The girls and Spike continued to look in disbelief at the image of Sunset Shimmer after finding out the truth.

"I can't believe Sunset Shimmer is She-Demon." Rainbow Dash said in disbelief.

"Are you sure there wasn't a mistake in the spell, Twilight?" Applejack asked.

"No mistake about it." Twilight assured.

"So it is true." Fluttershy gasped.

"How is this possible?" Spike asked, "When we first met her there was no way she looked like the type to get involved with someone like the changelings."

"Chrysalis must've brainwashed her with a mind spell." Twilight deduced.

"Then we have to find a way to break her hold on Sunset." Rarity said.

There was a tap on the balcony window and they saw Stone, "Stone!" Spike ran to the sliding screen window and let him inside, "Where were you?"

"Out for a night," he noticed the tired and beaten looks on them, "What happened to you guys?"

"We had another run in with She-Demon, Snips, and Snails. But we found something out." Spike began.

"We know who She-Demon is." Pinkie said.

"What? Who?" Stone inquired.

"It's Sunset Shimmer." Twilight explained.

Stone was taken aback, "Ketchup and Mustard haired girl?"

"Stone, don't be rude." Rarity chided him.

"Well, that's what her hair looks like, doesn't it?"

"Regardless we now know who she is, and that Chrysalis has her under a spell." Twilight said.

"Think you can inform the Princesses and Discord?" Spike inquired.

"I'm all over it," Stone answered, as he headed for the balcony, "But one thing comes to mind. Now that you know, how're you gonna explain this to her?"

The group was taken aback by Stone's words. How were they going to inform Sunset that they know the truth about her now.

Meanwhile at the Changeling lair, Chrysalis stood before Sunset Shimmer, Snips, and Snails who were still in their Pyro and Frost personas.

"Tomorrow we put an end to those Elements of Harmony once and for all. And this time, I will be joining the fight." Chrysalis explained.

"You will, your highness?" Sunset asked.

"Yes. It's time I teach those fools what happens when you meddle in my affairs."

"We will be waiting for your word, Queen Chrysalis." Snips said.

"Good. Now return back, and prepare for tomorrow." Chrysalis spoke, as the three left the room, as Chrysalis spoke to herself, "Soon the love of this world will be mine and my children to feast upon." she laughed.

The next day at the school, Twilight and the girls were walking through the hall before seeing Sunset Shimmer approach.

"Hey, girls, what's up?" she asked.

Before anyone could say anything, Twilight spoke up, "It's all good, Sunset. How about you?"

"I'm doing great. So I'll see you all in class, ok?"

"Ok." Twilight confirmed, as Sunset walked off.

When she was out of sight, Rainbow spoke, "Twilight, why didn't you say anything?"

"And risk her causing a scene on school? No, we'll confront her after hours."

"What if she's also a sleeper agent like Snips and Snails?" Pinkie wondered.

"I doubt Chrysalis would do that to her." Twilight replied.

"So we just gotta play it casual until later?" Applejack asked.

"I know it's awkward, but if Spike can deal with it around Snips and Snails currently, then we have to do the same." The girls couldn't help but agree and went off to class.

After school, Spike met up with the girls outside the building and spoke, "Hey, girls. How's it going?"

"Well for one thing it's been one awkward moment after another." Rarity admitted.

"I'm lost." Spike didn't get it.

Twilight sighed, "The girls and I just couldn't stop looking at Sunset Shimmer knowing who she is."

"Well, you're not alone. I'm still finding it harder to look at Snips and Snails even if they're not aware of what they're doing."

"Girls, there she is." Rainbow whispered, as they saw Sunset going around the building.

"Come on." Twilight said, as they went to head her off.

As Sunset was walking, Spike and the girls slid before her from around the corner, "Hey, Sunset." Spike greeted.

"Oh, hey, guys. What's going on?" Sunset asked.

"Just wondering if you had any plans today?" Pinkie began.

"Actually, yes. I'm meeting up with some friends soon."

"Oh, you made other friends?" Rainbow asked suspiciously.

"Yeah. They're real awesome."

"They wouldn't happen to be Changelings would they?" Pinkie raised her brows.

"What're you talking about?" Sunset asked in confusion.

Spike spoke, "Drop the act Sunset Shimmer, we know the truth."

"We know you're really She-Demon." Twilight whispered so no one else could hear.

At that moment Sunset realized that they did know the truth. She didn't know how, but the cat was out of the bag. Her innocent and happy look changed into the same sinister look she had as She-Demon.

