It took less than a minute for me to reach Carousel Boutique at the rate I was going. Unfortunately that meant I also left Fang way behind. Because I was holding Dash, she took the liberty of knocking for me. I hadn't yet explained what was going on to her, so it made me really happy that she was trusting me.

"Rarity, are you there?" Rainbow Dash called after knocking. I heard my own voice respond from within.

"Rarity is busy right now!" My voice called right back. I got an angry scowl.

"LIKE HELL SHE IS!!!" I raged. I put Dash down, lowered my shoulder, and charged Rarity's door. It broke off it's hinges and hit the floor of the boutique. "Wow, I can't believe I just did that..." I muttered. I didn't even check to see if it was locked. I looked in the boutique and saw myself crouched over an unconcious Twilight. I grinned at myself.

"Well, look what the cat dragged in!" My clone cheered. As if on cue, Opalescense ran by. We both stared at her for a second. I looked back faster than my clone, and saw that he was distracted. I took the oppritunity to charge him. He looked up and saw me running at him. Then, he GRINNED at me, and a yellow horn grew out of his head instantaneously. Before I could reach him, I slammed into a wall of yellow energy. "Did you think you could simply fight me alone?" He jeered.

"W-what the heck was that?!" I asked in shock. He laughed at me.

"Oh poor Sharky! Can't figure it out? I'll explain!" He cheered while he wrapped the aura around me. He lifted me in the air where I floated helplessly. "In the mirror world, there is no magic! My void is much much stronger than yours!" He laughed. I hoped Rainbow Dash saw what was happening, I decided to buy more time.

"Well then why haven't you been instantaneously copying everything?" I was assuming he wasn't, but I didn't really know.

"I can control my void!" He gloated. Crap.

"Well why is the horn you copied from Twilight yellow? Her horn is purple!" I hoped the answer to this question was a bit longer, I didn't have any more questions to stall with. My clone frowned.

"That's sad, I would have thought you intelligent enough to figure that one out yourself..." I had, but let's keep him talking. "I'm a mirror creature, yellow is the opposite of purple, ergo yellow horn. Enough questions. I would simply kill you now and save myself some trouble, but it will be much funnier to make you watch me take advantage of your friends first!" He laughed maniacally.

"NO!" I screamed, but he just laughed more and moved closer to Twilight. That's when a rainbow-colored bolt hit him in the face. The aura around me faded and I fell to the ground.

"DON'T YOU DARE TOUCH MY FRIENDS!" Yelled an angry Rainbow Dash. She was sitting on Dark Sharky's chest, pummeling him like she had me. He laughed and a yellow aura surrounded Dash. I got to my feet and rushed him again, but not before he threw Rainbow Dash into the nearest wall. She hit it back first with a sickening *CRACK* She fell to the ground, concious, but clearly in enormous pain. Dark Sharky had been laughing at her, but when my right cross connected with his cheek he shut right up.

"You wanna laugh now?! HUH!?" I yelled, throwing crazy punches at his face. It was a little weird, punching myself, but I was too pissed to care. He surrounded me with another aura and threw me at Rainbow Dash. She saw me coming and managed to move, but barely. He was laughing at us again. His face was covered in his own blood, but otherwise we hadn't done much to him.

"On second thought, maybe I will kill you now, and your rainbow friend can join you!" He shouted with glee. His happiness was really starting to creep me out. He lifted both me and Dash with his aura.

"Crap, this isn't what I expected to happen... Sorry Dash..." I mumbled to her. She didn't speak, I don't know if she could with the pain she was in. I looked at her back and it looked like both her wings had been broken by the slam into the wall. She did managed to send a forced smile to me though, and Dark Sharky laughed.

"Didn't know what you were dealing with hmmm? Well now you can die knowing that I will take advantage of your friends, and no one, or nopony for that matter, will save you or them!" He cackled. I smiled right back at him. He hadn't seen it, but a full grown wolf was sneaking up on him now.

