I was having a great dream. I mean I didn't have to worry about... war or anything like that. I was free. Finally after all these years... I was free.

[Wake up.]
{But I was getting to the epic part.}
<It's 8.>
{Fine.}

I woke up to see I was laying on Vinyl who was fast asleep. She breathed in quietly and didn't seem to mind me on top this time. (Hehehehe) Now I know why she does it... it's super comfortable. Than the alarm went off and we both got up.

"*yawn* Morning!" she told me.

"Good morning!" I told her back.

"You seem happy."

"I'm free Vinyl! Of all violence and hatred. I can just be a person now."

"I guess war does that to you. Everyone deserves a change to clean there pallet."

"And that's what I'm going to do!" *GRUMBLE* "Well... after breakfast..." Don't giggle. Don't giggle. Come on... don't do it. "*super cute giggle*" Noooo!!! There's no hope for me! I should just slit my throat now and save everyone the trouble.

"That was adorable."

"Thanks."

"And your sure that your fine?"

"Yes. I am fine." She kissed me. "Let's get some breakfast seriously." I tried to summon my guitar and yet nothing happened. "Vinyl where's my guitar?"

"Well... hehehe..."

"Vinyl."

"It's destroyed."

"WHAT!"

"We found it that way when we found you."

"Where are the parts?"

"Here." she handed me a black duffel bag. I laid out all the pieces on the bed. Well... what little pieces there were.

"Alright... I'm not gonna freak out."
[AAAGGGHHHH!!!]
<This isn't happening.>
"Guys calm down. I'll use a fix it spell." I closed my eyes and levitated the parts. "Alright... it's going to take a long time."

"I thought you would freak out." said Vinyl.

"I am right now. AAAHHHH!!!" I ran out of the door. "This is insane!"
[We can fix it right?]
{I don't know! Why can't we fix our body?!}
<Too many noises!>

I tried to open the castle doors but the guards stopped me.

"Sorry little lady." Grrr... "There's a mob out there and we don't want them in." I opened the window and jumped out using my magic to levitate me to the ground.

"No time!" I ran to the outskirts of town. "I have an idea. Remember how Nightmare couldn't leave our body?"
[Yeah.]
"Maybe we can use that body to replace our old one."
<That's sounds silly. You silly.>
"Oh come on! That might work!"
[Or we might get corrupted again.]
<Also a shitty idea!>

I ran to the battlefield. There were blast marks and blood stains still scattered on the ground. Not a pretty sight... when there. In the middle of it all was that statue of the mare in my body.

"Well here goes nothing."
[You can't be serious!]
{When we were inside her... I saw her thoughts... I saw how much pain she was in... all she needs is a good friend who doesn't you know... like killing all the time.}
<Don't you do it.>

I punched the statue breaking off the stone covering the face.

"*gasp* Thank god!" said what sounded like a different female. "Okay... Can you help me Dusty?"

"Sure!"

"What's with the mare's body?"

"Why are you in a colt's body?"

"Good point." I started breaking all the pieces.
[Why should we trust you Nightmare!]

"Because Beta I'm not her. I'm a piece of you who was... corrupted by her."

"Well what's your name?"

"Don't have one."
<Isn't Nightmare your name?>
"No."

I finished breaking the statue. She was still purple but instead of those deep demon blue eyes she had these lively red ones.

"Thank you!" She jumped up and hugged me combining with my body. I blacked out again.

{God dammit! What did you do!}
~I'm sorry!~
[She's in our head?!]
<She's a part of us?!>
~I said I was sorry...~
<Don't! Don't even bother!>
~*sob* Sorry...~
{Guys...}
[Whoa whoa... please don't cry.]

Beta flew up on top of my head where she was at.

[Sorry for losing my temper. Right Alpha?]
<I... yeah... sorry.>
{Yay!}
[<Don't ruin this moment!>]
{I just wanted to be part of the conversation.}

I finally woke up to see I was laying on the ground. I looked at my body and I was a male again!

"Yes! I'm a colt again! YES YES YES!"
[Aw... Hey yeah... We do sound like guys again.]
~Do I?~
<No... still a lady.>
~Yay!~ At least she's happy.
{Well no-name... your the first girl so I'll let you pick your name. I thought of two. Eve or Eden.}
~hmm... Eden.~
[Yay! We have another conscious!]
<Oh joy.>

I got up and looked at my new body. I still had silver hair but the red in my hair changed from red to green.

"Hey guys? I'm... green."
<Cool! I bet Vinyl is gonna freak!>
~I didn't think about her.~
[Hey Eden. What was it like being Nightmare?]
~It was horrible. I wasn't even the real one. She's on the moon.~
{So that's why we couldn't fight each other. We kept on evening our attacks out.}
~Yes. She's still on the moon.~

While I was talking to myself I didn't see the guard from behind. I turned around to see a Royal Guard soldier.

"Citizen! You are under arrest for freeing the enemy!"

"But I-" I was hit on the bottom of my jaw with the top of his helmet.

"Stay silent."

A few hours later

I woke up to see I was wearing a orange jumpsuit and had shackles on.

"Prisoner. Tell us your name."

"Uh... Do you guys do coffee? Black. Two sugars."

"Tell us your name."

"*sigh* Bass."

"Bass Strings? You were a mare just yesterday."

"Yeah well... things change." someone came in and handed me a cup of coffee. "Thanks."

"So tell us why did you break that statue?"

"So I could get my body back. When we were fighting and David split us in two... well... he killed my old body and this one was just frozen."

"What did you do with your mare body?"

"Eden. Show yourself." We watched as the mare popped out of my hair.
~Hi!~ she said happily to the man behind the counter.

"I see. So your not Nightmare?"
~No sir.~
"Release him."

