The group continued cheering and thanked Danny for what he was able to do against the army, but the celebration was short-lived. Discord had arrived during the celebration, catching everyone off guard. He gave them condescending applause, a slow clap, practically mocking their celebration with a cocky smirk on his face. He then says, “Oh yes, congratulation Ghost Boy.” Danny turned to him as his hands glowed, ready to blast him with an ecto ray. “You managed to stop an army, but none of you have been able to stop me yet.” Discord had a wicked grin on his face as he snapped his talons, making the Master Emerald appear in his lion paw. Everyone was caught off guard, except for Rarity and Knuckles as they glared at Discord. Knuckles growls at Discord, angered from seeing him with the Master Emerald.
Discord felt a great surge of energy, he was engulfed in the Master Emerald’s power as he held it. He then snapped his talons and the seven Chaos Emeralds the group had were seen floating above them. Everyone was left confused by the sudden action and became worried as they see what happened with the emeralds surrounding Discord. The respective colors from each of the Chaos Emeralds floated out of the gems and flew toward Discord. He absorbed the energy, causing panic among the group, as they see the seven Chaos Emeralds clear and were now rendered useless.
Discord laughs maniacally after absorbing the energy of the Chaos Emeralds, and he started to grow in size, taking on a more dragon-like appearance. The group felt like hope had slipped from their grasp seeing the Chaos Emeralds become dull and useless, while Discord gets the benefits of their power. Discord imprisons the Master Emerald in a cage made of dark energy on a separate piece of ground in the air and he pushed it to the side, making sure that it was out of everyone’s reach. After seeing everyone’s shocked expressions, Discord gloated at his accomplishment and said, “No Chaos Emeralds, no Master Emerald, I am now more powerful than the Elements of Harmony. How does it feel knowing that defeat is upon you?”
Sonic grins at what Discord said and responds, “If I had a dollar for every time someone thought they had beaten me, I’d own my very own chilidog factory.” Twilight says in a worried tone, “Sonic, I don’t think it’s wise to provoke him at a time like this.” Remembering a similar situation, Danny had Sonic’s attitude figured out and said, “Don’t sweat it Twi, I bet I know why he’s so calm right now.” Sonic turns and gives him a knowing smile. Danny continues and says, “He only took the negative energy of the emeralds, didn’t he?” Tails nodded in agreement, while everyone who was not familiar with the Chaos Emeralds, was left dumbfounded by this bit of information. The emeralds were gathered and given to Sonic as Tails says, “Negative energy isn’t the only thing that can give the emeralds their power, our positive feelings can work wonders. As Sonic said before, the bonds we share are great, and together, we can give the emeralds more than enough power to work again!”
As this was said, everyone felt nothing but doubt inside of them, but when they looked at Sonic and they saw that there was no fear in his eyes, they felt right then and there that there was no way he could lose. With that realization hitting them, they closed their eyes and focused on their positive feelings toward him and each other. They put their trust and belief in Sonic, and at that very moment, the Chaos Emeralds started to activate, blinding the area with its light. As the light subsided, the group opened their eyes and they see Sonic, but instead of his usual blue look, he now took on a gold look and his eyes were red instead of green, he was now Super Sonic. Sonic then looked to Shadow and Silver and motioned for them to come to him.
Once they were close enough, Sonic raised both of his hands to them and they, in turn, raised their hands to him and toward each other. The golden aura that surrounded Sonic glowed brighter and engulfed both Shadow and Silver in it. While the light grew brighter, both Shadow and Silver were transformed into their super forms. Super Shadow having changed from his black fur to a very bright yellow fur with his chest fur having a brighter white tone, the red tips on his quills were unchanged, but his red eyes took on a darker tone in this transformation. Super Silver also took a golden yellow with dark yellow chest fur, and just like Sonic and Shadow, the golden eye color had changed to red as well. Seeing these three hedgehogs go through this transformation surprised everyone, Discord, however, showed no fear to the hedgehog trio and says, “You fools don’t stand a chance against me.” Sonic says with his cocky smirk, “We’ll see about that!”
The three hedgehogs flew toward Discord with great speed, ready for the final confrontation. Danny was very excited to see the transformation in person and said, “There’s no way I’m going to pass up a chance to fight alongside Sonic in his Super form!” Without another word, Danny flew in Sonic, Shadow, and Silver’s direction, clearly excited about this opportunity. Twilight smiled at Danny’s enthusiasm and had a plan ready for the fight. She said to her friends, “All right everypony, with the Elements of Harmony, we should be able to undo Discord’s use of the Chaos Emeralds powers.” Rainbow Dash turned to her and says, “Didn’t he say that he was stronger than the Elements of Harmony though?” Twilight says, “I know he said that but I have a feeling that he’s bluffing to scare us, but I know we can stop him with Sonic’s help.”
Twilight and her friends walked in front of the group and readied themselves into their formation to use the Elements of Harmony. Twilight was prepared to activate her element, until she hears Pinkie release a shriek of terror, catching her and her friends off guard. As the group looks on, they saw that Pinkie Pie was captured in a sphere of purple aura. One by one, each of the other ponies screamed in terror as they too were captured in the same sphered aura, Twilight was the only one among them who hasn’t been captured. She tries to free her friends by blasting the spheres with her magic, but unfortunately for her, the spell that she cast did not affect them. Twilight shakes her head in disbelief and says to herself, “No, no, no, no!” She continues to cast spells out of desperation to free her friends, but each spell was rendered useless, causing her to cry tears of frustration and worry. After one more failed attempt, Twilight sits in defeat, not knowing what to do to save her friends.
She feels defeated as she sees her friends in the spheres and says, “I’m so sorry.” She watched helplessly as the spheres were then lifted into the air and out of her reach, causing her to go from feeling despair, to worry once again. Shortly after, Time Eater reveals himself to Twilight, causing her to back away in a panic. She turned to see if the others were seeing this, but instead, she sees the group had been stuck in a frozen state, not moving or reacting to what was currently going on. Through this, Twilight now understands the full extent of what Time Eater could do. Time Eater says to Twilight, “Poor little pony. You didn’t think you were going to win that easily, did you?” Twilight sweats nervously and says, “For a moment there, yeah, I thought I did.” She blasts a strong beam of magic at Time Eater, but he blocks the spell with one hand and wasn’t fazed by her effort. He then captures Twilight in the sphere of purple aura as his hold on time had ceased. The group looks on in confusion and upon seeing Twilight getting captured, they realize that Time Eater has captured all of the ponies.