"Well, congratulations to all of you. I was wondering when you were going to figure it out. Guess you're not as dumb as I thought."

"You don't mean that, Sunset." Twilight replied.

"Chrysalis has you under her spell. We can help you." Spike pleaded.

"Worry more about helping yourself, Dragon," Sunset replied, "When my queen and the changelings join the fight, you will all fall before her. You have been warned. I'll see you all again soon enough." she laughed before disappearing in a swirl of flames.

"Well, that didn't go well." Fluttershy sighed.

"What do we do now?" Spike asked.

"The only thing we can do," Twilight sighed, "We're gonna have to fight her." the girls and Spike hated the sound of that, but knew they didn't have an option but to fight.

At the changelings lair, Chrysalis stood before a battalion of changelings, with Sunset Shimmer, Snips, and Snails at her side.

"My subjects. Today, we shall take the fight to those Elements of Harmony and their dragon friend. And I promise you, once they're out of the picture this world and Equestria will be ours!" The changeling's cheered, while Sunset, Snips, and Snails smirked.

The Queen turned to the three, "You three are not to show mercy to anyone. Understand?"

"Perfectly." Sunset assured, as the boys nodded in agreement.

"Fabulous. Now, let's go!" she announced as the roof opened up, and the changelings flew off with their Queen.

Sunset turned to her own two minions and nodded, as they all transformed into their demon selves and flew off to join the changelings.

At the Elements of Harmony's HQ, the group was with Celestia, Luna, Discord, and Stone, "So there was no luck in getting through to her?" Celestia asked.

"We're afraid not, Princess." Twilight sighed.

"Words alone can't break Chrysalis' spell on her." Rarity added.

"I was afraid of that." Celestia sighed.

"We're gonna have ta fight her." Applejack added.

"And Snips and Snails too." Spike sighed.

"Don't despair, everyone," Luna spoke, "If you could free me from my own darkness, you can free Sunset too."

"Quite right," Discord agreed, "But even if you free Sunset Shimmer, there's still the matter of Chrysalis and her children."

"We're gonna need help in dealing with them." Twilight stated.

"I'll see to that. Be back soon." Stone said, as a portal to Equestria was opened and he entered it before closing.

"Where's he off to now?" Spike wondered, until the girls elements began glowing.

"Looks like trouble." Rainbow said.

"Sunset without a doubt." Applejack added.

"We better hurry." Twilight said, as the group left followed by Celestia, Luna, and Discord.

Once outside they transformed into their pony, dragon, and draconequus selves. They looked up and too their shock they saw Chrysalis with her changeling's, She-Demon, Frost, and Pyro.

The Queen laughed before speaking, "Greetings, Elements of Harmony. I am Chrysalis, Queen of the Changeling's!"

"That's Chrysalis?" Fluttershy asked in shock.

"Good heaven's she's so ghastly." Rarity gasped.

"And ugly too." Rainbow put in.

"That is one chick I do not want to bed." Spike finished, while Twilight looked irked at what he said.

"You have fought well against my subjects thus far, but you've caused me enough trouble. So now you will be facing me and my subjects."

"Chrysalis, release Sunset Shimmer, Snips, and Snails at once!' Celestia ordered.

"Instead of asking me, Princess. You should just ask them yourself." Chrysalis motioned to he three demon pawns.

"Nope." Frost shook his head.

"Don't feel like leaving." Pyro added.

"I like the girl I am now." She-Demon finished.

Chrysalis looked to Celestia with a smug expression, "They gave you their answers."

"They are not in their right heads because of you!" Twilight called.

"But we're gonna fix all that here and now." Spike promised.

"You really think so? Well, just try it. Attack!" Chrysalis announced.

Her minions and the three demons flew down into battle, while Spike and the girls prepared themselves. As Spike and the Elements of Harmony fought the changelings and demon trio, Celestia, Luna, and Discord fought Chrysalis.

"You failed to take over Canterlot and Equestria once, and you will fail to take over this world as well." Celestia promised the Queen.

"My failure last time was a fluke, but now I have more power than I did before." they sent blasts of magic at each other throwing themselves off balance in the air.

Chrysalis was about to attack again, only to get blasted by Luna's magic, "Leave my sister alone."

"Nightmare." Chrysalis hissed.

"My name is Luna."

"Different name, same pony."

"That's not true. When I was Nightmare Moon I was not myself. But I'm a different pony now. A pony that's gonna make things right."

"We'll see!" Chrysalis and Luna engaged in their magical blasts, before Discord popped in and blasted Chrysalis with a blast of chaos magic.

