-Three months later-

Relative peace throughout Equestria promotes leisurely activities. Some ponies celebrate the crowning of a new princess in Twilight Sparkle, The princess of friendship. Some admire the 4 Hedgehogs that accompany the Mane 6, that have stood by their side and have protected Ponyville as if it were their own home. All ten of them have completed their training and have been anxiously awaiting the arrival of something wicked.

Even with the heightened number of ever-increasing nightmares, and flashes of memories of that day three months ago, nothing ever happened.

Until it finally did, one month late. One day Equestrian and Mobian scholars would later call this event The Blackout.

Canterlot did not see it coming, despite the warnings from Princess Twilight Sparkle, though they were on high alert a month ago, their alert faded over the weeks, as nothing had taken place. The only person whose perception did not falter was Shining Armor who returned to the city a month ago to help out the Royal Guard. While he did want to return to the crystal kingdom to be with Cadance, he knew that something was bound to happen.

Walking the streets of Canterlot, is an Earth Pony, whose name is Stone Turnip, a turnip farmer. He has a dull-gray coat with spots of brown, his beige mane and tail are short and messy. His eyes are a brilliant green and his cutie mark is a half-buried turnip. He walks into an alleyway where no one can see him. then a light shines for a brief moment behind the alley way as two beings make their entrance, One is a being that looks like Shadow, except the red on his quills are grey, his pupils are green slits, and he has no mouth. This being is known as Mephiles the Dark, a being who killed Sonic in a timeline that no longer exists. The other has light cyan quills and fur, his shoes are red and blue, and his back quills stretch out far. This being is Nazo the Hedgehog, who is believed to be dead. They walk the street toward the castle side-by-side, the ponies see them and are astonished that the heroes Sonic and Shadow are visiting them, not knowing that these two are not their heroes. The pair ignore the stares and speak to one another, Nazo starts, "You do still have it don't you? That artifact will be vital to our success." Mephiles responds, "Of course, our painstaking hours to recreate the prison I was trapped in will not go to waste."

They approach the gates, Nazo says, "How did we want to proceed, brother?"

Mephiles' form shifts into his non-disguised form, covered in crystalline quills reddish pink sclera with yellow pupils, and clawed hands, "We embarrass these ponies, crush their resolve, and contain the sisters."

Nazo chuckles, "Us being here is already embarrassing them. So let us begin."

Mephiles sinks into the shadows on the ground as Nazo opens his hand and readies a ball of red energy, before the guard looking down can blow the war horn, the front gate of the castle is demolished, the ponies in the castle run and hide as the smoke bellows and fires start to spread, a squadron of Royal Guards come to the scene as a pool of darkness opens beneath them, they see each of their comrades get dragged into the shadows, as the other guards try to escape they are mauled by scores upon scores of imp-like beings that climb out of the sea of shadows, Mephiles closes the shadow pool trapping still living ponies inside.

A unicorn guard, covered in battle damage, tries to swing down a halberd at Mephiles as Nazo appears next to the pony, grabs the pony's head, and bashes him into the stone. While this guard's head is in the ground. Nazo's hand glows red, and he makes this stallion's head explode, scattering viscera everywhere.

The blood covers his hand, and he swipes it off in disgust, "I hate that we lived amongst these 'things' for three months."

Mephiles looks over, "I understand the sentiment towards them, but we must make haste, surely the god sisters know by now."

Celestia and Luna then appear before them, without a chance of delay, Luna charges at Mephiles while Nazo takes a faster initiative and flies past Luna to fight Celestia.

Luna fires a magic beam at Mephiles who sinks into the shadows, Luna tracks his movements very well, knowing a similar ability. Luna stamps on the ground, and a magic shockwave hits Mephiles, knocking him out of the shadows. "Foul shade, you will reveal thyself!" she yells out in anger as she fires a beam pushing Mephiles into a wall. He groans out in pain which then contorts into a laugh, "This is nothing!" he puts his hand out and fires a white spear of energy. This spear pierces Luna's wing, which makes her stop focusing on her beam. While she's reeling Mephiles summons his imp-like minions in swarms that surround her, but she explodes with a purple light, she stares Mephiles down fiercely, as he opens his arms to the sides.

Nazo gets to Celestia and does a triple spin in the air, readying a monstrous kick, aiming it at Celestia's head. Before it could lands, she fires a powerful bolt of magic and he reacts quickly, kicking it out of the way, it breaks through a window and lands in a nearby field, making a large and bright explosion. Nazo quickly lands and aims his hands at Celestia, then yells, "Chaos Torrent!" instantly enveloping Celestia in red energy that blasts past her and through the back of the castle, Nazo warps to where she's falling grabs. her by her horn and looks back to Mephiles, "Celestia has been defeated, how are you coming along?"

