//------------------------------// // Unneeded Light, Wanted Darkness: Part 2 // Story: Pony Showdown // by Prince Luna //------------------------------// PREVIOUSLY ON PONY SHOWDOWN: "Hey guys, have you seen Spike?" Twilight asked the training monks. "Nope. No word or sight of him all day. He's been quieter than a dead buffalo." Clay said. -- "What's that loud noise?" Applejack asked. "It's the vault room! It's collapsing!" Twilight panted. -- Clay detracted the shield but used the front to extend and sweep away the rocks covering the entrance to the vault, which was now in the open surrounded by rubble. -- "Dojo? What in tarnation were you screamin' about?" Applejack asked. "It's....it's... one Shen Gong Wu was taken." he cried. "Which one?" asked Raimundo. "The Celestial Horn," Dojo said, "but I know who took it." -- Spike looked up and saw a young man stood on the roof. He had long flowing black hair and olive green eyes. He wore a suit or armor in a similar colour with an eye on the belt. "Who are you?" Spike asked. The man laughed and sat down next to Spike, the bird flew to his shoulder. "I am Chase Young." he said. -- "Spike, we need you on the Heylin side to make the world a better place." -- Soon, they arrived at the stone entrance. The air was cold and gusty, leaving everyone uncomfortable. When she jumped off of Dojo, Twilight immediately noticed someone at the large doors. "Spike?" she smiled. "Hello Twilight." he said, plainly. -- "Spike? Are you working for Chase?!" Fluttershy gasped. -- Alright, Raimundo. I challenge you to a Heylin Showdown!" Spike smirked. -- "A Heylin Showdown is fought over a Heylin Shen Gong Wu," Chase explained, "you heard me. The Celestial Horn is a Heylin Shen Gong Wu! The rules of a Heylin Showdown are quite simple. You can wager absolutely anything. Shen Gong Wu, loyalty, one's life. The winner can also choose something else; anything their heart desires that the Heylin magic can conjure." -- "THIS IS IT! HEYLIN SHOWDOWN!" -- "CELESTIAL HORN!!" Spike yelled, feeling a burst of evil energy. -- "This portal leads to Equestria!" Chase Young announced. He began to laugh evilly and loudly. He held the Zing-Zom Bone tight and grabbed Spikes hand and the two jumped into the portal, which promptly closed. The ponies and monks stood in Chase's empty palace with pure shock and horror visible in their faces. Twilight then burst into tears, followed by the rest of the ponies, except for Rainbow Dash who just frowned visibly. "Why would my Spikey-wikey do this to us?" Rarity asked. "How could he go to the dark side?" Fluttershy sniffed. "Spike's all good!" Applejack exclaimed. "I'd like to show that Chase Young what for!" Rainbow Dash shouted, pounding her hooves together. Raimundo lay on the ground, his body in great pain from the fall. Clay and Kimiko lifted him up and held him with their shoulders. Everyone stared at the space where the portal had just closed. "What was their plan?" Kimiko asked. "I suppose we will have to find out." Omi sighed. Suddenly, there was a loud explosion outside. The group ran to the entrance to see that, in the distance, the world had once again been turned into a wasteland. "Their plan must be working. Here's 1000 years of darkness." Dojo sighed. *** Shining Armor galloped to Celestia's throne quickly and bowed at her feet, panting heavily. "Shining Armor, hello. Have you any leads on the location of the Elements of Harmony?" she asked. "No. Not yet. But we have a bigger problem on our hands, your majesty." he said quickly, trotting to her window and pointing out. She slowly approached and looked for herself. She gasped loudly, her pupils dilated and she fell to her knees. "A human?" she whimpered. "Looks like he's got Twily's pet dragon with him too." Shining Armor added, squinting out the window. "Humans have never found their way to Equestria. This must be a time of great danger," Celestia exclaimed, "Shining Armor, it is imperative that you prepare our strongest guards immediately. This human is all too familiar and he must be exterminated." Shining Armor saluted and galloped away. Celestia watched out the window. Moments later, Shining Armor and four other guards burst out of the castle's front door in very flashy gold armor, all leviating silver spears with their magic. "Alright, human bro, step back to your