Seeing the turn of events, Mordecai was angry after seeing Time Eater capture Twilight in the sphere of purple aura. He unsheathes his sword and charges at Time Eater without thinking. Hearing Mordecai’s scream, Time Eater opened a portal, causing Mordecai to run through it. He reappeared facing away from Time Eater and in front of the group, leaving him confused about what happened. Mordecai was going to charge again but was stopped by Rigby, Sam, and Tucker. The trio struggled but managed to keep Mordecai in place. Tucker says, “Mordecai, you need to chill!” Sam said, “Yeah! You don’t know if that thing will do something worse.” Mordecai says, “I don’t care! He has Twilight…and her friends! We need those Elements to stop Discord!” Rigby says, “Even so, we don’t want anything bad happening to you just because you’re trying to save your girlfriend!” Hearing this Mordecai stopped struggling out of the shock of the revelation Rigby just blurted. Realizing that he had said too much, Rigby covered his mouth and says, “Oh, crap.” Sam and Tucker were stunned by this and said in unison, “Wait…girlfriend?” Mordecai blushed hard from this and tries to cover his face, feeling completely embarrassed by this, and then says, “Remind me to kill you when this is all over Rigby.”
After hitting Discord hard, Sonic noticed Time Eater and sees six purple energy spheres. His fear overtakes him as he realized that the ponies were captured. Discord saw that Sonic was distracted and he blasts him with a dark purple energy blast from behind. Shadow shoots his Chaos Spear at Discord before he could strike Sonic again. Time Eater opens up six portals and sends each of the spheres into them. Sonic shakes off the attack and sees the orbs going into the portals, he was going to go rescue them, but a second explosion catches his attention as Discord hits Shadow with a dark energy blast. He turns back to the group and sees that Time Eater was gone, and he noticed the dejected look on Mordecai’s face from what happened. He sees Amy console him as they look at the portals. Sonic says, “I’m counting on you to save them, Amy.” He turns back in Discord’s direction and he flies off.
After separating the ponies, Time Eater disappears from the group’s sight but had managed to leave behind more dark creatures for the group to fight. These dark creatures, however, had taken the resemblance of the remaining members of the group but had a dark grey tone to their skin/fur colors. The leaders among these dark counterparts were the ones that looked like Sam and Tucker. The Sam and Tucker counterparts took on the resemblance of the duo when they were influenced by the ghosts in the ghost zone. The Tucker doppelganger took on the form of Tucker Phantom in his true form, a muscular goblin-looking monster, dressed as King Tuck, while the Sam doppelganger took on the form of the plant queen when she was controlled by Undergrowth. Her appearance was more for combat in a green dress that resembled the grass, along with green gloves.
Mordecai says to the group, “What are we gonna do guys?” Eddy says, “How about some of you go save some of the ponies, we’ll keep these guys distracted.” Mordecai asks, “Are you sure you can handle them?” Ed says, “Distraction’s my middle name! No wait, it’s Horace.” Mordecai was left confused by that, but he felt that he could trust them. Eddy whispers, “Follow my lead boys.” Eddy clears his throat catching the attention of Dark Sam and King Tuck and says, “So, are you guys supposed to be a clone of each of us?” King Tuck says, “What’s it to you shrimp?” Eddy grinds his teeth at the insult, but Double D placed a hand on his shoulder to calm him down and take the next step of distracting them. Double D says, “Usually, doppelgangers are supposed to look similar to the original, yet the two of you look way too different to be Sam and Tucker’s doppelgangers.” Dark Sam says, “We’re more than just their doppelgangers, we’re their dark sides when ghosts influenced them.” She clutched her hand into a fist and vines wrapped around Sam. Dark Sam continued and said, “I was supposed to rule the world as the dark queen of the plants.” King Tuck says, “And I was supposed to be two parts of Tucker here. He wanted to be like his pal Danny and wished for ghost powers of his own, but he got selfish and ultimately created me.” Ed absentmindedly asks, “And the dress you got on?” King Tuck took offense to that and yells, “It’s a toga!”
While the trio kept the two’s attention, Mordecai, Rigby, and Amy snuck off to the nearest portals. Eddy says, “Toga, dress, it doesn’t explain why you’re wearing it.” King Tuck says, “That’s the other thing with Tucker. He didn’t feel respected in school for some pointless election, so he became King Tuck, which is what I am. A better version of what he could NEVER be.” Tucker was offended by his doppelganger’s remarks. Hearing this, Eddy says, “King Tuck? Is that supposed to be short for King Tuckyershirtin? We came up with that first!” Both Dark Sam and King Tuck looked at each other in confusion. King Tuck says, “King Tuckyer-?” The realization hits him as he caught the pun, King Tuck glares at them and says, “Are you serious?” Sam shakes her head at the pun after catching the joke herself, while Tucker couldn’t help but laugh at the joke.
Sonic, Shadow, and Silver flew to Discord, they continued their barrage of attacks on him with their unique attack styles. Sonic would charge at Discord like a homing missile and hit him multiple times repeatedly. Shadow would fire his Chaos Spears at Discord, causing serious damage to the draconequus. In an attempt to retaliate, Discord would snap his talons and would gather the destroyed lands and other hazards in the center of time. He would throw these at the trio in an attempt to slow them down, however, with Silver in his super form, his psychokinesis is far more powerful than it was before. He managed to catch all of the debris Discord threw at them, and he throws it back at him. Discord would get hurt from this, especially when a Ghost Ray blasts him in the face.
The hedgehog trio turns around and sees Danny floating there in front of them. Shadow says, “What do you think you’re doing here Ghost Boy?” Danny says, “How often am I going to fight alongside Sonic while he’s in his super form? Besides, Discord is nothing more than a bigger target for us to hit.” The hedgehogs smiled at Danny’s confidence and they continued their attack on Discord.
Mordecai, Rigby, and Amy were able to sneak out of their sight and breathed a sigh of relief. Mordecai says, “I can’t believe it was that easy.” As the trio neared the portals, they see their doppelgangers standing in front of the pathway to the portals. Rigby glares at Mordecai for jinxing the situation. The dark Mordecai said, “Trust me, Rigby, this is in no way a jinx moment.” Rigby says, “Then…wait, how did you-?” The dark Rigby cut him off and says, “We’re a part of you guys stupid! We KNOW everything you think before you get the chance to do it.” Amy said, “It doesn’t matter to us who you are, get out of our way or this will get ugly!” The dark Amy smirked at Amy’s threat and says, “Go ahead and try, and when you fail, I bet Sonic would love to have me around more than you.” Amy was very upset by the comment and both Mordecai and Rigby see her Piko Piko hammer grow in size, scaring them in the process.
