinkie Pie yelled put loud, but the Storm King is still running. He is making a run for it.

"He's a runner!" Time Steve lowers his clock shield.

"Ah... that'll be why darling," Rarity replied. Everyone sees someone hovering the air. There is a glowing figure, who is wearing a light blue shirt, darker blue trousers, grey shoes. His skin is a peach colour, has brown hair and 2 completely blue glowing eyes. The figure then hovers down to the ground, and looks at Time Steve, the mane 6 and Starlight.

"What- Origin Steve?" Twilight walks forward.

"Hello, Twilight, I see you all needed help," Origin Steve replied.

"Thank you for helping us, but- If you've intervened... this must mean it's very important," Fluttershy said in a thankful tone. She also remembers beings like Origin Steve only intervenes when things are very important, and the god-like figure nods in response.

"I can no longer watch and sit back. These events have forced me to take action and step in," Origin Steve explained.

"If you intervened, does this mean Calmness has nooow turned back into-"

"No!" Everybody interrupted Pinkie Pie.


Dark Steve suddenly charges Nightmare Steve, catching him off guard. Dark Steve swings his sword across his creator's face.

"Agh- I'll make you pay!" Both of them began hovering back up, circling each other while they strike lightning. Balls of magma and balls of darkness starts erecting out of the ground all over the surrounding terrain.


"TARDIS force field taking a tiny amount of damage, but nothing to be too concerned," Doctor Whooves said into his microphone over to the Doctor.

"Yes, but the Demon Steves will eventually break through our barrier," The Doctor replied back on the radio.

"We shouldn't of tried to fight back- There's too many of them and-"

BOOM! A loud explosion is heard from outside of each TARDIS, disrupting the Doctor and Doctor Whooves from their conversation.


BOOM! Everybody can see several Demon Steves being flung into the air by an explosion before dropping to the ground and puffs up in smoke.

BOOM! The thing blowing up the demons comes into view. This machine has a wide cuboid chassis made of blocks of iron dyed red, which is 20 blocks long, 8 blocks wide and 3 blocks tall. On top there is a massive dome with some sort of cannon made of lightning rods, iron bars and smooth black stone slabs. The cannon is as big and long as 8 fully grown stallions. Beneath the iron chassis is big tracks made of red-dyed rubber with 8 big stainless-steel wheels on the left and right.

On the left and the right side of the side of this machine had the letters in bold capitals with an exclamation mark.

SCIENCE!

On the left and right of the word there is a salmon.

BOOM! More Demon Steves went up in an explosion.

"I swear we should just replace all our weapons with salmon at this point," Said Shining Armour, chuckling with relief.

"How anybody could somehow turn a salmon into a weapon impresses me."

Demon Steves start trying to attack the machine, but it drives into them, running them over. The demons that got under the tracks instantly went up in smoke.

BOOM! The machine has done its job. The Demon Steves then also loosens from Nightmare Steve's control and flees.


Meanwhile, Dark Steve and Nightmare Steve himself are still circling each other, both struggling to get the upper hand. Dark Steve uses this opportunity to go in for a melee attack, but the demonic steve hovers back and while Dark Steve had his defences down, strikes him with lightning and fireballs. Right as Nightmare Steve went in to put his sword through Dark Steve, he gets engulfed by green flames.

"I don't think so. Want to beat Dark? You'll have to get through me as well!"

Dark Steve sees a small purple dragon flying around Nightmare Steve, who is spinning around to strike it with lightning to get it out of the sky.

"Get back here you damn pest- AAGGGH!" Nightmare Steve's chest gets impaled by Dark Steve's iron sword of darkness.


"Can we know how you make salmon into weapons, Professor Red?" Shining Armour asked a Red Steve pops out of the machine's turret from the top, who is wearing a pair of goggles and a lab coat.

"A magician never reveals his secrets," Professor Red replied. Shining Armour gave a sulking expression on his face in return.

