"Dancing sounds like fun! I'd love to dance with you."

"Well I'm glad you're on board with this Ditzy, now it's not a club or anything it's a legitimate, romantic dance."

"Oh?"

"Yeah, I wanted our first actual date to be something special and well...my cousin sent me an invite to her party, I'm allowed the bring three guests, who should I take out of our group?"

"Oh! I know two who would love to go somewhere like that! They aren't from our little group but they are my friends."

"Well alright Ditzy, whatever makes you happy makes me happy."

"Awww."

Shard stood in front of his bedroom mirror later on that day looking over himself in his suit. It was made up of a clean black tailcoat with an orange shirt underneath with a neatly done black bow tie, black dresspants and fancy black leather shoes. He had to resist the urge to put on a top hat and eyepatch, grab a cane and make himself a recoloured Bill Cipher costume. "Guess I know I what I'm wearing to Comic-Con later this year...nah, I'll just go as Zoro." He stopped and took on a mischievous grin. "I wonder if Ditzy would go with me as Tashigi, that would make for a really cool and downright adorable double cosplay."

Putting the idea on a sticky note and placing it on the back of his door he got out of his suit and neatly put it away. As he moved to the door he heard someone knocking. "Master Shard? Are you decent?" Rayleigh called in, a bit of urgency in his voice.

"Yeah Ray, you can come in."

Rayleigh opened the door and floated in...with a bowler hat on his head. "Master Shard, there appears to be a group of people wanting to speak to you down stairs."

Shard pulled his eyes away from the bowler hat and nodded to Rayleigh. "Alright, I'll go see what these people want, but I swear if it's another religious preacher I'm cutting them down." He said in exhaustion. After walking down the stairs he opened the front door to see a group of girls, including Sunset, from Canterlot High standing there with worried looks. "Can I help you lovely ladies?" He asked with a raised brow.

Sunset took in a breath and stepped forward. "First allow me to introduce myself on the others. I am Sunset Shimmer, these are Octavia, Vinyl, Rarity, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie and Applejack, we're friends of Ditzy."

"Noted."

"Anyway, we're here to ask for your help."

Shard held a neutral expression on the outside but on the inside he felt his entire evening just get nuked to kingdom come, he had a moral that he would never turn down a girl that asked for help, and this was a group of girls asking for his help, there was no way he could say no...unless it was something unsanitary or creepy. "What problem do you have that you need me of all people to help you with?"

"It's one of our friends, he's going off to Ireland to take part in a conflict there...it involves the IRA." Sunset said.

Shard visibly winced at the mention of the faction. "Is that so..." You don't know it, but Shards great grandmother Amethyst Storm had become involved in the Easter Rising. If you don't know what that is, it was basically a small group of people, around 3000 people, in the Republic of Ireland decided to start a rebellion while England was occupied with the First World War...it did not turn out well for them that's all I'll say.

"Yes, not matter how hard we try or how much we plead with him he won't change his mind or let anyone of us go with him, he says he doesn't want to lose anymore loved ones. That's why we've came to you Shard." Sunset said as she looked up at him with hope. "He doesn't know you or holds you close, and your little sister has told us about your capabilities."

'I swear to Kami I'm going to smack the shit out of Ruby when this is over.' Shard thought as his sister was once again going around and making it impossible for him to choose different options in these situations.

"There's a chance he'll listen to you, and if you bring up the topic of your families honour he'll have to let you help." All of the girls looked at him and begged. "Please help him."

Shard grasped his chest as the huge eyes stared at him with hope. "Ok! Ok! I'll help your friend! Just stop looking at me like that you're gonna give me a heart attack!"

The girls all rushed forward and hugged him. "Thank you!"

He rolled his eyes and tried to pull himself out of their death grip. "Alright alright don't get sappy over me, I like this outfit." They all let him go and he dusted himself off. "Now, when is this friend leaving?"

"In a few days, but we'd like you to meet him first if that's ok?" Vinyl Scratch asked.

"Fine, but I've got to be back here by six to get ready for a date tonight, so let's make this quick." He grabbed one of his swords and slid it under the back of his jacket before following the group down the street.

Meanwhile at the CyCorp Industries building, Cybe Catcher sat looking at his robotic arm, flexing the mechanical claw that was his hand. He then looked to his organic arm, the only limb he hadn't lost. "Fine Storm, I'll wait, but you need to decide before you face me...are you going to finish me or just cut off my last limb?"

Gray and Cyan just looked to each other nervously. "You notice things have been getting a lot more dramatic around here lately?" Cyan asked.

"Meh, I think it adds more excitement to the mix." Gray replied as he reclined in his chair and closed his eyes.

Huh? What the? This section of the chapter isn't supposed to be here! Who's been messing with my story?

"Hello...PyraFlare..."

Oh-hohohoho noooo! Not you Treble Mix, get back to your own story!

"You see that's the problem...I destroyed my story and its creator...now I'm hunting down every last PoME story there is...and I thought who better to start with than you?"

Look if this is about Treble Clef just leave it, he was there first, deal with it.

"Oh no I'm not mad about your little Treble, no...I just don't like being used as a puppet for you writers, and I'm going to free everyone here from your grasp."

Boy you are playing with forces WAY above your level.

"Oh please, I already beat your little hero Shard Storm back in my old reality. What makes this one any different?"

Well if you must know. That version of Shard was heavily nerfed, and I mean HEAVILY nerfed. The fight was not how it should have gone down, no, it would end much, much differently.

Here, I'm gonna show you how chapter 666 should have ended.

Author's Notes:

If you guys wanna know what the hell I'm talking about, you may want to read This chapter of "Wub" Me Like You Do, be warned though, it's a bit dark

Next chapter is going to be how that fight should have gone down