Time passed as the emotions died down. The will to press on was lost, as it seemed they hit an unbreakable roadblock.
Stygian would slowly enter the room, seeing all four of them in a saddened state. "Hey, has anyone seen Harmony?" He asked as he rubbed his head.
"She's gone," Spike said, not turning to face him. He just laid over Twilight, looking off into the distance.
"The.. same can be said for Twilight." Cozy added. "We're kind of stuck here."
Stygian examined Twilight, he bit his lip and looked downward. He was distraught to find the pony who freed him from shadows originally to be deceased. Despite the emotions, this was the time for action, as he wasn't planning on spending eternity here.
He closed his eyes and he walked past Twilight and Spike, trying to shut the image out of his mind. "Alright, group up."
Eris didn't give any motions. "Don't bother, there's no point."
"We can come to that conclusion once we exhausted all possibilities, now group up," Stygian responded, attempting to take command.
Eris huffed, not enjoying being bossed around. But she was drained of magic and literally had nothing else to do, so she walked over, same with the other three.
Once they were standing together, Stygian began. "Alright, is there any chance you or Cosmos can fix this?" he said towards Eris.
"If you are fine waiting a few thousand years for chaos energy to build up, we probably could painstakingly spend an eternity finding the time pieces and putting it back together one piece at a time," Eris replied.
Stygian nodded. "Alright, any faster ideas?"
They were quiet for a minute as they thought. Spike looked towards Megan to ask a question. "Do you still have Algea's powers?"
Megan held out her hand and attempted to get some spark of shadow magic. It wasn't as easy as it was before, but she did get a small shadow orb in her hand.
"YEAH! Alright! Progress!" Cozy said, cheering up a little.
"It still isn't enough to put reality back together," Eris stated, causing Cozy's ears to droop.
They thought for a minute, but Stygian spoke up. "Wait! Pretty much everything ever is shadows right now, right!?"
Spike's eyes widened as she turned to Megan. "Yeah! You can get them to help us!"
Megan was skeptical at first, but it was worth a shot. "Alright, um. I'll give it a try."
She walked over to an open space, holding out her hands as if she really didn't know what she was doing.
".... uhh.. SHADOWS! COME.. forth?"
Nothing seemed to happen. Cozy looked at the others. "Alright so I'm going to start going wild and smashing stuff and maybe that'll generate chaos fast enough so in like only 100 years we-"
The palace would start to shake violently. Soon emerged a massive wall of shadows, all looking towards their empress. Megan stood there confused and afraid.
"Uhhh.." Megan turned around to look at the others.
They had about the same reaction as her. Eris pointed furiously at the shadows. "Say something!" She quietly exclaimed.
Megan turned back to the shadows, who were eagerly awaiting their master to speak.
"Ahem! Um, Shadows of the Universe. I ask that you put time back together, please." Megan asked.
The shadows wouldn't move. "Time is unnecessary in the world of shadow." One of the shadows said.
Megan thought for a moment. An idea came to mind as she ran off elsewhere in the palace.
Before long, Megan returned holding the Eclipse Sphere. "Alright, I have a suggestion. What if Shadows and Light came together?"
Both the group and the shadows were confused. Megan sighed and gave her reasoning.
"The reason that they can't be together is because of corruption. So, what if we just took that away? We have this, so might as well give it a try." She said with a smile.
The shadows trusted their leader and accepted her idea. Megan nodded happily and looked down at the ball, giving it a shake trying to get the energy out of it. Suddenly, a brilliant orb of light and a much fainter orb of darkness emerged from the Eclipse Sphere.
"Alright, now! Eclipse Sphere! Steal away all the corruption of these shadows, and everyone else!" She said full of high hopes and energy. The sphere would begin to pull a purple substance from all around, freeing both the light and shadows from their selfish desires.
Eris suddenly had second ideas. "wa- wait MAYBE WE CAN DO MINE AND COZY'S IDEA!" The sphere went on absorbing the corruption from others in the room.
"I FEEL TINGLY! AHHH!" Cozy said in a panic. Soon, it would have cleansed all of the shadows in the palace. Megan would hold the sphere in her hands and look up to the shadows.
"Now, as my final request of you. Please restore our world. Light and Order. Shadows and Chaos. It can all coexist together. We just have to make it happen."
The shadows would scatter in all different directions. The strange orb around the palace would start to clear away. Light and Time would begin to be restored to the world.
Before everyone, the orbs of Light and Darkness would take physical form. They didn't have any words for each other, though they exchanged a nod of agreement before they faded away.
Soon, the floating island was returned to where the crater was. It was a relief for the sun to be shining through the glass overhead.
The people in both rooms would begin to wake up after the extraordinary events. The villains felt a little different on the inside as they woke up. The heroes entered the main palace room to witness the light shining once again.
Chrysalis slowly pulled herself up. Now a white unicorn with pink hair. "Ugh. What happened, did the world get fixed?" She asked, looking around at everyone wide eyeing her. "What?" She would glance down at her hooves and flip out. "Oh no, I'M BEAUTIFUL AGAIN!!!"
