Canterlot...
The robots continued to rampage across the town, leaving the future ponies to fend for them. Future Sweetie and Trixie used their magic to lift up the top of a building that began to fall, allowing the ponies underneath to escape in time. They combined their power to drop it on a few robots that made their way underneath the debris, crushing them instantly upon impact. However, Trixie shook her head, feeling lightheaded after using another spell and gagged, finding drops of blood on the floor. She chose not to bring any attention to it.
A robot began to shoot at Future Rainbow and Applejack, the white unicorn erecting a small forcefield around them to cover them before the bot could reload. Once the lone robot did just that, Future Sweetie held it down, allowing Pinkamena to slice it into pieces with her sword, her landing on the ground once she was finished. She placed her sword back in the sheath as she spoke.
"Are any of you noticing if they're stopping?" the pink mare asked.
Future Rainbow hovered in her spot, taking to the skies to get an observation and saw that more robots began to appear through rifts. Atrocity tendrils began to lash out at her, but luckily she managed to fight them off. The pegasus grunted, feeling a stinging sensation ringing throughout her entire body, but she still pushed on.
Celestia and Luna flew next to the pegasus to see for themselves as well, "There's no end in sight for them! They just keep appearing out of nowhere!" Luna explained, landing back on the ground with her sister who scowled at the sight.
"We'll just have to teach them a lesson!" Future Rainbow boasted, smacking her hooves together in determination, her chant loud enough for her friends to hear as well.
"Rainbow is right, sister. We must not allow our subjects to be harmed at this time." Celestia agreed.
As they were discussing a game plan, a brown furred pegasus managed to fly by, getting the attention of Future Sweetie and Future Applejack, who stepped in her way. "Stay out of here, ma'am. These robots are unpredictable." the unicorn warned.
"Sweetie Belle?" the pegasus asked. Future Applejack immediately recognized the voice. Somepony who used to live on her farm before the takeover. "What is going on? Why do you both look so... Different?" she wondered.
"May...?" the earth pony managed to say in shock.
May looked at Future Applejack, "Applejack? Are you okay? You only saw me last week."
"I wish we could say why, Mrs. Parker. But we have to get you to safety." Future Sweetie said. "Peter is fine. He brought some few friends with him to help in stopping whatever the hay is happenin'."
"Are Twilight and Sunset with them?" the older pegasus wondered.
Future Applejack shook her head, "No. They're still in Ponyville. They met some new Spiders to stop the mastermind behind this." she tried to explain to Peter's aunt. She felt her legs begin to buckle down again for some reason.
"Oh... I hope he's okay..." she sighed.
Future Rainbow landed, seeing May's worried expression, "Mrs. Parker?! Man, it's been a while! Listen, Pete's fine! He's got O'Hara and some new guys with them! We gotta get you out of here, though! I'll tell him you stopped by!"
May nodded pretending to understand the situation, "Alright."
Celestia and Luna spoke up, "We will guide her. The five of you shall stay here and fend this area." the future heroes nodded, watching the princesses fly in front of May, who followed as fast as she could.
The ponies looked back at the robots descending upon them. Pinkamena gritted her teeth at the sight. "How many more of these can there possibly be?!" Trixie groaned, getting more annoyed as more robots began to reveal themselves.
"They're as endless as the changelings!" Applejack grunted, kicking down another robot as it landed, she stood on her hindlegs and processed to punch it hard enough to send it flying through the wall of a nearby building. A smirk formed in her face as she kicked down another bot coming her way. Then she cringed, "What... the hay is wrong with me?" she wondered with a whisper. "May hooves are startin' to wear down. That ain't right."
Future Rainbow Dash pushed her way through a small barrage, each of them shooting upwards at her, and missing as she flew with precision. The cyan pegasus extended her hooves forward as she slammed through each and every single bot in her path. "You're telling me! I thought the war was over!" she yelled. "Heck, I argue the changelings offer a greater challenge! We're tearing apart these metal things like they were made of wood!"
"Rainbow is right. It's just that these robots never let up!" Trixie agreed, shooting down more robots while they were defenseless. She lifted one up and threw it into a pile before lighting them up and blowing them to pieces. "This is really starting to get annoying..." she wiped some sweat from her face, "Oh dear... What is wrong with me?"
Pinkamena huffed, ducking as a robot attempted to hit her, she grabbed her sword and sliced its torso in half before it could even have a chance to defend itself. "Yeah... How much longer can we keep this up?" she wondered aloud, her voice muffled due to holding her blade's hilt in her mouth.
Future Sweetie panted, blasting more robots with magic, "As long as we need to." she declared.
Ponyville...