"You're right, NOPONY will save us at all!" I laughed. Dark Sharky frowned.

"What are you so happy ab--" Right on that last word a full-grown Fang pounced on his back, ripping and biting like his life depended on it. Dark Sharky screamed, the aura around me and Dash disappeared and Fang was surrounded in yellow aura. Fang flew up off of Dark Sharky and straight to the ceiling. Fang cried out in pain as I stood and tried to charge my clone again. Dark Sharky looked up in time to see me coming, and stopped me with a wall of energy. It was obvious his energy was low because the aura around Fang and I was faint. Dark Sharky scowled. "It seems I have underestimated your capacity to suprise..." He growled at me.

"I'm just full of suprises!" I grinned. He snorted.

"Well, I'm not sticking around to die, sorry to disappoint." My eyes widened as I realized what he was about to do.

"NO! YOU COWARD!" I yelled as he grinned and disappeared in a flash of yellow light. His magical hold disappeared and I ran over to where he had been and punched the floor. "DAMN IT!" I yelled. Fang fell from the ceiling and landed on my back. "OOF!" The wind was knocked out of my lungs, but I hadn't really been hurt. Fang rolled of of me, clearly uninjured like me. I looked at the girls around me. RD could barely stand from her pain. Twilight was too drained to do anything. Rarity had a nasty bruise forming on her head. Crap, he'd already put at least 3 of the mane 6 out of commision. I realized I was still naked and tied a nearby cloth around my waist. Then I sat and thought.

Ok, my clone is still loose and god-knows-where, my only back-up right now is Fang, my clone can absorb instantaneously, and only 3 of the mane 6 are possibly still ok... And only Applejack would be any help in a fight... Ok, things looked pretty bad... Maybe Stormy could help? Oh, and maybe Fluttershy had some bigger animals that could lend a hand... paw. Well, since there's no way of knowing where Stormy is, Fluttershy, here I come.... after I take your friends to the hospital. I walked over to RD and squatted down so she could climb on my back. She was the only one NOT out cold, so she could hold on. She climbed up and I picked up Twilight and Rarity in my arms. They were actually pretty heavy all together, so I struggled to get them all to the hospital. Eventually, I did make it to the large white building and stumbled in the door.

"Oh hi Sh--" A nurse started to greet me. "OH CELESTIA!!! WHAT HAPPENED?!" Her cry brought other hospital staff running and they began to remove the girls from my grasp.

"I don't have time to explain, but I can trust you to take care of them right?" The nurse nodded. "Oh, and if I come back ask me for a password." She gave me a confused look.

"What will the password be?" She asked. I grinned.

"There is no password, but if I start guessing, don't let me near the girls." She began to look even more confused, but nodded. I ran out of the hospital. Fang had been waiting for me outside. "Ready to go boy?" I asked him. He barked and wagged his tail. I grinned at him. "Ok then, to Fluttershy's house, AWAY!!"

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I got to Fluttershy's house about 45 minutes later. I would have gotten there sooner, but Fang still wasn't used to his new body and was slowing me down. I walked up to Fluttershy's door and knocked. I waited for about 4 minutes, but she didn't answer.

She must be busy... I thought to myself, but then Fang's ears pricked up. He turned towards the forest and was staring at it intently.

"What's wrong boy?" He didn't turn to look at me, but took off into the forest. I was a little stunned by his sudden movement, so I had to think a few seconds before I could realize I should chase after him. I took off into the forest in his wake. After running for a few minutes I reached a small clearing where Fang was sniffing feverishly. In the middle of the clearing there was a single tree. Hanging from the lowest branch of the tree was a broken rope. Below the broken rope were marks that looked like something had been dragged into the forest. Fang was sniffing the marks, and he took off in the direction they led. I sighed and took off after him. Luckily there weren't too many sticks on the ground, so I didn't injure my bare feet. When I finally found Fang, he was hiding on the edges of another clearing. I crept up next to him and crouched down. I pulled apart some of the foliage to see into the clearing. It was the strangest sight I ever saw. In the middle of the clearing, sitting on a throne made of carrots, was an unconcious Stormy. Fluttershy was in the corner of the clearing, unconcious as well. There were about 50 or so bunnies in a semi-circle around Stormy, prostrating themselves in front of him. One of the larger bunnies bounced up to Stormy's feet.

