"Y-You want me to eat this gem?" Spike was lost for words.
"Yes! And when you do, Twilight and the others will be trapped in the Crystal World forever! You'll have your revenge at last!"
Spike looked down, hiding his furious looking face from Armak. "N-No..."
Armak gave a confused look. "What?"
"I said no!" Spike glared at Armak.
"Why? I thought you hated them, for how they have treated you."
"I think you misunderstood. I never wanted revenge! Even if they treated me wrong."
"Y-You aren't like other dragons. They are greedy and selfish, but you are the opposite."
"I would stop eating gems completely if it was necessary to save them."
Crystal World
Ponies gasped.
"S-Spike... Even, after all, we did to you... you would still call us your friends?" Twilight started tearing up.
"Aw man! Spike may be talking big, but I don't think he has a chance against Armak." Rainbow bluntly said.
Most ponies nodded, agreeing.
"Oh, Spikey..." Rarity said, worried.
Pony World
"I guess I'll just destroy it myself then." Armak charged his horn.
Spike quickly used his magic to teleport the red crystal to him.
"Huh?" Armak said in confusion.
"I won't let you." Spike levitated the crystal and set it down next to the CMC, who was still peeking out from the doorway.
Armak grunted. "Hmph, it doesn't matter. You can't get them out of that world anyways." He smirked. "Only I can."
Spike walked towards Armak and stood a few meters in front of him. "I will stop you! You hurt my friends... m-my family. I will not let this go any further!"
"Ha, did I just hear what the little, sensitive, weak dragon just said. He just said that he will 'defeat' me. Don't make me laugh! I'm the one who holds all of the dark magic." Armak said laughing while showing off his powers with a dark shine from his horn. "Fine, I'll play with you for a little bit. Do keep in mind that I took down four Alicorns, and the bearers of the elements at the same time."
Spike ignored the statement and kept glaring at Armak.
"Fool! You don't have your power of hatred anymore, how do you intend to beat me?"
Spike fired a beam at Armak with his finger.
Armak flew up from the throne, avoiding the attack. Spike's beam destroyed Celestia's throne. "While I'm surprised that you can still use magic, I just have top say that Princess Celestia's not going to be happy about that Spike!"
Crystal World
"I don't care, Spike, do whatever it takes!" Celestia said even though she knew that Spike couldn't hear her.
Pony World
Armak flew down to Spike and attempted a punch with a magic encased hoof.
Spike caught his hoof with his claw.
Armak used his free hoof and attempted another punch.
Spike caught it with his free claw once again, their hoofs and claws were interlocked.
"You're not bad Spike," Armak said as he pulled back. "But how about this." Armak fired a blast from his horn.
Spike teleported away from the blast but it went to the doorway where the CMC were hiding and it exploded. Luckily, it didn't harm them.
"I have to take the fight away from here. I'm putting Sweetie and the others in danger, and the castle could come apart." Spike thought to himself after he appeared again. He rushed Armak and faked a punch. Spike disappeared with teleportation and appeared again behind Armak. Spike grabbed Armak's tail and spun him around.
"Woooahhhooohh!" Armak screamed as Spike threw him to the window, breaking the glass.
Spike then activated his wings and flew after Armak.
"Let's follow them." Sweetie Belle said.
Apple Bloom and Scootaloo nodded and proceeded to run after Spike and Armak.
Armak was thrown far. When he regained his balance he was in a wasteland not far from Ponyville.
Spike soon caught up with him.
"This is a very nice battleground! Thanks, Spike!"
Spike replied by trying to blast him.
Armak dodged and laughed. "Ha! Is that all you got-"
He was cut off by Spike coming in and kneeing him in the chest.
Armak growled and held his stomach in pain.
Spike proceeded to fly above Armak and elbowed him from above.
Armak was sent flying down. The impact on the surface made a crater. He jumped out of the crater and charged his horn starting to fire rapidly at Spike.
Spike flew fast and dodged the blasts. He circled around Armak, it was then when the firing came to a halt.
Armak flew up to Spike and tried to deliver many punches.