Pinkie got tackled by a robot who managed to catch her off guard. "That wasn't very nice!" she hissed, moving her legs upward in a swift motion to kick the robot upwards. The pink pony got back on her hooves as she bounced around, avoiding the bullets the robots shot out. Pinkie grounded her hooves into the head of a robot, hopping off of it and smashing the head into the body,
Black Cat and Sunset Shimmer stood back to back as the robots got closer to them. "So, Red. How are we fighting our way of this one?" asked Felicia with a sly grin on her face.
"Like this." Sunset replied, aiming her horn at the bots and blowing them up with a blast that tore through their circuits. "See?" she managed to brag.
"I see."
Meanwhile, Applejack and Rainbow Dash fought off more bots in their way. Rainbow managed to get tackled by one, forcing the earth pony to buck it away with ease. "Yer welcome." said Applejack, helping the pegasus stand.
"I was gonna say thanks!" insisted Rainbow, giving Applejack a quick glare, rubbing the sore spot on her hoof. "How about we just get back to kicking robot flank!" she declared with a scowl.
Nodding, Applejack answered, "Yep!" the two leaped up, and continued to fight off the army.
Trixie, Fluttershy, Rarity and Spike looked at one another. "Do you need Trixie's help, you two?" the blue unicorn asked. Fluttershy had just made it back to help her friends after getting the foals to safety at Sweet Apple Acres.
"Sure." replied Rarity.
Spike inhaled, his green fire breath burning the circuits and metal of the robots charging after them. The dragon missed one, and as it began to aim its gun at him. Rarity covered for him and Fluttershy, who yelped in surprise, while Trixie decided to hit it with a powerful concussive spell. When the white unicorn removed the shield, Spike hopped up, burning apart the robot's gun for good, allowng Rarity to destroy it piece by piece.
"That will teach you!" huffed Trixie.
Rarity looked at Trixie, "You seem into this."
"I think we're just tired of Ock's robots." Spike sighed.
Finally, Twilight decided to face Serena on her own. For each spell Twilight tried to use, Ock would merely deflect it with her hardlight tentacles. "Ha! You think your weak magic can harm me after how I dealt with your friends last time? You must be foolish!" she boasted, a smug grin on her face. Twilight gritted her teeth, teleporting out of the scientist's sight for a moment. She appeared right in front of Doc Ock 2099 and shoved her slightly.
"You dare push me? You will suffer for that!"
The alicorn rolled her eyes, "For Celestia's sake! You have quite the ego! You think I didn't account for you resisting our magic now?" she asked Ock.
Before Ock could say anything, a rainbow blur managed to hit her before a beam of blue, purple and yellow managed to hit her while she was stunned. Trixie, Rarity, and Sunset revealed themselves as they continued to attack. Serena got her bearings and swiped away the beam, forcing them to stop. "Do you really think that will hurt me? My armor is near indestructible!"
Confetti suddenly covered her goggles as she felt something hit her chest, knocking the wind out of her. Pinkie put away her party cannon as Applejack reared her legs back. "Ya said near indestructible!" she repeated. Spike managed to slice and dent the armor with his sharpened claws, weakening her.
As Serena wiped the obstructions from her eyes, she witnessed something coming for her, "No! You cannot defeat me! I am Doctor Octopus! The greatest mind--" she was cut off by Twilight's hoof to her jaw, knocking her out instantly.
"Thank Celestia. That kept you quiet." she flipped her body over, seeing a small antennae on her back. The alicorn smashed it with a hoof, instantly shutting down the robots there and in Canterlot. "Now let's take you back to your time." she declared.
Rainbow pointed upward, "Uh, Twi? We still have those portsl things openin' up. Even though she's gone, we gotta wait for Peter and the others to finish."
The alicorn nodded, "I know, Rainbow." she said, lifting up Ock's unconscious body. She found a rift in threw it in there. "But they can do it. I have faith." she added with an earnest smile, bringing hope into her friends as well.
Earth, 2099...
Doc Ock's body suddenly appeared, surprising the Spiders upon discovering her. "Gotta give the girls credit. They got the job done fast." First Spider admitted, hopping out of the way of Atrocity's large tendrils lashing out at them.
Anti-Venom grabbed her as well and webbed her body up. "They won't be going anywhere..." he said. He attempted to grab Atrocity and hold him down. But his tentacles vanished in rifts, revealing themselves on the ground below him.
"Brock! Look out!" Peter warned, using his thrusters to push Eddie out of the way. 'Thank God I brought this along.' he mused, getting his bearings in the air.
'Seismic Activity detected. Activating securtiy failsafes.'
