Ashley returned rather quickly with Twilight's friends. We were all watching as she freaked out over the test Celestia was going to give her and being completely prepared for it. To be honest, I didn't really see why she was going crazy. From what I'd seen, she was an incredibly smart mare and I highly doubted she would fail a test. Although, considering Ashley's reaction and the fact that the Princess wants to see us as well, it might not be a normal test.

Sighing, I stood up and grabbed the panicked mare by the shoulders, "Twilight! You need to calm down, seriously. I mean it's just a test."

Twilight looked at me in disbelief and with a slight glare, "Princess Celestia wants to give some kind of exam, not to mention that she wants to see you and Ashley for some reason, and you are trying to calm me down by saying it's just a test!?"

"Yes," I said. I noticed her hands start to glow and I quickly gave her horn a light flick. She winced slightly as the magic immediately dissipated. She and Trixie had told me that while most spells come out of their hands, the actual magic is focused through their horn. "No need to blast me with magic Twilight. Now, take a deep breath," I instructed. She did as I asked, and I continued, "I'm also trying to get you to calm down because how well will you do with this test if you're panicking?" This seemed to calm her down as she looked slightly less panicked. "Second, if she wants to see me and Ash, then it might very well not be the kind of test you're thinking of. However, I won't stop you from preparing just in case."

Twilight took another deep breath and smiled at me, "Thanks, Sean. That really helped."

She then went about preparing again, but at a much calmer pace. I turned to the others and saw they were looking at me in shock, even Ashley seemed rather surprised. "What?" I asked.

The question seemed to snap them out of their stupor and Spike said, "The way you calmed down Twilight. Not even her parents were able to do that."

I arched a brow, "Well for one, I'm pretty sure that happened when Twilight was younger and she's older now. For another, I actually knew someone similar to Twilight. He was a friend of mine in high school that would react the same way as her to things like this. I just did the same thing here."

"It's still pretty dang impressive, pardner," Applejack said, the others nodding in agreement.

I shrugged as Twilight said, "Alright, I'm ready."

We looked over and saw her wearing a backpack that was overflowing with scrolls, quills, and books. 'Or would it still be considered a saddlebag since they're ponies?' I wondered.

"Let's head to the train station," she said and started for the door.

"Uh, Twilight?" Ashley said. As she turned, Ash snapped her fingers and appeared in front of the unicorn. "I can probably just teleport us there with my chaos magic."

"You sure?" Twilight asked.

"Yeah, I've tried and, while I can't take us directly to the throne room because I don't know where it is, I can at least get us to Canterlot Castle," my wife said.

Twilight thought for a moment before nodding, "I think the sooner we get there the better."

"Alright, well here we go," Ashley said, snapping her fingers. A bright flash blinded me for a second and when I refocused she, Twilight, Spike, and I were in front of the castle.

"Wonderful," Twilight said happily. "Spike, the Princesses just wanted to see us, so would you please wait for us?"

Spike nodded and the three of us entered the castle.

[POV Change: Nightmare Moon]

"Are you sure you don't want Nightmare or I to go with them?" Luna asked our sister.

My sisters and I were standing in the throne room as we waited for Twilight, Sean, and Ashley to arrive. Something all three of us had been waiting for, had finally reappeared. The Crystal Empire. And, most likely, something or rather somepony very dangerous along with it.

"Yes, Luna. Cadance and Shining Armor are already there. The others will be joining them shortly," Celestia said.

"The Empire's magic is strong. It cannot fall again, my sisters," Luna said, worriedly.

"Which is why Sean, Ashley, as well as Jack Hunt are going with them," I said, calmly.

Celestia nodded, "Exactly. Twilight will succeed in her task. And when she does we'll know that she's that much closer to being ready."

Somepony clearing their throat caught our attention. We turned around to see Twilight, Sean, and Ashley standing in the doorway.

"Trust us, little sister," Celestia said.

