As Mjolnar was no more, one threat was down. Alas, there was still two more Immortals that were more powerful than her, and Mjolnar alone wore Twilight Sparkle down completely.
With all of her magic and energy drained, Twilight stood no chance against who she faced afterwards.
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After defeating the Storm-brewing Immortal, Twilight and Otenko returned to Ponyville as quickly as they could to find help for Rainbow Dash, but instead of finding help as they hoped, they found only destruction. During that morning, the town of Ponyville was as bright and colorful as it always had been, but after returning from her struggle with Mjolnar, Twilight found houses damaged or destroyed, fires being fought, ponyfolk running and screaming and fear getting the best of everypony. Chaos and fear had taken over Ponyville.
"Oh my gosh!" Twilight said in shock. "What happened?"
"I didn't think they could do so much damage so fast." Otenko said. "Keep alert, Miss Sparkle. The other two Immortals are likely still here."
Taking Otenko's advice, she began walking through her home town with caution. She tried to stay calm, despite the panic in the town, because she had to hide her worries for the sake of everypony. As all of Ponyville was in a state of fear, they needed to see their princess with a brave face on.
It wouldn't have been so bad if Twilight only knew what was causing all the destruction, or at least that's what she thought. Otenko knew exactly what was causing the madness, so he was most scared of all. After a walk into town, Twilight finally found a familiar pony. One with a white coat and a purple mane.
"Rarity! I'm so glad I found you!" Twilight said with relief. "Tell me what happened to Ponyville while I've been gone. What caused all of-"
"TWILIGHT SPARKLE! DON'T ANY GET CLOSER TO HER!"
Twilight paused when she heard Otenko's scream, not to mention that he suddenly referred to her by her full name rather than Miss Sparkle. After stopping, she felt a powerful surge of dark energy blowing her back. She flew back a few feet, but was able to keep standing. It took her a moment to realize it, but she found that the energy came from Rarity herself.
"You can't hide your presence from me, Gungnir." Otenko said.
Recognizing the voice, Gungnir, controlling Rarity's body, turned to look Twilight and Otenko in the eyes. The sight of Gungnir's black right-eye caught Twilight by surprise. Not only that, the black eye itself scared the alicorn as she stared into it. The fear she tried to hide from Ponyville for everyponys' sake was suddenly unveiled.
"Ahh, Princess Twilight Sparkle. At last, I get to see you with my own eyes." Gungnir said. "Or I guess I should say I'm using your good friend's eyes. Tell me, did my sister give you too much trouble?"
While Twilight didn't expect to see Rarity to get taken over by the Immortals as well, she knew she had to accept it quickly in order to help her friend the best she could. "I-I got Rainbow Dash back, so don't think you can get away with Rarity's body too!"
"Oooh, so Mjolnar kicked the bucket after all? Called it! I knew she wouldn't last five minutes here."
Twilight and Otenko turned around to see where the new voice came from. Floating in the air was a purple mist that covered a small area behind Twilight. It gave off an evil presence like the other Immortals did, but Twilight was a bit more scared of this new one, sensing a more psychotic evil coming from it..
"Missel Tow, please show some respect for your fallen sister." Gungnir said. "In any case, with the time she gave us, we now have our new bodies and can move on with our plans. You know what to do now, Missel. Let's get going."
"Fine. These ponies are no fun to me anyway. They just won't die." Missel said.
Bored of the chaos and destruction she was causing, Missel Tow and her mist vanished from sight and Gungnir was preparing to do the same, but Twilight went through a lot of effort to take Rainbow Dash back from the Immortals, so she had no intention of letting them take Rarity too.
"You're not going anywhere!" Twilight shouted.
"Miss Sparkle, you are in no shape do be doing anything now." Otenko informed. "You're far from your full power, and we need to help your other friend."
"You said it yourself. They aren't at full strength either, and that's all I need to know."
Ignoring the obvious danger, caring more about Rarity's safety than her own, Twilight flew up in the air and charged toward Gungnir to take her down, but Gungnir was by no means intimidated. Without moving so much as a hoof, Gungnir fired a wave of darkness from her black eye, only with much more force than the first one, launching Twilight in the opposite direction until she flew through a nearby building. She tried to use her teleport spell to avoid the impact, but she used up every drop of it in her last battle. As a result, nothing stopped Twilight from smashing through a brick wall, knocking her unconscious.
"Miss Sparkle..." Otenko said in horror. "Gungnir! Just how far are you willing to-"
But as Otenko turned to talk to Gungnir, she was already gone. Otenko couldn't share another word and was left with an injured companion, a wrecked Ponyville, and dwindling hope.
