At Ditzy's scream we all spun around and saw that Sombra had Dinky in his grasp with a sword at her throat. 'She must have heard what we were doing and snuck onto the train when we left Ponyville,' I thought in alarm.

"Surrender or she loses her life!" Sombra threatened.

I felt rage erupt inside of me. I was about to do something when Sean spoke.

"Ashley," he said. My anger evaporated and was replaced with fear. I slowly turned to him and saw that the look on his face was completely calm. "Get everyone out of here."

I wanted to tell him that he shouldn't fight alone, but the look in his eyes. There was an inferno of rage that would burn even Akainu. I glanced around at everyone and saw anger on their faces as well. However, it was Jack that shocked me. His eyes and the electricity arcing off of him had turned red.

"No. We'll deal with the golems, while you and Jack take care of Sombra," I said. He glanced at me and looked ready to protest, but I cut him off, "He's as angry as you Sean. I don't think you'll be able to stop him from trying to fight."

He turned to the unicorn in question and his eyes widened slightly when he saw the look on Jack's face. He sighed, "Fine. I probably shouldn't fight someone like him alone anyway." He returned his glare to Sombra, "But I'm taking him down."

I nodded and snapped my fingers, teleporting me, Kizaru, the three ponies, and all of the golems directly under the castle.

"Why did you put us farther away!? Sombra has Dinky," Rainbow yelled.

"YOU THINK I DON'T KNOW THAT!?" I shouted angrily, shocking them. "I know that he has her and I would like nothing more than to beat the shit out of him. However, Sean is pissed and it would be wise to stay out of his way."

"Why?" Applejack asked.

"Because this isn't the same anger as when he's worried about me getting hurt. As I'm sure most of you have figured out, Sean has always had a soft spot for children. As such, when a child is abused, kidnapped, or worse killed, then he would lose it. He'd go to a gym and beat the hell out of a punching bag or sometimes he'd even go to a shooting range to let out his anger. This was even worse to those he cared for," I explained to them. "And he just took Dinky. The filly he probably cares for the most."

The others looked at each other. Rainbow Dash spoke what was on everyone's mind, "Sombra's fucked, isn't he?"

I grimaced, 'You have no idea.' I shook myself and readied my blades, "Let's deal with these nuisances." They all nodded and readied themselves to take care of the golems.

I charged forward and slashed two golems at the waist cutting them in half. I noticed a golem approaching me from behind and opened a portal between us as it swung it's sword. I made the other portal appear next to another golem and it was sliced in two. I quickly closed the portal, cutting the golem's torso off. I heard Sombra shout in pain and I smirked to myself, knowing that Sean got Dinky away from the bastard. One of the golem's swords passed through me as it tried to slash me. Spinning around, I focused on my earth pony magic and kicked the golem in the chest, shattering it. Looking around I saw the others were dealing with the golems relatively easily. I noticed one try and head up the stairs. I quickly opened a portal under it and dropped it onto another golem, smashing them both. I adjusted my grip on my swords and charged toward the remaining golems.

[Third Person POV]

Jack appeared next to Sean in a bolt of electricity. "So how do we get Dinky away from him?" he asked.

"Leave that to me," Sean said as he activated Second Gear. He glared at Sombra, who was smirking at the enraged human. Suddenly, Sean vanished from sight, shocking everyone who was watching.

He was instantly in front of Sombra and wrapped a hand around the crystal sword. After surrounding his hand in Armament Haki, he snapped the blade off of the sword and drove it into Sombra's shoulder. Letting out a roar of pain, the unicorn released Dinky from his grasp and teleported away. Sean grabbed Dinky and jumped back to Jack and handed him the filly.

"Take her to Ditzy," he said.

The unicorn nodded and teleported up to the balcony. He walked over to Ditzy and handed her Dinky. Ditzy hugged her daughter tightly, tears falling from her eyes.

"I'm so glad you're safe, Dinky," she cried. "Are you OK?"

"I'm fine," the unicorn filly said.

Ditzy turned to Jack, "Please tell Sean I said thank you, Jack. I don't know what I would do if I lost Dinky."

His eyes softened, "I'll let him know Ditzy. I'm glad that she's OK."

He flashed back to the ground and was rather surprised to see that Sombra's wound had somehow been healed. Jack clapped his hands together and created a blade of lighting.

Sombra smirked, "You two appear to be rather strong. But I fought the alicorn sisters and they had to banish me because they could not beat me! What makes you think you can?"

Both of their gaze's hardened, before Sean charged at Sombra. When he was in front of the evil unicorn, he snarled, "You threatened Dinky." He quickly drove his fist into Sombra's face, launching him backwards.

Jack appeared next to Sombra and drove his lightning sword into the tyrant's shoulder. "And we will make sure you pay for that," he growled.

