Author's Notes:

Sorry that this chapter is so short, but I couldn't think of any way to make it longer.

*Thud*

Rainbow Dash’s eyes went wide as she woke up from rather painful fall, after getting back on all four she shook her head and looked at the hour, it was 11:21 a.m.

She smiled and stretched out.

“Hey Thomas, time to wake up.”

Rainbow started walking towards the door but turned back.

“Thomas?”

She looked at the bed and realized that no one was on it.

Rainbow got confused for few seconds, but she quickly shrugged it off.

‘He probably woke up earlier and went down to make himself something to eat.’

Rainbow walked downstairs, being sure that she will soon hear some voices indicating that TV is on, but she didn’t hear anything.

She walked inside the kitchen and to her surprise Thomas wasn’t here either.

“Thomas? Where are you?” She shouted

Rainbow made few rounds around the house searching for her boyfriend.

“Come on Thomas, this ain’t funny.”

Suddenly she heard a doorbell.

Not being sure if she should open the door without Twilight’s illusion she stood before them for few moments doing nothing.

“Hey, it’s us.” Rainbow shook her head recognizing the voice of her friend.

She quickly opened the doors and soon Twilight and rest of the girls walked inside.

“I’m so glad to see you, you wouldn’t believe, Thomas….”

“…Ain’t here?” Twilight finished

“I was going to say disappeared but sure.” Rainbow nodded.

She looked at them and her smile quickly faded away, none of her friends were smiling, not even Pinkie.

“Girls? What’s wrong?”

Twilight sighed and said

“Rainbow we have to talk about something.” Twilight finished and walked into the living room, rest of the girls following her behind.

“What is it Twi? You sound very serious.”

“I’m serious, you see yesterday on the party Rarity shared some information with me before I umm….”

“Got wasted?” Applejack finished

Twilight blushed and nodded.

Rainbow looked at Rarity and then back at Twilight.

“What is it?”

“Well it seems that guys had an idea to come with us back to Equestria.”

Rainbow stood there frozen for few seconds before bursting out in joy.

“That’s so awesome! So we won’t have to say goodbye we can stay together…” Her happiness slowly faded away as the realization stroke her and she finally landed, her previous smile changed into frown.

“…But they have too many bonds with this place.”

Twilight nodded her expression filled with sadness.

“Back at the party when Rarity told me about this I wasn’t in a state to think clearly, but when I woke up very early today I thought about this through and through.”

She looked at her friends, all of them wearing sad expression, except for Rarity who was not only sad, she was disappointed in herself, she couldn’t believe that she didn’t think about this herself, she was embarrassed by her selfishness.

“So I managed to contact with Princess Celestia using magic, I asked her to gather all boys when they’ll woke up and…”

She sighed.

“..Convince them to stay here.”

“S-So that’s why Thomas’s gone.” Rainbow said with teary eyes.

Twilight nodded.

After that silence fall down on the whole room, after few agonizing minutes Fluttershy finally broke it.

“Twilight, how much time do we have until we will have to go back?”

Violet unicorn looked at the time, it was 11:30 a.m.

“We have hour and a half.”

“I thought we will have time until the end of the day?” Rainbow asked.

Twilight shook her head.

“Sadly not, Princess said that we must leave at 1 p.m.”

“So what are we going to do for now?” Pinkie asked, her mane was slowly getting flat

“I don’t know honestly.” Spike said.

“Gah! Spike how long have you been there?” Rainbow asked startled by small dragon sudden appearance.

“I was here all the time! Come on Rainbow I know I’m small but…”

“Sorry.”

“Hmpf” Spike growled quite irritated.

Rainbow landed beside him.

“Hey what’s wrong little buddy? I said I’m sorry come on!”

“It’s not that, it’s just, we are going back today, and they are staying, so is Anna…”

Everyone suddenly felt even worse, feeling of pity for Spike added to the mix.

Girls didn’t know what to do, they spent their last hour in human world by literally walking around the house and occasionally talking and trying to comfort each other.

And the time has finally come.

Huge flash of light appeared in the living room and after few moments it changed into Princess Celestia.

They all bowed slightly in respect and then looked around.

“Aren’t they even going to say goodbye?” Rainbow asked with her eyes slowly watering

“It seems so, but maybe it’s better that way.” Rarity said trying to force a smile.

“Why is it so?” Applejack asked.

“I think that if I saw Terry right now, I wouldn’t be able to go back.” She said through tears, her fake smile still on her muzzle.

Everyone sighed and agreed with her, they walked up to Princess Celestia who looked down on them with stoic expression.

“Are you girls ready?”

Twilight sighed.

“No, I don’t think we will ever be, but we don’t have a choice do we?”

Princess expression slightly changed but remained calm and she nodded.

“So let’s go.” Twilight said.

Princess nodded again and her horn glowed, after few agonizing minutes in which girls fought with the urge to jump away and stay here suddenly everything was gone.

They opened their eyes and looked around, they no longer were standing in Thomas’s living room, they were just in front of Twilight’s library.

They were home.