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However, that 'Do Something' command that Twilight and her friends kept relying on can be a major weakness, and it was one that Sombra was fully aware of. Without a very clear instruction of what they needed to do, the Elements of Harmony will do whatever is simplest to fix the problem they are used to solve. Twilight and her friends had told the elements to do something to Sombra, but each one had different ideas about what stopping him meant: Pinkie Pie just wanted him to quit being a meanie, Fluttershy wanted him to go away, Rarity wanted him to be turned to stone, Rainbow Dash wanted his head to explode, Applejack wanted him banished to someplace unpleasant, and Twilight had wanted him to be turned into an Earth Pony, so he'd never be able to use magic to hurt others again. Had even just two of them had the same idea, the fight might have gone much, much differently...
But since they were divided in intent, this allowed Sombra an opening to manipulate the power of harmony. The barrier that Sombra had created for this purpose is actually quite weak. Absurdly weak, in fact, lessening the Element's attack by an almost infinitesimal amount, unless the elements do the one specific thing that Sombra wanted them to do. In this case, that was heal the tyrant's broken body. So, like water flowing downhill through a channel dug in a sand dune, the elements were 'guided' into the one channel that benefited Sombra the most. For almost anyone else, it wouldn't have worked, but Sombra is a tyrant: Tyrants are all about 'Harmony', it is just that their definition happens to be 'Everyone doing what I tell them to'. Love and hope could kill Sombra, but as long as he had a clear intention for their power, and his enemies did not, then the Elements of Harmony could be used in his favor. Celestia and Luna had learned this after multiple confrontations with the tyrant: From what I've gathered from the two of them, the Crystal Empire battle wasn't the first time that the royal sisters had fought Sombra, just the first one where they didn't open with the Elements...
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/237992/12/who-is-this-lord-tirek-you-speak-of/a-brief-interlude
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