Meanwhile, Cherry's emotions led Cherry and Teller to a building that looked like the Grand Chinese Theater in Hollywood.

"Welcome to the Dream Theater where every film you're in is a starring role!" Joy smiled brightly as always to Cherry.

"Hooray..." Sadness, Disgust, Fear, and Anger dully cheered.

"Come on, you gotta see this!" Joy took Cherry's hands and pulled her into the theater. "Guys, help me find which one is the dream where the shadows came in her mind!"

"Shadows?" Cherry looked at her cheerful emotion.

"Not the good kind of Shadows." Joy said.

"How bad are they?" Cherry asked.

"Cherry, do you remember someone known as the Shadow Man?" Teller asked.

Cherry's eyes widened briefly, but she then tried to look casual. "Y-Yeah, Atticus and I had to go back in time because he was jeopardizing the LaBouff family which is Darla's biological mother's family... Why?"

"Well, because this one dream involves him in it." Fear told her.

"Pardon...?" Cherry asked.

"It's true!" Fear cried out, having a panic attack.

"Fear, calm down!" Disgust told the purple emotion.

"Your nightmares are gonna come to life!" Fear ran around in a circle. "Run, Cherry, they're going to eat everything you care about!"

"Anger, can you calm Fear down?" Joy asked.

Anger punched Fear firmly in the stomach. And where that instantly stopped Fear from continuing his panic attack.

"Thank you." Joy said.

"Was that really necessary?" Cherry asked her red emotion.

"What would you do?" Anger glared at her.

Cherry shrugged. "Meh... So, um... What's this about my dreams?"

"Oh, come with me!" Joy pulled on her hand and pulled her into the theater which was currently empty since it was not night time.

There were many colorful creatures that came in all colors, shapes, and sizes, proving how creative Cherry was in her imagination, whether awake or asleep. Joy then rushed to a box and pulled out other film reels, trying to find the one she was looking for.

"Is this gonna take a while?" Cherry asked.

"It might, you're very passionate about your dreams." Teller said to her.

"It's true." Joy said while looking through the rolls of film.

"All right..." Cherry sighed and sat in an actor's chair. "Might as well get comfy..."

"Oh, this would be easier if it was a daydream..." Sadness sighed, flopping on her back and staring at the ceiling. "At least they can fit into your pockets and you can't lose them, unless you forget about them like a pathetic excuse for a core memory..."

"Now, Sadness, you know as much all of us do that the core memories are important." Joy said while looking for the right film.

Cherry looked curious but said nothing.

"AHA!" Joy smiled once she found it. "Got it!" she then went to the film projector and put the film in.

The film projector then whirred and showed a countdown from three to one, all anyone could see so far was blackness. Soon, the blackness faded and there came colorful images. The camera followed Cherry on what looked like a normal day at school, but there were strange things happening that wouldn't happen on a normal, regular day, then again, this was a dream. There then came images of Atticus, but he was running away from her.

"Where are you going!?" Cherry's voice asked him and she started to follow him down the endless hallway. There were then doors in front of her and she opened them, but she opened them to see Atticus in his alicorn form next to Twilight from Equestria.

"Sorry, Cherry, but Twilight's my sister best friend now." Atticus said before flying off with Twilight.

Cherry remembered this dream/nightmare and wasn't glad to see it again.

"Atticus abandoned us for Twilight!" Sadness started to bawl.

"I knew he never liked us!" Anger scowled.

"Now we're just gonna die alone!" Fear cried with Sadness.

"You guys, it's just a dream..." Disgust scoffed, then looked a little curious. "Isn't it?"

"Of course it's just a dream, but Cherry has to watch the whole entire dream." Joy told them.

"Why's that?" Cherry asked.

"This is where the darkness overtakes you..." Joy said, in a rather haunting tone of voice, instead of cheerful and jovial like she was prior to this meeting.

"Darkness?" Cherry looked at her.

Teller took her cheeks and forced her eyes to look at the dream.

The sky turned red and there were black clouds due to Cherry having a bad dream now and she was alone on a park bench. There was then an evil shadow that came to Cherry in her dream.

"Who are you?" Dream Cherry asked.

The dark shadow grinned menacingly and took over her and took something from her. Her Element of Harmony.

"My Element of Harmony!" Cherry gasped.

"That's right!" Joy alerted. "This is what Dr. Faciler wants, he wants you two to be separated, but since Atticus has more Equestrian magic than you do, he wants him to unleash the magic with your dimension's Twilight Sparkle!"