world." Shining Armor said sternly. "I'll do anything but that," Chase laughed, then held out a Shen Gong Wu, "ZING-ZOM BONE!" The Wu opened up and a gunky liquid was shot out, hitting the guards and Shining Armor in the face. The ooze sunk into their heads and their eyes lost all colour, becoming black as night. They were zombies. Spike jumped from Chase's shoulder and onto Shining Armor. "Now, Shining Armor, I need you to call all of the guards down here." he whispered to him. Shining Armor blankly nodded as Spike jumped off of him and he trotted back to the castle. A moment later, hundreds of guards flowed from the gates led by the zombified Shining Armor. Chase held out the Zing-Zom Bone again and used its power. He had a mass pony-guard army at his disposal and he intended to grow it even further. "Bring me your leader," Chase demanded, "minions, bring me Celestia!" A row of guards from the back entered the palace and returned with Celestia who did not look pleased one bit. "Chase Young." she nodded. "Celestia. Long time no see." he smiled. "You two know each other?" Spike asked. "All too well," Celestia sighed, "he is the one who drove Luna to become Nightmare Moon!" She closed her eyes for a moment of silence, then suddenly opened them again. "Spike? Are you with Chase?" she gasped. "I am. We're making Equestria and the Xiaolin world better for everyone!" he smiled. "Spike, this is not right." she shouted. "Enough of this mindless talk! ZING-ZOM BONE!" Chase called, turning Celestia quickly into another of his zombie pawns. A small thud was heard and Luna came flying down from a high tower. "STOP, FIEND!" she cried, firing a purple blast at Chase. He jumped and avoided it. "Zombie guards! Attack with your spears!" he commanded. The guards all used their magic to throw their spears at Luna. All but one missed, which grazed her wing and caused her to fall to the ground before Chase. "YOU SHALL NEVER GET AWAY WITH THIS, CHASE YOUNG! WE WILL NOT ALLOW IT!" she shouted. "Oh, but you WILL let me! ZING-ZOM BONE!" Chase called again, turning Luna into a zombie also. "Now we have both of the rulers of Equestria." Spike said. "Indeed," Chase nodded, "and we shall carry out the next step of our plan." Chase walked past the guards, who cleared to make a path for him as Celestia and Luna mindlessly followed him to the very top balcony of Canterlot castle. Chase stood at the edge and laughed loudly, then turned to the alicorns. "Focus all your magical power to the Zing-Zom Bone." he commanded. The princesses nodded and blasted the Shen Gong Wu with magic from their horns. It began to glow colours of both their magic as well as its own golden colour. Chase held the Zing-Zom Bone high, Spike stood at his feet. Shining Armor slowly walked to them. "And now we need a shield." Chase nodded at the unicorn. With a groan, Shining Armor projected a shield of magic just as Chase shouted again. "ZING-ZOM BONE!" A large green light erupted from the Wu and began to grow to an immense size and cover every inch of space. The light expanded and covered more ground until it had enveloped Equestria. The shield was taken away from Chase and Spike when the light faded and below them was millions of ponies all at Chase's command. "And now your big part, Spike." he said. Spike wore The Celestial Horn and Chase held him high. "CELESTIAL HORN!" the dragon called. The Horn shot a white light at the ground before the zombie army and opened a portal where the drones walked in by hundreds at a time. "This is where we rule both worlds." Chase said and jumped down into the portal with Spike to return to the Xiaolin world. *** Luckily, the Xiaolin temple was untouched by evil. Master Fung was meditating above the Shen Gong Wu vault when the dragons ran to him. "Master Fung, are you alright?" Dojo asked. "I am fine. However, the world has been struck with darkness." he said. "You don't say?" Raimundo muttered under his breath. "How did this happen?" Pinkie asked. "It would seem that whatever plan Chase Young intended to carry out worked. Whatever it is, we will have to find out." he explained. "We gathered that, but what should we do?" Applejack asked. "For now we will have to w-" Master Fung was interrupted by a loud rumbling sound. The walls broke forth as hundreds of zombie guard ponies burst through and surrounded