Getting over their fear, Mordecai and Rigby get ready for the fight. Amy and Rigby charged at them, and their doppelgangers did the same. Dark Amy swung her hammer to try and hit Rigby, but he jumped onto the hammer and was more winded than hurt from the swing. She tries to shake him off, but to no avail as he held onto the hammer and was very stubborn with his grip. Seeing that he wasn’t going to let go, Dark Amy pressed a button on her hammer and it activated the spikes on the end Rigby was holding onto, catching him by surprise. She slammed Rigby into the ground hard and he let go, groaning in pain from how hard she slammed him into the ground. Rigby weakly says, “How can anyone be that strong?” Dark Amy says, “Boxercise, Amy knows that all too well.” Dark Amy was ready to finish off the defenseless Rigby, but before she could, Mordecai swings his sword at her and made her jump back from his attack.
Dark Rigby was caught off guard by how fast Amy could swing her hammer and he ended up getting crushed into mist by her swing. Dark Mordecai swings his sword at Amy, but she managed to dodge it. Mordecai protects Rigby and continued his attack on Dark Amy. He slashed at her hammer and managed to slice the head of her hammer off, leaving her powerless. Mordecai slashed her with his sword and she vaporized into a dark mist.
Rigby was still sore from Dark Amy’s attack, but Mordecai helps him back up. They see Amy fending off Dark Mordecai as best as she could, but his attacks were starting to go faster as he tries to slash her hammer as Mordecai did to her dark counterpart. With his focus, Dark Mordecai didn’t see Rigby as he tackles him in the face, distracting him as he tries to get him off. This moment gave Amy an opening to strike back, she hits him hard in the stomach and he loses his grip on his sword. Mordecai grabbed the discarded sword and stabbed his counterpart in the chest with it, ending the fight as he pins him to the ground.
With their dark counterparts defeated, Mordecai, Rigby, and Amy were ready to get three of the ponies. Dark Mordecai catches their attention as he laughs weakly. He said, “You’ll never win, as far as you know, it’s too late to save,” Amy interrupts Dark Mordecai with her hammer, slamming it on his face and turning him into a dark mist. She turns to Mordecai and knows what his dark counterpart was going to say to him. She reassuringly says, “There’s always a chance to save her Mordecai.” Mordecai looks at her and nods in agreement as he turns to the portals. She then says “I’m gonna get Fluttershy, Rigby, you get Rainbow Dash, and Mordecai, you get Twilight.” Mordecai and Rigby nod to Amy’s plan and they each go into the portals that had the respective pony’s cutie mark.
Twilight woke up and was in a daze from what happened. She finds herself in a park, and after looking around the place, she recognized that it was the park where Mordecai and Rigby work at. She shakes her head as she doesn’t remember being at the park last and she tries to remember how she got there as she gets her bearings back. As she tries to think back, she suddenly gets a bad headache and starts rubbing her head.
“Twilight!”
She hears her name being called and turns around. She sees Mordecai come to her and she couldn’t help but smile after seeing him. She runs to him and hugs him and says, “Mordecai, I’m so glad to see a familiar face right now.” As she hugs him, she noticed that the park’s trees and other equipment had suddenly turned to dust. She grew concerned from the sudden action and keeps looking around. She then sees a group of unicorns walking in her direction, she’s puzzled by their appearance as they wore strange clothing and she hears them chanting, “Bros, bros, bros.” She turned to Mordecai but was greeted by one of the unicorns instead, causing her to shriek in terror and back away from him in an instant. She says in shock, “Who the heck are you?” The unicorn stands on his hind legs and walks to her. She tries to use her magic to escape, but she found herself in trouble as she couldn’t use her magic. He chuckles and says, “Mordecai? Seriously? Do you actually like that goob? A pony as pretty as you deserves someone WAY better. Besides, he killed me and my bros. You’re a unicorn too after all, what makes you think he wouldn’t kill you too?” Unknown to her, the other unicorns had surrounded her as she backed away from the leader as he walked toward her. Twilight does what she could to stay away from the unicorn and says, “Killed you? I’m assuming that you and your friends are the ones he told me about. Mordecai wouldn’t hurt me; he’s been helping me and kept me safe when I needed it most. He’s important to me.”
She stopped as she bumped into one of the other unicorns and realized that she was surrounded by them. The unicorn brushed his hoof under her chin and says, “Face it cutie, he doesn’t care about you, no matter how much you want him to, but me and the bros do, and we’ll treat you good.” Something about that line made her feel very uncomfortable and disgusted at the same time as she tries to back away from his hoof. Before she could process what was happening next, the unicorn leans in and goes for a kiss, but he was stopped as a sword pierced through his chest. He groans in pain and was surprised by being impaled. Twilight sees him impaled and instantly recognized the blade as he explodes into goo.
After the unicorn exploded, she sees the real Mordecai taking the place of the leader and he was mad. The other unicorns glared at him as they see their leader die before them and he glares back at them after seeing the scared look in Twilight’s eyes. He pointed the sword at them and says, “None of you jerks are worthy of her. Either back off, or you’ll be joining your tool bag of a leader.” The unicorns take offense to the comment of their fallen leader and all yell in unison at the blue jay. While the unicorns were chewing him out, Mordecai motioned for Twilight to get away from them, and seeing how enraged they were with him, they lost their focus on her and she took that chance to slip away.
With how hostile they became, Twilight sees that instead of backing off and taking his warning seriously, these unicorns were ready to fight Mordecai, and they had no intention of letting him walk away alive. They charged at him and tried to attack him with kicks and punches and they tried to impale him with their horns. He managed to dodge the attacks, and the ones who tried to impale him, he managed to slash their horns off. Despite having the upper hand on them, the unicorns managed to get some slashes on Mordecai thanks to the coordinated efforts of two and three unicorns attacking him at once. This only fueled Mordecai’s anger even further as he yells, scaring these unicorns as he was now in survival mode. He shows them no mercy as he counters their attacks, stabbing and decapitating each of the unicorns, making them explode into goo one by one. There was one final unicorn as he tries to attack Mordecai, but he punches him hard, knocking him to the ground and he gets on top of him, keeping him pinned to the ground. He grabbed his horn and pulls him up. He says, “If you see any more of your lame unicorn friends, tell them Twilight Sparkle is off-limits.” After saying this, he decapitates the last unicorn and he explodes into goo. Mordecai started to calm down from his rage after finishing the fight. He turns to Twilight and says, “Are you all right Twilight?” She cries tears of relief and wrapped her forelegs around his neck and hugged him.
“Thank you, Mordecai. I was so scared back there. I couldn’t use my magic, and they tried to…” She couldn’t finish her sentence as she continued crying into his chest. Mordecai wraps his arms around her and started rubbing her back, calming her down in the process. He says, “It’s all right Twilight. I’m here now. They won’t be bothering you ever again.” She feels him rubbing her back, something she appreciated at that moment, and feels at peace in his arms as he held her. As Twilight calmed down, both she and Mordecai noticed the place started to dissolve into nothing. As the ground shakes, Mordecai said, “We gotta get out of here.” Twilight says, “How? My magic isn’t working, I can’t teleport us out of here.” Mordecai quickly looks around and finds the Golf Cart nearby. He says, “Follow me.” She follows him as he gets in the Golf Cart and she joins him. He started driving them down the pathway as fast as he could.