Luna and I started to leave the throne room. We walked passed Twilight, who glanced at us nervously although I knew it was about the situation and not us, and Ashley, who nodded in greeting, as they approached Celestia. When we reached Sean waiting next to the doors he smiled at us.

"Luna, it's good to see you again," he said. She returned his smile. He then turned to me, "It's good to see you too, Nightmare."

I looked at him in slight surprise, "It is?"

"Yes, it is," he said. He arched an eyebrow and asked, "Why?"

"Many of the ponies, especially the 'nobles', still see her for who she was and not who she is," Luna said, practically spitting the word nobles.

"Well, fuck'em," he said bluntly. We both snorted at his candor. "And I mean the nobles, as they seem like narrow-minded idiots. I'm sure you can show other ponies that you aren't the same mare."

I smiled gratefully, "Thank you Sean. That means a lot."

"It's nothing. I don't know how you were before and I don't care. I only know the beautiful and wonderful, if not somewhat... aggressive, mare that you are now," he said. He had a slight smirk when he said aggressive.

I could feel myself blushing in embarrassment, partly because of his compliments and partly because of how we had met. Luna looked between the two of us with a sly smile, however a shattering sound caught our attention. We looked over and saw shattered black crystals scattered across the floor.

"Looks like I missed something," Sean said.

"Well, the short version is that the Crystal Empire has returned and, along with it, a tyrant named Sombra," I explained. "We are sending you, Ashley, Twilight, along with her friends and Jack Hunt to help Cadance and Shining Armor to protect it from him."

"This is her test?" he asked.

"There is something that we need to know and this is the best way to find it out," I told him.

"Alright. Well, I'll help however I can," he said. Luna and I nodded in appreciation as Celestia, Twilight and Ashley walked over.

"You begin by joining Shining Armor and Cadance in the Crystal Empire," Celestia said.

"My brother's there?" Twilight questioned, looking happy at this bit of news.

"He is. And your Ponyville friends, along with Ashley, Sean and Jack Hunt, will join you there as well. I have every confidence that you will succeed in this. And when you do, I will know that you are ready to move onto the next level of your studies."

"But what if I fail?" Twilight asked worriedly.

"You won't," Celestia said, confidently.

"But what if--"

"You won't," she stressed. "But Twilight, in the end, it must be you and you alone who ultimately assists Cadance and Shining Armor in doing what needs to be done to protect the Empire. Do you understand?" Twilight got a determined look and nodded resolutely. "Then go. There is no time to lose."

Twilight and Ashley nodded toward me and Luna before leaving. Sean addressed us all, "I hope to see you ladies later." He then followed his wife and friend out of the castle.

When they had left, Luna turned to me with a smirk, "So, you seemed to have left an impression on Sean."

"W-what are you talking about?" I stuttered slightly. "He said he hoped to see us all."

Luna didn't lose her smirk as she said, "True, but he didn't call me beautiful, now did he? Did he say it to you Celestia?"

"No, he didn't. Wh-" she stopped suddenly and her eyes widened slightly as a sly smile spread across her muzzle. "So he said you were beautiful did he?"

"He also said I was aggressive," I mumbled.

"Well, you are rather... bold," Celestia said. "Plus I'm pretty sure he was just teasing."

"Oh, I know he was," Luna said. "He was smirking when he said it."

"He only called me beautiful after Luna told him how ponies treat me," I said.

"Doesn't mean he hadn't meant it," Celestia said.

I let out an indignant snort as my sisters giggled to themselves. I stalked out, 'Why are they pushing this? We don't know how long humans live and even if they lived as long as ponies do, I would live long after he passed and I'd be left alone.' I headed to my room, to try and calm down.

[POV Change: Sean]

As we exited the castle, Twilight had her head and ears lowered. Spike got up from where he was sitting and ran up to her.