Growling, Sombra turned into shadows and tried to put some distance between him and two Devil Fruit users. However, Sean rushed forward and grabbed Sombra's shadowy form, much to the tyrant and everypony's surprise. He pulled the shadow back toward him and punched Sombra. The blow sent him flying into the wall of a house. As he collided with the building his form exploded outward before reforming back into the dark king.

Sombra glared at Sean as he wiped a trickle of blood from his mouth. He glanced at it before returning his gaze back to the human, who returned to normal. "Not only did you grab my shadow form, but you struck it too," he said. A new crystal sword appeared in his grasp, "Very well, I'll get serious."

Sombra telported to Sean and slashed at him. Sean dodged the attack and brought his leg up to kick Sombra in the jaw, but Sombra jumped out of the way of the strike. Raising his hand, Sombra fired a beam of dark magic. The beam hit Sean in the shoulder, causing him to stumble back as pain seared through him.

Jack jumped in and threw a lightning filled punch at Sombra. The tyrant unicorn turned into shadow and evaded the blow, but the electricity arced through him causing him to grunt in pain.

Sean then ran toward Sombra while throwing his arms back. "Gum-Gum..." he said, as he charged forward. Sombra tried to avoid the attack, but it was too late as Sean quickly pulled his arms forward. "Bazooka!!" He slammed both of his palms into Sombra's shadow form, launching him into the air. Sean stretched his arms and grabbed the roofs of two houses. After taking several steps back, he launched himself after Sombra and Jack changed into lightning and chased after them.

[POV Change: Twilight]

I was searching through the castle for the Crystal Heart, which turned out to be an actual artifact and not just a piece of crystal shaped like a heart. Spike and I found a secret stairway that had been hidden in the throne room. I had descended a good distance, when I glanced up.

"Spike how are things looking out there?" I called.

He glanced to the side and his eyes widened in shock."I just saw Sean and Sombra flying away from the castle!" he shouted. "I think they're fighting!"

I started to panic slightly and began to run down the stairs. About two thirds of the way down I missed a step and fell down the stairs. Just before I hit the floor, I caught myself with my magic.

"Are you OK Twilight?" Spike called down, most likely hearing my grunts of pain.

"I'm alright," I told him, teleporting myself upright. I turned and saw a door.

Smiling, I moved to open it, but it suddenly moved. Surprised, I jumped at it, but again it moved and I slammed into the wall. I tried to use my magic to open it, and it kept moving until it returned to where it was. I was getting frustrated and fired a beam of dark magic at the gem on top.

The door opened to a bright light. "Spike I think I found it," I yelled, as I walked through the doorway.

I clamped my eyes shut to shield them from the bright light. Once it died down, I opened my eyes and was shocked at what I saw. I was suddenly back in Canterlot castle, but something was wrong. The castle seemed to be heavily damaged, like something had attacked. I heard screams that made my heart drop. I turned around slowly and my eyes widened, tears springing to them. Spread out across the floor, were all of my friends, family, and my marefriend. They all were heavily beaten and most of them were bleeding.

"H-How... W-Why did this happen?" I asked in fear.

"Because of you," an eerily familiar voice said. I spun around and was shocked to see Nightmare Moon standing in front of me. However, it wasn't the wonderful Princess I'd come to consider a friend, but the Mare in the Moon who wanted to cause Eternal Night. "This happened because you separated me from Luna and gave me my own body. I was able to gain everypony's trust and when their guard was down, I destroyed the Elements of Harmony and took down your friends. The rest fell easily to my power."

"N-No. No, you changed. You aren't that kind of pony anymore!" I yelled. "You're Princess Nightmare Moon, sister to Celestia and Luna, my friend."

She just smirked, "All a ruse, Sparkle." She raised her hand and readied a blast of magic. "And it's Queen Nightmare Moon."

"Please Nightmare don't do this," I pleaded, as tears streamed down my face.

However, just as she was about to fire the beam of magic I heard a faint shouting. It sounded like Spike, but that didn't make sense. He was unconscious on the ground behind me. I then felt myself being shaken. Blinking several times, I found myself back in the room in the crystal castle. I glanced to my left and saw Spike standing there a concerned look on his face.

"Are you alright?" he asked. "I called for you several times, but you didn't answer, so I came down here to check on you. What were you looking at? It's just a wall." Before I could stop him, he looked through the doorway. His sclera turned green and his pupils changed red. "What? Why... How did I get back to Ponyville?" he asked in confusion. "N-No. NO! This can't be happening. I-I'm not..."

Seeing his distress, I quickly slammed the door shut and pulled him into a hug. "It's OK, Spike. What you saw wasn't real. Sombra used his dark magic to cast a spell on the door, so it would show whoever looked at it to see a deep fear of theirs."

Tears streamed out of his eyes, "I was at Ponyville and those dragons had come back. They attacked the town, hurting you, our friends, everypony and I couldn't do anything to stop them. I was powerless, completely useless."

