James and Elizabeth decided they wanted to go out for dinner and dancing tonight, so that meant Mo was going to baby and dogsit while they would be out. She was a little upset with the way Cherry had been behaving, but she tried not to let it bother her while she would look after the others. Since the human adults were out too, Lady and Tramp decided to visit Jock and Trusty.

"Have a nice time with Jock and Trusty." Mo smiled at the adult dogs.

"Thank you, dear, we'll tell them you said hi." Lady smiled as she left with her mate to meet her old friends in the neighborhood.

"Sounds great." Mo smiled. "Good night!" she then went back in the house and shut the door behind her. "Okay, it's just me, the puppies, and the baby. How hard can it be?"

"Well, hopefully not too hard." Angel said.

"Yeah..." Mo shrugged. "Um... Let's watch a movie..."

"Can we watch that show Thunderbolt that Patch is always talking about?" Colette asked.

Mo shrugged. "I see nothing wrong with that..." she then sat on the couch next to Junior and found the channel the show was on. "Let's see what we're cookin' with."

"I hope it has a lot of action." Danielle smiled.

"Patch says it does." Colette smiled back to her sister.

"I think you're the real wonder dog though." Angel said to Scamp.

Scamp smiled bashfully. Thunderbolt was now on TV and they were going to watch together.

"It's a good start." Scamp smiled.

Mo smiled, but she yawned a little, today was a little exhausting for her. She seemed to start falling asleep during the show. Junior was even enjoying the show with his puppy friends.

"This show is very entertaining." Angel smiled.

"Mm-hmm..." Mo smiled sleepily, she didn't mean to, but she started to drift off.

While Mo was falling asleep, the shadow returned. But unfortunately for him, Junior and the pups noticed the shadow and started to bark and yell at him. The shadow became a frightening image and snarled at them. The puppies whimpered and shivered from that. Junior sniffled and started to cry, since it scared him and he tried to wake up his big sister. The shadow then crawled into Mo's ear without her waking up. But unfortunately for him, Mo was awakened by the cries of her brother. He didn't seem to leave her head though.

Mo sat up and rubbed her eyes. "Oh, my, I must've fallen asleep..."

Junior kept crying.

"Oh, Junior, what's wrong?" Mo picked up her brother. "Are you hungry? Tired?"

"No, evil shadow!" Junior told her. "He went into your head!"

"Evil shadow?" Mo tilted her head.

"It's true! There was an evil shadow and it just went into your head!" Angel told her.

Mo looked at them and changed the channel. "No more TV tonight."

"We're telling you the truth!" Angel told her.

Mo looked at them, she got up for a moment and went to the bathroom to freshen up.

"You don't think that shadow could be in her head right now, do you?" Scamp asked.

"Hard to say," Danielle spoke up. "I just know that it gives me the willies!"

"We'll need someone's help just in case it involves evil magic." Colette said.

Junior sniffled and started to cry. Scamp frowned, he hopped up on the couch, despite not being allowed on the furniture, but he needed to comfort his human best friend, so he gave him a lick.

Junior hugged, staring at the bathroom door in worry. "Momo..."

Just then, after a flash of light, Teller seemed to have appeared. The puppies yelped, Junior screamed, and the puppies barked growling to him. Teller looked at them as they growled and barked at them, he then bent down and looked them all dead in the eyes to calm them down. Even if he didn't have a dog growing up, he knew just how to handle them. When the pups all looked him in the eye, they could see that Teller could be trusted.

"Now then." Teller stood up now, he then came to Junior slowly.

Junior sniffled and started to cry. Teller took out plastic keys and jiggled them. Junior kept crying, but he saw the keys and smiled, reaching out for them.

Teller let him have them and he looked back to the puppies. "Where is Mo?"

"The bathroom." Angel said.

Teller nodded and he found a chair to sit in and waited for Mo.

---

Mo turned on the sink and splashed her face. "I need to calm down... Maybe I'm just working too hard... What's going on inside my head?"

