It is time for us...
to retire!
And you want me to take your place?!
With the help of your friends, of course.
You may call me...
Grogar.
Together, Equestria will be ours!
I will take back the Crystal Empire on my own!
How are we gonna stop him?
With the Elements of Harmony!
With those, we can defeat anypony!
What.
Just.
Happened?!
The Tree of Harmony can't really be gone, can it?!
It can't be!
But it is!
You thought you defeated me,
but you led me right to the source of your power.
Now that it's destroyed, nothing can stop me!
He's right...
With the Elements gone, I don't know how we can defeat him!
Then we'll just have to beat him the old-fashioned way!
You're no match for me!
I will finally rule the Crystal Empire!
Wait...
With you out of the way, I will rule all of Equestria!
No!
Oh, yes.
And I think I know exactly where I'll start.
Don't you dare say it!
Your sweet, little hometown.
You leave Ponyville alone!
Or what?
Without your Elements, it would be so easy to control you.
But there's no point.
My conquering Ponyville is already your greatest fear!
No!
What do we do?!
I don't know!
The Tree of Hamony grew the Elements!
It kept the Everfree Forest under control!
And now it's gone.
Sombra will take over Equestria,
and it's all my fault!
I knew I wasn't ready to take the princesses' place,
but I never thought I'd mess up this badly!
What are you looking at me for?
This is usually when you say
something funny to lift our spirits.
Sorry.
Nothing about this is funny to me.
I'm sorry.
I'm trying to be strong,
but I just can't bear to think about
poor Sweetie Belle under the spell of that monster!
Or those sweet little Cake twins...
Or Spike, or Starlight...
Or Angel...
or anypony forced to do that monster's bidding!
What the—?
Twilight, what are you doin'?
We can't just stay here.
I don't have a plan,
and I don't know what I'm gonna do once we get out.
But we can't sit here
and let Sombra make slaves of everypony we love!
Let me help!
I'm faster!
I like digging!
I've been known to get my hooves dirty!
Move over, y'all!
Normally, I wouldn't dream of digging,
but right now, show me the muddy!
Apple Bloom!
It's me!
Look at me, sugarcube!
Twilight, you gotta free her!
Please!
I...
I can't!
Without the Elements, my magic isn't strong enough to stop Sombra's!
Spike!
Spike, where are you going?
Starlight?
We must lay siege to Canterlot.
No!
Snap out of it, you two!
You're stronger than his magic!
Sweetie Belle, please stop!
I can't get her to stop!
I can't get her—!
None of us can.
We can't reach them!
He made them bake a black liquorice fruitcake that says
Congratulations to Our Favorite Supreme Emperor King Sombra
in green frosting!
It's the ugliest cake I've ever seen!
Twilight, this is bad!
Like, really bad!
I've never been so sad in my whole life!
I don't know what to do!
I don't know how to free them,
but I don't know how to stop Sombra!
Everypony was so sure I'd do such a great job!
Well, this is exactly what I was afraid of!
Could anything else possibly go wrong?!
Well...
With the Tree of Harmony gone,
the Everfree Forest could grow out of control and threaten the town!
Darling, that's oddly specific.
Even if we figure out how to defeat Sombra
and bring everypony back to Ponyville,
if we don't stop the forest,
there won't be a Ponyville to come back to!
Ahem.
For our friends!
For our families!
For our home!
For Equestria!
Equestria!
You!
Break it down!
They've fled!
Celestia and Luna are too cowardly to even stand against me!
Equestria is mine!
Come on, everypony!
We've been at this for hours,
but it's just growin' back too fast!
We have to keep trying!
I know we're supposed to be able to handle things on our own,
but I've never been happier to see two ponies in my whole life!
Nopony is meant to handle this on their own!
Star Swirl!
The Tree of Harmony, it's—!
I know.
I alerted the Princesses as soon as I could.
I felt it when it happened.
Like part of my essence just ceased to be.
I know what you mean.
I'm sorry.
Don't be.
I've more than enough magic in me
to keep the Everfree Forest under control.
You can do that?
The Pillars and I planted the Tree of Harmony.
Who do you think kept the Forest under control before it did?
It will take time, but with the princesses' help,
I can keep it at bay!
Aw, yeah!
Go get 'em, beardy!
Sombra's back, and he's taken control of all of our friends!
We've left Canterlot defenseless!
Twilight, you must go!
Defend Equestria, and we shall contain the forest.
At least now we're back to just one problem!
Aw, everypony's all evilly!
Sombra's gonna force us to fight our way through our friends?!
Not if I can help it!
Okay, guess we need a different plan.
Twilight?
I don't know!
I'm not prepared to fight against the citizens of Equestria!
I guess that's one more thing I'm not ready to do...
Well, we'd better figure out somethin' quick,
because none of them seem to have a problem with it!
Oh, sorry about this, Fancy Pants!
We promise we'll let y'all out as soon as we can!
Ooh, will I go here?
Or here?
Or here, or there?!
Huh?
Gotcha!
I don't know how long we can hold them off!
And holdin' them off isn't what we need anyhow!
We need to get inside!
But we can't just leave them here,
all possessed and Sombra-fied!
What do we do, Twilight?!
I don't know, but we can't stay here!
I'm sorry we couldn't help our friends,
but I didn't know what else to do.
At least we're inside.
Yeah!
All we have to do now is defeat King Sombra!