While he was driving, Twilight sees the pathway behind them starting to fall apart and grew concerned as the dissolved road was right behind them. She says, “Mordecai, can this go any faster?” He says, “Yes, hold on!” Mordecai pushes the pedal to the floor of the cart and it drives faster, giving them some distance from the dissolving pathway. Mordecai sees a light and drives the cart to it. As they were getting closer, they see the light starting to shrink and he says in a panic, “Come on. Come on. Come on!” As they get closer, everything had deteriorated, including the cart, but Mordecai was able to catch Twilight and got them through the portal before it could close on them.
After crossing through the portal, Amy arrived in Tartarus. She had her Piko Piko hammer ready, not knowing what to expect in this area. She wanders into a cave entrance, feeling like there was a chance that Fluttershy was in there. From her understanding of Tartarus, Amy knows that this place housed the deadliest and most dangerous creatures known in the world, and she knew that she didn’t want to waste her time fighting any of them with the situation with Discord at hand. She figured now was a perfect time to use her unique power, one that not many knew she had. Amy closed her eyes and focused on her energy as she clutched her hammer and, in an instant, she turns invisible. She walks into the cave, keeping her focus on staying invisible to avoid any unwanted attention, but she can hear the various monsters growling at her, picking up her scent, but unable to see where she was. Amy does her best to not lose her composure from all of the monsters growling at her, knowing that if she loses focus, she will be discovered.
After getting passed the monsters, she hides in a safe spot and became visible again. She breathes heavily, not knowing that she held her breath for so long as she snuck into the heart of Tartarus. She looks up and spotted Fluttershy not too far from her. She was by herself and from behind her, Cerberus lands behind her, catching her attention as she faced the three-headed dog. Feeling that Fluttershy was in danger, Amy readies her hammer and charges as fast as she could to save her. She says, “Watch out Fluttershy, you got a…” Before she could finish her sentence, she stopped in her tracks as she sees Fluttershy rub Cerberus’ stomach. She says, “Did you miss me my big little puppy? I missed you too.” Cerberus barks happily at her, practically saying that they did miss her. Surprised by this, Amy says, “What am I seeing here?”
The question catches their attention as they looked at Amy. Fluttershy smiles and flies to her, hugging her. She says, “Amy, I’m so glad you’re here! Come on, I want you to meet someone special.” Before Fluttershy could introduce her, Cerberus stands his ground in defense, ready to pounce on the intruder. Fluttershy stands between them and sternly says, “Cerberus, be nice. This is Amy Rose. She’s a friend of mine.” Hearing Fluttershy say this, and feeling a little scared by her stern look, Cerberus calms down and sniffs Amy. Fluttershy takes Amy’s free hand and guided it to Cerberus’ nose. On instinct, Amy started rubbing his nose and he pants happily from her doing this and they licked her. Amy giggles at this and says, “I heard a lot about Cerberus, but being nice and friendly wasn’t one of them.” Fluttershy smiles and says, “He isn’t bad, he’s just a big puppy once you get to know him. Aren’t you boy?”
Amy wipes the saliva off and says, “As much as I’d like to get to know him better, we gotta get you back. Sonic, Shadow, and Silver are fighting Discord and we need you Fluttershy.” Fluttershy was concerned about the fight and says, “Are they doing okay out there?” Amy says, “They’re handling him, but we need you and the other ponies to put an end to him before things get worse.” Fluttershy nodded to this and says, “All right, let’s get going.” She turns to Cerberus and asked, “Cerberus, can you take us to the portal?” He lays on his stomach, gesturing for them to climb on his back. After getting on, Cerberus stands up and runs through the cave, getting past the monsters and to the portal. He let them off and Fluttershy rubbed his head. She says, “Thank you for your help Cerberus, I promise I’ll come to visit you soon.” After saying their goodbyes, Amy and Fluttershy walks into the portal and disappeared.
Back in the Center of Time, The Eds had continued distracting King Tuck and Dark Sam, and their nerves were wearing thin. The two grabbed the Eds by the collars of their shirts and lifted them off the ground, surprising the trio in the process. King Tuck says, “You three stooges have stalled long enough. Since you managed to get three of your friends into the portals, how about we “help” you three with that as well?” King Tuck and Dark Sam turned and threw the Eds into the three remaining portals. Dark Sam says, “Whatever those ponies are going through, you three will be facing their fates as well.”
Ed was thrown into the portal that held Pinkie Pie, Double D was thrown into the portal that held Rarity, and Eddy was thrown into the portal that had Applejack. The trio disappeared as they made contact with the portals, causing the group to gasp in shock, worried about their safety. Tucker and Sam readied their weapons as their doppelgangers focused on them and the remaining group.
Rainbow Dash finds herself in a blizzard wasteland. She shivers from how cold it was and looks around. She sees that she was the only one there and was ready to fly off, but her wings remained closed, refusing to open from how cold she felt.
“Can’t handle being at the top? I figured you wouldn’t mind, since you think so highly of yourself.”
She heard a voice and looks around to see where it was coming from.
“You’re all alone, then again, it’s not surprising from the sheer arrogance you have. Must be lonely to be up here while you look down on your friends.”
Still not seeing Time Eater, Rainbow Dash says, “Hey! Just because I think highly of myself, doesn’t mean that I don’t think of my friends in the same regard.” Time Eater appears in front of her and she falls on her back in shock from his sudden appearance.
“That’s where you’re wrong Rainbow Dash. You can claim you see them as your equals all you want, but we both know that you undervalue them greatly.”
As Time Eater says this, he shows her the past events in his eyes, making her see the times she didn’t value her friends, from the many times she got frustrated with Fluttershy and her scared nature, to criticizing Twilight about reading and repeatedly calling her an Egghead whenever she got the chance to, to cheating against Applejack when they competed against each other, the dress situation with Rarity still bothered her, and how she ignored Pinkie Pie when Gilda visited Ponyville and she mistreated not only Pinkie but the rest of her friends behind her back. What drove it for her was how she was during the time with Mare Do Well when she let heroism inflate her ego to where she not only treated her friends badly but the other ponies in Ponyville as well.