I tightened my hug, "Spike, you don't need to worry about that. Sean and Ashley are plenty strong enough to protect Ponyville. Besides you're training as hard as you can to protect us and, even though I don't want you to get hurt, it means so much to me that you're doing it. You are anything, but useless."

Spike smiled and returned the hug. I used my light magic and directed it at the door. The edges shined and the door opened again. This time however, there was actually a doorway. I walked through it and saw a white area. I glance around and saw another staircase. I felt my eye twitch a little.

"What's in there?" he asked warily.

"Stairs. A whole bunch of stairs," I said, wearily. I started to walk forward, but paused and turned to Spike, "Maybe you should come with me this time."

He grinned and ran up to me. We started to walk up the huge looking staircase. After maybe half an hour, I started wondering if we were missing something.

"What if this is just more of his magic?" Spike spoke up. "He makes a door that leads to one of your nightmares. Why not a staircase that goes on forever?"

I paused and looked up before I had an idea. I picked Spike up in my magic and placed him on my back, "Hang on, Spike."

"Uh, what are you going to do?" he asked.

Instead of answering, I focused on the spell I was going to cast. We lifted up in the air and flipped upside down as I reversed the gravity around us. We began sliding along the bottom of the stairs.

"I studied gravity spells thinking it would be on my test. Turns out I was prepared for this," I cheered and whooped as I slid. It was actually pretty fun. Soon, however we reached our destination and I returned the gravity around us to normal.

Pushing myself off of the ground, I saw the Crystal Heart floating in front of us. I grinned at the sight and Spike urged me to take it. I walked up to it, but as I was about to take it I stepped on the circle in the middle of the room and it flashed black. I panicked and jumped for the Heart, but accidentally hit it instead, sending it flying away as black crystals shot up and trapped me.

I looked around in panic, "Where's the Crystal Heart!?"

"Here!" Spike said. "It slid over to me when you accidentally hit it."

I tried to teleport out of the ring of crystal, but I could feel my magic being drained. What was happening? "Oh, how could I have been so stupid. Of course Sombra would set a trap around the Crystal Heart. I was just so eager to get it! To stop Sombra..." I said regretfully, slumping against the crystals.

He looked at me in worry, "You need to get out of there, Twilight! You have to be the one who brings the Heart to Princess Cadance! If you don't, you'll fail Celestia's test!"

"King Sombra is already attacking the Empire. There's no telling how long Sean can distract Sombra... and if he gets away he'll go after Cadance, my brother, my friends. There may not be enough time for me to find a way to escape." I glanced around and my eyes fell on Spike and the Crystal Heart right behind him, dark crystals slowly rising from the floor. "You have to take the Crystal Heart to the fair," I said resolutely.

"Me? But Twilight--" Spike started to protest.

"Go!" I cut him off.

"But--"

"GOOOO!" Still looking conflicted, he grabbed the heart and jumped to the edge of the room as the crystals sealed me in. "Hurry Spike," I whispered.

[Third Person POV]

Sean and Sombra crashed at the edge of the Crystal Empire. They quickly got to their feet/hooves and got into battle stances. Sean charged forward and dodged the beams of magic Sombra fired. When Sean reached the unicorn, he threw his fist forward, which Sombra ducked under. He then slashed at Sean, who barely dodged it, but still received a shallow cut across his chest. Jack then appeared and gave Sombra an electrified kick to the skull.

The turquoise unicorn jumped back and glanced at Sean. "You OK?" he asked.

"Yeah, it's not serious," Sean dismissed.

Sombra suddenly teleported in front of Jack and surrounded his fist in darkness before punching him in the face, sending him flying back. Sean immediately jumped at Sombra and drove his fist into the unicorn's chest knocking him several feet back. He continued the assault by kicking him in the side, launching him to Jack. The unicorn charge electricity into his hands and fired a huge bolt of lightning at Sombra. However, the unicorn king changed into shadow and avoided the attack. It flew toward Sean, who didn't even flinch at the sight.

"SEAN!" Jack shouted in panic, as the bolt struck his friend.

Sombra laughed evilly at the sight of his enemies hitting each other. But much to the unicorns surprise, they heard a voice coming from the dust cloud that had been kicked up from the impact.

"Gum-Gum Pistol!" a fist shot out of the cloud and connected with the side of Sombra's face. As the dust cleared, they saw Sean standing completely unscathed from the blast. Jack looked shocked, but happy and Sombra glared at the human.

"How were you not harmed by that!?" he demanded.

Sean smirked, "Like I'm going to tell you."

Sombra let out a shout of anger and thrust one of his arms forward. Darkness swirled around it and Sean felt himself being pulled forward. Knowing what was about to happen, he quickly threw his arm forward to punch Sombra in the face. However, his head changed to shadow and opened so that his arm missed. Dark unicorn was grasping his face and he smirked viciously at Sean before smashing his head into the ground. Luckily, it was normal ground instead of the crystal ground of the city and the earth crumbled from the impact. Jack quickly blasted Sombra away from Sean with a bolt of lightning and helped the human to his feet.