Peter and Ben looked at Miguel, "What the heck does that mean?" asked Scarlet Spider.
A small electric pole revealed itself, small sparks jumping out of it as it moved up. "I got an idea. Atrocity's after us Spiders... Brock can hold him down while we move to one of those seismic failsafes. Then we can get him to trap his tentacles on it." he explained.
First Spider revealed his stingers, as the tentacles got out again. He slashed his blades, but they regenerated while he and the Spiders ran to the side of the circular room. "I like that plan... Anything to hurt this freaking thing."
The room began to get an orange lighting as the rifts continued to tear apart time itself, a current due to the gateway overloading made it difficult for the heroes to fight, but they pushed on anyway. Spider-Man watched as Scarlet Spider perched himself on the pole. "Ya! Giant creature from planet squid! I'm over here!"
Brock released Atrocity, allowing it to drag its tentacles into a rift and tying it around the pole, the Ben hopped off. "Got ya!" he teased, swinging away from it as the electric currents began to shock him greatly. The monster was stunned and Anti-Venom began to deliver a beatdown upon it. "Fake! You shall be cleansed!" he ordered.
Spider-Man 2099 looked at it, "Let's just keep ripping out its tentacles before it can do anything else!" he suggested.
"Can we even do that?" Peter raised a brow underneath his helmet.
Spider-Man 2099 raised his hands, "Anything's worth a shocking try!" he sighed.
Spider-Man nodded, hovering behind Atrocity and wrapping both arms around a tentacle. "Ugh! Here goes nothing!" he grunted, forcing himself to yank off the large limb. Eventually, he succeeded, dropping it on the ground.
"Nice work, kid." First Spider complimented, using his webs to toss the loose artificial limb into the gateway portal, where it began to glow orange as well.
"Seems as though we're stabilizing time the more we weaken him. Keep going at it." Miguel noticed. He slashed his talons on the monster while Ben webbed his tentacles' claws. Atrocitt managed to hit Peter and Miguel stunning them and throwing them on the floor. The two Spiders held their heads as they staggered up.
"Didn't your parents ever tell you not to run with sharp objects or tentacles?" Scarlet Spider scolded.
Anti-Venom hissed, "We're ending this for good! This Atrocity will no longer be a concern by the time I'm done with it!"
Roaring, Atrocity slammed his tentacles on the ground once more, activating the seismic failsafes again. "Okay, this time, me, Ben and Kaine will rip apart the tentacles!" Spider-Man said. Anti-Venom continued to smack around Atrocity while First Spider perched on the pole.
"Hey, big and ugly! Come and get me!" taunted the First Spider loudly.
Atrocity screamed, warping his tentacles into a rift and wrapping them around the pole. Kaine and Ben swung upward as the monster got electrocuted. Spider-Man flew and landed atop Atrocity's back as did First Spider and Scarlet Spider did. "Alright! Here goes nothing!" he shouted, the three brothers ripping off the large tentacles at once. They threw them aside, allowing Miguel and Brock to throw them into the portal as well with their webbing.
Once the three Spiders got off his back, Peter spoke, "Now, time should be back to normal!"
"Uh, Parker... Nothing's happening..." Ben told him.
Atrocity roared again, charging in a path, knocking away the five Spiders while he did so and jumped into the portal. Rifts began to open up again, surprising the five. "Uh, O'Hara... How much longer do we have until we all go boom?" asked Spider-Man.
"I'd rather we not talk our deadlines at the edge of time itself, Parker!" Spider-Man 2099 scolded. "Ah shock!" he cursed.
"Uh, guys... He's in Ponyville!" Ben told them, looking at the monitor's coordinates.
"Ah, hell... We have to stop him!" First Spider yelled.
Anti-Venom looked at the group, "Shall we go? They won't last long against him."
Spider-Man was the first to go in, "C'mon, guys! We have time itself to save!" he flew into the portal.
Anti-Venom sprinted ahead, "I have a bone to pick with that annoying clone!"
Scarlet Spider swung in with his brother, "Come on, bro!" he said. First Spider rolled his eyes under his mask, but jumped in with him, wanting to end this madness.
"Son of a glitch!" cursed Miguel again. "Parker owes me big time for this!" he hissed, following his allies back to Equestria to end things once and for all.
Ponyville...
"What the hay is that!?"
Rainbow Dash blurted that upon seeing the strange white symbiote monster stepping out of a rift. Twilight gulped, "That must be Atrocity!" she revealed.
The five Spiders hopped out almost immediately, "Sorry about that! This one got away!" Peter explained.
"About time!" Trixie scolded. "You have some explaining to do!"