Luna looks back with a snarl, "Sister!", then she yells to both hedgehogs, "Hast thou no honor?"

Mephiles, then appears in her shadow, and appears above her, "No. I don't. Don't worry you and your sister will spend the next eternity together." He then takes a hand as he's falling and smashes Luna's face into the ground, then he kicks her where he pierced her wing, causing her to scream in pain. Then he holds out a hand and fires a volley of grey Chaos Arrows, sufficiently weakening her.

Then he pulls out a modified Scepter of Darkness, Nazo tosses Celestia to the ground near Mephiles, and he activates it yelling out, "Drag them in! Scepter of Light!"

Luna and Celestia's beaten bodies are pulled into the Scepter, with a flash of light, leading the scepter glowing white.

Nazo smirks, "That was far too easy, I think we outdid ourselves."

Mephiles looks past Nazo, "There's one more ant on its way to save its queen."

Shining Armor looks at the two hedgehogs as he pants, as if he was running as fast as he could to get there. His horn starts to glow as he says, "You aren't getting away with this."

Nazo then says, "You are outclassed by every metric, Shining Armor. If you fight us, you will die."

Mephiles steps forward, shadows obscuring his feet, "It would be wiser if you looked at the city, Shining."

Shining armor takes a glance and sees, fires starting and ponies laying in the streets. Shining Armor grits his teeth, "You bastards! Stop this right now!" Nazo punches Shining to the ground and holds Shining up by his horn, "I'm tired of hearing you speak. Besides, you think this is the only place, Mephiles' shadow creatures are?"

Shining's eyes open wide, "How many cities, where else have you put them?"

"Here, Ponyville, Appaloosa, Manehattan, The Cloudsdale refugee camp, and" Nazo's eyes glow faintly, "The Crystal Empire."

Shining Armor fires a blast at Nazo, and the smoke clears on Nazo's face, he frowns as he lets Shining Armor go and knees him in the face, causing profuse amounts of blood to erupt from his nose. Shining tries to get up as Nazo firmly places his foot on his neck. Mephiles then says, "Your poor wife must be wondering, 'Where is he? Why isn't he protecting me?' as my shadows tear her to pieces."

Shining's eye wells up with tears in a powerless anger, Nazo then coldly says, "Let us make an example out of him, deliver a sharp message to Twilight Sparkle."

The people in town watching the imps destroy buildings and they see the sun starts to slowly dim, not like its being lowered but obscured by a black veil, the lights in the street are the only thing keeping anything illuminated. A few ponies remember that Shining Armor is still in town, and that they still have a chance. Then that hope is dashed as they hear an explosion, Shining is thrown from the top of the castle, bounces off the cobble stone, craters into the ground in the middle of the city. Nazo then appears at his broken body, Shining cries out in agony as Nazo smiles, then kicks him to a wall. Mephiles rises from the darkness in next to Nazo, then he pulls his hand back as black crystal spikes erupt out from the wall Shining is in piercing his body and crucifying him to the wall. He screams out again as his body explodes in pain.

Nazo then says, "That will be loud and clear." He notices Mephiles flinch, "What's wrong, Mephiles?"

Mephiles looks over, "My shadows were all killed. At the same time." Nazo frowns, "That fast? I knew they all achieved their super forms but to what extent?" As they speak, they notice the sky lighting up with bright twinkling stars, through the blackness.

"We have their attention, but I find it odd that they had no one in Canterlot." Mephiles says with suspicion.

Shining Armor then speaks through a pained breath, as he coughs up blood, "She's… here… Fluttershy! Now!"

Super Fluttershy's energy spikes out from behind Mephiles and Nazo their eyes both go wide as every shadow-imp in the city is completely obliterated in the matter of seconds, just from her energy flaring out. She hovers above the pair, then vanishes and appears on the ground, in front of them. Nazo looks at his arm and he sees it's been completely cut off. Fluttershy looks back and flicks off the blood from her wing. "Impossible!" Nazo says as he regenerates his arm, Nazo then rushes forward, with his arm wound back and throws a punch, with a furious look Fluttershy ducks under it, opens her wings, boosts off the ground and delivers a staggering uppercut. Nazo reacts quickly, grabbing her leg and then throws her into a wall. she bashes straight through ten houses, then curves up, booming into the sky. Nazo looks at Mephiles, "Go in the Void and get the emeralds, now!" Mephiles quickly fades into the shadows.