the monks. "Ponies?!" Rainbow Dash shouted. "What in Equestria...in the Xiaolin world...what are they doing here?" Rarity exclaimed. "This is Shining Armor's army." gasped Twilight. They held up spears with their magic and aimed them towards the group, but then, Shining Armor heroically dropped before them. "Guards! Hear your leader's commands! Return to Chase Young's palace!" he shouted clearly. The guards all slowly turned around and marched in the opposite direction. Master Fung led the ponies and monks into the temple as soon as the zombies were out of sight and served tea for everyone. "Shining Armor, big brother!" Twilight smiled with a tear in her eye, "I can't believe your here! How did you get here?" She ran up to hug him but he pushed her out of the way. "I'm not your brother," he laughed, "MOBY MORPHER!" Clapping his hooves together, a golden piece of jewelry on them began to glow as he pulled them out and changed size and shape. A small red thing jumped down to the table, causing the monks to stand up and ready to fight. "Hannibal Bean!" Omi exclaimed. "Now, you all settle down. I ain't here to cause no harm." he laughed. "You're evil! Why should we believe you?" Kimiko asked. "Did I not just save your behinds by warding off a deadly pony army?" he said. The monks loosened up a little. "What do you want?" Raimundo asked. "What I want, my dear Xiaolin warriors, is a simple truce. Hear me out as I explain what Chase Young is up to first. Scriptures had foretold of the coming of the equestrian creatures after The Celestial Horn activated, but there would be one who was not one of them. The Equestrian Key." Hannibal explained. "You mean Spike?" Fluttershy asked. "Spike? The dragon, yes. The dragon is The Equestrian Key. Now, the Key is the only one able to open a portal between both the Equestrian and Xiaolin worlds." "We know all this mumbo jumbo. Get to the point, bean paste." Applejack said. "Hold your horses," Hannibal continued, "Chase Young has obviously convinced the Key to come to his side so he can take advantage of his ability. The Equestrain Key is the only one able to use The Celestial Horn after it uses itself, of course. Being a Heylin Shen Gong Wu, however, the Key can only use it if he has Heylin blood running in him. Now, Chase had the plan to go to Equestria and turn all the inhabitants into zombies not to threaten everybody, but to break the time space spectrum." "The time space spectrum? But surely if that broke we'd all be Texas toast?" pondered Clay. "Not exactly. This is a specific dimension of time space we're talking about. It's located in the portal between worlds and is called the 'event horizon'. Since so many creatures from another universe were coming to another, it overpowered the event horizon and broke it, plunging the world into destruction and darkness. With this, Chase can overthrow any power he wants because he knows how to take the darkness to his advantage using his army of zombie ponies." Hannibal finished. Everyone took a moment to let all the information sink in. It was a lot to think about and believe. "And you want a truce because...?" Omi asked. "Because Chase is not sharing any of his world ruling with anyone else, the selfish dope!" Hannibal shouted. "I think we should trust him." said Fluttershy. "You do?" Kimiko asked. "Bare in mind that this is one of the most evil minds in the universe on the table." Raimundo said. "I'm flattered, but your pony friend is right to believe me. I want to help you stop Chase and then we're mortal enemies once more." he offered. "Fine." agreed Raimundo. "Excellent, then I hope you won't mind a couple more tagging along?" Hannibal asked. "Like who?" Twilight asked. Through the door stepped Jack Spicer and Wuya. "Like us." Wuya cackled. "Oh Celestia." Rarity sighed. "Hey now, we wanted some of the...ruling the world...pie." Jack stuttered. "Not very good with metaphors, are we, Spicer?" Rainbow Dash laughed. "Shut up! We're on a truce, we're all friends here!" he shouted. "Whatever. So what's the plan to get back at Chase?" Raimundo asked. "He has zombies all over the land." said Hannibal. "Luckily, I have the Reversing Mirror. We can revert them back to their normal state." Wuya explained. "And then we can use them to help us fight back." Jack continued. "So basically, we journey to