Atticus had fallen asleep during his rest and this made the dark shadow return. Patch woke up and saw the shadow, he growled and started to bark at it. The dark shadow then lifted its hands and zapped Patch with some rope, tying him up and lacing around his muzzle and the shadow then went inside of Atticus's head.

"Oh, no, Atticus, wake up!" Patch barked.

Atticus grunted a little in his sleep, but did not wake up. The dark shadow entered Atticus's dream.

---

They were in Equestria with the Mane Six, Cherry and Mo were there too and they were all happily getting along like they should be. There was a Grand Galloping Gala happening and Atticus and Mo were sharing a dance together while everypony else happily watched them. Cherry and Patch then came in with their own dates as well joining in the fun. Octavia was at her cello and led the dancers through their song as they danced.

Twilight was dancing with Flash Sentry, Pinkie Pie with Cheese Sandwich, Rainbow Dash with Soarin', and Fluttershy with Discord while Applejack and Rarity smiled while watching their friends. All was well in this dream so far until the dark shadow entered it and made everything bad and turned this sweet dream into an unpleasant nightmare.

"Huh? That's weird it suddenly got darker all of a sudden." Atticus said.

"Like YOU care!" Cherry narrowed her eyes.

"Huh?" Atticus looked to his human best friend. "Cherry! What're you doing!?"

"Something that should have been done a long time ago!" Cherry snarled as she showed her vampire fangs.

This scared everyone in the Gala, keeping their distance from Cherry.

"Cherry, what're you doing!?" Atticus backed up.

Cherry yelled as her fangs grew sharper as she was going to bite to kill and not turn him into her. Atticus tried to teleport away from her, but for some reason, he just couldn't. The dark shadow came with Cherry and was reaching for Atticus's element of harmony.

"Cherry, please stop!" Atticus called out, causing for both him and his element to glow.

Cherry did not stop, she kept coming closer and closer. The gala seemed to fade away and they were now on a cliff above blackened waters with thunder and lightning surrounding them.

"What the? ...T-This isn't good." Atticus said.

Cherry grinned evilly, she then jumped up. Atticus yelled out, flinching and putting his hands over his face to protect himself. While Cherry was in the air, the dark shadow took this opportunity to snatch Atticus's element without him knowing it. But to the shadow's surprise, it was a lot harder then he thought. Atticus's emotions were watching this in their own Dream Theater.

---

"WHAT THE HECK IS THAT THING!?" Atticus's Fear pointed at the shadow.

"Quick, we have to wake him up! It's about to take his element!" Atticus's Joy told the rest of the emotions.

"How do we wake him up!?" Atticus's Sadness cried out.

Atticus's Disgust had narrowed eyes and then showed them the microphone that could be used to talking to Atticus.

"Oh..." the other emotions felt foolish.

"Uh, I knew that." Atticus's Anger smiled sheepishly.

"We better wake him up now." Atticus's Joy said urgently.

---

Atticus tossed and turned while he was resting.

'Atticus, WAKE UP, WAKE UP!' Atticus's emotions called through the microphone.

And just like that, Atticus woke up and where the shadow was shot right out. Patch whimpered as he was stuck and unable to free himself.

"Patch?" Atticus noticed the mess. "Are you all right?"

"I tried to warn you!" Patch yipped.

"Patch, what happened?" Atticus asked, getting his Dalmatian pup out of his predicament.

"Some shadow came into your head, I don't know where it came from or why it was, but it was just there!" Patch cried out. "It was kinda spooky."

"Really?" Atticus asked.

"Yeah, I tried to wake you." Patch replied.

"Sorry." Atticus said.

"Not your fault..." Patch pouted. "Is this about Cherry and Twilight?"

"I think so." Atticus said.

"This argument is really heating up..." Patch frowned.

Atticus realized he was still in his Crystal Prep uniform, so he quickly changed back to his casual clothes. "'Scuse me a sec."

Patch turned the other way.

"Well, let's just be glad that shadow didn't steal my element of harmony." Atticus said while getting dressed.

"Or did it?" Patch asked.

"No, I still have it, I got protected..." Atticus insisted.

"Well, lucky you then." Patch smiled then.

"Yeah, it's right here around my neck." Atticus said.

"Wonder what saved ya..." Patch muttered.

Atticus shrugged, but went along with it.

---

After a while, dinner was ready and the Fudo family sat down to eat.

"So what's for dinner?" Atticus asked.

"Your favorite pizza along with broccoli and also an added bonus, spinach." Emily said.

Atticus smiled. "Thanks, Mom!"

Darla wrinkled her nose at the green stuff. "Yuck!"

"Come on, Darla, vegetables are good for you." Patrick told his adoptive daughter. "Didn't you eat vegetables back in Hollywood?"

"Never..." Darla folded her arms, then listed the foods she ate as a child star. "I always had the best stuff... They gave me cakes, and ice cream, and candy, and... And..."

"Food that can be unhealthy for you if you continue to eat that everyday?" Patch asked.

"It's not unhealthy..." Darla said, then gestured to herself. "Look at me, do I look sick to you?"

"That means some of that food can make you, um, what's the right way of saying this without hurting your feelings?" Atticus said.

"Sick..." Emily and Patrick said for him.

"But if I don't eat my sweets, I won't be cute and adorable with my baby fat!" Darla pouted.

"Who told you that?" Emily asked.

"LB did..." Darla said softly. "He said if I wanna stay cute and adorable, I need to have a lot of baby fat, so I binge eat sweets as far as the eye could see."

"Darla, you're cute whether you have baby fat or not," Atticus told her. "Nothing will change of how cute you are."

"Really?" Darla asked.

"Really." Atticus said with a sincere smile.

Darla smiled at that, she then glanced to her pizza, she took a piece of the broccoli out, put it in her mouth, pinched her nose, and forced herself to chew and swallow it to try eating vegetables for the first time in her life.

"So how is it?" Emily asked.

"It's actually really good." Darla smiled.

"Was it as bad as you thought it'd be?" Patrick smirked.

"Not too bad, but why does it have to be green?" Darla stuck her tongue out briefly before eating the pizza whole this time.

"I don't know, it was just the way it was made." Emily shrugged.

"Oh, well, I'll try to get through it." Darla smiled.

The Fudo family chuckled and kept eating as they moved onto other topics. And where one of them was about Atticus's nightmare.