"Hey- Basically... Origin showed up, owned some demons and made the Storm King go running for the hills." Time Steve showed up out of nowhere, along with 7 ponies.

"When did Professor Red make a tank?" Pinkie Pie wondered, looking at his machine. All of the mane 6 and Starlight are present.

"This beauty helped in crushing the demons in the north. We can expect the ponies up north to start coming down and the war will hopefully be over by then," Professor Red said with pride, proud of his work that has indeed saved a lot of lives. He felt he contributed a lot.

"Hey Twily!" Flash Sentry waved, whom Twilight smiled to wave back to.

"You sure you ain't-"

"No Pinkie, I'm not," Twilight rolled her eyes. Twilight knows what Pinkie Pie was angling at.

"Yet," Rainbow Dash added on with a snigger. Twilight gave the light blue pegasus a blank stern stare.

"I'm not amused."

"You two, you know it winds up Twilight when you bring that up," Rarity saud to Rainbow Dash and Rarity, who de-esculates the situation before that became an argument.

"What's going on?" Time Steve asked.

"Oh- It's nothing," Twilight smirked.

Dark Steve hovers down, with his sword still impaled in Nightmare Steve's chest. Spike slowly flaps his wings to descent while keeping close eyes on the demonic steve. Everyone then surrounds him, but keeps a distance of 10 blocks.

"Stop! You violated the law!" Pinkie Pie yelled at Nightmare Steve. Everypony is frowning in anger towards Nightmare Steve.

"We've got some questions," Twilight growled, who barely holds off her urge to whack Nightmare Steve. She knows that he's more powerful than the regular Demon Steve.

"Where is Discord? You should know- He's gone missing since the demons had resurfaced," Light Steve growled. Fluttershy walks infront and stares at Nightmare Steve.

"I'd be very careful how you answer that question!"

"Oh he's alright... in my eyes ah HA HA! He's been neutralized and now powerless ah HA HA!" Nightmare Steve chuckled.

"Enough of me being nice!" Fluttershy in her rarely-seen fit of anger went to push the steve down to the ground and beat him up, but Light Steve had to restrain the pegasus, not for Nightmare Steve's sake, but for Fluttershy's.

"He could do something to you- We need answers first, then you can beat him up." Light Steve lets go of Fluttershy once he got confirmation that she'd not charge the demonic steve, which Fluttershy huffs and puffs, but nods.

"You're pathetic! You- Agh stop that... stupid stare!"

"How are the Demon Steves coming into Equestria, huh!?" Rainbow Dash shouted, walking around Nightmare Steve, her head consistently facing him.

"We teleport them in, directly from the world below! Even if you destroy a single demon, it'd all be in vain as we'd just bring them back! Those pathetic ponies just threw away their lives for nothing ah HA! The demons give greater opportunities than the darkness ah ha ha ha HA HA!" Nightmare Steve gets up and flies away, only for him to get teleported back. He tries to fly away again, but gets teleported back.

"Oh I can keep doing this all day- You done trying?" Said the Doctor who is smugly smiling, pointing his sonic screwdriver at Nightmare Steve.

"Who is in charge of you, and the other three? It ain't you, surely," Pinkie Pie questioned.

"The Second One, and someone else who spreads fear, not like how Dread of Sombra does though. I've done my part. Destroying me won't help you," Nightmare Steve replied vaguely.

"We demand more than that! Who-"

"You think I'd be a fool and tell you!?" Nightmare Steve in sheer surprise to everyone shoots a fireball directly at Starlight, who didn't respond on time, but the Doctor did and deflects the fireball with his sonic screwdriver. Twilight's horn shoots several purple beams of magic at Nightmare Steve. While low power, it's enough.

"S- Stop... p- Please!"

"If I wanted, I would've had you dead already Nightmare!" Twilight's uses some power to vent off her anger towards what Nightmare Steve just did, hurting one of her friends.

"You lot can destroy me, but if you do, I'd just come back ah HA!"