"How do we stop him?" Cherry asked.

"That's what I'm trying to find out, I want revenge on him too." Teller said.

"You?" Cherry looked back. "What did he do to you?"

Teller frowned, unsure whether he should explain or not.

"Teller, tell us now!" Cherry told him, not scared of wanting to get the answers out of him even if she did yell at him.

"Cherry, calm yourself..." Teller took her hands off of him.

"Please... Just tell us..." Cherry begged.

Teller sighed. "If I must... I'll tell you when we wake up." he then promised.

"We won't let you forget once you wake up." Fear input.

"Thanks, guys." Cherry said to her emotions.

"You're welcome, Cherry." Joy smiled.

"Come, Cherry, we must get back out of your subconscious." Teller said, taking her hand and leading her out of the Dream Theater.

"That means it's time for us to go back to work!" Joy said to her fellow emotions.

"Great..." Disgust deadpanned.

"Oh, come on, Disgust, at least try to show some positive." Joy said.

"We can't all be like you, Joy." Disgust glanced at her.

"No, I'm unique and happy!" Joy laughed and did a happy dance. "Whee!"

There was then a monitor with a lever to show that it was slowly moving the arrow to the 'awake' side.

"Oh, we better hurry, Cherry's about to wake up!" Joy ran ahead. "Come on, guys, let's hustle!"

"We're coming, we're coming." Fear said.

Cherry and Teller were on the train of thought with the emotions and the emotions huddled out and got to their workplace to be ready for when Cherry would wake up and they could make her feel the way she needs to feel in some situations.

"How do you expect me to do-" Cherry looked at him.

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Suddenly, Cherry was in her bedroom again and she sat up in her bed, then narrowed her eyes. "Ugh... That was an odd dream..."

"That was both a dream and a look into your mind." Teller told her.

Cherry yelped and fell off her bed, not expecting him to be right there. "What the...?"

Teller helped her up and dusted her clean briefly.

"What the...? How the...? Just... Huh!?" Cherry got hysterical. She then felt her pocket shake and she took out her cell phone to see a text message from Rainbow Dash from well over an hour ago to meet at Canterlot High.

"Uh-Oh, I guess we forgot to tell them." Teller said.

"You guess!?" Cherry glared at him.

Teller glared right back sharply, seeming to frighten her slightly. "Don't raise your voice to me, young lady."

"Y-Yes, sir..." Cherry's voice became small.

Teller looked at the time. "It's almost suppertime, we'll talk more about this another time, hopefully we can make it before the Games, you're not going to school tomorrow, you'll be by my side so we can work."

"You can't take me out of school!" Cherry argued with him.

"Oh, can't I?" Teller asked.

"Well..." Cherry bit her lip. "That... That's illegal..."

"I have my ways..." Teller said to her.

Cherry shrugged and lay back down on her bed.

"You rest, I'll make you some supper..." Teller got up and went to the door. "Do you prefer stove top chicken and rice or oven baked?"

"Oven, please..." Cherry said softly.

"Alright, then oven baked it is." Teller said before going to the kitchen.

Cherry watched him go and looked a little worried.

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Inside her head...

"He's so much more interesting to hang out with than Maestro Forte..." Joy swooned with a lustful look in her eyes.

"Yeah, but what if Dr. Faciler and Principal Cinch take over the magical world and it'll be all our fault!?" Fear cried out.

"Oh, please, there's no way that will happen." Joy said.

"You never know..." Sadness pouted.

"Guys, will you relax?" Joy said to her fellow emotions. "If anyone can help us, it's Teller! He's so brave, so daring, so adventurous, and funny, and cute..."

"And what about Atticus, Mo, and Patch?!" Anger asked.

"Uh, yeah, those guys are good too..." Joy smiled bashfully, turning pink in her cheeks slightly. "Just don't worry about it! Let's make Cherry feel happy!"

"She doesn't look real happy..." Sadness commented.

"Uhh... Anger?" Joy looked to the red emotion.

"Guys... I don't think we can make Cherry feel anything..." Anger mumbled once he saw how lost Cherry looked once she found out her element was stolen and now Dr. Faciler was on the loose again.

"But how can Cherry find her Element of Harmony?" Fear asked.

Disgust narrowed her eyes in determination. "She needs the taste of adventure... Even if it's old and bitter."

"Right!" Joy agreed. "Here, let's keep her occupied until then... Oh, I bet someone messaged on Facebook!"

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This made Cherry get out her laptop and fool around on it until dinner would be ready.