“Who the fu-.”

“Did you seriously have to bring the kids!?” Lance said to the mysterious woman appearing from out of the portal holding two foals.

The mysterious woman turned to give Shalltear a reprimanding look and said, “Keep your language clean around my foals, please.” She turned back to Lance. “Yes, I did. Sol and Mun are keeping watch over Golden and Light.”

“I get the feeling this is the woman named Max that lightning idiot summoned.”  Shalltear thought as she glared daggers at the woman.

“Well, guess I need to improvise. Lumen, get Lucky and Rainbow to cover. Keep them safe.” Lance told her, the Breezie saluting as she had the two of them follow her, trying to help them walk on two hooves. “Now, Shalltear, please calm down. I’m only trying to help you.”

“The only time when I will calm down is when I kill Blueblood, and the rest of his family. I will not be denied my vengeance, and no one is going to stop me! Wolves, rip him apart!” The wolves bounded forward, only to freeze mid-leap when Max raised her hand. Lance used the moment to try and help Lucky and Rainbow get out of the way.

“W-What the?”

Max turned to give Shalltear another reprimanding look. “Hush. You’re being a petulant, spoiled brat. We are not your enemy, nor do we want to be.”

“Then get out of my way and let me have my vengeance dammit! [Maximize Magic, Brilliant Radiance!]” Shalltear said as a column of holy light from under Max engulfing her. “Now stay out of my-.”

Max giggled as the magic seemingly tickled her, passing through without doing harm. “Ah, I watched part of the anime you’re from and read the wiki on your powers.” She smiled and walked past the still frozen wolves. “That power purifies the unholy; destroys those that harbour ill-will for others. Me? I just want to protect my family from those who mean them harm.”

“Then take your family and get out of my way! [Maximize Magic, Vermillion Nova!]”

Max’s hand flashed white briefly before a thick shield of the same color sprang to life in front of her, leading her as she continued to walk straight towards the panicking girl.

“N-No, h-how can you be this powerful?” The countess asked while backing away in fear. “S-Stay back, I’m w-warning you.”

Max shook her head, teleporting to behind the girl and wrapped her in a hug. “Please, we’re here to help you.”

“LIES! YOU’RE LYING JUST LIKE CELESTIA DID, JUST LIKE ALL THOSE PONIES THAT TRIED TO HELP BUT DIDN’T! I WON’T BE TRICKED BY ANYONE EVER AGAIN! [Greater Teleportation!]”

Just as she was saying her latest spell Max placed a bracelet around her right wrist, preventing the girl from disappearing. “Please, calm down. We aren’t going to hurt you. Celestia hurt me as well by imprisoning me in stone in my universe. I was awake for the thousand and twenty-four years I was immobile.”

“Let me go or else I’ll implode you just like I did with Atlas star!” Shalltear yelled while trying to struggle her way out of Max’s hug.

“Shh... It’s okay, no one can hurt you while I’m here. I won’t let anyone try,” Max whispered, still holding the struggling girl close as she brushed her fingers through Shalltear’s hair. Rainbow, getting away from Lance and Lumen, flew quickly over and wrapped her arms around the girl and started nuzzling her cheek, cooing and nickering in an attempt of her own to calm the girl.

“.......Why…..why does everyone want to stop me?”

“Because, if you rush in now, you’ll only kill yourself. If you let your emotions free it will help to make you see more clearly.”

“Showing off your emotions is for idiots, those who see your emotions will take advantage of it.”

“Not if they’re truly your friends and family.” Max paused as the girl’s struggling receded. “Lance and I are the truest family you’ll ever find.”

Shalltear gritted her teeth in annoyance as blood started to drool from the side of her mouth. “Let me go.”

“Please, You’re only hurting yourself by bottling all this up.”

“Like you would know! You’ve never been raped, drugged, humiliated, or used as a test subject for someone’s sick pleasure!” Tears of blood started to run down Shalltear’s  face. “You didn’t have to go through that for the past few years of your life have you?!”

“No, but Rainbow was brutally beaten and raped by her parents. I was the one who found her tied to a stalagmite in a cave with both of her hind legs broken and her wings plucked of every single feather. Do you know how hard it is to see a six month old filly like that?”

“..........”

“It was hard to keep from breaking down and force myself to carry her to the medical wi-ng.” Max’s eyes slowly filled with tears as she continued, “I can’t imagine what you went though, m-my heart breaks when I try t-to....”

