-on Equestria-

Shadow races back to the Mane 6 and Silver, to see that most of the refugees scattered after the explosion produced by Kilo decimated a nearby mountain. Shadow stops in front of them. "Shadow what happened in there?" Twilight asks as Shadow's eyes scan the tree line, responds after making sure that no one is watching them. "We aren't safe here, it's worse than I feared, an organization is after the Elements of Harmony and probably the Chaos Emeralds as well, we need to get ahead of this."

Rarity steps forward, "Have some tact Shadow, the wake just ended for the worst attack Equestria has ever received, I don't think even Discord hurt this many ponies." She remarks sadly, Shadow responds, "We are going to die in the dark if we don't act now."

"Let's try to calm down, while we're here and Celestia isn't too busy we should ask her about giving us the elements, I'm sure she wouldn't mind." Twilight says hopefully, but in a commanding voice, Celestia responds, "I'm afraid I can't allow that this time, dear pupil."

She approaches the group being flanked by a royal guard and Princess Luna. Celestia's face is grim and so is Luna's.

"Why not princess Celestia? Bad people are after them. We could use them to fight back." Twilights pleads but Celestia shakes her head, "That's why they are staying in the vault. If some evil force from another world wants them, they'll have to go through all of Canterlot."

Shadow grimaces and looks down in thought, as Twilight looks back, her ears lowered then she says, "Yes, that sounds fine, just we're worried is all."

"There is simply no need to worry, Luna and I can handle any threat that comes our way." With those final words Luna and Celestia fly off, Luna looks back at Shadow and Silver with an ounce of suspicion but then turns her head back.

"Damn it." Shadow mutters. Twilight then looks around then looks at Shadow, "Hey where did, Sonic, Pinkie and Rainbow Dash go?" "They all went to Mobius, the pink one's strange senses allowed her to find a portal, after what that machine said."

"There are enemies on Mobius too? Wait, how are Pinkie and Rainbow Dash going to get home?" Twilight asks as panic starts to set in. Shadow looks to where the portal once was, "If Pinkie one can find a portal once, I'm sure she can do it again.

As they begin to walk home to Ponyville, the animals of the countryside appear to have nearly vanished, except a few crows. Shadow walks in silence, ever vigilant, while Silver tries to make conversation.

"So, uh, what do you guys do for fun?" Applejack looks at Silver, "Well I like keeping myself busy, farm work and other chores, sometimes I do some athletic stuff and competitions." Silver looks at her confused by her accent being gone but no one else notices. He notices a faint robotic glint from her eyes and comes to a startling realization. "You are not Applejack!" Silver's hand glows, but before he could hold down the fake Applejack, it moves faster than his eyes could track and then Fake Applejack's body morphs and shifts as it stands up straight, the disguise fades as the body becomes a silvery metal liquid with splotches of black. A form emerges of a tall Metal Sonic, its body widens as its arms and legs, it has spikes on the back of its head to mimic Sonic, these spikes are lined with a black metal, where a jet engine should be in its chest is instead a black gemstone just like Kilo and Fist.

He stands up straight as he turns his head back to look at the group, then he throws Applejack's hat on the ground.

Twilights horn starts to glow, "Where did you take Applejack!?"

"She's fine for now, alive and unharmed but if anything happens to me, she will die." It says grumbling.

Shadow looks at it with a snarl, "You must be Lix."

"Correct, I am the apex of all Metal Sonics, I am bits and pieces of every robotic copy of Sonic." Lix says with a low voice.

"Bastard! Tell us where Applejack is. Now!" Silver lets a stream of anger out as his hands glow brighter. Lix looks toward Silver, "I will tell you where she is, for a price. You, Twilight Sparkle, a student of Celestia, teleport me to Canterlot, I will disguise myself as Shadow, you will then escort me to the throne room."

Twilight's eyes widen, "Then what are you going to do?"

Lix stares up at the sun, "Complete my mission."

Twilight looks to the group, "I'm sorry. I have no choice. If my friend is in danger, I have to do this."

Lix's eyes shift to everyone. "If any of you follow, I will detonate the black gem in my chest, which will drag Canterlot into the Chaos Void."

Shadow furrows his brow, "What the hell is the Chaos Void, and why does that sound so familiar."

"I'm glad that this was so cordial, using your bond to your friends as a weapon was most effective." Lix gloats much to Twilight's chagrin.

Twilight looks up, "When will you tell us where she is?"

"She will appear when we are in Canterlot, you have my word."