After that went down, attention turned to Twilight Sparkle. She would slowly rise into the air, causing a beam to form that connected Twilight and Megan. From it, Harmony was able to reform once again. Once restored, she would walk over to Twilight, press her head against her, and restore her.
Twilight opened her eyes to see Harmony smiling down at her, she smiled back, knowing that the situation must have been resolved. Spike would almost aggressively hug Twilight's neck. Twilight looked down to see that he had tears of joy in his eyes. "Wow, what got you so worked up?" She said with a small laugh.
Harmony would turn to face Megan. Megan stood there, still clutching the Eclipse Sphere. She would carefully set it down and then ran as fast as she could to hug her mother's neck.
"I'm so sorry, for everything." She emotionally said. She felt limbs holding her tightly. "It's alright now, It's good to see you again."
While the group was hugging and enjoying their victory, they lost track of the sphere. When Megan was done with the impactful reunion, she went over to retrieve it, only to find it missing. "wha- I put it right there, right?"
She would be magically grabbed and held down. Someone levitated the Sphere, aggressively aiming it at the most powerful ones in the room. Grogar would reveal himself.
"Alright, we are almost through with this whole thing. All you folks have to do is kindly step forward, and she won't get hurt." The goat said, eyeing the room.
Megan thought for a moment. She remembered something that had been erased from her memory for the longest time. "... Grogar, you're the one that captured me. You put me in line to become Algea."
"Correct, and I'm not about to let all these years go to waste." He said, aiming the sphere at Harmony. He would be cut off by feeling a tap on his back.
Once he turned around, he released Megan from surprise, as he saw a very angry looking Draconequus staring down at him.
Discord picked him, tore open the portal to the puppet realm, and smashed him in before it could open wide enough, cracking the air around it. Grogar weakly slipped through and tumbled in, followed by Discord closing the portal with a snap.
He blew his claws and looked over at everyone. They were a bit surprised at what just happened. Discord shifted back to his regular Discordy self, leaning against the air casually. "So, Megan. How have you been holding up?"
Megan grinned and ran over to wrap her arms around him. As Discord returned the hug, it was clear by his face that this was genuinely the happiest he has ever been in his existence.
Celestia nodded and turned to face all the villains, who suddenly got defensive as she watched them. "Alright. Princess of Equestria, You can make the call."
Twilight looked over and saw this. She walked over to them, spreading her wings. "Don't cause any more trouble, alright?"
They agreed in unison, and Twilight went back over towards her friends.
Sombra looked over to Chrysalis, who was now clearly Amore. "Chrys.. erm, Amore. I am eternally sorry."
ChrysAmore looked around the room at how everyone was acting and rolled her eyes, feeling that she had to go along with it. "Fine. Apology Accepted."
Discord appeared between them, stretching his arms out wide to wrap everyone in the room in one gigantic hug. "Thank you all EVER so much for this! You all went through with my plan PERFECTLY!"
Harmony dropped her glorious goddess voice for a more natural voice. "What?" She asked, her eyes darting over to Discord. Discord immediately realized his mistake and released everyone.
"WELL, uh. You see, while I was in Tartarus, I had some spare time, so.. ONLY HERE AND THERE... I .. set up a few.. things.. intentionally.. knowing the outcome." Discord said, spinning his fingertips.
The entire room looked at him. He just awkwardly rubbed his hands together. "Well, I mean. It all worked out in the end, so-" Discord was cut off by Harmony turning everything from his neck down to stone.
"YOU"
"FAKED"
"! ? ! E V E R Y T H I N G ! ? !"
He was a bit panicked but gave a smug reply to his former lady. "Well I mean, the emotions were real."
Harmony spun around and swiftly kicked him dead center, cracking the stone and causing a few pieces of him to fall off.
Discord's face seemed to indicate that what she did actually hurt. Harmony flew up to his face as if she was going to finish him off then and there.
"Love, uh, I know that you are very angry at me, and that's understandable, but I want you to know just how sorry I feel-" Discord started, Harmony grabbed his head gave him a solid kiss on the lips.
She backed off after a few seconds to stare him in the eyes. "we. are. DONE!"
Harmony landed on the ground to look at the group. "So... I believe this calls for a celebratory event at Canterlot."
They agreed and began to walk off. "Alright, sounds fun! I'll be there! Don't wait up!" Discord called out.
They snickered at Discord as they walked past him. "See you there, Dad," Megan said. Rainbow dash went up and bumped him. "Discord got told!" She accidentally knocked a piece out of him, she attempted to put it back in.
"It's fine, just go." He said, Rainbow nodded and flew to catch up with her friends.
Cosmos fell into Discord's stone arms, romantically wrapping her arms around his neck. "Sooo.. If she doesn't want you anymore."
Discord started to sweat. "Umm. Well." He sighed. "I'll give it a week if you behave."
"Month or I leave you here," Cosmos said, crossing her arms knowing she had the upper hand.
Discord gave a more annoyed sigh. "Fine, a month."
Cosmos hopped down and picked up Discord, tucking him in under her arm, rushing off to Canterlot.
"Cosmos you are forgetting my legs."