Chase Young's palace?" Omi asked. "Yes. Shall we begin?" Hannibal asked. Everyone put their hands and hooves in a pile and nodded. They were ready to take back the universe. --- Luna and Celestia stood side by side to Chase's throne, watching intently at the entrance ready to strike at any intruders. The levels of his palace were also filled heavily with guards and in front of the gates stood Shining Armor. Chase raised a goblet and took a long drink from it. "To world domination!" he called after finishing. "Yeah...!" Spike unenthusiastically said, raising a smaller goblet. He looked at the red liquid inside and swirled it around, then sniffed it. "Chase, what is this drink anyway? It's good!" he said, taking a sip of his own. "Pig's blood." Chase replied. Spike sprayed out the blood at one of the guards, who's zombie mind was too absent to notice. Chase laughed and patted Spike on the head. "You have served well." he commented. "Yeah, thanks, but is this all there is to it? Sitting doing nothing? We rule the world!" Spike waved his arms around. "Would you like to explore?" Chase asked. "Yeah!" Spike smiled. "Then let us explore!" Chase chuckled. --- The sky outside was a deep orange colour and black clouds roamed the skies. The ponies, monks and temporary help were at the base of a mountain with Jack at the lead. "This is a shortcut to Chase's palace." he said. "Are you sure? Just looks like a mountain to me." Wuya commented. "No way! It's..." he looked up at the mountain and realised he was wrong, "just a mountain." Everyone moaned, then heard a deeper and drier moan from nearby which stunned everyone into a deadly silence. "What was that?" Fluttershy whimpered. The groaning noise grew louder and longer and a large shadow crept around the mountain base. It was the shadow of a pony and it was huge. "One of Chase's zombie ponies..." Twilight whispered Then a small figure slowly approached. It stumbled with each step and it took a short time for the pony to become truly visible. Applejack's heart leaped as she ran forward. "Apple Bloom!" she gasped. "Uuuuurrrrrrrr...." the zombie filly replied. "Aw shoot. That Chase gotcha too? Why, when we find him, he'll be in more trouble than a sleepin' sherrif!" Applejack said. Apple Bloom breathed a loud moan again and leapt at Applejack, crashing her to the ground. "Sis! What're you doing?!" she cried. Apple Bloom stomped on Applejack's face with her front hooves and groaned in a howling fashion to the moon. Wuya quickly stepped forward. "REVERSING MIRROR!" she called. The mirror unleashed a silver ray of light which wrapped itself around Apple Bloom. When it unraveled, her pupils were no longer pitch black. She looked at Applejack who she was stood on. "Sis?" she whispered. "Apple Bloom!" Applejack cried, hugging her sister tight. "Applejack, where am I? How did I get here? Who are these people?" Apple Bloom asked, pointing at the unfamiliar humans and Hannibal. "It's a long story, sis. Y'all need to come with us, I'll explain it to ya on the way." Applejack wiped a tear from her eye. "So which way is it to Chase's palace?" Omi asked, then narrowed his eyes at Jack, "Jack Spicer did not know." "Hey! I knew! I just..." Jack sighed, "got it wrong." "Luckily, I have my eye in the sky." Hannibal said. A bird swooped down and landed on the ground infront of Hannibal, who jumped onto him. "Yingyang will lead us to Chase's palace," he bragged, "just follow her." Dojo grew and allowed the ponies to climb on his back, except for Applejack who stayed put with Apple Bloom. "Not coming, Applejack?" Rarity asked. "I hope y'all don't mind if we hitch a ride in the Silver Manta Ray?" she asked. "That'll be fine, but Wuya and Jack need to ride on Dojo." Raimundo replied. "On Dojo? But dragon travel makes me queasy...can I ride up front?" Jack whimpered. "Don't be such a baby, Jack." Wuya sighed. "You're not coming on the front. You'll puke all over my had. To the back." Dojo commanded. Jack's eyes grew and glistened like a puppy's, but Dojo returned a menacing glare and the boy climbed to his back. "SILVER MANTA RAY!" Kimiko called. Once everyone was ready, they followed Yingyang to Chase's palace. --- As they approached the palace, those in the open air could hear what sounded like a prolonged and never-ending droning sound. As they cleared the dark clouds they saw a horrible sight. The path to Chase's palace was filled, absolutely crowded by thousands of zombie ponies. "Oh my. Can we turn back? Is it too late to turn back?" Fluttershy panicked. "I'm with her. Let's go before we're killed." Jack said. "We are going and we are restoring peace to the world." Twilight said sternly. She looked carefully and saw her brother at the gates of the palace. "I need to bring Shining Armor back to normal." she said. "Well we only have one Reversing Mirror." Rainbow Dash pointed out. "Oh! Oh! I have an idea!" Jack beamed. