Gloriosa Daisy had several vines surrounding herself to battle Azalea Calla Holstein with while Sunset Shimmer, Twilight Sparkle, and Spike all looked on. Azalea twirled her Multi-Action Dust Baton around as she prepared to fight the magically-influenced camp counselor. Gloriosa started the battle by sending a few vines at Azalea to try and grab her, but the Faunus warrior dodged them and countered by using a blade of air to cut the vines down. Seeing that her first attack failed, Gloriosa watched as Azalea changed the setting of her weapon and rushed forward. Striking away at Gloriosa with her baton, Azalea used the Electric Dust inside it to shock Gloriosa and hopefully render her unconscious. However, it seemed the the magic crystals Gloriosa had increased her durability enough that Azalea couldn't easily take her down with the weak strikes she was using. "It's like she has her own Aura," Azalea thought to herself, remembering the last few fights she and Fragment Hunter had with magical threats.
Sunset, Twilight, and Spike watched on as Gloriosa recovered from the damage she took and used her magic to create more vines. Unlike the first few, these ones had thorns and were being used as whips against Azalea. "I'm trying to save my home," Gloriosa exclaimed as she commanded the plants to strike at Azalea. "I'll do anything to protect it! Even fight you if you get in my way."
"I don't think you can handle fighting me," Azalea retorted as she blocked the thorned vines with her vambraces and switched her weapon's Dust setting to Fire. Swinging her baton like a magic wand, Azalea incinerated the vines that started to extend toward her face. The brambles turned to ash as they burned, surprising Gloriosa for a moment until she sent more vines at Azalea.
Giving a sinister smile, Gloriosa looked at Azalea before placing her hands on the ground. "Oh, I got this," Gloriosa declared as dozens of vines erupted from underneath Azalea and restrained her long enough for Gloriosa to reach the spire. Azalea, Sunset, and Twilight all shouted in protest as Gloriosa grabbed the final two geodes. When she placed her hand on them, green magic sparked everywhere and Gloriosa raised her hand toward Sunset and Twilight, restraining them with only a few vines in comparison to the amount used on Azalea. After holding down all three girls, Gloriosa held the final two geodes and watched as they joined the ones around her neck, changing the shape of the necklace from pendants to more of a choker.
As the magic flowed through Gloriosa, she began to transform as vines wrapped themselves around her body. After the magic changed the vines, Gloriosa now had darker skin, green hair, and a dress that looked like it was made from plants. She was also wearing leggings, long gloves, and a tiara that all looked like they were made of vines. When she opened her masked eyes, they began to glow a bright and evil-looking green before the glow stopped to show her eyes were now black as tar with green pupils. Her appearance immediately reminded the struggling girls of Timber's campfire story that he used to cover for Gloriosa's magical mistakes across camp. "Sorry, girls. I know what I need to do," Gloriosa said as she floated past the girls, ignoring a hiding Spike. "But I feel like we're not on the same page. So... bye!" Leaving the cave, Gloriosa used her vines to seal the cave entrance by moving some boulders and tying them together before heading for the camp. All while ignoring the shouts of protest from the girls and not noticing the Beowolves stalking out of the woods toward the rock quarry.
Back at the camp, Rarity was making sure that everything was set up for the fashion show she planned. And as she did, Bianca Coloratura and Team SAFR helped out by adjusting the outfits worn by the students who agreed to model Rarity's outfits. As Rarity went over everything, she saw that there were a few people missing. "Where are Twilight, Azalea, and Sunset," Rarity asked as she saw the latter two haven't returned with Twilight yet. "They're going to miss our dress rehearsal," the fashionista sighed.
The others had no idea where the three girls were, but Sunset Blaze spoke up. "They're probably just out for a walk and lost track of time," the girl said.
"I suppose that we can start without them," Rarity mused before turning to where DJ Pon-3 had set up a record player with some music she brought. "Whenever you're ready," Rarity signaled to the girl. Playing a techno-pop record, the girls began to walk down the dock as a runway. After gently encouraging Fluttershy to go down, Rarity saw that Applejack was adjusting her top with a smile on her face. "Hmm. Told you you'd like it," she said to Applejack as Bianca stood next to the two.
"It's alright... I guess," Applejack told Rarity before biting her lower lip. "I do get to keep it after camp though, right," she asked. Rarity only smiled before Applejack started heading down the 'runway'.
"I don't blame her for liking that so much," Bianca said. "When Azalea helped out at a photo shoot with me, she wore an outfit I made that's pretty much the same thing, but without all the apples. I let her keep it and a few others."
"Oh, that's interesting. You'll have to show it to me later if you had it packed," Rarity said to Bianca before the two girls began to strut down the dock.
While the dress rehearsal was going on and everybody was enjoying their day, Gloriosa floated toward the campgrounds with a trail of brambles following her. As she moved, she passed by Snips and Snails, who were filling water balloons with Vixen. Seeing Gloriosa's transformed state, Vixen immediately dropped what she had in her hands and ran for camp. "Guys, we've got trouble," Vixen shouted and tried to catch the attention of Fragment Hunter.
As the dress rehearsal, Rarity and Bianca were enjoying how well everything was going. "This is only a preview," Rarity told Bianca. "I've got another entire line I'll debut at the real thing."
"That's great," Bianca said before she heard the music wasn't playing. "What's going on? Why'd the doppelganger of Vinyl stop?"
Looking at the other campers, Bianca and Rarity noticed the surprised faces on them before looking the same direction. Bianca's eyes widened as Rarity gasped dramatically. "Oh my goodness," Rarity exclaimed as everyone saw the transformed Gloriosa Daisy.
"Attention, campers," Gloriosa said to everyone.
"It's Gaea Everfree," Trixie shouted as she pointed at Gloriosa, confusing her with the spirit from Timber's story.
"She's real," Silver and Flash exclaimed in shock.
"We're doomed," Bulk Biceps screamed in fear.
Hearing the commotion, Timber Spruce arrived to see what was happening and saw his sister had turned into a monster. "Gloriosa?! What are you doing," Timber asked in shock at his sister's new appearance.
"That's Gloriosa," Slate questioned as he, Bianca, and the Rainbooms were processing everything.
"Am I goin' crazy, or are her feet not touchin' the ground," Applejack asked.
"Freaky-deaky," Pinkie and Momo exclaimed as they somehow floated in the air next to the others for a brief moment.
"We see it too, AJ," Bianca told Applejack to assure the farmer that she wasn't seeing things.
After everyone was now looking at Gloriosa/Gaea Everfree, she spoke up again. "I have an announcement to make! Filthy Rich wants this to be the last session of Camp Everfree. But don't worry, I've got this," she stated with a maniacal voice on the last three words as she clawed at the ground and channeled her magic. As the green sparks traveled through the ground, a giant barricade of brambles started to grow rapidly and enclose the campgrounds.
As everyone panicked at the sudden growth of plants, Slate, Bianca, Momo, and the Rainbooms had to jump off of the dock before the brambles demolished it. "Oh, come on! We literally just finished building that," Rainbow Dash complained as she saw the ruined dock.
"I think we have bigger problems than the dock that we can fix up easily," Slate told the girls as he drew his revolvers and aimed them at the magical threat in front of him and the rest of the campers. The rest of Fragment Hunter all prepared for battle as they drew their own weapons and prepared to deal with Gloriosa Daisy/Gaea Everfree.