Out in Ponyville, Dark Spike was zipping all around taking random things from ponies right from left, from food to trinkets to just about anything. As Light Spike and the girls kept trying to catch him he always managed to slip away. When the ponies in town saw Spike with the girls, they were confused as to where he suddenly came from when he was just there with them taking their stuff.
“If Dark Spike keeps hoarding, pretty soon he's going to end up turning into a giant greedy dragon!” Twilight feared.
“And then it'll be harder to stop him.” Light Spike feared.
“Come on, he can't be far now!” Rainbow ordered, as they continued to look.
Dark Spike was currently scamming some squirrels out of their acorns and nuts with the three cup game, “Where's the nut? Who's the nut? Why's the nut? You pick this one?” he lifted the cup up to reveal nothing underneath it, “You lose!” he laughed before taking the acorn he won from the squirrel and placed it in a bowl he took from the Sugarcube Corner. The bowl itself was already filled with what could be a whole winter's worth of nuts.
“I'm on a role here.” Dark Spike laughed.
“Hey!” shouted a voice, as he saw Fluttershy with the others behind her, “Drop those nuts!”
“I won them fair and square, sweetheart.” Dark Spike boasted.
“Spike, you have to stop this!” Twilight ordered.
“Twilight's right, if you keep on hoarding the way you are you're going to turn into an even worse dragon.” Rarity tried reasoning with him.
Dark Spike just gave Rarity a blank look before answering, “So?”
“So, is that really what you want?” Applejack asked rhetorically.
“Would that be such a bad thing?”
“Have you forgotten what happened last time that happened?” Rainbow asked in disbelief.
“Hmm, must've remained with my Light half.” Dark Spike joked.
“Look, me,” Light Spike began, “If you and I don't rejoin who knows what could happen?”
“What could happen?” Dark Spike asked with a laugh.
Suddenly appearing all around them were the sharper looking Shadowkhan that Shendu called upon. Their appearances left the girls and two Spike's in surprise.
“That could happen.” Pinkie pointed out.
“These don't look like your run of the mill Shadowkhan.” Rainbow noticed.
“There's more than one type?” Twilight asked in shock.
“What do you think they can do?” Fluttershy trembled.
One of the new Shadowkhan extended its claws and in one swipe ended up cutting a nearby post into several perfectly clean cut pieces that horrified the group.
“They're Razor-sharp.” Light Spike gasped.
“Yeah, Razor Khan.” Pinkie realized.
“Different type or not, these guys gotta go.” Dark Spike said, as he flew at one and punched it. It hit a tree but didn't go poof, “Huh, normally my punches would make them go poof like that.” he said curiously.
As more of the Razor Khan got ready to fight the ponies and Light Spike prepared themselves, “Come on!” Twilight ordered, as they spread out.
As Rainbow flew around one of the Razor ninjas she tackled it right to A.J who bucked it against a wall. Twilight was blasting away at them, while some were destroyed others moved around her shots before one jumped at her and tried to slice her. Twilight teleported out of the way, as the Shadowkhan sliced a tree branch that held a birds nest in it with two baby birds in it. As the next plummeted Fluttershy quickly swooped in and caught it. She placed the next on a safer branch and smiled seeing the babies were ok.
Rarity was firing magic shots from her horn at the ninjas, but when one came at her from the side she quickly levitated a nearby wooden board over to used as a shield. The Razor Khan's pointy arms got stuck in it before eventually slicing it off.
Light Spike was running around fast but saw one Razor Khan had landed before him and tried to slice him. Light Spike quickly used his heat beam blasts at his opponent but all it did was force him to back off.
“He didn't poof,” Light Spike gasped. He looked over at his Dark half and saw while he was fighting hard he noticed his own usage of the talisman powers didn't look as effective as they're supposed to be, “Him too?”
Dark Spike dodged before firing a combustion blast at some Razor Khan, but it didn't impact fast enough allowing the shadow ninjas to get out of the way, “What?!” he gasped.
As the Razor Khan were going to slice Dark Spike, Rainbow swooped in and snatched him before their enemies could land a hit.
As Rainbow touched down, she spoke smugly to the Dark Spike, “You ok, tough guy?”