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a ring. "What? You're gonna ask it to marry you?" Pinkie laughed. "No, that's a Shen Gong Wu. The Ring of Nine Dragons. It allows the user to multiply into up to nine copies of them self." Dojo explained. "And what will nine Jacks do? Apart from fail." Rainbow Dash said. "Hey! Right here!" Jack shouted. "Actually, this is quite clever for you, Jack. I see where you're going." Wuya said. "See!" Jack said, with a huge grin on his face. He held the Ring and placed it on the Reversing Mirror. "RING OF NINE DRAGONS!" he called. "REVERSING MIRROR!" Wuya quickly called afterwards. The two Shen Gong Wu began to glow and the Reversing Mirror split into two copies of itself. "Now, this Reversing Mirror will be weaker than before. Be careful with using it." Wuya explained. "I will. Dojo, drop me off at the entrance, quickly!" Twilight commanded. Dojo rushed down and swooped back up as Twilight jumped off and landed next to her brother. Shining Armor turned around quickly and used his magic to throw a spear at Twilight. Twilight used her magic to levitate the Reversing Mirror and she quickly sidestepped away from the spear. Shining Armor groaned and five guards galloped to his side. "REVERSING MIRROR! MAGIC!" Twilight yelled. The Mirror gained a pink tint to it and unleashed a pink veil at Shining Armor, who was quickly returned to normal. He shook his head and looked at Twilight for a moment. "Twily?" he whispered. "Big brother!" Twilight cried. The two ran up to each other to hug, then stood side by side and struck a fighting pose. "Looks like the guards won't be driven to normal too easily." Shining Armor commented. "Right. We're gonna kick some flank?" Twilight nodded. Shining Armor nodded back and the two galloped towards the guards, kicking them hard with their back hooves, causing them to collapse and struggle to get up in their zombified state. Shining Armor added his magical aura to the Mirror. "REVERSING MIRROR! SIBLING MAGIC!" the two called, engulfing the guards in a large pink light. Down below at the bottom of the mountain, Dojo and the Silver Manta Ray landed. Everyone stood ready and charged at the zombie army, yelling at the top of their voices. "REVERSING MIRROR!" Wuya screeched many times, returning zombies to normal as they joined the charge. From above, Twilight and Shining Armor looked down. "It's not enough! There are thousands of ponies and just the two Reversing Mirrors!" Twilight exclaimed. "Then looks like we'll have to show off a bit!" Shining Armor smirked, preparing some magic. He levitated the Mirror high above, in the skies above the battle, then shot a long stream of pink magical light at it. He struggled to keep the stream flowing and looked to Twilight. "Twily! Help me out here!" he grunted. "Right!" she stepped forward and her horn began to glow brightly. She closed her eyes and the glow became bigger and brighter, then she yelled in a volume that could only be rivaled by the Canterlot royals. "HARMONY HUOHUA! MAGIC!" The light skyrocketed and collided with the Reversing Mirror, which became invisible under the bright light. A large wind kicked up that brushed the ponies manes as every singe person and pony stared at the bright light in the sky. "REVERSING MIRROR! HARMONY!" Shining Armor and the Elements of Harmony yelled. The light expanded and suddenly showered down in a large storm on the zombie ponies, restoring them all to their original states. One by one, they began to come to their senses and wonder where the were. All the ponies and people cheered, but suddenly stopped when a snapping voice boomed above all others from behind Shining Armor and Twilight Sparkle. "WHAT. IS. GOING. ON?" Shining Armor and Twilight turned around and before