"What the heck happened?" he questioned. "The Princesses told me that blunt attacks wouldn't be able to hurt you, yet that looked like it was pretty damn painful."

"That's the power of the Dark-Dark Fruit," Sean explained, as he breathed rather heavily. He felt something trickling down his face and placed hand on the side of his head. Looking at it, he saw blood covering it. "It is able to nullify a Devil Fruit users power. It's how he was able to punch you earlier."

"So it wasn't because he caught me off guard?" Jack questioned.

"Did you try and phase through it?" Sean asked.

"I was making sure that any attack should have passed through me."

"Then no, it was because of his power." He returned his attention to Sombra. "It's time to end this," Sean said. "Can you keep him busy so I can catch him off guard?"

The turquoise unicorn nodded, "Sure."

Jack flashed toward the tyrant and slashed at him with his sword. Sombra brought his crystal sword up and blocked the attack. The two unicorns pushed against the other for several minutes before they both changed into their respective elements and began clashing with each other. After four clashes they turned back to normal and swung their swords, both of them managing to slash the other.

Jack stumbled backward, holding his cut shoulder. Sombra had a cut along the length of his chest. Before either could do anything else, Sean suddenly appeared in front of Sombra with his Second Gear activated. He covered his fist in Armament Haki and punched the tyrant's horn, shattering it. Jack winced at the cracking sound. Sean lifted his leg and kicked Sombra to the ground. The unicorn king tried to get up, but Sean slammed his haki covered boot onto him, keeping him pinned to the ground.

"This is the end for you Sombra," Sean said.

The tyrant just chuckled, "And how are you going to do that? You don't have the guts to kill me and with my dark magic, I'll heal soon enough and end you all."

Sean didn't answer, but instead raised his arm with his hand straight. He then covered his arm in Armament Haki, and said, "I'm not like others you've fought." Before the unicorn king could react, he thrust his hand into Sombra's chest, piercing his heart. The two unicorns eyes widened in shock. The life slowly drained from Sombra's face, his eyes began to dull, and his head fell to the side.

Before either of them could move, a wall of white passed by them. The light surprisingly shattered Sombra's body and scattered it to the wind. It also changed the two to crystal, healed their injuries, and cleaned the blood from Sean's arm.

As Sean straightened, Jack walked up to him and said, "I'm not sure how the Princesses are going to react to this."

"I'll explain everything to them," Sean said. "Let's head back. There's something I want to check." He started to make his way back to the castle. Jack stared at Sean for a minute before following him.

[POV Change: Ashley]

Twilight and Spike managed to find the Crystal Heart and, minus the part about Sombra nearly getting it and Shining Armor throwing Cadance, it played out exactly like it did in the show. I looked down at my hand. I was really surprised to see that I had turned to crystal. I knew it had happened to Spike, but I wasn't expecting it to happen to us.

As we walked, I turned to Kizaru. "So, what are you going to do with Sean?" I asked, a slight edge in my voice.

"Easy Ashley. I'm not actually Kizaru," she said.

I froze, I don't think anypony had said my name. "How do you know my name?" I asked, suspiciously.

"I'll explain when Sean gets back."

I frowned, "Fine."

Thankfully, we soon saw Sean and Jack making their way back to us. He glanced up and a small smile spread across his face, however he had a rather distant look in his eyes. Before he reached us though, Ditzy ran up to him and threw her arms around him.

"Thank you for saving Dinky," she cried, before pressing her lips against his. All of our eyes widened and Sean looked dumbfounded at what was happening. Ditzy's eyes snapped open and she jumped back, "Oh, my Celestia. Sean I'm so sorry. I was just so grateful--" Sean silenced her by placing a finger on her lips.

"Ditzy, it's OK," he said. "You heard what I told the Princesses about this kind of thing."

"What are you talking about?" I asked.

"You know when I went to talk to the Princesses after the welcoming party?" he asked and I nodded. "I had asked them about relationships here. Turns out polygamy, or as they call it herds, are a thing here."

I smiled slightly, "So you are going to look for others to date?"

"I don't know about looking, but if mares, or whatever you call other species, show an interest in me, I won't turn them away," he said. He then turned to the gray mare, "Are you interested in me Ditzy?"

She hesitated slightly. She seemed to like Sean, but was somewhat unsure. Seeing this I spoke up, "How about you two go on a few dates and get to know each other first, then you can decide."

"That sounds like a great idea," Sean said. "What do you think?"

She smiled and nodded, "That sounds wonderful."

He nodded before leaning over to Ditzy and whispering something in her ear. Her face lit up, causing Sean to chuckle at her reaction before giving her a peck on the cheek, making her face turn even redder, if that was possible. He then walked over to me, wrapped an arm around me and said, "I hope I didn't worry you too much."