With a wide smile he asked, "Twilight! That was fast, you got a perfect score, right?" She kept walking, not answering the young drakes question. "A-minus? B-plus?" He gasped and asked, "Twilight did you... fail?"

She glanced back sadly and did something I was not expecting. She began to sing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1P53PMYoA8

We followed Twilight as she walked through Canterlot and sang about her worries. I glanced at Ashley and arched a brow.

She giggled, "What? You know about music coming from nowhere, so are you that surprised by this? This is pretty much what you did when you were cooking that day after you told everyone about your parents."

"I see," I said, as we reached the train station. We were heading back to Ponyville to get ready for our journey. Twilight and I were surprised when all of her friends exited the train and Applejack pulled Twilight into a sideways hug.

"Twilight! Did you pass?" she asked.

"Are we going to celebrate your achievement with Celestia?" Pinkie asked, pushing a light blue cannon and I jumped as she fired it. I was shocked when I saw confetti launch out of it, Pinkie going up with it.

"Not exactly," a voice said. Pinkie suddenly went back to the ground the confetti following and going back into the cannon. I stared at her for a minute before shaking myself and looking to my left to see Jack standing there. "We're all heading to the Crystal Empire."

The girls all looked at each other in confusion as we boarded the train. When we returned to Ponyville and prepared for the trip. Ashley and I told Ditzy about what we were doing and she said that she was going to join us. We both told her that it would be dangerous and tried to convince her to stay, but she was adamant about going with us. Giving in, Ashley and I packed what we thought we would need. Once we were ready, the three of us approached the station. Everypony opposed to Ditzy coming, but she still couldn't be dissuaded. So, we all boarded and soon the train started heading to our destination.

About halfway through the Rainbow Dash groaned loudly, "Ugh, this is so slow. Couldn't Ashley have teleported us like she did to Canterlot?"

"No, I couldn't have Rainbow. Unlike Discord, for my teleporting to work I need to know where to go," Ashley explained. "I may be able to do a great many things with my chaos magic, but I'm much more restricted in what I can do than he is." The prismatic pegasus huffed in irritation and crossed her arms across her chest. After a moment, Ash said, "There's something I want to give you all." Everyone turned to her and she snapped her fingers, making phones appear in everyone, including mine and hers, grasp. All of them were the same colors as their coats, while Spikes was the color of his spines, mine was red and hers was purple. "Those are copies of something from our world called phones."

"What do you mean by copies?" Twilight asked.

"Without cell towers, they're more like glorified walkie-talkies really," she said. "They've all got their own numbers and have already been programmed into each other. I'm giving these to all of you so that we can get ahold of each other easily, since these are practically instantaneous in contacting who you want. You can also send texts."

"What are texts?" Rarity asked.

I started typing on the phone Ashley had given me and sent a message to them all. All of their phones rang, causing them to jump. They glanced at their phones and looked at the text I sent, which was 'This is a text.'

"Yes, thank you Sean. That's what a text is." Ashley turned to Twilight, "I'll give one to Trixie when we get back."

She smiled, "That would be nice. I'd be able to talk to her from far away right?"

Ashley nodded, "Yes, they should be able to contact each other no matter how far away from each other you are. Although if you're underground or in a cave, or something like that for some reason they might start losing the signal."

The rest of the train trip, everyone spent time getting familiar with how to use the phones. Soon the train came to a stop at the station. We all exited the train and were surprised to see what looked like the arctic in front of us with a blizzard raging. Ashley snapped her fingers and we were all wearing winter clothes, which for the ponies were pretty much just light jackets. Ashley and I were wearing the winter clothing from Punk Hazard, which for her was the outfit she had been displaced in. She also gave me some black boots so I could walk through the snow.

"Thanks Ash," I said. The others thanked her as well.

"No problem," she said.

"Ha. And you all made fun of me for packing so many scarves," Rarity said, tightening the scarf she was wearing.