Shalltear slightly turn her head to see Max’s face tearing up. Upon looking at the human, the crimson aura that was surrounding herself vanished along with her anger. “Please…..let me go.”

Max shook her head and buried her face into the girl’s shoulder. “You’ve been through so much and haven’t been able to fully absorb everything that’s happened. I-I...” Max shook her head again before continuing in a whisper only Shalltear could hear. "I can't help but picture Rainbow in your place..."

“N-no, please, just…..I just don’t want any kids like her near me….please.”

Max nudged Rainbow to get her attention and motioned for her to go back to Lance. The filly nodded and said, “Okay, mama.” Before turning and floating towards the Adept.

I nudged Rainbow to get her attention and motioned for her to go back to Lance. The filly nodded and said, “Okay, mama.” Before turning and floating towards the Adept.

“Thank you.”

Max nodded again and whispered "You don't need to hold anything back now, I'll still be here." She said as she placed a shield around them and took the bracelet off of the countess. Once the bracelet was off, Shalltear turned around and placed her face onto Max’s chest while hugging her tightly.

“It’s not f-fair! What did I ever do to deserve this?! All I ever wanted was to be accepted by someone, yet all I get is rejection! It’s not fair!” yelled Shalltear as tears began to flow down her face.

“Then you should look elsewhere for acceptance. There’s an entire multiverse out there, and yet you look to only one universe,” said Max as she stroked Shalltear’s hair for comfort, she then used her magic to form a chair from the ground as she placed the vampire on her lap while leaning back on the earth chair that she made.

“W-What do you mean?”

“I mean there are other Displaced out there you can call your friends. Medulla, Zinnia, Gilgamesh, Amaterasu....” Max hesitated before adding, “And Lance and I would be glad to be your family.”

“How do I know they won’t betray me?”

“Because their hearts are too pure. ‘Birds of a feather flock together.’ I haven’t met every Displaced out there, but the ones I named are just like me and will accept you if you give them the chance.”

“......Fine, I’ll do this friendship crap. Just as long as I don’t have to anything stupid like a weird dance or something.”

Max giggled a bit at that thought. “No, you just need to hold their Token and call for them, my daughter.”

“What did you just call me?”

Max sighed and closed her eyes for a second before answering. “Yes, I-I... I see you as a daughter.”

“.....How old are you?”

“Not counting my time in stone, twenty-five as of last month.”

“Dammit, fine you can call me your daughter. But if you do I better not be forced to go clothes shopping in a place full of royal snobs.”

Max smiled and hugged her a bit tighter. “Then it’s a good thing I’m the only ‘royal snob’ in my Equestria. Besides, I wasn’t into shopping for clothes before I got my gender switched.”

“Wait you’re a guy?!”

Max broke the hug and gave the countess a reassuring smile. “Not since a few years into my imprisonment. I had been a guy before I met Nono and bought my camera from her back on earth.”

“.......Eh beggars can’t be choosers. At least you’re okay in my book, unlike two certain ponies that I hate the most.”

“Celestia and Blueballs.” Max said as her smile disappeared. She then pulled out a picture of her Celestia and herself. “Celestia and I actually forgave each other and got together in my universe.”

“It might take me a while to forgive my Celestia, which is why I’m pretty much keeping my distance from her. Mostly because if I am near her I will punch her face in…..a lot.”

“I won’t stop you. Some Celestias need a good punch or two to set them straight. But I’d suggest trying to write to her first; tell her your side fully and ask for her reasons for hurting you. There’s a chance this just a misunderstanding and talking could help to solve this problem.”

“She put me to sleep just because I killed Atlas Star and…..part of Equestria’s government members.”

“Seems to me they needed killing then. But it would’ve helped your case if you had gathered evidence against them first. You aren’t the ultimate power here so you have to play by the laws. Otherwise you’ll be seen as nothing but a murderer, or worse.”

“Oh I’m sorry I didn’t have control over my rage and anger for past few years of being experimented on.” Shalltear said in a mix of sarcasm and annoyance. “Not everyone can fight the effect of drugs at the age of 15 mind you.”

“I didn’t mean it like that.”  Max said giving Shalltear an apologetic smile.

“And for the record I did show her the proof of what he did to me, yet she gave him a slap on the wrist and community service.”

Max’s eyes hardened at that, enough that Shalltear flinched a little bit. “Then those deaths are on her hooves. She failed to fully understand and sympathize with you.”

