The ponies have realized what happened to Gusty, and are itching to rush back to Crunch to avenge her. Wind Whistler argues that they should keep going, since there's nothing they can do to help her now, but neither Buttons nor Truly is particularly inclined to listen to her. Megan, however, agrees, and pushes the group forward. They still need to get Crunch off their tails, however, which they achieve through Buttons using her winking to goad Crunch's minions into rolling down on top of him and burying him under a rockslide.
The team reaches the Purple Mountains, where they encounter a living, talking peak that identifies himself as His Elevated Eminence. The Mountain King explains that he created Crunch himself in order to have a guardian for the Heartstone, the magical gem that gives him his feelings, but forgot to give Crunch a heart of his own, causing him to become a ruthless monster. He advises the heroes to delve into his mountainous body to retrieve the Heartstone, as it's the only thing to have power over Crunch, but warns them that he himself does not know what will happen once it's gone.
When the Hearstone is removed, His Elevated Eminence promptly goes berserk and tries to crush the heroes with falling rocks. They escape in the nick of time but, once they emerge into the light, they find themselves face to face with Crunch. Truly goes to charge at him, while the others try to hold her back... except for Wind Whistler, who goads her into going ahead. At the others' shocked reaction, she states that she does not care what happens to these overly emotional fools and that Crunch can do whatever he pleases with them as far as she cares. The other ponies are shocked at this callousness, but Crunch suspects a trick.
- Buttons: Wind Whistler! How could you?
Wind Whistler: Pay no attention to them, Crunch.
Crunch: You really don't care what I do to her?
Wind Whistler: That sentimental fool? Certainly not.
When Crunch goes ahead and turns Glory, however, Wind Whistler can't keep a tear from leaking out. Crunch crows that he was right in suspecting her, but Wind Whistler offers to prove her sincerity by offering him his next victim — and snatches up Megan. The latter has caught on to Wind Whistler's ploy, and once Wind Whistler has flown close enough to Crunch she uses the Heartstone to turn him into a regular-sized, harmless dog, instantly restoring all his petrified victims. He remains his vicious self, however, so the ponies chip off a small piece from the Heartstone, which Megan places in Crunch's collar. He instantly grows back to his old size, but this time with a working sense of empathy and moderation. The Hearstone is restored to its resting place, and the heroes head back home.
This episode contains examples of:
- Actually, I Am Him: When Megan and the ponies first meet His Elevated Eminence, they don't realize that the talking mountain is the king they've been looking for and ask for where they can find himself.Megan: Excuse me, whoever you are, do you know where we can find His Elevated Eminence?
HEE: You're standing on him! - Call-Back: Crunch got his collar stone's obsidian from the Volcano of Gloom.
- Fake Defector: Wind Whistler pretends to betray the other ponies to Crunch and to sympathize with his ruthlessness and lack of empathy, in order to work up to a pretense of offering him Megan as a victim in order to let the latter get close enough to use the Hearstone on him.
- No Ontological Inertia: When Crunch is depowered, everything he petrified is instantly returned to its original form.
- Taken for Granite: While fewer people meet this fate than in Part 1, Truly still finds herself turned to stone by Crunch's touch.