"I didn't say a word," Spike grunted as he carried a bunch of suitcases. He tripped and the luggage went flying, however before they could hit the ground and burst open, spilling their contents everywhere, they were surrounded in an orange glow. "Thanks Ashley," he said.

She smiled, "Your welcome, Spike."

I glanced at the others coats, and asked, "Why did you only give them light jackets?"

"Well, in the show they didn't wear anything and seemed to be fine, so I just kind of guessed those would be fine," Ashley answered. She turned to the others, "Those are OK right?"

They all nodded, as Twilight said, "Yeah for the relatively short journey to the Empire, these should be fine."

"Twilight!"

We all heard someone shout. Following where the voice came from, we saw someone fighting against the blizzard that raged around us.

Twilight squinted her eyes, "Shining Armor?" The stallion finally got close enough to where we could see that it was Shining Armor.

"Twily! You made it!" he said and pulled his sister into a hug. "We need to get moving." A frightened look spread across his face, "There are things out here we really don't want to run into."

"What kind of things?" Fluttershy asked, fear in her voice.

"Let's just say that the Empire isn't the only thing that has returned," Shining Armor said, as we started walking.

"What do ya mean?" Applejack asked.

"Something keeps trying to get in!" he yelled as the wind started to pick up. "We think it's the unicorn king who originally cursed the place."

"But Princess Celestia said I was being sent here to find a way to protect the Empire! If King Sombra can't get in, then it must already be protected," Twilight called out. A bone chilling howl that was not caused by the wind, caused us all to freeze.

"Th-that's one of the things isn't it?" Fluttershy questioned fearfully.

"*tsk* We need to get to the Empire. NOW!" Shining Armor shouted. Suddenly a humongous shadow rose out of the ground, two red eyes with green sclera and it's pupils were slits, a strange purple mist coming from the corners of them. "MOVE!" he ordered.

We all spun around and started running toward what looked like a blue dome. Glancing back, I saw Spike was frozen in shock and fear. He was surrounded by a rose aura and pulled away from the shadow. When he was pulled up to us, he began running under his own power.

As we neared the dome, Shining Armor said, "Almost there." He skidded to stop and turned around, his hands glowing.

I stopped a few feet away from the dome and, as the others reached it, shouted, "Shining what are you doing!?"

He fired a beam at what I assumed was Sombra, however it passed harmlessly through and the shadow descended upon Shining Armor.

"Shining!" I yelled as he was covered by the shadow. I launched my arm forward and it wrapped around something. Yanking back, I pulled Shining Armor out and tossed him into the dome then dived through myself.

"Oh no, Shining Armor your horn," Twilight said in distress.

Looking up, I saw that there were small black crystal covering his horn. He tried using his magic, but barely even a spark was generated.

He turned to me, "Thanks for getting me out of there Sean."

"If I'd been quicker, you wouldn't even have those covering your horn," I said.

"You got me out of there before anything worse could happen, so thank you," he said with a small smile.

I smiled back slightly. I turned around only to immediately squint my eyes from the light glistening off of the buildings. When my eyes adjusted to the light, I got a good look at the Empire. Unlike outside, it was completely devoid of snow and somehow looked very sunny. Like the name suggested, the buildings, roads, just about everything seemed to be made of crystal. Only the plants weren't crystal.

We walked through the strangely desolate town and made our way to the castle.

When we reached it, Rarity said, "It's absolutely gorgeous. There are no words for how fabulous this place is."

"Simmer down, Rarity," Applejack said. "We're here to help Twilight, not gawk at the scenery."

"Eh, I don't see what she's buggin' out over. It just looks like another old castle to me," Rainbow said in disinterest.

Rarity stammered and muttered, until she finally said, "Another old..! Are you out of your mind? Look at the magni-" She fell silent as she heard Applejack and Rainbow Dash chuckle and high five each other. "Very funny," Rarity said, good-naturedly.