Rigby arrived in the Ice Cap Zone, freezing already from the blizzard. He sees Rainbow Dash sitting in the snow, Time Eater had already left, leaving the mare to sit in deep thought over her past actions. “Am I really that bad of a friend?” She asked herself, not knowing that Rigby was behind her. Rigby wasn’t expecting to hear her say that, nor did he think she was asking him the question. He was shivering from the cold and asked, “W-what makes you s-s-say that?” Rainbow Dash was startled by hearing him and turned around. She says, “Rigby? What are you doing here?” He says, “I-I’m here to g-g-get you b-b-back to the f-f-fight.” He sneezed after saying this, he knew he was going to run a fever at this rate. He rubs his hand in an attempt to warm himself up, but with how hard it was snowing, he couldn’t do it and he collapsed into the snowy ground.
Seeing Rigby hunched over and freezing, Rainbow Dash picked him up and was able to wrap her wings around him. He wasn’t expecting her to do this, and he sees her blushing while she was doing this simple action. She said, “It might be too cold for me to fly, but I’d rather keep you warm than try.” He felt himself getting warm already, enjoying her soft feathers around him. He looks at her and says, “What made you ask that you were a bad friend?” Rainbow Dash lowered her ears, still shaken from the conversation with Time Eater. She says, “I was confronted about myself, and I saw some of my past actions towards my friends, and, it made me think that maybe I’m not the best kind of friend they would want.” Rigby sees the sad look on her face as she says this and he rubbed her wing. He said, “Hey, Rainbow Dash if it makes you feel any better, I’m not exactly a great friend either. Between you and me…I did something very bad to Mordecai.” Rainbow Dash felt concerned from hearing this and asked, “How bad are we talking?” Rigby said, “Kept him from going to college bad.”
Rainbow Dash was shocked to hear this, and nearly unwrapped her wings, but Rigby held onto them and looked her in the eyes. He said, “Before you judge me, can I at least explain myself?” She was tempted to say no but seeing the look he was giving her, she couldn’t just ignore him, he had enough courage to tell her about this, so she figured that she could hear him out. She nodded and he takes a deep breath. He said, “When we were back in high school, we were getting ready to graduate and we were both planning on going to college together. We waited for weeks to get our results and before our school year was over, we got them. He got accepted, but I was rejected. While we were waiting for those results, everyone freaked me out about the idea that if we were separated, then we would lose touch with being friends with each other. I found out about his results before he could see for himself and I forged a rejection letter to make him believe that he didn’t get in, and at the same time, I destroyed his acceptance letter to cover my tracks. He’s the only friend I have, and if I lost him, especially when I learned about our results, then I would have had no one.”
She looks at him and was ready to scold him, but after hearing his reasonings, she felt bad for him. She said, “First off, what you did was not cool.” He flinched at that, knowing that she wouldn’t like what he did, but what caught him off guard was that she continued by saying, “Second, that’s just ridiculous. I get that some people lose touch with their friends when they’re doing something in their own lives, but if Mordecai means that much to you, then he would have still been your best friend, regardless if you got into college or not.” She started reflecting on herself as she adds to this, saying, “You can come off as being selfish, rude, uncaring, and you can get on other people’s nerves, but the ones who know you better than anyone else, they understand you, they have patience with you, they can accept your flaws, and you should never think any less of them, because they’re as loyal to you, just as much as you are loyal to them.”
A portal opened up in front of them as she says this. She unwrapped her wings from Rigby and they were both ready to go through it. Before they go through the portal, Rainbow Dash turns to Rigby and says, “Don’t tell anyone that I was vulnerable with you, because, I’m gonna deny it.” Rigby looks at her in confusion, but he noticed her blushing face as she says this to him. He might not have known her for too long, but he knows that this was just for him, and he had no intention of embarrassing her. He bumps his fist against her wing, catching her attention and he says with a knowing smile, “I wouldn’t want it any other way, I’d say the same thing if you were vulnerable with me.” She smiles at him as he says this and the two go through the portal.
Pinkie Pie finds herself in the middle of a circus ring and sees a crowd of unhappy people looking at her. She opens her mouth to try and talk but found it confusing that she couldn’t make a sound. She closed her mouth and tries to talk to herself, but she finds herself unable to talk, freaking her out even more.
“Not so easy to make people laugh if you’re unable to say anything. I took away your greatest strength in your props and your silly voice. Let’s see if you can make people laugh, while you are a mime.”
She was confused by the voice she heard and she sees herself dressed up like a mime, causing her to scream in silence. She turns back to the crowd and tries to use her natural props to make them laugh, but with no sound to go with them, she couldn’t make anyone laugh. The crowd yawned at her attempts, and some fell asleep in the stands. “Is this the right show?” asked one of them. “I don’t know, we were supposed to have a clown, but we got a mime instead,” said another person. “They’ll make anything lousy an entertainment these days,” another person says. “She’s fading out there,” said another disgruntled person in the crowd. After another botched attempt, the crowd started laughing at Pinkie, something she never liked as she started getting teary-eyed and her once poofy mane and tail were now flat and deflated.
Ed had arrived not too long ago, and he sees everyone laughing at Pinkie Pie. He was confused seeing her dressed as a mime but started understanding as she tries to do a forced performance with no sound to her antics. She keeps trying but to no avail and he sees her crying in the ring. Not liking to see her being put through this, he looks around and spots a piano. He grabbed a random person from the crowd and made them play the piano. Hearing the music catches Pinkie’s attention and she sees Ed waving at her. She smiles and started finding her groove as a mime thanks to the music, her deflated mane and tail get their poof back now that she’s no longer sad. From the side, Ed was helping her with her performance, tossing props her way so she could perform to the music, ranging from balancing multiple items to juggling. The crowd’s laughter stops and they watched as Pinkie slowly started winning them over.
She put on a small mustache and started performing her best Charlie Chaplin routine. Recognizing what she was doing, Ed joins her on center stage and the duo did a skit together. They did one reminiscent of the Lion Cage, but with no lion to use, they dug into her prop bag and find Gummy, Pinkie’s pet alligator, and used him instead. Still a mime, Pinkie created an invisible box big enough for Ed and Gummy to fit in, and in classic Ed fashion, he pretends that he was trapped in the box, while Gummy stares blankly at the audience. Ed, whether he was intentional or not, was acting scared the whole time, being put in the cage with the alligator, but his acting got some laughs from the crowd as he tries to escape. Pinkie started her part and pretends to be shocked to see Ed trapped and she fainted out of concern for his safety as she sees Gummy. Ed tries to get out, but crashed into the invisible bars, making the mysterious food substance fall out of his jacket and it landed on Pinkie’s tail. Gummy sees the food as Pinkie gets back up and he instinctively jumps and chomped on the food, making Pinkie react in surprise from him biting her tail with his toothless mouth. Breaking the skit, Ed yells, “Share it with me gator!” Ed effortlessly runs through the invisible bars and started chasing Pinkie and Gummy.
