Fluttershy had promised to keep Scootaloo's escape a secret until we could settle things down. She and B, along with Rainy and Scootaloo left the building either through the front door or the secret door. Unity, with extensive amounts of begging to my mom and dad, was allowed to stay here until everything was settled down. By that I mean when Order and her posse wasn't trying to kill me anymore. Speaking of which, still no sign of them anywhere. Honestly, it kind of scared me a bit. What were they planning in the shadows?

It was late at night, so I decided to take a stroll through the castle to try and put me to sleep, hoping no assassins try to kill me in the secondary hall like last time. Before I could get far, I heard something rather odd coming from Unity's temporary room, which happened to be right next to mine. It wasn't the sound of strangling or even... ahem... other things, but a sweet yet sad melody. I decided to place an ear to her door to try and hear what she was doing.

Was she humming a tune? It was such a lovely pitch. I never knew that she could possess such a wondrous voice. So perfect, So divine. I continued to listen in on the tune in which I had never heard in my entire life. Questions suddenly popped in my head. What was her song about? Had she met anypony before Scoots and me? Before thinking of anymore, I heard her begin to slightly cry.

Finally, her hum had ended. I was left speechless at her incredible humming voice. I heard her continuing to cry softly in the background. I sat on the floor, still trying to absorb what just happened. Slowly but surely, I rose my right hoof to knock on her door.

*knock* *knock* *knock*

She softly gasped at the sound of me knocking. However, she went to open the door anyway.

"Hey" I greeted as our eyes met "Did anypony tell you, you have a lovely singing voice?"

"How much did you hear?" she asked, still sniffling after crying.

"Every note" I admitted "May I come in? Perhaps I could keep you company?"

"S-sure..." she said as she moved out of the way to let me in. The room, from what I remember, hadn't changed much from Unity's recent moving into it. You still have the balcony, the over-sized red bed off to the left and of course the wooden hairdresser with the mirror off to the right. We took a seat onto the bed since there was a lack of chairs present. I then took a look over at Unity and saw that she was wearing a blue bandana around her neck.

"Hey Unity..." I sparked a co"Where did you get that bandana?"

"This?" she took the bandana in her hoof and rose an eyebrow "This was given to me by my parents. Sorry you didn't notice it before; It's usually hidden behind my mane."

"Ah, that's why" I said "It's very nice."

"Thanks..." Unity sniffed again.

"So, did you write that tune yourself?" I asked.

"No, my mother sang it to me when I was a little filly" Unity smiled "Whenever I was really scared at night, she'd hum me that song and I would feel a lot better."

"You miss her?" I asked out of curiosity.

"More than anything in the entire world..." Unity spoke "Like I said before, I'd do anything to avenge them. I want to lay them both to a proper rest. But more than anything, I wish I could see them again..."

Nodding, I got up from my seat and headed off onto the balcony. I rested my front hooves and head on the railing and just watched the stars. She did the same and leaned right next to me on my right.

"Aren't they beautiful?" I asked her as I smiled "The stars, I mean. I always took an interest in them. When I was a little kid, my mother told me that vast worlds existed around each and every one of them."

"Did you believe her?" Unity asked as she turned her head towards me.

"Of course!" I laughed "She may be a little crazy, but I trust her the most, even when I have all my friends."

"She sounds so amazing!" Unity's eyes began to sparkle.

"Yeah, she really is!" I smiled "Y'know, when this is all over, I wouldn't mind you staying here. You can't just move back into the Everfree forest. I mean, you have all this world now. Wow, that couldn't sound any sappier..."

"Oh, Midnight..." the ash grey Alicorn giggled "You're pretty funny..."

"Hey, you two mind if you keep it down?" asked a very annoyed Halley from the floor below Unity and mine's "I'm trying to play with my toys!" We both looked down and saw her waving a hoof at us in slight frustration. We just laughed a bit.

XXXXXX

Half an hour had passed with us just sitting there and staring at the stars. Then out of nowhere, Unity began hugging and nuzzling my front hooves. I was slightly surprised, but after the initial shock I let her continue to do so.

"Midnight," she began "I know you really like Spring Blossom. I've seen the way you look at her..." she smiled, my response being me blushing like crazy "So, I'm just going to ask you if you could hold me, not as a lover, but as a friend?"

"Unity, I " I said before sighing and putting my front right leg over her back "...sure, why not?"

"Thanks..." she said as she continued to hold me. She began sobbing slightly, but I calmed her down by stroking her mane a bit. Soon enough, she fell asleep in my arm. I then slowly picked her up, placed her in her bed, closed the balcony door and tucked her into the covers.

"Goodnight, Unity..." I smiled before flicking the light switch and left the room, closing the door behind a now smiling Unity Cross.

