“Why?” Edgelord asked, obviously not seeing anything wrong with continuing the madness even further. He pouted. “But I was having so much fun!”
“Because…” Mare answered, walking towards him and holding up a severed half of an ouija board in her hooves. “I got the last piece! We can put the full device together now!”
“You found it!” exclaimed Edgelord, gasping. He ran up to the piece and grabbing it with his magic. “I am so proud of you. Now let’s put this baby together and use it!!”
And so, he and Mare rushed to his secret laboratory that he conveniently has for some reason and put the pieces on the operating table. They began sparkling with electricity due to the close proximity, a magical energy surge out of a desire to connect. Mare couldn’t believe that the moment she had been waiting for was finally here. She had gone through so much in order to get home, and now she was finally going to become the hero she knew she could be. She was no longer a joke character. She would now be the pony who saved her Equestria, and the entire multiverse along with it.
Wasting no time, she picked up her blue lightsaber and put it next to the piano key. Both pieces fused together seamlessly into a piece of the device. Edgelord then picked up the fragment that he already had, and put it next to the newly created one. The parts morphed into one half of a purple circular disc. Then, Mare picked up the picture of Twilight and her Canterlot friends together and fused it with the disc. The parts came together and another quarter of it was completed.
As the process continued, she could feel the power rumbling within the device, slowly awakening after thousands of years. It had been hidden away, but now it had been found. The power called to her, silently begging to be made whole again. Practically entranced by the machine, she grabbed the jar of Stella’s Flame and fed it into the device. It shimmered as it absorbed the energy. There was no stopping it now. The hypnotic call of the Time Reverse-inator rang on all sides. There was only three pieces left to restore, and it would be complete.
Finally, Mare took the Unity Crystals in her hooves and dropped it into the machine. There was a brilliant burst of magic and she was sent falling back along with Edgelord. The whole room was lit up in a blinding, pulsing white light. When it had faded, a purple and pink circular amulet remained on the table, sparkling with dark energy.
Edgelord cautiously approached it and levitated it upwards and around his neck. He had the biggest grin on his face as he did so, almost like an eager puppy that had just been given a bowl of its favorite food. The expression on his face was almost animalistic, sadistic even. He slowly walked over to her and stopped right where she was.
“We did it!” Mare said proudly. “Now…who’s going to use it first? Why don’t I restore my world first, and then you can use it to erase the princesses?” That was when she noticed his smile becoming even wider and she began to grow apprehensive. “Edge…?”
Edgelord chuckled to himself. “Oh, Mare. If only there was someone out there who loved you.”
Mare took a couple of steps back in shock. “What…?”
“I told you about Hawk and how he kept running away from his problems,” Edgelord replied. “As he was so beloved by his audience, I didn’t stand a chance. I knew I’d have to usurp him somehow.”
“But...what are you talking about?” Mare asked, trembling a bit from fear. This couldn’t be real. He had to be just teasing her. Edge couldn’t be evil, he just couldn’t be. She thought she finally had a friend who understood her. She thought that she was going to get her happy ending at long last.
“I told Hawk how much I hated G5 and how I didn’t want him pursuing it in his writing craft,” he explained cruelly. “I told him that he needed to tone it down, that it was just a show. But he kept brushing me off and telling me I was wrong! He told me that I needed to change my perspective!! Me!! As if I was the one BURNING BRIDGES WITH OTHERS!!!!!”
“Edge…!”
“I saw an opportunity to get back at him,” Edgelord continued triumphantly. “To make him see how wrong he was. Once I discovered how to open portals to other worlds, I made an arrangement with Caine to send him to the Circus, so that he would never interfere with my plans again! I figured, I would go back and rewrite his stories in my image! Completely erase the G5 fics! And lastly…I would take over his channel and rebrand it to be against this generation!”
“Edge, no!!” Mare cried. “Y-you said y-you wanted to give them happy endings! You said you would give me mine!!” Tears were forming in her eyes now. She had been tricked, and there was nothing she could do about it now.
“But you just had to be a thorn in my side…and you were dumb enough to believe that I was going to help you.” Edgelord mused, completely ignoring her.
“Please…!”
“Now all that’s left to do is rewrite the multiverse in my image…” Edgelord finished calmly. “And completely erase Hawk from all of existence. He thought he could push me aside and tell me how to think. Well, he’s about to realize just what happens when you push away your only ally!”
“You’re no match for Hawk!” Mare protested, running after him as he walked towards the door.
“No,” countered Edgelord, blasting her back with his magic. “You’re no match for Hawk. I, on the other hoof, am the hero who’s going to Save My Little Pony from G5, and its cultist fans.”
“You won’t get away with this!” Mare shrieked through tears.
Edgelord was unfazed by her threat. “Oh…I already have. By the way, say hello to the other characters for me, will you? The characters whose stories you helped me ruin.” With that, he blasted a massive hole in the floor and Mare fell through it, screaming as she descended into the depths of the void below.
Seeing no other threat to his power, he locked the door and prepared to launch his final assault on the Admiral Producer Multiverse. He was going to win the war against the G5 fandom, and no one would be there to stop him ever again.