1 week later

Sunset sat with her hand on her forehead with her eyes closed. Her hair was in a ponytail, her jacket and skirt replaced with a blue sweater that slightly hugged her figure and a pair of jeans with red sandals on her feet. She sighed as she lay back in her couch, runbbing her temples in an effort to ease her headaches. A small fluffy white spider with a purple ring on its abdomen looked up at her from the coffee table. The last surviving spiderling of Scary and Frightening looked up at his owners mother in worry.

He leapt onto the couch and began climbing up Sunsets arm, causing her to open her eyes and look at the young spider. He crawled up the side of her neck causing her to shiver slightly before reaching her left temple and running it gently with a leg, causing her to sigh in relief. "That's actually really relaxing...thank you Sling." She thanked.

Sling just kept rubbing her temple. Lately, she had been feeling as if her head was about to explode, causing her to be immobile for awhile until it faded.

As she was about to lay back to fall asleep she heard the front door of the house open and close. "Mom! I'm back from school!" A young female voice called from the front hall of the small household. Sling jumped off of Sunset and scurried across the floor to reach the door to the main hall. He squeezed himself threw the door and looked up at his owner with bright eyes. The young 14 year old girl with long, straight red hair that had three yellow stripes at the top and tan skin like Sunsets looked down at her little spider with her crimson eyes. The little spider waved it's legs at her, signalling for her to pick him up. She giggled and placed her hand on the ground and let him climb on. "Hey Sling, you been taking care of mom while I was gone?"

Sling nodded as she brough him up to her face where he pressed his head lovingly against her nose, making her chuckle.

"Hello Sunny, how was school?" Sunsst asked with a weak smile as she leaned against the door frame.

"It was ok, not much really happened so there isn't really anything to talk about." Sunchyme answered with a smile as Sling snuggled into her hair. "What about you, feeli,g any better?"

"A little, I think it's starting to fade away now." Sunset placed a hand to her head and winced.

"I think you should just sit down, I'll go make us some tea." Sunchyme said as she passed her mother through the living room and into the kitchen. Heading her daughter's words, Sunset sat back down and turned on the television to pass the time. She flicked through the channels until she came to a news station where something caught her attention.

"-and reports are saying that this new organisation has only been growing in numbers, whether their purpose is to cause havoc like the Black Cats of Music, or to merely exist is unknown at this time. All we know is that right now, this new group calling themselves the 'Red Diamonds' is a force to be reckoned with-"

Sunset quickly changed the channel as the report began making her head hurt more for some reason. She grasped her head with her hands and closed her eyes, only to open them again as she saw two red glowing eyes staring at her when they were closed.

"Mom, you ok?" Sunset snapped back to reality as she heard her daughter speak to her. She looked to her left and saw Sunchyme standing there with a try in her hands looking at her worriedly, with Sling poking his head out of her hair and giving her the same look.

"I'm fine sweetie...I just..." Sunset brushed the ring on her left hand. "...need to talk to your father about something."

Meanwhile

Hack, Casino, Eclipse, Onyx, Bass, Silver, Oceanic and Sparkjump pulled up outside a large complex on the outskirts of Canterlot City. As the looked over walls surrounding the place they noticed that the place seemed rundown and abandoned. The glass in the windows smashed, the brickwork slightly crumbled and moss growing along the walls.

"I don't get what's so important about this place..." Onyx said dryly as he got out of the car.

"Apparently it's an old Black Cats base, they abandoned it after some kinda incident in the building or something." Bass explained as he grabbed a few backpacks from out of the cars trunk and throwing them to his friends.

"That guy said to watch for a few guts gaurding this place. Either they're underground or hiding in the upper floors." Hack said in a hushed voice as he gripped his cane. "Let's just get this over and done with, I just want that debt gone and this lifestyle gone..."

"We all do Hack, we aren't going to be here longer than we need to be." Oceanic reassured his friend as he placed a hand on his shoulder.

Hack sighed and pumped his shotgun cane as everyone stood ready. "Then let's go."

Hack and Onyx took the lower floors where they encountered two guards with their backs to them. When they tried to sneak up they were spotted and the two reached for the alarm, only to be hit in the head by Onyx's nunchucks or Hacks cane. Sparkjump and Oceanic took the ground floors as they placed explosives in specific locations without much opposition. The rest took the top floors as distractions or taking out any guards they came across. Having silenced rifles was more of a curse to their enemy than anything, given that if they fired their allies couldn't hear it and react.

Once the guards had been taken out and the bombs were set in their set locations, the group got out of the building and Bass pressed pushed the detonator button, causing the ground to shake as all the bombs went off. After a few minutes, the dust had mostly cleared away abd the group began walking towards a large hole in the wall, having blown the floors she walls to pieces all the way down to a metal floor they had found.

"What do you think those guys wanted us to get from here?" Casino asked to no one.

"I don't know, they said we'd know when we saw it." Bass recalled as they reached the blackened hole.

As they were about to walk into it they heard he sound of footsteps coming from the hole. After a few tense minutes they spotted a familiar silhouette standing in the shadows, eyes glowing red.

Everyone present stopped and stared wide eyed. "It can't be..."

The silhouette slowy walked forward into the light, staring them all down. Dantes frowned at them and glared. "Hello again...friends..."

Author's Notes:

No this is not the start of Season 4, this storyline doesn't follow the seasons.

Anyway, things are starting to get intense now. Dantes is free, a new organisation has appeared and everyone is just fucked right in the down under at this point.

Oh what fun.