"A little, but I knew you would pull through, especially with Jack fighting with you," I said, giving him a kiss. I turned to Kizaru, "So are you going to explain now?"

She nodded, "Before I say anything, allow me to formally introduce myself." She glanced between me and Sean before saying, "My name is Sarah." My eyes widened slightly and I felt Sean grip tighten on my shoulder. "Sarah Griffin."

"S-Sarah?" I stuttered. "Is it really you?"

She looked at me with a warm smile, "It is Ashley." She looked me up and down, "I'd say you've become a beautiful woman, but considering your whole body was changed I feel like that would be slightly insulting. Though I'm glad that you managed to keep your gorgeous raven hair."

I giggled lightly, as I felt tears in the corners of my eyes. That was Sarah alright.

Sean slowly walked toward her and placed a hand on her arm, as if making sure she was really there. "M-Mom?" his voice cracked. Everyone looked at them in shock.

Sarah smiled warmly, as tears formed in her eyes, "That's right Seany. It's me."

Sean's eyes widened, as tears streamed down his face. Only one person had ever called him Seany before, this was his mother. He threw his arms around her and cried into her shoulder. Sarah wrapped her arms around her son and held him close.

"It's OK, Sean. I'm here. I'm here and you'll never lose me again," she said softly, rubbing his back. Everyone smiled softly at the scene before them. The moment was ruined however when Shining Armor cleared his throat.

"I hate to interrupt this reunion, but you all should probably head back and tell Pri- Celestia about what happened," he said.

"He's right," Twilight said. She walked up to Sean and, with a smile, said, "I'm glad you were able to reunite with your mother." Everyone said similar things, happy for my husband.

He looked around, some tears still in his eyes, "Thanks everyone. It means a lot."

"Sean?" Cadance spoke up. He turned to her and she asked, "What exactly happened to Sombra? Since you all were at the edge of the Empire, we obviously didn't see what happened." The question caused the distant look to returned to his eyes.

Seeing this, I walked up to him and asked, "Sean? Did you..?" He nodded. "...Do you want me to explain things to them? I already told some of them how much you care about children."

He hesitated for moment, but nodded, "Yeah, but how about we wait until we're on the train?"

I was about to nod, but Rainbow Dash asked, "Wait, can't Ashley just teleport us there? She knows where Canterlot is. Taking the train is so slow."

I sighed at her impatience, "That's true, but I think we could all use the chance to relax before we talk to the Princesses." I glanced at Sean, "Especially with what I'm about to tell you all."

They all looked at each other and shrugged slightly.

"Before we do though. There's something I'd like everypony to help me look for. Ash?" I nodded and snapped my fingers, making a replica of the Dark-Dark Fruit appear. He thanked me and walked up to the crystal ponies. "Everypony! If I could have your attention!" All them fell silent and gave Sean their attention. "I would appreciate it if you all could check any fruits that you may have and see if you have one that looks like this one," he said, holding the replica up. "If you do I ask that you bring it to us, so that someone with Sombra's exact powers doesn't show up again."

His last statement caught their attention and all of the crystal ponies dispersed to see if they could find the fruit. While we waited, I took Cadance and Shining Armor to the side and explained to them what Sean had done, they were shocked to say the least. After forty minutes of nothing, we were about to give up, when a pony with a bright yellow coat, cerulean mane, and azure eyes rushed up to us. She was wearing a dark gray button up shirt and pants, a dark gray brimless hat that had gold ring going around it, and she had black shoes with golden wings attached to them.

"I-I think I f-found it," she panted slightly.

"What do you mean you think?" Sean asked curiously.

"W-well," she stuttered slightly. She reached into the bag she was wearing and pulled something out.

Our eyes widened at the fruit she was holding. It was as dark as a black hole and it almost looked like the mare's hand was bending into the fruit. Sean grabbed it and began to examine it. It's leaves were similar and the overall look was the same, so it was more than likely the correct fruit.

Sean looked at the mare and asked, "May I ask your name?"

"Mercury, sir," she said.

"You don't have to call me sir." He smiled slightly, "Thank you, Mercury. If this fell into the wrong hands it wouldn't be good. This is a rather dangerous Devil Fruit."

"That's what gave Sombra his powers?" she asked.

"Some of them," he clarified. "The dark magic was his, but when extended that shadow earlier, that was this fruit's power. It also negates other Devil Fruit users powers."

This seemed to catch Twilight's attention as she looked over to Sean. She walked up to him and asked, "Does it work against other things?"

"Not that's been shown," he answered. "Although, there isn't much it could influence in the show other than Devil Fruit powers. Why?"

"Because in that trap Sombra had set up, I could feel my magic being drained," she said.

"Couldn't it have been a spell placed on it?" I asked.

"Normally I'd say no, but since he used dark magic that might be it," she answered, a pondering look on her face.