Spike dodged all of them and then began to deliver his own punches. Armak this time, was the one to dodge all. "You're fast." Spike complimented.
"Yeah, you are too," Armak replied.
Crystal World
Ponies were shocked.
"Did any of you follow any of that?" Applejack asked.
The rest shook their heads saying no.
"Did you follow any of that princess?" Twilight asked.
Celestia shook her head. "No. Too fast for my eyes."
"And they aren't even the slightest tired." Rarity explained.
Pony World
Spike started to fire blasts from his palm rapidly. Rotating from his left claw to his right.
Armak quickly put up a barrier and protected himself.
The CMC finally caught up. They were hiding behind some trees.
"Spike..." Sweetie Belle thought, as her love was fighting for Equestria.
Spike gave up on firing and charged at Armak. He attempted multiple punches at him.
Armak dodged all but one, and he was sent flying to the ground.
Armak barely stopped himself from hitting the ground. He flew up and knocked Spike down with his hoofs.
Spike hit the ground hard. He caused a crater. Spike wasn't all that damaged, though.
Crystal world
"Spike!" Twilight was worried for her young dragon friend.
"It's alright, he looks fine," Rainbow said.
Pony World
Spike got up and flew back up to Armak.
"I really despise your scales," Armak said.
"Heh, comes in handy when you're always being pushed around."
Armak smiled and he had an idea. "Ha! Catch me if you can!"
"Do you think this is a game-" Spike tried to ask but Armak was already long gone across the wastelands.
Crystal World
"Oh no, he's too far. Even I couldn't catch up to that. That coward!" Rainbow said.
Pony World
"Heh, it's a good thing Rainbow isn't here. Her pride means a lot to her." Spike's body started to glow light green, and in a flash of green light, he was gone, after Armak.
Spike was very fast. He was faster than any pony has ever seen. All you could see was a green and purple blur, as Spike rushed after Armak.
Crystal World
Rainbow's jaw dropped. She looked to her friends who was chuckling and immediately put on a straight face. "Eh, I'm WAYYYYYY faster than that."
"Whatever you say Rainbow!" Pinkie Pie said laughing.
Pony World
Spike soon caught up to Armak. "Hey!"
"You- What?" Armak was shocked.
"I guess you lost then? Because I caught you!" Spike said as he punched Armak in the face.
Armak was annoyed. "Why you little-!" Armak kept attempting punches and kicks, but Spike dodged all of them. He growled and fired a blast at Spike.
Spike caught the blast with his claw and squeezed it. The blast popped like a balloon.
"You're toying with me!" Armak grunted.
"You're the one who started this game," Spike remarked.
Armak charged Spike once again.
Spike flew around him and quickly kicked him back to the wastelands from before.
The CMC watched as Armak flew into a rocky hill, destroying it.
Armak flew out of the rubble and landed in front of Spike, who was waiting for him. Armak charged his horn and cloaked himself. He was invisible to Spike and the others.
Crystal World
"Where did Armak go?" Rarity asked.
"It looks like he used a spell to make himself invisible. This could be trouble." Twilight explained.
"Spike's just standing there. Doesn't he know that he's invisible?"
"Spike..." Twilight thought.
Pony World
Spike stood there, waiting for Armak's next move. It was quiet, Armak could be anywhere.
"Where did he go?" Scootaloo asked.
"Ah don't see him." Apple Bloom said, looking around.
"Maybe he's a ghost." Sweetie guessed, a little spooked.
A tap on Sweetie's shoulder caused her to jump and scream. Scootaloo and Apple Bloom instantly rushed over and covered her mouth before she caused Armak or Spike to see them.
"Why would you do that?!" Sweetie asked once her friends let her go.
Apple Bloom and Scootaloo gave each other confused glances. "Do what?"
Unknown to all of them, a dark alicorn chuckled to himself.
Spike still stood completely still. When suddenly,
"Got you!" Spike raised his claw and Armak ran head first into it. His cloak was gone. "What a useless spell." Spike grabbed Armak by the neck and lifted him up. Armak tried to push Spike's claws away from his neck, but Spike had a tight grip. Spike grinned as he charged a blast in his palm, and fired at Armak.