"Nothing, girl." A voice said.

"Wha?" Mo's eyes scanned back and forth. "Wh-Who's there?"

A dark voice laughed wickedly in her head. Mo squeezed her eyes shut and grunted, feeling rather stressed about the voice right now.

---

Inside Mo's head...

"WHAT IS GOING ON!?" Mo's Anger snarled, nearly flaming with its namesake, clearly Mo's Anger was the emotion in charge of things.

"We better get it out of Mo's head right away." Joy said.

"I'll scare it." Anger grinned darkly.

"No, you might tamper with something!" Fear cried out.

"STUFF IT!" Anger glared at the purple emotion.

"Or we could use the element of harmony?" Sadness suggested.

"I'm the one in charge here!" Anger sneered.

"No, Sadness is right, the element can block out dark forces!" Joy insisted.

"Whatever, just do it before something bad happens!" Sadness urged for her idea.

"Alright then, time to blast this dark voice out of Mo's head." Anger said.

"Oh, I hope this works..." Fear trembled, looking cowardly and nervous as always.

"Relax, it's a great idea, glad I thought of it." Anger grinned sadistically.

Sadness puffed air out of her mouth, making a loose strand of her hair fly up briefly.

"Let's get to work, everybody!" Joy smiled with high hopes.

"Yeah!" All the emotions cheered.

The emotions set to work like they were born to from the moment Mo had been born to every moment up until now. There was a bang heard and it felt haunting, almost like something important was stolen.

"What was that!?" Fear panicked, seeming more passionate about her position than usual. "I don't know what it was, I'm afraid, someone please make it go away!"

"What happened?" Joy frowned.

Sadness looked at a screen and looked worried and overwhelmed. "Mo's element of bravery has been stolen..."

Fear shivered. "I knew this day would come!"

"But I'm sure that it'll come back or at least, I hope it does." Joy said.

"But what if it doesn't!?" Fear grew paralyzed.

"We have a very low rate of surviving and protecting Mo from the scary streets she grew up on." Sadness replied.

"What does that mean in English?" Disgust demanded.

Sadness looked over with a very low frown. "We're doomed..." she then wailed. "DOOMED, I TELL YOU!"

---

Mo was very frightened now and seemed even scared of her own shadow. There was a knock on the bathroom door.

"Get away from me!" Mo yelped, looking very scared to death.

"Mo, it's alright, it's me, and I caught the thief that stole your element!" Teller told her.

"Wh-What?" Mo had sweat beading down her forehead now.

Teller opened the door, but not all the way, he was sure she was decent by now, so he came in without asking to come inside.

"Mr. Teller, please tell me what's going on..." Mo begged, she sounded like she could have a nervous breakdown any minute now.

"The Shadow Man tried to steal this." Teller said, showing her a glowing sphere with her cutie mark in it.

Mo's emerald eyes went a little wide. "Is... Is that my element?" she whispered.

"Yes, he tried to steal it, but luckily, I was able to stop him." Teller said.

Mo looked to her element and then back to Teller. "Who are you...?" she asked with a whisper.

"Oh, I'm just one of those nerds who grew up..." Teller replied simply. "I'm afraid the Shadow Man already has Cherry's, he nearly got Atticus's and yours... I'm afraid this unleashed magic is going to have to play into the upcoming Friendship Games."

"Oh, dear..." Mo said before taking her element back.

"I'm just glad you're not hurt... Your family tried to warn you." Teller informed.

"I thought maybe I was just having a bad dream or something..." Mo rubbed her temples.

"You're lucky that he didn't get your element." Teller said.

"What's going on here, sir?" Mo wondered.

"I should explain to you, Cherry, and Atticus all together sometime," Teller recommended. "That way I can also protect you, it'll be like a sleepover."

"Great, so where's the Shadow Man now?" Mo asked.

"Oh, he's trapped in this sphere." Teller said before showing an empty sphere.

"Um... Sir?" Mo noticed the sphere was empty. "There's nothing in there."