Sean turned to the crystal ponies and said, "Thank you everypony for your help. I hope you're able to live happy lives." They all smiled and departed from the castle grounds. He looked down at the fruit and clenched it slightly. "Alright, let's head back," he said suddenly and started walking. The ponies glanced at each other, before we all followed him back to the train station.

Once we were on the train, Ditzy gave Dinky an earful about sneaking onto the train. About how Amethyst and Carrot Top were probably worried sick about her. She was grounded for three weeks. After that, everyone had gathered around me, however I hesitated when I saw Dinky sitting nearby. I gestured for Ditzy to come close.

"What I'm about to tell you all is not something for a filly to hear. Would be alright if I put a sleep spell on her?" I whispered.

She thought for a minute, then said, "If you think it's necessary."

I nodded and cast a sleep spell on Dinky. Her eyes slowly fell and in a few seconds she was asleep. I then cast a sound proof bubble around her just in case.

"So, what is it that you're going to tell us?" Twilight asked curiously.

"Before I begin, I want you all to Pinkie Promise that you won't tell anyone about this unless Sean says it's OK," I said. They glanced at each other and did the movements. "First, this happened after Sarah disappeared so not even she knows about this." I took a deep breath, "A situation like earlier has happened before."

"He had to fight a tyrant before?" Rainbow Dash asked, arching a brow.

Applejack smacked her upside the head, "I'm pretty sure she meant what happened with Dinky, RD."

I nodded, "Yes, that. You see, Sean used to work at an orphanage on Earth. One day the matron took the orphans on a field trip to the movies. One of the children got sick though and had to stay behind. Of course, Sean didn't want him feeling left out, so he brought some movies for them to watch together." Practically all of the mares, as well as Sarah, 'aw'ed at that. I smiled slightly, but it quickly turned to a frown, "Unfortunately that's where things went bad." Worry crossed all of their faces. "At one point between movies, Sean had left the room to take care of something. Shortly after he'd left someone broke into the orphanage. He heard Sean and hid where the children slept, which was where the boy happened to be. Hearing Sean approach, he made a big mistake."

"...He threatened the child?" Fluttershy guessed.

"Yes, he did. And the thing about the boy is that Sean had gotten very close to him. So to see someone pointing a gun--"

"What in Tartarus is a gun?" Rainbow Dash interrupted.

I hesitated and glanced at Sarah. She shrugged slightly with a concerned look on her face. I took out our iPad and brought up the video. In the video a man with medium length blond hair and a beard and mustache. He was wearing camo pants and black shirt.

When the video appeared, Ditzy asked, "Who's that?"

"He looks like Sean!" Pinkie exclaimed, probably remembering what Sean looked like before.

"That's his dad," I answered. They all grew somber.

Sarah looked at everyone, "Did he tell them?"

"They were wondering why the fedora he's wearing is so important to him, so he told them that you and John made it and what had happened to the two of you," I told her, before pressing play on the video.

They all watched as John took the gun and fired at the target attached to a tree. Everyone jumped from the loud bang that emitted from the weapon. Their eyes widened when they saw the bullet went through the bark and into the tree.

"So seeing that aimed at the boy, he snapped," I said. "He managed to keep his cool for a moment. Saying that if he didn't hurt the boy, he would move out of the way. The robber slowly moved to the door and as he was almost through the door, Sean moved faster than he thought possible and grabbed the gun and wrested it from the man's grasp before punching him in the gut. After the boy was free from the robber's grip, Sean told him to call the police, they're like local royal guards protecting people in cities and/or towns. The moment he left, the man jumped at Sean and tried to get his gun back. However, Sean raised it and shot the man in the head." Everyone stared at me in shock.

After a minute of silence, Twilight asked, "What happened after that?"

"The police showed up and Sean and the boy told them what had happened. They decided no serious actions needed to be taken against Sean since it was self-defense. He was placed under house arrest for several months though. Which considering what happened, was a light punishment," I told them.

Silence reigned as everyone processed what I had told them. After a few minutes Pinkie spoke up, "Hey, where's Sean?"

We all looked around and noticed that he had indeed disappeared while I was talking.

"He's going to have some difficulty with facing you all," I said.

"Why?" Rainbow asked.

I raised a brow at the pegasus. "Really? You're asking why?" I questioned incredulously. "How would you react if you were in Sean's shoes and were telling your friends about this?" She fell silent at that. I focused my haki and began searching for Sean. I felt something a few cars over, but also above us. "He's on top of one of the cars."

"What!?" all the ponies and Spike yelled.

"Why is he up there!?" Ditzy exclaimed.

"It's the best place to be alone," Sarah said. "I mean, I doubt even a pegasus would go up there."

"I'm going to check on him," the gray pegasus said, exiting the car. I cast a silence bubble around Ditzy so that they wouldn't have to worry about shouting over the wind.

"And there goes a pegasus," my mother-in-law said, amusement in her voice. She grew serious and looked at me. "That really happened?" I nodded somberly. "I see. So since he has the Devil Fruit Sombra had..." She looked up as hoofsteps could be heard from the roof.