"Hiya, Chrissy." Discord laughed.

Chrysalis frowned, "Discord. For the master of Chaos, I must say I am greatly disappointed in you."

"Oh, you are?" Discord asked, as he casually floated in the air.

"The master of Chaos fraternizing with ponies. Have you lost your very pride?"

"Oh, not at all. You'd be amazed on how much fun it is to be friends rather than enemies."

Chrysalis shook her head, "You are a disgrace to chaos everywhere."

Discord frowned, "Now that's just being rude!" he assaulted Chrysalis, as the sisters helped him in fighting her.

Back on the ground the swarm of changelings were attacking the girls, and to confuse them started taking on their form making it look like there were over twenty of each girl.

Twilight spoke, "Don't get distracted, girls. Remember, they may be able to mimic our appearances. But they can't mimic our powers!" she blasted some of her doppelgangers with her energy magic.

"She's right. Let's show them there's no substitute for the real elements of harmony." Rarity added, as she fired earth and diamond shards at her own duplicates.

Fluttershy was using wind blasts to blow her fakes away, "I hate this. It feels like I'm doing it to myself."

"Except you aren't." Rainbow reminded her, as she was firing off thunder blasts at the fake Rainbow Dashes.

Applejack manipulated the vines in the ground to spring up and lasso around her fakes, "Yee-haw! That's how ya hogtie varmints."

Pinkie was bouncing around her Changeling copies, as they tried to attack her. Pinkie smirked, "Hey, Pinkie's, it's free swim!" she announced, as she conjured up a wave of water that washed them away.

Spike meanwhile was spitting fire at and punching at the Changeling Spikes one after another, "This is like fighting myself in a room full of mirrors. Except the reflections fight back!" he released a blast of fire at his doppelgangers.

"That takes care of all the Changelings here." Twilight counted up, until she was almost blasted by She-Demon's combustion.

"The Changeling's may be down, but we're still on top!" She-Demon declared with Pyro and Frost at her side.

"Sunset, no!" Twilight pleaded.

"Snips! Snails! This isn't you two!" Spike called.

"Shut up!" Frost called, "We're sick of you always getting the good luck and leaving us in the dust!"

"But this time, we're gonna put an end to you and then we'll be the ones with all the ladies!" Pyro promised.

"Starting with the girls here." Frost said sinisterly, as the two chuckled.

Spike's eyes tightened and growled, "If you harm any of them I will break your balls!" he roared, as his body flared up. Spike suddenly stood in his armor form like before.

"Spike!" Twilight called.

"Oh, yeah!" Spike cheered, as he pumped a fist up.

Chrysalis looked down seeing what happened, "So that's the Dragon armor of the Dragon King. Interesting."

"I'm sorry to do this to you, guys. But it's the only way!" Spike declared, as he shot up from the ground and attacked his brainwashed buddies.

"Come on, Spike!" the girls cheered, until She-Demon tried blasting them.

"Let's leave the boys to their quarrel. And let's have ours." she continued to blast them with combustion.

So the girls went into battle against She-Demon, with the possessed girl attacking one after another. When it was just her and Twilight, the demon smirked, "Destroying you will bring me and the Queen much happiness."

Before she could attack, she was blasted by a shot of magic. The girls looked and saw Trixie ready to fight.

"Funny how I also wanted Twilight to be destroyed, and now here I am here to help." she spoke.

"Trixie?" the girls asked.

"Sorry, we're late. You wouldn't believe the traffic." Trixie joked.

"We?" Twilight wondered, until they saw Flash and Stone fly in from above and knocked Snips and Snails away from Spike so he could concentrate.

"Flash?" Spike asked.

"Glad to see I'm fighting with you instead of you?"

"Better than the former." the dragon admitted, before speaking to Stone, "These are our reinforcements?"

"Of course. Trixie's been learning under Luna's lead, and Flash's become quite the guard under Shining Armor's stead." he answered.

Chrysalis seeing the arrival of more allies called to her remaining operating minions, "Show no mercy! Fight! Fight! Fight!"

The three demons fought once before combining their elements and striking at the group.

"They combined their elements for a bigger attack." Pinkie gasped.

"Well, so can we." Twilight replied, as they got up.

"So let's do it!" Spike called, as both he and Rarity activated their elements sending a stream of lava on the ground right for them.

"Fly, you idiots!" She-Demon ordered, as they flew up to avoid the molten rock.

"Fluttershy, combine your wind with our fire!" Spike called.