"Fine let's get this over with." Twilight says while staring daggers at Lix who twists and morphs into a perfect copy of Shadow. Shadow scowls at the being for taking his visage, then Twilight's horn lights up and they both teleport away in a flash of light.

However rather than Applejack appearing magically in some way, she appears from behind the group, much further down the road, panting and looking around worried, "Hold on there fellas, sorry about that," she picks up her hat with her mouth and flips it onto her head, "Applebloom ran out from the woods and grabbed my hat for some reason, I yelled at her that she shouldn't be this far from home, Granny would be more cross than a bull at a red flag convention." The ponies and hedgehogs look mortified at what she said, realizing the gravity of the situation.

-In Canterlot-

Twilight and the disguised Lix appear in Canterlot, Lix's Shadow disguise still startle the ponies, but as Twilight calms them down, she still looks at Lix with a lump in her throat knowing the danger this being poses.

They walk to the main castle, without a word to each other, Twilight glances at Lix, looking him up and down. They walk up the stairs and wander into the throne room, Luna and Celestia are in the middle of discussing something, and they both turn to look at their new audience, "Twilight, Shadow, we just got back, is something the matter?" Celestia, says while eyeing the fake Shadow.

They stand in silence for a moment, Luna growing concern on her face, as Lix breaks the silence in his own voice. "All lifeform data… Successfully copied."

With that utterance he quickly transforms into his true form. Lix looks at Celestia, while also combing through all the information he just acquired, "So that's the spell you use to alter the Elements, I wondered why they changed. Interesting. My gambles have paid off." He says confidently, Twilight yells out, "Princesses don't attack him, that gem in his chest is a bomb of some kind!"

"Incorrect." Lix says bluntly, "That was a simple lie, this gem only houses my soul, if it were a bomb, Kilo would have used his to obliterate Sonic and Shadow before they put him down."

Celestia tries to rush forward, but Lix holds up his hand, "Siphon of Tirek." A yellow orb appears in his palm as the magic within Celestia, Luna, and Twilight are pulled into it. The three ponies fall to their knees, Celestia mutters, "How? How did you know any of this?"

"One of the pieces I was made from has the ability to copy organic and inorganic beings, copying their abilities, adding a few more steps was simple. If I had the bio data, I could scan any being's neurology and surmise their thoughts and memories. My practice with this ability has led to a 100 percent success rate. I knew I would learn the spell to reset the Elements of Harmony into their original form but sadly, I feared I wouldn't have the reservoirs of chaos energy to cast it properly. This fear is made apparent as I had to use this spell."

He walks toward Celestia as his power steadily increases, "I made this spell myself, after researching spells that would assist me in absorbing energy from others, I thought of adapting Aluminum Sonic's syringes, but they couldn't handle this much power. Then I learned of a being in Tartarus who has the ability to absorb the magic from anyone he comes across. I studied him personally and developed this spell after testing it on unsuspecting unicorns."

He leans down, "I was granted the leadership position from my master, and I put every piece in the place it needs to be." Twilight looks at him angrily, "Don't you dare leave this room and hurt my friends!" Now shimmering with power Lix stands in the room of weakened ponies and turns around he looks at Twilight, "Make peace with yourselves as I abolish the light from this world and every world, your friends will receive a swift and painless death."

He walks out of the throne room toward Canterlot Tower, as he rounds the corner on the hallway to said tower. He sees royal guards lining the walls, these unicorn guards steady their magically held halberds at him, but he simply walks towards the wall of halberds, without making eye contact. Lix forces all of them to bow with gravity magic. Lix eventually reaches the vault with little to no resistance.

He holds up his hand, and it magically glows from light gold then to deep magenta then to a light purple. He clenches his fist, looks up at the lock, sticks out his finger and puts it into the keyhole. A brilliant light flashes and the door swings open.

He sees the Elements in the form of five necklaces and a tiara, "A very imaginative form, one would never guess these objects were a source of unimaginable power that the master requires. Now to reset them, the Elements being bonded to specific individuals would make them difficult to use."

He centers his mind. As a weakened Twilight walks up the stairs, she witnesses this being surrounding himself in energy and his form turns from blue to gold, with streaks of black lightning running across his body, he aims his open palms at the Elements and a stream of concentrated and controlled energy collides with them, causing feedback. Marble pillars next to Lix crack as does the marble at his feet as he achieves his super form.

As the static and energy settle, Twilight sees the Elements of Harmony transformed into 5 elongated hexagonal cut gems as they were in the past, including one shaped like a multi-pointed star. "This one must be the focus for the rest, I'm curious how they interface with the Tree…" he mutters to himself.