[POV Change: Sean]

I was sitting on top of one of the cars of the train. Mostly so that I didn't have to face the others yet, but also because if Luffy could sit on the Rocket Man without much problems then I could sit on this just fine. As the wind whipped around me, I could hear someone approaching. Turning around, I expected to see my wife or mother, so I was surprised to see Ditzy walking up to me.

"Ditzy!? What are you doing up here?" I yelled over the wind.

"I came to make sure you're doing OK!" she yelled back. When she got close, all of the sound around us seemed to vanish.

"Ashley must have cast a spell to keep the noise out so that we could actually hear each other without yelling," I said.

"That was thoughtful of her," Ditzy said. She returned her attention to me, "Are you alright?"

"I'm fine," I said rather quickly.

"Sean," she said, not sounding convinced.

"Really, it's nothing that serious," I said. "I just don't really know how to face everyone about what I did." I chuckled humorlessly, "And just when I find out you might be interested in me."

She stared at me for a moment before she stood up. I looked up at her and was surprised to hear music to start playing. I was shocked when she began to sing while she looked straight into my eyes.

Hands, put your empty hands in mine
And scars, show me all the scars you hide
And hey, if your wings are broken
Please take mine so yours can open too
Cause I'm gonna stand by you
Oh, tears make kaleidoscopes in your eyes
And hurt, I know you're hurting, but so am I
And love, if your wings are broken
Borrow mine 'til yours can open too
Cause I'm gonna stand by you

Even if we're breaking down, we can find a way to break through
Even if we can't find heaven, I'll walk through Hell with you
Love, you're not alone, cause I'm gonna stand by you
Even if we can't find heaven, I'm gonna stand by you
Even if we can't find heaven, I'll walk through Hell with you
Love, you're not alone, cause I'm gonna stand by you

Yeah, you're all I never knew I needed
And the heart, sometimes it's unclear why it's beating
And love, if your wings are broken
We can brave through those emotions too
Cause I'm gonna stand by you
Oh, truth, I guess truth is what you believe in
And faith, I think faith is having a reason
Nah, nah, nah, love, if your wings are broken
Borrow mine 'til yours can open too
Cause I'm gonna stand by you

Even if we're breaking down, we can find a way to break through
Even if we can't find heaven, I'll walk through Hell with you
Love, you're not alone, cause I'm gonna stand by you
Even if we can't find heaven, I'm gonna stand by you
Even if we can't find heaven, I'll walk through Hell with you
Love, you're not alone, cause I'm gonna stand by you

She walked behind me and wrapped her arms around me, as she continued to sing.

I'll be your eyes 'til yours can shine
I'll be your arms, I'll be your steady satellite
And when you can't rise, well, I'll crawl with you on hands and knees
Cause I...
I'm gonna stand by you

Even if we're breaking down, we can find a way to break through (come on)
Even if we can't find heaven, I'll walk through Hell with you
Love, you're not alone, cause I'm gonna stand by you
Even if we can't find heaven, I'm gonna stand by you
Even if we can't find heaven, I'll walk through Hell with you
Love, you're not alone, cause I'm gonna stand by you
Love, you're not alone
Oh I'm gonna stand by you
Even if we can't find heaven, heaven, heaven
Yeah I'm gonna stand by you

As the song ended, I looked back and gave her soft smile. "Thanks, Ditzy. That meant a lot," I said.

She blushed slightly, but smiled back, "I meant every word."

I suddenly realized something was pressing against my back. Two somethings to be exact. My face burning, I cleared my throat, "Uh, Ditzy?"

She looked at me in confusion, but seemed to realize what I was referring to as her face lit up as well. However, instead of letting go, I felt her grip tighten and she asked, "Do you not like me being so close?"

"It's not that," I said, shaking my head. "It's just that you seemed hesitant earlier, so I wasn't sure how you felt about being so close."

"I'm fine with it," she said. "And I'm just hesitant because we've only known each other for little over a week."

"A reasonable concern," I said. "But you don't need to worry. We'll go at whatever pace you feel comfortable with."

Ditzy smiled, "Thanks. So how are you feeling?"

"Better," I said.

"That's good," she said. She seemed to hesitate then asked, "Judging from that story Ashley told us does that mean that..?"

I sighed, "Yes, I ended Sombra's life. He needed to be stopped, so that's exactly what I did."

"Well, I still care about you Sean, so don't push yourself away because of this," she told me.

"I appreciate that Ditzy," I said. "You ready to head back down?"

She paused, before asking, "Can we stay like this for a little longer?"

I smiled, "Sure."

We stayed there for probably half an hour before we headed back to the car everyone was in. I paused just outside the door. I was still somewhat unsure about facing everyone. Ditzy grabbed one of my hands and gave it a squeeze. I smiled at her, which she returned, and I took a deep breath before entering the car. Everyone turned to me and, after a moment of silence, they all rushed up to me, saying words of comfort and how worried they were. I smiled and thanked them for their words, though Dinky looked confused at what was going on.