“Best not piss her off under no circumstances.”

“I do have a spell that could allow me to copy part of your memory, if you’d approve of me doing so.”

“I’ll allow it, but you can’t share with Lance. I’m still pissed that he was able to intrude on my thoughts.”

“What did my fiance do?”

“I don’t know how he knew I got raped, but I do not like it when someone intrude on my thoughts and everything else. That is by far my third thing on the list of things I do not like.”

“He saw you about to-” Max stopped and became deathly still, the air around them growing both hot and cold. In an almost emotionless voice Max whispered, “You thought he was talking about your past, not what he saw when he first came here. I can assure you, he hadn’t known of your past and he can’t read minds unless he is touching someone. And even then it’s limited to surface thoughts and recent memories.”

“Still, he’s annoying and I don’t want him to know about it.”

“I can’t keep secrets from my lovers, not something as big as this that’s about our daughter.”

“Ugh, dammit fine. But I get a free punch to his face for pissing me off.”

Max nodded before lighting her hand. “Are you sure I can copy some of those memories into a crystal?”

“Yes…..Just be careful when you do look through my memories. I went insane when I was placed in the coffin.” Max nodded as she pressed a finger onto Shalltear’s head. The moment she did that, everything around her started to fade into darkness as she felt herself fall asleep. Moments later Shalltear woke up to find herself outside a candy-covered castle with stuffed animals lining in the middle of a scarlet colored ocean. “Been awhile since I been to my happy place.” The countess thought as she transformed herself into a chibi version of herself and jumped onto the sign on the front of the castle. Seconds after she did that Max appeared in front of the castle gate.

“Welcome to my happy place,” Shalltear said as she snapped her fingers opening the gates slowly as marshmallow elephants pulled on bars of chocolate.

“.... You do realize I’m not going to be able to take you seriously from now on, right?”

“Look this is only part of my mind that is still stable, and kept me somewhat sane for the past couple of years. So don’t judge me on how this place looks, do you want to see the hellish part of my mind then?”

“No, I guess I should’ve thought this wasn’t the full extent of your mind. But if this is your happy place, then the memories I’m looking to copy are in another castle.”

“.....The bad memories are inside the castle, just deep down in the chamber of remembrance.”

“Ah, then just show me the way. There is no reason to make you dig them up and destroy your castle.”

“It’s downstairs to the left. You’ll see the door that has the sign that says ‘Chamber of Remembrance’ on it.” Max nodded as she made her way downstairs.

“You know you could’ve just handed her your journal that you kept during your time with Atlas.” Said a white version of Shalltear.

“I prefer to keep it just incase someone tried to alter my memories or say that it was fake.”

“Yeah because someone would want to alter your mind after seeing what you went through without throwing up or something along those lines.” The figment said in a sarcastic tone. “You sure you can trust her after what happen when you trusted that maid to help you?”

“She’s a human, if it was a pony that I had no idea who or where she came from that’s one thing. But seeing how she’s a human, I’ll give her a little bit of my trust…..for now that is.”

“If you say so.”

“Now go, she’ll be waiting for you in the chamber of remembrance.” The alter version of herself nodded as she teleported of to the chamber of remembrance. Leaving Shalltear alone with a splitting headache. “Judging by the headache I got, she must be looking through month one.” She said as once again she felt herself falling asleep. Moments later, Shalltear woke up. Still holding onto Max like a mother or someone that they would consider as their safety blanket. “So…..I take it you saw my past?” She asked.

“Enough of it. Your little protector led me to the memories and told me what Celestia had done.” Max said as lifted the thirteen materia from her lap and set them in an orbit around herself. “I’m going to shove these up her ass so she knows what she put you through,”

“You might want to show Princess Luna, that and along with Twilight and her friends.”

“They can pull them from Celestia’s broken mind for all I care! No one should be treated like that.”

“I want you to show them it first before you show them to Celestia. I want her to know what it’s like to lose someone’s trust and seeing how I can’t kill her, this is the closest thing to revenge I can get.”

“Fine! But I won’t be able to copy any more of the memories, I’ve gone past my limit for today.” Max said as she started to calm down a little bit.

“You do know you could’ve asked Princess Luna to do that right?”

“I know. I would’ve had to teach her the correct spell, though.” Max said as she took a deep breath and sighed, breaking down her shield. “Let’s go find her then.” She said as she motion Shalltear over towards Lance and another displaced human that looked like Sephiroth from final fantasy 7, but female.