"No, we won't destroy you. I, or we... have a better idea," Twilight replied with a smile, who then looks at her others of her longtime friends, all of them nodding. Twilight's horn glows purple and each 6 of the elements appears on their necks of the mane 6. A rainbow starts forming around them and a beam spews out, directed towards Nightmare Steve. Starlight uses her magic and with her magical aura around Nightmare Steve, stops him from escaping.

"Noooooo! This won't be the last of MEEE-"

The beam hits him and from his feet to his head, slowly turns to stone.

"So, does he just join up with the trio, as in Tirek, Chrysalis and Cozy Glow?" Pinkie Pie suggested.

"I have a better idea. Please Time, let me teleport. I want Nightmare Steve to be put behind us... in a place where he could never come back, as y'know, a bit of karma," Dark Steve suggested a better idea.

"Okay- You lot, be ready for more demons coming your way. We'll deal with Nightmare over here," Said Time Steve. Dark Steve summons lightning, teleporting himself, Time Steve, Nightmare Steve, the mane 6 and Starlight to the place he wanted Nightmare Steve to be gone, disappeared, banished... forever, once and for all.


Everybody is teleported to a lair of sorts and it's very dark, because the only lighting it gets now is natural light. They are near a throne, which has a bit of gold on each side, with the majority of the throne being made of stone bricks. The floor surrounding it is made of smooth stone.

The lights that once illuminated the whole lair had been put out a while ago. There is a 4 block wide bridge that goes from one end from the throne to alway the way to the other, made of smooth stone supported by stone brick pillars. There is also a shorter 2 block wide bridge going underneath the main 4 block wide bridge, more specifically where the bridge is at an incline which is made of stone slab stairs. The bridges and the whole interior has fallen into severe disrepair. Even whole sections of the bridge are missing, parts that aren't missing are wildly tattered.

"Oh, this place," Said Time Steve.

"EEE! EE- Heeee..." Fluttershy quivered, whimpering while stepping back from the edge. She peaked over and saw below lead to a bottomless pit of pitch-dark blackness. What was more scary than heights are bottomless pits. Rainbow Dash comforts her longtime friend by standing near her.

"Who'd wanna sit on that hard throne?" Pinkie Pie wondered, looking at the seemingly uncomfortable stone brick throne that Nightmare Steve would've sat on long ago.

"This palace... or lair... it must've once looked very beautiful. It's sad it had to be associated in the way it was," Rarity gazed on the sheer size of the lair. She visions it thriving of steves, full of life.

"Yeah, but now... it's just a ghost town," Pinkie Pie added.

Dark Steve looks behind the throne and sees where he remembers something, where a machine would've been. That said machine is under stone materials which had collapsed over time. He then looks back at Nightmare Steve who's still stone.

"Hang on, I'll go grab Sabre. He may want to have a part in what we're about to do," Time Steve said as he strikes lightning and disappeared.

"What's wrong Dark Steve?" Twilight gently asked, walking to and sitting next to him.

"I remember this place, and what I did. If you think I'm clean of horrible things, you're mistaken," Dark Steve sighed and not making eye contact.

"I've done bad things too that I regret... if it makes you feel any better Dark," Starlight relates with the steve.

"I was the one who made the kingdom fall. I was the one who let the darkness in. Yeah sure I have changed, but it doesn't mean what happened here, didn't happen," Dark Steve responded.

"That's why I chose this place here, because this is where I feel Nightmare belongs."

Lightning strikes, which Time Steve appears with Sabre.

"Nice job you six- All of you. I've heard Nightmare has been dealt wi-" Sabre realizes where he is.

"I see... the old Yellow Kingdom. It's been a while now since the darkness laid siege here- So, what are we gonna do?" Sabre looks at Nightmare Steve and sees he had been turned to stone.

"Almost forgot you six could do that- Oh, you all thinking what I'm thinking?"

Everyone nods at Sabre.