Teller gasped. "Oh, no, he must have escaped!"

Mo squeaked slightly. "This can't be good!"

Teller looked firm and serious now. "Tonight, no exceptions, we are all meeting together for a sleepover so I can keep an eye on you all."

"Great." Mo smiled.

"I know this is big and scary, but we can do this..." Teller put his hands on her shoulders. "It's not just for against the Shadow Man, but Equestria is also counting on us, we musn't let anyone or anything stop us."

---

Meanwhile...

Penn passed through, collecting his bags and was now going on his plane, taking his ticket with him. Unknown to him, his kids were able to sneak on board without being seen. Penn was now sitting on a plane in the first class section.

A beautiful flight attendant with bleach blonde hair and a skimpy uniform walked over with a tray. "You want coffee, tea, or me?"

"How much are ya?" Penn chuckled to her.

"Free." The flight attendant told him.

"Well, come over here then." Penn laughed.

The flight attendant giggled and came over to him.

---

Moxie and Zolten were in the other seats, looking for their father. They then remembered their father was rich and was probably behind the first class curtain.

"I don't think we should do this..." Zolten bit his lip.

"Ah, come on, Z, have a sense of adventure." Moxie smirked.

"I have a sense that we might get into trouble." Zolten told her.

"Aw, come on, what could happen?" Moxie smirked.

Penn was now reading a magazine until the plane would take off. Moxie and Zolten rose up in the seat behind him. Penn kept reading, but saw the two shadows and slowly turned to see his kids. Moxie and Zolten did not expect that, they smiled nervously and waved.

"Hey, Dad." Zolten and Moxie smiled nervously.

Penn growled at them.

---

The next thing the kids knew, their father was carrying them in his arms and setting them down after he left the plane.

"What are you two doing over here!?" Penn scolded. "Does your mother know where you are!? I oughta call her right now and have her come pick you up while I'm back on the plane!"

"Uh, sir?" a man spoke up. "If you leave the plane, you can't get back on it..."

"DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM!?" Penn snarled.

"Sir, please calm down and understand that the plane waits for no one." The man told him.

Penn glared at his kids, growling.

"Oh, please, Daddy, don't be angry!" Moxie pleaded, starting to cry.

"It was all her fault!" Zolten blamed his sister.

"What?! My fault?!" Moxie asked.

The two then started arguing.

Penn rolled his eyes. "SILENCE!"

The two siblings then stopped fighting.

"All right, thanks to you two, I gotta drive now and find your Uncle Teller, I'm gonna call your mother." Penn walked off.

"Let us help, Dad!" Zolten pleaded.

"No!" Penn refused.

"Please! We won't fight, we promise." Moxie said.

Penn looked at them. Zolten and Moxie were on their knees with their hands together, giving puppy dog eye looks with pouting lips.

Penn rolled his eyes. "Fine... You can come with me."

"YAY!" Zolten and Moxie hugged their father.

"But if I hear any fighting, I'm taking you back to your mother, understand?" Penn asked.

"Yes, sir." Zolten and Moxie promised.

"Good..." Penn was still angry with them because now he had to find Teller the not as easy way.

---

They were all now in Penn's car and driving out of Las Vegas. And where it was now going to take longer than he thought.

"Are we there yet?" Zolten and Moxie asked.

"No." Penn growled.

"Are we there yet?"

"No."

"Are we there yet?"

"No."

'This is going to be a lot longer than I thought.' Moxie thought to herself.

"'You know, Penn, we could always adopt a baby'..." Penn did a falsetto female voice while driving in irritation. "'No, Emily, I want our kids to be NORMAL'!" he then added in his own voice. "What was I thinking!?"

"You wanted to be a dad." Zolten said.

"Don't talk back to Daddy..." Penn grumbled. This was going to be a long drive.

Teller decided tomorrow night that Atticus, Mo, Patch, and Cherry should have a sleepover together. The next day, Cherry and Atticus were going back to Crystal Prep.