//------------------------------// // Mirror Pool // Story: Spike the Fairy // by PonyJoel //------------------------------// Midnight Rarity soars in the skies, heading to the Mirror Pool. She growls on the way there due to the Changelings leaving the hive unscathed. Rarity's mind Cozy Glow continues to decode the message Rarity had mentioned. D.L. Rarity watches the young pegasus think while the others remain silent. "Ugh! What does D.L. stand for?! Why can't Lord Tirek tell me the message!? I hate that Midnight Sparkle is on a genocide for a lost cause! Spike the Fairy is gone! What is time magic going to do for us!?" Then it struck Cozy Glow. It's now evident that Midnight Sparkle doesn't care for her comrades. Sure, a villain is about being deceptive, manipulative, and conniving. However, Midnight's objective is reaching newer lows that Cozy wouldn't cross. "D.L. Demons Lie... Midnight Sparkle is lying to Tirek, Sombra, Storm King, and me." Rarity nods to see if Cozy Glow figured out her cryptic message. Cozy turns and nods in return. She understands Midnight Sparkle's plan of turning back time is to reverse and correct her mistakes. Then, when she and the others within Rarity's mind go rogue, she'll use the Magic of Friendship to eradicate the tyrannies. Lord Tirek can tell that Cozy Glow has solved the cryptic message. He now waits to see if things backfire on Midnight Sparkle. Sure, he'll do his part until the time is right. King Sombra paces himself in silence. He's eager to reobtain control of the Crystal Empire. He visions Princess Cadance and Shining Armor in chains and bows down to him. The ideas of humiliating the two ponies are endless in his demented mind. As for Flurry Heart, he'll raise her into a Shadowed Alicorn filled with scorn and hatred. Storm King envisions making Grubber a maid while Tempest becomes his footstool, breaking the two mentally as slow as possible. Storm King can't wait to leave the body and create better-advanced Techno-Magic-Soldiers to take on the army of Dragons. He walks around, practicing his techniques with his staff. Rarity smirks. Midnight Sparkle loses focus as she sense Rarity jotting an idea. Midnight Sparkle sees the Mirror Pool caves and lands. She wants to have a conversation with Rarity. Midnight Sparkle gets up and walks up to the sphere containing Rarity. Midnight Sparkle grabs Rarity's cheek. "Why are you smirking?" "I'm envisioning how you'll meet your demise. You'll face the replacement of Spike and the other Twilight or by a group of friends that'll be the future representatives of Harmony." Midnight Sparkle chokes Rarity, which causes a rift in her body. "Think that's humorous?!" Midnight releases the hold a bit. "You can hurt me all you want. You can torment me. However, like any other mad villain, defeat is inevitable. We wrote a journal about it!" Rarity laughs. Midnight Sparkle slams Rarity hard, causing a bruise on the body. "Remember, I can have your sister killed when I go looking for her!" "By now, Discord could be hiding the youth away from your wrath. Who knows, maybe Discord already sent my sister and her friends to Earth Land as refugees." Midnight Sparkle growls, and the possibility of Discord doing the sort antagonizes her. "That chaotic genius!" Midnight Sparkle groans in anger and ponders the possibilities Discord could be doing. "That's it! I'm removing the enchantment now!" Mirror Pool Midnight Rarity feels the bruise on her side and chooses to ignore it. She trots to the Mirror Pool and sees the enchantment still in place as before. "Time to weaken it," Midnight Rarity chimes Grogar's Bell. The Bell absorbs Celestia's magic. All that remains is Freed's magic as the barrier. Midnight Rarity laughs in triumphant. "Finally! I can-" Grogar's Bell vanishes right before Midnight Rarity's eyes. "WHAT THE-" "Tsk, tsk, tsk," A clone of Discord walks out of the shadows. "Do you believe that the Mirror Pool would be left unguarded?" Midnight Rarity growls in anger. "HOW DARE YOU?! YOU FREAKING JACKASS!" "You're on a rampage, killing innocents, and you calling me a jackass. Really? You're a genocidal, egotistical, blinding, arrogant demon, Midnight Sparkle," The clone calmly replies. "I refuse to allow others to suffer because you didn't get what you want. You are a spoiled, demented pony. All of this carnage because you couldn't be happy for Spike." "SPIKE BELONGS HERE IN EQUESTRIA WITH ME!" Midnight Rarity barks at the clone. "No, he doesn't belong with you. He's not your property. You may have hatched him but, you did not conceive him. Spike met his Uncle in Earth Land. I'm sure by now he discovered his mother as well." Midnight Rarity uses her power to grab the clone's throat. "You're going to rue the day of stepping into my business." "Friendship is-" Midnight Rarity snaps the clone's neck with her power. "Friendship is dead along with you," Midnight Rarity claims. She roars in anger since the clone teleported the Bell to who knows where. Her horn ignites green to absorb the clone's magic. Then she uses her power to turn the clone into stone and shatter it by stomping on its head. Rarity's mind "So, what are you going to do without the Bell?" Rarity smirks. Despite watching the clone of Discord dying by Midnight's wrath, she feels that Midnight Sparkle is one step closer to meeting her demise. "I channeled enough power from the Bell into the body. I will penetrate the enchantment," Midnight Sparkle declares. Mirror Pool Midnight Rarity powers up while her horn illuminates green; she shoots a Demon Curse at the enchantment Freed left behind. The Demon Curse causes a gap to spread in the mirror pool big enough for her. Rarity's mind "Hey! That gap isn't big enough for the Techno-Magic-Soldiers to fit into!" Storm King yells at Midnight Sparkle. "Be glad you'll have a body of your own!" The outburst from Midnight Sparkle causes the Storm King to hurl away from Midnight's presence. He lands hard on his back. Mirror Pool "Into her own reflection, she stared. Yearning for one whose reflection she shared. And solemnly sweared not to be scared. At the prospect of being doubly mare," Midnight Rarity recites and goes into the gap of the Mirror Pool. She recites the enchantment four more times. The four clones of Midnight Rarity remain stationary. She shoots each clone with the members of Demon Tail. The bodies of the clones change form with magic power from Grogar's Bell flowing within. Storm King, King Sombra, Lord Tirek, and Cozy Glow are back to their demonic physical forms. Cozy Glow sinisterly smiles to show loyalty to Midnight Sparkle despite having the idea of betraying her when the time comes. "Back to my old self! Finally!" Storm King relishes his new body. "Time to conquer the Crystal Empire," King Sombra wants to seize control now. "Not yet. We have one pitstop to make," Midnight Sparkle said. She changes Rarity's body to mold like her demonic self. "We're going to Canterlot to absorb the Princesses' Alicorn Magic." "Now, we're talking!" Lord Tirek can taste the power of Alicorn Magic once more. "Let's go," Midnight Sparkle's horn glows multi-color. She uses her Demon Curse to turn everyone around her invisible to fly to Canterlot undetected.