I...
We...
Oh, my.
No Elements?
No princesses?
Seems like you're in a bit of a pickle!
Or are you in...
...more of a jam?
Discord!
What are you doing here?!
Well, I was going to hang these up
all over the castle to celebrate your coronation,
but apparently it's a bit premature.
I'm so glad to see you!
We could really use some all-powerful Lord of Chaos help right now!
Moi?
Oh, I couldn't possibly.
Oh, poodles!
Discord, please!
Oh, fine.
Just to be clear, I was really rooting for you
to do this on your own and parlay that confidence boost
into being the best protectors of Equestria you can be.
A little less talking and a little more helping?!
Thank you, Discord!
I don't know what we'd do without you!
Okay, "King" Sombra!
Time to give up the crown!
Here to fight the good fight with nothing but your wits?
Admirable, but foolish!
Well, I guess it's on me to be the MVP today.
I was betting on you, and I do hate being wrong.
Although if you think about it, I am your friend,
so maybe you win because friendship wins?
Although Fluttershy should get most of the credit for that.
She's my favorite.
Discord!
Not even the Lord of Chaos can stand against me!
I am truly the most powerful creature in Equestria!
Discord!
We need you!
Oh, please wake up, please wake up...
Discord!
I'm so glad you're okay!
We can't beat him without you!
You couldn't beat me with him, either!
It would appear that you're on your own.
I have nothing left to give.
That's it, then?
We're doomed?
Of course you are.
I can't believe it's taken you this long to realize it.
Now, how shall I eliminate all this clutter in my throne room?
Listen to me.
You don't need me.
You don't need the princesses,
and you certainly don't need the Elements.
Fluttershy, you will always be kind.
Applejack, you will always be honest.
Rarity, you'll always be generous.
And Rainbow Dash will be loyal as can be.
Pinkie will always bring laughter wherever she goes.
And Twilight...
you are and always will be the embodiment of magic.
You lost sight of what's in front of you.
You're here, together,
willing to give everything you've got for Equestria.
Nothing and nopony can ever take that away from you,
because that's who you are.
It's going to take more than
a sentimental speech to save you.
Discord's right.
We've proven time and time again that the real magic
is the six of us working together!
With these girls by my side, I'm not afraid of you!
I'm not afraid of what you can do or how much power you have!
You should be.
You may knock us down,
but we're gonna get back up again!
And again!
As long as we're together,
we will never stop trying to defeat you!
For our friends!
For our families!
For our home!
For Equestria!
No!
This can't be possible!
Your magic can't defeat mine!
I destroyed the source of your power!
You can't destroy our friendship, Sombra!
And we keep telling bad guys.
But y'all just don't seem to remember.
Friendship is magic!
Noooooooooo!
Aw, do you want more juice?
Only if it's not too much trouble.
And it's red.
And it has one of those little umbrellas.
And two cherries.
No, no, actually, make it three.
And maybe, uh...
some donuts?
I see you've made yourselves at home.
Celestia!
Luna!
I know what you're going to say.
I should have called on you as soon as I knew how dangerous it was.
A good leader knows when to ask for help, and I didn't.
And because of me, the Tree of Harmony was destroyed.
Equestria deserves somepony much better than me as its leader.
You're right.
About one thing.
A good leader knows when to ask for help,
but a great leader has the courage to admit
when they've made a mistake
and the strength to make it right.
Today, you've proven to me beyond any doubt
that you will be a great leader.
Will be?
Luna and I have decided it may have been a bit unfair
to thrust this upon you
without giving you the time you need to prepare.
Thank goodness!
I really wasn't ready!
Not ready?!
So, Twilight's not taking over?!
This was all for nothing?!
I pretended to be very hurt
and gave one of the most convincing speeches of my—?!
Pretended?!
Of course!
You don't think some "would-be king"
could actually hurt the Lord of Chaos, do you?
Anyway, as I was saying,
I pretended to be very hurt to convince you
that you didn't need anything
but yourself to be the incredible leader I know you can be.
And now it's not happening?!
It will.
But when she's ready.
How can she not be ready?!
What a waste of a perfectly wonderful speech!
Honestly, I don't know why I even bother.
So he could have ended the whole Sombra thing whenever he wanted?
But he didn't, because he cares.
That's Discord for ya.
He sure has a weird way of bein' supportive.
Super odd dude.
I heard that!
Alsom truth be told,
Celestia and I had fun today fighting side-by-side
with Star Swirl for our home.
It's been years since we've gotten to do what you girls do.
You all make it look so easy.
Well, we are kind of an awesome team.
Every adventure is heart-pounding, but so rewarding.
I'm up for anything, as long as it's with all of you!
Life certainly hasn't been dull since we met.
Nowhere else I'd rather be.
We are pretty incredible together.
And we would do anything for Equestria.
I guess I know, when the time comes,
as long as we're together, we probably—
We definitely got this.
Now I'll say something nice about centaurs.
Tirek, you say something nice about changelings.
And Chrysalis, you say something nice about ponies!
Never!
Let us hope the three of you will be enough for my plans.
And what of King Sombra?
Did he succeed?
I'd say he gambled and lost!
But at least he can serve as a warning
to those who doubt continuing with my plans.
Unless any of you have doubts.
Uh, not I.
Nope!
I'm good!
Then we shall join forces
and work together to bring Equestria to its knees!
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