Sephiroth facepalmed hard enough to cause a shockwave, that sounded with a loud slapping noise. “Great. First Max tells me that I’m part Succubus and now I learn that you both forgot to mention one of your children?”

“It did feel like we were forgetting something last day,” Max said as she led Shalltear over, along with thirteen materias floating around her.

“Wait, you’re part wha-?” Lance was unable to ask his question as it was interrupted when a powerful punch from Shalltear smashed into his face and sent him into the wall.

“Well I feel a little bit better after doing that.” Shalltear said as she cracked her knuckles after punching Lance. The silver haired woman, holding Rainbow in her arms, nodded towards Shalltear in appreciation.

“Thanks, I think I needed that, too.”

“You’re welcome. No offense Lance, but you were kinda annoying me to some degree earlier.”

“Yeah… my apologies.” The Adept groaned, stumbling out of the wall. “So, what do we do now?”

Max’s expression darkened and said, “We show Celestia exactly how she hurt our newest daughter.”

“Still finding weird that I’m being called your daughter, even though we're not blood related.”

Lance sighed, clicking a button on his communicator. “What about adopted daughter?”

“That’s what I meant,” Max snapped. “I’m still going to call you my daughter regardless.”

“Fine, but don’t expect me to call you two mom or dad.”

“I wasn’t expecting that at all, Lady Bloodfallen.” Lance complied.

“.......Yep everytime I see him or if he annoys me, I’m gonna punch him in the face.” Shalltear thought as a devilish smile appeared on her face for a quick second before disappearing.

Sephiroth just shrugged. “Well, I won’t do it if you don’t want to. I just got four children yesterday and learned of a fifth right before you punched him.” She gestured in Lance’s direction. “So I’m a little overwhelmed right now.”

“Hey I don’t need to be looked after you know? I can take care of myself, hell I even got my own house over there.”

“And Max is royalty.”

“No shit captain state the obvious.”

“Already told her that,” Max said before pointing to Lance’s communicator, which was vibrating. “Looks like Aurora wants to say something.” Lance smiled, letting Aurora come out to say hello to everyone.

“Who won?” She asked, “If Lance is dead I don’t wanna stay here.”

“No one is dead, Aurora.” Lance deadpanned.

“Not yet, anyways,” Max added, spotting a white figure in one of the castle’s windows. She teleported over to just outside the window and drew a circle on the glass.

Seph sighed deeply. “She’s not actually going to kill her, right?”

“If she does, then I have no problem with that. I could always just make her into my servant if Max does kill her.”

The window shattered except for inside the circle Max had drawn, which fell and broke anyways as Max pulled Princess Celestia out and threw her towards the group.

“Did the plan have chucking her out of a window be part of it?”

A completely black wing erupted from Sephiroth's back and with one flap she brought herself into the path of the flying alicorn, totally halting her movement with a single hand to her throat, while still holding onto Rainbow and not budging one inch.

“What in the name of Faust is going on here!?” Celestia asked as she fell to the ground.

“We just need to talk to the princess, however, business hours are closed.” Lance sighed. “Princess, we need to talk to you about something important-.”

“This isn’t about that measly worm, Blueblood,” Max said, pulling one of the materias from its orbit around her. “This is about Atlas.”

“The guy from Astro? Why? He wasn’t that fun of a villain…” Aurora commented randomly.

“Wrong Atlas…”

“Bioshock’s Atlas?”

“No. It’s a Pony named Atlas Star.” Lance deadpanned. “Anyways…”

“It’s payback time jerkface!” Shalltear said looking at Celestia with a smug look on her face.

“You!” That was all Celestia could get out before Max pushed the crystal into her head, forcing her to take in the memories. “W-What was that? What did you just do to me?” She asked with a mix of shock and surprise on her face.

“I believe Shalltear can answer that.” Lance sighed, crossing his arms. Aurora hovered behind him and copied his crossed arms look mockingly and nodded once.

“One down, twelve to go,” Max said in an almost emotionless voice, pulling the rest all at once and pressed them into the mare’s horn.

“Like I told you before, Celestia, this is the stuff that jerk you gave me away to did to me for the past 13 months. I even had physical proof of what he did all over my body, but you still gave him a less if not harsher punishment than what I got.”