This made the crowd laugh from Pinkie overreacting to Gummy biting her tail and Ed’s antics of chasing her and Gummy. It wasn’t supposed to go like this, but Pinkie was happy that she got the crowd laughing and from there, she giggled and takes a bow. She gasped in surprise after hearing herself laugh and she says, “Thank you, everyone!” She continued and says, “A special thanks goes to my pet alligator Gummy and my best friend, Ed!” Ed waves at the crowd and a portal opened up behind them. Pinkie takes Gummy off her tail and the two go through the portal.
Rarity found herself on an island of some sort, not knowing that it was the shrine to the Master Emerald. She looks around the area and spots the giant emerald and like the last time she saw it, she was instantly transfixed by its beautiful glow.
“It’s quite a sight, isn’t it?”
She heard the voice say, but she didn’t pay much attention to it and lovingly says, “Yes, it’s very beautiful. It puts all the jewels I’ve seen to shame.”
“Then go ahead and take it, no one’s around to stop you.”
After hearing this, Rarity goes up the stairs of the shrine and makes her way to the Master Emerald. Double D exits the portal and lands face-first into the grass. He looks around and sees Rarity approach the Master Emerald and she was ready to take it. He races up the stairs and yells, “Miss Rarity! Stop!” She stops as she heard a voice and turned to see Double D breathing heavily after running up the stairs to the shrine. Seeing him, Rarity says, “What is it Eddward? I’m trying to claim what’s mine.” After catching his breath, he says, “What’s yours? But Rarity, that emerald belongs to Knuckles and you know it.” Rarity stops and felt hesitant after hearing Double D say this.
“Knuckles isn’t here, what he won’t know, won’t hurt him.”
Still listening to the mysterious voice, Rarity says, “Yes, but Eddward, with this emerald alone, I can create the greatest of dress designs that would make even a queen envious!” She tries to reach for it again, but Double D stops her and says, “Even so, you should know that the Master Emerald isn’t here, it’s sealed away because of Discord.” She started struggling with wanting to take the Master Emerald and remembering that it was sealed away.
“Are you going to keep listening to him? You know you won’t get a chance like this again.”
Rarity was very hesitant with her choice until an orange ball of light appears between her and Time Eater. “Begone dark creature!” The three of them were surprised to hear the voice, and it grew brighter, forcing Time Eater to retreat. Rarity faints after Time Eater’s grip was gone, but Double D catches her before she could fall onto the ground. Rarity opens her eyes and rubbed her head. She sees Double D and asked, “Eddward? What happened? Where are we?” Before he could respond, the orange ball of light floats in front of them and started to materialize into an orange female echidna.
“You were almost tricked into being trapped here,” says the female echidna. “Tricked?” says a confused Rarity. “Trapped?!” Double D shouts in shock. The female echidna nods and says, “Yes, if you’ve visited Angel Island, then you should know that this is the shrine for the Master Emerald. As your friend stated, this isn’t the real Master Emerald. Had you taken it, you two would have been trapped on an island that would fall in a never-ending loop.” Shocked by this revelation, Rarity turned to Double D and says, “I’m very thankful that you were here to stop me from making a BIG mistake. I did remember that Discord sealed the Master Emerald away, but I guess I still have a greedy side that needs to be worked on.”
The orange echidna sees how sad Rarity looked as she said this and she replies, “Don’t beat yourself up over this Rarity, you have a good friend to help keep you from making that mistake. I know some people who don’t have what you have to not try and steal the Master Emerald.” Realizing that she never introduced herself to this echidna, Rarity says, “Wait, how do you know my name?” The echidna says with a smile, “I’m sorry, my name is Tikal, I know your name because you talked with Knuckles regarding how beautiful the Master Emerald was.”
Rarity was surprised to hear this from her. Double D confused by this says, “But I don’t recall you joining us on this adventure.” Tikal turns to Double D and says, “My soul has been locked away in the Master Emerald for a very long time, and even back then, we knew the Master Emerald has power over the Chaos Emeralds. Throughout the years, I have been able to listen in on what’s going on in the world with the Master Emerald’s connection to the Chaos Emeralds. I have heard of the plans that are going on, and I have seen the struggle all of you have gone through, but it doesn’t compare to what I know is coming. I know that Time Eater has planned something major that will tip everything in his favor. Rarity, Double D, you must go back and stop Time Eater before it’s too late. Defeat Discord and everything will be over.”
Rarity gives Tikal a nod as she and Double D see a portal behind them. Tikal turns back into a ball of light and she goes through the portal first. Rarity turns to Double D and says, “Eddward, thank you again for your help.” Double D smiles at this and says, “It wasn’t any trouble Rarity, and you can call me Double D, I don’t mind it.” Rarity says, “Even so, a proper lady always gives a gentleman like yourself the appropriate acknowledgment you deserve.” Before anything else was said, she kisses him on the cheek as a way of saying thank you. Double D blushed from the kiss, not expecting to get one, but he was thankful this was one of the few kisses he’s ever gotten that he actually enjoyed. The two walked through the portal, ready for the final leg of the battle.
Applejack finds herself in an unknown city and she was running a stand. She however sees that she was dealing with two very familiar unicorns, known as the Flim Flam brothers and upon arriving, they were selling their apple products with ease to a large crowd of ponies.
“Not easy selling in an unknown place, is it?”
Applejack rolls her eyes at this and says, “I can outsell those two in no time.”
“How can you when the others have accepted a lie?”
Confused by this, Applejack was wondering what the mysterious voice was talking about, until she sees that the Flim Flam brothers were selling, making her jaw drop in shock. Flim says, “Step right up! Step right up mares and gentlecolts! Today we’re selling a personal favorite creation with our Zap Apple Jams!” The crowd was excited hearing about the Zap Apple Jams and were cheering for their product, knowing that the Zap Apple Jams are very delicious.
Eddy arrived in this city and sees a group of ponies surround a stand. He heard the outburst from the Flim Flam brothers and sees Applejack looking on in a state of shock. He goes to her stand and asks, “Hey AJ, what’s going on here?” She turns to him as she heard his voice and says, “Eddy? What are you doing here?” Eddy says, “I got thrown into a portal, and ended up here. Now focus, who are those guys?” Applejack turns her attention to the crowd and says, “Those unicorns are the Flim Flam brothers. I had to deal with them a while ago when they tried to take my apple farm.” Eddy was surprised to hear this and says, “Take the apple farm? These guys are scam artists?” Applejack says, “Yeah, and they’re pulling one right now that only the apple family knows how to make.” He turns to see the ponies eating something and asks, “Jam?” Applejack says, “Not just any jam, they’re claiming to sell Zap Apple Jam.”