I chuckled at their shenanigans as we entered the castle. After walking up several flights of stairs, we finally reached the floor we wanted and approached a certain room. We entered and saw Cadance sitting on a throne made of crystal. Her horn was glowing a light blue and she looked extremely tired. However, when Twilight called out to her, her face lit up and she rushed up to her. They then proceeded to do one of the silliest, but cutest things I'd seen.

"Sunshine, sunshine, ladybugs awake! Clap your hands and do a little shake!" they chanted together while doing a little dance that matched the lyrics. I felt a slight blush at the end of the dance.

Cadance suddenly grimaced and the sky outside flashed before quickly returning. She gave a tired smile, "We really need to get together sometime when the fate of Equestria isn't hanging in the balance."

"Are you OK?" Twilight asked worriedly.

"Cadance has been able to use her magic to spread love and light. That seems to be what is protecting it. But she hasn't slept, barely eats. I want to help her, but Sombra wasn't affect by my magic at all," Shining Armor said.

"It's OK Shining Armor. I'm fine," Cadance said.

"She's not fine," he protested. At that precise moment, Cadance nearly collapsed, but, moving quickly, I caught her before she fell. "Thanks Sean. You see? She can't go on like this forever, and if her magic fades... Well, you saw what was out there waiting for that to happen."

"That's why we're here," Twilight said.

"Why we're all here," Applejack said, the others agreeing with her.

"I'll help however I can," I said, Ashley nodding her head.

"Well, with Cadance putting all her strength into keeping her spell going, and me trying to keep an eye on signs of trouble in the arctic, we haven't been able to gather much information from the crystal ponies," Shining Armor said.

A gleam entered Rarity's eyes, "Crystal ponies?" A slightly manic smile spread across her face, "There are crystal ponies!?" She paused, when she noticed us all giving her weird looks. "*ahem* Please continue."

Shaking himself, Shining continued, "We believe that one of them would know how we can protect the Empire without using Cadance's magic."

Twilight gained a thoughtful look before her eyes widened. "A research paper!" she announced.

"Huh?" "What?" Shining and I asked in confusion.

"That must be part of my test – to gather information from the Crystal Ponies and deliver it to you and Cadance!" she said, pointing at the two. "This is gonna be great! I love research papers!" Shining, Cadance, and I stared at Twilight as she giddily thought about writing a research paper.

"Yeah, who doesn't?" Rainbow Dash said sarcastically, nudging Pinkie Pie.

"Oh-oh! Lemme guess," Pinkie jumped up and down. "Is it Spike?" she asked, holding the drake up. "Nono, Fluttershy! Jack?" she guessed pulling the two next to her.

Ignoring the pink mare, Twilight said, "Don't worry big brother. I am really good at these kinds of things." She and the others turned and left the room while I helped Cadance back up to the throne, so she could sit down.

Once she was back on the throne she looked at me with a small smile, "Thank you."

"Wasn't a problem," I said. I started to leave with Ashley when Shining spoke up.

"Hang on you two. There's something I want tell you. I thought you might be able to figure out what it was or at least have some ideas," he said.

We turned back to him and I asked, "What happened?"

"When I was out patrolling one time, I saw something on the other side of a hill. Flashes of light erupted several times and I swear that I heard Sombra shout in pain," he told us. "I quickly climbed over it, but by the time I reached the top, there was nothing except for disrupted snow, showing signs of a fight."

"Are you thinking that it might be a Devil Fruit user?" Ashley asked.

"It would explain how they were able to hurt Sombra despite the form he has at the moment," he said.

"True. I would say it could be haki, but that doesn't cause flashes of light to appear," I said.

"Haki?" they asked in confusion.

"I'll explain when we don't have a time limit."

"Of course. You can join the others when you are ready," Cadance said.

