"Don't do that," Davy said, calmly.
"Yeah, don't," Enchantra said.
"Sorry," Airedale said, sheepishly. "But how else do you expect us to get inside a locked room."
"Well, he does have a point," Enchantra said. "It's the only way to get in without a key and . . . . what am I doing? I'm not supposed to debate with the little ponies! Where's my mind? Oh well. You're too late anyway ponies. There's no way you can stop us!"
"Oh yeah?" Gusty asked. She tilted her head down and used her unicorn magic on Tirac and Enchantra. Wind soon filled the throne room. That didn't do much except knock Enchantra's crystal ball off it's stand. It cracked, but that was about all the damage.
"Anything else?" she asked. Davy pulled a squirt gun out of Micky's bag and sprayed water all over Enchantra.
"Ah you melting? Melting, what a world! What a world!" he said.
"That's the wicked witch of the west, silly boy," Enchantra said.
"Oh yeah, I forgot," Davy said.
Enchantra shook her head and turned to Tirac.
"Are you sure it was these ponies who defeated you?" she asked.
Tirac shrugged. Enchantra didn't have time to deal with the ponies now. She had more important things to do.
"It's time for the final phase of my spell!" she shouted. "Tirac, unless the Rainbow of Darkness!"
Tirac opened his pouch and the Rainbow of Darkness flew out. The ponies backed up, and so did Megan, the Bushwoolies, and the Monkees. Enchantra sent the Rainbow of Darkness into her crystal ball. Even though it was cracked, it worked just as well as it did before. The Rainbow of Darkness filled the crystal ball and then basically took over the sky. Lightning bolts flashed through the sky and thunder clapped.
"What's happening?" Sweet Stuff asked.
"Sounds like a thunder storm," Cherris Jubilee said.
"Worse," Lickety Split said.
"The world's plunging into darkness," Sundance said.
"What time is it, Cupcake?" Bubbles asked.
"About eleven thirty," Cupcake said, looking at Mike's watch.
"They have only half an hour to defeat Tirac and Enchantra," Morning Glory said. "If they don't, we're finished!"
"Or at least Mike is," Honey Suckle replied. "I don't know how much longer he can last under that spell."
Cupcake sighed and sat by Mike. She had been doing that all night. Time was running out and darkness had taken over the world. The Midnight Castle Crew looked into the crystal ball and saw the darkness that was plaguing the world.
"Are we too late?" Fizzy asked.
"No," Micky said. "We've still got a half hour. We can still save the world and Mike!"
"That reminds me," Enchantra said. "It's time for the end of Nesmith!"
"Wha?" Micky asked.
Enchantra pushed Micky aside and waved her hands around her crystal ball until she got an image of Mike laying on the floor of the cave, the ponies surrounding him. Enchantra sent a magical beam into the ball and soon, Mike's entire body became illuminated and it was glowing on and off, like a neon sign of a night club.
"What's happening to him now, Mr. Moochick?" Rose Dust asked.
"It must be the next step in Enchantra's spell," Mr. Moochick said. "If the others don't defeat her by midnight, I'm afraid it's the end of Ponyland, and Michael."
"What are we going to do, Danny?" Molly asked.
"I guess we just have to wait for Megan and the others," Danny said.
"And hope they make it," Masquerade said.
"Of course they'll make it!" Gingerbread shouted, smiling. "You know it's always darkest before the dawn!"
"You said it," Lickety Split said.