“If it weren’t for me or anyone else here, your nephew might have forced her to relive those same pains,” Lance added on. “They don’t see her for a living being. Unlike us, they only see Shalltear as property.”

Celestia shook her head as she tried to regain her composure. Seconds later she pulled herself up from the ground while whipping some of the dirt off herself. “Be that as it may, what Shalltear did was against the law. Not on-.”

“She acted because you did nothing!” Max shouted, slapping her into the lake. Celestia skipped several times before finally sinking into the water near the opposite shore.

“Wow… I heard of the phrase knocking some sense into her, but that is beyond me.” Lance sighed. “Remind me never to tick you off.”

“Duly noted,” Aurora said. “She seems a bit of a… Moronic, is the best way I can describe it.”

“Which one?”

“The one currently drowning,” Max said, stretching her back. “Dammit...”

“Easy there Max,” Lance said, standing by her side. “You should take a rest. Don’t overdo yourself.”

Sighing, the one winged woman snapped her fingers, making a room-full of water appear with Celestia in it. “Oh… woops.” She snapped again and the water vanished, leaving the Alicorn behind.

“I can’t help it. I just-...” Max sighed and shook her head. “It was just my hormones taking over there.”

“Just try not to wreck the place please? I still have a home here, and I prefer not to have it get destroyed.” Shalltear said while petting one of her shadow wolves for comfort. “Plus I don’t think Princess Luna would like that you killed her sister like that.”

“Speaking of Luna, where is she?” Lance asked, curious to find out the answer.

“Over here.” Luna said while watching from the sidelines. “Not to interrupt or anything, but why are you beating the living daylights out of my sister?”

“Take a look at Shalltear’s memories I gave her,” Max growled, giving Celestia another glare.

“Oh... right…”

“Wait you knew about what happened to me?” Shalltear asked focusing her attention at the moon princess. “When did you do that?”

“During your stay at Canterlot when Nightshade told me that you were having a nightmare.”

“So, you can walk into others dreams…” Lance summarized. “That sounds very handy… at times.”

“So you knew of this and you did nothing?” Max snapped. “Why didn’t you share that with your dear sister?”

“It’s kinda hard to talk with your sister when she’s too stubborn and hard-headed to listen.”

“I could knock some more sense into her if you want.” Max raised a fist and half-turned back to Celestia.

Sephiroth chose this moment to firmly place a hand on Max’s shoulder, holding her in place. “Max. I can understand that you are furious, but do you really want to get any more violent in front of your children?”

Max growled once more but lowered her fist, visibly forcing herself to calm some. “Go look at some of the memories. It’s far worse than what was done to you.”

“I’m not doubting that, not for a single second. But this won’t help for real in the long run. None of them.” She exerted a little pressure on Max’s shoulder. “Celestia is to blame for a lot of what happened, but she wasn’t the one hurting Shalltear. If she has to answer for that, then it should be to the victim, not to you.”

Max closed her eyes and took a deep breath and let it out slowly, calming a bit more. “Here I thought you would be the one at her throat for letting a fifteen year old girl get raped who knows how many times.”

“You know me, Max. I’m struggling not to draw my sword. But I won’t ever deny a victim his or her compensation for pain and suffering. Also I think that we should not outright kill a princess in another universe, at least not before checking for other options.”

“I wasn’t going to kill her. I actually thought she’d at least faint from seeing what Shalltear went through.”

Lance watched as the two of them continue to talk. Then, when the two of them were taking a breath, he then spoke. “I know that what happened was over 1000 years ago, but Celestia should be held responsible for not dealing with the situation properly. Rape is a serious crime and it isn’t something that you just give someone community service for. However, we are only outsiders and therefore, should not bother with this world’s affairs. I believe Luna would be the best candidate to deal with the situation.”

“That is true, but I think Shalltear should be the one that decides on a suitable punishment for my sister. Wouldn’t you agree?” Luna said.

“Like I said before, I think it’s up to Shalltear. So yeah, I agree.” Turning her head to face the girl in question, Sephiroth nodded.

“My only concern with that is that Shalltear would want to punish them by killing them because of how angry she is on the matter,” The Adept brought up to the three of them. “What if the two of you came to a compromise?”

“I’d rather have Blueblood’s head on a platter,” Max said, giving Celestia a dirty look.