She pulled out a jar that has the real Zap Apple Jam and it surprised Eddy to see the rainbow-colored jar. She grabbed a toast from her basket and put some jam on it. She presents it to Eddy and says, “Go ahead and try it.” He was confused by her request, but he takes the toast and takes a bite. Tasting the Zap Apple Jam for the first time blew Eddy’s mind and he says in shock, “This is delicious.” He eats the rest of his toast, savoring the delicious jam down to the last crumb. He smiles as he enjoys the treat and says, “And your family are the only ponies that can make this?” Applejack nodded her head and he gets a better look at the jams the other ponies are eating. He turns to Applejack and says, “I’ll be right back.”
She was confused by his comment and sees Eddy walking to the Flim Flam brothers. They see Eddy and held a smile each. Flim said, “Oh lookie here brother of mine, we have a new customer.” Flam said, “One that is just under, but beggars can’t be choosers.” Eddy was upset as Flam says this and measures his height for the other ponies to laugh at. Eddy focused on the “Zap Apple Jams” that were on the table and says, “So, what’s this supposed to be?” Flim says, “A delectable treat, one that you would enjoy.” Flam says, “Zap Apple Jams, try some little boy.” He gives Eddy some toast with jam on it and he takes a bite of it. It was good but not as good as what Applejack gave him. Eddy says, “It’s just apple jam.” This comment caught every pony’s attention and made the Flim Flam brothers sweat on the spot.
They try to keep a straight face, Flim spoke first and said, “Well, yeah, it is called Zap Apple Jam after all.” Flam chimes in and said, “We’re the apple experts here, what makes you think differently Mr. Know-It-All?” Eddy thinks to himself, knowing full well that these two are pulling a scam. He thinks to himself, “How does shovel chin usually ruin my scams?” After thinking it over, Eddy thought of something and said, “Simple, I have seen what the Zap Apple Jams look like, and they look nothing like this.” The ponies look at Eddy in confusion, wondering where he was going with this. Eddy placed the toast on Flim and Flam’s table and walks to Applejack’s table, the Zap Apple Jam was still present. He picks the jar up and says, “This pony right here is the true creator of this jam, and trust me when I say that it’s nothing you’ve ever tried before.”
Flim and Flam see Applejack and they were shocked to see her, not expecting to see her again after the apple cider incident. Eddy pulls out a toast and spreads the Zap Apple Jam on it. He looks to the crowd and says, “Who wants to enjoy what a Zap Apple Jam REALLY tastes like? Only twenty-five cents.” Applejack pulls Eddy to her and whispers, “Actually, it’s bits Eddy, and don’t you think that’s kinda pricey?” Eddy looks at her in confusion and says, “Bits? And with how good this stuff is, they’re lucky I’m going for that amount.” One of the ponies pays the twenty-five bits and takes the toast. He takes a bite of it and he instantly likes the taste. He says to the crowd, “The boy isn’t lying, this is amazing!” The other ponies paid the bits and in no time, the Zap Apple Jam was gone because of the satisfied customers, Eddy had a jar in hand, and in the end, it was full of bits, amazing him with how much these ponies valued the jam as he joyously stares at his earnings. Applejack says, “Thank you for your support, see y’all next year!” Eddy was in a state of satisfaction but was broken out of it as he heard what Applejack said. He turns to her and said, “Next year? Don’t you have more of these?” Applejack shakes her head and says, “Nope, these jams are made during a special time and the Zap Apples disappear right away if we don’t pick them all.” Eddy grumbles to himself and said, “I knew I should have gone for one hundred!”
Hearing this, Applejack wasn’t fond of hearing this from Eddy and says, “Look, I appreciate what you did to convince the ponies that the jam they were eating wasn’t the real thing by those two.” Unknown to the duo, Flim and Flam had fled as the ponies ate the real Zap Apple Jam and they were not going to face the wrath of a city that never had the Zap Apple Jam until today. Eddy confused by their disappearance says, “Where’d they go?” Applejack breathed a sigh in frustration but focused her attention back on Eddy. She continues and says, “The point is that you have a real knack for being a salesperson. You exposed a scam and brought profit to someone who worked hard for this.” She grabbed the jar and shows him how full it was thanks to him. Applejack says, “This is what earning money looks like, and with you caring so much about what my family makes every year, this means a lot to me. Don’t change who you are, because, at that moment when you said that you should have charged more, you sounded like the Flim Flam brothers.”
Hearing this, Eddy felt bad for that, and for once, he saw how a scam looked like when it is exposed. He thought it over and looks at Applejack with a newfound look on making money. He says, “AJ when the Zap Apples come back, can me and the boys help you and your family make the jam?” Applejack nodded to him with a smile and says, “Yes you can, and you have chosen the right thing to do. An honest living is as noble as one can live for.” After saying this, a portal opens up, catching their attention. Eddy and Applejack walked together through the portal and it closed on them as they go back to the Center of Time.
Back in the Center of Time, Sonic, Shadow, Silver, and Danny had beaten Discord, he lies on the ground in defeat as the four land in front of him. Danny pulls out his Fenton Thermos, ready to use it on Discord. Sonic stops him and said, “I don’t think that’s gonna work on him.” Discord coughs, regaining consciousness, and looks at the four. Sonic walks up to the fallen draconequus and held a smug look on his face. Discord lowers his head and says, “You’ve beaten me Sonic. Would you spare someone if they were to turn over a new leaf?” Seeing the look in Discord’s eye, Shadow yells, “Sonic! Remember, he can’t be trusted!” Sonic turns to Shadow and says, “I know that Shadow, Eggman tried this line on me too.” As he says this, Discord slashed Sonic with his shadow claw and sent him flying into the air. Amy, Mordecai, Rigby, and the Eds came out of the portals with the ponies and they see Sonic flying in the air. He changed from his super form and was now in his regular form. He looks at everyone with a sad smile before losing consciousness as he falls into the abyss.
Remembering that she saw this, and fearing the worst, Twilight yells, “Sonic!” Discord laughs at this and says in a sing-song voice, “Down goes the hero!” He focused on the ponies and says, “The rest of you will be easy to take down from here!” Amy was crying tears of anger and her Piko Piko hammer grows in size, wanting to take Discord down for harming Sonic. Twilight and the ponies walked in front of her and the others. Twilight fights back the urge to cry and says, “We’ll handle this, our elements are the only thing that can stop him, remember? I don’t want anyone else getting hurt while I’m here.” Amy nodded to her and the ponies got into formation. Twilight activates her tiara and they started floating off the ground. Discord sees this and does a mock scare, believing he was stronger than the Elements of Harmony.
