Twilight, Shining Armor, and Rose ran out of the Crystal Castle, the ground still shaking. "Firebrand!" Shining Armor shouted.
The crystal unicorn ran to Shining Armor. "Sir!" He shouted.
"Tell everypony to stay indoors!" Shining Armor ordered. "Make sure they don't leave!"
"Understood!" Firebrand ran off to the other soldiers.
Suddenly, the rattling stopped. The ground became still. Too still.
"Something isn't right..." Twilight began. Then the top of the Crystal Castle exploded in a fiery blaze. The aurora created by the castle was vaporized in a flash of light and chunks of crystal rained to the ground. Shining Armor created a shield around Twilight, Rose, and himself.
Soon a giant metal pike, extended out of where the castle had exploded. It, than opened into three pieces and a smaller pike extended out of that. A grey pegasus flew out of the castle and flew to the weapon. He flew to a clear area just below the weapon, where the controls were located.
"That must be the pegasus The Doctor was talking about." Rose yelled.
"Of course!" Twilight agreed. "That must be what he uses to destroy the Crystal Empire!"
"Oh, it will destroy the more than the Crystal Empire!" The grey pegasus landed in front of the three ponies. He folded his wings and raised his head. Twilight then noticed his cutie mark was an hourglass, just like The Doctor's.
"What do you mean?" Shining Armor asked, anger apparent in his voice.
"This empire is boring." The pegasus replied. "Why do you like it here? Don't you just want to leave sometimes? Maybe take over a different empire?"
"We didn't take over the empire!" Shining Armor yelled. "It was given to us!"
"Oh, baleks!" The pegasus said. "You just took a crystal heart down to a pedestal, and had everypony follow you."
"Hey, do you think you can just come here and insult me, and get away with it!" Shining Armor yelled.
"Yes." The pegasus answered calmly. "Of course I do. I'm not even a pony citizen. I just live here. Anyway, what this weapon does is channel the energy and magic of the Crystal Heart, to create a huge explosion destroying the entire universe."
"You're insane!" Rose shouted.
"I'm a psychopath, what do you expect?" The pegasus said.
"But, why would you destroy the entire universe?!" Twilight asked.
"I'm bored." The pegasus said. "Sorry, can't talk anymore. I've got a weapon to prep, and you've got a pony to fight."
"Oh, you will get it." Shining Armor said, his horn glowing purple.
"What?" The pegasus asked. "Oh you think you're fighting me?!" He started laughing furiously. "That's rich."
"Wait," Shining Armor began, "if we're not fighting you who are we fighting."
"Your wife."