Armak charged his horn and fired his own blast at Spike at the same time. They both flew back.
"That was pretty good," Spike said when he stopped himself from flying backward.
"How could this be? Spike lost his power of hatred, he should not be able to keep up with me." Armak thought to himself. "This will be a closer fight than I thought."
Spike and Armak rushed each other. When they got near they tried to hit each other with punches and kicks.
They were both fast and took turns dodging and attacking. They were rising in the air as they were fighting.
The CMC were watching from the batch of trees.
"Do you think Spike's gonna win?" Apple Bloom asked.
"From here it looks like Spike and Armak are equal." Scootaloo pointed out.
"Spike..." Sweetie thought of her new drakefriend. She was worried about him.
Spike and Armak pulled back. Their barrage was over.
Neither of them looked tired.
Armak was the one who rushed Spike and attacked him with multiple punches.
Spike was flying back and bobbed his head left and right to dodge Armak's attacks.
Armak stopped his attack, and thought. "How come I can't hit him?!"
Spike used his tail to grab Armak by the neck. He squeezed tightly and Armak couldn't yell in pain because of it. He charged two blasts in his palms and aimed it at Armak's chest.
"What were you grumbling about over there?"
Armak looked at Spike. "You shouldn't be this fast and powerful! I should have beaten you easily!" He struggled to say.
"I was always this powerful, remember?"
"Yes you are, but you should have lost your power when I lost control of you. Lost your power of hatred."
"I believe, you're mistaken." Spike fired and Armak flew back. Once he recovered and he could hear his opponent again Spike started to speak again. "You only gained control of me. The power you thought you gave me was my own power, I did not gain it through hatred."
"What? You had this power the whole time?! But why? Why didn't you use it to escape from me?" Armak asked.
"At the time, I didn't use my fire magic for reasons like that. I just used it for sending letters to the princess. If you want to talk about my strength, how do you suppose I survived all of the abuse from the past?"
"So by controlling you... I forced you to use your power for different reasons. Then you came accustomed to it." He realized. "I should have never done that."
"I always thought I could use this power for different reasons, but I never wanted to use it for hurting my friends."
"That's why you're so powerful..."
"Just give up Armak, you know I can beat you. There's no point in fighting anymore. Just release my friends and we can call this a truce."
"Fool! I may be surprised that you still have this much power, but I can still win. I've only been using eighty percent of my power."
"Really? Well, I'm using the same amount of power as I was when I was fighting Twilight before. It was twenty percent, wasn't it?"
Armak growled.
Armak and Spike both landed to the ground.
"Fine then! If you won't stop, then I will beat you! For all of the ponies, for all my friends, for my family, for my love, Sweetie Belle, and for my sister, Twilight!"
Crystal World
Twilight began to shed tears. "Spike still thinks of me as a sister? Even, after all, the things I've done to him?"
"That's the dragon I saw beside Twilight," Trixie stated.
"That's the Spike we know." Mrs. Cake said.
Other ponies from Ponyville nodded.
"This is the dragon Rainbow talked about." Lightning Dust said.
"Affirmative," Spitfire replied.
The Crystal Ponies started to chant their hero's name, the rest of Equestria's ponies followed.
"You can do it, Spike," Applejack said.
"Beat that guy to a pulp!" Rainbow Dash said.
"Be careful," Fluttershy said
"GOOOOOOOO SPIKE!" Pinkie Pie cheered.
"Do it for us," Rarity said.
"And all of Equestria!" Twilight finally added.
Pony World
The CMC were out of their hiding spot, looking at Spike.
"Go Spike!" Apple Bloom yelled out.
"Do it!" Scootaloo said.
Sweetie Belle smiled. "That's my Spike... always caring about his friends no matter what. Even if they did the worst possible thing to him, he would still care and love them. Your so sweet, that's why I love you so much, Spike." Sweetie Belle thought to herself.
"Let's finish this Armak!" Spike said.
"Yes, and I will win!" Armak said.