them stood Chase Young, arms folded, looking so furious he was literally steaming. Behind him was Spike, in a state of pure shock. "Twilight? You did this?" the dragon gasped. "Spike! You need to come back to us!" Twilight cried, about to run to Spike, but Chase slammed his arm out against her and knocked her to the ground. "TWILIGHT!" Shining Armor shouted, then turned to Chase and fired a magical blast at him. Chase dodged the shot and suddenly began to bulge. His skin turned a darker colour and he grew. He quickly transformed into his dragon form. "I WILL KILL YOU AND EVERY PONY HERE." he screeched, lifting Shining Armor by the horn and throwing him to the bottom of the path. He landed hard against the ground and was knocked unconscious. Twilight screamed and stood up. "Chase! What are you doing? These are my friends!" Spike cried. "Friends? Spike, on the Heylin side there ARE no friends." Chase shouted. Spike looked in horror at the hurt ponies, the de-zombified ponies and the unconscious Shining Armor. "Then the Heylin side is no place for me." he said. "You cannot simply leave! You have Heylin blood!" Chase sneered. "Then, Chase," Spike ran into the palace and out again with The Celestial Horn, "I challenge you to a Heylin Showdown." "So be it!" Chase laughed. Spike was no match for Chase, but he would take any chance to defeat him. He now realised he had been used. Chase did not care about him. Perhaps he would not even allow him to share in his glory of world domination. Spike had no say in whatever Chase did, he simply followed. He had no purpose of his own will; unlike on the Xiaolin side. Spike now knew what he wanted most and that was to assist his friends and stop this evil man from anything he may try. "The game is Running of the Leaves. The first to reach the finish line wins." Spike challenged. "And the wagers?" Chase asked. "Mine and the Xiaolin's word that we will let you keep the world to yourself. If you win, keep the world and we will do nothing to stop you." "And I shall wager nothing. If you win, you must rely on your Heylin Wish." "That's fine enough by me." Spike nodded. "THIS IS IT! HEYLIN SHOWDOWN!" the two yelled. The Celestial Horn shot a portal and the two were at the start of a trail surrounded by autumn trees losing their leaves. The thousands of ponies who were once zombies cheered in the audience. "ZHENGQU NI DE SHENGHUO!" the competitors yelled. Chase, still in his dragon form, dashed ahead at a very quick pace. Spike grew and used his flight powers to try and catch up. The two were neck and neck. "Cheetah scolding student!" Chase called, bashing into Spike. Spike resisted the attack and focused on flying forwards. His wings beat fast and he was tiring himself quickly. He began to fall back. "Horse slamming door!" Chase called, kicking Spike hard in the face. Spike fell to the ground from the hard hit and slowly got up. Chase had gained some distance quickly, but Spike got back in the game and could see Chase in the distance, but he saw something else. It was long but the colour was not visible. Then he noticed. It was a tree and it impacted on his face, knocking him out cold. Spike could hear voices. Voices of his friends. What he visualized was his smaller form's head surrounded by those of the ponies and monks. "I'm sorry guys. We're gonna lose." he cried. "Don't be like that!" Kimiko said. "Spike, you can do it. We believe in you." Fluttershy exclaimed. "But...he's way in the lead and I'm just lying here." Spike replied. "Get back in the game, Spike!" Raimundo encouraged. "Only you can bring peace. It all lies with you." Applejack said. "It's your unity of us that will win this race!" Rarity said. "Unity?" Spike said, thinking. He then saw another figure. Tall and thin man with a yellow thin head. His voice was soothing. "Spike, you are not useless. You are a Xiaolin." he said. "Who are you?" Spike asked. "I am Grand Master Dashi." he said. Spike gasped, "I can't win this, Dashi. I'm not like the others. I'm not a Xiaolin Warrior." "You think? Then you're all wrong!" Dashi laughed. "What?" Spike gasped again. "Spike, you have just realised it now, you are the Xiaolin Dragon of Unity. That is your Element. Now use it and win this!" Spike regained consciousness and the last sentence Dashi said echoed in his head. He shrunk to his smaller