As Nazo looks forward, he sees Fluttershy moving like a comet through the street, Nazo blocks it as he gets pushed back, his feet grind against the ground, then he yells out, "Enough!" he flares with red energy and starts slowing her down, "You caught me off-guard 'Super' Fluttershy, but this form is not enough to kill me!" he grabs Fluttershy's hooves and delivers a staggering knee to her diaphragm, making her aura disperse, and knocks the wind out of her. He then headbutts her into the ground, but as he tries to hold up his hand, he notices his arm is gone again. This time he notices that he doesn't feel the pain from it.

"Why can't I feel any pain from you, pest!" his arm quickly regenerates, and he fires a massive red blast that blows the large chunk of the ground apart. Fluttershy blocks it with her wings and is unharmed but as they unfurl, Nazo Chaos Controls at her with an overhead punch ready. Fluttershy chaos controls as well, and then they continuously clash at faster-than-light speeds, atomizing every boulder that was floating in the air.

Nazo leaps back and regenerates his injuries but still looks irritated. "Your control of this form is impossible, you only had three months, not to mention your little ability to prevent me from feeling pain, I can't tell how damaged I am, that's quite annoying." Fluttershy, just stares in quiet determination, Nazo then says, "What did you people do to prevent us from seeing your progress?"

Mephiles reappears next to Nazo, as Sonic, Silver and Applejack appear next to Fluttershy, all of them in their super forms. Applejack's super form makes her coat a light-pink with her mane becoming a glowing gold, her eyes also shift from green to red.

Sonic's eyes grow wide, "Nazo?! Me and Shadow destroyed you, how are you alive?"

Nazo grimaces, then smiles, "Oh Sonic, you wish you had killed me, however all you did was make me more equipped to kill you."

Sonic and Silver's eyes then shift to Mephiles, Silver feels a strange sense of déjà vu but still asks, "I've heard of Nazo from you Sonic, but who the hell is that?"

Mephiles then snarls, "I'm almost offended you don't remember me, Silver. Since my timeline was destroyed by you two wretches, I've had to cower in the dark, my other half was obliterated in that destruction. The Chaos Void pulled me in before I too was destroyed. There I met my new brother, Nazo."

Applejack furrows her brow, "Well how about y'all get on back there, after you tell us what you did with the Princesses?!" then her eyes look over to Shining Armor crucified against a wall, his head slumped over. Applejack grits her teeth, "Y'all sons o' bitches ain't gettin' away with this. Y'all hear me!"

Nazo frowns, as Mephiles orbits the emeralds around himself, and he warps the Mobian Master Emerald to their location. "I think we should kill Applejack first." Nazo says as he crosses his arms, Mephiles then responds, "Let's give these insects a show, brother, I think it's time for the signal."

The emeralds turn black, and Nazo smiles as he powers up his voice changing with the transformation, "For the second time Sonic, pray to whatever god you worship," as he turns red and becomes Perfect Nazo, "because our plans will come to fruition." Mephiles then starts to shift and transform as the shadows start to converge toward him, the Emeralds emitting even more darkness, "I will force my memory into every one of you, and you will never forget the name Mephiles the Dark!" Mephiles screams this as he turns a glowing red with black streaks an inverse of Shadow's regular colors. The two irradiate a type of malice that feels almost familiar. The four cover their faces, feel themselves getting pushed back, as all four of them realize they are both preparing something.

The pair of villains look at each other, "Let's not take any chances." Nazo says, Mephiles looks over, "Great minds think alike."

Then in an instant they both yell "Chaos! Control!" they vanish and reappear at the same place, at the exact same time. the sky blackens yet again, and the ground shakes across Equestria, some mountains crumble miles away, the ponies evacuating, turn back and see a ball of pitch-blackness envelope the city they once called home.

The blackness takes shape, and it forms into a pale gray hedgehog, with sharp upturned quills the tips are jagged and encrusted with pitch-black gemstones that grow a few inches down the quills, His shoes are half-red and half-blue, stretching up his shins are a thick crust of black gemstones. He his hands have stark-white claws, and his wrists are covered by the same gemstone crust on his spines and legs. His back spines are long and out to the side, he has a tuft of black chest fur. His most striking feature are his eyes, the sclera are red with black veins leading to his bright emerald-green pupils. The haunting and nightmarish eyes that penetrate deep into the heroes' subconscious. The same eyes that forced them to see horrific things three months ago.

Its mouthless face tries to talk, but it's too muffled, so it takes its claw and carves its own lips where its mouth is. "That's much better. It's a real pain doing that every time I'm born." it laughs as black blood drips onto the shattered ground. They hear the voice and realize that his words dripping with pure hatred.

"In these last seconds before you are wreathed in death, you have the privilege of calling me Mephilzo the Void."