"We don't have shocking time! We have to push that thing into the portal and close the rifts for good!" Miguel shouted.
"Twilight! You and the girls will use the Elements! It's the only way!" Peter said. His wife nodded, her and her friends gathered around in a circle ready to act.
"But wait... Won't you four be stuck here once we close it?" Twilight realized.
Spider-Mane 2099 looked at the ground, "I'd rather take that chance than allow time itself to be destroyed." he announced. "If it means not getting home, then so be it."
"I'm with him on that. I like the universe being stable." agreed Scarlet Spider.
First Spider crossed his hooves. "I guess I'm with them on this."
"Very well. We will find another way back to our world and time." Anti-Venom nodded.
With a sigh, Spider-Mane looked at his friends. "Sunset, Trixie. Use all of your magic to blast it. Kaine, Miguel, Ben, Eddie, and I will web that thing to help you."
The unicorns and Spiders stood next to each other, the ponies blasting Atrocity while it slowly moved forward. The monster began to slowly move backwards while the Spiders continued to barrage the creature with webbing. It was nearing the portal and Spike used his fires to frighten the monster. Black Cat performed one final kick, finally pushing it inside the portal. "Alright, ladies! Do your magic!" she shouted.
The Elements of Harmony began to glow as the six began to levitate. Twilight opened her eyes as a rainbow beam of magic began to shoot out, finally closing the portals for good. All lf the rifts weakened before imploding on themselves and the sky began to clear, revealing the night sky. The heroes noticed that everything was gone, and that the battle was finally over.
The bearers panted as they fell to the ground, their friends picking them up. "We did it, honey. It's over..." Peter said, he then faced the other Spiders, "I'm sorry."
"Don't be." First Spider told him.
"Yeah! Just because we're stuck here now doesn't mean we'll never find a way back." Ben assured. "Let's think of it as a vacation of sorts. Us Spider-Bros hanging out in Equestria."
Miguel actually let out a chuckle, "I guess I'm stuck with you shocking idiots. Sloan and Ock will probably get slandered for the crap they just tried to do anyhow, so we won't have to worry about them coming back for revenge."
"Yes. We will find a way home." Eddie said, retracting the symbiote, "In the meantime... I'd rather live in peace for now."
Peter rubbed the back of his head sheepishly, "Well then, we need to figure out living arrangements... and get the future doppelgangers back to their time."
Canterlot...
Future Rainbow and Applejack panted, lying on the ground. "Yeah... We did it, girls..." the prismatic mare weakly cheered, "Heh heh..." then, out of nowhere, she collapsed on her stomach. "Ow..."
"RAINBOW!" Future Sweetie Belle screamed.
Rainbow managed a weak smile, "The hay...?" she coughed, spitting more blood. Applejack and Trixie collapsed right after, subsiding to their unknown symptoms at last.
Pinkamena whispered, "You don't think..."
"No... they can't die. Not again!" Sweetie announced, holding back tears. "Not like this!"
Applejack stretched her hooves, breathing heavily, "Figured it wouldn't last long... Ah'm just glad to see ya'll one last time..."
Crouching down, Sweetie pleaded and held Applejack's hoof, "No. Don't speak like that! We'll fix this."
Trixie chuckled lightly, "Please... it's clone degeneration... We weren't gonna stay forever..."
"What about Peter?" Future Sweetie wondered. "What are we gonna tell him?"
The dying unicorn managed a smile, "Tell that idiot to not worry... we're better off like this... we were never the originals anyway..."
Rainbow cringed, "It's true..." she coughed again, "Got to kick ass one more time at least..."
"That doesn't matter! You're still you!" Sweetie declared, "Peter never did, his friends. You were the originals to us, no matter what the Jackal tells us. Don't let that go to your head!"
Pinkamena hung her head and put a hoof on Sweetie's shoulder, "At least it's painless. and we're at peace. You three can rest properly now."
"That's all we wanted... It's over..." Future Applejack coughed out, "Heh..." she closed her eyes at last and her breathing ceased.
"I guess it is then..." Future Rainbow followed, losing consciousness finally. Tears fell from Sweetie and Pinkamena's eyes as they silently watch the life fade from Future Trixie's body.
Silence. Silence and sobbing from a distressed unicorn, who was being comforted by Pinkie. Celestia and Luna sadly hung their heads, watching heroes fall not from wounds or in battle, but from circumstances they had no control over with their lives. They watched as the clone bodies disintergrated, however, Celestia used her magic to keep them still from blowing away. They did not deserve to be forgotten. In this timeline or any other. Now however, there was the matter of telling Peter.
A tragic loss came with a victory.