We nodded and descended through the castle. As soon as we exited, I saw the girls and Spike had returned. Fluttershy was approaching Twilight, an odd expression on her face. She lifted her hand to behind her head and unzipped herself revealing that it was actually Pinkie in a Fluttershy disguise. I swear my mind went on a short vacation right then. Ashley slapped me upside the head to snap me out of my stupor.

"Thanks," I mumbled. We approached them as Applejack began to speak.

"Sorry, Twilight, but all of the crystal ponies seem to have amnesia or somethin'. The only thing I could get outta them was somethin' about a library," she said.

Twilight gasped, "A library why didn't you say so?"

"Thought I just did," Applejack said as she started to show Twilight the way to the library.

"I'm going to check out the arctic," I said, causing everyone to stop.

"You can't!" Ditzy protested. "You saw what was out there."

"Yes, but don't worry I'm going to avoid him," I said. "There's just something I need to see."

The others looked ready to protest, but Ashley said, "Fine, but be careful alright?"

"Of course." I threw my arms forward and grabbed two of the pillars that held the castle, shocking some crystal ponies nearby. "See you all later!" I said as I pulled myself forward and launching through the shield, landing in the snow. Straightening, I patted the clumps of snow off of me. "Right, let's have a look around."

So, I knew where I had started, I piled some snow as high as my waist. After that, I began walking around the perimeter of the Empire, which took like forty five minutes. When I reached the mound of snow, I decided to search farther from the Empire. I walked around for maybe an hour without finding anything, not even Sombra, thankfully. I was about to return, when I heard sounds of fighting. I quickly started following the noise and soon saw flashes of light, just like Shining Armor had said.

When I finally reached where the sounds were originating, I was shocked by what I saw. There was Sombra, looking like a normal pony, fighting a genderbent Kizaru. I stifled a snort at the sight. Now wasn't the time. Returning my attention to the fight, I saw that she was indeed hurting him despite the fact that he would change into shadow. After a few minutes of fighting, Sombra suddenly spun around and an evil smile spread across his muzzle. He then vanished from sight.

"Don't you run from me! I'm not done with you yet, you bastard," she yelled. Her voice sounded slightly familiar, but I couldn't place why. She clicked her tongue in frustration, before calling out, "You can come out now."

I hesitated, if like Lucci, this was actually Kizaru, then her seeing me wouldn't be good. However, being Kizaru, she would more than likely be able to catch me if I tried to run. So, with that in mind, I approached the woman. She turned toward me and her eyes widened and a smile spread across her face.

"Oh my god, it's Luffy!" she yelled excitedly, throwing me off completely. She rushed up to me, "Oh, I'm not Kizaru, or whatever his woman counterpart would be called. Anyway, I'm not going to try and arrest you or anything so you don't have to worry about that."

I stared at her for a moment, before saying, "Well, I'm not actually Luffy either. I'm like you apparently."

She tilted her head in confusion, "What do you mean?"

"You used to live on Earth right? No powers or anything like that?" I questioned, to which she nodded. "Went to a convention, bought something from a shady merchant and got sent here?" She nodded again. "Same thing happened to me and my wife, and many others. We are what's called Displaced," I told her. "Sorry, where are my manners?" I held out my hand and said, "Name's Sean, Sean Griffin."

Her eyes widened again, but this time she looked very shocked and she stuttered, "S-Sean Griffin?"

"Yeah? What's wrong?" I asked.

She shook her head, "N-Nothing. I'll explain after Sombra's dealt with. Until then you can call me Kiza."

I arched a brow, "Alright well-" I fell silent as I saw the shield around the empire disappear. "Shit! The shields gone! If you're trying to get rid of Sombra, I'm sure he'll be heading there." She nodded and vanished in a flash of light. 'Wish she could do that while holding onto me,' I thought as I ran as fast as I could.

[POV Change: Ashley]

"Where the hell are you, Sean?" I said to myself. I was standing below the castle as Twilight tried to find the real Crystal Heart. In that time Cadance had fainted, causing the shield to disappear. The crystal ponies were starting to panic when Sombra suddenly rose out of the ground.