“Let go! I'm fine!” Dark Spike ordered, as he jumped out of her hold.
“Didn't look fine to me.” Rainbow challenged.
“I'm just having an off day is all.” Dark Spike argued.
“I don't think that's the case.” Twilight said, landing by them, “Look at your other half.” They looked seeing Light Spike struggling to fight back, while also trying to take cover.
“Both of you aren't fighting at your peak, and do you know why?” she questioned.
“Enlighten me.” Dark Spike replied.
“Because the Tiger Talisman split not only the both of you, but divided the talismans powers as well making them weaker.”
“So what're you saying?” Dark Spike asked.
“Unless both of you rejoin there's a slim chance any of you will get out of this alive.” she warned him.
Dark Spike suddenly looked concerned as he looked at Light Spike and how he wasn't doing any better than he was doing in the fight. And without his toughness and determination he really stood no chance. He then put on a brave face and flew over.
As Light Spike was punching away one Razor Khan, another jumped him from behind and scratched him in the back leaving behind a few marks.
“Spikey-Wikey!” Rarity cried, as the girls gasped.
Light Spike groaned, as he dropped to the ground onto his arms. As the Horse talisman tried healing him it was a slow process being at half strength. The Razor Khan that scratched him wasn't going to let him heal so easily and was ready to deliver another blow, only for Dark Spike to fly in and punch it aside.
“Hold still.” Dark Spike said, as he used his own healing power combined with Light Spike's to fully heal the scratches.
“You helped me?” Light Spike asked, after getting up.
“As much as it pains me to say it, and believe me it pains me to say it... I can't fight alone.” Dark Spike grumbled.
“So then?” Light Spike asked with hope.
“We...” Dark Spike strained, “Need to be one again!”
Light Spike smiled, “Wouldn't have it any other way.” the two Spike's locked claws and the two halves of the tiger talisman in each of their eyes glowed before combining again.
The girls and Razor Khan looked and saw standing before them was one Spike, “Spike?” Twilight asked.
Spike spoke, “Yeah, it's me. Whole again.”
“All right!” Rainbow cheered.
“Yippee!” Pinkie cheered.
“Now, where were we?” Spike asked, as he and the girls resumed fighting the Razor Shadowkhan.
With Spike at full power again he was flying around and attacking the Razor Khan like they were nothing. And the girls not needing to worry about covering for either of the half powered Spike's were able to fight at their full capacity again.
The girls and Spike knocked the seven remaining Razor Khan into the center together, before Spike and Twilight flew above them, “Have fun going back to your boss in defeat, fellas!” Spike called, before he unleashed a combustion blast and Twilight fired her magic down. The two attacks combined destroyed the remaining Razor Khan.
The ponies cheered as Spike and Twilight touched down, “Spike, it's so good to see you back to your old self.” Twilight said, while hugging him.
“Yeah, as much fun as it was having two Spike's around, I guess in this case less is more.” Pinkie admitted.
“And no offense, but your dark half was a real jerk.” Rainbow added.
Spike sighed, “I'm sorry the trouble my dark half caused you all, and what he said to all of you.”
“It wasn't your fault, Spike.” Applejack comforted him.
“Of course not,” Rarity agreed, “Your dark half just didn't have your nicer half to keep him in check.”
“But now that both Spike's are one again we have you back.” Fluttershy smiled.
“Thanks. And I'm hoping to stay that way.” Spike said.
“Well now that you pulled yourself together, what say we return all this stuff?” Twilight suggested, while motioning to the hoarded stuff Dark Spike pilfered from the towns ponies.
“Uh, sure.” Spike said knowing he'd be doing a lot of explaining to the ponies in Ponyville.
As they started collecting the stuff and started to return them to their rightful owners, Spike spoke, "You know if Shendu has more than one type of Shadowkhan at his disposal, this could be dangerous for us."
"I agree," Twilight nodded, "Which is why we need to be extra cautious. Because if there are more than one type who knows what other kinds there could be." the girls feared the worst.
Meanwhile at Shendu's lair, the imprisoned Dragon seeing his henchmen return empty handed left him furious, “Even separated you failed me?!” he bellowed, before snorting, “Good help is just so hard to find these days!”