Some sounds rang and the door opened with two police cops walking in.

"Thanks guys for understanding me." They unshackled me from the chair and tied a ball and chain to my hoof. "Hey what gives?"

"Bass. You disobeyed some rules of the civilian conduct going to war. That's two months of jail for you."

"What?!"
[What!]
<What!>
~WHAT!~

"And since you destroyed that statue... that's an extra 3 months."

"Jail? Again!"

"Again?"

"Nothing." The guards carried me. NO. I mean they literally picked me up and walked me to my cell. The prison was full of inmates. Most were griffons. Nightmare's griffons. I saw ponies and dragons as well. Each had their abilities being blocked. Like covers on their horns. The dragons had muzzles. The guards threw me in my cell and closed it.

"Since your a hero. We won't take away your magic." said the guard. They both walked away and left me alone. I turned around and didn't see anybody. I have a cell... alone.

"Don't I get a phone call!" I yelled at him.

"Later!"

~This is all my fault!~
{Shh... don't think that way. We'll get out.}
[We can teleport.]
{True... but that would make the sentence worse.}
<So what's the plan?>
{We wait.}

I sat in my cell. There wasn't any lights on. I continued to play with the new green in my hair. That's so cool... and being a girl wasn't so bad. I mean I got all that sadness and pain out of me.

"Hey hero!" said a pony beside me. "I bet your gonna break tonight!" I didn't say a word. This isn't my first sentence. I merely laid back on the cot and waited. It was like the moon all over. Just waiting in the darkness and time just flies by.

"We got some new boys tonight!" said the pony below me. I was 2 stories high out of 8. Cell number 42. Each story filled with about 80 prisoner cells except the bottom floor. It was like the main hallway.. I watched as they filled up the 6th floor. New kids. They looked like they were just teens.

"Hey!" said on of the kids. "In block 42! It's Bass! Hey Bass I thought you were a chick." I remained quiet. "Aw what's wrong?" he broke rank from the rest of the prisoners. "Too famous now to talk? Your just a bitch! What did you do for the war?" I looked at the police captain and he nodded his head up and down meaning 'Do it.' I grabbed the boy and slammed his face in the bars.

"You listen to me you little shit! If it wasn't for me you would all be dead! I set up the shields! I recruited the soldiers! And I FUCKING FOUGHT!"
[Where's the cat noise?]
~fMEOWk.~
<Aw... That's really cute.>
"And here I am paying jail time because I broke civilian protocol. I had the balls to fight. Where were you? That's right. In the shelter hiding." He went for a punch and I grabbed it and locked the bone in place. "You feel that? Know what happens when I pull it back?"

"No..."

"This!" I snapped his hoof in 6 pieces. The bones sticking out proved so.

"AGGGHHH!!" he fell down and started rolling in pain. "Guards help me!" The guards walked over and started kicking him.

"Hahahaha!" I couldn't help but laugh. That's pure irony. "Also I was a chick. You have a problem with girls? Your gay aren't you!" I earned a few laughs from above.

"Fuck you!"

"Watch that tongue boy." The guards carried him away and the captain walked towards me.

"Nice. A unicorn who can handle himself without magic."

"Appreciate it captain."

"Well... listen. We'll shorten your service to 3 months. Okay?"

"That would be great captain. I might learn something." I sat back down. "Have a good one."

"See ya. The rest of you! Time for bed!" All the lights started slamming off. The moon shinned on my cell.

{Let's talk with out thoughts.}
[What?]
<Is it the fact that your a man again or is it that were in prison?>
{The second one.}
~Sorry.~
{Eden. Please stop blaming yourself.}

Meanwhile... David's POINT OF VIEW! YEAH! I SPELLED IT OUT THIS TIME!

"What? Three months!" I asked the police pony.

"Yes. And if you weren't royalty you would join him. Also your friend is on his way."

"What friend?" I looked over to see two officers dragging Niko away. "Let him go!"

"We can't. Good day Mr. Sight." the pony left. Octavia and Vinyl both stood there with tears flowing from there eyes.

"Girls... I...*sigh* bring it in." I offered them a hug. They both accepted it and cried their hearts out. "Well... you heard the guard Vinyl. Dustin's a guy again."

"That's great but..."

"I know."

"He's gonna be mad when he gets back." said Vinyl. "His guitar didn't turn back to a guitar when he fixed it."

"What did it turn into?" I asked. She held out a small sword with a gold handle and a green orb on the bottom of it. It was a stainless steal sword with enough magic on there that not even Celestia could destroy it. "That's an amazing sword."

"But... his guitar."

"We'll buy him another one."

"Okay..." She continued to cry. "Octavia? Whats wrong?"

"I'm still a little shocked." said the other mare.

"Let's all get some sleep." I told them. "Besides how bad can prison be?"

The next day...

Niko and I were in the crowd watching two large griffons go at it.

"Fight Fight Fight!" we all cheered betting money.

"Place your bets!" said the announcer. "Helga vs. Gilda!" Everyone began betting on Helga. I know Gilda. Just for the heck of it...

"Gilda!" I said throwing my money in the box with her name on it. I was the only one betting on her. Everyone looked at me. "Just watch." We watched as Gilda pinned down Helga and used her beak to tear out her throat. "YEAH! I win! Yeah baby!"

"Uh... Bass wins..." the announcer started counting. "8,000 bits." The crowd went silent.

"Now... give everyone there money back." I told them. They all started to cheer again. "Alright. We have a generous charlatan here. I hope you know what your doing trickster." he said to me.

"When's the next fight?" I asked him.

"Now." He went back to his mic after returning his money. "Night vs. Break!" I stopped cheering. So did Niko. We both looked at each other and watched the two friends meet each other on the field.

"This can't be good." said Niko.