"How are you feeling?" Ashley asked.

"I'm feeling a good deal better," I reassured her. "Thanks to Ditzy here." I wrapped an arm around her and pulled her close, making her blush slightly, but she smiled. "Although I feel like I need to do something to help me the rest of the way."

Ashley grinned at me, "Are you going to do it? It's been a few years since you did."

I looked at her in confusion, before realizing what she was talking about. "Wow, you're right. I practically forgot until you said something." I nodded, "That's a good idea. I always feel better afterwards."

"What are you talking about, darlings?" Rarity asked, as I walked an open space on the train.

"Let's just say that the song I sang awhile ago, wasn't just because I like it," Ashley said. The others looked at each other in confusion as I grabbed our iPod and placed the headphones in my ears. Ash snapped her fingers and a stool and a drum set appeared.

I started the song I wanted and began to play. As I played, I started to sing along with the song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HD59ri9Ft9g

As the song ended, I looked up at the others and saw their jaws were dropped and their eyes wide. I chuckled before launching into another song, once again singing along, however I kept myself from saying certain words in it because Dinky was there.

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

As I finished drumming, the train pulled into the station at Canterlot and Ashley made the drum set disappear.

She walked up to me and said, "You're as good as I remember."

"It has been too long since I heard you playing the drums, sweetie. You haven't lost any of your talent for it, I see," my mom said with a smile.

"THAT WAS AWESOME!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed. Everyone else was saying similar praise.

"You beat everything out of your system?" Jack asked. Pretty much everyone facepalmed, while I smiled and my mom smirked.

"He's a jokester is he?" she questioned.

"He likes to think so," several ponies said, making Jack huff at them.

We then exited the train and started to make our way to the castle. As we walked, I saw the nobles staring at me, Ashley, and my mother with the same look that Blueblood had when he saw us, but I managed to ignore them. What really pissed me off, was when I saw one nobles cross his eyes and made several bumbling gestures to make his friends laugh. I snorted at the thought. Like they actually care about each other. I still managed to keep myself from doing anything. However, the ponies in question all yelped and started to look around.

I watched in confusion, when I heard snickering. I looked over to see that it was Jack. I arched a brow at the unicorn.

"What? They're too high and mighty for their own good," he said as electricity sparked around his horn. "Besides, I don't think Ditzy deserves to be mocked like that."

"Thank you Jack, but I don't want you to get in trouble with the Princesses for that," she said worriedly.

Jack just chuckled, "The Night Princesses are the one's I work for Ditzy and honestly they'd probably get upset if I didn't do that."

I chuckled too, "They do seem like they would react that way."

"Night Princesses?" my mother asked.

"You'll see Sarah," Ashley said.

As we continued to walk, a thought suddenly occurred to me, "I wonder..."

"What?" my mom questioned.

I glanced at her, "I was just wondering that if we were sent to same Equestria, does that mean the Merchant that displaced us is the same one?" I pressed the gem on my band and it glowed purple, "Hey, Symbol you busy?"

After a moment I heard the Displacer's voice in my mind, "No, I can talk. What's up?"

"There's something I'm wondering. You see, I ran into my mother," I told him.

There was a brief silence, before he asked, "That's good right?"

"Yeah, she's not one of those parents," I said.

I heard a small sigh of relief, making curious, but I decided to not ask such a personal question. "So, what did you want to know?" he asked.

"Well, it turns out that she was sent to the same Equestria as us... or I suppose we were sent to the one she was sent to. Anyway, does that mean that she was displaced by the same Merchant?" I asked.

"...There's one way to find out," Symbol said. After a moment, a band suddenly appeared on my mom's right wrist. "Did it appear?"

"Yeah, it did," I said. "Thanks Symbol."

"You're welcome Sean. Tell Ashley I said hi," he said, before the glow faded from the gem.

"Uh, Sean? Who were you talking to and what is this?" my mom asked.

"I was talking to Symbol Shattered. A pretty nice guy who's a Displacer. He displaces people himself to keep them from being displaced by the Merchant and help out those he's displaced if they need it," I explained. "He's the one that explained the whole Displaced thing to us." I turned to Ashley, "Symbol said hi, by the way."

"So there are others out there?" she asked.

"Yes, there are. We've met two others who have been displaced," Ashley told her.

Ashley and I explained to my mom about the Displaced and everything else. We soon reached the castle and I walked up to the doors. "Come on, everyone. There is something I'm going to tell the Princesses that I want you all to hear," I said as I walked into the castle. The others hesitated before following me inside.

Author's Notes:

What do you all think of the fight scene? It's only my second time writing an extended fight like this and I would like to know what you guys think.

That second drummer is rather... eccentric to say the least, huh?