"Without the Solar Boy, you are no real threat to us, Messenger of the Sun." Gungnir's voice said to Otenko.
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As Twilight's eyes opened up, she saw something rather curious. Darkness. The last thing she remembered was taking a hit from Gungnir after discovering what she did to Rarity. She had no idea where she was at that moment, nor did she know how she got there.
"Hello? Anypony here?" Twilight asked, hearing nothing coming back out from the darkness. "Rarity? Otenko? Anyone? Please tell me I'm not dead!"
The idea of being alone in the pitch-black darkness scared Twilight. She took a step forward to try to explore where she was, but stopped as soon as she took her first step. She quickly realized after walking that she standing in something wet. The liquid she was standing in looked black, but that was because of the darkness. After smelling a slight scent of it, and judging from how thick it was, Twilight had an idea about what she was standing in.
"I-is this...blood?" She asked in a worried tone.
STOMP!
Eventually, she heard something else besides herself, but it wasn't anything she was hoping to find. She heard something huge taking a step forward. From the sound it made, she figured it was an Ursa Major, one of the largest beasts in Equestria. After looking around in the darkness, trying to find what it was, she noticed something that stood out in the darkness.
While it was barely visible and rather far, Twilight saw something hiding in the darkness lying on the ground, giving off a faint, dark-red glow to provide the only source of light in the area, but all it really did was make Twilight more nervous. After getting closer, she saw it was a large creature as she predicted, but it was much scarier then an Ursa Major
"W-who are you?"
After remembering that she could use magic, Twilight used her magic to create a glowing aura around her horn to see what the creature was. She immediately regretted doing so as she let out a horrible scream at what she saw.
There before her was what appeared to have been a giant horse skull laying down in front of her, but after shining her light at it, the monster became alerted of Twilight's presence. The beast raised its head and revealed its red fleshy body with red-dyed pony skulls covering it. The size of the beast was tremendous, appearing as if it was over a mile long since Twilight couldn't even see its hind legs. The front legs were visible however, with two large bones for front legs, but rather then having a hoof on each leg, these had two hooves, each floating nearby the actual leg, the left leg having a blue and red glowing hoof while the right leg had a green and purple hoof.
It was the largest monstrosity Twilight had ever seen. She felt nothing coming from the beast other than pure evil. She didn't know what it was, but she knew it was scarier than death itself. As it unleashed a loud, demonic neigh-like screech, Twilight was left completely paralyzed in fear, unable to move as the monster lunged its head forward to devour the little pony.
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"Come on, Sugarcube. Wake up."
"YAAAARRGGHH!"
Twilight quickly opened her eyes and unleashed a mighty scream, on the verge of hyperventilating from the horrible nightmare she had. She found it hard to focus on where she was, not just because of the trauma she endured, but also because of a splitting headache she had from hitting a brick wall earlier, but after hearing an all-too familiar voice...
"SHE'S UP! YAY!" Pinkie Pie screamed out loud. "TIME TO CELEBRATE!"
The crazy pink pony, Pinkie Pie, went on to play with noisemakers while throwing confetti and balloon animals, being overjoyed that her friend was alive and well, all while making Twilight's headache worse. Had she of started singing, that would've knocked Twilight down for the count. Fortunately for Twilight, it made her forget about her dream for a moment.
"PINKIE-OW!" Twilight screamed, only to cause herself more pain, but the pain eased down a bit after taking a good look at her friends, happy they were all there for her. In addition to Pinkie Pie, two of her other friends, Applejack and Fluttershy, were there when she woke up. It was also then that Twilight realized where she was: A hospital bed. There were, however, a few friends of hers that weren't there. "Rarity! Rainbow Dash! Where are they?"
"Your little friend told us about Rainbow Dash. She's recovering in another room." Fluttershy said. "He was so nice."
After turning her head, Twilight saw who it was that Fluttershy was referring to: The strange being, Otenko, who was also waiting for her to wake up.
"After Gungnir fled, I searched around the town for some calm ponies to help. These three seemed to of known you, so I had them bring you and Rainbow Dash here."
"But what about Rarity?" Twilight asked.
Otenko shook his head. "The white one, right? I'm afraid she's been taken over like Rainbow Dash was. I've long since lost track of her presence."
"And...Twilight?" Applejack said with a sad face. "I saw her take Spike away with her. Sweetie Belle too."
This was heartbreaking news to Twilight. First she almost lost her loyal friend Rainbow Dash, then she lost her generous friend Rarity, as well as her assistant Spike. Since she wasn't strong enough, she allowed the Immortals to take away two close friends and a little filly. She finally stopped feeling the headache because she had felt an even greater pain in her heart, for the forces of evil had won the battle.
