Chapter 15

As soon as they her entered the city, however, their eyes were immediately blinded by all sorts of bright lights coming from many different angles at once.

"Oh! Wow that is bright!" Mary exclaimed as she still could barely see anything. "Is it always this bright here during the day?!"

"Pretty much!" Rainbow Dash said.,

When their eyes finally got use to all the bright light, what she saw baffled them at first but finally amazed and astonished all of the kids. Before them they saw the glittering empire itself and passed multiple crystal like structures and buildings on their way in. They also saw multiple crystal ponies, much to the kid's amazement as they stared at everything around them in awe.

"Wow…!" Tommy breathed.

"Amazing!" Mary remarked.

"This empire is magnificent!" Edwin proclaimed.

"Yeah, pretty awesome, right?" Rainbow Dash said. "And Twilight's brother and sister-in-law run the whole place!"

"Cool!" Darla said in awe as she gazed at her reflection on all the shiny crystals.

"Yeah, and their most prized possession; the crystal heart!" Applejack added.

The kids turn and gasp when they saw it. Lying just several yards beyond the steps to the castle doors she just came from, was the Crystal Heart, nestled between a crystal stalactite and stalagmite sprouting out from the outer castle ceiling and floor respectively, as the Heart constantly spun while generating a shield over the Crystal Empire made from the light and love that is housed within all of its Crystal Pony inhabitants. It almost had a hypnotic trance over the kids as they gathered around it.

"Cool!" They all said.

"So is this…" Tommy began.

"That's right, the Crystal Heart." Twilight Sparkle confirmed. "My assistant Spike was actually the one to bring it here."

"Boy, he must be really liked here." Felix remarked.

"Sort of… well he wasn't exactly invited one time…" Fluttershy admitted.

"Dang… that's pretty cold of you guys." Paco stated. "Leaving him behind like that. Even I wouldn't do that."

"Hey, it's not our fault Princess Cadence didn't invite him! And if we could we would!" Rainbow Dash defended.

"Speaking of which… where is Cadence and Shining Armor?" Rarity wondered.

"I don't know… I'm sure there around here somewhere." Twilight said, looking around.

"Twily!"

They all turn and see a blue maned unicorn stallion and a pink alicorn female approaching them with big smiles. Twilight recognized them.

"Shining Armor! Cadence!" she said, happily as she rushed over to them.

"Twily?" The kids asked the others in a deadpan tone. They could only shrug in response. Twilight hugged her older brother tightly.

"Good to see ya, sis." Shining Armor said.

"Good to see you too." Twilight smiled. She then turned to Cadence. "Oh hi Cadence!"

"Twilight!" Cadence said, smiling also. They also hugged and performed their greeting when Twilight was only a filly.

"Sunshine, Sunshine

Ladybugs awake,

Clap your hooves

And do a little shake."

They giggled afterwards while the kids just stared at them blankly.

"Wow…" Felix remarked.

"That's gonna get old…" Mary muttered.

"I think it just did." Paco added.

"Tell me about it." Rainbow Dash said.

"So, Twilight, are you gonna introduce us to your… little friends here?" Shining Armor asked, gesturing to the kids who frown at his little comment.

"Oh, right! This is Tommy, Mary, Felix, Paco, Edwin and Darla." Twilight introduced them. "They're from the other world behind the mirror."

"The other world?" Cadence repeated, surprised. "I thought the portal was sealed."

"Well apparently they found another doorway here and we need to them back as soon as possible!" Twilight Sparkle said.

"Why?" Shining inquired.

"Well…" His younger sister began before they heard a loud noise behind them. They all turn and see a far off piece of land rumble before dropping into seemingly nothingness. Everypony watching was stunned.

"Uh… that's why." Paco answered.

"You see if we don't get home soon, the unbalanced energy we brought with us will cause this world to break apart." Edwin explained.

"Trust us, we've seen it happen." Mary added.

"It already destroyed Ponyville and Cloudsdale!" Rainbow exclaimed.

"And our train!" Darla stated.

"Yeah… we had to walk all the way here… in the snow…" Felix said, sourly.

"But we're ok now!" Tommy assured them.

"Well that's good!" Cadence smiled.

"Yeah… can't say the same for Ponyville though…" Paco stated.

"Ponyville?" Shining Armor echoed.

"Yeah… the whole place has been destroyed…" Mary said, solemnly.

"Oh no…" Cadence breathed horrified, as Twilight and her friends all lowered their heads sadly.

"And it's all our fault… Rainbow was right…" Felix added, feeling sad also.

"Listen kid… I only said that because my home was destroyed… I didn't mean to blame it on you." Rainbow Dash told him.

"Rainbow's been known to go off every once and a while, don't hold it against her." Applejack said to the kids.

"Yeah… guess we all have our moments..." Rainbow shrugged.

"You definitely had one back there." Applejack smirked.

"Don't help." Rainbow frowned.

"So what can we do to help, Twilight?" Cadence asked.

"Well… if we can combined the energies of the crystal heart with our elements, we can create a portal that should send them all home!" Twilight explained.

"Think that'll work?" Shining Armor inquired.

"It's the only plan we've got…" she confessed. "So we don't have any other choice…"

"Then let's get to work." Cadence stated, determined.

"Cool! Let's grab it!" Paco declared as he rushed over to the Crystal Heart.

"Paco, don't!" Mary cried as she and the other attempted to stop him but ended up all grabbing at the same time. Once they touched it, something odd began to happen. The crystal heart began to crackle with red electricity.

"Uh… is that suppose to happen?" Paco wondered.

"Based on what I heard… no." Edwin stated.

"What's going on?" Twilight asked, worriedly.

"I don't know! It's never done this before!" Cadence exclaimed.

"Hey, you kids! Get away from that! Now!" Shining ordered them.

"We can't! We're stuck!" Tommy cried as the crystal heart continued to shake and the sky slowly became blood red before a bolt of red lightning shot out from the crystal and went straight for the sky. Once it hit a black portal showing the very depths of space was shown in the sky.

Pinkie screamed. "What's going on?"

"Twilight…?" Applejack asked, hopefully.

"It's… it's some kind of wormhole… a wormhole to space!" Twilight Sparkle proclaimed as a strong wind began to try and suck up everything and everypony around up into it. "Hang on!"

"Easier said than done sis!" Shining Armor cried.

"Oh no…" Cadence despaired as the wormhole continued to try and suck everything and everypony up, and eventually it managed to pull out some of the crystal houses that were stuck in the ground sent them zooming up into space. "It won't stop…"

"What!?" Rainbow questioned.

"It won't stop now… not until everything and everypony is sucked up into oblivion." Princess Cadence stated.

"Is there a way to close it?" Fluttershy inquired, panicky.

"No. I don't think there is. This is an endgame." Cadence sighed, defeated. "This the end."

The kids all began exchanged looks of horror and guilt as the wormhole continued to suck up most of the Empire like a large vacuum cleaner.

"What have we done?" Tommy whispered.