Twilight and the ponies opened their eyes and fired a rainbow blast from their elements and launched it at Discord. Before the blast could reach Discord, Time Eater appears in front of him and opened a single portal. The rainbow blast goes into it and Time Eater takes this as the opportunity to fire the blast at the ponies, and more specifically, at Twilight with her element being the most powerful one among them. With the blast coming at the ponies, Twilight was ready to protect her friends had the blast gotten closer, but Discord saw this coming and snapped his talons, making her horn disappear and causing her to panic as she was now left defenseless. Seeing this, Mordecai was quick on the defense, not wanting her or the rest of the ponies to be harmed and he got in front of the blast. He used the Root Sword to deflect the attack, but it proved to be a lot stronger than he had thought as it pushed him back. He fought back and held his ground, determined to keep Twilight and her friends safe as he pushed on the blade with his free hand, but despite his efforts, the Root Sword breaks in half and he took the remnants of the rainbow blast.
Twilight was shocked seeing this, it was something else that she feared was going to happen when she saw it in her dream. After getting out of the formation, Twilight runs to Mordecai, who now lies unconscious on the ground. She turns him over and was worried about him, thinking the worst has happened. She says, “Mordecai? Mordecai?” After getting no response from him, tears were starting to build up as she says, “No, no, no, Mordecai! Please be okay. Mordecai! I can’t lose you too!” She frantically looks around, hoping to see if Finn was nearby, but he was nowhere to be seen as he and the remaining group were finishing their fight with the dark clones. After a few moments, Mordecai released a cough, letting her know that he was okay, but he released a grown from the impact the blast had given him. Twilight started crying tears of relief, seeing that he was okay, unknown to Twilight, her tears had healed him in more ways than one, and his choppy breaths started becoming normal once again.
Mordecai opened his eyes and sees Twilight crying on his chest. He looks around and sees that her friends were looking on in surprise, except for Fluttershy, knowing the full extent of this display of emotions she giggles to herself, knowing that Twilight’s reaction was enough to confirm her thoughts about what her feelings towards Mordecai were. Mordecai looks and sees that the Root Sword was broken in half and he winced at the sight, saying, “I hope Finn won’t be mad that he lost a sword.” Hearing his voice, Twilight looks up and, sees that he is okay, smiles at him. “I’m sure Finn will understand,” says Danny. Mordecai and Twilight look up and see that Danny had created an Ecto Dome to protect the current group from Discord and Time Eater’s assault. The duo tries to destroy the dome with blasts and punches, but they were unable to thanks to Danny’s focus.
Twilight was confused seeing him and asked, “What are you doing here Danny?” Danny says, “The moment Mordecai took that hit, I knew I was needed to protect you guys. Before I got here, I split myself into two so I can try and get Sonic back, but I don’t know how much longer I can take this. When I split up, my powers get weaker.” The cracks in the Ecto Dome were starting to form, Shadow and Silver brought the remaining group together using Chaos Control and they see Discord and Time Eater attacking the dome, more cracks were visible from where they were standing. The ponies see this and were concerned by this.
Sonic was in the dark abyss, floating in the darkness and he was unconscious after the last attack. He had visions flashing in his mind of his friends falling one by one at Time Eater and Discord’s power, the strongest among them were turned to stone. He also sees the influence they will have on the world as everyone was enslaved to do their bidding. As he keeps seeing these visions, he feels guilt and anger building up inside of him as he sees the group. He sees Discord and Time Eater attempting to destroy the Ecto Dome, making everyone inside panic. He says, “Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop! Stop! Stop!” Danny’s clone flies over the abyss and was looking for Sonic, unknown to him, he flew over Sonic.
“I said, ‘STOP’!!!” Danny heard someone yelling and sees an explosion of energy surge. The power he was emitting splits the dark abyss and Danny sees Sonic. He floats out of it and Danny was expecting Sonic to be in his golden state, but what he sees left him speechless. Sonic was now emitting a dark purple aura and his body was now black, the pupils in his eyes were not visible. Seeing this transformation in person, Danny was nearly terrified of what he was feeling and says, “What is this?” Unknown to the Ghost Boy, Sonic was now in his Dark Super Sonic form.
Discord and Time Eater stopped their assault as they heard Sonic yell and everyone was surprised by the sudden burst of energy. In an instant, Dark Super Sonic had vanished from Danny’s sight and he re-appears between Discord and Time Eater. Neither of them expected this blinding speed Sonic displayed and with their guards down, Dark Super Sonic punches Discord in the face hard and sends the giant beast flying. Discord lands face-first on the ground, Shadow and the others joined the group and saw Discord hit the ground hard, Danny lowers the Ecto Dome and his clone reunites with him. Time Eater goes to Discord as Dark Super Sonic lowers himself back on the ground and everyone sees him in this new form, and no one knew what to feel with seeing him like this. He says to the group, “Are you all right?” No one knew what to say to him, still getting an unsettled feeling from this form, but they gave him a simple nod. Sonic takes a deep breath and changes back to his golden self, thankful that everyone was okay.
As Time Eater reached Discord, he starts to get back up, and to his horror, his fang falls out of his mouth. Discord picks up the fallen tooth and looks at it in shock. He says, “He ruined my perfectly beautiful face!” He gets back up and turned to the group, Sonic had turned back to normal and pointed at the two. He says, “Neither of you will be harming any of them! Not while I’m still standing!” Time Eater was bothered by that transformation, something that he didn’t know was possible. Seeing that things are starting to shift, Time Eater decided to take his full plan into action.
Discord was ready to take everyone on, but Time Eater instead grabbed him. Everyone, including Discord, was left confused by the turn of events. Discord looks at Time Eater and says, “Time Eater, what are you doing?” Time Eater says, “You’re about to lose, and since you have now outlived your usefulness, I’ll be taking matters into my own hands.” Discord was left dumbfounded by what was said. Time Eater continues and says, “Since I can’t touch the Chaos Emeralds, I needed someone to absorb their powers, and a fool like you fit the bill perfectly. So now, this partnership is over.” Time Eater then swallows Discord whole, surprising everyone as they see this. Time Eater started feeling all of Discord’s powers and the power of the Chaos Emeralds coursed through his being, his smog-like body was now becoming solid. He laughed manically as the powers infused with his and he now has become a bigger threat than before.
Time Eater now took on a dragon-like appearance, a giant compared to what he was before the absorption. The nightmare doesn’t stop there, as Time Eater levitates the Master Emerald and activates its power. Sonic, Shadow, and Silver were taken out of their super forms and the energy that they had were now floating in the air. Time Eater had taken away the positive energy of the Chaos Emeralds and rendered them useless. After absorbing the positive energy of the emeralds, Time Eater roared in aggression, his blue eyes and mouth had now turned red, revealing that the emeralds’ powers had influenced the monster further than before.