And to make matters worse, she wasn't entirely sure who the forces of evil were. Luckily, the one who knew about them more than anypony was floating right next to her bed.
"Okay, Otenko. I think it's time for you to tell me what's going on! Who are you, who are those Immortals, and why have they attacked Ponyville and my friends?"
Suddenly, Twilight had a lot more energy, throwing Otenko off-guard by the sudden questions. He thought Twilight should've been saving her strength after being hospitalized, but he understood her completely. She risked her life helping him, so the least he could do was to enlighten her.
"Very well, Miss Sparkle. To face the threat coming at us, I guess you need to know about who they are."
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Later that night, after Twilight released herself from the hospital, she and her friends returned to her home, or at least what was left of it after the Immortal's attack. Before, Twilight lived in a giant tree that Ponyville used as the local library, but in addition to the damage caused to the rest of Ponyville, the tree had all of its leaves burnt right off with the rest of the building burnt black. There must've been a fire there caused by Gungnir, but was eventually fought off. Twilight was lucky that the inside wasn't as badly damaged.
After everypony got inside and sat around in a circle with Otenko being in the middle, he began to share his story to the group.
"Now then, I am Master Otenko, the terrestrial embodiment of the sun's will, or at least I am in my world. In my world, I traveled together with Django the Solar Boy, a young but great vampire hunter who's fought and defeated some of the mightiest of the Immortals."
"Vampires? Wait, are you telling me they can turn me into a vampire?" Twilight asked.
"Not at all." Otenko reassured. "There's a difference between an Immortal and a vampire. Trust me, the last thing any world needs is a Twilight Sparkle vampire."
Completely out of the blue, Pinkie Pie began howling in laughter at Otenko's comment. Almost as if she noticed a joke in their, but nopony could understand what it was. Yet again, nopony could understand Pinkie Pie, which was probably why they didn't question her about it.
"So why are they here?" Twilight asked.
To answer her question, Otenko began quoting a chant. "The gate will open when the Sun and Moon merge, but only discord can hold back the scourge."
"Wait, now Discord is involved in this?" Pinkie Pie asked as she ate from a bag of popcorn. Again, nopony questioned her about it.
"In my world, the sisters were trying to release Sleipnir, The Beast of Chaos. A mighty monster that can destroy any world if it were to be released. As a creature known as an Eternal, it is neither alive or undead. It simply exists to destroy whatever is sees. Gungnir wishes to free it to lay chaos and destruction to the world and conquer it. Once freed, there will be no hope for us all."
The ponies listening to the story all reacted to it differently. Pinkie Pie ate the popcorn she mysteriously acquired faster, Fluttershy became horrified, Applejack tried to calm her Fluttershy down, and Twilight became more curious.
"What does Sleipnir look like?" Twilight asked.
"I'm not sure. I've never seen it before, but if it's anything like the other two Eternals I've seen, it will undoubtedly be bigger then life itself and induce fear simply by looking at it. They also lack any real instinct and act as if they were a mindless, feral animals."
Twilight then remembered the dream she had. The one with the giant horse-like monster that lived in the lake of blood. She wondered if it was an Oman of some kind. She couldn't think of how her dream would've been useful knowledge at the time, nor did she want to relive the awful dream, so she asked something else instead.
"What about that poem of yours?"
"It's a clue about how to release Sleipnir. Gungnir was able to to find those that represented the Sun and Moon, which sadly, included Django, my partner. What has baffled even me though is that she was never able find the Eternal's seal. Based off of what I've learned, they may have to release Sleipnir from this world rather than our own, but to do that, they'll now need new keys."
"New keys? You mean like your friend?" Fluttershy asked.
"He didn't come here with me. Unless there's two more in your world who can represent the Sun and Moon, they may already be fighting for a lost cause."
The mares began looking at each other with worried looks. It didn't take a great philosopher for help them understand who could fulfill the requirements to release Sleipnir.
"Okay, Now it's my turn to ask something." Otenko said in an irritated tone, bothered by the silence.
"They need somepony to represent the Sun and Moon, right?" Twilight asked. "That sounds like a dead ringer for Princess Celestia and Princess Luna."
Twilight and her friends were still trying to figure out what exactly the Immortals and this new monster were, not to mention the floating sunflower thing that was explaining it all to them, but after seeing what they were able to do to their friends and town, they knew they were dangerous. Even worse though was that they would go after Equestria's rulers, putting their peaceful world into great danger. Twilight had a hard enough time fighting the weakest of the Immortals in Equestria, but after all she had just learned, she began to doubt if she had a chance to save her friends, the princesses, or even Equestria itself.