"Yes," Dark Steve replied.

"We're going to push Nightmare Steve off the edge and into the bottomless abyss."

"Oh I see- Yeah, that does feel fitting. I remember me and Rainbow- Orange at the time, we were trying to retrieve the Orange Crystal and... there was Nightmare and two Yellow Steves. We saw him... we saw him push one of them down into the abyss- It was... awful, to see that. I think pushing Nightmare off would serve karma and justice," Sabre nodded in agreement with the idea.

"I- I don't feel comfortable near th- The edge," Fluttershy stuttered while shaking.

"Oh yeah, I forgot you ain't a fan of heights- *Looks at Time Steve* Time, do you mind taking Fluttershy somewhere? Maybe to the Violet Kingdom," Said Sabre.

"Where do you wanna go?" Time Steve asked Fluttershy.

"Anywhere but here," Fluttershy replied.

"Okay- You lot, meet us in the Violet Kingdom," Time Steve said as he summons lightning and disappears with Fluttershy.

"I always find it ironic, a pegasus, a creature that lives in the sky being scared of heights," Said Dark Steve.

"Well she does live on the ground, in that cottage. Also, she said something about almost meeting her doom after falling off a cloud. So I understand why Fluttershy don't feel too comfortable here. I don't either... but not for the same reasons as hers," Sabre explained to Dark Steve.

"Can we get on with pushing Nightmare Steve off?" Pinkie Pie let's out a board moan.

"Everypony, I say we let Sabre and Dark do it. Their experiences are more connected to Nightmare than ours," Said Twilight. Almost everypony nods in agreement, while Pinkie Pie sulks.

"Dark, when you're ready." Sabre puts his left hand on Nightmare Steve. Dark Steve puts his right hand on Nightmare Steve. Dark Steve began the countdown.

"Three."

"Two."

"One."

"Now."

Sabre and Dark Steve with a single push, pushes Nightmare Steve off. Everypony heads to the edge and watches as the stone-statue of a steve falls until he disappears into the bottomless abyss. Lightning strikes shortly after Nightmare Steve disappeared into the darkness below.

"Well, looks like Nightmare Steve will never return," Said Starlight.

"Thank you all for letting us two have this moment. It felt good pushing Nightmare Steve off," Sabre said while still ecstatically thrilled from doing what he just did.

"We thought it would be more appropriate you two got to do it," Said Twilight.

"Plus it makes it really come full circle y'know," Pinkie Pie added.

"Yeah it does Pinkie- So, we got to go meet back up with Time and Fluttershy at the Violet Kingdom- Also it gives you all the chance to check on the CMC too. *Looks at Dark Steve* Can you take us there Dark for us please?" Sabre requested.


"I really like the flower field," Fluttershy said to the Violet Leader, who is standing next to the pegasus on the right, with Time Steve standing on the left. They are in the flower field that sits at the bottom of the Violet Kingdom.

"Why thank you, us Violet Steves have worked very hard to make and maintain it," The Violet Leader nodded.

"So uh... Violet, where's the CMC? Y'know, the three fillies, where are they?" Time Steve asked.

"Oh they're at the top in my house. Sweetie Belle in particular really likes the view from up there," The Violet Leader replied.

"Leader!" A Violet Steve came running to the Violet Leader.

"Hello, what's wrong- By the way you two, this is my apprentice, Positive Violet Steve," Said the Violet Leader.

"So, I've got some... good news, and... some bad news," Positive Violet Steve stated.

"Huh? What's the good news?" The Violet Leader asked his apprentice.

"The Demon Steves are withdrawing from Equestria, completely," Positive Violet Steve replied, now shaking in dread of having to say the bad news.

"But that's good though, we stopped the demons," Said Fluttershy.

"That's not the whole story though I assume *Looks at Positive Violet Steve* What's the bad news?" Time Steve questioned. Before the Violet Steve answers, lightning interrupts him. Where the lightning is striking, Sabre, the rest of the mane 6 and Starlight appears. Sabre began speaking.