"My crystal slaves," he said, a wicked smile on his muzzle.

Suddenly a flash of light appeared above the tyrant. It coalesced into someone I wasn't expecting to see, a genderbent Kizaru. She lifted her leg and brought down onto Sombra's head, slamming him downward. However, he just exploded into shadow when he collided with the ground. I was worried about something else though. If Sean showed up now, she might decide to deal with him before Sombra. As if in response to my worry, Sean fell from the air and bounced off of the ground before sliding to a stop, Kizaru flashing next to him.

"Glad we got here in time," he said, the woman nodding in agreement.

Sombra pulled himself together and took on his normal form. "You are a constant thorn in my side woman," he growled at Kizaru.

She smirked, "I'll take that as a compliment, hun." Something about her voice sounded familiar, but I pushed it aside for now.

Sean snickered as Sombra looked even more irritated, however a smirk soon spread across his face. Shadows began spreading from his hooves, creeping across the ground toward us. They stopped just short of Sean and Kizaru, and something unexpected happened. About seventy black crystal golems rose from the depths of the shadows. All of them wielding black crystal swords.

"Well, shit," Sean cursed. I teleported next to them, just as Jack did the same thing.

Kizaru glanced at me, "Tashigi?"

"My wife," he told her, as Applejack, Rainbow Dash, and Pinkie exited the castle and rushed up to us.

"Need a hand pardner?" Applejack asked.

"That would be great," Sean said.

Jack sparked his hands, "Then let's take this guy down." Raising one of his hands, he fired a bolt of electricity at a golem. The golem crumbled when the bolt hit, but we were surprised when it arced out and took down three others. We all glanced at him, "What? Like I said, I know how to use lightning."

Shaking ourselves, we returned our attention to the golems in front of us. I moved to Sean, and said, "I'm going to teleport to Sombra and see if I can't at least injure him."

He glanced me, a look of worry in his eyes. He sighed slightly and nodded, "Alright, but watch yourself OK?"

I nodded and stepped back as the others faced the crystal golems.

Sean charged first, driving a fist into the 'face' of one the golems, shattering it into pieces. Throwing his leg forward, he kicked another in the torso, breaking it in half. Applejack followed behind him, mostly using her powerful legs from applebucking to destroy the golems in a single kick. Pinkie almost looked like she was dancing as she jumped around the golems swords and leading them to cut each other into pieces. Rainbow Dash used her speed to gain momentum before smashing them with speedy and powerful kicks. Drawing his sword, Jack engulfed it with lightning and was slashing the golems in half.

With a snap of my fingers, I teleported next to Sombra and, drawing Shusui and imbuing it with haki, slashed at him. However, he conjured a red crystal sword and blocked my attack. He pushed me back and swung his sword at me, but it simply passed through me. He looked slightly surprised, but quickly recovered.

"So you're like that insufferable woman," he said. He covered his fist in shadows. "Luckily, I know how to deal with that."

Before I could react, he threw a punch at my stomach. I was stunned when I felt his fist connect. I coughed up a bit of blood as I slid backwards, finding myself in the middle of the golems. I quickly teleported back to Sean, before wiping a bit of blood from my mouth.

"Sean, I think we have a problem," I said.

He glanced at me, "More than a unicorn with dark magic and a bunch of golems to deal with?"

"Yes, and this is worse," I said. "He has the Dark-Dark Fruit." He froze and looked at me in shock. He looked about ready to ask me how I knew, but I interrupted him, "He just punched me in the stomach and I felt it."

A look of anger flashed across his face, but he managed to hold himself back. "That's definitely going to be a problem," he muttered.

I nodded, before drawing Kashu and we began dealing with the golems in front of us. We were about half way through the crystal automatons when a scream rang out that made my blood run cold. The shout that followed only made it worse.

"DINKY!!"