Twilight feels as if something in her chest was torn out as the Element of Magic was unbonded from her, the others receive the same feeling from miles and worlds away, as if a veritable piece of their souls were just removed. She grits her teeth as she groans in pain. Lix looks at her while holding the purple Element.

"Even without your 'magic', you persist?" Lix says dismissively, "Your resilience will not change the outcome."

"I said earlier," she continues almost ignoring him, "that I won't let you hurt my friends. And I meant it! Equestria is my home, and my friends are everything to me!" The newly reborn emeralds respond to her, Lix looks to them then to her as her mane and fur start to shift color, his eyes record the change in her energy, her magic fully restoring itself, her mane turns from blue, purple, and pink, to red and gold with a bright purple streak, her fur turns gold, light twinkles around her and her horn crackles with incandescent energy. Her eyes also turn from purple to red. This transformation cracks a few of the murals.

Before Lix could comment, Super Twilight slams her front hooves on the ground, and teleports them both outside of the city limits of Canterlot.

Lix drops the emeralds to the ground, and gets into a fighting stance saying, "This is unexpected." Lix says, "Allow me to fully introduce myself, in this form I am Neo Lix, the true ultimate lifeform!" his dark energy flares out, Super Twilight blows air out of her nose, "I think I'll call myself Sparking Twilight, hope you can remember it."

Neo Lix rushes off the ground and flies at Sparking Twilight so fast he's leaving afterimages behind himself, Twilights eyes and horn glow as her eyes only barely manage to keep up with him, then she teleports and slams down on him from above, floating above where she knocks Lix. Twilight charges a ball of purple and gold energy, and thrusts it down, causing a massive spiring explosion, Lix teleports behind Twilight, only for her to use Chaos Control mixed with a time stop spell, Lix tries to move in this stopped time with his own Chaos Control but can't because of the spell, then Twilight charges a blast at point-blank range, her horn aimed at Lix's chest. The moment time begins, the explosion sends Lix flying through a mountain and moving him into a snowy mountain range.

Twilight easily warps to his location, standing on a cliff above him, her mane flowing wildly with energy. Lix only seems slightly injured from the blast, a few burns on his chassis. Then he puts his hands together and red energy accumulates around him, "Chaos Torrent!" he fires a beam that slams into Sparking Twilight's magic shield, but the shield cracks and explodes into shards.

Twilight flies back, but stops herself in mid-air, Lix warps to her this time with a ball of energy in his hand, he puts it in Twilights face before she can shield, and it makes a small explosion, then Lix grabs her horn, knees her in the stomach, and hits her with a flurry of jabs, ending with a spin kick, sending her into the ground. As she bounces up, she regains her stance, uses an intense gravity spell that multiplies the gravity by a thousand, cratering Lix instantly. Lix looks up at Twilight with his eyes going furiously red. "You're a fool if you think you can do this alone!" Twilight then loses her sight as Lix uses the princesses' magic to change the day to night, with the moon in the sky, while Twilight is distracted and her spell wavers, Lix delivers a left hook to Twilight's cheek, followed up by him grabbing Twilight's tail and spinning her around. He stomps down at faster than light speeds, and does an over the shoulder throw, slamming her on her back, causing her to cough up blood as she's buried in rubble.

Lix's arms combine, using the exact long railgun transformation that was used to obliterate Cloudsdale and aims the barrel at the pile of rocks that Twilight is trapped in. It powers on much quicker due to his super form, and a light begins to appear at the end of the barrel. Coinciding with this power surge, the moon and sun set themselves in the sky at the same time causing an eclipse to be the backdrop.

"Goodbye Twilight Sparkle, you fought valiantly." Neo Lix says with respect.

Then Lix feels two massive surges of power behind him, he turns to looks and he sees Shadow and Silver in shimmering gold forms, that are all too familiar to him. Shadow stands with his arms crossed, "Now you're going straight to hell." While Silvers hands glow bright, and he yells out, "You're going down!"

The three ponies guard the Elements of Harmony, though feeling drained from losing their connection, they still stand to protect them if all else fails.

Neo's railgun morphs back into regular arms and Sparking Twilight bursts out of the pile of rock, huffing and panting a steady stream of blood coming down her nose, dripping on the ground, but she wipes it with her hoof, and her horn charges with energy, she smiles confidently, "Now that my friends are here, there's nothing we can't do!"

"We shall see." Neo Lix says.