"Squeak squeak squeak squeak squeak squeak squeak squeak squeak!!!" He squeaked out. (Translation: My brothers! Long have we waited for our war god to appear! When he wakes, his fury and rage shall fall upon those who have wronged us!!!)

"Well this is weird..." I whispered to myself. I stood up and walked into the clearing. The bunnies all looked up at me in terror and gave a collective-

"SQUEEEEEEAAAAAAK!!!" (Translation: MONSTEEEEEEEEER!!!) The rabbits scattered and I walked up to Stormy.

"Hey buddy? Wake up Stormyyyyy!" I yelled in his face. He didn't move. I slapped him. He punched me with a forehoof. "OW!"

"Huh... what... S-sharky?" He said groggily. Then his eyes flew open. "SHARKY!" He flew into my gut and knocked me on my back. When I looked up at him he was staring intently into my eyes. He grinned widely. "SHARKY!" He yelled happily.

"N-nice to s-see y-you to S-stormy..." I gasped. He had started hugging me and he actually had a pretty good grip. "C-can you let me g-go now?" He released me.

"Oops, sorry... Hey, there's this guy that looks exac--"

"Exactly like me, I know. I acidentally made an evil copy of myself." I explained. "I take it you've met him?"

"Yeah, he knocked me and Fluttershy out.... FLUTTERSHY?! WHERE IS SHE?!" He panicked.

"Don't worry, she just over there. Looks like she's still out like a light though..." I walked over to Fluttershy and sure enough, she was still out. I picked her up. "Let's take her home." Stormy nodded and we walked out of the clearing.

"AHHHH WOLF!!" Stormy yelled. "RUN SHARKY, I'LL HOLD HIM OFF!" I laughed.

"Don't worry Stormy, it's just Fang!" I explained. He relaxed.

"Oh, ok!" He started trotting towards Fluttershy's house.

"Wait, that's it?! You don't even wanna know why he's an adult now?" Stormy shook his head, still trotting away.

"No, not really." I scratched my head in confusion with my free hand, then followed him.

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I explained Evil Sharky and mirror monsters to Stormy on our way. We made it back to Fluttershy's house and I tucked her into her bed.

"Ok, Sharky, what next?" Stormy asked.

"Next, you go home. You're already injured-" I pointed to the bump on his head. "- and I don't want to risk you getting hurt even more." Stormy laughed.

"You can't tell me what to do! I'm coming with you, I don't care if you don't like it." He said nonchalantly, like this whole damn thing was a picnic.

"Fine," I sighed. "but if you get hurt, don't say I didn't warn you." He smiled.

"Deal, so, where to next?" I scratched my head and sighed.

"I... don't know. He teleported to escape me and I've no idea where he went." Stormy thought for awhile.

"Well, if I were a mirror monster, and I failed to take over my original's real life, I'd start a new one where nopony knew the original very well. It'd have to be a place where nopony would expect me either, someplace with high security and stuff..." He mused. We shared a look.

"Canterlot." We said together.

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Dark Sharky breathed in the night air. The coins left in his counterpart's pockets had been more than enough to buy a ticket to Canterlot. Plus, his double knew the night princess, surely she would provide him lodging. Dark Sharky grinned at the thought of all the mayham he could cause in a city as big as Canterlot, and likely never be caught! After all, who would expect a royal night knight to cause disaster in the home of his princess employer? Dark Sharky let out a cackle that floated out the window into the night, left behind by the speeding train.