XXXXXX

The next morning was a work day. I invited all my friends over to the castle's basement to discuss our next move against Order's team. Rage Quit explained to everypony what he had discovered about the book, and how it may not be from this world.

"Hey Ragey, what does this do?" asked Bubblegum curiously as she pointed at a button on Rage Quit's Machine.

"Miss Bubblegum, please do not touch that machine" he said as calmly as possible "It is not only invaluable to my research, but expensive too. There's only one in all of Equestria."

"Oh, okay..." she said, slightly disappointed.

"Okay, so Midnight said Scoots would be ere'?" asked Little Mac. As if on cue, Scootaloo entered the room via secret passage.

"Why, if it isn't my favourite little band of friends!" kindly laughed Scootaloo "I don't think I've actually thanked you all at the same time for trusting me and bailing me out of that cell. I feel like a new mare now!"

"That's good to hear, Scootaloo" said Blitz Wing "It's nice to see you turning over a new leaf."

"Yeah!" Bubblegum intervened "From what my mum tells me, you're were a super duper meanie mare back in the day!"

"Yeah, thanks for reminding me..." Scootaloo said, slightly disappointed before cheering up again slightly "Eh, what can you do, right? The past is the past, and I have a whole new future to look forward to!"

The moment the purple maned Pegasus ended her sentence, Unity had entered the room via the main door. Everypony had looked to see who it was, and were quite shocked to see somepony they've never seen before in their lives. They all looked at me, then back to Unity, then me, then Unity, and then Scootaloo.

"Uh oh..." spoke Thread "Look, young one... We will pay you any amount of bits right now if you don't tell anypony about Scootaloo being here!"

"Why would I do that?" asked Unity.

The room went silent. Dead silent. I don't think anypony, besides Rage Quit, Scootaloo, Springy and myself was expecting that answer from her.

"Wait, yer tellin' me ya dun know what Scootaloo 'ere did a long time ago?" asked Little Mac.

"Well, no..." Unity said "But I do know she's an outcast and that she should be given a second chance!"

"Uh huh..." said Blitz with a curious look before he turned to me "Midnight, who is she?"

"An Alicorn named Unity Cross that Scootaloo and I found in the forest yesterday" I said "She may have a connection to what we're trying to do here, so we let her join. Plus, she lost her parents a long time ago, so I couldn't just say 'Nope, go live your life in the forest for eternity!', Okay?"

"Well alright then... but wait, she's an Alicorn?" he asked before turning to Unity again "Hey, Unity was is? Could you show me your wings?"

"Of course!" she said as she extended her wings to show everypony her near regality. Everypony gasped at the sight of her wings.

"Oh my goodness..." spoke Ribbon "She IS an Alicorn! Is she part of the royal family?"

"Uh, no?" said a confused Unity with a confused smile on her face "I'm just an Alicorn... simple as that... heh..."

"Oh but darling," Ribbon put on her actually pretty good Rarity impression as she came up to Unity and squished her face between her front hooves "you look absolutely fabulous! How could you not be a part of the royal family with that beautiful face, gorgeous body and wonderful personality? Oh the things I could create with your shape! The possibilities are endless! Endless, I tell you!"

"You... think I'm beautiful?" blushed Unity as a small smile crept onto her face.

"Okay, I think we may be going off topic here" I deemed "We're here for a reason, and that reason is to stop Order! Rage Quit, please tell me you have a good plan..."

"I don't, unfortunately" he said, much to everypony's disappointment "...but I may be able to form one if I can crack this tome's mystery. If I can know where it comes from, or at the very least know how much energy it stores besides s.e., we could try to harness the book's energy and use it against Order!"

"Ah, now you see, there's a plan I can agree with!" I said "All who agreed said 'I'!"

"I!" shouted everypony except Rage Quit.

"And Rage Quit?" I turned to look at him.

"It's my plan" he explained "I don't have to agree to my own plan twice."

I gave him a smug look and he gave in.

"*sigh*... I..."

"Awesome" I said.

XXXXXX

In the shadows, somepony was watching us, unbeknownst to us. A spy to be exact. A very fabulous and 'full of himself' spy.

"Hoo boy!" he whispered to himself, all the while chuckling "Wait till Order and Oberon hear about this!"

Author's Notes:

So we get to know more about Unity! And now you see how I'm trying to make her NOT a regular red and black Alicorn OC with no personality other than looking "Cool".

(I'm sorry to anyone who has an OC like that out there. Please forgive me!)

Monster Hunter 4: Ultimate comes out on Friday and I'm getting it Saturday, so to anyone interested, I will begin to accept members of my badass team of awesomeness! Anyone can join, so long as you know a decent amount about Monster Hunter, don't wave your weapon around like an idiot and don't hit people when their mounting monsters. Okay? Okay.

Be sure to Like, Comment, Thumbs Up and Follow me, and until then, I'll see ya later Scraggsters!