The one winged woman looked into Shalltear’s eyes for a moment, before closing hers. “If she wants to kill them, then it should be this way. I trust in her judgement, because she is more than capable of handling her own situations and considering the consequences of her decisions. She won’t condemn a pony to death on a whim, or if they don’t truly deserve it.”

Shalltear appeared right in front of Celestia with her spear pointed at her throat. “Every fiber in my being wants me to kill you for what you did to me.” She said as she lowered her lance. “But seeing how I’m friends with Luna, I’ll let you live for the time being. Blueblood on the other hand dies along with his bloodline, unless there are decent ponies in his family tree that aren’t jerks then they will serve me until the end of time.”

“Hmm… Luna, do you have a scroll on the bloodline of Blueblood? So Shalltear can look through it when she has the time?”

“They’re in the Canterlot archives, I’ll get them tomorrow seeing that it’s nighttime and I have to deal with my former nephew.”

“I guess that settles that then.” Lance sighed, looking back at Shalltear, who was with his two fiance’s. “Max, Seph. Make sure to help Shalltear with getting her token ready and give her yours too. Aurora, Lumen and I are going to have to depart. We have some work to do back where we are from.”

“Who’s ‘Seth’?” Asked Aurora.

“She’s mine and Lance’s fiance,” Max said, gesturing to the woman beside her. “And her nickname is Seph, not Seth.”

“Right. Aurora, you ready to go back to Scootaloo?”

Aurora floated there for a moment, then, “You two have a weirder love life than Aunt Rarity’s fantasy’s.”

“Just be lucky that she didn’t hear you say that.” He sighed, waving goodbye. “Max, Seph, I’ll see you back in your world later, okay?”

“Okay,” Max said.

Lance, before he left, hugged his children and kissed both Max and Seph before he looked at Shalltear. “I hope to see you again soon. Just make sure to behave yourself.”

“I make no promises, but I’ll try not to cause that much trouble.”

Lance smiled, messing with her hair a little. “I mean with your new brothers and sisters.”

“Oh... great.”

Sephiroth fixed Lance with a stare. “I need to talk to you before you leave. Preferably alone.”

“Oh? You want to talk someplace private?” He offered to Seph

“Yes.” Her tone was dead serious and she handed Rainbow over to Max before walking towards Lance. The two of them began to walk, but then, Lance realized something. “Hey, Aurora. Lumen. Seph wanted this as a private talk. No exceptions.”

“Aww… Okay.” The Breezie said, before floating over to Dash’s nose.

“Request received.” Aurora droned, then shook her head, “I- I mean, sure thing!” Having saying that Lance teleported Sephiroth and himself to somewhere private leaving Shalltear alone with Max, her children, Luna, and Celestia.

“So…...what did he mean by helping me make a token?” Shalltear asked.

“A token is something you send out to allow others to call on you for help or to just talk with another human,” Max explained, gesturing for the group to head towards the castle. “It has to be something unique or personal. Something that will remind the one summoning you of you alone. Take mine for example, it’s nothing more than a picture of me, but that’s enough for others to summon me.”

“So I just need some kind of object and then other displaced humans can summon me?”

“Not if you just have the object, no. You have to give it a phrase of sorts saying who you are and how someone can summon you. It would be a good idea to limit who all can summon you, as well.”

“Okay.” Shalltear snapped her fingers as a bat plushie appeared in front of her. “I am The Bloody Valkyrie, Shalltear Bloodfallen. If you need any assistance depending on what it is, then let me know and I’ll help…..just don’t piss me off or summon me when I’m asleep.” The countess said as she turned her attention at Max. “Like that?”

“Yeah. Now you just need to get it into the Void.”

“And where do we find one? Incase you haven’t notice I can’t just summon one up seeing how the elements of harmony locked away most of my magic.”

“That’s easy, the one that Displaced you will open a portal to the Void for it if you toss your token away,” Max said, opening a door into the palace and holding it.

“O-Okay, but can you do it for me then?” Shalltear asked as she began to stagger a bit. “I-I’m starting to get really tired from all today and I just want to go home and sleep it off until tomorrow.”

Max smiled and lit her hand, picking the girl up and placing her in her arms. “Alright. Let’s get you to bed, then.”

“T-Thanks.” The countess said as she fell asleep in Max’s arms.

“I believe I will take my leave seeing how you seem to have the situation under control.” Said Luna as she begun to fly off into night heading off back to Canterlot. Celestia said nothing but glared at Shalltear before she too flew off to Canterlot.

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