"Right!" Fluttershy agreed, as she used the wind to increase the fire blasts of Spike and Stone resulting in a more powerful blast that barbequed Frost and Pyro.

"We got them down. Now for Sunset." Rainbow declared.

"I will not be so easily destroyed by the likes of you!" She-Demon attacked, only for Twilight to block her with a magic force field and punched her.

"Sunset Shimmer, your mind's been poisoned by Chrysalis. But our friendship can cure you just as it cured Princess Luna! Are you with me girls?" she asked while glowing.

"Yeah!" the other five agreed, as they glowed with her.

The six flew together as their magic combined. Chrysalis seeing this was shocked, "Get out of there!" she ordered She-Demon.

But it was too late, the six girls magic combined and a rainbow beam engulfed She-Demon who screamed, as green magic was pulled right out of her and extinguished. Suddenly appearing on the ground was Sunset Shimmer who returned to normal with her former element of disharmony rolling out from her pocket and onto the pavement. And without She-Demon, Frost and Pyro became Snips and Snails again while looking unconscious.

Chrysalis was shocked and knew she was outnumbered with her changelings defeated. She frowned at the two princesses and master of chaos, "This isn't the end of it!" she flew down next to her defeated changelings, "We'll be back!" they vanished in green flames.

Spike landed on the ground and powered down his armor form and became human again. He went to Snips and Snails looking relieved they weren't hurt.

Spike spoke, "We better get these two out of here."

"Leave that to me," Celestia snapped her fingers, and the two boys vanished, "I just transported them both home. They'll have no memory of what they did as demons."

"That's a relief. What about her?" he motioned to Sunset Shimmer.

As everyone else changed back, Twilight leaned down to Sunset Shimmer, "Sunset, are you ok?"

"What's happened?" she groaned.

"You're free from Chrysalis' control." Twilight explained, as she helped her up.

"Oh, my head." she groaned, before finally being able to stand.

"It's ok, Sunset. You're gonna be fine." Twilight assured her.

Sunset Shimmer looked at everyone while stricken with guilt, "What have I done?"

"What you did was all because of Chrysalis brainwashing you, but your free now." Twilight said.

"Yeah. No more evil queen poking around in your head." Pinkie smiled.

Celestia picked up the element of disharmony, "You know Luna, Discord, and I can reconfigure this with good magic allowing Sunset to transform like the rest of you girls, thus helping us in this threat."

"You can really do that?" Fluttershy asked, while Sunset was confused.

"Of course we can. It's not that hard after all." Discord explained.

"Awesome!" Rainbow cheered, "Ya hear that, Sunset? You'll be fighting along side us now?"

"After everything that's happened you want me to join you?" Sunset asked in confusion.

"Sunset, the element chose you regardless of what magic it has. This is where you belong." Twilight said.

"Please, Sunset. It would mean the world to us if you helped us." Rarity pleaded.

"Yeah. The more the merrier." Pinkie beamed.

"I agree. So how about it?" Spike asked, as he and Twilight held their hands out to her.

Sunset looked at both their hands and at everyone around her who smiled and beckoned her to accept the proposition. Sunset started reaching out planning to put her hand into theirs, but right when she was almost there, she froze and pulled her hand back much to everyone's surprise.

"I'm sorry, but I don't think I can do this." she apologized.

"Why not?" Rainbow asked in confusion.

"I just spent the last few days trying to kill all of you, and you just forgive me like that?"

"You weren't in your right mind." Spike reminded her.

"Spike is right, Sunset Shimmer," Celestia nodded, "Chrysalis used you against your will, but now you have a chance to use this power for good instead of evil."

"Yes, just like I've learned to better use my own powers for good." Discord added.

Sunset replied, "I'm sorry, but I don't think I can give you an answer right now. Please, excuse me." she ran off.

"Sunset!" Spike called, as she and Twilight wanted to go after her, only for Luna and Celestia to halt them.

"She needs time to think this over." Celestia began.

"I know exactly what she's going through. Right now all we can do is wait and hope she will do what's right." Luna said, as the others looked into the direction Sunset ran off to and hoped she'd make the right decision.

That night at Sunset Shimmer's home, the former she-demon was in her room with the lights out. She laid face down on her bed with her face buried in her pillow. The sounds of sobbing could be heard, as she cried in guilt of what she did.

'I don't deserve friends.' she thought sadly, as she eventually cried herself to sleep.

Author's Notes:

Today's MLP was a splendid episode. And has opened me to another idea for my fic here. Catch you all later.