form and closed his eyes. He gained a golden aura and a black belt appeared on his torso. Then, in a magical flash, Twilight, Rarity, Applejack, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie appeared around him. He began to float and glow, as did the ponies. Streams of light from the ponies connected their magical glow together in a hexagon shape, with Spike in the center. "HUANJU HEXAGON! UNITY!" he yelled. Suddenly, the seven of them propelled forward at a breathtaking pace. The trees he flew past were immediately stripped of their leaves and he knocked Chase out of the way, sending him lying very far back and slamming to the hard ground with a loud thud. Spike flew to the finish line and in a flash, he was stood at the entrance to the palace again, ponies whooping and hollering at the top of their voices. Chase knelt on the ground and coughed loudly, spluttering as he spoke. "I still have Celestia and Luna at my side. Attack!" he commanded. Luna and Celestia burst from the doors of the palace and aimed their horns at Spike. "Not so fast! My Heylin Wish! I wish to no longer have my Heylin blood!" Spike quickly said. His eyes flashed white and thin red streams exited his body and vanished into the air. "The Mirror! Quick!" Spike yelled. "RING OF NINE DRAGONS!" Jack called, merging the two Reversing Mirrors into one. Twilight threw the Mirror to Spike with her magic. He caught it and held it high. "No!" Chase screamed. "REVERSING MIRROR! UNITY!" Spike happily called. The Mirror displayed a blinding white light, causing everyone witnessing this to close and shield their eyes. The bright flash faded out and Celestia and Luna returned to normal, then glared at the helpless Chase. "I think I know just what to do with this one." Luna laughed. "I agree. Moon banishment?" Celestia asked the ponies among her. "MOON BANISHMENT!" the thousands of ponies yelled. Celestia stood firm and concentrated a light to her horn, then aimed it at Chase. "Mercy!" Chase cried. "You've shown no mercy to my people. I am doing what is appropriate. Experience the pain Luna had to feel because of your curse. Feel the pain for each and every pony here you brainwashed and hurt. Chase Young, I hereby banish you TO THE MOON!" she announced. Chase was lifted by a white aura, then shot at high speed to the sky. "NOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooo!!" he yelled, his scream becoming less audible the further he traveled. The ponies cheered even louder, then fell in silence. "How are we gonna get home?" one in the crowd asked. Celestia and Luna closed their eyes and held their horns against the Celestial Horn. "CELESTIAL HORN!" the two called. The Horn opened a portal against the side of a mountain and ponies began to flood in. The Xiaolin warrior ponies galloped to Celestia and congratulated Spike on saving the world. "So I expect you shall be accompanying us back home to Equestria?" Luna asked the seven. They all looked at each other for guidance, then shook their heads. "We're needed here." Spike said. "When our quest is complete, we will return, but for now, this shall be our home." Twilight explained. Celestia nodded, "I understand." Celestia, Luna and Shining Armor were the last left to enter the portal. Twilight hugged her brother one last time. "I'll miss you." she said with a tear in her eye. "I'll miss you too, Twily. Next time we meet, let's kick some more bad-guy flank!" he smiled. The three entered the portal, which slowly closed. The moment the two ends of the portal met, the wasteland of earth magically returned to its normal state. --- The monks, ponies and Spike assembled in the temple courtyard. Master Fung was stood in front of them, holding a black sash on his arm. "Spike the dragon, for your bravery, correct realization ands willpower to stop a catastrophe you had created, I am proud to present this to you. Welcome to the Xiaolin training. You shall go straight to the Apprentice level with your pony friends." he bowed. "Thank you, Master Fung!" Spike bowed back. It seemed that all was well. --- All was well, except for on the mountain where a portal to Equestria once was open, a small grey swirl of the portal remained. Small enough for a certain villain to fit through. Hannibal Bean entered the portal to bring his own evil plan to stop the Xiaolin monks to power.