"Hey everybody- So uh, Nightmare, he will never be a problem again. He's a stone statue that had been thrown into a bottomless abyss."

"Nightmare Steve!?" The Violet Leader responded in horror and shock. He hasn't heard that name in ages. It was so long ago even Galaxy Steve was still around.

"Well don't worry about it, he's gone now- At least he should be anyways. So that leaves us with Dread, Storm King and Sombra left to deal with. We're doing a good job here everybody and we have regained the initiative," Sabre replied.

"RUUUUUNNNN!" That scream from a Violet Steve caught everybody's attention. They then see the CMC along with Big Mac with Granny Smith on his back and a load of Violet Steves and other ponies running on the looping mountain path down to the bottom. The CMC and Big Mac spots the mane 6 and trots to them, panting of exhaustion. The CMC hugs their respective sisters.

"I swear you jinx everything Sabre," Pinkie Pie stated.

"CMC, Mac, Smith, what- What's going on!?" Sabre panicked. He knows this can't be any good.

"A flying Demon Steve is killing everypony and every steve it can!" Apple Bloom exclaimed.

"We barely got out as well!" Sweetie Belle cried in a state of fright.

"Eeeeyup!" Big Mac is also in a state of fright.

"They started attacking the Leader's house too!" Scootaloo added while shaking in fright, barely not crying. A demon starts flying towards them. 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. It also has a blue lens attached to some sort of eyestalk sticking out of the Demon Steve's forehead. Everybody looks at the hovering demon in shock. How is this even possible?

"THAT'S the bad news I tried TELLING!" Positive Violet Steve yelled out loud.

"Things can never be easy, can they?" Time Steve sighed, looking to the ground.

"Nightmare!? We just defeated you!" Sabre exclaimed.

"That's Nightmare Steve!? He doesn't look like anything the way he was described in our lessons!" Apple Bloom exclaimed.

"He came back as a demon, but- *Looks up at Nightmare Steve* We defeated you just now! Why- How are you back!?" Sabre yelled.

"HE WAS BROUGHT BACK THROUGH ME," A deep robotic mechanical voice replied, making everybody jump. Sabre, Time Steve and Starlight felt goosebumps, because they recognize that robotic voice. Everybody turns around and they don't like what they see. Everybody gasps at what they see. The CMC hasn't seen whatever this thing is before.

"What in tarnation is that thing!?" Apple Bloom quivered, keeping close by Applejack.

"What is that!?" Sweetie Belle shrieked, cowering behind Rarity.

"Please don't hurt us!" Scootaloo cried and begged the thing. Rainbow Dash got infront of Scootaloo and frowns towards what she's looking at. Fluttershy standing behind Rainbow Dash with Scootaloo. Time Steve and Dark Steve stood behind the Fluttershy and the CMC to stop Nightmare Steve potentially attacking them. Everybody else turns to face what this other 'thing' is.

Standing there is a machine with a white casing. It has a plunger on the right, and a whisk on the left on a shiny metal plate, which the same metal goes around the body. The machine also has a black bumper at the bottom. It has a plane lens, the light reflecting through the lens, giving a little hint of yellow surrounded with a black steel object around it, holding onto a stainless metal stick, an eyestalk. On each side of the head are 2 lights. It has a black neck, which has the dome head on top. There's also 8 black bumps, split in half and in formation of a vertical rectangle. There's another 5 sets of 4 bumps in the formation of vertical rectangles on each side. There is also a grey flap of sorts on the back of the machine.

"No- Impossible... Time and Doctor and- They- We- We destroyed you!" Starlight yelled at the machine.

"INCORREEECCCTT!" The machines screamed while it's 2 lights on its dome head flashes twice and its whole body shakes.

"ONE THING YOU SHOULD REMEMBER IS THIS! DALEKS... ALWAYS... SSUURRVVIIIIIIIIIIVVVVEEE!"